OCTOBER 26
1235:
King Andrew II of Hungary passed away. During the reign of King Andrew II
(1205–1235) there were Jewish Chamberlains and mint-, salt-, and tax-officials.
The nobles of the country, however, induced the king, in his Golden Bull
(1222), to deprive the Jews of these high offices. When Andrew needed money in
1226, he farmed the royal revenues to Jews, which gave ground for much
complaint. The pope (Pope Honorius III) thereupon excommunicated him, until, in
1233, he promised the papal ambassadors on oath that he would enforce the
decrees of the Golden Bull directed against the Jews and the Saracens (by this
time, the papacy had changed, and the Pope was now Pope Gregory IX; would cause
both peoples to be distinguished from Christians by means of badges; and would
forbid both Jews and Saracens to buy or to keep Christian slaves.
1407: Mobs attacked the Jews in Cracow,
Poland. The so-called Cracow Accusations
was one of the first libels in
1431: In Ferrara to
Nicolò III and Ricciarda da Saluzzo gave birth to Ercole I d’Este, the Duke of
Ferrara around whose court the life Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol, “the
Jewish-Italian geographer, cosmographer scribe and polemicist” revolved.
1496: An edict
expelling the Jews was signed in
1520: The coronation of
Charles V as King of Germany, to whom the Jews of Speyer complained that they
were mistreated and denied their given rights. This included beatings, tortures
and killings, imprisonment, robbery, expulsion, closing of schools and
synagogues, payment of tolls and duties and the denial of the right to appeal
to the imperial or other courts” which led him “to renew and confirm the Jews’
charter” took place today.
1631: Birthdate of
Cardinal Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch who advised the King to repopulate
Hungary with Catholic Jews from Germany and who “held that the Jews could not
be exterminated at once but must be weeded out by degrees as bad coin is
gradually withdrawn from circulation. To
that end he called for the enforcement of the decree by the Diet of Pressburg,
“imposing double taxation on the Jews” and deny them right to “engage in
agriculture” or “to own any real estate.”
1689: General
Piccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje in Macedonia to prevent the spread of
cholera. Skopje was part of the Ottoman Empire and it was one of the towns
where Jews fleeing from Spain after 1492 found refuge and were able to prosper
in the fields of trade, finance and medicine.
In the 21st century, most of the handful of Macedonian Jews
lives in Skopje, the country’s capital.
1714: Emperor Charles
VI approved an arrangement previously “confirmed by Joseph I that protected the
Jews against any infringements of their rights on the Part of the Council of
Worms.
1791: Rachel Gratz, and
York, PA native Solomon Etting, the parents of Rebecca Etting were married
today.
1794: In Hilltown,
Bucks County, PA, Mary Vastine and Josiah Lunn, the son of Alice and Joseph
Josiah Lunn, gave birth to Elizabeth Lunn who became Elizabeth Evans when she
married David Evans, the mother of Mary and Robert Evans.
1798: In Kensington,
Joseph Elias Montefiore, the London born son of Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore
Medina and Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore and his wife Rachel Montefiore gave
birth to Horatio Joseph Montefiore.
1803: Moses Mosely
married Rosetta Samuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1803: Today, at the
great review by George III, “several Jews were present under arms” but the
“Jewish volunteers were excused from attendance at divine service, and allowed
to take the oaths of the allegiance of fidelity on the Book of Leviticus
instead of the New Testament.”
1819: Birthdate of
Geffen native Simon van den Bergh, known as “The King of Margerine” who was the
father of Samuel van den Bergh and whose philanthropies included providing aid
to “poor, persecuted Jews…leaving Rotterdam for America.”
https://dbpedia.org/page/Simon_van_den_Bergh
1819: On the Isle of
Jutland, Aaron Goldschmidt and Leah Rothschild gave birth to the “distinguished
Danish poet, novelist and journalist,” Professor Meyer Aaron Goldschmidt.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805E0DE1530E633A2575AC2A96E9C94669FD7CF
1825:The Erie Canal opens
with passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. Eventually the canal would
provide a water access to Buffalo, thus opening a water route that would
stretch from the Atlantic Oceans to the all of the lands bordering on the Great
Lakes. This would create immeasurable
commercial opportunities for all Americans, including the Jews. It would lead to the creation of thriving
Jewish communities in places like Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. Mordechai M. Noah, one of the most prominent
Jews of the early 19th century was originally an opponent of the
canal but changed his mind when he saw that successful development of the land
along the Canal would help make his dream of Ararat, A City of Refuge for Jews,
a reality.
1826: In New York, John
Solomons and Julia Levy gave birth to Adolphus Simeon Solomons, the husband of
Rachel Seixas Phillips who became “an influential Washingtonian with strong
White House and Congressional connections.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13904-solomons-adolphus-simeon
1828: In North
Rhine-Westphalia, Abraham Bendix Weinberg, the German born son of Bendix Aron
Weinberg and Sara Moses Weinberg and his second wife Hannchen Leffmann Weinberggave
birth to Leffman Abraham Weinberg, the husband of Rosa Weinberg.
1829: One day after he
had has passed away, Hyam Emanuel was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish
Cemetery.”
1829: Two days after he
had passed away, Michael Solomon, the wife of husband of Hannah Solomon and
father of Samuel Solomon was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish
Cemetery.
1831: Morris Lee
married Rachel Nathan at the New Synagogue today.
1833(12th of
Cheshvan, 5594): Forty-six year old David Phillip (Feist) Schloss, the son of
Jacob and Sprinz Schloss and the husband of Malchen Schloss passed away today
at Frankfurt am Main.
1834(23rd of
Tishrei, 5595): Simchat Torah
1836: John Wagg married
Harriet Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.
1841: Birthdate of
Viennese born German dramatist Jacob Bettelheim
1842:
Henrik Wergeland who had rejected the anti-Semitic views of his father Nikolai,
published his book Jødesagen i det norske
Storthing ("The Jewish issue in the Norwegian parliament"), which in
addition to arguing for the cause also provides interesting insights into the
workings of the parliament at the time
1844: Birthdate of
American playwright and producer Edward “Ned” Harrigan the author and producer
of “Mordecai Lyons” an 1882 drama which unlike some “Jew plays” is “serious and
valuable” when it comes to portraying its Jewish characters.
1848: In Fort Wayne,
IN, a group of German Orthodox Jews formed Congregation Achuduth Vesholom which
in 1857 purchased a building on Harrison Street to use as a synagogue and which
now a reform congregation led by Rabbi Meir Bargeron.
1849: “Robert Lyon, an
English Jew who arrived in the United States in 1844 established The
Asmonean as a weekly at New York today.
1853: Dr. Raphall, a
New York Rabbi, delivered an address about Russia at a meeting of the Young
Men’s Literary Association.
1853: Rebecca Cohen
Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaaks and her
husband Abraham Hart gave birth to Cornelia Rebecca Hart
1853: Following Dr.
Raphall’s address to the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Association, Mr. Mosely
Lyon delivered an address describing the purpose of the organizations.
1854:Hermann Mayer Salomon
Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 32 Pomona.
1855: Birthdate of
Richmond dramatist Sydney Rosenfeld, the “first editor of Puck,” “one of the main movers in the effort to secure a National
Theatre for the United States” and husband of “Genie Holzmeyer Johnson” who was
the author of several plays including “A Possible Case” and “The Club Friend”
as well as several “operettas and musicals” including “The Lady or the Tiger”
and “The Passing Show.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/06/15/102239498.pdf
1855: In Germany, David
J. Meyerhardt and his wife gave birth Max Meyerhardt, the husband of Nettie
Watson who came to the United States at the age of one, attended public schools
in Nashville, TN and settled in Rome, GA where he served as city attorney and
county attorney for Floyd County, GA
while contributing “prose and oety to the Jewish and secular press.”
1858: Albert Goldsmid
was promoted to the rank of major-general in the British Army. Born in 1794, the son of Benjamin Goldsmid,
he entered the army in 1811 which gave him the opportunity to fight the French
in Spain to serve at the Battle of Waterloo.
1858:
The Personal Column published today reported that a "A Moldavian Jew, Israel
Benjamin SRAEL, is preparing for a journey through Afghanistan and China. Since
1845, he has gone over the Eastern countries of Europe, as well as Egypt,
Palestine, Persia, the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, Algeria, and Morocco.
The Geographical Society of Berlin have charged him to solve several
geographical and ethnographical questions. He has just published Eight Years
Travel in Asia and Africa by Israel Benjamin
1859: Bernhard Bettmann who had “established a
men’s clothing business in 1856 at Cincinnati, Ohio married Tillie Wald of New
York City with whom he had seven children.
1860:
In Sweden, Jews, who up until now were only permitted to own property in urban
areas, were granted the “right to acquire real estate in rural communities.”
1859:
Sir Samuel Saul, the London born son of Lydia Lyons and Sampson Samuel who
“achieved many breakthroughs for the Jews in New South Wales” began serving as
the 6th Treasurer of New South Wales.
1861:
During the American Civil War, the 9th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Regiment was mustered into service as part of the United States under the
command of Colonel Frederick C. Salomon.
When Salomon was appointed Brigadier General, he brother Charles became
the Colonel commanding the regiment.
This may have made the 9th Wisconsin the only unit on either
side of the conflict to be commanded successively by two brothers who were
Jewish.
1862:
Birthdate of Justine Dreyfus Levy who would be buried in Natchitoches, LA in
1917.
1863:
In Philadelphia, PA, Marx B. and Henrietta T. Loeb gave birth to Blanche Loeb
who became Blanche Langsdorf when she married Jacob Loeb Langsdorft with whom
she had one child – Isadore Langsdorf.
1864: Myer Isaacs sent a strongly worded letter to
President Lincoln warning him against a deal that he allegedly made with a
group of New York Jews who, presenting themselves as leaders of the community,
had promised to deliver the “Jewish vote” for him. This letter is one of the
germinal documents of early Jewish participation in the American political
process.
Your Excellency,
As
a firm and earnest Union man, I deem it my duty to add a word ... with
reference to a recent "visitation" on the part of persons claiming to
represent the Israelites of New York or the United States and pledging the
"Jewish vote" to your support, and, I am informed, succeeding in a
deception that resulted to their pecuniary profit.
Having
peculiar facilities for obtaining information as to the Israelites of the
United States, from my eight years' connection with the Jewish paper of this
city and my position as Secretary of their central organization, the
"Board of Delegates" . . . I feel authorized to caution you, Sir,
against any such representations as those understood to have been made.
There
are a large number of faithful Unionists among our prominent coreligionists —
but there are also supporters of the opposition, and indeed the Israelites are
not as a body, distinctly Union or democratic in their politics ... the Jews as
a body have no politics.
Therefore,
Sir, I am pained and surprised to find that you had been imposed upon by
irresponsible men ... such acts are discountenanced and condemned most
cordially by the community of American Israelites ...
