0034: According to Sir Isaac Newton, this is the date of
the crucifixion of Jesus.
1185: Birthdate Alfonzo
II, the third King of Portugal who was part of a dynasty that provided a
comparatively secure environment for their Jewish subjects. He was the grandson
of King Alfonso I and the son of King Sancho I both of whom had recognized the
Jewish community, allowing it to settle its own legal problems. King Alfonzo
set the tone for the dynasty when he appointed Yahia ben Yahi III, the first
chief Rabbi of the Portuguese Jewish community to serve as his royal tax
collector.
1229: As the Christians
fought the Moors, Ferdinand III of Castile re-conquered Caceres. During this
period the city had an important Jewish quarter: By the start of 15th century 140
Jewish families lived in city that had a population of 2000 people. As with
everything in Sephard the story of the Jews of Caceres ends the same way with
the expulsion by Queen Isabella and Ferdinand of Aragon in 1492.
1283: Sixteen Jews were
killed in Bruckenhausen.
1533: The Church of
England annuls the marriage between Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. This
was a major step in the break between Protestant England and Catholic Europe
including France, Spain and those under the sway of the Pope. The English would be a valuable ally for the
Protestants who were struggling to establish themselves in such places as the
Netherlands and the Germanic states. For
the Jews, this growing division among European Christians had the short term
disadvantage of being caught between two warring parties and abused
accordingly. In the long run, it was
advantageous. Protestant England (even when the Catholic James II would come to
throne) and Holland would provide early and safe havens for European Jews,
especially those looking for homes and opportunity after their experience with
the Spanish Inquisition.
1564: Birthdate of William Shakespeare. Was Shakespeare an anti-Semite? The question comes up every time there is a
revival of “The Merchant of Venice.” The term Shylock,
the term “pound of flesh” and the line “oh my ducats oh my daughter” have
provided fodder for anti-Semites through the centuries. On the other hand, Shakespeare depicts
Shylock as a human with feelings, which was certainly a cut above the normal
portrayal during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. According to some critics, “Merchant of
Venice” was written as The Bard’s theatrical response to Christopher Marlow’s,
“The Jew of Malta.”
1571: In Venice Diana
Rachel and Isaac of Modena gave birth to Leon (Judah Areyh) of Modena, famed
Italian scholar, rabbi and Poet.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/modena-leon
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9766-leon-judah-aryeh-of-modena
1615: Louis XIII
decreed that all Jews must leave the country within one month on pain of death.
This decree became the basis for the infamous Code Noir the Black Code which
forbade Jews to live in French colonies in the New World including in 1724 the
colony of Louisiana. This may explain why there are no Jewish Creoles in
New Orleans society.
1615: Christians in
France were forbidden, under pain of death, to shelter or converse with Jews,
by order of Louis XIII.
1620(20th of
Nisan, 5380): Hayyim ben Joseph Vital passed away at Damascus. Born at Calabria
in 1543, he was a foremost exponent of Lurianic Kabbalah, recording much of his
master's teachings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Vital
1625: Prince Maurice of
Orange passed away despite the best efforts of his “Jewish physician” Joseph
Bueno
1659(30th of Nisan): Eight Jews were
martyred today at Przemysl
1661: Birthdate of Issachar Berend
Lehmann, the native of Essen, Westphalia whose many accomplishments led him to
become “the Court Jews for Elector Augustus II, the Strong of Saxony.
1661: King Charles II of England,
Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey. The coronation of Charles II marked the Restoration
following the death of Oliver Cromwell.
Cromwell had allowed the Jews to quietly re-enter England and develop a
community. “Technically, the 1558 Act of
Uniformity,
which labeled any rites other than those of the Church of England unlawful remained in
force.” But while still in the
Netherlands, trying to secure his throne, Charles had assured Amsterdam that
English Jews had nothing to fear from his kingship. A generous contribution
from Jewish bankers and merchants certainly helped the situation. Once in power, the king proved true to his
word. When Christian merchants tried to
oust their Jewish competition on grounds that they were not members of the
Church, Charles stood by his Jewish subjects as long as they obeyed the laws
and remained peaceful subjects. In 1673,
an anti-Semitic
mob demanded
that the Jewish leaders be punished for worshipping in public. When a grand jury caved in an indicted some
of the leading Jews, the Israelites threatened to leave the kingdom rather than
give up their religious liberties.
Charles issued orders to halt the proceedings
and “not to cause any more anxieties to Jews.”
1662: Catherine of Braganza, in whose
train “came the brothers Duarte and Franciso da Sylva, the Portuguese Jewish
bankers to who was entrusted the management Catherine’s dowry and whose
marriage to King Charles led to an increase in the Marrano community in London,
began serving as Queen Consort today.
1702: Margaret Fell, a founder of the
Society of Friends (Quakers) who was a passionate advocate for the readmission
of Jews to England during the debated in the middle of the 17th
century passed away. At the same time, she like many other English Protestants
wrote epistles to Jews in mainland Europe to persuade them to convert to true
Christianity by which she “meant the Quaker movement which they saw as the
spiritual House of Israel.
1720: Birthdate of Elijah (Eliyahu) ben Shlomo Zalman
"Kremer" better known as the Vilna Gaon. [Ed. Note: There is not enough
room to do justice to this Giant of Judaism.
The following website is a good point of departure.]
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/vilnagaon.html
1744: In Havana, Isaac Mendez, and two
other Jews boarded the Fortune, a French merchant sloop bound for Curacao. Mendez, a resident of Kingston, Jamaica, was
a Jewish merchant and loyal subject of King George II. In 1743, during a
trading voyage, Mendez’s ship was captured by the Spanish, and he was
imprisoned in Havana. In accord with
ancient Jewish tradition, friends learned of his plight. They “arranged for his release” and paid for
his passage aboard the French vessel. [Yes, there is more to the story. But you will have to wait for TDIJH for April
24 for the next installment]
1758(15th of Nisan, 5518):
First Day of Pesach
1764(21st of Nisan, 5524):
Seventh Day of Pesach
1761(19th of Nisan 5521):
Fifth Day of Pesach
1762(30th of Nisan, 5522):
Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1766(14th of Iyar, 5526):
Pesach Sheni observed for the first time since the repeal of the Stamp Act
1769(16th of Nisan, 5529):
Second Day of Pesach
1772(20th of Nisan, 5532):
Sixth Day of Pesach
1773(30th of Nisan, 5533):
Rosch Chodesh Iyar
1783(21st of Nisan, 5543):
Seventh Day of Pesach
1785: In New York, Rachel Heilbron and
Chaim Salomon who had died in January gave birth to their son Chaim Moses
Salomon, who attempted to collect, some would say through embellishment, moneys
owed to his family for his father’s financial assistance during the Revolution.
https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/01/financial-hero/
1785: Three months after his father had
passed away, in New York City, Rachel Franks and Chaim Solomon, of
Revolutionary War fame, gave birth to Chaim Moses Salomon, the businessman who spent much of his life trying to have the
United States government reimburse his father for the money owed to his father,
Chaim Solomon for helping to finance the cause of the American Revolution.
1786: Birthdate of Amsterdam native
Hyman Polock, the husband of London native Rebecca Barnett who gave birth to
Miriam Polock and Sarah Polock of Philadelphia, PA.
1791(19th of Nisan, 5551):
Shabbat Shal Pesach
1791: Birthdate of James Buchanan, 15th
President of the United States who in1857 received a committee of Jews led by
Isaac Meyer Wise seeking his support in over-turning a
treaty with the Swiss Cantons that resulted in American Jews being subjected to
the anti-Semitic laws of Switzerland. Buchanan said he would work to correct
the situation. But Buchanan was no more
effective in helping American Jews than he would be in preserving the Union
when Secession came.
1794: Benvenida de Isaac Henriques
Valentine and Amsterdam native Solomon da Silva Solis gave birth to Elijah
Solis, the husband of Louisa Solis.
1796(15th of Nisan, 5556): Shabbat
and the first day of Pesach celebrated on the same day that French forces
rejected a request by Sardinian General Michelangelo Colli-Marchi following their
defeat two days after the Battle of Mondovi.
1797: In Breslau, Rabbi Yehuda Plesner
and his gave birth to Salomon Plessner who defended Orthodox Judaism against
the in-roads of the Reform Movement.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12208-plessner-solomon
1797: In Charleston, SC, Sarah and
Abraham Moise who were married in 1779 at St. Eustatia, gave birth to Penina
Moise, “the first Jewish American woman to contribute to the worship service,
writing 190 hymns for Beth Elohim. The Reform movement’s 1932 Union Hymnal
still contained thirteen of her hymns.” (As reported by Jay Eidelman)
http://www.scmuseum.org/women/Moise.html
http://www.discoveringpeninamoise.com/
1799(18th of Nisan, 5559):
Fourth Day of Pesach
1799: Napoleon continued his siege of
Acre.
1803(1st of Iyar, 5563):
Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1813: Joseph Collins, the son of Hyman
Collins and Mary Davis was buried today in the UK.
1818: Birthdate of Christopher
Oscanyan, the Armenian-born American author and speaker whose lecture topics
included “The Women of Turkey and the Jews of the East.”
1818(23rd of Nisan, 5573):
Thirty-two year old Emanuel Sheftall, the Savannah born son of Levi and Sarah
Shefall and the father of Solomon, Rebeca, Emanuel and Elizabeth Sheftall
passed away today in his hometown
1819: In Devon, UK, Robert Frounde, the
archdeacon of Totnes and his wife gave birth to English historian and author
James Anthony Froude whose works included the 1890 biography of Benjamin
Disraeli entitled Lord Beaconsfield and who defeated Disraeli by a vote
of fourteen votes for the position of Lord Rector of St. Andrews.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/1st-november-1890/9/mr-froude-on-lord-beaconsfields-religion
1821(21st of Nisan, 5581):
Seventh Day of Pesach
1823: According to the Jewish
Encyclopedia birthdate of composer Louis Lewandowski which others show as April
3.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9915-lewandowski-louis
1826(16th of Nisan, 5586):
Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1828: In Bavaria, Moses Leo Butzel and
Hanna Bachman Butzel gave birth to Martin Butzel, the husband of Betty
Binswanger Butzel and the father of Fanny, Emma, Edwin and Leo Butzel who in
1845 came to the United States, settled in Detroit where he was in the
wholesale clothing business and served as President of the “Public Lighting
Commission” and supported the while supporting the Jewish farming colony at Bad
Axe, MI started by Lazarus Silberman.The
Palestine Colony | Jewish Historical Society of Michigan (jhsmichigan.org)
1829(20th of Nisan, 5589)
Sixth Day of Pesach
1829: Birthdate of Vienna native Lazar
Schorstein, the son of Yitzhak Schorstein the husband of Clara Schorstein and
father of Bertha, Gustave and Therese Schorstein.
1830(30th of Nisan, 5590):
Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1834(14th of Nisan, 5594):
Ta’anit Bechorot; erev Pesach
1836: In Cincinnati, Alexander Lewis,
the Charleston born son of David and Rachel Benjamin Lewis and his wife Rebecca
Lewis suffered the tragedy of having a “stillborn” child today.
1837: In Charleston, SC, Henry Hyams,
the London born son of Rebecca Solomon M. Hyams and his wife Judith Hyams gave
birth to Isaac Robert Hyams, the “husband of Ella Rivers Hyams Lewis and the father
of Robert Portis Hyams; Nellie Hyams and Nancy Hyams.”
1840(20th of Nisan, 5600):
Sixth Day of Pesach
1843: Birthdate of Hungarian native of
Rabbi Sigmund Drechsler who was hired “at the salary of $1,000 per year” to
serve as the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun when it moved into
its new building in Cleveland, OH.
https://www.bnaijeshurun.org/about-us-our-congregation-our-history
1845(16th of Nisan 5606):
Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1845: Birthdate of Louis M. Ernst, the
husband of August Louis Ernst and the father of Milton and Irving Ernst
1848: In New York, Congregation B’nai
Israel moved from the old Shakespeare Hall at the corner of William and Duane
streets” to a building on Pearl Street.
1849(1st of Iyar, 5609):
Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1849: Noah Lodge No 1 of the
Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel which had been formed in January of
this year, held its eighth meeting today at which Mr. Stern and Mr. Buttenheim
to advance the organization the 25 dollars needed to buy “emblems for the grand
officers.”
1851(21st of Nisan, 5611):
Seventh Day of Pesach
1852: “Le Juif errant” premiered today
at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opera. “ Le
Juif errant (The Wandering Jew) is a grand opera by Fromental Halévy, with a
libretto by Eugène Scribe and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.” The opera
is based extremely loosely on themes of the novel “Le Juif errant” by Eugène
Sue. While the novel is set in 19th century Paris and the Wandering Jew is
incidental to the main story-line, the opera begins in Amsterdam in 1190 and
the Jew, Ahasvérus, is a leading character. The music was sufficiently popular
to generate a Wandering Jew Mazurka, a Wandering Jew Waltz, and a Wandering Jew
Polka.”
