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296: Cassius Dio, the namesake of the historian who
“frequently records the religious zeal and self-sacrificing spirit of the Jews”
and whose account of the Jewish War against the Roman Empire that resulted in
the destruction of the Temple is more favorable to the Jews than that given by
Josephus, was appointed Praefectus urbi of Rome today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Dio_(consul_291)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dio-cassiusdeg
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/cassius-dio/cassius-dio-on-bar-kochba/
https://www.judaism-and-rome.org/cassius-dio-roman-history%C2%A0xxxvii16-17
654: “In Toledo Spain, Receswinth, King of the Visigoths,
forced Judaizing Christians (converted Jews who still kept Jewish traditions)
to swear loyalty to the Church or die” which meant “they were forced to spend
Jewish and Christian holy days with the clergy, but were not forced to eat
pork.”
1229: During The Sixth Crusade, Frederick II, Holy Roman
Emperor signed a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth,
and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
Prior to the Sixth Crusade, Pope Gregory III had used the Crusading Spirit to
impose anti-Semitic legislation. Frederick II was involved in a power
struggle with the Papacy. As part of that he struggle, he defied Rome and
granted a charter of privileges to the Jews of Vienna in 1238.
1239: The ten-year truce between Emperor Frederick II and
the Sultan of Egypt came to an end. During this period, 1236, the Emperor
issued a decree refuting the accusations of ritual murder and providing for the
protection of his Jewish subjects.
1488: The first printed eviction of tractate Gittin of the
Babylonian Talmud was published in Soncino, Italy
1405: Tamerlane or Timur, the Mongol leader “under whose
rule the Jewish people prospered” passed away today. (For more see Tamerlane
and the Jews by Michael Shterenshis)
1474: According to bookplate, in Reggio de Calabria, Italy,
Abraham ben Garton printed Rashi’s commentary on the Chumash.
1546: Martin Luther passed away. Luther was a
significant figure in the movement to reform Christianity. He extended
the hand of friendship to the Jews, thinking that he could win them over to his
side with kindness. When the Jews rejected his goal - conversion - Luther
turned on them. By 1544, he was publishing a pamphlet entitled
"Concerning the Jews and Their Lies." Jews were characterized as
“venomous, virulent, thieves, brigands and disgusting vermin."
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, "'...Luther's ferocious castigation
of the Jews provided fuel for anti-Semites and vicious force of that legacy was
still evident in Nazi propaganda.'"
1559: Birthdate of Geneva native Isaac Casaubon, the French
Huguenot scholar who in 1609 invited Jacob Barnet, an Italian Jew, to his home
in Drury Lane, London” during which time they discussed Jewish texts on various
topics, and Barnet proved to Casaubon that Jesus had been buried in accordance
with standard Jewish burial practice rather than (as argued by Cardinal
Baronio) in a new way that became the method of Catholic burial” after which
Casaubon employed Barnet as his secretary, and in 1610 brought him to Oxford.
1564: Michelangelo passed away. Among his works
were a statue of Moses that had horns and a statue of an uncircumcised David.
1574: An auto-de-fe took place in Mexico City; nearly 100
people were sentenced that day, including New Christians.
1577: The Jews of Safed requested assistance from the
Sultan for persecution by local officials. In a letter to the local Ottoman
officials, the Sultan told his people that the Jews, "have complained of
wrong done to them." The Jews were forced to pay high taxes, transport
dung on Saturdays, were levies tolls on the road to Damascus, and were beaten
with a strip of metal. The Sultan ordered his people not to molest the Jews, to
investigate and give back what the Jews are owed.
1653: After Cromwell’s government released him today,
William Prynne returned to writing pamphlets on a variety of subjects including
one call the “Short Demurrer” in which he expressed his opposition to Manasseh
Ben Israel’s plea to Oliver Cromwell to overturn King Edward’s 13th century
ban and allow the Jews to return to the British Isles.
1671: In Berkshire, England, Margaret and William Branson
gave birth to Thomas I. Branson, the husband of Elizabeth Day with whom he had
thirteen children.
1704: In London, Richea Asher, the New York born “daughter
of Michael (Jechiel) of Herzfeld, Germany and Rebecca Falk de Paul and Moses
Raphael Levy gave birth to Moses Levy, “the “brother of Bilhah Abigail Franks;
Asher Levy; Nathan Levy; Isaac Levy; Michael (Jechiel) Levy; and Sarah Levy.”
1704: In London, Richea Asher, the New York born “daughter
of Michael (Jechiel) of Herzfeld, Germany and Rebecca Falk de Paul and Moses
Raphael Levy gave birth to Nathan Levy, the husband of Bila Levy and father of
Rachel, Michel and Philadelphia Levy.
1723: In Prussia a revised form of the
"Aeltesten-reglement" (Constitution of the Jewish Community) was
issued. The original document which was supposed to be read every in the
synagogue was issued in March of 1722.
1732: In Rye, NY, Hetty Adolphus and Jacob Hays gave birth
to David Barrack Hays, the husband of Esther Etting with whom he had eight
children.
1751: German native Abraham Hutzler, the son of Moses
Hutzler and the husband of Rosine Wambacher with whom he had four children –
Moses, David, Isaac and Eve Hutzler.
1743: Premiere performance of Handel’s “Samson” at Covent
Garden, an oratorio based on the life of the Biblical figure described in the
Book of Judges.
1757: In Avignon, France, a local townsman walking through
the ghetto on a dark night, stumbled and fell into a well near the synagogue.
Fortunately, he was not hurt. The day was declared a local holiday for
generations. The rationale was that had the townsman drowned so near the
synagogue, the Jewish community would have been accused of complicity in his
death.
1758: David Franks was sent a note telling him owed £400
for insurance on goods being shipped from Liverpool to New York aboard “the
ship Charming Rachel.”
1765: Hague native Frances Hart and Savannah, GA native
Mordecai Sheftall gave birth to Elias Sheftall.
1768(30th of Shevat, 5528): Rosh Chodesh
Adar
1768: In Germany, Jetle and Salomon Ottenheimer gave birth
to Maier Ottenheimer, the husband of Madel Dreifuss with whom he had six
children.
1769(11th of Adar I, 5529): Parashat
Tetzaveh
1772(14th of Adar I, 5532): Purim Katan
observed on the day after “the first partition of Poland is agreed to by
Prussia and Russia” who would later be joined by Austria.
1785: Birthdate of Munster, Germany native Samson Nathan
Eisendrath, the son of Nathan Baruch Eisendrath and the husband of Julia Isaack
with whom he had 18 children.
1787(30th of Shevat, 5547): Rosh Chodesh
Adar observed on the same day that Thomas Jefferson, the founding father who
coined the term “separation of church and state” wrote from Paris to Michael
Carmichael the Charge d’Affaires for the United States in Spain.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-11-02-0169
1788: In Charleston, SC, Sarah de la Motta and Levi Sheftal
gave birth to Perla Shetall, the wife of Isaac Russel with whom she had nine
children.
1789: In Easton, PA, Esther Levy and Isaac Simons gave
birth to Eleazer Simons.
1789(22nd of Shevat, 5549): New York native
Jacob Rodriques Rivera, the son of Abraham Rodrigues River, the husband of
Hannah Pimentel and “prominent Newport merchant, manufacturer and member of the
United Company of Spermaceti Candlers” who “introduced sperm oil industry into
the colonies” and “was the President of the Newport Jewish Congregation” passed
away today.
1791(14th of Adar I, 5551): Purim Katan
observed on the same day that Senate and House of Representatives approved
Vermont’s petition to join the Union.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/vt03.asp
1792: In Germany, Kehla and Feis Moses Fraenkel gave birth
to Isaac Fraenkel the husband of Esther Feuchtwanger with whom he had five
children.
1793: In Germany, Marget Isaac and Aron Abraham Arnold gave
birth to Behle Arnold, the wife of Mendel Seligmann Dettelbacher and the mother
of Seligman and Voegele Dettelbacher.
1794(18th of Adar): Rabbi Alexander Suskind of Horodno
author of Yesod ve-Shoresh ha-Avodah passed away
1799: Bachu native Rebecka Obernauer and Wurtemberg native
Ruppert Einstein gave birth to Hirsch Einstein the husband of Babet Barbara
Beer.
1804: Ohio University founded in Athens, Ohio
where today approximately 10% of its 17,000 students are Jewish
including Jacob Levin, a mensch and a scholar, and there are an
on-campus Chabad and Hillel Chapter.
1810(14th of Adar I, 5570): Purim Katan
1813: Emancipation of the Jews of Mecklenberg, Germany
1816: Birthdate of Maurice Block the Berlin born
statistician and economist who moved to Paris in the 1840’s to work for the
French ministry of agriculture.
1819: Today Isaac Franks whose portrait was painted by
Gilbert Stewart, and is now in the Gibson Collection of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia was made prothonotary of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, and held that position until his death three years later
1826(11th of Adar I, 5586): Parashat
Tetezaveh
1829(15th of Adar I, 5589): Shushan Purim
Katan
1831: In Charleston, SC, Isabella Cowen and Isaac Tobias
gave birth to Colleton Harby Tobias.
1832(17th of Adar I, 5592): Parashat Ki
Tisa
1832(17th of Adar I, 5592):
Sixty-four-year-old Salomon Gomes Da Costa, the London born “son of Aaron Gomes
Da Costa and Miriam De Solomon Gomes Da Costa, the husband of Mary Anne da
Costa and the father of Miriam Gomes Da Costa; Matilda Pincoffs; Rosa Gomes Da
Costa; Tryphena Hertz and Angelina Pincoff” passed away today in Stoke
Newington.
1832: In South London, merchant Isaac Levi and his wife who
“was a first cousin of Moses Montefiore gave birth to Georges Montefiore-Levi
“a Belgian politician, industrialist and inventor who created the first
phosphorus bronze.”
1833: Birthdate of Warsaw native Henry (Hayyim Gerson)
Vidaver who served as the Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis
from 1865 through 1867.
1833: In New York, Michael Hart Cardozo, the Easton, PA
born son of Sarah and Isaac Nunez Cardozo and her husband Ellen Cardozo gave
birth to Adeline Rachel Cardozo.
1835: Benjamin Woolfe Franklin married Maria Levy today at
the Great Synagogue.
1835: Birthdate of Bernhard Goldman, husband of Henrietta
“Jette” Siegel Goldman with whom he had four daughters – Helen, Caroline, Sara
and Jeannette.
1836(30th of Shevat, 5596): Rosh Chodesh
Adar
1837(13th of Adar I, 5597) Parashat
Tetzaveh
1839: Birthdate of Zadoc Kahn, the Alsatian native who
became Chief Rabbi of France.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_10603.html
1839: Birthdate of Charles S. Baker who while serving as
Congressman from New York in 1890 submitted a resolution “protesting…the
enforcement by Russia of the edicts of 1882 against the Jews” and requesting
the President to submit a protest to the Czar’s government.
