64: During the reign of Emperor Nero, the Great
Fire begins in Rome. After the fire,
Nero avoided the initial inclination to blame the blaze on the Jews. Instead, he targeted the nascent Christian
sect which had recently become active in the city. Possibly Nero who saw himself as a god felt
personally threatened by Christianity which also worshipped a Divinity who had
come to earth in human form.
392: “Emperors Valentinian II, Theodosius I,
and Arcadius order that anyone who disturbs the Catholic faith must be exiled.”
This edict is actually not aimed at the Jews but at those Christians who
deviate from accepted religious principles.
Of course, this use of state power to protect Catholicism is one more
indication of the “second class” status that the Jews are having to do deal
with.
1100: Godfrey of Boullion, one of the leaders
of the First Crusade, “the first crusader installed ruler of the Kingdom of
Jerusalem who “in 1906 had collected tribute from Jews in Mainz and Cologne” as
the Crusaders made their way down the Rhine Valley, passed away today.
1195: The Moslem Almohads (‘Proclaimers of the
Unity of Allah’) score a great victory over the Christian Catilian King Alfonso
VIII at the Battle of Alacros. The
Almohads were a sect of Moslem fundamentalists who invaded the Iberian
Peninsula from North Africa. They were
determined to defeat the Christian forces fighting to take Iberia back from the
Moslems. As part of their agenda, the
Almohads also punished the Moslems living in Spain for having become ‘soft’ and
moderate in their views on Islam. They
also punished the Jews of Spain who lived among the Moslems for being agents of
their corruption. Many Jews would flee Spain as the Almodhades consolidated
their power, thus marking the end of the Golden Age. One of those departing because of the
Almodhades was Maimonides and his family.
1216: Honorius III, who in 1230 would issue an
ordering the Jews of Mayence to pay 1,620 marks if they wanted to avoid being
excluded from business dealings with Christians, began his papacy today.
1283: German Talmudist Judah ben Asher began
his journey that would end in Toledo, Spain.
1290: Edward I (England), pressured by his
barons, the Church and possibly by his mother, announced the expulsion of all
the Jews.The expulsion came on Tisha B’Av, adding to that day’s list of Jewish
sorrows. By November approximately 4000 had fled. The Jews had to pay their own
passage, mostly to France. They were allowed to take movables (i.e. clothing).
A number of Jews were robbed and cast overboard during the voyage by the ship
captains. The Jews did not return to England until 1659. This was the first
national expulsion of the Jews.
1494: In a will dated with today’s date a
Pilsen “there is a reference to a string of beads given as a pledge by the
testator to the Jew Mekl” the son of Jontoffa who lived a house number 263,
“for a loan of 4 schocks.
1577(4th of Av, 5337): R' Moshe
Gershon Altschuler, the Czech born son of Avraham Avir Altschuler and the
husband of Chana Altschuler passed away today in Krakow.
1658: Leopold I, who relied on the services of
Samuel Oppenheimer to help finance his war against the Turks, began his reign
as Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany.
1716: A decree banishing Jews from Brussels was
issued today; but it was not enforced: a gift to the crown overcame all
difficulties. A similar decree issued forty years later had the same result.
Several Jews received the right of citizenship in Brussels. Among them was one
named Philip Nathan, who, in 1783, requested the government to assign a place
for a new cemetery for the Jews; the old one, situated near the Porte de Namur,
having disappeared in consequence of the dismantling of the fortress1860: A report
of the bankruptcy case of Lord William Godolphin Osborne includes a list of his
creditors among whom was a “Jew money lender.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1541&letter=B
1775: Birthdate of Karl von Rotteck, the German
politician and author who opposed Jewish emancipation saying that “the Jew had
to be de-Jewified.”
1784: In New York, the Trustees of Shearith
Israel met to discuss the expansion of the Jewish cemetery. After he was re-elected as Chairman, Myer
Myers informed his colleagues that, “Mr.
Hayman Levy and Mr. Solomon Simson had bargained with Mr. Isaac Roosevelt for
the ground adjacent to the Burying place for eighty pounds, one half to be paid
on delivery of the deed, and the other half in twelve months or sooner."
“The board voted to purchase the land.”
1793(9th of Av, 5553): On the first
anniversary of the death of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, Jews
observed Tsh’a B’av
1799: In Amsterdam, Cantor Moses Levy Maduro
Peixotto, and Judith van Samuel Peixotto
gave birth to Dr. Daniel Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto , the husband of Rachel
Lopes Mendes Peixotto
1799: Birthdate of Indiana political leader
Judah Samuel, the first Jewish trained lawyer to graduate from what is now
Rutgers University, the son Dr. Benjamin S. Judah and the husband of Harriet
Brandon.
1800: Birthdate of Daniel Levy Maduro
Peixotto. Born at Amsterdam, this eldest
son of Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto gained fame as an American “physician,
scholar, author, and philanthropist.” .
He was educated in Curaçao under the direction of Professor Strebeck. He
accompanied his father to New York and graduated from Columbia College at the
age of sixteen, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1819. He was a
member of the old Philolexian Society of the college; the membership of which
society still includes the names of his descendants. Prior to taking his
degree, he had entered the office of Dr. David Hosack, at one time physician to
George Washington. Peixotto was one of the editors of the "New York
Medical and Physical Journal" and of "Gregory's Practice"
(1825-26) and was a frequent contributor to the periodicals and newspapers of
the day. Later on he edited "The True American," advocating the
election of Gen. Andrew Jackson, and he was also connected with the "New
York Mirror." Among the many offices held by him were the following:
secretary of the Academy of Medicine (1825); physician to the City Dispensary
(1827); and president of the New York Medical Society (1830-32); he was also
one of the organizers of the Society for Assisting the Widows and Orphans of
Medical Men. The title of Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and
Obstetrics was given him in 1836, and in the same year he was elected to
honorary membership in the Medical Society of Lower Canada. Having accepted the
appointment of president of the Willoughby Medical College, he removed to
Cleveland, Ohio, where he was dean of the faculty for a number of years.
Returning to New York, he resumed his practice there and continued it until his
death in 1843. He married Rachel M. Seixas, the daughter of Benjamin Seixas,
March 19, 1823.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=158&letter=P#ixzz1L3nS5V1h
1811: In Pennsylvania,
Judith and Isaiah Nathans gave birth to Moses Nathans, the father of Benveneda
Nathans Potsdamer Ella Cornelia Nathans Thalman and Laura Augusta Nathans
Sonneborn, and the husband of the former Benveneda Valintina Solis who he had
married in 1831 after breaking tradition and negotiating directly with her
father in 1830 over his desire for the wedding, passed away today in
Philadelphia after which he was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia,
PA.
1812(9th of
Av, 5572): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1812: In New York City, Judith and Moses
Benjamin Seixas gave birth to Jacob Levy Seixas,, the husband of Hortensia
Seixas, who was a member of a Jewish “Clan” that was prominent in both New York
and Newport” and supporters of the Patriot Cause.
1816(22nd of Tammuz, 5576): Julia
Isaacs, the daughter of Abraham Isaacs passed away today in London
1818(14th of Tammuz, 5578): Parashat
Pinchas
1824: Birthdate of German native Mary Griessman
Rothschild, the wife of Samson Rothschild and the mother of Jacob, Simon and
Martin Rotschild.
1813: In Aarhuus; Jutland, Hartvig Philip Rée
and Thamar (Terese) Rée gave birth to Bernhard Philip Rée the editor of the "Aalborg
Stiftstidende and husband of Julie Ree and Anna Marie Elisabeth Ree.
1815: In Charleston, SC, Rebecca Phillips and
Isaiah Moses gave birth to Cecilia Moses, the wife of Abraham Alexander
Solomons who she married in 1843 at Charleston and with whom she had eight
children.
1820: One day after he had passed away, Philip
Moses was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1826: London native Michael Meir Myers and
Rebecca Jacobs gave birth to Rachel Myers.
1829(17th of Tammuz, 5589): Parashat
Balak
1829: Birthdate of Babette Steinhardt the
native of Dresden who will become Babette Seligman following her marriage to
Joseph Seligman
1831(8th of Av, 5591): Erev Tish’a
B’Av observed on the same day that “Joseph Smith received a revelation (now
recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants) that identified Jackson County,
Missouri, as the sacred location for the New Jerusalem, preparing for the
Second Coming of Jesus Christ which sparked a massive migration of church
members to the Missouri frontier.”
1832(20th of Tammuz, 5592):Maria
Israel, the wife of Israel Israel, and the “mother of Eliza Helbert Goldsmid;
John Israel Helbert; Samuel Helbert Ellis; Matilda De Symons; George Helbert
Israel; Lionel Louis Helbert and Mary Wagg” who was born in 1764 passed away
today.
1835(21st of Tammuz, 5595): Parashat
Pinchas
1836: A day after she had passed away, “Julia
Lazarus the wife of Eleazer Lazarus” with whom she had three children – Isaac,
Nathan and Solomon – was buried today at the Exeter Jewish Cemetery.
1838: “In reaction to various political revolts
that have given freedom to Jews, Pope Gregory XVI issues an edict critical of
how Catholic measures against Jews have fallen by the wayside in recent years.”
The Pope wrote: "The unfortunate political events that recently afflicted
the Pontifical dominions have produced among other disorders the failure to
observe Apostolic Constitutions and the other Edicts regarding the Jews."
(As reported by Austin Cline)
1839: Thirty-two-year-old Marcus and Theresia
Lobl gave birth to David Lobl.
1841: A day after she had passed away, 56-year-old
Rachel Hendricks, the wife of Lewis Emanuel, with whom she had two children –
David and Abraham – was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1844(2nd of Ave, 5604): Poznan,
Poland native Hyman Hurwitz whose “close friendship with Samuel Taylor
Coleridge” led to him becoming the “first professor of Hebrews Language and
Literature at University College, London” passed away today after which “he was
buried in the Brady Stret Cemetery…”
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Hebrew-Language-Hyman-Hurwitz/dp/1167041569
1846: In Fischach, Bavaria, Salomon Neuburger
and Jette Judith Götz Neuburger gave birth to Karoline Weisenboeck, “the wife
of Lehmann Weisenboeck”
1850(9th of Av, 5610): Tish’a B’Av
observed for the first time during the Presidency of Millard Fillmore who had
been Vice President until the death of President Zachary Taylor who had passed
away on July 9.
1851: David Salomons who was elected MP for
Greenwich in an 1851 by-election “arrived at Parliament today and, like Rothschild, took his oath omitting
the words "on the true faith of a Christian".
1853: In Baltimore, MD, Elkan Bamberger, the
German born “son of Isaak Jakob Bamberger and Gela Caroline Bamberger” and his
wife Theresa Bamberger gave birth to Rosa Hammerslough the “wife of Isadore
Hammerslough and the mother of Carrie Heims and Stella Schaap.”
1854: Fanny and Ferdinand Reichenheim gave
birth to Ernst Reichenheim.
1854: London born Sophia Goldsmid and David De
Stern gave birth to Edward De Stern, the husband of the former Constance
Jessel.
1854: Samuel Gluckstein and Hannah Joseph gave
birth to Montague Gluckstein, the husband of London born Matilda Franks.
1855(3rd of Av, 5615): Thirty-six-year-old
Lemberg native and Maskil Jacob Bodek, known for his writings in the
style of The Haskalah or Jewish enlightenment passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3458
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bodek-jacob
1859: Birthdate of Trieste, Austria native
Irene-Luzzatto Cohen “a member of the Sephardic Jewish Luzzatto family,” the
wife of Achille Luigi Carlo La Guardia and mother of famous New York
political leader Fiorello La Guardia.
1859: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Lewis Block and
Caroline Walther gave birth to Cincinnati Law School graduate Leon Black, the
husband of Carrie Hyman who moved to Kansas City, MO in 1886 where he continued
practicing law and was the President of Congregation B’nai Jedudah
1860: In Curacao, Moses and Luna Jessurun gave
birth to Mortimer Jessurun, the brother of Edward, Leonie and Francis Jessurun,
who passed away in California.
1861: In Lithuania,
Keize and Yakov Horwich gave birth to Bernard Horwich, the successful banker
and businessman who was “the first President of the Federated Jewish Charities
of Chicago” and an early, ardent who “worked closely with Chaim Weizmann, Nahum
Sokolow and Shmarya Levin” and who raised five children with his wife Mamie
Horwich.
1862: It was reported
today that the will of Isidor Bemlord, which has now been admitted to probate,
leaves $500 to the Jews' Hospital in New York City.