1853(15th of Kislev, 5613):
Pesach and Shabbat
1854: In New York, Abigail Kursheedt
and Asher Kursheedt gave birth Alphonse Hart Kursheedt.
1856: Morris Ehrlich, the President of
the Kane Street Synagogue “proferred a complaint against the Shames for
creating a disturbance in the Synagogue” which was found to be valid enough to
warrant a fine of $4.00 being levied against the worker.
1858: Birthdate of Max
Plank, German physicist and Nobel Prize Winner. During World War II,
Plank tried to convince Hitler to spare the lives of Jewish scientists.
His son was executed for his part in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler. Plank
passed away in 1947.
1859(19th of
Nisan, 5619): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1859: In Ploieşti,
Romania, house painter and
amateur artist, Moisi Şăineanu and his wife
gave birth to Lazăr Șăineanu who gained fame as Lazare Sainéan the French
philologist and cultural historian
1860: According “The
Extortions of Slavery” published today, Dr.
George B. Cheever delivered an anti-slavery speech last night at The Church of
the Puritans in which he compared slaveholders to the anti-Semitic King John of
England who “who, to extort money from a Jew, pulled a tooth every day from out
the Hebrew's head until he complied with his demands.”
1860: The Democratic National
Convention which former Congressman Henry Myer Phillips attended as a delegate
from Pennsylvania opened today.
1860(1st of
Iyar, 5620): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1860(1st of
Iyar, 5620): Eighty-nine-year-old Sarah Lopez Isaacs, the Newport, RI born
daughter and wife of Judah Myers passed away today in New York City.
1861: Major Alfred
Mordecai wrote an angry letter to Colonel Craig complaining that he had not had
any response to his request for a transfer.
Unbeknownst to Mordecai, Craig had been replaced as his superior.
Mordecai was a distinguished officer in the United States Army who was born in
the South. He was trying to gain a
transfer to a post in the West so he could stay in the army without having to
fight family and friends from the South.
1862: Birthdate of
Catonsville, MD native, financier Leo Henry Wise, a resident of New York City,
the husband of Sarah Winternitz Wise with whom he three children and chairman
of the board of American Colony Insurance Company and a director of United
States Fire Insurance Company
1864(17th of
Nisan, 5624): Third Day of Pesach; Shabbat Shel Pesach
1864: As Jews celebrate
their ancient liberation from bondage, in Louisiana, Union forces defeated the
Confederates at the Battle of Monett’s Ferry, an episode in the Red River
Campaign, part of Grant’s grand plan to defeat those who sought to destroy the
United States so they could continue owning their slaves.
1867(18th of
Nisan, 5627): Fourth Day of Pesach
1868: According to
today’s “Foreign News by Mail” column, when Ion Bratiano, Minister of State,
was asked a question about the present of the National Guard at Jassy
(Romania), he that “as long as the violent hatred against the Jews lasted he
would not furnish the enemies of the Jews with arms.” Bratino was a Rumanian
nationalist who worked to secure the establishment of an independent
Romania. He was the leader of the
liberal cabinet that would declare Romania’s independence in 1877. The conditions of Romania’s Jews did not
improve with independence.
1870: The remains of
Dr. George Frick who had passed away while visiting Berlin were interred in the
Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. Frick was the younger brother of the late Judge Frick.
1870(22nd of
Nisan, 5630): 8th day of Pesach
1871: Franz Joseph I of
Austria made Solomon Benedict de Worms the “1st Baron de Worms.”
1871: Derech Emunoh
consecrated its new synagogue today in what has been the chapel of New York
University. The congregation which has
been using a building on Greene Street leased its new facility. The service was led by Rabbi S.M. Isaacs.
1872(15th of Nisan,
5632): On the first day of Pesach, Rabbi Henry Vidaver delivered a sermon “on
the celebration of Passover” at B’Nai Jeshrum in New York City. Rabbi Vidaver was one of the contributors to
the “Abridged School and Family Bible in Hebrew & English.”
1873: In Mariampol,
Russia, Leah Puskelinsky and Pesach David Grunstein, gave birth to CCNY and
University of Pennsylvania graduate Julius H. Greenstone, the JTS ordained
rabbi and husband Carrie E. Amram who served as lecturer at Congregation Mickve
Israel in Philadelphia.
1874: As of today, the
Western Palestine survey led by Charles Francis Tyrwhitt-Drake had survey 3000
square miles.
1875(18th of
Nisan, 5635): Fourth Day of Pesach
1877: In Charkow,
Russia, Serebrin Genia and Aaron Goldenberg gave birth violinist Albert A.
Goldenberg, the husband of Rose Podal who in 1903 came to the United States
where he was a violin soloist with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and a
violin instructor in Brooklyn, NY
1878(20th of
Nisan, 5638) Sixth Day of Pesach.
1878: In New Orleans,
Rebecca (Kiefer) and Isidore Newman, the namesake of the Isidore Newman School
gave birth to Miriam Dorothy Newman who gained fame as multi-talented artist
Isadora Newman.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/newman-isadora
1879(30th of Nisan,
5639): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1879: In Charleston,
Rabbi David Levy presided over the wedding of Julian C. Levin and Lulie
Bringloe, the eldest daughter of Captain Samuel G. Bringloe.
1880 In San Francisco,
son of Rabbi Isaac S. Kallach “shot and killed Charle de Young who had written
“vociferously in the San Francsico Chronicle against the Rabbi.
1880: An article about
Benjamin Disraeli published today, that begins with “Lord Beaconsfield steps
down and at his advanced age it is not probable that he will ever again hold
the reins of power” traces the career of the British statesman that began fifty-four
years ago with the publication of “Vivian Gray” and includes such highlights as
the maneuvering which brought the Suez Canal under British control.” The article included the following, “Of
Semitic origin, his ideas, methods, and sentiments bore an Oriental
stamp.” His father may have taken
Disraeli to the baptismal font, but he was still “a Jew” to many of his
contemporaries.
1880(12th of
Iyar, 5640): Thirty-four-year-old San Francisco Chronicle editor-in-chief
Charles de Young the Natchitoches, LA born Miechel de Young and the former
Cornelia “Amelia” Morange and brother of
M.H. de Young was murdered today by
Isaac M. Kalloch, son of Isaac S. Kalloch, the Mayor of San Francisco, in
revenge for a feud Charles had with the mayor.[
1881: Birthdate of
Polish born Abraham Goldberg, the husband of Cleveland, OH resident Gittle
Kochman with whom he two children who went into the cloak manufacturing
businessman in Cleveland with Art Goble and less than two years later formed
Art Cloak Company with Max Epstein
1881: As of today, a
large number of Jews have arrived in Cincinnati for the upcoming dedication of
a new building at the Hebrew Union College.
1881: Samuel Alatri,
the Italian politician who led the Jewish Community of Rome, delivered "Discorso Pronunziato nella Scuola del Tempio”
today.
1882: A conference
designed to provide aid to the Jews of Russia was held today in Berlin. There were representatives from several
different countries including the United States and Great Britain which was
represented by Sr. Julian Goldsmid and Dr. Herrman Adler. In making plans for the future, the
conference assigned the Americans the responsibility for finding employment for
Russian immigrants going to the United States.
The Germans and British were given responsibility for raising additional
funds.
1882: It was reported
today, that as a result of a report issued by the Minister of Justice, the Czar
has ordered that the trials of all those accused “of outrages against the Jews”
be dealt with in a speedy manner.
1883(16th of
Nisan, 5643): Second Day of Pesach
1883: It was reported
today the biography of Dr. Barclay, the late Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem will
be published shortly. The book will
include significant information about the failure to convert Jews and Moslems.
1884: Birthdate of
Russian native Samuel Barnett, whose father was “engaged in the iron business
in Wooster, OH and who became a successful businessman in Cleveland who was the
husband of Saddie Friedman and a member of the Euclid Avenue Temple.
1888: In London, Henry
van den Bergh and Henriette Charlotte Spanjaard gave birth to
Colonel Donald Stanley
van den Bergh, JP, the husband of Norah Gilbert Van den Bergh and the husband
of Norah Gilbert Van den Bergh.
1888: Birthdate of
Polish native Abraham Tutelman Malmed, who in 1891 came to Philadelphia where
he attended Temple University and went into the business of manufacturing
cement.
1889(22nd of Nisan,
5649): 8th day of Pesach
1889: Birthdate of Chernihiv
native Orkeh Serebrenik who gained famed as Jewish American Yiddish poet Alter
Esselin.
https://www.best-poems.net/alter-esselin/poems/index.html#google_vignette
1889: Millionaire stockbroker,
Isidor Wormser, whose daughter is a Seligman by marriage, was so upset with the
comments that Rensselaer Bissell had made about him that he challenged him to a
fistfight outside of the NYSE after the exchange had closed. In the end, Bissell backed down, much to the
disappointment of his fellow brokers.
1890: “A Mighty Power”
by Frank Rothschild, Jr. had a pre-Broadway matinee performance at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre.
1890: Adolphus Leo Weil
and Cassie Ritter Weil gave birth to Princeton alum and University of
Pittsburgh trained attorney Ferdinand Theobald Weil, the older brother of
Adolphus Leo Weil.
1891(15th of
Nisan, 5651): Pesach
1891: Birthdate of
Ostrog, Russia native and WW I veteran William Alexander Perlzweig who came to
the U.S. In 1906 where he earned all three degrees at Columbia before pursuing
a career as a biochemist at Duke University.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/12/12/96488618.html?pageNumber=33
1891: An order
expelling the Jews from Moscow was published today.
1892: In Brooklyn,
Samuel and Pauline Boochever gave birth to Anna Boochever the graduate of New
York State College of Teachers who when she married Frederick S. DeBeer became
Anna DeBeer, an active member of the National Council of Jewish Women.
1893: Birthdate of New
York City native and Columbia trained educator Michael Kaplan, who served as a
principal in Brooklyn.
1893(7th of Iyar, 5653):
Marx Mordechai Pfaelzer, the son of Uri Feiss Pfaelzer and Fanny Pfaelzer, and husband
of Karoline / Gitel Pfaelzer passed away today.
1893: Rabbi Raphael
Benjamin was reported today as describing the blackballing of Theodore Seligman
by the Union League as “unmanly, un-American and un-Christian.” At the same time,
he took issued with those who “that this is only the beginning of a movement
against Jews” in New York City and saw “it only as a small remnant of the
ignorant prejudiced with once existed toward” Jews “and which, under the
enlightening influence of education is fast disappearing.”
1894(17th of
Nisan, 5654): Third Day of Pesach
1894: Hyman Blumenthal,
a Jewish peddler is being held in jail facing charges of arson for his role in
burning a tenement in New York City.
1894: “Lesson from the
Passover published today presented Dr. Joseph Silverman’s view of “Judaism as a
religion based on freedom” and that “a religion that would seek to subvert
American unity and establish a union of Church and State and subsidize itself
from the Public Treasury was nothing but organized treason.”
1894(17th of Nisan,
5654): American banker and philanthropist Jesse Seligman passed away today at
Coronado Beach CA. Born at Baiersdorf, Bavaria, on August 11, 1827, he followed his brothers to
the United States in 1841, and established himself at Clinton, Alabama. In 1848
he moved with his brothers to Watertown, N. Y., and then, with his brother
Leopold, went to San Francisco in the autumn of 1850, where he became a member
of the Vigilance Committee, as well as of the Howard Fire Company. He remained
in California until 1857, when he joined his brother in establishing a banking
business in New York. With his brother Joseph he helped to found the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum in 1859 and was connected with it till his death. At the time of
his death he was a trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund. He was a member of the
Union League Club, of which he was vice-president, and from which he resigned
in 1893 when the club for racial reasons refused to admit to membership his son
Theodore. He was head of the American Syndicate formed to place in the United
States the shares of the Panama Canal. He was also a friend and supporter of
President Grant whom he first met when the young army officer was stationed
near Watertown. In fact, Grant tried to
make him the first American Jew to serve in the Cabinet. (As reported in the
Jewish Encyclopedia and Dr. Jonathan Sarna)
http://www.fau.edu/library/brody33.htm
http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=184
1896, Herzl wrote in
his diaries of his arrival in Karlsruhe at Reverend William Hechler’s request.
“Arrived here at eleven last night. Hechler met me at the
station and took me to the Hotel Germania, which had been “recommended by the
Grand Duke.” We sat in the dining-room for an hour. I drank Bavarian beer,
Hechler milk. He told me what had happened. The Grand Duke had received him
immediately upon his arrival, but first wanted to wait for his
privy-councilor’s report on my Jewish State. Hechler showed the Grand Duke the
“prophetic tables” which seemed to make an impression. When the Kaiser arrived,
the Grand Duke immediately informed him of the matter. Hechler was invited to
the reception and to the surprise of the court-assembly the Kaiser addressed
him with the jocular words: “Hechler, I hear you wanted to become a minister of
the Jewish State.”
