Sunday, September 15, 2024

This Day, September 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

September 16

1380: King Charles V of France died.  Charles ruled during a very difficult time in French history – the 14th century – that included the One Hundred Years War and the Black Death.  For French monarchs, guile and deception were critical to keep the state afloat. Regardless of his reasons, the Jews of France fared better under him than they did under many of his predecessors and successors. When he assumed the throne in 1364, he continued to honor the promises he had made to the Jews during the Regency. The “Jews of Paris lived quietly in the district of St. Antoine, near the dwelling of Hugues Aubriot, the grand provost of Paris, who protected them” reportedly because “he was fond of the beautiful Jewesses.” He saw to it that Jewish children who had been baptized were returned to their families and that those who stole from the Jews, including members of the nobility, were punished. The Jews did have enemies including those who owed them large sums of money and members of the nobility.  These groups convinced Charles to issue a decree expelling the Jews; a decree he rescinded before it ever went into effect. “In 1370, when the king increased the general taxes, he solemnly confirmed the privileges that he had granted to the Jews, demanding of them only 1,500 francs. In 1372 he restored to them certain manuscripts which had been confiscated. But at the same time he did not lose sight of his own interests, and when he was in need of money, in 1378, he made an agreement with the Jews in accordance with which, in return for being exempted from all other imposts, they were to pay him 20,000 francs in gold, in four installments, and 200 francs a week. In 1379 he granted them an important concession in connection with the fairs of Champagne and Brie. On visiting the fairs the Jews were accustomed to take mortgages on the property of their creditors. But they could foreclose these mortgages only when solvent Christians acted as sureties, and they complained that, since they could not in general find anyone to act as surety, they always lost their claims. The king therefore decreed that Jews might in future be accepted as sureties. [Source – Jewish Encyclopedia;  for a highly readable account of life in 14th century France that will help you better understand the plight of the Jews see A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman.]

1087: Victor III, sometimes referred to as “the Jewish Pope” passed away today.

http://krissfoundation.org/victor.htm

1498:  According to some sources, Tomas de Torquemada, head of the Spanish Inquisition which destroyed the Sephardic Community on the Iberian Peninsula, passed away. 

1501: A decree was issued by the Portuguese Governor Nicolas de Oviendo which aimed at keeping Jews from entering the New World.

1619: Today, aDutch rabbi and hakham David ben Joseph Pardo the  Salonica born son of  Rabbi Joseph and Rein married Moura, Portugal native Rachel Sanchez with whom he had two children – Sarah Prado and Josiah Pardo who “served as a Rabbi in Curaçao and in Port Royal, Jamaica and was one of the first Rabbis in the New World.”

1638: Birthdate of Louis XIV.  Known as the Sun King, Louis reigned from 1643 until 1715. Louis’ dealings with Jews were of marginal historic interest.  During his reign, Jews were variously allowed to, and banned from, conducting trading activities in French colonies and in Provence. As Colbert, one of Louis’ ministers pointed, opposition by Christian merchants to Jewish business ventures was not based on religion.  Rather, the merchants were using the smoke screen of religion to eliminate competition.  Only at the end of his long, debauched life, did Louis show any interest in the religious dynamics of the issue.  Having grown pious as he faced death, Louis issued a decree banning Jews from Provence, including the port of Marseilles demanding that they leave and leave their possession behind.

1658: With the signing of the Treaty of Hadiach on this date, the Polish Crown elevated the Cossacks and Ruthenians to a position equal to that of Poles and Lithuanians in the Polish-Lithuanian Union, and in fact transformed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth into a Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth.  This led to a worsening situation for the Jews of Poland who had already suffered at the hands of the Cossacks for the last ten years. 

1701: Sixty-seven-year-old King James II of the United Kingdom who put an end to a mandatory tax being imposed on Jews for not attending “the established church” and who said that the Jews should “quietly enjoy the free exercise of their religion” passed away today. (Editor’s note – The kings’ action was tied to the conflict between Catholics and Protestants racking the British Isles during which the treatment of the Jews was a sideline event.)

1747: Birthdate of German theologian Johann Ludwig Ewald an “advocate for the Jews” arguing that the “shortcoming” of the Jews “were the result of persecution.”

1747:  Pope Benedict XIV prohibited Jewish converts to Christianity from giving their wives gittin (religious divorce). 

1760: Wilhelmine Levi and Mayer Kohn gave birth to Bela Kohn, the wife of Josef Maendle with whom she had thirteen children.

1765(1st of Tishrei, 5526): Rosh Hashana observed on the same day that “a mob gathered at the State House in Philadelphia to target people associated with the Stamp Act and threaten the home of Benjamin Franklin, who was Philadelphia's agent in London.”

1775(21st of Elul, 5536): Selichot observed on the same day that the Continental Congress resumed “a paragraph-by-paragraph consideration from” General George Washington who was with the Continental Army at Cambridge, MA.

1777: In Frankfurt am Main, Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Gutle Schnapper gave birther to their fourth child Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the founder of the English House of Rothschild.

1779: Philip Minis volunteered to serve a guide for the French and American forces who were beginning their siege of Savanah today during the American Revolution.

1784(1st of Tishrei, 5545): Rosh Hashanah

1786(23rd of Elul, 5546): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelich; Leil Selichot observed as “mobs” shut down courts in Massachusetts which were the early manifestations of Shay’s Rebellion

1792(29th of Elul, 5552): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed on the same that an annular solar eclipse that could be seen in parts of Brazil, most of Africa and southeast Asia took place.

1793(10th of Tishrei, 5554): Yom Kippur observed during the French Reign of Terror

1795(3rd of Tishrei, 5556): Tzom Gedaliah

1795: For the first time, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Forces occupied Cape Colony, South Africa, as way of keeping the valuable maritime choke point from falling in French hands. Although there is evidence that some non-observant Jews were living in the colony at this time, there was no organized Jewish community due to the fact that the Dutch East India Company, which controlled the colony, required all of its employees to be Protestants.  The British would leave in 1803 only to return in 1806 when they would establish a permanent colonial presence. Oddly enough, when the Dutch regained control they promulgated an ordinance allowing for the practice of all religions; an ordinance the British repealed in 1806 and did not reactivate again until 1820, at a time when Jews first began to settle as a community in South Africa.

1797(25th of Elul, 5557): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot observed for the first time during the Presidency of John Adams.

1801(9th of Tishrei, 5562): Kol Nidre

1806(29th of Elul, 5563): Erev Rosh Hashana

1807: This evening, “Mr. Hyam Abendadone of the Island of St. Thomas” married Miss Grace Abendanone of Charleston, SC.

1810: Mexico declares its independence from Spain.

1811: In Silesia, Poland, Wolf and Estera Landau gave birth to Adolf Abraham Landau, the husband of Rozalia Landau and the father of Leon, Estera and Jozef Landau.

1812(10th of Tishrei, 5573) Yom Kippur

1812: Rothschild observed Yom Kippur for the last time.  As an observant Jew, he walked to the synagogue, spent the day in prayer and returned home in the evening to break the fast.

1813: In London, Elizabeth Kahn and Samuel Gershon gave birth to Aaron Gershon.

1815: Birthdate of Henrietta Bruck Sidenberg the wife of Wilhelm Sidenberg and mother of “Gustavus Sidenberg,  a Jewish-American manufacturer and financier best known for building New York City's Hotel Theresa, which has become a New York City landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.”

1818: David ben Shumel married Sarah bat Isaac at the Western Synagogue today.

1818: In Middlesex, Phoebe and Ephraim Benjamin gave birth to Amelia Benjamin.

1820(8th of Tishrei, 5581): Shabbat Shuvah coincides with Mexican Independence Day. At the time of the declaration Mexico lacked an identifiable Jewish population thanks to the anti-Semitic policies of the government of Spain.  There were numerous Conversos living in Mexico.  Jewish migration to Mexico began in earnest in the middle of the 19th century. Today Mexico has approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Jews living in the country.

1821: In Lorraine, France, Esther Cahn-Lazard, the French born daughter of Jonas Alexandre Aron and Sara Zerlé Simon Aron and her husband  Eugénie Lazard gave birth to Lazare Lazard.

1822(1st of Tishrei, 5583): Rosh Hashanah

1823: In Sulzburg, Germany. Lea and Leopold D. Junger Kahn gave birth to Magdalen Madel Kahn who became Magdalena Madel Dukas when she married Leopold Dukas after which she gave birth to Lea Lena Kahn; Isaak David Dukas; Baruch Berthold Dukas; Sara Kahn; Bezalel Dukas; Naphtali Hermann Dukas; Rosalie Brunschwig; Julius Juda Dukas; Klara Brunschwig; Rachel Bicert; Hermann Dukas

1824: Louis XVIII who had been returned to the French throne as part of what is called “the Restoration” and during whose reign the “enemies of Jews” failed to undo the improvement of their conditions reached under Napoleon, passed away today.

1824: Charles X, the last of France’s absolute monarchs whose abdication helped lead to full emancipation of French Jews, began his reign today.

1828: Birthdate of “Dutch Christian Old Testament Scholar” Abraham Kuenen who “was one of the leaders of the modern school of Old Testament Critics” who spent the last six years of his life working on a new translation of Hebrew Bible.

1829: Lewis Davis married Rebekah Ann Jacobs at the Western Synagogue today.

1829: In violation of Papal Law, “a meeting of inquisitors addresses the case of 3 Jewish families living in Foligno, Italy.

1829: Isaac Isaacson married Miriam Mosely at the Great Synagogue today.

1831(9th of Tishrei, 5592): Kol Nidre chanted on the same day that in North Carolina, B.W. Daniel wrote to General William A. Blount asking that he return the arms that were issued to him in response to what is known as the Nat Turner Uprising, an uprising by slaves in neighboring Virigiania

1835: Birthdate of Posen native Abraham Slimmer who came to the United States at the age of 15 and became a successful Iowa businessman before passing away in Dubuque. (Some sources show his birthdate as September 14).

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE0D9113BE733A25750C1A9619C946397D6CF

1835: Birthdate of Hungarian native Simon Tuska, the rabbi at Temple Israel in Memphis, TN and husband of Jeanette Nussbaum Tuska.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tuska-simon

1836: In France, Isaac Dreyfus, the Alsace born son of Alexander and Feuillet Dreyfus, and his wife Adele Dreyfus gave birth to Fanny Gernheim.

1840: In Charleston, SC, Adeline Moses and Levy I. Moses gave birth to Alfred Huger Moses, the husband of Kentucky native Jeanette Nathan with whom he had seven children.

