121: Birthdate of
Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor who described the Jews as being “stinking and
tumultuous.”
1198: Frederick I, Duke
of Austria who employed a Jew named Schlom as his master of the mint, passed
away today.
1478: The Pazzi attack
Lorenzo de' Medici and killed his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the
Duomo of Florence. The Pazzi were rivals of the Medici family. Lorenzo’s death
was a setback for the Jewish community of Florence. The Pazzi’s big claim to fame was their
participation in the First Crusade. On the other hand, Lorenzo de’ Medici had
defended the Jewish community from expulsions and from the aftermath of the
anti-Semitic sermons given by Bernardino da Feltre in which he whipped up the
masses into a violent frenzy by demonizing the Jews as the Christ Killers.
1575: Francesco I
de’Medici, the 2nd grand duke of Tuscany who “invited Jewish
merchants to settle in Livorno, granting them free residence, unlimited access
to trade and extensive self-government in this new Medicean free-port on the
Mediterranean” and Johanna Erzherzogin von Osterriech gave birth to Marie
de’Medici, queen consort of Henry IV of
France and the mother of King Louis XIII who “signed letters patent renewing
the expulsion order "against not only Jews but also those who profess and
practice Judaism."
1624: Birthdate of
Johannes Leusden, the native of Utrecht and a Professor Hebrew who authored
numerous text on the Hebrew language and
“in 1660, together with the Amsterdam rabbi and book printer Joseph
Athias, published his Biblia Hebraica, the first edition of the Hebrew Bible
with numbered verses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Leusden#/media/File:LEUSDEN_JOHANN_1688_Sefer_Tehilim_Liber_Psalmorum_p5_A2_JEHOVA.png
1654: The
Jews were expelled from Brazil. The city of Recife had
been taken from the Dutch by the Portuguese. As a Dutch city, Recife
had been hospitable to the Jews. But Portugal meant the Inquisition,
forced conversion or exile. It was the Jews fleeing from Recife who
ended up in New Amsterdam later in 1654 and thus began what would become the
American Jewish Community. Professor Arnold Witzner, author of
“Jews In Colonial Brazil” the Jews could have remained in Brazil if they had
converted. They chose not to which meant
that “all openly professing Jews left Brazil” prior to this date. “A total of
16 ships transported the Jewish and Dutch colonists from Recife. Some claim as
many as 5,000 Jews left Recife at this time. Most of these Jews returned to Holland;
some relocated to colonies in the Caribbean. Twenty-three of the Jews aboard
one of these ships eventually arrived in New Amsterdam (New Netherland/New
York) on September 7, 1654. There are at least two versions of the story of how
these Jews came to settle in New Amsterdam. One version is that the original
ship was captured by pirates at one point. The Jews were subsequently taken
aboard the French ship the St. Charles, and this ship brought them to New
Amsterdam. According to Wiznitzer, there was no capture by pirates. Instead,
the Jews were driven by adverse winds to Spanish-held Jamaica. From there they
boarded the small French frigate, Sainte Catherine, which took them to New
Amsterdam.”
1655: Today, “is
characterized as ‘a most glorious one in the annals of Israel,’ for on that day
came a reply from Holland that after many consultations it had been resolved
and determined that the petitioners be granted leave to remain, upon condition,
however, that they provide for the poor among them, and that such unfortunates,
if any, be not a burden or charge upon others.”
1655: The directors of the Dutch West India Co.
refused to grant permission to Governor Peter Stuyvesant to exclude Jews from
New Amsterdam. This put an end to official efforts to bar Jews from North
America. The Dutch West India Co. also specified that no restriction of trade
be imposed upon the Jewish settlers. Thus, it guaranteed not only the physical
inviolability of the Jews but also their orderly economic development and
progress. The only condition contained in the directive provided that "the
poor among them shall be supported by their own nation." This gave further
impetus to the growth of Jewish philanthropy in the New World.
1695: Isaac Levy, the
husband of Bella Levy with whom he had three children passed away today.
1706: In Barbados,
Abraham Burrows wrote his will today.
1721: A massive
earthquake devastates Tabriz. There are records of a Jewish community in Tabriz
dating back to the 12th century. The community must have been large
and culturally diverse since it included bath Rabbanites and Karaites. In 1830,
the Jews of Tabriz were massacred during a rise of Islamic fervor that also
included the forced conversions of the Jews in Shiraz and Mashhad.
1737: Without any
warning, the King of Prussia ordered that the decree limiting the number of
Jewish families allowed to live in Berlin be enforced. According to a document
entitled “General privilege and regulations to be observed concerning the Jews
in his Majesty's dominions,” issued in 1730, the King had granted the Jews the
right to settle 120 families in the capital city. By 1737, the number of Jewish
families had risen to 180 and the king wanted these additional sixty families
to depart even if it meant a loss of tax revenue.
1742: Today, Charlotte
Farieres “was naturalized in New York City.”
1743: In London, Sarah
Nunes Navaro and Aaron Nunez Cardozo who were married in 1739, gave birth to
Rachel Nunez Cardozo
1753(22nd of
Nisan, 5513): Eighth Day of Pesach
1753: As Jew munched on
their matzah Justice of the Peace Thomas Winslow presided over the marriage
ceremony of Mayflower descendants Benjamin Small and Bridget Eldredge.
1758(18th of
Nisan, 5518): Fourth Day of Pesach
1761(22ns of Nisan,
5521): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1774(15th of Iyar,
5534): Moses Lindo passed away. Born in England he moved to South Carolina
where he became a leading planter and merchant. “He did more than any other
individual to encourage and advance the indigo industry of the colony, among
the most important industries in South Carolina in prerevolutionary times. His
transactions were enormous, and in 1762 he was appointed "Surveyor and
Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugs, and Dyes," an office he resigned in
1772.
1776: In Norwalk, Ct.
Joyce and Myer Myers who were married in 1767 gave birth to Rebecca
Mears-Myers, the wife of Philadelphia native Jacob Mordecai, whom she married
in 1798 and with whom she had seven children.
1777(19th of
Nisan, 5537): Shabbat shel Pesach
celebrated on the same that according to legend 16-year-old Sybil Ludington “made
an all-night horseback ride 40 miles (64 km) to stir American militiamen to
attack British forces near Danbury, Connecticut.”
1788: Birthdate of
future Ohio resident. Solomon Stix, the husband of Deborah Cohan Stix and the
father of Charles, Herman, Henry, Caroline, Aaron and Louis Stix.
1791(22nd of
Nisan,5551): Eighth Day of Pesach including Yizko.
1792(14th of Iyar, 5724:
Joseph ben Meir Teomim, the native of Galicia who served as a rabbi in Lemberg
and Frankfurt an der Order and whose works include “Pri Megadim (פרי מגדים), a super- commentary on some of the major
commentators on the Shulkhan Aruch passed away today.”
1795: In Savannah, GA,
Shankey Hart and Abraham Jacobs gave birth to Maria Jacobs.
1796: The Jews of
Fossano escaped from a massacre which they commemorated by celebrating the
Purim of the Bomb
1796(18th of
Nisan, 5556): Fourth Day of Pesach
1800(1st of
Iyar, 5560): Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1808: Birthdate of
Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim, the native of Mainz, who was part of the
Bischoffsheim family and co-founder of the bank of Bischoffsheim &
Goldschmidt which played an important role in the financial world during “the
early years of Belgian independence.”
1810(22nd of
Nisan, 5570): Eighth Day of Pesach, Yizkor is recited on the day before
Beethoven competed composing “Fur Elise” a piece that Judy Levin Rosenstein
mastered in her youthful piano player years.
1812(14th of
Iyar, 5572): Pesach Sheni
1812: In Germany “the
ten members of the Committee of Separation of the Altoona Congregation signed a
handwritten document. It would be immediately designated simply as the “Act of
Separation.”
https://jewish-history-online.net/source/jgo:source-30
1815: Birthdate
of Fredericia, Denmark native Henriette Nathansen, the husband of Meyer
Hartvig Meyer.
1817: Joseph Freiherr
von Sonnenfels the son of Perlin Lipman “who was baptized in his early youth”
and went on to become a leading “Austrian and German jurist and novelist.”
1819(1st of
Iyar, 5579) Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1819: Two days after
she had passed away, Hannah Levy, the wife of Aaron Aarons, the Netherlands
native she married in 1793 at the Great Synagogue and with whom she had 11
children was buried today at Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1825: Harmon and
Francis Isaacs Hendricks gave birth to Hermoine Hendricks Tobias, the wife of
Alfred Tobias and the mother of Edith, Washington and Francis Tobias.
1826(19th of Nisan):
Chaim (Hermann) Bloch, author of “Mavo ha-Talmud” passed away today
1826: Birthdate of Edel
Nathansen, the wife of Joel Isaac Cohn.
1826: Birthdate of
Civil War Veteran and early homesteader Daniel Freeman. Freeman was not Jewish. He was the successful plaintiff in one of the
first landmark cases that declared Bible reading and praying in public schools
were unconstitutional. Most of the
landmark cases involving separation of church and state were brought by
non-Jews.
1827: One day after he
had passed away “Tanhum bar Jacob Abraham” Was buried today at the Canterbury
Jewish Cemetery.”
1829: French jurist and
parliamentarian Pierre-Stanislas Bédard who opposed Ezekiel Hart taking his
seat in Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada because he did not think Jew
should sit in the legislature, passed away today.
1829: Birthdate of
Prussian-born Austrian surgeon Christian Albert Theodor Billroth who in 1876
trigger a storm with his “criticism of what he considered the
disproportionately large share of Jewish medical students from Hungary and
Galicia. Billroth questioned the success of assimilation, arguing "that
the Jews are a sharply defined nation, and that no Jew, just like no Iranian,
Frenchman, or New Zealander, or an African can ever become a German; what they
call Jewish-Germans are simply nothing but Jews who happen to speak German and
happened to receive their education in Germany, even if they write literature
and think in the German language more beautifully and better than many a
genuine Germanic native. "Therefore [we should] neither expect nor want
the Jews ever to become true Germans in the sense that during national battles
they feel the way we Germans do."
1834(17th of
Nisan, 5594): Shabbat shel Pesach
1837(21st of
Nissan, 5597): Seventh Day of Pesach
1837(21st of
Nissan, 5597): Thirty-seven-year-old Kitty Etting the daughter of Rachel Gratz
and Solomon Etting, the wife of Benjamin I. Cohen with whom she had 11 children
passed away today.
1839(12th of
Iyar, 5599): Alexander Schönfeld, the husband of Esther Schoenfeld with whom he
had three children – Lisette, Moses and Betty – passed away today in Lower
Saxony.
1843: One day after he
had passed away “Itzhak bar Meir” was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”
1843: Philip Marcus
Leuw married Hannah Van Gelder today in Holland.
1845(19th of Nisan,
5605): Fifth Day of Pesach and Shabbat observed for the first time during the
Presidency of James K. Polk.
1846(30th of
Nisan, 5606): Rosh Chodesh Iyar celebrated as the United States clashes with
Mexican forces in what was the prelude to the Mexican-American War.
1847: In Bavaria, Jacob
and Therese Weill gave birth to Emilie Dreyfus, the wife of Jacob Dreyfus and
the mother of Carl, Sydney and Edwin Dreyfus who passed away in Boston at the
age of 61.
1850(14th of
Iyar, 5610): Pesach Sheni
1850: Birthdate of
Moravia native and Austrian trained oculist Leopold Konigstein who became an
assistant professor ocular surgery in 1901.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9456-konigstein-leopold
1850(14th of
Iyar, 5610): Sixty-nine-year-old, Leo Wolf, who was one of the founders of the
“Temple’ (reform) in Hamburg passed away today.
1853(18th of
Nisan, 5613): Fourth Day of Pesach
1853: Birthdate of
Danzig native and journalist Robert Davidsohn, the younger brother of George
Davidsohn who went from “writing satirical critiques of actors, actresses, and
singers” in Berlin to writing history about Italy before he passed away in
1937.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/davidsohn-robert
DAVIDSOHN, ROBERT - JewishEncyclopedia.com
1853: Following a
recent vote by the First Prussian Chamber to exclude Jews from public
employment, today, thousands of Prussian citizens including Alexander Von Humboldt, presented petitions
to the Second Chamber urging it to reject the action of the First Chamber and
adopt legislation allowing Jews to hold “civil offices” and allowing everybody
full freedom of religious opinion.
1854: Albert E. Hertz
and Maria S. Solana, daughter of Mathew Solana were married today in St.
Augustine, FL.
