1053: Today, “according
to a document preserved in the archives of the Cathedral of Leon, the Infanta
D. Fronilda, daughter of D. Pelayo, who restored Christian supremacy after the
invasion of the Saracens, purchased, from the Jew Joseph b. Joab Escapat for the sum of 50
dineros a vineyard at Montaurio.”
1310: King
Jaime II issued a royal decree exempting Judah Bonseynor from all taxes to
which the Aljama of Barcelona was usually required to pay. “The king also ordered that neither Bonsenyor
nor his children should be molested on account of unpaid taxes, and that he
should be at liberty to enter or leave the "Juderia," or Jewish
quarter, at will.” Bonseynor severed Alfonso II and his son Jaime as Notary
General of Aragon. He was the official who provided the authoritative
translation of documents from Arabic into Spanish. Considering the makeup of the Iberian
Peninsula at this time, this was a position of great importance. (As reported
by Richard Gottehil and Meyer Kayserling
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view_friendly.jsp?artid=1315&letter=B#ixzz1A7ul6Jtu
1380: In
France, coronation of Charles VI, the monarch who issued an order in 1394
expelling all the Jews from his kingdom
1482: In
Spain by this date, nearly 298 persons had been burned at the hand of the
Inquisition, while 98 had been imprisoned in Inquisitional prisons.
1501:
Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella (the Spanish
monarchs who expelled the Jews from Spain) meets Arthur Tudor, the oldest son
of English monarch Henry
1553: “The
Pope ordered the burning of the Talmud in Venice.”
1541:
Wolfgang Capito the German religious reformer who tried to find harmony between
the followers of Zwingill and Luther while also seeking to refute claims that
Jewish books contained anti-Christian references and who counted among his
friends and colleagues Joseph (Josel) ben Gershom of Rosheim passed away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Fabricius-Capito
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/capito-koepfel-wolfgang-fabricius-x00b0
1541: “A
storm destroyed a Spanish fleet attempting to attack Algiers, saving the city's
Jewish community and becoming a minor holiday celebrated with festive meals.”
1650(os:
Birthdate of William III who was supported by Solomon de Medina who serve as an
“army contractor when the monarch went to England to lead the Glorious
Revelation
1677: The
future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later
be known as William and Mary who took the English throne after the Glorious
Revolution. According to the historian
Cecil Roth, the Glorious Revolution was financed, in part, by a Dutch Jew who
lent the would-be monarchs an interest free loan of two million crowns and that
“prayers were uttered in Dutch synagogues” for their success.
1762(18th of
Cheshvan, 5523): Moses Levi Ulff, the son of Levi Ulff, passed away today. In
1714 Levi Ulff “had moved his ribbon factory from Wesel to Charlottenberg” and
the “king appointed him as his Court Jew ordering the royal regiments to secure
their ribbons from his factory. In 1720, when Moses took over from his father
“the order was renewed” and Crown Prince Frederick required the younger Ulff
“to supply all the royal regiments with the necessary braid.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12573-raphael-ben-jekuthiel-susskind-ha-kohen
1778:
Philadelphian Leah Nathan and Bavarian born Jacob Naphtali Hart, the parents of
Zipporah Hart, were married today.
1783: Having
arrived as destitute refugees in Nova Scotia in October, today Jacob Hart and
his immediate family “applied for relief to the commissioners” at which time
Hart’s “gentile son-in-law, Lieutenant Blackwell, armed with a letter from
General Campbell strongly recommending the family to the good offices of the
government came to explain the ‘old man’s position’” which resulted in the
commissioner “allowing him a pension of forty pounds a year.
1782: Today, Elias
Boudinot, who was persuaded by James Adair’s History of the American Indians
that the Native Americans were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes and that the
Hebrew was the origin of their language began his service as “2nd
President of the Confederation of Congress.”
1783: Today elderly
Jewish businessman and former resident of Newport, R.I. Jacob Hart, a loyalist
who sought refuge in England after the American Revolution appealed to the
government for relief and the commissioners who heard his case “paid handsome
tribute to the advanced age and great
loyalty of the petitioner” and granted him a pension of forty pounds a year.
1785: Hannah
de Jacob Dias and Aaron de Pass gave birth to Isaac de Pass.
1787:
Birthdate of English actor Edmund Kean who first played Shylock in 1814 and whose subsequent
portrayals Shakespeare’s famous Jewish character “could not be surpassed” and
who gives him the form not of a figure from Genesis but from Venice in the
Middle Ages.
1789: Today, Elias
Boudinot, who was persuaded by James Adair’s History of the American Indians
that the Native Americans were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes and that the
Hebrew was the origin of their language began his service as a “Member of the
U.S House of Representatives from New Jersey.”
1793:
Birthdate of Caroline Louisa Westermyer, the wife of Samuel Mordecai and the
mother of Fanin, Matilda, Abraham, James and Georgia Mordecai.
1793: Lyon Levy and his
wife gave birth to Jacob Levy, the husband of Rachel Moise Abraham
1795: Today, Elias
Boudinot, who was persuaded by James Adair’s History of the American Indians
that the Native Americans were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes and that the
Hebrew was the origin of their language completed his service as a “Member of
the U.S House of Representatives from New Jersey.”
1796: “The
Treaty of Tripoli, first treat between the United States and Tripoli (now
Libya) to secure commercial shipping rights and protect American ships” which
included Article 11 stating that "the Government of the United States of
America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" was
signed in Libya today six months were it was unanimously ratified by the United
States Senate.
1807:
Catherine Williams and Hugh Morse gave birth to Joseph Morse.
1808: In
France Fleutrette Baruch Weil and Lyon Israel Samuel gave birth to Isaac
Samuel, the husband of Fanny Heilbronner and the father of Albert, Theodore,
Lyon, Rodolphe and Maurice Samuel.
1813:
Birthdate of Seligman Goldschmiedt who was buried in the Trieste Jewish
Cemetery after he died in 1898.
1815: In
Tower Hill, London, Yetta and Solomon Levy gave birth to Sarah Levy the wife of
Raphael David Picard
1820. In
Savannah, GA, Isac Minis and Dinah Cohen gave birth to merchant Abraham Minis,
the great-grandson of early Savannah settlers Isaac Minis and Dinah Cohen, the
brother of surgeon Dr. Philip Minis and the husband of New Orleanian Lavina
“Venie’ Florence with whom he had five children -- Jacob Florance, Isaac, a prominent lawyer in
Savannah, Maria and Rosina Florance – who built the Abram Minis Building for
his business A. Minis and sons and who according to legend, tuned out a chance
to be an early investor in the work of Alexander Graham Bell.
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1823(1st
of Kislev, 5584): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1823: Twenty-seven-year-old
Samuel Evans, the English boxer known as Young Dutch Sam won a victory tonight
at Knowle Hill, Berkshire in a fight that lasted 16 rounds.
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1828: Today
at Knowle Hill, Berkshire, British
welterweight champion Samuel Evans the son of Samuel Elias, the British boxer
known simply as Young Dutch Sam won a sixteen-round bound bout against Jack
Matin.
1829:
Benjamin Woolf married Isabella Levy at the Western Synagogue today.
1837: Forty-four-year-old
French politician Benoit Fould was re-elected as the representative for St.
Quentin.
1841: In
Warsaw, pianist and composer
Aloys Tausig and his wife gave birth to pianist, arranger and composer Carl
Tausig.
1842(1st of Kislev, 5603): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1842: Birthdate of Caroline Bamberger who would be buried
in the Indianapolis, Indiana, Hebrew Congregation Cemetery when she passed away
in 1907.
1843: In St.
Louis, the United Hebrew Congregation assumed full ownership of the first
Jewish cemetery which had been created in 1840. The cemetery was used until
1868. In 1867, the City of St. Louis prohibited further use of the grounds as a
burial place. United Hebrew acquired land out in the county, which later became
University City with the streets known as North and South Rd. and Canton Ave.
Formal dedication of the new cemetery, called Mount Olive occurred in 1880. In
1880, the bodies in the original cemetery, as well as some of the stones were
transferred to Mount Olive. In 1960, the name of the cemetery was changed from
Mount Olive to United Hebrew.
1843(11th
of Cheshvan, 5604): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1843(11th
of Cheshvan, 5604): Forty-year old British welterweight champion Samuel Evans
the son of Samuel Elias, the British boxer known simply as Young Dutch Sam,
passed away today.
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1845: Aaron
George Jones married Rachel Myers at the Great Synagogue today.
1846: Saling
Schiff married Katherine Mosely at the Great Synagogue today.
1846: Two
days after she had passed away, 77 year old Hannah Harris, “the wife of Henry
Harris of Shadwell” was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1847: German
composer Felix Mendelssohn passed away. Born in 1809, Felix was the grandson of
Moses Mendelssohn, one of the leaders who provided the basis for what became
the Reform Movement. Felix’s father
wanted his children to be able to fully participate in German life, so he had
them Baptized in 1816. Despite the trip to the Baptismal font and Felix’s
brilliance, he lost out on at least one major appointment because he was
Jewish. Also, such musical luminaries as
Wagner did not accept him. They used his
works as examples of misguided attempts to Judacize (and weaken) German culture
in general and German music in particular.
1848: “In Schmieheim, Germany to Leon and Fanny
(Dreyfuss) Bernheim gave birth to Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, the husband of Emma
Bernheim and Amanda "Mandie" Bernheim and father of Leon "
Lee" Solomon Bernheim; Morris Uri Burnham; Dr. Bertram Moses Bernheim;
Elbridge Palmer Bernheim; Amelia Rauh; Helen Roth and Marguerite Bernheim the who after moving to Kentucky, started “the
I.W. Harper brand of premium bourbon whiskey.
https://bullittcountyhistory.org/memories/bernheim.html
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Schmieheim/IWBernheim.html
https://www.whiskeyuniv.com/b-isaac-bernheim
https://bullittcountyhistory.org/memories/bernheim.html
1849: The
Grand Secretary of the Free Sons of Israel, the first officer of any Grand
Lodge to be paid a salary, received $20 for a year beginning today.
1852: Count
Cavour became Prime Minister of Piedmont. Along with Mazzini and Garibaldi,
Cavour made up the trinity who unified the states of the Italian peninsula and
created the modern nation of Italy. Jews were among the most active supporters
of the creation of Italian nationalism. Despite Cavour’s complaints the tough
banking practices of Baron James Rothschild, Rothschild supplied Cavour with
financial backing for the impending war with Austria. Parts of Italy were in the Austrian
Empire. The two disguised the
expenditures as being funds for a tunnel through the Alps. Cavour appointed Jews to several top posts in
his government, something hitherto unheard.
Isaac Arton served as his confidential secretary and “faithful
lieutenant.”
1856: In
Charleston, at the synagogue on Hasell Street, Rabbi Mayer officiated at the
marriage of M.J. Solomons of Savannah, GA and Henrietta S. Emanuel of
Georgetown, SC.
1857: In
Charleston, SC, Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs officiated at the marriage of Zachariah
Falk and Gerogiana S. Jacobi “the youngest daughter of W.J. Jacobi.”
1860(19th
of Cheshvan, 5621): In the UK, Sixty-four-year-old Sophia Levy, the widow of
Nathaniel Levy and the mother of Maria Levy passed away today.
1861(1st
of Kislev, 5622): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1861: The
University of Washington opened in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial
University. Today Washington has 2,000 Jewish undergrads and 1, 000 grad
students out of student population of 31,000 undergraduates and 12,000 grad
students. Washington offers
approximately 20 Jewish studies courses with both a major and a minor in Jewish
studies. The university also offers
year-round study programs in Israel.
1862: Levin
Sternberg began his service as a member of Company I of the 151st
Regiment.
1862:
Corporal Jacob Kauffman began his service with Company F of the 171st
Regiment.
1863: In
Amsterdam, sculptor Moses Mendes da Costa and Esther Teixeira de Mattos, the sister
of Henri Teixeira de Mattos and the aunt of Joseph Teixeira de Mattos gave birth
to “Dutch sculptor and teacher” Joseph Mendes de Costa, the husband of Anna Jessurun de Mesquita, and the brother of graphics
artist and Holocaust victim Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita who was best known “for
sculpted ornaments on buildings” and whose students at the Rijksakademie van
beeldende kunsten included co-religionist Frank de Miranda the Dutch sculptor,
psychologist and publicist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mendes_da_Costa#/media/File:Detail_De_Bazel.jpg
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1865(15th
of Cheshvan, 5626): Parashat Vayera read for the first time since the end of
the American Civil War.
