November 1
1179:
Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of
all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come
as no surprise that two years later, in 1182 Phillip confiscated all of the property
belonging to the Jews as he banished them from his kingdom. The Jews would seek
refuge in Champagne which was not a part of France at this time.
1210: King John, brother of Richard the
Lionhearted, began imprisoning the Jews of England. As the conditions worsened in England, many
Jews sought to flee the kingdom. King
John had no intention of losing this exploitable economic commodity. So he
jailed his Jews rather than lose them.
By the end of the century, the English monarchs would have stripped the
Jews of their wealth and would send them packing.
1223: Louis VIII of France issued an
ordinance that prohibited his officials from recording debts owed to Jews, thus
reversing the policies set by his father Philip II Augustus. Usury (lending
money with interest) was illegal for Christians to practice. According to
Church law it was seen as a vice in which people profited from others'
misfortune (like gambling), and was punishable by excommunication, a severe
punishment. However since Jews were not Christian, they could not be
excommunicated, and thus fell in to a legal grey area which secular rulers
would sometimes exploit by allowing (or requesting) Jews to provide usury
services, often for personal gain to the secular ruler, and to the discontent
of the Church. Louis VIII's prohibition was one attempt at resolving this legal
problem which was a constant source of friction in Church and State courts.
Twenty-six barons accepted, but
Theobald IV (1201–53), the powerful Count of Champagne, did not, since he had
an agreement with the Jews that guaranteed him extra income through taxation.
Theobald IV would become a major opposition force to Capetian dominance, and
his hostility was manifest during the reign of Louis VIII. For example, during
the siege of Avignon, he performed only the minimum service of 40 days, and
left home amid charges of treachery.
1290: Final expulsion
of the Jews from England. On July 18,
1290, Edward I (England)
pressured by his barons, the Church, and possibly his mother, announced the
expulsion of all the Jews. By November approximately 4000 had fled. The Jews
had to pay their own passage, mostly to France. They were allowed to take
movables (i.e. clothing). A number of Jews were robbed and cast overboard
during the voyage by the ship captains. The Jews did not return to England
until 1659. This was the first national expulsion of the Jews. England was one
of the only centralized and national monarchies of that time.
1348: The Jews are
caught in power struggle among contending Christian factions in Spain when the
anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro because they are
serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
1349: Duke of Brabant
ordered the execution of all Jews in Brussels. He accused them of poisoning the
wells.
1478: The Holy See
issued a Papal Bull empowering Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain “to appoint
three bishops…with complete jurisdiction over heretics and their
accomplices.” This simple statement
marked the start of the infamous Spanish Inquisition.
1503: Start of the
papacy of Julius II who in 1512 refused to sell a copy of the Hebrew Bible
belonging to the Vatican for an amount valued in the 19th century at
£20,784. Why Julius turned down the
offer when he needed the money in his fight with King Louis XII of France is
not known.
1504: The most
important and unfortunate decree was that made by King Vladislav today: “ …and
we grant to the citizens the favour that neither we nor future kings of Bohemia
will bring more Jews into this city, as the Jews have been given to your city
by our forefathers for your benefit. We therefore confirm in writing and with
our royal powers in Bohemia that your city and its citizens have the right to
expel the Jews from your city whenever you like without any hindrance from our
side or from future kings of Bohemia.” In 1504, the citizens of Pilsen took
this ‘glorious privilege’ literally and expelled all Jews from the city without
taking account of the income they would lose from the Jewish taxes.
1512: “The ceiling of
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel” which according to Rabbi Benjamin Blech, an
associate professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and the author of The
Sistine Secrets: Unlocking the Codes in Michelangelo's Defiant Masterpiece is
“actually a ‘bridge’ between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish faith”
was “exhibited to the public for the
first time” today.
1519: Leo X, one of the
Medici popes, issued a bull “in which he remitted the Jewish hearth and banking
taxes, granted amnesty for all offenses committed by Jews, confirmed all the
privileges and advantages granted to them by his predecessors and prescribed
that a Jewish offender should be arraigned before qualified judges and should
condemned only on evidence given by trustworthy witnesses.”
1671: English
politician, diplomat and ally of Cromwell Walter Strickland who served as part
of the St. John Mission that originally “acted as the representative of the
Long Parliament in Holland” and which was “instructed to study the Jewish
Question” and “in all probability entered into negotiations with the Jews of
Amsterdam” passed away today.
1706(24th of Cheshvan):
Rabbi Chaim ben Benjamin Asael of Salonika, author of Sam Hayyai, passed away
1750(13th of
Cheshvan, 5511): Mordecai Gomez, a member of one of North America’s most
prominent Jewish mercantile families, died in New York City. According to a
notice a few days later in the New-York Gazette, or Weekly Post-Boy, the 62
year old Gomez was “esteemed a fair Trader, and charitable to the Poor” who
passed away “with an unblemish’d Character;” and who would be “deservedly
lamented” by his large family and all his acquaintances.[1] Details of his
will, dictated earlier in the year, underscore some of the material success
that Mordecai Gomez had achieved in the colony. In addition to involvement in
transatlantic trade, he operated two snuff mills and owned numerous properties
on Manhattan Island, as well as a significant number of slaves. At the same
time, he was deeply committed to Judaism, instructing that he “be buried in the
Jews Burying ground according to Jewish Custom” and leaving his treasured Torah
and silver ornaments to one of his sons.[2] While he might be considered
unusual in terms of the degree of his financial success, Mordecai Gomez’s life
and the history of his family’s settlement in New York was in other ways quite
typical of the Jewish experience in the Atlantic world.
1768: Maksym Zaliznyak,
the Ukrainian leader who was responsible for the Jews at Uman earlier in the
year was deported to Bilhorod for leading a rebellion (not for killing Jews).
1780: Esther Mordecai
because Esther Mordecai Russell today when she married Dr. Philip Moses
Russell, a Jewish Surgeon's Mate, who received a special commendation from
General George Washington for his services at Valley Forge during the winter of
1777-1778 in a ceremony performed by her father Rabbi Mordecai Moses Mordecai.
1783: James Madison,
the author of the First Amendment which guaranteed separation of church and who
as president appoint a Jew to a diplomatic post, completed his service as a
delegate from Virginia to the Congress of Confederation which was the national
government of the United States.
1784: Birthdate of
Rabbi Gotthold Salomon “the first Jew to translate the TaNaCh into High
German.”
1789: Today, following
the death of his first wife Elkaley Cohen in 1785, Chazan Gershom Mendez Seixas
married Hannah Manuel whose children included David Seixas “the founder of the
Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Philadelphia” and “ Joshua
Siexas, “a learned Hebraist and text-book writer and a professor at Andover.”
1793(26 of Cheshvan,
5554): Forty-two year old Lord George Gordon the Scottish noble and MP who
converted to Judaism passed away today.
http://jewishmag.com/82mag/lordgordon/lordgordon.htm
1798: In Savannah, GA,
Abraham de Lyon and his wife gave birth to their daughter Hannah Lyon.
1809: Twenty year old
Zipporah Hart, the daughter of Jacob Naphtali Hart and Leah Nathan married
Eleazar S. Lazaurs today.
1813: Benjamin
D’Israeli, the grandfather of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, signed his last
will and testament.
1817: Birthdate of
Marseilles journalist Joseph Cohen who wrote about the Jews of Algeria and who was one of the editors of the first French Jewish weekly, "La Vérité
Israélite," in which he published his famous work, "Les
Déicides," an investigation into the life of Jesus, in which he attacks
the originality of the moral teaching of the Gospels, and defends the
Pharisees.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4483-cohen-joseph
1819: The Privy Council of Saxony ordered the expulsion of Joseph
Friedlander.
1826: Joseph Abrahams married Ann Hannah at the Western Synagogue today.
1824(10th of Cheshvan, 5585): Strasburgh, Germany native Joseph
Andrews the teacher and merchant who married Sallie Salomon in 1794 passed away
today in Philadelphia
1831: John Solomon Harris married Rosetta Phillips at the Western Synagogue
today.
1832: Michael
Alexander, the Prussian born Jew who moved to England and eventually became an
Anglican was ordained today as a priest in the Church of England.
1835: In Hamburg, Moses
Nathan Levy, the son of Jette and Nathan Levy married Sophie Frederike Hermann,
the mother of Julius and Brunette Levy.
1835(9th of
Cheshvan, 5596): Seventy-eight year old Marks Lazarus the Charleston, SC born
son of Sarah Long and Michael Lazarus, the husband of Rachel Lazarus and a
veteran of the Revolution who rose to the rank of sergeant .-major passed away
today.
1836: In London, Jane
and Isaac Salaman gave birth to Myer Salaman, the husband of Sarah Salaman
1839: In Soulzmatt,
Rabbi Seligman Loeb and his wife gave birth to Isidore Loeb the French born
scholar and historian who was the editor of Revue des Études Juives, the
main literary product of Société des Etudes Juives
1840: Barnett Hyams
married Elizabeth Davis at the Great Synagogue today.
1843: Future French
general Bernard Abraham “entered the École Polytechnique at the age of
nineteen.”
1844: In Brody, Josef
Bodek and Henriette (Scheindel) Bodek gave birth to Dr. Arnold Heinrich Bodek.
1845: In New Yor, Rabbi
Samuel Myer Isaacs and Jane Symmons gave birth to Isaac Samuel Isaacs, the
husband of Estelle Isaacs, the son-in-law of Jacob Symmons and the father of Isabelle
Estelle Levy.
1851: Birthdate of
Parisian composer Andre Alphonse Wormers who was awarded the Prix de Rome in
1875.
1853: Birthdate of
Florence Salaman, the wife of Oscar Henry Behrens and mother of Hilda and Dora
Behrens.
1855: In Ivančice
(Eibenschütz), Moravia, Joachim Adler, “a physician who died of typhoid fever
in 1857 and his wife Franciska gave birth to “musicologist and writer Guido
Adler.
1857: In New York,
Samuel Hillel Isaacs and Miriam Hadassah Philipowski gave birth to Jeannette
Isaacs Davis, the wife of Benjamin Davis and public school teacher in Jersey
City who moved to Chicago where she held a number of positions including
principal of the Sabbath School of the Southside Hebrew Congregation and
Director of the Jewish Home for the Aged while serving as editor of the Bazaar
Bell and contributing to Bernheimer’s “The Russian Jew in America.”
https://archive.org/details/russianjewinunit00bern
1858: Esther Lewis, the
daughter of Elizabeth and Jacob Philipson and her husband Alexander Lewis gave
birth to Jacob Frankel Philipson Lewis.
1859: Birthdate of Lodz
native Marcus Gale, who in 1882 came to the United States where he settled in
Oregon where he was a farmer and store owner.
1860: In Philadelphia
R.A.F. Penrose Sr. and Sarah Penrose gave birth to Senator Boise Penrose who in
1911 described “discrimination by the Russian Government against American
Hebrews as an assault on American principles and traditions” and assured a delegation
of Jews from Philadelphia “that he agreed with their contention that the
violation of their treaty rights as American citizens was not a proper subject
for an arbitration tribunal but should result in the passing of a resolution by
Congress denouncing the present treaty” with Russia.
1861: Ellis C. Strouss,
who rose from the rank of Private to the rank of Captain, began his three and
half years of service with the 57th Regiment.
1861: General George B
McClellan made general in chief of Union armies. McClellan would actually serve two terms as
commanding General of the Army of the Potomac.