1862(20th of
Tammuz, 5622): Seventy-six-year-old Bella Moses Phillips, the daughter of Myer
Moses and Rachel Woolf and the sister of
Rebecca, Priscilla, Elanor, Myer, Isaac and Esther Moses passed away today
after which she was buried at the Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston, SC
1864: In Ulm, Germany, “Leopold M. and Amalie
(Bing) Bernheimer” gave birth to Charles L. Bernheimer, the graduate of
Thudichum’s College, Geneva, Switzerland and American businessman whose career
was capped by serving as Chairman of the Board Bear Mill Manufacturing Company
who was a leader of the “fusion movement” in New York that led to the election
of Mayor John P. Mitchell while raising his family with the former Clara
Silberman.
1864: A review of The History of Friedrich the
Second, Called Friedrich the Great by Thomas Carlyle reports that “a closely
printed chapter of twenty-two pages is devoted to M. Voltaire’s ‘powerful Jew
law-suit,’ a wretched and obsolete stock-jobbing squabble.”
1868: In Richmond, VA, Isabelle Rosenbaum, the
Richmond born daughter of Caroline and Joesph Myers and her husband Michael
Rosenbaum gave birth to Joseph Marx Rosenbaum, the husband of Sara Mina
Rosenbaum.
1869(10th of Av, 5629): Tish’a B’Av
1869: In Minsker, Asher Abrich gave birth to
Abraham Abrich who in 1891 came to the United States where he eventual formed
the Rhode Island Paper Stock Company in Providence, RI, married Ida Taber with
whom he had eight children while serving as “a member of the Hebrew Free Loan
Society” and a financial supporter of the Denver Hospital.
1870: The First Vatican Council decrees the
dogma of papal infallibility. The First Vatican Council had been summoned by
Pope Pious IX who repealed certain laws
aimed at limiting occupations open to Roman Jews and opened the doors of the
Ghetto and yet was also known as the Pope who refused to return Edgardo Mortara
and insisted on him being raised as a Catholic.
1871: Birthdate of German chemist Karl von
Hirsch, who despite his nobility would die in the Holocaust at Theresienstadt.
1871: At Weimer, under the leadership of Ludwig
Barnay, those attending the “stage-congress” “organized the alliance of German
stage associates under the name of "Genossenschaft Deutscher
Bühnenangehöriger," which welded into one body the hitherto
semi-antagonistic players, authors, and managers.”
1873(23rd of Tammuz, 5633):
Sixty-three “German violin virtuoso and composer Ferdinand David” passed away
today.
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/c.asp?c=C2912
1873(23rd of Tammuz, 5633): Edwin
Moses, the four-month-old son of Dr. Montefiore and Rosetta Moses passed away today.
1873(23rd of Tammuz,
5633): Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet, a leading figure in the 19th century
struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom passed away. . He was
the first Jewish Sheriff of the City of London and Lord Mayor of London, and one
of the first two Jewish people to serve in the British House of Commons.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=89&letter=S
1875: In Pittsburgh,
department store own Max and Sidonie Rosenbaum gave birth to Walter Rosenbaum,
the secretary-treasurer of Rosenbaum Company, the department store that employs
over 2,000 workers who is the husband of Eva Heymann with whom he had three
children – Stanley, Madeline and Ruth.
1875: In Au Sable, MI,
the former Rachel Rosenthal and Selig Solomon gave birth to Detroit Business
University graduate and Detroit College of Law trained attorney Harry R.
Solomon, the husband of Esther S. Levyn and secretary and treasurer of the
Solomon Lumber Company who was a Republican and a member of B’nai B’rith.
1876: At today’s opening session of the
American Philological Society in New York, Dr. George R. Entler read a paper on
“The Origin of the Hebrew Article” that disputed “the theory that the Hebrew
article ‘ha’ has the same origin as the Arabic ‘al.’” According to Entler, “in
Hebrew both the article and the conjunction ‘vav’ are derived from the
substantive ‘avah’ and connected with the demonstrative pronoun ‘hu.’”
1877(8th of Av, 5637): Erev Tish'a B'Av
1877: Rabbi H. P. Mendes of Manchester,
England, officiated at Tisha B’Av services this evening at the synagogue on
West 19th Street in New York City.
The only light in the sanctuary came from “four candles on the reading
desk and the little tapers” with which the worshippers were provided. Rabbi Mendes is the newly appointed assistant
for Rabbi J.J. Lyons
1877: Judge Hilton denied reports that he was
weakening or wavering in what he termed as his ban on “Seligman Jews” from the
Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY.
1877: An article published today described the
role of M.A. Shaffenburg a German Jew
who had been serving as U.S. Marshal for the Territory of Colorado, in the
election of Jerome B. Caffee to the U.S. Senate from Colorado.
1878(17th of Tammuz, 5638): Tzom
Tammuz
1878: It was reported today that Isaac Schwartz
who owned a dry goods store on 3rd Avenue in New York filed for
bankruptcy today. He showed liabilities
of $10,029 with no assets.
1879: In Augustovo, Suwalk, Russia, Jacob
Weislander and Hinda Lewin gave birth to English educated American Communist
Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes, the wife of a J.G. Phelps, a millionaire member of
New York’s elite social groups who “was a founding member of the Communist
Party of Party.
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAWstokes.htm
1879: Pavel Borisovich Axelrod, the Jewish
Menshevik who died in exile while opposing the Bolshevik Revolution and the
former Nadezhda Ivanovna Kaminer gave birth to their second child Alexander.
1880(10th of Av, 5640): Since the 9th
of Av fell on Shabbat, Tish'a B'Av is observed today.
1880: Lionel Goldsmid married Catherine Hart
today in the United Kingdom.
1881: Sixty-five-year-old Anglican churchman
Arthur Stanley, author of the History of the Jewish Church a three
volume work that appeared in 1863, 1865 and 1881, passed away today.
1882: Samuel Obreight, a young Jew who became
the subject of a sanity hearing after he married Mary Myers, a Christian,
appeared in court today. The judge
decided to release him in the custody of his wife until he can make a final
ruling.
1882: Rudolpha Leischinsky, a young Jewish
woman recently arrived from Europe, is scheduled to be transferred to the
Emigrant Insane Asylum on Ward’s Island today.
She had originally been taken to Bellevue after a failed suicide
attempt.
1882: Birthdate of Cracow native Harry Baum the
graduate of CCNY “a volunteer settlement worker on the Lower East Side became
one of basketball's greatest coaches during the early decades of the 20th
Century.
1882: It was reported that Rebecca Gold, the
wife of a Russian Jew committed suicide last night in Athens, GA. The death
remains a mystery, but she left a mirror and two knives in a cradle by the side
of her young infant.
1882: The striking freight handlers continued
their efforts to keep foreign born workers away from the docks. While Italian workers were fed sandwiches,
the Russian Jews were getting three meals including a dinner consisting of boil
meat prepared by a Jewish cook. Both
groups will be getting $.25 a day as an additional incentive not to cross the
picket line.
1883: Birthdate of Polish native Jacob Dunn who
in 1902 came to the United States, settling in New York City he was an active
member of the Federation of American Zionists and the ZOA.
1883: Birthdate of David “Dave” Fleisher the
creator of several iconic cartoon characters and co-owner of Fleischer Studios
passed away
https://www.biography.com/people/max-fleischer-082515
1883: In Hungary, the court that is trying
several Jews on charges that they murdered a Christian girl, Esther Salomossy,
went to Tisza Ezlar today where Moritz Scharf was forced to look through the
key-hole in the door of the synagogue through which he claims to have seen the
murder committed. It was obvious that the witness could have only seen one
person at a time and that it was impossible to have seen a group of
people. [In early reports, Scharf
claimed that his testimony came only after he had been abused and threatened.]
1884: Four families of Jewish immigrants who
are being held at Castle Garden have sent a request of the Commissioners of
Emigration to be allowed to “join their friends’ in New York City who are
willing to support them so that they will not become “public charges.”
1885(6th of Av, 5645): Parashat
Devarim: Shabbat Chazon
1885: Birthdate of Providence, R.I native and
attorney Phillip J. Feinberg who served as Democrat in the Massachusetts State
Legislature.
1885: Rebecca Marcus who owns a grocery store
on Broome Street charged Solomon Schulman, a Russian born rabbi with larceny in
Essex Market Court. She claimed he came
into her store and stole $31. He denied
the charge and said he was in the store to collect the $8 she owed him for
tuition.
1886: “In Gartz on the Oder, Rudolf Grobba, a
nurseryman, and Elise Grobba gave birth WW I veteran and German diplomat Fritz
Konrad Ferdinand Grobba who after Hitler came to power developed a network of
officers in Iraq known as the “Golden Square” and who in 1941 played a key role
in laying the groundwork for the coup known as the Farhud which turned into a pogrom claiming the lives
of at least 180 Jews.
1887: It was reported today that the Hebrew Standard has declared that “a
diet of crabs and lobsters is not only un-Jewish” it is also unhealthy.
1888: Birthdate of Alvah T. Meyer the silver
medal winning track star who was one of the Jewish members of the Irish
American Athletic Club
1888: At the bride’s home in St Kilda,
Australia, the future Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs married 18-year-old Deborah
(Daisy), daughter of Isaac Jacobs, a tobacco merchant who had been president of
the St Kilda Hebrew Congregation and in 1889-90 was to be president of the
Chamber of Manufactures.
1889(19th of Tammuz, 5649):
Sixty-two-year-old attorney and member of the Reichstag Wolf Frankenberg passed
away today.
1890(1st of Av, 5650): Rosh Chodesh
Av
1890: As of today, the Sanitarium for Hebrew
Children has received $5,132.25 to be used for summer excursions.
1890: “The Secretary of the United Hebrew
Charities has learned that the family of Solomon Rasinkoff” which was
mistakenly sent back to Europe by the Hamburg Line several weeks ago is now in
Russia. The steamship company has
offered to bring the family back to New York if the Hebrew Charities can raise
the funds to get them from Russia to the port of Hamburg.
1891: The twenty-three Jews who arrived from
Rotterdam aboard the Massadam will be
returned to that port by the ship that brought them to the United States. Five
other Jews who had arrived from Glasgow will suffer a similar fate. (This method is part of the government’s plan
to make the trafficking in pauper immigrants a losing business proposition for
the shipping lines.)
1891: “A dozen or Russians” attacked a Jewish
farming settlement four miles from “Veile” burning fourteen of the residents
before the remaining victims armed themselves and chased them away.
1891: In a letter to the Washington Star, Simon
Wolf explained decision of the Democratic National Convention at Cleveland to
adopt a plank for its platform “regarding the Czar’s treatment of the Jews in
Russia.”
1892: The governor of Pennsylvania has issued
the papers seeking the extradition from Canada of two Jewish peddlers named
Harris and Charley who are accused of killing another peddler in Wyoming County
1892(23rd of Tammuz, 5652):
Twenty-three-year-old Ludwig Beer, a native of Germany passed away today in
China after which he was buried at the Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery in Hong
Kong.
1892: In his quest to create an anti-cholera
vaccine, Dr. Waldemar Haffkine, a Russian born Jew, risked his own life by
testing his vaccine for the first time on himself.
1892: Arthur Richard of New York inspected the
Jewish colony at Chesterfield, CT. The
colony, which is home to forty families and contains a hat factory as well as a
creamery plant, is the first such colony funded by Baron Hirsch in New England.
1892: “Russian Cruelty In Politics” published
today contained Simon Wolf’s explanation “of the appearance in the Democratic
platform adopted at Cleveland of the plank regarding the Czar’s treatment of
the Jews in Russia.”
1893: Following numerous incidents of Russian
Jews attacking and robbing their co-religionists Alter Shapiro, the Vice President of the
Hebrew Protective Society and Solomon Dore allowed themselves to be robbed by the
gang and then signaled the police who were waiting to arrest them.
1893: The manager of the Thalia Theatre at 46
Bowery “has declared vengeance” against those who vandalized his theatre on
July 15. The vandals acted in response
to a boycott against Isidor Lindemann and his Windsor Theatre by the Hebrew
Trade Unions that had spread to the Thalia.
1894: Birthdate of Odessa
native Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel a survivor of the
Pogroms of 1905 who would go on to become a journalist and author in the Soviet
Union before being arrested by Stalin who sent him to Siberia where he died in
1940.
1894: Two days after she had passed away Sophie
Mayer, “the daughter of Pauline and Felix Mayer” was buried today at the West
Ham Jewish Cemetery/
1894: “Sectarian Appropriations” published
today provided a breakdown of the excise money collected that had been
collected in 1893 and distributed to different charitable organizations
including $178, 275 that went to Protestant and Jewish institutions as compared
with $609,748.32 to Catholic institutions.
