272: Birthdate of
Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor from 306 to
337. Constantine adopted Christianity as the state religion for
the Roman Empire which marked a turning point (negative) for the Jews of
Europe.[ There is plenty of agreement that Constantine was born on February 27
but there is not agreement on the year. It ranges from 272 to 289]
380: Theodosius I,
Gratian, and Valentinian II jointly issued The Edict of Thessalonica which made
Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire.
1514: King Sigismund I
appointed Michael Yosefovich “senior” of all Lithuanian Jews
1562: Pius IV issued
Dudum e felicis recordationis, a papal bull that confirmed the papal bulls of
Paul IV including those that put restrictions on where Jews could live and how
they could earn a living.
1670: Leopold I
ordered the Jews expelled from Austria.
1680: Seventy-nine-year-old
Puritan theologian Thomas Goodwin the author of Moses and Aaron: Civil and
Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews passed away today.
https://archive.org/details/mosesandaaronci00goodgoog
1717: Birthdate of
German bible scholar Johann David Michaelis one of whose “dissertation was a
defense of the antiquity and divine authority of the vowel points in Hebrew.”
1719: In London, Grace
Mears and Moses Raphael Levy gave birth to Rachel Franks Levy, the wife of
Lisbon native Isaac Menes Seixas whom she married in New York City in 1740.
1719: In London, Moses
Raphael Levy, a native of Germany and Grace Mears, a native of Jamaica gave
birth to Rachel Franks Levy, the wife of Isaac Mendes Seixas.
1733: The Prattenburg,
which had left Amsterdam in November of 1732 arrived today at the Cape of Good
Hope with Jacob de Beer serving as a ship’s gunner.
1755: Birthdate of
Shalom Ullman, the Hungarian born rabbi and Talmudist whose son and grandson
followed in his footsteps by serving as rabbis at Lackenbach.
1763(14th of
Adar, 5523): Purim
1771(13th of
Adar, 5531): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1771: “Mr. Isaac De
Peza presented the Synagogue in Barbados with 6 Silver Purim Cups.
1774(16th of
Ada, 5534): Purim Meshulash observed on the same that French sailor and
explorer Thomas Vasse was born in Dieppe.
1777: In Baltimore,
Congress adjourns and makes plans to return to Philadelphia now that General
Washington has eliminated the British threat to the city.
1782(13th of
Adar, 5542): Fast of Esther; erev of Purim celebrated on the same day that the
British House Commons voted to end the war in America which “paved the way for
the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the war in 1783.:
1789(1st of
Adar, 5549): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1790(14th of
Adar, 5550): Purim
1790: Birthdate of Sara
Ballin who was buried at the Hosens Jewish Cemetery in Denmark when she passed
away in 1876.
1793(15th of Adar, 5553): Shushan Purim
1797(1st of
Adar, 5557): Rosh Chodesh Adar observed
for the last time during the Presidency of George Washington.
1799: Birthdate of
Frederick Catherwood the English artist architect. In 1833, he made
a detailed survey of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. He probably was
the first westerner since the days of the crusades to have access to this shrine
which is located on the Temple Mount. Catherwood was one of a veritable
army of English visitors to “the holy land” who helped to excavate and map the
area in the 19th century.
1801(14th of
Adar, 5561): Purim
1801: Pursuant to the
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the
jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. “The first recorded Jewish resident of the
city was Isaac Polock. He arrived in 1795. Polock, a grandson of a founder of
the Newport, Rhode Island synagogue, was a small time real estate developer. He
built a number of fine homes along present day Pennsylvania Ave. An early
renter of one of Polock's houses and his neighbor was James Madison, a later
President.” Major Alfred Mordecai was another of D.C.’s first Jewish
residents. The North Carolina native entered West Point at the age of 15 and
was in the first graduating class when he completed his studies in 1823.
Mordecai came to Washington in 1828 where he served as the commander of the
Washington Arsenal. Washington Hebrew Congregation founded in 1852 was the
city’s first Jewish Congregation. Adas Israel, which was originally
founded as an Orthodox synagogue in 1869 received a donation from President
Grant for its building fund. The congregation later switched to the
Conservative movement. Today the downtown location of Adas Israel is
remembered as the Historic 6th& amp; I Synagogue. For me,
the synagogue at 6th & I was the place in the late 1940’s
and 1950’s where I went for my first Simchat Torah Services, my first Megillah
readings and a whole lot more. The synagogue at 5th& amp;
I was famous because Al Jolson’s father had been its cantor and Jolson sang
their as a little boy. Adas Israel moved to its Connecticut and Porter
where it remains today. During the 1950’s Ambassador Eban spoke from its pulpit
on more than one occasion much to the congregation’s joy and delight. For
more about the history of the Jewish community in Washington you might want to
look at the website of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.
1804(15th of
Adar, 5564): Shushan Purim
1805(28th of Adar I,
5565): Naphtali Herz (Hartwig) Wessely passed away. Born in Hamburg in 1725, he
“was a 18th-century German Jewish Hebraist and educationist born at Hamburg.”
1807: In Portland,
Maine Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow and Stephen Longfellow gave birth to Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow the poet famed for such famous poetic works as “Paul
Revere’s Ride” and “Evangeline” as well as “Judas Maccabaeus” an 1872
five-act verse tragedy a Hebrew version of which was published in 1900.
http://www.readbookonline.net/title/2821/
1811: In Charleston,
SC, Mr. Solomon Hyams officiated at the wedding of Montague Jackson to Hannah
Hyams.
1812(14th of
Adar, 5572): Purim celebrated on the same day that the Argentine flag created
by Manuel Belgrano was first the first tie in city of Rosario during the Argentine
War of Independence.
1814: Birthdate of
German native and Shreveport, LA resident David Simon, the husband of Theresa
Kaufman Simon whom he married in 1855 and the father of Bertha, Johannah,
Jeanette, Caroline, Harry and Jacob Simon.
1817(11th of
Adar, 5577): Fast of Esther observed today because the 13th of Adar
coincides with Shabbat.
1819(2nd of
Adar, 5579): Parashat Terumah
1821: Birthdate of
Selig Cassel, the brother of Jewish historian and author David Cassel, who
converted and became Paulus Stephanus Cassel who was then able to further his
academic career as well as taking on the role of being a missionary trying to
convert other Jews.
1827(30th of
Shevat, 5587): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1827(30th of
Shevat, 5587): Samuel Marx, the chief rabbi of Trier and an uncle of Karl Marx
passed away today.
1828: In New York City,
Esther B. Seixas and Naphtali Phillips gave birth to Rachel Seixas Phillips the
wife of Adolphus S. Solomons whom she married in 1851 at New York City and the
mother of NYC native Aline Esther Solomons.
1830(4th of
Adar, 5590): Parashat Terumah
1831(14th of
Adar, 5591): Purim
1831(14th of
Adar, 5591): “Austrian historian and educator” Adolf Beer passed away today.
1833: Two years after
she had passed away, Catherine Raphael, the wife of Joseph Raphael, was buried
today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1837: In Speyer,
Bavaria, Rebecca Adler ad Joseph Moses gave birth University of Louisiana
trained attorney and veteran of the CSA, Adolph Moses the husband of Matilda
Wolfe who began practicing law in Chicago in 1869 while being an active member
of B’nai B’rith. (Not to be confused with rabbi in Louisville, KY with the same
name)
1839(13th of
Adar, 5599): Fast of Esther; Erev Purim
1841(6th of
Adar, 5601): Parashat Terumah
1841: In the
Netherlands Eliezer Eduard Hirschel Kann and Hyacintha Kann gave birth to Livia
Amalia Kann.
1844: The Dominican
Republic (then known as Santa Domingo) on the island of Hispaniola gained its
independence from Haiti. During the 16th and 17th
century Sephardic merchants settled on the island, many of them coming from
Curaco. “The oldest Jewish grave (on the island) is dated 1826.” Jews of
this period assimilated into the general population and lost their
identity. In the 1930’s the Dominican Republic became a haven for Jews
escaping Hitler’s Europe and most of today’s vibrant Jewish community traces
its origins to this period.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/03/07/104923916.pdf
1845(20th of
Adar I, 5606): Hymen Cohen, the son of Rachel Blitz and Mordecai Cohen and the
husband of Zipporah Isaacs with whom he
had 12 children – Andrew, Alexander, France, Judah, Rachel, Maria, Henry,
David, Abigail, Elizabeth, Caroline and Adelaide – passed away today after
which he was buried at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1845: A “Reise-Pass”
was issued to Bernhard Behrend today which he was required to carry with him at
all times as he traveled “from his native Rodenberg to Frankfurt.
1846(1st of
Adar, 5606): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1846; “In Darmstadt-Eberstadt,
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, Emanuel Bamberger and the former Helen Fleisch gave
birth to Simon Bamberger, “the fourth Governor of the state of Utah who was the
first non-Mormon, the first Democrat and the first (and so far only) Jew to
hold this post.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bamberger.html
1847(11th of
Adar, 5607): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
1847: Sarah Moses and
Alexander Jones gave birth to Adelaide Jones.
1847: Birthdate of
English actress Ellen Terry, whose portrayal of Portia in the Merchant of
Venice was one of her signature roles. She performed with Sir Henry
Irving whose greatest dramatic success came with his performances in “The
Bells.”
1849: In Paris, Léonie
Rodrigues-Henriques “a sculptor and art collector of Portuguese Jewish descent”
and Jacques Fromental Élie Halévy, a permanent secretary of the Académie des
Beaux-Arts and renowned composer of thirty-two operas, including La
Juive (1835), a tragedy of religious intolerance between Christians
and Jews” gave birth to Geneviève Halévy, the wife of Emil Straus and who as
Genevieve Straus created a “salon that became the center for pro-Dreyfus forces.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/straus-genevieve
1850(15th of
Adar, 5610): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Zachary Taylor, the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.
1853(19th of Adar I,
5613): Sixty-eight-year-old “Hosier and Haberdasher” Jacob Aaron, the husband
of Catherine Benjamin whom he married at the Great Synagogue and with whom he
had six children – Frances, Rosetta, Sarah, Joseph, Alfred and Mary - passed
away in London.
1852: Benjamin Disraeli
began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer for the first of three times which also meant that
he was the leader of the Tories in the House of Commons
1855: A concert
designed to raise funds for the Hebrew Benevolent Society is scheduled to be
held today.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=3958
1856: Estra (Therese)
Wiesner and Rabbi Jonas Wiesner gave birth to Emilie Wiesner.
1856: Adolphe Salomon
married Esther Russell today in the United Kingdom.
1858(13th of
Adar, 5618): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1861(17th of Adar):
Rabbi David Tevele ben Moses of Minks author of Bet David passed away today.
1861: In Frankfurt,
Selig Meir Goldschmidt and Clementine Fuld, the daughter of Herz Salomon Fuld
and Caroline Schuster gave birth to Hedwig Goldschmidt who after her marriage
was known as Hedwig Cramer.
1862: In Russia, Avraam-Abel
Khaymovich Zeliksohn and Shterna Slava Zalmanovna Zelikson gave birth to Shneur
Zalman Zalman זלמן Seligson
1864(20th of Adar I,
5624): Chaia Basia, the daughter of Rabbi Yehoshua Usher Rabinowicz of Parysow
passed away.
