OCTOBER 1
2016 B.C.E.: According to some the anniversary of the
Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date
is easily open to debate. There is a general agreement among those who
accept the existence of Abraham that he appeared about 2000 B.C.E. This
means that Jewish History spans a period of four thousand years. What
makes Jewish History unique is that it covers such a great span of time, that
it is not limited to a specific geographic area and that the most ancient
events of that history are an active part of the descendants of the people who
made that history.
331B.C.E:
Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated the Persian army at Gaugamela. This victory cemented Greek domination over
the Persian Empire. Alexander would be
crowned “King of Asia” after the battle. Alexander’s armies were instrumental
in bringing Greek culture to the lands of Asia Minor including the homeland of
the Jewish people. This would mark the
beginning of the uneasy and sometimes violent interaction between the world of
Moses and Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, et al.
208: Birthdate of
Alexander Severus, the Roman Emperor whose respect for Judaism enabled Judah II
(President of the Sanhedrin - the Jewish Supreme Court located in Eretz
Israel), to obtain a revival of Jewish rights, including permission to visit
Jerusalem.
855: Based on an edict
issued by Emperor Ludwig II, all Italian Jews must have vacated his realm as of
this date
1207: Birthdate of Henry
1280: Today
Richard Swinefeld who in 1286 “threatened to excommunicate several of his flock
who wished to attend the wedding of the daughter of a leading Jew of Hereford”
was named Archdeacon of London
1404: Pope
Boniface IX passed away. Unlike his predecessors and successors “he treated the
Jews benevolently. He favored a succession of Jewish physicians and recognized
the rights of Jews as citizens.” They were given legal right to observe their
Shabbat, protection from local oppressive officials, their taxes were reduced
and orders were given to treat Jews as full-fledged Roman citizens.
1499: Sixty-five-year-old
Marsilio Ficino, the Roman Catholic priest and Christian Kabbalist passed away
today.
https://therealsamizdat.com/2014/09/26/marsilio-ficino-and-christian-kabbalah/
1588: Seventeen-year-old
Abbas I of Persia, “the 5th Safavid Shah of Iran began his reign
during the early part of which “Jews prospered throughout Persia and were
encouraged to settle in Isfahan, the new capital.” As the years wore on, the conditions of the
Jews worsened and among other things, they “were forced to wear a distinctive
badge on their clothing and headgear.
1685:
Birthdate of Charles III who followed in the footsteps of his father Leopold to
make life miserable for the Jews of Hungary.
1697(16th
of Tishrei, 5458):
Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto an Amsterdam born rabbi,
kabbalist and poet “also known by the Hebrew acronym ReMe”Z” passed away today
1739: At an
auto-de-fe in Lisbon, Antonio Jose de Silva, one of the most successful and
popular playwrights of the period was burned at the stake. He was a member of a
New Christian family, son of a mother who had been convicted twice of
Judaizing. On the night he was burned, one of his comedies was produced in the
local town theater.
1753(3rd
of Tishrei, 5514): Tzom Gedaliah
1759(10th
of Tishrei, 5520): Yom Kippur
1762(14th
of Tishrei, 5523): Erev Sukkot
1765(16th
of Tishrei, 5526): Second Day of Sukkot
1768(20th of Tishrei, 5529): As the Jews celebrate Shabbat she Sukkot, The British Army's 29th Infantry Regiment of foot soldiers, which will carry out the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, arrives in Boston Harbor along with three other regiments.
1771(23rd
of Tishrei, 5532): Simchat Torah
1772: In
October, in the Netherlands, King William V “visited the Pereira family in
Maarsen as part of activities designed to express his thanks to the Jewish community
for supporting him.
1773:
Birthdate of Baden, Germany native Zacharias Oppenheimer, the husband of Fratel
Oppenheimer who ‘founded the woolen cloth factory in Michelfeld” “specialized
in the production of uniforms, including those used by the Prussian and Baden
military.F
1776(18th
of Tishrei, 5537): Fourth Day of Sukkot observed on the same day that the
Continental Congress adopted a resolution that a “committee of five be
appointed to a prepare a plan” for the creation of a military academy.
1777(29th
of Elul, 5537): Erev Rosh Hashana
1777: The
will of Aaron Franks, the brother of Isaac Franks, dated September 2, 1777 was
“proved” today.
1778(10th
of Tishrei, 5539): Yom Kippur
1780(2nd of Tishrei, 5541): Second Day of Rosh
Hashanah observed on the same day that convicted British spy Major John Andre
wrote to American General George Washington
1784(16th
of Tishrei, 5545): Second Day of Sukkoth
1786(9th of Tishrei, 5547): Erev Yom Kippur;
Kol Nidre
1788(29th of Elul, 5548): Erev Rosh Hashana
1790(23rd of Tishrei, 5551): Simchat Torah
1792(15th of Tishre1, 5553): First Day of
Sukkoth observed on the same day that Secretary of State Jefferson wrote to
James Madison expressing his opposition to Virginia chartering a state bank
which was part of a plan to block the creation of a national bank.
1795(18th of Tishrei, 5556): Fourth Day of
Sukkoth observed on the same day “the Austrian Netherlands is annexed to the
French Republic, as the Belgian departments.”
1798(21st of Tishrei, 5559): Hoshana Raba
1799(2nd
of Tishrei, 5560): The Rosh Hashanah Shofar is sounded for the last time in the
18th century.
1800: Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of
San Ildefonso. Unbeknownst to the
principles, this was the first act, in a “three act play” that would open the
Mississippi River Valley and the Great Plains to Jewish settlers. Jews could
not live in Spanish Louisiana. The French bought Louisiana was part of
Napoleon’s grand dream of an American empire. The dream fell apart and three
years later the French sold Louisiana to the United States. This opened most of the land west of the
Mississippi and east of the Rockies to Jewish settlers.
1801(24th of Tishrei, 5561): Bele Abraham who
had been born in Amsterdam in 1751 passed away today in the Netherlands.
1802:
Simon Magruder Levy is one of two cadets in the first class to graduate
from West Point
1803(15th
of Tishrei, 5564): Sukkoth
1803:
Zalegman Phillips wrote to President Thomas Jefferson requesting that he be
appointed “Commissioner of Bankrupts for the District of Pennsylvania.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0338
1806(19th of Tishrei, 5567): Fifth Day of
Sukkoth
1808(10th of Tishrei, 5569): For the last
time, Jews observe Yom Kippur during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, author
of the Declaration of Independence and a champion of the separation of church
and state.
1809(21st of Tishrei, 5570): Hoshana Raba
1809: Birthdate of Virginia native Louisa Block the
daughter of Jacob Block and the wife of Exeter, England native Abraham Jonas
“the first permanent Jewish resident of Quincy, Illinois and a close friend of
Abraham Lincoln whom she married in 1829 and with whom she had nine children.
1810(3rd of Tishrei, 5571): Tzom Gedaliah
1810: John Jacob Hays, who may have been the first Jew to
settle in Indiana and his wife Mary gave birth to Elizabeth Hayes who became
Elizabeth Brouillet when she married Bard Brouillet.
1811: The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River
arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana. The copper for the boilers in that steamboat
was probably supplied by Henry Hendricks, a prominent New York Sephardic Jew
who supplied the copper for all of Robert Fulton’s steamboats as well as those
of many others.
1814: Following the defeat of Napoleon, the
Congress of Vienna opens. The intent is
to undue the effects of the French Revolution and return Europe to the days of
the Ancien Régime. Among other
measures, the victorious powers rolled back the concept that all citizens were
equal before the law. This change had a
particularly corrosive effect on the Jews of Europe whose emancipation had
depended on this concept.
1815: In
London, Simon Marcus and Eleanor Levy gave birth to Hannah Marcus.
1816(9th
of Tishrei, 5577): Erev Yom Kippur
1816(9th
of Tishreti, 5577): Dutch born American businessman Eleazar Lyons, the husband
of Hannah Levy passed away today in Philadelphia.
1817(21st
of Tishrei, 5578): Hoshana Rabba
1817:
Birthdate of Vilna native Mathias Strashun the Russian Talmudist and successful
businessman who also served as an “adviser to the state bank.”
1818(1st
of Tishrei, 5579): Rosh Hashanah
1818: In
Hemsbach,
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Feis Moses or Uri Pfaelzer, the son
of Moses Or Mosche Pfaelzer and Adelheid "Elkele" Pfaelzer and his
wife Hanna Fanny Pfaelzer gave birth to Babette (Braeunle) Oppenheimer, the “ife
of Jakob Rothschild and Meier (Maier) Oppenheimer and mother of Hirsch
Rothschild; Babette David; Leopold Oppenheimer; Heinrich / Naphtali Herz
Oppenheimer; Moses Oppenheimer; Fanny Bodenheimer; Jeanette Oppenheimer; Elise
Oppenheimer; Regina Oppenheimer; Feis Oppenheimer; Ricke Lina Metzger;
Stillborn Oppenheimer; Rebeka Oppenheimer; Adelheid Oppenheimer; Isidor
Oppenheimer; Ida (Pfaelzer) Oppenheimer; Ferdinand Oppenheimer and (Son of
Maier) Oppenheimer
1820(23rd
of Tishrei, 5581): As Jews observe Simchat Torah, Americans prepare to take
place in what is the third and final of Presidential elections where the
President, James Monroe, an virtually unopposed. It was a time known as the ear of good
feelings.
1822(16th
of Tishrei, 5583): Second Day of Sukkoth
1824(9th
of Tishrei, 5585): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time during
the Presidency of James Monroe.
1825(19th
of Tishrei, 5586): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1825: The
brig The Mary among whose passengers was English adventurer Nathaniel Isaacs
foundered on a sandbank after anchoring off Port Natal.
1826(29th
of Elul, 5566): Erev Rosh Hashana
1827(10th
of Tishrei, 5588): Yom Kippur
1827: In
Essex, Laurence Lazarus and Catherine Phillips gave birth to Sophie Lazarus.
1828(23rd
of Tishrei, 5589): As Jews observed Simchat Torah, Americans were engaged in
the bitterest Presidential campaign the new nation had experienced as the
supports of Adams and Jackson engaged in almost non-stop “l’shon hara.”
1830:
Birthdate of Jeremiah C. Sullivan, the Indiana lawyer, who while serving as a
general in the Union Army refused to enforced General Order 11.
1831: Isaac
Pereire and Rachel Laurence Lopes Fonseca gave birth to Eugene Pereire, the
member of the multi-generational
prominent French Jewish family who was an engineer by training and who became a
prominent financier and businessman.
1835: In
Weisskirchen, Moravia, Rabbi Abraham Placzek and his wife gave birth to his
“son and successor” Baruch Jacob Placzek who became “the chief rabbi at Brünn”
and was made a knight the Order of Francis Joseph.
1835:
Birthdate of Austrian physician Adam Politizer, a pioneer in the field of
otology.
http://www.politzersociety.org/content.php?conid=683
1837(2nd
of Tishrei, 5598): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time
during the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
1838: In
London, Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips, the London born son of Samuel and Hannah
Philips who served as Lord Mayor of London and his wife Rachel Phillips gave
birth to Samuel Henry Faudel-Phillips, JP
1839(23rd
of Tishrei, 5600): Simchat Torah
1839(23rd
of Tishrei, 5600): Sixty-five-year-old Joseph Perl who wrote several books
about Chasidim beginning with On the Nature of the Sect of the Hasidim,
Drawn from Their Own Writings passed away today in Ternopil.
1839: In
New Orleans, Isaac and Julia Cohen Hart gave birth to Alexander Hart, the
husband of Leonora Levy Hart with whom he had three children – Amy, Albert and
Horace.
1839(23rd
of Tishrei, 5600): A month after The Great Fire in Mobile, Alabama, Philip
Philips and his wife Eugenia Levy would be among those observing Simchat Torah
in the Gulf Coast City.
1839: For
the first time Simchat Torah is celebrated in Melbourne, Australia
1845(29th
of Elul, 5605): Erev Rosh Hashana
1846:
Birthdate of London native Adeline Solomon the wife of Henry Solomon, the
London born son of Elizabeth and Mordecai Solomon, who was the mother of ten
children.
1846: In
Gratz, Prussia, Dr. Markus Moses and his wife gave birth to German judge and
legal scholar Isaac Albert Mosse who was a “Foreign advisor to Meiji Japan
1847: In
New York Moses Lazarus and his wife, the former Esther Nathan gave birth to
Mary Lazarus who became Mary Lindau when she married Leopold Lindau.
1847:
Birthdate of Hungarian journalist and holder of Ph.D. from the University of
Budapest Sigismund Sonnenfeld, who moved
to Paris where he became director of the Baron de Hirsch philanthropic
institutions, director of the Jewish Colonization Association and a member of
the Central Committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13920-sonnenfeld-sigismund
1848: The
first edition of Ostdeutsche Post, published
by Ignaz Kuranda, the son and grandson of second-hand book dealer, appeared
today in Vienna.
1849(15th
of Tishrei, 5610): Jews observe Sukkoth for the first and only time during the
Presidency of Zachary Taylor.
1850: In
Syracuse, NY, “Meier Barnet and Rebecca Hamburger” gave birth to Gates Banet,
the husband of “Marion Barnet, who served as “President of the Hebrew
Benevolent Society “ both in Syracuse and Albany, NY.
1852(18th
of Tishrei, 5613): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1853(28th
of Elul, 5614): Parashat Nitzavim; last Shabbat of 5614
1854(9th
of Tishrei, 5615): Erev Yom Kippur
1854: In
Australia, Sir Saul Samuel began serving his first term as a member of the
Legislative Council of New South Wales
1855(19th
of Tishrei, 5616): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1855:
"The Hebrews: A Feast of Tabernacles" published today in New York
reported that "The Israelitish Festival of Tabernacles concluded on
Saturday. The Levitcal law requires its
continuance for seven days. During the
whole of this period, the faithful of the city have thronged to the synagogues.
