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70: According to sources, this is the date on the secular calendar when the Second Temple was destroyed.
117: Start of the reign of Hadrian as Roman Emperor. At first Hadrian seemed to be a friend of the Jews. He executed the anti-Jewish governor of Judea and promised to rebuild Jerusalem as a Jewish city. For some unknown reason, he turned against the Jews banning circumcision throughout the Empire and announcing the decision to build a major temple to Jupiter in Jerusalem. The Jews responded with what has become known as Bar Kochba's Rebellion. The fighting was intense on both sides and resulted in the complete desolation of the land by the Romans. Hadrian banned Jews from Jerusalem and renamed the city Aelia Capitolina. He even had a copy of the Torah burned on the Temple Mount. Antonius Pius, Hadrian's successor repealed many of Hadrian's anti-Jewish decrees including the bans on Torah study and circumcision. But it was too late to save the Jewish community of the Promised Land.
1002: “Shortly after gain the support of the Saxons” Henry II, the Holy Roman Emperor whose expulsion of the Jews from Mayence was lamented in dirges composed by the poet Simon ben Isaac and of which Gershom ben Yehuda said, “Thou hast made those who despise They Law to have dominion over Thy people…” “arranged for Archbishop Willigist to crown his wife…as Queen of Germany” today “in Paderborn.”
1267: Birthdate of King James II of Aragon. James would prove to show greater toleration towards his Jewish subjects than his grandfather James I had. . He permitted Jewish refugees from France to settle in Barcelona. In recognition of Jewish financial support for his equipping his fleet, the King released many Jewish communities from paying their taxes for a period of several years. James also protected the Jews from popular anti-Semitic uprisings. In Barcelona in 1285, Berenguer Oller, announced that he planned to kill the local nobles and the Jews following which he would plunder their homes. The King intervened to prevent the violence. Whether he was more concerned about the well-being of the nobility or the Jews is unknown.
1391: The anti-Semitic rioting came to an end with Barcelona with an untold number of Jews converting at the point of the proverbial sword.
1391: Massacre of the Jews in Gerona, Spain.
1397: Birthdate of Albert II, who as Holy Roman Emperor Agreed to accept 900 gulden from the city of Augsburg in return for allowing them to expel their Jews.
1492: A large group of Jews from Spain, thousands strong, arrived in the Port of Naples. Jews from Sardinia soon joined them.
1675: The Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam.
1724: Birthdate of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, Elijah Etting who in 1758 came to America, became a merchant, married Shinah Solomon in 1759 and was living in York, PA at the time of his death in 1778.
1751: Birthdate of Frankfort-en-Main native Elijah Etting, the York, PA merchant and husband of “Shinah Solomon.
1778: Gotthold Lessing, while having trouble sleeping, comes up with the inspiration for his play, “Nathan the Wise.”
1778: Birthdate of Aaron Lopez Isaacs, the Norwalk, CT born son of Moses Isaacs who died in infancy.
1780(9th of Av, 5540): Tish’a B’Av
1791(10th of Av, 5551): Just nineteen days before his first birthday, Sampson Isaacs, the son of Joshua Isaacs died in New York City.
1792: As the French Revolution, which would eventually bring the rights of citizenship to French Jews, intensified, Louis XVI was imprisoned today.
1793: On the first anniversary of the end of the Louvre, which among other things contains “4,000 engravings, 3,000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books” donated by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in 1935, was opened to the public for the first time as a museum.
1793(2nd of Elul, 5553): Thirty-four year old Jacob Aaron (Kopel ben Aaron Berstat) passed away today in London.
1794: In Detmold, Germany, ‘Talmud scholar Immanuel Menachem Zunz and Hendel Behrens, the daughter of Dov Beer,] an assistant cantor of the Detmold community” gave birth tobLeopold Zunz also known as Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz, "the German Reform rabbi and writer who was the founder of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.
1807: In Fürth, Marcus and Jeannette Königswarter gave birth to Jonas Königswarter, the husband of Josephine Königswarter who was a leading member of the financial community in Vienna whom Emperor Francis Joseph “decorated with the Order of the Iron Crown of the third class, elevated to the knighthood, and raised to the baronetage.
1808: Emanuel Lazarus married Sophia Simmons today at the Great Synagogue.
1808: Isaac ben Uri married Reizecha bat Judah Leib today at the Western Synagogue.
1810: Birthdate of Count Camillo di Cavour, the Italian statesman who was part of the triumvirate that created the modern Italian state. Cavour worked with Baron James de Rothschild who secretly provided the funds with which the Piedmont nobleman was able to fight the Austrian. Cavour enjoyed good working relations with members of the Jewish community, including “Isaac Arton, his confidential secretary and ‘faithful lieutenant’.”
1815: In an attempt to attract non-Hispanic Europeans to Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Spanish government issued the Royal Decree of Graces which allowed non-Spaniards to own land on the islands. While Jews did settle in the islands, the decree really did not work to their advantage since only Catholics were allowed to own land.
1816(16th of Av, 5576): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu observed for the last time during the Presidency of James Madison who appointed Mordechai Noah to one of the first diplomatic posts held by a Jew in the early days of the republic.
1818: In Bavaria, Suesel Schloss and his wife gave birth to Moses Schloss who would move to New and become a successful dry goods merchant.
1819: Anti-Semitic riots continue for a second day in Frankfort.
1819: Birthdate of Julius Landsberger, the native of Upper Silesia who was the rabbi at Darmstadt for thirty year and who with his wife Pauline gave birth to Richard Landsberger, a pioneer in the field “biological desntistry.”
1821: Missouri becomes the 24th state to join the Union. Jewish immigrants, many from Germany, had settled in the area since its territorial days. The first known Jew settled in St. Louis in 1807. The first Jewish lawyer settled in St. Louis in 1817.
1824: Under Czar Alexander I, all foreign Jews were prohibited from settling in Russia. Alexander I, after an initial period of liberalism, reverted to the anti-Jewish proclamations of his predecessors. It began with forbidding Jews to have Christian servants. After that came the prohibition of settlement. The culmination of his policies came just before when all Jews were banished from the larger villages in the Mohilev and Vitbesk districts.
1832: Philip Minis, a Savannah physician and the son of Judge Isaac Minis shot and killed James Stark after the latter had called him a “damn Jew,” “a coward” and had pulled a gun on him in the City Hotel at Savannah.
1835(15th of Av, 5595): Tu B’Av
1835: Frederick David Goldsmid, MP and his wife gave birth to their oldest daughter Helen who as the wife of Lionel Lucas whom she married in 1855 was active in the Anglo-Jewish community as can be seen by her service as the President of the Workrooms Committee of the Jewish Board of Guardians, Treasurer of the Jewish Ladies’ West End Charity and Patroness of the City of London Benevolent Society for Assisting Widows of the Jewish Faith.
1837(9th of Av, 5597): Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time under President Martin Van Buren.
1843: Sixty-nine year old anti-Semite Jakob Friedrich Fries passed away. “ In 1816 he wrote Über die Gefährdung des Wohlstandes und des Charakters der Deutschen durch die Juden ("On the Danger Posed by the Jews to German Well-Being and Character"), advocating among other things a distinct sign on the dress of Jews to distinguish them from the general population, and encouraging their emigration from German lands. He blamed the Jews for the ascendant role of money in society and called for Judaism to be "extirpated root and branch" from German society.”
1844: Jeanetta Mallan and Joseph Davis gave birth to Lionel Cartwright Davis
1845: Two days after he had passed away, Lambert Ellis, the husband of Sarah Ellis with whom he had six children – Asher, Abraham, Esther, Jonas, Anna and Moses – was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1845: Birthdate of German physician Mortiz Litten, the son-in-law of pathologist Ludwig Traube who was the son of a Jewish wine merchant.
1846: President James K. Polk signed the Smithsonian Institution Act into law” which created the museum known as the Smithsonian Institution of which the National Museum of American Jewish History would eventually become an affiliate institution.
1851: Eighty-nine year old German theologian Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus, the anti-Semite who authored "The Jewish National Separation: Its Origin, Consequences, and the Means of its Correction" passed away today.
1854: The Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau opened today.