1865(1st of Adar,
5625): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1865: Birthdate of
Jacques Mieses, the native of Leipzig who became a journalist and world-class
chess champion.
1865: In Pittsburgh,
PA, Meyer and Henrietta (Lehrberger) Hanauer gave birth to Duff’s College
graduate and gold medal award winning distiller Albert M. Hanauer, the husband
of Carrie Marx who was a partner and Secretary-Treasurer of the Hamburger
Distillery and a member of the American Jewish Committee.
1865: Birthdate of
Armand Bloch, the native of Strasbourg who was the grandson of Rabbi Moses
Bloch known as of 'Hokhom (the Wise) of Uttenheim, who served in a variety of
rabbinic and communal roles in France and Algeria. In 1931, the French
government named him as Chevialier of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his
service to his co-religionists and his country.
1868: Benjamin Disraeli
began serving as Prime Minister for the first time.
1869(16th of
Adar, 5629) Parashat Ki Tisa read for the last time during the Presidency of
Andrew Johnson.
1870: In New York City,
James (Jacob) Seligman, the son of Fanny and David Seligman, and Rosa Seligman
gave birth to Fleurette Guggenheim, the future wife of Wife of Benjamin
Guggenheim
1870: The Chicago
Tribune reported that the Constitutional Convention will not be amending the
Illinois State Convention mandating a day of the week for observing the
Sabbath. The Jews and the Seventh Day Adventists had petitioned the
convention include a provision making the 7th day of the week the
Sabbath. Since this would be based on the 4th commandment of
the Decalogue, the biblical source would make it more likely that the populace
would enjoy a day of rest. Other groups wanted to disregard the literal
biblical reading and follow the first day of rest practice. Rather than
offend any group, the committee hearing the matter decided the convention
should take no action.
1871: In Newark, NJ,
the Ladies’ Temple Association opened a grand fair at Turn Hall. The fair
is scheduled to be open for the next four nights and is a fund-raiser for the
Temple on Washington Street.
1872: In New York,
Abraham and Amelia Stein Abrahamson gave birth to Dr. Isador Abrahamson, a
graduate of Columbia’s School of Medicine and husband of the former Stella
Heidelberg who was one of New York City’s “foremost neurologists” and a
“founder and director of the Jewish Mental Health Society”
1873: A national
convention of those who want to amend the U.S. Constitution so that it will
state that the United States is a Christian nation met today in Pittsburgh,
PA. There were 500 people at the opening session and more than a thousand
attending the evening session. Attendees claim that their move is part of
a fight against atheism, something that Catholics and Jews of the time might
have found difficult to believe.
1873: In New York,
Isaac and Adeline Phillips gave birth to portrait painter J. Campbell Phillips
whose last work was a portrait of his cousin Bernard Baruch completed just two
months before his death in 1948.
https://www.artprice.com/artist/60852/john-campbell-phillips
1874: It was reported
today that the annual Purim reception at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews
in New York will be held on March 1st and 2nd.
1874: Birthdate of Dr.
David Nunes Nabarro, the son of London merchant who became President of the
Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases, President of the
Association of Clinical Pathologists and President of the London Jewish
Hospital Medical Society.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC479864/pdf/jclinpath00048-0102.pdf
1877(14th of Adar,
5637): Purim
1877: The Young Men’s
Hebrew Association hosted a Purim Ball this evening at Cooper Hall in Jersey
City, New Jersey.
1877: Birthdate of
Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski “the head of the Council of Elders in the Lodz Ghetto
who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
1878(24th of
Adar I, 5638): Fifty-six-year-old Lazare Lazad, the Lorrain, France born son of
Elie ben Abraham Lazard and Esther Cahn – Lazard, the husband of Eugénie Lazard
and father of Elie Lazard; Claire Haas and Jules Lazard passed away today
Paris.
1878: The parents of
Lucy Shereck, a young Jewess, “wept bitterly” as they watched the baptism of
their daughter at the Marcey Avenue Baptist Church.
1879: Constantine
Fahlberg discovered the artificial sweetener saccharine which Ellen Glotz
described in The Accidental Epicure.
1880(15th of Adar,
5640): Shushan Purim
1880: Over 4,000 people
attended the fancy dress ball given by the Purim Association at the Academy of
Music. This year’s annual event raised an estimated $18,000 for Mount Sinai
Hospital.
1880: It was reported
today that “the war which has for some time raged in Germany between the
natives and the Jews, seems to increase rather than to diminish…The crime of
the Jews appears to be…their financial prosperity.” “If the Jews in Germany
were poor, they would not be attacked.” But many of them are very rich
“and this is their offense.” [Editor’s note – this is fifty years before Hitler
came to power]
1881: It was reported
today that the second edition of the “History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs” by
Dr. Henry Brugsch-Bey is now available. The description of the Exodus
presented in this edition is one of the many improvements made in this edition.
In a special preface to the new volume, Brugsh-Gey claims that he bases his
description of the change in direction taken by the Jews on “contemporary
records and the evidence of the Egyptian monuments” to establish “the veracity
of the scriptural record.” He also co-authored “The True Story of the
Exodus of Israel: Together with a Brief Review of the History of Monumental
Egypt” with Francis Henry Underwood.
1882: In Hudson, Mass.,
Mary Elizabeth Rice (née Tyler) and Asa Leonard Wheeler, gave birth to Burton
K. Wheeler, the U.S. Senator from Montana who in 1936 “said that anti-Semitism
has not only gained a foothold in European countries like Germany, Poland,
Rumania, Austria and Hungary, but has been imported in the Western Hemisphere
by Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador” and that the “capacity for persecution” as
embodied in anti-Semitism is not “foreign to American soil.”
1882: A review of “The
Electorate and the Legislature” by Spencer Walpole, one of a series of books on
the rights and responsibilities of an English Citizen, published today notes
that “The House of commons kept one of the members elected for the city of
London out of his seat for 11 years because he was a Jew.” This was based on
the “historic intolerance and prejudice” of the Commons and its members which
has not been fully overcome.
1883: Oscar Hammerstein patented the 1st cigar-rolling
machine
1883(20th of
Adar I, 5643): Sixty-two-year-old Julius Stern co-founder of the Stern
Conservatory and conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra from 1869 to 1871
passed away today.
1885: In Dublin
“Maurice Solomons, an optician who practice is mentioned in Ulysses and his
wife gave birth to Dr. Bethel Solomons who played rugby for Ireland was a
“supporter of the 1916 Rising.”
1886: Birthdate of
Cedar Rapids, IA native and Indiana University alum Albert Y. Aronson who was
“the managing editor of The Louisville
Times for nearly thirty years.”
1887 Birthdate of
Latvia native and naturalized American citizen Solomon Golub the composed of
Yiddish songs.
1888(14th of
Adar, 5648): Purim
1888: In Xenia, Ohio,
Bernhard Schlesinger, a Prussian Jew and Kate Feurle, an Austrian Catholic gave
birth to historian Arthur Meir Schlesinger, the Harvard professor who was the
father of historian and Kennedy aficionado Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/10/31/98543706.pdf
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/04/16/83750756.pdf
1888: Birthdate of
Lotte Lehman German opera star who eventually moved to the United States and
became known for the foundation in her name. Lehman was not Jewish.
But her stepchildren (on their mother’s side) were Jewish. When Hitler marched
into Austria, Lehman got the children out, moved them to Paris and eventually
brought all of them to the United States.
1889: In Robinson,
Illinois Lydia Myers and Edward Rosenbaum gave birth to Purdue University
trained Civil Engineer Raymond V. Rosenbaum, the husband of Marsha M. Ten Eyck
whom he married in 1922, who participated in several projects including the
construction of the Hydro Electric Station in Martinsburg, West Virginia and
the concrete dam at Hot Springs, AR.
1889: In Soroki,
Bessarabia, Mindel and Yechiel Bronfman gave birth to Samuel Bronfman founder
of Distillers Corporation Limited which was renamed Seagram Co., Ltd whose
products included Dewars scotch and a leader of the Canadian Jewish committee.
1890: In Michigan,
Hattie Houseman Amberg and David Moses Amberg gave birth to Julius Houseman
Amberg the husband of Callie Smith Amberg.
1891: Birthdate of
David Sarnoff. Born in Russia, Sarnoff became the head of R.C.A. and
N.B.C.
1891: It was reported
today that the Purim Association raised $15,000 at its annual ball which it
will donate to the United Hebrew Charities.
1892(30th of
Shevat, 5652): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1892: In Buffalo, NY,
Esther Freedman and Nathan Aaron gave birth to University of Buffalo trained
attorney A. Howard Aaron, the husband of Arline Schwartz who was a mbmer of
Temple Beth Zion and the Jewish Federation for Social Service in Buffalo.
1892(30th of
Shevat, 5652): Seventy-three-year-old Chazan Moritz German passed away in
Bresalua
1893: “Coming Exodus of
Russian Jews” published today compared the doubling of the Jewish population in
the United Kingdom over the last twenty years to the projected redoubling of
that number in only another five years because of the mass migration of Jews
from the lands of the Czar due to their cruel treatment.
1893: While working as
an assistant professor of Germanic and romance Languages at the University of
Missouri, today, Leo Wiener, the Bialystok born son of Simeon Wiener and the
former Frieda Rabinowicz marred Bertha Kahn today in Kansas City, MO.
1893: In Boston, Louis
D and Alice (Goldmark) Brandeis gave birth to Bryn Mawr graduate Susan Brandeis
the University of Chicago trained attorney, Hadassah member and wife Jacob H.
Gilbert.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gilbert-susan-brandeis
1894: Thirty-seven-year-old
Cincinnati native Jessie Myers married forty-seven-year-old Richmond native and
auctioneer Henry Clay Ezekiel today in her hometown.
1895: “Elsie Leslie’s
Little Guests” published today described an afternoon at the theatre enjoyed by
several hundred Jewish children who saw “The Prince and the Pauper” who were
there as guest of the famous child actress. As a sign of their appreciation,
they gave her an a bag which was elegantly embroidered with her initials –
“E.L.L.”
1895: A debate opened
in the Reichstag today over a motion to restrict the immigration of Jews from
Russia and Austria.
1895: A large number of
prominent Jewish citizens attended “the third reception for the season of the
Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home took place this
evening at Carnegie Hall.
1895: Rabbi Joseph
Silverman of Temple Emanu-El delivered a speech tonight entitled “Charity” in
which he said that charity was “the language of the heart…the very poetry
religion.” “The Jewish sages of old had said that the world existed on
three pillars – education, religion and charity. Some might be willing to
strike of education, others would be willing to strike of religion and even
some would go so far as to strike off both religion and education, but where is
the man who would be willing to strike off the pillar of charity?”
1896(13th of
Adar, 5656): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim observed William McKinley and William
Jennings Bryan prepared to run for the President of the United States.
1897: A visit to “the
Hebrew theatres” was included in the tour of the Lower East Side slums by a
group of Yale University divinity students which was followed by a symposium on
the methods of organized charities that included Nathaniel S. Rosenthal of the
United Hebrew Charities.