The services have continued without intermission...The recurrence of these
stated festivals of the Hebrews brings to mind the degree of persistency with
which that ancient people adhere to their belief.
1855: Today
marked “the earliest contemporary reference to a Jewish Community in Portsmouth”
Ohio.
1856(2nd
of Tishrei, 5617): As the Republican Party is running its first candidate in a
presidential election Jews observe the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
1859(3rd
of Tishrei, 5620): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1859(3rd
of Tishrei, 5620): Just eleven days before his 81st birthday
German-Danish merchant Hartvig Philip Rée, the son of German merchant Philip Hartvig Rée and his wife Hanna
Hartvig and the husband of Thamar Ree
whose business interest included a sugar refinery, a print shop, a dye business
and a clothes factory, passed away today in Copenhagen.
1860: In Bavaria, German, Gette Offenbacher and Wilhelm
Beckman gave birth State School for Commerce and Industry educated businessman
N. Henry Beckman who in 1880 came to the United States, settled in Cincinnati,
OH where he was a clothing manufacturer, a member of the executive committee of
the United Jewish Social Agencies, served a President of Congregation K.K.B.I
and was a member of the executive committee of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
1860: In San Francisco, “a committee of Israelites, the topmost
men of that persuasion in town, have issued an appeal to the public for
material aid to enable Israel Joseph Benjamin 2d to visit Arabia, and look into
the causes of the suffering of the Jews in that quarter. Mr. Benjamin is now in
this city. He calls himself Benjamin 2d to distinguish himself from the
Oriental traveler, Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. He is from Foltitscheny on the
Moldau, where, being ruined in the timber trade, he conceived the undertaking
of visiting the oppressed of his race in the outskirts of the earth. His Eight
Years in Asia and Africa was praised by Humboldt and Ritter, and the Jews
hereabout affirm that it is replete with information valuable to historians and
geographers. They credit to him the humane task of bringing the efficient
protection of Victoria and Napoleon to the rescue of the grievously oppressed
Hebrews in Persia. They went to see him searching in China for the Jews that
are said to sprinkle that vast hive, to hear him report upon the condition of
the sons of Jacob scattered through Afghanistan, and, most of all, to have him
scouring the Arabian peninsula to learn what is the measure of ill-usage of the
circumcised there, and pleading with civilized Europe and America for the
relief which none ask now, though it is presumed to be sadly needed.”
1860:
“Emperor in Africa” published today described Louis Napoleon’s visit to Algeria
during which saw a wide variety of his subjects including “Moors, Maltese and
Jews.” [Jews had probably been living in Algeria since the destruction of the
Temple. The community really grew after
the expulsion from Spain. Jews gained
full citizenship in 1870. Jews lost their right to citizenship in 1963 when the
new Algerian government decreed that only Moslems could be citizens.]
1862(7th
of Tishrei, 5623): Lady Judith Montefiore, the daughter of Levi Barent Cohen
who had been born at London in 1874 and married Sir Moses Montefiore in 1812
passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Judith_Montefiore.html
1862:
During the American Civil War, the Jewish Ladies of Syracuse (New York) present
Colonel Henry Barnum with a regimental flag to be used by the 149th
Regiment of Volunteer Infantry.
1863:
“Bread Riot In Mobile” published today described the outbreak of violence
spearheaded by the women of this Southern port city who were demanding food for
themselves and their starving children. In his description of the violence, the
reporter wrote, “In coming down Dauphine-street, two women went into a Jew
clothing store, in the performance of the work connected with their mission.
The proprietor of the store forcibly ejected the intruders and threw then
violently down on the sidewalk. A policeman who happened to be near, thereupon
set upon the Jew and gave him a severe beating.” [A mini-pogrom in the heart of Dixie; how
ironic when you consider the number of Jews who actually took up arms on behalf
of the Confederacy.]
1863(18th
of Tishrei, 5624): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1863(18th
of Tishrei, 5624): Eighty-seven-year-old Rebecca Mears Myers, the Norwalk, CT.
born daughter of Joyce and Myers Mears and the widow of Jacob Mears with whom
she had seven children passed away today in Richmond, VA.
1864(1st
of Tishrei, 5625): As Jews observe Rosh Hashanah, Jews serving with General
Sherman enjoy a respite from combat as they prepare for the March to the Sea
which will begin next month.
1865: In
Paris, Jules Dukas, “a banker” and “Eugénie, a capable pianist”” gave birth to
“composer, critic, scholar and teacher” Paul Abraham Dukas best known creating
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
1865: “The
Jewish Day of Atonement” published today reported that “The Jewish Day of
Atonement -- Yom Kippur -- which ended at sunset on Saturday, is one of the
most important and generally respected of the fasts prescribed for observance
among the Israelites. The origin and institution of the fast is to be found in
Leviticus XVI: "And it shall be unto you a statute forever; in the seventh
month, on the 10th of the mouth, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at
all; the denizen as well as the stranger that sojourneth amongst you for on
that day shall ye be atoned for to purify you; from all your sins before the
Lord shall ye be purified. The first amongst your Sabbaths shall this day be
among you, and ye shall afflict your souls. And this shall be an everlasting
statute unto you, to make an atonement for all the children of Israel from all
their sins once a year." And again, in Leviticus XXIII: "And the Lord
spoke unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, and say, also on
the 10th day in this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls and offer a
burnt-offering unto the Lord. And ye shall do no work in that same day, for it
is a day of atonement, to atone for you before the Lord your God. And every one
that shall not be afflicted on that same day he shall be cut off from among his
people. And every soul that does any work on that same day, that soul will I
destroy from among his people. You shall do no manner of work. This is a
statute forever until all your generations and throughout all your dwellings.
It shall be unto you the first amongst your Sabbaths, and ye shall afflict your
souls; on the 9th day of the month (Visbri,) at even, shall ye afflict your
souls; from even to even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath." When the
Israelites were still a nation, this day was observed with the most imposing
ceremonies. It was the only day throughout the year on which even the high
priest presumed to enter the holy of holies, or to pronounce the name of the
Deity, which at any other time it was unlawful even for him to utter. The
glories of this day, while it was still celebrated in the place "which the
Lord had chosen there to enthrone his name," are, in these modern times,
commemorated in the afternoon service at the synagogue. At present the day is
observed with no less fervor than of old, and the Jews throughout the world,
however heedless of the precepts of their religion they may be occasionally,
are all mindful of those which enjoin them to repent for the sins of the past
on the Yom Kippur. At sunset the twenty-four hours' fast and continued prayers
commenced, the service consisting chiefly of confessions of sin and utter
unworthiness. It is customary in the evening for parents to bestow their
benediction on their children. Whosoever meet on the day, be they previously
acquainted or complete strangers, are commanded to salute each other with
brotherly love and sincerity. If any quarrel exists between two Jews it is
obligatory on them to become reconciled. He who is conscious of haying wronged
his neighbor is bound to offer reparation. The law which ordains the observance
of the day likewise commands the Jew to afflict his soul, which affliction,
according to tradition, consists in abstaining from five indulgences -- eating
and drinking, bathing, perfuming, wearing shoes and sharing the sensual
pleasures. Yesterday the synagogues and many temporary places of worship were
thronged with devout Israelites offering up their supplications, confessing
their sins and imploring pardon.
1866(22nd
of Tishrei, 5627): Shmini Atzeret
1866: In Chicago
Sarah (née Vogel) and Nelson Morris gave birth to Edward Morris, the husband of
Helen Swift, the brother of diplomat Ira Nelson Morris, who succeeded his
father as President of Morris and Company, one of the nation’s leading meat
packing companies.
1866: In
New York, Rosa and James (Jacob) Seligman gave birth to Angeline Seligman the
future wife of Albert H .H. Gross.
1866: “The
Max Strakosch Alliance put on a "grand inaugural concert" today at
“Cooper Institute”
1867(2nd
of Tishrei, 5628): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time by
Walter Rathenau who had been two days before, erev Rosh Hashana
1867:
Abraham and Josepine Raff Kramer gave birth to Missouri resident Phillip M.
Kramer,
1867: At
Worrell Sisters’ New York theatre, final performance of “Under the Gaslight” with Rose Eytinge in the
role of Laura Cortlandt.
1868: In
Manhattan, “Judah Solomon, a cloth dealer and Caroline Mathilda Lemanns” gave
birth to Titanic survivor Abraham Lincoln Salomon the “wholesale stationer and
head of Salomon and Company who was the husband of Hattie Wolf.
1868: In
Silesia, Ernestine Troplowitz and Max Bredig gave birth to “German physical
chemist” George Bredig who discovered that his identifying as a Protestant did
not save him from fleeing the Nazis because of his “Jewish descent” who found
refuge in the United States thanks to the intervention by Ernest Cohen who
“ironically” died at Auschwitz
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/tyeplmz
1869: In
Brooklyn, Congregation Beth Jacob was formally incorporated
1869:
Abraham Hoffman began serving as Chazan of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation at
the corner of Lloyd and Watson Streets which is known as the Lloyd Street
Synagogue.
1870: As
Italians prepare to vote on a plebiscite that will effectively create a modern
kingdom of Italy under the constitutional rule of Victor Emmanuel, it was
reported today that the Italian papers have published an address from the Jews
of Rome to Victor Emmanuel expressing their joy at being released from Papal
rule. The Jews had supported and fought
for the unification of Italy. With the
creation of the modern state of Italy, the Jews would go from some of the most
oppressed people in Europe to being full citizens of a modern, liberal society.
1871(16th
of Tishrei, 5632): Second Day of Sukkoth
1871: In
London, Davis Colski and Sarah Kraijsman gave birth to Barnett Colski.
1871:
“Observance of the Jewish Festival of Succoth or Ingathering” published today
described the commencement of “the Jewish Festival of the harvest home, a
season which at all times and among all nations has been considered on hilarity
and feasting.”
1872:
Birthdate of Roaslie Israel who interred at the Freudenburg Cemetery in Germany
when she passed away in 1906.
1873(10th
of Tishrei, 5634): As Jews observe Yom Kippur, the New York Stock Exchange
reopens having closed temporarily on September 20 during the Panic of 1873.
1874: In
St. Louis, MO, Adolph Ungard, the Cologne, Germany son of Loeb Leopold Ungar and Adelheid Edel
Ungar and his wife Henrietta Ungar gave birth to Leopold Leo Ungar.
1875(2nd of
Tishrei, 5636): Rosh Hashanah
1876: “An
Autumn Festival,” published today reported that “the Jewish festival of Sukkoth
or tabernacles commences tomorrow evening at sunset and last for seven
days. This detailed piece of reporting
goes on to quote from the 23rd chapter of Leviticus so that the
reader will understand the origin of the festival. The article gives a detailed description of
the Lulav and Etrog as well as providing information about “the Azereth or
concluding feast” and Simchat Torah which “is kept for the purpose of rejoicing
over the conclusion of the reading of the Pentateuch, which is divided into
weekly sections and gone through once every year.
1876: “Mr.
Huxley and the Bible” published today attempts to find harmony between the
Jewish story of creation and the view of modern science. The author finds the Jewish account to be
immeasurably superior to any other version including the Persian and the
Greeks. In their versions, creation is
the produce of superstitious gods and struggling spirits. “The Hebrew narrative gives us the sublime
truths of the whole present order of things have sprung from an intelligent and
supreme will. The Jewish story of creation is about bringing order out of chaos
which is consistent with the latest scientific thought. The “visions or pictures in the narrative of
Moses are…not intended to be” taken “literally” but are to be viewed as a dramatic and
poetic description of events.
1877: The Berliner Zeitung, a newspaper known as
B.Z founded today was bought by Jewish published Leopold Ullstein.
1877: In
Hungary, Charlotte Schlesinger and Ferdinand Braun gave birth to National
Academy of Desing trained artist Maurice Braun, the husband of Hazel Boyer “who
became known for his impressionist landscapes of southern California.”
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/braun-maurice-kokg4xg4u4/sold-at-auction-prices/
1878(4th
of Tishrei 5639): Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai, the Sephardic born native of
Sarajevo whose Society of the Settlement of Eretz Yisrael founded in London in
1852 pre-dated the Zionism of Theodor Herzl whose paternal grandfather, Simon Loeb Herzl, reportedly attended
Alkalai's synagogue in Semlin” passed away today in Jerusalem after which he
was buried on the Mount of Olives. (Some sources show his day of death as
September 1, 1878)
https://mizrachi.org/rabbi-yehuda-alkalai-1798-1878/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-ben-solomon-hai-alkalai
1878: Iowa
native Harry G. Leopold who eventually serve as a Lieutenant aboard the
“Petrel” joined the United States Navy today.
1879(14th
of Tishrei, 5640): Erev Sukkoth observed for the first time by Austrian
mathematician Hans Hahn who was born four days before the start of the holiday.
1880: In
Lithuania, “Rabbi David Frisch and his wife Hannah (Baskowtiz) Frisch gave
birth to Rabbi Ephraim Frisch the native of Lithuania who came to the United
States in 1888, was ordained at Hebrew Union College and married Ruth Cohen
while serving a series of congregations from Pine Bluff, AR to New York City.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23885565?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1882: Major
Louis Alexander Gratz, the son of Salomon and Henrietta Gratz and his wife,
Elisabeth Trigg Gratz gave birth to Hugh Turney Gratz.
1882: In
Ukraine, cabinet maker Yechezkel Boorstein and Pessia Boorstein gave birth to
Moishe Chaim Boorstein, the husband of Toby Boorstein and father of Pearl
Boorstein and William Boorstein.
1882: In
Jassy, Roumania, Joseph Mearson and Ethel Marks gave birth to Canadian High
School graduate Ida Charlotte Ida Mearson,, “the Secretary of the Jewish
Endeavor Society” who helped establish three Sunday Schools in New York City
while serving as the chairman of society’s Religious School Committee.