1841(1st of Tishrei, 5602): Rosh Hashanah

1841: Lydia Maria Child, a non-Jew from Boston, attended Rosh Hashanah services at Shearith Isreal Synagogue in York City.  What follows are excerpts from a letter of she wrote after attending the service,

 

Shortly after entering, she and her female companion were "gruffly" moved from the front seats to the women's section "in the upper part of the house." Child then recorded her feelings of being in a Jewish house of worship. "The effect produced on my mind by witnessing the ceremonies of the Jewish synagogue was strange and bewildering; spectral and flitting; with a sort of vanishing resemblance to reality; the magic lantern of the past." As she underwent this religious experience, she was "solemnly impressed with recollections of those ancient times when the Divine was heard amid the thunders of Sinai, and the Holy Presence (Shekinah) shook the mercy seat between the cherubim." Carefully, she looked at the ark containing the "Sacred Law written on scrolls of vellum and rolled as in the time of Moses." However, she was dismayed when she realized that instead of a "brazen laver" for washing there was only "a common bowl and ewer of English delf." All male members of the congregation, even little boys, wore "fringed silk mantles bordered with blue stripes." What she found incongruous were "these mantles worn over modern broadcloth coats and fashionable pantaloons with straps." Even the dress of the "priest" as she labeled the chacham, was problematic for her. "His large white silk shawl, which shaded his forehead and fell over his shoulders, was drawn over a common black hat!" She did see this official at times "cover his face completely, as in the time of Moses, stoop and lay his forehead on the book before him." Apparently, Child had made this visit thinking the Jews of her day were representatives of biblical times. Since this was not the case for her, she wrote. "But through the whole, priest and people kept on their hats. My spirit was vexed with this. I had turned away from the turmoil of the Present, to gaze quietly for a while on the grandeur of the Past; and the representatives of the Past walked before me, not in the graceful oriental turban, but the useful European hat!" She was also critical of the shofar blowing, even as she compared it to the instrument that sounded on Sinai. "The trumpet," she wrote, "which was blown by a Rabbi with a shawl drawn over his hat and face, was of the ancient shape, somewhat resembling a cow's horn. It did not send forth a spirit-stirring peal; but the sound groaned and struggled through it."  (Editor’s note: I do not have the citation for this.  I hope the author will not think that I have ‘moved the boundary stones’ on his or her work.

 

1842: Birthdate of Italian lawyer and “republican follower of Mazzini and Garabaldi” Alessandro Fortis, “the 18th Prime Minister of Italy.”

1843(21st of Elul, 5603): Ezekiel Hart passed away. Born in 1767, he was a Jewish Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire. “He was elected three times by the voters of Trois-Rivières to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. Some members consistently prevented him from taking his seat by observing that as a Jew, he could not take the oath of office, which included the phrase ‘on the true faith of a Christian’.”

1844: In New South Wales, Australia, Rachel Nathan and Samuel Cohen gave birth to Charlotte Cohen the wife of Alfred Samuel Moses who she married in Sydney in 1865.

1847(6th of Tishrei, 5608): The poet Grace Aguilar died at Frankfort-on-the Main, at age 31. She was the oldest child of parents descended from Portuguese Marranos who sought asylum in England in the eighteenth century. A prominent poet and writer, her words graced Jewish journals around the world. She was a staunch defender of Judaism, and a Torah loving woman. "Her last words, spelled on her fingers, were, 'Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him,'"

1848(18th of Elul, 5608): Parashat Ki Tavo

1848(18th of Elul, 5608): Seventy-three-year-old Samuel Abrahams, the New York born son of Abraham Isaac Abrahams passed away today.

1849(29th of Elul, 5609): Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time during the Presidency of Zachary Taylor.

1849(29th of Elul, 5609): Fifty-three-year-old Moses Lopez, the Charleston born son of David Lopez passed away today.

1850(10th of Tishrei, 5611): Yom Kippur observed for the first time during the Presidency of Millard Fillmore

1854(23rd of Elul, 5614): Leil Selichot

1854: In London, Julia Joseph and Louis Kyezor gave birth to Joseph Louis Kyezor.

1854(23rd of Elul, 5614): Miriam Aaron, the wife of Lewis Aaron passed away today, following which she would be buried in the Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.

1855(4th of Tishrei, 5616): Tzom Gedaliah observed.

1855(4th of Tishrei, 5616): Fifty-eight-year-old Naphtali Judah, the son of Samuel Judah and husband of Esther Henricks who was “a merchant, printer, publisher and member of the Tammany Society who “also served as president of Congregation Shearith Israel” passed away today in New York.

1856: Birthdate of Moses Gaster, the native or Romania who become Chacham of the Spanish and Portugese Congregation in London as well as leading scholar at Oxford.

1857: Birthdate of Philadelphia native and librarian Bunford Samuel whose works included Secession and Constitutional Liberty.

https://www.amazon.com/Secession-Constitutional-Liberty-Bunford-Samuel/dp/0559961561

1858: Today’s Personal column reported that “a curious Hebrew publication has just issued from the Berlin press-a biography of Alexander Von Humboldt, written in the ancient tongue, and destined to extend the knowledge of the life and scientific labors of this celebrated man in the wide circle of the Russo-Polish and Asiatic Jews. The full title is, Alexander Von Humboldt: A Biographical Sketch, Dedicated to the Nestor of Wisdom on his 88th Birthday by S. Slominski.”  Alexander Von Humboldt was a Prussian born naturalist and explorer who was born in 1769 and died in 1859 at the age of 89.  He was not Jewish.

1859: A convention designed to "overcome evil with good" is scheduled to be held in Buffalo, NY.  The Jews were among those whom the public invitation should "consider themselves cordially invited."

1860(29th of Elul, 5620): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1860: Birthdate of Solomon Joseph Solomon, the British painter who was the brother of another painter,  Lily Delissa Joseph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solomon_Ajax_and_Cassandra.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solomon_Samson_and_Delilah.jpg

https://www.jewsfww.uk/strategic-camouflage-2210.php

1861: Judah P. Benjamin began serving as Secretary of War for the CSA.

1861: Corporal Samuel A. Apple began serving a four-year hitch with Company B of the 51st Regiment.

1861: Private Moses Jacoby began serving a four-year hitch with Company E of the 47th Regiment.

1863(3rd of Tishrei, 5624): Tzom Gedaliah

1867(16th of Elul, 5627): Samuel Bettelheim, the son of Eva and Dr. Leopold Bettelheim and the husband of Chava Eva Bettelheim passed away today in Slovakia.

1868(29th of Elul, 5628) Erev Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time during the Presidency of Andrew Johnson.

1868: Birthdate of Konigsberg native Mathilde Slomka, the wife of Adolf Slomka and resident of Brooklyn who was an officer of the Ladies Auxiliary Zion Hospital.

1871(1st of Tishrei, 5632): Rosh Hashanah

1871: “Commencement of the Jewish New Year”  published today reported that “at sundown last evening the new Jewish Year, 5632 commenced.  The Jews do not inaugurate their ecclesiastical year with festivities; on the contrary, the Jewish year is commenced with ten days of atonement.”   According to the article the Jews keep the first part of year holy because they are remembering the receiving of the word from Mount Sinai. [Editor’s note – At least they got part of it right]

1872: Birthdate of Lithuanian native Solomon Blumgarten, known by his pen name Yehoash, the author, lexicographer and poet referred to as the “Yiddish Milton” who had visited Palestine in 1913 with his wife Flora and his daughter Evelyn passed away today while working as “an editor for The Day.”

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/12/21/100292728.pdf

1873: In Albany, NY, famed reform Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise officiated at the wedding of Wilhelmin Lewi, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Lewi and Dr. Herman Bendell, the son of Hannah Stern and Elisas Bendell who was a veteran of the Civil are the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Arizona Territory.

1876: B.F. Peixotto, the United States Consul at Bucharest, Romania, is scheduled to address the Young Men’s Hebrew Association at their meeting hall on the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue in New York City.

1876: In Albany, NY, Rosa Mann and Lewis Stern gave birth to Albany Law School trained attorney Charles Mann Stern, the husband of Esther H. Barnet and vice president of William Barnet and Sons who was a trust of Temple Beth Emeth and a national director of H.I.A.S.

1877(9th of Tishrei, 5638): Erev Yom Kippur 

1877: The following anti-Semitic canard was published today during the Russo-Turkish War “The Jews are indeed ubiquitous.  They are everywhere.  Their jeweled fingers are in everything.  The Russians cannot feed their troops without them.  The Turks borrow of them to clothe their armies.  No great event of any kind occurs unless they assist in it, both as principles accessories.

1877: It was reported today that Jews in the following cities have built synagogues in the past year: London & Bath (UK), Waadt (Switzerland), Rio de Jeneiro (Brazil), Linz (Austria), Bremen & Heilbrun (Germany), Ancona and Bologne (Italy), New York, Springfield & Petersburg (United States)

1877: It was reported today there are 373 houses of worship in Rome, four of which are synagogues.

1877: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil will preach the sermon at Kol Nidre services this evening at Temple Emanuel in New York City

1877: Rabbi Adolph Huebsch will preach the sermon tonight at the temple on the corner of 55th Street and Lexington Avenue.

1877: Ten fires broke out tonight between 6 and 8 o’clock in places occupied by persons who are thought to be Jews.  Thanks to the swift response of the fire department none of the fires caused much damage.  The damage caused by all the fires was valued at approximately 500 dollars with individual losses ranging from “slight” to $300.

1878(4th of Tishrei, 5548): Tzom Gedaliah observed because the 3rd was Shabbat

1878: In Russia, Tillie and Louis Idelman gave birth to Max “Maxie” Idelman who was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Ladue, MO just outside of St. Louis after have passed away in Muskogee, OK.

1879: It was reported today that among those in Memphis who have recently contracted Yellow Fever are the Jewish brothers, James and Israel Peres, the sons of Jacob J. Peres who owns the brokerage firm of J.J. Peres & Company.

1879: Birthdate of Georg Lewin, the Berlin native who gained fame as Herwath Walden whose eclectic interests led him to careers as “a musician, composer, writer, critic, and gallery owner.”

1880: “City and Suburban News” published today described the observance of “Yom Kippur…the most solemn fast in the Jewish calendar” which ended yesterday at sundown during which “no orthodox Jew allowed morsel of food or drop of water to pass lips during the 24 hours.”

1880: In Mattoon, Illinois, “Felix and Carrie (Kaufman) Kahn gave birth to Ella Kahn, the University of Chicago trained social worker who married Judge Samuel Alschuler and became Ella Kahn Alschuler, the President of the Chicago Section of the National Council of Jewish Women

1881: Birthdate of Pensacola, FL native and broker Joseph Michael Levy.

1881: It was reported today that “a disastrous fire” that has destroyed an “enormous” amount of fire has swept through Vitebsk, a major Jewish population center in the Pale of Settlement.  For more about Vitebsk see:

http://www.physics.brocku.ca/~edik/Vitebsk/

1882(3rd of Tishrei, 5643): Shabbat Shuva – no Fast of Gedaliah because of Shabbat

1883(14th of Elul, 5643): Tina Abrams passed away today after which she was buried in the Tree of Life Cemetery in Sharpsburg, PA.

1884: Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH native Mary Klein the wife of English born composer Manuel Klein and the mother of Marjorie and Gerald Klein.

1886: Sixty-seven-year-old Louis, duc Decazes who while serving as Foreign Minister in 1875 “informed Henri Blowitz, the Bohemian Jew who was the Paris correspondent of The Times of a confidential dispatch from the French ambassador to Berlin, discussing German plans to attack France” which he asked Blowitz to publish as part of an effective plan to prevent the Germans from carrying out their plans passed away today.

1887: Birthdate of Russian native Michael S. Aaronson, the Bellevue Medical College trained physician.

1888: It was reported today that “a peculiar and unprecedented schism has arisen among the Jews” of London.  “The Socialist Jews” have protested against the Day of Atonement by holding a banquet at the International Workingmen’s Club in Whitechapel.

1888(11th of Tishrei, 5649): Seventy-five-year-old Lazare Isidor, who had been appointed Chief Rabbi of Paris in 1847 before being named Chief Rabb of France in 1867 passed away today.

