70: According to
Josephus, Titus began the battering operations against the wall of the Temple
Court 6:4)
634: Abu Bakr, the father-in-law of Mohammed
and first Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate who was a leader in the “campaign
against the Jewish tribe of Banu Nadir” passed away today.
634: Um ibn Al-khattab, who was accompanied by
Ka‘ab al-Aḥbār a Yemenite rabbi and early convert to Islam on his journey to
Jerusalem, succeeded Abu Bakar as the second Caliph of The Rashidun Caliphate
today.
1241: Pope Gregory IX passed away today.
“Gregory IX was a prominent opponent of Judaism during his life, condemning it
as "containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy". In the 1234
Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual
servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to this, the
followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political
servitude until Judgment Day. The doctrine then found its way into the doctrine
of servitus camerae imperialis, or servitude immediately subject to the
Emperor's authority, promulgated by Frederick II. The Jews were thus suppressed
from having direct influence over the political process and the life of
Christian states into the 19th century with the rise of liberalism. In 1239,
under the influence of Nicholas Donin, a Jewish convert to Christianity,
Gregory ordered that all copies of the Jewish Talmud be confiscated. Following
a public disputation between Christians and Jewish theologians, this culminated
in a mass burning of some 12,000 handwritten Talmudic manuscripts on June 12,
1242, in Paris. Subsequent popes repeated this practice.”
1280: Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia arrived in
Rome today.
1280: Pope Nicholas III whom Kabbalist and
self-proclaimed Messiah “Abraham be Samuel Abulafia had tried to convert”
passed away today before he could hear the request from Abraham ben Samuel
Abulafia to “release captive Jews.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1370: Judah Alatzar of Barcelona, a Spanish
Jew, lent the king and queen 110,000 sueldos so they could equip ten ships
which would transfer the Pope from Rome to Avignon.
1400(1st of Elul, 5160): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1400(1st of Elul, 5160): On the day
that Emperor Wenceslaus was deposed and Rupert of the Paletine was elected his
successor, seventy-seven Jews were executed and three weeks later three more
were led to the stake.
1454: Jews of Brno (now a city in the Czech
Republic; then a free imperial city of Moravia) were expelled by King Ladislaus
1471: Vladislaus II of Hungary who ordered the
closure of the cemetery Old Jewish Cemetery “because of complaints of Prague
citizens” officially became King of Bohemia today with his coronation.
1485: In England the forces of Richard III are
defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field, where Richard loses and the House of
Plantagenet loses control of the throne to the House of Tudor. It was a
Plantagenet king who expelled the Jews from England. Henry VIII, the second
Tudor King to sit on the throne, promised that no Jews would be allowed to live
in England as part of the marriage agreement with his Spanish born wife. But
Henry would inadvertently open the way for the Jews to return when he broke with
the Catholic Church over the matter of his divorce. So, on balance, the outcome
of the Battle of Bosworth Field was a win for the Jews even though they were
not there and the “win” was a long time in coming.
1604: An exemption was issued by the Pope
allowing Portuguese conversos to seek pardon for their "offenses,"
and have their items returned to them. This order was not respected by the
Inquisition in the New World.
1614: Vincent Fettmilch of Frankfurt, a former
pastry cook and leader of the Guilds, calling himself the "new Haman of
the Jews" attacked the synagogue while the community was at prayer.
Although many tried to organize a defense, they were soon overpowered and many
took shelter in the cemetery while the community was destroyed. He and his
accomplices were hanged and quartered for it 2 years later. They were not
hanged for their attacks on the Jews. They were hanged because they had decided
to attack the wealthy nobles.
1634: Fifty-three-year-old MP and English
Hebraist Rowland Cotton passed away today.
1639: Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded
by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak
rulers. Jewish merchants played a significant role in Madras as can be seen
from the fact that three Jewish merchants were among the 12 Alderman nominated
to serve on the first local governing council established in 1688. One of the
first Jews who came to Madras with special permission to reside and trade there
was Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia), originally from Amsterdam. Most Jews living
in Madras were or English or Portuguese origin. They exported diamonds
extracted from the mines at Goloconda to England and imported silver and coral.
The Jewish community in Madras no longer exists but evidence of its vitality
can be seen the Jewish cemetery located on Mint Street.
1642: King Charles I effectively began the
English Civil War by branding the members of the House of Commons as traitors.
As a result of the war, Charles would lose his head and Cromwell would become
head of the English government. Cromwell made it possible for the Jews to
return to England in an open fashion after a three-century absence.
1654: John Lightfoot the English clergyman,
Hebraist and Biblical scholar whose works included A Handful of Gleanings
out of the Book of Exodus “preached before the House of Commons” today.
1654: Jacob Barsimson, who some claim was the
first Jew to settle in North America, arrived in New Amsterdam. However, the
official founding of the Jewish community in the United States is dated from
September 23, 1654, when 23 Jewish refugees arrived from Recife.
1664(11th of Elul, 5424): On August
22, the Jews were granted Royal protection when Kings Charles II of England
responded to a petition from “the Hebrews in his realm” by saying that as long
as they (the Jews) demean themselves peaceably and with due submission to the
laws, they may presumed they will enjoy the same favor as they formerly held.
1681(7th of Elul, 5441): “Haham
Hashalem R Israel De Avila passed away today after which he was buried at the
Velho Sephardic Cemetery” in London.
1694(1st of Elul, 5454): Venetian
rabbi Samuel Aboab, the son of Abraham Aboab, whose works included Debar
Shemuel" (Word of Samuel and who was involved with Nathan of Gaza, passed
away today.
1749: HMY Royal Caroline a ship-rigged royal
yacht, that Isaac Schoberg, the London born son of Anglo Jewish physicians Ralph
Schomberg and grandson of Meyer Low Schomberg served on for the first six
months of his naval career, was ordered today to replace HMY Carolina as
Britain's principal royal yacht
1752: Eighty-four-year-old William Whiston best
known for his translation of the works of Josephus including Antiquities of
the Jews passed away today.
1770(22nd of
Elul, 5530): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed on the same day that “British explorer
Captain James Cook landed on Possession Island and claimed the eastern coast of
Australia for Great Britain under the name New South Wales, in the name of King
George III.”
1776(7th of Elul, 5536): Ashner Anschel
Franckel, the son of Menachem Mendel Franckel and Sara Sussel Bacharach passed
away today.
1787(8th of Elul, 5547): Sarah Barrow, the wife
of Lazarus Barrow and mother of Aaron and Benjamin Barrow passed away today in
London.
1789(30th of Av, 5550): Shabbat Rosh
Chodesh
1790:In Philadelphia, Moses Nathan Levy and his
wife gave birth to Jacob Levy.
1791: Seventy-four-year-old Johann David
Michaelis part of family of Christian Hebraists including Johann Heinrich
Michaelis “the author of an annotated Hebrew Bible, who wrote a dissertation
defending “the antiquity and divine authority of the Hebrew vowel points,
passed away today.
1795(7th of Elul, 5556): Parashat
Shoftim was read on the same day that the National Convention in France
ratified a new constitution which established the Directory, a new system of
government with a five-member executive and a bicameral legislature.
1797(30th of Av, 5558): Rosh Chodesh
Elul observed for the first time during the Presidency of John Adams who
signed a treaty that clearly state that “the
United States is not a Christian nation,” a reality that today’s radical-reactionaries
are trying to change.
1799: David Leion, the president of
Congregation Mikveh Israel in Savannah, GA divorced Hannah Minis whom he had
married on April 17, 1798.
1800(1st of Elul, 5560): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1800: Birthdate of
Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_12907.html
1801(13th of Elul, 5562): Parashat
Ki Teitzei
1801: Judith and Isaac Nunez Cardoza gave birth
to Aaron Nunes Cardozo the brother of Phineas Nunez Cardozo and Rebecca Roxas,
the wife of Jacob Roxas.
1802: Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, the Batavian
(Dutch) Ambassador to France delivered a note to the French foreign minister on
behalf of the Jews of Germany.
1804(15th of Elul, 5564): Elizabeth
“Esther” Whitlock Cohen a native of England who converted to Judaism when she
married Moses Mordecai in Philadelphia and was the mother of four sons – Jacob,
Isaac, Joseph and Mordecai – passed away in Richmond, VA.
1810 Birthdate of Hirschel Eliazer Kann, one of
the founders of Lissa & Kann, a Dutch banking house.
1816: One day after she had passed away, Julia
Hart, the daughter of Stephen and Esther Hart, was buried today.
1819: In London, Isabel and Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
gave birth to Emma Goldsmid , the wife of Nathan Mayer Montefiore and the
father of Alice, Leonard, Charlotte and Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore.
1821: Solomon Corlyn married Leah Wilks at the
Great Synagogue today.
1821: On this day came an end of the Spanish
Inquisition in Venezuela. The Venezuela government wrote, "The Tribunal of
the Inquisition, also known as the Holy Office, shall be abolished."
1827: Menahem Monas ben Akiva married Malkah
bat Jacob at the New Synagogue today.
1832: Angel Haas married Elizabeth Mendoza at
the Great Synagogue today.
1832: Moses Mordecai married Kitty Isaacs at
the Hambro Synagogue today.
1833: Birthdate of Prussian native William
Raphael, the graduate of the Berlin School of Fine who pursued his painting
career in Montreal where “he was a founding member of the Royal Canadian
Academy of Arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raphael#/media/File:Behind_Bonsecours_Market.png
1836: Birthdate of Theobold Epstein, professor
at the Philanthropin Secondary School, the husband of Auguste Seligman and the
father of Paul Epstein.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/myers-samuel
1843(26 Av, 5603): Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson, the third Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty, popularly known as the
"Tzemach Tzedek," finally departed Petersburg having successfully
prevented the government's disruption of traditional Jewish life. “In 1843, the
Interior Ministry of the Czarist government convened a rabbinical conference in
the Russian capital of Petersburg, to the end of imposing changes in Jewish
communal life and religious practice. Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch
(1789-1866, known as the "Tzemach Tzeddek" after his Halachic works
by that name) was invited; as a primary figure in the leadership of Russian
Jewry, his compliance was required to lend legitimacy to the government's
proposed "reforms". In the course of the conference, the Tzemach
Tzeddek was placed under arrest no less than 22 (!) times for his refusal to
cooperate.” Third in the line of leaders of the Chabad movement was after the
title of his voluminous responsa.
1849: In New York City, Jacob I. Moses, the
Columbia, SC born son of Isaiah and Rebecca J. Moses and his wife Sarah J.
Moses gave birth to Hervey Hall Moses who would die at the age of nine months.