1883:
“Poverty, Wealth and Morals” an article published today that sought to
described causes other than economics that produce crime reported that “the
Western Jews, who for generations have sought in personal luxury
indemnification for the humiliations, are as strong, as active, as healthy as
ever they were, and decidedly brighter-witted than they were in Palestine.”
1883: Among
the charities that received excise moneys from the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment today were the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society ($1,997.43) and
Ladies’ Deborah Nursery and Child’s Protectory ($1,980.00), a small fraction of
the $34,398.39 that was disbursed to all charities.
1883(29th
of Elul, 5643): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1883(29th
of Elul, 5643): A small group of Sephardic Jews met today and decided that
there was need for a second synagogue to meet the needs of New York’s
Spanish-Portuguese community.
1883(29th
of Elul, 5643): Seventy-nine-year-old Abraham Michelbacher, the son of Jakob
Nathan Michelbacher and Adelheid Michelbacher and husband of Sophie
Michelbacher passed away today in his native Oettingen, Germany.
1883: “The
Jewish New Year” published today described events related to the celebration of
Rosh Hashanah and its connection to the upcoming observance of Yom Kippur. “At sunset this evening the Jewish community
will begin the celebration of the festival of Rosh Hashanah or the New
Year. The coming year will be known as
5644 in the Jewish calendar, beginning on the first day of the month of
Tishri.” (What makes this article significant is that it appeared in the
secular, and the not the Jewish, press.)
1884: In
Lithuania, Jonas and Mildred Lewis gave birth to University of Pennsylvania
educated Philadelphia City Councilman William M. Lewis, the Municipal Court
Judge and husband of Marie Rosenthal who was a member of the board of directors
of the Federation of Jewish Charities.’
1884: A
hearing was to be held today regarding charges that three Jews – Lawrence
Braham, Hyam Friewald and Benjamin Levy - had assaulted a policeman named
Samuel Murphy while they were walking in Central Park on the afternoon of Yom
Kippur.
1885: Birthdate of poet and critic Louis Untermeyer. Untermeyer
was one of the earliest American foes of Hitler. Just weeks after Hitler
assumed power on
1885(22nd
of Tishrei, 5646) Shmini Atzeret
1885:In New
York City, Eugene Otterbourg, the son American “envoy to Mexico, Marcus
Otterbourg” and his wife gave birth to Edwin M. Otterbourg, the 1904 graduate
of CCNY, the third-generation attorney who “was a founder and senior partner of
Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston and Rosen” where he was “a specialist in
bankruptcy and reorganization law.”
1885: In
Hesse, Germany, Jakob and Ida Edelchen Baruch gave birth to Minna Baruch who
became Minna Falk when she married Julius Falk and who died in 1942 during the
Holocaust.
1885: In
addition to the services being held as part of “The Feast of Tabernacles”
congregants at Temple Beth-El in New York participated in a memorial service
for the last Sir Moses Montefiore. Dr.
Kaufmann Kohler delivered a eulogy in German which praised the many virtues of
the great Jewish philanthropist and humanitarian.
1885: In Hungary, Sarah Weisberger and Meyer Lefkowitz gave birth
to Samuel
S. Lefkowitz, the husband of Yetta Lefkowitz who was “a registered pharmacist
and a chiropractor” and “served as the secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated
Chiropractors Association of New Jersey” for almost 20 years passed away today
at his home in Hackensack, NJ.
1885: Eighty-four-year-old
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, “an early proponent of the
Restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land” who in 1841 “provided the first proposal by a major politician to
resettle Jews in Palestine.”
1885: During the year ending today, the United
Hebrew Charities of the City of New York, “the Executive Committee held 39
meetings, acted upon 2,615 new applications for aid and 2,377 cases for
investigation.”
1887: Annie
Lee, a little girl who is claimed by a Jewish family and an African-American
family is under the care of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children per the order of Justice White who has said the matter is one that
will have to be settled by the state Supreme Court.
1888: In
Russia, Deborah Cherniac and Abraham Aaron Brill gave birth to Columbia trained
physician Isidor Cherniac Brill, the husband of Ruth Lowengart, and a first
lieutenant serving overseas with the Medical Corps during WW I who worked at
the University of California Medical School before eventually becoming an
assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Oregon.
1888:
Birthdate of Brown County, MI native and University of Minnesota trained
attorney Albert M. Hershman, the WW I and Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney.
1889: “A
Great Hebrew Fair” published today described plans that are being made for a
fundraiser sponsored by the People’s Free School Association, the Aguilar Free
Library Society and the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations that
will be held during the last half of December.
The sponsors hope to raise between $150,000 and $200,000 which will be
used to erect a facility on the Lower East Side which will be used by the
Aguilar Library.
1889: “The
Practical Education” published today praised the Hebrew Technical Institute led
by Professor Henry M. Leipziger as being “one of the most conspicuous exemplars
of the progressive idea in education” to be found in New York City (more info
for next year)
1889: In
New York City, Ida and Abraham L. Kass gave birth to David Kass, the founder
and “President of the Overland Trading Company, Director of the Trade Bank of
New York, President of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and husband of Sadie Kass
with whom he had two daughters – “Helen Joy and Babette.”
1889: “His
Sons-In-Law Worried Him” published today included the last wishes of Leopold
Newland, a Polish Jew, that Nathan Mauric and Samuel Unger, his sons-in-law,
not be allowed his funeral.
1890: “The newly
completed Hebrew Sanitarium at Rockaway Park was destroyed by fire early this
morning.”
1891:
Stanford University opened its doors for the first time. Currently, students at
Stanford may major or minor in Jewish Studies. There are approximately 655
Jewish students among the 6555 undergraduates and 1,800 students among the
12,000 graduate students. Stanford is also home to the Rohr Chabad House and
the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
1891: “A
case of diphtheria was discovered today at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Dr.
Cyrus Edison sent the patient to the Willard Parker Hospital.”
1891: Jacob
H. Schiff presided over the banquet tonight at Delmonico’s given in honor of
Jesse Seligman by the officers of several
New York “Hebrew charitable institutions” and the trustees of Temple
Emanu-El withLewis May serving as Toastmaster
1891: As of
today Herman Faust will no longer receive a salary from the synagogue in
Poughkeepsie having been relieved as the congregation’s rabbi because of “gross
breaches of discipline.”
1891:
Starting today the United Hebrew Charities began providing work for from sixty
to eighty families “with work at distance mills.” Manufacturers provide the charity with job
listings and the charity fills the work orders
1892(10th
of Tishrei, 5653): Yom Kippur
1892(10th
of Tishrei, 5653): In Cleveland, Ohio, a congregation of Russian Jews hold
services in the assembly room of the new Young Men’s Christian Association
Building having decided that the crosses on the façade do not interfere with
the Jewish ceremonials or sensitivities.
1892: The
University of Chicago holds it first classes
1892: As of
today, “the partnership between Isaiah Woolf Jacobs and Abraham Hast carrying
on business in Cambridge under the style of Jacobs and Hast has been dissolved
by mutual consent.
1892: A
fight took place today a group of peddlers at the corner of Hester and Ludlow
Streets during Louis Krabitz, a Russian Jew was taken to Governor’s Hospital
after having fallen unconscious when he was kicked in the abdomen.
1893: As of
today there were the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society was providing a home
for 437 boys and 352 girls, an increase of 84 from the total from a year ago
while providing various services for a total of 2,339 children.
1893: “The
Thalia Theatre was crowded this afternoon with members of the United Hebrew
Trades who had come to hear the report of Abraham Cahan who had been their
delegate to the recent International Labor Congress in Zurich, Switzerland.”
1893:
“Depend on Good Candidates” published today provided an analysis of the
upcoming election in Cleveland, OH, including the fact that the Democrats have
nominated “ Rabbi Hahn, a Hebrew of great ability and popularity whose
election” to the state legislature “is practically assured” and the failure of
the Republicans to nominate any Jews as candidates for the state legislature.
1893:
“Rector Ahlwardt About to Serve his Sentence In Prison” published today
described the upcoming imprisonment of the famous anti-Semite following his
conviction for libeling Loewe & Co, the Jewish owned company that
manufactures rifles for the Army.
1893: It
was reported today that a Congress of North German Anti-Semites adopted a
platform that included a proposal forbidding Jews from employing German
servants.
1893:
Between today and March 1 of 1894, the United Hebrew Charities would receive
over 18,000 applications for relief representing 50,440 people.
1894(1st
of Tishrei, 5655): Rosh Hashanah
1894: “Now
the Period of Rosh Hashanah” published today described the ceremonials
connected with the holiday as well as the seemingly miraculous rescue of Louis
Berghold who nearly drowned when he went to the bathhouse at 23 Orchard Street
where he had gone to bathe prior to the holiday in keeping with “the Jewish
custom of the New Year.”
1894:
Council No 11 of the National Council of Jewish Women was formed in St. Paul,
MN with 35 members.
1894: Rabbi
De Sola Mendes is scheduled to deliver a special sermon at Congregation Shaarai
Tephilla’s new sanctuary.
1894:
Captain Dreyfus began serving with the 39th Regiment of the Line in
Paris.
1894: “No
sales or real estate auctions were held today” in part because it was a Jewish
holiday.
1895:
Following the removal of the religious disabilities by the Hungarian Reichstag
the first bride to marry under the law is the daughter of Deputy Mezel.
1895: In
New York City, Paul Warburg married Nina J. Loeb, daughter of Solomon Loeb,
founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Company after which the couple had two children -- James Paul Warburg
and Dr. Bettina Warburg.
1895: Birthdate
of Berlin nativ and University of Berlin trained physician Dr. Manfred M.
Zachart , a WW I veteran of the German Army “who was a leader among the German
refugees” in New York and, beginning in
1936, president of the German Jewish Congregation
1896: As of
today, there was a balance of $42.90 in the treasury of the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society.
1896: On
Long Island, Robert Morse and Cambridge Livingston were arraigned today after
having been charged by Samuel Burnstein, a Jewish dry goods peddler, with
stealing and abusing his horse.
1897: As of
today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York, has provided
35 summer excursions during 1897 and that from June 1 of this year through
today, the agency has provided service to 684 people including “93 mothers with
nursing infants and 591 children.”
1898(15th
of Tishrei, 5659): Sukkoth
1898: Czar Nicholas II expelled the Jews from
several major Russian cities. Seven
thousand Jews were forced to leave Kiev.
This was part of the Russian policy to destroy the Jewish population
through forced conversion, immigration and death.
1898: In Amsterdam,
Herzl receives a call to the German consulate. Wilhelm II is inclined to take
the migration of the Jews under his protection. He also wishes to receive Herzl
at the head of a delegation in Jerusalem.
1899: Irene Carver of
Baltimore, MD wrote to the New York Times expressing her concerns about
Israel Zangwill’s “Children of the Ghetto” which she said should have been
called “The Strange Story of a Strange People.”
1900: In Berlin, “the
papers publish reports that an organized Jewish movement is being formed and it
is intimated that a national meeting of the Jews will be held annually to
combat anti-Semitism.
1900(8th of
Tishrei, 5661): Sixty-one-year-old Abraham Wolff, the German born sone of
Daneil and Rebecca Scheuer Wolff, the husband of Lydia Cohen Wolff with whom he
had two children – Addie and Clara – who was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb and
Company and who left an estate valued at eighteen million dollars.
1901(18th of
Tishrei, 5662): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1901:
Approximately 1,000,000 British Pounds are being transferred to the
British Government in connection with the estate duty of the late Baron Hirsch.
1902(29th
of Elul, 5662): Erev Rosh Hashana
1902:
Kesher Israel was established today in Harrisburg, PA by breakaway members
of Chisuk Emuna B'nai Russia Synagogue
1902:
Today, in “commenting upon Secretary Hay's note to the Powers on the treatment
of the Rumanian Jews The Times's Paris correspondent says that the French
Government must not be expected to show any very great eagerness in supporting
the contention of the United States.”
1902:
“Jewish Immigration Into London” notes that “at the present time the chief
alien immigration to Great Britain is from Romania and consists of Jews drive
out by the systematic persecution to which the recent note of Secretary Hay
called attention in earnest but in a dignified protest.”
1903(10th
of Tishrei, 5664): Yom Kippur
1903:
Birthdate of Warsaw native and Fordham University trained attorned Arthur B.
Ewig who in 1904 came to the United States where he raised two daughter, Joan
and Barbara with his wife Mahriya.
1903: The National
League Pennant winning Pittsburgh Pirates and the American League Pennant
winning Boston Americans play the first game of the first World Series. The
World Series was the brainchild of Barney Dreyfus, a German born Jew who came
to the United States in 1881. Dreyfus
settled in Kentucky where he became President of the Louisville Colonels of the
National League. The Louisville team was
dropped from the National League in 1899 and Dreyfus became part owner and
President of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1900.
Under his guidance the Pirates won three straight National League
Championships. During the 1903 season,
Dreyfus met with the owner of the American League leading Boston Americans and
proposed that the two teams meet at the end of the season. The two shook hands and, despite opposition
from National League owners, the two teams met in a best of nine series
starting on October 1. The Boston team
won the first series, five games to three.
But the Pittsburgh players made more money. The Boston team received 75 percent of the AL
revenues with the rest going to the team owner.
But Dreyfus gave his team 100 percent of the NL revenues, keeping
nothing for himself. Dreyfus is also the
man who built Forbes Field, the Pirates historic baseball park and he helped
create the office of the Commissioner of Baseball.
1903: Birthdate of "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom. Born in New York City, Rosenbloom was light-heavyweight
box champ from 1932 to 1934. This was
the Golden Age for Jewish prizefighters.
1904(22nd of Tishrei,
5665): Shemini Atzeretz
1904: In the next
twelve months, beginning today, “100,388 Jewish immigrants were admitted to New
York City” according to the reports of the United Hebrew Charities of the City
of New York.
1904:
Birthdate of Vladimir Horowitz. The Russian-born pianist was considered one of
the most accomplished players of the 20th century. He is one in a long line of
world-class Jewish pianists. He passed
away in 1989.
