356 BCE:
In Macedonia, King Philip II and Queen Olympia give birth to Alexander
the Great. You can draw a straight line from Alexander’s Hellenization of Asia
Minor to Chanukah to Tisha B’Av, 70 CE.
http://www.biography.com/print/profile/alexander-the-great-9180468
70: During the Siege of Jerusalem, Titus, son
of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount.
The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
1031: Fifty-nine-year-old King Robert II of
France, who “conspired with is vassals to destroy all the Jews who would not
accept baptism” and inspired mob violence against the Jews including “the
learned Rabbi Senior” passed away today.
1402: During the Ottoman-Timurid Wars, Timur
led the forces of the Timurid Empire to victory over the forces of the Ottoman
Empire led by Sultan Bayezid I at the Battle of Ankara. This defeat could not
have been a source of joy for the Jews living in the Ottoman Empire. Bayezid
had proven to be a friend of the Jewish people. “In 1394 Sultan Bayezid invited
the French Jews who were molested by King Charles VI, to settle in the Ottoman
Empire. They established communities in Edirne and the Balkans. The French
Kings had the habit of inviting the Jews to establish commerce and borrowing
money from them. However often, when payment was due, they expelled them; only
to re-invite them when they needed further financing.” Bayezid died a year
after the defeat.
1454: The reign of King John II of Castile and
León who overturned the Valladolid laws that restricted Jewish activities and
adopted “a more tolerant attitude toward the already battered Jewish population
of Castile following the mass wave of conversions” that had taken place from
1391 to 1415, came to an end today.
1588: As the English prepared to meet the
Spanish Armada, their fleet “tacked upwind…thus gaining the “weather gage”
which would give the smaller fleet an edge in the upcoming battle.
1624(4th of Av): Rabbi Abraham ben David of
Lemberg passed away
1633 (13th of Av): Rabbi Nathan Shaprio, a
leading Kabblist from Cracow and author of Megale Amukot passed away.
1660: Miguel de Barria “the Spanish poet and
historian “whose Hebrew name was Daniel ha-Levi and who was the son of a
converso Simon de Barrios (Jacob Levi Caniso) and Sarah Valle” set sail with
“152 coreligionists for West Indies, specifically Tobago, where his wife died
which led him to return to Europe.
1706: Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass who had
founded printing business in Dyhernfurth, a small town near Breslau which
produced its first book, a work by Rabbi Samuel ben Uri of Waydyslav in 1689,
was forced to leave Breslau as a result of local hostility to Jews.
1729: In King William, VA, Captain Mordecai
Abrahams married Sarah Levy today after which they had at least two children,
Mordecai and Jacob Abraham.
1771(9th of Av, 5531): Shabbat
Chazon; Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1774: Judith Polock and Savannah, GA native
Philip Minis, the parents of Abigail Minis were married today in Newport, RI.
1775: At the request of the Continental
Congress, Jews fasted and prayed for the success of the colonies against the
British, and to be spared from the "agony of war."
1778: In New York City, Rachel Heilbron and
Haym (Chaim) Solomon who bankrupted himself to help finance the American
Revolution gave birth to Ezekiel Salomon
1778: In Sandersleben, Rabbi Joachim Heinemann
and his wife gave birth to Jeremiah Heinemann the German author whose secular
jobs including serving as the inspector of a teacher’s seminary in Berlin.
1780: Today Frances Sheftall who had fled to
Charleston “after the capture of her husband and son” wrote to Mordecai
Sheftall who was in Antigua and described “the privations suffered by the
residents of Charleston” where the cannonade from the British ships “was
continuous” and “smallpox stalked the city.”
1789: Philadelphian Solomon Bush, a veteran of
the Continental Army during the American Revolution wrote to President
Washington today whom he addressed as “Your Excellency,” saying “Permit one who
has fought and Bled in the service of his Country, with heart felt pleasure to
Congratulate Your Excellency in your late dignified appoint [Washington’s
election to the presidency] offering up his sincere prayers to Almighty God for
your health and happiness, and the prosperity of his Country…”
1789: Solomon Bush, who was practicing medicine
in London “notified President Washing of the seizure of an American ship from
New York because the British alleged that numerous seamen aboard were natives
of Britain.”
1790(9th of Av, 5550): Tish'a B'Av observed on
the same day that the first U.S. Congress adopted “The Act for the Government
and Regulation of Seaman” which the first federal labor law.
1795: In Baltimore, Frances Etting, the
Philadelphia born daughter of Michael Gratz and Miriam Gratz and her husband Captain Reuben Etting gave birth to Elijah
Gratz Etting.
1797: Birthdate of German native and future
resident of Detroit Hannah Bachman Butzel, the wife of Moses Leo Butzel with
whom she had three children including Fannie, Magnus and Martin.
1798: In Charleston, SC Rebecca Hyams, he
daughter of Colonel David Maysor and Sarah Sarzedas and her husband David Hyams
gave birth to Moses David Hyams
1800: Simon and Johanetta Levy gave birth to
their third child Raphael Levy.
1808: Napoleon decreed that all Jews of the
French Empire must adopt family names.
1808: Today in accordance with newly adopted
law, Samuel Marx Levi, the son of Rabbi Samuel Marx Levi became Samuel Marx
when he adopted “the family name Marx for himself and his siblings.
1816(24th of Tammuz, 5576): Parashat
Pinchas
1817: In Epinal France, Berr Marx Cerfberr and
Marianne Cerfberr gave birth to
journalist Maximilien Charles Alphons Cerfberr, the husband of Augustine
Cerfberr de Medelsheim and father of Gaston Cerfberr de Medelsheim who “was
attached in 1839 to the penitentiary administration in the Ministry of the
Interior and inn 1848 held for a short time the position of commissary of the
republic in the department of Saône-et-Loire.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4187-cerfberr-maximilien-charles-alphonse-of-medelsheim
1819: Birthdate of Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim
the native of Frankfort-on-Main who was the grandson of Gumpel, the banker of
Hamburg who became a distinguished jurist.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11730-oppenheim-heinrich-bernhard
1820(9th of Av, 5580): Tish’a B’Av
1820(9th of Av, 5580): Judah Moses
Ancona, the wife of Hannah Montefiore Ancona and the father of Moses Montefiore
Acona, who had been born in 1760 and “was part of a Sephardic family which came
to England in the 18th century” passed away today after which he was
buried the Sephardi New Cemetery in London.
1822(2nd of Av, 5582): Parashat
Matot-Masei
1823: Pius VII, the Pope who rebuilt the walls
of the Rome Ghetto and returned the Jews to its confines after they had been
freed by Napoleon passed away today.
1823: Achille Fould married Harriot Goldschmidt
at the Great Synagogue today.
1828(9th of Av, 5588): Tish’a B’Av
observed
1829: Birthdate of Thomas Rowe one of
Australia's leading architects of the Victorian era who designed the Great
Synagogue in Sydney
1830: Birthdate of Francesca Janauschek, the
Prague native who gained fame as 19th century character actress Fanny Janauschek.
1833: In Brno, Löbl
Strakosch and Julia Schwarz to their daughter Aloisia.
1834: Birthdate of Jacques Errera, the native
of Venice who was a successful banker and the father of botanist Leo-Abram
Errera.
1834: During the “Peasants Revolt” Ibrahaim
Pasha returned to Jerusalem today with “30,000 new conscripts” after having
dispatch troops “to occupy Jenin and Nazareth.”
1837(17th of Tammuz, 5597): Tzom
Tammuz is observed for the first time during the Presidency of Martin Van
Buren.
1839(9th of Av, 5599): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1839(9th of Av, 5599):
Fifty-nine-year-old Charity Hays, the Bedford, NY born daughter of Esther
Etting and David Barrack Hays and the wife of London, England native Jacob da
Silva Solis with she had seven children passed away today in New York City.
1841: Rinah J. Ottolengui and Columbia, SC
native Jacob I. Moses who had been married in 1839 gave birth to Montefiore
Jacob Moses, who married Rosa Jonas in 1863 and with whom he had had seven
children – Belle, Mary, Montrose, Walter, Edwin, Montrose (who was apparently
named for his older brother who had already passed away) and Eva.
1842: In London, Charlotte and Lionel Nathan
Rothschild gave birth to their second son Alfred Charles Rothschild, the first
Jew to serve as “a director of the Bank England,” a position which he held for
twenty years.
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/alfred-charles-de-rothschild
1845: Nathan and Catherine Levy were married at
the Great Synagogue today.
1846: In Lynchburg, VA, Solomon and Theresa
Guggenheimer Landauer Untermyer gave birth to “lawyer and Philanthropis
Randloph Guggenheimer, the husband of Eliza Katzenberg Guggenheimer whom he married in 1875 and the father of
Adele Guggenheimer who was active in Temple Emanu-El, the Democratic Club, the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/index.php/max-liebermann.html
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/Liebermann/gallery
1849(1st of Av, 5609): Rosh Chodesh
Av
1849: In Russia, Chayim Ydel Aronin and his
wife gave birth to Aryeh Leib Aronin, the rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel in
Sheboygan, Wisconsin who was “progenitor of the” Aronin clan in the United
States that included Ben Aronin, “the Chicago Jewish community’s quintessential
Renaissance Man,” a lawyer who “wrote Jewish-themed songs and plays” and his
cousin Sanford Aronin.
1852: Twenty-four-year-old Sarah Naar
Cardozo the daughter of Dr. Daniel Moses
Levy Maduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and her husband Abraham Hart Cardozo gave birth to Daniel
Henry Cardoza, Sr. the husband of Clara Cardozo and the father of Daniel Henry
Cardozo, Jr. his first born son.
1855: According to today’s “New by the Mail”
column, “A Protestant lady in St. Louis with seven children has joined the
Hebrew congregation there.”
1856(17th of Tammuz, 5616): Tzom
Tammuz is observed for the last time during the Presidency of Franklin Pierce
1858((9th of Av, 5618): Tish’a B’Av
observed on the day that an all-star baseball team from New York played their
counterparts from Brooklyn in what would be the first game in the baseball
rivalries between the teams from Gotham and Brooklyn that only ended when the
Dodgers and the Giants moved to Los Angeles in 1958.
1859: Birthdate of German botanist and Zionist
leader Otto Warburg whose family originally came to Germany in the 16th
century and who was “one of the members of the El Arish expedition, appointed
by Theodor Herzl as the agricultural member of the team led by Leopold
Kessler.”
1860: In Galicia, Jacob and Clara Seiden gave
birth to Efraim Seiden, later known as Frank Siden (or by his stage name
Professor Seiden ) the husband of Galicia native Rachel Lack whom he married in
New York in 1886 and had several children – Jacob, Eva, Amalia, Annie and
cameraman, producer and direct Joseph Seiden – who gained fame as a magician,
“vaudeville entertainer and “Yiddish-language recording artist of the late
1800s and early 1900s who “recorded almost 200 Wax cylinder and 78-rpm releases
for Columbia, Victor, and Berliner” before his death at the age of 70 in 1931.
1862: As General George B. McClellan turned
into a disaster, August Belmont wrote Thurlow Weed to express his view that the
only way to effect re-union was by negotiations if possible. He called for a cessation to the war effort
because it was too costly in terms of human life and treasure.