1888: Birthdate of New York City native and University of Chicago graduate Dr. Harry Gauss, the Rush Medical College trained gastroenterologist who served in WW I and practiced in Denver, CO.

1889: In Russia, Sarah Goldstein Specter and Abraham Joseph Specter gave birth to future St. Louis resident Edna Specter Garland, the wife of David Garland and the mother of Otis and Abe Garland.

1889: In Vienna, Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert and Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek gave birth to Mercédès Adrienne Manuela Ramona Jellinek.  She is the Mercédès in Merceds-Benz.  Yes, this quintessential German product was named for the granddaughter of the Chief Rabbi of Vienna.

1890(2nd of Tishrei, 5651): Second day of Rosh Hashanah

1890: “Prague-based German merchant Ludwig Kraus and his wife, Louise” gave birth to Ernst Deutsch “the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play The Son.”

1890: In Syracuse, NY, Rosa Goldberg and Joseph Weiss gave birth to University of Cincinnati trained medical doctor Hiram B. Weiss, the husband of Gertrude Marks with whom he had two children – Joseph and Regina – and attending physician at the Medical Department of the Jewish Hospital who rose to the rank of Major while with the U.S. Army Medical Corps and an instructor at the University of Cincinnati Medical Department

1890: Harris Adolphus and Max Rodden, the former Rabbi of the “Polish Hebrew synagogue” in Trenton, NJ, sought warrants for the arrest of Moses Skomwitschiki, the congregation’s new rabbi and several of the congregation’s officers.

1890: In Huntington, PA, Rabbi T.A. Moses of New York was stricken with apoplexy tonight after having dismissed the congregation for whom he had been leading services for the past week.

1891: In Providence, RI, Morris Reiger and Michael Bernstein, the mangers of the London Opera Company which they had organized among a group of Polish Jews, escaped from the police after having apparently absconded with ticket money collected for performances of “The Greenhorn.”

1891: “Troubles In the Dispensary of the Beth Israel Hospital” published today described the conflict between the Beth Hospital Association which started its hospital four months ago and the dispensary which had been open for a year before the two were combined.

1891: Charles Eisenman, the New York City born son of Isadore and Caroline (Rosenblatt) Eisenman, the cofounder in Cleveland of K and E Company, a manufacturer of shirts and blouses and president of the Federation of Jewish Charities married Bertha Hays today.

https://case.edu/ech/articles/e/eisenman-charles

1891: “Cholera In Asiatic Turkey” published today described the discriminatory measures being taken in the villages around Aleppo to deal with the epidemic where the Turkish officials allowed the Moslems and Christians “to leave the villages but not the Jews.  They are compelled to stay.”

1891: It was reported today that Major William Bullard, Chief Sanitary Inspector has said that the United Hebrew Charities could assist in the work of the sanitary police “by appointing private inspectors who spoke the “jargon” of the poorer classes of Jews.

1892(24th of Elul, 5652): Sixty-one-year-old Judah Leib Gordon, one of the leading “Hebrew poets of the Jewish Enlightenment” passed away.

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

1893: Soloman Grocery Company was incorporated today in Alabama.

1893: In Hungary, Henrik Kellner and Ernesztina Weisz gave birth to Sándor László Kellner who gained fame as British movie mogul Sir Alexander Korda, the pater familias of the movie and literary family that included Zoltan, Vincent and Michael Korda.

https://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/alexander-korda_biography.htm

1894: It was reported today that in the one New York district inhabited by Russian and Polish Jews “there an average of fifty-seven families to a house” while the general average in other tenement districts “is 34 persons to a house.”

1895: Birthdate of Cleveland, OH native and Harvard trained attorney Leonard Solon Levy, the city treasurer and Republican party activist.

1895: Reverend G.R. Cutting, pastor of the Yonkers Presbyterian Church presented a paper entitled “The Conversion of the Jews” today in which “he took the view that the Jews will be restored to the land of Palestine. Some of his fellow ministers who heard the paper said that the “Jews might become Christians before the end of the world, but that they would not return to Palestine” as would be proven if a vote were taken among the Jews; the majority of whom vote to remain in America “in preference to going to Palestine.”

1896(9th of Tishrei 5657): Erev Yom Kippur – Kol Nidre

1896: At a hearing in Jefferson Market Court John Dangels told the Judge that he lost his temper yesterday when David Meyer had refused to leave his butcher shop.  He did not contest Meyer’s statement that the reason he had beaten him was because he was, to use Dangels’ word “a sheeny.

1896: A group of Anarchist, most of whom were Jews held a meeting at Clarendon Hall with the announced intention of “ridiculing and burlesquing the Yom Kippur observances and the Jewish religion.”

1896: Twenty-three-year-old Nathan Fischer attacked Abraham Fisher, an usher at Mount Sinai Temple in a dispute over Fischer’s admission ticket. The police were called, and Fisher was arrested.

1897: In Michigan, Lena B. Bultotz and her husband Rudolf Kauffman gave birth to John R. Kauffman.

1897: “President McKinley and the members of his cabinet attended the cornerstone laying of the new Synagogue” being “erected by the Washington Hebrew Congregation on 8th Street, near H.

1898(29th of Elul, 5658): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1898: Temple Beth-El, Temple Emanu-El and the West End Synagogue “have an extended an invitation to all solders who wish to attend services” at their respective congregations.

1898: Any Jewish families who wish to open their homes to soldiers on Rosh Hashanah should contact William Mitchell, Superintendent of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association or The American Hebrew.

1898: About 40 members of the 47th Regiment stationed at Fort Adams marched out of their barracks at Newport after having received a ten-day furlough from Adjutant General Corbin so they could observe the Jewish holidays.

1898: Dr. M.H. Harris delivered a sermon tonight at Temple Israel of Harlem entitled “The Influence of Good Wishes” as Jew “ushered in the 5659.”

1898: Herzl is received by Graf Philip Eulenburg, the German ambassador in Vienna.

1898: Birthdate of prize-winning Israeli novelist Chaim Hazaz

http://courses.umass.edu/juda373/paper%20and%20exams/exams/Hazaz,%20%22The%20Sermon%22.html

http://www.momentmag.com/redeeming-haim-hazaz/

1898: Birthdate of Hans Augusto Reyersbach, the native of Hamburg, Germany who gained fame as Hans Augusto "H.A." Rey is best known for his creation of the Curious George series.

1899: A mass meeting protesting the Dreyfus Conviction is scheduled to be held this evening at Cooper Union.

1898: Birthdate of CCNY basketball star Hyman “Hy” Fliegel

1898: Birthdate of Baruch Lumet, the Warsaw native who was an actor in the Yiddish theatre in the United States as well as the husband of Eugenia Gitl Lumet (née Wermus) and the father of director Sidney Lumet.

1899: Birthdate of Samuel Spewack, who with his wife Bella wrote several screenplays including “My Favorite Wife:” which earned them an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story.

1899: A mass meeting protesting the Dreyfus Conviction organized by Jews living on the Lower East Side is scheduled to take place tonight at Mandelbaum’s Hall.

1899: In a “Blood Libel Case’ a Hungarian jury convicted Leopold Hilsner of murder, and the judge sentenced him to hang.  Following a public outcry and campaign, Hilsner would be retried, found guilty of acting as an accomplice to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

1899: “A Drama of Jewish Life Opens the Broadway Theatre” published today provides a review of “The Ghetto” which “was very well received” even though it was “rather slow and monotonous.”  The play which was translated from Dutch into English by C.B. Fernald “personifies and embodies the spirit of revolt in the Jewish nature against the meanness and sordidness with which the race has been afflicted.”
1900: Herzl meets
Arminius Vámbéry in Budapest. ("He gave me his word of honor that the Sultan would receive me by May.")

1900: Joseph Leblang, the Budapest born son of Herman and Theresa Leblang “the sole owner of the George M. Cohan Theatre” married Tillie Richter today.

https://www.nytix.com/articles/joe-leblang-the-original-discount-broadway-ticket-service

1901(3rd of Tishrei, 5662):Tzom Gedaliah

1901: Birthdate of Chicago native and University of Chicago graduate Alex L. Hillmen “publisher, investment executive, art collector” and husband the former Rita Kanarek and father of Kent Hillman who “in 1953 established a fund at the Museum of Modern Art that enabled the museum to purchase a cubist Picasso, four works by Franz Kupka, large canvas by Francis Picabia and a painting by the Italian futurist Balla”

https://www.google.com/search?q=Alex+L.+Hillman&ei=xAEiY7L3Do2ZptQPiP-huAo&ved=0ahUKEwiy6dK72pT6AhWNjIkEHYh_CKcQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=Alex+L.+Hillman&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABOgoIABBHENYEELADOgcILhDUAhANOgQIABANOggIABAeEAgQBzoGCAAQHhANOgUIABCiBDoHCAAQHhCiBEoECEEYAEoECEYYAFD4CFirD2D6I2gBcAF4AIABjAGIAeQDkgEDMC40mAEAoAEByAEFwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz

1901: “The Messenger Boy” a musical featuring songs by Paul Rubens opened on Broadway today.

1902: Birthdate of Milwaukee, WI native Mildred Fish-Harnack, the daughter of merchant William Cooke Fish  and the wife of Arvid Harnack with whom she lived in Germany where they became members of the “Red Orchestra” and were eventually murdered by the Nazis for anti-regime activities.

1903: Joseph Chamberlain, the British official who offered to settle Jews in Uganda under the so-called “Uganda Scheme” completed his eight and half years of service as “Secretary of State for the Colonies.”

1903: At its meeting today The Executive Committee of the Board of Education recommended to the Board of Education that it confirm the appointment of Miss Julie Richman as District Superintendent to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Haskell.

1904: Birthdate of NYC native and Harvard educated journalist and author Louis Harap the husband of Evelyn Mann.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0683/ms0683.html

1905(16th of Elul, 5665): Parashat Ki Tavo (As the winds of change and reaction blew through Russia, the Jews of the Shtetl followed their age old calendar.

1905: Birthdate of Louisville, KY  Katherine Etonne Heine the wife Lawrence Samuel Grauman who “is perhaps best known for the special hearing he conducted with Muhammad Ali in 1966 at the request of the Department of Justice, where he recommended that Ali’s claim as a conscientious objector be upheld”

1906: Friends and family of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fauerbach celebrated the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary this evening.  For seventeen years, they received, respectively as the Superintendent and Matron of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum.

1907: This morning the family of Chaim Shlome Kleinman, the 12-year-old who arrived from Russia as a stowaway aboard, the Barbarossa, including his mother and his uncles Morris Jacobson and Max Weiss and their wives, rushed down to Ellis Island to claim the youngster whom they had not known was coming to the United States and take him home with them.

1908: “Propose Russian Laws Favorable to Jews” published today reported that “The Ministry of the Interior is preparing the draft of a new law on the matter of Jewish restrictions” which “enlarges the One of Jewish settlement and removes the restrictions against Jews holding land” while “the Ministry of Commerce is engaged in a second project” that will allow “Jewish commercial travelers to move freely throughout the” Russian Empire.

1908: Birthdate of Vienna native of Friedrich Kantor who used the pen-name Friedrich Torberg and “whose Jewish heritage compelled him emigrated to France” and who returned to his native Vienna in 1951 after having spent the war years working as a scriptwriter in Hollywood.