1856: In Mannheim,
Germany, Lazarus and Babette Morgenthau gave birth to Henry Morgenthau, Sr. the
American lawyer and businessman who was best known as America’s Ambassador to
the Ottoman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Morgenthau%27s_Story
1856: In Philadelphia,
sixteen German boys have been charged with savagely beating a boy named
Bernadotte Glischman. After attacking
him a barroom, they took the boy to his room where they stuck him with pins and
covered his face with a pillow so he could not cry out. According to the boy, he was attacked because
he was Jewish and the other boys were Catholics who wanted to punish him
because the Jews crucified Christ. The
boys were being held with bail being set at $250 for 15 of them and $800 for
the remaining defendant.
1857: “The original
Broadway Tabernacle” which was replaced by a new building designed by Leopold
Eidlitz “was opened for the last time for “Divine Service” today.
1857: Birthdate of
Dayton, Ohio native Louis D. Beaumont who with “his two brothers joined with
David May, their brother-in-law, in the 1880s to form the May Shoe and Clothing
Company, which became the predecessor to May Department Stores.”
1859(22nd of
Nisan, 5619): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1859: Odo William
Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill, a British diplomat serving in Italy, wrote
to Sir Moses Montefiore describing the progress he has made in attempt to
present a petition to the Pope concerning the kidnapping of Edgaro Martoro
1860: Seventy-year-old
Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit the “Protestant theologian and Hebrew Bible
scholar” whose works included translations and commentaries on Job and Proverbs
and “a four-volume exegetical work on the prophets of the Old Testament” passed
away.
1860: The Queen's Own
Rifles of Canada (originally named 2nd Battalion, Volunteer Militia Rifles of
Canada) whose most famous Jewish member may have Benjamin “Ben” Dunkelman who
led them ashore at Normandy and later turned down the opportunity to command
the unit, was formed today.
1860: As of 6 o’clock
this evening the body of the unknown man, who was supposed to have committed
suicide by shooting himself at Weehawken, NJ, had not been identified. For
reasons that have not been disclosed, authorities believe him to be a German
Jew from New York.
1861: The
Jewish Messenger publishes the following editorial entitled “Stand by the
Flag” which demonstrates the patriotic, pro-Union beliefs held by a majority of
Jews living in the United States.
“It is almost a work of supererogation for us to call upon
our readers to be loyal to the Union, which protects them. It is needless for
us to say anything to induce them to proclaim their devotion to the land in
which they live. But we desire our voice, too, to be heard at this time,
joining in the hearty and spontaneous shout ascending from the whole American
people, to stand by the stars and stripes!
“Already we hear of many of our young friends taking up
arms in defense of their country, pledging themselves to assist in maintaining
inviolate its integrity, and ready to respond, if need be, with their lives, to
the call of the constituted authorities, in the cause of law and order.
The time is past for forbearance and temporizing. We are
now to act, and sure we are, that those whom these words may reach, will not be
backward in realizing the duty that is incumbent upon them—to rally as one man
for the Union and the Constitution. The Union—which binds together, by so many
sacred ties, millions of free men—which extends its hearty invitation to the
oppressed of all nations, to come and be sheltered beneath its protecting
wings—shall it be severed, destroyed, or even impaired? Shall those, whom we
once called our brethren, be permitted to overthrow the fabric reared by the
noble patriots of the revolution, and cemented with their blood?
And the Constitution—guaranteeing to all, the free exercise
of their religious opinions—extending to all, liberty, justice, and
equality—the pride of Americans, the admiration of the world—shall that
Constitution be subverted, and anarchy usurp the place of a sound, safe and
stable government, deriving its authority from the consent of the American
People?
“The voice of millions yet unborn, cried out, 'Forbid it,
Heaven!' The voice of the American people declares in tones not to be
misunderstood: `It shall not be!'
“Then stand by the Flag! What death can be as glorious as
that of the patriot, surrendering his life in defense of his country—pouring
forth his blood on the battlefield—to live forever in the hearts of a grateful
people. Whether native or foreign born, Gentile or Israelite, stand by it, and
you are doing your duty, and acting well your part on the side of liberty and
justice!
“We know full well that our young men, who have left their
homes to respond to the call of their country, will, on their return, render a
good account of themselves. We have no fears for their bravery and patriotism.
Our prayers are with them. G-d speed them on the work which they have
volunteered to perform!
“And if they fall—if, fighting in defense of that flag,
they meet a glorious and honorable death, their last moments will be cheered by
the consciousness that they have done their duty, and grateful America will not
forget her sons, who have yielded up their spirit in her behalf.
And as for us, who do not accompany them on their noble
journey, our duty too, is plain. We are to pray to Heaven that He may restore
them soon again to our midst, after having assisted in vindicating the honor
and integrity of the flag they have sworn to defend; and we are to pledge
ourselves to assume for them, should they fall in their country's cause, the
obligation of supporting those whom their departure leaves unprotected. Such is
our duty. Let them, and all of us, renew our solemn oath that, whatever may
betide, we will be true to the Union and the Constitution, and STAND BY THE FLAG.”
1862: Colonel George Henry Grey and Harriet Jane
Pearson gave birth to the long serving Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Sir Edward Grey who in 1914 when asked
by MP Herbert Samuel “about a homeland for the Jewish people” replied “that the
idea had always had a strong sentimental appeal to him and he would be prepared
to work for if the opportunity arose”
1863: As Jews counted
the 22nd day of the Omer during the Civil War General Joe Hooker
(mis-named fighting Joe) began his offensive against Robert E. Lee’s Army of
Northern Virginia
1864(20th of Nisan, 5624): Sixth
Day of Pesach
1864: As the Jews munched on their matzah
today Admiral David Porter’s fleet which had been trapped by in the low level
of the river” was badly damaged by Confederate guns after it had rescued the
forces of the incompetent General Banks during the ill-fated Red River
Campaign.
1865(30th of Nisan, 5625): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar
1865:
Seventeen-year-old Henry Schneeberger, a student at Columbia was invited to
deliver his first sermon at Rodeph Shalom in New York. His discourse provoked a resounding round of
approval from the congregants. (This may be an incorrect date since a source
claims that this sermon was delivered on the second day of Pesach which fell on
April 12)
1865: Reuters, the news
service created by Paul Julius Reuter, brought news of President Abraham
Lincoln's assassination in the United States to the European public, making it
the first news service to provide the information to those on the eastern side
of the Atlantic Ocean.
1865: Edward Storm, a
resident of Greenville, MS, was discharged from the Confederate Army having
served in Company D of the 28th Mississippi Cavalry.
1867(21st of
Nisan, 5627): Seventh Day of Pesach
1868: Today’s European
Affairs column reported that “Thirty-one radical
members of the Rumanian House have proposed the most Draconic laws against
theJews, which, if put into effect, would result in an absolute expulsion of
the unfortunate Hebrews. England, Prussia
and other Governments havemade the most energetic protests agains such foolish
measures, and the cry of indignation thoughout Europe has already had so much
effect as to cause of the signers of the bill to withdraw their signatures from
it.”
1869: Public school
teachers and “scholars” living in and around New York City have reportedly been
swindled by “an individual calling himself a converted Jew” and “a long-time
resident of Palestine. He promises to take their photographs, asks that he be
paid in advance and promises to return with the pictures “in a day or two” Needless to say, he has not been returning
with the pictures
1867(21st of
Nisan, 5627) Seventh Day of Pesach
1867: As Jews munched
on their Matzah, visitors continue to attend the second World’s Fair which had
opened on the first of the month.
1871: It was reported
today that Jacob Cohen is the publisher of a new Jewish newspaper, The
Hebrew News. The paper will be
published weekly in Hebrew and English.
1874: Birthdate of New
York City native and author Nathan L. Ottinger, a director of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum.
1875(21st of
Nisan, 5635) Seventh Day of Pesach
1875(21st of
Nisan, 5635): Seventy-two-year-old Jamaica native Asher Isaacs, the fifth born
son of Solomon Isaacs and husband Marylebone, England native Charlotte Jane
Thornthwaite
Passed away today in
England.
1876: Judge McAdams
officiated at the wedding of Marion W. Dibble and Eliza Emma Ottolengui both of
whom live in Charleston, SC.
1878(23rd of
Nisan, ): Rozalia Sali Sorger, the daughter of David Rubin and Johanna
Rockenstein, the wife of Jakab Sorger and mother of Zsofie Kraus Jakobovits;
Zsigmond Sorger; David Aaron Sorger; Netti Lowenbein; Salamon Sorger; Regina
Fröhlich; Moritz Sorger; Jozsef Sorger; Esther Sorger and Aron David Sorger
passed away today in Hungary.
1878(23rd of Nisan):
Orthodox Rabbi David Duetsch of Budapest, author of “Goren David” passed away
today.
1879: Isaac Samuel
Isaacs , the New York born son of Jane Symmons and Rabbi Samuel Meyer Isaacs
and his wife Estelle Isaacs gave birth to Isabelle Estelle Levy, the wife of
Edgar A. Levy and the other of Julien Sampson Levy; Edgar I. Levy and Elizabeth
Ann Woolf,
1880: Birthdate of
Vinnytsia native and composer Oscar Potoker who after coming to the United
States created several movie scores and became a close friend of fellow
composer Josiah Zuro with whom he was riding when the latter died in a fatal
automobile accident.
1880: A letter from St.
Petersburg that was first published in the London Times takes issue with the
contention that the Jews dominate the Nihilist and revolutionary movements in
Russia.
1881: Pogroms spreading
across the Ukraine, reached Kiev.
1881: Simon Jacobs, the
Dutch born son of on Ravel Beer Jacobs and Diena Jacobs and his wife Marianna
Jacob gave birth to Salomon Jacobs who passed away at the of 42
1882: Rabbi David Levy
officiated at the wedding of Louis L. Cohen of Atlanta, GA and Hortense
Solomons which took place at the residence of her father, S.S. Solomons.
1882: It was reported
that the “poorer Jews” in Odessa, Russia, are marrying at the rate of 150
couples per day. There is a belief that
if they are married, they will be given free land in either the United States or
Palestine.
1883(19th of
Nisan, 5643): Fifth Day of Pesach
1883(19th of
Nisan, 5643): Sixty-year-old author and philosopher Samuel Alexander Byk passed
away today in Leipzig.
1883: The Brooklyn
Eagle reported today that after two previous failures Baith Israel, Beth
Elohim, and Temple Israel, Brooklyn's three leading synagogues, tried to merge
for a third time.
1883(19th of Nisan,
5643): Rabbi Solomon Reimann was crushed to death tonight when he attempted to
jump from a ferry on to the dock. The
distance was only three feet, but no reason was given as to why he attempted the
jump in the first place. He leaves behind a widow and four adult children
1884(1st of Iyar,
5644): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1884: A motion to grant
convicted killer Edward Brice was denied today in Washington, DC. The motion was based on the grounds “that one
of the jurors” who was Jewish took the oath on a Christian Bible instead of on the
Five Books of Moses. The judge said that
the objection should have been raised at the time of the swearing in and
refused to consider it.
1885: Phoenix, AZ
suffers one of its worst fires during Emil Ganz’s first term as the city’s
mayor. Among the buildings burnt was the
Bank Exchange Hotel which was owned by native of Germany who come to Phoenix by
way of Georgia.
1885: The new facility
of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum “which had cost about $20,000 was occupied
and in operation when the seventh annual meeting took place” today where it was
reported the facility was not caring for 29 boys and 17 girls.
1885: “Archaeological
Frauds In Palestine,” published today recounts the various sales of an
inscription written in Greek that had supposedly been found in “an old Arab
house near the Mosque of Omar.” The
inscription that read “Let no foreigner pass within the precincts of the
temple. Anyone found so doing will be
guilty of his own death.” Those who sold
the relic claimed that it was a sign posted in the precincts of Herod’s Temple.
1886(21st of
Nisan, 5646): Seventh Day of Pesach
1887: “Eliot and
Beatrice de Pass of Kensington, London,” gave birth to Frank Alexander de Pass
who as “a Lieutenant in the 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse” became
the first Jew and the first officer of the Indian Army to receive the Victoria
Cross which was awarded posthumously for his bravery in the trenches in France
on November 24, 1914.
http://www.j-grit.com/military-and-spies-frank-alexander-de-pass-victoria-cross.php
1887: Birthdate of
Russian born American clothing merchant
Samuel Krasnick and husband of Jennie Paykel Krasnick who in 1906 moved
to Sheboygan, WI where he was the organizer of a B’nai B’rith chapter and a
Federation of Jewish Charities.