1895: “Col. Waring’s Little Helpers” published
today described the formation of a children’s street clean brigade which was
formed during a meeting at the Hebrew Institute.
1896(8th of Av, 5656): Shabbat
Chazon; in the evening, Tish’a B’av fast begins
1896(8th of Av, 5656): Despite the
fact that he had been sick for several weeks and just come from the hospital, 55-year-old
Charles Liebhaber insisted on fasting as Tish’a B’av began.
1896: First and only meeting between Herzl and
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, whose financial sponsorship the Zionist leader was
seeking.
1897(18th of Tammuz, 5657): Fast
observed since the 17th of Tammuz was on Shabbat
1897: “Women Here and There” published today
includes a description of a club named after Louisa Mae Alcott located in
Boston that was started by Jewish women to provide educational and cultural
programs for young Jewish girls including concerts, workshops and “talks on
various subjects…of the most elevating tendencies.
1898: After three months of service, 2nd
Lieutenant B. Albert Lieberman was honorably discharged today.
1898: Those who became soldiers in the Army
when the 15th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was mustered into the
United State Service were Private Jacob W. Kaufman of Wheaton, Corporal Charles
M. Schloss of Minneapolis, Corporal Louis S. Fredenberg of Willmar, Private
Aaron Jacobson of Willmar and Privates Robert Pinkus and Joe Schwabacher of St.
Paul.
1898: During the Spanish-American war, the
Spanish were defeated by the U.S. Navy at the Third Battle of Manzanillo where
Adolph Marix the first Jewish graduate from the United States Naval Academy who
was serving on the USS Maine when she blew up, commanded the USS Scorpion with
such skill that he was cited by Congress for “eminent and conspicuous conduct.”
1898: The will of the late Jacob Berk was filed
for probate in the Surrogate’s office today.
1898: In Philadelphia, PA, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram
H. Hirsch gave birth to attorney Sylvan Hobson Hirsch, the holder of BS in
economic from the University of Pennsylvania where he was the head cheerleader
in 1919 who was a member of the USNR and the husband of Ruth Bulter, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Henry Butler.
1898: “For Jewish Publications” published
described the work of the JPS which includes the recent publications of Dreamers
of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill and “an index volume of Graetz’s History
the Jews as well as the upcoming publication of Jewish Services in the
Synagogue and the Home by L.N. Dembitz.
1899: Birthdate of Punxsutawney, PA native
Abraham Gerson Carmel the University of Cincinnati and University of
Pennsylvania trained surgeon, proctologist and WW I veteran who was the husband
of Cyrilla Carmel.
1900: In Lithuania, “Sholem Moshe Rabinovitz
and Chaya-Leah Levy” gave birth to Arthur Mordechai Rabinovitz, the husband of
Anna Dorothy Silverstone with whom he had three children.
1901: In Vlagtwedde, Netherlands, Louis Sachs,
the “son of Jacques Löehman Sachs and Rebekka de Jonge” and his wife Emma Sachs
gave birth to Joseph Sachs.
1901: MP Arthur Straus who crossed the aisles
from Conservative to Labour parties and his wife gave birth to George Strauss
who was a Labour MP for 46 years.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-strauss-1490546.html
1902: Birthdate of Phillip Hickman the
Anglo-Jewish “professional bantam/featherweight/lightweight” who boxed under
the name of “Johnny Brown.”
1902: Birthdate of Denver, CO, native Esther
Greenblatt Quiat, the wife of Denver University trained lawyer, Ira Louis Quiat
and mother of Marshall and Gerald Quiat.
1902: Mark Matveyevich Antokolski, the Litvak
who became a world class sculptor was buried in St. Petersburg today. The train carrying his body from Paris where
died made a special stop in his native Wilno before reaching its final
destination.
1903: Wenzel von Plehv, the Czar’s Minister of
the Interior, and like many of his class and nationality, an active
anti-Semite, was ready to see Theodor Herzl today.
1903: Moses Alexander, “the second elected
Jewish governor of a U.S. state” and the 11th governor of Idaho
completed his second term as Mayor of Boise, Idaho
1903: In Morristown, NJ, Addie Wolff Kahn and
Otto Hermann Kahn gave birth Princeton trained investment bank and patron of
the arts Gilbert W. Kahn, the WW II Navy veteran and partner in Kuhn, Loeb and
Company who was the thrice married husband of “the former Polly Stover” and
father of Maud, Margaret and Roger Kahn
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/16/archives/gilbert-w-kahn-art
1903: Birthdate of Viktor David Grünbaum the
Austrian architect who came to America after the Anschluss and gained fame as
Victor Gruen, the founder of Victor Gruen Associates, who designed shopping
malls and created “master plans” for several major metropolitan areas.
1904: “IN MEMORY OF DR. HERZL” published today
described the meeting where the two divisions of Judaism, orthodox and reform,
were united at the memorial mass meeting held in honor of Dr. Theodor Herzl, in
Carnegie Music Hall, under the direction of the Zionist Council of Greater New
York where a crowd of more than six thousand people heard speeches by Dr. Harry
Friedenwald, Rabbi A.M. Raddin and Rabbi Isidor Myers.
1905: New York Congressman Henry Mayer
Goldfogle said today that “he has given up of ever recover the watch and fob
which were stolen from him several weeks ago” because “no pawnbroker in this
city would dare make a loan on the watch after all the publicity about the
robbery.”
1906: “The court, all chambers united, gave its
judgment. After a lengthy review of the case it declared unanimously that the
whole accusation against Dreyfus had been disproved, and it quashed the
judgment of the Rennes court-martial sans renvoi. The explanation of the whole
case is that Esterhazy and Henry were the real culprits; that they had made a
trade of supplying the German government with military documents; and that once
the Bordereau was discovered they availed themselves of the anti-Jewish
agitation to throw suspicion on Dreyfus” (As reported by Global Security.org)
1906: In Philadelphia, “Louis Odets (born
Gorodetsky) and Pearl Geisinger, Russian- and Romanian-Jewish immigrants” gave
birth to Clifford who began his theatre career by leaving school at the age of
17 to become an actor. After a series of small parts working in the theatre and
on radio, Odets helped form the Group Theatre in New York. Members held
left-wing political views and wanted to produce plays that dealt with important
social issues. Odets, who joined the American Communist Party in 1934, had his
first play produced, Waiting for Lefty, in 1935. The play that dealt with trade
union corruption was an immediate success. With his next two plays, Awake and
Sing! and Till the Day I Die, Odets established himself as a champion of the
underprivileged. After the production of Paradise Lost (1935), Odets accepted a
lucrative offer to become a film screenwriter and while in Hollywood met and
married the actress, Luise Rainer. However, he continued to write plays and
with Golden Boy (1937) he had his greatest commercial success. This was
followed by Rocket to the Moon (1938), Night Music (1940), Clash By Night
(1941), The Big Knife (1949), and The Country Girl (1950). Investigated by
Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, Odets
argued that he had never been under the influence of the American Communist
Party and his work had been based on his deep sympathy for the working classes.
Unlike many writers and actors who had been members of the party, Odets was not
blacklisted and continued to work in Hollywood. This included the screenplay
for the acclaimed, Sweet Smell of Success (1957). Clifford Odets died onAugust
18, 1963.
1907: In Harrogate (UK), Rose Samson Hart and
Simeon Hart gave birth to Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (H.L.A. Hart) who became
a Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and authored numerous legal tomes
including The Concept of Law.
1908(19th of Tammuz, 5668): Parashat
Pinchas
1908 Birthdate of New York City native and
University of Virginia graduate Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin, the University of
Zurich trained psychiatrist who served on the faculties of both USC and UCLA.
1908: “Count Puckler, Germany’s notorious Jew
baiter, who a few months ago was officially declared has his private affairs
withdrawn from his control and place in the charge of a conservator.”
1909(29th of Tammuz, 5669):
Fifty-seven-year-old Maude Phillipa, the daughter of Edward Salomon and
Henrietta Levien who were early members of the Jewish community in Australia
passed away today.
1909: It was reported today that “that the work
in the interest of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is doing invaluable good”
as can be seen by the twice a week free excursions and the special excursion
held “for the benefit of the poor mothers and babies of the east side of New
York.
1910: Today, “The New York American broke the story that a combination of Wall
Street bankers would be working for Woodrow Wilson, the man who appointed the
first Jew to the Supreme Court, thus paving the way for all future
non-traditional appointees to the court,to be the Democratic Party nominee for
President in 1912
1911(22nd of Tammuz, 5671): Rabbi Dr. Hermann
Adler CVO, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911 passed away.
The son (and successor as Chief Rabbi) of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911
Encyclopedia Britannica writes that he "raised the position [of Chief
Rabbi] to one of much dignity and importance. “Born in Hanover, like his
father, he had both a rabbinical education and a university education in
Germany, and like him he subscribed to a modernized Orthodoxy. He attended
University College l in London from 1852-54. He graduated at Leipzig; he later
received honorary degrees from Scottish and English universities, including
Oxford. He was head of a congregation in Bayswater during his father's
lifetime, and his father's assistant from the time his father's health began to
deteriorate in 1879, before succeeding him on his death in 1891.In 1909 he was
appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Adler wrote extensively on
topics of Anglo-Jewish History and published two volumes of sermons. He was a
vigorous defender of his co-religionists and their faith, as well as their
sacred Scriptures.
1911: In Toledo, OH, Isadore and Yetta Leffner
Wexler gave birth to long-time Savannah, GA optometrist Dr. William Abe Walker,
the widowed husband of Dorothy M. Levy Wexler, the father of Allan and Colonel
Edward Wexler and husband of Dr. Osnat Wexler of Herzilya who passed away in
Israel in 2000.
1912: In Minneapolis, Beatrice Hirshler (née
Tuchman) and Isadore Henry Levin gave birth to literary critic Harry Tuchman
Levin, the namesake of the Harry Levin Literary Prize.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061004194841/http://www.acla.org/levinandwellek.html
1913: Birthdate of Vienna native Erich Pollak,
who gained fame as actor Eric Pohlman who, in one of those great stories of
love and fidelity “followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress
Lieselotte Goettinger into exile in London” where the two took jobs a cook and
butler before being able to resume their careers in the United Kingdom after
the War
1913: “Because of rumors that Pinkerton
detectives involved in the case believe that Conley was the murderer, and not
Leo Frank, a grand jury convenes to consider indicting Conley. Solicitor Dorsey
refuses to allow Pinkerton detectives to interview Conley and opposes indicting
Conley. (Three days later, the grand jury decides to postpone an indictment.)”
1913(13th of Tammuz,
5673): Edward Selig Salomon “a German immigrant to the United States who served
as a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War and later became
governor of Washington Territory and a California legislator” passed away. In
an unusual twist, Salomon fought with Union Armies in the East and the West. He
distinguished himself at the Battle of Gettysburg where he had two horses shot
out from under him. He then led his
regiment in Sherman’s victorious campaign that led to the capture of
Atlanta. Salomon was appointed to his
post as territorial governor of Washington by President Grant which provides
further proof that the latter was not an anti-Semite.
1914(24th of
Tammuz, 5674): Parashat Pinchas
1914: Rabbi A. L.
Weinstein of Davenport, IA conducted Shabbat morning services for those
vacationing at Lake Harbor, Michigan.
1914: On Saturday
morning, Rabbi Jacob D. Schwarz of Cincinnati conducted services for those
vacationing at Cedar Lake, Wisconsin.
1915: “The doctors
completed the sewing up of the wound in Leo Frank’s throat at 1;15 this
morning” that was inflicted on him last night by William Green, a prisoner who
was trying to murder him.
1915: Dr. H.J.
Rosenberg, the family physician of Leo Frank and the Frank family, arrived at
the State Prison Farm, from Atlanta with two nurses and said that while Frank’s
“condition was serious he had a good chance at life.
1915: The wife of Leo
Frank is in Milledgeville the site of the State Prison Farm where she has come
to visit her husband.
1915: Georgia Governor
Nat E. Harris who has urged that “a thorough investigation of the attempt to
murder Leo M. Frank in order to determine whether” prisoner William “Creen
acted on his own initiative or as the tool of confederate” said he had “tried today
to get in touch with members of the Prison Commission but failed to reach any
of them.”
1916(17th of
Tammuz, 5676): Tzom Tammuz
1916: “As a reward for
his political services,” Abram Elkus was nominated by President Wilson to serve
as United States Ambassador to Turkey, a position that Henry Morgenthau Sr. had
held until his resignation.
