August 2
338 BCE: A Macedonian army
led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the
Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
Phillip was the father of Alexander Great.
His victory paved the way for Alexander’s conquests which had a major
impact on the Jewish people of which we are reminded each year when we
celebrate Chanukah.
1100: King William Rufus, the second son of William the Conqueror
who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews that occurred in
Rouen, and across France and the Rhineland, in the bloody frenzy the preceded
the departure of the First Crusade in 1096” was fatally struck by an arrow
which may have been a hunting accident or part of calculated plot to remove him
from the throne.
1193:
Following the death today of Mieszko the Younger, his Duchy of Kasliz reverted
to Greater Poland where Jews had come to serve “as the backbone of the economy”
due to the recognition by the rulers of the “commercial abilities” of the Jews.
1222: Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse and Marquis of Provence passed
away. “He was so sympathetic to the Jews that Pope Innocent III caused him to
take an oath ‘that he would deprive the Jews of their offices and that he would
never appoint any Jews or in any way favor them.’”
1389: Catholic Archdeacon and Jew hater Ferran Martinez is denied
the right to act as a judge or to preach after refusing to follow an order of
the Pope. The Archbishop of Seville issued this strong punishment
because Martinez refused to issue permits for Jews to build new synagogues, in
accordance with the wishes of the Pope.
1492: According to some sources this day marked the beginning of
the final expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
According to tradition it was Tisha B’Av on the Jewish calendar.
1549: Birthdate of Russian nobleman Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł
author of Podróż do Ziemi Świętej, Syrii i Egiptu 1582-1584 (The trip to Holy
Land, Syria and Egypt 1582-1584) provided a first-hand description of life in
Palestine at the end of the 16th century.
1579(10th of Av): Joseph Nasi, duke of Naxos, passed away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/JosephNasi.html
1589: King Henry III of France passed away. Before he was King of
France, as Henry of Anjou he was elected as the first King of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He owed
this victory to a Jew named Solomon Ashkenazi who was the principle adviser to
the Emperor of the Ottoman Empire.
1666(NS): Francis
Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, under whose leadership a group of
Sephardic Jews migrated to Suriname in 1652 and “settled in the Jodensavanne
area” passed away today. (Editor’s Note – I have not been able to find out why
this English Lord helped the Jews find safe haven but hopefully somebody else
has and will share his with me)
1675: The "Great Synagogue" was inaugurated in Amsterdam
on Rapenburgerstraat. This was a Sephardic synagogue, home to K.K. Talmud
Torah, which was a union of Congregations Neveh Shalom founded in 1608 and Bet
Yisrael found in 1618.
1696: Birthdate of Mahmud
I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. In 1739, Mahmud signed the Treaty of Belgrade
that gave citizenship rights to the Ottoman Jews. Austrian Jews were so impressed with the
grant of rights that many of them applied for citizenship in Mahmud’s empire.
1734: In Savannah, GA, Abraham de Lyon, the Portuguese born son of
Jacob de Leon and his wife gave birth to Rachel de Lyon, , the wife of Myer
Hart whom she married in 1752.
1756: In Poland, as the Sabbatians led by Jacob Frank battled with
established Jewish community, “they presented the local bishop with a demand
for a public confrontation with the rabbis in which they would argue that their
faith was in in essence compatible with Christianity.”
1759(9th of Av, 5519): Tish’a B’Av observed during the
Seven Years War as the Allies basked in their victory yesterday at Minden and as the British laid siege to Quebec during
what was called the French-Indian War.
1765(15th of Av, 5525): Tu B’Av
1765: In Amsterdam, , the Esnoga whose design was based on the
plants for King Solomon’s Temple, was completed and opened with great ceremony.
1773: One of the dates given for the establishment of The Mordecai
Sheftall Cemetery in Savanna, GA, one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the
United States.
1774: An entry in The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles bearing
today’s date confirms that fact that
Englis born Isaac Da Costa became the “first Hazan at Congregation Beth Elohim”
in Charleston in 1754.”
1776: Abraham Isaac Abrahams and his wife gave birth to Menachem
Israel Abrahams.
1778(9th
of Av, 5538): Tish’a B’Av observed the French fleet sails from “outside New
York Harbor” bound for Newport in what would be the first of the joint
Franco-American military actions that would culminate in the Battle of
Yorktown.
1782(22nd
of Av, 5542): Verhcheres, Quebec merchant Uriah Judah, the son of Abraham Judah
and the “prothonotary of Three Rivers” passed away today.
1783(4th of Av, 5543): Shabbat Chazon as the Americans
and the British negotiate the terms of what became the Treaty of Paris which
ended the American Revoltuion
1784(11th of Av): Rabbi Simcha ben Abraham Calimani poet and
linguist, passed away at Venice.
1786(8th
of Av, 5546): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that Congress adopts a
measure to make a payment on loans to made by the French and Dutch which had
helped to finance the Revolutionary war.
1789(10th
of Av, 5549): Tish’A B’Av observed for the first time during the Presidency of
George Washington.
1790: The United States conducts its first census. Out of a population of four million people,
there are approximately 2,000 Jews.
1792: In Charleston, Mrs. Nathan married Abraham Jones, “the clerk
to the synagogue.”
1794(6th of Av, 5554): Parashat Devarim read for the
first time on a shabbat when the Jews of Sweden could not have a cup of coffee
because it had been banned by the government on August 1st.
1795: Birthdate of Austrian Talmudist Aaron Kornfeld who was a
native of Bohemia.
1797: In Almelo, The Netherlands,
Levie Emanuel Goudsmit, the son of Emanuel Salomons and Esther
Levie and his wife Magdalena Hartog
Goudsmit gave birth to Aron Levie Goudsmit, the “usband of Henriette Jette van
Raalte and the father of Hertog Goudsmit; Levy/Levij Goudsmit; Emanuel /
Menachem Goudsmit; Catharina Goudsmit; Jacob Goudsmit; Mietjen Magdalena
Drilsma; Johanna Goudsmit; Hester Goudsmit; Betje Goudsmit and Aleida Hartog.”
1799(1st of Av, 5559): Rosh Chodesh Av
1799(1st of Av, 5559): Golem Levi Marx, the infant son
of Samuel and Eva Marx Levi passed away today in Trier.
1806:Rabbi Joseph David Sinzheim a member of the Assembly convened
by Napoleon continued to respond to the questions asked by the Imperial
Commissioner.
1808(9th of Av, 5568): Tish’a B’Av
1812: Hannah Moses and Abraham Braham were married today at the
Great Synagogue after which they had five children – Esther, Eliza Rosa,
William and Edwain.
1818(29th of Tammuz, 5578): Myer Derkeim, who “came to
America from Germany by way of England “ who settled in Richmond “in the middle
1780s” and was the husband of Sarah Derkeim passed away today.
1819: An anti-Semitic riot breaks out in the city of
Wurzberg. It will be the first in string
of such violent actions to plague the Jews of Germany. The violence which
lasted until October of 1891 was known as The Hep-Hep Riots taken from the
rallying cry of the anti-Semitic rioters.
Nobody seems to know the true origin of the term.
1820: Today, Stanislaw Staszic, a Catholic priest and government
minister, “attempted to subject Polish Jewish books to the severest scrutiny”
so that “no Jewish book was to be printed or sold in the land or imported from
aboard through sale or subscription without the express permission of the
Commission of Religion Denominations and Public Enlightenment.”
1822(15th of Av, 5582): Tu B’Av
1822:
New York native Solomon Moses and Rachel Gratz gave birth to Gertrude Moses who
would die before she reached the age of fourteen months.
1824(8th
of Av, 5584): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time during the Presidency
of James Monroe, the last of the “Virginia Presidents.”
1825:
Polish born, St. Louis, MO, resident Jacob Philipson and Elizabeth
Philipson gave birth to Esther Lewis,
the wife of Alexander Lewis.
1827(9th
of Av, 5587): Tish’a B’Av
1827:
Birthdate of Hamburg German David Gustave Hertz, the Jewish convert of
Lutheranism known as Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, the attorney and “senator of the
Free Imperial City of Hamburg who was the “father of physicist Heinrich Hertz:
and the husband of “Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn, the daughter of a Lutheran
minister.”
1829:
Birthdate of Budapest native, University of Vienna art student and convert to
Christianity Felix Philipp Kanitz, the “archeologist and ethnographer” whose travels
through the Balkan provinces led him to become the ethnographer of the Southern
Slavs.”
1830: As turmoil gripped France, Charles X also known as Charles
Phillippe during whose reign Judaism was placed on “an equal footing with other
faiths” and the rabbinical college in Metz founded in 1829 “as recognized as
state institution and granted a state subsidy” abdicated today.
1834(26th of Tammuz, 5594): Parashat Matot-Maei
1834: In Bavaria, Jacob Bettmann and Jeanette Kann gave birth to
Bernhard Bettmann, “the President of the Board Governors Hebrew Union College
since 1875” and the “Collector for the Internal Revenue at Cincinnati since
1897” who was the husband of Mathilde Wald.
1835: Birthdate of
Griswold, CT and Yale University graduate Moses Coit Tyler, the Cornell
University professor who was a member of the American Jewish Historical
Society.
1837(1st of Av, 5597): Rosh Chodesh Av
1841(15th
of Av, 5601): Tu B’Av observed on the same day that a total lunar eclipse
lasting one hour and forty-five minutes which “plunged the full Moon in deep
darkness…”
1841:
In Austria, Zemira Lowenberg and Daneil Mendelsohn-Levi gave birth to Sigmund
Mendelsohn, the husband of Isabella Weilman whom he married in New Orleans and
father of Bertha, Florence, Daniel Simon and Elise Mendelsohn who during the
Civil War, enlisted in the 75th Pennsylvania Infantry, was wounded
in the Second Battle of Manassas and was
honorably discharged 1865
1842: In the Hague, Meijer Polak Daniels and Alida
Ezechiels gave birth to Dutch chess master Ansel Polak Daniels, the husband of Elise Marchand who “won the Dutch Championship
at the Hague in 1877.”
1845:
In Poland, Hebraist and author Simon Barcuch Schefftel, the “son Breslau born
son Alexander Baruch Schefftel and Roeschen Schefftel, and his wife Henriette
(Gitel) Schefftel gave birth to Georg Schefttel today.
1846(10th
of Av, 5606): Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time during the
Mexican-American War at a time when American forces were seizing various places
in California that would lead to its annexation.
1849:
Muhammad Ali Pasha who had “given his permission to rebuild the Hurva Synagogue
in the hope that Baron Rothschild “would be inclined to forge financial and
political ties with him” passed away today.