1840(14th of Adar I, 5600): Purim Katan
1840: Sultan Abdul Mejid I issued a royal decree absolving
the Jewish community on the island of Rhodes of charges “of having killed a
gentile child” so that his blood could be used in baking matzoth. The day was
celebrated as The Purim of Rhodes. The Sultan was a reformer who was
trying to make the Ottoman Empire a modern nation as can be seen by his
attempts to replace the turban with the fez, introduce the use of banknotes and
the issuing of a patent so that a telegraph system could be built in Turkey.
1843(18th of Adar I, 5603): Parashat Ki
Tisa
1843(18th of Adar I, 5603):
Sixty-two-year-old Sarah Naar, the London born daughter of Daniel Cohen
D'Azevedo and Ester Rodriques Cohen D'Azevedo and wife of Hazan Joshua Naar
passed away today at St. Kitts.
1844: In Lamar County, Alabama, Samuel Jefferson and Martha
Louisa "Tarrant" Mordecai gave birth to their eldest child Nancy
Priscilla “Nannie” Mordecai Cash the wife of Wesley Shepard Cash.
1846: Beginning of the Galician peasant revolt. At
this time Galicia was a province of the Austrian Empire. The revolt was
one of many that would sweep Europe during the late 1840’s. By 1851, once the
revolts in Galicia had been suppressed, the Reform Constitution would
be revoked and, among other things, Jews would lose their newly won right
to purchase land in Galicia,
1848(14th of Adar I, 5608): Purim Katan
1848: In Pozsony, Gregor Steinbach and Therese Steinbach
gave birth to Dr. Gustav “Itzig” Steinbach the father of Leonore Steinbach and
father of Karl Steinbach and Theresa Risa Lohr.
1849: Birthdate of Lithuanian native, Philip Jaches the
husband of Minna Gelhaar and the Rabbi of Congregation Kahal Adas Kurland.
1850: In Budapest, Karl Ullmann and his wife gave birth to
Alexander de Erény Ullmann the political economist who served in the Hungarian
Parliament from 1884 to 1892. His father who was born in 1809 and passed
away in 1880 founded the first Hungarian Insurance Company. Alexander
passed away in 1897.
1850: Birthdate of German native Isidor Georg Henschel who
gained fame as Sir George Henschel “the British baritone, pianist, conductor
and composer.
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/George%20Henschel/en-en/
1850 In New York Abigail Kursheedt (nee Judah) and Asher
Kursheedt gave birth to Serena Kursheedt
1851(16th of Adar I, 5611):
Forty-six-year-old Car Gustav Jacob Jacobi, “the first Jewish mathematician to
be appointed professor at a German university” passed away today in Berlin
1852: According to reports published today, a juror named
Shubal Hubbard claimed that Alexander Christallar, a witness for the defendant,
had tried to engage him in inappropriate social contact during a break in the
trial. In his deposition, Hubbard claimed that Christallar was a Jew and
that he was President of a Williamsburg Synagogue. He also claimed that
Christallar had invited him to a celebration at which Oysters would be served.
1853: August Belmont, the Jewish banker and Democratic
political leader, and Caroline Slidell gave birth to August Belmont, Jr. who
was raised as a Christian.
1856: Full civil rights are granted to Turkish Jews under
the terms of the “Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856.”
1857: William Meir Barack married Fanny Abraham today in
the United Kingdom
1858: Lord Palmerston who as Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs had come to the defense of David Pacifico which led him to make
a celebrated speech which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able
to say, as did citizens of ancient Rome, "Civis Romanus sum" ("I
am a citizen of Rome"), and thereby receive protection from the British
government” completed his first term as Prime Minister today.
1859(14th of Adar I, 5619): Purim Katan
1859: Abraham Myers Cohen, the son of Solomon Myers Cohen
passed away today.
1859(O.S): In Russia, Menachem-Nukhem Rabinovich, a “rich
merchant” who lost it all and his wife Chaye-Esther gave birth to Solomon
Rabinowitz who became famous under the penname of Sholem Aleichem. Born
in Russia, Sholem Aleichem first wrote in Hebrew and only later turned to
writing in Yiddish. He moved from Russia to Denmark, to
Switzerland and ultimately moved to the United States at the outbreak of World
War I. Unfortunately, he only lived in America for two years and he
passed away in 1916. Known as the Yiddish Mark Twain, Sholem Aleichem is
most famous for creating Tevya and all of the wonderful characters who lived
with him in the shtetels of the Pale. He used humor to portray both the
joy and the suffering of his co-religionists. He became famous among
generations of Jews who had thought they had escaped from all of that
"Yiddish stuff" and gentiles as well with the production of Fiddler
on the Roof. Some of his famous lines include: "In the mud, but not
of the mud." "When a Jew eats a chicken one of them was
sick." "A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a
different direction." "Gossip is nature's telephone." "Life
is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy
for the poor." "No matter how bad things get you got to go on living,
even if it kills you." "The rich swell up with pride, the poor from
hunger." Some of his works that have been translated into English include
Tevye's Daughters, The Adventures of Menahem-Mendel, The Best of Sholom Aleichem
and The Great Fair which is his autobiography.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shalom-aleichem
1860(25th of Shevat, 5620): Parashat
Mishpatim; Shabbat Shekalim
1860: Birthdate of Bombay, India native Elia Hayeem Jospeh
who was buried in Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery.
1861: With the Italian unification almost complete,
King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of
King of Italy. Jews were active participants in the fight to unify Italy
and the newly unified Italian nation was certainly hospitable to its Jewish
citizens. Historian Elliot Rosenberg cites a quote from his fellow
historian Howard Morely Sacher to capture what the new Italian nation meant to
the Jewish people. “In 1848, there had been no European country save
Spain where the restrictions placed upon Jews were more galling and more
humiliating than in Italy. After 1860, there was no country on the
continent of Europe where conditions were better for Jews.”
1863: Julius Sax married Rachel Abrahams today at the
Albion Hotel in Aldersgate.
1863: Birthdate of San Francisco native Felix Lengfeld, the
chemist “educated at the San Francisco College of Pharmacy, the University of
California, Johns Hopkins University, and at Zurich, Liége, Munich, and Paris”
who “has been fellow of Johns Hopkins University (1887-88), professor of
chemistry in the South Dakota School of Mines (1890-91), instructor in
chemistry at the University of California (1891-92), and docent-instructor and
assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago (1892-1901).”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9749-lengfeld-felix
https://www.amazon.com/Inorganic-Chemical-Preparations-Felix-Lengfeld/dp/B01788IJYA
1865: Birthdate of Hungary native Solomon Ulmer who in 1874
came to the United States where he became a mortgage banker and Zionist living
in Cleveland.
1866: Birthdate of Samuel Krauss, a professor at the Jewish
Teachers' Seminary in Budapest and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna
who was a contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia.
1866: Today, in Philadelphia, The Free Sons of Israel
instituted two additional lodges – Manasseh Lodge 17 and Moses Lodge 18.
1868: Birthdate of Rockford, Illinois native Albert Henry
Loeb, the husband of Anna Bohnen with whom he had four sons – Alan, Ernest,
Thomas and Richard (of Leopold and Loeb fame) – and who practiced law in
Chicago before becoming an executive with Sears, Roebuck and Company.
https://flps.newberry.org/article/5418474_11_1375/
1870: State Supreme Court Justice Cardozo denied a motion
for an injunction in an action styled the Mayor of New York City vs. the Beach
Pneumatic Transit Company.
1870: In Long Branch, NJ, Mortimer M. Hendricks, the Son of
Montague M. Hendricks and Rachel Seixas Nathan and his wife Jessie Justina
Brandly Hendricks gave birth to Lucien Hendricks.
1871(27th of Shevat, 5631): Parashat
Mishpatim; Shabbat Shekalim
1871(27th of Shevat, 5631): Charleston
native Esther Levy, who married Henry Nathan in 1815 passed away today in New
Orleans.
1871: Rabbi Wise delivered the first in a series of
lectures on the “Origin of Christianity” at Steinway Hall in New York
City. Reverend O.B. Frothingham introduced the Rabbi.
1872: In “Libau, Latvia, Chaim Nathan and Yetta (Nieburg)
Aronstam gave birth Noah E. Aronstam, the Michigan College of Medicine trained
doctor and professor of dermatology and urology who served as the associate
editor of both the Indianapolis Medical Journal and the Jewish Tribune while
finding time to write the Manual on Sexual and Venereal Diseases and The Jewish
Dietary Laws from a Scientific Standpoint and marry the former Sarah D.
Blumenthal in Detroit in 1899.
1873: Birthdate of Theodore Albert Peyser the native of
Charleston, West Virginia who worked in Cincinnati before moving to New York
where he was eventually elected to Congress from New York’s 17th Congressional
District.
1873: Birthdate of Charleston, W.Va.., native Theodore A.
Peyser, the Cincinnati based traveling salesman who settled in New York where
he “represented New York’s 17th Congressional District.”
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000281
1874(1st of Adar, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1874: Birthdate of Junction City, Kansas native Saul Henry
Ganz, the “president and Treasurer of D. Lisner and Company, wholesalers and
importers of jewelry,” the husband of Ruth Ganza and the father of Paul and
Victor Ganz.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/10/10/110067724.pdf
1874: Ida Morgenthau, the daughter of Lazarus Morgenthau
married William J. Erich.
1874: Lazarus Morgenthau founded a society that would
provide dowries for orphan Jewish girls.
1875: Max Eckmann, the Berlin born son of Ezekiel and
Caroline (Lowenstein) Ekemann who in 1874 emigrated to the United States, where
he became a manufacturer of novelties, helped organized the Independent Order
of B’rith Abraham and served as a Republican in the New York State Assembly
married Marie Slupecki today.
1876: In Slovakia, 37-year-old Herman Ehrenthal and Veron
Ehrenthal gave birth do Roazlia Ehrenthal who became Rozalia Fleischmann.
1876: In Maryland, Circuit Court Judge Pinkney, ruled that
the City of Baltimore did not have the right give public funds to a variety of
charitable organizations including the Hebrew Hospital.
1876: Ferdinand Falk and Jeannette Levy Falk gave birth to
Gustave Falk, the husband of Marguerite R. Falk.
1877(6th of Adar, 5637): Carolyn (Norris) Horowitz, the
wife of Phineas Jonathan Horowitz, the native of Baltimore and graduate of
Jefferson Medical College who rose through the ranks of the Navy to become
Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, passed away today seven years
before her husband retired.
1878: Birthdate of Baltimore native Sidney Lansburgh, “an
official of American General Corp, the husband of Martha Epstein, “the daughter
of Jacob Epstein” the founder of the Baltimore Bargain House and the father of
Richard Landsburgh, who became President of Raleigh Stores, a high end, preppy
clothing emporium.