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=70&subjectID=3
1863: In describing conditions in Memphis, TN,
a year after it had surrendered to forces of the Union Army, the New York
Times reported that “There remains in the city but a portion of the old
citizens, the balance are vagabonding in Dixie, or are carrying a musket in the
Southern army, or have left their bones on the battlefields of the South. Their
residences here have been seized by the Government, and to-day the palatial
dwellings of many an old aristocrat are occupied by National officials, and the
hordes of Jews, who follow in the rear of an army, like wolves behind the
hunters.” [Anti-Semitic references like this stand in stark contrast to
acceptance of Jews as can be seen by the change in the law allowing Rabbis to
serve as chaplains and the reality of the thousands of Jews who fought for the
federals, some of whom reached the rank of general.]
1863: The 11th Regiment of the New
York State which was commanded by Colonel Joachim Maidhof when it was mustered
into federal service in 1862 was mustered out of United States service today.
1864: Colonel Frederick Knefler commanded the
79th Indiana Infantry at the Battle of Peachtree Creek, part of
Sherman’s audacious campaign to capture Atlanta.
1864: Today, “at the battle near Peach Tree
Creek” near Atlanta, GA, “Colonel Edward S. Salomon, the commander of the 82nd
Regiment, Illinois Volunteers “performed a most gallant and meritorious part in
repulsing the repeated onslaughts made by the enemy” and “in the face of a
furious raking fire, held his line for four hours” after which “the enemy
withdrew from his front with great loss.”
1864: After three years, Aaron Lazarus who
risen from the rank of Private to that of Brevet Captain in the 28th
Regiment of United States volunteers completed his enlistment while serving as
the Regimental Adjutant
1865: Leopold Hoffman who had risen from the
rank of private to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant in the 12th
Cavalry completed his three-year enlistment today.
1865: Philadelphians Lt. Anton Goldschmidt,
Sergeant Ephraim Rosenthal, Quartermaster Sergeant Abraham Weinbach, Captain
Leopold Meyer, Captain Jacob Herzog and Sergeant Elias Reubenthal completed
their service with the 113th Regiment of the Twelfth Cavalry in the
Union Army.
1867: In St. Louis, MO, A.S. and Isabella Hill
gave birth to Washington University graduate and Republican party member Louis
P. Aloe, the “president of A.S. Aloe, Co, opticians” and the husband of Edith
Rosenblatt with whom he had three daughter – Clara, Viola and Louise.
1869: “The Innocents Abroad” Mark Twain’s
travelogue describing his visit to Europe and the Holy Land (including what is
now the state of Israel) is published.
For more about the famed American humorist’s attitude towards Jews see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/twain.html
1870(21st of Tammuz, 5630):
Forty-year-old French journalist Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol the son of Léon
Halévy passed away today in Washington, D.C.
1871: British Columbia joins the confederation
of Canada. In 1858, the first large body of Jews arrived in British Columbia
along with others seeking their fortunes in the Fraser River Gold Rush. By 1863, there were enough Jews living in
Victoria, B.C. to establish Congregation Emanu-El, now Canada's longest serving
synagogue. Ten years after B.C. joined the confederation, the Jewish community
would receive its next influx of settlers as refugees from Russian
anti-Semitism settled in the Canadian West.
1872: Beatrice Rachel Faudel, the daughter of
Helen Levy and Sir George Faudel and the granddaughter of Joseph Moses Levy
married Phillip G. Henriques of Grosvenor Square with whom she had one son born
in 1894.
1873(25th of Tammuz, 5633): Rabbi
Asron Gunizburg, the Austrian born son of Moses Gunzburg, the husband of
Caroline A. Kuh and the father of Virginia and Clara Gunizburg passed away
today in Boston.
1874: In Pittsburgh, PA, Mary Leavitt and
Samuel Levin gave birth to University of Pittsburgh Law School trained attorney
Leonard S. Levin, the wife of Stella Fink whom he married in 1906 and active
leader of the Jewish community as can be seen by his serving as President of
Rodef Shalom, vice president of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods
and first president of the Pittsburgh Lodge of B’nai B’rith.
1875(17th of Tammuz, 5635): Tzom
Tammuz
1875(17th of Tammuz, 5635):
Eighty-two-year-old Francis Bond Head, the grandson of “English poet and
dramatist Moses Mendes, the great-grandson of stockbroker James Mendes and the
great-great- grandson of Fernando Menes, the personnel physician of Catherine,
the wife of King Charles II passed away today.
1875: In New York, Emma Goodman and Israel
Stone gave birth Rosetta Stone, a teacher in the Antique Department of the New
York School of Applied Design for Women and a member of the New York Section of
the Council of Jewish Women who worked with “Jewish girls at the State
Reformatory for Women and House of Refuge.”
1875(17th of Tammuz, 5635):
Thuringen, Germany native Rosina Meyer Dreyfus, the mother of Isaac Dreyfus and
mother-in-law of Bertha Simon Dreyfus, passed away today after which she was
buried in the Congregation Anshe Emeth Cemetery in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
1876: Birthdate of German mathematician Otto
Blumenthal. Blumenthal converted at the
age of 18. He may have believed that he
would find the path to academic success a lot smoother as a Protestant. In the end, it did not save him from the
Nazis. Blumenthal died in concentration
camp in 1944.
1880: In Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany,
Julie Rosenberg, the Westphalia born daughter of Abraham Bendix Weinberg and
Frieda Sophia Weinberg and her husband Isaac Rosenberg gave birth to Albertina
Sophie Hedwig Rosenberg.
1880: In Skien, Norway, “Sigvard Johannessen of
Vinger and mother Amborlina (reportedly Throndsen) of Porsgrunn” gave birth to
University of Illinois trained architect George Awsumb who designed Baron
Hirsch Synagogue in Memphis, TN in the 1950’s which has been placed on the
NRHP.
1881: It was reported today that in Neu
Stettin, at least 30 anti-Semitic rioters who attacked the editor of the Neu
Stettiner Zeitung, were arrested today.
1881: Rabbi David Levy officiated at the
wedding of Phil Lewinson of Darlington, SC to Sarah Weinberg of Charleston, SC.
1881: “Jews In Spain”
published today, relied on information from the London Times to report that “In Spain, Praxedes M Sagasta the
President of the Council of Ministers wrote to a prominent European Jewish
author H. Guedalla that “article 1 of the Constitution of Spain is the most
decisive revocation of the edict of banishment against the Jews in the year
1492. Thus all of your coreligionists who wish can come to Spain without
any obstacle whatever…”
1882: “A Great Fire In Smyrna” published today
described the conflagration that left 6,000 people homeless including many of
the city’s sizable Jewish population.
The Jews are the primary agents “in the barter and sale of merchandise
from Asia, Syria, Baghdad and Persia.”
1882: During the Freight Handler’s Strike, the
strikers stopped providing food for the Jewish and Italian workers whom they
had convinced to honor their strike. Mr.
Wolkawoech, the President of the Jewish Freight Handlers’ Union reluctantly
provided enough funds to cover the cost of the evening meal. [Yes there were Russia Jews among the
striking workers as well as Russian Jews among what would later be called
scabs.]
1883: Birthdate of Bialystok native and CCNY
and Long Island College trained ophthalmologist
Nathan Cohen.
1883: In Hungary, as the trial of a group of
Jews charged with killing a Christian girl continued, it was reported that a
constable testified that he had tortured one of the prisoners with
thumbscrews.
1884: “Lamb and Mint Sauce” published today
described John Brady’s contention that the custom of eating tansy (bitter)
puddings and cakes at Easter was introduced by the monk as a symbolic
remembrance of the bitter herbs used by Jews at this time of year. The monks included bacon in their dishes “to
denote contempt for Judaism.” According
to Brady, the Jews “have contrived to diminish the bitter flavor” or their
tansy “by making a it into pickle for their paschal lamb.” From all of this has come the custom of
combing mint with sugar to create the mint sauce or jelly eaten with the leg of
lamb. [This was based on information provided by an annual publication, Clavis
Calendaraia.]
1885(8th of Av, 5645) Erev Tish’a
B’Av
1885: In Russia, Abraham and Fanny Paykel gave
birth to Ida Paykel Solkovitz, the wife of Sheboygan, WI, businessman Sam
Solovitz with whom she had five children and was a member of Avahas Sholem
Congregation, Hadassah and he Milwaukee Home for Aged Jews
1885: “Jews in Paris” published today
summarized a report by the Judische Presse that described the growth of the
Jewish population in Paris. In 1789,
there were only 500 Jews living in the French capital. The numbers have grown: 3,000 in 1806; 12,000
in 1842; 40,000 in 1872; more than 50,000 in 1885. Jews are more active in the general
population as can be seen by the fact that the number of Jewish generals has
grown from one in 1821 to five in 1878.
1886(17th of Tammuz, 5646): Tzom
Tammz
1886: Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell,
the Hampshire born son of Helen Skirving Mowbray and Rabbi Haim Herschell who” converted
from Judaism to Christianity and took a leading part in founding the British
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews” completed his term in
office as Lord Chancellor in Great Britain.
1887: Mrs. Betty Michaelis “began mandamus
proceedings” before Judge Potter today, “in which she asks that the Henrietta
Verien be commanded to restore her to membership on the ground that her
expulsion was not done according to law.” The legal action stemmed from a fight
that she had with Mrs. Henrietta Loser, the President of the Henrietta Verein.
1887: Louis Keptlovwitch, a Jewish immigrant
from Poland, who has been arrested on charges of bigamy, was confronted by both
of his wives – the one he married in Poland and the one he married in New York
– today.
1888: Isaac and Lotta Alper gave birth to
Abraham Joseph Alper, the husband of Lena Zion Alper.
1888: In Fall River, MA, founding of American
Brothers of Israel, a congregation that holds services daily at 8 a.m. and 7
p.m. that maintains a cemetery “southeast of the city, near the Rhode Island
state line.”
1889: In Hildesheim, Hanover, a Jewish couple,
Anna and Gustav Pommer gave birth to “one of the most powerful producers in
Germany in the United States Erich Pommer, the brother of movie producer Albert
Pommer, whose works included the famous The Blue Angel and the film version of
Faust.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690143/
1889: Effective today, Coney Island’s Brighton
Beach Hotel announces that it will completely exclude members of the “Hebrew
Race” as guests. The hotel was following
the policy adopted by Messers Cable and Breen the lessees of the New York
establishment.
1890: “How Jews May Be Harried” published today
reported that “when times are dull and the political barometer is set fair, the
Novoe Vremya finds special delight in attacking the Russian Jews” and in
calling for the expulsion of all the of the Jews from Russia.
1890: The manager of the Bank and Steamship
Passage at 78 Canal Street and his soliciting agent Louis Silikowitz, were
arrested on charges of having swindling their customers, most of whom were
Polish and Russian Jews out money with which they had been entrusted to buy
tickets for family members still in members.
1890: It was reported today that Sol B. Solomon
has raised $300 from the guests at the Long Beach Hotel to pay for the
excursions provided by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.
1890: A portion of the 12th annual
report of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children published today showed
expenditures of $3,221 and a balance of $7,126 “which is deposited in the seven
leading savings banks” in New York City.
1890: Birthdate of Theda Bara. Born Theodosia
Burr Goodman in a wealthy suburb of Cincinnati, Bara’s mother was Swiss and her
father was a Jewish tailor. She was known as a "vamp" and one of the
first "sex symbols" of the silver screen. She passed away in 1955.
1891: “Mercy for Russian Jews” published today
described a relaxation of “the persecution of the Jews” by the government. Decrees expelling Jewish artisans from St.
Petersburg have “been indefinitely postponed” and “and orders have been seen to
the press” to have newspapers “refrain from publishing articles like to excite
animosity against the Jews.”
1891: “The young man who had killed three
Russians” during an attack on the Jewish community near Veile, Russia” and
several other Jews were scheduled to go on trial today and when the expected
guilty verdict is returned the Jews will be shipped to Siberia.