1850: Birthdate of Hungarian native Julius Klein who served as as
the rabbi at Szigetvar and Alt-Often who was one of the first to preach in
Hungarian during synagogue services.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9377-klein-julius
1851(4th of Av, 5611): Parashat Devarim
1851(4th of Av, 5611): Abigail Lopez, the daughter of
Aaron Lopez and the wife of Isaac Gomez, Jr. whom she married in 1790, passed
away today.
1851: At Hyde Park Square, Kensington, UK, Joseph Mayer Montefiore
and Henriietta Francisca Montefiore, the daughter of Salomon and Fanny Sichel,
gave birth to poet
and translator Alice Julia Lucas - the sister of C.G. Montefiore, the wife of
barrister Henry Lucas and the sister-in-law of Sir Arthur Lewis – who was the
founder and President of the Jewish Study Society whose works included
Translations from the German Poets of the 18th and 19th
Centuries, published in 1876 and Talmudic Legends, Hymns and Paraphrases
published in 1908
1853: Samuel Joseph Rubenstein, a Jew who arrived from Russian in
1829, was naturalized as a citizen of the United Kingdom today.
1854(8th of Av, 5614): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1854: In Charleston, SC, Charles Henry Moise and Theodora Sydney
Moise gave birth to Caroline Agnes “Caro” Moise Lopez the wife of “mercantile businessman” Julian Lee Lopez and
the mother of Theodora Sidney Lopez Houston.
1858: In Mannheim, Germany, Lazarus Morgenthau, the son of Moses
and Brunhilda Morgenthau, and Seline Babette Morgenthau gave birth to Julius
Caesar Morgenthau
1865: Birthdate of Antoine Targe, the native of Saint-Chamond
whose investigation in 1903 during the Dreyfus Affair, “established the fact
that several forgeries still existed in the War Ministry's offices, that some
documents had clearly been altered, that there were erroneous commentaries,
that exonerating documents had been hidden, and that others were
"receptacles for every sort of gossip from dismissed servants and
malicious concierges." He would ensure that these documents were available
to the Court of Cassation when it considered the fate of Dreyfus.
1886: In Geneva, William Moultrie Moses and Penina Septima Robison
gave birth to Albert Luria Moses the husband of Rosa Moses and father of
William Moultrie Moses; Mathilde R. Moses and Albert Luria Moses, Jr. who died
in Colorado at the 78 who is not to be confused the native of Florida who
served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and was killed at the
Battle of Seven Pines during the Peninsular Campaign in 1862.
1866:
The New York Times quotes the Aroostook Pioneer as saying that a
religious movement is forming in Maine with the intent of immigrating to
Jerusalem. A ship is being fitted out at Jonesport which should be ready to
sail by the middle of next month. Land has already been purchased near Jaffa
where the immigrants plan on making their home. [Ed. Note - the article does
not mention if any Jews were involved or note.]
1869: In Prosehle, Poland, Judah L. Yudelson and his wife gave
birth to CCNY and Northwestern educated Albert B. Yudelson, who served as
“principal of the Hebrew Free School in Patterson, NJ and Superintendent of the
Hebrew Education Society in Brooklyn” before becoming the Rabbi of the South
Side Hebrew Congregation in Chicago.
https://flps.newberry.org/id/5423972_4_1_1141
1869: George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans), an unlikely “champion of
Jews and Zionism” and author of Daniel Deronda, began writing her
masterpiece, Middlemarch, today.
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/george-eliot/
1869: “Arrah-Na-Pogue” starring Rose Eytinge opened at Niblo’s
Garden
1870: The report that police had apprehended the person
responsible for the murder of prominent New York businessman Benjamin Nathan
has turned out to be nothing more than an unfounded rumor. The police are continuing to vigorously
investigate the murder but will not take any action against any
individual until they are absolutely sure of their facts.
1871(15th of Av, 5631): Tu B’Av
1872: In Poland, Hanna
Strashun and Judah Loeb Yudelson gave birth to Northwestern Medical School
trained neurologist Dr. Albert Berard Yudelson, the husband of Lillian Lapat
whom he married after the death of his first wife Clara Ettinger and starting
in 1908, “an associate professor of nervous and mental diseases at Northwestern
University Medical School who enlisted in the Army during World War I and
served as a Captain with the AEF “in Fance as a neuropsychiatrist.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/18/archives/obituary-7-no-title.html?searchResultPosition=10
1873(9th of Av, 5633) Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a Bav
1873((9th of Av, 5633): Four-year-old Walter Jonas Moses, the son of Dr. Montefiore
Moses and Rosetta Moses passed away today
1873: “Life in Bohemia” published today provides an anecdotal
account of conditions in this part of central Europe. The section “The Jews” described the contempt
that many of the Bohemians have for the Jews, which the author compares to that
which Brian de Bois Guilbert had for Isaac of York and the other Jews of
England in the novel Ivanhoe. Conditions are not better for the Jews of
the newly created nation of Romania where Jews have been forbidden to take part
in the newest commercial ventures.
1874: In Cincinnati, OH, Lewis “Ludwig” Seasongood, the Bavarian
born son “of Mendel Emanuel Suessenguth and Hannah Johanna Suessenguth” and his
wife Emma Seasongood gave birth to Clara Seasongood who became Clara
Berolzheimer when she married Philip Sheridan Berolzheimer with whom she had
two children – Helen and Charles.
1875(1st of Av, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Av observed on the
same day that Alexander Hamilton, Jr., the son of the founding father who
according to some was born Jewish in the Colony of Nevis, passed away.
1876: In Pinsk, Nokhum-Meyer
Shaykevitsh and his wife gave birth to Avrom Shomer who gained fame as
journalist, playwright and screen writer Abraham S. Schomer who wrote for the
Yiddish theatre in New Yok and passe away in Los Angles just after celebrating
his 70th birthday.
https://congressforjewishculture.org/people/452/Shomer-Avrom-Abraham-S-Schomer-August-2-1876-August-16-1946
1878: Mrs. Josephine Lewinski, the wife Phillip Lewinski, a member
of the Lowery gang of counterfeiters applied for alimony and legal fees as part
of the divorce proceedings she has brought against her notorious husband.
1878(3rd of Av): Shiye Mordecai Lifshits passed away.
1878: In Russia, Samuel and Gertrude (Lipkind) Weinstein gave to
New York businessman Max Weinstein “the President of Weinstein Brothers Coat
House, the senior member of Weinstein, Seligman and Company (members of the
NYSE) and trustee of the Jewish Center on West 86th Street in NYC
who was the husband of Bertha Arbus.”
1879: In Kensington, UK Leopold (Lippmann) Seligmann, the son of
David and Fanny Seligman and Julia Levi gave birth to Edward Seligman
1879: “Caring For The Sick Poor” published today traced the
history of medical facilities in New York including the founding of Mount Sinai
Hospital by the Jews in 1852.
1879: In New York, Detectives Fogarty and Handy arrested a Jew
named Louis Pollard because he had some shoes in his possession that matched
the description of shoes stolen last September.
Pollard first claimed that he had bought the shoes at an auction but
later said he got the shoes from a woman named Lena Bezona. She was arrested
and Pollard was released.
1879: The Medal of Honor was issued to David Orbansky for “his
gallantry in action” at the Battle of Shiloh.
1881: In New York, “Max and Caroline Seelig Leo”gave birth to Eva
Leo who became Eva Leo Fox in 1899 when she married American motion picture
executive” William Fox who “founded the Fox Film corporation in 1915” whose
name lives on as the “Fox” in Fox Network News.
1882(17th of Av, 5642): Austrian born author David
Podiebrad who specialized in the history of the Jews of Prague passed away
today.
1883: Troops were called out to disperse rioters who attacked the
Jews living in Ekaterinoslav, Russia.
1884(11th of Av, 5644): Shabbat Nachamu
1884: Twenty-three-year-old Solomon Rintel, a Hungarian born
fresco painter living in New York was seen alive for the last time as he
retired to his room at boarding house on 6th Street.
1885: Birthdate of Oskar Blumenthal who in 1941 was transported
from Prague to Terezin and from there to Riga in 1942 where he was murdered.
1886(1st of Av, 5646): Rosh Chodesh Av
1886: Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia graduate
Edward H. Green, the Harvard educated attorney and member of Sullivan and
Cromwell who specialized in tax cases who was the husband of the former
Margaret Morgenstern.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/11/19/89976247.html?pageNumber=41
1887: Birthdate of Nathan David Perlman, the native or Prusice,
Poland who came to the United States in 1891 and after having graduated NYU Law
School and passed the bar in 1909, pursued a political career that led to him
being elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican in 1920.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/nperlman.html
1887: In Jerusalem journalist Israel Dov Frumkin and his first
wife Bielke Frumknn gave birth to Gad Frumkin
1887: In Hesse, Germany, Isaak and Malchen Amalie Rothschild gave
birth to Holocaust victim Rachel Levor, the wife of Joseph Levor and the mother
of Bruno and Manfred Levor.
1887: One day after his 27th birthday, Adolph Guttman,
the Austrian born son of Herman and Rebecca (Cypress) Guttman who was the
long-serving Rabbi of Temple Concord in Syracuse, NY, married Marilla Goldstein
today.
1887: Birthdate of Aaron Gedalia Kaletzki, who gained fame as
Harry “Fuzzy” Kallet, the All-American End at the University of Syracuse and
husband of Kathryn Clifford with whom he “had two sons, Clifford and Richard”
who spent 55 years working as “a practicing physician in Syracuse New York.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112104917/aaron-harry-kallet
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112104965/kathyrn-kallet
https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides_sua/html/sua_kallet_ah.htm
1888: In southern Russia Samuel and Fannie (Freedman)Lear gave
birth to Yale Trained surgeon, the husband of Ida H. Avrutin with whom he had
one child, Pearl Sylvia and the son-in-law of Hyman and Rachael Avrutin.
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ctnhvbio/Lear_Maxwell.html
1888: Poor youngsters and their mothers will have the chance to
enjoy a free excursion today sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.
1889: In
Kovno, Rabbi Phillip and Frume Gittel (Sachs) Davidson gave birth to Rabbi
Isidore Meir Davidson who came to the United States at the age of two where he
attended Columbia University, married Rose Miriam Ginsburg at Wilkes-Barre, PA
in 1914, was one of the founders of the Young Judea movement and was “active in
bringing about passage of the Kosher Bill in the Ohio state legislature.
1890(16th of Av, 5650): Shabbat Nachamu
1890: “The Jewish Persecutions” published today described the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom speech in the
House Of Lords in which he assured those present “that there were no grounds
for dreading a wholesale invasion of Great Britain of pauper Jews from Russia.”
1890: It was reported today that New York Congressman Charles S.