1849: Sara Marx, the daughter of Samuel Marx
married Israel Lazarus today in Trier.
1851: In Wolfenbuttel, Philipp and Julie
Ehrenberg gave birth to German jurist Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg, the husband of “Elise
Marie A. Helene von Jhering, the son-in-law of the legal historian Rudolf von
Jhering and the father of Rudolf W.H.V.Ehrenberg who gained fame as “German-born
Australian professor of English, and a runologist” Ralph Warren Victor Elliot
as well as being “a great-grandfather of Australian singer and actress Olivia
Newton-John, an uncle of historian Victor Ehrenberg, a great-uncle of physicist
and education researcher Lewis Elton and of historian Geoffrey Elton, and a
great-great uncle of comedian and writer Ben Elton”
1851: Birthdate of Daniel Frohman, the native
of Sandusky Ohio, who joined with his brothers Charles and Gustave to become a
successful theatrical producer and movie producer.
1851: The America, which was built by the New
York Yacht Club whose members would eventually include Emil Mosbacher, “one of
the first Jews to join” won the “first America’s Cup race” today.
1853: Solomon Nunes
Carvalho, a South Carolina born Sephardic Jew signed on with explorer and U.S.
military officer John C. Fremont as an artist and daguerreotypist. Carvalho
would create a pictorial record of
the “Pathfinder’s” expedition that explored the Rocky Mountain region.http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.html
1854: In Poznan, Polan, Rosalie and Lewin Louis
Freudenthal gave birth toe Phoebus Freudenthal, the “husband of Amalia
Freudenthal, the long-time member of the Women’s Improvement Association, and father
of Louis Edwin Freudenthal; Bernard W. Freudenthal and Robert Freudenthal.”
1855: Mademoiselle Rachel, the great French
Tragedienne, whose visit to the United States has been proclaimed in all the
public prints for some months past, arrived today on the SS Pacific.
Mademoiselle Rachel is Elizabeth Rachel Felix, the daughter of a German-Swiss
Jew named Felix and his wife Esther Haya. She has an older sister named Sarah
with whom she used to sing as a child.
1855: Birthdate of Franz Heyse, the first son
of Paul Heyse, German-Jewish author and translator.
1858: Twenty-year-old Jeanette Herzl married
Jacob Herzl.
1858: It was recorded today that the Jewish
community of Pilsen “celebrated the birth of the Prince” by collecting “20
silver florins” which were given “to the royal and imperial regional
administration to divide among the poor.”
1859: Birthdate of Joseph Eagner, the husband
of Ida Eagner.
1859: In Austria the government promised
enactment of “liberal legislation” that would improve the conditions of the
Jews including an unrestricted right to own real estate.
1860(4th of Elul, 5620): Samuel Holdheim who
was born in 1806 and was a German rabbi and author, and one of the early
leaders of the Reform Movement in Judaism passed away today.
1862: During the Civil War, David Benjamin
began a three-year hitch with the 141st Regiment which he would
complete with the rank of Corporal in Company D.
1862: Philadelphian Simon Arnold, who would be
killed at Gettysburg, began serving with Company G of the 140th
Regiment.
1862: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Elias
B. Davidson began serving with the Company G. of the 136th Regiment
1863(6th of Elul, 5623): Seventy-six-year-old
Jacob Rubino, the son of Minkel and Ruben Moses Rubino passed away today.
1864: Twelve nations sign the first Geneva
Convention creating the Red Cross. The International Red Cross, as opposed to
the American organization, has a negative image among Jews because of its
unwillingness to recognize the Magen David as a variant of the Cross even
though it allows for other variations including the Moslem Red Crescent.
1865(30th of Av, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1866: In San Francisco, Delia and Aaron
Fleishhacker gave birth to Mortier Fleishhacker, the banker, entrepreneur, and
venture capitalist involved in the electrification of California,” the “husband
of Florence Isabelle (Bella) Fleishhacker and father of Eleanor Belle Sloss and
Mortimer Fleishhacker, Jr.” the WW II veteran ad husband of Janet Fleishhacker.
https://www.fleishhackerfoundation.org/about/history
1867: In Savanah, GA, Adeline Moses and Adolph
J. Brady gave birth to Lillie Brady, the wife of Washington Falk and mother of
Henrietta, Adeline and Washington Falk, Jr.
1868: In Dover England, Eva Mendelson and Rabbi
Isadore Barnston, gave birth to
University of London and University of Heidelberg graduate Rabbi Henry Barnston
who in1900 came to the United States where he “became rabbi of the Reform
Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, Texas” and after the death of his first
wife Ethel Irene Kennard married her sister Ruth Nina.
1869: In Cincinnati, OH, Ricca Frank and Simo
Baumgarten gave bit to “tenement house, inspector and probation officer’ Yetta
Rose Baumgarten, the “Head Resident of the Columbian Council School
Settlement.”
1870: Birthdate of New York City native and
Rhode Island State legislator Max Levy, “a judge in the First District Court of
Rhode Island, president of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island and the
author “Settlement of Jews in Rhode Island.”
http://www.rijha.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/RIJH-Notes-Volume-13.2-157-332.pdf
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rabinowitsch-kempner-lydia
https://litfl.com/emanuel-libman/
https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/contemporaries/emanuel-libman/
1873: Henrietta Frank and Marx B. Loeb gave
birth to Bridie Loeb who became Birdie Loeb Gimbel when she married
Philadelphia merchant Benedict Gimbel and who was the mother of Bernard Gimbel,
Jr. who worked for a time in the family business, Gimbels Brother.
1874(9th of Elul, 5634): Parashat Ki
Teitzei
1874: Birthdate of Max Scheler, German
philosopher. Born to a Lutheran father and an Orthodox Jewish mother, Scheler
opted to convert to Catholicism.
1875: An article was published today that had
originally appeared in Fraser’s Magazine (an English publication) which describes a visit to dealer
in antiques and jewelry whose small shop is located on a dark and dirty lane in
London. The owner of the shop is referred to as “Cohen Hertzog,” although that
is not his name and he is described as a “Hebrew” and “a cosmopolitan” – a
little old man with high wrinkled forehead and long white beard, a black velvet
skull-cap upon his head, keen eyes that sparkle like his diamonds, and an
intellect as sharp…as the file with which he tests them.” The Jew’s speech is
written in a dialect saying “dese” for these, “tings” for things, etc. And
during his oration the Jew reveals that the only thing for which he cares are
the gems that he collects and sells. No exactly a portrait of the Rothschilds
but certainly a view of the Jew held by many English men and women of the day.
1875: “The Talmud” which was published today
and was based on information first published in the Cornhill Magazine, a popular Victorian journal describes why this “extensive
storehouse of Hebrew wisdom,” this “‘extraordinary monument of human industry,
human intelligence and human folly’” has become “a faded memory” for the
“greater majority of both Jews and Christians.” The reasons are two-fold.
First, the Talmud is difficult to study and master; having it own lexicon and
language. Secondly, from the Christian point of view the Talmud is filled with
heresies which Bacon describes as “absurd trash”; the same words he used to
describe the Koran, the Spurious Gospels and the Generations of Jesus.
1875: “The Author of Toldoth Jeshu” which was
published today and was based on material first published in the Cornhill Magazine, a popular Victorian reported that the author of this work
known in English as “The Generations of Jesus” was written by a 17th century
“Bohemian Jew” known as “Chaim or Joachim who was converted to Christianity and
baptized Ferdinand Francis. Thanks to the work of Johann Christoph Wagenseil,
the German professor of Oriental Languages, the book was exposed as being
blasphemous in its description of Jesus and Ferdinand Francis was condemned to
be hanged in the fish market at Vienna. When the condemned man was offered a
crucifix by a Jesuit he threw it on the floor and “told the people…that he had
only adopted the Christian faith for reason of political convenience.”
Ferdinand was then tortured by the his captors but did not cry out in pain.
When they cut off his hand he said it was just punishment for turning his back
on the faith of his fathers. And he continued to utter the prayers of his
people until he died. In the meantime, the shops of the Jews were pillaged;
they were robbed of their money and gems even if that meant cutting off their
fingers and many were stoned to death. [Unfortunately for Ferdinand Francis,
Toldoth Jeshu had been around since the 6th century, so he could not have been
its author, regardless of he what he or Wagenseil might have said.]
1876: Birthdate Alfred Herz who was transported
from Ostrava to Terezin and then from Terezin to Treblinka where he was
murdered in the last quarter of 1942.
1877: Max Furchgott of Charleston, SC, married
Bertha Raffman, the youngest daughter of Phillip Raffman of Neutra, Hungary at
the “summer resident of the bride’s parents in Sarluska, Hungary.
1877: In Bavaria, Gretchen and Samuel Neuberger
gave birth to Max Neuberger, the husband of Bertha Neuberger.
1879: In New York, Rachel
Rosalie Cardozo and Michael Hart Cardozo gave birth to Ernest Abraham Cardozo,
the “husband of Emily Rebecca Cardozo and Mary Ellen Cardozo and the father of
Anita Rosalie Domoux and Michael Hart Cardozo, IV.”
1880: “A Lost Tribe” published today reviewed Wojinstwujusci
Israil by W.J. Remirowitch-Dantschenko which described his encountered with
a tribe in the highlands of the Daghesan that look like Cossacks but are Jews
who follow “the Mosaic.” Their presence
must date back to the days of the Judean kings since they know nothing about
the Second Temple or the Temple.
1880: “The English Oath of Allegiance”
published today traced the history of the fight for Jews to take an oath of
office that require to say “upon the true faith of a Christian. By 1866,
through acts of Parliament there was “a full statutory recognition of the civil
equality of Jews with other subjects which though long allowed in practice had
never yet been expressly declared.”
1882: A review of the new musical “Black Flag”
published today described the humorous performance by Nat Goodwin who played
the role of “Sim Lazarus, an absurd London Jews of the kind that pleases for
some occult reason the sense of the ridiculous in the average Hebrew…” [Goodwin
was a famous 19th century American actor whose roles included
Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice.”]
1882: Birthdate of Pilsen native “Dr. Emil
Lederer, noted German economist, professor of economics at the Graduate Faculty
of Political and Social Science in the New School for Social Research who left
Germany when the Nazis came to power.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/05/30/93921133.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1883: It was reported to that an unnamed
American Jew was expelled from St. Petersburg in accordance with Russian law
that forbids Jews from living in the city.
1883: “Christian David Ginsburg, the biblical
and Masoretic Scholar reported to Edward A. Bond, Principal Librarian of the
British Museum that the manuscript of Deuteronomy which Moses Wilhelm “Shapira
has submitted to us for examination is a forgery.”
