June 1
987: Hugh
Capet was elected King of France making him the first of the Capetians. During this period, power lay with the nobles
and the leaders of the Church. Among
other things this meant that the kings were unable to do anything to protect
the Jews against the anti-Semitic teachings of the clergy and the resulting
hostile actions of the ordinary people against the Jews. To make matters worse, when Hugh Capet was
stricken with a mystery malady a Jewish physician was summoned to treat
him. Unfortunately, the King died and
the Jews were accused of killing him.
1096: During
the First Crusade, the first of two massacres of the Jews took place Xanten,
the town in Rhenish Prussia.
1204: King
Philip Augustus of France conquered Rouen, the historic capital of Normandy
which had been operating under a charter that allowed for self-government. Considering how poorly the French king
treated his Jewish subjects, his seizure of Rouen could not have been good news
for the city’s Jewish population which numbered 6,000 and was strong enough to
support its own Yeshiva. During the second half of the twelfth century, when
Rouen was governed under the terms of a charter that allowed for self-government,
the town was home to 6,000 Jews (approximately 20% of the population) and was
the site of yeshiva. The site of a
yeshiva. At that time, about 6,000 Jews lived in the town, comprising about 20%
of the population. In addition, there were a large number of Jews scattered
about another 100 communities in Normandy. The well-preserved remains of the
yeshiva were discovered in the 1970s under the Rouen Law Courts and the
community has begun a project to restore them. In 1215, Rouen would be the site
of the Fourth Lateran Council which adopted a panoply of ant-Semitic measures.
1252: Alfonso
X is elected King of Castile and León. Known as El Sabio (The Learned One) the
well-educated Christian monarch set out
to “to create a Christian culture in the north of Spain that as equal in glory
to Moorish culture in the South…He ordered both the Koran and the Talmud to be
translated into Latin.” One of the most
prominent scientists in his realm was the Jewish astronomer, Yehuda ben Moses
Cohen.
1424: Benedict
XIII the “antipope” who was zealous in his drive to force Jews to convert in an
effort to gain legitimacy passed away today.
1434: King
Wladislaus II of Poland passed away. During his reign, persecution of the Jews
intensified and Wladislaus did nothing to protect them or reinforce the rights
that had been granted to them by his predecessors Instead he actually took
steps to limit their business activities by issuing an edict limiting their
right to lend money.
1582: The
Municipal Council of Pressburg “decreed that no one should harbor Jews, or even
transact business with them.”
1635: Today
the widow of William Leake, the publisher who reissued the “Merchant of Venice”
– an act that “did no Jews no good turn” “transferred her late husband’s
copyrights to William Leake II also known as “William Leake, the younger.”
1656: The Jews
of New Amsterdam are allowed to practice their religion, after reminding the
Dutch West India Company that Jews "in quietness" were allowed to
practice in Holland and other Dutch colonies.
1757: The HMS Diana,
a 32 gun frigate which would play a key
role in the capture of Louisburg during the Seven Years War and was commanded
by Captain Sir Alexandr Schomberg, the son of German-Jewish doctor who was
raised Jewish but baptized so he could further his naval career was “ordered”
today after which its keel was laid down by the end of June of 1757.
1764: The Sejm abolished the Council of the Four
Lands. Supposedly this was not an act
aimed to harm the Jews. Rather it was
part of a plan to re-organize the tax system.
1774:
According to one source, Samuel Judah and his wife gave birth to Naphtali
Judah, the printer/publisher who was a member of the Tammany Society and
president of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City.
1778(6th
of Sivan, 5538): Shavuot
1775: Abraham
Solomon “enlisted in Col. John Glover’s Regiment, known as the Marbleheaders,
to take part in the glorious Battle of Bunker Hill. Later he was shifted with
his company to Cambridge. When the soldiers received their pay, they had to
sign for it on the company’s muster roll. Solomon’s fellow soldiers, many of
whom could not write, were allowed to make their Xs. But Solomon could write —
just not in English — so he was allowed to sign his name in Hebrew. It is
believed that this is the only Revolutionary War muster roll to be signed in
Hebrew.”
1780: Rachel
Pinto who had taken refuge in New Haven, CT returned to New York City which was
under British control today “and a fortnight later took the oath of allegiance.”
1778(6th
of Sivan, 5538): Shavuot observed as Washington’s Army prepares to leave Valley
Forge after spending the infamous winter encampment there where almost 2,000
men died.
1785: In
Savannah, GA, Sarah Sheftall and Abraham de Lyon, the parents of Abraham de
Lyon, Jr. were married today.
1786(5th
of Sivan, 5546): Erev Shavuot
1786: In
Lemberg, Aharon Chaim Rapoport and his wife gave birth to “Galician rabbi and
Jewish scholar” Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, the husband of Franziska Freide
Heller and son-in-law of Areyh Leib Heller, who switched from a career in
business to serving as a rabbi in Tarnopol and Prague.
1789(7th
of Sivan, 5549): As the fledgling government of the United States created by
the Constitution took form, the 2nd
day of Shavuot was observed on the same
day “An Act to Regulate the Time and Manner of Administering Certain Oaths”
which prescribed the text of and procedure for the administration of the oath
of office was signed into law
1790:
Birthdate of Rabbi Solomon Judah Löb Rapoport, the native of Lemberg who was
one of the founders of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement and
author of several biographies including one Saadia Gaon.