Baker has expressed his concern for the fate of Russian Jews by asking the
Foreign Affairs Committee to report favorably on a resolution calling on the
President to intervene on their behalf.
1890: In Galician Poland, Samuel and Annie Teller gave birth to
Dr. Morris Teller who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania after which
he was ordained at JTS where he also received advanced degrees before serving
as rabbi of the South Side Hebrew Congregation and who was the husband of “the
former Nellie Ruby and the father of Sheldon Teller
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/11/28/90238888.pdf
1890: The government in Berlin has sent orders to the frontier
customs posts to watch for the threatened migration of Jews from Russia in
response to the new edicts promulgated by the Czar’s government.
1891: It was reported today that Hartog Veld who has been serving
as a Rabbi in Troy, NY is moving to Montreal to serve another congregation in
Canada.
1891: “The Jews In Russia” published today challenges the
contention that Russia’s treatment of its Jews has nothing to do with religion
and his contention that somehow 4 million Jews are controlling the economic
lives of sixty million Russians through their practice of usury.
1891: “Jews Who Plow” published today provides Arnold White’s
affirmative response to the question “Has a Jew ever been see to plow” in which
he includes descriptions of active Jewish agricultural settlements.
1892: In London, Ontario, “Benjamin Warner, a cobbler from
Krasnosielc, Poland (then located in the "Russian" part of Poland
known as Congress Kingdom), and his wife, the former Pearl Leah Eichelbaum”
gave birth to Jacob Warner, who gained fame as Jack L. Warn who, along with his
four brothers founded Warner Brothers, which became a giant in the film
industry. Among other claims to fame Warner Brothers produced "The Jazz
Singer," the first "talking" motion picture. Some of his stars
included Bette Davis, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. Warner was known for
his frugality and was not necessarily that well liked. At one point his son and
namesake said of his dad, "At times he gloried in being a no-good
sonofabitch. If his brothers hadn't hired him, he'd have been out of
work."
1892: “Wild Anarchist Talk” published today described a meeting
attended by “300 wild-eyed, unshaven, unclean and foul-mouthed men and about a
score of hard-featured cigarette-smoking young women” that was addressed by
Emma Goldman who, speaking in German praised the man who had attempted to
assassinate Henry Clay Frick.
1892: Birthdate of Norwegian “homemaker” Margot Cohn who was
murdered at Auschwitz.
1892: “This Fellow Praised Berkmann” published today described a
meeting of anarchist that met in a Newark, NJ neighborhood “populated almost
entirely by Russian Jews…and the lower class of Germans.” (This was one of
several meetings held to cheer Alexander Bermkimann, the Jewish anarchist who
had attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, the business leader whose
exploitative behavior led to the infamous Homestead Steel Strike)
1893: In New York, “Barnett and Dora Kriss Feinberg gave birth to
Sayde “Saide” Feinberg who became Sadye “Sadie” Fienberg Cohen in 1914 when she
married Samuel Cohen.
1893: Birthdate of Ukrainian native and Yiddish writer
Doivd-Shlome Orlovski (David Solomon Orlovksy), the author of From Fire and
Sword who settled in Argentina in 1930 and wrote under the penname of Ben
Golus.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/09/dovid-shloyme-orlovski-david-solomon.html
1893: “Morris and Rachel Kripke Tuschman gave birth to Hannah
Tuschman who became Hannah Tuschman Kasle when she married Sam Kasle.
1894: The prosecution completed presenting its case against
Jeremiah S. Levy, the Jewish policeman charged with having accepted a bribe
from Charles Krumm, “the Chrystie Street concert hall keeper for permitting him
to” operate his business “without a license.”
1895: “The Children And The Streets” published today described the
visit of Colonel Waring to the Hebrew Institute where he told the immigrant
children about the importance of their work in keeping cleaning the streets.
1896: Colonel Eugene H. Levy and his bride Marie have gone to Old
Point Comfort for their honeymoon. Levy is a journalist who served with the
Confederates during the Civil War. His
wife is a former schoolteacher who converted to Judaism before the wedding.
1896: It was reported today that Morris Lerner and Levi Milrod
have retained Stiefel and Lauer to sue the owners of the SS Herman, the German steamship on which their sons Joseph Lerner
and David Milrod who died as a result of their mistreatment while sailing to
the United States
1897: Birthdate of Karl Otto Koch, the commander of the
concentration camps at Buchenwald and Majdanek who was executed by the Nazis in
1945.
1899: “Boers Remain Intolerant” published today described the
Volksraad’s decision to reject President Krueger’s proposal to allow Jews and
Catholics to have the franchise. (These are the progenitors of the people who
created Apartheid in South Africa)
1900:
It was reported today that a group of anarchists in Pittsburgh celebrated the
recent assassination of King Humbert of Italy, a country in which Jews had
become so thoroughly accepted that Luigi Luzzatii became prime minister making
him one of the first Jews who was not a convert to lead a government in the
West.
1900:
A Chicago neuropsychiatrist and his wife gave birth to University of Chicago
graduate and Rush College American neurologist and psychiatrist, “Roy R,
Grinker, Sr, a Professor of Psychiatry at University of Chicago, and pioneer in
American psychiatry and psychosomatics.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/490268#google_vignette
1901(17th
of Av, 5661): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit Rabbi Asher ben Shlomo Zalman of
Vilna, the author of Mayim Adirim who passed away in 1796.
1902: At a mass meeting in Bradford, PA, forty members formed a
Rishon L’Zion a new Zionist society
1903: Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, the son of Myer and Sarah Salaman
and his wife Nina Ruth Salaman gave birth to Myer Head Salaman.
1903: Opening of the Bank Leumi’s first branch in Turkish Jaffa.
1904: It was reported today that “M. Menshikoff, the well-known
writer who formerly accused Jews in America of responsibility for promoting the
present war now charges ‘the gigantic American trusts anxious to find new
fields for exploration in Asia’ with the main responsibility.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/08/02/117944582.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1905(1st of Av, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Av
1905: In Shreveport, LA, Fannie Goldstein married Washington and
Lee University graduate and University of Texas trained attorney Sidney Levy
Herold, the Shreveport born son of Rosa Simmons and Simon Herold was the
chairman of the United Jewish Campaign’s Southern District and Preside of B’nai
Zion Congregation.
1906: Birthdate of Chicago native Leo, Arnstein, a graduate of the
University of Chicago and partner of Arnstein and Lehr who was admitted to the
Illinois Bar in 1928 and served as a director of the Chicago Bar Association
for eight years.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/19/obituaries/leo-h-arnstein-lawyer-86.html
1906: Birthdate of Atlantic City native Edwin Harvey Blum the
screenwriter whose work includes “Stalag 17.”
1907:
Scouts met for a second day at the camp on Brownsea Island under the leadership
of Robert Baden-Powell who in 1937,
Baden-Powell was wined and dined by the German ambassador Joachim von
Ribbentrop and senior Hitler Youth figures, who wanted their organization to be
in 'closer touch' with the Scout movement” but who “declined the subsequent
invitation to visit Germany to meet Hitler – removing the suggestion that he sympathized with the Nazi
project by the time its true horror became clear.
1908(2nd of Av, 5668): Forty-six-year-old Benjamin
Kolhman passed away today after which he was buried in the Spring Hill Avenue
Temple Cemetery in Mobile, AL.
1909(15th of Av, 5669): Tu B’Av
1909: “The Lincoln Wheat Cent” penny coins designed by Lithuanian born
American coin designer and engraver Victor David Brenner “were released to the
public for circulation today” and proved to be so popular that the
“Philadelphia mint” had to limit the number of coins an individual could
purchase.
1909(15th of Av, 5669): Two weeks before his 78th
birthday Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs “English businessman and politician” who served
as Lord Mayor of London in 1889, passed away today
1909: Birthdate of Cleveland native and U. of Cincinnati graduate
Maurice Lyons, the HUC ordained Rabbi who was the first to hold that position
at Temple Israel in Blytheville, AR.
https://www.isjl.org/arkansas-blytheville-temple-israel-encyclopedia.html
1910:
“Founder of the Guardian Society” published today reminded readers of the key
role that Judge Joachimson and his wife Priscilla played in the founding of the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society which included obtaining the original
charter for the organization serving as primary fund raisers
1911(8th of Av, 5671): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1911: In Great Britain, Alderman Henry Hart completes his jubilee
of service on the Canterbury Council.
1912: The Jewish Socialist Federation of America whose purposes
included the organization of the Jewish Organization of the Jewish Working
Class” was officially formed today with offices in New York City.
1912: The list of the trustees of the newly incorporated Young
Men’s Hebrew Association of Camden, NJ published in today’s Philadelphia
Inquirer included Benjamin Natal, Joseph F. Kantor, Max Goldich, Philip M.
Pinksy, Bertrand Schneeberg, Arnold Weiss, Samuel Heine, Jacob Furer and Israel
Heine.
1912(19th of Av, 5672): Arthur Charles Axman, the son
of Charles and Sophie Fries Axman and the husband of Elle M. Green Axman passed
away today in Dayton, OH after which he was buried in the Woodland Cemetery and
Arboretum in Dayton.
1913: SOCIALISTS CAPTURE FIRE PROTEST RALLY; Rose Schneiderman
Turns a Fire Prevention Meeting to Their Purposes published today While a
number of well-known men, including Amos R. Pinchot, William Jay Schieffelin,
Henry Moscowitz, and the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, were listed as patrons and
possible speakers at a fire-prevention mass meeting held at the north end of
Union Square yesterday at noon, they were conspicuously absent from the
speakers' platform when the meeting was called to order.
1913: It was reported today that Rabbi Isidor Koplowitz has
resigned as the rabbi of Tifereth Israel in Des Moines, IA.
1913: It was reported today that “The World’s Congress of
Religious meeting in Paris has protested against the Blood charge against Jews
in and the Beilis case in particular.”
1913: Noble prize-winning physicist Max Born married Martha E.,
née Ehrenberg. She had Jewish ancestors on her father’s side but was raised as
a Lutheran. This may help explain why
Born converted to Christianity in 1914.
1914: In a move that would help push the Ottoman Empire to become
a partner with the Central Powers, with all that that would mean for the future
of Eretz Israel (among other places) the British seized two modern battleships
that were being built in English shipyards for the Turkish navy
1914:
In St. Petersburg, the Twelfth International Ophthalmological Congress which
Jewish physicians were promised they could attend without any of the usual
restrictions on the “length of sojourn” was scheduled to come to an end today
1914: In WW I, German troops began the bombardment of Kalisz, a
Polish city in the Russian Empire which would result in “deliberate
destruction” of “150 Jewish homes” the death of thirty three Jews in the center
of the city.”