1856(9th of Av, Tish’a B’Av
1856: In Stuttgart, Dr. Friedrich Heimerdinger and his wife gave birth to General Erwin von Heimerdinger the father of Gertrude von Heimerdinger who “was employed in the German Foreign Office as assistant Chief of the Diplomatic Courier Section. An anti-Nazi, she secretly arranged for special passes to enable diplomat Fritz Kolbe (the main Allied source of intelligence) to make frequent trips to Switzerland to pass on information to Allen Dulles, head of American O.S.S.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1858(30th of Av, 5618): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1858: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, Rabbi Herman Rubin and Jeanette (Long) Rubine gave birth to Joseph Herman Rubin, the watchmaker and traveling salesman who by 1918 had become a director of Peoples Trust Company of Philadelphia and president of Members Building and Loan Association while serving as director of Keneseth Israel and being married to Clara Kaufman.
1859: The New York Timesreported that “there has recently arrived in this City an eminent Jewish traveler, a Mr. Benjamin, the object of whose life hitherto has been to explore the interior of the Asiatic and African continents for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, occupations, hopes, of his Hebrew brethren.”
1861(4th of Elul, 5621): Parashat Shoftim
1861: Fifty-nine year old Frederick Julius Stahl, the German lawyer and political leader who converted to Christianity when he was baptized as a Lutheran at the age of 17 passed away today.
1861: The New York Times reported that “The past week Mr. J.J. Benjamin, a Moldavian traveler and Jew, has been in this city from California. This gentleman's ruling passion appears to be to find out the "Ten Lost Tribes," to accomplish which purpose, he states that he has already traveled over a great portion of the civilized and the uncivilized world. He thinks he has discovered a clue to those missing tribes in Northern Africa and in Asia. Whether or not any such clue exists in this Great Basin, the world will, perhaps, be informed of in due time.” [Editor’s Note: Mr. Benjamin and J.J. Benjamin are the same person. J.J. Benjamin was a Rumanian born Jewish businessman who became historian. Reportedly he modeled himself as modern day version of Benjamin of Tudela, the famous twelfth century Jewish traveler. He signed many of his writing as Benjamin II.]
1861: Forty-year old Samuel (Isaac) Henry Gluckstein a cigar maker from Dusseldorf became a naturalized citizen of the United Kingdom today.
1861: Philadelphian Nathan Rosenfelt who was later wounded at the Battle of Antietam, began serving with company A of the 72ndRegiment.
1861: Henry Isaacs “enlisted with Company M” of the 72ndRegiment today.
1861: Joshua Pickering enlisted in the Cameron Dragoons a “largely Jewish regiment” that was “the first completed regiment of cavalry ever enlisted in the United States during” the Civil War.
1861: Philadelphian James Comelien began serving in the 5thCavalry where he reached the rank of Lieutenant.
1862: In a letter written to President Lincoln today, August Belmont persisted in his advocacy of a negotiated peace with the Confederates.
1864(8th of Av, 5624): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed as the Army of the Potomac continues the siege of Petersburg that has been going on for almost two months.
1865: In Philadelphia, Cornelia Rhine and Jules A. Menken gave birth Columbia University trained attorney and husband of Gertrud Micholl Davies who was dean of the Kent Law School, Secretary of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association and auditor of the West End Synagogue, Shaaray Tefila.
1868(22nd of Av, 5628): Approximately three months after her last performance, Adah Isaacs Menken passed away while living in Paris. The cause of death was most likely peritonitis, tuberculosis, or the combined ravages of both. She was buried in the Jewish section of the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/30/1868/adah-isaacs-menken
1868:In Hamburg, Germany Moritz and Charlotte Esther (Oppenheim) Warburg gave birth to Paul M Warburg, the scion of a German banking family and husband of Nina J. Loeb who came to New York and became a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Company and an advocate of a “central bank” that took form as the Federal Reserve Board for which her served as a member from 1914 to 1918; a decision that led him to resign from all of his financial organizations prior to accepting the position
1870(13th of Av, 5630): Fifty-nine-year-old Samuel Lyons Moss, the Philadelphia born son of Rebecca Lyons and John Moss who were married in 1797 and the husband of Isabelle Harris whom he married at New Orleans in 1838 and with whom he had seven children passed away today in Ontario, Canada.
1873: A group of Jewish teachers met at #142 East 40thStreet in New York today and formed a committee to develop an organizational plan for a Jewish Teacher’s Association. The plan will be submitted at a future meeting the time of which has not been established.
1873: It was reported today that Anshey Chesed has decided to hire Dr. Isaac M. Wise of Cincinnati to serve as its rabbi. The congregation has just completed the building of sanctuary on the corner of Lexington and 63rd at cost of $250,000.
1873: In Cleveland, Ohio, William Hocking and Julia Pratt gave birth to William Ernest Hocking the Harvard professor who in 1936 expressed his opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine because it “lacks rainfall” and it is “the immediate” cause “for turbulence on the part of the Arabs” while attacking the Pro-Palestine Federation led by its President, Charles Edward Russell.
1874: Herbert Hoover, future President of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa. Hoover is best remembered by Jews as the President who nominated Benjamin Cardozo to the Supreme Court in 1932. In his memoirs, Hoover makes only a brief reference to the appointment. There is no mention about the fact that he was Jewish. Hoover was concerned that there might be opposition because appointing Cardozo would mean that there would be two New Yorkers sitting on the High Court. His Congressional supporters advised him that this would not be a problem. So, thanks to a Quaker from Iowa, the Supreme Court found itself with two Jewish Justices (Frankfurter being the other) at a time when anti-Semitism was on the rise in the United States and Europe.
1874: Queen Victoria allowed Solomon Benedict de Worms to use his Austrian title of Baron in Great Britain.
1874: Sherrif Honscheidt of McClean County, Illinois, wrote a letter today addressed to George Walling, the Superintendent of the Police in New York City containing information about the murder Benjamin Nathan. According to the Sherriff, a German Jew named Levy came to his house and confessed that he had killed Nathan. He gave the address of the crime; described the murder weapon; and claimed that the motive was robbery. Levy says he had an accomplice whose name he will only reveal once he is back in New York. He claims that he has confessed because “he has had no rest nor peace of mind since he committed the crime.” The Sheriff is not sure if Levy is telling the truth if he is just some “humbug” looking for a free trip to New York. (Nathan was a prominent Jewish member of the business community. His shocking murder provided a great deal of scandal, but never produced a perpetrator)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E01EED8143BEF34BC4C52DFBE66838F669FDE
1875(9th of Av, 5635): Tish'a B'Av
1875: The New York Times reported that “the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem will be celebrated throughout the world to-day by the conservative Jews, as a day of mourning.”
1877(1st of Elul, 5637): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1877: In New York City, Alexander Sender Jarmulowsky, the Polish born son of Moszko Jarmulowski and Feiga Jarmulowski who was a founder of the Eldridge Street Synagogue and his wife Rebecca Jarmulowsky gave birth to Harry Jarmulowsky,
https://www.eldridgestreet.org/history/sender-jarmulowsky-a-synagogue-founders-story/
1878(11th of Av, 5638) Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1878: Birthdate of San Francisco native and U.C. Berkley undergrad, Saul Epsteen, noted mathematician and author.
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183416909
1878: In Stettin master tailor Max Döblin and his wife Sophie gave birth to prolific author Bruno Alfred Döblin who would convert to Catholicism while living the life of a refugee in Los Angeles during WW II.
1879: In Dresden, “Gustav and Amalie Pinthus” gave birth to Dora Pinthus who married Oskar Michael Blumenthal and became Dora Blumenthal the name under which she was murdered at Theresiendstadt Ghetto.
1879: Two days after she had passed away, Catherine (Elisa) Levy, the wife of Lewis Levy with whom she had had seven children – Esther, Jane, Abraham, Amelia, Frances, Samuel and Philip – was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1879: According to reports published today, there were eight societies in Great Britain devoted to converting Jews to Christianity and a dozen more in continental Europe devoted to the same purpose. Together, these organizations have a half million dollars to spend and employ 250 in this work. The London Society for the Propagation of Christianity Among the Jews is the oldest and most prominent of these groups headquartered in London. The society has 34 offices encompassing those cities in Europe, along the Mediterranean and in Abyssinia that have large Jewish populations. [These societies had little success. Based on anecdotal evidence, most conversions took place in Western Europe and Britain for purposes of social and economic progress.]
1879: It was reported today that the Jews play an activity role in the philanthropic activities in London since the synagogues of that city have give $3,460 to the hospital fund which is supported by donations from all denominations, “except perhaps the Catholics.”
1879: As various hotels and resorts began excluding Jews one merchant published an ad today designed to further their inclusion. “Although the Jews have been excluded from Manhattan Beach, they are not prohibited on account of their religious principles from buying Humphrey’s Parisian Diamonds. They are for sale only at Humphrey’s Jewelry Store…Price list sent free.”
