30: Birthdate of Marcus Cocceius
Nerva, the Roman Emperor who changed the way in which the special tax on Jews
was collected so that would not be the humiliating experience created by his
Flavian predecessors.
641: “Jews were permitted to
continue to reside in Alexandria by the treaty that sealed the Arab conquest of
Egypt.” Jews had been living in Alexandria since its founding in 332 BCE
1223: Louis VIII of France declared
that the interest on Jews' debts should no longer hold good. At the same time,
he ordered that the capital should be repaid to the Jews in three years and
that the debts due the Jews should be inscribed and placed under the control of
their lords. The lords then collected the debts for the Jews, doubtless
receiving a commission. Louis furthermore ordered that the special seal for
Jewish deeds should be abolished and replaced by the ordinary one.
1226: Louis IX, whose “attitude
toward the Jews was characterized by implacable enmity” as can be seen such his
seizure in 1234 of “one third of the debts owe to the Jews, failure to protect
the Jews from “would-be crusaders” in 1236 and his burning of cartloads of
Jewish” began his reign as King of France today.
1414: Sigismund of Luxemberg, the
future Holy Roman Emporer who “drained the Jews of their wealth whenever he
could” was crowned King of Germany today.
1549: A decree bearing today’s date
dealt with the trouble caused because the Jews of Grodno, Russia, would not allow Rabbi Mordecai to officiate
in the synagogue
1576: During the Eighty Years War,
leaders of the provinces of the Netherlands sign the Pacification of Ghent
which committed them to a joint effort to drive the Spanish from their
soil. The Dutch Protestants would prove
triumphant and they would create a haven for Sephardic
1602: The Bodleian
Library at Oxford University is opened to the public. Today “The Bodleian
Library holds what is probably still regarded as the best collection of Hebrew
manuscripts in the world, alongside an extraordinarily rich collection of early
Hebrew and Yiddish printed books. All fields of traditional Hebrew scholarship
are represented in the collection... The earliest manuscript accessions in
Hebrew were received in 1601 and in the first catalogue of the library (1605)
there are 58 books with titles in Hebrew script. They are mostly of Venetian
origin, where Hebrew printing was then in its prime. The Library’s founder,
Thomas Bodley, took a personal interest in them and, at the end of the
catalogue, he added his own corrections in Latin of some misprints in Hebrew.
After Bodley’s death, the Library continued to enrich the Hebrew collections.
In 1692 it purchased the collections of Dr Robert Huntingdon and Professor
Edward Pococke, the Regius Professor of Hebrew. Among the 212 manuscripts in
the Huntingdon collection is the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (1155-1204) with
the author’s signature (MS. Huntingdon 80), attesting that the text had been
corrected against the original. The acquisition in 1817 of the manuscript
collection which had belonged to the Venetian Jesuit, Matteo Luigi Canonici,
represented the largest single purchase ever made by the Library. The
collection contains over 110 valuable Hebrew manuscripts, chiefly on vellum. In
1829 the Bodleian bought the Oppenheimer Library, thought to be the most
important and magnificent Hebraica collection ever accumulated. Rabbi David ben
Abraham Oppenheimer (1664-1736) was the Chief Rabbi of Prague and during his
lifetime he had amassed 780 manuscripts and 4,220 printed books in Hebrew,
Yiddish and Aramaic, many of which are the only surviving copies. Further
significant collections of Hebrew manuscripts were added in 1848 and 1890. In
1848 the Library purchased the library of Heimann Joseph Michael, numbering 862
volumes and nearly 1,300 separate works. The most recent acquisition of Hebrew
manuscripts of major international importance was the purchase of fragments
from the Cairo Genizah, beginning in 1890. A genizah is usually a room attached
to a synagogue used for storing texts which were worn out and had become
unusable; in this case the genizah was in the attic of the Ezra synagogue in
Old Cairo. An enormous number, over 200,000, of fragments in Hebrew,
Judaeo-Arabic and Yiddish were kept there, which are now dispersed in over 25
public and private libraries across the world. Cambridge, with over 150,000 has
the majority of them, while 25,000 are in New York, 10,000 in Manchester and
5,000 each in the British Library and the Bodleian. Although Yiddish became the
spoken language of most Jews in Europe and beyond, historically it had an
inferior status to Hebrew and was chiefly used to address women, children and
males ignorant of Hebrew; significantly, the first book printed in Yiddish
(Cracow, 1534) is a translation of difficult phrases in biblical Hebrew. For
the same reason, early books in Yiddish were badly printed and ephemeral, and
so have survived, if at all, in very few copies. One of the few bibliophiles to
collect these objects systematically was Rabbi David Oppenheimer (see above) so
the Bodleian finds itself with a very important collection of early Yiddish
printed books, in many cases holding the only surviving copy. Later, because of
its proletarian status, Yiddish was the natural choice of language for the
propagation of socialism. The donation in 1981 of the library of the US daily
Yiddish newspaper Morning Freiheit, founded in 1922 by the Jewish section of
the American Communist Party, gave the Bodleian an extensive representation of
the rich Socialist literature of the later nineteenth-century and the first
half of the twentieth.”
1604: Baptism of Edward
Pococke, the Anglican minister who was the chair of Hebrew at Oxford and whose
works included the Porta Mosis,
extracts from the Arabic commentary of Maimonides on the Mishnah
1616: In Amsterdam an
ordinance championed by the States General was implemented that prohibited Jews
from “speaking publicly against the Christian religion or publishing anything
against it, and forbidding them to mar Christians.”
1665(30th of
Cheshvan, 5426): Ephraim Hezekiah Bueno “a distinguished Dutch physician” and
who “in 1650, in conjunction with Jonah Abravanel, published several liturgical
works, among which were a Spanish translation of the Psalms, entitled
"Psalterio de David, en Hebrayco Dicho Thehylim, Transladado con Toda
Fidelidad Verbo de Verbo del Hebrayco," passed away today in Amsterdam.
1673(9th of
Kislev, 5434): Israel Aron Hamerschlag, the Polish born on of Aron Chanoch
Hamerschlag and Rachel Geizvogel and husband of Esther Samuel Liebmann and Unk
Aaron passed away today in Berlin.
1687: The reign of
Mehmed IV the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire during which Safed, the home to
numerous Jewish mystics and sages “was destroyed by Arabs” and the Jews of
Yemen were banished to Mawza Desert came to an end.
1703 (30th of
Cheshvan): Rabbi Joseph Samuel of Frankfor, author Mesorat ha¬Shas, passed away
1735: In South
Carolina, “Mr. Carvallo in Elliot Street advertised for sale ‘a very good Rhode
Island Pacing Horse.’”
1744: Frederick the
Great took Prague in the Wars of Succession and the populace ransacked the
ghetto. He soon left and the Croats returned. They accused the Jews of treason
and again their quarters were sacked, this time with the help of Austrian and
Hungarian soldiers.
1761: In Eistenstadt, ,
Gittlel Eger and Moses Guns gave birth to Akiva Eger, the Hungarian-born Rabbi
and nephew of Rabbi Wolf Eger, whose works include “Tosafot Rabbi Akiva Eiger”
and “Hagahot Rabbi Akiva Eiger” and who married Brendel Halevy Feibelman after
the death of his first wife Glueckchen Margolies.1785: Birthdate of Isaac
Behrends Cohn, the husband of Jette Ballin who was buried at the Horsens Jewish
Cemetery in Denmark after he passed away.
1772: In New York City,
Jacob Aarons and his wife gave birth toe Esther Aarons.
1788: New York native
Moses Myers and Eliza Judah gave birth Abram Myers
1790: Birthdate of
Borgholz, Germany native Lucas Rosenstein, the son of Simon Rosenstein and the
husband of Selka Lebenbaum with whom he had eight children.
1792: In Hilltown, PA,
Mary Vastine and Josiah Lunn gave birth to Joseph Lunn
1799: In Lisbon, ME,
Anne Adams and Moses Gould gave birth to Thomas Adams Gould
1801: Élie
Halévy’s first poem, "Ha-Shalom", a hymn composed while negotiations
were being conducted at Amiens, was sung in the synagogue of Paris, in both
Hebrew and French. The treaty would
bring a temporary end to the war between the French Republic and the United
Kingdom.
1806:
Birthdate of Bohemian “genre and portrait painter Leopold Pollak whose works included “Shepherdess with Lamb”
and “the Shepherd Boy”
1808:
In Charleston, SC, this evening, Rabbi Jacob Suares officiated at the wedding
of Israel Solomons to Esther Ottolengui.
1811:
Birthdate of Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig, a member of the famous Itzig
family. A successful architect, he
converted to the Lutheran religion. He
passed away in 1881.
1811:
Birthdate of Samuel Strauss, the husband of Rosalia Drucker and the father of
Arthur Strauss the Conservative MP “who later joined the Labour Party.”
1815:
Lewis Adolphus Hollander married Sally Rachel Gompertz at the Hambro Synagogue.
1815:
Abraham Solomons married Percelia Moses at the Hambro Synagogue.
1817:
In Aldgate, London, Rachel and Judah Elias Piza gave birth to David Piza, the
husband of Hannah Isaacs and father of Rachel, Rebecca and Judah Piza.
1818:
In Hamburg, the lay leaders of the Jewish community met with the leaders of the
Hamburg Temple and asked them to stop using their new (Reform) prayer book
since "it did not agree with the ritual accepted by all Jewish
communities." The Hamburg Temple rejected the request out of
hand. The Hamburg Temple received an unexpected vote of support in a
letter from Lazarus Riesser who praised the innovations in the prayer-book and
labeled the opponents as "sanctimonious hypocrites."
1825(27th
of Cheshvan): Rabbi Raphael Ashkenazi, author of Mareh Einayim, passed away.
1827:
“Le Roi et le batelier (The King and the oarsman) is a one-act opéra comique by
Fromental Halévy was first performed today at the Opéra Comique in Paris.”
1828:
In Charleston, SC, Rachel and Elias Levy gave birth to Charles Ferdinand Levy,
the husband of Laura Louise Levy.
1828(2nd
of Kislev, 5589): Fifty-six-year-old Salomon Oppenheim Jr., the founder of Sal.
Oppenheim who created his own banking dynasty through the 12 children he had
with wife Therese passed away today.
1831(3rd
of Kislev, 5592): Twenty days before her 79th birthday, Grace Mendes
Seixas, the daughter Lisbon native Isaac Mendes Seixas and London born Rachel
Franks Levy passed away today in New York City.
1834(6th
of Cheshvan, 5596): Parashat Noach
1834(6th
of Cheshvan, 5596): Sixty-five-year-old merchant Emanuel Judah, the Newport
born son of Hillel Judah and husband Grace Seixas passed away today in
Baltimore.
1835(16th
of Cheshvan, 5596): Forty-one-year-old Abraham Benjamin Nones the Philadelphia
born son of Abraham Benjamin Nones and Miriam Marks de Nones and husband of
Maria del Rosario Martinez passed away today in Maracaibo, Venezuela,
1837: Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female
Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College. According to latest
available published reports there are 100 Jewish students among the school’s
2,300 undergraduates. The Mount Holyoke
Jewish Student Union serves as the campus Hillel. At Mount Holyoke, the Jewish
studies program is interdisciplinary in orientation and scope. The study of
Jewish culture draws on a wide variety of disciplines, including English,
German, gender studies, history, international relations, and religion. As an
interdisciplinary endeavor, Jewish Studies provides students with opportunities
to cross intellectual boundaries and to make connections across diverse
cultural phenomena. Religion and theology, Middle East politics, the history of
Jews throughout the world, literature and languages, the Holocaust,
contemporary American culture, the history and role of women--all these and
more are bound up with the study of the Jewish people, their history and
culture.
1837: In Charleston,
following her marriage today, Caroline Jacobs, the eldest daughter of Colonel
Jacobs became Caroline Lazarus.
1838(20th of Cheshvan,
5599): Eighty-year-old author and teacher Peter Beer passed away at Prague.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beer_Peter
1840: In London, Baron
Lionel de Rothschild) and Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild (née von
Rothschild), gave birth to their eldest son Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron
Rothschild, known as “Natty”, the husband of Emma Louisa Rothschild and father
of Walter, Evelina and Charles Rothschild.
1841:Joseph Jonas, the
Exeter, UK, born son of Annie and Benjamin Jonas and his wife Martha Jonas gave
birth to Rosetta Moses, the wife of Dr. Montefiore Moses.
1846: In Wollstein,
Germany, Henry Rosnosky and Selda Schmule gave birth to Isaac Rosnosky, the
husband of Henrietta Verdonoer who served multiple terms as a member of the
Boston Common Council and was the “first Jew” be elected to the Boston City
government and the Massachusetts State Legislature while also serving as
President of Temple Ohabei Shalom and District No. 1 of the Independent Order
of B’nai B’rith.