There
is no "Jewish vote"— if there were, it could not be bought. As a
body of intelligent men, we are advocates of the cherished principles of
liberty and justice, and must inevitably support and advocate those who are the
exponents of such a platform — "liberty and union, now and forever."
Pardon
the liberty I take in thus trespassing on your attention, but I pray that you
will attribute it to the sole motive I have, that of undeceiving you and
assuring you that there is no necessity for "pledging" the Jewish
vote which does not exist — but at the same time that the majority of Israelite
citizens must concur in the attachment for the Union and a determination to
leave no means untried to maintain its honor and integrity.
Yours most Respectfully,
Myer S. Isaacs
1864:
In France, Clara and Lazar Schorstein gave birth to Therese Alice Shorstein,
the first wife of Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, the “youngest son of
Nathaniel Montefiore and Emma Goldsmid who was a founder of “Anglo-Liberal
Judaism” and the “anti-Zionist League of British Jews” who endowed the Therese
Montefiore Memorial in her memory two years after he death in 1889.
1865: In Philadelphia,
PA, “mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim” and his wife Barbara Meyers gave birth to
their fifth son Benjamin Guggenheim whose marriage to Florette Seligman would unite to of America’s
wealthiest Jewish families and whose death at age 46 aboard the RMS Titanic was
an unexpected tragedy.
1869: Austen Henry
Layard, the archeologist who excavated Nimrud and Niniveh as described in Discoveries
at Nineveh completed his service as First Commissioner of Works in the
government of Prime Minster Gladstone.
1870: In Louisville,
KY, Frances and Lambert N. Goldsmith gave birth to Ida Goldsmith who became Ida
Morris when she married Herman Morris with she had had one children, Charles W.
Morris.
1872: In Brooklyn,
banker Joseph S. Taussig and the former Mary L. Cuno gave birth to Frederick
Joseph Taussign, the St. Louis educated graduate of Harvard and Washington
University Medical School who developed a specialty in gynecology, served as a
“professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology” at Washington University and
married Florence Gottschalk.
https://digitalcommons.hsc.unt.edu/gynecology/23/
1872: It was reported
today that the Jews of Rumania want to immigrate to the United States en masse.
They have written to the Interior Department to see if they can acquire a large
enough section of public lands to meet the needs of a large colony. Current
laws preclude the granting of their request.
1873: In Wabash, IN,
founding of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society whose members included Mrs.
Sam Simon, Mrs. Ollie Hyman and Mrs. Louis Bockman and which “meets on
alternate Wednesdays.”
1876: In Kovno,
Lithuania, Leopold and Matilda Marver Enelow gave birth to Hyman Gerson Enelow
a graduate of the University of Cincinnati who was ordained by Rabbi Isaac M.
Wise in 1898 who served several congregations including Temple Israel in
Paducah, Congregation Adath Israel and Temple Emanu-El in New York City. (Some
sources show 1877 as DOB)
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0011/ms0011.html
1877: In Philadelphia,
PA, Florence LIveright, the daughter of Abraham and Reccah Kahn and Simon
Liveright gave birth to Arthur K. Liveright
1877: In Dallas, TX,
Philip and Cornelia Mandelabum Singer gave birth to Eli Sanger, the husband of
Claudia Meador Sanger.
1881(3rd of Cheshvan,
5642) Eighty-six year old Austrian Talmudist Aaron Kornfeld passed away today
at his home town of Goltsch-Jenikau Bohemia.
1881: In Charleston,
SC, at Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim on Hasell Street, Rabbi David Levy
officiated at the marriage of Henry J. Harby of Sumter, SC to “Adeline Wineman,
the only daughter of L.G. Emanuel of Georgetown, SC.”
1881: The Gunfight at
the OK Corral takes placed in
1882: “Mordecai Lyons”
was performed tonight before a very large crowd at Theatre Comique in New York
City.
1883: The Paris Figaro contained a detailed account of
the duel between Hungarian attorney Dr. Jules Rosenberg and Count Battyany over
the affections that the former had displayed for Mlle. Hona de Schossberger,
the daughter of a Jewish family whose patriarch sought to marry his daughter
off to a Hungarian nobeleman.
1882: The Troy (NY)
Times reported that Harris Udovitch , who has been jailed on charges of
assaulting Mrs. Louis Cohen claims that she was injured inadvertently during a
fracas between him and Mr. Cohen over the latter’s refusal “to sell his cred
with…for $150.”
1883: It was reported
today that when Sir Moses Montefiore celebrated his 99th birthday
two days ago he was hailed as “the most celebrated Hebrew now living England”
and the most celebrated Hebrew of our generation with the exception of Benjamin
Disraeli. “He is more than an ornament to the Jewish race; he is an ornament to
mankind…”
1884: The Montefiore
Centenary as described in a book by Haim Gudella of the same name published in
1885 began today.
1884: Today is the
first of two days during which service are scheduled to “be held in synagogues
all over Europe all over in honor of the centenary” of Moses Montefiore.
1884: It was reported today that “Sir Moses
Montefiore received hundreds of telegrams congratulating him” on reaching his
100th birthday “from all parts of world” including a large number
from the United States.
1884: In Rochester, NY,
Rabbi Max Landsberg and Rev. N.M. Mann of the Unitarian church spoke at Temple
Berith Kodesh during services marking the centennial celebration of the birth
of Sir. Moses Montefiore.
1884: In Rochester, NY,
Etz Chayim Synagogue hosted services marking the centennial celebration of the
birth of Sir. Moses Montefiore during which “E.S. Ettenheimer read a sketch of
Montefiore’s life,” Sarah Rothschild read an original poem and Rabbi Max Moll
delivered a closing oration.
1884: In Petersburg,
VA, “Jews and Gentiles united in celebrating the one hundredth birthday of Sir
Moses Montefiore” at the city’s synagogue where “a special prayer for the long
preservation of the life of the great philanthropist was offered by Rabbi Freudenthal”
after which “a collection was taken up for the poor of the city.”
1884: In Washington,
DC, “the orthodox and liberal congregation held joint exercise” attended by
many Christians, honoring Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: In Cincinnati,
Ohio, “the Hebrew Congregations assembled in the Mound Street Temple this
afternoon to celebrate the birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore” followed by an
evening celebration sponsored “by the Jewish fraternities at the Allemonia
Club..”
1884: In Memphis, TN,
Rabbi Samfield spoke at the services held to honor Sir Moses Montefiore on his
one hundredth birthday.
1884: In Wilkes-Barre,
PA, Rabbi David Stern “delivered an eloquent address” at the centennial
celebration of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: In a second day of
celebration, Baltimore’s Hanover Street Synagogue was the scene of special
ceremonies marking the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Moses
Montefiore.
1884: “An Anglican Bishop For
Jerusalem” published today described the failure of efforts to convert “Jews
and Turks” living in Palestine. The
Church Missionary Society has spent more than £120,000 pounds in the last 33
years and “as can be proven from their own papers” has “never made
1884: “The Czar’s Views of
Justice” published today describes efforts to ameliorate the sentences imposed
on those who took part in the anti-Jewish riots at Novogrod. In what appears to
be the first decision of its kind, the Czar “has at least to some extent taken
sides with the oppressed Jew” by refusing to show any leniency and expressing
his determination “to take measures to prevent these bloody excesses.”
1884: It was reported today that
“the chief rabbi at Naples” has been “rebuked by ultra-orthodox Jews for
shortening the fast on the recent Day of Atonement” as a measure to avoid the
cholera outbreak plaguing the city. The precaution must have been “a good one
since not a single Jews has yet died of the disease. [Editor’s note – Fourteen
thousand peopled died from Cholera in Naples in 1884.]
1884: It was reported today no
Jews have died of cholera at Toulon, but five Jews died of the disease at
Marseilles.
1884: It was reported today that
“the reports of Sarah Bernhardt’s illness have been greatly exaggerated” and
she will be able to perform in Sardou’s new play, “Theodroa” which is opening
at the Porte Saint Martin Theatre.
1884: “Pereira, the Teacher of
Deaf Mutes” published today traced the career of Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, the
Portuguese born Sephardic French Jew whose first student was his sister who was
born with the ability to speak or hear
1884: “Every pew was filled to
over-flowing” and the galleries were completely filled as Temple Emanu-El held
services to mark the one hundredth birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: “Every seat…was occupied at
Shearith Israel, the oldest synagogue in New York, when services honoring Sir
Moses Montefiore began at three o’clock this afternoon.
1884: According to the dedicatory
plaque, on this day “The Israelites of the City of New York” dedicated the Home
for Chronic Invalids in honor of the centennial celebration of the birth of Sir
Moses Montefiore
1885: The Patrick Divver Hebrew
Association of the Sixth Ward held its annual ball today. (Divver who was Irish
Catholic, was a Tammany Hall politician who understood the value of the Jewish
vote)
1886: President M. Warley Platzek
is scheduled to present an outline of the accomplishments of the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association when it meets this evening.
1886: In New York, founding of
the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society of Green point which “meets on the fourth
Tuesday of the month except in July and August.”
1886: Samuel S. Cox, the U.S.
Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire delivered an address to the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association “on the condition of the Hebrews in the Orient.
1887: Three days after he had
passed away, Baron Herman de Stern, the husband of the former Julia Goldsmid,
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1887: Rebecca Wolf, “the youngest
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Wolff of Ridgeville, SC married Aaron
David at his parent’s home in Columbia, SC.
1888: In San Diego, CA, Hannah
Glasser and Abe Spring gave birth to Harvard trained attorney Samuel Spring the
husband of Imogene Morse and member of the Republican Party who moved to Boston
and then to New York where he was general counsel of the First National
Pictures Corporation and a member of the New Rochelle (NY) Temple.
1888: Birthdate of Sokollko
native Herman Max Cohen, who in 1891 came to the United States where he earned
an M.A. from Columbia and was ordained at Jewish Theological Seminary after
which he served as the rabbi of several congregations including Beth Shalom in
Kansas City, MO starting in 1919 where helped the growing congregation to build
and dedicate a new facility with seats for 1,200 which the “Kansas City Star
and Architectural League of Kansas City praised for its beauty and
architectural detail”
1889: It was reported today that
August Belmont has contributed $50,000 to New York City’s World’s Fair Fund and
that Kuhn, Loeb & Co has contributed $60,000 to the same fund.
1889: It was reported today that
that the Order of B’nai B’rith will take part in the upcoming Educational Fair
being sponsored by the Jews of New York City.
1889: It was reported today that
a dinner is going to be held in honor of Sir Julian Goldsmid during his visit
to New York City.
1890:
Rabbi Kaufman Kohler will conduct funeral services this morning for Joseph
Rosenthal the New York merchant born in Bavaria in 1816 who came to the United
States in 1845 where he has operated the dry goods firm of J. Rosenthal &
Co. for the last forty-five years.