1892(25th of Tammuz, 5652):
Eighteen-month-old Siegfried Bloch, the son of Leopold and Klara Bloch passed
away today after which he was buried in his hometown of Eichstetten.
1892: As of today, the coroner has not made a
determination in the cause of death of Behr Israelson. Doctors claim he died of
apoplexy but his Jewish neighbors claimed he was clubbed to death by a
policeman. The Jews would not let the coroner’s jury hear the case because
there it had no Jewish members.
1893: Three men who claim to be tailors and
Russian Jews were arrested and charged with assault at the Essex Market Police
Court based on evidence gathered Alter Shapiro, the Vice President of the
Hebrew Protective Society that showed them to be part of a ring that robs and
tortures Jews living on the lower east side.
1893: The Marshall, who had arrived at the
apartment of Mrs. Sarah Goldstein at 181 Orchard to execute the order of
eviction gave her an extra day to seek relief from the courts since she said
her six children who had measles were still too sick to be moved.
1894: Birthdate of Joseph Louis Felsenfeld, the
Columbia University trained dentist who practiced in Brooklyn and who lived at
909 Driggs Avenue in 1916 and 1917.
1894: In defending the blackballing of Mr.
Peixotto from the Republican Club as being based on reasons other than his
being Jewish, Chairman Joseph M. Deuel was reported today to have said that
“There are probably fifty Hebrews who are in good and regular standing in the
club…There are Hebrews on the Executive Committee of the club and on the
campaign committee.”
1895: “Hebrew Technical Institute Open”
published described the school’s unique summer course for which 200 boys
ranging in age from 12 to 15 have enrolled so that they can continue their
education in the workshops, laboratories and drawing rooms of the facilities on
Stuyvesant Street.
1895: Birthdate of Samuel Randolph Parnes, the
native of New York City and WW I veteran who was a textile manufacturing
executive and trustee of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1895: Wolf Silverman was arrested tonight and
“charged with an attempt to swindle the Empire Life Insurance Company.”
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-moholy-nagy-laszlo.htm
1896: Birthdate of Rome native Ernest Ascoli
who was deported from Drancy to Kovno Ghetto on Transport 73 on May 15, 1944 and died sometime during
that year.
1896(10th of Av, 5656): Nathan
Greenstein the co-owner of clothing business on Hester Street who was taken ill
last month and hospitalized in Mt. Sinai passed away today after which his
chevre chadish Society of Human Wisdom of the City of Pinsk refused to honor its
commitment resulting in a lawsuit in the Fourth Civil District Court in New
York.
1896: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and WW I
veteran Samuel Salzman who attended Columbia and was active in the Jewish
community as can be seen in his involvement with the Hebrew Orphans Asylum and
the Federation of Jewish Charities.
1896: It was reported today that an ambulance
had arrived too late yesterday to save the life of Charles Liebhaber who had
been ill for weeks but still insisted on observing the fast for the 9th
of Av.
1896: Herzl meets with the Association des
Etudiants Israëlites Russes.
1897: Funeral services were held today for Mrs.
Julia Lauterbach, the widow of Moses Lauterbach, at her home on East 58th
Street followed yb burial at Cypress Hills Cemetery. She was one of those who incorporated the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York, a group which served as Vice
President for 11 years.
1898: Among those serving with the 6th
Missouri Volunteer Infantry when it was mustered into service at Jefferson
Barracks for service in the Spanish-American War were Captains John H. Goldman
and Adolph J. Jacobs as well as Musicians Oscar Bennewitz and Lewis Bloch,
Corporal William A Feigel and dozens of privates.
1898: Second Lieutenant B. Albert Lieberman of
Kansas City was appointed to serve as an Assistant Surgeon in the 6th
Missouri Volunteer Infantry.
1898: Birthdate of New York native and Cornell
University trained research chemist, Nathaniel Fuchs, the husband of Jeanette
Fuchs and the father of Lucy Berkowoitz who “was credited with saving the Army
millions of dollars during World War II with the discovery of new method of
manufacturing khaki dye” for which he received a citation from the U.S. Army.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/01/27/84873805.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1898(1st of Av, 5658): Rosh Chodesh
Av
1898(1st of Av, 5658):
Forty-four-year-old Eliza Annie Marston Rothschild, the non-Jewish daughter of
Ellen Caroline Marston and Thomas Phillip Marston and the wife of Jacob Henry
Rothschild passed away today a month before the fifth birthday of her daughter
Dorothy who gained famed literary lioness Dorothy Parker.
1899(13th of Av, 5659):
Seventy-four-year-old Charlotte de Rothschild, Paris born daughter of James
Mayer Rothchild and Betty Von Rothschild and French socialist wife of Nathaniel de Rothschild passed away
today.
1900: New York City architect E.G. Cohen, the
namesake for the E.G. Cohen Medal,
mourned the death of his father, Jacob Cohen, the Savannah born
wholesale grocer who became a leading cotton exchange broker who passed away on July 19 at his cottage in
Sullivan County, NY.
https://www.cohenconnect.org/medalists
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/07/21/102611521.html?pageNumber=7
1901(4th of Av, 5661): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1901: “The Jews” published today provided a
review of the Volume One of The Jewish Encyclopedia, “prepared by more than 400
scholars and specialist” under the leadership of managing editor Dr. Isidor
Singer published The Funk and Wagnalls Company.
1902: In “Is Yiddish A Jargon” published today,
A. B. Rhine defended Yiddish against the claim that it was a jargon and not
language contending “a language derives its importance from its literature and
in this respect Yiddish by no means inferior to any of the minor languages of
Europe” such as Danish or Norwegian while adding that “as a matter of fact,
Yiddish has ‘literary monuments’ of such lasting value that they will outlive
the language itself.”
1903: Herzl writes to Leopold Greenberg (“an
English Zionist and future editor of the Jewish
Chronicle”) in London to do whatever possible to revive the Sinai
enterprise. This is a reference to offers by the British Foreign Office to
allow Jews from Eastern Europe to settle in a part of the Sinai Peninsula known
as the Brook of Egypt. Another, better
known of these schemes, was the offer to allow Jews to settle in Uganda as a
temporary Jewish homeland. These
desperate proposals came against a backdrop of Pogroms in Russia and a general
worsening of conditions for Jews in Eastern Europe. While Zionists in German,
Austria and Britain were willing to consider such alternatives, the Zionists of
eastern Europe rejected them out of hand.
Those living in the greatest physical saw the spiritual danger in
accepting anything less than Eretz Israel as the homeland of the Jewish
people. In the man time Herzl wrote
desperately, "We must indeed take East Africa, or at least the Charter,
but we must not deceive ourselves as to the fact that all the non-English Jews
are against East Africa. I shall have to use a great deal of patience for it,
whereas El Arish is popular." Herzl also prepares steps to approach
Portugal for a Charter for Mozambique, Belgium for a territory in the Congo and
Italy for a section of Tripoli.
1904(8th of Av, 5664): Eighty-two-year-old
Marcus Goldman a German-born American businessman and entrepreneur who founded
Goldman Sachs which became one of the world's largest global investment banks
passed away.
http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=100
1905(17th of Tammuz, 5665): A month
after the Russian fleet was annihilated by the Japanese bring on a crisis which
would lead to a mini revolution in 1906.
1905: Birthdate in what was then Austrian
Galicia native Moshe Flimann the electrical engineering student who made
Aliyah after having been banished from
the Soviet Union in 1930 and who served as mayor of Haifa from 1969 to 1973.
1905: Today in Yekaterinoslav (present-day
Dnipro, Ukraine), a pogrom was stopped by the Jewish self-defense group. One
man in the group was killed.
1906: Antoine Louis Targe, a French officer
whose investigations helped to establish the innocence of Dreyfus was made an
officer in the Legion of Honor.
1906: Dreyfus was made a Knight in the Legion
of Honor.
1907(9th of Av, 5667): Fast not
observed because it is Shabbat.
1907: In Pittsburgh, PA, Jean Jennie
"Czarne" M. Sapper Sapir, the Russian born “daughter of Yossel Avnet
(Avnetvajnt) and Toibe Leah Fainsod and her husband George Mayer Sapper gave
birth to Elisabeth (Pacht) Avnet the sister of Herbert Sapper.
1908: In a letter to the New York Times, William Maude provides commentary on the antiquity
of an ancient copy of the Book of Joshua obtained by Dr. Moses Gaster in
Samaria.
1909: George Clemenceau, who was “more
cognizant of Jews that the average politician or journalist of the Third
Republic” and who carried on an “eight-year battle in his newspapers La Justice
and L’Aurore to gain justice for Alfred Dreyfus, resigned as Prime Minister of
France today.
1910: Jacob Marinoff, the Pinsk born son of
Meyer and Leah Maifnoff who was the
founder of the Yiddish weekly Der Graiser Kundes (The Big Stick) married Esther
Salkowitz today.
1910: In the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood of
Jerusalem founded by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Porush Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Leib
Auerbach, who was rosh yeshiva of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva, and Rebbetzin
Tzivia gave birth to Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, the rosh yeshiva of the Kol
Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel
1911: In Great Britain, the Home Secretary
offered additional amendments to the Sunday closing clauses of the Shop Hours
Bill.
1911: Arthur David Samuel who would die while
serving as a 2nd Lt. in the British Army during World War I married
Mary Esther Jewell today.
1911: In New York City, the Jewish Morning
Journal, reported that Turkish Government had issued “orders to the Governor of
Jerusalem to facilitate naturalization of Jews as Ottoman citizens.”
1912: Jewish immigrants Clara (Hessner) and
Joseph Boudin gave birth to St. John’s Law School trained civil liberties
attorney Leonard Boudin whose clients included baby-doctor Benjamin Spock and
Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame who was the husband of poet Jean
Roisman and nephew of equally famous and controversial attorney Louis Boudin
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/26/obituaries/leonard-boudin-civil-liberties-lawyer-dies-at-77.html
1913: It was reported today that “an analysis
of the relations existing between the Jews and modern capitalism will be
published shortly by E.P. Dutton and Company under the title The Jews and
Modern Capitalism by German author Werner Sombert “who has devoted himself
to” economic research.
1913: In Philadelphia, Norfolk native Edward L. Brylawski, a member of the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange and Hortense
Mendelsohn gave birth to their fourth child Michael Brylawski.
1914: As Europe hurdles mindlessly through a
series of thoughtless actions that will lead to WW I with all that that would
mean for the world in general and the Jewish population in particular, “Germany
began mobilizing its Navy and told shipping companies to bring their vessels
back to German ports in a move that would avoid confiscation and help enhance
its supply capacities.
1915(9th of Av, 5675): Tish'a B'Av
1915: Georgia Governor Harris “announced
tonight that he would accompany the Prison Commission” when it goes “to
Milledgeville to investigate the attack on Leo M. Frank.”
1915: Today, following the attack on Leo M.
Frank by a fellow prisoner,” Rabbi David Marx and H.A. Alexander, the attorney
for Frank in his final battle in the courts” arrived at Milledgeville “to
comfort Mrs. Frank who has been under great strain since the attack on her
husband.
1915: Today the Austrians conquered Russian
controlled Lublin, Poland. This would appear to be the realization of a
deathbed prophecy by the Chozeh of Lublin (Yaakov Yitzchak Horowitz) came
true. When he died on July 15, 1815 (9th
of Av, 5575) he said that 100 years from the day of his death, the Russians
would lose their control over Poland.
1916(19th of Tammuz, 5676): 2nd Lt.
Joel Jacobs who had been at the Perse School, Cambridge before the war was
killed today while serving with the Yorkshire Regiment.
