June 2
876 BCE (28 Iyar
2884): This is the traditional date of death of Samuel, prophet and priest
(born 2832).
455: The Vandals
entered Rome and plundered the city. Among the treasures they took with
them were the spoils of the Second Temple that had been brought to Rome by
Titus.
1098: During the First
Crusade, the first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city
marking one more step on their rode to Jerusalem that would mean more death and
destruction for the Jewish people
1128: Pier
Leoni, “the son of the Jewish convert Leo de Benedicto and founder of the great
and important medieval Roman family of the Pierleoni” who was said to be “the
greatest man in Rome in his time” passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pierleoni
1430: “Moses Arragel,
a Hebrew Scholar in Castile, presented his translation of the “Old Testament”
into the Castilian language to Don Luis de Guzman, grand master of the Order of
Catalrava”
1446: William III of Luxembourg, “who mined a
silver groschen known as the Judenkopf Groschen” – a coin that “shows a man
with a pointed beard waring a Jewish hat” married Anne of Luxembourg today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_hat#/media/File:JudenhutGroschenObvEnlarged.jpg
1453: In Breslau, John
of Capistrano led a mock trial of alleged desecrations of the host. The Rabbi
of the community hanged himself and urged other Jews to commit suicide.
Forty-one Jews were burned, their property confiscated, and all children under
seven were forcibly baptized.
1476: Printing of the
first edition of Tur Orah Cahim in Mantua, Italy
1485: The Jews of Toledo plan an attack
designed to kill the Inquisitors and then lock the city gates. The plan did not
come to fruition after it was betrayed. The Jews of the city suffered later the
following winter at the hands of the Inquisitors.
1495: In Leiria, Abraham d’Ortas completed the
printing of Jacob ben Asher’s Tur Or
Hayyim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_incunabula
1713: In New Palz, NY,
Philip Fiere married Leah Dubois, the daughter of Abraham Dubois
1727: Elias Levy and
Judith Hart were married today in the United Kingdom.
1762: Hyman M. Levy,
the German born son of Reyna and Moses Levy and his wife Sloe Levy gave birth
to Deborah Levy a sister of Eleazar Levy, an American patriot and friend of
Hyam Solomon.
1767(5th of
Sivan, 5527): Erev Shavuot
1778(7th of Sivan, 5538): Second Day
of Shavuot as George Washington prepares to lead his troops out of Valley Forge
where they spent a horrific winter that in the end re-shaped the military unit
facing the British and their Hessian mercenaries.
1780: Rachel Pinto who, like most members of
the Jewish community had left New York when the British occupied the city
returned to the city today.
1780: Seven years
before his conversion to Judaism, Lord George Gordon “headed a crowd of around
50,000 people that marches on Parliament marking the start of the “Gordon
Riots.”
1786(6th of
Sivan, 5546): Shavuot
1790: Raphael Raphael
married Julia Asher at the New Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1805(5th of
Sivan, 5565): Erev of Shavuot observed as Lewis and Clark continue their
expedition of exploration.
1807: In what is now
the Czech Republic Leopold Lobl and his wife gave birth to Marcus Lobl.
1807: Zalma Rehine, a
native of Germany became a citizen of the United States today.
1808(7th of
Sivan, 5568): Second Day of Shavuot
1811: “Copper
manufacture Hamon Hendricks and the former Frances Isaacs and the grandson of
Uriah Hendricks, one of the founders of Congregation Shearith Israel gave birth
to Montague Hendricks.
1812: Birthdate of
Wilhelm Stahl, the native of Munich who became an economist and who converted
to Christianity after living with his older brother Friedrich Julius Stahl.
1813: In Great
Yarmouth, Edward Emanuel Micholls and Rosetta Micholls gave birth to Samson
Micholls.
1813(4th of
Sivan, 5573): Loyalist John Charles Lucena, the son of James Lucena and he
husband of Mary Anne Lanaster who went to London during the American
Revolution and “became a consul General
for the Court of Portugal” passed away today.
1816(6th of
Sivan, 5576): Shavuot
1816: Birthdate of
Grace Aguilar, the British author whose Portuguese Marrano forbearers found a
safe home in 18th century England.
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/His-StoryHer-Story-Grace-Aguilar
1819: In the Hague,
Leonardus Levy Abraham Verveer, the Dutch born son of Abraham Salomon and his
wife Caroline Elkan gave birth to Mathilde Verveer,
1821: David Israel and Eliza Johnson gave birth to Frederick
A. Johnson the first Jewish child born in Cincinnati.
1824(6th of Sivan, 5584): Shavuot
observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Monroe.
1827(7th of Sivan, 5587) Second Day
of Shavuot and Shabbat observed on the same day that in that part of Mexico
known as Texas, Francisco Ruiz wrote to Stephen Austin, the leader of the
American colony that the “Chiefs of Tahusacano and Waco Indians wish to make
peace” and are going to San Antonio for that purpose.
1828(20th of Sivan, 5588): The “haham
of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain” and a descendant “from an
old, Sephardi family originating in 13th century Toledo, Spain Raphael
Meldola, the Leghorn born son of Moses Hezekiah Meldola, a rabbi and also
professor of oriental studies at the University of Paris, in Leghorn and the
husband of Stella Bollaffi Abulafa “with whom head four sons and four daughters
and whose descendants included nclude Rabbi Abraham de Sola of the Spanish
& Portuguese Synagogue in Montreal; Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes, minister
of Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island; Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes,
minister of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York; Rabbi Frederick de Sola
Mendes, minister at the West End Synagogue; Rabbi David de Sola Pool, also a
minister at Shearith Israel; and the chemist Raphael Meldola, passed away today
after which he was “buried alongside his predecessor rabbi David Nietto in the
Velho Cemetery.
1829(1st of Sivan, 5589) Rosh
Chodesh Sivan
1830: Rabbi Isaac Lesser delivered his first
sermon in English at Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia.
1832(11th of Sivan, 5592): Parashat
Nasso
1833: In Jebenhausen, Germany Abraham Josef
Kohn and Deichele Kohn gave birth to future Chicago resident David Abraham
Kohn, the “husband of Therese A. Kohn and
father of Julia Bernheimer; Dr. Alfred David
Kohn; Harry David Kohn and Edwin D Kohn.
1835(5th of Sivan 5595): Erev
Shavuot
1835: Max and Sarah Oppenheimer gave birth to
Nathan Hirsch Oppenheimer.
1835: Birthdate
Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto who as Pope Pius X granted an audience to Theodore
Herzl who failed in his attempt to enlist the Pope’s support for a Jewish
homeland in Palestine. The Pope was polite but firm in his rejection.
1837: In Philadelphia,
PA, Judah Lazarus Hackenburg and Maria Allen gave birth to William Hackenburg,
the husband of Adeline Schoneman,
“manufacturer of sewing and machine silks” and Chairman of the Silk
Association of America whose many leadership roles in the Jewish community
including co-founding the United Hebrew Charities in 1869, the Hebrew Charity
Ball Association in 1859 and the committee “to aid Russian refugees” as well as
serving as President of the Jewish Hospital and Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites,
Treasurer of Congregation Beth El Emeth and Vice President of the Board of
Delegates of the American Israelites.
1840: Three days after
he passed away, Abraham Quixano Henriques was buried today at the Nuevo Jewish
Cemetery in London.
1840: As the furor
over the Damascus Affair increases, French Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers
defended the behavior of Benoit Laurent-Francois, Count de Ratti-Merion, the
French Consul in Damascus during a debate in the Chamber of Deputies. Thiers attributed the uproar to the Jews whom
he described as being “more powerful in the world than they have pretensions to
be.”
1840:
In Higher Brockhampton , Thomas Hardy and the firmer Jemima Hand gave birth to
Thomas Hardy whom the rest of the world the world may remember him as a British
author known for such works as Return of the Native and Far from the Madding
Crown. But for Jews he was a supporter of a homeland in Palestine as can be
seen by the fact that in February of 1919, “he signed a declaration of sympathy
with the Jews in support of a movement for ‘the reconstitution of Palestine as
a National Home for the Jewish People.’”
1841: Abraham Emanuel
and Clara Joseph were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.
1841: Henry Lazarus
and Frances Barnett were married today at the Great Synagogue in London.
1846: Birthdate of
Hubert-Joseph Henry, the French officer who killed himself after being arrested
for forging the evidence that helped to convict Alfred Dreyfus.
1846: Birthdate of Dr.
Emil Bessels, the native of Heidelberg, Germany, who was both a physician and
Arctic explorer who worked for the Smithsonian Institution.
1852:
The Democratic National Convention during which Philip Philips, the Charleston
born Caroline Lazarus and Aaron Phillips, “prominent members of the Jewish
community” gave a speech in support of future President Franklin Pierce,
continued for a second day in Baltimore.
1854(6th of
Sivan, 5614): Shavuot
1856: President
Franklin Pierce signed into law An Act for the Benefit of the Hebrew
Congregation in the City of Washington, ensuring its right to own property in
the District of Columbia making Washington Hebrew Congregation the only Jewish
house of worship in the United States to operate with an act of the U.S.
Congress as its charter.
1857(10th
of Tammuz, 5617): Itzak Meisl, “the husband of Ann Henrietta (Yetta)
Bettelheim” passed away today.
1857: Joseph Hyams and
Julie Joel were married at the Great Synagogue in London.
1857: The body of
Isaac Jackson was discovered on a farm near Westfield, MA and Charles Jones was
arrested on charges of having murdered him. Jackson was Jewish. Jones wasn’t.
1859: The USS
Minnesota on which Adolph Marix served was decommissioned for the first time
today.
1860: Birthdate of
Sarah Beck, the native of Brandenburg, Germany, who became Sarah Hexter when
she married Max Hexter with whom she raised a family in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1962: The USS
Minnesota on which Adolph Marix served was recommissioned today..
1862(4th of
Sivan, 5622): Lieutenant Albert Moses Luria, the Apalachicola, FL born sone of
Eliza Matilda Moses and Major Raphael Jacob Moses died today as result of the
wounds he had suffered while saving the lives of his comrades in the Army of
Northern Virginia during the Battle of Seven Pines during the Civil War.
1862: In North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Hermann Rosenwald, the son of Vogel and Bendix
Rosenwald, and his wife Jeanette David gave birth to Bendix Rosenwald
1863: During the Civil
War, Jacob C. Cohen, who was serving with the 27th Ohio wrote home
describing military life in and around Memphis, TN. The 27th
arrived there after having served at
Corinth, MS and fought several skirmishes in northern Alabama. By being at Memphis, Cohen and his comrades
were being spared the hardship of that part of Grant’s army trying to take
Vicksburg. But they would see plenty of
action when Sherman began his campaign to take Atlanta.
1863: Establishment of
Congregation Emanu-El a synagogue in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver
Island
1864(27th
of Iyar, 5624):Henry Gersberg of Salem, VA was killed today while fighting for
the Confederacy during the Civil War.
1864: Moroccan Jews and Jews from Gibraltar
residing in Haifa requested a written ruling from the British Consul for
permission to pray. "The Turkish authorities here made no objection
to our thus assembling for prayer till quite lately; when they declared that we
cannot meet together without being possessed of a firman from
Constantinople."