1904: Birthdate of
Austrian-born English physicist Otto Robert Frisch. In 1938 he and Lise Meitner
were the first to describe fission of uranium after bombardment by neutrons.
During World War II Frisch was part of the British delegation to the Manhattan
Project, working as head of the Critical Assembly Group. He returned to England
to direct the physics department at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. He
died in 1979, one of the many Jewish scientists who fled the Nazis and enriched
the West.
1905(2nd of
Tishrei, 5666): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1905: “Jews to
Celebrate” published today described a pamphlet being distributed that
described plan for “the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the
Jews in the United States” that will include “the celebration to be held in
Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving Day, November 23rd.”
1905:” Some 2,000 Jews
were attacked on the Pike Street Recreation Pier on the East River front this
afternoon by two-score Italian and Irish laborers” for no reason except they
were Jews
1906: In New York,
Emanuel ad Nettye M. Unger gave birth Jerome Unger the father of sculptor David
Unger who served as the rabbi at Vassar Temple in Poughkeepsie, NY Temple
Menorah from 1963 to 1973.
1906: “Ivan Pavlov
writes a science article which includes an early description of the phenomenon
of classical conditioning.”
1906: In Galveston, TX
Herbert and Henrietta Blum Kempner gave birth to Harvard educated businessman
to Herbert Isaac Kempner, Jr the brother of Harris L. Kempner, recipient of the
Legion of Merit for his service with Navy during WW II and president of Imperial
Sugar.
1907(23rd of Tishrei,
5668) Simchat Torah
1907: James S.
Metcalfe, dramatic critic of Life,
won his fight against the theatrical managers of New York when the Court of
Appeals to-day handed down a decision that Charles S. Burnham, the manager of
Wallack's Theatre, had been properly arrested and confined in the city prison
on a charge of conspiracy brought by Mr. Metcalfe” “who had been barred from
many houses on account of certain cartoons and remarks about Jews that had been
printed in Life” and which the
managers asserted “constituted an attack upon a race and” should not be
permitted to continue.
1907: Thirty-one-year-old
Harvard trained attorney Herbert J. Friedman, the Chicago born son of Jacob and
Henrietta (Kahn) Friedman who was the first president of Young Men’s Associated
Jewish Charities married Elsie Seidenberg today.
1908: Dr. Joseph Pedott
of Chicago received $100 from the National Conference of Jewish Charities.
1909(16th of
Tishrei, 5670): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Presidency of William Howard Traft
1909: In Evansville,
IN, Archie Synenberg and Annie Gerson, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe,
gave birth to Pearl Louis Synenberg who in1931 married Mark Berg with whom she
had two sons – Alan and Robert -- and who
gained fame as Pearl Berg an American supercentenarian who was the oldest
Jewish person alive and also the 9th oldest living person in the world” at the
time of her death .
1910: Birthdate of
Rabbi Chiam Pinchas Scheinberg,
1910: “The season of
the German stock company at the Irving Place Theatre” in New York opened
tonight “with the performance for the first time on any stage of a melodramatic
tragedy in three acts by Paule Heyse” the German-Jewish “novelist and poet,
entitled “The Veiled Statue at Sais.”
Heyse was the first Jew to win the Nobel Prize for Literature which he
won in 1910.
1911(9th of
Tishrei, 5672): Erev Yom Kippur
1911: In Chicago,
Illinois, James and Emma Kostal gave birth to songwriter and arranger Irwin
Kostal, the brother of James, Jerome and Violet Kostal.
1911: Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph L. Seligman, who have been spending “their honeymoon in the West”, are
scheduled to take up residence at 16 East 81st Street today in New
York City. The bride is the former
Josephine Knowles of Pensacola, Fl.
1912(20th of
Tishrei, 5673): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1912(20th of
Tishrei, 5673): Forty-eight-year-old merchant Nathan Stein passed away in
Pittsburg, PA.
1912(20th of
Tishrei, 5673): Eighty-year-old Jacob Leo Samuel, the “president of the Spanish
Portuguese Synagogue passed away today at Montreal.
1913(29th of
Elul, 5673): Erev Rosh Hashana
1913: Birthdate of
Yisrael Barzilai, the Polish native who made Aliyah in 1934 and became active
in politics serving as an MK and Cabinet Minister.
1913: Morris Wolff was
“appointed third deputy attorney-general for Pennsylvania” today.
1913: In Brooklyn,
Morris and Pauline Rangell gave birth to Dr. Leo Rangell, a leading
psychoanalyst during the heyday of classical Freudian talk therapy in the 1960s
and ’70s, and a relentless advocate for the slow approach to treating emotional
distress even as antidepressants and managed care made short-term treatment the
norm´ (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1914: In Atlanta, Ga, Samuel Boorstein, “an attorney who participated in
the defense of Leo Frank and his wife gave birth to Daniel Boorstin, author of The Americas: The Democratic Experience for which he won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, the 12th
Librarian of Congress and the husband of Ruth Carolyn Frankel, the graduate of
Wellesley College who “became his partner and editor for his first book The
Mysterious Science of the Law.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/01/guardianobituaries.obituaries
1914: Today, Evelyn
Joseph, the Pretoria, South Africa born son of Fred and Matilda Joseph and
member of the “Birmingham Hebrew Congregation”
enlisted in the British Army where he served with the 14th
Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment reaching the rank of Sergeant
before being killed in action in Flanders in 1916.
1915(23rd of
Tishrei, 5676): Simchat Torah
1915: Birthdate of Cruz
“Allen” Rivera, the Catholic Puerto Rican who a Jewish waitress, Lillian
Friedman with whom he had a son Gerald Michael Rivera, known as Geraldo.
1915: The Jewish
Chronicle reported that Private Abraham Lippman of the Zion Mule Corps “was in
the 3rd Northern General Hospital in Sheffield suffering from an eye
wound where he was met by British Army Jewish Chaplain Rabbi Barnett I. Cohen.
(Jewish Virtual Library).
1915: “Jew In Czar’s
Council” published today described the election by representatives of commerce
and industry of the first Jew to the Council of the Empire which “has equal
legislative powers with the Duma.”
1916: It was reported
today that the Jews “constitute only 3 percent of the population of Russia.
1916: University of
Pennsylvania trained attorney Colonel Samuel R. Rosenbaum, the son of Morris
and Hannah Rosenbaum and Rosamond gave birth to thrice married Rosamond
Margaret Benier.
1916: It was reported
today that “in addition to the large number of schools” exclusively for Jewish
student” permission has been granted by the Russian government “for the
establishment of Jewish gymnasiums (high or predatory schools) in Petrograd.”
1917(15th of
Tishrei, 5678): Sukkoth
1917: At Temple Israel
of Harlem Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to speak on “Food Conservation.”
1917: According to
remarks by Jacob Billikopf, the Executive Director of the American Jewish
Relief Committee “The Yom Kippur appeal” which raised about a half a million
dollars “was made possible through the generosity of Sam C. Lamport who,
without solicitation, offer to pay the entire cost of the campaign.
1918: During World War
I, Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia")
capture Damascus. The Arabs had the mistaken notion that capture of Damascus
would result in the recreation of the Caliphate located in the Syrian city. The British and French had other plans –
plans that would help to destabilize the region that reverberate into the 21st
century with the violence in Iraq, Lebanon and, of course Syria. This is another example of regional
confrontation that had, and has, nothing to with the Jews, Zionism or Israel.
(In reality, it was the forces under Allenby, including the Jewish Legion that
responsible for the victory)
1918: “Anti-Semitism in
Germany” published today summarized information contained in a pamphlet by
Israel Cohen published by the English Federation which “sketches the history of
this movement from Bismarck through Stocker and Ahlvardt” and which the author
says “has concealed its fangs during the war” but will, at its first
opportunity “come out of its lair and begin to spread its poison anew.”
1918: The 165th
Regiment including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein left La Marche today and hiked to
Viocourt as they continued to advance against the Boche in the last great
offensive of WW I.
1919: The London Office
the Jewish Correspondence Bureau was opened today by Mr. Meer Grossman and
Jacob Landau “as a private company.”
1919: Today Major
General Hans von Seeckt “became chief of the newly established Truppenamt
agency” “the cover organization for the German General Staff” that hid training
banned by the Versailles Treaty until 1935” when, under Hitler, “the General
Staff of the Germany Army was re-created.” (Editor’s note – This is but one
more example of the reality that German leaders, long before Hitler came to
power, were determined to undue the outcome of WW I and re-establish Germany as
the dominate power in Europe.)
1919: Alexander Berkman
was released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary after having served the maximum
sentence following his conviction for violation the Espionage Act of 1917 for
his role in trying to dissuade Americans from registering for the Draft in
World War I.
1919: Final performance
of “An Exchange of Wives” produced by Walter Hast at the Bijou Theatre in New
York City
1920: On New York’s Lower East Side, Rose (née Berolsky), a Lithuanian
Jewish immigrant who worked in a garment sweatshop, and Milton Matthow, a Russian Jewish peddler and
electrician, from Kiev gave birth to Walter John Matthow who gained fame as
actor Walter Matthau whose most famous role may have been as Oscar Madison in
“The Odd Couple.”
http://matthau.com/walter-matthau/
1920: Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Troutfelt and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Loeb who spent the Summer at Seagate,
NY returned to their New York homes today.
1920: A new building at
64 East 55th Street in New York which is owned by Henry Allan
Jacobs, the architect who designed the building is scheduled to be ready for
occupancy today.
1920: Two days after he
had passed away, Woolf Davis, the husband of Mina Davis with whom he had four
children – “Isaac, Ann, David and Leah” – was buried today at the East Ham
Jewish Cemetery.
1921: As of today, the
“temporary officers of the newly formed Camden, NJ, lodge of the Independent
Order of B’nai B’rith which has 30 members are Sig Schoenagle, President; Abe
Furhrman; Bernard Bertman, Secretary
1922: Twenty-six-year-old
Army veteran and Rutgers University football player “John Alexander made
football history today while playing for the Milwaukee Badgers against the
Chicago Cardinals” when “he became the first person to ever play the ‘outside
linebacker position.’”
1923(21st of
Tishrei, 5684): Hoshana Rabah
1923: It was reported
today that “one hundred and fifty private automobiles and taxicabs, with
several sightseeing buses provided by Nathan Straus, Louis Marshal, Judge Otto
A. Rosalsky and other members of” the Jewish community in New York City, have
toured the East Side and Harlem as part
of “a registration drive by the Jewish Education Association with the object of registering 10,000 poor
Jewish children for education in Jewish institutions in addition to the public
schools.”
1924: Birthdate of
President Jimmy Carter. President Carter brokered the Camp David agreements
that led to the historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. In the 21st
century he openly allied himself with the Palestinians in a book whose title
equated Israel with the former white supremacist regime of South Africa.
1924: Birthdate of
Herbert Breslin, the Bronx native who used his skills as a publicist to promote
tenor Luciano Pavarotti to the status of “superstar.” (As reported by Daniel J.
Wakin)
1925: As the Senators
were closing out their pennant winning season, Buddy Myer played in the third
of the four regular season games that would mark his major league debut.
1925: In Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Ann Koel and Salomon Kaminsky gave birth to Adolfo Kaminsky who was raised in Paris and who served in the
Resistance during WW II where his skills as a forger saved thousands of lives
because of his creation of false identity documents.
1926(23rd of
Tishrei, 5678): Simchat Torah
1926: “Jacob Strahl,
the President of the Judea Industrial Corporation who return from Central
Europe today on board the Cunard liner Aquitania said that the anti-Semitic
feeling in Romania was ‘as ugly as ever” and he added that European Jewry was
watching with interesting the development of the first Jewish insurance company
in Palestine.”
1927(5th of
Tishrei, 5688): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva
1927: In Chicago, Dora
Heyman and Benjamin Bosley gave birth to DePaul Thomas Edward “Tom” Bosely the
Tony Award winning actor for his performance as Fiorello La Guardia in the musical
“Fiorello” and creator of the role of Howard Cunningham in the popular sitcom “Happy
Days” who married Patrcia Carr after the death of his first wife Jean and who
was a main character in the television series “Murder, She Wrote” and the “Father
Dowling Mysteries” where he played a Catholic priest.
1927: In Washington,
Lillian and Albert Small gave birth to Carolyn Small the Woodrow Wilson High
and American University graduate who became Carolyn Alper when she married
Morton Alper, DDS, the third generation Washingtonian and “artist, decorator
and philanthropist.”
1928(17th of
Tishrei, 5689): Third Day of Sukkoth
1928: In Joniškis,
Lithuania, Ella (née Zotnickaita) and Ber Skikne, gave birth to Laruschka
Mischa Skikne known in Hebrew as Zvi Mosheh who gained fame as actor Laurence
Harvey whose parts were as varied as a Texan at the Alamo and a brainwashed
assassin in “The Manchurian Candidate.
1929: “The Devil’s
Maze” a dramatic film with music by Louis Levy was released today in the United
Kingdom.
1929: “According to
Morris Whinston, the architect who designed the structure,” “the Manhattan
Bureau of Buildings has approved plans for a three story building for 423-25
Lexington Avenue and 132 East Forty-fourth Street which will be built by he
Marquis Lunch Company whose president in Morris Goldman
1929: Today, Joseph
Pulvermacher, the future president of Rodeph Sholom who had begun career as
messenger for the Hide and Leather National Bank in 1901 resigned his position
as vice president of Chase National Bank and became president of the newly form
Sterling Bank.
1930: Members of the
army navy and Coast Guard were granted furloughs so they could observe Yom
Kippur.
1930(9th of
Tishrei, 5691): Erev Yom Kippur
1930: Birthdate of
Samuel Winfield Lewis, the native of Houston whose distinguished diplomatic
career included serving as U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1977 to 1985.
1930: The Passfield
White Paper, dated as of today, recommended limiting Jewish immigration to
Palestine following the Arab riots of 1929.
