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51: Birthdate of TitusFlavius Domitianus, who gained fame as the Roman Emperor Domitian. Domitian was the son of Vespasian and thebrother of Titus, all three of whom played a key role in the destruction ofJerusalem which was one of the cornerstones of power for the Flaviandynasty. Domitian was even more hostileto the Jews than either of his predecessors as can be seen by his ruthlessenforcement of the ban on Romans converting to Judaism and his rigorous effortsto collect the special taxes assessed against the Jews. His death in 96 wouldnot be mourned by the Children of Israel.
69: At the Second Battle of Bedriacum, forcesunder Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian,defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius. This victory helped to pave the way forVespasian to become Emperor of the Roman Empire. According to Jewish mythology, it wasYoachanah Ben Zachai’s prediction that Vespasian would attain this goal thatled to him being able to establish the academy at Yavneh. Vespasian turned matters around Jerusalem tohis son Titus who would destroy the Temple within the year.
996: Hugh Capet, King of France who wasbeingtreated by a Jewish physician,passed away.The king'sdecision to use a Jewish doctor gave created the myth (which was believed bymany) that the Jews had killed the king.
996: Robert II, who “conspired with is vassals to destroyall the Jews who would not accept baptism” and inspired mob violence againstthe Jews including “the learned Rabbi Senior” began his solo reign as King ofFrance today.
1147:After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques defeated theMoors and re-conquered Lisbon. According to one source, Alfonso was concernedabout his chances of defeating the Moors.He looked to the Bible for support and comfort; something he found inthe story of Gideon where a force of 300 Israelites defeated a Midianite armynumbering 125,000. Following hisvictories at Santarém and Lisbon, Alfonso allowed the Jewish population toremain, to build synagogues and to enjoy most of the same rights as the rest ofthe citizens of his realm.
1197:After having taken Tyre and Sidon the Crusaders forces under Duke Frederick ofAustria entered Beirut today but marched back to Acre after learning that KingHenry I of Jerusalem have fallen to his death.
1273:Coronation of King Rudolf I who in 1286 “instituted a new persecution of theJews, declaring them servi camerae ("serfs of the treasury"), whichhad the effect of negating their political freedoms
1492: The Jews wereagain accused of stabbing a consecrated wafer in Mecklenburg, Germany. Twenty-seven were burned including twowomen, and all the Jews are expelled from the duchy. The spot where they werekilled is still called the Judenberg.
1558: Myles Coverdale a translator of the Bible into English whorelied on Luther’s Bible and the Vulgate but who did have some knowledge ofHebrew as can be seen by the fact that “the name of the Diety appears in Hebrewon the Title Page” and that Hebrew characters are used to mark the divisions ofthe Book of Lamentations” received leave to settle in Geneva.
1648: The Peace ofWestphalia ended the Thirty Years War. While the Jews of Europewere notcombatants or participants in the peace talk, this treaty did have far-reachingimpact on them. The treaty brought an end to the Holy Roman Empire whichmeant that the various states of Germany were able to choose their own religionand develop on their own. The independence of the Netherlands wasrecognized. The tolerant Dutch nation had already proven itself as ahospitable for Jews and six years after the treaty European Jews would findhaven in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. According to some historians,the treaty marked the end of the religious wars that had gripped Europe (muchto the detriment of the Jews) and marked the rise of the modern nation-statesystem. While anti-Semitism would continue to be part of the Europeanlandscape, the Jews of Europe would fare better after 1648 under a system ofnational citizenship.
1663: In Caen, France, Jacquesde Lancy and Marguerite Bertrand gave birth to Etienne de Lancy, also known asStephen Delancey, the husband of Anna de Lancy and the father of Colonel Jamesde Lancy, an official of Colonial New York.
1669: William Prynne, alawyer, author and political leader who opposed re-admitting Jews to Englandpassed way. One of the pamphletspublished by Prynne that decried “their ill deportment” and “misdemeanors”found favor with the merchants in London who claimed to oppose the admissionsof Jews on religious grounds but who were “jealous of the wealth of theHebrews” and did not want to compete with them for business.
1755: Birthdate ofAbraham Mordecai, the native of Philadelphia, PA, who was probably the firstJew to settle in Alabama.
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3135?printable=true
1760: In PowhatanCountry, VA, Mary Tabb and John Mayo gave birth to John Mayor, the husband ofAbigail de Hart and father of Edward, Maria, Julia and John Mayo.
1764: In Berlin, MosesMendelssohn and his wife gave birth to their oldest daughter, BrendelMendelssohn who gained fame as German novelist Dorothea von Schlegel, and themother of painter Philipp Veit.”
1768: In Philadelphia,PA, Rebecca Myers-Cohen and Mathias Bush gave birth to Abraham Bush.
1777(23rd ofTishrei, 5538): Simchat Torah celebrated on the same day that General GeorgeWashington to Major General John Sullivan during the Battle of Brandywine, an11 hour fight that ended with a major defeat of the Continental Army by theBritish.
1799(25th ofTishrei, 5560): Fifty-eight-year-old Yale graduate, ship owner and Torysupporter Ralph Isaacs passed away today.
1780: Zipporah Levy andNewport, RI, native Benjamin Mendes Seixas gave birth to Moses Seixas.
1781: “Abraham benMoses Atziplotz” was buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) JewishCemetery.”
1784: In Leghorn,Tuscany, “Joseph Elias Montefiore and his young wife Rachel, the daughter ofAbraham Mocatta, a powerful bullion broker in London, who were in the town on abusiness journey” gave birth to their first child Sir Moses Montefiore, who in alife time that spanned more than a century, proved to be not only a greatleader of the Anglo-Jewish Community, but one of the most formidable Jews ofthe 19th century. There is noway to do justice to this great man’s life in this brief blog. You are encouraged to examine the manysources available about this successful financier, public servant andphilanthropist whose generosity was integral source of support for the Jewishsettlers of 19th century Palestine.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/montefiore.html
1786: “Biene Reiss” and Mordechai Salomon Reiss gave birth to JosephReiss.
1792: Marriage of Ruben and Roeschen Gumperz.
1795: Thirdpartition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia. This is an example ofthe law of unintended consequences.Russia, which had been trying to keep Jews out, now found itself withmillions of Jewish Poles as Russian citizens.For the next hundred years the various Czars devised plans to control ordestroy the Jewish community in Russia.The most famous example was the one-third, one-third, one-thirdprogram. One third of the Jews wouldconvert, one third would immigrate and one third would die. Thus Russia would be rid of its Jews.
1802: Nathan Mayer Rothschildbecame a freemason of the Emulation Lodge, No. 12, of the Premier Grand Lodgeof England today in London
1804(19th ofCheshvan, 5565): Marx Levy Mordechai, the rabbi at Trier and husband of EvaLwow, who was the father of Heinrich Marx, and the grandfather of Karl Marxpassed away today.
1807(22nd ofTishrei, 5568): Shmini Atzertz
1807: Birthdate ofPrussian poet and philologist Ludwig Wihl who “advancedthe theory that Phoenician was a linguistic derivative of Hebrew, and thatPhoenicia had exercised a profound influence on the art of early Greece” butwhose refusal to be baptized “doomed” his university career.
1811: Birthdate ofFerdinand Hiller the native of Frankfurt am Main who gained fame as composerand director and who founded the Cologne Conservatoire in 1850 where he servedas Kapellmeister until 1884.
https://programs.cjh.org/archive/ferdinand-hiller-2024-04-04
1816(24th ofCheshvan, 5577): Fifty-four-year-old Moses Abrahams, the New York City born sonof Abraham Isaac Abrahams passed away today in his hometown.
1821: Joel Benjaminmarried Frances Cohen at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1821: Eighty-one-yearElias Boudinot, the 10th President of the Continental Congress who waspersuaded by James Adair’s History of the American Indians that the Indianswere descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes and that the Hebrew was the origin oftheir language, passed away today. (Editor’s note – Boudinot was but one in along list of people who held this belief which is why some early explorers wererumored to have included somebody with a knowledge of Hebrew among thoseserving in their expeditions.)
1826(23rd ofTishrei, 5587): Simchat Torah
1826(23rd ofTishrei, 5587): German actor and theatrical manager Jacob Herzfeld passed away.
1828: At The Hague,Moses de Pinto and Sara Salvador gave birth to Dutch jurist Aaron Adolf dePinto.
1828: Emmanuel Hart wasburied today at the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.”
1831: Moses Gomes Silvawas appointed to be a Provost Marshal-General in Jamaica.
1831: In Philadelphia,Clarissa and Joseph M. Asch gave birth to Myer Asch the dentist turned soldierwho began his service as a Second Lt. in Company H of the First Cavalry, JewJersey Volunteers in 1861 and rose to the rank of Colonel, in recognition ofhis valor combat and as a P.O.W. in Libby Prison before being discharged in1865.
1834(21st ofTishrei, 5595): Hoshana Raba
1834: Birthdate of LeviAdler, the husband of Theresa Wile and father of Isaac Adler, the Harvardtrained lawyer and 53rd Mayor of Rochester.
1838: Eliza MatildaMoses and Raphael Jacob Moses gave birth Israel Moses Nunez, the husband ofAnna Marie Moses Nunez who rose to the rank of Major in the CSA.
1838: Cerf Cylickmarried Isabella Magnus at the Great Synagogue today.
1841: Birthdate ofJacob Bettelheim, the Austrian-German author and writer.
1841: Birthdate of ElieScheid, a native of Hagenau, Alsace and founder of the Ḥebra 'Am Segullahburial society who authored separate histories of the Jews of this hometown andAlsace who became Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s primary assistant when he beganhis work supporting the colonization of Palestine.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13255-scheid-elie
1844: Birthdate of KarlLueger, the Austrian politician who exploited popular anti-Semitism to beelected Mayor of Vienna. There are thosewho contend that his successful exploitation of anti-Semitism served as a rolemodel for another resident of Vienna - Adolph Hitler.
1845(23rh of Tishrei,5606): Simchat Torah observed for the first time during the Presidency of JamesK. Polk
1848:Birthdate of Wilhelm Fleiss, the native of Arnswalde who became a notedotolaryngologist and a friend of Sigmund Freud.
1848:Michel Goudchaux resigned as Minister of Finance after the Assembly adopted ameasure today that he interpreted as a vote implying that he was not honest.
1851: The New YorkTimes reported that "the emigration of Jews is on the increase inconsequence of the oppressive ukases of the Emperor."
1852: Americanstatesman and unsuccessful Presidential candidate Daniel Webster who served hiscountry as a Senator and Secretary of State passed away. While serving as Secretary of State inPresident Millard Filmore’s administration, Webster actively opposed as treatywith Switzerland that would have discriminated against American Jews trying todo business in Switzerland. Webster and the American Jewish community enjoyed apositive relationship as can be seen by the fact that he was asked to speak atthe Hebrew Benevolent and German Benevolent Society meeting in 1849 in New YorkCity. He had to turn down the invitation because of ill health but he expressedhis “respect and sympathy” who have “preserved through darkness and idolatry ofso many centuries.
1853(22nd of Tishrei,5614): Shemini Atzeret
1853: The New YorkTimes reported that Dr. Raphall, a New York rabbi, will deliver a lectureabout Russia at a meeting of the Young Men's Literary Association on October26. Tickets will cost fifty cents.
1853: When an army ofKurds attacked the city of Al-Jazira, it was Muslims, Christians and Jews whopicked up arms to defend the city.
