457BCE (1st of Nisan,
3303): According to chapter 7, verse 9 of the Book of Ezra, Ezra and his
followers left Babylonia for Jerusalem
1193: Saladin, the
great Moslem leader, passed away. Among
Saladin’s many accomplishments were the re-taking of Jerusalem from the
Crusaders and his subsequent defeat of Richard the Lionhearted. Saladin had begun his leadership career in
Egypt where Maimonides served as physician to his court. There is some question as to whether
Maimonides provided medical services to Saladin or to his brother-in-law and
his entourage.
1152: Frederick
Barbarossa, who unlike other Crusaders, sought to protect the Jews, warning
local priests and monks not to preach against the Jews and tell the Diet
(Parliament) that anybody who killed a Jew would forfeit his own life which
lead a Jewish commentator of that time to write, "Frederick defended
us with all his might and enabled us to live among our enemies, so that no
one harmed the Jews ‘was elected Roman-German king.’ today
1215: King John of
England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent
III. While they may have been odds over
many issues, the two leaders both held firm to the concept of allowing the Jews
to exist, but in a state of humiliation.
In 1210, John imprisoned the Jews of Bristol and demanded 66,000 in
ransom as the price of their freedom. To
move the process along, John reportedly had the teeth of the prisoners
extracted one at a time until they agreed to the payment. Such was his
treatment of the Jews, that Barons included special language about the
treatment of the Jews in the Magna Carta. The Fourth Lateran Council over which
Innocent actively presided adopted several cannons attacking Jews including the
denying them the right to hold office and the requirement to wear distinctive
dress.
1244: Impia Gens issued
by Pope Innocent IV today in a letter to the King Louis IX of France, ordered
the Talmud to be burned. Two months later( May 9), he also issued papal bull
Impia judeorum perfidia (The Disrespectful, Deceitful Jews) callint the Jews a
perfidious race and reaffirming the restrictions on Jews implemented by Pope
Gregory IX. The Talmud was banned and Jews were prohibited from hiring
Catholics for manual labor to avoid their faith becoming confused.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/papal-bulls
1277: “Emperor Rudolph
of Hapsburg granted a charter of rights to the Jews of Prussia.”
1349: Birthdate of Prince Henry the Navigator. The Portuguese prince earned his sobriquet
and place in history for supporting ever more ambitious efforts to explore the
uncharted waters of the Atlantic Ocean and beyond. His efforts were financed and encouraged by
the family of Don Judah Abarbanel a wealthy refugee from Spanish persecution
who served as financer and confident to two generations of Portuguese monarchs.
1386: Władysław II
Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland. The situation of the Jews in
Poland had already begun to deteriorate prior to his kingship. In the middle of the century, the Jews were
blamed for the Black Plague and attacked by the countrymen. Under Wladislaus II and his successors the
first extensive persecutions of the Jews in Poland commenced, persecutions
which the monarch did not act to stop.
1493: According to some
records, today Columbus arrived in Lisbon from which he sent the letter that
described the results of his first voyage. The letter was addressed to Luis de
Santangel, the converso who, as finance minister, had convinced the Spanish
monarchs to finance the voyage.
1524: In Cairo, Mohamed
Bey freed the Jews who had been imprisoned by the viceroy Ahmed Schaitan on the
day on which he planned to kill them.
Ahmed had rebelled against the Sultan and when a Jewish leader, Abraham
de Castro, exposed the plot, Ahmed responded by demanding a ransom from the
Jews of Cairo and then imprisoning them once they had brought him the
money. This day of deliverance is
celebrated as the Purim of Cairo.
1648(8th of Adar):
Rabbi Issachar Baer, author Arba’ah Hadashim passed away
1665: The Second
Anglo-Dutch broke out today; a naval battle between two European countries
whose Jewish communities were intertwined.
1699: Jews of Lubeck,
Germany, were expelled.
1743: Birthdate of
Tuscan poet Solomon Fiorentino who wrote “Elegie” after the death of his wife
Laura Gallico and was the father of Hebrew teacher Angiolo Fiortentino.
1761(OS- 9th
of Adar II, 5521): London physician Meyer Low Schomberg, the German born son of
Low Schomberg, the brother of “Salomon, Hertz and Gerson Schomberg” and the
father of physicians Isaac Raphael and Joel Schomberg as well as Moses,
Solomon, Rebecca, Alexander and Henry Schomberg passed away today after having
alienated himself from the London Jewish community because of his feud with
Jacob de Castro Sarmento
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13297-schomberg-meyer-low
1764(30th of
Adar I, 5524): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1768(15th of
Adar, 5528): Shushan Purim
1769: Birthdate of
Muhammed Ali the Ottoman Albanian viceroy and governor who became the de facto
ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt
who annexed Jerusalem in 1831 providing “a window of opportunity for the
Perushim, “Jewish disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, who
left Lithuania at the beginning of the 19th century to settle in the Land of
Israel”
1770: In London, Haham
Moses Cohen d’Azvedo, the London born son Daniel David Cohen d’Azvedo and Sara
Cohen d”Azvedo, and his wife Sara de Abraham Cohen d’Azvedo gave birth to
Samuel Cohen D’Azvedo
1770: Lancaster, PA
native Shinah Solomon and Frankfurt, Germany native Elijah Etting gave birth to
Hetty Etting.
1776(13th of
Adar, 5536): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim
1780(27th of
Adar I, 5540): Parashat Vayakhel
1781: In Philadelphia,
PA Miriam Simon and Michael Gratz gave birth to Rebecca Gratz, one of the most
important Jewish women of the 19th century who according to some was
the role model for the character in the novel Ivanhoe.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gratz-rebecca
1786(4th of
Adar II, 5546): Parashat Pekudi
1787(14th of
Adar, 5547): Purim
1789: James Madison,
who championed religious liberty through the Bill of Rights began serving as a
member of the U.S House of Representatives from Virginia.
1791: Vermont is the 14th
state to join the Union. It is the first
state to join the original 13 states.
Today Vermont boasts a vibrant, if small, Jewish community. This includes houses of worship in at least
half a dozen cities, a Chabad in Burlington and Hillel chapters at two of the
state’s universities.
1791: A Christian in Alsace was punished by
the Church for lighting a fire for a Jew on Shabbat.
1791: Israel Jacobs of
Pennsylvania took his seat as the first Jewish member of the United States
House of Representatives.
1793: Philadelphia native “Catherine” Bush and London born Myer S.
Solomon gave birth to Alexander Solomon.
1795(13th of Adar, 5555): Fast of Esther; erev Purim on the
same day “the 4th United States
Congress convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1796: In Richmond VA, Richea Myers and Joseph Marx gave birth to Samuel
Marx.
1797: John Adams was sworn in as second President of the United States,
succeeding George Washington providing proof that orderly transfer of power,
including the acceptance of the outcome of elections, is a uniquely American
gift to the world of political science. At the national level, the U.S. failed
to abide by this and the result was four violent years of Civil War. There are those who would say that the Jewish
people have been able to thrive in America because of the stability of the
society and because of its respect for the rule of law as epitomized by this
seemingly simple event. Adams, like so
many of his New England contemporaries was greatly influenced by his reading of
what he called “the Old Testament.” The
images of George III as Pharaoh and the colonists as the modern-day Israelites
fighting tyranny provide a couple cover for what others might have called
treason. Adams was an early Zionist,
writing to the Jewish leader Mordechai Manuel Noah, “I really wish the Jews
again in Judea an independent nation.”
For more about the views of our Second President on the Jewish people
see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/adams.html
1798: Catholic women
were forced to do penance for kindling fire for Jews on Shabbat.
Either this is the same episode reported at two different times or being a
"Shabbos Goy" was a big no-no among the Catholic hierarchy.
1798: Birthdate of
Abigail Judah, the daughter of Baruch Juda, the wife of Moses Judah and the
mother of Rachel Judah.
1799: Under cover of
night, between the 3rd and the 4th of March, work commenced- the erecting of
five batteries, four against the southern wall and one in support of the
northern sector.13 The artillery park at Napoleon¹s command consisted only of
field pieces, mostly of 12, 8, 6 and 3 "pouces" (=inches of 2.7 cm),
of howitzers of 6 pouces and of 6-pouce mortars,14 since the heavy artillery
had all been loaded for transfer to Acre bay onto the ships of the flotilla
commanded by captain Standelet, and onto the freighters that had been collected
for that purpose in the Egyptian harbors. Those ships were only just then
commencing their journey north, without the means of contact with the land
forces, and Napoleon was compelled to make do with the lighter ordnance at his
command. However, he did not seem to have been unduly worried. Most probably,
the outward appearance of these antiquated walls revived his confidence in the
description of M. de Volney, who, in 1784, had called the ramparts of Jaffa
"mere garden walls."
1804: In Piemonte,
Italy, Sabino Leonino Sacerdote gave birth toe Barone Abram David Leonino
Sacerdote the husband of Easter Leonino and “father of Elena Pereyra; Baron
Sabino Leonino; Baron Joseph Leonino and Nina Leonino:
1806(14th of
Adar, 5566): Purim
1806: Birthdate of
Charleston SC native and cousin of the renowned Judah P. Benjamin, Henry
Michael Hyams who “served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of
Louisiana from 1862 to 1864l
1809(16th
Adar, 5569): Parashat Ki Tisa
1809: James Monroe, who
had helped draft the Bill of Rights which included language intended to protect
the religious liberty of all Americans, including its Jewish citizens, began
serving as President of the United States.
1813: Baptism of Franz Delitzsch “a German Lutheran theologian and
Hebraist” who wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish
antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of Jewish poetry, and
works of Christian apologetics” while also translating the New Testament into
Hebrew and raising his son, “an influential Assyriologist and author of works
on Assyrian language, literature, and history.
1815(22nd of Adar I, 5575): Parashat Vayakhel
1817: On the day after
Shushan Purim, James Madison, who had appointed Mordecai Noah to serve as
Counsel to Tunis after the latter had turned down an appointment to serve as
U.S. Consul to Riga completed his second and final term as President of the
United States.
1817(16th of
Adar, 5577): Grace Mears, the wife of “Haim” Levy with whom she had two
children – Judith and Moses – passed away today.
1818: Birthdate of
future Kansas City resident Louis Berkowitz, the husband of Henrietta
Jaruslawski Berkowitz with whom he had seven children – Sarah, Benjamin,
Albert, Henry, Rose William and Maurice.
1820: Alexander I of
Russia prohibited the employment of Christian servants by Jews.
1821(30th of
Adar I, 5581): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1822(11th of Adar):
Eighty-two-year-old Isaac Franks the
American patriot from Philadelphia who served in the Continental Army passed
away.
1825(14th of
Adar, 5585): Purim observed on the same day that John Quincy Adams takes the
oath of office as president of the United States.
1826(27th of
Shevat, 5586): Parashat Mishpatim
1826: In St. Thomas,
Jacob and Leah Biaz gave birth to Sarah Henriquez Morón
1829(29th of
Adar I, 5589): Forty-six-year-old attorney Judah Zuntz, the son of Alexander
Zuntz who was a member of Shearith Israel and a supporter of Moses Elias Levy’s
plan for educating Jewish youth passed away today after which he was buried in
the First Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel.
1829: John Quincy
Adams, who in what seems like a strange
turn of events, expressed his support for a Jewish homeland in the land of
Israel in a letter to Mordecai Manuel Noah, completed his terms as President of
the United States.
1833(13th of
Adar, 5593): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim
1836(15th of
Adar, 5596): Shushan Purim
1837(27th of
Adar I, 5597): Parashat Vayakhel and Shabbat Shekalim
1837: Chicago receives
its official charter by the state of Illinois. Jews first came to Chicago from
Prussia, Austria, Bohemia and sections of modern-day Poland, fleeing oppression
to settle in the Chicago area as early as 1832. Kehilat Anshe Mayriv (Congregation
of the People of the West), Chicago's first Jewish congregation, was founded in
1847; in 1851 KAM built the city's first synagogue at Clark and Jackson
streets, a site now occupied by the Kluczynski Federal Building. It was
followed by B'nai Shalom, in 1852, and Chicago Sinai, the city's first Reform
congregation, in 1861. The expansion of the Jewish community was slow but
steady. In 1871, the Great Fire destroyed many residences near the downtown
business district, forcing thousands of people to relocate. The more prosperous
German Jews, who made up the majority, moved south along Michigan, Wabash and
Indiana avenues, eventually settling in Washington Park, Kenwood, Hyde Park and
South Shore; the Eastern European Jews moved west of the central business
district in the vicinity of Maxwell Street. Between 1880 and 1900, a new wave
of 55,000 Russian and Polish Jews crowded into the Maxwell Street market
neighborhood. Yiddish was the language of choice. Dozens of Hebrew schools and
Yiddish theaters were organized, and 40 Orthodox shuls were built within
walking distance of Halsted and Maxwell streets. As successive waves of Jewish
immigrants became settled and successful, the Jewish community began expanding.
In addition to continued growth on the South Side, neighborhoods such as
Lawndale and Douglas Park on the West Side and Albany Park, Humboldt Park, Lake
View, Uptown and Edgewater on the North Side became vibrant Jewish communities.
Many Chicago Jews today trace their roots in this city to one or more of these
areas.
1838: The first Sunday
School for Jewish students, under the direction of the Female Hebrew Benevolent
Society, opened today in Philadelphia, PA.
1839: In Württemberg,
Germany, Bernhard Frankfurter, the son of Moses Levi Frankfurter and Mirjam
Landauer, and his wife Esther Frank gave birth to Henriette Emma Frankfurter
1844(13th of Adar, 5604): Fast of Esther; erev Purim
1849: In Poland, Saul and Mollie Levy gave birth to Isaac D. Levy, the
husband of Mollie Wolfe Levy and Aaron and Hary Levy.
1849: Austrian Jews
were granted equal civil and political rights under the new constitution. The
imperial government would renege on its promise and full rights would not be
finally granted until 1867.
1850: In Winnsboro SC,
Sailing and Sarah Cohen Wolfe gave birth to Isabel “Belle” Wolfe Baruch, the
Winnsboro, SC, the wife of Dr. Simon Baruch and the mother of Hartwig, Bernard,
Herman and Sailing Baruch
http://www.gcdigital.org/digital/collection/p163901coll005/id/555/
1850: In Paris, “Prof.