1931(20th of
Tishrei, 5692): Sixth Day of Sukkoth.
1931: In London,
Mahatma Gandhi declared in an interview that “Zionism in its spiritual sense is
a lofty aspiration, but Zionism meaning the reoccupation of Palestine has no
attraction for me…”
1932(1st of Tishrei, 5693): Rosh
Hashanah on Shabbat
1932: Herbert Samuel
completed his service as Home Secretary under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
1932: “Men of Tomorrow”
directed by Zoltan Korda and Leontine Sagan and produced by Alexander Korda was
released in Great Britain.
1933: Formation of the
6th Airlift Squadron in which author James Salter would serve
following WW II.
1934(22nd of
Tishrei, 5695): Shmini Atzeret
1934: Paul Guilluame,
the art critic who was the first to champion the work of Italian-Jewish painter
Modigliani passed away.
1935: Actress Sylvia
Sidney, “the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and Victor
Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing salesman” married
Bennett Cerf today.
1936(15th of
Tishrei, 5697): Sukkoth
1936: In Budapest,
French Premier Leon Blum was “assailed” as “Red Jew during a ally of Christian
National students who then went to the Jewish quarter where they broke the
“windows of the chief synagogue” during “an anti-Semitic demonstration.” (Editor’s note – these anti-Semitic attacks
were not an aberration and help to explain the acquiescence in the Holocaust)
1936: “An appeal for
funds to combat the widespread anti-Jewish propaganda in Eastern and Central
Europe was made “today” by Morris C. Troper, the controller of the American
Jewish Joint Committee” who had just returned from a tour of Europe where he
said “the Jews in Germany had been deprived of their civil and religious rights
and that a similar deprivation is threatened in Poland, Austria, Rumania,
Lithuania and Latvia.”
1936: Sixty-year-old
Louis Thomas McFadden, a Congressman from Pennsylvania an outspoken foe of the
Federal Reserve Board who blamed the board for the Great Depression and saw it
as part of a Jewish conspiracy to control the economy and who inserted
“excerpts from The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion into the
Congressional Record” passed away.
1936: “A total of
$2,500,000 was expended by the Jewish Agency for Palestine on immigration,
colonization, security and other activities, including the settlement of German
Jews during the year” that end today.
1936: “White Horse
Inn,” produced and directed by Erik Charell opened at the Center Theatre today.
1937: Cambridge,
Massachusetts, native Philip Rahv (born Fevel Greenberg) “was officially
expelled as a Trotzkyite by the American Communist Party.” (Editor’s Note: This
was part of the contest between Stalin and Trotsky for control of the Communist
Party – a conflict which was literally a matter of life and death in those days,
but which is unknown to almost everybody at the start of the 21st
century.)
1937: The Palestine Post reported on the
festive opening of the new Haifa-Hadera-Tel Aviv-Jaffa highway, an achievement
described as a "remarkable engineering feat" and "a grand step
in the development of the country."
1937: The Palestine Post reported that
according to some moderate Arab sources, it was the well-known band of Sheikh
Izzadin Kassam which was responsible for the murder of Mr. L.Y. Andrews, the
District Commissioner for Galilee, and of his driver, Constable Peter
Robertson. This terrorist group, known as having committed many murders before,
shot and killed Andrews and Robertson as they were about to enter the Anglican
Church in Nazareth.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that
according to some London newspapers, the British and French diplomats in Geneva
discussed the possibility of Jewish settlement in
1938(6th of
Tishrei, 5699): Parashat Vayelich
1938: The
Polish government revoked the passports of all Jews who have lived outside of
Poland for more than five years, rendering them stateless.
1938: Today following
the Anschluss of last March, the medical practice of Eduard Bloch, who had one
been the physician of Hitler’s family, was closed today, following which he,
his daughter and his son-in-law “emigrated overseas.
1938: According to
Claretta Petacci, today Mussolini said that "Hitler is a big softy, deep
down." Petacci was Il Duce’s mistress.
1938: In Argentina, a
decree is scheduled to go into today designed to limit the number of emigres
who can enter into the country which many assume is intended to stop the flow
of Jewish immigrants coming from “Greater Germany and Poland.”
1938: Civiltá
Cattolica, the foremost Jesuit journal, which is published in Rome and
controlled by the Vatican, calls Judaism sinister and accuses Jews of trying to
control the world through money and secularism. The journal says that the devil
is the Jews' master; Judaism is evil and "a standing menace to the
world."
1939: “The Jewish
Calendar” a pamphlet “compiled and arranged by Solomon M. Neches” “with
corresponding dates for the year 5700 Anno Mundi, 1939-1940 Common Era” was
listed today among “the latest books received” today.
1939:
In Vienna, Austria, Übersiedlungsaktion (Resettlement action) is
instituted against able-bodied Jewish men. These Jews are deported to Poland
for forced labor
1939: Nazis
begin the internment of Polish "mental defectives" in the Polish
village of Piasnica.
1939: In keeping with the terms of their pact with Nazi Germany, Russia
“poured well over 1,000,000 men with full equipment into her share of the
partitioned Polish State.
1939: “Speaking tonight at the Temple of Religion” at the World’s Fair,
“where Congregation B’nai Jeshurun celebrated the beginning of its 114th
year in New York, Dr. Israel Goldstein, the congregation’s rabbi assailed the
‘menace of Nazi-Communist paganism’ and advised Jews and Christians to unite
‘to uphold and defend religion and religious values.’”
1939: Today, “Edward L. Bernays announced his withdrawal as non-salaried
counsel on public relations for the World’s Fair” being held in New York.
1940: The Nazis deport 6500 Jews from Germany's Palatinate, Baden, and Saar
regions to internment camps at the foot of the French Pyrenees.
1940: Jews
are forced to pay for and build a wall around the Warsaw (Poland) Ghetto
1940: Reich
theoretician Alfred Rosenberg writes an article, "Jews to
Madagascar," which suggests mass deportation of Jews to the island off the
African coast.
1940: German
authorities forbid Norwegian Jews to teach and participate in other
professions.
1940: Young
Jewish men return from the Belzec, Poland, camp to Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, after
a ransom of 20,000 zlotys is paid to Nazi captors.
1940: In his New Year’s
message, excerpts of which were published today, Dr. Emil Wleipziger of New
Orleans, President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, asked Reform
Rabbis “to assume the strategy of audacity, whereby they might teach their
congregations to give divine thanks in the hour of agony that He has kept us
alive, has sustained us and allowed us to reach this day..”
1940: Wendell Willkie,
the Republican candidate for President, “told Jewish citizens tonight that ‘in
so far as it is within my capacity to keep so sacred a pledge, the United
States of American will never harbor racial or religious intolerance and persecution.’”
1940: It was reported
today, that “the Jewish New Year holidays which begin at sundown” tomorrow
“will confine the kosher slaughter to three days this week” in New York.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):
Yom Kippur
1941: On this Jewish Day of Atonement, Jews are taken from the
ghetto at Podborodz, Ukraine, and killed.
1941:
Majdanek, a concentration outside of Lublin, Poland began operating today.
During its 34 months of operation at least 59,000 Jews were murdered there.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):
At Zalgar, the Nazis killed 633 men, 1,017 women, 496
children.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):
At Butrimantz,
Lithuania the Nazis murdered 976 Jews in front of Lithuanian crowds seated on
benches for "a good view." For more on the destruction of this
Lithuanian Shtetl see, If I Forget
Thee: The Destruction of the Shtetl Butrimantz (Butrimonys, Lithuania.The
Nazis sent 3,000 more Jews from Vilna to Ponar where they would all be shot.
1941: The
German government prohibits further Jewish emigration from Germany
1941: At
the Auschwitz camp, SS officer Arthur Johann Breitwieser takes note when a
comrade is rendered unconscious after accidental exposure to a disinfectant
called Zyklon B. A gaseous variant of the compound will eventually be used to
kill millions of Jews.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):
Einsatzgruppen members gather Jews of the Baltic port of Libau and
machine-gun them at the local naval base.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):
Germans drown 30 Jewish children in clay pits near Okopowa Street in the Warsaw
Ghetto.
1941: Seventy
children in the Warsaw Ghetto are found frozen to death outside destroyed
houses following the season's first snowfall.
1941: From this date until
1942: Jews
are deported to Auschwitz from Holland and Belgium; to the Treblinka death camp
from central Poland and the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia camp/ghetto; and to
the Belzec death camp from the Eastern Galicia region of Poland.
1942: The Nazis opened
Chelmek as a labor camp. The Jews there and elsewhere were used as slave labor for the German war
effort.
1942: Nazis deported
4000 Jews from Lukow, a town near Lublin in Poland.
1942: The Nazis
deported 2,000 Jews from Czechoslovakia.
1942: At
Novogrudok, Belorussia, 50 Jews escape from the Germans and join local
resistance led by Tuvia Bielski
1942: As
3000 Jews are arrested at Pinczów, Poland, Jewish resistance is led by Michael
Majtek and Zalman Fajnsztat
1942: Five thousand Jews are deported from
Zawichost, Poland to Belzec
.
1942: The British Vatican Ambassador Francis d'Arcy
Osborne writes in his diary that Pope Pius XII only occasionally denounces
moral crimes. But such rare and vague declarations "do not have...lasting
force and validity." Osborne points out that the Pope's "policy of
silence in regard to such offences against the conscience of the world must
necessarily involve a renunciation of moral leadership."
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703): At a small labor camp at Budy, Poland,
female German non-Jewish prisoners beat, mutilate, and kill dozens of captive
Jewish women. When the massacre is over, Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
inspects the scene
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703: Eighty-five-year-old Dayton, Ohio,
native Louis D. Beaumont who with “his two brothers joined with David May,
their brother-in-law, in the 1880s to form the May Shoe and Clothing Company,
which became the predecessor to May Department Stores” and who created the
Louis D. Beaumont Foundation which funded several programs at the Washington
University in St. Louis passed away today.
1942: The
Chelmek slave-labor camp, located in Poland near Auschwitz-Birkenau, opens to
house Jews draining swamps to provide water to the nearby Bata shoe factory.
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703):In Luków, Poland,
Jewish Council member David Lieberman is told by German authorities that money
he has collected to ransom Lublin's Jews is useless, and deportations will
continue, whereupon Lieberman tears the money to pieces and slaps the German
official in the face. Ukrainian guards kill Lieberman immediately, and 4000 of
the Jews Lieberman had hoped to protect are deported to the Treblinka
extermination camp, where they are gassed.
1942: Hundreds
of Jews escape the Ukrainian town of Luboml but are quickly hunted down. In
all, some 10,000 of the town's Jews are killed.
1943(2nd of Tishrei,
5704): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1943: In Manhattan
Gertrude Levy and Joseph Slater gave birth to “Robert Slater, a journalist and
the author of more than two dozen books, including biographies of figures as
diverse as the Israeli leader Golda Meir, the businessman Jack Welch and the billionaire
and philanthropist George Soros.” (As reported by William Yardley)
1943: SS chief Heinrich Himmler delivers a
speech at a "Final Solution" conference.
1943: The Jewish ghetto at Chernovtsy, Romania,
is liquidated
1943(2nd
of Tishrei, 5704): Just before their murders, several Jewish women use their
bare hands to attack SS troops at Auschwitz.
1944(14th
of Tishrei, 5705): Erev Sukkot
1944:
Birthdate of Dror Kashtan, the native of Petah Tikva who became a leading
Israeli footballer. (What Americans call soccer)
1944(14th
of Tishrei, 5705): Fifty-one-year-old Max Ehrlich who had been a highly
successful German entertainer was gassed at Auschwitz for the crime of being a
Jew.
1944:
Three years after they began, the final transport of Jews left Cologne for
Theresienstadt today.
1944: The Germans initiate death marches of
prisoners from Auschwitz to camps in Germany, including Dachau, Bergen-Belsen,
and Sachsenhausen.
1944 About 15,000 Jews are deported from the
Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to Auschwitz.
1944(14th
of Tishrei, 5705): At the Stutthof, Germany, concentration camp, executions of
Jewish prisoners begin. Initial killings are carried out by assembling inmates
with their backs to an infirmary wall with the stated purpose of medical
examinations. Slits in the wall behind the heads of each inmate allow a pistol
shot to be fired into their brains from the adjoining room
1944: Some 150 twins, most of them children,
remain in Dr. Mengele's medical block at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1944(14th of Tishrei,
5705): The Nazis gassed 1,000 more Jews
from Theresinstadt at Birkenau.
1945(24th of Tishrei, 5706): At Boleslawiec, Poland, eight Jews are
murdered by an anti-Semitic Polish underground group. Yes, this happened five
months after the end of World War II.
1945: David Ben-Gurion
decided “launch an armed struggle against the British which resulted in the
Palmach joining The Hebrew Resistance Movement.
1945: Birthdate of Rod Carew.
1946: The film version of Theodore Strauss’ “Moonrise” with a script by
Charles F. Haas was released today in the United States after having premiered
in Los Angeles.
1946: Today, Mrs. Belle J. Goldstein, national president of the Mizrachi
Women’s Organization of America, described the conditions in Palestine
following her four month visit to Eretz Israel where she took special pains to
inspect the 45 child care facilities supported by Mizrachi. She compared conditions in Palestine to those
in Ireland. She described the curfews
which would come without warning leaving families without such basics as bread
and milk. She reiterated the fact that Mizrachi
did not condone the actions of the Stern Gang or the Irgun, she reported that
most of the Yishuv was actively or passively a supporter of the Haganah.
1947: “Six British destroyers raced out of Haifa today to intercept” two
ships carrying over three thousand Jewish refuges that have passed through
Dardanelles and according to RAF patrols are somewhere between Cyprus and
northern Palestine. Just in case that a
half dozen modern British warships were unable to cope with the threat posed by
these two vessels, 3 more destroyers were standing by in Haifa should they be
needed.