1880: Mr. Moses Levinson of New Rochelle sued the New Haven
Railroad today in United States Circuit Court for “exemplary damages.”
Levinson contended that he had been wrongfully put off one of the New Haven’s
trains when the conductor claimed he had not paid for his ticket.
Levinson sought $5,000 in damages. The jury awarded him $750.
1881: In Lithuania, Yaakov and Pearl Premesky gave birth to
Rabbi Eliezer Premseky, the husband of Esther Premesky with whom he had
three children who had became the “spiritual leader of the Bronx Tremont Hebrew
School, a member of the presidium of the Rabbinical Board of New York” and
executive vice President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States
and Canada.Most important of all, he was among those who marched in Washington
in 1943 in a public demonstration demanding government action to “help save the
Jews of Europe.”
1882: Birthdate of Frank Angone the native of New York who
gained fame as featherweight Benny Yanger, nicknamed The Tipton Slasher.
1882(29th of Shevat, 5642): Parashat
Mishpatim, Shabbat Shekalim
1882: “The Russian War on the Jews” published today
described the renewed attacks to which the Jews of Kiev have been subjected and
Count Totleben’s refusal to intervene without special instructions from the
government at St. Petersburg.
1882: In Philadelphia, PA, the old passenger station belong
to the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been configured to provide temporary
accommodations for the Jewish refugees who will arrive in the city after having
escaped from the recent round of pogroms in Russia. A supply of food has
been gathered for the refugees and Dr. Thomas G. Morton is the head of a group
of doctors who will be available to take care of their medical needs. In
the meantime, an Employment Committee will make every effort to find jobs for
the new arrivals.
1883: Birthdate of Nice native Jacques Ochs, the Belgian
artist and fencer who won a gold medal in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
1884: In Hampstead, Kingston, Jamaica natives Celia Morrice
and Eugene Alberga gave birth to Ella Hortense Alberga.
1886: In Poland Yaakov and Pearl Predmesky gave birth to
Louis Predmesky who came to New York City in 1922 where he served as a rabbi in
the Bronx and was among those who marched in Washington in 1943 in a public
demonstration demanding government action to “help save the Jews of Europe.
1886: Birthdate of Madison, SD, native Clare Stephen Jacobs
who won a bronze medal for pole vaulting in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
1888(6th of Adar I, 5648): Seventy-two-year
Lazar Zweifel a “prolific writer and one of the first to use Talmudic and
idiomatic Hebrew for the modern poetry which he frequently composed, stanzas
being interspersed throughout his works” passed away today.
1887: In New York, the Hebrew Technical Institute moved
from its location on Crosby Street to its new school building at 34 and 36
Stuyvesant Street. Founded in 1884, the school provides vocational training to
young Jews most of whom are the children of recent immigrants.
1888: Birthdate of John U. “Jack” Zuta the Chicago gangster
who had the unique distinction of working for both Al Capone and Bugs Moran and
whose death unearthed records that helped put away several crooked politicians.
1889: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services
are scheduled to be held for seventy-three-year-old Charleston, SC native and
Mexican-American War veteran Julian Harby, the husband of “Josepah Solis” who
passed away in 1865, today in San Francisco, CA.
1890: Birthdate of Jassy native Irving Haim, who relocated
to Philadelphia.
1890: Ida Cohen (nee Kuhn) and Eduard Cohen gave birth to
Albert Cohen.
1890: In Moscow, according to the Gregorian calendar,
Leonid Pasternak, a professor at the Moscow School of Paint, Sculpture and
Architecture and concert pianist Rosa Kaufman gave birth to Boris Pasternak,
the author of Doctor Zhivago
1890: Four days after he had passed away, 76-year-old
Michael Angelo Rosselli, a native of Leghorn, Italy, the husband of Amina
Rosselli and the father of James, Joseph, Jeanette and Ernest Rosseilli was
buried today at the “Balls Pond Roach Jewish Cemetery.”
1891: Bernard and Ida (Levin) Appelbaum gave birth to
Columbia University trained Civil Engineer Samuel Bernard Applebaum, the
husband of Juliette Bursch and inventor of patented “Backwash Control.”
1891: Birthdate of Polish born Yiddish actor Ludwig Satz
(Editor’s note- some sources show him being born on this date in 1895)
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/S/satz-ludwig.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23149236
http://www.jta.org/1944/09/03/archive/ludwig-satz-star-of-yiddish-stage-dies-in-new-york-was-53
1893: “Regulators in Louisiana” published today described
“the existence of an oath-bound organization having for its object the
banishment of Jewish merchants…and Negroes from Tangipahoa Parish.” Among
those threatened was David Stern, a leading merchant in Amity, LA.
1893: Seventy-year-old Gerson von Bleichröder the
second-generation German-Jewish banker who provided his services to Bismarck
and Prussia passed away today.
1894: It was reported today that George Eliot had told
American author Charles Godfrey Leland “that in order to write Daniel
Deronda she had read through 200 books.” Leland wrote that he “longed
to tell her that she had better have learned Yiddish and talked with 200 Jews
and been taught, as Iwas by my friend Solomon the Sadducee, the art of
distinguishing Fraulein Lowenthal of the Ashkenazim from Senorita Aguado of the
Sephardim by the corners of their eyes.” (Daniel Deronda is the philo-Semitic
novel written by Mary Anne Evans who used the penname George Eliot. At
the time of this entry, Leland was doing research on gypsies.)
1894: “All Fools’ Day” published claimed that 17th century
antiquarian John Brand attributed the origin of April Fool’s Day to the
Jews. According to Brand, Noah sent the dove out of the ark before the
waters had abated on a day which corresponds to April 1. The celebration
of fools on this date reminds of the original “fool’s errand” on which Noah
sent the Dove.
1894: It was reported today that the late Albert S.
Rosenbaum passed away as a result of heart disease, which probably does not
offer any comfort to the widow and five children who survived him.
1895: Birthdate of biochemist Zacharias
Dische who developed simple methods for determining the amount of
sugars present in tissues, such as his diphenylamine assay, the Dische test,
which is used to distinguish DNA from RNA and who fled Austria for American
following the Anschluss and whose mother, sister and grandmother died in
concentration camps.
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/56289.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0300908420303011
1895: In Syracuse, NY, Dora L. Lewis and Samuel T. Kauffman
gave birth to Syracuse University trained physician Dr. Arnold Burent Kauffman,
the Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Reserve Corps and specialist in the
surgery of the ear nose and throat who practiced at Illinois Charitable Eye and
Ear Infirmary and Michael Reese before returning to Syracuse where he pursued
his surgical career.
1896: Birthdate of Edith Leschzine who tragically as Edith
Hirschberg was transported to Auschwitz were se died.
1897: In Chicago, Il, Joseph and Ida (Rosin) Levin gave
birth to University of Detroit Law School trained attorney, the husband of
Rohda Katzin, the father of Charles, Joseph, Daniel and Mimi Levin and the
chief Judge of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan,
President of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and vice president and
director of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
1897: In Paris, French author Emil Zola was attacked by a
mob on his way home from the court where his case was being heard. The
police were forced to intervene to prevent a lynching. The frustrated mob
then “made a rush for the Jews threatening to throw them into the Seine.”
1900: “The 37th Convention of District No.
4 of the Independent Order of B’Nai B’rith opened today in San Francisco.
1901: Winston Churchill made his maiden speech in the House
of Commons at a time when he was a member of the Conservative Party serving as
an MP for Oldham. In 1904, the Conservatives at Oldham would tell
Churchill that they could no longer support him. This would force
Churchill to seek a new constituency which would be Manchester North-West where
a third of the voters were Jewish. This change in political fortune would
force Churchill to deal with Jewish political issues for the first, but not the
last time, in his career. For more on this topic you should Sir Martin
Gilbert’s highly readable Churchill and the Jews.
1902(11th of Adar I, 5662):
Sixty-five-year-old West Prussia native, University of Berlin trained surgeon
and recipient of the Iro Cross Julius Wolf a veteran of three wars in which
Prussia emerged victorious and the chief surgeon of the newly founded orthopedic
dispensary at the u=University of Berlin passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14990-wolff-julius
1902: The Arbitration Committee of the Thirty-six which was
appointed by the National Civic Federation at its last convention whose members
included Oscar Straus and Samuel Gompers held “its first regular meeting in the
Mission Building.
1903(21st of Shevat, 5663):
Seventy-four-year-old Moses Mielziner, the Prussian born American rabbi who had
been President of the Hebrew Union College since 1900 passed away today and was
succeeded by Gotthard Deutsch who filled the position of “acting President.”
1903: The all-black musical “In Dahomey” opened at the New
York Theatre where George Washington Lederer, the Wilkes-Barre, PA born Jew was
the manager.
1904(2nd of Adar. 5664):
Seventy-nine-year-old composer and pianist Emanuel Abraham Aguilar, the husband
of Sarah Aguilar and the brother of novelist Grace Aguilar passed away today in
his native city of London.
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php?topic=4174.0
1904: Four days after he had passed away, Barrow Emanuel,
the son of Emanuel and Julia (Moss) Emanuel and the brother of Edward Emanuel
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1904: In Florence, Italy, Gilda Borghi and Mario Mordechai
Pacifici who descended “from an ancient Sephardic and religious Jewish family
of Spanish origin and of rabbinical tradition settled in Tuscany (first in
Leghorn, then in Florence) in the 16th century gave birth to Riccardo Pacifici,
an Italian rabbi who would be murdered at Auschwitz.
1904: Birthdate of Aubrey Louis Goodman who led Baylor to a
SWC championship before leading the University of Chicago to a Big-Ten
Championship giving him the unique distinction of being one of the few players
to play a key role in winning two different major football championships.
1905: Birthdate of Jean S. Greene, the wife of Philp M.
Greene who was buried in Durham, NC when she passed away in 1992.
1906(23rd of Shevat, 5666): Henry Defries,
the London born son Elizabeth and Henry Zvi Defries, the husband of Hannah
Defries and the father of Henry Defries; John Defries; Daniel Defries; Rebecca
Mills; Alfred (Alf) Abraham Defries; Mary Defries; Elizabeth Jacobs; Adelaide
Levy; Maria Rosenthal; Ann Defries; Michael Defries; Richard Defries; George
Defries; Isaac Defries; Henrietta Defries and Harry Defries passed away today
in the London Borough of Hackney.
1906: Dr. Thomas R. Slicer delivered the last of a series
of lectures on “Fraternity” at the People’s Institute in Cooper Union, an
organization that is unique because its membership includes Jews as well as
“Catholic, Protestant, agnostics, atheists and Christian Scientists.”