1915: “Jewish Deputy N.M. Friedman” began his speech in the Duma
today by saying that “In spite of the oppressed condition, in spite of the
status of outlawry, the Jews nevertheless managed to rise to the exalted mood
of the civil populate and in the course of the last year to participate in the
war in a noteworthy manner.
1915: In Methil, Scotland, Janet Gear and Porteous Gear, “a coal
miner” gave birth to William Gear, one of the Monuments Men.
1915: “A call was sent out today for a conference of
representatives of Jewish societies, congregations, trades unions, lodges and
clubs for the purposed of start a campaign for additional funds to aid Jewish
war sufferers in Europe.”
1916(3rd of Av, 5676): Seventy-year-old historian
Martin Phillipson who taught at the University of Brussels because of
anti-Semitism in his native Germany and founded the “Society for the
Advancement of Jewish Studies” passed away in Berlin.
1916: Twenty-five of the leading producers of motion pictures
including Jesse Lasky met at the Hotel Claridge today “to approve the articles
of incorporation” for the newly formed Associated Motion Picture Advertisers.
1916: Colonel Harry Cutler of Providence, Rhodes Island and the
Chairman of the Conference Committee of Jewish Organizations who has just
returned from Chicago “issued a statement” today reporting that “substantial
progress” has been made in reconciling the differences that will make it
possible to convene an American Jewish Congress.”
1917: “Newman Erb, President of the British Columbia Copper
Company began suit in the Federal District” today “against the Bettendorf
Company, manufacturers of cars and railroad equipment in Bettendorf, Iowa for
$2,682,489 which he alleges is due him on a contract with the Russian
Government.
1917: Birthdate of Brigadier General Felix Sparks who as a Lt.
Col. “led the 3rd Battalion of the 157th Infantry Regiment of
the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army, the first Allied force to
enter Dachau concentration camp and liberate its prisoners.”
1917: Thirty-three-year-old University of California
trained surgeon, the Okland born son of Aaron and Jennie (Cahn) Jacobs marred
Rita Newman today in San Francisco.
1917: As of now there are approximately five hundred
American Jews in Palestine and an additional 150 Americans in Turkey, most of
whom are college teachers or university professors.
1918: Birthdate of Irving Harold Franklin, the native of Brockton,
MA, who is credited with creating the modern glove worn by major league
baseball players when they are at bat. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1918: It was reported today that in London, Mrs. Myer Spielman has
been appointed president of the Union of Jewish, succeeding the late Mrs.
Nathaniel Louis Cohen who had held the job since the founding of the Union.
1918: It was reported today that “strong efforts are being made to
organize the Jewish communities in Batavia and Java, in the Dutch East Indies
because the Jewish populations have increased to the size where a viable
communal life is possible and necessary.
1918: During a debate in the House of Lords, “the subject of Sir
Edgar Speyer’s membership on the Privy Council Sir was brought up by Lord Lincolnshire”
who condemned his “brutal and insolent German manner.” [Editor’s Note – Considering what would
happen in 30 years, there it is ironic to hear the Jewish Speyer being condemned
for being a German.]
1919: Birthdate of Nehemiah Persoff, the Jerusalem native who
became famous as an American actor appearing in numerous films and television
series.
1919(6th of Av, 5679): Twenty-eight-year-old Hungarian
communist Tibor Szamuely was killed as during the unsuccessful fight to
establish the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
1920: Birthdate of Eliyahu Moyal, MK who served as a community
leader in his native Sale, Morocco before making Aliyah in 1945.
1920: Birthdate of Romanian native and Holocaust survivor Marcel
Abramovich who gained fame as Canadian real estate mogul Marcel Adams the found
of Iberville Developments, the husband of Annie Adams with whom he had four
children – Linda, an attorney, Leora, a nurse, Julian, a biochemist, and
Sylvan, his business successor.
1921:Percy A. Baker, the Superintendent at Ellis Island said that
quote for people from Palestine to be admitted to the United States was only 11
as opposed to 181 for people from Syria.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/08/02/98714766.html?pageNumber=20
1922: Birthdate of Eugene Hirsch Kummel, chairman and chief executive of one of the world’s largest
advertising agencies, McCann Erickson Worldwide. “Under Mr. Kummel’s
leadership, McCann Erickson created memorable television commercials like
Coca-Cola’s ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing’ campaign in the 1970s and,
several years later, the Miller Lite campaign, ‘Everything you always wanted in
a beer, and less,’ with personalities like George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin
arguing, ‘Tastes great, Less filling.’”
1922(8th of Av, 5682): Erev Tish'a B'Av
1922(8th of Av, 5682): Emil Ganz, a
businessman and three-time mayor of Phoenix, Arizona., passed away. The son of German Jews, he was a
self-professed atheist.
1923: After falling ill,
Warren Harding the 29th President of the United States passes
away. During his brief tenure, Harding’s
record regarding Jews and Jewish issues was mixed. He signed an immigration bill that was based on
national origin quotas which put greatly limited Jewish immigration to the
United States. On the other hand, he
appointed famous Chicago advertising man Albert Lasker as Chairman of the U.S.
Shipping Board. Under his tenure, the
U.S. Merchant Marine was reorganized and improved. In 1922, Harding signed a congressional Joint
Resolution “favoring the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the
Jewish people.”
1923 (20 Av, 5683): Birthdate of Shimon Peres.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/peres.html
http://www.president.gov.il/english/thepresident/pages/cv.aspx
1923: Lillian Puninksky and Newark Technical School trained
chemist Leo Rustein, the Yonkers, NY born son of Abraham Rutstein and the
former Bertha de Neitz who was on special assignment to Europe during WW I for
the U.S. Army Signal Corps gave birth to their only daughter Marian Alice
1924: A group of 12 settlers of Ashkenazi origin who received a
plot of land from Yehoshua Hankin found Magdiel which would merge with
Ramatayim, Hadar and Ramat Hadar in 1964 to form Hod HaSharon.
1924(2nd
of 5684): Parashat Matot-Masei
1924(2nd
of 5684): Forty-eight-year-old Kharkov, Russia born American violinist and
“former concert master of the New York Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Saslavsky,
the husband of Bostonian Celeste Todd who was assistant to conductor Walter
Damrosch passed away tonight in San Francisco.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/08/04/104701331.html?pageNumber=1
1924: The first issue of the Saturday
Review of Literature appeared. This famous literary publication was formed
by Amy Lovemean and three colleagues who had worked together on The New York Evening Post. Loveman was
listed as an associate editor. She remained at the Saturday Review for
three decades, becoming the magazine's poetry editor in 1950. In the first two
decades alone, she wrote close to 800 items for the Review. These
included editorials, reviews, and answers to readers' questions. Born in 1881,
Amy Loveman shaped the literary choices of generations of readers through her
work with two important institutions: The Saturday Review and the
Book-of-the-Month Club. Educated at Barnard College, where she earned a B.A. in
1901, Loveman's first literary work was as an assistant to an uncle who was
revising The New International Encyclopedia. From that job, she moved to
the New York Evening Post, where she became a book reviewer and then
associate editor of the newspaper's literary review. In addition to her work at
the Saturday Review, Loveman played an important role in the
Book-of-the-Month Club, where she joined the reading committee soon after its
founding in 1926. In 1939, she became head of the Club's editorial department,
a job she balanced with her ongoing work at the Review. In this role,
she helped to select books for the Club as well as writing frequent reviews
herself. In 1951, she joined the Club's editorial board. Loveman's compelling
writing style and devotion to literature were recognized by several awards. In
1946, she received both the Columbia University Medal for Excellence and the
Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award of the Women's National Book
Association. Loveman died in 1955.
1925: NYU educated and JTS ordained rabbi, Dr. Joseph Moses Roth,
the Hungarian born son of Jennie Richtzeit and Bernard Roth who began serving as the spiritual leader of
Congregation B’nai Zion in El Paso, TX in 1923 while serving as the
Director of the El Paso Jewish Relief Society and Secretary of the El Paso
Zionist Organization married Millie Kohn today.
1925: It was reported today that “the labor standard maintained in
the British Empire has been reached by Jewish workers in Palestine, according
to a report submitted to the British Commonwealth Labor Conference by David Ben
Gurion, the Palestine labor representative.
1926: The American Jewish Congress cabled a message of condolence
to Mrs. Israel Zangwill over the death of her husband. The cablegram was signed by Carl Sherman,
Acting Chairman and Bernard G. Richards, Executive Secretary. Dr. Stephen Wise, the President of the AJC is
England and is expected to represent the organization at the funeral.
1926: Birthdate of Betsy Bloomingdale of
department store fame. Her husband was
part of President Regan’s kitchen cabinet, and she was a close friend of Nancy.
1926: Leipzig, Yosef and Regina Wahrman gave birth to Rabbi Shlomo
Wahrman, an eyewitness to Kristallnacht who escaped to the United States with
his family in 1939 and eventually became Rosh HaYshiva of the Hebrew Academy of
Nassau County and prolific author writing about Torah and Judaica.
http://matzav.com/rav-shlomo-wahrman-zt%e2%80%9dl/
1926: Harry Einstein and his wife gave birth to journalist Charles
Einstein the author of The Bloody
Spur who was the older half-brother of Albert Brooks and Jacob Einstein
1927: Birthdate of James Milton Young, known simply as “Jimmy” to
several generations of congregants at Adas Israel where he served as “caretaker and chief custodian” for 56
years. Rabbis and cantors may come and
go, but Jimmy was a rock of reliability who always had a kind word for the kids
who were forced to hang around on Sundays when their parents were going to
faculty meetings.
1927: “Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine” a silent film written by
Walter Reisch was released in Germany today.
1928: Outward Bound owned by Bernard Gimble won the Blue Ribbon at
the Corinthian Hunter Class at the Rye, NY horse show.
1929: “The White House today confirmed that Louis B.
Mayer…declined to accept a diplomatic post or any other appointment to public
office because his present business interest would not permit it” which he will
not be accepting the offer to serve as United States ambassador to Turkey.
(JTA)
1929(25th of Tammuz, 5689): Seventy-one-year-old George
W. Seligman, the son of the late Joseph Seligman who was one of the founders of
the Seligman banking house, passed away today.
1930(8th of Av, 5690): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a
B’Av observed for the first time during the Great Depression.
1930(8th of Ave, 5690): Fifty-three-year-old Bertram
Claude Weill, the Buffalo, NY born son of Louis and Emelia Desbecker Weill and
the brother of Alfred Sigismund Weill passed away today after which he was
interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo,
1931: Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work.
