May 24
1218: The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
The driving forces behind the crusade were two Popes who broke new ground in
the mistreatment of the Jews – Innocent III and his successor, Honorius
III. One of their most infamous innovations was the creation
of “the Jew Badge,” which usually took the form of circle or square of saffron
yellow cloth. The Crusade itself was a debacle and the forces of
Islam continued to hold onto Jerusalem. Given a choice, at this
time, for the Jews this outcome was the lesser of two evils.
1241(6th of Sivan, 5001): Shavuot
1241(6th of Sivan, 5001): The community of
Frankfort-on-Main was attacked after Jews tried to prevent a child from being
baptized. As a result, a number of townspeople were killed. Seeing no option,
the Jews set fire to their houses. The fire spread to the rest of the community
destroying nearly half the city. One hundred and eighty Jews died while
twenty-four agreed to be baptized.
1293 (5053): Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg passed away. Born
circa 1225, he was the last of the Tosophists and the leading Rabbi in Germany.
Convinced that there was no future in Germany, he agreed to lead a large
contingent of families to Eretz-Israel. While waiting for the other families,
he was seized by the Bishop of Bas. The Emperor ordered him held in prison as a
lesson to any of "his Jews" who would try to leave Germany and thus
cause him financial loss. He refused to be ransomed, saying that it would serve
as an impetus for further extortion. He died in a prison near Colmar, and his
body was held there until it was ransomed some years later.
1490: In Toledo, Spain 21 Jews or Judaizers were burned at
the stake and another “eleven were sentenced to imprisonment for life.”
1494: Having already issued a five Pentateuch with
Haftorah, and a Pentateuch with
Psalms, Gerson ben Moses Soncino began issued a complete Bible
today.
1588(14th of Sivan): 24 Jews lost their lives in an
auto-da-fe in Barcelona
1738: On a day now celebrated annually by Methodists as
Aldersgate Day, John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist
movement. According to Building New Bridges in Hope the
official statement of the United Methodist Church on Christian-Jewish
relations, “Christians and Jews are bound to God though biblical covenants
that are eternally valid… that God has continued, and continues
today, to work through Judaism and the Jewish people
1749(7th of Sivan): Abraham Valentine
Potocki the Polish count who had converted to Judaism was burned at
the stake
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12317-potocki-pototzki-count-valentine-abraham-b-abraham
1765: Elia Judah Piza and Ester Leon were married today in
London.
1776(6th of Sivan, 5536): As the Founding Fathers debate
the question of declaring independence from Great Britain, Jews observe the
first day of Shavuot.
1778(27th of Iyar,5538): New York merchant and supporter of
the American Revolution Benjamin Etting, son of Asher and Rachel
Etting, who had fled when British troops occupied the city passed
away today in Norwalk, CT.
1781: George Walton, William Few and Richard Howley wrote
to Mordecai Sheftall, the Georgia Jew who was serving as the “Agent for
Purchasing Cloathing” that “the bills of exchange which you have received by
our order amounting to Four Thousand Two Hundred Dollars, drawn by Congress
upon their Minister France are intended to produce the means or procuring
clothing and other necessaries for the militia upon actual duty belonging to
the State of Georgia; and we hereby appoint you to the Agent for conducting the
business relying upon your discretion to do the best in your power, for which
the customary commission will be allowed to you.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43057798?seq=9
1785: In New York City, Grace Menes Nathan, the Strafford,
CT born daughter of “Isaac Mendes Seixas and Rachel Franks Seixas, and her
husband Simon Nathan gave birth to Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan
1795(6th of Sivan, 5555): Shavuot
1804: In Cologne, Salomon Oppenheim, Jr. and his wife
Therese Stein gave birth to their second son Abraham Oppenheim, the German
banker and husband of Charlotte Beyfus which meant he was related by married to
“the Rothschild family.
1806(7th of Sivan, 5566): Second day of
Shavuot and Shabbat
1810: Birthdate of Rabbi Abraham Geiger the native of
Germany who became an early leader of the movement that became Reform Judaism
and passed away in 1874.
1812: Godfrey Elias and Eli Rachel were married today in
the Great Synagogue in London.
1813: Henry Neumann of Spain became a U.S. citizen today.
1814(5th of Sivan, 5574): S.Wilhelm
Königswarter’s mother Elisabeth passed away today.
1818(18th of Iyar, 5578): Lag B’Omer
1818: In Charleston, SC, Mr. Moses Joseph of Amsterdam
married Miss Abigail Audler.
1820: Theodore Solomon Hart and Rose Friedberg were married
today in the Great Synagogue in London.
1820: In Sulzburg, Sara and Baruch Dukas gave birth to
Leopold Dukas who was the husband of Lea and Magdalena Dukas.
1820: Two days after she passed away, Julia Henry, the
three-year-old daughter of Abraham Henry and Emma Lyon was buried today in
England.
1824: Two days after she had passed away, Julia Henry, the
daughter of Abraham Henry and Emma Lyon was buried today.
1824: Birthdate of Philadelphia resident David Allman, the
husband of Pauline Allman and father of Estelle, Claudia, Millard, Belle,
Hattie, Blanche, Justin and Sydney Allman.
1825(7th of Sivan, 5585): Second Day of
Shavuot observed for the first time during the presidency of John Q. Adams
1829: Birthdate of Alsace native Benjamin Ulmann, the
French painter who won the Prix de Rome in 1859.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14574-ulmann-benjamin
https://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/author-profile/BmqlvIJH/
1830: In London, Abraham Davis, a Shamas at the Great
Synagogue in London, and his wife gave birth to Isaac Davis, “the prime mover
in the establishment of the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables” and “one
of the founders’ of the Jews’ Deaf and Dumb Home” who was “warmly thanked by
King Edward VII” for his service as “a treasurer of the East London Committee
of the People’s Palace.”
1833(6th of Sivan, 5593): Shavuot on the
same day that Virginia native John Randolph, the United States Minister to
Russia under Andrew Jackson passed away.
1837: In Antwerp, Meyer Joseph Cahen d'Anvers and Clara
Bischoffsheim gave birth to future French banker Louis Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers.
1842: In Balaton-Kojár, Hungary, Gabriel L. Dessauer and
his wife gave birth Moritz Dessauer, the German rabbi whose works included a
book about Hobbes and Spinoza.
1844(6th of Sivan, 5604): Shavuot observed
on the same day “Samuel F.B. Morse dispatched the first telegraphic message”
was taken from Numbers 23:23 “over an experimental line from Washington,
D.C.(Editor’s Note: The Jews begin reading the Book of Numbers on the Shabbat
just prior to this event.
1846: In New Orleans, 24-year-old Cecilia Marks, the
Charleston, SC born daughter of Elias and Catherine Abrahams gave birth to
Esther Marks who became Esther Scherck when she married Isaac Scherck with whom
she had four children.
1850: The Jewish Chronicle reported that Rabbi Jacobs
delivered a sermon on Shavuot based on Deuteronomy, Chapter 16, verse 9.
1852(6th of Sivan, 5612): Shavuot
1852: Birthdate of Harris Lebus the English born son of
Prussian cabinetmaker “who joined his father’s firm” and turned it into “the
largest furniture factory in the world” which along with his communal
activities earned him a knighthood in 1946.
1855(7th of Sivan, 5615): Second day of
Shavuot
1855: In London, “Lucy (née Daines) and John Daniel Pinero,
a solicitor” gave birth to actor Sir Arthur Wing Pinero whose paternal
grandparents were Sephardic Jews and his maternal grandparents were English
Christians.
1856: Abolitionist John Brown and his men killed five
slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. Three of his followers -
August Bondi, Jacob Benjamin and Theodore Weinter – have been identified as
Jews according to the historian Rufus Learsi.
1857: In Salisbury, Simon Ulman, the Pennsylvania born son
of Sarah and Joseph Ullman and his wife Caroline Ulman gave birth to Hannah
Ulman.
1861: Major Mordecai and his family left the arsenal at
Watervliet, NY. For reasons of personal safety they left in the evening
without any fanfare since there were those who felt that Mordecai had betrayed
his country. Mordecai was one of the most prominent Jewish officers serving
with the U.S. Army prior to the Civil War. A Southerner by birth, he
had tried to arrange a transfer to a post in the West that would enable him to
serve his country without having to actually fight family and
friends. When this attempt failed, Mordecai resigned. But
unlike other Southerners, he refused all of the offers to join the Confederate
Army. He entered civilian life and never wore a uniform again.
1862: In Paris, Jacques and Hérminie Offenbach gave birth
to Auguste Offenbach
1862: Today in an anti-Slavery speech Henry Ward
Beecher deflated the argument that slavery was acceptable because it was in the
Bible when “he drew an amusing contrast between Hebrew and Southern Slavery and
carried his audience with him to the conclusion that the position of the slave
in the olden time, and slave brother of now-a-days, was somewhat different.
1863(6th of Sivan, 5623): Shavuot observed
as Grant is laying siege to Vicksburg.
1864(18th of Iyar, 5624): Lag B’Omer observed as Grant
perused Lee across northern Virginia in a series of battles called the
Wilderness Campaign,
1868: A public meeting of Hebrew Christians was held at
Room No. 24, Cooper Institute, this evening, for the purpose of presenting the
claims of the Messiah to their inquiring brethren.[Editor’s Note – this is a 19th century
version of the Jews for Jesus]
1870: In New York City, Rebecca Washington (née Nathan) and
Albert Jacob Cardozo, members of a distinguished Sephardic family whose
“ancestor had immigrated to the British colonies from London before the
American Revolution gave birth Columbia trained attorney and jurist Benjamin
Nathan Cardozo, the second Jew to serve on the Supreme Court, an appointment he
owed to a Republican from Iowa, Herbert Hoover and whose nomination “sailed’
through the confirmation process that greeted the nomination of Justice Brandeis.
https://www.oyez.org/justices/benjamin_n_cardozo
1870: Birthdate of Polish native Enoch Hendryk Glicenstein
who gained fame as sculptor Enrico Glicenstein, the husband of Helen Hirsenberg
and the father Israeli artist Emanuel Glicenstein.
https://benuri.org/artists/57-enrico-glicenstein/biography/
1870: A house at No. 215 West Seventeenth in Manhattan was
dedicated today as a Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews. It is the first such
institution in New York State. The home is for those over the age of
60 who, for reasons beyond their control, are not able to receive care and
treatment anywhere else. When the Home opened, it cared for only three people.
(By 1876 that number would grow to 57)/
1871: In Detroit, Michigan, Magnus Butzel and Henrietta
Hess gave birth University of Michigan trained attorney Henry M. Butzel, the
“vice president of United Jewish Charities and Congregation Beth El.
1871: Birthdate of James A. Samuel, the native of London
who served as a member of the Council of the United Synagogue and of the Board
of Management of the East London Synagogue and the Secretary of East London
Orphan Aid Society.
1871: In Lomza, Moses and Helen (Bishkowich) Morrison gave
birth to NYU trained attorney Isidore D. Morrison who in 1886 came to the
United States in 1886 where he married Dora Levy in 1913 and among other
accomplishments organized the Russian American Hebrew Association “which
engaged in the work of Americanizing immigrants” living on the Lower East Side.