1908: “One of the first things that Police Commissioner Bingham did on returning from his vacation today was to admit that the statement in his recent article in The North American Review that about half the crime of New York City was committed by Jews was based upon incorrect figures, which he had not himself gathered.”

1909(1st of Tishrei, 5670): Jews observe Rosh Hashanah for the first time during the Presidency of William Taft.

1910: Jews of Salonica compel editors of Turkish paper that published anti-Semitic remarks to send a public retraction to every Turkish journal.

1911(23rd of Elul, 5671): Leil Selichot

1911(23rd of Elul, 5671): Forty-one-year-old New Yorker Alfred L. Peck, a native of Munich and President of the Hardman, Peck & Co. piano manufacturers who had married Lucy Strauss of Frankfort last October passed away today.

1911: Birthdate of Jerome “Jerry” Irving Wald, the Brooklyn native who gained fame as a screenwriter and producer.

1912: “To Talk on Judaism” published today described the upcoming visit to the United States of Rabbi Israel Abrahams, the noted English scholar and author.  After delivering a series of lectures at Harvard on “Some Aspects of the Life and Faith of Israel from the Liberal Point of View, he will speak at various venues including Stanford, Yale and Columbia where he will speak on the theme of “A Justification of Liberal Judaism.”  (Liberal Judaism is another term for the Reform Movement)

1913: According to a letter writer who signed himself “Russian American” Michael de Bernoff who is in this country as journalist for the Kievlianine of Kiev, is working for a newspaper that is the organ of the group known as the Black Hundreds” and its late editor was “a notorious anti-Semite” whose newspaper was the first to publish “the infamous blood accusation inciting the Kiev mob against the Jews.”

1914:  Birthdate of Allen Funt, creator of the television hit “Candid Camera.”

1914(25th of Elul, 5674): Abram Glaser passed away.

1914(25th of Elul, 5674): Aron Gottschalk passed away.

1915: Albert Einstein visits Switzerland where he tells the French pacifist Roman Rolland that he was no longer hopeful about an early end to the war.  According to Rolland’s diary, Einstein described the German people as having an admiration of and belief in force and a firm determination to conquer and annex territories.

1915: Guy Zinn, an outfielder with the Baltimore Terrapins of the Federal League, played his last game as a major leaguer.

1915: In New York, “a report by Chief Kenlon that twenty-four accidental fires were started by candles last” list last week during Rosh Hashanah “cause Fire Commissioner Adamson to urge that Jews exercise care in burning candles in connection with the” upcoming “celebration of Yom Kippur.”

1916(18th of Elul, 5677): Parashat Ki Tavo

1916(18th of Elul, 5677): Twenty-one-year-old  Private Abraham Woolman, the son of Fanny and Marks Woolman and a student at the Talmud Torah School in Sheffield as well as a member of the Jewish Lads’ Brigade was killed in combat while serving with the 15th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry in Flanders after which he was buried in the cemetery in Thiepval Memorial, France’

1916: Scenic designer Lee Simonson, the New York born son of “Sali and Augusta Simonson” and Phi Beta Kappa Harvard graduate married Helen Strauss of Salem, Massachusetts.

1916: The German Jewish industrialist Walter Rathenau, who had been urging European reconciliation and the mitigation of hatred, wrote a public letter to Field Marshall Ludendorff supporting the forcible deportation of 700,000 Belgian workers to Germany as part of the Hindenburg Industrial Program.

1916: Jewish baseball player Guy Zinn plays in his last major league game.

1916: A list of the officers of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies published today included Felix M. Warburg, Chairman; Leo Arnstein, Vice Chairman; Harry Sachs, Treasurer; William Goldman, Secretary and Miss Harriet B Lowenstein, Controller and Auditor.

1916: “Hope that Jews in the United States might agree on an American Jewish congress to take up problems of Jews in other countries dwindled” today “when it became know that a plan that had been signed by representatives of the competing factions, after a long controversy has been defeated by a referendum vote of the delegates who drafter the first outline of the congress at a conference held at Philadelphia last March.”

1916: “Figures covering the last four months made public” today “by the Department of the Immigrant Aid of the Council of Jewish Women show that the war condition are driving” many Greek and Turkish Jewish woman most of whom are under the age of 30, the bulk of them being “girls in their teen” to come the United States which “represent a class of aliens almost unheard of” in the history of the United States.

1916: Henrietta Szold wrote to Hyam Peretz explaining why she would be saying Kaddish for her mother.

http://www.on1foot.org/print/501

1917: (29th of Elul, 5677): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1917 “New Year of the Jews Begins at Sunset: Hashanah Will Be Celebrated This Evening All Over the World; Two Days of Festival Orthodox Jewish Community Devotes First and Second of Month of Tishri to Observance” published today reported that “The celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the festival of the New Year, by the Jewish people throughout the world will begin at sunset this evening.  The new year is 5678 in the Hebraic calendar and begins on the first day of the seventh month, Tishri, the month that is held to be of great importance as the festival of the New year, the fast of Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement and the festival of Succoth, or Tabernacles, the harvest fest all occur during that month.

1917: New Year’s Eve services were held in the auditoriums of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association in New York as well as “in all of the army camps and naval stations in the” New York area.

1917: Dr. Samuel Schulman officiated at services at Temple Beth-El.

1917:  Dr. Joseph Silverman officiated at services at Temple Emanu-El

1917: At Carnegie Hall, Dr. Stephen Wise of the Free Synagogue delivered a sermon on “Making a Fresh Start.”

1917: During World War I, U.S. soldiers and sailors began their furloughs today so that they could participate in the observance of Rosh Hashanah.  The War and Navy departments had agreed to a request for the holiday furloughs that had been made by Jewish Board for Welfare Work.

1917: “Polly of the Circus an American silent drama film notable as the first film produced by Samuel Goldwyn after founding his studio Goldwyn Pictures” was released today in the United States.

1917: It was reported today that “The American Jewish Relief Committee of which Louis Marshall is the Chairman and Arthur Lehman is the Treasurer” “acknowledged last week receiving new gifts amounting to more than $132,000.”

1917: It was reported today that among the contributions received by The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War were $150 from Cedar Rapids, Iowa and $977 from the Jewish Daily News.

1918(10th of Tishrei, 5679): Yom Kippur

1918: Sir John Monash, the highest-ranking Jewish officer in the Australian Army planned the allied attack on the German defenses known as the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, which began today.

1918: Second Lieutenant Louis C. Simon, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, displayed “extraordinary heroism in action in the region of Hadonsville Les Lochausse” while serving with the 147th Aero Squadron

1918: Birthdate of Benjamin Forester “Ben” Sohn the native of San Diego and an all-star guard with USC who played on a Rose Bowl winning team before going on to a successful career with the New York Giants.

1919: “Di Arche” (The Ark) a science fiction film directed by Richard Oswald and written by Robert Liebmann and Richard Oswald was released in Germany today.

1919: In a lengthy written memorandum, Adolph Hitler first expresses his hatred of the Jews describing them as a people that infect host nations with a kind of racial tuberculosis.  He called for measures that would eliminate them from all levels of the nation’s cultural and economic life.

1920: Furloughs that were granted to soldiers so they could observe the Jewish New Year came to an end today at noon.

1920: F.K. Hirsch of Sumter, South Carolina, wrote today that “a reading of “ The American Hebrew “would prove of great benefit to Jews and non-Jews alike, and is by far the best answer to the Dearborn Independent that has yet appeared.” (Editor’s note: The Dearborn Independent was the anti-Semitic paper published by Henry Ford.)

1920: The funeral for Colonel Harry Cutler, the chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board who passed away in London in August, is scheduled to take place this afternoon at Temple Bethel on Broad Street in Providence, Rhode Island.

1920: The first round of the Fall Entrance Examinations for admission into the Jewish Theological Seminary are scheduled to take place” today “in the Seminary Building.”

1922(23rd of Elul, 5682): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Leil Selichot

1922: The League Nations recognized the Jewish Agency as the organization authorized to act in concert with the British Mandate authorities with a view to “facilitating the Jewish immigration and fostering intensive settlement of Israelites on the soil of the country.”

1923: Birthdate of Judith Deena Hochberg, the Brooklyn born daughter of immigrants from Eastern Europe who gained fame as architect Judith Edelman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/business/judith-edelman-architect-91-is-dead-firebrand-in-a-male-dominated-field.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1923(6th of Tishrei, 5684): Theodore J. Hahn, a member of the Sons of the Revolution passed away today in Philadlelphai.

1924: In the Bronx, Natalie (née Weinstein-Bacal), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacall, and William Perske,” gave birth to Betty Joan Perske, who gained fame as actress Lauren Bacall  a relative of Shimon Peres who was married to Humphrey Bogart in 1945; a marriage that lasted until his death in 1957.  They co-starred in three film-noires of the 1940's - The Big Sleep, Dark Passage and Key Largo.

1924: Birthdate of Bess Myerson who was crowned Miss American in 1945 and who was the first (and only Jew) to win the honor.  It is strange that the first Jew to be named America’s national beauty queen came as Americans were basking in the victory over Nazi Germany and were learning of the horrors of the death camps. For many American Jews, her victory was a sign of the acceptance of Jews by the general population.

1925: Birthdate of Samuel Menashe Weisberg, who as Samuel Menashe, became “a Greenwich Village poet whose jewel-like, gnomic short verse won him an ardent following in Britain and belated recognition in the United States when the Poetry Foundation gave him its first Neglected Masters Award in 2004.”

1925(27th of Elul, 5685): Fifty-two-year-old Austrian composer Leo Fall who had followed in the musical footsteps of his father, composer Moritz Fall passed away today.

1925(27th of Elul, 5685): Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist who discovered the expanding-universe solution to the general relativity field equations in 1922, passed away.

1926:In Brooklyn,  Regina Silver, the Moisés Ville, Argentina born “daughter of Gedaliah Bublick and Elka Bublick and her husband Edward Sholom Moses Silver gave birth to David Bublick Silver, the husband of Anne Silver.

1926: Dr. Isaac Landman, editor of The Ameircan Hebrew, presided over a memorial program dedicated to the late Israel Zangwill which was broadcast in New York and New England through the efforts of Stations WRNY, New York, and WMAF, South Dartmouth, Mass.

1927: Joseph Shilkret’s “The Lonesome Road” was recorded today for the first time with “Shilkret directing the Victor Orchestra.”

1927: Birthdate Peter Falk, “who marshaled tics, prop room appurtenances and his own physical idiosyncrasies to personify Columbo, one of the most famous and beloved fictional detectives in television history.” Falk’s paternal ancestry was Jewish. He passed away in June of 2011.

1928(2nd of Tishrei, 5689): Second day of Rosh Hashanah

1928: “The Docks of New York” directed by Josef von Sternberg was released today In the United States by Paramount Pictures.

1929: In Manhattan, Louis and Sarah Goldman gave birth to Miriam Goldman the graduate of Barnard and Columbia Law School who gained fame as Judge Miriam Cedarbaum. (As reported by Joseph P. Fried)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/nyregion/miriam-cedarbaum-86-dies-longtime-federal-judge.html?ribbon-ad-idx=3&rref=obituaries&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Obituaries&pgtype=article

1930: In Paris, marriage of Robert Calmann-Levy and Jacqueline Piatigorsky

1930: “Bernice and Phyllis Zitenfeld, twins, said they were “through with the English Channel” today. They expect to return to their homes in the United States soon. Extremely rough water and I rough seas forced the girls to I abandon their attempt to swim from England to France when they were four and a half miles from their goal.