1947: In Haifa, Bluma Lubashevsky, a teacher of English, and
Yitzhak Ciechanover an office worker in a law firm who had immigrated to Israel
from Poland in the 1920s gave birth to Israeli biologist Aaron Ciechanover who
won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2004.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2004/ciechanover/biographical/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2004/ciechanover/prize-presentation/
1948: Birthdate of New York City native and Syracuse University Lynn
Ahrens, the lyricist “who won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer
Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime.”
1948: A National Palestinian Council meeting in Gaza elected the Mufti as
its president and declared itself to be the provisional government of “All
Palestine.” Trans-Jordan’s King Abdullah
immediately denounced the All-Palestinian government which he declared would
not be allowed jurisdiction of the areas under the control of the Arab Legion
i.e. the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem.
1949: Birthdate of Sde
Eliyah native and Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University Israel
Jacob Yuval, the founder of Scholion - Interdisciplinary research center in the
Humanities and Jewish Studies “the academic director of the Jack, Joseph and
Morton Mandel School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and the Teddy
Kollek Chair for the Study of Cultural Aspects of Vienna and Jerusalem.”
1949(8th of
Tishrei, 5710): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1949: As part of the
ceremonies connected with Yom Kippur which begins tomorrow evening, “Dr. Nelson
President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion” is
scheduled to “speak over the American Broadcasting Company network today at
10:15 P.M.”
1950: During the
Maccabiah, competition opens in Haifa for various aquatic events including
swimming, diving and water polo.
1950: In “Land of a
Determined People,” published today
famed correspondent and author Quentin Reynolds reviews Watch For the
Morning by Thomas Sugrue. According
to Reynolds, this not only the latest book to be published describing
Israel, “but well may be the best book yet published on the new state. It is certainly the most exciting and most
interesting.”
1950: During a play-off
game between the Dodgers and Phillies which decided who would meet the Yankees
in the World Series Cal Abrams was thrown out at the plate as he tried to score
from second base – a play which would help lead to the Dodgers defeat.
1951(1st of
Tishrei, 5712): As U.S. forces slug it out on the Korean peninsula, Jews
observe Rosh Hashanah.
1953(22nd of
Tishrei, 5714): Shmini Atzeret observed for the first time during the
presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1953(22nd
of Tishrei, 5714): Sixty-year-old American biochemist Edwin Cohn passed away
today. In 1940 the hard-driving Harvard
biochemist Edwin Cohn broke plasma down into its different proteins — and saved
millions of soldiers' lives Most fatalities in World War I occurred not from
the direct physical damage of bullet wounds but from loss of blood. In the
spring of 1940, as another war seemed inevitable, finding a way to replace lost
blood became a medical priority. Edwin Cohn, a Harvard biochemist, took on the
problem of breaking down blood plasma to isolate a protein called albumin that
could be stored for long periods without spoiling, shipped efficiently and used
easily on a battlefield to save lives. Patriotic blood drives yielded whole
blood from which a small inventory of albumin had been accumulated by December
7, 1941. It was rushed to Pearl Harbor where it proved enormously successful in
the first battlefield setting. Cohn
headed up a government effort to oversee the production of albumin. His work
throughout the war to improve the process and the consequent successes of blood
products on the battlefield were one of the keys to victory for the Americans
in World War II.
1954: CBS broadcast the
first episode of “The Lineup” several episodes of which were directed by Dan
Siegel.
1955(15th of
Tishrei, 5716): Sukkoth
1955: After having
premiered in New York last month, “Killer’s Kiss,” “directed by Stanley Kubrick
who wrote the script along with Howard Sackler” was released today in the rest
of the United States.
1955(15th of
Tishrei, 5716): Sixty-six-year-old Soviet Jewish actor and director Alexey
Denisovich Dikiy “who worked at Moscow Art Theatre and later worked with Habima
Jewish theatre in Tel-Aviv” and whose career fell and rose on the whim of
Joseph Stalin meaning he was a prisoner in the Gulag as well as a recipient of
the Stalin Prize passed away today.
http://www.vakhtangov.ru/en/persones/dikiy
1955: At Ebbets Field,
the Dodgers win the fourth game of the World Series leaving them in a tie with
the Bronx Bombers.
1956(26th of Tishrei,
5717): Albert Von Tilzer passed away in Los Angeles. Born in 1878, he was an American songwriter,
the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the music
to many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The Ball
Game". He was born Albert Gumm, in Indianapolis, Indiana; his last name
had been shortened by his parents from Gumbinski, or possibly Guminski. As a
young man he worked briefly at his older brother Harry Von Tilzer's publishing
company, and Albert's earliest songs were published by Harry. Within a very few
years Albert formed his own firm, The York Publishing Company, and there
appears to have been no further collaboration between Albert and Harry Von
Tilzer, although both of them wrote and published many hundreds of songs.
Tilzer was Albert and Harry's mother's maiden name. When oldest brother Harry
began his song writing career he assumed the professional name Von Tilzer,
adding the honorific "Von" to his mother's maiden name. Albert
followed suit, as did younger brothers Will and Jules Von Tilzer, both of whom
were also active in the music industry. Von Tilzer was a top Tin Pan Alley tune
writer, producing numerous popular music compositions from 1900 continuing
through the early fifties. He collaborated with many lyricists, including Jack
Norworth, Lew Brown, and Harry MacPherson. A number of his tunes were performed
(and recorded) by jazz bands and continue to be played decades later. His songs
included "The Alcoholic Blues", "Apple Blossom Time",
"Chili Bean", "Dapper Dan", "Honey Boy", "I
May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time", "I'm Glad I'm Married",
"I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town", "The Moon Has His Eye On
You", "My Cutie's Due at Two-to-Two", "My Little
Girl", "Oh By Jingo!", "Oh How She Could Yacki- Hacki, Wicki-Wacki,
Woo", "Put on Your Slippers and Fill Up Your Pipe, You're Not Going
Bye-Bye Tonight", "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey", "Roll
Along, Prairie Moon", "Take Me Out To The Ball Game", "Wait
Till You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys", and hundreds of others.
1956: The Israeli
delegation returned from France following highly secret negotiations on how to
deal with the threat posed by President Nasser of Egypt.
1956: “The Diary of
Anne Frank” “opened simultaneously in seven German cities.”
1957: Today marked the
publication of the first of a 12-part series written by Alexander Bittlement
for The Worker that described the liberalizing process that was taking place in
the Communist Party in the wake of the exposure of Stalin’s excesses and the
Hungarian Revolution.
1957: “Affair in
Havana” a crime film directed by Laslo Benedek, with music by Ernest Gold and a
screenplay by Maurice Zimm, the Waterloo, IA born son of Jewish immigats.was
released today in the United States.
1958(17th of
Tishrei, 5719): Third Day of Sukkoth
1958: Seventy-two-year-old
Baltimore born Dr. Oscar E. Bransky, the holder of a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins,
a 38-year veteran of Standard Oil of Indiana ,and “the former chief of the petroleum
bench of the Economic Cooperation administration, who raised two daughters and
a son with his wife Thelma passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-obituary-for-osear-e-bransky/77545917/?locale=en-US
https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Crude-Petroleum-Through-Fullers/dp/1407676164
1958: “Onionhead,” a
comedy-drama set in WW II directed by Norman Taurog and featuring Walter
Matthau and Joey Bishop was released in the United States today.
1958: “Man of the West”
produced by Walter Mirisch and co-starring Julie London and Lee J. Cobb was
released in the United States today.
1958: “Handful of
Fire,” a two-act play written by N. Richard Nash opened today “on Broadway at
the Martin Beck Theatre.
1958: “The Big Country”
a big-screen western epic that was a popular hit directed and produced by
William Wyler, with an overpowering score by Jerome Moross and co-starring
Carroll Baker was released today in the United States by United Artists.
1959: Henry Popkin’s
review of Harold Loeb’s The Expatriate Twenties: The Way It Was was
published today.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-way-it-was-by-harold-loeb/
1959: The first episode
of “Law of the Plainsman” co-produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions (Jules
Levy, Arthur Garnder and Arnold Laven) was broadcast today on NBC.
1960(10th of Tishrei,
5721): Yom Kippur
1960: U.S. and Greek
premiere of “Never on a Sunday,” written and directed by Jules Dassin who also
co-starred in the film.
1960: “Camelot,” the
Lerner and Loewe musical “premiered in Toronto at the O’Keefe Center where it
disastrously ran for over four hours instead of the expected two hours.
1960: After 337
performances at the Music Box Theatre, the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of “Five Finger Exercise” written by British playwright Sir
Peter Levin Shaffer, the twin brother of playwright Anthony Shaffer.
1961(21st of
Tishrei, 5722): Hoshana Rabba
1961: Gertrude Berg,
the actress best known as “Molly Goldberg” appeared for the third time as the
mystery guess on “What’s My Line?”
1961: British diplomate
Sir Andrews “was involved in the transfer of the Trust Territory of Southern
Cameroons to the French-controlled-state of the Caermoun Republic” today.
1962(3rd of
Tishrei, 5723): Tzom Gedaliah
1962,
Today, Groucho Marx, after acting as occasional guest host of The Tonight Show
during the six-month interval between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, introduced
Carson as the new host The Tonight Show.
1962: “A Kind of
Loving” directed John Schlesinger and produced by Joseph Janni was released
today in the United States.
1962: “Little Annie
Fanny,” a comic series created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder that debuted
in Playboy.
1962: Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract with Columbia
Record Company
1962: Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977.
1962: “I
Can Get It for You Wholesale,” a musical with music and lyrics by Harold Rome
and a book by Jerome Weidman starring Elliott Gould featuring Lillian Roth and
Barbra Streisand as “Miss Marmelstein” transferred from the Shubert Theatre to
the Broadway Theatre.
1964: The Free Speech
Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. Among the movement’s leaders were several
Jews including Suzanne Goldberg, Bettina Aptheker and Jackie Goldberg.
1965: Harold Brown
began serving as the 8th United States Secretary of the Air Force.
1965(5th of
Tishrei, 5726): Sixty-three-year-old Edward Podolsky, the author of several
tomes including The Doctor Prescribes Colors: The Influences of Colors on
Health and Personality passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Edward-Podolsky/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AEdward+Podolsky
1966(17th of
Tishrei, 5727): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1966(17th of
Tishrei, 5727): Seventy-one-year-old Latvia native Yiddishist Zalman (Salman)
Yefroiken who in 1921 came to the United States where he eventually became the
education director of the “Workmen’s Circle High School,” editor of “Culture
and Education and the author of Jews Do Not Surrender while raising two
children with his wife ‘the former Amy Goldberg.
1966: Birthdate of
actress and model Cindy Margolis. And you thought I only knew about dead
rabbis, old authors and antique actors.
1967(26th of
Elul, 5727): Seventy-year-old Solomon “Sol” Vigran, the Cincinnati born son of
Alex and Agnes Salaway Vigransky and the husband of Zelda Weinstein Vigran who
was graduate of the University of Cincinnati Law School and President of
Eliokum Investment Corporation passed away today after which he was buried at
the Kneseth Israel Cemetery in Cincinnati, OH.
1967: “Far From
Vietnam” a documentary co-directed by William Klein was released in France
today.
1967: In Toronto, the
cornerstone was laid to the expansion project at Shaar Hashomayim. The
synagogue, which had been designed to serve 300 families, was now serving 1,750
families which necessitated the building project.
1968(9th of
Tishrei, 5629): Erev Yom Kippur observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Lyndon Johnson
1969(19th of
Tishrei, 5730): Five Day of Sukkot.
1969(19th of
Tishrei, 5730): Ninety-two-year-old Baltimore native and Johns Hopkins trained
physician turned stockbroker Leonard Keene Hirshberg who was found guilty of defrauding investors of one million dollars
in a mail fraud investment scam and sent to the federal prison at Atlanta for two
years.
1970(1st of
Tishrei, 5731): Rosh Hashanah
1970: In Philadelphia,
“Arthur and Karen (Spivak) Lobel gave birth to historian Cindy Renee Lobel. (As
reported Katherine Rosman)
1970: “The Baby Maker”
starring Barbara Hershey (Barbara Lynn Herzstein) was released today in the
United States.
1971(12th of
Tishrei, 5732): Seventy-three-year-old “Bella Finkel Muni” the actress, sister
of “director of Abe Finkel” and the wife of award winning actor Paul Muni,
passed away today in Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/10/04/90693586.pdf
1971: In the UK, ITV
broadcast the first episode of “The Mary Feldman Comedy Machine” starring Marty
Feldman who wrote for the show along with others including Larry Gelbart and
Barry Levinson.
1971(12th of
Tishrei, 5732: Eighty-one-year-old Benjamin Marcus Priteca, the Glasgow born
architect who designed Chevra Bikur
Cholim synagogue in 1912 which is now the Langston Hughes Performing Art
Center, Seattle and The Alhadeff Sanctuary of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch Sinai
passed away today.
http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/1774
1972(23rd of
Tishrei, 5733): Simchat Torah
1972(23rd of
Tishrei, 5733): Seventy-four-year-old French born American Benny Valgar who
fought and lost in bout for the Featherweight Championship of the World passed
away today.
1972: “Follies,” a
musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman
was performed for the last time at the Schubert Theatre in Los Angeles.
1973: According to the
Agranat Commission Lieutenant Benjamin Siman Yov, order of battle intelligence
officer for the Southern Command gave his superior Lt Colonel Gadalia documents
indicating Egypt's war preparations; a warning that the Commission said was
ignored.
1973: The Egyptian and
Syrian armies when on full alert today.
Israeli intelligence officers at the highest level ignored the potential
significance of the move and did not respond with appropriate counter-measures. This decision would have near catastrophic
consequences five days later.
1974: Birthdate of
Aleksandr Averbukh, the Russian born Israeli Olympic level pole vaulter.
1975: “Sylva Zalmanson
begins the second week of her hunger strike outside the UN building in New York
in support of her husband Edward Kuznetsov and her brothers Israel and Wolf
Zalmanson who are still imprisoned in the USSR.