1867:
Following yesterday’s defeat at the Battle of Mentana, forces under the command
of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi and included Italian Jewish patriot
Enrico Guastalla “retreated to the Kingdom of Italy.”
1868: In
Woodbury, PA, Abraham Leopold Bechhoefer and Rebecca Goldschmidt Bechhoefer
gave birth to Lea Bechhoefer.
1869(30th
of Cheshvan, 5630): Rosh Chodesh Kislev observed for the first time during the
Presidency of U.S. Grant.
1871:
Mr. R. J. de Cordova, famed Jewish raconteur, and humorist delivered an address
tonight entitled "Our First Baby" to packed house at the Association
Hall in New York City.
1872: In Syracuse, NY, founding of Adat Yeshuren,
whose members included Rabbi David Levine, J.B... Harrison, N.K. Packard, M.L.
Wechsler, David Davis and Meyer Dembo.
1876:
Birthdate of Columbus, OH native and Ohio State University trained Mechanical
and Electrical Engineer Gustav Hirsch, the organized of Gustice Hirsch
Associates, an organization specializing in consulting engineer who “served in
the military during the Spanish American War, WWI and WW II.”
Gustav Hirsch (nationalitpa.com) https://www.nationalitpa.com/kiosk/hall-fame/hirsch-gustav.html
1876:
“New Publications” includes a review of The Conquests of the Saracens by Howard
A Freeman “which meets a general demand on the part of the reading public for
information on the history of religion (most notably Islam) and politics in the
East. “In answer to Lord Derby’s remark that in past times Jews…have been worse
treated in Western Europe than Christians are now treated” in the part of
Europe controlled by the Ottomans, “Mr. Freeman says that while the condition
of the Jews has been getting better and better, that of the Christians under
Turkish rule has been getting worse and worse.” (Derby’s comment on the
treatment of Jews in Christian Europe comes, considering when it was uttered,
as a real eye-opener.)
1877:
Birthdate of Chicago native Elias Mayer the Northwestern University trained
lawyer who served as “secretary of the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds in the United States and a director of the Jewish Charities of
Chicago.
1877:
It was reported today that The Alliance Israélite Universelle or Universal
Israelite Alliance “has become a very active and useful association. Among its many goals, the Alliances provides
instruction for the children of destitute Jews living in “the East” with
training in the Hebrew language and religious customs. According to the Jewish Messenger, the
Association is supported by a wide range of Jews including Reform minded
Germans, the Anglo-Jewish Associations, the growing American Jewish community
and, of course, the French Jewish community.
1878:
“The Bible in the Schools” published today described the controversy in New
Haven, CT concerning the reading of the sacred text in the public schools. Opposition and concern came from many
quarters including Roman Catholics, Protestants and German immigrants but not
from the Jews who were apparently of no concern to Christian board members.
1878:
It was reported today the Industrial School of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum has
printed copies of a pamphlet by Dr. Isaac Schwab entitled “Can Jews be
Patriots.” The pamphlet was written as a
refutation of Professor Goldwin Smith’s depiction of Jews as being unpatriotic.
Goldwin Smith was a British-born Canadian college professor who was a notorious
anti-Semite.
1878:
Birthdate of Budapest native Jean Schwartz, the songwriter who came to the
United States at the age of 13 who wrote “Mr. Dooley” – a song “which was sung
by the title character in The Wizard of Oz”
1878:
In Hungary, “Herman and Rosalie (Klein) Stern gave birth to Columbia train
physician Adolph Stern, a specialist “in the treatment of nervous and mental
diseases” and husband of Mamie Hallow who studied with Professor Freud in 1920.
1879: Justice of the Peace, Nathan Colman who was also the lay
religious leader for the Jewish community, officiated at the first Jewish
wedding in the Black Hills, when Rebecca Reubens married David Holzman today.
1879: It was reported today that Rabbi David
Einhorn’s funeral will take place at 9 o’clock on November 6. Services will be
led by two of Einhorn’s sons-in-law – Rabbi Kaufman Kohler of Temple Beth-El
and Rabbi Emil Hirsch of Louisville – and Dr. Samuel Hirsch of Philadelphia who
was one of Rabbi Einhorn’s closest friends.
1879: Birthdate of humorist, social commentator and
vaudeville star, Will Rogers. Rogers
owed his early fame and fortune to Flo Ziegfeld. Ziegfeld put Rogers in his famous Follies, letting
Rogers stand on stage as he twirled his lariat and came up with political
zingers that would have made John Stewart smile. In 1924, the KKK was reaching
the height of its power and was planning a large parade in New York. Using his wit to try and deflate the Klan,
Rogers pointed out that the Klan’s anti-Semitism was misguided if not downright
anti-American. As Rogers explained it,
the Christians were beholden to the Jews for a successful Christmas. After all, it was the Jews (remember this is
the days of Gimbals’ and Macys) who sold the Christians all of the presents
which were critical to the holiday celebration.
1880: Claire Haas, the
“daughter
of Lazare and Eugenie Lazard and her husband Bernard Haas gave birth to
Lucien Haas.
1882: It was reported
today that “drunken rioters have plundered” the shops owned by the Jews of
Presburg, Hungary. The renewal of anti-Jewish violence has resulted in the
death of at least one Jewess. Apparently the sentencing of those involved in
the September riots to three months in prison has not brought matters under
control.
1882: Birthdate of New
Jersey native and University of Pennsylvania graduate Sydney Davis, the chemist
turned real estate broker and “president of the Brotherhood of Temple B’nai
Jershurun of Newark who was the husband of Saide Davis with whom he had one
daughter.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/01/02/99282223.html?pageNumber=13
1883: It was reported
today that the Jews in New York “are solid” in their support for ex-Sheriff
James O’Brien, the anti-Tammany Hall candidate for the position of Register.
1884: Grover
Cleveland was elected to first of two terms as President of the United
States. He is the only President to be
defeated in his bid for re-election and then to come back and win the office on
his “third try.” During his first term,
Cleveland appointed Oscar Solomon Straus, the leading American Jew of his time,
as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey. Cleveland intended the appointment “as an
indirect rebuke to the government of Austria Hungary, which had refused to
accept an appointee as United States ministers because the minister’s wife was
Jewish. In his second term, Cleveland
vetoed immigration bill aimed at keeping Jews, among others, from entering the
United States. After he had left the
White House, Cleveland continued to show support for Jewish causes by appearing
at protest rallies against Russia’s treatment of her Jewish citizens.
1884: In
Plock Poland, “Isidore Jacob and Sarah (Goldberg) Saltzstein, gave birth
University of Michigan trained Milwaukee attorney Benjamin Franklin Saltzstein,
the husband of Edna Doctor and the
father of Jean, Robert and James Saltzstein who was the Director of the Jewish
Welfare Fund and President of the Federated Jewish Charities.
1884: James
Rubiner, a Polish Jew who owns a grocery store on Hester Street is still in
jail today facing charges of having killed a youngster named Julius
Silverman. Silverman was part of a gang
that started a bonfire in front of Rubiner’s store as part of their
election-night hijinks.
1884: The New York Times reprints an article
from the London Times entitled “Montefiore
and the Jews” describes the Italian town in which the great philanthropists
family had its roots an describes the growth and generosity of Moses Montifore.
1887:
Birthdate of Bialystok native and Kharkov Politechnic Institute
graduate Khayim-Avrom Finkel the
“journalist and linguist” who " debuted in print with a series of articles
on proletarian Zionism in the journal Razsvet (Dawn) in Russian in 1905”
and who in WW I worked for the Jewish Relief Committee for War and after the Russian Revolution before
serving as “one of the leaders of the All-Union Association for the
Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the USSR.”
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1887: It was
reported today that Michael Simon has been elected as a magistrate in Glasgow.
“He is the first Jew elected to that office in Scotland.”
1888(30th of
Cheshvan, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1888: Dr.
Gustav Gottheil delivered a lecture at Temple Emanu-El this morning entitled
“Government by the People and what it Owes to Judaism.
1889: Mr.
Rosenthal, the leading Republican in the Fourth District and the leader of the
Hebrew American Republican League who has left the Republican Party plans to
endorse the Tammany ticket at a mass meeting tonight.
1890: In
Germany, Fanny and Abraham Lippmann gave birth to movie producer Hanns Lippman
1892: Former
Chancellor Bismarck was quoted today as saying “that only newspapers, Poles and
Jews desired war between the Russians and the Germans.” (The Jew as warmonger
would gain transaction as can be seen Lindbergh’s and Patrick Buchanan’s
invocation of the image in the 20th and 21st centuries)
1893: Six
Polish Jews were arrested in Hudson, NY for illegal registration.
1894: “Boston
Hebrews Rejoice” published today described “a mock funeral” held in Boston in
which a large audience that included 2,000 Jews held in response to the death
of the autocratic, anti-Semitic Czar Alexander III.
1894: A cross
section of editorial opinion from Jewish newspapers following the death of Czar
Alexander III published today included: The
Jewish Herald – “We are glad to announce that the tyrannic heart of
Alexander II beats no more”; The Volksadvocat – “Hurrah for the Angel of
Death!” and The Abendblatt – “The Czar is dead.
Long live the social revolution!”
1894: Rabbi
Joseph delivered a sermon today at Temple Emanu-El on “Civil and Religious
Liberty in 1894”
1894:
“Russia’s Puerile Autocrat” published today provides a portrait of Russia new
Czar, Nicholas II including a report
circulating in London that Mlle. Kischeneffski, “the beautiful Jewess” has been
the mistress of Nicholas for the last three years and that she “has two
Romanoff children.
1895: It was
revealed today that Samuel Levy owned the tenement on Pelham that burned down
yesterday living four Jewish dead also owned the building on Cherry Street
which was destroyed by fire last year.
1895:
Chancellor von Caprivi who is an opponent of the anti-Semitic parties had an
audience with the Emperor today.
1895: The
will of the late Julius Lipman was filed in the Surrogate’s office today.
1895: “The
Halevy Singing Society” published today described a concert sponsored by the
Jewish musical organization under the direction of Leon Kramer that featured
soprano Catherine Hilke, baritone Karl Dufft, tenor Charles A. Kaiser and
violinist Sam Franko.
1895: The
quarantine at the Hebrew Sheltering Arms ordered by Superintendent Henry
Bernstein beause of the outbreak of measles continued in effect today.
1897:
Birthdate of New York City native Albert D. “Dolly” Stark “the first Jewish
umpire in the modern Major Leagues.
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1897: In
Philadelphia, the Association of Jewish Immigrants which had been founded in
1884 “to protect Jewish immigrants, to facilitate their reaching their
destination and their relatives and to aid them” in whatever was necessary was
scheduled to hold its monthly board meeting today.
1897:
Pennsylvanian George J. Newgarden was promoted to Captain and Assistant Surgeon
in the U.S. Army.
1897: In his
address at the Teacher’s College at Morningside Heights, William T. Harris, the
National Commissioner of Education said that among the threads of education is
“the Hebrew thread…the religious one which we recognize in the celebration of
worship one day each week and in the various holy days” which “we acknowledge”
as “the most essential thread of our civilization.
1898: Dr.
Maurice Harris delivered an address tonight at Temple Israel in which he replied to Israel Zangwill’s
criticism of Reformed Judaism.
1898: In
Denver, Rosa Levy and Louis Trattner gave birth to HUC trained Rabbi
Ernest R. Trattner who began his career leading Temple Beth Israel in San Diego
and who had been leading West Temple in Los Angeles since 1948 while raising
three children – Elinor, Louise and Rosa Jean – with his wife the former Johanna
Gronsky.
1898: Abram
Nelson has filed a petition on behalf of his client Jacob H. Bibo in
Surrogate’s court that will finally settle the estate of Jacob Bibo, his nephew
who disappeared mysteriously in the 1860’s and his brother Isaac for whose
estate he is the executor.
1899: “The
Man in the Moon” a musical featuring Anglo-Jewish performer Sam Bernard in the
role of “Conan Doyle” was performed the last time on Broadway at the New York
Theatre.
1900: College of Physicians and Surgeons trained Dr.
Simon R. Blatteis, the Austro-Hungarian born son of Sarah Risefeld and Max
Blatteis married Minnie Levinson today after he served as a consultant
pathologist and attending physician at Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn.