1884(1st of Elul, 5644): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1884: It was reported today that fourteen
houses and shops belonging to Jews were ransacked and demolished during
anti-Jewish riots in Yekaterinoslav, Russia.
Two Jews and one rioter were killed during the riots. Unlike other times, the Jews defended
themselves from their attackers.
1884: In New York, Justice Power is scheduled
to hear the case of Alexander Labotsky whose wife Frieda accused him of having
deserted her. Frieda came to the United
States ago from Poland. Labotsky said he
left Poland because of her; that he had sent her papers for a divorce; and that
he would support her financially but would never leave with her again as the
Judge had previously suggested.
1884: “A Midnight Murder” published today
described the discovery of the body of Sam Lavner, a Jewish man from Chicago
who had murdered by shot fired by an unknown party. “On top of his head and one arm were fastened
little cubes which on being cut open were to contain the Ten Commandments in
Hebrew, such as used by the orthodox Jews in their worship”
1885: The
New York Times published a brief
outline of the will of Sir Moses Montefiore that was executed in January, 1882.
The estate was valued at between 350,000 and 380,000 British pounds. The
summary quoted the Jewish Chronicle which listed the multiplicity of his charitable bequests.
1885: “The Will of Montefiore” published today
uses information that originally appeared in the London Jewish Chronicle to
provide a detailed summary of the will of the Sir Moses Montefiore which was
executed in January of 1882. The will is
twenty pages long and shows that his personal estate is worth between £350,000
and £380,000. The executors include Lord Rothschild, Joseph Sebag and Arthur
Cohen. Among those receiving bequest are United Synagogue, Bevis Marks and
various charitable institutions in Jerusalem and Palestine.
1885: “His Father to the Rescue” published
today described an altercation in Chicago between Henry L. Ottenheimer who
spanked 8 year old Robbie Garland for calling him a “Polish Jew” and his father
R.H. Garland who came to the boy’s rescue.
1886: Eighty-four-year-old Professor Calvin E.
Stowe, the husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe passed away. Among his best-known works were History of
the Hebrew Commonwealth and Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews
1887: The will of millionaire Levi Rosenfeld
was admitted to probate today in Chicago, Illinois.
1887: Abraham Tombitsky who was treated at
Gouverneur Hospital is in too much pain because of his fractured leg to give a
statement to authorities who are investigating charges that Patrolman John
Etterick was responsible for the injury during his attempt to enforce the
Sunday Closing Laws by clearing the Hester and Ludlow streets of crowds of
Russian and Polish Jews.
1888: The ninth free excursion sponsored by the
Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will leave from the foot of the 5th
street pier and the East River this morning.
1889: Birthdate of San Francisco native and
composer/songwriter Irving Bilbo.
1889: As president of the board of regents of
Indiana’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Frederick Knefler, the Jewish Civil
War general, oversaw today’s laying of the cornerstone in the center of
Indianapolis.
1890: New York, Jennie Yarzumbeck and Harris
Nowak gave birth CCNY and Columbia graduate JTS trained rabbi, Abraham Nowak,
the husband of Anna Segal who served as chaplain during WW I with the rank of 1st
lieutenant and in 1923 began serving as the spiritual leader of Congregation
B’nai Jeshurun in Cleveland, OH. (Some sources show his birthdate as August 28)
https://case.edu/ech/articles/n/nowak-abraham
1891: At Baltimore thirty-nine Russian Jews who
arrived aboard the Slavonia and 4 Russian Jews who arrived aboard the Caspian
are still waiting to be investigated by authorities for their suitability to
land in this country
1891: Birthdate of Jacques Lipchitz. Born Chaim
Jacob Lipchitz in Druskininkai, Lithuania, this American artist was a leading
Cubist sculptor.
1892: Three days after he had passed away, 52
year old Felix Joseph, the son of Abraham and Sarah Joseph was buried today at
the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1892: Lt. Gen. de Richter, the Czar’s
aide-de-camp, acting on “formal instructions” returned the resolution to the
New Zealand Legislative Assembly that it asked him to present the Czar urging
more humane treatment for Russian Jews because he is not authorized to receive
such petitions.
1893: In Long Branch, NJ, which was the
location of their Summer Home, New Yorkers Jacob Nery and Eliza Annie
Rothschild gave birth to Dorothy Rothschild who gained fame as Dorothy Parker,
an American writer and poet best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and
sharp eye for twentieth century urban foibles.
http://www.dorothyparker.com/wordpress/gallery/new-york-times-obituary
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/22/1893/dorothy-parker
1893: Birthdate of Frank Glick, the Pittsburg,
PA native , the all-star Princeton University Captain, World War I Army Captain
and Lehigh University head coach.
1893: New York Mayor Thomas Gilroy appeared to
respond favorably today to a request from Samuel Gompers, President of the
American of Labor that “the municipality” should “help the unemployed and
relieve their distress by ‘making working’ for them”
1893: Jacob Milch chaired the meeting of the
Hebrew Trades this evening at the Pythagoras Hall.
1894(20th of Av, 5654): Dr. Bernhard
Grunhut “was drowned at sea” today while sailing to Europe aboard the SS
Bothnia.
1894: Two days after he had passed away, 74-year-old
Samuel Harris was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894: “Religious Duties May Interfere – Hebrews
May Not Serve as Inspectors of Election in October,” published today
described the plight of Jews who will be limited in their ability to
serve as voter registration officers this fall since the first day of
registration falls on October 9 which is Erev Yom Kippur. Jewish officials will
have to leave their posts early because they have to be in their synagogues
before sundown.
1894: In Louisville, KY, Alfred and Jennie
Brandeis gave birth to Jean Tachau, the niece of Supreme Court Justice Louis
Brandeis.
1894: Joseph Goldwasser was arrested this
morning on charges of having beaten his 14-year-old son Benjamin who is a
“deaf-mute.”
1894: Julius Marcus, the young Jew who killed
Mrs. Juliette Fournier and then shot himself was buried today in Bayside
Cemetery by a “Hebrew benevolent society.” Because Marcus was a self-confessed
atheist there was no rabbi at the burial which was attended on by his parents,
brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces.
1894: In Naarden, the Netherlands, Hendrik
Cornelis Ardoneus and Catharina Wilhelmina de Vries gave birth to Willem Johan
Cornelis Ardondeus who was arrested and executed after participating in the
bombing of “the Amsterdam Public Records Office” in an attempt to foil attempts
to deport Dutch Jews
1895: The first conference of Russian Zionists
that was secretly held in Warsaw comes to an end.
1895: Edgar Barney the principle of the Hebrew
Technical Institute and twelve of his “tutors” took 300 students on an
excursion to Coney Island.
1895: Sol Rubenstein is trying to replace Frank
J. Butler as the Democratic leader of the 12th Assembly District.
“Mr. Rubenstein wants the leadership” because of the number of Jewish “votes in
the district.
1897: In what was then a part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire “Anna Rosa (née Wagner) and Emil Ettel, a merchant”
gave birth to Elisabeth Ettel who gained fame as Elisabeth Bergner, the winner
of the Distinguished Medal from the Drama League for her performance on
Broadway in “The Two Mrs. Carrols.”
1897: “The disturbances begun on August 20 by
the fanatical opponents of the Jews began again today in Pilsen, Bohemia. “An anti-Jewish mob” attacked the police “and
then small the window in the synagogue, the Jewish schools and the houses of
the best-known Jews.”
1897: “Reminiscence of Barney Barnato”
published today provided a brief sketch of the personality of the late diamond
mining magnate.
1897: “Jews Are Split on Zionism” published
today described the opposition led by German Rabbis to Zionism and the call
they have to “oppose the Zionist ideas as contrary to Judaism” and “to keep
away from the Basil Congress.”
1898: Zigmund Markovich Rozenblum, a Russian
born operative for Scotland Yard married Margaret Thomas at Holborn Registry
Office in London which enabled him to “craft a new identity” as “Sidney George
Reilly.
1898: The funeral of Leopold Minzesheimer, the
Superintendent of Mount Sinai Hospital is scheduled to take place at 10 A.M. at
the hospital.
1898: It was reported today that George
Blumenthal is the President of the Mount Sinai Training School for Nurses.
1898: “Entertainment for Hebrew Children”
published today described a fundraiser organized by Mrs. J.F. Emanuel held at
the Waldorf Amusement Hall that raised $900 for the Rockaway Sanitarium for
Hebrew Children.
1898: It was reported today that Henry
Gitterman is the acting President of the Board of Directors of Mt. Sinai
Hospital.
1898: In Verdun, France “J. Louis La Remee and
Sarah Adler, a sister of the Yiddish stage star Jacob Adler gave birth actress
Francine Larrimore.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/03/08/79737076.html?pageNumber=28
1899(16th of Elul,
5659): Thirty-three-year-old Aaron J. Wechsler, the eldest son of the late
Joseph Wechsler who was a partner in the dry goods firm of Wechsler &
Abraham passed away today at his home in Brooklyn.
1899: Fernand Labori, the lead attorney for
Alfred Dreyfus returned to the court today after enduring a “murderous attack”
on August 14. He was accompanied by his wife, his physician and police
inspectors. He was greeted by a cheering
throng that wanted to shake his hand.
1899: The USS Scorpion (PY-3) which had been
commanded by Adolph Marx the first Jewish graduate of the United States Naval
Academy during the Spanish-American War was recommissioned today.
1900: In Pine Bluff, AR, Adolph and Rachel (Rae
Solmson) Bluthenthal gave birth to their first child Adele who as Adele
Bluthenthal Heiman would play an active part in the Little Rock, AR, Jewish
community where she was an active member of Temple B’Nai Israel, the largest
Jewish congregation in the state.
1901: Birthdate of New York City native Saul
Caston the “associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra” until 1945 “when
he was hired as the Denver Symphony’s Conductor and Music” which he led with
such success that in 1951 Time wrote that “the Denver Symphony was among the
leaders in performing American music.”
1901: Birthdate of Abraham Ber Tabachnik, the
native of Russia who came to the United States in 1921 where he became “a
writer, literary critic and editor for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a wire
service for the Yiddish, Hebrew and Anglo Jewish press.”
1902: Bertha Ida (Scherlach) and “Alfred Theodor Paul Riefenstahl, a
successful heating and ventilation company” gave birth to Nazi propagandist
Leni Riefenstahl.