1898: “Jews Defended In
Reichstag” described the debate during which “deprecated the promotion of Jews
to the rank of officers and surgeons, on the ground of their ‘un-soldier like
spirit.’” Herr Eugene “Richter vigorously repudiate this” He said that during
the war with France in 1870,83 Jewish soldiers received the Iron Cross and 36
of the 70 Jewish surgeons received the same decoration. General Heinrich
von Gossler, the Minister of War, defended the Jews against the false
accusation that they had sold defective rifles to the government.
1899: Two days after he
had passed away, 64-year-old Nathan Hallel was buried today at the “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery.”
1899: “A Bible Story Up
To Date” published today described Abraham Gruber’s updated version of the
Purim story which equated the behavior of Haman with anti-Dreyfus forces in
France and the European bigots who falsely claim that Jews have their own laws which
makes them disloyal of whatever country they are living in.
1899: In his on-going
attempt to create a Jewish homeland, Herzl meets with Grossherzog Friedrich of
Baden in Karlsruhe. He offers the Grossherzog the protectorate over the land
company and requests another audience with the Kaiser. Herzl receives a recommendation
to the Deutsche Bank in Berlin to act as a subscription agency for the Jewish
Colonial Bank.
1900(28th of
Adar I, 5660): Seventy-five-year-old Austrian born Abraham Woolner, the husband
of Magdelena Woolner and father of Sophie, Hannah, Isabella, Gisela and
Maximillian Woolner
1901: Birthdate of
Chicago native and University of Illinois trained Otolaryngologist Melvin Reese
Guttman the husband of Eleanor Guttman and the son-in-law of Pearl and Bernard
Given.
1902: In London, a
group of Zionists formed the Anglo Palestine Company which became the Bank
Leumi.
1903(30th of
Shevat, 5663): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1903(30th of
Shevat, 5663): Fifty-seven-year-old Antwerp born French composer Albert Cahen
passed away today in La Turbie.
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3897-cahen-albert
1903: In Pruzhany,
Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik and Pesya Feinstein, the daughter of Rabbi Elihyahu
Feinstein gave birth to Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik.
http://www.manfredlehmann.com/news/news_detail.cgi/110/0
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/10/nyregion/no-headline-684393.html
1904(11th of
Adar, 5664): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
1904(11th of
Adar, 5664):Sixty-four-year-old Smorgon, Belarus native Robert Brudno who moved
to England in 1867 and then to Dublin, Ireland where he gained fame as Robert
Bradlaw, the dentist known as the “prince of immigrants” who founded a “new
chera kadisha and Cemetery Dolphin’s Barn” and a new synagogue after the Dublin
Hebrew Congregation “had reportedly denied him membership passed away today.
1904: Henri Daniel
Mayrargue and Eveline Bethsabée Lattès gave birth to Mayrargue Marel Mayrargue
1905: “A dispatch to a
news agency from Odessa says it is rumored there that ten Jews have been killed
and thirty wounded in an anti-Jewish riot a Theodosia,” “a seaport on the
southeast cost of the Crimea seventy miles east of Simferopol.”
1906: As the Russian
rulers issued an “imperial ukase” calling for the first meeting a Russian
Parliament, some Jewish leaders have decided to form a political party and
participate in the elections for members of this National Assembly.
1907(13th of
Adar, 5667): Erev Purim
1907: In Hamburg,
Rosalia Rothschild and Hermann Simon Bass gave birth to Julius Bass who was
murdered at the Neuengamme Concentration
Camp.
1907: Jockey Walter
Miller, the native of Brooklyn born in 1890 who rode his first race at the age
of 14 and passed away in 1959 after having rode 1,094 winners, today road
“winners in all vie races at Oakland Race Course.”
1908: Zionist leader
Arthur Ruppin delivered an address to the Jewish Colonization of Vienna.
1908 Deutsche
Bioskop was re-registered today after which Carl Mortiz Schleussner bought out
the Greenbaums' remaining share in 1909.
1909: Birthdate of New
York native and NYU trained research chemist Samuel Natelson.
1910: “Under the
auspices of the Jewish Religious Union, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free
Synagogue, New York, delivered at Hampstead to-day the second of a series of
addresses which is expected to bring to a head the controversy between the
Liberal and Orthodox sections of the Anglo-Jewish Union. “
1911: It was reported
today that the Jewish Kehilla of New York has 238 constituent organizations including 138
congregations, 58 lodges, 44 educational and benevolent societies and 3
federations.”
1911:
Twenty-four-year-old Matt Wells fought a twenty-round bout at the National
Sporting Club in London “to win the lightweight championship of Great Britain
and take home the Lonsdale Belt.”
1912: A “petition
opposing the Dillingham Bill restricting immigration signed by prominent
citizens of San Diego, CA was sent to Congressman Sylvester C. Smith
1912: It was reported
today that Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President
Theodore Roosevelt was among those providing financial backing for his current
run for the Republican nomination against President Taft.
1912: It was reported
today that “after 18 opinions by the New York /state courts on the right of
Isidor Straus and Nathan Straus, dealing as a firm, tell copyrighted books at
cut prices, the United States Supreme Court” has “declined to dismiss as frivolous
an appeal from the latest New York decision adverse to them” and that the high
court will hear the case “next year.”
1913: A telegram from
Sofia published in Paris today, “state that the Central Consistory of Jews of
Bulgaria addressed a petition to the Bulgarian Premier against the cession of
any territory to Rumania because the latter country, contrary to the Treaty of
Berlin refuses civil rights to Jews and these disabilities might apply to
Bulgarian Jews living in the ceded territory.”
1913: In Brooklyn,
“hat-trimming salesman” William Shamforoff and his wife Rose gave birth to
Irwin Gilbert Shamorfoff who gained fame as author Irwin Shaw two of whose
most famous works were The Young
Lions, a novel about World War II that became a popular movie and Rich
Man, Poor Man, a saga about department store tycoon that provided the basis
for a television mini-series of the same name.
1914(1st of
Adar, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1914: “Films Show
Charity Work” published today described plans of the Brooklyn Federation of
Jewish Charities to host screenings this weekend of “How the Jews Care for
Their Poor.”
1915(13th of
Adar, 5675): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim
1915(13th of
Adar, 5675): Abraham Forsch passed away today in Cleveland, OH.
1915: “The Rech, the
organ of the Constitutional Democratic party in Russia reports that “the large
number of Jewish refugees arriving in Moscow from various parts of the Kingdom
of Poland finder there a sympathetic reception” while “the situation is quite
different for Jewish refugees from Poland…who arrive in Petrograd” who “are all
being sent back to the pale of settlement.”
1916: “Dr. Stephen S.
Wise spoke at the Free Synagogue” this morning on ‘Marriage and After,’ the
fourth of his series of addresses on the deeper things of life”
1916: “The twenty-fifth
anniversary of the founding of the Temple Israel Sisterhood of Personal Service
was formally observed” this evening.
1916: Prior to Mark
“Sykes’s departure to meet the Russian Foreign Minister in Petrograd today, Sir
Herbert Samuel approached Sykes with “a plan in the form of a memorandum”
concerning Palestine which later led Sykes to write to Samuel “suggesting that
if Belgium should assume the administration of Palestine, it might be more
acceptable to France as an alternative to the international administration
which France wanted and the Zionists did not.
1916: “E.M. Newman of
Chicago delivered he first of his illustrated lectures for the current season
at Carnegie Hall” tonight.
1916: The Morris Loeb
Memorial Building and the Joseph B. Bloomingdale Memorial Auditorium were
formally dedicated today during “the annual meeting of the Hebrew Technical
Institute.
1916: During his speech this afternoon at the
annual meeting of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association, Dr. Cyrus Adler “said
he did not altogether approve of young women soliciting for the relief funds on
the street in the manner exhibited” during “tag day.”
1916: At today’s annual
meeting of The Widowed Mothers’ Fund Association, Mrs. William Einstein, the
President “made a plea against ‘machine ready’ charity.”
1916: “The new Hebrew
Technical Institute” was dedicated today in New York
1916: This afternoon,
“at the annual meeting of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society…President Sanders announced that Jacob H. Schiff had donated $25,000 to
the organization as the nucleus of a fund with which to erect a new building”
to help the society meet its increased needs.
1917: The Russian
Revolution broke out in Petrograd. After three years of ruinous war the old
regime collapsed. By March a provisional government under Kerensky was set up.
During the ensuing revolution, the Jews were caught in the middle. Much of the
conflict centered around the south and west where over 3 million Jews lived. It
is estimated that over 2000 pogroms took place, especially in the Ukraine,
leading to the death of 100,000-200,000 Jews within the next 3 years.
1917: Three days after
defeating the Ottomans at Kut, the British forces under Frederick Stanley Maude
arrived at Aziziyah on their way to Baghdad with all that this will mean to
creation of what we have come to call the modern “Middle East.”
1917: Assemblyman
Nathan D. Pearlman sponsored a bill today in the New York State legislature to
allow New York City “to buy and sell food” “as an emergency measure” to relieve
shortages,
1918: “A dinner,”
attended by “officers of the British Recruiting Mission and many rabbis” “for
the 150 Jewish soldiers in the battalion recruited for service in Palestine was
given at the Hotel Imperial tonight by the Zionist Lunch Club.”
1918: Morris Weinberg,
the publisher of the Day announced
that in the future, the Day and the Warheit would appear as one publication,
Day-Warheit.
1919: During the
Versailles Peace Conference, today the Dr. Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow, Professor
Sylvain Levi of the College of France, Andre Spire of the French Zionist
organization and Mr. Syzsyahkin representing the Jews of Russia presented their
case before the Supreme Council which at a “minimum” called for the
“establishment of communities Palestine and guarantee of special rights and
sovereignty for these communities” and which at a “maximum” called :for the
creation of a Jewish state in order that the Jews may have a national home
where they can live in peace.”
1920(8th of
Adar, 5680: Today, Vic, the wife of Sir
John Monash, the leading military man of Australia succumbed to cervical cancer
just weeks after he had returned from Europe.
1921: “On a farm in
Calgary, Alberta, Samuel and Zelda Cohen gave birth to “Morton Cohen, a scholar
of Victorian literature.” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1922: Psychoanalyst
Ernest Jones and his wife gave birth to Mervyn Jones the British author whose
works included Joseph, a fictional tale based on the life of Stalin.
1923: Birthdate of
Reichel “Rae” Kushner along with her brother led 350 people out of the local
ghetto by digging a tuner and who married Joseph Kushner, the grandfather of
Jared Kushner, in 1945.
1923: In Newy York,
Marsha “Minnie Bromberg and Harry Bromberg gave birth to Louis Bromberg, not to
be confused with the scenic designer of the same name.
1924: “The Johnson
immigration restriction measure was characterized as ‘the most un-American and
discriminatory bill ever presented to Congress’ in a telegram from Supreme
Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotilla received” tonight “at a meeting in the Hotel
Pennsylvania in New York of the sustaining members of the Zionist Organization
of America.”
1925: Birthdate
of Sam Dash. The Georgetown Law Professor would gain fame as the Chief
Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Scandal.
