401:
Birthdate of Theodosius II. As Emperor he adopted many of the anti-Semitic
views of his sister which led to the destruction of innumerable synagogues and
the murder of the Nasi, Gamliel IV who had authorized the building of new
synagogues. Theodosius abolished the position of Nasi in 425. The term Nasi means Prince and starting with
the last decade of the second century was the title given to the head of the
Sanhedrin. The Romans had recognized the importance of the position and Jews
were allowed to pay a tax for the upkeep of the Nasi. When Theodosius killed Gamliel and abolished
the position Nasi, he did not end the tax.
He diverted the money to the Roman government.
847: Papacy of Leo IV
begins.
879: Louis III becomes
King of the Western Franks (also known as France). Louis was part of the Carolingian Dynasty
which was comparatively sympathetic and supportive of the Jews living in the
realm as can be seen by the decrees of some of Louis III’s predecessors
including Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.
1096: During the
Crusades Bishop Egelbert offered to save all the Jews of Trier, Germany who are
willing to be baptized. The Jews were
seeking refuge from a mob that was threatening them with death. Most of the Jews chose to drown themselves
rather than accept Christianity.
1191: In the enfolding
saga of King Richard’s crusade to the Holy Land that was so costly to the Jews
from the time of his departure until the payment of his ransom, the English
monarch set sail from Sicily for Palestine.
1201: King John of England confirms Charter of the
Jews. King John charged the Jews four thousand marks to re-confirm the rights
that had first been guaranteed by his great grandfather, King Henry
1439(25th of Nisan):
Poet and kabbalist Avigdor ben Isaac Kara of Prague passed away today.
1516:
The first ghetto was established in Venice. There are various
explanations of the origin of the term ghetto. "The mostly likely
explanation for the word ghetto, as applied to a special place assigned to the
Jews is that one such district, set up in the city of Venice, was located near
an iron-foundry which was called ‘get’ in the dialect of Venice." While Jews had
often sought to live in their own communities, the ghetto was different because
it was compulsory. Under the ghetto system, Jews were restricted by law
as to where they could live while Christians were free to live everywhere.
1560(14th of Nisan): The Pentateuch
with a Yiddish translation was published in Cremona, Italy
1583: Birthdate of Delft native Hugo Grotious
the diplomate and theologian who was a friend of Manasseh Ben Israel whose
works he admired and an advocate for the admission of Jews to settle as full
citizens in the Netherlands.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059491?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1570:
The Chumash with Yiddish translation was published in Cremona,
Italy. There were less than a thousand Jews living in Cremona at this
time. In 1559, under pressure from the Dominicans, copies of the Talmud
and other Jewish books had been publicly burned in Cremona. A
quarter of a century after the printing of the above-mentioned Chumash, the
Jews were expelled from Cremona.
1607: As the
Inquisition prepared to take action against “Jorge de Almedia, a Portuguese
residing in Mexico, the husband of Dona Lenor de Andrada who was convicted by
the Holy Office having kept observed the dead Law of Moses, document were
posted on the door of the Cathedral in the next step to bringing him to
“justice.”
1625(13th of
Nisan, 5385): Joshua Cohen Peixotto, the husband of Dona Ester who had lived in
Holland and who shares the name with at least two other descendants passed away
today.
1637: Venetian Rabbi, Judah di Modena “received
word that his Italian manuscript entitled ‘History of Hebrew’ customs had been
published in Paris.” A gentile Parisian publisher thought that “a book
extolling Judaism, written by a Jew in Italian” would be of interest to Christian readers which was the authors “target
audience.” (As reported by Abraham
Bloch)
1625(3rd of Nisan, 5385): Joshua Cohen Peixotto passed away.
1663: Phelipe Lopes wrote from
London to “Brother Jorge Menes Da Costa that among other things they had not
heard any news from Libson, that one thousand quintals of pepper that had been
bought at auction have been shipped from Geona to Leghorn where they will be
sold and that “Dom Francisco says that it would be well to spread the report
that he is sent thither by” Queen Elizabeth “upon her service…”
1699: Rabbi Samuel Orgels, a friend
of Baer Cohen for whom he had arranged both of his marriages, passed away. According to the diary of Glückel of Hameln
he “fell into a faint and died on the spot” on a Friday evening while in the
Synagogue.
1719: Fire destroyed the Ghetto of Nikolsburg,
Moravia
1728(1st of Iyar, 5488): Rosh
Chodesh
1728(1st of Iyar, 5488): Solomon
Ayllon, the “Hacham” of Sephardic congregations in London and Amsterdam and who
was alleged to a supporter of Sabbatai Zevi, passed away today.
1738: John Da Costa swears in writing that he
has translated the will of Abraham Mendes Seixas, also known as Migule Pnacheo
Da Silva from Portuguese into English to the best of his ability.
1739(2nd of Nisan, 5499): Netanel
son of Yaakov passed away after which he was buried in the Yablonov Cemetery.
http://jgaliciabukovina.net/160536/tombstone/tombstone-netanel-son-yaakov
1754(18th of Nisan, 5514) Sixth Day
of Pesach as British forces under the command of General Braddock prepare to do
with the French in the opening rounds of what Americans call the French and
Indian Wars which were a part of the Seven Years War.
1762(17th of Nisan, 5522): Shabbat
shel Pesach
1765(19th of Nisan, 5525): Fifth Day
of Pesach
1769(3rd of Nisan, 5529):
Forty-five-year-old Dr. Aron Gumperz, the Berlin born son of Salman and Schoene
Aron Gumperz the friend of playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing passed away
today in Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/_journals_zuto_3_1_article-p66_9-preview%20(1).pdf
1770(15th of Nisan, 5530): Pesach
1770: In Germany, Jettle and Salomon
Ottehnheimer gave birth to Isaac Ottenheimer, the husband of Sarah Weil with
whom he had nine children.
1772: Empress Maria Theresa issued an order
allowing Jews to “sell new garments they had made themselves" despite
protests from the local tailor’s guild.
1773(17th of Nisan, 5533): Shabbat
shel Pesach observed that Massachusetts political leader wrote to Virginian
Richard Henry Lee express of the approval of the “Friends of Liberty” in Boston
“of the truly Patriotick Resolves of the House Of Burgesses of Virginia.
(Editor’s note: Both of these men were leaders of the movement that in 1775
would become the American Revolution.)
1776(21st of Nisan, 5536): Seventh
Day of Pesach celebrated the same day that during the American Revolution, the
Continental Congress decided that while “the prosperity of Dartmouth College,
in New Hampshire, is a desirable object, it is neither seasonable nor prudent
to contribute towards its relief or support, out of the public treasury.”
1789(14th of Nisan, 5549): Fast of
the First Born; erev Pesach observed on the same day that John Hopkins wrote to
President-elect George Washington offering to resign his position as “Loan
Officer of the United States in the State of Virginia.”
1790: Birthdate of Maria S. Bomseisler, the
wife of Siegfried Bomesiler.
1792(18th of Nisan, 5552): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1792: As Jews munch on Matzah, Secretary of
State Thomas Jefferson wrote to Congress concerning on the proposed treat with
Algiers that would provide for the release for captives held in their custodya.
1794: Birthdate of Edward Robinson an American
biblical scholar, known as the “Father of Biblical Geography.” Robinson led a
mission of exploration to Palestine in 1838.
Among his many finds was “the tunnel dug by Hezekiah shortly before the
Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701/02 BCE.”
He is the Robinson of “Robinson’s Arch,” a structure found on the
south-western side of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
1796: In Easton, PA, Esther and Michael Hart
gave birth to Henry S. Hart who passed away in 1841.
1797(14th of Nisan, 5557): Ta’ant
Bechorot; erev Pesach
1800(15th of Nisan, 5560): First day
of Pesach
1800: In Germany, Ester Isaac and Abraham Amson
who had been married in 1797 gave birth to Sirle Abraham, the wife of Moses
Rosenfelder with whom she had two children – Sophie and Abraham – the younger
of which ended up living in Baton Rouge, LA.
1803(18th of Nisan, 5563): Fourth
Day of Pesach observed on the same day that “Napoleon told the Treasury
Minister François Barbé-Marbois that he was considering selling the Louisiana
Territory to the United States.”
1806(22nd of Nisan, 5566): Eight Day
of Pesach
1806: As Jews munch on their matzah for the
last time, Lewis and Clark are making their way down the Columbia River in the
vicinity of modern-day Bonneville
1810: Birthdate of London native Sarah Samuel,
the wife of Isaac Cohen whom she married at the Great Synagogue in 1827 and the
mother of Juliana, Ann and Lucy Cohen.
1811(16th of Nisan, 5571): Second
Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1813(10th of Nisan, 5573): Shabbat
HaGadol
1816(12th of Nisan, 5576): M.H. Bock, the
native of Magedburg founded a well-regarded private school “in 1807 at Berlin,
and to which Christian as well as Jewish pupils were admitted” passed away
today.
1819(15th of Nisan, 5579): Pesach
and Shabbat coincide.
1825(22nd of Nisan, 5585): 8th
day of Pesach
1825: As Jew munched their matzah for the last
time the first hotel in Hawaii opened today.
1828: In Charleston, SC, Catharine Oppenheim,
the Montgomery, AL born daughter of Rachel and Joseph Moses and her husband
Hertz Wolf Oppenheim gave birth to Samuel Hertz Oppenheim, the husband of
Hannah A. Oppenheim and father of Hertz Wolf Oppenheim; Eleanor Oppenheim;
Helen Oppenheim; Nettie Oppenheim and Moses Oppenheim.
1828: Birthdate of Isaac Honig, brother of
Henry Honig, the native of Mayence who came to the United States in 1850 where
his mercantile prospered to the extent that he could retire in 1865.
1830(17th of Nisan, 5590): Shabbat
shel Pesach
1831: Amalie
Male Marcus Schoenfeld, the German born daughter of Marcus Steinfeld and
Caroline Raphael and her husband Moses Schoenfeld gave birth to Philip
Schoenfeld, the husband of Sophie Schoenfeld and the father of Moritz
Schoenfeld.
1833(21st of Nisan, 5593): Seventh
Day of Pesach celebrated on the same day that “Othello” a play by Shakespear
who also created “Shylock” was performed at the Royal Convent Garden in London.
1834(1st of Nisan, 5594): Rosh
Chodesh Nisan
1835: Birthdate of Johann Schnitzler a
Hungarian-Austrian Jewish laryngologist who was a native of Nagy Kanizsa (today
part of Hungary). He was the father of famed playwright Arthur Schnitzler
(1862-1931) and Julius Schnitzler. In 1860 he earned his medical doctorate at
the University of Vienna, where from 1863 to 1867 he worked as an assistant to
Johann von Oppolzer (1808-1871). In 1880 he was appointed associate professor
of laryngology at the University of Vienna and later became director of its
policlinic. Schnitzler was a pioneer of modern laryngology, and author of
numerous works on diseases of the throat and larynx. His best-known written
work was Klinischer Atlas der Laryngologie (Clinical Atlas of Laryngology),
which was published posthumously in 1895. In 1860 with Philipp Markbreiter
(1810-1882), he founded the Wiener Medizinische Presse, a publication of which
he remained as editor until 1886.Schnitzler is credited with coining the term
"spastic dysphonia" for a vocal disorder known today as spasmodic dysphonia.
1838(15th of Nisan, 5598): First Day
of Pesach
1840( 7th of Nisan, 5600): John
Henry Franks, the English born son of Phila and Naphtali Franks, the grandson
of Jacob Franks and Bilhah Abigail Levy, the husband of Elizabeth Wilks and the
father of George, Emma and John Franks passed away today in London.
1844(21st of Nisan, 5604): Seventh
Day of Pesach observed for the last time during the Presidency of John Tyler.
1844: Birthdate of future Missouri resident
Lena Hellman, the wife of Louis Hellman the mother of Hettie Max and Josephine
Hellman.
1845: The Great First of Pittsburgh destroyed
much of the Pennsylvania city
1845: Birthdate of Missouri resident David
Eiseman, Sr., the husband of Aurelia Stix Eiseman and the father of Etta,
Richard and Allice Eiseman.
1846(14th of Nisan, 5606): Fast of
the First Born; erev Pesach observed 15 days before the start of the
Mexican-American War.