1855: In Germany DavidJ. Meyerhardt and his wife the former Esther Marks gave birth Max Meyerhardtthe husband of Nettie Watson, the father of Jennie, Julia, Max and LouisMeyerhardt who became a Judge in Georgia.
http://www.cherokeelodge66.org/max_meyerhardt.htm
1856: Birthdate of SirStuart Samuel, the brother of Sir Herbert Samuel. ”He was educated at Liverpool Institute and University College School, London”and “was a member of the banking firm of Samuel Montagu and Company.” “SirStuart…was president of the Board of Jewish Deputies” and “headed thecommission of inquiry sent by the British government to Poland to investigatethe anti-Jewish excesses in 1919”
1858: Twodays after she had passed away, Eliza Stiebel, the daughter of Jacob Abrahamand Rebecca Daniel Mocatta and the wife of Sigismund Stiebel was buried todayat the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1861:Birthdate of Lithuanian native and Columbia trained physician Robert Abrahams
1862(30thof Tishrei, 5623): On Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, Abraham Lincoln continues hisquest to find winning generals by replacing Don Carlos Buell with William S.Rosecrans for his failure to pursue the Confederates after the Battle ofPerryville.
1863:Birthdate or Rumanian native Arnold Josef Rose, the Vienna trained violinistwho “in 1881 he made his first appearance, at a concert of the ViennaPhilharmonic Society, in Goldmark's violin concerto, and shortly thereafterreceived an engagement as solo violinist and leader of the orchestra at theHoftheater.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12829-rose-arnold-josef
1868: InChicago, Bertha Sternberg and Nathan Friedman gave birth to University ofCincinnati graduate and HUC ordained rabbi, William S. Friedman, the husband of\ Juliet Freyhan who began serving Congregation Emanuel in Denver in 1890 and acofounder of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver.
1869:Elizabeth Samuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1869: Uponreturning to America in 1869, violinist and pianist Jeanne, Selma Franko Sam Franko, Rachel Frankoand Nahan Franko performed the sameconcert today at Terrace Garden in NewYorkthat it had first performed at New York’s Steinway Hall.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/franko-jeanne
1870: In Algiers under the leadership ofAdolphe Cremieux, France granted French citizenship to all Algerian Jews. Prior to this date, citizenship was conferredon individual Jews based on their application.Algeria had been taken over by the French and this move was part of theFrench program of colonization. Approximately 50,000 Jews gained Frenchcitizenship in this way.
1872(22nd ofTishrei, 5633): Shemini Atzeret
1873: In Philadelphia,PA, “Jacob and Betty (Rebecca) Bacharach” gave birth to Harry Bachrach, theRepublican Mayor of Atlantic City and Postmaster serving under PresidentsMcKinley and Roosevelt and founder of the “Jewish Community Center in AtlanticCity who was the husband of Hattie Bacharach and the brother of BenjaminBacharach, the President of Beth Israel Synagogue and Congressman IsaacBacharach who “represented the Second District of New Jersey” for almost twentyyears.
1874: According to atravelogue published today, most of the establishments for money changing inBayonne, France are owned by Jews.
1875: “The WildHuntsman” published today provides a brief summary of the legend of theWandering Jew, one of those canards which has helped to fan the flame ofanti-Semitism for centuries. This mythicfigure supposedly refused the suffering Jesus a drink of water from a horsetrough or refused to provide shelter for the Virgin Mary and Jesus when theywere fleeing to Egypt. Regardless, “insome countries” he is now seen “as kind of personification of Jews” in general.
1877: In Ronnenberg,Germany, Simon and Henrietta Seligman gave birth to Frantz Seligman, thehusband of Erna Seligman.
1877: “Receiving StolenGoods” published today described a scheme to buy stolen cloth that has landedLouis Lazarus, the owner of second-hand clothing store and his son in Samuel inthe Tombs.
1878: At the home ofthe bride in Charleston, SC, Rabbi Levy officiated at the marriage of EmilEckstein of Savannah, GA and Fannie Livingston.
1879: Birthdate ofSydney G. Gumpertz, the native of San Raphael, CA, who won the Congressional Medal of Honorduring WW I.
https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/sydney-g-gumpertz
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sydney-g-gumpertz
1879: In Providence,Rhode Island, the Unitarians are holding a convention where they are“discussing the subject of Monotheism’ and have concluded that the only truemonotheists are the Jews, Moslems and the Unitarians. They feel that theTrinitarian belief of Christians moves them away from true monotheism.
1880: Birthdate ofRochester, NY native Haskell Harold Marks a Jeweler and Republican member ofthe New York State Assembly.
1880: In Grodno, Josephand Ida (Shapiro) Weinstein gave birth to “Zionist leader” Solomon J.Weinstein, who in 1896 came to the United States where he became a member ofthe New York Produce Exchange, married Fannie Grohn, and was active in numerousJewish organizations including the American Zion Commonwealth, the PalestineGeneral Mortgage Bank and Temple Beth Elohim.
1880: Fifty-five-year-oldOswald Hönigsmann an Austrian lawyer and parliamentarian who spoke out onbehalf of the emancipation of the Jewish people passed away today.
1880: In Russia , Adaand Louis Landman gave birth to American Reform Rabbi Isaac Landman who “waseditor of the ten-volume Universal Jewish Encyclopedia,” “the first Jewishchaplain in the United States Army to serve on foreign soil” during World War Iand a leading anti-Zionist.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/landman-isaac
1881: Three days afterhe had passed away, Russian born Marcus Spero, the husband of Leah Spero, withwhom he had three children – “Eamanuel, Harriet and Esther – was bred today atthe “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1882: Birthdate of“Skalat, Austria” native Maurice Oliver Magid, the 1905 graduate of the CornellUniversity Medical College who “was the attending gynecologist to the New York CityCorrection Hospital and associate gynecologist to the Bronx Hospital.
1883(23rd ofTishrei, 5644): Simchat Torah
1883: Police arrestedAaron Hammer and Moses Rauch, two Jews whose celebration of Simchat Torah gotso rowdy that Bernard Levy felt the need to call the authorities forprotection.
1883: Jews throughoutthe world celebrated the 99th birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore.
1883: “Mr. Oscanyan’sVaried Show” published today included a description of that part of the lecturethe Turkish born American writer gave about the conditions of “the Jews of theEast” with whose persecution he commiserated.
1884: Sir MosesMontefiore celebrated his one hundredth birthday, an event that was marked withcelebration throughout much of the world including a letter from Queen Victoriato the successful businessman, philanthropist and humanitarian.
1884: Services are tobe held “simultaneously” at four o’clock this afternoon at synagogues in theUnited States to mark the 100th birthday of Sir MosesMontefiore. The speeches deliveredduring these services will be given to the Anglo-Jewish statesman on November 8“which corresponds with the 24th of October in the Jewish calendar.
1884: MontefioreHospital which was founded in 1884 by leaders of New York's Jewish community asthe Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids at Avenue A and East 84th Street inManhattan” “accepted its first six patients today on Moses Montefiore's 100thbirthday.”
1884: “A Home forHebrew For Orphans” published today provided a complete description of thenewly opened Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The four-storybuilding on the corner of 10th Avenue and 136th Street isdesigned to accommodate 1,000 children of both sexes and was built at a cost of$60,000.00.
1886: It was reportedtoday that the Wendell Phillips Literary Society is scheduled to “give adramatic entertainment” at upcoming fundraising event sponsored by the HebrewSheltering Guardian Society.
1886: The IndependentHebrew Citizens’ Association of the Tenth Ward endorsed “Tommy” Grady who isrunning for seeking to represent the Eighth District in Congress.
1886: Today, New Yorkbusinessman Henry Schloss, the Adrian, Michigan born son of William J. andHannah Schloss, the President and general manager of Castle Braid Company andPresident of Eltsac Realty Corporation in Brooklyn married Isabella Frankfield withwhom he had three children – William, Alfred and May.
1886: Forty-three-year-oldHerman W. Hellman, the Bavarian born husband of Trevino born Ida Heimann “waselected President of the Congregation B’nai B’rith” today in San Francisco.
1887(6th ofCheshvan, 5648): Sixty-six-year-old Charlotte Beyfus the wife of AbrahamOppenheim and the granddaughter of Meyer Amschel Rothschild passed away today.
1887: “The Religion ofHumanity” published today provides a summary of the Dr. Kaufmann’s recentlydelivered addressed entitled “What is Judaism?”Kohler feels that Judaism is a religion of humanity and that “It is theJew’s mission to stand by that religion of human which teaches the unity of theCosmos in God, the spirit of truth and the social unity of man as based uponhis God’s childship.”
1888: Birthdate of Lvivnative Marek Weber, the successful “German violinist and bandleader” who fledNazi Germany where his work was labeled “degenerate” and came to the UnitedStates where he was featured as the “Waltz King” on NBC radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62vpXVUS-Jw
1888: “Starving andFreezing” published today described the plight of the Polish Jewish farmers inRamsey County, North Dakota. The seventyfamilies who came from Chicago two years ago and settled 18 miles from DevilsLake have lost everything as a result of an early frost that wiped out theirWheat crop this year.
1889: The Young Men’sHebrew Association began its 16th season tonight with a program atChickering Hall in NYC.
1889: “Thinks Job APoetic Myth” published today described a skirmish in the battle between thosewho read the Bible literally and those who think it is subject tointerpretation – a schism that was found in both 19th centuryJudaism in Christianity. In this case,it was a Presbyterian Minister, E.L. Curtis who “startled his orthodoxcongregation” by asserted that the Book of Job “was only a parable and theother persons mentioned were but the creatures of poetical fancy.”
1891: In Russia, wherethe onset of winter has worsened the effects of the famine, two or three riotsbroke out aimed at the Jews.
1892: After spendingthree months at A.B. Simpson College “an institution where converted Jews aretrained for missionary work thirty three year old Isaac Hertzfeld was baptizedtoday – a an action that he would later publicly renounce.
1892: The New York Times described a change“in the future career” of Baron Hirsh, “who having devoted his youth toaccumulating millions is now devoting his old age to philanthropy.” One example of this was the Baron’s decisionto donate all of his “turf winnings,” a sum of 14,500 English pounds, to“deserving English charities.”
1893: The will of DavidJames, the well-known Anglo-Jewish actor left £15,000 to various legatees andprovided that his widow should receive the interest on the remaining £30,000with the principle reverting to various Hebrew charities at the time of herdeath or re-marriage whichever comes first. (Smith’s birth name was Belasco,which he dropped as he developed his acting career)
1893: “Mr. Mansfield AsShylock” published today reviewed the latest New York production of The“Merchant of Venice” which featured Richard Mansfield in the role of Shylock.Unlike Edmund Kean who played Shylock as a Biblical figure, Mansfield portrayedhim as a character from the Middle Ages who “loves his daughter” but “hates hisenemy with deadly bitterness
1894: Professor WillisJ. Beecher delivered a lecture “The Old Testament as a Whole, “ the second inhis series on the “Study of the Old Testament.”
1895(6th ofCheshvan, 5656): Forty-three-year-old Amsterdam native and painter Meijer Isaacde Haan also known by his French name Meyer de Haan whose works included apainting of the excommunication of Portuguese philosopher Uriel a Costa and whosepupils included Dutch painter Baruch Lopes Leão de Laguna who along with hiswife was murdered at Auschwitz passed away today.
1895: “Correct Spellingof Barnato’s Name” published today speculated on the correct spelling of thediamond mine mogul wondering if it was “Barney” or Barnie” a point renderedmoot by the fact that his name is “Barnett which is a common surname among Christiansand Jews.”
1896: In New York, theHebrew Institute Literary Society hosted a debate on the abolition of capitalpunishment tonight.