1792: Kentucky admitted as the 15th state of the
United States. Benjamin Gratz, one of the son’s of the famous Michael Gratz
family of Philadelphia, who was a lawyer and veteran of the American Revolution
was one of the earliest Jewish settlers of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky would become home to the
state’s first congregation, Adath Israel which was incorporated in 1842. While serving as a delegate from Kentucky at
the Republican Convention, Louis Naphtali Dembitz was one three who placed
Lincoln’s name in nomination. He was the
uncle of Kentucky’s most famous Jew, Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz
Brandeis.
1796: Moses de
Mattos Mocatta, the London born son of Abraham Lumbroso de Mattos and Esther
Isaac Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta and his
wife Abigail Mocatta gave birth to Abraham Lindo Mocatta.
1796:
Tennessee admitted as the 16th state of the United States. The first Jews
settled in upper East Tennessee in the 1770s and to Middle Tennessee by the
1820s. The Nashville Jewish community dates from the 1790’s with enough Jews
living there to hold services in the 1840’s and establish a burial society in
the decade before the Civil War.
1797(7th
of Sivan, 5557): Second Day of Shavuot observed as future president Thomas
Jefferson wrote to future President James Madison from Philadelphia about the
meeting of the House of Representatives and the general condition of the U.S.
economy which is “stagnant” in part because “in England the merchants seem
disposed to on their oars”
1798(6th
of Sivan): Fourteen-month-old Joseph Defflis, the son of Solomon Defflis passed
away today in the United Kingdom.
1803: Nathan
Hyams married Rebecca Barnet at the Great Synagogue in London.
1808(6th
of Sivan, 5568): Shavuot observed for the first time after The Act Prohibiting
the Importation of Slaves” had gone into effect.
1811: In New
York City, Frances Isaacs and Harmon Hendricks, who were married in 1800 gave
birth to Montague M. Hendricks, the husband of Rachel Seixas Nathan with whom
he had nine children.
1816(5th
of Sivan, 5576): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot observed on the same day that
“a treaty of peace and friendship made and concluded at St. Louis, between
William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, commissioners
plenipotentiary of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the
said states, of the one part, and the undersigned chiefs and warriors,
representing eight bands of the Sioux, composing the three tribes called the
Sioux of the Leaf, the Sioux of the Broad Leaf, and the Sioux who shoot in the
Pine Tops, on the part and behalf of their said tribes, of the other part
1817: In
Denmark Hartvig Philip Rée and Thamar (Terese) Rée gave birth to Julius Rée,
the husband of Louse Ree and the “father of Martin Carl Rée; Marie Julie Hertz;
Eduard Philipp Rée and Therese Cecilia Rée.”
Brother of
Hertz Hartvig Rée; Bernhard Philip
1817: In
Safed, Rabbi Eliezer Yeruham Elyashar, who was also a shochet and his wife gave
birth to Yaakov Shaul Elyashar who backed the Chief Sephardi Rabbi in Palestine
in 1893.
1819:
Violinist Joseph Böhm was appointed to serve as a professor at the Vienna
Conservatory.
1823(22nd
of Sivan, 5583): Joseph Hart-Myers, the New York born son Naphtali Hart-Myers
and the husband of Leah Hart-Myers and Jane Hart Meyers – Solomons passed away
today in London.
1824(5th
of Sivan, 5584): Erev Shavuot observed for the last time during the Presidency
of James Monroe.
1827(6th
of Sivan, 5587): Shavuot
1828(19th of
Sivan, 5588): Raphael Meldola passed away. Born in Leghorn in 1754, he was one
of the most prominent members of the Meldola family. He received a thorough
university training, both in theological and in secular branches, and displayed
such remarkable talents that when only fifteen years old he was permitted to
take his seat in the rabbinical college. He was preacher in Leghorn for some
years, and in 1803 he obtained the title of rabbi. In 1805 Meldola was elected
haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain and proved a worthy
successor of Sasportas and Nieto. His name will ever be indissolubly associated
with that of Bevis Marks Synagogue. Possessed of a remarkably virile mind, he
was a dominant factor in the British Jewry of his generation. He was the author
of Korban Minhah, Kuppat Hatanim (1796), and Derekh Emunah,
published by his son after his death. He left several other works in
manuscript. His scholarship attracted around him a circle in which were many of
the most distinguished men of his day, including Benjamin Disraeli and Isaac
Disraeli and it is noteworthy that he opposed the policy which produced the
famous rupture between the latter and the mahamad. He maintained a literary
correspondence with many of the most prominent Christian clergymen and scholars
of his time; and his acquaintance with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the
Canon of Windsor led to his being received by King George III. Meldola married
Stella Bolaffi (Abulafia), by whom he had four sons and four daughters.
1832(3rd
of Sivan, 5592): Twenty-three-year-old Joseph Solomons, the “son of Solomon
Solomons and Alice Abrahams and brother of Caroline Solomons; Fanny Solomons
and Emma Solomons” passed away today in Georgetown, SC.
1833(14th
of Sivan, 5593): Parashat Nasso
1833(14th
of Sivan, 5593): Eight days before her 39th birthday, Rachel Lopez,
the Charleston born daughter of David Lopez and the wife of Jacob Cohen whom
she had married in 1816 passed away today.
1833: The
“Jews’ Law” enacted today “conferred citizenship on the wealthy and educated
classes” Jews of Posen.
1835: Nineteen
year old Giuseppe / Joseph Baron von Morpurgo married Elisa Parente.
1836: Henry Lyons married Rachel Hart at the Hambro
Synagogue in London.
1843: In
Amsterdam, Johannes Jonas Wertheim and Maria Rosenik gave birth to Karel
Abraham Wertheim
1845:
Birthdate of Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim “a Hungarian-Austrian court singer
and member of the Royal Opera, Vienna” who was the older sister of Anton
Bettelheim.