1847: Birthdate of Joseph Pulitzer. Born in
Hungary, Pulitzer came to the United States during the Civil War where he
served in the Union Army. After the war he learned English, became rich
as publisher of the St Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He
died in 1911. The Pulitzer Prizes were created by his will and were
first awarded in 1917. Pulitzer's father was Jewish, but his mother was a
Roman Catholic. Although he was not Jewish, Pulitzer's enemies attacked
him as one even condemning him for hiding the "fact" that he was one.
1849(17th of
Nisan, 5609): Third day of Pesach
1849: Lion Metz married
Julia Hart at the Great Synagogue today.
1849(17th of
Nisan, 5609): In Amsterdam, David Proops, the last member of a family of
printers that date back to the 18th century passed away today.
1850: In Ukraine, Charles
(Simche) Wildenik and Etta (Esther) Wildenik gave birth to Bessie Kwait the wife
of Raphael (Ralph) Kwait (Kvachinski), who passed away at the age of
seventy-six in 1926 in Johnstown, PA
1852(21st of Nisan,
5612): Seventh Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1852: In London,
Catherine Barnett and David Jonas gave birth to Jacob Jonas.
1853: In Dublin, on the
day after Shabbat HaGadol, London native Isabella Davis and dentist Hyman Davis
gave birth to James Davis, the author known as Owen Davis, husband of Esther
Josephine Da Costa Andrade, father of Isabelle, Hyman and Dorothy Davis, and
the brother of Julia Davis, known as the novelist “Frank Danby.”
1853: In Rulzheim,
Germany, Sarah and Salomon Levi Landauer, gave birth to future Dallas, TX
resident Aaron Landauer, the husband of Henriette Landauer with whom he had
five children.
1854: Birthdate of
Rachel H. Hays, the Utica, NY born wife of attorney Daniel Peixotto Hays, a
member of one of New York’s oldest Jewish families who among other things was a
trustee and secretary of the Jewish Publication Society,
1855(22nd of
Nisan, 5615): Eighth Day of Pesach
1855(22nd of
Nisan, 5616): Shmuel Zanvil Friedland, the son Elia and Ze’ev Wolf Friedland,
the husband of Itke Friedland with whom he had four children, passed away in
Minsk today.
1855: Birthdate of
Kansas City, MO native Berry Dantzig, the husband of Anna Kasor Dantzig
1855: In Philadelphia,
PA, Sigmund Juris and Theresa Trautmann gave birth to Louis Jurist, the husband
of Louise Stieglitz and graduate of Jefferson Medical College where he served
as a lecturer while also practicing laryngology at Jewish Hospital.
1856: In New York City,
Meyer and Caroline Levy gave birth to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum educated Texas
and St. Louis liquor store businessman Lee Levy, the husband of Zetta Sproesser
with whom he had three children – Irene, Beebe and Meilton.
1856: In Germany
Magdalena Madel Dukas, the Sulzburg born daughter of Leopold Kahn, (Der
Jüngere) and Lea Libuscha Kahn and her husband Leopold Dukas gave birth to
Naphtali Hermann Dukas who passed away in London.
1857(16th of
Nisan, 5617): Second Day of Pesach
1857: Birthdate of
David Edrehi who would be buried at the Temple Beth-El Cemetery in Pensacola,
FL when he passed away.
1858: Jewish veterans
of the Russian Army were given permission to settle in Finland which was a
province in the Russian Empire. The
Jewish soldiers would have had to complete 25 years of service to gain this
right.
1859: In Ohio, Schachne
Issacs, the husband of Reitz Tobias Isaacs, gave birth to Abraham Isaacs, the
husband of Rachel Friedman Isaacs and the father of Aaron and Nathan Isaacs.
1861(30th of
Nisan, 5621): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1861(30th of Nisan,
5621): As Confederate forces prepare to begin for the attack on Fort Sumter,
the Jews of Charleston joined their co-religionist throughout the world in
observing the first day of Rosh Chodesh
Iyar.
1863(21st of
Nisan, 5623): Seventh Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Lincoln
reviewed the Army of the Potomac at its winter quarters in Falmouth, Virginia.
1863: In Madison, WI,
“the foundation of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue was finished” today.
1863: Jacob C. Cohen of
the 27th Ohio Infantry writes from Corinth, Mississippi about life
in the Union Army which is resting in preparation for what will be the climatic
campaign to take Vicksburg, the “Confederate Gibraltar” on the Mississippi
River.
1863: Today Ferdinand
Leopold Samer was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a chaplain in the Union
Army. Born in Germany, Samar was elected by the 54th New York Volunteer
Regiment made up of mostly German speaking soldiers. Samer was the first Jewish chaplain to be
wounded in combat during the Civil War.
1864: In London, Miriam
Solomons and Arvrahom ben Yehoshua gave birth to Abraham Bittan.
1865(14th of
Nisan, 5625): On the day after the meeting at Appomattox ending the Civil War
in the morning Jews, both North and South, observed the Fast of the First Born
and in the evening sat down to their fist “peaceful” Seder.
1866(25th of Nisan,
5626): Fifty-nine-year-old Adolph Meyer, the scion of multi-generational
Hanover, Germany, banking family who with his wife Fanny had eight children,
passed away today.
1867(5th of
Nisan, 5627): Six-month-old Nathan Dreifuss, the son of Emanuel and Karolina
Dreifuss passed awaytoday.
1868(18th of
Nisan, 5628) Fourth Day of Pesach
1868: Birthdate of
London native Augustus George Andrews who gained fame as George Arliss, the
first British actor to win an Oscar which was awarded to him for playing the
title role in “Disraeli.”
1868: Birthdate of
Krakow native Asriel Gunzig, the holder of a doctorate from the University of
Bern who served as the rabbi of the Jewish congregation in Lostice, Moravia for
over a decade before becoming head of the Hebrew Tachkemoni School at Antwerp
in 1920 and who raised four children – Regina, Sabine, Jacques and Hilda – with
his wife, the former Amelia Schreiber.
1868: Birthdate of
Cracow native Asriel (Israel) Gunqzig, the rabbi of Lostice, Moravia from 1899
to 1920 after which he became the head of the Hebrew Tachkemoni School in
Belgium while preparing scholarly works on the history of the Haskalah in
Galicia and raising four children – Regina, Max who was murdered at Auschwitz,
Jacques who was murdered at Mauthausen and Hilda – with his wife Amalia.
1870: In Russia Feiga
and J. Moses Bayurk gave birth to Philadelphia resident Samuel Bayuk, the
founder along with his brothers Meyer and Max what became “Bayuk Cigars, Inc.,
the manufacturer of ‘Phillies’” and the husband of Sadye Bayuk with whom he had
five children,.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/11/13/84436567.html?pageNumber=15
1871: Anti-Semitic
riots break out in Odessa Russia
1871: Adolph and
Johanna Loeb gave birth to Esther Loeb who became Esther Greenebaum when she
married Henry Napthali Greenebaum with she had four children.
1872:
Thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia born attorney Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen, the
son of Myer David Cohen and Judith Simha Solis, grandson of Jacob da Silva
Solis and veteran of the Union Army married his cousin,
Lucia Manness Ritterband, with whom he had two daughters (Jessie Myra and
Gertrude) and one son (Leon Manness).”
1873: Birthdate of Russian native and
Massachusetts resident Max Goldberg, the husband of Bessie Pearlman Goldberg
and the father of Evelyn and Ruth
Goldberg.
1873: In “Passover: The
Jewish Festival and Feast of the Year,” published today The New York Times
reports that “to-morrow evening, the 11th of April the Jewish part of the
inhabitants of this City will begin the celebration of the Feast of the
Passover, an ancient Hebrew festival which Moses instituted to commemorate
perpetually the passing over the houses of the Israelites, and the slaying of
the first-born of the Egyptians, just previous to the exodus of the children of
Israel.” The article is remarkable for its detailed description of the holiday
including the insightful statement that “Passover is one of the three important
of the festivals on the calendar and although observed by the Jews everywhere
yet the laws laid down in relation to its celebration are not followed by all
classes of Jews with equal strictness”
1874: Birthdate Mehmed
Talaat, a major leader of the Ottoman Empire during WW I who played a prominent
role in the “Armenian Genocide” which was described in detail by Henry
Morgenthau in his 1918 memoir Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story
1875(5th of
Nisan, 5635): Parashat Tazria read on the same day that “The Arya Samaj was
founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati.”
1876(16th of Nisan,
5636): Second day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1876: Birthdate of
Rumania native Joseph Harry Schanfeld, who in 1886 came to Minneapolis, MN
where he founded Joseph H. Schanfeld Company and leader of the Jewish community
where he served as the Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign and director of
the Jewish Family Welfare Association.
1876: In New York City,
Bertha and Levi Spiegelberg gave birth to Eugene E. Spiegelberg
1878: In Boston, MA,
Belinda Spitz and Abraham P. Mork gave birth to MIT educated chemist Harry
Solomon Mork, the holder of “numerous patents on Cellulose Chemistry and
Waterproofing Compounds” who married Clair Levy in 1914 after the death of his
first wife Estelle Williams.
https://patents.google.com/patent/GB191020672A/en
1878: In Radzilovo,
Poland, Rachel Ebesntein and Samuel Fishman gave birth NYC public school
educated journalist and editor Jacob Fishman who began his career with the
Jewish Daily News where he rose to become city editor in 1905 before eventually
joining the Jewish Morning Journal as its editor I 1916.
1879(16th of Nisan,
5639): Second day of Pesach
1879(16th of
Nisan, 5639): Anglo-Jewish author Annette Amelia “Annie” Salaman, the youngest
daughter of Alice and Simeon Kensington Salaman, and sister of painter Julia
Goodman, composer Charles Kensington Salaman, author Lady Rachel Simon, and
poet Rose Emma Salaman who was the author of How to Earn a Good Name and
Footsteps on the Way of Life passed away today in Brighton after which
she was interred at the Balls Pond Road Cemetery.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13012-salaman-annette-a
https://archive.org/details/footstepsinwayof00sala/page/n7/mode/1up
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Count-Fleet#ref1182869
1880: In Volozhin,
Lithuania, “Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin and his second wife Rayna Batya
Miriam Berlin (née Epshtein)” gave birth to Meir Berlin who gained fame as
Rabbi Meir Bar-llan, a leader of the Mizrachi movement, founder of
the “daily newspaper Hatzofeh, co-editor of the Talmudical Encyclopedia and
opponent of U.N. partition plan and the 1939
White Paper who multi-faceted life provided the inspiration for the
founding of Bar-lllan University in Ramat Gan.
1882: A pogrom in Podalia, Russia left 40 dead, 170
wounded and 1,250 dwellings destroyed. Fifteen thousand Jews were reduced to
total poverty. It was events like these that spurred the First Aliyah in
the Zionist movement.
1884(15th of Nisan,
5644): 1st day of Pesach
1884: Many of the
settlers of Beersheba, a Jewish agricultural community observed Pesach for the
last time before moving away due to a dispute with administrator Joseph Baum.
1884: In Poland, Morris
Goldberg and Sarah Bianko gave birth Abraham “Abe” Goldberg, a tailor who
married Minnie Weiss after the death of his wife Mimi Goldberg who settled in
Cleveland, OH.
1885: Two days after he
had passed away in New Zealand, 68-year-old Samuel Jacobs, the son of Moses
Jacobs and Sarah Levy was buried today.
1885: Birthdate of Dr.
Max Leder who was shipped from Pilsen to Terezin and then on March 3, 1942 to
Izbica where he was murdered.
1887(16th of
Nisan, 5647): Second Day of Pesach
1887: In New York City,
“Meyer and Lena (Michael) Wyner gave birth to Brooklyn Polytechnic engineer
Emanuel Meyer and husband of Theresa Gluckselig whose career including working
for the Fort Pitt Bridge Company and the Wilputte Coke Oven Corporation.
1887: Pope Leo XIII
authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America. Among its
most distinguished alums is David R. Levin a graduate of university’s Columbus
College of Law.
1888:
Twenty-six-year-old Savannah, GA businessman and philanthropist Leopold Adler,
the Prague born son of Moses and Rosie Adler, the founder of Leopold Adler
Department Store (at one time the largest in Georgia), the chairman of the
board of Savannah Bank and Trust Company, the President of Mikve Israel
Congregation and the Chairman of Jewish Relief Drives since World War married
Hannah Gukenheimer today in Savannah, GA.
1890:
Sixty-one-year-old Hungarian born Austrian poet Karl Isidor Beck who edited the
Lloyd, passed away today in Vienna.