1906: It was reported today that Carl Stettauer of London
who had gone to Russia as a representative of the Jewish Relief formed by Jews
in the United States and Great Britain told a reporter for the Times during an
interview at the Waldorf Astoria that the two things that had impressed him
while touring Kieff and Odessa, sites of some of the worse violence against the
Jews, were “that no conditions arose that the local authorities not have
prevented
and that “it was plain the police had assisted the mob.”
1907: State Express 111 through State Express a cigarette
brand created by London tobacco merchant Sir Albert Levy were all “registered
under UK Registration No.290529” today.
1908: Today, contractor Emanuel M. Krulewtich is building
“a row of houses at St. Nicholas and Covenant Avenues…under police protection
from the Carpenter’s and Joiners’ Union despite his having agreed to walking
delegate Henry W. Blumberg that he “employ Jewish workmen on half of the job.”
1909: In New York, “plans have been filed for remodeling
the four-story dwelling at the corner of Madison and 48th Street,
owned by Mrs. Fannie Cohen, into a seven-story building with bachelor
apartments on the upper floors.
1910: In Lithuania, Rabbi Moshe Yom Tov Wachtfogel gave
birth to Nosson Meir Wachtfogel who became known as the Lakewood Mashgiach.
1911(20th of Shevat, 5671) Parashat Yitro
1911: Dr. Gerson B. Levi scheduled to deliver a sermon this
morning a Congregation B’nai Sholom-Temple Israel in Chicago.
1911: Die geschiedene Frau (The Divorcée),
“an operetta in three acts with a libretto by Victor Léon, was performed for
the first time in Paris as La divorcée
1912: “Kadimo Hebrew School” was dedicated today in
Baltimore, MD.
1913: During the Third Republic, when real power was held
by the Prime Ministers, Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France. Along
with General Pershing (commander of the AEF), Poincare opposed the Armistice
contending that Allied armies needed to penetrate deeper into Germany lest the
German people not realize that their army had been beaten. Their view did
not prevail. The German Army marched back into Germany giving rise to the
“stabbed in the back” myth that helped Hitler come to power. During the
1920’s, Poincare intervened on behalf of the Jews of Poland when he convinced
the Polish government to refrain from adopting legislation that would have
discriminated against her Jewish citizens.
1913(11th of Adar I, 5673): Eighty-year-old
Mortiz Loth the author and pioneer notion merchant who “in 1873 issued a call
to the Jewish congregations which resulted in the establishment of “the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations” and the Hebrew Union College passed away
today in Cincinnati, OH.
1913: Birthdate of Rabbi Leslie Hardman, “the young
chaplain” who was with the British 11th Armoured Division when
it liberated Bergen-Belsen.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/13/secondworldwar-judaism
1913(11th of Adar I, 5673): Isaac Radinski,
a Chicago merchant, passed away today.
1913: “The Prisoner of Zenda” the film version of the novel
by the same name produced by Adolph Zukor was released in the United States
today.
1914: Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore and Muriel Alice Ruth
de Pass gave birth to Denzil Charles Sebag-Montefiore
1914: In Philadelphia, PA, “Jacob Loeb Langsdorf and Louise
Silberman Langsdorft” gave birth to Blanche Loeb Langsdorf who became Balance
Loeb Sundheim when she married Harry G. Sundheim, Jr.
1915: As of today, the fund of the American Jewish Relief
Committee for Sufferers from the War has collected $482, 952.13.
1915: The American cruiser Tennessee arrived in Alexandria
carrying refugees “from the coast of Syria” and Palestine who were escaping
from the Ottomans.
1915: The Red Cross Fund which Jacob H. Schiff serves
as treasurer increased its total by $1,112.80 bring the total collected to
$460, 060.47.
1915: “The development of the educational and social life
of Jewish young people and the improvement of the economic conditions through
the operation of 200 schools under the auspices of the Alliance Israelite
Universelle of Paris were partly described at a memorial meeting” tonight “the
founder of the organization, Narcesse Leven.
1916(14th of Adar I, 5676): Purim Katan
1916(14th of Adar I, 5676): Morris Quasha,
the son of Hyman Quasha and Sara Coburn passed away today after which he was
buried at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Masepth, NY.
1916: Birthdate of Maria Victoria Bloch-Bauer, who as Maria
Altmann gained fame for her “successful, five decades long fight to regain five
Gustav Klimt paintings owned by her family that had been stolen by the Nazis
during World War II.
1916: “The Joint Distribution Committee of the Jewish
Relief Fund issued a report” today that showed that $2,900,000 has been sent to
aid the Jews suffering in the war zones including $1,285,000 to Russia,
$860,000 to Poland and Lithuania, $610,000 to Austria-Hungary and $142,000 in
Palestine.
1917: Dr. Samuel Schulman is scheduled to speak on “The
Problem of American Judaism” this morning at Temple Beth-El.
1917: At the Free Synagogue meeting in Carnegie Hall,
Rabbie Wise is scheduled to speak on “Does the Soul Survive?”
1917: Dr. Silverman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on
“The Martrydom of the Jews” this moring at Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue.
1917: It was reported today that the American Jewish Relief
Committee had received the following contributions from local committees:
$1,039, Baltimore; $1,000, Indiana of which $18 came from Wabash; $35,
Champagne, Illinois.
1918: Twenty-five-year-old Aaron Maiberg, a native of
Russia who emigrated to Canada in 1912 enlisted today and served with the 38th
Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers which was part of “the Jewish Legion.:
1918: Morris Rothenberg, Chairman of the Zionist Committee
of New York, presided over the memorial service held in honor of the late
Jechiel Tchlenow, the Russian born doctor who passed away in London only months
after having participated in the negotiations that produced the Balfour
Declaration.
1919: Three days after he had passed away, 34-year-old Mark
Abrahams was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1919: In Chicago, on the final evening of the
Zionist Convention, Meyer Abrams is scheduled to chair a special session at the
Hebrew Institute where all of the papers including The Jewish State,” “The Zion
Commonwealth” and “The Jerusalem Printing Works” will be presented in the
Hebrew language.
1920: The Jewish Court of Arbitration held its first
session
1921: It was reported today that following complaints from
local Jewish sources and Professor Simon Askenazy, the Polish Ambassador to
Great Britain concerning the expulsion of Jewish refugees from Austria, the
Council of the League of Nations will take up the issue at its next meeting on
February 24.
1922(20th of Shevat, 5682) Parashat Yitro
1922: According to an announcement made today, “some of the
most eminent Jews” in the United States will be attending the biennial
convention of the Union of American Congregations and the National Federation
of Temple Sisterhoods which will be held in New York in January where “ways by
which Judaism can be preserved in the United States will be discussed.”
1923: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional
Synagogue along with Rabbis M.S. Margolies and Philip Klein officed at the
wedding of Rose Fischel and Albert Wald which took place at Congregation
Kehillath Jershurun on East 85th Street.
1923: Birthdate of Robert (Bob) Sonné Cohen, Professor
Emeritus of Philosophy and Physics at Boston University and cofounder of the BU
Center for Philosophy & History of Science.
https://www.bu.edu/cphs/about/robert-cohen/
1924: Birthdate of Canadian born actress Bessie Hope
Wolfe Garber who “hosted the Canadian television show, At Home with Hope
Garber.
1924: Today, Jack Bernstein, who used the surname of the
former local legend, Jewish featherweight contender, Joe Bernstein, fought to a
draw with Rocky Kansas
1925: Birthdate of Groningen native and Holocaust Survivor
Timotheus Aiking.
1925: “Palestine Pianist Here” published today described
the concert given by Arie Aeliah the “head of of the music school in Tel Aviv”
who has come to the United States to report on the progress of the fulfillment
of the musical aspirations of the Jewish community in Palestine.
1926: It was reported today that the White Star Line has
received a radio message from Captain Arthur Holme which said that the Homeric
has left Constantinople and is on schedule for its arrival in Haifa.
1926(4th of Adar, 5686):
Ninety-seven-year-old Mrs. Mary Golden, “one of the organizers of the Machzike
Talmud Torah School and “active supporter of the Hebrew Free Loan and several
hospitals” whose last words were “I wish I could live to continue to do good to
others” passed away in New York City.
1926: A Bill of particulars filed in the Brockton, MA,
blasphemy case was characterized tonight as “exaggerated and ridiculous” by
defendant Anthony Bimba, the editor of a Communist paper who has written “Here
we are organizing among the Lithuanians among the Lithuanians, Poles among
Poles, the Jews among the Jews and so on, to overthrow the capitalistic
government by revolution in the same way they did in Russia…”
1926: The funeral for H. Wolberg, who served as the
business manager of the Jewish Daily News for over 30 years is
scheduled to take place today in Brooklyn.
1927: Two days after he had passed away, 78-year-old Jacob
Press was buried today at the “Streatham Jewish Cemetery.”
1927: Birthdate of Michael “Mike” Harari, the sabra who
became an officer in Mossad.
1927: The London Gazette reported
from Whitehall that “Letters Patent have passed the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the Dignity of a Baronet of the
said United Kingdom to the undermentioned gentlemen and the heirs male of their
respective lawfully begotten: Sir Joseph Duveen, of Millbank in the City of
Westminster”
1928: “Orient,” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer
Mutz Greenbaum was released today in Germany.
1929: First Academy Awards are announced. “Broadway Melody”
produced by Irving Thalberg was named Best Picture for 1928 – 1929. “All Quiet
on the Western Front” directed by Lewis Milestone was named Best Picture of
1929-1930.
1929: Israel Joseph Winkel, the husband of Phoebe Winkel
and the father of Joseph, Solomon, Kate, Sarah and Leah Winkel was buried today
at the “East Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1929: “Pleasure Bound,” with lyrics by Max and Nathaniel
Leif and produce by Lee and JJ Shubert opened on Broadway at the Majestic
Theatre.
1929: In Brooklyn, Lena and Max Weinrib gave birth to
Jerome Weinrib, the retired chairman of ABC Carpet.
1930: Birthdate of St. Louis native James Leslie “Jimmy”
Jacobs the multi-talented athlete who concentrated on handball and managing
boxers – a passion which to him co-founding the production companies “The
Greatest Fights of the Century” and “Big Fights, Inc.”
1930: In Brooklyn, Emil Lackow, the manufacturer of leather
goods and Mildred Prozan gave birth to Pauline Bernice Lackow who gained famed
as “Pauline Bart, a second-wave feminist sociologist who wrote with rigor and
dark wit about depression among 1950s-era housewives, gender inequities in
health care and violence against women…” (As reported by Penelope Green)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/us/pauline-bart-dead.html?searchResultPosition=3
1930: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "Simple
Simon" premieres in New York
1931(1st of Adar, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1931: Over 1,500 people attended funeral
services for Louis Mann at Temple Emanu-El which were opened with a reading by
Rabbi H.G. Enelow and included a eulogy delivered by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and
a rendition of a Bach aria by violinist Mischa Elman.