1888: Birthdate of
Pennsylvania native Pearl Gerson, who became Pearl Kaufman when she married
Benjamin Kaufman and with she had three sons – Saul, Irving and Marvin.
1888: In Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, five Jews from two different synagogues faced a preliminary hearing
on charges that they were leading a boycott of a Jewish butcher named Jacob
Weisfeld. Weisfeld claimed that the two congregations
were boycotting his business because he refused to pay a tax of one half a cent
per pound of meat sold to the rabbis. Weisfeld claimed that his refusal led to
a whispering campaign that claimed his meat was not kosher. The defense tried
to prove that Weisfeld, was in fact, guilty of not slaughtering his meat in a
kosher fashion.
1889: Birthdate of
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, an Austrian born professor of philosophy at
Cambridge University. Wittgenstein was
not Jewish, but his family was up until the beginning of the 19th
Century when the road to wealth and social acceptability was opened to those
who would trade the Magen David for the Sign of the Cross.
1889: The Coroner’s
Inquest that is trying to determine the cause of death a young Jewish boy named
Tobias Hipper entered into its second day.
Dr. Stern and Deputy Coroner Jenkins have already testified as to the manner
of death, and two other witnesses have identified a couple of neighborhood boys
as the culprits.
1890: Henry Rice,
President of the United Hebrew Charities, testified before the sub-committee of
the Joint Congressional Committee on Immigration.
1891: In NYC, “David
and Netta (Donner) Bloch” gave birth to Maurice Bloch the NYU trained attorney
and New York State Assemblyman who voted against ousting the Socialist members
who had been elected in 1920, served as a trustee of Park Avenue Synagogue and
who was the husband of the former Madeline Neuberger.
1891: “Sir Pertinax
Macpsycophant” published today provides a review of Charles Macklin by Edward
Abbott Parry, a biography of the 18th century actor whose signature
role was his portrayal of Shylock done in such a unique manner that when “King George II saw the
production” he “was so moved he could not fall asleep that night.
1892: Manchester native
Nellie Joel and London native Solomon Barnatro Joel gave birth to Lt. Woolf
Joel.
1892: In New York City,
Fannie Wolf and Bernard Lissauer gave birth to CCNY
graduate and JTS ordained cleric Rabbi Herman Lissauer, the husband of Nettie
Weiss and Lattie Starrels the leader of Congregation Beth Israel in San
Francisco and Chaplain with the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army who also
pursued a career later in life as a researcher in the movie industry for such
epics as “Hollywood Canteen,” “Arsenic and Old Lace” and “The Private Lives of
Elizabeth and Essex.”
1893: Abraham E.
Pumpiansky, the rabbi at Riga, passed away today.
1893: Birthdate of New
York native Hyman Kaplan “executive director, Federation of Jewish Charities,
San Francisco” who in May of 1934 attended “the 13th annual
conference of the California Committee of Personal…at Temple Beth Israel.
1893: It was reported
today the Prussian Supreme Court has declared “that to exclude Jews, qua Jews,
from a Freemasons’ Lodge would be a violation of the Prussian Constitution. The
case stemmed from the decision of a newly formed lodge of Freemasons to admit
Jews which had been objected to other lodges that did not admit Jews because
the “anti-Semitic members” did not want “to fraternize with Jews.”
1893: Birthdate of
economist and author Abraham David Hannath Kaplan, the holder of Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins who was a department head
at the University of Denver before joining the Brookings Institute while raising two children – Stephen and
Nancy – with his wife Bella.
1894(20th of
Nisan, 5654): Sixth Day of Pesach
1894: In Russia,
“Nicholas and Fannie (Silver) Ehrlich” gave birth to Columbia educated
physician David Ernest Ehrlich, the roentgenologist who raised his daughter
Frances with his wife “Emma Grace Smith.”
1894: Rockford,
Illinois native and Sears, Roebuck executive Albert Henry Loeb married Anna
Bohnen today
1895: Mayor Strong held
hearings on the Hebrew Benevolent Home Bill which has already been passed by
both branches of the Legislature.
1895: In Hungary,
“Kaufmanny Joseph Lengyel and his wife, the former Johanna Adam” gave birth to
Hungarian-American journalist, author and college professor Emil Lengyel, who,
in the 1930’s was one of the first to trace Hitler’s rise to power and to write
the Civil War in Siberia while a raising a son Peter with his wife, “the former
Livia Delej.”
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078360/
1896: In South Bend,
Indiana, “Louis Stein, a dry goods store owner, and Rosa Cohen (née Kahanaski)
gave birth to Jules Stein, an ophthalmologist by training who was also the
founder of MCA which became the leading talent agency in the United States.
Stein joined forces with another Jew name Lou Wasserman to create the
Universal entertainment empire. Stein used his fortune for
humanitarian purposes primarily in the field of research and treatment related
to the eye. He passed away in 1981 leaving behind such legacies as the
National Eye Institute and the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA.
1896: It was reported
today that Great Britain has “a national concern” as a result of the death of
Baron de Hirsch’s death. The Baron had large investments in England and the
death duties owed on these properties would “yield enough revenue to build three
or four new” battleships which would help the UK in its naval race with
Germany. However, the Baron is an
Austrian and the will be probated in Vienna. The fear is that this will make it
difficult if not impossible for the British to collect any taxes on the estate.
1896: A betrothal
reception for Lucien L. Bonheur and Amelia Simon was held today at the home of
Miss Simon’s parents on East 56th Street.
1896: David Wolffsohn
visited Herzl and offers his cooperation. Wolffsohn had been a supporter of
groups seeking to establish a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel. Wolfffsohn provided Herzl with an entree into
the German Hovevei Zion, Lover’s of Zion, organizations.
1896: In the report of
the Committee on the Hebrew Technical Institute which was presented at the
meeting of Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society the necessity of
creating a fund to provide assistance for the boys who were graduating but who
had not started working was called to the trustees’ attention.
1897: According to a
report by Superintendent Herman Baar published today, the Hebrew Benevolent and
Orphan Asylum is caring for 823 children.
Of these, 350 children attend Grammar School No. 43 while the balance attended
classes at the asylum.
1897: It was reported
today that Professor Felix Adler had delivered an address on “The Debt of the
American People to Ulysses S. Grant” at Carnegies Hall in which he
characterized Grant “as the True Citizen Soldier” whose mental bravery was of
the kind that overcame seeming impossibilities” and because he “was the sword
of the law that cut the Gordian knot that slavery tied” “he brought about a state where human beings
should not be held in involuntary servitude” thus laying “the foundation for
the power acquired by organized labor.”
1898: In Romania, Sara
and Israel Freedman gave birth to Columbia educated radio gag writer David
Freedman, the husband of Beatrice Goodman, and author whose bestselling biography of
Eddie Cantor which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize who worked with Irving
Caesar and was responsible for “the first Jewish musical, a dramatization
of Mendel Marantz to appear on
Broadway.”
1898: Richmond, VA
native and West Point graduate Otho B. Rosenbaum was promoted from the rank of
2nd Lt. in the Seventh Infantry to the rank of 1st Lt.
1898: Max Nordeau
delivered a speech on "Die Gegner
des Zionismus" in Berlin today.
1899: In New York City,
Philip and Kate (Weiss) Fuchs gave birth to violinist Josef Fuchs, who served
as “concertmaster of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and lead of the Cleveland
String Quartet.”
1899: The list of the
Board of Directors for the Society of Aid of Jewish Prisoners published today
included “Jacob H. Schiff, William N. Cohen, Jacob A. Cantor, Samuel B.
Hamburger, Dr. Joseph Wiener, A.S. Solomons, E. W. Bloomingdale and the
Reverends Davidson and Harris.
1900: “Charles
Frohman’s London comedians” continued their engagement at the Lyceum Theatre in
New York.
1901: The Boston
Globe reported today that Massachusetts State Legislature had rejected
Samuel Hyman Borfosky bill exempting “persons observing the seventh day of the
week as the Sabbath from any penalty for keeping shops open or for performing
secular business and labor on the first day of the week” which in the days of
Sunday Closing Laws would have meant that Jews could close on their Shabbat and
not lose a day’s business since they would be open on Sunday.
1901: In Richmond, VA,
Jacob Levy Ezekiel and Rachel Brill Ezekiel gave birth to American
phytopathologist, mycologist and microbiologist Dr. Walter Naphtali Ezekiel,
the husband of Sarah Ritzen Ezekiel and father of Herbert Mordecai Ezekiel.
1902: Birthdate of
painter Isaac Soyer, the native of New York whose older twin brothers Moses and
Raphael Soyer were also painters.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/16/obituaries/isaac-soyer-a-painter-of-the-american-scene.html
1903: Herzl has a
meeting with representatives of the I.A.C. in Paris who had read the report
about the expedition to the Sinai Peninsula. The I.A.C. is the Jewish
Colonization Association which was funded by Baron de Hirsch. The I.A.C. was
established to set up agricultural settlements in places like Argentina,
Brazil, Canada and the United States.
The settlements were supposed to provide places of refuge for Romanian
and Russian Jews. Herzl sought enlist I.A.C. support for the establishment of
agricultural colonies in the Sinai which would be a steppingstone to a Jewish
home in Eretz Israel.
1903: The building of
the Jewish Theological Seminary at West 123rd Street which had been
funded by Jacob Schiff “was erected” today.
1903: According to an
article in today’s edition of the New
York Daily Tribune, “the gang that would become the Eastman Gang (named for
Monk Eastman, the turn-of the-century gangster who was its leader) “first came
on the scene in the early 1890s. They started out in the notorious Corlear's
Hook section of the lower east side on Rivington Street in the vicinity of
Mangin and Goerck streets. Another gang of the era, the Short-Tail Gang, had
its headquarters in this same area, making it entirely possible that the
Eastmans grew out of the Short-Tails. Originally composed of gentiles from the
local slums, the gang quickly became almost exclusively Jewish with the influx
of Jewish immigrants into lower Manhattan and nearby Brooklyn. When Monk
Eastman himself entered the gang is unknown, but the fact that several
newspaper articles refer to him as hailing from Corlear's Hook indicates that
it was probably during this early era”.
1904: Birthdate of
Marion Elkus Kohlman who would be buried at the Springhill Avenue Temple
Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama when she passed away at the age of fifty.
1904: Solomon Barnato
Joel and his wife the former Ellen “Nellie” Ridle gave birth to Conservative
Party MP and horse racing aficionado Dudley Jack Barnato Joel, the husband of
Esme Oldham who “was killed in action 1941” while serving as a member of the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve aboard the steam merchant ship Registan.
1904: In Little Rock,
AR, “Ephraim and Sadie Cohn Eichenbaum” gave birth to Washington University
trained architect, the partner of Frank Erhart and husband of Helen Marion
Levin who was a member of Congregation B’nai Israel, the Little Rock Reform
congregation that traces its origins to the years before the Civil War.
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=7030
1905(21st of
Nisan, 5665): Seventh of Pesach
1905: Birthdate of
Charles Kenneth Gould who gained fame as talent agent and producer Charles K.
Feldman.
1906(1st of
Iyar, 5666): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1906: Mayer Sulzberger,
Oscar S. Straus, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Adolphus Solomons Herman Rosenthal, Dr.
Herbert Friedenwald, Rabbi Goodman Lipkind and Bernard G. Richards attended a
meeting tonight that launched “The Jewish Territorialist movement for the establishment
of an autonomous Jewish settlement under a free government’ either in Palestine
or some other location, in the United States that supports the work of English
Zionist, Israel Zangwill.
1906: Birthdate of Dashev, Russia born American labor leader Israel Broslow
who in the early 1930’s came to the United States where he was an active member
of the ILGWU and the Workmen’s Circle.
1907: The funeral for
Bavarian born, New York Businessman Nathan Necarsulmer who for “twenty years
was a Trustee of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and was a member of the School
Committee of Temple Beth El is scheduled to take place this morning.
1907: Birthdate of New
York native and decorated NYPD Davis Wahl, the winner of the Medal of Valor and
father of two daughters – Patricia and Sandra – whom he raised with his wife
Kathryn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/10/77317204.pdf
1907: Klauber, Horn and
Company, of which Samuel David Klauber was partner was dissolved today.
1908: “400 Boys Drill
Like Veterans” published today described how “four hundred boys between the
ages of 10 and 13 from the Hebrew Orphan Asylum proved themselves able to
compete with regular soldiers in parade maneuvers…at the Seventh Regiment
Armory” thanks to the efforts of Lionel J. Simmons, the Assistant
Superintendent at the orphanage who had served as their drillmaster.
