December 2
127 CE: In a document drawn up on this date at a government office in
Rabbatg, east of the Dead Sea, four date groves in Maoza were registered by
their owner as part of a provincial census ordered by the Roman governor. The
date groves abutted the property of Tmar, daughter of Thamous (Tamar, daughter
of Thomas). Record of this ancient document
from an area the Romans called Palestine is proof that women did own property
in their own right. Who was Tamar? Who was her father Thomas? These are questions for which, as yet, we
have no answers.
499: (Kislev, 4427): Ravina II (Bar Shemuel),
the nephew of Ravina passed away.
According to tradition Ravina completed the final editing of the Talmud
that had been begun by Rav Ashi about one year prior to this time. According to some authorities, Ravina
committed the Oral Law (the Talmud) to writing, despite protests that only the
Bible should be written down. His death marked the end of the period of the
Amoraim ushered
in the period of the Savoraim.
1264: In Sinsig, Germany,
a convert to Judaism was arrested for preaching Judaism. Although tortured he
refused to recant his belief in Judaism and is burned at the stake.
1469: Lorenzo de’Medici
around whose court included Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol, “the Jewish-Italian
geographer, cosmographer scribe and polemicist” began his reign today in
Florence.
1523: Giles
of Viterbo, who provided a safe haven for Elias Levita with whom he studied
Hebrew and who studied Zohar with Baruch de Benevento was installed as Bishop
of Veterbo e Tuscania.
1684: Twenty-six-year-old Samson
Wertheimer, a native of Worms who became the chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia
and “a court Jew “arrived in Vienna today following which he became an
associate of banker Samuel Oppenheimer.
1692(3rd of Tevet, 5453):
Abraham Oppenheim, the Worms born son of Simon Wolf Oppenhim known as “Abraham
zur Kanne” and “Shtadlan whose favorable with German princes did not protect
him when he and his fellow Jews were forced to flee to Heidelberg which he died
today.
1735: In Savannah, GA, Perla and
Benjamin Sheftall gave birth to Revolutionary War veteran and co-founder of
Congregation Mickve Israel Mordecai Sheftall, the husband of Amsterdam native
Frances Hart and the father of Sheftall, Perla, Elias, Benjamin, Moses and
Esther Sheftall. 1
1749:” The Chaplet," a musical
"entertainment," the words by Moses Mendes and the score by Boyce,
scored a great success today because of both its merit”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10672-mendes-mendez-moses
1761: New York City merchant David Jacob
Levy married Richa Simson today.
1763: The Touro Synagogue opened
in Newport, Rhode Island. Sephardic Jews in Jamaica, Surinam, London and
Amsterdam sponsored the building of this first major center of Jewish culture
in America. It is the oldest synagogue
in the United States.
“The new edifice introduced an important innovation
in synagogue design. The women’s gallery of this traditional synagogue featured
a low balustrade that offered women an open view of the rest of the sanctuary.
Women’s galleries in other “new world” and “old
world” synagogues generally were constructed with high or opaque barriers meant
to keep women out of the sight of men within the sanctuary. The change in
Newport represented less a reform of traditional practice than a reflection of
colonial American expectations for female religious expression. The strong presence of women in colonial American churches
was an important way in which women demonstrated the religious piety expected
of them by their society. Observing the behavior of their non-Jewish neighbors,
colonial American Jewish women seemed to understand that it was more important
that they be seen in the space of public worship than had been the case in
their previous communities. Early American synagogue records suggest that
unmarried young women both attended and asserted their presence in the
synagogue. The open gallery layout of the
Newport synagogue demonstrates a changing consciousness of what women’s
synagogue role should be. Moreover, the open plan was imitated by most of the
early American synagogues that followed Newport.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/dec/02/1763/newport-synagogue
1771(25th of Kislev, 5532): First Day of Chanukah
1779(23rd of Kislev, 5540): Moses Joseph Dinis passed
away today in Montreal.
1780: According to a reporte published in Rivington’s Gazette, a
group of Loyalist on Long Island including Isaac Hart were “inhumanely fired
upon and bayonetted.”
1790(25th of Kislev, 5551): First Day of Chanukah
1790: In Hungary, “the Diet drafted a bill showing that it
intended to protect” the rights of the Jews as they had requested in the
petition submitted to King Leopold II.
1790: In Charleston, SC, Frances and Humphrey Mordecai Marks gave
birth to Mark Elias, “the physician and educator” who in 1828 founded “the
South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute, an institution for the higher
education of women located outside of Columbia, SC” which “Marks called
‘Barhamville’ to honor his late wife and teacher Jane Barham.”
1792(17th of Kislev,5553): Dutch born Levi Aarons
passed away today in Black Mingo, SC.
1795: In Nashville, TN, Hannah Hays and Benjamin Meyers gave birth
to Sarah “Sally” Myers, the wife of Benjamin Etting Hays and the mother of
David, Hannah, Michael, Benjamin, Jacob and Esther Hays.
1795: Michael Hart married Sarah Moses at the Great Synagogue
today.
1795: In Savannah, GA, Sarah de la Motta and Levi Sheftall gave
birth to Abraham Sheftall.
1796: Ezekiel Hart, the first Jew to be elected to public office
in the British Empire, and his brothers Moses and Benjamin went into
partnership to establish a brewery in Trois-Rivières, the M. and E. Hart
Company. By the terms of the agreement the three agreed to hold equal shares in
the firm. They had the financial backing of their father. Ezekiel Hart later
withdrew from the M. and E. Hart Company. Ezekiel sold everything to Moses,
apparently soon after their father's death in 1800. Subsequently Ezekiel
followed in the footsteps of his father, who was in every respect his model. He
went into the import and export trade, kept a general store, never let a good
business deal pass, and acquired property. Besides inheriting the seigneury of
Bécancour, he bought a great deal of land, mainly at Trois-Rivières and
Cap-de-la-Madeleine.
1798(24th of Kislev, 5559): The first Chanukah Candle
is kindled for the second time during the Presidency of John Adams.
1807: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Jacob Suares officiated at the
wedding of Hyam Moise to Cecilia Woolf, “the daughter of the late Solomon
Woolf.”
1807: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Jacob Suares officiated at the
wedding of Nathan Hart, a Charleston merchant and Rachel Hart, “eldest daughter
of Daniel Hart.”
1809(24th of Kislev, 5570): Parashat Vayeshev; Kindle
the first Chanukah candle
1818: In the Netherlands, James Abraham Cohen-Stuart, the London
born son of Abraham Benjamin Cohen and Elisabeth Gompertz and his wife
Petronella Wilhelmina Stuart gave birth James Abraham Theodore Cohen Stuart.
1820: Yitzchak Alter and Feigele Lipschitz gave birth to Nechemya
Alter.
1824: Birthdate of Oswald Hönigsmann, the native Rzeszow, Austrian
Galicia who “was a member of both the city and communal councils of Lemberg.
1825: Birthdate of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil. An opponent of
slavery and a comparatively tolerant man, he was tolerant of both Jews and
Muslims. “when asked why there were no laws against” the Jews of Brazil he
answered: ‘I will not attack the Jews, as the God of my religion came from
their people.’”
1825: In Frankfort, literary critic Karl Ludwig Borne who had
converted to Christianity delivered an address in memory of the recently
deceased author John Paul Richter.
1828(26th of Kislev, 5589): Second Day of Chanukah
1828(26th of Kislev, 5589): Birthdate of Simon Illich, the
husband of Celia Illich and the father of Hannah, Amson and Julius Illich who
when he passed away was buried in the Beth Emeth Cemetery in Loudonville, NY.
1832: Baruch Benjamin Berliner and Franziska Berliner gave birth
to Abraham Berliner, the husband of Henriette Berliner with whom he had four
children – Flora, Selma, Max and Paul.
1834: In Baiersdorf, Erlangen-Hochstadt, Bayern, Germany, David
Isaak Seligman and Fanny Steinhardt gave birth to Isaak Seligmann who gained
fame as Isaac Seligman, the brother who was in charge of the London branch of
the “Seligman banking empire” and a leader in the Anglo-Jewish community.
1834: Fifteen-year-old Jacques Offenbach’s name was struck from
the roll of students at the Paris Conservatoire indicating he had “left of his
own free will.”
1837: Birthdate of London native George Joseph Emanuel, “at
teacher of English and Latin at Jews’ College,” “a lecturer in Hebrew at
Queen’s Theological College in Birmingham,” and staring in 1864, the Rabbi of
the “Birmingham Hebrew Congregation.”
1839(25th of Kislev, 5600): Chanukah
1840: Isaac Phillips married Julia Hyman at the Great Synagogue
today.
1840: At
Camden, SC, Dr. Lawrence L. Cohen of Charleston, SC, married Miriam Louisa De
Leon, the daughter of Dr. De Leon of Camden.
1841: In Poland, Feiga and Moszko Jarmulowski gave to Alexander
Sender Jarmulowsky, the husband of Rebecca Jarmulowsky
https://www.eldridgestreet.org/history/sender-jarmulowsky-a-synagogue-founders-story/
1842: In New York, Montague M. Hendricks, the son of Frances and
Harmon Hendricks and his wife Rachel Seixas Nathan gave birth to Edgard
Hendricks.
1844:
Salomon Přzibram and Marie Przibram gave birth to
Gustav Przibram the husband of Charlotte Przibram.
1846: Michael Nathan married Sarah Green at the Great Synagogue
today.
1847(24th Kislev, 5608): Kindle the first Channukah
candle
1848: Franz
Josef, I became Emperor of Austria. Born in 1830, Franz Josef reigned until his
death in 1916. Most people think of him
as the Austrian Emperor who declared war on Serbia in 1914 and started World
War I. From the Jewish perspective, the
last of the Hapsburg monarchs was one of the better rulers under which to
live. Despite the rising tide of
anti-Semitism in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Josef saw himself as the
protector of his Jewish subjects. At one
point he told his ministers, “I will tolerate no Jew-baiting in my
empire!” He described anti-Semitism as
“an illness” whose “excesses were awful.”
He is reliably reported to have publicly walked out of a theatre when
performers began a series of anti-Semitic songs. In 1895, he moved to block the anti-Semitic
rabble-rouser Karl Lueger (one of Hitler’s early role-models) from becoming
burgomeister of Vienna. In 1869, Franz Josef visited Jerusalem where he met
with a group of local Jews and contributed to the building of a new
synagogue. Austrian Jews spoke highly of
the Emperor during his reign and at the time of his death. But his enemies provided the full measure of
the monarch’s attitude towards his Jewish subjects. Behind his back, they called him the
“Judenkaiser.”
1850(27th
of Kislev, 5611): Third Day of Chanukah
1850: In
London, Elizabeth Stevens and Benjamin Hurwitz gave birth to Charles Benjamin
Hurwitz.
1851: Baron
von Königswarter became deputy of the Seine department in the legislature,
holding this seat until 1863 when he was defeated by Jules Simon.
1851:
French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1851: In
France, Adolphe Crémieux was arrested and was imprisoned for his opposition to
Louis Napoleon.