1890:
“In the New York Clubs” published today provides a snapshot of the exclusive
private clubs including the five whose members are primarily Jewish --
Harmonie, Progress, Fidelio, Metropolitan and Fredundschatt.
1890:
In Philadelphia, PA, eighteen year old Roman Catholic Annie Eichert married
Morris Stein who was Jewish – a union that Father Henry Dressman would try and
put an end to when he told the family that she had to leave her husband because
of his religion.
1890:
It was reported today that Oscar Hammerstein’s “bold undertaking to establish
grand opera in English permanently in New York City seems destined to succeed.”
1891:
“An Indictment Russia” published today described events in the career of Jewish
businessman Samuel Polyakov as well as their mistreatment at the hands of “the
infamous” Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev.
1892:
The Ladies’ Uptown Aid Society gave $50 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum “in
commemoration of the Columbian anniversary” and presented “a gold medal to
Colonel Martin Cohen the leader of the Military Bond.”
1892:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Charles Levin
of Georgetown, SC and Estell Rothstein.
1892:
“No Belgian Jews Wanted” published today described the demand by the Russian
Government that Belgian passports to be used by those wishing to visit Russia
show their religion which would mean that Belgian Jews will either be denied
admission or “treated to many indignities if they visit Russia.” The Belgians have not responded since failure
to comply will close Russia to Belgian businessmen.
1893:
Birthdate of New York native Samuel Hamilton Kaufman, the NYU School of Law
graduate and “a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York” who presided over “the first trial of Alger Hiss for
perjury.
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1383091
1894:
Plans were announced for the upcoming meeting of the United Hebrew Charities in
New York City.
1894:
According to a list published today, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum received $79,000
from the Board of Estimates and Apportionment in 1894 and is asking for $80,000
in 1895 while the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York Orphan Asylum
received $82,000 in 1894 and is asking for $85,000 in 1895.
1894:
In Newark, NJ, “a double force” of policemen under the command of Captain
Bergen are standing guard at the non-union hat factory of J.L. Kreidel which
has been surrounded by “a mob” of angry Polish and Russian Jewish “hatters” who
have been fired by Kreidel’s nephew.
1894:
Count George Leo of Caprivi who defended the Jews against the attacks of the
Anti-Semites led by, among other Herr Zimmerman, completed his service as
Chancellor of Germany.
1897(30th
of Tishrei, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1897(30th
of Tishrei, 5658): Forty-nine year old Rachel Nelson, the wife of Barnet Nelson
and the daughter of Mrs. Isaac Bernstein passed away today in London.
1898:A Zionist Delegation led
by Theodor Herzl arrives in the port of Yaffo (Jaffa). They visit Mikveh
1898:
Wisconsin native Louis C. Wolf was promoted to the rank of 1st
Lieutenant today.
1898: After visiting Nes
Zionah, Rehovot and Herzl returns to Yaffo where he met with Reverend William
Hechler. William Hechler formed a
committee of Christian Zionists to help move Russian Jewish refugees to
1899: In Cincinnati,
Alexander T. “Alex” Pappenheimer, the son of Marie and Leopold Pappenheimer and
his wife Pauline Pappenheimer gave birth to Louis Pappenheimer the husband of
Margaret Camille Pappenheimer.
1900: In Hellenthal,
Germany, Bernhard Rothschild, the German born so of Sibilla Rothschild and his
wife Henreitte gave birth to Martin Rothschild
1901(13th of
Cheshvan, 5662): Lech-Lecha read for the first time during the Presidency of
Teddy Roosevelt.
1902: Feminist,
Suffragette and Social Activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton passed away. She helped
to create The Women’s Bible “a collection of essays by a committee of women
intellectuals on passages of the Judeo-Christian scriptures that discuss women.”
“Stanton and her contributors highlighted and heightened the role of the women”
putting “particular emphasis on Miriam’s role in the quest for Jewish freedom,
for instance” and “the important work of Deborah the judge.” At the same time
she wrote, “We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals
inculcated in the Pentateuch.... I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and
degradation of woman.”
1902: It was reported
today that “The Russian Minister of Finance has forbidden” the buying and
selling of “shares of the Jewish Colonial Trust” one of whose purposes is to
“purchase land in Palestine.”
1903: Twenty-three year
old Laura Hirschfeld, the daughter of Leopold Hirschfeld and Pauline
Heilbronner married Siegfried Kurz and became Laura Kurz, the mother of Rudolph
Kurz and a victim of the Nazis when died in the Riga Ghetto after being
deported there in 1941.
1904: Birthdate of New
York City native Harvey Schwamm who pursued a career in “banking and finance”
and served as president of the American Trust Company while raised two children
with his wife, the former Lillian Tverskoi” whom he married in 1924.
1904: “The Russian
State’s Attorney is practically making the victims of the massacre at Gomel in
the trial resulting from that massacre” which had begun on October 24 by
claiming that the Christians rioters had been intimated by Jews who had taken
self-defense measures following the Kishineff massacre.
1905; Norway becomes
independent from Sweden. According to the census conducted at the turn of the
century, there were 642 Jewish residents in a population totaling just over 2
million. In 1814, when control of Norway shifted from Denmark to Sweden, the
Norwegians adopted “The Constitution of 1814 that contained “The Jew Clause” in
the Constitution of 1814 which stated, "No person of the Jewish creed may
enter Norway, far less settle down there".
The clause was repealed in 1851 which opened a trickle of Jewish
immigration to
1905: In Melsungen,
Hessen, Germany, Flora and Isaac Alfred Speier gave birth to Leo Speyer who was
murdered at Auschwitz.
1906: Antoine Louis
Targe who helped to clear Captain Dreyfus began serving as the Private
Secretary to fellow Dreyfusard George Picquart.
1907(18th of
Cheshvan, 5668): Parashat Vayera
1907(18th of
Cheshvan, 5668): Fifty-year-old August Weil, the Bavarian born son Therese and
Jacob Weil, the husband of Emma “Anna” Weil the father of famed soprano Glady
Axman and the father-in-la of Clarence Axman
passed away today in Boston.
1907: Twenty-two people
were convicted today “for fomenting the pogrom at Nicolaief in October, 1903, a
crime for which they were later pardoned.
1907: The Tennessee
Volunteers coached by Izzy Levene continued their winning ways today defeating
Maryville College bringing their record to 4 and 1.
1908(1st of
Cheshvan 5669) Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1908: It was reported
today that Rabbi S. Stephen Wise had asserted in his Sunday sermon that “a
Jewish organization is not needed to maintain Jewish rights” because “we have
no especial Jewish rights to safeguard and to conserve” and only “insist that there
be no violation of the American spirit of fair play and justice.
1908: At political
rally in Brooklyn, William H. Taft, the Republican Party candidate for
President, took issue with Samuel Gomper’s assertion that he will deliver the
vote of labor for William Jennings Bryan.
1909:The
new ballroom of the Hotel Astor is the scene of an event celebrating the 25th
anniversary of the founding of the Montefiore Home Gifts aggregating $101,500
were announced tonight as the birthday presents to the Montifore Home where .
B.J. Greenhut, announces that gifts totaling $101,500 have been donated to
support the institution. Greenhut, Chairman of the committee sponsoring the
event, said that although he had not been authorized to make public the amount
of the gifts and the names of the generous friends, he felt the occasion
demanded it. The audience broke into applause when it was announced that J.H.
Schiff had donated $50,000 to this worthy cause.
1910(23rd of
Tishrei, 5671): Simchat Torah
1910: The sanity
hearing for Anna Volinsky, who had had told Directors of the Montefiore Home
that Mandel Kaufman had illegally been receiving “one half of the contributions
of new patrons of the home and one quarter of the dues she had collected from
old subscribers” was scheduled to continue today.
1911: Birthdate of Minneapolis native Sidney ‘Sid”
Gillman the Ohio State University football player who went to a successful
college and NFL coaching career.
1911: The Daily News
reported that the Orthodox Jews in Batavia, NY “purchased a house at 232
Liberty Street to use as a synagogue.
1911:By
an order of the Governor all Jews in the
1912: As a result of
the First Balkan War,
1912: Birthdate of movie director Don Siegel, the
native of Chicago who directed Clint Eastwood in several of his finest films.
1913: During the First
Balkan War, Bulgarian forces begin bombarding the city of Adrianople in what
will become the Siege of Adrianople which would last until March of 1914. Three thousand of the city’s Jews sought
shelter in the local schools while another 9,200 were left with no place to go.
1913: Louis Marshall
denied tonight that he would have any involvement Governor William Sulzer’s
planned appeal of the decision of the High Court of Impeachment. Marshall, a
prominent lawyer and leader of the Jewish Community, had reluctantly agree to
represent the embattled governor.
1913: Rabbi Rudolph I.
Coffee expressed his displeasure over the support that many New York rabbis had
given to Governor Sulzer during his recent impeachment trial. Coffee felt that their involvement in this
partisan political issue compromised their roles as spiritual leaders of the
Jewish people especially when one considers the sleazy nature of the Tammany
and anti-Tammany forces. Coffee, the
rabbi at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, has been visiting the city
during the trial. He ended his comments by saying that “these Rabbis have hurt
their religion and they certainly do not each nor practice its ideals.”
1913: Temple Sinai
(First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland) broke ground at 28th and
Webster on its new building which was completed in 1914.
1914: Twenty four year
old Louis Weinstein “a British subject from Cape Town” arrived in New York
today aboard the SS Voltaire “without funds” which resulted in him becoming a
charge of the HIAS.
1914: “Brandeis Speaks
on Zionism” published today described a speech by the Boston lawyer who said
that Zionist movement “must be considered by the Jews of American not only from
the point of view of their own platform but from that of the needs born of the
war” which meant that Palestine could a welcome refuge to the Jews of Eastern
Europe “relieving in part the inevitable heavy immigration that otherwise must
flow from the devastated battlefield countries to the United States.”
1915: The R.II “a large
three-bay biplane” which was a prototype bomber built by Siemens, “a leading
corporate participant in Hitler’s “death through work program;” with slave
labor factories at the following death camps: Auschwitz, Buchenwald,
Flossenberg, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Ravensbruck, &
Sachsenhausen” was flown for the first time today.
1916: After reading the
report of his Adjutant General that while there while statements had been that
Christians were preferred as members of the National Guard and some of those
connected with recruitment had admitted to “a distinct bias against Jewish
applicants” “the evidence does not show a general prevalence of discrimination”
when it comes to recruiting Jewish members of the National Guard, Government Whitman issued
additional orders stating that “no applicant shall be rejected on account of
his race or religion” and that “it shall be the duty of officers charged with
making enlistments to see that their subordinates are free from such bias or
prejudice…”
1916: In New York City,
Hipolit and Anna Firko gave birth to Vivian Firko who gained fame as the
Clarence Derwent Award winning actress Vivian Nathan, the wife of Nathan
Schwalb.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=VIVIAN-NATHAN&pid=174591991
1916: “Maurice Simmons,
Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Good Name of Immigrant
Peoples released a statement in answer to the findings of Adjutant General
Louis W. Stotesbury that Jews are not discriminated against” when trying to
enlist in the National Guard that took issue with the outcome because the
complaint was not that there was a “general prevalence of discrimination
against Jews” but that the prejudice “existed in certain units.”