1908: Tonight’s concert
for the benefit of the United Hebrew Charities held at the Metropolitan Opera
House actually produced
a deficit of $1,400 despite the appearance of several “prominent artists.
1909: Prominent Chicago
Jews have endorsed the stand taken by Senator Guggenheim of Colorado who
demands that the Immigration Commission cease to classify Jews as a race”
because as Lessing Rosenthal said, “The Jew is a native of the country in which
he is born” and “each has the well-known characteristics of the country from
which hails” which “are so different that there not anything left which might
be called a Jewish race.”
1909: “Million No
Forfeit Yet” reported that the one million dollars which Louis Heinsheimer, a
member of Kuhn, Loeb had “left to certain Herbrw charities on condition that
they should federate had reverted to his brother Alfred Heinsheimer, in
consequence of the failure of these societies to reach an agreement.
1910: It was reported
today that with the building of the Lexington Avenue Subway line congregants
will have “easy access” to several houses of worship including Temple Beth El
and Congregation Rodolph Sholom.
1911: Birthdate of New
York native Leonard Pines creator of Hebrew National, the brand that changed
the face of cold cuts for American Jewry.
1912: Anglo-Jewish
boxer Mathew “Matt” Wells lost a bout to Packey McFarland at Madison Square
Garden.
1912: In New Zealand,
Arthur Myers received “the portfolios of Finance, Defense and Railways.”
1913(19th of
Nisan, 5673): Fifth Day of Pesach; Shabbat
1913(19th of
Nisan, 5673): Eighty-one-year-old Rabbi Moses Trager passed away in London.
1913: It was reported
today that “Benjamin Alexander has been elected Secretary of the Jewish
Publication Society of America succeeding the late Dr. Lewis W. Steinbach who
held this office for many years.
1913: Mary Phagan came to the pencil factory where she was given her
pay for the week by Leo Frank. According
to the testimony at the trial, Leo Frank was the last person to see Mary Phagan
alive.
1913: It was reported
today that in Cleveland the Hebrew Orthodox Hospital Alliance now has 2,000
members and has already raised $10,000 which will be used to build a “strictly
Jewish hospital in the only diet will be kosher.”
1914: “Liberal Judaism
here and abroad is gaining ground, according to Dr. Maurice H. Harris,
President of the Eastern Council of Reformed Rabbis, which opened its Fifth
Assembly tonight at Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue and Forty-Third Street. He
said that an international propaganda for Liberal Judaism had been started and
that a conference on the plan and scope of the movement probably would be
arranged in Europe in 1916.”
1914: Rabbi Samuel L.
Levinson officiated at the dedication of the new synagogue of Temple Beth
Emeth, the second such building to be built in Brooklyn. Dr. Stephen Wise, the rabbi of the Free
Synagogue addressed the crowd who had come to the building which cost $40,000.
1914: Birthdate of
Lillian Rolfe, a courageous member of the Marquis who was murdered by the Nazis
at Ravensburck concentration camp.
1914: Today, “Dr.
Samuel Buchler, the rabbi of the New People’s Synagogue of the Hebrew Education
Alliance urged Jews to war” if the United States should become a participant in
the World War.
1914: Birthdate of author and Pulitzer Prize
winner, Bernard Malamud. While many think of him as a Jewish writer, one
of his biggest hits, which Robert Redford later turned into a hit movie was The
Natural - a book about baseball that has no Jewish characters.
Malamud passed away in 1986.
1915: The Zion Mule
Corps prepared for its landing at Cape Helles which was scheduled to being tomorrow.
1915: As a corporal in the 1st Battalion, The
Manchester Regiment, Issy Smith was engaged in the Second Battle of Ypres.
Today, Smith, on his own initiative, recovered wounded soldiers while exposed
to sustained fire and attended to them "with the greatest devotion to duty
regardless of personal risk". In
August, 1915, Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross for his brave behavior.
1916: The annual
convention of the Order of B’nai Zion is scheduled to meet for the second and
final day of its annual convention in Baltimore, MD.
1916(23rd of
Nisan, 5676): On the day after Pesach, seventy-year-old Elchanan (Henry)
Harkavy, the Russian born “son of R'
Yosef-Moshe Moses Harkavy and Tzirl Epshtein who married Dvora Vishnevski after
his first wife Feiga Yalonsky had passed away died today in New York Cityhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/04/29/100205509.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1916: On behalf of the
“Kehillah of New York City” Dr. J.L Magnes wrote to Dr. Nachman Heller
expressing regarded that “there is no position for him in the Bureau of
Education” but that he was still enclosing “a check for $5 as a contribution
toward the printing fund of your new book.”
1916: Dr. Stephen Wise
of the Free Synagogue wrote to Rabbi Nachman Heller expressing his regret that
he could not grant him a loan “from our Social Service Department” towards the
printing of his brook for which he was enclosing a check for five dollars as
personal loan to help with the project
1917: It was reported
that as of today “no Jew has had the right to officer’s rank” but that “in June
over 2,000 Jews will be promoted to Lieutenants.”
1917: The text of a
telegram from Louis Marshall, Henry Morgenthau, Jacob H. Schiff, Oscar Straus
and Julius Rosenwald of the American Jewish Committee to the new Russian
government which was “made public by the State Department today expresses the
alarm felt by American Jews over reports that Russia might make a separate
peace.”
1917: Dr. Schmarya
Levin, formerly a member of the Russian Duma, told “an enthusiastic gathering
of Zionists” tonight at Cooper Union who were meeting under the auspices of the
Poale-Zion that “a Jewish homeland in Palestine was inevitable in view of recent
world developments.”
1917: At this
afternoon’s meeting “of the Women’s Proclamation Committee, the national Jewish
women’s organization for war relief” Rabbi Stephen S. Wise “told of the
sufferings of Jews on the eastern front” and Mrs. Samuel Elkeles, the Chairman
of the Committee said that in the last year the group “had contributed $10,000
to the Joint Distribution Committee.
1917: In response to
“President Wilson’s reported intention to aid the aid project for a Jewish
republic in Palestine” in Berlin the Zeitung
am Mittag that while “this scheme is
intended to impress pious American Jews” “it only proves that that certain
insidious imperialistic British purposes are to covered with Wilson’s noble
ideals of the independence of nations.”
1917(4th of
Iyar, 5677): Thirty-nine-year Herman Shaw, the Camden Town born son of Michel
and Fredericka Schwabacher of German, a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers “die
of his wounds in France” today, eight months and two days short of his 40th
birthday.
1917: “Dispatches from
Petrograd received” today “by the Jewish Daily Forward” in New York City “tell
of the proposal of the new Russian government to bring to trial Minister of
Justice Shtcheglovitoff who was instrumental
in prosecuting Mendel Bellis, the shoemaker of Kiev, whose trial on the charge
that he participated in a ritual murder horrified the world.”
1917: As thousands of
Jews fight for the Kaiser, “The Deutschvölkische Blätter, official publication
of the anti-Semitic Deutschvölkische Partei (DVP), announced that it's time to
declare war on Jews openly because of the Jewish opposition to World War I.
Ferdinand Werner, chairman of the Deutschvölkische Partei spoke to the
Reichstag and demanded that the government pass laws "against the Jewish
race, which agitates for strikes and raises the price of food." (Yes, this
26 years before Hitler came to power)
1918: Three Jews were
elected as members of the fifty-two-member
State Council in
Warsaw.
1918: Leone Ravenna was
appointed grand officer of the Crown of Italy.
1918: It was reported
today that the London Jewish Chronicle has learned “that the Union of Polish
Rabbis has decided to send three delegates to the conference of the Agudath
Yisrael branch at Frankfort” where they will make a case for complete emancipation
of the Jews in Poland.
1918: Birthdate of
Miriam Shinezon, the native of Vitebsk, Russia who gained fame as “Miriam Ben-Porat, the first woman to serve as a
Justice on Israel’s Supreme Court…” (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
1918:
In Sofia, Bulgaria the premiere praised “the patriotism of Jews and pledged his
government as an ally of the Jewish cause in the negotiations with Roumania.”
1919(26th
of Nisan, 5679): Parashat Achrei Mot
1919:
It was reported today that “the Jewish Welfar Board has received a letter from
Action Secretary of the Naty Franklin D. Roosevelt expsssing the government’s
thanks for welfar servce rendered to soldiers during the war.”
1920:
Birthdate of Oga Zatorsky, the thrid and last wife of Joseoph H. Hirshorn with
whom she played a roled as a patron of the arts and art museums.
1920:
The San Remo Conference, where delegates had reaffirmed the Balfour Declaration
and incorporated it in to the terms of the Mandate over Palestine and where
Arabs and Zionists held cordial meetins came to an end today.
1920:
Julus J. Dukac, the Acting Chariman of the Central Committee sent a letter to
the Directors of the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through
the War asking them to attend a dinner meeeting at the Broadway Central Hotel,
where among other things, they will a report from Rabbi Ephraim on the
conditions of the Jews in Poland.
1921(18th
of Pesach, 5681): Fourth Day of Pesach
1921:
“With the announcement by Israel Sachs, President of the Beth David Hospital,
that the building fund of $179,000 was lacking nearly $140,000, an urgent
appeal for funds was made at the eighth annual meeting of the instituintion in
the McAlpin tonight.”
1921:
“Just Married” staring Anton Ascher as the “taxi drive” opened on Broadway toay
at the Comedy Theatre.
1922(28th
of Nisan, 5682): John Simon Guggenheim the son Olga Hirsch Guggenheim and Simon
Guggenheim the U.S. Senator from Colorado and president of the American
Smelting Refining Company passed away today after which he parents established
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation which “awards Guggenheim
Fellowships to professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by
publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural sciences, social
sciences, humanities, and the creative arts, excluding the performing arts.”
1922:
In Hartford, CT, Russian Jewish immigrants Sophia and Samuel Kellin gave birth
to Myron Kellin who gained fame as actor Mike Kellin who “made his Broadway
debut in 1949 in ‘At War with the Army.’”
1922:
Di Tsayt, a Yiddish language daily founded in 1920 that was the “house paper” for the “Labor
Zioinist Paole Zion” movement which employed David Pinski as editor “was closed
down today” signaling a loss of power and prestige for its parent organization.
1923:
It was reported today that rabbi Schneersohn, Rabbi Barishansky and other
prominent Jewish clegrymen in the town of Gomel…are to be placed on trial for
assuming “the prerogativees of State courts” in advising Jewish litigants to
have recourse in Jewish ritual courts o law, according to annuouncement made by
Chief Justice Druginsky.
1924(22nd
of Nisan, 5684): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1924(22nd of Nisan, 5684): Eighty-one year old Moritz Walter the native of Bavaria who was the son of Nathan and Rosa Walter passed away in San Francisco.
1925: The New York
Times featured a review of “My Portion: An Autobiography” by Rebekah Kohut
with an Introduction written by Henrietta Szold. According to the review, the
book describes “Kohut's Life Story of Social Service” and should appeal to both
Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike.
1925: The Pulitzer
Prize was awarded to Edna Ferber for So Big. This Jewish author became famous for her
sweeping novels that portrayed American history and raiseds question about
racism, sexism and materialism Showboat and Giant are two
of her literary hits that went on to become cinematic successes.
1926: In New York,
Esther Garfunkel and Benjamin Gottesman gave birth to businessman and
billionaire David Sanford “Sandy” Gottesman, the brother of Milton and Alice
Gottesman and the nephew of Samuel Gottesman who has been married to his wife
for over sixty years.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_David-Gottesman_YFTR.html
http://www.forbes.com/profile/david-gottesman/
1926: In Bulgaria ,
Shabbat and Leah gave birth to Aharoni Yaakov the Lehi solider known as Yoram
and husband of Rina “Sarah” Blustein with whom had two sons – Dov and Yofer –
who was captured and imprisoned by the British when made Aliya in 1941 aboard the
“Dorian” and during the War for
Independence IDF, joined the 8th Battalion’s 89th Brigade, as
first lieutenant and went on to fight in the Sinai Campaign the Six Days War
and the Yom Kippur where he reached the rank of major.
https://lehi.org.il/en/aharoni-yaacov/
1927: Birthdate of Avi
Livney, the New York native and WW II U.S. Navy veteran who served aboard the
President Warfield, which sailed under the name of the Exodus carrying Jewish
refugees to Palestine.
http://www.machal.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=292&Itemid=398&lang=en
1928: “Present Arms” a
Rodgers and Hart musical opened at the Mansfield Theatre.