1926(13th of
Adar, 5686): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor; Erev Purim
1926: Young Judea Clubs
throughout the United States presented Purim plays.
1926: “The Einstein
Theory of Relativity is not valid under a strict mathematical analysis
according to a statement made” today by Charles Lane Poor, the Professor of
Celestial Mechanics at Columbia University who attacked the mathematics of
theory and “criticized Einstein for his errors in logic saying that he would
prove the laws of logic false in order to make his theory hold.”
1927: In Detroit, MI,
Abraham and Ruth Jaroff gave birth to Leon Morton Jaroff, “a science writer and
editor who persuaded Time Inc. to start Discover magazine in 1980, became its
top editor and for many years wrote the popular Skeptical Eye column challenging
pseudo-sciences…” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1927: “Nearly 271 years
after Baruch Spinoza…was excommunicated by the Jewish community of Amsterdam,
the ban was revoked when Dr. Joseph Klausner of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem uttered the formula of release at” today’s meeting of the university faculty.
1928: In Malden, MA,
Nathan and Katherine (Hellerman) Greenfield gave birth to Joshua Joseph
Greenfield, the Brooklyn College, University of Michigan and Columbia
University educated author and screenwriter best known for writing about his
autistic son. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1928: Abie Bain, the
St. Petersburg born Jewish-American middleweight Abie Bain was knocked out in
the fifth round by “KO” Phil Kapla.
1929: As a sign of respect
for his success, today’s issue of Variety was dedicated to Abraham Joseph
(A.J.) Balaban, the co-founder of the theatre chain of Balaban and Katz.
1930: Today Rabbi
Abraham Feinberg “announced in a sermon his resignation as a rabbi, saying:
"The preacher today has been forced to renounce his mission and become a
salesman. He is made to fear a loss in membership more than the wrath of God.
Instead of a poet, a dreamer, a transcendent mystic, he distorts himself into a
seeker after popularity, a clerk of pew rentals, a good fellow. Just as other
men sell clothes or automobiles or stocks, so does he dispense religion—for a
price.”
1930: In Los Angeles,
silent film writer and producer John Stone and the former Hilda Ness gave birth
to Peter Hess Stone, the writer who won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/movies/peter-stone-award-winning-writer-of-1776-dies-at-73.html
1931: Arnold Zweig and
Jakob Wassermann were among the German writers and scholars who “who published
a join manifesto today addressed to those 186 French men of letters who
recently appealed to German intellectuals to join them in work for a
Franco-German understanding a new Europe.”
1931(10th of
Adar, 5691): Eighty-seven- year-old Rudolf Hirsch, the German born son of
Leopold Hirsch and Therese Tölzele Hirsch (Wormser), the husband of Pauline
Hirsch and father of Julie Lina Moos passed away today in San Francisco.
1932(20th of
Adar I, 5692): Parashat Ki Tisa
1932: Today, “Chef
Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo summoned the Court of Appeals to meet in special
session in Albany” on March 3rd which has led many to believe that a
decision has been reached in a case regarding the investigation of the
government of New York City by a joint state legislative committee.
1932: “East of
Broadway” directed by Lew Levinson was performed for the last time on Broadway at the Belmont Theatre.
1932: In Hampstead
Garden Suburb, London “art dealer Francis Lenn Taylor” and retired actress Sara
Sothern gave birth to American actress Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor who converted
to Judaism in 1959, had two Jewish husbands (producer Mike Todd and crooner
Eddie Fisher) and was such an ardent supporter of Israel and Jewish causes such
as the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, that her films were “were banned by
Muslim countries throughout the Middle East and Africa.”
1933: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin,
the Reichstag, was set on fire. The Reichstag Fire was started by the
Nazis who used the fire as an excuse to begin their subversion of the German
legal and political system.
1933: As a result of
the Reichstag Fire which he saw as the confirmation of the Nazis rise to power,
Walter Benjamin left Germany.
1933: Along with all
the Jewish and leftist actors, Wolfgag Heinz (David Hirsch) was dismissed from
his work mark the start of an exile that would lead him from Holland to Britain
and finally to Switzerland.
1934: “The American
Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan (Ambidjan) was established today,
at a meeting held in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City.
1935: Lazar Kaganovich
began serving his first term as People’s Commissar for Transport.
1935: In the Bronx,
Jeanette Efron and Sol Fineman gave birth to Eleanor Fineman, an “American
photographer, author, and artist” whose works included “Vilna Nights” with
dealt with lost Jewish culture.
1935: Harry Hoffman,
who works at the Curb Exchange, is scheduled to compete in the 400-meter run at
tryouts for the American Maccabi Team being held at the 102nd
Engineers Armory today. The “Jewish Olympics” are scheduled to be held in
Tel Aviv starting on April 2 and finishing on April 7.
1935: Birthdate of Uri
Shulevitz American author and illustrator. Born in Poland, he survived the
bombing of Warsaw in 1939 and moved with his family first to Paris and finally
to Israel, in 1949. During the Sinai War in 1956, Mr. Shulevitz joined the Israeli
Army. Later, he joined the Ein Gedi kibbutz. He moved to New York City in 1959,
studying painting at Brooklyn Museum Art School and working as an illustrator
for a Hebrew children's book publisher. In 1962, an editor at Harper &
Row saw his freelance portfolio and suggested he write children's book. He won
the Caldecott Medal in 1969 for his illustration of The Fool of the World
and the Flying Ship. He created his first picture book, The Moon in My
Room, in 1963.
1936: U.S. premiere of
Liebelei a German film directed by Max Ophüls which was based on a play of
the same name (Liebelei (de)) by Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian playwright was
the son of laryngologist Johann Schnitzler.
1936: “The Goes ‘Round”
a musical comedy with a script co-authored Jo Swerling and starring Harry
Richman was released in the United States today.
1936: Mathematician Issai
Schur returned from Switzerland via Karlsruhe, where his sister lived, to
Berlin.
1936: “A very agreeable
"Concertino" in F minor by Giovanni Pergolesi, edited by that true
musician and exceptional investigator of old music, Sam Franko, opened the
Philharmonic-Symphony concert, tonight in Carnegie Hall.
1936: “The plight of
the Christian men and women who fled from Germany because of Nazi persecution
and terrorism was described this afternoon and evening at a conference and
dinner under the auspices of the American Christian Committee for German
Refugees at the Hotel Astor.”
1936: “A street fight
broke out today in front of a Warsaw synagogue when a group of Jews tried to
prevent a number of Jewish tradesmen, who they alleged were continuing to
import German goods, from entering the synagogue.”
1936: During a press
conference today Count Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium, president of the
International Olympic Committee sportswriters asked if Germany had lived up to
all her promises and agreements to which he answered, “In every respect, the International
Olympic Committee had not fault to find.
There Jews on the teams, among the officials and among the
spectators. There were no signs of
discrimination.”
1936(4th of
Adar, 5696): Eighty-one-year-old Rachel H. Hays, the Utica, NY born wife of
attorney Daniel Peixotto Hays, a member of one of New York’s oldest Jewish
families who among other things as a trustee and secretary of the Jewish
Publication Society, passed away today in Pleasantville, NY.
1937(16th of
Adar, 5697): Parashat Ki Tisa
1937: New York Times
columnist Arthur Krock had an award winning “exclusive interview with the
President of the United States.
1937: In Rumania,
thirty people were hospitalized after having been injured today “when members
of an anti-Semitic Nazi party sought to prevent Jews from voting in municipal
elections” while another thirty-five people suffered injuries that were not
serious enough to require hospitalization.
1938: The Palestine
Post reported that during his last day in Palestine, the departing High
Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope, laid the foundation stone of the Andrews
Memorial Hospital in Netanya, and visited Pardess Hana, Hadera and Haifa.
1938: The Palestine
Post reported that In New York the Joint Distribution Committee announced
that the Soviet government's firm opposition to the immigration of Jews from
outside of the Soviet Union to Birobidjan ended the practical prospect of the
development, if not of the entire existence, of what was expected to become an
autonomous Soviet Jewish republic. The report mentioned that out of some 27,000
foreign Jews who immigrated to Birobijan, 20,000 had later left the area.
1939: Birthdate
American Formula One driver Peter Revson, who won the 1973 British and Canadian
Grand Prix events and was runner-up at the 1971 Indianapolis 500. He was killed
during a practice run in 1974.
1939: In Milwaukee, WI,
Harry Cutler, the Russian born son of Meyer and Elda Cutler and his wife Rose
Cutler gave birth to Joel Leslie Cutler
1939: As the multi-year
Arab wave of violence continues, 32 people were killed today and another fifty
persons were wounded in a series of explosions and shootings throughout
Palestine today.
1940: Jewish scientists
Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, the critical material for the
method known as “carbon dating.”
1940: The Land Transfer
Regulations aimed at ending Jewish property acquisition in Palestine were put
into effect by the British government.
1941(30th of
Shevat, 5701): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1941: “So Ends Our
Night” the movie version of the novel by the same name featuring Erich von
Stroheim, Alexander Granach and Ernst Deutsch with music by Louis Gruenberg was
released in the United States today.
1941: The Nazis
completed the suppression of “the February Strike,” the first even if
unsuccessful direct action taken against the “treatment of Jews in Europe.”
1941: In retaliation
for an innocent incident in Amsterdam, the Germans arrested 425 Jewish men,
beat them and deported 389 of them to Buchenwald concentration camp. Two months
later 364 of them were transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp. Ten of them
committed suicide. By autumn, none of the men were alive.
1942: In Kovno, the
German issued an order stipulating “that the Jews were to submit all books in
their possession” – which resulted in the confiscation of over 100,000 books.
(Yad VaShem_
1942: The
first transport of French Jews was sent to Nazi-Germany
1942: A group of Aryan
women staged a protest in Berlin against the arrest of their Jewish husbands
whom the government was planning to ship off to concentration camps.
1943(22nd of
Adar I. 5703): Parashat Ki Tisa
1943: Birthdate of
Jonathan Rosenbuam, the native of Florence, Alabama whose “childhood home was
the Rosenbaum House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright” who “was the head film
critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008.”
http://www.wellesnet.com/rosenbaum_interview.htm
1943: Work orders were
increased in the Lodz Ghetto increased, easing tensions within the ghetto since
more Jews would be needed to work and less would be exposed to deportation.
1943 (22nd of Adar I,
5703): On Shabbat, Rabbi Avraham Duber Shapiro, Chief Rabbi of Kovno, died in
the Kovno Ghetto. Shapiro was a famous Talmudic scholar. He had
been Chief Rabbi of Kovno since before World War I. At the outbreak of World
War II, he was in Switzerland under a doctor’s care. He insisted on
returning to Kovno in Lithuania and revisited one of his son’s efforts to join
in him in the United States. Shapiro stayed with his fellow Jews.
When he died, the Nazis forbade any public demonstrations. Thousands of
Jews defied the decree and showed their affection by attending his funeral on
the next day.
1943: U.S. premiere of
“The Hard Way” “a musical drama directed by Vincent Sherman,” produced by Jerry
Wald with a screenplay by Daniel Fuchs and Peter Viertel.
