1111: Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Henry gained
power by revolting against his father Henry IV.
This was unfortunate for the Jews of Germany since Henry IV had been
protective of his Jewish subjects as can be seen by his enforcement of laws
forbidding the forcible baptism of Jews and allowing Jews who had been forcibly
baptized to return to the faith of their fathers even if this ruling was
contrary to Church doctrine. While no record exists that shows Henry V repealed
the rulings his father’s loss of power was still a blow to the Jews because it
was rare to find a monarch who was protective of his Jewish subjects.
1204: During the Fourth
Crusade the sack of
Constantinople continues.
The Fourth Crusade was initially called for by Innocent III, one of the more
anti-Semitic Popes. European Jews did not suffer in the way they had during the
first 3 crusades, in part because of the devastation
they had already experienced. The Fourth
Crusade degenerated
into a fight among Christians as the Latin Crusaders made war against eastern
Orthodox Christians.
1250: The Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis IX of France is
defeated in Egypt. This marked the last of the Crusades. Considering the impact they had on the Jews,
the end of the Crusades was a positive thing.
This did not mark the end of the Crusading Spirit which would continue
to rear its ugly head in events such as the expulsion from Spain two and half
centuries later. Louis IX’s four decade
long reign was a time of misery for the Jews. It was marked by the famous burning of
twenty-four carloads of Talmudic writings in Paris in 1242 and a similar such conflagration two years later.
1519: Birthdate of Catherine de' Medici who would become the
wife of Henry II of France. When it came to choosing a doctor, Catherine opted
to go for quality and used Jews even though Children of Israel had been banned
from living in France. Catherine first employed a Marrano named Luis
Nunez. Later she began using Philotheus
Montalto, a Portuguese doctor who had cured of her some un-named malady when he
was passing through Paris.
1556(23rd of Nisan, 5316):
Portuguese Marranos who had returned to Judaism were burned to death in Acona,
Italy. A Jewish-led boycott of the port of Acona marked the first
community-wide effort by "free" Jews, since the beginning of the
Diaspora, to hit back at their enemies.
1587(5th of Nisan, 5347): Jacob
Luzatto passed away in Venice, Italy at the age of 60. It is not known if this is the same Jacob
Luzzato who lived and preached at Safed and was a prolific author of tomes
ranging from Talmudic commentaries to Haggadot.
1598: Henry
IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes allowing freedom of religion to the
Huguenots in Catholic
France. The edict did not cover Moslems
or Jews living in France, including “New Christians” who had fled to France
because of the Inquisition.
1636(7th of Nisan): Rabbi Elijah Kalmankes of
Lemberg author of Eliyahu Rabbah passed away.
1660: Antonio Enrequez Basurto, a Marano poet
and comedic playwright was burned in effigy after seeking refuge in Amsterdam.
1712: Shabbethai
ben Joseph Bass was suddenly arrested today “on the charge of having spread
abroad incendiary speeches against all divine and civic government.”
1727(22nd of Nisan, 5487): Judah ben
Samuel Rosanes passed away Born in 1657, this student of Samuel ha-Levi and
Joseph di Trani was appointed by the Sultan to serve as “hakam bashi” (Chief
Rabbi of the Ottoman Empire because of his scholarship and linguistic skills.
He was the son-in-law of Abraham Rosanes.
1742: “The Messiah” by George Friderick Handel
whose biblically inspired works included “Israel in Egypt,” “an oratorio that
“it is composed entirely of selected passages from the Hebrew Bible, mainly
from Exodus and the Psalms and which premiered at London's King's Theatre in
the Haymarket” was first performed at the New Music Hall in Fishamble Street in
Dublin.
1743: Birthdate of
Thomas Jefferson. “Thomas Jefferson is
deservedly a hero to American Jewry. His was one of the few voices in the early
republic fervently championing equal political rights for Jews. Jefferson’s Bill
for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia is a classic American statement
of religious toleration. Significantly, while Jefferson championed the rights
of Jews and other religious minorities, he did not do so out of respect for
Judaism but because he respected the right of every individual to hold
whichever faith they wished…. Despite his reservations about the perceived “defects” in
Judaism, Jefferson never wavered in his commitment to civil and religious
freedom for Jews. Jefferson’s most notable achievement in establishing
religious and civic toleration for American Jewry was his 1779 Bill for
Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia. Adopted in 1785, the Bill
proclaimed: “No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious
worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained,
molested or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on
account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to
profess. . . their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in
no wise . . . affect their civil capacities.”
Two years later, in 1787, the U. S. Constitution was adopted. Article VI
contains the following, Jefferson-inspired phrase: “No religious test shall
ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the
United States.” Despite his attitude toward Judaism as a religion, Jefferson’s
advocacy of the rights of Jews –and those of other religious minorities – has
become the law and custom of the land. Toleration of all religions, the absence
of an official government religion, and the right to practice and express
religious thought freely are the hallmarks of Jefferson’s legacy. Despite his
private views of Judaism, he was indeed a most ‘righteous Gentile.’”
1754(21st of
Nisan, 5514): Seventh Day of Pesach; Shabbat Pesach Chol HaMoed is observed
three days before the French are able to force William Trent to surrender the
British fort at the site of future Pittsburgh, PA which is part of the lead up
to the French-Indian War which led to the American Revolution.
1761: German native
Moses Mordecai, who came to Annapolis, MD in 1758, married Elizabeth Whitlock,
an English born Protestant who changed her name to Esther when she converted to
Judaism.
1762(20th of
Nisan, 5522): Sixth Day of Pesach
1763(30th of
Nisan, 5523): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1763: At Providence,
Jacob Rivera, Aaron Lopez, Naftali Hart and Moses Lopez were among the ten
signatories of the Spermaceti Candle Agreement.
The agreement was an effective tool for controlling the candle making trade
in an area including Pennsylvania, New York and New England.
1764: Final effective
date for the Spermaceti Candle Agreement which had been supported by Jacob
River, Aaron Lopez, Naftali Hart and Moses Lopez, four of the leading merchants
in an industry based on whale oil.
1765(22nd of
Nisan, 5525): Shabbat shel Pesach and Eighth Day of Pesach
1767(14th of
Nisan, 5527): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach observed as Parliament
considers measures to be adopted to deal with the American colonies – measures
that will take the form of the Townshend Acts, one of the steps on the road to
the American Revolution.
1770(18th of
Nisan, 5530): Fourth Day of Pesach as James Cook and his crew are within days
of being the first European to sight the coast of Australia.
1771: In London, Lydia Cohen and Solomon
Gompertz gave birth to Solomon Barnet Gompertz, the husband of Miriam Keyser
with whom he had eleven children.
1772: In New York, Eve Esther Gomez and Uriah
Hendricks who were married in 1762 gave birth to Aaron Hendricks.
1773(20th of Nisan, 5533): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1774: London native Rebeca De Lyon and Joseph
Abrahams, a resident of Savannah, GA, gave birth to Isaac Abrahams the husband
of Rebecca Abrahams.
1776(24th of Nisan, 5536): Parashat
Shimini
1778(16th of Nisan, 5538): Second
Day of Pesach
1782: In Amsterdam, Biela Meijer Bolfe and
Emanuel Levie Duitz who were married in 1778 gave birth to Benedicutus Emanuel
Duitz.
1786: In London, Bridget Benjamin Samuel Samuel
gave birth to their “second daughter, Matilda Samuel” who passed away at the
age of eight months.
1788: In Buchau, Germany, Johanna Ullmann and
Jacob Dreifus gave birth to Hirsch Dreifus, the husband of Veronika Thannhauser
and father of Jeanette, Babette, Abraham and Regina Dreifus.
1789(17th of Nisan, 5549): Third day
of Pesach
1789: Birthdate of Leipzig native and
Protestant Hebraist J.G. Winer.
1792(21st of Nisan, 5552): Seventh
Day of Pesach observed as the French prepared to face an attack by coalition
forces determined to bring down the effects of the French Revolution.
1793:Today at the synagogue in London “a
special service was held on the occasion of the public fast ordered by the King
in view of the parlous state of public affairs.”
1793: Birthdate of
Louis Jacques Begin, a Belgium born French surgeon and author.
1795: Birthdate of
German native Ester Nathan, the wife of Baruch Hofheimer and the mother of
Jacob Hofheimer.
1795: In Germany,
Helene Baer and Jakob Thannhauser gave birth to Veronika Thannhauser, the wife
of Hirsch Dreifus and the mother of Jeanette, Babette, Abraham and Regina
Dreifus.
1797(17th of
Nisan, 5557): Third Day of Pesach
1797: Judith
Baierthaler and Samuel Suss Strauss gave birth to Isak Strauss who had
threechildren with his first wife, Juetle Chaya Strauss and six children with
is second wife Babette Kusiel.
1799(8th of
Nisan, 5559): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol observed as Napoleon’s forces
were besieging Acre and an Ottoman Army was on its way from Damascus in attempt
to defeat the French general during the Palestine phase of his Egyptian
campaign.
1800(18th of
Nisan, 5560): As the Jews observe the Fourth Day of Pesach, future President
Thomas Jefferson wrote future President James Monroe on the dangers the pomp
and “fulsome attentions” pose to republicans and their cause.
1803(21st of
Nisan, 5563): Seventh day of Pesach
1805(14th of
Nisan, 5565): Parashat Achrei Mot; erev Pesach
1808(16th of
Nisan, 5568): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1808: Abigail Lindo and
Moses Mocatta, a member of large, distinguished Anglo-Jewish Sephardi family,
gave birth to Samuel Mocatta, the husband of Miriam Mocatta and the father of
Horace Rebecca, Ada, George, Laura and Frederick Mocatta, the philanthropist
and Bullion broker.
1811(19th of
Nisan, 5571): Shabbat shel Pesach
1819(18th of
Nisan, 5579): Fourth Day of Pesach
1822(22nd of Nisan,
5582): 8th day of Pesach observed as the Greeks rebel against the
Ottomans and seek to establish their own independent country.
1823: In the northern
Italian city of Leghorn, Samuel and Bonina Morais gave birth to Sabato Morais,
a leading 19th century American Orthodox Rabbi.
http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/sabato_morais.pdf
https://www.jewishideas.org/article/remembering-rabbi-dr-sabato-morais
1824(15th of
Nisan 5584): Pesach is observed for the last time during the Presidency of
James Monroe.
1827(16th of
Nisan, 5587): Second Day of Pesach
1827: Birthdate of
Viennese native Josef Kopp, the attorney who became a judge and a member of the
“Lower Austrian Parliament.
1829: In Great Britain,
Parliament passes the Catholic Relief Act which removes most of the remaining
legal obstacles to full participation of Roman Catholics in the political life
of the country. The Jews living in this
British Isles saw this as a sign of hope that they would soon attain full
religious freedom. They and their
non-Jewish supporters began a campaign to gain equal rights for the Jews. Unfortunately, success was not just around
the corner, and the fight would take fifteen years to win. One Catholic politician was reported to have
said that he would support the Jews in their fight since he could not deny to
others what had been won for him and his Catholic brethren.
1830(20th of
Nisan, 5590): Sixth Day of Pesach
1830: Boletter
Salomonsen and Zacharias Isaac Levy gave birth to Arnold Zacharias who is
interred in the Horsens Jewish Cemetery at Denmark.
1835(14th of
Nisan, 5595): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1838(18th of
Nisan, 5598): Fourth Day of Pesach observed during the Druze revolt which led
to the an unprovoked attack on the Jews of Safed in June.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Druze_attack_on_Safed
1839(29th of
Nisan, 5599): Parashat Shmini
1840: Birthdate of
Samuel Ullman, the native of Hohenzollern-Hechingen who came to the United
States at the age of eleven, settled in Mississippi, fought for the Confederacy
and moved to Birmingham, Alabama where he became a successful businessman and
lobbied so vigorously for the rights African Americans that a high school was
named in his honor.
http://www.uab.edu/ullmanmuseum/
1840: Birthdate of
Ludwig Mauthner, the native of Prague who became a noted “Austrian
neuroanatomist and ophthalmologist.”
1844(24th of
Nisan, 5604): Parashat Shmini
1844: Today, on the
first Shabbat after Pesach, Rabbi Benjamin Cohen Carillon, a native of
Amsterdam “who was active in disseminating Reform principles wherever he
ministered” “confirmed Hannah De Sola, a native of Santa Cruz in the Synagogue
of St. Thomas” two years before Rabbi Max Lilenthal performed the same ceremony
for the first time in the continental United States at Anshe Chesed in New York
City
1845(6th of Nisan, 5605):
Baruch Hays, the son of Solomon Hays who was the husband of both Prudence and
Rachel Hays passed away today.