1928: “A concession
which is expected to aid the Soviet trade balance has been granted to an
American businessman, Montefiore Kahn, acting for a German-American group.
1929(16th of
Nisan, 5689): Second Day of Pesach
1929: “The Passover is
not merely a festival of freedom, but a symbol of survival, declared Rabbi
Jacob Kohn at Temple Ansche Chesed, West End Avenue and 100th Street, this
morning on the second day of the Passover.
1929: In Jerusalem,
there was a cornerstone laying ceremony to mark the construction of the
building designed to house the Jewish National Fund. The building was part of a construction
project designed to provide space for several national institutions.
1930(28th of
Nisan, 5690): Parashat Shmini
1930: As of today,
Joseph Mizrachi Urphali “is the only Jew under sentence of death for his
alleged participation” in the Arab riots that took place in August of 1929.
1931: In Manhattan Moe
and Tillie Brillstein gave birth to Bernard Jules Brillstein, the nephew of
vaudeville performer Jack Pearl who gained fame as producer and high-powered
talent agent Bernie Brillstein.
1931(9th of
Iyar, 5691): Eighty-seven-year-old Vienna born “inventor and chemist Isidore
Kitsee “who is credited with more than
2,000 inventions” including “a wireless set using a tube” the patent rights for
which he sold to Marconi” and who claimed to be a descendant of Moses
Maimonides passed away today in Philadelphia,
1931: More than 1,000
people, including Gustave Hartman, the President of the Israel Orphan Asylum,
attended a testimonial dinner for Herbert D. Perlman, the grand master of the
Independent Order of B’rith Abraham, who will be retiring this year
1931:
Eighty-five-year-old Dr. Otis Glazebrook the American Consul in Jerusalem
during World War One who was honored by Jewish leaders for the effective way he
“distributed relief funds in Jerusalem passed away while aboard the SS
Belgenland.
1932(20th
Nisan, 5692): Sixth Day of Pesachh
1932: Birthdate of
Anthony Ray Gubbay, “the former Chief Justice of the Supreme court of Zimbabwe.
1933: In Munich Justine
and Karl Penzias gave birth to Arno Allan Penzias, a “kindertransport kid” who
won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Arno_Allan_Penzias
1933: Hermann Göring
established the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei; Secret State Police).
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-gestapo
1933: Hitler met with Bishop
Wilhelm Berning of Osnabrück and Monsignor Steinmann, prelates representing the
Roman Catholic Church in Germany. Hitler claimed that he is only doing to the
Jews what the Catholic Church has already done to them for 1600 years. He
reminded the prelates that the Church has regarded the Jews as dangerous and
pushed them into ghettos. Hitler suggested that his anti-Jewish actions are
"doing Christianity a great service." Bishop Berning and Monsignor
Steinmann later described the talks as "cordial and to the point."
1933: Jewish students
were barred from schools in Germany
1934: U.S. premiere of
“We’re Not Dressing” a musical comedy directed by Norman Taurog with a story
co-authored by Benjamin Glazer who also produced the film and co-starring
George Burns as “George Martin.”
1934(11th of Iyar, 5694):
Seventy-one-year-old Rabbi Francis Lyon Cohen the English born son merchant
Woolf Henry Cohen and the former Harriet Phillips who “was the first and, for
most of his ministry, the only spiritual leader in Sydney, Australia with rabbinical qualifications” passed away
today.
Biography - Francis Lyon Cohen - Australian Dictionary of
Biography (anu.edu.au)
1934: Birthdate of actor Alan Arkin.
1934: The third
biennial Levant Fair opens in Tel Aviv.
According to Israel B. Brodie, “the fair is designed to attract trade to
Palestine and also to draw attention to the importance of Palestine in reaching
many of the Near Eastern markets.”
1935: “Mark of the
Vampire” co-authored by Guy Endore (born Samuel Goldstein) was released in the
United States today.
1936: “As sporadic acts
of violence by Arabs continued…a young Jew walking near the Damascus Gate in
the Old City of Jerusalem was severly beaten by an Arab who escaped. Buses in Jewish districts are stone by Arabs and
attempts by Arabs to set fire to Jewish owned fields have been thwarted.
1936: In France, the
first of two rounds of elections take place that will bring a Popular Front
Government to power with Leon Blum serving as “the first authentically
Socialist prime minister in French history.”
1936: In Purchase, NY a
celebration was held marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of
Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
1936: “A few hours
after Chaim Wiezmann…had sent a cable telling of the recent outbreak of
violence in Palestine and asking for a special $150,000 fund to meet urgent
needs” a meeting was held tonight at the Hotel Astor that included
representatives from the ZOA, World Zionist Organization of America, the World
Zionist Executive, the Jewish National Fund, the Labor Zionists, Mizrachi, the
Order of the Sons of Zion and Hadassah.
1937: Banker Felix M.
Warburg and his wife returned today from Europe today where “he had attended
executive committee meetings of various Jewish charities” and “said the hope
for alleviation of Jewish distress in Europe lay in a possible change of attitude
by certain governments, not for ‘love of human’ but for economic reasons.” (Editor’s note – when criticizing the
American response to the treatment of the Jews in Europe, one should look to
the words of leading Jews who provided input for the general society.)
1937: It was reported
today, that according to Dr. Samuel Buchler, the Jewish Court of Arbitration
which he founded “said that the court had reconciliated 3,600 families, helped
2,300 age parents to gain support from their sons and daughter, and settled disputes
for 425 synagogues , lodges and fraternities. “
1938: Austrian Jews were required to register property above 5,000
Reichsmarks. This came as part of the Nazification of Austria after the
Germans annexed Hitler's homeland. After the war, the Austrians
sought to portray themselves as the first victims of Nazi
aggression. The cheering throngs that greeted Hitler told a
different story.
1938: Nazi Germany
adopted a statute requiring government authorization for the sale or rental of
a company.
1938: “Austrian
composer and cabaret star” Hermann Leopoldi was kept from making his planned
trip to the United States today when he was arrested and transported to Dachau.
1939: “The decision to
unify” Kibbutz BaMa’ale and Kibbutz BaMifne in Karkur “was made in the
secretariat of Hashomer Hatzair” today.
1939: Two days after he had passed away,
funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at Temple Rodelph
Sholom for 77 year old Isaac Goldberg, the head of “trucking business” that had
been founded by his father Jacob Goldberg and Democratic political leader who
raised two sons – Bertram and Edwin – with his wife “the former Mae E.
Perlberg.”
1940(18th of
Nisan, 5700): Fourth Day of Pesach
1940: It was announced
today that Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz; the secretary of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution has been appointed vice chairman of the charity’s European Council
and that Moses Leavitt will succeed Dr. Schwartz as secretary.
1940: “Turks and Anzacs
Joined on Gallipoli Anniversary” published today described the events held
throughout the Middle East marking the 25th anniversary of the
Anzacs storming ashore on that Ottoman peninsula including the new generation
of Aussie and Kiwis who are serving in Palestine.
1941: The “Rats of
Tobruk” continue their battle with Afrika Corps marking the first time that the
Germans had actually been stopped dead in their tracks which had to be a bit of
moral boost since the Yugoslavians had just surrendered to the Germans giving
them a free hand in the Balkans, and unbeknownst to anybody clearing the way
for the invasion of the Soviet Union which would be devastating for the Jews of
Eastern Europe
1942: Leopold Müller
and his wife Irene were marched on a roundabout route from a Gestapo gathering
point in a small park in Würzburg through the city's streets to a train depot.
There they left their luggage on the platform and boarded a train to the East
and to their deaths.
1943(21st of
Nisan, 5703): Seventh Day of Pesach
1943: Day seven of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1944: Release date for
“The Hitler Gang,” “a pseudo-documentary…which traces the political rise” of
the German dictator.
1944: In Cleveland, OH
Sylvian Bogart and Charles Redlick, the owner of a “carpet and floor covering
stores gave University of Chicago
trained attorney Linda Diane Redlick, the hold doer BA from Cornell and Ph.D
from the University of Illinois, Chicago who gained fame as Linda Diane Redlick
Hirshman “a lawyer and cultural historian and the author of Victory: The
Triumphant Gay Revolution and many other books who married David Forkosh after
divorcing Harold Hirsman and whose NYT obituary, like so many others, failed to
mention the fact that she was Jewish. (As reported by Penelope Green)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/us/linda-r-hirshman-dead.html
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/linda-hirshman
1945: Prisoner Karl
Riemer fled the Dachau concentration camp to get help from American troops
1945: “As the Americans
approached Dachau about 7,000 prisoners, most of them Jews, were sent on a
death march to Tegernsee.”
1946: U.S. premiere of
“The Glass Alibi” directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder with music by
Alexander Laszlo.
1946: “Thousands of
British paratroopers made a house by house search through north Tel Aviv today
rounding up and question 1,200 suspected terrorists” following the attack on a
British police station. Tel Aviv is placed
under a strict curfew.
1947: IN Russia, Bluma
and Yechezkel Yadlovker gave birth to David Ben-Shalom Yadlovker who made
Aliyah 1960 and passed away when the INS Dakar sank in 1968.
1948(17th of
Nisan, 5708): Third Day of Pesach is observed as Arab armies besiege Jerusalem
seeking to strangle the Jewish state before it is even born.
1948: “Air
communication with Palestine was cut yesterday when the British evacuated the
Lydda Airport, today forces of the Arab Legion illegally gained control of the
facility.
1949: “While hundreds
of ex-servicemen and newly arrived immigrants demonstrated against unemployment
outside, the Knesset heard plans today for a comprehensive building program
over the next four years coupled with an austerity campaign that will make the
Israelis tighten their belts in British style.”
1949:Following the
occupation of east Jerusalem and territory on the west bank of the Joran River,
“foreign correspondents in Amman, “have been informed officially ha Transjordan
is incorrect as he name of this country and therefore will not be passed by the
censors” and that the name of the country is the “Hashemite Jordan Kingdom.”
1949: As of today, the
prospects of getting 2,000 thousand Jews out Hungary, who had been promised
safe passage by the new regime “are not bright and right now the only Jews
arriving in Vienna appeared to be “younger men who had made their way across
the border without the consent of the Hungarian government.
1950:
Seventy-nine-year-old Irish archaeologist Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
who “was responsible for the excavations at Gezer” from 1902 to 1909 where the
“Gezer calendar” was found passed away today.
1950: “A Phoenix Too
Frequent” with scenic and costume design by Jack Landau opened on Broadway at
the Fulton Theatre.
1951(20th of
Nisan, 5711): Sixth Day of Pesach; 5th day of the Omer
1951: Day of the Fight”
a documentary directed, produced, filmed and written by Stanley Kubrick and
with music by Gerald Fried was released in the United States today.
1951: Birthdate of Erin
Stoff, the native of Romania who gained fame as the American film producer who
formed 3 Arts Entertainment, Inc.
1951: “Joseph Goldman,
76 Missouri Ex-Editor” published today described the life Spanish American War
veteran and Jefferson City, MO native Joseph Goldman the journalist who had the
courage to faced down the Ku Klux Klan at a time when they were busy lynching
and burning out Negroes, Jews and anybody who challenged them
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/04/26/87246347.pdf
1952: “Jane,” written
by S.N. Behrman, the Jewish born son of Zelda Feingold and Joseph Behrman was
performed on Broadway for the last time at the Coronet Theatre.
1953(11th of
Iyar, 5713): Fifty-seven-year-old World War I veteran and public relations manager
of the Covenant Club of Illinois Mayer Lippman, the husband of Ernsitine Lipman
with whom he had two children and the rabbi at Beth-EL temple from 1927 to 1940
passed away today in Chicago, IL.
1953: “Printer's
Measure” an episode of the TV anthology series The Philco-Goodyear Television
Playhouse written by Paddy Chayefsky aired for the first time tonight.
1954: Field trials of
the Polio Vaccine developed by Jonas Salk began today “at the Franklin Sherman
Elementary School in McLean, VA, a suburb of Washington, DC.
1954: For the first
time, NBC broadcast “The Tony Martin Show” which showcased the talent of the
San Francisco born singer who was the son of Eastern European Jews.
http://ctva.biz/US/MusicVariety/TonyMartinShow.htm
1955(4th of
Iyar, 5715): Yom HaZikaron
1956: In Syracuse, NY,
Malvina Jacob, “an English teacher,” and factory worker Paul Sherman gave birth
to Columbia and JTS graduate Philip Lloyd Sherman “whose website (as well as
his vanity license plate) was emoil.com, claimed to have performed some 26,000
ritual circumcisions, mostly in the New York metropolitan area, during his
45-year career. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1956: It was reported
today that “a Polish stamp containing a reproduction of the statue ‘Heroes of
the Warsaw Ghetto’ which commemorates the uprising against the Nazis…is
scheduled for release this week.”