1916: Ten days after
the Brownsville Clinic opened Fania Mindell was among those arrested by
undercover agents because they are providing education about, and distributing,
birth control materials.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/26/1916/fania-mindell-arrested-for-distributing-birth-control-material
1917(10th of
Cheshvan, 5678): J.H. Valentine, the
rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Manchester who
preferred to be called “Reverend” and who was tireless worker for the
Anglicization of Jewish immigrants from Russia as can be seen by his statement
“The Manchester Working Men’s Club” would not be a “place for dry sermons and
must history” but would instead “raise the tone of our poor brethren by
instilling into them habits of industry, thrift, education them in the language
and customs of the country whiter they come have come to seek an asylum” passed
away today in Manchester.
1917: In England, The Times“published a leading article
attacking” the government for its repeated delays in issuing a statement
support the Zionist cause. Ironically, the delay was caused, in part, by the
concern among some English Jews that support for Zionism would call into question
their loyalty to the Crown.
1917: In Kostroma, “The
Black Hundreds accused Jews of speculation” which was the justification for the
looting of Jewish shops by those looking for food.
1917: In Poltava and
Oryol, the militia and other “local organizations” put down attacks on Jews
accused of speculating that raised the cost of food.
1917(10th of
Cheshvan, 5678): Eight Jews were killed and another twenty were wounded “in an
outbreak of anti-Jewish violence” at Pereyaslav.
1918(20th of
Cheshvan, 5679): Parashat Vayera
1918(20th of
Cheshvan, 5679: Today during WW I, 23 year old Sergeant William Sawelson, a Sergeant, Company M, 312th Infantry, 78th
Division, AEF, United States Army “upon his own initiative, left shelter,
crawled through heavy machine gun fire to aid a wounded man, gave him what water
he had in his own canteen and went back to the shell hole in which he had been
lying, obtained more water and was killed by a machine gun bullet while
returning to aid is wounded comrade. (Editor’s Note – he was posthumously awarded
“the Medal of Honor for valor in combat.)
https://nmajmh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hall-of-heroes/world-war-i/william-sawelson/
1919: In Philadelphia,
Solomon and Dora (Levin) Pressman gave birth to Jacob “Jack” Pressman the
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Jewish Theological Seminary
who “served as the rabbi of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles for 35 years and who
was “a co-founder of the American Jewish University in Bel-Air
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-rabbi-jacob-pressman-dies-at-95-20151005-story.html
1920: It was reported
today that Professor Chaim Weizmann has “said the Zionist executive body was
negotiating with the British Government for the acquisition of some state
ground in Palestine and had plans for the cultivation of vast areas of soil which
were at present barren wastes.”
1921: “The Wandering
Jew,” a play “based on the ancient legend of the Wandering Jew” produced by
David Belasco and A.L. Erlanger opened tonight at the Knickerbocker Theatre.
1922: Judge Bernard A.
Rosenblatt, the accredited representative for Tel Aviv in the United States
announced that “Harvey Fisk & Sons, Inc have been appointed commercial and
fiscal agency in the United States for Tel Aviv, the modern section of Jaffa
which is the principal port of Palestine.”
The announcement is important to commercial interests in the United
States since Jaffa has become the principal port in Asia Minor following the
destruction of Smyrna.
1923(16th of
Cheshvan, 5684): Rabi A.L. Zachs passed away today in Brooklyn.
1923: As the Klan grew
stronger and more violent as could be seen by blind-fold whipping administered
to Philip Rothblum in March of 1922, a headline in today’s Dallas News reported
that “Klan Day at the Fair: Great Throngs Participate in Colorful Klan Initiation
at the Fair Park”
1924: The Federation
for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies is scheduled to begin a
campaign today to raise $1,250,000 which is part of “the drive to defray the
deficit on a $3,645,000 budged used for the maintenance of 91 philanthropic
institutions” in New York City.
1925: “Lax conduct and
immodest dressing of women were denounced today at the final session of the
Union of Jewish Orthodox Congregations at the Jewish Centre, 131 West
Eighty-fifth Street, when adopted a resolution urging Jewish women to abide by
their religious code and while attending synagogue "to be attired in such
manner as not to conflict with the holiness of the place."
1926(18th of
Cheshvan, 5687): Henrietta Pollak Sittler, the Ohio born daughter of William
and Marie Lederer Pollak, the wife of Sittler and the mother of Idella Sittler
Farber passed away today after which she was buried in the Mayfield Cemetery in
Cleveland Heights, OH.
1926:In Paris, France, the
trial of Sholom Schwartzbard comes to an end.A jury of 12 petit-bourgeois Parisians
acquitted the Ukrainian-born Jewish immigrant and anarchist of the charge of
murder for shooting to death former Ukrainian president Symon Petliura.
1926: Birthdate of
Shoredtich (section of East End, London) native Lou Meyers who served with the
Royal Marines during WW II, Machel in Iserael from 1948 to 1950 and in Korea
from 1950 to 1952.
1927(30th of
Tishrei, 5688): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1927(30th of
Tishrei, 5688): Seventy-seven year old Frederick de Sola Medndes, the Jamaican
born son of of Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes, grandson of Rabbi David Aaron de
Sola, great-grandson of Haham Raphael Meldola and brother of Rabbi Henry
Pereira Mendes who served as the Rabbi at New York’s West End Synagogue for
over forty years after having begun his career at the Great St. Helen’s
Synagogue in London, passed away today.
https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/frederick-de-sola-mendes
1928: “Suzy Saxophone”
a French-German silent film featuring Herman Picha and filmed by
cinematographer Otto Heller was released today.
1929(22nd of
Tishrei, 5690): Shimini Atzeret and Shabbat
1929(22nd of
Tishrei, 5690): Sixty-three year old Abraham Mortiz “Aby” Warburg, a member of
the famed German banking family who turned his back on the family business and
alternate plans to enter the rabbinate to become a leader in the field of art
history passed away today in his home town of Hambrug.
https://jewish-history-online.net/article/levine-obituary-aby-warburg
https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/bku/20867100.html
1930(4th of Cheshvan,
5691): Ninety year old Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine the Russian born
bacteriologist who developed “vaccines used against cholera and bubonic plague”
and who not only refused to convert to advance his career but was active in
Jewish affairs, passed away today.
http://www.asm.org/ccLibraryFiles/FILENAME/0000000248/530787p366.pdf
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa/LIF_SCI_Haffkine.asp
1931: In Manhattan,
Romanian Jewish immigrants gave birth to their second child Larry Lieber, the
“American comic book artist and writer” who was nine years younger than his
brother “Stanley Martin Lieber, later best known as Marvel Comics editor and
impresario Stan Lee.”
1931(15th of
Cheshvan, 5692): Sixty-nine year old George Washington Ochs-Oaks the son of
Bertha and Julius Ochs a member of the Ochs family of New York Times whose
varied career included serving as newspaper reporter, a member of the New York
National Guard during WW I and may of Chattanooga, TN passed away today.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=22878
1932:The Canada Dry Program,
starring Jack Benny was broadcast for the last time on the NBC Blue Network
1932: “Scampolo,” a
comedy film produced by Lothat Stark who would be forced to seek refuge in
Copenhagen when the Nazis come to power, with a script by Max Kolpe, Felix
Salten and Billy Wilder and music by Artur Guttman and Franz Waxman was
released today in Germany by Bavaria Film.
1933: While “both the
Arab Executive and the polices are completing arrangements for tomorrow’s mass
protest “ against Jewish immigration “the district commissioner of Jaffa and
Jerusalem warned newspaper editors today against agitation or issuing special
editions, threatening to invoke the press laws against all transgressors.”
1934: It was reported
today that Senator Byrd has “asked President Roosevelt today to use his
influence to "correct the condition" at Old Point Comfort, Va., where
the Hotel New Chamberlin, situated on a Federal reservation, was reported as
advertising that Jews were not welcomed as guests.”
1934: It was reported
today that “Senator Glass has dispatched a telegram to Rabbi Louis D. Mendoza
of Norfolk who had protested to both Senators and to Federal officials
regarding the” advertising policy of the Hotel New Chamberlin which proclaims
that Jews are not welcomed saying that he thinks it is “an outraged for any
institution enjoying government privileges to discriminate against any
religious sect.”
1934: Featherweight
Harry Blitman fought his 77th and final bout today in Philadelphia,
1935(29th of
Tishrei, 5696): Parashat Bereshit
1935(29th of
Tishrei, 5696): Seventy-five-year-old
magazine editor and author of Under the Russian and British Flags Jackoff
Prelooker, the Pinsk born son of Moshe Chaim Prelooker, the husband of Ethel
Eliza Prelooker with whom he had two children, Miriam and Eleanor passed away
today in Hastings, East Sussex, England.
https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Under-Russian-British-flags-story-true/8770341756/bd
1935: In Berlin, “the
Propaganda Ministry said today that all Jewish names would be eliminated from
future war memorials but that those already erected would not be touched.
1935: The body of gangster
Arthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer whose wife was Catholic and whose mother
Mrs. Emma Neu Flegenheimer is an Orthodox Jew remained unclaimed today.
1936: Birthdate of
Deborah Tobias Portiz, the Brooklyn native who was the first woman to serve as
the Attorney General of New Jersey and the first Chief Justice of the New
Jersey Supreme Court.
1936: The Church of
England issued its “first pronouncement on the agitation by Sir Oswald Mosley’s
Fascist movement” today “branding the recent East End disturbances as
‘monstrous’” while the London Diocesan Conference adopted a resolution “urging
Christians not to tolerate anti-Semitisms.”
1936: As part of the
efforts of the Nazi regime’s “efforts to enforce its discriminator laws against
Jews in other countries as well as in Germany,” “The Juridical Weekly”
announced that the foreign department of the National Socialist Association
“has established a world register of ‘Aryan’ lawyers abroad” who “are fitted to
represent German interests abroad” while issuing a warning to “all Germans
against employing Jewish lawyers in other countries.
1937: Alexander Korda,
British film producer, arrived in New York today on the French liner-Ile de
France so he could continue negotiations for the purchase of control of the
United Artists Distributing Corporation.
1938: “The Gestapo was
ordered to arrest and deport all Polish Jews living in Germany immediately
resulting in the arrest of 12,000 Polish Jews who were “stripped of their
property and herded aboard trains headed for Poland.”