Hermann G. Ollendorff and Dorothea Ollendorff” gave birth to art critic and
Franco-Prussian War veteran Gustave Ollendorff who along with is brother Paul
“received his Jewish education from the chief rabbi Zado Kahn” and who was the was president of the Union Française de la Jeunesse,
which he founded immediately after the close of the war” while also serving as at
the head of the bureau of museums, expositions, and art in the department of
the fine arts
1851: Fifty-year old
businessman, militia colonel and Democrat Party member Emanuel Bernard Hart
began serving his first and only term as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives, making him the first Jews to serve in Congress.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/emanuel-bernard-hart
1851: Alexander Samuel
Joseph, the ten-month-old son of Simon and Eliza Joseph was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1853: Philip Phillips
began serving as a U.S. Congressman representing Alabama’s 1st
District.
1855(14th of
Adar, 5615): Purim
1855: After having been
out of office for four years, David Yulee, the first Jew elected to the United
States, began his second term in office today.
1857: Philadelphia
Democrat Henry Myer Phillips began service as a member of the U.S. House
Representatives
1857: Birthdate of Bernard
Steinharter, the husband of Rebecca Swope Steinharter whom he married in 1879
and the father of Corinne Steinharter Frank, who was buried in the Walnut Hills
Jewish Cemetery when he passed away in 1920.
1857: In Charleston,
SC, Rabbi Solomon Jacobs officiated at the wedding of Mr. Magnus of Rome, GA
and Rebecca Alexander the youngest daughter of the late Abraham Alexander.
1858: Mary Levy and
John Fileman gave birth to Rachel Fileman
1858: Edmund Myer
Tobias married Adeline Miriam Alexander today at “Bristol, (Avon), Somerset.”
1859(28th of
Adar I, 5619): Sixty-six-year-old Frances Cohen, the daughter Hymen Cohen and
the former Zipporah Isaacs passed away today in London.
1860: Birthdate of
Russian native an future resident of Atlanta, GA, Clara Mitnick Massell, the
wife of Raphael M. Massell with whom she had five children – Benjamin, Levi,
Samuel, Alan, Rebie and Jacob.
1861: Abraham Lincoln
was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln sensitivity to Jewish can be seen in
the way he handled the law that allowed Jews to serve as Chaplains and the
aftermath of General Grant’s infamous order banning Jews from the area under
his command. But Lincoln’s greatest
contribution to the welfare of the Jewish people was his successful effort to
save “the last best hope of man” which has provided Jews with unprecedented
opportunity.
1862: “From the African
Coast” published today described the travels of the USS Saratoga through the waters of the South Atlantic including a
stop at the island of St. Helena where the ship took on provisions. According
to the author, the Jews on the island exploited the plight of the American
naval vessel, selling spoiled and overpriced supplies and even exchanging money
at rate that exploited the Americans. “The Jews of St. Helena took money out of
us and tucked sour flour and bad rice into us, sold us Spanish dollars at 4s.
2d., and took them at 3s. 9d., was a caution, never to come again if we can
help it. Even the common necessaries of life were in price luxuries -- for
instance, beef, 60c. per pound; mutton, do.; butter, 55c. per pound; eggs, 5c.
each, &c., &c.” [It is difficult to know who these Jews were. During the 1820’s, Nathanial Isaac’s uncle
served on St. Helena as the counsel for France and Holland. Saul Solomon who
converted to Christianity was born in St. Helena in 1817 but left to find fame
and fortune in South Africa. “The few other St. Helena Jews who settled” on St.
Helena “during Napoleon's banishment, the Gideon, the Moss, and the Isaacs
families, were all related to” Solomon, and, like him “most of them drifted
from Judaism.”
1863(13th
of Adar, 5623): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1863: Myer Strouse, the Bavarian born American editor, lawyer
and Democrat politician began the first of his two terms as a Congressman from
Pennsylvania.
1863:
A rumor from Jackson, Miss., says that a Jew has been arrested on the charge of
offering to spike the guns at Port Hudson for $60,000.
1863:
William Sprague completed his term as governor of Rhode Island and took his
seat in the United States Senate representing his home state. While in the Senate Sprague would explain
away the suffering of the Jews of Romania as being the result of their taking
away the lands and livelihood of the Christian, a pattern that he implied could
be repeated in the United States.
Sprague’s words take on additional weight because he was not just an
ordinary political hack. He was a successful businessman who supported Abraham
Lincoln and was the son-in-law of Salmon Chase, the powerful Republican
politician who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court.
1863: Myer Strouse, the Bavarian born American editor, lawyer
and Democrat politician began the second of his two terms as a Congressman from
Pennsylvania.
1864: German born,
Tulane University graduate George Michael Deck Hahn began servings as the 19th
Governor of Louisiana.
1865:
Birthdate of Lieutenant General Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh, that rarity
among British officers, “a Zionist sympathizer” who was a close enough friend
of Chaim Weizmann, that Jewish leader discussed the possibility of having
Herbert Samuel removed as British High Commissioner following the issuan”ce of
the report issued by the Haycroft Commission of Inquiry.
1864: German born,
Tulane University graduate George Michael Deck Hahn ended his term in
office as the 19th Governor
of Louisiana.
1866:
The Purim Ball: The Wonders or a Persian Temple-A Glimpse of the Glories of
Babylon Fun, Frolic and Phantasmagoria” published today described the
celebration of the Purim Ball in New York City which was “duly celebrated…with
all the pomp, display an out-rivaling effectiveness which was promised for it
by its promoters.”
1868: Birthdate of Kiev native, “Talmudist and Hebrew
scholar,” Max Jacobs, a partener in the firm of Jacobs and Janowitch and the
husband of the fromer Sonia Feldman whom he married in July, 1893 and with whom
he had four children – Moe, Libbie, Sadye and Elizabeth – who “has helped
various Jewish in situtions in New Haven and New York and who is the borther of
J.L. Jacob “a prominent engineer in Chicago.”
1869: William Seward who had served as Secretary of State
under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson completed his service in this office
following which he took a tour around the world which included a stop in
Jerusalem and Palestine which he had first visited in 1859. Seward described in
the Jews as “the builders and the founders of “ Jeruslaem.
1870(1st of Adar II, 5630): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1870: President U.S. Grant appointed Civil War hero Edward Selig Salomon
governor of Washington Territory (the future state of Washington, not
D.C.)
1870: Six days after she had passed away in France, Octavia Dresden, the
daughter of Edward Emanuel and Rosetta Mischolls, the wife of Ephraim Dresden
and the mother of Mathilda, Ernest and Edmond Dresden was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1871: In France, Israël-Vita Lattès and Marie ép. Lattès gave birth to
Eveline Bethsabée Lattès ép. Mayrargue the wife of Henri Daniel Mayrargue.
1871: Robert C. De Large, the son of black woman and Jewish
man, began serving in the U.S. Representatives as a member from South
Carolina’s 2nd district. A
Republican, he had served in the state legislature and as state land
commissioner before being elected to Congress.
1872: In Tilsit, East Prussia, Abraham Weil, the son of
Salomon Weil, and the former Berta Seligman gave birth to their son Karl
Fischel.
1873(5th of Adar, 5633): Sixty-seven-year-old Bohemia
native Siegfried Becher, the University of Prague and University of Vienna
educated economist who taught at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna and was
employed in the ministry of commerce from 1848 to 1851 passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2704-becher-siegfried
1873: Two days after she had passed away Rosa (Joseph) Asher,
the wife of Andrew Asher, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish
Cemetery.”1873: Two days after she had passed away, Ruth Ellen Hyam was buried
today in the UK
1874(15th of Adar, 5634): Shushan Purim
1874: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Solomon and Caroline Fox gave
birth to Lydia Mack
1874: “The Jews In Italy” published today contains a synopsys
of an article by Dr. Berliner published in the Judische Presse. According
to Dr. Berliner there are approximately 4,500 Jews living in Rome “most of who
are destitute.” There are 5 synagouges
in Rome two of which follow the Sephardic (Spanish) rite and three of which
follow the Italian rite. One of the synagogues dates backs to the time of
Titus, the Roman who destroyed the Second Temple.
1875:
It was reported today that over 2,000 tickets have already been sold to the
upcoming Hebrew Charity Ball sponsored by the Purim Association.
1875: William Sharon began serving as U.S. Senator from Nevada. When he passed away ten years later, his
recipients of his bequests included several California charities including
those established by the Jewish community.
1875(27th
of Adar I, 5635): Rabbi Joseph Saul Nathanson of Lemberg, author of Ner
Ma’aravi, a novaellae on the Jerusalem Talmud passed away
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_14591.html
1876:
Birthdate of Ferencz Dezso Weisz, the native of Budapest, who “went by the name
of Theodore Weiss when the family was living in Appleton, Wisconsin” and who in
1893 as Theodore Hardeen Hardeen performed with Houdini at Coney Island as
"The Brothers Houdini:
1876:
In Girait, Hungary, Maurice and Rose (Baumgarten) Moschcowitz gave birth to
American portrait painter, Paul Moschowitz, the husband of Madeline Rabb and
winner of the Silver Medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition whose works
included “Portrait of Young Woman in Opera Box with Classical Background.”
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/moschcowitz-paul-27ir28f7az/
https://www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Moschcowitz/24442/Paul_Moschcowitz.aspx
1877:
“The Russian Army of the South” published today provides a detailed description
of Kishinev, the city that is the headquarters of the major Russian unit under
the Grand Duke that has been mobilized in the war against the Turks. Kishinev has a population of 100,000, more
than half of whom are Jews. [This is the same Kishinev that will be the site of
future horrible Pogroms.]
1877: Emile Berliner invented the
microphone. He would also invent the
flat disc that replaced Edison’s cylinder and became the prototype for the
record which would become the standard for the recording industry for the
better part of a hundred years.
1877: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Massachusetts’s 4th district.
1878: Birthdate of Toronto, Canada native Murray Leonard Cohen, the
Edinburgh University medical student who was buried in that city when he passed
away at the age of 24.
1878: The Great Synagogue at 187a Elizabeth Street in Sydney, Australia
was consecrated today.
1878: In New York City, Sonny and Hettie (Monsky) Simmons gave girth to
NYU trained attorney and Commander of the Spanish War Veterans of New York
Maurice Simmons who fought anti-Semitism in the National Guard, led protests
during the Kiishineff Masscrest, opposed literacy requirements for immigrants
and who got President Taft “to grant leaves of absence to al men of the Jewish
faith in various branches of military and naval service.
1879: It was reported today that the Purim Association will be sponsoring
a fancy-dress charity ball to be held later this week at the Academy of Music
in New York City.
1879: Cincinnati native and CCNY alum Edwin Einstein began his serving
his one term of service as a member of the House of Representatives after which
he was an unsuccessful candidate as a Republican for the mayor of New ork.
1879(9th of Adar, 5639): Leon Hyneman passed away. Born in Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, in 1808, he “was the author of "The Fundamental
Principles of Science" and of several works on masonic subjects, the chief
among them being "The Origin of Freemasonry" and "Freemasonry in
England from 1567 to 1813." Hyneman was one of the members of the Jewish
Publication Society of America. Among his eight children were Leona Hyneman who
“under the stage name of "Leona Moss," became a talented actress.
Another daughter was Alice Hyneman, authoress; born in Philadelphia Jan. 31,
1840; contributor to "The North American Review"; "The
Forum"; "The Popular Science Monthly"; and the author of
"Woman in Industry," a treatise on the work of woman in America, and
of "Niagara," a descriptive record of the great cataract and its
vicinity.
1879: Edwin Jonas took his seat as a United States Senator from Louisiana
making him the third Jew to serve in “the upper chamber.”
1879: Edwin Einstein, a native of Cincinnati, began to serve as a member
of the U.S. House Representatives from New York’s 7th Congressional
District.
1880: Birthdate of Washington, DC native, playwright and drama critic
Channing Pollock, author of Adventures of a Happy Man.
1881: William Sharon, who would bestow a bequest of $5,000 on the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, completed his term as service as a U.S. Senator
from Nevada.
1881: James G. Fair who would bestow a bequest of $25,000 on the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, began his term as service as a U.S. Senator
from Nevada.
1882(13th of Adar, 5642: Triple Header – Parashat Tetzaveh;
Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1882: In Syracuse, Frances Epstein and Marcus Rubin, the father Syracuse
University trained attorney J. Robert Rubin, the husband of Reba Lillian
Hitchcock whom he married in 1910 and who was vice president, general counsel
and director of MGM
1883: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Massachusetts’s 5th district.
1883: Julius Houseman began serving as a member of the U.S. House
Representatives from Michigan’s 5th district.
1884: Arthur Sebag-Montefiore and Harriett Beddington gave birth to
Charles to English stock-broker Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore, the husband of
Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass.
1885: Birthdate of Pittsburgh native and Harvard trained attorney Allan
Davis, the president of the Menorah Society.
1885: Grover Cleveland who relied on Isidor Strauss the co-owner of R.H.
Macy and member of Congress as a trusted advisor and whom he appointed as
Ambassador to Turkey was inaugurated as 22nd President of the United
States.
1885: Julius Houseman completed his service as a member of the House of
Representatives from Michigan’s 5th district.
1885: Charles Henry Grosvenor is elected to the House of Representatives
from Ohio for the first time. His career
will last until 1907, but he will represent 3 different congressional
districts. During his career he will
take part in several debates on immigration bills during which he said “he said
he would not vote for a measure framed specially to restrict the entrance of
the Russian Jews, for such a would be charged up to him as a vote against a man
on account of his religion.”
1885: Californian William W. Morrow, who would champion the cause of
Adolph Kutner, formerly of Wierbchow, Russia who was afraid to return to his
native land on business because of the Czar’s policies, began serving a member
of the House of Representatives today.
1885: Joseph Kemp Toole, who would lay the cornerstone when construction
was begun on Temple Emanu-El in Helena, Montana began serving as the Delegate
to the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana Territory’s At-large district
today.