1890: The late Louis
Lippman has left a bequest of $500 to each of the following: Mount Sinai
Hospital, the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, the Montefiore Home for
Chronic Invalids and the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1892: In an article
entitled “One of the Important Hebrew Festivals Begins To-Morrow Night,” the
New York Times reports that “at sunset to-morrow evening, which corresponds
with the evening of the fourteenth day of the month of Nissan in the Hebraic
calendar the Jewish community through the world will commence the celebration
of the feast of Pesach or Passover.”
1893: “Rabbi Gottheil’s Protest” published
today described a lecture delivered by the leader of Temple Emanu-El in which
he “declared himself forcibly against the missionary work among Jews which is
carried on by the Christian churches.”
1893: Birthdate of Lithuania native and poet
Hillel Bavli who in 1912 came to the United States where he became a Professor of Hebrew Literature at
the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1894: Polish born, Manchester, England educated
Samuel Hyman Borofsky who had been serving as a Justice of the Peace since 1891
became a Notary Public today in Boston.
1895: In Albany, NY, the State Board of
Charities approved the certificate of incorporation of the Hebrew Infant Asylum
of the City of New York.
1896: A Jew named Benjamin Dreyer who had been
masquerading as Turk named Ben Ouni was arraigned in Brooklyn on charges of
having stolen a tray of rings.
1896: “David Finkelstein of Bridgeport, CT, got
a writ of habeas corpus” today “in Special Term, Part II of the Supreme Court
commanding Pesach Isenbroch…to bring into court the court, the realtor’s wife,
Ida Finkelstein” whom he alleges he married under false pretenses.
1896: The Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew
Infant Asylum performed a two act play at the Lexington Opera house as a
fundraiser.
1897(8th of Nisan, 5657): Parashat
Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1897: “Books and Periodicals” published today
described plans to simultaneously release Ancient Hebrew Tradition by
Dr. Firtz Hommel in May. In this work, the noted Semitic language expert
“controverts the method employed by the higher critics of the Old Testament and
attacks the Graf Wellhausen hypothesis, also known as the documentary
hypothesis.
1898(18th of Nisan, 5658): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1898: Simon Jacoby, a native of England who had
joined the U.S. Navy in December of 1897 was serving as a Gunner today aboard
the U.S.S. Oregon.
1898: Birthdate of Evan P. Helfaer, the
prominent Milwaukee businessman “who made a major contribution to the Helfaer
Community Service Building, completed in 1973” before he died in February,
1974.
1898: In Los Angeles, Mamie and Henry Klein
gave birth to their only son, Arthur Louis Klein who earned a Ph.D. in physics
at Cal Tech where he eventually became a full Professor of Aeronautical
Engineering – a position he held when in 1946 he went to Bikini to help
evaluate the effect of the atomic tests.
1900: Herzl met Arminius Vámbéry in Budapest in
an attempt to enlist Turkish support for the creation of the Jewish homeland in
Palestine.
1900: Birthdate of New Haven, CT native and
Yale trained attorney Abraham Stodel Ullman, the husband of the former Helen
Green with whom he had two children who served as state attorney from 1939
until 1961 while being a member of the YMHA, B’nai B’rith and the United Jewish
Appeal.
1901: “Aid for Palestine Laborers” published
today described plans for a “Passover celebration and concert for the suffering
Jewish farm laborers of Palestine” to be held tomorrow at night at Cooper Union
to raise funds for the Zionist settlers.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lili-darvas
1903: In Vienna, Max Graf, “a member of Sigmund
Freud’s circle of friends” and his wife gave birth to opera producer Herbert
Graf, who was also “the Little Hans discussed in Freud's 1909 study ‘Analysis
of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy.’”
1904: In Poland Ely and Bernice R. Shanis gave
birth to Rose Shanis who became Rose Shanis Glick when she married David Glick
with whom she had a son, Stephen Jack Glick and gained game as the founder of
Rose Shanis and Company, a unique lending institution in Baltimore, MD.
http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/rose-shanis-glick/
1904: The Eighth Biennial Convention of the
Independent Order of the Free Sons of Judah whose members included Isidor Byk,
Isaac Grossman, Levy Abrahams and Victor Steiner was held today in New York
City.
1905: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Simenhoff
officiated at the wedding of Jacob Lichmon and Rosa Dautschman.
1906: Birthdate of Wilhelm Kauders who gained
fame as Czech electrical engineer Vilém Klíma who survived Terezin and the
death march to Auschwitz.
1907: It was reported today that Russian Jews
living in the southern part of the Empire are “in a panic” over the possibility
of “wholesale anti-Jewish attacks” and are selling their homes so they can get
away from the impending pogroms.
1908: “Hebrew Charity Aids Thousands” published
today described how fifty-thousand pounds of matzoth were given away yesterday
in a 12 hour period to the “Hundreds of poor Hebrews” on the East Side where a
greater demand for aid exists this year to the unusually large number of
“Jewish laboring people” who are out of work.
1909(19th of Nisan, 5669: Fifth Day
of Pesach and Shabbat Shel Pesach.
1909: “A benefit concert was given this evening
at Carnegie Hall by the Council of Jewish Women. New York Section, that
effected the first American appearance of an organization calling itself the
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and enlisted the services of five soloists --
Mmes. Nordica and Frieda Langendorf, Miss Germaine Schnitzer, and Messrs.
Albert Spalding and David Bispham.”
1909: “By
an overwhelming majority the Republican Club passed a resolution tonight
condemning the Grady-Francis bills authorizing the erection by the National
Academy of Design of a gallery in Central Park” which is in accord with the
views of The Jewish Daily News which supports defeating the project because
“under no circumstances should we allow any dimunition of the one natural
resource that the city possess” and that “this principle should be established
– let the Park remain exactly as it is.”
1910: Two days after his death, sixty-three
year old Dr. of Jurisprudence Alois Klemperer, the son Julie Klemperer and
Rabbi Gutmann Klemperer and husband of Eugenie Klemperer was buried in Vienna.
1910: Rabbi Avraham Elyashiv (Erener) of Gomel,
Belarus, and Chaya Musha, daughter of the kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv gave
birth to Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv
1910: More than seven hundred members of the
Hebrew Retail Kosher Butchers' Protective Association met today at 763 First
Avenue and resolved not to buy a pound of meat for twenty-four hours.
1910: Birthdate of Hyman Lazarus who was buried
in Columbus, OH after she passed away.
1910: Birthdate of New York businessman Samuel
“Sam” Schulman who was best known as the owner of the NBA SuperSonics and a
minority owner of NFL San Diego Chargers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/sports/sam-schulman-93-team-owner-who-defied-nba-draft-rules.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/14/local/me-schulman14
1910: “Oppressed Jews in Morocco Seek From
Powers” published today described the desperate condition of these North
African Jews and their attempts to get the Alliance Israelite of Paris and the
Anglo-Jewish Association in London to enlist the aid of their respective
governments ‘in forcing the Sultan to keep the promise of his grandfather, made
to Sir Moses Montefiore in 1864, that his Jewish subjects should be dealt with
justly, not cruelly”
1911: Today, The Edward Rosenstein Association
distributed free matzoth to needy Jews living on the Lower East Side.
1911(12th of Nisan, 5671):
Eighty-eight-year-old Phoebe Cohen, the widow of Morton S. Cohen to whom she
had been married for 62 years and the mother of former Senator Alfred M. Cohen,
the partner in the law firm of Cohen and Mack passed away today in Cincinnati,
OH.
1911: Esther E. Feinstein married Cantor Bert
(Beryl) Chagy, the Russian born son of Rachel Lipcovitz and “renowned Talmudic scholar”
Isaac Chagy who came the United States in 1913 where he “sang for the Columbia
Gramophone Record Company and Victor Company” and eventually became the Chazan “for
Adas Yisroel Mischnais” in Newark, NJ
1912: Today Nettie Podell married Louis
Ottenberg, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., whose father founded Ottenberg Bakery,
and joined him in Washington. The Ottenbergs had three children: Regina,
Miriam, and Louis Ottenberg
1912: Sixty-eight-year-old French historian
Gabriel Monod who “became convinced” that Dreyfus did not write the infamous
“bordereau”, testified on his behalf at the Court of Cessation in 1899 and
after his pardon assured Dreyfus “that come what may, he would always…defend
him.”
1912: Due to an unexpected request from her
editor to cover the “Paris-Roubaix races” which had forced her to delay her
sailing for New York, Edith Rosenbaum, the Paris correspondent for Women’s Wear
Daily boarded the RMS Titanic today along with her “19 pieces of baggage.”
1912: Archibald Grace IV, the man who would
provide the account of Isidor Strauss’s last moments boarded the Titanic at Southampton today.
1912: Mr. Abraham Joseph Hyman who was born in
the Russian Empire in 1878 and the husband of Manchester naïve Esther Levy
boarded the Titanic today at Southampton as a third-class passenger (ticket
number 3470 which cost £7, 17s, 9d) which was the first step on journey to
visit his brother Harry in Springfield, MA.
1912: Today, twenty-four-year-old Philadelphian
Jacob Morris Langsdorf who attended Haverford College for one year married
Dorothy May Kirschbaum with whom he had three children – Jack Bernard, Robert
Morris and Elizabeth May Langsdorf.
1912: One hundred young
women under the leadership of Mrs. Israel Unterberg, many of them this season's
debutantes, are scheduled participate in the work of raising $200,000 for the
Young Women's Hebrew Association building fund in the two weeks' whirlwind
campaign which opens today.
1912: Tonight, marks the start of the Young
Women's Hebrew Association’s campaign to raise $250,000 for a new building.
Abram I. Elkus, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the campaign; Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Greenbaum, Rabbi Schulman, and other speakers will address
the workers at the kick-off function.
1913(3rd of Nisan, 5673):
Fifty-five-year-old Isaac “Ike” Tuck the “publisher of the Produce Bulletin and
one of the best-known men in fruit trade circles all over the United States”
passed away this evening at his home in Brooklyn
1913: In Romania, Morris and Mary Schachter gave birth
Rabbi Marcus Schachter, the husband of Claire Schachter “who, for 46 years, was
the central pillar of the Halachah L'Maaseh program at RIETS where he held the
Rabbi Dr. and Mrs. Leon Katz Professorship in Rabbinics”
https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9C03E3D7173AF934A15751C0A9619C8B63.html
1913: Birthdate of Hellmuth Flieg, a German - Jewish
writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States (or
served in its army abroad) between 1935 and 1952, before moving back to the
part of his now-partitioned native Germany which was the German Democratic
Republic (GDR, "East Germany"). He published works in English and
German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR
remained a committed socialist.
1914: Birthdate of Raphael Silverman, the
native of Ithaca, NY who gained fame as “Raphael Hillyer, the founding violist
of the Juilliard String Quartet and a soloist and teacher known for the warmth
and expressivity of his tone.”
1914(14th of Nisan, 5674): Four hundred and
fifty Jewish servicemen including sailors from the battleships Texas, North
Dakota, Washington, Ohio, Wyoming and Louisiana are scheduled to take part in a
seder tonight specifically for military personnel at Tuxedo Hall in Manhattan.
1914: In New York City, Robert and Elsa Weil
Simon gave birth to Harvard graduate and realtor Robert E. Simon Jr. founder of
Reston, the planned community in Virginia who because of his marriage to his
first wife, the former, Anne Rebe Wertheim, he was, for a while, the brother-in-law
of Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Tuchman.
1914(14th of Nisan, 5674): In a pre-Passover
tragedy, George Rothstein discovered the bodies of his sister Bessie Diamond
and three of her young children who were victims of an apparent
murder-suicide. According to Mrs.
Diamond’s husband, Mrs. Diamond had been suffering from severe depression for
which her doctor had recommended she be sent to a sanitarium.
1915: As of today, at Temple Emanu-El the
sisterhood which was founded in 1889 and the brotherhood which was founded in
1900 are active in providing social service and settlement work on the Lower
East Side.
1915(26th of Nisan, 5675): Parashat
Shimini
1915: Services were held today at Congregation
B’nai Jehoshua in Chicago were Rabbi A.R. Levy delivered the sermon in German.
1915: Rabbi Joseph Hewesh delivered the sermon
at Anshe Emeth in Chicago.
1916: Birthdate of Abraham Basalinsky, the
native of Bethnal Green, London who gained fame as actor Alfie Bass.
1916: One day after he had passed away, Aaron
Herbert, the husband of the former Rebecca Jenny and the father of Leo, Sophia
and Eley Herbert, was buried today in the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern
Ireland.