1896: A memorial honoring the late Jesse Seligman was unveiled this
afternoon at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on 138th Street and Amsterdam
Avenue
1896: The New York Section of the National Council of Jewish Women met in
vestry rooms of Temple Beth-El.
1896: The Times of London
reported today that Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria cut short his official to
Russia and left St. Petersburg for Paris so he could attend the funeral “of his
friend,” Baron Hirsch.
1897(21st of
Nisan, 5657): Seventh Day of Pesach
1897: As Jews munch on
their matzoth, Greek forces continue their withdrawal from the area around
Tyrnavos as they faced the larger, better organized units from the Ottoman
Empire was home to the large and ancient Jewish community of Thessalonika,
which would eventually come under Greek rule as the city of Salonika.
1898: The Alumni Association of the Hebrew Technical Institute hosted its
fifth annual reunion banquet at the Tuxedo
1898: Start of a two-day Preliminary conference
in Vienna prior to the second Zionist Congress. Representatives from Russia,
Austria and Germany all attended. It is decided to send Leo Motzkin to
Palestine to prepare a report. The congress will meet again in Basel,
Switzerland. As was befitting for liberal movement that would come to be
dominated by socialist idealist, the Zionist leaders decided that women would
be allowed to attend the Congress as voting delegates. In other words, Zionist
women had the vote two decades before women in the United States got the vote.
1898: Spain declared
war on the United States in response to the American blockade of Cuba which was
one of the official acts marking the start of the Spanish American War in which
5,000 Jewish volunteers would serve
1899: Herzl began the two day Bank
Conference in Köln with Wolffsohn and Heymann as he sought to develop his “top
down” concept of creating a Jewish home in Eretz Israel.
1899: The American
Hebrew League of Greater New York met in Brooklyn this evening.
1899: Dr. Felix Adler
is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Metropolitan Greatness of New York
and the Vast Moral Problems It Raises” at the Music Hall in New York City.
1899: Thanks to a
donation of $25,000 from Abraham Slimmer of Waverly, Iowa a permanent home for
the Chicago Home for Jewish Orphans was dedicated on a piece of land donated by
Henry Siegel and other members of the Windy City’s Jewish community.
1899: “Hebrew Technical
School” published today included a history of the Jewish school that included
among its graduates the architect William C. Sommerield and that after being open for only 15 years has
become so successful that it had turned away fifty applicants for lack of
space.
1900: In the Russian
Empire, Eva Kravitz and Mandel F. Polleya gave birth to Chicago resident
Maurice Manel Polleya, the husband of Anna Lesser with whom he had a daughter
and a son who is not to be confused with Rabbi Mandie Mordecai Polleya
1900: Birthdate of
Zhitomir, Russia native Samuel Lackman who in 1904 “migrated to Winnipeg” where
after enlisting in 1918 which led to his serving with the 39th Royal
Fusiliers who served in Palestine,
1900: The 27th
Convention of the District Grand Lodge No. 7 of B’nai Birth continued for a
second day in New Orleans.
1901: The New York
branch of the Alliance Israelite Universelle was reorganized under the direction
of M. Nissim Behar at a meeting held at Temple Emanu-El in where business was
conducted in English, Yiddish and German and Mr. Louis Marshall was elected
President while Henry Periera Mendes served as secretary.
1901: “Jewish Butchers’
Appeal” published today reported that “as soon as the New York State Senate
convened, Senator Elsberg introduced a bill amending the” recently enacted
“”O’Connell Law” which ordered all butcher shops to be closed on Sunday, so
that the law did not apply to people whose Sabbath is Saturday, because under
the O’Connell law Jewish butchers would have to remain closed from midnight
Friday until Midnight Sunday night.
1902(16th of
Nisan, 5662): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer.
1902(16th of
Nisan, 5652): In Detroit, “the cornerstone laying ceremony for the new
synagogue building of Temple Beth El” took place today.
1903: Herzl is received by Joseph Chamberlain, who just came back from Africa.
The Chamberlain-Herzl negotiations of the "Uganda scheme" are the
first recognition of the president of the Zionist Organization as representing
the Jewish people.
1903: Birthdate of Holocaust
victim Stephan Tandler
1903: During the
“Melvin Bellis Case” a report from the Kiev District Procurator, based on an
autopsy by a medical professor from Kiev University, intimated that Andrei
Yustchinski had been the victim of a ritual murder. “Years later, it would be learned that the
ministry of justice had slipped the doctor a four thousand ruble bribe.”
1904: In London Gladys
Helen Rachel Goldsmid and Louis Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling gave birth
to Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu “a
British filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis
player and apparent Soviet spy who “received
some credit for the development of a vibrant intellectual film culture in
Britain during the interwar years.” He
passed away in 1984.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/IvorGoldsmidMontagu.htm
1905(18th of
Nisan, 5665): Fourth Day of Pesach
1905: As unrest grips
the Russian empire, in Poland “special regulations have been instituted to keep
the army free from” the contamination of the Revolutionaries and “these have
been enforced in individual cases” which have been detected particularly among
Jews” who “have been severely punished.”
1906: “The Viennese
Zionists demanded” that Herr von Taussig, the banker who arranged for Austrian
participation in the loan to Russia to which many Austrian Jews are opposed, be
dismissed from his position as Vice President “of the Hebrew Community.
1907: Birthdate of
Cincinnati native and Ohio State University graduate Aron Max Mathieu the
author of “The Writer’s Market for 1940” and “The Creative Writer.”
1907: Columbia graduate
and NYU trained attorney Samuel Bookman, the New York City born son of Caroline Mayer and Jacob
Bookman who pursued a career as physiological chemist specializing in
toxicological and chemical investigations while being a member of Temple
Emanu-El married Olga Blum today.
1907: Birthdate of
Elizabeth “Lee” Miller the fashion model who during WW II became a war
correspondent and photographer who covered the “horrors of Buchenwald and
Dachau.” (She was not Jewish, but the photos were part of the creation of a
record of the Horrors of the Holocaust.)
1908: Birthdate of
Czech writer and diplomat Egon Hostovsky, a distant relative of Stefan Zweig,
most of whose immediate family perished in the Holocaust and who was
immortalized by the posthumous creation of the Egon Hostovsky Prize for
literature.
1908: In Cologne,
Germany, music critic Paul Hiller and his wife Sophie Lion gave birth to Erwin
Ottmar Hiller grandson of pianist Ferdinand Hiller, who gained fame as
Holocaust survivor and actor Marcel Hillaire, whose most memorable for me was
as the French Chef in the marvelous comedy “Sabrina.”
1908: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native and Pratt Institute trained animator , Myron Waldman, the
husband of animator Rosalie Waldman with he had two sons – Robert and Steve –
and WW II Army veteran “best known for his work at Fleischer Studios” where “he
worked on Betty Boop, Raggedy Ann, Gulliver's Travels, the animated adaptations
of Superman, and Popeye” before moving on to Famous Studios where “he worked
mostly on the Casper the Friendly Ghost series.
1909: “The Bronx
Aroused” published today described Jewish opposition to taking land from
Crotona Park to build an armory and plans to hold a protest meeting under the
leadership of the Free Sons of Israel.
1910: Birthdate of
Martin Roman, the German jazz pianist who played with the Marek Weber Band and
was shipped to Theresienstadt in 1944.
1910(14th of Nisan,
5670): On Shabbat HaGadol, Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon at Temple
Emanu-El in which his he praised Mayor Gaynor for this letter to Reverend
Chalmers refusing him a license to preach on the street corners of the East
Side with the aim of converting Jews to Christianity.
1910(14th of Nisan,
5670): “Passover Begins To-Night” published today states that “"Pesach,"
the Hebrew festival of the Passover, one of the most important festivals of the
Jewish calendar, will begin at sunset this evening, which is the fourteenth day
of the month of Nison. This festival was ordained to celebrate the deliverance
of the children of Israel from their long captivity in Egypt and their
departure from the house of bondage on the way through the wilderness to the
promised land of Canaan.”
1910 (14th of Nisan,
5670): A Seder will be held tonight on Ellis Island for the Jewish immigrants
who have not been given permission to enter the United States.
1910: Clarence Charles
Minzesheimer, head of the banking and brokerage house Charles Minzesheimr &
Co had his appendix removed after suffering an attack of appendicitis.
1911: It was reported
today that Max Kohler the former United States District Attorney “who is now a
member of the Advisory
Board of the Jewish
Immigrant Aid Society” said the trouble immigrants have in entering the United
States lies not with Secretary Nagel and Assistant Secretary Nagel Cable in
Washington who are disposed to be fair but with “the policies of Commissioner of Williams”
who “ever since he has entered the department has been a law until himself and
not with Secretary Nagel and Assistant Secretary Nagel Cable in Washington who
are disposed to be fair and that the deportation rate of Russian Jews arriving
at Ellis Island is ten times greater than that of other aliens.
1911: In Marseille, Erma
Maria Domenica Giorcelli and “Henri Louis Firmin Champmoynat, a French Jewish
engineer, airplane pilot in World War II, who died in a concentration camp”
gave birth to French movie star Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon.
1912: In London, Helena
Rubenstein and Edward William Titus gave birth to their younger son Horace
Titus.
1913(16th of
Nisan, 5673): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer
1913: Max Moses
Friediger, the chief rabbi in Copenhagen who was the Budapest born son of
Leopold Lipot Friediger and Betti Bertha Friediger and his wife Fanny Friediger
gave birth to Charlotte “Lotte” Jacoby, the wife of Erich Hellmuth Jacoby and
the mother of Evelyn Jacoby.
1913: George Washington
Ochs-Oakes, the son of Julius and Bertha Ochs, and his wife Bertie gave birth
to John Bertram Oakes, a creative pillar of the New York Times whose
accomplishments are beyond the scope of this blog. (As reported by Robert D.
McFadden
1914: Birthdate of
Harry Kravitsky, the Brooklyn native who
as Harry Crane went from Borscht Belt comic to screenwriter for
Hollywood films and television for which he created the “Honeymooners.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/20/arts/harry-crane-85-who-helped-create-the-honeymooners.html
1914: Justice Ben Bill
of the Georgia State Supreme Court heard the appeal of Leo Frank today.
1915: It was reported
today that “Hermann Laundau, a prominent Jewish philanthropist associated with
various Jewish charities in London” has said that “seven million Poles, of whom
2,000,000 are Jews are in dire need of food” and that “the Jews are even poorer
than the Gentiles, because of the boycott against the Jews in parts of Poland
before the beginning of the war, which impoverished thousands who otherwise
would have been able to provide for their families.”
1915: Three years after
its founding, the second annual convention of the Mizrahi of America opened its
second annual convention in New York City.
1915: Rupert Brooke, a
young scholar and poet serving as an officer in the British Royal Navy” whom
Alexander Aciman called his “Favorite Anti-Semite” “died of blood poisoning on
a hospital ship anchored off the Greek island of Skyros, while awaiting
deployment in the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/230744/rupert-brooke-my-favorite-anti-semite
1916(20th of
Nisan, 5676): Sixth Day of Pesach
1916: “Nathan Straus
greeted thousands of Jewish children” in New York this morning “at the Passover
gatherings of Young Judea” where “he urged them to remain true to the
traditions of their people and said they might well be proud of being young
Zionists.”
1916: “Henry
Morgenthau, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, was the guest of honor this
afternoon at the Fifth Annual Convention of the Federation of Oriental Jews in
American” at P.S. No. 91 where he said, “that his career had been started in a
public school and that a similar chance in life could be the reward for anyone
who was willing to make the effort.”
1917: It was reported
today that Louis Marshall has described the formation of The League of Jewish
Youth of America as “the protest of the young Jews and Jewesses against the
deadly tendency to drift hopelessly on arctic sea” and as “the expression of their
desire to affect a stable and dignified adjustment of ancient Jewish idealism
to perfect American citizenship.”
1917: A cable received
from the Petrograd correspondent of the Jewish Daily Forward in New York today
described “how the Jews of Russia are aiding the new Government in its effort
to bring order out of chaos and successfully prosecute the war against Germany.”
1917: Zangwill Back To
Zionism” published today described the return of Israel Zangwill to the Zionist
Movement from which he has been estranged since 1905 when the others sought to
find other places for a Jewish Home” including land in Africa which was part of
the British Empire.
1917: “A stormy
controversy over the question of woman suffrage sprang up at the assembly of
the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis at Temple Emanu-El” today with “Dr.
Stephen S. Wise threatening to resign from the council because of the in which
the President, Dr. Joseph Silverman, opposed any attempt to present the
suffrage issue to consideration of the assembled rabbis.”