1885: Edwin Jonas, who failed to win re-election, competed his term as a
United States Senator following which he was appointed Collector of the Port of
New Orleans.
1887: James G. Fair, who would bestow a bequest of $25,000 on the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum of San Francisco, completed his term as service as a U.S. Senator
from Nevada.
1887: William Stewart, who will defend the Jews of Romania against
persecution, begins serving as the U.S. Senator from Nevada.
1887: Leopold Morse began serving as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Massachusetts’s 3rd district.
1887: Isidor Rayner began serving as a Congressman from Maryland in the
50th U.S. House of Representatives.
1889(1st of Adar II, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1889: St. Louis newspaperman Nathan Frank began serving as a member of
the House of Representatives in the 51st Congress.
1889: In Baltimore, MD, Clara Ostro and Harris Hirschman gave birth to
Deichman College and University of Maryland medical doctor Isidore Isaac
Hirschman, an instructor at Johns Hopkins Medical School and chief medical
officer for the U.S. Veterans Bureau’s 4th District from 1917 to
1922 who settled in Huntington, West Virginia and who was a member of Oheb
Shalom Congregation
1889: Benjamin Harrison who appointed Solomon Hirsch of Portland, Oregon
as Minister to Turkey was inaugurated as 23rd President of the
United States.
1890: Seventy-seven-year-old Franz Delitzsch, the “Lutheran theologian
and Hebraist” who “wrote many commentaries on the books of the Bible and Jewish
antiquities” and who “defended the Jewish community against anti-Judaic
attacks” passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5063-delitzsch-franz
1890: Isidor Gunsburg was among the spectators of the chess match played
between Delmar and Lipschutz at the Manhattan Chess Club.
1890: The 29th annual ball sponsored by the Purim Association
took place this evening at the Metropolitan Opera House. Money raised this year
will go to the aid of the United Hebrew Charities.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0C16FC3E5F10738DDDAC0894DB405B8085F0D3
more for 2014
1890: Thieves attempted to rob Solomon Barnett, a Jewish tailor, while he
was working at this shop on Lexington Avenue, near 83rd Street in
New York City.1891(24th of Adar I, 5651: Two students at the Hebrew Union
College, Isador H. Frauenthal and Ernst Sallinger, passed away today in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1891: In Russia, Fanny Gold and Abraham M. Dubin gave birth to biochemist
and holder of a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania Harry Ennis Dubin the
husband of Estelle Amy Schacht whose works included Physiology of Phenols.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Physiology_of_the_Phenols.html?id=sVrdjwEACAAJ
1891: James B. Eustis completed his last term as a United States Senator
following which he would become U.S. Ambassador to France, a position from
which he would study the Dreyfus Affair but die before he could deliver his
report to the government in Washington.
1892: It was reported today that Abraham Herrman, Simon Borg and Solomon
B. Solomon have been unanimously elected to serve three-year terms as Directors
of the Hebrew Technical Institute.
1892: Max Marcus Zerner and Julie Zerner gave birth to Alice Zerner who
became Alice Eister when she married Otto Eisler.
1893: Grover Cleveland who would lend his support to those who objecting
to the treatment of the Jews of Russia and opposed legislation that would have
kept Jews from immigrating to the United States was inaugurated as 24th
President of the United States.
1893: In Austria, Anna Wilder and Abram Wolf Tannenbaum gave birth to Dr.
Frank Tannenbaum, the New York born labor activist turned economics academic
and U.S. Army veteran who taught at Columbia, his undergraduate training ground
before his death.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/02/90108763.html?pageNumber=45
1893: It was reported today that the proceeds from the upcoming ball
sponsored by the Purim Association will be donated to the United Hebrew
Charities.
1893: Vienna born and New York trained attorney Julius Goldzier began
serving as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s 4th
District.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress
1893: “Scenes in the Azores” published today provides a picture of life
on these Atlantic Islands including the fact that “native Azorean Jews” have
gradually come to dominate the banking business, the importation of coal and
the ownership of the mail boats to Lisbon.
The Jews now own homes in Tangiers and Lisbon.
1893: “Manifesto of Jewish Rabbis” published today described a document
issued by 210 German Rabbis designed to counteract the increasing power of the
country’s anti-Jewish movement.
1894: The
Superintendent of the Bureau of Immigration, a section of the Treasury
Department, “has received an official denial from the Russian Government that”
it is aiding Russian Jews in their efforts to come to the United States.
1894(26th of Adar I, 5654): Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Joseph Perles passed away. Born in
Baja, Hungary in 1835, he received his early instruction in the Talmud from his
father, Baruch Asher Perles, he was educated successively at the gymnasium of
his native city, was one of the first rabbis trained at the new type of
rabbinical seminary at Breslau, and the university of that city (Oriental
philology and philosophy; Ph.D. 1859, presenting as his dissertation Meletemata
Peschitthoniana). Perles was awarded his rabbinical diploma in 1862. He had
already received a call, in the autumn of the previous year, as preacher to the
community of Posen; and in that city he founded a religious school. In 1863 he
married Rosalie, the eldest daughter of Simon Baruch Schefftel. In the same
year he declined a call to Budapest; but in 1871 he accepted the rabbinate of
Münich, being the first rabbi of modern training to fill that office. As the
registration law which had restricted the expansion of the communities had not
been abrogated until 1861, Perles found an undeveloped community; but under his
management it soon began to flourish, and in 1887 he dedicated the new
synagogue. He declined not only a call to succeed Abraham Geiger as rabbi in
Berlin, but also a chair at the newly founded seminary in Budapest. Perles'
most important essays were on folklore and custom. There is much that is
striking and original in his history of marriage (Die Judische Hochzeit in
nachbiblischer Zeit, 1860), and of mourning customs (Die Leichenfeierlichkeitcn
ins nachbiblischen Judenthum, 1861), his contributions to the sources of the
Arabian Nights (Zur rabbinischen Sprach-und Sagenkunde, 1873), and his notes on
rabbinic antiquities (Beitrage zur rabbiniscizen Sprachund Altertumskunde,
1893). Perles' essays are rich in suggestiveness and have been the
starting-point of much fruitful research. He also wrote an essay on
Nachmanides, and a biography and critical appreciation of Rashba (1863).
1894: As the United
States grapples with the problem of unemployment brought by economic
depression, the United Hebrew Charities is one of the organizations making
daily requests to aid the needy.
1894: Among the
donations made to the fund to help New York’s unemployed are R.H. Macy & Co
($100), Simon Borg ($100) and Emanuel Lehman ($100).
1895: “The Pope May
Interfere” published today described the Pope’s plans to issue an “encyclical
letter denouncing the anti-Semitic agitation in Europe. The Pope is reacting to the reports brought
to him several weeks ago by Cardinal Schoenborn “concerning Jew-baiting in
Austria.”
1895: A case was
“called against the Adelphi Club” “among whose members are the wealthiest and
most influential Jews of Albany, NY” which resulted in the Judge decreeing that
private clubs were under the jurisdiction of the Excise Board and must be licensed
accordingly.
1895: The 3-year-old
“waif” found wandering the streets and known only as “John Doe, No.19” moved to
the Hebrew Sheltering Society’s Home where Philip Goodhart, the President of
the home gave him the name of Judah Touro.
1895: “Mrs. Ida
Lieberman, the convicted fire-bug was taken to Auburn Prison” today to begin
serving “her sentence of six years and eight months.
1895: The six-year-old
daughter and eight-year-old son of prisoner Ida Lieberman, for whom no
provision had been made, were provided with a home today at the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum.
1896: Among the
facilities being visited by those attending the conference on “Improved
Housing” is the Hebrew Institute on East Broadway, where they will be greeted
Inspector
Isaac Spectorsky
1897: Joseph Simon, a
native of Germany who settled in Portland, Oregon where he became a member of
the bar and played an active role in Republican Party politics began serving in
the U.S. Senate
1897: Lucius Nathan
Littauer, the first football coach at Harvard, began serving as a Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 22nd District.
1897: “Two Heroes
Remembered” published today summarized a speech given by Hugo Hirsh in honor of
the 1st and 16th presidents of the United States in which
he said that the “Hebrew race was typified by the institutions of the county in
that the Hebrew was the most cosmopolitan among peoples and the United States
the most cosmopolitan of nations.”
Furthermore, “the principles of educational, religious and political
freedom fostered by these two leaders had been of incalculable benefit to the
Hebrew race.”
1897: William McKinley
was inaugurated as 25th President of the United States.
1897: William H. King,
who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States severing diplomatic
relations with any country which failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its
Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that eventually Palestine would be
able to support a population of a million Jews” began serving in the House of
Representatives today
1899: Jefferson Monroe
Levy, the nephew of naval hero Uriah P. Levy, began serving as a Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 13th district.
1899: Mitchell May who
was elected as a Democrat to the 56th United States Congress began serving as a
member of the House of Representatives today.
1899: A group of
“prominent” Jews met in Cincinnati to plan for the reception and entertainment
of the rabbis who will be attending the upcoming annual Central Conference of
American Rabbis.
1899: It was reported
today that among the three new novels in Houghton, Mifflin & Co.’s spring
list is A Tent of Grace, a story of a Jew and a gentile in Germany by
Adelina C. Lust.
https://archive.org/details/tentofgracebyade00lustrich
1900: Birthdate of
Slonim, Poland, native Jehoshua Alouf, the Polish gymnast and organizer of the
“first five World Maccabiah Games who “served as director of the Israel
department of physical education from 1953 to 1957.”
1900: In London, the
“Jewish Study Society,” which had been “formed as a result of the visit of the
delegates of the Council of Jewish Women in London” met for the first time
today.
1900: The Council of
Jewish Women which was founded in 1897 began its triennial meeting today in
Cleveland under the leadership of its president Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon.
1900: In Philadelphia,
PA Joseph and Eva Biberman gave birth to screenwriter and director Herbert J.
Biberman who was one of the Hollywood Ten.
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAbiberman.htm
1901(13th of
Adar, 5661: Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1901: Birthdate of
Genevieve Brown the wife of Ralph Horween, the All-American Harvard and NFL
football player and lawyer who founded the Horween Leather Company with his
brother.”
1901: Birthdate of
master bridge player, Charles Goren, the Philadelphia born lawyer who probably
did more to popularize the game of bridge than did any other single American.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/obituaries/charles-goren-90-bridge-expert-dies.html
1901: Henry Mayer
Goldfogle began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
New York’s 9th Congressional District.
1902: It was reported
today that “Jefferson M. Levy” is the buyer of” of the property at “219 and 221
Wester 36th Street” in New York.
1902: Israel Lubarsky,
the Son of Leib (Leo) Lubarsky and Rivke Lubarsky and the wife of Devorah
(Dora) Lubarsky gave birth to Rebecca Glassberg, the wife of Abe Glassberg and
mother of Rosalyn Weinberg and Adeline Hoppenstand
1903:
Edmund H. Hinshaw, who in 1906 attended a mass meeting at Belasco’s Theatre in
Washington, D.C which was a protest against the atrocities begin committed
against the Jews of Russia began his service as a Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Nebraska’s 4th District today.
1903: Having spent six
years serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representative from New York’s
22nd district Lucius Littauer began serving as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from New York’s 25th district.
1903: Henry Thomas
Rainey who in 1906 attended a mass meeting held to protest the “atrocities in
Russia” and told the audience that the Romanoffs “are inflaming the populace
against the helpless Jews – and already the blood of 100,000 Jews cries out for
vengeance” began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Illinois’s 20th district today.
1903: Senator Joseph
Simon, Oregon Republican, finishes his term in the U.S. Senate. Simon returned
to Portland, Oregon where he resumed his law practice and would serve as mayor
from 1909 to 1911.
1904: In Richmond, VA,
Beth Ahabah, a Reform congregation that could trace its roots back to 1789,
laid the cornerstone for a new house of worship popularly referred to as the
Franklin Street Synagogue because of its address 1111 West Franklin Street.
1905 Isidor Rayner
began serving as U.S. Senator from Maryland.
1905: “Barney and Fanny (Greenberg) Taber,”
gave birth to Madeline Taber who became Madeline Talamo when she married Dr.
Haskell Talamo with whom she had three children – Fern, Ronald and Alan.
1905: Frank Putnam
Flint, who would be one of those supporting a new trial for Leo Frank, began
serving as a U.S. Senator from California.
1905: William S.
Bennett, who would publicly support aid for the Jews Europe after the World War
broke, began his service as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
New York’s 17th District.
1905: William M.
Stewart completed his services as U.S. Senator from Nevada. During one debate on anti-Semitism in
Romania, Stewart defended the Jews of charges from Senator Sprague that the
Jews were the author of their own suffering because they had been so
successful.
1906: Abraham E.
Lubarsky, a wealthy tea merchant from Odessa arrived in New York today on the
American liner St. Louis and in describing the desperate conditions of his
coreligionists said that “A Jew’s Life in Russia is not worth as much as a bad
cigarette.
1906: Only days after
Martial Law had come to an end a police officer name Kulchitsky was killed in
Bialystok. This killing was one of the
many acts of violence that would lead to the pogrom that took place in June of
that year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok_pogrom
1907: John Simon Guggenheim, the son of Meyer
and Barbara Guggenheim began serving as U.S. Senator from Colorado.
1907: Adolph Joachim
Sabath began serving as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from
Illinois’ 5th district today.
1908(1st of
Adar, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1908: “Surgeon General
Walter Wyman of the Public Health Service to-day submitted to Secretary of the
Treasury Cortelyou a "Report on Milk in Its Relation to Public Health” in
which he wrote that “References will be observed to the achievements of Mr.
Nathan Straus in promoting the use of clean pasteurized milk for infants and
the establishment of infants’ milk depots both in the United States and abroad
and its proper here to give recognition to his philanthropic and successful
efforts.”
1908: As the Jews of
Cleveland celebrated Rosh Chodesh, disaster struck the city with the burning of
The Lakeview School which claimed the lives of 172 students two teachers and
one first responder.
1908: “At the third of
his concerts of old music in Mendelssohn Hall” this “evening, Mrs. Sam Franko
devoted his entire program to the Music of J.S. Bach.”