1846(17th of
Nisan, 5606): Third Day of Pesach
1846: In Richmond, VA,
Isaac Abraham Levy, the London born son of Abraham Levy, ben Levie and Sarah
Rachel Cornelia Levy and his wife Hannah Norris Levy gave birth to Edgar Levy.
1849(21st of
Nisan,5609): Seventh Day of Pesach
1849: In London,
Rebecca Duke and Morris Lee gave birth to Lucrecia Lee.
1849: During the
Hungarian Revolution which was a revolt against being ruled by the Habsburgs of
Austria, Hungary becomes a republic. Thousands of Jews fought on the side of
the revolutionaries and thousands more contributed financially to the
short-lived success of the cause. The new Hungarian Republic voted to give the
Jews full rights of citizenship.
Unfortunately, the Jews would enjoy their new status for only two
weeks. Austrian forces conquered the
Hungarians and put an end to this short-lived new republic.
1850(1st of
Iyar, 5610): Parashat Tazria-Metzora and Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1850: Birthdate of Alexander Markus, the native of
Pest who gained fame author Bernhard Alexander the University of Budapest
professor and father of psychoanalyst Franz Alexander.
1851: At “Weimar Jewish
pianist Salomon Jadassohn was the soloist at the first performance, under
Liszt's baton, of Liszt's arrangement for piano and orchestra of Carl Maria von
Weber's Polonaise (Polacca) brillante "L'hilarité" in E major, Op.
72.
1851: Sabato Morais was
elected Hazan of Mikveh Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in
Philadelphia, PA.
1852: Two days after he
had passed away, Barnett Levin was buried today in the Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.
1852: Birthdate of Rabbi
Haim (Henry) Pereira Méndez. Mendez was part of a family famous for its
rabbis. Mendez began his career in
England before moving to the United States where he served as rabbi for
Shearith Israel (The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue) in New York. He was also one of the founders of the Jewish
Theological Seminary.
http://rabbibitton.blogspot.com/2011/11/rabbi-hayim-henry-pereira-mendes-1852.html
1853: In London, “David
Woolf King and Sarah Lazarus gave birth St. Louis-raised and Harvard graduate
Moses King, the published of travel guidebooks and husband of Bertha Maria
Cloyes with whom he had three children.
1854(15th of
Nisan, 5614): Pesach observed on the same day that Frederick Douglas gave his
final lecture on the evils of slavery in Cincinnati, OH.
1857(19th of
Nisan, 5617): Fifth Day of Pesach
1860: “Savoy in the
British Parliament” published today described Switzerland as a place “which
worship William Tell; persecute the Jews; and find the Bourbons in body-guards,
English clergymen in scenery, and all the world in watches” [Apparently Swiss
antipathy towards Jews was a well-established fact as could be seen by a treaty
that the Switzerland tried negotiated with the U.S. in the 1850’s that
permitted them to discriminate against American Jews.]
1861(3rd of
Iyar, 5621): Parshat Tazria-Metzora
1861: After 33 hours of
bombardment by Rebel artillery, the United States garrison at Fort Sumter, SC
surrendered exactly four years and four days before the South would surrender
to the North at Appomattox Court House in war which pitted brother against
brother, including Jewish brother against Jewish brother.
1861: On his way back
to his post at Watervilet, NY, Major Alfred Mordecai stopped in Richmond where
his brother George urged him to resign from the U.S. Army and join the
Confederates.
1863(24th of
Nisan, 5623): Today during the Civil War on the 9th day of the Ome General
Burnside issued his General Order Number 38, which threatened the death penalty
for anyone found guilty of treasonable behaviour.
1864: Moritz Szeps, the
Galicia born son of Fanni and Dr. Leo Szeps gave birth to Bertha Szeps who
married Dr. Emil Emanuel Zuckerandl and became Bertha Zuckerkandl, the mother
of Fritz Suckerkandl.
1864: In Vienna,
“Galician Jewish liberal newspaper publisher Mortiz Szeps” and his wife gave
birth to Bertha Szeps who gained fame as writer, journalist and critic Bertha
Zuckerkandl-Szeps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_of_Berta_Zuckerkandl
1865(17th of
Nisan, 5625): Third Day of Pesach
1865: In Russia Seelig
Seligsohn and his wife gave birth to Max Seligsohn the American and French
trained linguist whose aborted effort to study the conditions of the Falashas
led to him becoming an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia in New York in 1902.
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13406-seligsohn-max
1865: Today, Joseph
Joseph, the son of “Rosetta Joseph” was buried
at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1866(28th of
Nisan, 5626): Fifty-six-year-old Naphtali Frankfurter, the brother of Berhnhard
Frankfurter, the reform Rabbi who led the Hamburg Temple and who was elected to
serve in the Hamburg Parliament passed away today.
1867(8th of
Nisan, 5627): Shabbat HaGadol
1867: In Washington,
DC, New York lobbyist and state politician Charles H. Sherrill and Sarah Fulton
(Wynkoop) Sherrill gave birth American diplomat Charles H. Sherrill who was
“mesmerized by the force of Hitler’s personality and charisma” when he met to
discuss the possibility of including a token Jew on the German summer and
winter Olympic teams.
1868(21st of
Nisan, 5628): Seventh Day of Pesach
1868(21st of
Nisan, 5628): Birthdate of “Belarusian-born Jewish-American Yiddish playwright,
journalist, and translator” Bernard Gorin, the husband of Elizabeth Gorin who
died on his birthday I 1925.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/6003/b-gorin
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6816-gorin-bernard
1868: Sir Meyer Adam
Spielman, the London born son Marian of Adam Spielman and his wife Gertrude
Emily Spielman gave birth to Eva Marian Speilman who when she married Francis
William Hubback became Eva Marian Hubback the mother of David and Ruth Hubback
1869: In Portland,
Victoria, Australia, suffragist and
social reformer Isabella Goldstein and Cork, Ireland born Jacob Goldstein “a
commissioned lieutenant in the Victorian Garrison Artillery who rose to the
rank of colonel” gave birth to “feminist and suffragist” Vida Jane Mary
Goldstein.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/goldstein-vida-jane-6418
1870(22nd of Nisan,
5631): 8th day of Pesach
1870: The New York
State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of
Incorporation marking today as the founding date of this great
institution. The Robert Lehman
Collection, which was donated in 1969, following Lehman’s death is one of the
largest and most unique collections on display at the museum.
1870: In Riga, Frieda
Bilden and Isaac Rubenstein gave birth to University of Cincinnati and Columbia
University graduate and HUC ordained cleric Rabbi Charles A. Rubenstein, the
husband Aimee Barth Rubenstein and the father of Arthur Rubenstein who spent
six years serving the congregation in Little Rock before moving to Baltimore in
1898 where he led Har Sinai Congregation.
1871: Anglo-Lativian
Jew Ephraim Leib Moshewitz and his wife Eide gave birth to David Moshewitz.
1871: La belle Hélène (The Beautiful Helen), an operetta by
Jacques Offenbach with a libretto co-authored by Ludovic Halévy opened in New
York City at the Grand Opera House
1871: Birthdate of
Chicago native and vice president of the National Ambassador hotel chain
Abraham Frank and the husband of Anna Frank
and the father of Mrs. Edward Kalischer, and Benjamin and Lester Frank.
1872: In Wurttemberg,
Germany, Catharina and John Georg Vogelmann gave birth to Philip H. Vogelman of
El Dorado, KS.
1873(16th of
Nisan, 5663): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer coincided
with Easter Sunday, which “celebrated in Grant Parish” by “a mob of former
Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan” who murdered an estimated
“153 black man” in what is known as the “Colfax massacre” which American-Jewish
historian Eric Foner “described the massacre as the worst instance of racial
violence during Reconstruction.”
1874: Birthdate of
Cleveland, OH native Ameila Buchman, the financial secretary of the Jewish
Orphans Asylum who became Amelia Buchman Peiser when she married Simon Peiser
in January of 1914, “two months after” he became superintendent of the JOA.
1875(8th of
Nisan, 5636): Fourteen-year-old Gustav Mahler suffered “a great personal loss”
today when his thirteen-year-old brother Ernst Mahler the son of Marie and
Bernhard Baruch Mahler passed away.
1876(19th of
Nisan, 5636): Fifth day of Pesach observed on the same day that “a tornado touched down west of present-day
University of Louisville and moved to the north-northeast across eastern
sections of the city.”
1876(19th of
Nisan, 5636): Sixty-one-year-old Abraham Bach, the “on of Calm Schlomo Bach and
Betti Abraham, husband of Elise Bernstein and Henrietta Jette Bach and
father of David Bach;
Pauline Betty Bach; Bernhard Baruch Bach, Sr and Alexander Alex Bach” passed
away today in Brunswick Germany.
1876: In New York, the
former Sarah Bloomingdale Sara and David E. Sicher gave birth to Columbia
University graduate, Dudley Davud Sicher, the husband of the former Florine
Hass and father of William David Sicher and Jane E. Rosenthal, who was
secretary and president of the Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies and who as President of D.E. Sicher and Company, a
manufacturer of lingerie, supported unionization, paid above averages and work
to create a positive working environment.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/12/30/113377343.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1877(30th of
Nisan, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1878(10th of
Nisan, 5638): Shabbat HaGadol
1878(10th of
Nisan, 5638): Fifty-eight-year-old Wilna born Talmudist Bezalel B. Moses
Ha-Kohen passed away today.
1879(20th of
Nisan, 5639): Sixth Day of Pesach
1879: Annette Amelia
Salaman, the daughter Alice and Simeon Kensington Salaman was buried today at
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1879: In Mobile, AL
Mollie and Herman Kaufman gave birth to Columbus, MS insurance agent Irving
Isaac Kaufman, he founder of Kaufman Brothers and the husband of Claudia
Phyllis Kaufman
1880: It was reported
today that Selig Selbiger, a Jewish peddler from western Prussia, has testified
before the coroner that his 22-year-old sister Fanny has been killed by her
husband Moses Adler, a Lithuanian born matzo maker.
1880: Birthdate of Cora
Kaufman, the daughter of David Kaufman who became Cora Kahn when she married
Bernard Kahn and who was an active member of the Eastern Star before passing
away at the young age of 27.
1881(14th of
Nisan, 5641): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1881(14th of
Nisan, 5641): Thirty-one-year-old Amelia Strauss, the Charleston, SC born
daughter of Fanie and Bendix Abraham Weinberg, the wife Alfred Abraham Strauss
with whom she had six children passed away today in Mayesville, SC.
1881: Birthdate of
Ernst Heilmann, the German jurist and political leader who was murdered at
Buchenwald in 1940.
1881: An “anti-Jewish”
petition was sent to Otto von Bismarck today.
The petition, which has been circulating throughout the German Empire
for the last six months calls for restrictions to be placed on the number of
Jews immigrating to Germany and for repealing the legislation which has given
the rights of citizens to the Jews of Germany.
1882:
Seventy-two-year-old Bruno Bauer whose early works on Christianity and Judaism
gave way to a series of anti-Semitic writings passed away today.
1882: An Anti-Semitic League was formed in
Prussia. Prussia was the dominant state in the newly united
Germany. [Obviously Hitler did not start anti-Semitism in Germany.]
1883: In Neustadt,
Silesia, Cantor Leopold Levkowitz and “his second wife Pauline Glass” gave
birth to Willie Howard who with his brother Eugene formed the Vaudeville Team
known as the Howard brothers who began their career performing in “The Passing
Show” in 1912.
1884(18th of
Nisan, 5644): Fourth day Pesach observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Chester A. Arthur.
1885: Birthdate of NYC
native and CCNY graduate Alexander Bernard Siegel, the WWI veteran and Columbia
trained attorney who service as a trustee of Tuskegee.
1885: In Budapest, József Löwinger and his wife Adele
Wertheimer gave birth to Hungarian philosopher and literary critic Georg
Lukács,
1886: In Kaunas, Lithuania Raphael and Clara Mitnick Massell
gave birth to future Atlanta resident Benjamin Joseph “Ben” Massell the husband
of Fannie Wolfson Massell with whom he had two children, Caroline and Benjamin,
1886: In London, Sir Meyer Adam Spielmann, the son of Marian
and Adam Spielmann and his wife Gertrude Emily Spielmann gave birth to Eva
Marian Spielmann who became Eva Marian Hubback when she married Francis William
Hubback
1887(19th of Nisan, 5647): Third Day of Pesach
https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/bernard-l-shientag/
1888(2nd of Iyar, 5648): Thirty-five-year-old
Bernhard Rothschild, the husband of Ida Rothschild passed away today after
which he was buried in the Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1889: In London, Morris and Sarah (Kaztz Bakesef and gave
birth to London trained Engineer Samuel Bakesef, the older brother of Joseph
Bakesef and the younger brother of Israel Bakesef, who came to the United
States in 1919 where he was elected as an associate member of the American
Instituted Institute of Electrical in 1921 while living in Los Angeles and
developed a “collapsible hammock” with Harvey Epstein while being an active
member of Temple Beth Israel in San Diego where he lived with his wife Esther
Rosenberg.