1846(7th
of Sivan, 5606): Second Day of Shavuot, Yizkor
1847: At St.
Helier, Maurice S. Mawson of Pernambuco married Rose Phillips, the second
daughter of Michael Phillips of Jersey (As reported by the Jewish Chronicle.
1848:
Birthdate of Bavaria native and New York resident Leopold Affelder the husband
of Rebecca Kahn Affelder with whom he had four children – Minnie, William,
Harry and Jeanette.
1852: The
Democratic National Convention during which Philip Philips, the Charleston born
Caroline Lazarus and Aaron Phillips, “prominent members of the Jewish community”
gave a speech in support of future President Franklin Pierce, opened today in Baltimore.
1853: A description of an attack by
Greeks on the Jews of Smyrna during Easter which may have been started by
Russian agents and which was put down by the Turks was published today.
1853: It was reported today that the issue of Jewish Disabilities
continues to be a problem in Parliament. In response to a question from Mr.
Milner Gibson on this topic, Lord Russell responded that he did not think a
measure that dealt only with this and that he would be submitting a measure
that would deal with the general question of Oaths to be taken by Members of
Parliament.
1854(5th of Sivan, 5614):
Erev Shavuot
1854: Fourteen-year-old Louis Barnett,
a “Welsh-born English Jew” “became a student-teacher at the Jews’ Free School”
after which he “entered the University of London” where he earned a Bachelor of
Arts degree nine years later.
1857: Isaac Jackson who was either 17
or 18 years old was shot and killed today by Charles Jones. Jackson is one of four Jewish brothers who
own a stored in Westfield, MA. Young
Jackson was driving a wagon of merchandize on the road between Westfield and
Russell when he was attacked.
1858: In Baltimore, MD, Hannah and
Solomon Van Leer gave birth to the “music master of southern Delaware Charles
Van Leer who with his brother-in-law Emanuel Greenbaum “founded the firm of
Greenabaum Brothers which grew to be one of the largest canneries on the
peninsula,” served as the director of various opera companies including the
Wilbur Opera Company and was a member of Temple Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, MD.
1861: In Montgomery, AL founding of
the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society whose members included Mrs. C. J.
Hausman, Mrs. E.I. Cadden and Sylvania Marks.
1861: Philadelphian Nathan Rosenfelt
who would die of wounds suffered at Gettysburg, began serving as a Sergeant in
Company D of the 26th Regiment.
1861: Philadelphian Maurice Rosenberg
who would be wounded at Lookout Mountain and Leon Moser each began serving as
Sergeants in Company C of the 27th Regiment today.
1861: Philadelphian Daniel Epstein
began serving as a Second Lieutenant in Company D of the 27th
Regiment on the same day that John Ulman began serving as a Sergeant in the
same unit
1862: At 212 Thompson Street in New
York city, Asher and Pauline Sondeheim Bijur gave birth Columbia trained
attorney Nathan Bijur, the New York State Supreme Court Justice and husband of
Lilly Pronich of Galveston, TX whom he married in 1884 and a leader of the
Jewish community as can be seen by his service as a trustee of the Baron de
Hirsch Fund and the Hebrew Free Trade School and his membership in the American
Jewish Committee and Congregation B’Nai Jeshurun
1862: In New York City, Pauline
Sondheim and Asher Bijur to Columbia graduate and practicing attorney Nathan
Bijur, the husband of Lilly Pronick and trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund who
was “a member of the commission appointed by Mayor Low to investigate the riot
at the Rabbi Joseph’s funeral.”
1865(7th of Sivan, 5625):
President Andrew Johnson designated today, the second day of Shavuot when Jews
recite Yizkor, as a national day for memorial services to be held in honor of
Abraham Lincoln.
1865: In Kalvaria, Poland (then part
of the Russian Empire), Phillip and Sarah Rachel Phillipson gave birth to
Bryant and Stratton Business College graduate and husband of Rachel Burton
Samuel Phillipson, the father of Emmanuel, Sidney, Libbie and Silvian
Phillipson and the owner of Samuel Phillipson and Company, the Chicago
wholesale and general merchandise company who was also the director of the
Chicago Hebrew Institute and the Jewish Home for the Aged.
https://www.amazon.com/Engraving-Samuel-Phillipson-Jewish-Relief/dp/B005DGQFCI
1865: Rabbi Sabato Morais delivered a
special sermon at Mikve Israel in Philadelphia on “the day appoint appointed
for fasting, humiliation and prayer for the untimely death of the late lamented
President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln” in which he said :
If the essence of religion is what the great Hillel
taught us, then I unhesitatingly say that the breast of our lamented President
was ever kindled with that divine spark. "To forbear doing unto others
what would displease us" . . . is the maxim he illustrated in the immortal
document of emancipation that bears his honorable signature. It is that which
he exemplified by his numerous acts of
clemency ...We must bear his name with a blessing upon our lips. (As reported
by the Jewish Virtual Library)
1869:Isidore Loeb“was appointed secretary of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle, a position he held until his death.”
1870: As a sign of his improving
health, Prime Minister Disraeli was able to visit the Foreign Ministry today.
1871: Lord Desart married his first wife whom he later divorced
which led to his second and final marriage to Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart,
the daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim
1873(6th of Sivan, 5633):
Shavuot
1873: Dr. Aaron J. Messing, who had
been serving as Rabbi of Sherith Israel since 1870 retired today and “was
succeeded by Dr. Henry Vdaver.