1918: Dr. Alexander
Dushkin announced today that 3,700 new members have joined “the Jewish
Community” which has its headquarters on Second Avenue and has been conducting
a membership drive that has “included Jews of all classes” in New York City.
1918: In New York,
Regina and Nisim Yeuda Levy gave birth to World War II veteran Louis N. Levy,
the husband of Rena Dweck and a leader in the Sephardic community in the United
States.
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/Louis-Levy.html
1918: In Paris, “Lazare
Kessel, a promising actor of Jewish Russian descent who committed suicide” and
his wife gave birth to author Maurice Druon who along with his Uncle Joseph
Kessel wrote the lyrics “to the unofficial anthem of the French Resistance” in
1943.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/16/maurice-druon-obituary
1919: The funeral for
one year old Pearl Gerber, the daughter of Edward and Rose E. Gerber was held
today in Chicago.
1920: Political change
comes to the Ottoman Empire as the national council denounces Sultan
Mehmed VI and The
Grand National Assembly of Turkey is formed.
These events are steps down the road to the dismemberment of the Ottoman
Empire and the creation of modern-day Turkey. The end of the Ottoman Empire was
a critical factor in the creation of a Jewish Homeland that led to the state of
Israel. But this dismemberment has been
a critical factor that haunts the Middle East to this day.
1920(5th of Iyar, 5680): Isaac Gause
passed away. Born in 1843 in Ohio, he
was a corporal in the 2nd Ohio
Cavalry (USA) Army who won the Medal of Honor for Valor displayed at
Berryville, VA, in September of 1864.
1921(15th of Nisan, 5681):
First Day of Pesach
1921: In their Passover sermons given
today, Rabbis “discussed recent (negative) reports made to the State Department
concerning the restriction of Jewish, Armenian and Persian immigrants.
1921(15th of Nisan, 5681): Seventy-three-year-old
Israel Zeitoun, “the chief rabbi and president of the Rabbinical Court in
Tunis” passed away today.
http://dbs.bh.org.il/image/rabbi-israel-zeitoun-chief-rabbi-of-tunisia-1917-1921
http://dbs.bh.org.il/image/rabbi-israel-zeitoun-chief-rabbi-of-tunisia-1917-1921
1921: In his sermon today, Rabbi Samuel
Schulman of Temple Beth-El said “that he regretted that this country was
departing from its sacred heritage under which all oppressed people were
invited here to enjoy the gifts of liberty and wondered whether if it was
because the Jews were victims of fierce attacks abroad that the gates of this
country were being closed to them.”
1921: In his sermon today, Rabbi
Herbert S. Goldstine of the Institutional Synagogue “demanded that that the man
in the State Department who wrote the insidious libel again the Jewry of
Europe…be forthwith dismissed from government service.
1921: Gambler Nick Arenstein and
comedic actress Fannie Brice gave birth to abstract painter William Brice.
http://www.lalouver.com/resource/brice_bio/brice_obituary.pdf
1921: In his
sermon today, Dr. Maurice H. Harris at Temple Israel of Harlem “said that he
was relieved to learn that Secretary o State Hughes was not the person who made
the statement concerning the Jews and deplored the fact that the country was
about to close its doors to refugees from other lands.”
1922: The Paterson Jewish Singing
Society and a symphony orchestra conducted by Arnold Volpe provided the
entertainment at “the 25th anniversary of the Jewish Daily Forward
which was celebrated this afternoon with a great mass meeting at the
Hippodrome” where Abraham Cahan, the founder and editor of The Forward
“received an ovation when he arose to speak which lasted several minutes.”
1923(7th of
Iya, 5683): Fifty-six-year-old Chicago resident A.B. Seelenfreund, the
secretary of B’nai B’rith passed away today without warning in Memphis, TN.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/04/24/105858972.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1923: Birthdate of dancer
Melissa Hayden
1923: Birthdate of
Avram Davidson. Born in Yonkers, NY, educated at NYU, Yeshiva U and Pierce
College, he spent a year in the Israeli Amy during the Arab-Israeli War of
1948-49. His first sale was to Orthodox Jewish Life Magazine eight years before
he broke into the genre. Originally an observant Orthodox Jew. Converted to
Tenrikyo in 1970, after which he spent time in Japan, studied the religion
intensely, and translated some texts into English. He was a writer of fantasy fiction,
science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many
unclassifiable but unforgettable
stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and was three-time
winner of the World Fantasy Award in the science fiction and fantasy genre, and
a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
from 1962 to 1964. He passed away in 1993.
1924: In Columbia, South Carolina dress
shop manager Mordecai Moses Donen and Helen Cohen, the daughter of a jewelry
salesman gave birth to director and choreographer best known for “Singing’ In
the Rain” and “On the Town.”
1925: Birthdate of Berlin native
Hildegard Losten, the wife of Kurt Losten who were the inspiration for The Kurt
and Hildegard Löwenstein / Losten Foundation.
https://www.loewenstein-losten-stiftung.de/en/home
1925: After divorcing Blanche Lasky,
the sister of Jesse Lasky in 1915 today movie mogul Sam Goldwyn married Frances
Howard “to whom he remained married for the rest of his life” and with whom he
shared a so Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
1926: “Torments of the Night,” a silent
film directed by Curtis Bernhardt who wrote
the script with fellow co-religionist Carl Zuckmayer was released today
in Germany.
1926: Sixty-eight-year-old Joseph
Pennell, the artist and author whose works included The Jew at Home:
Impressions of a Summer and Autumn Spent With Him passed away
https://archive.org/details/jewathomeimpress00pennrich
1927(21st of Nisan, 5687):
Shabbat Shel Pesach
1928: “The Plastic Age” produced by
B.P. Schulberg which would gain the attention of Adolph Zukor, the CEO of
Paramount, was released today in Finland.
1928: “Here's Howe is a musical in two
acts with music by Roger Wolfe Kahn and Joseph Meyer and lyrics by Irving
Caesar” “premiered at the Shubert Theatre in Boston today for a week of tryout
performances
1929: In Pairs, Frederick Steiner, a
senior lawyer in the Austrian Central Bank and Else Steiner, “a Viennese Grande
Dame” gave birth to Francis George Steiner “French-born American literary
critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator” whose works include Portage to San Cristobal
of A.H., in which Jewish Nazi hunters find Adolf Hitler (the "A.H." of
the novella's title) alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of
World War II
1930: In New York City,
stockbroker Louis E. Oppenheimer and his wife Irene (née Rothschild)
Oppenheimer gave birth to Alan Oppenheimer who had a long list of movie and
television credits to his name including the role of Dr. Rudy Wells in the “Six
Million Dollar Man.”
1930: In Brooklyn,
attorney Louis Cohen and his wife gave birth to Arthur George Cohen “who began
a roller-coaster real estate career with a $25,000 investment in tract housing
on Long Island before creating the nation’s largest publicly held real estate
company, teaming up with tycoons like Aristotle Onassis to build trophy
Manhattan skyscrapers…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1931: Brooklyn born
Jewish bullfighter Sidney Franklin “sailed on the steamer Emanuel Calbo for
Barcelona, Spain today after receiving “from Bernard Sandler, representing the
Jewish Theatrical Guild, a charm to wear in his tunic while fighting.”
1932(17th of
Nisan, 5692): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1932: It was reported
today that Mortimer Brenner, the president of the United Jewish Aid Societies
of Brooklyn was among the “directors of ten family welfare agencies who
petitioned the Board of Estimate to give immediate and serious consideration to
the problem of relieving the destitute” because of the critical situation
confronting New York City through the early exhaustion of relief funds.
1932: It was reported
today that “there was a heated moment in the House of Commons on April 22nd
when Colonel Josiah Wedgwood accused the British officials in Palestine of
criticizing, cramping and disappointing the Jews and administering pinpricks.”
1933: “A conference of
executive directors of Y.M.H.A.’s, Y.W H.A’s and Jewish Community Centers” is
which is considering “an evaluation of present membership policies, news
systems of membership and other measures that will build up memberships in
Jewish centers scheduled to continue for a second day at the 92nd
Street Y.
1933: “The Empress and
I” a musical comedy directed by Friederich Hollanender “who had to leave
Germany because of his German descent” was released in his native land today.
1934: Abraham Stavsky,
Zvi Rosenblatt and Abba Achimeyer went on trial for the murder of Dr. Chaim
Arlosoroff today in Jerusalem.
1935: According to an
announcement made today by Dr. Gross, the head “of the Nazi party’s race
bureau” “the exclusion of Jewish children from public schools in Germany and
their transfer to special Jewish schools is the next point in the government’s
program for dealing with German Jews.”
1935: In Brooklyn,
homemaker Ida Silverstein and newspaper truck driver Sam Silverstein gave birth
to State University of New York at New Paltz graduate and holder of a Ph.D. in
social psychology from Rutgers, Dr. Charles Silverstein, co-author of The Joy
of Gay Sex who “at the forefront in persuading the American Psychiatric
Association to reassess its classification of homosexuality as a mental
disorder.” (As reported by Neil Genzliger)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/health/charles-silverstein-dead.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/02/07/charles-silverstein-gay-rights-dead/
1936(1st of Iyar,
5696): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1936: Isaac Ben Zvi,
representing Vaad Leumi (the Palestine Jewish National council) and Rabbi Moses
Blau of Agudath Israel call on Jon Hall, Chief Secretary of the Palestine
Government and asked him to prevent Arabs living in surrounding villages from coming
to Jerusalem tomorrow. The villagers are
coming in response to a call from the Mufit of Jerusalem. The fears of the Jewish leaders are based on
the current climate of violence in Palestine and the fact that the current
conditions remind one of conditions that resulted in the violent Arab riots in
August of 1929. As if to underscore
their concerns, reports have surfaced in Jerusalem that the “private offices of
the May of Tel Aviv…were plundered in Jaffa this afternoon.”
1936: “A meter which
measures the electric voltage of nervous shocks in humans “which was developed
by Dr. Edmund Jacobson, Assistant Professor Physiology at the University of
Chicago” was demonstrated tonight to scientists arriving in Evanston for the convention
of the Midwestern Psychological Association.
1936: John Hathorn
Hall, Chief Secretary of the Palestine Government refused the request of Isaac
Ben Zvi of the Vaad Leumi (the Palestine Jewish National Council) and Rabbi
Moses Blau of Agudath Israel to prevents villages from coming into Jerusalem
tomorrow because “they were coming for religious purposes.” Blau responded, “That is the same reply I
received from the High Commissioner Luke in 1929 just before the big massacre
of Jews began.”
1936: In Massachusetts,
“Alexander Lincoln, president of the Sentinels of the Republic, whose recently
voiced belief that ‘the Jewish threat is a real one,’ cause a storm of protest,
resigned from the State Board of Tax appeals today” at the same time that
Governor Curley was trying to oust from the postion.
1936: Governor James
Michael Curley announced today that he would appoint Abraham Webber, a leader
in the Jewish community to serve as a Public Utility Commissioner.
1936: “Travelers
returning from Poland” brought “reports of pogroms and persecution in the
larger cities” and described the “state of affairs” under which the Jews are
living as “pitiable.”
1936: The Jewish
Telegraph Agency “said that thirty persons had been killed in the four days of
Arab-Jewish clashes” and approximately 190 more had been wounded.
1936: “David Ben
Gurion, Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine spoke by
telephone from Jerusalem with American Jewish leaders today and said that the
Jewish community in Palestine would not be dissuaded from their “work of
rebuilding the country” because of the current violence.
1937: It was reported
today that David Simonsen of Copenhagen has bequeathed his library of Jewish
books which contains nearly 100,000 volumes to the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
1937(12th of
Iyar, 5697): Sixty-six-year-old Austrian obstetrician and gynecologist, Josef
van Halban, the son of Philipp and Anna Sara Hinda Halban and the husband of opera singer Selma von
Halban passed away today in Vienna.
1938(22nd of
Nisan, 5698): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1938: Rabbi Samuel H.
Goldenson is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Jews by Birth and Jews by
Belief” at Temple Emanu-El.
1938: Rabbi William F.
Rosenblum is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “One Third of the Nation and the
Other Two Thirds” at Temple Israel.
1938: Rabbi Alexander
Segel is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Four Parties in Israel at the
Red Sea” today at the Fort Washington Synagogue.
1938 Jews in Vienna,
Austria, were rounded up on the Sabbath by Nazis and forced to eat grass at the
Prater, a local amusement park. Many of the victimized Jews suffered heart
attacks and a few died.
1938: “In the Groove,”
a satirical musical revue” with a book co-authored by Mortimer Cohen is
scheduled to the last time at the Pauline Edwards Theatre of the City College
of Business and Civic Administration.