1916: In Berlin at a meeting of the Relief
Committee for Indigent Jews, “the President that 700,000 Jews in the occupied
districts of Poland required assistance.
1916: Chairman Nathan of the Hebrew Benevolent
Association today “paid a tribute to the work of American Jews in supporting
the sufferers in Poland.
1916: The Professional Golfers Association of
America (PGA) was created in New York City. In 1942, Herman “Barron became the
first Jewish golfer to win an official PGA Tour event by winning the Western
Open by two strokes over Henry Picard at Phoenix Golf Club in Phoenix,
Arizona.”
1917: “Henry Morgenthau, Chairman of the
campaign to raise $10,000,000 for the immediate aid of the Jewish sufferers in
the eastern war zone said” today “that Governor Simon Bamberger of Utah had
pledged to give one-tenth of the total amount that his state might raise for
the fund.” (Editor’s note – Simon Bamberger was the first non-Mormon and the
first Jew to serve as governor of Utah.)
1917: In New York, “the Provisional Executive
Committee for general Zionist affairs announced” tonight that it had received a
cablegram from Moscow saying that today, “the first Zionist convention ever
held in Russia has just closed its sessions which were marked with tremendous
enthusiasm, due to the fact that this is the first time they have been able to
assemble from all part of the country and to publicly discuss questions of
interest to the Jewish people without fear or arrest.”
1918: Birthdate of Alfred P. Slaner, the
developer of Supp-Hose hosiery who also made Nixon’s Enemies’ List.
1918: “Zionist Unit Prepares” published today
described the upcoming departure for Palestine of “the American Zionist Medical
Unit with forty members” that “will co-operate with the Jewish Administrative
Commission which is laying the foundation for the future Jewish State.”
1918: Birthdate of Cornell Capa, a
globe-trotting photojournalist who founded the International Center of
Photography in New York and dedicated himself to preserving the legacy of his
older brother, war photographer Robert Capa.
He died on May 23, 2008, at the age of 90 of Parkinson’s disease.
1919(10th of
Nisan, 5679: Fifty-six-year-old Bendix Rosenwald, the German born son of
Hermann Rosenwald and Jeanette David, the husband of Emma Rosenwald and the father
of Bertha Rosenwald; Hilda Cahn; Kathe Jeanette Schloss and Fritz Richard
Rosenwald passed away today at Bünde, Detmold, NRW, Germany.
1919: Based on reports
the American Jewish Committee has received from its agents in Czechoslovakia
which are similar to others received from Jews in Poland, Rumania and the
Ukraine, the committee led by Judge Julian W. Mack, its Chairman and Louis
Marshall, its Vice Chairman “are building their case to convince the Peace
Conference that the Jews in Eastern European countries must have their rights
provided for by treaty.”
1920(22nd of Nisan,
5680): Moritz Benedikt Cantor, a German historian of mathematics, passed away.
1920(22nd of Nisan,
5680): 8TH Day of Pesach
1920: First Lieutenant
Meyer L. Casman has completed the treatment for his eyes today at Walter Reed
Hospital in Washington, D.C.
1920: Birthdate of Alexander Livshiz, the son
of Russian born parents living in Yokohama who gained fame as Dr. Alexander
Leaf.
http://nutrition.med.harvard.edu/personnel/biosketch/Leaf_bio.pdf
1921: Professor Mordecai M. Kaplan, Judge Otto
A. Rosalsky and Rabbi Judah L. Magnus were among the speakers tonight at “a
dinner marking the dedication of the Jewish Center on the east side which was
erected for the purpose of making better Jews and better Americans of the
children there.”
1922: It was reported today that “a resolution
urging the approval and registration of the Palestine mandate at the
forthcoming session of the League of Nations at Geneva was approved by
representatives of Jewish national organizations representing every element in
American Jewry at a conference at the Hotel Astor.”
1923: In the Netherlands, Sophie Josephine
Frank, the daughter of Louis and Emma Sachs and Siegfried Frank gave birth to
Julius Frank.
1923: Cooper Institute trained inventor William
Dubilier “a pioneer in electronics and radio who was the holder of 600
patents,” a “founder of the Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corporation” and the New
York City born so of Anna and Abe Dubilier married Florence Don today.
1923: Premiere performance of Kurt Weil’s
“Divertimento for Orchestra” by the Berlin Philharmonic.
1924: Today, Michael “Balcon married Aileen
Freda Leatherman, the daughter of Max Jacobs and Beatrice Leatherman, with whom
he had two children Jonathan and Jill who married Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis
whose children were Tamasin Day-Lewis and Oscar winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
1925(16th of Nisan, 5685): Second
Day of Pesach
1925: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald was first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Among the characters who populate this classic study of life in the Roaring
Twenties is Meyer Wolfsheim a gambler with underworld connections who claims to
have fixed the 1919 World Series. The
character is a thinly veiled fictional version of the Jewish gambler Arnold
Rothstein, whom according to some, fixed the 1919 World Series. Rothstein has been portrayed as the evil Jew
who corrupts America’s pristine pastime and its innocent Christian
athletes. Is Fitzgerald trying to imply
that whatever shady deals Gatsby may have engaged in are the product of the
corrupting influence of this Jewish gambler?
1926: “Simche and Reizel Ehrenreich” gave birth
to Bernard Ehrenreich, the father of Laurence and Simon Ehrenreich.
1926: In Nuremberg, Germany, “Juda and Fanny
Metzger immigrants from Poland” gave birth to
“artist and political activist” Gustav Metzger who came to Great Britain
from Germany as part of the Kindertransport
and created the concept of Auto-Destructive Art while being an active
member of the anti-nuclear peace
movement.
1926: “Chairman David A. Brown of the United
Jewish Campaign which is seeking to raise $15,000,000 for relief and
reconstruction work among the Jews of Eastern Europe” reported today “to the
1,200 members of the national committee” that original goal would be surpassed
and the contributions would actually come close to $25,000,000.
1927: Birthdate of Marshall Warren Nirenberg
“an American biochemist and geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine in 1968.”
1927: “Anti-Semitism in Russia” published today
provides the views of Alexander Kerensky, who led the Russian government after
the fall of the Czars and before the takeover by Lenin, “that hatred toward
Jews is intense at present in his country” and that “only the advent of a
politically free and economically sound system of government in Russia will put
an end to anti-Semitism there.”
1928(19th of Nisan, 5688): Fifth day
of Pesach
1928: In Mount Vernon, NY “Chauncey Freedman
and the former Dorothea Kornblum” gave birth to “Monroe H. Freedman, a dominant
figure in legal ethics whose work helped chart the course of lawyers’ behavior
in the late 20th century.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1928(19th of Nisan, 5688): Seventy-one-year-old
Amalia “Molly” Finkelstein Mogulesko who performed in Goldfaden's
"Grandmother with Grandson" and was the widow of Yiddish actor
Sigmund Mogulesko passed away today.
1928: Birthdate of Claude Newman Rosenberg, the
Jewish philanthropist who authored, “Wealthy and Wise: How You and America Can
Get the Most Out of Your Giving”
1929: Today, in Albany, NY, Governor Franklin
Roosevelt approved a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Irwin Steingut that provides
“for the incorporation of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America” which should “according to the bill” “promote traditional
Judaism, advance the cause of Jewish learning and foster the spirit of
fellowship among rabbis and other Jewish scholars in America.
1930(12th of Nisan, 5690): Fast of
the First Born
1930: In Austin, TX, “the land for Agudas
Achim’s new building was purchased for $12,500” today
1931: “My Cousin from Warsaw” produced by
Arnold Pressburger was released today in Germany and France.
1931: It was reported today that Montreal gave
a banquet yesterday in honor of the 500 scientists” including Professor A.M.
Oppenheimer of Columbia University attending “the annual meeting of the
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
1932: Today in Portland, OR, “at a special
meeting of Congregation Ahavai Sholom” former Portland resident and HUC trained
rabbi Raphael Goldentsein a graduate of University of Cincinnati and husband of
the former Clair V. Silber of Montreal “was unanimously elected to serve as
spiritual leader of the congregation.
1932: Birthdate of
actor Omar Sharif. The Egyptian born
Sharif, who starred in such films as “Dr. Zhivago” and “Lawrence of Arabia,”
found his films banned in the Arab world because he played opposite Jewish
singing star Barbra Streisand.
1933(14th
of Nisan, 5693): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1933: German
Vice-Chancellor Frtiz von Papen met with Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pope Pius
XII and presented Hitler’s offer for a Concordant between the new Nazi
government and the Vatican.
1934: In Englewood,
NJ. Jacob and Florence Landau gave birth to Jacob Charles “Jack” Landau the
attorney who served as one of the founders of the Reported Committee for
Freedom of the Press.
1934: “The American
foundations which promote research and spiritual progress were extolled here
this afternoon by Professor Albert Einstein at a formal reception to him by the
New Jersey Legislature.”
1934: U.S. premiere
of “Viva Villa!” produced by David O. Selznick with a script by Ben Hecht and
featuring Joseph Schildkraut as “Gen. Pascal.”
1934: In
New York City, an Army surgeon, Dr. Charles A. Halberstam, and a schoolteacher,
Blanche Levy Halberstam gave birth to David Halbestram the winner of a Pulitzer
in 1964 for his coverage in the New York Times of the Viet Nam War who
gained further fame as the author of the best-selling Best and the Brightest
and who has been a prolific author on a variety of topics but ironically has never
wrote a book on a “Jewish” topic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html?nytmobile=0
1935: In Przemysl, Poland, Adollph Sternhell, a
veteran of the Polish Army and Ida Sternhell who was murdered by the Nazis
along with her daughter gave birth to author and historian Zeev Sternhell the
Holocaust survivor and ardent Zionist who settled in Israel where he became a
leading authority on the rise of fascism and ironically was injured in attack
by a right-wing “pro-settlement” zealot.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/zeev-sternhell-obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/world/middleeast/zeev-sternhell-mideast-scholar-dies.html
https://www.amazon.com/Zeev-Sternhell/e/B001HNMZ3Y%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
1935 At Temple
Emanu-El, Mrs. Israel Goldstein presided over a conference of the “leaders of
Jewish women’s organizations with a combined membership of several hundred
thousand” where the attendees “pledged cooperation with the Jewish National
Fund” in the work of redeeming the land of Palestine.
1935: In Jerusalem, Yitzhak
Nissim, the Baghdad born Chief Sephardic Rabbi and his wife gave birth to
Israeli political Moshe Nissim, the bort her of Meir Benayahu/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moshe-nissim
1935: The second
Maccbiah in which Lejzor Ilia (also "Ilja") Szrajbman, “a Jewish
Polish Olympic freestyle swimmer” who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
and was murdered at Majdanek in 1943,
competed, came to an end.
1936(18th
of Nisan, 5696) Fourth Day of Pesach
1936(18th
of Nisan, 5696): Fifty-six-year-old
illustrator Malcom Atherton Strauss, the New York born son of Nathan Straus and
Minnie Gladken, whose works appeared in numerous publications including Life
magazine and the New York Herald passed away today.
http://www.allposters.com/-st/Malcolm-A-Strauss-Posters_c40723_.htm
1936: It was
announced today that “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, national chairman of the $3,500,000
campaign of the United Palestine Appeal for the settlement in Palestine of a
maximum number of the Jews of Germany, Poland and other lands has received
messages endorsing the drive from Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana,
Representative Schuyler Merritt of Connecticut, Governor Tom Berry of South
Dakota and Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey.”
1936: Tonight, in a
broadcast over WEAF in New York, banker and philanthropist Felix M. Warburg
described “the rehabilitation work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee in fifty countries during the last twenty-two years including the
current training programs “to train and rehabilitate for vocational work Jewish
youths and adults in Germany who have been barred” by law taking part in
commercial and professional activities.
1936: “Citing a
clause of the Treaty of Versailles, Supreme Court Justice Philip J. McCook
refused to recognize the ‘sovereign immunity’ claim in the courts by the German
State Railroads which was the basis for its defense brought by Marcel M.
Holzer, a former employee who claimed he had been discharged as a ‘non-Aryan’
and his internment in a German concentration camp.
1936: The mandatory
government “prohibition on the use of the term ‘Eretz Israel’ (Land of Israel)
over the radio became a national issue today when a suit was filed” in
Jerusalem” to force lifting the ban.”
1937: In a
pre-birthday interview given today, Dr. Pereira-Mendes, the rabbi emeritus of
the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue said that any celebration of his upcoming
85th birthday would be a “surprise” to him.