1896: The teachers andpupils of the Kaminsky Conservatory of Music performed at the Hebrew Institutetonight.
1896(17th ofCheshvan, 5657): Seventy-eight-year-old Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, theson of David Sassoon, who was a leading merchant in Baghdad who settled inBombay where his business success reportedly made him “one of the richest men”in the city, passed away today.
1896: The University ofWisconsin football team led by first year head coach Philip King, a Jewishnative of Washington, DC defeated Grinnell today.
1897(28th ofTishrei, 5658): Eighty-three-year-old Yetje Hangjas, “the eldest sister ofSimon Dejong passed at Haarlem, Holland.
1897: Phoebe Myers,“the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gershon Myers” married Ellis Moses “theeldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Moses” at the Western Synagogue.
1897: The Young ZionInstitute is scheduled to hold a “public meeting at the Cannon Street RoadHall” today.
1897: At the GreatSynagogue in London, Rabbi Singer is scheduled to deliver an address “at theannual thanksgiving service for the children who enjoyed” the support “of theJewish branch of the Children’s Country Holiday Fund.”
1898(8th of Cheshvan,5659): Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto died atGuantanamo, Cuba, from the effects of fever contracted during theSpanish-American war. A member of a prominentSephardic family that had settled in New York, this son of Moses Levy MaduroPeixotto volunteered to join the U.S. Army at the outbreak of the war withSpain serving “with the Third United States Volunteer Infantry, first as firstlieutenant and acting quartermaster, and then as captain of Company D. At thetime of his death he was military governor and provost marshal of Guantanamo.”
1898: RalphDisraeli was buried today in Buckinghamshire, UK.
1898;Following the end of the Spanish-American War the 2nd NebraskaVolunteer Infantry including Sergeant Charles of North Platte, Private ElmerHeller of Omaha, Corporal Samuel Jacoby and Private Joseph Meitner both ofChadron, Private Joseph Wolf of Lincoln and Private Louis Abel of Norfolk wereamong those mustered out today.
1899:Birthdate of Warsaw native Anatol Stern, the poet turned screenwriter whosurvived the Gulag, lived in Palestine before returning to his native landwhere he died at the age of 68.
1900(1stof Cheshvan, 5661): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1900: The1900 United Kingdom general election in which Stuart Samuel was elected as theMP for Whitechapel came to an end today.
1900:Samuel Alschuler, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois” who isJewish “said today that he had been informed of a circular letter being sentout ostensibly addressed to saloon keepers and urging support of the Democraticticket on account of the well-known hostility to liquor and liquor dealers”expressed by the Republican candidate for governor.
1901:According to advance copies of the registration lists received today in theoffice of the New York Times “Oscar S. Straus, the ex-Minister of the UnitedStates” the native of Bavaria who had served under both President Cleveland andPresident McKinley has not registered to vote.
1901: HymanPearlstone, the Buffalo, TX son of Barny and Lena Catsok Pearlstone and hiswife Mable Roxanne Pearlstone gave birth to Lorraine Mildred Budner the wife ofWilliam Charles Budner.
1902(23rdof Tishrei, 5663): Simchat Torah
1902: Herzl had anothermeeting with Lord Rothschild and an appointment in the British Foreign Office.
1903: It was reportedtoday that “The American Jewish Year book for the year 5664 (which beganSeptember 22, 1903)…has been issued.This fifth annual volume, which is 316 pages in length, was edited byCyrus Adler. Ninety-six pages aredevoted to the annual report of the Jewish Publication Society. While the volume contains a great deal ofinformation about Jewry there is no description of the Zionist Convention heldat Basel or the Pogrom at Kishinev. Theformer “was held too late to be included.The latter will be covered in a special pamphlet issued by JPS.
1904: After premieringin London, “The Cinglee” a musical containing “additional material by PaulRubens opened in New York at the Original Daly’s Theatre where it ran for 33performances.
1904: In New Yor, City cigar maker Barnett Hart andLillian Solomon gave birth to producer, director and playwright Moss Hart. Hart achieved success both on Broadway and infilms. One of Hart’s most famous cinematic triumphs was “Gentlemen’s Agreement”which he produced. One of his greatestBroadway triumphs came at the end of his career when he served as director for“My Fair Lady.” He was married to KittyCarlisle. Unbeknownst to many of herfans, the sophisticated Ms. Carlisle was actually Catherine Conn, a Jewess fromNew Orleans whose mother was an aggressive social climber. Hart himself passed away in 1960. You can read more about the fascinating lifeof Moss Hart in his autobiography, Act I.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moss-Hart
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/moss-hart/
1905: Birthdate ofFrench Trotskyist leader Pierre Frank.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1984/04/frank.htm
1906: Birthdate offencer Theodore Lorber who finished in seventh place at the 1932 Los AngelesOlympics.
1906: In Vienna,“Edmund von Motesiczky, “a talented cellist and keen huntsman” and “Henriettevon Lieben who came from one of the most wealthy and cultured families in theHabsburg Empire” gave birth to painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-marie-louise-von-motesiczky-1337146.html
1907: The ChaseNational Bank listed a loan for $40,000 to Stella M. Rothschild in it petitionto to have Judge Holt modify its restraining order in a case against Mayer andCo.
1908(29thof Tishrei, 5669): Sixty-nine-year-old Solomon Sonneschein, the Moravian bornrabbi who married Rosa Sonneschein in 1864 and whose last pulpit was at TempleB’nai Yeshurun in Des Moines, IA passed away today.
1908: As litigationwent forward in the case of the contested will of the late Sigmund Rosenwald,today McLaughlin and Stern filed a petition on behalf of Mrs. Ella Rosenwaldwho claimed to be Sigmund’s widow statingshe was a “widow and one of the next kin of the above-named decedent:and “that the will offered for probate was not the last will and testament ofMr. Rosenwald” and that the will have had been produced by fraud” perpetratedby Mathilde Goldberg, Benno Neuberger and Benno Rosenwald.
1908: The New York Times publishes aninterview with Israel Zangwill entitled “IsraelZangwill’s Serious Purpose,” in which the Jewish author discusses his viewson the literary worlds of the United States and Great Britain and the reactionto his “The Melting Pot.”
1909: As interest inthe New York City elections increased Rabbi Stephen Wise delivered as sermonthis morning on “The Civic Duty of the Hour” at the Free Synagogue in which hesaid “the time was fraught with danger to Jewish people of New York because ofthe visit to Tammany Hall by thirteen rabbis who saw themselves as “theself-appointed representatives of the Hebrew Community” in New York and he wenton to deny that was an “friendship” between the Jews and Tammany saying “nodecent self-respecting, law-abiding Jews asks for help or support or favor inany form from Tammany.”
1910(21st ofTishrei, 5671): Hoshana Rabah
1910: Birthdate ofJulius Pike, the tackle for the University of Maine “Blackbears” who was teamcaptain in 192 when the team finished “with a record of 5-1-1.."
1910: Birthdate of YoelZussman, the native of Krakow who became the fourth President of the SupremeCourt of Israel.
1910: Archaeologist Maxvon Oppenheim, a member of the famous German-Jewish banking family requested tobe allowed to leave the diplomatic service so that he could work on theexcavation at Tel Halaf which he asked his father to finance.
1910: The OscarHammerstein production Victor Herbert’s “Naughty Marietta” opened itspre-Broadway run in Syracuse, NY.
1911: “Penrose AgainstRussia,” published today reported that Senator Penrose has described“discrimination by the Russian Government against American Hebrews as anassault on American principles and traditions” and that he has assured adelegation of Jews from Philadelphia “that he agreed with their contention thatthe violation of their treaty rights as American citizens was not a propersubject for an arbitration tribunal but should result in the passing of aresolution by Congress denouncing the present treaty.”
1912: Joseph Grosberg,the Russian born son Jacob Grosberg and founder of a chain of grocery storiesin upstate New York and his wife Rachel (Rae) Kadisky gave birth to theirsecond daughter Rosalind “Rozzie” Grosberg.
1912: “Oscar S. Straus,Secretary of Commerce and Labor in President Roosevelt's Cabinet, and BullMoose candidate for Governor of New York, speaking to-night at the CentralArmory as "a humble messenger of the Progressive movement," broughtto Cleveland Bull Moosers the message that "Progressivism is marching on,and as it marches forward is sweeping the bosses out and bringing back the ruleof the people."
1913(23rd of Tishrei,5674): Simchat Torah
1913(23rd ofTishrei, 5674): Seventy-nine-year-old Civil War veteran and “dry goods merchant”Louis Gideon, the Baden born son of Samuel and Juditha Gideon, the husband ofHarriet Loeb and Henrietta Gideon and father of Ben Gideon; Esther Goiten;Abram Gideon; Jenny "Jennie" Gideon; Lula Tyrrel; Clara Gideon;Samuel Edward Gideon; Henry L. Gideon and Daniel Gideon” passed away today inCleveland, OH.
1913: The menassociated with Marcus M. Marks in the work of the Educational Alliance havecalled a meeting for this evening to express their support for his candidacy asPresident of the Borough of Manhattan on the “Fusion ticket.”
1914(4th ofCheshvan, 5675): Parashat Noach
1914(4th ofCheshvan, 5675): Rabbi Samuel R. Gordon passed away today in Houston, TX.
1914: Dr. J. L. Mangesand Dr. Schmarya Levin are scheduled to address tonight’s meeting hosted by theNew York chapter of Hadassah at the Young Women’s Hebrew Association buildingwhere they will seek ways to alleviate the threat faced by the Jewish settlersin Palestine resulting from the start of the World War.
1914: The American Jewish Relief Committee wasestablished by Jacob H. Schiff, Louis Marshall, and Felix Warburg. It sooncombined with the Central Relief Committee founded by Orthodox leaders and thePeople's Relief Committee representing labor, into one organization theAmerican Joint Distribution Committee. The “Joint” would become a vital forcein providing aid to Jews caught up in the hostilities of World War I which hadbegun in August of 1914.
1915: In Manchester,UK, Mr. and Mrs. Neville Laski gave birth to English author Marghanita Laski.
1915: “More than 1,000persons witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the new Sinai Temple nearEast 163rd Street, the Bronx” which was done in a formal manner byAdolph Lewis who used a silver trowel with his name engraved on it to “spreadthe mortar” following with they heard a speech by “Rabbi J. Leonard Levy ofPittsburgh who talked of the place the Jews occupies in American life.”
1915: “A memorialservice for Jewish soldiers who have lost their lives in the European war washeld” tonight “at Mount Zion Temple on West 119th Street under theauspices of the German-Jewish Military Society.”
1915: “To Aid JewishCharities” published today described plans for “a meeting of the council ofJewish Communal Institutions of which Leo Arnstein is President will be held inNew York at the end of October or early in November to consider the desirabilityof establishing a Bureau of Philanthropy to act as a central investigating bodyfor the study of social problems affecting the Jewish community in New York numberingmore than 1,000,000.”
1915: The AmericanJewish Conference which was scheduled to open today in Washington, DC did notmeet due to a clash between different factions in the Jewish communityrepresented, respectively, by Louis Marshall and Louis Brandeis who said theconference “would be futile because the conference would purport to be anassembly authorized to express the will of the Jewish people, whereas it wouldin fact have not such mandate and would lack the necessary support of the Jewsof America without which its action would be ineffective.”