1932: “Lillian Copeland set new world and Olympic records in
discus, with a throw of 133 feet, 1 5/8 inches, winning a gold medal.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/02/1932/lillian-copeland
1932: Birthdate of composer Marvin David Levy the native of
Passaic, NJ who overcame prison to restart his career.
1933: In Vilna, Ministry of Education announces
that the Yiddish secondary school and the Hebrew gymnasium have been granted
equality with the governmental high schools and will therefore have the right
to issue university admission certificates to their students.
1933. The Ministry of Justice announces that Jewish students
engaged in the study of law or economics will not be permitted to take the
final examinations in Prussia, if they intend to become lawyers or university
teachers.
1933: In Manhattan, Lillian (Shapiro) Poses one of “the first
women to graduate from NYU Law School” who also “worked for several New Deal
Agencies” and Jack I. Poses, “founder and president of the fragrance
manufacturer Parfums D’Orsay, a founder of Brandeis University and a vice
chairman of the New York City Board of Higher Education gave birth to Barbara
Joan Poses who after marrying Dr. Ernest Kafka became known as Barbara Kafka,
the award winning “food columnist and cookbook author.” (As reported by Sam
Roberts and Matt Schudel)
1933: In a public address to foreign diplomats and journalists Dr.
Anzesoria, Bolivian minister to Germany, indicates that his government is
prepared to open its doors to German emigrants, provided the German Government
is ready to negotiate the transfer.
1933: Der Angriff, a newspaper owned by Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels,
Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment carries a story that Jews are
organizing themselves into military units to "attack Germany at the first
opportunity."
1933 The Breslauer Judengemeindeblatt is closed down by the Nazi
state president "in the interest of public security."
1934: Eight-six-year-old Paul von Hindenburg, the President of
Germany passed away. Hindenburg’s death paved the way for Hitler, who was the
Chancellor to consolidate power and rule as the Fuhrer. When it became obvious that Germany had lost
the World War in 1918 Hindenburg adroitly shifted the responsibility from the
General Staff to the civilians who would become the leaders of the Weimer
Republic. In this way he helped to
create the myth that Germany had not been defeated but had been stabbed in the
back by traitors at home including the Jews.
This lie help to pave the way for the rise of the Nazis.
1935: “Made Love” a film directed by Karl Fruend, starring Peter
Loree, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin was released in the United Kingdom today.
1935: Two months after opening in London, “The 39 Steps” a mystery
produced by Michael Balcon, co-starring Lucie Mannheim and with music by Louis
Levy was released in the United States today.
1936: In “King Herod Finds a Faintly Sympathetic Biographer”
published today, Alfred Kazin provided a review of Herod: A Biography by
Jacob S. Minkin.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9405E2DD173DE33BBC4A53DFBE66838D629EDE
1936: “Charging that Harold C. Keyes, a former Secret Service
operative and at present a private detective of New York City had sought
employment with the German Government with the idea of aligning Christian
Americans against Jews, particularly in New York, Representative Samuel
Dickstein of New York today made public a letter address to Secretary of State
Edward J. Flynn requesting that the license of the detective be revoked.”
1937: In Geneva, “the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations
decided today to base its examination of the Palestine problem not on the
British partition proposal but on the assumption underlying it – that the
mandate is unworkable.”
1938: In Berlin, the Nazi issued a new decree announcing the
expiration of Jewish Medical Doctor’s licenses on September 30.
1938(5th of Av, 5698): Yakov Mikhaylovich
Yurovsky, an old line Bolshevik best known as the man who organized the
execution of Czar Nicholas II passed away today
1939: Eugene Wigner introduced Leó Szilárd to Albert Einstein; a
meeting which furthered the cause of getting America to develop the Atomic Bomb
ahead of the Axis.
1939: Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program. Einstein’s
support was critical to getting Roosevelt’s support for what would become
"The Manhattan Project." (What a difference eight years can make.)
1939: In Manhattan, Phillip Barber, the director of the New York
unit of the Federal Theatre Project and script writer Doris Frankel gave birth
to Benjamin R. Barber, the founder and president of the Global Parliament
Mayors Project, Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University and author
whose most famous work was Jihad vs. McWorld.
1940: Two days after he had passed away funeral services are
scheduled to be held at the Free Synagogue under the direction of Rabbi Sydney
Goldstein for 57-year-old Austrian born, Cornell Medical School trained
gynecologist and obstetrician Dr. Maurice O. Magid, the husband of Ray Magid
with whom he raised two children.
1941(9th of Av, 5701): Parashat Devarim, Shabbat
Chazon, Erev Tish’a B’Av
1941:
The Jews were ordered expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia.
1941(9th of Av, 5701):
Over 200 Jews were shot in Kovno on Shabbat.
1941: The board of the
Union of Jewish Communities “achieved the cancellation of the order that Jews
wear the yellow badge and other measures, including the creation of ghettos in
the cities and mobilizing women to join men in forced labor.” (Jewish Virtual
Library)
1942: Twelve days after
the Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka, “the
first part of the Ringelblum Archive” was hidden tonight.
1942:
After twelve days, approximately 75,000 Jews had been deported to the death
camp at Treblinka.
1942:
A large group of Jews who were trapped under Spanish and German rule in Morocco
sent an eloquent appeal for help to the AJDC in New York. "Gentlemen,
please excuse our daring attitude in addressing this pathetical letter to you,
in our distressful hour; but it is written in the Talmud, 'when trouble comes
upon Israel like a rushing stream, look for someone to help you.'."
1943:
Harpers announced that Geoffrey Bles, Ltd will release the English edition of
Bella Fromm’s Blood and Banquets: A Berlin Social Diary which was
published last year in the United States.
1943:
The last major deportation from the Bendzin Ghetto continued for a second day.
1943: Led by a small
group of prisoners using primitive weapons and pistols, inmates at Treblinka
attacked the guards and burned down the barracks. Between 300 and 500 prisoners
escaped although most of them were either captured or turned over by Polish peasants.
Though the revolt did not stop all activities, the German government decided to
liquidate the camp, which it did in October. [Samuel Willenberg and Kalman
Taigman, 87-year-old Israelis, are devoting their final years to trying to
preserve the memory of those slaughtered at the camp.]
1943: Samuel
Willenberg, “a 20-year-old Polish Jew from Warsaw was one of the prisoners who”
today “stole weapons, set fire to the Treblinka death camp and fled into the
surrounding woods.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35623492
1943: Birthdate of
English author Rose Treman, the “former Chancellor of the University of Anglia”
whose The Gustav Sonata was her first novel “on a Jewish theme” and won
both “Hadassah Magazine’s Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction” and “the
2017 National Jewish Book Award for fiction.”
1943: Birthdate of Uzi
Landau, the native of Haifa who served with the IDF, graduated from the Technin
and earned a PhD from MIT before entering the Knesset and holding several
ministerial positions.
1943: “Young Ideas” a
comedy directed by Jules Dassin was released in the United States today by MGM.
(This entry may seem incongruous when compared to the ones just above. It should give readers an idea of the difference
between WW II in the United States and WW II in Europe, Asia and North Africa.
1944: A handful of
Jewish survivors of the Kovno ghetto - including Rabbi Efrayim Oshri, author of
Responsa from the Holocaust - emerged from hiding. Rabbi Oshri was one of
several Rabbis who wrote answers to those with troubling ethical dilemmas
growing out of life under the Nazis. To some, such behavior might seem
ludicrous when you consider the conditions. To others, it is a tribute to
the vitality of Judaism and even a form of
resistance.
1944(13th
of Av, 5704): Thirty-four-year-old Charlotte Josephine Mentzel, the Frankfurt
born daughter of Bertha Merzbach and Heinrich Gotthilf Henry Rothschild and the
wife of Albert Ludwig Mentzel died today at Auschwitz.
1944(13th
of Av, 5704):
Eleazer Silas Kadoorie, known as Sir Elly Kadoorie
part of the Kadoorie family, a “tribe” of Jews who made their way from Baghdad
to Bombay to Shanghai passed away after having been freed from the Stanley
Internment Camp in Hong Kong.
1944:
“Catherine Was Great,” produced by Mike Todd opened at the Shubert Theatre.
1944: Felix
Nussbaum, the surrealist painter and his wife arrived at Auschwitz.
1945:
Birthdate of Alan F. Segal the Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies at Barnard
College and author of Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in
Western Religion.
1945:
Birthdate of U.S. Army Colonel Jack Howard Jacobs who earned the Congressional
Medal of Honor for his actions during the Viet Nam War.
1945:
Commissioning of HMS Springer and S Class Submarined that would be sold to
Israel in 1958 where it was recommissioned as the Tanin or Crocodile.
1945:
Birthdate of Alan F. Segal, “a leading scholar known for his comparative
studies of how religions view the afterlife.”
1945: The
Potsdam Conference, the meeting of the leaders of the Big Three – U.S., U.K.
and U.S.S.R. – comes to an end. Among
other things the leaders agreed to the complete denazification of Germany and
the prosecution of war criminals.
1946: “The American
Council for Judaism, Inc., made public today a letter to President Truman
stating that endlees violence and the perpetuation of nationalistic conflicts
would result from any policy that sanctions and strengthens the forces of
division and segregation among those who live in Palestine.”
1946: It was reported
today that during a debate in the House of Commons on Palestine, Winston
Churchill asserted that the ‘condition” on which Britain had received the
mandate was to carry out a Zionist Policy…”
1947(16th
of Av, 5707): Shabbat Nachamu
1947: For
the second day in a row, the Daily Express printed “more lurid details” about
the British soldiers killed by the Irgun.
1947: In
London, concert pianist Natalia Karp née Weissman a Jewish refugee from the
Nazis and Holocaust survivor and her second husband Josef Karpf whom she
married in 1993 after her first husband Julius Hubler had died in 1939 gave birth
University of Bristol trained actress Eve Karp, the sister of journalist Anne
Karp and the mother of BBC journalist Mark Lowen whose television acting career
began in 1974 with roles in “Horizon” and “Thriller.”
1947: The
Runnymede Park, Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival which were carrying the
passengers forced off of the SS Exodus arrived at Port-de-Bouc near Marseilles
where “the French Government said it would allow disembarkation…only if it was
voluntary on the part of the passengers.”
1948: In
New York City, Max Prager and Hilda Prager (née Friedfeld) gave birth radio
talk show host Dennis Prager.
1948: “The
Israeli Government proclaimed the areas of Jerusalem under Israeli control to
be Israeli-occupied territory and appointed Bernard Joseph as Military
Governor.
1949(7th
pf Av. 5709): Brest-Litovsk born Zionist and Orthodox rabbi who had been
leading Sharah Tefillah Congregation in Indianapolis since 1925 passed away
today in Indiana.