1880: In Romania, Abraham and Vera Landesco gave birth to Alexander A. Landesco, the graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and director of “relief work in East Europe for the Joint Distribution Committee” after World War I who spent 25 years with Lazard Freres and Company was the husband of Olga Spiegel Landesco.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/05/82146327.pdf
1881: Over 2,500 people attended the corner-stone laying ceremony for the Home for the Aged and Infirmed in Yonkers. Joseph E. Newberger gave the opening remarks on behalf of the B’Nai Brith and was followed by Norton Otis, the May of Yonkers.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F03E0DA103CEE3ABC4952DFBE66838A699FDE
1883: “The Outrages in Hungary” published today described the violent anti-Semitic reaction to the acquittal of Jews who have been standing trial at Nyireghyhaza on charges of ritual murder i.e. killing a young Christian girl. Joseph Scharf, the father of Moritz Scharf, has been attacked several times because his son’s testimony during the trial. There have been several outbreaks of arson aimed at the Jewish population of the town in which the dead girl lived.
1883: August Rholing, notorious slanderer of Jews and the Talmud brought charges of defamation against Rabbi Joseph Samuel Bloch of Vienna
1883: The escape by Theodore Hoffman, who was convicted of murdering Zife Marks, a Jewish peddler, was thwarted today.
1884: It was reported today that Jews in England are seeking to have their government intervene on behalf of their co-religionists in Romania who have been harmed by “the new hawking law.”
1884: It was reported today that Novoje Vremya, “the chief Jew-baiting organ in Russia” has received a warning from the authorities to cease its attacks on Jews.
1884 During today’s Earthquake in New York City, Jews living on Ludlow Street threw their furniture out of their windows and fearfully ran out of their houses carrying trunks, valises and mattresses.
1885: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and Harvard Law School graduate who was a WW I veteran and a director of Big Brothers in Chicago.
1886(9th of Av, 5646): Tish’a B’Av
1886: “The Fast of AB” published today described “the fast of Ab or ‘black fast,’ as it is it is sometimes called among the Jews” which “is one of the most solemn occasions in the Hebrew worship and scrupulously observed by orthodox Jews” because “it commemorates the destruction of the two temples of Judea.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C00E0D61030E533A25753C1A96E9C94679FD7CF
1887: Abe Furst and Dr. Charles H. Rosenthal both of Cincinnati, Ohio, each donated $10 to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1887: The Sanitarium for Hebrew Children are providing another free excursion today for the poor children of the Lower East Side.
1889: “Bernard and Anna (Levy) Bloom” gave birth to Columbia graduate Irving Mortimer Bloom the HUC trained Reform Rabbi who led the “Hebrew Tabernacle in New York City” and used “radio talks, articles, sermons and lecturers” to advocate for closer relations “between Liberal Jews and Liberal non-Jews.”
1889: In Brooklyn, “Mary (Miriam) Natelson and Samson Nateslon” gave birth to Ethiel Weiner who married Dr. Meyer Weiner and gained fame as Ethel Weiner, the Brooklyn school teacher, “vice president of the Jewish Teachers Association” and “a sister of the Rachel Natelson… who collaborated with Henrietta Szold in founding Hadassah.”
1890; “Dr. Cyrus Adler” delivered the sixth in a series of lectures sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary at Cooper Union entitled “The Bible and Modern Discoveries with Special Reference to the Geography of Egypt and Palestine” which was attended by a large number of people including several ladies.
1890: “Waiting for A,B,C” published today relied on information that first appeared in the Edinburgh to traces the history of written alphabets including a listing of ancient inscriptions, one of which is “the Hebrew text…known as the Siloam inscription” which “is very clearly of the age of Hezekiah” approximately 700 BCE.
1890: Birthdate of Solomon Rosenthal, the native of Vilnius who became a chess master.
1890 It has been determined that the Polish Jews who fell ill yesterday were not victims of food poisoning. They had all drank coffee deliberately poisoned by Mrs. Levy, the wife of a second-hand clothing proprietor. No reason has been given for her action. As to the victims, Jacob Schmidt and Jacob Levenson will recover but two of the mothers and their daughters are still in danger. The mass poisoning was made possible by the fact these Jews cook and eat a communal meal at the Sabbath.
1891: “A Rabbi At Chautauqua” published today described the incredulity of some Christians that Rabbi Gustav Gottheil is scheduled to speak before this organization.
1891: “Caring For Jewish Immigrants” published today described plans that leaders of the Jewish Alliance of America have to help their co-religionists arriving in this country including helping them to settle in several states, find work for those “who are skilled mechanics or laborers” and “to purchase cheap arable lands for those” who want to farm.
1892: The SS Kehrwider sailed from Hamburg today bound for New York carrying a significant number of passengers who were poor Jews fleeing Poland and Russia.
1893: James O’Mara and William Davison sole the pack of a Jewish peddler went he entered Patrick Devitt’s saloon in Brooklyn. Two policemen arrived and arrested the thieves.
1893(28th of Av, 5653): Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin passed away today in Warsaw. Born in Mir, Russia, in 1816, he “was also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv.” Berlin “was…dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Zvi_Yehuda_Berlin
1895: “A score of charitable” people from Brooklyn who are spending the summer at Tannersville, NY, hosted a fund raiser for the benefit of the Hebrew Sanitarium.
1895: Lucian Sanial spoke first tonight at the mass meeting in Union Square sponsored by several Jewish organizations held “express sympathy with the locked-out hat and cap makers.”
1895: During the mass meeting at Walhalla Hall on Orchard Street, it was announced that the strike by the tailors, most of whom are Jewish has come to an end.
1895: Birthdate of Harold Reichman, the native of Cincinnati, Ohio who at the age of 18 changed his name to Harry Richman – the name under which he carved out a career as “a singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer” who began his film career in the classic “Putting on the Ritz.”
1896(1st of Elul, 5656): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1896: Birthdate Pediatrician Dorothy Wilkes Weiss, the wife of Charles Wilkes who was active in Hadassah while living in San Francisco.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-abstract/38/4/281/885795?redirectedFrom=fulltext
1896: In New Haven, CT, “Jacob and Sonya (Secoll) Sobol gave birth to WW I veteran Louis Sobol, the “Broadway Columnist” who married Pearl Antman Sobol after the death of his first wife Leah Helen Cantor Sobol with whom he had had one child – Natalie Muriel Sobol Spritzler.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/10/obituaries/louis-sobol-90-dies-broadway-columnist.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-02-11-8601090630-story.html
1896: “Education in Germany” published today provided a statistical analysis by religion of the Germans “attending the universities and other higher educational institutions. For every 10,000 Protestants, 50 of them are students; for every 10,000 Roman Catholics, 32 are students: for every 10,000 Jews, 333 are students. “These figures testify to the extreme value set on a university education by Jews in Germany and explain how it is that young Hebrews are pressing into all the learned professions in far greater proportion than their ratio to the entire population of the country would warrant.” (While the Jews may have been elated about this, many Germans thought the progress of the Jews had to be part of some evil plot which, however irrationally, fueled the flames of anti-Semitism)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0710FF355E10738DDDA90994D0405B8685F0D3
1897(12th of Av, 5657): Moses Schloss, a native of Bavaria who has been a successful merchant in New York for the past 50 years passed away today which was his 79th birthday.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60A1EFE3B5D11738DDDA80994D0405B8785F0D3
1898: In Wellington, Nevada, the sheriff is about to close down the Occidental Colony Company which was organized and operated by Jewish immigrants from Russia.
1898: Birthdate of Russia native Harry Louis Kava, the NYU trained gynecologist and obstetrician
1898: One day after she had passed away. Phoebe Winkel, the “wife of Israel J. Winkel” with she had five children – Joseph, Solomon, Kate, Sarah and Leah – was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1899: Birthdate of Magarete Heyman, who gained famed as Grete Marks, the “German ceramic artist who founded the Haël Workshops for Artistic Ceramics at Marwitz” and who, after the rise of Hitler, moved to Jerusalem where she continued her artistic endeavors/
http://objekte.jmberlin.de/person/jmb-pers-233306
1900(15th of Av, 5660): Tu B’Av
1900: Birthdate of Philip Levine, the Russian born American pioneer in the research “of serums and antibodies who discovered the Rh factor in human blood.” (As reported by Peter B. Flint)
1901(25th of Av, 5661): Parashat Re’eh
1901: “Andrew Lang” published today provides a lengthy review his latest book Magic and Religion which includes a lengthy attack on James Frazier’s theories about the origins of the stories about the “last days of Christ” which Frazier say can be found in the rites and rituals of other religions including the Purim feast of the Jews.
