Thursday, May 9, 2024

This Day, May 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

May 10

70: During the Siege of Jerusalem, Titus, the commander of the Roman legions and the son of Emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.

1013: After three long years of fighting which destroyed the cities of Jaen, Algecrias, Malaga and Valencia, the Muslim Berber tribesmen from North Africa took over the city of Cordoba, replacing the Umayyad Arabs. This shift in power did not have a negative impact on the Jewish population of Moorish Spain as they continued to play a similar role in the more decentralized world of the Berbers.

1267: A Church synod, meeting in Vienna, ordered Jews to wear distinctive garb.

1293: King Dinis I of Portugal who resisted pressure from the clergy to apply the anti-Semitic restrictions of the Fourth Council of the Lateran and “maintained a conciliatory position” regarding his Jewish subjects “advanced the interests of the Portuguese merchants, and set up by mutual agreement a fund called the Bolsa de Comércio, the first documented form of marine insurance in Europe,” which was approved today.

 1427: All Jews were ordered expelled from Berne, Switzerland. Expulsions of Jewish communities continued unabated throughout the 15th century: Treves, 1419; duchy of Austria, 1421; Cologne, 1424; Zurich, 1436; archbishopric of Hildesheim, 1457; Schaffhausen, 1472; Mayence, 1473; Warsaw, 1483; Geneva, 1490; Thurgau, 1491; Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, Lithuania, 1492; Mecklenburg and Arles, 1493; Portugal, 1497; Nuremberg 1499; Provence, 1500. 

1484(15th of Iyar): First auto-da-fe was held in Saragosa, Spain.

1484: The Inquisitor at Saragossa, General Gaspar Juglar was found dead, possibly the victim of a poisoning. This happened shortly after the first auto-de-fe took place in the city.

1529: Suleiman the Magnificent launched his campaign to secure control of Hungary.  The campaign would lead to the unsuccessful siege of Vienna in the fall which would mark the high-water mark of Turkish attempts to take control of Europe with all that that would mean for Christians, Moslems and especially Jews.

1634: William Prynne, an opponent of  Jews settling in England was pilloried for a second time as part of his punishment for opposing the production of plays.

1655: The British capture Jamaica from Spanish opening the door for Jews to settle in the island colony.

1682(2nd of Iyar, 5442): The largest auto da fe was held in Lisbon: One hundred and seventeen persons were judged within three days, including a ninety-one year old woman.

1682(2nd of Iyar, 5442): Abraham Lopez Pereira and Isaac da Fonseca were burned at the stake.

1754(18th od Iyar, 5514): Lag B’Omer

1722: Birthdate of Mathias Bush, the native of Prague who came to “New York in the 1740’s” before moving on to Philadelphia where he became a naturalized citizen in 1749, married into the Gratz family, became a leading merchant, a supporter of the American Revolution and the patriarch of the Bush clan that included Solomon Bush who rose to the rank of Lt. Col. In the Continental Army.

1774: Abraham Solomon married Elizabeth Low at Marblehead, Massachusetts.  Solomon was Jewish, a fact reinforced by the fact that he signed his name in Hebrew on the muster roll so that he could receive his pay while serving in the Continental Army. 

1774: The reign of Louis XV for whom Hannover born Jewish businessman Liefman Calmer became the official purveyor came to an end today.

1774:  Louis XVI begins his reign as King of France.  Basically, Louis followed the policy of his predecessors when it came to the Jews of France.  “The established, finance ally comfortable Sephardim of Bordeaux, Bayonne and Marseilles” enjoyed the privileges granted by Louis XV.  “These privileges had been purchased with a ll0, 000-livres payment in honor of his coronation.”

The Ashkenazi community of Alsace suffered the abuse and taxation that had been their lot since the days of Louis XIV.  Of course, part of this difference in treatment may have been caused by the fact that Alsace was Germanic province that France had taken as a spoil of war.  The French were always suspicious of those living in this border province, Jew and non-Jew alike.

1785: Joseph Abrahams arrived in Savannah, GA today after which in January of 1791 he married the widow of Moses Cohen, nee Judith de Lyon.

1789(14th of Iyar, 5549): Pesach Sheni

1789: Birthdate of Jared Sparks, the American historian, Unitarian Minister and President of Harvard who “became interested in Haym Solomon’s career and validated the importance of the Jewish businessman to the American revolution when he wrote “that Salomon’s associations with Robert Morris ‘were very close and intimate and that a great part of the success that Mr. Morris attained in his financial schemes was to the skill and ability of Haym Solomon.’”

1792(18th of Iyar, 5552): Lag B’omer

1792: Asher Jacobs married Esther Israel at the Great Synagogue today.

1797(14th of Iyar, 5557): Pesach Sheni observed for the first time during the Presidency of John Adams.

1799: French troops under Napoleon make one last assault in their futile attempt to conquer Acre.  If the assault had succeeded would history have been changed?  Would Bonaparte have honored the grandiose statements about making Palestine a home for the Jews?  Given his “inconsistency” in other areas, it would probably have depended on his needs at the time.  

1801: Birthdate of Paul Tulane the businessman whose endowment paved the way for the renaming of the university which was originally known as the Medical College of Louisiana to Tulane University whose many Jewish graduates include Professor Stephen Whitfield.  As of 2009, Tulane’s Jewish population ranked number 9 in a list of 30 private universities. Tulane is home to a Jewish Studies program that has been led by the distinguished author and educator Professor Brian Horowitz.

http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/jewish-studies/

1801: American involvement in the Middle East would begin when the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli (North Africa, not Lebanon) declares war against the United States in what became known as the First Barbary War.  American Jews first became involved in the area when Colonel David Franks negotiated a treaty with Morocco back in 1786.  Jewish involvement would continue when President Madison sent Mordecai Manuel Noah to negotiate with Tunisia based Barbary Pirates for the release of imprisoned American sailors in 1813.  The appointment of Noah “helped establish a tradition of appointing American Jews to Middle Eastern diplomatic posts.  (For more about this fascinating intersection of American and Jewish history see Power, Faith and Fantasy by Michael B. Oren.)

1807: Netherlands native David Cromelien and his wife Adeline Cromelien gave birth to Leon Cromelien.

1808: The Westphalian chief of police, a French official named Savagner, entered “The Green Shield.”  The Green Shield was both the home and the business center for Rothschild in Frankfurt.  Savagner and the troopers, who accompanied him, searched the premises looking for proof that Rothschild was plotting with Whilhelm.

1808(13th of Iyar, 5568): Abraham Kopelik, the husband of Esther Koperlik and the father of Philipp Koperlik; Joseph Koperlik; Benjamin Koperlik; Wolf Koperlik and Isak Koperlik passed away today in what is now the Czech Republic.

1810(6th of Iyar): Rabbi Joshua Ha-Kohen Perahyah, author of Vayikra Yehoshua passed away today

1813: In Hamburg, Philipp Benjamin Schwabe, a Jewish merchant, and his second wife, Rosalie Levi gave birth Gustav Christian Schwabe a German-born British “merchant and financier who funded companies such as John Bibby & Sons, Harland and Wolff and the White Star Line.”  At the age of six, Schwabe and his family “were forced to convert to Lutheranism.”

1815: Gabriel Oppenheim married Elizabeth Davis at the Great Synagogue today.

1815: Samuel Solomons married Sophia Davis at the Hambro Synagogue today.

1816: Birthdate of Joseph Mayer Montefiore, the native of London and nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore who was a member of the Board of Deputies and treasurer of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue which he eventually served as warden.

1823(29th of Iyar, 4483): Parashat Bamidbar; Mevarchim Chodesh Sivan observed on the same day that Charles Robert Sherman and Mary Hoyt Sherman gave birth to John Sherman, the Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Senator who authored the Sherman Antitrust Act which presented challenges to some American businessmen and bankers including Jacob Schiff.

1829: Two days after he had passed away, “watch maker, optician and jeweler” David Davis, the husband of Elizabeth Lazarus and father of Aaron Davis was buried today “at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1837: As the Panic of 1837 (a 19th century version of the 20th century Great Depression) worsens banks in New York fail and unemployment reaches record levels. Some Jews prospered during this period while others struggled. Isaiah Moses, a South Carolina merchant and planter was forced to borrow money from Beth Elohim’s charity fund, Karen Kayemet to help maintain his lifestyle. On the other hand August Belmont, representing the Rothschilds, arrived in New York during the Panic. He used his newly created August Belmont & Company to reform and improve the business interests of the House of Rothschild over the next five years.

1838: Sixty-one year old Heinrich Marx, the father of Karl Marx, who unlike his was Prussian patriot and monarchist and who became a Lutheran because the law forbade Jews to hold positions in the legal system passed away today.

1839: Ernestine Jaffé and Schiee Jaffé gave birth to Alwine Waldenburg

1842: In Rhenish Palatinate, Jacob Sulzbacher and Regine Schwartz gave birth to Louis Sulzbacher, the husband of Pauline Flersheim and the United States for the Western District of Indian Territory and “first continental American appointed as Associate Justice of the newly created Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in 1900.”

1843: Birthdate of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler, leader of the Reform Movement in the United States.  Born and educated in Germany, Kohler came to the United States in 1869 to serve as Rabbi at Congregation Beth El in Detroit.  The following year he married the daughter of Dr. David Einhorn, the Rabbi at Congregation Beth El in New York and the leading Reform rabbi of his day.  Kohler followed his father-in-law in that position and supported his views when he helped write the 1885 Reform Platform.  He was elected President of Hebrew Union College and died in 1926.

1844: In Odessa, of Henriette Halperson and Charles Joachim Ephrussi, a trader in wheat “who founded a bank, Ephrussi & Co” gave birth to French banker and horse breeder Michel Ephrussi the half-brother of banker Ignace von Ephrussi, the older brother of banker Maurice Ephrussi and the husband of “Belgian-born Amélie Wilhelmine Liliane Beer, a niece of composer Jacob Liebmann Beer,” who “was a close business associate of the Rothschild in Paris” and was injured when he fought a duel with a French anti-Semite.

1846(14th of Iyar, 5606): Pesach Sheni

1849(18th of Iyar, 5609): Lag B'Omer

1849: Bernard Sondheim served with the Tenth Regiment of New York State Militia when it quelled the Astor Place Riot, also known as the Forrest-Maready Riots, a unique outbreak of public violence caused by competing fans of two different thespians.

1852: In Krumbach, Deutschland, Elias Landauer, the German born son of Raphael Löb Landauer and Lucia Pessel Landauer and his wife Karoline Kehle Landauer gave birth to Isidor Landauer

1854(12th of Iyar, 5614): Joseph Phillips, the son of Pvt. Jonas Phillips and Rebecca Mendez Machado the husband of Rachel Nunez Phillips and father of Isaac Cardozo Phillips and Ellen Cardozo Phillips passed away today.

1855: A group of Jews who have converted to Christianity are scheduled to meet tonight at the

Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church in Manhattan under the auspices of the American Hebrew Christian Association.

1859: In Washington, DC, Amlia Technor and Samuel Brei, gave  birth to Isidore Bien, the husband of Pauline Jacobs Bien and the father of Morris and Walter Bien.

1860(18th of Iyar, 5620): Lag B’Omer

1860: Lewis Collins married Martha Cohen today on the first day during the counting of the Omer on which Jews can marry.

1861: Secretary of War Cameron and President Lincoln officially accepted Major Mordecai's resignation thus ending a 38-year military career of what was at that time, the highest ranking Jewish officer in the U.S. Army.

1863: Birthdate of Rotterdam native and University of Leyden trained Amsterdam physician Herman Pinkhof  who “in 1895 found the society for the Promotion of the Interests of Judaism in Holland” of which he became president in 1898.

1864: Alfred A. Rinehard, a Captain serving with Company of the 148th Regiment was wounded at Po River, Virginia.

1865(14th of Iyar, 5625): Pesach Sheni

1865: As the Confederacy crumbled at the end of the Civil War, Judah P. Benjamin completed his terms as the third and last Secretary of State of the CSA.

1865: In New York, “John F. and Bertha May Manges” gave birth Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons trained doctor and husband of Julia Hirschhorn who was the consulting physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum as well as a “contributor to several medical journals on the subject of clinical medicine.

1866: Ion Ghica who “was a valuable ally for Yiddish theater in Bucharest” and “on several occasions expressed his favorable view of the quality of acting, and even more of the technical aspects of the Yiddish theater” completed his service as Prime Minister of Romania today.