1916: Alexander Protopopov, the Chairman of the
Russian-American Chamber of Commerce who would express his belief that “the
Jews will get equal rights in Russia” after he became Minister of the Interior
met with Czar Nicholas II prior to his appointment to that important position.
1916(19th of Tammuz, 5676): Eighty-three-year-old
Algernon E. Sydney, not be confused with the 17th English political
of the same name, passed away today in
London.
1916: “Following an appropriation of $400,000
for Jewish relief in Russia, the Joint Distribution Committee of Jewish Relief
Funds, which has distributed a total of more than $4,000,000 announced” today
that a committee of five headed by Rabbi Judah L. Magnes, Chairman of the
Kehiliah, would soon be sent abroad “to study conditions in the warring
countries on the eastern front and investigate the methods employed in the
distribution of the relief funds.”
1916(19th of Tammuz, 5676): Simon
Lewis, a collector of old Hebrew manuscripts passed away today at Spitalfields.
1917: During WW I and the Russian Revolution,
in Minsk, Balta and Kherson “provincial organizations including zemstvos,
committees of soldiers and workmen and town executives” issued a “strong appeal
to soldiers to ignore all anti-Semitic incitement to attack Jews.”
1917: The Union of Italian Rabbis was formed
today in Bologna.
1917: In Warsaw, “at a meeting of the Municipal
Council, anti-Jewish members charge that Jews gave the German and Austrian
governments the idea that these two nationalities were the masters of Poland”
and that “prominent Jews in Berlin and Vienna are using their influence against
the Poles.
1917: According to a statement given to the
Associated Press, “the disaster that befell the Armenian nation is now being
meted out to the mixed non-Turkish population of Syria and Palestine” including
the Jews in Jerusalem.
1918: During WW I, Louis Henry Cohn of Brooklyn
took part in the fighting along the Ourcq River in France that would last for
five days.
1918: Pediatrician Sophie Rabinoff who was part
of the “first American Zionist Medical” sent to Palestine by Hadassah in 1918”
was photographed today in London.
https://jwa.org/media/sophie-rabinoff-in-uniform
1918: Plans are going forward at Camp Upton on
Long Island for the consecration of “an ark donated by State Supreme Court Just
Irving Lehman” in the military camp’s non-denominational chapel.
1919: Birthdate of Shlomo Zalman Auerbach an
Orthodox Jewish rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva of the Kol Torah yeshiva in
Jerusalem, Israel. “Auerbach was the first child to be born in the Shaarei
Chesed neighborhood of Jerusalem founded by his maternal grandfather, Rabbi
Shlomo Zalman Porush, after whom he was named.”
1919: Dr. Rudolph I Coffee, the former director
of the social service department of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith in
Chicago and the current Rabbi at Temple Judea in Chicago “preached today in the
Methodist Episcopal Church” in Chicago.
1919: At a meeting of the Municipal Council in
Warsaw, “anti-Jewish members charged that Jews gave the German and Austrian
Governments the idea that two nationalities were the masters of Poland and of
using the influence of prominent Jews in Berlin and Vienna against Poles.”
1920: Birthdate of Lev Aronin the native of the
Soviet Union who became International Chess Master in 1950.
1920: Birthdate of Detroit native Byron Lester
Krieger the foil, saber and épée fencer, first inspired “by his English teacher
Beatrice Merriam who “represented the United States in the Olympics in 1952 in
Helskinki and 1956 in Melbourne”
1920: As the French sought establish their
control over Syria, King Faisal who had expressed the belief that Zionism was
not inimical to the interests of the Arabs, sent word that he was submitting to
French General Gouraud’s ultimatum that he disband his army and submit to
French authority.
1921(14th of Tammuz, 5681): Benjamin
Bennett Levy, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War,
passed away today.
1922: In Vilna, the administrator of the city’s
Jewish Hospital, Solomon Kagan and his wife Leah gave birth to Saul Kagan the
refugee from Hitler’s Europe who “was the founding director of the Conference
on the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1922: In Oradea, Romania, Chaim Meir Hager,
“the fourth grand rabbi of Vyzhnytsia (Viznitz in Yiddish), the village in the
Carpathian foothills in what is today western Ukraine” and his wife gave birth
to Mordechai Hager, the rabbi who led the “Viznitz sect” which settled in
Kaser, an “upstate New York village.” (As reported by Joseph Berger)
1923: Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak,
a dressmaker gave birth to children’s author Jack Sendak the brother of Maurice
Sendak.(As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1924: Birthdate of Ann Gilbert. Born in
Szydlowiec, Poland, Ann was a Holocaust survivor. She spent over four years in
concentration camps and was liberated in April 1945. She married Fred Gilbert
(Felek Gebotszrajber) on Jan. 2, 1946, in Scwabisch Hall, Germany. Ann was a
consummate homemaker, an accomplished seamstress, and devoted to her family.
She and Fred lived in Cedar Rapids from 1949 to 1986, where she was an active
member of Temple Judah and in the community. She was a lifetime member of
Hadassah. From 1986 to 2003, Ann and Fred lived in Los Angeles, where she was a
much sought after seamstress to film and motion picture stars. Ann and Fred
were also very active in the survivor community. They were regular speakers at
the Simon Wiesenthal Center-Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. She and Fred
lectured frequently about their experiences. In 2003, she and Fred returned to
Cedar Rapids to be near to Lena. Ann remained a constant source of inspiration
until she passed away in 2008 at the age of 84.
1925: “Dr. Joseph A. Rosen returned on the
Leviathan of the United States Lines today from an extended tour through
Russia, the Ukraine and the Crimea, after expending $800,000 for the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in settling in the Crimea and the Ukraine
20,000 Jews on farmlands since December, 1922.”
1926(9th of Av, 5686): Tish’a B’Av
1926: Maxwell “Mordecai” Abbell, the Lodz born
son of Morris and Freida Abbell who owned a chain of hotels and office
buildings, and his wife Fannie Abbell gave birth to their daughter Nahami
Abbell.
1927: “Representatives of the Jewish population
of the city of Homel protested to the Soviet authorities regarding the
treatment of Jewish cemeteries by the Red Army was has constructed stables on
the oldest Jewish cemetery in that town.
1927: “Membership in the Society of Free and
Accepted Masons, known as the Free Masons, one of the most influential social
factors in American life, is widely spread among American rabbis, according to
the result of a survey conducted and made public today by Sig. Saxe, of 200
Fifth Avenue. New York.”
1927: Birthdate of Barbara Rose Berman, the
Bronx native who gained fame as “Barbara Bergmann, a pioneer in the study of
gender in the economy who herself overcame barriers to women in the world of
academic economics.” (As reported by Nelson D. Schwartz)
1928: In Brooklyn, Isaac Solow, a bricklayer
and Jennie (Brill) Solow gave birth to Manhattan real estate developer Sheldon
Henry Solow, the husband of Mia Fonssagrives Solow. (As reported by Robert D.
McFadden)
1929(12th of Tammuz, 5689): Parashat
Chukat-Balak
1929: Today, “Joseph Polstein, president of the
Hennessy Realty Company, a Manhattan apartment house builder is on his way to
Leningrad, at the invitation of the Soviet Government” as a representative of a
group of New York builders who are “studying conditions in the Russian city
with a view to erecting a large group of multi-family houses of the type now
being constructed in New York.”
1929: Dr. Henry Moskowitz, executive chairman
of the American Ort is scheduled to address the International Ort Conference in
Berlin today.
1930:
Maxim Litvinov is named the Soviet Union's Commissar of Foreign
Affairs. Born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz
Wallach-Finkelstein in 1876, into
a wealthy Jewish banking family in Białystok in Congress Poland, he joined the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898. The party was an illegal
organization, and it was customary to use pseudonyms. He changed his name to
Maxim Litvinov, but was also known as Papasha and Maximovich.
Over the years, his politics become more radical in response to the
increasingly repressive policies of the Russian government. He joined the Bolsheviks where he became a
confidante of Lenin. Litvinov carried
out a variety of diplomatic missions for the Soviets after the Russian
Revolution. As Foreign Minister,
Litvinov was a key participant that led to recognition of the Soviet government
by the United States in 1933. Litivinov
sought to create an anti-fascist alliance with western powers during the
1930’s. When the British and French
caved in at Munich, Stalin decided to work on developing relations with
Hitler’s government. To that end, he
removed Litvinov since it would not due to have a Jew negotiating with the Nazi
government. After the Nazis attacked the
Soviet Union, Litvinov was sent to Washington to negotiate a Lend-Lease that
would provide the arms the Soviets needed to meet the Nazi onslaught.
1931: According to a report Ralph Hayes gave to
Winthrop W. Aldrich, the chairman of the distribution committee of the New York
Community trust today, the University of Jerusalem received $11,383 from the
trust during the first six months of 1931.
1932(16th of Tammuz, 5692): Sadie
Strauss (nee Katz), the widow of Erwin Katz and mother of Howard G. Strauss
passed away today in New York City.
1932: Caroline Rauschkolb, the widow of the
late Frank Rauschkolb and mother of Abe, Benny and Leo Rauschkolb passed away
today in New York.
1933: Cardinal Pacelli issued a concordant
known as the Hitler Concordant. Hitler described it as” unrestricted acceptance
of National Socialism by the Vatican." Cardinal Pacelli later became Pope
Pious XII. In its spirit all teaching priests were to greet their students with
"Heil Hitler, praised be Jesus Christ." (editor’s note: There is not space to review
the pernicious effect of this agreement but consider the following When
Einstein was told how Pius XII directed a Polish priest to keep silent about the
murder of Jews, because of the Concordat the Holy See had signed with Nazi
Germany "obliged the Church to tread softly", he replied "There
are cosmic laws, Dr. Hermanns. They cannot be bribed by prayers or incense.
What an insult to the principles of creation. But remember, that for God a
thousand years is a day. This power maneuver of the Church, these Concordats
through the centuries with worldly powers... the Church has to pay for
it.")
1933: In
Germany, two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded
through the streets.
1933(26th of Tammuz, 5693): Seventy-year-old Sir Harry Lawson Webster
Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham GCMG, CH, TD, JP, DL, a British newspaper
proprietor and a Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons between
1885 and 1916 when he inherited his peerage passed away today.
1933: In London, 500,000 people marched against
anti-Semitism. This may be seen as part of companion piece to a rally held in
March, 1933 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The demonstration in London was certainly not
representative of British public opinion or policy. Many of the movers and shakers in Great
Britain were impressed with the
cleansing effect that the Nazis were bringing to Germany, marking them as
pro-German, anti-Semitic or both.
1933: A Teachers Summer Institute conducted by
the North East Religious Union in cooperation with the University of Syracuse
is scheduled to come to an end today.
1934: In Rochester, NY, Ben Krasnow, “a
commercial artist (sign painter), and to the former Gertrude Goldstein from
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada both of Russian Jewish parentage” gave birth to
Robert Alan "Bob" Krasnow the music executive who re-vitalized
Elektra Records. (As reported by Ben Sisario)
1934: The Court of Appeal today quashed the
death sentence passed by the District Court on Abraham Stavsky on June 8 for
the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, prominent labor leader and member of the
Jewish Agency Executive of Palestine. The Appeal Court found that the evidence
was insufficient. Thousands of
supporters of Stavsky, who dodged a date with the hangman, reportedly danced in
the streets of Jerusalem as they celebrated a victory for the Revisionist
faction of the Zionist movement.
1935(19th of Tammuz, 5695): Parashat
Pinchas
1935: In Shanghai, “the Municipal Council,
after an investigation, said today that the reports of ritualistic murders in a
Jewish cemetery were false.”
