1191: Coronation of
Henry VI as Holy Roman Emperor during whose reign anti-Semitic riots took place
stretching from the districts along the Rhine all the way to Vienna. Ephraim Ben Jacob of Bonn was one of the
leading Talmudist during this period.
1250: Pope Innocent III refused the Jews of Cordova
permission to build a synagogue.
1402: Pope Boniface IX granted "liberal
privileges" to the Jews of Rome – “reducing their taxes, ordering their
Sabbath to be protected, placing them under the jurisdiction of the Curia,
protecting them from oppression by officials; all Jews and Jewesses dwelling in
the city to be regarded and treated as Roman citizens.”
1452: Birthdate of Leonardo Di Vinci who painted
what, according to some, was the most famous Seder ever held - The Last Supper.
1592: Today. Judah
Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal of Prague, “set off for the holy community of
Poznań and there for the second time became head of the yeshiva and head of the
rabbinical courts of all the Diaspora of Poland.”
1600: Abraham Scultetus
‘a German professor of theology, and the court preacher for the Elector of the
Palatinate Frederick V” jotted down in his diary “This evening Rabbi Jehuda,
the Loew, dropped by to see me.”
1642: Birthdate
Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan. His short
reign would prove to be uneventful for his Jewish subjects, which included two
doctors, one named Levi and the other named Hayati Zade, who served as court
physicians.
1677: Today The City
Council of Lubeck decreed that no Jew should be permitted to stay in the city
overnight without the express permission of the senate, which was rarely given.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10165-lubeck
1698(4th of
Iyar, 5458): Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas, the native Oran, the father of Isaac
ben Jacob Sasportas, the rabbi of the Portuguese at Amsterdam who had known
Sarah, the girl with whom Sabbateai had contracted his third marriage described
her “as a witless girl who used to deliver, to the general amusement, dement
speeches about she was going to married to the King Messiah passed away today
https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004392489/BP000027.xml?lang=en
http://segulamag.com/en/today_event/לוחם-נפטר/
1714(11th of
Iyar, 5474): Esther Liebmann (née Schulhoff) a German Jewish financier who served as Court Jew to King
Friedrich I of Prussia, inheriting the title and also the Münzregal from her second
husband, Jost Liebmann” passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_12510.html
1715: The Yamasee War,
a two-year conflict in which Native Americans tried to drive the colonial
settlers out of South Carolina, began today. At the outbreak of the war Jews
had already begun settling in the colony. The original constitution of South
Carolina which had been written by John Locke in 1669 granted liberty to “Jews,
Heathens and Dissenters.” Simon
Valentine is the first Jewish settler whose presence can be officially
confirmed. A resident of Charleston, he
served as an interpreter for Governor Archdale.
There must have been more Jews living there since “as early as 1703
protest was raised against "Jew strangers" voting in the election of
members to the Common House of Assembly.”
1747: Birthdate of
Baden native Moses Jakob Sekeles, the husband of Fratz Abraham and the father
of Abraham Moses Sekeles.
1747: Birthdate of
Metzger, Germany native Joseph A. Zimmern, the son of Ephraim Zimmern and the
husband of Hendle Zimmern.
1749: In London, Sarah
and Brian Abrahams gave birth to Charleston resident Emanuel Abrahams the
husband of Judith Abrahams and the father of Elias and Alice Abrahams.
1753: Hayman M. Levy
the Hanover, Germany born son of Reyna and Moses Levy and future resident of New
York, and his Sloe Levy gave birth to Reyna Levy.
1764(12th of
Nisan, 5524): Shabbat HaGadol
1764(12th of
Nisan, 5524): Sarah Mendelssohn, the Berlin born of Fromet Mendelssohn and Jewish religious reformer
Moses Mendelssohn passed away today before reaching her first birthday.
1767(16th of
Nisan, 5527): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1767: In Eberstadt,
Germany, Loebisch and Abraham Arnold gave birth to Anschel Abraham Arnold, the
husband of Esther Regensburger with whom he had six children.
1768: In New York, Esther
(Hetty Asher) Hays (Etting), the Philadelphia born daughter of Asher Etting and
Rachel Etting and her husband David Barrack Hays gave birth to Hannah Myers,
the wife of Benjamin Myers and the mother of Sarah (Sally) Hays; Abigail
Solomons; Myer B. Myers and Abraham Myers,
1769(8th of
Nisan, 5529) Parashat Metzora
1770(20th of
Nisan, 5530): Sixth Day of Pesach; 5th day of the Omer
1770: Birthdate of
Baden native Elias Isaak Cahn, the husband of Bina Leone with whom he had seven
children.
1771(1st of
Iyar, 5531): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1773(22nd of
Nisan, 5533): Eighth Day of Pesach and Yizkor
1773: Today, the Asser
family began a 21-year long struggle to “allowed to engage in navigation
between the Netherlands and her colonies.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11450-netherlands
1775(15th of
Nisan, 5535): Pesach was observed in the thirteen colonies for the last time
since in a few short days, the American Revolution began with the “shots heard
round the world.
1778(18rh of Nisan, 5538): Fourth Day of Pesach
1780(10th of
Nisan, 5540) Parshat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol is observed during the British
siege of Charleston, SC, a city that boasts one of the oldest Jewish
communities in North America.
1782(1st of
Iyar, 5542): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1782: Birthdate of
Callman Stern, the husband of Jette Stern and father of Salomon and Bettchen
Stern.
1783: In Zwolle,
Holland, Bele Eliaser Cohen and Joseph Simon Magnus gave birth to Judith Magnus
who married her second husband Samuel Levy in London’s Great Synaogue, nine
months after her first husband, Moses Lazarus had passed
1783: Today the Continental Congress of the United
States officially ratifies the preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain that
was signed in November 1782. The congressional move brings the nascent nation
one step closer to the conclusion of the Revolutionary War.
Five months later, on
September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives of the
United States, Great Britain, Spain and France, officially bringing an end to
the Revolutionary War. It also formalized Great Britain’s recognition of America’s
independence.
1784: In Baltimore, MD,
two days after the end of Pesach, Hannah Levy and Eleazer Lyons who had been
married in Harrisburg, PA in 1776 gave birth to Uriah Lyons, the husband of
Surinam native Mary Ann Alexander with whom he had three children.
1788(8th of Nisan, 5548):
Joseph Levy, the first Jew to be buried in Australia, passed away. Apparently,
his burial was not marked by any special Jewish ceremony.
1789(19th of
Nisan, 5549): Fifth Day of Pesach
1797(19th of
Nisan, 5557): Fifth Day of Pesach and Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach
1797: In Germany,
birthdate of Jeda Kellerman, the wife of Michael Oberndoerfer with whom she had
seven children.
1798: Rachel Aarons and
Joseph Tobias gave birth to Judith Tobias.
1799: As an Ottoman
Army marched towards Acre to break the siege by Napoleon who had expressed
philo-Semitic beliefs after landing in Palestine, French general Jean Baptiste
Kleber decided to attack the enemy the following day at Mount Tabor.
1801(2nd of
Iyar, 5561): Ebrahim “Hajji” Shirazi
whose grandfather was a wealthy Jewish merchant who was forced to convert to
Islam passed away today.
https://www.jewoftheweek.net/2022/10/19/jew-of-the-week-ebrahim-shirazi/
1802: On the day before
the first Seder, William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long
belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud. According to N.I. Matar, “Wordsworth” described the Wandering Jew
without considering that Jews had been established in England for decades, and
that Jews were ‘eagerly’ trying to change their ‘homeless’ image.”
1802: In New York,
Solomon Levy and Rebecca Eve (Hendricks) Levy gave birth to Juliet Levy who
became Juliet Moss when she married Joseph Lyons Moss.
1802: In London, Julia
Asher and Raphael Raphael gave birth to John (Jonah) Raphael, the husband of
Emma Schiff.
1805(16th of
Nisan, 5565): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1805: One day after he
had passed away, “Naphtali Hirts bar Yehuda Leib” was buried today at the
“Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1806(27th of Nisan):
Rabbi Isaac Ashkenazi of Lemberg, author of “Taharot ha-Kodesh” passed away.
1808(18th of
Nisan, 5568): Fourth Day of Pesach.
1808(18th of
Nisan 5568): Benjamin Goldsmid, a
leading English financer, passed away.
Born in Holland in 1755, he was the eldest son of Aaron Goldsmid and the
brother of Abraham Goldsmid who was also his business partner. Goldsmid married Jessie Salmons making him
the son-in-law of Israel Levin Salomons which benefited him financially and
socially. He was a friend of Pitt the
Younger and the founder of the Naval Asylum.
1808(Rachel Emanuel De
Piza and Joseph Gabriel Brandel gave birth to Angel Joseph Brandon.
1811(23rd of
Nisan, 5571): Seventh Day of Pesach
1813(15th of
Nisan, 5573): As the second year of the War of 1812 grinds on, Jews in the
United States and the United Kingdom are united in their observance of Pesach.
1815: Birthdate of
Lazar Zweifel the native of Moghilef who defended the Chasidim saying that “persecutions
which they were forced to endure at the hands of their opponents were as unjust
as the oppression of Jews by Christians.”
1819(20th of
Nisan, 5579): Sixth day of Pesach
1819(20th of
Nisan, 5579): David Maurtiz, the nephew of Rabbi Samuel Marx whose other more
famous nephew was Karl Marx, passed away today.
1819: Birthdate of
Ludwig Lewysohn, the native of Posen who served as a rabbi in
Frankfort-on-Order, Worms and Stockholm.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9936-lewysohn-ludwig
1820: In Charleston, SC
Isaac and Rachel Mordecai Harby gave birth Armida Harby who became Armida Harby
Cohen when she married Max E. Cohen with whom she had six children – Marx,
Eliza, Octavia, Herbert, Leah and Armida.
1824(17th of
Nisan, 5584): Third Day of Pesach
1824: Birthdate of
Gustav Cohn, the husband of Friederike Rechnitz and father of Josef and Rosa
Cohn.
1826(8th of
Nisan, 5586): Shabbat HaGadol celebrated for the last time during the lifetimes
of former Presidents Adams and Jefferson both of whom died on July 4, 1826
1827(18th of
Nisan, 5587): Fourth Day of Pesach
1828: Isaak Strauss,
the German born son of Samuel Suss Strauss married his first wife Juetle Chaya
Strauss today.
1828: Jacob Levy
married Elizabeth Solomon today at the Great Synagogue.
1830(22nd of
Nisan, 5590): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1830: Following William
Huskisson’s presentation of a petition signed by 2,000 people from Liverpool
calling for the removal of the civil disabilities facing the Jews of the United
Kingdom, Robert Grant introduced a bill in Parliament seeking to accomplish
that goal.
1831: In Germany
Athalia Wolff Frank and Johanna Wolff Frank who were married in 1863 gave birth
to Eleazer W. Frank, the father of Fannie, Matilda and Benjamin Frank.
1832(15th of
Nisan, 5592): As Andrew Jackson seeks a second term as President, Jews observe
Pesach.
1833: Birthdate of
Viennese born French astronomer Maurice Loewy.
1834: Birthdate of
Joseph Kohen Moline, the Brussels born poet.
1834: Birthdate of Emma
Simon, the native of Kolberg who married Louis Bernheim with whom she gave
birth to historian Ernst Bernheim
1835(16th of
Nisan, 5595): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1837: Birthdate of
Horace Porter, the American Civil War hero who served as U.S. Ambassador to
France during the Dreyfus Affair, which Poerwe was falsely accused of
attributing to an English plot to weaken the French.
1838(20th of
Nisan, 5598): Sixth Day of Pesach
1839(1st of
Iyar, 5599): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1839: In Wankheim,
Germany, Leopold Hirsch, the son of Lea and Simon Seev Hirsch and his wife and
Therese Tölzele Hirsch (Wormser) gave birth to Herman Hirsch.
1839: In Elizabeth, NJ,
a Judge David Naar, a supporter of President James K. Polk and the St. Thomas,
VI born son of Sarah Naar and Hazan Joshua Naar and his wife Sarah Cohen Naar
gave birth to Zipporah Naar
1840: In London, a split took place between the liberal Reform Jews and the
Orthodox
1840: The West London Synagogue of British
Jews, a Reform Jewish congregation of London was established today.
1840: “Twenty-four gentlemen, eighteen of whom
were Sephardim decided to establish the West London Synagogue of British Jews.
1840: Birthdate of Giuseppe Foa “the Rabbino
Maggiore (Grand Rabbi) of Turino who married Annetta Luzzati Foa with whom he
had two children – Ida Dolce Foa Ghiron and Ernesto Foa.
1841: Karl Marx received his Doctorate from the
University of Jena
1841: In Philadelphia, PA, Clarissa and Joseph
M. Asch gave birth to Mitchell J. Asch, the “husband of Manuella Asch” and
“father of Irina Clara Culver.”
1843(15th of Nisan, 5603): Pesach
and Shabbat
1843: Birthdate of American author Henry James.
For an interesting insight into this great American author’s view of the Jewish
people see The Jewish East Side by Milton Hindus, specifically the entry
entitled “Henry James – The American Scene” pages 65-78
1846(19th of Nisan, 5606): Fifth Day of Pesach
celebrated on the same day “the families of James Fraser Reed and George and
Jacob Donner, comprising 31 people in 9 wagons, left Springfield, Illinois for
California” which was a step along the path that led to the disaster knowns as
“the Donner Party.”
1847: In Warsaw, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter and his wife
gave birth to Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, the author of Sfas Emes and the Rebbe
of the Gerrer Hasidim.
1848(12th of Nisan, 5608): Shabbat HaGadol
1848: Now that the
church on Chrysitie Street between Walker and Hester streets has been
successfully re-modeled to meet the needs of its new Jewish owner the building
of what would become Congregation Temple Emanu-El was dedicated today.