1939: The Nazis
prohibited Sh'chita in
1939: The Nazis
abolished its military government in
1939: The
Labor Department of the Generalgouvernement of Occupied Poland issues
the Arbeitspflicht (Work obligation) decree, which makes slave labor
mandatory for all Polish men and women over the age of 14 and under age 60.
1939: Birthdate of
University of Iowa Economics Professor Michael Balch.
http://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item74
1939:
Following a plan devised by Adolf Eichmann, the Nazis deport and
"resettle" some 78,000 Jews to a "reservation" located in
the Lublin-Nisko region of southeast Poland in a three and half month period
ending in the middle of February, 1940.
The project is temporarily suspended when rolling rail stock is needed
for German military campaigns against the
1940(24th of
Tishrei, 5701): Parashat Bereshit
1940: Five hundreds
Jewish refugees, “including 124 women and nine children” whose Bulgarian
steamer Pentcho foundered on rocks in the Aegean Sea yesterday, are still being
sheltered on Italian islands after the Rumanian, Turkish and Greek authorities
refused to grant them permission to land.
1940: It was announced
today that Lt. Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, the commander of Britain’s Middle
East Forces, “who commanded troops in Palestine in 1937” has been promoted to
the rank of “full general.”
1941: “The Hebrew
Principals Association observed its 30th anniversary” tonight “with
a dinner at the Hotel Newton” which “honored Israel Konovitz, retiring
president and Harry Handler, vice president” who were founders of the
association.
1941(5th of
Cheshvan, 5702): Fifty-two-year-old Pittsburgh native and University of
Michigan trained lawyer Nathan Jacobs Gould, the editor and president of The
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle passed away today in Milwaukee.
1941: After the Odessa
Action which started on October 23 and ended on October 25 leaving 20,000
murdered Jews, another 10,000 more were sent to various concentration camps
from that City.
1941:
Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, the Archbishop of Paris “addressed a
dispatch to Hitler” in an attempt “to save hostages in Nantes and Châteaubriant.
1941: Germans inform Jews of Kalisz, Poland,
that elderly Jews in convalescent homes are to be moved to another home the
next day
1942:
Nineteen year old warehouse worker Simon Levinson was arrested today in Oslo, a
month before he was deported on the Donau which took him Auschwitz where he was
murdered in 1943
1942:
Birthdate of The Rev. Lawrence Boadt, a Roman Catholic priest, publisher and
Bible scholar who used his study of the Old Testament as a vehicle for
promoting understanding between Christians and Jews,
1942: In
1943: At the Janowska
camp in
1943: Seventy-nine year
old Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the Budapest born Jew who became a Lutheran to
advance his career as an archaeologist passed away today in Kabul while on the
last of his many expeditions to Central Asia.
1943: Three
thousand Jews are deported from Kovno, Lithuania, to the slave-labor camp at
Klooga, Estonia.
1944(9th of
Cheshvan, 5705): Sixty-five-year old Russian born Jersey City, NJ tobacco
dealer, the husband of Sarah Jacobs and the father of Maurice, Allen, Samuel
and Charles suffered a fatal heart attack today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/10/27/86733347.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1944: It was reported
today that Harry Goodwin, managing editor and part owner of The Bronx Home News
has been “selected as the outstanding citizen of the Bronx for 1944.”
1944: “Ira Hisrchman,
the department store executive and philanthropist who recently returned from
turkey where he was a representative of the War Refugee Board declared” tonight
at a dinner of the Metropolitan Zionist Fund in the Waldorf-Astoria that “it
was only through the intercession of the United States Government that the
rescue of thousands of Jews from the Balkans was effected.
1945: “Fallen Angel”
directed and produced by Otto Preminger and with music by David Raskin was
released in the United States today.
1946(1st of
Cheshvan, 5707): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1946: Kurt
Daluege, former SS-Obergruppenführer and deputy Reichsprotektor
of
1946: “A Jewish agency
spokesman said today the inner Zionist Council would call on Palestine Jews…to
take certain specified measures in cooperation with the Government against the
use of violence…” The move was part of bargain to gain the release of 700 Jews
who have been held by the British without charges or trial since last
June. Among those who would be released
is Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department.” The deal would also allow Moshe Sneh head of
the Haganah and David Ben-Gurion to return to Palestine from France where they
have endured a self-imposed exile in an attempt to avoid imprisonment by the
British.
1946: Holocaust
survivor and future French political leader Simone Annie Liline Jacob became
Simone Veil when she married Antoine Veil whom she met while study law at the
University of Paris.
1947: In Washington, DC
dedication of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial which “commemorates the
accomplishments” of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce and
Labor and “the first Jew to serve in the cabinet of a U.S President.”
1947: The British ended
their occupation of Iraq. The British
departure made it possible for the Arab population to move against the Jews of
Iraq. The situation would only grow
worse once the Israelis defeated the Arab Armies, including the Iraqis the
following year. However, the violence
against the Jews began before the UN partition and before there was a state
1947: Arabian King Ibn
Saud warned President Harry Truman that American support of partition of
1947:The day before the
Hollywood 10 began testifying, the anti-HUAC celebrities aired the first of a
two-part national broadcast called "Hollywood Fights Back!,"
co-written by Norman Corwin and Robert Presnell Jr., and featuring Garland,
Kelly, Bacall, "Bogie," Robinson, Lancaster, Henreid, John Beal and
William Holden. HUAC’s investigation into the Communist influence in the film
business was tainted in many ways including a predilection for anti-Semitism.
1948(23rd of
Tishrei, 5709): Simchat Torah
1948(23rd of
Tishrei, 5709: Shumel Aharon Fumkin, the son of Leib Fumkin and Sheina Hodess
and father of Haim Yakov Frumkin, passed away today on London.
1948: “The Return of
October” a comedy directed by Joseph H. Lewis and script co-authored by Melvin
Frank was released in the United States today.
1948: Today, “in a
public ceremony at naval headquarters in Haifa Prime Minister David Ben Gurion
appointed Kvarnit Shulman to the postial of commander in chief of the Israeli
Naval Service” which meant that the twenty-six and half year old former U.S. Navy
Lieutenant “could not assume the title of Aluf or admiral.”
1949: “The Conference
on the Church and the Jewish People called on Protestant churches today to
denounce anti-Semitism, and recommended that Jews be included in evangelistic
work of Christian missions and parishes.”
1949: “Abe Stark,
Republican-Liberal-City Fusion candidate for Borough President of Brooklyn,
charged today that his Democratic opponent, Borough President John Cashmore,
had injected the religious issue into the Brooklyn campaign and was seeking to
ride back into office on "the coat tails" of former Gov. Herbert H.
Lehman, Democratic-Liberal candidate for United States Senator.
1949: Today, Eliahu
Elath, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, presented “an Ark of Silver
and copper” to President Truman which will the Torah that President Chaim
Weizman had presented to his American
counterpart when he was in the United States last May.
1950: Sixty-one year
old Miguel Mariano Gómez who as President of Cuba in 1936 negotiated with
Congressman William I Sirovich about the possibility of “Cuba opening her doors
to at least 100,000 persecuted German Jews” passed away today.
1951: “The Blue Veil” a
dramatic film directed by Curtis Bernhardt with a screenplay by Norman Corwin
and music by Franz Waxman which had premiered in September was released in the
United States today by RKO.
1951:Emanuel “Manny”
Shinwell, Baron Shinwell completed his service Minister of Defense when the
Labor Party was defeated in the “snap election” of 1951.
1951: Winston Churchill
“became Prime Minister for the second time.” Chaim Weizmann, the first
President of Israel, sends a message of genuine congratulations. In his reply, Churchill refers to the Zionist
leader as “my old friend.”
1951: Esta Greenberg
and Jack Schnabel gave birth to American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel
in Brooklyn. He grew up in Brownsville,
Texas. Such a culture clash must have
had an effect on his artistic creativity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schnabel
1954(29th of
Tishrei, 5715): Eighty-eight year old Jennie Wallenstein Kohnstamm the oldest
child of Esther Hellman Wallenstein, the founding president of the Hebrew
Infant Asylum, passed away today.
1955: The last American
occupation troops left Austria and Austria enacts laws of proclaiming permanent
neutrality. The American occupation had
been a rather benign affair since the Austrians had been declared the first
victim of Nazi aggression rather than a willing partner of the Third
Reich. Considering the number of
Austrian Nazis, the number of Austrians who served in with the German military
and the zeal with Austrian Nazis attacked and helped to exterminate the Jewish
population, this was a total misreading of the situation.
1955(10th of
Cheshvan, 5716): Seventy-eight-year-old Joseph Ottenberg, the Washington, DC
born son of Regina and Isaac Ottenberg, the husband of Fannie Ottenberg and the
father of Dr. Gilbert and Melvin Ottenberg passed away today in his hometown,
1955(10th of
Cheshvan, 5716):“An
Egyptian raid today against the small Israeli post at Be'erotaim resulted in
the killing of one Israeli soldier and the capture of two others
1955: “A large force of
Egyptian soldiers reinforced with artillery, armor and anti-aircraft cannon,
took up positions on both sides of the demilitarized zone near Sabcha and
Ras-Siram” with “elements of the Egyptian force penetrating one kilometer into
Israeli territory and entrenching themselves near a strategic hill, code-named
“Lilly” by the Israelis.”
1956: “The Opposite
Sex” a romantic comedy produced by Joe Pasternak, with a screenplay by Fay and
Michael Kanin and music by Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn, Ralph and George
Stoll was released in the United States today.
1956: “The Brave One”
directed by Irving Rapper and produced by Frank King who risked a lot by
allowing one of those on the Blacklist to write the script was released today
in the United States.
1956: “The 202nd
Paratroopers Brigade, under the command of Ariel Sharon, is assigned to drop a
paratroopers regiment in the Mitla Pass in Sinai and to lead the rest of the
brigade forces via land to the landing zone in the Mitla Pass. Sharon is not
aware that the task of his brigade is chiefly to deceive the Egyptian army (so
it would seem as though IDF is carrying out a limited scope type of action) and
to supply the pretext for the involvement of Britain and France.”
1957(1st of Cheshvan,
5718): Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, the first
Jewish-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology
passed away today at the age of 61. An
internationally known biochemist she and her husband Dr. Carl F. Cori and Dr.
B.A. Houssay shared the 1947 Nobel Prize.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10913F63F5511708DDDAE0A94D8415B8789F1D3
1958: Sixty-five year
old architect László Hudec Hungary’s honorary consul in Shanghai during WW II
who helped Jewish refugees from Europe by issuing them passports to ravel
safely to Canada and the United States passed away today.
1959: “Burning Bright”
produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein was broadcast today as “The Play
of the Week.”
1959: Dr. Arthur Kornberg is awarded the Nobel
Prize Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in
the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (
1960:
“The 49th Cousin” starring Menasha Skulnik as “Isaac,” Marian
Winters as “Tracy Lowe” and Eli Mintz as “Simon Lowe” opened on Broadway at the
Ambassador Theatre.