1931: Manhattan and Queens Borough authorities were quick to voice their approval today of the proposal made to the Board of Estimate Tuesday by Robert Moses, the son of German Jewish parents Bella Silverman and Emanuel Moses  and president of the Long Island State Park commission that the city cooperate with the state of New York in constructing an extension of Grand Central Parkway from its terminus at Union Turnpike to the Triborough Bridge and an extension of Southern State Parkway into Brooklyn”1932: “The Western Code” co-starring Mischa Auer was released in the United States today.

 

1932: “Thirteen Women,” “a psychological thriller produced by David O. Selznick with music by Max Steiner and screenplay by Samuel Ornitz premiered today at the Roxy Theatre in New York.

1933(25th of Elul, 5693): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech; Sleichot

1933: Eighty-four-year-old Gabriel Gustav Hirsch, the Wankheim Germany born “son of Leopold Hirsch and Therese Tölzele Hirsch (Wormser), the husband of Emma Hirsch and father of Leopold Hirsch; Ella Gudele Bauer; Siegmund Hirsch; Martha Hirsch; Arthur Hirsch; and Paula Hirsch passed away today.

1933: Birthdate of Vera Buchtal, the native of Dortmund, Germany who gained fame as British technology pioneer Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley.

http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=ba13d322ff1efbe114aeb6779&id=c4d14a87ac&e=632ced0f1f

1934: Today, in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck declared that “Poland has no intentions of infringing on the Jewish rights” in Poland “and minority treaties have been made an integral part of the Polish Constitution are inviolable…”

1934(7th of Tishrei, 5695): Seventy-nine-year-old Rabbi Maurice Faber, the Hungarian born son of  “I. Faber and F. Bettes who was the spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El in Tyler, TX and who was the father of “two sons, Dr. Edwin Faber of Denver and Arthur Faber of Washington, D. C., and two daughters, Mrs. Philip Lipstate of Tyler and Mrs. Philip Friedlander of Memphis, TN passed away today.

1935: Rabbi Chaim Hirschensohn the Zionist leader who worked to revive spoken Hebrew and helped found the Safah Berurah ("Plain Language") society in Jerusalem passed away.

1935(18th of Elul, 5695): Isaac Loeb Goldberg, “one of the world’s foremost Jewish philanthropists and a founder of the modern Zionist movement passed away today at the age of 75.  A longtime resident of Tel Aviv, he was in Zurich at the time of his death seeking medical treatment.  A native of Szaki, Lithuania (which was part of the Russian Empire), this son of poor merchants received “the usual Jewish educational training” before becoming the representative of a pharmaceutical company and finally a “contractor of medical goods for the Russian Army.”    In 1861, Goldberg was a founder of Chovevie Zion (Lovers of Zion), one of the forerunners of the modern Zionist movement.  In 1897 he was a delegate to the First Zionist Congress.  He was a founder of the Jewish Colonial Trust and editor of Haolom, “the official organ of Russian Zionism” which was published in Vilna, Lithuania. Following the failed Revolution of 1905, Goldberg was imprisoned for remarks in the paper that were critical of the government.  After being released, he served as President of the Russian Zionist organization from 1912 until 1914.  Throughout this period and during the World War, Goldberg was a generous, though often anonymous, benefactor to the Zionist cause.  In 1902, Goldberg donated “a large area of land on Mt. Scopus” to the Jewish National Fund which was that agency’s first acquisitions of territory in Eretz Israel. From 1903 until 1915, Goldberg served on the General Council of the World Zionist Organization during which time he founded Achiasaf, one of the great Jewish publishing houses.  Goldberg’s commitment to Hebrew language and culture was further exemplified by his founding of Haaretz and generous contributions to the Hebrew Institute for Culture and Language.  Goldberg made Aliyah in 1919.  As a resident of Tel Aviv he continued to serve as a director of the Jewish Colonial Trust, the Anglo-Palestine Bank and the Palestine Land Development Company.  Tragedy struck in 1929 when Mr. Goldberg’s son, Benjamin was killed during the Arab riots.  In April of 1935, the grieving father donated “28 dunams of thickly wooded land for a city park” to be built in Tel Aviv and to be named in his son’s memory.

1935: The Seventh Nazi Party Rally came to an end at Nuremberg.

1935: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Joseph Chaikin, the Des Moines, Iowa, raised Drake University drop-out who went on to career in acting and directing “experimental theatre.” (As reported by Ralph Blumenthal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/nyregion/joseph-chaikin-67-actor-and-innovative-director.html

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/26/guardianobituaries1

http://www.playbill.com/article/joseph-chaikin-director-and-actor-who-founded-avant-garde-open-theatre-dead-at-67-com-113937

https://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/joseph-chaikin-papers

https://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/joseph-chaikin

1936(29th of Elul, 5696): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1936: Tonight, at the Brooklyn Hebrew Home for the Aged at Howard and Durmont, 108-year-old “‘Grandpa’ Abraham Ginsburg will make his customary round to utter the New Year greeting – ‘Mayest thou be inscribed in Happiness for the New Year’ – to the other 262 residence” with the only difference being that this year he will be wheeled around in invalid’s chair” instead of walking around.

1936: “At Temple Emanu-El, Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson delivered a sermon on ‘When Is Worship Spiritual?’”

1936: At the Institutional Synagogue Annex on Broadway Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein spoke on “The New Year and Peace” emphasizing “the need for a plebiscite before war is declared.”: 

1936: At Central Synagogue in Manhattan, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise “stressed in his sermon Israel’s loyalty to America” saying “Loyalty to Judaism is loyalty to American ideals” and that “no happier union of loyalties could be desired…”

1936: At the Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall, “Dr. Stephen S. Wise spoke on ‘As a Watch in the Night’” saying “In Nazi German the world had beheld in these days at Nuremberg a veritable orgy of primitive and bestial hatred the aim of which was to confound the Jews of the world with and to make them seem responsible for communism.”

1936: At the Mount Neboh Temple, Rabbi A. L. Feinberg delivered a sermon on “Fear – America’s Enemy.”

1936: “Rabbi Wendell A. Phillips conducted special services at Rodeph Sholom.

1936: At the HIAS building, the home of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America, services were held for unemployed and homeless” Jews.

1936: “The Jewish Theological Seminary of America issued a message from its president, Dr. Cyrus Adler in which he stated that ‘the intensive pursuit of purely scientific knowledge by universities and individual scholars is not making for eventual breakdown of all religious conviction but is steadily leading toward wider acceptance of a belief in God and the truths of religion.’”

1936: “The Struemer, Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic weekly announced that the Reich Justice Minstry has instructed public prosecutors to demand more severe punishment for Jewish ‘race defilers’ – Jews convicted of having had relations with ‘German women.’”

1936: “The Committee for Special Jewish Interests with headquarter” in Amsterdam “issued a protest signed by prominent Netherland Jews against the speeches of German Ministers at the Nuremberg Nazi congress.”

1936: “Several organizations made public a message addressed to the Jews of New York by Fiorello La Guardia in which he said: ‘As Mayor of the City New York, and personally, it gives me pleasure to extend to the citizens of the Jewish faith my sincerest greetings on the eve of the observance of the coming holy days.  It is my fervent hope that the year 6579 of the Jewish calendar will bring with it progress toward the rapid dissipation of existent prejudice and discrimination of the world.  The Jews of the world have contributed more than their share to the civilization.  Civilization will thwart the efforts of any tyrant determined to destroy this great people.”

1936: In Kaunas, Lithuania, attorney Zvi Brick and his wife Leah who was a teacher gave birth to Aharon Brick, the survivor of the Kovno Ghetto who as Aharon Barack became President of the Supreme Court of Israel in 1995.

1936: In “Jews Protest Nazi Talks” published today the World Jewish Congress took issue with Hitler’s propaganda machine by asserting that “it was not world Jewry but ‘German militarism which during the World War facilitated the rise of Bolshevism to power.’”

1936: A public funeral will be held today in Detroit for Ossip Gabrilowitsch at Orchestra Hall following which his body “will be sent to Elmira, NY, to be buried in the Clemens family plot” near the body of his father-in-law, Mark Twain.

1937: The NAACP, which had enjoyed the financial and moral support of the Jewish community as could be seen by such board members as Rabbi Stephen Wise, Jacob Billikopf and Jacob Schiff sent a telegram to President Roosevelt asking that he work to remove Justice Hugo Black from the Supreme Court. (This move would seem strange to those who came to see Black as a leader of the Liberal Wing of the Court and one of the Justices who voted for the Brown decision in 1954)

1938: During the ongoing outbreak of Arab terror and violence the Rabbinate in Palestine “proclaimed today as a day of fasting for throughout the world because of the situation in” Eretz Israel

1939: Salomon Gluck, a French doctor and future leader in the Resistance, returned from London and enlisted in the French Army today.

1939: U.S premiere of “Dust Be My Destiny” produced by Hal Wallis, starring John Garfield with a script by Robert Rossen.

1940: Sam Rayburn becomes Speaker of the House of Representative.  A Democrat from rural Texas, Rayburn defied convenient stereotyping.  Rayburn was an internationalist and a supporter of the New Deal.  In 1941, isolationist forces attempted to end the newly enacted peacetime draft that was enabling the U.S. military to build its forces prior to Pearl Harbor.  Rayburn turned back the attempt.  If he had failed the Army would have been reduced to a comparative handful of soldiers at the time of the Japanese attack and leaving American truly vulnerable to defeat at the hands of the Axis.  The consequences for Jews would have been disastrous.  In 1943, when a group of Four Hundred Rabbis marched on Washington to demand American action to help the Jews of Europe, Rayburn was one of the national leaders who publicly greeted them.  In 1948, unlike many Southerners, Rayburn supported Israel’s friend, Harry Truman, in his bid for re-election. 

1940: Slovakia enacted laws establishing authority for the Aryanization of the country.

1941: The 45th Infantry Division in which Raul Hilberg would serve with during WW II was shifted from state control as it became part of the regular U.S. Army.

1941(24th of Elul, 5701): Jews from the town of Uman were brought to ditches at the airfield upon the excuse of taking a town census. SS officers systematically went down the line with pistols and shot each of the Jews - men, woman and children alike. The death toll was an estimated 22,000.

1941: Those in camps in Bessarabia. Including 118, 847 Jews from Bessarabia, Bukovina and the Dorohoi district began to be deported to the region between the Dniester and the Bug rivers called Transnistria, from which the Germans had withdrawn, handing control over to the Romanians under the Tighina agreement.” (Jewish Virtual Library)

1942: Paramount Pictures released “The Major and the Minor” the first American movie directed by Billy Wilder.

1942: Sixty-nine-year-old Detroit born Simon Raymond Cohen, the HUC trained rabbi who was the spiritual leader of Union Temple in Brooklyn passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/09/17/85051746.html?pageNumber=25

1942(5th of Tishrei, 5703): Six thousand Jews from Jedrzejów, Poland, are murdered at the Treblinka death camp.

1942(5th of Tishrei, 5703): Forty-nine-year-old Mendel Dyner, a former resident of Prague, was murdered today at Majdanek.

1943:  More than 37,000 Italian Jews come under German rule.