1944(3rd of
Adar, 5704): Byelorussian born American Yiddish writer Shmuel-Gershon Slobodkin
passed away today.
1944: This morning,
there were reports of explosions at the income tax office in Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv and Haifa. There were no reports of casualties. The Irgun Zvai
Leumi is thought to have set off the devices that caused the explosions.
1945: During “The
Hunting Season,” “Yaakov Tavi who was in charge of Irgun’s intelligence service
was kidnapped at 11 a.m. at the corner of Dizengoff and Yirimiyahu streets.”
1945(14th of
Adar, 5705): Final Purim celebrated during World War II.
1945: In Mt. Clemens,
MI, an “Orthodox rabbi” and his wife gave birth to dermatologist Arnold William
“Arnie” Klein known for his star-studded Hollywood clientele
1946: La Bataille du rail (Battle of the Rails), French film about the sabotage of
railroads prior to the Normandy invasion was released in France today almost
three years before Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn released it in the United
States.
1947: Birthdate of
Gidon Kremer, the son of a Holocaust survivor and grandson of musicologist Karl
Bruckner who “is a Latvian classical violinist, artistic director, and founder
of Kremerata Baltica.”
1928: “The Spider,”
starring Anton Ascher opened on Broadway at the Century Theatre.
1947: Louis B. “Mayer
auctioned of his horses” today after having thrown Mendel Silberberg and “a
gaggle of Jewish Leaders” when they “suggested that Mayer give up his
involvement in horse racing because it was bad for the image of the Hollywood
Jew.”
1948: The International
Agriculture Institute which had been co-founded by David Lubin in 1908 “to help
farmers share knowledge, produce systematically, establish a cooperative system
of rural credit, and have control over the marketing of their products” was
dissolved today.
1949: “The United
Jewish Appeal announced tonight the opening of its 1949 campaign for
$250,000,000.”
1949: “The nation-wide
campaign of Histadrut, the Israeli Labor Federation, to raise $10,000,000 this
week for its work in Israel, was started here today at a luncheon of presidents
of 500 benevolent and fraternal societies.
1949: It was learned
today in Cairo that “Egypt and Syria are seeking the means of mobilizing the
Arab community of nations against any settlement of the Palestine question that
would give Arab Palestine to Trans-Jordan.”
1950: In Detroit, Mrs.
John C. Hopp is scheduled to chair a meeting of the Women’s Division of the
Jewish Welfare Division which is intended insure the active participation of
all women’s organization in the 1950 Allied Jewish Campaign,
1950: In the UK, Walter
and Liesel (Alice) Schwab gave birth to Julia Schwab, the wife of Professor
Anthony Neuberger, who gained fame as Rabbi Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger,
Baroness Neuberger, the first female rabbi to have her own congregation (South
London Liberal Synagogue) and the “full-time Senior Rabb at the West London
Synagogue.”
1951(21st of
Adar I, 5711): Rabbi Azriel Nehemiah Flax, the father of public-school teacher Mrs.
Rose Lee Wind and the father-in-law of Rabbi Solomon Wind passed away today
after which he was buried at the Beth David Cemetery on Long Island.
1951: Three years after
having been released in Sweden. “The Little Ballerina”
a British drama featuring Anthony Newley was released in the United States.
today.
1952(1st of
Adar, 5712): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1952: In New York Emanuel
Applebaum and Jaqueline Applebaum gave birth to David Leslie Applebaum who at
the age of 51 while in Jerusalem was “killed in terrorist attack together with daughter,
Nava, on the eve of her wedding.)
1953: The Jerusalem
Post reported that an Israeli soldier was killed when Jordanians opened
fire on an Israeli patrol in the frequently infiltrated Beit Guvrin area.
1953: The Jerusalem
Post reported that A Nahal group established a settlement at Ein Gedi, on
the shores of the Dead Sea.
1953: “Follow That
Man,” a French crime movie with a script co-authored by Jacques Remy was
released today in France.
1953: The Jerusalem
Post reported that A festive meeting celebrated the establishment of the
first local council of Ashkelon, the Afridar housing suburb near Migdal
Ashkelon.
1954(24th of
Adar I, 5714): Parashat Vayakhel
1954(24th of
Adar I, 5714): Eighty-one-year-old Russian born Jacob J. Lubell, the founder of
Lubell Brothers, “a boy’s manufacturing concern” and a founder and director of
the Central Jewish Institute as well as a member of the founders’ committee of
Yeshiva University passed away today at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/28/92546864.html?pageNumber=92
1956(15th of
Adar, 5716): Shushan Purim
1956: Final broadcast
on NBC of “The Tony Martin Show,” a 15-minute musical variety hosted by Tony
Martin and produced by Bud Yorkin.
1957: Lazar Kaganovich
completed his final term as a “Full Member” of the Politburo.
1958: The original
Broadway production of “Blue Denim” co-starring Warren Berlinger opened today
at the Playhouse Theatre where it “ran for 166 performances.”
1958(6th of Adar,
5718): Sixty-six-year-old Harry Cohn, CEO of Columbia Pictures, the New York
born son Joseph Cohn, a tailor from Germany, and Bella Joseph from Pale of
Settlement, one of several Jewish movie moguls who shaped Hollywood and
the entertainment business passed away after suffering a fatal heart attack.
http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=89
1959: It was reported
today that “The Motion Picture Association of America has been selected to
receive the sixth annual dinner award of the American-Israel Chamber of
Commerce” because of “the contribution of the American film industry’s
contribution to the economic growth of Israel through movie production and
exhibition.”
1960(29th of
Shevat, 5720): Shabbat Shekalim
1960: “The Tumbler,”
written by Benn W. Levy was performed on Broadway for the last time at the
Helen Hayes Theatre.
1961(11th of
Adar, 5721): Eighty-six-year-old Detroit native and University of Michigan
trained attorney Leo M. Butzel who “in the early days of the automotive
industry was the representative of Ford, Durant, Chrysler, Willis, Dodge and
the Fishers” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/03/01/101449936.html?pageNumber=33
1961: The Second
International Conference of High Energy Physics and Nuclear Structure is
scheduled to begin today at the Weismann Institute in Rehovot.
1962: “A proposal to
ban pig breeding in Israel” which is “assured” of passed “was debated heatedly
last night and today on a first reading in Israel’s Parliament.” (JTA)
1964(14th of
Adar, 5724): Purim
1964: “An alarming rise
in births involving schizophrenic parents was described here today by Dr. Franz
J. Kallman, psychiatrist and researcher in the genetics of mental illness.”
1964, Steve Lawrence
opened at the 54th Street Theatre in a Broadway musical version of “What Makes
Sammy Run?” which ran for 540 performances.
1965(25th of
Adar I, 5725): Parashat Vayahkel; Shabbat Sheaklim
1965: Dr. Samuel
Baskin, the president of Antioch College was named to serve as President of the
Union for Research and Experimentation in Higher Education.
1966: Sam Jaffee played
the title role in an episode of “Bonanza” entitled “The Emperor Norton” which
was broadcast today.
1966: As of today, ‘caught
between a continuing loss in passenger traffic and a sharply critical report on
its operations by the State Controller last fall, “Zim” Israel’s largest
steamship line has reorganized its fleet and has changed its management.
1967: Funeral services
were held in Cleveland Heights for seventy-five-year-old Shaker Heights
resident Louis Gottlieb, the Polish born son of Ida Ravitz and Morris Gottlieb
and the husband of Clara Gottlieb with whom he had three children – Lillian,
Florence and Harvey – after which he was buried in the Park Synagogue Cemetery.
1967: Two days after he
had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today at Yeshiva
University’s Lamport Auditorium for fifty-eight-year-old chemistry professor
Dr. Samuel Soloveichik, the Bealrus born son of Rabbi Moses Soloveichik and
Pescha Soloveitchik and the brother of Dr. Joseph B. Solveitchik, the professor
of Talmud at Yehsiva’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological School and Rabbi Aaron
Soloveichek, the dean of the Hebrew Theological Seminary in Chicago as well as
two sisters, Shulamith Meiselman and Anna Gerber.
1967(17th of
Adar I, 5727): Sixty-five-year-old Norman Tishman,
the New York born son of Julius and Hilda Karmel Tishman and the husband of
Rita Valentine Tishman who was “the chairman of the board of Tishman Realty”
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/28/83581694.pdf
1968: “Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights,”
for which Robert Ullman served as Press Representative opened on Broadway at
the John Golden Theatre.
1969: “But, Seriously,” written by Julius J.
Epstein and co-produced by Gerald Oestreicher opened on Broadway today at the
Henry Miller’s Theatre.
1969: Today, Goodman Alexander Sarachan is
presiding at the State Investigation Commission’s public hearings on the
infiltration of organized crime into legitimate businesses.
1970: Three days after he had passed away,
funerals services are scheduled to be held for eighty-one-year-old Allen
Kander, the Kansas City, MO born son of “Felix Victor and Matilda Epstein
Kander the newspaper reporter turned “award winning” newspaper broker and
husband of “the former Jeanette Unger” with whom he had three children –
Kenneth, Carol and Margaret.
1970: Birthdate
of science fiction writer Michael A. Burstein. According to some,
Burstein is not unique because he is a Jewish science fiction writer. He
is unique because he is a practicing Jew who writes science fiction. “Burstein
appears at a number of science fiction conventions throughout the year, which
can be a problem because they are inevitably held on weekends. “It can be
difficult, but it is manageable," he said. He and his wife Nomi either
bring kosher meals or arrange to have them delivered to the hotel. Other issues
are more complicated. "One of the biggest problems is that a lot of hotels
use electronic key cards," he explained. Burstein arranges with a
non-Jewish friend to handle unlocking his room during Shabbat, when such usage
might not be deemed appropriate. There are a number of Shabbat-observant fans
at local science fiction conventions, and they often congregate in Burstein's
room for a festive Friday night meal, complete with wine and challah. As for
his science fiction, Burstein said there's been nothing particularly Jewish
about it... so far. Although there are many Jews who have made it big in
science fiction, including Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, and Asimov
himself, Burstein is one of the few who has succeeded in the genre who takes
his religious obligations as seriously as his scientific ones.”
1971(2nd of
Adar, 5731): Parashat Terumah
1971(2nd of
Adar, 5731): Seventy-year-old Russian born American producer Oscar Serlin whose
most famous play was “Life With Father” pass away today.
1972(12th of
Adar, 5732): Sixty-two-year Vienna born, American expert on “medieval Islam”
Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum, the husband of Giselle von Grunebaum with whom he
had had two daughters, Claudia and Tessa, passed away today after a prolonged
illness.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/01/archives/gustave-e-von-grunebaum-medieval-scholar-is-dead.html
https://books.google.com/books/about/Classical_Islam.html?id=93wIOnFD6q4C
1974: “ Busting,”
directed by Peter Hyams, the grandson of Russian Jewish impresario Sol Hurok,
co-produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and co-starring Jewish actors
Elliot Gould and Michael Leners was released in New York today.