1852: Louis
Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Napoleon
1852:
Today, “Wilhelm Hoffman one of the royal Prussian court preachers at the
Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church in Berlin, co-founded Jerusalem's
Association (Jerusalemsverein), a charitable organization which helped Samuel
Gobat, the second Protestant bishop of Jerusalem who did not spend time trying
to convert Jews and Muslims but “spent it proselytizing among Christians of
other, mostly Orthodox denominations.” (Gobat and his wife are buried on Mount
Zion in Jerusalem)
1853(1st
of Kislev, 5614): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1855:
Articles of Incorporation for the Judah Touro Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1856: In
Vienna, Gustave and Rosa Freund gave birth to Dr. of Jurisprudence Arthur
Freund
1857: The Melbourne Herald described the
interment of 4 of the participants in the goldfields uprising at the Eureka
Stockade including a German-born Jew, Edward (Teddy) Thoen.
1858: “The
Papal Abduction” publication today described the response of the American
government to the Mortara Affair.
1859:
Abolitionist John Brown was hung after his unsuccessful raid on the armory at
Harpers Ferry that was intended to be the first step in an uprising that would
free the slaves. Three Jews – August Bondi, Jacob Benjamin and Theodore Weiner
– had fought alongside Brown in his first armed attack that took place at
Osawatomie, Kansas.
1859: In
New York City, Isaac and Melia Oppenheim gave birth to CCNY alum Samuel
Oppenheim, attorney, “railroad executive” and “writer of Jewish histories” who
was the recording secretary of the American Jewish Historical Society beginning
in 1914.
1861:
Birthdate of Gustav Hirsch who was deported from Prague, to Terezin and finally
to Treblinka where he was murdered in 1942.
1861(29th
of Kislev, 5622): Seventy-seven-year-old inventor, writer and animal rights
advocate Lewis Gompertz, the first son of English diamond merchant Solomon
Barent Gompertz and the younger brother of the mathematician and actuary
Benjamin Gompertz, and the poet Isaac Gompertz passed away today.
1861(29th
of Kislev, 5622):
Meïir Eisenstädter “one of the greatest Talmudists of
the nineteenth century; died at Ungvár” today.
1863:
Adolphus Alexander married Julia Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.
1863: In Cincinnati, OH, Moses and Sarah Waldheim gave birth to
Aaron Waldheim the
St. Louis furniture merchant and philanthropist who raised two children with
his wife Hattie Sommers Waldheim
1864: In
St. Louis, hat merchant Jonas Meyberg and Emma Kornick Meyberg gave birth to
Mitchel S. Meyberg, the husband of Dora Messing Meyberg whom he married in 1888
and with whom he had two sons –James and Leornard.
1866(24th
of Kislev, 5627): Kindle the first Chanukah Candle
1867(5th
of Kislev, 5628): Sixty-four-year-old German poet Lesser Ludwig upon whom King
Frederick William III conferred “the gold medal for art and science and who
wrote One thing to Life you owe: Struggle, or seek for rest. If you're an
anvil, bear the blow; If a hammer, strike your best” passed away today in
Berlin.
1867:
Birthdate of Paul Cohnheim, the native of Labes, Pomerania who was educated at
the gymnasium at Stettin and went on to become a physician in Germany.
1867: Two
days after she had passed away, Maria Lyon was buried today at the “Lauriston
Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1868: In
New York City, Sarah Hendricks and New Orleans native Florian Hart Florance
gave birth to Edwin Jacob Florance
1868:
Disraeli’s first British government resigns.
Disraeli’s father may have had him baptized, but Disraeli’s enemies
would never let him forget his Jewish ancestry.
1869:
Birthdate of Jonas Cohen German-born, English philosopher.
1870: In
Warsaw, Therese Mohr and I.H. Rosenwasser gave birth to New York public school
graduate Morris Rosenwasser, the husband of Pearl Mary Cohen and President of
Rosenwasser Brothers, manufacturers of boots and shoes who was a member of the
Free Synagogue.
1871(19th
of Kislev, 5632): Parashat Vayishlach
1871(19th
of Kislev, 5632): Five-year-old Samuel Rosenwald the Springfield, Illinois born
son of Augusta and Samuel Rosenwald, the clothing store owner, passed away
today.
1876: In Delta,
LA, Caroline Manheim and Moses Goldberg gave birth to Jewish Orphan home
resident and apprentice printer on the Jewish Spectator in Memphis, Edgar Goldberg,
the founder, editor and publisher of the Texas Jewish Herald who was a member
of the United Jewish Welfare Association and Congregation Beth Israel in
Houston, TX.
1877(26th
of Kislev, 5638): Second Day of Channukah
1877(26th
of Kislev, 5638): Seventy-five-year-old Michelangelo Asson the Verona born
“physician and medical” author passed away today in Venice
1877: Over
500 people attended the annual meeting of the Society of the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews. Mrs. P.J. Joachimsen, the President of the society, chaired the
meeting. The unusually large turnout was
precipitated by concerns over financial irregularities combined with the
election of officers. In her annual report, the President expressed her concern
over financial irregularities involving other officers and the home’s
superintendent. Despite request that she
serve another term, Mrs. Joachimsen has decided to end her service due to the
contention she has had to deal with.
1877: It
was reported today that The Board of Delegates of American Israelites and the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations have met and agreed to unite their
organizations. The new organization will
meet every three years. A committee with 30 members from all four sections of
the country will be empowered to handle administrative matters.
1878:
Birthdate of Kishinev, Bessarabia native and Russian army veteran Shmuel Adler
who for the Tog in St. Petersburg before emigrating to Germany, England
and finally the United States where he wrote “under the pen names: Der Ashmedai
(The demon king) and Yekhezkil Baran.”
1878: The
New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals is scheduled to hand down a ruling today
in the case of Erie v Dringer which is on appeal from Vice Chancellor Van
Fleet. Erie is the Erie Railroad.
Dringer is an Austrian born Jew who came to the United States in 1867
and went from driving a junk wagon in New York to owning his own junk yard in
Paterson. He invented a unique machine for cutting up old iron which made it
possible for him to buy large amount of scrap and made him the largest scrap
dealer in the United States. Eventually
some of his less successful competitors brought suit against him, claiming
among other things that he was effectively stealing scrap metal from the Erie
Railroad. The trial court ruled in favor
of Dringer and his co-defendants. The
Plaintiffs appealed and now that case has been argued, a decision is awaited by
all parties.
1879: In
Luxemburg, Rosalie and Joseph Kahn gave birth to University of Michigan trained
civil engineer Moritz Kahn, the brother of architect Albert Kahn and the
husband of Edith Jackson Kahn with whom he had two children – Lydia and Betty.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/01/17/91545980.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1880: Plans
for Sarah Bernhardt’s final performances New York and opening performance in
Boston were published today.
1881: It
was reported today that the government in Belgrade will introduce a Jewish
emancipation bill in Parliament in March that will conform to the Treaty of
Berlin and that will place Serbian Jewish on an equal footing “with Jews who
are Austrian subjects.”
1881: The
fair sponsored by Temple Israel was suspended for this evening because it was
erev Shabbat.
1881:
“Riotous Doings In Hungary” described an attack on the Jews of Zalalövő in
south-west Hungary.
1882(21st
of Kislev, 5643): Seventy-two-year-old Leopold Stein, the rabbi at
Frankfort-on-the-Main, a leader of the Reform movement who “composed the song
"Tag des Herrn," to be sung to the music of "Kol Nidre" on
the eve of the Day of Atonement” passed away today.
1883: The
Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Hoboken (NJ) hosted an evening of
entertainment including singing and recitation entitled “Spartacus” as the Odd
Fellow’s Hall.
1883: “Herr
Stocker” published today described the hostile reception Adlolph Stocker, the
Jew-baiting German clergyman received on his recent visit to England. He was
greeted by hostile mobs that were primarily made up German Socialist living in
London who regard him “as the typical representative of that military tyranny
under which they say the Fatherland is groaning.”
1883: It
was reported today that the Adloph Stocker, the anti-Semitic clergyman is
disliked by the younger members of the German court including the Crown Prince
who has snubbed him on more than one occasion and by Chancellor Bismarck, “who
has no sympathy with his Jew hating proclivities” as can be seen by his
confidential relationship with Jewish banker Gerson Von Bleichroeder.
1883: “He
Has No Such Prejudices” published today contains a denial by Hugo O’Neill that
ever told a Jew that “We don’t want any of your people in our employ” using as
proof that he employs Jews some of whom were recommended to him by Rabbi D.H.
Nieto of the 19th Street Synagogue.
1883:
“Riotous Doings In Hungary” published a report of a pogrom in south-west
Hungary that was thwarted when police fired on a mob of thirty peasants armed
with axes and guns killing two and arresting two more who gave up the name of
their leaders.
1884: In
New York, Jacob Asch, a formerly successful businessman, met an acquaintance,
Jacob Starker, coming out of coffee house on the bowery and “complained to him
of his bad luck and said he was broke.
1884: In
Austria, Gitel Segal and Moses Reichler gave birth to Albany Law School graduate
and Utica, NY resident Samuel Reichler the husband of Ada S. Solomon and
president of Temple Beth-El in Utica who was the secretary of the Jewish War Relief
Campaign and publisher of “Square and Compass.”
1885: Die Königin von Saba (The Queen of Sheba) an opera in four
acts by Karl Goldmark premiered in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera.
1885(24th
of Kislev, 5646): In the evening, kindle the first Chanukah candle.
1885: Rabbi
Kohut delivered a sermon “on the victory of the Maccabees” at the Chanukah
service at Ahavath Chesed at Lexington and 55th Street.
1888: J.
Harpman the Treasurer of Temple Shaari Tov in Minneapolis, was reported to have
responded to questions about the distribution of money an “unknown New Yorker”
sent for the benefits of destitute Jews living in Dakota by saying that “there
is no longer any need for the money among the Jews” because their needs have
been met but he did object to the fact that when there was need for this money
it “was held by the authorities in Bismarck.”
1890: As
the cloak manufacturers were reported today to be strengthening their Cloak
Manufacturers’ Association, many of the cloakmakers want Joseph Barondess to
resume his role as leader of their union.
1890:
Birthdate of Bohemian born German-American author Hans Janowitz whose military
service in WW I turned him into a pacifist and who gave up his career in movies
for the oil business.
1891: Based
on information that firs appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, Joseph Pennell the
American artist and photographer attributed his deportation from Russia to his
photographing of the Jewish quarter of Kiev and not “his sketching of the Jews
and poking about the Jewish quarters” which the authorities didn’t like either.
1891: Thirty-one-year-old
University of Cincinnati trained attorney Nathan Cohen the Nashville, TN, born
son Samuel and Caroline (Schiff) Cohn, a member of the board of trustees of the
Nashville Federated Jewish Charities and a “Special Chancellor of the Chancery
Court” married Rose Lowenstein today.
1892: In
Jaffa, Magdalena and Born Plato von Usino gave birth to their old child Jonah
Freiherr von Ustinow, the British anti-Nazi agent who was the father of actor
Peter Ustinov.