1872: Adolph Marix, the native of Germany who
joined the Navy while living in Iowa and who would serve as “Secretary to the
Board of Inquiry” that investigated the blowing up the battleship Maines, was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant today.
1873(27th of Iyar, 5663): Parashat
Behar-Bechukotai
1873(27th of Iyar, 5663):
Fifty-five-year-old American actor James William Wallack, the London born son
“actor-manager Henry John Wallack and Fanny Jones” passed away today in South
Carolina
https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-William-Wallack-II
http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801197
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/05/25/80319891.pdf
1874:Columbia gradate, and Heidelberg trained medical
doctor Isaac Adler, the Grand Duchy born son of Henriette Frankfurter and Rabbi
Samuel Adler who was an early expert in Lung Cancer “married Frida Grumbacher”
today/
1874: In Omaha, Nebraska, “Edward and Leah (Colman)
Rosewater gave birth to Cornell educated newspaper executive Charles Colman
Rosewater, the husband of Julia Alice Warner, who began his career as the
business manager of the Omaha Bee before moving on to
the Los Angeles Express, the Los Angeles Times,
the Kansas City Journal and the Seattle Post
Intelligencer before finally serving as the director of publications
for Success Magazine in New York.
1876: Delegates from fifteen congregations representing New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore and Brooklyn met in New York
today to plan for the establishment of Jewish theological seminary or
college. Mr. Lewis May was chosen to preside over the group and M.S.
Isaacs served as secretary. Mr. May informed the group that Temple
Emanuel had already voted to spend $2,000 a year to support any Jewish school
that was established as a result of these meetings.
1876: Today, at the sixth session of Presbyterian General
Conference being held in Brooklyn, the delegates adopted the recommendation
that the “mission to English speaking Jews” should be discontinued. This unique
action came amidst a flurry of other motions to continue or expand missionary
efforts a wide group of people including Native Americans and citizens of
China.
1876: Rabbi Rubin officiated at the wedding of Kaufman
Marks to Miss Jennie Baum of Charleston, SC at the Synagogue on St. Philip
Street.
1876: Rabbi David Levy of Charleston, SC, officiated at the
wedding of Robert Caccavajo to Lena Levy in Kingstree, SC, the hometown of both
the bride and groom.
1877: In Philadelphia, Jacob da Silva and Miriam
(Binswanger) Solis-Cohen gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained
physician Myer Solis-Cohen the husband of Lotta Teschner and a Major in the
Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army who served in France, a
professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical College and the Woman’s
College of Pennsylvania, an author of more than sixty medical journals who was
a member of Mikve Israel and Temple Beth-El in Philadelphia.
1877: In Patterson, NJ, Judge Barkalow heard further
testimony regarding an application for the annulment of the marriage of Moses
Tanneholz and Rachel Blumenthal. Tanneholz is a cigar dealer living
in Patterson. Miss Blumenthal, who is seeking the annulment, is the
eighteen-year-old daughter of well to-do resident of Montreal,
Canada. Blumenthal claims that she had not wanted to marry
Tanneholz; that she thought the marriage ceremony was only a betrothal
ceremony; and that she was only 17 at the time of the “marriage” which meant
that she was under-age according to New Jersey Law. Furthermore, she had gone
to New York right after the ceremony and the couple had never consummated the
marriage. The Justice who performed the ceremony testified today
that the bridge seemed to be fully cognizant of the fact that it was a marriage
ceremony. The matter of her age only became important when he had
been told after the ceremony that this was a “runaway marriage” and he told the
groom that he would need affidavit signed by the bride saying that she was at
least 18 years of age. Because of the prominence of the families
involved, this case has generated interested among the Jewish communities in
the both New Jersey and Montreal.
1878: The curtain came down on the final performance
of “The Sorcerer” in which Giulia Warwick (born Julia Ehrenberg) had been
performing “in the leading soprano role of Aline”
1880: Felix Adler married his “helpmate” Helen Goldmark
Adler, whose “book An Outline for Child Study, Intelligently
Directed Observation for Mothers was one of the first manuals of its
kind” and who was the mother of Waldo, Laurence, Eleanor and Margaret Adler
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/21/96588695.pdf
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark
1882(6th of Sivan, 5642): Shavuot
1882: A Pogrom began in Rostov, Russia
1882: In St. Paul, MN, Matilda Schloss and Joseph Oppenheim
gave birth to Columbia educated “novelist, poet and editor James Oppenheim, the
husband of Lucy Seckel and father of Ralph and James Oppenheim, Jr who “was a
founder and editor of The Seven Arts
https://poets.org/poet/james-oppenheim
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/483496.James_Oppenheim
1884: Birthdate of Martha Schallek Wallenstein, the wife of
Joseph S. Wallenstein.
1885: In Turton, Lancashire, journalist and Methodist lay
preacher William Fairhurst and his wife Miam Sutherland gave birth to
educational psychologist and psychoanalyst Susan Sutherland Isaacs, the wife of
“metals merchant” Nathan, the son Jewish immigrants who gave up his career to
join his wife in “her work on early education.”
1886: Birthdate of Upper Silesia native and multiply
married art collector Hugo Perls who came to the United States in 1941, worked
at the Perls Gallery founded by his Klaus and devoted himself to writing about
philosophy
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/08/16/75296131.pdf
1887: This evening “Adolf Raffmann of Charleston, SC,
married “Pauline Ritzwoller, of Peoria, Illinois” in the residence of her
parents.
1888: Today, Felix J. Dreyfus introduced a “bill which
called for the creation of a Police Board for the City of New Orleans” part of
a movement to reform the Crescent City’s Police Department which earned him
“the unofficial title of Father of the Policemen of New Orleans.”
1890: The summaries of affidavits from two of the daughters
of Mary Frohman – Lena Frohman Vollman and Bertha Frohman – and the family
physician Thomas Courtney were published today which purport to show that “Mrs.
Frohman is insane” and should be prevented from disposing of her late husband’s
estate and returning to Germany.
1891: In Coquimbo, Chile, American Methodist missionaries
Cornish and Wilbur Finley Albright gave birth archeologist and Bible scholar
William F Albright, a graduate of Upper Iowa University whose archeological
studies or the studies of those whom he inspired are the source of much about
what we know about the history of ancient Israel
1891: In New Haven, CT, “Benjamin and Bessie (Mendoza)
Bretzfielder” gave birth to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and Columbia
University physician Karl Benjamin Bretzfelder the husband of Amelia
Kafka who was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army’s Medical Corps, a
surgeon for the New Have Police Department and physician for both the Jewish
Home for the Aged and the Jewish Orphans while serving as an active member of
the Horeb Lodge of B’nai Brith and Congregation Mishkan Israel.
1891: The Jaffa–Ramla section of the Jaffa-Jerusalem
was fully opened for use today.
1891: It was reported that Joseph Roth was responsible for
preventing a major fire at a tenement house on Ludlow Street. Roth
discovered a bundle of smoldering rags under the staircase which he stomped on
to keep them from breaking into flames, thus saving the building that is home
to 18 Jewish families including Max Rudolf, a tailor who lived in
the building with his family.
1892(27th of Iyar, 5652): This morning in
Budapest a wealthy Jewish land owner named Karsay was mortally wounded in a
duel.
1892: “A special train left Long Island City carrying over
100 people left Long Island City bound for Rockaway Park where they would
attend the formal opening of the new sanitarium that has been built for Jewish
children.
1892: It was reported today that Reverend Johnson of Sweden
expressed his opposition to a resolution adopted by a conference of Methodist
ministers that called upon the Czar to end the persecution of the Jews in
Russia. He contended that the resolution would “tend to aggravate
the Russian Government against the Methodist Church” and jeopardize the
Methodist missions in that country.
1894: “For the third time in the last two days Register
Ferdinand Levy” today “secured a summons from Justice Feltner of the Yorkville
Police Court for Florian Sicher…who is charged with annoying respectable people
of all nationalities and especially Hebrews” as can be seen from the signs in
his sausage store in which he advertises “Anti-Semitic Sausages” “Do
Not Buy From the Jews” and “No Sale Made to Jews.”
1894: Moses and Julia Levy, who used to own a millinery
store on Broadway are being held in the Tombs Police Court having been charged
with “secreting goods with intent to defraud.”
1894: “Theodore Seligman, an executor and trustee under the
will of his father, Jesse Seligman filed a petition with the Surrogate’s Court”
that was one of the preliminary actions necessary to presenting the will for
probate.
1894: It was reported that the American Conference of
Hebrew and Christian Workers for Israel has formed a committee “to discuss the
proper methods of teaching Christianity to the Jews.”
1895: Birthdate of Marcel Janco “a Romanian-born Israeli
painter and architect” who was “one of the founders of the Dada movement.”
1895: A written request for a meeting from Theodor Herzl is
received by French railroad tycoon and philanthropist Baron Moritz de Hirsch.
1895: A Jew named Samuel Samuelson who lives with his wife
and family in Miles Alley was shot this afternoon by an unknown assailant.
1895: In New York, “Meier Neuhaus, was an immigrant from
Vitebsk, Belarus; and Rose (née Arenfeldt), from Austria-Hungary” gave birth to
“the eldest of their eight children,” Solomon Isadore Neuhaus who gained fame
as Samuel Irving Newhouse, American publisher and philanthropist
whose publications included Parade Magazine, Vogue and Glamour.
1896: The New York Times describes the
various provisions of the last will and testament of the late Baron
Hirsch. The big winner is his wife who is named as “universal
heiress.” In one sense, the biggest loser is the Jewish Colonization
Association which would have come into possession of the inheritance had the
Baroness predeceased the Baron.
1896: Today Enzo, Russia native Herman H. Louis, who May of
1882 came to the United States where he settled in Parkersburg, West Virginia
two years later before settling in Ashtabula, OH where he established the
highly successful iron and metal yard known as the Ashtabula Junk Company
married Celi H. Orkin after which they had three children – two boys and a
girl.
1896: One day before his 29th birth
birthday Pittsburgh businessman Samuel Maltinsky, the son of Sarah Maltinsky
and “Dayyan” Hyman Maltinsky married Celia H. Orkin with whom he had
had three children.
1897: Colonel Nicolas Jean Robert Conrad Auguste Sandherr
the first person to accuse Dreyfus of treason passed away.
1897: After a motion to impeach Count Casimir who had
clashed with anti-Semitic parties in the Austrian parliament had been
introduced, a riot triggered by the opposition broke out causing “a suspension
of the session to avoid a repetition” of this violence.
1898: Birthdate of Ovid, MI and Detroit College of Law
trained attorney who represented “James Crouch, alias Diamond Jim Crouch’ when
the latter appealed his conviction of having altered Federal Reserve notes with
intent to defraud….”
1898: It was reported today that an insurance agent named
Martin Beir has been elected Governor for the New York State chapter of B’nai
B’rith
1898: Privates Julius T. Lansberg and Ike Lobisky were
among the members of the 4th Virginia Volunteer Infantry who
were mustered into U.S. Service.
1898: During the Spanish American War, in Boston, Maurice
M. Goldstein enlisted today and began serving with Battery C, 2nd U.S.
Artillery.