1901: It was
reported today that in attempt to encourage participation in tomorrow’s
election, Cyrus L. Sulzberger told a meeting of Jews at the Education Alliance
that “election day should be them as Americans what Yom Kippur is to them as
Hebrews
1902: “The
Admirable Crichton” produced by Charles Frohman opened at the Duke of York's
Theatre.
1902:
Benjamin Mordecai, the New Orleans born son Of Katherine and Allen Louis
Mordecai and his Constance Miriam Mordecai
gave birth of Allen Lewis Mordecai
1903: “The
terms of the decision reached by the arbitration committee which has been
hearing testimony between the Amalgamated Street Railway Employees’ Association
and the street railway companies of San Francisco” were made public today Oscar
S. Straus.
1904: In
Austria, Rebecca Springer and Meyer Roth gave birth to Balance Altchek, the
wife of Solomon David Altcheck who was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery
Flushing, Queens when she passed away at the age of 88.
1904: In Lichterfelde, painter Mortiz Posener and his
wife gave birth to “German architectural historian, author and higher education
teacher Julius Posener who made Aliyah in 1935 and voluntarily served with the
British Army before resuming his career after the war. https://www.archinform.net/arch/4158.htm
1904(26th of
Cheshvan, 5665): Willy Bambus passed away.
Bambus Willy Bambus was born in Berlin in 1862. Not much is known of his
family and youth. Apparently he came from a modest background, had only a
limited formal education and was to a large extent self-taught. Already in the
mid-1880s Bambus was attracted to Zionist ideas and supported the idea of
reclaiming the Land of Israel by the establishment of Jewish agricultural
settlements in Palestine. He became a leading member of Verein Esra, a society
founded in 1884 for the advancement of Jewish agricultural settlement in
Palestine and Syria. To further their ideas and to disseminate them Bambus,
with other members of Verein Esra, established the journal Serubabel in
1886. Their aim was "to raise Jewish national consciousness and assist the
Yishuv in Erez Israel". Bambus edited Serubabel in the period
1887-1888. In 1891 he became the general secretary of the Komitee zur Abwehr
antisemitischer Angriffe, an organization established by his life-long friend and
patron Paul Nathan. At about the same time he became general secretary of
Verein Esra as well, which changed its name to Esra, Verein zuer Unterstuetzung
ackerbautreibender Juden in Palaestina und Syrien. In addition, in 1892
together with Heinrich Loewe he established Jung Israel, juedisch-nationaler
Verein) (a pre-Herzlian Zionist organization). The first contact between Max
Bodenheimer and Bambus was made in 1892. Their relationship outlasted Bambus'
later rift with Herzl and his estrangement from the Zionist movement, until
Bambus' death in 1904. In 1894 together with Hirsch Hildesheimer, Emile
Meyerson, and Isaak Turoff, Bambus initiated the establishment of the Central
Committee of Hovevei Zion in Paris. The Committee initiated the establishment of
the colony Beer Tuvia in 1896. Bambus was involved in the establishment and
development of a great number of Jewish associations in Berlin, some of which
were quite successful, among others, the Verein fur juedische Geschichte und
Literatur and the Juedische Lesehalle. He also published brochures and
pamphlets, among others "Antisemitismus und Zionismus",
"Palaestina in der Gegenwart - Kurzgefasster Abriss der politischen und
physischen Geographie des heiligen Landes", and the article "Die
Juedische Ackerbaukolonisation in Palaestina und ihre Geschichte". He also
published articles in the Jewish press on Jewish and Zionist subjects. In March
1897 he participated in the conference convened by Herzl in Vienna to prepare
the First Zionist Congress. Although he antagonized Herzl, he nonetheless
attended the First (1897) and the Second (1898) Zionist Congress, during which
he disputed some of Herzl's policies, especially Herzl's categorical rejection
of small-scale settlement in Palestine. He expressed his ideas in the
periodical Zion, which he edited from 1896. When Herzl dispatched Leo Motzkin
to Palestine on behalf of the Zionist Organisation to investigate the state of
the Jewish colonies, Bambus was deeply offended. In reaction to Motzkin's
report at the Second Zionist Congress in 1898, he published a brochure entitled
"Herr Motzkin und die Wahrheit ueber die Kolonisation Palaestinas" in
which he sharply criticized the report. In view of the weakening of his
position among the Zionists in Berlin and his refusal to accept Herzl's notion
according to which settlement activities in Palestine should be delayed until
legal political guarantees were obtained, he withdrew from the Zionist
Organization sometime after the Second Zionist Congress. Bambus visited
Palestine in 1895, 1899 and 1904. In 1896 he initiated and organized an
exhibition of products from Palestine in several cities in Germany. In 1898 he
established Eliada, a wholesale outlet marketing wines from Palestine in
Hamburg, and in 1900 he exhibited wines and other agricultural products from
Palestine at the World Fair in Paris. Even though he withdrew from the Zionist
Organization, he continued until his death to advocate and assist Jewish
settlement activities in Palestine and the development of manufacturing and
industry. In 1900 he wrote a brochure entitled "Industrielle Kolonisation
in Palaestina". In 1901, upon the creation of the Hilfsverein der
deutschen Juden, he became its first general secretary. His works include Palaestina,
Land und Leute (1898), Die Kriminalitaet der Juden (1896), Die
Juden als Soldaten (1897), and publications on Jewish settlement in
Palestine mentioned above.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bambus-willy
1905: It was reported today in the New York Herald, that
Julian Harby had drawn his gun during a dispute over non-payment of a bonus
with his employer and “on the advice of his attorney Abraham Levy” he has
declined to discuss the case.
1905: A production of “In New York Town,” a musical comedy
based on the work of Loney Haskell” and “with music by Albert Von Tilzer” came
to a close today at the Fourteenth Street Theatre.
1905: “The
Earl and the Girl” with additional music and lyrics by Jerome Kern opened at
the Casino Theatre in New York.
1905: In
Bachmut, Bessarabia, attacks on the Jews were “temporarily stopped” this
morning “through the efforts of Russian peasants, but” after “the police spread
false reports which aroused the mob, there was a renewal of the plunder and
massacre” which resulted in losses reaching into the millions of dollars.
1905: In Russia, at a meeting today of the Engineers’
Union a resolution was passed stating that “At the very moment when the
revolutionary movement has driven the autocracy to surrender ,when the nation
and country are on the eve of effective liberation. We are witnessing a series
of massacres of Jews carried out by the rabble, thanks to the criminal
tolerance of the authorities.”
1905: “Odessa
Terror Unchecked” published today included a summary of the violence in the
Russian city which had begun “late in the afternoon” of October 31 when “all
Jews found in the streets were severely beaten and may were killed in their
shops which were ruthlessly pillaged. In
the poorer’ Jews’ quarters, on the outskirts of the town, whole streets were
destroyed” while “crowds of workmen, women and children laden with all kinds of
loot walked openly through the streets quarreling over the spoils.” The violence has continued unabated on a
daily basis ever since.
1906: Abraham
Shapiro presided over the eighth meeting of the Common Council of “the boy’s
republic of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Asylum during which all nineteen
members of the council who ranged from 12 to 15 years presented resolutions for
the council to consider.
1907: In
Paddington, “solicitor and art collector Julian George Lousada” gave birth to
Sir Anthony Baruh Lousada, a barrister and patron of the arts.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-anthony-lousada-1425832.html
http://www.barrow-lousada.org/chiswick.htm
1907:
University of Moscow and Columbia trained statistician and economist Morris L.
Jacobson, the Riga born son of Ida Cohn and Lazar B. Jacobson married Cora R.
Langworthy today in Los Angeles.
1907: In
Manhattan Minna and Charles S. Guggenheimer gave birth to Yale graduate and
Havard trained attorney and WW II USAA veteran Randolph Guggenheimer, the
nephew of attorney and civic leader Samuel Untermeyer and the husband of Elinor
Coleman Guggenheimer, the commissioner of cultural affairs for NYC with whom he
had two sons – Charles and Randolph, J.—who carried on the family’s
philanthropic work and was honored by NYC Mayor David Dinkins for leading the
drive to provide medical care for the residents of Harlem.
1908: In
Warsaw, Zygmunt Rotblat and his wife gave birth to Jozef Rotblat who gained
fame as Joseph, Rotblat, the Manhattan Project physicist and to participating
in the anti-nuclear weapons movement in the post-WW II World.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1497409/Professor-Sir-Joseph-Rotblat.html
1909: The
State Branch of the America National Red Cross announced that contributions to
aid the 60,000 woman and children in
Galicia whose husbands were massacred in April” and who “are sorely in need of
shelter and he necessaries of life” may be sent to Jacob H. Schiff, the
Treasurer of the Red Cross.
1909: In
Davenport, IA, Mae Fienshriber and her husband Rabbi William H. Fienshriber,
the St. Louis born son of Henrietta Braun Heimann Fienshriber gave birth to
William H. Fineshriber, Jr while serving
at Temple Emanuel which was his first pulpit after graduating from the
University of Cincinnati and HUC.
1910: Attack
made on the Jewish bank in Sophia, Bulgaria.
1910(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5671): Postmaster Joseph Dreyfus, a native of Hales Comers,
WI, passed away today
1911(13th
of Cheshvan, 5672): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1911(13th
of Cheshvan, 5672): “Chicago merchant” Leon Mandel passed away today.
1911:
Birthdate of Jack Rose the native of Warsaw who became an American gag writer
and screen playwright.
1912:
Birthdate of singer Frances Faye, who died on November 8, 1991.
1913: Jacob
Aaron Cantor began his first term a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives.
1913:
Benjamin Cardozo was elected Justice of State Supreme Court of New York. In
February of the following year he was made a judge on the Court of Appeals.
1913: “The
Marks Nathan Orphanage” published in today’s Daily Jewish Courier provided “the
entire report of Mr. Trotsky, the superintendent” of the institution.
http://flps.newberry.org/article/5423972_6_1591
1914(15th of Cheshvan, 5675): Twenty-four-year-old
Isidor Schloss, the son of Leopold and Karoline Schloss and the husband of
Emilie Schloss who worked as a bank
clerk was killed today during World War One.
1915: Oscar S. Straus was an honorary pallbearer at the
funeral of newspaper editor Herman Ridder which took place this morning and
which was attended by a host of dignitaries included Abraham Jacobi.
1916: Figures were given out today showing the results
accomplished since the establishment of the Joint Distribution Committee’s
Remittance Bureau chaired by Felix Warburg which was established “to forward to
the Jews in the war stricken countries remittances from relatives in the United
States which it has been impossible to forward through any other private or
governmental agency – a task made almost impossible because of “changing
fortunes of war” in Russia, Rumania, Poland and Austria where territory “passes
and repasses” from one country’s military to another.
1916: Lev Isaakovich Schwarzmann (alias Lev Shestov) gave a talk
about Viatcheslav Ivanov, that arouses fiery debates.
1917: At the
Central Jewish Institute East 85th Street, Israel Unterberg presided
over the memorial service for philanthropist Samuel I. Hyman, officiated over
by Rabbis Hyamson and Goldstein where the speakers included Dr. Cyrus Adler,
Dr. J.L. Magnes and Louis Marshall who delivered a eulogy in which he “urged
the necessity for patriotism and loyalty among the Jews in America.”
1917(19th
of Cheshvan, 5678): Seventy-year-old Leopoldo Franchetti, a member of a family that came to
Italy from Tunisia in the 18th century and who became an Italian
political leader with a special interest in the problems of southern Italy
passed away today.
1917(19th of Cheshvan, 5678): Eighty-seven-year-old
Civil War veteran Solomon Stern passed away today in New Orleans.
1917: To the cheers of 12,000 inside Madison Square
Garden and thousands more outside of the building Morris Hillquit, the
Socialist candidate for Mayor closed his campaign “with an appeal to class
feeling” and pacifism.
1918: Five days after he had passed away, 28-year-old
Private Sidney Finsten of the Worcestershire Regiment was buried today at the
Plashet Jewish Cemetery.
1918: CCNY graduate
Louis Maurice Josephthal, one of the organizers of the Naval Militia of
State of New York and the New York born son of Theresa Wise and Moritz
Josephthal today was appointed as aide “to the officer in charge of the fleet
supply base, Admiral C.S. Williams.