1847: Twenty-five-year-old
Baltimore native Phineas Horowitz who had graduated from the University of
Maryland in 1845 with a Doctor of Medicine degree was appointed Assistant
Surgeon.
1851(13th of
Cheshvan, 5612): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1852: “Letting the Cat
out of the Budget” published today reported on the efforts of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Benjamin Disraeli, to balance the budget. The author predicts that the Disraeli will
soon move to remove the duty on French wine based on reports that he told his
win merchant that the price of Claret was “too dear…too dear.” The assumption is that the price of Claret is
too high and the only way to reduce it is to cut the tarrif on it. The author also gives Disraeli for always
arriving at his desk early as he pursues his duty indicating that he does not
over imbibe while the House is sitting.
1852: The first meeting
of Harmonie Club, which had been founded by a group of German Jews including
Herman Cohn, Charles Werner and Sigmund Werner who had been denied admission to
the Union Club, was held today “in a rented room on Broome Street with thirty-nine
members in attendance.”
1853(7th of
Cheshvan, 5614): Thirteen-year-old Louisa Ann Sheftall, the Savannah born
daughter of Emanuel and Jane L. Sheftall passed away today.
1853: In the White
Chapel, London, Abigail Moss and Marcus Samuel gave birth to Sir Marcus Samuel,
the Lord Mayor London and founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company.
(Some sites show November 5 as the birthdate)
1854(17th of
Cheshvan, 5615): Ten days before her 37th birthday, Hannah Henricks
passed away today.
1854: Over 200 people
gathered in the City Assembly Rooms on Broadway tonight to celebrate the 11th
anniversary of the German Benevolent Society.
Joseph Seligman, President of the Society presided over the event. Last year’s dinner raised $5,000 of which
$4,400 was given to the needy and $500 was contributed to the Hospital
Fund. This year’s dinner has raised at
least $4,000 in contributions.
1855: The U.S. agreed
not to protest against Swiss discrimination against American Jews. Apparently, it was the price of completing a
trade agreement with the Swiss.
Obviously, America has changed in the way it fights for the rights of
its Jewish citizens.
1855: The United States
ratified a commercial treaty that permitted the Swiss to discriminate against
U.S. citizens who are Jewish.
1857: In Louisiana,
Sarah Block and Charles Henry Jonas gave birth to Joseph B. Jonas who died in
New Orleans just before his thirtieth birthday.
1857: In Marysville,
CA, where “a Hebrew benevolent society” had been functioning since 1852,
Congregation B’nai B’rith was organized and by August of 1860 was serving a
Jewish community that included “23 families” and “105 bachelors.
1860: Two days after he
had passed away, 84-year-old Simeon Samson, the husband of the former Catherine
Davis and father of Rosetta Samson, was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham
Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1863: Sara and Isidor
Lewin Pinner gave birth to Thelka Pinner.
1864: Abraham Lincoln
was re-elected President of the United States, defeating Georgia B. McClellan,
the unsuccessful Union general.
1864: On Election Day,
August Belmont was not allowed to vote because he was charged with having bet
on the election by an official at the polling place. According to George Templeton Strong, a New
York attorney who witnessed the event, “Belmont went off in a range.” Bystanders, most of whom were Union
sympathizers “chuckled over his discomfiture.”
Belmont, who was born Jewish, had supported Democratic candidates and
was identified with the new class of money-men.
1864: Philadelphian
Lyon Levy Emanuel, the brother of Louis Manly Emanuel and a Major in Company A
of the 82nd Regiment completed his three year enlistment during the
Civil War.
1866: Twenty-two-year-old
Nancy Priscilla Mordecai, “the eldest child of Samuel Jefferson and Martha
Louisa "Tarrant" Mordecai” became Nancy Priscilla “Nannie” Mordecai
Cash today when she married Wesley Sheppard Cash in her parents Alabama home.
1866: In Baltimore, MD,
Mary Strauss and Henry Hartman gave birth toe Leon Hartman, the husband of
Ellen Greenbaum and founder in Chicago of the Harman Furniture and Carpet
Company was a trustee of the Jewish Charities of Chicago and a member of Sinai
Temple.
1866: In Manchester,
Rose Emily Henriques and Edward M. Henriques, J.P., the London born son of
Rebecca and David Henriques gave birth to Worcester College, Oxford educated
Classical Scholar Henry Straus Quixano Henriques, the husband of Henrietta
Sarah Henriques and father of Edward and Violet Henriques who was “the Vinerian
Law Scholar at Oxford in 1891, Deputy County Court Judge in the Dorset,
Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset District and active member of the Jewish
community as can by his service as Warden
at the West London Synagogue, Member of the Anglo-Jewish Association and
President of the Tredegar Jewish Literary and Social Society.
1867: In Chicago, Helen
Fellheimer and Nathan Eisendrath gave birth to Johns Hopkins graduate and
Northwestern University-trained surgeon Daniel N. Eisendrath, the husband of
Maude Rosenbaum who was the attending surgeon at three hospitals – Michael
Reese, Chicago Memorial and Cook County.
1868: In Breslau, Louis
Hausdorff and his wife gave birth to German mathematician who would die a
tragic death during the Holocaust.
1870: In Prague, Ignatz
Isak Löwenbein and Antonie Löwenbein gave birth to Julius Löwenbein who died at
Trebline and who was the husband of Julie Lowenbein.
1871: Mayer Woolfson
married Julia Phillips at Farnham, UK.
1874: Rabbi Rubin
officiated at the wedding this evening of Emile Nehimer of Sheldon, SC and
Fannie Rothstein of Providence, R.I.
1876: David Mathew Levy
(Davitchon Effendi) was elected to the Ottoman parliament.
1876: In Aurora,
Illinois, Jacob and Caroline Alschuler gave birth to attorney and Illinois
Court of Claims Judge Benjamin Phillip Alschuler, the husband of Lillian
Alschuler and father of Jacob, Connie, Sam and Dan Alschuler who also was a delegate to the 1932
convention that nominated FDR and a delegate to the state convention that
ratified the 21st amendment ending Prohibition.
1878: Sixty-three-year-old
Hermann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche the anti-Semitic author who used the
pseudonym Sir John Retcliff and provided much of the material that later was in
the infamous “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” passed away today.
1878: It was reported
today that Sir Henry Drummond Wolff has been named England’s Consul-General to
Romania and Mr. William Gifford Palgrave has been named England’s
Consul-General to Bulgaria. Both men are
the sons of Jewish converts. Sir Henry’s father, Joseph Wolff was the son of a
Rabbi from Wellersbach. Palgrave’s father is Sir Francis Palgrave who was the
son of Meyer Cohen, a London stockbroker. The Palgrave name came from a
relative of Sir Francis’ wife.
1879: An editorial
published today that being “events determine little men and great men determine
events” identified the late Rabbi David Einhorn as an example of the latter. It
praised him for becoming a voice for the Reform Judaism when that movement was
in its infancy as well as becoming a spokesman for liberal ideas including the
abolition of slavery.
1879: In New York, the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment met in the Mayor’s office where it adopted
a resolution of pay bills for charitable institutions for the support of
children committed by the Police Magistrates including $646 for the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society.
1879: It was reported
today that Fischl Hirsch has “discovered a very rare Hebrew book,” a Machzor
printed by Abraham Corat in Mantua (Italy) in 1840. The Machzor follows the worship patterns of
the Roman Jewish community. [A resident of Halberstadt, Germany, Hirsch devoted
himself to the collection and sale of Hebrew books and manuscripts. He became a recognized expert in this field
who played a role in the Hebrew book and manuscript collections in the British
Museum, The Bodleian Library and the Rosenthal Library at Amsterdam.]
1879: In Jassy,
Roumania, Moritz and Tillie Burkan gave birth to NYU trained attorney, Nathan
Burkan, a Director of the United Artists Corporation, Tammany Hall Democrat and
member of Temple Beth-El.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2013650152/
1880(5th of
Kislev, 5641): Aaron Samuel Liebermann died today in Syracuse, NY.
1880: Two days after he
had passed away way, 50-year-old John Hart was buried today at the “West Ham
Jewish Cemetery.”
1881: Samuel Shrimski completed his
term as a Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Waitaki.
1881:
Birthdate of Vienna born Jacob Julius Fleck who gained game as Jack Fleck, the “film
director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman is noted for his long-standing professional
partnership with his wife Luise Fleck who co-directed his films with him and
who was interned in Buchenwald and Dachau before escaping to Shanghai where “the
Chinese director Fei Mu filmed with them as a co-production the film Söhne und
Töchter der Welt ("Sons and Daughters of the World") which was the
only collaboration between Chinese and foreign film artists prior to the
foundation of the People's Republic of China.”
1882(NS):
Birthdate of Russian born American composer Lazare
Saminsky a pupil of Lyadov and Rimsky-Korsakov at the St Petersburg
and Moscow conservatories from 1906 until 1910 who moved in 1920 to New York,
where in 1923 he was a founder of the League of Composers. He was musical
director of Temple Emanu-El from 1924 until 1956 and author of several books.
Saminsky wrote Jewish liturgical music and drew on Jewish sources for his five
symphonies, choral music and songs.
http://savethemusic.com/bin/archives.cgi?q=songs&search=title&id=Shir+Hashirim
1883: The 99th
birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore was observed today at the Home for Aged and
Infirm Hebrews in New York City. Today was the 8th of Cheshvan which
was the date on the Hebrew calendar when the Anglo-Jewish philanthropist was
born.
1883: In New York City, the 99th
birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore was observed at the Hebrew Home for the Aged
and Infirmed. As part of the celebration
Rabbi Lavien led the gathering in the “daily service” with special prayers
added in honor of the famed philanthropist.
Rabbi Koehler of Temple Beth-el gave a special address in which he
praised Montefiore’s great generosity.
1883: In Russia, Jacob
and Pauline Barron gave birth to University of Minnesota physician and WW I
Army officer Moses Barron, the husband of Leah Fligelman whom he married in
1919.
https://journals.lww.com/theendocrinologist/Citation/2009/09000/Moses_Barron__1883_1974.1.aspx
1883: “Queen Victoria,
Albert Edward Prince of Wales, and many hundreds of Sir Moses Montefiore’s most
distinguished fellow citizens sent telegrams of congratulation” “as he entered
his 100th year.”
1883: As the British
celebrate the 99th birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore, there are
numerous stories circulating among the English “illustrative of his great
benevolence.” Among them is the tale of how he responded to Edwin Arnold’s
request to help build a hospital for the poor people in Jerusalem. When asked
for money the reply was “What will you have, £50? £500? £5,000? Only name the sum.” The hospital was built
but the hospital was eventually demolished because of a quarrel between the
Greeks and the Turks.
1884: Congratulatory
address from synagogues through the United States and the British Empire will
be presented to Sir Moses Montefiore today on his 100th birthday, as
marked on the Hebrew Calendar.
1885(30th of
Cheshvan, 5646): Just weeks short of his 57th birthday, Albert Jacob
Cardozo passed away. A practicing lawyer, he was a justice of the New York
State Supreme Court, a leader of Congregation Shearith Israel and the father of
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo.
1885: In New York City,
funeral services are scheduled to take place for Jonas Strauss, who was a
partner and brother of Levi Strauss, the man who gave us “Levis.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9504E7DC1E3EEF33A25754C0A9679D94649FD7CF
1886: It was reported
today that The Modern Jew – His Present and Future by Anna Laurens Dawes is now
available for purchase at a cost of $.50. (Dawes was the daughter of a
Republican political leader who served as U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. I cannot find out why this prolific author
chose this particular topic for a book.)
1886: Philip Zalig
Phillips, the son of Joseph Phillips and Charlotte Mozely, was buried today at
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1887: The Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society will host a benefit at the Terrace Garden under the
guidance of Miss Ray Leszynsky, Secretary of the Board of Managers.
1887: A benefit
performance for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society for Children is
scheduled to take place this evening by the Thalia Theatre Company at the
Lexington Avenue Opera House in New York City.
1888: An auction is
scheduled to be held this evening for seats at the new school that is being
opened by Zichron Osher in New York City.
1889: Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
In Montana, from the last decade of the 19th century through WW I
the leading female occupation after housewife was ‘fancy lady or madam.’ In
Butte Ida Lev operated on of the leading houses in the red light district. A Jewish hooker demonstrated her ethnic pride
by taking the professional name of Jew Jess.
She must have been well connected since she was often arrested but
rarely convicted. And you thought it was
all about peddlers turned mercantile merchants.