1849: In Trieste, Elisa Morpurgo and Giuseppe/Joseph Baron
von Morpurgo gave birth to Irène Renée Cahen d'Anvers (de Morpurgo)
1851:Today Leggett's
Gap Railroad name was changed to Lackawanna and Western Railroad “for which
Chicago native and Purdue University graduate Abraham Burton Cohen “an American
civil engineer built record-breaking concrete Tunkhannock Viaduct, the
world's largest concrete structure… ‘
1853: In New York, Henry and Sophie Waldstein gave birth to
Louis Waldstein the New York trained physician who moved to London in 1898 to
continue his practice and who wrote “The Sub-Conscious Self in its Relation to
Education and Health.”
1855: Birthdate of Austria native and Chicago resident
Henry Kramer, the husband of Rachel Kornfield Kramer and the father of Fannye,
Helen, Sarah and Israel Kramer.
1857(21st of Nisan, 5617): Seventh Day of Pesach
1858(1st of Iyar, 5618): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1858: Birthdate of Emile Durkheim French the sociologist
who is regarded as one of the most important founders of the modern field of
sociology. One of his most significant contributions is his development of the
term and concept of "social facts," what Durkheim believed should be
the primary focus of the scientific study of society. Durkheim grew up in a
Jewish family and it was assumed by his relatives that he would eventually
become a rabbi. However, he displayed impressive intellectual capabilities and earned
a position at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the most prestigious
teachers' college in France. Around this time, he also generally lost his
religious faith, although he retained a strong desire for moral reform and
moral studies. Instead of religion, he hoped that science - and in particular
the scientific study of society - would help bring about moral reformation. As a Jew, even if he wasn't very religious, he experienced
the bitter anti-Semitism of France of that era. The end of the century saw the
advent of the Dreyfuss Affair, when a Jewish army officer was falsely accused
and convicted of espionage. This led to an increase in anti-Semitism,
especially towards those like Durkheim who worked to have Dreyfuss exonerated.
For example, Durkheim's record indicates that he almost certainly should have
been elected to the Institut de France, but he was passed over entirely. During
World War I he was also accused of disloyalty and preference for the German
enemies, something perhaps motivated not only by his Jewish heritage but also
his German name and his origins in the disputed Alsace-Lorraine region.
Durkheim died in 1917 a year after his son died during World War I,
fighting for the French.
1858: In New York City, Moses Richman and Rosa Mellis gave
birth to Isabel R. Wallach, the wife of Joseph G. Wallach who was vice
president for the New York State Council of Jewish Women and President of the
Shaaray Tefila Sisterhood.
https://www.askart.com/artist/solomon_ripinsky/11006579/solomon_ripinsky.aspx?alert=info#
1861 “From the West Indies” published today provides a
potpourri of information about Santa Domingo and Cuba including the fact that
there is one Jew among the 15 or 20 slave-traders working the markets in
Havana.
1861: Following the attack on Fort Sumter, President
Lincoln issues a call for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. This would turn out to be a mere down payment
in terms of the number of soldiers it would take to save the Union. Among them would be thousands of Jews
including Frederick Knefler, an immigrant from Hungary who would rise to the
rank of Major General under William Tecumseh Sherman, Brigadier General
Blumenberg who had previously escaped the wrath of Secessionist mob in
Baltimore, and General Max Einstein whose troops covered the retreat of the
Union Army following the First Battle of Bull Run.
1861: As President Lincoln issues a call for volunteers to
fight the Confederates, Major Alfred Mordecai makes a last-ditch effort to stay
in the U.S. Army without having to fight against his southern kinsman. He sends
a letter to his superiors asking that he be relieved of duty at the Watervliet
Arsenal so he would not be making munitions to fire against family and friends from
North Carolina and Virginal. He
requested that he be transferred to California or some other such distant
posting where he felt he could stay in the Army, serve his country and still
avoid fighting his fellow Southerners.
1862(15th of Nisan, 5622): First Day of Pesach
1862(15th of Nisan, 5622): The first Jewish services were
held in Dubuque, Iowa during Pesach
1862: Business was off today at the New York Cattle Market
because “the Jewish dealers” were absent today “being their Passover.”
1863: Birthdate of Isaac Levy, the husband of Lena Levy.
1863(26th of Nisan, 5623): Miriam Joseph, the
daughter of Israel Joseph and the wife of Levy Moses whom she married in 1809
passed away today Sumter, SC.
1864: “In Varzan, Lithuania, Joseph and Shata (Zachs)
Lurie” gave birth to Rabbi Benjamin Aronowitz the husband of Shifera Leibowitz,
founder of a Yeshiva at Telisha where he also served as an “arbitrator on Torah
jurisprudence” before coming to the United States in 1906 to lead a
congregation in Lowell, Massachusetts and then becoming a “teacher of Law and
Talmud at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.”
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/aronowitz-benjamin
1865: “In Krosinewitz, Poland, Aaron and Bessie Marion
(Feidel) Werner” gave birth to Lodz and Thorn, Germany educated “branch manager
of MGM Film Corporation Charles Werner, the husband of Edna Korn who settled in
St. Louis, MO.
1865(19th of Nisan, 5625): Fifth Day of Pesach
and Shabbat Shel Pesach
1865: At special meeting today of the Orthodox congregation
in Keokuk, IA, presided over by L.M. Younker, one of the founders of the
department store chain that bore the family name a motion was unanimously
adopted to the “synagogue draped in mourning for thirty days in memory of our
late president, Abraham Lincoln.”
1865: President Abraham Lincoln died after having been shot
the night before at Ford’s Theatre. For more see Lincoln and the Jews by
Jonathan Sarna and Benjamin Shapell http://www.shapell.org/lincoln-and-the-jews/lincoln-and-the-jews-a-history/ OR
http://www.jhsgw.org/exhibitions/online/lincolns-city/exhibits/show/mr-lincolns-city/essays/holzer
1866(30th of Nisan, 5626): Rosh Chodesh Iyar was
observed on the same day that “Current Literature” reported on Toilers of the
Sea, the new novel by Victor Hugo who “led a protest meeting in Paris to
denounce the pogroms in Russia that were devastating Jewish communities and
producing a mass exodus to Western Europe and the United States” and who would
publish his historical play Torquemada, written in 1869, with the
head of the Spanish Inquisition as its anti-hero and Queen Isabella and King
Ferdinand of Spain as money-hungry anti-Semites.”
https://jewishcurrents.org/may-31-victor-hugo-and-the-jews
1866: Today, thirteen-year-old Daneil de Leon left his native Curacao and
sailed to Europe where he studied at the Gymnasium in Hildesheim and in 1870
began attending the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.
1867: “New York Jewish merchants met at Congregation
Shearith Israel to consider action against insurance companies which refused to
insure Jewish business establishments.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch).
1869: In Michelfeld, Germany Liebman, Oppenheimer and
Adelheid Loeb gave birth to Max Oppenheimer the husband of Missouri native Ray
Adler.
1870(14th of Nisan, 5630): Erev of Pesach
1870: Birthdate of Palukno, Vilna, native Jacob Ginsburg,
who in 1892 came to the United States where he was “one of the founders of the
American Jewish Congress, founded The
Jewish World and served as published of the Philadelphia Jewish World while raising his son Norman with his
wife Annie Ginsburg.
1871: An article published today provided “further details
of religious disturbances at Odessa” (Russia) during which “the Hebrews’ gave
been the victims “religious intolerance.”
According to the article, The
Standard, a paper published in London “has a dispatch from Vienna stating
that a religious riot has occurred at Odessa.
The Jews were despoiled” and have suffered “great devastation.” According to the dispatch, the “authorities
were powerless” to quell the riot.
1872: On the eve of
Greek Easter Sunday, Greeks attacked Jews in a bloody riot. "The
Christians were set loose, and beat, massacred, and demolished the houses of
Jews…" It was reported one Jews was stabbed to death, and others were
injured. It was only after Turkish soldiers guarded the Jews that the violence
ended.
1873(18th of
Nisan, 5633): Fourth Day of Pesach
1873: In San Francisco,
Jacob and Rose (Hart) Zobel, gave birth to Stanford University trained surgeon
Alfred Jacob Zobel, who started serving as the chief of clinic for Diseases of
the Rectum and Colon at San Francisco Polyclinic in 1905 and who married Claire
Wolf in 1925, two years after the death of his first wife, Maybelle Getz.
1873: In Poland, Aaron
and Sarah Marcus gave birth to Isaiah Marcus the husband of Fannie Plotnic and
member of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis who ed congregations in Columbus, OH,
Chicago, Il and Richmond, VA
1874: Two days after he
had passed away, Edward Green, son of Levy Ephraim Green and Emilia Hyams and
the husband of Amelia Hart with whom he had had six children was buried today
in the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1874: Birthdate of Johannes Stark. A Nobel Prize winning physicist, he is
known for the Stark Effect. Stark attacked Einstein and other Jewish scientists
because they were Jewish. He also disparaged their scientific
accomplishments. He joined the Nazi party. After the war, he was
sentenced to four years in prison by a De-Nazifcation Court. He died
in 1957. Just because you win the Nobel Prize does not mean you are
"smart."
1875: In Tichen,
Russia, boot manufacture Myer Weingarten and his wife gave birth to Flint,
Michigan realtor and fruit company executive Harry Weingarten, the husband of
Libby Breslin with whom he had three children who at the age of 14 came to the
United States where became “a member of Congregation Shaa Zedek in Detroit,” served
on “the Board of the Citizens and Commercial Savings Bank of Flint” and was in
“charge of the committee that raised thirteen million dollars for Jewish war
sufferers.”
1875: The "Jewish
Exponent" was issued for the first time. R. Charles Hoffman, Ephraim
Lederer, and Felix Gerson served as the editors.
1876: German
businessman Johann Wilhelm Auernheimer and his Hungarian-Jewish wife Charlotte
"Jenny" Büchler gave birth to jurist, writer and survivor of Dachau
Raul Auernheimer the husband of Irene Leopoldine Guttman and the nephew of
Theodor Herzl who employed at the Neue Frie Presse.
1876: In the Czech
Republic, Bertha and Adolph Hirsch gave birth to Olga Hirsch, the husband of
Dr. Hugo Hirsch and the mother of Gertrude Lichtenstern; Jenny Hirsch and Jenny
Winternitz who was murdered at Treblinka some time between 1942 and 1945.
1877: Birthdate of
Rosalie Moses, the native of Horn, Austria-Hungary who as Rosalie Moser was a
passenger on the S.S. St. Louis and died during the Holocaust sometime after
having been disembarked in France, her last known place of residence.
1878: In Lithuania
Feige Gobst and Elijah Chaim Konvitz gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Konvitz, the
husband of Welia Ridvas-Wilowsky and co-founder and dean of the Palestine
Theological Seminary in Safed who came to the United where, starting in 1924 he
began leading Anshe Russia Synagogue in Newark, served as an American delegate
to the World Zionist Congress in 1925 and the New Jersey delegate to the American
Prison Congress.
1878: In Vitebsk, Russ,
Bessie and Saul Shaul gave birth to
Cincinnati, OH resident
Isaac Aronoff, the husband of Mary Ida Yachna Aronoff and the father of “of
Harry Aronoff; Louis I Aronoff; Sarah Weil; Dr. Nathan Aronoff and Louis I.
Aronoff”
1879(22nd of
Nisan, 5639): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1880: In New York, the District Attorney delivered
a lecture entitled “Some Phases of Crime” at tonight’s meeting of the Young
Men’s Hebrew Associations.
1878: Birthdate of Dr.
Felix Kornfeld, the native of Bohemia who was the husband of Paul Mandl
1880: In Heldesheim,
Rabbi Jakob Guttmann and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Julius Guttman who became
Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Hebrew University in 1934.
1881(16th of
Nisan, 5641): Second Day of Pesach
1881: During the four-day
observance of Russian Orthodox Easter, a Pogrom begins in Elizavetgrad, Russia.
1882(26th of
Nisan, 5642): Parashat Shmini; Mevarchim Chodesh Iyar.
1882: Birthdate of
Telpki, Russia native Binder Ainbinder, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.
1883: Pauline Moses and
David Holtz were married today in New York City.
1883: “In Wilno,
Abraham and Stsia (Lechovitzky) Abramson gave birth to Maurice Abramson and
husband of Anna Mattline, who served as the rabbi for several American
congregations including Beth Israel in Evansville, Indiana and Tifereth Israel
in Des, Moines, Iowa while authoring several volumes including The Bible in
Questions and Answers and Berchos Moshe.
1883: In Estonia, Sarah Snyder and Mendel Leiserson
gave birth to University of Wisconsin graduate and holder of a doctorate from
Columbia William Morris Leiserson the husband of Emily Nash Bodman who began
his academic career as a Professor of Economics and Political Science at Toledo
University before moving on to Antioch College in 1925 where he was a Professor
of Economics.
1884(20th of Nisan, 5644): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1884: Birthdate of Lithuanian born, University
of London trained “Hebraist and Arabist” Ben Zion Halper, a Professor at
Dropsie College and an editor for the Jewish Publication Society.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/halper-benzion
1885: Birthdate of Petrikov,
Russia native Max Zaritsky, the son of a rabbi and husband of Sophie Zaritsky
who in 1906 came to the United States where he rose the Presidency of the
United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6h995qg
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/05/11/80575988.pdf
1885:
In Belarus, Ida (Yetta) Slutsky, the future co-founder of the Catskill resort
Nevele Hotel and Country Club and her husband Louis Slutsky gave birth to Louis Slutsky.
1886:
A group of Sephardic Jews formed a corporation for a congregation named in
honor of Moses Montefiore.
1886(10th
of Nisan, 5646): Eighty-five-year-old German jurist Moritz Warburg the native
of Altona who was elected to the Schleswig -Holstein constituent assembly in
1848 passed away today.
1886:
Birthdate of Pinsk native Israel Lebendiger, who in 1904 came to the United
States where he earned a bachelor’s degree at Columbia and was ordained by the
Jewish Theological Seminary and married Carrie Liberman before beginning to
serve Congregation Sharae Zekek in St. Louis starting in 1922.
1887(21st
of Nisan, 5647): Seventh Day of Pesach
1887: Herzl is installed as
an editor of the "Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung" but holds the post only
a short time.