1901: The Rogers Brothers and their company, under the direction of Klaw and Erlanger are scheduled to appear at an “entertainment for the benefit of the Seaside Sanitarium for Sick Hebrew Children” to be held at Rockaway Park, L.I. today.
1901: It was reported today, that as part of the “Sermon Seed Series” two volumes will be published next month including “Sermons on the Psalms” and “Sermons on Isaiah.’
1902: Birthdate of Canadian Oscar winning actress Norma Shearer who converted to Judaism in 1927 when she married movie mogul Irving Thalberg.
1902: in Podgorze, Kraków's Jewish quarter, Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak, a devout Hasidic scholar gave birth to Kurt Siodmak who gained fame as “novelist and screenwriter” Curt Siodmak.
1903: The New York Times featured a review of a compendium of the writings of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler entitled Studies in Jewish Literature.
1904: Judge Alton B. Parker accepted the Democratic Party nomination for President with a speech deemed as a fiasco by historians in which he was highly critical of the very popular incumbent Teddy Roosevelt who enjoyed overwhelming support among Jewish voters for several reasons starting with his handling of a German anti-Semite who had come to New York while he Police Commissioner to his response to Russian Pogroms.
1905(9th of Av, 5665): Tish’a B’Av
1905: The Russians and the Japanese begin peace talks at Portsmouth under the watchful eye of President Theodore Roosevelt. The talks would bring an end to the Russo-Japanese War. The Russians were humiliated by the defeat. The Czar did make some half-hearted attempts at democratic reform which was encouraging to the Jews in the emerging Russian middle class. At the same time, the Slavophiles, extreme Russian nationalists also sought power; trying to convince Nicholas II that Russia would only find greatness when it had rid itself of all Western and foreign (i.e. Jewish) influences. In the end, nothing changed for the better and the Communists would come to power thirteen years later. Russian anti-Semitism gave the Japanese an edge in fighting the war. The Russian government had refused to take responsibility for pogrom. It had blocked American attempts to investigate the treatment of the Russian Jews. When war broke between the Russians and the Japanese, several American Jewish financiers were instrumental in insuring that Japanese war underwritten which meant that the Japanese would have money to fight the war.
1906: Birthdate of Abie Bain, the native of St. Petersburg, Russia who reportedly began his boxing career in the United States at the age of 12 as a flyweight but boxed as middleweight for most of his career except when he stepped up to Light Heavyweight class to fight Maxie Rosenbloom.
1907: At Cowes, Lord Rothschild is one of the notable guests aboard the famed yacht Margaritta one of only two vessels of interest at this fabled nautical event.
1908: It was reported today, that thanks to the efforts of Deputy Police Commissioner Frederick H. Burgher, Sigmund Schwartz, President of the United Citizens Peddlers’ Association, can assure his members that they can sell their wares in a six block area on Park Avenue “from 110th to 116th Streets” with two flocks for the Italians, two blocks for the Jews and two blocks for the Greeks” because “it would never do to mix them” since “ a riot would break out in no time.”
1909: “New Shubert Theatre” published today described the plans of Thirty-ninth Street Company “of which Lee Shubert is the head” to build a new theatre “opposite the Casino Theater” which will have two balconies, cost approximately $125,000 and “be called the Shubert Theatre.”
1910: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that two valuable silver cups had been stolen from the Sons of Israel Synagogue in Camden, NJ.
1910: Birthdate of Veit Klein, who in 1942 was transported from Prague to Ujazdow where he was murdered.
1910(5th of Av, 5670): Portland, OR, banker Benjamin Cohen passed away today.
1911: Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, headed a delegation of men interested in labor publications who appeared before the Congressional commission on second-class mail matter to protest against the raise in the rates.
1911: Birthdate of American playwright Jerome Chodorov, the New York native who is the brother of playwright Edward Chodorov.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE6DB1030F937A2575AC0A9629C8B63
1912(27th of Av, 5672): Parashat Re’eh
1912: Approximately 75 people attended services at the Social Hall of the Forest House in Kennebunkport, Maine, led by Rabbi Bernard. G. Ehrenreich of Montgomery, Alabama.
1912: Pitcher Barney Pely “known as ‘the Yiddish Curver’” appeared in his last major league as a member of the Washington Senators of the American League.
1913: The Second Balkan War comes to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Bucharest. As a result of the war, the final boundaries for the modern Greek state were finally established. This led to an end of the “protected status” many Balkan Jews had enjoyed under Ottoman rule as they became citizens of Greece.
1913: One day after he had passed away, Myer Friedland, the husband of Eva Friedland with whom he had two children – Martha and Annie – was buried today at “the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.”
1913: The treaty ending the Second Balkan War signed today gave the town of Monastir, which had been home to a Jewish community since Roman times became part of Serbia and was renamed Bitola although the local Jews continued to refer to it by its Ottoman name.
1914: During WW on the Eastern Front, the Russian Army reached Tilsit.
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sovetsk/Tilsit_Jews.html
1914: Isaac and Annie Muss gave birth to “Jewish community leader and builder” Louis Muss who built houses, apartments and shopping centers in Brooklyn, Queens, Chicago and St. Louis” and who was an active alum of Yishiva University while raising three children – Henry, Elizabeth and Dorothy – with his wife, “the former Rita Lane.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/17/140560962.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1914: Samuel Prince, a former Assemblyman from the east side and a labor agitator passed away and includes a bequest of fifty dollars to Samuel Gompers for use in supporting strikers in Colorado.
1915: During the Gallipoli campaign, which saw the appearance of the Zion Mule Corps, forces under Mustfa Kemal (who would gain fame as Ataturk)) defeated the Allies during the Battle of Sari Bair.
1916: Oscar S. Straus and Henry Morgenthau, the two previous U.S. Ambassadors to Turkey were sitting at the speakers table with Abram I. Elkus, the latest appointee to the position at a dinner at the Fruendschaft Society where the attendees expressed “satisfaction and pride in the service rendered to the nation by the Jews.”
1916: Chief Rabbi of Salonica received a telegram from the Minister of Interior stating the government has taken steps to ensure tranquility for the Jews on Corfu, after a blood libel accusation arose.
1916: It was reported today that in Warsaw which is now under German rule “death from starvation” is so prevalent among the Jews, “that Jewish mothers feel happy to see their nursing babies die” because it puts an end to their suffering and that even the “wealthiest” Jews “cut off their daughters’ hair and sell it to be able to buy indispensable thing like bread for their dying children.”
1916: It was reported today that a commission has been to Switzerland to seek help in maintaining the soup kitchens for the Jews in Warsaw, but that the real hope is that American Jews will send aid because “should America not aid” them, the Jews of Warsaw “will be lost.”
1917: Dr. Reuben Blank sent a telegram today from Petrograd to Lucien Wolf in London that “in the press and proclamations” the “extreme Russian reactionaries, the extreme revolutionaries and the Black Hundreds” “go so far as to throw upon the Jews the entire responsibility for the war and for the obstacles in the way of a peace with Germany”
1917: The Central Committee of Council of Workmen and Soldiers” having learned “of the revival of anti-Semitic activity in the northwestern and southwestern provinces” dispatched “fifteen delegates to the affect districts to counteract the agitation.”
1917: “Professor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, the assistant to the Secretary of War, who went abroad recently as a member of a semi-official commission” that sought to determine “the condition of the Jews of Palestine” returned to Washington, D.C.
1917: In Berlin, “five orthodox representative of the Jewish community resigned because of the appointment of a radical reformer, Dr. Benzion Kellerman, as a rabbi of the synagogue of the South-eastern district.
1918: During the Battle of Amiens for which General John Monash was the commanding field officer, the French re-took the town of Montdidier.
1919(14th of Av, 5679):The Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1919: Today, twenty year old New York native Barnett Robert Brickner who would served the rabbi at Anshe Chesed for 33 years, “married Rebbeca Ena Aronson, a co-worker at the Bureau of Jewish Education” with whom he had two children – “Joy Marion and Arthur James Balfour Brickner.”
1920: The Turkish government renounced its sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael and recognized the British mandate.