1893: In
New York City, “Nathan and Anna (Elson) Malzberg gave birth to Dr. Benjamin
Malzberg, the Columbia trained statistician and epidemiologist and husband of
Rose Hershberg with whom he raised three children – Judith and the twins Ruth
Ellen and Amy Susan Malzberg.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/14/archives/dr-benjamin-malzberg-expert-on-mental-health.html
1893:
Birthdate of Russian-born, American composer Leo Ornstein who was one of the
leading American experimental composers and pianists of the early twentieth
century and who, although he gave his last public concert around the age of
forty, continued to compose through his late nineties. He passed away in 2002.
1894: Among
the “New Novels” listed today are Jewish Tales by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,
translated from the French by Harriet Lieber Cohen.
1894: Rabbi
Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon this morning at Temple Emanu-El entitled
“Why Do We Still Remain Jews?” in which he “declared that Judaism was a
philosophy and not a system of creeds.”
1895: In
Vienna, police dispersed an anti-Semitic mob that had gathered in the Prater to
protest, in part the Emperor’s rejection of the anti-Semitic Dr Luger as
Burgomaster of Vienna.
1895:
Birthdate of Harriet Cohen, the native of Brixton who was the niece of Rabbi F.
L. Cohen and the cousin of Irene Scharrer who also worked to help refugees from
Hitler’s Germany which led to her becoming a Zionist.
1896: Twenty-nine-year
German born and Cincinnati resident Samuel Gutman married Hattie S. Stricker
Gutmann today in Hamilton County, Ohio.
1896: At
today’s session of the 15th Biennial Council of the American
Congregations, delegates are scheduled to elect officers, discuss the future of
the Hebrew Union College and in the evening attend a banquet at the Standard
Club followed by a ball.
1897:
L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, runs a story on the
Dreyfus Affair explaining that Dreyfus' treason is only to be expected from
Jews.According to the Catholic paper:"The Jewish race, the deicide people,
wandering throughout the world, bearing with it everywhere the pestiferous
breath of treason.... And so, too, in
the Dreyfus case...it is hardly surprising if we again find the Jew in the
front ranks, or if we find that the betrayal of one's country has been Jewishly
conspired and Jewishly executed." (As reported by Austin Cline)
1897:
Birthdate of Soviet economist Evsei Liberman, the husband of Regina Horowitz
and the brother-in-law of pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
1900: Herzl First visit of the Turkish agent Eduard Crespi in Vienna.
1900(10th
of Kislev, 5661): Thirty-two-year-old poet Ludwig Jacobowski passed away today
“in Berlin from the effects of meningitis.”
Oh, our bright days
Glänzen wie wenige Sterne, Shining like a few stars,
Als Trost für künftige Klage As a consolation for future action
Glüh'n sie aus goldener Ferne. Glüh'n them golden distance.
Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber! Do not cry because it over!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen! Smile because they have been!
Und werden die Tage auch trüber, And also the gloomy days
Unsere Sterne erlösen! Our star redeem!
1901: “The
Helmets of Navarre,” produced by Charles Frohman with Rose Eytinge in the role
of “Princess De Retz” opened on Broadway.
1901: In
Philadelphia, Meyer Bayuk, the Bialystok born of Moses and Feiga (Fanny) Bayuk
and his wife Julia Bayuk gave birth to Harold Mann Bayuk.
1902: In
order to renew the connection with Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber,
Herzl sends him a copy of "Altneuland".
1902:
Twenty-nine-year-old Washington and Lee University graduate and Galveston, TX
banker Isaac Herbert Kempner, the Cincinnati born son of Eliza Seinsheimer and
Harris Kempner and president of the Galveston Cotton Exchange and treasurer of
the City of Galveston married Henrietta Blum today.
1902: The
Convention of the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to open today
at the Eutaw Place Synagogue in Baltimore, MD.
1903: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported today
the in Camden, Jews “are asking for contributions for the erection of a
synagogue.”
1903:
Today, “a non-Jewish lady” who became “interested in the Zionist movement” as a
result of “a lecture” she heard “in a town in New York State” contributed “$90
for an entry in the Golden Book of the National Fund as a thanksgiving
offering…”
1904(24th
of Kislev, 5665): Kindle the first Chanukah Candle
1904:
Today, Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk-Mirsky “received a deputation of
Zionists” whom “he informed that he sympathized with the movement they
represented and would withdraw the Governmental opposition hitherto existing in
Russia.”
1905: “A
Polish Jew” published today provide a review of a “melodramatic” novel Children
of Fate: A Story of Passion by Adolph Danziger that “traces the career of a
young man named Joseph, a Jew of Jobrzyn, in Poland including his love for a
Christian noblewoman.
1905: “What
Do the Zionists Want?” which first appeared in London advises that “if the Jews
really want to found some sort of Hebrew State” they should the “very needy
Sultan…a good sum down and a handsome tribute” for “a portion of Palestine
under his suzerainty provided they are prepared to handsomely compensate its
inhabitants for the expropriation.”
1905:
Birthdate of Moses ("Moe") Asch, the founder of Folkways Records. He
was the son of Yiddish language novelist and dramatist Sholem Asch and the
younger brother of novelist Nathan Asch.
1905:
“German Liberty” published today provided a review of Poultney Bigelow’s
History of the German Struggle Liberty, a volume that includes a
description of “the arrest in Munich of Saphir, a witty Austrian Jews and his
subsequent expulsion from Bavarian territotry.”
1905:
“Christians Urged to Contribute” published today included a statement by Samuel
Goldstein, who has contributed $10 for the “poor suffering Jews of Russia, that
“if every Christian” living in the United States read the recently published
letters of Sherva Sandelman and Aaron Sheftshik, two Jewish children trapped in
Russia “the amount sent in for the Jewish relief fund will be increased thrice
the amount already received.”
1906: Mayor
McClellan is scheduled to attend laying of “the cornerstone of the new building
of the Uptown Talmud Torah Association at 132 East 111th Street.”
1906: Birthdate of award-winning engineer, Peter
Carl Goldmark. Born in Hungary, Goldmark
came to the United States in the 1930’s.
Goldmark is best known for his invention of the l.p. or long-playing
record which revolutionized the recording industry. He also help develop the first commercial
color television. He passed away in
December of 1977.
1906: The
Cornerstone of the new building of the Uptown Talmud Torah Association, which
will be a four story edifice that can accommodate “3,000 children in 28 room”
is scheduled to be laid this afternoon.
1907(26th
of Kislev, 5668): Second Day of Chanukah
1907: It
was reported today that Reverend R.S. MacArthur suggested “that instead of
reading the Bible in the public schools, a moral textbook composed of
selections from the Bible, the Koran and the Talmud” should be studied instead.
1908: Daoud
Effendi Molho, First Dragoman of the Imperial Divan, Constantinople was
nominated to serve as a Senator in Turkey. The functions of the First Dragoman
were mainly political; he accompanied the ambassador or minister at his
audiences of the sultan and usually of the ministers, and was charged with the
core of diplomatic negotiations
1909: “The
wedding of Miss Florence Schafer, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M.
Schafer and Alfred Wolf of New York took place” this “afternoon in the Temple
Emanu-El” and was then “followed by a dinner in the ballroom of Delmonico’s.
1909(20th
of Kislev, 5670): Hungarian born Herman Schonberger, the husband of Rosalie
Stein Schonberger and the father of Charles, William and Herbert Schonberger
passed a way today in New York after which he was buried in the Hungarian Union
Field Cemetery.
http://www.soclosetoghost.com/?p=28
1910: A
Jew, Jacob Effendi de Vidas, ex-Censor of the Jewish Press at Smyrna is
appointed Inspector of Elementary Schools at Mitylene (Lesbos).
1911:
Birthdate of Paterson, NJ native and mathematician Abraham “Abe” Gelbart who
earned a doctorate from MIT and went on to be “the founding dean of the Belfer
Graduate School of Science at Yeshiva University.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/obituaries/abraham-gelbart-mathematician-82.html
1911: In
the Bronx, Julius and Ethel (née Loewy) Fleischl gave birth to Harriet Fleischl
who gained fame as attorney Harriet Fleischl Pilpel “the general counsel for
both the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood.”
1911 Big
Jack Zelig, a Jewish gangster murdered Italian gangster Julie Morrell at the
Stuyvesant Casino. Zelig believed Jack Sirocco and Chick Tricker had hired
Morrell to kill him so he struck first.
This killing was part of the fight by the Jewish dominated Eastman gang
to control the Five Points section of New York.
1912:
Today, at the annual meeting of Isaiah Temple in Chicago, Dr. Joseph Stolz, who
spent eight years as the rabbi of Zion Congregation and seventeen years as the
rabbi at Isaiah Temple “was unanimously elected Rabbi…for life along with an
increase in salary.
1912:
“Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in world” and “her French company are
scheduled to make their “American debut in vaudeville” at the Majestic Theatre.
1913:
President Woodrow Wilson, who appointed the first Jew, Louis Brandeis, to the
Supreme Court and supported the Balfour declaration “delivered his first State
of the Union address” today
1914: A
committee headed by Joseph Barondess of the Board of Education met Solomon
Rabinowitz who uses the pen name Shalom Aleichem when he and his wife and two
children arrived in New York today from Copenhagen aboard the Frederick VIII.
1914: Lt.
Hugo Gutman was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class today.
1914:
“Appeal For Aid For Jews” published today described the appeal by the American
Jewish Relief Committee for aid their co-religionist because “the disaster, in
which the whole world shares, fall with disproportionate weight upon the Jewish
people more than nine million of whom live in the coutries at war and over six
million of these in the actual war zone in Poland, Galicia and the whole
Russian frontier.
1914: It
was reported today that the officers of the newly formed American Jewish Relief
Committee are Chairman Louis Marshall, Secretary Cyrus L. Sulzberger and
Treasurer Felix M. Warburg.
1914: A
Committee composed of Joseph Barondess, Charles J. Minikes and Joseph Fallen
met Solomon Rabinowitz (Sholom Aleichem) today
1914:
Birthdate of composer of Adolph Green who with his partner Betty Comden, wrote
numerous hits, including "New York, New York" (the version from the
musical On The Town) and the screenplay for the film Singin' in the
Rain.
1915(25th
of Kislev, 5676): Chanukah
1915:
Second night of a “fete” featuring historical tableaux held for the benefit of
the Spanish and Portuguese Sisterhood which is chaired by Mrs. Mortimer M.
Meken.
1915: Albert Einstein published the general theory
of relativity.
1915:
Representative Meyer London plans on submitting his proposal for a peace
resolution to Congress which will include a request for $100,000 to help the
neutral nations provide mediation between the belligerents.
1915: It
was reported today that of the $229,000 being sent to aid Jews suffering in the
war zones, $80,000 will go to Russia, $70,000 will go to that part of Poland
under German control, $50,000 will go to Galicia, $25,000 will go to Palestine
and $5,000 will go to Turkey.
1916: The
Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War whose
members include “Leon Kaimaiky, editor The Jewish Daily News; Rabbi Israel
Rosenberg, Rabbi Meyer Berlin, Albert Lucas and Harry Fishcel” announced in a
report made public today “that it has collected to date $1,455,132.96” with the
money coming “from 26,321 separate sources.”