1943: The 48th national convention of the Jewish War Veterans is scheduled to open today at Kiamesha, NY which will coincide with a drive the group to sell twelve million dollars “in third war loan bonds.”

1943: "The first consignment of two dozen Jews was shipped from a town in northern Italy to Auschwitz.  Among them was a six year old child who was gassed upon arrival."

1943: The Nazis deported the first Italian Jews from the town of Merano With Mussolini no longer running the Italian government; Germany had taken control of 95% of Italy. With the Nazis in direct control of Italy, conditions worsened for the Jews as can be seen from what would be the first of many deportations to the death camps of Eastern Europe.

1944: The Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF) were among the Allied Forces that took Massaora, Italy.  Among those serving with the BEF was Lt. Col Waldemar Levy Cardoso who served as the commander of an artillery battalion.

1945(9th of Tishrei, 5706): Erev Yom Kippur

1945: At the Free Synagogue in Carnegie Hall, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise preached a sermon “Banished from the Brotherhood of Man.

1945: At Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Rabbi Louis I. Newman preached a sermon on “Repentance, Prayer and Charity.

1945: “Rabbi Henry Raphael Gold, a physician who is a member of the staff of Bellevue Hospital” delivered the sermon at Yeshiva College on Amsterdam Avenue.

1945: At Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Rabbi Israel Goldstein preached a sermon “Spiritual Reparation.”

1945: At Temple Israel on West 91st Street, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum preached a sermon on “The Majesty of Humility.”

1945: At the West End Synagogue, Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger preached a sermon on “What It Means to be Religious.”

1945: British Prime Minister Clement Attlee harshly rejected President Truman’s plea that 100,000 Jewish displaced persons be admitted into Palestine immediately.

1946: It was reported today that the Joint Distribution Committee has voted to spend $9, 631,000 this month to meet the critical needs of the 1,400,000 Jewish survivors living in Europe.”

1947(2nd of Tishrei, 5708) Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

1947: “John D.L. Hood, Australian member of the United Nations special committee of inquiry on Palestine, refused to support either the majority or the minority recommendation of the committee because he felt that the committee's report should present both plans without recommending either.”

1947: “Two important seizures of explosives from the Arabs were by the Palestine Government today” including 28 land mines discovered “beneath the load of a heavy truck… south of Gaza” and “thirty small cans of gunpowder found in a vehicle traveling on the road from Gaza to Beersheba.”

1948: George Hawkins and Frederick Sylvester, two British officials of the Jerusalem Electric Corporation went on trial for second time. They were charged with acts of espionage, including passing information to the Arabs

1948: Count Folke Bernadotte the "U.N. mediator on Palestine" recommended that the Israel Negev "should be defined as Arab territory" and made part of Transjordan.  He also supported the unconditional or Arab refugees to the state of Israel.  He had previously recommended that the port of Haifa should be placed under international control and turning control over Jewish immigration to the United Nations.   The following day Bernadotte was assassinated by members of a group founded by Lehi also known as the Stern Gang.  Following the shooting, the government ordered the disbanding of the Irgun and arrested 200 members of Lehi. This was not the first assassination by members of Lehi.  As can be seen by the arrests, the tactics of the Stern Gang were rejected by the Yishuv (the Jewish community).

1948: In Paris, Île-de-France, France Donald Bloomingdale married Bethsabee de Rothschild

1949: “"I Can Dream, Can't I?",  “a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal” “first reached the Billboard charts’ today.

1949: Birthdate of Motti Lerner, the native Zihron Ya’akov who gained fame as a “playwright and screenwriter.”

1950(5th of Tishrei, 5711): Parashat Vayeilech and Shabbat Shuvah

1951: The Greater New York Committee for the Israel Bond Issue kicks off its fall campaign at Straus Square on the Lower East Side.  David Horowitz, director General of Finance of the Israeli government is a featured speaker.

1951: The 37th annual convention of Hadassah opens with 3,500 delegates in attendance.  Opening day speakers include Senator Hubert Humphrey and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett.

1951: Despite the on-going food shortages, Israel’s economy showed growth and vitality today “when Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion formally opened the new plant of the General Tire and Rubber Company” located near Petah Tkiva.  By the end of 1952 the plant is expected to producing 2,500 tons of tires annually which will be sufficient to meet local needs and leave extra product for export.  Ben-Gurion called on Israelis to show the same spirit in the developing the Jewish state as had been demonstrated by the American pioneers. Ben Gurion reiterated his dream of Israel becoming an industrial center capable of meeting the needs of nations in the near, middle and Far East.

1953: “The Robe” a “biblical blockbuster” directed by Henry Koster, with a screenplay co-authored by Albert Maltz and Gina Kaus with music by Alfred Newman was released today in the United States by 20th Century Fox.

1953: “Madame De” a film version of the film directed by Max Ophuls who co-wrote the script and music by Oscar Straus was released in France and Italy today.

1955(29th of Elul, 5715): Erev Rosh Hashanah

1955(29th of Elul, 5715: In Cleveland, OH, seventy-five-year-old “Louis Leventhal, the founder of the Sunshine Broom and Brush Company” and father of six sons and one daughter who was “the former president of the old Chebath Jerusalem Synagogue” and an officer of Mizrachi, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/09/17/83373256.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=

1955 Attorney Arthur A. Klotz was sworn in today as “counsel of the State Liquor Authority” today the Secretary of State of New York.

1956: In Paris, Romanian-Jewish social psychologist Serge Moscovici and of the Polish-Jewish psychoanalyst Marie Bromberg-Moscovici gave birth to French political leader Pierre Moscovici

1956:  Birthdate of magician David Copperfield.

1957: The 5th Maacabiah Games continue for a second day in Tel Aviv.

1958(2nd of Tishrei, 5719): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah

1958(2nd of Tishrei, 5719): Ninety-two-year-old Leah G. Gans Seppacher, the Philadelphia born daughter of Meyer and Bertha Cauffman Gans and the wife of Walter Meyer Steppacher with whom she had three children – Walter, Lester and George – passed away today after which she was buried at Mount Sinai Cemetery.

1959(13th of Elul, 5719): Harpsichordist and composer Wanda Landowska, who was credited with the 20th-century revival of harpsichord music, passed away.

1959: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled this afternoon at Temple Emeth in Teaneck, NJ, for Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/09/15/88821035.pdf

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13994.html

1960:  Pitching in relief of starter Don Drysdale, Larry Sherry gains his 14th victory (Sherry was Jewish; Drysdale was not.  According to an oft repeated baseball tale, Drysdale, years later pitched in place of Sandy Koufax who had taken off for Yom Kippur.  Drysdale did not have a good night and as he came off of the mound after an unsuccessful inning he turned to manager Walt Alston and supposedly said, “I bet that tonight you wish I was Jewish.”

1961(6th of Tishrei, 5722): Shabbat Shuva observed for the first time during the Presidency of JFK.

1963(27th of Elul, 5723): Fifty-six-year-old Polish native and University of Michigan graduate who served as director of the Federal Relief Administration in Kentucky before become exuctive director of the Jewish Community Council of Essex Country, NJ passed away today.

1963(27tj pf Elul, 5723): Fifty-year-old Cleveland, OH native and Western Reserve University alumnus Morris Abrams the president of Curtis Industries, “a founder of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Technion” and an advocate for a strengthened United Nations passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/17/89546923.pdf

1964(10th of Tishrei, 5725): Yom Kippur observed for the first time during the Presidency of LBJ.

1964: “In Nottingham, England,[7] the son of Esther Aline (née Lowndes-Moir), a renowned historian and expert in Celtic mythology and Victor de Waal, a chaplain of the University of Nottingham who later became the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral” gave birth to Edmund de Waal the author of “The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, a family memoir” which “tells the story of his family, the Ephrussi, once a very wealthy European Jewish banking dynasty, centered in Odessa, Vienna and Paris, and peers of the Rothschild family.”

1965(19th of Elul, 5725): Seventy-three-year-old Casper Platt, the Danville, Illinois, native and WW I veteran who became a United States federal judge passed away today.

http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1894&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na

1965: NBC broadcast the first episode of “The Dean Martin Show” written by Canadian-Jewish writer Stan Daniels.

1966(2nd day of Tishrei, 5727): Rosh Hashanah II

1966: First baseman Mike Epstein made his major league with the Baltimore Orioles.

1968(23rd of Elul, 5728): Seventy-three-year-old Henry Landers Bostick “(born Henry Lipschitz)” who played one season for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League passed away today in Denver where he had gone to college at the University of Denver.

1969: Birthdate of Justine Frischmann, guitarist and daughter of a Holocaust survivor.

1970: A memorial is scheduled to be held today for Seventy-year-old Ukraine native and Columbia trained educator Abraham D. Feingold , “a co-founder and codirector of the Rugby School, an institution for mentally retarded and handicapped children in Brooklyn” and whose “name was thrust into the public spotlight in 1950, when, with seven other public school teachers here, he was” unfairly “suspended without pay for refusing to answer questions about his conduct and his loyalty, including questions on alleged membership in the Communist party.”

1972(8th of Tishrei, 5733): Shabbat Shuva

1972: Following the Munich Massacre, Israel launched Operation Extended Turmoil 4 against bases in southern Lebanon, containing an estimated 600 guerrillas. “Golani forces reached the Litani River in the east, while Paratroopers reached Juwaya just south of the river. Most of the guerrilla forces did not engage the Israelis and chose to retreat, although over 40 of them were killed.”

1972: CBS broadcast the first episode of The Bob Newhart Show” co-starring Suzanne Pleshette as the star’s wife.

1972: The Three Dog Night’s recording of “Black and White” written by the Jewish and African American team of David I. Arkin “pealed today at number one on the U.S. pop chart…”

1973(19th of Elul, 5733): Seventy-six-year-old Kiev native Albert “Al” Sherman, the songwriter whose hits ironically included a song praising Charles Lindbergh and who was the father songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman passed away today in Los Angeles.

1973: “A memorial service for Dr. Ernst Papenk…a professor of education psychology at Queens College” is scheduled “to be held this afternoon.”

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2333

1974(29th of Elul, 5734): Erev Rosh Hashana

1977(4th of Tishrei, 5738): Seventy-six-year-old General Frank L. Lazarus, the West Point graduate and WW II veteran turned New York realtor and politician passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/17/archives/frank-l-lazarus-76-realestate-expert-as-new-york-city-commissioner.html

1977:  Moshe Dayan returned to Morocco where he met with the Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister, Hassan Tuhami.  Tuhami made it clear that Sadat was prepared to negotiate directly with Israel, that he did not insist on a conference with other Arab States and that he would accept an Israeli withdrawal from Sinai in return for a peace treaty.  Sadat would not require settlement of any other issues as condition to signing the peace treaty.  This meeting set the stage for the Camp David negotiations that would take place in the following year.

1980: In Baltimore, MD, “Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and other books on spirituality, and Moira Crone, fiction writer and author of Dream State and A Period of Confinement” gave birth to birth to columnist Anya Kamenetz author of The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be

1982: A meeting between U.S. diplomats and Israeli officials was held at the Ministry of Defense concerning the entry of Phalangists into the Shatila Refugee camp.

1983(9th of Tishrei, 5744): Erev Yom Kippur and Erev Shabbat

1984: U.S. Premiere of “Amadeus” the screen adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play produced by Saul Zaentz.