1899: Birthdate of Warsaw native Louis Isenberg who in 1912
came to Canada, joined the Jewish Legon in May of 1918 “and served in Palestine
with 38th Royal Fusiliers” before being demobilized in 1919 and
returning to Canada.
1899: Herman Lichtner, a Hungarian tailor who has lived in
the United States for the last 15 years set sail on the White Star Liner Cymric
with his daughter as they made their way back to Europe.
1900: Birthdate of Polish native and WW I veteran Harry
Mittleman, the son of peddler, whose family, in 1911 came to the United States
where he eventually settled in Portland, OR where morphed from successful
grocery store owner to real estate mogul while serving as an officer of the
“the Jewish Old People’s Home and the Jewish Education Association.
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mittleman_jewish_community_center/#.YKmnrI2SlPY
1901(6th of Sivan, 5661): Shavuot
1901: Seventy-seven-year-old Charlotte May Yonge the author
of The Patriots of Palestine, a tale of the Maccabees passed
away today.
1902(17th of Iyar, 5662): Parashat Behar
1902: Birthdate of New York native and Columbia educated
Dr. Michael Alper who was ordained by the Jewish Institute of Religion and
served as “a director of Jewish Education of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” while
editing several Jewish magazines and authoring “several textbooks” passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/01/31/92844715.pdf
1902: It was reported today that sixteen Jews including
Sarah Goldstein has each been fined three dollars for their part in
demonstrations in front of kosher butcher shops in Boston.
1903: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Ethel Friedman Gabel,
the Secretary of the Association for the Care of Jewish Aged and Infirm who was
the wife of Jacob L. Gabel.
1903: A copy of the memorandum adopted by the American
Baptist Missionary Union in Buffalo, NY, condemning the massacre of the Jews at
Kishinev was published today being with the opening declaration, “The recent
massacre of Jews in Russia calls for our sympathy, our prayers and our
protests.”
1904(10th of Sivan, 5664): Eighty-year-old Kalonymus
Wissotzky, “the largest tea manufacturer in Russia, noted philanthropist and
leading member of Choveve Zion” passed away today in Moscow.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Wissotzky_Kalonymus_Zeev
1904(10th of Sivan, 5664): Myer S. Isaacs, for years
President of the Baron de Hirsch Fund and leader in many other charitable and
philanthropic movements of the Jewish people, died in the Equitable Building,
120 Broadway, this afternoon from heart disease, a condition that had afflicted
him for an extended period of time. Born in 1841 at New York City,
he was the oldest son of Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs. He graduated from
University of the City of New York in 1859 and graduated from its law school in
1862. He passed the bar exam on May 8, 1862. His successful business
and legal career included serving as vice President of the Real Estate Exchange
(1867), serving as Justice of the Marine Court (1880), Justice of the Superior
Court (1891) and State Supreme Court Justice (1895). He was active in Jewish
affairs. In 1857, he and his father founded the Jewish Messenger. He
served as President of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites and the
Hebrews Free School Association. He also played a key role in establishing
the United Hebrew Charities, the Montefiore Home, the Hebrew Technical
Institution and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. He was preceded in death by his wife
the former Marie Solomon and is survived by 6 children including I.S. Isaacs
and Louis Isaacs
1905: Sixteen-year-old Herman Maltz, the future owner of a
furniture store in Los Angeles arrived at Ellis Island.
1906: It was reported today that “the Bureau of Licenses
has refused to issue peddler’s licenses to Jews for two years and that it is
alleged “that every pushcart license held by a Jew on the east side represents
‘graft’ paid to some politician.”
1907: “Bill To Protect Jews In Hotels” described
legislation that has been introduced by New York State Martin Saxe to see to it
that nobody is banned from a hotel because of their religion as happened to
Mrs. Berth Rayner-Frank of Baltimore. She and her nieces were turned
away from a hotel in Atlantic City because they were
Jewish. Legislators in the Empire State who were unmoved by what
happened to the Seligman family at Saratoga Springs in the 1870’s now wanted to
take action.
1907: In London, Cantor “Bernard and Janie (Spector)
Schacthel gave birth to University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College
graduate Hyman Judah Schachtel who began his rabbinic career at New York’s West
End Synagogue before beginning more than three decades of service at Houston’s
Congregation Beth Israel which included delivering the inaugural prayer for LBJ
in 1965 while raising two children with his wife Barbara.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsc83
1908: “The Jewish Publication Society of America, which
held its twentieth annual meeting to-day in Broad Street Temple, announced that
the Board of Publication had finally completed arrangements for the successful
carrying on of the Bible translations, which it is expected will now be
accomplished in a short time.
1909: Birthdate of South African dentist Philip Blaiberg,
the third heart transplant patient.
1910: In Richmond, VA, “a strongly worded resolution was
submitted this afternoon at the District Grand Lodge, No. 5, of the B’nai
B’rith, the leading Jewish organization in the South, condemning the
caricaturing of the Jewish race on the stage and in the magazines.”
1910: “Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, who is to leave Temple
Emanu-El at the expiration of his term in October as a result of the
disagreement between him and the congregation in the matter of service and
ritual will continue Jewish work” in New York City according to a
statement he made at his home on 17 Livington Place tonight.
1911: The New York Public Library opened. Abraham Solomon
Freidus was the first head of the library’s Jewish Division.
1912: Today, Titanic survivor Miriam Kantor, the widow of
Sinai Kantor, who died when the ship went down “received her husband’s clothing,
Russian passport, notebook, telescope, corkscrew, “silver watch and strap,” and
Russian, German and English currency.”
1912: Philip Margulies, a maker of women’s cloaks, received
a mysterious box today which he and his wife thought was a bomb but the police
discovered was “filled with washing soda.”
1912: All of today’s hearings in the divorce action of
Simon Werner, the artist, which is being tried before Justice Ford and a jury
in the Supreme Court, was taken up with the examination of Mrs. Anna Werner,
the defendant.”
1912: Montefiore G. Kahn's mother publicly addresses
her concern that the reports her son has given to the American Immigration and
Distribution League are not accurate and she fears that her son misspoke
himself or was misunderstood.
1912: In Russia, the peasants in the villages of “Zasela
and Kherson” “unanimously decided to ask the authorities to declare” their
place “a townlet” so that the Jews can settle there.”
1912: It was reported today that ‘at a meeting of the
American Immigration and Distribution League at the Hotel Manhattan, Montefiore
G. Kahn, Acting Secretary of the organization, announced that he would give to
the league 13,000 acres of farming and clay lands in New Jersey, valued by the
donor at more than $2,600,000, to be parceled out free to deserving immigrants
who desire to become farmers.
1912: In Russia, the “Minister of the Interior and Chief
Procurator of the Holy Synod” expressed “sympathy with the demands of a
deputation of anti-Jewish agitators from the South of Russia for new measures
of ‘protection’ against the Jews.”
1912(8th of Sivan, 5672): Less than a month
before his 56th birthday, Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, the eldest
surviving son of Sir Albert Sassoon, who was a successful British businessman
and political leader passed away today.
1913: A murder indictment was returned against Leon Frank
by a grand jury in the death of Mary Phagan.
1913: Birthdate of Polish native Shoshana Shifriss, the
wife of Israeli native Ovid Shifriss.
1913: As the police continue to look for the person who had
strangled Mary Phagan, Jim Conley, the pencil factory's janitor, who was a
suspect in the case, continued to give conflicting testimony as to what had
happened. By now, he was attempting to implicate Leo Frank in the murder.
1914: In Posen, “Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon
and Rose Lissman, an Austrian Jewish stage actress gave birth to Lili Marie
Peiser who gained fame as award winning actress Lilli Palmer.
1914: In Budapest, Kornél Tábori, who would die at
Auschwitz in 1944 and Elsa Tábori gave birth to György Tábori, who gained fame
as George Tabori the playwright and director who would flee to England in 1936
where he would continue a career that included Alfred Hitchcock’s “I Confess”
and the 1955 BFTA award winning “The Young Lovers.”
1914(28th of Iyar, 5674):
Seventy-five-year-old Elias Marx, the German born son of Jette Ottenheimer and
Simon Marx, the wife of Fanny Ottenheimer with whom he had nine children.
1915(11th of Sivan, 5675): Seventy-one-year-old Rebecca
Henriques Valinetine, the native of Middlesex and wife of David Moss passed
away today.
1915: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Joel Edward Saltzman the
“vice president and director of Twayne Publishers who attended NYU and Columbia
and was the husband of Hilda Kluger Saltzman with whom he had two children –
Roslyn and Lawrence.
1915: The body of Charles Frohman, who had died when the
Lusitania was torpedoed, “arrived back in New York City” today in flower
covered coffin.
1915: “Calls Frank Victim of Cry Against Jews” published
today provides a summary of Dr. Madison C. Peters, a Baptist minister, views on
the Leo Frank case including his belief that “The American believes in a square
deal, a fair trial should be given to Frank. To commute his sentence
only adds to the outrage. Nothing less than a fair trial is just. What has
happened to Frank may happen equally as well to any citizen of the
Republic. If you believe that Frank has not gotten a fair deal, say
so.” (Editor’s note – Peters was an unusual figure when you consider that among
the many books he wrote you would find Justice to the Jew and The
Jew as a Patriot.)
1915: It was reported today that “the jurors who found Leo
Frank guilty will meet this week to decide whether to ask the Prison Commission
to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.
1915: “A resolution appealing for” the commutation of Leo
Frank’s death sentence is scheduled to “be submitted to the Governor” by a
“body of ministers” who include Dr. John E. White, pastor of the Second Baptist
Church and Reverend C.B. Wilmer of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta.
1915: The list of the newly elected officers of the
American branch of the Alliance Israelite Universelle published today included
Justice Leon Sanders, President and Major Kaufman Mandel, U.S.A. (ret)
Treasurer.
1915: In remarks published today Justice Leon Sanders “said
the Jews in the eastern theatre of the European War were the worst sufferers
and express the hope that when the time came for peace treaties provision would
be made for the advancement of the Zionist movement for a home for Jews in
Palestine.”
1915: Louis H. Levin, Superintendent of the Federation of
Jewish Charities in Baltimore, MD, who went to Palestine aboard the Vulcan
which was carrying $100,000 in relief funds from the United States via
Alexandria to Jaffa is now in charge of the relief work in Palestine.
1915: At Atlantic City, NJ, “Resolutions lauding President
Wilson for his stand in relation to the Lusitania disaster were adopted and
telegraphed to Washington today at the convention of the United States Grand
Lodge of the Independent Order of Sons Israel” which stated “that the President
in his note to Germany had expressed the sentiments of every loyal member of
the Jewish race in America…”
1915: Over 4,000 letters asking for clemency for Leo M.
Frank were received by Governor Slaton today including epistles from Senator
Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois, Governor James E. Ferguson of Texas, Judge
Glendy B. Arnold of the Circuit Court of St. Louis and Judge Ben B. Lindsey of
the Juvenile Court in Denver, Colorado.
1915: A resolution adopted by the Alliance Israelite
Universelle in New York protesting” in the name of the Jews of the United
States against the execution of Leo Frank” based on the belief “that the Frank
verdict was the result of race prejudice” was reportedly being sent to the
Governor of Georgia.