1889: Joseph Kemp Toole
who would lay the cornerstone for Helena’s Temple Emanu-El in 1890, began
serving as Montana’s first elected governor
1890: In Philadelphia,
PA, Judge Hare heard a case in which Morris Stein a young Jew from Camden was
trying to re-unite with his wife Annie Stein whose Roman Catholic family was
trying to invalidate the marriage.
1890: In the United
Kingdom, Rachel Gluck and Maurice Baum gave birth to Philip Baum who died at
the age of 4 months.
1891: In New York, The
Hebrew Institute’s new building which is located at the corner of Jefferson and
East Broadway was dedicated today. The
building will house The Young Men’s Hebrew Association, The Hebrew Free School
Association and the Aguillar Free Library.
All three of these organizations share in the common goal of
Americanizing the growing number of Jewish immigrants arriving in New York
City.
1892: Republican
William Warner, who lost the Jewish vote due to the anti-Semitism of State
Committeeman Blake, was defeated by William J. Stone in his bid to become
Governor of Missouri.
1892: Grover Cleveland was
elected President for the second time.
Cleveland is the only two-term President to have his terms separated by
the election of another President. This
split always causes confusion in counting American Presidents. During his second term in office, Cleveland
vetoed an immigration bill that contained a literacy test. The bill was aimed at keeping immigrants from
Southern and Eastern Europe out of the United States. Its enactment was opposed by many Jewish
leaders because it would have trapped the Jews of such places as Czarist Russia
in their increasingly anti-Semitic homelands.
1892: “Emil Jeremias
Abraham,” the son of “Jehuda Leib Abraham” and “Katalin Bohm” married “Fannie
Belf”, the daughter of Jakob Moses Belf today in Budapest.
1892: In Hungary,
Ignatius and Charlotte Link Friedmann gave birth to leading psychoanalyst
Therese Benedick, wife of “dermatologist” Tibor Benedick
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/benedek-therese
1893: The Abbey Theatre
which would be acquired by Theatrical Syndicate headed by Charles Frohman in
1896, opened today.
1893(29th of
Cheshvan, 5654): Sixty-five-year-old “19th-century French pianist, organist,
music teacher and composer” passed away today in Paris.
1894: A report
published today claimed that Jacob A. Cantor had lost his bid to represent New
York’s 15th Congressional District because of a rumor that he was
engaged to be married to a professional dance, Loie Fuller. When Cantor, whose wife passed away in 1891,
did not respond to the rumor the women in the district banded together to gain
support for the Republican Philip G. Low. (One has to wonder at the nature of
the smear since Fuller was not Jewish and Cantor depended on Jewish votes for
his election. Cantor would remarry and
would be elected to Congress in the next decade)
1894: In New York, The
Hebrew Institute is scheduled to host a lecture on Switzerland.
1895: Today German
physicist Wilhelm Röntge discovered X-rays (electromagnetic
rays) which “led to the development of radiology, a field that was impacted by
the "quantum exodus" of Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi persecution.”
1896: Birthdate of
Samuel Adelberg, one of the passengers aboard the SS St. Louis, who found
refuge in Belgium and survived WW II.
1896: Three days after
he had passed away, 74-year-old Charles Levy, the husband of Louisa Levy with
whom he had eight children,, was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.”
1896: Herzl accepted
the invitation of the "Austrian Union of Israelites", a middle-class
anti-Zionist organization. His speech is well received.
1897: “Twenty-one
families of Russian Jews left San Francisco for the Wymore Ranch near Dayton,
Nevada to begin working the land for which they had made down payment of
$14,000.
1897: The House
Committee of the Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum met this afternoon.
1897: In Paris, “a man
named Dreyfus who is believed to be a cousin of Captain Dreyfus, the deported
artillery officer imprisoned on an island off the coast of French Guiana; his
wife, formerly Rebecca Fortado Abraham, an American their three daughters” aged
13, 11 and 7 “were found dead this morning at their residence on the Avenue
Marceau.” (As tragic as this entry is, it is interesting to note how they
describe the man who was at the center of one of the major scandals in pre-War
France.)
1897: The two thousand
people were reported today to have attended the New York Hebrew Mutual Benefit
Association banquet included toastmaster Abraham Levy Judge John Henry
McCarthy, Judge Joseph E. Newburger, Judge H.M. Goldfolge, Julius Harburger and
John McIntyre.
1897: “In Memory of
Lewis May” published described the memorial service held at Temple Emanu-El for
the distinguished Jewish leader who passed away unexpectedly in July.
1898: College of
Charleston, SC and Columbia College alum Montague Triest, the Charleston born
son of Hannah Reichman and Maier Triest, who would later serve as President of
the Hebrew Orphan Society of Charles and the President of the Hebrew Benevolent
Society of Charleston married Addie Israel the daughter of Morris Israel today
in a ceremony conducted by Rabbi B.A. Elzas.
https://mappingjewishcharleston.cofc.edu/1910/montague-triest-melvin-m-israel/
1898: Second Precinct
leader Patrick Divver told Tammany Leader Richard Croker that the reason he was
having trouble getting enough voters to turn out today was because “the Hebrew
vote was lacking” to which Croker, who relied on Jewish voters as part of his
base of support, replied that “if the Hebrews were not in the Democratic ranks”
he should have been told about it two weeks ago when it could have done some
good.
1900: In Adelaide,
Australia, “George Solomon Lewis, an accountant from England, and his South
Australian-born wife Ré Lewis, née Isaacs, an elocution teacher” gave birth to
Sir Aubrey Julian Lewis “the first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of
Psychiatry in London and a driving force behind elevating the level of the
profession in the Post WW II world.
1901: Dinah Cassell,
the daughter of Solomon Nathan and Hannah Abrahams and the wife of Bennett
Cassell was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1902(8th of
Cheshvan, 5663): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1902: “Pictures of the
Holy Land” published today provides a review of The Holy Land by John Kelman
which is “an account of his travels in Palestine” that “is of unusual value”
because it is full of first-hand information regarding the country” and the writings
are augment by the watercolor paintings of John Fulleylove.
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-land-John-Kelman/dp/B0008717GG
1903: In Scranton, PA,
“Mr. Louis Lipsky, chairman of the organization committee of the F.A.Z” was
among those who addressed a “mass meeting” sponsored “by the Zionist Council of
Northeastern Pennsylvania.
1903: Birthdate of NYC
native and Columbia trained dentist and oral surgeon Manuel Monash Maslansky,
1904: President Theodore
Roosevelt defeated defeats Alton B Parker.
TR had become President when McKinley had been assassinated. This was his chance to gain office on his
own. Theodore Roosevelt
was the first President to appoint a Jew to a presidential cabinet. In 1906 he
named Oscar S. Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt was
also the first President to contribute his own funds to a Jewish cause. In
1919, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts while President to
settle the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt donated some of his prize money to the
National Jewish Welfare Board.
1905: U.S. Ambassador
White of Morocco wrote a letter describing the treatment of the local Jews. He
stated, "Concurrent testimony positively affirms the intolerance of the
Mohammedan rule in that country toward non-Musselmans. Jews, especially, appear
to suffer from painful and injurious restrictions."
1905: “The Jewish
Defense Association met” tonight “ in the assembly hall of the Educational
Alliance and decided to turn over to Mr. Schiff the funds raised under its
auspices for the relief of the Jewish suffers in Russia and those who
befriended the Jews” so he would see to it that they were used accordingly.
1905: A letter written
from Odessa, Russia concluded “by saying that the distress is alarming” since
“people are dying from starvation and exposure” while “many prosperous Jewish
merchants are reduced to beggary.”
1905: The Bucharest
correspondent of the Daily Mail says that “the towns of Urbat and Calarisz have
been burned and all the Jews perished in the flames.”
1905: “To insure united
action in giving financial aid to the victims of the outrages in Russia, a call
to the Jewish people of America was issued in Chicago tonight by Adolph Kraus,
President of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith who has been in telegraphic
correspondence with the leaders of all the Jewish organizations in the United
States and was authorized to sign the call on behalf of each organization.”
1906: Birthdate of
Nettie Konigsberg, the mother of Allan Stewart Konigsberg, better known as
Woody Allen
1907: In New York, Max
Abrahams and Fannie Danovitch gave birth to Dr. Elias “Ely” Abrahams, a dentist
who practiced in New York but lived in Brooklyn and was “the husband of the
former Violet Dreishpoon and father of Paul Abrahams.
1908: “Henry C. Miner,
proprietor of Miner’s Bowery Theatre and Miner’s Eighth Avenue Theatre, has
joined hands with Boris and Max Thomashefsky to establish a series of theaters
over the country in which only Yiddish plays will be presented.”
1908: Today, at the
second annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee at the Hotel Astor,
Judge Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia was re-elected President and “action was
taken favoring the creation of a united Jewish community of New York.”
1908: Jacob Schiff and
Rabbi Joseph Silverman were among those who gave speeches at memorial service
today for the Percival S. Menken, the President of the YMHA who died last May.
1909(24th of
Cheshvan, 5670): Naftali Freidberg passed away today.
1909(24th of Cheshvan,
5670): Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen, Baronet a British businessman and Conservative
politician passed away after a long illness at his home in Hyde Park Gardens,
London, at the age of 64. “He was the son of Louis Cohen, a stockbroker, and
his wife Rebecca Keyser. After a private education, he entered his father's
firm. Apart from his business activities he was involved in public and
political works and in supporting Jewish charities. In particular he served on
the committees of the Stepney Jewish Schools, the Jews' Orphan Asylum and the
Home for Aged Jews.mIn 1887 his brother, Lionel Louis Cohen, president of the
Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor, died. Benjamin succeeded
him in the post, holding the office until 1900. During his term he was very
successful in raising large sums of money for the charity. He also altered the
board's constitution, allowing women to be members. In the 1880s he was
involved in the resettlement of Russian Jews, and supported proto-Zionist groups
seeking to settle in Palestine. In 1889
he was elected as one of the members of the first London County Council,
representing the City of London for the Conservative-supported Moderate Party.
He retained the seat until 1904. His brothers, Alfred and Nathaniel, were also
members of the council. At the 1892 general election he was elected to the
Commons as Unionist Member of Parliament for Islington East. He held the seat
for eleven years, until he was defeated in the Liberal landslide of 1906. In
1905 he was created a baronet "of Highfield in the parish of Shoreham and
county of Kent"
1910: It was reported
today “Hebrew businessman, religious leaders and philanthropists” expressed
their indignation by the Hearst newspapers that “indorsement of John A Dix by
members of the Union League Club” means he must have “anti-Semitic sympathies since
the Hearst newspapers have charged that there anti-Semitic Sympathizers in the
Union League.”
1910(6th of
Cheshvan, 5671): Charles Henry Jonas, the Kentucky born son of Louisa Block and
Abraham Jonas, the husband of Sarah de pass Block and the father of Louise,
Joseph, Charles and Isabelle Jonas, passed away today in New Orleans.
1911: Birthdate of Tel
Aviv native Yair Sprinzak who served in the Knesset from 1988 to 1992.
1911: Lord Rothschild
celebrated his 71st birthday.
1912: Birthdate of
Opeln, Germany native Kurt Kassell who gained fame as Curtis Cassell, a rabbi
who served in Germany, the United Kingdom and Rhodesia and who had fled Nazi
Germany to live in England where he served in the Royal Pioneer Corps.
1912: “Jack A. Dryfoos,
a wealthy hosiery manufacturer who was also the treasurer of a paper novelty
manufacturing company” and his wife gave birth to Orville Eugen Dryfoos the
husband of “Marian Sulzberger and the publisher of The New York Times from 1961 until he passed away in 1963.
1913:
The Arab newspaper Falastin (Palestine) printed a poem by Sheikh
Suleiman al-Taji, a founder of the Jaffa based Ottoman Patriotic Party entitled
"The Zionist Danger." Falstin, an anti-Zionist newspaper,
was first published in 1911.
1913:
Birthdate of New York native Robert Strauss whose most memorable performance
may have been as “Animal” in the POW classic “Stalag 17”
1913:
Birthdate of New York native Max Desfor, the son of Jewish immigrants who went
on to become a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer.
1914:
In Ohio, Olga Landesco and Alexander A. Landesco, the Romanian born graduate of
the University of Wisconsin Law School, founder of Mohawk State Bank of Ohio
and longtime employee of Lazard Feres and Company gave birth to their older
son, Alexander A. Landesco, Jr.
1914:
Thirty-five-year-old George Zepin, the Kiev born son of Otto and Hannah
(Matzov) Zepin and HUC trained rabbi who served Director of Synagogue and
School Extension and Secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
married Laura Lehman today in Cincinnati, OH.