1920: “Dr. Otis A Glazebrook, the United States Consul in Jerusalem,” who arrived in the United States today on a leave of absence “said that the British Government had a difficult problem to handle in its mandate over Palestine and the restoration of the country to the Jews.”
1920: Birthdate of Basketball coach William Red Holzman When he retired, Red Holzman was the second winingnest coach in NBA historywith 696 victories in regular season play, mostly with the New York Knickerbockers. His Knick teams won NBA championships in l970 and l973. Red was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 1986. Incidentally, the only man ahead of Holzman on the all-time win list was another Jew, Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics.
1920: In London “Eight year old Jewish chess wonder” Samuel Rzeschewski “played simultaneous games against twenty strong amateur player at the Gambit Chess rooms” his evening and won 18 of he games and having two end in a draw.
1920(26th of Av, 5680): Eighty-four year old pioneer physician Adam Politzer and a founder of otology passed away today.
http://www.politzersociety.org/content.php?conid=687
1921: Eight days she had passed away, Rebecca Linneweil, the wife of Salomon Linneweil and the mother of Henriette Linneweil was buried today at London’s Edmonton Adath Yisroel Jewish Cemetery.
1921: In Wichita, KS, Harry Weinstein, a sales manager and the former Bess Brodach, an actress gave birth to Brooklyn raise Jack Bertand, the husband of Evelyn Horowitz, who was a U.S. Navy Lieutenant during WW II and a graduate of Columbia Law School best know for being “a legal scholar and famously independent federal judge in Brooklyn who led the legal system into an era of mass tort litigation, changing the way huge classes of people claiming injuries from toxins, pollutants and faulty products could get redress in the courts…” (As reported by Laura Mansnerus)
1923: In Carslbad, Dr. Glickson, a delegate to the Thirteenth Zionist Congress denounced the policy of the British administration in Palestine toward the Jews of the country and toward the Zionist movement. He declared that "the Government hinders the upbuilding of the Jewish national home."
1923: The American delegation to the Thirteenth Zionist Congress cabled the newly installed U.S. President, Calvin Coolidge, “a message of greeting” including wishes for a “successful administration. The Zionists…recalled that the President has on various occasions expressed his admiration of the effort to re-establish Palestine as the Jewish homeland.
1923: JTA does not publish its daily news bulletin today because it is the National Day of Mourning in memory of President Warren G. Harding.
1924(10th of Av, 5684): Tish’a B’Ab (observed)
1925: More 30,000 members of the ILGWU held a rally today at Yankee Stadium. The Union was dominated by Jewish members and leaders including Morris Sigman the president from 1923 to 1928 who battled communists and bosses to improve the lot the working men and women of Ameirca.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ILGWU/presidents/MorrisSigman.html
1926(30th of Av, 5686): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1928: In Brooklyn, “businessman” Herman Sabin and pharmacist turned homemaker “Rachel (Davidson) Sabin” gave birth to drummer Ira Sabin, the founder of JazzTimesmagazine. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1928: In Philadelphia, PA, Gitte (later Katherine "Katie" Winokur; 1) and Joseph Tisch gave birth to Edwin John Fisher who gained fame as Eddie Fisher, the “crooner” and teen-age heartthrob in the 1950’s who dumped Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor who in turn dumped him to marry Richard Burton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/arts/25fisher.html
1929(4th of Av, 5689): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1929(4th of Av, 5689): Seventy-five year old Aletta Jacobs, the female trailblazer who followed in her father’s footsteps and became a physician and was an active suffragette passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-aletta-henri-x00eb-tte
1929(4th of Ave, 5689): Seventy-five year old Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs “the first woman to attend a Dutch University officially and the first female physician in the Netherlands” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jacobs-aletta-henriette
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-aletta-henri-x00eb-tte
1929: Two days before his 17th birthday, historian Max Dimont who had sailed to the United States in steerage aboard the SS Berengaria was discharged from the hospital on Ellis Island and begin the trip to his new home in Cleveland, Ohio with the rest of his family.
1929: “The Awful Truth” a comedy filmed by cinematographer David Abel was released today in the United States.
1930: The fourth world congress of the Zionist Revisionists opened in Prague today under the presidency of Vladimir Jabotinsky. The Revisionists constitute the Opposition in the World Zionist Organization.
1932: In today’s diary entry, 18 year old Hermann Pressman, who would survive the Holocaust” described spending his Sunday evening with friends at a Berlin café.
1932: In Berlin “conductor and composer Walter Goehr” and wife gave birth to “British composer and professor Peter Alexander Goehr.
https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/alexander-goehr
1933: In Amsterdam, 225 German-Jewish children, chiefly from the Rhine region, arrived to stay with Dutch Jewish families.
1933: Eighteen year old Heddy Lamarr married “Austrian military arms merchant and munitions manufacturer” Friedrich Mandl who “was reputed to be the third richest man in Austria.
1933: Der Ernes, the Yiddish language newspaper published in the Soviet Unon, reported that a farmer named Leiser Kabakoff, had been expelled from his collective in the Crimea for his efforts to get other farmers to refrain from working on the Sabbath.
1935(11th of Av, 5695): Shabbat Nachamu on the same day that Pierre Laval, the future French Nazi collaborator “warned that a dictatorship in France was not unlikely if his economic measures failed to be enforced.”
1936: At Geneva, “the Polish delegation to the World Jewish Congress charged early today in a statement present at the third day’s session that Poland’s 3,500,000 Jews were being terrorized and made paupers. (Editor’s note – the rising tide of Polish anti-Semitism during the 1930’s might help to explain the ease with which her Jewish population was all but wiped in the Shoah)
1936: It was reported today that economist Jacob Lesthiesky estimated that “Nazism has reduced 20 to 22 per cent of All Germans to dependence on relief and 20 per cent of the Jews have already liquidated their affairs in preparation for emigration” and that Polish economist Dr. Arjeh Tartakower estimated that 200,000 Jews in world are being compelled to emigrate due to “economic or political pressure.”
1937: The Weizmann policy on the partition of Palestine took textual form today in the draft of a resolution submitted to the political resolutions committee of the World Zionist Congress here. This body, elected today, started what promises to be an all-night secret debate on this resolution, particularly on the last two and most crucial points.
1937(3rdof Elul, sixty-eight-year-old Russian born opera singer Aaron Kaplan who “had sung at Covent Garden in London, the Opera Comique in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York: and who for “twenty years served as cantor for Temple Judea passed away today leaving behind a widow, four daughters and two sons.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/08/11/94411017.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1937(3rd of Elul, 5697): Seventy-four year old Sarah Nathan, the Philadelphia born daughter of “Elvira S. and David Hays Solis,” the wife of Edgar Joshua Nathan and mother of Edgar Jr., Rosalie and Emily Nathan passed away today in Mamaroneck, NY.
1938: A group of Arabs carried out a daring day time robbery of the Barclays Bank at Nablus. The proceeds of the action are thought to be a source of funding for the on-going wave of Arab terror and violence which claimed more Jewish victims today when a car filled with Jewish workers approaching an orange grove near Hadera struck a land mine and a Jewish cart driver was wounded by sniper fire as he drove along the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
1938: Three Hebrew language dailies, including Davar, published editorials condemning violence that was traced back to the Revisionists wing of the Zionist movement.
1938: Nuremberg Synagogue is burnt down.
1939: Bernhard Maissner (also known as Bejrich Bernhard Majzner) was forced to move to Bentschen, Poland before being shipped to Treblinka where “later he was declared to have perished.”
1940(6th of Av, 5700) Shabbat Chazon
1940: The government of Rumania passed anti-Jewish racial laws.
1941: The Red Army counterattacked invading Nazi forces near Yelnya, a city in which almost three hundred Jews were living in 1939.
1942(27th of Av, 5702): Twenty-seven year old Berta Samuel who had been shipped to Auschwitz from Drancy died at the Nazi death camp today.
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1942: This was the first of thirteen days when over 40,000 Jews were shipped from Lvov to the death camp at Belzec. By the end of the month, another 36,000 Jews from Lvov and its surrounding area would be shipped to Belzec where they would meet a similar fate.
1943(9th of Av, 5703): Tish'a B'Av
1943(9th of Av, 5703): Twenty-seven more Jews were found in the ‘Aryan' portion of the ghetto in Warsaw and were shot.