1931(1st of Adar, 5691): Fifty-year-old
Russian born American actor Louis Wolheim who gave a memorable performance in
“All Quiet on the Western Front” passed away today.
1931: King Levinsky fought a four-round exhibition with
former Heavy Weight Champion Jack Dempsey. Levinsky the scion of a Jewish
family from Chicago that had a fish business on Maxwell Street
1932: Birthdate of Czech born film director Milos
Forman. Forman’s father was Jewish but his mother was not. They
died in the camps.
1932: O.R. Miller of Albany, “an official of the New York
Civic League” was reported today to be one of those wishing to testify against
the confirmation of Judge Benjamin N. Cardoza who has been nominated by
President Hoover to serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1933: Marinus van der Lubbe, the man who will be accused of
setting the Reichstag Fire, arrived in Berlin. There are those who contend the
fire was really set by the Nazis. Regardless, they used it as tool to
consolidate their power weeks after Hitler became Chancellor.
1933: “The Mystery of the Wax Museum” a horror film
directed by Michael Curtiz was released in the United States today.
1934(3rd of Adar, 5694): “Dr. Heinrich York Steiner,
Hungarian Jewish writer, friend of Dr. Theodore Herzl” and one of the founders
of the Zionist movement passed away today at the age of 75. Dr.
York-Steiner, who was born in Hungary, spent most of his life in Vienna.
Known as a novelist, critic and dramatist, he became friendly with Dr. Herzl as
a young man and worked closely with him to form Zionist groups. He played an
important part in the creation of the World Zionist Organization.”
1935: Nineteen days after premiere in New York City, “The
Good Fairy,” a comedy directed by William Wyler and produced by Carl Laemmle,
Jr. was released in the United States today.
1936: As a result of the assassination of Swiss Nazi leader
Wilhelm Gustloff on February 4, today, “the Swiss Federal Council ordered…the
immediate suppression of all central or regional German Nazi organizations in
Switzerland.”
1936: New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman was among the
speakers at tonight’s fellowship dinner sponsored by the National Committee for
Religion and Welfare Recovery where he told attendees “that something seemed to
be wrong with the social as well as the economic order of the nation” and
“called upon Protestants, Catholics and Jews to join in a new spiritual
awakening…”
1936: Invitations were sent today to forty national leaders
asking them to attend a meeting in Cincinnati called by Felix Warburg where
plans will be made for raising the three and a half million dollars that the
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has promised to provide
assistance to refugees from Eastern and Central Europe.
1936: In a reorganization of the League of Nations High
Commission for Refugees Coming From Germany, for now, Norman Bentwich, the
director of the High Commission, a professor at the Hebrew University and
former Attorney-General of Palestine will be responsible for providing economic
assistance to the refugees.
1937: It was reported today that German born composer
Walter Damrosch who would be classified as Jew if he had stayed in his homeland
has expressed this opposition to a bill introduced by Congressman Samuel
Dickstein, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, designed “to protect the artistic
and earning opportunities in the United States for American actors, vocal
musicians, operatic singers, solo dancers, solo instrumentalists and orchestral
conductors.”
1937: The prosecution rested in the restaurant racket trial
today that involved a payment of $21,000 to Dutch Shultz, the son. of
“German-Jewish immigrants Herman and Emma Flegenheimer” who had named their son
Arthur
1938: The Palestine Post reported that owing to German
influence there had been in recent months a concentrated Italian drive against
the appointment of Jews to leading positions in the economic and political life
of the state.
1938: “The Baroness and the Butler” a romantic comedy
featuring J. Edward Bromberg and Joseph Schildkraut was released in the United
States today.
1938: “A Yank At Oxford” produced by Michael Balcon was
released in the United States today.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that there were three
successive Arab attacks on the Rana police post, near Acre. Some 150 Arab
villagers in the Tulkarm area were arrested in connection with a number of
recent railway sabotages.
1938: Today in New York, the Municipal Civil Service
Commissioner announced the Joseph Jablonower, the Austrian born math
teacher whose students would include Senator Jacob Javits, and author Harry
Golden was the only teacher who “ passed the recent written and. oral
tests for the coveted $11,000 post of examiner in the Board of Education.”
1938: The Palestine Post reported that Maestro Toscanini
had withdrawn from participating in the Nazi-dominated Salzburg Festival and
announced his intention to come and conduct the Orchestra in Palestine.
1938(17th of Adar I, 5698):
Seventy-three-year-old Vilna native “Joseph Polstein, a retired builder, a
former president of Congregation Kehilath Jershurum in Manhattan and a director
of Yeshiva College died today of pneumonia in his home” today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/02/19/98099682.pdf
1939(29th of Shevat, 5699): Parashat
Mishpatim and Shabbat Shekalim
1939: Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer is scheduled to deliver a
sermon on “Brotherhood, Is It a Delusion?” at Temple Emanu-El today.
1939: The Central Synagogue in Manhattan is scheduled to
hold its “annual Youth Service in honor of the eleventh annual convention of
the New York State Federation of Young Folks’ Leagues” that will include a
sermon by Saul B. Applebaum on “Youth’s Aged Problems.”
1939: In observance of “Brotherhood Sabbath,” Rev. C.
Jeffares McCombe, pastor of the Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew is
scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Common Task of Christian and Jew” at
Temple Rodeph Sholom.
1940: In Warsaw, two Jewish girls were raped by two German
sergeants.
1941: United Sates Representative Martin L. Sweeney
testified in Federal Court” today, in “his suit for $250,000 damages, based on
allegations that he was libeled in” Drew Pearson’s Washington Merry-Go-Round
Column that “he never at any time felt or manifested prejudice against Jews or
other persons because of race or faith” and that he had not joined with the
notorious Father Coughlin to oppose a nominee for a federal judgeship.
1941: The seizure in the port of Jaffa over the weekend of
a motor launch transporting nearly a ton of opium and hashish valued at fifty
thousand pounds” is believed today by authorities “to have broken up a gigantic
plot.”
1942(1st of Adar, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1942 (1st of Adar, 5702: Fifteen-year-old
Eduard Bondy, the “son of Pavel and Franziska Bondy” died today in the Lodz
Ghetto during the Holocaust.
1942: Birthdate of Maurice Lévy, the Moroccan born French
businessman who became “chief executive officer of Publicus.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/publicis-extends-maurice-levys-term-as-ceo-1410852508
1943: A group of 1,220 Jewish refugees from Poland arrived
in Israel from Tehran where they had found refuge in 1942
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205872.pdf
1943: Joseph Goebbels gave his Total War speech which
should have put an end to any later claims that the Allies were wrong in
pursuing a policy of Unconditional Surrender when fighting the Axis.
1943: The occupying Japanese authorities declared a
"Designated Area for Stateless Refugees" and ordered those who
arrived after 1937 to move their residences and businesses within it by May 18,
three months later.
1943(13th of Adar I, 5703):
Seventy-four-year-old Dutch trade unionist Henri Polak who was President of the
General Diamond Workers’ Union of the Netherlands died of pneumonia in Laren
following which his wife Milly was shipped to Westerbrork where she died.
1943(13th of Adar I, 5703):
Seventy-four-year-old Odessa born American Socialist Sergius Ingerman, a
graduate of “the medical school at the University of Berne, co-founder of the
Socialist Party of America with Eugene V. Debs and Morris Hilliquit and the husband
of Dr. Anna Ingerman passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/02/19/85084470.pdf
1943: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose
movement which was an anti-Nazi movement inspired by German students. It
is important to remember that there were those in Germany who opposed Hitler
and were willing to risk their lives to express that opposition.
1944: “Action in Arabia” directed by Leonide Moguy and with
a script co-authored by Herbert Biberman was released today in the United
States.
1944: Lightweight Al Davis scored his last victory over “a
name fighter” today.
1945: The last of six convoys of deportees arrived at The
Langenstein-Zwieberge, an under-camp of the Buchenwald concentration
camp.
1945: In “Alfred Einstein’s Study of Mozart” published
today, Roger Session said of Mozart, His Character, His Work by
Alfred Einstein that “a new book by Alfred Einstein is in itself an event of
first-rate importance in the world of musical scholarship” and that this
“present volume on Mozart is not only an event but a predestined one.”
1945(5th of Adar, 5705):
Fifty-five-year-old Arne Laurin the graduate of the “Technical Academy of
Prague,” the editor-in-chief of Prager Presse, a German language
newspaper regarded as the mouthpiece of the Czech government who was forced to
flee because of opposition to the Nazis and who “took charge of the index
department of the Czechoslovak Information Service” after arriving in New York
in 1939 with his wife “Olga Weiss Laurinova” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/02/19/84628244.pdf
1946: A clandestine radio transmitter known as the “Voice
of Free Israel” that is reportedly operated by the Stern Gang was seized in Tel
Aviv after “a house-to-house search by British Soldiers and police officers.”
1946(17th of Adar I, 5706):
Eighty-one-year-old Siegfried Wachsmann, the Glewitz Germany native
and University of Berlin trained physician who in 1901 came to the United
States where he served on the faculties of Fordham and Columbia universities
and the Medical Director of the Montefiore Home and Hospital for Chronic
Diseases on Gun Hill Road passed away today in Middleton, NY<
1946: Clemens August Galen was named as a Cardinal.
During World War II, while serving as the Bishop of Munster (Germany), he
opposed the Nazis.
1947: Birthdate of Eliot Engel, Congressman representing
New York’s 17th District.
1947: “A Flag is Born” was scheduled to open in Boston, MA.
1948: “Mr. Roberts” featuring Steven Hill, Larry Blyden and
Sam Lembeck as “Sam Insigna” opened on Broadway today.
1948(8th of Adar I, 5708):
Sixty-five-year-old George Washington University trained physician Samuel
Haberman, the Russian born son of Dora and Joseph Meir who specialized in chest
diseases and raised four children while being active in Republican politics passed
away today in Massachusetts.
1949: Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach
(head of government) of Ireland. The controversial Irish leader was rumored to
have been the illegitimate son of a Portuguese Jew, a rumor he vehemently
denied. However, de Valera was not an anti-Semite as can be seen by his support
in 1937 for a provision in the Irish Constitution that explicitly recognized
the existence and rights of the Jewish community in Ireland.
1950(1st of Adar, 5710): Parashat
Mishpatim; Rosh Chodesh Adar
1950(1st of Adar, 5710):
Sixty-eight-year-old Lithuania native Charles Katz, “the President and a
founder Polan, Katz and Company, Inc. an umbrella manufacturer located in
Baltimore and a leader of the Jewish community who served a director of the
Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore and a director of the United Synagogue
of America while raising two daughters and on son, Lawrence with his wife “the
former Fannie Elfant” passed away today.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Knesset
approved, by 79 votes to 16, the government's statement on the ruptured
relations with the Soviet Union. The resolution upheld the role the Soviet
Union played in the establishment of Israel in 1948 but found no justification
for the Soviet role in breaking off the diplomatic relations between the two
countries now. Mass meetings in New York asked the Soviet Union to "Let My
People Go!"