1903: Seventy-three year old Lord Salisbury who
was political opponent of Disraeli even though they were both members of the
Conservative Party and who served as Prime Minister at the end of the 19th
century when Russian persecution of Jews caused some of his countrymen to fear
“a wholesale invasion of pauper Jews’ (Something he said during a speech in the
House of Lords would not happen) passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C04E1DA133BE533A25751C0A96E9C94619ED7CF
1903: A concert is scheduled to be given by
“the Bnoth Zion Kadimah…at the University Settlement Building.”
1903(29th of Av, 5663): Parashat
Re’eh
1903: After attending the Shabbat service in
the Basel synagogue, Herzl invites a number of leaders including the Russians
Mandelstamm, Yelski, Bernstein-Kohan and Tshlenov as well as Wolfssohn,
Marmorek, Cowen and Zangwill into Joseph Cowen's room in order to win them over
to the Uganda Project. The final decision is to present the offer to the
Congress.
1903: In New York, Louis Lipsky and A.H. Simon
spoke to those attending a concert given by the “Benoth Zion Kadimah.”
1904: In Galicia, Max and Eugenia (née Dittler)
Wilder gave birth to producer and director William Lee Wilder the brother of
the more famous Billy Wilder.
1905: In Russia, “the police opened fire on an
estimated 3,000 demonstrating agricultural workers” one of the many acts of violence
that would force Nicholas II to issue the October Manifesto.
1905: It was reported today that “Detective
Sergt. Carey, who is trying to discover the identity of the senders of the
bombs to Jacob H. Schiff and M. Guggenheim's Sons, has learned that letters
were received about two months ago by Mr. Schiff, the Guggenheims, and one of
the members of the brokerage firm of Wassermann Brothers, at 42 Broadway,
threatening them with death.”
1906(1st of Elul, 5666): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1906: It was reported today that “under the
influence” of massacres in places like Kishineff and Bialystok, “the number of
Jewish emigrants from Russia, which to 185,000 last year has risen to 300,000
in the first half of” 1906.
1907: It was reported today that during an
interview with the Tageblatt, “Congressman William S. Bennett, a member of the
United States Immigration Commission” said that “the condition of the Jews in Romania
was simply fearful.
1907: In Philadelphia Jewish immigrants Morris
and Ethel Sinkov gave birth to super-cryptologist and mathematics professor
Abraham Sinkov.
https://www.amazon.com/ELEMENTARY-CRYPTANALYSIS-Abraham-Sinkov/dp/B00B45AJO2
1908(25th of Av, 5668): Parashat
Re’eh
1908: “As a result of opening of the doors of
the Hebrew Children's Sanitarium at Rockaway Park to the crippled children of
Binghamton, N.Y., a seashore home for these helpless little ones is being
urged. Miss Evelyn Goldsmith of that place, in a letter to Herman Levy, a
Director in the sanitarium, a plea is made for a cottage on the Rockaway Park
shore.”
1909: Birthdate of Sergius Kagen, the native of
St. Petersburg who was the son of Lithuanian Jew and a Russian atheist who
became a leading “American pianist and composer.”
1909: Birthdate of Boris Schapiro, the native
of Riga who became a British international bridge player.
1909: Birthdate of Screenwriter Julius J.
Epstein who wrote the un-produced play that became the Academy Award winning
film Casablanca. He is also the great-uncle of Theo Epstein, the baseball
executive who brought the Red Sox the World Series Championship that broke the
Babe Ruth Curse. During the Red Scare, Epstein appeared before the House
Un-American Activities Committee where he denied being a member of the
Communist Party. However, when asked if he had ever worked for a subversive
organization he reportedly replied, “Yes, Warner Brothers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/02/guardianobituaries.filmnews
1909: Rabbi J.L. Magnes of Temple Emanu-El is
one of the rabbis scheduled to speak tonight at meeting at Derech Emunah where the leaders hope “to
start a movement to enlist the cooperation of the Jews” in the United States
“in an effort to establish Jewish” settlements “in Palestine.”
1909: Birthdate of screenwriter Philip G.
Epstein, the native of Brooklyn who co-authored the Oscar winning script for
“Casablanca” with his twin-brother Julius
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/141861/the-brothers-who-co-wrote-casablanca
1910(17th of Av, 5670): On the
Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Asher b. Shlomo Zalman of Vilna “the author
of Mayim Adirim” who passed away in 1796.
1910: In New York, Arthur Rembrandt Mosler, Sr,
and engineer and the son of Sarah Cahn and artist Henry Mosler and his wife
Estelle Mosler gave birth to Arthur Rembrandts Mosler, Jr.
1911: A weekend long dedication of the Orthodox
Home for the Aged Annex in Cleveland came to an end today.
1911: During the Tredgar Riots, another day of
attacks on the Jews of New South Wales in the worst outbreak of anti-Semitic
violence in modern British history.
1911: “Football Player’s Romance” published
described the impending nuptials of former Yale football John Nathan Levine and
Florence Flanders, the sister of one his former teammates with whom he roomed
while in college.
1912: The body of General William Booth, the
founder of the Salvation Army, who had toured Palestine in 1905 was taken
Congress Hall in Clapton where it lay in state for the next two days.
1913: “The Sea Urchin” a silent film featuring
Robert Z. Leonard was released today in the United States.
1913: According to a summary published in 1915
Leo Frank was brought to trial today.
1913: At the Leo Frank trial “opening arguments
for both sides were delivered today.”
1913: In Brooklyn, Isaac and Sophie Sackler
gave birth to “Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, medical researcher, publisher and art
collector extraordinaire…”
1913: In Marina di Pissa, Italy, Massimo
Pontecorvo and his wife Maria née Maroni gave birth to Bruno Pontecorvo the
fourth of their eight children and nuclear physicist who authored “numerous
studies in high energy physics” with a special emphasis on neutrinos.
1914: Lt. Edward Louis Spears, the British
liaison officer serving with French General Lanrezac, whom the French
ambassador in London would describe as “a most dangerous person…a very able and
intriguing Jew who insinuates himself everywhere, witnessed and described the
gallant behavior of the 1st Tirailleurs and 2nd Zouaves as they tried to retake
the river bridges held by the Germans at Charleroi. (As described by Max Hastings)
1914: In Poland, the Russians evacuated Kyeltsi
with all that that would mean for the Jews living in Galicia.
1914: Lionel Strange, who like Lt. Lionel Cohen – a Jew from South Africa –
was one of the few airman who flew for the British Empire in both World Wars --
made contract with a German aircraft
today, making him “the first British airman to do this.
1915: Based on wireless message sent from
Berlin today via Sayville, Long Island, “the Overseas News Agency announces”
that Rabbi Levi of the Association of Jews in Germany has issued an appeal to
halt the sale of arms to Russia “based on the assumption that American shells
are being thrown in Polish town believed to harbor Germans” such as Lemberg
which is the home their Jewish co-religionists.
1915: It was reported today that “owing to the
occupation by the Germans of a great part of the Pale of Jewish Settlements…the
condition of the Jews is critical” with 500,000 having been forced to leave
their homes and seek shelter in “the interior provinces where they have no
legal rights.
1915: In Ottumwa, Iowa, founding of Temple
B’nai Jacob.
1915: It was reported today, that in response
to report by Minister of the Interior Cherbattoff on the desperate condition of
the Jews, “the Council of the Empire has decided to temporarily permits Jews
settle in the cities of the empire with the exception of Moscow, Petrograd and
the suburban residences of Czar Nicholas.”
1915: In a speech delivered tonight Louis
Marshall in which he said that one million Jews in New York would look upon the
adoption of a “proposal requiring a literacy test as a voting qualification” by
the Constitutional Convention meeting Albany “as a deliberate insult” implying
that they would oppose adopting the new state charter; a view which was sharply
questioned by Meir Steinbrink, a Jewish Republican from Brooklyn who was also
attending the convention.
1916: A news dispatch
that reached New York today cited a report from Paul Miliukov of Moscow
University “that a bill is to be introduced in the Russian Imperial Duma when
it convenes in November abolishing the Pale and giving the Jews the same rights
as other Russians.”
1916: Prime Minister
Lloyd George, who favored the Zionist cause address the House of Commons today,
providing the members with an update on the war including the face that the
Allies had destroyed 35 Zepplins.
1917(4th of Elul,
5677): Sixty 60 old banker Robert von Mendelssohn, the son of Paul Alexander
Franz* von Mendelssohn and Marie Antoinette Enole Mendelssohn (Biarnez) and
husband of Giulietta von Mendelssohn passed away today in Berlin,
1917: As of today, Dr. Boris Bogen and Max
Senior will begin working with Amsterdam banker Frederick Solomon Van Nierop to
deliver funds from Jews in the United States to Jews in Eastern Europe because
the Dutch are neutrals and the Americans are now belligerents which means the
Central Powers do not want Americans distributing aid to anybody.
1918: The Provost Marshall announced today that
Jews who have turned 21 since June 5 will not be required to register for the
draft on August 24 since it is their Sabbath and will be allowed to register on
Monday, August 26.
1918: New York attorney and political leader
Bernard Deutsch “married the former Frances Weinstein of New York” today.
1919: Birthdate of Sir Leo Pliatzky the native
of Salford who was “the son of a Russian born English shopkeeper.”
http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/may/07/guardianobituaries.davidwalker
1920: This morning, the Inwood Country Club is
scheduled to host its first golf tournament for men over the age of fifty which
is to become an annual event “known as the Senior Golf Tournament.”
1921: One hundred thousand dollars collected by
the American Red Cross during the war for solider relief work was turned over
by the society today to the American Legion which has created fund that will be
used by several organizations including the Jewish Welfare Board to form
“flying squads charged with aiding needy service men.”
1922: Birthdate of Ivry Gitlis, the Haifa born
“Israeli violist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.”
1922(28th of Av, 5682): Sixty-seven
year old Harris Weinstock, the London born son of Solomon and Rachel Lubin
Weinstock and husband of Barbara Felsenthal who settled in California where he
“co-founded Lubin and Weinstock, a department store, served in the National
Guard where he reached the rank of Colonel and “was elected first President of
the Commonwealth Club of California” died of a skull fracture today after
falling from a horse he was riding.
1922: Birthdate of Canadian poet Elizabeth
Brewster.
1923(10th of Elul, 5683):
Thirty-eight-year-old David Pope, the president and treasurer of the Pope Fur
Manufacturing Corporation passed away today at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn.
1924: “It was established” in Vienna “today
that Hans Herzl” the son of the founder of the modern Zionist movement did not
convert to Catholicism but became a Baptist in “a ceremony performed in the
Baptist Chapel in Vienna by Pastor Georg Sarre.”
1925: Birthdate of Irving David Chais Irving D.