1865: Twenty-one-year-old Philadelphia, PA
native Charles Etting who was assigned to the Army of the Potomac in 1861 and
fought in every major engagement including Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg before being sent home to raise new regiments
retired from military service today and returned to his hometown.
1867: Simon Bennett was buried today at the
“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1870: “Religious Bigotry in Turkey – Massacre
of Jews by Christians” published today described “a horrible massacre of Jews
by Christians in the Turkish province of Romania.” On Sunday, May 29, the
Christians attacked the Jews living in all of the “principle towns” butchering
“without mercy” thousands of Jews without regard to age or sex.
1870: “Mr. Disraeli’s Health”, published today,
reported that the British Prime Minister’s health had improved the extent that
he could visit the Foreign Ministry and dine with two American diplomats.
1870: Based on dispatches received today in
Washington, the Jews of Louisville, KY have sent telegrams to their
co-religionists in cities throughout the West urging them to contact their
Congressmen with a request that they do all they can to prevent further attacks
on the Jews of Romania which have been described as a massacre.
1870: As American Jews respond to the worsening
conditions of their co-religionists in Romania, in Washington, D.C., Simon Wolf
receives the following telegram from M.S. Isaacs, Secretary of the Jewish Board
of Delegates of the United States “Ask the President to instruct the Minister
at Constantinople to help the Jews of Romania.”
1870: As
American Jews respond to the worsening conditions of their co-religionists in
Romania, in Washington, D.C., Simon Wolf receives the following telegram
from Henry Greenbaum, a leading Chicago
banker “Please ask my personal friends in Congress to cooperate with you in
representations to the President or otherwise, that the persecution and
butchery of our brethren in Roumania be stopped.”
1870: A New York Times writer marvels at
the fact that those who have most recently escaped from the effects of
religious persecution are the most likely to persecute others for their
religious beliefs. The case in point is
the persecution of the Jews by the Christians of Romania, who have so recently
been “released from the fear of oppression” by the Moslems. The atrocities are
reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition and are a reminder that the “problems of
the darkest ages” are still found in the 19th century.
1872: In Paris, Alexandre Lazard and Lucie
Lazard (Oulman) gave birth to Marthe Alphonsine Lazard, the “wife of Richard
Hermann Antoine Bouwens van der Boijen and mother of Jean Lucien Otto Bouwens
van der Boijen and Hélène Détroyat”
1872: In Kovno, Hillel and Ida (Alter) Gorson
gave birth to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts trained artist Aaron Henry
Gorson, the husband of Rachel fine whose works included “Portrait of a
Steelworker” and “Bridge Across a River.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162753/http://artmuseum.msu.edu/collections/recent/Gorson.htm
1873(7th of Sivan, 5633): Second Day
of Shavuot
1876: Today, The Evening Post praised the new house’ of Wellington, NZ
“entrepreneur and philanthropist” Lipman Levy saying that “it is fitted with a
number of unusual appliances including a high pressure steam boiler in the
kitchen” that supplies water to “all parts of the house” and “handsome
gaslights.”
1877: Samuel Morais Hyneman was admitted to the
bar in Philadelphia, PA. Hyneman played
an active role in Jewish communal affairs serving as the President of the Young
Men’s Hebrew Association of Philadelphia and serving on the board of trustees
of both the Jewish Theological Seminary and Gratz College.
1878: Eliza Miller and Ralph Cohen were the
recipients of this year’s “Betty Bruhl Prizes” which were presented during “a
gala event” that was held this evening at Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The event also
marked the third anniversary of the distribution of the “Betty Bruhl
Prizes.” Four years ago, Moses Bruhl
presented the asylum with $2,500.00 with the stipulation that the interest on
the amount was to be presented annually to tow orphans – one boy and one girl –
not older than 15 years of age. The
money (which now totals $50 per award) is to be invested with the principle and
interest being given to the winner when the leave the asylum. The award is
named after Mr. Bruhl’s late wife who “was a patron of the…asylum.”
1879: The New York Times published a
review of "The Historical Poetry of the Ancient Hebrews" translated
and critically acclaimed by Michael Heilprin.
The reviewer attributed the content and style of the book to the
possibility that Heilprin might be Jewish.
In fact, Michael Heilprin was a Jewish supporter of Kossuth who came to
the United States after the revolt failed. His father Phineas Mendel Heilprin
was a noted Jewish scholar who had also supported Kossuth and had moved to the
United States. The younger Heilprin
supported the Union and was opposed to slavery.
He was a Jewish scholar and supporter of Jewish causes.
1879: As a result of Russian mistreatment of
Jewish American businessmen, the U.S. House of Representatives requested the
President to have all international treaties which impair the rights of
American citizens because of religion amended to secure equal rights.
1880: Birthdate of Vilnius native and Menshevik
Leader Mikhail Issakovich Liber aka Mark
Liber the son of father who was both a poet and office clerk and leader of the
Bund who fell afoul of Stalin and as murdered during the Purges of 1937.
1881: Birthdate of Cleveland native and
“Manhattan fashion executive Sady Glautz Weiss who divorced Nathan Weiss, a
brother of magician Harry Houdini so she could marry Dr. Leopold Weiss, another
brother of Houdini.
1881: In Ukraine, Neche and Chanoch Eliezer
(Leiser) Netel gave birth to Feige Meisels , the wife of Rabbi Shmuel haKohen
Meisels and “mother of Yaakov Yehuda (Jack) haKohen Louis Meisels; Solomon
(Shlomo) haKohen Meisels; Hinda (Hilda) Halberg; Nettie/Norma (Neche) Meisels
Rubenstein; Sammy (Sholom) haKohen Meisels; Abe (Avraham Zvi haKohen) Meisels
and Mildred (Mirl Merche) Meisels” who died in New York City at the age of 59.
1882: The Hebrew Children’s Sanitarium is
appealing to the public to send funds which will be used to finance its annual
summer excursions which are scheduled to start later this month. Donations can be sent to the office of the Jewish Messenger on Grand Street.
1883: Bernard Abraham, who had been commanding
the Seventeenth Infantry was promoted from Colonel to the rank of Brigadier
General in the French Army
1884: Birthdate of Viennese native Hermine
Pfleger who gained fame as actress Mia May, the wife of director Joe May and
actress Eva May.
1885: Birthdate of “Bessarabian Jewish
immigrant” Frank Duchin, the
Massachusetts resident of husband of Tillie Baron who was the father of
society pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin and grandfather of Peter Duchin.
1886: Rabbis in Philadelphia met today to
discuss the refusal of the principal at Central High School to excuse the
Jewish students from having to take final exams scheduled for Shavuot. Principal Taylor was aware of the conflict
when preparing the exam schedule and refused to make an allowance for
alternative test dates. The Rabbis agreed to deliver a letter to Taylor
requesting that he re-consider his decision.
1888(23rd of Sivan, 5648): Arnold
Blum, Jr. the son of Jeanette and Abraham Levi Blum and husband of Rosina
(Rosa) Blum with whom he had six children passed away today in New York
1888: “Endowed In Heilprin’s Honor” published
today described the plans to create a fund in memory of the late biblical
scholar Michael Heilprin. These include a challenge by Jacob Schiff in which he
said he will contribute $5,000 to the fund if an additional $50,000 can be
raised by others during the year.
1888: It was reported today that Empress of
Victoria has spoken out against anti-Semitic agitation and told listeners that
she is expressing the views held by Emperor Frederick. The Emperor’s defense of his Jewish subjects
has met with strong outburst by some including the posting of placards in
English reading “The Jew Emperor, Frederick Cohen.”
1889: As the Jewish population in Florence, SC
continued to grow, “the foundation of a Sunday was laid” today to which A.A.
Cohen invited “all children of Israelite parents” to attend.
1889: It was reported today that the Semitic
Department at Harvard will be offering three new courses for the upcoming
academic year including on covering the history of Israel and one covering the
history of the Hebrew religion. The
professors teaching the new classes were not Jewish.
1889: It was reported today that Isaac Benseken
has hosted a tea party arranged by the American Consul at Tangiers. Two of the
ladies at the party were dressed “in the traditional gala dress of the Hebrew
women of Morocco…” Refreshments included green tea garnished with sprigs of
mint in the Moroccan manner and “Moorish sweetmeats consisting of a thin shell
of sugar filled with sweet almost paste…”
1889: At 12 Portman Square, Claude Montefiore
and Therese Alice, who would die one day later, gave birth to Leonard
Nathaniel-Goldsmid-Montefiore who “succeeded his father as a leader of Jewish
philanthropic organizations in the UK including the Anglo-Jewish Association,
the Central British Fund for German Jewry, and the Jewish Board of Guardians”
and who “was a founder and president of the Wiener Library for the Study of the
Holocaust and Genocide.”
1890: As census takers fanned out across New
York City, Jewish women responded with fear when they were asked questions
about “whether their husbands and sons had done military service” because of
their experience with destructive nature of Jewish service in the Czar’s Army.
1890: Based on information that first appeared
in Pall Mall Gazette, it was reported today that “a syndicate of Jews has
offered $200,000 for the Vatican’s copy of the Hebrew Bible.” The Vatican has
possessed the Bible at least since 1512 when Pope Julius II who needed funding
to continue his fight with Louis XII negotiated with a group of Italian Jews to
sell them the Bible. For reasons that
are still unknown, the Pope changed his mind and kept the book. (Editor’s Note
– This is the Pope who “paid for the paint” that covered the Sistine Chapel.
1891: In Vienna, Phillip and Esther Neuman
Gilbert gave birth NYU trained ENT specialist Dr. Charles N. Gelber, who was
appointed medical examiner for children by the Board of Health in 1916, who
served as president of the New York Physicians Society and who ran for
Councilman in Manhattan in 1937.
1892(7th of Sivan, 5652) Second Day
of Shavuot
1892: This morning, at Hamilton College, the
Clark Prize for speaking was awarded to Gregory Rosenblum, a young Russian
immigrant who spoke on “The Jews in Russia.”
1892: “A Woman’s Revenge” published today
described a beating that former prize fighter inflicted on Chicago merchant
Joseph Fish. According to Fish, the
beating “was prompted by a young attractive-looking widow” whom he was no
longer seeing since his engagement to the daughter of a prominent Jewish
Chicago citizen.
1893: Three days after he passed away,
Frederick Barnet Mozley was buried today in the Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.
1893: An out of court settlement was reached in
Schwab v Schwab which kept the Judge from having to make a decision that would
either render the defendant as a bigamist or the plaintiff’s children as being
“illegitimate.”
1893: Myer S. Isaacs, President of the Baron
Hirsch Fund testified before the Senate Committee on Immigration at the New
Netherland Hotel. In response to
questions, he said that the fund did not provide financing to bring immigrants
to the United States. Rather it worked
with immigrants who were already in the United States to help them gaining an
education and developing the skills that would allow them to get a job.
1895: Birthdate of Saul Edward “Sol” Weinberg,
the Case Western Reserve College alum who played “two games at tackle” in 1923
for the NFL Cleveland Indians (not to be confused with the American League
baseball team with the same name)
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WeinSo20.htm
1895: Sarah and Isaac Hecker gave birth to
Jacob Hecker, a Tommy who was killed in Belgium in August 1917.