1916:
Isaiah "Jacques" Pais married Kaatje
"Cato" van Kleeff. This union
of a Sephardic Jew and Ashkenazi Jew produced a son named Abraham Pais, the
famed Dutch born physicist.
1917: As the Battle for Jerusalem reached its final phase the
British began to replace its weary front-line forces with fresh troops
including sending in the XX Corps led by the 10th (Irish) Division
to replace the XXI Corps.
1917: In New York Pauline (Weiss) Blagman and Abraham Blagman gave
birth to Sylvia Blagman who gained fame as Sylvia Sims “one of the most admired
pop-jazz singers of her generation.” (As reported by Stephen Holden)
1917: In Baltimore, MD, two meetings were held at the Hippodrome
and Palace Theatres sponsored by the Baltimore Conference for Jewish National
Restoration in Palestine heard an address by Jacob De Haas, a former secretary
to Theodore Herzl, after which resolutions were “unanimously and
enthusiastically approved” expressing support for “the declaration of the
British Government, promulgated by Mr. Balfour, favoring the establishment of a
Jewish national home in Palestine.”
1917(17th of Kislev, 5678): In Shreveport, LA,
sixty-eight year old William Winter, a member of the legislature, city council
and school board passed away today.
1917: “The campaign by which $5,000,000 is to be raised in New
York City by December 16 for the Jewish War Relief Committee and the Jewish
Welfare Boarding, working among soldiers and sailors was opened” tonight “with
a dinner given at the Astor by Jacob H. Schiff, the Chairman of the committee”
for “the Captains and members of the forty-five teams” which will be in charge
of raising this sum in the next two weeks.
1917: It was reported today that “the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society, the clearing house through which thousands of Jewish
refugees in the war stricken countries and in other lands have received news of
their relatives in America has” recently “received hundreds of letters from
those seeking word of relatives” in the United States and “in a majority of
cases the society” which is led by President John L. Bernstein and Jacob R.
Fain, the General Manager “has been able to find those sought.”
1918: Jacob Billikopf of the American Jewish Relief Committee, Dr.
I. Edwin Goldwasser of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies and Charles S. Ward of the Y.M.C.A. were among those who attended a
dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg which “formally
inaugurated” “the campaign to raise $5,000,000 in New York City for the relief
of Jewish war sufferers.”
1919: Former Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote to Field Marshal August von
Mackensen, denouncing his own abdication as the "deepest, most disgusting
shame ever perpetrated by a person in history, the Germans have done to
themselves... egged on and misled by the tribe of Judah ... Let no German ever
forget this, nor rest until these parasites have been destroyed and
exterminated from German soil!" Wilhelm advocated a "regular
international all-worlds pogrom à la Russe" as "the best cure"
and further believed that Jews were a "nuisance that humanity must get rid
of some way or other. I believe the best thing would be gas!" (The
Kaiser and His Court by John Rohl)
1920: A dispatch from Budapest today said that “the Jews of
Hungary will deprived of all rights of suffrage under an understanding reached
by the political parties of that country with a view to solving the Jewish
problem.” (Editor’s note – the road that led to the Hungarian Jews being sent
to Auschwitz began years before the Nazis arrived)
1921(1st of Kislev, 5682): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1921: “Compensation of $57,500 has been awarded to Abraham S.
Gilbert as special master in the Consolidated Gase by United States Circuit
Court Judge Julius M. Meyer.
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1384476
1921(1st of Kislev, 5682): Seventy-nine-year-old Levie
Jacobs, the Dutch born son of Clara Snatager and Phillip Levie Jacobs, the
husband of Helena van Greens and the father of Clara Jacobs; Leonard Jacobs;
Jakob Jacobs and Philip Elias Jacobs passed away today.
1921: Temple Israel, which is temporarily holding services at the
Second Presbyterian Church while its new sanctuary is being built, began the
celebration of its Golden Jubilee this evening.
1921: Twenty-nine-year-old “Abraham Krotoshinsky who was a member
of the ‘Lost Battalion’ and the one who succeeded in notifying American
headquarts of the whereabouts of his comrades in the Argonne Woods sailed”
today “for Palestine” where he will remain for two months to see how he likes
the country” and if he does like it and decides to remain, Nathan Straus who
paid for the trip will by him “a farm in Palestine.”
1922(12th of Kislev, 5683): Parashat Vayetzei
1922” Rabbi Philip A. Langh led Shabbat morning services at Temple
Anshe Emes.
1922: Rabbi Julian Gusfield led services at Temple Beth El in
Chicago.
1922: Rabbi Abram Hirschberg led services at Temple Sholom in
Chicago.
1922: Led by head coach George Levene, Wake Forest defeated
Hampden-Sydney in its final game of the season.
1923(24th of Kislev, 5684): kindle the first Chanukah
candle
1923:
Arnold "Arnie" Horween “kicked a 35-yard
field goal and his brother Ralph ran for a touchdown as the Chicago Cardinals
beat the Oorang Indians 22 to 19.
1923: Birthdate of Meshulam
Riklis, chief executive of McCrory Corporation. After serving in the military during World
War II, Riklis majored in mathematics at Ohio State University. He worked his way through college as a Hebrew
teacher before starting out on his very successful business career.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/obituaries/meshulam-riklis-dead.html
1924(5th
of Kislev, 5685): Seventy-one-year-old Sir Edward Elias Sassoon, 2nd
Baronet, the younger son of Elias David Son and the father of Victor Sassoon
passed away today.
1924: “Man
Against Man” a silent drama with a script by Adolf Lantz was released today in
Germany.
1924:
Sigmund Romberg’s operetta “The Student Prince” opened at Jolson’s 59th
Street where it ran for 608 performances, making it “the longest running
Broadway show of the 1920’s.”
1925:
“Judge Mayer” published today described “Judicial career of the late Julius M.
Mayer” as being both distinguished in and of itself and as being “Illustrative
of the conditions that prevail in our lower courts.”
1926: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Tsirelson “who represented
the Bessarabian Jewish Community in the Rumanian Senate (and who would be
murdered by the Germans in 1941 after the capture of Kishinev) “resigned from
the Senate following his remarkable address in which he attacked the leaders of
the Rumanian anti-Semitic movement.”
https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/975
1927: The
appeal to the Privy Council at London of the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling
that “the Jews of Montreal, as ‘protestants’ had no right to representation on
the Protestant School Board of Montreal” began today with Jewish appellants
being represented by Sir John Simon.
1928: In
Berlin, world première of Arnold Schönberg’s the Variations for Orchestra, op.
31.
1928: This
morning, Rabbi Samuel Schulman delivered a sermon on “Liberal Religion,
American Politics and the Jew” at Temple Emanu-El in which he decried “the
‘dragging’ of Judaism into the past political campaign and scoring a ‘certain
prominent rabbi’ for explaining from his pulpit why he as a rabbi would vote
for a Catholic President.”
1929:
Today, Irving Berlin “first published” “Puttin’ On the Ritz” a song he had
written in May 1927 and made famous in the movie “Blue Skies.”
1929: In
Santa Barbara, CA, Russian-Jewish immigrants “Minnie (Nitkin) and Julius Ltiwak
gave birth UCA, Berkley educated, award winning historian Dr. “Leon Litwack, a
leather-jacket-wearing, blues-loving historian whose pioneering books on
slavery and its aftermath demonstrated how Black people thought about and
shaped their own liberation, even as they were constrained by racism in
American society” who was the husband of Rita Litawck.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/leon-litwack-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
1930:
“Annie Christie” a German language film based on the play of the same name
starring Salka Viertel was released today in the United States by MGM.
1930:
Birthdate of economist Gary Stanley Becker, the native of Pottsville, PA who
“was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received
the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/becker.html
1931: In
the Weimar Republic, premiere of “Emil and the Detectives,” a “German adventure
film with a script by Billy Wilder.”
1931: “The
Trunks of Mr. O.F.” directed and written by Alexis Granowsky and co-starring
Peter Lorre and Heddy Lamar premiered today in Berlin.
1932: “If I
Had a Million” an anthology film produced by Emanuel Cohen and whose directors
included Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog and Lothar Mendes was released in the
United States today.
1932:
“Secrets of the French Police” the movie version of an unpublished novel by
Samuel Ornitz, produced by David O. Selznick, co-starring Gregory Ratoff and
with music by Max Steiner was released today in the United States.
1932(3rd
of Kislev, 5693): Sixty-nine-year-old Philadelphia born, University of
Pennsylvania trained attorney David Wallerstein, who gave speeches on behalf of
FDR during the recent Presidential elections and who was the husband of Nellie
Wallerstein with whom he had two sons, Edward and John Wallerstein and three
daughters including Dr. Ruth C. Wallerstein, a Professor of English at the
University of Wisconsin.
1932: “The
Triangle of Fire,” directed by Edmond T. Gréville, who was, based on genetic
testing done in 2017 a member of Ashkenazic family from Russia and with music
by Casimir Oberfeld was released in France today.
1933:
Release of “Dancing Lady,” a musical comedy that showed the Jewish involvement
in the movie industry. It featured the Three Stooges (all Jewish) in one of
their first film. Louis Silvers provided
the music and David O. Selznick co-produced this film that was distributed by
MGM.
1934(25th
of Kislev, 5695): Chanukah
1934:
“English born American clergyman and newspaper writer” Samuel Parkes Cadman,
who would “later called for the U.S. to boycott the 1936 Summer Olympics in
Berlin, Germany, because of the Nazis' anti-Semitic policies” today “wrote an
article condemning the Nazi German government for the firing of theologian Karl
Barth from a German university post as a result of the professor's outspoken
opposition to the Nazi regime and adamant refusal to sign an oath of allegiance
to Adolf Hitler.”
1934: Birthdate of
Salomon Gottlob, who at the age of seen boarded Convoy 25 that left Drancy for
Auschwitz on August 28, 1942
1935: Among the things
listed as “Verboten” in the official police periodicals is “For a German girl
to sit in public with a Jew” and “for ‘Aryans’ to sell real estate to Jews when
such real estate is important to he German national wealth.”
1935: Louis K.
Anspacher is scheduled to give a lecture on “Democracy and Irresponsibility” at
the Bronxville Women’s Club.
1936: “Compliments of
Mister Flow” a French mystery directed by Robert Siodmak was released today.
1936: In Berlin, “the
public learned further details today of the new exchange law empowering the
Exchange Control Service to seize and administer the fortune and property of
any citizens suspected of an intention to go abroad permanently” – a law that did
not apply to Jews because for some time now, “Jews suspected of a desire to
flee the Reich were ordered to deposit a certain percentage of their fortunes
with a Reichsbank subsidiary” without the benefit of any legal protection.
1936: At a dinner
honoring Dr. Arthur J. Brown, Chairman of the American Committee on Religious
Rights and Minorities, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise “declared that the time is come
for the public opinion of mankind, expressing itself either through the league
of Nations at Geneva or through its great religious organizations to speak
earnestly and solemnly with respect to the lawless violation of the rights of
many minority peoples in Europe and most especially of Jewish minorities.”