1873: In “Whitsuntide: A Hebrew and a
Christian Festival - Curious Customs and Interesting Ceremonies” published
today the author compares the Jewish festival of Pentecost with the Christian
Whitsuntide. Pentecost, signifying the fiftieth, is the second of the great
festivals of the Hebrews, held fifty days after the Passover, or feast of the
unleavened bread. The time of the festival is calculated from the second day of
the Passover, the 16th of Nisan.
1874: In New York, David and Pauline Wasserman Benoliel
gave birth CCNY and Columbia trained electrical engineer and chemist Solomon
Benoliel who settled in Philadelphia and who developed “a practical process for
the manufacture of synthetic muriatic acid” while also inventing “many
scientific cleaning compounds for industrial uses.”
1875: Four days after she passed away,
Emma Jacobs was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1876:Francis Mary Paul Libermann, who was known as Jacob
Liberman before he converted to Catholicism “was declared venerable in the
Roman Catholic Church” today “by Pope Pious IX.”
1878: Birthdate of Ukrainian native
Samuel Dreben who was known as the “fighting Jew” because of the many
decorations he earned while serving in the United States Army during the war in
the Philippines, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution and World War I.
http://www.theoccident.com/wildwest/dreben.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sam-dreben
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dreben-samuel
1879: “Pianist Michael Hambourg” and
his wife gave birth to their eldest son Mark Hambourg, the musical child
prodigy whose career really flourished after the family move to Great Britain
at the end of the 19th century.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/08/28/99951894.pdf
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Hambourg-Mark.htm
http://www.hambourgconservatory.ca/bios/mark.html
1879: “Can’t You Wait?” published
today reminds the reader of two famous examples of” hasty identification” that
turned out be erroneous. First was the case of a papyrus that surfaced at
Leyden which contained a “report of a scribe” sent to his superior serving King
Ramses II that said “he had ‘distributed the rations among the soldiers and
likewise among the Apuirui, or Aperiu, who carry the stones to the great city
of King Ramses.’” While most Egyptologists thought this referred to “the
Hebrews who built…the City of Ramses” Dr. Heinrich Brugsh, showed “clearly that
these Aperiu were not Hebrews but an “Erythraean people…mentioned long before
in an inscription of Thutmes III as cavalry in the Kings Service.” The second
example took place when a picture found in one of the tombs at Beni-Hassan (an
ancient Egyptian cemetery) was first identified as being representional “of the
arrival of the children of Israel” until the same Dr. Brugsh set the record
straight. [Were these really errors or was this an example of a German
Egyptologist who had difficulty acknowledging the antiquity of the Jewish
people?]
1881: It was reported today that
according to a recent study conducted by the Opthamological Society in Great
Britain, “Jew are more color-blind than any other nationality, and their
defects are usually of the most pronounced kind.” Oddly, the Quakers also show the same
propensity for this malady.
1881: In “Birthday of Old Rome”
published today it was reported that no
Jewish will pass under the Arch of Titus with its depiction of the
seven-branched candle labrum being carried in triumph by those who have sacked
the Temple because it is a monument of shame.
1882: In Vilna, Gilka Kaztzenelenbogen
and Louis Billikkopf gave birth to Richmond College educated Jacob Billikopf,
the hold of a Ph.B. from University the University of Chicago who worked at the
United Hebrew Charities in New York before becoming “Superintendent of the
Hebrew Relief Society and resident director of the Settlement” in Cincinnati,
OH.
1883: It was reported today that an
anti-Semitic riot that had begun in Rostov has been quelled. Violence broke out
when Jew was accused of killing a Russian.
Fifteen rioters were arrested after they had destroyed 130 homes
belonging to the Jews of the town.
1884(8th of Sivan, 5644):
Aaron Moses (A.M.) Pollak, the Austrian philanthropist who made his fortune
manufacturing matches in Prague London, New York and Sydney who was ennobled by
the emperor in 1869 which allowed him to be called Ritter Von Rudin passed away
today.
1884: In New York Jacques and Eugenie
Maximilian Kahn gave birth to thrice married Columbia trained architect Ely
Jacques Kahn, the father of author Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. whose fifty year
career included the development of a style called Beaux Arts and whose projects
included the renovation of “Manhattan’s Central synagogue and the design for
Municipal Asphalt Plant as well as serving as the employer for co-religionist
Any Rand whose work in his office was part of her research for the novel The
Fountainhead.
Ely
Jacques Kahn, Leading Architect, Dies at 88 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
1885: It was reported to today that a
Hebrew manuscript that appears to be quite old has been found in the Sutro
Library in San Francisco CA. Copies are
being sent to scholars in the United States and Europe to ascertain its
importance.
1885: Anti-Semitic riots have broken
out again in Vienna. At least forty Jews
have been injured in the attacks which have led to the destruction of several
Jewish businesses. The riots appear to
have been brought on by the current elections which have seen the defeat of
Leopoldstadt Schnieder the anti-Semitic candidate who lost by six thousand
votes.
1885: It was reported that Benjamin
Hirschberg delivered the opening address at yesterday’s celebration of the 20th
anniversary of the Hebrew Free School Association. Other youthful speakers included Michael
Schaap, Annie Nathelson and “ten-year-old Simon Noot” who “referred to General
Grant as the ‘Winner off battles and the savior of civilization.’”
1886: Deadline for Jewish troops who
had served in Finland to leave the Grand Duchy, by order of the Czar.
1886: Birthdate of Coschocton, OH
native and Ohio State University trained attorney Edwin J Schanfarber, the vice
president and director of the National Hospital for Consumptives at Denver and
the president of the United Jewish Fund and the Jewish Welfare Federation.