1953(3rd of Adar, 5713):
Seventy-five-year-old Columbia University trained mining engineer Leon Gilbert
Simon, “a special agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and the author
of books on insurance and taxation passed away today while returning to his New
York home after “delivering a series of lectures at Tulane University in New
Orleans.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that in London the House
of Commons backed the British government's decision to continue selling jet
fighters to Arab nations to the exclusion of Israel.
1954(15th of Adar I, 5714): Shushan Purim
Katan
1954: “The Long, Long Trailer” a comedy produced by Pandro
S. Berman was released in the United States today.
1955: Pinchas Lavon’s resignation as Defense Minister is
accepted.
1955: David Ben Gurion agrees to come out of retirement and
serve as Defense Minister. Four months later he will also agree to serve
as Prime Minister.
1957(17th of Adar I, 5717): “Two civilians
were killed by landmines, next to Nir Yitzhak, on the southern border of the
Gaza Strip.”
1959(11th of Adar I, 5719): Fifty-three-year-old Viennese
composer Erich Zeisl who came to New York via Paris after the Anschluss passed
away today.
http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/composers/article/eric_zeisl/
1961(2nd of Adar, 5721): Parashat Terumah
1961: Today, Bertram W. Kornd delivered an address on “Jews
and Negro Slaver in the Old South: 1789-1865” at the 59th Annual
Meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Jewish Museum of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059130
1962: It was reported today that, on the eve of Brotherhood
Week, Rabbi William Berkowitz had presented Congregation B’nai Jershurun’s
award for being a champion of human rights to Reverend Ralph W. Sockman, the
minister of emeritus of Christ Church (a Methodist Congregation) who was hailed
as “one of the leaders who has brought the spiritual dimension into the
community, the nation and the world.”
1963 After premiering in London in January, “Summer
Holiday” a musical with a score by Stanley Black was released in the rest of
the UK today.
1963(24th of Shevat, 5723): Shlomo-Yisrael
Ben-Meir began serving as serving as a Deputy Speaker and the Deputy Minister
of Internal Affairs
1965(15th of Adar I, 5725):
Eight-six-year-old Paul Sachs, the Assistant Director of the Fogg Art Museum
and founding member of The Museum of Modern Art who played a key role in making
plans for protecting American art during WWII and retrieving art from war torn Europe
as described in The Monument Men passed away today.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/09/portrait-of-the-artist-a.html
http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/Sachsf
1966(28th of Shevat, 5726):
Fifty-seven-year-old Robert Rossen, the director of the Oscar winning picture
“All the King’s Men” passed away today.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArossen.htm
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/19/79292897.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1967(8th of Adar I, 5727): Sixty-two-year-old physicist
Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project and the father of the
Atomic Bomb passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0422.html
1969: The PLO attacked El-Al plane in Zurich
Switzerland. Long before 9/11, the Israelis were forced to deal with a
level of vicious terrorism aimed at strangling their avenues of commerce and
tourist industry. As a result of the PLO attacks, the Israelis were the
first to put sky marshals on their flights and to do in depth pre-screening of
all passengers. And yes, the head of the PLO was Yassar Arafat, the
"partner for peace."
1969(30th of Shevat, 5729): Rosh Chodesh
Adar
1969(30th of Shevat, 5729): Mieczyslaus
Zagajski, a native of Poland who came to the United States during WWII after
which he became an industrialist and “collector of Jewish ceremonial
objects’ passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
1969: BBC2 broadcast a dramatization of The Naked Sun by
Isaac Asimov
1970: The Chicago Eight, including Abbe Hoffman and
Jerry Rubin, were found not guilty of charges relating to the riots at the 1968
Democratic Convention held in Chicago.
1970(12 of Adar I, 5730: Rabbi Shimon Kramer, the Rav at
the Hebrew Institute of University Heights in the Bronx passed away today.
https://kevarim.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kramer-NYT.png
1971(24th of Shevat, 5731): Just seventeen
days after celebrating his 50th birthday Brooklyn College
graduate and Merchant Marine veteran Joseph Dames, an executive with the
American Jewish Committee’s Appeal for Human Relations and the husband of
Lucile Dames with whom he raised two daughter – Tamar and Lisa – passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/joseph-dames-dies-jewish-appeal-aide.html
1972(3rd of
Adar, 5732): Two days before 91st birthday, Mrs. Jean Wise
May, a leader of women's and youth work in the Jewish field for many year,”
“the widow of clothing manufacturer Albert J. May and the last surviving child
of Selma Bondi Wise and Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the Cincinnati rabbi credited
with founding Reform Judaism passed away tonight.
1973: A headline in the New York Times read
"Half Baghdad's Jews Said to Apply to Leave; Property Seized."
"Half the members of the tiny Jewish community in Baghdad have applied for
passports to leave Iraq in recent weeks in the face of a crackdown by Iraqi
authorities, according to a first day account.
1973: In Montreal's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue,
Naim Kattan, an Iraqi-born Jew spoke at a memorial and protest rally for nine
more Jews who had been murdered in Baghdad. (page 300 for the dead)
1974: Valery Panov was threatened with further punishment
unless he left the Soviet Union “immediately without his wife.”
1976(17th of Adar I, 5736): Seventy-seven-year-old John
Barsha, the native of Russia originally known as Abraham Barshofsky who played
basketball and football for Syracuse University before turning pro while in law
school passed away today.
1976: In Brussels, the Second World Conference of Jewish
Communities on Soviet Jewry continued for a second day.
1976(17th of Adar I, 5736):
Fifty-eight-year-old Milton Cohen, vice president and general manager of Hertz
System Inc., a licensee company that rents and leases cars and trucks in
affiliation with the Hertz Corporation, and the husband of Anne Cohen with whom
he had two children, Richard and Janet, passed away today in Vancouver.
1977(30th of Shevat, 5737): Rosh Chodesh
Adar observed for the first time during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter
1978(11th of Adar I, 5738): Parashat
Tetzaveh
1980(1st of Adar, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1980(1st of Adar, 5740):
Seventy-two-year-old Maxwell Goldstein, the son of Bessie and Louis Goldstein
and the Johns Hopkins trained electrical engineer who was a leader in
developing anti-submarine technology during WW II passed away today.
https://ethw.org/Maxwell_K._Goldstein
1980: In Moscow, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and
amateur violinist and Bella Spektor, a professor in a Soviet college of music
gave birth to singer-songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/feb/18/1980/this-week-in-history-singer-songwriter-regina-spektor-is-born
1981(14th of Adar I, 5741) Purim Katan
1981: Today “Yosef Mendelevich, 34, the last of the nine
Jews jailed in the Leningrad trial, arrived in Israel.
1981: Israel's 60,000 teachers, who earn an average of $110
a week, staged a one-day strike today to press for a wage increase promised by
the Government. The Government's decision in principle last month to grant the
raise brought the resignation of Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, which resulted
in the Government coalition losing its majority in Parliament. Negotiations,
however, have continued.
1982(25th of Shevat, 5742):
Ninety-two-year-old multi-talented musician Nathaniel Shilkret passed away
today.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Shilkret-Nat.htm
http://www.collateralworks.com/linernotes/natshilkret.html
1982(25th of Shevat, 5742):
Seventy-year-old New York born violinist and conductor Sol Babitz, the husband
of Mae Laviolette with whom head two daughters, Eve and Miriam, passed away
today.
http://www.maebabitz.com/about/sol-babitz/
1983(5th of Adar, 5743):
Eighty-two-year-old Leopold Godowsky, Jr. the American violinist who held to
create Kodachrome passed away.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/233.html
1983: Two months after its release in Iceland, “The King of
Comedy” co-starring Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall and Sandra Berhnhard was released
in the United States today.
1983: For the final time Stage 23 at Paramount Studios in
Los Angeles for the taping of an episode of “Taxi.”
1983: “Lovesick” a comedy featuring “the ghost of Dr.
Sigmund Freud” with a cast that included Ron Silver, Alan King, Selma Diamond
and Larry Rivers was released in the United States today.
1984(15th of Adar I, 5744): Purim Katan;
Parashat Ki Tisa
1986(9th of Adar I, 5746):
Sixty-three-year-old decorated WW II veteran and owner of the Westland Market
Samuel H. Keyser, the husband of Eva Keyser and a member of Beth David
Synagogue passed away today
1988(30th of Shevat, 5748): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1989(13th of Adar I, 5749): Parashat
Tetzaveh
1990: Dozens of supporters are planning to lie down across
the road here in front of Ariel Sharon's northern Negev ranch this morning to
stop him from driving to Jerusalem for the Cabinet meeting where he plans to
resign. But as the former general sees it, by resigning as Industry and Trade
Minister he is not leaving; he is simply opening a new front. And the goal of
this new campaign, he said in an interview, is to be Israel's next prime
minister replacing Yitzhak Shamir.
1992(14th of Adar I, 5752): Purim Katan
1994(7th of Adar, 5754):
Forty-nine-year-old Ruth Adler, a Devon born daughter of “two German Jewish
lawyers, Charlotte Kissinger and Rudolf Oppenheimer, who was a campaigner for
human rights and children welfare passed away today.
http://womenofscotland.org.uk/women/ruth-margaret-adler
1994: “On Deadly Ground,” directed and produced by the
film’s star Steven Seagal, the son of Russian Jewish father and featuring Irvin
Kershner was released today in the United States.
1995: Actor Bodhi Elfman, the “only child of filmmaker
Richard Elfman” got married today.
1995(18th of Adar I, 5755): Parashat Ki
Tisa
1995(18th of Adar I, 5755):
Seventy-year-old Rosa Lee Blumthanal, the wife of former delegate Charles
Blumenthal (D-Oxon Hill) with whom she had four children – George, Anne,
Rosemary and Cheryl -- and a Prince George's County Democrat who had
served in the House of Delegates from 1986 to 1994 who “had served on the
Judiciary Committee and had sponsored legislation dealing with victims' rights,
grandparents' visitation rights, rehabilitation of chronic juvenile offenders
and grant funds for family day-care providers” passed away today.
1997: Janet Yellen began serving as Chair of the Council of
Economic Advisers under President Clinton.
1997(11th of Adar I, 5757): Ninety-two-year-old Emily Hahn,
the St. Louis born author best known for her writings about China passed away
today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/19/arts/emily-hahn-chronicler-of-her-own-exploits-dies-at-92.html
http://www.susanbkason.com/2015/04/05/emily-hahn/#.WKZpKluQx9A
1999(2nd of Adar, 5769):
Ninety-two-year-old Paris born photographer Adnreas Feininger, the “eldest son
Julia Berg, a German Jew” and painter Lyonel Feiningerg, who was best to many
for his work in Life magazine passed away today. (As reported by Andy Grunberg)
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/20/arts/andreas-feininger-92-dies-portrayed-new-york-in-photos.html
1999(2nd of Adar, 5759): Comedic actor and director Noam
Pitlik passed away.