1866: In Vilna, Boruch M. Friederman and his wife gave birth to Solomon Jacob Friederman who was ordained by Rabbi Isaac Eichanan Spector in Kovno before serving as the rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Jerusalem and Congregation Kol Israel in New York City.

 

1866: Birthdate of Belarus native Lev Rosnberg who gained fame as Leon Bakst a Russian painter and scene- and costume- designer who revolutionized the arts he worked in” and who in 1893 produced a self-portrait that hung in the Sate Russian Museum in, St. Petersburg.

He passed away in 1924.

1868(18th of Iyar, 5628):  Lag B’Omer

1868: “Mr. Disraeli and Judaism” published today summarized the view expressed by The Jewish Chronicle that Benjamin Disraeli has been a Christian since he was either five or six years old at which time a friend of Disraeli’s father took young Benjamin to a church in Hackney where he was baptized.

1868: Abraham Nathan married Katherine Lyons today at the Great Synagogue.

1868: In Medina, NY, Levi Adler and Theresa Wile gave birth to Harvard trained lawyer, Isaac Adler, the “53rd Mayor of Rochester, NY” and the husband of Cora Barnet with whom he had four daughters.

 

1869: The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike. When the Union Pacific, one of the two companies building the railroad, entered Utah the Auberach brothers (Fred, Sam and Theodore) opened tent stores in Bryan, Wyoming and Promontory, Utah to meet the needs of the burgeoning population. The Auberachs were so successful that they opened a permanent store in Ogden, Utah in 1869 and Salt Lake City in 1873.

1872: In Cincinnati, OH, Louis and Setta (Bamberger) Rothenberg gave birth University of Cincinnati graduate and Medical College of Ohio trained physician Samuel Rothenberg the President of the United Jewish Social Agencies in Cincinnati and director of the Department of Obstetrics at the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati who married Cora Oettinger in 1901.

1872:  Birthdate of Marcel Mauss, “a French sociologist best known for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle, Émile Durkheim and the Annee Sociologique and the author of The Gift. He passed away in 1950.

http://www.aaanet.org/committees/commissions/centennial/history/092mauss.pdf

1873: Myer Stern the President of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society and a trustee of Temple Emanu-El was among the mayor’s nominees for Commissioners of Charities and Correction in New York City. Born in 1824, Stern came to the United States at the age of 16 and has lived in New York since 1847.  “A large, robust vigorous-looking man with a rather pleasant expression,” Stern is a Reform Democrat who had the support of the Republicans when he ran for the State Senate.

1873: Amelia Strauss, the Charleston, SC born daughter of Fannie and Bendix Abraham Weinberg and her husband Alfred Abraham Strauss gave birth to Isaac Calhoun Strauss, the husband of Hattie Ryttenberg and Grace Hansen                                         

1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for their unique manner of manufacturing jeans.

1874: Birthdate of Moses Schorr, a Polish Rabbi, Polish historian, politician, Bible scholar, Assyriologist and orientalist who died in Soviet prison camp in 1941.

1877:  Romania declares itself independent from Turkey.  Under the Treaty of Berlin signed in 1878, the Jews of Romania were to receive full citizenship. 

1877: The will of Henry Grass, a New York clothier who died in April, was filed in Surrogate’s Court today.  The estate was valued at $75,000. The will opened with an invocation “In the name of the God of Israel, Amen.”  Grass left $300 to his niece Jetha and a thousand dollars to the daughters of his brother Abraham “on condition that they ‘marry according to the Jewish law.’”  He left $100 bequests  to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum , Mout Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew congregation on 57th street between 1st and 2nd avenues.  He left one third of the residue of the estate to his wife Rebbeca and the remainder was to be divided equally among his six children.

1879: Today’s “Foreign News” column reported that there had been a massacre of Jews in Satschcheri in the Caucuses. At the beginning of April the body of a child was found in the woods. Seven Jews were accused by the Christian villagers of having killed the child and then having hid the body as part of their Easter Sacrifice.  The accused were taken before a local Judge who dismissed the charges after “a medical witness” testified that the child had died of natural causes and that the wounds on the body “were the work of wild animals.  The Jews celebrated their deliverance with a party which was interrupted by a an axe wielding Christian mob.  The mob, which had been incited by an Orthodox Priest broke into the house killing six of the Jews and injuring many more.

1879(17th of Iyar, 5639): Seventy-five-year-old Russian Hebrew scholar Benzion Berkowitz known for his study of the Targum Onkelos passed away today at Wilna.

1879: Based on information provided by a correspondent for the Neue Zilricher Zeitgung it was reported today that in the first week of April the Jews of Satschcheri had been massacred after the body of a Christian child had been found in the woods. Seven Jews were accused by the Christian villagers of having killed the child and hidden the body to be used in a holiday sacrifice. The district judge dismissed the charges because the medical witness said the child had died of natural causes and the wounds on the body had been inflicted by wild enemies. Ax-wielding Christian villagers attacked the Jews who were celebrating their deliverance, killing at least six and wounding several more.  The correspondent claimed that the local Greek Orthodox priest had incited the attack.
1881: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Wasilkow and Konotop, Russia.

1881: In Pittsburgh, of Jacob Isadore Affelder and Catherine "Kate" Affelder gave birth to Case School of Applied Science graduate Harry /Fleishman Affelder, the Cleveland “envelope manufacturer and husband of Rhoda E. Affelder who was the father of Lewis Jacob Affelder and Ruth Jane Hexter Goodfriend.

1882: Alliance, a Jewish agricultural settlement, was founded in New Jersey. Alliance was financed by Alliance Israelite Universelle headquartered in Paris. It was part of a movement to have Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settle away from major metropolitan areas in the United States and Great Britain. 

1883: Birthdate of Eugen Leviné, the Russian born, German educated communist revolutionary.

1883: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Craiova, Rumania.

1883: Josephine and 27-year-old Henry Morgenthau, Sr. were wed today in New York City

1885(25th of Iyar, 5645): Seventy-three year old composer and conductor Ferdinand Hiller whose star pupil was Max Bruch the non-Jew who composed the cello elegy for Kol Nidrei passed away today.

1885(25th of Iyar, 5645): Sixty-year-old Russian author Grigori Isaacovich Bogrov whose first work, Memoirs of a Jew, “portrayed the vicissitudes of his life and surroundings’”

1885: “Welcoming a New Rabbi” published today described the first service conducted by Rabbi Alexander Kohut at Temple Ahavath Chesed.  The Hungarian native had replaced another Hungarian native, Adolph Huebsch who passed away last October. In his opening sermon, Kohut paid tribute to his new home, promised to be an apostle of peace and spoke so movingly of his predecessors that some of the congregants were moved to tears.

1886: Birthdate of  Andritz native and “Austrian auto salesman” Jakob Werlin, “an honorary SS Lead and Hitler’s primary interface with Daimler-Benz Company “ protected “the Jewish wife of William Haspel, the head of Daimler Benz during WW II.

1886(5th of Iyar, 5646): Polish born Gertrude Zloto “Yetta” Friedman Guranowsky, the wife of Israel Guranwosky and the mother of Dora, Helena, Mary, Celia, Augusta, Bertha, Esther, Frances, Caroline, David and Rabbi Abraham Guranowsky, one of the founders of Beth Israel Synagogue and also one of “the founders of Beth Israel and Beth David Hospital passed away today after which she was buried Brooklyn’s Washington Cemetery.

1887: Birthdate of Indianapolis, IN, native and  attorney Leo Kaminsky who was active in B’nai B’rith and the Reform movement.

1888(29th of Iyar, 5648): Sixty-five-year-old Michael Heilprin passed away.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7500-heilprin-michael

http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/heilprin.html

1888: In Vienna, Gábor Steiner, “a Viennese impresario, carnival exposition manager, and inventor, responsible for building the Wiener Riesenrad” and his wife gave birth to Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner who gained fame as Max Steiner was born in Vienna and supposedly studied under Mahler.  He came to the United States in the 1930's, a composer for films who  produced musical themes for such films as “Casablanca,” “The Caine Mutiny,” “The Summer Place” and most famous of all “Tara’s Theme,” the award winning score  “Gone With the Wind.”

http://www.hollywoodsgoldenage.com/moguls/max-steiner.html

1889: Birthdate of Krasilov, Russia native and American realtor William Cholst who 1906 came to United States where he “was a founder and member of the board of directors of the Day and Night Children’s Shelter in Brookly and President of the Yeshiva Isaac Jacob Reines Synagogue and who was the husband of Goldie Cholst with whom he had two sons – Sheldon and Mortimer, both doctors – and two daughters – Paula and Betty.

1890: It was reported today “the upper house of the Prussian Diet has adopted a resolution calling upon the government to remedy the evils arising from the large number of Jews in the public schools”  by excluding “the juvenile Jews while still taxing the adult Jews for the cost of public education.

1890: “Complaining of the Jews” published today described the reaction of Her von Gosler, the Minister of Public Instruction in Prussia to proposals that Jewish children be excluded from public schools.  He said that “such an attempt would force the nation in a position leading to disruption instead of union.”  To him, this is a matter of educational policy and not subject to “political demand.”

1891: Simon Dalsheimer and Bertha Hofmann gave birth to Hugo Dalsheimer, the husband Helen Miller with whom he has two sons, Roger and George, who was President of the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland from 1960 to 1967.

1891: In Poltava, Russia, Louis Benjamin and Cyril Dora (Bulkin) Zlatkovski gave birth to University of Minnesota trained attorney and WW I U.S. Army veteran Harry William Davis the husband of Ida Miriam Blehert who practiced law in Duluth, MN where he President of the Duluth Zionist District, Director of the Duluth Hebrew Brotherhood and trustee of Temple Emanuel in Duluth.

1891: “Tories Not So Happy Now” published today described the rising fortunes of the Liberal Party which is due in part to a return of the Jews to this political party.  “Under the glamour of Disraeli’s example it became quite the fashion for” Jews to join the Conservative Party. Now, as Jews are confronted with “outside persecution” they recall the debt they owe to the Liberal Party.  Among those leading the change are Baron de Stern and H.S. Leon, the son of clockmaker who has reportedly amassed a fortune of 15 million dollars and has sought to be a leader of the Anglo-Jewish community.

1891: The increase of this week’s issue of The Hebrew Standard from 16 to 24 pages is reported to be permanent.  The Hebrew Standard “is now the largest Jewish paper published in the United State. “It is intended to be a Jewish family paper” without any congregational affiliation.

1891: Nearly three hundred Jewish children were vaccinated today the Bureau of Contagious Diseases.

1892: “Strikes Turn Into Riots” published today described the violent attacks on the Jews of Lodz by workers who have been on strike since May Day. After attacking the mills where they had worked the strikers turned their wrath on the Jewish community which actively defended itself.  Local authorities could not quell the disturbance, but the military units called in showed their sympathy with the rioters and did not defend the Jews.

1893: Three people escaped being asphyxiated today at a tenement on Eldridge Street which is occupied by Jewish immigrants from Russia.

1893: In can only be described as a “starting” development, it was reported today that the Russian government to hold a meeting of Rabbis in the Autumn to discuss “the Jewish question.” This comes in the wake of the governments announced plan for expelling a million and half Jews living in the Polish part of the Russian Empire. 

1894: Today, “in the shtetl of Byaroza-Kartuskaya, a teacher in a cheder and his wife, who “ran a dry goods store and a factor for making rye kvass, gave birth to poet and Yiddishist Kadia Molodowsky who settled in the United States in 1935 where she lived with her husband Simcha Lev and wrote with such skill that in 1971 she was “a recipient of the Itzik Manger Prize for Yiddish letters.

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/molodowsky-kadya

1895: In “Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, “Aaron Brode, drapery traveller, and his wife Jane, née Magid, immigrants from Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania “ gave birth to their second son, Sir Israel Brodie, the Jews’ College and Oxford educated rabbi who served “as a British Army Chaplain in France from 1917 to 1919, worked as a congregational rabbi in Australia in the inter-war years and “as an army chaplain in France, was one of the last evacuees from Dunkirk.”

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brodie-sir-israel-9586

1895: “Meeting of Jewish Woman’s Council” published today described the groups plans for holding a fundraising fair in December and a request from London to assist in establishing schools for Russian Jews who have moved to Jerusalem.