1889: In Russia, Bertha Zeitlin and
Ephraim Kahn gave birth to Cornell trained physician Morris Hirsch Kahn and the
husband of Muriel Frumes who practiced at Mount Sinai Hospital where he worked
with Dr. Max Kahn with whom he co-authored Functional Diagnosis
originally published in 1920 and rose to the rank of first lieutenant during WW
I while serving at the base hospital at Camp Zachary in Taylor, KY.
1889: It was reported today that the
Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has just issued its 11th annual
report. The primary mission of the
organization has been to provide summer-time excursions for Jewish children and
their parents. Last year the
organization hosted ten outings that served a total of almost seven thousand
babies and children as well as over 3,600 mothers. The society is seeking contributions for the
purchase of a barge that will allow it to provide daily trips.
1890: In “Meytshet (Molchad), Slonim
district, Byelorussia” Noyekh Meytsheter, a cantor known as “Reb Noyekh Lider
and his wife gave birth to Elias Zaludkowski held posts as Hazzan in Warsaw,
Vilna, and Liverpool, England, and in 1926 went to the U.S. where he officiated
as Hazzan in New York and Detroit.”
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/elyohu-zaludkovski-elias-zaludkowski.html
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32592&
1890: Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler will
officiate at the confirmation exercises for the students of the Hebrew Free
Schools which will be held this afternoon at Temple Beth El.
1890: The Ladies of the Hebrew
Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society host their second “annual reception” the
first one having been held on Decoration Day.
1890: Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs, Morris S.
Wise, Joseph Jacobs, and Julius Lipman were among the dignitaries who attended
today’s annual reception for the Religious School of Congregation B’nai
Jeshurun.
1890: Rabbi Gustav Gottheil presided
over today’s closing exercises of the Temple Emanu-El Sabbath School for
Religious Instruction
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/elyohu-zaludkovski-elias-zaludkowski.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/06/30/87420647.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1890: The two Jewish congregations at
Rondout, NY, will hold meetings today for the purpose of rasing money to bring
to justice the murders of Samuel Hotz, a Jewish peddler whose body was found on
the first day of Shavuot in an old mining shaft at Wurtsborough, NY
1891: It was reported today that the
in Russia, “the government is about to subject Hebrew elementary and religious
schools to more stringent control.”
1891: “Jewish Exodus From Russia”
published today described the movement of Jewish immigrants from Russia through
Germany to Paris, London and/or the United States. According to the Jewish Relief Committee in
Berlin, about 600 Jews pass through Charlottenburg Station every day. The Russian Jews are not permitted to enter
Berlin and must spend the night in the station before taking the trains to the
West.
1891: The Viedmosti reported today
that the Jewish Emigration Society has hired four Baltic steamers for the sole
purposed of providing transportation for Russian Jews who have been forced to
leave the country. The 60,000 immigrants
are primarily Lithuanian and Polish Jews.
1892: “The Festival of ‘Shebnoth’”
published today described the celebration of the “festival…also known as
Pentecost and the Feast of Weeks, the latter designation having its origin in
the fact that the festival is celebrated just seven weeks after the first of
the Passover feast.”
1892(6th of Sivan, 5652):
Shavuot, “which is also the season chosen for the confirmation of the pupils
attending the religious schools attach to the” synagogues and temples of the
Jews.
1892: In Clinton, NY, students at
Hamilton College will compete for the Clark Prize for original oratory
including Gregory Rosenblum from Novgorod, Russia whose topic is “The Jews of
Russia.”
1892: A duel was fought today between
Monsieur Drumont, the editor of La Libre Parol and Captain Cremieuz Foa, a
Jewish officer in the French Army.
1893: Birthdate of Czech architect
Otto Eisler who survived both Auschwitz and the “death march to Buchenwald” in
1945.
1893: The U.S. Senate Committee, which
is investigating the immigrant station on Ellis Island, which seems to be
showing a special interest in the arrival of Jewish immigrants from Russia is
scheduled to resume its meetings today.
1893: In Superior Court Judge McAdam
heard the case of Schwab v Schwab in which the wife of Moritz Schwab, “a
prosperous butcher” sought to force her husband who may have been a bigamist
but who apparently had wanted to keep his marriage a secret from his family
since he was Jewish and she was not, to provide financial for her and their two
sons – William and Joseph.
1893: “Mr. Engel Must Explain”
published today described charges of excessive force being used to discipline
children at the Ladies’ Deborah Nursery.”
1893: In Petach Tikvah, Taube
Margalit, the Bialystok born daughter of Elijah and Sarah Golda Bloch and her
husband Mose Dov Ber Margalit gave birth to their daughter Hemda Margalit who
became Hemda Diskin when she married Isaac Diskin.
1893: “Jews Driven From Poland”
published today provides confirmation of reports that the Russian persecution
of the Jews has been extended to Poland.
In the Ronda-Gonzowski district 480 families have been expelled in a
manner where they were forced to abandon all of their real estate and
businesses.
1894: In Rochester, NY, Congregation
Berith Kodesh dedicated its new house of worship. The building which cost
$130,000 “was designed by Leon Stern, a member of the congregation and was
built on the corner of Gibbs and Grove streets.
1894: In Koretz, Lithuania, Sarah and
Zvi (Hershel) Honor gave birth to Leo Lazarus Honor who in 1901 came to the
United States where he earned a Bachelor’s degree from CCNY, a Ph.D from
Columbia and married Jenny Honor while also serving on the College of Jewish
Studies in Chicago and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
1894: Starting today, Moritz Schwab is
scheduled to begin paying the mother of his children $25 a month – payments
that will last for four years.