1915: Birthdate of opera singer Rena Galibova the daughter
of Bukharan Jewish parents “who was named the People’s Artist of Tajikistan.
1915: In Chicago, today is scheduled to be “known as Frank
Day” since hundreds of women “will be stationed on street corners and at other
public places” seeking signatures for the petition calling for clemency for Leo
Frank.
1915: Today, on the day “known as Frank Day” approximately
400 members of fifty women’s organizations are scheduled to canvass the streets
of Chicago seeking signatures on petitions asking for clemency for Leo Frank.
1916: “Dr. J.L. Manges, the Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Kehillah said” tonight “ that further complains of Jews, who
had conclusive proof to offer that they had been prevented from joining the
National Guard because” they were Jewish “would be investigated if presented at
the offices of Kehillah” on Second Avenue.
1916: Over 500 young men and women attended a meeting at
Temple Emanu-El to hear speakers including Dr. J.L. Magnes talk about the work
of the Kehillah.
1916: It was reported today that Isidore Heshfield, the
lawyer who has been working for the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society
distributing aid to Jews in war-torn Europe, was the guest of honor at banquet
at the home of Mrs. Sarah Spurney which was a celebration of his return to the
United States.
1917: The Turkish minister at The Hague, Netherlands,
issued a statement regarding deportation of the Jews in Palestine and denied
reports that they were being slaughtered.
1917: David Lindo Alexander and Claude Montefiore,
president of the Anglo-Jewish Association signed a letter published in today’s
Times of London which declared
"grave objections" to two claims in the "published statements of
the Zionist leaders": "The first is a claim that the Jewish
settlements in Palestine shall be recognized as possessing a national character
in the political sense... the second... is the proposal to invest the Jewish
settlers in Palestine with certain special rights in excess of those enjoyed by
the rest of the population".
1917: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this
morning for Amalie Freudenberg, the wife of Charles A. Freudenberg at a chapel
on 4649 Prairie Avenue in Chicago.
1917: Following a funeral service, Sol Bloom, the husband
of Carrie Hartz Bloom is scheduled to be interred at the Waldheim Cemetery in
Chicago.
1917: Funeral services for Julia Frieler Stein, the wife of
Bernhard Stein, are scheduled to be held today at the Zion Temple on the corner
of Washington Boulevard and Ogden Avenue.
1917: The Times of London published an
anti-Zionist manifesto issued by the Conjoint Foreign Committee of British
Jews. Lucien Wolf, historian, author and advocate for Jewish rights was a
leading member of the Conjoint Foreign Committee of British Jews. He had
already written to James de Rothschild, arguing against Zionism which he
believes sees "Jews as aliens in foreign lands" thus making it
similar to anti-Semitism in insisting that Jews will never be integrated into
other cultures. David Lindo Alexander and Claude Montefiore, the president of
the Anglo Jewish Association were co-signatories of this document.
1917: Birthdate of sculptor Milton Elting Hebald.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-milton-hebald-20150108-story.html#page=1
1918: Four days after he passed away, Barney Barret was
buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1918: Birthdate of Samuel M. Rubin, who was known as
"Sam the Popcorn Man" for making popcorn almost as popular in New
York City movie theaters as jokes and kisses”. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1918: As of today, the news officers “of the American
branch of the Alliance Israelite Universelle” were Leon Sanders, President, who
“said Jews in the eastern theatre of the European war were the worst suffers”
and Major Kaufman Mandel, Treasurer.
1918: Birthdate of Samuel M. Rubin who was known as
"Sam the Popcorn Man" for making popcorn almost as popular in New
York City movie theaters as jokes and kisses. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1919: In Ellenville, NY, Samuel and Sarah Leventhal gave
birth to music manager and song plugger Harold Leventhal. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E0D61130F935A35753C1A9639C8B63
1919: “Jewish Post-Biblical History Through Great
Personalities” published today provided a review Jewish Post Biblical
History by Adele Bildersee, “an experienced teacher in the New York
High Schools who has been in charge of the Religious School of Temple Beth EL”
which covers the period from Joachanan ben Zakkai to Moses Mendelsohn
1920(7th of Sivan, 5680): Yizkor is recited
on the Second Day of Shavuot for the last time during the Presidency of Woodrow
Wilson.
1920(7th of Sivan, 5680): Fifty-two year
old Abraham Adelberg passed away today after which he was buried in Flushing at
the Mount Hebron Cemetery.
1921: Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti began. Harvard
law professor and future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter would play an
active role in what would ultimately be their futile defense.
1921: The America Jewish Physicians’ Committee whose
purpose was “to build a medical college in connection with Hebrew University”
was organized today in New York City.
1922: As of today, the new officers of the American Jewish
Congress are President, Nathan Strauss; Vice Presidents, Judge Aairon J. Levy,
Samuel Untermyer and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; Executive Direction, Bernard G.
Richards and Treasurer, George I. Fox.
1923: Birthdate of Stanley H. Biber, the Des Moines, Iowa,
native and graduate of the U of I Medical School who became the
internationally renowned dean of sex-change surgery. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
1923: In New York City, Albert Israel Becker and
Miriam Rosner Becker gave birth to “David V. Becker, a pioneer in using
radioactive materials to diagnose and treat thyroid disease and an expert on
the thyroid damage caused by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in
1986.” He passed away in 2010 at the age of 86.
1924: Clifford Danforth Cardozo, the Manhattan born son of
Clara and Daniel Henry Cardozo, SR and his wife Constance gave birth to C.
Danforth J. Cardozo Jr. the husband of Suzanne and Patricia Cardoza.
1924: In Pittsburgh, David and Libby Kalser Pearlstine gave
birth “Philip Pearlstein, an artist whose coolly observed nudes reclaimed the
naked human body for painting, and who found a persuasive modern idiom for the
portrait genre…” (As reported by William Grimes)
1925: A law was put into force in Salonica demanding Sunday
as a day of rest. The Jewish community formally disputed this, and in the end
the Council of the Jewish Community at Salonica resigned to the governor
general of Salonica.
1926: “The United Jewish Campaign to raised six million
dollars in Greater New York for the relief of the Jews in Eastern Europe ended”
today “with a rally in the Biltmore Hotel.”
1926: In Religion Section entitled “Jew and Jew”, published
today Time Magazine describes the philanthropic activities of
some of the America’s leading civic and business leaders.
Greek wars with Greek; Jew helps Jew ..."
a procurator wrote to his Emperor, Trajan. He was not the first to observe what
he expressed so pithily: the racial loyalty of the Jewish people, a loyalty
that has kept them together, like a colossal freemasonry, while other nations
light the world for a while, then crumble down. For some weeks past the Jews in
various U.S. cities, animated by this tradition, have been working to raise
money for the relief of the Jews in Eastern Europe. Felix Warburg, Louis
Marshall, William Fox and other rich Jews are on the committee which, with
headquarters in Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, has sent its representatives and its
publicity up and down the country — the most intense activity being in Greater
New York. "There is one hope for the Jews in Eastern Europe," great
posters state; "that hope is in the drive for fifteen million dollars. . .
." Speakers have outlined the purposes, the causes of the campaign:
"Women and children are dropping dead of hunger on the streets in Bessarabia.
Many others are found dead in their homes in Poland. A horrible scourge of
typhus is sweeping over the Jews in both lands. . . Children eat what they can
find in garbage cans . . . sleep in alleys, in cellars. . . . Hundreds are
killing themselves . . . the Jews of America must respond. . . ." To
emphasize this appeal, posters in streetcars, on the pillars of subway
stations, the billboards of vacant lots, present the picture of a woman in a
shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of her wrist; her eyes are smeared with
black. She might be any age, this sad, sharpened Jewess; the thing that has
pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is not age but weariness; she is the
incarnation of the most desolate of physical woes, fatigue. "Are You Tired
of Giving?" asks the caption. "You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired.
. . ." Money came in fast. Felix Warburg gave $400,000, Herbert Lehman,
Mrs. S. W. Straus, Mortimer Schiff gave $50,000 each; Louis Marshall, William
Fox, Benjamin Winter made big contributions, and a disabled veteran sent $28
(government allowance for war wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers,
bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery
companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery,
the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers,
petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and
umbrella manufacturers — all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near
to filling their quotas. Adolph S. Ochs, genius of the New York Times, by many
revered as the greatest U. S. newspaper proprietor and the greatest U. S. Jew,
swung into the campaign handsomely. His paper advocated the fund far more than
any other Manhattan journal, exhorted, reported extensively, published
stimulating daily lists of contributors. Nor were Jews the only people to help
Jews. Onetime Ambassador James Gerard spoke at a meeting, and a bellboy
contributed $5 that he had won on a baseball game. Senator James W. Wadsworth
composed a plea, Governor Alfred Smith of New York sent a check by messenger, a
Negro elevator man gave two dollars, and Thomas Burke, editor of the official
organ of the Irish Temperance Society, wrote "I'm an Irishman . . . but
I've advised my race to imitate the good qualities of yours." Meanwhile,
reflective Jews and Gentiles asked: "What is the matter with the Jews in
Eastern Europe? Are they any worse off than the Christians there? Do they
really need 15 million dollars?" They do need their $15,000,000 and untold
millions more.* Indeed, when the leaders of the Fund Campaign and of the
cooperating organizations† realized that the sum fixed would be oversubscribed
in the two weeks allotted (April 25 -May 9), they raised the goal to
$25,000,000 and extended the formal collection period another week, well
knowing that the donation momentum would continue. The whole country and Canada
besides have contributed — not only the cities of close Jewish concentration —
New York City, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia — but also
the hamlets where a stray Jewish family persists in traditional pioneering. The
whole $25,000,000 more than the original goal was not reached, yet was
approximated. There will be no cessation of ingathering or of giving. Fertile
lands, of high Jewish concentration appropriated after the War from Tsarist
Russia by Romania. In the past $60,000,000 have been donated and spent for East
European Jews.
1927: Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, the pastor of the Park
Avenue Baptist Church who “spent several months in the Near East last year”
today told a meeting of alumni of the Union Theological Seminary
that in his opinion “Zionism is heading for a supreme tragedy unless some of
its leaders in Palestine turn away from their extreme nationalism.”
1928(5th of Sivan, 5688): Erev Shavuot
1928: The resumption of State Attorney General Albert
Ottinger's investigation into the conduct of certain Jewish cemeteries brought
out testimony in support of charges that the Baron Hirsch Cemetery of Port
Richmond, S.I. charged unjust fees, barred cars from the burial ground forcing
mourners to walk to gravesites and fees for grass cutting had been raised from
fifty cents to two dollars a lot.
1928: In the Bronx, “Frank Solomon, a textile manufacturer”
and his wife, “the former Dora Sado” gave birth to Leonard Burke Solomon who
changed his last name to Sand and as Leonard B. Sand, became a leading federal
jurist
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sand-leonard-b
1929(14th of Iyar, 5689): Pesach Sheni
1929: The Marx Brothers made cinematic history with the
opening of their first film, The Cocoanuts
1930: Leo Adler, the son of “Baer and Fannie Adler” and his
wife Bella (Worms) Adler gave birth to Gunther Adler.