1918: The
German Revolution began when forty-thousand sailors took over the port in
Kiel. During the revolt, the Communist
Party which included “Jewish members” would try and seize power much as their
counterparts in Russia had done a year earlier.
The revolt would fail and eventually the Weimar Republic which also had
Jewish leaders would come to power in the 1920’s. Hitler would use the German fear of disorder
and the presence of Jews in both of these movements to whip anti-Semitism and
justify the Final Solution.
1918: In
Germany, Bavaria became the first (state to become a socialist “republic” under
the leadership of moderate, non-Bolshevik Jew named Kurt Eisner.
1918: Today, in an action near Ferme de Maucourt, northwest
of Beauclair, France, Milton J. Foreman’s “unit came under heavy machine gun
and artillery fire” which led Foreman to creep through the German gunfire laying
telephone wire to the infantry front line so that he could direct the fire of
his artillery unit by direct visual observation and called for fire support on
the German units.”
1918: For the
“heroism” he showed on the battlefield today, “Isadore Solomon of Chicago,” was
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1921.
1918: Today,
in action that would win him the Distinguished Service Medal, the unit
commanded by Colonel Milton J. Foreman came under “heavy machine gun and
artillery fire forcing Foreman to creep through German “gunfire laying
telephone wire to the infantry front line so he could direct the fire of his
artillery unit by direct visual
observation” and successfully call in the fire support that hit the German
units.
1919: Birthdate of Martin Balsam
one of the finest and most prolific television and movie character actors of
the 20th century. From a
juror in Twelve Angry Men, to Admiral
Kimmel in Tora, Tora, Tora, to an
officer in the wacky comedy Catch 22,
Balsam played them all with skill and aplomb. He passed
away in 1996.
1921:
Hadassah nurses and their teachers join the funeral procession which ends with
the burial of the four victims of Arab violence at the Jewish Cemetery on the
Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
1922(13th
of Cheshvan, 5683): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1922(13th
of Cheshvan, 5683): Seventy-one-year-old Hungarian born Dávid Leimdörfer who
served as the Rabbi for the Hamburg Temple, “the first permanent Reform
synagogue” starring in 1883 passed away today.
1922:
Hashomer Hatzair alpha settlers from Poland who had helped to start Kibbutz
Geva in 1921 established the modern kibbutz, Beit Alpha, located in the Lower
Galilee on the site of “a 6th century Jewish settlement.”
1922: Wake
Forest, coached by George Leven lost again, this time to William and Mary.
1923: Charlie
Chaplin’s “A Woman of Paris” was released today in the United States.
1923: Rabbi
Samuel Schulman at Temple Beth-el and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise at the Free
Synagogue defended Israel Zangwill's recent address at Carnegie Hall in which
the Jewish publicist declared that political Zionism was dead.
1924: Eighteen-year-old
featherweight Maurice Holtzer fought and won his first bout.
1924:
Republican candidate Jesse H. Metcalf was elected to the United States by the
citizens of Rhode Island. In June of 1933, during a Senate debate on the
treatment of Jews in Germany, Metcalf would join those who condemned the Nazi
government. “We as a national can only declare the existence of racial or
religious prejudice to be untenable as a national ideal.”
1924:
Republican candidate Albert Ottinger was elected Attorney General for the State
of New York.
1925:
Birthdate of Doris May Green, the St. Louis native who was raised by her mother
Ann Meltzer and her stepfather Chester H. Roberts, who gained fame as Emmy
award winning actress Doris Roberts best known for her role as the nagging
mother on “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
1925: One day
after he had passed away, 68 year old Jacob Silver, the husband of Bloomah
Silver, was buried today in the Steatham Jewish Cemetery.
1926: In
Brooklyn, “Aaron Fuchs, a baker and the former Rose Mintzer” gave birth to
Murray Louis Fuchs who gained fame as choreographer Murray Louis. (As reported
by Jack Anderson)
1926: S.Y.
Haim, a Jewish member of the Persian Parliament and “the acting president of
the Zionist Organization of Persia” was re-arrested today on charges “that he
participated in a conspiracy against the government and plotted the death of
the Persian Shah.”
1926:
Birthdate of Laurence Rosenthal, the Detroit native who gained fame as a
composer, arranger and conductor creating the scores for “Raisin in the Sun” and “Becket”
1926: Nineteen year old middleweight Seymour “Cy” Schindell fought his 10th
bout leaving his record at 9 to 1.
1926: Rabbi
Bernard Drachman and Rabbi B.A. Tinter officiated at the funeral of Harry
Houdini which took place at the Machpelah Cemetery in the borough of Queens and
was attended by “more than 2,000 mourners.
1927: Rabbi David Cohen
and Sarah Elkin gave birth to Eliyahu Yosef She’ar
Yashuv Cohen, chief rabbi of Haifa known for his Torah scholarship, interfaith
work and strict vegetarian lifestyle”
1927: “New Book On Smith Weighs His Chances” provides
a review of Up from the City Streets by Norman Hapgood, the non-Jewish former
ambassador to Denmark who “ helped exposed Henry Ford’s antisemitism in his
article “The Inside Story of Henry Ford’s Jew-Mania” and Dr. Henry Moskowitz.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moskowitz-henry
1927(9th of Cheshvan, 5688): Just three
days before his 79th birthday Austrian writer Alfred Klaar
who earned degrees at the Universities of Vienna and Prague and who was
made dramatic and art critic of the "Bohemia" at Prague, in which
city he settled. In 1885 before he became private-docent in German literature
at the German technical high school at Prague passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9360-klaar-alfred
Alfred Klaar - The Edythe Griffinger
Portal (lbi.org)
1928: While
speaking at Carnegie Hall this morning on “For the Honor of the Jews” Dr.
Stephen S. Wise “scorned the negative and collective way in which challenges of
that sort are usually responded to and advocated answers would be both positive
and individual.”
1928(21st of
Cheshvan, 5689): Arnold Rothstein passed away.
Rothstein was one of New York City's most notorious gamblers. He was a crook and a mobster; certainly not a
credit to the Jewish people. He was
rumored to have been the brains behind the fixing of the 1919 World Series also
known as the Black Sox Scandal. He was
shot to death over a poker game or gambling debts.
https://www.biography.com/people/arnold-rothstein
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/arnold-rothstein
1928: “Morris
J. Goldstein, the Vice President of the Yeshivath Torah Vodaath Mesifta,” “a Jewish grammar and high school in
Brooklyn” said tonight that the school which is located in a part of that is
dealing with an economic depression, would need to between $50,000 and $70,000
to stay open.
1928: Six
months after premiering in New York City, “The Man Who Laughs” the screen
version of the novel of the same name directed by Paul Leni and produced by
Paul Kohner was released in the rest of the United States.
1929: "Davar,
a Jewish workmen's daily, was indefinitely suspended today by order of the High
Commissioner for publishing an official document without permission.”
1930: Moissaye Joseph Olgin ‘a Ukrainian-born
writer, journalist, and translator in the early 20th century. He began his
career writing for the Jewish press in support of the Russian Revolution in
1910” who came to the United States in 1915 was defeated in today’s
congressional election.
1930: The
Baltimore Jewish Times reported that Cantor Abba Yosef Weisgal’s Adolph Coblenz
was his “first rabbi in Baltimore, MD.”
1931: David
Lloyd George who as Prime Minister had supported the Balfour Declaration
“stepped down as Leader of the Liberal Party” today was succeeded by Sir
Herbert Samuel, the former cabinet officer and the first Jew to head a major
political party in the United Kingdom
1932(5th of
Cheshvan, 5693): Seventy-four-year-old Salomon Reinach, the distinguished
French archaeologist passed away. The brother of author and politician Jospeh
Reinach and archaeologist Theodore Reinach, he was an active member of the
Jewish community serving as vice president of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle
1932: Birthdate of actor and
director Noam Pitlik who appeared in a variety of sit-coms including the Bob Newhart Show and whose directorial
work included several episodes of the detective comedy series, Barney Miller. He passed away in 1999.
1933(15th of Cheshvan, 5694): Parashat Vayera
1933: Dr. Ludwig Teitz, the “noted surgeon and leader of the Jewish Youth
Association” “died suddenly today “as the result of a hemorrhage” just a few
hours after “he had been overjoyed to learn the German Government had
officially recognized the Jewish Youth Association as the official body of the
German Jewish youth.”
90652423.pdf (nytimes.com) https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/11/09/90652423.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1933:
Ohio State University, led by team captain Sid Gillman defeated Indiana today.
1934: “Libels again the Jewish race were the subject of a sermon preached
today by Rabbi Israel Goldstein” at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun during which he
said “the trial at Berne, in which the ‘Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion’ are
the main issue, has again focused the attention of the world upon a standing
libel against the Jewish race.”
1934: “After
an all-day session at which a wide range of congregational problems was
discussed, delegates to the annual convention of the Northeast Religious Union
at Temple Emanu-El adopted a resolution today expressing opposition to war and
determination to support all forces acting to prevent it.”
1934: “Toscha Seidel, Mischa
Leivitzki, and Victor Chenkin appeared in a benefit performance at Carnegie
Hall” this “evening which was said to have $5,000 for the Jewish National Fund.
1935: Birthday of Uri Zohar, the Tel Aviv native who went from being a
successful entertainer to the life of a Haredi rabbi.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-708382
1936: Guy Gillette who would become “an active supporter of the
Bergson Group’s Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, made
numerous speeches on the floor of the senate urging U.S. rescue action, and
chaired the group’s second emergency conference on rescue” was elected to his
first term as a U.S. Senator from Iowa.
1936 Cardinal Michael von
Faulhaber, the Archbishop of Munic travelled to Hitler's mountain retreat near
Berchtesgaden
1936: In London, “Count
Edward Raczynski, the Polish Ambassador called at the Foreign Office and
intimated to Sir Robert Vansittart, the permanent Under-Secretary” that in his
upcoming trip to the United Kingdom, Colonel Josef Beck, the Foreign Minister of
Poland wants to discuss “the question of Jewish immigration” from Poland to
Palestine with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden” because the government in
Warsaw fears that the British authorities at Jerusalem are inclined to make
concessions to the Arabs and temporarily restrict, if not block altogether, the
flow of immigrants” by which Beck means Polish Jews fleeing that country’s
on-going wave of anti-Semitism.
1937:, Isaac Kaplan, who was the first member of his family
to go to college, and Bessie Zwirn Kaplan
gave birth to Fred Kaplan who grew up in the lower-middle-class environment
of third-generation Jewish Ashkenazic immigrant culture, first in the Bronx and
then in Brooklyn, where his family moved when he was ten. He was one of four sons,
the other three of whom became lawyers. His avid reading of novels and other
books at home, in the public library, in the public schools of Brooklyn, and at
Brooklyn College, where he majored in classics and philosophy (B.A., 1959), led
to his partial assimilation into Anglo-American culture; he then earned an M.A.
Fred Kaplan's biographies of Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens are part of a
projected biographical quartet charting the sweep of Anglo-American culture
from the Romantic to the modern era. Kaplan is committed to biography as a
literary form and draws upon the techniques of narrative art; he aspires to
combine the power and dramatic resources of narrative prose and the rigorous
intellectual requirements of historical literary scholarship and cultural
analysis.
1937: The Palestine
Post reported the
British government’s announcement that there would be no retraction of the
measures taken against members of the Arab Higher Committee and that the recent
restrictions on Jewish immigration were only temporary. (The British must have
had their fingers crossed on this last part of the statement since not only
wouldn’t the restrictions be lifted they would actually be tightened.) It was
decided, however, not to put pressure on the French authorities in Lebanon for
the extradition of the mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, from Beirut to
Jerusalem (even though he was the architect of much of the Arab terrorism).
1938: “The Great Waltz,” a biopic with a script
co-authored by Gottfried Reinhardt and Vicki Baum was released in the United
States today.
1938: “At a public meeting in Epping, Winston
Churchill narrowly survived an attempt by fellow Conservative and constituent
Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley to remove him from Parliament” which if it had been
successful would have meant that Hitler’s most outspoken foe would not have
been able to serve as First Lord or Prime Minister when WW II broke out ten
months later.
1939(22nd of Cheshvan, 5700): Parashat
Chayei Sara
1939: It was announced today that “Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt will received a book from the children’s village of Meier Shfeyah in
Palestine as a tribute to her ‘for her interest in the education of
underprivileged children and the problems of all youth.”