1937: The Palestine Post reported that out of
the three Arab constables ambushed and kidnapped by an Arab terrorist gang near
Shfaram, two were "tried" and murdered. The third constable was
released to inform the authorities of the murder and the "trial."
1937:
The Palestinian Post reported
that scores of bullets hit the Haifa-Kiryat Haim bus, but no one was
wounded.
1938:
“Flirting with Fate,” a comedy produced by David Loew and music by Victor Young
was released today in the United States by MGM.
1938:
“The first Kindertransport arrived in Harwich, Great Britain today bringing
some 200 children from a Jewish orphanage in Berlin which had been destroyed in
the Kristallnacht pogrom.”
1939:
Birthdate of Yael Dayan. This daughter of Moshe Dayan has made a career in her
own right including that of an Israeli politician.
1939:
“The Return of Doctor X” a science fiction horror film directed by Vincent
Sherman and co-produced by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner was released today in the
United States.
1940:
Prime Minister Churchill replied to General Wavell’s concerns about letting the
survivors of the Patria remain in
Palestine. Churchill wondered if even
the most militant of Arabs could find fault with what Churchill described as a
humanitarian gesture. He wondered if the
Arab commitment to the cause of the fight against the Nazis was so slender that
such an event as this could have such disastrous consequences. At the same time, Churchill assured Wavell
that there would not be a repetition of the Patria since all future illegal
Jewish immigrants would be imprisoned in Mauritius for the duration of the war.
1940(2nd
of Kislev): Fifty-five-year-old Rabbi Bernard Revel passed away. Born in
Lithuania, he came to the United States after the Russian Revolution of 1905,
entered NYU and received an MA in 1909. In 1915, he was named the first
President of Yeshiva College, a position he held at the time of his death. This blog cannot do justice to his life and
contributions to the Jewish people. You
can begin to learn more about him at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/revel.html
1941: Release date for “Ball of Fire,” a comedic treatment of cloistered
intellectuals produced by Samuel Goldwyn written by Billie Wilder.
1941: U.S. premiere of “All Through the Night” directed by Vincent
Sherman, produced by Hal Wallis and Jerry Wald and based on a story by Leo
Rosten with Phil Silvers play the “Waiter” and Peter Lorre as “Pepi.”
1942: Jews in 30 countries hold a day of prayer and fasting for
European Jews.
1942: After being screened for the Office of War Information's Bureau of
Motion Pictures today, George Cukor’s “Keeper of the Flame” “was disapproved by
the Bureau’s chief, Lowell Mellet.
1942: The first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated in
Chicago, Illinois. At the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi and his team
achieved the world's first artificial nuclear chain reaction, in a
makeshift lab underneath the University's football stands at Stagg Field. Work
on the experimental pile had begun on 16 Nov 1942. It was a prodigious effort.
Physicists and staffers, working around the clock, built a lattice of 57 layers
of uranium metal and uranium oxide embedded in graphite blocks. A wooden
structure supported the graphite pile. The chain reaction was part of the
Manhattan Project, a secret wartime project to develop nuclear weapons, which
initiated the modern nuclear age. This was a discovery that changed the
world.
1942: In Los Angeles, “television and film writer Maurice Zimring, better
known by his stage name Maurice Zimm, and his wife Molly, a lawyer who passed
the California Bar in 1933” gave birth to
“American criminologist, law professor, and the William G. Simon
Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law,” Franklin Ester Zimring.
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyCVPDF.php?facID=127
1943: The first RSHA transport reached Birkenau from Vienna.
1943: In
Toronto, Ontario MPP Allan Grossman and his wife gave birth to Larry Grossman
who would follow his father into Parliament for what would be a 32 year stint
of father/son legislative service.
1943: One hundred Jews from Vienna arrive at Auschwitz.
1944: In Budapest, three Jews were killed when gangs attacked the
building in which they were living even though it was under Swiss Protection.
Some Swiss diplomats, like their Swedish counterparts, used the diplomatic
concept of extra-territoriality to provide safe haven for Hungarian Jews. Unfortunately, the various forces of
anti-Semitism operating in the Hungarian capital did not always respect the
niceties of international law.
1944(16th of Kislev, 5705):
Russian born painter and pianist Josef Lhévinne, whose birth name was
Joseph Arkadievich Levin passed away in New York City just a few days before
his 70th birthday.
1945: Today No. 342 Squadron in which author Romain Gary had flown over
25 missions as a “bombardier-observer” was transferred from the RAF to the
French Air Force.
1946: While meeting in Atlantic City, today, “the United Jewish Appeal's
national conference adopted a quota of $170,000,000 for its 1947 campaign for
relief and rehabilitation in European countries, for refugee settlement in
Palestine and for refugee adjustment in the United States.
1947: First day of a three-day general strike called by the Arab Higher
Committee to protest the UN vote for partition.
1947: “An Arab mob attacked the commercial center in Mamilla, and its
mostly Jewish shop owners” during which the “British forces that were supposed
to protect them focused mainly on pursuing the handful of Haganah defenders,
while the rioters, most of them equipped with axes and knives, set fire to the
shopping street and attacked the merchants. “
1947: Today, “four days after the United Nations decision to partition
Palestine into a Jewish state and Arab state, Arab mobs in Syria were once
again looting, burning, murdering and raping local Jews under the aegis of
their, government’s anti-Zionism campaign.
https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/the-aleppo-codex/
1947: Birthdate of British businessman Michael Phillip Green who founded
Carlton Communication with his brother David.
1947: Today “Joseph and Tilly Newman made their first trip to London
their son’s MBE from the king who expressed his pleasure at being able to
acknowledge Isidore Newman’s gallantry in this way.”
1947: Bands of Arabs engage in violent protests and murderous attacks on
the Jewish populace. Three Jews were shot dead in the Old City. Hundreds of Arab youths marched towards Zion
Square in the center of Jerusalem chanting “Death to the Jews.” Fighting broke
out in Jerusalem’s Commercial Centre between marauding Arab mobs and Jews
seeking to protect their property.
1947: On the second day of general strike called by the Arab Higher
Committee 200 Arabs broke into the commercial center in Jerusalem, looting and
burning Jewish owned shops. The British
troops made no effort to intervene. They
did prevent a platoon of Haganah troops from coming to the aid of the embattled
Jews.
1948: The Iraq government “suggested” to oil companies operating in Iraq,
that no Jewish employees be accepted.
1948: Funeral services are schedule to be held this morning at “The
Riverside” for Martin A. Fishman, the husband of Flora Fishman and an
“associate” of the General Garment Corporation.
1949: It was announced today that “The Workmen’s Circle…would work with
the Norwegian Labor party in setting up a village in Israel in memory of the
twenty child victims of an airplane crash near Oslo on November 21st.”
1950: NBC broadcast the last episode of “The Hank McCune Show,’ a sit-com
produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, the Iowa born lawyer turned film producer.
1950: The annual Hanukkah dinner of the Hebrew Language and Culture
Association is scheduled to take place at the Astor Hotel under the leadership
of Louis Lipsky, chairman of the American Zionist Council
1951(3rd of Kislev, 5712): Fifty-nine-year-old lifetime
Washingtonian and Georgetown University trained lawyer Lawrence Koenigsberger,
“the sole member of the District of Columbia Board of Tax Appeals since 1943
who was a charter member of the new reform congregation Temple Sinai and the
husband of “Dr. Irene Diner of New York.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/12/04/89473273.pdf
1951: "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater in New York
City after 90 performances. Mickey Katz
and his son Joel Grey both appeared in this short-lived musical.
1952: In Casablanca, Morocco, Elie and Esther Mimran gave birth to
fashion designer Joseph Mimran.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/joseph-mimran/
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported on the
new Israeli peace initiative which urged the scrapping of all old UN
resolutions and provided for negotiations based on the consideration of all
security, territorial, refugee, economic and regional questions, as well as
scientific, cultural and technical cooperation.
1953(25th
of Kislev, 5714): Chanukah
1953: In
Chicago, Annette Brenner and Mike Nussbaum gave birth to Susan Ruth Nussbaum “a
playwright and novelist whose work reflected her concern for the rights of
people with disabilities…” (As reported by Annabelle Williams)
1953:
Eugene Ferkauf opened the first of E.J. Korvette Stores in what had been a Long
Island potato field.
1954: The
U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI) for
refusing to cooperate with a Senate subcommittee that was investigating his
finances. This was a backdoor way for the Senate to express its displeasure
over the abusive investigative tactics of the Senator which many Jews
opposed. On the other hand, the
Senator’s right-hand man was none other than Roy Cohn, the Jewish lawyer from
New York.
1954: “The
Other Women” with a script by Hugo Haas who also directed, produced and starred
in the film with music by Ernest Gold was released in the United States today.
1956: In
Havana Lillian Samson Agostini, a schoolteacher whose father was a Jewish
refugee from German and Esteban Echevarria gave birth to Esteban Ernesto
Echevarría Samson who gained fame as actor Steve Bauer.
1956: “The Bells Are Ringing,” a musical
starring Judy Holliday is being performed at the Schubert Theatre.
1957(9th of
Kislev, 5718): Fifty-seven-year-old Dr. Manfred
J. Sakel passed away. Born in 1900,
Manfred Joshua Sakel was a Polish born neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who
introduced insulin-shock therapy for schizophrenics and other mental patients
in 1927, while a young doctor in Vienna. Insulin-induced coma and convulsions,
due to the low level of glucose attained in the blood (hypoglycemic crisis)
improved the mental state of drug addicts and psychotics, sometimes
dramatically. His findings indicated that up to 88% of his patients improved
with insulin shock therapy. His method became widely applied for many years in
mental institutions worldwide. He immigrated to the U.S. ahead of WW II. in
1936. "Sakel's Therapy" is still used in Europe, but in the U.S. it
has been superseded by electroconvulsive therapy and other means of treatment.
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n04/historia/sakel_i.htm
1958: “The Night Circus,” for which Karl Bernstein served as press
representative on
Broadway at the John Golden Theatre.
1958(20th of Kislev, 5719): Seventy-nine-year-old Harvard grad
and Johns Hopkins trained neurosurgeon Ernest Sachs, the New York City born son
of Julius Sachs and Rosa Goldman, and husband of “playwright and poet” Mary
Parmly Koues with whom he had three children passed away today.
1959: “Five Finger Exercise,” a play by Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, opened
at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway.
1961(24th of Kislev, 5722): Parashat Vayeshev’; Kindle for the
first Chanukah Candle
1961(24th of Kislev, 5722): Seventy-one-year-old Oxford
educated historian and WW I veteran of the Tank Corps Sir Basil Lucas Quixano
Henriques, the British philanthropist who spent much of his life working with
the underprivileged of the East End and who in 1916 married Rose Loewe, the
author as Lady Rose Henriques published Years in Stepney, a biography of
her husband.
1962: Birthdate of David Levi, the native of Tel Aviv who played soccer
for Hapoel Ramat Gan before becoming a professional poker player who “has won
over $2.6 million in live tournaments.”