1935(19th of Tammuz, 5695):
Ninety-year-old German native, Rabbi Joseph Kahn, the husband of Rosalie Kahn
and father of University of Michigan trained civil engineer Moritz Kahn who is
credited with the creation of “pre-case reinforced concrete ships where were
used by the English Admiralty in W.W I” passed away today after which he was
interred at the Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.
1935(19th of Tammuz, 5696):
Seventy-eight-year-old Minnie Ranshohoff, the “daughter of Julius and Duffie
Freiberg” and the wife of Dr. Joseph Ranshoff with whom she had had five
children, passed away today.
1936(1st of Av, 5696): Rosh Chodesh Av
1936: Birthdate of Harvey David Luber. The
Chicago native became a first-rate photographer, a leader of the Little Rock
Jewish community and a great friend.
1936: “Earl Peel, who was Secretary of State
for India” has been name to a chair “a commission that is inquiring into the
unrest in Palestine” the other members of which are Field Marshall Sir William
Birdwood, Sir Horace Rumbold “who has a fluent command of Arabic and has been
Ambassador to Constantinople” and “Reginald Coupland, Professor of Colonial
History at Oxford University.
1936: The Palestine Post reported that since according to the 1935 Official
Palestinian Report on Migration certain professions became overcrowded, the
government had restricted the admission to the country of all those belonging
to the medical, legal and engineering professions. [Editor’s note: This
seemingly innocuous ruling came at a time when educated Jews were trying to
leave Germany.] Arab snipers shot at British soldiers patrolling the Nablus
Road in Jerusalem. Lengths of railway track were found removed near Tulkarm.
Arab hawkers asked for police protection in order to be able to sell their
wares. They complained that the general strike brought them ruin, starvation
and death. Several more prominent members of the Arab "National
Guard" were interned at Sarafand
1937: Today, The American Citizen Members of
the Arab National League and “a group of Americans interested in the Far East
question” including Professor Elihu Grant of Haverford College and Dr. Leland
W. Parr of the George Washington Medical School urged President Roosevelt “to
take no part in the Jewish-Arab controversy.”
1937: Today, William Green, the President of
the American Federation of Labor issued “an indignant statement to the press”
expressing his opposition to the proposed portioning of Palestine and accusing
the British of “cool persecution of the Jews.”
1938(21st of Tammuz, 5698):
Forty-five-year-old Julius S. Berg, the Manhattan born son of Morris and Celia
(Weinstein) Berg who was wounded at Arras, France in May of 1918 and who went
to serve in both houses of the New York state legislature while being married
to Rose Schram passed away today.
1938: “The Henlein newspaper Die Zeit” reported
today “that two more important industrial concerns owned by Jews – the
Boemish-Krumau engine works owned by Ignatz Spiro his sons and the Nestomicer
sugar refinery owned by Dr. Bloch-Bauer – are leaving the Sudeten German area
for Prague which will cost 400 Germans and 199 Czechs to lose their jobs.
1939(4th of Av, 5699): Dutch
sculptor Joseph Mendes da Costa passed away.
“Best known for making sculptures and ornaments for buildings” Mendes da
Costa was a member of “Ars et Labor” which would become the Dutch version of
Art Nouveau.
1939: British policy on Palestine--particularly
the latest decision to cut off legal immigration for six months, beginning Oct.
1--came under heavy fire in the House of Commons tonight. The opposition
Laborites contended that the decision to suspend immigration was proof of
failure of the government's new policy.
1939:
Birthdate of Judy Chicago who for over four decades Chicago has been a
leading educator, artist and shaper of the feminist movement. One of her most famous works is the
multi-media history of women in Western Civilization entitled “The Dinner Party.”
1940: “The Breeze and I,” a popular song with
English lyrics by Al Stillman “first reached the Billboard magazine charts
today and lasted 9 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.”
1940: Ten-year-old David Judah Lawrence, the
future alpine skiing race arrived in New York aboard the Pan Am Yankee Clipper
thanks to the visas given to him and his family by “Portuguese consul Aristides
de Sousa Mendes.”
1941: A Jewish ghetto at Minsk, Belorussia, is established.
1941: Today, marked the celebration of the 50th
anniversary of City Park during which Felix J. Dreyfous “received a golden bowl
filled with fifty park-grown roses “ at a time that Dreyfous was celebrating
“his 50th consecutive year as member of the park of board of
commissioners” which he now served as President.
1942: The first detachment of the U.S. Women’s
Army Auxiliary Corps (WAC’s) begins basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Among this group of volunteers are twelve Jewish women: Ruth Ginns, Beatrice
Berg, Carolyne Casper and Jean Korn from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kathryne
Goldfluss, Rose Ross and Joan Strongin from New York, New York; Bee Rosenberg
and Ruth Spivak from Chicago, Illinois; Rita Fink and Isabel Bayley of Buffalo,
New York; and Elizabeth Morgenstern of Seattle, Washington.
1942: The Jews of Kleck tried to revolt as the
Germans circled their town. Only a few hundred escaped. The 1,000 remaining
Jews were shot dead.
1942: In Cologne, “Jewish children and some of
their teachers including Erich Klibanksy” were deported to Minsk today.
1942: The Germans murder 1000 Jews at Kleck, Belorussia; 400
flee into forests. Two from the latter group, Moshe Fish and Leva Gilchik (from
nearby Kopyl), will form a partisan group;
1942: The Jews from Kowale Panskie, Poland are deported, to the Chelmno
death camp.
1942: In Warsaw, Rabbi Alexander Zusha
Friedman, a “leader in Agudat Israel, called on the people not to oppose the
Germans with force.”God will not permit his people to be destroyed. We must
wait and a miracle will certainly occur." Agudat Israel, like many groups
in the Judenrat, were afraid that any "violent" opposition would mean
the liquidation of the ghetto. http://jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?search=warsaw
1943(17th of Tammuz, 5703):Tzom Tammuz
1943(17th of Tammuz, 5703): Five hundred slave
laborers are murdered at Czestochowa, Poland.
1943: Over two thousand Jews are deported from Holland to
Sobibór.
1943: Two Jews escaped from Sobibór
1943: General Leslie Grove, the director of the
Manhattan Project acknowledged J. Robert Oppenheimer’s importance to the
program to build the Atomic Bomb when he issued a written order to the
Manhattan Engineer District commanding them to approve Oppie’s security
clearance regardless of any negative information that might have been gathered.
1944: “Since You Went Away” a film about the
U.S. home-front in WW II, produced by David O. Selznick who also wrote the
screenplay and with music by Max Steiner was released in the United States by
United Artists.
1944: As of today, almost all of the Jews of
Rhodes “had been captured and were being held in improvised concentration
camps” while they were being robbed of their valuables and their homes were
being looted by the Nazis. (Editor’s Note: “At this point one should mention
the humanitarian stance shown by the Turkish consul, Selahettin Ulkumen, who
intervened to save not only Turkish nationals but whole families as well, even
at the remotest proof of their Turkish citizenship. He managed to save from the
Nazis approximately 40 Jews who would have otherwise been led to death. For his
acts, he was awarded after the War the title of "Righteous among the
Nations" by Yad Vashem.”)
1944: The most famous plot to kill Hitler
failed. This event has been romanticized by various revisionists. The plotters
realized that they could not win the war. They thought that with Hitler gone,
they could at least negotiate a peace treaty with the West. The plotters were
not only incompetent, they were delusional as well. [For more about people who
really worked to opposed Hitler see the recently publish “Red Orchestra.”]
1945:Columbia Law School trained attorney
Laurence Adolph Steinhardt, “the Jewish son of Adolph Maximillian Steinhardt
(one of the founders and executive heads of National Enameling and Stamping
Co.) and Addie Untermyer Steinhardt (a sister to noted lawyer Samuel Untermyer)”
began serving as the United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia following his
service as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.
1946: Birthdate of Israel Carmi (Weinstein) the
native of Egypt who perished in 1968 at the age of 22 when the Israeli
Submarine Dakar sank.
1947: “More than 4,500 unauthorized Jewish
immigrants who were deported from Hafia, ostensibly to Cyprus, are being
returned to France, informed quarters indicated tonight.”
1947: Today a Haifa court order three Americans
– Captain Bernard Marks, the skipper of the Exodus, Arthur Ritzer the ship’s
cook from Brooklyn and Cyril Weinstein, a seaman from New York – “held under
$4,000 bond each for trial within fifteen days on two charges, ‘abetting
persons to illegally immigrate to Palestine’ and ‘being members of the crew of
a Haganah ship which carried 4,700 illegal immigrants into Palestine waters.”
1948: Samuel Rothberg, who has just returned
from Palestine “where he made a survey on the settlement of Jewish displaced
persons” said that the “extension of the truce in Palestine has proved
disadvantageous to Israel” since among other things, it has disrupted Israel’s
economy because of the country’s limited manpower.
1948: “Jewish sources said today that 1,500
Jewish men women and children” have left Sofia, Bulgaria
1949(23rd of Tammuz, 5709):
Fifty-nine-year-old Polish born “trade union official Nathan Schedletzsky, a
member of the “Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America” and the “business agent
for the “Pants-makers Local No.8” passed away today in New York City.
1949: Birthdate of Jean-Louis Cohen, “a French
historian of architecture and urbanism.”
1949: Israel's 19-month War of Independence
ended. The government of Syria signed the last of four armistices, which marked
the end of open warfare. The cessation of hostilities did not bring peace since
the Arab states refused to come to grips with the reality of the existence of
Israel.
1950: Harry Gold, the son of Jewish immigrants
from Russia pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets
from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
Gold’s Jewish pedigree provided fodder for anti-Semites who sought to
make being Jewish and being Communist (or disloyal to America) one and the same
thing.
1950: “The Men” directed by Fred Zinnemann,
produced by Stanley Kramer, written by Carl Foreman, with music by Dimitri
Tiomkin was released by United Artists today in the United States.
1950: In Israel, doctors employed by the Health
Ministry will go on strike today unless their demands for increased pay are
met.
1951: Abdullah Ibn Hussein Jordan's King was
assassinated in Jerusalem. He was attending Friday prayers at a mosque when he
was killed by those who were afraid he was negotiating with Israel. His
grandson, Hussein, became the next King of Jordan. The assassination influenced
the young king
1951: “The Law and the Lady” a comedy directed
and produced by Edwin H. Knopf was released by MGM today in the United States.
1953(8th of Av, 5713): Erev Tish’a
B’Av observed for the first time during the Presidency of Ike Eisenhower.
1954(19th of Tammuz, 5714): Herman
Mantell, the husband of Carrie Mantell passed away today after which he was
buried at Springfield Gardens in Queens County, NY.
1954:
United States Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accepts the resignation of his
aide Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn was the chief
counsel of the Senate Committee that McCarthy used to conduct his
investigations that smeared people, ruined lives and unearthed no “Communist
conspiracy among those he paraded before the television lights. All of those right-wing anti-Semites seemed
to lose sight of fact that McCarthy’s chief henchman was one of those “New York
Jews.”
1955(1st of Av, 5715): Rosh Chodesh
Av
1955: “You’re Never Too Young,” a comedy
co-starring Jerry Lewis and directed by Norman Taurog and with a screenplay by
Sidney Shelton (each of whom was Jewish) was released today in Los Angeles.