1890: State Supreme Court
Justice and President of the Educational Alliance Samuel Greenbaum and his
wife, “the president of the Jewish Working Girls Vacation Society, gave birth
to Williams College Graduate and Columbia Law School trained attorney Edward
Green Baum, the husband of “well known sculptor Dorthea Greenbaum and father of
Daniel, and Dr. David S. Greenbaum who “as a founder in 1915 of Greenbaum,
Wolff & Ernst and as a lawyer interested in scores of public causes,
occupied a place near the top of the city's legal profession.”
1890: “New Publications” published today provides a detailed
review of The Temple of Solomon: History of Art in Sardinia Judea, Syria and
Asia Minor by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30912F63E5F10738DDDAA0994DC405B8085F0D3
1892(16th of Nisan, 5652): Second
Day of Pesach
1892: “Sampson Simpson’s Bequest” published
today described the decision of the Court of Appeals that the North American
Relief Society did not qualify as an organization established “for the purpose
of ameliorating the condition of Jews in Jerusalem” and therefore the residue
of the estate of Sampson Simpson should go to the descendants of his nephew
Moses Isaacks.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F5071EFA345D17738DDDAA0994DC405B8285F0D3
1893: Theodore Seligman, the son of Jesse
Seligman was blackballed at the Union Club this evening when his application
for membership came before that body.
The members who voted to blackball young Mr. Seligman publicly and
proudly admitted that “it was a simply a matter of race prejudice.” In response to this action, the senior Mr.
Seligman who had been a member of the club for a quarter of a century and a
vice president for 14 years immediately resigned.
1893: Birthdate of Eich, Germany native,
Berthold Guttman, an attorney and husband of Clair Guthmann, who reached the
rank of Lieutenant and was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class for bravery
while serving as an observer and gunner with the Imperial German Air Force
during WW I which did not keep the Nazis from murdering him at
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1894(7th of Nisan, 5654): Adolph
Brecher, the Moravian born son of physician Gideon Brecher, and the University
of Prague trained physician who began practicing at Olmutz in 1859 and served
as the vice president the Jewish community for a quarter of a century passed
away today.
1894: Two days after she had passed away, Sarah
Angel, the wife of Morris Angel with whom she had had six children was buried
today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1894: Congregation Shaaray Tefila (Gates of
Prayer) dedicated their new sanctuary on west 82nd Street between
Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues this evening
1895: The celebration marking the 50th
anniversary of Temple Emanu-El entered its second day. Rabbi Joseph Silverman
and Cantor William Sparger conducted the morning services. Approximately 2,500
people attended the evening events.
1895: The
Chicago Evening Journal “welcomed the premier of the ‘American Jewess and
praised its editor Rosa Sonneschein.” (As reported by the Jewish Women’s
Archive)
1895: As a wave of anti-Semitism sweeps through
France, Alfred Dreyfus, the French Army officer who was convicted of treason on
patently false testimony was placed in solitary confinement on Devil's Island,
off the coast of French Guiana.
1896: In Yonkers, NY, Bertha de Neitz and
Abraham Rutstein gave birth to NYU educated chemist Leo Rustein the husband of
Lillian Puninsky and the father Marian Alice Rustein who was “sent to England,
France and German during WW I on a special mission for the U.S. Army Signal and
was the co-editor of the Aviation Report prepared for the U.S., English and
French governments
1897: During the meeting of the New York City
Board of Health where contagious diseases were discussed it was noted that “the
most troublesome contagion is trachoma or granulated eyelid;” a condition to
which Jewish children from Russia are highly susceptible to given their
constant exposure to this condition.
1898(21st of Nisan, 5658): Seventh
Day of Pesach
1899: At Wesp’s Hall in Buffalo, NY, founding
of the International Social and Benefit Society.
1900(14th of Nisan, 5660): In one of those quirks of the calendar
Christians observe Good Friday on the same day when Jews sit down to their
first Seder.
1900(14th of Nisan, 5660): Poor Jews living on the Lower East Side were
relieved to find that free matzoth were being distributed at Charles “Silver
Dollar” Smith’s “old place on Essex Street.”
There was concern that the distribution would end since Smith had passed
away last year. Before he had changed
his name, Smith was known variously as Charles Goldschmidt or Charles
Solomon. A New York alderman who was
part of the Tammany Hall machine, he was called “Silver Dollar” because of the
“2,400 silver dollars used as a studded inlay in his saloon…”
1900: Herzl met with Austrian Prime Minister
Ernest von Koerber.
1901(24th of Nisan, 5661): Parashat
Shmini
1901: On the same day the Jews were observing
Shabbat, the itinerary of what would prove to be the last major trip to across
the United States to the West Coast for President McKinley, a friend of Simon
Wolf with whom he had attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for Washington
Hebrew Congregation’s new building, was being released to the public
1902: In Paris, Baron Henri de Rothschild and Mathilde
Sophie Henriette von Weissweiller gave birth to Baron Philippe de Rothschild
who developed a passion for grand prix race driving and growing fine wines.
1902: Today, Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, founder of
the National Farm School said, “Not yet have we grasped the scientific truth
that society is an organic whole in which the welfare of all is dependent upon
the well-being of each…"
1903(16th of Nisan, 5663): Second
Day of Pesach, first day of the omer.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/192/286
1903(16th of Nisan, 5663):
Seventy-eight-year-old German philosopher and Jewish communal leader and author
Mortiz Lazarus passed away today.
http://humanities.tau.ac.il/history-school/images/yanivE.pdf
1904: “Stops Expulsion of Jews” published today
described “an official circular recently issued in Russia by the head of the
Ministry of the Interior, Department of Police, Sixth Session stating that in
view of the current state of affairs, “I consider it necessary to suspend till
peace is restored the expulsion from their actual places of residence of those
Jews whom the local authorities reported to be illegally in the localities
where they were formerly authorized to settle but where the permission was subsequently
withdrawn.” (Editor’s note - In other
words, as soon as the war with Japan is over, the Russian government will
return to its policies of abusing Jews.)
1905: In Vienna, Keva Padover and the former
Frumet Goldover gave birth to American historian Saul Kussiel Padover whose 30
books included biographies of characters as King Louis XVI, Karl Marx and
Thomas Jefferson. (As reported by Edith Evans Asbury)
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/24/obituaries/dr-saul-k-padover-author-dead-at-75.html
1906(18th of Nisan, 5666): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1906: Birthdate of future Tulsa resident Hanna
Ungerman, the wife of Irvine Ungerman and the mother of Elsa and Rowena
Ungerman.
1906: At the last minute, Maxim Gorky sent word
that he “was indisposed” and could not attend the reception organized by the
Jewish Bund at the Murray Hill Lyceum to honor him.
1907(29th of Nisan, 5667): Parashat
Shimni
1907: “Can’t Protect Jassy Jews” published
today described the anti-Semitic violence in the Jassy District in Rumania and
the Prefect’s admission that the Jews should leave because “he was powerless to
protect them.
1908: “Albert Lucas, the Secretary of the Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and Superintendent of the Jewish Centers
Association said” tonight that “on behalf of the Jewish people of New York, I
can say that (Jacob) Riis’s Settlement societies are proselytizing societies to
the fullest extent and that their endeavor is to attract Children from Roman
Catholic and Jewish congregations into their societies and to induce them to
become Protestants.
1909: The Jews took an active part in uprising
of the Young Turk movement including Nissim Effendi Mazliah and Emmanuel
Effendi Carusso, members of the Parliament. Many Jews from Adrianople,
Constantinople, Monastir and Salonika volunteered for service in the Army of
the Young Turks. The Young Turks was the name given to those who sought to
modernize the Ottoman Empire.
1909: Birthdate of Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, the
Polish born American physicist who played a key role in the development of the
hydrogen bomb.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/15/obituaries/stanislaw-ulam-theorist-on-hydrogen-bomb.html
1910: Sir
Charles Walston, Lord Walston and Florence Walston, gave birth to Evelyn Sophie
Alexandra Browne (Walston) the wife of Sir Patrick Reginald Evelyn Browne
1911(15th of Nisan, 5671): Pesach
1911: In his will filed for probate today, “Max
Jacoby, the father of Assistant District Attorney Oswald N. Jacoby, who had
died on April 8, left $500 dollars each to the United Hebrew Charities, Home
for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Mount Sinai
Hospital” with the balance of his estate estimated at $189,000 to go to his
sons Oswald and Harold Jacoby.
1912(26th of Nisan, 5672): Fifty-two-year-old
Rabbi Henry Klein passed away today in New York.
1912: The Titanic continues on its maiden
voyage with an array of wealthy Jewish passenger including Edith Russell, the
American fashion buyer as well those traveling in third class including a
Russian born storekeeper from Manchester on his way to visit his brother in
Massachusetts.
1913: The United Hebrew Community sent several
hundred pounds of Matzoth to the Otisville Sanitarium in Otisville, NY. The organization also sent new dishes to the
sanitarium which will be used on Passover which begins next week.
1913(6th of Nisan, 5673): Fifty-two-year-old
merchant Isadore Siegel passed away today in Newark, NJ.
1913: Founding of “Ezras Israel Synagogue” in
Chicago, Illinois.
1913: In Brooklyn, Rabbi Alexander Lyons is
scheduled to officiate at the funeral of Isaac Tuck, the publisher of the Produce Bulletin
1913: “In the absence of Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
Dr. Henry Berkowitz of Philadelphia, the chancellor of the Jewish Chautauqua,
spoke at the Free Synagogue” this morning on the topic of “Jewish Chivlary.”
1913: Founding of Keneseth Israel in Scranton,
PA.
1914(17th of Nisan, 5674): Harry
Horowitz a gangster also known as Gyp the Blood and a leader of the Lenox
Avenue Gang in New York City was executed at Sing Sing Prison
1915: U.S. Attorney General Gregory announced
that the Department of Justice had retained Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to
serve as special counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission in the five
percent rate case to defend Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Comptroller of
the Currency Williams in the injunction proceedings being brought by Riggs
National Bank in Washington, D.C.
1916: Anna Bressler the daughter of Rabbi Elias
Hilikowitz and Riva Rebecca Hilikowitz and her husband Abraham (Abe) Nachman
Bressler gave birth to Riva T. Bressler.
1916: The Industrial Department of the United
Hebrew Charities continued to sort through the bags collected on Bundle Day,
deciding what to sell and what to distribute to the less fortunate.
1917: Herman Bernstein of the American Hebrew
was reported today to have said that sending a copy of the Statue of Liberty to
the people of Russia would be a fitting gift from the Jews of America who love
their country and “are enjoying the liberty and equality” to their
co-religionists who thanks to the Revolution will now enjoy the benefits of
emancipation.
1917: Alexander Lvovich Parvus (born Israel
Lazarevich Gelfand), the Russian revolutionary who worked with German
intelligence to send Bolshevik revolutionaries to Russia met with Lenin for the
second and last time today. (Editor’s note – The Germans saw the Bolsheviks as
a way to take Russia out of the war while the Bolsheviks saw the Germans as
being their only way to get back to Russia so they could take control of the
revolution.)
1917: “Steadfast Benjamin,” a comedy directed
by Robert Wiene and co-starring Guido Herzfeld was released today in Germany.
1918(1st of Iyar, 5678): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar and Shabbat
1918(1st of Iyar, 5678): During
World War I, 20-year-old Lieutenant Arthur Charles Lionel Abrahams the only
child of Sir Lionel Abrahams KCB and Lucy (nee Joseph) Lady Abrahams “fell on
the Western Front” while serving with the 3rd Battalion of the
Coldstream Guards.
http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/fallen-alumni/lieutenant-arthur-charles-lionel-abrahams
1918: According to “semi-official cables”
received in Washington today, “about 100 American families who had moved from
Jerusalem just prior to the British occupation of the city presumably having
been released by the Turks.
1918: In Washington, The War Trade Board has
placed a limit of $175,000 a month on the amount of credits which may be sent
from” the United states for the relief of Jews in Syria living under Turkish
control” while there is no limit as to the amount that may be sent to Jews
living in territory occupied by the British.
1919: Today, Palm Sunday, the Communist Party
led by Eugen Levine, the son of St. Petersburg merchant Julius Levine and his
wife the former Rozalia Goldberg, seized control of the Bavarian Soviet
Republic.