1940: In a capacity crowded auditorium” in Cairo “before
an enthusiastic audience, the Palestine Orchestra tonight ended another
triumphant visit to Egypt.
1940: On the day before the national election a
“pamphlet supposedly issued by the American Protestant League” appealed “to the
Protestants to vote for Wendell Wilkie because the Flynn organization had given
all the good political jobs to Catholics and Jews.
1941: Stanley M. Isaacs won a seat on the New York
City Council as an At-Large representative from Manhattan.
1941: Franklin Mott Gunther, the U.S. minister to
Romania “described in detail the massacres committed in Bessarabia and in
Bukovina and the cruelties that were committed during the deportations to
Transnistria.”
1941: Last of a twenty-train convoy made its way from
Germany to the Lodz ghetto. In all, 19,837 Jews were taken. Banishment became
official as the Reich Treasury issued directives that "Jews not employed
in businesses of importance to the people's economy will be banished to one of
the cities in the East. The property of the Jews who are to be banished will be
confiscated
1942(24th of Cheshvan, 5703): Sixty-eight-year-old
University of Michigan graduate and steel company executive Julius Kahn, the
German born son of Joseph and Rosalie Kahn and the brother of Albert Kahn with
whom “he designed the ‘Kahn bar’” and who was the husband of Margaret Kohut
Kahn with whom he had three children” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/11/06/88506500.pdf
1942: Regina Jonas, the Berlin native who “became the
first woman to be ordained as rabbi” was forced by the Nazis “to fill out a
declaration form that listed her property, including her books.”
1942: During World War II, Axis forces retreated from
El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. This
would mark the end of the Axis threat to the Jewish community in Eretz
Israel. Reluctantly, the British had
turned to the leaders of the Yishuv to help prepare for the defense of the
Middle East if Rommel had broken through at El Alamein and seized Egypt and the
Suez Canal. Many Egyptians were prepared
to welcome what they would be a victorious German army and there were reports
of Nazi flags being flown in parts of Cairo.
The defeat of the Axis at El Alamein, along with the battles at Midway
and Stalingrad, was considered a major turning point in the war. The Allied victory in the spring of 1943
would free the Jews of North Africa from the threat of the Nazis and the Vichy
French.
1943: In Poland, 3,898 Jews were deported from the
Szebnie labor camp to Birkenau
1943: The Jews of Florence, Italy were rounded up and
deported.
1943: Today Esther and Joseph Kleiner of Dorset House
Chesham Bois were informed that the body of their 31-year-old-son, Sergeant
Harry Kleiner, the flight engineer of Lancaster Bomber ED970 which was part of
a raid on Dortmund and who had been reported missing in action had been
recovered and that he was now officially marked as being dead.
1943: “North Star” a cinematic treatment of a short
story by Lillian Hellman who wrote the script, directed by Lewis Milestone,
produced by Samuel Goldwyn and with music by Aaron Copeland was released today
in the United States.
1943: The Germans put down an inmate revolt at the
slave-labor camp at Szebnie, Poland. The camp is liquidated; about 3000 Jews
are deported to Auschwitz.
1944(18th of Cheshvan, 5705) Parashat
Vayera
1944(18th of Cheshvan, 5705): Eighty-two
year old New York native and “retired cotton-goods manufacturer William Israel
Walter, the son of Israel and Henrietta Walker and husband of the former
Florence Bernheimer with whom he had two children – Marjorie and Florence --
who was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at his alma mater Columbia and a supporter
of such worthy causes as the “children’s clinic at Mt. Sinai Hospital and the
History Department at Bryn Mawr College” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/05/85081531.pdf
1944: The ‘Death March' from
Bor, Hungary, makes its way to Gyor, Hungary after a six week journey. Here
hundreds of survivors were beaten or shot to death. The bodies were thrown into
massive graves that the prisoners had dug just before their extermination. Five
thousand people would start the march and only nine would survive to the end of
the war. Many other similar marches would follow. After being forced to dig their own graves, hundreds
of Jews from the copper-mine labor camp at Bor, Hungary, are shot or beaten to
death at Györ, Hungary. Among the victims is a noted poet named Miklós Radnóti,
age 35.
1944: Weizmann and Churchill met to discuss the future
of Palestine.
1944: Sixty-two-year-old Sir John Greer Dill who was the first British General to serve as
the head of the Palestine from 1936 to 1937 passed away today in Washington, DC
following which he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
1945: Reports of anti-Semitic
“demonstrations in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt published today in Tarabaulus el
Gharb, a Libyan newspaper helped “to fan the flames of existing anti-Jewish
feeling” that led to an outbreak of anti-Semitic riots.
1945: Anti-Jewish riots broke out in
seven cities in Libya, including Tripoli. The riots would last for four days
during which ten synagogues were burned an looted and Jewish homes and
businesses were broken into and looted.
1945: Drastic measures including imposing an extended
curfew upon a wide strategic area southward and northward of the central harbor
town of Haifa were announced by Maj. Gen. C.F. Loewen, British military
commander of Northern Palestine.
1946: Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein is re-elected New
York State Attorney General, make it two wins a row for Republican leader and
lawyer.
1947(21st of Cheshvan, 5708):
Seventy-year-old Hungary native and University of Budapest educated Dr. Ervin
Torok, who trained as an ophthalmologist “at the clinics of Grosz and
Blaskovics passed away today in New York.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/article-abstract/619881
1947: In Louisville, KY, “Edna E. (née Klein) and
Stanley R. Yarmuth” gave birth to Georgetown University trained attorney and
publisher turned politician John Allan Yarmuth, the Congressman representing
Kentucky's 3rd District.
1947: Henry A. Wallace, the editor of The New Republic who had been FDR’s Vice
President during his third term arrived in New York after visiting Palestine
and Europe said “that in Palestine he got the impression that the tension is
not as great as it had been reported” and that “he did not believe there would
be bloodshed after the withdrawal of the British from Palestine, particularly
if the findings of the United Nations committee are accepted.” (Editor’s note –
I cannot find a report from anybody on either side of the issue who agreed with
this kind of rosy view.)
1948: The United Nations
Security Council called for the withdrawal of all forces to the positions they
had held on
1948: Birthdate of Shaul
Mofaz, the native of Tehran who became the IDF’s 16th Chief of the
General Staff in 1998.
1949: Elyahu Elath, the
Israeli Ambassador to the United States asked George McGhee, the United States
Assistant Secretary of the State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African
Affairs if the United States would raise the question of the plight of Iraqi
Jewry aat the United Nations, McGhee replied that he ‘strongly’ recommended not raising the
issue, because ‘a debate in the Gerneral Assemly would stir up feelings and do
Iraq’s Jews more harm than good.”
1949: The Jewish actor and
singer Max Letter is scheduled to his first appearance on the Yiddish states
“this season in ‘Tell Me that You Love Me,” a new musical by Israel Rosenberg”
opening this evening at the National with a cast that includes Florence Weis
and Feivush Finkel.
1950(24th of
Cheshvan, 5711): Parashat Chayei Sara
1950: Billboard reported today that Arnold Eidus, a prominent radio and
concert musician is one of the founders of Stradivari Record which is
production chamber music featuring performance by this famed violinist.
1951: The funeral for sixty-year-old Philip
Salsburg, the Wilkes-Barre, PA born son of Rachel and Mendel Salsburg and
husband of “the former Sadie Rubinow” who was employed by Du Pont before coming
the executive secretary of the Community Chest of Scranton is scheduled to take
place this afternoon at the Madison Avenue Temple.
1952: “The Prisoner of
Zenda” a re-make of the 1937 film produced by Pandro S. Berman with music by
Alfred Newman which was filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was
released in the United States today by MGM.
1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected
president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
At the end of his first term, President Eisenhower would turn against
the Israelis during the Suez Crisis. He
would side with the Soviets and save Nasser.
1952 (16th of Cheshvan, 5713): Aaron Nusbaum
the Elgin, Illinois native who was a
vice president of Sears Roebuck & Co. and brother-in-law of Julius
Rosenwald as well as a noted
philanthropist who played a key role in the creation of the Adler Planetarium
passed away today.
1953(26th of Cheshvan, 5714): Seventy-five-year-old
Kanus, Lithuania native and Columbia University trained lawyer Paul Abelson who
lectured in Yiddish “on history and civil rights…to help with Americanization
of new immigrants and served as labor arbitrator while editing Yiddish language
magazines passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/04/paul-abelson.html
1955: Gerald I. Benson, the captain of the Amherst
basketball, who was recently married to Hope Jan Lewih by Rabbi Jacob Shankman
is scheduled to report to Lackland Air Force Base today for active duty as a
second lieutenant.
1954: Today, “Premier Moshe Sharett laid before a
United Jewish Appeal study mission today Israel's case against United States
arms grants to Arab states” saying that “the adjacent Arab nations were
continuing attacks against Israelis and their property,” Egypt has continued to
prevent free passage through the Suez Canal and the Arabs have refused to
consider a general peace settlement…”
1955: U.S. premiere of “The Tender Trap” the movie
version of Max Shulman’s play for which he co-authored the screenplay Julius
Epstein and which was produced by Lawrence Weingarten.
1956(30th of Cheshvan, 5717): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev
1956(30th of Cheshvan, 5717)
Sixty-five-year-old Rabbi Jehuda Braver, the Lithuanian born “son of Rabbi Moses Isaac Braver and Sarah
Braver, the husband of Rivka Golda Braver and father of Hyman (Chaim) Avigdor
Braver (“who was killed in 1943 while serving in the Army Air Corps during WW
II); Ralph Braver; Binyamin Meyer Braver; Eliezer "Louis Simon"
Braver; and Yosef Leib Braver who served
congregations in Akron OH, Kansas City and Mexico City passed a way today in
Los Angeles, CA
1956(30th of Cheshvan, 5717): Fifty-one-year-old
New Haven, CT native Beatrice Hahn, “the director of finance of the National
Council of Jewish Women” and “former national president of the Council of
Jewish Juniors passed away today in Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/11/05/84895367.html?pageNumber=31
1956: It was reported today that an Egyptian
communique claimed Egyptian forces “had sunk four British naval vessels and
captured three troop landing craft at Suez.
1956: During the Suez Crisis, it was reported that the
British and French paratroopers would drop into the Canal Zone within the next
48 hours now that the British had neutralized the Egyptian air force.
1956: During the Sinai Campaign, a.k.a. The Hundred
Hours War, Israeli forces reached the Suez Canal.
1956: An IDF force
of 180 vehicles successfully made the trek through the Sinai wilderness and
took Sharm es Sheikh from the Egyptians.
After six hours of fighting, the IDF prevailed and opened the Straits of
Tiran.
1956: Soviet Army units unleashed a massive attack on
Budapest as part of their move to suppress the Hungarian Revolution. Jewish students had been prominent
participants in the uprising. Seeing
that the revolt had failed and fearing a Stalinist style reprisal approximately
40,000 Jews joined the 170,000 Hungarians who fled to Austria.
1956: Sid Gillman’s Los Angeles Rams continued their
losing ways dropping a game to the Chicago Bears – their fifth loss in a row
after winning the opening game of the season.
1957: In Philadelphia, Lewis Jacob Affelder, the
Cleveland born son of Rhoda and Harry Fleischman, a member pf the Clevland
Hospital Council, married Ruth Steinbach
Affelder, the Philadelphia born daughter of Ruth and Lester Gans Steppacher.
1957: Birthdate of Leeds, UK native and Conservative
political leader Richard Irwin Harrington, Baron Harrington of Watford
1958: “A four-story walk-up building containing seventeen apartments on a
plot 40 by 100 feet at 1035 Willmohr Street, Brooklyn, was sold by Mrs. Jennie
Stein to Israel Sholom, an investing client of Irving Bira, broker in the deal.
It is assessed at $54,000” and “in a deal in the Boro Park section, the
twelve-family house at 138 Amity Street was sold by Irving Blumberg, realty
operator, to the Alstu Realty Company, which resold it to an investor.”
1959: “Israel told United Nations truce supervisors in
Jerusalem that four United Arab Republic MIG's had invaded her territory this
morning” when they flew 20,000 feet above the ruins of the ancient Nabataean
town of Subeita in the central Negev” which led to the AIF jet fighters driving
them back to their own territory
1960: Marilyn Monroe finishes her last film, The Misfits.