2000: “The Whole Nine Yards” a really off-beat comedy
featuring Kevin Pollak and with music by Randy Edelman was released today in
the United States.
2001: The New York Times published an
op-ed essay explaining the pardon of Marc Rich which did not mention the
donations of almost two million dollars that Denise Rich had made to the
Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton’s senatorial campaign or the Clinton Library.
2002(6th of Adar I, 5762): Ahuva
Amergi (30), Maj. Mor Elraz (25), St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri and unidentified woman
were murdered today by members of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigade who opened fire on
the car driven by the woman and then hit the two soldiers who came to her aid.
2003(16th of Adar I, 5763) Isser Harel, head of Mossad
from 1952 until 1963 and was in charge of the operation that brought Eichmann
to Israel to stand trial passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/isser-harel
https://spartacus-educational.com/COLDharel.htm
2004: “President Bush, helping to inaugurate a new American
television network in the Middle East, said in an interview broadcast today
that the United States would continue to press its plan for a Palestinian state
and for democracy in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other Arab countries.”
2004: It was reported today that according to Rabbi Berel
Karniol, the director of an angency In Monsey, NY that certifies kosher kitcher
“some of the most observant Hasidic communities in the United States claim
large followings of restaurant avoiders” and that these “Jews so punctilious in
their observance of the food laws that even kosher restaurants get the thumbs
down.”
2005(9th of Adar I, 5765): Lee Kahn passed away at the age
of 101. She was one of the siblings of Helen Reichert, all of whom were
centenarians.
2006(20th of Shevat, 5766): Parashat Yitro
2006: “A new Palestinian parliament dominated by the
militant group Hamas was installed today, and immediately President
Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas lawmakers set out on a collision course over the need
to honor existing agreements with Israel and conduct negotiations with it to
achieve Palestinian statehood.”
2007: The 23rd International Book Fair opens in
Jerusalem
2007: The Sunday New York Times book
section featured a review of French Seduction: An American’s Encounter
With France, Her Father, and the Holocaust by Eunice Lipton.
2007: The Sunday Washington Post book
section “Poet’s Choice” by Robert Pinksy features a commentary on "The
Amen Stone" and The Jewish Time Bomb" that appeared in Yehuda
Amichai's last collection of poems, Open Closed Open.
2007: The Sunday Chicago Tribune book
section included a review of Amanda Vaill's Somewhere, a biography
of Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz who came to be known as Jerome Robbins the man who
“conquered--and in many ways defined--both the musical and modern American
ballet, a genius by nature…”
2008: Three days after being released on the Continent
"New Soul" a song by the French-Israeli R&B/soul singer Yael
Naïm, was released today in the United Kingdom.
2008: In New York, Drior Baitel performs his
graduation recital at Mannes Concert Hall.
2008: In the United States, FBI domestic
terror squads remain on the alert for any threats against synagogues and other
potential Jewish targets in the United States after the assassination of the
top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah and the movement's leader threatened to
attack Israeli and Jewish institutions around the world.
2009: In, Manhattan’s East Village, the fourth and
final part of a four-part series The Comedy and Kabbalah of
Relationships featuring Rabbi YY Jacobson
2009: At New York University, Professor Yoram Peri, head of
the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society at Tel Aviv
University delivers a public lecture entitled "New Leadership in Israel
and the Peace Process"
2009: Today, the IDF announced that apples grown
by Israeli farmers in the Golan Heights will be exported to Syria.
2009: The New York Times reported that the
American Tennis Channel will not televise the Barclays Dubai Tennis
Championships this week to protest the United Arab Emirates' refusal to grant
an entry visa to Israeli player Shahar Peer
2009: Holocaust survivors voiced criticism of Yad Vashem's
announcement that it will bestow its highest honor on Wilm Hosenfeld, a Nazi
officer who helped save a Polish Jew, whose story became the basis for the film
The Pianist.
2010: The 92nd St Y is scheduled to present
another in the series Spiritual Journeys: Feminine Reflections on the Rhythms
of Our Lives entitled “Adar: Increasing Joy” with Rabbi Joyce
Reinitz.
2010: Today, while the media is filled with stories about
supposed Israeli responsibility for the death of Hamas leader in Dubai, Israeli
tennis player Shahar Peer advanced to the semifinals of the Dubai Championship,
after beating 10th seed Na Li in the quarterfinal match
2010: An IDF soldier was lightly wounded today by a bomb
which exploded near a patrol unit on the security fence near the central Gaza
Strip.
2010: Terrorists hurled a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli
bus in Gush Etzion yesterday evening. There were no casualties, but the bus was
damaged.
2010: The Washington Post features a review
of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time by
Kristin Swenson in which the reviewer recommends “Robert Alter’s books…as well
as the exhilarating Richard Elliot Friedman’s Who Wrote the Bible?
2011: Einsatzgruppen The Death Brigades, the
“harrowing two-part documentary meticulously details the Nazi killing squads
charged with destroying entire Jewish populations in occupied Eastern Europe
during WWII” is scheduled to be shown at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
2011: A Small Act is scheduled to be shown
at the 21st Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival.
2011: The Portland Jazz Festival is scheduled to start
today. “This year's theme is 'Bridges and Boundaries', which refers to bridging
the two minority communities of Jewish Americans and African Americans.”
2011: A German prosecutor said today that he has opened a
murder investigation against a key witness in the trial of alleged Nazi war
criminal John Demjanjuk. The probe is based on evidence Alex Nagorny may have
been involved in mass killings at the Nazis'
2011: Friends and family celebrate the birthday of Joel
Barnum, an un-presupposing pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community.
2011: The United States used its veto this afternoon to
block a Security Council resolution declaring Israel’s settlement construction
in the West Bank illegal. (As reported by Neil MacFarquhar)
2011: In “Auschwitz Shifts From Memorializing to Teaching,”
Michael Kimmelman described the changing role of the site of the worst of the
Death Camps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/arts/19auschwitz.html?pagewanted=all
2012: Shabbat Shekalim, 5772
2012: “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldbeerg is scheduled to be shown at
Beth El Temple Center in Belmont, MA
2012: “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray” is scheduled to be
shown at Congregation Beth-El Jewish Film Festival in Fort Worth, TX!
2012: In Iowa City, Hillel is scheduled to present a
concert by University of Iowa School of Music faculty members, Uriel Tsachor
and Rachel Joselson.
2012: Palestinian terrorists in Gaza took advantage of
stormy weather conditions to fire rockets towards large southern cities in
Israel. A Grad-type rocket was launched in the direction of the Negev's largest
city, Beersheba, today triggering air raid sirens.
2012: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that
Iran is clearly trying to develop a nuclear weapons capability, and if it
succeeds it will set off a dangerous round of nuclear proliferation across the
Middle East while the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General
Martin Dempsey said that an Israeli strike on Iran "wouldn’t achieve its
long-term objectives" and would be "destabilizing."
2013: In London, Professor Neil Gregor is scheduled to
deliver a lecture entitled “Mockery as Politics: The Degenerate Art Exhibition,
1937” in which he examines how the Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937 was used
to prepare people intellectually for the Holocaust
2013: Hadassah’s National Center for Attorneys’ Councils
and the Greater Washington Area Chapter Attorneys’ Council are scheduled to
host a dinner honor those who are to be sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court
2013: At Tulane University, the second and final day of
“Jewish Secular Utopias and Distopias in Central and Eastern Europe”
co-sponsored by Dr. Brian Horowitz and Dr. Andrew Solin
2013: At Brandeis University, a two-day conference “Zionism
in the Twenty-First Century” is scheduled to come to an end.
2013: “Religious Studies and Rabbinics” a conference
designed to promote dialogue between the fields of religious studies and
rabbinics is scheduled to open at the University of Virginia in
Charlottesville, Va.
2013: President Shimon Peres today announced that he will
present his American counterpart with the Presidential Medal of Distinction
during his March stay in Israel.
2013: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today sent Pope
Benedict XVI a letter of appreciation on behalf of the State of Israel, a week
after the pontiff announced his imminent resignation from office. Benedict said
he would step down as head of the Catholic Church at the end of February.
2013(8th of Adar, 5773): Eighty-three year
old legal scholar Alan F. Westin passed away today. (As reported by Margalit
Fox)
2014: The Skirball Center is scheduled to present another
in the series of lectures by Dr. Daniel Rynhold entitled “Rav Kook and the
Heroism of the Holy.”
2014: “The Zigzag Kid” is scheduled to be shown at the
David Posnack Jewish Community Center’s Jewish Film Festival.
2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present
“American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco.”
2014: Friends and family celebrate the natal day of Joel
Barnum, one of those quite “pillars” of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community.
2014: “Hungarian rabbi said today he had uncovered 103
Torah scrolls stolen from Hungarian Jews during World War Two and stashed in a
Russian library, adding he planned to restore and return them to the Jewish
community.”
2014: “Two rockets fired from war-torn Syria struck the
Golan Heights in northern Israel today, shortly after a secret visit to the
area by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the army
said.”
2014: A three-day long on-line marathon brainstorming
session sponsored by the Israeli government to Plan the Future of the Jewish
People is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: In Buenos Aires, a group of prosecutors are scheduled
to hold a march in memory of Alberto Nisamn the prosecutor who died
“mysteriously” while “seeking to charge President Cristina Fernández de
Kirchner with shielding Iranians from responsibility over the 1994 bombing of
Jewish community center.
2015: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present
a performance of “"Don't Cry, We'll All Meet on the Other Side,"
explores the story of Jewish Life in Communist Romania in the aftermath of the
Holocaust
2015: Cellist Elad Kabilio is scheduled to “a musical
journey through Modeling the Synagogue – from Dura to Touro.”
2015: “Above and Beyond” is scheduled to be shown at the
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
http://www.ojmche.org/experience/film-2015-02-18-above-and-beyond
2016: In Jerusalem Ariel Ben Abraham is scheduled to
discuss his book God’s Love, a book inspired in the Chassidic
approach to God's love.
2016(9th of Adar I, 5776): Twenty-one year
old Tuvia Yanai Weissman, “an IDF soldier” was stabbed terrorists in a
supermarket today.
2016: The exhibition Operation Finale: The Capture &
Trial of Adolf Eichmann, opened at the Maltz Museum today.
2016: The Estonian Israeli Music Festival is scheduled to
begin in Tel Aviv.