1915:
“3,000,000 Jews Ruined” published today quoted Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, the
president of the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis as saying there are three
million Jews in Poland “who have been economically ruined while the number of
Jewish casualties in that section of the war zone can be placed at about
100,000.”
1915:
It was reported today that more money was raised for the 600 victims of the
Kishinev Pogroms than have been raised to help the suffering Jews in Eastern
Europe.
1915:
Louis D. Brandeis addressed the members of the Crotona Lodge of the Independent
Order of the B’rith Abraham…on Zionism and the condition of the Jews today in
the warring countries” where “he said that 7,000,000 Jews in Europe were
homeless and starving and that after the war the Jews would be even worse off
than the Belgians.”
1916:
The “Warheit” a Jewish newspaper, said today “that the Jewish vote had been
five to one for President Wilson and that “the best indication that the Jewish
vote went for the President was contained in the returns from the Twelfth
Congressional District where the proportion of Jewish voters is to be the
heaviest.”
1917:In
the wake of the Bolshevik revolt against the Kerensky government, Herman
Bernstein, the Jewish newspaper who had been in Petrograd during the riots last
July said “he was confident that Trotsky was only the agent of Lenin” who had
been “directed the revolt from hiding” and that they “can’t win because Lenin
and Trotsky are both extremely unpopular.”
1917: The British
bombed the German airfield at El-tine destroying 11 planes on the ground and
frightening the Turkish garrison in to fleeing.
1917: As the British
“Egyptian Expeditionary Force” continued its southern offensive in the Sinai
and Palestine, The Desert Mounted Corps, the Australian Mounted Division and
the 5th Mounted Brigade capture a series of “water holes” as they
pursued the retreating Ottoman forces.
1917: As of this
evening “all of the Ottoman positions of the Gaza to Beersheba line had been
captured the Ottoman 8th Army was in full retreat.”
1917: On the second day
of the Russian Revolution which would have such a great impact on the Jews the
Second Congress of Soviets “elected a Council of People's Commissars with Lenin
as leader as the basis of a new Soviet Government” and began arresting members
of opposition parties.
1918: As WW I staggered
to an end German authorities left Warsaw opening the way for the creation of a
truly independent Poland – which would prove to be a blessing and then a curse
for millions of Jews.
1918: In Germany,
Jewish political leader Kurt Eisner led his followers in a peaceful takeover of
the Bavarian Diet.
1918(4th of
Kislev, 5679): Second Lieutenant Thomas Maurice Cummins of Johannesburg passed
away today.
1918(4th of
Kislev, 5679): Lieutenant Sonneberg of South Africa passed away today.
1918: In San Francisco,
Roland Schiller, “a clothing manufacturer” and the former Lucille Bloch gave
birth to Emmy award winning writer Robert Achille Schiller who wrote for radio
and television in the “golden age” of both entertainment mediums.
1919(15th of
Cheshvan, 5680): Parashat Vayera
1919(15th of
Cheshvan, 5680): Russian born Solomon Kruger, the son of Yosef Mordechai Kruger
and the husband of Gittel Kruger with whom he had three children – Phillip,
Hannah, and Harry – who in 1904 came to the United States where he served as an
Orthodox Rabbi in Baltimore, passed away today.
https://kevarim.com/rabbi-yekusiel-zev-kruger/
1919: “According to an
open letter to the allied nations, signed by Polish leaders, which was made
public yesterday” it is asserted that reports of a Jewish pogrom after the
liberation of Vilna in which 2,000 Jews were killed” was an invention of the
German press and that “an American correspondent” has been quoted as saying the
reports were “baseless “ and that the 34 Jews killed Lemberg had been “shooting
at the Polish troops.
1920: The seventh
annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of the United States and Canada
is scheduled to open in Baltimore today.
1920: The second day of
the Triennial Convention of the Jewish Women “will be largely devoted to the
regular business of the convention.
1920(27th of
Cheshvan, 5681): Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, the Russian Jewish playwright and
author who used the pseudonym S. Ansky passed away today.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/Ansky/
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Rapoport_Shloyme_Zaynvl
1921: Beatrix (née Lewkowitz)
and Morris J. Saks gave birth to Director Gene Saks
whose credits include Cactus Flower, Bye Bye Birdie and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
1921: In the aftermath
of WW I,
ratifications were exchanged today in Vienna
of the U.S. – Austrian Peace Treaty which had been made necessary by the
Senate’s rejection of the treaties that had negotiated in 1919 to end the war.
1921: In New York,
Cracow native Max Mirish and the former Josephine Urbach gave birth to Oscar
winning producer Walter Mortimer Mirisch who was responsible for bringing such
classics as The Great Escape, In the Heat of the Night and The Magnificent Seven
to the Big Screen.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-mirisch17-2008jun17-story.html
1921: In New York, the
former Beatrix Lewkotwitz and gave birth to Jean Michael Sakes, the graduate of
Cornell University and WW War II member of the Navy who took part in the Normandy
Landings who gained fame as Gene Saks, the “director, actor and inductee of the American
Theatre Hall of Fame” and the husband of actress Bea Arthur, star of the sitcom
“Maude” who won three Tony Awards for directing “I Love My Wife,” “Brighton
Beach Memoirs” and “Biloxi Blues.”
1922: Dr. Arthur
Ruppin, said to be the foremost authority on the economic situation in
Palestine, declared tonight at the Hotel Astor in his first address to American
Zionists that Palestine now offers sound investments with opportunities for
profit - capital is safe there and investors are assured of good returns.
1923: Adolf Hitler
launched his first attempt to seize power with a failed coup in Munich,
Germany, that came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch. Hitler would be imprisoned for this failed
attempt at revolution. While he was in
prison, where he was treated like a celebrity, he wrote Mein Kampf.
1924: Birthdate of
Chicago born attorney and U.S. Army Air Force veteran Sidney Irving Lezak who
served as the U.S. Attorney for Oregon from 1961 to 1982/
1925(21st of
Cheshvan, 5686): Sixty-two-year-old Prague native Rosa Volk, the daughter of
Leopold and Sofie Sara Pick, the “wife of Alexander Volk” and “the mother of
Margarete Volk” passed away today in Vienna.
1926: “Oh, Kay! a
musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, premiered today
at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway where it “ran for 256 performances.
1926: Featherweight
Harry Blitman fought and won his sixth straight bout.
1926: In New York,
Harry and Freda Sakler gave birth to Susan Sylvia Chayefsky, the wife of
playwright Paddy Cahyefsky.
1927: In Manhattan,
Mitzi (née Epstein) and Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., the founder of Advance
Publications gave birth to Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr who along
with his brother managed and grew the publication empire created by his father.
1927: In Budapest,
Katharina Adler Munk and Lajos "Louis" Munk gave birth to Peter Munk
one of those who escaped aboard the “Kastner Train” who founded Barrick Gold,
“the world’s largest gold-mining company.”
(As reported by Ian Austen)
1928: Pinky Silverberg
lost to “Kid Chocolate” a future Featherweight Champion in ten round bout at
New York’s St. Nicholas Arena.
1928: “Treasure Girl,” with
music by George and Ira Gershwin opened on Broadway today at the Alvin Theatre.
1928: Birthdate of
Detroit native Natalie Zemon Davis the holder of PhD from the University of
Michigan who overcame the Red Scare in the United States to become an award
winning historian and “Adjunct Professor of History and Anthropology and
Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.”
1928:
At noon today, Dr. Alexander Lyons, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati
and an HUC ordained rabbi, is scheduled to officiate at the marriage of Esther
B. Lewis and Arthur Levy at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel followed by “a breakfast for
the family and intimate friends.
1928: Birthdate of Edward René David “widely known as Teddy Goldsmith, an
Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher.”
1929: With the removal
of the curfew, residents of Jerusalem are free to move about the city at night
for the first time in three months. The
curfew had been put in place in response to a wave of Arab violence that had
begun in August and included attacks on the ancient Jewish communities at
Hebren and Safed.
1929: The British
Commission of Inquiry canceled its hearings scheduled to be held in Jerusalem
today and instead took an auto trip to Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
1929: Birthdate of
Bertrand “Bert” Russell Berns the native New Yorker who was a prominent
songwriter and record producer.
1930(17th of
Cheshvan, 5691): Parashat Vayer
1930: “The White Horse
Inn” an operetta based on a comedy by Oscar Blumenthal that was created by
Ralph Benatzky who was not Jewish but who had two Jewish wives, premiered today
in Berlin.
1931: In Toronto,
Ontario, two Jews from Austria, “Anna (née Cohn) and Max Safer, an upholsterer”
gave birth to popular, long time CBS correspondent Morley Safer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/business/media/morley-safer-dies.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-morley-safer-dies-at-84/
1931: “A Lady’s
Morals,” a Jenny Lind based biopic produced by Irving Thalberg was released
today in the United States.
1931: Winston Churchill
published an article in the Sunday
Chronicle about Moses that reflected his fascination with Jewish history
and the concept that Jews’ monotheism and ethics were a central factor in the
evolution and maintenance of modern civilization.
1932: U.S. premiere of Kameradschaft,
a film about German miners rescuing French miners co-starring Alexander
Granach.
1932: New York Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Roosevelt’s New Deal would prove a boon and
tonic for large segments of the American Jewish Community. His election and his New Deal prevented the
rise of fascism and communism in the United States, neither of which would have
been good for the Jews.
1932: Herbert Lehman
was elected governor of New York.
1932: Socialist
Candidate Morris Hillquit placed third in the New York City mayoral election.
1932: As teachers
continued their protest in an attempt to secure back pay, the Mizrachi
organization approved the resignation of Hechsel Farbstein from the Jewish
Agency Executive at a “stormy meeting” this evening. “Mr. Farbstein was joined in his resignation
by Emanuel Neumann of New York.” Both
were protesting against budget cuts.
1933: “Dr. Leo Baeck of
Berlin and Dr. Julius Brodnitz, the leader of the Central Union of German
Citizens of the Jewish faith delivered the eulogies” today at the funeral “of
Dr. Ludwig Tietz the noted surgeon and leader of the Jewish Youth Association”
which was attended by “hundreds of prominent German Jews and delegates from all
of the German provinces.”
1933: Captain Georg
Schmitt, who arrived in the United States on November 6 with authority from
Berlin to perfect the organization of the German Stahlhelm in this country and
to coordinate it with other Nazi bodies in support of the New Germany, was
subpoenaed today by George Z. Medalie, United States Attorney.”
1934: At Weissensee,
near Berlin, “Hundreds of prominent German Jews and delegates from all the
German provinces attended the funeral today of Dr. Ludwig Tietz, noted surgeon
and leader of the Jewish Youth Association of Berman.
1934: In France,
Georges Mandel began serving as Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones.
1935: American labor
leaders formed the
1935: “Mutiny on the
Bounty” produced by Irving Thalberg with music by Walter Jurmann was released
in the United States today by MGM.
1935: Birthdate of
Kalisch, Poland native and death camp survivor Acting Sgt. “Issy Rondell” who
joined the British Army and served with a “special airborne unit during the
Korean War
1936: The Maccabees,
the champion soccer team from Palestine, plays the final contest of their U.S.
tour today at Yankee Stadium. The game
is the 11th contest of the tour which has left the Jewish team with
a record of 6, 2 and 2.
1936(23rd of
Cheshvan, 5697): Fifty-one-year-old Isidore Pinckowitz, the Romanian born
butcher who parlayed selling hot dogs into the creation the iconic Kosher
Company, Hebrew National passed away today after which he was interred at Mount
Hebron Cemetery.
1936: Harry Roy (born
Harry Lipman) and his orchestra recorded Al Jolson’s “Avalon.”
1936: Two hundred
thousand people are expected today’s “congress” of “the Jorga-Cuza anti-Semitic
groups in Bucharest for which the government reportedly issued free railway
tickets to bring supporters to the city.
1936: “About 200,000
persons, mostly peasants, were brought” to Bucharest “today by special trains
with the government's approval, to take part in an anti-Semitic and pro-Fascist
demonstration arranged by the National Christian party, which is an amalgamation
of the Fascist and anti-Semitic groups of Octavian Goga and A.C. Cuza.”
1936: Harry “Newman
lateraled for both of Brooklyn's touchdowns and kicked both extra points in a
15–14 loss to the Cleveland Rams.”
1936: In address at a
dinner marking the “opening of the 20th annual campaign of the
Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, Governor Lehman
said that in his “opinion nothing could be more unsound or dangerous than the
belief” that government through social security or relief activities could ever
take the place of private welfare agencies.”