1975(16th of
Adar, 5735): One day before his 86th birthday, Hyman Levy passed
away in Wimbeldon.
http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst836.html
1975(16th of
Adar, 5735): Seventy-six-year-old Lithuanian born Rabbi and JTS graduate
Abraham Mayer Heller, the spiritual director of the Flatbush Jewish Center
since 1924 and author who raised a son, Rabbi Zachary Heller with his wife the
former Frances Lesser, passed away today.
1976: The World
Sephardi Federation headed by Nessim Gaon met with King Juan Carlos of Spain.
The WSF goal of helping to normalize relations with Israel and Spain did not
come to fruition immediately, but over time a relationship developed and
eventually the two countries recognized each other.
1978(20th of
Adar I, 5738): Seventy-one-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate and WW
II veteran Irving J. Feist, the “president of the real estate concern of Feist
and Feist and the Boy Scouts of America who was the husband of Dorothy Feist
with whom he had two children, John and Margaret, passed way today.
1978: After premiering at
The São Paulo International Film in 1977, Lucio
Flaviom a Brazilian film directed by Héctor Babenco was released in Brazil
today.
1978: The Jerusalem
Post reported that the cabinet had agreed on a new settlement policy which
apparently implied a virtual moratorium on new settlements in the administered
territories. The cabinet, however, actually failed to make this statement
official. At the same time the cabinet rejected any phrasing of the Palestine
question in the declaration of principles, now being discussed with Egypt,
which would go significantly further than the West Bank and Gaza autonomy
scheme, already proposed to Egypt and the US by Israel.
1979(30th of
Shevat, 5739): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1979: “President Carter
announced today that in an effort to keep Middle East peace hopes from
collapsing, he would meet alone later this week with Prime Minister Menachem
Begin of Israel.”
1980: Egypt and Israel
exchanged ambassadors for the first time.
1980(9th of Adar,
5740): Seventy-eight-year-old character actor George Tobias passed away.
Despite a long career that included performing in such hit movies as “Yankee
Doodle Dandy” and “Sergeant York” most Americans will remember him as Abner
Kravitz, the husband of the busybody neighbor Alice Kravitz on the television
sitcom “Bewitched.”
1980: At Mercer Island,
Washington Julie Mahdavi and her “Iranian” husband gave birth Ben Mahdavi, the
“running back, linebacker and long snapper” at the University of Washington who
went on to an NFL career with the Colts and Falcons while also earning “his BA
in Communications and an MBA from University of Washington Michael G. Foster
School of Business.
https://gohuskies.com/news/2013/4/18/208223488.aspx
1980: Today the lights
dimmed at the Shrine Auditorium and Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamon took the
stage to sing one of the classic television duets of all time.”
1980: Birthdate of
Israeli MK Bazalel Yoel Smotrich, the conservative attorney who opposed the
disengagement from Gaza and organized anti-LGBT events.
1981 (22nd of Adar I,
5741): Former New York Congressman Jacob Gilbert passed away at the age of
60. Gilbert served in Congress from 1960 to 1971.
1981(22nd of
Adar I, 5741): Forty-nine-year-old Jerry Gerd Landauer, the German born son of
Adolph and Meta (Marx) Landauer who in 1938 came to the United States where he
graduated from Columbia and worked as an award-winning reporter for UPI, the
Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal passed away today.
1982: Birthdate of
Israeli Tehila Hakimi the mechanical engineer turned poet and author whose “first
poetry collection, We’ll Work Tomorrow (מחר נעבוד) came out in 2014 and won
the Bernstein Literature Award for 2015.[2]
1983(14th of
Adar, 5743): Purim
1983: “Invisible
Father” published today provided a detailed review of The Invention of
Solitude by Paul Auster, the Columbia educated author and movie director
who was the Newark, NJ born son of Queenie and Samuel Auster
1983: In Philadelphia,
Benjamin Bloom, an eye doctor, and Esther Stern-Bloom a retired Hebrew and
French teacher gave birth to Yale trained baseball executive Chaim Bloom who
had led the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox while raising two sons –
Isaiah and Judah—with his wife, the former Aliza Hochman.
1984: The United States
Senate confirmed Pauline Newman to serve
as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals
1984: ABC broadcast the
second and final episode of “Lace” featuring June Brown as “Mrs. Trelowney.”
1985: “Prime Minister
Shimon Peres told Egyptians envoys” in Jerusalem “today that Israel supported
President Hosni Mubarak’s call for direct talks between Israel and delegation
of Jordanians and Palestinians.”
1985(6th of
Adar, 5745): Eighty-five-year-old Vilna native and Joseph Buloff, the husband
of fellow thespian Luba Kadison with whom he had a daughter named Barbara and
an “actor and director known for his work in Broadway and Yiddish theatre” who
“received the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters in 1974”
passed away today.
https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/resources/3534
1987: The Israeli
Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, announced today that he had agreed with
Egyptian officials that there should be an international conference on Middle
East peace this year. The agreement, reached after two meetings here with
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, reaffirmed in writing a call the two men made
in Alexandria last fall, when Mr. Peres was the Israeli Prime Minister. Mr.
Peres's commitment, announced at the end of a three-day visit here, was
expected to provoke strong reaction from the current Israeli Prime Minister,
Yitzhak Shamir, who vehemently opposes such a conference.
1988(9th of
Adar, 5748): Shabbat Zachor
1988(9th of
Adar, 5748): Seventy-six-year-old economist Moe Frankel who earned his
doctorate from Rutgers University passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/01/obituaries/dr-moe-frankel-76-economics-educator.html
1988: Today, “TV
presenter Esther Rantzen announced live on air that the people in the audience
sitting around Nicky Winton were some of the children he had saved” which “was
an overwhelming, unexpected and emotional moment and became the catalyst for an
outpouring of written material tributes and accolades, including a knighthood
in 2003…”
1989: U.S. premiere of
“A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” with a script by Bruce Wagner.
1990(1st of
Adar, 5750: Rosh Chodesh Adar
1990: A memorial
service is scheduled to be held this afternoon at Temple Emanu-El on 5th
Avenue 97-year-old Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, who among other accomplishments
“shaped the history of the New York Times.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sulzberger-iphigene-ochs
archives.nypl.org --
New York Times Company records. Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger papers
1990(1st of
Adar, 5750): Eighty-two-year-old Brooklyn born NYU Law School graduate Samuel
Perlman, the husband of the former Lucille Rabinowitz and “chief executive of
L.M. Rabinowitz and Company” passed away today.
1990 (1st of Adar,
5750): Nahum N. Glatzer passed away. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and
educated in Germany, Glatzer moved to the United States in 1938 where he
furthered his reputation as a literary scholar, theologian, and editor. A list
of his works includes The Schocken Passover Haggadah, The Complete
Stories of Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
1991(13th of
Adar, 5751): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1991(13th of
Adar, 5751): Eighty-five-year-old Nathan Perilman who served as the rabbi at
Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El passed away today.
1991: President George
H.W. Bush announced the end of the first Gulf War. During the war, the Israelis
agreed not to join the coalition and not to retaliate against the Iraqi’s when
they began firing Scuds into their country. It was the first time that
the Israelis had entrusted their security to another country.
1992: “Israel offered
the Palestinians an outline for self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that
would give Palestinians control over many aspects of their daily lives but
would maintain Israel's control over security affairs and prevent the
Palestinians from establishing any framework for an independent state.”
1993(6th of
Adar, 5753): Parashat Terumah
1993: The White House
said today that President Clinton is scheduled to meet with several world
leaders in March and April, including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel to
build "working relationships" with them”
1994: “Picturing the Holocaust”
by Susa Shapiro which was published today provided a complete review of Auschwitz:
A History in Photographs, first published in Polish in 1990 which “presents an
astounding and comprehensive compilation of almost 300 photographs, along with
maps, documents and artwork, from the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State
Museum.”
1994: At Temple Israel
in Lawrence, LI, Rabbi Joseph Potasnick is scheduled to officiate at the wedding
of Ithaca College graduate Allison Leigh Strauss and Bruce David Katz, a graduate
of the State University at Binghamton and “the director of investment services
at Zweig/Avatar Capital Management.”
1995: Uzi Baram
replaced Yithak Rabin as Minister of the Interior
1995(27th of
Adar I, 5756): Sixty-seven-year-old financier Bernard “Bernie” Cornfeld passed
away today.
1996: Responding to
Israeli rage and grief over the deadliest day of suicide bombing the country
has known, Prime Minister Shimon Peres vowed today to wage a "methodical
and incessant" war against the militant Islamic movement Hamas
1996: Rabbi Menaham
Meier, the principal of The Frisch School presided over the morning prayer
service that ended with a remembrance 22-year-old Sara Drucker, her fiancé
25-year-old Matthew Eisenfeld and 21 other victims of the Arab bombing in
downtown Jerusalem which must have reminded him of the service he led following
the murder of 20-year-old Alisa Flatow ten months ago.
1996: “Responding to
Israeli rage and grief over the deadliest day of suicide bombing the country
has known, Prime Minister Shimon Peres vowed today to wage a "methodical
and incessant" war against the militant Islamic movement Hamas.”
1997: Funeral services
were held in Manhattan today for 97-year-old May W. Hartman, the widow of Judge
Gustave Hartman and mother of Kenneth Hartman and Alicia Ashe who was “founder of
the Gustave Hartman YM-YWHA and for 25 years she was President of the Gustave
Hartman Home for Children.
1997: “The Israeli
Government today approved the development of a large new Jewish neighborhood in
East Jerusalem, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on Arabic radio
and television to portray the widely expected decision as a benign attempt to
alleviate a housing shortage in Jerusalem, and even as a bid for ''peaceful
coexistence and harmony between Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs.”
1997: “After 18 months
of tortuous and sometimes secret negotiations that flared into public
bitterness, the Swiss Government agreed today to share control of a Holocaust
memorial fund with leading Jewish groups.”
1997: Eighty-one-year-old
Scottish painter William Gear who worked for the Monuments, Fine Arts and
Archives section, making him one of the Monuments Men who play a major role in
returning looted art, much of it taken by the Nazis from the Jews, to the
rightful owners or their heirs.
1998(1st of
Adar, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1998: U.S. premiere of
“Dark City” a sci-fi cinema with a script co-authored by David S. Goyer.
1998: The 25th European
Athletics Indoor Championships in which Aleksandr Averbukh placed sixth in the
Heptathlon opened today at Valencia.
1998: The English-land
edition of Hadmodia which is published by Rabbi Yitzhak-Meir Levin’s daughter
Ruth Lichtenstein was first printed today as a weekly paper today.
1999(11th of
Adar, 5759): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shabbat Zachor
1999: At Temple Israel
of Lawrence, Rabbi Myron Fenster officiated at the marriage of University of
Hartford graduate Stacy Joy Fischer, the owner of Exposure, an agency for
commercial photographers and University of Vermont graduate David Schoenberger who also “received an M.B.A.
degree from New York University.”
2000: The opening ceremony of the temporary exhibition of
photographs and artifacts, “The Jewish Community of Volos” took place, at the
Jewish Museum of Greece.
2000: The European Indoor Championships during
which Aleksandr Averbukh placed first in the Pole vault came to an end today in
Ghent, Belgium.
2000: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Stroheim by Arthur
Lennig.