A great organizer, he seemed to have had an aversion to actually waging
war. His failure to win victories and
his over-inflated sense of self-worth brought him on a collision course with
President Lincoln who fired him in 1862.
Eventually, McClellan, who was a popular figure made his way to New York
where he worked August Belmont, the Jewish financier. Belmont would provide the financial backing
that led to McClellan’s nomination for President on the Democrat Party ticket
in 1864.
1862: In Prussia, Giita
Rubenstein and Hersh Meyer Levitan gave birth to the State Treasurer of
Wisconsin Solomon Levitan the husband of Dora Tauba Andelson who in 1880 came
to the United States where he farmed and worked as a peddler before opening
stores in various Wisconsin towns – New Glarus, Belleville, Blanchardville and Madison – a became active in Republican
party politics attending the national conventions in 1912, 1916 and 1920 and
being elected as the State Treasurer in 1922 and 1924;
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS9829
1862: Philadelphian
Benjamin B. Goodman began serving as First Lieutenant with Company G of the 174th
Regiment.
1862: Philadelphians
Jacob Loeb, Samuel Loeb, William Love, Isaac Long, Joel Straus, Solomon
Staruse, William S. Strause, William T. Strause began serving with Company H of
the 151st Regiment.
1864: In Galicia, Lena
Malberg and Jacob Sobel realtor and builder Leon Sobel and the husband of Adeline Levinson who at the
age of 21 came to United States where he
established his own furniture business and was Treasurer of the Powers-Kennedy
Construction company that working on building the subway system while serving
as one of the organizers and founders of the Isaac Elchanan Yeshiva and
donating for an auditorium at the Jerusalem Orphan Asylum.
1864: Birthdate of
Hungarian mathematician Ludwig Schlesinger who served as an assistant professor
at the University of Bonn before becoming a “professor of mathematics at the
University of Klausenburg” in 1902/
1864: John Hay,
President Lincoln’s private secretary wrote a letter to Myer Isaacs that was a
response to his letter of October 26 in which he warned the President that a
group of New York Jews with whom he met were not leaders of the Jewish
community and could not deliver the Jewish vote. In his letter, Hay assured
Isaacs that when Lincoln met with “certain gentlemen of the Hebrew faith” they
did not promise to deliver the Jewish vote nor did the President offer them any
inducement to do so. In other words,
Isaacs was either misinformed or worrying without cause.
1865: In Frankfurt am
Main, Rabbi Moses Jesaias Cohn and Rosa Cohn gave birth to Simon Cohn the
husband of Sarah Cohn
1870(7th of
Cheshvan, 5631): Eighty-one year old German mathematician Ephraim Salomon Unger
who was a Professor at the University of Erfut passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14580-unger-ephraim-solomon
1870(7th of
Cheshvan, 5631): Ninety-seven year old Naphtali Phillips the second child and
first son of Jonas Phillips and Rebecca Mendz Machado who married Esther Siexas
one year after the death of his first wife Rachel and became the publisher of
the National Advocate passed away today.
1872: In Bad Konig,
Deutschland, Regina and Moses Herzfeld gave birth to future Bronx resident Leo
Herzfeld, the husband of Sadie Herzfeld.
1872:”A General
Conference of the Jews” is taking place in Brussels. A delegation of Romanian Jews has described
the conditions under which they are living.
The delegation reported that the Romanian Jews had abandoned their idea
of moving en masse to the United States and instead were planning on
petitioning the Romanian government to grant them full civil and political
rights.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E05E6DB1439EF34BC4A53DFB7678389669FDE
1873: A report
published today describing the changing state of affairs in the newly united
Kingdom of Italy. The Jews have been among the most ardent supporters of the
new government which has removed the onerous restrictions under which they been
living. For example Jews can now own
real estate in areas that were formally under Papal Control. This was a right the Catholic Church had
denied them despite repeated petitions for change. Several of the editors of the leading
publications are Jewish and they lend their support to the new government. According to some, “the Jews…have grown rich
in Italy” because they have not hesitated to take advantage of their new
opportunities.
1874: In Savanna, Harry
Weiskopf of Jacksonville, Florida, married Marie Klauber of Amsterdam, NY.
1877: Gilbert and
Sullivan’s “The Sorcerer” in which soprano Giulia Warwick (born Julia
Ehrenberg) would play “Aline” did not open today as originally planned.
1878: A lease was
obtained for a building today and provisions were made to convert it into the
Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1879: Acting on behalf
of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites, Simon Wolf has presented the
Secretary of State with a memorandum urging the United States to withhold
recognition of Romania’s independence until that country grants the Jews full civil
and religious and civil liberty as provided for by The Treat of Berlin.
1879: Birthdate of
Oskar Barnack who invented the Leica 35 mm camera which was then mass produced
by Ernst Leitz. Letiz would take
advantage of the economic power and world-wide reach of his company that was
based on Barnack’s invention to mount the rescue effort of German Jews known as
the Leica Freedom Train.
http://archive.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4975_52.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxGbNXt_Is
1880: In Kaunas, Lithuania, Shmuel Tzvi
Hirsdansky and Dobra Michla Anghenitzky Minkowski gave birth to New York City
high school principal Simon Hirsdansky , who in 1890 came to the United States
where he earned degrees from NYU, CCNY and Columbia and raised two daughters
with his wife “Dr. Sara Hirsdandsky, a practicing psychiatrist who was an
active member of the American Jewish Congregation and
1880: In Kutno, Poland, cattle-dealer and innkeeper and Moszek Asz and
Frajda Malka Widawaksi gave birth to Szalom Asz who gained famed novelist and
playwright Sholem Asch (pronounced shō'lum ăsh) who first wrote in Hebrew but switched to
Yiddish. His writings were well received,
and he was quite popular. He moved to
the United States before World War I and his popularity continued to grow. He became a citizen in the 1920’s. However, during the late 1930’s and 1940’s he
wrote a trilogy of novels that dealt with Christianity. The works were well received by the general
public, but the Yiddish world rejected the works because of the subject
matter. The Forward refused to publish any more of his writings. In the
1950's, Asch settled in a suburb of Tel Aviv.
After his death in 1957, his home in Israel was turned into a Sholem
Asch Museum. The following quotes are a
sample of his wit and insights into the human condition. “To dream of the
person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." “Writing
comes more easily if you have something to say.” “The lash may force men to
physical labor; it cannot force them to spiritual creativity." “The sword
conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers forever!”
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Asch_Sholem
1880: It was reported
today that in his most recent sermon Dr. J.P Newman of New York’s Central
Methodist Church spoke on the “Impending Danger to Our Public Schools.” He praised the current public schools as
places where “the children of the Christina, Jews and infidel meet…on an equal
footing without undergoing sectarian instruction.” The teaching of religious doctrine should be
left to parochial schools paid for by the churches. (The public school system, free from
religious indoctrination would prove to be a boon to the waves of Jewish
immigrants from Eastern Europe that would soon be washing up on America’s
shores.)
1881: In Orwell, Ohio,
Abram and Mollie (Bloch) Polsky gave birth to Bert A. Polsky the Akron
businessman and community leader whose memory is honored annually by the
presentation of “the Polsky Humanitarian Award to individuals who best
exemplify Bert Polsky's dedication and contributions to humanitarian causes in
the greater Akron area.”
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/author/louis-i-louis-israel-dublin-1882-1969
https://www.insurancehalloffame.org/louis-i-dublin-simple
1883: Birthdate of
Minsk native Lesser Paley, the husband of Zelda Paley, who in 1898 came to
Rochester, NY where became a successful businessman and leader of the Jewish
community.
1884: In Philadelphia,
Blanche Langsdorf, the daughter of Henrietta and Mark Loeb, and Isadore
Langsdorf, the son of Jacob and Babette Langsdorf gave birth to Jacob Loeb
Langsdorf, “a travel agent and cigar maker” who was the husband of “Louise
Silberman Langsdorf” with whom he had two children, Benjamin and Blanche.
1884(NS): In Berdychiv,
Ukraine, Russian Empire, “Menakhem Mendl Kahanovich, a smoked-fish merchant at
Astrakhan on the Volga River” and his wife Leah gave birth to Pinchus
Kahanovich who wrote under the pseudonym “Der Nister” and who
at the age of 65 in the Gulag after having been arrested during Stalin’s
purge that was designed to wipe out Jewish authors and the culture that had
produced them.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Der_Nister
1885: In Russia, David
and Esther Grabelsky gave birth to Boris
Grabelsky the husband f Bethsheba Friedberg who in 1904 came to the United
States where he was a member of the board of directors Keren Hayesod and
president of Dos Yiddishe Folk.
1885: Birthdate of
industrial chemist, Leonard Levy the great-grandson of Solomon Bennet, the
“Demonstrator in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and Major in the
Royal Engineers who co-authored Radium and other Radioactive Elements
and Gas Recorders.
1885: “An English
Hebrew Prayer Book” published today described the recent decision of the rabbis
who had been meeting in Baltimore to create a prayer book that included a
mixture of prayers in English and Hebrew, some of which are traditional and
some of which are original. There are
numerous texts like this in German, but “only one or two in English.”
1886: “Caught in a
Corner,” a play featuring a performance by “Mr. Curtis whose forte is to
caricature” modern Germans, is scheduled to open an 8 week run at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre in Manhattan.
1886: Birthdate of author Hermann Broch, writer
and refugee from the Nazis. Born in Austria, Broch was imprisoned in a
concentration camp by the Nazis in 1938.
While in the camp he began writing one of his greatest works The
Death of Virgil. The book would be
published in 1945. Several prominent
authors including James Joyce intervened on Broch’s behalf and he was released
by the Nazis. He came to the United
States where he continued writing until his death in 1951.
1887: It was reported today that of the 25,788 Jewish “immigrants who
land at Castle Garden during the year, 18,197 remained” in New York and “16
were returned” to Europe “as paupers by the Commissioners of Emigration.
1887: It was reported today that the United Hebrew Charities, under the
presidency of Henry Rice, had provided assistance to 17,385 Jews living in New
York City
1888: It was reported today that Rabbi A.S. Isaacs and Joseph Arthur Levy
addressed those who attended the consecration of new synagogue and school at
186 West 80th Street in NYC.
The school will offer instruction for Hebrew for students of all ages at
no charge.
1889(7th of Cheshvan, 5650): Sixty-five year old August Henry
Edinger, the well-known wine merchant who came to United States in 1849 from
his native Worms-on-the-Rhine and was a patron of Mount Sinai Hospital, the
Montefiore Home and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, passed away today.
1889: The following notice appeared in the New York papers today:
“Siegelstein – Bubis – At Mayor’s office, Oct. 13, 1888 and at the church, June
9, 188. Pierre Siegelstein to Mary
Bubis. Pierre Siegelstein is now
studying medicine.” (Read tomorrows TDIJ for details)
1890: Jacob H. Schiff expressed his support for the anti-Tammany forces
in the upcoming municipal elections when he said that “he was heart and soul
for Mr. Francis M. Scott and the rest of the Municipal League Ticket” because
he thought that Scott was “just the kind of Mayor the people of New York
needed.”
1890: Birthdate of Vienna native and Austrian director Otto Kreisler
whose films included “The Jewess of Toledo.”
1890: As New Yorkers prepared to vote for Mayor, Jesse Seligman expressed
his support for Francis M. Scott saying that “I consider the Tammany Hall
organization rotten to the core and I see no reason why…Tammany Hall should not
be overthrown.”