1939: The police
arrested 218 more illegal immigrants near Jaffa early this morning. The group that included fifty women and ten
children had been put ashore by a Greek ship near Ashkelon. The British forces found them wandering in
the dunes. They were taken to holding
camps in Jaffa. Along the way, the
convoy passed several Jewish settlements where the residents cheered these
latest escapees from Hitler’s Europe.
1940(15th of
Nisan, 5700): Pesach
1940: The Chief of
Naval Operations “publicly stated that Admiral Joseph Taussig’s views” on the
inevitably of war between Japan and the United States if present trends
continue “were contrary to the Navy Department’s and today issued a reprimand
that was placed in Taussig’s file.”
1940: The Nazis ordered
the Jews to jump in cesspool at the Stutthof Labor Camp. The short ones
drowned.
1941: Today in his
first starting assignment for the Cardinals, Samuel
Ralph "Subway Sam" Nahem the son of Jacob and Esther Nahem,
immigrants from Aleppo, Syria “pitched a three-hitter, beating the
Pittsburgh Pirates 3 to 1, striking out three and giving up only one walk.’
1941: Eighty-year-old
Davenport, IA native Charles Edward Russell the
author of Haym Salomon and the Revolution and a leading supporter of the
creation of a Jewish state in Palestine passed away today in Washington, D.C.
1942: During
the German occupation in France, the Nazis are scheduled to execute eighty
hostages in Rouen today and deport another one thousand to “labor camps in the
East” if the saboteurs responsible for wrecking a German troop train are not
turned over to authorities.
1942: Judge Jonah J.
Goldstein of the Court of General Sessions and Bertram Jacobson, the European
representative of the Joint Distribution Committee are scheduled to address the
annual dinner of the real estate and allied trades division of the UJA which is
being held at the Harmonie Club.
1943(18th of
Nisan,5703): Fourth Day of Pesach
1943(18th of
Nisan, 5703): Saartje Polak de Beer and Wed. E. Polake de Levie, two sixty-year-olds
from Goor were murdered at Sobibor today.
1943(18th of
Nisan, 5703): Seventy-seven-year-old Alexander Gotthold Ephraim Freud passed
1943: “Clancy Street
Boys” a Bowery Boys comedy produced by Sam Katzman and Jack Dietz was released
in the United States today.
1943: Much to
everybody's surprise, the Warsaw Uprising continues even though supplies and
weapons are at the bare minimum. By now the Poles know what is going
on. They watch, but they offer no aid. The Polish underground will
suffer a similar fate in 1945. Then they will rise up against the Nazis,
but the Soviet troops wait outside the city giving the Germans to wipe the
predominately non-Communist part of the resistance movement. As somebody
once said, as you treat your Jews, so shall you be treated.
1944: “Following the
German occupation of Hungary,” today, the
Portuguese ruler António de Oliveira Salazar decided to order his ambassador to
return to Lisbon and leave Teixeira Branquinho, as the chargé d'affaires, in his place – a
move which made it possible for the courageous Branquinho to save at least a
thousand Jews from the Nazis and their Hungarian allies.
1944: Otto Armster, a
German military intelligence officer who was part of the plot to kill Hitler
was arrested by the Gestapo today where he was taken Berlin and placed in
solitary confinement.
1944: Senator Guy
Gillette of Iowa was among those scheduled to at tonight’s dinner in Boston
where a “colony bearing the name of Commonwealth Massachusetts” which is in
fact a“tract of about 1,320 acres that has been acquired in Palestine by the
Jewish National Fund of New England for the settlement of 600 Jewish families”
facing death in Hungary and Rumania” was dedicated.
1945: Units from the
U.S Army’s 2nd Cavalry Group, Mechanized, the 90th Infantry Division and the
97th Infantry Division which included Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Anthony Hecht,
the New York City born son of German-Jewish parents, liberated Flossenburg
Concentration Camp today where they found 1,600 survivors including Czech
journalist Josef Taussig in a place where at one time the Nazis had murdered
30,000 inmates.
1945:” Twenty-year old
Army medic Anthony Acevdo” who had been captured on January 6, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge after which he
was shipped to Berga with “350 Jews and other undesirables and who had been
keeping a secret diary describing the Nazi atrocities since March 25, was freed
today.
1945: As Nazi power
crumbled Deutsche Lufthansa’s last flight departed from Berlin’s Tempelhoff
bound for Madrid which it would never reach because the Allies shot it down.
1946(22nd of
Nisan, 5706): Eighth Day of Pesach
1946: Forces of the
Irgun including Dov Bel Gruner attacked the police station in Ramat Gan. Two policemen were killed and Gruner, who was
wounded in the attack, was taken prisoner.
1946(22nd of
Nisan, 5706): Seventy-nine-year-old journalist and Jewish labor movement leader
Bernard Weinstein, the Odessa born son David Wittie Lippman Weinstein, and the
husband of the former Annie Freeman passed away today at his home in the Bronx.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/04/26/88355625.html?pageNumber=21
1946: Birthdate of
Detroit native Jackie Kaplan who gained fame as Jackie Kallen “one of boxing's
first and most successful female managers whose life was the inspiration for
the 2004 film “Against the Ropes” and who managed champion James Toney
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jackie-kallen#google_vignette
1947: The trial of Hans
Biebow “the chief of German Nazi administration of the Łódź Ghetto in occupied
Poland” began today.
1948(14th of Nisan,
5708): Erev Pesach the rations given out in Jerusalem for the observance of Passover
included 2 lbs. of potatoes, ½ lb of fish, 4 lb. of matzo, 1 ½ oz. dried fruit,
½ lb. meat, and ½ lb. of matzo flour. As one who was there later wrote, “For
the trapped citizens of Jerusalem, who had become accustomed to privation, the
Passover provisions seemed like a banquet. However, for the citizens of
Jerusalem, it was not a particularly merry affair. On the verge of their
national freedom, the inhabitants of Jerusalem sat somberly around their
tables. This was the first time since the nightly shellings that the city's
citizens had come together in assembly in the various homes throughout the city
that had been the dream of two thousand years' Seders. Tonight is a holiday,
but tomorrow the struggle will go on. As they sat to begin the Seder, they
heard the beginning of the snipers bullets looking for a straggler in the
streets. But tonight was different. As they opened the door, as they had done for
scores of generations, to welcome in Elijah, there was no fear. Tonight is a
night of divine protection. As the Holy One protected the Jews in Egypt, so
shall he protect us here in the war torn city of Jerusalem. "Once we were
slaves, but today we are free men" recited in the Haggadah, took on new
meaning. The British are leaving, the Arabs are attacking, and we are beginning
our new national lives as free men in our own country. "Next year in
Jerusalem" had a meaning that we never before understood. We meant it; we
would not relinquish our dream to return to our homeland, to the city that has
been in our hearts throughout the two thousand year exile. Now we are free men,
tomorrow we must continue the fight to remain free.
1948: Corporal David
Hyman Rubenstein the 19th Milford, Massachusetts man to lose his life in World
War II was buried at Beth Israel Cemetery in Everett, with full
military honors. “Milford’s Fallen Family” of that war would come to total 55.
Rubenstein was killed in action, in France, on July 4, 1944. Weeks after his
death, his last letter arrived home. Written on June 28 from a fox hole, it described
the “carnage about him ... as a slaughterhouse.”
1948: The port of Haifa was captured by
elements of the Israeli Carmeli Brigade.
On April 21, the general commanding British forces in Haifa announced
that he was withdrawing his forces in 24 hours.
This announcement resulted in an outbreak of fighting between Jewish and
Arab forces. Unfortunately for the
Arabs, their three to leaders fled at the outbreak of the fighting,
demoralizing the population. The British
general lost his bet that neither side would win as the outnumbered members of
the Haganah took control. Despite
efforts of the Jewish leaders to convince them to remain, most of the city’s
Arab population
left for Lebanon or Nazareth. . Today, Haifa is a thriving and diverse cultural
and ethnic center, home to Jews, Arabs, and Druze, and marked for its high
level of coexistence. It is this level
of harmony that has made Haifa a target for terrorist bombings in the latest
wave of Arab violence.
1949: Israeli president Chaim Weizman
is scheduled to attend a dinner in New York which will be attended by a party
of 12 including his wife.
1949(24th of Nisan, 5709):
Parashat Shmini
1949(24th of Nisan, 5709): Sixty-two-year-old
Columbia trained statistician William Morris Feigenbaum, the Antwerp, Belgium
born son of Benjamin Feigenbaum, husband of Margaret Feigenbaum and father of
Thomas B Feigenbaum who a Socialist political leader and “associated editor of The New Leader” passed away today.
1950: St. Louis Browns pitcher Sid
Schacht made his major league baseball debut.
1950: Correspondent Gene Currivan
evaluated Israel’s chances for survival and offered an explanation for her
success against her more powerful Arab neighbors in an article published today
entitled “Mid-East Peace Nearer Despite Arab Gestures.” He points out that the Arab League’s failure
to provide a common front was but one of the many problems facing the
Arabs. “At the outset of the Israel-Arab
war, when the Arabs spoke of 40,000,000 Arabs banding together against Israel,
they were thinking in terms of Moslems, but the Moslems of Saudi Arabia, Iran
and Afghanistan could not have cared less…When those who did enter the war sat
back and licked their wounds, they probably wonder what all the shouting had
been about. The war was started by the
Arabs in defiance of the United Nations’ partition plan which they had refused
to accept…The Arabs made a grave mistake…but they are reluctant to forgive and
forget.”
1950: Israel continued
to celebrate its second year of independence as Dr. Weizmann receives
congratulatory visits by foreign dignitaries lead by U.S. Ambassador James G
MacDonald.
1951(17th of
Nisan, 5711): Third Day of Pesach
1951: Today, “in a
statement released through the United Jewish Appeal of Greater” Ambassador Abba
S. Eban “emphasized that his nation’s interest would be effectively served if
American Jews ‘contribute greater sums than ever before to the UJA and also invest
the maximum possible amount in Israel through the purchase of bonds.’”
1952: In Tel Aviv, “The
Barton Company will manufacture chocolate novelties and specialties in Israel
for sale in its fifty-two shops in New York, Detroit and Newark, Stephen Klein,
president of the American chocolate manufacturing concern, said tonight before
his return to the United States” and ee said he expected sales to total
$100,000 in the first year.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the "past seven days was the bloodiest week along Israeli
borders for a long time." Two Israelis were murdered at Mevuot Betar, the
marauders were active in the South, in Galilee and Jerusalem. There was a
general outcry when General Bennet L. de Ridder, the U.N. Chairman of the
Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission refused to comply with the Israeli
request to call an emergency meeting of the Commission to discuss the latest
developments and, in particular, the murder of Zvi Genauer and his niece,
Dvora, in Jerusalem. This incomprehensible U.N. decision was taken despite the
fact that the tracks of the three marauders, responsible for this murder, were
discovered by an U.N. observer and an Israeli officer who noted that they led
to the Jordanian-occupied village of Beit Iksa. The General claimed that it was
not the duty of his Commission to deal with incidents "of this type."
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel's three-years-long land survey, conducted by the Ministry
of Agriculture, was almost completed.
1954(20th of
Nisan, 5714): Sixth Day of Pesach
1954: Jockey William
Harmatz rode six consecutive winners “at Bay Meadows Racetrack.”
1954: Cincinnati
pitcher Moe Savransky made his major league baseball debut.
1955: In New York,
Robert and Patricia Mozer gave birth to Paul William Mozer, the Salomon
Brothers employee who “played a pivotal role in a bond scandal.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/25/business/it-isn-t-the-paul-mozer-they-knew.html
1955(1st of
Iyar, 5715): Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1955(1st of
Iyar, 5715): Three days before her 51st birthday, Marion Elkus
Kohlman passed away after which she was buried at the Springhill Avenue Temple
Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama.
1955: Final performance
of “The Dark Is Light Enough” featuring Marian Winters as “Gelda.”
1956: For the third
time, Sigmund Freud is featured on the cover of Time magazine.
1957(22nd of Nisan,
5717): 8th day of Pesach
1957(22nd of Nisan,
5717): Lucille Frank, the widow of Leo Frank, passed away, a victim of heart
disease.
1958(3rd of Iyar,
5718): Yom HaZikaron
1958: Birthdate of Radu
Mihăileanu, the native of Bucharest who moved to Paris in 1989 where he gained
fame as a film director and screenwriter.
1958: The first
production of “J.B.” a play written in free verse which is a modern retelling
of the story of the biblical figure Job opened today at Yale University.
1958: “Expresso Bongo,”
a musical with a book co-authored by Wolf Mankowitz and music by Monty Norman
opened for the first time at the Saville Theatre in London today.
1958: San Francisco
Giants outfielder Don Taussig appeared in his first major league baseball game.
1959(15th of
Nisan, 5719): Pesach
1959: “The relation of
Passover, also known as the “Festival of Freedom and the “Feast of Unleavened
Bread” to the present-day struggle for freedom was today in synagogue services
on the first day of Pesach.