1937: “She Was an
Acrobat’s Daughter,” an animated short directed by Isadore Freleng, produced by
Leon Schlesinger and featuring the voice of Mel Blanc was released in the
United States today.
1937: Final
performance on Broadway of White Horse Inn which was produced and directed by
Erik Charell took place today.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that Itzhak Petrenko, 32, had been shot and killed and that two Arab
terrorists were killed in their attack on the Nesher quarry, near Haifa. Two
other Arab terrorists were killed after they attempted to attack a convoy
escorting the mayor of Nablus, Suleiman Bey Toukan, on his official duties. A
number of unexploded bombs were found in Jerusalem's Ben-Yehuda pedestrian
mall.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that Maestro Toscanini, who had turned down an
offer to participate in the Salzburg Festival, arrived in Haifa for a series of
concerts.
1938: The Palestine Post
reported that The Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulcher was closed to the
public due to urgent repairs and restorations.
1938: Birthdate of Denny Zeitlin the son of
Highland Park, Il physician who gained fame as a jazz pianist and composer.
1938: Dr. Jonah B. Wise officiated at the
wedding of Esther Schulman and Dr. Samuel Frederick Groopman after which the
wedding party attended a reception and dinner at the Waldorf Astoria.
1938: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today in the Chapel of Temple Emanu-el for fifty-eight year old NYU trained
attorney, Irving L. Ernst, the Philadelphia born son of “clothing merchant
Louis Ernst” and Augusta Ernst and the husband of Margaret O. Ernst who was a partner in the firm of McManus,
Ernst and Ernst and “a director of the lawyers’ division of the federation for
the support Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City.
1938: Dr. Lewis I. Newman officiated at the
wedding of Yvette Jean Gordon and Ralph Michael Abrams which was held at the
home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gordon which is located at 5 West
86th Street in Manhattan.
1938: In Tel Aviv,
Arturo Toscanini directed his first rehearsal with the Palestine Orchestra.
1938: In the
revolving door of French politics during the Third Republic, the government led
by Premiere Leon Blum fell and meaning the first Jewish Premier of France, who
had been physically attacked by anti-Semites lost his position for the second
and final time.
1939: Laurence
Steinhardt completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Peru.
1939:
Birthdate of Alan Rothenberg, President
of the U.S. Soccer Association.
1939: The Dutch
government opened camp Westerbork for German Jews. The impulse to start the construction of the camp came from
the Dutch authorities themselves, who in the years preceding the Second World
War, sought to provide housing and shelter for Jewish refugees fleeing the
horrors of Nazi-Germany. A camp was necessary because the authorities wanted to
keep these refugees out of the cities, towns and villages. When the Nazi-armies
invaded The Netherlands during the month of May 1940 the camp-infrastructure
including inhabitants was an easy prey.”
1940(2nd of Nisan, 5700): Marie
Knapp, the wife of concert pianist Harold Bauer whom he had married in 1906,
passed away today.
1940: Justice Felix Frankfurter and two others
met with President Roosevelt today at the White House at 4:30 and Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and two others met with him at 5:30 pm.
1941: Rav Aaron Kotler who had been rescued by
the Vaad Hatzalah arrived in San Francisco and two years later “in 1943 fond
Beth Medrash Vovoha in Lakewood, NJ.
1942: “Following an interval of seventeen
years, Morris Weiberg has returned as president and published of The Jewish
Day, Louis Lipsky, former president of the ZOA and trustee of the Day
Foundation announced” today.
1942: Two hundred of the four hundred Jews who
arrived yesterday in Havana on the last day of Pesach are reported to continue
traveling to New York on the Portuguese ship which they had boarded last month
in Lisbon.
1942: Today after America's entry into World
War II, Commander Hyman Rickover, the Jewish graduate of the Naval Academy, “flew
to Pearl Harbor to organize repairs to the electrical power plant of USS
California.”
1942: In a move that does not bode well for the
large Jewish population of Lithuania, “German controlled newspapers in the
Baltic reported today that a “rectification” of Lithuanian borders has been made around Vilna making room for the
resettlement in the area of thousands of Germans.”
1943: Twelve Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord,
a facility for the mentally disabled escaped from the Nazi's.
1943: Katherine Scherman, the New
York born daughter of Harry and Bernadine Scherman married Book-of-the-Month
Club chairman Axel G. Rosin and became Katherine Scherman Rosin under which
name she worked as an editor and author of ten books.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=katharine-rosin&pid=137434177
1944: “Rudolf Vrba and Alfred
Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz and carried detailed information about the death
camp to outside world.” (Virtual Jewish Library
1944: In Tel Aviv, the deputy
superintendent of police “beat death” by surviving the attack of an unknown
gunman who fired three shots at him in front of the police headquarters in the
central part of the city.
1944: “Tampico” starring Edward G.
Robinson, with music by David Raksin was released in the United States today
1945: U.S. Armed
forces liberated the prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany. It was estimated that
nearly 57,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished in the gas chambers of
Buchenwald during its eight-year existence as a Nazi concentration camp.
1945(27th of Nisan,
5705): Twenty-four-year-old Paris born Helen Berr who kept a diary that
described her life under Nazi occupation which earned her the sobriquet of “the
French Anne Frank” died of typhus today at Bergen-Belsen five days before it
was liberated by the allies.
1946: In Cleveland, Ohio, the Men’s
Club of the Euclid Avenue Temple hosted Variety Nite, an evening of
entertainment “for men’s club members and their ladies.”
1946: U.S. premiere of
“Dragonwyck,” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also wrote the script,
co-produced by Ernst Lubitsch with music by Alfred Newman.
1946: At its annual spring luncheon
at the Hotel Astor, the Women’s League for Palestine launched a building drive
designed to raise $150,000 to upgrade the league’s Home for Immigrant Girls in
Tel Aviv. According to Mrs. David
Isaacs, the League’s vice president, “Palestine will soon have an influx of
thousands of young women from displaced camps abroad seeking shelter and
rehabilitation.” The luncheon was
attended by 1,340 supporters.
1947(20th of Nisan,
5707): Sixth Day of Pesach
1947: Birthdate of New York native
David Abraham Adler the author “of nearly 200 books for children and young
adults” including “several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young
readers.”
1947: The Hapoel soccer team is
scheduled to arrive in New York today, on the first stop on its good will tour
of the United States. The team is scheduled to play all-star teams in several
cities including Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago Detroit, Los
Angeles and San Francisco.
1948: “A
group of Jewish immigrants from Egypt set up a camp in an area near Sderot
which would be the future location of Bror Hayil.
1948(1st
of Nisan, 5708): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1948: The Haganah repelled an Arab attack on Mishmar
HaEmek. Kibbutz Mishmar Ha-Emek (Guard
of the Valley) was located on the western rim of the Jezreel Valley and had
been founded by Polish chalutzim in 1926.
The fight for this strategic point lasted for eight days during which
the Arab Liberation Army had the military advantage thanks to having the use of
field artillery supplied by the Syrian Army.
Please note that this fight took place before the creation of the state
of Israel in May, 1948. It came during
the unsuccessful attempt by the Arabs to cutoff Jerusalem from the rest of the
Yishuv.
1949: What Makes Sammy Run?, Budd
Schulberg’s novel based on his father B.P. Schulberg that gave the world “Sammy
Glick” was dramatized for the first time on Philco Television Playhouse.
1950: Birthdate of Haim Ramon, a
native of Jaffa who served in the IAF before pursuing a political career.
1950(23rd of Nisan,
5710): Fifty-eight-year-old New York native and WW I veteran Maxwell Lown the
publisher of the Olean News, a weekly tabloid newspaper he had founded in 1932
passed away tonight at his home in Olean, NY.
1952(15th
of Nisan, 5712): 1st day of Pesach
1952: In
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Alexei Yavlinsky and “Vera Naumovna, a Russian Jewish
chemistry teacher gave birth to free market economist Grigory Yavlinsky, the
twice defeated candidate for the Presidency of Russia.
1953:
Ernest Gruening completed his term as 7th Territorial Governor of Alaska.
1953: Hedwig
Eva Maria Kiesler, better known as movie star Hedy Lamar, became a citizen of
the United States.
1953:
“Small Town Girl” a musical produced by Joe Pasternak, with a score by Nicholas
Brodszky and André Previn and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was
released today in the United States.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the foreign minister, Moshe Sharett, had held "a brief
interview" at the White House, with US president, Dwight Eisenhower.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel received as a gift, or purchased at lowered prices,
America's food surplus: wheat, beans, potatoes, cheese, powdered milk, dried
eggs and butter. Another important purchase was 100,000 tons of the strictly
rationed American steel for local pipe factories.
1954(7th
of Nisan, 5714): Parashat Metzora
1954(7th
of Nisan, 5714): Seventy-three-year-old Harold Lewis the New York born son of
“Edith Roaslie Lewis and Hyman Philip Lewis and the husband of Frances Wolff
Lewis with whom he had three children –Evelyn, Philip and Harley – passed away
today.
1955(18th
of Nisan, 5715): Fourth Day of Pesach
1955(18th
of Nisan, 5715): Eighty-eight-year-old Yosef Maergoshes, the Lemberg born the
son of Samuel Margoshes and Sarah Rebekah Flecker, the husband of Lena Rachel
Stieglitz with whom he had six children -
Ida, Samuel, Israel, Nathan, Harry and Henry - who settled in the United
States in 1903 where he began his career “as an agent and traveling businessman
for the New York Yiddish newspapers” passed away today after which he was
buried in the Montefiore Cemetery
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/04/11/79449893.pdf
Joseph Margoshes, Dean of Yiddish
Journalists in U.S., Dies at 89 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
1955: Dr Jonas Salk successfully tested his Polio
vaccine.
1958(20th of Nisan,
5718): Sixth Day of Pesach
1958: Birthdate of Yefim "Fima"
Naumovich Bronfman a Russian born Israeli pianist.
1959: Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt returned to New York after having
visited Israel, but she did not have a camel for her granddaughter Nina because
“the Department of Agriculture refused an entry permit for the camel for fear
of hoof and mouth disease.
1960: ABC broadcast “The Captive of Temblor,” an episode of “The
Rebel” directed by Irving Kershner and written by Milton S. Gelman.
1961(24th of Nisan, 5721): Seventy-four-year-old
Lithuanian born CCNY graduate Isaac Rosengarten, the editor and publisher of
the monthly magazine, The Jewish Forum who in 1891 came to New York City where
he “was general supervisor of the English departments of the Jewish Day Schools
of New York, a founder Young Judea, the Collegiate Zionist League, the Jewish
Academy of Arts and Science, the League for Safeguarding the Fixity of the
Sabbath Against Possible Encroachment by Calendar Reform suffered a fatal heart
attack today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/04/12/101455771.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.jta.org/archive/isaac-rosengarten-editor-of-jewish-forum-dies-in-new-york
1962(9th of Nisan, 5722): Seventy-five-year-old Michael Curitz
passed away. Born Manó Kertész Kaminer on Christmas Eve in 1886, to a Jewish
family in Budapest, Hungary (then Austria-Hungary), he ran away from home at age 17 to join a
circus, then trained for an acting career at the Royal Academy for Theater and
Art. His best known films include, The
Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca and White Christmas.
http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/2377/michael-curtiz
1962: Birthdate of New York native Danielle
Joyce “Dani” Shapiro the author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage who
is married to Michael Maren.
1962 South Korea and Israel whose relationship
dated back to 1950 when Ben Gurion supported sending UN Troops to stop the
invasion from North Korea established official diplomatic relations today.
1963(16th of Nisan, 5723): Second
Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1963: “Danny Kaye,” for which Frank Goodman
served as Press Representative opened on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre which
was owned and operated by Billy Rose.
1964: On his 50th birthday, to
Harvard graduate and realtor Robert E. Simon, Jr., the Jewish son Robert and
Elsa Weil “launched” the planned community at Reston, VA.
1964: Birthdate Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire
native L. Stephen Robins the Jews’ College and Royal College of Music trained
chazan who has served the Edgware Synagogue in London, the Independent
Synagogue in Montreal and the Woodside Park Synagogue in London whose “recordings
include the Taste of Shabbat and the Singing Haggadah.”
1966(20th of Nisan, 5726): Sixth day
of Pesach
1966(20th of Nisan, 5726):
Sixty-two-year-old Abe Feldman “the skin buyers and manager of production of
fur garments for the Bergdorf Goodman Fur Corporation, the husband of Dora
Zager Feldman and the father of Mrs. Carolyn Edricks who was a director of the
Welfare League for Retarded Children passed away today after a pro-longed
illness.