1895: In Vienna “Reuben and Miriam
(Amsterdam) Branin gave birth to Laval University (Montreal) educated
journalist Joeph Branin who for two New York newspapers, used the pen-name
Phineas Piron, served in Palestine as part of the Jewish Battalion under General
Allenby and served “as executive Vice President of the American Committee for
the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot while rasing a son and a daughter
with his wife “the former Salomea Neumark.
1896: A number of Hebrew manuscripts
were presented to Columbia at today’s meeting of the college trustees “which,
with those already in its possession makes Columbia’s collection the largest in
the country.”
1897(1st of Sivan, 5657): Rosh Chodesh
Sivan
1897: Between now and October 1 the
Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York will provide 35
excursions for underprivileged Jewish children and their mothers at no charge.
1898(11th of Sivan, 5658):
On the same day that she had passed away, 52 year old Rebecca Bloom the wife
Jacob Bloom was buried in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1898: In New
York City, Polish born Louis Picon and his wife gave birth to Molly Picon, two
of whose more famous roles were in “Milk & Honey” and “Fiddler on the
Roof.”
http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Picon-Molly.html
1898: In Kiev,
“an important cantor with a Chasidic background” and his wife gave birth to
Cantor, composer and ardent Zionist Leib Glantz who, in 1926, moved to the
United States where he perused a recording career, served as cantor at “Ohev
Shalom in New York,” “Sinai Temple” in Los Angeles and “Sha’arei Te’filah
synagogue” in Los Angeles while also serving as a professor of Jewish Music at
the University of Judaism and raising two sons – Kalman and Ezra – with his
wife Miriam Lipton before moving to Israel in 1954
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/leib-glantz/
1899:
Birthdate of Mary Phagan whose murder in 1913 would lead to the lynching of Leo
Frank.
1899: It was
reported today that in France, “the anti-Dreyfusites are not are not convinced
by the declaration of M. Ballot de Beaupre that Esterhazy is the traitor” and
while “they are all the more obstinate in refuse that Dreyfus is innocent…the
people are so tired of the affair that by the time Dreyfus has returned to
France angry passions will probably have subsided.”
1899:
Thirty-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney and author
David Werner Amram, the Philadelphia born son of Esther and Werner David Amram
married Beulah Brylaswski today.
1899: Mr. Karl
Blind wrote from Hempstead, UK, today that “In the appreciative biographical
notice concerning Eduard Simson, the fact of his Jewish origin has not been
mentioned. The days of his political
activity were, fortunately, days when no man of any intellectual value would
have disgrace himself by taking part in an ‘anti-Semitic’ movement.”
1899: Today marks the end of the 23
year tenure of Dr. Herman Baar as superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum. Dr. Baar had tendered his
resignation which was due to “old age” at the May meeting of the officers but
had stayed on until the first of June so that a suitable replacement might be
found.
1899: Today is scheduled to Dr. Hermann Barr’s last day as
Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a position he has held for 23 years
and is vacating due to his concerns about his health.
1899: Just weeks before his 78th birthday,
French poet and political leader who was a founder of Alliance Israelite
Universelle passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50D16FA395913738DDDA80894DE405B8985F0D3
1900: “More Rioting in Konitz” published today reported
that a contingent of troops has been dispatched to Konitz, formerly a city in
Poland which became “German” after the partition, where there have been fresh
outbreaks of violent “in connection with the death of the lad Winter, which the
townsfolk attributed to the Jews.”
1900: In Philadelphia, Sara Grosten and Abraham Berman gave
birth to Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts trained artist and WW I veteran Harry Grosten Berman, a post-war
resident of the Washington Square neighborhood and a member of the “Israeli
Lodge of the Judaic Union.”
https://www.askart.com/artist/Harry_G_Berman/28179/Harry_G_Berman.aspx
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Harry-G--Berman/38E1838923CAE81E/Biography
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Harry-G--Berman/38E1838923CAE81E
1901(14th of Sivan, 5661): Parashat Nasso
1901: It was reported today that Dr. Joseph Silverman, the
Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El of New York had delivered a paper on “The Jewish
Conception of Jesus” at the meeting of the Free Religious Association of
America who also said that he could say “Amen” to all that Professor Nathaniel
Schmidt of Cornell had said about Jesus because that was consistent with the
“historical conception of the Jews.
1902: “The second public meeting under the auspices of the
Israelite Alliance of America, in furtherance of the agitation to safeguard the
rights of American citizens in Russia, was held this afternoon, in the large
hall of the Educational Alliance, on East Broadway.”
1902: Birthdate of
Fargo, ND native and Temple University trained physician Dr. Maurice Borow, the
New Jersey gynecologist who received his license to practice medicine in
Florida in 1953 and “opened his office above Garl’s Drug Store in Ft. Myers
Beach, FL.
http://fl-fortmyersbeach.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/63/The-Professions?bidId=
1903(6th of Sivan, 5663): First Day of Shavuot
1903(6th of Sivan, 5663): Montefiore Isaacs, “one of the
best known and most popular bachelors in New York Society” and the nephew of
Sir Moses Montefiore passed away.
1904: A meeting of the committee of the New South Wales
Zionist League was held today at Synagogue Chambers in Sydney, Australia.
1904: Three French Army Officers are arrested in connection
with the Dreyfus Affair. However, the
verdict would not be overturned for two more years when Dreyfus would finally
be released from prison.