1961:In
Adams, Mass, “Morton Schiff, the president of Schiff Clothing, a store founded
by Schiff's great-grandfather in 1897, and Ellen Schiff, a professor of French
literature at North Adams State college” gave birth to Williams College
educated Pulitzer Prize winning author Stacy Madeleine Schiff.
1962:
Today, Hal “Prince married Judy Chaplin, daughter of composer and musical
director Saul Chaplin, and the mother of Daisy Prince, a director, and Charles Prince,
a conductor.
1963(8th
of Cheshvan, 5724): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1963:
“The New York Board of Rabbis has asked its 800 members in the metropolitan
area to pay special tribute in their sermons today to the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York.”
1965:
“The first Broadway performance of” Peter Shaffer’s “The Royal Hunt of the Sun”
“took place at the ANTA Playhouse.”
1966(12th
of Cheshvan, 5727): WW II Navy veteran and land developer Norman Lazarus, the
lifelong Bayonne, NJ resident and President of the Mercury Construction Company
who was the husband of Sylvia Grozansky Lazarus and the father of Mark, Steven
and Michael Lazarus passed away today.
1967:
“Wait Until Dark” a thriller starring Alan Arkin “as a violent criminal
searching for drugs” was released in the United States by Warner Brothers-Seven
Arts.
1967:
A production of Lillian Hellman’s “Little Foxes” directed by “Mike Nichols, a
third cousin twice removed of scientist Albert Einstein, through Nichols'
mother” opened today “at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center.”
1970(26th
of Tishrei, 5731): Sixty-nine year old Kiev native Louis “Kid” Kaplan the
resident of Connecticut who also fought under the name of Benny Miller and “was
the world featherweight champion in 1925 and 1926 passed away today.
1970:
Sixty year old Louis Mundheim Gerstenfeld, the widow of Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld,
the powerhouse Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/28/archives/mrs-gerstenfeld-rabbis-widow-64.html
1972: Dutifully playing his part
to ensure the re-election of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at
hand" in Vietnam. The November
elections would come and go and the war would drag on.
1972: Birthdate of Iowa
City native Jessica Sharzer, the multi-talented film creator who was awarded
The Horror Writers Association Bram Stocker Award for Superior Achievement in a
Screenplay in 2011.
1973(30th of
Tishrei, 5734): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1973: Fire broke out in
a store in Malverne, NY owned by Arthur Shilkret, the son of Nathaniel Shlkret,
the creator the Genesis Suite.
1973: In violation of
the ceasefire agreement, the Egyptian Third Army attempted to breakthrough
surrounding Israeli; an attempt that was thwarted by the IDF and the IAF.
1973: West German authorities arrested 4 Arabs
armed with explosives.
1974: “Israel and the
River Plate,” published today, C. L. Sulzberger writes from Herzliya that “it
would probably astonish most people to know that
1975:A Talk With Amos
Oz,” by Hebert Mitgang published today provides interesting insights into the
life and thoughts of one Israel’s most prominent authors:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/26/home/oz-interview.html
Amos Oz sits in a small
studio on Jerusalem's Mt. Scopus and writes; shares his thoughts on Chekhov and
Kafka in the summer with a group of Hebrew University students; returns home on
the weekend to his wife and two daughters at Kibbutz Hulda; pulls guard duty or
waits on tables or picks oranges for hours under the sun. Although only in his
mid-30's, Oz remembers the sounds of World War II, of the 1948 War of
Independence, and of the recent wars in which he has participated as solder or
reservist. He compares this to living through his country's American Revolution
and Civil War. With a tank unit on the Golan Heights a few years ago, Oz saw an
imaginative idea executed to confuse Syrian intelligence. Instead of revealing
locations by names and numbers, a soldier familiar with the world before Hitler
designated positions after long-forgotten and destroyed shtetls in Poland. It
was an unbreakable code that might have been conceived by Isaac Bashevis Singer
and fantasized by Chagall. Oz is the only major novelist in Israel who lives on
a kibbutz. For a number of years, he wrote in the hours before sunrise after a
long day of teaching and working the land. Since the publication of his
novels--"Elsewhere, Perhaps,""My Michael" and "Touch
the Water, Touch the Wind"--the kibbutz has given him greater time off for
writing. "I have the liberty to write, or not to write. My position on the
kibbutz is the same as a carpenter or cobbler. In the beginning it was
considered a little awkward why my books began to make money. But when I get a
royalty check, I just endorse it and turn it over to the kibbutz treasurer. On
the other hand, I don't have live on advances, I don't fill out income tax
forms, I have no mortgage, I don't have to write book reviews or lecture, and
the only essays I do are for rage. My compensation is time--if I want to shut
myself up or go off for a while, I can. It means a very modest standard of
living, but I much prefer this life to existence in a literary aquarium.
"Kibbutz Hulda is a place where the elements are visible, it grows dark,
there are sunsets. When I was younger, I could hear the howling of jackals.
This can be a rather savage country and, of course, there is a basic Israeli
sense of danger, an emotional sense of siege. The kibbutz life is quiet but the
material of fiction is here. You can listen to two elderly women talking of the
old country in East Europe and you can also hear of elegant life in
Vienna--there are nineteen different countries, including the United States,
and nineteen different languages represented on our kibbutz." Yet it is
not an insulated life, culturally or socially. Oz is very much aware of
trans-Atlantic writers and writing. As he chain-smokes Europa cigarettes, he
talks of John Donne and Allen Ginsberg, of Gogol and of his great respect for
the late S. Y. Agnon, Israel's Nobel laureate in literature. Melville is still
his favorite in English, he has read much of Faulkner, and he admires Sherwood
Anderson. "With the exception of Saul Bellow," he says, "I'm not
terribly happy with the Jewish- American novelists. The others are too wise,
their characters exchange punchlines instead of talking to each other, and
their books are just clever sociology. They don't have the echo of the
universe; you don't see the stars in their writing." His books have been
somewhat better received in the United States than in Israel, where criticism
is partly literary and partly political. And yet there is one major difference.
Oz was recently advanced from staff sergeant to second lieutenant and now leads
a little reserve unit that includes two lawyers, a painter, a group of
kibbutzniks, and a literary critic. His blue-green eyes twinkling, Oz says,
"It does give me a kind of pleasure to be in command of someone who
criticizes my books."
1975:
As Arab states seek to recoup their losses from the Yom Kippur War, the Syrian
Minister of Defense arrived in Budapest today.
1976:
Yorkshire Television broadcast “Success” the fifth episode of “Dickens of
London” with music by Monty Norman.
1978(25th of Tishrei,
5739):Alexander
Gerschenkron a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor at
Harvard who was trained in the Austrian School of economics passed away. He is
the grandfather of author Nicholas Dawidoff
1978(25th of
Tishrei, 5739): Eighty-one year old William Jacob Mack, Sr. the son of Lydia
and Millard William Mack, who was married to Henritte L. Segal before marrying
Grace Bernice Mack passed away today in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.
1979: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held at “The Riverside” for Jessie Itkin, the widow of
David Itkin and the mother of Ruth Kohlenberg and Lenore Rosenbaum.
1979: Funeral services
are scheduled to at Schwartz Brothers for Arthur Moskowitz, the husband of
Alice Moskowitz, the brother of the later Charles Moskowita and the father of
Louis Moskowitz who was a member of Temple Isaiah of Forest Hills, a supporter
of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center and a founder of the
Moskowitz Memorial Lecture Series at NYU.
1979: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held today at Sherman’s Flatbush Memorial for retired U.S
Army First Lieutenant, Morris Michaels, the husband the late Rose Michaels and
the father of Gloria Weinstein.
1984: Birthdate of
Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen.
1984: “Firstborn” a
drama that marked the film debut of Corey Haim and co-starring Sarah Jessica
Parker was released in the United States today.
1984: “Body Double” a
mystery movie featuring Al Israel with a script by Robert J. Avrech, a graduate
of Brooklyn’s Yeshiva of Flatbush was released today in the United States
today.
1986(23rd of
Tishrei, 5747): Simchat Torah
1988: NBC broadcast the
first episode of “Tattingers” created by Bruce Paltrow and co-starring Jerry
Stiller and Rob Morrow.
1989: In Great Britain,
Nigel Lawson completed his term as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1990(7th of Cheshvan,
5751: William Paley, the founder and
https://www.biography.com/people/william-s-paley-9542315
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/27/obituaries/william-s-paley-builder-of-cbs-dies-at-89.html
1992: In a case of “Jew
versus Jew” Frank Rich reviews David Mamet’s “Oleanna.”
http://www.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E0CE1DF1E3CF935A15753C1A964958260&_r=0
1992: Today, “President
George H.W. Bush signed into law the President John F. Kennedy Assassination
Records Collection Act” which made Zapruder’s film of the JFK assassination an
official “assassination record” and the official property of the United States
Government – a designation which the Zapruder contested claiming that it
belonged to the family and demanding that it be returned to them.
1992: The Times
quoted Jewish born financier George Soros as saying: "Our total position
by Black Wednesday had to be worth almost $10 billion. We planned to sell more
than that. In fact, when Norman Lamont said just before the devaluation that he
would borrow nearly $15 billion to defend sterling, we were amused because that
was about how much we wanted to sell."
1994: Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin of
1994: Dame Shirley
Porter, “the daughter and heir of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco
supermarkets” completed her services as Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London.
1995: Fathi Shikaki, a leader of the terrorist
organization Islamic Jihad was assassinated while staying on the
1997:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special
Jewish interesting including Wait Till Next Year:
A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank:Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the ''Diary” by
Ralph Melnick and Panther in the
Basementby Amos Oz;
translated by Nicholas de Lange.
1997: “Before Women Had
Wings” a made for television movie for which Ellen Barkin won an Emmy was
released in Canada today.
1998: Rededication of
the Oscar Straus Memorial in Washington, DC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Straus_Memorial#/media/File:Worship-monument.jpg
1999: Eighty-eighty
year old author and screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, one of the many victims of
Hollywood’s Blacklist passed away today. (As reported by William Honan)
2000: Palestinian Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for today’s bombing in the Gaza Strip.
2001(9th of Cheshvan,
5762): Ninety-six year old Laszlo Halasz, the Hungarian born musician who
served as the first director of the New York City Opera in which capacity he
mount the first performance of “The Dybbuk,” a three act opera by David Tamkin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/arts/laszlo-halasz-first-director-of-city-opera-is-dead-at-96.html
(As reported by Allan
Kozinn)
2002: Following a
suicide attack that killed 14 people, Israeli forces “supported by tanks and
other armored vehicles” moved into Jenin in search of the terrorist cell
response for this latest atrocity.
2003: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special
Jewish interesting including And the Dead Shall Rise: The
Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frankby Steve Oney and Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Lifeby Caroline Moorehead.