1975: “An unofficial
group of five Israelis” that had been visiting the USSR for the last ten days
at the invitation of the of the Soviet Peace Committee left today.
1976(7th of
Tishrei, 5737): Seventy-four-year-old Goldie Feinstein passed away today.
1976(7th of
Tishrei, 5737): Seventy-five-year-old Tillie Feinstein of Paramus, NJ, passed
away today.
1978(29th of
Elul, 5738): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1978: Thirty-year-old
Ron Blomberg played his final game for the Chicago White Sox today.
1979(10th of
Tishrei, 5740): Yom Kippur.
1979(10th of
Tishrei, 5740): Diana G. Jaffe, the
husband of Samuel Jaffe and the mother of Rona Jaffe passed away today.
1980(21st of
Tishrei, 5741): Hoshana Raba
1980(21st of
Tishrei, 5741): Seventy-eight Kiev native Harry Grey, the author whose works
included The Hoods and the husband of Mildred Becker with whom he had three
children – Beverle, Harvey and Simeon – passed away today.
1980: The West End
production of “They're Playing Our Song,”
“a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and
music by Marvin Hamlisch” opened today at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
1981: As of today, in
the last thirty days, 405 Jews left the U.S.S.R.
1982(14th of Tishrei,
5743): Erev Sukkoth
1982: “The Last
American Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script, produced
by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg
was released in Finland today.
1983(24th of
Tishrei, 5744): Parashat Bereshit
1983: CBS broadcast the
first episode of “Cutter to Houston” a medical show created by Sandor Stern.
1983(24th of
Tishrei, 5744): Eighty-two year old Lucille Feinstein passed away today.
1984: ABC network said
today that 43 year old John T. Lazarus, vice president of sports marketing and
sales at the ABC Television Network, has resigned his position.
1985: The West
Production of the “Torch Song Trilogy” by Harvey Fierstein opened today at thw
Albery Theatre
1985: President Ronald
Reagan today announced his intention to nominate Richard Schifter to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. He
would succeed Elliott Abrams. Mr. Schifter is a partner in the law firm of
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Kampelman in Washington, DC.
1985: In what is known
as “Operation Wooden Leg,” The Israeli air force bombed PLO Headquarters in
Tunis in response the Yom Kippur hijacking of yacht off the coast of Cyprus and
the cold-blooded murder of the three Israelis tourists on board.
1987: Their Majesties
King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain paid a visit to Sephardic Temple
Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles in a secular event in their honor.
1988(20th of
Tishei, 5749): Shabbat shel Sukkot
1988: “Heathers” a
comedy starring Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowwitz) who also served as
narrator was released in Italy today.
1989: “Congress adopted
the Lautenberg-Spector Amendment which contains new rules of immigration to the
U.S. from USSR which include a quota of 40,000 Jews a year and direct flights
from Moscow to USA.”
1989: General Colin
Powell began serving as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During
Operation Desert Storm, Powell sent Patriot Batteries to Israel to thwart the
Scud attacks from Iraq. This was the
first time that Israel had entrusted any part of her defense to another
nation. Israel did so not because she
was unable to protect herself, but because the United States asked Israel to
stay on the sidelines so as not to upset the coalition the Bush Administration
had gathered to fight Iraq.
1990: Harvard graduate
and Stanford educated attorney, David Frank Levi, the son of Kate Levi and
Edward H. Levi, a former president of the University of Chicago and United
States Attorney General under President Gerald R. Ford and husband of Nancy Ranney
Levi with whom he had two sons – Will and Joseph -- began serving as the Judge of the United
States District Court for the Eastern District of California.
1990: The UNESCO Courier publishes Manuel Osorio’s interview of Claude Levi-Strauss - French social
anthropologist.
1991(23rd of Tishrei, 5752): Simchat Torah
1991: The Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) which had been battling Croatian
forces began the Siege of Dubrovnik during which two thirds of the old city was
in some way damaged, including the” including the Sephardic synagogue which is
the second oldest such edifice in Europe, “where shells and grenades hit the
adjacent buildings shattering the windows of the sanctuary and Jewish Community
Headquarters.”
1992(4th of Tishrei, 5753): Seventy-nine-year-old Dorothy
Fishman Weiss, the Denver born daughter of Abraham and Sarah Eckstein Fishman
and the sister of Bernard Fishman passed away today after she was buried at
Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, CO.
1993: The movie version of “M. Butterfly” directed by David Cronenberg
and with music by Howard Shore was released today in the United States.
1993: David Levi, the son of U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi began
serving as Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District
of California.
1993: “Cool Running” a sports movie directed by Jon Turteltaub and with
music by Hans Zimmer was released in the United States today.
1993: “Malice” a thriller with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, music by
Jerry Goldsmith and co-starring Bebe Neuwirth was released in the United States
by Columbia Pictures.
1993: “For Love Or Money” a comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced
by Brian Grazer and featuring Bob Balaban was released today in the United
States.
1994: The City of
Anchorage, Alaska honored Rabbi Harry L. Rosenfeld by proclaiming this “Rabbi
Harry Rosenfeld Day.”
1994: Abner J. Mikva
began serving as White House Counsel under President Clinton.
1994: “The age of
Hobsbawm: The people's historian is turning his long gaze to a short century”
published today provided a review Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth
Century – 1914 to 1991 by Eric Hobsbawm.
1995: “Piranha” the film which marked the debut of Mila Kunis
was released in the United States today.
1997: Ninety-seven old
Esther Gottesman who had been a “national board member of Hadassah since 1934”
and who convinced her brother-in-law D. Samuel Gottesman to help finance the
acquisition of the Dead Sea Scrolls passed away today. (As reported by Enid
Nemy)
1997: It was reported
today that the 1990’s have seen “a continuation of Jewish day school growth”
with an enrollment of over “200,000 students nationwide” which is seen as being
“part of a resurgence in Jewish culture.”
1997: The Red Tent by
Anita Dimant is published. The novel examines Jewish history through feminist
eyes, featuring Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter.
In the Bible Dinah is portrayed as a rape victim who is avenged by her
brothers.
1997: CBS broadcast the
first episode of season five of “The Nanny” a sitcom created by Peter Marc
Jacobson and Fran Drescher who starred “as Fran Fine” a Jewish nanny from
Queens.
1999(21st of Tishrei,
5760): Hoshana Raba
1999: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held in Boca Raton, FL, for 98 year Clara Adler Hoffman,
the New York born daughter of Sadie Simon and Dr. Charles Adler and wife of
dentist Dr. M. Robert (Buddy) Hoffman who “were a founding family of the Jewish
Center in 1934 and Sinai Reform Temple in 1948 both located in Bayshore, NY.”
1999(21st of
Tishrei, 5760): Seventy-five-year-old Willem Polak, the former mayor of
Amsterdam, passed away today.
1999(21st of Tishrei,
5760): Ted Arison, an Israeli-American businessman who co-founded Norwegian
Cruise Lines in 1966 with Knut Kloster and founded Carnival Cruise Lines in
1972, passed away. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1924, he fought in the Jewish
Brigade of the British Army during World War II. He moved to the United States
in the early 1950s and created Carnival Cruise Lines in 1972 in which he made
his fortune. Later, he established the National Foundation for Advancement in
the Arts based in Miami. He brought professional basketball to South Florida
with the forming of the Miami Heat in 1988, and established the philanthropic
Arison Foundation in Israel and the United States. In 1990, he renounced his
U.S. citizenship, in an effort to avoid U.S. Estate Taxes (and failed to meet
the 10 years out of the United States rules on this matter, when he died in
1999) and returned to Israel and founded Arison Investments. In 1997 he headed
a consortium that purchased the controlling share in Bank Hapoalim for more
than $1 billion -- the largest privatization deal in Israel's history. His
children include Micky Arison and Shari Arison.
2000: The New York Times included reviews of The
Avengers by Richard Cohen and The Talmud and the Internet by
Jonathan Rosen.
2000(2nd of Tishrei,
5761): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2000: Arab Israelis
took part in violent demonstrations aimed at showing their support for the
Second Intifada
2000:
The 2000 Summer Olympic in which canoer Rami Zur competed for Israel came to a
close today.
2001: Hamas took credit
for today’s bombing in Talpiot, a neighborhood in Jerusalem.
2002(25th of Tishrei,
5763): Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist, passed away.
2002: “True Courage of
One Who Had to Act” published today described the life of Necdet Kent, “a
Turkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews from Nazi concentration camps
during World War II.”
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/30/1033283437468.html
2003: Charles Prince
replaced Sanford Weill as the CEO of Citigroup.
2003: CBS broadcast the
first episode of season six of “The King of Queens” co-starring Jerry Stiller.
2004(16th of Tishrei,
5765): Second Day of Sukkoth
2004(16th of
Tishrei, 5765): Eighty-one-year-old fashion photographer Richard Avedon passed
away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/02/obituaries/richard-avedon-the-eye-of-fashion-dies-at-81.html?_r=0
2004: A month after
premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, “I Heart Huckabees”
starring Dustin Hoffman and featuring Isla Fisher was released in the United
States by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
2004: Opening of the
“exhibition ‘David Bomberg en Ronda’ at the Museo Joaquin Peinado in Ronda in
Andalusia that showed work by Bomberg in the city and environment which he had
celebrated in paintings and drawings in 1934-35 and 1954-47.
2005: The King in
the Window, “a children's fantasy novel written by American author Adam
Gopnik, was published today by Hyperion Books.”
2005(27th of Elul,
5765): A marvelous day for the Jewish community in Cedar Rapids. Temple Judah marked the last Shabbat of 5765
with Traditional Saturday morning services.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette
carried three articles featuring Jewish topics. First, the question in the “God
Squad” column began with “I don’t see why synagogues force people to have
tickets for services at the High Holidays.”
Goldman and Hartman responded with a column about the need to provide
financial support for religious institutions while assuring the questioner that
nobody is turned away at the synagogue door because they cannot afford to
pay. Second, there was a story about
Rabbi Peter Schweitzer donating his ten thousand item collection of Jewish
memorabilia to the National Museum of American Jewish History. Finally, there was a lengthy article about
Kalman Feinberg winning the national Great Shofar Blast Off.
2006: The New York Times book section features
reviews of two books about I.F. Stone – All Governments Lie: The Life and
Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone by Myra MacPherson and The Best of
I.F. Stone edited by Karl Weber.
2006: The Washington Post book section features
reviews of Gonzo Judaism: A Bold
Path for Renewing an Ancient Faith By Niles Elliot Goldstein and Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew
by Robin Chotzinoff
2006: A Lubavitcher hasid reportedly responded to a request from
Yiddish scholar Itche Goldberg and help him put on Tefflin
2006(9th of Tishrei, 5767): Yom Kippur observance begins with Kol Nidre
2006: Over 100,000 people participated in the seventh annual “Yom
Kippur for Everyone,” an event which brings an open and educational Yom Kippur
service to community centers and schools throughout Israel. The idea is to create a meaningful spiritual
experience for those who avoid traditional religious services.
2007(19th of Tishrei, 5768): In Chevy Chase, Maryland, Israel Kugler, a leader of teachers’ and
Jewish labor organizations, passed away at the age of 90. Kugler was president
of the United Federation of College Teachers during the turbulent 1960s, and he
won a reputation as an outspoken advocate for teachers’ rights.
2007: U.S. News & World Report Magazine features a report on
Judge Michael Mukasey, the Orthodox Jew President Bush nominated to U.S.
Attorney General as being “a respected law-and-order man with a compassionate
streak.”
2007: In a reminder of the connection between Jews and humor, Time
Magazine featured a review Robert Klein: The HBO specials 1975-2005,
a
2007: Vacationers visiting Charles Clore Park in Tel Aviv expressed
their disgust with the filth they encountered much of which was cause people
barbecuing, a practice that the municipality had banned.
2007: Plaza Hotel
owners Yitzhak Tshuva and the Elad Group paid $120,000 for the giant birthday
cake that marked the 100th anniversary of the landmark New York hotel
2008: Amy Goodman was
named as a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as
the "Alternative Nobel Prize" — the first journalist to be so
honored. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation cited her work in
"developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political
journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are
often excluded by the mainstream media."
2008(2nd
of Tishrei, 5769): Second Day Rosh Hashanah
2008(2nd
of Tishrei, 5769): One hundred nine-year-old Boris Yefimov, “a Russian
cartoonist despised by Hitler and beloved by Stalin” passed away today. (As
reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/europe/05yefimov.html?_r=0
2008: Professor Sarah Stroumsa replaces Professor Haim D.
Rabinowitch, as rector at Hebrew University. He has served in the position for
the last seven years.
2008: In the evening, at the New York film festival, a screening of “Waltz with Bashir” directed by Ari Folman
According to critics, “many films have shown us that war is hell..
2008: Peter Salovey, is
scheduled to become Provost at Yale.
2009: An off-Broadway
production of “Loss, and What I Wore” a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron
“officially opened at the Westside Theatre.”
2009: A.J. Jacobs
discusses and signs his new book, "The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an
Experiment," at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, in Washington, D.C.
2009: The Columbus
Jewish Federation holds its 2009 Annual Meeting and 2010 Annual Campaign
Kickoff, an event that will feature the presentation of the Ben M. Mandelkorn
Award for Distinguished Service & Therese Stern Kahn and William V. Kahn
Young Leadership Award.
2010:
Rick Sanchez, a daytime anchor at CNN, was fired today a
day after telling a radio interviewer that Jon Stewart was a bigot and that
“everybody that runs CNN is a lot like Stewart.”
2010(23rd of Tishrei,
5771): Simchat Torah
2010: “According to a
short speech delivered today during Cornelius Lanczos' induction to the NIST
Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Staff, his daughter-in-law, Alice Lanczos,
described his return to Hungary in 1939 from his then-position at Purdue University,
when he attempted to convince his family to return to the US with him due to
the anti-Jewish Nazi threat” – an attempt that was only partially successfully
since he was able to rescue his five year old son, but not his “wife who was
too ill to travel and died several weeks later from tuberculosis”
2010:”In the Penal
Colony, a chamber opera in one act and 16 scenes composed by Philip Glass based
on a work by Franz Kafka completed its month long premiere performance run that
had begun on August 31.