1960(26th of
Nisan, 5720): Parashat Shmini
1960(26th of
Nisan, 5720): Sixty-five-year-old Abraham Samuel Samuels, the native of Woltzin,
Poland who came to the United States in 1922 where he served as Rabbi in
Elmira, NY and was active in a number of Jewish organizations including the
United Charities for Palestine passed away today.
1960: In Shaker
Heights, Raphael Silver and Joan Micklin Silver, both of whom were directors,
gave birth to Marisa Silver, an American author, screenwriter and film
director. She is a second-generation film director.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/23/1960/birth-of-writer-marisa-silver
1961: Judy Garland, two
of whose five husbands were Jewish and who was re-interred at Beth Olam
Cemetery performed at Carnegie Hall today.
1962: A Labor
Department spokesman said today that Secretary of labor Arthur J Goldberg” had
left on April 22 “to spend a week vacationing in Florida.”
1962: “M'hammed Yazid,
Algerian nationalist Minister of Information, denied tonight that Mohammed Ben
Bella, Vice Premier in the Provisional Government, had ever promised that
Algeria would send 100,000 soldiers to fight against Israel.”
1963(29th of Nisan,
5723): Seventy-eight-year-old Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, third President of
Israel passed away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ben-zvi.html
1963: Kadish Luz was
named interim President of Israel.
1964(11th of
Iyar, 5724): Seventy-seven-year-old Vienna born economist and WW I veteran of
the Austrian Army Karly Polanyi, the author of the Great Transformation and
husband of the former Illona Duczynska, the Hungarian author and translator
with whom he raised Canadian economist Kari Polanyi Levitt, passed away today
in Ontario.
1965(21st of
Nisan, 5725): Seventh Day of Pesach
1965: It was reported
today that “an unidentified Jewish couple left the Mexican Government two old masters” –
“Portraits of a Man” by Franz Hals and “The Man in the Fur Coat” – “with an
estimated value of one million dollars in gratitude for the haven they found in
Mexico when they fled from Austria in the 1930’s.”
1966(3rd of
Iyar, 5726): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1966(3rd of
Iyar, 5726): Eighty-one-year-old Gertrude D.H. Perlman “a lawyer for more than
fifty years and an attorney with the New York State Mortgage Commission” who
was the widow of Max Perlman passed away today.
1968: “I’m Solomon,” an
Ernest Gold musical opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre which was
opened and operated by Max and Stanley Stahl. today.
1969(5th of
Iyar, 5729): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1969(5th of
Iyar, 5729): Eighty-three-year-old San Francisco architect Albert Gustave
Landsburg the son of Rebecca and Simon Lazarus Landsburg passed away today.
http://www.jmaw.org/lansburgh-jewish-san-francisco/
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3n39n6xr/entire_text/
http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/123/
1969: It was reported
today that the ADL has “elected Samuel Dalsimer, advertising executive of New
York City, as its national chairman” succeeding playwright and producer Dore Schary.
1969: “The officially
cool relations between Israel and France were reflected in the failure today of
the Israeli Embassy to hold its traditional Independence Day reception for high-ranking
French Government officials, an event that has been a diplomatic highlight here
since the State of Israel was established.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan was
sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy. Sirhan Sirhan's sentence was
commuted to life in prison. He claimed that he shot Kenney because he was
a supporter of Israel. Yes, the terror and the violence are an old
story.
1969: Birthdate of novelist Arthur
Phillips, the native of Minneapolis whose works include Prague, The
Egyptologist, Angelica, The Song Is You and The Tragedy of
Arthur
1970(27th of Nisan, 5730):
Third Day of Pesach
1970(27th of Nisan, 5730): Two
Israeli civilians touring the Golan heights were killed today and five others
were wounded when 20 infiltrators from Syria ambushed their cars on a main road
less than a mile from the 1967 cease‐fire
line.
1971: Birthdate of Chicago native and Wesleyan
and Trinity College (Dublin) educated Daniel Brett Weiss the co-creator with
his fellow Jewish David Benioff of “Game of Thrones.”
1971(28th of Nisan, 5731):
Fifty-one-year-old Terezin Ghetto survivor Arthur Friediger, the Denmark born son
of Chief Rabbi Max Moses Friediger and Fanny Friediger and husband of Hanka
Friediger passed away today in Copenhagen
1972: It was disclosed today that
Arthur Peterson, a 72-year-old Briton “described as a teacher and a journalist”
was arrested by Israeli security agents on suspicion that he had spied for the
U.A.R.
1972(9th of Iyar, 5732):
Fifty-year old Chicago born and
University of Chicago trained attorney Lester Robert Uretz, the WW II and Chief
Counsel of the IRS who raised four children with his wife Miriam suffered a
fatal heart attack today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/25/archives/lester-r-uretz.htm
1972: At an “academic convocation held
under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America” a thousand
people saw “His Excellency the Right Honourable Roland Michener, governor
general of Canada, accepted the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Rabbi
Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the seminary. In his acceptance speech,
Michener “made special reference to the 125th
anniversary of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim.”
1972(9th of
Iyar, 5732): Fifty-year-old University of Chicago trained attorney Lester
Robert Uretz , “the chief counsel of the IRS and husband of Miriam Uretz with
whom he raised “two sons and two daughters” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/25/archives/lester-r-uretz.html
1972(9th of
Iyar, 5732): Seventy-five-year-old British racecar driver Albert Moss who was
the father of the more famous racecar driver Sterling Moss passed away today.
1973(21st of
Nisan, 5733): Seventh Day of Pesach
1973(21st of
Nisan, 5755): Eighty-five-year-old Leonard Jacques Stein, the barrister and MP
who served as President of the Anglo-Jewish Association and Jewish Historical
Society of England passed away today.
1974(1st of
Iyar, 5734): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1974(1st of
Iyar, 5734): Fifty-year-old Barnard College graduate and former Martha Graham
dancer Mrs. Natanya Neumann, “the wife of Harold P. Manson, director of the
office of academic affairs of the American Friends of the Hebrew University”
passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/25/archives/mrs-harold-p-manson.html
1974: Senator Ted
Kennedy arrived in Moscow today where he planned to discuss issues related to
the Middle East and emigration.
1975: At Tulane University, U.S.
President Gerald Ford stated that the war is over as far as the United States
was concerned. According to at least one Jewish Tulane alum, this was an
appropriate place to make such an announcement since the primarily politically
apathetic campus had missed the start of the war.
1976(23rd of Nisan, 5736):
Seventy-three-year-old Louis G. Flexer, the son of Jacob and Nellie Goldberg
Flexer and the husband of Jettie Ross Flexer passed away today after which he
was buried at the Temple Israel Cemetery in Memphis, TN.
1977(5th of
Iyar, 5737): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1977(5th of
Iyar, 5737): Eighty-six-year-old Vienna native William Popper, the son of
Johanna and Herman Joseph Popper and the husband of Annie Popper passed away
today in San Francisco.
1980: “Goodbye Fidel,”
for which Leo K. Cohen served as company manager opened at the New Ambassador
Theatre which was Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald
Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
1980(7th of
Iyar, 5740): Eileen Wilner, the wife of the late Seymour Wilner with whom she
had two children, Frank and Jon, and the sister of Cell Berman passed away
today in Hollywood, FL.
1981(19th of
Nisan,5741): Fifth Day of Pesach
1984(21st of
Nisan, 5744): Seventh Day of Pesach
1984(21st of
Nisan, 5744): Seventy-six-year-old boxer Ruby Goldstein, who was one of the
most referees of his time passed away today.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/ReuvenGoldstein.htm
1984: During an attempt
at reconciliation, at “family dinner at the Carlyle Hotel” Lillian Goldman, the
estranged wife of millionaire Sol Godman agreed to return to her husband and
the reconciliation agreement which was written on the spot by Raoul Felder, Mr.
Goldman’s lawyer included a stipulation that she would receive one million
dollars in cash “within a week and additional five million dollars by April,
1989.
1986(14th of Nisan,
5746): Fast of the First Born
1986(14th of Nisan,
5746): Composer Harold Arlen passed away. Born Hyman Arluck in 1905, in
Buffalo, New York, Arlen's father was a cantor. Arlen inherited
his father's voice and the family hoped he would become a cantor, or at least a
doctor or a lawyer. However, Arlen showed a propensity for the
piano. He moved to New York City in the 1920's where he flourished
as composer of a variety of hits. Some of his most famous music is heard
every time the Wizard of Oz is shown on television. Arlene was
murdered in 1981 at the age of 81
http://www.haroldarlen.com/home.html
1986(14th of Nisan,
5746): Director and actor, Otto Preminger passed away. Born on December
5, 1905, in Vienna, Preminger began as a director and producer in the
theatre. He came to the United States in 1935 as a film
director. Later he left to work in the theatre in New York.
He returned to Hollywood as actor where he played the Nazi or German
officer in several films, most notably Stalag 17, the product of
another Jew, Billy Wilder. Preminger and others were struck by the
success a Jew from Austria had playing Nazi soldiers. Preminger returned
to directing movies, one of which, Anatomy of A Murder is considered
to be one of the finest legal/mystery movies ever made. He passed
away after suffering from Alzheimer's Disease for many years.
1986: An Israeli Defense Ministry official said today that
Avraham Bar-Am, a retired Israeli general who is among those accused in a
smuggling case involving attempts by Iran to buy American-made weapons through
illegal channels, was licensed to deal in weapons, but not in a manner that
violated the law.
1986: CBS broadcast the
final episode of “Fast Times” a television miniseries based on the movies of
the same name both of which were directed by Amy Heckerling.
1987: Richard Alan
“Dick” Zimmer completed his service as a member of the New Jersey General
Assembly
from the 23rd district
1987: Birthdate of
Israeli singer and songwriter Boaz Mauda.
1987: It was reported
today that New York City Comptroller Harris Jay Goldin had called “private
investors last year on behalf of Ivan F. Boesky, who later confessed to stock
manipulation and agreed to pay $100 million for his violations.”
1989: Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story was released
today on HBO.
1990(28th of
Nisan, 5750): Yom HaShoah
1990(28th of Nisan,
5750): Actress Paulette Goddard passed away
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.obits2/49421/mb.ashx
1991: Eighty-two-year-old
Armenian born American journalist Arthur
Derounian aka John Roy Carlson, the author of the 1943 bestseller Under
Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America - The Amazing Revelation
of How Axis Agents and Our Enemies Within Are Now Plotting To Destroy the
United States and Cairo to Damascus based on his time spent on the Arab
side of the “new born state of Israel” which led him to say “Israel represented
Good; the Arab world represented Evil” “died of a heart attack today, while
researching at the library of the American Jewish Committee on East 56th
Street.”
1991: Gerald Ratner
made a speech addressing a conference of the Institute of Directors at the
Royal Albert during which he described his company’s business practices saying,
“We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a
silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95.
People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say,
"because it's total crap."
1991: Former Tennessee
and Milwaukee Bucks basketball player, Ernie
Grunfeld Satu Mare, Romania born Jewish son of Holocaust Survivors Alex
and Livia Grunfeld was moved by the New York Knicks from director of
administration to vice president of player personnel today.
1991(9th of Iyar, 5751):
Seventy-nine-year-old attorney and advocate for the rights of women Harriet
Fleischel Pilpel, the Bronx born daughter of Julius and Ethel Flieshl, passed
away today in New York City.
http://www.webcitation.org/mainframe.php
http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss155.html
1992(20th of
Nisan, 5752): Sixth Day of Pesach
1992: Two days after he
had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to be held for eighty-one-year-old
Chicago born and University of Chicago trained attorney Morris I Leibman, the
husband of Mary Leibman with whom he raised two sons and recipient of the
Freedom Medal,
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/29/obituaries/morris-i-leibman-81-a-senior-law-partner.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-04-22-9202050616-story.html
1993: “Benny and Joon”
produced by Donna Arkoff Roth, the daughter of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and the wife
of Joe Roth to whom she was married at the time and filmed by John Schwartzman,
the son of producer Jack Schwartzman was released today in the United States.
1993: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum opened on the Mall in Washington, DC under the
chairmanship of Miles Lerman. Born Shmuel Milek Lerman in 1920 in
Tomaszov-Lubelski, Poland was a Holocaust survivor. He was appointed to the chairmanship by Jimmy
Carter and given responsibility for creating this American memorial to the
Shoah. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1994(12th of
Iyar, 5754): Parashat Achrei-Mot
1994: In a letter to
the New York Times historian Ronald N. Stromberg wrote, “"The Italian
government did not turn a single Jew over to the Germans despite great
pressure…"
1995(23rd of Nisan,
5755): Howard Cosell passed away.