1916: Committees
representing the Conference of National Jewish Organizations and the Jewish
Congress Organization reached an agreement tonight that “two committees will
submit identical reports to their organizations which, if accepted, will settle
their differences and unite the Jews of the United States in the campaign to
demand full civil, religious and political rights for their co-religionists in
lands where laws discriminating against them now exist.”
1916: “The House
unanimously adopted a Senate resolution requiring the President “to designate a
day on which the citizens of this country may give expression to their sympathy
by contributing to the funds now being raised for the relief of Armenians in the
belligerent countries” – a resolution patterned after the one adopted in
January to help the Jews of Europe.
1917: A draft of what would become the Balfour
Declaration was submitted to Lord Balfour.
1917: The Chicago Hebrew Institute Band is
scheduled to “give their initial concert of this summer’s series this
evening…on the grounds of the institute.”
1917: It was reported today that the Joint
Distribution Committee expressed regret “over the death of Samuel I. Hyman who
had been selected by the committee to visit Russia to supervise the relief work
in that country.”
1917: It was reported today the former Abram I.
Elkus, the former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey who has recently arrived in New
York has said that “the relief work for the Jews in Turkey and Palestine was
being carried on with great success” and that “the funds collected in” the
United States “were being utilized exactly as intended by the Joint
Distribution Committee.” (Reports from
Elkus stand in stark contrast to the reality of Jews being forced to leave
Palestine in such a state that many of them enlisted to fight with the British
against the Turks)
1918(9th of Av, 5678): Tish’a B’Av
1918: After the death of his first wife, Lena
Hanles, in 1916 today, Rabbi Bernard Michael Kaplan, the Lithuanian born son of
Michael Sheftel and Feigel (Mayor) Kaplan who had been serving as the leader of
the Bush Street Temple in San Francisco married Ray L. Steinman today.
1918: Dr. Hyman Gerson Enelow, the Rabb who
served as Chairman of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish Welfare Board
arrived in France today.
1918: Today, Montreal native Nathan Lang
enlisted in the Jewish Legion in which he served in Palestine along with his
brother before he was discharged in October 1919 after he which moved to New
York in 1925, married in 1926 and returned to his hometown in 1935.
1918: In Lead, SD, Ernest R. "Cap"
Graham and Florence Morris gave birth to Phillip Graham, the son-in-law of
Eugene Meyer and the husband of Katherine Meyer Graham who helped turn the
Washington Post into one of the leading newspapers in the United States.
(Graham was not Jewish but his wife’s family was)
1919(20th of Tammuz, 5679): Jacob
Simon, the son of Hannah Simon and the brother of “Hattie, May, Jennie and Sol
Simon” passed away today in Chicago.
1919(20th of Tammuz, 5679):
Henrietta Cert, the wife of Henry Cerf with whom she had had six children,
passed away today in Chicago.
1919: Rabbi Julius Gussfeld is scheduled to
lead Friday evening services at Temple Beth Israel on Lawrence Avenue in
Chicago.
1920: In the Bronx, “Isidore Bernstein and the
former Rebecca Axelrod, Yiddish-speaking immigrants from Eastern Europe” gave
birth to Lester Bernstein “a former editor of Newsweek magazine who also wrote for The New York Times, was a foreign correspondent for Time magazine and, as a vice president
of NBC in 1960, helped arrange America’s first televised presidential debates.”
(As reported by Robert D. McFadden)
1921: It was reported today from Detroit, that
after years of waiting, Bernard Schwartz, head of the recently incorporated
Bernard Schartz Cigar Corporation is about to launch “a large national
advertising and sales campaign.
1921(12th of Tammuz, 5681):
Sixty-four-year-old Annette Joseph, the London born daughter of Henry and
Rosetta Pinto, the wife of Montefiore Joseph and the “other of Abraham Pinto
Joseph; Irene Rachel Wolff; Edward Cecil Joseph; Kenneth (Kalman) de Sola
Joseph and Rosetta Joseph” passed away today in Quebec,
1921: In Brooklyn, Solomon Goldman, a jeweler,
and the former Sarah Goldstein, who had immigrated from Russia gave birth to
“Jacob E. Goldman, a physicist who as Xerox’s chief scientist founded the
company’s vaunted Palo Alto Research Center, which invented the modern personal
computer…” (As reported by John Markoff)
1922(22nd of Tammuz, 5682): Eighty-two-year-old
Jacob Moser, the Danish born British textile merchant who served as Lord May of
Bradford, founded the Bradford Reform Synagogue and was an early support of the
Zionist cause passed away today.
1922:
Birthdate of American academic and philosopher, Thomas Samuel Kuhn.
1922: Birthdate of Abraham Joseph Chayes who
followed in the footsteps of his parents both of whom were lawyers by
graduating first in his class from Harvard Law and become a leading expert in
the field of international law.
1923(5th of Av, 5683): Quebec native Alfred
Benjamin, the first vice president of the Abernathy Furntiure Store in Kansas
City who “became president of the United Jewish Charities in 1905 and who was a
member of Temple B’Nai Jehudath passed away today
https://pendergastkc.org/article/biography/alfred-benjamin
https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%3A115474
1923: Birthdate of William M. Birenbaum, the
product of the Waterloo, Iowa school system who became the nationally known
university administrator who helped rescue Antioch College from looming
insolvency during his tenure as president there in the 1970s and ’80s. (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
1924; Birthdate of Boris Lurie, the Russian
born American artist who survived the Holocaust and “cofounded the NO!Art
movement.
1925(26th of Tammuz, 5685): Parashat
Matot-Masei
1925: Playwright Arthur Richman, the New York
City born son of Jenny Swann and William Reichman whose works included “Not So
Long Ago,” “The Awful Truth” and “A Proud Woman” and who began serving as
President of the Society of American Dramatists in 1925” married Madeline
Marshall today in London.
1925(26th of Tammuz, 5685):
Fifty-one year old “Ephraim Moses Lilien an art nouveau illustrator and
printmaker particularly noted for his art on Jewish themes who is sometimes
called the "first Zionist artist” whose works included a photograph of
Herzl taken 1901https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Moses_Lilien#/media/File:Herzl_Basel_1901.jpg and “The Queen of
Sabbath” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Moses_Lilien#/media/File:Juda_13.jpg passed away today
1925:
Adolf Hitler published his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1926: “The Plastic Age” a silent film produced
by B.P. Schulberg was released in New York today by Preferred Pictures.
1926: Baltimore resident Israel Fine, the
Russian born founder and owner of the clothing firm Israel Fine and Son and the
author of Nginash Ben Jehudah : Selection of Poems and Memorials said
tonight that on his “last trip to the Holy Land,” he was so greatly impressed
with the progress made in reconstruction work that shortly afterward he decided
to purchase the land in Herzila for experimental work to help along the
cause."
1927(18th of Tammuz, 5687): Sixty-year-old
Paul Davidson, the East Prussian born son of Moritz Davidson, who went from
being a “commercial traveler” to being a movie producer who worked with such
famous directors as Ernst Lubitsch “committed suicide” today after UFA, the
production company, had canceled his contract earlier in the year.
1928(1st of Av, 5688): Rosh Chodesh
Av observed for the last time during the Presidency of Calvin Coolidge.
1929: In Brooklyn, truck driver Joseph Elfin
and homemaker “Bessie (Margolis) Elfin” gave birth to award winning journalist
and “Washington bureau chief for Newsweek” who raised one child, Dana Elfin,
with his wife “Margery (Lesser) Elfin.” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1930: “A five-hour secret meeting between
member of the Wailing Wall Commission and Jewish and Moslem representatives
broke down today” because of the “refusal of the Muslims to concede the Jews
had more than the mere right to visit the wall.”
1930: Birthdate of Romanian native Samuel
Druckman, who gained fame a Sami Damian the “Jewish literary critic and
essayist” who was the husband of Simon Timaru-Druckman whom he married in 1996
and the brother of Marcel with whom he shared his birthday.
1931 (4th of Av, 5691): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1931: In Paris, the campaign against Jewish
students from Rumania studying in France reached its climax today when “in
accordance with a decision of the ministry of education announced today,
Rumanian medical students in French universities will no longer be able to
receive state certificates of doctorate. (JTA)
1932: “Thirteen Jewish students were injured
when National Democratic students attack a Jewish student camp at Poronin near
Zakopane, Poland today.”
1933: Birthdate of Russian poet Yevgeny
Yevtushenko who broke with the standard Soviet narrative about the Holocaust
when “in1961 he wrote what would become perhaps his most famous poem, Babiyy
Yar, in which he denounced the Soviet distortion of historical fact regarding
the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population of Kiev in September 1941, as well
as the anti-Semitism still widespread in the Soviet Union.”
1934: The Jewish National Fund Council for
Greater New York is sponsoring this evening’s farewell dinner for Bronx dentist
and JNF activist Dr. Solomon Deutsch at the Farm Food Vegetarian Restaurant.
Dr. Deutsch and his family are making Aliyah. (As reported by JTA)
1934: In one of several efforts by Zionist
leaders to reach a compromise with the Arabs, David Ben-Gurion and Dr. Magnes
met with Auni Abdul Hadi, the leader of the movement devoted to Palestinian
Arab independence.
1934: Today, in England, “a day after shooting
had been completed on ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’” Peter Lorre, the Hungarian
born Jewish American actor and his wife “boarded a Cunard liner in
Southhampton” so they could sail to the United States thanks to the their newly
gained “visitor’s visas.”
1934: A lengthy article in a Nazi newspaper
attacked Egyptian Jews. The Germans stated some Jewish boys insulted the
Swastika flag on the German Consul's car. The paper stated the boys were
arrested.
1935: “Anti-Jewish outbursts occurred again
tonight in Berlin when howling youths attacked customers coming out of a large
Jewish ice cream plant in the northern section of” Berlin.
1936: “Representative William I. Sirovich
conferred for an hour today with President Miguel Gomez and presented a
proposal that Cuba open her doors for at least 100,000, perhaps more,
persecuted German Jews for whom American Jewry and international humanitarians
of all creeds are seeking to find permanent homes in countries where
immigration restriction do prove to be a bar.”
1936: Irving “Reis was the creator of Columbia
Workshop, the experimental anthology program on the radio, and its initial
broadcast took place” today.
1936: “At least twenty persons were hurt in a
clash between Arabs and Jews” at Rabat, French Morocco, today.
1937(10th of Av, 5697): Tisha B’Av
observed because the 9th of Av fell on Shabbat.
1937: Fear gripped the hearts of Jews in
Baghdad after two days of violence where “tens of thousands of Moslems marched
through the streets of Baghdad in an anti-Jewish protest after mid-day prayer”
on Friday and two Jewish merchants who had taken refuge in their shops “were
killed by a mob that been told by agitators that the British had given control
of a Moslem holy are in Jerusalem to the Jews.” (Editor’s note – the more
things change, the more they stay the same.
1937: The funeral for “well-known writer and
Zionist,’ “Dr. Abram Coralnik, the associate editor of the Jewish Day” which has been organized by the Jewish Writer’s Club is
scheduled to take place this morning at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Building” followed by interment “in the Jewish National Workers Alliance Plot
at the Montefiore Cemetery in Queens.
1937: In Złoczew, Poland Hillel Safran and
Clara Hoffman gave birth to American chemist Roald Hoffman who won the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 1981.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1981/hoffmann-bio.html
1938: Eight days after he passed away, Otto
Eisler, the husband of Alice Eisler and the brother of Rudolf and Paul Eisler
was buried today in Vienna.
1938: “The Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary”
arrived in New York “from Southampton via Cherbourg with 1,225 passengers among
whom were 55 Jewish refugees from German and Austria.”
1938: “The heavy Jewish liquidations caused by
‘Aryanizations’ and the numerous restrictions imposed on Jewish businesses,
together with the sudden exclusion of Jewish brokers from the Stock Exchange”
and the anti-Jewish excesses in Vienna which contributed to a slump in foreign
trade” are two of the reasons given for German Stock Exchanges having today
suffered ‘their worst day since Hitler came to power”
1939(2nd of
Av, 5699): Seventy-eight year old Columbia professor and founder of the
American Economic Association Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, the son of banker
Joseph Seligman and Babette Steiner and husband of Caroline Beer who earned a
B.A. Ph.D. and LL.B from Columbia University and who became the head of the
faculty of economics and sociology at his alma mater while authoring numerous
works that works were “translated into French, Italian and Japanese” including The
Economic Interpretation of History passed away today.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2143501?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Robert-Anderson-Seligman
1939: Fifty-two-year-old Flossye Kolhman passed
away after she was buried at the Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery in Mobile,
Alabama.