1887: The Jewish Exponent, a weekly
publication servicing the Philadelphia Jewish community was published for the
first time today.
1888: Birthdate of CCNY
grad and Brooklyn Law School trained attorney George L. Livingston, the husband
of Reggie Livingston with whom he three children – Sylvia, Harriet and Marvin-
and the brother of Ira B. Livingston and Supreme Court Just Jacob H. Livingston
who was “a senior partner in the law firm of Livingston, Livingston and Harris.
1889(14th of Nisan,
5649): Ta'anit Bechorot observed on the birthdate of A. Philip Randolph one of
the great labor leaders in the United States who worked with Arnie Aronson to
found the Leadership Conference.
1890: Representatives
of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association and the Emma Lazarus Club were among
those attending the opening session of the convention of the Association of
Working Girls’ Societies being held at the Metropolitan Opera House.
1890: Birthdate of
Russian native and Suffolk (MA) Law School trained attorney Harry Ernest Burroughs,
the husband of Hannah R. Burroughs with whom he had three children – Harry,
Jr., Warren and Jean – and World War I veteran who in 1904 came to the United
States where he “served as chairman of the board of trustees of the
Massachusetts Law society, founded the Harry E. Burroughs Newsboy’s Foundation
and wrote Boys in Men’s Shoes, “published in 1944” in which he “recalled his
own bitte experiences selling papers.”
1891: It was reported
today that during a discussion of “The Religious problem” at a meeting of The
Nineteenth Century Club, Rabbi Gustav Gottheil took issue with statements by
Reverend Howard MacQueary about the crucifixion of Jesus saying, “that Jesus of
Nazareth was never persecuted by the Jews” and “defended the virtues of King
David” and King Solomon, “both of whom Macqueary had assailed.
1891: “Jewish Hardships
in Russia” published reported that “a ukase is about to be issued that
withdraws the privilege given to Jewish workmen of residing out the outside the
limits” of areas “assigned to Jews and which “will result in the expulsion of 14,000
Jews from Moscow.”
1892: Birthdate of Corrie ten
Boom, Dutch devotional author whose family was arrested by the Gestapo during
WWII for hiding Jewish refugees in their home. Corrie's experience with the
Nazis was depicted in the 1971 film, "The Hiding Place." 1892 Birth of Corrie ten Boom, Dutch devotional author whose
family was arrested by the Gestapo during WWII for hiding Jewish refugees in
their home (Corrie's experience with the Nazis was depicted in the 1971 film,
"The Hiding Place").
1892(18th of
Nisan, 5652): Fourth day of Pesach
1892(18th of
Nisan, 5652): Sixty-six-year-old New York City builder Marc Eidlitz, the
brother of architect Leopold Eidlitz and the father of Cyrus. L.W Eidlitz whose
construction projects included the Temple Emanu-El sanctuary located at 5th
Avenue and 43rd Street, passed away today.
1893: “Ahlwardt’s
Promise Not Kept” published today described the rejection by the President of
the Reichstag of Hermann Ahlwardt’s written statement that purported to prove
that high government officials were guilty of “corrupt conduct.” Ahlwardt is a
notorious anti-Semite who contends that the Jews are behind plots to bribe
German leaders.
1893: Birthdate of Kiev
native Herman Morris Pomrenze, who came to Chicago in 1913 where he earned an
MD from Loyola and went on to a career as a surgeon and a member of the faculty
of Northwestern while being an active member of the city’s Jewish community.
1893(29th of
Nisan, 5653): Parashat Shimini
1893: In his sermon
today, Rabbi Gottheil “used vigorous language” in criticizing “the vigorous
efforts which are being made by the various Protestant denominations to secure
proselytes from” the Jews of New York
1894: Jacob Green, the four-year-old
son of a Jewish peddler, accidently fell from the fifth-floor fire escape at a
19 Allen Street on the lower east side.
1895: In Romania. Chava
Eva Friedlander, the daughter of R' Moshe Paneth, Daszer Rebbe and Malka Paneth
and her husband Rabbi Yehuda Lipot Friedlander
1895: “The certificate
of incorporation of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York was filed”
today in the office of the country clerk.
1895: It was reported
today that “the brightest gem in the golden jubilee of the Temple Emanu-El was
the festival arranged by the children of the religious school which occurred on
the morning of April 14th.
1896: Birthdate of
Pesach Burstein, the Polish born American entertainer and husband of Lillian
Lux with whom he had two children on of whom became know as the actor Mike
Burstyn who among other
things was a director in the Yiddish theatre.
(At least two sites attribute his first name to the fact that he was
born on Pesach but h the 15th of April corresponds to the 2nd
of Iyar 5656. To have been born on
Pesach, 1896, his date of birth would have been March 29)
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/B/burstein-pesach.htm
https://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/bursteinpeisachke/index.html
1896: “The first
international Olympic Games held in modern history” in which Sir Charles
Waldstein the Jewish son of Sophie and Henry Waldstein and a leading English
archaeologist competed “in the military rifle event” ended today.
1896: In Worcester, MA,
Fannie E. and Jacob Meyer Talamo gave birth to Clark College grad and Harvard
trained pediatrician Haskell Talamo the husband of Madeline Taber Talamao and
member of B’nai B’rith.
1896: Twenty-eight-year-old
Columbia, Syracuse University and Middlebury College trained attorney, and
future U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Abram I. Elkus, the New York born
son of Julia and Isaac Elkus married Gertrude R. Hess today.
1897: The date on which Oscar Altman and Rosie
Wachtel were to be married in New York City.
1898(23rd of
Nisan, 5658): Fifty-five-year-old Italian lawyer and Senator Cesare Parenzo
passed away today.
1898: Birthdate of
Isaac Palacci who was deported from Istanbul to France in 1942.
1899: Birthdate of Karl
Bernhardt, the native of Worms who gained fame as director Kurt Bernhardt who
fled Germany in 1933 and pursued his career in France and Great Britain before
settling the United States where his last picture was “Kisses for My President”
– a film that Hilary Clinton should appreciate since it is comedic look at the
first female President.
1899: In a cable sent
to the Navy Department in Washington, DC today Admiral Dewey notes that the
“native government established by Edward Taussig on Guam was working well.
1900(16th of
Nisan, 5660): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1900: The head of nineteen-year-old
Ernst Winter was recovered from a pool in Konitz, West Prussia. Other parts of
his dismembered body had been recovered at various times since his
disappearance in early March. Local anti-Semites began to accuse the Jews in
what would become a 20th century blood libel.
1901: Birthdate of
Lithuania native Julius Maller who in 1921 came to the United States where he
earned a B.A. from Washington University, and M.A. and Ph.D from Columbia and
“a Doctor of Hebrew Literature degree from JTS” before following a career path that
led to serving “director of Research and Statistics in the State Department of
Audit” while raising three children – Julie, Jeanne and Michael – with his wife
Rose Ruth Araonwitz Maller.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/maller-julius-bernard
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/05/09/89195990.pdf
1902: Thirty-two-year-old
violinist and conductor Arnold Volpe, the Kovna, Russia born son of Ella and
Levi Volpe who came to New York city in 1898 where he found the Volpe Symphony
Orchestra married Marie Michelson today after which he pursued many musical
opportunities that led him to become the head of Composition at the Chicago
College of Music and conductor of the Miami Symphony Orchestra.
1902: In New York City,
at a meeting of the Board of Alderman, Alderman Devlin introduced a resolution
asking the Mayor to instruct Commissioner Partridge not to interfere with
Jewish peddlers selling their wares on the east side next Sunday because that
day was the day before Passover. The
resolution was denounced by Aldermen Walkley and Oatman because it was asking
the mayor to sanction a violation of the city’s “blue laws. The Council adopted
the resolution.
1902: Birthdate Warsaw native Samuel Arthur
“Sammy” Weiss the first Jew to be named captain of the Duquesne University
football team who went on “to represent Pennsylvania's 30th, 31st, and 33rd
Districts in the United States House of Representatives” before serving as a
Common Pleas Court Judge
http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/23526
1903(18th of
Nisan, 5663): Fourth Day of Pesach
1903(18th of Nisan,
5663): Gustav Gottheil, one of
the leading Reform Rabbis of his time passed away. Born in Prussia, in 1827, he
was trained in Berlin before holding pulpits in Great Britain and the United
States where he was the Senior Rabbi at New York’s Temple Emanu-El. While this brief entry cannot do justice to
his many accomplishments it must be noted that he was unique among Reform
rabbis for his early support of the Zionist movement. In fact, he was a delegate to the First
Zionist Congress.
1903: Herzl arrives in
Paris and confers with Lord Rothschild, Zadoc Kahn and other members of the ICA
on ways to further the project of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine
with the British government.
1904(30th of
Nisan, 5664): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1904: Birthdate of
American-Armenian painter Arshile Gorky who was a colleague of fellow
contemporary painter Mark Rothko the Latvian born American expressionist.
1905: In New York City,
Barnet and Rose (Weislander) Rosenberg gave birth to Dr. Ralph P Rosenberg, the
husband of Leah (Davidson) Rosenberg and the holder of a Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin who was a “Professor of German and the Humanities at
Yeshiva University in New York for 38 years.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/05/24/111029427.pdf
1905: Thousands of dollars in money and great quantities of
matzoth were distributed tonight among the poor Jews of the lower east side, as
is the custom every year before the feast of the Passover, which opens on
Wednesday and will be observed by all Jews throughout the world for the next
eight days.
1905: Birthdate of
Herman Steiner the native of Slovakia who became “a United States chess player,
organizer, and columnist.
http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/ccr/art_04.htm
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=21871
1906(20th of Nisan, 5666): In one of those calendar
coincidences, Easter coincides with the Sixth Day of Pesach and the 5th
day of the Omer.
1906: Final Broadway performance of Clara Lipman’s play “Julie Bonbon” at the
Lyric Theatre.
1907: Birthdate of chess master
Gerald Abrahams. Born in Liverpool, Abrahams wrote “Teach Yourself Chess.”
1907: Dr. Stephen Samuel Wise “so inspired those who heard his
message that today more than a hundred of his followers met at the Hotel Savoy
to establish a free synagogue. Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who would become the
congregation’s first president, declared that day, "The Free Synagogue is
to be free and democratic in its organization; it is to be pewless and
dueless." A religious school opened that October, and six months later had
an enrollment of 150 students. Dr. Wise’s Sunday morning services, held at the
Universalist Church of Eternal Hope on West 81st Street, drew more than 1,000
people.
1907: Birthdate of
Esther Gottlieb the wife of abstract expressionist painter Adolph Gottlieb and
the founder and president of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.
1908: In Bavaria, Max
Neuberger and his wife Bertha Hiller gave birth to Albert Neuberger, the
British Professor of Chemical Pathology the University of London’s St. Mary’s
Hospital.
1908 (14th of Nisan,
5668): A Seder is scheduled to be held this evening on Ellis Island for Jews
who have not been able to enter the United States. The Acting Commissioner of Immigration has
given permission for the service to be held in the dining room of the
facility’s main building.
1909: “Mrs. Seligman To
Marry” published today described the plans of Mrs. Theodore Seligman the widow
of Theodore Seligman who passed away in Lucerne in 1907 and who “was formerly Miss Florence Einstein, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.L. Einstein to marry Charles Waldstein, a Professor
of Fine Arts at Cambridge University.
1910(6th of
Nisan, 5670): Seventy-seven-year-old Jacob Fleischner, the husband of Fanny
Fleischner and father of Isaac N. Fleischner passed away today after which he
was buried at Beth Israel Cemetery in Portland, OR.
1911: “Three weeks
after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, The
Outlook: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Current Life, a New York weekly
magazine, published “The Factory Girl’s Danger” by Miram Finn Scott, the
Russian born daughter of Gittel and Moses Finn who had been Moshe Avraham
Finkovski, which “was a reconstruction of the night before the disaster from
the perspective of two sisters, Gussie and Becky.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/15/1911/factory-girl-s-danger-published-in-outlook
1911: Birthdate of
Murray Bernthal, the Brooklyn born violin prodigy and “Syracuse University
basketball player.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/central-new-york/article/Murray-Bernthal-Dies-at-99-20101210
1911: Birthdate of
Odessa native Charles Robert Goldenberg, who grew up in Milwaukee and played
for the University of Wisconsin before embarking on 13-year career with the
Green Bay Packers that included playing as a lineman on three NFL championship
teams.
1911: Birthdate of
Warsaw native Seymour Zambrosky who in 1924 came to the United States where in
1936 he was “ordained at Cleveland’s short-lived Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary
of America.”
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): H.M.S. Titanic sank. According to some, there were enough
Jews on board that kosher meals were served. The Jewish passengers
represented a cross section of Jewish society. Two unusual women on board
were Edith Louise Rosenbaum and Mrs. Henry B. Harris. Mrs. Rosenbaum was
a writer for Women’s Wear Daily. During World War I, she would become
the first female war correspondent. Mrs. Harris went on to become a
famous New York theatrical producer. Three of the most famous passengers
were Benjamin Guggenheim and Isidor and Ida Straus. Guggenheim was a
ne’er do-well from a famous New York family. His most famous
accomplishment was to give the world his daughter Peggy Guggenheim the famous
patron of the arts. Isidor Straus was part of a fabled New York family
that had ownership interests in Macy’s and Abraham & Straus. He was
mourned as one of New York’s greatest philanthropists.
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): Sixty-three-year-old Ida Straus, born Rosalie Ida Blun, the
German born daughter of Nathan Blun and Wilhelmine Freudenberg and the husband
of department store own Isidor Straus with whom she had seven children passed
away today when the RMS Titanic sank.
1912: Eight tombstones
in the Jewish cemetery at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia marking the burial site of 8
unnamed Jews who perished aboard the Titanic.
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): New York City theatrical manager Henry B. Harris died aboard the
Titanic today.
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): Forty-eight-year-old Emil Brandeis of Omaha, Nebraska died aboard
the Titanic today.
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): Forty-six-year-old Martin Rothschild, the New York born son of
Samson and Mary Griessman Rothschild and the husband of Elizabeth Jane Anne
Barrett Rothschild whom he married in 1895 passed away today when the Titanic
slipped beneath the waves.