1931: “The work they Haym Salomon Monument Committee which
seeks to raise $150,000 to erect a memorial to the financier of the American
Revolution at Lincoln Square will be pushed by an additional committee of
twenty-five representatives of Jewish organizations appointed” today “at a
conference at the Hotel McAlpin.
1932(18th of Iyar, 5692): Lag B’Omer
1932: In London, Leah and Joseph Wesker gave birth to
British dramatist Sir Arnold Wesker. Dr. Samuel Sacks, the father of Oliver
Sacks, delivered the youngster.
1932: In Chattanooga, TN, shopkeeper Louis Diamond and his
wife, the former Esther Deich gave birth to Henry Louis Diamond, the lawyer
turned conversation crusader.
1933(28th of Iyar, 5693): Dr. Alfred Strauss was murdered
at Dachau today.
1933: During a gang war this Spring “when the Big Mob”
which included Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, Jacob (Gurrah) Shapiro, Benjamin (Bugs)
Siegel, and Meyer Lansky, among others, was after Waxey
Gordon, Morris (Dimples) Wolinsky was shot down today in front of
the Half Moon, “a speakeasy near 80th Street and Broadway.”
1933: Birthdate of Aharon Lichtenstein the Paris born
American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/renowned-rabbi-aharon-lichtenstein-dies-at-81/
1934: James G. McDonald, high commissioner for refugees
from Germany, returned today on the Italian liner Rex after attending a series
of conferences abroad, the most important of which was the gathering
of the General Jewish Relief Congress in London early this month
1935: In Omaha, Nebraska, “Doris (Shoshone) and Maurice
David Micklin gave birth Sarah Lawrence College graduate Joan Micklin who
became Joan MIcklin Silver when she married Raphael D. Silver, the son of Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver and under which name she gained fame as an award winning
movie director whose films included the marvel “Crossing Delancy” while raising
three daughters --- Dina, Marisa (a director) and Claudia (a producer)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/movies/joan-micklin-silver-dead.html
1936: At Lansing, Michigan, Captain Ira. H. Marmon, head of
the Michigan State Police ordered “a state-wide man hunt to arrest every
ranking officer of the Black Legion, the night riding terror gang” which has
“decreed that each member should fight for white Protestants and bear arms
against Jews, Communist, Catholics and Negroes.”
1936: Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer and Religious School
Committee Chairman Frank L. Weil presided over the closing exercises of the
Temple Emanu-El Religious School where “Marjorie Frankenthal, daughter of
Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Alfred Frankenthaler, who received the Lewis May
Medal for scholarship” “delivered the closing words” in which she “pointed out
that her classmates would have to face anti-Semitic hatred.
1936: In “Britain Will Protect Her Hold in Near East”
published today Harold Callender attributed the violence in Palestine to “the
effendi or land-owning class – many of whom have sold their land to the Jews –
who are most active in stirring up discontent among the Arabs and making
propaganda against the Jews of whose success they are bitterly jealous. Moslem
intolerance toward non-Moslems combines with antagonism to new ideas and
customs in creating Arabian hatred of both the Jews and the British in Palestine.”
1936: Samuel Blitz, the Executive Director of the United
Palestine appeal “reported that of the $1,208, 145.66 already raised of the
national quota of $3,500,000, $490,247 was contributed by New York City.
1936: A contribution of $3,500 to the United Palestine
Appeal by Governor Lehman was announced today.
1936: Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes is scheduled
to be the guest of honor at a dinner in the Hotel Astor that is part of the New
York chapter of the United Palestine Appeal’s effort to raise funds “for the
settlement in Palestine of persecuted Jews of Germany, Poland” and other
European countries.
1937: An “Institute of Bible Study” “which will be attended
by a large proportion of the more than forty educators, theologians and
Orientalists who are members of the Semi-Centennial Committee of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America” is scheduled to begin today.
1937: “Money Mad,” Edward Relkin’s first foray into serving
as a Broadway producer, opened on Broadway at the 49th Street
Theatre
1937: “Three million Jews in Poland went on strike for two
hours today to protest against the latest serious out-break of anti-Semitic
violence…in which 1,200 shops and were wrecked and looted.” (Editor’s note –
the attempt to of the Polish government to distance itself from the Holocaust
is belied by these stories of violent anti-Semitism during the 1930’s.)
1938: Robert Hollitscher, the son-in-law of Sigmund Freud,
and his daughter Mathilde left Vienna for London.
1938: In Haifa, 3 Arabs were killed during a gunfight with
members of the Irgun.
1939(6th of Sivan, 5699): Shavuot
1939(6th of Sivan, 5699): Fifty-eight year
old Barney Pelter a pitcher with the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore
Orioles) and Washington Senators (now the Minnesota Twins) who earned the
nickname “The Yiddish Curver” when in 1906 his record of 16 and 11 was coupled
with an ERA (Earned Run Average) of 1.59 passed away today.
1939: After reading about Churchill’s speech opposing the
White Paper, Nathan Laski wrote to him from Manchester: “May I congratulate you
upon the great and statesmanlike speech you made on the Palestine questions
last night. I think it is not exaggerating to say that you will get
the blessings of millions of Jews all over the world.”
1940: “Russian Bank” with set designed by Louis Bromberg
opened tonight on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.
1940: Today FDR met with Treasury Secretary Henry
Morgenthau, JR at eleven o’clock at the White House.
1940: Birthdate of the Russian born, American poet Joseph
Brodsky who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and was U.S. Poet
Laureate in 1991.
1941: Birthdate of Bob Dylan. Born Robert
Zimmerman in Duluth MN, Dylan has enjoyed a successful career as a singer and
songwriter while bouncing back and forth between Judaism and other
religions.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bob_Dylan.html
1941: U.S. premiere of “Crook’s Tour” featuring the
Burmese-Jew Abraham Sofaer as “Ali.”
1942: Birthdate of Aron "Ali" Bacher, the native
of Johannesburg who “is an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South
Africa. He was born to Lithuanian-Jewish parents who emigrated to South Africa
and got his nickname "Ali" at the age of seven from Ali Baba. Ali
married Shira Teeger, and they have two daughters and one son. His nephew Adam
Bacher played for South Africa in the 1990s. Ali started playing cricket while
at school and represented Transvaal at the age of 17. He played in 12 Tests for
South Africa, three against England and nine against Australia; he was captain
in the last four. In a first-class match for Transvaal against the visiting
Australian cricket team in 1966/67, he made a high score of 235 in the second
innings. He captained the national team in only one series: in 1969/70 against
Australia at home in which the South Africans won all the Tests in the four
match series. He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and became a
general practitioner. In 1981 he had heart bypass surgery.”
1943: Birthdate of British conductor James
Levine
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/james-levine-mn0000155653
1943: While training at an Army boot camp in South
Carolina, future Mayor Ed Koch wrote in his diary “Had an argument with several
of the boys over anti-Negro prejudice, this led to arguments over Jews and the
usual line. It’s a pity that there are so few liberals in the land and so many
ignorant people.”
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/171416/ed-kochs-lost-diary-recalls-face-down-with-jew-hat/#ixzz2U4vZm7UU
1943: Dr. Josef Mengele arrived at Auschwitz shortly after
celebrating his thirty-second birthday. He began conducting horrific medical
experiments on the Jews. Aside from his ‘experiments' he would also personally
inject his victims with phenol, gasoline, chloroform or air. With a wave of his
hand, Mengele dispatched the old, injured, crippled, children, and pregnant
women to their death in the gas chambers because they were not fit for work.
1943: A Jewish partisan group organized by Judith
Nowogrodzka escapes from the Bialystok (Poland) Ghetto. The escape is led by
Szymon Datner.
1943: The Period known as Black May, which marked the
climatic month in the Battle of the Atlantic, Admiral Karl Donitz, ordered “a
temporary halt to the U-Boat campaign” which meant that the Allies could now
send increasing amounts of men and supplies that would be critical to the
success of the Normandy invasion a year, an event that was a milestone on the
road to saving at least a remnant of European Jewry.
1944: Violette Szabo who was in reality an agent for
Special Operations Executive (Britain’s fabled SOE) who would eventually be
murdered at Ravensbruck was promoted to Ensign in the FANY (The First Aid
Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps) which had to be one of the
more bizarre cover stories in the history of spycraft.
1944(11th of Sivan, 5770): At Auschwitz, Hungarian
Jews being led to the gas chamber scatter but are shot down by the SS
1944: The deportations from Hungary to Birkenau are now
averaging 13,000 Jews per day.
1945: According to figures released by the Jewish Agency,
of the 1,500,000 Jews who appear to have survived in Europe 30,000 are in
Rumania, 175,000 “in Budapest and elsewhere in Hungary,” 170,000 in France and
“250,000 Polish-Jewish refugees inside Russia.”
1946: The Arab Higher Committee under the chairmanship of
Jamal el Husseini today rejected “the recommendations of the Anglo-American
Committee on Inquiry” and “demanded the establishment of an ‘Arab Independent
State of Palestine,’ the withdrawal of all foreign troops and an immediate end
of Jewish immigration.” (Editor’s note - And where is the part of
the two-state solution?)
1947(5th of Sivan, 5707): Parashat
Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1947: Jewish underground fighters, believed to be Stern
Gang members, raided two bridge clubs in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv early
today and escaped with $3,200 in cash from one of them.
1947: The British loaded 1,457 Jewish refugees onto a ship
that would take them to detention camps on Cyprus. According to the
British, some of the Jews used crowbars in an attempt to break down the
barbed-wire enclosures in the hold of the vessel but the Tommies were able to
subdue them with water hoses and the firing of weapons in the air. The Jews had
been caught the day before trying to enter Palestine in violation of the
British blockade.
1948: South Africa recognized Israel.
1948: The Egyptian army captured Yad Mordecai. Yad Mordecai
was one of the kibbutzim blocking the road to Tel Aviv. The Egyptian army and
air force had attacked Yad Mordecai on May 19. The Jewish force was the size of
a company composed of farmers and handful of Haganah troops. For
five days the Jews fought off the Egyptians. Before dawn, on May 24
the final Egyptian assault began with two infantry battalions, one armored
battalion and one artillery regiment. That night, having used all of their
ammunition, the defenders snuck through the Egyptian lines carrying their
wounded with them. Four hundred Egyptian soldiers lay
dead. More importantly the defenders of Yad Mordecai had bought the
Israelis five precious days to strengthen their position at Ashdod and Tel
Aviv. According to at least one expert, those five days saved Tel
Aviv.
1948: Yitzhak Rabin, commander of the Jewish forces in
Jerusalem sends Ben Gurion a desperate plea for help. While the
Israelis had been able to thwart an attack by Jordanian armored forces at the
New Gate, Rabin feared they could not beat back an additional
attack. Also, the city was faced with Egyptian forces to the south
which had attacked Ramat Rahel.
1948: In the evening, the Seventh Brigade begins
its attack on the fortress at Latrun that is blocking the road from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. One of the first companies into the fray was led by a
sabra named Ariel Sheinermann. Sheinermann would survive the wounds
he suffered that day and as Ariel Sharon, would become one of Israel’s most
daring and controversial generals.