1943(9th of Av, 5703): Seventy-five year old Boston merchant and credit union pioneer Felix Vorenberg, the Chairman of the Board of the Gilchrist Company and who with fellow merchant Edward A. Filene, the founder of the Massachusetts Credit Union, “the first of its kind” in the United States and who was the husband of the former Rose Frankenstein the father Frank Vorenberg, the President of the Gilchrist Company passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/08/11/87422916.html?pageNumber=19
1944: In Manhattan, “Dr. Abraham Leff, a psychiatrist, and the former Rose Levy, a pharmacist” gave birth to Eugene Joel Leff, the lawyer who got justice for the victims of Love Canal. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1945(1st of Elul, 5705): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1945: A day after the United States dropped the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, the Japanese government sent word through diplomatic channels that it would accept the terms of the Potsdam Conference which meant that WW II was close to coming a close.
1945(1stof Elul, 5705): Staff Sargent Jack Winer, he “only son of a Jewish immigrant mother from Russia” and “a navigator for the 345th Bombardment Group, was killed during an air raid today days before the surrender of Japan” after which he was reinterred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 1949 and erroneously “ended up with a cross on his headstone instead of the Star of David.”
1946: Kitty “Carlisle married playwright and theatrical producer Moss Hart today.
1947(25th of Av, 5707): “Members of an armed band wearing Arab dress opened an unprovoked attack tonight in a Jewish cafe on the bank of the Yarkon River at Tel Aviv, killing four Jews and wounding ten, seven of them seriously/”
1948(5th of Av, 5708): Sixty-five year old Viennese native Nathan Eibschutz, the “son of Rabbi Rahmiel Eibschutz,” “a founder of Israel Zion Hospital,” the President and Treasurer of the Night and Day Press printing house and the husband of Ceclia Friedman Eibschutz, of blessed memory and the former Monya W. Tepperman, passed away today in Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/08/11/85304588.pdf
1948: In another example of how a Jew helped to create American pop culture, Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debuted on
1948: A concert was held in Tel Aviv attended by Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and Moshe Sharett.
1949(15th of Av, 5709): Tu B’Av
1949: “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby directed by George Sherman and produced by Leonard Goldstein premiered today in Chicago, Illinois.
1949(15th of Av, 5709): Yiddish author and Belarus native, Yosef or Joseph Tunkel who used “he pen name Der Tunkler” passed away today and was then “buried in the New Mount Carmel Cemetery.
1950: “Sunset Boulevard” a film noir set in Hollywood directed by Billy Wilder who also co-authored the script, with music by Franz Waxman and co-starring Erich von Stroheim was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1953: “The Caddy” a Martin and Lewis comedy directed by Norman Taurog and a script co-authored by Danny Arnold was released in the United States today.
1954: Today, Dr. Joseph Alexander, “a specialist in the study and treatment of lung diseases” who played college football at Syracuse and who in 1925 “ was the first player to sign with the New York Giants football team when it was awarded an NFL franchise “was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame…”
1957: “The Rising of the Moon,” an Irish anthology film featuring Harold Golblatt in “A Minute’s Wait” was released in Ireland today by Warner Bros.
1957: Birthdate of Vienna native Danielle Spera, the journalist who brought new life to the Jewish Museum of Vienna when she began serving as director Vienna in 2010 and who had converted to Judaism (her father was Jewish but her mother was Catholic), married “psychoanalyst Martin Gilbert” with whom she is raising “three children – Samuel, Rachel and Deborah – in a traditional Jewish home.
1959: In New York City, Brenda Olivia “Mardi” Nowak and Lewis Arquette gave birth Emmy nominated actress Rosanna Lisa Arquette who proved she could work “behind” the camera when directed the documentary “Searching of Debra Winger
1959: Today, the World Jewish Congress was told that “Premiere Nikita S. Khrushchev has indicated a willingness to discuss the condition of Jews in the Soviet Union when visits the United States next month.”
1960: In East Bergholt, Suffolk, “screenwriter, novelist and journalist” Frederic Raphael gave birth to English artist Sarah Natasha Raphael.
1960: The original “Ocean’s 11” directed and produced by Lewis Milestone, co-staring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop and featuring Norman Fell was released in the United States today.
1962: President Kennedy's Secretary of State Dean Rusk criticized Daniel Schorr's actions in a diplomatic cable today for a checkbook journalism story in which, “Schorr involved himself in a matter which was far beyond his private or journalistic responsibilities and proceeded amateurishly in a matter filled with greatest danger for all concerned.” (This was neither the first time nor the last time that Schorr would draw the ire of a government official including those in Washington and Moscow.
1964: Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening was one of only two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The two senators saw the resolution as “unconstitutional because it was ‘a pre-dated declaration of war power’ reserved to Congress. This vote cost Gruening his seat in the Senate; a fate that many of the johnny-come-lately opponents such as the anti-Semite J. William Fulbright were spared.
1965(12th of Av, 5725): Eighty-eight year old “specialist in criminal law and a founder of the doctrine of international criminal law” Emil Stanisław Rappaport passed away today.
http://www.bornglorious.com/person/?pi=/m/09v85c4
1966: “The Idol,” produced by Joseph E. Levine and written by Patterson NJ native and West Virginia football player Millard Lampell the blacklisted television and movie screenwriter whose first brush with social protest appears to have come from songwriting with Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie was released today in the United States.
1969(26th of Av, 5729): Seventy-two year old Arthur J “Art” Strauss also known as Dutch Strauss the fullback and running back for Phillips College before turning pro with the Toledo Marrons and the Kansas City Blues passed away today.
1970: “Diary of a Mad Housewife,” the film version of the novel by Sue Kaufman, starring Richard Benjamin was released in the United States today by Universal Pictures.
1972(30th of Av, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1972(30th of Av, 5732): Eighty-year-old Doris Epstein Unterberg Powell, the New York born daughter of Israel and Bella E. Epstein Unterberg and the husband of Milton J. Powell passed away today after which she was buried at the Beth Olom Cemetry in Ridgewood, NY.
1972: In “Who Speaks for The Jewish Leaders” published today Rabbi David Greenberg of the Scarsdale Synagogue takes issue with three Jewish leaders who support President Nixon because of his policy on Israel, saying that “it is erroneous to assume that Jews vote on the basis of Middle East Policy alone” and that “the Government of Israel nor the self-styled American Jewish leaders direct Jewish citizens when they enter the voting booth” because Jews “are directed by their own moral convictions about what is right for America and for the world.”
1973: It was reported today that the “national commander of the Jewish War Veterans” has described “the Watergate episode as the culmination of a decade of moral delinquency in the United States.” (JTA)
1976: In Toronto, the Paralympic Games in which volleyball player Hagai Zamier earned a Gold Medal, came to a close.
1977: “The Kentucky Fried Movie,” a comedy written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker was released in the United States today.
1979: “Americathon” a comedy produced by Joe Roth and starring Harvey Korman and Peter Riegert was released today in the United States today.
1981(10th of Av, 5741): Seventy-five year old Yeruham Cohen, an Arabic-speaker of Yemeni origin who was “an early Israeli undercover soldier” passed away today. He was a top aide to the commander of Israel's underground forces during the country's war for independence in 1948 and also belonged to a unit whose members disguised themselves as Arabs to infiltrate enemy lines. Mr. Cohen is most famous for his acquaintance with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, whom he met in 1948 during the Israeli war for independence while Israeli forces encircled Egyptian troops the southern Negev. According to historical accounts, Mr. Cohen saw the future President while watching the Egyptians retreat, shouted and ran toward him, and they shook hands warmly.
1980(28th of Av, 5740): Seventy-four year old Karl Wolf, a native of Austria who was the husband of Margit Wolf passed away today in Haifa.
1981: Pitcher Bob Tufts made his major league debut with the San Francisco Giants.
1982: Today President Ronald Reagan nominated UCLA trained attorney Alex, Kozinski, the Bucharest born son of Holocaust survivors to serve on the United States Claims Court.
1983(1st of Elul, 5743): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1983: “Jewish husbands who refuse to grant their wives divorces under Jewish religious law will be barred from obtaining civil divorces under a measure signed today by Governor Cuomo.”
1986: A Broadway revival of “Me and My Girl” featuring George S. Irving in “his Tony nominated performance as Sir John” opened today at the Marquis Theatre.
1988: After opening in Australia, “Crimes of the Future,” “a Canadian sci-fi film” directed by, produced by, written by, filmed by and edited by David Conenberg was release today in the United States.
1989(9th of Av, 5749): Tish’a B’Av
1989: Birthdate of Ben Sahar, Israeli born football (soccer) star.