1895: Birthdate of Oskar Klein who was murdered at Jajdanek in 1942

1895: Birthdate of Laura Maria Buntenbach-Kugler, the wife of Victor Kugller who was one of those who helped to hide Anne Frank and her family.

1896(27th of Iyar, 5656): Lea "Lisette" Koppel Waldstein, the wife of Ephraim Walstein and the mother of Sophie and Zadok Waldsein, passed away today in Munich.

1896: Birthdate of Philadelphia native Myer Feinstein, the “president of the Penn Federal Savings and Loan Association and chairman of the board of the Central Mortgage Company who was past president of the UJH and the “first American to receive the Shield of Award” and the husband of the former Rosaline Berman with whom he raised a son and a daughter.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/06/07/97208191.html?pageNumber=37

https://www.jta.org/archive/myer-feinstein-noted-jewish-leader-dies-in-phildelphia-was-69

1897: In New Orleans, Prague native Reform Rabbi Maximilian Heller, the son of Simon Heller and Mathilde Kassanowitz and Ida Annie Heller gave birth to Ruth Heller who was the wife of George Lion Cohen and Albert Steiner.

1897: Two days after he had passed away, 43 year old John Solomons was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.

1898(18th of Iyar, 5658): Lag B’Omer

1898: First Sergeant Frank Wolf of Lincoln, Sergeant Henry Jacob of Bellwood and Privates William Assenheimer, William J. Koopman, Eugene Meyer and Guy D. Solomon, of Omaha, were among those who joined the United States military when the 1st Nebraska Volunteer Infantry was mustered into the Army.

1898: Twenty-two-year-old NYU trained attorney Benjamin Franklin Spellman, the New York born son of Michael and Amelia (Franklin) Spellman married Rae Grace Freedman today in New  York City.

1898: In London Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett and his wife Violet Goetze gave birth “to their only son Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett” who “having been brought up in the Church of England” “reverted in the 1930s to his family’s original Judaism and became a champion of Zionism.”

1898: Privates James W. Rosenberger and Tylor H. Rosenberger both of Winchester were among those who joined the U.S. Military when federal government began the process of mustering the 2nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry in the service of the United States.

1898: Birthdate of Bialystok native Jacob Perlman who came to the United States in 1912, earned all three of his college degrees at the University of Wisconsin and went to become a world class economist.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/04/10/89131020.pdf

1898: In what was the part of the Russian Empire, Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman gave birth of Chaya Kaufman who gained famed as Ariel Durant the wife of Will Durant with whom she “was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of The Story of Civilization and “presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford.”

1899: Memorial services honoring the late Baroness Hirsch are scheduled to be held at the Hebrew Institute and Temple Emanu-El

1899: In Richmond, VA, Rachel and Jacob Levy Ezekiel gave birth to “agrarian economist” Mordecai Ezekiel, the holder of a BA from U. of MD, an MA from the University of MN and a Ph.D from Brookings Institute who was instrumental in creating the New Deal’s Agriculture Adjustment Administration.

https://www.geni.com/people/Mordecai-Ezekiel/6000000015434830469

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Ezekiel

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=i8bUXMTBAu6wtgXi2qKoBg&q=Mordecai+Joseph+Brill+Ezekiel&oq=Mordecai+Joseph+Brill+Ezekiel&gs_l=psy-ab.12..33i160.8525.21900..22613...0.0..0.602.4087.15j10j0j2j1j1....2..0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0j0i131j0i10j0i22i30j0i22i10i30j33i299.1DnNnnfGQHI

1899: Birthdate of composer Dimitri Tiomkin.  Born in Russia, Tiomkin worked in lived in Western Europe before coming to the United States in the 1930's where enjoyed an almost unparalleled career writing scores for film productions. His credits include everything from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, to Giant, to The High and The Mighty and the Guns of Navaronne.  One of his classics was the theme for the 1952 classic western, High Noon.  He won an Oscar for that one and Tex Ritter gained musical immortality for singing it.  His biggest contribution to television was the  theme for Rawhide.  He passed away in 1979, yet another Jew who helped create popular American culture.

1900: Birthdate of Russian born author and journalist Herman Ehrenreich who in 1910 came to the United States where he attended NYU and became the drama critic of The Forward while writing such Yiddish books as Lands and People and A World Without Jews 1900: Austrian Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber delivered his “Language Bill” Speech which was entirely different than the one he had asked Herzl to write for him.  Herzl responded to this apparent slight by asking if the Prime Minister only valued his “secretarial services" or that he thought that Herzl wants “a decoration or something like that?” In fact, Herzl only wrote the speech as way of getting the Prime Minister to help him arrange a meeting with the Sultan of Turkey so that he could make a presentation on the benefits of creating a Jewish home in Palestine

1901: The Jewish Comment reported today that Massachusetts State Legislature had rejected Samuel Hyman Borfosky bill exempting “persons observing the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath from any penalty for keeping shops open or for performing secular business and labor on the first day of the week” which in the days of Sunday Closing Laws would have meant that Jews could close on their Shabbat and not lose a day’s business since they would be open on Sunday.

1902: Birthdate of Joachim Prinz, the Prussian born Rabbi who came to the United States in 1937 where he became a leader of the Zionist and Civil Rights movements.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/01/obituaries/joachim-prinz-leader-in-protests-for-civil-rights-causes-dies-at-86.html

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/59863/the-plot-for-america?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=c2e48cf2e6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-c2e48cf2e6-206644398

1902: In Pittsburgh, of silent film director Lewis J. Selznick and his wife gave birth to producer David O. Selznick, the son-in-law of MGM's Louis B. Mayer who worked for MGM for years before setting up his own production company which produced  Academy Award winner, Gone With the Wind.  Selznick died in 1965.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0510.html

1902: Birthdate of Antaole Litvak director of the film Anastasia

1903: Birthdate of philosopher Hans Jonas. Born and educated in Germany, Jonas would move to Eretz Israel 1933, join the British Army, serving as a combat soldier for five years, return to Israel to fight at the age of 45 as soldier in the War for Independence before moving to Canada and the United States where he wrote and taught until his death in 1993.

1903: Zionists are scheduled to conduct a house-to-house campaign today in New York to raise funds for those victims of the anti-Semitic riots that began in “Kishineff” in April.

1904: In Amsterdam, Aron Belinfante and Georgine Antoinette Hesse gave birth to Frieda Belinfante the Dutch-American cellist and conductor who was a member of the Dutch resistance during WW II.

1905: “A dispatch…from Odessa says it is reported there that thirteen Jews have been killed in riots at Melitopol, in the Government of Taurida, South Russia.

1905: “The Associate Press is informed” that 15 of the 18 people killed at Kieff from May 6 through May 7 were Jews.

1906: Birthdate of New York mobster Abe "Kid Twist" Reles

1907: Birthdate of James Joseph Packman, the native of Biala, Poland who came to the United States in 1910 and served as he managing editor of The Milwaukee Sentinel, the Newark Star Ledger and the San Francisco Call-Bulletin.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/packman-james-joseph

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/02/13/77439631.pdf

1908: “The movement among the Jews of” New York City “to urge a general observance of the Jewish Sabbath by shopkeepers and merchants took definite form” tonight when members of the Sabbath Observance Association and took steps that would lead to a “boycott all Jewish bakers within a certain section of the east side who do not agree to close shop on Saturday.

1909: David Hirshberg and his wife gave birth to WW II Navy veteran Albert Simon Hirshberg who gained fame as sports journalist Al Hirshberg who co-authored Jimmy Piersall’s autobiography Fear Strikes Out which was ground-breaking for its time because it dealt with mental illness of a major league baseball player.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/13/archives/al-hirshberg-dies-exsportswriter-63.html?_r=0

1909: It was reported today that there is still a possibility that the million dollar bequest by the late Louis A. Heinsheimer may be given to six New York City Charities on condition that they form a federation.  Alfred M. Heinsheimer, the residuary legatee under the will, is trying to find a way to accomplish the descendant’s desires despite the fact that Louis Stern, President of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum has expressed his continued opposition to the creation of such a federation.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE6DF1E31E733A25753C1A9639C946897D6CF

1910: In Sheffield, England, Julius Isaacs, the Lithuanian born son of Isaac and Sarah Postawelsky and his wife Matilda (Tillie) Isaacs gave birth to “Albert Edward (Teddy) Isaacs.”

1910: Today University of Vienna and University of Zurich medical school graduate Samuel Epstein, the Czernowitz, Austria,  born son of Jeannette Falick and Joseph who in 1909 came to the United States where he settled in Chicago, became a successful diamond importer and was “active in Jewish Charities of Chicago, the Jewish Historical Society of Chicago and the American Jewish Congress married Bertha Pines in New York.

1911: In Brooklyn Rabbi Hyman Goodekowitz and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Alexander David Goode the Washington, DC raised graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College and holder of a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins who was the husband Al Jolson’s niece Teresa Flax who gained fame as on the Four Chaplains aboard the Troopship Dorchester.

1911: In Berlin, medical student Michael Kaufman and his wife Lala Rabinowitz Kaufman, a daughter of Sholem Aleichem gave birth to New York school teacher Bel Kaufman best known for writing Up the Down Staircase.(As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/arts/bel-kaufman-up-the-down-staircase-writer-dies-at-103.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

1912: Today “revolution in Paraguay was defeated after government troops overcame the rebels” at a time when a large number of Sephardi families from the Ottoman Empire were joining the small group of Ashkenazim who had settled there at the end of the 19th century.

1912: Birthdate of Sokolov-Podolsk (Sokołów Podlaski), Poland native and poet Moyshe Shteyngart who in 1927 came to the United States where he attended NYU,  made his literary debut in 1933 “in the literary journal  Tsuzamen and  in 1978 “received a literary prize from the Book Council of the Jewish National Welfare Board in New York.”

https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/274/

1913(3rd of Iyar, 5673): On Shabbat, Samuel Straus who had served as an “Indian agent” passed away in Chattanooga, TN.

1913: In Cincinnati, OH, The Board of Governors of Hebrew Union College is scheduled to host an “exercise” in honor of Dr. Koffman Kohler’s 70th birthday in chapel of the Hebrew Union College Building.

1913: Seventieth birthday of Dr. Kaufmann Kohler who for twenty-four years was Rabbi of Temple Beth-El, at Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street and is now Honorary Rabbi of that congregation.

1914(14th of Iyar, 5674): Pesach Sheni

1914: Following yesterday’s proclamation, the U.S. observed the first official Mother’s Day which falls on the second Sunday of May.

1914(14th of Iyar, 5674): Sixty-three-year-old Israel Dov Frumkin who moved to Palestine at the age of 9 and was an earlier developer of modern Jewish culture including the revival of Hebrew as a modern language as can be seen by his work the newspaper Havatzelet passed away today in Jerusalem.

1914(14th of Iyar, 5674): Fifty-nine-year-old New York native Louis Seigman Ehrich, the husband of Cornelia C. Sampson Ehrich and the father of William, Louis, Adeline, Joseph, Selena and Cornelia Ehrich passed away today after which he was buried at the Beth Elohim Cemetery in Georgetown, SC.

1914: Benjamin “Benny” Snyder murdered Philip “Pinchy” Paul “at the behest of ‘Joe the Greaser,’ and east side rival of ‘Dopey Benny’ Fein.  (All of these colorfully named characters are Jewish gangsters)

1915: “Dramatically asserting his innocence of the murder of Mary Phagan and with impassioned declaration that ‘he was to die for the crime of another,’ Leo M. Frank was today sentenced by Judge Ben H. Hill in the General Court to hang on June 22.”

1915: After weeping silently, the wife of Leo Frank “screamed, collapsed and sank limp in her chair” after he husband was resentenced to death in an Atlanta courtroom “for a crime of which a great majority of his countrymen believe him to be innocent and for which he was never fairly tried.

1915: It was reported today that “Warsaw has 60,000 refugees, a third of them Jews.”

1915: The International Congress of Women at which “Rosika Schwimmer’s proposal for a Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediate between the belligerents was adopted” came to a close today in The Hague.

1915: It was reported today that “a Warsaw rabbi” has “assured” Robert Crozier Long, “an author and special correspondent for the Associated Press” who has toured “the war-devastated districts of Poland” “that 100,000 Jews from the towns of Lodz, Piotrkow and Lowicz were without homes” with “many thousands huddled in the tottering fragments of cottages while 10,000 are shivering in the abandoned trenches and terraced Russian dugouts at Skaryszom.”