1919: Dr. Silverman is scheduled to lecture on
“Americanism versus Bolshevism” this morning at Temple Emanu-El.
1919: Dr. Krass is scheduled to lecture on
“Wanted: a New Religion” at Beth-El Temple.
1920: Birthdate of Metz, France, native Marthe
Hoffnung, who gained fame as Marthe Cohn, the Holocaust survivor and decorated
member of the French intelligence service who wrote Behind Enemy Lines: The
True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany.
https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Enemy-Lines-French-Germany/dp/0307335909
http://www.jewishledger.com/2015/06/conversation-with-marthe-cohn/
1920: The National Probation Association is
scheduled to begin meeting today in New Orleans as part of the National
Conference of Jewish Social Service.
1920: In Patterson, NJ, Gussie and David
Lefkowitz gave birth to Joseph Lefkowitz a graduate of Rutgers University who
worked for the Social Security Administration until he retired in 1985 and
moved to Crossville, TN where he was living at the time of his death.
1921: Today, at its meeting in Washington the
Central Conference of American Rabbis adopted a “resolution recommending that
the Conference request the great church organizations of this country to
protest against the calling of the world anti-Semitic congress at Vienna and to
petition the President and Congress to take such steps as may be advisable to
prevent the call of this Congress on the ground that it is a menace to the
peace of the world and to the permanence of democratic contitutions.”
1922(15th of Nisan, 5682): Pesach
1922: In Camden New Jersey, Congregation Beth
El holds Passover service at 9 in the morning and seven in the evening.
1922: In Detroit, department store owner Louis
Oppenheim and Julia Nurko Oppenheim gave birth to “clarinetist and…producer”
David Jerome Oppenheim, the brother of Stanley Oppenheim.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/arts/03oppenheim.html
1922: A group photo was taken today outside of
the Gusky Hebrew Orphanage and Home in Pittsburgh, PA.
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt:715.222556.CP
1922: Today “at Kessler's Second Avenue Theatre
(with Bessie Thomashefsky, Sam Rosenstein and Muni Weisenfreund), there was
staged through Sam Rosenstein R.'s comedy, "Dos bintl briv," music by
Rumshinsky.”
1922: “Make It Snappy” starring Eddie Cantor
opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1923: It was reported today that “a summary in
the Encyclopedia Britannica entitled "The Jewish Question," part of
the encyclopedia’s article on Poland…has drawn the fire of The Jewish Tribune
in its latest issue” because the entry violates the “elementary principles of
compilation, falsification, ” promotes anti-Semitism in Poland while “fanning
the flames in English speaking countries and casting undeserved opprobrium and
obloquy upon millions of Jews whose only offense is that that they are
different.
1923; Saks and Company advertised the
introduction of “The Quacka-Sol Umbrella: which is selling at the price of
$5.95.
1923: A celebration is scheduled to be held
today at the Jewish Theological Seminary of the one hundredth anniversary of
the birth Italian born Sabato Morais, the “Jewish scholar and teacher who
founded the seminary in 1886.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/04/15/105910327.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1923:
Today, Gimbel Brothers, which boasts of 80 years of faithful service”
advertises that it has “Men’s New Caps” for $1.00 and “Men’s Golf Hose that
“all pure-wool” and “made in England” on sale for $1.95.
1923: Birthdate of comedian Don Adams best
known for his portrayal of Maxwell Smart in the television hit Get Smart. Smart’s father was a Hungarian Jew, but his
mother was an Irish Catholic.
1924: Birthdate of Moshe Tehilimzeigger, the
native of Równe, Poland who moved to Palestine in 1938 where he was first known
as Moshe Shimony and then as Dahn Ben-Amotz who served in the Palmach before
gaining fame as a broadcaster, journalist and author.
1924: In Columbia, South Carolina, Helen Cohen,
the daughter of a jewelry salesman and Mordecai Moses Donen, a dress-shop
manager gave birth to director and choreographer Stanley Donen who most famous
works are “On the Town” and “Singin’ in the Rain.”
1924: “Five hundred delegates from reformed
congregations throughout the United States” are scheduled to begin their
meeting today Chicago where “they will discuss methods of raising funds” to
support the “various activities of Union of American Hebrew Congregations.”
1925(19th of Nisan, 5685): Fifth Day
of Pesach
1925: “The Earl of Balfour, who was entertained
at dinner tonight by the British community of Alexandria, Egypt, after
disembarking from the Sphinx, deprecated in a speech the alarmist reports of
precautions alleged to have been taken to secure his safety in Palestine
1925: In New York City, Dr. Abraham J. Goldforb
and Dr. Frances Shostac gave birth Swarthmore and Columbia University grad
Miriam Dinerman, the wife of Harold Dinerman, with whom she had three children
– David, Ellen and Ruth -- who “spent 31 years at Rutgers University as
Professor, Assistant Dean and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Social
Work.”
1926: In Middlesbrough, England, “the former
Gertrude Joseph and Rabbi Isadore Epstein, who was principal of Jews’ College
(now the London School of Jewish Studies) gave birth to University of London
trained physician Dr. Samuel Stanley Epstein who articulated the need to deal
with the political, economic and social aspects of cancer. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
1926: It was reported today that the United
Jewish Campaign is raising six million dollars “as part of a nation-wide drive”
to raise fifteen million dollars to the Jews of Eastern Europe.
1927: Max Oboler, the Riga born son of Avrum
Aba (Abo) Oboler and Esther Leah Leah Oboler and his wife Dora Oboler gave
birth to Paula Schwartz, the wife of Gerald Schwartz.
1927: “What was said to be the first open air
concert in Palestine since the time of the Roman occupation to place” today “in
the stadium of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus” where the Palestine
Symphony Orchestra performed a concert “in commemoration of the Beethoven
centenary.”
1927: Judge Samuel D. Levy announced today that
“a campaign to raise $500,000 for the needs of the National Jewish Hospital
Consumptives of Denver” which opened in 1899 and has treated 5,200 people from
all over the countries regardless of their religion, is scheduled to begin on
April 15.
1928: Two days after he had passed funeral
services are scheduled to be held today Hirsch and Schwartz Funeral Parlor of
Isadore Cohen, the father of five children –Abe, Ike, Henry, Dave and Sadie.
1928: In Montreal, William B. Leeds of New York
and his wife, the former Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia were among those
attending the funeral services for Sir Mortimer Davis, on of Canada’s leading
financiers and Jewish philanthropist who “was buried today in Mount Royal
Cemetery in a plot reserved by Temple Emanu-El for its officers and members.
1929(3rd of Nisan, 5689) Parashat
Tazria
1929: Dedication services began at the New
Unity Synagogue at 149 West 79th Street under the direction of Drs.
Henry A. Schorr and B.A. Tinter the rabbis at the synagogue.
1929: “The first definite move by Brooklyn
religious groups, including Protestant and Jews, to obtain academic credit in
the city high schools for outside courses in religious education was taken
today when a temporary committee to push the program was formed at a meeting in
the office of The Brooklyn Examiner, a Jewish Weekly chaired by Rabbi Louis D.
Gross.
1930: American composer and music administrator
William Howard Schuman went to a Carnegie Hall concert of the New York
Philharmonic, conducted by Arturo Toscanini with his older sister, Audrey.
According to the Philharmonic's archives, the program included works by Brahms,
Mendelssohn, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Smetana. Of this experience, Schuman
later said, "I was astounded at seeing the sea of stringed instruments,
and everybody bowing together. The visual thing alone was astonishing. But the
sound! I was overwhelmed. I had never heard anything like it. The very next
day, I decided to become a composer."
1930(15th of Nisan, 5690): First
Pesach of the Great Depression
1930(15th of Nisan, 5690): On the first day of
Pesach, rabbis combined the message of the holiday with the fact that this date
marked the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson “who wrote the statue
providing religious freedom in the Constitution of the State of Virginia.” On the Upper East Side at Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Nathan Krass declared
that Moses, a figure even mightier than Thomas Jefferson, had first promulgated
the doctrine of religious freedom when he had told Pharaoh that he wished to
liberate everybody. Krass also combined
the message of religious freedom with the current economic crisis. In the Bronx at the Montefiore Congregation,
Rabbi Jacob Katz compared the prophetic message with sage of Monticello who
championed American independence and religious liberty. In this time of worsening financial crisis,
Katz said that today we must “remove oppression, and create economic equality”
just as our forefathers created political equality. [Ed. Note: Neither of these Rabbis saw the
irony of invoking the name of Jefferson the slaveholder on a holiday that
celebrated the end of slavery.]
1931: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today for Eugene Both, a boy who was murdered by engineer Emil Zatlokal at the
“chief synagogue” in Budapest as part of “a deliberate anti-Semitic plot.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/04/13/107115770.html?pageNumber=11
1931: In Brooklyn Morris Harkavy, “the chief
engineer for the Borough of Queens” and his wife Esther gave birth to Ira Baer
Harkavy, the graduate of Columbia Law School and Brooklyn Civil Court Judge “best
known for his sentencing, on Dec. 7, 1987, of Morris Gross of Brighton Beach to
15 days in the six-story building Mr. Gross owned at 320 Sterling Street in
what is now called Prospect-Lefferts Gardens for failing to address more than
400 housing code violations.”
1932: In Berlin, Peter and Irma Unger gave
birth to Eva Unger who gained fame as Eva Figes, the “acclaimed novelist,
memoirist, critic and author of “Patriarchal Attitudes.” (As reported by Leslie
Kaufman)
1932: His Wife's Lover, which was billed as the "first Jewish musical
comedy talking picture" received its copyright today.
1932: Birthdate of Yosef “Yossi” Banai, the
native of Jerusalem who gained fame an entertainer ahd who was “one of the
first members of the IDF’s famous troupe of performers – the Nahal troupe.
1933: During a debate in the House of Commons,
Churchill warned that “there is a danger of the odious conditions now ruling in
Germany being extended by conquest to Poland, and another persecution of pogrom
of Jews begun in this new area.”
1933(17th of Nisan, 5693): Third Day
of Pesach
1933:
Central Committee of German Jews for Relief and Reconstruction was
founded.
1934: “Bottoms Up” a musical comedy with a
script co-authored by Sid Silvers who also played the role of “Spud Mosco” was
released in the United States today.
1935(10th of Nisan, 5695): Shabbat
HaGadol
1935: I. Edwin Goldwasser, Michael Schaap and
Nathan Strauss, the co-chairmen of the Greater New York United Jewish Appeal
announced that “sermons describing the situation of the Jews in Germany” will
be the topic of the upcoming Passover sermons which will help prepare for the
fund-raising drive beginning on April 28.
1936(21st of Nisan, 5696): Seventh
day of Pesach
1936: “A hope that the United States Government
‘will find it possible to intervene on behalf of the Jews in Poland’ to prevent
their persecution was expressed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull today by a
committee representing members of the American Federation of Labor and 350,000
Jewish citizens” in the United States.
1936: Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, the director of
the National Conference of Jews and Christians, Reverend Michael J. Ahern of
Weston College and Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore, MD boarded a train in
Washington, DC to mark the start of “a six-week’s nationwide tour in the
interest of creating closer understanding and cooperation among Protestants,
Catholics and Jews.”
1936: At services today marking the concluding
days of Pesach, sermons are being given placing an emphasis “on the necessity
for Jewish communities giving their utmost support to movements to help
destitute Jews in Germany, Eastern and Central Europe and other localities
where their existence is threatened.”
1937: The Zionist General Council meeting
scheduled for today in London was postponed to April 20.
1937: Mishmar HaShlosha, a moshav in the lower
Galilee was established today on land purchased by the Palestine Jewish
Colonization Association.
1938: At 8:30 this evening, Arturo Toscanini
appeared before an audience of 1,700 adoring fans and began conducting a
concert by the Palestine Orchestra. The
evening included a performance of Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony which is a
double statement against fascism since Mendelssohn has been banned by the Nazis
and Toscanini said he was dedicating the performance to the Italy he still
loves.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that commander Oliver Locker-Lampson,
Conservative MP from Birmingham, had introduced in the House of Commons a bill
proposing to extend Palestinian nationality to all persecuted Jews. The vote
was 144 "Ayes" and 144 "Nays," and the bill was passed
after the Speaker voted in the affirmative. There was little doubt that the
bill would never reach the Statute Book and become law.
1938: Hans Leo Przibram and “all other Jewish
employees were forbidden to enter “the Academy of Sciences in Vienna” where he
had worked for decades as the “Head of the Department of Biological Research.”
1938: The Palestine Post reported that a mounting toll of Jewish suicides continued
to be reported from Vienna, including a number of prominent Jewish residents.