Born Howard Cohen in Winston Salem, North Carolina in 1918, Cosell was educated
in New York. Ah yes, grits and gefilte fish. Trained as a
lawyer, Cosell gained fame as a sports broadcaster. He helped
revolutionize television football coverage and changed American social
mores with his participation in Monday Night Football on ABC. Cosell
was a controversial figure with as many supporters as detractors. But when
he passed away, all that was remembered was the man who was "the first to
tell it like it is" in the world of sport.
1996(4th of
Iyar, 5756): Yom HaZikaron
1997(16th of
Nisan, 5757): Second Day of Pesach
1997(16th of
Nisan, 5757): One hundred-year-old Esther Schiff Goldfrank passed away in New
York.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/goldfrank-esther-schiff
1998(27th of Nisan,
5758): Yom HaShoah.
1999: After months of testing, today McDonald's officially
unveiled -- in 6,000 stores across the Midwest and Northeast, including New
York and New Jersey -- three new ''bagel breakfast sandwiches.'' Ana
Madan-Russo, president of McDonald's New York Tri-State Owners and Operators
association, says franchise owners are excited about selling bagel sandwiches
''in the bagel capital of the world.'' Not so fast, says Mr. Zabar, dissecting
a McDonald's steak, egg and cheese bagel in Eli's, his market on the Upper East
Side. A true bagel, he asserts, must be
boiled, then baked to achieve authenticity. ''This one,'' he says regretfully,
''has been steamed, not boiled.'' He notes the telltale signs, the wimpy crust
and the soft inside that pulls apart without a fight. ''It's like Wonder bread
in a circle,'' he says. ''A New York bagel fights with you. It's tough on the
outside, and chewy on the inside, and you struggle with it.'' Elena Ramos,
marketing director for McDonald's in New York, dismisses as irrelevant whether
McDonald's bagels are steamed or boiled, or treated with any special
preservatives. ''I'm not sure if the customers buying them up get into all
that,'' she says. The company has no plans to sell bagel sandwiches in its
other 7,000 restaurants outside the Midwest and Northeast, and Ms. Ramos says
it is too soon to tell whether the McDonald's bagels will catch on with New
York City's sizable population of bagel nuts. But she notes, they sold briskly
in several test markets, including Hartford. In addition to the steak bagel,
McDonald's is offering a Spanish omelet bagel and one with ham, egg and cheese.
''It looks like the
customers love them as much as we do,'' she says. Indeed, some New Yorkers
welcome the menu additions. ''They should gear food for the area they're in,''
says Joseph Loach, 39, of Brooklyn, during lunch in McDonald's at Eighth Avenue
and 43d Street. ''Bagels are definitely indicative of New York.'' Which is
precisely the worry for some New York food aficionados, who view the bagel as
the city's cultural equivalent to Paris's baguette. For New Yorkers who first
tasted bagels as teething babes, the notion of a ham, egg and cheese bagel
topped with McDonald's special ''breakfast sauce'' may seem, well, unorthodox.
Like lox on white. Or pastrami with mayonnaise. Ed Levine, author of ''New York
Eats (More),'' bemoans the McDonald's bagel invasion as ''a scary
proposition.'' ''It seems to be that this is the logical extension of the
commodification of bagels,'' he says. ''A bagel used to have character. Now
anything that's vaguely round, that's puffed up with a hole in it, can be
called a bagel. I knew this was coming.'' He worries that in the age of fast
food chains and relentless mass marketing, McDonald's $2.49 bagel sandwiches
will ever so gradually diminish a durable New York icon. ''I'm nostalgic, but
many people will taste McDonald bagels and think they're fine,'' he says.
''They've made the bagel into a neutral food. They used to be made with malt
and have a crust. Now even many New Yorkers don't want their bagels with a
crust.'' A skeptic might ask whether the Big Apple has any proprietary rights
to the bagel. New York, after all, didn't invent the bagel. According to one
popular legend, that honor dates to 1683, when some Viennese bakers cooked up a
few in tribute to Jan Sobieski, the King of Poland. Bagels made their way to
New York in the early part of this century with Eastern European Jewish
immigrants. Now the bagel is everywhere. In Canada, Toronto holds a weekly
Bagel Bash. Mattoon, Ill., sponsors Bagelfest! In Boston, there's a New Year's
Eve Bagel-Off. On the Internet, you can find yourself a bagel consultant or
read bagel poems. Some of New York's most established bagel makers have done
their share to spread bagels to the masses. When a reporter visits H & H
Bagels on Broadway and 80th Street, the owner, Helmer Toro, sends over a media
kit boasting that his company supplies bagels to Dunkin' Donuts. He even
provides a list of celebrity customers, including such un-New York names as Ann
Landers. And yet Mr. Toro, when asked about the McDonald's bagels, is crushing
in his response: ''They're not a quality product.'' The reviews are more
generous just up Broadway in Zabar's, another New York bagel landmark. The
owner, Saul Zabar, 70, is the older brother of Eli Zabar. Saul Zabar dissected
the Spanish omelet bagel. ''Hey, these bagels aren't bad,'' he says, tasting first
the egg, then the sausage patty and then the bagel itself. ''My God, I think
it's remarkable.'' And Dr. Rick Feinberg, eating a Zabar's bagel with Nova and
cream cheese at the counter, makes a sheepish concession: If he were on the
highway in some strange place, and if he were really hungry, he might just be
tempted to stop at a McDonald's and try one -- though he probably would stick
with an Egg McMuffin
1999: The Times of
London reviews Weathered by Mircacles: A history of Palestine from
Bonaparte and Muhammad Ali to Ben-Gurion and the Mufti by Thomas A
Idinopulos.
2000: An exhibit
entitled “Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890 – 1918” came to an
end at the Jewish Museum in New York City
2000: The New York Times
included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Ravelstein by Saul Bellow and No Logo:
Taking Aim at the Bullies by Naomi Klein.
2001: Eight people were injured when during a bombing at Or Yehuda near
Ben Gurion Airport for which Hamas took credit.
2002: Master of the
Senate, the third volume in Joseph Caro’s biographical series about Lyndon
B. Johnson which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography was
released today.
2002: “Only a Woman
Like You” an album by Michael Bolton was released today.
2002: “Alarmed that the composition and
mandate of a United Nations fact-finding teams were stacking it against Israel,
the government announced that it would delay the arrival of the team until
Israel agreed to its members and precise assignment.”
2003(21st of Nisan, 5763): Professor Bernard Katz, German-born
biophysicist passed away at the age of 92. Born and educated in Germany, Katz
fled to Britain during the 1930’s. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in
1970. (As reported by Sandra Blaeslee)
2004: Today, “the President of Rutgers University condemned The
Medium, a weekly campus publishing for printing a front-page a “cartoon
depicting a bearded man wearing a hat and sitting on the edge of an open kitchen
stove in a carnival setting,” under the heading ''Holocaust Remembrance Week,''
with a t caption that reads: ''Knock a
Jew in the oven! Three throws for one dollar!''
2005(14th of Nisan, 5765): As Jews sit down to celebrate the
first night of Pesach they can enjoy what the New York Times describes as two
zippy kosher whites from California and a pretty Israeli red from the Judean
Hills: Baron Herzog's citric 2003 chenin blanc, Baron Herzog's herbal 2003
sauvignon blanc and Carmel's juicy 2002 cabernet.” In this post-Manischewitz
era, with dry trumping sweet, they can be sipped all night.”
2005: At the Nottingham Playhouse, final
performance of Arnold Wesker’s “Chicken Soup with Barley.’
http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/chickensoup-rev
2006: Aharon Friedman of Brooklyn married Tamar
Epstein, seven years his junior, of suburban Philadelphia. Years later, their
messy divorce would rock some in the Orthodox world over his refusal to grant
her a get.
2006: The Washington
Post reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish
readers including “In
Search of Memory: The
Emergence of a New Science Mind” by Nobel Prize Laureate Eric R.
Kandel.
2006: The New York Times reviewed books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Seducing the
Demon: Writing for My Life” by Erica Jong and “Elements
of Style” by Wendy Wasserstein who died of lymphoma at the age of 55 in January
of 2006.
2007: Yom
Ha'atzma'ut – Israel Independence Day begins at sundown as Israel celebrates
her 59th birthday.
2007: “Shulamit
‘Shula’ Cohen-Kishik, a spy Mossad who worked undercover in Lebanon for 14
years” and was faced the possibility of death by hanging when she captured “was
chosen to light a torch this year’s Independence Day ceremony.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-spy-shulamit-cohen-kishik-dies-at-100/
2007(5th of Iyar,
5767): Seventy-three-old “Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Halberstam died in an automobile
accident today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html
https://www.amazon.com/David-Halberstam/e/B000AP783C%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
2007: The Center for
Jewish History in New York presents “An Evening with Acclaimed International
PEN Author and Essayist George
Konrad.” The Hungarian born Konrad discusses his recently published
autobiography, A Guest In My Own Country.
2007: Today’s Judy and Larry
Rosenstein Memorial Lecture at Tulane University featured Professor David Stern, University of Pennsylvania
speaking on "Through the Pages of the Past: The Jewish Book in Its
Historical Context.”
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque features a screening of “Lonely Man of
Faith: The Life and Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik”
2008(18th of Nisan, 5768): Fourth Day of Pesach
2008(18th of Nisan, 5768): Esta Saltzman, a veteran of the
Yiddish Theatre passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5DD113AF93BA15757C0A96E9C8B63
2009: In New York, a screening of “The Forgotten Refugees” the award-winning
film documenting the 20th Century exodus of Jews from the Middle East and North
Africa.
2009: In Chevy Chase, Maryland, Aaron
David Miller, a State Department veteran and most recently a senior adviser for
Arab-Israeli negotiations discusses his recent book, “The Much Too Promised
Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace.”
2009: Holocaust Survivor Irene Furst speaks to the students at Kirkwood
Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2010(9th of Iyar, 5770): “One Israeli worshiper was killed
and five were wounded in Nablus early this morning after their vehicle was shot
at by Palestinian security forces as they were exiting the city from prayer
services held at Joseph's Tomb.”
2010: In “Emma Freud: My Father, Clement Freud, Remembered” a daughter
describes her feeling a year after her famous father’s death.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/24/clement-freud-funeral-emma-freud
2010: “American chess player, martial arts competitor and author”
Joshua Waitzkin “married Desiree Cifre, a screenwriter and former contestant on
The Amazing Race.”
2010: Robyn Helzner, one of the leading interpreters of world Jewish
music, and Cantor Larry Paul are scheduled to lead a Carlebach-inspired service
at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C.
2010: Wendy Becker & Rik Howard are scheduled to
lead a special Musical Shabbat Service at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2010: “The Chameleon” starring Ellen Barken as “Kimberly Miller”
premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2011(19th of Nisan, 5771): Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach
2011: Today’s tours at the Skirball Cultural Center are scheduled to
focus on Passover.
2011: The Los Angeles Times
featured a review of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including 'Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without
Losing Its Soul' by Howard Schultz.
2012: The Broadway revival production of “Ghost the Musical” starring
Cassie Shira Levy as “Molly Jensen” a role she created in the original Broadway
production opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
2012: Library of Congress, LCPA Hebrew Language
Table is scheduled to present an address by Canadian/Israeli journalist Judie
Oron based on “Cry of the Giraffe, “an award-winning book based on the story of
an Ethiopian Jewish teenager named Wuditu who, together with her younger
sister, Lewteh, was separated from her family in a violent incident in a
refugee camp in Sudan.”
2012: Ambassador Peter Rosenblatt is scheduled to take part in a
Q&A following a screening of “Turkish Passport” at the Westchester Jewish
Film Festival. Turkish Passport tells
“the little-known story of the righteous Turkish diplomats posted in several
European countries who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II by enabling
them to find safety in Istanbul. (Considering current conditions between Israel
and Turkey, this film is well-worth seeing.)
2012: A weeklong program designed to highlight the role of the Jews in
the life of Wurzburg is scheduled to come to an end today in this northern
German city.
2012(1st of Iyar, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2012:
Egyptian engineer Hani Dahi, executive director of the Egyptian General
Petroleum Corporation, said today that the military council and the government
had no part in the decision to terminate Egypt's agreement to provide natural
gas to Israel. (As reported by Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel)
2012: Anti-Zionist graffiti was found this morning
sprayed at various locations at the Ammunition Hill memorial site in Jerusalem.
The graffiti included slogans slamming
President Shimon Peres, as well as praise for German poet Gunter Grass. The
slogans that were found included: “The evil Zionist regime will fall,” and
“Gunter Grass – be strong and brave.”
2012: U.S. President
Barack Obama announced that Jan Karski would receive the country's highest
civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of the bravery
he showed in informing the Polish Government-In-Exile and the Allies about the
destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi death camps.
2013: Trudy Peterson is
scheduled to deliver a talk entitled "The French Railroad, the Records,
the Holocaust, and the State of Maryland" in Iowa City.