1890: As of this date
another 1,982 Russian immigrants had arrived in Philadelphia, PA, which was an
increase from 694 during the same period last year.
1890: “MR. FROUDE ON
LORD BEACONSFIELD'S RELIGION” published today provided the view James Anthony
Froude, the author of a biography on Disraeli, feels that the former British
Prime Minister had on this subject.
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/1st-november-1890/9/mr-froude-on-lord-beaconsfields-religion
1891: In Wilmington,
NC, Leopold and Johanna Bluenthenthal gave birth to Arthur “Bluey” Bluethenthal
the Princeton All-American football player who died during WW I while flying
with the Lafayette Escadrille.
1891: As of today,
62,574 Jews came to New York this year in Steerage, 54,194 of whom were from
Russia.
1891: “In Weld County,
Colorado, Philip and Anna (Shames) Quiat” gave birth to Denver University Law
School Graduate and Colorado State Senator Ira Louis Quiat the husband of
Esther Greenblatt.
1891: It was reported
today that of the 239,000 Jews who came to the United States in the last six
years, 90% came to New York and 70% of them have remained in the city.
1894: Czar Alexander
III who implemented the anti-Semitic May Laws of 1882 and sought to deal with
the Jews through his one-third, one-third, one-third policy died today.
1894: Nicholas II
becomes Czar after the death of Alexander III.
Nicholas was the last Czar. He
was an incompetent reactionary. He was
also an anti-Semite.
1894: Having been
finally given permission to speak out, Louise Dreyfus told her brother-in-law
Mathieu about the charges leveled against her husband which led to Mathieu
Dreyfus becoming the leading architect of the Dreyfus Defense.
1894: The French Army high command announced that it would proceed with a
formal court-martial with Dreyfus as the defendant.
1895: According to a summary published today, the United Hebrew Charities
collected $144,539.90 from all sources and spent $138,895.11 to provide
services
1895: It was reported today that 27,065 Jewish immigrants had arrived in
New York City this year as compared with 16, 381 who come in 1894.
1895: As of today, there are 300,000 Jews living in New York City
1895: The City Magistrate of Essex Market Police Court “dismissed the
charges of extortion brought against Max Sanftman, an agent for the Hebrew
Branch of the Anti-Vice Society, Barney Silverman” a restaurant owner whose
wife had been arrested based on information provided by Sanftman.
1895:
Ludovic Trarieux, a Dreyfusard who was
the founding president of the League of Human and Civil Rights completed his
term as Minister of Justice.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/15/archives/adviser-on-laundry.html?searchResultPosition=1
1896: Joseph Jacobs, the editor of Macmillan’s Jewish Library is reported
to be in the United States so that he can deliver a series of lectures during
the upcoming meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women.
1897: The first of what would be a flood of 2,079 immigrants arrived in
Philadelphia.
1898: Professor Richard Gotheil, a Professor of Oriental Languages at
Columbia addressed a meeting of the West Side Zion Society where he spoke about
events at the Zionist Conference which he attended at Basel last August.
1898: Based on reports published today, the heat has taken its toll on
the Kaiser and his wife during their visit to Palestine. They have cancelled their trip to Jericho and
will be returning to Germany sooner than expected. Since nearly 40 horses have
died from the heat, the Kaiser has decided to return to Haifa from Jaffa by
sea.
1898: Twenty-five year old Kate Hart, “a devout Roman Catholic” who fell
in love Charles Mundag, “a devout Jew” and married him five years ago despite
the opposition of her family burned herself to death after her family made
overtures of reconciliation.
1898: According to a summary of the report of the United Hebrew Charities
published today, the society raised $133,107.12 and spent $120,540 on providing
services to the city’s needy Jews.
1898: Leopold Lederer is being held in the Tombs charged with having
burned down his home in August, 1894 and Abraham Zucker is being held in the
Tombs on charges of setting fire to his dry goods store on the Corner of 41st
Street and 9th Avenue.
1898: Today marked the end of a 12 month period during which 2,079 Jewish
immigrants arrived in Philadelphia.
1899(28th of Cheshvan, 5660): Moses Bruhl, who has been in the
jewelry business for 46 years, passed away today. He came to the United States in 1854 at the
age of 18 and became a noted philanthropist as well as a successful
businessman.
1899: J. Charles Wechsler and Dr. M.J. Burstain presented plans for the
proposed Emanuel Hospital and Dispensary which will serve Jews from Galicia,
Austria and Hungary living on the East Side to the State Board of Charities
today.
1899: As of today, the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society is providing
direct care for “876 children ranging in age from three to sixteen years” of
whom 534 are boys.
1899: Isaac Stern, Chairman of the Executive Board of Mount Sinai
Hospital and President Isaac Wallach of Mount Sinai Hospital expressed their
opposition to the construction of a new hospital for which, according to them,
there is no real support.
1900: The Executive Committee of the sound money parade, which will be
attended by Oscar S. Straus met tonight to make final arrangements for
tomorrow’s event.
1900: Isidor Straus is scheduled to be one of the speakers at tonight’s
meeting of “the independent voters and Gold Democrats of the Fourteenth
District at the Cercle Music Hall.
1901: “The income of the” American Union of Hebrew Congregations “during
the fiscal year ending” today “was $68, 463.79.”
1902(1st of Cheshvan, 5663): Parshat Noach; Rosh Chodesh
Cheshvan
1902: “The Jewish Year Book” published today provided a description of
“the fourth issue of the American Jewish Year Book, edited by Cyrus
Adler” which “is largely devoted to information concerning National Jewish
organizations, lists of important events, dedications of synagogues and other
public buildings together with certain special articles.”
1903: Eighty-five year old Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian
Theodor Mommsen “who strongly opposed anti-Semitism” and wrote a pamphlet in
which he opposed the views of Heinrich von Treitschke “who popularized the
phrase "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" ("The Jews are our
misfortune!"), which was adopted as a motto by the Nazi publication Der
Stürmer several decades later passed away today.
1904:
Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach, a
Jewish gangster, met with Richie Fitzpatick in an attempt to decide which one
of them would lead Monk Eastman Gang. During the meeting, Firzpatrick was shot
to death by one of Kid Twist’s henchmen.
1905: This evening in Kiev, after the Cossacks had clashed with “the
populace that had seized the Town Hall, “the Jewish quarter was sacked.”
1905: As revolutionary violence swept parts of Russia, “there were
anti-Jewish demonstrations today at Kherson” in the Ukraine.
1905: “In fighting between toughs and Jews on Dalnitskaya Street” in
Odessa, “thirty-seven persons were killed and eighty-one were wounded seriously
enough to be taken to the hospital.
1905: “A dispatch sent from Odessa attributes today’s outbreaks there”
including the attacks on the Jews “to the instigation of the disarmed and
disbanded police.
1905: In New York City, Abraham and Bluma Postal gave birth to Bernard
Postal, journalist, author and the co-author “with Jesse and Roy Silver of The
Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports who was married to Bella Posta.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/BernardPostal.htm
1906: “For several minutes shouts for the "next Cabinet
officer," the waving of American flags, and continued handclapping and
cheering saluted Oscar S. Straus when he passed along the aisle to his place on
the stage of Jacob Adler's Grand Street theatre” tonight at Republican mass
meeting.
1907 Today, Franz “Kafka was hired at the Assicurazioni Generali, an
insurance company, where he worked for nearly a year.”
1907: Birthdate of Elimelekh-Shimon Rimalt, the native of Galicia who
served in the Knesset and as the Minister of Postal Services.
1908: “At the annual meeting of the contributors to the Montefiore Home
for Incurables and Chronic Invalids, at 138th Street and Broadway,” this “morning.
Jacob H. Schiff, its President, resented the suggestion made by Uriah Herrmann
of the Beth Israel Hospital that Montefiore ought to give preference to
incurable patients in other hospitals over patients on the waiting list of
Montefiore Home itself.”
1909: It was reported today that the weeklong meeting of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis will open on the evening of November 9 in New
York City.
1909(17th of Cheshvan 5670): Abram Hirschberg passed away
today.
1909: In New York, Morris Gintzler, the Hungarian born son of Emile and
Saly Gintzler and his wife Rose Gintzler gave birth to Selma Ruth Gintzler who
became Selma Ruth Klineberg when she married Otto Klineberg.
1910: In Cleveland, OH, photographer and movie theatre manager Louis Milk
and Mollie Morris gave birth to Louise Morris
Wilk, the Hunter College alum and wife of Seymour Levy who gained for being “part
of a study to understand how their genetic makeup led to their good physical
and cognitive health during extremely long lives…” (As reported by Richard
Sandomir)
1910: Birthdate of Polish native John “Jack” Grossman, “a three-sports
star” at Rutgers during the 1930’s after which he played professional football
with the NFL Brooklyn Dodger and “move to Latin where her played professional
baseball and soccer
1910: Archeologist Max von Oppenheim, “a member of the Oppenheim banking
dynasty” continued to work in Cairo as a diplomat until 1910 when he was
dismissed from the diplomatic service with the rank of Ministerresident today
1911(10th of Cheshvan, 5672): Four month old Salomon Maurtis
Hartog, the son of Daniel Joseph Hartogh and Estelle Celine Abrahams passed
away today in Paramaribo, Suriname
1912: In Munster, Germany, Jonas and Selma Palut gave birth Wolf Gunther Plaut,
“the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades.”
1913(1st of Cheshvan, 5674): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh
Cheshvan
1913: Mendel Bellis fainted today during his trial today in Kiev where he
is charged with murder of Andrew Yushinsky.
1913 At today’s trial of Mendel Bellis, “one of the principal medical
experts, Dr. Bekhtereff, asserted on the witness stand that the murder “of
Andrew Yushinsky ”was the work of alcoholics or epileptic and that it was
impossible to attribute a religious character to the crime.”
1914(12th of Cheshvan, 5675): During WW I, 15 year old
“Midshipman Vivian George Edward S. Schreiber, HMS Monmouth, RN, died today.”
1914: Birthdate of Rabbi Moshe (Moses) Teitelbaum Chasidic Rebbe and the world leader of the
Satmar Hasidim, which is believed to be the largest Chasidic community in the
world, with some 100,000 followers.
1914: Birthdate of Sofia Cosma, the native of Latvia “who defied long
odds to rebuild her career after seven years in Soviet prison camps.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/22/local/la-me-sofia-cosma-20110222
1914: “Immigration” published today provides the views of Edward A. Ross
on how the World War will affect population movement including a prediction
that “the possible alleviation of the status of the Jew in Russia” will lead to
a decrease in their “outflow” from western Asia.
1914: Today’s “City Brevities” column includes a description of an
upcoming meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
1914: “Finds Russian Jews Aflame As Patriots” published today described
the study by Charles H. Sherrill of the patriotism of Russian Jews who are
rallying to the Russian flag in the present war” and its impact on Jews living
in the United States.
1915: The list of the officers of the Independent Order Free Sons of
Israel published today included Grand Master – Emil Tusing; Grand Treasurer –
Benjamin Blumenthal; Grand Secretary – Abraham Blumenthal; Grand Secretary –
Abraham Hafer; Deputy Grand Masters – Solon J. Liebeskind, Henry Jacobs and
Adolph Pike; Counsel Maurice B. Blumenthal, the former Deputy Attorney General
who said that “The Jews of America are first, last and all the time Americans.”