1908: Three weeks
before his 20th birthday, Sam Hamburg, the Russian born son of Sam
and Bella Hamburg who would become President of Hamburg Realty and Investment
Company in St. Louis where he was an active member of the Jewish community
married Dora Hamburg today.
1909: Birthdate of
Millionaire Real Estate Mogul Harry B. Helmsley.
1909(11th of
Adar, 5669): Fast of Esther observed since 13th of Adar falls on
Shabbat.
1909: The presidency of
Theodore Roosevelt came to an end.
1909: William Howard
Taft, the first sitting United States President to speak from the pulpit of a
Jewish house of prayer took the oath of office as President of the United
States.
1909(11th of
Adar, 5669): Maximillian “Max” Hirsch the Cologne born Australian economist and
political leader who was a believer in the Single Tax theories of Henry George
passed away today.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hirsch-maximilian-6682
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5179721
1909: Ed “Cotton” Smith
who as a member of the House of Representatives had opposed legislation that
would have exempted Jewish immigrants from Russia from a literacy test began
serving in the United States Senate.
1910: The first issue
of Der Yiddisher Record, a Yiddish weekly, appeared in Chicago today.
1910: Birthdate of Mt.
Pleasant, PA, native Henry Weinberg, the guard for the Duquesne Dukes when they
played Miami in the first game of what would become the Orange Bowl before
going on to play as a lineman for the Pittsburgh (Football) Pirates who would
become the Pittsburgh Steelers.
1910(23rd of
Adar I, 5670): Romanian born Yiddish dramatist Moses Horowitz passed away in
the Montefiore Home at the age of 76.
The Bucharest native came to the United States in 1882 and was hailed at
his passing as being “the Pioneer Yiddish playwright in New York.” Five years before his death he lost all of
his money while trying to produce a unique Yiddish opera at the Windsor
Theatre.
1911(4th of Adar, 5671): Parashat Terumah
1911: Victor Berger of
Wisconsin became the first member of the Socialist Party to be elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives.
1911:
Edmund H. Hinshaw, the Congressman from Nebraska who in 1906 attended a mass
meeting at Belasco’s Theatre in Washington, D.C which a protest against the
atrocities begin committed against the Jews of Russia completed his service
today as a representative for Nebraska’s 4th congressional district.
1911: Frank Flint, who
in 1915 would offer Governor Slaton who had commuted Leo Frank’s sentence a
place of refuge, completed his service as a U.S. Senator from California.
1911: James Edgar
Martine, a member of the Democratic Party who would support Jewish fund-raising
efforts on behalf of their co-religionists in war torn Europe began serving as
a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
1911: Jefferson Monroe
Levy, the nephew of Uriah P. Levy began serving as the U.S. Congressman from
New York’s 13th District.
1912(15th of
Adar, 5672): Shushan Purim
1912: Birthdate of the actor John Garfield in New
York. Born Julius Garfinkle, Garfield rose to stardom in the 1930's and 1940's
playing a variety of wisecracking, “lover boy” type roles. One of his
most famous roles was in the film hit, “The Postman Rings Twice.”
Garfield was caught up in the Anti-Communist Witch Hunts of the 1950's.
1913: In Mainz, Germany
Maier and Selma (Hirschberger) Trepp gave birth to Leo Trepp, the German born
American Rabbi who was freed from “Sachsenhausen Concentration on the condition
that “he and his wife leave the countries within two weeks – a requirement that
led him to England and then to California where he served as the “rabbi for
Beth Ami in Santa Rosa and Beth El in Berkley
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=145071443
https://prabook.com/web/leo.trepp/371517
https://www.jweekly.com/2010/09/10/leo-trepp-holocausts-longest-surviving-rabbi-dies-at-97/
1913: Dr. Joseph Hertz
sailed from New York on the SS Mauritania bound for the British Isles where he
will become Chief Rabbi of England which will make him not only the leader of
British Jewry but one of the most influential Jewish clerics in the world.
1913: “On Rivington
Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Russian Jewish immigrants David and
Hannah Garfinkle gave birth to Jacob Julius Garfinkle who gained fame as actor
John Garfield whose marvelous talent did not keep him from being crushed by the
Red Hunting House Committee on Un-American Activities.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-john-garfield-19590522-20160519-snap-story.html
1913: Jefferson Monroe
Levy, the nephew of Uriah P. Levy began serving as the U.S. Congressman from
New York’s 14th District.
1913: Maude Kohn is
scheduled to play a piano solo this afternoon during the meeting of the Ladies’
society of B’nai Sholom Temple.
1914: The General
Orders issued on this date provided the official citation awarding Louis C.
Hoseher the Congressional Medal of Honor. “The President of the United States
of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of
Honor to Second Lieutenant Louis C. Mosher, United States Army, for most
distinguished gallantry on 11 June 1913, while serving with the Philippine
Scouts, in action at Gagsak Mountain, Jolo, Philippine Islands. Second
Lieutenant Mosher voluntarily entered a cleared space within about 20 yards of
the Moro trenches under a furious fire from them and carried a wounded soldier
of his company to safety at the risk of his own life.”
1914: On his 21st
birthday Frank Tannenbaum, a leader of the I.W.W. “led a group of unemployed
workers from Rutgers Square to the Catholic St. Alphonsus Church on West
Broadway where they were met by a phalanx of police and the parish rector, who
refused their demands after which he was arrested and eventual fined a sent to
jail on Blackwell’s Island.
1914: “Arthur Ruppin
wrote in his diary, ‘Today I succeeded in buying from Sir John Gray Hill his
large and magnificently situated property on Mount Scopus, thus acquiring the
first piece of ground for the Jewish University in Jerusalem.’”
1915: The United States
naval collier Vulcan is scheduled to
set sail from the League Island Navy Yard at Philadelphia today carrying
supplies paid for by the Jewish Relief Society for “distribution to the
starving residents” of Palestine.
1915: William Stiles
Bennet who in 1916 would tell 3,000 people attending a meeting at the McKinley
Casino that it was “now necessary for the American Jew to assist his brethren
in Europe” and “said that large sums of money would be needed in order to accomplish
the desired relief” began his services as a Member of the US. House of
Representatives from New York’s 27th District today.
1915: Dr. Robert Tuttle
Morris, ex-President of the American Association of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists delivered a talk tonight at the Cornell Club on “Warfare as
Natural History” in which he “advanced the theory that the Jewish people would
be the next to dominate” the world because, among other thing, “they are
gathering in the citing, thriving under urban life” and “increasing more
rapidly than any others.”
1915: Jefferson Monroe
Levy completed his second and final term as a U.S. Congressman.
1915: Meyer London, the
Jewish Socialist, began serving his first term in the U.S House representing
New York’s 12th Congressional District.
1915: Among those whose
contributions to the Fund of the American Jewish Relief Committee were received
today included L.M. Jacobs of Tucson, AZ and the Dallas, TX, YMHA,
1915: “Assurance that
the Jewish people of Palestine ‘enjoy perfect safety’ was given in an official
communication” that arrived in Washington, DC today from Constantinople.
1916(29th of
Adar I, 5676): Parashat Pekudi and Shabbat Shekalim
1916: In King Williams
Town, South Africa, Morris and Ethel Aronowitz gave birth to Cecil Aronowitz,
the South African viola player who was appointed “head of the String Department
at the royal Northern College of Music in Manchester” passed away today at
Suffolk while “performing a piece by Motzart.”
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/cecil-aronowitz-mn0002172741
1916: At 8:00 p.m. in
Chicago, the Sinai Swimming Team is scheduled to take part in a meet at the
Hyde Park Y.M.C.A.
1916: It was reported
today 30,000 shirtmakers are on strike with their union demanding “higher wages
and more sanitary working conditions.”
1916: In Berlin, film
start Helga Molander, a Lutheran, and nightclub entertainer Eduard Anton
Eysenck, a Catholic, gave birth to psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck who was
raised by his Lutheran maternal grandmother who died in a concentration camp
where she had been interred because she came from a Jewish family.
1916: In Bologna, Dora
Bassani and Dr. Enrico Bassani gave birth to Giorgio Bassani the author of The
Garden of the Finzi-Continis whose early career was stifled by Italian race
laws and who was imprisoned for anti-fascist activates
1917: Among the
contributions listed today by The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews
Suffering Through the War were $1,167 from the Jewish Morning News and $1,097 from the Jewish Daily News.
1917: James Edgar
Martine who in 1916 introduced a resolution in the Senate “asking the President
to set aside a day as Jewish relief day for Jewish war sufferers” which led to
Jewish Relief Day completed his terms as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
1917(10th of
Adar, 5677): Moritz Kalisch passed away today in Manchester.
1917: Republican Milton
Kraus began serving the first of three terms as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Indiana’s 11th Congressional District.
1917: William H. King,
who in 1927 “declared…that he favored the United States severing diplomatic
relations with any country which failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its
Jewish nationals” and “expressed the belief that eventually Palestine would be
able to support a population of a million Jews” began serving as the U.S.
Senator from Utah today.
1917: La Renacensia Guida, the Zionist paper
that argued against the use of the Greek language in the 1920’s, was founded
today in New York City.
1918: It was reported
today that Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes told a gathering at the Masonic Temple “that
she had just returned to the Socialist Party and that while she was not
anti-Zionist, she feared a Jewsih State in Palestine could not be made
socialistic at once” and she feared that Great Britain was playing a game
designed to dampen “the fervor of the Jewish working people all over the world.
1918: Houston College
and Stanford University alum Herbert M. Ostroski, the San Francisco born son of
Deborah Wise and Louis I Ostrki who was
a Major in the United States Cavalry and an associate in the law firm of Turner
and Geraghty marked Helen D. Pupkin today.
1919: After four years
out of office, Henry Mayer Goldfogle began serving as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives from New York’s 12th Congressional
District.
1919: In Washington
“acting on behalf of a committee of thirty-one prominent men, Congressman Kahn
of California presented a petition to President Wilson on behalf of the Zionist
organization for consideration at the Peace Conference” and in turn, President
Wilson said that he would “have the matter put before the conference after his
arrival in Paris.”
1919: Five days after
he had passed away, 59-year-old John Robert Raps was buried today at the “East
Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1920(14th of
Adar, 5680): Purim
1920: Birthdate of Leo
Greenland, the Bronx born adman whose accounts included Tanqueray Gin, Johnnie
Walker (Red & Black) Scotch and Olvatine. Do you think he ever confused his
liquids? (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1920: In Harlem, Robert
and Mary Habib Yohai, Jewish immigrants from Turkey, gave birth to Morrie
Robert Yohai, the man who invented Cheez Doodles one of America’s most popular
junk snack foods. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1921: “The Raft of the
Dead,” photographed by Mutz Greenbaum premiered today,
1921: Having been out
of office for two years, Meyer London again begins representing New York’s 12th
Congressional District.
1921(24th of Adar I,
5681); Eighty-two-year-old Leopold Loeb passed away today after which he was
buried at Morgan City, LA.
1921: “The Raft of the
Dead” a silent drama filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released in
Germany today.
1922: Birthdate of
British cardiologist David Mendel.
1922: Release date of
German silent horror film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” co-starring
Wolfgang Heinz, the stage name of David Hrisch.
1923(16th of
Adar, 5683): Shushan Purim, since the 15th of Adar fell on Shabbat
1923(16th of
Adar, 5683): Edward Lauterbach, prominent New York attorney and leader of the
Republican Party who devoted four decades of his life to the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10916FB3D5416738DDDAC0894DB405B838EF1D3
1923: Birthdate of Kurt
Schubert, the founder of Austria's first Jewish museum after World War II and
the founder of the Jewish Institute at the University of Vienna.1923: Burton K.
Wheeler, who in 1936 “said that anti-Semitism has not only gained a foothold in
European countries like Germany, Poland, Rumania, Austria and Hungary, but has
been imported in the Western Hemisphere by Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador” and that
the “capacity for persecution” as embodied in anti-Semitism is not “foreign to
American soil” began serving as a U.S. Senator from Montana.
1923: Emmanuel “Manny”
Celler began serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New
York’s 10th Congressional District.
1923: Sol Bloom began
as serving as a member of the U.S. House Representatives from New York’s 20th
District.
1923: Royal Samuel
Copeland begins serving as a U.S. Senator from New York. In June of 1933, when
several Senators rose on the floor to condemn the treatment of the Jews of
Germany, Copeland “paid tribute to the Jews as whole mentioning Nathan Straus
as an example of Jews whose work set an example for the world.” He went on to
say that the condemnation of Germany’s treatment of the Jews by Senator Pat
Robinson of Arkansas, the Senate majority leader, “will bring hoe and cheer
into the hearts of many persons…”
1924: In Manhattan,
Isidor and Gussie Stein gave birth to their only son “Robert Stein who helped
expand the scope of women’s magazines as editor in chief of McCall’s and
Redbook in the early stages of the modern women’s movement, publishing articles
about race and politics and introducing readers to the nascent writings of
feminist leaders like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.” (As reported by Paul
Vitello)
1924: Iris Margaret
Origo, an Anglo-Irish writer who helped to save Jewish children through the
kindertransport including the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach “married Antonio
Origo, the illegitimate son of Marchese Clemente Origo.”
1925(8th of Adar, 5685): Polish born composer Moritz Moszkowski passed away at the age of 70 while living in Paris.
1925: Florence Kahn,
the Salt Lake
City born daughter of Jewish Polish immigrants Mary and Conrad Prag and the
widow of Congressman Julius Kahn began serving as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from California’s 4th District.
1926: Plans are under
way to raise five million dollars to build a new library at the Hebrew Union
College to house the new collection of 6,174 items brought back from Europe by
Dr. Adolph S. Oko.
1927(30th of Adar I,
5687): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1927: William Cohen
began his one and only terms as member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York’s 17th District.