Chais, owner and chief surgeon of the New York Doll Hospital.
1926: In Stargard, Siegfried and Anna Spitz,
both of whom were physicians, gave birth to Hebrew University-trained forensic
pathologist Werner Spitz who in 1959 “immigrated to the United States” where he
“became a professor of pathology at Wayne State University School of Medicine
in Detroit, Michigan” and was involved in several high-profile cases including
the assassinations of President John Kenney and Reverend Martin Luther King,
Jr.
1926: Birthdate of Montreal native Red Fisher
the award-winning sports editor and sports columnist of the Montreal Gazette.
1927: “The Country Doctor,” a silent film
starring Rudolph Schildkraut in the title role was released today in the United
States.
1927: “Her First Affaire,” produced and
directed by Gustav Blum opened on Broadway at the Nora Bayes Theatre which was
owned and operated by Lee and J.J. Shubert
1927: French architect René Sergent, who helped
Moise de Camondo design the family mansion on the Parc Monceau which included
“a kosher kitchen with separate sections for meat dairy” passed away today.
1927: Birthdate of Walter Goodman, the Bronx
native and reporter for the New York
Times and “the author of a widely read history of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities.” (As Reported by Douglas Martin)
1928: Birthdate of Slavko Goldstein, the
Croatian author who fought in the Israel War for Independence and who worked
with his son historian Ivo Goldstein to restore the Zagreb Synagogue.
1929: Following Arab attacks on Jews in
Jerusalem, the Arab representatives “said they were ready to recognize Jewish
visiting rights at the Wall in exchange for Jewish recognition of Islamic
prerogatives a Buraq” which the Jewish representative said was a concession
“beyond his brief” which was limited to an appeal for calm – an appeal which
the Arabs refused to agree to.
1930: In Fort Worth, TX, Solomon Brachman, the
Latvian born son of Marcus and Chaya Bachman and his wife Etta Brachman gave
birth to Marilyn Hoffman
1931: “An American Tragedy” a film treatment of
the novel by the same name directed and produced by Josef von Sternberg was
released in the United States today by Paramount pictures.
1931: Birthdate of Irmgard Neuman who in 1942
was one of the last nine Jewish inhabitants of Kleinsteinach all of whom died
during the Holocaust.
1932(20th of Av, 5692): New York City native
and Columbia School of Mines trained architect Harry Allan Jacobs, the winner
of the Prix de Rome, husband of Elsie Wolfe Jacobs and the father of investment
banker Harry Allen Jacobs, Jr. and
architect Robert Allan Jacobs, passed away today.
https://newyorkbefore.com/architecture.php?architect=Harry%20Allan%20Jacobs
https://www.landmarkwest.org/architect/harry-allen-jacobs/
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_3460623/
1933: The
Central Verein Zeitung, the “official organ of the Central Union of German
Jews, was ordered closed until September 2 without explanation.”
1933: “Love Babies,” produced by Morris Green
opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre.
1933: A demand that within the next ten years
land and employment must be provided in Palestine for hundreds of thousands of
Jews and in the next two generations for millions was the feature of the
political report presented in today's session of the Eighteenth World Zionist
Congress meeting in Prague by Professor Selig Brodetzky of Leeds, England.
1934: Today, thirty-year-old Warsaw born Nathan Alterman “an
Israeli poet, playwright, journalist and translator” Nathan “Alterman married
Rachel Marcus, an actress in the ‘Cameri
Theatre’” after which, in 1941, they gave birth to “their only daughter was
born: Tirtza Atar, who would grow up to become a poet herself.”
1934: “The commission for the organization of a
World Jewish Congress voted unanimously tonight to convoke the congress for August
1935, at Geneva.”
1935: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York was
invited today to address the World Zionist Congress on Jewry's position
throughout the world after he had demanded a full discussion of the situation
in Germany.
1936: Based on information from “the most
reliable authority” an American journalist “learned tonight that it now has
been definitely decided to order a stoppage of Jewish immigration from the time
of the arrival of the British Royal Commission coming to investigate the
Palestine disorders, until after all the work in connection with the
investigations and recommendations of the commission has been completed.”
1936: “Two British soldiers were wounded today
when a military patrol was fired upon by Arabs near Nur-Es-Shem in the Nablus
district on the same day that seven Arabs were detained near Kfar Saba for
their role in the murder of three Jews on August 21st.
1936: “Captain Wolfgang Fuerstner, the creator
of the Olympic Village and one of the last, if not the last “non-Aryan” officer
in the German Army who was being forced to leave the service because he was
classified as Jewish under the Nuremberg Laws, who committed suicide was buried
today with full military honors today.
1936: The American consul general in Jerusalem
cabled the U.S. Secretary of State to report, “A local committee of five
representative Americans (leading Zionists) has been formed to meet the
[Senate] party on arrival and has planned propaganda visits to Jewish colonies
before proceeding [to] Jerusalem... [The] junket is designed to appeal to
pro-Jewish propaganda.... The [British] Chief Secretary of the Palestine
Government takes position on grounds of safety alone that the party cannot be
permitted to tour country. With this I
fully concur, particularly in view of present recrudescence of terrorism and
especially as Zionists are sponsoring tour."
1937: The Jewish Agency Council successfully
completed its deliberations at Zurich. After prolonged deliberations, unity had
been achieved between the Zionist and non-Zionist members. A unanimously
adopted resolution stated that partition or no partition, the Zionist work in
Palestine must go on. Dr. Chaim Weitzman stressed that the Jewish people were
and would always be deeply conscious of their debt to Great Britain, which had
exerted herself to do something for the Jewish people and created the
indispensable conditions for the creation of a Jewish National Home. The
Zionist Executive resolved to ask the British Government to discuss the
implementation and broadening of the Peel Report and to arrange for a joint
Jewish-Arab conference.
1937: Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich completed
his first term as People’s Commissar for Transport of the Soviet Union.
1937: The Jewish Variety Hour will premiere at
5 p.m. on CKOC in Hamilton, Canada.
Entertainment will be provided by tenor Lou Herman, his three sisters –
Fay Miriam and Goldie, tenor Max Mendel and accordionist Sherman Ghan, “the
blind musician who has mastered the violin, piano and organ.”
1938(25th of Av, 5698): Jonah Israelovitch, a
36 year old laborer was shot to death by Arab snipers who fired on a bus near
Tel Aviv that was carrying workers to Holon.
1938: Firefighters in Jerusalem fought to
contain a blaze in a Jewish owned lumberyard started by Arab arsonists that
threatened to spread to nearby petroleum storage tanks owned by Standard Oil.
1938: Authorities found the bodies of three
Arabs on the Acre-Safed road with a note pinned to the victims written in
Arabic that state “So may it be done traitors.” The dead bodies with the note
attach appear to be part of a campaign by Arab terrorists to intimidate those
in their community who do not support their aims and/or tactics.
1938: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today in Brooklyn for Louis Zuckerman, the husband of Lena Zuckerman with whom
he had three children – Benjamin, Max and Henry.
1938: As the crisis over Czechoslovakia, moved
to a climax, radical French politician George
Bonnet “had Charles Corbin, the French
Ambassador in London, press for an explicit British commitment to come to
France's side in the event of war breaking out in Central Europe and used the
ensuing British refusal as a reason to justify France's lack of intervention in
a German-Czechoslovak conflict” which was another step on the road to WW II and
the Shoah.
1938: Maurice W. Monheimer, the husband of
Sylvia Monheimer with whom he had two children – William and Gladys – was
interred today at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten Island.
1939: Today, one day after terminating talks
with the French and the British, “Moscow revealed that” the German Foreign
Minister would be visiting Stalin tomorrow – a move that would lead the world
down the road to World War on the first of September.
1939(7th of Elul, 5699): Fifty-six-year-old
Russian born illusionist Horace Goldin, the American magician “who invented the
trick of cutting a woman in half with a circular saw” passed away today in
London. (Some sources show his d.o.d. as August 21)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/08/23/93949629.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1940: As novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife
Lotte Atlmann continued their flight from the Nazis, they move to Petrópolis,
Brazil the city in which they would commit suicide in 1942.
1941: The invading German Army occupied
Cherkasy, a Ukrainian town whose Jewish population traced its origins back to
the 16th century, in what would be the first step in the liquidation
of most the town population of from 300 to 900 Jews.
1942(9th of Elul, 5702): Parashat Ki
Teitzei
1942: Ten thousand Jews from Wielun, Poland,
are deported to the Chelmno death camp.
1942: The U.S.S. Blue, a destroyer that Ensign
Nathan Asher had taken control of on December 7 and guided to the safety of
open waters while Ensign Milton Moldane manned the forward machine guns in a
successful effort to fight off the attacking Zeroes, was severely damaged
during fighting off Guadalcanal today.
1942: A combination of Ukrainians, Polish
Police and SS troops murdered 2,000 Jews in the cemetery at Siedice and shipped
10,000 more off to Treblinka.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/07.asp
1942: In Siedlce, Poland after four hundred
Ukrainians had joined by the Polish police and SS troops in surrounding the ghetto, 10,000 Jews were deported to the
Treblinka death camp and 2,000 were executed in the Jewish cemetery
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/07.asp
1942: The Jewish community from Losice, Poland,
is liquidated at the Treblinka death camp.
1943: Maxim Litvinov completed his service
Soviet Ambassador to the United States.
1944: In Teaneck, NJ, “a Manhattan pharmacist
and a homemaker gave birth to billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Elliott
Singer, a signer of “The Giving Pledge” and founder of the Paul E. Singer
Family Foundation.
1944: “A Manhattan pharmacist and his homemaker
spouse” gave birth to hedge fund manager and philanthropist Paul Elliott
Singer, the founder and CEO of Elliot Management Corporation who “singed the
Giving Pledge which signals a commitment by individuals to donate more than
half of their wealth within their lifetime to address society's "most
difficult moral and economic challenges."
1944: Today, “after combat and poor roads had
delayed his 2nd Armored Division, Free French general Leclerc disobeyed his
direct superior, American V Corps commander Major General Leonard T. Gerow, and
sent a vanguard to Paris in one of the moves aimed at liberating Paris from
Nazi rule.
1944: Oskar Schindler signed a letter at his
enamelware factory in Krakow, Poland, written on behalf of one of his
employees, Adam Dziedzic, who had "received a clearings contract for
unloading and assembling war-necessary machinery and has been sent to
Sudetengau." (As reported by Reuters)
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=323228
1945 “The Institute of Arab-American Affairs
made public” today “a letter to President Truman protesting against the
unlimited immigration of Jews into Palestine.