1955(1st of Av, 5715):
Sixty-nine-year-old Edward S. Siskind, the Russian born Jew who was the first
person of his faith “to participate in athletics at Fordham, a Jesuit
university” where played baseball, football l and basketball and coached the
football team in 1918, passed away today.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Edward_Siskind.html
1956(12th of Av,5716):
Eighty-three-year-old Jassy Rumanian native and a partner in Aron Brothers,
Elia Aron a manufacturer of hats and caps for boys and men who at the age of 15
came to the United States where he “was an organizer of the association that published the Jewish
Daily Forward and raised three children – Leon, Sidney and Frieda – with his
wife Molly Segal Aron passed away today
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/07/21/94299674.html?pageNumber=15
1956: Birthdate of Miami Beach, FL native and
NYU educated composer and music professor Michael Gordon, the husband of Julia
Wolfe and co-founder of the “Bang on a Can music collective and festival.”
https://michaelgordonmusic.com/
1957(21st of Tammuz, 5717): Parashat
Matot
1957(21st of Tammuz, 5717):
Seventy-eight-year-old New York native and Columbia trained cardiologist Dr.
Alfred Einstein Cohn, “an authority on the human heart and one of the first
physicians to make electrocardiograms” who was the husband of Ruther Walker
Price Cohn passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/23/84736623.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1958: At the New Montefiore Cemetery in
Pinelawn, L.I., “Rabbi Nissin Telushkin, honorary president of the Orthodox
Rabbinical Council recited the prayers for the dead” when five hundred people
gathered at the gravesite of Vladmir Jabotinsky, “Zionist leader an founder of
the Jewish Legion during WW I to mark the 18th anniversary of his
death.
1959(14th of Tammuz, 5719):
Forty-eight-year-old “Morrie (Morris) Aronivoch, the Superior, Wisconsin major
league outfielder nicknamed “Snooker” who played six seasons with the Phillies,
Reds and Giants after a successful collegiate basketball career at U of
Wisconsin-Superior and served with the U.S. Army in the Pacific during WW II
passed away today shortly before his
“his third anniversary.”
1959: Birthdate of Samuel Israel III, the New
Orleans born incarcerated hedge fund manager who was the subject of Octopus”
Sam Israel, the Secret Market and Wall Street’ Wildest Con by Guy Lawson
1960: The head of the Physics Department at the
Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
1961: “Take Good Care of My Baby” a song
written by the Jewish team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin was released as a
“45.” (If you know what the number means, you probably grew up in what some
called the golden age of Rock and Rool)
1961: The West End production “Stop The World –
I Want To Get Off” a musical created by Anthony Newley who “was Jewish through
his maternal grandmother.” Opened today.
1962: Pope
John XXIII sent invitations to all 'separated Christian churches and
communities,' asking each to send delegate-observers to the upcoming Vatican II
Ecumenical Council in Rome. Vatican II would result in an improvement in the
relationship between the Jewish Community and the Roman Catholic Church. Of course, there are those that would that
anything would have to be an improvement over Pope John’s predecessor, Pope
Pious, the Pope of the Holocaust.
1963(28th of Tammuz, 5723): Parashat
Matot-Masei
1963: “Former members of the Fedayeen suicide
squads that raided Israel during the nineteen-fifties” were among those who
were “shot a Mezza Prison” following the failed attempt by followers of Egypt
President Nasser to overthrow the government in Damascus.
1964: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today in Brooklyn for f Dr. Herman Bernard, the husband of Sally Birnbuam with
whom he raised four children – Rudolph, Alfred, Beverly and Joseph Bernard and
who was the “treasurer of the Brooklyn Zionist Region.
1965:
Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court. Fortas was
a close friend of Johnson’s; one of the few people who could speak frankly with
Johnson. Fortas was “nominally” Jewish
and he warned Johnson that the American Jewish Community would not see him as
the right person to hold what, since the days of Brandeis, had become “the
Jewish chair” on the High Court.
1966(3rd of Av, 5726):
Sixty-five-year-old Warsaw born “Rabbi Zvi Eisenstadt, a member of the
presidium of Agudath Israel and of the Union Orthodox Rabbis who lived in Tel
Aviv during WW II and came to the United States in 1946 where he raised his son
Joseph with his wife Reisi passed away today.
1967(12th of Tammuz, 5727): “As he
was hard at work on the final revision of his latest book,”
fifty-eight-year-old linguist Morris Swadesh passed away after suffering a
heart attack.
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1968.70.4.02a00070
1968(24th of Tammuz, 5728): Parashat
Pinchas
1968(24th of Tammuz, 5728):
Eighty-six-year-old Abraham Bitensky, “who retired in 1942 as president of the
Abe Bitensky and Brothers, rayon and silk convertors” and the brother of Isaac
Bitenksy passed away today in Far Rockaway, Queens.
1969: In an event that transcended national,
religious and all such boundaries, Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon today.
1969: In response to Nasser’s War of Attrition
which was the Arab response to Israel’s attempt to negotiate a peace after the Six-Day
War, Operation Boxer began with a series of crippling air attacks.
1969: Israeli commandos successfully finish
their attack on Green Island by completely destroying the island fortress. The press hails the attack as an Israeli
Navronne, after the fictional island in the movie “The Guns of Navronne.” But the casualties were not fiction. Not only were they real, they were also higher
than expected. The Israelis learned from
the mission and went on to improve the functionality of their units.
1970: Today,
a permit for the demolition of
The Gates of Heaven Synagogue also known
in Madison, WI as the “Old Synagouge” was obtained to make way for development
1971: Nessim (Max) Cohen, the Moroccan born
Israeli boxer who is he French middle weight champion, was in New York to
promote his upcoming “bout with Emile Griffith, a five-time world champion.
1971: Syria and Jordan’s armies exchange fire
over the common frontier. This would prove to be prelude to a Syrian attempt to
seize Jordan, part of Syrian President Assad’s goal to create a Greater
Syria. In one of those strange twists,
Israel moved tanks towards the area of conflict which Washington’s way of
letting the Syrians know that they should back off and leave Jordan alone.
1971: Sixty-eighty-year-old Harvard graduate
Henry Jacob Friendly, the Elmira NY born son German-Jewish parents Meyer and
Leah Friendly began serving as a Chief Judge of United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit.
1972(9th of Av, 5732): Tish’a B’Av
1973: Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Japan
Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and forced it down in Dubai.
1973(20th of Tammuz, 5733):
Fifty-three-year-old CCNY graduate and Ph.D holder from the Illinois Institute
of Technology Dr. Herbert H. Hyman, the
husband of Ruth Hyman with whom he had two sons – Mark and David -- who was “a senior chemist and assistant
director of the chemical division of the Argonne (Ill.) National Laboratory”
and who had “worked on the atomic bomb” suffered a fatal heart attack today in
Chicago.
1974: In Washington, DC attorney Albert Foer
and Esther Safran Foer, the daughter of Holocaust survivors gave birth to
Columbia educated writer and editor of The
New Republic Franklin Foer, the brother of Jonathan and Joshua Foer.
1975: “The First Breeze of Summer,” for which Mitch Miller served as Technical
Advisor was performed on Broadway for the last time at the Palace Theatre which
was owned and operated by The Messrs. Nederlander.
1975: “All Over Town,” written by Murray
Schisgal and directed by Dustin Hoffman was performed for the last time on
Broadway at the Booth Theatre.
1976: Today marked the start of what would
become the Good Fence Policy along the border with Lebanon. The hope was that
the medical treatment of Lebanese citizens in Israel and the beginning of trade
between South Lebanon and Israel would start a new era of relations between the
two countries. Like so many other peace initiatives this one died at the hand
of terrorism.
1978: Birthdate of Elliott Yamin, born Efraym
Elliott Yamin, who is an American singer known for his hit single "Wait
for You" and placing third on the fifth season of American Idol.
1980:
The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should
not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This is another reason that
Israel tends not to trust the UN. In 1947, as part of the partition vote, the
UN said Jerusalem would be governed by an international body. When the Jordanians attacked Jerusalem and
expelled the Jewish population from the Old City, the UN did nothing. During the 19-year occupation of the city by
the Jordanians Jews, of whatever nationality, were kept out of the city. The UN did nothing. But now that the Israelis controlled the
whole city and it was open to Christians, Moslems and Jews, the UN acted to
support the Arab view of the City of David.
1981:
The administration of newly elected Republican President Ronald Reagan
suspends sales of F-16 fighter jets to Israel.
1981(29th of Tammuz, 5739):
Seventy-nine-year-old Joseph N. Katz the founder and board chairman of Empire
Kosher Poultry Inc., passed away today http://www.empirekosher.com/history/
1983; The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw
troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon.
1983(10th of Av, 5743):
Ninety-year-old Nina Dorothy Jessel, the daughter of Edith Goldsmid and Sir
Charles James Jessel passed away today in Harrow, Middlesex, England.
1986(13th of Tammuz, 5746):
Ninety-year-old Cambridge educated
“British literary scholar” Joan
Bennet (a.k.a. Joan Frankau) “the
daughter of London cigar importer Arthur Frankau and writer Julia Frankau” and
the wife of Cambridge literary historian Henry Stanley Bennett whom she married
in 1920 who “was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy in
1963 for her book Sir Thomas Brown: His Life and Achievement” and “as
one of the expert witnesses in the Lady Chatterley Trial, helped counter the
arguments of the prosecution by confirming Lawrence's reputation as a novelist,
that the work was more than a description of sexual encounters, and that
Lawrence's repeated use of ‘four-letter words’ were justified by literary
intent” passed away today.
1987 The Los
Angeles law firm of Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & RossiThe Los
Angeles law firm of Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & Rossi which had
been founded in 1967 by “several prominent attorneys including “Morris
Pfaelzer, the husband of U.S. District Court Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer” “went
out of business” today.
1987: The Sandy’s
Row Synagogue, the home of an Orthodox Congregation located on Sandys Row, on
the corner of Middlesex Street in Bishopsgate, in the East End, Borough of
Tower Hamlets, London, England, in the United Kingdom which was remodeled by
Nathan S. Joseph in 1867 and which “is the oldest surviving Ashkenazi synagogue
in London” was “added as Grade II Listed Building” today.
1988: “Midnight Run” a comedic “buddy movie”
directed and produced by Martin Brest, co-starring Charles Grodin, featuring
Yaphet Kotto and with music by Danny Elfman was released today in the United
States.
1989(17th of Tammuz, 5749): Tzom
Tammuz is observed for the first time during the Presidency of George Bush.
1991(9th of Av, 5751): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1994: Israel’s Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the
highest-ranking Israeli official to do so.
1994: “The Client,” the movie version of the
novel with the same name directed by Joel Schumacher, the son of “Marian
Kantor, a Swedish Jew,” with a screenplay co-authored by Akiva Goldsman and
music composed by Howard Shore was released in the United States today.
1995(22nd of Tammuz, 5755):
Seventy-two-year-old Ernest Ezra Manel, the Frankfurt born son of “Henri and
Rosa Mandel, were Jewish emigres from Poland” the WW II resistance fighter who
survived and escaped from concentration camps and who identified with the
ideology of Leon Trotsky passed away today.
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pages/mandel.html
1996:
During the 1996 Summer Olympics, the artistic gymnastic events in which Kerri
Strug competed opened today at the Georgia Dome.
1996(4th of Av, 5756): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1996: “The Last Night of Ballyhoo,” a play by
Alfred Uhry, the Atlanta born son of Jewish parents Arlen Fox and Ralph K.
Unry, that “is set in the upper-class German-Jewish community living in
Atlanta, Georgia in December 1939” premiered at the Olympic Arts Festival in
Atlanta, GA.
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2349
1997: The
Sunday New York Times book section featured reviews of Egypt’s Road to Jerusalem: A Diplomat's Story
of the Struggle for Peace in the Middle East by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast by Patrick McGilligan
and Inventing Memory: A Novel of
Mothers and Daughters by Erica Jong.