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): Forty-eight-year-old Spanish American War veteran Adolph Bauer of
Mobile, Alabama passed away today.
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): Mrs. Max Landsburg of Rochester, NY, passed away today.
1912(28th of
Nisan, 5672): Forty-six-year-old Benjamin Guggenheim died aboard the Titanic
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/04/20/100361986.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1912: “The Times of
London” reported today the “discovery of a papyrus volume containing text of
the greater part of the Book of Deuteronomy,” and all of the Book of Jonah as
well as text from the New Testament.
1912: Albert Einstein
refers to time as “the fourth dimension.”
1912: M.J. I. Judelsohn
was “appointed to the United States Consular Service today.
1912: Sixty-six-year-old
Hungarian born Celia Raucher Goldfinger, the wife of Charles Ignatz Goldfinger
and the mother of Lille, Sallie, Catherine and Samuel Goldfinger was buried
today at the Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, IL.
1913: The Southern
Education which Rabbi Max Raisin of Meridian, Mississippi attended as a
delegate opened today in Richmond, Va.
1913(8th of Nisan, 5673):
Seventy-nine-year-old New York merchant Adolph Silberstein passed away today.
1914(19th of
Nisan, 5674): Fifth Day of Pesach
1914: Mary Esther
Jewell, who die fourteen months after her son’s birth and Arthur David Samuel
who died at Queen Alexandria Military Hospital in 1918 gave birth to Abraham
Samuel.
1915(1st of
Iyar, 5675): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1915: “Relief Work Wins
Praise” published today described the words of approval that the New York City
investigators had for the work of the United Hebrew Charities.
1915: It was reported
today that there eleven thousand Jews serving in the British army and navy”
which Lord Reading, the Lord Chief Justice of England described as “a good
number for so comparatively small a community.”
1915: Louis Gutman, the
Jewish officer who recommended Hitler for his Iron Cross First Class in 1918,
“was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and appointed as both a company
commander and acting adjutant for the Regiment’s artillery Battalion. “
1916: Birthdate of
Helene Hanff, the Philadelphia born screenwriter and author who most famous
work was 84, Charing Cross Road.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-helene-hanff-1267169.html
1916(12th of
Nisan, 5676): Shabbat HaGadol
1916: In New York City
Hiram Bloomingdale and Rosalind Schiffer gave birth to Alfred S. Bloomingdale,
the grandson of Lyman Bloomingdale, who along with his brother Joseph founded
Bloomingdale’s Department Store.
1916: George Kroll of
Paris, who was staying at the Ritz Carlton today described the sacrifices that
Russian Jews living in France have made for their adopted country saying that
“the Jews have disproved the assertions that they cannot fight” and that “none
have fought more bravely” than these refugees thousands of whom volunteered as
soon as the war began.
1917: F.L. Fagley,
Secretary of the Cincinnati Federation of Churches said that of the $14,000
collected to provide relief of the Armenians and Syrians, $4,000 was
contributed by Jews.
1917: “A group who
styled themselves ‘revolutionary socialists;” which included members claiming
to be Jews met today to protest the Canadian government’s detention of Leon
Trotsky whom authorities at Halifax said was trying to return to Russia so that
he could “provoke another revolution which would nullify the stand of the” new
Russian government which had overthrown the Czar.
1917: “A cable message
praising the provisional Government of Russia for having emancipated the Jews
was sent to the Foreign Minister” today “by all of the delegates” attending the
annual convention of the Federation of Rumanian Jews being held at the Hebrew
Technical School for Girls in New York.
1917: Two hundred
Jewish leaders are scheduled to hold a conference today at the Astor Hotel this
morning where “they will choose the most effective means of putting Jewish
loyalty at the service of America” as it enters into WW I.
1917: Today, at a
meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Committee a
resolution was adopted “expressing a willingness to co-operate with the Board
and favoring the passage by Congress of a bill providing for twenty
chaplains-at-large in the Army” several of whom “will be Jewish ministers.”
1917: The Problem of Space in Jewish Medieval
Philosophy by I.I. Efros was one of the books listed as a selection on
“Three Hundred Books of Spring” published today.
1918: The Brooklyn
Federation of Jewish Charities Campaign to raise $500,000 ended tonight “with
the announcement that $300,000 had been raised” and “that the campaign would
re-opened after the present Liberty Bond campaign” has been concluded.
1918: It was reported
today that in the last few weeks, the Jews of New York City have “formed 18
district organizations” or Kehillahs “throughout the city to bring a
cooperative effort to the solution of various social problems to the New York
City Jewish population.
1919(15th of
Nisan, 5679): Pesach
1919: Today, in Great
Britain, “a week after the Morning Post had informed its readers that the
Russian Jews were purveyors of Bolshevism, Major E. H. Coumbe…to the first step
toward committing the” London “Council to a policy of not employing aliens” which
was the first step in his plan to get the Council to bar all aliens,
naturalized or otherwise, from employment
1919: At Le Mans,
France, Rabbi Lee J. Levinger held a Seder on the second night of Passover for
members of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) who had been issued furloughs
so they could observe the holiday
1920: Birthdate of Hank
Kaplan noted boxing historian and writer.
1920: In Stuttgart, Marianne
(von Graevenitz) von Weizsäcker and Ernst von Weizsäcker gave birth to Richard
von Weizsäcker the President of West Germany.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/german-president-who-pushed-country-to-face-nazi-past-dies/
1920: In what would
become the “first act” of the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two security guards
are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists
Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much
controversy. Among their defenders were several prominent Jews including
Professor (and later Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter, Judge Julian
Mack and Harold Laski.
1921: Birthdate of
Budapest native and Holocaust survivor Kariel Gardosh who gained fame as “an
Israeli cartoonist and illustrator known by his pen name Dosh (Hebrew: דוש)” who “worked as a political cartoonist for the
Israeli daily newspaper Ma'ariv and for the Jerusalem Post” and “is the creator
of the character Srulik which became a symbol for sabras and the State of
Israel, similar to Uncle Sam in the United States.
1921: It was reported
today that Rabbi Leo M. Franklin’s message given at this week’s meeting of
Reform Congregations included a request “that the conference ask great Church
organizations of other denominations to protest against any movement for world-wide
anti-Semitic congress such as was recently stimulated in Budapest” and a
reminder “that while immigration laws should bar criminals, anarchists and
undesirables, they should not should shut out the oppressed.”
1922: In Flushing, NY,
Nathan Schacther and the former Anna Fruchter, both of whom were Romanian
Jewish immigrants gave birth to Dr. Stanley Schacter, the Columbia University
professor who “was one of the few social psychologists to be elected to the National
Academy of Sciences.” (As reported by Karen Freeman)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/23/02/29.html
1922: Birthdate of
Michael Ansara who played “Haman” in the television miniseries entitled “The
Greatest Heroes of the Bible.”
1922(17th of
Nisan, 5682): Third day of Pesach
1922: It was reported
today that Dr. Hugo Bergman has said that “there is a great deal of
unemployment at present in Palestine” but that this “is only a transient
phase.”
1922(17th of
Nisan, 5682): Fifty-five-year-old Isaac David Broydé who served as librarian to the
Alliance Israélite Universelle from 1895 to 1900 and then “joined the editorial
staff of the Jewish Encyclopedia” passed away today.
1923: A celebration is scheduled to take place at
the Jewish Theological Seminary of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Sabato Morais, the Jewish scholar and teacher who founded JTS in 1866 and who
was actually born on April 13, 1823.
1923: Insulin
first became generally available for use by diabetics. Sir Frederick Banting,
one of the two men who won a Nobel Prize for their work with Insulin based his
work on the 1889 discoveries of the Jewish Polish-German physician Oscar
Minkowski.
1923: Dr. Spiegel, the representative
of the German Red Cross who was working on the transmigration of 300 Jewish
refugees who had been expelled from Poland arrived in Warsaw. The refuges must leave Poland by September 1
and they are seeking to stay in German until they have obtained visas to enter
the United States. (As reported by JTA)
1923: Preparations have been made along
the White Russian border to provide food and shelter for Jewish refugees from
Poland who are being forced to return to their former homes in the Soviet
Union. (As reported by JTA)
1923: Hugo Riesenfeld “co-presented a
show at the Rivoli Theater in New York City of 18 short films made in the
Phonofilm sound-on-film process.”
1923: Birthdate of Naomi
Bronheim Levine, the first woman to become executive director of the American
Jewish Congress.
1923: “A Few Minutes
With Eddie Cantor” opened “at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
1923: Birthdate of
Harvey Lembeck, the Brooklyn native whose career as character actor included
originating the role of “Sam Insigna” in the Broadway production of Mr.
Roberts, appearing as “Harry Shapiro” in the WW II classic “Stalag 17” and
serving as one of the underlings and sidekicks for Phil Silvers in the
television sitcom portraying the antics of con-man Sergeant Ernie Bilko.
1924: It was reported
today that David A . Brown told the delegates of the American Union of Hebrew
Congregations that “We don’t want to be less Jewish in this country; we want to
be more Jewish.”
1925(21st of
Nisan, 5685) Seventh of Day of Pesach
1925: “A pessimistic
view of the Jewish situation in various countries following the opening of the
Hebrew University was expressed by Israel Zangwill ih a letter addressed
to The Sunday Observer, replying to an
article by the editor, J.L. Garvin, entitled “The Jews-From Titus to Balfour.”
1926: “Nanette Makes
Everything” a silent film starring Fritz Spira was released today in Germany/
1926: According to
Professor of Mathematics Julian Coolidge there “has been a marked slump in
religion at Harvard” since the end of the World War but that among Jews who
made up about one fifth of the class of 1922 there was an increase of those who
described themselves as “believers” with about “one half of the Jews” being
classified as “religiously inclined.”
1927(12th of
Nisan, 5687): Fast of the first born observed since the 14th of
Nisan falls on Shabbat
1927: Birthdate of
Dormont, PA native and University of Chicago alum “Albert Goldman, the author
of no-holds-barred biographies of Lenny Bruce, Elvis Presley and John Lennon.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/30/obituaries/albert-goldman-biographer-is-dead-at-66.html
1927: In Izbica, a
largely Jewish shtetl in the Lublin district of Poland, Leon and Masha Felicia
Blatt gave birth to Tomasz Toivi Blatt who survived the 1943 revolt at Sobibor.
http://sobibor.net/confrontation.html
1927: It was reported
today that in two weeks members of Temple Emanu-El and Temple Beth-El, two of
the oldest Reform Congregations in New
York will vote on plan for consolidation already approved by the trustees under
which the “combine organization will be known as Temple Emanu-El the chapel
will called Chapel Beth-El and that
after using Temple Beth-El as its home for the next two years, the new
congregation will move into the new Temple Emanu-El being built at Fifth Avenue
and 65th Street “on the site of the Vincent Astor Residence,
1928: “A children’s
entertainment is scheduled to be given by the Federation of the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies” This under un the leadership of Mrs. Arthur
Geers and Mrs. Sidney C. Borg.
1928: “Rabbi Nathan
Krass of Temple Emanu-El called upon the Reform Jewry of Greater New York to
contribute to the work of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the
Hebrew Union College which it maintains at Cincinnati in a speech before the
younger members of the Emanu-El congregation at the Harmonie Club tonight.”
1928: “The recent
resignation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise from
the Administrative Committee of the ZOA was accepted” today “with great regret
by the Executive Committee of the organization.
1929: As part of
National Jewish Hospital Week was launched yesterday, Judge Samuel D. Levy is
scheduled to broadcast an appeal for funds today in a broadcast over station
WJZ.
1929: “John Haynes
Holmes, pastor of the Community Church of Manhattan” who “recently returned
from a trip through Palestine as the representative of Nathan Straus” is
schedule to speak on “A Gentile Pilgrim in the Jewish Homeland” tonight “at the
weekly forum of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre.”
1930: “As a part of the
celebration in Jerusalem” of the fifth anniversary of the opening of the
Hebrews University on Mount Scopus the dedication of the Wolfsohn Library is
scheduled to take place followed by “a musical festival I the Untermeyer Open
Air Theatre” at the university.
1930: In France Ludovic
and Johanna Lawrence gave birth to Dartmouth graduate and Olympic skier David
Lawrence who had been able to escape with his family from Nazi Europe thanks to
a visa issued by Portuguese consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
1931: Brooklyn
Outfielder Alta Cohen played in his first major league game.
1931: Birthdate of
Yitzhak Zamir, the native of Warsaw who made Aliyah at the age of 3 and enjoyed
a successful career in the law including serving as Attorney General of Israel
and as a member of the Supreme Court.
1932: “Girls to Marry,
a romantic comedy starring Fritz Grünbaum who would be murdered at Dachau in
1941 and S.Z Sakall who escaped from Hungary in 1940 and made his way to
Hollywood where his memorable performances included “Carl” the head waiter in
the classic “Casablanca” was released in Germany today.
1933(19th of
Nisan, 5693): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1933: “Police,
reinforced by troops are patrolling the streets” of Tangier Morocco after
“anti-Semitic disturbances broke out “during Passover when Arabs attacked the
Jewish population.
1933: At a time when
the Nazis were tightening their hold in Germany, more than 400 members and
friends of the Board of Trade for German-American Commerce including boxers Max
Schmeling and Jack Dempsey attended a dinner dance on the Hamburg American liner
“New York” where the theme was the furtherance of friendly German American
relations
1934(30th of
Nisan, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1934: “The Jews of
America must bury all differences of opinion and untied to stem the disaster
that has befallen the Jews of German and which also seriously effect Jews
everywhere, Felix M. Warburg…declared” today “in a statement setting forth the
reason which moved him to accept the chairmanship of the three-million-dollar
United Jewish Appeal.” (JTA)
1934: In a speech
delivered today at the annual meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews,
“Leonard Montefiore, president of the Anglo Jewish Association declared today”
that “there is hardly a Jewish family in Germany without some destitute member”
and “that many Jewish hospital and communal institutions” in Germany have
already been closed or are on the verge of closing.”