1949: Under
a plan of the new Israeli government, part of the old city of Beersheba will be
flooded as a 500-acre water reservoir for the projected new Negev city on the
heights overlooking Beersheba. The reservoir would be formed by damming the
Wadi Saba, rocky watercourse through which 10,000,000 cubic meters of rainwater
sweep into the Mediterranean every winter.
1949: In
Lodz, Poland, Sonia and Szmul Tencer
gave birth to Golda Tencer, “an actress and director of the Jewish Theatre in
Warsaw, the wife of Szymon Szurmiej and the mother of Dawid Szurmiej.
1950(19th
of Av, 5710): Sixty-one-year-old Elazer Reuven Muskin the rabbi of Temple Beth
Hamebrach Hagodol of Chicag, the vice president the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of
the United States and Canada and the former president of the Mizrachi Zionist
Organization of Chicago who was the husband of Rose Muskin with he had two sons
and three daughters passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/08/03/91109022.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951: “Mr.
Belvedere Rings the Bell” a comedy directed by Henry Koster and featuring Zero
Mostel as “Emmett” was released in the United States by 20th Century
Fox.
1951: “As
Young As You Feel” a comedy written by Paddy Chayefsky and featuring Marilyn
Monroe in one of her early screen appearances
was released in the United States today by 20th Century Fox.
1951:
Birthdate of Andrew Gold, a musical wizard who played backup with Linda
Ronstadt before embarking on career of his own that included recording hits
like “Lonely Boy” and “Thank You for Being a Friend.” (As reported by Paul
Vitello)
1951:
Premiere of “As Young as You Feel,” a comedy written by Paddy Chayefsky.
1951(29th
of Tammuz, 5711):
Eighty-two-year-old Heinrich Loewe a German born
journalist, publicist, folklorist, linguist, philosopher, librarian and
political figure passed away in Tel Aviv.
1952(11th
of Av, 5712): Shabbat Nachamu
1953: In
Stepeny, London, Marjory Seldon and “economist Arthur Seldon (born Abraham
Margolis), who co-founded the Institute of Economic Affairs and directed
academic affairs at the think tank for 30 years” gave birth to British
economist and historian Sir Francis Seldon, the husband of Sarah Sayer whom he
married after the death of his first wife Joana Pappworth and author of political biographies of
consecutive British Prime Ministers, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown,
David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.”
1956:
“Bigger Than Life” co-starring Walter Matthau, with a screenplay co-authored by
Richard Maibaum and music by David Raskin was released in the United States
today.
1956(5th
of Av, 5782): Indianapolis, IN native Purdue University graduate Charles Sterne
Rauh the President of E. Rauh and sons Fertilizer Company, and director of the
Indiana National Bank and the Continental Steel Corporation who was a trustee
of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/03/86666296.html?pageNumber=20
1957: In
Chicago, Carol Spector and car dealership owner Leonard Spektor, the son of
“Jewish emigrants from Russia and Austria” gave birth to University of
Minnesota graduate Jacklyn Sheryl Spector who gained fame as Jacky Rosen, the
U.S. Senator from Nevada.
1957: British oil interests were warned today that they might
forfeit ownership of their refinery plants in Haifa if they suspended
operations in Israel.
1957(5th
of Av, 5717): Sixty-six-year-old Lithuanian born, Brazilian artist Lasar Segal
passed away today in São Paulo.
https://moma.org/collection_ge/artist.php?artist_id=5317
http://artuk.org/discover/artists/segall-lasar-18911957
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/segall_lasar.html
1958:
“Badman’s Country” a western film with music by Irving Getz was released in the
United States today.
1959: "Ragtime
Cowboy Joe" with music composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams
peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week.
1960: In
California, Jane and Gerald Finerman gave birth to Oscar winning movie producer
Wendy Finerman.
1960:
“Young Jesse James” yet another film about the famous outlaw with music by
Irving Getz was released today in the United States.
1960(9th
of Av, 5720): Tish’a B’Av
1960(9th
of Av, 5720): Captain Robert Gee, the Leicester born son of Amy Foulds and
Robert Gee and the husband of Elizabeth
Dixon whom he married in 1902 and the father of Edith and Amy Gee who as a
member of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers who served at
Gallipoli and was awarded the Military Cross for service at the Battle of the
Somme, the Vitoria Cross for service at the Battle of Cambrai after which he
“ran for Parliament in Woolwich East” as a member of the Conservative Party
passed away today.
1961: The first
of the “total-goals play-offs between the first and second section International
Soccer League for the American Challenge Cup which may include Petah Tikva of
Israel is scheduled to take place at the Polo Grounds in New York this evening.
1964: With
encouragement from Rudolf Serkin and Alexander Schneider, the second violinist
of the Budapest String Quartet, “the new Guarneri Quartet” with Arnold
Steinhardt as 1st Violin was launched today “with a concert at
Marlboro, VT.
1965(4th
of Av, 5725): Seventy-seven-year-old František Langer a physician who was a
general in the Czech Army during WW II who had gained fame as an author and who
was the older brother Hebrew author Jiří Langer passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Langer_Frantisek
1967: “In
the Heat of the Night” a game-changing film at so many different levels,
produced by Walter Mirisch who received the Oscar for Best Picture for this
effort, was released in the United States.
1967: Birthdate of professional tennis star Aaron Krickstein
1968(8th
of Av, 5728): Sixty-nine-year-old Rochester, NY, native Jacob Robert Cominsky,
the “publisher of the Saturday Reviews and vice president of its part concern
McCall Corporation” passed away today.
1970:
Birthdate of Colorado native and PGA tour member Jonathan Andrew Kaye
1971: In
Brighton, UK, Harry Lawrence and Sylvia Greybourne, both of whom were computer
consultants gave birth to Ruth Elke Lawrence who gained fame as Ruth Elke
Lawrence-Naimark, “the child prodigy in mathematics” who is a “British
mathematician and an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in
knot theory and algebraic topology.”
http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~ruthel/
1971: Hochschild
Kohn's, a department store chain formed by “Max Hochschild, Benno Kohn, and his
brother Louis B. Kohn” opened a store in “the Mall in Columbia, Maryland” as
part of its “compete-or-get-trampled” business strategy..
1972(22nd
of Av, 5732): Sixty-year-old City College and University of Chicago educated author
and social critic Dr. Paul Goodman, the New York born son Augusta and Barnette
Goodman passed away today in New Hampshire.
http://www.paulgoodmanfilm.com/about-paul-goodman/susan-sontag
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/goodman/goodman-bio.html
1972:
Catcher Bob Yeager made his major league debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1973: With
the “ancient observation” that “the deeds of a man are his tombstone,” Yitzhak
Navon. the chairman of the Zionist General Council and Deputy Knesset Speaker,
rounded off a eulogy today for Louis A. Pincus at his graveside at the end of
the shiva period” in the presence of his son’s Allon and David and “a large
contingent of top Zionist leaders” including “Knesset speaker Yisrael
Yeshayahu.”
1974: “The
Black Windmill,” a “spy-thriller” directed and co-produced by Don Siegel and
co-starring Janet Suzman was released today in the United Kingdom.
1975(25th
of Av, 5735): Parashat Re’eh
1975:
American businessman and diplomate John Langeloth Loeb, Jr, the son of Frances
Lehman and John Langeloth Loeb and his second wife Meta Harrsen gave birth to
businessman and actor Nicholas Mears Loeb who like his mother was baptized as
an Episcopalian
1976: Max
Rayne, the grandson of “a Hebrew scholar and teacher” and the son of Phillip
Rayne, a garment manufacturer from London’s East End who had had been knighted
in 1969 was “made a life peer as Baron Rayne, of Prince's Meadow in the County
of Greater London today.”
1976(6th
of Av, 5736): Seventy-five-year-old “garment industry executive” Irving W.
Cohen, the father of three – Jerry, Arlene and Joan – and “a vice
president of Henry Lee, a Chicago manufacturer of women's apparel” who “ was
a founder and trustee of the Young Men's Philanthropic League of New York”
passed away today in Teaneck, NJ.
1977: “Pippin,”
a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz opened today at the Los
Angeles Civil Light Opera.
1978:
“Interiors,” directed and written by Woody Allen, produced by Charles Joffee
and was released today by the United States.
1978: “The
Magic of Lassie” a musical about the famous collie written by Robert and
Richard Sherman who along with Irwin Kostal were also responsible for the music
was released in the United States today.
1979(9th
of Av, 5739): Tish’a B’Av
1979: “Gilda Radner Live From New York” opens on Broadway.
1980(20th
of Av, 5740): Parashat Eikev
1980: Egypt has asked for at least a temporary postponement of
the talks with Israel and the United States on autonomy for the occupied areas
to give the two countries time to respond to President Anwar el-Sadat's
protest...
1980: Eighty-five-year-old
Columbus, Ohio, native Donald Ogden Stewart the Academy Award winning
screenwriter who during the 1930’s was Chairman of the Hollywood Ant-Nazi
League “the first American anti-Nazi organization that was not overtly linked
to American Jews” and that “served as the focal point of the film industry’s
anti-Nazism from 1936 through 1939 passed away today.
1981: The
funeral of playwright and three-time Academy Award Winner Paddy Chayefsky is
scheduled to take place at Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan.
1982: “Tatyana
Grosman,” published today described “How Tatyana Grosman’s Universal Limited
Art Editions transforms American printmaking, elevates lithography and other
graphic media, and influences artists, workshops, and the contemporary print
market.”
1884: The
former Hannah Stargradt and Mendel Leiser gave birth to University of Chicago
graduate and Hebrew Union College trained Rabbi, Joseph Leiser, the husband of
Hannah Felsenthal who began serving as the spiritual leader of Temple Beth El
at Helena, AR in 1922 while writing children’s plays including “Key Flower” and
“Bell of Shushan.
1983(23rd
of Av, 5743): Ninety-seven-year-old Lithuanian born Isaac Liberman, former
president and chairman of Arnold Constable Inc. and a civic leader and
philanthropist, who had four daughters – Ruth, Hazel, Irene and Sally – with
his wife Bertha, passed away today.
1984: The
House of Representatives passed legislation spearheaded by Rabbi Malcolm Stern
that would separate the National Archives from the General Services
Administration which had already been passed by the Senate and which had the
support of the genealogy and historical communities who saw this as a way to
protect this valuable research tool from unwarranted cuts by the Republican
administration.
1985(15th
of Av, 5745): Tu B’Av observed on the same day 137 people were killed when
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed at DFW.