1915: It was reported today that Joseph Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the
British Empire has told his co-religionists in London that the Jewish leaders
of Petrograd had expected a million pounds ($5,000,000) from the British Jews
to help deal with the privations of the World War but had only received
$300,000.
1915: In seeking to show his support for women getting the vote, Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise was quoted to as having asked the question, “In the face of
this great calamity of war, how can men say that government would be made worse
by the participation of women?”
1915: “A general congress of American Jews to consider methods of
assisting their co-religionists in the war zones” called for by The American
Jewish Committee and its President, Louis Marshall, was scheduled to begin
today in Washington, DC.
1915: A contest sponsored by the Federation of American Zionists that
will award a student “in any college or university in the United States or
Canada” “for the best original essay on some phase of Jewish life and culture
in Palestine” judged by Julian W. Mack, Felix Frankfurter and Richard
Gottheil is scheduled to close out today
1916: In Baltimore, MD, John and Gladys Putzel gave birth to Lewis
Putzel, the husband of Emily Frankel Putzel.
1916:
Arnold Schönberg “completes the Four
Songs for Voice and Orchestra, op. 22.”
1916: The Ottoman
Jewish Union was founded with aim of fostering friendly relations between Jews
of different countries and the Ottomans, as well as closer association of the
Ottoman Jews with the other nationalities in Turkey.
1916: A letter which
was triggered by the anti-Semitic writings that appeared in Psychology of
War by U.S. Army Captain LeRoy indicating the favorable attitude of the War
Department as it pertains to the quality of Jewish soldiers “was given out at
the White House executive offices today.”
1917: W.T. Massey,
British correspondent with the British army fighting in Palestine transmitted a
dispatch headlined “Beersheba Taken In Night Charge.” According to him
Australasian Cavalrymen dismounted to storm defenses held by Germans and Turks.
The infantry cleared the way, tearing down wire entanglements with their bare
hands. At the same time, over four
hundred Turkish soldiers were captured in fighting at Gaza.
1917: Today is the
deadline for the American Jewish Relief Committee to raise enough money for the
Jewish War Relief Fund to trigger a matching contribution by Julius Rosenwald
of Chicago that could reach ten per cent of all the money raised up to ten million
dollars.
1917: Oscar Straus told
the “three hundred members of the Authors Club” attending a dinner “in their
Carnegie Club Rooms” where they “heard denunciations of Kaiserism and Kultur”
that “any candidate for Mayor of New York who was not heart and soul with the
American Government in the conduct of the war was a traitor to the country” and
“that he had recently been told by a prominent diplomat of an allied nation
that if the present city administration were defeated on Election Day, the
German people would take it as a sign that the war was unpopular here and would
closer to the militarist German party.”
1917: Tonight “speaking
before a large Jewish audience at Hunt’s Point Palace in the Bronx, Samuel
Untermyer made a strong appeal to the patriotism of the Jewish voters and urged
them as a duty to their adopted country to vote against the Socialist candidate
for Mayor.” (Untermeyer was a prominent Jewish leader, Zionist and served as
President of the Keren Hayesod)
1918: As of today, “the
total number of casualties in the American Expeditionary Force was 64,157” of
which 3.9 per cent or 2,502 were Jewish
1918: Responding to demands for an end to the
monarchy, the Kaiser tells an emissary from Prince Max, ‘I wouldn’t dream of
abandoning the throne because of a few hundred Jews and a thousand workers.” The German monarch’s anti-Semitism trumped
the reality of the thousands of Jews who had fought and died for the fatherland
from 1914 until 1918.
1919(8th
of Cheshvan, 5680): Parshat Lech-Lecha
1918(8th
of Cheshvan, 5680): Julian H. Cohen
passed away today at Camp Fremont.
1919(8th
of Cheshvan, 5680): Seventy year old “editor and author” Gustave Pollak a
native of Vienna who came to the United States in 1866 and who was a
contributor to the Evening Post, In New York, and the Nation, for 40 years”
passed away today at the home of his daughter Mrs. Paul J. Sachs.
1919:
In London, “Celebration of the 25th annual dinner of the Readers’
Pensions.”
1919:
“The Federation of Hungarian Jews in America was organized” today.
1920:
At Columbia University’s Teachers College, Mrs. Norvin Lindheim and Mrs. I.B.
Berkson are scheduled to supervise “a course in household dietetics and kindred
subjects” for women who want work in Social Work in Palestine
1920:
Birthdate of London native and movie producer Michael Klinger, the “son of a
Polish-born tailor who teamed with Tony Tenser, the son of another Jewish
tailor to create “the Compton cinema chain.”
1921:
Congregation Beth El located in Camden, NJ, was official incorporated by the
state of New Jersey.
1921: Hadoar, the first
Hebrew daily Hebrew paper published in the United States appeared for the first
time.
1922: In Springfield,
MA, Rebecca (née Sack) and Abraham Shelasky, a haberdasher, gave birth George
Irving Shelasky better known as actor George S. Irving who made his debut in
the original production of “Oklahoma” in 1943. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1922: The last sultan
of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates. The Sultan and the empire would be
replaced by a secular Turkish Republic led by Attaturk Kemal. Large numbers of Jews fled Turkey during this
period as a result of the Greco-Turkish war which was fought at this time. Jews of the new republic also suffered a loss
international protection under the terms of the Treaty of Locarno under
pressure from the new regime.
1923: Birthdate of
Menachem Fetter, who made in Aliyah in 1935 and became the note Israeli jurist
Menachem Elon who became Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
1923: In Warsaw, Rachel
and Aryeh Turkeltabu, ‘a Zionist who ran a paper products business gave birth
to Abba Tor “whose engineering prowess helped the landmark Trans World Flight
Center take wing at Kennedy International Airport.” (As reported by David W.
Dunlap)
1923: Paul Whiteman,
asked Jewish composer George Gershwin
“to contribute a concerto-like piece for an all-jazz concert he would give in
Aeolian Hall in February 1924” that would eventually lead to the creation of “Rhapsody
in Blue.”
1924(4th of
Cheshvan, 5685): Parashat Noach
1924: In New York City,
Philip Smith, the former Pathe Freres Salesman and founder of the Midwest Drive-Theatres and his
wife Marian Cohn gave birth to Richard Alan Smith, CEO of General Cinema Corporation and the
husband of Susan Flax with whom he had four children – James, Amy, Robert and
Debra – and with whom he “founded the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation
which since 1973, has donated $45.6
million to Boston's Jewish community of which $24 million was given to Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of Boston.”
1924(4th of
Cheshvan, 5685): Fifty-seven year old Jules Greenbaum “the founder of
production and distribution companies Deutsche Bioscop and Vitascope” and “one
of the pioneers of the German film industry” who “introduced such directors as
Max Mack and Richard Oswald to the cinema and produced the groundbreaking drama
“Der Andere” (The Other) passed away today in his native Berlin.
1924: It was reported
today that the wife of Hart. O Berg, the man who was the business
representative for the Wright Brothers and shepherded them through pre-War
Europe so they can demonstrate and sell their newly invented airplanes has been
granted a divorce by courts in Paris.
1924: U.S. premiere of
“White Man” the silent film produced by B.P. Schulberg that marked the
cinematic debut of Clark Gable. (Gable
was not Jewish but it is still worth noting)
1924: Birthdate of
Aharon Uzan, the Tunisian born Israeli political leader who held the positions
Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister of Labor and Social Welfare after
Abuhatzira resigned from both posts following his conviction for larceny, breach
of trust and fraud from 1982 until 1984.
1925: It was reported
today that “according to a report prepared by the Council of Nationalities of
the Soviet Union received by the Russian information Bureau” Washington, “the
Jewish population of the Soviet Union has decreased to 2,800,000 as compared
with 5,000,000 in the territory of the former Czarist empire.”
1926: “Dr. Chaim
Weismann, President of the World Zionist Organization was received by President
Coolidge today” at which time he “informed the President of the progress in the
upbuilding of the Jewish national homeland in Palestine.”
1927: “At a luncheon of
the furniture division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies at the Hotel Pennsylvania today Israel Finkenberg
accepted the chairmanship of the group and steps were taken to raise the
trade's quota of $55,000.”
1928: The silent film
version of “Noah’s Ark” directed by Michael Curitz was released today by Warner
Brothers.
1928: In Washington,
DC, the Rumanian Legation announced that “George Cretziano, Rumanian Minister
to the United States has been decorated by the King with the Grand Cross of the
Order of the Crow or Rumania in recognition of the services rendered since his
appointment” including improving relations with the American Jewish community
which has led to “Jewish support for Rumania’s financial stabilization
program.”
1928: “Attorney General
Ottinger, the Republic candidate for Governor” whom City Court Judge Gustave
Hartman said “had been brought up in a real Jewish home” spoke at five meetings
in Manhattan tonight where he urged voters to support Herbert Hoover for President
“as the best means of insuring a continuance of prosperity.”
1929: “The
Trespasser” a film that had both a silent and talkie versions edited by Cyril
Gardner was released in New York City today.
1929: “Call
of the Blood” a Czech-German film directed by Victor Trivas was released today.
1930: A new cooperative
housing project, spearheaded by Lieutenant Governor Herbert Lehman and Aaron
Rabinowitz opened on the site of the old Hoe & Co Printing Plant on
Delancey Street. An editorial writer for
the New York Times referred to this effort as “the first step toward the
rejuvenation of the Lower East Side.
1930(10th of
Cheshvan, 5691): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1930: Northwestern
University led by Guard Hyman “Hy” Crizevsky defeated the University of
Minnesota in its fifth straight win of the season.
1930: A demonstration
was held in Jerusalem to protest the White Paper on British Policy in
Palestine.
1930: The British
government is making preparations to prevent any demonstrations tomorrow (the
anniversary of the Balfour Declaration) by Jews who have been protesting
against the White Paper on the British Policy in Palestine.
1931: “His Highness
Love,” a “Franco-German comedy” produced and co-directed by Joe May was
released today.
1931: The New York
Times reports the Yasha Heifitz will go to Palestine next Spring to present
a series of five concerts. The Times
reported approvingly of the growth of the appreciation in Palestine for “good
Occidental music” in a land where until only recently “companies of wandering
Egyptian musicians were the only artists heard.”
1932: It was reported
today that the Federation for the Jewish Philanthropic Societies and the United
Hospital Fund “will eventually receive one-eighth each of the estate of Moses
M. Ringlander.
1932: It was reported
today that former Municipal Court Justice Samson Lachman bequeathed a total of
$32,500 to six institutions “of which $7,000 each wen to the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, Montefiore Hospital, Hebrew Infant Asylum and the Home for Aged and Infirm
Jews” while Congregation Rodeph Sholom received $2,500 and $2,000 went to the
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum.
1933: The
first issue of Ristow's anti-Semitic Blick in die Zeit (A Look at the Times)
is published in Germany.
1933: “Only Yesterday”
a film “based on the novel Briefe einer
unbekannten (Letter from an Unknown Woman) by Stefan Zweig directed
by John M. Stahl (Jacob Morris Strelitsky) and produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.
was released today in the United States.
1934(23rd of
Cheshvan, 5695): Sixty-eight year old Simon Oscar Pollock, the husband of Julia
Moschowitz and Russian revolutionary who “was counsel to the Political Refugees
Defense League of New York” succumbed to the injuries that resulted from being
scalded in a shower and passed away today.