1945: “The prosecution hurled charges of murder
today against Vidkun Quisling in the deaths of two outstanding Norwegian
patriots--one of them his relative.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/23/113128099.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946: “The World Jewish Congress” reported
today “that the Norwegian Government would permit 600 Jewish displaced person
from the German camps to settle in Norway” because of “a request for the
admission of Jewish displaced person, which was made last February by Rabbi
Mordecai Nurock, World Jewish Congress leader…”
1946: Today California born Roman Catholic attorney
Bartley spoke at luncheon meeting of the
American Palestine Committee, an organization working for the creation of a
Jewish state “during which he "tore into British and U.S. Officialdom and
the handling of the Palestinian question."
1947: The British Foreign office issued a cable
warning “diplomats that they should be ready to emphatically deny that the Jews
from the SS Exodus were to be housed in former concentration camps after they
were offloaded in Germany and that German guards will not be used to keep the
Jews in the refugee camps.”
1947: Premiere of “Body and Soul” directed by
Robert Rossen, with a screenplay by Abraham Polonsky and starring John
Garfield.
1947: Premiere of “The Pretender” produced and
directed by W. Lee Wilder
1948: Birthdate of Hawthorne, CA native David
Lee Marks, the guitarist who was “an early member of the Beach Boys.”
1949: It was announced that “two state
scholarships have been set aside yearly by Rutgers University in memory of
Samuel Pesin” the State Assemblyman who “was instrumental in establishing the
scholarship” which since 1937 have enable thousands of students to attend New
Jersey’s land grant college
1950: Birthdate of Queens, NY native Steven
Brill the graduate of Yale Law School, the founder of “Court TV,” “media
watchdog” and author whose first book The Teamsters was published in
1978
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/books/review/steven-brill-tailspin.html?module=inline
1950: Two days after he had passed away,
funeral services are scheduled to be held for Aaron Parsonnet, the Newark, NJ
physician who received his M.D. degree from Loyola University and was the
husband of the former Julia Lifson at Temple B’nai Abraham followed by
“internment in Oheb Sholom Cemetery in Hillside, NJ.)
1952(1st of Elul, 5712): Rosh
Chodesh Elul observed for the last time during the Presidency of Harry Truman,
the close friend and business partner of Eddie Jacobson with whom he served
during WW I.
1953(11th of Elul, 5713): Parashat
Ki Teitzei
1953(11th of Elul, 5713): Sixty-five-year-old
Austrian born American architect Rudolph Schindler whose design put him in the
Modernist School passed away today.
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s230340.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/08/23/84046208.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist
Organization of America, opens its fortieth annual convention today at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
1957(25th of Av, 5717): Sixty-four-year-old
Lemberg, Austria born NYU trained accountant Jacob Alson, “the national
treasurer of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith” who raised “two sons,
Lawrence and Ernest Alson” with his wife Adele passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/23/84754586.pdf
1958(6th of Elul, 5718): Seventy-nine-year-old
Hungarian born, City College graduate and Columbia University trained psychoanalyst
Dr. Adolph Stern, the husband of Mamie Stern and a student of Dr. Sigmund Freud
passed away today after suffering a heart attack.
https://pep-web.org/browse/document/paq.028.0149b?index=40
1959(18th of Av, 5719): Parashat
Eikev
1959(18th of Av, 5719):
Seventy-year-old Minsk native, University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordained
rabbi, Solomon Samuel Cohen passed away today.
https://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0276/ms0276.html
1960: After starter Don Drysdale is driven from
the mound by the bats of the Giants, Larry Sherry tames San Francisco and gets
the win when the Dodgers bats come alive for an 8 to 5 victory.
1960: At the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh,
premiere of “Beyond the Fringe” co-authored by Jonathan Miller who also
performed in this British comedy revue.
1962(22nd of Av, 5722): Seventy-two-year-old
Beatrice Joseph Kahn, the “wife Ely Jacques Kahn and the mother of Cyrus L.
Sulzberger and Mrs. Leonard Trilling, who served as President of the New York
Section of the National Council of Jewish Woman passed away today.
1962: “Five Weeks In A Baloon,” directed,
produced and written by Irwin Allen and starring Red Buttons, whose Jewish
immigrant parents Sophie Baker and Michael Chwat named him Aron, was released
in the United States today.
1963: “The Jewish Telegraphic Agency asked the
New York Herald Tribune today to publish a correction of assertions made in a
Herald Tribune syndicated column earlier this week, to the effect that the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency had accused Senator Barry Goldwater, Arizona
Republican, of anti-Semitism.”
1964: ITV broadcast the final episode of the
British sitcom “The Larkins” starring David Kossoff.
1965: Thirty-one-year-old award winning
historian Robert A. Dallek, “the son of Rubin (a business-machine dealer) and
Esther (Fisher) Dallek” married “policy health analyst, Geraldine Kronmal.”
1966: today Sam Levene (born Scholem Lewin)
replaced co-religionist Alan King in the starring role of the Broadway production
of “The Impossible Years” a comedy play co-authored by Arthur Marx, the son of
comedian Groucho Marx.
1966: "For Emily, Whenever I May Find
Her" is a song by Paul Simon and sung by American music duo Simon &
Garfunkel from their third studio album, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” was
recorded today.
1966: In an interview published today, Rabbi
Immanuel Jakobovits described his challenge while serving as the leader of the
Fifth Avenue Synagogue as being “to make Orthodoxy elegant and fashionable and
to show that you don’t have to live on the Lower East Side in squalor to be a
strictly traditional Jew.” Jakobovits is
the newly named Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British
Commonwealth.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10D16F63F5F107B93C0AB1783D85F428685F9
1966: Simon and Garfunkel recorded “For Emily,
When I May Find Her” and “”7 O’Clock News/Silent Night”.
1967: Premiere “The Flim-Flam Man” directed by
Irvin Kershner with music by Jerry Goldsmith.
1967(16th of Av, 5727): Sixty-seven-year-old
“Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the three "fathers" of the
birth-control pill” passed away tonight.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0409.html
1967: In Miami, Anita and David Ozersky gave
birth to food blogger and author Joshua Avram Ozersky.
1968(28th of Av, 5728):
Eighty-six-year-0ld Sarah Sacks Brukenfeld, the widow of realtor and
philanthropist Morris Brukenfeld passed away today at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
1969: Birthdate of Jonathan Stuart Goldstein,
“an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer” who is “known for
his work on the radio programs ‘This American Life’ and ‘WireTap’.”
1970(20th of Av, 5730): Parashat
Eikev
1970(20th of Av, 5730):
Fifty-seven-year-old Philadelphia born Temple University graduate Martin Levey,
the chemist who earned a doctorate in the history of science from Dropsie
College
was member of the Institute for Advanced Study
at Princeton and a member of the faculty at SUNY, Albany, passed away today.
http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/awards/Dexter%20Papers/LeveyDexterBioJJB.pdf
1971(1st of Elul, 5731): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1972: Hadassah, the women's Zionist
organization, emphasized its concern about the plight of Soviet Jews by giving
its highest award to a Soviet Jewish woman and announcing a training program
for 20 refugee Russian Jewish doctors and 10 scientists now in Israel.
1973: Birthdate of Commack, NY native and
Harvard trained attorney Craig Greenberg, “a co-founder, president, and chief
executive officer of 21c Museum Hotels” and 51st Mayor of
Louisville, KY.
1973: U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry
Kissinger as Secretary of State. Kissinger is the first Jew to hold this post.
This stands in stark contrast to the anti-Semitic remarks that one hears
uttered by Nixon on several of his taped conversations.
1974(4th of Elul, 5734): Sixty-six-year-old
Jacob Bronowski, the Polish-Jewish British scientist who is remembered by many
for his role in the13 part television series, “The Ascent of Man” and was the
husband of Rita Bonowski passed away today.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Bronowski.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/22/rita-bronowski-obituary
1974: Sylva Zalmanson, one of a group
refuseniks who had tried to hijack a plane in an attempt to get to the West was
released from a labor camp today after 4 years due to failing health.
1975(19th of Elul, 5735):
Seventy-seven-year-old Frederick William Spiegel, the Chicago born son of Lena
Straus and Modie Joseph Spiegel, the“director of the successful, huge
mail-order company, Spiegel's Home Furnishing Company and the grandson of
Joseph Spiegel, founder of a local home furnishing business” who earned the
Italian Croix de Guerra while serving as “in the American ambulance service” in
WW I and “was a Captain the U.S.A.A. during WW II” passed away today in
Chicago.
1976(26th of, 5736): Reb Avraham
Yaakov, the leader of the Sadigur Chassidim passed away today in Israel
1976: The West End Horror: A Posthumous
Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D, a novel written by Nicholas Meyer finished
an eleven-week run on The New York Times Best Seller List.
1977: The US confirmed that Israel had used
American-supplied military equipment to assist the Christian forces fighting in
Southern Lebanon but denied that such action was a violation of any US-Israeli
agreement.
1977: Egypt was accused by a senior defense
source of serious violations of the Sinai agreement by moving forces in the
Limited Forces Zone far beyond the acceptable limits.
1977: The Haifa Rabbinical Court ruled that
artificial insemination does not constitute adultery. A husband whose wife bore
a child by artificial insemination with his consent is responsible for the
child’s upkeep.
1978(19th of Av, 5738):
Sixty-six-year-old Dr. Nathan Nata Silver, the Harrisburg, PA born Son of Rabbi
Eliezer Silver (Zilber) and Bessie (Batya) Silver (Aronowitz), the husband of
Lillian Silver with whom he had three children and the “brother of Rabbi David
Leib Silver, A.B.D. Kesher Israel Congregation; Yocheved (Yetta) Izenstein and
Fruma Pessia Gershuni” suffered a fatal heart attack today in Cincinnati, OH.
1982: Rabbi Wall of Burlington presided at the
ceremonies formally dedicating the new home of Congregation Beth-El in St.
Johnsbury, Vermont
1982: General Ariel Sharon urged Palestinians
to discuss peaceful coexistence.
1984(24th of Av, 5744): Eighty-one-year-old
Latvian born Marquette University School graduate Max Raskin, the Socialist
politician and Milwaukee County Circuit Judge passed away today.
1986(17th of Av, 5746): Two Israeli
soldiers were stabbed to death today by terrorists in Jerusalem.
1986(17th of Av, 5746):
Seventy-nine-year-old Prahta G. Sieorty, the Los Angles born child of Adolph
and Maye M. Brown Sieroty and the sibling of Julian M. Sieroty passed away
today in Los Angeles after which she was interred at the Home of Peace Memorial
Park.