1966(20th of Nisan, 5726):
Eighty-six-year-old Joseph Newman, the husband of Tilly Cohen, of blessed
memory and the father of Captain Isidore Newman who had served as “Beadle and
Collector” for Hull Central Synagogue passed away today.
1967: Today, appearing with co-counsel Philip
Hirschkop on behalf of the ACLU, Bernhard Cohen presented oral argument for the
petitioners in Loving v. Virginia before the U. S. Supreme Court. (Editor’s
note: Both lawyers were Jewish and the
case revolved around overturning laws banning interracial marriage.)
1968: “Belle de Jour” a French film “based on
the 1928 novel Belle de jour
by Joseph Kessel was released in the United States today.
1968: “George M!” a musical with a book by
Michael Stewart and Francine Pascal, produced by Emanuel Azenberg and starring
Joel Grey opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre.
1969(22nd of Nisan 5729):
Celebration of Pesach comes to an end for the first time during the Presidency
of Richard Nixon.
1970: During the War of Attrition, “two 201
Squadron Phantoms attacked a radar facility at Wadi Zur.”
1971(15th of Nisan, 5731): Pesach
1971(15h of Nissan, 5731): Eighty-two-year-old
Ida Weinstein Posner, the wife of Isidor Posner and the mother of Rhoda and
Irving Posner passed away today after which she was buried at the Evergreen
Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan.
1971: Passover—A Rite of Spring an “exhibition,
commemorating the exodus from Egypt, is a showcase for the ritual objects of
various times and from various places used in Passover, such as Seder plates
and Elijah cups as well as pertinent photographs and books is on display at the
Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue.
1973: Operation Spring of Youth came to an
end. This was an amphibious assault by
the IDF on Beirut and Sidon aimed at those who had massacred Israeli athletes
at the Munich Olympics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spring_of_Youth
1974(18th
of Nisan, 5734): Fourth Day of Pesach
1974: Yitzhak Rabin replaced Golda Meir as Prime
Minister. Mrs. Meir had resigned, a
casualty of the Yom Kippur War.
1974: “Our Time” a coming-of-age
film directed and written by Peter Hyams was released in the United States
today.
1974:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning in New York for eighty-five-year-old Columbian trained hematologist Dr.
Lester Unger “who head the Blood and Plasma Exchange Bank” passed away two days
ago.
1974: In St. Louis, MO, Becky and
Robert Greitens gave birth to Eric Greitens the decorated war hero and Rhodes
Scholar whose accomplishments are so varied that he can truly be called
“Renaissance Man.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-former-navy-seal-sets-his-sights-on-governorship/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-great-jewish-hope/
1975: The government of Israel
recognized Falashas as Jews under the law.
1977(22nd of
Nisan,5737): Eight Day of Pesach observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1978(3rd of Nisan, 5738): Ninety-one-year-old
Irma Levy Lindheim, the second president of Hadassah passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/1978/04/12/archive/irma-levy-lindheim-dead-at-91
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/lindheim.html
1978: Harold H. Saunders who played
a key role in the creation of the Camp David Accords, completed his service as
the 6th Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that the UNIFIL's acute lag in recruiting to beef
up the projected 4,000-man force had decreased the prospects of an early,
complete Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that top US officials were reported to have been
studying the possibility of an American treaty guarantee for a Middle Eastern
settlement, "backed by a US air base in the Sinai and a naval base at
Jaffa." The use of glass bottles was prohibited on Israeli beaches.
1979(13th of Nisan, 5739): One
person was killed and 36 were injured when a terrorist bomb went off in a
market at Tel Aviv.
1980: Birthdate of Israeli tennis player, Andy
Ram
1980: A funeral service
is scheduled to be held this afternoon in Amherst, MA, for fifty year old Vanderbilt University Phi
Beta Kappa graduate Peter Farb, the linguist and author of such books as Man’s
Rise to Civilization and Word Play: What Happens People Talk, the
New York City born son of Solomon and Cecilia Farb and the husband of the
former Oriole Horch with whom he had two sons – Mark and Thomas.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/04/09/111149566.pdf
1981: “Shimon Peres, chairman of the opposition
Labor Party, said today that he would name Abba Eban as Foreign Minister and
Haim Bar Lev, a retired general, as Defense Minister if his party won the June
30 elections.”
1982: “Senior Administration officials said
today that there had been new Israeli military movements near the Lebanese
border over the last 72 hours, causing grave American concern about a possible
Israeli assault into southern Lebanon” but the administration did not express
any concern over the build-up of PLO forces on the border with Lebanon which is
a violation of the cease-fire agreement arranged on July 24, 1982.
1983: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Abrams of Roslyn, L.I., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Lori
Sue Abrams, to Alan Barry Greenfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Greenfield,
also of Roslyn. The groom is attending the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv,
Israel
1984(8th of Nisan, 5744): Eighty-seven American
movie producer and director Jack White, born Jacob Weiss in Budapest, who used
“the pseudonym ‘Preston Black’” after his divorce passed away today.
1985(19th of Nisan, 5745): Fifth Day
of Pesach
1985: “Israel and Egypt are working on the
substance of a ''package deal'' to settle differences blocking normalization of
relations between the two countries, a senior official in Jerusalem said today.”
1986(1st of Nisan, 5746): Rosh
Chodesh Nisan
1986: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s delegate to
the United Nations “examined a secret United Nations file on Kurt Waldheim
today and said afterward that there was ''clear need for further comprehensive
investigation'' of Mr. Waldheim's war record.”
1986: “Big Deal” which featured songs by Milton
Ager the Chicago born Jewish son of Fannie Nathan and Simon Ager opened on
Broadway today at the Broadway Theatre.
1987(11th of Nisan, 5747): Two Israeli soldiers
were killed and two wounded in southern Lebanon, The attack occurred near
Qantara, inside the ''security zone.'' Military sources said the attackers were
Shiite Moslem guerrillas from the Party of God and Amal movements.
1987: “Campus Man,” a comedy produced by John
Landau was released today in the United States.
1988: As of today, in Israel “there has been no
public response… to reports that an army investigation found that a teen-age
girl whose death had drawn vows of vengeance against Arabs was killed by a
bullet, apparently fired in panic by her Israeli guard.”
1989: Rite Aid, the drug store chain founded by
Scranton businessman Alex Grass, acquired Peoples Drug’s 114 unit Lane Drug of
Ohio.
1990(15th of Nisan, 5750): Pesach
1990: NBC broadcast the first episode of the
sitcom “Wings” co-starring Rebecca Schull.
1990: Following his major league debut
yesterday, White Sox pitcher Scott Radinsky “picked up his first major league
win with one and a third innings” of relief pitching today.
1990; Ninety-year-old actress Natalie Schafer
whose career which began in the 1920’s is remembered primarily for her role on
the sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” passed away today.
1991: STS-37,
the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space
Shuttle Atlantis, whose crew included Mission Specialist Jerome Apt did not
land as originally planned today.
1992: In the UK, Malcolm Rifkind completed his
service as Secretary of State for Transport and began serving as Secretary of
State for Defense.
1992: After
premiering in Cleveland, Ohio, “The Player” a satirical film featuring
appearances by Sydney Pollack, Peter Falk, Jeff Goldblum and Gina Gershon was
released today in the rest of the United States.
1992: U.S. premiere of “Newsies” with music by
Alan Menken, filmed by cinematographer Andrew Laszlo.
1993(19th of Nisan, 5753): Fifth Day
of Pesach; Shabbat Shel Pesach
1993(19th of Nisan, 5753): Ninety-five-year-old
Maxim Lieber, the son of Adolph and Natalie Leiberman and the husband of Minna
E. Lieber, the literary agent and alleged Communist spy passed away today.
https://myturntosoundoff.wordpress.com/essays/the-case-of-a-most-reluctant-witness/
1994: “A Little More Magic,” was performed for
the last time on Broadway at the Belasco
Theatre, which was owned and operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald
Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President
1996(21st of Nisan, 5756): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1996(21st of Nisan, 5756):
Eighty-year old Brooklyn born, Columbia grad and JTS ordained rabbi, Moshe
Davis, “the first American to earn a doctorate at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem” who “established the Institute of
Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem” and helped to found
“the Camp Ramah network of Jewish camps” while authoring several books
including The Emergence of Conservative Judaism and Israel: Its Role
in Civilization passed away today.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/davis-moshe
1997(3rd of Nisan, 5757): Seventy-six-year-old
London born “journalist, author and songwriter, Jack Fishman the winner of first
Ivor Novello Award in 1955 for the song "Everywhere” passed away today
after which he was buried at the Golders Green Jewish Cemetery.
1998(14th of Nisan, 5758): In the evening,
First Seder.
1998: In “At the Movies” published today
Bernard Weinraub described the making of a film about Lindberg based on the
work of biographer A. Scott Berg.
1998: “My Giant” a comedy starring Billy
Crystal who also produced and wrote script for the film was released in the
United States today.
1998 “The Odd Couple II” written and produced
by Neil Simon, directed by Howard Deutch and co-starring Walter Matthau in his
second to last film was released in the United States today.
1999(24th of Nisan, 5759): Heinz Ludwig
Fraenkel-Conrat passed away. Born in
Germany in 1910, he fled Nazi Germany ultimately settling in the United States
where he served on the faculty of the University of California for over 40
years. He was a noted biochemist famous
for his viral research.
2000: “It was a busy day of fighting in
southern Lebanon as “the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrilla fighters wounded two
soldiers from the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army,” terrorist fired a mortar
shell across the border into Israel” and following which Israeli warplanes struck
suspected guerrilla targets while Prime Minister Barak defended his “plan for
unilateral withdrawal of troops from Lebanon.”
2001(17th of Nisan, 5761): Third Day
of Pesach
2001:
Belgium born American billionaire Michel P. Fribourg, the “chairman and
CEO of Continental Grain” who was the fifth generation to lead the family
business that stretched back to the early decades of the 19th
century and who raised five children – Robert, Paul, Charles, Nadine and
Caroline – with his wife Mary Ann passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/12/classified/paid-notice-deaths-fribourg-michel-p.html
2002(28th of Nisan, 5762):
Ninety-two-year-old Israel political leader and jurist Haim Cohen passed away.
The native of Lubeck is also the author of The Trial and Death of Jesus “in
which he argued that it was the Romans, not the Sanhedrin, who tried and
executed Jesus.
2002(28th of Nisan, 5762): “Eight
were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route
from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Avinoam Alfia, 26, of Kiryat Ata; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shlomi
Ben Haim, 27, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Nir Danieli, 24, of Kiryat Ata;
Border Police Lance Cpl. Keren Franco, 18, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Ze’ev
Hanik, 24, of Karmiel; Border Police Lance Cpl. Noa Shlomo, 18, of Nahariya;
Prison Warrant Officer Shimshon Stelkol, 33, of Kiryat Yam; and Sgt. Michael
Weissman, 21, of Kiryat Yam.”
2003(8th of Nisan, 5763): St.-Sgt. Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and St.-Sgt.
Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat Shmuel were killed and nine others wounded when
Palestinian terrorists opened fire before dawn on their base near Bekaot in the
northern Jordan Valley. (As reported by Jewish Virtual Library.
2004(19th of Nisan, 5764): Fifth Day
of Pesach and Shabbat shel Pesach.
2004: In describing the 13th century
painting “Christ Crucified by the Virtues” Peter Steinfels pointed out that “the
role of Jewish authorities in the death of Jesus, like the Roman role, may be
missing from this picture, but Christianity's claim to have superseded Judaism
is not.”
2005: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the
Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger, Polio:
An American Story by David M. Oshinsky and the recently released paperback
edition of Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner by Simon
Sebag Montefiore
2005: In Stockholm, The Zionist Federation of
Sweden presents "Herzl: Up Close and Personal," the traveling exhibit
which was produced by the Department for Zionist Activities, World Zionist
Organization, to celebrate the visionary of the Jewish state on the 100th
anniversary of his passing.
2006: The
Cedar Rapids Gazette featured a photo display entitled “preparing a Jewish
Tradition,” featuring pictures of bakers at the Shmurah Matzoh Bakery in
Brooklyn preparing “the unleavened bread traditionally eaten by Jews at
Passover.”