1895: French railroad tycoon and philanthropist
Baron Moritz de Hirsch meets Theodore Herzl in Paris. Herzl hopes to convince Hirsch to take the
money he had been spending to settle Jews in agricultural communities in places
like Argentina and spend it instead on the creation of a Jewish homeland in
Eretz Israel.
1895: Eighty-two-year-old German jurist
Heinrich von Friedberg who became a Protestant early in his career passed away
today.
1895: The list of the trustees of the newly
incorporated Independent Young Pleasure Club, a “landsmanshaftn” published
today included Abraham Cohen, Kate Jacobs, Jacob Levine, Meyer Libsohn, Samuel
Gussoff, Davis Schroeder and Max Scharlin.
1895: “Hands and Mind Drilled” published today
traced the history of the Hebrew Technical Institute, a vocational educational
school begun over ten years ago to meet the needs of newly arriving Jewish
immigrants from eastern Europe who lacked suitable job skills.
1896: The Neue
Freie Presse mentions Herzl's Der Judenstaat for the first time.
1896: Johns Hopkins undergraduate and
University of Maryland trained attorney, Eli Frank Sr., the Baltimore born son
of Moses and Isabella Frank and husband of Rena Ambach with whom he had three
children was admitted to the Bar today after which he taught at the University
of Maryland Law School, served as President of the Maryland State Bar
Association and was an active member of the Association of Jewish Charities.
1897(2nd of Sivan, 5657): Abraham Cohn, “an
American Civil War Union Army Sergeant Major and recipient to the highest
military decoration for valor in combat — the Medal of Honor — for having
distinguished himself at the Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia passed away in
New York.
https://nmajmh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hall-of-heroes/civil-war/abraham-cohn/
1897: In Vienna, with the German parties
obstructing the formation of a new government, the Count Badeni , today, by
order of the Emperor who had refused to ratify the election of Dr. Karl Lueger,
the anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna,
prorogued (dismissed without dissolving) the Parliament.”
1899: In Hong Kong, Sir Elly Kadoorie and his
wife gave birth to Baron Lawrence Kadoorie, the noted businessman and
philanthropist who was part of a clan of Misrahi Jews who had made their way
from Baghdad to Bombay to China.
1899: “A Noble German
Jew” published today recounted an 1850 encounter between Bismarck and Dr.
Eduard Simson when the latter was serving as President of the Parliament and
called the Chancellor to order. When
Bismarck said that members of the “old nobility knew how to conduct themselves”
countered the Chancellor invocation of his bloodline with the retort “you say
that to me a descendant in the direct line from the high-priest Aaron. To which Bismarck replied, “Pardon me Mr.
Speaker, but I had never looked upon the matter from that point of view.”
1899: “The Situation
in France” published today described the view of the anti-Dreyfusites who “are
not convinced by the declaration of Monsieur Ballot de Beaupre that Esterhazy
is the traitor” and the belief that “the people are so tired of the affair that
by the time Dreyfus has returned to France angry passions will probably have
subsided.” (Those opposed to Dreyfus never accepted the confession and the
passions really never cooled until all involved had died.)
1899: A case of
diphtheria was discovered today “in the grammar depart of the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society at 151st Street and Broadway just two hours after a
quarantine had been lifted on the infant department of the same institution.
1900(5th of
Sivan, 5660): Parashat Bamidbard and Erev Shavuot
1900: Birthdate of
Russian native and Washington University trained attorney Israel Trieman who
taught law at his alma, practiced law in his adopted hometown of St Louis and
earned a doctorate at Oxford while being honored as one of the U.S.A.’s first
Rhodes scholars.
http://archon.wulib.wustl.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=495&q=&rootcontentid=64876
1900: In Knonitz, the
street riots continued because “of the death of the lad Winter” which has been
“attributed to the Jews.”
1901: Commencement
exercises were held today at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue. Prizes consisting of engraved certificates
and $50 in cash were awarded to the outstanding boy and girl at the institution. The prizes were created by the late Moses
Bruhl as a way to honor the memory of his wife, Bettie Bruhl.
1901:
Sixty-two-year-old James A. Hearne who staged Israel Zangwill’s “The Children
of the Ghetto” in 1899 passed away today.
1902: Birthdate of
Jerusalem native and John Hopkins Ph.D. Aaron Morris Margalith the author and
professor at Yeshiva University, who was the husband of Helen Margaret
Margalith, the hold of a B.A. from Hunter and Master of Library Science of
Columbia and the father of Joan and Carol Margalith.
1903(7th of Sivan, 5663): Second Day of Shavuot
1903:
Birthdate of Max Aub, the Parisian born author whose shifting citizenship from
French, to Spanish to Mexican mirrored his changing literary and political
fortunes.
http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/03/max-aub%E2%80%99s-civil-war-in-english/
1904:
“Camden Hebrews’ New Synagogue” published today described the decision of the
Board of Trustees of Adas Israel “to erect a $25,000 synagogue at the southeast
corner of Fifth and Spruces Streets in Camden, NJ.
1905:
It was reported today that Oscar Straus had delivered an address on “The
Permanent Court of Arbitration and Peace at the Lake Mohonk International
Arbitration Conference in which he said “the cause for war had changed as the
national spirit changed.”
1906(9th
of Sivan, 5666): Parashat Nasso
1906:
It was reported today that Commissioner Stephen Smith has heard an application
in the office of the State Board for Charities for a license for a dispensary
the Hebrew Memorial Dispensary.
1907:
It was reported today that a Polish Jew named Abraham Kahn is being in the
Jefferson Market Court prison “under $1,000 bail” while police look into
charges that he swindled Miss Rosa Gostyuska out of $500.
1908:
St. Joseph’s College, Cornell University and University of Berlin trained
chemist Louis E. Levi, the Buffalo, NY bon son of Clara Sommers and Emanuel
Levi married Clara Krayeski today in Milwaukee where, after teaching at MIT he
became the chief chemitof Pfister and Vogel Lea Company.
1908:
In Vienna, actors Fritz Spira and Lotte Spira gave birth to actress Steffie
Spira who survived the Holocaust and settled in East (Communist) Germany after
the war.
1909:
Alfred Deakin became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. At one
time, Deakin had been a political ally of the Jewish Australian politician
Isaac Isaacs who he appointed to the position of Attorney General in 1906.
1909: Birthdate of Benzion Netanyahu an
Israeli historian and Zionist activist who is also known for being secretary to
the father of the Revisionist Zionism movement Ze'ev Jabotinsky as well as the
father of Yonatan Netanyahu, former commander of Sayeret Matkal, who was killed
in Operation Entebbe and Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu
1910(24th of Iyar, 5670):
Sixty-year-old Emma Loewen, the Krotschin, Germany born daughter Helena and
Simon Bienstock and the wife of David Lowen passed away today in St. Louis
after which she was buried in University City, a suburb of St. Louis
1910: Columbia trained medical doctor Marcus
Adolphus Rothschild, the Woodsville, Mississippi born son of Emily Hart and
Morris H. Rothschild married Edna E. Liebmann today in Atlanta after which he
served as a Major in the United States Marines and as member of the executive
committee for “Health Service for Jews.”
1911(6th of Sivan, 5671): Shavuot
1911: The Sultan of Turkey conferred the Order
of Medjidie, Fourth Class, on Isaac Jessua Bey of Salonica. He was the
secretary to the Inspector General of the Gendarmerie of the vilayet.
1912: The Jews of Bialystok were alarmed
“because of ritual murder accusations.”
1912:
The “Fifth Annual Convention” of the Federation of Romanian Jews of America
which has 40,000 members including Solomon Schechter, P.A. Seigelstein, Emil
Koffler, Charles I. Fleck and Herman Speier is scheduled to come to an end
today in New York City.
1913: “The Federation of Galician Jews is
holding its convention today” in New York City.
1913: It was reported today that Caroline
Nesustadter, “the widow of Henry Neustadter, a member of Neustadter Brothers of
San Francisco” “who gave no less than $1,500,000 to various Jewish and public
charities” in New York and San Francisco “left an estate which has been
appraised at $3,320,000.”
1914(8th of Sivan, 5674):
Sixty-six-year-old “Chevalier N .B. Emanuel, assistant director of the Chicago
Grand Opera Company and museum of international note” who had been named
Chevalier by the King of Italy and who
had been in “declining health for the last year” passed away today “at the
Winnetka sanitarium.”
1915: “Jim Conley, on whose testimony Leo M.
Frank was convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan and sentenced to death and who
himself was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment as an accessory reached
Atlanta today having be released from the convict camp” because he got “two
months off for good conduct.
1915: “The meeting between Leo Frank and Jim
Conley to give evidence in the suit of Mary Phagan’s mother against the
National Pencil Company to recover $10,000 for the death of her daughter”
scheduled for today “did not occur” because it “was rendered unnecessary when
attorneys agreed to accept evidence give at Frank’s trial in regard to the
girl’s death.”
1915: Brooklyn attorney Joseph Goldstein sent
“a petition signed by 6,000 Brooklyn residents urging executive clemency in the
case of Leo M. Frank, to Governor Slaton of Georgia.”
1915: The American Jewish Relief Committee
issued a special appeal on behalf of the Jews of Poland where “three million
are starving” even though $800,000 has already been sent to meet their needs.
1915: The members of the American Jewish Relief
Committee whose names were published today included Felix Warburg, Cyrus Adler,
Louis D. Brandies, Julian W. Mack, Dr. J.L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Jacob
Schiff, Nathan Straus, Oscar S. Straus, August Sulzberger and Mayer Sulzberger.
1916: “The Austrian Supreme Court has decided
that the law prohibiting marriages between Christians and non-Christians
applies to marriages contracted outside of Austria” but did nothing to change
the Austrian law that allows “non-Christians to marry Jews” while prohibiting
them from marrying Catholics or Protestants.
1916: “District Attorney Harry E. Lewis of
Kings County, State Senator Charles C. Lockwood, Joseph Barondess of the Board
of Education, Rabbi Max Raisin of Brooklyn” were among the prominent persons
who “appeared before a special committee of the State Board of Charities” today
“to urge the grant of a charter to the Beth Moses Hospital, a ‘kosher’
institution proposed for the Williamsburg district.”
1917(12th of Sivan, 5677): Parashat
Nasso
1917(12th of Sivan, 5677):
Sixty-five-year-old Polish born American Rabbi, “Hebrew Scholar and teacher”
Simon Harris passed away today in Portland, OR where he has lived for the past
four years in the same town which is home to his daughter Mrs. Ida Weinstein
before which he lived in New York which is the home to his son Louis Harris.
1917: “The story of how the Jews of Jaffa were
deported by the Turkish Government ostensibly as a measure of ‘military
precaution’ was received” today “from the State Department by the American
Jewish Relief Committee.”
1917: “The first band concert and dance to be
given by the Chicago Hebrew Institute Band” is scheduled to “take place” this
evening in the Assembly Hall of the Administration Building at 8 o’clock.
1917: This evening, the Jewish Educational
Alliance Dramatic Club which has been “making a study of what is best in Jewish
Drama” hosted an evening devoted Sholom Aleichem “in memory of the first
anniversary of the great master of Jewish literature.”
1917: “Dr. Jacob S. Minkin of Hamilton, Ontario
preached the baccalaureate sermon” this “morning at the Jewish Theological
Seminary” during which “he paid a tribute to the late Dr. Solomon Schechter and
touched on the present day needs of Judaism.