1934: “We Live Again” a
cinematic adaptation of the novel Resurrection produced by Samuel Goldwyn who
made the film to showcase his latest acting find and with music by Alfred
Newman was released in the United States by United Artists.
1934: Birthdate of Lt.
General Sidney T. Weinstein, the native of Camden, NJ and West Point Graduate
whose expertise led to his being inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall
of Fame.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502231.html
1934: Italian nuclear
physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, the son of Jewish textile manufacturer “was made a
temporary assistant at the Royal Institute of Physics.
1935: “Members of the
religious agricultural training in Telz, Lithuania” were photographed today.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/02.asp
1935: The first edition
of The American Hebrew, which was the
successor to the American Hebrew and
Jewish Tribune appeared today.
1935: Birthdate of
Robert Andrzej Krauthammer the native of Warsaw, who, after he was smuggled out
of the Warsaw Ghetto was given the name of Andre Tchaikowskyunder which he
became a famous composer whose extra claim to fame is the fact that Royal
Shakespeare Company uses his skull as prop, per the terms of his will.
1935: An
addition to the Reich Citizenship Law disqualifies Jews from German
citizenship.
1936: An exhibition of
water-color landscapes of Palestine opened this afternoon at the Jewish Club in
New York City. The paintings “are the
work of Elias Newman, an American artist who has lived in Palestine for eight
year and is affiliated with the Tel Aviv Museum.”
1936: In an American
Football game at Harry Newman of the Brooklyn Dodgers kicked a field goal which
gave his team a temporary three to zero lead over the New York (football)
Yankees.
1936: A parade
organized by a group of Protestants, Catholic and Jews that “would be an
affirmation of the faith of the people in God” was scheduled to be held today
in New York City.
1936: It was reported
today that “the most recent victims of the anti-Semitic campaign are the Jewish
apothecaries” who effective October 1 were “all compelled to lease or sell
their establishments and retire from the business” while Jews no longer are employed
in drug stores because they were “discharged by the order of the Reich Druggist
Leader.”
1936: “Literary agents
for the late Edgar Wallace reported that his works have been banned in Germany
because of rumors that the writer was of Jewish extraction” and they “have
asked the aid of the writer’s family in proof of Mr. Wallace’s ‘Aryan’ ancestry.”
1936: This morning “in
an address before the congregation of the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall,
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise vigorously denounced the political implication put for in
the present campaign that there is such a thing as a ‘Jewish vote,’ and added
that there never was a campaign in which it would have been easier and more
natural to shut out every reference to the Jewish race than the present one.”
1936: Leo Perper, who
has been working for R.H. Macy for the last twenty years is scheduled to
“become president of the Roger Kent stores” today.
1936: “Government aid
cannot supplant private philanthropy Government, Governor Lehman said tonight
in an address in Madison Square Garden where stage and screen stars held
benefit performances for the Hebrew National Orphan Home.”
1936: Governor Herbert
Lehman was an unexpected speaker at a dinner at the Hotel Astor attended by
more than 2,000 guests in honor of Benjamin J. Rabin, deputy commissioner and
counsel general of the New York State Mortgage Commission which was a fund raiser
of the American Jewish Distribution Committee.
1936: “Four hundred and
forty pupils of Jewish religious schools of New York City received prizes for
attendance and scholastic records during the 1935-36 school year at a festival
held this afternoon by the Jewish Education Association at the Washington
Irving High School.”
1936: "Palestine
Arabs Turn to Boycott" published today reported that "As was expected
immediately after the Arab general strike was called off through Palestine, an
anti-Jewish boycott movement has taken root." If it continues, it can have a disastrous
effect on all those living in Palestine - Arab and Jew alike
1937: Birthdate of
Micha Shagrir, the native of Linz who moved to Palestine in 1938 and became one
of Israel’s “leading filmmakers.”
1937: The Palestine Post reports the death of
Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York
City. Born in Birmingham, England in 1852, he was one of the two founders in
1886 of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Mendes was rabbi emeritus of Shearith
Israel since retiring after 43 years in 1920.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that Raphael
Ben-Israel Namda was severely wounded and Ahmed Moussa el-Masri, a Persian, was
killed by an Arab terrorist at the corner of Nahlat Shiva and Jaffa Road, in
the center of Jerusalem. A day earlier, Jacob Weiss, the manager of the German
Bank, was stabbed by an Arab assailant, but was out of danger. Shots were fired
at Palestine Quarries workers near Motza.
1937(27th of
Cheshvan, 5698): Sixty-five-year-old Baltimore born and University of Maryland
trained physician Dr. Harry Adler, the
husband of Carrie Frank Adler and the father of Charles Adler who “for ten
years was president of the Sinai Hospital” after which he became a “clinical
Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Maryland Medical
School” passed away today
1937(27th of
Cheshvan, 5698): Seventy-eight year Dr. Sigmund Pollitzer, the South Carolina
born son of Morris and Anna Kuh Pollitzer and graduate of Columbia whose
colorful career culminated in serving as President of the American
Dermatological Association and who was the husband of “the former Alice Kohn of
New York” passed away today in New York
City.
http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=518874
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/11/02/94451130.pd
1938: A British Mandate
police report noted that although the Arabs of Palestine had not yedclared 'a
complete Jihad,' yet Jihad had been preached in many village mosques in
Palestine, Syria and Iraq. If the
British government were to announce a policy 'which is adverse to Arab
interest,' the report warned, 'a complete Jihad will be declared by the more
prominent religious leaders of Islam.'
1938: The “first solo
exhibition of the work of Frida Kahlo” which was mounted by Julian Levy who had
studied with Paul J. Sachs opened today at 15 East 57th Street in
New York.
1938: Louis E.
Kirstein, the Vice President of William Filene’s Sons of Boston met with
President Roosevelt today.
1938: Today the Tucson,
AZ, Star published a photograph of Tucson High School grad and University of
Arizona alum Leonard Cahn who served in the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish
Civil War.
http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/leonard-cahn
1938: Funeral services
are scheduled to held today for 90 year-old Mrs. Kate Fleishman Affelder, the
Richmond, VA who “had lived in Pittsburgh most of her life” where she played a
prominent role “in many Jewish philanthropies including the Gusky Orphanage and
the Jewish Home for the Aged.”
1938: Father
Bernhard Lichtenberg, a Roman Catholic priest in Berlin, condemns the German
assault on Jews. One of the few German Catholics to denounce the immoral
behavior of the government, Father Lichtenberg sermonizes: "Outside the
synagogue is burning, and that also is a house of God."
1939: Hans
Frank, governor-general of Occupied Poland, sets up the first
"self-governing" Jewish council (Judenrat) within Jewish
ghettos. The council leaders must obey the demands of the Nazis.
1939: Birthdate of
French politician and physician Bernard Kouchner whose father was Jewish and
who is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde.
1940(30th of
Tishrei, 5701): Manchester native and Cambridge graduate Joseph Lewis Cohen,
the economist and Zionist who helped organize the Jewish Legion in WW I and
“directed the political office of the World Union of Poale Zion in London”
while serving as an “economic advisor to Marks and Spencer” was killed today
during the Blitz.
1940: In Brooklyn
“Seymour and Sarah (Rashall) Silvers” gave birth to college professor and
disability rights advocated Anita Silvers. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1941: Isidore Newman
who has been training to be a member with the SOE was promoted to the rank of 2nd
Lieutenant and given the code name “Athlete.”
1941: Today, “President
Roosevelt announced that the U.S. Coast Guard” who most famous WW II Jewish
member might have been comedian Sid Caesar “would now be under the direction of
the U.S. Navy, a transition of authority usually reserved only for wartime”
1942: The Nazis
completed the murder of the Jews of Pinsk, Russia, begun on October 29. As of this date there are reportedly no more
Jews left alive in the city.
1942: More
than 170,000 Jews are killed within one week at the Belzec, Auschwitz, and
Treblinka death camps.
1942: Birthdate of Paul
L. Dickstein, the Bronx native who was Mayor Koch’s third and longest serving
Budget Director. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1943: In Algiers, Simon
Attali, the owner of a perfume shop gave birth to twins Bernard Attali and
Jacques Attali the French economist who was “first president of the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
1943: Joseph
Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill sign the Moscow Declaration.
Because of British suspicions that the Jews and Poles are exaggerating German
atrocities, the declaration omits references to gas chambers. Also, while
promising postwar justice for murderers, the declaration does not mention Jews.
1943: When Francis
Osborne D’Arcy, the British envoy to the Vatican, had an hour-long private
audience with Pope Pious XII, the Pontiff insisted that he had no complaints
about the Nazi occupation of Rome. This
is a recurring theme that reinforces the view that Pious was either totally
insensitive, at best, or really an anti-Semite.
1944: Since The Russian army had driven the Germans from eastern Poland
and from most of Hungary Jews began to emerge from their hiding places.
1944: In Chicago, Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie (Samet) Friedman gave
birth to Texas’ legendary Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman.
http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/home
1945: Birthdate of Hartford, CT native John Lee Levitow, the United
States Air Force Loadmaster awarded the Medal of Honor for his acts of heroism
while serving on board a Douglas AC-47 Spooky gunship of the 3d Special
Operations Squadron USAF on February 24, 1969.
https://amcmuseum.org/history/airman-first-class-john-l-levitow/
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/1957
1945: In response to the British decision to continue enforce the White
Paper of 1939, units of the Palmach and the Irgun conducted a series of
coordinated attacks on the British run railway system and sunk “three…guard
boats” in Haifa and Jaffa.
1946: In the opening game of the fledgling Basketball Association of
America (BAA), Ossie Schectman scored the opening basket for the New York
Knickerbockers against the Toronto Huskies. Schectman and his teammates Sonny
Hertzberg, Stan Stutz, Hank Rosenstein, Ralph Kaplowitz, Jake Weber, and Leo
"Ace" Gottlieb went on to win the opening game 68 – 66 and finish the
season with a 33 – 27 record. In 1949, the BAA became the National Basketball
Association (NBA), and Schectman’s shot is considered the first basket in the
NBA.
1946: “A Matter of Life and Death,” co-directed, co-produced and
co-written by Emeric Pressburger premiered today in the United Kingdom
1946: Sonny Herzberg, a six foot guard who had played for City College
“was on the court -- a floor covering the ice at Maple Leaf Gardens -- when the
Knicks played the first game in their history, and the inaugural game of the
Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the N.B.A.”
1947: “Canada Confirms Ban” published today described the decision of the
government at Ottawa to bar “Ben Hecht’s A Flag is Born” a pageant that is a
plea for the establishments of a “free Palestine as a homeland for Jews” “has
been barred from Canada under Tariff Act, clause 1201 banning ‘treasonable or
seditious material.”
1947: At Lake Success, NY, “a Palestine subcommittee of the United
Nations General Assembly today took up Zionist proposals for modifying the
economic union between the proposed Arab and Jewish states” while the British
officially reacted unfavorably to the “United States plan for carrying out the
partition of Palestine.”
1947: “Irwin Rosen, director of emigration of the Joint Distribution
Committee announced” today “that nearly 11,000 certified Jewish emigrants will
have been brought Palestine this year at a cost of more than $1,000,000 by the
committee,” which is a “major American agency aiding distressed Jews aboard.”
1948: “The exodus of Turkish Jews came to…a halt today” when new
instructions were “issued to the Istanbul police that no further visas for
Israel should be issued” and that “that the police were…to consider void all
passports previously issued to Jews of Turkish nationality wanting to emigrate
to Israel.”