1905: Carl Jung discharged Sabina Spielrein, who had been
his first patient, today.
1905; Forty-year-old to Duff’s College graduate and gold
medal award winning distiller Albert M. Hanauer, the Pittsburgh, PA born son of
Meyer and Henrietta Hanauer married Carrie Marx today.
1905(27th of Iyar): Ninety-year-old Moravia born “Austrian Talmudist and historian
of literature” Isaac Hirsch Weiss,
author of Dor Dor Ve-Dorshav which is a five-volume history of “Halakha from
Biblica Times through the expulsion from Spain” in 1494, passed away
1906: In Trier, Italy, after the Jews were
attacked by a mob and threatened with death, Bishop Egelbert offered to save
those who were willing to be baptized. Most chose to drown themselves instead.
1906: A pogrom broke out in Bialystok, Russia.
1906: Birthdate of Lodz native and co-founder of Kibbutz
Ein Shemer Zvi Lurie who in 1924 made aliya, after which he served as general
secretary of Hashomer Hatzair, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence and
helped to establish Kol Yisrael.
1906: The Jewish
Herald reported today that “in Sydney, Australia, rabbis are not permitted
to receive proselytes on the board of congregation passes on them.”
1907(19th of Sivan, 5667): Sixty-seven-year-old
Jacob Freudenthal, the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Breslau who
was sent to England in 1888 where he developed an expertise on the philosophy
of Spinoza passed away today.
1907: IN the Yorkville section of NYC, building contractor
“Joseph Hecht and Rose (née Loewy) Hecht” gave birth to Oscar award winning
producer Harold Hecht.
1908(2nd of Sivan, 5668): Sixty-year-old Auguste
Seligman, the wife of Theobald Epstein and the mother of German mathematician
Paul Epstein passed away today.
1908: The Cantors’ Association of America, the “successor
to the Society of American Cantors” was organized today.
1909: Birthdate of Polish-American violinist and conductor
Szymon Goldberg.
1909: Dorothy Montefiore (Micholls) and Walter Samuel, 2nd
Viscount Bearsted gave birth to Army Major Marcus Richard Samuel, 3rd
Viscount Bearsted, the Oxford graduate and wounded veteran of WW II who served
as a director of several companies and corporations including Lloyds Bank.
1909: Birthdate of Yechezkel Kutscher, the native of
Slovaki who made Aliyah in 1931 where he became a philologist and linguist.
1910: During a debate Turkish Minister of Interior Talaat
Bey stated, "Some deputies have spoken on behalf of Muslim, Greek and
Armenian hospitals, but I note with regret no one has a word for the Jewish
hospital, which renders great services. It admits all persons sent to it by the
police without distinction of race and religion."
1911: Thirty-year-old theatrical producer Morris Gest, the Vilna born of
Louise and Leon Gest married Reina Victoria the daughter of David Belasco.
1911: Forty-four-year German movie producer and theatre
chain owner Paul Davidson founded “the Internationale
Film-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft” today.
1911:
Birthdate of Bernard Rothman better known as Benny Rothman a UK political
activist, most famous for his leading role in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout
in 1932 who passed away in 2002.
1911:
Orthopedic surgeon Harry Finkelstein, the graduate of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons at Columbia and the New York City born son of Ethel Baltan and
Louis Finkelstein married Rae B. Blum today in New York.
1912: The
“Fifth Annual Convention” of the Federation of Romanian Jews of America which
has 40,000 members is scheduled to begin today in New York City.
1912:
Josephine Sophia and Isidore Vehon, the son of Anna and Silas Abraham Vehon
were married today in Kansas City, MO after which they lived in Salina, KS.
1913: Sylvia
Annenberg, Beatrice Brown and Ruth Cohen are among those scheduled to be
confirmed this morning at Temple Sholom in Chicago.
1913: Leopold
Kessler opened the English Zionist Federation’s conference today.
1914(7th
of Sivan, 5674): 2nd day of Shavuot
1914: “B’rith
Abraham’s Growth” published today described plans for the upcoming 28th
annual convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham to be held in
Atlantic City which will be attended by 1,400 delegates from all over the
United States representing 200,000 members in 720 lodges.
1915: As of
today, President Wilson has not responded to a telegram from the Independent
Order of Sons of Israel asking him to intercede on behalf of Leo Frank and his
appeal for clemency.
1915: Today,
“at the final session of the meeting of the United States Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of B’rith Sholom…a resolution was unanimously adopted
advising Governor John M. Slaton of George that 50,000 members of the society
join with other bodies in asking him to commute the sentence of Leo M. Frank to
imprisonment, so that if his innocence is later established the fair name of
Georgia may remain unstained.”
1915: Today,
the United States Grand Lodge of the Order of B’rith Sholom adopted a
resolution presented by Judge Aaron J. Levy of New York” that “provides for the
establishment of a Jewish National Congress to which all Jewish societies shall
send delegates for the discussion and improvement of conditions affect the Jews
in this country?
1915: Although
the George Prison Commission had announced yesterday afternoon that the hearing
concerning the sentencing of Leo M. Frank was closed, it “decided today to
reopen” the case “to hear opponents of commutation.”
1915: Today,
Herbert Clay of Marietta, GA, Solicitor General of Blue Ridge Circuit head a
party of fifty of his fellow-townsmen” that included ex-Governor Joseph M.
Brown and Elmer Phagan the uncle of Mary Phagan “who filed into the audience
chamber of the Georgia Prison and asked that the death sentence again Leo M.
Frank be carried out.