1985(1st of Tishrei, 5746): Rosh Hashanah

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/16/nyregion/after-much-preparation-jews-usher-in-new-year.html

1988: Joan Micklin Silver's "Crossing Delancey," the story of love between a professional Upper East Side woman and a pickle seller from the Lower East Side, was released in theaters.

http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/16/1988/joan-micklin-silver

1990: The New York Times reported that Brandeis University, which has a large Jewish enrollment, and the College of the Holy Cross, a Roman Catholic institution in Worcester, are teaming up in a comparative-religion study program that officials hope will promote understanding between students of the two faiths.

1990(26th of Elul, 5750): Seventy-three-year old world renowned clarinetist Leon Russianoff, the Brooklyn born son Sarah Ellman Russianoff and Isadore Russianoff who had left Russia to escape the prevailing anti-Semitism, and the husband of Penelope Russianoff with whom he had two children – Charles and Sylvia and who “had taught at Teachers College, Brooklyn College, Queens College, the State University College at Purchase, Catholic University and the 92d Street Y's music school and whose students included Stanley Drucker, the first clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic” passed away today.

https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/5147/8324875.PDF?sequence=1

1991(8th of Tishrei, 5752): Eighty-year-old Viennese born America pianist Robert Goldsand pass away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/17/obituaries/robert-goldsand-80-pianist-and-teacher.html?mcubz=1

https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/robert-goldsand

1991: A memorandum of this date provides proof that the “KGB intervened… to stop an investigation into” the fate of Raoul Wallenberg. “The memorandum from the Swedish Embassy in Moscow cites the former head of the Soviet "Special Archive," Anatoly Prokopenko, as telling Swedish diplomats that the KGB instructed him to stop a search for documents by researchers working for the first International Wallenberg Commission.”

1992: On Black Wednesday George Soros became immediately famous when he sold short more than $10 billion worth of pounds, profiting from the Bank of England’s reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchanges.

1992: “The Frontier” a Chilean film with a script by Jorge Goldenberg was released today in Canada.

1993(1st of Tishrei, 5754): The first observance of Rosh Hashanah after the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13; an event that has cause many rabbis to change their high holiday sermons.

1993: As a result of the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13 Rabbi Shelton Donnell of Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana, was scheduled to switch his Rosh Hashanah sermon from one discussing the use of time to a talk on the new prospects for peace.

1993: At the Conservative Congregation Eilat in Mission Viejo, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson is scheduled tell prayer-goers that if the Israelis and Palestinians can make peace, Americans can also overcome seemingly insurmountable problems of racism, homophobia and poverty.

1993: At Irvine's Orthodox synagogue, Beth Jacob, Rabbi Joel Landau is scheduled to speak about sacrifice, offering the peace accord as an example of "people sometimes making tough decisions in order to do what's right."

1993: NBC broadcast the first episode of season five of “Seinfeld.” 

1996(3rd of Tishrei, 5757): Tzom Gedaliah

1996: Judith “Sheindlin’s ongoing syndicated court show, ‘Judge Judy,’ debuted” today.

https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/16/1996/judge-judy-airs

1997: Samuel “Sheinbein and Aaron Benjamin Needle, a former classmate at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Aspen Hill, Maryland, killed Alfredo Enrique Tello, Jr. after which they dismembered and burned his body.

1998:  “Judas Kiss” featuring Joey Slotnick as “Walters” was released today in the United States.

1998: “Permanent Midnight” the film version of Jerry Stahl’s autobiographical novel in which the author makes a cameo appearance was released in the United States today.

2000(16th of Elul, 5760): Parashat Ki Tavo

2000(16th of Elul, 5760): Fifty-three-year-old Manhattan born actress Dori Brenner and sister of author Ellen Levine passed away today.

https://variety.com/2000/scene/people-news/dori-brenner-1117796509/

2001 (28th of Elul, 5761): Eighty-three-year-old Samuel Z. Arkoff, a native of Fort Dodge, Iowa and an American lawyer turned  film producer, passed away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/arts/samuel-z-arkoff-maker-of-drive-in-thrillers-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

2002(10th of Tishrei, 5763): Jews observe Yom Kippur for the first time in the Post 9/11 era

2002: In Glasgow services were held for the last time at the Queen Park Synagogue which had been known as “The Tin Shul._

2002: Premiere of “Obsessed” co-starring Lisa Edelstein.

2003: “The Boys from Oz” an Australian musical that Martin Sherman Americanized began its pre-Broadway run at the Imperial Theatre.

2004(1st of Tishrei, 5765): As John Kerry battles President Bush for the White House, Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah

2004: A self-appointed “ethics watchdog” “filed a complaint with the Nevada Commission on Ethics, this time asking the commission to clarify Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman's affiliation with his son Ross's law firm.”

2005(12th of Elul, 5765): Eighty-five-year-old physicist Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/science/gordon-gould-85-figure-in-invention-of-the-laser-dies.html

2005: The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz reported on the Ariel Sharon’s speech to the United Nations.  Sharon took the same take as two other soldiers turned Prime Minister, in proclaiming himself as a champion of peace in the Middle Easter, recognizing the right of the Palestinians to a state of their own.

2006: In the evening, Selichot Services, as Jews prepare for the High Holidays.

2006 (23rd of Elul, 5766): Helen Deschmaps Adams, member of the French Resistance during World War II passed away at the age of 85 at her home in Manhattan.  As Helen Deschmaps (Adams was the name of her American husband) “she saved American parachutists from capture…and helped Jewish families escape to Spain…She…posed as a secretary at the headquarters of the Milice…the force known as the French Gestapo. She stole the records of people marked for execution including Jews and resistance fighters…"  In one of her memoirs entitled Spyglass, this righteous person asks the question “If you had to renounce family, friends, and any kind of normal lifestyle to fight a fierce enemy, would you?”

2006: Jack Kirby was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City. The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor.

2006: In article entitled Faith changes in Banglatown, but our social enrichment stays the same” published today Rabbi Jonathan Sacks traces the recent history of the Jews of London.

http://oldweb.chiefrabbi.org/ReadArtical.aspx?id=1108

2007((4 Tishrei, 5768): Fast of Gedaliah observed. Normally the Fast of Gedaliah is observed on the third of Tishrei

2007: The Sunday Washington Post book section featured reviews of The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert B. Reich, the Jewish economist who served as Clinton’s Secretary of Labor and The Zookeeper’s Wife, a story about saving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Final Solution, by Diane Ackerman. 

2007: The Sunday New York Times book section featured reviews of The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt and James L. Kugel’s How To Read The Bible:  A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now which the author says “is intended as a guide to, and a tour through, the Hebrew Bible. In it, he has tried to write down most of what he knows about the Bible, its past as well as its present. That makes it a little different from other books on the subject.”

2007: “Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country” opens at the Jewish Museum of New York.

2007: At the Jewish Museum in New York an exhibition entitled, “The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend” comes to a close.

2008: Release of Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error set in the early days of the Korea War.

2008: In Washington, D.C., Richard Michelson discusses his latest work, A Is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet (encompassing a history of Jewish customs).

2008: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a lecture by Joshua Rubenstein is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University entitled “The Neglected Massacres: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories. Rubenstein will speak about his newest book, The Unknown Black Book, which recounts the testimonies by survivors of the German massacres that took place in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic Region.

2008(16th of Elul, 5768): Ninety-eight-year-old Avraham Biran, an archaeologist of biblical sites who excavated Tel Dan, an ancient city along Israel’s northern border, and uncovered an unexpected stone fragment bearing what might be the earliest reference to the House of David, died today  in Jerusalem.(As reported by Jeremy Pearce)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/world/middleeast/06biran.html

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/nov/25/archaeology-avraham-biran-israel-obituary

2009: Bagels & Barbeque: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee a joint project of the Tennessee State Museum in collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, Jewish Community Federation of Greater Chattanooga, Knoxville Jewish Alliance, and Memphis Jewish Federation, with the participation of other Jewish communities around the state is scheduled to come to an end today. As can be seen from the following description, the exhibit provides living proof of the vitality of the Jewish community outside of the major urban areas of the United States.

http://www.chattanoogablogger.com/events/chattanooga-state-will-host-exhibit-spotlighting-jewish-history-in-tennessee

2009: There are now 7,465,000 people living in Israel, the central bureau of statistics reported today.  The figure represents a rise of 1.8 percent over last year.  The study, released ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, find that 75.4 percent of the population is Jewish, 20.6 percent are Arab, and the rest are identified as others. The study also found that thousands of people left Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the last year, in order to seek cheaper housing outside of Israel's two largest cities. According to the study, the Israeli populace is relatively young compared to that of other countries, with 28.4 percent of the population under the age of 14, in contrast to the average of 17 percent among Western countries. The percentage of Israelis over the age of 65 stands at 9.7%, as opposed to the average in the Western world, which stands at 15%.

2009: “The Other Woman,” a film version Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelete Waldman, co-staring Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow and Scott Cohen premiered at the Toronto Film Festival today.

2009: The 92nd St Y presents “This American Life: Behind the Scenes with Ira Glass and Others.” 

2009: At Jerusalem’s Khan Theater the second and final performance of "La grande magica" (Grand Magic) a play written by de Fillippo in 1949 which is enjoying its first Israeli staging.

2009: The Jewish Studies Program at Tulane University, under the direction of Brian Horowitz, presents a screening of “Waltz With Bashir” as part of the Colloquium and Film Series that is devoted to the subject of “Cultural Judaism” Experience, Concepts and Rival Perspectives.”

2009(27th of Elul 5769): Eighty-two-year-old shopping mall mogul and professional basketball aficionado Melvin Simon, passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/business/18simon.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0

2010: A screening of “Anita” is scheduled to take place at the 14th Annual Jewish Film Festival of Dallas. The film tells the story of Anita Feldman, a young woman with Down syndrome living in Buenos Aires, working in shop, whose live is torn apart by the terrorist bombing of the nearby Argentine Israelite Mutual Association.

2010: "Black Tide,” Dana Melamed's 3rd solo show at Priska Juschka Fine Art is scheduled to open in Chelsea, NYC.

2010: Wall painting of Tyche, Greek goddess of fortune, was exposed during 11th season of excavation carried out by University of Haifa.  A wall painting (fresco) of Tyche, the Greek goddess of fortune, was exposed during the 11th season of excavation at the Sussita site, on the east shore of the Sea of Galilee, according to a University of Haifa statement released today.

2010: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today she is convinced that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are trying to seek common ground in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

2010: The upright piano used by Irving Berlin when he composed such hits as “I Love a Piano” in 1915 was removed from the Ascap’s headquarters today (As reported by James Barron)

2011: The 14th Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to come to a close.

2011: Following  traditional Friday night services at the 6th & I Historic Synagogue, Mort Fertal is scheduled to deliver an after-dinner lecture entitled “Dating Smart” followed by questions from the audience.

2011: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said today that the Palestinians plan to approach the United Nations Security Council for full recognition, clarifying that they are seeking to delegitimize the occupation, not Israel, by taking the UN route for Palestinian statehood.

2011: - New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully announced today that New Zealand will boycott the Durban III conference on September 22 because the anti-racism event is plagued by anti-Semitism.

2012: The Alexandria Kleztet is scheduled to perform at the Collington Retirement Community in Mitchellville, Maryland.

2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin and The Fish That Ate the Whale, Rich Cohen’s biography of Samuel Zemurray.