1986(26th
of Tammuz, 5746): Parashat Matot-Masei
1986(26th
of Tammuz, 5746): Roy Cohn passed away. Born in 1927, Cohn gained fame (or
notoriety) as the counsel for the McCarthy Hearings. He portrayed himself as a
rabid anti-Communist. Ironically, it was his high-jinx with David Schine that
helped to lead to McCarthy’s downfall and his loss of power.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/aids/080386sci-aids.html
1986: At the Pierre in
New York City, Rabbi Martin Zion officiated at the wedding of Jessica Nancy
Zingesser and Robert Scott Sands.
1988(19th of
Av, 5748): Eighty-eight-year-old Robert Leon “Bob” Berman the catcher whose
major league career consisted of playing two games for the Washington Senators
in 1918 during which he was part of the battery with the great southpaw Walter
Johnson passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-day-he-caught-walter-johnson.html
1989(1st of
Av, 5749): Rosh Chodesh AV
1989: Today, Andrée
Geulen was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.
https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/geulen-herscovici.html
1989: “Parenthood” a
comedy produced by Brian Grazer, with a screenplay by Lowell Ganz, music by
Rany Newman and co-starring Rick Moranis was released in the United States
today by Universal Pictures.
1990: Iraq
invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces in the
Gulf War.
1990(11th of Av, 5750):
Lucy Goldschmidt Moses, a philanthropist, passed away today at the age of 103.
(As reported by Joan Cook)
1991: Robert S. Strauss
began serving as U.S. Ambassador to the now non-existent U.S.S.R.
1991: “Rover
Dangerfield,” based on as story by Harold Ramis and Rodney Dangerfield who also
wrote the screenplay was released today in the United States.
1992: In East
Brunswick, NJ, Barry Eisenberg, a college professor and his wife Amy “who
worked as a clown at children’s parties gave birth to American actress Hallie
Kate Eisenberg “best known for being ‘The Pepsi Girl.’”
1992(3rd of Av, 5752):
French singer and songwriter Michel Berger died suddenly of a heart attack at
the age of 44.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-michel-berger-1539526.html
1993(15th of
Av, 5753): Tu B’Av
1993: Fifty-year-old
Stuart E. Eizenstat began serving as United States Ambassador to the European
Union under President Clinton
1994(25th of
Av, 5754): “Yoram Sakuri, 30, of Kiryat Netafim in Samaria, died of stab wounds
suffered when a terrorist broke into his home on July 1st.” (Jewish Virtual
Library)
1995: HBO broadcast
“Long Distance,” with a script co-authored by Jewish writer David Goodman which
was an episode of “Dream On,” a sitcom created by David Crane and Marta
Kaufman.
1995: Norman Spector
completed his services Canada’s Ambassador to Israel – a position some might
have felt him uniquely qualified to hold since he was the first Canadian born
Jew to hold the post.
1996: The movie version
Matilda, co-produced by Michael Shamberg whose cast included Rhea
Perlman and Embeth Davidtz was released today in the United States.
1996:
Eighty-four-year-old Michel Debre a member of prominent Jewish who converted to
Catholicism who served as the first Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic in
France passed away today.
1996: After opening in
the United States in April “James the Giant Peach” with music by Randy Newman
and co-starring Richard Dreyfus and Miriam Margolyes was released today in the
United Kingdom.
1996: “Emma” a movie
version of the 19th century novel starring Gwyneth Paltrow was
released today.
1997: “Lady in the
Dark,” a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and
direction by Moss Hart, is performed for the last time at the Royal National
Theatre in London.
1997: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today in Queens today for Sylvia Winograd, the wife of
Joseph Winograd Z”L.
1998(10th of Av, 5758):
Tish'a B'Av (The 9th of Av fell on Shabbat)
1998(10th of Av, 5758):
Television puppeteer Shari Lewis passed away. Born Shari Hurwitz in 1933, Lewis is best
remembered for her creations – Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and the ever-popular
Lamb chop.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/04/arts/shari-lewis-tv-puppeteer-loved-by-children-dies-at-65.html
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/02/1998/shari-lewis
1998: A memorial
service is scheduled to be held this morin for Sam Winograd, the husband of
Teddi Winograd with whom he had two children – Barry and Marcy – and “an
outstanding basketball and baseball player, coach and athletic director at
C.C.N.Y.” who “was active in the World Federalist Association for over 50 years
and received the Chevalier Order of the Crown from the Belgium government,
their highest honor.”
1998: The New York Times featured a review of A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey
From the Inner City to the Ivy League by Jewish author Ron Suskind.
1999: “Russian President Boris Yeltsin praised Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak today, during their meeting in Moscow.”
2000(1st of Av, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Av
2000(1st of Av, 5760): Ninety-two-year-old “Grand Rabbi Shlomo
Halberstam, a Holocaust survivor whose gentle charisma nurtured the exuberant
postwar rebirth of the Bobov Hasidic sect in Brooklyn and around the world,
died at Maimonides Medical Center today after a long illness.”(As reported by Blaine
Harden)
2002: “While expressing regret that two small boys were among those who
died in a raid on militant Islamic terrorist leaders in Nablus, today Israel
defended its missile strike saying it would “carry out more such assaults if it
felt that Israeli lives were at risk.”
2003(4th of Av, 5763): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
2003: “The Bush administration has backed away from demands that the
Palestinian Authority dismantle militant groups immediately, concerned that the
authority's security forces are too weak at this point to carry out a speedy
crackdown, administration officials said today.” (As reported by Steven R.
Weisman)
2004: One day after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to
be held for Sidney Morgenbesser the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
at Columbia University
2005: The Jerusalem Post reported that an
Israeli financial consortium announced that two Spanish companies were joining
the group in preparing a bid for a massive desalinization project. The need for new supplies of fresh water is
critical to the growth of the Israeli economy and the survival of the Jewish
state.
2005: Haaretz reported that Tunisia is the new
hotspot for Israeli tourists.
2005: Fifty-four year
old Montreal native and University of Ottawa graduate Hugh Segal began serving
as “Senator for Kingston-Fontenac-Leeds, Ontario.”
2005(26th of
Tammuz, 5765): Ninety-four-year-old Lou Bernstein (born Judah Leon Bernstein)
the harmonica player turned photographer passed away today in Boca Raton, FL.
http://www.loubernsteinlegacy.com/Artist_Profile.html
http://www.loubernsteinlegacy.com/
2006(8th of Av, 5766):
Some 210 rockets and missiles were launched toward northern communities - the
largest number since the beginning of the fighting. Dave Lalchuk, 52, of
Kibbutz Sa'ar, was killed and 16 others were wounded, three moderately, in the
attacks, as Jews begin to prepare for the observance of Tisha B’Av.
2006: On the same day
that over 200 rockets were launched against Israel, Bella Freud “voiced an
impassioned denunciation of Israel's "disproportionately violent
aggression" in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict” during “an appearance on
the BBC current affairs program Newsnight” today.
2007(18th of Av, 5767):
Frank Rosenfelt, a top movie executive at studios including
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/business/09rosenfelt.html?_r=0
2008: In Cedar Rapids,
at Temple Judah Triple Header Shabbat Morning Service
- Rosh Chodesh Av
- Completion of Bamidbar
- Observance of Raoul Wallenberg Day (actual
date is August 4, 2008, by proclamation of the Governor of the State of
Iowa
2008: “The Fly, an
opera in two acts by Canadian composer Howard Shore was broadcast by Radio
France's station France Musique today.”
2008 “Love, Loss and
What I Wore” a play by Nora and Delia Ephron co-starring Linda Lavin was
performed for the first time at the Bridgehampton Community House.
2009: Cantor Jacob
Chomsky of Tifereth Israel sings the National Anthem as part of Jewish
Community Day during a Columbus Clippers’ home game.
2009: The Los
Angeles Times features books by Jewish authors and/or special interest to
Jewish readers including Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector,
the Brazilian-Jewish author, by Benjamin Moser
2009: Two Arab families
were evicted from Jewish-owned homes in the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood of
Jerusalem this morning. The evictions took place following a Supreme Court
ruling in which the court found in favor of Jewish families who claimed ownership
of homes in the area.
2009: The Times of London features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including Judas by Susan Gubar.
2009(12th of Av, 5769): Seventy-five-year-old
journalist and author Sidney Zion passed away. (As reported by Robert McFadden)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/nyregion/03zion.html
2009(12th of Av, 5769): Seventy-one-year-old Michael A. Wiener,
broadcasting mogul and patron of the arts passed away.(As reported by Geraldine
Fabrikant)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/business/03wiener.html
2010: “Ahead of Time,” a documentary about author,
journalist and photographer Ruth Gerber is scheduled to be shown at the San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2010: The
“First Jewish Women's Music Festival” is scheduled to begin at Falls Village,
CT.
2010: A
huge explosion destroyed the home of a senior Hamas commander and injured 24,
Palestinians reported today. Palestinians said the blast was caused by an
Israeli airstrike, but this has been denied by the IDF.
2010: Palestinian
militants fired five rockets into the Israeli port city of Eilat with one of
them landing in nearby Jordanian city of Aqaba, flaring up tensions in the
Middle East anew. Though there were no immediate reports of casualties from the
beach resort of Eilat, five persons were injured; four of them seriously, when
one of the rockets strayed off course and hit the Jordanian city of Aqaba.
2011: “Sholem
Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness,” “a riveting portrait of the man who
transformed Yiddish from a vernacular language into a literary one” and “The
Hangman,” a fascinating and complex portrait of Shalom Nagar, a Yemeni Jew, who
as a young man worked as prison guard and was the execution of Adolf Eichmann.
2011(2nd
of Av, 5771): Einat Tavori, an Israeli traveling during a break from medical
school in Hungary, passed away today after she fell off a cliff while hiking in
the mountainous Parvati Valley region of northern India.
2011(2nd
of Av, 5771): Ninety-year-old Nobel Prize winning immunologist Dr. Baruj
Benacerraf, passed away. (As reported by Denise Gellene)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/us/03benacerraf.html
2011: The 2011
Security Briefing for Jewish Institutions is scheduled to take place at the
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.
Scheduled presenters included local police commanders and senior FBI
security personnel.
2011:
The IDF spokesperson confirmed today that the air force attacked several
targets in Gaza overnight, including a smuggling tunnel in the southern Strip
and a terrorist center in the north.
2011:
Today Israel's Supreme Court issued an unprecedented ruling ordering the state
to dismantle the largest illegal settlement outpost in the West Bank by April
2012.
2011:
A senior officer in the Israeli Navy said today that terrorists groups close to
Israel are in possession of missiles capable of hitting all Israeli ports and
offshore infrastructure such as oil rigs. Brigadier General Yaron Levi, the
Navy's intelligence chief, spoke about the matter today at a conference in Tel
Aviv University that focused on the naval theater
2011:
In “Shame on Me, and Your for Taking Pleasure in It,” Dwight Garner reviewed Humiliation
by Wayne Koestenbaum.