1918: It was reported today that 83 members of
the Independent Order of B’rith Sholom and 3,924 sons of the members are
serving with the armed forces of the United States and that its members “have
subscribed” to over a million dollars “to the Liberty Loans” and purchased $34,
842.75 worth of War Savings Stamps.
1918: Harvard Law School trained attorney
Samuel Spring, the San Diego, CA born son of Hannah Glasser and Abe Spring
married Imogene S. Morse today after which, in 1924, he “moved to New York as
general counsel of the First National Pictures Corporation.
1919: Birthdate of American painter Nat Mayer
Shapiro
1919: “The newly established Bureau of Jewish
Social Research will welcome visitors” today.
1920: Russian-American composer and violinist,
Joseph Achron, the son of Julius and Bertha Achron married his wife Marie today
at Petrograd, Russia.
1920: Birthdate of Marcel Reich-Ranicki,
Polish-born German critic.
1920: “According to word received” in New York
today, Julius J. Lyons a director and legal counsel to State Bank who was he
son Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons and the father of San Diego, CA, rancher Edwin Lyons
had passed away on May 26 in San Diego.
1921: Birthdate of Sir Sigmund Sternberg, the
Hungarian native who came to the UK in 1939 where he went on to become a
“philanthropist, businessman and Labour Party donor.”
1921: “Investment banker” Edward Grover Platt
the St. Louis born son of Sigmond Platt and Bertha Simon and President of
Waldheim Platt Company who was a supporter of the YMHA, Jewish Shelter Home and
Jewish Loan Association married Helen S. Waldheim today.
1922(6th of Sivan, 5682): Shavuot
1922: New Yorker Bernard A. Rosenblatt who is a
member of the Zionists Executive left New York to arrange for the underwriting
of the first Jewish municipal bond issue in history.
1922: Today, at the Naval Academy in Annapolis,
MD, Hyman Rickover, the Jew is officer who was the father of the modern nuclear navy “graduated 107th out of 540 midshipmen and was
commissioned as an ensign.”
1922: In
Camden, NJ, Congregation Beth-El held Confirmation Services which were led by
Cantor Jacob Mickelman.
1923 Birthdate of mathematician and economist
Lloyd Shapely who joined his “Jewish-American colleague Alvin Roth in winning
the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for their work on market design
and matching theory.”
1924: In New Jersey, in response to complaints
from Jews that the entrance examination for the State Normal Schools were being
held on Saturdays, an exam is scheduled
to be held today which is a Monday.
1924: The death certificate for Bobby Franks,
the victim of Leopold and Loeb, which was signed today by “Coroner Wolff”
stated that “Cause of death: Injury to head and body and suffocation, due to
application of gag to the mouth, in city of Chicago. Murder, (Blunt) end of
chisel,”
1924: Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov began
serving as a “candidate member of the 13th Politburo.”
1925: “Twenty-one young men and women, having
successfully completed a two years' course in Hebrew. Jewish history and
religion and pedagogy, received diplomas tonight from the Hebrew Union College
School for Teachers at graduation exercises at Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue
and Forty-third Street.”
1926: The Hokoah teams which has been playing
exhibition games in the United States is scheduled to set sail today for its
ultimate destination of Vienna.
1926: In Vienna, Michael Hilberg and his wife
gave birth to Dr. “ Raul Hilberg, a Jewish émigré from Nazi-occupied Europe who
helped begin the field of Holocaust studies with his long and minutely detailed
1961 study of the massacre of European Jews: (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1926: Birthdate of physicists Arthur Rosenfeld,
the Birmingham native who “received the Energy Department’s Enrico Fermi Award
in 2006 and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation…” (As reported by
Harrison Smith)
1927: In New York City, Ben and Madeline Simon
Katz gave birth to WWII Navy veteran and secondary school teacher William Loren
Katz, the graduate of Syracuse and holder of an M.A. from NYU who gained fame
as an historian and author of 40 books including Breaking the Chains:
African American Slave Resistance, The Black West, and Black
Women of the Old West.
1928: After 280 performances the curtain came
down on the original Broadway production of the Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar
music “The Five O’clock Girl
1929: It was reported today that during April
there were 417 immigrants to Palestine “including 322 Jews” and there 172
emigrants from Palestine “including 70 Jews.”
1930(6th of Sivan, 5690): Jews
celebrate Shavuot for the first time during what will become known as The Great
Depression.
1930: In Camden, NJ, Ruth Barroway delivered
the “opening prayer” during Confirmation Services at Congregation Beth-El which
is led by Rabbi Nachman S. Arnoff and President Jacob Leventon.
1930: At Union Temple in Brooklyn. Harold
Grossman and Ben Ydelin “survived the first round of the New York State
one-wall doubles handball championship tonight .
1931: Today, Albert Ottinger, the Chairman of
the $1,000,000 New York Campaign for Relief of Jews in Europe, announced that
the campaign had received another $9,500 in gifts.”
1931: At a meeting tonight in the Hotel
Biltmore, the executive committee of the American Jewish Congress “adopted a
resolution calling for a World Jewish Congress in the near future, at which
questions of discrimination and economic Antisemitism can be discussed.
1932: Ruth Barroway, Miriam Morris, Sidney
Kantor, Leona Pinksy, Robert Kaplan and Edward Gallob were confirmed today at
Congregation Beth-El in Camden, NJ.
1932: U.S. premiere of “What Price Hollywood?”
directed by George Cukor, produced by Pandro S. Berman and David O. Selznick
with music by Max Steiner.
1932(27th of Iyar, 5692): Simcha Gutman a
Hebrew poet and novelist who wrote under the pen name Ben Zion passed away at
the age of 62/
1934: In San Francisco, Robert Tandler Mack,
the Cincinnati born son of Rebecca and William Jacob Mack and his wife Jeanette
Mack gave birth to Susan Jean Mack, who became Susan Jean Thorstad when she
married William Lawrence Thorstad.
1935: “Max Silverstein of New York, Grand
Master of the Independent Order B'rith Abraham, pleaded for Jewish unity as the
organization opened its annual convention here today on the Garden Pier.”
1935: “Admonishing the graduating class to lend
ethical and spiritual leadership to the world rather than become
"professional and hired defenders of Jews," Rabbi Stephen S. Wise today
conferred three honorary degrees and ten Rabbinical degrees at the tenth annual
commencement exercises of the Jewish Institute of Religion, 40 West
Sixty-eighth Street.”
1936: The Tarbut School in Moletai, Lithuania,
held its eleventh graduation.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/01.asp
1936: During the Arab Riots, the Irgun defied
the Jewish Agency’s call for restraint by killing nine Arabs with an explosion
at the Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate.
1936: As “the Jews of Przytyk prayed all day in
the synagogue for the acquittal of fourteen Jews who were brought to trial
today with forty-two Christians” another day of anti-Semitic rioting took place
in the town with “nationalist parading in the streets and smashing windows in
the homes of the Jews.”
1936: “Continued sniping by Arab terrorists and
burning of Jewish-owned crops were reported to be continuing tonight” at the
same time that rail service between Jerusalem and Jaffa was suspended due to
the derailing of the train running between the two cities.
1936: Forty-three Polish and fourteen Jewish
defendants went on trial today in the aftermath of the Przytyk Pogrom during
which “hundreds of Jews were beaten and their homes and shops were demolished.”1937: The Palestine
Post reported that the Arab Higher Committee denounced the anticipated
Royal (Peel) Commission's proposal for the partition of Palestine.
1937: The Palestine Post
reported that the new Central Railway Station opened in Haifa.
1937: The Palestine Post
reported that the an Arab who for £10 attempted to smuggle a Baghdadi Jew, Maji
Shlomo Jarjana, from Syria to Palestine was sentenced to 10 months
imprisonment. Jarjana got a two weeks jail sentence and deportation.
1937: The Palestine Post
reported that the in the Polish town of Bransk Jews were beaten and injured,
their stalls demolished, windows were smashed in their homes and at the
synagogue.
1938: It was reported today, that The Isaac Adler Prize which “was
founded in 1934 by a bequest of $20,000 made by Mrs. Frida Adler of New York
City in memory of her husband” “has ben awarded by Harvard to Dr. Wendell M.
Stanley of Princeton, NJ of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, or
his work on the isolation of a crystallizable factor hich has developed a new
approach in the stud of viruses…”
1937: Information published from Venezuela indicated there is an
Ashkenazi community of 100 members, most from Romania, and an indigenous
Sephardic community between 700 and 800 members, who have "no
relations" whatsoever with the Ashkenazim.
1938: “The recent series of mass arrests” that had included
shipping Jewish comedian and composer Hermann Leopoldi and 750 other people to
Dachau” ended today after a group of 400 Jews, among whom were several doctors
and lawyers who were sent to Styria.
1939: The Christian Science Church attacks
Jewish refugees as causing their own troubles, a position reportedly taken by
many important Protestant journals of the time.
1940: The concentration camp at
Neuengamme, Germany, is upgraded to primary-camp status
1940: Two days after he had passed away, fifty-six-year-old
Kansas City, MO attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg, the son of David and
Hannah Achtenberg and husband of Minnie Achtenberg was buried today in Raytown,
MO.
1940: The Jewish Institute of Religion held its
15th annual commencement this afternoon. Rabbi Stephen S Wise
ordained 8 candidates for the rabbinate. Two men were honored with honorary
degrees as Doctors of Hebrew Letters. One went to Salmann Schocken, the
publisher and businessman who had fled from Germany to Palestine when the Nazis
came to power. The other was awarded in
absentia to Rabbi Moses Schorr, “the former chief rabbi of Warsaw, who is now
languishing in one of Stalin’s prisons. (Editor’s note – This is at a time when
the non-aggression pact between the two dictators is in effect and the Soviets
have conquered their half of Poland)
1941(7th of Sivan, 5701): Second Day
of Shavuot
1941: Second and final day of the Farhud Pogrom
during which approximately 200 Jews were murdered in Baghdad and more than
2,000 were injured. Property damage
exceeded 3 million dollars.
1941: French law
called for ‘administrative arrest' for all Jews.
1942: Four hundred
volunteers from the Jewish Brigade under the command of Major Liiebmann fought
at the Battle of Bir-el Harmat in Libya which began today and lasted until June
11.
1942: Three thousand, four
hundred Jews from Hurbieszow were sent to Sobibor, where eventually all
but 12 were gassed.
1942: Fred Traum’s
parents, Elias Israel Traum and Gitel Sara Traum left Vienna by train and
reportedly were murdered by the Nazis three to five days later when the train
reached Minsk.
1942: When
Viennese Jews were deported to the Minsk (Byelorussia) Ghetto today, Elsa
Speigel, decided to leave her 5 and 1/2-month-old son, Jona, behind. The baby
will eventually be sent to the camp/ghetto at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia,
where he will survive the war.
1942: The BBC reports that 700,000 Jews
have been exterminated. Its information comes from a report smuggled out of
Poland by the Jewish Bund in Warsaw.
1942: Birthdate
of producer Berry Levinson.
1942(17th
of Sivan, 5702): Leo Katzenberger was guillotined at Stadelheim Prison in
Munich after having been convicted, in a totally bogus trial, of “race
pollution” because he allegedly had sexual relations with his non-Jewish
girlfriend.