1939: “The Fatted Calf” a comedy filmed by
cinematographer Boris Kaufman was released in France today.
1939: Following its Hollywood premiere in
March, “Wuthering Heights” directed by William Wyler, Samuel Goldwyn, with a
script by Ben Hecht and music by Alfred Newman was released across the United
States today.
1939: In Wilmington, Delaware, George Katz and
the former Beatrice Goldstein gave birth to Michael Barry Katz the author of The
Underserving Poor who was “an influential historian and social theorist who
challenged the prevailing view in the 1980s and ’90s that poverty stemmed from
the bad habits of the poor, marshaling the case that its deeper roots lay in
the actions of the powerful.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1940: Eugene Meyer was among those who
accompanied President Roosevelt to the Gridiron Dinner at the Willard Hotel in
Washington, DC.
1940: Anna Wolkoff made copies of classified
documents stolen by pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic American diplomat Tyler Kent and
“sent them to Berlin” where they ended up on the possession of the Abwehr while
Kent planned to send these same documents to anti-FDR politicians with the hope
of undermining the President’s attempt for re-election.
1941: In Brooklyn, homemaker Evelyn Brown and
textile salesman Harvey Brown gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained
geneticist and Noble laureate Michael Brown, the husband of Alice Lapin with
whom he had two daughters – Elizabeth and Sara.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1985/brown/biographical/
1941:
German troops enter Belgrade Yugoslavia. Another 75,000 more Jews would
now fall under the German yoke. Jewish shops that day were ransacked by German
troops and German citizens living in the Yugoslav capital city.
1941:
German troops and German citizens living in Belgrade finished the second
day of a two-daylong orgy of violence aimed at the Jewish citizens of the
Yugoslav capital city.
1941:
The Soviet Union and Japan signed a five-year non-aggression pact. The
Japanese had fought a brief undeclared war with the Russians in the late 1930’s
in which they did poorly. This helped
cause Japan to turn its attention to south Asia which ultimately led to Pearl
Harbor. This agreement meant that the Soviets did not have to worry about war
with Japan so it could focus all of its attention on defeating the Nazis. At the same time, the treaty made it possible
for Japan to attack the United States which brought the might of America to
bear against the Nazis.
1942: “Autumn Hill,” produced by Max Liebman
opened on Broadway at the Booth Theatre.
1942: Birthdate of Samuel Morgan “Sam” Slom who
has represented the 9th District in the Hawaii Senate since 1996.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/memberpage.aspx?member=slom
1943: In the Katyn Forest in the Soviet Union, the Germans
discovered more than 4000 corpses of Polish officers, some of them Jews. The
officers were killed by the Soviets.
1944: Birthdate of Representative Susan Davis,
member of Congress from California’s 53rd Congressional District.
1944: In Hungary, Jews
of the annexed territories were being rounded up and concentrated in urban
ghettos.
1944:
Eighty-five-year-old Robert Watchorn, the English born American Immigration
Commissioner who in 1907attended a Seder at Ellis Island where he gave “a
speech dealing with the right of every man in this country to worship God
according to his own conviction and pointing out that a man who served God was
sure to make a good citizen passed away today.
1945(30th of Nisan, 5705): On Rosh Chodesh
Iyar, five thousand Jews being taken from Auschwitz and marched to
Belsen were herded into a barn. The Germans set the barn on fire. While
some escaped, many thousands more were burned to death. The Germans shot those
who tried to escape during the fire.
1945(30th of Nisan, 5705):
Seventy-year-old Breslau born philosopher Ernst Cassirer, the father of
philosopher Heinz Cassier passed away after which he was buried in New Jersey “on
the Cedar Park Beth-El Cemeteries in the graves of the Congregation Habonim.”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cassirer/
http://metastudies.net/pmg/index.php?n=Main.BreslauToBerlin
1945(30th
of Nisan, 5705): Sixty-nine-year-old Walter Hast, the Birmingham born son of
Fanny Nelken and Bernhard Hast, and husband of Margaret Lennie passed away
today in Los Angeles.
1945: Frank Towers was among the members of the
U.S. Army’s 30 Infantry Division “who freed prisoners from Bergen-Belsen” today
“who had been packed into a train 40 to 50 cars long bound for Theresienstadt.
(As reported by Hillel Kuttler)
1945: Hans
Günther Adler gained his freedom from Buchenwald where he had been imprisoned
since October of 1944.
1945: Five-year-old Micha Tomkiewicz, who would
become a Professor of Physics, “was among the 2,500 Jewish prisoners rescued
from one of what have now come to be known as the Bergen-Belson Death Trial
1945: Major Clarence Benjamin of the 743rd
Tank Battalion, USA, took a photo of “a girl, perhaps 4 years old,” later
identified as Shilma Spitzer, “walking up an incline holding hands with a
kerchiefed young woman” “moments after they were liberated from a train
transferring them from Bergen-Belsen” (As reported by Hillel Kuttler)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-unraveling-one-holocaust-mystery-journalist-finds-others/
1946: “Using poison procured from one of Abba
Kovner’s associates, three members” of “The Jewish Avengers” “spent two hours
coating some 3,000 loaves of bread with arsenic, divided into four portions”
with a goal of killing “12,000 SS personnel and Joseph Harmazt oversaw the
operation from outside the bakery.”
1946: After 167 performances at the National
Theatre, the curtain came down on “The Day Before Spring,” a musical with a
book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
1946: During an interview today, Ben Hecht,
“author and co-chairman of the American League for a Free Palestine” pleaded
with Americans to provide financial support that would “enlarge the trickle of
Jews from Europe to Palestine to a mass exodus despite” despite British
military efforts to keep the Jews out of Eretz Israel.
1946: “Up in Central Park,” produced by Michael
Todd with “Music by Sigmund Romberg; Book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields;
Lyrics by Dorothy Fields was performed for the last time on Broadway at the
Broadway Theatre.
1947: “For the second time since her arrest in
1946, 21-year-old Geulah Cohen” escaped today from her British captors.
1947: “Early tonight a British constable was
wounded” by an unknown assailant “on a busy street in the entertainment center
of Jewish Jerusalem.”
1947: The Theodore Herzl, “an unauthorized
immigrant ship was reported approaching Palestine tonight with” a cargo of
“2,700 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
1948: At Kibbutz Yagur, Tirza and Yosef Gadish
gave birth to Moshe Gadish one of the sailors lost when the Submarine Dakar
sank in January 1968.
1948: In San Antonio, TX, Gloria and S.S. “Sy”
Kalter gave birth to Suzy Gershman, “author of ‘Born to Shop’ Guides.” (As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1948: As the Arab Legion trained its guns on
the besieged Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, a kindergarten was
hit injuring 20 children.
1948: As night gave way to morning, units of
the Palmach took the villages of Al-Mansi and Naghnaghiya
1948(4th of Nisan, 5708): Seventy-seven people, mostly doctors and
nurses on their way Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, were
murdered by Arabs. This took place after the Partition Vote,
but before the British had left. It was part of an Arab terror campaign
to drive the Jews out Israel even before the state had been declared.
British troops stationed close by refuse to "interfere". During
this period of time, the British Army did little to acquit itself admirably
from the Jewish point of view. At the same time, their behavior of
antagonism and outright hostility towards the Jews was representative of the
policies and practices of the British Government.
1948: A large group of doctors, nurses,
patients, professors and students joined a supply convoy which was travelling
to the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. The convoy was ambushed and its
vehicles blown up as it made its way through the affluent Arab neighborhood of
Sheikh Jarrah — only a few hundred meters from a British military outpost. With
the British looking on, Arab attackers mercilessly slaughtered any personnel
attempting to escape the inferno. Incredibly, having resisted Haganah attempts
to rescue Jews caught in this death trap, it still took the British over six
hours to intervene. Seventy‑eight people were murdered in the attack or burned to death
after their ambulances and buses were set on fire. Among the victims was the
director of the Hadassah organization in Palestine, Dr. Chaim Yassky. (As
reported by Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am)
1948: Operation Har'el launched by Haganah at
conclusion of Operation Nachshon, does not succeed in opening the road to
Jerusalem.
1948: As the Haganah fought to defend Mishmar
HaEmek from being conquered by the Arab Liberation Army, Palmach units took the villages of Al-Mansi and Naghnaghiya.
1949(14th of Nisan, 5709): Fast of the First
Born.
1949(14th of Nisan, 5709): In the evening,
first Seder celebrated in the independent state of Israel.
1950: In Washington
Heights, NY, Dorothy and Bert Perlman gave birth to actor Ron Perlman
1950: Israel informed
the United Nations that it would not participate in talks with the Arabs that
included return to the partition boundaries of 1947 as a pre-condition to
opening negotiations. The Israelis
reminded the UN that the Arabs have consistently rejected all offers to
negotiate a peace settlement and that the Jewish state has “authentic
information at is to disposal to the effect that a war of revenge against
Israel is a plan which exercises certain minds at the very sumit of political
power in the Arab world.
1950: At a luncheon
meeting of the Overseas Automotive Club, “Isaac Arditi of Arditi, Ltd., a Tel
Aviv importer and exporter, declared that Israel is now the biggest export
market for small automotive replacement parts, tools and tires in the Near
East.” The number of civilian owned automobiles has more than doubled since the
days of the British mandate and in the past year Israel has imported three
quarters of million dollars of various automobile supplies from the United
States.
1951: In Newark, NJ, “Bertram
Weinberg, an attorney, and Ruth Weinberg, a high school physical education
teacher” gave birth to Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen.
1951(7th of
Nisan, 5711): Forty-seven-year-old Brooklyn born attorney Irving Tick the
“former Assistant United States attorney for the Southern New York District,
the attorney for the Brooklyn Kosher Butchers Association and former President
of Congregation B’nai Israel of Midwood, Brooklyn, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/04/14/87232993.pdf
1952(18th
of Nisan, 5712): Fourth Day of Pesach
1952: According to an
announcement by Bernie Feldman and Sam Feder, co-chairmen of the Menorah Center
Recreation Committee, “the new and modern Menorah Center outdoor swimming pool”
is scheduled to open today.
1953(28th
of Nisan, 5713): Yom HaShoah
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that Jordan had instructed the Barclays and Ottoman banks, as well as
individual Arab refugees, to stop their participation in the Israeli scheme for
the release of Arab bank accounts frozen in 1948 in Israel.
1953: The Jerusalem Post
reported that the Cabinet had established committees for Internal Affairs and
Services, for Legislative Drafting, for a Foreign Affairs and Security and a
special Experts Committee to study the question of foreign currency control.
1953: Krakow
native and co-founder of the General Zionist Youth Movement Chaim Leavanon, the
husband of Miriam Levit Shamrot whom he married in 1928, a year after he made
Aliyah and taught at the Ehad HaAm gymnasium in Petah Tikva was elected mayor
of Tel Aviv today by the city council.
1953: Israel
Rokach completes his service as mayor of Tel Aviv.
1954: Birthdate of Barbara Maureen Roche (née
Margolis, “a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament”
and served as a cabinet minister in the government of PM Tony Blair.
1955(22nd of Nisan, 5715): Eighth
Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1955: In France, release of “Rififi” a French
crime film directed by Jules Dassin.
1956: U.S. release of “Tribute To A Bad Man”
produced by Sam Zimbalist, with a script co-authored by Michael Blankfort,
featuring Vic Marrow as “Lars Peterson.”
1957(12th of Nisan, 5717): Shabbat
HaGadol
1957: Sidney Lumet’s “12 Angry Men” which was
filmed by cinematographer Boris Kaufman and co-starring Lee J. Cobb, Martin
Balsam and Jack Klugman was released for distribution.
1957: “Shinbone Alley” a musical orchestrated
by Irwin Kostal with a book by Mel Brooks opened on Broadway at The Broadway
Theatre.
1957: In Washington, D.C. George Goodman, an ophthalmologist
and Dorothy (née Bock), a social worker gave birth to journalist Amy Goodman.
1958: Levi
Eshkol, Israel's Minister of Finance, said tonight that progress in Israel must
be bolstered by an expanded economic effort and he urged widespread support for
the Isreal bond campaign in the United States before a special meeting of the
board of governors of the Israel Bond Organization at the Pierre Hotel in NYC,
1959: Birthdate of Haifa native Shem-Tov Sabag,
the Israeli Olympic marathoner turned Chiropractor and the father of “Shachar Sagiv and Ran Sagiv have both
competed in the Olympics in the triathlon.”
1960(16h of Nisan, 5720): Second day of Pesach
1960: Today local police in Buffalo, NY and the
FBI were investigating the desecration of Temple Beth Zion and a threating
letter that was sent to Dr. Martin L. Goldberg, the congregation’s rabbi.