2004: Jewish Community
Relations Council of San Francisco celebrates its 60th anniversary.
2004:
2005(23rd of Tishrei, 5766): Simchat Torah
2005: Jerry Reinsdorf’s Chicago White Sox won the World Series replacing
Theo Epstein’s Red Sox at the top of the major league heap.
2005: Avram Grant announced his resignation as the coach of Israel’s
national football team.
2005(23rd of Tishrei, 5766): A suicide bomber who had been relased from
an Israeli prison a month ago, struck in Hadera wounding 55 and killing five --
Michael Koifman, 68, of Hadera; Perahiya Makhlouf, 53, of Hadera;; Sabiha
Nissim, 66, of moshav Ahituv; Jamil Mohammed Ka'adan, 48, of Baqa al-Gharbiyye;
Ya'akov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera; Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera and Larissa
Grishchenko, 39, of Hadera
2006: A concert entitled “The Yiddish Voice of Love: Songs of Beyle
Shaechnter-Gottesmanon ” is presented at the 92nd Street Y in New
York City. “Schaechter-Gottesman is
known as one
2007: The New York Times
featured a review of World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofasacism by
Norman Podhoretz.
2007: In the evening, five kassam rockets fired by the Islamic Jihad from
the Gaza Strip landed in open fields south of Ashkelon and near Sderot.
2007: “Before the Devil Knowns You’re Dead” the last film directed by
Sidney Lumet was released in the United States today.
2008:Rutgers University presents a lecture on the
psychological effects of terrorism on Israelis entitled "Does the War End When
the Shooting Stops?" by Zahava Solomon, director of the Adler Research
Center for Child Welfare & Protection at Tel Aviv University.
2008: The Center for Jewish History presents Jewish Youth and Cultural
Change: A Conference on Rethinking American Jewish History which brings
together historians, anthropologists, and scholars of culture in order to
reflect on the ways in which young Jews experienced their lives as Jews and
Americans over the past two centuries, and how communal and cultural change
were reflected in anxieties about Jewish youth.
2008: The
Washington Postfeatures reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interesting including My Father’s
2008:Kadima leader Tzipi
Livni announced that her efforts to build a coalition government were
unsuccessful, and recommended that early general elections be held.
2009: The Center for Jewish History and
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance present “Celebrating a Lifetime in
Yiddish Song,” conversation and
performance featuring Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, America's leading Yiddish
poet and songwriter, who will be joined by her son Itzik Gottesman, Associate
Editor of the Yiddish Forward. In 2006, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was awarded
the prestigious N.E.A. National Heritage Fellowship, our nation's highest honor
in the traditional arts.
2009:Steven
D. Levitt (a professor of economics at the University of Chicago) and Stephen
J. Dubner (a former writer and editor at the New York Times Magazine) discuss
their new book, "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes,
and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance," in a program at The Washington
Post Conference Center.
2009:
At The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Melvin Urofsky
discusses "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life," his biography of the Supreme
Court Justice (which is the annual Bernard Wexler Lecture on Jewish History)
2009: An activist in Jerusalem's
ultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit community was conditionally released from prison today,
a day after his arrest for allegedly spraying an ultra-Orthodox woman with tear
gas in the capital's Mea She'arim neighborhood
2010: According to Sally Kohn “3 things
Progressive and Tea Partiers can agree on are “ensuring clean elections,”
“ending bailouts and subsidies for Big Business” and the abolition of
“Corporate parenthood.”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/3-things-progressives-and-tea-partiers-can-agree-on
2010: George Soros donated $1 million,
the largest donation in the campaign, to the Drug Policy Alliance to fund
Proposition 19 that would have legalized marijuana in the state of California
if it had passed
2010:Sam
Brylawski is scheduled to deliver a lecture styled Emile Berliner: Inventor of
the Gramophone, Part II that is a follow up to an earlier lecture on the life
of Jewish-German
immigrant Emile Berliner
who “emigrated as a young man from Hannover to Washington in 1870 and
became famous internationally for his many inventions and business acumen.”
2010:
The Historic 6th& I Synagogue is scheduled to host Challah
& Chutney: An Indian Jewish cooking class where Shulie Madnick, an Indian
Jewish food blogger, provides lessons in how to prepare a vegetarian Indian
meal, traditional to the Jewish community of India.
2010: The annual trade show of the
kosher food industry opened today at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in
Secaucus, N.J.
2011: A program featuring a discussion
“Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams” by Charles Kings is scheduled to
take place at the Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival in
Washington, D.C.
2011: Rabbi Nissan Antine, the Associate
Rabbi and Director of Education at Beth Sholom Congregation, is scheduled to
lead a class entitled Responsa of the Holocaust at the JCC of Greater
Washington.
2011: The International Conference on
the Life and Work of Israeli author Aharon Applefeld is scheduled to open at
the University of Pennsylvania.
2011: Former Shin Bet security service
director Yuval Diskin defended Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today,
saying that Abbas is against terrorism
2011: In excerpts of an interview
released today from an upcoming interview on Sixty Minutes,the wife of the financial swindler Bernard Madoff claims that the couple
attempted suicide by taking pills on Christmas Eve 2008 after his estimated $65
billion Ponzi scheme was exposed. The
attempt, which she described as “impulsive” left her “glad” that “we woke
up.”
2011:Three
Grad rocket were fired from the Gaza Strip at the Ashdod and Bnei Aish areas
shortly before midnight today
2012(10th of Cheshvan, 5773):
Fifty-one year old television producer and comedy writer Alan Kirschenbaum
passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20121030,0,2908921.story
2012(10th of Cheshvan, 5773):
Eight year old Arnold Greenberg, the founder of Snapple passed away today. (As
reported by Margalit Fox)
2012: Israeli Cellist Elad Kabilio is
schedule to lead the musical accompaniment to tonight’s performance of the
Ballet Next Ensemble at the Joyce Theatre.
2012: “The Other Son” a film about “two
young men–one Israeli, the other Palestinian–who discover they were
accidentally switched at birth and the complex repercussions facing them and
their respective families” is scheduled to appear for the first time in
selected theatres in the United States.
2012:The
British government opposed the establishment of the Nuremberg war crimes
tribunals at the end of the second world war because it wanted selected Nazi
leaders to be summarily executed and others to be imprisoned without trial,
according to a contemporary account that was declassified today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/britain-execution-nuremberg-nazi-leaders
2012:Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tie-up with far-right coalition partner Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman could backfire by eroding their lead ahead of
Israel’s Jan. 22 ballot, a poll said today. Read more: http://forward.com/articles/165001/netanyahus-hard-right-alliance-could-backfire/#ixzz2ARoW83Xe
2012: “Orchestra of Exiles,” a
documentary that tells the tale of Bronislaw Huberman’s effort to create what
became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra opened today in New York.
2012: Sonja Spear is scheduled to give a
talk about Halloween in America after the Shabbat Dinner being held at the University
of Iowa Hillel House in Iowa City, Iowa.
2013: “Channel 2 (Reshet)” released the
first episode of “The X Factor Israel.”
2013: Beginning of Jewish Book Month
2013 sponsored by the Jewish Book Council
2013: Sidney A. Katz closed Wolfson’s
Department Store on East Diamond Avenue in Gaithersburg, MD which had been
started in 1918 by is grandparents Jacob and Rose Wolfson.
2013: Jewish Community Center of
Northern Virginia is scheduled to host “A Bit of Bling.”
2013:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a performance of “Don
Giovanni” featuring Israel Wind Soloists:
Oboes:
Amir Bakman, Josue Cordero
Clarinets:
Danny Erdman, Daniel Gurfinkel
Bassoons:
Mauricio Paez, Kristijonas Grigas
Contrabassoon:
Isaac Ramon Leyva
Horns:
Adrian Solis, Edo Hayek
2013:
Australian police charged three people today over an anti-Semitic attack on
five people in Bondi Beach, Sydney. The five Jews who were taken to St.
Vincent’s Hospital included four men aged 27, 39, 49 and 66 wearing yarmulkes
and a 62-year-old woman.
2013:Eight Israeli
citizens and a Palestinian girl sustained moderate injuries when stones were
hurled at the direction of vehicles traveling in south Mount Hebron (As
reported by Itmar Fleishman)
2014:
Aaron David Miller, the vice-president of the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the annual Jewish
Endowment Fund Brunch at the Hilton Hotel Riverside where Dr. Edward Soll and
his wife Karne will be honored with the presentation of the Tzedakah
award. (As reported by the Crescent City
Jewish News – the source for everything in the land of the Kosher Cajuns)
2014:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Pay Any Price: Greed, Power
and Endless War by James Risen, who has been friends with Yossi Klein
Halevi “since they both crashed the Nazi Party headquarters in Chicago as
student reporters 30 years ago” and recently released paperback editions of
You Should of Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz and Drama High: The
Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town and the Magic
of Theatre by Michael Sokolove.
2014:
“Dylan Thomas in America: A Centennial Exhibition” is scheduled to open at the
92nd Street Y.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/books/a-dylan-thomas-centennial-in-new-york.html?ref=books
2014:In Indianapolis,
Lauren and Adam Cantor are scheduled to sing camp songs and share their
memories of being song leaders at Goldman Union Camp Institute at the annual meeting of the Indiana Jewish
Historical Society
2014:
Amid on-going terrorist inspired violence that has shut down parts of the
Jerusalem Light Rail, the funeral of the Hamas terrorist who murdered a three
month old baby and injured numerous others who were waiting to board the light
rail is scheduled to be buried today.
(Editor’s note – So far there has been no condemnation of the murder of
an infant by the UN)
2014:
“Life in Stills” and “The Hangman” are scheduled to be shown on the first day
of the Israeli Film Festival sponsored by the Tulane University Jewish Studies
Department under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz.
2014:
"The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey's Journey from France" an
exhibition that unveils the history behind the children's character, Curious
George whose creators The Jewish couple, Margret and H.A. Rey fled Paris on
bicycles in 1940 to escape the Nazi invasion and eventually made their way to
the United States with their manuscripts and illustrations for the book,
"The Adventures of Fifi," which was retitled "The Adventures of
Curious George" is scheduled to come to an at the Argenta Branch of the
North Little Rock Public Library.
2014:
At two o’clock this morning, Israelis change their clocks back to standard
time.