1927: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today for German born Meta Schroeder Braunfeld, the
widow of Julius Braunfeld had passed in 1921 in New Orleans where he served as
Cantor at Temple Sinia, the city’s leading Reform congregation, is scheduled to
be buried today in San Diego, CA
1927: Birthdate of
Richard “Dick” Savitt the Bayonne, NJ, who started out playing basketball for
Cornell University and then switched to tennis – a sport at which he became so
adept that he became the first Jewish player to “win both Wimbledon and the Australian
Open.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Savitt.html
1927(30th of Adar I,
5687): Solomon Cicurel, 46, was fatally stabbed - eight times - shortly after
midnight today. The only witness to the crime was Cicurel’s wife Elvire Toriel.
She had little to say except that she had been chloroformed by her husband’s
assailants. Four suspects were eventually tried. They had either murdered
Cicurel during a robbery or as part of an act of revenge or both. The four were
all tried, but due to the legal system under which existed, they were tried in
the courts of their native countries. This reality caused as much anger among
many Egyptians as did the murder of the Jewish merchant. The murdered victim was the eldest of three
brothers. Solomon, Salvator and Joseph were the sons of Moreno Cicurel, a
Sephardic Jew who came to Egypt during the previous century from Smyrna
(Izmir), then a thriving cosmopolitan trading port in Turkey. A self-made man,
Moreno, started his career as an employee with a coreligionist who owned a
textile shop in the Mousky district, Cairo’s main commercial hub. Moreno
Cicurel was the founder of one of the largest department stores in the Middle
East.
1928: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today for Max Pine, the Secretary of the United
Trades, at The Jewish Daily Forward building at 175 East Broadway.
1928: In Mannheim, Germany, cantor and composer Hugo Chaim Adler
and Selma Adler gave birth to composer Samuel Adler who came to the United
States in 1939 where he earned a B.M. from Boston University, and an M.A. from
Harvard University. He has also received several honorary doctorates in
recognition for his artistic accomplishments. During his tenure in the U.S.
Army, he founded and conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, and because
of the orchestra's great psychological and musical impact on the European
cultural scene, he was awarded the Army's Medal of Honor.
1929: In New York,
screenwriter Jo Swerling and Florence (née Manson) Swerling gave birth to
mathematician Peter Swerling.
http://news.usc.edu/6473/Peter-Swerling-Radar-Expert-Dies-at-71/
1930: The “headquarters
of the Allied Jewish Campaign announced” today that Lt. Gov. Lehman will be one
of the speakers at its annual national conference” to be held this weekend in
Washington.
1930: At least one
member of Parliament complained that “new South African quota bill limiting the
number of immigrants to 50 each yeaer from each of the East and South European
countries” which passed its third reading was aimed at limiting Jewish immigration.
1930: ‘Masks” a crime
film direct by Rudolf Meinert was released in the Weimar Republic today.
1931(15th of
Adar, 5691): Shushan Purim
1931: William Henry
Dieterich, the anti-Semitic and somewhat pro-German Republican began serving as
a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s at-large
district.
1931: “Two world
records,” in the 500-yard back stroke and the half mile back stroke “were
broken today by Joe Wohl, the captain of the Syracuse University swim team.
1932: “President Hoover
signed the commission of Benjamin Cardozo as Justice of the Supreme Court”
today.
1933: Illinois Democrat
J. Hamilton “Ham” Lewis who as a congressman had supported a “proviso in the
Balfour Declaration that Jews going to Palestine to live could retain their
original citizenship instead of automatically becoming British subjects” and who
as U.S. Senator led “a protest against the possible transfer of American Jews
from their present homes in Palestine to other parts of the country” began
serving as Senate Majority Leader today,
1933: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt was inaugurated as 32nd President of the United States.
Regardless of what one may think of Roosevelt's record during the Holocaust,
there is no denying the positive things he did for Jews during the days of the
New Deal. He had numerous Jewish advisors and appointed them to a variety
of positions of power including Supreme Court Justice to Secretary of the
Treasury. A hitherto untapped cohort of well-educated first or second
generation American Jews gained access to positions through the newly emerging
federal agencies that were part of Roosevelt's program to reform American
government, business and labor practices.
1933: Theodore Albert
Peyeser began serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives
from New York’s 17th congressional district.
1933: Cordell Hull
began serving as U.S. Secretary of State a post he would hold until 1944. Hull
would win the Nobel Peace Prize but he earned low marks from the Jewish
community for his moves to thwart attempts to aid Jewish refugees and his
failure to curb the genteel anti-Semitism found in his department.
1933: Sixty-year-old
Theodore Albert Peyser, a native of Charleston, West Virginia, began
representing New York’s 17th congressional district today.
1933:
Seventy more people are imprisoned at Nohra on the second day of the operation
of Germany's first Concentration Camp. This brings the total number of
prisoners to 170.
1934: As the
Philadelphia SPHAS (South Philadelphia Hebrew Association) basketball team
dressed into their uniforms prior to playing the Brooklyn Jews, “Coach Eddie
Gottlieb introduced the team to its newest member, Moe Goldman, a Brooklyn
native, who had just completed his senior year of basketball at the City
College of New York (CCNY) where he had excelled as a center for the CCNY team,
under the tutelage of coach Nat Holman, arguably the best Jewish basketball
player in the 1920s.”
1935: The Jerusalem
Shopkeepers Association plans to shutter its shops today in an attmpet to
“force the Municipal Council to adopt a rent regulation ordinance” similar to
the ones in force in Tel Aviv and Haifa.
1936: In Poland,
“Warsaw University, scene of anti-Semitic riots, was closed today for an
indefinite period.”
1936: Among those
reported today to have been “denationalized” by the German government were
‘nine designated as Jews” including “Herbert Stahl who writes under the name of
Steel who is denounced as ‘a Jewish editor who directed lying press attacks
against American newspapers against Germany and in connection with the Jewish
boycott movements surpassed all other machinations of that kind in meanness.’”
(Editor’s Note: What is worse than being
a Jew in Germany? Not being Jewish but
being labeled as one. Johannes Steel was
an author who left Germany before WW II and was allegedly involved in wartime
espionage for the Soviets.)
1936: Under the terms
reported today, “Netherlands citizens of Jewish descent living in Germany” may
be repatriated to Holland but every family can take no more than 20,000 marks
(less than $10,000) with them regardless of how much wealth they may have accumulated
or the size of the family. (Editor’s
note: Anti-Semitism almost always includes theft making it a profitable
business throughout the centuries)
1936: “Nearly 1,000
women representing various” philanthropic organizations attended a meeting
today at the Hotel Astor where “Christians and Jewish leaders joined with
officials of the women’s division of the United Palestine Appeal in the
campaign for $1,500,000 to be raised for the benefit of Jewish settlements in
Palestine.
1936: Rabbi Abba Hillel
Silver of Cleveland, a national co-chairman of the United Palestine Appeal
which is seeking to raise $3,500,000 to help settle German Jews in Palestine
and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt are the featured speakers at a tea in the Hotel Astor
which is the opening event of the campaign in New York City. (Editor’s note:
Abba Hillel Silver was a Reform Rabbi and ardent Zionist who was instrumental
in seeing to it that support for a Jewish state in Palestine was supported by
both American political parties. One can
only wonder how he would have reacted to the state of Israel’s treatment of
Reform Judaism including denying that Jews who were converted by Reform rabbis
are not really Jewish.)
1937: The 9th Annual
Academy Awards, hosted by Jewish actor and Hollywood fixture, George Jessel,
are held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
1937: In Warsaw, the
Polish Government and the Jewish Emigration Agency signed an agreement designed
“to facilitate the emigration of wealthy Polish Jews to Palestine.
1937(21st of
Adar, 5697): Four-year-old Miriam Ruhama Pacifici the daughter of Rabbi Riccardo
Reuven Pacifici passed away at Genoa.
1938(1st of
Adar II, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1938: Two days after he
had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Union Temple in
Brooklyn for 57-year-old to NYU Law School graduate Joseph J. Baker, “a senior
member of the law firm of Baker, Obermeir Rosenson and Rosner,” “President of
the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, the son of Adolph and Carrie Baker and the
husband of the former “May Lautman” with whom he had two children – Ruth and
Edward.”
1938: The Palestine Post reported that Sir
Harold MacMichael had arrived in Palestine and described the ceremony in which
he was sworn as the fifth High Commissioner.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that The
Lydda-Jerusalem train was sabotaged when the railway line was damaged by an
explosion. Another bomb was found on the railway tracks near Khan Yunis. Curfew
was imposed on Arab villages situated close to the railway tracks.
1938: Birthdate of
Allan Nathaniel Kornblum, the Brooklyn native who would help steer the F.B.I.
into the post-J. Edgar Hoover era by drafting guidelines for its surveillance
operations in the 1970s, and whose testimony would help convict the murderer of
a black man in a celebrated civil rights case revived nearly 40 years after the
event.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that there
were 5,734,917 Palestine pounds in circulation and 15,641 registered vehicles
in the country in 1937. There were also 95 credit cooperatives with 79,750
members.
1939: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native and Albert Einstein College of Medicine trained Doctor Gerald
Walker Wholberg, the psychiatrist who served on the faculty of Boston
University
1939:
Twenty-three-year-old Bernard “Bernie” Opperman, the Bronx native whose
Kentucky Wildcats were upset by the Tulane Green Wave in the 1938
SEC Tournament redeemed himself today by leading his team to victory over the
Tennessee Vols in the 1939 SEC Championship finals.
1940: “An appeal to the
people of Great Britain ‘to stay the hand’ of their government from putting
into effect the proposal to restrict the sale of land to Jews in Palestine was
made” tonight by thousands of people “at a protest meeting in Carnegie Hall
called by a group of Jewish organizations.
1940: Nineteen-year-old
twin brothers Robert and David Goldwasser from Paris, NJ led Jewish students in
a protest in front of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem after which they received
“assurances from the consul general that Washington would be informed about the
effect of the new land on the rights of Americans in Palestine.
1941(5th of
Adar, 5701): Eighty-nine-year-old Hattie Collenberger Bloomingdale, the New
York born daughter of Aaron and Rieka Ikelheimer Collengenberger and the wife
of Lyman Gustave Bloomingdale, the co-founder of the department store that
bears his name whom she married in 1871 and with whom she had five children –
Samuel, Hiram,, Hanna, Irving and Corinne – passed away today after which she
was buried at Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn
1941: A group of
tailors who worked in shop supplying uniforms to the German Army were
photographed in Nazi occupied Bendzin, Poland.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/06.asp
1941: "I.
Segaloff" wrote “My best regards to my friend Tatsuo Osako," on the
back of a photo. Segaloff was probably a Jewish refugee who had been helped by
Osako who was a young employee of the Japan Tourist Bureau at the start of
World War II. Osako probably worked with “Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat
stationed in Lithuania who granted transit visas to several thousand Jews in
the early days of the war. In doing so, he defied strict stipulations from
Tokyo that such recipients have proper funds and a clear final destination
after Japan. He was one of a handful of diplomats such as Sweden's Raoul
Wallenberg and Hiram Bingham IV of the U.S. who used their bureaucratic
machinery, often without their government's knowledge, to issue the paperwork
that would get Jews to safety. Dubbed the "Japanese Schindler,"
Sugihara was honored in 1985 by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the
Nations, a high honor reserved for non-Jews who saved Jews at their own
personal risk from the Holocaust, Hitler's destruction of 6 million Jews. A
short movie about him, "Visas and Virtue," won an Academy Award in
1997. Museums at his hometown and in Lithuania are dedicated to his memory.”
1942: Algiers radio
announced that all firms, property and legal titles owned in part or full by
Jews have been put under "Aryan" administration. This came after the
dismissal of 3,000 Jews from the French civil service just a couple months prior.
1942: Birthdate of
Peabody award winner and “feminist” Lynn Sherr.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=126383
1942(15th of
Adar, 5702) Shushan Purim
1942(15th of
Adar, 5702): Seventy-nine-year-old Tobias Schanfarber, the Cleveland born son
of Aaron and Sarah (Newman) Schanfarber, the husband of Carrie Phillipson and
graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College who led
congregations in Toleo, Ft. Wayne and Baltimore before settling in as the rabbi
at KAM in Chicago passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/03/05/85022784.pdf
1942(15th of
Adar, 5702): Shushan Purim
1942: Eichmann met with all his territorial representatives to discuss the
organizational problems of the deportations to come. Actual plans commenced
months earlier.
1942: Frank L. Weil
announced today “the appointment of Ralph E. Samuel, the New York stockbroker
as chairman of the Greater New York Army and Navy Committee of the National
Jewish Welfare Board.
1943: Most of the Jews
living in Cuomotini, Greece were arrested and transported in 20 open train cars
to the notorious Dupnitsa transit camp, and then dispatched from Lom by boat
via the Danube. The Jews from Cuomotini and Kavala on the Karageorge were shot
by the Bulgarians and the Germans; while three other boats, of which one held
Cuomotini Jews, arrived in Vienna and from there the Thracian Jews were sent to
Treblinka; where they were gassed upon arrival. The Bulgarians confiscated all
of the Jewish properties and possessions.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/march/08.asp
1943: The Jews of
Drama, a town in Macedonia, were arrested by the Bulgarian police and army,
held in tobacco warehouses in the Agia Barbara quarter for three days, and then
sent to the Gorna Djumaya camp in Bulgaria, where they were kept in extremely
harsh conditions. From there, young men in their teens and early twenties were
sent to forced labor in Bulgaria and 113 families (589 people) were dispatched
by train to Lom and from there put on a boat to Vienna, where they were
reloaded on trains to Treblinka and gassed upon their arrival.
1943: Jews continued to
be sent from Paris to Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.
1943: At the 15th
Annual Oscar award ceremony, “Mrs. Miniver” directed by William Wyler wins for
Best Picture of 1942. Wyler, a refugee
from Hitler’s Europe wins for Best Director.
1944(9th of
Adar, 5704): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
1944(9th of Adar, 5704): In Warsaw, four Jewish
women were shot in the ghetto along with 80 non-Jews. All their bodies, dead
and wounded alike, were thrown into a building that was then lit on fire.
1944(9th of Adar,
5704): In Ossining, New York, Louis
Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc. was executed at
Sing Sing.
1944(9th of Adar,
5704): In Ossining, New York, Emanuel
“Mendy” Weiss a member of the crime syndicate Murder, Inc. was executed at Sing
Sing.