1948: Ariel Sharon, the future IDF General and Prime
Minister leads a platoon during the IDF’s attempt to capture the Latrun Police
Compound.
http://www.ariel-sharon-life-story.com/02-Ariel-Sharon-Biography-1948-Independence-War.shtml
1949: In Atlantic City, “The Rabbinical Council of America
today reaffirmed its call to American Jews to recognize the Chief Rabbinate of
Israel as the central religious authority for world Jews”
1949: “Contributions totaling $2,500,000 were made” tonight
“to the United Jewish Appeal at a series dinners held throughout” New York
City, the largest of which was the Cotton Goods Dinner that raised $750,000.
1950: “An authoritative source said today that Israel would
pay an indemnity of $54,000 to the family of Count Folke Bernadotte, United
Nations Mediator who was assassinated in Jerusalem in September,
1948.” Israel “was also expected to pay $3,000 to the United Nations
as a special premium on war risk insurance carried by the Swedish mediator and
other United Nations in personnel in Israel.”
1950: Foreign Minister Moshe Sharret leaves Israel today on
a “good-will” mission to South African Jewry.
1950: According to Health Minister Moshe Shapiro the Polio
outbreak continues to spread with 191 cases reported in May as opposed to 83
cases in April. The outbreak in Israel follows the pattern seen in
nations in Western Europe and the United States.
1950: Sixty-seven-year-old Field Marshal Archibald Percival
Wavell who “in August, 1937, was transferred to Palestine, during the Arab
Revolt to be General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and
Trans-Jordan” passed away today.
1951(18th of Iyar, 5711): Lag B’Omer
1951(1ith of Iyar, 5711): Fifty-four-year-old Charles Pores
the son of Samuel and Celia Pores and the husband of Adele Meltsner who was a
member of the Irish American Athletic Club which had been organized by Tammany
politicians who used it as vehicle for attracting support among Jewish
immigrants.
1951: Fanny Brice suffered a stroke which would prove
fatal.
1952: In the fight against Apartheid, Emil “Solly” Sachs
addressed 15 000 people on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall at a meeting
arranged by the Garment Workers’ Union in defiance of the decrees issued by the
Minister of Justice.
1954: In Helsinki, Finland, Abram Zyskowicz who had
survived Sachsenhausen and his wife Ester gave birth to Ben Zyskowicz the first
Jew elected to the Finnish parliament.
1957: Senator Thomas E. Matin of Iowa took part in “the
annal memorial services honoring Jewish War Veterans of the United States at
Adas Israel in Washington, D. C
1958(5th of Sivan, 5718): Parashat
Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1961: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion left Israel for a
visit to the United States that would include his first meeting with President
John Kennedy who had assumed office in January of 1961.
1962: “The Inspector,” a film about “a Dutch-Jewish girl
who survived Auschwitz” and produce by Mark Robson was released today in the US
and UK.
1963(1st of Sivan, 5723): Rosh Chodesh
Sivan
1964: Birthdate of David I. Adelman, the New York native
turned U. of Georgia Bulldog with a law degree from Emory University whose
political career included a stint in the Georgia State Senate and service as
the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore.
1965(22nd of Iyar, 5725):
Seventy-eight-year-old Fannie Eitingon, the wife of Motty Eitingon “a New York
fur dealer who had been imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and whose connections with
the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world but also led to his
being questioned by the FBI.
1966(5th of Sivan, 5726): Erev Shavuot
1966: “Mame” a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry
Herman and a “book” co-authored by Jerome Lawrence premiered on Broadway at the
Winter Garden Theatre.
1967(14th of Iyar, 5727): Pesach Sheni
1967: “Belle de Jour” a French film “based on the 1928
novel Belle de jour by Joseph Kessel was released in
France today.
1967: After 233 performances the curtain came down on the
original U.S. production of “Eh?” “which marked “the first major critical
success in Dustin Hoffman’s career, garnering him a Theatre World Award and
Drama Desk Award for his performance.”
1967: CIA Director Richard Helms reports that there are no
nuclear weapons in the eastern Mediterranean or the adjacent
territory. The report was in error since the Soviets had ships in
the area armed with nuclear weapons and instruction to use them against Israel
if need be to support the Arabs.
1969(7th of Sivan, 5729): Yizkor is recited on the Second
Day of Shavuot for the first time during the Presidency of Richard M. Nixon
1970(18th of Iyar, 5730): Lag B’Omer
1970: During the “War of Attrition” Abba Eban and Yitzchak
Rabin meet with Nixon and Kissinger to discuss ways of ending the violence
between Egypt and Israel.
1971: Arkadii Spilberg, Rut Alexandrovich, Mikhail
Shepshelovich, Boris Maftser went on trial in Riga.
1972(11th of Sivan, 5732): Benjamin
Graubart, the Ukrainian born son of Hilda Kronenberg and the father of Eli and
Issa Graubart succumbed to colon cancer and passed away today in Israel. (He is
not to be confused with Lomza native and University of Louisville graduate of
the same name who served as a rabbi and/or high school principal in Columbus,
Louisville and Poughkeepsie.
1975: Larry Blyden videotaped a pilot for “Showoffs,” a
game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.
1975: Today, Larry “Blyden was furious that studio delays
forced him to miss his daughter's graduation play, but he remained professional
and hosted the pilot.”
1976(24th of Iyar, 5736):
Sixty-two-year-old historian Mary Plug Handlin the wife and colleague of
Professor Oscar Handlin passed away today
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/5/25/mary-flug-handlin-dies-at-62/
1977(7th of Sivan, 5737): Second Day of Shavuot observed
for the first time during the Presidency of Jimmy Court.
1978: Gary Gutherie’s “spliced-together duet version of
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” a song written by Neil Diamond first aired on
WAKY todayl
1979: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for
Lawrence Schiff, the husband of Gertrude Schiff and the father of David and
Mortimer Schiff who a leader of the Brooklyn division of the UJA, a supporter
of the Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center and a board member of the Jewish
Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn
1981: It was reported today that Ukrainian Jewish activist
Kim Friedman was sentenced to year in prison for “parasitism.” He would be
released in 1982 but would have to wait another six years before he could make
Aliyah.
1981: In “By Train Through A Sandstorm From Aswan to Cairo”
David K. Shipler, the New York Times bureau chief in Jerusalem described how
Arie Kandel, an Israeli travel agent in Egypt “saved his trip to the land of
the Pharaohs.
1982: Psychologist Carol Gilligan published In a
Different Voice, the first book to argue that women's psychological
development could not be understood by studying men.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/24/1982/carol-gilligan
1985: After having premiered in San Francisco, “A Time to
Kill,” a James Bond film co-starring Tanya Roberts born Victoria Leigh Blum, to
the former Dorothy Smitch and Oscar Blum, the son of Theodore Blum who has been
called "the most outstanding oral surgeon in America" for his
pioneering work in local anesthesia and the use of x-rays in dental care.”
1986: Final broadcast of “Krovim Krovim” “an Israeli sitcom
created by Ephraim Sidon.
1987: In An English Rainbow,” published today Anna sue
McCleave Wilson portrays the history of Exbury, the estate originally created
by Lionel de Rothschild and describes the postwar rejuvenation undertaken by
Major Edmund de Rothschild, which has turned the estate into one of the ten
most visited properties in England.
1991: Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating
Ethiopian Jews to Israel. “Operation Solomon was a 1991 covert Israeli military
operation to take Ethiopian Jews to Israel. In 1991, the sitting Ethiopian
government, the Mariam regime, was close to being toppled with the recent
military successes of Eritrean and Tigrean rebels, threatening Ethiopia with
dangerous political destabilization. Several Jewish organizations, including
the state of Israel were concerned about the well-being of the sizable population
of Ethiopian Jews, properly referred to as Beta Israel, residing in Ethiopia.
Also, the Mariam regime had made mass emigration difficult for Beta Israel
residing in Ethiopia, and the regime's dwindling power presented a promising
opportunity for those Beta Israel who had been wanting to emigrate to Israel.
In the previous year, 1990, the Israeli government and Israeli Defense Forces,
aware of Mariam's worsening political situation, made covert plans to airlift
the Beta Israel population in Ethiopia to Israel. This became the largest
emigration of Beta Israel to date. In 36 hours, non-stop flights of 34 El Al
C-130s, filled to absolute capacity with seats transported 14,325 Beta Israel
émigrés from Ethiopia to Israel, where they were given food and shelter. After
it was over, Operation Solomon took twice as many Beta Israel émigrés to their
spiritual homeland as Operation Moses and Operation Joshua combined.”
1991: During Operation Solomon a world record was set for
single-flight passenger load when an El Al 747 carried 1,122 passengers to
Israel (1,087 passengers were registered, but dozens of children hid in their
mothers' robes). "Planners expected to fill the aircraft with 760
passengers. Because the passengers were so slight, many more were squeezed in.
Two babies were born during the flight. Operation Solomon was a 1991 covert
Israeli military operation to take Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1994(14th of Sivan, 5754): Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky Israeli
kibbutz-founder passed away at the age of 96.
1994: The INS Eilat, a Sa’ar 5 class corvette
was commissioned today.
1996(6th of Sivan, 5756): Shavuot
1996: Jews praying in an egalitarian minyan at the Western
Wall in the early hours of Shavuot morning were verbally and physically
attacked by Orthodox men and boys, according to participants in the prayer
group. The group of about 50 men and women, some of whom were from the
Conservative and Reform movement's rabbinical seminaries in Jerusalem, had
studied throughout the night, as is customary on Shavuot. Before dawn, they,
along with thousands of other Jews, walked from other parts of Jerusalem to the
Wall. Members of the egalitarian minyan began praying shortly after 5 a.m. in
the rear right-hand corner of the plaza that fronts the wall, near the
flagpoles that stand at the back. A few guys in tallitot stood in the front so
that others could not see the women wearing tallitot and kipot and to prevent
any possible problems. As they finished the Morning Prayer on Shavuot, the
minyan swelled to about 125 people, and as they continued by reading the Book
of Ruth, most of the minyan sat down. It was at that time that the trouble
began as Haredi men soon walked up and began to curse and shout at members of
the egalitarian minyan. An Orthodox woman who had been part of a prayer group
next to the egalitarian minyan approached the haredi men to ask them to be quiet,
because they were disturbing other prayers besides those of the mixed group.
They spit on her and threw rocks at the man chanting haftarah.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin, 1922-1995 by
Dan Kurzman and Crossing the Jordan: Israel's Hard Road to Peace
by Sameul Segev.
1998(28th of Iyar, 5758): Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day
1998: In New London, CT, an op/ed article in The
Day reminded readers of the courage of Hiram Bingham when it wrote,
“Collectively Bingham and 10 righteous diplomats from other countries
"clandestinely saved 200,000 lives from the Holocaust, by writing visas
and affidavits of eligibility for passage, and planning escapes from Europe,
circumventing their superiors' orders. There are an estimated 1 million
descendants of these survivors."
1999: UPN broadcast the last episode of “The Sentinel” a
Canadian television series created and written by Danny Bilson.
1999(9th of Sivan, 5759):
Eighty-eight-year-old CPA Samuel Kahn the husband of Mimi Eisenberg passed away
today.
1999: Congressman Paul Ryan identifies Ayn Rand as one of
the two authors who has the most influence on him. The other is the
“author” of the Bible.