1936 “The celebration
of the anniversary of Hitler’s beer-hall putsch was opened tonight with a
reunion of the ‘Old Guard’ in the historic Buergerbraeukeller” and speech by
the Chancellor that included at least two attack lines on the Jews.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that a new wave of anti-Jewish excesses
was reported from various parts of Poland. In Vilna Jewish students were beaten
by their gentile colleagues.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that after a
heated debate, the Hadassah Convention in Atlantic City adopted a resolution
demanding that the Zionist Executive should negotiate with the British
government to affect a constructive policy for the complete implementation of
the Palestinian Mandate over an undivided Palestine. Many Zionists and
supporters of Israel were opposed to the partition of Palestine. As far as they were concerned, the British
had already partitioned Palestine when it created the nation of Trans-Jordan
from the Mandatory land. Since the Arabs
had this state, these Jews felt that the British should honor the spirit of the
Balfour Declaration leave those living in the Yishuv with the rest.
1937: The Eternal Jew'
exhibition opened in Nuremberg. It
portrayed the Jew as the leaders of international Bolshevism, dedicated to
destroying Germany
1938: In Great Britain,
the Woodhead Report which opposed the creation of independent Jewish and Arab
states in Palestine was submitted to Parliament
1938: Georg Elsner’s
attempt to kill Hitler today, which is the subject of the movie “13 minutes”
failed.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/this-man-almost-killed-hitler-an-incredible-true-story/
1938: Doctors struggled
to save the life of Ernst von Rath, the junior level German embassy official
who was under Gestapo investigation for pro Jewish activity when he was shot
yesterday by Herschel Grynszpan
1938: Wilfred Israel
called on the British Embassy in Berlin in an attempt to repudiate Hirsch
Grynszpan's actions.
1938: Henry Horner,
Governor of Illinois, suffered a major health setback while listening to the
election results at the Congress Hotel in Chicago.
1939: “Life With
Father” the comedy produced by Oscar Serlin which became “the longest-running
non-musical play on Broadway” opened at the Empire Theatre today.
1939: Maurice Duplessis
who as Premier of the Province of Quebec issued the warrant which empowered the
provincial police to raid “the cultural section of the Canadian Labor Circle, a
Jewish fraternal organization” during which they removed “eight hundred books
of the 950-volume library maintained by Jewish cultural circle” completed his
service as the 16th Premier of Quebec.
1939(26th of
Cheshvan, 5700): Sixty-year-old Chicago born and Rush Medical College trained
physician and professor of laryngology and otology at Rush Medical College from
1924 to1939 Robert Sonnenschein passed away today.
1939: “Two months after
Germany invaded Poland, Georg Elser, a young Bavarian carpenter” who had become
“convinced that the top Nazi leadership had to be eliminated to end the war”
placed a bomb behind a lectern in a beer hall where Hitler was scheduled to
speak. Hitler escaped injury because he left the hall early but seven others
were killed. For more see the film “Elser: 13 Minutes.”
1940(7th of
Cheshvan, 5701): Sixty-two year old CCNY trained investment banker Arthur
Mathew Lamport, the Franklin Falls, NY born son of Nathan and Sarah Goldenheim
Lamport and unofficial economics advisor to President Roosevelt who was
national treasurer of the United Palestine Appeal, co-treasurer of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs and the husband of “the former
Sadie Payson” with whom he had three children – Harold, Helen and Natalie –
passed away today.
1940: “The Mark of Zorro”
which “was nominated for an Academy Award for Best original score” thanks to
composer Alfred Newman was released today in the United States.
1941: A Jewish ghetto
at Lvov, Ukraine, was established today.
1941: In Manhattan,
attorney Jacob Goldsmith and his wife, grade school teacher Dorothy Markowitz
gave birth to Susan Jane Goldsmith who gained fame as political scientist Susan
Tolchin
1942: The Jews from
Drancy, France, arrive by train at Auschwitz, where 227 are assigned to forced
labor and 773 are gassed.
1942: During World War II, Allied Operation Torch landings took
place on the Algerian coast and incidentally ensure the safety of 117,000
Algerian Jews. Algerian-Jewish resistance armed by the United States, helped
limit the impact of the Vichy French response to the Allied landings.
1942: Lt. Commander Arthur M. Erhsler served “as pilot of plane in Escort
Scouting Squadron Twenty-Nine attached to the U.S.S. Santee when the “assault
on the occupation of French Morocco” began today.
1942: Columbia “signed Zoltan Korda, brother of Alexander Korda, and
director of his United Artists productions, "The Four Feathers,"
"Drums," "The Thief of Bagdad" and "The Jungle
Book," to direct a newly scheduled Melvyn Douglas vehicle,
"Sahara," which will deal with the present Libyan campaign by the
United Nations against General Rommel.”
1942: José Aboulker “led the occupation of the main strategic points in
Algiers by 377 members of the Resistance (315 of them were Jewish), seizing the
central police station, with his deputy Bernard Karsenty and the help of Guy
Calvet and Superintendent Achiary.”
1942: In Tripoli, Libya,
German occupiers pressed 2600 Jews into forced labor to build military roads.
1943: Birthdate of Tel
Aviv native Boaz Davison, the Israeli “director, producer and screenwriter” who
learned the basics of his craft t the London Film School.
1944: The Stern Gang
assassinates Lord Walter Moyne, Britain's minister of state in the Middle East.
The Stern Gang was named for its founder Avraham Stern. The Stern Gang was in 1940 by former members
of the Irgun. They were opposed to the
Irgun’s decision to join with the Haganah which meant setting aside the fight
with the British to fight the Nazis. Stern was killed by British security
forces. The Stern Gang negotiated with the Nazis offering to work with the
Germans in a fight against the British if the Nazis would support the creation
of a Jewish state. But they assassinated
Lord Moyne, Britain’s leading official in Egypt because of his association with
anti-Semitic Arab groups. The Stern Gang
was branded as terrorists by the Yishuv.
On the other hand, Yitzchak Shamir, a member of the Stern Gang would
follow Begin as Prime Minister in Israel.
1944 Germans initiate
a death march of Jews from Budapest to the Austrian border. Raoul Wallenberg's
intervention saved thousands of Jews but thousands more continue the trek that
would lead to Auschwitz.
1944 John W. Pehle,
head of the War Refugee Board who has delayed for months a request that
Auschwitz be bombed, changed his mind. He argued that bombing would destroy the
gas chambers as well as German factories and soldiers in the area, encourage
resistance, and free prisoners. Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy
rejected Pehle's reasoning, erroneously arguing that bombing Auschwitz will
hinder the war effort.
1944: Nazi collaborator
Karoly (Charles) Zentai murdered a Jewish teenager named Peter Balazs in
Budapest. Zentai served in a unit of the Hungarian army that was active in
hunts for Jews in Budapest in the fall of 1944 when the fascist Arrow Cross
came to power. Balazs was murdered because Zentai caught him riding on a
streetcar in Budapest without the required yellow star sewn on his coat. Balazs
and Karoly grew up in the suburb of Budafolk, so Zanti knew that the teenager
was Jewish and violating Nazi law.
1944: The U.S.N. Drum
(SS-228) a submarine under skippered by Commander Maurice H Rindskopf completed
its 11th war patrol which was spent “In enemy controlled water of
the Luzon Straits in the Philippines.”
Rindskopf, who rose to the rank of Rear Admiral, was awarded the Navy
Cross for his gallantry shown during the dangerous mission during which he sunk
20,000 tons of enemy shipping.
1945: General Sir Alan
Gordon Cunningham is appointed high commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan.
1945: Dr. Izzat George
Tannous, head of Arab Office in London, says Truman recommendation for Jewish
immigration to Palestine was made without consulting Arabs and denounces
Zionism.
1946: “The
Hebrew Committee of National Liberation a group of non-Zionist Palestinian Jews
requested Premier-President Georges Bidault today to instruct the French
delegation to the United Nations General Assembly to support a move to place
the Palestine question on the Assembly agenda.”
1947: The
University of Michigan, led by Dan Dworsky who played “linebacker, fullback and
center” defeated the University of Indiana for their seventh straight win of
the season
1947: According to
eyewitness reports The Pan Crescent and the Pan York which are carrying a total
of 12,000 emigrants are preparing to sailing from Turkey to Palestine in what
would be the “largest unauthorized transports of Jewish refugees to Palestine.
1948: It was announced
today that “Jack Benny has accepted new contract terms proposed by the National
Broadcasting Company, with the result that he will continue to be heard on the
NBC network at 7 P.M. Sundays. The network submitted the proposals after the
Columbia Broadcasting System sought to induce the comedian to shift the base of
his activities to the CBS network on Sundays.”
1948: Following the first census by the government
of Israel, the Jewish homeland was found to contain 712,000 Jews and 68,000
Arabs.
1949: Today, “it was finally revealed that the Israeli government
was airlifting to the Holy Land more than 40,000 Yemenite Jews in a clandestine
operation known Operation Wings of Eagles or Operation Magic Carpet, which began
in December 1948 and lasted until December 1949, with minor waves of aliya
taking place in the 1950s. Operation
Magic Carpet, which was one of the great moments of modern Jewish
history. At the moment of its birth,
Israel immediately established itself as haven for Jews throughout the world. Operation Magic Carpet was the name
given to the Israeli Airlift that flew 60,000 Jews from Yemen to Israel. Golda Meir, who would eventually become Prime
Minister of Israel, would go out to the airport and greet Israel’s newest
citizens. She said she marveled at their
courage and endurance. She asked one
elderly chap if he had ever seen an airplane before. He told her he had
not. She asked him if was afraid. He said he was not afraid. After all, this had all been foretold in the
Book of Isaiah. “They shall mount up on wings of eagles.” And then he stood there and recited the
entire passage from Chapter Forty of the Book of Isaiah. Part of this is found in this week’s
haftarah, “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles…” If
you can ever read this haftarah again without getting a lump in your throat,
you are a better person than I am.
1949: The New York Herald Tribune revealed
that tens of thousands of Jews had been moved dramatically from Yemen to the
then British colony of Aden and were flown to Israel from there. The operation
bore the legendary name "Magic Carpet." The immigrants themselves
prefer to describe the event with a biblical image: "On the wings of
eagles." Israel's military censor only permitted publication of the
operation's details once they were published abroad. The scoop belonged to U.S.
reporter Ruth Gruber, who had been invited to join one of the flights from
Yemen as the guest of the Joint Distribution Committee. A disagreement arose as
to whether she had been invited to write "for publication," or only
"for background" information.
1949: Republican
Stanley M. Isaacs was elected to the New York City Council
1949: U.S premiere of
“All The King’s Men” produced, directed and written by Robert Rossen with music
by Louis Gruenberg.
1950(28th of
Cheshvan, 5711): Forty-year-old Harrisonburg, VA born George Washington Law
School graduate Maurice D. Rosenberg, the member of the Democratic Party and a
member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing the City of Alexandria
who “served on the executive committee of B’nai B’rith for many years, passed
away today.
1950: “The Lady’s Not
for Burning” co-starring Claire Bloom opened at the Royale Theatre.
1950(28th of
Cheshvan, 5711): Thirty two year old Bernice Herstein Durst, the wife real
estate investor and “inventor of the National Debt Clock” Seymour Bernard Durst
and mother of Wendy, Thomas, Douglas and Robert Durst “fell or jumped to her
death” at the “family home in Scarsdale, NY.”
1951: “Quo Vadis” a big
screen biblical epic directed by Mervyn LeRoy, produced by Sam Zimbalist with a
script by S.N. Berhman and Sonya Levien was released in the United States
today.
1951: “A year-end
dividend of 25 cents a shar on the common stock has been declared by the
directors of De. Emil Klein Company, Inc.
1954: Roman Hruska, the
Republican who in defending the appointment of G. Harold Carswell to the
Supreme Court acknowledged his mediocrity by saying that mediocre people are
entitled to a little representation on the High Court because “We can't have
all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos” serving on the Highest Court in the
United States finished serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Nebraska’s 2nd distict.
1954: Roman Hruska, the
Republican who in defending the appointment of G. Harold Carswell to the
Supreme Court acknowledged his mediocrity by saying that mediocre people are
entitled to a little representation on the High Court because “We can't have
all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos” serving on the Highest Court in the
United States began his career today as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska.
1955: It was reported
today that chairman Jerome I Udell has announced that Milton Kamen will be the
new president of Max Udell Sons, and Company, and that at the age of 34, Kamen
will be “the youngest president in the history of the sixty-nine-year old men’s
manufacturing coner.
1956: Six Israelis were
wounded when gunmen opened fire on a train, attacked cars and blew up wells, in
the North and Center of Israel.
1957: “The Story of
Mankind” the film version the book by the same name, directed, produced and
written by Irwin Allen was released in the United States today.