1945: In England,
Arnold James Burton, the Leeds born son of Sir Montague Maruice Burton and
Sophia Amelia Burton and his wife gave birth to Alexander Simon James Montague
Burton, the father of Sophie Amelia Sarah Burton.
1945: “In a move to
eliminate duplication of activities among organizations supplying relief for
refugees” the delegations attending the 60th annual convention of
HIAS, led by President Abraham Herman, called today for the “creation of a
council of Jewish voluntary agencies as the pivotal point of a plan for
coordinating their work.
1945: Oscar Straus,
soon will be 75 years old, “celebrated his golden jubilee as a
composer-conductor by directing a ‘Straus Festival’ tonight before a large and
enthusiastic audience.”
1945: Eric Jabotinsky,
the son of the late Vladimir Jabotinsky, is scheduled to begin living in Haifa
today as part of the terms under which he was released from the custody of
British authorities in Jerusalem.
1946(1st of
Adar II, 5706): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1946: In New York City
doctors Ruth (Silboiwtz) Achs and Samuel Achs gave birth to Naomi Achs, who
gained fame as screenwriter and director Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.
1946: Birthdate of English impresario Harvey Goldsmith
1946: Felix Frankfurter was one of the Associate Justices who heard
Girouard v. United States, a landmark citizenship case, when it was argued
today before the Supreme Court.
1947: Birthdate of Douglas Peter “Doug” Beal, the Cleveland Ohio native
who played volleyball at Ohio State and then continued his involvement with the
sport as a college and serving as USA
Volleyball CEO.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/DougBeal.htm
1947: As much of
Palestine’s Jewish community endured the third day of martial law, Joseph
Saphir, the mayor of Petach Tikva reported that 4,000 men were out of work due
to the clampdown and the number was growing.
In Tel Aviv, the banks were closed due to a lack of coin and currency
while the population worried about getting the necessities of life including
fresh milk.
1948(23rd of
Adar I, 5708): This morning “Arabs ambushed and killed seventeen Jewish members
of the Haganah…seven miles northwest of Jerusalem.”
1948: U.S. premiere of
“The Naked City,” a gritty, black and white film directed by Jules Dassin,
produced by Mark Hellinger with a screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald.
1949: Two days after he
had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Emanuel Philip
Adler, the Times Publisher who was buried in the Mount Nebo Hebrew Cemetery in
Davenport, IA.
1949: The Security
Council of the United Nations recommended Israel for membership in the
international body.
1950: “The Baron of
Arizona” a western movie directed and written by Samuel Fuller and featuring
Vladimir Sokoloff was released in the United States today.
1950(15th of
Adar, 5710): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim
1950: “Israel and
Jordan Working for Peace,” an article about the proposed Israel-Jordan
non-aggression pact entitled Gene Currivan declares that “Israel decided long
ago that while external advice is always welcome, she must rely principally –
as the Jews have over the centuries – on her own resourcefulness where the
future is concerned.”
1950:
The Revocation of Citizenship Bill, which made it possible for Iraq's Jews to
flee the country, went into effect. "By the end of May of
1950, at least ten thousand Iraqi Jews" many of whom were impoverished
before leaving, "had crossed the border into Iran” as they made their way
to Israel.
1951:
New York Republican U.S. Senator Irving M. Ives spoke at the sixty-sixth annual
meeting of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in the Astor Hotel where he called
“for revised immigration laws and a more liberal displaced persons program.
1952:
For the first time, in its short history, “ Israel's ordinary budget,
including security costs,” which was scheduled to submitted to the Knesset
today, “will be balanced by internal revenue.”
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the new, official US Middle Eastern policy was to “equalize the
support for Israel and other countries in the area.” According to the
explanation given to the Post by US Embassy officials in Tel Aviv, this
new policy did not mean that the support hitherto given to Israel was to be
lessened, but that the assistance offered to the Arab states was to be
increased. [This new policy was a product of the newly elected Republican
Administration of Dwight Eisenhower and his Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles. Eisenhower and Dulles would show
their true feelings about Israel when they took the side of the Egyptians over
the Israelis during the Suez Crisis of 1956.]
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that following the recent Israeli offer, the Barclay and Ottoman banks
in Cyprus started accepting claims from Arab Palestine refugees for the release
of their frozen accounts held in Israeli banks.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that a new draft for the Punishment of Crimes against the State was
tabled in the Knesset. It provided for a death sentence for the high treason in
time of war.
1954(29th of
Adar I, 5714): Eighty-year-old Birdie Loeb Gimbel, the daughter of Henrietta
Frank and Marx Loeb and the wife of department store executive Benedict Gimbel
passed away after which she was buried at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1954: As attempts were
being to remove his security clearance, J. Robert Openheimer, the “father of
the Atomic Bomb,” sent a letter to Major General Kenneth D. Nicholas describing
his relationship with Jean Tatlock.
1955: Following the
rape and murder of his sister Shoshana and the murder of her boyfriend Oded
Wegmeister by Bedouin Tribesmen, Meir Har-Zion
“and three ex-members of the 890 Battalion drove to the Armistice Line with
Jordan where they captured six Bedouins.
1956(21st of
Adar, 5716): Sixty-nine-year-old NYU alum, attorney and unsuccessful Republican
candidate for Congress Max Perlman passed away today leaving behind his wife,
Mrs. Gertrude Hyams Pearlman and his son Franklin Perlman.
1957(1st of
Adar II,5717): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1957: Israel, in compliance with the United Nations
resolution, withdrew from the Gaza Strip and other territories. These
territories had been seized in the Sinai Campaign of
1956, sometimes referred to as “the One Hundred Hour War” because of
its short duration. The fighting in 1956 was an Israeli response to
years of attacks by terrorists as well as the arming of the Egyptians by
the Soviets with an arsenal of modern weapons. The history of
the war is too complicated to summarize here. Suffice it to say that the
Israelis withdrew with guarantees from the United Nations and the
United States that the Sinai Peninsula would be a demilitarized zone and that
Israel would enjoy unfettered access from Eilat, its southern port through
the Straits of Tiran. In 1967, Egypt would completely break the
agreements of 1957 and the U.N. would fail to honor its commitments which
brought about the Six Days War.
1957: The Importance
of Overweight by childhood obesity researcher Hilda Bruch was published
today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/04/1957/hilde-bruch
1957: “Ill Met by
Moonlight” on which Emeric Pressburger served as co-writer, co-director and
co-producer was released today in the United Kingdom.
1958: “The
Export-Import Bank announced today a credit of $24,200,000 to the Government of
Israel. The money will be used for expansion of Israeli water supply,
irrigation and other facilities for agricultural development with equipment
from the United States.”
1959(24th of
Adar I, 5719): Ninety-nine-year-old Adolphe Danziger de Castro the native of Poland and
scholar, journalist, lawyer, author of poems, novels and short stories who was
the first president of the La Comunidad Sefardi of Los Angeles passed away
today.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38602/38602-h/38602-h.htm
1960(5th of
Adar, 5720): Bronx born Leonard Warenoff, the son of
Russian Jewish immigrants who gained fame as Leonard Warren, a leading baritone
with the Met died suddenly while singing with his Richard Tucker another of the
Jewish immigrants who was a giant in the world of opera.
https://operawire.com/artist-profile-baritone-leonard-warren-legendary-verdi-interpreter/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/05/105182334.pdf
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/leonard-warren-death-forza-del-destino/
1961: “The Wall,” a
play set in Warsaw from 1940 to 1943 based on the novel by John Hersey which
proved that a non-Jew can create a great Jewish book with a cast that included
Joseph Bernard was performed for the last time on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theatre.
1961: The 1961
Inaugural Conference for Israel Bonds is scheduled to continue for a second day
in Miami Beach.
1962: “The Boston
Celtics beat the St. Louis Haws 123-120 giving Red Auerbach his 700th
coaching victory in the NBA.” (As reported by Bob Wechsler)
1964: Birthdate of New
York native and former New York City Council Member Eva Sarah Moskowitz whose
mother “fled Europe during the Holocaust” avoiding the fate of other family
members who died in the concentration camps.
1964(20th of
Adar, 5724): Eighty-one-year-old Hattie Weltman Simon, the Hempstead, TX born
daughter of Louisa and Louis Weltman and the husband of Uriah Myer Simon passed
away today in Fort Worth, TX after which she was buried at the Hebrew Rest
Cemetery.
1965(1st of
Adar II, 5725): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1965: Jay Rabinowitz
began services as an Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.
1966: NYU Law School
graduate and member of the U.S. of
Representatives Leo Frederick Rayfiel completed his service and a Judge
of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
1966: “The Group”
directed by Sidney Lumet, produced and written by Sidney Buchman and filmed by
cinematographer Boris Kaufman was released in the United States today.
1967: Birthdate of
Manchester native Ivan Lewis, the Chief Executive of Jewish Social Services of
Greater Manchester who was elected as the Labour MP for Bury South in 1997.
1969(14TH of
Adar, 5729): The first Purim during the Nixon Presidency
1969(14th of
Adar, 5729) Purim
1969(14th of
Adar, 5729): Seventy-one-year-old “Romanian-born British political scientist
and Fabian socialist who was professor at the University of Chicago passed away
today.
1969(14th of
Adar, 5729): Pioneering movie mogul, Nicholas M. Schenck passed away.
http://voices.yahoo.com/nicholas-schenck-motion-picture-production-pioneer-2133037.html
1970: “Loving” a comedy
directed by Irvin Kershner, produced and written by Don Devlin and starring
George Segal and with music by Bernardo Segall was released in the United
States today.
1970: The funeral for seventy-one
year old Russian born Joseph L. Dubow who in 1902 came to the United States
where “he was admitted to the bar…after graduating from the University of
Chattanooga Law School” and eventually became the “executive director of the
New York Coat and Suit Association” while raising two sons – Peter and Robert –
with his wife Estelle is scheduled to take place today at The Riverside.
1971(7th of
Adar, 5731): Sixty-seven-year-old Wharton graduate James Felt, the son of real
estate developer Abraham Felt, who followed in the footsteps of his father and
grandfather when he went into to the real estate business instead of becoming a
Rabbi and went on to become the Chairman of the City Planning Commission passed
away today.
1971: The second of
two-part television production Clifford Odets’ Paradise Lost co-starring Eli
Wallach was broadcast on American Public Television.
1972(18th of
5732): Parashat Ki Tisa’ Shabbat Parah
1972(18th of
5732): Eighty-one-year-old NYU trained obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Isador
W. Kahn the husband of Harriet Kahn, passed away today.
1973(30th of
Adar I, 5733): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1973(30th of
Adar I, 5733): Eighty-six-year-old Lithuanian born, LSE trained, American labor
leader Ossip Walinsky, the founder of the Women’s Trade Union and the
“International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union who was the
husband of Rose (Newman) Walinksy passed away today.
1973: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors including The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of
Poetry by Harold Bloom.
1973: Marcel Marceau
appears at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City, IA.
1974(10th of Adar, 5734): Adolph Gottlieb, prominent Abstract
Expressionist painter passed away at the age of 71.
http://gottliebfoundation.org/grants/individual-grants/
http://www.artnet.com/artists/adolph-gottlieb/
1974: After having been beaten by police outside the Bolshoi Theatre in
Moscow, Alexander Tsatskis and Saul Raslin were taken to Kiev where they were
“arrested and interrogated.”
1974:
"Five months after Israel's defeat of the Syrian forces on the Golan
Heights, four young Syrian Jewish women were found raped, robbed and murdered
in a cave on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Lebanese borders...The bodies were
returned to their parents in sacks."
1975: Charlie Chaplin
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
1975: Tonight, “at
11:00 p.m. eight Palestinians in two teams landed by boat on the Tel Aviv beach
at the foot of Allenby Street.”
1977(14th of
Adar, 5737) Purim
1978(25th of
Adar I, 5738): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim
1978(25th of
Adar I, 5738): Sixty-seven-year-old Samuel Phillip
Mandell, Philadelphia born son of Morris and Rebecca Mandelm the President of
Samuel P. Mandell and Company, the founder of the Samuel P. Mandel Foundation
and the husband of Ida Slustsky with whom he had five children, including two
sets of twins passed away today.
1979: “The
Grand Tour,” a musical with a book by Michael Stewart (born Myron Stuart Rubin)
and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman based on the S. N. Behrman's play
Jacobowsky and the Colonel was performed on Broadway for the last time at at
the Palace Theater today
1980(16th of
Adar, 5740): Sixty-three-year-old Charles Pannet, the Brooklyn native and
Executive Director of Hillcrest Jewish Community Center who was an officer of
the National Association of Synagogue Administrators passed away today in New
York City.
1981: It was reported
today that New York City Mayor Koch is scheduled to meet with “Rabbi Rokeach,
who is revered as the only surviving heir of the founder of the sect nearly 200
years ago in the then-Russian town of Belz’ who has just arrived in New York
sparking off a controversy with Satmars.
1982: The “U.S. Senate
adopted a resolution calling for the Soviet Union to stop the persecution,
arrests, and trials of Jewish activists; to remove obstacles to emigration; and
to respect the religious rights of its citizens.”
1983(19th of
Adar, 5743): Eighty-six-year-old Boston born American Modernist artist and
illustrator for several magazines including The Saturday Evening Post
and Harpers Henry Botkin passed away today.
1984(30th of Adar I,
5744): Rosh Chodesh Adar II
1984: The life of
journalist and author Sidney Zion “was transformed” tonight “when his
18-year-old daughter, Libby, a Bennington College freshman with a history of
depression and cocaine use, was admitted to New York Hospital with fever,
chills and agitation. Her condition was not diagnosed, but two interns gave her
a painkiller and sedative, a plan approved by phone by a senior clinician who
had treated members of the family, and Ms. Zion was tied down to prevent
injury. She died eight hours after admission.”
This tragedy resulted in Zion leading a crusade that resulted in
national reforms in the training, workload and supervision of young doctors.
1984: A new competitor
to Yediot Ahronoth was established, the Hadashot newspaper which was founded by
Amos Schocken.
1986: Today, “The New
York Times reported on Kurt Waldheim’s wartime service in the Balkans and his
prewar Nazi associations.”