1987: ''From Marees to Picasso: Masterworks
From the Von der Heydt Museum of Wuppertal,'' a new selection of Israeli art,
on display at the Tel Aviv Museum is scheduled to come to any.
1988: “Tanner '88,” a political mockumentary
miniseries featuring Ilana Levine “as Andrea
Spinelli” completed its first run today on HBO.
1989(21st of
Av, 5749): Seventy-five-year-old Ferdinand M. Aufsesser passed away today.
1990(1st of Elul, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1991: The NYPD changed their tactics in dealing
with the violence in Crown Heights. Initially, the Department had practiced a
strategy of containment in response to mounting violence in the streets,
directing its officers only to stop the spread of disorder, but not to try to
dispel it. At the same time some community leaders engaged in “blatantly
anti-Semitic rhetoric” including Reverend Al Sharpton who said, "The world
will tell us that he (Cato) was killed by accident. Yes, it was a social accident?
It's an accident to allow an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown
Heights."
1993: Belgian middle
distance runner Nathan placed 10th in 800 metres at the 1993 World
Championships which ended today at Stattgart.
1993: The Independent published “Why the BBC
ignored the Holocaust: Anti-Semitism in the top ranks of broadcasting and
Foreign Office staff led to the news being suppressed” by Stephen Ward.
1994: The third in a series of family tours to
Israel sponsored by the American Jewish Congress is scheduled to come to an
end.
1996: Mary Wilson, the African-American singer
“who was a member of the Supremes” is scheduled to take over the role of Marlena
Weiss-Grossman, an abrasive and judgmental Jewish aunt, in the play
“Grandmas Sylvia’s Funeral” because director Glenn Wein doesn’t think that an
actress needs to be white or Jewish to play this role.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/12/nyregion/chronicle-793396.html?searchResultPosition=2
1997: Premiere of action comedy “Money Talks”
directed by Brett Ratner with a script by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow
1997: “Event Horizon,” a sci-fi film previously
released in the United States produced by Lloyd Levin, co-starring Jason Isaacs
and with music by Michael Kamen was released today in the United Kingdom.
1998(30th of Av, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1998: On cemetery ridge overlooking Dawson City
in Canada's far northwest Yukon Territories, "Beth Chaim," the
resting place of some five Jews, was today. Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Herb
Gray, who is Jewish, was the keynote speaker and guests from Vancouver to
Toronto joined locals to commemorate the Yukon-led cleanup of this old, nearly
forgotten testament to the wandering Jews of a century ago.
1999: The
New York Times book section featured
a review of Foreign Brides by Elena Lappin, editor London’s “Jewish
Quarterly” Actual Air Poems by David Berman, Three Dollars by
Australian Jewish author Elliot Perlman and Identity’s Architect: A
Biography of Erik H. Erikson by Lawrence J. Friedman whose grandfather, “an
Orthodox Jew and a Talmudic scholar, who would always be at the kitchen table
going through books, the Old Testament, everything else, and insisting that I
would study with him, that I would be clear, be logical, be precise, and I
could sometimes win some arguments against my folks by doing that.”
2000: Funeral services are scheduled to held
today at Temple Israel in New Rochelle for 48 year old Warren Goldstein, the
husband of Janet Goldstein and father of Peter and Laura Goldstein who passed
away yesterday.
2000: It was reported today that over the
weekend Prime Minister Ehud Barak told his supporters during the weekend that
he planned to push a ''civil reform'' through Parliament that, among other
things, would strip the Jewish religious establishment of many privileges and
powers.” (As reported by John Burns)
2001(3rd of Elul, 5761):
Ninety-two-year-old Jeanette Felsen Fishman, the widow of Bernard “Ben” Fishman
and daughter-in-law of Abraham and Sarah Eckstein Fishman passed away today after
which she was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, CO.
2002: After spending his rookie year as the
third-string quarterback for the Washington Redskins, Sage Rosenfels “was
acquired by the Miami Dolphins today in exchanged for a 2003 seventh round
draft pci.
2003: Alabama's chief justice, Roy Moore, was
suspended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten
Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse. This is one of a
series of attempts to undermine the doctrine of the separation of church and
state which is cornerstone of American democracy and one of the reasons that
Jews have thrived in the United States.
2004: The
Sunday New York Times book section includes
a review of A Man’s Guide to a Civilized Divorce: How to Divorce With Grace,
a Little Class, and a Lot of Common Sense
by Jewish attorney Sam Margulies and Jerome Robbins: His Life, His
Theater, His Dance by Deborah Jowitt, “ grand survey of the great and
deservedly popular choreographer of ballet and Broadway, as well as a personal
examination of a radically unhappy man; at 57 he could call himself '’a Jewish
ex-commie fag who had to go into a mental hospital.’”
2004: After three seasons, final broadcast of
“Da Ali G Show, a British-American satirical television series created by and
starring English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.”
2005(17th of Av, 5765): Ninety-one-year Dr.
Morris Ziff, an expert in rheumatic diseases passed away today in Dallas. (As
reported by Jeremy Pearce)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/30ziff.html?pagewanted=print
2005: Red Sea Jazz Festival Opens.
2005: It was announced that gaming giant Square
Enix would purchase 247,900 Taito shares worth ¥45.16 billion (US$409.1
million), to make Taito Corporation which was founded in 1953 by Russian Jewish
businessman Michael Kogan, a subsidiary of Square Enix
2005: “Netzarim was evacuated by the Israeli
military today officially marking the end of the 38-year-long presence of
Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip, though the official handover was planned
for several weeks later.”
2005: Israeli newspapers reported that all but
one settlement in Gaza had been evacuated. The evacuation has gone faster than
the government had planned and bulldozers have already begun leveling the
buildings left behind.
2006: Bernard Lewis speculated that today, the
day on which the Iranian President said he would “respond to U.S. demands
regarding that country’s development of nuclear power” might be a day for an
Iranian attack on Israel because August 22, 2006 “corresponded to the 27th day
of the month of Rajab of the year 1427, the day Muslims commemorate the night
flight of Muhammad from Jerusalem to heaven and back.”
2006: Shawn Green was dealt, along with $6.5
million in cash, by the Arizona Diamondbacks to the New York Mets for Triple-A
23-year-old left-handed pitcher, Evan MacLane. Green is Jewish; MacLane is not.
2006: Israel's police raid the home of their
State President and seize computers and documents in connection with rape and
abuse allegations against him.
2007(8th of Elul, 5767): Eighty-four-year-old
author and social activist Grace Paley passed away today. (As reported by
Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/books/23cnd-paley.html?pagewanted=print
2007: The
Palestine Monitor a blatantly
pro-Palestinian publication openly rebukes American Presidential candidate Rudi
Giuliani for his statement that 'Palestinian statehood will have to be earned
through sustained good governance, a clear commitment to fighting terrorism,
and a willingness to live in peace with Israel.’
2008: The Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
travelling exhibition, which displays original Steinberg works at various
museum and galleries around the world is scheduled to open in Zurich.
2008: At the Jerusalem Cinematheque a screening
of “The Summer of Aviya \ הקיץ של.” “In the summer of 1951 in the newly
established State of Israel, a ten-year-old girl named Aviya is reunited with
her mother Henya, a mentally disturbed Holocaust survivor. Sensitive and
understanding, loving her mother and pitying her, while dreaming and longing
for her father, Aviya tries as best as she can to support and comfort her.
Henya, hounded by memories from her past, gradually begins to fall apart
emotionally. Eventually her condition deteriorates to a point where she must be
returned to a mental hospital and little Aviya is again separated from her
mother. The film is based on the autobiographical experience of Gila Almagor,
who starred in the film as well as co- writing and co-producing it.”
2008: The
Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that Iowa
State labor officials are citing meatpacking plant Agriprocessors with 31 new
and repeat safety violations. The Iowa Division of Labor Services on Friday
proposed fining the Postville plant $101,000 for 21 serious violations, six
repeat offenses and four non-serious violations. Iowa Labor Commissioner David
Neil says that the new and repeat violations reinforce a negative view of Iowa
employers. Earlier this month, Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher
meatpacking plant, was accused by the Iowa Division of Labor Services of
employing dozens of underage workers. In May, the plant was the target of the
largest single-site immigration enforcement raid in U.S. history, with nearly
400 people arrested on immigration charges. Agriprocessors has 15 days to
respond to the state's allegations. Employers rarely end up paying the full
fine proposed by the state.
2008: An article in the Chicago Jewish News describes the relationship between the Obama family and
Rabbi Capers Funnye. According to the New York Times, “Michelle Obama, wife of
the Democratic presidential nominee, and Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader
of a mostly black synagogue on Chicago’s South Side, are first cousins once
removed. Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and
Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr., were brother and
sister. Funnye (pronounced fuh-NAY) is chief rabbi at the Beth Shalom B’nai
Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in southwest Chicago. He is well-known in
Jewish circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and the much
smaller, and largely separate, world of black Jewish congregations, sometimes
known as black Hebrews or Israelites. He has often urged the larger Jewish
community to be more accepting of Jews who are not white.”
2009: Today “it was reported that Larry
Ellison, founder of Oracle would be paid
only $1 for his base salary for the fiscal year of 2010, down from the
$1,000,000 he was paid in fiscal 2009.”
2009: In Jerusalem, The Acco Theater's Dance
Incubator presents "Neuronervana", a unique and creative dance
performance.
2009: As we sit in the synagogue and hear the
opening lines of “Shoftim,” friends and family of Shelly Luber, of blessed
memory, are reminded that this was his Bar Mitzvah portion a quarter of a
century ago.
2009: Hurling rocks and chanting slogans,
hundreds of haredi protesters took part in demonstrations on Saturday evening
against the opening of a parking lot opposite the Old City, in what has become
a weekly confrontation over Shabbat observance in the capital.
2010: In Quebec, KlezKanada is scheduled to
come to a close.
2010: An exhibit featuring 150 photographs of
Willy Ronis is scheduled to come to a close at the Musée de la Monnaie in
Paris.
2010: The
New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan
Schneer
2010: A demonstration is scheduled to take
place today outside of the BBC headquarters to protest “Death in the Med,” a
documentary that examined the ill-fated confrontation between the Israelis and
blockade-breaking flotilla headed for Gaza.
2011: The New York City International Film
Festival is scheduled to show נגטיב (Negative) directed by Yoav Hornung and בן
חוזר הביתה (Ben is Back).
2011: After a meeting that concluded at 3
o’clock this morning Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his cabinet
ministers concluded that Israel will not respond to the attacks from Gaza with
a large-scale operation.