2014:
In what would appear to be a check of its “lethal arsenal” Hamas has for the
eighth since the end of Operation Protective Edge fired rockets into the
Mediterranean Sea. (As reported by Cynthia Blank)
2014:
“The Arab population in Israel is part and parcel of the Jewish state and will
always be a fundamental component of Israeli society, President Reuven Rivlin
said today at a memorial ceremony to mark the 58th anniversary of the Kfar
Kassem massacre, during which Israeli border police shot to death 49 Arab
Israelis, among them several women and many children.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rivlin-to-address-ceremony-marking-kfar-kassem-massacre/
2014(2nd
of Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty-two year old Yemima Muskara became the second victim
of Wednesday’s terrorist attach when she died of wounds suffered when a Hamas
acolyte struck nine people with his car outside the Ammunition Hill Light Rail
stop. (As reported by Gil Ronen)
2015(12th
of Cheshvan, 5776): Seventy-eight year old physicist Leo P. Kadanoff passed
away today in Chicago. (As reported by
Kenneth Chang)
http://jfi.uchicago.edu/~leop/
2015:
“The Pesach Tikvah social agency in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hosted a reunion
for three of the Ewschwege survivors – Sari Gruenzweig, Esther Epstein and Lea
Singer – and Alan Golub the American pilot who in April of 1945 forced a German
shop keeper to give him the cloth so that these women could have dresses. For
more see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/nyregion/a-pilot-and-holocaust-survivors-bound-by-the-fabric-of-war-are-reunited-in-brooklyn.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0
2015:
The 15th Annual National Conference is scheduled to come to an end
today in Chicago.
2015:
A memorial service was held today at St. Paul’s Chapel honoring the late Joseph
F. Traub, founder of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/2015/joseph-traub-in-memoriam/
2015:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host Jennifer Koh & Shai
Wosner is the first of the Bridge to Beethoven concert series.
2015:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department is scheduled to host Stephen
Russell who will lecture on “A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World.”
2015:
The Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to open at Tulane University with
screenings of “Life in Stills” and “The Hangman.”
2015:
Twenty-first anniversary of the Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel.
2016:
In Coralville, IA, Jeannette Gabriel from the Iowa Women’s Archives is
scheduled to evaluate family “treasures” as part of the Agudas Achim Centennial
celebration.
2016:
“A rare, ancient papyrus dating to the First Temple Period” which “has been
found to bear the oldest known mention of Jerusalem in Hebrew” “was formally
unveiled by the Israel Antiquities Authority” today.
2016:
Today “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO
in protest of two recent resolutions by the UN cultural body that ignored
Jewish and Christian historical ties to Jerusalem holy sites.”
2016:
In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a tour of Jewish Grounds at
the Oakland Cemetery
2016:
The Leo Baeck Institute and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host
a lecture by David Biale the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of
Jewish History at the University of California at Davis that examines the life
and times of Gershom Sholem entitled “Sholem In Love: Affective Ties of a
Jewish Historian.”
2016:
Tahneer Oksman and New Yorker
contributor Liana Finck are scheduled to discuss Oksman’s new book How Come
Boys Get to Keep Their Noses: Women and Jewish American Identity in
Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, drawing connections between graphic
storytelling and the unstable postmodern Jewish self in an event sponsored by
the American Jewish Historical Society.
2016:
In Paris, UNESCO”s World Heritage Committee is scheduled to vote on a
resolution condemning “Israeli violations in Jerusalem’s Old City” that
effectively denies the historic connection of Judaism and the Jewish people to
Jerusalem and therefore also undermines the entire story of Jesus as presented
in the Gospels.
2017:
““Challah in the CLE,” an event where more than 1,500 local women and girls came
together to make challah and take part in other festivities, returned to the
east side of Cleveland today as the kickoff event of “a larger weekend-long
series of events that are part of the Shabbos Project Cleveland – the local
chapter of an international, grassroots Jewish identity movement to unite Jews
around the world for a full Shabbat.
2017:
In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Butler.”
2017:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a fun evening of
Challah baking and Mezuzah decorating.
2017:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host a celebration of Deccan
Heritage Foundation's new publication; Jewish Heritage of the Deccan;
Mumbai, The Northern Konan, Pune co-authored by Kenneth X. Robbins and
Pushkar Sohoni with photographs by Surendra Kumar.
2017:
Samuel Nortich is scheduled to moderate a discussion “The Pew Jew Study:
American and German-Jewry In Comparison” in which Steven Cohen and Robin Judd
compare and contrast the “situations of German Jews a century ago and American
Jews today.”
2017:
Yeshiva University Museum, the Center for Jewish History and the American
Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present Giuseppe Veltri discussing “The
Temple in Renaissance Imagination.”
2017:
Gili Cohen, “an Israeli judoka who won a gold medal” today “at the Abu Dhabi
Grand Slam judo tournament…had to his sing his own private ‘Hatikvah’ because
the organized refused to play the Israeli national anthem.”
2018:
Today physicist Abraham “Avi” “Loeb and
his postdoc Shmuel Bialy submitted a paper exploring the possibility of the
interstellar object ʻOumuamua being an artificial thin solar sail accelerated
by solar radiation pressure in an effort to help explain the object's
non-gravitational acceleration.”
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat
services following by a dinner as part of the “Oxford 3rd Week Bring
a Friend Shabbat.”
2018:
The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host the “Ensemble Phoenix on early
instruments program” where performers us “period instruments.”
2018:
The Jerusalem Theatre Piano Festival Is scheduled to host a “Kabbalat Shabbat –
Salute to Yankeleh Rotblit.”
2019(27th
of Tishrei, 5780): Parashat Bereshit – The Cycle Begins again.
2019:
The Houston Astros are scheduled to play the Washington Nationals in game four
of the World Series without the services of their Assistant General Manager
Brandon Taubman who was fired on October 24th for directing “offensive,
vulgar comments toward female reporters during the celebration of the team’s
American League Championship Series victory five days earlier.”
2019:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Holocaust survivor Agnes Schwartz
as she tells “how a Catholic housekeeper claimed her as her own niece to
protect her during the” Shoah.
2019:
The Oxford University Jewish Socieity is scheduled to provide Shabbat meals
prepared by its “fantastic chef Joanne” along with hosting Morning and
Afternoon services as well as Seudah Shlishit.
2019:
Jewish congregations all across America including Temple Beth Sholom in San
Leandro; Beth Israel and Netivot Shalom in Berkeley; Sherith Israel, Emanu-El
and Or Shalom in San Francisco; Beth Jacob in Redwood City, Shir Hadash in Los
Gatos; Kol Shofar in Tiburon; and Kol Emeth in Palo Alto are scheduled to
participate in “Show up for Shabbat” part of the response to remembering the
massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue that took place on October 27,
2018.
https://www.ajc.org/FindaSynagogue
2020:
The Jewish Federation of North America is scheduled to host the second day of
its virtual GA.
2020:
The Alliance For Jewish Theatre’s annual conference is scheduled to continue
online for a second day.
2020
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host David Blatt as he
talks about “U.S. and Them? American Jews and Israel.”
2020:
The Marlene Meyerson JCC is scheduled to host a second virtual screening of
“Rosenwald.”
2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Michael Sandel as he discusses “The
Tyranny of Merit” with David Brooks.
2020(8th of Cheshvan): Yahrzeit of Avraham Elimelch
ben Yosef Dov, whose nickname was Melech and whose English name was Abraham
Levin and the Hebrew namesake of Mitchell A. Levin and the father of Joseph B.
Levin.
2020: Now that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “ruled out
recommendations to place first and second grade students in small capsules in
schools, saying the country could not afford the cost of dividing classes into
smaller numbers” Israelis are dealing with the reality that “classes will be
split into two groups and each group will only physically attend school for
half of the week.”
2021: Yacine Mihoub, 32, and Alex Carrimbacus, 25 went on trial
today in Paris because they stand accused of murdering Mireille Knoll, an 85
year-old grandmother and Holocaust survivor in what authorities call a hate
crime.
2021: “Henry Kissinger and Puzzle of the Middle East,” published
today provides a review of Master of the Game: Master of the Game: Henry
Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy by Martin Indyk.
2021: As part of its Women on the Move series, the Streikcer
Center is scheduled to host an evening with Hilma and Meg Wolitzer.
2022:
JWI's 5th International Conference on Domestic Violence in the Jewish
Community. "Responding to the Moment: Cultivating Resilience, Healing,
Innovation, and Culture Change" is scheduled to come to an end today.
2022: Feast Day of Pope Evaristus, who was “born in Greece of a
Jewish father named Juda, originally from the city of Bethlehem, reigned for
thirteen years, six months and two days, under the reigns of Domitian, Nerva
and Trajan, from the Consulate of Valens and Veter (96) until that of Gallus
and Bradua.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-evaristus-pope-33
2022: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to
present a night of landmark discussion on the history of Union Square, and
historic preservation!
2022: The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, NJ is
scheduled to “welcome back welcomes back Professor Maurice Mahler to present a
discussion on the famous painting known as “The Woman in Gold” by artist Gustav
Klimt which was once stolen from a Jewish family in the run-up to World War II,
and was eventually bought by Ronald Lauder, the son of Estee Lauder, for $130
million and is currently on display at the Neue Galerie Museum in Manhattan.
2022: The Streikcer Center is scheduled to offer virtually,
Professor
Fred Lazin lecturing on “Jews in American Politics” From the
1930’s to the 2020 Presidential Elections” and
Dr. Daniel Rynhold lecturing on “Maimonides and Spinoza: Friends and
Foes?
2022: The JDC is scheduled to host a webinar “A Children’s
Paradise? The JDC and Selvino, Italy, 1945-48”
2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Jon Meachem whose latest work is the
biography And there Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle.
2022: Israeli
President Isaac Herzog is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden in
the Oval Office today.
2022(1st
of Cheshvan 5783):
Rosh
Chodesh Cheshvan
2023:
YIVO is scheduled to present live on Zoom a lecture by Sonia Gollance, a
“lecturer in Yiddish at the University College London and Joshua Lambert, the
director of the Jewish Studies program at Wellesley College on “Mixed-Sex Dance
and Jewish Identity.”
2023:
The Leo Beck Institute is scheduled to present Natalia Petrzela as she “moderates
a panel featuring the makers of podcasts working with primary sources and
biography to shed light on historically marginalized communities and injustice.”
2023:
The Nashville Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the final screening of
“Barren,” about a “young childless Hasidic couple.”
2023:
As part of its “Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime” series the Tikvah
Academy is scheduled to host a lecture by Richard Goldberg on “Israel Missile
Defense: An Overview.”
2023:
Fresno County Public Library (Fresno, CA); Milwaukee Public Library (Milwaukee,
WI); Scott County Public Library (Georgetown, KY) and
New
York City College of Technology (CUNY)/Ursula C. Schwerin Library (Brooklyn,
NY) are scheduled to begin hosting the “Americans and the Holocaust” traveling
exhibition today.
2023:
As October 26 begins in Israel Hamas has fired rockets at Eilat and Haifa, Hamas
terrorist continue to try and enter Israel and the survivors of Kibbutz Be’eri prepare
for another day of the “morbid routine” in which “they wake up and board tour
buses that have been repurposed into funeral shuttles” so that they can attend
more funerals of the members of the kibbutz and then gather at night to hear “Kibbutz
leaders recite the names that have officially migrated from lists of the
missing to lists of the dead.”
(Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)