1915: According to reports “just received by Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs” in New York City, “an international loan” to which American Jews were major contributors has “saved the large orange-raising industry of the Jewish colonies in Palestine” which “represents an investment of $3,000,000” and twenty years of hard work.”

1915: Birthdate of Ostrow, Poland native Israel I. Blumenfeld, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto who in 1952 arrived in the United where he served as the executive director of the western region of Histadrut.

1915: A summary of the manifesto recently issued by distinguished Russians protesting again persecution of the Jews of Russia during the war” the full text of which had been published in the Jewish Chronicle of London was published in the United States today ending with a declaration by “members of the Duma, members of the Imperial Council, Princes and distinguished professors and letterateurs” that “we are sure that the disappearance of all kinds of persecution of the Jews and their complete emancipation so as to be our equal in all rights of citizenship will form one of the conditions of a really constructive imperial policy.”

1916: Elchanan Harkavy, the Polish born son of “Josef Chaim Harkavy and Chaya-Leach Gabovitch Harkavy and his wife Zlara Zerstin Harvkay gave birth to Tilly (Taibe) Amcis (Harkavy)

1916: It was reported today that Isador Herschfield who is returning from Europe where he has been investigating “the distribution of Jewish relief funds” raised in the United States will be “able to give valuable advice as to the best use to be made of money raised in the future” and well as provide comfort to many living in New York since he has several thousands of letters from those living in the war zones addressed to friends and family in the United States.

1916: According Max J. Klein, when he applied for membership in the Second Field Artillery tonight, “he was told that there no vacancies in the regiment and he and the other 12 Jewish applicants were not sent for medical examinations while several other applicants all of whom were Jewish were sent for the medical examinations which were the next step in joining the unit.

1917: Rabbi Nathan Krass, a member of the American Jewish War Relief Commission “announced that he had raise $100,000 for Jewish war relief work” during his recent lecture tour.

1917: “Ex-President Taft applauded vigorously” tonight” at a dinner sponsored by the American Jewish Friends of Free Russia “when Jacob H. Schiff…praised Theodore Roosevelt for his efforts, while President, to bring the Russian autocracy to a realization of the wrong committed against their Jewish subjects.”

1917: The Jews of Amsterdam held a meeting today where “a resolution was passed hailing the American Jewish Congress and similar movements in Russia and other countries as the beginning of an organization comprising the entire Jewish people for the formation of legitimate representation at the peace conference.

1917: On the last day of the British War Mission’s visit to Washington A.J. Balfour, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affiars, spoke with Justice Brandeis this afternoon, possibly about the establishment of “a Zionist Republic in Palestine” – a subject “that the British do not desire to discuss too fully in the present disturbed situation.” (That “disturbed situation is also called World War I)

1917: “Jacob Biliikopf, Executive Director of the $10,000,000 campaign of the American Jewish Relief committee in Behalf of the Jewish War Sufferers in Europe announced” tonight that $1,000,000 has already been pledged.

1917(18th of Iyar, 5677): Lag B’Omer

1917(18th of Iyar, 5677): In Philadelphia, PA, “communal worker” L.G. Pape passed away today.

1918: Importer and Turkish Army Veteran Robert Franco, the Smyrna born son of Rahamim and Sol Franco who in 1912 came to the United States who he served as the President of the Sephardic Educational Institute and the President of the Spanish Hebrew Charity Society married Rose Cory today.

1918: It was reported today that “the Kehillah has just published the Jewish Communal Register” which “provides some interesting facts regarding the Jews in New York.”

1919: Birthdate of Daniel Bolotsky, who gained fame as  “Daniel Bell, the writer, editor, sociologist and teacher who over seven decades came to epitomize the engaged intellectual as he struggled to reveal the past, comprehend the present and anticipate the future.” (As reported by Michael T. Kaufman)

1920(22nd of Iyar, 5680): Sixty-one-year-old Clarence Isaac de Sola, the “son of Cantor Abraham de Sola and Esther de Sola and husband of Belle Maud de Sola with whom he had four children passed away today passed away today in Boston after which he was buried in his native Montreal.

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/de_sola_clarence_isaac_14E.html

http://imjm.ca/location/1092

1920: Four days after she had passed away Leah Hopter, the wife of Alexander Hopter who died on the same day she had, was buried today at the “East Ham Jewish Cemetery.”

1920: Luigi Luzzatti, the second Jew to serve as Prime Minister of Italy completed his service as the treasury minister “in the second incarnation of the Nitti cabinet” today.

1921: Eugen Schiffer began serving at the Minster of Justice for the second time.

1922: Birthdate of David Joshua Azrieli, CM, CQ the “Canadian builder, designer, architect, developer and philanthropist.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2014/07/09/canadian-israeli-real-estate-tycoon-david-azrieli-dies-at-92/

http://www.haaretz.com/business/1.603922

1923: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today at the Central Synagogue on Lexington for Marx Ottinger, a twenty-five year member and leader of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1923: In Vienna, at tonight’s session of the World Conference of Jewish Women, Dr. Kahn, the German delegate “stated in her report on emigration that as a result of pogrom and various persecutions “3,300,000 Jews migrated from Eastern Europe from 1881 till 1922 of whom 2,630,000 went to America” and that “the situation of the Eastern European Jews has become desperate, owing to the restriction of American immigration.”

1924: Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, President Emeritus of Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, Honorary President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and known as one of the greatest Jewish scholars of America, celebrated his eighty-first birthday at his home at 2 West Eighty-Eighth Street among a gathering of relatives, friends and scholarly disciples.

1925(16th of Iyar, 5685): Seventy-year-old Sir Isidore Newman passed away today in England

https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1221577973

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41335896?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

1925: “Judaism’s Future in America” published today provides a review of American Judaism: The Religion and Religious Institutions of the Jewish People in the United States: A Historical Survey by Joseph Leiser,

1925(16th of Iyar, 5685): Seventy-year-old Isidore Spielman, the London born son of Marian and Adam Spielman and husband of Emily Sebag-Montefiore  with whom he had four children – Ferdinand, dora, Maude, Harold and Adelaide – who was , a Warden of the New West End Synagogue, founder and Secretary of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition and President of the Jewish Historical Society of England who also served Secretary and Director of Fine Art Committees including those for the Paris exhibition in Paris and the Exhibition of Early Flemish Art in Bruges passed away today.

1926: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to receive Zeta Beta Tau’s  Gottheil Medal “for distinguished service to the cause of Judaism” this evening at the Hotel McAlpin

1926: “Jew and Gentile” published in today in Time magazine provided the following portrait of the American Jewish Community in the middle of the Roaring 20’s which had come to include a genteel form of anti-Semitism at America’s leading universities.

 

On the upper end of Manhattan Island there are arising some gorgeous, massive buildings in an Americanized Byzantine manner— rigid facades; a squatty dome; ornate yet severe decoration. They represent the first independent stand on education ever taken by Jewry in the 2,000 years of its exile. Out of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary has grown the Yitzchok Elchanan Yeshivah, in which there will be the first Jewish college ever established in the U. S., equipped to grant "the same academic degrees as other American colleges in a background thoroughly Jewish and thoroughly American in spirit." Such an institution has become more and more inevitable, for a reason implicit in remarks made last week by Gustavus A. Rogers, Manhattan lawyer, who addressed 60 prominent Jews at the Bankers' Club: "We will cater ... to the Jews who have been barred from Christian schools for non-scholastic reasons."  There was simple fact in Mr. Rogers' assertion that U. S. universities— he named Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton — discriminate against Jews in accepting matriculants. Polite evasion by those institutions notwithstanding—except in Columbia's case — Jewish undergraduates form an element in the undergraduate bodies which, if it has not occasioned official discrimination, is a subject for much restless discussion and action among Gentile undergraduates, and this constitutes, for the Jews, discrimination of a most definite sort—exclusion from clubs, preference in athletics, elections, etc. It has seemed to many Gentiles high time that the Jews, with their plentiful resources, relieve themselves of embarrassment by building their own colleges, just as they have their own churches, dwelling colonies (e. g., Long Beach, L. I.), and even hotels (e.g., the Hotel Libby, at Delancey and Chrystie Streets, Manhattan, which opened formally last week for Jews only). Another speaker at the Bankers' Club gathering—met to discuss a music festival to be held this month in Madison Square Garden to raise a fifth of the five millions needed to build the Yeshivah— was Adolph Lewisohn, one of the most intelligent and effective workers on human relationships in the U. S. He referred to the Yeshivah as "the salvation of Judaism," where Jews could acquire a college education in Jewish surroundings and without breaking the Sabbath and other holy days. He said that his own grandsons had been excluded "by one of the East's largest universities." There was a tinge of irony in Mr. Lewisohn's position, whether the grandsons had been excluded for social or for academic reasons. He came to this country from Germany as a lad of 16, in 1865. His brother Leonard was already here and the two built up a big mercantile business, Lewisohn Bros. In 1868 they began specializing in metals, particularly copper, and soon led in world markets. Leonard died in 1902. Adolph, now 77, is one of the world's greatest mining and industrial potentates. He sent his son, Sam Adolph, to Princeton ('04) and to Columbia Law School ('07), then took him into the firm, now Adolph Lewisohn & Sons. As wealth accumulated he entered philanthropy in the educational and artistic fields. He housed the Columbia School of Mines with a gift of $300,000. He assisted the College of the City of New York to form a German library, to build an athletic stadium. He collected paintings—Blakelock, Bellows and other moderns as well as Rembrandt, Titian, Dürer—and put them where they could be enjoyed by the people as well as himself. Now his grandsons, because of the pressure of an affluent Jewish population, are uncomfortable in surroundings to whose peace and prosperity he has contributed much. He hears of requests from the colleges to the heads of preparatory schools to "leave the Jews out" when they fill their quotas of certificate scholars. But Adolph Lewisohn understands the nature of social irony, and instead of berating the Gentiles, he has simply noted their frame of mind and thrown his weight behind a movement to supply the people of his race and creed with an institution which, without in turn discriminating against other creeds, will put the children of Israel on an equal educational footing with their Gentile countrymen.

 

1926: Following the success of the original in 1925, the second incarnation of Rodgers and Hart’s Garrick Gaieties under the direction of Philip Loeb opened today.

1926: Large contributions towards the campaign to save the Franc by voluntary subscriptions are being made by French Jews. Louis Dreyfus contributed the amount of 500,000 Francs today. The Union of Presidents of Jewish Societies in Paris has announced its first contribution of 6,335 Francs.

1926: New light upon the life, achievements and opinions of Walter Rathenau, late German Jewish statesman who was killed by anti-Semites, is contained in two volumes of the writings of Rathenau and documents pertaining to his life, released here today. The volumes contain about eight hundred letters of Rathenau and cover a period of forty years. The volumes contain material hitherto unknown in which Rathenau emphasized his loyalty to Germany and Judaism.

1927: In Berlin, Sali and Alex Friedlander gave birth to HUC trained rabbi, Dr. Albert Hoschander Friedlander, the refugee from Nazi Germany who began his career at Temple B’nai B’rith in Wilkes-Barre PA and who eventually moved to England where served as the rabbi of the “Wembley and District Liberal Synagogue and as senior rabbi of the Westminster Synagogue staring in 1971.

1927: “The Bordellos of Algiers” with music by Artur Guttmann was released in Germany today.

1928: Birthdate of Alfred Gilbert Aronowitz, an American rock journalist best known for introducing Bob Dylan and The Beatles in 1964.

1929(30th of Nisan, 5689) Rosh Chodesh Iyar

1929: A joint memorandum to the Mandatory Government by the chief rabbis, the National Council and Agudat Israel demands a halt of all construction work carried out by Muslims near the Western Wall.

1930: Birthdate of Chicago native and Washington University Ph.D. Samuel Halperin  who taught political science at Wayne State University who went to be an influential “legislative specialist” with HEW while raising two children – Elan and Deena – with his wife Marlene Epstein Halperin.

1930: “Jonica,” a musical by Josephy Meyer which had opened on Broadaway at the Craig Theatre April 7 was performed for the last tie.