1943: “Liquidation of the Lwów Ghetto, located
in German-occupied Poland, was completed, with the last surviving Jewish
residents deported to the nearby Janowska concentration camp. At one time,
there had been 160,000 Jews in Lwów which the Germans had renamed Lemberg.
Nearly all of the former dwellers would be killed by November. After the Soviet
victory in World War II, the city would become part of the Ukrainian SSR and
renamed Lvov.”
1944: Itzhak Gruenbaum, the chairman of
the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency, requests the bombing of rail lines
that lead to Auschwitz.
1944: The Allies begin a bombing operation
(Operation Frantic) in the Balkans, the goal of which is to distract the
Germans from upcoming Allied landings in France. Bombing routes overfly the
railway lines leading from Hungary to Auschwitz. The operation lasts for four
months, during the deportation of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to
Auschwitz. The railway lines carrying the Jews are never targeted.
1944: In the Bronx, Max Hamlisch
and his wife gave birth to Marvin Frederick Hamlish “the Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer who imbued his movie and Broadway scores with pizazz and panache and
often found his songs in the upper reaches of the pop charts.” (As reported by
Rob Hoerburger)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/arts/music/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies-at-68.html
http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/Marvin-Hamlisch.html
1945(21st of Sivan,
5705): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1945: As delegates are meeting to
establish the United Nations, the Soviet Union demanded a right of veto for the
permanent members of the Security Council.
1945: Forty-seven-year-old August
Hirt, the doctor who performed experiments on concentration camp inmates and
developed a program based on collecting Jewish skeletons for Himmler, committed
suicide today.
1945: Less than a month after VE,
when a remnant of Jews were DP’s (displace people) Pope Pious XII, who had
found a way to co-exist with the Fascist warned the College of Cardinal of the
dangers of “those mobs of dispossessed, disillusioned disappointed, hopeless
men” wandering Europe.
1946: Today No. 6 Squadron RAF
began operating from RAF Ein Shimer” the largest military airfield in pre-state
Israel.
1946(3rd of Sivan,
5706): Sixty-one-year-old Yiddish author and journalist Joseph Chaikin, “the
former managing editor of The Day
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/06/03/93116400.pdf
1946: Birthdate of Tel Aviv native
Gidon Remez the prize-winning Israeli author who along with Isabella Ginor is
responsible for the innovative history Foxbats Over Dimona and The
Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973
https://truman.huji.ac.il/people/gideon-remez
1947: Bernard M.
Baruch, former United States member of the United Nations Atomic Energy
Commission, said today that it would be "sheer suicide and sheer madness
if we didn't adopt the compulsory military training plan just recommended by
the Advisory Commission on Universal Training."
1947: Meir (Myer Jack) Landa who
passed away on May 30 was buried today at Willesden Cemetery in London.
1947: In Germany, Rachel and Moshe
gave birth to Hairm Bar-Zeev(Reichberger) who immigrated to Israel a year later
and was lost when the Submarine Dakar went down with all hands in 1968
1947: The United Nations Special
Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) elected its Chairman, Emil Sandstrom, a Swedish
Supreme Court Judge and set sail for Palestine.1948: Viktor Brack, who was Hitler's
supervisor of the installation of gas chambers in Poland, was executed.
1948: An Israeli attack on Egyptian positions
at Ashdod marked the turning point in the war between Israel and Egypt.
1948: Today, the IDF began to encircle the Jenin
to prevent the garrison from fleeing, while the Israeli Air Force continued to
carry out bombing raids.
1948: The Golani and Carmeli brigades attacked
Jenin today
1948: Birthdate of Roni Bar-On, the Tel Aviv
native who served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF before pursuing a
political career that included service as an MK and cabinet minister.
1949: The Kingdom of
Transjordan was renamed The Kingdome of Jordan. The kingdom had been
named Transjordan because it was across (trans) the Jordan river. In
1948, Jordan's army crossed the Jordan River and seized the eastern
portion of Jerusalem, and the territory now called the West Bank. Since
the country was now on both sides of the Jordan River, it was no called
Jordan. This name change proved that the government of Jordan planned to
remain permanently on the west bank of the Jordan River and there was no
intention to create a Palestinian State.
1949(5th of
Sivan, 5709): Erev Shavuot
1949(5th of
Sivan, 5709): Fifty-three-year-old Hungarian author Béla Zsolt author of Nine
Suitcases, “one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs” passed away today
1949: “Studio One,” a CBS television anthology
series broadcast an adaptation of “June Moon,” the 1920’s drama co-authored by
George S. Kaufman.
1949: In Washington,
DC, Helen and Frank Hart Rich gave birth to Frank Hart Rich, Jr. who would gain
fame and fortune as Frank Rich, one of the finest and wittiest writers to write
for the New York Times
1950: Plans to build a
village in Israel bearing the name of President Truman to be called Kfar Truman
were announced at the White House.
1950: Violinist Jascha
Heifetz, who is on a concert tour in Israel, said today that he founded Israeli
audiences to be “a little too sophisticated but quite wonderful.” In the 12
performances to date, he has enjoyed enthusiastic audience response.
1950(17th
of Sivan, 5710): Sixty-one-year-old New York born “attorney, writer and
educator” Meyer Jacobs passed away today in his hometown.
1951(27th
of Iyar, 5711): Parashat Bechukotai
1951: After 30 weeks
and 235 performances the curtain came down on the “Country Girl” written and
directed by Clifford Odets, starring Steven Hill as “Bernie Dodd” with sets
designed by Boris Aronson who won a Tony for his work.
1951: After 101
performances the curtain came down on “The Autumm Garden,” directed by Harold
Clurman, written by Lillian Hellman
1952: Birthdate of
Elan Steinberg, the native of Rishon LeZion, “who brought what he called a new,
“American style” assertiveness to the World Jewish Congress as its top
executive, winning more than $1 billion from Swiss banks for Holocaust victims
and challenging Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations secretary general,
over his Nazi past…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1952: Birthdate of
Gary Bruce Bettman, the commissioner of the National Hockey League.
1952: “Lydia Bailey”
based on the novel of the same name, with a screenplay co-written by Michael
Blankfort, the Jewish born son of Dorothy Stiles and Michael Blankfort as
released today in the United States
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that according to Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion, and contrary to persistent rumors, no definite reparation offer had
yet been received from Western Germany.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that an Israeli mother, who drowned her sick and handicapped
five-year-old child in the sea, received a one year prison sentence. The judge
pointed out that there was a waiting list of more than 300 handicapped children
waiting for proper treatment.
1952: The Jerusalem Post
reported that prospective emigrants were ordered to give up their ration books
before leaving Israel.
1955: Twenty-four-year-old Brooklyn born right-handed pitcher
Hyman Cohen played in his final major league game as a member of the Chicago
Cubs.
1956: In Paterson, NJ, Irving Polansky and his wife Edith gave
birth Purdue graduate, Air Force officer and NASA Astronaut Mark Lewis “Roman”
Polansky who “took a teddy bear from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum” on
STS-116.
1956: Birthdate of Efi Oshaya, the Israeli political leader who
served as an MK for Labor and One Israel.
1957: Today, Israel accused “Egypt of reopening guerilla warfare
along the border of the Gaza Strip.”
1958: Birthdate “filmmaker, stand-up comedian, and actor” Mike
Binder, the Detroit born descendant of Russian-Jewish immigrants and brother of
producer Jack Binder whose “directorial
debut was with his second screenplay, 1992's Crossing the Bridge.”
1959: Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem "Lysergic
Acid," in San Francisco.
1960: “In Friendly Theatre Foes” published today provides a
sketch of Burton Abraham Zorn and his role as the attorney representing
Broadway producers.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1897/09/26/102085182.pdf
1960(7th of Sivan, 5720): For the last time
during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jews observe the second day of
Shavuot
1961(18th of Sivan,
5721): Famed playwright George S. Kaufman passed away.
http://www.georgeskaufman.com/
1961: Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion, “accompanied by his Private Secretary, Yitzhak Navon (later
President of Israel) and the Israeli Ambassador to London, Aruthur Lourie” meet
with Winston Churchill in London. During
their conversation, Ben-Gurion outlines his views on the situation in Iraq, the
stability of the Jordanian monarchy and the threat posed by Egypt which now
possessed twenty or more MIG-19 aircraft which were better than anything the
Israelis possessed.
1961: The World
Wrestling Championship in which Boris Gurevich would win a Silver Medal opened
today in Japan.
1962: On Shabbat,
during his sermon today, Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger told congregants at Shaaray
Tefila in New York, “that the current discussion of medical care for the aged
had been confused by warnings of ‘the danger of socialized medicine.’”
1962: Dr. Kurt
Klappholz, the Rabbi at Congregation and Talmud Torah Tifereth Israel, an
Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn delivered a sermon today in which he was highly
critical of the Central Conference of American Rabbis for urging the government
of Israel to spare Eichmann’s life four hours before he was to be hung. The Klappholz family was wiped out by the
Nazis.
1963: AT ‘the age of
18, Rabbi Yisroel Hager
married Rebbetzin Sarah Chaya Chana Twersky, the daughter of Rabbi Meshulom
Zishe Twersky, previous Grand Rabbi of Chernobyl in Bnei Brak.”
1964(23rd
of Sivan, 5724): Fifty-three-year-old motion picture and television executive
Mathew Fox, the husband of former Miss American Yolande Betbeze suffered a
fatal heart attack today.
1965: London property
developer and philanthropist Baron Max Rayne married his second wife Lady Jane
Vane-Tempest-Stewart.
1965: The
United Synagogue which was established for charitable purposes by the Jewish
United Synagogues Act of 1870 was formally registered as a charity today in the
United Kingdom.
1966: It was reported
today that “The
Ford Motor Company is negotiating with one of Israel's principal automotive
dealers to set up a truck and tractor assembly plant there.”
1967(23rd
of Iyar, 5727): Chase F. Isaacs, the widow of University of Cincinnati and
Harvard University trained hematologist and “the mother of Dr. Benjamin H.,
Lucian B. and Dr. Mark L. Isaacs” passed away today in Maryland.
1968(6th of
Sivan, 5728): Shavuot
1968: In St. Louis,
Evelyn and Lou Cohen gave birth to Boston University grad Andrew Joseph Cohen
an American radio and television talk show host, producer, and writer who is
the brother of jewelry designer Emily Rosenfeld
1968(6th of
Sivan, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old Russian born HUC trained Rabbi, Dr. Charles
E. Schulman the Ohio Northern University Law School trained attorney who served
as Navy Chaplain during WW II and led the Riverdale Temple in the Bronx for
twenty years while being married “to the former Avis Clamitz” passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/03/77090475.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969(14th
of Iyar, 5729): Pesach Sheni
1969(14th
of Iyar, 5729): Fifty-one-year-old actor Leo Bernard Gorcy best known for being
the loud-mouth leader of “The Bowery Boys” passed away today.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/JsoWI9sPqoQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gorcey#/media/File:Leo_Gorcey_1945.JPG
1971(9th of
Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three-year-old Ephraim Epstein, who served as the rabbi for
Congregation Shaare Zedek in St. Louis, MO from 1934 to 1969 passed away today.