1935: In Prague, Anthony
Fried, a Czech industrialist who served as a vice-president of the arms and
automotive conglomerate Škoda Works” and his wife Marta gave birth to Princeton
graduate and Oxford and Columbia trained attorney Charles Fried, the husband of
art history scholar Anne Smmerscale with whom he two children – Gregory and
Antonia and Republican Party stalwart who served as Solicitor General for years
under President Reagan and who served for four years as Associate Justice of
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
1935:
It was reported today that in London, Leonard G. Montefiore has informed “a
joint foreign committee to the Jewish Board of Deputies” that “the position of
the Jews in Germany seems to have become worse since” this past winter.
1936(23rd
if Nisan, 5696): Harvard alum Simon J. Lubin the Sacramento, CA born son of
David Lubin and the nephew of Harris Weinstock who founded Lubin and Weinstock
“the largest department store” in that city and the husband of Rebecca Cohen
with whom he had three children – David, Ruth and Miriam, passed away today in
San Francisco.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=s;idT=UCb183294993
1936(23rd
of Nisan, 5696): On the day after Pesach, Arabs in Palestine renewed their
riots which quickly grew into a full-scale uprising. The uprising began with an attack today
on a convoy of trucks on the Nablus to Tulkarm road during which the assailants
shot and murdered two Jewish drivers, Israel Khazan, who was killed instantly,
and Zvi Dannenberg, who died five days later
1936:
“Arab brigands” “told their victims they were robbing” them so they could
“carry on the work of the ‘Holy Martyrs’ started Izzedin El-Kassam who aimed to
kill Jews and Britons in Palestine.
1936:
Eustace Seligman was named chairman of the lawyer’s division of the New York
campaign of the Joint Distribution Committee which was formed during a luncheon
at the Lawyer’s Club with the goal of raising $125,000 to go toward the
nationwide fund being raised to aid the Jews of Germany and Central and Eastern
Europe.
1936:
Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the editor of the Christian Herald who has just returned
from 10 months in Europe told those attending a luncheon at the Town Hall Club
about conditions in Italy and Germany where he said “opposition is solidifying”
against the government because of “the persecution of Jews, Catholics,
Protestants, Masons and war veterans.”
1936:
Tonight, members of the United Palestine Appeal honored Judge Julian W. Mack
for his twenty-five years spent on the Federal bench as well as his work on
behalf of the movement to settle Jews in Palestine.
1937:
It was reported today that German Government is protesting the screening of
“Modern German Christian Martyrs” at the Riverside Church in New York
characterizing “the film as ‘a new method of brazen Jewish propaganda in
America.”
1938: The Palestine Post reported that Arab
terrorist gangs, searching for money and valuables, killed four Arabs in the
vicinity of Nazareth.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that for the
first time in many years, the annual Nebi Musa procession failed to take place
in Jerusalem.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that new
regulations warned that wearing any uniforms of His Majesty Forces, or attire
resembling such uniforms, was punishable by life imprisonment.
1938: The Palestine Post commented on the
tragedy of a new immigrant, imprisoned for carrying an allegedly false
passport, who committed suicide. The message from his relatives, promising
assistance and legal defense, failed to reach him in time due to the lack of an
interpreter.
1938(14th of
Nisan, 5698) Fast of the firstborn; erev Pesach
1938: In Vienna, Jewish
houses of worship that have been closed since March 15 were permitted to reopen
today in time for Passover.
1938(14th of Nisan, 5698): Jews are killed
and injured during an anti-Semitic pogrom at Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland.
1938: In Budapest, the
police arrested 24 Jews who are suspected “of being responsible for issuing
leaflets “urging Budapest Jews to oppose the government’s numerus clausus bill.
1939: In Turin, Italy, Natalia
Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg gave birth to historian Carlo Ginzburg author of The
Cheese and the Worms and The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian
Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
1940: Birthdate of Yossef
Romano a Libyan-born, Jewish Israeli weightlifter with the Israeli team that
went to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany where he was murdered by
Black September terrorists.
1941: Birthdate of
Howard Berman, Congressman from California’s 28th District.
1941: Construction was
completed today on The Jadovno concentration camp, the first of twenty-six concentration
and extermination camps located in the Independent State of Croatia
1941: In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of
the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one
thousand people. During World War II, a
number of Jewish children escaping from the Nazis, via the Kindertransport,
reached and were housed in Millisle. The Millisle Refugee Farm (Magill’s farm,
on the Woburn Road) was founded by teenage pioneers from the Bachad movement.
It took refugees from May 1938 until its closure in 1948.
1942: “49th
Parallel,” a British war movie based on an original story by Emeric Pressburger
who wrote the screenplay and starring Leslie Howard which had premiered in New
York as “The Invaders” was released in the rest of the United States today.
1942: Today, super-cryptologist
and mathematics professor Abraham Sinkov, the Philadelphia bon son of Jewish
immigrants Morris and Ethel Sinkov “established the Central Bureau (CB),
cobbling it together from refugee elements of American cryptologists evacuated
from the Philippines, Australian cryptologists, and other Allied contingents.”
1943: In Cleveland,
Ohio, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver delivered the eulogy at the memorial service for
Zvi Hirsch Masliansky which “was held …in the Straus Auditorium of The
Educational Alliance at 197 East Broadway. This was the place to honor his
memory, for it was the hall where he had spoken so often to a generation of
Jewish immigrants.
1943: “The Gentle Sex”
directed by Leslie Howard who also narrated the film and starring Lilli Palmer
was released today in the United States.
1944: Prime Minister
Churchill “pondered the question of who should succeed Sir Harold MacMichael,
whose term as British High Commissioner was coming to an end.” Churchill put forth two possibilities, Lord
Melchett, a British Jew and the son of the distinguished industrialist Sir
Alfred Mond and Chaim Weizmann. Of
course, Weizmann did not get the post and within a year’s time Churchill would
betray his Jewish friend and ally by holding firm against Jewish immigration to
Palestine and postponing the creation of a Jewish state.
1944: Seventy Jews and ten Russians attempted to
escape from the forests surrounding the two of Ponary. Lithuania. From July
1941 until July 1944, approximately 100,000 people (mainly Jews) were
murdered in the forests surrounding Ponary a resort town in Lithuania. As
the Red Army approached a group of 70 Jews and 10 Russians were given the
task of burning all the bodies to cover up the mass murder. Realizing that at
the end of their work they too would be killed they (over a period of three
months) dug a tunnel 30 meters long with spoons. On the night of April 15, they
escaped. Only 13 reached safety alive.
1945: British forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen
camp. The British soldiers were horror-stricken at the spectacle that greeted
them. They found some 60,000 human beings alive under appalling conditions.
Most of them were seriously ill. Alongside them were thousands of unburied
corpses, strewn in every direction, and vast numbers of emaciated bodies in
mass graves and piles. Because the British Army was not geared to treat
everyone who needed assistance, 14,000 additional prisoners died in the first
few days and a similar number perished in the following weeks. The British
forces began to treat and rehabilitate the rest of the survivors.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/april/12.asp
1945: Rabbi Leslie
Hardamn, “a young Jewish chaplain” was among the member of the British 11th
Armored Division who liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp today.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/13/secondworldwar-judaism
1945: “Margot Heuman, who
bore witness to the Holocaust as a Gay Woman” was liberated from Bergen-Belsen
today.
1945: Esti Reichman and
some of her fellow prisoners including a woman named Dora encountered one
“disappointment” following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen when they discover
that they have missed celebrating Passover.
The women had thought it was a leap year and had been hoarding their
meager rations to make a Seder. At the
time of their liberation, they discovered that this was not a leap year. There was no Adar II and Pesach had begun on March 29. [Hopefully somebody told them about Pesach
Sheini.]
1945: Twenty-one-year-old
Radom, Poland native Dora Eiger who had been deported to Auschwitz in July 1944
was liberated by British troops today at Bergen Belsen.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-card/dora-eiger
1945: Today, “while
attached to the 11th Armoured Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes,
became the first Allied Medical Officer to
enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen after which he dealt with two
immediate issues – “control of disease and the distribution of food” to the
inmates.
1945: Leonard
Mlodinow’s father was liberated by forces under the command of General Patton. At
the time, he weighed 80 pounds.
1945(2nd of
Iyar, 5705): At least 21 Hungarian Jewish prisoners were murdered today at the
Mikulov clay pit.
1945(2nd of
Iyar, 5705): The mother of Holocaust survivor Zoltan Zinn-Collis died in Belsen
on the same day the Red Cross had come to rescue her. He brother Aladar died
earlier in the year in the same camp and his father Adolf is believed to have
died in Ravensbruck in 1944. Zoltan and
his Edit were brought to Ireland after the war where he was able to rebuild his
life.
1945: Special services
were held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem honoring the later President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
1946(14th of Nisan,
5706):Ta'anit Bechorot/Erev Pesach
1946: First Seders were
held in Germany following WW II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZYVUGgkT0g&feature=youtu.be
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ba13d322ff1efbe114aeb6779&id=0e56933e20&e=632ced0f1f
1946: Rabbi Balfour
Brickner conducted the Seder at the Euclid Avenue Temple in Cleveland, Ohio
with the help of Erwin Jospe and Sam Levine who provided the music for an event
that included an Afikomon Treasure Hunt for the Children.
1946: Golda Meir is
joined by her children for a Seder.
1946: As the hunger
strike in Palestine designed to show support for the Jews from Spezia who being
detained in Italy entered the third day, “thousands of people carrying flowers
came to Jerusalem to show their support.
The chief rabbis, who” had join the “fast preside over an unusual
Seder.” Everyone “would eat a single
piece of matzah, no bigger than an olive.”
As they went through the Haggadah, those fasting consumed cups of tea
instead of cups of wine.
1946: In Germany, a
group of children was photographed at the Foehrenwald D.P. Camp
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/april/15.asp
1947: Eighty-six-year-old
Theodor Lewlad the Christian civil servant and nephew of Jewish novelist Fanny
Lewald who was removed from his position on the International Olympic Committee
because “his paternal grandmother was Jewish,’ passed away today.
1947: Jackie Robinson debuts for the
Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line. Hank
Greenberg reportedly gave moral support and guidance to Robinson based on his
experiences. Brooklyn was a heavily
Jewish borough where winning the pennant and beating the hated Yankees was more
important than issues of pigmentation.
1947: Birthdate of Niles, OH and
Marquette University trained award winning poet Albert Frank Moritz, the
husband of Theresa Moritz.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/a-f-moritz
1948: Birthdate of American composer
Michael Kamen whose work included “Mr. Holland’s Opus.”
1948: The National Opera (Israel) held its first
performance in Tel Aviv. The opera was the creation of Edis de Philippe
from Brooklyn and Mordechai Galinkin from Leningrad. The debut was an act
of supreme optimism since the Arabs were busy trying to destroy the state
before it had even been created. As one observer wrote at the time,
"Noisy accompaniment was supplied by the gunfire from nearby skirmishes
between Tel Aviv and Jaffa."
1948: This evening, “a
company composed of Golani, Palmach and irregulars” traveling “in two-armed
cars and two Egged buses made an unsuccessful attack on the Nabi Yusha police
fortress which cost the lives of four Jewish fighters.
1948: Jewish forces
seized Meggido, the sight of the Biblical Battle of Armageddon and one of Lord
Allenby’s great victories during World War I.
1948: Jewish forces
defeated Arab fighters at Tel Litvinsky, six miles from Tel Aviv. The camp had served as a base for the U.S.
Army Air Force in World War II.
1948: The Harel Brigade
captured the village of Saris the “strategic hilltop position” “overlooking the
highway to Jerusalem” which the Arabs had used to fire on Jewish vehicles thus
helping to blockade the city.
1948: The Haganah won a
costly victory at Mishmar Ha-Emek fighting against overwhelming odds.
This was part of the famous "battle for the Jerusalem Road."
1948: Soldiers from
Iraq and Jews fought for control of the Wadi Sara camp fifteen miles south of
Tel Aviv. Iraqi forces were reported
have reached the camp first but after encountering attacking Jewish forces fled
because they feared encirclement and capture.
1949: In Miami, Murray
and Naomi Zadan gave birth to Craig Zadan, whose accomplishments included
producing three successive Academy Awards ceremonies and bringing several
Broadway musicals to television. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1950(28th of
Nisan, 5710): Parashat Shminia
1950(28th of
Nisan, 5710): Seventy-year-old Bertha Wallach, the German born daughter of
Jakob and Ida Edelchen Baruch and wife of Joseph Wallach passed away today in
New York City.
1952(20th of
Nisan, 5712): Sixth day of Pesach
1952(20th of
Nisan, 5712): Seventy-one-year-old Issac Lowi passed away today following which
he was buried in the Beth Israel Cemetery in Gadsden, Alabama.
1952: Birthdate of
author Avital Ronell the daughter of Israeli stationed in Prague and the “chair
of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at NYU” who “was found
responsible for sexually harassing a male former male graduate student.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html
http://as.nyu.edu/faculty/avital-ronell.html
http://egs.edu/faculty/avital-ronell
http://egs.edu/faculty/avital-ronell
1953(30th of Nisan,
5713): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1953:
Sixty-two-year-old illustrator Marshall Frantz, the Ukraine born son of Rosa
Lasker and David Frantz whose Jewish parents named him Samuel Frantz, passed
away today.
https://www.pulpartists.com/Frantz.html
1953:
The Jerusalem Post
reported on the strange ruling of the chairman of the UN Israeli-Jordanian
Mixed Armistice Commission who claimed that civilians were allowed to shoot at
each other across the border. The Israeli delegation took exception to this
"astonishing stand."
1953:
The Jerusalem Post
reported that an Israeli patrol captured a boat and a terrorist who tried to
infiltrate by sea from Lebanon. The second boat escaped.
1953:
The Jerusalem Post
reported that "Yemin Orde," a Youth Aliya village at Nir Etzion on
the Carmel Hills was opened by Lorna Wingate in memory of her husband, Capt.
Charles Orde Wingate, who formed the Jewish "night squads" and helped
settlers to defend themselves.