1931: Today, after having received “menacing letters warning Jewish traders to leave Mexico with 24 hours,” a Jewish delegation left a petition with President Rubio “drawing attention to the desperate position of the Jews of Mexico” and requesting he issues an order to end the “anti-Jewish boycott.” (JTA

1932: Mayor Jimmy Walker was the final speaker today at the opening session of the 32nd annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

1933(14th of Iyar, 5693): Pesach Sheni

1933(14th of Iyar, 5693): Fifty-eight-year-old operatic soprano Selma Kurz lost her battle with cancer and passed away today in Vienna.

http://www.operavivra.com/artists/sopranos/selma-kurz/

1933: Ezriel Carlebach “attended as an observer the central book-burning on Opernplatz in Berlin, where his books were thrown into the fires

1933: “Major Gen. John F. O'Ryan, commander of the Twenty-seventh Division of the A.E.F., will be grand marshal of the march which is scheduled to  held here today under the auspices of the American Jewish Congress in protest against the treatment of Jews in Germany by the government of Adolf Hitler.”

1933: Books deemed of "un-German spirit," most of them Jewish, are burned on Unter den Linden, opposite the University of Berlin, and throughout Germany. More than 20,000 volumes are destroyed, including works by John Dos Passos, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Émile Zola, H. G. Wells, André Gide, Sigmund Freud, Maxim Gorky, Helen Keller, Friedrich Forster, Marcel Proust, Jack London, and Erich Maria Remarque. Among those who witnessed the burnings were Sinclair Lewis, Eve Curie and Bella Fromm.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/02.asp

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/book-burning?utm_source=mkto&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1805MKTEM03879-three-col-link-2&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURnd01XWXdObUl5TlRrMSIsInQiOiJZZk0xYmw1N2VTTVExNURJeGlWd09nSHN5OEs1V2FiZzg5eDlcL3hic3lOb3A2bVZUdDJFdXh1NmZWZFJrczZOaW92aGdia2RBc3RxeHZwZnZTOHN5b0M3Y2pRZGFHYXVqSEpKRUk2SDhLSWFNQUFMOHk4ZHMzYm5UMFdRVzYzU1gifQ%3D%3D

1933: Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife had already moved to Southern France when his works were burned during today’s book burnings in Germany. The famous novelist had been forced to flee because he was Jewish, because he was an out-spoken critic of the Nazis and because he was friend with such decadents as Bertol Brecht.

1933(14th of Iyar, 5693): Seventy-three-year-old Samuel “Frenchie” Marx the French born tailor who was the husband of Minnie Marx and the father of The Marx Brothers passed away today in Los Angeles, CA.

http://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/parents.htm

1934: A shopkeeper In the Yorkville section of Manhattan complained today that he had applied for membership in the German-American Protective Alliance so that he might put the blue German eagle of "the DAWA" in his window, but that his request had been refused because he was a Jew.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/05/11/93626654.html?pageNumber=11

1935: After premiering in Los Angeles last month “Bride of Frankenstein” produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr with music by Franz Waxman opened in New York City.

1935: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today for sixty-eight year old Vilna born American journalist I. Leon Dalidansky who in 1906 came to the United States where wrote for the Jewish Daily News while raising two children – Cecilia and Ezra – with his wife Mary followed by burial “at Mount Judah Cemetery in Brooklyn.”

1936(18th of Iyar, 5696): Lag B’Omer

1936(18th of Iyar, 5696): Seventy-two-year-old Emilie Eisler, the daughter of Catherine and Samuel D. Klauber and the wife of Juris Doctor Alois Eisler passed away today in Moravia.

1936: Today is Mother’s Day which is being observed “by thousands of Jews in the United States by purchasing trees to be planted in Palestine in honor of Jewish mothers” – a plan that was promoted by Hadassah.

1936: The 80th anniversary of the founding of Congregation Beth Israel Anshei Emes in Brooklyn “was celebrated at dinner” tonight “at the Hotel St. George attended by more than 100 members and guests” including Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Justice Edward Lazansky of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court and Harold L. Turk, president of the Congregation.

1937: In Manhattan Maxine Dubin and advertising salesman Henry Koenig gave birth to Arthur Lee Koenig who gained fame as “avant-garde playwright, Arthur Kopit.” (As reported by Anita Gates)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/theater/arthur-kopit-dead.html

1937: HMT Dunera, the ship which was the nautical vehicle of “an infamous care of wartime…injustice” when it was used by the British to deport 2,542 detainees classified as ‘enemy aliens’” the largest contingent of which “2, 036 anti-Nazis most of whom were Jewish refugees” to Australia under the most barbaric conditions imaginable, was launched today.

1938(9th of Iyar, 5698): Sixty-eight-year-old “Taub (Yona) Margalit, the Bialystok born daughter of Elijah and Sarah Golda Bloch” and the wife of Moshe Dov Bear Margalit passed away today it “Petah Tikvah, Israel.

1938(9th of Iyar, 5698): Author and Zionist leader Alter Druyanow passed away today.

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Druyanow_Alter

1939: In Glasgow, thirty-three French featherweight Maurice Holtzer ended his fifteen-year pugilist career with a loss on points today.

1939: After his family’s plans to escape Nazi Germany came apart, today sixteen-year-old Robert Ludwig Kahn, the Nuremberg born son of Jewish businessman Gustav Kahn and the former Beatrice Freudenthal (both of whom were murdered in the Holocaust) was sent to England on a Kindertransport after which he eventually became a Professor of German at Rice University in Houston while raising two children, Peter and Beatrice, with his wife, poet Lieselotte Maragrete Kupfer

1940: During World War II, British forces occupied Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, as part of Operation Fork.  The British took the action to forestall seizure of the neutral island-nation by the Nazis.  The Anglo-Jewish sailors and marines who were part of the occupation force found that city contained a small Jewish population but no synagogue.  By Yom Kippur the disparate groups of Jews had coalesced into a semblance of a community. About twenty five Jewish soldiers from England, Scotland and Canada gathered with eight Jewish refugees and Hendrik Ottósson to observe the most solemn day on the Jewish calendar.

1940: Birthdate of Parisan Dora Frydenzon (née Skurnik) the daughter of Polish Jews who had fled to France in 1936 and who would survive the war thanks to the efforts of Alfred Le Guellec.

1940: The Germans invaded the Low Countries and France putting an end to the so called Phony War.  The Blitzkrieg would bring the Holocaust to the existing Jewish populations of these nations as well as to the untold thousands of Jews who had sought refuge in the West since the rise of Hitler during the 1930's.

1940: Today’s Nazi bombing of Antwerp meant that Leo Bretholtz’s hernia operation was canceled leading to his discharge from the hospital and arrest and imprisonment at St Cyprien.

1940: This morning President Roosevelt met with six of his closest advisors including Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

1940: Author and illustrator Hans Rey was at his desk in Avranches touching up a page of “Fifi” as the Nazis were invading France and the Benelux countries.  Unbeknownst to Rey, this major military catastrophe would trigger events that would send him and his wife on race against death that would lead them through southern France and ultimately to the United States.

1941: In London, “the Great Synagogue” was destroyed today.

1941: As Axis forces drive into Egypt, Churchill receives secret word of a new threat to the Jews of Palestine.  Hitler is pressuring Turkey to allow German troops to cross their borders threatening Palestine from the North.  Churchill reminds his new Colonial Secretary, Viscount Cranborne of his previous support of arming the Jews for self-defense and urges him to get done all that he can.  Realizing the danger of a pincer attack, the British now encourage the Jews to build fortifications on the crest of Mount Carmel so that they can respond to attacks from the north and the south.

1941 (12th of Iyar, 5701) In Suresnes, France, Aaron Beckermann was the first Jew in France to be shot for resistance.

1941: Raymond Raoul Lambert wrote in his diary: "In view of the persecutions being initiated by the new order in France, against foreigners in general and foreign Jews in particular, in light of what has happened elsewhere, in view of the racist laws and the 'Commission on Jewish Affairs' being run in Vichy from Berlin, I wonder whether this collaboration won't bring about a yet more rigorous Statut [the anti-Jewish laws of October 7, 1940]... There are days when I don't dare listen to official bulletins on the radio; they wound me, because I still feel French and call myself a Frenchman. If I didn't have my wife and my three sons, I should be sorry not to have died honorably in action... or sorry to have survived my mother..." As a staunch supporter of pan-Europeanism, Paul Lambet had repeatedly censured nationalistic writers and opposed the more militant French attitudes toward Germany. He believed that "Germany and France, after having been combatants, have to collaborate or decline," a prophetic thought, but expressed too early. Lambert's strong identification with France and its interests did not prevent him from taking a deep interest in Jewish affairs. A prolific writer for various French and Jewish publications, he had even published a collection of poems on Jewish themes and had assisted in the founding of the French Jewish Literary Review. He strove to bring French Jewish youth to a better understanding of the need to build "a new notion of a universal order." He was pleased to see the Zionist achievements in Palestine, but his very deep sentiment for liberal France prevented him from showing any special interest in the Zionist movement. Lambert's diary offers us a very interesting description of his service in the defeated French army in World War II, the creation of Vichy and the unprecedented rise of French anti-Semitism.

1941: Tonight, during the Blitz, the Luftwaffe destroyed the boardroom of the Bayswater Synagogue and completely destroyed London’s “Great Synagogue” and the “1870 Central Synagogue.”

1941: Following tonight’s Blitz that destroyed the Great Synagogue of London, “Sandys Row Synagogue” which had been founded in the 1850’s “by workingmen of Dutch Ashkenazi background, employed as cigar makers, diamond cutters and fruit traders” became the oldest surviving Ashkenazi synagogue in London

1942(23rd of Iyar, 5702): Seventy-four year old Joseph M. (Joe) Weber, the Weber in the burlesque team of Weber and Fields, the husband of the former Lily Friedman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Friedman passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/05/11/85536919.pdf

1943: “A Bundist member of the Polish government in exile, Szmul Zygielbojm, committed suicide in London to protest the lack of reaction from the Allied governments. In his farewell note, he wrote:

 

"I cannot continue to live and to be silent while the remnants of Polish Jewry, whose representative I am, are being murdered. My comrades in the Warsaw ghetto fell with arms in their hands in the last heroic battle. I was not permitted to fall like them, together with them, but I belong with them, to their mass grave. By my death, I wish to give expression to my most profound protest against the inaction in which the world watches and permits the destruction of the Jewish people."

1943: Famous actor Ralph Bellamy read from “They Burned the Books” by Stephen Vincent Benet to a thousand people who gathered in front of the New York Public Library “as part of the nation’s observance of the tenth anniversary of the burning of books in Germany.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30815FC3E581B7B93C3A8178ED85F478485F9

1943: This afternoon, in cooperation with the Council on Books in Wartime, New York radio station WQXR will broadcast “Books Never Die” to mark the 10th anniversary of the first mass Nazi book burning. The broadcast will include a message from Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie and addresses by Sinclair Lewis, Eve Curie and Bella Fromm who were in Germany at that time.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F7071FFF3E581B7B93C2A8178ED85F478485F9

1943: Two Jews were successfully smuggled out of Dobele, Latvia, and hidden in a haystack

1944: In Shorewood, WI, “Louise M. (née Ogens), an educational researcher, and Norman S. Abrahams, a lawyer” gave birth to director, producer and screenwriter James S. Abraham, the colleague of the brothers Jerry and David Zucker and the husband of Nancy Cocuzzo.

1945: At Theresienstad, Herman Rosenblat “was scheduled to die in the gas chamber at 10:00 A.M.  But at 8: A.M. he “heard shouts, and saw people running in every which way” because the Russians had liberated the camp.  Rosenblat went to find his brothers who had also survived the last Nazi attempt at genocide. (Herman Rosenblat wrote the “fictitious memoir” Angel at the Fence.)

1945: Theresienstadt was liberated by the Soviet Army.  Located in the Czech town of Terezin (Theresienstadt was its German name), the ghetto gained some measure of fame as a show place where the Nazis brought representatives of the International Red Cross to show how well the Jews were being treated in the Third Reich.  Eventually most of the Jews of Theresienstadt met the same fate as others in the various Death Camps.  Sadly, after the liberation there was an outbreak of typhus which raged until August, claiming even more victims.  There is a collection of children's art and from this strange ghetto entitled I Thought I Never Saw Another Butterfly.

1946: “A Night in Casablanca” starring Groucho, Harpo and Chico Marx, with music by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a script co-authored by Joseph Fields was released today in the United States.

1946: “In Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Maurice Julius Lipman, a tailor and Zelma Pearlman gave birth to award winning British actress, writer and supporter of Israel, Maureen Diane Lippman the wife of dramatist Jack Rosenthal an the mother of  Amy and Adam Rosenthal.