1958(6th of
Iyar, 5718): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1958(6th of
Iyar, 5718): Seventy-seven-year-old “stage producer, director, playwright and
screen writer Philip Moeller, the Manhattan born son of Frederick and Rachel
Phillips Moeller and Columbia graduate who was a co-founder of the Theatre
Guild.
1959(18th of
Nisan, 5719): Fourth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1959(18th of
Nisan, 5719): Fifty-nine-year-old Galicia born and German Charles-Ferdinand
University educated physicist Benjamin Marcus Bloch, the husband of Dr. Bronia
Biedermann, an ophthalmologist, who studied medicine at the University of
Prague and the father of three daughters -- Rivka (Rebecca) and the twins Navah
and Naomi – who joined the Weismann Institute at its inception in 1934 where he
rose to being the manager of the institute and who contributed a great deal to
numerous emerging organizations and establishments of "Ha-Yishuv"
(the Jewish National Council in the British Mandate Palestine) and later, of
the young state of Israel while serving as a board member of Magen David Adom (Israel's
emergency medical service) and of the Israel Maritime League passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/04/27/80771555.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1959: In “Ambassador at
Large for a Nation in the Making” published today Walter Lacquer reviewed Chaim
Weizmann by Isaiah Berlin.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/berlin-weizman.html
1959: “The Other Books
of the Week” list published today included The Zionist Idea: A Historical
Analysis and Reader edited by Arthur Hertzberg was listed
1960: West German
release date for “ I Married a Woman” directed by Hal Kanter with a script by
Goodman Ace
1961(10th of
Iyar, 5721): Abraham Laski, the son of Marks and Caroline Laski Schwartz who
was born in 1885 and was the husband of Frances Laski passed away today after
which he was interred at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, NY who should not
be confused with the “master magician and illusionist of the same name who was
known as the “The Incomparable Albini.
1964(14th of
Iyar, 5724) Pesach Sheni
1964: In Brooklyn,
“a accountant” and a “stay-at-home mom”
gave birth to Northwestern University educated Pulitzer Prize winning
biographer and journalist Jonathan Eig, the husband of Jennifer Tescher with
whom he had three children and who “is the author of six books, the most recent
being King: A Life (2023), a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin
Luther King Jr.
1964(14th of
Iyar, 5724): Seventy-three-year-old Polish born New York realtor Alexander S.
Haberman the husband of Esther Lebowitz Haberman and the father of Simon V. and
Rabbi Jacob Haberman who “was president of the Beth Israel Center and president
of the Belzer Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem passed away today.
1965: The World Zionist
Congress tonight closed a two-day debate on Israel's security crisis after
having heard new attacks on United States and Soviet policies
1965: Composer Aaron
Avshalomov passed away. Born into a Jewish family in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur,
Khabarovsk Krai, then Russian Empire) in 1894, “he was one of highly qualified
Jewish musicians (i.e., Alfred Wittenberg, Walter Joachim, Arrigo Foa, etc.),
who fled pogroms and revolutions in Russia in the beginning of the 20th
century, went to China (first arrived in Harbin, later moved to Shanghai). They
entered the world of Shanghai's academia and trained a number of young Chinese
musicians in classical music, who in turn became leading musicians in
contemporary China. Aaron fled China in when the Japanese invaded in 1931 and
moved to live in Portland, Oregon, USA. He was the father of composer Jacob
Avshalomov, conductor of the Portland Junior Symphony (now called the Portland
Youth Philharmonic Orchestra) from 1953-1994.
1966: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held for Leonard Drucker, the husband of Annette Bloom
Drucker in Stamford, CT followed by interment at the Beth David Cemetery in
Elmont, L.I.
1966: Arnold "Red"
Auerbach retired as Boston Celtic's coach
1967(16th of Nisan,
5727): Second Day of Pesach
1967: In what would turn out to be part
of a diplomatic offensive leading to the Six Day War, the Soviet Ambassador to
Israel protested to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol that Israel was planning on
starting a war with Syria. Ehskol denied
the claim and offered to take the Soviet diplomat to the border so that he
could see that troops were not being massed for attack. The Russian declined to go, but the Syrians
believed the Russian report increasing tension in the area.
1967: Hallelujah, Baby!
a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden,
opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre
1968(28th of
Nisan, 5728): Seventy-eight-year-old Silesian born and decorated member of
Austria’s World War I Army, Benno Landsberger, a leading Assyriologist who like
so many of his generation had his career “interrupted by the rise of the Nazis
passed away today.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcm4fww
1969(8th of
Iyar, 5729): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1969: In Canada, the
Bulletin published a list of the demands and goals made by a group of students
at Shaar Hashomayim that were designed to show their respect for the synagogue
while at the same time calling for “practices necessary for a renaissance in
Canadian Jewish life.”
1969:
"Suzanne," “a song written by
Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen”
“entered the Dutch Top 40 List today at number 39.”
1969: After 161
performances, the curtain came down “Jimmy Shine” written by Murray Schisgal at
the Atkinson Theatre.
1969: After 433
performances the curtain came down on the first Broadway production of “George
M!” a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Francine Pascal, produced by
Emanuel Azenberg and starring Joel Grey.
1970(20th of
Nisan, 5730) Sixth Day of Pesach
1970(20th of Nisan,
5730): As part of a campaign to gain rights for Russian Jews, tens of thousands
of Jews shared in a Passover “Exodus March” that began at the Soviet mission to
the United Nations
1970(20th of Nisan,
5730): Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, born
Louise Hovick passed away at the age of 56.
1970: “Company” the
Stephen Sondheim music directed by Hal Prince on Broadway to at the Alvin
Theater.
1971(1st of
Iyar, 5731): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1971: Rafi Bluemfeld,
“an architect commissioned to design” the lounge off the President's box in the
Symphony Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington” “said in an
interview today that the motif would be the continuous link between Juda ism
and music since Biblical times” and that the “$200,000 cost is being
underwritten by a group of “Friends of the State of Israel” in the Washington
area.”
1972(12th of
Iyar, 5732): Eighty-year-old Helen Caroline Bentwich, the Notting Hill born
daughter of Jewish merchant banker and Caroline Jacob and the wife of Norman
Bentwich whom she married in 1915 and Laborite MP who served as a forewoman at
the Woolwich Arsenal in 1916, fought for
the rights of women workers and tried to form a trade union and became honorary
secretary of the Palestine Council of Jewish Women” after she moved to the
British Mandate of Palestine in 1919 passed away today.
https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-61364
1973: A West End
production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” a rock musical based on Shakespeare’s
play of the same with a book by Mel Shapiro opened at the Phoenix Theatre with
Shapiro as the director.
1973: “A Streetcar
Named Desire” “produced by Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center (under the
direction of Jules Irving)” opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre
which is owned and operated by Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center (under the
direction of Jules Irving).
1974: “Jewish cameraman
Mikhail Suslov and scriptwriter Felix Kamov-Kandel had their names removed from
film credits.”
1975: The National Symphony of Washington,
D.C. under the direction of Antal Dorati completed its recording London Records
of “New England Triptych” “orchestral composition by American composer William
Schuman, the Manhattan Jewish born son of Samuel and Rachel Schuman.
1976: For a second
time, Pierre Goldman went on trial for his role in a robbery in which two
pharmacists were killed. This time he
was acquitted.
1976(26th of
Nisan, 5736): Sixty-two-year-old South African born British actor Sid James
suffered a fatal heart attack “while performing on stage at the Sunderland
Empire Theatre.
http://www.family-announcements.co.uk/localworld/view/3344731/sid-james
1976(26th of
Nisan, 5736): Seventy-two-year-old Sydney Franklin the first successful
American matador who was named Sidney Frumkin when he was born in Brooklyn to
Orthodox Jewish parents passed away today.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/the-life-of-gay-jewish-bullfighter-sidney-franklin-591515
1977: Samuel Lewis was
appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1978: In a New York Times profile Lillian
Vernon, born Lilly Menasche in Leipzig, Germany, in 1927 and who fled with her
family first to Amsterdam and then to New York to escape Hitler, was described as "the first lady of mail
order catalogues," a designation she had earned through more than two
decades of entrepreneurship and steady growth of her eponymous business..
1979: “Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman of Israel spent an hour with President Anwar el‐Sadat of Egypt today and said they had reviewed plans for
normalizing relations and for withdrawal of Israeli forces from Sinai.”
1980: Yitzhak Rabin,
who as Prime Minister of Israel in 1976 ordered the rescue of hostages in
Entebbe, Uganda, tonight criticized the planning of the abortive American
rescue attempt in Iran” and “expressed astonishment that with 800 to 1,000
helicopters available, only eight were sent on a mission that was judged to
require a minimum of six since ‘we all know how sensitive those weapons are and
how vulnerable to technical failure…”
1981(22nd of
Nisan, 5741): Eighth Day of Pesach
1981(22nd of
Nisan, 5741): Eighty-nine-year-old a Soviet Jewish child psychiatrist who, in
1925, published the first clinical description of autism, pre-dating Hans
Asperger and Leo Kanner, passed away today.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-history-forgot-the-woman-who-defined-autism/
https://www.stephaniebethany.com/blog/the-woman-who-first-defined-autism-grunya-sukhareva
1982: “In a somber
mood, Israel withdrew the last of its soldiers from the Sinai Peninsula today,
leaving the desert wilderness to Egypt as provided by the first treaty of peace
between Israel and an Arab country.”
1983(13th of
Iyar, 5743):Eighty-one-year-old Warsaw born composer and scion of an Ashkenazi
family who went from playing the piano at age six to winning an Oscar for
creating the “best original score” for the musical “Lili” passed away today in
Beverly Hills.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006147/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7917/bronislaw-kaper
1984: Haolam Hazeh,
today became the first news organization in Israel to publish a photograph of a
man being led away alive from the hijacked bus in the Gaza Strip two weeks ag
1985(5th of
Iyar, 5745): Seventy-six-year-old American screenwriter Albert Maltz a member
of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed for their refusal to testify before
Congress passed away today. (As reported by C. Gerald Fraser and Jerry Belcher)
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-28/news/mn-21334_1_albert-maltz
1985: “Stick”
co-starring George Segal, the Jewish born son of Frannie and George Segal, Sr.
all of whose grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia was released in
the United States today.
1987: At Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York Margaret
Howell Hudesman, an interior designer, was married to Gabriel Levinson, an
architect with Nadler, Philopena & Associates in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Rabbi
Gunter Hirschberg performed the ceremony.
1987(27th of Nisan,
5747): Yom Hashoah,
1987: Israeli radio
quoted sources in Prime Minister Shamir's office as saying Mr. Moshe Arens had
succeeded in persuading Secretary of State Shultz to give up the idea of an
international conference, a report that was promptly denied by Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres's office. Foreign Minister Peres favors such a conference. Shamir opposes it.
1989: NBC broadcast the
last episode of “Tattingers” a comedy-drama created by Bruce Paltrow and
starring Jerry Stiller and Rob Morrow and with them music composed by Jonathan
Tunick.
1990: Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the right-wing Likud bloc, was chosen to
form a new government after Labor Party leader Shimon Peres failed in his
attempt to form a coalition.
1990(1st of
Iyar, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1990: “Accomplice,”
produced by Alexander H. Cohen opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers
Theatre.
1990(1st of
Iyar, 5750): Ninety-five-year-old Irma (Seeman) Goldberg, the widow of Rube
Goldberg passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/27/obituaries/irma-seeman-goldberg-hospital-volunteer-95.html
1991: “Oscar,” a comedy
directed by John Landis and with music by Elmer Bernstein was released in the
United States today.
1991(12th of
Iyar, 5751): Eighty-one-year-old Henry Lipson who served as Professor of
Physics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
from 1954 to 1977 and then became Professor Emeritus passed away today.
1992(27th of Nisan,
5747): Yom Hashoah
1992: Appearing before
5,000 men, women and children gathered to mourn the Jews killed by the Nazis,
Vice President Dan Quayle pledged the commitment of the Bush Administration to
the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and to Israel, which he said,
"was built upon the ashes of the Holocaust."
1992: “Lou Bernstein:
Five Decades of Photographs” an exhibition that includes “images of life the
1940s to the 1960s” came to an end today.
https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/lou-bernstein-five-decades-of-photographs
1993(5th of
Iyar, 5753): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1994: Seventy-one-year-old
Rostam Bastuni, a journalist and politician who was the first Arab citizen to
represent a Zionist Party (Mapam) in the Knesset.