2010: “The World of
Jewtopia” is scheduled to open in Charlotte, NC.
2012: A movie based on
Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, “The Social Network” was
released today
2011: Under the new
“summer clock” to be used in Israel, today should mark the end of daylight
savings time. But since October 1 falls
on Shabbat, the winter clock should have begun on the day before. But since
that was Rosh Hashanah, Daylight Savings time should come to an end on October
2.
2011(3rd of
Tishrei, 5772): In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guest chazzan Ilan Caplan is scheduled
to lead Shabbat Shuvah services at the traditional minyan at Temple Judah
2011: Keren Ann Zeidel,
an Israeli sound designer, singer, songwriter, is scheduled to perform at the
City Winery in New York City.
2011: “President Obama
was considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going to
let him out before his time.’ If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for
life,” U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was quoted as saying during a meeting with
rabbis in Florida in a New York Times article published today
2011: An Israeli air
strike wounded three Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip today, the Israeli
military and Palestinian medical officials said.
2011(3rd of
Tishrei, 5772): Eighty-five-year-old Sholom Rivikin “an Israeli-born American
rabbi who was the last Chief Rabbi of St. Louis” passed away today.
2011: Gene Simmons who
is Jewish married Shannon Lee Tweed who was not.
2012(15th of
Tishrei, 5773): Sukkoth
2012(15th of
Tishrei, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old “Eric J. Hobsbawm, whose three-volume
economic history of the rise of industrial capitalism established him as
Britain’s pre-eminent Marxist historian” passed away today. (As reported by
William Grimes)
2012(15th of
Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-six-year-old Holocaust survivor, economist and governor
of the Bank of Israel passed away today.
2012: American-Canadian
professional tennis player Jesse Levine achieved his career-high singles rank
of world no. 69 today
2012(15th of
Tishrei, 5773): Eight days before her 90th birthday, Joan Morgenthau
Hirschhorn (Dr. Joan E. Morgenthau) passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.aspx?pid=160282693#fbLoggedOut
2012(15th of
Tishrei, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old “Irving Cohen, who was known as King Cupid
of the Catskills for his canny ability to seat just the right nice Jewish boy
next to just the right nice Jewish girl during his half-century as the maître
d’ of the Concord Hotel” passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2012: The Brazilian
adaptation of the Israeli hit "Be Tipul" premiered on GNT, under the
title "Sessão de Terapia" ("Therapy Session").
2012(15th of
Tishrei): Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller, beloved husband of Eleanor
Schueller, father of Deb Levin and father-in-law of Mitchell Levin
2012(15th
of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-eight-year-old” Shlomo Venezia was one of the first
Jews to climb out of the freight car when it came to the end of the line at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on April 11, 1944” passed away
today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2012: It was reported
today that “archaeologists working in Northern Israel's Nahal Me'arot, Unesco's
most recently declared World Heritage Site, found evidence that the
genealogical relatives lived side by side and perhaps even interbred, according
to The London Times.
2012: Lorraine Lotzof
Abramson, author, My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up under Apartheid in South
Africa is scheduled to be
interviewed on Channel 75 in NYC
2013: Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu plans to warn the international community to learn from its
mistakes with North Korea and not to be fooled by Iran’s new conciliatory
attitude toward its nuclear weapons program, when he speaks at the United
Nations General Assembly in New York today (As reported by Tovah Lazaroff)
2013: The JCRC and the
JCC GW are scheduled to host “Environmentalism as a Pathway to Peace: Israeli,
Palestinian and Jordanian Hydro-politics.
2013(27th of
Tishrei, 5774): Ninety-year-old Israel Gutman, one of the Warsaw Ghetto
fighters and editor in chief of the four volume Encyclopedia of the
Holocaust passed away today. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2013: The world can never cease its fight for
justice and against racism, Finance Minister Yair Lapid told the Hungarian
Parliament today, during a visit to participate in a conference called
"Jewish Life and anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe".(As reported
by Lahav Harkov)
2014:
“The historic Ellis Island hospital complex, through which many Jewish
immigrants to the US passed in the first half of the 20th century, is scheduled
open to the public today for the first time in 60 years. The complex of 29
unrestored buildings is located across the ferry slip from the fully-restored
immigration museum.”(As reported by Collen Long)
2014:
Dr. Peggy Pearlstein, former Head of the Hebraic section of the Library of
Congress is scheduled to present “A Tale of Two Books: The Sarajevo Haggadah
and the Washington Haggadah.”
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Echoes of the Borscht Belt:
Contemporary Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld.”
2014:
In London, the Wiener Library is scheduled to present a lecture by Roger
Moorhouse, “The Devil's Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941.”
2014:
“With a display of mutual empathy and support, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama held their first meeting today since
the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the summer’s 50-day
Israel-Hamas war.
2014(7th
of Tishrei, 5775): Eight-six-year-old Shlomo Lahat who served as Mayor of Tel
Aviv for 19 years passed away today.
2015(18th
of Tishrei, 5776): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2015(18th
of Tishrei, 5776): Ninety-five-year-old Jacob Pressman who served as the rabbi
at Temple Beth Am for 35 years passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-rabbi-jacob-pressman-dies-at-95-20151005-story.html
2015:
A mother and her six-month-old son were when “a group of rock-throwing
terrorist attacked Israeli vehicles today near the Tekoa community of Gush
Etzion.”
2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “French Chamber
Masterpieces: Fauré Piano Quartet and Franck Piano Quintet.”
2015:
In Little Rock, AR, a Sukkoth Party with the BMX Stunt show is scheduled to
take place at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life under the leadership of Rabbi
Pinchas Ciment.
2016(28th
of Elul, 5776): Final Shabbat of 5776
2016:
“Police said a 40-year-old man” had been arrested this evening “after an
intruder shot a security guard at Moscow synagogue with an air pistol.”
2016:
“From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer” which “delves headlong into the
absurdities and neuroses of matrimonial rites as an Israeli wedding
photographer repeatedly finds himself embroiled in psychodramas with the brides
and grooms who hire him” is scheduled to be shown at the 54th New
York Film Festival.
2017(11th
of Tishrei, 5778): Eight-nine-year-old publisher S.I. Newhouse, Jr. passed away
today. (As reported by Jonathan Kandell)
2017:
“Disabled protesters blocked a road junction north of Tel Aviv today, rejecting
a deal signed between other disabled activists and the government” two days ago
“to increase stipends and end traffic-halting demonstrations.” (As reported by
Sue Surkes)
2017:
Today, “Michael Robert Marrus, a Candian history of the Holocaust and modern
European and Jewish History” wrote a letter to Hugh Seal resigning his position
“as a Senior Fellow of Massey College” and apologizing for poorly stated
attempt at humor which would have been found offensive to “the black student”
who heard it.
2017:
After expressing how “dismayed he was by the Trump Administration” Charles
Phillip “Chuck”Rosenberg officially stepped down from his position as
“Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration” today.
2017:
While delivering a speech marking the “Shiite holy day of Ashura,” Hassan
Nasrallah, “the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group”…”warned Jews living
in Israel to leave the country as soon as possible…” (As reported by Dov
Lieber)
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including After Anatevka by Alexandra Silber, At the Stranger’s Gate:
Arrivals in New York by Adam Gopnik, Vanishing New York: How a Great
City Lost Its Soul by Jeremiah Moss and One Nation After Trump: A Guide
for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet-Deported
co-authored by Norman J. Ornstein.
2017:
“Balfour Accomplished,” “a large-scale oil canvas by Beverley-Jane Stewart is
scheduled to go on display at Jerusalem’s Machtarot Museum today as “the
centerpiece of an event dedicated to the Balfour Declaration at this year’s
Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art.”
2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational
Center is scheduled to host a “History of Rock and Soul: Music for Social
Change.”
2018:
As of today, David Michael Solomon, the Hamilton College educated son of Alan
and Sandra Solomon succeeded Lloyd Blankfein as CEO of Goldman Sachs.
2018:
Road To Waubeek: Discovering Jay G. Sigmund by Barbara Feller, who has
taught more students Hebrew in Cedar Rapids that any other person, is scheduled
to go on sale today.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society scheduled to host a Shemini Atzeret
luncheon
2018(22nd
of Tishrei, 5779): Shemini Atzeret
2019:
Katherine Rose Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller became Press Secretary to the
Vice President.
2019:
“After moving to Shakhtar Donetsk, Manor Solomon scored his first UEFA
Champions League goal today in the 95th minute of an away match against Italian
side Atalanta that ended in a 2–1 victory” which made “him the then youngest
Israeli footballer ever to score in the Champions League, at the age of 20.”
2019:
This evening, in Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host a
screening of “Bialik: The King of Jews,” a “documentary for Hebrew speaks about
the life and art of Hebrew pioneer poet Chayim Nachman Bialki.”
2019(2nd
of Tishrei, 5780): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2020:
In New Orleans Tuoro Synagogue is scheduled to host its board meeting.
2020:
Temple Ahavat Achim and Lappin Foundation are scheduled to host an, interactive
online book party to celebrate the publication of Going Rogue (at Hebrew
School) by local author Casey Breton.
2020:
The Steicker Center is scheduled to host a virtual screening of “Teheran” that
includes meeting the cast and creators of the new Apple television series.
2020:
Matthew Sackel, the Associate Manager of Education at the Illinois Holocaust
Museum is scheduled to read a chapter from Lalla’s Story which “follows Holocaust Survivor Lala Weintraub as she moves from
town to town, driven by her fear of being discovered. More than a story of
survival, this is also the story of a young girl's resolute struggle to defy,
resist, and ultimately defeat the evil forces pursuing her.”
2020:
Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to present “a discussion of the symbolism of
sukkahs, and a demonstration on how to make fig and ricotta flatbread with
honey and thyme.”
2020:
The “JFCS Holocaust Center is scheduled to present a testimony from the
daughter of a Holocaust survivor followed by an interactive tour of artifacts
from the Tauber Holocaust Archives
2020:
As Israelis face another day of lockdown, they are dealing with Prime
Minister’s Netanyahu’s statement yesterday that "exiting the lockdown will
be slow and gradual this time, and could last even half a year to a year."
(As reported by Itamar Eichner)
2021:
Congregation Ner Shalom is scheduled to present, online, the first session of
“The Sacred Feminine in Judaism,” which is an exploration of “pre-Judaic
goddesses of the ancient Near East, Hebrew goddesses and their presence in the
Biblical text, and the Shekhinah in ancient and modern Jewish mysticism.”
2021:
In Beachwood Ohio, Temple Tifereth-Israel is scheduled to host “Nefesh
Shabbat,” a participatory Kabbalat Shabbat service.
2022:
“Repertory Theater,” a play by Israeli Eldad Cohen is scheduled to have it’s
American debut performance at the Krane Theatre.
2022:
Following yesterday’s statement by the Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Israelis
holding Russian citizenship will have to decide whether to heed the warning
against traveling their or returning from Russia since they would be subject to
conscription under Putin’s expanded military efforts.
2022
(6th of Tishrei, 5783):Shabbat Shuvah (Sabbath of the Return)
Vayeilech
(And he went)31:1-30 Devarim (Deuteronomy)
2023(16th
of Tishrei, 5754): Second Day of Sukkoth
2023:
Rosh Yehudi should not be able to set up Sukkah today on Zamenhof Street in Tel
Avi because the Tel Aviv municipality has “canceled permits given to an Orthodox religious group to hold
public events during the upcoming Sukkot holiday in the city, after the
organization attempted to hold a public Yom Kippur prayer service with an
improvised gender divider…” (As reported by Michael Horovitz)
2023:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Maniac by Benjamin
Labatut, The Ascent by Stefan Hertmans and Germany 1923:
Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis, by Volker
Ullrich.
2023:
In New Orleans, Touro Synagogue is scheduled to hold its Board of Trustees
Retreat.
2023:
The Haifa International Film Festival is scheduled to host The Haifa
filmmakers’ forum which “was established for promoting film and television
creation and strengthening the connection between film and television personnel
in the greater Haifa area.”
2024:
In San Francisco, City Arts and Lectures is scheduled to present Israeli
medieval and military historian Yuval Noah Harari discusses his new book, Nexus:
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI which “examines
how different societies and political systems have wielded information to
achieve their goals.”
2024:
Lockdown University is scheduled host a lecture by Lyn Julius on “From
Holocaust Survivor to Olympic Champion.”
2024:
The Weiner Library is scheduled to host a hybrid event “Sex, Violence and
Speech in the Holocaust: The Case of Yiddish, Hannah Pollin-Galay with Zoe
Waxman.”
2024: Via Zoom Tobi Kahn is scheduled to provide a look at some of his Judaica objects that are on display at Eldridge Street and provide an insider perspective on the artist's inspiration and process.
2024:
The Weiner Library is scheduled to host a “Black History Month Talk: The
Persecution of the Black Community in Nazi Germany” led by the Library’s
Digital Engagement and Community Outreach Officer Yasmin Gledhill, whose talk
will include an exploration of the story of Ronald Roberts, who was born in
Wiesbaden to a white German mother and a British/Barbadian father.
2024:
“In another lecture in the online lecture series "Legend of the
Golem", Prof. Tzachi Weisswill is scheduled to follow the incarnations of
the legend in the early modern period - from the 17th century, in which the
creation of the Golem was attributed to Rabbi Eliyahu of Chelm, to the legend
of the Golem from Prague.”
2024: Today Claudia Sheinbaum is scheduled to take office making her "the first woman and Jewish person to lead Mexico in the country’s more than 200-year history as an independent nation."
2024:
As October 1st begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that
has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York
subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 361 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocket
attacks by Hezbollah (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)