1947(20th of Iyar, 5707): Parashat Emor

1947(20th of Iyar, 5707): Sixty-nine year-old Dr. Louis Kaufman Anspacher, New York writer and lecturer, died of a heart attack in a hotel room in Nashville, TN today while returning from Los Angeles on a vacation motor trip.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/05/11/87751432.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1947: Today “Twelve German generals, including Wilhelm List and Maximilian von Weichs, were indicted at Nuremberg on charges of war crimes.”

1948: “In an attempt to see if war with Transjordan could be averted, the Jewish Agency sent one of its most formidable negotiators, Golda Meir, on a second secret mission to King Abdullah of Transjordan.  In a mission that would credit to James Bond, Mrs. Meir traveled at night disguised in the robes of an Arab woman.  Mrs. Meir offered a plan along the lines of the U.N. approved partition plan.  Abdullah wanted the Jews to drop their demand for free immigration and give up their aspirations for a state.  Instead, the Jews could have autonomy under Jordanian rule with Jewish representation in a Jordanian parliament. Considering the lack of democracy in Jordan, this offer was a rather a hollow one in terms of power sharing.  As to the substitution of autonomy instead of sovereignty; this would be consistent with the traditional Moslem view of Arab-Jewish relationships.  The Jews would be accepted as long as they would always accept a second class position.   

1948: Tzfat (Safed) was secured by the Haganah. Located in the northern Galilee, Tzfat is one of the four holiest cities for Jews in Israel.  It has been the home to Jewish mystics for centuries; a center for the study of Kabbalah and the place where Lecha Dodi was created.  Tzfat was the scene of fighting in April and May 1948 as the Arabs sought to destroy the Jewish community before the end of the Mandate.  Tzfat had a small Jewish population and matters were not helped by the departing British commander who turned the keys of the police station (with its arms) which was the local citadel to the Arab insurgents.  The Palmach and the Hagana prevailed despite being outnumbered and outgunned.  Most of the Arab population fled when Jewish victory seemed imminent.  According to the Churchill's biographer Martin Gilbert, "With the invasion of Palestine by regular Arab armies believed to be imminent...many Arabs felt prudence dictated their departure until the Jews had been defeated and they could return to their homes."  And thus began the "Palestinian Refugee Problem" that is with us to this day.

1948: Since she could not reach Ramot Naphtali, Lorna Wingate, the widow of Order Wingate flew over the settlement in a Piper Cub and dropped a Bible into the compound.  The note attached to it read, "This bible accompanied Wingate on all his campaigns and inspired him.  Let represent a covenant between us - in victory or defeat, now and forever.

1948: Units of the Moslem Brotherhood were driven back after they had attacked Kefar Darom

1948: Samuel J. Borowsky, the national president of Histadruth Ivrith of America announced that “a one-man presentation of Shakespeare’s “Othello” is scheduled to be given on May 15 by WW II Jewish Brigade veteran Ben-Astar, the Israeli actor and director.

1949: It was announced today, that, thanks to the efforts of the Joint Distribution Committee, the International Refugee Organization and the Canadian Jewish Congress, “some 300 Jewish refugees trapped in Shanghai will be flown to Canada by Alaska Airlines, Inc.”

1950: The Mediterranean coastal district of Israel is reported to be fighting an outbreak of polio.

1951(4th of Iyar, 5711): Despite being surrounded by enemies on all sides, dealing with the challenge of absorbing tens of thousands refugees and host of other problems, Israel celebrates Yom HaAtzmaut

1951: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, escorted by high ranking Israeli officials, journeyed to West Point this morning and placed a wreath on the grave of Col. David (Mickey) Marcus, who was killed in 1948 while serving with the Israeli forces during the war in the Holy Land.

1952: Temple Israel in Akron, Ohio lays the cornerstone for its new addition.

1953(10th of Iyar, 5713): Henry M. Powell, the New York City born son of Eva Powell and Civil War veteran Andrew Powell and graduate of Columbia “who was a prominent tax lawyer for than fifty years” and the husband of Hazel Felleman Powell with whom he raised one daughter, Myrtle Powell Levinson, suffered a fatal heart attack today.

1953: Birthdate of John Diamond, the native of Hackney, London, who became a biochemist and fashion designer who was the husband of television personality and author Nigella Lawson.

http://web.archive.org/web/20091216113301/http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/diamond/2603916

1953(10th of Iyar, 5713): Seventy-year-old Belfast born, American composer and orchestra leader Harry Rosenthal passed away today in Beverly Hills.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/05/11/84401500.html?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0&pageNumber=27

1955(18th of Iyar, 5715): Lag B’Omer

1955: Birthdate of Greenwich, CT native Christopher James "Chris" Berman, “also known by the nickname Boomer, the American sportscaster who anchors SportsCenter, Monday Night Countdown, Sunday NFL Countdown, Baseball Tonight, U.S. Open golf, the Stanley Cup Finals and other programming on ESPN and ABC Sports.”

1958(20 of Iyar, 5718): Parashat Emor

1958(20th of Iyar, 5718): Fifty-year-old Richard Weil, Jr. the Manhattan born son of Minnie and Dr. Richard Weil Sr. the grandson of Isidor Strauss, the co-founder of Macey’s and the husband of Arlene Burns Weill with whom he had two children – Richard III and Maratha who served with Paratroops during World War II and the former President of Macy’s New York as well as the former vice president of R.H. Macey and Co. Inc, suffered a fatal heart attack today.

1959: Betty and Dr. Jacob Levin gave birth to attorney Lawrence “Larry” Levin, the husband of Sandee Levin and the co-creator of the Iowa Kosher for Passover Care Package.

1959(2nd of Iyar, 5719): Seventy four year old Petrikov, Russia native Max Zaritsky, the son of a rabbi and husband of Sophie Zaritsky who in 1906 came to the United States where he rose the Presidency of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union passed away today.

https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6h995qg

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/05/11/80575988.pdf

https://www.jta.org/1959/05/12/archive/max-zaritsky-leading-american-jewish-labor-leader-dead-was-74

1960: Following the closure of the Broadway production of Flower Drum Song the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II “a U.S. national tour began today in Detroit.

1960(13th of Iyar, 5720): Seventy-year-old Maurice Schwartz, the Russian born American actor who founded the Yiddish Art Theatre passed away today.

http://www.jta.org/1960/05/11/archive/maurice-schwartz-leading-actor-of-jewish-stage-dies-in-israel-was-72

1961(24th of Iyar, 5721): Fifty-six-year-old Cleveland born Lloyd H. Feder, the husband of Lillian Feder and father of Suzie Bloom of Louisville, KY passed away today in his home town.

1964: “Treblinka was declared a national monument of martyrology today during an official ceremony attended by 30,000 people.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszek_Duszeńko#/media/File:Treblinka_memorial.jpg

1965: It was reported today the Senator Jacob Javits has said that the upcoming Republican Primary should choose a Republican candidate for Mayor and not get involved with selecting a “fusion candidate.”

1966: In an example of how the Arab-Israel conflict was entwined in the Cold War, Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin arrives in Cairo where he will convince Nasser “that a mutual defense pact between Cairo and Damascus (guaranteed by Moscow) would be in the best interest of all concerned. Israel enjoyed no such reciprocal relationship with the United States or her western allies which reinforced the Israeli notion that in any crisis, Israel would be facing millions of armed Arabs backed by the military might of the Soviet Union.

1967: Funeral services are scheduled to held today for eighty-one-year old Alfred E. Lyon, former chairman of the board and president of Philip Morris, Inc, the husband of Dorothy Lyon and the father of David Lyon.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/05/09/89663586.html?pageNumber=46

1968(12th of Iyar, 5728): Eighty-one-year-old George Frankenthaler, a former State Supreme Court Justice and New York County Surrogate passed away today.  An accomplished lawyer, Frankenthaler was so highly respected that both President Franklin Roosevelt and Governor Thomas Dewey urged to seek election to the State Supreme Court.   In 1948, Frankenthaler who was a Republican became the first non-Democrat to be elected to the Surrogate’s Court in over half a century. Active in several Jewish charities, he had served as President of the 92nd Street Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50D13FB39541B7B93C0A8178ED85F4C8685F91968(12th of Iyar, 5728): Ninety-four-year-old Samuel Bloomingdale, the son of Lyman Bloomingdale and Hattie Collenberger who was the husband of Rita Goodman and the Columbia educated businessman who “upon the death of his father in 1905, became with his two brothers, owner of Bloomingdale Brothers Department Store” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/05/11/77304407.pdf

1970(4th of Iyar, 5730): Yom HaZikaron

1971(15th of Iyar, 5731): Eighty-nine-year-old New College, Oxford educated journalist and director of Marks and Spencer Harry Sacher, the husband of Miram Sacher and son of , “Polish Jews Ester Sacher” and tailor Jacob Sacher who was a  co-founder of Sacher, Horotwitz and Klebanoff and the father of Michael and Gabriel Sacher passed away today.

1972(26th of Iyar, 5732): Edward Henry Pinto, the London born son of a cigar merchant and WW I veteran who was the Joint Managing Director of Compaction Ltd and author of Treen and Other Wooden Objects passed away today.

1973: At Ramat Gan, writer and poet Yehonatan Geffen and Nurit Makover gave birth to rock start Aviv Geffen

1974(18th of Iyar, 5734): Lag BaOmer.

1974: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in Nashville, TN for eighty-one-year-old Laconia, NH born and Columbia graduate Mortimer May, the husband of Gertude May with whom he had two children and past president of the ZOA, Nashville Jewish Community Council and The Temple in Nashville who was long-time executive with May Hosiery Mills and who brought 200 German Jews to the United States when the Nazis came to power.

1975: “The Other Side of the Mountain” a biopic directed by Larry Peerce, son of Cantor Jan Peerce, produced by Edward S. Feldman and with a screenplay by David Seltzer was released today in the United States.

1977: Final broadcast of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” Norman Lear’s hugely popular spoof of that uniquely American mainstay of daytime broadcasting – the Soap Opera.

1978(3rd of Iyar, 5738): Yom HaZikaron

1978: Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, “the son of Arnold Mishcon, a rabbi who emigrated from Russian Poland, and his wife Queenie” began serving as a Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal.

1978(3rd of Iyar, 5738): Seventy-nine-year-old  Claire Frieda Schlesinger, the Manhattan born daughter of Alfred S. Guggenheimer, the president of the United Manufacturing Company NS director of the Home for Hebrew Infants and Rebecca E. Guggenheimer, the wife of Alexander (Alex) Lionel Schlesinger and Howard Louis Friend and mother of Richard Hugh Schlesinger passed away today in New York City.

1980(24th of Iyar, 5740): Parashat Behar-Bechukotai

1980(24th of Iyar, 5740): One day before her 94th birthday, Adele Ginzberg was an influential figure in the Conservative Movement as wife of the famed Louis Ginzberg, professor of  Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and an active member of the National Women’s League of the United Synagogue passed away today.

1981: In “From Genesis to Jesus Christ Superstar, published today, Paul Kresh described the veritable explosion of recent recordings of Biblical literature that have been recorded for the mass market including, Abba Eban reading Psalms and Ecclesiastes, Theodore Bikel reading ''Poetry and Prophecy of the Old Testament''   Claire Bloom’s reading “Ruth,” Claude Rains and Claire Bloom reading “The Song of Songs,”  supply Howard Sackler's clever condensation and direction of the Book of Job, with Herbert Marshall suffering beautifully as the severely tested servant of God, surrounded by a large cast including Martin Balsam as Elihu, Clarence Derwent as Eliphaz (one of Job's non-comforting comforters), and Joseph Holland awesomely cosmic as the Voice Out of the Whirlwind. (Editor’s note –You have to be of a certain age to appreciate the star quality of the performers.  Also in an age of downloading, i-pods, etc., it is difficult to appreciate the technological and social significance of these works.)

1981: Final broadcast of Season 6 of “One Day At A Time” starring Bonnie Franklin

1981: In “The Final Solution in Argentina,” Anthony Lewis reviews Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without a Number by Jacobo Timerman

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/10/books/the-final-solution-in-argentina.html?pagewanted=all

1983: Eighty-five-year-old Herbert Benjamin, Communist Party leader turned small businessman, passed away today in Rockville, MD.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/14/obituaries/herbert-benjamin-85-leader-of-us-communists-in-30-s.html

1983:  Birthdate of Tiberias native Moshe Peretz, the popular singer and composer married to Yarden Gozland and father of Michaela, Noam and Guy who fell afoul of Israeli tax laws.