1990: “Flaterliners” a sci-fi thriller directed by Joel Schumacher, the son of Swedish Jewess, was released throughout the United States today by Columbia Pictures.
1990: Eighty-two year old Martha Dodd Stern, the daughter of William Dodd, FDR’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, who became an anti-Nazi, passed away today. (As reported by Glenn Fowler)
1991(30th of Av, 5751): Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh Elul
1991(30th of Av, 5751): Eighty-five year old Hans Jacob Polostky, the native of Zurich and German educated orientalist who made Aliyah in 1935 to escape the Nazis and became an award winning Professor at Hebrew University passed away today.
1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme court.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/10/1993/ruth-bader-ginsburg
1994(3rd of Elul, 5754): Paul Grossman, who had been married to Shirley Gorssman and was a member of Larchmont Temple in Larmchont, NY passed away today
1997: The New York Times book section featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Secret Channels: The Inside Story of Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiationsby Mohamed Heikal and Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America by Elliott Abrams
1997(7th of Av, 5757): Sixty-three year old Professor George Zames “known for his fundamental contributions to the theory of robust control” and who was one of the Jews saved by Japanese Consul Senpo Sugihara passed away today.
http://www.autsubmit.com/editorials/ed34_3.html
2000(9th of Av, 5760): Tish’a B’Av
2000(9th of Av, 5760): Pauline (Leibner) Kelein, the widow of Philip Klein with whom she had three children – Estelle, Doris and Harold – passed away today.
2000:At the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dara Torres swam the 100-meter butterfly in a time of 57.86.
2001: “American Pie 2” a sequel to “American Pie” with a story by David H. Steinberg and Adam Herz who also wrote the screenplay and co-starring Eugene Levy was released in the United States today by Universal Studios.
2002(2nd of Elul, 5762): Parashat Shoftim
2002: Thirty-one year old Yafit Herenstein was shot in her home by members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades
2003: “Shattered Glass” a biopic based on the fraudulent journalistic career of Stephen Glass premiered today at the Toronto International Film Festival today.
2003: The Sunday New York Times book section includes reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including When the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh Hashanah Tale,Erica Silverman’s adaption of a story by Sholom Aleichem illustrated by Matthew Trueman, Lay Back the Darkness, a collection of poems by Edward Hirsch a Midwestern man with a Jewish heritage and Ronit Matalon's novel Bliss translated by Jessica Cohen that “focuses on Israel's two pains: the kind it suffers and the kind it inflicts”
2003(12th of Av, 5763): Sixteen year old Haviv Dadon was “killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell fired from Lebanon.”
2004(23rd of Av, 5764): Eighty-eight-year-old Floryne Eleanor Gorov, the Baltimore born daughter of Hattie Rose Cohn and Abraham Benjamin Cohn and the wife of Jack gorov passed away to day in Farmington, Michigan, after which she was buried in Ferndale, Michigan.
2004: Today, President Jacques Chirac condemned the desecration of 60 Jewish graves in the city of Lyon, the latest in a wave of attacks on Jewish and Muslim cemeteries in France.”
2004: In “Resolutions by Exchanges Of (Ooof! Kapow!) Ideas” published today, Neil Genzlinger reviews “Blue Collar,” “a pair of Israel Horovitz plays.
2005: “Escape: Human Cargo,” co-starring Sasson Gabai was broadcast for the first time in Hungary.
2005: “In his first speech before the Knesset following his resignation, Netanyahu spoke of the necessity for Knesset members to oppose the proposed disengagement” from Gaza.
2006(16th of Av, 5766): IDF Staff Sergeant Kobi Idan, 26, from Eilat was killed and at least 16 other soldiers were wounded, nine of them seriously, in the clashes with Hezbollah.
2006: In “Party No. 3” published today David Brooks “imagined a moderate McCain-Lieberman Party in opposition to both major parties, which he perceived as polarized and beholden to special interests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/opinion/10brooks.html
2006: Twenty-four year old Angelo Frammartino, from Monte Rotondo, Italy was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem.
2006: During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Israeli authors, David Grossman, Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua spoke at a press conference calling upon the government to agree to a ceasefire as a basis for talks toward a negotiated solution, describing further military action as "dangerous and counterproductive" and expressing particular concern for the Lebanese government. [Editor’s note - Two days later, Grossman’s 20-year-old son Uri, a staff sergeant in an armored unit, was killed by an anti-tank missile during an IDF operation in southern Lebanon shortly before the ceasefire.]
2007: The Indianapolis Colts placed tight end Mike Seidman on the injured reserve list
2007: Colonel Giora "Hawkeye" Epstein “was the primary subject of the "Desert Aces" episode of The History Channel Series Dogfights that aired for the first time tonight.”
2007 (26th of Av): On the secular calendar commemoration of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s, the third Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty, popularly known as the "Tzemach Tzedek," departure from Petersburg after having successfully prevented the government's disruption of traditional Jewish life.
2008(9th of Av, 5768): Tish'a B'Av
2008: The New York Times book section featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest includingThe Challenge:Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler, My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates,American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalemby Jane Fletcher Geniesse and Kingmakers:The Invention of the Modern Middle Eastby Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.
2008: TheJerusalem Post reported that the Jewish Agency has released a statement that some 200 Jews living near the town Gori, on the South Ossetia border, were advised to evacuate to the Georgian capital after the outbreak of hostilities with Russia two days ago.
2008(9th of Av, 5768): Howard G. Minsky, a former Hollywood talent agent and the producer of the movie “Love Story,” passed away today at the age of 94. Mr. Minsky began his career during the silent-film era and sold reels of film door to door before breaking into the Hollywood scene. He worked as an executive for 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures and as a talent agent for the William Morris Agency. In the 1960s he left the agency to produce the romantic drama “Love Story,” written by one of his clients, Erich Segal. Released in 1970, it became a blockbuster, winning five Golden Globes, including best picture, and an Academy Award for music.
2009:The exhibit, Bagels & Barbeque: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee which documents the history of Jewish immigration to Tennessee opened at Chattanooga State, the College on the River.
2009: Opening of the Tzfat [Safed] Klezmer Festival
2009 (20th of Av): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, father of the seventh and last Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. A brave and educated soul, he after being imprisoned by the Soviets for thwarting the Communists attempts to wipe out Jewish civilization.
2009: Israeli aircraft bombed tunnels early today along the Gaza Strip border with Egypt, Hamas officials and witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the predawn raid against targets in the town of Rafah. The Israeli military had no immediate comment. Israel has frequently attacked tunnels it says are used to smuggle weapons or materials to build weapons into Gaza from Egypt. The bombings may also have been response re-newed mortar and rocket attacks by terrorists in Gaza.
2010(30th of Av, 5770):David L. Wolper, an award-winning movie and television producer best known for the groundbreaking mini-series “Roots,” passed away today at the age of 82.
2010(30th of Av, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2010(30thof Av, 5770): Ninety year old author Nancy Freedman passed away.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/22/local/la-me-nancy-freedman-20100822
2010(30th of Av, 5770): Eighty-two year old David L. Wolper, who changed America’s view of race and slavery with “Roots”, passed away today. (As reported by Richard Severo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/arts/12wolper.html
2010: Paul Hunt began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
2010: The first public screening of “A Film Unfinished” is scheduled to take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
2010: While testifying before the Turkel Committee today, Defense Minister Ehud Barak “placed the blame” for the botched flotilla raid “on the IDF, which he said was responsible for warning the government if ‘the mission cannot be carried out.’ In the case of the flotilla the IDF did not warn, Barak said.
2010: “The Human Resources Manager” the movie version of the A.B. Yehoshua novel by the same name directed by Eran Riklis and starring Mark Ivanir was released today in Israel.
2011: The International Master Course for Violinists which has been taking place amid the scenic mountains of the western Galilee at Kibbutz Eilon is scheduled to come to an end today.
2011: The DC Premiere “Maya” is scheduled to take place at this evening’s WJFF (Washington Jewish Film Festival) Friend-raiser Screener and Party
2011: Philip Levine was named tody as the new poet laureate of the United States. Levine has an MFA through the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. His works include a "continuous examination of his Jewish immigrant inheritance.
2011The Romanian Academy said today that it will change its definition of an anti-Semitic slur in a dictionary to make it clear the word is pejorative.
2011:The International Master Course for Violinists which is taking place at Kibbutz Eilon is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: Rookie right tackle Mitchell Schwartz is scheduled to start in the Detroit Lions’ first exhibition pro-football game.