2007(22nd of Nisan, 5767): Eighth Day of Pesach;
Yizkor, for Orthodox and Conservative Jews
2007: Moshiach's Seudah marks the end of
Pesach
2007: Publication of “The Years of
Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945, the second volume of
Saul Friedländer's history of Nazi Germany and the Jews which describes the
German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million
European Jews and which won the 2007 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Non-fiction
and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2008.”
https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-years-of-extermination-nazi-germany-and-the-jews-1939-1945/
2007: At the Skirball Cultural Center in Los
Angeles, the “Fourth
Annual Stanley F. Chyet Literary Event” features Etgar Keret. “Israel's popular
young writer Etgar Keret is at once court jester, literary crown prince, and
national conscience. His painfully funny and honest books, including “The
Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God” and “Jetlag,” have earned him
international recognition. Also, a respected filmmaker, Keret took home the
Israeli Film Academy Award for Best Picture for his film Skin Deep.”
2008: In Washington,
D.C., Madeleine M. Kunin, the
former governor of Vermont, the first Jewish
woman governor and an ambassador under the Clinton administration,
discusses and signs her new book, “Pearls,
Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead.”
2008(16th of Nisan, 5769): Barry H. Gottehrer, a journalist
whose award-winning newspaper series “City in Crisis” helped elect John V.
Lindsay mayor of New York in 1965 and who then joined the administration to
help defuse the subsequent crises the city faced, died tonight near his home in
Wilmington, N.C. at the age of 73.
2008: “Fram” featuring
Clare Lawrence Moody in the role of “Ruth Fry” premiered in London today.
2008: In New York, at the Jewish Museum presents a lecture “When Great
Art Meets Great Evil” during which chief New York Times music
critic James Oestreich speaks with authors Henry Grinberg and Eugene Drucker
about their respective novels “Variations on the Beast” and “The Savior.”
Both books deal with the contradictions between the greatness of German musical
culture and the depths of depravity to
which Germany sank while the Nazis were in power.
2008: The Jerusalem Post reported that while Jewish parents are
well-known for wanting their children to work in certain professions with law
and medicine have usually topping the list, a new challenger is climbing the
ranks - hi-tech.
2009(16 Nisan 5769):
Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
2009: The French
government appointed Rabbi Gilles Uriel Bernheim Knight [Chevalier] in the Légion d'honneur
2009: In “Artwork from
Hearst Castle returned to heirs of Jewish couple,” published today Michael
Rothfeld describes how the grandchildren of a two German Jews who perished in
the Holocaust received some their artistic legacy.
2009: In a column entitled “Next Year In
Jerusalem,” published today Cecilia Hanley, the food editor for the Cedar
Rapids Gazette described attending a home Seder noting that “the food Deborah
[Levin] served was so delicious, I ate way more than was comfortable.” She
noted that Deb made brisket with her adaptation of the Classic Brisket Recipe
from “New York Times Passover Cookbook” which Hanley shared with her readers.
2010: The Westchester Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to show “Ahead of Time,” a documentary narrated by Ruth Gerber,
the Brooklyn born foreign correspondent,
photojournalist, author, and humanitarian who
describes her remarkable 70-year career during which she escorted
Holocaust refugees to America in 1944, covered the Nuremberg trials in 1946,
and documented the voyage of the ship Exodus in 1947, emerging as the eyes and
conscience of the world with her lifelong devotion to assisting Jewish
refugees
2010: “A Tiny Piece of Land” is scheduled to have
its first performance at the Pico Playhouse in Los Angeles, CA.
2011: The American Jewish Historical Society,
Centro Primo Levi, Center for Jewish History, The Katz Center for Advanced
Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Yeshiva University Museum
are scheduled to present: “Conversations on Conversion” moderated by WNYC's
Brian Lehrer
2011: “Jewish veterans of the 1960s women’s
liberation movement gathered at New York University for a conference on
"Women's Liberation and Jewish Identity."
http://jwa.org/thisweek/radical-feminism-conference
2011:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor “Walking Tour:
Downtown Jewish Washington” including the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish
Museum and the former sites of Ohev Sholom, Adas Israel, and Washington Hebrew
Congregation.
2011: Tulane Professor Brian Horowitz is
scheduled to attend a seminar on Hebrew literature at the University of
Florida.
2011: The Los
Angeles Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Panorama,” a novel in
which “Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler depicts the world of German and Austrian
Jews before the Nazis came to power.”
2011: The New York
Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Say Her Name” by
Francisco Goldman and “The Eichmann
Trial” by Deborah E. Lipstadt.
2011: Israel's
government approved the famous personalities who will appear on a new series of
shekel banknotes. The approval of the list today, which includes some of
Israel's most beloved national poets, comes after the list was finalized last
month by the Bank of Israel following more than a year of heated debate. The
personalities who will grace the new notes are Rachel the Poetess on the 20
shekel note, Shaul Tchernichovsky on the 50 shekel note, Leah Goldberg on the
100 shekel note and Natan Alterman on the 200 shekel note. Rachel, who died in 1931, is a leading poet
in modern Hebrew whose works have been set to music. Tchernichovsky was a
two-time winner of the Bialik Prize for Literature. Goldberg, who died in 1970,
was a poet, author, playwright, literary translator and researcher of Hebrew
literature who translated "War and Peace" into Hebrew. Alterman, an
author, playwright, poet and newspaper columnist who died in 1970, won the 1968
Israel Prize for Literature. "In order to maintain the public's trust in
the State's currency, the governor decided to replace the currency series with
a new series which will include some of the world's most advanced security and
identification markings in a bid to make counterfeiting more difficult,"
the Bank of Israel said in a statement.
The current faces on Israeli currency are former Prime Minister Moshe
Sharett on the 20 shekel note; S.Y. Agnon on the 50 shekel note; and former
presidents Yitzhak Ben- Zvi and Zalman Shazar on the 100 shekel and 200 shekel
notes.
2012: Grand Central
published A Natural Woman: A Memoir the autobiography of Carole King.
http://www.caroleking.com/book
2012: Heather Klein is
scheduled to provide a program of Yiddish Passover Songs in Palo Alto, CA.
2012: Ayn Sof Arkestra
& Bigger Band are scheduled to perform at The Sixth Street Community
Synagogue in New York City.
2012(18th of
Nisan, 5772): Eighty five year old Zvi
Dinstein, the native of Tel Aviv who served as an MK for a decade passed away
today.
2012(18th of
Nisan, 5772): Ninety-seven-year-old French Resistance leader Raymond Aurbrac,
born Raymond Samuel, passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2013: On the secular
calendar, 65th anniversary of the Haganah’s victory over the Arabs at Mishmar
ha-Emek (On the Jewish calendar this event took place on the 1st of Nisan,
5708)
2013: As part its “Days
of Remembrance” program, the University of Utah is scheduled to host “Holocaust
Workshop” for which students can receive course credit.
2013: “Aliyah” is
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival
2013: In Skokie, Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center, is scheduled to “a special advance screening and reception
for ‘No Place On Earth.’”
2013(30th of
Nisan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2013: At a performance
today, “using slides, musical interludes and short videos,” Israeli concert
pianist and music scholar Astrith Baltsan delved into the surprisingly storied
history of Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem…”
https://azm.org/astrith-baltsan-performs-hatikvah
2013: Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is said to be considering a proposal by Jewish Agency head
Natan Sharansky to establish an egalitarian prayer plaza along part of the
Western Wall.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/sharanskys-new-western-wall-prayer-area-could-take-years-to-implement/
2014: Ed Millieband,
the leader of the British Labor Party who has a good chance of becoming the
next Prime Minister, is scheduled to arrive in Israel today for a three day
visit that will have special meaning for this son of Jewish immigrants. (As
reported by Raphael Ahren and Miriam Shaviv
2014: Today, French
author and college professor Alain Finkielkraut whose father was Polish leather
goods manufacturer and Auschwitz survivor “was elected member of the Académie
française.”
2014(10th of
Nisan, 5774): If the legislation is by the Knesset today, the 10th
of Nisan will be the “official day of national celebration in which Jewish
immigration to Israel is honored and noteworthy immigrants are recognized for
their contributions to the nation. (As reported by Debra Kamin)
2014: “The Sturgeon
Queens’ is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “Golda’s Balcony”
staring Tova Feldshuh is scheduled to be performed at DCJCC’s Theatre J.
2014: In Bethesda, MD,
Congregation Beth El is scheduled to host Ambassador Gideon Meir who will speak
on “International Media Coverage of Israel During Conflict.”
2014(10th of
Nisan): According to the Book of Joshua today is the day “that the Israelites
crossed the Jordan River into the Promised Land on that date, ending their 40
years of wandering in the desert.” (As reported by Debra Kamin)
2015(21st of
Nisan, 5775): Seventh Day of Pesach
2015(21st of
Nisan, 5575): Eighty-eight-year-old Judith Malina, the Kiel, Germany born
daughter of Rosel and Rabbi Max Maline “an American theater and film actress,
writer, and director, who was one of the founders of The Living Theatre” passed
away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://forward.com/the-assimilator/218426/judith-malina-theater-rebel-dies-at-88/
2015: Fifty-eight-year-old Cornell College (IA)
graduate Rocel R. Kingman, the Minneapolis born daughter of Samuel and Betty
Rattner and wife of David Kingman with whom she raised three sons – Sam, Benner
and Teddy—passed away today.
2015: “The Decent One,”
“Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem” and “Anywhere Else” are scheduled to be
shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015: “Woman in Gold”
is scheduled to premiere in the United Kingdom.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-woman-in-gold-premieres-meet-the-man-who-battled-for-the-klimt/
2015: “Dutch
researchers said today they believe they have uncovered a new mass grave at the
former Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, almost exactly 70 years after
it was liberated’”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-researchers-say-new-mass-grave-found-at-nazi-camp/
2015: Jewish graves
were destroyed today when a tropical storm “devastated the Jewish cemetery of
the State of Bahia” in eastern Brazil according to Luciano Fingergut, the
community’s president.
2015: Temple Judah is
scheduled to host another of its ever-popular “Musical Shabbats.”
2016: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers included
the recently published paperback editions of When the Facts Change: Essays
by Tony Judt, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik
Larson and Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human
Rubble by Marilyn Johnson.
2016: “Rabin In His Own
Words” is scheduled to be shown on the final day of the Hartford Jewish Film
Festival today.
2016: “Karski & The
Lords of Humanity” a documentary about the mission of Jan Karski, is scheduled
to be shown at The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
2016: “Raise the Roof”
and “Fauda, Part III” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2017(14th of
Nisan, 5777): One-hundred-three-year-old
journalist Jesse Lurie who began writing for the Palestine Post (now Jerusalem
Post) in the 1930’s and continued having his columns published until January of
this year passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=185095725
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jesse-lurie-longtime-hadassah-magazine-editor-dies-at-103/
2017: “Eric
Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general paused to wish his fellow
Jews” a happy Pesach saying “We are commanded not only to remember our story,
but to imagine that we ourselves were enslaved in Egypt, and then freed — so
that we may empathize with the plight of those who are fleeing oppression and
danger today” in what some saw as a thinly veiled jab at President Donald
Trump” whose ban on entry into the US by refugees as well as travelers from seven
Muslim majority countries Schneiderman had successfully challenged.
2017(14th of Nisan, 5777): Fast of the First Born; Erev Pesach
2017: Jews living in the lands of “the former
Soviet Union” will be able to enjoy a ritually appropriate seder thanks to the
efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee which has provided
their co-religionists “with at least ten tons of matzah.”
2017(14th of Nisan, 5777): On the Jewish calendar, anniversary of the second most
important Pesach of the twentieth century.
On the 14th of Nisan, 5677(April 6, 1917) the United States
entered WW I on the side of the Allies. Ironically, most Jews were fixated on
the recent revolution in Russia and the message of freedom that it sent to the
Jews in the country and their kinsman around the world. Indeed, the year 1917 which included two
Russian Revolutions, the U.S. entry into the war and the Balfour Declaration
could be said to be one of the seminal years in the four thousand years of
Jewish history.
14th of Nisan, 5622(1862): In the evening, during the Civil War, Pesach begins with
21 Union soldiers of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment celebrating with a Seder
in Fayette, West Virginia.
14th of Nisan, 5660(
1900): Poor Jews living on the Lower East Side were
relieved to find that free matzoth were being distributed at Charles “Silver
Dollar” Smith’s “old place on Essex Street.”