1948: During a news conference at the national headquarters of Hadassah
in New York, Dr. Eli Davis, the deputy director for the Hadassah organization”
said typhoid has almost been completely wiped out in Israel.
1948: Today, at the port of Sivona, Italian “police halted the scheduled
sailing of a 2,000-ton Italian ship after having discovered that it was
carrying Jewish refugees, a number of whom were “clandestine” to Palestine.”
1949: “Ambassador Eliahu Elath…insisted that his government had ‘good
information’ to the effect that 2,000 Iraqi Jews had been imprisoned” and in
some cases “tortured and killed.”
1949: Birthdate of London native and British businessman Gerald Irving
Atner, the brother of Denise Ratner who made his fortune in the jewelry
businessm.
1949: In Los Angeles, “actress/comedian/screenwriter/playwright Elaine
May (née Berlin) and inventor Marvin May gave birth to Jeannie Brette May who
gained fame as actress and screenwriter Jeannie Berlin.
1950: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion formed his second government today
with a political coalition that included the United Religious Front.
1950(21st of Cheshvan, 5711): Eighty-four year old Colonel
Hebert Jessel passed away today. A
member of the distinguished Jessel family, he was known as Sir Herbert. A graduate of Oxford, he served in the House
of Commons before being elevated to a peerage.
1950: Private First Class Tibor
Rubin, a Hungarian born survivor of the Holocaust, was taken captive in North
Korea by the Chinese enemy. With an injured left hand and shrapnel lodged in
his chest, he was forced to march the long distance to the Prisoner of War
camp. There, for many long months, Rubin stood out among his comrades as a
hero, stealing out of the camp each night to obtain food, just as he had done
five years earlier, as a Hungarian child in a Nazi concentration camp. For over
half a century, the United States Army failed to recognize Rubin’s valor, in
part, as one of his fellow GI’s said, because of anit-Semitism. In 2005, President Bush announced that he was bestowing upon this great patriot our
nation's highest award for bravery, the Medal of Honor."
1951(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5712): Sixty year old Philip Salsburg, the Wilkes-Barre, PA born son
of Rachel and Mendel Salsburg and husband of “the former Sadie Rubinow” who was
employed by Du Pont before coming the executive secretary of the Community
Chest of Scranton passed away today.
1951: “Top Banana” a musical
starring Phil Silvers in his Tony Award winning performance “as Jerry Biffle” opened today on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre
1952: Seventy-four year old
Horace Stern, the Philadelphia born son of Matilde and Morris Stern began
serving as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
1952: The United States
detonated the first Hydrogen bomb – a weapon whose development was championed
by Edward Teller and opposed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the
Atomic Bomb.”
1954: After dissolving the
“Left Faction, Rostam Bastuni rejoined Mapam today.
1954: Eleanor (née Lebenthal)
and Harry Gerard Bissinger II, a former president of the municipal bond firm
Lebenthal & Company gave birth to Harry Gerard "H. G." Bissinger
III, best the “American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, best
known for his non-fiction book Friday Night Lights.
1955: Birthdate of Michael
“Mike” David Mendoza, the controversial sports radio talk show host who is a
cousin of Peter Sellers and a descendant of the legendary boxer Daniel Mendoza.
1956: During the Sinai
Campaign, Israeli forces fought a bitter battle with Egyptians in order to take
control of Rafa at the entrance to the Gaza Strip which was a base for
fedayeen, the name given to the Arab terrorists of the period.
1956(27th of Cheshvan, 5717):
A car in which members of Kibbutz Erez were travelling hit a mine laid by
fedayeen killing three of the passengers.
1956: “Teenage Rebel”
featuring Warren Berlinger, Milton Berle’s nephew, “as Dick Hewitt was released
in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
1957: Starting today and continuing for almost three
weeks, 486 Egyptian Jews were arrested under 'Military Proclamation No. 4.'
1958(18th of Cheshvan, 5719): Parashat Vayera
1958(18th of Cheshvan, 5719): Eighty-five year
old Jennie Franklin Purvin the daughter of Henry Franklin and Hannah Mayer and
wife of businessman of Moses L Purvin who was active in Jewish communal work
passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/purvin-jennie-franklin
1959(30th of Tishrei, 5720): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1959(30th of Tishrei, 5720):
Gershon Agron mayor of Jerusalem passed away at the age of 66. Born Gershon Agronksy in the Ukraine in 1894,
Agron immigrated to the United States with his parents. During World War I he served with the Jewish
Legion in Palestine. In 1932, he started
an English language newspaper called the Palestine Post. In 1950, for obvious reasons, he changed the
name of the paper to the Jerusalem Post.
By publishing in English, Agron provided a voice that could be
understood by the British occupiers and the nascent American Zionist
movement. His brother was Martin
Agronsky, a distinguished American broadcast journalist.
1960(11th of Cheshvan, 5721): Sixty-two year old
Herbert R. Abeles, the husband of Etta Abeles with whom he had two children –
Abby and Robert – and President of the Jewish Community Organizations of
America passed away today in West Orange, NJ.
1961: Women Strike For
Peace (WSP) was inaugurated with a day-long strike by an estimated 50,000 women
in 60 cities, all pressing for nuclear disarmament. Bella Abzug helped form and
run the group, and she became the chairperson of WSP's legislative committee.
Abzug remained active in WSP until she was elected to Congress in 1970. (As
reported by Jewish Women’s Archive)
1961: “The Comancheros”
an epic western directed by Michael Curtiz, co-starring Ina Balin and Nehemiah
Persoff and with music by Elmer Bernstein was released in the United States
today.
1961: Birthdate of
Peggy Orenstein, the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir,
“Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility
Doctors, An Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to
Become a Mother.”
1962: It was reported
today that Robert St. John has written two more books about Israel that are due
to be published in the near future – “They Came From Everywhere: Twelve Who
Helped Mold Modern Israel” and “The Man Who Played God.”
1962(4th of
Cheshvan, 5723): Seventy-three year old Abraham Joseph Balaban (A.J.) the movie
theatre mogul who was the “Balaban” in the team of Balaban and Katz passed away
today.
http://archives.nypl.org/the/18638
1964: Birthdate of “Old
Bethpage, Long Island,” native Erich Mendelsohn, the award winning director and
screenwriter who also “teaches a Columbia University’s School of the Arts.”
1965: Over 85% of the
Israeli electorate participated in today’s election to choose member for the 6th
Knesset.
1966: Following a
debate over the design of a new chapel at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of
Montreal, following a “motion by Joe Eliesen and seconded by Dr. George Strean,
the Board of Trustees” rejected the concept of having the Bimah in the center
“and decided to have the Bimah in front, in an arrangement similar to the Main
Synagogue” but made no decision regarding creating a special ladies section
which Rabbi Shuchat “felt discouraged ladies from attending services.”
1967: “Cool Hand Luke,”
the cinema version of the book by the same name directed by Stuart Rosenberg,
with music by Lalo Schifrin and starring Paul Newman was released in the United
States today.
1967: Birthdate of
Brooklyn native Ed Horowitz, the right handed hitting catcher, first baseman
and third baseman who was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 15th
round of the 1989 Major League Draft.
1968: The day after
Operation Shock, IAF jets took photographs over Upper Egypt revealing “that
seven of the nine transformers had been destroyed or severely damaged, that
Cairo's southern suburbs were disconnected from the electrical system and that
the Qena Bridge was irreparably damaged.”
1971: In “Messing with
Max” published today the reviewer pans “The Incomparable Max” a play centering
on the life of Max Beerbohm.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,905498,00.html
1971: “Cold Spring
Harbor” “the debut studio album by American
recording artist Billy Joel” was released today by Family Productions.
1972: “The Israeli ambassador to Bonn was called back to Jerusalem for
consultations which many interpreted as the government’s ways of showing
displeasure” with the German government’s “speedy” release of the surviving
members of the terror squad that killed
the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. (As reported by Yael Greenfeter
and Matti Golan)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/lown-philip-w
1976: Asher Yadlin was
scheduled to succeed Moshe Sanbar as governor of the Bank of Israel.
1977(20th of
Cheshvan, 5738): Eighty-nine-year old Pottsville, PA native Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the husband of Rose Cohn
passed away today in Detroit after which he was buried in Ferndale, Michigan.
1978: President Jimmy
Carter established the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. The purpose of
the Commission was to make recommendations on establishing and funding an
appropriate memorial to victims of the Holocaust. The Commission suggested the following:
- that a living memorial be established to
honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, and which would ensure
that the lessons of the Holocaust be taught in perpetuity;
- that an educational foundation be
established to stimulate and support research in the teaching of the
Holocaust;
- that a Committee on Conscience be
established that would collect information on and alert the national
conscience regarding reports of actual or potential outbreaks of genocide
throughout the world; and
- that a national Day of Remembrance of
victims of the Holocaust be established in perpetuity and be held
- annually.
1978: Ruth Bader
Ginsburg argued for Duren when the Supreme Court heard Duren v. Missouri in
what would be her last appearance before the High Court as an attorney.
1981: In an article
entitled “Kvetching About the Human Condition” Wallace Markfield reviewed A
Bintel Brief Volume II. Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward 1950-80.
Compiled and Edited by Isaac Metzker. (Translated by Bella S. Metzker and Diana
Shalet Levy, Under the Supervision of Isaac Metzker) For more than eighty years the Jewish
Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief"
("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded
advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European
immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for
seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching
spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to the sometimes hilarious predicaments
that result when Old World meets New. Issac Metzker, who began writing for the
paper in the 1920’s created this compilation column .
1984(6th
of Cheshvan, 5745): Seventy-four year old Norman Krasna an American
screenwriter, playwright, and film director passed away. He is best known for penning screwball
comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. Krasna also directed three films
during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award
screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943's Princess O'Rourke, a film he
also directed. Later in his career, he also wrote plays, including Time for
Elizabeth (1948) cowritten with Groucho Marx, and the popular Kind Sir which he
adapted into the movie Indiscreet (1958). He married Al Jolson's widow Erle in
1951, and they remained married until Krasna's death.
1985(17th of Cheshvan,
5746): Seventy-three year old famed funny man Phil “Silvers passed away. Born Phillip Silversmith in 1911 in Brooklyn,
Silvers was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He began his career at the age of 11. He would sing in “movie theatres” when the
film would stop due to a broken projector – a common problem in the early days
of film. His most famous role came in
the 1950’s when he played Sergeant Ernie Bilko on the Phil Silvers Show. The fast talking Bilko was the comedic con
artist par excellence always looking for a way to outsmart the military
establishment and his dim witted Colonel.
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/02/arts/phil-silvers-tv-s-sergeant-bilko-dead-at-73.html
1985: “To Live and Dies
in L.A.” directed and written by William Friedkin and produced by Irving Levin
was released in the United States today.
1987: Because Jonathan
Pollard committed his crimes prior to this date “he is eligible for parole”
possibly in November, 2015.
1987: After 2,209
performances the curtain came down “Little Shop of Horrors” a musical by
composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman.
1988: Actor
Jeff Goldblum and actress Geena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988: Over 79 per cent of the eligible Israelis
(2.3 million voters) turned out to participate in the elections for the 12th
Knesset.
1988: “Shaday,” “an
album by Israeli singer Ofra Hazaz and produced by Izhar Ashot was released
today.
1989: What turned out
to be Vladimir Horowitz’s final recording session came to an end today.