1971(9th of
Sivan, 5731): Eighty-two-year-old Brooklyn restaurant owner Minnie Epstein, the
wife of Hyman Epstein and the mother of Mollie Shlesinger and Dr. Samuel
Epstein passed away today in “Parsons Hospital, Flushing, Queens.
1972: Israel Galili, Minister
Without Portfolio and a confidant of Premier Golda Meir, promised
today that the massacre at Tel Aviv's international airport in which the toll
of bystanders killed now stands at 25 and which has been accompanied by “triumphant
statements by neighboring Arab governments,” would be fully avenged, but not by
any rash or impatient Israeli action.
1973(2nd of
Sivan, 5733): Parashat Bamidbar
1973: “Nash at Nine,” conceived and
directed by Martin Charnin, with lighting design by Martin Aronstein and for
which Frank Goodman served as Press Representative was performed on Broadway at
the Helen Hayes Theatre for the last time.
1973(2nd of
Sivan, 5733): Sur Karl Cyril Cohen, the Leeds educated solicitor, known as
“KC,” the elected Secretary of Leeds Jewish Representative Council and Chairman
of the Paole Zion and Workers’ Friendship Circle who was appointed CBE in 1963
and knighted in 1968 passed away today.
1973: Birthdate of
David Bezmozgis, the Latvian born Canadian author whose “short story
"Minyan" was published in the Winter 2002 issue of Prairie Fire and
won the Silver Medal in the 2003 National Magazine Award for Fiction>
1974: It was reported
today that “Red Cross aircraft took off simultaneously from Tel Aviv and
Damascus carrying 12 Israelis home from Syria” and carrying 25 Syrians and one
Moroccan “who had fought with the Syrians” to Damascus as “Israeli and Syria
carried out the second stage of their troop-separation agreement.
1974: ‘Miss Arlene
Popkin, who will receive an LL.B. degree this month from the New York
University School of Law, and Lieut. Stephen E. Hirschberg, Medical Corps,
U.S.N., who has just completed a residency in internal medicine at the Bronx
Municipal Hospital Center, were married” today in a ceremony performed by Rabbi
Marc Liebhaber of Minneapolis, MN
1974: It was reported
today that “President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger had conferred with
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim at the White House on the role of the United
Nations peace-keeping force on the Golan Heights…”
1974: It was reported
today that Binyamin Kiryati, “an Israeli P.O.W. released by the Syrians” had
declared “It’s like being born again.”
1974: Abba Eban
completes his service as Foreign Minister.
1975: In a move that
was unanimously approved the Israeli Cabinet the government of Israel led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, announced
today that she would thin out her forces along the Suez Canal front as a
gesture in response to the reopening of the waterway by Egypt.
1976(4th of
Sivan, 5736): Eighty-five-year-old “Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, professor
emeritus at the John Dewey School of Education that he helped organize in 1950
at Hebrew University in Jerusalem” passed away today.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported from Washington that the US and Israel
fundamentally disagreed over the Arab willingness to live in peace with a
secure Israel. US officials believed that Arabs were ready to accept Israel
within the pre-1967 borders, but Israeli leaders doubted Arab moderation.
1977: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Kennan Moss, a new immigrant from South Africa, was held for
allegedly crossing into Jordan where he betrayed important Israeli security
secrets.
1977: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the Shippers’ Council sued the Marine Officers Union for losses
caused by the recent, prolonged marine strike.
1978: Release of “Darkness on the Edge of Town, the studio album
that featured Max Weinberg on the drums.
1978: Six months after being released in Japan, “Capricorn One” a
space conspiracy movie directed by Peter Hyams who wrote the script, starring
Elliott Gould and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United
States today.
1978: The R.H. Macy building at Herald Square on 34th
Street which had been built by Isidor and Nathan Straus in 1902 was added to
the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a National Historic
Landmark.
1979(7th
of Sivan, 5739): Second Day of Shavuot
1982:
Yad Vashem recognized Jan Karski as Righteous Among the Nations. A tree bearing
a memorial plaque in his name was planted at Yad Vashem's Avenue of the
Righteous Among the Nations in Jerusalem
1984(2nd
of Sivan, 5744): Parashat Nasso
1985:
“Hublyburly” directed by Mike Nichols was performed for the last time at the Ethel
Barrymore Theatre owned and operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald
Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
1987:
President Ronal Reagan nominated Alan Greenspan to serve as Chairman of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
1988: The New York Review of Books publishes the letter
signed from Natan Zach and Nissim Calderon in which they resign as members of
the advisory committee of the International Poetry Festival due to take place
in Israel as part of the country’s 40th anniversary celebration.
1989(28th of Iyar, 5749: Yom Yerushalayim
1989: B'nai Jeshurun a synagogue on the Upper West Side of
Manhattan, New York City founded in 1825 was added to the NRHP today.
1989: Israeli journalist Eric Silver wrote an article in the London
Jewish Chronicle describing life in Jerusalem for Arabs and Jews; a life
marred by violence and suspicion.
Responding to Arab claims that “Jews are afraid’ Silver writes, “The
Jews say it is not so much fear as prudence. Why risk a knife in the back, a
rock through the windscreen? Who needs it?”
1991: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Chutzpah by Alan Dershowitz.
1993(13th of Sivan, 5753): Ninety-three-year-old
University of California (Berkeley) and founder of bot the Norton Simon Museum
and Hunt’s Foods Norton Simon the Portland, OR bon son of Lillian Gluckman and
Myer Simon.
https://www.nortonsimon.org/about/about-norton-simon/
https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/society-culture/norton-simon
1993: A revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street” opened in the Wes End at the Royal National Theatre.
1995: “Fluke” a movie based on the novel of the same name
co-starring Max Pomeranc and Ron Perlman was released in the United States
today.
1996: “Saltwater Moose” directed by Stuart Margolin was released
today in the United States.
1996(15th of Sivan, 5756): Fifty-nine-year-old cognitive psychologist
Amos Tversky, the Haifa born son of “Polish-born veterinarian Yosef Tversky and
Lithuanian Jewish Jenia Tversky (née Ginzburg), a social worker who later
became a member of the Knesset representing the Mapai (Workers' Party)” a Stanford
psychology professor who with his longtime colleague, Princeton psychologist
Daniel Kahneman, jointly won the 2003 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology passed
away today. The $200,000 prize, awarded for the third time by the University of
Louisville in Kentucky, recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of
psychology. Working as a team for nearly three decades, Kahneman and Tversky
revolutionized the scientific approach to decision making, ultimately affecting
all social sciences and many related disciplines. Tversky died of cancer in
1996. His untimely death prevented him from sharing in a Nobel Prize with
his longtime colleague, Daniel Kahneman.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210303034115/https://news.stanford.edu/pr/96/960605tversky.html
1997(26th of Iyar, 5757): Eighty-two-year-old
Pittsburgh born Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University Martin
Bronfenbrenner passed away today.
https://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/bronfenbrenner.htm
1998(8th of Sivan, 5758): Seventy-six-year-old Beverly
Levin, the wife of Dr. Jules Levin and sister of actress of Charlotte Rae best
known for her roles in “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes.”
1998: Jacob A. Stein and Plato Cacheris replaced William H.
Ginsburg, the attorney who had been representing Monica Lewinsky from the time
the scandal first broke.
1999: “The Leading Hotels of the World, a reservations and
marketing alliance of 315 luxury hotels in 70 countries, said today that in
response to recent complaints from the American Jewish Congress about the facts
that the current edition for the Arab world, published in English, omits
all mention of Israel, it would no longer publish a separate Middle East
edition of its directory.
2000(28th of Iyar, 5760): A month before President
Clinton issued the formal invitation to Ehud Barak and Yasar Arafat to come to
peace talks at Camp David, Jews observe Yom Yerushalyim
2001(11 of Sivan, 5761): Fifteen-year-old Yael-Yulia Sklianik of
Holon and 20-year-old
Sergei Panchenko from the Ukraine died today of the wounds
sustained when a suicide bomber attacked the Dolphinarium.
2001: “Talmud Display Honors Holocaust Survivors” published today
described plans for a volume of this special edition of the Jewish which is
currently “on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art” to “go on a national
tour.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/02/local/me-5536
2002: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Sunday Jews': Proudly Half and Half by Emily
Barton and Firehouse by David Halberstam.
2002: HBO broadcast the first episode of “The Wire” a creation of
David Simon which painted a gritty, dark picture of Baltimore, MD.
2002(22nd of Sivan, 5762): Seventy-nine year old journalist Flora
Lewis, best known for her role as foreign affairs columnist at the New York Times passed away today.
2002(22nd of Sivan, 5762): Seventy-six-year-old Detroit
born producer Herman Cohen, the who gave
us the “ I Was A Teenage Werewolf” series passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/arts/herman-cohen-76-producer-of-werewolf.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-09-me-cohen9-story.html
2003:
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the
leading advocate for Jewish cultural creativity and preservation in America,
hosts a gala ceremony at the Plaza Hotel in New York where it presents today
the honorees for the fourteenth annual Jewish Cultural Achievement
Awards.
2004: Limrick Nelson, Jr. who in 1991 had fatally stabbed “Yankel
Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old Chasidic Jew” during a race riot in Crown Heights but
who was only “convicted in federal court of having violated the Jew’s civil
rights” is scheduled to be related from the Federal Penitentiary today thanks
to “time off for good behavior.”
2005: Award winning Israeli singer and actress Miri Mesika married
the musically record producer Ori Zakh today.
2005: The San Diego
Jewish Times, published the following article by Donald H. Harrison
entitled “Yossi Harel tells Exodus Story From the Commander's
Perspective.”
http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/dhh_weblog/2005-blog/2005-06_blog/2005-06-02-yossi_harel.htm
I was surprised after Yossi Harel finished speaking that the 40-50
people invited by the Tel Aviv Foundation to hear him May 15 at Reina and David
Shteremberg’s home in La Jolla didn’t jump to their feet as one to give him a
standing ovation. Harel’s stirring story is the kind that makes your heart
swell with gratitude that God made you a Jew. Perhaps the more restrained
response was because Harel, today an octogenarian, seems so shy, and so modest
about himself that people didn’t want to embarrass him by their effusions. The
simplicity of the man—measured against his deeds—reminded me of the time I
toured the historic home of Paula and David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv. To pass
between their kitchen table and the cabinets, one practically had to turn
sideways. Such an unassuming home for
someone as important to the Jewish people as Ben Gurion! But he was not a man of large possessions,
rather he was a man of big deeds. So too
might it be said about Harel. Harel was a youngster in the pre-Israel
Independence Haganah underground forces when he was directed to study coastal
navigation—study that led to him being named the post World War II commander of
the effort to smuggle immigrants past the British blockade and into Palestine.
Most people of my generation know his story very well; as it was fictionalized
in the movie Exodus starring Paul Newman. The real Exodus was among the ships
under Harel’s command. The captain of that ship, Ike Arianne, coincidentally is
coming to San Diego to speak June 5 to the Alpine Jewish Connection and June 8
to Congregation Beth Israel about his experiences. In describing the journey of the Exodus and
other immigrant ships, Harel emphasized three major points: the awesome sense
of responsibility he felt trying to ferry people from the camps of Europe,
especially for the youth who had survived the Holocaust, and the dangers that
the clandestine ships faced along the way. Harel remembers the children the
most vividly. On one ship, he remembers
a boy who used to dig tunnels from a nazi-guarded ghetto to the city
outside. His father wanted him to sneak
his sister out, but the sister wouldn’t leave the parents. So the boy’s father told the boy to leave the
ghetto on his own, and not to come back.