1961(27th of Nisan, 5721): Yom
Hashoah
1961: “A memorial service for the 6,000,000
Jews who died in the Hitler regime was held tonight under the auspices of the
Labor Zionist movement at Farband House, 575 Avenue of the Americas.”
1962(9th of Nisan, 5722):
Sixty-eight-year-old Russian born Rabbi Isadore Epstein, the principal of Jews’
College (now the London School of Jewish Studies) and “editor of the first
complete translation of the Babylonian Talmud who was the husband of “the
former Gertrude Joseph passed away today which was the 36th birthday
of his son Dr. Samuel S. Epstein after which he was buried at the Willesden
United Synagogue Cemetery.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91014194/isidore-epstein
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29778007?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.oztorah.com/2012/06/rabbi-dr-isidore-epstein-a-tribute/#.XLFRMXdFx9A
1962: Birthdate of Hillel Slovak, guitarist for
the Red Hot Chili Peppers who passed away in 1988.
1962: “Experiment in Terror” featuring Ned
Glass was released in the United States today.
1963: “After 428 performances,” the curtain
came down on the original Broadway production of “A Thousand Clowns” featuring
Gene Sakes as “Leo Harman”
1963: “The Riot Act,” directed by Jack Landau
with Herman Bernstein serving as General Manager was performed for the last
time on Broadway at the Cort Theatre.
1964(1st of Iyar, 5724): Rosh
Chodesh Iyar
1964(1st of Iyar, 5724):
Sixty-three-year-old Mrs. Gladys Freeman Kahn, the wife of Moise S. Cahn and a
former President of the National Council of Jewish Women who received an award
from N.A.A.C.P for her work in the field of civil rights passed away today at Mandeville,
LA across the Lake from New Orleans.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/14/mrs-moise-s-cahn-a-jewish-leader-63.html
http://nolajewishwomen.tulane.edu/social-justice/gladys-freeman-cahn/
1965(11th of Nisan, 5725):
Seventy-seven-year-old Aaron Harry “Fuzzy” Kallet, the Polish born University
of Syracuse football player who earned his letter as an “End” while attending
Medical School passed away today.
1965: For their work on “Mary Poppins,” Richard
M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman received the Grammy Award for “Best Original
Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show.”
1966: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
at the Riverside Memorial Chapel for Polish immigrant Isidor Baum, the husband of the former Sarah
Mayer with whom he had eight children – Gladys, Claire, Ruth, Dorothy, Phyllis,
Seymour, Morton and Robert -- who in 1899
began as pushcart peddler on the Lower East Side and by 1911 founded the
Bridgeport Paper Company and went on to serve as President of the Warrensburg
Pulp and Paper Corporation and the White Washburne Corporation, makers of
sanitary napkins while also serving as Director of the Hebrew Home for the Aged
in Riverdale and a director o Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle.
1966: ABC broadcast the “The Long Hot Summer” a
dramatic series that included episodes directed by Ralph Senensky, Mark Rydell
and Vincent Sherman and with theme music composed by Sammy Cahn.
1967: “Operation: Annihilate!”, “the last
original episode of the original American science fiction television series
‘Star Trek’” starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy was broadcast today.
1968(15th of Nisan, 5728): First Day of Pesach
(and Shabbat) are celebrated in a united Jerusalem. The Jewish people are able to observe the
holiday of liberation at the Kotel for the first time since 1948.
1968: Alan Frank Guttmacher complete his
service as President of Planned Parenthood.
1968(15th of Nisan, 5728:
Ninety-year-old Cincinnati native and 1900 Harvard University graduate Max
Hirsch, the President of the Sachs Shoe Manufacturing Company, Democratic Party
activist and “patron of Hebrew University” who married Marga Henie Hirsch after
the death of his first wife Effie Wyler Hirsch passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/04/16/88940381.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969: Birthdate of white collar criminal Nevin
Shapiro who as of 2013 is scheduled to be released from Federal Prison in 2027.
1970: During the IAF’s Operation Priha, “an Egyptian
SA-2 base near Manzala is struck by a 69 Squadron pair, while two 201 Squadron
birds strike at a radar facility near Wadi Zur”
1970: Intense Israeli
air attacks on targets far west of the Canal Zone come to an end.
1971: Aline Milton Bernstein Saarinen was named chief of the
Paris bureau of the National Broadcasting Company making her the first woman to
head an overseas bureau in television.
1972(29th of Nisan, 5732): Sixty-seven-year-old
Harry David “Dave” Skudin who played guard for NYU from 1924 through 1926 and
who after graduating in 1927 “played one season in the NFL passed away today.
1972(29th of Nisan, 5732):
Seventy-five-year-old Boston born Harvard graduate and WW I Victor Kramer, the
husband of the former Mildred Newman with whom he had two daughters – Elaine
and Nancy – and a the founder of corporation that served “management consultants in the laundry” who
was a fund raiser for the United Palestine Appeals and a member of the
executive council of the Menorah Association passed away today in New York
City.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/15/archives/adviser-on-laundry.html?searchResultPosition=1
1973(11th of Nisan, 5733):
Eighty-year-old Breslau born, and German educated physiologist Ernest Gellhorn,
who in 1929 came to the University where he taught at the Universities of
Oregon, Illionis and Minnesota passed away today.
1974(21st of Nisan, 5734): Seventh
Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1974(21st of Nisan, 5734):
Seventy-four year old Gerald Martin Loeb, the San Francisco born son of wine
merchant Solomon Loeb and the former Dahlia H. Levy and husband of Rose Lobree Benjamin who was a founding partner of E.F.
Hutton, am author of business books including The Battle For Investment
Survival and the Battle For Stock Market Profits and the creator of the Gerald
Loeb Award passed away today.
1974: Yonatan Netanyahu wrote to his parents:
"I have no real
girl friend at the moment. My last romance is over, and as I don't have time to
run around anyway, it looks as if I'll remain on my own for the time being. . .
On the whole, I've nothing to complain of. I'm up to my neck in my army work,
and during leaves I move about a lot in our lovely land. The whole world
marvels at the Inca and Aztec civilizations and such—and they do indeed deserve
admiration. Nevertheless almost all of these came into being after the start of
the Christian Era (not that this detracts from their value), whereas here it
seems that the cradle of world civilization is all around us, everything dating
back thousands and thousands of years. A few Saturdays ago I visited the
Biblical Gibeon, and saw the remarkable ancient pool there (I'll take you to
see it when you come). It's this pool that's mentioned in II Samuel in
connection with Abner ben Ner and Joab ben Zeruiah, who 'met together by the
pool of Gibeon' and let 'the young men arise and play before them.' And the country
is all like that!"
1975(2nd of Iyar, 5735): American movie actor
Larry Parks died of a heart attack at the age of 60. Parks gained his first taste of fame at the
age of 31 when he played the title role in “The Jolson Story” followed by
another portrayal of the Jewish entertainer in “Jolson Sings Again.” His career
was a casualty of the Red Hunt. Despite
efforts to avoid testifying, he ended appearing before the House Un-American
Activities Committee where he implicated others. His testimony did not save his career. He was Blacklisted which meant the studios
would not hire him and pictures he had already made were shelved.
1975:
Christian Falange killed 27 Palestinians, beginning the Lebanese civil
war. Stability in Lebanon was based on a fragile power-sharing
agreement between Christians and two groups of Moslems. At one point in
the 1950's President Eisenhower had sent Marines to Lebanon to help restore
order. Contrary to popular misconception, Israel was not the cause
of the disintegration of Lebanon or the civil war that raged in that
country. Today, part of Lebanon is occupied by Syrian troops and is
essentially a province of the Damascus government. Control of
Lebanon was part of the late President Assad's dream of a Greater Syria.
Control of Israel and part of what is now Jordan was also part of that dream.
1976: WNET broadcast the last episode of “The
Adams Chronicles” written Millard Lampell
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that radios had again reverberated, and TV screens
had glittered as the Israel Broadcasting Authority signed an agreement with the
Journalists Association, ending an 11-day radio and TV journalists' strike.
1978: The
Jerusalem Post reported that President Carter, while playing host to the
Romanian president Nicolae Ceasescu, described Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel, giving the town the status which the US Government had refused to
acknowledge.
1979(16th of Nisan, 5739): Second Day of
Pesach; 1st day of the Omer
1979(16th of Nisan, 5739): Eighty-year-old Baltimore City College and Maryland Institute of Design
trained artist and portrait painter Morris Davidson, the Rochester NY born son
of Sophie Elliss and Harris Davidson,
the director of the Morris Davidson School of Art and the husband of
Anne Davidson with whom he had two children – Lucy and Eric – passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/04/16/archives/morris-davidson-dead-artist-and-teacher-80.html
https://www.askart.com/artist/Morris_Davidson/100354/Morris_Davidson.aspx
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/morris-davidson-papers-7360
1979: In Athens, Greece, an authoritative
source said that “ambassadors from Arab countries, except for Egypt, have
complain to Greece about the showing of the television series “Holocaust” which
ambassadors termed as an “American-made Jewish propaganda series.”
1980: “One Day at a Time,” starring Bonnie
Franklin closes its 5th season on CBS.
1980: “Renowned activist and Hebrew teacher
Leoni Volvovsky was arrested in Kishinev” on charges of “vagrancy.
1981(9th of Nisan, 5741): Eighty
year old Golden Gate College trained attorney Walter Francis Kaplan, the El
Paso, TX born son of Albert and Hannah Kaplan, the management consultant and
President of Goodwill Industries of San Francisco who was the husband of the
former Margaret Jacob and the father of Margery and Charles Kaplan passed away
today in San Francisco.
1982(20th of Nisan, 5742): Sixth Day
of Pesach
1982: PLO terrorists remained on alert today,
despite reports that Israel had made no decision to cross into Lebanon and put
an end to attacks which the government of Lebanon either cannot or will not put
an end to.
1983(30th of Nisan, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1983: In a battle of “firsts” Harold
Washington, Chicago’s first African-American mayor defeated Bernard Epton. If he had been elected, Epton would have been
the Windy City’s first Jewish mayor.
1984: President Ronald Reagan read the report
describing the events of the Beirut Bombing attack that killed and wounded over
300 Marines in its entirety as his keynote address to the Rev. Jerry Falwell's
"Baptist Fundamentalism '84" convention, in Washington, DC. The report had been prepared by Rabbi Arnold
Resincoff who was in Beirut at the time.
1984: After having been released in Australia
in 1983, horse-racing movie “Phar Lap” co-starring Ron Leibman was released in
the United States today.
1984(11th of Nisan, 5744): On the
second day of the Egged Bus Hostage Crisis, at around seven in the morning,
following lengthy negotiations “a special force of Sayeret Matkal under the
command of brigadier-general Yitzhak Mordechai stormed the bus while shooting
at the hijackers through the vehicle's windows. During this takeover operation
the soldiers were able to eliminate two of the hijackers, capture the two
additional hijackers, and release all hostages except for one passenger – a
19-year-old female soldier named Irit Portuguese who was killed during the
takeover operation. Seven passengers were wounded during the course of the
operation
1985(22nd of Nisan, 5745): Eighth
Day of Pesach and Shabbat Shel Pesach
1985(22nd of Nisan, 5745) Oscar Nemon the Croatian
born English sculptor whose work includes statutes depicting Dwight D.
Eisenhower, Earl Alexander of Tunis, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Lord
Freyberg, Harold Macmillan, Harry S. Truman and Margaret Thatcher passed away.
1986: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including a review Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men: Inside the
New Israel by Ze'ev Chafets which gives a voice to the new younger
generation of Israelis. whom the author says, is convinced that the utopian
dream of the founders of the state is dead and that Israel is now ''a real
country with the flaws and weaknesses of real countries everywhere.''
1986: Pope John Paul II, “became the first pope
known to have made an official papal visit to a synagogue when he visited the
Great Synagogue of Rome” today where he was greeted by Elio Toaff, Chief Rabbi
of Rome. In his address there he states that Judaism and Christianity are
"intrinsically related" and that to Christians, Jews are "elder
brothers".
1987: “Hank Williams: Lost Highway,” a stage
musical co-athured by Mark Harelik, the grandson of Russian Jewish immigrant
Haskel Harelik, premiered today at the Denver Center Theatre in Denver, CO.
1987: Ofra Moses was buried
today in Petah Tikvah. Mrs. Moses, aged 35, was riding in a car yesterday with
her husband and four children when an unidentified assailant threw the
firebomb, a bottle filled with gasoline and a burning rag, through the open
window of the car. They were driving to the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikvah to
buy food for the Passover holiday. None of the family could attend the funeral
since her husband was in the hospital being treated for extensive burns, her five-year-old
was hospitalized in critical condition and the remaining three children had not
been released due to the extent of their injuries.