1953:
The Jerusalem Post
reported that The Jerusalem YMCA was crowded with well-wishers who came to
celebrate the 20th anniversary of the building, a landmark and a significant
cultural center in the Capital.
1954(12th of
Nisan, 5714) Fast of the First Born
1954: Senator Herbert
H. Lehman was the guest of tonight at “a dinner given by the America ORT at the
Plaza Hotel to aid the campaign of the UJA of Greater New York where speakers
including Representative Jacob K. Javits said “the United States must play the
dominant role in achieving permanent peace between Israel and the Arab states
to thwart Communist infiltration in the Middle East.
1955(23rd of
Nisan, 5715): Sixty-nine-year-old Edgar Jones “E.J.” Kaufmann, Sr the
Pittsburgh born son of Morris and Betty Wolf Kaufmann who married Grace Arlene
Stoops Kaufmann after the death of his first wife Liliane Sarah Kaufmann who
was the founder of Kaufmann’s Department Store in Pittsburgh and the owner of
“Fallingwater” his summer home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright passed away to
Palm Springs, CA.
1955: Birthdate of
Anthony Horowitz, an English novelist and screenwriter
1956(4th of
Iyar, 5714): Yom HaZikaron
1956(4th of
Iyar, 5714): Sixty-six-year-old Tupelo, MS born University of Missouri trained
journalist, Leo R. Sack, the WW I veteran and former United States Minster to
Costa Rica who raised one daughter with his wife Regina passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/17/84883578.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1957(14th of
Nisan, 5717): Erev Pesach
1957: After almost
seven years of Ruth Roman to Mortimer Hall with whom she had one child,
Richard, Ruth Roman’s divorce decree was granted today.
1958(25th of Nisan,
5718): Seventy-six featherweight boxer Benny Yanger whose record included fitty
wins (30 by Kos) and eight losses (4 by Kos) passed away today.
1958: Birthdate of
Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels the author of Fugitive Pieces
and Winter Vault.
1958: “The Camp on
Blood Island” a WW II movie featuring Lee Montague was released in the United
Kingdom today.
1959: US Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles resigned. Dulles was
viewed as the architect of the Eisenhower Administration’s foreign policy. He was Cold Warrior in the truest sense of
that term seeing everything in terms of Communists versus Anti-Communists. The one time he broke with this view was
during the Suez Crisis of 1956. There he
sided with the Soviets against the Israelis, the British and the French. Eisenhower and Dulles saved the Egyptian
dictator Nasser by allowing the Soviets to threaten the British with atomic
weapons and threatening Israel with economic destruction if she did not
withdraw from the Sinai. Israel did
withdraw and the disastrous policy of Dulles led to war in 1967 and the
volatile situation that exists on the West Bank to this day.
1959: In New York City,
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Brayer and his wife gave birth to Nachum Dov Brayer the
grandson of the former Boyaner Rebbe of New York, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo
Friedman and the husband of Shoshana Bluma Reizel Heschel, who became the Rebbe
of the Boyan Hasidic dynasty in 1984.
1959: President
Eisenhower nominated Charles Miller Metzner to fill a vacant seat on the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York.
1959(7th of Nisan, 5719):
A guard was killed at kibbutz Ramat Rachel.
1960(18th of
Nisan, 5720): Fourth Day of Pesach
1960: In Copenhagen,
Hennie Jonas and Rudolf Salomon Bier gave birth to Susanne Bier who won “the
Oscar for Best Foreign Language film for ‘In a Better World.’”
1960: Ed Wynn and Maxie
Rosenbloom played themselves in “The Man in the Funny Suit” broadcast for the
first time today.
1961: In Medford, MA, Arlene (née Perlis) and
Herbert Bloom gave birth to Amherst honor grad and Harvard trained attorney
Sarah Bloom Raskin, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
1962(111th
of Nisan, 5722): Forty-five-year-old Harold Ashe (Harold D. Ashkenazy) who
played guard for the Bowdoin College “Polar Bears” for three seasons starting
in 1935 passed away today.
1962: Catcher Joe
Ginsberg played in his last major league baseball game as a member of the
expansion New York Mets.
1963(21st Nisan
of Nisan, 5723): Seventh Day of Pesach
1964(3rd of
Iyar, 5724): Yom HaZikaron
1964: Rabbi Joseph H.
Lookstein is scheduled to address the Kehilath Jeshurun Sisterhood donor
luncheon in the Crystal Room where Israeli pianist and composer Shulamith Ran
is scheduled to perform at this fund-raising activity overseen by Mrs. Reuben
N. Popkin, the president of the sisterhood.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/03/archives/sisterhood-plans-benefit.html?searchResultPosition=3
1965(13th of
Nisan, 5725): Seventy-year-old Lawrence Shubert Lawrence, Sr., the Syracuse
born son of Isaac Isaacs and
Fannie Shubert Weissager,
the husband of Frances Summerfield Lawrence whom he married in 1915 and the father of Lawrence
Shubert Lawrence, Jr. who was the nephew
of J.J. Shubert and president of the Shubert theatrical chain passed away today
in Philadelphia, PA
1965(13th of Nisan, 5725): Syd Chaplin, actor and half-brother of Charlie
Chaplin passed away at the age of 80.
1965: Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Americanization of Emily” directed by Arthur
Hiller, co-starring Melvyn Douglas and with music by Johnny Mandel premiered in
the United Kingdom today.
1966(25th of Nisan, 5726): Jesse Judah Oppenheimer, the
Vancouver born son of August Isaac Oppenheimer and Cecilia (Celia) Oppenheimer
and the husband of Myrtle Ada Isabella Oppenheimer passed away today in
Winnipeg, Manitoba
1966(25th of Nisan, 5726): Sixty-year-old University of
Chicago alum Alvin Handmacher, the president of Handmacher-Vogel Inc and
founder of the Handmacher Foundation who raised three daughters with his wife
“the former Margaret Murdock” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/16/82431991.pdf
1967(5th of Nisan, 5727): Parashat Metzora
1967:WW II veteran and Columbia trained attorney Jack Bertrand, the son
of Bessie Brodach and Harry, Weinstein, began serving as Judge of the United
States District Court for the Eastern
District of New York.
1967(5th of Nisan, 5727): Eighty-eight-year-old Lazarus Levy,
the acting warden of the Hart Island Penitentiary from 1938 to 1940 passed away
today.
1967: It was reported today that the half of the estate of Mischa Elman
which includes “a Stradivarius that once belong to Napoleon” and 200-year-old
Amatti “was left in trust to his widow Mrs. Helen K. Elman.”
1968(17th of Nisan, 5728): Third Day of Pesach
1968(17th of Nisan, 5728): Fifty-year-old Herman Rand a former
principal of the Ahavas Israel Hebrew School in New Jersey and “for 21 years
national sales manager of Hollywood Shoe Polish, Inc” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/04/16/88940349.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1968: Future Anglo-Jewish author Anthony Horowitz received a human skill
from his mother on his 13th birthday.
1969(27th of Nisan, 5729): Yom HaShoah
1969: Today, the University of Brussels paid tribute to 80-year-old Max
Gottschalk “a research professor at the University’s institute of sociology for
45 years who “has been associated with the Jewish Colonization Association,
ORT, and the Alliance Israelite Universelle” and “is chairman of the National
Center for Higher Jewish Studies which he founded in 1960.”
1970(8th of Nisan, 5730): Fifty-two-year-old record industry
mogul George Goldner whose Jewish mother Rose was originally from Poland and whose
Jewish father Adolph was from Austria passed away today.
https://www.bsnpubs.com/roulette/goldner/goldner.html
1971(20th of Nisan, 5731): Sixth Day of Pesach
1971: “70, Girls, 70” opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre with
Stanley Prager serving as the production supervisor.
1972(1st of Iyar, 5732): Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh
Iyar
1972: Barbra Streisand joined
other recording industry stars performing at a benefit for George McGovern for
President.
1974: “Martha Graham
and Company” for which Stanley Sussman served as pianist opened on Broadway at
the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
1974: “Fifty prisoners,
including eleven Jews in Perm camps 35 and 36 began a hunger strike demanding
improved conditions of detention, changes in starvation diet of prisoners in
punishment cells and the transfer to hospital of Russian dissident, Vladimir
Bukovsky.
1975(4th of Iyar, 5735):
Yom HaZikaron
1975: “A Chorus Line” with
music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban “opened Off Broadway at
the Public Theatre.
1976(15th of
Nisan, 5736): Pesach is observed for the last time under President Ford.
1977: The Yale Center
for British Art “designed by Louis I. Kahn” which was “located across the
street from the Yale University Art Gallery” Kahn’s first major commission was
opened to the public today.
https://britishart.yale.edu/architecture/louis-i-kahn
1979(18th of
Nisan, 5739) Fourth Day of Pesach
1979: Four terrorists
were killed today crossing from Jordan near Tirat Zir.
1980: The Nobel Prize winning existentialist author and philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre passed away at the age
of 74. Sartre was not Jewish. But he did write about the Jewish people.
In 1946, immediately
after World War II, Sartre published his brilliant dissection of anti-Semitism
and the Jewish condition, “Reflections
sur la Question Juive.” “The
little booklet has gone through a number of editions, has been widely reviewed,
and is still undoubtedly among Sartre's most famous works. As one would expect
in the case of a controversial writer, a number of reviewers had important
criticisms. If Sartre's analysis had striking insights, some of his assertions
were remarkably naive. He thought that "socialism" would do away with
anti-Semitism. He was preoccupied-occupied with rabid anti-Semitism but gave
little thought to the perhaps more prevalent genteel hatred of Jews. Many
Jewish reviewers felt that he short-changed "Jewish
self-consciousness" by asserting that anti-Semitism is the only
basis for it. We now know, from Sartre's own words a few weeks before his death
that at the time of writing his book he had been incredibly ignorant, and
willfully so, of all things Jewish. Nevertheless, Sartre was a man much
listened to, as he is still today after his death, and his writings were given
close attention.” Frenchmen would do
well to heed the words of one of their most famous citizens, “The cause of the
Jews would already be half won if only their friends found in their defense a
little of the passion and the perseverance that their enemies devote to their
destruction. To awaken this passion, it is useless to appeal to the generosity
of the Aryans because even among the best of these this virtue is disappearing.
But it may well be pointed out to each of them that the fate of the Jew is his
own fate. No Frenchman will be secure as long as a Jew, in France or elsewhere
in the world, has reason to fear for his life.”
1981: In Hamilton,
Ontario, Dr. Mark Levy and his wife Lisa gave birth actress and singer Caissie
Shira Levy, the younger sister of Robi and Josh Levy.
1982(22nd of
Nisan, 5742): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1982: Five Muslim
extremists who murdered Egyptian President Sadat were executed.
1982: In Vancouver, the
former Sandy Belogus, “a social worker” and Mark Rogen “an assistant director
of the Workmen's Circle Jewish fraternal organization” who “met o kibbutz Beitt
Alfa,”gave birth to actor Seth Rogen
1983: During a burglary
at the L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art “200 items, including paintings and
dozens of rare clocks and watches, were stolen.”
1984(13th of
Nisan, 5744): Eighty-four-year-old German born “mathematician and philosopher”
Grete Hermann passed away today in her hometown of Bremen.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0812/0812.3986.pdf
1986: Edwin R. Theile,
who is “best known for his chronological studies of the pre-exilic Jewish
kingdoms and the author The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings
passed away today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Numbers_of_the_Hebrew_Kings
1986(6th of
Nisan, 5746): Nine days after his eighty-ninth birthday
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/B/burstein-pesach.htm
https://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/bursteinpeisachke/index.html
1987(16th of
Nisan, 5747): Second Day of Pesach
1987: “Without public
announcement, Budapest has put up a statue, which was a private gift from
former American Nicolas M. Salgo, a Jew who had fled Hungary ahead of the
Nazis, to honor Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of
Hungarian Jews from the Nazis and then disappeared in Soviet captivity.
1988: Anglo-Jewish
author Anthony Horowitz married Jill Green in Hong Kong.
1989(10th of
Nisan, 5749): Parashat Metzora
1989: “Brenda Starr,” a
film based on the comic strip character of the same name with script
co-authored by Delia Ephron and with music by Johnny Mandel premiered in the
United States today.
1990(20th of
Nisan, 5750) Sixth Day of Pesach
1990: “His Year of
Living Dangerously,” provides a review of Tribes With Flags: A Dangerous
Passage Through the Chaos of the Middle East by Charles Glass, the an ABC
correspondent who was kidnapped and held prisoner by Hezbollah, the same
terrorist group that has been attacking Israel for years.
1991(1st of
Iyar, 5751): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1991: ABC broadcast
“The Boys,” a comedy film with music by David Shire, the son of Buffalo, NY
Jews Esther Sheinberg and Irving Daniel Shire and featuring Passaic born Jew
Alan Rosenberg as the Psychiatrist for
the first time today.
1992: William Shatner
and Leonard Nimoy were inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall
of Fame. Yes the number one and number two leaders
crossing space, the last frontier, were Members of the Tribe. For
those of you wondering who is Jewish, when Shatner's wife passed away her
"mourned her in the Jewish fashion" and was reported to be
working on a script called "Shiva" based on his mourning experiences.
1992: Billionaire Leona Helmsley was
sent to jail for tax evasion.
1993(24th of
Nisan, 5753): Eighty-six-year-old Chicago trial lawyer Leo H. Arnstein whose
clients included Whirlpool and Sears passed away today at Glencoe, Illinois.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/19/obituaries/leo-h-arnstein-lawyer-86.html
1993: In a last-minute letter apparently intended to defuse the
controversy on the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Pope John
Paul II told Roman Catholic nuns today to move from their convent at the
Auschwitz death camp
1994: “Tom and Viv,”
produced by Marc and Peter Samuelson was released today in the United Kingdom.
1994: In “No New Arab Attack, but Israelis Celebrate Independence
Tensely,” published today Clyde Haberman described how the Jewish state
celebrated its Independence Day despite threats by Arab terrorists to turn it
into a day from hell.