The father knew the nazis eventually would take them all away. The boy did as he was told, later telling
Harel “I never again saw my father, my mother, my sister; they went to heaven
through the chimneys of Auschwitz.” To his La Jolla listeners, Harel reflected;
“You listen to this story and you begin to understand what is the command you
got.” On that particular ship, there were 4,000 passengers, and “everyone had
an equivalent story.” It gave rise to
the determination that while the British might be successful in stopping some
ships from disembarking its passengers in Palestine, it couldn’t stop all of
them. At one of the Displaced Persons camp from which Exodus passengers were
chosen, he remembered a girl who held a little boy’s hand tight. Was she the older sister, he wondered? No, he learned from the camp’s Haganah
commander. She had been sent by her Jewish parents to a monastery where she
posed as a Catholic. The little boy came
later, but was too young to understand what was required of him. At night, he cried in Yiddish for his
mother—dangerous because the Gestapo would yank such children from the
monastery and execute them. The girl
hushed him, taught him how to make the sign of the cross and other prayers, and
remained his protector to that very day. The immigrant ships navigated waters
that under normal circumstances were treacherous; let alone when the ships sat
deep in the water because they were overloaded with passengers. They were short
on food, fuel and water, often having to cut rations as they neared their
destination. On one ship, a Greek captain and senior crew member began making
the sign of the cross on their chests as they looked at the rocks of
Peloponese. “When you see the captain
and the chief do that, you know something is wrong,” Harel recalled, his
understatement prompting laughter from his La Jolla listeners. The strong waves
were driving the 50-year-old ship toward the rocks, and the heavy-in-the-water
vessel had insufficient power to counteract their force. Six miles from the rocks, than five miles,
then four miles… “I could see that the ship was going to wreck,” he said. “We didn’t have a single lifeboat, what can
we do? So you sit on the bridge, and you
watch, and all of a sudden you see the waves parallel to the coast beginning to
change direction. The winds
changed! Slowly we passed by maybe
200-300 yards offshore. We had 4,000
people aboard. Maybe the supplication of
the captain helped!” On another occasion, a ship had to be navigated through
the Bosporus—but to get to the straits, it needed to first sail through waters
that the Russians had mined during World War II. A Russian pilot refused to sail at night, so
a Haganah member was assigned to read the charts and get the ship through. “It was the longest night of my life,” said
Harel.
“Overall,” Harel said, “we brought 100,000 people but this was the bloodiest
war we ever had. In the War for
Independence, we had 600,000 Jews, and we lost 6,000 – one percent.” Running the blockade, he said, “we lost over
3,000 people drowned in the Black Sea—three percent…
“With all these casualties, they kept coming, they didn’t stop,” he marveled.
“A nation destroyed was coming back to life.”
2006(6th of Sivan, 5766): First day of Shavuot
2006(6th of Sivan, 5766): Sol W. Cantor, an early proponent of
discount retailing featuring warehouse style stores passed away at the age of
95. He was a major philanthropist who
supported the UJA, ADL and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva
University.
2006: Pittsburgh's Malacandra Productions staged a nine-character
play adapted by John Regis from the classic William Tenn (Philip Klass) science
fiction short story, "Winthrop Was Stubborn".
2007: In Cedar Rapids, Melanie Abzug becomes a Bat Mitzvah at
Temple Judah.
2007: The Cedar Rapids
Gazette features an article entitled “Mitzvahs Swell in Summer” by Molly
Rossiter describing the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Ceremonies and the way they are
practiced at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids and Agudas Achim in Iowa City.
2007(16th of Sivan, 5767): Martin Meyerson, former president of
the University of Pennsylvania who briefly led the University of California at
Berkley during the tumultuous 1960’s passed away at the age of 84. “He was the
first Jewish head of a major research university, and he and John Kemeny of
Dartmouth College were the first Jewish presidents in the Ivy League. A
reporter once called Mr. Meyerson ‘the Jackie Robinson of Jewish academia.’”
2008: AIPAC Policy Conference opens in Washington, D.C.
2008 (28th
of Iyar, 5768): Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem
Reunification Day. This marks the
celebration of the 41st anniversary of the re-establishment of
Jewish control over the entire “City of David.”
2008(28th of Iyar, 5768): Eighty-year-old Paul Sills,
“the original director of Chicago’s The Second City” passed away today. (As
reported by Campbell Roberston)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/theater/04sills.html
2008: Punter Adam Podlesh “was elected to the Rochester Jewish
Sports Hall of Fame” today.
2018: The paperback edition of the award-winning novel The
Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, a distant relation of David O.
Selznick was released today.
https://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/about_hugo_intro.htm
2008: At the Spertus in Chicago, the fourth and final session of
“A Short History of Anti-Semitism.” Taught by historian Dr. Dean Bell, the
course covers anti-Judaism in the classical world, the Crusades and expulsions
in the Middle Ages, tolerance and restrictions in the early modern period, and
racial anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dean Bell
is Dean and Chief Academic Officer at Spertus. He earned his BA at the
University of Chicago and MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
He has taught at Berkeley, DePaul University, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and the Hebrew Theological College.
2008: Brian “Horwitz hit his first major league home run today…”
2008: In “Holocaust survivors passing memories to young people,”
published today, The Chicago Tribune
describes the “Generation to Generation” program sponsored by the Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie which is designed to enable
Holocaust survivors to tell their story with a young recipient to ensure that
the personal memories are not lost.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-holocaust-survivorsjun02,0,11987.story
2009:
The National Capital Mikvah offered a class on
"The Fourth Trimester: Childbirth and Beyond." During an interactive
lecture Rebbetzin Sharon Freundel led a discussion on childbirth and
post-childbirth issues for Orthodox women including niddah after childbirth and
when to return to the mikvah, how to schedule a brit for both term and pre-term
boys, and other laws and customs.
2009(10th of Sivan, 5769): A gunman killed one
person, seriously wounded a second and said he tried to hit a third in an
apparent shooting spree in central Jerusalem early this morning, police said.
2009:
A rising and falling siren sounded this morning at 11
A.M. for a minute and a half as part of this year's Home Front Command national
exercise, with all citizens encouraged to practice entering their protected
rooms.
2010: The YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture entitled “Empire
of Charity: American Jews and the Rebuilding of Polish Lithuania, 1919-1939”
which “focuses on the role Jewish émigrés and their philanthropy played in
reshaping political, social, and economic life in Brisk and Vilna, the two
historic intellectual centers of Lithuanian Jewry.”
2010: Funeral services were held today in Los Angeles for 88 year
old Holocaust survivor Sophi Lazar, the widow of Max Lazar with whom she had
two children Mordechai and Chana.
2010: In “An Assault, Cloaked in Peace” published today Michael B.
Oren explains why those on Turkish ship Mavi Marmara were not promoters of
peace, in the usually understood meaning of that term.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/opinion/03oren.html?_r=0
2010: Today, “the New York Post reported that Jeff Zucker would be
paid between $30 million and $40 million to leave NBC Universal shortly after
Comcast completes its 51% acquisition in the company.”
2010: In “A Viennese District Is Reborn” published today Kimberly
Bradley described the rebirth of the Karmeliterviertel, or Carmelite Quarter as
a center for Jewish culture. “Over the last decade or so the area has become
one of the few places in the world outside of Brooklyn and Tel Aviv where
bohemians stroll alongside groups of Orthodox Jews — the former buying chutney
from Slow Food Vienna’s booth at the market, the latter munching on matzo and
hummus from Kosherland.”
2011: The Masada Opera Festival is scheduled to “kick off with a
celebratory opera evening featuring works by Verdi, Puccini and Rossini
performed by Svetla Vasileva and the orchestra of Arena di Verona”.
2011: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to present
“Israeli Wines: Talk and Tasting” a
program offering a virtual tour of several vineyards as well as a look at the
unique Israeli wine-making process facilitated by Udi Kadim, CEO of Yarden, one
of the nation's leading importers of quality wines.
2011: Israel has deployed an Iron Dome rocket
interceptor outside Sderot, a Gaza border town that has borne the brunt of
Palestinian shelling attacks, posing a new test for the fledgling system
underwritten by Washington.
2011:
Five people were arrested this afternoon in
connection with an incident earlier in the day, in which a Molotov cocktail was
thrown at the Binyamin Police commander's car, setting it ablaze. Also, this
afternoon, Border Police and Civil Administration authorities demolished the
Ga'on Yarden settlement outpost in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, in
which several buildings were illegally built. It was the second demolition
carried out in one day.
2011: After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival last month
“Footnote” was released in Israel today.
2011: It was announced today that Jill “that Abramson would become
the executive editor of the Times in September 2011…”
2012: In Atlanta, The Temple is scheduled to sponsor a concert
featuring The Return which will be both a fundraiser and celebration of the
birthday of Rabbi Alvin Sugarman
2012: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Jessica Heeren is scheduled to be
called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah
2012:
Seven historic synagogues in Krakow that are closed
for most of the year are scheduled to be open tonight as part of the second
annual 7@nite-Synagogues By Night, an evening of exhibitions, music concerts
and fashion shows by young artists from Poland and around the world. The free
event is sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, JCC
Krakow and the Krakow Jewish community. (As reported by the JTA)
2012: “Thousands
demonstrated for social justice tonight in Israel’s three largest cities in an
effort to rejuvenate the movement that swept the country last summer with tent
cities and weekly demonstration. Many of the protesters, especially in Tel Aviv
and Haifa, were from the Meretz and Hadash parties, as well as from leftist
youth movements.” (As reported by Haaretz)
2012: Dianna Agron hosted the GLAAD Media Award in San Francisco.
2013: A grand ceremony to dedicate British Columbia’s first
synagogue will be reenacted today exactly 150 years to the day following the
establishment of Congregation Emanu-El in downtown Victoria, the picturesque
capital of Canada’s western-most province. (As reported by Arthur Wolak)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/canadas-oldest-synagogue-celebrates-150/
2013: The American Society for Jewish Music and the American
Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to present “Music in Our Time: 2013” an
annual concert that features music with Jewish content.
2013: The Israeli National Soccer Team is scheduled to play the
Honduran National Team at Citi Field in what will the Israeli team’s first New
York appearance in 35 years.
2013: A conference on “Holy War and Sacred Struggle in Judaism,
Christianity and Islam” is scheduled to open at Tel Aviv University
2013: A farewell dinner is scheduled to be held in New Orleans for
Rabbi Uri Topolosky of Congregation Beth Israel and his wife Dahlia. (For more
about the New Orleans Jewish Community see the Crescent City Jewish News edited
by Alan Samson)
2013 American model Lisa S. (born as Lisa Selesner) and actor
Daniel Wu gave birth to their daughter Raven.
2013: “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at
Black Colleges” is scheduled to have its final showing at the National Museum
of American Jewish Museum. (Special thanks to Rabbi Fred Davidow, an “authentic
Southern Jew” and a real mensch for making us aware of this)
http://www.nmajh.org/SpecialExhibitions/
http://articles.philly.com/2013-01-13/news/36314341_1_jewish-scholars-black-colleges-jewish-heritage
2013: The New York Times
published reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel
and Joe Shuster – the Creators of Superman by Brad Ricaa, No Joke:
Making Jewish Humor by Ruth Wisse and Lady At The O.K. Corral: The True
Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Anna Kirschner.