1987: Robert Badinter,
the Paris born son of Bessarabian Jewish refugee parents Badinter and Charlotte
Rosenberg began serving as President of the Constitutional Council.
1987: Jonathan Pollard
was sentenced today by a Washington, D.C. court to life imprisonment for spying
for Israel.
1987: After a
four-month hostile takeover, Sumner Redstone won voting control of Viacom for
$3.4 billion today.
1988: Sir John
Templeton, sponsor of the $369,000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion,
has expressed surprise at charges that this year's prize winner was associated
with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel causes. ''We'd heard absolutely nothing of
that nature, and I don't think any of the judges had either,'' Sir John said by
telephone today from the Bahamas. ''We are completely surprised and will be
trying to study the facts.'' The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the
American Jewish Committee protested the designation of Dr. Inamullah Khan,
secretary general of the Pakistan-based World Moslem Congress, as the winner
because Dr. Khan and the congress have linked to anti-Semitic groups, including
those that deny the Holocaust occurred, and that Dr. Khan had rejected Israel's
right to exist. Dr. Khan is the first Moslem to be chosen for the Templeton
Prize.
1988: In Ramat
HaSharon, Alon and Arela Mekel gave birth to professional Gal Mekel. Who played
for Wichita State University before turning professional.
1989(29th of
Shevat, 5749): Parashat Mishpatim
1989: In the wake of raids
into Israel by terrorist groups, today, the United States questioned the
commitment of Yasir Arafat, to renounce terrorism and control radical
Palestinian factions that have attempted incursions into Israel.
1990: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held to at Riverside Memorial Chapel for Brooklyn Law
School trained attorney and decorated WW II Army veteran New York State Senator
Abraham Bernstein, the past president of the National Association of Jewish Legislators
and husband of the former Gretchen Diamond.
1990(4th of
Adar, 5750): Seventy-two-year-old CCNY and Brooklyn Law School graduate Abraham
Bernstein, the husband of Gretchen Diamond, the decorated WW II Army veteran
and member of both houses of the New York State Legislature suffered a fata
heart attack after which he was interred in the New Mount Lebanon Cemetery.
1991: Lebanon warned
P.L.O. guerrillas that they would no longer be allowed to mount attacks on
Israel from Lebanese territory in what was President Elias Hrawi's strongest
criticism of the Palestinians to date
1992(29th of Adar I,
5752): Eighty-four-year-old Hollywood animator and Walt Disney collaborator
Arthur Babbitt passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-07/news/mn-3376_1_arthur-babbitt
1993(11th of Adar,
5753): Ta'anit Esther observed since the 13th of Adar falls on
Shabbat
1993(11th of Adar,
5753): Izaak Maurits (Piet) Kolthoff “a highly influential chemist, widely
considered the Father of Analytical Chemistry” passed away. https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Kolthoff
1994: The INS Hanit a corvette built by Northrop
Gruman was launched today.
1994: “Greedy” produced
by Brian Grazer, a screenplay co-authored by Lowell Ganz, with music by Randy
Edelman and starring Kirk Douglas was released in the United States today.
1995: President Clinton
appointed Martin S. Indyk as U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1995(2nd of
Adar II, 5755): Parashat Pekudi
1995(2nd of
Adar II, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old Minnie Sweedler Eisman, the mother of
Samuel and Fanny Belle Sweedler and the wife of Philip Carl Eisman whom she
married in 1934 passed away today after which she was buried at Beth Israel
Memorial Park in Cedar Knolls, NJ.
1996(13th of Adar,
5756): A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and and wounded at least 35
others. The Arab bomber, with explosives strapped to his body, blew himself up
in the street near the indoor mall known as Dizengoff Center.
1996(13th of Adar,
5756): This morning, owner Abe Lebewohl the 2nd Avenue Deli was in his delivery
truck, going to make his habitual deposit at a nearby bank when he was shot and
killed, a victim of a robbery that remains unsolved to this day. His baby brother,
Jack Lebewohl, who, unlike Abe, realized their parents’ American dream by
becoming a “professional,” a real estate lawyer, gave up his practice and took
over the deli. He made a go of it for almost 10 years, despite the fact that
delis in New York have been disappearing for almost 40 years.
1996: A unit of Hamas
claimed credit for yesterday’s suicide bomb explosions that killed 32 people.
1997: The International
Committee of the Red Cross said today that it had found three cases of
misconduct by former employees -- Giuseppe Beretta, Jean-Roger Pagan and Jean
Sublet -- in an investigation of assertions that it had been penetrated by Nazi
agents during World War II.”
1998: “The Fourteenth
Knesset re-elected Ezer Weizman for a second term. For the first time, an
acting president was faced by an opponent, (MK Shaul Amor of the Likud), in the
re-election. 119 members participated in the election: 63 votes were in favor of
Weizman, 49 were in favor of Amor, and 7 were empty ballots.
2000(27th of
Adar I, 5760): Parashat Vayakhel; Shabbat Shekalim
2000: “New Paths in
Africa, Europe and Middle East” published today reported that in Africa and the
Middle East, most of the attention regarding technology “has focused on Israel”
and that “there is a wide range of Israeli technology stocks are listed in
London and on Nasdaq.”
2000: Crown Prince
Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz ended his visit to Lebanon today “which was aimed at a
common Arab front” following “the breakdown in peace talks between Israel and
Syria” and between Israel and the Palestinians.
2001: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
by Ronald Segal
2001(9th of Adar, 5761): Naftali Dean, 85, of Tel Mond; Yevgenya
Malchin, 70, of Netanya and Shlomit Ziv, 58, of Netanya were murdered today by
a Palestinian suicide bomber “in the center of the business district of
Netanya.
2001: Graveside services were held at Temple Emeth
Memorial Park, Baker St., West Roxbury, MA for Deborah (Pessin) Margolis, the
widow of Dr. Benjamin D. Margolis.
2002: As of today, “latest round of unrelenting
violence -- more than 20 Israeli deaths in the last 24 hours -- has left the
Bush administration stymied and efforts at meaningful diplomacy stalled.”
2002: “Syria seemed to register unease with the
Saudi peace plan, which offers Israel normal relations with the Arab world in
return for its withdrawal from land occupied in the 1967 war” but which “makes
no explicit mention of resettling the millions of Palestinian refugees spread
about the region nor does it mention any Israeli return of the Golan Heights
area to Syria, two points Damascus has always insisted on.”
2003(30th of Adar I, 5763): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II
2003: As the Israelis continue their war against
terrorists who hide among the civilian population, the IAF killed three
Palestinians in “separate shooting incidents and clashes.”
2004(11th of Adar, 5764): Ta’anit
Esther
2004: “How Bush’s
Advisers Confront the World” published today provides a review of The Rise
of the Vulcans by James Mann who lists Paul Wolfowitz as one of the six
people to whom the President looks to for guidance on foreign policy.
2005: A German court
ruled that the heirs of a once prominent Jewish-owned department store chain
were entitled to compensation for what has in recent years become one of
Berlin's most valuable pieces of real estate. Deciding one of the biggest and
most bitterly disputed claims for restitution of property seized by the Nazis,
the German Administrative Court awarded $17 million to Barbara Principe and her
nephew, Martin Wortham. They are the main surviving heirs of the family of
German Jews that, until the war, owned and operated the Wertheim department
store chain, which even today is to Berlin what Macy's or Bloomingdale's is to
New York. The Wertheim Company, founded
in the 19th century, owned seven large stores in Berlin before the war, all of
them appropriated by the Nazis in 1937 as part of the process by which Jews
were squeezed out of German economic life and their holdings turned over to
"Aryans." The Wertheim brothers arrived in the United States penniless
in the 1940's. Gunther Wertheim, Mrs. Principe's father, ran a chicken farm in
southern New Jersey.
2005: The New
York Times reviewed The Great Morality by John Kelly. This book provided “an intimate history of
the Black Death. Included in this
acclaimed volume are references to the treatment of the Jews including reports
of “survivors pointing accusatory fingers at Jews and Muslims and outsiders”
and the “pogroms instituted against the Jews, who were scapegoated for
spreading the plague; the abdication of responsibility on the part of many
officials and community leaders; and the exploitation of the needy and
grief-stricken by con men and opportunists.”
2005: An exhibition styled “The Power
of Conversation of Jewish Women and Their Salons” opens at the Jewish Museum.
2006: Dalia Itizk a native of Jerusalem born into a family of Iraqi Jews,
began serving Speaker of the Knesset, making her the first women to hold this
post.
2006: In Cedar Rapids, celebration of the birthday
of Ivy Hurwitz. In the short time that
Ivy has been in Cedar Rapids, she has demonstrated her culinary wizardry and
made herself an integral part of the Jewish community
2007: The Sunday New York Times book section
featured a review of The Art of Aging:A
Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being by Jewish author Sherwin
B. Nuland and a review of Becoming
Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist by Gail Levin. “Judy Chicago, born
Judith Sylvia Cohen in Chicago in 1939, is descended from a long line of
rabbis, going back to the Vilna Gaon in eighteenth century Lithuania.”
2007(14th of
Adar, 5767): Purim.
2008: As part of
“Hadassah on Tour,” Dr. Michael Wilschanski, the Director of the Pediatric
Gastroenterology Unit of the Division of Pediatrics at Hadassah Medical Center,
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, speaks in Duluth, MN
2008: In New York, the
92nd Street Y presents “Breaking News from Israel: Reports from the
Front Lines” featuring NBC journalist Martin Fletcher and moderated by New York Times editor and author Joseph
Berger.
2008: James L. Kugel and Rabbi Harold Kushner are among
the 20 writers honored tonight at the 57th annual Jewish Book Awards, to be
held at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. In January, the Jewish Book
Council, which administers the awards, named Mr. Kugel's How to Read the
Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now the Jewish Book of the Year for
2007, and chose Rabbi Kushner, the author of the 1981 best seller When Bad
Things Happen to Good People, the recipient of its Lifetime Achievement
Award. The Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the only organization in
America devoted exclusively to promoting books reflecting the Jewish
experience. The annual awards honor achievement in biography and memoir,
children's and young adult literature, fiction, poetry, and history.
2008: According to
Palestinian sources, the Arabs suffered 110 casualties during Operation Hot
Winter. The Israelis launched Operation
Hot Winter following a series of rocket attacks launched from Gaza that
targeted Israeli towns, including Sderot.
2008(27th of
Adar I, 5768): Eighty-three-year-old Oscar winning composer Leonard Rosenman
passed away today.
2009: In Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Hadassah Book Club met at the home of community leader Amy Barnum to
discuss a novel by Anita Dimant entitled Good Harbor
2009: In New York, the
Jewish Community Relations Council and the Chinese Community Relations Council
sponsor a presentation by Avrum Ehrlich, Professor at the University of
Shandong, China, entitled China-Israel Relations: Geopolitical and Social
Dimensions.
2009: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits
Ramallah before flying out of Israel as she completes her first official peace
mission to the Middle East.
2009: Mohammad Ali
Jafari, the commander in chief of the Iran’s Revolutionary Gurad announced that
Iran now has missiles that can reach Israeli nuclear sites. Iran’s Shahab-3 missles have a range of up to
1,250 miles, putting Israel within striking distance.
2009: According to the Proivdence Journal, the last two
paid staff member of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., were let go and
public tours were canceled because of financial difficulties.
2009(8th of Adar, 5769:
Joseph Bloch, who was a professor of piano literature at the Juilliard School
in New York passed away today at the age of 91. at his home in Larchmont, N.Y.
2010: YIVO is scheduled
to present a program entitled Goebbels in Arabia during which Jeffrey Herf,
eminent historian and a professor at the University of Maryland, discusses his
new book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press), a
detailed account of how Hitler's Germany planted the seeds of its own brand of
virulent anti-Semitism in the Middle East
2010: The Twentieth
Annual KOACH Kallah is scheduled to begin today at the Pearlston Conference and
Retreat Center in Reisterstown, MD.
KOACH is the is the college program Conservative Movement.
2010: In Washington,
D.C., Norman Shore is scheduled to lead a “learn over lunch” that examines the
reign of Solomon as described in Book of I Kings.
2010: Rabbi Joshua
Maroof, the spiritual leader of the Magen David Sephardic Congregation in
Rockville, Maryland is scheduled to conduct another class designed to discover
the fascinating world of Sephardic Jewish thought in which attendees delve into
the legacy of great philosophers such as Maimonides and Joseph Caro (author of
the Shulchan Aruch) and discuss monotheism, free will and other
ever-contemporary themes.
2010: The High Court
today refused to throw out a lawsuit by Peace Now against construction in
Kiryat Netafim, even though the government says it has evidence that shows that
construction was approved before the lawsuit was undertaken, contradicting the contention
of the suit that the building was illegal. The court, however, rejected a
demand by Peace Now that the town and the Samaria Regional Council be held in
contempt of court for allowing construction to continue, even though the court
had ordered building frozen until the lawsuit was heard.
2010: Michigan
Congressman Sandy Levin took over as chairman of the committee today when
Charles B. Rangel of New York stepped aside in due to a number of ethics
violations. (Levin is Jewish; Rangel is not.)
2011: Agudas Achim in
Iowa City is scheduled to celebrate Shabbat Across America.
2011: In Rockville, MD,
Tikvat Israel is scheduled to explore the world the Jews of Ethiopia in a
program styled: “From Tesfa to Tikva: A Lens on Ethiopian Israelis.”
2011: Congregation Adat
Reyim is scheduled to celebrate a Shabbat Service Honoring Military Families.
2011: Several hundred
people gathered in central Tel Aviv today to protest government plans to deport
hundreds of children of foreign workers and illegal residents of Israel.
Speaking at the rally in Tel Aviv’s Gan Meir Park, famous Israeli actress Gila Almagor
said “these 400 children are considered illegal, but they are Israeli children
just like our children. They were born here, grew up here, and they don’t have
any other country,” adding that they must be given permanent status in Israel.
2011: Twenty-year-old
Jessica Feibler, a U.C. student has brought a federal civil rights lawsuit
against the University of California, Berkeley, saying the university did not
protect her from being attacked because she is Jewish. The case, filed in U.S. District
Court in Oakland, Calif., today against the university, the regents of the
University of California and their ranking officials, is the first of its kind.