1960: “Butterfield 8” a cinematic treatment of the
1934 novel directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Pandro S. Berman and starring
Elizabeth Taylor (who won an Oscar), Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher was
released today in the United States.
1960: In Geneva, the annual conference of Jewish
Distribution Committee country directors which Heny L. Zucker, the executive
director of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland was scheduled to
attend came to an end today.
1961: Birthdate of Annabelle Gurwitch, the Alabama
born, Miami Beach High School graduate who pursued a career as an actress and
author.
https://www.annabellegurwitch.com/
1961: In Los
Angeles Edward Baitz, “an executive of the Carnation Company” and his wife gave
birth to Jon Robin Baitz who after a career in the California entertainment
industry became “a professor at Stony Brook Southampton and The New School
where he served Artistic Director of the BFA theatre program.”
1964: Comedian Lenny Bruch and club owner Howard
Solomon were both found guilty of obscenity.
1965: “Xmas in Las Vegas,” for which Karl Bernstein
served as Press Representative opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre.
1965: Birthdate of French concert violinist Anne
Gravoin.
1966: In Florence, hundreds of rare Jewish books,
documents, archives and Judaica items, some of them centuries old, which were
damaged when the Arno River continued to overflow its banks today.
1968: As part of his National Tour, Jackie Mason,
billed as “America’s Funniest was scheduled to perform at the Hanna Theatre in
Cleveland, OH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Mason#/media/File:Jackie_Mason_@_Hanna.jpg
1968: Seventy-nine-year-old Joseph Lewis, the
Montgomery, Alabama born Jew turned atheist who as President of The
Freethinkers of America” called on Jews to “renounce their ‘antiquated creed’”
and denounced “Yom Kippur as the ‘most degrading and humiliating day in all the
superstitious annals of religion’” passed away today.
1970: “Song of Norway” a movie version of the
“operetta of the same name” co-starring Edward G. Robinson was released today
in the United States.
1970: U.S. premiere of “A.k.a. Cassius Clay” which was
filmed by cinematographer Isidore Mankofsky.
1971(16th of Cheshvan, 5732): Eighty-three-year-old
Dr. Leon Banov, Sr. , the son of Alexander and Sonia Banov, the husband of
Minnie Banov with whom he had two children – Leon and Morton -- was buried in the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim
Cemetery after having passed away today in Charleston, SC.
http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/banov-leon/
1972(27th of Cheshvan, 5733): Parashat
Chayei Sara
1973(9th of Cheshvan, 5734): Sixty-one-year-old
Tulane Medical School graduate Dr. Leon Taubenhuas, “the director of community
of health services at Beekman Downtown Hospital and a specialist in emergency
medicine” who with his wife Barbara raised two daughters passed away today.
1973: Birthdate of Holon, Israel native and award-winning
screen writer and director Eran Kolirin
1973(9th of Cheshvan, 5734): Fifty-one-year-old
Tel Aviv native and Columbia graduate Dr. Haim Ginott, the child psychologist
and author of Between Parent and Child passed away today in New York.
https://www.azquotes.com/author/5557-Haim_Ginott
1974: “Lowly Bagel Transformed By An Artist” published
today described how Judy Blau, the University of Rochester Fine Arts degree
holder transformed the delicatessen delight into an artistic ornament.
https://www.thejewniverse.com/2018/lowly-bagel-transformed-by-artist-judy-blau/
1974(19th of Cheshvan, 5735): Syracuse
and Ohio State University educated journalist, editor, publisher and
Zionist Julius R. Jarcho, the New York born son of Bertha Raisin and Naum
Jaracho and the “publisher of two
Zionist publications, Israel Speaks and Israel Today who was the
husband of Dorothy E. Rambar and Ann Hirsch passed away today.(Editor’s note –
do not confuse him Julius Jaracho, MD born on October 15)
1974: New Yorker Richard Ottinger was elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives.
1974: “In a letter to Senator Henry Jackson, one
hundred Soviet Jews accused Soviet authorities of using the military draft as
punitive measure against young Jewish applicants for emigration to Israel.”
1975: As the Soviet Union continued to play power
politics in the Middle East, Hungary, a member of the Eastern Bloc signed an
agreement with Syria “on military co-operation” today.
1977: The Vatican appealed to Israel to release Greek
Catholic Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, who had just completed three years of his
12-year prison sentence for smuggling arms for Arab terrorists from Beirut to
Jerusalem. An undertaking was given that Capucci, if released, would no longer
engage in any anti-Israeli activity and would be posted to a monastery outside
the Middle East. (The statement speaks for itself in terms of
analyzing Vatican-Israeli relations).
1977: Three people were injured when a bomb exploded
as it was being removed from a bus in Jerusalem.
1977: “Heroes,” a post-Vietnam drama starring Henry
Winkler was released today in the United States.
1978(4th of Cheshvan, 5739): Parashat
Cheshvan
1979(14th of Cheshvan, 5740): Sixty eight
year old Rabbi Samuel Sandmel, the Dayton, OH born son of Morris and
Rebecca Sandmel, the University of Missouri Phi Bea Kappa graduate and the
recipient of an M.H.L. degree from Hebrew College in 1937 who was a prolific
author and the husband of Philadelphian Frances Langsdorf Fox with whom he had
three children passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0101/ms0101.html
https://www.amazon.com/Samuel-Sandmel/e/B001HOK64I
1979: A group of Iranian “students” stormed the U.S.
Embassy in Teheran and seized 52 Americans whom they held hostage for 444
days. The prolonged crisis was
instrumental in Regan’s defeat of Carter which marked a fundamental change in
the American political landscape. It is
also part of the Mosaic of Moslem attacks on Western Civilization of which the
demand for the destruction of the state of Israel is another part.
1980: More than
300 Soviet Jews sign an open letter to President Brezhnev accusing the Soviet
government of paying lip service to the human rights provisions of the Helsinki
Final Act and failing to honor the commitments on emigration.
1980(25th of Cheshvan, 5741): A suicide operation
carried out by the Shiite Muslims and supported by Syria killed thirty-six
Israeli soldiers in Lebanon. The attack came after both sides had agreed to a
cease-fire.
1982: Frank R. Lautenberg, the Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Mollie Bergen
and Sam Lautenberg, Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia “today savored
what he described as his ''sweet victory'' in the election Tuesday for the
United States Senate from New Jersey by traveling the length of the state to
talk to newsmen and well-wishers.
1982(18th of Cheshvan, 5743): Just days
before his 93rd birthday day “German textile merchant and
manufacturer Karl Amson Joel who fled the Nazis via Switzerland and Cuba and
was the “grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel passed
away today.
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Karl%20Amson%20Joel&item_type=topic
1983: “Tramps” starring Elliott Gould was released in
Austria today.
1983: “Deal of the Century,” directed by William
Friedkin and produced by Bud Yorkin was released today in the United States.
1984(9th of Cheshvan, 5745): Eighty-one-year-old
George Friedrich Wolfgang Honigman, the song of Doctor Georg Honigman and
journalist, the thrice married Holocaust survivor who survived the Holocaust
and returned to work in East Berlin passed away today after which he was buried
in Berlin’s Jewish Cemetery.
1985: In “A Book On Hasidim Helps Author Reclaim Roots”
published today Joseph Berger provides a detailed review of Holy Days: The
World of a Hasidic Family, a book in which Lis Harris “attempts to give a
human, down-to-earth texture to a group that many, even secular Jews, regard as
a mystery.”
Holy
Days | Book by Lis Harris | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
1986(2nd of Cheshvan, 5747): Eighty-year-old
German born British mathematician passed away today.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hirsch.html
1987(12th of Cheshvan, 5748): Eighty-seven-year-old
American painter, Raphael Soyer whose brother Moses and Isaac were also
painters passed away today in New York. For more see Raphael Soyer and the
Search for Modern Jewish Art by Samantha Baskind http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/203
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/raphael-soyer-papers-9465/more
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Raphael_Soyer.html
1988: Birthdate of New York native and Harvard
educated attorney Avraham “Avi” Berkowitz a close advisor to Jared Kushner and
“the Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International
Negotiations.”
1989: “As the Communist regime in East Germany began
to topple, Stefan Heym joined other prominent would-be reformers at Marx Engels
Square in the center of East Berlin where he spoke to a crowd of 100,000,
saying that ''socialism, the right kind, not the Stalinist kind, is what we
want to build for our benefit and the benefit of all Germany.'' (As reported by
David Binder)
1990(16th of Cheshvan, 5751): Shalom-Avraham Shaki
passed away. Born in Yemen in 1906, he
made Aliyah in 1914. He worked as
teacher before pursuing a career in politics that included service in the
Knesset from 1962 until 1965.
1990(16th of Cheshvan, 5751): Eighty-two
year old Harry Weinberg, the Galician born son of Joseph Weinberg, “a
metal worker who operated a body and fender repair business after he came to
Baltimore” and homemaker Sarah Weinberg” and successful businessman who was the
husband of the former Jeanette Gutman with whom he had one child, Morton and created
the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, just one of his many charitable
entities passed away today.
https://hjweinbergfoundation.org/
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/7394091/who-were-harry-jeanette-weinberg
1991: Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain.
1991: In Ashdod, French born Israeli Maggie and “Avi
Day the owner of a geological-engineering company involved in mineral drilling
gave birth to Alon Day, “an Israeli professional stock racing driver” who was
“the first Israeli drive to compete in an IndCar-sanctioned series.
1992: Dianne Emiel Feinstein, the daughter of former
model Betty Rosenburg and surgeon Dianne Emiel Goldman began serving as a U.S.
Senator from California after winning a special election yesterday.
1992: In “Faith, Reason and the Holocaust” published
today Stephen Holden reviews “The Quarrel,” the cinematic adaption of Chaim
Grade’s short story in which Eli Cohen grapples with the questions of “reason
versus faith” in the shadow of the Holocaust.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/movies/review-film-on-faith-reason-and-the-holocaust.html
1993: The BBC broadcast the final episode of “Scarlet
and Black” co-starring Rachel Weisz.
1994(1st of Kislev, 5755): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev.
1994: Unveiling of a sculpture of Fred Lebow created
by Jesus Ygnacio Dominguez designed to honor the Holocaust survivor who founded
the NYC Marathon. The sculpture depicts Lebow timing runners with his watch. In
2001, the statue was moved to its permanent location on the East Side Central
Park Drive at 90th Street. Every year,
however, the statue is moved to a spot in view of the finish line of the
Marathon
1994: “Oleanna” a “film written and directed by David
Mamet based on his play Oleanna” was released today in the United States.
1995(11th of Cheshvan, 5756): Parashat
Cheshvan
1995: Aviv Geffen was scheduled to perform at
tonight’s peace rally where chose to sing “Cry for You” (Livkot Lekha)
1995(11th of Cheshvan, 5756): Seventy-eight-year-old
Brandeis University Professor of Sociology who was the subject of Mitch Albom’s
Tuesday’s with Morrie passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/09/us/morris-s-schwartz-professor-78.html
1995 (11th of Cheshvan,
5756): Yitzchak Rabin, Prime
Minster of Israel, was assassinated by a right-wing fanatic who was opposed to
Rabin’s efforts to bring peace to Israel and its Arab neighbors. Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922,
making him Israel’s first sabra Prime Minister.
Rabin’s distinguished career in the IDF included serving as Chief of
Staff during Six Day in 1967. Rabin’s
first stint as Prime Minister came during the 1970’s ended with him being
forced to leave office do to a personal financial scandal. His defeat opened the way for Begin and the
Likud to come to power for the first time in Israel. Rabin did not have any illusions about the
PLO and Arafat. We will never know if
Rabin’s vision would have borne fruit. Instead,
a killer took it upon himself to end the life of man who had spent his life
risking his life in defense of Israel and the Jewish people.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0301.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/rabin.html
1995: Holocaust survivor Shevah Weiss, the Polish born
son of Gienia and Meir Wolf Weiss who Aliyah in 1947 who was serving as Knesset
Speaker “was on stage with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres at the peace
rally in Tel Aviv where Rabin was assassinated.”
1995:
Tonight, Tel Aviv born journalist and publicist Eitan Haber delivered the
official government statement regarding Rabin's death: The government of Israel announces in dismay, in great
sadness, and in deep sorrow, the death of prime minister and minister of defense
Yitzhak Rabin, who was murdered by an assassin, tonight in Tel Aviv. May his
memory be blessed.