2013: The Bayit Yehudi party has officially
endorsed Rabbi David Stav as its candidate for the position of Ashkenazi Chief
Rabbi in a vote that took place during a faction meeting this afternoon.
2014: The JCC in Manhattan is scheduled to host
a screening of “An Honest Liar.”
2014: “Israel fired artillery shells at a
target in Syria early this morning after a mortar shell from the war-torn
country hit Mount Hermon, opening a second front hours after returning fire
into Gaza.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014: “Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas swore in the ministers of a new unity government” which he hailed as
ending the split with Hamas which is part of this reconciliation government, a
fact denied by the United States which says that it can negotiatie with the PA
because members of Hamas are not ministers in the new cabinet.
2014(4th of Sivan, 5774):
Eighty-eighty-year-old chemist Alexander Shulgin passed away today. (As
reported by Bruce Weber)
2014: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to host “Rethinking Jabotinsky,” a book talk with Hillel Halkin in
conversation with New York Times
cultural critic, Edward Rothstein, Columbia University historian Rebecca
Kobrin, and moderator Abe Socher, editor of The
Jewish Review of Books.
2015: The National Museum of American Jewish
History is scheduled to sponsor a trip to Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre
to experience “Irving Berlin’s I Love a Piano” a musical that follows the
journey of a piano as it moves in and out of American lives from the turn of
the century to the present.
2015: “The Pennsylvania Senate voted 49-0 today
to confirm Dr. Rachel Levine as the state's physician general -- making her the
highest ranked out transgender person ever to serve in Pennsylvania government.
2015: Christopher Bandini reviewed Contemporary
Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich by Emily Kurlioff.
2015(15th of Sivan, 5775): “Just a
few days shot of his 102nd birthday, former JHSGW president Henry
Brylawski passed away today.
2015: “Channel 2’s Moshe Nussbaum reported”
today that Israel did not attack Lebanese territory earlier in the day meaning
that reported by “Lebanese media outlets” that IAF had struck near the city of
Brital” and inflicted casualties were false.
2015(15th of Sivan, 5775):
Eight-eight-year-old Nobel Prize winning chemist Irwin Rose passed away today.
2015: President Obama posthumously awarded the
Medal of Honor to Sergeant William Shemin, who served in the Army during WW I.
2015: Elsie Shemin-Roth is scheduled to receive
the Medal Honor today on behalf of her late father Sgt. William Shemin, “nearly
a century after he pulled wounded comrades to safety” during World War I. (As
reported by Salter
2015: Israeli pop star Kobi Peretz is scheduled
to perform at the Highline Ballroom.
http://highlineballroom.com/show/2015/06/02/kobi-peretz/
2016: The 4th
Annual Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to open tonight with a
screening of the winner of the 2015 Israeli Academy Awards, “Baba Joon.”
2016: In Israel, “the Energy Ministry confirmed
that the Leviathan offshore field has 20 per cent less gas than previously
reported saying that there were 500 billion cubic meters of gas in the reserve
and not 620 billion cubic meters.
2016: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Temple Judah
funeral services are scheduled to be held for Harold Becker, a successful
businessman, World War II veteran, generous philanthropist and pillar of the
Jewish community
http://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2016/May/Harold-Becker/
2016: Sara “Hurwitz delivered the "A
Message from the Dean" at Yeshivat Maharat’s Semikha Ceremony, hosted at Ramaz Lower
School in which she applauded "the loud voices of those who hired our
graduates as spiritual leaders, who support our graduates in fulfilling their
dreams of serving the Jewish people as Orthodox clergy" and expressed her
belief that the graduates: Hadas (Dasi) Fruchter, Ramie Smith, and Alissa
Thomas-Newborn, "embody the ethic of optimism.”
2017: “The Women’s Balcony,” the
“#1 Film of the Year in Israel” is scheduled to open in Scottsdale, AZ.
2017: “Committee Elections for next
terms are scheduled to be held this evening following the Friday Night Dinner”
hosted by the Oxford University Jewish Society.
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” is
scheduled to premiere at Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Agelika Film Center.
2018(19th of Sivan,
5778): Parashat Behalotecha;
2018: 'Keynote' a Site Specific
Installation by Tirtzah Bassel, “an Israeli artist based in New York,” is
scheduled to open today.
2018: Participants in the Silent
Auction sponsored by the Straus Historical Society scheduled to take place on
June 4 begin previewing the items today.
2018: “A new event celebrating 50 years of
educational partnership with Hebrew University that was scheduled to take
placed today at the UCLA Hillel” will not take place as alumni express their
outrage at violence “on the Gaza border” – an outrage that apparently did not
carry over to this week’s rocket barrage from terrorists in Gaza launched
against Israel.”
2019: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah is
scheduled to hold its annual BBQ potluck dinner and annual congregational
meeting featuring a “Year-In –Review” prepared by Steve Eckert, whose artistry
proves once again that here is something about a Jews and Cameras (or at least
talented ones like Steve)
2019: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Funny
Man: Mel Brooks, the biography of the Jewish comedian by Patrick McGilligan
and The Drama of Celebrity, Sharon Marcus’ biography of Sarah Bernhardt.
2019: Avodah New Orleans is scheduled to host
its "Eighth Annual Partners in Justice Jazz” honoring “three incredible
heroes in the work for a more equitable Louisiana.”
2019(28th of Iyar, 5779):
Celebration of Yom Yershualayim, marking the 52nd anniversary of the
re-unification of Jerusalem, marking the end of the illegal 19t year-long
occupation of the eastern part of the city by Kingdom of Jordan; an occupation
that brought no complaint from the world community or demand from the Arabs of
Palestine to have it turned over to them as a capital for their “state.”
2019: Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to
host Deborah Ugoretz as she discusses the practice by 19th century
Jews in Poland and Poland “of making decorative papercuts for Shavuot, often
representing flowers and animal” followed by her demonstration of this unique
holiday custom.
2019: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present a performance of Verrd’s “Nabucco” adapted by and starring
David Seroro in the title role.
2020: “Lynn Melnick, the author of the poetry
collections Refusenik, Landscape with Sex and Violence, and If I Should Say I
Have Hope, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 Poets for the Next
Generation is scheduled to lead a “Poetry Writing Workshop Inspired by ‘The New
Colossus’ sponsored by the AJHS.
2020: Live on Zoom, The American Sephardi
Federation is scheduled to “The Muslim World’s Reaction to the Six Day Work.
2020: Live on Zoom the Leo Baeck Institute is
scheduled to host a discussion of Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday,
featuring George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the
End of the World.”
2020: Today on GiveNOLA Day donors can make
contribution to JCRS (Jewish Children’s Regional Service), an organization that
really delivers the goods for Jewish youngsters living throughout the southern
United States.
2020: LSJS is scheduled “Batsheva,” the third
in a lecture series Debbie Meyer on “The Trials of King David.
2020: On-line, The Project on Russian and
Eurasian Jewry is scheduled to present “The Marriage of Véra Slonim and
Vladimir Nabokov as Jewish, Russian and American History.”
2021: The
Temple Emanu El Brother is scheduled to host syndicated arts columnist Bob
Adelman who will discuss his new book All the World’s a Stage Fright:
Misadventures of a Clandestine Crictic.
2021: The
American Society for Jewish Music and the Center for Jewish History are
scheduled to present “To Bigotry No Sanction,” “a magnificent new cantata,
composed by Jonathan Comisar, based on George Washington’s historic Letter to
the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island” which was commissioned by
Congregation Keneseth Israel in the Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park, PA.
2021: The
Illinois Holocaust Museum a live social justice and Nelson Mandela-inspired
spoken word performance and Q&A with Kareem K.W.O.E. Wells and K.W.O.E
Foundation Executive Director Judith Allen. Featured on ESPN and TEDx, and
founder of K.W.O.E Group and Foundation,
2021: The
Kosher hot stand will not return at today’s scheduled opening of Progressive
Field, home of the Cleveland Indians.
2022: In
Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to meet today and discuss via
Zoom, The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff.
2002:
Leah Rauch, the Director of Education for the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Associate Manager of Education Matthew
are schedule to share, online little-known stories of LGBTQ+ people who were
murdered or survived the Nazi regime and reflect on the importance of being a
voice for those who were silenced.
2022: The
Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host a literary program featuring Felicia
Berliner, author of the debut novel Shumtz and author Abby Stein
2022:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Herman on the works
of Lev Ozerov.
2023: The
Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to continue at the Marlene Meyerson
JCC Manhattan.
2023:
“Songs of Truth,” an orchestral concert with multimedia storytelling and
conversation featuring music written in concentration camps, performed by
Golden Gate Symphony & Chorus is scheduled to be presented by Holocaust
Music Lost and Found with Citizen Film, CJM and others.
2023: In
Pittsburgh, the trial of Robert Bowers the “alleged gunman” who murdered Jews
in the synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018, is scheduled to continue today.
2023: JWI
urges its members to participate in The Wear Orange Initiative as part of the 9th
National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
2024: Dayenu
Circle of Jewish Silicon Valley is scheduled to present “Moving Ahead on
Climate Action” during which “Assemblymember Marc Berman will discuss AB 2083,
the Industrial Manufacturing Modernization Act, which is designed to clean up
the second-largest source of greenhouse-gas emissions.”
2024: In
New Orleans, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host “Avodah's annual Partners in
Justice Fundraiser https://avodah.net/pij/
2024:Harvey Fierstein’s two-act adaptation
titled “Torch Song” which opened May 9 at Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley is
scheduled to be performed today for the last time.
2024: Jewish
Folk Chorus of San Francisco is scheduled to present its 98th annual concert,
which features songs by Yiddish poet and songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig.
2024:The
26th New York Yok Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
open today.
2024: Lobel
Teachers Colloquia is scheduled to begin today in Princeton, NJ.
2024:
JHMOMC is scheduled to present “A Life of My Own: Meeting Eleanor Roosevelt
with Actress and Impersonator Linda Kenyon.”
2024:
Eighty-third anniversary of the end Farhoud, the Iraqi pogrom that marked the
beginning of the end this ancient Jewish community and which is proof positive
that anti-Semitism in that part of the world pre-dated the creation of the
state Israel.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-farhud
2024: As June 2nd begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
anti-Semitism sweeps the United States, and the
Hamas held hostages begin day 240 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: Based on previously published reports “there
is progress when it comes to dismantling Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and
maintaining security on Israel’s northern border.”
2025: As Israelis celebrate Shavuot and the
giving of the ten commandments they are braced for the “giving” of more rocket
attacks by the Houthis
2025: Based on yesterday’s attack in Boulder,
CO when an “incendiary devices was
thrown at walkers at the Run for Their Lives event which an attempt to raise awareness
of the hostages still be held by Hamas in Gaza, American Jews will be even more
vigilant as they attend Shavuot services
2025(6th of Sivan, 5785): Shavuot;
for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2025: As June 2nd
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe and the United States where words have
given way to deeds with a Hamas supporter murdering two Jews on the streets of
Washington, D.C,” the reality is that
the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 605 in captivity (Editor’s note:
this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time
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