1962: Police estimated that a crowd of 25,000 mourners attended the
funeral service for Rabbi Aaron Kotler held the synagogue of Congregation Sons
Of Israel Kalwarier on Pike Street between East Broadway and Henry Streets.
1963:”Have I Got A Girl,” produced in association with David Kaufman and
for which Karl Bernstein served as press representative opened on Broadway at
the Music Box Theatre.
1965(8th of Kislev, 5726): Seventy-one-year-old German born
Siegried Ullman, the “husband of Irma Ullman” passed away today in Palm Beach,
FL.
1968: A funeral is scheduled to held today at Temple
Beth Israel in Hartford, CT for eighty-one year successful
businesswoman and philanthropist Beatrice Fox Auerbach, the
Hartford, CT born daughter of Moses and Theresa Fox and wife of George Auberach
who turned the family owned G. Fox and Company into New England’s largest department
and who established the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation through which “she
became a leading philanthropist, particularly in helping college students”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/auerbach-beatrice-fox
https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/beatrice-fox-auerbach
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1968: President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor. Kissinger was a surprise choice for the job
for two reasons. He had supported Nelson Rockefeller and strongly questioned
Nixon’s fitness for the job. And, as we have found out from the Nixon Tapes,
Richard Nixon had an anti-Semitic streak that bordered on the paranoid.
1968: In
Arcadia, CA, Susan (née Franzblau), a psychology professor, and Martin Sofer, a
Conservative Jewish rabbi gave birth to actress Rena Sofer who appears on the
soap “General Hospital” and is “a descendant of Baal Shem Tov and of the Chasam
Sofer through her father's family.”
1968:
Madison Square Garden is scheduled to host one of the events marking the 125th
anniversary of the founding of B’nai B’rith
1969(22nd
of Kislev, 5730): Seventy-one-year-old Zgerzh (Zgierz), Poland born Pinkhes Bizberg “an agronomist with the
Argentinian Jewish colonies, the director of the Jewish Agrarian Bank and a
cofounder of a colony near Buenos Aires whose first published work appeared
after WWII with correspondence pieces from Germany in Haynt (Today)
in Warsaw and who made Aliyah in 1956.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/6595/Bizberg-Pinkhes-Pinjas-July-20-1898-December-2-1969
1970:
Birthdate of comedic actress Sarah Silverman.
1970(5th
of Kislev, 5731): Seventy-three-year-old Russian native and St. Lawrence
University trained attorney Sidney Gondelman, “the president and chairman of
the Central Foundry Company” and the husband of “the former Rae Schonfeld,”
with whom he had two sons, Herbert and George, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/03/archives/sidney-gondelman.html?searchResultPosition=1
1971: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today at Forest Park Chapel for Murray Cohen,
the husband of Judith Cohen whose family asked that contributions be made the
ORT School of Engineering.
1971: Abu
Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab
Emirates.
1972(26th
of Kislev, 5733): Shabbat Shel Chanukah and Parashat Vayeshev
1972(26th
of Kislev, 5733): Sixty-four-year-old Max Leonard Rosenheim, the British
physician was honored by being named Baron Rosenheim passed away today.
https://renal.org/about-the-renal-association/history/obituaries/max-leonard-rosenheim/
1973: King
Hussein of Jordan said that there could no peace in the area until Israeli
forces had completely withdrawn from all lands taken in 1967 including all of
Jerusalem
1973:
French authorities forestalled a terrorists attack when they arrested 2
Palestinians, 1 Algerian and 1 Turk carrying weapons and explosive which had
been brought into the country “for unknown purposes
1973:
Yonatan Netanyahu wrote to his brother Benjamin: "We're preparing for war,
and it's hard to know what to expect. What I'm positive of is that there will
be a next round, and others after that. But I would rather opt for living here
in continual battle than for becoming part of the wandering Jewish people. Any
compromise will simply hasten the end. As I don't intend to tell my
grandchildren about the Jewish State in the twentieth century as a mere brief
and transient episode in thousands of years of wandering, I intend to hold on
here with all my might.”
1974: As
the Soviets crackdown on dissidents, including refusniks, author Alexander
Solzhenitsyn was arrested in Moscow in the first step to his being deported and
stripped of his citizenship.
1976(10th
of Kislev, 5737): Sixty-five-year-old William Tannen who followed in the
footsteps of his father Julius Tannen and pursued an acting career most notable
for his reoccurring appearance in the Wyatt Earp television show passed away
today.
1977: In the aftermath of Sadat’s visit to
Jerusalem, Moshe Dayan and Hassan Tuhami, the Egyptian Deputy Prime minister
held a second secret meeting in Morocco.
Dayan provided a proposal for the restoration of Egyptian sovereignty
over the Sinai. Much to Dayan’s chagrin, Tuhami is less than thrilled with the
offer. It is obvious that there is big
gap between Sadat’s spectacular flight to Jerusalem and his claims to want
piece and the achievement of that stated outcome.
1977:
Castle Hill, with a 59-room mansion designed by Chicago architect David Adler
was placed on the National Register of Historic Places today.
1978: "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" featuring Neil Diamond
& Barbra Streisand makes it to the top spot on the charts.
1979:
Painter and sculptor Rodney Ripps, the Brooklyn born son of Anne Jacobie and
Sol Michael Ripps married Helene Verin today with whom he had two sons Ezra and
Ryder before they divorced,
1979(12th
of Kislev, 5740): Ninety-year-old Russian born, Columbia educated Louis Ludwig,
a secretary of the Israel Mineral Development Corporation and a member of the
board of the United Jewish Appeal passed away today.
1981(6th of
Kislev, 5742): Hershey Kay, American born composer and arranger, passed away
1981: In
what “was seen as a rebuff to the Reagan administration, today Howard
“Metzenbaum was one of four senators to vote against an amendment to President
Reagan's MX missiles proposal that would divert the silo system by $334 million
as well as earmark further research for other methods that would allow giant
missiles to be based.
1981:
Birthdate of Jaffa, Israel native and Tel Aviv University trained actor Shredy
Jabarin whose film credits include “For My Father” and “The Savior,” “where he
played Jesus.”
1982(16th of Kislev, 5743): Marty Feldman, the comedic
actor featured in the film Young Frankenstein, passed away.
1983(26th
of Kislev, 5744): Secondary of Channukah
1983:
Michael Jackson's Thriller, an American 13-minute music video for the song of
the same name with music by Elmer Bernstein was released today,
1983:
Birthdate of Flushing, New York native Arian Asllani the American rapper known
as Action Bronson
1983: Dr. Moisés Carlos Bentes Ruah and Catarina Lia Azancot Korn
gave birth to Daniela Sofia Korn Ruah a Portuguese-American Jewish actress best
known for playing NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye in the CBS series NCIS: Los
Angeles.
1984: Him
With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories by Saul Bellow and Lives
of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella by E. L. Doctorow are among the
twelve books chosen by the New York Times
Book Review as the best books published in the country during the preceding
year.
1985: Jean
Herly, who was the French Ambassador to Israel from 1973 to 1977 completed his
service as the 15th Minister of State to Monaco
1987(11th
of Kislev, 5748):
Seventy-three-year-old Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich,
the Minsk born son of , Boris Naumovich Zeldovich, a lawyer and Anna Petrovna Zeldovich (née Kiveliovich), a
translator from French to Russian and a
Soviet scientist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons in
the U.S.S.R. passed away.
1988: Bank
Leumi, Tel Aviv, named Moshe Zanbar chairman and David Friedman managing
director.
1988: A man
carrying the passport of a former Israeli official linked to the Iran-contra
scandal was killed in a plane crash, Government officials said today. The man
was tentatively identified by a passport found on his body as Amiram Nir, said
a statement from the Attorney General's office in the state of Michoacan.
1988: “The
Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” a police comedy directed by David
Zucker, who wrote the script along with Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams was
released in the United States today.
1990: The
New York Times reported that Israel has undertaken an investment initiative
designed to lure high-tech American and European companies to invest in its
economy. The program was developed by Moshe Nissim, Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of Industry and Trade.
1990(15th of Kislev, 5751): Ninety-year-old composer Aaron Copland
some of whose best known works include Rodeo,
Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man and Appalachian
Spring passed away today. http://www.milkenarchive.org/people/view/all/553/Copland,+Aaron
https://www.npr.org/programs/specials/copland/notes.html
1990(15th of Kislev, 5751): Terrorist conducted a
deadly attack on a bus in Tel Aviv.
1991(25th of Kislev, 5752): Chanukah
1991(25th of Kislev, 5752): Seventy-year-old English
biochemist Anne Beloff-Chain passed away today.
1993: “Slaughter of the Innocents” directed and written by
American investment professional James Glickenhaus was released in the United
States today by Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment.
1994(29th of Kislev, 5755): Fifth Day of Channukah
1994: Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
1994: Tonight, “with a rousing encore of
Johann Strauss Sr.'s "Radetzky March" that had a stadium audience of
14,000 people chanting for more, Zubin Mehta put the finishing touch to a
long-standing ambition: bringing the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to India,
and better still to Bombay, the hometown Mr. Mehta left 40 years ago to begin
his musical career.
1996: Adam Schiff began serving as a “member of the California
State Senate from the 21st District.
1997: MCI Center opens in Washington, DC, as the Wizards played
the Seattle SuperSonics. The Wizards are
owned by Abe Pollin and the MCI Center, which helped to rejuvenate downtown
Washington, was the product of this forty year fixture of the basketball and
Jewish community.
1998: In Israel, one person was injured in a stabbing attack.
1999(24th of Kislev, 5760): In the evening, Kindle the
first Light of Chanukah
1999(24th of Kislev, 5760): Eighty-eight-year-old Joey
Adams, the Brooklyn born comedian named Joseph Abramowitz and husband of gossip
columnist Cindy Adams passed away today.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-12-03-9912040035-story.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-04-mn-40320-story.html
https://peoplepill.com/people/joey-adams/
2000: As a result of the “Palestinian-Israeli violence that broke
out in late September” it was reported today that Egypt’s “tourism boom is on
the verge of going bust.”
2001: The New York Times
list of the Best Books of 2001 contains the following works about Jewish
related subjects or by Jewish authors including Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
a physician and author raised as an Orthodox Jew.
2001(17th of Kislev, 5762):A suicide bombing on an
Egged bus #16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00 kills 15 people. The victims:
Tatiana Borovik, 23, of Haifa; Mara Fishman, 51, of Haifa; Ina Frenkel, 60, of
Haifa; Riki Hadad, 30, of Yokne’am; Ronen Kahalon, 30, of Haifa; Samion Kalik,
64, of Haifa; Mark Khotimliansky, 75, of Haifa; Cecilia Kozamin, 76, of Haifa;
Yelena Lomakin, 62, of Haifa; Rosaria Reyes, 42, of the Philippines; Yitzhak
Ringel, 41, of Haifa; Rassim Safulin, 78, of Haifa; Leah Strick, 73, of Haifa;
Faina Zabiogailu, 64, of Haifa; Mikhail Zaraisky, 71, of Haifa. Hamas claimed
responsibility for the attack.
2001(17th of Kislev, 5762): One person was killed when
terrorist fired on a car “near Elei Sinai.”