There was concern that the distribution would end since Smith had passed
away last year. Before he had changed
his name, Smith was known as variously as Charles Goldschmidt or Charles
Solomon. A New York alderman who was
part of the Tammany Hall machine, he was called “Silver Dollar” because of the
“2,400 silver dollars used as a studded inlay in his saloon…”
14th of Nisan, 5671(1911): This evening, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association host a
public Seder in New York and “special services” for the Jewish immigrants
currently detained at Ellis Island.
14th of
Nisan, 5631(1871): As the Jews of Newark, New Jersey, begin the celebration
of Passover this evening, it is estimated that they will consume 10,000 to
15,000 pounds of matzoth during the eight days of the holiday
14th of Nisan, 5671(1911): This evening, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association host a
public Seder in New York and “special services” for the Jewish immigrants
currently detained at Ellis Island.
14th of Nisan, 5674(1914): Four hundred and fifty Jewish servicemen including
sailors from the battleships Texas, North Dakota, Washington, Ohio, Wyoming and
Louisiana are scheduled to take part in a seder specifically for military
personnel at Tuxedo Hall in Manhattan.
14th of Nisan, 5700(1940): The Sommer family sit down to their first Seder in
Liechtenstiein. How this family of
German Jewish refugees from Munich came to be there was chronicled by Susi
Pugatsch-Sommer in an article entitled “A Pesach Miracle in Nazi Germany.”
14th of Nisan, 5703(1943): Members of Belgium Jewish underground aided by Christian
railroad men derailed a train filled with Jewish deportees bound for the
extermination camps. Several hundred Jews were saved.
14th of Nisan, 5703(1943): PASSOVER, WARSAW
Ghetto UPRISING; The Jews were
determined not to be moved without giving up a fight. 2,100 Germans, fully
armed, enter the Ghetto. The Jews fighting force consisted of about 700 men and
women. They were armed with 17 rifles,
50 pistols and several thousand grenades and Molotov cocktails. A small group of Jewish fighters open fire on
the entering German troops. After an hour of skirmishing, the Germans
retreated. The final liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto began on the Eve of
Passover,
14th of Nisan, 5708(1948): Erev Pesach the rations given out in Jerusalem for the
observance of Passover included 2 lbs. of potatoes, ½ lb of fish, 4 lb. of
matzo, 1 ½ oz. dried fruit, ½ lb. meat, and ½ lb. of matzo flour. As one who was
there later wrote, “For the trapped citizens of
2018: It was reported
today that “Yasser Murtaja” who had been described as a “Palestinian
journalist” after he “was shot dead by Israeli protests along the Gaza border”
was, “for years,” “an officer in the Hamas security apparatus in Gaza.”
2018: Director Aviva
Kempner and Pam Horowitz, a former attorney with the Southern Poverty Law
Center and the widow of Julian Bond are scheduled to attend tonight’s screening
of “Rosenwald” at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
2018: The American
Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Four Strangers, Three Faiths, One
Escape to Freedom”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/four-strangers-three-faiths-one-escape-to-freedom-tickets-43752148855
2018: Author Gil Troy
is scheduled to “discuss the impact of Young Judaea on the Zionist Ideas” at an
alumni gathering in Manhattan.
2018: The Temple
Emanu-El Steicker is scheduled to host and “Evening with David Grossman,” “one
of Israel’s most celebrated writers, winner of countless awards, the only
Israeli ever to win the prestigious International Man Booker Prize, for his novel,
A Horse Walks into a Bar”
2019: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a discussion led by Mark
Slobin that will those attending Carnegie Hall’s upcoming “musical program
‘From Shtetl Stage’” that highlights “the musical legacy of Eastern European
Jews.”
2019: In Philadelphia,
at the University of Pennsylvania, the Kata Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
is scheduled to host Yigal S. Nizri, an assistant professor in the Department
for the Study of Religion and Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of
Toronto, as he presents “The Hebrew Tongue That Prevails in Our Times”: Jewish
Moroccan Language and Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
2019: Shiva is
scheduled to come an end this morning for Cantor Sherwood Goffin.
https://yucommentator.org/2019/04/sherwood-goffin-renowned-cantor-and-educator-dies-at-77/
2019(5th of
Nisan, 5779): Seventy-seven-year-old University Minnesota educated businessman
Irwin L. Jacobs known as “Irv the Liquidator” whose holdings included a
minority interest in the NFL Minnesota Vikings was found dead this morning, the
apparent victim of a murder-suicide with his wife.
2019: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Holocause
survivor by Louise Lawrence Israel’s as part of its “First Person” series
2019(5th of Nisan, 5777): On
the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit for fifty-four year old Amy Barnum, the
wife of Joel Barnum with whom she raised three daughters – Emma, Sasha and Gail
– and daughter Jack and Bette Kozlen of Omaha who was a pillar, in the truest
sense of that term, of the Jewish community in Cedar Rapids and a driving force
behind the Traditional Services at Temple Judah whose
untimely passing can only be described as a tragic loss for all of us.
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/
2020: The complete
lockdown under which Israelis have been living since April 7 is scheduled to
come to an end today for Cantor Sherwood Goffin.
https://yucommentator.org/2019/04/sherwood-goffin-renowned-cantor-and-educator-dies-at-77/
http://sherwoodgoffin.com/about-me/cantorial-biography
2020: Shomrei Torah,
the Santa Rosa synagogue is scheduled to take its freedom-, justice- and
equality-centered Seder online on StreamSpot
2020: This evening, Kehilla
Community Synagogue of Piedmont is scheduled to take to Zoom for a gathering
that will explore themes of collective liberation, engaging in disability and
racial justice and new ways of honoring indigenous land
2020(16th of
Nisan, 5780): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer.
2021(28th of
Nisan, 57810: Parahat Shemini; Pirket Avot, Chapter One
for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2021: In Columbus, OH,
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to begin its phased re-opening plan with in-person
services where all Pandemic Protocols will be practiced.
2021: The annual East
Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to r return for its 26th
year today with a virtual offering of 20 films over two weeks.
2021: In the framework
of the exhibition “This is not My Tree” at NARS Foundation, curator Nina
Mdivani is scheduled to moderate a virtual panel on the theme Notions of
Belonging, with artists Yael Azoulay, Omer Ben-Zvi, and Michal Geva. Photo: Eli
Barak,
2021: Neil Friedman,
co-founder of Menemsha Films and one of the developers of ChaiFlicks, a
streaming service bringing Jewish and Israeli films to U.S. viewers is
scheduled to discuss the perennial question: What makes a film Jewish?
2021: In Palm Beach
Gardens, FL, at Temple Judea, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to lead another
informative Torah Study and Meadow Miller and Abby Francisco are each scheduled
to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2021: In Beachwood, OH,
ceremonies marking the installation of Vladimir Lapin as the Cantor at Anshe
Chesed Fairmount Temple are scheduled to come to an end.
2021: In Jerusalem, the
Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “Flute Sounds in Ein-Kerem,” a piano and
Fantasia for Flue Oboe where seating will be limited “due to the restrictions
of the Green Badge.
2021: In Israel, many curbs on the education
system that have remained in place are set to expire today.
2021: Based on reports published yesterday, Israel’s much vaunted
vaccination program could come off the tracks because “Pfizer is threatening to
delay further shipments of vaccines to Israel over a delay in payments,
reportedly warning that the Jewish state could go the back of the line if it
does not pay up.”
2022: In Boston, MA, the Alexander Magnolia Coop is scheduled to host
the 16th Cape Verdean-Jewish Seder which brings “together Jews and
Cabo Verdeans from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to meet face-to-face, share
and celebrate their cultures, and explore what they have in common.”
2022: In London, JW3 Cinema is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Lucky Star.”
2022: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present a lecture
by Rabbi Albert Gabbi on “Why Is The Sephardi Haggadah Different From All Other
Haggadot?”
2022: The National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by
Yoel Finkelman on “What To Do When You Can't Afford a Manuscript: The Passover
Haggadah as a Material Object.”
2022: The New York Times features review of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Last Call at
the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen
and The Trials of Harry Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary
Man, 1945-1953 by Jeffrey Frank which examines the foreign policy decisions
of the President who proudly played such a key role in the creation of the
modern state of Israel.
2022: The 13th Annual Axelrod Jewish International Film
Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Replacement” on its final
night.
2022: Shiva service is scheduled to be held tonight in Cedar Rapids for
Brian Thalblum the brother of Temple Judah’s Rabbi Todd Thalblum.
2022: “Taste of the World Festival” is scheduled to open to at the
Habonim Gardens next to the Jaffa Gate, featuring “some of the best chefs in
Israel, preparing special dishes from all over the world.”
2023( 19th of Nisan, 5783): Fifth Day of
Pesach.
2023: Zivug is scheduled to present online “Shadow
Dancing Through the Omer.”
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a webinar
during which Trudy Gold and Aurelia Young discuss “Leslie Howard – A
Fascinating Life.
2023: Bank Hapoalim is scheduled to continue to sponsor
free entrance to 170 museums, national parks, and heritage sites in Israel,
including ANU - Museum of the Jewish People.
2023: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National
Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir are scheduled to take part in the march that
“is set to begin at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank — five
kilometers from the Palestinian town of Huwara, which has recently been the
site of multiple Palestinian terror attacks in recent months, as well as a
revenge rampage by hundreds of settler extremists — and will finish at the
Evyatar settlement outpost.”
2024: YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture by Michael
Hagemeister in which he “will use the Bern trial as a case study of Jewish
legal self-defense in order to shed light on both the “Protocols of the Elders
of Zion” and the concerted efforts against the “Antisemitic International” in
the 1930s, which have received little attention from historians.”
2024: Instituto Cervantes New York, in partnership with
the American Sephardi Federation and Centro Sefarad-Israel is scheduled to
present:“The Golden Age of the Jews of Alandalus”
2024: Dr. Elkayam-Levy is scheduled to join Masua Sagiv
in conversation, to speak about her work on “the Civil Commission, an independent,
unaffiliated, nongovernmental body, to investigate war crimes perpetrated by
Hamas against women and children, both on October 7 and afterward among Israeli
hostages.”
2024: Cornell University is scheduled to host a free
screening of “A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings.”
2024: In another lecture in the “Seeing Beyond the Dark”
lecture series, Rabbi Daniel Epstein is scheduled to discuss the lives and
writings of “Jan Petochka and Vaclav Havel, two of the greatest Czech thinkers,
were dissidents who actively opposed the totalitarian rule in which they lived.”
2024: The Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema is
scheduled to host a screening of “Elik and Jimmy.”
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture
by Jeremy Rosen on “Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant
Today? Numbers 20:1, Miriam and Aaron Die”
2024: In Berkley, CA, “Summer
Brenner is scheduled to discuss her memoir, Dust, which details her upbringing
as a Jew in the oppressive, segregated 1950s South to her travels through New
England, Europe and New Mexico to her eventually becoming a Beatnik in
Berkeley.”
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Adam Taub on “Babylon and
Jerusalem” and a lecture by Dr Helen Fry on “Christian Views of Jews, Part 1:
Image of the Jews in the Gospels.”
2024: As April 10th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day
187 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(12th of
Nisan, 5785): Fast of the First Born
2025: Robert Edsell,
whose book on the Monuments Men is a must read is scheduled to address a
convention of bookseller in San Antonio, TX.
2025: In Tel Aviv, the
exhibition “Pesach Vacation with Heroes and Artifacts” is scheduled to closed
today at ANU- the Museum of the Jewish People
2025: “Traces of
Belsen,” an exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the
liberation of this camp is scheduled to open at the Wiener Holocaust Library in
London.
2025: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host Part 2 of the lecture on “The Sassoons”
presented by Lyn Julius
2025: As April 10th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the
globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 553 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)
2026: The NYT features
a review of The Oyster Diaries, a novel by Nancy Lemann a Jewish native
of New Orleans which includes snippets about her earlier literary
accomplishments.
2026: Temple Beth Zion
in Brookline, MA and Karem Shalom in Concord, MA are both scheduled to host
“Shabbat Zimra: A Sabbath of Song.”
2026: In London, the
Friends of Yad Sarah is scheduled to host “The Great Divide: The State of Play at Arsenal and Tottenham.”
2026: The First Friday
Book, hosted by the Pozez JCC of Northern Virginia, is scheduled to discuss Still
Life by Louise Penny.
2026: After 8 days Jews
can eat bread again today!
2026: As April 10th
begins in Israel, President Trump is reportedly asking Netanyahu to scale back
strikes on Lebanon, in order "to ease" (truce)talks that are scheduled to begin
on April 10. (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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