2012: The Russian Olympic basketball team coached by Israeli-American David Blatt is scheduled to play Spain today in the semifinals.
2012: Victor Lieberman is scheduled to lead Shabbat eve services at B’nai Israel in Grand Forks, ND
2012: Ben Sarasin will help lead Shabbat eve services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as part of his “Bar Mitzvah Weekend.”
2012: Shai Wosner is scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center
2012:New Zealand Jewish sailor Jo Aleh and her partner Polly Powrie won the gold medal in the women’s 470 regatta. Aleh, 26, whose parents are dual Israeli-New Zealand citizens, skippered the pair into the lead from the start of the gold medal race today at the London Olympic Games
2012: Israeli rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin leapt to the finals after her ribbon routine in the individual qualifiers today at the London Games.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rhythmic-gymnast-leaps-to-finals-in-london-games/
2012: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have “almost finally” decided on an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities this fall, and a final decision will be taken “soon,” Israel’s main TV news broadcast reported this evening.
2013: “Dancing in Jaffa” and “Gideon’s Army” are scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Kol HaOt is scheduled to sponsor “The Sounds of Elul” featuring Yehuda Katz.
2013: An al-Qaeda-linked group active in the Sinai Peninsula said today that its fighters were the target of a reported Israeli drone strike into Egyptian territory, a rare operation that could indicate increased Egyptian-Israeli security cooperation against militants in the lawless border zone. (As reported by Maamoun Youssef)
2013: “Israeli tennis star Shahar Pe'er won her first tournament in four years today, defeating unseeded Zheng Saisai 6:2, 2:6, 6:3 in the final of the Suzhou Ladies Open in Suzhou China.”
2014: The New York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel written and illustrated by Anya Ulinich, Becoming Freud:
The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips, Lucky Us by Amy Bloom and Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh.
2014: Congregation HarTzeon – Agudath Achim is scheduled to host a trip to NYC see the off-Broadway musical “Atomic” about the Manhattan Project.
2014: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a “conversation with Holocaust survivor Steen Metz.”
2014: “Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip continued today, with over nine rockets being shot at Israel throughout the day. Six hit the Eshkol Regional Council in the early hours, while two others slammed into Sderot, starting a small fire. Two more rockets were intercepted about the city.” (As reported by Ilana Curiel)
2014:” Air raid sirens sounded in Ashdod at 10 pm, two hours before the start of an Egyptian-brokered temporary truce.”(As reported by Matan Tzuri)
2014: The Miami Herald reported today that “the Jewish community of Miami is offering $50,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the two suspects in the death of Rabbi Joseph Raksin” who was murdered while walking to services on Shabbat.
2014: Rabbi Joseph Raskin who was murdered in Florida yesterday as he walked to Shabbat services is scheduled to be buried today.
2014: For King and Country? a major new exhibition exploring the Jewish experience of the First World War is scheduled to come to a close today at the Jewish Museum in London.
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/kingandcountry
2015: YIVO and the Congress for Jewish Culture are scheduled to present “Night of the Murdered Poets” during which Ala Zuskin Perelman, daughter of Soviet Yiddish actor, Benjamin Zuskin will discuss her recent biography, The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin about her father’s tragic life and work as an actor and artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.
2015: Thanks to the efforts of New York State Assembly member Todd Kaminsky, the nephew of Mel Brooks, the emergency room at the Long Beach Community Center that had been closed since Hurricane Sandy reopened today.
2015: The 2015 AIPAC Iowa Annual Event is scheduled to take place this evening in Des Moines.
2015: “I’m convinced that Fiamma Nirenstein” whose appointment as Israel’s ambassador to Rome has rattled the Italian Jewish community “will bring with her to the position lots of diplomatic and political experience, and will succeed in deepening the relationship between Israel and Italy, our close friends, and act for diplomatic, economic, cultural and security cooperation,” Netanyahu said in a statement today
2015: “A disaster at Ben Gurion International Airport was narrowly averted today when a drone came dangerously close to an incoming plane, forcing the aircraft to adjust its course.”
2015: Just days before his death, Kate Edgar, “the longtime personal assistant” of Dr. Oliver Sacks “who described herself as his ‘collaborator, friend, researcher and editor’ wrote in an email ‘He is still writing with great clarity. We are pretty sure he will go with fountain pen in hand.’”
2015: “The Obama administration, citing the potential for economic and political harm to the Palestinian Authority and the broader peace process, asked a judge today to “carefully consider” the size of the bond he requires for the authority to appeal a huge damages award for its role in six terrorist attacks in Israel that killed and injured Americans.
2016: William Korn is scheduled to lecture on “Pioneer Jews of Leadville, Colorado, 1878-1914” and David McDonald is scheduled to lecture on “A Gentile in the Tribe: Using Christian Church Records” at the 36thIAJGCS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Seattle.
2016: Today Luciana Berger was not selected by the “Labor Party candidate for the position of Metro Mayor of Liverpool.”
2016: “Deli Man” a film that paints a portrait of the rapidly disappearing delicatessens in the United States” is scheduled to be shown in London tonight.
2017: In Weimar, YSW is scheduled to host both a Dance Orchestra Workshop and Dance Workshop followed in the evening by a series of Yiddish music jam sessions.
2017: “Ballet Pécs, the first contemporary ballet company of Hungary,” is scheduled to present “Carmen” as part of the dance festival in Tel Aviv.
2017: In light of terrorist tunnel attacks, an Israeli military official said “that the army does not believe Hamas has any justification to prevent Israeli from building a protective barrier” and “therefore it will tolerate an attempts by the terror group to interfere with its construction.”
2018: Seventy years and one day after fifty year old Chaim Soutine died in Paris while trying to avoid capture by the Gestapo, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a tour of the exhibition “Chaim Soutine: Flesh” featuring thirty of picture painted by the French expressionist.
2018: “Classical Bridge, an international music festival, academy and conference designed to build bridges through the music” featuring violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is scheduled to continue today in New York.
2018: As Israelis awaken, the question on everybody’s mind is will the truce with Hamas that was supposed to go into effect last night hold or will the rockets and flammable kites return.
2019: In Pittsburgh, PA, the Manor Theatre is scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate” that “among the dedications at the end of the Film is the Tree of Life Congregation” which was attacked by a gunman in October of 2018.
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center are scheduled to host a book signing with Steve Schapiro, “the photojournalist behind” the museum’s “Activists and Icons” exhibit.
2019(9th of Av, 5779): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av;
2019(9th of Av, 5779): Sixty-six year old financier and sex offender Jeffrey Edward Epstein died today while in jail, reportedly by hanging himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide.html
2020: The IAJGS 40th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, a virtual event, is scheduled to begin today.
2020: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present, online, “JLive Art” with glass artist Sidney Hutter.
2020: LSJS is scheduled to host “What is and isn’t ‘work’ – and why?” during which Rabbi Miachael Pollak and Jacqueline Nicholls provide “a unique summery of the Talmud on Shabbat.”
2020: The Albuquerque Virtual Jewish Film fest is scheduled to host a screening of “Incitment.”
2020: On Facebook Live and YouTube, the YIVO Institute is scheduled to present the instrumeanl and vacl chamber ensemble Cana Profana as it performs “Gustav Mahler’s epic song symphony, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn’s chamber orchestra arrangement.”
2020: As part of its virtual webinar series, the Streicker Center is scheduled to host Ambassadors Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk as they discuss “Is There Any Light Left at the End of the Middle East Tunnel?”
2020: Part 1 of “The Obscene, Indecent and Offensive in Hollywood an “East Bay International Jewish Film Festival event with director Riva Gambert talking about pre-1934 film censorship and pre-World War II films that failed to capture what was occurring in Nazi Germany” is scheduled to take place online today
2020: As Israelis awake this morning, they are confronted with the fact that as of last night the national COVED death toll has reached 600.
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Exploring Nine Centuries of Jewish Life,” a tour led by Yoram Bitton and Dr. Jordan Finkin.
https://streicker.nyc/events/huc-jir
2021: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, members of Temple Judea are scheduled to “Help Feed the Hungry” by donating sandwiches to benefit the St. George’s Soup Kitchen
2021: Based on information released yesterday, Israelis awaken this morning to the possibility that their country “may see over 1,200 severely ill coronavirus patients by the end of August if it doesn't take tougher measures to battle the surge of COVID-19.” (As reported by Alexandra Lukash and Nir Cohen)
2021: William Burns, the head of the C.I.A. is scheduled to begin a three day visit to Israel today.