1990(13th of Cheshvan,
5751): Eighty-three year old Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta passed away. A graduate of Oxford who served in WW II, he
a leading English jurist and a leader of the British Sephardic community
1991(24th of Cheshvan,
5752): Eighty-eight year old civic leader Frank Binswanger passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/08/obituaries/frank-binswanger-88-a-philadelphia-broker.html
http://articles.philly.com/1991-11-03/news/25770640_1_real-estate-industrial-development-sites
1992(5th of
Cheshvan, 5753): Ninety-four year old obstetrician Samuel W. Kalb, a graduate of Valparaiso
University and the University of Cincinnati School Medicine and Marine Corps
veteran who practiced in Newark for 35 years passed away today.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1992-11-05-9202270823-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/obituaries/samuel-w-kalb-obstetrician-94.html
1993: Yosef Harish left
the post of Attorney General and was replaced by Michael Ben-Yair.
1995: After 13 months,
Abner J. Mikva completed his services as White House Counsel under President
Clinton.
1995: When he met with
Yehuda Avner, his long-time English speechwriter and friend today Yitzhak Rabin
provided some of the rationale for his negotiations with Yassir Arafat. He said
that he considered the likelihood of reaching a peaceful resolution of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Yasser Arafat to be only “a long shot.” But
he attempted it, reluctantly, via the Oslo process, because he recognized that
Muslim fundamentalists were gradually winning over the hearts and minds of the
Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza, and that their domination would mean
“the certainty of no settlement at all.” “It is either the PLO or nothing,”
Rabin said. [This conversation took place three days before Rabin was murdered
on November 4.}
1995:
“Assassins” produced and directed by Richard Donner was released in France
today.
1996: Premiere in
Israel of “Saint Clara” a film directed by Ari Folman and Ori Sivan based on
the novel The Ideas of Saint Clara by Pavel Kohout.
1996: Publication of The
Stories of David Bergelson: Yiddish Short Fiction from Russia
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0815627122/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
1997: “Titanic” co-produced
by Jon Landau was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about
topics of Jewish interest including Shakespeare: The Invention of the
Human by Harold Bloom, Anne
Frank: The Biography by Melissa
Müller; Translated by Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber, Principles For A Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With the
Common Good by Richard A. Epstein and Israel and the Bomb by
Avner Cohen
2000: FOX broadcast the first episode of Season 12 of the Simpsons, a
cartoon sitcom developed by James Brooks and Sam Simon with them music composed
by Danny Elfman.
2000(3rd of Cheshvan, 5761):
Lt. David-Hen Cohen, 21, of Karmiel and Sgt. Shlomo Adshina, 20, of Kibbutz
Ze'elim were killed in a shooting incident in the Al-Hader area, near
Bethlehem.
2000(3rd of Cheshvan, 5761): Maj. (res.) Amir Zohar, 34, of
Jerusalem was killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement in the Jordan Valley while
on active reserve duty
2001: Jamil Jadallah, a member of Hamas, the terrorist organization, was
killed today “with a missile fired from an Israeli helicopter.
2001 “In a speech to the World Jewish Congress meeting in Jerusalem,
Prime Minister Sharon “said again today that he wanted peace” but added that
for him “peace should peace for generations and it should be peace that will
provide the Jewish people with security.”
2002: “The Santa Clause 2” a comedy that is part of the Santa Clause
Trilogy directed by Michael Lembeck and filmed by Israeli cinematographer Adam
Greenberg was released today in the United States.
2004:
Before returning from injury, Matt Bloom was released from his WWE contract
2004(17th
of Cheshvan, 5765): Tatiana Ackerman, 32, of Tel Aviv, Shmuel Levy, 65, of
Jaffa and Leah Levine, 64, of Givatayim were murdered and more than 30 people
were injured when a 16 year old PFLP terrorist detonated a bomb this morning
“at the Carmel Market located at the heart of Tel Aviv's business district.”
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-11-01-tel-aviv-blast_x.htm
2005:
The U.S. Senate enters a rare closed session to discuss the Plame affair and
intelligence in the Iraq disarmament crisis. The Plame in the Plame Affair is
Valerie Plame an American
2005: In a resolution co-sponsored by 104 Member
States, the General Assembly today designated 27 January as Holocaust
Remembrance Day, drawing immediate praise from Secretary-General Kofi Annan,
who said the United Nations would do its part to keep the memory alive in a bid
to prevent future acts of genocide.
2006
Yuli Tamire replaces Ophir Pines Paz as Science and Technology Minister
2006:
Former Conservative Party MP Nigel “Lawson's lecture to the Centre for Policy
Studies think-tank, published today] criticizes the Stern Review and proposed
what is described as a rational approach, advocating adaptation to changes in
global climate, rather than attempting mitigation, i.e., reducing greenhouse
gas emissions.”
2006:
At the United Nations Building in New York, Haaretz.com
senior editor Bradley Burston received an Eliav -Sartawi Award for Middle East
Journalism, an annual prize for Arab, Israeli and international journalists.
2007:
In Washington, D.C., Architect Allan Greenberg presents a lecture,
"American Architecture and the Legacy of the Revolution," drawn from
his book Architecture of Democracy (his illustrated musing on the link
between America's political ideals and architectural traditions), at the Ethics
and Public Policy Center.
2007:
An exhibition opens at Yad Vashem designed to showcase Muslims who saved Jews
from Nazis during the Holocaust.
2007:
Aaron Kintu Moses, director
of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, visited Agudas Achim in Iowa City,
IA. The Abayudaya is a group of native
Ugandans who have been practicing Judaism since 1919 when their local leader
studied the Hebrew Bible and adopted the observances of all of Moses’
commandments including circumcision.
2007:
“Sub on Wheels”, the first glatt-kosher food truck which provides a variety of
items including hamburger, hot dogs and a variety of other fleshig sandwiches
offers its Williamsburg customers a unique item for Thursday – Cholent which
can be set aside and served for Shabbat.
2007:
The Ant-Defamation League released recent survey results which it says show 15
percent of American adults hold “unquestionably anti-Semitic” views.
2008:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Temple Judah offers a Saturday Double Header:
·
In
the Morning, Balfour Shabbat Shacharit Services
·
In
the Evening, Dinner, a Havdalah Service and Musical Concert with Doug Cotler
2009:
Opening of the 31st Annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival which claims to be
the largest Jewish book festival in the United States.
2009:
Elisa New discusses and signs her new memoir, "Jacob's Cane: A Jewish
Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and
Baltimore," at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
2009:
After only 9 performances, Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” closed today.
2009:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on
topics special interest to Jewish readers including Ayn Rand and the World
She Made by Anne C. Heller, Look At the Birdie: Unpublished Short
Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut and Enemies of the People My Family’s Journey
to America by Kati Marton
2009:
The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
on topics special interest to Jewish readers including The Humbling by
Phillip Roth.
2009(14th
of Cheshvan, 5770): Seventy-nine year old author and survivor of life in
Siberia Esther Hautzig passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/books/03hautzig.html
2009:
“Lionel Perez was elected in the Darlington district of the Côte des
Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough in today’s election as a member of Mayor
Gérald Tremblay’s Union Montréal team, taking the seat held by Saulie Zajdel.”
2009:
Seventy-five year old George Hirsch, the founding published of New York
Magazine and the man who helped Fred Lewbow plan the first five boorugh NYC
Marathon in 1976 is scheduled to be at the starting line of the NYC Marathon today when the runners set off from the
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
2009:
“A rare rift in George and Ira Gershwin's harmony” published today
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-gershwin1-2009nov01-story.html#page=1
2010:
Beginning today, Tel Aviv born historian Israel Bartel, “one of the founders of
the Cathedra,” began serving as a
visiting scholar at the Simon Dubnow Institute.”
https://www.amazon.com/History-Jerusalem-Ottoman-Period-Hebrew/dp/9652173045
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments,
Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim and
Adam and Eve by Sena Jeter Naslund
2010:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Dr.
Maros Borský who launched the Slovak Jewish Heritage Route. A network linking
24 prominent Jewish heritage sites around Slovakia, it includes synagogue
buildings, branches of the Museum of Jewish Culture, and three historic Jewish
cemeteries.
2010:
“Polish wartime hero accused of being Nazi collaborator” published today
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/01/wladyslaw-szpilman-pianist-collaboration-claims
2010:
In the Netherlands, Onno Hoes began serving as Mayor of Maastricht.
2010:
Holocaust Education Week begins
http://www.holocausteducationweek.com/
2010: Beate Auguste Künzel Klarsfeld visited the Shoah Memorial Mural
installed inside the Evangelische Vaterunser Kirche in Berlin. Her host was
Pastor Annemarie Werner, the head of the congregation.
2010: The Atlantic Monthly cited Diane Ravitch as a “Brave Thinker” for
her changing views on the types of educational reform needed in the United
States.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/diane-ravitch/8260/
2011: Today marks the return of Marc
Chagall's America Windows to the Art Institute of Chicago.
2011: In commemoration of the 25th
anniversary of first broadcast of
Pee-wee’s Playhouse starring Paul Ruebens,, a book by Caseen Gaines called
Inside “Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story
of a Pop Phenomenon,” is scheduled to be
released by ECW Press
2011: The 31st Annual Holocaust Education Week begins
http://holocaustcentre.com/Programs/Holocaust-Education-Week-2011
2011: Professor Avner Cohen, author of “The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain
with the Bomb,” and journalist Ron Rosenbaum, author of “How the End Begins:
The Road to a Nuclear World War III,” are scheduled to sit down with
distinguished journalist and former network correspondent Marvin Kalb to
discuss the history and risks of Israel’s nuclear ambiguity and
worst-case-scenarios in an age of atomic anxiety at the Jewish Literary
Festival in Washington, D.C.
2011: Judge Richard Goldstone, who led the UN investigative commission into
Israel and Hamas’ conduct during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, defended Israel
against charges of being an “apartheid state” in a New York Times op-ed
published today
2011: Publication of The House of Silk,
“a Sherlock Holmes novel written by Anthony Horowtiz.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/27/house-silk-anthony-horowitz-sherlock-holmes
2011: Israel delayed a military
operation in the Gaza Strip to stem Palestinian rocket fire due to an Egyptian
request to give an additional 24 hours to cease-fire efforts, The Jerusalem Post learned today.
2012: In
Minneapolis, MN, The Sabes Jewish Community Center is scheduled to present “To
the Ladies of the Cool,” a concert featuring Kathy Kosins.
2012:
Unless disrupted by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the 7th Annual
JCCNV Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to open in Fairfax. VA
2012:
Despite the advent of Hurricane Sandy, Andras Schiff is still scheduled to
perform Book 2 of “Well-Tempered Clavier” at the 92nd Street Y.
2012:
“The Act of Killing an award winning documentary film directed by Joshua
Oppenheimer was released today in Indonesia.
2012:
Indonesian premier of “The Act of Killing” directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.
2012: The
16th UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2012:
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is charged in the Jerry Sandusky
child molestation case.
2012:
Cartoons in major newspapers across the Arab world are portraying President
Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney as being in the pocket
of Jews and Israel, the Anti-Defamation League said today
2012:
Israel’s political arena was rife with rumors today that retiring
Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon, arguably the most popular minister in the
outgoing government, is considering launching a breakaway party to rival his
own Likud, possibly because of disagreements with the prime minister.
2013:
The ceremony dedicating the South Campus of the Jewish Primary Day School of
the Nation’s Capital Kay and Robert Schattner Center is scheduled to take place
this morning in Washington, DC.