2012:
“The Moon is Jewish” is among the movies scheduled to be shown at the San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2012:
“Fiddler on the Roof” with Cantor Joel Colman in the title role is scheduled to
open in a production sponsored by Tulane University’s Summer Lyric Theatre.
2012:
Israel’s Counterterrorism Bureau warned Israeli citizens to leave Egypt’s Sinai
Peninsula immediately. “We possess information that Gaza terror groups and
others are planning attacks on Israeli tourists in the immediate future,” the
government agency said in a statement released today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-urges-citizens-leave-sinai-now/
2012: Swimmer
Yakov Toumarkin provided Israeli sports with a moment of history in an
otherwise disappointing day of setbacks at the London Olympics today. The
20-year-old recorded the best ever result for an Israeli swimmer at the
Olympics by ending the 200- meter backstroke final in seventh place in a time
of 1:57.62 minutes.
http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Article.aspx?id=279921
2013:
“Dancing in Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival.
2013:
“The Bible in the Iberian World: Fundaments of a Religious Melting Pot” is
scheduled to come to an at Leipzig, Germany
2013:
“Fill the Void” is scheduled to open at theatres in Rochester, Richmond,
Spokane and Madison, Wisconsin
2013:
A revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” is scheduled to premiere tonight at the
Starlighters Theatre in Anamosa, Iowa.
2013:
Alan B. Krueger completed his service as the “27th Chair of the
Council of Economic Advisers.”
2013:
President Obama has narrowed the field for Chairman of the Federal Reserve to a
trio of Members of the Tribe – Lawrence Summers, Janet Yellin and Donald L.
Kohn
2013:
Bank Hapoalim chief economist Leo Leiderman has turned down the nomination for
becoming the next Bank of Israel governor, Israel Radio reported this
afternoon. In a major embarrassment for Israel, Leiderman's announcement makes
him the second nominee to pull out within less than a week.
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=321889
2014:
The Washington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to continue with its program
of Coen Brothers films.
2014:
The traditional minyan at Temple Judah is scheduled to honor the Righteous
Gentiles on Raoul Wallenberg Shabbat while mourning the deaths of the IDF who
have given their lives to prevent another Holocaust.
2014:
St. Sgt. Maj. (res.) Omri (full name withheld for security reasons), from the
Duvdevan Unit, who jumped on a fellow soldier after a grenade was thrown at the
unit in Gaza today protecting him with his body.
2014:
“After 16 days of a ground incursion inside the Gaza Strip, the IDF started
moving troops out of urban areas to the border area today, amid military
estimates that the mission to destroy the 31 known terror tunnels will be
completed within 24 hours.” (As reported by Roi Kais)
2014:
Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is scheduled to host its first movie night with a
showing of “Noah” preceded by Havdalah services.
2015:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to “Family
Day at the Museum” complete with a visit from the ice cream truck.
2015:
Marisa Scheinfeld whose photographs are on display in “Exhibits from the
Borscht Belt” is scheduled to deliver a talk at Yiddish Book Center’s Brechner
Gallery.
2015:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Brush Back by Sara Paretsky.
2015:
The JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host a screening of “The Age of
Love” this afternoon.
2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host a public memorial tour.
2015:
“Richard Avedon: Family Affairs” is scheduled to close today at the National
Museum of Jewish History.
2015(17th
of Av, 5775): Three days after having been stabbed Yishai Schlissel during the
Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, “16-year-old Shira Banki died of her wounds at the
Hadassah Medical Center.”
2016:
The Historic Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to host an “outdoor screening
of ‘Back to the Future.’”
2016:
The Historic Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to a discussion Purity,
the fifth novel by Jonathan Franzen.
2017:
German prosecutors said today that Oskar Groening “a 96-year-old former
Auschwitz death camp guard who was convicted as an accessory to murder is fit
to go to prison.”
2017:
Today a 19-year-old Palestinian stabbed a 47-year-old Israeli “at a supermarket
in Yavneh.”
2017(10th
of Av, 5777): Eighty-seven-year-old economist and Kremlinologist Marshall I.
Goldman, one of the first to predict the downfall of the Soviet Union passed
away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
http://magazine.wellesley.edu/fall-2017/marshall-i-goldman
2017:
In Germany, “Festival Week, a long-time highlight of Yiddish Summer Weimar” is
scheduled to begin today.
2017:
In Milwaukee, WI, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host “It Runs In The
Family: Art and the Rosenblatts.”
http://www.milwaukeejewish.org/events/it-runs-in-the-family-art-and-the-rosenblatts/
2018:
JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of “Tracking Edith” in London.
2018:
“From the East” and “Our New President,” a documentary about the election of
Putin, are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018:
JW3 is scheduled the first and only London screening of “Indignation,” based on
the Philip Roth novel this evening.
2018:
Today at “a meeting, held in the IDF headquarters compound in Tel Aviv, Brig.
Gen. (res.) Amal As’ad told Netanyahu the Druze weren’t interested in a new
benefits package, but in feeling like part of the nation.”
2018:
“The Israeli Jazz Spotlight Festival, curated by Nadav Remez” is scheduled to
open at the Cornelia Street Café.
2018:
“The Interpreter,” a “film starring Academy Award-winning director Jiri Menzel
and Peter Simonischek that brings
together an unusual duo: the son of Holocaust victims and the son of the SS
officer responsible for their deaths” is scheduled to be shown at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2019:
Classical Bridge is scheduled to host a concert “featuring Michael Katz on the
cello and Shmuel Ashkenazy on the violin.”
2019:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of the
biopic “Carl Laemmle” and “Dolce Fine Giornata.”
2019:
In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host “Shabbat on the Roof” – “a
musical show for the whole family.”
2020:
Chabad of North Peninsula is scheduled to host Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich as he tells his story of trying to escape the
USSR in 1970 with a group of Jews on a small aircraft, his imprisonment and
eventual immigration to Israel.
2020:
In Atlanta, GA, via zoom The Breman Museum’s “founding archivist, Sandy Berman,
is scheduled to discuss her new historical novel. Whitewashed, while
giving our guests special insight into the novel's captivating tale.
2020:
The 11th Annual Axelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
host a virtual screening of “Heading Home” The Tale of Team Israel.”
2020:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a
virtual program discussion “We Dissent: The Woman Who Stood with RBG.”
2020:
Jewish Baby Network, Peninsula JCC and Peninsula Temple Beth El are scheduled
to present songs, puppets, shmoozing and crafts online in honor of the upcoming
Jewish love holiday, Tu B’Av.
2020:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Twilight of Democracy: The
Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Appelbaum and Antikind, a novel by Charlie Kaufman.
2020:
As Israelis prepare to face the work week, they may be able to find some
comfort in reports that their “government is working to ensure that its
citizens can receive Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it is ready,
according to the company's Israeli Chief Medical Officer, Prof. Tal Zaks.
2021:
The 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists are scheduled to be presented in
Jerusalem.
2021(24th
of Av, 5781): Seventy-two-year-old “Dr. Marc Lieberman, an ophthalmologist and
self-proclaimed “Jewish Buddhist” who, when he wasn’t treating glaucoma,
organized a dialogue between Jewish scholars and the Dalai Lama, and who later
brought sight back to thousands of Tibetans stricken by cataracts” passed away
today in San Francisco. (As reported by Clay Risen)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/us/marc-lieberman-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
2021(24th
of Av, 5781): Yahrzeit of Deb Levin Z”L – Devorah Elisheva
2022:
Chabad Center of Natik is scheduled to be a delivery site for Chani’s Kosher
Take-Out from Worcester, MA
2022:
The San Francisco Jewish Film is scheduled to offer digital screening of “Bad
Nazi, Good Nazi” and “The Crossing.”
2022:
Fasman Yeshiva High School, in partnership with Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Simon Wiesenthal Center, is scheduled to host exclusive outdoor premiere movie
screening of Names, Not Numbers © - A Movie In The Making, a student-produced
Holocaust documentary.
2022:
Dr. Regina Stein, the Morris Kaplan Scholar-in-Residence at the Museum at
Eldridge Street, is scheduled to deliver another lecture on “Home, Exile, and
Return in the Hebrew Bible.”
2022:
In the wake of the overturning of Roe, Svivah, JWA, Hadar, Maharat, and the
Covenant Foundation are scheduled to create a space to amplify the voices and
stories of those with direct understanding of the experience of abortion.
2022:
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption Case 1000, in which he is
accused of receiving gifts from billionaires in exchange for favors” is
scheduled to begin today.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Patrick Bade on
“Gershwin: An American Genius.”
2023:
“Agnon's German Stories” , a new lecture series with author Haim Be'er is
scheduled to take place this evening a Beit Agnon in Jerusalem.
2023:
In honor of Tu B’Av, the Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a
program on “The Art of the Jewish Marriage Contract.”
2023(15th
of Av, 5783): Tu B’Av Jewish Valentine’s Day
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tubav.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/53680/jewish/15th-of-Av.htm
http://www.israeldailypicture.com/
2024:
In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Friday night Oneg is scheduled to be a celebration of
the 15th anniversary of Todd Thalblum leading Temple Judah.
2024:
Temple Beth Zion is scheduled to present Nishmat Hayyim an online Friday
Morning Meditation.
2024:
“Rabbi Aaron and the Shabbat musicians from Sixth and I Synagogue are scheduled
to lead service at special space inside the Washington Nationals baseball park
after which congregants can watch the Nationals take on the Milwaukee Brewers.
2024:
As August 2nd begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling
for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 301 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:
As President Trump continues to express his displeasure with the Federal
Reserve, there will be one less Jewish person to hear those complaints because
Dr. Adriana Debora Kugler has resigned from the board.
2025(8th
of Av, 5786):Shabbat Chazon; Parashat Devarim;
2025:
In the evening, start of the fast connected with the destruction of the Temple
which may put a damper on the weekly protest demonstrations in Tel Aviv.
2025:
As August 2nd begins in Israel, the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 666
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:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to a close today.
2026:
Yair Levi is scheduled to present “The Kedem Experience” which is an evening of
music, worship and prayer for the peace of Jerusalem at Fredericktown, MO.
2026:
The Rochester Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to end with screenings
of “Lucky Star” and “Among Neighbors.”
2026:
As August 2 begins in Israel, there is a belief “that Iran will fire ballistic
missiles at it even if the IDF does not initially participate in US President
Donald Trump’s threatened intensified offensive against Iran” and there are reports
that Israel’s Leviathan and Tamar gas fields are possible targets for Iranian rocket
attacks.