2013: The Algemeiner 40th
Anniversary Jewish 100 Gala featuring Elie Wiesel is scheduled to take place at
Guastavino’s in New York.
2013: The YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Efraim
Sicher that examines the work of Isaak Babel entitled “Babel in Yiddish/Yiddish
in Babel.
2013: Shia LaBeouf
joined the cast of the upcoming WW II, “Fury.”
2013: The weeklong
Holocaust Memorial Program came to an end in Wurzburg, Germany.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=258332
2013: Iran has
essentially crossed the “red line” set by Israel for its nuclear activity, and
the coming few months will be a crucial period, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, a
former head of IDF Military Intelligence, said today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-already-past-nuclear-red-line-expert-says/
2013: Israel’s senior
military intelligence analyst said today there was evidence the Syrian
government had repeatedly used chemical weapons in the last month, and he
criticized the international community for failing to respond, intensifying
pressure on the Obama administration to intervene.
2014: The Spring
Semester of The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El is
scheduled to begin.
2014: “There Was Once…”
which “documents the contemporary struggles of a Hungarian high school teacher
who sparks controversy by uncovering the Jewish past of her small town, Kalocsa”
is scheduled to be shown at The Center for Jewish History
2014: “Plot for Peace”
is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival in London.
2014: Three cartoonists Liana Fink (A Bintel Brief), Miriam Katin
(Letting it Go), and Eli Valley (artist in residence, The Forward) are
scheduled to “discuss how their surroundings, family, history, and backgrounds
have inspired their representations of Jewish life in pen and ink” at the
Museum of Jewish Heritage.
2015 (4th of Iyar): Yom
HaAtsmaut – Israel Independence Day observed
2015: Rabbi Deborah
Waxman, President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Susan Herbst,
President of the University of Connecticut are scheduled to discuss “What is
Zionism’s Role in North American Jewish Life Today?” as part of the celebration
of the 67th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel.
2015: Vice President
Joe Biden is scheduled to attend Israel’s Independence Day event today in
Washington, D.C.
2015: “Deli Man” and
“Woman in Gold” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2015: “FotoMacher Frank
Barnett: Examining Lives with Jewish Eyes” is scheduled to open at the Oregon
Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
2015: IDF tanks struck
targets in the northern Gaza Strip just before midnight toay, after a rocket
was fired from the Strip into the area of the Shaar Hanegev regional council
late tonight.
2015: U.S. officials
revealed today that American aid worker Warren Weinstein who was being held
captive by al Qaeda had been killed accidently by an U.S. drone attack last
January.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/world/warren-weinstein-al-qaeda-hostage-death/
2015: "Ordinary Matters": Animations and Paintings by
Shelley Jordon is scheduled to open at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for
Holocaust Education.
http://www.ojm.org/experience/exhibit-2015-04-22-home-br-animations-and-paintings-by-shelley-jordon
2016(15th of
Nisan, 5776): First Day of Pesach; in the evening second Seder and counting of
the Omer
2016: In Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Temple Judah, under the leadership of its President Nancy Margulis hosted
its annual Community Seder.
2017: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including You
Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser and The Soul of the
First Amendment by Floyd Abrams.
2017: Oxford University
Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Yom HaShoah Film Night “preceded by a
special ma’ariv service.
2017: “Four people were
wounded in a terror attack that “began in the lobby of the Leonardo Beach
Hotel” in Tel Aviv.
2017: In Atlanta, Eternal-Life
Hemshech, the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, and the Jewish Federation
of Greater Atlanta are scheduled to host the 52nd Annual Yom HaShoah
Community-Wide Holocaust Commemoration at the Greenwood Cemetery.
2017: “In honor of Yom
HaShoah” scheduled to host “Family Reunion After War” presented by University
of Iowa History Professor Elizabeth Heinemann.
2017: The University of
Iowa Hillel is scheduled to host its Spring Concert featuring the Saul Lubaroff
Quarter.
2017: “Israel’s Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a blistering assault on Allied policy
during World War II, saying world powers’ failure to bomb the Nazi
concentration camps from 1942 cost the lives of four million Jews and millions
of others.” (Editor’s note – In the case
of the United States this statement shows an ignorance of history since “the
first Army Air Forces bomber mission over Western Europe was by US crews of the
15th Bomb Squadron” flying the British version of the A-20, a twin
engine aircraft that hardly had the range to fly from England to Poland and
back and lacked a pray of getting to the target since there were no fighters to
cover the mission for this lightly armored aircraft.)
http://www.military.cz/usa/air/war/bomber/a20/a20_en.htm
2017: “The annual
Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Jerusalem began tonight at the Yad Vashem
Holocaust museum’s Warsaw Ghetto Square.”
2017: A Community
Service of Remembrance For the Victims of the Holocaust featuring Holocaust
survivor Jacob Eisenbach organized by The Thaler Holocaust Memorial Fund is
scheduled to be held in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2018: “On the Spectrum”
directed by Yuval Shafferman is scheduled to be shown at the Tribeca Film
Festival today.
2018: The Streicker
Center at Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to a presentation by Cecile Richards,
author of Make Trouble and the president of Planned Parenthood.
2018: The Jupiter
Symphony Chamber Players which was bounded by Jens Nygaard who directed the
Washington Heights YW-YMHA concerts for 25 years, and which includes violinist
Itamar Zorman is scheduled to perform “Touched by Mozart” today.
2018: NA’AMAT USA
Cleveland Council is scheduled to honor Judge Francine Goldberg this evening.
2018: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host an evening with JSoc friend at
Duke of Cambridge on Little Clarendon Street.
2018: Funeral services
are scheduled to held today the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel for 88 year old
Theodore R. Ginsberg, the husband of Cora Ginsberg followed by Burail at the
Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queen.s
2019: The Yeshiva
University Museum is scheduled to present “Passover Objects Up and Close
Personal” during which “Curator Bonni-Dara Michaels handles and sheds light on
unique Passover objects from the Museum’s collection, which are currently not
on view to the public including traditional and modern Seder plates, Miriam
cups, beautiful fabric items, and whimsical artworks.”
2019(18th of
Nissan, 5779): Fourth Day of Pesach; Third Day of the Omer
2020: Live on Zoom, the
Center for Jewish History and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are
scheduled to host “A Strange New World: Time in David Bergelson’s Literary
Works.”
2020: “HaMaqom/The
Place” is scheduled to host “Spinoza on my Mind” in which Rabbi Peretz
Wolf-Prusan talks, virtually “about how the philosopher, who was excommunicated
from the Dutch Jewish community at age 24, shaped modern Jewish life.”
2020: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host David Broza who takes attended “for a Virtual
Journey through His Life in Music.
2020: Live on Zoom, the
Center for Jewish History and the Jewish Lives Yale University Press are
scheduled to host “Stan Lee: A Life in Comics.”
2020: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host a virtual presentation by Professor Shai Arkin on “Coronavirus
in Israel and the Future of Immunotherapy.”
2020: Israelis can
begin to absorb yesterday’s announcement by “Health Ministry’s Deputy Director
General Prof. Itamar Grotto … that the current wave of the coronavirus outbreak
in Israel has reached its peak and has begun to subside.”
2020: Based on
yesterday’s announcement the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel
stands at 14,498, while 189 patients have succumbed to the disease, health
officials confirmed, but the accuracy of some virus related figures may not be
accurate because the Ministry of Health has suspended some of the testing for
COVID-19 “using swabs imported from China for fear they may be faulty and
contaminated.”
2021: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Operation Solomon and the
ingathering of the Ethiopians Jews, Temple Emanu-El is schedulrf to welcome
musician Idan Raichel, whose collaboration with young Ethiopians on the Idan
Raichel Project propelled the sound of Ethiopian music into the heart of
Israeli music.
2021: The Jewish Community Center of the North Shore is scheduled to
present online a live discussion with Tamar Manasseh from “They Ain’t Ready for
Me” and director Brad Rothschild.
2021: SFSU professor Eran Kaplan is scheduled to talk about what happened in
Jaffa before, during and after the War of Independence, in conjunction with
East Bay Int’l Jewish Film Festival streaming of the 2019 Israeli drama “The
Dead of Jaffa,
2021: Based on reports published yesterday, as of today “five million
people, representing 80% of the population over the age of 15, in Israel have
been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. (TOI Staff)
2022(23rd of Nisan,5782): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
2022: Citing the decline in morbidity, a statement from the Prime
Minister’s Office said Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz had agreed
that the widely flouted masking requirement will be scrapped as of 8 p.m. on April
23. (As reported by Alexander Fulbright)
2022: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host a performance by the
Toscanini Quartet – cellist Felix Nemirovsky; violist Dmitri Ratush; violinists
Maoz Asaf and Yevgenia Pikovsky.
2023: “S.F. Rally for Saving Israeli Democracy” is scheduled to be held
at the De Anza Park in Sunnyvale, CA.
2023: The New York Times features books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Blanche: The Life and Times of
Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation by Nancy Schoenberger and Fever
in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman
Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
2023: In Fremont, CA, Temple Beth Torah is scheduled to host a Yom
HaShoah program that includes screening of “A Sacred Space: Rebuilding a
Memory,” a documentary on the Czech Jews of Pacov and their Torahs, a talk by
the filmmakers and a close-up look at Temple Beth Torah’s Holocaust Torah.
2023: The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is
scheduled to sponsor a community Mitzvah Day in cooperation with the Jewish
Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
2023: The National Library of Israel is scheduled host a lecture by
Doris Parens on “Israeli Contemporary Theater and Shakespeare, the first
episode in a new National Library of Israel event series dedicated to William
Shakespeare, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the First Folio.”
2023: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to present “The
Gershwins: Who Could Ask For Anything More?”
2023: In Columbus, OH, The Tifereth Israel Men’s Brunch Series is
scheduled to present Jack Roslovic of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
2023: Prime Minister Netanyahu’s keynote speech at the conference in
Jerusalem that is being attended by 3,000 North American Jewish community
leader is set to be met with a large protest. (As reported by Carrie
Keller-Lynn)
2024: Ma’yan Tikvah and Open Spirit are scheduled to present “Passover
Seder in an Interfaith Setting” led by Rabbi Suri Krieger.
2024: In the evening
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is scheduled to host a seder led by Rabbi Todd.
2024: In the evening
Agudas Achim in Coralville, IA is scheduled to host a seder led by Rabbi
Hugenholtz.
2024: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present a “Clergy Matzah
Brei Cook-Off + Passover Festival Service.’
2024: As April 23
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 200
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.)
2024(15th of Nisan, 5784): Pesach
2025: The Center for
Jewish History and LBI are scheduled to host Bringing, Generations, Disciplines
and the Atlantic: LBI 70” after which “visitors will have the opportunity to
view LBI's anniversary exhibit, 70 Years of LBI: Bridging Generations
2025: The Weiner Holocaust Memorial Library is
scheduled to host a lecture by Anne Sebba, author of The Women’s Orchestra of
Auschwitz.
2025: This evening The UK Jewish Community’s
Holocaust Ceremony “marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation
of Bergen-Belsen” is scheduled to take place at Victoria Tower Gardens,
Westminster.
2025: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
lectures on “Kalman & Leopold: Surviving Mengele's Auschwitz” and “How Far
is Parkinson’s a Jewish Disease?”
2025: “Shabtai, a Jewish society based at Yale
University whose founders include Sen. Cory Booker, is scheduled to host Ben-Gvir today on Yale’s
campus in New Haven, Connecticut
2025: The board of
Tulane Hillel is scheduled to meet in New Orleans.
2025: The Thaler
Holocaust Education Trust is scheduled to welcome to Eastern Iowa Yom HaShoah
guest speaker Rodi Glass who will be sharing her story of narrow escapes in a
virtual presentation at Cornell College (at Thomas Commons)
2025: As April 23rd
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe
that includes the fire-bombing of the mansion housing the family of Governor
Josh Shapiro on Pesach, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages
begin day 565 in captivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this
blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight
Israeli time)
2026: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “Counting Peas and Pouring Wax: Historical
Yiddish Divination Workshop” with Yiddish scholar Mikhl Yashinsky.
2026: YIVO and the
American Society for Jewish Music are scheduled to host “for a special concert
of the New York premiere of Muriel’s Songs (2023) by Eric Chasalow and a
performance of Alex Weiser's Coney Island Days (2022), two song cycles that
commemorate the composers’ grandmothers and detail how they navigated 20th
century American Jewish life in New York City.”
2026: The Streicker
Cultural Society is scheduled to host a Q and A with Israeli Ambassador Ido
Aharoni
2026: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Charles Landau on “Disputations:
Judaism on Trial Where There Was Only One Winner, and It Was ‘Never’ the Jew.”
2026: As April 23rd
begins in Israel, direct negotiations are scheduled to take place today between
Lebanon and Israel with Lebanon reportedly hoping to extend the cease fire for
a month despite the fact that Hezbollah has continued firing rockets.(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)