1915: Today, twenty-three-year-old Leo Alexander,the son of Niles, OH scrap iron dealer Abraham Alexander and Rose Alexander whotook over the family business when his father passed away and who was a memberof Anshe Emeth married Kate Lavine, thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Lavine of Cleveland, Oh
1915: In a letterwritten today, “Sir Henry McMahon, then His Majesty's High Commissioner inEgypt, promised the Sharif of Mecca, Husayn ibn Ali, to ‘recognize and supportthe independence of the Arabs within the territories proposed by him (Sharif ofMecca)’” -- territories that included the Arabian peninsula, Syria, Lebanon,Iraq Transjordan) and Palestine a portion of which was Tel Chai “anagricultural community settled by Jewish workers from Metulla in 1907.
1915: British HighCommissioner, Henry McMahonreached an agreement with AbdullaHussein of the Hashemi family, trading a revolt against Turkey for Arabindependence everywhere except Eretz-Israel. This agreement, which was indirect contradiction with the Sykes-Picot treaty, was like the BalfourDeclaration - vague and ambiguous. Many of the problems that we face in theMiddle East today can be traced back to the various deals (many of which weredishonest to say the least) made by the British and the French as they soughtto break the back of the Turkish Empire and defeat Germany through the “backdoor.”
1915: Today, twenty-three-year-oldNiles, OH scrap iron dealer Leo Alexander, the son of Rose and AbrahamAlexander, married Kate Lavine, the Cleveland, OH daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Barnett Lavine.
1916: In Nashville, TN,Maurice Sanditen, the Lithuanian born son of Abraham Jacob Sanditen and DinaGlike Sanditen and his wife Myrtle gave birth to Stanley Leon Sanditen
1916: In New York,Louis Marshall presided over a meeting where the remarks by RepublicanPresidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes about “the treaty relations withRussia” “were received with great applause” in a section of the city “where theJewish population is large.”
1916(27th ofTishrei, 5677): Sixty-six-year-old Antonie (Toni) Amalia Liebermann, thedaughter of Ferdinand and Fanny Reichenheim and the wife of Professor Dr. CarlTheodor Liebermann passed away today in Berlin.
1917: Felix Frankfurteris acting as Secretary for the Labor Commission President Wilson sent toArizona to settle “the big copper strike” which is threatening the manufactureof munitions that rely on the metal.
1917(8th ofCheshvan, 5678): Forty-eighty-year-old Helen Goldman Bechhoefer, thePennsylvania born daughter of Bernhard and Henrietta Siegel Goldman and thewife of Charles Bechhoefer pass away today after which she was buried in theMount Zion Temple Cemetery in St. Paul, MN.
1917: As part of thefinal push to publish the Balfour Declaration, Ronald Graham writes LordBalfour, “Almost every Jew in Russia is a Zionist, and if they can be made torealize that the success of Zionist aspirations depends on the support of theAllies and the expulsion of the Turks from Palestine, we shall enlist a mostpowerful element in our favor.”
1917: It was reportedtoday that 113-year-old Ethel Polansky gave one dollar and 109 year old NissenRosenstein, the oldest man in New York State gave five dollars towards thepurchase of a Liberty Bond by residents of the Home of the Daughters of Jacobin New York City.
1918: “The Intermountain Jewish News (IJN)” reportedtoday that 27 year old Denver native Sergeant Morris Fishel had passed away atCamp MacArthur six days ago and had been buried at Mt. Nebo Memorial Park inAurora, CO.
1918: Sarah Friedman, of blessed memory, the wife ofHyman Friedman is scheduled to be buried today in New York City.
1918: Two days after he had passed away, 82 year oldLeopold Bloch, the son of Samuel and Theresia Bloch and the husband of RosaBloch was buried in his home town of Vienna.
1918: Hyman Gerson Enelow, a member of the OverseasCommission of the Jewish Welfare Board who was touring the war zone wrote today“I have been to some places where one sees the boys going and coming from thetrenches. Everywhere they are they areglad to see a Rabbi and hear a kind word.It makes them feel they are not forgotten.” In the hospitals “thedoctors and nurses do all they can” and “they appreciate a Rabbi if they neverdid before.”
1919(30th of Tishrei, 5680): Rosh ChodeshCheshvan
1919: A reception is scheduled to be given tonight atCooper Union for Samuel Charney, the 35 year old critic who writes under thepen name of “Samuel Nigger” and who has just returned from Vilna where he sawPolish soldiers killed seventy “Jewish citizens” after which they stole “theirproperty.”
1920: In Manhattan, Sidney Donheiser and Bertha Youngergave birth to Julius Stuart Younger, the virologist who “was the last survivingmember of the original three-man research team assembled by Dr. Jonas Salk”that found the Polio Vaccine.(As reported by Sam Roberts)
1920: The Tri-City Conference of Social Workers which hadopened last night with concert held its business meeting to at the YoungWomen’s Hebrew Association on West 110th Street.
1920: The Intercollegiate Zionist Association, the Leagueof the Jewish Youth, the Intervarsity Menorah, Young Judea, Y.W. H.A., Y.M.H.Aand the Teachers’ Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary arranged today’sFriedlander Memorial Meeting “to honor the memory of Dr. Israel Friedlander”who was ‘slain by bandits” while delivering aid to Jews in the Ukraine in theGreat Hall of City College where more than three thousand young and men heardaddresses by Dr. John Finley, Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Ruth Dressler and LeonHoffman.
1920: David de Sola Pool resigned as a member of theExecutive Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board today.
1920: “In the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, AbrahamSeldin, a dentist from Bessarabia” and the “former Laura Ueberal,” a native ofVienna gave birth to Donald Way Seldin, the driving force behind “what is nowthe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center” and an expert witness inthe trial of Nazi doctors who worked at Dachau.(As reported by Sam Roberts)
1920: Dr. Cyrus Adler presided over “the Annual Meetingof the Jewish Welfare Board which was held at 2 p.m. today at the JewishCenter…in New York City.”
1920: Today marked the end of the election of delegatedfor 23rd annual convention of the ZOA which is scheduled to begin onThanksgiving Day, November 25, in Buffalo, NY.
1921(22nd of Tishrei, 5682): Shmini Atzeret
1921: Today marked the beginning of The American JewishRelief Committee’s campaign to raise $14,000,000 in four months for relief andreconstruction to meet the emergency cause by the Russian families and economicstagnation in many parts of Central Europe.”
1922(2nd of Cheshvan, 5683): Fifty-seven-year-oldMeir Selig Goldschmidt, the son Clementine Fuld and Selig Meir Goldschmidt andthe husband of Selma Cramer passed away today.
1923:Birthdate of British born American poet Denise Levertov. Her pedigree is of interest since it providesa picture of the fate of European Jews.Her mother was Welsh. Her fatherwas an Anglican parson. In point of fact, he was an immigrant from Germany whohad been raised as a Chasidic Jew before converting to Christianity.
1923:In the Bronx, Betty and Dr. Lee Fisher gave birth to Edwin Zalmon Fisher acartoonist whose work was a regular feature in The New Yorker magazine.
http://edfischer.com/cartoons.html
1924: Birthdate of Gusta Dynerova, who was shipped fromPrague to Ujazdow in 1942 where she was murdered.
1924: “Moon of Israel,” a silent film epic based on thestory of the Israelites in Egypt , directed by Michael Curitz, produced byArnold Pressburger and starring Maria Corda, who saved her husband, the famousmovie mogul Alexander Korda from Horthy’s Hungarian fascists, was releasedtoday in the United States.
1925:In Brooklyn Max and Beatrice Feldstein gave birth to Albert “Al” BernardFeldstein “who took over a fledgling humor magazine called Mad in 1956 and made it a popular, profitable and enduringwellspring of American satire.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1926:Suffering from acute appendicitis and having ignored medical advice that hehave immediate surgery, Harry Houdini performed at the Garrick Theatre despitehaving a fever of 104 °F (40 °C).
1926:Following what would be his last performance, Houdini was taken to the GraceHospital in Detroit.
1927:At Temple Sinai in Chicago, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Clarence Darrow debated“Is Zionism a Progressive Policy for Israel and America? Wise argued the affirmative and Darrow thenegative. Darrow, the famous defenselawyer “had many Jewish friends and denounced anti-Semitism” but like so manyof his generation (Jew and non-Jew alike) “he never supported a separatehomeland for Jewish people.
1928:In Hungary anti-Semitic violence that had begun at the universities “continuedtoday in Budapest, Debreczin, Pech and other large towns.”
1928: “From the platform where "Abraham Lincolnsixty years ago appealed for the right to worship God as we see fit," theRabbinical Board and cooperating Jewish congregations of Greater New York madea plea” tonight “ for religious tolerance and protested against manifestationof religious intolerance in Soviet Russia.”
1929:Birthdate of Daniel Donald Dorfman “a highly visible financial journalist whosetelevised market reports could send a stock soaring — or plummeting — but whosecareer was tarnished by accusations of insider trading.” (As reported byMargalit Fox)
1929:Birthdate of Moroccan native Yehonatan Yifrah who made Aliyah in 1951 and wenton to serve as “secretary of the Sderot Workers Council” and an MK from 1969 to1973.
1929:On what is known as Black Thursday, a record number of shares are traded on theNYSE as stock prices tumble, only to rebound when Richard Whitney steps on thefloor and dramatically purchases large blocks of Blue Chip stocks. This provides only a brief respite on theroad to Black Tuesday when the bottom fell out of the market marking the startof the worldwide Great Depression with all of its negative consequencesincluding the rise of Hitler. The moneyfor Whitney’s dramatic purchases was provided by the three leading New YorkBankers, none of whom were Jewish.
1930:Birthdate of Elaine Feinstein poet, novelist, short-story writer,playwright, biographer and translator who was born in Bootle, Lancashire. Shewas educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She holds an honorary doctoratefrom the University of Leicester. She has worked variously as an editor forCambridge University Press (1960-62), as Lecturer in English at Bishop'sStortford Training College (1963-6), as Assistant Lecturer in EnglishLiterature at the University of Essex (1967-70), and as a journalist. Shecontributes to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement,and was Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsoe,Norway. Elaine Feinstein's first volume of poetry, In a Green Eye, waspublished in 1966. Her later work has been influenced by the poetry of MarinaTsvetayeva, a poet whose work she has translated from the Russian. She receiveda Cholmondeley Award in 1990. Her first novel was The Circle (1970),which, like much of her early work, explores themes of female identity seenboth inside and outside the family unit. Later novels, such as The Survivors(1982), draw on her knowledge of 20th-century European history and an awarenessof her own Jewish heritage. Her most recent novel is The Russian Jerusalem(2008).She is the author of a number of plays for television including “Breath,”televised by the BBC in 1975, and “The Diary of Country Gentlewoman,” atwelve-part series (based on Edith Holden's novel) produced by ITV in 1984. Shehas also written radio plays, including “Foreign Girls” (1993) and WinterMeeting (1994), and is the author of several biographies, among themstudies of the singer Bessie Smith and the writer D. H. Lawrence and a portraitof the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, published in 2001. Her book, Anna ofall the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin (2005) is a biography ofAnna Akhmatova. Elaine Feinstein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literatureand was elected on tothe Council of the Royal Society of Literature in2007. She lives in London. Her most recent poetry collection is Talking tothe Dead (2007), dedicated to the memory of her husband, Arnold.
1930: “The Virtuous Sin,” directed by George Cukor wasreleased in the United States today.
1930: British Labour Party MP Harry Gosling passed awaytoday opening the way for Barnett Janner to seek this seat in constituency thathad a large Jewish population – something did help the Jewish politician in his first campaign but helped him to gainthe set in the next general election.
1931: With Sid Gillman playing end, OSU lost toNorthwestern today.