1995(26th of
Nisan, 5755): Ninety-year-old Dutch born cellist Frieda Belinfante a member of
the Portuguese -Sephardic Belinfante family that settled in Holland in the 17th
century passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-07/local/me-39790_1_orange-county-philharmonic-society
1996: According to a
report published in the Bulletin, two
days before Passover, the leaders of Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal found out the
nature of the upcoming student demonstration that would confront the
congregation.
1997: In “Adding a
Contemporary Ring to an Ancient Story,” Gustav Neibuhr described a Seder the
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism hosted for the Dalai Lama.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/26/us/adding-a-contemporary-ring-to-an-ancient-story.html
1998(30th of
Nisan, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1998(30th of
Nisan, 5758): Two days before her 80th birthday, Matilda Meltsner,
the daughter of Morris Meltsner, whose older brother Joseph Meltsner had been
killed during the battle for Iwo Jima, passed away today in Valley Stream, NY.
1998: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of interest to Jewish
readers including Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan, Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray
and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Gerald Posner and Heading
South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Ariel Dorfman.
1998: An exhibit styled
“An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine” opened at the
Jewish Museum in New York City.
1999: Israel charged
Avisahi Raviv, “a former undercover agent and right-wing radical today with
failing to prevent the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a
Jewish hard-liner.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/26/world/ex-undercover-agent-charged-as-a-link-in-rabin-killing.html
2000(21st of
Nisan, 5760) Seventh Day of Pesach
2000: In what is a
growing trend Fred and Ruth Goldschmidt and “their children and grandchildren
have joined a growing number of observant Jews who leave their homes to make
the Passover exodus to resort hotels for the holiday,”including the Wyndham
Resort and Spa” where Lasko Family Kosher Tours is responsible for the KP
getaway.
2001(3rd of
Iyar, 5761): Yom HaAtzma’ut
2002: “About a Boy” a
comedy directed by Christ Weitz and Paul Weitz who also wrote the screenplay
and co-starring Rachel Weisz was released today.
2003: Thirteen people
were injured during a bombing at the Kfar Saba train station for which the PFLP
and Al-Aqsa claimed joint responsibility.
2003(24th of
Nisan, 5763): Seventy-three-year-old Peter Stone who scripts included
everything from lighthearted comedy like Father Goose to the Broadway hit
“1776” who won the trifecta – Emmy, Tony and Oscar – passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/movies/peter-stone-award-winning-writer-of-1776-dies-at-73.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/may/19/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
2004(5th of
Iyar, 5764): Yom HaZikaron
2004: Two Palestinians
were killed when suicide bomber coming from Gaza detonated himself “on the way
to carry out an attack in Israel.”
2005(17th of
Nisan, 5765): Third Day of Pesach
2005(17th of
Nisan, 5765): Eighty-six-year-old Mason Adams who may be best remembered as the
voice of Smuckers – “With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good” – passed
away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/star-gazette/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=3480066
2005: Dr. Raul Hilberg,
author of the three-volume, 1,273-page The Destruction of the European Jews regarded
as the seminal study of the Nazi Final Solution was elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences
2005: ‘One of Isaac
Lazarus Israëls Donkey riding on the Beach series realised €482,400 at
Christie's, Amsterdam.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac_Israels_-_Donkeyride.jpg
2006(28th of
Nisan, 5766): Yuval Ne’eman, founder of
Israel’s space program and a key figure in Israel’s nuclear program passed
away.
2006: The family of
real estate magnate and book lover Sami Rohr has created the Sami Rohr Prize
for Jewish Literature, an annual $100,000 prize for an "emerging writer
whose work has demonstrated a fresh vision and evidence of future potential."
The Rohr family said that the award hopefully will "encourage, promote,
and support outstanding writing of Jewish interest." Fiction and
nonfiction books in English (including translations) will be considered in
alternate years—the inaugural prize in 2007 will be for fiction. Short story
collections are eligible if 75 percent of the text was not previously published
in periodicals or other collections. All nonfiction titles must concern Jewish
themes and are limited to history, biography, contemporary Jewish life, Jewish
scholarship, and current affairs.
2006: Haaretz
reviewed Betabat Hahenek or In a Stranglehold by Uri
Ben-Ari. In this work, Ben-Ari returns
to his childhood in Nazi Berlin. Now a retired Brigadier General, a member of
Dor Tashach, the generation of Israelis that came to maturity when the state
was established, and a founder of the Israel Defense Force's tank division,
81-year-old Ben-Ari describes his earliest battles to survive as a Jew in
Germany. The book follows the lives of five Jewish boys living in Berlin in the
years 1933-1939, from the time that the Nazis rose to power until right before the
Second World War broke out. "It is a novel - not an autobiography. But my
own feelings and memories and those of my friends are present on every
page," Ben-Ari says. "The backbone of the book is the history of the
years in which I lived in Berlin. All of the characters and circumstances are
based on people whom I knew and real events." Ben-Ari, nee Heinz Bahner,
was the only Jewish pupil in the elementary school that he attended. He
remembers participating in daily race theory lessons. "All the other children
were members of the Hitler Youth movement and many of them tried to tease me.
Only the home room teacher, an elderly teacher who was not a Nazi, protected
me. Everyone knew that I was Jewish but I successfully hid the fact that I was
circumcised. The children laughed when I did not strip for swimming lessons but
they actually respected that one issue. My father taught me that I was a Jew
and that I should be proud of that and I was." Despite brawls and teasing,
he stayed in the school for a few years until he was expelled on the day that
followed Kristallnacht. In March, 1939, he came to Palestine with the Youth
Aliyah movement. His father and dozens of relatives stayed in Germany and
perished in the Holocaust. Ben-Ari says that, in his book, he tried to present
the variety of Jews that inhabited Berlin - secular and religious, veteran
German-Jews and immigrants from Eastern Europe, the rich who were mainly able
to escape from the country, and the poor who lost their livelihoods and more.
According to him, "Existential conditions became increasingly harsh and
human dignity was trampled at the end of the 30s. It was a daily struggle for
survival. A significant number committed suicide or died of a broken heart as
they watched their former world disintegrate."
2006(28th of Nisan,
5766): Yuval Ne’eman founder of Israel’s space program and a key figure in
Israel’s nuclear program passed away.
2006: While delivering
the James Fox Memorial Lecture today Robert S. Mueller, III, the Director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation described a terrorist plot which included
plans to blow up a synagogue in Los Angeles on Yom Kippur in 2005. When the would-be
terrorists were caught, they also had lists of the addresses of the Jewish
houses of worship in Los Angeles and the address of the Israeli consulate in
Los Angeles
2006: “The Hebrew
Manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah” published today.
http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A10358868
2007: Harman
International Industries announced today that It entered an agreement to be
acquired by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts (KKR) and Goldman Sachs.
2007:
Today, the building that had been home to Temple B’nai Abraham while it was
located in Elizabeth New Jersey and was designed by the Nathan Meyers was
placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
2008(21st
of Nisan, 5768): Seventh Day of Pesach – Reform Jews recite Yizkor
2008(21st
of Nisan, 5768): Yossi Harel, who commanded four ships bringing Jews to Israel
illegally, died at the age of 90 in Tel Aviv. Harel assisted
24,000 Jews in reaching Israel aboard four ships, including the famed SS
Exodus, between 1945 and 1948. Great Britain, which controlled the region at
the time, banned Jewish immigration due to Arab pressure. The other three ships
were called Knesset Yisrael (Gathering of Israel), Atzma'ut (Independence) and
Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of the Exiles).The Exodus was made famous by a
film of the same name. Born in 1919, Harel was the sixth generation in his
family born in Jerusalem. At the age of 15 he joined the pre-state Haganah
defense force. By the age of 28 he oversaw the clandestine immigration
operations bringing Jews, many of them survivors of the Holocaust, to the Holy
Land. Later on, Harel oversaw the IDF’s Unit 131, an intelligence unit that ran
a spy ring in Egypt until the so-called Lavon Affair of 1954.Harel will be
buried at the Caesarea-area kibbutz, Sdot Yam.
2009: Final
performance of “The Accomplices” at the Center Stage Theatre in Jerusalem.
2009: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood’s
Dark Dreamer by Emanuel Levy and the recently released paperback edition of
The Mayor’s Tongue a novel written by Nathaniel Rich.
2009: First
annual Mitzvah Day in Iowa City sponsored by Agudas Achim
2009:
Authorities fear a case of swine flu may have made it to Israel after a
26-year-old Israeli who just returned from a trip to Mexico today checked
himself into the hospital reporting flu-like symptoms.
2009:
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids hosts its annual Big Dinner, one of the congregations’
oldest and most important fund raisers.
2009(2nd
of Iyar, 5769): Eighty-two-year-old Meir Benayahu, the son of Rabbi Yitzhak
Nissim and the brother of Moshe Nissim, whose areas of research including the
Sephardi Diaspora, Kabbalah and Sabbateanism passed away today.
2009(2nd
of Iyar, 5769): Eighty-two-year-old award-winning historian Emanuel Tov whose distinguished
career included cofounding the “Institute for Research on Israeli Communities
in the Middle East.”
2009(2nd
of Iyar, 5769): Eighty-sixty ear old Salamo Arouch, a Greek-born Jewish boxer
who survived the Auschwitz death camp in World War II by winning fight after
fight against fellow prisoners, to the delight of Nazi guards who had placed
their bets on him, died in Israel today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/world/europe/04arouch.html
2010: “The
Wedding Song,” film about a Jewish girl and a Moslem girl, living in war torn
Tunisia, is scheduled to be shown at the 2010 NoVA International Jewish Film
Festival
2010: “Iron
Man 2” a superhero movie directed by Jon Favreau was released today in the
United States.
2010: Professor Gil Troy is scheduled
to deliver a lecture entitled "The 1975 Zionism is Racism Resolution:
American Anger and British Appeasement" in Jerusalem sponsored by the
Israel Branch of The Jewish Historical Society of England.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster” by
Jonathan Eig and “Ill Fares the Land” by Tony Judt.
2010: The
Los Angeles Times included a review of “Three Chords For Beauty’s Sake: The
Life of Artie Shaw by Tom Nolan that traces the transformation of Avraham
Ben-Yitzhak Arshawsky from the son of immigrant Jews to one of the main players
in the world of Swing and the Big Band sound.
2011: “The Wizard of Lies: Bernie
Madoff and the Death of Trust” by Diana B. Henriques, a book that “analyzes Mr.
Madoff’s rise and fall” is scheduled to be published today.
2011(22nd
of Nisan, 5771): Eighth day of Pesach – Yizkor
2011: The
New York Times published a review of “A Book of Recipes Gathered From
Holocaust Survivors” by June Feiss Hersh.
2011: Peter
Shumlin appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show via telephone where he discussed
health care reform in his state, his belief in health care for all and that
"health care is a right, not a privilege".
2012: “Lea
and Darija” about the “Croatian
Shirley Temple,” Lea Deutsch ,the Jewish star of a Zagreb song-and-dance
troupe, and her gentile dancing partner Darija Gasteiger is scheduled to be
shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival
2012: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said
today that the chances “appear low” that the Iranian government would bow to
international pressure and halt its nuclear program.
2012: “In Darkness,” a film set in Nazi occupied Lvov, is
scheduled to be shown for the final time as part of the Yom HaShoah
commemoration in Iowa City, Iowa..
2012(4th of Iyar, 5772): Yom Ha’Atzmaut – Israel Independence Day
2013: “Family, ‘Not Willing to Forget,’ Pursues
Art It Lost to Nazis” published today
described the fight of 3 generations of the
Rosenberg family to recover art stolen
during WW II.
2013: In New Orleans,
Touro Synagogue is scheduled to host its 22nd annual Jazz Fest
Shabbat
2013: One hundredth
anniversary of the start of events that would become known as “The Leo Frank
Case,” the worst single outbreak of anti-Semitism in the United States.
2013: Today, Bulgarian
investigators staged a re-enactment of the bus bombing that killed five Israeli
tourists, the bus driver and the alleged perpetrator at the Burgas airport in
July. The Europol-sponsored experiment, aimed to provide more details about the
attack, was done at a police compound near the city of Ihtiman, 40 kilometers
(25 miles) east of Sofia. Officials said the results confirmed the facts they
had previously established.(As reported by AP & Times of Israel)
2013: Lebanese media
outlets reported this afternoon that the Israeli Air Force was conducting mock
raids over southern parts of the country, one day after an unmanned aerial
vehicle was shot down by the IAF off the coast of Haifa
2014: “The Zig Zag Kid”
is scheduled to be shown at the JCC Rockland International Film Festival.