1997: A conference “The Dead Sea
Scrolls: Fifty Years After Their Discovery” opened in Jersualem.
1999: Roman Bronfman and Alexander
Tzinker formed the Democratic Choice faction.
2000(17th of Tammuz,
5760): Tzom Tammuz is observed for the first last time during the Presidency of
Bill Clinton.
2001: After premiering at the
Seattle International Film Festival, “Ghost
World,” with a script by Daniel Clowes who had a Jewish mother and Terry
Zwigoff, the son of dairy farmers who also served as director was released
today in the United States.
2001: “America’s Sweethearts,” a
comedy directed by Joe Roth, written, produced and co-starring Billy Crystal
and featuring Alan Arkin was released in the United States today.
2002: As a reminder that Jews were
not the only victims of the Nazis, we mark the death of concentration camp
survivor and art Jan M. Komski.
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/Komski.htm
2003: At the Lincoln
Center Festival, Israel’s Gesher Theatre gives its opening performance of its
adaptation of “The Slave.
2003(20th of Tammuz,
5763): Rabbi Bezalel Rakow, “an orthodox rabbi who headed Gateshead’s Jewish
community” and who “was the chair of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudas
Yisroel of Great Britain” passed away.
2004 (2nd of Av, 5764):
Temple Judah mourned the loss of Rabbi Ed Chesman who passed away unexpectedly
while vacationing with family in Florida.
2004: Ariel “Sharon
called on French Jews to emigrate from France to Israel immediately, in light
of an increase in French anti-Semitism (94 anti-Semitic assaults were reported
in the first six months of 2004, compared to 47 in 2003). France has the
third-largest Jewish population in the world (about 600,000 people).
2005: “Israel's
Parliament easily voted down three bills today aimed at delaying the withdrawal
of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip…”
2005: Ernst Zündel, a
66-year-old white supremacist and internationally known Holocaust denier who
was deported to his native Germany from Canada in March, has been charged with
14 counts of hate crimes, a court in Mannheim said.
2006(24th of Tammuz,
5766): Charles Bettelheim passed away. Born in 1913 he “was a French economist
and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of
Industrialization (CEMI: "Centre pour l'Étude des Modes
d'Industrialisation") at the Sorbonne), economic advisor to the
governments of several developing countries during the period of
decolonization. He was very influential in France's New Left, and considered
one of "the most visible Marxists in the capitalist world."
2006(24th of
Tammuz, 5766): Ninety-year-old Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro “a leading authority on solid state physics”
who was Professor of Physics and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Witwatersrand passed away today.
2006: The following
were among a total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who died of heart
attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers were killed in the
Israel-Hizbullah war: Maj. Benjy Hillman, 27; St.-Sgt. Rafenael Muscal, 21, of
Mazkeret Batya; St.-Sgt. Nadav Baeloha, 21, of Karmiel; St.-Sgt. Liran
Sa'adiya, 21, of Kiryat Shmona; St.-Sgt. Yonatan (Sergei) Vlasyuk, 21, of
Kibbutz Lahav; Maj. Ran Kochva, 37, of Beit Hananya.
2007: Under the
direction of Lauren Reece, The Footlighters ACT II performs "The Diary of
Anne Frank” at the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa. Making this a Jewish as well as community
even, Rabbi Portman of Agudas Achim in Iowa City will conduct an outdoor Shabbat
Eve service on the grounds of what was Herbert Hoover’s boyhood home. While
Jews preferred FDR to Hoover in 1932, it must never be forgotten that Hoover
was responsible for putting Justice Cardozo on the Supreme Court when
anti-Semitism was on the rise during the Great Depression.
2007: The Crown
Prosecution Service announced that Lord Michael Levy was not to be prosecuted
in connection with the so-called "Cash for Honours" affair and that
there were to be no charges against him.
2007: World premiere of
David Zellnik’s “Ariel Sharon Hovers
Between Life and Death and Dreams of Theodor Herzl” at Theatre J in Washington,
DC.
2008: Fast the 17th
Day of Tammuz, 5768
2008(17th of
Tammuz, 5768): Israeli mathematician Michael Maschler best known for his
contributions in the field of “game theory” passed away today.
https://sites.google.com/site/themichaelbmaschlerprize/arachnid-story
2008: The Washington Post book section
features a review of Debra Winger’s memoir, Undiscovered.
2008: The Sunday New York Times book section
features a review of Rapture Ready in which Jewish author Daniel Radosh
explores Christian pop culture.
2009: In upstate New
York, Marilyn and Lester Milton Bornstein gave birth to Michael Scott
Bornestein who gained fame as Michael Oren the author who served as Israel’s
ambassador.
2009: At the 18th
Maccabiah Games, the basketball competition continues as Brazil plays Germany,
the USA plays Argentina, France plays Mexico and the hometown Israelis tip off
against Canada.
2009: In an interview
given today, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of Reform Judaism said
that the vast majority of American Jews back a settlement freeze.
2009(28th of Tammuz,
5769): Mark Richard Rosenzweig an American research psychologist who found in
animal studies on neuroplasticity that the brain continues developing
anatomically, reshaping and repairing itself into adulthood based on life
experiences, overturning the conventional wisdom that the brain reached full
maturity in childhood passed away at the age of 86.
2009: Amidst the
controversy surrounding the planned screenings of “Rachel,” a film that
investigates the death of anti-Israel activist Rachel Corrie, and its
invitation to her mother, Cindy Corrie, to speak afterward, the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival Board President Shana Penn resigned from her post, citing
“healthy differences on how to approach sensitive issues,” with five months
left on a two-year term.
2010(9th of Av, 5770):
Tish'a B'Av: 1,940th anniversary of the destruction of the Second
Temple; 1,875th anniversary of the fall of Bethar.
2010: A judge at Tel
Aviv District Family Court today rejected a request for a gag order on the
contents of a box containing manuscripts written by Franz Kafka.
2010: Elena Kagan,
President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, won approval from the Senate Judiciary
Committee on a nearly party-line vote today, her next to last hurdle before
gaining a lifetime seat on the high court.
2011: Anat Cohen, an Israeli jazz clarinetist,
saxophonist and bandleader, is scheduled to appear at the Berman Center for the
Performing Arts at an event sponsored by Detroit Jazz Festival & The JCC
Stephen Gottlieb Music Festival.
2011: Medical residents
announced an indefinite strike today as they continued organizing protests
throughout the country against a deal being drafted between the Israel Medical
Association and the Finance Ministry to end the doctors' strike.
2011: Reports that an Israeli killed in the New
Zealand earthquake in February was an intelligence agent were wrong, Prime
Minister John Key said today.
2011: An
affiliate of Leonard Blavatnik’s Access Industries “acquired Warner Music Group
for $3.3 billion.”
2011(18th
of Tammuz, 5771): Sixty-eight-year-old Myra Kraft, the wife of Patriots owner
Robert Kraft whom she married while a student at Brandeis and with whom she had
four son and whose philanthropy was one of the things that led to her being
chosen as “one of the 20 Most Powerful Women in Boston” passed away today.
2011(18th
of Tammuz, 5771): Eighty-eight-year-old portrait artist Lucian Freud, the
grandson of Sigmund Freud and the brother of Clement Freud pass away today. (As
reported by William Grimes)
2012(1st
of Av, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Av
2012(1st
of Ave, 5772): Thirty-year-old “Ari Ephraim Rubin, vice chairman of the Jewish
Defense League died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound” today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jdl-vice-chairmans-suicide-continues-chain-of-violent-deaths/
2012: Fresh
from her triumphal performance in Des Moines, Iowa, renowned soprano Sarah Jane
McMahon is scheduled to return to Touro Synagogue in New Orleans this evening
for the fifth in a series of musical programs devoted to works by Jewish
composers. [For more about this and
other happenings in “The Big Easy” see the Crescent City Jewish News http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/
2012: “5-Day
Kosher Bike Trek” a 420 mile bike ride that began in and offers Kosher food for
all riders is scheduled to end today at Santa Fe, NM.
2012: As it
marks it last Shabbat weekend in its downtown Washington Avenue location in
Iowa City, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a potluck supper before Friday
services.
2012: Six
months after premiering at Sundance, “The Queen of Versailles,” a documentary
about David Siegel’s private residence directed and co-produced by Lauren
Greenfield was released today in the United States.
2012: The
tearful funerals of the five Burgas airport suicide-bomb bombings were held in
the course of today, drawing hundreds — and in some cases thousands — of
mourners..(As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/first-of-five-burgas-bombing-victims-laid-to-rest-in-israel/
2012: After
premiering in NYC four days ago, “The Dark Knight Rises” featuring Ben
Mendelsohn as “John Daggett and Alon Abutbul as “Dr. Leonid Pavel” was released
to the theatres in North American and the United Kingdom.
2012: A suicide bombing that killed Israeli tourists in
Bulgaria this week bore hallmarks of Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists but
the U.S. Defense Department has not yet concluded who was behind it, a Pentagon
spokesman said today.
2012(1st of Av):Moshe Silman, the homeless man who set
himself on fire at a Tel Aviv rally last weekend, died this afternoon at the
Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer after succumbing to the burns which
covered over 90 percent of his body.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-at-rally-succumbs-to-wounds/
2012: A
Muslim husband and wife convicted of planning a terror attack against Jews in
Manchester, England, were jailed today. Shasta Khan, who was convicted of
preparing for acts of terrorism and two counts of possessing information likely
to be useful in an act of terrorism, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
The 38-year-old hairdresser, who had pleaded not guilty, will serve four years
minus the 350 days she spent on remand. (As reported by Miriam Shaviv)
2013: “More than
Carnival,” a season ending summer concert is scheduled to take place at the
Eden-Tamir Music Center.
2013: The Maccabeats
are scheduled to perform for a second day at the Hampton Synagogue at West
Hampton Beach.
2013: “The geeky
numbers guy who turned the electoral vote counting into a national obsession
with his FIveThirtyEight blog is leaving the New York Times for the sports network” (As reported by Forward
Staff)
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/180844/geek-is-gone-nate-silver-to-dump-new-york-times-f/#ixzz2ZctSzkcr
2013: A leading
minister confirmed Saturday that Israel would release Palestinian prisoners in
exchange for the renewal of peace talks but said that the government is not
bound to a settlement freeze as a precondition for the resumption of
negotiations. (As reported by Michael Shmulovich and Ricky Ben David)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/steinitz-israel-to-release-palestinian-prisoners/
2014: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Falling
Out of Time by David Grossman and Friendship by Emily Gould
2014: Carole Glauber is
scheduled to talk about the photographers in her exhibit “Israel in Light and
Shadow” at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocuast Education.
2014: As of 1:30 a.m.
Israeli time, network television reports on the fighting between Israel and
Hamas show pictures of Gaza but show no pictures of rockets falling in Israel
or Israelis "running for their lives"
2014(22nd of
Tammuz, 5714: Thirteen members of the Golani Brigade were killed today as they
fought the terrorirsts in Gaza including Captain Tzafrir Bar-Or, a commander in
the Golani Brigade, 32, of Holon; Major Zvi Kaplan, a commander in the Golani
Brigade, 28, from Kedumim;
Gilad Yaakobi, 21, of
Kiryat Ono; Sergeant Oz Mendelovich, 21, from Avtalion; Nissim Shon Carmeli,
21, of Ra’anana (“In life they were loved and admired; they were swifter than
eagles, they were stronger than lions.”)