1984: NBC broadcast the final episode of season two of “Family Ties,” a sit com created by Gary David Goldberg.

1983: ABC broadcast the final episode of “Laverne and Shirley,” a sitcom whose creators included Lowell Ganz and which co-starred David Lander as “Squiggy.”

1986(1st of Iyar, 5746): Rosh Chodesh Iyar

1988: NBC broadcast the last episode of “Crime Story” co-starring Joseph Wiseman and Ted Levine, a self-described “Hill-Billy Jew.”

1989(5th of Iyar, 5749): Yom HaAtzma’ut

1991: U.S. premiere of “The Switch” based on a George Axelrod play, starring Ellen Barkin under the management of Executive Producer Arnon Milchan.

1992(7th of Iyar, 5752): At New York City's Algonquin Hotel, Sylvia Syms finished singing her last song, raised her right arm to acknowledge the audience's standing ovation, and collapsed of a heart attack.  (As reported by Stephen Holden)

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/11/arts/sylvia-syms-singer-dead-at-74-cabaret-artist-with-saloon-style.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/10/1992/sylvia-blagman-syms

1992: In “Israel Commemorates Start of the Holocaust,” published today Jed Stevenson describes the surprising choice for the commemorative medal that the Israelis have made this year. 

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/10/style/coins-israel-commemorates-start-of-the-holocaust.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

 

1995: “A Little Princess,” a World War I drama co-produced by Dalisa Cohen and Amy Ephron, filmed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki at Barry Levinson’s Baltimore Studios and co-starring Eleanor Bron was released today.

1995(10th of Iyar, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old Steffie Spira, the German actress and Communist whose Jewish father Fritz Spira died today in Berlin.

1996(21st of Iyar, 5756): Seventy-seven-year-old architect Zelma Wilson who moved to Paris after her husband screenwriter Michael Wilson was blacklisted passed away today.

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-14/local/me-4057_1_michael-wilson

1996: “Original Gangstas” directed by Larry Cohen was released today in the United States.

1996: “Twister,” a combination a romantic comedy disguised as a disaster film co-starring Jami Gertz and featuring Joey Slotnick was released today in the United States.

1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Time of Our Time” by Norman Mailer and the recently released paperback edition of “The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin” by Joan Peyser.

1998(14th of Iyar, 5758): Pesach Sheni

1998(14th of Iyar, 5758): Eighty-seven-year-old “classical violin prodigy Clara Reisenberg Rockmore, the Vilna born daughter of Aaron and Rachel Reisenberg, the wife of attorney Robert Rockmore and the sister of American pianist Nadia Reisenberg passed away today.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085547/http://www.nadiareisenberg-clararockmore.org/clara_biography.htm

1999(24th of Iyar, 5759): Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein passed away. Born in Chicago in 1930, Shel Silverstein gained fame as a poet, songwriter and author.  He wrote the lyrics to the Johnny Cash hit, “A Boy Named Sue.” The Grammy Winning song was written in response to a bet that Silverstein couldn’t write a country and western hit during a bus ride back to Los Angeles, or so goes the legend.   He authored several books including “The Missing Piece,”A Light in the Attic,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends”  “Falling Up” and “The Giving Tree.”  These works are often referred to as children’s literature, but anybody who has read them knows that they transcend that genre and speak to readers of all ages.

2000(5th of Iyar, 5760): Yom HaAtzmaut

2000: Four days after he had passed away, funeral service are scheduled to be held today for 87 year old WW II Army veteran Joseph Sheftall, the Russian born son of Benjamin and Hoda Sheftall, the husband of Willma Shetall and the father of Fred and Steven Shefall who “began his career as a business agent for local 325 in Brooklyn, New York” before he emerged as an important force in the labor movement.

2001: Having obtained a search warrant, D.C. police search Chandra Levy’s Washington apartment looking for clues as to her whereabouts.

2001: Publication of a review of William G. Dever, What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?” a must read tome.

http://www.dts.edu/reviews/william-g-dever-what-did-the-biblical-writers-know-and-when-did/

2002(28th of Iyar, 5762): Yom Yerushalayim

2002(28th of Iyar, 5762): Ninety-two-year-old sociologist and author The Lonely Crowd David Riesman passed away today

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/books/david-riesman-sociologist-whose-lonely-crowd-became-a-best-seller-dies-at-92.html

http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/mayjun02/indextwo.html

2002: Operation Defensive Shield which had been launched following the “Passover Massacre” came to an end.

2003(8th of Iyar, 5763): Dr. Leonard Michaels, author and professor of English at the University of California at Berkley, passed away.

2004: Two days after she had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held at “The Riverside” for 92 year old Silvia Paulson, the of wife of the late Martin Friedlander and Philip Paulson who was a “scholar, teacher and lover of life.

2004: “The Palestinian Authority said today that it would begin holding its first municipal elections late this summer, in a bid to stem public anger over corruption and mismanagement” while Prime Minister Sharon is pursuing his own plan to withdraw Israeli soldiers and settlers from territory heavily populated by Palestinians” despite opposition from his own Likud Party. (As reported by James Bennet)

2005(1st of Iyar, 5765): Rosh Chodesh Iyar

2005: Meg Wolitzer, the Brooklyn born “daughter of novelist Hilma Wolitzer (née Liebman) and psychologist Morton Wolitzer” “was a guest on NPR's program Fresh Air” where she discussed her novel The Position

2005: Today, speaking on Army Radio, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that “withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will not be called off under any circumstances rebuffing suggestions by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom that the pullout should be canceled if Hamas wins parliament elections this summer.”

2006(12th of Iyar, 5766):  Eighty-four year old Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal passed away.  The Canadian native began his career with the New York Times in 1943.  He won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in 1960 and served as executive editor from 1977 until age requirements forced him to leave the post in 1988.  (As reported by Robert D. McFadden)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/nyregion/11rosenthal.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print

2006: Results show that Elliot Yamin, was among three people who named as the top three finalists for American Idol

2007: “Less than two months before his death, Joel Siegel spoke before the C.E.O. Roundtable on Cancer, an association of corporate executives that was formed when former President George H. W. Bush asked corporate America to do something "bold and venturesome" about cancer. Bush and his wife Barbara were in the audience when Joel spoke at the Essex House in New York City. He began and ended his presentation by saying, "I want to thank you for what you are doing for cancer patients."

2007: An exhibit of works by local artists Paula Christie and A.D. Lane at the Etz Chaim Synagogue. Crete’s only Synagogue, comes to an end. Etz Chaim was rededicated in 1999.

2007: The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s retrospective entitled “The Magic of Paul Mazursky” comes to an end.  He is probably best remembered for directing the 1969 sexual spoof, “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.”

2008: Early this morning the IDF confirmed air strikes on Hamas police stations in the Gaza Strip, killing five Hamas operatives hours after a fatal barrage of mortar shells fired by Palestinian gunmen killed one man in a Kibbutz in the western Negev. Jimmy Kedushim, a 48-year-old father of four, was killed when a mortar shell landed in the front yard of his house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza Three others were wounded in the attack, one moderately and two lightly. Magen David Adom teams at the kibbutz treated a number of people for shock, Israel Radio reported. A number of buildings in the kibbutz were damaged in the barrage.

2008: At the Jerusalem Cinematheque, a screening of “Faithful City” \ קריה נאמנה. Made in 1952, the film deals with children survivors of the Holocaust who came to Israel on the eve of the war of independence full of fears and problems.

2008: As part of its Israel at 60 Celebration, the 92nd Street Y hosts a Yom Ha'Atzmaut Spring Dance Marathon.

2008: Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said during a parliamentary conference that he "would burn Israeli books myself if found in Egyptian libraries."

2009: Mark Strauss, a Holocaust survivor, signs copies of his new novel, Four Plus Five” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bookstore.

2009:  As part of the LABA Festival The 14th Street Y, a Jewish Community Center in the East Village, presents a screening of “Water Marks,” a documentary film by Yaron Zilberman, produced by Yonatan Israel.

2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “The Third Reich at War” by Richard J. Evans and “Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Leslie H. Gelb

2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace” by Ayelet Waldman “Conversations with Frank Gehry” by Barbara Isenberg and three books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal – “Little Oink,” “Spoon” and “Yes Day.”

2010: An exhibition entitled “The Works of Mordechai Rosenstein” is scheduled to open at the Fine Family Art Gallery and the Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA).

2010: “Forward 50,” a panel discussion featuring recent Forward 50 Honorees is scheduled to take place at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C.

2010: President Barack Obama announced at the White House that he is nominating U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. If Kagan is confirmed, it would be the first time that the nine-member Supreme Court would have three Jews and three women on the bench.

2010: “The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) invited Israel to become a member of the organization.”

2010: Israel Air Force planes bombed two targets in the southern Gaza in the early hours today warning in retaliation for a rocket attack on Saturday night, the army said. The rocket attack came hours after Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to restart peace talks under American mediation. Hamas officials said IAF targeted a smuggling tunnel, one of hundreds dug by Palestinians under the border with Egypt, and the nearby inoperative Gaza airport, which stopped flights after the second Palestinian uprising erupted against Israel in late 2000. No casualties were reported in the two attacks, launched shortly after midnight. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, had warned against renewing negotiations, which had been stalled for 18 months – but it was unclear whether Hamas or another group fired the rocket, which landed in open ground near Ashkelon, causing no damage. The army said in a statement: "The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm the citizens of the State of Israel and will continue to operate against those who use terror. The IDF holds Hamas as solely responsible for maintaining peace and quiet in the Gaza Strip." Around 50 rockets have landed in Israeli territory since the beginning of 2010, the IDF said.

2011: Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story is scheduled to be shown at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

2011: Professor Brian Horowitz is scheduled to give a talk at a conference entitled, In the Mirror’s Reflection: The Encounter between Jewish and Slavic Cultures in Modernity at U.C.L A.

2011: Rabbi Eliezer Diamond is scheduled to present a lecture “Do We Mean What We Pray, Do We Pray What We Mean?” at Congregation Beth El in Bethesda, MD.

2011: In “An Insider Views China, Past and Future,” Michiko Kakutani reviewed On China by Henry Kissinger, the first Jew to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.

2011(6th of Iyar, 5711): Ninety-one-year-old broadcast executive Burt Reinhardt, who served as President of CNN in those early years when it was changing the face of television news, passed away today in Marietta, GA. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/business/media/12reinhardt.html?_r=1

2011(6th of Iyar, 5711): Yom Ha’atzmaut, , יום העצמאות, Israel Independence Day, is observed.  Yom Ha’atzmaut is normally celebrated on the 5th of Iyar, the anniversary of the day on which Israel declared its independence.  Since 2004, if the 5th of Iyar falls on a Monday, which it did in 2011, the festival is postponed until Tuesday. http://www.biblicalzionist.com/facts.htm     

2011: On Independence Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Israel had a population of 7,746,000, 75% of which is Jewish.  In the past year 178,000 babies were born and 24,500 immigrants made aliyah

http://www.biblicalzionist.com/facts.htm

2012: The Jewish American Heritage Parade is scheduled to take place this morning in Albany, NY.

 

2012: “The Jewish Woman In America: 1654-2012,” a course that will study the vital contributions that Jewish women have made to American Jewish life, from the time of the first Sephardic arrivals to New Amsterdam in 1654, down to the present sponsored by the Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic and Cape May Counties is scheduled to begin tonight in Margate, NJ.

 

2012: Chabad of Iowa City is scheduled to sponsor a Lag Ba'Omer BBQ in West Branch, Iowa, which is the home of the Herbert Hoover Memorial Library. Jews will remember Hoover as the President who appointed Justice Benjamin Cardozo to the Supreme Court giving the U.S. two Jewish Supreme Court Justices at a time of rising anti-Semitism.

 

2012: At the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Howard Reich, jazz critic for the Chicago Tribune and son of Holocaust survivors, is scheduled to moderate a panel discussion where American and foreign-born Jewish GIs reflect on their wartime experiences, and the impact their religious affiliation had on their time in the service

 

2012: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present the Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series Spring Concert including the great masterpiece of Jewish music, “Shlomo”, a Hebrew rhapsody for cello by Ernest Bloch

 

2012: Jazzrael - a Festival of Israeli Jazz and World Music featuring the Avi Avital Trio is scheduled to take place at Joe’s Pub in New York City.