1932: Rufus D. Isaacs, “the last member of the LiberalParty to serve as Foreign Minister” and “the second practicing Jews to be amember of the British cabinet” appeared on the cover of Time magazine, which inits day was sign of being a significant figure in the world.
1933: Nazis pass a law against “Habitual and DangerousCriminals” that justifies placing the homeless, beggars, unemployed andalcoholics in concentration camps. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1934: According to “official government figures publishedtoday,” “in the month of September 4,535 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine”of which “459 families were listed in the capitalist category while 1,158families came as workers.”
1934: The wandering steamer Velos, bearing 318 Jews, mostly under24 years of age, has found temporary anchorage in Salonika, Greece.”
1934: HebrewTheological College of Chicago secured appointments for four of its eightrecent graduates --Rabbi Joseph Gorfinkel, who goes to Lexington, Ky.; RabbiNahum Schulman, to Windsor, Ont.; Rabbi Lewis Milgrom, to Joliet, Ill.; andRabbi Leo Brener, to Shreveport, La.—who were ordained last month. (JTA)
1935: “Rendezvous” a spy movie set in WW I produced byLawrence Weingarten with a screenplay co-authored by Bella and Samuel Spewackco-starring Binnie Barnes, the daughter of George Barnes, an Anglo-Jewish policemanwas released today in the United States by MGM.
1935: Final day for the publication of the American Hebrewand Jewish Tribune.
1935(27th of Tishrei, 5969): Abraham"Abe" Landau, a henchman of gangster Dutch Schultz succumbed to hiswounds today.
1935: In Montreal, Abie Baine was knocked out in a boutfor the Montreal Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Title.
1935: Mussolini’s Fascist Italian Army invaded Ethiopia. This act of naked aggression helped to makeMussolini a pariah among many Europeans.In turn, this pariah status helped to drive Mussolini into an alliancewith Hitler that had disastrous results for Italian Jews. Strange as it may sound, the road toAuschwitz for Italian Jews went through Addis Abba.
1936(8th of Cheshvan, 5697): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1936(8th of Cheshvan, 5697): Isidore Abramowitz passedaway today after which he was buried at the United Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond(Staten Island) NY.
1936: “Lawrence Marx, chairman of the 1936 campaign of theFederation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, announced todaythat leaders in 115 trades and professions had accepted executive posts in thefederation's campaign to raise $3,000,000 to meet the deficit of its ninety-oneaffiliated social welfare agencies.”
1936: “The Labor Court at Berlin decided today that a NationalSocialist maid order by her employer to in a Jewish-owned shop has the right toleave immediately and that the employer must continue to pay her wages untilthe expiration of the legal notice term.”
1936: In Poland, “anti-Semitic riots in which four Jewish studentswere injured seriously led to the temporary closing of the University of LwowPolytechnic School today.” (Editor’s note – According to some, the rampantanti-Semitism in pre-WW II Poland, is one of the under-studied aspects ofevents that led up to and helped make possible the Final Solution)
1936: As part of the “purge of Jewish influences” on “GermanKultur” it was reported today that “several German composers received orders towrite new music to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to replace that by FelixMendelssohn.”
1936: Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the Palestine SymphonyOrchestra told the Times he had just conferred with Arturo Toscanini onarrangements for the opening concert of the PSO which will be conducted byToscanini. The symphony has seventymembers most of whom are refugees from various European countries where theywere leading performers. The concert is scheduledfor December and is the first of a series of scheduled performances.
1937:The Palestine Post reported thatAvinoam Yellin, Senior Jewish Education Officer succumbed to his woundsinflicted by an Arab terrorist. The entire Yishuv mourned this outstandingnational leader. The Palestine Police offered a £1,000 reward for informationleading to the arrest of Yellin's assassin.
1937:The Palestine Post reported that twoArabs were killed and two others wounded by unknown persons, believed to beJewish, in Haifa and Jerusalem.
1937:The second season of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra begins today in Tel Avivunder the direction of Hans Wilhelm Steinberg.
1937:Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today for “seventy-eightyear old Frank Heino Damrosch, the German born son of “conductor, violinist andcomposer” Leopold Damrosch and “the former Marie Helene Von Heimberg” a leadingopera singer and the husband of “Hetty Mosenthal” who pursued a career inbusiness and served as a “lieutenant in the National Guard” before devotinghimself to the field of music which included the found of the Institute ofMusical Art” followed by private burial services.
1937:“I’ve Got the Tune,” “an American radio opera with words and music by MarcBlitzstein” was broadcast for the first time with Bernard Hermann as theconductor.
1937:The Los Angeles Times reported todaythat “studio moguls” (many of whom were Jewish) grew so worried about theincreased activism of their stars” (many of whom were Jewish) “that they wereconsidering inaugurating ‘a squelch campaign against anything savoring ofpolitical activities’” which would include a clause prohibiting such behaviorin future contracts.
1938:In the wake of the Munich Agreement and its appeasement of Hitler, “FrenchForeign Minister Georges Bonnet carries out a major purge of the Qui d'Orsay,sacking or exiling a number of anti-appeasement officials such as Pierre Comertand René Massigli”
1938:In what would prove to be one more step on the road to WW II and the Shoah, “ata "friendly luncheon" in Berchtesgaden, German foreign ministerJoachim von Ribbentrop tells Józef Lipski, the Polish ambassador to Germany,that the Free City of Danzig must return to Germany, that the Germans must begiven extraterritorial rights in the Polish Corridor, and that Poland must signthe Anti-Comintern Pact.”
1939: The Jewish Big Band Leader Benny Goodmanrecorded "Let's Dance"
1939:Jews in Wloclawek, Poland, are requiredto wear a yellow cloth triangle identifying them as Jews
1940(22ndof Tishrei, 5701): Shemini Atzert
1940(22ndof Tishrei, 5701): Seventy-one-year-old Leopoldine Rothschild, the German bornson of Stella and Wilhelm Benjamin Rothschild passed away today in London
1940:Birthdate of Rehovot native Yossi Sarid who served as an MK from 1974 through2006 and was a columnist for Haaretz.
https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=126
1940:In Brooklyn, Jack Meltzer and the former Kitty Talber gave birth to actor andpreservationist Daniel Meltzer.
1940:In what should have been a moment of national shame, Marshall Philippe Petain,the Head of State of Vichy France shook hands with German Chancellor AdolfHitter.
1941(3rdof Cheshvan, 5702): Two days after his 55th birthday, Yiddish authorShmuel Lehman died in the Warsaw Ghetto today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/05/shmuel-szmil-lehman.html
1941:Six thousand work passes were distributed in Vilna. This meant 4,000 Jewswithout work passes would be sent to their doom in Polna. They were hunted downby the Lithuanians. Among the dead were 885 children.
1941Sixteen thousand Odessa, Ukraine, Jews areforce-marched out of the city toward Dalnik, where they are bound together ingroups of 40 to 50 and shot, at first in the open and later through holesdrilled in the walls of warehouses. Three of these structures are set ablazeand a fourth is exploded by artillery fire.
1941: Twenty thousand Jews fell into Nazi hands atKharkov.
1941(3rdof Cheshvan, 5702): As part of the Odessa Action, an additional 16,000 Jewswere taken from Odessa and sent to Dalnik. In Dalnik, they were all shot inditches; machine gunned down or burned alive in warehouses.
1941:Sixty-five-year-old Gershon Lichtenstein “was deported
1941:“Spooks Run Wild,” a comedy produced b Sam Katzman with a script co-authored byCarl Foreman was released today in the United States.
1942:This evening MiriamChaszczewacki or Miriam Chaszczewacka, a Jewish girl and Holocaust victim whoin 1939 began writing a personal diary about her life in the Radomsko ghetto “surrendered,together with her mother, to a Polish policeman on duty on Limanewskeigo Streetand asked to be taken to theJudenrat as they have been hiding for a weekin a lavatory and had enough of it all.”
1942:The Jews of Lichtenstein were deported.
1942:Étienne Szabo, the husband of Violette Szabo, one of those murdered by theNazis at Ravensbruck, was mortally wounded while “leading his men in adiversionary attack on Qaret el Himeimat at the beginning of the Second Battleof El Alamein.
1943:The comic strip “Lois Lane” began appearing in the Sunday editions of theCleveland Plain Dealer along with “Superman,” creations of Jerry Siegel and JoeShuster today.
1944:Allied airman classified as Terrorflieger ("terror aviators") who hadbeen shipped to Buchenwald which was unusual because Western POWs to aconcentration camp, were not executed today as had been planned due to theintervention of Luftwaffe officers.
1945:The UN officially came into existence today upon ratification of the Charter bythe five permanent members of the Security Council—France, the Republic ofChina, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States—and by amajority of the other 46 signatories. Whatever one’s view of the UN is, it mustbe remembered that this organization played a key role in the creation of thestate of Israel and unlike its predecessor, the League of Nation, it has notwitnessed the start of a World War.
1946:Julius Hochman, who has just “returned from a four-month investigation inEurope of conditions among the Jews, on behalf of the American Ort Federation”declared at today’s luncheon in the Astor Hotel that “the morale of the Jewsstranded in displace persons camps in Europe is breaking.”
1947:In Brooklyn, Moshe Teitelbaum, the Grand Rebbe of the Satmar Chasidim and “LeahMeir, daughter of Rabbi Hanoch Heinoch Meir of Karecska” gave birth to “AaronTeitelbaum, “one of the two Grand Rebbes of Satmar and the chief rabbi of theSatmar community in Kiryas Joel.”
1947:Birthdate of actor Kevin Kline whose father was Jewish but whose mother was notand who appeared in such films as The Big Chill and Sophie’s Choice.
1947:Members of the Haganah attacked forty members of the Irgun who were posting“propaganda posters.” Two members of the Haganah were wounded during the fightthat took place fifteen miles south of Tel Aviv.
1948(21stof Tishrei, 5709): Hoshana Raba
1948:“Israeli forces belonging to the Givati Brigade captured Deir ad-Dubban in anorthward push in Operation Yoav.”
1948:Operation Ha-Har, a week-long successful “campaign to expand the JerusalemCorridor as far as the western foothills of the Judean Mountains” came to anend today.
1948(21stof Tishrei, 5709): Seventy-two-year-old Rustem Vambery, the jurist who hadopposed the Communists and Fascists and was the son of Armin Vambery, thebiographer of Theodor Herzl, passed away in New York today.
1948:The IDF launched Operation Hiram and captured the entire upper Galilee, drivingthe ALA, and Lebanese army back to Lebanon, and successfully ambushing anddestroying an entire Syrian battalion.] The Israeli force of four infantrybrigades were commanded by Moshe Carmel
1949:“George McGhee, Assistant Secretary of State, conferred today with IsraeliAmbassador Eliahu Elath for 35 minutes on the recent attacks on Jews in Iraq”which Elath said has led to “no less than 2,000 Jews” being held “in Iraqiconcentration camps.”
1952:The Arab Liberation Movement became the only party in Syria. For those who keep asking what happened tothe Moslem/Arab world, they might want to consider this entry. While Israel was working to developdemocratic institutions from the very birth of the nation, its northernneighbor was set on a course of one-party totalitarianism
1952(5thof Cheshvan, 5713): Sixty-one year old WW I Army veteran and noted composerFrederick Jacobi the San Francisco born son of “wholesale wine merchant,Frederick Jacobi Sr. and Flora Brandenstein (daughter of tobacco wholesalerJoseph Brandenstein), whom Frederick Sr. had married in 1876” and the husband of Irene Schwarcz who was “alsoknown and best remembered as a composer of works with Judaic themes” whose“interest in this genre began with a 1930 commission from Congregation Emanu-Elof the City of New York for a Sabbath evening service” passed away today.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/frederick-jacobi/
1952:The Jerusalem Post reported that theGerman Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, defended the presence of former Nazisin his Foreign Ministry by claiming that they were irreplaceable andindispensable. It was things like this that caused many Israelis and Jewsliving elsewhere to want to reject any reparation payments by the West Germangovernment. As far as they wereconcerned, the new Germans were the old Germans in disguise.