2001: One of the groups
of opposing the efforts to privatize five New York City public schools if the
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, not as previously reports Jews for
Economic and Racial Justice.
2001: “Despite warnings
that they were selling their souls for a scrap of power, leaders of the Labor
Party agreed today to join a unity government led by Ariel Sharon.” (As
reported by Susan Sachs)
2002: Thirty-four-year-old
Gad Rejwan was shot by a Fatah terrorist north of Jerusalem.
2003: Today, Daniel
Libeskind “won the competition to be the master plan architect for the
reconstruction of the World Trade Center Site in Lower Manhattan.”
2003(25th of Adar I,
5763): Eighty-nine-year-old Rabbi Noah Golinkin, the former spiritual
leader of a Columbia synagogue who earned a national reputation for programs
that taught Hebrew literacy to more than 150,000 Jewish adults, passed
away today at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center & Hospital of
complications after surgery. .His one-day Hebrew Reading Marathon and its
forerunner, the Hebrew Literacy Campaign, is credited with quickly giving
adults enough knowledge of the language to follow the Hebrew prayer book. He
wrote textbooks widely used to teach adults because he could not find any
suitable for his programs. He is best known for his crash course, an eight-hour
program that uses familiar Hebrew words, repetition, exercise, humor and
encouragement to bring Hebrew reading familiarity to those who did not learn it
as children.
http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-02-golinkin.php
2004: Today, in a case
of a Jew honoring a Jew, actress Lauren Bacall, spoke at the posthumous
induction of screenwriter Peter Stone into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
2005: The New
York Times included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including The Orientalist: Solving the
Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom Reiss
2006: The Harlem
Globetrotters, the creation of Abe Saperstein, extended their overall record to
22,000 wins.
2006: The
Jerusalem Post reported that a new Israeli tourism campaign will take
center stage at Emirates Stadium, the London home of English soccer giants
Arsenal, starting in August.
2007: Holocaust
survivors from around the world gather in Warsaw to urge the Polish government
to compensate them for property confiscated by the former communist regime.
2007: Ninety-three-year-old
Hitler aide Baron Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/world/europe/01loringhoven.html
2007(9th of
Adar, 5767): Ninety-three-year-old Rabbi Marcus Schachter, the Romanian born
son of Morris and Mary Schachter and
husband of Claire Schachter “who, for 46 years, was the central pillar of the
Halachah L'Maaseh program at RIETS where he held the Rabbi Dr. and Mrs. Leon Katz
Professorship in Rabbinics” passed away today.
https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9C03E3D7173AF934A15751C0A9619C8B63.html
2007: Israel got its
first Arab President. Acting President Dalia Itzik left for a weeklong
trip to the United States. During that time, Jajallie Whbee, a Druse who
had attained the rank of Lt. Colonel before retiring from the IDF, served in the
largely ceremonial post.
2007: Commander Mark
Polansky visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to meet Sophie
Turner-Zaretsky. He presented the replica of the bear called Refugee that
had comforted Sophie during the Holocaust and a photo of an orphan from
war-torn Dafur -- along with NASA space travel certificates -- to U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum chief of staff Bill Parsons, who said the Museum
wanted to provide something that would be a timely reminder of history’s
relevance. "Although we can send people into space, we still can’t seem to
stop them from hating and killing one another. A child’s stuffed toy from the
Holocaust and a photograph of a refugee from the genocide today in Darfur
remind us the lessons of the Holocaust have yet to be learned."
2007: David Bromberg
released “Try Me One More Time,” the first new studio album he had recorded
since 1990.
2007: Teapacks
performed four songs in a TV special, and the song "Push The Button"
was chosen as the Israeli entry for the 2007 Eurovision Contest by popular vote
2008: The Finalist
Grand Prize portion of The Second Annual Simply Manischewitz Cook-Off takes
place in New York City.
2008 (21 Adar I 5768):
Anthony Bernard Blond passed away. The British publisher and author’s
mother was a Sephardic Jew from Manchester and he was the cousin of Harold
Laski, the noted British socialist and Laborite.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1580358/Anthony-Blond.html
2008(21 Adar I): Myron
Cope, "the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers" passed away.
2008 (21 Adar I 5768): Approximately 50 Palestinian rockets hit the western Negev
today, with one of them slamming into Sapir College near Sderot, killing a 47-year-old student. Another exploded on the
helipad of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, while the hospital was treating
casualties from Sderot. The deceased, Roni Yechiah from the town of Btecha in
the western Negev, was inside his car in Sapir's parking lot. He died of
shrapnel wounds to the chest. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
Yechiah is survived by his wife, Esther, and four children: Niv, who is
currently serving in the Israel Defense Forces, Lital, a 17-year-old high
school pupil, her 14-year-old sister Coral and 8-year-old brother Idan.
2009: Palestinian terrorists in the
Gaza Strip continued their attacks on Israeli civilian areas early this morning
when they fired a Kassam that hit an open area in the Sdot Negev region.
2009: Rick
Recht returns to Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for another incomparable
Musical Shabbat. Rick is joined by the talented Abbe Silber, daughter of
Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber, pillars of the Jewish community.
2009: Robert M. Morgenthau, the long-serving Manhattan district attorney
and an institution in New York City politics, will not run for re-election this
year. Outside New York, Mr. Morgenthau is most well-known as the model for the
original district attorney, Adam Schiff, on the television show “Law &
Order.” Mr. Morgenthau had a cameo on the show, portraying a judge.
2009:
Former Iowa State University quarterback Sage “Rosenfels was acquired from the
Texans by the Minnesota Vikings.”
2010: An
Egyptian court overturned a lower court ruling today that called for a halt to
natural gas exports to Israel, saying the deliveries should continue
unhindered.
2010: An Israeli Arab rights committee
sent a petition to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) today opposing the addition of Israel to the organization. After two
years of official talks, the OECD will vote in May on whether to admit Israel.
2010:
Shabbat Zachor!
2010:
In the evening, Purim and the reading of the Megillah.
2010: Glass falling from the atrium
roof of the Sony Building in New York interrupted a Purim party. Ice reportedly
broke through the glass roof of the midtown Manhattan building after 11 p.m.
Saturday, injuring at least 10 of the 300 guests, according to reports. The
party, reportedly given by Aish Hatorah, was attended by "Sex and the
City" actor Chris Noth, as well as reality show "Jersey Shore"
cast members Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Vinny Guadagnino. "Omg
roof just collapsed!" Polizzi Tweeted from the party. “I think me and
@sn00ki felt the wrath for not being Jewish," Guadagnino Tweeted. The
actors were not injured.
2010(Adar
13, 5770): Eighty-nine-year-old Hank Rosenstein, who played in what
is considered the National Basketball Association’s first game, in 1946, as an
original member of the New York Knicks, died today in Boca Raton, FL. (As
reported by Vincent M. Mallozzi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/sports/basketball/03rosenstein.html
2010:
Opening of Jewish Book Week in London, UK.
2011(27th
of Adar I, 5771): Eighty-nine year old Philip Burgher, a World War II Army
veteran passed away in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.
2011(27th
of Adar I, 5771): Brazilian born author Moacyr Scliar, whose “The Centaur in the Garden,” was
included among the 100 Greatest Works of Modern Jewish Literature by The
National Yiddish Book Center, passed away today. (As reported by William
Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/06scliar.html
2011: The
Prince of Kosher Gospel, Joshua Nelson, is scheduled to perform at Temple Judah
in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2011:
Closing night of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
2011:
Closing night of The “Voices From a Changing Middle East” festival.
2011: The
Los Angeles Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Modigliani: A Life by
Meryle Secrest and Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall — From
America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady
2011: Among
the Jewish winners are tonight’s Oscar ceremonies were:
Israel-born
Natalie Portman for her portrayal of a tortured ballerina in “Black Swan”
Emile
Sherman one of the co-producers of “The King’s Speech” which was named best
picture
David
Seidler of “King’s Speech” winning for original screenplay
Aaron
Sorkin of “The Social Network” for adapted screenplay
Danish
director-writer Susanne Bier, took the best foreign-language film statuette for
“In a Better World,”
American
filmmakers Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman won in the short documentary category
for “Strangers No More” - a film based on the work of the Bialik-Rogozin School
in south Tel
Director-writer
Lee Unkrich accepted the award for his animated feature “Toy Story 3,”
Randy
Newman won for his song “We Belong Together.”
Lora
Hirschberg was one of the co-winners for the work of sound-mixing for
“Inception.”
(As
reported by JTA)
2012: Anna Kantar is
scheduled to give a reading of poems by Leah Goldberg at the Stern College for
Women in New York City.
2012: Open Women’s Mic
Night featuring Poetry, Music, Comedy, whatever you do to entertain the ladies
at David Lilimnick’s Off the Wall Comedy Club in Jerusalem
2012: The Tal Law
cannot be extended by even one hour, and any attempt to ignore the issue is a
mistake, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said at a press conference in the
Knesset today (As reported by Lahav Harkov)
2012: Workers at the
Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat ports who had held a one-day strike over
pension-related demands yesterday will return to work today after a truce was
reached at a late-night National Labor Court meeting.
2012: Nurses across
Israel went on a 24-hour strike this morning, after overnight negotiations
between the Finance Ministry and the chairman of the national nurses’ union
failed to reach an agreement to prevent the strike.
2013: L'Chaim Kosher
Vodka is scheduled to sponsor the reception that follows The SHUFFLE Concert
that will feature performances by Eliran Avni, piano, Moran Katz, clarinet,
Linor Katz, cello, Hassan Anderson, oboe, Francisco Fullana, violin, and
soprano Ariadne Greif
2013: “The Mexican
Suitcase” Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Taro and Chim is
scheduled to open at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
2013: The Weiner
Library is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Mary Fulbrook, author of A Small
Town Near Auschwitz
2013: In Portland, the
Oregon Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening of
“Pictures of Resistance: The Wartime Photographs of Jewish Partisan Faye
Schulman.”
2013: A panel of judges
at the International Convention Center Haifa awarded the title of Miss Israel
to 21 year old Yityish Aynaw “the young and gorgeous model, who came to
Israel only about a decade ago from Ethiopia.” (As reported by Yori Yanover)
2014: The Consulate
General of Israel in New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New
York and the Jewish National Fund are scheduled to honor Dr. Clarence B. Jones,
co-author of the “I Have A Dream Speech” at the annual commemoration of Reverend
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2014: Eric Schmidt and
Jared Cohen are scheduled to discuss their bestseller The New Digital Age
at the Historic 6th & I Synagogue.
2014: “In the wake of
an alleged attack by Israel on a Hezbollah arms convoy, the organization’s
chief, Hassan Nasrallah, warned key military personnel of the possibility of
war with the Jewish state, a Lebanese journalist with close ties to the
organization said today. (As reported by Spencer Ho and Elhanan Miller)
2014: Soldiers are
searching for the two Palestinian Arab men who robbed and stabbed an Israeli
cab driver this evening near Ariel junction. (As reported by Maayana Miskin)
2015: In London, Jewish
Book Week at the Jewish Museum is scheduled to come to an end.
2015: “A Happy End” by
Iddo Netanayahu, the younger brother of Benjamin and Yonatan Netanyahu is
scheduled to be performed at Abingdon Theatre.