1995(15th of Nisan, 5755):
First Day of Pesach coincides with Shabbat.
1996: Hofstra University graduate,
Howard Safir, the Bronx born “son of Russian Jewish immigrants and the nephew
of “Uncle Louis Weiner (who captured infamous bank robber Willie Sutton),
completed as the 29th New York City Fire Commissioner and began
serving as the 39th New York City Police Commissioner.
1996(26th of Nisan, 5756):
Eight-three-year-old Arthur J. Leylveld, a leading Reform Rabbi, passed away
today. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/16/us/rabbi-arthur-j-lelyveld-83-rights-crusader.html
1997(8th of Nisan, 5757): Sam
Moskowitz, author, critic and the teacher of the first college level course on
Science Fiction passed away at the age of 76.
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/moskowitz_sam
1998(19th of
Nisan, 5758) Fifth Day of Pesach
1999: A symposium
entitled The History of American Jewish
Political Conservatism opens at American University in Washington, D.C.
2000(10th of Nisan, 5760): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
2000: “Chancellor Wolfgang Schussel of Austria today criticized a lawsuit
filed against the government and 80 of the country's leading companies by
lawyers representing Holocaust victims” who are seeking $18 billion for former slave laborers under
the Nazis and for people whose property was confiscated after the Nazi
annexation of Austria in 1938.
2001(22nd of Nisan, 5761): Eighth and final day of Pesach.
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Paintings
of Our Lives” by Grace Schulman and “Maurve:
How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World” by Simon Garfield.
2002: Following the Battle of Jenin, Palestinian Red Crescent Society and
International Committee of the Red Cross staff entered the camp, accompanied by
the IDF.
2002: A pro-Israel rally in Washington, organized in less than a week,
attracted a crowd estimated at 100,000 people from across the spectrum of
American Jewry.
2003(13th of Nisan, 5763): Eighty-year-old Dartmouth alum and
second generation movie maker Maurice Rapf, “a founder of the Writers Guild of
America” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/arts/maurice-rapf-88-screenwriter-and-film-professor.html
2004: “Yale Strom's documentary ''Klezmer on Fish Street'' which wrestles
with questions of Jewish identity in Poland, where much of that heritage was
destroyed during World War II is being shown at the Quad Theatre in Greenwich
Village.
2005: “Or” the Israeli film starring Dana Ivgy in the title role
premiered in Sweden today.
2005: An exhibition
entitled “Wild Things: The Art of
Maurice Sendak” opens at the Jewish Museum in New York.
2005: David
Baddiel discusses “The Secret Purposes” at The Sunday Times Oxford
Literary Festival
2006: The inauguration
of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ein Kerem is postponed. Construction of the
church began in the first decade of the 20th century but was never
completed because of the Russian Revolution. The dedication of the recently
completed church was postponed at the request of Russian President Putin. Putin
wanted the inauguration delayed until Prime Minister Sharon had sufficiently
recovered from his stroke to attend the ceremonies.
2007: At the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, an exhibition styled “From
Shtetl to the Sooner State Celebrating Oklahoma's Jewish History In
conjunction with the Centennial Celebration of Oklahoma Statehood” comes to a
close.
2007: Major League Baseball and the Israel Baseball League (IBL) hold a
tryout in California for players who did not make major or minor league
rosters.
2007: “The Last Jew In Europe” is performed at the Triad Theatre.
2007: As Jews all over the world begin the observance of Yom Hashoah,
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Haaretz
reported that the first comprehensive
study of the incidence of cancer among Holocaust survivors has shown that
Holocaust survivors were found to be 2.4 times more likely to have cancer than
their peers who had not been through the Holocaust.
2007: As reported in Haaretz Israel fell silent as a
two-minute siren wailed across the country this morning in commemoration of
Holocaust Memorial Day.
2007: The Sunday New York Times
book section featured a review of All Whom I Have Loved by Israeli
author Aharon Appelfeld. In his new novel set on the eve of the Holocaust, the
Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld tells the story of Paul Rosenfeld, a 9-year-old
Jewish boy in Czernowitz, Romania (now Chernovtsy, Ukraine).
2007: The Sunday Washington Post
book section featured reviews of Jurgen Neffe's Einstein: A Biography,
Walter Isaacson”s Einstein: His Life and Universe and Once
Upon a Country by Sari Nusseibeh, who joined Ami Ayalon, the former head of
Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, in unveiling a “courageous peace
plan” in 2002.
2008(10th of Nisan, 5768): Hendrik
Samuel "Hank" Houthakker a Dutch Jewish American economist passed
away. Houthakker was born in Amsterdam. In 1924. His father was a prominent art
dealer. As a teenager he lived through the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
and, according to an interview he gave to the Valley News, was once arrested by
the Gestapo but escaped and was sheltered for some months by a Roman Catholic
family. He completed his graduate work at the University of Amsterdam in 1949.
He taught at Stanford University from 1954 to 1960 and then completed the rest
of his career at Harvard University. Houthakker served on President Nixon's
Council of Economic Advisers from 1969 to 1971. Houthakker's contributions to
economic theory have been summarized by Pollak (1990). He is particularly well
known for the Strong Axiom of Revealed Preference, to which his name is often
attached (see Houthakker 1950). This paper reconciles Paul Samuelson's revealed
preference approach to demand theory with the earlier ordinal utility approach
of Eugene Slutsky and Sir John Hicks, by showing that demand functions satisfy
his Strong Axiom if and only if they can be generated by maximising a set of
preferences that are "well-behaved" in the sense that they satisfy
the axioms of choice theory, that is, they are reflexive, transitive, complete,
montononic, convex and continuous—essentially the conditions required for a
Hicksian approach to demand theory.”
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Hedy Epstein, whose
parents died in concentration camps during the Holocaust speaks at Kirkwood
Community College and at Xavier High School.
2008: The Washington Post reviews The
Much Too Promised LandAmerica's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by
Aaron David Miller
2008: Today the
Jewish prayer for the dead echoed across what was once the heart of the Warsaw
ghetto as Israeli and Polish leaders marked the 65th anniversary of the doomed
battle by young Jews against Nazi troops. President Shimon Peres and his Polish
counterpart, Lech Kaczynski, led a crowd of 1,000 gathered beneath the stark
granite Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto in ceremonies honoring the Jews
who rose up on April 19, 1943. Israeli and Polish flags fluttered in the
afternoon breeze as Poland's chief orthodox rabbi, Michael Schudrich, read out
the Kaddish, or Jewish prayer for the dead. Then, to the beat of a
military drum, Peres, Kaczynski and survivors of the ghetto uprising placed
wreaths at the foot of the monument, which was flanked by two large iron
menorahs. Peres praised the young fighters, who he said displayed "a
heroism that our children will proudly carry with them in their hearts."
"The majority of the uprising fighters died, murdered in cold blood. They
lost the fight, but from the point of view of history, there has never been
such a victory," Peres said. "A victory of men over human bestiality,
of pure souls over fallen ones." "Yes, the Germans won, thanks to
thousands of soldiers shooting without thought and gassing bunkers," Peres
said. "What did those terrible Nazis leave to the generations that
followed?" "Only shame, a curse and damnation." Later in the
day, the presidents met with former ghetto fighters and Holocaust survivors and
attend a concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta
at Warsaw's national opera house. The anniversary of the uprising's start falls
on Saturday, but commemorations were moved forward to Tuesday to avoid
coinciding with the Jewish Sabbath. On Saturday, the last surviving leader of
the ghetto's struggle, 89-year-old Marek Edelman, will lay flowers at the
ghetto monument, and the Jewish community is planning a seder meal in memory of
the ghetto victims. The uprising was the first act of large-scale armed
civilian resistance against the Germans in occupied Poland during World War II.
The Nazis walled off the ghetto in November 1940, cramming 400,000 Jews from
across Poland into a swath of the capital in inhuman conditions. On April 19,
1943, German troops started to liquidate the ghetto by sending tens of
thousands of its residents to death camps. In the face of imminent death,
several hundred young Jews took to arms in defense of the civilians.
Outnumbered and outgunned, they held off German troops for three weeks with
homemade explosives and a cache of smuggled weapons. The Nazis killed most of fighters
and then burned down the ghetto street by street.
2008: Poking
into crevices between the ancient stones of the Western Wall in the Old City of
Jerusalem, today a senior rabbi and his helpers removed thousands of
handwritten notes placed there by visitors who believe their requests will find
a shortcut to God by being deposited at Judaism's holiest site. The operation
is carried out twice each year: before the Passover festival which begins this
weekend and at the Jewish New Year in the fall.
2008: “Behind the Velvet Curtain: Songs from
the Motion Picture Redbelt” by Rebecca Pidgeon, the wife of David Mamet was
released today on the Great American Music label.
2008: “History Awaits the Pope and the Rabbi”
published today described Rabbi Arthur Schneier’s preparations for the visit of
Pope Benedict XVI.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/nyregion/15nyc.html?ref=parkeastsynagogue&_r=1&
2009(21st of Nisan, 5769): Seventh Day of
Pesach; Reform recite Yizkor
2009: “The first reading of ‘What Strong
Fences Make’ by Israel Horovitz was staged by New York's Barefoot Theater
Company” today.
2009: Roseanne Barr made an appearance on
Bravo's 2nd Annual A-List Awards in the opening scenes.
2010: A showing of “War Against The Weak” is
scheduled at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2010: Prof. Jerome Copulsky, Director of Jewish
Studies at Goucher College, is scheduled to present a talk entitled “Zionism:
Past, Present & Future” at George Mason University sponsored by the GMU
Religion Department and GMU Hillel.
2010: The Sarah Silverman Program had its
final showing on Comedy Central.
2010: Israeli customs officials said today
that they have already confiscated at least 10 iPads in response to Israel’s
ban on the importation of Apple’s newest product. The Israelis are concerned that the powerful gadget’s
wireless signals could disrupt other devices.
Israelis have every reason to believe that the problem will be solved
prior to the date of the international release of the iPad.
2011: After having pleaded guilty to charges
of corruption, former New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi was sentenced to a
term of 1 to 4 years in the state penitentiary.
2011: The Jerusalem Fair, the Annual
Fundraising Bazaar for the Jerusalem Rape Crisis Center is scheduled to take
place at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
2011: Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation in
Ashburn, VA is scheduled to host a Chocolate Passover Seder where attendees can
“learn about and taste the symbols of Passover” by sampling a “variety of
chocolate items including chocolate covered matzah, chocolate eggs, bitter
chocolate, chocolate for dipping” and an Elijah's cup filled with chocolate
milk.
2011: The works of Israeli composer Chaya
Czernowin are scheduled to be featured at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre.
2011: Following nearly a week
of quiet for the residents of the South, warning sirens were heard in the
Ashdod area this afternoon after two Grad rockets were fired from the Gaza
Strip.
2011: U.S. President Barack
Obama extended a warm greeting today to all those celebrating Passover and
likened the holiday's story to the revolutions sweeping the Middle East.
2011: Defense Minister Ehud
Barak welcomed today a decision by the U.S. House of Representatives to approve
a budget which includes $205 million intended for continuing development of the
Iron Dome anti-missile system.
2012: Filmmaker Judy Lieff and poets Aneta
Brodski and Tahani Salah are scheduled to appear at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2012: In Fairfax, VA, Congregation Olam Tikvah
is scheduled to sponsor a silent auction combined with a post Passover Pizza
Party.
2012: On the weekend ending today, a century
after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, “Titanic” bcame “ he second film to cross
the $2 billion threshold during its 3D
re-release.”
2012: Mitzvah Day, sponsored by Agudas Achim,
is scheduled to take place in Iowa City, Iowa
2012: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including “The Crisis of Zionism” by Peter Beinart and ‘Schmidt Steps Back’ by
Louis Begley.
2012: Jacob Ostreicher, a
53-year-old Chasidic Jew from New York who is in a jail in Santa Cruz, Bolivia,
launched a hunger strike following 10 months of appeals to the U.S. State
Department.
2013: The Hartford Jewish Film Fest is
scheduled to close with a screening of “Hava Nagila – The Movie.”
2013: “A Work-In-Progress Screening: On
Becoming A Soldier” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2013: Dr. David Kraemer is scheduled to
deliver the first in a series of lectures – All of Rabbinic Literature in Seven
Sessions – at the Skirball Center.
2013(5th of Iyar, 5773: Yom
Hazikaron – All places of entertainment are closed. Twice
during the day, at the sound of a siren throughout the country, everything—and
everyone— stops completely for two minutes.
2013: The head of the security
network for US Jewish organizations said the community is "standing
vigilant" following bombings at the Boston Marathon today.
2013: The annual torch-lighting ceremony at
Jerusalem's Mount Herzl marked the end of Remembrance Day this evening and
touched off Israel's 65th Independence Day celebrations.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Israel-celebrates-65-years-of-independence-309888
2013: Bret Stephens, a former editor-in-chief
of The Jerusalem Post, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for The
Wall Street Journal, the prize committee announced today.
http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Former-Post-editor-in-chief-wins-Pulitzer-Prize-310002
2013: Ceremonies, festivities and general
revelry around the country marked Israel’s 65th Independence Day anniversary today.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/IN-PICTURES-Israel-celebrates-65th-birthday-309958
2013: Israel must prepare for
the possibility of striking Iran’s nuclear program on its own, Defense Minister
Moshe Ya’alon warned today, during an Independence Day speech he delivered in
Herzliya
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Yaalon-Israel-may-have-to-defend-itself-from-Iran-alone-309988
2014(15th of
Nisan, 5774): Pesach
2014: Yuli Kosharovsky best known for his work as an active
leader of the Jewish refusenik movement passed away today. (As reported by
Laura Bialis)
http://forward.com/articles/196765/yuli-kosharovsky-soviet-jewrys-man-behind-the-scen/
2014: In the evening
Chuck Friedman is scheduled to lead the Agudas Achim Community Seder catered by
the Motley Cow Café.
2014: After having been
released by the Chicago Bears, today punter Adam Podesh signed a one year
contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2014; In “Golda Meir,
late Israeli prime minister, vitally revealed in ‘Golda’s Balcony’” published
today Peter Marks reviews the performance of Tova Feldshuh.