2012: In the evening, Erev of Rosh Hashanah, 5773

2012: Ryan Braun hit his 200th career home run today followed by another homer which was his 40th of the year.  (At the time, nobody knew that he was doing this with the assistance of banned substances)

2012: Showtime broadcast the final episode of “Weeds” a “dark comedy drama created by Jenji Kohan” co-starring Alexander Gould.

2012: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned today that Iran was just six to seven months away from being able to build a nuclear bomb

2013: The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center is scheduled to co-sponsor “Introduction to Jewish Texts: A Melton Sampler.”

2013: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to sponsor a lecture entitled “Making History: The Proliferation and Impact of Modern Jewish Archives.”

2013(12th of Tishrei, 5774): Eighty-six-year-old Rabbi Philip Berg, the head of Kabbalah Center International, passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/21/us/rabbi-philip-berg-who-updated-jewish-mysticism-dies-at-86.html?hpw&_r=1&

2013: “The Croatian version, of Israeli drama “BeTipul” titled Na terapiji, premiered today Croatian Radiotelevision

2013: “The growth rate of the settler population in 2012 was five percent, which means that the number of Israelis in the West Bank increased at a pace almost three times as fast the nation’s 1.9% growth rate last year, according to numbers released today by the Central Bureau of Statistics” (As reported by Tovah Lazaroff)

2013: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry last week that he should try to reach a deal with Russia to confiscate Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal as an alternative to a threatened US strike on the Assad regime, the Wall Street Journal reported today.”

2014: “Inside the Mind of a Nazi Perpetrator: The Search for the Rosenberg Diary” is scheduled to open in Philadelphia, PA this evening.

2014: TCM is scheduled to present the third in the series – The Jewish Experience on Film – featuring “Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer,” “Sallah,” “A Sword in the Desert” and “Exodus”

http://www.tcm.com/projectedimage/schedule.html

2014: The Skirball Center is scheduled to host a discussion with Rabbi David Wolpe the author of David: The Man Behind the Myth

2014: Fearing disapproval by the Russians “a Foreign MInstry special panel” vetoed “a defense Minstry-approved deal to sell drones to the Ukraine.(Times of Israel)

2014: The IDF confirmed that a mortar shell was fired from the Gaza strip this evening, “the first since a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas went into effect” in August. (As reported by Stuart Winer)

2014: A fire that broke out today on de la Cinque Street in Anderlecht near Brussels was caused by arson.

2014: The Julliard School in New York “disclosed” the death of American actor Darrell Zwerling who had died in April at the age of 85.

2014: All UN peacekeepers withdrew from their posts on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights and moved into Israel because the Syrian fighters were seen as “a direct threat to their safety and security.” (As reported by Adiv Sterman)

2015(3rd of Tishrei, 5776): Fast of Gedaliah

2015: Behind-the-scenes tensions at Carnegie Hall erupted into public view today after Ronald O. Perelman, the billionaire businessman who became chairman of the Carnegie board this year, sent an email to his fellow trustees accusing the organization’s executive and artistic director of a “troubling lack of transparency” and criticizing the board for failing to provide “appropriate oversight.” (As reported by Michael Cooper)

2015: Jewish Museum London’s third crowd-sourced exhibition which will explore the theme of Sacrifice through personal mementoes, historic artefacts and fine art is scheduled to open today.

2015: The rains that brought an end to “the dark and yellowish week that shrouded Israel” is forecasted to continue into this evening.

2016: “A small city in northeast Portugal,” Covilha “unveiled for the first time” today “a 400-year-old Torah scroll that a local contractor had found 10 years ago at a demolition site and kept wrapped up in linen.”

2016: Today, “the State Department branded” Fathi Hammad, “the senior Hamas leader a specially designated global terrorist.”

2016: Columbia Law School, the Center for Israeli Legal Studies and Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies at IDC Herzilya are scheduled to host a daylong conference “Innovations in Fintech” Considerations for Emerging Israeli and American Fintech.”

2016: “US filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner” said today “those who support Donald Trump for president are aiding and abetting racism.”

2016: Shai Secunda, the Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism at Barb College is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “You May Not Communicate Oral Matters in Writing” Writing and its Absence in the Transmission of Rabbinic and Zoroastrian Texts” at the University of Iowa Main Library.

2016: A Democratic Party campaign ad featuring Joel Sollender, a WW II POW who was offended by President Trump saying that John McCain was not a war hero because he had been a POW, aired today on National Prisoners of War Remembrance Day>

2016: The Jewish National Fund Conference is scheduled to open with Friday Night Shabbat Dinner with Alan Dershowitz.

2016: The New York Times announced today “that it was reviving the title of managing editor and naming” 52 year old Pulitzer prize winner Joseph Kahn, the son of Staples found Leo Kahn, to fill the position.

2017: QB Josh Rosen is scheduled to lead undefeated UCLA against Memphis State University.

2017: Tony Levine, the special team’s coordinator is scheduled to take the field as Purdue plays Missouri.

2017:  “Legendary British singer Robbie Williams” is scheduled to perform tonight at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv.

2017: “Oktoberfest” which “was invented by Jews” began today in Germany.

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/244365/oktoberfest-was-invented-by-jews

2017(25th of Elul, 5777): Nitavim and Vayelilech; in the evening Selichot;

2017: In Memphis, Temple Israel is scheduled to host Havdalah followed by Selichot

2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “the Midwest Premiere of ‘Who Will Write Our History’,” Robert Gorssman’s documentary about the creation of Emanuel Ringelblum’s Oyneg Shabes Archive.

2018: “Esther Crain, writer of the award-winning ‘Ephemeral New York’ blog and author of The Gilded Age in New York” is scheduled to lead ‘Exploring Ladies Mile,’ a walking tour presented by the Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society and Leo Baeck Institute that provides ‘a look at the merchants who built New York’s grand emporiums and the fashionable women who shopped there.’”

2018: In response to the devastation of Hurricane Florence, in Chapel Hill, NC, Kehillah Synagogue canceled today’s scheduled Talmud Class.

2018: The Toronto Film Festival, which featured a screening of “Vox Lux” starring Natalie Portman is scheduled to come to close today.

2018: “ A Simple Favor” with a screenplay by Iowa City native Jessica Sharzer was released today in the United States.

2018: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley who “was almost always the only Jewish person in” his “classes growing up” including his “highs schools in tenth and eleventh grade” where he “was the first Jewish person to attend.”

2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “Bundism’s Influence Today” in which a panel will discuss the re-incarnation of the spirit of the Jewish labor organization.

https://programs.cjh.org/event/bundism-today-2019-09-16?utm_source=cjh.og&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=cjh-upcoming

2019: The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host USA Today reporter Richard Wolf as he speaks on “Is Roe vs. Wade in Jeopardy?”

2019: In Baltimore, the Sisterhood of Chizuk Amuno is scheduled to host it opening event, “An Evening of Inner and Outer Beauty.”

2019: This evening, volunteers working under the direction of Jewish and Family Children’s Services of San Francisco are scheduled to “help assemble bags of food and goodies for seniors.”

2019: In Des Moines, the Iowa Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a presentation by Michael Bornsteinm, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz and his daughter Debbie Bornstein Holinstat with whom he wrote Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz.

2020:  Suzanne Dellal Centre's annual summer festival featuring nine works by Israeli choreographers, eight of which are world premieres is scheduled to come to an end.

2020: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies are scheduled to present online, “The Communal Kvell, hosted by the Jewish Federations of North America.”

2020: “Haifa U. professor Ehud Eiran is scheduled to join UC Berkeley’s Ron Hassner in a discussion about Israel’s new alliance with China and what it means for geopolitics

2020: ZIVUG is schedule to present online a “Pre-Rosh Hashanah Couples Renewal Gathering.”

2020: The UK Jewish Film and the Jewish Music Institute are scheduled to a documentary film of the Jaqueline Du Pré and the Elgar Cello Concerto, ifollowed by an exclusive conversation with leading Jewish cellists Natalie Clein and Raphael Wallfisch.

2020: In New Orleans, the Anti-Defamation League is scheduled to hold its board meeting at the Uptown JCC.

2020:  Today Israelis and supporters of Israel may be contemplating the events of the last twenty-four hours that included the simultaneous signing of “historic treaties with UAE and Bahrain” and Palestinian rocket attacks on Ashdod and Ashkelon and the appearance of Prime Minister Netanyahu without a mask at an event where social distancing was not observed on the eve of the enforcement of a new, stringent lockdown in Israel.

2021: ENGAJ is scheduled to host an “outdoor festive meal to break the Yom Kippur fast” at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, CA.

2021: Rabbi Katy Allen, education director Stephanie Kennedy and teacher Lizzy Cantor are schuelded to Ma’yan Tikvah’s Yom Kippur services which “are unique because they are primarily outdoors with opportunities for walks and worship services,

2021(10th of Tishrei, 5782): Yom Kippur

2022(20th of  Elul, 5782): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob  Levin, of blessed memory, beloved husband of Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen (Dian Garton) Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin and proud Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren.   To his brother Joe, he was the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle Jack – living proof that good guys finish first.

2022: In New York, the Film Forum is scheduled to host a screening of “Four Winters,” which tells the story of the more than 25,000 Jews who fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators “within the forests of World War II Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.”

2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage is scheduled to host an exclusive Member Preview of “Survivors: Faces of Life After the Holocaust,” a powerful photography exhibition showcasing 75 large-scale portraits of Holocaust survivors taken by famed photographer Martin Schoeller.

2022: Ishmael Reed, the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Lifetime Achievement winner, is scheduled to speak from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at The City Club of Cleveland at 850 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland.

2022: The New England Region of BBYO is scheduled to kickoff the first weekend of local chapter programs all over Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island!

2023(1st of Tishrei, 5784): In calendar quirk, Rosh Hashanah coincides with Shabbat.

2023: In San Francisco, JCCSF and Reboot are scheduled to “lead a modern take on the Rosh Hashanah ritual of tashlich” where you “cast off your bad vuggum (karma) from 5783 by tossing bird seed into the ocean.”

2023: In Cedar Rapids, congregants of Temple Judah are scheduled to gather “at the Trail Head of the Sac and Fox Trail” for Tashlich.

2023: Because of the uptick in COVID-19 cases congregations are taking extra precautions as can be seen at “Congregation Beth Sholom, a Conservative synagogue in Teaneck, New Jersey, and Congregation Beit Tikvah, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Baltimore, which are providing mask-only sections for congregants” and “IKAR, Los Angeles’ progressive nondenominational congregation, which will be conducting services both inside and outside this year as well, weather permitting.” (As reported by Jacob Gurvis)

2024: Joel Haber is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “More than Apples and Honey: Rosh Hashana Foods and their Many Meanings” hosted by Temple Judea in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

2024: In Newton, MA, the JCC of Greater Boston is scheduled to present “Building the World Through Acts of Love: Preparing for the Jewish New Year.”

2024: JWI's Life$avings: Financial Empowerment for Survivors of Abuse facilitator training is scheduled to begin today.

2024: The Jewish Federation of Des Moines is scheduled to host a delegation of academics from Western Galilee College in Akko, Israel at the South Ballroom of Iowa State University’s Memorial Union in Ames, IA

2024: At The Streicker Center Alice Hoffman is scheduled to discuss her book When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary with award-winning journalist and author Sandee Brawarsky

2024: As September 16th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 346 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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