2011(29th of
Adar I, 5771): Vivienne Harris, 89, who worked with her husband to found the
Jewish Telegraph, now a regional publishing powerhouse in northern England with
editions in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow, passed away. Harris
received an Order of the British Empire -- MBE -- for her professional and
charitable works and was still active as the company's financial director until
days before her death. Her son, Paul, the Telegraph's editor, said that "I
always said that she had three children -- myself, my brother and the Jewish
Telegraph. The paper was very much her baby, and she nurtured it like a child
for 60 years. Even in her 90th year, she was devoted to the company."
Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdon, Ron Prosor, said that Harris
"embodied what we should all be proud of: Jewish values, Zionistic
determination and motivation of someone who established the Jewish Telegraph
with her late husband with just the 10 fingers that she had, against all the
odds. A remarkable woman who I had the privilege of meeting and talking to.
It's a great loss (As reported by the Eulogizer)
2012: The AIPAC Policy
Conference is scheduled to begin in Washington, DC
2012: Jeremy Skidmore
(director) and the Designers of “New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De
Spinoza” are scheduled to take part in a “Talk Back” which is part of “a
month-long national conversation about Spinoza’s impact and legacy.”
2012: Rabbi Jeffery
Saks is scheduled to lead the first in a three-part mini-series, “Aganon’s
Eretz Yisrael” that examines the work of Nobel Prize Winner, S.Y. Agnon.
2012: Virginia’s Eric
Cantor, the House Majority Leader and the only Jewish Republican serving in the
U.S. House of Representatives endorsed Mitt Romney for president and said that
he is not interested in the vice-presidency.
2012(10th of
Adar): Ninety-seven-year-old Shmuel Tankus, who commanded Israel’s navy from
1954 until 1960 passed away today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4198215,00.html
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/64524/shmuel-tankus-97-former-israeli-navy-commander/
2012: President Barak
Obama addressed the AIPAC Policy Conference.
2013: Josh Sussman is
scheduled to host a Montreal Aliyah Fair this evening.
2013: Dr. Brian
Horowitz is scheduled to be the first speaker at today’s session of the a
day-long conference at Tulane University - “Jewish Music in New Orleans”
2013(22nd of
Adar, 5773): Sixty-eight-year-old Rabbi Menachem Froman died tonight at his
home in Tekoa in Gush Etzion, where 200 of his students and followers sang and
prayed instead of learning with him a weekly lesson in the mystical Zohar.
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=305321
2013: Pawel Frenkel,
who fought alongside Mordecai Anielewicz is to be commemorated today at an
event marking anniversary of the Jewish rebellion
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=7695
2014: Sandy, Larry and
Michael Levin, from suburban Chicago, are among those scheduled to attend the
final day of the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC.
2014: Emily Casden,
Coordinating Curator for “Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective” is
scheduled to participate in a Q & A following a screening of “The Art of
Spiegelman.”
2014: “Dancing in
Jaffa” and “An Evening of Yiddish Song” are scheduled to be shown at the 24th
Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The Historic 6th
& I Synagogue is scheduled to host “Judaism on Trial: The Barcelona
Disputation of 1263”
2014: The Library of
Congress is scheduled to host a screening of Regina, Diana Goo’s documentary
about Regina Jonas the first female Rabbi ordained in Germany who was murdered
at Auschwitz in 1944.
2014: Arab terrorists
hurled a firebomb today at the community of Beit El, in the Binyamin region,
north of Jerusalem but no one was hurt and no damage was caused.
2014(2nd of
Adar II, 5774): Fifty-nine Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, the Chicago native who “has
led Chabad in Illinois since 1977” died suddenly today.
2014(2nd of
Adar II, 5774): Nine-two-year-old Frances Calisch Rothenberg, “the
granddaughter of Edward N. Calisch of Temple Beth Ahabah passed away today.
2014: GW’s Rabin Chair
Forum and Middle East Forum and the Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars are scheduled to host a program about the
making of “JERUSALEM” a “film that tells the…story of Jerusalem through the viewpoints
of…Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
http://theschmooze.org/c/pdf/JerusalemGW_E3414.pdf
2014: YIVO is scheduled
to host “Jacob Glatstein: A Yiddish Genius in Anglicizing America.”
2015: Britain’s
advertising watchdog banned an Israeli government tourism advertisement for
suggesting that the Old City of Jerusalem is part of Israel today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-bans-ad-for-implying-jerusalems-old-city-part-of-israel/
2015: The Daily Mail reported today that “A
hillside house dating back to the early first century CE in northern Israel may
have been the Nazareth home where Jesus was raised, according to researchers.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/galilee-structure-may-be-jesus-boyhood-home/
2015(13th of
Adar, 5775): Fast of Esther
2015: In the evening,
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids has a “Pizza” Purim complete with costumes and the
traditional Megillah Reading
2016: Rabbi Kushner is
scheduled to speaking about “Learning Life from Painting” as an exhibition of
his paintings opens at Congregation Emanuel-El of San Francisco.
2016: Agudas Achim, in
Coralville, IA, is scheduled to host the 20th Annual Shabbat Across
North America.
2017(6th of
Adar, 5777): Parashat Terumah;
2017: “State of
Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” is scheduled to come to an end today
in New York City.
2017: Assemblyman Dov
Hikins tweeted photos tonight showing “headstones toppled in a Brooklyn Jewish
cemetery.”
2017: National Day of
Unplugging
http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/unplug/
2018: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Enlightenment
Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker,
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir by Irvin D. Yalom and The
Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian
Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem by Elisha Waldman
2018: Education
Minister Naftali Bennett announced that Gil Shwed, the CEO of Israeli
cybersecurity firm Check Point, has been awarded the Israel Prize in technology
and innovation”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gil-shwed
2018(17th of Adar,
5778): the San Francisco born son of Clayton Solomon, the founder of Tower Cut
Rate Drugs and “the former Annette Sockolov” gave birth to Russell Malcom
“Russ” Solomon, the founder of Tower Records.
2018: The American
Sepahrdi Federation is scheduled to present “Queen Esther’s Dilemma,” “a
musical by Samuel J. Bernstein inspired by the” Megillah Esther.
2018: In Ames, IA, home
of the ISU Cyclones, the Ames Jewish Congregation is scheduled to host a
Megiallah reading “and other fun activities” this morning.
2018: YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, American Jewish Historical
Society, Leo Baeck Institute & Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to
present “March Mash-Up” a family festival featuring The Gefilteria’s Liz Alpern
and Jeffrey Yoskowitz, singer Eléonore Biezunski, storyteller Shane Baker, and
the Yiddish puppet theater troupe Great Small Works.
2018: “Filmmaker and
writer Aviva Kempner, who is responsible for The Life and Times of Hank
Greenberg” and “Rosenwald” is scheduled to wear a red, white and blue button at
the Oscar ceremony reading “Let’s Love Our Kids More Than Our Guns!”
2018: The final
performance of “A Walk With Mr. Heifetz” which is based on performance by the
violinist Jashcah Heifitz at Ein Harold Kibbutz in 1926, is scheduled to take
place at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
2019: The Yeshiva
University Museum is scheduled to present “The Land of Israel – In Song”
featuring “Israeli singer Ariella Edvy” who “embarks on a musical journey
through Israel’s diverse sites and environments – from the Sea of Galilee to
the Dead Sea, from bustling cities to agricultural kibbutzim.”
2019: The 24th
East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host “The Last
Supper” and “Promise at Dawn” (La promesse de l’aube)
2019: As part of the
Jewish Book Festival, an evening with Robert Alter discussing his “translation
of the Hebrew Bible” with Raphael Zarum, the “Dean of the London School of
Jewish Studies.”
2019: At Book Passage
Marin, Matti Friedman is scheduled to discuss Spies of No Country, which
tells the story of “four Mizrachi Jewish spies under in Lebanon during the 1948
Arab-Israeli War.”
2019: In Washington,
DC, American University is scheduled to host “What’s Radical About Jewish
Feminism” in which “Professor Joyce Antler as interviews civil rights icon
Heather Booth and pioneering Jewish lesbian feminist Dr. Evelyn Torton Beck,
who are featured in Antler's new book, Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the
Women's Liberation Movement.”
2019: The Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines, Chabad of Ames, the ISU Department of History
and the Philosophy and Religious Studies at ISU are scheduled to host “The
Holocaust through the Eyes of a Child Survivor” an evening with Inge Auerbach
where she “shares her story as a Holocaust survivor who spent 3 years as a
young child in Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Auerbacher was
born in Kippenheim, Germany, survived Kristallnacht, and was deported with her
parents in 1942 to Terezin, where out of 15,000 children only about 1 percent
survived.”
2020: Adas Israel and
the Capital Jewish Museum are scheduled to host a dessert reception, film, and
panel discussion on confronting the environment of hate American Jews face
today with “Tom Gutherz, Senior Rabbi of Charlottesville’s Congregation Beth Israel,
and Doron Ezickson, ADL Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic/Midwest Division.”
2020: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “Hammenashen Bake for Chairty”
where students “bake Hamantashen to help raise money for the amazing work GIFT
do all year round and on Purim.”
2020: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host “Anti-Semitism: The Hate That Sill Won’t Die in the
US.”
2020: The Taube Center
for Jewish Studies at Stanford University is scheduled to host Elisheva
Baumgarten, the Prof. Yitzchak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies and professor in
the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry and the Department of History
as she lectures on “Learning from the Dead about the Living: Jewish Daily Life
in Medieval Northern Europe.”
2020: In Brookline, MA,
the Chai Center is scheduled to host a “Hamantashen Baking Workshop.”
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to present “Beyond the Exodus: The Haggadah’s Lessons for
Life” during which “Mark Gerson, author of The Telling: How Judaism’s
Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life, will plumb the text with
Senator Cory Booker.
2021: In Palm Beach
Gardens, FL, Cantorial Soloist Abbie Strauss is scheduled to lead the morning
minyan.
2021: The Jewish
Community Alliance of Southern Maine is scheduled to present “The Passover
Haggadah: A Biography – A Zoom talk with author Rabbi Vanessa Ochs.”
2021: The National JCC
Literary Consortium and the Atlanta History Center are scheduled to present
Tulane University history professor and award-winning author Walter Isaacson as
he discusses his latest work The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene
Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, an “account of how Nobel Prize
winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow
us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
2021: The UC Berkley
Center of Jewish Studies is scheduled to present Arun Viswanath as he talks about
his challenges in translating Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone into
Yiddish with Hebrew Bible translator Robert Alter.
2022: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture by Shirli Gilbert,
Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London, on “Wandering
Jews: Migration in Modern Jewish History.”
2022: “The Fight Over
‘Maus’ Is Part of a Bigger Cultural Battle in Tennessee” published today
described the decision of the McMinn Count School Board to remove the graphic
novel about the Holocaust from its eighth-grade curriculum.
2022: “Rabbi Labish
Becker, the executive director of Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella
organization of ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups, has raised more than $2 million
for Ukraine since the Russian invasion.”
2023: Starting “Paris
Boutique” is scheduled to be available for rent thanks to UK Jewish Film.
2023: In Boston, the
Emerson Colonial Theatre is scheduled to present The Simon & Garfunkel
Story” “a critically acclaimed
concert-style theatre show about two young Jewish boys from Queens, New York,
who went on to become the world’s most successful music duo of all time.”
2023: Hadassah Great
Plains is scheduled to host its second annual “Shabbat Zachor Havdalah.”
2023: In San Rafael,
CA, the Osher Family JCC is scheduled to host two Purim Parties.
2023: The Eden Tamir
Music Center is scheduled to present “Ensemble Millennium/Toscanini Quartet,
Ensemble in Residence and Friends.”
2023(11th of
Adar, 5783): Shabbat Zachor
2024: Vice President “Harris
is slated to meet with visiting war cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in Washington”
today.
2024: In Metairie, LA,
the Jewish Community is scheduled to host a Hamantaschen Baking Event.
2024: As March 4th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 150 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 ADL is scheduled the second and final
session of “Never Is Now.”
2025: As part of Jewish Book Week Locked Down
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Raquel Ukeles on “101 Treasures
from the National Library of Israel” a lecture by Ruth Franklin and David
Herman on “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” lecture by David Mikics and Liel
Leibovitz on “MAD Magazine” Warping America’s Brain” and Cary Nelson and Abe
Socher on “Mindless: What Happened to Universities?”
2025: Qesher is scheduled to present: “The Jews of Kurdistan: A Land of
Jewish Heritage, and Potential Reconciliation.”
2025: Mardi Gras, which the author of this blog
saw for the first time 62 years ago.
2025: In another session of the online lecture
series “To the Birds” attendees are schedule to read “Slip” by Y.D. Berkowitz
with Professor Avner Holtzman.
2025: The Sacramento Jewish Film is Festival is
scheduled to host “a Zoom chat about the film “Colleyville” with filmmaker Dani
Menken; live from the Manhattan, JCC
2025: At Boston’s Vilna Shul is scheduled to
host JWA CEO Judith Rosenbaum who will moderate a conversation about the power
of representation with State Senator Becca Rausch and Rabbi Lila Kagedan, along
with a retelling of Sirota’s life and story through film
2025: As March 4th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe, the reality is that
the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 513 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: JDC is scheduled to host an “Emergency
Briefing” this afternoon during which the staff will share further updates on
the evolving situation in Israel.
2026: As part of Jewish Book Week, Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Adam J. Silverstein on “Haman: The
True Story of a Villain.”
2026: While Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman,
the Pennsylvania born Jewish son of Arline and Joseph Schwarzman earned a
relatively meager salary of $350,000, he “had a particularly great year,
reaping $1.24 billion in compensation last year, thanks to the asset management
titan’s record profits.”
2026: “New York City’s public law school is set
to hold an event today that brands the Hamas terror tunnel network as
“decolonial land use,” highlighting how “resistance” to Israel is packaged in
some academic settings.”
2026: As March 4th begins in Israel, President
Trump has denied the claim by the
Secretary of State and others that “Israel dragged the US into war with Iran and
said he ordered the attacked because “he felt Iran was going to attack first. (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)