2015(4th of
Av, 5775): Ninety-four-year-old Pennsylvania born pilot Lou Lenart whose
colorful career included “saving Tel Aviv” on May 29, 1948 when he and three
other fliers conducted “a forty-minute strafing and bombing raid on a column of
Egyptian tanks, trucks and troops” that would have been in the Jewish
metropolis the following day were it not for this act of daring-do.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-lou-lenart-20150722-story.html
2015: In Jerusalem, the
OU Israel center is scheduled to present a special lecture from Rabbi Herschel
Schachter, the Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
(RIETS), Yeshiva University.
2015: Archaeologist
announced today that “thanks to a high tech solution, a charred parchment
scroll discovered by the shores of the Dead Sea bearing verses from the Book of
Leviticus” has been deciphered for the first time. (As reported by Ilan Ben
Zion)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/1500-year-old-scrap-of-bible-found-near-dead-sea-deciphered/
2016: At Temple Israel,
in Memphis, TN, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled to present “When Will We Find
Peace?” in which he explores “the 17th of Tammuz – Tzom Tammuz” as a
part of the program that “explores how observing the holidays enrich Jewish
lives.”
2016: While working at
“Freedom Square, the makeshift booze and nosh area just outside the Quicken
Loans Arena” in Cleveland, 58-year-old Joan Rosenthal described preparing
platters of pierogis for those attending the Republican Presidential
Convention. (As reported by Ron Kampeas)
2016: ZviDance, the
Israeli dance troupe led by choreographer Zvi Gotheiner is scheduled to perform
at the Doris Duke Theatre.
2016: UK Jewish Film is
scheduled to host the final screening of “Labyrinth of Lies” a film “based on
the investigations that led to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials” at the Cineworld
in Manchester.
2016: Dr. Suzanne
Schneider of the Brooklyn Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to lead
another session of “Primo Levi: Memory, Meaning and the Holocaust” in which she
examines the life of the Italian chemist turned “witness to evil” whose writings
provided new perspective on the Holocaust.
2016: Eightieth
anniversary of the birth of Harvey David Luber, of blessed memory.
2017: In London, JW3 is
scheduled to host the last two screenings of “Norman: The Moderate Rise and
Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer.”
2017: “A Woman’s Life”
and “The Pot and the Oak” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film
Festival.
2017:”Sports attorney
and former Washington Senator's broadcaster Philip Hochberg; Documentary
Filmmaker Aviva Kempner (The Life and Times of Hank
Greenberg and an upcoming film about Moe Berg); and author Frederic
J. Frommer (You Gotta Have Heart: A History of Washington Baseball from
1859 to the 2012 National League East Champions) are scheduled to take part
in “Fielding Dreams: Washington’s Jewish Ballplayers.”
2017: After five days,
the North American Jewish Choral Festival sponsored by the Zamir Choral
Foundation is scheduled to come to an end today.
2017: Today “Britain’s
National Archives released records showing Winston Churchill’s attempts cover
up a Nazi plot to collaborate with the members of the British royal” who in
this case was the Duke of Windsor, the German’s candidate for the throne if they
had been successful. (As reported by Times of Israel)
2017: “Keep the
Change,” “a documentary about a community of adults living on the autism
spectrum: is scheduled to be shown on the opening night of The San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival presented by the Jewish Film Institute.
2018: World premiere of
“Footprints” which includes a presentation of work by “Dafi Altabeb, the
recipient of the 2012, 2013, and 2016 Excellence Award for young choreographers
from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and the 2014 Rozenblum Award for Excellence
from the Municipality of Tel-Aviv…”
2018: In South Euclid,
Ohio, the Mercury Theatre Company is scheduled to host a production of “Joseph
and the Amazing Dreamcoat,” as part of the celebration of “its 50th
anniversary.”
2019(17th of
Tammuz, 5779): Parashat Balak
2019(17th of
Tammuz, 5779): Tzom Tammuz is postponed until tomorrow because of the rules
concerning refraining from observing minor fast days on Shabbat.
2019: In Edmonton,
Jonathan Scheinman is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at
Beth Shalom Synagogue.
2019: The San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Before You Know It”
and “Golda.”
2020: “The first of a series of planned free
seminars on cybersecurity is scheduled to be held for the benefit of the Jewish
community under the direction of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans”
today.
2020: The United Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to
host the “2020 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators”
which is a “virtual event.”
2020: As part of its virtual July celebration webinars, the
Streicker Center is scheduled to host Adeena Sussan, “the Sababa Chef.”
https://www.emanuelnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sababa-all-recipes.pdf
2020: The Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host a
live digital program on “Preserving Holocaust History through Artifacts,
Archives and Research.”
2020: Online, via Zoom, Dr. Shari Rabin, assistant professor
of Religion and Jewish Studies at Oberlin College, is scheduled to discuss
Jewish immigration to the United States around the turn of the 20th century and
its ramifications on contemporary American life
2020: Former Camp Newman executive director Ruben Ruben
Arquilevich (now V.P. of URJ Camps, NFTY and Immersives) is scheduled to about
how to recreate the magic of camp at home to give kids meaningful experiences
this summer as part of the Osher Marin JCC Pivot series.
2020: The 11th Annual Axelrod Jewish Film festival
is scheduled to host a screening of “The Crossing” the film that “tells the
story of the adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents
are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War.”
2020: As Israelis awake, they are confronted by the reality
that according to the Health Ministry, the number of Coved cases has surpassed
50,000 which has led the Defense Minister to commit more IDF troops to help
specified localities to cope with the pandemic.
2021: East Bay Jewish film fest teams, Israeli Consulate and A
Wider Bridge are scheduled to present “The Signe for Love,” a 2017 Israeli
documentary about a deaf gay man raising a baby with his deaf friend.
2021: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a
workshop “Creative Nonfiction Writing for Genealogists.”
2021: Convicted sex offender and former Hollywood mogul
Harvey Weinstein was flown to Los
Angeles and taken to the Twin Towers Correctional Facility
2021: The United States Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host
Piecing Together One Family’s Holocaust History Global Film Screening and Live
Discussion.
2021: The Williams Theatre is scheduled to present a
performance of “Divorced.”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/divorced-the-play-summer-tuesdays-in-williamsburg-tickets-158573450459
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to present author
Joshua Greene lecturing on “From Nazi Prisoner to Wall Street King: The
Indefatigable Siggi Wilzig.
2021: The Park Avenue Synagogue in New York is scheduled to
host a lecture by author Judy Batalion.
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a
discussion of Mandela’s Way: Lessons for an Uncertain Age as part of its One
Museum, One Book Club program.
2022:LSJS is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Harvey
Belovski on “Continuous Revelation,” which is part of series “Why Rabbis Argue:
The Genesis and Genius of the Oral Law.”
2022: The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is
scheduled to present kinescopes of the sitcom “Stanley” followed by a
discussion the Buddy Hackett sitcom led by Barry Jacobsen.
2022: On National Hot Dog, the Museum at Eldridge Street is
scheduled to host a talk by Steve Marcus, the creator of its new exhibition
“Steve Marcus: Tog Dog of Kosher Pop Art.
2022 Boston Jewish Film is scheduled to present a screening
of “Carol of Bells” at the West Newton Cinema.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by
Trudy Gold on “Edward VIII: A Wasted Life?”
2023: The Summer Institute “Teaching the Holocaust” sponsored
by the Iowa Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to continue today.
2023: Yeshiva University Museum’s Director Gabriel Goldstein
is scheduled lead “a guided tour of The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight
Centuries, illuminating the life and impact of the multifaceted luminary and
great Jewish sage across continents and cultures through rare manuscripts and
books.”
2023: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host
its next Seniors Chavurah.
2023: A reception marking the New York premiere of Orit Ben
Shitrit’s video installations and paintings, curated by Maureen Sullivan is
scheduled to take place this evening.
2023: Hundreds of anti-government protesters are scheduled to
continue their march on Jerusalem which they plan to reach tomorrow..
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host an
in-person book talk and signing with Daniel Wolff, author of How to Become
an American.
2024: Those on the Poland 2024 tour are scheduled to attend “morning
services with the local community, followed by Kiddush and lunch and a walking
tour of Kazimierz, the heart of Jewish Krakow, and its extant synagogues
and other site.
2024: In Columbus, OH, as part of “No Tie July” Tifereth
Israel is scheduled to host Hawaiian Shirt Shabbat where congregants can “have
a staycation” when they wear their “favorite Hawaiian shirt to services..”
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host lecture by Professor
David Peimer on “Contemporary Israeli TV: "Fauda" the Series.”
2024: The Eden Tamir Center is schedule to host the “Season’s
Final Concert” which will be “Ensemble Millennium/Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble
in Residence and Friends”
2024(14th of Tammuz, 5784): Parashat Balak
2024: As July 20th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included
Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise
their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 288
in captivity. (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2025: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “an afternoon with Dr. Alex Kor, son of
two Holocaust survivors, and co-author Graham Honaker, as they share the deeply
moving story behind their acclaimed book, A Blessing, Not a Burden.”
2025: The Museum at
Eldridge is scheduled host another of its walking tours of the “Jewish Lower
East Side.”
2025: The San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Holding Liat,” a
“documentary by and about the family of a woman taken hostage on October 7,
2023”
2025: In another
lecture in the online lecture series, "A Guest Tends to Stay Between Jaffa
and Jerusalem", participants are scheduled to read together with Prof.
Ruhama Elbagin the Jerusalem chapters of "Yesterday Yesterday" and to
discuss the movement between the two main cities in the novel.
2025(24th of
Tammuz, 5785): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of Private John Abelson, the
English born son of Jane Abelson who died while serving with the 7th
Battalion of the South African Infantry who was buried at the Dar Es Salaam War
Cemetery
2025: In Israel, the
Cabinet is scheduled to vote on the firing of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara
2025: “Lesson Learned”
and “Odd Fish” are two of the films scheduled to be shown on the further of the
Jerusalem Film Festival.
2025: As July 20th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism
sweeps across the globe and the United States, the reality is that the
remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 653 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 of Jewish Heritage,
Warren Klein, the director and curator of the Herbert & Eileen Bernard
Museum at Temple Emanu-El in New York, and David Matlow, owner of the world’s
largest private collection of Herzl memorabilia, are scheduled to hold an
on-line conversation about the life and lasting legacy of Theodor Herzl which “will
highlight objects from Matlow’s collection and explore the “All About Herzl”
exhibition, hosted at the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum.”
2026: Agnon House is scheduled to host “the third lecture in the online
series "The Ten Commandments", during which Prof. Haviva Pedia will
talk about “the Third Commandment, following which we will trace the
incarnations of God's name in Israeli literature, culture and the public
sphere.”
2026: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to continue
with a screening “Looking for Yadida”
during which examines “the hidden story of Mizrahi babies who vanished
from Israeli hospitals in the 1950s, explored through rare testimonies and
revelations.”
2026: Based on a statement by his attorney, Alan Dershowitz will not
appear today for his scheduled transcribed interview with the House Oversight
Committee as part of its ongoing investigation of Jeffrey Epstein whom Vice
President Vance has now claimed on a podcast was part of a Mossad conspiracy.
2026: Ninetieth
anniversary of the birth of Harvey David Luber, of blessed memory.
2026: As July 20 begins in Israel, according to “a senior Israeli
official, that country is preparing for the possibility of joining an expanded US
military campaign against Iran,” Jewish Hungarian chess grandmaster Judit
Polgár has been nominated to serve as an interim president” and Prime Minister
Netanyahu’s “monthslong push for unprecedented control over Likud’s candidate
list” has been successful.
(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)