1988: The
New York Times reported that the Israeli Deputy
Prime Minister, Yitzhak Navon, and Justice Minister Avraham Sharir are expected
to arrive in Poland today for a one-week visit to take part in ceremonies to
mark the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
1988: U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz
met with Refueniks today.
1988(26th of Nisan, 5748):
Eighty-nine-year-old NYU trained attorney and former Criminal Court Judge
Morris Weinfeld who served in the NY State Assembly from 1924 to 1927 and “as
also a former deputy attorney general for New York State and served on the
National Labor Relations Board in the 1930's” passed away today in nursing home
in Queens.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/obituaries/morris-weinfeld-89-an-ex-new-york-judge.html
1989: Much to the surprise of his followers and
many Palestinians, “an Israeli court indicted Rabbi Moshe Levinger, the leader
of Israel's settlers' movement today, accusing him of killing a Palestinian and
wounding another after he was stoned outside his settlement last fall.
1990(18th of Nisan, 5750): Fourth
Day of Pesach
1990: The East German Parliament approved a
statement today that included the following “Parliament admits joint
responsibility on behalf of the people for the humiliation, expulsion and
murder of Jewish women, men and children. We feel sad and ashamed and
acknowledge this burden of German history. We ask the Jews of the world to
forgive us. We ask the people of Israel to forgive us for the hypocrisy and
hostility of official East German policies toward Israel and for the
persecution and degradation of Jewish citizens also after 1945 in our country. We
declare our willingness to contribute as much as possible to the healing of
mental and physical sufferings of survivors and to provide just compensation
for material losses.
1991(29th of Nisan, 5751): Parashat
Shmini
1992: “Two Trains Running,” for which Mordecai
Benjamin served as executive producer opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr
Theatre.
1993: A revival of George Abbott’s “Three Man
On A Horse” featuring Tony Randall, Jack Klugman and Jerry Stiller opened at
the Lyceum Theatre.
1994(2nd of Iyar, 5754): Hamas conducts a
suicide bombing claiming that it is in response to Baruch Goldstein’s attack on
mosque in Hebron in February during which he killed 29 Muslims who praying
there.
1994(2nd of Iyar, 5754):
In the second such attack in a week, a Palestinian suicide
bomber blew himself up today in an assault on an Israeli commuter bus, killing
five Israelis and wounding 30 others at the main bus station in Hadera, a
working-class town in the country's heartland. Most of the survivors had minor
wounds, but they told of a scene of blood and terror, of bodies ripped apart
and of people too stunned in the first moments even to scream. Those killed
today included Bilha Butin, 49,Rahamim Mazgauker, 34, David Moyal, 26, Daga
Perda, 44 and Sgt. Ari Perlmutter, 19
1994(2nd of
Iyar, 5754): Yom HaZikaron
1994(2nd of Iyar, 5754):
At annual Memorial Day ceremonies in
Jerusalem Prime Minister Rabin took note of last week’s bombing in Afula and
today’s bombing in Hadera, both the work of Hamas when he said, “Even today,
Israelis have paid with their lives, taken by despicable murderers, enemies of
peace. They are trying to torpedo the peace. Beyond the bloodshed, the
booby-trapped cars and the bombs, we continue to hold out our hands for peace
in order to put an end to the suffering. In spite of the difficulties, we will
continue on our way to peace." The somberness of the day gave way to
ceremonies tonight marking the 46th anniversary of the country's founding. But
the celebrations were muted for many, not only because of the latest attack but
also because of warnings from the Hamas group of Islamic militants that more
horror was on the way in one of the worst terrorist waves inside Israel in
years.
1995(13th of
Nisan, 5755): Fifty-five-year-old Barbara Irom the daughter Polish born Al
(Eliyahu) Irom and the former Helen Fixler, of Sighet, Romania and the sister
of Sylvia Feld passed away today in New York City.
1997: The
New York Times includes a review of “In The Memory of the Forest”, a novel
by Charles T. Powers based on the fate of the Jews of Jadowia and ensuing
events that take place in Polish village under the Communist regime.
1997: “An American Daughter,” a play written by
Wendy Wasserstein “premiered in a Lincoln Center Theatre Production at the Cort
Theatre.
1998: The new Home Box Office film “The Rat
Pack” directed by Rob Cohen the Jewish born son of Irwin and Beatrice Franz
Cohen was described by Neal Mortiz, “the film’s producer and the Jewish born
son of Barbara Levin and Milton Moritz said the movie was about “the ultimate
male bonding.”
1999(27th of Nisan, 5759): Yom
HaShoah
2000(8th of Nisan, 5760):
Eighty-four-year-old Giorgio Bassani, the author of the classic modern novel The
Garden of the Finzi-Continis, passed away today in Rome.(As reported by
Alessandra Stanley)
2001(20th of Nisan, 5761): Sixth Day
of Pesach
2001: According to
reports published today “an American Jewish Congress delegation” has been “invited
to attend this month's inauguration of President Mathieu Kerekou of the West
African West Africa.”
2001: In "Doubting
the Story of the Exodus" published Teresa Watanabe summarized the current
scholarly consensus about whether or not the Exodus happened:
2002: As Operation
Defensive Shield, the Israeli response to terrorist attacks that culminated
with a murderous bombing at hotel Seder, was coming to an end, the IDF was
reported to have determined the location of 23 bodies in Jenin.
2003: The Kfar
Saba-Nordau railway “station was opened today as the beginning of the Sharon
Railway, only 11 days before it would be attacked by a Palestinian suicide
bomber.
2003: The New York Times
included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including ''The Rebbe's Army'' by Sue Fishkoff
2004(22nd of Nisan, 5764): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
2004: Release date of Half Dozen by Evan and Jaron (Evan and Jaron
Lowenstein)
2005: Following opening day, today, the Boston Red Sox shipped Kevin
Youkilis to Pawtucket today.
2006(15th of Nisan, 5766): Pesach
2006(15th of Nisan, 5766): Eighty-eight-year-old Dame Muriel
Spark whom “The Times named in is
list of ‘the 50 greatest British writers since 1945’” passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/world/16spark.html?pagewanted=all
2007: Those following
the Perek Yomi program posted on the Torah Page of the Temple Judah (Cedar
Rapids) website www.templejudah.org orhttp://DownhomeDavarTorah.blogspot.com/ read Psalm 150 which means they have completed the entire
Book of Psalms.
2007: “Disturbia,” a thriller starring Shia
LaBeouf was released in the United States today.
2008: The two weeklong Bat Yam International
Biennale of Landscape Urbanism opens in this Israeli metropolis near Tel Aviv.
2008: In Denver, at The Mizel Center for the
Arts, the final production of “In the Belly of the Whale.”
2008: In New York, The Center for Jewish
History presents a colloquium entitled
“Objects of Affection: The Wedding in
Jewish Culture” during which scholars,
artists, curators and others gather to
discuss the most elaborately celebrated of Jewish life cycle events. Weddings
provide rich opportunities to consider the intersection of media and Jewish
religious life.
2008: The
headstone unveiling for Don Novick at Eben Israel Cemetery in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
2008: The Washington Post book section featured a review of Jewish
author Cynthia Osick’s latest work, A Quartet.
2008: The
Sunday New York Times featured a review of “The Genius” by Jesse
Kellerman, the Orthodox Jewish mystery writer who is the son of two other
Orthodox Jewish mystery writers, Faye and Jonathan Kellerman and “Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the
Birth of Religious Freedom in America” by Steven Waldman. Waldman describes the religious beliefs of the
“Founding Fathers” and the origins of the doctrine of separation of church and
state which was driven by concerns among various Christian sects that one would
come to dominate the other. So even
though Jews and American Judaism benefited from this, Jewish beliefs were not a
concern. This is the opposite of the
European experience. In Europe, when
Christians clashed with their co-religionists or with Moslems, the Jews
suffered often as a form of collateral damage.
In a strange application of the law of unintended consequences, in
America, Jews benefited from such clashes.
2009: At Yale University, Miriam Benson, former counsel to the
International Committee of Women of the Wall delivers a talk on the Struggle of
Women of the Wall for Freedom of Worship in Israel entitled "Praying in Her Own Voice."
2009: The American POWs in
Germany traveling exhibit "Behind Barbed Wire" an educational exhibit that features the
experiences of Midwest prisoners of war (POWs) who were imprisoned in Hitler's
Third Reich came to Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2009: Newsweek publishes its
third annual list of the Fifty Most Influential Rabbis compiled by compiled by
Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman & CEO Michael Lynton, News Corporation
Executive Vice President Gary Ginsberg and JTN Productions CEO Jay Sanderson
and its first annual list of America’s 25 Most Vibrant Congregations compiled
by the same businessman. [Editor’s Note: If you are upset that your rabbi did
not make the list, relax. The sages of
Pirke Avot and Rashi couldn’t have either when you consider that David
Saperstein got “the top spot because of his role as Washington insider and
political powerbroker and Friend of Obama.” And Marvin Hier ranked #2 because
he “is a major player in national and world politics…”
2010: Tali Ploskov was elected head
of Arad’s municipality today.
2010: Ghaleb Majadele an Arab
Israeli who became “country’s first Muslim cabinet minister” in 2007
“re-entered the Knesset today as a replacement for Yuli Tamir who had resigned
her seat.”
2010: PBS is scheduled to broadcast
Independent Lens: “Blessed Is the Match” the first documentary feature about
Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper
and resistance fighter and was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by
the Nazis narrated by Joan Allen. Senesh is famous for her such works as
“Blessed is the Match” and “Eli, Eli”
(My God, My God).
2011: The Center for Jewish History
and Center for Traditional Music and Dance are scheduled to present a
multi-media lecture entitled “Sounds of Immigrant New York: Bukharian Jewish
Music in New York City”
2011: “Max Blumb” portrayed by Adam
Pally made his appearance on the television series “Happy Endings.”
2011: Today Israel reopened a commercial crossing
with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip that was shut for seven days, as a lull in
cross-border fighting continued, an Israeli spokesman said. Israel had closed
the Kerem Shalom crossing during a violent flare-up in which Hamas militants
fired rocket and mortars at south Israel, shooting an anti-tank rocket at a
school bus.
2011: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents: “Ethnography
of a Vanishing Courtyard: Moyshe Kulbak's Zelmenyaner”
2011: Israel’s attorney general announced today his
intention to indict the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, on corruption
charges, but said he would allow Mr. Lieberman a hearing to contest an
indictment before issuing a formal charge sheet.
2011(9th of Nisan,
5771): Evelyn Einstein, the 70-year-old granddaughter of Albert Einstein,
passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/us/19einstein.html?_r=1
http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/11109/1140362-84-0.stm
2011: “Bar Ilan University unveiled four rare Haggadot”
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=216404
2012(21st of Nisan,
5772): Seventh Day of Pesach; final day of observance in Israel and for Reform
Jews.
2012(21st of Nisan,
5772): Thirty-five-year-old Jeremiah Luber the grandson of Elaine and Harvey
Luber, of blessed memory, passed away today.
2012(21st of Nisan,
5772): Ninety-nine-year-old Pittsburg born Israeli Talmud scholar and WW II
veteran Avraham Goldberg passed away today.
https://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/prof-avraham-goldberg-%D7%96%D7%9C/
2012(21st of Nisan,
5772): Eighty-year-old Marilyn Lovell actress, singer and activist who was the
widow of composer Peter Matz passed away today.
http://variety.com/2012/legit/news/marilyn-lovell-matz-dies-at-81-1118053300/
http://www.afterdark-nyc.com/news/243-beloved-marilyn-lovell-matz-has-died
2012: “Once More, With Feelings”
published today provides a detailed review of Schmidt Steps Back by
Louis Begley.
2013: Congregation Ada Reyim and
The Northern Jewish Film Festival are scheduled to present “Kaddish for a
Friend.”
2013: PBS is scheduled to show
“Blessed is the Match” which present the brave tale of Hannah Senesch, the
Jewish poet who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe where she was murdered by
her captors.
2013: “Inventing Our Life: The
Kibbutz Experiment” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2013: “All In” and “Koch” are
scheduled to be shown at the Hartford Jewish Film Fest.
2013: This evening The 3rd Annual
National Collegiate Jewish A Cappella Championship Competition sponsored by
Adas Israel is scheduled to take place at the UDC Theatre of the Arts in
Washington, DC
2013: In Columbus, Ohio, Jacob Daniel Levin
makes his grandfather button-busting proud as he is called to the Torah as a
Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Tifereth Israel. L’dor V’dor
2013(3rd of
Iyar, 5773): Eighty-two-year-old Carmen Weinstein, the President of the Jewish
Community of Cairo passed away at her
home in Zamalek
2014: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including You Should Have Known, a novel by Jean Hanff
Korelitz.