 

2012: At the Wiener Library in London, Professor Carrier Tarr is scheduled to present a lecture on Secularism, difference and the family as portrayed in Roschdy  Zem’s film “ Mauuvaise foi” which “s a comedy that revolves around the consequences of the secular Jewish heroine’s discovery that she is pregnant, and the increasingly problematic decision she and her equally secular Arab-Muslim boyfriend take to keep the baby and tell their not-so-secular families.”

 

2012: New York's kosher law, which regulates the labeling and marketing of kosher food, does not violate the Constitution's First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled. The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today in a constitutional challenge to the New York State Kosher Law Protection Act of 2004. Previously, kosher was defined legally as “according to orthodox Hebrew religious requirements.” Several butchers challenged the law in a 1996 suit. (As reported by JTA)

 

2013: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide and the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism are scheduled to present “Sanctioned Laughter: Humour, War and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Europe.

 

2012: David Rakoff was featured on This American Life's live broadcast, "Invisible Made Visible" from the Skirball Theater, NYU.

 

2013: “No Place On Earth” is scheduled to open at the Catamount Film and Arts Center in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

 

 2013(1st of Sivan, 5733): Rosh Chodesh Sivan

 

2013(1st of Sivan, 5733): Eighty-eight-year-old author Morris Renek passed away today. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/books/morris-renek-novelist-of-hard-boiled-stories-dies-at-88.html?hpw

 

 

2013(1st of Sivan, 5773): Sixty-one-year social activist Barbara Brenner passed away today. (As reported by Denise Grady)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/us/barbara-brenner-breast-cancer-iconoclast-dies-at-61.html?_r=0

 

 

2013::At more than 100 Jewish day schools in 38 cities around the world, parents and children are gathering across six continents to study Torah together as part of a joint initiative of global Jewish unity, called Generation Sinai.Tens of thousands of parents and children will be studying the same section of the Torah on the same day in their individual schools as part of one integrated international campaign which began in South Africa.

http://generationsinai.com/

 

2013: Clashes erupted at Jerusalem’s Western Wall Plaza early this morning, as thousands of ultra-Orthodox teenagers attempted to prevent the Women of the Wall from holding their monthly egalitarian prayer session at the site.

2014: Sarah Cohen is scheduled to be called the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah at Agudas Achim in Coralville, Iowa.

2014: “Zeitgeist” is scheduled to be shown at the 22nd annual Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

2014: “Kidon” is scheduled to be shown at the National Center for Jewish Film’s 17th annual Film Festival.

2014: In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month, the New World Symphony is scheduled to present an evening of music by celebrated Jewish American composers at Miami Beach, FL.

2014: Thousands marched in Afula tonight in commemoration of 19 year old Shelly Dadon whose body was found earlier this month “in what is believed to be a nationalistically motivated killing.”

2014: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his wife and two sons left for a week-long state visit to Japan tonight 

2015: “Mr. Kaplan,” “The Kindergarten Teacher” and “His Wife’s Lover” are scheduled to be shown on Mother’s Day at the 18th Annual Film Festival sponsored by the National Center for Jewish Film’s.

2015: ZUSHA, a “folk/world-soul band of ‘neo-Hasidic hipsters’” is scheduled to make its DC-area debut today.

2015: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to conduct an “in-depth tour of sites related to Jewish history and military heroes, including the Confederate Memorial by Sir Moses Ezekiel (seen here) and the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle Memorials.”

2015: As part of the Krum Concert Series, young artists are scheduled to perform works by Mieczyslav Weinberg, a Jewish composer whom Shostakovich considered exceptional but who was ignored by the Soviet musical establishment.

2015: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Timur Vermes’ Look Who’s Back, a novel about Hitler in which “the first mention of the Jews doesn’t arrive until after Page 50” and Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword by David K. Shipler who won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land.

2016: The Consulate General of Israel and the 92nd Street Y is scheduled to a host a Yom Hazikaron or Memorial Day Serving “honoring the soldiers who have their lives in defense of the State of Israel and the victims of terrorist attacks.”

2016: In Philadelphia, PA, The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host an evening with “filmmaker Artemis Joukowsky who will share excerpts from his upcoming documentary, Two Who Defied the Nazis, about Martha and Waitstill Sharp, an American social worker and Unitarian minister who provided aid to refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.”

2016: In New York, the Upper West Side’s annual five day celebration of Israel is scheduled to begin with “Sharim Vezochrim: Songs and Remembrance for Yom Hazikaron with Moshe Bonen” at JCC Manhattan.

2016: Effective today, the archives of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington are scheduled to be closed until September, 2016 while historic synagogue museum moves locations.

2017: New York Times columnist Samuel G. Freedman and historian Jenna Weissman Joselit, the author of Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments are scheduled “to explore the impact of the ancient biblical code on American culture.”

2017: Donniel Hartman is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Jewish Identity, Belonging and Community” sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and B’nai Jeshurun.

2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host “hotdog and movie night” that will also include veggie burgers.

2017: “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue” is scheduled to have its premiere showing at the 2017 East Bay International Jewish Film Festival.

2017: “Between Myth and Reality,” an exhibition of the works of Anglo-Israeli sculptor and artist Chaim Stephenson is scheduled to come to an end today.

2018: “An Act of God” is scheduled to open at Le Petit Theatre in New Orleans

2018: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Holocaust survivor Albert Garih.

2018: “Saving Neta” and “Assumed Identity” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.

2018: “Falling Backward” and “The Invisibles” are scheduled to be shown at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

2018: After having been “selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round in the 2018 NFL Draft” Quarterback Josh Rosen “signed four year deal worth $17.84 million with an $11 million signing bonus.”

2018: Approximately 20 Iranian rockets were fired at Israeli positions in the Golan Heights today which brought about a response from IAF jets.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/09/iran-fires-20-rockets-syria-golan-heights-israel

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/world/middleeast/israel-iran-syria-military.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

2018: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present ‘20th Century American Jewish Stardom: Between Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker”

2019: In New Orleans, Gates of Prayer is scheduled to host its annual meeting and installation of congregation officers.

2019: Today the Frida, the mother Israeli r Itay Steinberg Z”L the gifted photographer who was killed at the age of 21 while rescuing one of his comrades during the 2006 war in Leanon “took part in an international exhibition in Venice Italy, to display the art that she said was created together with her son’s energy and legacy.” (As reported by Yaakov Lappin)

2019: In Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is scheduled to host “Yom HaAtzmaut Shabbat featuring Isaiah’s Adult Choir.”

2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host Jerusalem of Gold an evening marking Israel’s 71st birthday that includes a performance and remarks by “Shuli Natan, followed by an extended Oneg with a DJ and Israeli food.”

2019: This afternoon, The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled present a performance of Nabucco, an opera by Verdi which “was made famous with the Hebrew Chorus ‘Va Pensiero” and starring David Serero starring as Nabucco.

2019: Erev of Shabbat is a double portion of joy for the friends and family of Larry Levin who is celebrating a Milestone Natal Day.

2020: “On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Songs of Dorothy Fields” scheduled for today as part of the Molly Blank Concert Series has been postponed by the Breman Museum.

2020: Via Zoom the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host a “Virtual Drop-In Book Club” featuring a discussion of On Division by Goldie Goldbloom.’

2020: UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host the final on-line screening of “Redemption.

2020The retrospective exhibition Eli Content: So Much I Gazed on Beauty that features highlights from his idiosyncratic oeuvre from the past forty years is scheduled to come to a close today at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.

2020: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host through Zoom a “Virtual Class: Soapbox Yoga.”

2020: Based on figures published last night, in Israel as of this morning the national virus death toll has reached at least 247

2020: While the Commandment to Honor thy father and mother preceded Wilson’s first proclamation of Mother’s Day in 1914, it serves as a reminder the “All Women are Mothers in the House of Israel.

2020: For at least Betty Levin today’s Mother Day celebration should be enhanced by the celebration of the natal day of her youngest offspring, Larry Levin

2020: The exhibition “Zoya Cherkassky: Lost Time” is scheduled to come to a close today.

http://www.fortgansevoort.com/?utm_source=Master+Opening+List&utm_campaign=eed858d40f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_05_08_30_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0e03183dcc-eed858d40f-251921239

May 10, 2021(28th of Iyar, 5781):

Yom Yerushalayim – celebration of the reunification of Jerusalem

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-yerushalayim-jerusalem-day/

2021: Today, as part of Jewish American Heritage Month, members of the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations—U.S. Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL 23) and Brenda Lawrence (D-MI 14)—are scheduled to discuss the importance of America’s Black and Jewish communities coming together to combat stereotypes, prejudice, and hate in all forms.

2021: The London School of Jewish Studies S&P Sephardi Senior Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum are scheduled to continue their discussion into the Ten Commandments during which they will be looking at the seventh commandment, 'Do not commit adultery' and will ask, is this the same for men and women?

2021: Hebrew College is scheduled to present an art exhibit, “Faith in Isolation Expressed.”

2021: The JCC Literary Consortium and JCCs across the national are scheduled to present Judy Batalion as she talks about her new book, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos.

2021: The Israel Medical Association called for a 24-hour strike along with several protests starting today at 7 a.m., over fears that 600 doctors employed during the pandemic will lose their jobs in just under two months because funding won’t be renewed. (As reported Nathan Jeffay)

2021: After two years at the Center for Jewish History, the Scholars Working Group “Hear Their Cry:” Understanding the Jewish Orphan Experience is scheduled to present a talk with two group members about their new books.

2022: City Winery Atlanta, WABE and The Breman are scheduled to present Sounds Like ATL with Beth Schafer, Mercury Orkestar, and Book Club, hosted by Joe Alterman of Neranenah

2022: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Between Baghdad and Asia,” a talk that “that traces the history of Baghdadi Jews in from its earliest beginning until the present, “exploring the relevance of these communities both to Baghdad and the larger Jewish world.”

2022: The Weizmann National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host a “conversation” with Brian Lamb, the founder of C-SPAN and Howard Mortman, author of  When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill

2022:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to offer the international English-language premiere screening of the first two episodes of “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,” the most lavish-ever Israeli TV epic, with the Ermoza family on hand to discuss beauty, history and the ties that bind.

2023: YIVO is scheduled to host a lecture by David G. Roskies and David Stromberg on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Gimpl tam  which was published on March 30, 1945, in the obscure Yiddish-language journal Idisher kempfer, about a month before the Nazi surrender.

2023: The archivist for the Forward is scheduled to lead a guided to of “Pressed” by a reception and Q and A at the University of Pittsburgh.

2023: The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor Adam D. Mendelsohn on “What was it like to be a Jewish Soldier in the American Civil War?”

2023: The Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the NY premier of “Matchmaking” and the U.S. premiere “Black Notebooks: Vivian.”

2023: In Columbus, OH, Congregation Tifereth Israel is scheduled to hold its annual meeting which will be preceded by a minyan and the annual memorial service.

2023: A two day symposium on “New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide” organized by the Weiner Library and the University of Cambridge is scheduled to begin today.

2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a virtual program “Open Space on the Lower East Side .”

2023: The party never ends as the friends and family of Larry Levin go from celebrating Lag B’Omer to celebrating the natal day of this mensch and purveyor of Pesach delicacies.

2023: In the wake of the IDF having “neutralized” three Islamic Jihad commanders, Israelis, especially those along the border of brace for an escalation in attacks by terrorists.

2024: Temple Judea is scheduled to host “Remember a Child Shabbat” during which attendees “honor all the children who perished in the Holocaust and never celebrated their B’nei Mitzvah…. And honor all survivors.”

2024: Friends and family of Larry Levin will get to kindle two kinds of lights two night – The Lights of Shabbat and the Lights of His Birthday Cake.

2024: In Mill Valley, CA, the Marin Theatre Company is scheduled to host the “opening of two-act adaptation of Harvey Fierstein’s 1982 play Torch Song Trilogy, about a Jewish drag queen who is looking for love in New York City.”

2024: The Bernardsville Cinema in Bernardsville, NJ; the Cinemapolis in Ithaca, NY and the Grand  Cinema in Kingston, WA are scheduled to host screenings of “Farewell Mr. Haffmann” which tells the tale of Joseph Haffmann, the Parisian jeweler who tries to save his family from Vichy and the Nazis when the Germans occupy Paris.

2024: In Berkeley, CA, starting today,  Urban Adamah is scheduled to present a three-day Shabbat and community-building retreat featuring workshops on ancestral and modern Jewish music.

2024: As May 10th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 217 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.)

 

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