2017(22nd of Shevat, 5777): Parashat Yitro
2017(22nd of Shevat, 5777): On the Jewish
calendar, yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/rabbi-menachem-mendel-of-kotzk
2017: “Wounded Land” and “Kapo in Jerusalem” are scheduled
to be shown at the 27th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival.
2017: As part of their visit to Israel, a group of players
from the National Football League (NFL) are scheduled to play players from the
Israeli Football Association in an exhibition game today.
2017: At the second day of Limmud NY, following a wide
variety of Shabbat morning services, Efraim Chalamish is scheduled to lead a
discussion on “The Chinese Revolution and the Jewish State in 2016” and “David
Gedzelman is scheduled to lead a discussion on “Constructing a News Zionism for
the 21st Century on Old Foundations: What Do Gordon, Kaplan and
Buber Have to Teach Us?”
2017: This evening, in Jerusalem, Eliah Zabaly is scheduled
to perform a “piano solo recital dedicated to Aldo Ciccolini” who passed away
in 2015.
2017: As Shabbat came to an end, the lights came on at
Turner Stadium as Hapoel Beer Sheva owned by Alona Barakat, “the only woman to
own a professional soccer team in Israel,” prepared for another match
2018: Friends and family celebrate the natal day of Joel
Barnum, a mesnsh in the truest sense of the word, a “great” grandfather and one
of the few people who can put the mysteries of technology into understandable
English.
2018: The University of Iowa Hillel is scheduled to an
outing “at the boutique Southport Lanes bowling alley in Chicago.
2018(3rd of Adar, 5778): Eighty-five
Brooklyn born Lee Harris Pomeroy, the quintessential New York architect passed
away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2018: In New Orleans, The JCC Uptown Classic 5 K and Family
Fun Run are scheduled to start at 8:30 at Audobon Park.
2018: “Russian Jews Part Two: 1918-1948,” “the second part
of a documentary trilogy that charts the fascinating and complex history of the
Jewish community in Russia throughout the centuries” is scheduled to be shown
at Cineworld Didsbury in Manchester.
2018: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution by
Marci Shore, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion
Swept the World by Bart D. Ehrman and Baby Monkey, Private Eye by
Brian Selznick and David Serlin
2019: Director Steve Spielberg’s family are scheduled to
reopen “The Milky Way” the kosher restaurant that his mother Leah Adler who
passed away in February of 2017, had operated for forty years.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Forgotten
Soldier,” a documentary about Dutch businessman Sally Noach.
2019: In conjunction “Pioneers to the Present,” an exhibit
about Jews in Richmond, the Richmond Museum of History is scheduled to host
“Bubbe Reads” with “Jewish grandmothers reading stories for local youngsters.”
2019: In Rockville, MD, the Haberman Institute is scheduled
to host Professor Paul Root Wolpe of Emory University as he discusses
“Contemporary Ethical Challenges” including the “disproportionate Jewish
representation in the field of ethics and the reason for this.”
2019: Presidents’ Day observed in the United States
(Editor’s note- As Jews consider their unique experiences with the Chief
Executive starting with George Washington and his letter to the community in
Newport, RI and ending with Donald Trump, the first occupant of the White House
to have a Jewish child and Jewish grandchildren, they might want to look at the
recently published The Elected and the Chosen by Denis Brian.)
2019: Finally, today is that rarity - day in Cedar Rapids
without a forecast of snow which must be a result of all the warmth generated
by the celebration of Joel Barnum’s birthday.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “The
Photos” in which Adrienne Aurichio the wife of Award-winning Life magazine
photographer Bill Eppridge shares the photographic record of the life of Barbra
Streisand.
2020: The Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival is scheduled
to host the second and final screening of “City of Joel.”
2020: In Berkley, CA, the Bancroft Hotel is scheduled to
host a talk by Rutgers Professor Yael Zerubavel “about nature, Israeli
settlements, mythical stories, tourism and security concerns over the past
century.”
2020: O Brookline, MA, the Kolbo Fine Judaica Gallery is
scheduled to host National Jewish Book Award finalist Rabbi Laura Geller as she
reads from her newest book Getting Good at Getting Older.
2020: The YIVO Institute is scheduled to present a lecture
by Dr. Vladimir Levin on “Jewish Brcik and Mortar in the Russian Capital” in
which he considers “the uneasy relationship between the architectural oeuvre of
the Jewish community and the capital city of the Russian Empire.”
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Rabbi David
Wolpe as he lectures on “Chasidic Mystics: Rabbi Nahman of Breslov and
Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev.”
2021: In Palm Beach Garden, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled
to host via zoom Herb Keinon lectuinr on “U.S.- Israel Ties Under Biden,
Israel’s new accords with Bahrain and the Redrawing of the Middle East Map.”
2021: The Israel Office of Cultural Affairs is scheduled to
host a discussion with Sigal Avin, Ayelet Zurer and Lihi Kornowski about the
creation of “Losing Alice,” which has been named “Apple’s best drama series
yet.”
2021: In honor of Black History Month, The Jewish
Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to host a presentation by Rabbi
Rachel Mikva, author of Dangerous Religious Ideas, on “Jew and
Race” during which she will explore biblical and rabbinical ides on this
topic…”
2021: In Pepper Pike OH, Rabbi Josh Foster is scheduled to
deliver the first in a series about “Synagogues Around the World.”
2021: “The Colors of Jews: Being a Minority in a Minority
an event is co-sponsored by Temple Emanu El, The Temple-Tifereth Israel, and
Edot: The Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity Collaborative is scheduled to take
place this evening online via Zoom.
2021: The Malki Foundation and the Bushey United Synagogue
are scheduled to host an evening, via Zoom with Baroness Ros Altman, talking
about “What Might Bexit and COVID-19 mean for the Economy, Investments and
Pensions?”
2021: In Palm Beach Garden Cantorial Soloist Abbie Strauss
is scheduled to lead the morning minyan at Temple Judea.
2021: “Despite officials' warnings to the government that
Iranian hackers will attempt to strike and poison Israel's water
infrastructure, the country's water facilities are far from prepared for such a
scenario, according to a report seen by Ynet.”
2021: New England Region of BBYO is scheduled to present
online “Fighting Stigma with Effective Storystelling” with “comedian Pamela Rae
Schuller” who help attendees to learn the tools to find and crafter their own
stories.
https://pamelacomedy.com/about/
2021: Kung Pao Kosher Comedy’s Lisa Geduldig is scheduled
to present “the latest edition of her monthly show, this one with stand-up
comedians Jackie Hoffman, Elvira Kurt and Bernadette Luckett, plus Lisa’s
89-year-old mom in Florida.”
2022: A double portion of Nachas – erev Shabbat combined
with the Celebration of Joel Barnum’ natal day.
2022: Yefim Bromfman who has performed with Isaac Stern,
Leonard Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is scheduled to perform
at Carnegie Hall.
2022: After yesterday’s downing of a Hezbollah’s UAV,
Israel and her supporters are reminded that she continues to face the twin
threat of COVID 19 and the real possibility of renewed attacks by those
committed to her destruction.
2023 The Palm Beach Jewish Virtual Film Festival is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: In Waterloo, IA, Sons of Jacob Congregation is
scheduled to hold its final Shabbat service in its long-time home at 411 E.
Mitchell Ave.
2023: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to present
“Ensemble Millennium/Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in Residence and Friends.”
2023: Police are reportedly on heightened alert
in the “heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood” of Los Angeles following
two shooting incidents where Jewish men were attacked by a suspect with “a
known animus towards the Jewish community.”
2023(27th of Shevat, 5783): Shabbat
Shekalim
2024: In Cleveland, OH, Nice Jewish Runners is scheduled to
meet at 8:30 a.m. at La Place and Run for Their Lives is scheduled to meet at
La Place for an 18-minute walk.
2024: The Breman Theatrical Outfit is scheduled to present
the final performance of “Remember This: The Lesso of Jan Karski,” the
“dazzling, tour de force solo performance that tells the story of Jan Karski, a
Polish diplomat and freedom fighter during WWII who battled his way across
Europe to bring evidence of the Holocaust to Western governments.”
2024: The Jewish War Veterans Atlanta Post 112 is
scheduled to celebrate today World War II Combat Veteran and Liberator Hilbert
“Hibby” Margol’s 100th Birthday at its Monthly Meeting.
https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/wwii-liberator-combat-veterans-100th-birthday/
2024: The S.Y. Agnon House is scheduled to host the first
in a four-week Zoom class in which Professor Wendy Zierler will look at “Sorrow
Song: Hebrew Women’s Poetry in a Time of War.”
2024: Martin Cohen, Yiddishkayt and Topa Institute are
schedule to present Yiddish Women in Song and Dance “Featuring Berlin-based
co-founders of Ensemble Lebedik , vocalist Sasha Lurje and violinist Craig
Judelman, plus special guests Cantor Sarah Myerson and accordionist Ilya
Shneyveys.”
2024: JNFuture Volunteer Mission is scheduled to begin
today.
2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to
conducting walking tour of “the Jewish Lower East Side.”
2024: The Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education at The
Breman Museum and community partner Eternal Life-Hemshech are scheduled to
Holocaust survivor and Breman Museum speaker Bebe Forehand as she presents her
remarkable story.
2024: As February 18th, begins in Israel, the Hamas
held hostages begin day 135 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this
situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2025: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite on the “Han Dynasty Continued: Unrest and Restoration.”
2025: Washington Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to host,
online “500 Days: A National Prayer for the Return of All Hostages” an event
“co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Washington Board
of Rabbis and Hostages and Missing Families Forum.”
https://www.jewishboston.com/events/500-days-a-national-prayer-for-the-return-of-all-hostages/
2025: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is
scheduled to host an evening with Aleeza Ben Shalom “from the Netflix series
Jewish Matchmaking.”
2025: IDF “will remain deployed in five strategic positions
in southern Lebanon after today’s scheduled deadline for their withdrawal.” (As
reported by Emanuel Fabian)
2025: As February 18th begins in Israel, an unprecedented
wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe, the reality is that the remaining
Hamas held hostages including Kfir and Ariel Bibas begin day 501 in captivity
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are
just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2026(1st of Adar, 5786) Rosh Chodesh Adar;
for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2026: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Shadows
of the Past: Continued Antisemitism in Postwar Germany,” part three in the lecture
series “Antisemitism From Nazism to Today.”
2026: In London, the Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled
to host Barry Falk as he talks about “In Search of Amnesia,” a documentary
project that looks into the Jewish narrative in Poland and Ukraine and that retraces the history of the Jewish
narrative in Eastern Europe…”
2026: The 26th Annual Atlanta Jewish Film
Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2026: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by
Yanky Fachler on The Deadly Jerusalem Fist Fight That Provoked the Crimean War.”
2026: A double simcha: observance of Rosh Chodesh Adar
coincides with the celebration of the natal day of Joel Barnum, a hamash mensch
in the truest sense of that term.
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