1952:The Jerusalem Post reported that theJerusalem District Court ruled that according to the Nationality Law, a childwhose father is Israeli and whose mother rejected Israeli citizenship, for bothherself and her child, is nevertheless a citizen of Israel. The question of “who is a Jew” has taken onmany guises and shapes from ancient to modern times.
1953(15thof Cheshvan, 5714): Parashat Vayera
1953(15thof Cheshvan, 5714): Sixty-one-year-old lifelong New Yorker Fred Ahlert, the lawschool graduate turned composer and songwriter whose hits included “I’m GonnaSit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter,” “Walking My Baby Back Home” and“Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day” passed away today.
http://www.jazzbiographies.com/Biography.aspx?ID=1
1954:Birthdate of Tampa, FL native Martin “Marty” Baron the former editor of theBoston Globe who, in case of Jew as a Jew, was portrayed by Lev Schreiber inthe film “Spotlight” and who became the editor of the Washington Post inDecember, 2012.
1954:Two days after she had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be heldfor eighty-six year old Kovno native Selma (nee Zena) Kamaiky, the widow ofLeon Kamaiky with whom she had three children – Miriam, Rebecca and Israel whowaa member of the board of director of H.I.A.S. , a leader of in the Women’sDivision for forty years and a director of the Federation of Jewish Women’sOrganizations
1954:Birthdate of Congressman Brad Sherman, representing California’s 27thDistrict in the House of Representatives.
1954:In San Diego, the city-wide B.I.G (Bonds of the Israel Government) banquetscheduled to be held at the El Cortez Hotel will feature a performance by JanPeerce, a top tenor of the Metropolitan Operan and a speech by Alex Lowenthalof Pittsburgh, National Chairman of “Cash Sales for the Israel Bond Drive.
1956:In Tel Aviv, “Dr. Rozelia Ruth Garti, a pediatrician who came to Israel fromSofia. Bulgaria, in 1949” and Hayim Baltsan, the journalist, author and founderof founder of the ITIM news agency gave birth to “concert pianist AstrithBaltsan.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/baltsan-astrith
https://www.musiccathedra.com/astrith-baltsan-english
1956:As the Israelis, French and British worked on plans for what will become knownas the Suez Campaign or the One Hundred Hours War, the British negotiators madeit clear to the Israelis that they must move towards the Canal so that theBritish and French would have an excuse to intervene. The Israelis primary point of interest wasseizing Sharm el-Sheik which would open the Straits of Tiran. The Israelis said they would move to take theMitla Pass in the central Sinai and the British conceded that this would sufficefor their needed “fig leaf.”
1957:It was reported today that Dr. Jacob Philip Rudin, the rabbi for Temple Beth Elin Great Neck, L.I. has been chosen to serve asPresident of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, replacing Dr.Israel Bettan who passed away on August 5.
1957:The trustees announced the appointment of Dr. Jack Henry Schulman of CambridgeUniversity, England to a new chair in chemical metallurgy established by theInternational Nickel Company.”
1958(10thof Cheshvan, 5719): Eighty-four-year-old“writer, theatre critic, journalist and art collector” Alfred Gold theVienna born son of merchant Samuel Gold and Sara Pipper, the husband of MarthaZedek and father of sculptor of Marianne Gold who moved his gallery to Parisfrom Germany after the Nazis came to power before moving to New York after theNazis conquered France and published "The most stupid of all races - dialogues and comments -a reckoning with Nazi Germany"passed away today in New York.
1958:“Torpedo Run,” a WW II submarine movie directed by Joseph Pevney was releasedin the United States by MGM.
1959:Birthdate of Yakov Kreizberg, the Russian born American orchestra conductor.
1960:“The Alamo” a one-sided costume drama about the fight in Texas co-starringLaurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne) and featuring a score by DimitriTiomkin was released today in the United States.
1961:Italian premiere of “El Cid,” on which Michał Waszyński served as ExecutiveProducer.
1961:United Artists released “The Manchurian Candidate,” with a screenplay by GeorgeAxelrod, the son of a Russian-Jewish immigrant and a score by David Amram.
1962:The recording of “Piano, Strings and Bossa Nova,” an album by composer LaloSchifrin was completed today.
1962:“The Manchurian Candidate” directed by John Frankenheimer who co-produced thefilm with George Axelrod, the author of the screenplay, with music by DavidAmram and co-starring Laurence Harvey was released in the United States todayby United Artists.
1964(18thof Cheshvan, 5725): Parashat Vayera
1964:The “Tokyo” Summer Olympics where the Soviet Union Volleyball team led byGeorgy Mondzolevski won a Gold Medal, came to an end today.
1966:In the old Soviet Union, Arkady(Aron) Abramovich, “a state office manager,” and his wife gave birth to “RussianOligarch”, Roman Abramovich whose grandfather Nahim Abramovich was sent toSiberia and died in the Gulag in 1942.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/roman-abramovich/#411d24f6134a
1966:Simon and Garfunkel’s album “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” “was releasedtoday by Columbia records.
1966(10thof Cheshvan, 5727): Seventy-eight-year-old award-winning sculptor LeoFriedland, the New York City born son of Margarethe King and David Friedlander thehusband of Rhoda Leucher passed away today.
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/leo-friedlander-1680
1968(2ndof Cheshvan, 5729): Seventy-two-year-old NYU trained attorney and veteran ofthe AEF Louis A. Green, a senior partner in the brokerage firm of Stryker andBrown and a trustee of the Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of New Yorkwho raised a daughter and a son, Assemblyman S. William Green with his wifeEvelyn passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/10/25/89347452.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1970(24thof Tishrei, 5731): Bereshit
1970:Birthdate of actor Adam Goldberg who was featured in Saving Private Ryan
1971:In Hacienda Heights, CA, Valerie Bourret, a “Jewish American,” andFrench-Canadian Dale Bourret gave birth to Caprice Bourret who gained fame asan actress and model, including her role in introducing the Wonderbra.
https://www.capricebourret.com/
1973: As the Yom Kippur War was coming to an end, Israeli troopswere 65 miles from Cairo and 26 miles from Damascus. While the Arabs scored major victories earlyin the conflict, the Israelis turned things around and the aggressors wereactually worse off from a military point of view at the end hostilities thanthey were when the shooting started.However, the military victory did little to heal the aching Israelipsyche or ease the sense of loss over those who fell in defense of the Jewishhomeland. The IDF death toll stood at 2,522. These losses were over three times the numbersuffered during the Six Day War.Furthermore, as Yigal Yadin pointed out, this was the first war in whichfathers and sons went into action at the same time. It was also the first time where the IDFcasualty list included fathers and sons.The war proved once again that the Arabs nations could fight and lose,time after time and still exist. ForIsraelis, the wars were beginning to seem interminable and there was no margin forerror. All they had to do was lose onceand the state would cease to exist. TheYom Kippur War showed just how dependent Israel was on the United States forits military and economic wellbeing. Thewar further heightened Israel’s sense of isolation as Third World countriescaved into the Arab Petro-Power and broke off diplomatic relations with theJewish state. Strangely enough, theEgyptian ability to cross the Suez Canal would provide Sadat with a sense thathe had redeemed his country’s national honor and provide him with the impetusto negotiate the Camp David Peace Accords.At the same time, the sense of malaise that would grip Israel as aresult of the Yom Kippur War would provide some of the momentum that would endthe Labor-Zionist control of the Israeli government and bring Begin and hisRight Wing nationalist forces to power.
1973:“A second cease-fire was put into effect, but fighting continued between Egyptand Israel as a result of which the Soviet Union threatened the United Statesthat it will send troops to support the Egyptians. (As reported by JTA)
1973:Colonel Giora "Hawkeye" Epstein “downed three more MiG-21s west ofthe Great Bitter Lake.”
1974(8thof Cheshvan, 5735): Sixty-six-year DavidFyodorovich Oistrakh, the Ukrainian born violinist, passed away.
1976: First Jewish film & TV festival
1976:“The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,” a mystery directed and co-produced by HerbertRoss, written by Nicholas Meyer and co-starring Alan Arkin and Joel Grey wasreleased in the United States today.
1976: The cabinet resolved, without prejudging thecharges against Asher Yadlin concerningimproper conduct in the management of Kupat Holim that it could nolonger delay the appointment, and named Director-General of the Treasury ArnonGafni as governor of the Bank of Israel
1977: Menachem Begin completed his term in office asCommunications Minister of Israel.
1977: The political party founded by Yigal Yadinjoined the government formed by Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Begin had won an upset victory over the LaborZionist who had governed the country since 1948. Yadin believed that by joining the newgovernment he could help fashion a much need policy of social reform and play akey role in future negotiations with the Arabs.He based this second hope on the key role he had played in negotiatingthe cease fire with the Jordanians in 1948.Much to his bitter disappointment, Yadin would find that his plans forsocial reform would fall victim to Ariel Sharon’s need for money to finance hisplan for an expansion of settlements in the West Ban.
1977:The Democratic Movement for Change (DASH), which had won 15 Knesset seats inthe last election, joined Menachem Begin in a new coalition with Meir Amit, theretired Major General, serving as minister of transport and communication. Hewould resign within a year.
1978(23rdof Tishrei, 5739): Simchat Torah
1979:One person was injured today when terrorists set off a bomb in the bus terminalin Tel Aviv.
1979:Ruth “Polsky booked Simple Minds into Hurrah for a show today, where the bandwere filmed by The Old Grey Whistle Test, giving them crucial UK TV exposure/”
1980:“It’s My Turn” “a romantic comedy” written by Eleanor Bergstein with a titlesong written by Michael Masser and Carole Bayer Sager and co-starring CharlesGrodin was released in the United States today by Columbia Pictures.
1980:The first national US tour of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: “The DemonBarber of Fleet Street” started today in Washington, D.C.
1980:“Leningrad refuseniks Lev Furman, Yuli Karolin and Isaac Kogan sent a telegramexpressing their sympathy to the Jews of France in connection with the attackon the rue Copernic Synagogue in Paris.”
1981:Birthdate of American fashion designer Zac Posen who as a child reportedlystole yarmulkes to use as materials for dresses he made for dolls.
1981(26thof Tishrei, 5742): Forty-three-year-old Raffaele Efraim Pacifici, the son RabbiReuven Pacifici who died at Auschwitz, passed away today at Kfar Saba.
1981:Seventy-nine-year-old law school graduate and pharmacist turned world chesschampion Alexander Kervitz passed away today.
1982:Today, in New York, “at the Park East Synagogue” Rabbi Arthur Schneierofficiated at the wedding of Harvard MBA Michael Scharf, the “son of Mr. andMrs. Aaron Scharf” and “Fiona Vivienne Lunzer” one of the five adult daughtersof Ruth and Jack Lunzer, whose collection of Hebrew books were “the basis of the Valmadonna TrustLibrary.”
1982:The New York Philomusica has adopted Jacob Druckman as its featured composerfor this season,
1982:NBC began broadcasting “Little Gloria…Happy at Last” a miniseries based “on thebook by Barbara Goldsmith” the wife of actor Jonathan Goldsmith, produced byScott Rudin and co-starring Martin Balsam.