2002(27th of Kislev, 5763): Seventy-eight-year-old
Edgar Sherick the movie and television producer whose most lasting contribution
to American culture was his role in the creation of “ABC’s Wide World of
Sports, passed away today. (As reported by Bill Carter)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/07/arts/edgar-scherick-78-producer-for-television-and-movies.html
2003: It was reported today that Israel’s President Moshe Katsav
has said “that Syria must stop supporting armed factions that attack Israel if
it is serious about restarting negotiations with Israel over the Golan Heights”
while “President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, urged the United States to use its
muscle to renew talks on the Golan.”.
2004: A Broadway revival of “Pacific Overtures,” a musical written
by Stephen Sondheim, opened at Studio 54.
2004: “The Syrian Bride” directed by Eran Riklis, who also
co-authored the screenplay, was released today in Israel.
2005(1st of Kislev, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
2005(1st of Kislev, 5766): American painter Nat Mayer Shapiro
passed away at the age of 86.
2005:
On this date Haaretz
reported that thousands of Ethiopian immigrants gathered along the
Sherover-Haas Promenade overlooking Jerusalem's Old City to celebrate Sigad -
the Ethiopian Jewish holiday that for 2,500 years in exile marked the yearning
for Zion.
2005:
Nicholas F Taubman began serving as United States Ambassador to Romania.
2005:
“60 years later, Task Force Baum succeeds” published today reminds of the
events surrounding the attempt to rescue Lt. Col. John K. Waters, the
son-in-law of General George Patton led by its namesake, Major Abe Baum. (Baum was Jewish which was part of the risk
for a mission that was going to work behind the Nazi lines)
http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051202/news_m1m02tfrbdo.html
2006:
After 11 months, Kaddish is recited
for the last time by the family of Judy Rosenstein, of blessed memory.
2006:
The Economist Magazine of this date
reviewed Jonathan I. Israel’s Enlightenment Contested in which he
contends that the Dutch led by Spinoza were the real “torchbearers of the
enlightenment” and not the English of the time whom he describes as apologists
for colonialism and enemies of equality.
20016:
Jules Feiffer completed his academic residency “at the Arizona State University
Barret Honors College” today.
2007:
Jewish Book Month comes to an end.
2007:
After 20 years of renovation work that cost US$20 million, and that was
overseen by the non-profit Museum at Eldridge Street the Eldridge Street
Synagogue reopened today to the public. It continues to serve as an Orthodox
Jewish synagogue, with regular weekly services on the Sabbath and Holidays, and
is also the Museum at Eldridge Street offering informative tours that relate to
American Jewish history, the history of the Lower East Side and immigration
2007:
In Kensington, MD, children's author and illustrator Sallie Lowenstein,
author of Waiting for Eugene
and The Festival of Lights,
discusses the evolving state of children's books. Lowenstein, also a keen book
collector, will have a number of her treasures on display to help enliven the
discussion.
2007:
The Sunday New York Times book
section features reviews of books on Jewish topics and/or by Jewish authors
including A Dangerous Woman: The
Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman by veteran underground cartoonist Sharon Rudahl, Exit Wounds by
Rutu Modan one of the founders of the Actus Tragicus collective of Israeli
cartoonists and I Killed Adolf Hitler by the Norwegian cartoonist known
simply as Jason
2007:
The Sunday Washington Post book
section lists the Books of 2007 including the following books on Jewish topics
and/or by Jewish authors including Lost
Genius, by Kevin Bazzana, The
Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, by Martin Duberman, Einstein, by Jurgen Neffe, Calvin Coolidge, by David
Greenberg, Ike, by
Michael Korda, Opening Day by Jonathan Eig, Reality Show by
Howard Kurtz, The Art of Political
Murder, by Francisco Goldman, Power, Faith, and Fantasy, by Michael B. Oren, The Grand Surprise, edited by Stephen
Pascal, Musicophilia, by
Oliver Sacks, A Tranquil Star:
Unpublished Stories, by Primo Levi, Away, by Amy Bloom, Imposture,
by Benjamin Markovits and The
Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon.
2008:
As part of the Oud Festival sponsored by Confederation House, Violet Salameh
will perform a program of works dedicated to the three great divas of the
classical Arabic music world - Layla Morad, Asmahan and Oum Koulthoum at the
Jerusalem Theater
2008:
In New York, AFHUS Einstein Award Gala Honoring Bill Gates. Einstein biographer
Walter Isaacson will is the guest speaker. Proceeds will benefit pioneering
research at The Hebrew University's Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture,
Food and the Environment, developing innovative solutions to feeding the world
through sustainable agriculture.
2008:
Hours after voting began this morning, the Labor party postponed the primary
elections after computerized voting systems malfunctioned in several locales
around the country. Initially party leader Ehud Barak wanted to postpone the
primary by eight days, to December 10, but on Tuesday afternoon, the party's
secretary general, MK Eitan Cabel, announced that the primary will be held on
Thursday, December 4th.
2008:
Throngs of mourners packed the funerals of the six Jews killed in last week's
terror attack in India. The six died after gunmen struck the Chabad House, the
Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitch movement, last Wednesday.
After a two-day standoff, four Israelis, an American Jew and a Mexican woman
were dead. The dead included Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, his 28-year-old wife,
Rivka, 38-year-old Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum, 28-year old Bentzion Kruman and
50-year-old Norma Shvarzblat-Rabinovich.
2009:
The trial of Heinrich Boere, a man accused of murdering Dutch civilians as a
member of a Waffen SS hit squad and has
said that he was proud about being chosen to fight for the Nazis is scheduled
to resume today.
2009(15th
of Kislev, 5770): Sixty-four-year-old Eric Wolfson the multi-talented musician
who “was born into a Jewish family, in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow and
raised in the Pollokshields area” passed away today.
http://www.ericwoolfsonmusic.com/
http://inlog.org/2009/12/03/r-i-p-eric-woolfson-alan-parsons-project-1945-2009/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8392805.stm
2009(15th
of Kislev, 5770): Eighty-one-year-old “Harold A. Ackerman, a federal judge in
New Jersey for three decades whose hundreds of cases included trials of crooked
politicians, corrupt union officials and reputed organized crime chieftains,
died today at his home in West Orange, N.J. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/nyregion/10ackerman.html
2009(15th
of Kislev, 5770)L Eight-six year old Samuel Hirsch, the co-founder of the
Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition and a life-long champion of civil
rights and the rights of American workers passed away today.
2009:
David Wessel, the economics editor at the Wall Street Journal and author
of the Capital column, discusses and signs his new book, In Fed We Trust:
Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, at the Arlington Central Library in
Arlington, VA.
2009:
Chabad and JCCNV present “Extreme Makeover: Spiritual Edition” featuring Laibl
Wolf, noted Australian Mystic, author of “Practical Kabala” and originator of
Mind-Yoga.
2010:
Lynda Barry and Maira Kalman are scheduled to “show slides of their work,
compare notes and talk about their experiences as creators in many genres” in a
program entitled “Words and Pictures” at the 92nd Street Y.
2010:
Jewish children's author Jacqueline Jules is scheduled to read from her book, The
Ziz and the Hanukkah Miracle at the Historic 6th & I
Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2010:
A huge brushfire was raging across the Carmel Mountains near Haifa this
afternoon, resulting in the death of some 40 people and hurting dozens of
others, among them prison guards and firemen.
2010:
Two Palestinian terrorists were killed on the Gaza border this morning, when
IDF troops opened fire on a number of suspects on the northern end of the
Strip. The terrorists were apparently trying to infiltrate a kibbutz on the
Gaza border.
2010:
In Gainesville, FL, The Lubavitch Chabbad Jewish Center celebrated the
second of the eight day Hanukah holiday with a twelve foot Menorah filled with
toys for hospitalized children
2010: Today marked the 30th anniversary the death of
French-Jewish novelist Romain Gary,
2010:
As Irving Picard sought to get control of funds related to the Madoff Ponzi
Scheme non-profits targeted by clawback suits yesterday and today include the
Joseph Persky Foundation, the Miles and Shirley Fitterman Charitable
Foundation, and the Melvin B. Nessel Foundation. In all, over 20 charities and
foundations were sued.
2011:
The Heist Project is scheduled to perform works by Israeli choreographer Idan
Sharabi
2011:
David Skorton, the President of Cornell accompanied Billy Joel on flute, during
Joel's rendition of "She's Always a Woman" at a concert at Cornell
University's Bailey Hall
2011:
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Israel today to take diplomatic
steps to address what he described as its growing isolation in the Middle East.
2011:
Roni Fuchs and Zeev Frenkiel, the two Israeli businessmen sentenced to
imprisonment in Georgia earlier this year for allegedly offering
seven-million-dollars-worth of bribes to the Georgian deputy finance minister,
returned to Israel today after being pardoned.
2012:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis
the Season to Be Jewish by Joshua Eli Plaut, Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox
Hall of Fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, A Ship Without a
Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart by Gary Marmorstein, The Gershwins and Me:
A Personal History in Twelve Songs by Michael Feinstein and Ian Jackman and
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Cohen
2012:
Those attending the ECLC Barnes and Noble Book Fair scheduled to take place in
Fairfax, VA, will have a chance to have their picture taken “with a special
Chanukah Dreidel.”
2012:
In Minneapolis, MN, the Sabes Jewish Community Center is scheduled to sponsor,
How Do You Spell Chanukah?? This is “a unique evening of comedy, fun, music and
dreidel spinning and a FUNdraiser for the 2013 Minneapolis Jewish Humor
Festival.”
2012:
Ambassador Richard Schifter is scheduled to “speak about his childhood in
Vienna, escape after the Nazi takeover, and his return to Europe as a Ritchie
Boy” at today annual meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington
2012:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz decided
today to confiscate the tax revenues that Israel collected for the Palestinian
Authority during the month of November, and use it to offset the PA's debt to
Israel's Electric Corporation.
2012:
“In a game against the Miami Dolphins” Julian Edelman of the New England
Patriots “broke his right foot and was placed on injured reserve”
2012:
Holocaust survivors gathered in front of the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem this
morning to protest the Treasury’s handling of the budget allocated to the
Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel, which reimburses
survivors’ annual medical expenses.
2013:
“Jerusalem on a Plate” is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Jewish Film
Festival.
2013:
The Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to present “Welcome to America:
Memories of a Bintel Brief.
2013:
The Syrian war continues to spill over into Israel: IDF forces on the Golan
Heights near the Syria border were shot at from a Syrian army outpost today.
The IDF returned fire and identified a direct hit on a Syrian soldier. No IDF
soldiers were injured. (As reported by Ari Yashar)
2013:
“Seventy-five years after fleeing Nazi Germany for Britain the children of
Kindertransport recall how they were saved from Hitler’s murder machine”
2013:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this morning with Pope Francis at the
Vatican and presented the pontiff with a copy of his late father’s book about
the Spanish Inquisition. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014(10th
of Kislev): Yarhrzeit for the first mass of Jews who were murdered during the
Rumbula Massacre near Riga, Latvia that would ultimately claim the lives of
more than 25,000 Jews.