2014: Dominican priest
Giuseppe Girotti “an opponent of Benito Mussolini and a protector of Jews from
the Nazi Holocaust who died at Dachau Concentration Camp which earned him the
designation of declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem” was beatified
today by Cardinal Angelo Amato on behalf of Pope Francis
2014: “Haunted Screen”
an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that described the role
of German Jews in the film industry when the Nazis came to power and the
changes that came afterwards came to a close today.
2015: “Watchers of the
Sky” a documentary that includes a look at “the forgotten life of Raphael
Lemkin, the man who created the world genocide” is scheduled to be shown at the
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
2015: Music scholar
Walter Frisch and Jewish historian Jonathan Karp are scheduled to discuss the
life and legacy of Harold Arlen in a program entitled That Old Jewish Magic?
Harold Arlen and American Popular Song presented by American Society for Jewish
Music
2015: “Dior and I” and
“While We’re Young” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2015: “The Republican
Jewish Coalition leadership conference is scheduled to come to an end in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
2015: 4th Annual
ReelAbilities: Greater DC Disabilities Film Festival is scheduled to open
today.
2015: Israeli
choreographer and his company are scheduled to perform “Dabke” at the JCC
Manhattan.
2015: “‘Martyrs
Street,’ Misha Shulman’s new play about the Israel-Palestinian conflict that
explores the power and seduction of extremism” is scheduled to complete its run
“at New York’s off-off-Broadway Theatre for the New City” today. (As reported
by Cathryn J. Prince)
2015: The Maccabeats
are scheduled to perform at Beth Shalom Congregation in Columbia, MD.
2015: The New York Times featured reviews of
books written by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Do-Over: Poems by Kathleen Ossip, Infamy: The Shocking
Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II by Richard Reeves
and The Train To Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and
America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe
Russell
2016: In the United
Kingdom, the Oxford Jewish Chaplains are scheduled to provide “a Kosher for
Passover version of their popular Radcam Picnics.
2016: Publication date
for Disraeli: The Novel Politician by David Desarani and Barbara
Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity and Power by Neal Gabler.
2017: “Bribe Cases, a
Jared Kushner Partner and Potential Conflicts” published today described the
interaction between the President’s son-in-law and Israel’s Steinmetz family.
2017: In Vienna, Im Kinksy is scheduled to
auction Portrait of a Man, a painting by a 17th century Dutch Master
that had been part of a collection amassed by Adolphe Schloss which was looted
by the Nazis in 1943 and which is heirs are attempting to get back to the
rightful owners.
2017: Dr. Norman Cohen
is scheduled to lecture on “Abraham’s Journey from Ur to Moriah” at the
Streicker Center in NYC.
2017: Rod Rosenstein
completed almost twelve years of service as the United States Attorney for the
District of Maryland began serving as the 37th United States Deputy
Attorney General today.
2017: Lynn Downey is
scheduled to speak to the Nevada Historical Society about her book Levi
Strauss” The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World.
2017: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host the launch of “the third edition
of Remember the Women Institute’s Women, Theatre, and the Holocaust Resource
Handbook.”
2018: In Atlanta, the
Bremen is scheduled to host am evening “Oud Musician and Teacher James
Schneider” as he serenades the audience while sharing “the history of the Oud
and Iraqi and Middle Eastern music amid tables filled with “delectable Iraqi
desserts.”
2018: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to present Ruth Wisse speaking “about how her
scholarship on the complex relationship between Jews and power in history
informs contemporary debates.”
2018: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host “the book talk and launch of Broadway:
A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles, and hear from author Fran
Leadon about the extraordinary ways in which American Jews contributed to
making Broadway the iconic street that it is today.”
2018: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Educational Center is scheduled to host “Meet the Author:
Fritz Bauer 1903-1968: The Man Who Found Eichmann and Put Auschwitz on Trial.”
2018: The President
withdrew the nomination of Ronny Jackson who had been named to replace David
Jonathan Shulkin as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the first
member of the Jewish member of the Trump administration to speak out against the
white supremacists in Charlottesville.
2019: The Arizona
Cardinals traded their starting
quarterback Josh Rosen to the Miami Dolphins.
2019: As Jews
celebrated the Seventh Day of Pesach, hopefully they will pause and realize
that seventy-six years ago today, the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto were
marking the day not with light of candles but with the burning wicks of Molotov
Cocktails. (Due to a calendar coincidence, the secular and Jewish calendars of
1943 and 2019 are in perfect sync)
2019(21st of Nissan,
5779): Seventh Day of Pesach; Sixth Day of the Omer
2019: It was reported
today that “The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, attacked the Obama
administration, former law enforcement officials, the press and his own critics
in a fiery last night that he used to defend his handling of the Russia
investigation.”
2020: Congregation
Mishkan Tefil is scheduled to host the second annual Mussar and Mindful Living
Conference, with sessions by Alan Morinis, author of “Everyday Holiness” and
founder of The Mussar Institute and Dr. Ronit Zev-Kreger, Momentum, Director of
Education and Leadership Development, a virtual event facilitated by Rabbi
Marcia Plumb
2020: As part of its
Virtual Program Series, the American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to
host “Soapbox Yoga.”
2020: Health Minister
Ya'acov Litzman will reportedly leave his post for a new cabinet position
following weeks of criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis.”
2020: “Growing Up with
Ruth and Marty” scheduled for today has been canceled by the Illinois Holocaust
Museum in accordance with the recommendations of Governor Pritzker.
2020(2nd of
Iyar, 5780): Based on figures already released Israelis begin the week mourning
the loss of 199 of their countrymen to the coronavirus.
2020: In Atlanta, “In
the House of Cohen” part of the 2020 Molly Blank Concert scheduled for today
has been postponed because of concern for “health and well-being” during the
Pandemic.
2020: As part of the
“remote Concert Series” the Jewish Children’s Regional Service is scheduled to
present a concert by violinist Basil Alter.
https://www.basilalter.com/about
2021: Dayan Ofer Livnat
is scheduled to address some of the dilemmas dayanim are faced with, and in
particular how they relate to issues of Jewish identity, conversions and
monetary disputes.
2021: Exhibition Launch
and Artist Talk with Prof. Dana Arieli and Dr. Rotem Rozental during which
attendees are scheduled to meet the artist curator behind “The Zionist
Phantom,” a virtual art exhibition.
2021: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Center’s collaboration with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s is
scheduled to continue with a celebration of both mainstays of the chamber
repertoire and significant works by living composers, with a focus on those
championed in OSL’s Music in Color programming initiative.
2021(14th of
Iyar, 5781): Pesach Sheni
2021(14th of
Iyar, 5781): Ninety-seven-year-old Arthur Wilbur Staats, the Greenburgh, NY
born son of Frank and Jennifer (Yollis) Staats the behavioral psychologist who
popularized the concept of the “time out” while raising two children – Jennifer
and Peter – with his wife Carolyn Kaiden passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
2021: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to host a conversation with Michael Shnayerson, the
author of Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream.
2022: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum is scheduled to co-sponsor an on-site and online a Yom Hashoah
Commemorative Concert ‘WE ARE HERE: Songs from the Holocuast.”
2022: The JDC Archives
and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History a lecture by Dr.
Jonathan Sarna on Re-Evaluating the Role of American Jewry During the Shoah”
https://theweitzman.org/events/american-jewry-during-the-shoah/
2022: In New Orleans,
Congregation Gats of Prayer and the Jewish Community Day School are each
scheduled to hold their board meetings this evening
2022: The Eden-Tamir
Center is scheduled to host “a Special Concert in cooperation with the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
2022: Based on
previously published reports, Israelis today face twin threats their heath one
of which comes from Elite chocolate which may be contaminated with salmonella
and the other of which comes from a BA.4 a new variant of Omicron coronavirus
three cases of which were detected among travelers arrived at Ben Gurion
Airport.
https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hyefcfvh9
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/rkr4ksnb9
2022: Ambassador Stuart
Eizenstat and Holocaust survivors Irene Weiss and Marcel Drimer are scheduled
to speak at the “2022 Days of Remembrance Commemoration.
2022: Emma Kaufman
Rose, the author of Saving Six Million: A Holocaust Memoir is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the Akron-Summit
Holocaust Commemoration and Award Ceremony in honor of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust
Remembrance Day, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today in the main auditorium of the Akron-Summit
County Public Library at 60 S. High St.
2023: “The Israeli Air
Force is scheduled to hold its annual Independence Day flyover today, with
various aircraft zipping over cities and towns throughout the country over the
course of the morning and early afternoon.” (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)
2023: In Metairie, LA,
Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled to celebrate Israel’s 75th
Independence Day with an that will include kid-friendly Israeli food from Dvash
Catering, crafts, games and more.
2023: UK Jewish Film is
scheduled to open a Yom HaAtzma’ut screening of “Karaoke.”
2023: The Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host a Yom Ha’atzmaut Concert
followed by a community dinner.
2023: The Weitzman is
scheduled to host the Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media’s screening of
Upheaval.
2023: Centro Primo Levi
New York and the American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present “From
Istanbul to Rio de Janeiro,” an evening with Monique Sochaczewski Goldfeld
(Brazilian Institute for Development, Education and Research) and Louis Fishman
(Brooklyn College) in conversation on the political and cultural relations
between Brazil and the countries of the former Ottoman Empire.”
2023: JNF is scheduled
to host a Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration in Be’er Sheva that will include a signature
concert, music festival, BBQ lunch and more.
2023(5th of
Iyar, 5783): Yom HaAtzma'ut; Israel’s Independence Day
2024: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “All-of-a-Kind Family,” a walking tour of
the Lower East Side that will “”ollow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah,
Charlotte, and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s
children’s classic All-of-a-Kind Family.”
2024: “For its second
annual sold-out gala, “Elevate: Lifting Stories of Hope,” The City Mission is
scheduled to honor Dr. Fred and Jackie Rothstein, today at the downtown
Marriott in Cleveland in Key Tower.
2024: Bravin Lee
Programs is scheduled to present The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition that
includes the work of Naomi Ben-Shahar.
2024: As April 26th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 203
in captivity. (Editor’s note:
this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2024(17th of Nisan, 5784): Fourth Day of Pesach
2025: National Pretzel Day
https://forward.com/schmooze/370196/4-jewish-fun-facts-for-pretzel-day/
2025(28th of Nisan, 5785): Parashat Shmini; Chapter I Perkei
Avot -- Sayings of the Fathers; for more
see /
2025 Today at 12:00, participants are scheduled to gather at the
Agnon House in Jerusalem for another meeting of joint reading of Agnon's
stories, to read the novel "In Mr. Lublin's Shop" and together with Ofir
Lifshitz, discuss the various characters that populate the novel and examine
Agnon's statements about the war and its results.
2025: The Eden Tamir
Center is scheduled to host a concert featuring Mozart and Beethoven.
2025: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor David Peimer on “Moses
and the Exodus: The Great Biblical Story Portrayed in Film”
2025: The Harold Green
Jewish Theatre Company is scheduled to host a screening of “The Runner,” about
a Z.A.K.A. volunteer.
2025:
As April 26th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps
across the globe that includes the fire-bombing of the mansion housing the
family of Governor Josh Shapiro on Pesach and neo-Nazis marching through
Marion, IA, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 567
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: In Davenport, IA,
Robinson Yost, Ph.D. is scheduled to present “The Holocaust by Bullets: The
Twisted Path to Auschwitz” during a Kaffe and Kuchen event which is the final
day the international exhibition Violins of Hope is on display at the German
American Heritage Center and Museum.
2026: Agnon House is
scheduled to host the first of two online lectures on “Becoming A Woman Writer”
with Dr. Navit Barel
2026: In Des Moines, IA
the Annual Yom Ha’Shoah Community Program is scheduled to take place at
Tifereth Israel.
2026: The Museum at
Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “Chef Beejhy Barhany for a flavorful,
hands-on journey into Berbere—the bold heart of Ethiopian cooking—while
discovering the ancient history and culinary traditions of Ethiopian Jews (Beta
Israel).
2026: The Jewish
Heritage Museum of Monmouth Country is scheduled to host “Dr. Alexander Magoun
for a well-illustrated tour of the 20th century with David Sarnoff’s beneficent
vision of wireless at its center.”
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