2015: The Oregon Board
of Rabbis is scheduled to present Yom HaShoah: The Holocaust, Memory and the
Future Congregation Beth Israel in Portland.
2015: Speaking today at
the museum’s National Tribute dinner in Washington, “FBI director James Comey
called the Holocaust the most significant event in history and said that’s why
a US Holocaust Memorial Museum program on its lessons is mandatory for new
agents.
2015: Peter Appelbaum
is scheduled to discuss “Loyal Sons: Jewish Soldiers in the German Army in the
Great War” at the Center for Jewish History.
2015: Professor of
History and the Jeremy Zwelling Professor of Jewish Studies from Wesleyan
University are scheduled to present “Connected Histories: Sephardic and
Ashkenazi Responses to Blood Libels in Pre-modern Europe” at the University of
Connecticut.
2015: “Jews, Judaism
and American Law” with Rabbi Lance J. Sussman is scheduled to open at the
National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
2015: Just in time for
the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Marshal Weiss provides us with “Kosher
deli in England a Titanic survivor’s legacy.”
http://azjewishpost.com/2012/kosher-deli-in-england-a-titanic-survivors-legacy/
2016: The graduate
student council of the City University of New York is scheduled to “vote on a
resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.”
2016(7th of Nisan, 5776):
Ninety-four-year-old Frederick Mayer, the teenage refugee from Nazi Germany who
ended up being captured and tortured by Nazi captors while taking part in
operation “Greenup” passed away today. (As reported by Eric Lichtblaum)
2016: In Cedar Rapids,
Shir Yehudah is scheduled to lead Temple Judah a “musical Shabbat.”
2016: Steven Gimbel,
the professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College and author of Einstein: The
Man is scheduled to lecture at the Suffolk Y JCC on Long Island, NY.
2016: “Claude Lanzmann:
Spectres of the Shoah” and “I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal
Akerman” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2017(19th of
Nisan, 5777): Shabbat shel Pesach
2017(19th of
Nisan, 5777): Ninety-two year old psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Lifschutz passed away
today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2017(19th of
Nisan, 5777): Sixty-four-year-old Mendel Deitsch, a Chabad Rabbi who was
severely beaten six months ago in the western Ukrainian city of Zhytomir during
a robbery died today in Jerusalem as a result of the wounds he had sustained.
2017: “Speaking to an
Israel Radio reporter on the sidelines of a conference on the civil war in
Yemen in Paris, Yemen’s Information Minister Moammer al-Iryani said today that
the Houthis view the tiny remaining Jewish population as an enemy and are
engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing that includes ridding Yemen of its
Jewish community.”
2017: All decent
people mourn the death of 20-year-old Hannah Bladon, a British student stabbed
in Jerusalem “by a Palestinian man” on Good Friday in an attack that also left
a fitty year old man and a 30 year old pregnant woman with undisclosed
injuries.
2017: Courtesy of Bank
Hapoalim, 35 Israeli museums and national sites offer free entry today.
2018(30th of
Nisan, 5778): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2018: The Jewish
Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Washington are two of the organizations scheduled to host
the “Blacks and Jews Unity Poetry Slam.”
2018: “A new exhibition
revealing the impact of the Jewish émigrés behind some of Britain’s most iconic
designs” at the Jewish Museum in London is scheduled to come to an end today.
http://jewishmuseum.org.uk/designs
2018: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Italian Teacher, a novel by Tom Rachman, In the Enemy’s House: The
Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
by Howard Blum, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk and How Democracies Die by Steven
Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
2018: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a lecture by
Adrienne G. Alexanian, the author of Forced into Genocide, as part of
the commemoration of the 103rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
2018: “Holocaust survivor
Irene Miller, author of Into No Man’s Land: A Historical Memoir, is
scheduled to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Yom Ha’Shoah Community-wide
Holocaust Memorial Program, held this evening, April 15 at the Uptown JCC in New Orleans, LA.
2018: The Schultz
Campus for Jewish Life is scheduled to host “Remember the Holocaust Yom Hashoah
Commemoration with Ingrid Kennedy” this evening.
2018: The Center for
Jewish History and the YIVO Institute are scheduled to present “Jews in Space”
featuring Rob Schwimmer, Vickie L. Kloeris and Anna Martin.
2018: Auschwitz
survivor Helen Weingarten is scheduled to be the featured speaker at the 53rd
Annual Community Wide Holocaust Commemoration hosted by The Breman Museum in
Atlanta, GA.
2018: The Governor of
Georgia proclaims today as Holocaust Remembrance Day.
https://www.thebreman.org/Portals/0/Yom%20HaShoah%20Proclamation.pdf
2019: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host “From Macy’s to the Titanic – The Straus
Family Legacy” during which “department store historian Michael Lisicky
discusses how the Straus family rose from German-Jewish peddlers to merchant
princes and major philanthropists before Isidor Straus's untimely death on the
RMS Titanic.”
https://www.smore.com/rqt4e-from-macy-s-to-titanic?ref=email
2019: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “an
evening with Nathan Englander” during which the prize-winning author discusses
his newest novel Kaddish.com.
2019: Luigi Toscano’s
“Lest We Forget” series of large-format portraits of Holocaust survivors, which
has already “appeared in public space all over the world” is scheduled to open
at the San Francisco Civic Center today.
2019: “Biographer
Robert Caro Pauses as He Prepares His Final Lyndon B. Johnson Volume” published
in the April 15th issued of Time magazine provides interesting
insights on the working habits and intellectual drive of the “Tall Texan’s”
Jewish biographer.
http://time.com/5564169/historian-robert-caro-interview/
2019: The running of
the 123rd Boston Marathon is scheduled to take place today to mark
Patriot’s Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
2019: In the United
States, deadline for filing Federal Income Tax Returns
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jews-and-taxes/
2019: JW3 is scheduled
to host a screening of “Holy Lands,” a film set in Israel in London.
2019: It was reported
today that Goldman-Sachs, The Wall
Street behemoth led by CEO David Solomon slashed its average pay package by a
fifth during the first quarter, as traders struggled with bad bets and the bank
hired more lower-wage workers for its fledgling consumer bank.” (As reported by
Kevin Dugan)
2019: The Thaler
Holocaust Memorial Foundation is scheduled to host an appearance by Holocaust
survivor Rachel Miller at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2020(21st of
Nisan, 5780): Seventh Day of Pesach; for Reform last day of the holiday and
Yizkor
2020(21st of
Nisan, 5780): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeits of 26 Jews of Bacharach,
Germany who were murdered and the “10 Jews of Mayence, Germany, who were killed
following blood ritual charges.”
2020(21st of
Nisan, 5780): Ninety-two-year-old Leon Konitz, the Chicago born son of Abraham
Konitz, the owner of a laundry and Anna (Getlin) Konitz who was one of the “leading Jazz-men of the
20th century” passed away today.
http://www.solosjazz.com/a_lee.php
2020: According to
previous statements made by Health Ministry deputy director general Dr. Itamar
Grotto, the top physician in the national health system and an expert in
epidemiology” made to “the Knesset’s coronavirus committee on April 12, Israel
does “not expect a return to regular economic activity after the Passover
holiday which ends” today.
2020: Seventy-fifth
anniversary of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp being liberated by the British
11th Armored Division whose members including Rabbi Leslie Hardman,
the Jewish army chaplain who tried comfort the human skeletons and attempted to
give the dead and dying a measure of respect by, among other things, reciting
the Kaddish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Hardman#/media/File:Bergen_Belsen_Liberation_03.jpg
2021(3rd of
Iyar, 5781): Yom Ha’Atzmaut - Israel
Independence Day (observed), for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2021: In New Orleans, the
Goldring Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs (CJMA) and St. Augustine High
School are scheduled to host the annual scholarship award ceremony.
2021: The East Bay
International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening online of
“Menachem Begin: Peace and War.”
2021: In Cedar Rapids,
the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss online The Dinner Party,
a novel by Brenda Janowitz.
2021: The Jewish Review
of Books is scheduled to host a conversation between editor Abraham Socher and
historian Jehuda Reiharz, the author of three volumes on the life of Chaim
Weizman.
2021: In Palm Beach
Gardens, FL, in the morning, Temple Judea is scheduled to minyan online with
Abbie Strauss and in the afternoon “Coffee and Conversation with Rabbi Feivel
Strauss and Marisa Bagget, “an African American Jew by Choice from Mississippi who
became a Sushi Chef and the first African American woman to graduate from the
California Sushi Academy.”
2021: Based on reports published as Israel prepared to
celebrate its 73rd birthday, as of today the population of the
Jewish state stands at 9,327,000, with 73.9% of population being Jews, 21.1% being
Arabs, and 5% being members of other
groups
2022: As of this
morning, Israel has arrested 18 Palestinians as part of an extensive crackdown
on suspected terrorist cells in the West Bank” and IDF forces have uncovered
and seized a large arms cache in the Nur Shams refugee camp. (YNET)
2022: Lilach Orenstein
is one of the five amazing artists selected for the 57th year of the Fresh
Tracks in Our Season of Anniversaries which is scheduled to begin today.
2022(14th of
Nisan, 5782: At Tifereth Israel in Columbus, OH, Rabbi Braver is scheduled to
lead a Siyyum for Ta’anit Bechrot following the morning minyan
2022: As Jews are
preparing to celebrate Pesach all factions in Israel are waiting to see how
Palestinian Moslems will respond to call issued by “a collective of Gaza Strip
terror groups” on April 13 calling “on our people in the West Bank, Jerusalem
and Israel to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque this coming Friday and calling on the Palestinian resistance to stay vigilant
and be prepared to defend the mosque."
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s3expj9a4
2022: Because of
Pesach, in London, the LSJS office is scheduled to be closed from today and
April 25.
2022(14th of
Nisan, 5782): Fast of the First Born
2022(14th of
Nisan, 5882): In the evening, first seder
2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a “special presentation” with Anita
Lasker-Wallfishch on the Anniversary of the liberation of Belsen.
2023: Yael Bartana’s Malka Germania which investigates the longing for collective
redemption for German and Jewish histories as a response to an age of anxiety
is come to a close at Petzel Gallery today.
2023: Or Shalom Jewish
Community is scheduled to host “an evening of storytelling, conversation,
community and Havdalah featuring Jewish educator Peretz Wolf-Prusan, writer Jan
Sollish, and solo-theater performers Charlie Varon and Kenny Yun.
2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor David Peimer on
“Goebbels: The Propaganda Genius of the 20th Century?”
2023: The Eden-Tamir
Center is scheduled to host “Ensemble Millennium/Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in
Residence and Friends.”
2023 (24th of Nisan,
5783): Parashat Shemini; Pirke Avot Chapter One:
2024: YIVO and the
American Society for Jewish Music are scheduled to present “a 150-year
celebration of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), one of the 20th century’s most
important and influential composer which will feature the New York City
premiere of a film by David Starobin, “String Trio, Los Angeles 1946" a
documentary about Schoenberg.
2024: At the Mandel JCC
in Beachwood, OH, Interplay Jewish Theatre is scheduled to present two Israeli
works: “How to Remain a Humanist After a Massacre in 17 Steps” by Maya Arad Yasur
and “O God” by Anat Gov.
2024: The Helen Diller
Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkley is scheduled to host a webinar on “The Impact of the Israel-Hamas
War on the Arab-Palestinian Community in Israel and Implications for Shared
Society.”
https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xifpr7DuSCe81Si4b3g1ow#/registration
2024: In Cedar Rapids,
the Marcus Theatre is scheduled to host a screening of “Irena’s Vow” which
tells “the incredible true story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who heroically
saved Jewish lives during WWII.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19869662/
2024: In another
lecture in the series "The Character of Joseph", Kabbalah researcher Melila
Hellner-Eshedwill is scheduled to delve into the figure of the owner of the
striped gown as expressed in excerpts from The Book of Zohar at Agnon House.
2024: My Jewish
Learning is scheduled to offer the final lecture by Jennifer Mendelsohn on “How
to Research and Construct Your Jewish Family Tree.”
2024: The Helen Diller
Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC
Berkley is scheduled to host an in-person lecture Yossi Klein Halevi on
“Zionism and the Future of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflicts
2024: As April 15th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 192
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: Qesher is
scheduled to host a lecture by Ronald Gomes Casseres on “Stories from Curacao’s
Jewish History” during which he will talk about Mikve Israel-Emanual, “oldest
synagogue in continues use” in the Americas.
2025: Authorities are
holding Christie Balmer on charges that he was responsible for setting fire to
the home of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro who is Jewish on the first night
of Pesach.
2025: Dr. Alan Garber, the Illinois born
Jewish son of Harry and Jean Garber and President of Harvard is dealing with
the Trump administrations threat to freeze up to nine billion dollars of
federal funds previously earmarked for the Ivy League university.
2025(17th of
Nisan, 5785): Third Day of Pesach
2025: As April 15th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the
globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 557 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: JWI is scheduled
to share the “findings from
its national survey of young Jewish-American women across 35 states and
Washington, DC to understand what they've been experiencing since October 7th.”
2026: JW3 is scheduled
to host a screening of “The Short Films of Lewis Rose” followed by a Q&A
with Jason Solomons and Lewis Rose.
2026: Under the
leadership of President Brian Cohen, the board of Temple Judah is scheduled to
meet in Cedar Rapids a week later than usual because of Pesach.
2026: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host lectures by Philip Rubenstein on “Israel’s
Prime Ministers – Part 5 The Upheaval,” and Nadav Eyal on “The Morning After :
Israel, Iran and What Comes Next.”
2026: The Institute of
Jewish Rock is scheduled to host “for One Voice: A Concert With a Heartbeat at
the Kravis Center.”
2026: As April 15th
begins in Israel, in response to the Federation of Local Authorities
recommendation that large-scale Independence Day events should be postponed, “the
border city of Kiryat Shmona and the northern city of Haifa canceled their
Independence Day celebrations due to the security situation in part, because both cities have
found themselves under persistent rocket fire from Hezbollah” (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time)
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