1995: Shimon Peres began serving as Minister of
Defense in Israel.
1996: In “A Man Who Makes Us Worry” published today in
The Information Bulletin of the
Library of Congress, Harry Katz reports on the decision by Jules Feiffer to
donate his papers to the library and describes the importance of the
collection.
1996(22nd of Cheshvan, 5757): Ninety-one-year-old
Irma Ullman who had carried on the philanthropic work of her husband Siegfried
Ullman through the Ullmann Family Foundation, passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/nyregion/irma-ullmann-91-science-benefactor-in-us-and-israel.html
1996(22nd of Cheshvan, 5757): Seventy-nine
year old Salomon Sebag passed away today in the Bronx,
2000: The BBC broadcast “Burning Convictions” the 6th
episode of “A History of Britain is a documentary series written and presented
by Simon Schama.”
2001: The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics
of Jewish interest including Old Men At
2001(18th of Cheshvan, 5762): Shoshana Ben Ishai, 16,
of Betar Illit and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed when a
Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun shortly before 16:00
at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 45
people were injured in the attack.
2002: On his 54th birthday, Shaul Mofaz
began serving as Israel’s Minister of Defense
2002(29th of Cheshvan, 5763): Security guard Julio Pedro Magram, 51, of
Kfar Sava, and Gastón Perpiñal, 15, of Ra'anana, both recent immigrants from
Argentina, were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at
a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the
attack.
2003: A ketubbah (Jewish marriage contract)
printed in Utica, New York in 1863, is showcased as a "Second Guest
of Honor" at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner at the Pierre Hotel. The
"Second Guest of Honor" program is another effort to further expose
the treasures of The JTS Library that the Board instituted in
which a rare piece from The Library's collection will appear at an event
outside JTS.
2004: After both the Israeli media and the prime
minister of Luxembourg declared that Mr. Arafat had died, the head of
communications for French military health services felt compelled to issue a
formal denial” because he was in fact “in serious condition in the intensive
care unit of a French military hospital.”
2005(2nd of Cheshvan, 5766): Earl Leslie
Krugel the West Coast coordinator of the Jewish Defense League was murdered by
a fellow inmate, who struck him in the head with a block of concrete.
2005: The
Center for Tel Aviv History organized a special tour to mark the anniversary of
the assassination of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
2005(2nd of
Cheshvan, 5766): Ninety-year-old David Wilfred Abse, the native of Cardin who
became “an eminent psychoanalyst” and “professor of psychiatry at the
University of Virginia” passed away today.
2005: In Cedar Rapids, the
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) began hosting
"The Tragedy of Slovak Jews," a special, temporary exhibition from
the Museum of the National Uprising in Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic. The exhibition
addresses the tragic demise of the Jewish communities in Slovakia. Prior to
World War II, Jews held an important and significant position in Slovak
culture. The exhibit focuses on Slovak society and the solution of the Jewish
question in the years 1938 – 1945, the first wave of deportations (March –
October 1942), the origination of working and prison camps, the second wave of
deportations in 1944, and the fascist reprisals in Slovakia.
2005: As further proof of
the changing face of Reform Judaism in Israel, the four new Reform rabbis
ordained at Jerusalem’s Hebrew Union College half are women and include three
native Israelis and one of Iraqi heritage.
2006: Opening of the 10th
Annual UK Jewish Film Festival
2007: Publication of Flotsam,
by David Wiesner.
2007: Author E.L. Doctorow,
the son of parents “of Russian-Jewish origin,” received the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize.
2007: The Sunday New York
Times features reviews of the
following books by Jewish authors and/or that featured Jewish topics
including The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods
of the New New York by Joseph Berger and Proust Was a Neuroscientist
in which author Jonah Lehrer the son of former Los
Angeles ADL chief David Lehrer argues that artists predict the scientific
future.
2007: The Sunday Washington Post features reviews of the following books by
Jewish authors and/or that featured Jewish topics including Gentlemen of the
Road by Michael Chabon and Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
2007: At the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington 38th annual Book
Festival, Pulitzer Prize winning David Vise discusses The Google Story:
Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success
2007: In a festive
ceremony at the Weizmann Institute of Science, 11 young women scientists, who
had completed their PhD studies with honors at several Israeli universities and
academic institutions, each received an award of about $20,000 per year for two
years.
2007: The New York
city Marathon Minyan celebrates its 25th year of enabling runners to
a join a minyan, lay tefillin and shout out the blessing ‘hanoten layaef koakh
– He who gives strength to the weary’ prior to setting out on the 26.2 mile
course through the city’s five boroughs.
2007: National Jewish Book Month begins.
2007: During the worst economic crisis in United States
history Robert Rubin began serving as acting Chairman of Citigroup.
2008: In the Presidential election Senator Barak Obama who
received 78% of the Jewish vote and who was the first major presidential
candidate whose closest political advisor – David Axelrod – is Jewish and who
has a rabbi - Capers Funnye – as a family member defeated Senator John McCain
who received 22% of the Jewish vote.
2008: Agriprocessors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection
2008: A record number of Jews were elected to Congress. The
next session of Congress will include 45 Jewish lawmakers, a new record, after
Democrats Alan Grayson of Florida and John Adler of New Jersey took two House
seats from the Republican column. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, was widely
expected to win his Colorado House seat to match the previous record, set in
the 2006 elections. The House will have 32 Jewish members. Only the class of
1990 had more Jewish members - 34 - but there were fewer Jewish senators at the
time. The next Senate will have 13 Jewish members, the same as the previous
session, despite a toss-up race in Minnesota, where both Republican incumbent
Norm Coleman and his Democratic challenger, comedian Al Franken, are Jewish.
The following is a list of the 45 Jewish members —13
senators and 32 representatives — who will serve in the 111th U.S.
Congress that convenes in January:
U.S. SENATE
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)**
Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)**
Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)**
Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.)
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
John Adler (D-N.J.)*
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.)
Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)
Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)
Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Paul Hodes (D-N.H.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Steve Kagen (D-Wisc.)
Ron Klein (D-Fla.)
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Jared Polis (D-Colo.)*
Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)
* Elected to Congress for the first time
** Senators who were re-elected (Coleman defeated
Democratic challenger Al Franken in Minnesota by fewer than 700 votes,
triggering a state-mandated recount. Franken also is Jewish, leaving 13 Jewish
senators regardless of who emerges as the winner.)
2009: Opening session of Union for Reform Judaism's 70th
Biennial Convention in Toronto, Canada.
2009: Nancy Lieberman broke yet another barrier when she
became the first woman head coach of the Dallas Mavericks’ D-League affiliate
team, a male professional basketball team.
2009: Israeli navy commandos seized the M.V. Francop a
cargo ship early today in the Mediterranean Sea that was carrying rockets and
ammunition bound for militants from Hezbollah in what was known as Operation
Four Species.
2009: French premiere of “Le Concert” directed by Romanian
born French (Jewish) Radu Mihăileanu
2009: Today “Nancy Lieberman broke yet another barrier when
she became the first woman head coach of the Dallas Mavericks’ D-League
affiliate team.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/04/2009/nancy-lieberman
2010: Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Constitutional Law at The
George Washington University, is scheduled to speak on Religious Freedom and
the Right to Worship, Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly, and how the Supreme
Court impacted the First Amendment of the Constitution, at Northern Virginia
Hebrew Congregation, in Reston, VA.
2010: The Center for Jewish History, Centro Primo Levi and
PEN World Voices Festival in collaboration with the Consulate General of
Slovenia are scheduled to present: “Boris Pahor's Necropolis: A Slovenian Story
of Culture, Conflict, and Persecution on the Northeastern Border of Italy.”
2010: Germany's burgeoning Jewish community
ordained its first female rabbi since the Holocaust today, a major step for a
religious group that until recently imported its leaders from abroad - most of
them men. The ordination of Alina Treiger, a Ukrainian-born 31-year-old, is a
sign of the growing diversity of Germany's largely conservative Jewish
community, observers say, though some warned she will face an uphill battle
among worshippers used to being led by male rabbis.
2011: George Schindler, the dean of the Society of American
Magicians, other magicians and members of the general public are scheduled to
visit Harry Houdini’s grave at the Machpelah Cemetery in the Queens borough of
New York City on the 85th anniversary of his funeral. The visit used
to take place on Halloween, Houdini’s Yahrtzeit
2011: The Phoenix Ensemble is
scheduled to perform at Studio Hecht in Haifa.
2011: The “Excellence Concert
Series” is scheduled to present “Young Piano Masters” at the Aldwell Institute
of the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and Dance
2011: Lilli Hornig was
interviewed today as part of the Voices of the Manhattan Project.
https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/lilli-hornigs-interview
2011: “The Radical Camera: New
York’s Photo League, 1936 to 1951” opened today in at the Jewish Museum.
https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-radical-camera-new-yorks-photo-league-1936-1951
2011: This
afternoon the Israel Navy intercepted two boats that approached the coast of
the Gaza Strip with the intent to violate Israel's naval blockade of the
territory. After the boats failed to heed calls to turn around or dock in Egypt
or Israel, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz ordered naval
forces to board the ships. Nobody was injured during the boarding of the ships,
a military source said.
2011: Immediately
following his return from Cyprus today, President Shimon Peres joined the
children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
at the monument erected on the site of Rabin's assassination. Peres, who had
been at a huge peace rally in Tel Aviv with Rabin on the fateful night of
November 4, 1995, laid a wreath at the monument, as did Tel Aviv Mayor Ron
Huldai.
2012: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editions of The Puppy Diaries by Jill Abramson and
The Convert by Deborah Baker.
2012: A day after three Syrian
tanks entered the demilitarized zone on the Golan Heights to attack Syrian
rebels, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz visited the border region
today, and warned army forces that “the Syrian affair could turn into our affair.”
Gantz instructed the IDF to be on alert in the area, and to prevent any
spillover of the Syrian conflict onto Israeli territory.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=290414
2012: The Jerusalem Foundation
honored Sir Winston Churchill today.
2012: “Letters of Light” New Works by Anna Gil, “a
solo show of new works inspired by Jewish Mysticism” is scheduled to open at
the Gallery Orange on Royal Street in the famous French Quarter of New Orleans.
2012: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The
Hadassah Donor Dinner celebrating 100 years of Hadassah is scheduled to take
place at Temple Judah.
2012: As part of its
Turkish-Jewish Festival, in Rockville, MD, Tikvat Israel is scheduled to
sponsor a performance by “renowned Sephardic musician Flory Jagoda.
2012: “A Kid For Two Farthings”
is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2013: “Disaster!, a musical
comedy starring Seth Rudetsky and written by both Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick,
opened Off-Broadway at the St. Luke's Theatre.”
2013: The Annual
International Shluchim Convention (Kinus Hashluchim) in Brooklyn, NY is
scheduled to come to an end.
2013: B’nai Jeshurun is scheduled
to host a Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Service this evening co-sponsored by the
Israeli Consulate and Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement
2013: Jonathan Kirsch is
scheduled to deliver a talk on “the truth behind Kristallnacht” in which he
examines “the tragic life…of Herschel Grynszpagn” at the San Diego Jewish Book
Fair.
2013: As we mark the centenary of
the trial of Melvin Beilis, the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to
present a roundtable discussion “Reflecting on the Beilis Trial.”
2013: The Knesset raised the
legal marriage age from 17 to 18 today. The bill, initiated by a group of
Knesset members from across the political spectrum, was meant to fight the
early betrothal customary in certain sectors, where minors are wed under familiar
and community pressures. (As reported by Moran Azulay)
2013: Women of the Wall held a peaceful prayer
service under police protection at the Western Wall to mark the group’s 25th
anniversary.
http://forward.com/articles/186821/-gather-for-women-of-walls-th-anniversary-at/#ixzz2jiogdClF
2013(1st of Kislev, 5774): Ninety-one-year
Eleanor Mlotek, “the Queen of Yiddish Musicology” passed away today. (As
reported by Joseph Berger)
2014: In Sydney, “Zero
Motivation” and “The Farewell Party” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
International Film Festival.
2014: “Sotheby’s I selling a 1917
gouache and crayon work ‘Seated Woman With Bent Left Leg’” which “once belonged
to Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese cabaret performer whose large art collection was
inventoried by Nazi agents after he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp,
where he died” but for which the family will receive no compensation because “United States federal courts have found that the
family waited too long to file its claim and that there was insufficient
evidence to conclude “Seated Woman” had been stolen.”