2014:
On “Giving Tuesday” the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is
scheduled to seek support for the Opportunity Scholarships program which “helps
to ensure that all students, regardless of school means, have the opportunity
to learn the Museum’s message of universal tolerance.”
2014:
The YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture-concert “Klezmer Influences in
American Jewish Music
2014:
The House of Representatives passed the No Social Security Act for Nazis today
which ” closed a loophole that had allowed ex-Nazis who lied about their past
when immigrating to the United States — and been identified and deported by the
Justice Department — to continue receiving Social Security and other benefits.”
2014:
“France voted to recognize Palestine as a state, which the Israeli embassy in
Paris says sends “the wrong message to leaders and people in the region.”
2014:
After overcoming a series of political hurdles the Senate voted to confirm Noah
Mamet as the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.
2014:
“The ruling Likud faction has formally decided to vote in favor of
opposition-proposed bills on the Knesset docket that would dissolve the Knesset
and bring about early elections, party sources told The Times of Israel today.”
(As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur and Ricky Ben-David)
2014:
In Chicago, the Spertus Book Meetup is scheduled to discuss The Family
by David Laskin.
2015:
“Singer-musician Judith Berkson is scheduled to present arrangements of
cantorial music from YIVO’s sound archives” at the Center for Jewish History.
2015:
The Consulate General of Israel in New York and the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
are scheduled to host a reception and panel discussion commemorating “The
Exodus of Jews from Arab Countries.”
2015:
In Florida, Boca Raton Synagogue is scheduled to host Jeffrey Goldberg, the
National Correspondent for The Atlantic
speaking on “Battleground for Truth: Confronting Antisemitism and Holocaust
Denial.
2015(20th
of Kislev): Day two of the Rosh HaShanah of Chassidus
2015(20th
of Kislev): Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yitzhak Hutner, the dean of the Chaim
Berlin yeshiva in New York.
2016: “Hannah and the moonlit Dress” is scheduled to open
at the 14th Street Y.
2016: “A Basel Appeals Court” “overturned the hate
incitement conviction of” David Klein, “a Jewish musician who on Facebook
described Muslims as ‘the Nazis of today’” after considering “his apology for
words that he wrote about a video showing Arabs assaulting Jews in Jerusalem
and the fact that he is the descendant of Holocaust survivors.”
2016: The 10th Annual Other Israel Film
Festival is scheduled to continue this morning at the JCC Manhattan followed
this evening by the New Israel Fund’s New Generations and JCC 20s + 30s Shabbat
dinner featuring conversations with guest filmmakers.
2016: Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of
Jewish Civilization in the Near East at Princeton University, is scheduled to
deliver a lecture on “Fatimid State Documents,
Serial Recyclers and the Cairo Geniza” at the Iowa
Memorial Union on the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
2017(14th of Kislev, 5778): Parashat
Va-yishlach
2017: Rabbi David Lerner delivered a sermon “Rabbi Neil
Gillman, z”l , and
What Do We
Believe?” following the death of “one of the premiere theologians of the
Conservative Movement.”
2017: In Atlanta, the second day of the USCJ Convention
is scheduled to begin with Barry Mael leading a study session on Leadership
Lessons from Pirke Avot.
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled
to host a Pirke Avot study session followed by Ma’ariv and Havdallah.
2017: The Maccabeats are scheduled to perform in London
today.
2017:
Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Sholem Asch whose
works included the New Testament based trilogy The Nazarene, The
Apostle and Mary continues today
2018(24th
of Kislev, 5779): In the evening kindle the first light of Chanukah
2018:
The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host a “Hanukah Family Day” where
Lydia Hardwick will help attendees create their own clay lamp and the Yiddish
Choir will perform “traditional holiday songs followed by a candle lighting
ceremony.
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “Disobedience” in London.
2018:
In Atlanta, “Conductor Juan Ramirez and Cantor Lauren Adesnik as members of the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Emanu-El Youth Choir” are scheduled to perform a
very special Hanukkah concert, From Darkness to Light” which includes
“highlights inspiring music from the Holocaust, melodic Sephardic tunes and
uplifting Hanukkah favorites.”
2018:
“The Israeli police recommended today that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be
indicted on bribery, fraud and other charges, accusing him of trading
regulatory favors for fawning news coverage, in what is potentially the most
damaging of a series of corruption cases against him.”
2018:
The Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to host a screening of the Prince and the Dybbuk.
2018:
The Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, under the leadership of Rosh Yeshiva Joshua
Kulp is scheduled to “start a new tractate of Talmud--Kiddushin, which is
mostly concerned with the laws of betrothal.”
2018:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other
Stuff by Abbi Jacobson, Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and
Adam Horovitz and The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by
Jane Leavy.
2019:
The National Council of Jewish Women Executive Committee Meeting is scheduled
to take place this evening in New Orleans.
2019:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience and Dahan Center are scheduled to
present the International Conference on “The End of Jewish Communal Life in the
Arab Lands.”
2019:
The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players including violinist Itmar Zoran as
scheduled to perform the music of “The Great Danes” at the Good Shepherd
Presbyterian Church.
2019:
The National Museum of American Jewish History Museum Store is prepared to
accept on-line orders today as part of its Cyber Monday Sale.
2019:
San Francisco State University is scheduled present “Juda, Judaism and
Vampirism” during which “Jewish studies lecturer Vered Weiss tells on how
Israeli TV uses horror and fantasy to analyze social boundaries and convey
social critique.”
2019:
“Hip NY rabbi stitches together Hasidic lifestyle with bespoke tailoring
business” published today described how “after training on London’s famed
Savile Row, Chabad Rabbi Yosel Tiefenbrun has set up shop in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, where he fits clients for their $4,500 suits.” (As reported by Renee
Ghert-Zand)
2020:
The Book Festival of the MJCCA and the National JCC Literary Consortium’s “In
Your Living Room” is scheduled to host an online presentation this evening with
Ina Garten, author of Modern Comfort Food
2020:
The Breman Museum is scheduled to present a book talk featuring Bruce Feiler,
author of The New York Times bestseller Life Is in the Transitions:
Mastering Change at Any Age, at 7 PM
2020:
Hadassah Northeast is scheduled to present online “Zionism From Herzl to the
Present” with Karen Bar-Or, national activism director of Israeli American
Council.
2020:
In Iowa, The Jewish Federation of the Corridor steering group is scheduled to
meet this evening,
2020:
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled present on ZOOM
“Jewish Women in American Film: From Femme Fatale to Superhero” with John
Kenrick.
2020:
The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present Aviva Ben-Ur
discussing her new book, Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the
Atlantic World, 1651-1825.
2020:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host Rabbi Yaron
Kapitulnik talking about "The untold stories of the Maccabees – What can
we learn from a direct reading of the Book of Maccabees"
2020:
Today the Knesset is scheduled t”o vote on a motion of no confidence proposed
by the opposition, normally a formaility that is voted down virtually
automatically by the government” which might not be the case this time since Blue & White Chairman and Defense
Minisiter Benny Gantz said his party will vote in favor of a bill, calling to
disperse the Knesset and hold another election.”(As reported by Itay
Blumenthal)
2020:
The JDC is scheduled to host “the screening of two rare historic archival
films: “A Tale of Two Worlds” and “A Day of Deliverance”
2020:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dr. Israel
Finkelstein lecturing on “Reconstructing the History of Ancient Israel: The
Bible versus Archaeology.”
2020:
Historian Fred Rosenbaum is scheduled to talk “about the history of Argentina’s
Jewish community and provides context for the film “Anita,” which the East Bay
Int’l Jewish Film Festival is offering free online…”
2020:
In Columbus, OH, Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host via ZOOM
“Asking Deeper Questions: Judaism 201 Jewish Ethics Case Study on Crime and
Incarceration which is part of a monthly “series focused on exploring some
deeper questions about Jewish thought and practice, while also providing
practical skills and advice for those looking to add more Jewish ritual to
their lives.”
2021(28th
of Kislev, 5782): Fifth Day of Chanukah
2021:
In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to present a “Virtual Teachers CPD
that explores what it really means to be Jewish and how best to teach an
authentic and inclusive Judaism in your classrooms.”
2021:
In New Hampshire, the Manchester Community Players are scheduled to present
“Hershel and the Hanukah Goblins.”
2021:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host, online
Award-winning author and board member of the Yale University Video Archive for
Holocaust Testimonies Joshua M. Green, the author of Unstoppable: Siggi B.
Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to
Wall Street Legend, which is a compelling, well-researched biography of
Auschwitz Survivor Siggi Wilzig.
2021:
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) San Francisco is scheduled to host its 2021
Virtual Diplomats Hanukkah Candle Lighting Celebration this evening
2021:
The Museum of the Jewish People is scheduled to present Frank Oz & The
Jewish Jazz Show “THE JEWISH SPIRIT” which is “an original musical performance,
that brings together several music genres of Yiddish, Hazanut, Ladino,
Mediterranean, Pop and Jazz music
2021:
JWA CEO Dr. Judith Rosenbaum is scheduled to lecture, online, on the fight for
birth control in New York City's immigrant community in the 1910s.
2022:
In Metairie, LA, Chabad is scheduled host its Shabbat Dinner
2022:
The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled present a discussion of Churchill
and America by Martin Gilbert hosted by Allen Packwood OBE.
2022:
Based on previous published reports, as of today, Tel Aviv is no longer the
most expensive city in the world in which to live having fallen to number
three. (As reported by Sharon Wrobel)
2023:
As December 2 begins in Israel, all decent human beings mourn the loss of Aryeh Zalmanovich, Maya Goren, Ronen
Engel, Eliyahu Margalit; and 85 year-old Margalit Zalmanovich whose death while
in Hamas captivity has been confirmed by the IDF, the IDF braces for more combat since the truce
was shattered yesterday rocket attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah while the rest of
the Hamas held hostages begin day 57 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time)
2023:
Jewish National Fund-USA global conference which has evolved in a weekend of
solidarity with Israel is scheduled to continue today.
2023:
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to host a “Cabaret
Night Fundraiser.”
2023(19th
of Kislev): “Chasidic Rosh Chodesh” commemorating the release from Russian
captivity of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe.
2023:
“Evolve Hadassah Cincinnati Kick-Off Event” is scheduled to take place at
MadTree Brewing
2023(19th
of Kislev, 5784): Parashat Va-yishlach (lit. “And he sent”)
2024:
The Marlene Meyerson JCC is scheduled to host “Jewish Broadway, a lecture-performance
exploring the profound impact of Jewish composers and lyricists on the world of
musical theater from the early 20th century to today.
2024:
In Rockville, MD, The Magen David Sephardic Congregation is scheduled to
present a screening of “Mish-Mish Effendi.”
2024:
YIVO is scheduled to present a discussion with Hannah Pollin-Calay about the
new book, In Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
2024(1st
of Kislev,5785): Rosh Chodesh Kislev; For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
As December 2nd 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, demonstrations at a high school production of “The Diary of Anne Frank”
and the beating of a college student in Chicago sweeps the United States and
the Hamas held hostages begin day 423 in captivity while Israelis brace for
more rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists based in
Iraq (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)