1939: In New York City, “a Jewish immigrant who
came to the United States from Russia who owned a candy store” and his wife
gave birth CCNY graduate and NYU trained lawyer Sideny H. Davidoff, an ally of
Mayor John Lindsay who was on Nixon’s enemy list and whom the NYT, unlike the New York Post, could not
bring itself to describe as Jewish in its obit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/nyregion/sid-davidoff-dead.html
1939: Filming of “Babes in Arms” based on the
Rogers and Hart musical produced by Arthur Freed was completed today.
1939: The entire Jewish community of Palestine,
regardless of political persuasion, participated in a general strike aimed at
protesting Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald’s announcement that Jewish
immigration would be banned for the next six month.
1940: Birthdate of Bronx native and award
winning author on “lesbian and LGBT history Lillian Faderman, the daughter of a
single mother working in the garment industry who has been with her “partner
Phyllis Irwin for forty years and raised her son Avrom in such a manner that he
earned a Ph.D from Stanford.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1580333s/entire_text/
1940: Chiune Sugihara “a Japanese diplomat who
served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania” began issuing
life-saving visas to Polish and Lithuanian Jews in violation of instructions
from his superiors.
1940: In France,
Herschel Feibel Grynszpan, the Jewish refugee who assassinated Ernst vom Rath
was delivered to SS Major Karl Bömelburg at the border of the Occupied Zone,
driven back to Paris, flown to Berlin, and locked up in the Gestapo's
headquarters on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse.
1940: “The Boys from
Syracuse,” a film “based on the 1938 stage musical by Richard Rodgers and
Lorenz Hart” and produced by Jules Levey was released today in Syracuse, NY.
1940: The
Florence Times described plans for the arrival of Dr. Leopold Wallach from
Stuttgart, Germany who will become the Rabbi at Temple B’Nai Israel in
Sheffield, Alabama
1941: “The first news of the Eastern killings
reached England through intercepted German police messages which told of the
mass shooting of ‘Jews, Jewish plunderers, Jewish bolshevists’…in numbers
ranging from a hundred to several thousand at a time.”
1942: SS Captain Theodor Dannecker inspected
Camp Gur, the internment facility in southwestern France and order the inmates
to prepare for transportation to Eastern Europe. Unbeknownst to them, this meant Auschwitz.
1942: Nine hundred Jews fled to the woods near
Szarkowszczynzna as the Germans entered the town. Six hundred of them did not
make it to safety and were killed
1943(15th of Tammuz,
5703): Two hundred slave
laborers are murdered at Miedzyrzec, Poland.
1943(15th of Tammuz, 5703):
Seventy-four-year-old Max Meyer Blumenthal, M.D., the German born son of Selig
and Juliane Blumenthal and the husband of Martha Elkus died today in the
Theresienstadt Ghetto.
1943: Charles L. Bernheimer, the Ulm, Germany,
born son of “Leopold M. and Amalie (Bing) Bernheimer”, the graduate of
Thudichum’s College, Geneva, Switzerland and American businessman whose career
was capped by serving as Chairman of the Board Bear Mill Manufacturing Company
who was a leader of the “fusion movement” in New York that led to the election
of Mayor John P. Mitchell while raising his family with the former Clara
Silberman celebrated his 79th birthday today.
1943(15th of Tammuz, 5703): Sixty-three-year-old
Leopold Einstein was murdered today at Terezin.
1943: One thousand Jews are deported to Auschwitz from
Paris
1944(27th of Tammuz, 5704):
Eighty-year-old Caroline Bamberger Fuld, the widow of successful merchants of
Louis Frank and Felix Fuld, who used her fortune for several philanthropic and
educational endeavors including the creation of the Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton, NJ, passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9507E2DB163FEE3BBC4152DFB166838F659EDE
1944: The Jews living on the island of Rhodes
were ordered to assemble for what would become a transport of Hungary. The
community dated back to 1492, the time of the expulsion of the Jews from
Spain.
1945: Birthdate of Canadian born, American
educated political leader Stephen Mandel who has served as Mayor of Edmonton
and Minister of Health in the Government of the Province of Alberta.
1945: In Cortland, NY attorney Joshua J. Nasaw
and Beatrice “Bea” Kaplan Nasaw, a schoolteacher, gave birth to their oldest
son historian David Nasaw, the Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at City University of New York.
1946: According to The Catcher in the Rye,
the novel by J.D. Salinger who was raised as a Jew but became a follower of
Zen, today “was the date that Holden Caulfield's younger brother, Allie, died
of leukemia.”
1947: The British seized the SS Exodus carrying
4000 "illegal" immigrants. Its defiance of the British navy and its
ultimate return to Germany formed one of the most dramatic episodes in post-war
Jewish history. This was only one of many ships seized, turned around or
actually sunk as the Jews defied the British blockade and tried to make their
way to Palestine. This episode gained additional fame because it provided
the core for the famous novel and film Exodus.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/16.asp
1947: Dr. Joshua Cohen was among those on board
the SS Exodus when it was seized by
the British. “With limited medical equipment, Cohen” had “set up impromptu
clinics on every deck to care for more than 4,500 passengers, including 655
children.” Following the seizure of the
ship, After the British had seized the ship, Cohen negotiated with the British
doctors to have many of the wounded sent by ambulance to Haifa. Following his experience on the Exodus, Cohen
returned to the UK, only to be recruited by the British Army. He eventually
returned to Israel and served for four years in the Israeli Medical Corps.
Later, he was director general of the Poriya Hospital outside Tiberias, as well
as deputy director of Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
1947: Mordechai (Motke) Eldar who had survived
Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen and his sisters were among
the passengers on the Exodus whom the British would forcibly ship back to
Hamburg. Eldar returned to Tel Aviv a
year later. He joined the IDF where he served for thirty years reaching the
rank of Colonel.
1948: The
HMCS Norsyd, a flower class corvette was re-commissioned today as the INS Haganah
1948: On the final day of Operation Dekel,
Israeli forces take the villages Sh’ab and Al-Birwa.
1948: Benjamin (Ben)
Dunkelman, a Jewish veteran of the Canadian Army, commanded the 7th
Brigade and its supporting units throughout Operation Dekel that came to an end
today.
1948: As part of Operating Death to the
Invader, Israeli continued their offensive in the Negev attacking Egyptian
invaders at Hatta and Karatiyya. After initial Israeli success, the Egyptians
counter-attacked with tanks. An Israeli
soldier named Ron Feller risked his life in a successful effort to destroy two
of the tanks using a hand held anti-tank weapon for which he had only two
rounds. He received the Hero of Israel Citation for his bravery.
1948: A
fourth and final attack by Israelis on the fortress of Latrun failed. Latrun would remain in the hands of Jordan’s
Arab Legion until 1967.
1948: Israeli forces take Ayin Karem ending the
threatened Egyptian invasion of Jerusalem.
1948: Canadian Benjamin "Ben"
Dunkelman, who fought with The Queen’s Own Rifles during WW II was the
commander “of the 7th Brigade” Israel’s “best-known armored brigade”
during Operation Dekel which came to an end today.
1948: During the War of
Independence, after ten days of fighting (July 8- July 18), a second truce went
into effect.
1948: As of today, the
entire lower Galilee from Haifa Bay to the Sea of Galilee was under Israeli
control.
1948:
Over the next thirty-six hours, Dr. Stanley Levin, a volunteer surgeon
from South Africa “performed 28 successive surgeries” without stopping for a
break.
1948: Today, “at 17:30, on the last day of the
summer offensive, Modi Alon led Syd Antin and Rudy Augarten who was flying his
first combat mission in Israel, from Herzliya in three S-199s to attack an
Egyptian armored column at Bir Asluj, west of Beersheva” “where they dropped their bombs and made
three strafing runs.”
1948: Modi Alon scored his third aerial victory
today when he shot down a Royal Egyptian Air Force Spit fired piloted by Wing
Commander Said Afifi al-Janzuri. The
Spitfire had been the backbone of the RAF during the Blitz in 1940. Alon had served in the RAF during the war but
had flown the American made P-51.
1948: Birthdate of Graham Spanier who was
forced to resign as President of Penn State University for his role in the
school’s sex abuse scandal.
1949: Today “after a five-hour meeting at
Mishmar hay Yarden” Israel and Syria “initialed an armistice agreement today
and agreed to sign it on” July 20.
1949: Today in Copenhagen, Denmark an appeals
court commuted the death sentence of Dr. Werner Best, the High Commissioner for
the Reich in Denmark who “was accused of having taken the initiative in mass
deportation of Danish Jews, to a sentence of five years imprisonment.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/07/19/86776449.html?pageNumber=11
1950(4th of Av, 5710):
Sixty-nine-year-old Julius Levin, the husband of Etta Karesh Levin and the
father of Sidney L. Levin passed away today and was later buried in KKBI
Cemetery in Charleston, SC.
1951: The Jerusalem Post
reported that while the Knesset voted for equal rights for women, the word
ba'al (the word for husband which literally means also a master) was replaced
with ish (man, meaning husband as well). The Women's Equal Rights Bill was
unanimously opposed at the annual conference of four Israeli kadis (Moslem
religious officials), held in Jerusalem. The kadis, however, eased the divorce
laws for separated wives. Henceforth Israel's Arab women whose husbands were
abroad would become eligible to remarry, if they wished to press divorce
proceedings.
1952: “Don’t Bother to Knock” a film noir with
a script by Daniel Taradash and with music by Lionel Newman was released in the
United States today.
1952(25th of Tammuz, 5712)
Sixty-seven-year-old Ben-Zion Poljakoff passed away in Helsinki, Finland.
1953: “Doctors completed’ the fifth attempt in
the United States to ward off the crippling effects of polio with mass
inoculations of gamma globulin, “a serum which is made in Israel.”
1954(17th of Tammuz, 5714): Tzom
Tammuz
1955: “Governor Harriman of New York saw from
the air today the dredging operation by which Israel is reclaiming prehistoric
Hula swamp and creating a rich farm area.”
1955: It was reported today that “a shipping
agreement between Israel and the Soviet Union which help Israel to increase
trade with Moscow has been signed by the Israelis Foreign Ministry in
Jerusalem.”
1956: University of Maryland Law School
graduate Simon Sobeloff, the Baltimore born son of “Russian-Jewish immigrants”
Mary Hilda Kaplan and Jacob Sobeloff began service as the Judge of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Fourth District.
1957: “Silk Stockings” a screen adaptation of
George Kaufman and Abe Burrows play produced by Arthur Freed (Arthur Grossman),
featuring Peter Lorre, George Tobias and Jules Munshin and edited by Harold F.
Kress was released today in the United States.
1957(19th of Tammuz, 5717): Isidore
Rabinowitz, the Grodno born “son of Libbie and Shimon Rabinowitz” and the
“husband of Rebecca Rosen Rabinowitz” with whom he had had three children
passed away today in Brooklyn.
1958(1st of Av, 5718) Rosh Chodesh
Av
1959(12th of Tammuz, 5719): Parashat
Chukat-Balak
1961: Red Star of Yugoslavia routed Petah Tikva
of Israel, 7-0 in the International Soccer League match at the Polo Grounds tonight.
1961(8th of Av, 5721):
Seventy-four-year-old Chaim Gutman, famous Yiddish writer and satirist, known
under his nom de plume of “Der Lebediger” who “had been a member of the
editorial staff of the Day-Morning Journal in New York since 1953” passed away
today at Miami Beach. (As reported by JTA)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gutman-chaim
1962: Birthdate of Palo Atol, CA native Lee
Arenberg, an American actor “best known
for his role as Pintel, one of Captain Barbossa's crew, in the Pirates of the
Caribbean franchise.”
1962: “Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man”
produced by Jerry Wald “with a cast that included by Eli Wallach, Paul Newman,
Susan Strasberg and Baruch Lumet with music by Franz Waxman” was released by 20th
Century Fox in the United States today.
1964(9th of Av, 5724): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1964(9th of Av, 5724): Cecilia
Goldman, the wife of Morris Goldman and the mother of Samuel, Mortimer and
Leslie Goldman passed away today.
1965(18th of Tammuz, 5725): Tzom
Tammuz
1966(1st of Av, 5726): Rosh Chodesh
Av
1967(10th of Tammuz, 5727):
Eighty-one-year-old “Mrs. Minnie Greenfield Cohen, the widow the former picture
editor of the New York Times, Israel Cohen, who had passed away in 1952, died
today at Kings Highway Hospital in rooklyn.
1967: Germaine Ribière, a French Catholic
member of the Resistance born in 1917 “was recognized as a Righteous Among the
Nations by Yad Vashem.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/ribiere.asp
1969(3rd of Av, 5729):
Seventy-four-year-old Birth Control pioneer Fania Mindell passed away today in
Mexico City.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/26/1916/fania-mindell-arrested-for-distributing-birth-control-material
1969: During the War of Attrition, “Egyptian
commandos attacked Israelis military installations in the Sinai.