1958: Republican
Stanley M. Isaacs, was elected to the New York City Council where he serve as
the Minority Leader.
1958(25th of
Cheshvan, 5719): Parashat Chayei Sara
1958(25th of
Cheshvan, 5719): Seventy-nine year old CCNY and NYU Law School graduate Dr.
Gabriel Davidson, the “former managing director of the Jewish Agricultural
Society, author of Our Jewish Farmers and an active member of the Jewish
community as can be seen by his membership in the American Jewish Historical
Society and the American Friends of the Hebrew University” whose wife Anna
passed away in 1947 succumbed to “a heart ailment” today at Parsons Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/11/09/92655404.pdf
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-agricultural-and-industrial-aid-society
1959(7th of
Cheshvan, 5720): Fifty-nine year old Joseph “Jack” Rothenberg the Austrian born
son of Morris and Fannie Rothenberg who
married Ann Bodner Rothenber after the death of Bertha “Betty” Drube Rothenberg
passed away today in the Bronx after which he was buried in Beth Israel
Memorial Park.
1960: In Montreal,
David Libman and Goldie Araonovitch gave birth to Robert Libman, architect
turned politician who served as a mayor and as a member of the National
Assembly of Quebec and who has three children – Kevin, Daniel and Jonathan –
with his wife the former Joanne Shapir.
1960: In one of the closest
elections on record, John Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon to become President of
the United States. Support of Jewish voters was critical to electing America’s
first Roman Catholic to the White House. Kennedy named two Jews to his cabinet - Abraham
Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Arthur Goldberg as
Secretary of Labor. Kennedy was the only President for whom a national Jewish
Award was named. The annual peace award of the Synagogue Council of America was
re-named the John F. Kennedy Peace Award after his assassination in 1963.
1962(11th of Cheshvan, 5723): On the day after celebrating his
83rd birthday MK Mordechai Nurock passed away. An ordained Rabbi who earned a Doctorate in
Psychology, he was Israel’s first Minister of Postal Services which is now
known as Minister of Communication.
1962: A remake of “Mutiny Bounty” directed by Lewis Milestone
and produced by Aaron Rosenberg was released in the United States by MGM.
1962: Shalom-Avraham
Shaki, the native of Yemen who made Aliyah in 1914 became an MK for the first
time, replace the late Mordechai Nurock.
1964(3rd of Kislev, 5725): Ninety-six-year-old NYU
trained mathematician Solomon Jaffe the oldest living actuary in the United
States who had retired in 1933 after working as an assistant actuary with
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York in 1933 passed away today.
1965: The “Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965” which “was
introduced to Parliament as a private member's bill by Sydney Silverman MP, the
Liverpool born son of impoverished “immigrant Jewish parents from Jassy Romania,”
received Royal assent today.
1965: “The Eleanor Roosevelt Story,” an American biographical
documentary film directed by Richard Kaplan the Manhattan born Jewish son of
the former Natalie Blaustein and Benjamin Kaplan and produced by Sidney Glazer “the
second of three sons born to Jewish émigré parents Jake Glazier and Sophie
Schekid from Minsk was released today in the United Stated.
1966(25th of Cheshvan, 5727): Seventy-five-year-old
Dr. Bernhard Zondek passed away. Born in German, the pioneer in modern
endocrinology made Aliyah in 1934 and won the Israel Prize in medicine in 1958.
1966: “Israeli police officials said to that the Israeli
Security Services tipped off the United States and Zambian authorities about a
plot to blow up a Zambian bridge in which five persons have been arrested in
Israel and two in the United States.” (JTA)
1966: “Madame X” a film version of the French play by the same
name produced by Ross Hunter was released today in the United States.
1966(25th of Cheshvan, 5727): Harvard Dental School
professor David Weisberger, the Dunmore, CT native who earned a DMD from
Harvard and an MD from Yale passed away today.
1967: Arthur A. Klotz “who had unanimous endorsement” was reelected
to service as the judge of Fourth District Civil Court in Manhattan.
1970: This morning at Temple
Sinai in Washington, DC, Rabbi Eugen Lipman officiated at the wedding Mrs.
Bernice Schwartman Taube, the widow of Jersey City native and holder of a Ph.D.
from the University of California Martin Taube, the “chairman of the board and
founder of Documentation, Inc.” and lecturer in documentation at Chicago and
Columbia universities who was the author Computers and Common Sense, the Myth
of the Thinking Machines and attorney Isaiah L. Kenen, “a member of Israel’s
charter delegation to the United Nations” and the editor of “The Near East
Report.”
1972: HBO (Home Box
Office), the first premium cable television network in the U.S., was launched.
1972: Birthdate of Yavilah McCoy, the African-American Jew
educated in Crown Heights and the founder of “Ayecha.”
https://blackandjewish.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/people-yavilah-mccoy/
1973: “In the Boom Boom Room” directed by Joseph Papp and
co-starring Madeline Khan opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York.
1974: “Cinderella Liberty” an off-beat comedy-drama directed and
produced by Mark Rydell and starring James Caan and Eli Wallach was released in
Finland.
1974: Soviet Jewish emigration to Israel declined by 37% to
14,822 in the first 10 months of 1974 compared with the same period in 1973,
according to the Committee for European Migration, Geneva.
1975(4th of Kislev, 5736): Esther Vilenska passed away. Born at
Vilnius in 1918, she made Aliyah in 1938. Vilenska became a “communist
politician, journalist and author who served as a member of the Knesset for
Maki between 1951 and 1959 and then again from 1961 to 1965.”
1977: Having defeated incumbent Mayor Abraham Beame in the
Democratic primary, Ed Koch was elected Mayor of New York today.
1977: The Jerusalem Post
reported that after the Katyusha bombing of Nahariya in which two local
residents were killed, Israeli gunners blasted Palestinian terrorist
strongholds in South Lebanon. This is an
example of the inability of the government of Lebanon to control its
borders. The PLO set up a state within a
state in southern Lebanon. It was these
conditions that would finally force the Israelis to cross the border in the
early 1980’s and eventually set up a buffer state on the border with Lebanon.
1978: In Belize,
Frances Imeon Myvette and Dean Barrow, gave birth to Jamal Michael Barrow, the
rapper known as Shyne who legally had his name to changed Moses Michael Levi.
1978:”Magic” the
cinematic version of the book by the same name written by William Goldman who
also authored the script which was produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard P.
Levine with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United States today.
1978(8th of
Cheshvan, 5739): Seventy-six year old Latvian born American “poet, critic and
educator” Eli Siegel, the founder of Aesthetic Realism passed away today.
https://aestheticrealism.org/about-us/eli-siegel-founder/
https://michaelbluejay.com/x/suicide.html
1979(18th of
Cheshvan, 5740): Sixty-three year old English actor Sydney Tafler passed away
today after which he was buried at the Golders Green Jewish Cemetery in London
Borough.
https://www.silversirens.co.uk/actors-actresses/sydney-tafler/
1980(29th of
Cheshvan, 5741): Parashat Toldot
1980(29th of
Cheshvan, 5741): Nine days before what would have been his 89th
birthday, Kosher food manufacturer Frederick Margareten who was a Director of
the Jewish Training School for Girls passed away today in New York.
1981: “The Leningrad
KGB did not allow students studying Hebrew to enter the apartment of their
teacher Yakov Rabinovich who had been told to stop teaching or he would face
arrest”
1983(2nd of
Kislev, 5774): One-hundred-one year old
Russian born rabbi Mottel Kaplan, who married Rivka Reiger and after the
death of Lena Rubin passed away today after which he was buried at Glendale,
NY.
1985: “Transylvania
6-5000” a comedy-horror film starring Jeff Goldblum and featuring Norman Fell
was released today in the United States.
1985: It was reported
today that “Samuel Lipman, the critic and pianist, has been named artistic
director of the summer Waterloo Music Festival and School,” succeeding Gerard
Schwarz, who remains as principal conductor.”
1985: The trial of
former Yale University lecturer Vladimir Sokolov on charge that “he willful
concealed his activities as a Nazi collaborator who wrote articles calling for
the annihilation of Jews” continued for a second day.
1985(24th of
Cheshvan, 5746): Eighty year old New York City native Benjamin Hanft, a
“prominent public relations executive for a number of national Jewish
organizations” and the husband of Esther Haft, with whom he had three children
including actress Helen Haft passed away today.
1986(6th of
Cheshvan, 5747): Parashat Noach
1986: In Chicago suburb
Highland Park, Susan and Robert Swartz
the founder of “the software firm Mark Williams Company gave birth to computer
programmer Aaron Swartz founder of “Demand Progress” and co-creator of “Open
Library, an online project intended to create "one web page for every book
ever published".
1988: Nita M. Lowey was
elected to Congress where she is currently serving her 8th term. She is a
leading proponent of educational opportunity, health care reform and biomedical
research, stricter gun control and public safety laws, environmental protection,
and women's issues. She is a member of the House Appropriations Committee.
Lowey was the first woman to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, leading the organization from 2001 to 2002. She has served as Chair
of the Congressional Women's Caucus and the House Pro-Choice Caucus, and has
been called "the most prominent abortion right advocate in Congress"
by the Washington Post. Before being elected to Congress, Lowey served
as Assistant Secretary of State for the State of New York.
1988: Gov. Madeline M.
Kunin of Vermont won a third two-year term, defeating Michael Bernhardt, the
state House minority leader.
1992(12th of
Cheshvan, 5753): Ninety-year-old Morris Hinenburg the Kodinoff, Russia born son
Sarah Henes and Abraham Jonah Hinenburg and Yale University trained medical
doctor, who in 1906 came to the United States where he married Rose Becker and
served as a hospital administrator and executive director of the Jewish
Hospital in Brooklyn passed away today.
1995: “An Appeal for
Forgiveness published today contained the full text of an apology issued by the
family of Yigal Amir, “the confessed assassin of Prime Minister Rabin.
1996: “Mad Dog Time” a
“crime comedy” directed and written by Larry Bishop (the son of comedian Joey
Bishop) starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barken and Rob Reiner
was released in the United States today.
1996: “Ransom,” based
on adaptation of “Fearful Decision” by Richard Maibaum the New York native who
graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa in 1931 and earned a
masters from the Speech and Dramatic Arts Department and produced by Scott Rudin
and Brian Grazer was released in the United States today.
1997: North Carolinians came
together today, to honor one the state’s civic leaders and pathbreaking women.
Born in 1913 in Virginia, Hannah Block (née Solomon) studied music at the
prestigious Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. After completing her studies, Block
ventured to New York City where she forged her way as a jazz singer and
performed in some of Manhattan’s most popular night spots. While in New York,
Block met her future husband Charles Morris Block. After they married, the
couple settled in Wilmington, N.C. where Charles was a partner in a
manufacturing company. Block embraced her new
home with verve and spirit. During World War II, she became the first woman to
serve as head lifeguard at Carolina Beach, where she taught swimming and
lifesaving courses for the Red Cross. The attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941
inspired Block to become more involved with the war effort. Bringing new life
and depth to her jazz career, she volunteered her time performing for troops at
the local USO. Block organized and trained a group of 60 young women who
visited and entertained soldiers on nearby military bases before their
deployment overseas.Towards the war’s end, Block enlisted volunteers to welcome
GI’s back to the U.S. and to help them readjust to life as civilians. One
friend fondly dubbed Hannah Block “Mrs. World War II Wilmington.” After the war, Hannah Block remained active in civic life. She served twice
as president of the local American Legion Auxiliary and organized many
pageants, turning them into, as she put it, “more than a swimsuit contest on
the beach.” In her late 40s, she became the first woman to serve on the
Wilmington City Council, and later, the first woman to serve as the city’s
mayor pro tempore. Block also led efforts in Wilmington to preserve and restore
buildings of historical significance. One of these buildings was the USO center
Block has performed in decades earlier. The building, which had served as
Wilmington’s Community Arts Center since 1973, was renamed in 1997 in honor of Block.
That same year on November 8th, the Community Arts Center in the “Hannah Block
Historic USO” put on a jazz and cabaret review to honor Block. At the event,
Block was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of North Carolina’s
highest honors recognizing service to the state. (As reported by Jewish Women’s
Archive)
1998: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about
topics of Jewish interest including Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family
by Stephen J. Dubner, Work In Progress by
Michael D. Eisner, with Tony Schwartz and The Book of Job translation,
introduction and notes by Raymond P. Scheindlin
http://stephenjdubner.com/reviews/souls/nytimes2.html
1998: In “The Specter
of Hitler in the Music of Wagner,” published today, Joseph Horowtiz re-examines
the issues surrounding the German composer and the anti-Semitism of the Nazis.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/arts/the-specter-of-hitler-in-the-music-of-wagner.html
1999: “Jewish Chapel’s
50th Anniversary Marked” published today described the gathering at
Ada Ari El Synagogue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the David
Familian Chapel.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/nov/08/local/me-31284
2000(10th of
Cheshvan, 5761): Noa Dahan, 25, of Moshav Mivtahim in the south, was shot to
death while driving to her job at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza.