1999: A joint U.S.–Israeli team which was searching for the
remains of the INS Dakar used information received from U.S. intelligence
sources that led to the detection a large body on the seabed between Crete and
Cyprus, at a depth of some 3000 meters (9800 ft). The team was led by
subcontractor Thomas Kent Dettweiler of the American Nauticos Corporation.
2000(19th of Iyar, 5760): Sandra Zuckerman
Rothstein, the wife of Edward Zuckerman and board member of the American Cancer
Society of Long Island lost her battle with breast cancer today.
2000: Israeli troops leave southern Lebanon after 18
years.
2000: The final episode of the second season of “Felicity”
created by J.J. Abrams was broadcast today.
2001: “The Temptation of St. Anthony” by Jan Wellens de
Cock, “the first painting from a Dutch art collected looted by the Nazis and
almost sold at auction was returned “ today by “Christie's to Marei von Saher,
the widow of the son of the collection's owner, Jacques Goudstikker, who died
escaping the Nazis.”
2002: In Tel Aviv, a security guard at Studio 49 Disco
killed a Palestinian terrorist who “was attempting to detonate a car
bomb.” Despite his quick action, five people were seriously
injured.”
2002(13th of Sivan, 5762):
Twenty-three-year-old Sergeant First Class Oren Tzelnik of Bat Yam was killed
by terrorists and two of his comrades were seriously wounded. (Jewish Virtual
Library)
2003(22nd of Iyar, 5763): Parashat
Bechuokotai
2003: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that Israel
was ''prepared to accept the steps'' in a new international peace plan, after
the Bush administration said it would ''fully and seriously'' address Israel's
reservations while seeking Arab-Israeli peace and a Palestinian state within
three years.(As reported by James Bennet)
2004: ''Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album''
which includes 8 original photographs, 69 copies, a facsimile of
Anne Frank's diary and reproductions of family photo albums assembled by Otto
Frank, the girls' father, and his wife, Edith is on display at the Kraushaar
Galleries, 724 Fifth Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets in Manhattan
2005: IDF soldier Majde Halabi was reported missing. He was
assumed to have been taken hostage or killed by Arab terrorist.
2005: Opening session of Biotech-Israel 2005
2006: An exhibit entitled “Dear Dr. Janzow” opened at the
Sydney (Australia) Jewish Museum. “Dear Dr. Janzow is an exhibition of original
letters from the Lutheran Archives in Adelaide, curated by Dr Peter Monteath,
Senior Lecturer in History at Flinders University. In 1938 the Lutheran
Churches in Australia announced they would help European Jews escape the
clutches of Nazi Germany. The announcement appeared in the London Times
November 18 edition. Such was the intensity of their despair at that time that many
Jews responded to the offer by writing to the General President of the
Australian Lutheran Synod, Dr. William Janzow. Altogether 73 letters were
received, extraordinary moving testimonies to those bleak times.”
2006: The U.S. Postal Service began selling “Distinguished
American Diplomats’ stamps and first day covers today. The six diplomats
honored included Hiram Bingham IV who risked his career and his life to issue
“live-saving visas” to Jews and non-Jews fleeing Hitler’s Europe.
2007(7th of Sivan, 5767): Second Day of Shavuot – Yizkor
2007(7th of Sivan, 5767):
Seventy-two-year-old U.S. Army Lt. General Sidney T. “Tom” Weinstein” whose
career earned him induction into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame passed
away today in Great Falls, VA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502231.html
2007: The Hekhal Haness Synagogue, the largest synagogue in
Geneva was severely damaged by a fire today. Nessim Gaon, the Sudanese born
Swiss financier who created the Noga Company, and has served as President of
the World Sephardi Federation is one of the congregation’s most prominent
members.
2007: The three day Metula Poetry Festival comes to an end.
2007(7th of Sivan, 5767): Ninety-three-year-old Philip M.
Kaiser, a retired diplomat and high-ranking Labor Department official who
served as an ambassador to four nations passed away today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402429.html
2007: At Cannes, first showing of “Ocean’s Thirteen”
co-starring Elliot Gould and Carl Reiner, featuring Ellen Barkin, Bob Einstein,
Jerry Weintraub and Scott L. Schwartz, with a script by Brian Koppelman and
produced by Jerry Weintraub.
2007: In Ireland, Alan Joseph Shatter began serving his
second term as a member of Teachata Dala.
2008: Bradlee Birchansky celebrates his Bar Mitzvah at
Shabbat Morning Services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2008 (5768): Finish Vayikra, Book of Leviticus
2008: The Cedar Rapids Jewish community watches with pride
as Dan Abramson takes part in the graduation ceremonies at Kennedy High School.
2009(1st of Sivan, 5769): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2009: Seventh season of “A Star is Born” begins on Israeli
television.
2009: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict” by
Benny Morris, “The American Future: A History” by Simon Schama, “Rhyming
Life and Death” by Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange and “The
Amos Oz Reader” selected and edited y Nitza Ben-Dov; translated by
Nicholas de Lange and others.
2009: As he ended a four-day trip to Israel today, Canada's
minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism warned against a
"new anti-Semitism" that emanates from an alliance of Western
leftists and Islamic extremists is more dangerous than the "old
European" form of Jew-hatred" The existential threat faced by Israel
on a daily basis is ultimately a threat to the broader Western
civilization," said Jason Kenney, explaining the staunchly pro-Israel
positions of his government, led by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
"It's a threat that comes from profoundly undemocratic forces that don't
have the same conception of human dignity or freedom, and which abuse Israel as
a kind of representative of the broader West and Western liberal-democratic
values," said Kenney. "I also very acutely understand the nature of
the new anti-Semitism, and I think it's even more dangerous than the old
European anti-Semitism. "Kenney said many anti-Israel attacks come from
adherents of a form of anti-Semitism that who appear to view a Jewish homeland
as illegitimate. "Israel is not perfect, obviously," Kenney said.
"Israelis should be the first to admit that. But we acknowledge that so
much of the criticism Israel faces is motivated by a dangerous form of
anti-Semitism that tries to hide behind anti-Zionism and is represented by a
coalition of the far left in the West with extreme currents of jihadi Islam
that seek the destruction of the Jewish nation. They seem to believe that the
Jewish people are the only people in the world that don't have a right to a
homeland." The 40-year-old, who earlier this month was elected Canada's
"Best Overall MP" by fellow parliamentarians, prides himself on being
responsible for his country's decision to shun the United Nations-sponsored
Durban II conference on racism, based on fears it would be misused as a
platform for unfair criticism of Israel. Canada was the first country to
announce its boycott of the meet, even ahead of Israel. Before coming to
Israel, Kenney visited Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, as Canada is home to many
immigrants from these countries, he said. After arriving Thursday, he visited a
Jewish Agency absorption center in Mevasseret Zion, outside Jerusalem, and met
with his Israeli counterpart, Immigration Minister Sofa Landver. He also spoke
to Minority Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman and Information and Diaspora
Minister Yuli Edelstein, who is also the former chairman of the
antiparliamentary Canada-Israel Friendship Group.
2010: Fifth anniversary of Majdi Halabi, the druse IDF
soldier who disappeared while hitchhiking from his home at Daliyat al-Karmel to
the military base where he was serving on active duty.
2010: Shami Leibowitz, the grandson of Yeshayahu Leibowitz,
was sentenced to 20 months in prison today after having “pleaded guilty…to
knowingly and willfully disclosing five Secret level FBI documents to a blogger
who then published information derived from those documents on the blog.”
2010: In New York, the YIVO is scheduled to present a
lecture entitled “Coming to America? Max Weinreich and the Making of
YIVO in New York, 1939-41.”
2010: In a case of Jew versus Jew, following today’s after
the University of Michigan dismissed the charges surrounding its football
program, journalist Jonathan Chait claimed the Michael Rosenberg’s claims that
the school “had operated a football sweatshop has been totally debunked.”
2011: The AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to come
to a close in Washington, DC.
2011: In celebration of Jewish-American Heritage
Month, the Frequency String Quartet is scheduled to perform a program entitled
“Different Trains: Stories From the Holocaust Told Through Music”
at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in
Cincinnati, OH.
2011: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled
to present a lecture by Lecture Natan M. Meir, Lorry I. Lokey Assistant
Professor of Judaic Studies, Portland State University entitled "A
‘Russian Zion,’ or a Jewish Nightmare?: Jewish Life in Tsarist
Kiev.”
2011: "Jews, Slavery, and the Civil War" a
program sponsored by The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, The Center for
Southern Jewish History at the College of Charleston and The Jewish Historical
Society of South Carolina is scheduled to open this evening with a screening of
“Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray.”
2011: "Marseille Port", “a work by Romanian
born artist Marcel Janco, one of the founders of Dadaism who later in life
moved here and established the Ein Hod artist village, is the top lot in
Bonhams Israeli Art & Judaica auction in London which is scheduled to take
place today. The painting is estimated to sell for £120,000-180,000
at Bonhams. “Born in 1895, Janco was among the principal founders of the Dada
Movement which was opposed to war, aggression and the changing world culture.
Dadaist events included poetry, avant-garde music, and mask wearing dancers in
elaborate shows, but the movement also tested cultural conventions about the
role of art in society and its apparent irreverence enraged audiences. Dada
came as a direct result of artists’ shock in view of the carnage of World War I
but the movement was not all nihilistic; Dadaist ideas evolved in the 1920s
into Surrealism, arguably one of the most influential streams in 20th century
art. Janco had an eclectic style which brilliantly combines abstract and
figurative elements, expressionist in nature. In 1941 he moved to Eretz Israel,
seven years before the establishment of the state. Here he painted idyllic
watercolor and oil images and was captivated by the exotic sights of his new
surroundings. Ein Hod was established in 1953 and the northern village now
boasts the Janco Dada Museum, dedicated to the artist’s work. In 1967 he was
awarded the Israel Prize for Painting. In the last years of his life he worked
together with friends to erect the museum, dying just ten months after its
inauguration in 1984.
2011: “Jerusalem, City Center” a work painted by Israel
Hershberg in 1989-1990 is scheduled to go on sale at Bonham’s in London. It is
expected to sell for anywhere from £100,000 to £150,000. Hershberg is an
Israeli realist painter and who founded the Jerusalem Studio School. He “was
born in 1948 in a displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria. In 1949 he was
brought to Israel but at the age of nine he immigrated to the United States.
Following an extensive program of studies in the US Hershberg moved back to Israel
with his wife and family in 1984. In 1991, he was awarded the Sandberg Prize
for Israeli Art and in 1998 the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize for Israeli Art.
2011(20th of Iyar, 5771):
Eighty-two-year-old Arthur Goldreich, a native of South Africa who was an ally
of Nelson Mandela in the fight to end apartheid, passed away today in Tel Aviv.
(As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/world/africa/27goldreich.html?_r=1
2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint
session of Congress this morning.
2012: Israeli composer Guy Barash’s musical series
“Eavesdropping” is scheduled to return to The Tank in NYC.
2012: As his mother Debbie looked on with pride, Josh
Rosenbloom graduated from medical school today.
2012: NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced that
man was in custody who had implicated himself in the disappearance of Etan
Patz.
2012: Anouk Markovits, the author of I Am Forbidden,
is scheduled to do a reading at Corner Bookstore in New York.