1969: Today, “The Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine bombed the Oxford Street store of Marks & Spencer
in London.”
1969: “The Appointment” a psychological drama
directed by Sidney Lumet was released today in Finland.
1970: Menahem Eini was taken prisoner when his
F-4E Phantom II was shot down during the War of Attrition.
1970(14th of Tammuz, 5730): Shmuel Hetz was
killed when his F-4E Phantom II was shot down during the War of Attrition.
1970: “The Boy Friend,” a musical review for
which Saul Richman served as Press Representative was performed for the last
time on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre.
1973: Birthdate of Christine Demter whose
murder for hire was the subject of By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of
Christine Demeter by Jewish authors George Jonas and Barbara Amiel.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that during his electoral campaign, Jimmy Carter,
the US presidential candidate, announced that he believed strongly that
"Israel made enough concessions, and it was time that Arabs made
some."
1976: Eight Israelis and three Palestinians
were injured today when a bomb was exploded aboard a bus in Tel Aviv today.
1977: “Israel’s newly announced anti‐inflation program spurred organized labor today to its
first confrontation with the Government of Prime Minister Menahem Begin since
he took office last month” as “The General Federation of Labor, or Histadrut,
called on all Israeli wage earners to protest the 25 percent increases in the
prices of basic foods and fuels that the Government decided upon as a means of
draining purchasing power,”
1978: Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2
days of talks.
1978: John Gunther Dean completed his service
as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark,
1979: A fifteen-day conference co-sponsored by Sarah Lawrence, the
Women's Action Alliance and the Smithsonian Institution, began on this date at
Sarah Lawrence College. Intended for female leaders, it was attended by a
diverse range of participants representing 43 different women's organizations.
The institute was organized by Sarah Lawrence professor Gerda Lerner One of
the pioneers of women's history, Lerner hoped to introduce a diverse group of
varied backgrounds to the possibilities of women's history. Lerner described
the 15-day course as equivalent to a semester-long seminar. In addition to
ongoing afternoon workshops and evening cultural events, each morning's program
featured one lecture by the seminar instructors. Joining Lerner as the
principle instructors were Alice Kessler-Harris and Amy Swerdlow, both
pioneering feminists and women's historians.
1980: “Honey Suckle Rose” aka On the Road Again
directed by Jerry Schatzberg, co-produced by Sidney Pollack, with music by
Richard Baskin of ice cream fame and edited by Aram Avakian was released today
in the United States.
1980: “The Big Red One” a WW II combat movie
directed by Samuel Fuller and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg was
released in the United States today by United Artists.
1981: “Israeli jets today bombed a densely
populated area of Beirut containing Palestinian guerrilla headquarters and, in
wide raids in southern Lebanon, knocked out three more bridges”
1981: “Palestinian gunners, continuing their
rocket attacks on northern Israeli towns for the third day, reportedly hit a
maternity hospital in Nahariya, wounding four women who were patients there.”
1982(27th of Tammuz, 5742):
Eighty-five-year-old “Roman Jakobson, an internationally known authority on
Slavic languages and literatures” passed away today at Massachusetts General
Hospital in Boston which was not far from his home in Cambridge, Mass. Best known as the founder of phonology, the
study of abstract properties of the sounds of speech, Dr. Jakobson was Institute
Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fields
of linguistics and philosophy and was the Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of
Slavic Languages and Literatures and General Linguistics Emeritus at Harvard
University. He was Thomas G. Masaryk
Professor of Czechoslovak Studies at Columbia University before he joined the
Harvard faculty in 1950. Harvard called the appointment a major step in the
expansion of the university's Slavic studies. In 1957, Dr. Jakobson was invited
to join M.I.T.'s faculty, and he taught at both institutions. He retired from
Harvard in 1967 and from M.I.T. in 1970.
Dr. Jakobson could read 25 languages, and in one of his works he
analyzed poetry in 16 languages. His study of phonology was only a facet of his
work, which continued until his death. In 1981-82, he added to the list of his
publications two books and 15 articles, the last of about 500 he produced in
his lifetime. One of his last books,
''Dialogues,'' consisting of conversations between him and his wife, Krystyna
Pomorska, professor of Russian literature at M.I.T., will be published by
M.I.T. in September
1982: The first congress of the European
Association for Jewish Studies opened today at Herford College Oxford.
1982: Neve Daniel was established today on the
site of The Cohen Farm “which had been founded on September 6, 1935, on lands
purchased from Arab residents of Bethlehem, that were transferred to the Jewish
National Fund in 1943 and which had been abandoned during the Arab riots and
remained under Jordanian control until 1967.”
1983(8th of Av, 5743): Erev Tish'a B'Av
1983(8th of Av, 5743):
Seventy-four-year-old International Grandmaster chess player Salomon Florh, the
Galician born son of Jewish parents who were killed in a massacre during WW I
who found refuge in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union passed away today.
1984(18th of Tammuz, 5744):
Eighty-eight-year-old Russian born English Zionist and a member of the
Rothschild family Flora Solomon who “was the mother of Peter Benenson, the
founder of Amnesty International” passed away today.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Flora_Solomon.htm
1984(18th of Tammuz, 5744):
Seventy-four-year-old Polish born, NYU graduate and holder of a doctorate from
Dropsie University Dr. Irving Abraham Argus, the husband of the former Tema
Gerber with whom he had two children – Aharon and Rachel – the “professor
emeritus of history at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School and
an authority on Jewish life in the Middle Ages” whose works included “Urban
Civilization in Pre-Crusade Europe, in which he held that the concept of
town government originated with Jewish communities of the 10th and 11th
centuries” and The Heroic Age of Franco-German Jewry, which traced the
contributions to Jewish cultural life of a small group of Franco-German Jews
who survived the Crusades and became the progenitors of Ashkenazic Jewry”
passed way today.
1985: James D. Ellison, 38 years old, founder
and spiritual leader of the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord,
described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a survivalist, white
supremacist group “ was convicted in Federal District Court today of
racketeering charges related to fires at a Jewish Community Center in
Bloomington, IN and a homosexual church and the bombing of a natural gas
pipeline.”
1986: “Aliens,” a sci-fi film featuring
Jeanette Goldstein and Paul Reiser was released in the United States today by
20th Century Fox.
1986: “Pirates,” an adventure comedy directed
by Roman Polanski who co-authored the script and starring Walter Matthau was
released in the United States today.
1987(21st of Tammuz, 5747): Parashat
Pinchas
1987: “A banned Soviet film which presents
a sympathetic portrait of Soviet Jews was shown to restricted audiences at a
Moscow film festival, and officials have promised its eventual release.”
1988: New York City’s most prominent Democrat,
Mayor Ed Koch left New York tonight heading for “a weeklong trip to Europe,
during which he is to join John Cardinal O'Connor in praying for peace and
reconciliation in Ireland” instead of going to Atlanta for his party’s
presidential nominating convention.
1989(15th of Tammuz, 5749): Twenty-one-year-old
model and actress Rebeca Schaeffer was murdered by an “obsessed fan who had
been stalking her for three years.”
1990(25th of Tammuz, 5750): Seventy-two-year-old
Johnny Wayne, the “Wayne” of the Canadian comedy team “Wayne and Shuster”
passed away today.
1991: Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d said
today “that the Middle East peace conference sought by the United States must
be held on the basis of Resolution 242, which was approved by the United
Nations Security Council on Nov. 22, 1967, and of Resolution 338, approved on
Oct. 22, 1973. Here are the resolutions: Resolution 242.”
1992(17th of Tammuz, 5752) Parashat
Balak
1992(17th of Tammuz, 5752):
Seventy-six-year-old Lawrence Schubert Lawrence, Jr., the head of the Shubert
Organization from 1962 to 197 and “a great-nephew of the three Shubert brothers
-- Sam S., Lee and Jacob J., known as J. J. -- who founded what is now, with 17
houses, the largest theater chain in New York City” who was the father of Barbara
J. Lawrence Stass of North Brunswick, N.J.; Linda L. Lawrence of New Brunswick,
N.J.; Lawrence S. Lawrence 3d of Knoxville, Tenn.; Lee S. Lawrence of Boca
Raton, and Lynne C. Underwood of Miami Lakes, Fla” passed away today.
1992: “British solicitor and Labour party
leader” Victor Mishcon, the Brixton born so of Rabbi Arnold Mishcon and Quennie
Mishcon completed his service as “Shadow Lord Chancellor.”
1992(17th of Tammuz, 5752):
Eighty-four-year-old Norfolk, VA native Elsie Nusbaum Hofheimer, the University
of Pennsylvania education wife of Henry Clay Hofheimer II with whom she had
three children passed away today after which she buried in the Jewish section of
Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk.
1994: George Gershwin’s “The Man I Love which
had been “recorded by Kate Bush for Larry Adler's The Glory of Gershwin tribute
album was released today as a single.”
1994(10th of Av, 5754): In Buenos Aires a car
bomb exploded outside the building housing the AMIA, the Asociación Mutual
Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA) building
killing 85 people and wounding more than 200 others in what remains the
deadliest anti-Semitic incident anywhere since World War II and came two years
after 29 people died in a similar attack on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina.
1995: Ehud Barak succeeded David Libai as
Interior Minister.
1995: “Three teenagers were crushed to death by
a falling gate during a farewell concert by the popular band Mashina” at the
Hebrew Music Festival in Arad.
1997(13th of Tammuz, 5757): Sir James
Goldsmith, a flamboyant British-French financier who maintained three families,
homes in four countries and used his billions to fight the European Union,
passed away today at the age of 64 after having battled pancreatic cancer for
four years. His father was Jewish. His mother was not. Sir James made his
fortune as a highly successful corporate raider before turning to politics. He
formed his own Referendum Party in Britain with the single mission of
combatting further European integration while maintaining a seat from France in
the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Although his party polled over 800,000
votes in the British elections in May, it did not win a single seat in the
House of Commons. Born into a prosperous banking family, Sir James went on to
amass a personal fortune estimated at up to $2.5 billion. Having frequented
luxurious hotels in his youth, he briefly flirted with the idea of working in
one, but soon turned to finance, excelling in the art of taking over troubled
companies. He was a brilliant investor of his profits too and accurately
forecast the American stock market crash of 1987, turning his assets into cash
just before the market plunged. In the United States, he was best known for his
1986 raid on the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which became an issue in
Congressional hearings on takeovers.
1998(24th of Tammuz, 5758): Parashat
Pinchas
1998(24th of Tammuz, 5758): Seventy-five-year-old
Dr. Henry C. Zingher passed away today “in his home in Vernon Hills.”
1999: The New York Times reviews books
by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“Spinoza: A Life” by Steven Nadler.
1999: In “Lives; Pandora’s Idiot Box” published
today David Rakoff described what it was like to own his first television set.
2000: “The United States and Germany approved a
$5 billion agreement to compensate forced laborers like him from the Nazi era.”
2001: Daniel C. Kurtzer presented his
credentials as U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
2002(9th of Av, 5762): Tish’a B’Av
2002(9th of Av, 5762):
Eighty-year-old New York born, Julliard trained violinist and WW II veteran
Seymour Solomon, who with his brother Maynard founded Vanguard Records, a must
label for folk music lovers in the 1950’s and 1960’s passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/arts/seymour-solomon-80-record-label-founder.html
2002(9th of Av, 5762): Twenty-one
year old Yocheved Ben-Hanan of Emmanuel died today of wounds she suffered when
a terrorist attacked Dan bus #189.
2002: Eric Moonman, the former Laborite Member
of Parliament, university professor, Zionist leader and author of The Violent
Society appeared as “a terrorism expert” appeared for the first time “on a
Channel Five Lunchtime Bulletin…after which he appeared dozens of times on UK
television.
2003: “Bad Boys II” directed by Michael Bay,
produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, with a script co-authored by Jerry Stahl and
music by Trevor Rabin” was released today in the United States by Columbia
Pictures.
2004: After 101 performances at Studio 54, the
curtain came down on a revival of “Assassins,” a musical with music and lyrics
by Stephen Sondheim
2004: At the Teatro
dell'Opera di Roma, the fifth and
final performance of the Biblical opera
"Nabucco" by Giuseppe Verdi in which acclaimed Israeli theatre and
opera director Jacobo Kaufmann, directs and designs the scenery. He
is the first Israeli ever to be hired to direct an opera in Italy.