2000: The BBC broadcast
“The Body of the Queen” the 7th episode of “A History of Britain is
a documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama.”
2000: A statewide
recount began in Florida to determine the winner of the contested U.S.
presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
2001: “Michael
Steinhardt’s Voyage Around His Father” published today tells the true story of
the hedge fund manager his father Sol Frank “Red” Steinhardt.
2002: Linda Lingle, Hawaii’s governor-elect, has made news for
the 50th state and for Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.
She is Hawaii’s first woman governor, its first Jewish governor – and the only
chief executive of a state to become a life member of Hadassah at her own
initiative. Hours after her election, Lingle said: "I am aware of the
wonderful work accomplished at Hadassah Hospital and am very proud of being a
life member. I recently had a meeting with the Israel Consul General during his
trip to Hawaii, and he extended to me an invitation to visit Israel. I look
forward to doing so in the near future and to finally have the opportunity to
visit Hadassah Hospital and meet the physicians and dedicated people
responsible for making it so successful." Lingle, the former mayor of
Maui, is also Hawaii’s first Republican governor in 40 years. Four years ago, a
member of the Hawaii chapter made a one-time gift of annual membership to
Lingle. Last year, the chapter was delighted to receive a check from Lingle
that upgraded her status to life member, according to Sharon Goodhart,
then-Vice President of Membership. According to the 2001 edition of the
American Jewish Yearbook, there are approximately 7,000 Jews in Hawaii.
Hadassah Hawaii, which counts some 200 members, is understandably proud of one
of their own becoming governor. “We are thrilled and enormously proud of Linda
on her election to governor of our state. We support her completely in her
continued effort to bring about a new beginning for Hawaii," said chapter
President Phyllis Donlin.
2002: After premiering
at the Venice International Film Festival two months ago, “Far From Heaven,” a
film that looks behind the façade of mid-20th century suburbia with music by
Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer Edward Lachman was released today
in the United States.
2003(13th of
Cheshvan, 5764): Parashat Lech Lecha
2003: A sign posted on
the door of Paragon Restaurant World calls for the impeachment of Mayor
Bloomberg whose owner sees a conflict between the mayor’s plan to balance the
city’s budget with his own plans for balancing the budget of his restaurant
supply business.
2004: First Day of Jewish Book
Month. Check out the library
at your local Temple or Synagogue. Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids has just
built a new, modern library. This is also a good time of the year to make
donations of books or funds to the library. Finally, since Kislev (the
month with Chanukah) actually starts in November this year, why not look for
some books for Chanukah gifts. After all, we are "the people of the
book."
2005: An overwhelming
majority of adult Israelis are satisfied or very satisfied with their lives.
While 82 percent are happy, 52 percent of the population believes their lives
will improve in the coming years. The third annual survey by the Central Bureau
of Statistics found that 47 percent of adults are satisfied with their
financial situation. About 41 percent believe their financial situation will
improve in the coming years.
2005: The trial of
Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel which was scheduled to begin today but was postponed when the
Judge rule that his lawyer “Horst Mahler whose license to practice as a lawyer
was withdrawn in 2004 and who, in January 2005, was sentenced to nine months in
prison for inciting racial hatred, could not be part of the defense team.”
2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that
“containers for ritual offerings, weapons and jewelry are among the finds
uncovered after builders in Jerusalem’s Vayit Vagan neighborhood stumbled upon
a 4,000 year old Canaanite cemetery.
2007: Jon Lovitz “had
the grand opening for his new comedy club ‘The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club at
Aubergine’ in the Gaslamp District of San Diego, CA.
2007: At the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
38th annual Book Festival, Rabbi Harold Kushner discusses his latest
work, Overcoming Life’s Disappointments.
2007: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The
Suzanne and Bert Katz Fund of the Temple Judah Foundation presents “The Case
for Israel” with Professor Alan Dershowitz at Sinclair Auditorium on the campus
of Coe College.
2007:
Spain's Constitutional Court ruled that Holocaust denial will not be punishable
by imprisonment, due to the fact that it falls within freedom of speech.
Spanish law had mandated a sentence of up to two years in prison for Holocaust
denial, but the court, which deliberated on the case following the trial of a
neo-Nazi activist, ruled that such a punishment was unconstitutional.
Nonetheless, the court
did rule that imprisonment is a constitutional punishment for any individual
convicted of justifying the Holocaust or any other genocide for that matter.
2008: In Highland Park,
Il, Dana Levin, daughter of Gigi Cohen and Michael Levin is called to the Torah
as a Bat Mitzvah.
2008: John Key, the son
of Austrian-Jewish mother completed his service as leader of the loyal
opposition following the electoral victory of the New Zealand National Party.
2009: An exhibition of
the works of Gustav Metzger at the Serpentine Gallery in London that “included the installation Flailing Trees, which consists of 15
upturned willow trees embedded in a block of concrete, symbolizing a world
turned upside down by global warming” came to an end today.
2009: Rabbi
Simcha Weinstein discusses his book Up, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History,
Culture, and Values Shaped The Comic Book Superhero at the Walters Art Museum,
Graham Auditorium.
2009(21st of
Cheshvan, 5770): Ninety-three year old
“Vitaly L. Ginzburg, the
Russian physicist who helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb and went on
to win the Nobel Prize, passed away today. (As reported by Michael Schwirtz)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/world/europe/10ginzburg.html
2009: Closing session
of Union for Reform
Judaism's 70th Biennial Convention in Toronto, Canada.
2009 (21st
Cheshvan): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit Chanah (Hanah) Senesh (Sznes) who
was executed 65 years ago today on the 21st of Cheshvan, 5705.
2009: New York Times
bestselling author Neal Bascomb discusses his riveting new book Hunting
Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the
World’s Most Notorious Nazi at the Fourth Annual JCCNV Jewish Book
Festival.
2009: Distinguished educator Dr. Erica
Brown, author of Spiritual Boredom: Rediscovering the Wonder of Judaism,
explores how boredom manifests itself
within Judaism and the cultural impact on a faith structure that advises
sanctifying time, not merely passing it at the JCCGW 40th Annual Book Festival
2009: Students from three Israeli high schools
garnered top honors at the seventh annual International Student Film Festival
Hollywood (ISFFH), which concluded today.
2010: The Center for Jewish History and Center for
Traditional Music and Dance are scheduled to present “Josh Waletzky: Boiberik
and Beyond Yiddish Songs for the 21st Century.”
2010(1st of Kislev, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
2010: “Jazz singer and WWII USO champion Hannah Block is awarded North
Carolina’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/08/2010/hannah-block
2010(1st of Kislev, 5771): Ninety-five-year-old Jack Levine, an unrepentant and much-admired realist artist whose crowded
history paintings skewered plutocrats, crooked politicians and human folly”
passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/arts/10levine.html?pagewanted=all
2010: Mark Helprin “was awarded the 2010 Salvatori Prize in the American
Founding by Clarmont Institute.
2011: Dan Byman author of “A High Price: The
Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism” and Jennifer Griffin and
Greg Myre co-authors of “This Burning Land: Lessons Learned from the Front
Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” are scheduled to take
part in Panel Discussion at the JCC of Northern Virginia’s Book Festival
2011: Cantor Sharon Steinberg, the cantor at Beth
El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria, Virginia is scheduled to deliver the
first in a series of lectures that provide “An Overview of Jewish Liturgical
Music.
2011: “Fascinating Facts: Exploring the Myths and Mysteries of Judaism”
is scheduled to begin tonight. Fascinating
Facts: Exploring the Myths and Mysteries of Judaism
2011: In St. Louis, MO, the scheduled Community Krisallnacht Program will
feature Hannie J. Voyles, author of “Storming The Tulips.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQyIc3D6CFE
2011: Today, Knesset
Speaker Reuven released his speech for the upcoming memorial session, during
which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Supreme Court
President Dorit Beinish and opposition leader Tzipi Livni (Kadima) were scheduled
to speak..
2011: The Religious
Services Ministry placed burdensome restrictions today on the Tzohar Rabbinical
Council, which provides a legal and religious alternative to weddings performed
outside the framework of the Rabbinate.
2011(11th of
Cheshvan, 5772): Sixty-eight year old Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Rosh Yehsiva of the
Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem passed away today.
2011: Release of “Haver
Hadash” (“New Boyfriend”) a single by Elisha Banai and the Forty Thieves was
released today.
2012: Larry Tye Author of Superman: The High Flying History of America's
Most Enduring Hero is scheduled to speak at JCCNV Jewish Book Festival in
Fairfax, VA.
2012: “My Dad is Baryshnikov” is
scheduled to shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival this evening.
2012: Tesa Cohen, one
of Temple Judah’s younger congregants, is scheduled to appear in the opening
performance of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach.”
2012: Bentlee
Birchansky and Lincoln Ginsberg, students at Temple Judah Religious School, are
scheduled to appear in the opening performance of “Guys and Dolls.”
2012: Prior to their
scheduled performance at the Engler Theatre in Iowa Cit, The Klezmatics are
scheduled to give a lecture and demonstration on Klezmer music.
2012: A well dating
from 8,500 years ago, with the bones of two prehistoric people inside, was
uncovered during recent excavations in the Jezreel Valley, the Israel
Antiquities Authority said today.
2012: Three mortar
shells landed across Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan Heights this
morning, in what security officials said was likely a spillover from fighting
between government forces and rebels in the ongoing Syrian civil war
2012: IDF soldiers
exchanged gunfire with Palestinian terrorists from Gaza today. According to
initial reports, a work crew came under fire near Kibbutz Nirim on the Gaza
border and the soldiers returned fire. (As reported by Ron Friedman)
2012: Yale University
announced that 54 year old Peter Salovey would be the new president three
months after Richard C. Levin announced the he would be leaving the position
“at the end of the academic year.
2012: Danish premiere
of “The Act of Killing,” a documentary about the Indonesian killings directed
by Joshua Oppenheimer.
2013: “Swastikas, Slurs
and Torment in Town’s Schools” published today describes allegations of
anti-Semitism in the Pine Bush Central School District.
2013(5th of
Kislev, 5774): Ninety-one-year-old Holocaust survivor Saul Kagan, the founding
director of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany passed
away today. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
2013: The Eden-Tamir
Music Center is scheduled to host a noon-time Grand Master Recital.
2013: Tina Sutton,
author of The Making of Markova: Diaghilev’s Baby Ballerina to
Groundbreaking Icon is scheduled to speak this morning at the San Diego
Jewish Book Fair.
2013: Shepard, former
Editor-in-Chief of Business Week and Lynn Povich author of The Good Girls Revolt are scheduled to appear at The San Diego
Jewish Book Fair’s Lunch & Talk
2013: Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu urged US Secretary of State John Kerry today “not to rush to
sign” a deal with Iran over its controversial nuclear program. (As reported by
Times of Israel Staff)
2013: US President Barack Obama
marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht today saying that the 1938 pogrom
in which Nazis burned synagogues and murdered Jews across Germany serves as an
example of what silence in the face of hatred can bring.
2014: Shabbat Va-yayra
2014: Lewis Black is
scheduled to perform at the convention center in Denver.
2014: “The Divorce” and
“Samuel-613” are scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2014: In Sydney, “A
Place in Heaven” and “Zero Motivation” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
International Film Festival.
2014(15th of
Cheshvan): “Yahrtzeit of Matityahu, the leader of the Maccabees in their fight
against the Syrian-Greeks, as recorded in the Chanukah story.” (As reported by
Aish)
2014(15th of
Cheshvan): Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Avraham, the Chazon Ish, the Vilna born scholar
who made Aliyah in 1933. (As reported by Aish)
2014: “Clashes between
police and Palestinian rioters raged tonight in Arab neighborhoods of East
Jerusalem as tensions remained high in the capital.”
2014: “Tens of
thousands of Israelis, most members of Israeli youth movements, gathered in
central Tel Aviv tonight to mark the 19th anniversary of the assassination of
prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.”
2015: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Not
In God’s Names: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks, 1944:
FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik and The Crime of
Silence by Anna Bikont
2015: In Orlando,
Florida, the biennial conference of the Union for Reform Judaism is scheduled
to come to an end.
2015: The author of
Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman appeared
on FOX News to discuss Susan Berman’s “relationship with Robert Durst
2015: Approximately,
3,000 arrived in Washington for the opening session of the annual General
Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America.