1983: Following a lengthy andintense debate within the Conservative movement, the Jewish TheologicalSeminary (JTS) faculty senate voted 34-8 to admit women to the JTS RabbinicalSchool on. ( Editor’s Note – “The next fall, in September 1984, 23 womenentered JTS as members of the seminary's first class to include femalerabbinical students. In the spring of 1985, Amy Eilberg, who was alreadystudying at JTS when women's ordination was approved, became the first womanordained as a rabbi by the Conservative movement.”)
1984: “Tribute to Arthur Schwartz Fills Theatre With His Music”published today described the concert at the Majestic Theatre honoring composerArthur Schwartz whose most celebrated melody was “Dancing in the Ark who hadpassed away on September 4.
1984: An off-Broadway production of “Pacific Overtures,” “amusical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman” openedat the Promenade Theatre where it ran for 109 performances.
1986: In Toronto, Sandi Graham (née Sher) who was Jewish andDennis Graham gave birth to Canadian rapper, songwriter, and actor Aubrey DrakeGraham who “was raised by his mother in Toronto's predominantly Jewish area ofForest Hills (and attended Forest Hills P.S. and Forest Hills Collegiate)
1986(21stof Tishrei, 5747): Hoshanah Rabah
1986:“Soul Man” a controversial comedy produced by Steve Tisch was released today inthe United States.
1988: The Summer Paralympics where the Israeli volleyball team ledby Hagai Zamir won a silver medal came to a close today.
1989: Mordecai “Shehori acted as page turner for VladimirHorowitz” on the first day of what “turned out to be the famous pianist’s finalrecording session.”
1993: The Art Institute of Chicago presents the work of Israeliphotographer Michal Rovner
1993(9th of Cheshvan, 5754): “Two IDF soldiers, Staff Sgt. (res.)Ehud Rot, age 35, and Sgt. Ilan Levi, age 23, were killed by a Hamas Iz a-Dinal Kassam terrorist squad. The soldiers entered a Subaru with Israeli licenseplates outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, whose passengers wereapparently terrorists disguised as Israelis. Following a brief struggle, thesoldiers were shot at close range and killed. Hamas publicly claimedresponsibility for the attack”
1994: A revival of “Mother,” the teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky wasfeatured on the PBS Great Performances series today
1996: Actress Rena Shere Sofer played the role of Lois Cerullo onGeneral Hospital for the last time.
1997(23rd of Tishrei, 5758) Simchat Torah
1999: Bruce Fleischer won the EMC Kaanapali Classic.
1999: “None of the Above” published today reviewed The Big TestThe Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/books/none-of-the-above.html
1999: The New York Timesincludes reviews of the following books by Jewish authors: The Play Goes On:A Memoir by Neil Simone and In Search of American Jewish Culture byStephen Whitfield, one of Tulane University’s most illustrious graduates andAEPi’s most illustrious “brother.”
2000: Following its original Broadway opening on May 23, “Proof”costarring Ben Shenkman as “Hal” transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre today.
2001: Benefit Premiere for the NYC Theatrical Release of thecontroversial movie “Trembling Before G-d” at Film Forum.
2001: The sale of Fox Family Worldwide, Inc. to The Walt DisneyCompany which Haim Saban had announced in July was completed today.
2002: “Broken Wings” directed by Nir Bergman was released today inIsrael.
2003(28th of Tishrei, 5764): Three Israelis were killedand two wounded early this morning when at least one Palestinian gunman entereda Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip and opened fire, Israeli securityofficials said.”
2004: Eight months after premiering at the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival, “Walk on Water,” an Israeli film starring Lior Ashkenazie anddirected by Eytan Fox was first shown in the United States today.
2004: The New York Times book section featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or on Jewish topics including Kaufman & Co.: BroadwayComedies by George S. Kaufman with Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, RingLardner and Morrie Ryskind, The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb, Any PlaceI Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs and Chronicles Volume One byBob Dylan, anautobiography of the life of Robert Zimmerman
2004:Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sponsored its annual Big Dinner fundraising activity.For once, the city of Cedar Rapids was awash with realcorned beef and Dr. Brown's Cream Soda.“Es, es mien kinder;es.”
2004:The Jerusalem Post reportedthatapproximately140,000 Muslim worshippers attended Ramadanprayers on the Temple Mount on the previous Friday afternoon.Consideringthe violence of the Intifada, it is rather amazing that Israel was willing torisk this large a gathering. It speaks well of the Israelis that theywere willing to run the risk so that others, even those who oppose its veryexistence, might celebrate their religious observances.
2005(21 Tishrei 5766): Hoshana Rabbah
2005:“The Luddite from York University” published today described the antics ofDavid Noble, who teaches at Canada’s third largest university. As reported bySteven Plaut) [This item is an example of the anti-Semitism that has cropped upon college campuses in North America.]
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6841
2006:In her first weekly column which is called "Breaking the SoundBarrier" Amy Goodman wrote, "My column will include voices so oftenexcluded, people whose views the media mostly ignore, issues they distort andeven ridicule]
2006(2ndof Cheshvan, 5767): Eighty-seven-year-old Sally Lilienthal the peace activistwho founded Ploughshares Fund passed away today. (As reported by PatriciaSullivan) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601603_pf.html
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sally-Lilienthal-founder-of-the-Ploughshares-2486670.php
2006(2ndof Cheshvan, 5767): Eighty-eight-year-old “ Benjamin Meed, a leading advocatefor Jewish Holocaust survivors who in the decades after the war gathered themtogether by the tens of thousands, reuniting people with friends, neighbors andfamily members presumed to have been lost forever, died today at his home in Manhattan. (As reported by MargalitFox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/obituaries/26meed.html?pagewanted=print
2007:“Third World Love” celebrates the release of its fourth album, “New Blues,”with a performance of Jerusalem’s Yellow Submarine.
2007:Marianne Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl, dropped her lawsuit “seeking damagesagainst al-Qaida and Pakistan’s largest bank.
2007:Terrorists went on a shooting spree in an attack on the West Bank in and aroundthe Ariel junction, seriously wounding one IDF soldier. Hamas and Fatah both claimed they were eachresponsible for the attack.
2008:Opening of Fall Chavurah (SLIID), hosted by CeRTY of Central ReformCongregation, in St. Louis.
2008: At New York University Etgar Keret joinsToddHasak-Lowy,professor of Hebrew Language andLiterature at theUniversity of Florida,for a fiction reading and conversation with NYUprofessor Matthew Rohrer.
2008(25Tishrei, 5769): Sixty-five-year-old “ Rabbi Moshe Cotel, an acclaimed pianistand composer whose works were often infused with themes emanating from his deepJewish roots, a weave of influences that only later in life led him to thepulpit, passed away today at his home inManhattan. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/arts/music/03cotel.html?_r=0
2008:Gottschalks, a department store chain founded by German Jewish immigrant EmilGottschalk in 1904 as a dry goods store in downtown Fresno, California, “wasdelisted from the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE officials stated that the valueof the stock was too low to continue to be listed, and that its average globalmarket capitalization had remained below $25 million for 30 straight tradingdays.”
2008:BBC broadcast “American Fervour,” episode three in “The American Future: AHistory” a four-part documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama.
2009(6thof Cheshvan, 5770): Norma Fox Mazer, an award-winning novelist for young peoplewhose work helped illuminate many dark corners of adolescence, exploringsubjects like poverty, betrayal, abandonment and loss, passed away at her homein Montpelier, VT at the age of 78.
2009:At the Hyman S.& Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival a program entitled “SLAM! AnEvening of Spoken Word Poetry” featuring Jake Marmer who “merges poetry andperformance into philosophically viral mixtures like existentialist dancehall,talmudic jazz poetry and personalized bop apocalypse.”
2009:In Jerusalem, Khan Theatre presents "Happiness," a comedy written anddirected by Michael Gurevich. The show won two Israeli Theatre Awards for 2004:Best Director and Best Choreography.
2010:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including My Year of Flops: The A.V. ClubPresents One Man’s Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure byNathan Rabin and The False Friend by Myla Goldberg
2010:The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to conduct “AWalking Tour of Old Town Alexandria” that will enable participants to learnabout the long and storied Jewish history of this Virginia’s city, from the1850s to today including the sites of two former synagogues and several Jewishbusinesses along King Street-including some that show traces of past Jewishowners.
2010:Max Weinreich Center at YIVO along with Hunter College and the Posen Foundationare scheduled to present: A Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Birth ofSimon Dubnow The day-long conference on the life and career of the renownedhistorian will include a look at "Dubnow on the East European JewishPast," "Dubnovism in the 20th Century" and "Dubnow andJewish Ideologies of His Time." Dr.Brian Horowtiz of Tulane University is scheduled to be one of the presenters.
2010(16thof Cheshvan, 5771): Ninety-eight-year-old “Joseph Stein, the Tony Award-winningauthor of “Fiddler on the Roof” and more than a dozen other Broadway musicals,died today in Manhattan. (As reported by Anita Gates and Bruce Weber)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6DF153DF935A15753C1A9669D8B63
2011:A Dramatic Reading entitled “The Civil War at 150 United By Faith, Divided byWar: Jews and the Civil War” is scheduled to take place tonight at the Hyman S.& Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival at the Washington DC JCC.
2011:A new memorial honoring 14 Jewish chaplains who died in the service of theUnited States is scheduled to be dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery.
2011:Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple Inc.'s Jobs,was published by Simon & Schuster, only several weeks after Jobs' deathafter which it became “an international best-seller, breaking all records forsales of a biography.”
2011:Mayor Carolyn Goldmark Goodman greeted President Obama at the McCarran Airportand “gave him one of her luck mayor chips as a gift” signifying that she didnot share her husband’s (and former Mayor) displeasure with remarks the Presidenthad made about the city.
2011:In a tale of two Jews in the city of Chicago, incoming Cubs president ofbaseball operations Theo Epstein arrived at Wrigley Field this morning to meetsome of the team's employees and check out his new digs while Mayor RahmEmanuel was forced to defend the decision to arrest two nurses who remained inGrant Park after the 11 pm closing time as part of the Windy City’s localversion of the national protest against economic inequality.
2011:An IDF soldier was arrested by Military Police today on suspicion of leakinginformation to right-wing elements over military activities in the West Bank.
2011:In “Ruth Weiss: Beat ‘Goddess’ True Innovator of Poetry & Jazz” LourdesAcevedo described the life and impact of the beat generation poetess.
http://www.hercircleezine.com/2011/10/24/ruth-weiss-beat-goddess-true-innovator-of-poetry-jazz/
2012:The Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation is scheduled to sponsor a lecture byThomas E. Mann entitled “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: The Clash Between OurConstitutional System and Political Extremism.”
2012:Professor Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism,Technical University, Berlin) is scheduled to deliver a lecture, “The Witnessand the Holocaust - Oral Testimonies and Historical Knowledge” in London, UK.
2012:The Annual Conference of the Program Directors of Reform Judaism that has beenmeeting in Denver, CO, is scheduled to come to an end.
2012:Today, President Shimon Peres accused Palestinians of using aid donations tofund their rocket campaign against Israel.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/peres-charges-that-palestinians-use-aid-to-keep-firing-rockets/
2012:More than 60 rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza have hit southern Israelin the last 24 hours, striking several homes and injuring three.
2012:The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and the JewishCommunity Center of Northern Virginia are scheduled to host a lunch whereattendees can question Tim Kaine, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate fromVirginia about his views and policies
2013:The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to co-hostthe Chicago book launch of Against A Tide of Evil by Dr. Mukesh Kapila.