2014: The Tulane Jewish Studies
Department under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz is scheduled to present a
lecture by Michael Stanislawski entitled “The Jewish and Muslim Enlightenments
in Imperial Russia: A Comparison.”
2014: Elfriede Starer, a
Kindertransportee, is scheduled to tell her story at the Wiener Library in
London.
2014: “Jewish Voices,” a reading
by prominent Jewish poets and writers is scheduled to take place for the
fifteenth year at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
2014: The Five Boroughs Food Talk
is scheduled to feature “Jewish Food”
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/8487//five-boroughs-food-talk-jewish-food
2014(11th of Chesvan):
Yarhrzeit of Rachel who passed away while giving birth to her second son
Benjamin, the 12th son of Jacob and his 13th child.
http://jmgads.com/kupat/102414/kupat_102414.html
2014: As Americans go to the polls Republicans Adam
Kwasman, Lee Zeldin, Bruce Blakeman, Elon Carr and Micah Edmond each of whom
are running for Congress hope to fill the shoes left empty by the defeat of
Eric Cantor who was the on Jewish Republican serving in the House of
Representatives.
2014: “Dozens of rival fans from Hapoel Tel Aviv and
Maccabi Tel Aviv brawled in the street outside the city Magistrate's Court
today, as rioters who invaded the pitch during Monday night's derby were
brought to face a judge. Among those arrested after the fight was the son of MK
Dov Khenin.” (As reported by Gilad Morag)
2014: “Israel and the United States used the inauguration
of a joint warplane project today to stress it was business as usual in an
alliance hit by acrimony over Israeli settlement building and strategy against
Iran.”
2014: “Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz warned Tuesday
that Israel was prepared to completely eviscerate Lebanon in response to any
cross-border missile attack by Hezbollah.”
2015: Hindy Najman the first woman and the first Jew to
serve as the Oriel Laing Professor for the Interpretation of Holy Scripture is
scheduled to speak at the Lunch and Learn sponsored by the Oxford University
Jewish Society.
2015: In Cedar Rapids, IA, “Lenka Lichtenberg, one of
Toronto’s best-loved world fusion musicians with Czech and Jewish roots, is
scheduled to perform traditional Jewish liturgical songs and poems” at CSPS
Hall.
2015: The Skirball Center is scheduled to host “Remember
Rabin” a memorial marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination
of Yithak Rabin.
2015: The Consulate General of Israel in New York in
partnership with IAC, JNF, WZO, StandWithUS and AZM a scheduled
to showcase a panoply of educational programs focused on Israel and the
Israeli experience.
2015: As part of Holocaust Education Week Beth Tikvah
Synagogue in Toronto is scheduled to host “a panel of individuals born
post-Holocaust in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp will address issues of
intergenerational trauma; social, emotional and physical implications of their
shared circumstances of birth; and how their parents’ Holocaust experiences
informed their lives.”
2015: The biennial conference of the Union for Reform
Judaism is scheduled to open today in Orlando, Florida.
2016: Eighteen-year-old Mahin Khan, “an Arizona teenage who
has pleaded guilty to plotting an attack on government buildings and the Tucson
Jewish Community Center is scheduled to be sentenced today.
2016: In Toronto, as part of Holocaust Education Week, Ron
Levi is scheduled to speak at a Lunch ‘N Learn on “The Swiss banks Holocaust litigation
and settlement: What can we learn from the proposals to allocate residual
Funds?”
2016 At the Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El,
the opening of the exhibition “All About Golda” is scheduled to take places
following Friday evening services.
2017(15th of Cheshvan, 5778): Parashat Va-yayra
–
2017: “Some 85,000 people turned out at the annual rally in
Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square this evening marking the 22nd anniversary of the
assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, which this year tried to
emphasize national unity rather than its traditional focus on peace.” (As
reported Jacob Magid)
2017: In Cedar
Rapids, Harrison Ginsberg is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar
Mitzvah
2017: Jonah Cowen is scheduled to lead a Pirke Avot
learning session followed by Ma’ariv and Havdalah all of are sponsored by The
Oxford University Jewish University.
2017: In Memphis, TN, Rabbi Noam Katz is scheduled to lead
the Musical Shabbat morning service at Temple Israel.
2017: Today, “tweets surfaced of Editor in Chief of the
Saint, Scotland's largest student newspaper and based at the University of St
Andrews, Joseph Cassidy, calling into question Israel's right to exist - which
have been criticized as blatantly Anti-Semitic.”
2017: In New Orleans, LA, “the Touro Foundation Gala
honoring Dr. Tom Oelsner is scheduled to take place this evening.
2017: In the United Kingdom, as part of Balfour Shabbat,
Orthodox synagogues are scheduled to recite “a special prayer” composed by
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis “to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration.
2018: In London, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “Fiona
Sampson, the author of, ‘In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote
Frankenstein’ and the artist Maya Attoun as they discuss the allure and
fascination of Frankenstein and his monster.”
2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Good Nazi” “a 50 minute television
documentary that chronicles the scientific work of a joint
US-Canadian-Israeli-Lithuanian research team in July, 2017 on a site, HKP 562,
a Nazi labor camp on the outskirts of Vilnius where the largest number of Vilna
Ghetto Jews survived thanks to the efforts of a compassionate Nazi Officer,
Major Karl Plagge.”
2018: In Haverhill, MA, Temple Emanu-El is scheduled to
host “photographer Udi Goren” as he takes attendees “on a journey along the
Israel National Trail.”
2018(26th of Cheshvan, 5779): Eighty-nine-year-old
corporate gadfly Evelyn Y Davis, the Amsterdam born daughter of neurologist
“Herman H. DeJong” and psychologist “Marianna (Witteboon) De Jong whose “Jewish
roots made them targets of the Nazis” passed away today. (As reported by Emily
Flitter)
2018: In Memphis, Abbie and Feivel Strauss gave birth to
Elijah Meir Straus, the grandson of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silver, the brother of
Joseph and Eden Strauss and the nephew of Fred Goldblatt and Jeff Silber.
2018: "New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80
Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison," a conference “co-organized
by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC
Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, and presented
in cooperation with the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., and
the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin,
Germany” is scheduled to begin today.
2018: In Iowa City, IA, Prairie Lights Bookshop is
scheduled to host a book signing for Barbara Feller, the Hebrew teacher par
excellence, author of the newly released Road to Waubeek: Discovering Jay G.
Sigmund.
2018: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including She Wants It: Desire, Power and
Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway, The Corrosion of Conservatism:
Why I Left the Right by Max Boot and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by
Jane Sherron De Hart.
2019: At sundown start of Yom HaAliya.
2019: In New Orleans, the Tulane Hillel is scheduled to
host its Shop for Good Art Market this evening.
2019: In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum and the Simon
Wiesenthal Center are scheduled to host a “Panel Discussion on the Threats of
Modern Antisemitism.”
2019: “Jewish and Asian business leaders” are scheduled to
meet “on Lord’s Cricket Ground for the inaugural meeting of a new initiative
bring together the two communities.”
2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is scheduled to host
George Will and Dan Abrams as they discuss Will’s new book The Conservative
Sensibility and the “Betraying of the Founding Fathers.”
2019: The UC Berkley School of Law is scheduled to host
CUNY professor Mikahl Dekel, the author
Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey as she discusses “the
unlikely refuge found in Central Asian countries and Iran during World War II.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/tehran-children-a-holocaust-refugee-odyssey
2020: In New Orleans, Hadassah is scheduled to hold its
board meeting.
2020: CWRU’s Maltz Performing Arts Center is scheduled to
present a live-streaming concert by the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra.
2020: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled
to present Shalva Weil discussing her new book The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating
Identities and Creating Super-Diversity.”
2020: In Columbus, OH, Chabad is scheduled to host the
first session of a six-week “Secrets of the Bible JLI Zoom Course”
2020: Two days after he had passed away, funeral were held
today in Cedar Rapids, IA for Gary Goldstein, the has husband of Kathe
Goldstein Z”L
2021: The JWA is scheduled to host its “virtual celebration
of the history, leadership and achievements of Jewish women.”
2021: As part of its Four Questions s The Temple Emanu-El
Streicker Center is scheduled to present “Reparations: Moral or Material
Debts?”
2021: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin
today.
2022: The staff of the Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to offer another session in its online genealogy course.
2022: Author Scott Simon who grew up at Fairmount Temple,
is a member of the Cleveland Jewish Publication Company Board of Directors and
whose latest book is “Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and
Lead Your Most Courageous Life.” is
scheduled to be the guest speaker this evening at the Fairmount Temple
services.
2022: In Chicago, the Alliance Francaise de Chicago is
scheduled to host a talk by Oliver Guez, the author of the novel The
Disappearance of Joseph Mengle.
2023(20th of Ch Va-yayra (“Appeared”
i.e., “And God appeared to him…”)
2023: Adam Podradchik is scheduled to be called to the
Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Judea – Am Yisroel Chai.
2023: In Pleasanton, CA, Congregation Beth Emke is
scheduled to host Billy Jonas concert during which the singer-songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist from North Caroline will perform Jewish and children’s
music in a fundraiser to help send children to Jewish summer camp.
2023: Because of the war, the Eden-Tamir will not be
holding the originally scheduled concert.
2023: As November 4, begins in Israel, based on a speech by
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, “a regional war with Israel
was a realistic possibility,” “Israel
continues its fight against Hamas despite the U.S. called for a “pause” and the
Hamas hostages begin day 29 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)
2024: The Committee meeting for the Israel & Overseas
Engagement Committee is scheduled to take place in New Orleans.
2024: JTA is scheduled the first class in the four-part
course "Jewish Composers Who Changed Classic Music.”
2024: As November 4th 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 395 in captivity while Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by
Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists based in Iraq
(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: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by
Chaim Rosenberg, MD. Ph.D. on “Jews and Science in the USA” in which he describes how “despite antisemitism,
many of the children of Jewish immigrants went on to brilliant careers in the
sciences, including the development of the vaccine against poliomyelitis, the
birth-control pill, and the use of streptomycin in the treatment of
tuberculosis which led to over fifty of the offspring of Russian Jewish
immigrants to the United States becoming Nobel laureates.
2025: Lockdown University is scheduled host “Julius Reuter
and the Creation of a Empire,” a lecture by Trudy Gold in which she describes
the career of Israel Beer Josephat, the son of a rabbi, who went into the
German Lutheran Church in London, emerged as Paul Julius Reuter and went on to
create one of the largest telecommunication businesses in the world (Reuters).
2025:As part of Holocaust Education Week, the Florida
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a “Live In-Person Performance for
Teachers & Students
2025: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a
survivor’s talk by Ruth Gilbert who “as a toddler escaped from the Lodz
ghetto with her mother, using false papers secured by her father after which
her mother secured work as a maid in several homes, eventually working, and
living with Ruth, in the home of a high-level Nazi officer whom they would
eventually learn was actually working for the Polish underground.”
2025: Off-off-year elections in the United States are scheduled
to take place when the one thing that the right and the left have in common is
anti-Semitism.
2025: The Jewish Leadership Council, the largest Jewish organizations
in the UK, including synagogues, care organizations, education charities and
regional Representative Councils, is
scheduled to host its “Trustee’s Conference” that will offer a “program has
been designed for those with 0-7 years’ experience and aspiring trustees…”
2025: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “the
official launch of Class of ’95, a powerful anthology of Israeli poetry on the
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, newly translated into English and released to
mark the 30th anniversary of his assassination with: Jonathan Benartzi,
grandson of Yitzhak Rabin; Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman
Institute; Dan Shapiro, former US Ambassador to Israel and Amy Spitalnick, CEO
of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs as well musical performances by Tamar
Eisenman and Yuli Beeri and the Tzofim Band.”
2025: Thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin
https://www.britannica.com/topic/assassination-of-Yitzhak-Rabin
2025: As November 4 begins in Israel forensic experts have
confirmed that the three bodies returned on November 2 are indeed the remains
of three slain soldiers — Col. Asaf Hamami, Cpt. Omer Neutra and Staff Sgt. Oz
Daniel — who were killed while fighting against Hamas on October 7 meaning that
there are at least eight bodies still being held by the terrorists in violation
of the cease-fire agreement.
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