2015: Following a
rocket attack, tonight, the “IAF launched an airstrike against a terrorist
infrastructure belonging to Hamas in southern Gaza.”
2015: “The Last
Mentsch” is scheduled to be the final movie shown at the annual Rutgers Jewish
Film Festival.
2015: The Oregon Jewish
Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host “Confronting
Extremism: The State of Hate Today.”
2015: The Jewish Arts
& Film Festival of Fairfield County is scheduled to host a “post festival
encore” – Commemorating Kristallnacht: Varian Fry, The American Schindler.
2015: The Jewish
Genealogy Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a workshop
followed by a lecture by Ken Sutak on “Cinema Judaica: The Wars.”
2015: At The York
Theatre the curtain is scheduled to come down on the final performance
“Rothschild & Sons.”
2015: The annual
General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America is scheduled to
open today in Washington, D.C.
2016(7th of
Cheshvan, 5777): Yom HaAliyah
2016(7th of
Cheshvan, 5777): Seventy-nine-year-old Holocaust survivor and historian Yaffa
Eliach passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
2016: Today, “the
Israel Securities Authority (ISA) carried out a highly unusual raid on the
Ramat Gan offices of iTrader, a company that offered binary options and forex
trading to the Israeli public” and arrested “seven of its top managers and
salespeople.” (As reported by Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz)
2016: Donald Trump was
elected the 45th President of the United States in a surprising victory over
Hillary Clinton
2016: Forty-two-year-old
Republic Eric Greitens a Rhodes Scholar a Navy SEAL whose decorations included
the Bronze Star became the first Jewish governor of Missouri today when
defeated his Democratic opponent in the general election.
2016: In Pennsylvania,
Democrat Josh Shaprio was elected state Attorney General.
2016: Professor Sara B.
Horowitz is scheduled to moderate a debate on “the place and value of literary
approaches to Holocaust memory” as part of HEW (Holocaust Education Week) in
Toronto.
2016: Glenn Dynner, a
Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence is scheduled to deliver a lecture that
will focus on JDC’s generous aid to Jewish traditionalists (Orthodox and
Hasidic Jews) entitled “"The Fountain of Judaism": JDC Aid to
Traditionalist Jews in Interwar and Nazi-Occupied Poland” at The Center for
Jewish History.
2016: “Primary Colors”
and “Weiner” are scheduled to be shown at the 20th UK International
Jewish Film Festival.
2016: Among those
planning on voting in today’s Presidential election is centenarian “Menia
Perelman of South Florida who arrived in the United States at the age of 84”
and who became a U.S. citizen so she
could vote in this election. (As reported by JTA)
2016: Among the
candidates on the ballot today is Mindy Finn who, in Utah, is running for vice
president as an independent on a ticket headed by a Mormon – a ticket that has
the blessing of Mitt Romney, the influential Mormon who was the Republican
Nominee for President in 2012.
2017(19th of
Cheshvan, 5778): Rabbi Morris Sklar passed away today in Brooklyn, NY
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:ais196440.435
https://www.everhere.com/us/obituary-brooklyn-rabbi-morris-sklar-6356425
https://books.google.com/books/about/Congregation_Beth_Shalom_Tribute_Dinner.html?id=6ZD3GwAACAAJ
2017: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host an evening with “Bernard-Henri Lévy for a
discussion on why Jewish values, traditions and memory are modern saving graces
for the Jewish people.”
2017: As part of its
“Titans of Industry” program, the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to
host an evening with Jeffrey G. Gural, Chairman of GFP Real Estate and Barry M.
Gosin, CEO of Newmark Knight Frank.
2017: Yeshiva
University Museum, the Center for Jewish History and the American Sephardi
Federation are scheduled to host “To Be A Scribe In Italy: A Century Old
Legacy” during which Rav Amedeo Spagnoletto the recently appointed chief rabbi
of Florence, who has become a keeper of the Italian tradition handed down for
centuries will discuss the
history, art, and halakhic norms that converge in the making of handwritten
Hebrew text.”
2018: “Remember the Kindertransport: 80 Years On,” an exhibition that
allows visitors to “discover the stories of the child refugees in their own
words” is scheduled to open at the Breman Museum.
2018: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present
“Kristallnacht: 80th Anniversary Commemoration,” “featuring remarks by
historian Marion Kaplan (NYU), the premiere of a short documentary featuring
individuals sharing their memories of 1938, reflections by radio personality
and author Martin Goldsmith, and a musical performance by the Phoenix Chamber
Ensemble.
2018: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “What’s New In
Jewish Genetics” during which “computational geneticist Itsik Pe’er (Columbia
University) and moderator Nathan Pearson (rootdeep.com) explore what our
genomes say today...and may reveal in the future.”
2018: The 12th Annual Other Israel Film Festival is scheduled
to come to an end today.
2018: “Working Woman” is scheduled to be shown as part of the Opening
Night Gala marking the start of the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2018(30th of Cheshvan, 5779): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
2018(30th of Cheshvan, 5779): Ninety-one-year-old award
winning professor of physics and paleontology Riccardo Levi-Setti, who survived
the Holocaust in Mussolini’s Italy passed away today.
2019: In a case of Jew versus Jew, it was reported that Bernie Sanders
has dismissed a possible presidential run by Michael Bloomberg as just what the
country does not need – another millionaire in power.
2019: “Love in Suspenders” and “Between Worlds” are scheduled to be shown
this afternoon at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2019: In Metairie, LA, a special patriotic program sponsored by the Ben
Katz Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans is scheduled to be held along with
“regular Shabbat Services” this evening at Congregation Gates of Prayer, as
part of “a special Veterans Day Weekend.”
2019: In San Mateo, CA, Chabad NP is scheduled to host “I Was There”
during which IDF veteran
Sasson Reuven will talk about participating in Operation Entebbe.
2019: In Lafayette, CA, Temple Isaiah is scheduled to Cantor Barbara
Ostfeld, “Judaism’s first ordained woman cantor” talking “about her new memoir,
Catbird: The Ballad of Barbi Prim.”
https://www.amazon.com/Cantor-Barbara-Ostfeld/e/B07MC1ZHYY%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
2020: The New York Times features reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons From World War to Cold War by
David Nasaw, The Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of
Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman and Too Much Information:
Understanding What You Don’t Want to Know by Cass Sunstein
2020: “90 Years of
Saving Lives In Israel,” “a virtual celebration of the lifesaving working work
of Magen David” featuring a cavalcade of stars including Jason Alexander and
Howie Mandel is scheduled to take place this evening.
2020: The 2020 Jewish
Book Festival, a virtual event sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the
Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys is scheduled to host a lecture by Debbi
Cenziper, author Citizen 865” The Hunt for Hitler’s Soldiers in America which
is a Kristallnacht Memorial Event.
2020: In New Orleans,
the Jewish Community is scheduled to host it Kristallnacht Program marking the
night of the broken glass.
2020: Beth Ami and the
Sonoma County Israel Committed are scheduled to sponsor a virtual appearance by
“Dry Bones cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen as he talks about his 50 years of drawing
Zionist-Jewish-Israel cartoons and other topics.”
2020: The Nuremberg
Symposium, sponsored by the Illinois Holocaust Museum, is scheduled to open
with a keynote address “Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: The Legacy of
Nuremberg.”
2020: CCJCC and
Congregation B’nai shalom are scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Ambassador
Dennis Ross.
2021: As part of Museum
Mondays, the ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present a Tour of the Museum for
Islamic Art in Jerusalem from the comfort of your own home with Nachliel
Selavan, the Museum Guy.
2021: The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the final showing
“Apples and Oranges” following by a panel discussion “featuring actress and
comedian Sandra Bernhard.”
2021: The Streicker
Center is scheduled to host Representative Adam Schiff as he discusses his
cautionary tome Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and
Still Could.
2022: In Partnership
with the Jewish Book Week (London) and Lockdown University, the National
Library of Israel is scheduled to present Hannah Rothschild, Herzog & de Meuron
Senior Partner Jason Frantzen and Oren Weinberg, Director of the NLI, for a
sneak preview of the new National Library for Israel which is a new landmark
for Israel and the Jewish people.
2022: At the Covenant
Winery in Berkeley, CA, is scheduled to host “Healing High: Israel’s Leading
Role in Medical Cannabis” with Yossi Tam, director of The Hebrew University’s
Multidisciplinary Center for Cannabinoid Research, Dr. Donald Abrams, an
integrative oncologist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and
Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance.
2022: “The Kyrie 8,
which was supposed to hit the market” today, will not be released because Nike
has suspended its “relationship" with basketball player Kyrie Irving due
to his anti-Semitic statements. (As reported by Julie Creswell and Jordyn Holman)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/business/nike-kyrie-irving.html
2022: In Massachusetts,
The Chelsea Gateway Project is scheduled to present a “walking tour of Jewish
Chelsea, one of the most significant sites of American Jewish immigrant
history.”
2022: Holocaust
Education in Florida which is held annually the second November which coincides
with the anniversary of Kristallnacht is scheduled to continue for a second
day.
https://www.tcc.fl.edu/about/college/tcc-foundation/hew/
2022: The 2022 Jewish
Writers’ Conference sponsored by the Jewish Book Council is scheduled to
continue for a second day.
2022: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to present the second session of “All in the
Mishpocheh; Intro to Jewish Genealogy at the CJH.
2022: In Cedar Rapids,
IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host its monthly board meeting.
2022: Americans prepare to go to the polls to vote
in the “mid-term” elections which include a whole array of state races.
2023: In Cedar Rapids,
Temple Judah is scheduled to hold its monthly board meeting where one of the
topics will be safety and security.
2023: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is scheduled to host live and online a
conversation Thomas R. Nides, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Dan
Senor coauthor of a new book, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising
Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World and the New York Times
bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle moderated
by Bianna Golodryga, a senior global affairs analyst and anchor for CNN.
2023: As part of the
Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime series, The Tikvah online Academy is
scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Rich Schindelheim on “Holy Land: The
Bible’s Vision of Zion.”
2023: Temple Judea is
scheduled to host a Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Feivel who will talk about
Jewish Dogma and Beliefs – the Mysteries of the Torah.”
2023 Today, The Wiener
Holocaust Library is scheduled to host “a special education event, held online
for students and teachers covering the Holocaust this term.”
2023: The Jewish Book
Council is scheduled to a virtual conversation Dani Shapiro who will talk about
her two National Jewish Book Award-winning books, Inheritance and Signal Fires.
2023: As part of Jewish
Book Month, JCCNS in Marblehead, MA is scheduled to host and interview with Debby
Applegate author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz
Age.
2023: JWI (Jewish Women
International) is scheduled to host a Call-in Day to tell Congress to save
VOCA! (The Victim of Crime Act’s)
2023: As November 8,
begins in Israel, the view from the proverbial fifty thousand foot level
remains the same with tensions increasing on the northern border due to missile
and mortar attacks form Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel presses on with its
offensive in the south against the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group” and the
Hamas hostages begin day 33 in captivity. (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
(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 Museum at
Eldrige Street is scheduled to host a walking tour that will look at “The
Jewish Gangsters of Lower Manhattan” including the pickpockets, extortionists,
armed robbers, bootleggers, gamblers, and hitmen who cropped up in the Five
Points neighborhood but also in the growing Jewish Lower East Side.
2024: As part of the Jewish
Community Center of the North Shore Book Series Professor Elizabth Garner the
“winner of the 2024 Massachusetts Book Award for fiction, “Kantika” (“song” in
Ladino) is a kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four
countries and follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of
the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul will “be in conversation
with Margie Detkin, JBM committee co-chair and principal of “Connecting With
Art.”
2024: In Palo Alto, the
Palo Alto Players are scheduled to perform a revival of “Fiddler on the Roof”
at the Lucie Stern Theatre.
2024: Hillel International
is scheduled to present Yallapalooza 2024.
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Jonathan Shippel on Noach,
this week’s Torah portion.
2024: As November 8th
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 399 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: In New Orleans,
the JCC Center Celebration is scheduled to take place.
2025: In Jerusalem, Agnon
House is scheduled to host another meeting of joint reading of Agnon's stories during
which participants will read the story "Two Couples" and together
with Ofir Lifshitz, trace Agnon's childhood memories and talk about his
attitude towards religion, and return to one of the greatest traumas of his
life – the burning of his house in Bad Homburg.”
2025: This Shabbat marks
exactly, the 76th anniversary of the public revelation in 1949 of
Operation Magic Carpet, which was the name given to the Israeli Airlift that
flew 60,000 Jews from Yemen to Israel.
https://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
2025(17th of
Cheshvan, 5786):Parashat Va-yayra (“Appeared” i.e., “And God appeared to him…”)
For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
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