2004: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of
“In Praise of Nepotism:: A History of Family Enterprise From King David to
George W. Bush” by Adam Bellow, the son of novelist Saul Bellow, who succeeds
in canvassing much of Western history (not to mention Confucian and Hindu
traditions) to argue that kinship is ''both natural and necessary.''
2004: With President
Néstor Kirchner looking on, Argentine Jewish leaders today marked the 10th
anniversary of a deadly anti-Semitic attack here by delivering blistering
attacks on his predecessors and European institutions they say have blocked
efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice.
2005: The second in
the three part National Geographic Special based Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond aired tonight on PBS.
2005: Rabbi Aaron Sherman officially assumes
the pulpit at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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: Andrei
Zelinsky, 36, of Nahariya.
2006: In “Hunker Down With History” published
today, Richard Cohen began his column on the Middle East by writing "The
greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel
itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a
mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of
European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a
century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now".
2007: The 93rd annual national
Hadassah Convention comes to an end.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, weather
permitting, Temple Judah is scheduled to celebrate Friday night Shabbat
Services in the new Silber Family Outdoor Sanctuary.
2008: Arad police, in a rare incident, shot
dead a man threatening to kill his ex-wife with a knife
2008: In “The Floods of 2008,” published today
George C. Ford describes the impact of the worst natural disaster in the
history of Cedar Rapids on the Siegel family, who has been prominent members of
the business community for over six decades and pillars of the Jewish
community.
Sixty-eight years after Siegel’s Jewelry & Loan opened in
downtown Cedar Rapids, the business was forced to relocate following last
month’s flooding. Ken Siegel and his brother, Jary, who operated the store at
105 Third Ave. SE, signed a lease for a vacant store at 3525 First Ave. SE
within days after learning the extent of the damage to their business. “When we were finally
allowed back into downtown to check our business on June 16, we found the
windows were broken and blackened,” Ken Siegel said. “Looking inside the store,
we saw the walls were buckled in, display cases had been flipped upside down and
torn apart and there was really complete devastation.” Although Jary Siegel and
store employees had moved merchandise like plasma televisions and guitars from
the basement to the top of the showcases on the first floor, the floodwaters
destroyed virtually everything but jewelry stored in two safes. “All of our
retail jewelry and diamonds were stored in the safes,” Ken Siegel said.
“Unfortunately, the safes had digital locks that were shorted out by the
floodwaters and we were stuck for about a week. We looked all over the country
for someone to get the safes open until Jeremy at John’s Lock & Key in
Cedar Rapids was able to get them open.” Siegel said more than 3,000 envelopes
containing diamonds and other jewelry had to be opened by hand. “We had between 10 and
12 people cleaning the jewelry, matching the diamonds with certificates,
creating new paperwork and cataloging each item,” he said. “We also had about
3,000 or 4,000 DVDs in our inventory. We were able to recover about 2,000, but
we had to throw away the cases because they were submerged. “We literally lost
thousands of items. I would estimate that we lost at least $250,000 worth
of merchandise.” Cy Christenson, 92, who has repaired watches at Siegel’s since
1976, lost all of his tools as well as “enough parts and crystals for five
shops,” according to Siegel. “We’re still recovering customers’ watches left
for repair.” Siegel said getting the business up and running was a priority. “We’re in essence like
a bank, so if a bank closes, customers get upset when they can’t get their
money,” he said. “We’re also a loan institution as well, so we had hundreds of
people calling to find out if they could get their merchandise.” Siegel said customers
who pawned merchandise other than jewelry likely will not be able to redeem
their items.
“The national pawn contract says that we’re not
responsible for catastrophic events like fire and floods,” he said. “We have
insurance for everything but flooding.” Siegel said customers who pawned
merchandise usually were loaned anywhere from 50 percent to 60 percent of the
value when it was pawned. “Most of the customers we have talked
with have been very understanding,” he said. Asked if the business
will return to the building it bought in 2005 after being a tenant for 65
years, Siegel does not have an answer. “We’re trying to rescue
a $500,000 investment,” he said. “We would like to go
back downtown. We love the downtown area, but we will have to see what develops
over the next few years.”
2008: In “Using Bombs to Stave Off War” published today
historian Benny Morris described what he sees as the consequence of the
military option in dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat.
2009: Fifteenth anniversary of the AMIA bombing attack. The following was sent to us by an anonymous
Argentine Jew whose pain has not been dimmed by the passing of time.
The AMIA Bombing was an attack on the
Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association,
or AMIA) building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, that killed 85 people.
Carried out under Carlos Menem's presidency (1989-1999), it was Argentina's
deadliest bombing. Argentina is home to a Jewish community of 200,000, the
largest in Latin America. It was one of the Largest Attacks against Jews after
the holocaust. I'm an Argentine Jew, not only I've lost people close to my life
in this attack but our lives as Jews in Argentina changed forever, we lost
everything we had, including our voices. As we continue to hear the silence of
the international community and the lack of care of our own community. Now
isn’t it sad to read the level of ignorance that the Jewish community worldwide
has about this. I have questioned myself every year, why? Why would people care
so little about this? They attacked us for not only being Jews but as they see
us as a way to attack Israel, so at least for that basic reason, even if you
don't care about the Jews in Argentina, don't you care about an attack towards
Israel? Even if Israelis didn't die.. We died due to that... As every year not
only I ask tons of people if they know about this day, and obviously they are
totally ignorant, Do you think you might have a little place in your heart to
remind yourselves that we as well represent the Jewish population, that 85
people died and 300 severely injured and put this solemn day of remembrance in
your little calendar... I'd say just for respect. Just at least for respect
even if you don't care....I'm the daughter of a holocaust survivor... the same
way I remember all of my family and all of the victims of the holocaust, I as
well make a very special place in my heart to remember the AMIA and the Bombing
of the Israeli embassy in Argentina. And we still don't have support, and we
still don't have justice, and still the world continues to ignore our cries of
help....Shame shame, shame on ignorance... shame that people just don't care.
[Ed. Note; We hope that by
publishing this as it was written, we have in some small way atoned for
previous failure to note this tragic event in our people’s history. Zachor – Remember and remember we will.]
2009: The Jerusalem Film Festival
features a screening of Harlan-In the Shadow of the Jew Suss
2009(26th of Tammuz, 5769): Eighty-four-year-old
Anglo-Jewish actress Jill Balcon passed
away today.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jul/20/jill-balcon-obituary
2010: In Bethlehem, PA, table games
began today at a casino owned by Sheldon Adelson
2010: “Controlled Chaos and Brawny
Braininess Watcha Clan with Charming Hostess” are scheduled to appear on the
final day of the 25th Annual Jewish Music Festival in San Francisco.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin, the Phildelphia born Jewish
poet.
2010: Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu leaves for Egypt today to discuss with President Hosni Mubarak the
possibility of launching direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian
Authority. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is also due to meet with Mubarak
in Cairo.
2010: Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu today said he opposes the conversion bill proposed by Yisrael
Beiteinu, which would give sole authority over Israel's conversions to the
Chief Rabbinate, saying it will "tear apart the Jewish people."
"The bill could tear apart the Jewish
people," Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
"We will make the effort to stop the bill from reaching the Knesset, but
if it is not removed, I will ask the Likud members and members of other parties
to vote against it."
2011: In an article published today
entitled “Roseanne’s New Reality” the aging Jewish born comedian reveals that
“every Friday night for Shabbat from sundown until 2 a.m., she gets high,
drinks red wine, and does a meditation Rav Berg taught her.”
2011: “Egypt’s Rising Power”
published today examined the career of Amr Moussa the leading candidate to be
the next President of Egypt. What his “supporters love most “about him “is his
long and vocal history of anti-Israel diatribes.” Moussa insisted that he would honor the
treaty despite his opposition to Sadat’s peace moves.
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/07/10/why-amr-moussa-is-egypt-s-presidential-frontrunner.html
2011: A 50-year-old Jewish man from
the Beit Zayit suburb of Jerusalem was arrested by police today afternoon on
suspicion of being responsible for the forest fire in Jerusalem on Sunday.
2011: The Malaysian government-backed
newspaper said in an editorial that foreign Jewish groups will try to use a
current push for reform to interfere in the country.
2012: Center for Jewish History and
American Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to present screenings of
“Hester Street” and “Sweatshop Cinderella.”
2012: The Illinois Holocaust Museum
& Education Center is scheduled to present “A Magical Eve with James
Conlon” during which the Music Director of the Ravinia Festival and Executive
Director of the OREL Foundation. Maestro Conlon will share insights about his
"Breaking the Silence" series featuring music from composers whose
work had been silenced by the Nazis. Musical accompaniment will be provided by
Janai Brugger and Miah Im
2012: One year from today, on July
18, 2013, the Maccabiah Games are scheduled to open in Jerusalem
2012: In New Orleans, a three-week
program of continuing education styled “The World of Fiddler on the Roof” is
scheduled to begin tonight with “Marc Chagall’s World.”
2012(28th of Tammuz,
5772): One-hundred-two-year-old Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv passed away today.
(As reported by Matti Friedman)
2012(28th of Tammuz,
5772).Seven people were killed and 32 injured when a bomb exploded on an
Israeli tourist bus at the airport of the Bulgarian city of Burgas today, the
18th anniversary of the Iran-sponsored attack on the AMIA Jewish center in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Six of the victims died on the spot, and the seventh
in the hospital following the attack, Bulgarian officials confirmed. Two of the
victims were said to be Bulgarian -- the bus driver and tour guide.(As reported
by Yaakov Katz, Herb Keinon, Yaakov Lappin)
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=277989
2012: Seven people have been
killed, and 30 injured — including three critically — by a bomb that exploded
on a bus carrying an Israeli tour group from its plane to the terminal inside
Bulgaria’s Bourgas airport this evening.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/live-blog-israelis-killed-in-terror-explosion-in-bulgaria/
2013: In Waukee, Iowa is scheduled
to sponsor “Keeping The Homeland Safe: Israel and Iowa Together” featuring
Sheriffs Paul A. Fitzgerald, Ted Kamatchus and Bill McCarthy.
2013: The Maccabiah Games are
scheduled to officially open this evening at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/higher-faster-stronger-jewishly/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/history-in-the-making-at-the-19th-maccabiah-games/
2013: The late André Tchaikowsky's
opera The Merchant of Venice is scheduled to be premiered at the Bregenz
Festival,[
2013: In New Orleans, “The World of
Fiddler on the Roof” a three part program sponsored by Reform Congregation
Gates of Prayer and Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to begin
this evening with “Marc Chagall’s World.”
For more see Crescent City Jewish
News the place to go for news about the Jewish community of Greater New
Orleans
2013: A U.S. State Department
official said today there are no plans to announce a resumption of
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after the Israeli government denied that it
agreed to base new talks on the 1967 lines. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2013: The Israeli Antiquities
Authority issued a press release announcing the “discovery” of archaeological
remains identified as King David’s Palace.
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/king-david%E2%80%99s-palace-at-khirbet-qeiyafa/
2013: The 19th quadrennial
Maccabiah Games started in grand fashion at Teddy Kollek Stadium tonight,
bolstered by tens of thousands of enthusiastic spectators, and more than 9,000
of the most talented Jewish athletes in the world. (As reported by Daniel K.
Eisenbud)
2014: The
Historic 6th & I Synagogue is scheduled to a host the “6th
Street Minyan” followed by ice cream, challah and wine.
2014: As of
this morning, Israeli time, the IDF has begun a limited incursion into Gaza
designed to destroy a series of tunnels and other terrorist infrastructure.
2014(20th
of Tammuz, 5774): At 3:00 A.M. “First Sargent Eitan Barak, a 20-year-old
fighter from Herzliya in the Nahal Brigade, was mortally wounded in north Gaza”
as the IDF sought to put an end to the terrorist threat.
2014: “A
second, massive volley of rockets was aimed at central Israel from the Gaza
Strip just after 9pm this evening, even as IDF ground grounds operated in the
Gaza Strip in a bid to stem the attacks. At least two rockets were reportedly
intercepted in the Tel Aviv area. (As reported by Ilana Curiel)
2014:
Following yesterday’s attempted infiltration of Israel by 13 terrorists through
an underground tunnel, the Israeli military said it had already uncovered 10
tunnels with 22 exit points and that there were “dozens” more “terror tunnels”
spread around Gaza. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2015: The Eden-Tamir
Music Center is scheduled to host an “end of season” “Double Concerti”
featuring the works of Bach and Vivaldi.
2015: Israeli-born jazz
guitarist Gilad Hekselman is scheduled to perform at the Cornelia Street Café
in NYC.
2015: “Songs from the
Second Floor” and “42nd Street” are scheduled to be shown at the
Jerusalem Film Festival.