2013:
In Rockville, MD, Congregation Tikvat Israel is scheduled to host the opening
session of “Chocolate & Jewish Values: A Fair Trade Experience.
2013:
Chassida Shmella - Ethiopian Jewish Community Inc.is scheduled to host a
Shabbat Dinner and Sigd Celebration this evening in New York City.
2013:
In Iowa City, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of
eastern Uganda is scheduled to present the unusual musical synthesis vital to
the spiritual practice of this century old native African community
2013:
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of eastern
Uganda is scheduled to lead a Kabbalat Shabbat service in Iowa City.
2013:
One soldier was seriously wounded and another was in moderate condition today
after an IDF operation last night to destroy part of a tunnel, east of Khan
Younis just inside the Gaza Strip, was targeted by Hamas. (As reported by Yoel
Goldman and Ricky Ben-David)
2013:
Based on reports broadcast by Channel 2 and Channel 10 in Israel “Israel is
fuming with the White House” for its announcement that the IAF “had struck a
military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia…hitting weaponry that was
set to be transferred to Hesbollah.”
2014:
Pierre Moscovici is scheduled to begin serving as European Commissioner for
Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
2014:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a piano recital by Tatyana
Rubina.
2014:
PuppetCinema with Zvi Sahar is scheduled to perform for the last time.
2014:
In Oregon, “Portland Jewish Book Month” is scheduled to begin.
2014:
“The Last Mensch” is scheduled to be shown in Sydney at Jewish International
Film Festiva.
2014:
“My German Friend” is scheduled to be shown at the Twin Cities Jewish Film
Festvial.
2014(8th
of Cheshvan, 5775) Lech Lecha
2014(8th of Cheshvan, 5775): Migdal Tzedek
native and Haaretz reporter Shabati Teveth and author whose works included a
biography of David Ben-Gurion passed away today
https://www.haaretz.com/shabtai-teveth-ben-gurion-s-biographer-dies-1.5323941
2014:
Ronal lauder, the head of the World Jewish Congress “warned a Swiss museum
against accepting a priceless set of art works including Nazi-lotted paintings
from the estate of Cornelius Gurlit.
2014:
“Speaking at the 19th annual Rabin memorial rally tonight, former president
Shimon Peres issued scathing criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
handling of the peace process with the Palestinians and of his government’s
approach to the conflict.
2015:
The New York Times included reviews
of books by Jewish authors including The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy
Schiff
2015:
The Foundation for Jewish Studies is scheduled to co-sponsor a walking tour of
Jewish Old Town Alexandria which will trace the history of that Jewish
community across the Potomac from Washington, DC from the 1850’s to the 21st
century.
2015:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center hosted “Testimony and Tikkun
Olam” as part of The Movement to End Gender-Related Violence.
2015:
“Once in a Lifetime” is scheduled to be shown on the final night of the Jewish
Arts & Film Festival of Fairfield County, CT.
2015:
Trio Sefardi - Susan Gaeta, Tina Chancey, and Howard Bass – a group founded to
share Sephardic music is scheduled to perform at the JCCNV
2015:
At the Center for Jewish History Jeremy Dauber, Ken Frieden, Martin Peretz, and
Michael Steinlauf are scheduled to discuss Y.L. Peretz’s contributions on the
100th anniversary of his death.
2015:
E. Randol Schoenberg is among those scheduled to be honored at the Los Angeles
Museum of the Holocaust 2015 Gala Dinner.
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/3vcquDbMX8t0BV
2015:
The JDC Archives and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host a
program designed to help researches use the JDC Archives Names Database.
http://support.jdc.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=14022.0&dlv_id=30981
2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host a talk by Deb Mrowka who will recount the experiences of her mother during
the Holocaust.
http://www.ojmche.org/speakers-bureau/eline-hoekstra-dresden-and-deb-mrowka
2016: The Skirball Center is scheduled to present an evening with Bill
Kristol as part of the two-day “Ask the Press” program.
2016: “Three Balconies and a Door” an exhibition featuring the work of
Michal Nachmany is scheduled to close at the Manny Cantor Center.
2016: Nearly 14 million dollars was by the American Friends of Magen
David Adom at the Red Star Ball in Los Angeles with “some five million dollars
of the total coming from a single donor, Maurice Kanbar, creator of Skyy
Vodka.” (As reported by Marcy Oster)
2016:
In Cleveland, the Cubs led by President Theo Epstein are scheduled to take on
the Cleveland Indians led by General Manager Mike Chernoff in the sixth game of
the World Series.
016(30th of Tishrei, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2016(30th of Tishrei, 5777): Eighty-nine year old Pulitzer
Prize winning publisher Stanford Lipsey passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts.)
2017: Today, “Politico reported that David Corn's employer, Mother Jones
magazine, had opened an investigation into allegations that Corn had engaged in
inappropriate workplace behavior”
2017: Meir (Miro) Gal and Ortal Ben Dayan are scheulded to celebrate the
20th anniversary of Meir Gal’s widely acclaimed “9 Out of 400: the West and the
Rest” at the Kovno Room of the Center for Jewish History.
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to cost an
“Interfaith Formal” at Trinity College.
2017: In New Orleans, the Jewish Federation is scheduled to present the
Steeg-Grinspoon award to the educator of the year.
2017: “The School of Humanities and Languages, University of NSW, the
Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney and the
Sydney Jewish Museum are scheduled to host “Why the Holocaust? Teaching the
Next Generation.”
2017: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to London” this evening “to
take part in centennial celebrations of the Balfour Declaration and to hold
talks with Prime Minister Theresa May…” (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2018: “Google Walkout: Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual
Harassment” published today described life in the high tech world during the Me
Too Movement era.
2018: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in Pittsburgh 65
year old Richard Gottfried, 86 year old Sylvan Simon and his 84 year old wife
Bernice Simon.
2018: Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart is scheduled to deliver a lecture
at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at part of the 15th Annual
Holocaust Education Week.
2018: AJHS and HIAS are scheduled to host a “Book Talk” with Gary
Shteyngart, author of the new novel Lake Success.
2018: In the wake of the Pittsburgh Massacre, the University of Iowa is
scheduled to host a panel discussion on anti-Semitism with Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz, Professor Robert Cargill, and
Professor Elizabeth Heineman.
2018: In Los Angeles, Yiddishkayt is scheduled to host an evening with host Lithuanian author
and journalist Rūta Vanagaitė to speak about her controversial best-seller
Mūsiškiai (Our People: Journey with an Enemy), co-authored with world-famous
Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff.
2018: The “12th Annual Other Israel Film Festival” is
scheduled to open at the JCC Manhattan.
2018: In Chicago, Professor Lauren Stokes is scheduled to lecture on The
Rise of Homosexual Persecution in Nazi Germany” at an event sponsored by the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2019: In Palo Alto, The Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Pop-Up
Shabbat: Ukrainian” featuring “Chef Anna Voloshyna’s dinner that will include
hot veggie borscht, pampushki (garlic buns) and blinis filled with homemade
cottage cheese and raisins.”
2019: After having premiered at Telluride in August, “Motherless
Brooklyn” based on the Jonathan Lethem novel and co-produced by Gig Pritzker is
scheduled to be released today.
2019: In a uniquely American culture mix, at Agudas Achim Kathy Jacobs is
scheduled to host the Oneg Shabbat “in honor of Richard Jacobs’ Halloween
Birthday.”
2019: In Berkley, CA, Urban Adamah and Wilderness Torah are scheduled to
host a vegetarian potluck with music, dancing, poetry, meditation and Kabbalat
Shabbat service.
2019: The 10th Annual Sigid Celebration presented by The
American Sephardi Federation and Chassida Shmella Ethiopian Israeli-Jewish
Community is scheduled to begin this evening.
2019: The Jewish International Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “From Cairo to the Cloud, The World of the Cairo Geniza” in
Melbourne.
2020: The Illinois Holocaust Museum, Old Dominion University’s Institute
for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding, United Jewish Community of the
Virginia Peninsula, and Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA. are
scheduled to co-sponsor “Virtual Sneak Peek & Film Discussion: The Secrets
of the Great Synagogue of Vilna,” a program presented by the Vilna Shul.
2020: The 2020 Jewish Book Festival sponsored by the Jewish Federation of
the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys is scheduled to open “virtually”
this evening
2020: The American Society for Jewish Music is scheduled to present via
Zoom the first part of “Psalmody Through the Ages: Music and the Book of
Psalms.”
2020: In Australia, SHALOM is scheduled to present “Sunday Session at
Adamama.”
2020: The Jewish Baby Network is scheduled to present puppeteer-song
leader Mimi Greisman in an event for families that includes music, dancing,
bubbles, stories and puppets
2020: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including The
Invisible Life of Addie Laure by V.E. Schwab and Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn.
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Diane M.
Sharon on “The Bible’s Origins Revealed: Kingship of God and the Human
Monarchy”
2021: Montclair University is scheduled to host a screening “The Spy
Behind the Plate.”
2021: Mitch Albom is scheduled to talk about his latest work The Strangers in the Lifeboat.
2021: Dr. Eric Goldman is scheduled to lecture, in person at the
Streicker Center on “The Jewish Philip Roth Through Cinema.”
2021: Israelis are scheduled to go to the polls
2022: The American Sephardi Federation, the Seattle Jewish Theatre
Company, and the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America are scheduled to present
a performance of “Arrivals,” A Jewish Romeo & Juliet love story based on
historical events.”
2022: Ismar Schorsch is chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological
Seminary and Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish
History is scheduled to deliver an in-person
lecture on Leopold Zunz (1794–1886) who founded the discipline of Jewish Studies
(Wissenschaft des Judentums) sponsored by LBI.
2022: In Burlingame, CA, the Fiends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FDIF)
is scheduled to host its annual fundraiser and gala.
2022: As part of its Exclusive Authors Series, the American Sephardi
Federation is scheduled to host Andrée Aelion Brooks and Ruth K. Abrahams
discussing their book The
Remarkable Life of Luis Moses Gomez.
2022: The Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund is scheduled to
present Jewish Ukrainian poet and activist Ilya Kaminsky, author of the poetry
collection “Deaf Republic,” in conversation with Stanford Alum and Poetry
Foundation editor Shoshana Olidort.
2023: At noon EST, JDC is scheduled to host a live briefing with “Miri
Eisin, the respected media commentator and director of the International
Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University in Herzliya for an
overview of the situation on the ground and the issues facing Israel’s society.”
2023: At UC Berkley, the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel
Studies is scheduled to host, online, “Reporting in a Time of War: A
Conversation with the New York Times Jerusalem Correspondent Isabel Kershner.
2023: The ADL is scheduled to host a webinar “Fighting Hate from Home”
that will “we discuss the rising antisemitism and hate that is being exhibited
on college and university campuses across the country, and how we can speak out
and take action to support Jewish college students.”
2023: As part of its Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime series. The
Tikvah online Academy is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Harry Ballan on
“Moral Clarity in a Time of War.”
2023: The Temple Emanu-El Striecker Cultural Center is scheduled to host
a conversation with John Berman and Anderson Cooper, author of Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune.
2023:
As November 1 begins in Israel, “IDF reservists prepare for potential fight
against Hezbollah,” the “IDF is in close quarters combat with Hamas and the
Israelis must now contend with attacks from Yemen where the Houthis have
claimed credit for a thwarted drone attack on Israel. while
over 200 hostages begin another day 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)