2015: “Deli Man” “Erik
Greenberg Anjou’s forthcoming documentary about the dying (but perhaps
reviving!) culture of Jewish delicatessens is a meal with many courses” is
scheduled to being “its theatrical run in Florida and Arizona” today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pastrami-on-wry-with-the-texan-macher-keeping-deli-culture-alive/
2015(17th of
Shevat, 5775): Eighty-three year old Leonard Nimoy passed away today. (As
reported Virginia Heffernan)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0
2015: “After the Ball,” a romantic comedy co-produced by Jane
Silverstone-Segal was released in
Canada.
2016: Shabbat Ki Tissa;
for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2016: “Einstein in the
Holy Land” and “One in a Lifetime” are scheduled to be shown at the Washington
Jewish Film Festival.
2016: In North
Carolina, “Apples from the Desert” is scheduled to be shown at the Charlotte
Jewish Film Festival. (A reminder that
there are thriving Jewish communities all over the United States)
2017(1st of
Adar, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Adar
2017: “Through the
Wall” a melodrama starring Noa Koller is scheduled to be shown at JW3 in
London.
2017: “More than 200
Israelis attended the funeral of a complete stranger,” Holocaust survivor Hilde
Nathan “from the Canary Islands who fulfilled a final wish to be buried in
Israel alongside her mother.”
2017: The Temple
Emanu-El is scheduled to host “Nuclear Weapons in the Trump Era.”
2017: The J Street
annual convention is scheduled to continue for a third day at the Washington
Convention Center.
2017: In Paris, “The
State of Deception,” an exhibition that examines the Nazis use of “propaganda
to win broad voter support, implement radical programs, and justify war and
mass murder” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2017: Yiddish folk
singer Cindy Paley is scheduled to lead a sing-along of Yiddish love songs at
the Beverly Hills House Concert.
2018: Today, Stephen
Mandel was elected Leader of the Albert Party…with 66% of the vote.
2018: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host a
presentation by Rabbi Joy Levitt and Rabbi Michael Strassfeld on “Wife and
Husband: Ruth and Boaz”
2018: In Washington,
D.C., the Tabard Inn is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald” followed
by “further readings and discussion with poet E. Ethelbert Miller and director,
producer and writer Aviva Kempner.
2018(12th of
Adar, 5778): Ninety-one year old Alan Gershwin, who claimed to be the
“long-lost son of George Gershwin passed away today. (As reported by David
Margolick)
2018: “According to an
ADL audit released” today, “there were 1,986 acts of anti-Semitism in the U.S.
last year…comprising the largest one-year increase in recorded history.” (JTA)
2018: In Des Moines,
Temple B’nai Jeshusrun is scheduled to host Shayna Steinger speaking “about her
professional experiences with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.”
2018: The Oxford
University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Hamantashen Bake-Off followed
by a sale of the pastries for the benefit of the Oxford Food Bank.
2018: JW3 is scheduled
to host the penultimate screening of “Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of
Indian Cinema.”
2018: The Hillel Jewish
Leadership Council at the University of Virginia is scheduled to host an
evening of “Hamantaschen Making: Bake Action Against Gun Violence.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/352979081774565/
2019: After expressing
“contrition” and “apologizing to the Senate Intelligence Committee for the lies
that he told during his 2017 testimony” when he appeared behind closed doors
yesterday, Michael Cohen, “President Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney
Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify publicly before the House Oversight
Committee.
2019: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present a “Panel Discussion with Lila
Corwin Berman (Temple University), Tony Michels (University of
Wisconsin-Madison) and Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis University), moderated by
Samuel G. Freedman (Columbia University) discussing “Is American
Different? Anti-Semitism in the United
States.”
2019: In Washington,
DC, the Jewish Study Center is scheduled to host “The Secrets of Ashkenazi
Comfort Food.”
2019: The JCC of
Northern Virginia scheduled to host historian David Weinstein, author of The
Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics in a
discussion of the “banjo-eyed entertainer” and “the history of American Jewish
popular entertainment.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo43630294.html
2020: The New York
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Wanderings:
A Journey to Connect” and “The Wolf of Baghdad.”
2020: In San Francisco,
the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host “a talk by educator Tamar
Zaken about how many immigrants to Israel had their names changed upon arrival.”
2020: In Berkley, the
Haas Pavilion is scheduled to host “Jewish Heritage Night at Cal,” where the
Cal vs Colorado basketball game will include the giving away Jewish Heritage
Night t-shirts and a “post-game question and answer with a former Cal and B’nai
Herzilya basketball player Sam Singer.
2020: JSoc is scheduled to host pre-drinks tonight
ahead of a big Bridge night with President Sheinman!
2021:
Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatos is
scheduled to presents Zumba with instructor Joanna to celebrate Purim.
2021: In
Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is scheduled to host a Torah Study session
with Rabbi Feivel Strauss.
2021: In
Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host via zoom a Happy Hour and
Game Night, filled with “fun cocktail recipes and online games for adults.”
2021:
Congregation Beth Am is scheduled to present online Santa Clara Law professor
Michael Asimow leads a discussion of “The Trial of the Chicago Seven,” the 2020
film about the 1969 trial that had a Jewish judge, three Jewish defendants and
a Jewish defense lawyer.
2021: Cocktail
enthusiast Arah Rasp is scheduled to present online, a Purim-themed cocktail
recipe, with a Purim conversation led by Addison-Penzak JCC’s Rabbi Laurie
Matzkin.
2021: Israel is
prepared to observe Shabbat under the terms of the curfew that began on the
evening of February 25th and is scheduled to last through tomorrow.
2021: Temple Emanuel of
Newton is scheduled to host online a screening of “Crip Camp,” a “feel-good
documentary, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, which recounts
the ties of a Catskills summer camp to American disability rights activism in
the 1970s.”
2021(15th of
Adar, 5781): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim
2022: The Jewish
Community Library is schedule to present Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers
discuss their book “American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel” which focuses
on the origins of a Hasidic village in upstate New York, the community’s
religious, social and economic norms, and the roots of Satmar Hasidism.
2022: In London, the
LSJS matching campaign is scheduled to begin this morning.
2022: As part of the
Chabad “Zooming around the World” program Rabbi Yosef C. Kantor is scheduled to
host a tour of Bangkok.
2022: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including Campaign of the Century: Kennedy,
Nixon, and the Election of 1960 by Irwin F. Gellman and The Books of
Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk’s novel based on the life and times of Jacob Frank
2022: Israel Engage
Winter 2022, a “student-led conference that includes session with the leading
experts on Israel advocacy, antisemitism
and Zionism is scheduled to take place this afternoon online.
2022: The Jewish
Historical Society of the Upper Midwest is scheduled to host the fourth, in the
four part series “The Jewish-American Experience: Connecting Jewish
Institutions Together.”
2022: Temple Beth Torah
in Fremont is scheduled to host a three-package online tour with a licensed
Israeli tour guide that will immerse participants in daily life and culture.
2023: Lappin Foundation
and Gregg Philipson are scheduled to host on Zoom for an exploration of the
1939 New York World’s Fair from a social, political and Jewish perspective as
the world was on the brink of WWII.
2023: YIVO is scheduled
to present Sandra Fox and Philissa Cramer as they discuss Fox’s new book The
Jew of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America.
2023: In New Orleans,
Chabad is scheduled to host a wine tasting with Certified Wine Professional,
Hank Fanberg and Purim insights with Rabbi Yossi Cohen.
2023: The East Bay
International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings in theatres
of “The Forger” and “Where Life Begins.”
2023: The Stanford
Taube Center for Jewish Studies is scheduled to present Rowan Dorin, an
assistant professor of history at Stanford University, discusses his book No
Return: Jews, Christians and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
and its contributions to medieval history and Jewish studies with University of
Washington Emeritus Professor of History Robert Stacey.”
2023: All decent people
mourn the death of Hallel Yaniv, 21 and Yagel Yaniv, 19, two brothers who were
murdered in yesterday’s terror attack.
2024: Friends and
family of Cedar Rapids resident Jeanne Michaelis, a survivor of the WWII Blitz
who has been in active contributor to each Jewish Community in which she has
lived, are scheduled to celebrate “a milestone birthday.”
2024: During a private
event for the Men's Engagement Division of the Jewish Federation of Greater
Hartford, Joel Haber is scheduled to join “chef Yosi Awad at his Yosi's Kitchen
for a demonstration, lecture, and discussion. In addition to sampling various
Israeli specialties from Yosi's mind, we will also be sampling a cholent.”
2024: Based on a
previous announcement by the Interior Ministry, twelve municipal authorities
will not take part in the nationwide municipal elections slated for today due
to the conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah, while voting booths will be set up in
the Gaza Strip to enable soldiers currently on combat duty in the war-torn
territory to vote. (As reported by Jeremy Sharon)
2024: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center is scheduled to host the first night of a
two-night virtual summit on “Anti-Semitism: The Dangerous Reality We Must
Confront.”
2024: Congregation
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to hold it weekly evening minyan in Northeast
Columbus at the JCC New Albany Library.
2024: As part of its
Women on the Move Series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to host a
conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Anna Quindlen and Maggie
Haberman.
2024: The Executive
Committee of the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to meet in New
Orleans.
2024: As February 27th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 144 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:The
Streicker Cultural Center is schedule to host “Civil Rights in Crisis,” “an
insightful discussion with two of the nation’s
foremost civil rights leaders: Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for
Public Affairs, and Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference
on Civil and Human Rights.”
2025: The Jewish Women’s Archives is scheduled
to host Shahanna McKinney-Baldon lecturing on Madame Goldye Steiner: First
African-American Singer of Jewish Liturgical Music as part of its four part
series on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experienc
2025: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a host a presentation by Jack Fairweather, the author of The
Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice which tells the
story of Fritz Bauer
2025: Brooklyn based Yiddish psych/folk band
Midwood featuring Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Yoshie Fruchter (guitar/oud),
RIchie Barshay (percussion) and Eleonore Weill (vocals/flutes) are scheduled to
continue their residency at the Museum of Jewish Heritage with an eruption of
globe-spanning violin music
2025: The Museum at Eldridge Street is
scheduled to host another installment of the virtual program Art History
Through a Jewish Lens: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
2025: The ADL Midwest Antisemitism Uncovered
Series is scheduled to begin today with a session on “Decide and Greed.”
2025: As February 27th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
ant-Semitism sweeps across the globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas
held hostages begin day 510 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: Robby Adler Peckerar is scheduled to
deliver the first lecture in the series “Reading Yiddish Texts: The Yiddish
Stage Classic One-Act Plays.”
2026: In Jerusalem, Beit Agnon will host “a
literary sermon by Rabbi Daniel Epstein” that will a discussion of the works of
Jewish philosopher Emanuel Levinas.
2026: At Agudath Achim in Little Rock, AR,
Rabbi Mark Biller will officiate at the wedding of Rivka (Maria Rosa) and Harry
Ehrenberg, a standup guy who gives a whole new meaning to the term “mensch”.
2026: At least for one family in Cedar Rapids,
a double measure of joy: kindling the Shabbat lights and celebrating their
wedding anniversary
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