2014: “A man with ties
to white supremacist ties opened fire outside the Overland Park JCC, killing
two people” after which he “killed a third person at the Village Shalom center
before being apprehended by police.”
2014: “Hellman v
McCarthy,” Brian Mori’s dramatic portrayal of clash involving Jewish born
playwright Lillian Hellman, the skilled playwright who was an apologist for
Communism’s worst abuses is scheduled to close at the June Havoc Theatre.
2014: Filmmaker Aviva Kempner is scheduled to discuss her most
recent work: a documentary on Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago Jewish businessman
and philanthropist who joined with African American communities in the South to
build schools during the Jim Crow era at the Washington DCJCC.
2014: WQXR is scheduled
to present “A Musical Feast for Passover with Itzhak Perlman.
2014: In Tel Aviv, the
European Weightlifting Championships are scheduled to come to an end.
2015: Herb Keinon, the
diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem, is scheduled to lecture on the
meaning of Israel’s elections at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.
2015: AJHS, Remember the Women Institute is
scheduled to host “Women, Theatre and Holocaust.”
2015: The B’nai B’rith
Music Society and the Jewish Historical Society of England are scheduled to
host Dr. Malcolm Miller who will speak on “Modern Jewish Composers.
2015: The Temple
Emanu-El Skirball Center is scheduled to host a reading of “Our Class” an award
winning play that “unveils the truth behind a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne,
Poland.”
2015: Hours before a
Holocaust memorial ceremony was to be held at the Tennessee State Capitol in
Nashville, shots were fired outside of the West End Synagogue leaving “at least
one bullet hole between two windows at the front of the building.”
2016: “The Grüninger
File,” a movie based on the courage of Swiss Police Commander Paul
Grüninger—known by many as the “Oscar Schindler of the Swiss-German border
region”— is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2016: “Wedding Doll” is
scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2016: Yeshiva
University Museum, Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, Bernard Revel
Graduate School of Jewish Studies and the Straus Center for Torah and Western
Thought are scheduled to present “The Image of the Haggadah,” featuring Marc
Michael Epstein, Ronnie Perelis, Smadar Rosensweig and Meir Soloveichik in a
discussion about the imagery of the Haggadah and what it teaches us about the
meaning and historical celebration of Passover.
2016: In Iowa, The
Jewish Federation of Great Des Moines and Partnership2GETHER/Western Galilee is
scheduled to present “The Jewish Violin with The Israeli Violinists”
accompanied by Professor Michael Wolpe of The Jerusalem Academy of Music and
Dance.
2017(16th of
Nisan, 5777): Second Day of Pesach
2017: The American
Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host a screening of “Streit’s Matzo
and the American Dream” following by a Q and A “featuring director Neil A.
Friedman.
2017: The Jerusalem
Bird Observatory is scheduled to host “a night safari” which provides “an
opportunity to watch night animals on their nocturnal wanderings.”
2018: A world taekwondo
junior championship from which four Israeli athletes were banned in response to
supporters of Palestinian terrorists is scheduled to come to an end in Tunisia.
2018: “Itzhak” a biopic
about the world famous violinist is scheduled to open at the Summerfield in
Santa Rosa, CA.
2018: It was reported
today that Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen had “negotiated a $1.6 million
for a top Republican fundraiser.
2018: Today, “Republican
fundraiser Elliott Broidy resigned from his post as deputy national finance
chairman at the Republican National Committee, a person familiar with the
matter said, following a Wall Street Journal report that he agreed to pay $1.6
million to a former Playboy model who said Mr. Broidy had impregnated her,.”
(As reported by Rebecca Ballhaus and Julie Bykowicz)
2018: Friday the 13th
- How can a day that ends with Candles, Kiddish and Challah be considered
unlucky?
2019: The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a book signing event with Gary
Reiner author of Counting on America: A Holocaust Memoir of Terror, Chutzpah,
Romance and Escape.
2019: One hundred
three-year-old anti-Fascist and Ravensbruk concentration camp survivor Neus
Catala passed away today. (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/obituaries/neus-catala-dead.html
2019: With Chicago
Public Schools beginning Spring Break, the Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to offer freed admissions to “kids and students.”
2019: “Led by The
Boston Globe’s “bona fide b-girl,” Ephrat Asherie Dance is scheduled to make
its Fisher Center debut with Odeon, a high-energy, hybrid hip-hop work” this
evening.
2019(8th of
Nisan, 5779): Shabbat HaGadol.
2020(19th of
Nisan, 5780: Fifth Day of Pesach; 4th day of the Omer
20201(9th of
Nisan, 5780): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Raphael Meldola of
Leghorn and Rabbi Chaim Bezalel Panet of Bielitz
2020: The Steicker
Center is scheduled to host a virtual session of the Modern Jewish Thought
Series in which Rabi Joshua M. Davidson lectures on “Eugene Borowitz and
Renewing the Covenant.”
2020: HaMaqom|The Place
educator Tamar Zaken is scheduled to lead “Hamsa: The Potential of an Open
Hand” a virtual class about tzedakah and the symbolic meaning of open hands in
Judaism”
2020: Temple Emanuel of
Newton, MA is scheduled to host Arza Goldstein via Zoom as she presents “Don’t
Leave Them With a Mess,” in which she “remind us that when it comes to our own
dying and death, we are all beginners in need of many things, including
practical advice on how to leave family/loved ones focused on our lives, our
legacies and their grief, and not on how long it took to clean up the mess.”
2021(1st of
Iyar, 5781): Rosh Chodesh Iyar; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2021: The Sir Martin
Gilbert Churchill Conversation Series is scheduled to present “.”Churchill's
Europe.”
2021: The East Bay
International Jewish Film festival is scheduled to start hosting “virtual”
screenings of ’Manua II” and “Mango Dreams.”
2021: As part of the
Israel’s First Families series, the Virtual Tempe Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a lecture by Dalia Rabin.
2021: YIVO is scheduled
to present a lecture by Mathew Johnson on “Glikl’s Afterlives: On the
Circulation and Reception of Glikil’s Memoires.”
https://programs.cjh.org/event/glikls-afterlives-2021-04-13
2022: The Jewish
Community Library is scheduled to present online Rachel and David Biale discussing
their new book, Aerograms Across the Ocean: A Love Story in Letters, a
jointly written memoir based on 258 letters they exchanged from 1970-72 after
the 21-year-old David and almost 18-year-old Rachel met on a kibbutz in Israel.
2022: The Lappin
Foundation is scheduled to present a virtual Passover story time with music by
Singin’ with Susan better known as Susan
Shane-Linder, an award-winning published singer/songwriter and children’s
recording artist.
2022: In Columbus, OH,
at Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host “Passover Prep: Making a Meaningful
Seder” with Rabbis Braver and Skolnik.
2022: Schusterman
Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University and Belzberg Program in Israel
Studies, University of Calgary are scheduled to present seminar that is part of the
2nd edition of the Sephardi Thought and Modernity Series that intends to
continue the exploration of Sephardic modernities initiated in 2021.
2022: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar “Jew in the Cathedral” with Rex
Bloomstein.
2023(22nd of
Nisan, 5783): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
2032: Temple Judea is
scheduled to host a morning minyan including Yizkor prayers followed by a
Yizkor Brunch.
2023: This evening Ori
Flomin, a Sabra and Tel Aviv resident Ori Lenkinski are scheduled to present
“Urban Crawler” and “The Suit” at Manhattan’s Arts.
2023: Mimouna “a
traditional Maghrebi Jewish celebration dinner, that currently takes place in
Morocco, Israel, France, Canada, and other places around the world where Jews
of Maghrebi heritage live is scheduled to begin this evening.
2023: Tenth anniversary
of the Bar Mitzvah Jacob Daniel Levin, in the past decade he has turned that
a screening of “cliché
“today I am a man” into a reality in so many different ways.
2024: The Chicago
Israeli Film is scheduled to host a screening of “Running on Sand.”
2024: The Fort Greene
Orchestra, led by the young Israeli conductor and impresario Daniel Zinn, is
scheduled to perform a new grand production: "Titan Symphony” for the last
time.
2024 Northwestern
University’s Israel Innovation Project is scheduled to host a screening of
“Generation 1.5.”
2024: In Iowa City, the
traditional egalitarian Hawkeye Minyan is scheduled to “gather at the Sarah and
Andy Frank.
2024: The Eden-Tamir
Center is scheduled to host the “Toscanini Quartet, Ensemble in Residence and
Friends.”
2024: At Temple Judea,
following the morning torah study with Rabbi Feivel Straus, Isabella Levi-Minzi
is scheduled to be called to the Torah this afternoon as a Bat Mitzvah.”
2024: This evening in
Metairie, LA, Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation is scheduled to host a
comedy event with American-Israeli comedian Benji Lovitt.
2024: Assistant Stage
Manager Quinn Levin will provide technical support “Xanadu,” is scheduled to be performed for
the last time at Bexley High School with
2024: Agnon House is
scheduled to host another meeting of joint readings of Agnon's stories, this
time called "The House" included in the collection "The Book of
Acts".
2024: This evening at
the Library of Congress, the Dwight Opperman Foundation is scheduled to honor
this year’s recipients of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Award with a list that
included honorees whom the late jurist family designed as “an affront to the
memory of our mother and grandmother.”
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/
2024(5th of Nisan,
5784): Parashat Tazria
2024: As April 13th
begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin day 190
in captivity. (Editor’s note:
this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a
snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2025(15th of
Nisan, 5785): Pesach observed as we remember
15th of
Nisan, 5650 (1890): An untold number of poor New Yorkers enjoyed eating meat at
their Seder tonight thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Paulina Rosendorff who had
provided the funding that enabled butchers to distribute their product free of
charge.
15th of
Nisan, 5675(1915): The 300 Jewish
soldiers and sailors who attended last night’s Seder sponsored by the Army and
Navy Y.M.H.A. which also provided a night’s lodging at the Hotel Roland are
scheduled to worship at Temple Beth Israel at Lexington and 72nd
Street today while the Secretary of War, the Governor of New York and the Mayor
of New York City have been invited to attend tonight’s Seder sponsored by the
Army and Navy Young Men’s Hebrew Association for the benefit of 300 of the
8,000 Jews serving in the military which is being held at Vienna Hall on
Lexington and 58th Street.
15th of
Nisan, 5677 (1917): One day after U.S.
declared War on Germany, Jews gather in the synagogue to observe Pesach and
Shabbat
15th of Nisan,
5705(1945): At least 58 Jews were
murdered in a forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Shuetzen, in what
would come to be called the Deutsch Shuetzen Massacre while in the evening,
members of the Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8th Army
serving in Italy took part in a Seder at Faenza.
15th of Nisan,
5725(1965): While Jews in
the Soviet struggled to deal with a shortage of Matzah created by the
government refusal to let state bakeries prepare adequate supplies of
unleavened bread Rabbis in America were encouraged to deliver sermons that
related the themes of Pesach with fight for Civil Rights complete with
references to the recent voting rights march in Selma.
15th of
Nisan, 5728(1968): For the first time,
Pesach is observed in a unified Jerusalem.
2025: Second Seder and
in the evening count the Omer for the first time.
2025: In Cedar Rapids,
Temple Judah is scheduled to host its annual Congregational Seder.
2025: In Metairie, LA,
Shir Chadash is scheduled to host its annual Second Night Jazz Seder featuring
the “incredible sounds of the "New Song Jazz Ensemble", led by Ben
Schenck, and the captivating vocals of Meryl Zimmerman.
2025: A double simcha:
Twelfth anniversary of the Bar Mitzvah of Jacob Levin is observed one day after
he led the seder in his grandfather’s home in Cedar Rapids
2025: As April 13th
begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across the
globe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 556 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: Dr. Eric
Goldman, the author of The American
Jewish Story through Cinema is scheduled to teach the first session “When
Hollywood Fought Nazis.”
2026: On the eve of Yom
HaShoah, Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA is scheduled to host
Dr. Alex Kor as he shares the extraordinary survival stories of his parents Eva
and Mickey Kor, as well as the lessons of their lives, resilience and the power
of forgivingness.
2026: Karen Kirsten, an
Australian-American author and Holocaust educator, is scheduled to be the
feature speaker at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State
University’s (CHGS) annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.
2026: On the eve of Yom
HaShoah Monday, April 13, at 18:00, Agnon House is scheduled to hold an online reading event on the story
"Night of the Nights" after which Agnon House counselors Ofir
Lifshitz, Uri Grinshpon and Ido Nitzan, will discuss Agnon's questions about
the memory of the Holocaust and how past events continue to shape the present.
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