2013:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present Fritz Stern and ElisabethSifton, authors of No Ordinary Men who will lead a discussion about Dietrich Bonhoefferand Hans Von Dohanyi.
2013:The RAC is scheduled to observe Food Day with a webinar that will featurespecial guests, Seth Goldman, President and TeaEO of Honest Tea; and Rabbi MaryZamore, editor of "The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic,”discussing the various challenges within our global food system, and how we canapply our Jewish values to conscious eating, and the concept of “food withintegrity.”
2013:Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said today that a "civil war" haserupted in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Global Jihad elements that haveattempted to drag Israel into the conflict (As reported by JPost Staff)
2013:Los Angeles premiere of “The Pin,” a love story about two Jewish teenagershiding in a barn in Lithuania during WW II.
2013:IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz announced that Colonel Rasan Alian hasbeen appointed to commander the Golani Brigade making him the first Druseofficer to hold the position.
2014(30thof Tishrei, 5775): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2014:“The Obama administration this week refused Israel defense minister’s requeststo meet several top national security aides, still miffed over negativecomments he made about Secretary of State John Kerry’s Mideast peace effortsand nuclear negotiations with Iran, US officials said today. “
2014:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a piano recital by TomZalmanov as part of its “The Future Generation Series.”
2014:The police arrested three Palestinians who were throwing rocks and fireworks atthem after the conclusion of prayers on the Temple Mount.
2014:The Women at the Wall celebrated Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan today and their firstever Bar Mitzvahu using a miniature Torah scroll that they had “snuck” in theKotel plaza.
2014,In Canada, “Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts is presenting AnEvening with Jeffrey Tambor, the multi-award winning actor of film, television,and Broadway.”
2014:Temple Judah is schedule to host its first Musical Shabbat of the season alongwith addition of the Caster/Barnum baby naming
2014:Nick Kotz is a former reporter for The Washington Post and The Des MoinesRegister is scheduled to discuss TheHarness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise Of South Texas at theHyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival.
2014:An untold number of Jews are scheduled to join in a unique Shabbat experience –ShabbatUK
2015: Tamar Ettun’s first solo exhibition at the FridmanGallery is scheduled to come to a close.
2015: The JCCNVA is scheduled to host “Blue Like Me: TheArt of Sinoa Benjamin” which traces the artist’s “roots in the Bene Israelcommunity where she grew up.”
2015: Israel is scheduled to go on “wintertime” meaning2am becomes 3am
2015(11th of Cheshvan, 5776): ShabbatLech-Lecha
2015(11th of Cheshvan, 5776): Ninety-six-year-old“Earl Raab, longtime executive director of the Jewish Community RelationsCouncil, an intellectual, a prolific writer and a leader in Jewish life formore than 50 years” passed away today.
https://www.jweekly.com/2015/10/30/earl-raab-iconic-figure-in-jewish-community-dies-at-96/
2015(11th of Cheshvan, 5776): Rabbi Haim (Howie)Yehiel Rothman, who died today of injuries he sustained during a deadly terrorattack at a Jerusalem synagogue almost a year ago, was laid to rest in theevening in an emotional ceremony at the capital’s Givat Shaul cemetery.
2015: In New Brunswick, NJ, Congregation Poile Tzedekwhich had been “declared a National Landmark in 1995” and three Torah scrollswere consumed by fire while one other Torah was saved when Rabbi Mykoff “raced”into the burning building and retrieved the holy scroll.
2015: “Thousands of left-wing Israelis turned out in TelAviv tonight for a rally condemning the government of Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu for what they called its poor response to the current securitysituation” and demanding that Netanyahu resign.
2016(22nd of Tishrei, 5777): Shemini Atzeret
2016: The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is scheduled to hosta Tot Simchat Torah
2016: In the evening, start of Simchat Torah celebration
2016: A Code Red alarm sounded just before 7:00 a.m.“warning of an impending rocket attack” from Gaza.
2016: “Palestinian officials announced a year-longcampaign to commemorate 100 years since the “crime” of the Balfour Declaration,official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported today.”
2017: It was announced today that “the new Holocaustmemorial in Westminster will be built by the British architect Sir David Adjayeand Israeli designer Ron Arad.”
2017: “Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit spoke at theKohelet Forum Conference at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, in Jerusalem”
2017: Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plotsagainst Hollywood and America by University of Southern California professor ofhistory Steven J. Ross “which illustrates how Nazi agents operated in LA” isscheduled to be released by Bloomsbury Press today.
2017: In Beachwood, Ohio, Georgia Tech professor ofhistory Jonathan Schneer is scheduled to lecture on “Ministers at War: WinstonChurchill’s War Cabinet 1940-45” which should shed some light on the men whoenforced the White Paper even after the war in Europe had ended and the PrimeMinister who at the end of war reneged on his promise to Chaim Weizmann.
2017: As “part of the series German-Jewish History in theNow: The Contemporary Relevance of German-Jewish History” presented by the LeoBaeck Institute ‘historian Michael Brenner (University of Munich/AmericanUniversity) and Gavriel Rosenfeld (Fairfield University), are scheduled todiscuss what factors and what actors contributed to the collapse of a fragilepluralism in the 1930s, and what that means for our own democracy.”
2017: At the Bard Graduate Center, Andrea M Berlin isscheduled to present “The Great Revolt and its Jewish Afterlife” which is partof the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures.
2017: Peninnah Schram, a professor emerita at YehshivaUniversity is scheduled to lecture on “Have I Got A Story For You: Exploringthe Jewish Oral Tradition” at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.
2018: “Down With the Butchers! The Radical Symbolism ofKosher Meat in the Works of Morris Winchevsky, Y.L. Gordon and Mendele MocherSforrim,” a lecture by Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler “that will focus on theliterary intersection between kashrut, social injustice and the concept of themodern Jewish protest” scheduled for this afternoon at the YIVO Institute forJewish Research has been postponed.
2018:The sixth Pianos Festival is scheduled to open at the Jerusalem Theatre.
2018:The first session The Jewish Learning Institute’s course “Wrestling with Faith”is scheduled to begin this evening.
2018:“Dispute Over Nazi Victim’s Art” published today described how the art world isdealing with Holocaust stolen art seventy-five years after the end of theShoah.
2018:This Place is a global art project that explores the complexity of Israel andthe West Bank through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimedphotographers. The participating artists are Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald,Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Gilles Peress, Fazal Sheikh,Stephen Shore, Rosalind Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, and Nick Waplington openedat DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, after which it is scheduled to beshown at several museums including The Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
2018:“The Disabled Receiving Cutting-edge Care in Haifa,” a photographic exhibitionthat is part of the Streicker Center’s “Home: Lens on Israel” series isscheduled to come to an end today.
2019:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “ascreening of the new animated adaptation of The Tattooed Torah, belovedchildren’s book by Marvell Ginsburg” followed by a reception, and Q&A withmembers of the film’s production team.
2019:“The Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies” is scheduled tofacilitate a discussion with journalist and author Tom Segev about A Stateat Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion, his new book on the founder ofIsrael.
2019:Rabbi Daniel Lehman is scheduled to be inaugurated “as the eighth president ofthe Graduate Theological Union in Berkley.”
2019:The two day long 43rd annual Robert S. Hartman Institute Conferenceis scheduled to come to an end at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah
2019:In Danville, CA, Beth Chaim Congregation is scheduled to “Navigating theChallenge to Jewish Identity” during which visiting Professor Tomer Persicotalks about “loyalty, tribalism and religion.’
2020:(6 of Cheshvan, 5781): Parashat Noach
2020:At Teferith Israel, Scarlett Katz is scheduled to be called to the Torah as aBat Mitzvah.
2020:Congregation Beth Am is scheduled to host a screening of Life Will Smile, a 40-minute2017 documentary about a Greek island where every Jew survived World War II. InGreek with English subtitles
2020:The Office of Cultural Affairs of the Consulate of Israel in New York isscheduled to co-sponsor Molissa Fenley’s celebrated solo, "State of Darkness,”performed by a new generation of dancers, including former Batsheva DanceCompany member, Shamel Pitts.
2020:Yom HaAliyah, recognizing immigration to the Jewish State of Israel isscheduled to begin at sundown.
2020:Based on the statements of Brig. Gen. Nissan Davidi, the head of the IDF HomeFront Command coronavirus task force “by the end of next week Israel will have2,800 investigators working to break chains of coronavirus contagion across thecountry and by the end of next month the country will be carrying out 100,000tests per day.”
2021:In partnership with the Jewish Book Council, JCC Association, and Reboot, thisJFest event is scheduled to host Laura Arnold Leibman, author of the NationalJewish Book Award-winning The Art of the Jewish Family, in conversation withJuliet Simmons, creator of Reboot’s “What Would You Bring” initiative.
2021:The Alliance for Jewish Theatre’s virtual conference is scheduled to begintoday.
2022:The Streicker Center is scheduled to present Dr. Eric Goldman lecturing on “TheComing of Age of American Jewry: A Study Through 1940’s and 1950’s Film.”
2022:JWI's 5th International Conference on Domestic Violence in the JewishCommunity. "Responding to the Moment: Cultivating Resilience, Healing,Innovation, and Culture Change" is scheduled to open virtually today.
2022:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Beginner’s Hebrew,” a “ courseinstead for students with little to no background in Hebrew.”
2022:Mike Brown is scheduled to “My Indy Jewish Life: With Marc Summers.”
2022:The Alliance for Jewish Theater’s virtual conference is scheduled to come to anend today.
2022:Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the trial of Donald Trump oncharges of tax fraud during which during which Allen Weisselberg the CFO of theTrump Organization will be a witness for the prosecution.
2023:YESOD is scheduled to to host a lecture by Rabbi Burton Visotzky, EmeritusProfessor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies, The Jewish Theology Seminaryon “Postbiblical History: Exile and Diaspora.”
2023:As part of its “Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime” series Tikvah isscheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Michael Doran on “What is Iran’s Strategy?”
2023:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a lecture by Martin Kaufman on “Howto Read the Guide for the Perplexed.”
2023:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “Basel,Herzl and the Jewish State.”
2023:Temple Judea is scheduled to host a “Stand With Us – Special Briefing” viaZoom.
2023:As October 24 begins in Israel, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel’snorthern border as can be seen by yesterday’s drone attacks, “tent cities aregoing up in Ramat Gan and Eliat to accommodate the growing number of evacuees”which is now thought to number 200,000, “the state educational system isgrappling with an unprecedented and quick-changing situation, including tens ofthousands of displaced students, massive staff shortages and inadequate accessto bomb shelters” and it has been reported that “British intelligence serviceshave concluded that the deadly blast in the car-park of a hospital in Gaza wascaused by a rocket fired towards Israel from inside the Strip, Rishi Sunak has confirmedto MPs.”
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
2024(22ndof Tishrei, 5785): Shemini Atzeret; for more see Weekly Torah Reading / Weekly Torah Portion
2024(22ndof Tishrei, 5785): On the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit for the approximately 1,200people murdered by Hamas and other terrorists as well as the anniversary of thehostage taking that included nine-month-old Kfir Bibas his brother, four-year-old Areil Bibas.
2024:This evening, in Metairie, LA, the Chabad Jewish Center is scheduled to host a“Grand Simchat Torah Celebration,” featuring “Special Hakafot honoring theKedoshim of October 7th and our IDF soldiers.”
2024:As October 24th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporterscalling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands,sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 383 in captivitywhile Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah which had celebratedthe Yahrzeit of the 1,200 Jews murdered a year ago by firing more rockets intocentral Israel (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog tocover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israelitime)