2012(3rd of Sivan, 5772):
Sixty-three-year-old Kathi Kamen Goldmark passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50E13FA395F10738DDDAD0A94DD405B8085F0D3
2013: In London, The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a
presentation by Dr. Helen Roche entitled “Why we knew nothing about
Auschwitz” in which she will explore the diverse reactions to the
trouble legacy of the Holocaust demonstrated by those who had attended an elite
Nazi school.
2013: The IPO Patron Trip to Israel is scheduled to begin
today.
2013: In Portugal, the Lisbon Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to come to an end
2013: Opening of “No Place On Earth” in Coral Gables, FL
and Tulsa, OK
2013: A Carlebach-inspired service honoring the Jewish
Fallen Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan is scheduled to be held at the Sixth and
I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2013: The landmine of the type that exploded in the Golan
Heights on Tuesday, killing Cpl. Roi Alphi, was known to be faulty and
susceptible to heat, Hebrew media reports said today.
2013: The time has come for Israeli and Palestinian leaders
to take difficult steps in pursuit of peace, US Secretary of State John Kerry
said as he spoke with reporters in Ben-Gurion International Airport today at
the end of a two-day visit.
2014: Zohar Hodis is scheduled to be called to the Torah as
a Bar Mitzvah at Lubavitch of Iowa City under the leadership of Rabbi Avrohom
Blesofsky.
2014: Pope Francis is scheduled to begin his trip to “the
holy land”
2014: “Pope Francis sent his good wishes to President
Shimon Peres and to the Israeli people via his pilot as he flew to neighboring
Jordan to kick off his regional “pilgrimage of prayer” tour.Peres reciprocated
with a message of his own, telling the pope that Israel will receive him “with
love and appreciation, as a pope who builds bridges of peace between
religions.”
2014: Belgium stands “united” against the “abhorrent”
attack today at the Brussels Jewish Museum that killed three people and
critically injured one, Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo said hours after
the shooting
2015(6th of Sivan, 5775): Shavuot
2015(6th of Sivan, 5775):
Sixty-three-year-old Harvard Law School Professor and Principal Deputy Counsel
to President Barack Obama Daniel Meltzer, the son of Nuremberg prosecutor
Bernard D. Meltzer and husband Ellen Semonoff passed away today.
https://today.law.harvard.edu/in-memoriam-daniel-j-meltzer-75/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
2015: In “Art Garfunkel Lashes Out at Paul Simon in New
Interview” published today the former Columbia architecture student and AEPi
brother described his singing partner as “having a Napoleonic complex” which
prevented the two from experiencing a “re-union tour.”
2015: “The harrowing Holocaust drama “Son of Saul,”
offering unflinching depictions of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, claimed the
runner-up Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival” today.
2015: “Two Israeli teens were moderately injured after
being stabbed near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate” early this morning.
2015: The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including another Holocaust novel, The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard and The
Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Harold Bloom.
2016: The retrial of 55-year-old man “accused of killing
Etan Patz, the 6 year old boy who vanished in 1979, will begin after Labor Day,
a judge ruled” today.
2016(16th of Iyar, 5776):
Eighty-nine-year-old award winning cartoonist Mell Lazarus passed away today.
(As reported by Sam Roberts)
2016: Marcia J. Zerivitz, founding Executive Director of
JMOF-FIU is scheduled to deliver a PowerPoint lecture on “Impact of
Jacksonville’s Jews at the Jacksonville, FL Historical Society.
2016: Prof Yuli Tamir, President of Shenkar College in
Ramat Gan is scheduled to give the opening remarks where the public will have
their last chance to see the Boi Kalah (Here Comes the Bride) exhibit at Temple
Emanu-El featuring “12 bridal gown designed by Shenkar students,
integrating the heritage of the Jewish People with present-day fashion.”
2016: “The Law Library of Congress in collaboration with
the Embassy of Italy and the University of Maryland” are scheduled to “mark the
500th anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice” today “with a
program on the history of the segregation of the Jewish community in Venice
from the surrounding society.”
2016: The Sousa Mendes Foundation and the American Sephardi
Federation are scheduled to host a screening of “With God Against Man” that
tells the story of “Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese Consul-General in
Bordeaux, France, who courageously rescued thousands of refugees, many of them
Jews, from the Nazis in the spring of 1940 by issuing visas in defiance of the
strict orders of his government.”
2017(28th of Iyar, 5777): Yom Yerushalayim
or Jerusalem Day which takes on a special meaning this year since it marks the
50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, the capital
city of Israel.
2017: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled
to host a performance of “Isle of Klezbos,” “Eve Sicular’s six-piece all-gal
band.”
2017(28th of Iyar, 5777):
Eight-nine-year-old novelist Ann Birstein, the ex-wife of Alfred Kazin and the
mother of Cathrael Kazin passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2017: The USHMM is scheduled to host an appearance of
Holocaust survivor Sylvia Rozines as part of its “First Person Series.”
2017: ELI Talks is scheduled to host presentations by
Chicago Social Worker Beth Horwitz, Debbie Cosgrove, the President of the
Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York and Bradley Solmsen, the Executive
Director of Surprise Lake Camp
2018: In Des Moines, IA, the Jewish Federation is scheduled
to host a screening of “RBG” the film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
2018: “Israeli pianist Daniel Gorlter” is scheduled to
return “to the Jewish Museum” today “for a performance honoring American
composer John Corigliano’s 80th birthday.”
2018: “Choreographer Andrea Miller and Gallim” are
scheduled to perform for the last time tonight at the Met Breuer.
2018: Holocaust survivor Michel Margolis is scheduled to
talk about his experiences today at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum.
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of “The
Young Karl Marx” today in London.
2019: As Israel continues to cope with the combination of
high heat and catastrophic fires, based on the warnings from Public Security
Minister Gilad Erdan, Israelis are preparing “for the possibility that a
national emergency will be declared with today’s temperatures expected to
eclipse 100 degrees F throughout the country. (As reported by Jacob Magid)
2019: In response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s call for
help from the international community to help fight the fires plaguing Israel,
aircraft from Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Croatia are scheduled to depart for
Israel this morning.
2019: A screening of Avi Kempner’s “The Spy Behind Home
Plates” is scheduled to be shown at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC.
2019: The Oxford Jewish Society is scheduled to host
Kabbalat Shabbat services this evening followed by Friday night dinner.
2019: A touring company led by “Tony-winning director
Bartlett Sher and Israeli choreographer Hofesh Schecter is scheduled to perform
“Fiddler on the Roof” in San Jose, CA.
2020(1st of Sivan, 5780): Rosh Chodesh
Sivan
2020: Ma’ayan is scheduled to host “First Fruits: A
Multidisciplinary Approach to Bikurim and Happiness” with Tal Attia.
2020: Shearith Israel is scheduled to join with “sister
Congregations in Amsterdam, Bayonne Curacao, Livorno, London Manchester,
Montreal, Paris, Philadelphia and Rome for a reading of the Azharot” which
brings together almost all of the Spanish and Portuguese communities extant
today.”
2020: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a
“Sunday Stories” on Facebook Live that examines director Stanley Kubrick’s
movies and uncovers the Jewish context behind his biggest hits.
2020: KlezCalifornia is scheduled to host an online
conversation for fluent Yiddish speakers.
2020: The Consulate General of Israel is scheduled to
collaborate in the concert Yotam Silberstein #JazzfromHome .
2020: The New York Times features books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Arab
Winter: A Tragedy by Noah Feldman.
2021: The Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
at Case Western Reserve University is schedule to host “After Class: What’s New
in the Bible” which “will focus on Alison Joseph’s Lecture that
was held in partnership with the Pose Library of Jewish
Culture and Civilization.
2021: The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, the Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines, the Jewish Federation of the Corridor,
Congregation Beth Israel at the Tri-City Jewish Center, Rock Island, Temple
Emanuel, Davenport, Temple Beth El, Dubuque, Agudas Achim, Iowa City, Tifereth
Israel Synagogue, Des Moines, Judaic Resource Center of Iowa, Des Moines, Sons
of Jacob, Waterloo, Chabad Lubavich of the Quad Cities, Ames Jewish
Congregation, Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Des Moines, and Chabad Lubovitch of Iowa City
are scheduled to co-host AJC (American Jewish Committee) CEO David
Harris in “an off-the-record conversation about what lies ahead for global
Jewish advocacy.”
2021: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
continue its series exploring the Torah of Rabbi Sacks zt"l this time
Rabbi Johnny Solomon, who will be exploring Rabbi Sacks' ideas on our
connection with God.
2021: The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood is
scheduled to “virtually host its eighth annual Maltz Heritage Award ceremony
this evening in honor of Carole F. Hoover, president and CEO of Hoover
Millstein, a financial services and real estate development firm, and Vanessa
L. Whiting, president of A.E.S. Management Corp., the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
franchisee in Northeast Ohio.
2021: The CRIF & Combat Anti-Semitism Movement is
scheduled to present “Justice for Sarah Halimi: An International Movement is
Born.”
https://justiceforsarah.combatantisemitism.org/?mc_cid=d5d8bcae41&mc_eid=9870a7a862
2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dan Abrams
and Fred D. Gray as they discuss “King v. Alabama.”
2022: As a sign of improving relations Turkish Foreign
Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is scheduled to begin a two day trip to Israel today.
2022: Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is looking for a new
chief of statement since Tal Gan Zvi who has been with him “since the beginning
of his political career” resigned yesterday.
2022: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
host “Wise Up: Unpacking Proverbs” with Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum. 2023: YIVO is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Laugh” followed by a Q&A with
director Ferne Pearlstein and special guest Alan Zweibel.
2023: The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish
History in partnership with the Association of Jewish Libraries are scheduled
to present “We Love Libraries” during which four experts in the field as they
explore and share the unique Jewish collections at the New York Public Library,
the Los Angeles Public Library, and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
2023: The 31st annual gala for Shalom Bayit, the Bay Area
center for domestic violence prevention and response within the Jewish
community is scheduled to take place today.
2023: JCCNS is scheduled to present the final screening of
“HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.”
2023: Cemetery scholar Judi Leff presents “Buried
Treasures,” a virtual tour of past and present burial grounds in San Francisco.
2024: Pianist Evgeny Kissin is scheduled to perform at
Carnegie Hall.
2024: The Vogue Theatre in San Francisco, the Rafael Film
Center and the Avalon are scheduled to host screening of “Farewell Mister
Hafman,” a film that tells the story of a Jewish jeweler trying to survive the
Nazi occupation of Paris.
2024: As May 24th begins in Israel,
an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas
held hostages begin day 231 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.)
2025: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to host Nitai
Zori, violin; Hillel Zori, cello and Dror Semmel, fortepiano as they play Piano
Trio Number 1 and Number 2 by Schubert
2025: In Cedar Rapid “Reel Time with Rabbi Todd screening A
Serious Man”
2025(26th of Iyar, 5785: Parashat Behar – Bechukotai;
Chapter Five of Pirkey Avot. For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2025 : Day 24 of Jewish American Heritage Month; Read Inside,
Outside by Herman Wouk, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/07/books/books-of-the-times-073053.html
Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk | GoodreadsAnd https://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/;
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