2015: In Amherst, MA,
at the Yiddish Book CenterTrombonist/keyboardist Brian Bender of the
Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble, Little Shop of Horas, and the Wholesale Klezmer
Band is scheduled to lead an instrumental workshop for aspiring teen and adult
klezmer musicians as part of Yidstock.
2016(12th of
Tammuz, 5776): Sixty-nine-year-old Uri Coronel, “the chairman of the Israelite
Portuguese Community of the Netherlands” died today “after he collapsed at gym
while exercising. (JTA)2016(12th of Tammuz, 5776): In Israel, 89 year old psychologist Blome
Evers, the survivor of Auschwitz known as “the unofficial queen of Jewish
Amsterdam” and the mother of six including Rabbi Raphael Evers passed away
today. (JTA)
2016: “War Paint,” a
“musical that focuses on the lives of and rivalry between 20th-century female
entrepreneurs Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein” opened today at the
Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
2016: The Republican
National Convention is scheduled to open in Cleveland without attendance by
Republican Jewish fund raisers including Charlie Spies and Yitz Applebaum, Bush
administration alumni Noam Neusner, Tevi Troy and Jay Zeidman and Rabbi Haskel
Lookstein, the highly regarded Orthodox rabbi in New York who oversaw Ivanka
Trump's conversion to Judaism but who
changed his mind about accepting the opportunity to lead a prayer when he came
to the conclusion that the appearance would be divisive and run counter to his
goal of community unity.
2017: Today “during a
press conference in the Hungarian parliament following meetings with Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu, Prime Minister Viktor Orban expressed regret that his
country had neglected to protect its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust” saying
that “at an earlier time, the government of Hungary made a mistake, moreover,
committed a sin when it did not protect its citizens of Jewish heritage…”
2017: Today, Deadline
reported that “On the Basis of Sex,” a biopic about Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg, that Felicity Jones would play the Justice and Mimi Leader would be
the director.
2017(24th of
Tammuz, 5777): Eighty-nine-year-old Herbert Needleman, the doctor who was the
driving force behind removing lead contamination from the world of children,
passed away today, (As reported by Benedict Carey)
2017: Today “Britain’s
Prince William and his wife Kate visited the site of a former Nazi
concentration camp at Stutthof in Poland, where they met with two British
survivors of the facility where 28,000 Jews were murdered during the
Holocaust.”
2017: The 20th
Maccabiah Games are scheduled to come to an end today.
2017: “God’s Own
Country” and “On the Beach at Night Alone” are scheduled to be shown at the
Jerusalem Film Festival.
2017: In London, JW3 is
scheduled host a film starring Richard Gere “as a relentless Jewish-American
macher.”
2018(6th of
Av, 5778): Eighty-seven-year-old Nobel Prize for Physics winner Burton Richter,
the Brooklyn born son of textile worker Abraham Richter and “Fanny (Pollack)
Richter” and the father of Elizabeth and Matthew Richter whom he raised with
his wife Laurose passed away today. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
2018: Today pitcher Dean Kremer “the first Israel drafted by a Major
League Baseball team” was traded to the Baltimore Orioles after which “he was
assigned to the Bowie Baysox of the Double-A Eastern League.”
2018: YIVO is scheduled
to present “The Essence of Yiddish Theatre, a theatrical introduction to
Yiddish language and Yiddish theatre.”
2018: In Cedar Rapids,
IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to discuss Survivors Club: The True
Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein and Debbie
Bornstein Holinstat
2018: “Batsheva – The
Young Ensemble is scheduled to perform Ohad Naharin's Bessie Award-winning
dance, Naharin's Virus” at The Joyce Theatre in New York City.
2018: “Odd Mom Out's
Jill Kargman and the Unorthodox podcast hosts” are scheduled to “screen a new
short film about the persistence of the "JAP" (Jewish American
Princess) stereotype” followed by “a
discussion with guests including Tovah
Feldshuh, Judith Rosenbaum
and Bat Sheva Marcus” at the Marlene
Meyerson JCC in Manhattan.
2019: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the
AMIA bombing attack.
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a
lecture in Yiddish by Daniel Soyer, a “professor of history and Jewish studies
at Fordham University” on “Yiddish New York.”
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final screen of “The
Matchmaker” directed by Avi Nesher and “Why the Jews” directed by John Curtin.
2019: In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “The
Code” during which “Margaret O’Mara talks about her new book, subtitled Silicon
Valley and the Remaking of America, with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Anne Kornblut”
2019: “Judge Richard Berman”…is scheduled “to issue a ruled whether to
grant Jeffrey Epstein bail” today.
2019: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open this
evening with a screening “A Miracle of Miracles,” the documentary that “tells
the story behind Broadway musical "Fiddler on The Roof" and its
creative roots in early 1960s New York” and “includes interviews with the
Broadway show’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick,
legendary producer Hal Prince, original cast members, such as Austin Pendleton,
as well as rare archival footage of choreographer Jerome Robbins.”
2020(26th of Tammuz, 5780): Parashat Matot-Masay;
2020: Day 3 of the
four-day Cinegogue Summer Days film festival is scheduled to including 2020
documentary “They Ain’t Ready for Me” about a Black rabbinical student in
Chicago, followed by Q&A including the film’s subject, a 2020 documentary
“Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is” followed by a Q&A with Tilson Thomas
and producer Peter Stein and 1919 silent film about a Jewish girl falling in
love with a non-Jewish boy, “Broken Barriers,” with Sascha Jacobson Quartet
performing a newly composed score live online.
2020: In Pepper Pike,
OH, B’nai Jershurun Congregation is scheduled to host via Zoom “Starbucks,
Bread and Torah Online.”
2020: The Boston
Workers Circle is scheduled to present online a “Discussion on Shimon Dzigan”
during which “Miriam Isaacs she talks about her current project translating the
works of the beloved Yiddish comedian Shimon Dzigan”
2020: Israelis are
scheduled to observe Shabbat with a series of new restrictions in response to
the spike in Coronavirus cases which mean “people will be allowed to leave
their homes this weekend but malls, shops, pools, zoos and museums would shut
from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning…”(YNET)
2021(9th of
Av, 5781): Tish’A B’Av;
2021: In Palo Alto, CA,
the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host an “in-person gathering on Tisha
B'Av to mourn the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem and reflect on our
world as the pandemic eases that includes singing, chanting, guided meditation
and poetry.”
2021: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors or of special interest to
Jewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of The
Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany’s Resistance Against the Nazis by
Norman Ohler.
2021: In Atlanta, at
the Bremen Museum, Rabbi Joe Prass, director of the Weinberg Center for
Holocaust Education will be giving tours of the Holocaust Gallery.
2021: The London School
of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz who will be
leading a special virtual tour to help deepen our understanding of this fast,
and bring to life the people who lived through the destruction of the second
Temple” which will include virtual visits to the British Museum, Pergamon
Museum and Bible Lands Museum in order to recreate this lost world and see the
human side of this seismic event.”
2021: Urban Adamah is
scheduled to host a virtual “Tish’a B’Av Meditation retreat with “spiritual
leaders Norman Fischer and Rabba Dorothy Richman who will discuss and lead
Jewish meditation, prayer and learning on the day marking the destruction of
the Temples in Jerusalem.
2022: The Americans and
the Holocaust traveling exhibition is scheduled to open at The Americans and
the Holocaust traveling exhibition is scheduled to open at Marshalltown Public
Library (Marshalltown, IA),University Libraries, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)
and Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library (Bismarck, ND).
2022: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar with Jason Greenblatt lecturing on
“Understanding’s Today Changed Middle East.
2023: The
Construction of the Tabernacle by Ephraim Epstein, which provides “a
detailed study of the construction of the Tabernacle, the portable sanctuary
used by the Israelites during their exodus from Egypt. Drawing on biblical and
archaeological sources” was published toda.
2023: The Summer
Institute on “Teaching the Holocaust”
sponsored by the Iowa Jewish
Historical Society is scheduled to continue for a second day.
2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “The Jew Bill of
1753.”
2023: The Ackman and
Ziff Family Genealogy Institute is scheduled to present “In the Shadow of
Auschwitz: How JCC Krakow is Rebuilding Jewish Life in Poland and Supporting
Ukrainian Refugees.”
2023: The Winter Family
which occupies a special place in the French and Israeli artistic scene is
scheduled to appear at the Sultan Room in Brooklyn.
2023: In New Orleans,
the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold its board meeting.
2023: YIVO is scheduled
to present a lecture by Dr. Avi Blitz
“the ‘Tsenerene,’ the most popular Yiddish book in history.”
2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “Israel Zangwill,
the ‘Jewish Dicken’ and the Kilburn Wanderers.
2024: YIVO is scheduled
to present a lecture in Yiddish by Marion Aprtoot on “Isaac Wetzlar’s Call for
Reform of Jewish Society and Education.”
2024: The Museum at
Eldridge Street’s “Senior Manager for Education and Accessibility, Scott
Brevda—historian, museum educator, and Senior Manager for Education and
Accessibility at the Museum at Eldridge Street— is scheduled to present a special verbal description tour of the
Synagogue's stained-glass windows and explore their role in one of the most
historic synagogues in the United States.
2024: The final
screening of “June Zero,” for which Jake Paltrow and acclaimed Israel filmmaker
Tom Shoval co-wrote the script for this film, which takes place in 1961 Israel
and unfolds the story of Eichman's trial from three very unexpected points of
view.
2024: Those touring
Poland with David Bernstein and Jeffrey Saks are scheduled to “take a short
walk to the restored 18th-century shul and add their voices to the centuries of
Lancut Jews who prayed there” followed by a “drive to Tarnow, a city that was
50% Jewish before the war, for a walking tour including a Bima that remains
from the Alta Shul, built in the 1600s.
2024: The National
Library of Israel is scheduled to host lecture by Profess Liora Halperin on “In
Search of the 'Bnei ha-Yishuv': Excavating Forgotten Pasts in the David Tidhar
Archive.”
2024: The San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open with a screening of “Shari & Lamb
Chop,” a documentary about the late ventriloquist Shari Lewis and her sheep
sock puppet.
2024: Muskha Cohen from
Chabad New Orleans is scheduled to lead “a women's centered discussion centered
around a fusion of the physical and spiritual realms of Judaism.”
2024:Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Herman on “A.B. Yehoshua and
the Generation of the State.”
2024: On the
anniversary of King Edward’s decree expelling the Jews from England, JW3 is
scheduled to host a screening of “All The King’s Jews” which was a “BBC
program, produced and aired in 1990, that explores the events that led to the
Jews’ banishment as well as England’s little-discussed contribution to the
invention of antisemitism as we know it today: it is, after all, the place
where Jews were first falsely accused of ritual killings of Christian boys, and
from which they were eventually methodically deported.”
2024: As part of
Goodness Week, the family of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is commissioning the
writing of a new Torah that will being with a procession that is scheduled to begin
at the Bnei Baka branch and end at the Baka Community Center.
2024: In Coralville,
Agudas Achim’s Synagogue Seniors is schedule to host a lecture by Tom Gelman on
“Common Misconceptions of Estate Planning.”
2024: As July 18th
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 286
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 Jewish
Institute of Rock, which was founded by Cantor Abbie Strauss, the wife of Rabbi
Feivel Strauss, is scheduled to host Musical Night On the Beach at loggerhead
Beach in Juno Beach, FL.
2025: Congregation Beth
El of the Sudbury River Valley is scheduled to present an evening with “Hal
Slifer, host of Chagigah Radio on WERS, who will offer an engaging multimedia
exploration of American Jewish music, blending videos, live commentary, and
visual storytelling.”
2025: “Guns and Moses”
is scheduled to be shown in theatres starting today.
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2025: As July 18th 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 651 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 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to continue
with a screening of “The Lonely Child” “a haunting Yiddish lullaby written
during the Holocaust, capturing the heartbreak of a mother and daughter torn
apart by war”
2026: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to hold “Hawaiian
Shirt Shabbat.”
2026(4th of Av, 5786):Shabbat Chazon;
for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2026: The Jerusalem Film Festival is scheduled to continue with
screenings of “Paper Tiger” and “Fjord.”
2026: The Crescent City Jewish News is under consideration again for two
major categories at the Press Club of New Orleans annual Awards for Excellence
in Journalism which is scheduled to be held this evening.
2026: As July 18 begins in Israel, the Knesset is in recess having voted
on July 17 to disband itself and the United States “has reportedly notified Israel that it is
sending dozens of additional refueling aircraft to Israel, as US President
Donald Trump weighs launching another massive bombing offensive against Iran.” (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.)