2011: Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on
southern Israel resumed yesterday evening and continued into the early hours of
this morning after a lull during the afternoon
2011(22nd of Av, 5771): Eighty-eight-year-old
Casey Ribicoff, the widow of the late Senator Abraham Ribicoff passed away
today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2011(22nd of Av, 5771): Seventy-eight-year-old
Jerry Leiber who wrote so many rock and roll hits of the fifties and sixties
passed away. (As reported by William Grimes)
2011(22nd of Av, 5771): Seventy-four-year-old
Holocaust researcher Harry W. Mazal passed away today.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/He-created-widely-used-library-in-S-A-2136383.php
http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-intrigue-and-theft-cu-boulder-gains-huge-holocaust-collection/
2011(22nd of Av, 5771): Eighty-five-year Samuel Menashe the Greenwich
Village poet who won the first Neglected Masters Award in 2004, passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/samuel-menashe-new-york-poet-dies-at-85.html?pagewanted=print
2012: Algerian pianist
Maurice El Médioni – King of Rai and a legendary figure on the world music
scene – is scheduled to host the Dialna
Quintet for an evening of Jewish-Arab-Andalusian soul music with Boogie-Woogie,
Rhumba and Flamenco rhythms at the Hazan Hall as part of the Oud Festival.
2012:
"Vasermil" a film that tells the story of three Israeli teenagers
from separate marginalized communities, who pin their hopes on soccer as a way
out” is scheduled to be shown at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC
2012: Anyone who tries
to harm Israel will taste “the deadly strength of the IDF,” Chief of General
Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz warned today
2012: Heiress,
businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison placed 64th on Forbes’ 2012 list
of the world’s 100 most powerful women, which was released today. Forbes’ list
includes politicians, businesswomen, journalists, writers and celebrities.
Arison, who was raised in Israel and the United States, was #57 in last year’s
rankings.
2013: An exhibit, “The
White Rose” which tells the story of a group of legitimate anti-Nazi German,
which is being hosted by UNLV’s Lied Library is scheduled to come to a close
today.
2013: The Macabeats are
scheduled to begin a concert tour in Venice, Italy.
2013: “Fill the Void”
is scheduled to open a the Cape Ann Community Cinema in Gloucester, MA
2013: An extreme
right-wing activist imprisoned for illegal political activity sent threatening
letters to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, police said this morning. (As
reported by Aaron Kalman)
2013: Four rockets
fired from southern Lebanon targeted northern Israel this afternoon, setting
off air raid sirens in Acre, Nahariya, and additional areas in the Western
Galilee and sending frightened local residents fleeing for cover.(As reported
by Yaakov Lappin)
2014: At Agudas Achim in Coralville, Iowa, Meirav
Isaaca Flatte is scheduled to help lead Friday night services as part of her
“Bat Mitzvah Weekend.”
2014: Three people
were injured today when a rocket fired from Gaza struck a synagogue in Ashdod
“causing significant damage to the building.
2014: “A Jewish
school in Copenhagen had its windows smashed and anti-Jewish graffiti referring
to the conflict in Gaza spray-painted on its walls, the school said today.”
2014(26th of
Av, 5774): This afternoon four-year-old Daniel Tregerman, the son of Gila and
Doron Tregerman was murdered by Hamas terrorists when “a mortar fired from Gaza
struck his kibbutz in the Sha’ar Ha Negev Council.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4562301,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4562008,00.html
2014(26th
of Av, 5774): Seventy-seven-year-old Jan Karako who “established Oren Bayan,
one of the most famous textile brands in Turkey and his 69-year-old wife
Georgia were murdered in their apartment in Istanbul today. (Times of Israel)
2015: In Alexandria,
VA, as part of “Get to Know us Weekend” Temple Beth El is scheduled to host
“Tot Shabbat.”
2015: “Mistress
America” a comedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach, which ha premiered at
the Sundance Festival was released in the United States today.
2015: Isaac DaBoom
is scheduled to perform at Bar Kaymar
2015: “Into the
Wild,” a “day Shmita Expedition” is scheduled to come to an end.
2016: “Hill Start”
is scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival hosted by the Hampton
Synagogue
2016: On the
anniversary of her birth publication of “25 of Dorothy Parker's Best Quotes” by
Stacy Conrdat.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52358/25-dorothy-parkers-best-quotes
2016: “The iconic,
charismatic Morrissey, originally of Manchester indie band The Smiths, now a
solo artist” is scheduled to perform “in Tel Aviv’s Heichal HaTrburt.” (As
report by Jessica Steinberg)
2017(30th
of Av, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Elul; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2017: Hebrew Hawkeye
Time – At the University of Iowa, Hillel is scheduled to host a welcome dinner
for incoming freshmen and freshwomen
2017: The offices of
the Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County in Ann Arbor, Michigan, were
evacuated today after a bomb threat was called in by “an unidentified male
voice.”
2017: Jamaican
singer and rapper is scheduled to return to Tel Aviv with a performance “at the
Live Park in Rishon LeZion on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
2018: A “Gaga/People
Dance Class” based on “Gaga, the movement research developed by renowned
choreographer and Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin” is
scheduled to place at Central Park in Manhattan.
2018(11th
of Elul, 5778): Ninety-two-year-old economist Martin Shubki, the son of Jewish
immigrant Joseph and Sara (Soloveychik) Shubik and the brother of cancer
researcher Philippe Shubik and BBC producer Irene Shubik passed away today. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/obituaries/martin-shubik-dead.html
2018: Israelis
contemplated a mixed bag of news from India which included reports of “six
intoxicated men attempting to break into the room of four Israeli female
backers in northern India” and the delivery of humanitarian aid by “Israeli
Consul in Bangalore Dana Koresh and consulate staff” to the “victims of the
monsoon floods in the India state of Kerala.
2018: It was
reported today that lawyer Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s self-declared “fixer”
had already “reached a deal with federal prosecutors in New York to plead
guilty to campaign finance violations, bank fraud and tax evasion”
2019: “The Cleveland
Jewish News and Ganley Subaru of Bedford” are scheduled to “present 12 Under
36: Members of the Tribe, recognizing young Jewish leaders who are influencing
the future of Northeast Ohio through their professional and personal achievements”
today “at The Venue at Stonewater.”
2019: In London, JW3
is scheduled to host a screening of “Untouchable an important if painful
account of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged crimes, and the culture of silence that
allowed them to happen” followed by a Q&A.
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the two final
screenings of “JT LeRoy.”
2019: In New Orleans the Jewish Federation is scheduled to
host “JNOLA Chai Society Event.
2019: In North
Carolina, the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening
of “Love in Suspenders.”
2020(2nd of Elul, 5780): Parashat Shoftim
2020: “11-Year-Old Scores Viral Rap Hit but Trips on Gaza
Politics” published today tells the story of “Abdel Rahman al-Shantti, a
Palestinian rap star” who faced an avalanche of anger “when he advocated ‘love
between” Palestinian “and Israel.”
2021: The Birthright Israel - Sephardic Israel Trip for this
Summer is scheduled to begin today.
2021: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a
tour of their Holocaust Gallery, “Absence of Humanity.”
2021: The headstone unveiling for Gary Goldstein is scheduled
to take place today at 4:30 pm at Eben Israel Cemetery in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2021: Following yesterday’s attacks by Hamas supporters at
the border between Gaza and Israel, a police officer who was shot by person or
persons unknown in Gaza is being treated for a severe head injury at Soroka
Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. (As reported by YNET and Reuters)
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a
tour of its “newest special exhibition – Shanghai: Safe Haven During the
Holocaust.”
2021: The Museum at Eldridge is scheduled to host a “Lower
East Walking Tour” which a season guide will help participants experience the
neighborhood of a hundred years ago.
2021: The New York Times features reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Rachel
to the Rescue by Elinor Lipman, All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days:
The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to
Hitler by Rebecca Donner and Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the
Free Market by Nicholas Wapshott.
2022: The Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv vs Hapoel Nof HagGalil soccer
match is scheduled to take place today.
2023: The Hunt by Faye Kellerman featuring the husband
and wife Jewish duo of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus is scheduled to be
released today.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/faye-kellerman/the-hunt-kellerman/
2022: Ligat
HaAl, Sektzia Nes Tziona vs Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona is scheduled to take
place at Ness Ziona Stadium.
2023: The Reading Room and Exhibition of the Wiener Holocaust Library is
scheduled to be closed today due to pre-planned.“maintenance works.”
2023: Case Western Reserve University is scheduled to host a lecture by
Dr. Ezra Blaustein on “Muhammad and the Jews,” which “will provide an overview
of the ways in which Muhammad and the early Muslim community related to Judaism
in general and the Jews of Arabia in particular” through Laura and Alvin Siegal
Lifelong Learning Program.
2023: This year’s literary festival at the Agnon House which starts
today will feature lectures by Haim Be'er, Bilha Ben-Eliyahu and Dina
Berdichevsky.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled present a lecture by Trudy Gold on “The Comic
Genius of Zero Mostel.”
2023:
Israel is working “round the clock” to catch the terrorists responsible for
yesterdays’ deadly attack near Hebron which is part of spike in such attacks
that government says is financed by Iran.
2024:
In New Orleans, JNetwork and its partners are scheduled to host a networking
evening “in the iconic segment of the Eiffel Tower on St. Charles.”
2024:
Tifereth Israel and its Men’s Club are scheduled to host a visit to Huntington
Park for a Columbus Clippers baseball game.
2024:
The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to present a screening of “When We Went Mad! presents the (unauthorized)
history of America’s oldest and most influential humor magazine.”
2024:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host “a Music Sharing”
with Cantor Abbie Strauss.
2024:
The Documentary Film Festival at the National Library of Israel is scheduled to
host screenings of “Hostages” and “We Will Dance Again.”
2024: As August 22nd
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 321
in captivity. (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2025: In another
lecture in the series "Levinas's Way to Ethics" with Rabbi Daniel
Epstein sponsored by Agnon House, attendees are scheduled to discuss the
infinite ethical significance of the other's face, while reading the writings
of Levinas and other writers.
2025(28th of
Av): Yahrzeit for Larry Rosenstein, of blessed memory, loving husband of Judy
Levin Rosenstein the father of Danny, David Asher and Joel Rosenstein and
Mensch Par Excellence. Gone too soon but
always remembered!
2025: Based on
previously published reports as of the start of today, Israeli reservists and
awaiting their call up orders while groups of Hardei are prepared to continue
their protests against serving in the IDF.
2025: As August 22nd
begins in Israel, the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 686 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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