1915: It was
reported today that Jim “Conley, who was
sentenced to twelve months as accessory to the murder of Mary Phagan” is
scheduled to “go free tomorrow getting two months off for good conduct.”
1915: Leo Frank and Jim Conley are scheduled to meet
tomorrow afternoon at a hearing “to be held in the jail in the case of Mrs.
Coleman, mother of Mary Phagan against the National Pencil Factory” which she
is suing for $10,000 in damages for the death of her daughter.”
1915: As of
today, the new officers of the Federation of Polish Hebrews of American
published today including President Jacob Carlinger, Secretary David Troutman
and Treasurer Morris Kaufman.
1915: The
resolutions adopted by the Federation of Polish Hebrews of America published
today included an expression of opposition “to laws further restricting
immigration” and a call for “the holding of an American Jewish congress as soon
as possible to help the Jews in war-ridden Europe and protesting against
mistreatment of such Jews.”
1916:
Department store executive Samuel J. Bloomingdale who was educated at the
Columbia University and School of Mines, the New York City born son of Hattie
Collenberger and Lyman Gustavus Bloomingdale, married Rita Goodman today
1916:
Birthdate of New Bedford, MA native Boris Young who settled in San Francisco
where he was an executive of the American Friends of Tel Aviv and active member
of the UJA and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
1916: The
nomination of Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to be an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States was confirmed by the Senate in executive
session this afternoon by a vote of 47 to 22 with only one Democrat voting
against confirmation.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/louis-d-brandeis
1917: Henri
Bergson who would later become a member of the Clemenceau Cabinet was “elected
vice president of the France-Norway Committee” today.
1917: Herbert
Merton Jessel, who would receive the Order of St. Michael and St. George in
January of 1918, was created a baronet today in the United Kingdom.
1917: Eighty-nine-year-old
Henry Lewis, whose family name had originally been “Solomons,” the son of Ann
Levy was buried today in: Makaraka, Gisborne, New Zealand.”
1917: Sir
Philip Magnus was created a baronet today in the United Kingdom.
1917:
Princeton University All-American football player, Arthur “Bluey” Bluethenthal
who had joined the French Foreign Legion in 1916 and “served at the Battle of
Verdun with the French 129th Infantry Division” with such
distinction that he was award the Croix de Guerre with Star joined “the
Escadrille Breguet 227 of the Lafayette Flying Corps” today.
1917: Charles
Rosenthal and Philp Sassoon received the Order of St. Michael and St. George
today.
1917: Premiere
of “The Princess of Neutralia” a German silent comedy filmed by cinematographer
Karl Freund featuring Julius Falkenstein.
1917:
According to Henry Morgenthau of the American Jewish Relief Committee
“$10,000,000 must be raised in the United States” by today “if the millions of
Jews in the eastern war zone” are “to be saved from starvation.”
1917: It was
reported today that reform Jews had agreed “that Orthodox dietary laws” would
be observed “in all Jewish charitable institutions and hospitals” as part of
the agreement that has led to “the unifications of all Jewish charities” in
Brooklyn.
1917: The
campaign by the American Jewish Relief Committee to raise $10,000,000 “for the
benefits of Jews suffering from the war” to which Julius Rosenwald, President
of Sears, Roebuck & Co. has promised to contribute $100,000 for each
$1,000,000 collected, is scheduled to come to an end today.
1917: A
memorandum is published describing the distress of the Jews in Belgrade.
According to the document, “communities are destroyed, thousands are ruined and
compelled to leave their homes.”
1918(21st
of Sivan, 5678): Parashat Beha’aloctcha
1918(21st
of Sivan, 5678): Teacher and author Arye-Kahyim Godldin the son of a Latvian
shochet and mohel passed away today in Lodz.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/05/arye-khayim-goldin.html
1918: The
Ninth annual convention of the Kehillah opens at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan.
1919: The
National Conference of Jewish Charities ended today with a business meeting at
the Hotel Breakers in Atlantic City, NJ.
1919: In
Queens, NY, “Nellie (Baron) Graham, a schoolteacher, and Leon Graham, a
stockbroker” gave birth to “Judith Graham Pool, a physiologist whose scientific
discoveries revolutionized the treatment of hemophilia.”
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/judith-graham-pool
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pool-judith-graham
1919(3rd
of Sivan, 5679): Forty-two-year-old composer Manuel Klein, the London born son
of dance teacher Adelaide Soman and professor of foreign language Herman Klein,
the husband of Helen Klein and father of Marjorie and Gerald Klein who in 1896
moved to the United States where “he was the music director for David Belasco's
theatre company in New York City for several years” before becoming music
direct at the New York Hippodrome Theatre and after a dispute with Jacob
Schubert became music director of London’s Gaiety passed away today from the
traumatic effects of a Zepplin raid on London and the death of his brother Charles
that took place during the sinking of the Lusitania by the Germans.
1920:
Birthdate of David Samuilovich Kaufman, “one of the most important Russian
poets of the post-World War II era.”
1920: Attorney
Harriet B. Lowenstein, the “first woman to obtain the degree of CPA” in New
York Sate, left the United States today “at the head of a staff of accountants
for the purpose of establishing uniform accounting systems or American Jewish
relief activities” on a trip that would lead to her marriage in London to attorney
Jonah Goldstein.
1920: Today,
in Pittsburgh, members of “the Beechview Hebrew Congregation Beth El”
unanimously approved “a constitution and by-laws.”
1921: Zionist
authorities and members of the Joint Distribution Committee for American Jewish
Relief are holding negotiations that would establish “a mortgage bank in
Palestine” to which the committee is reportedly ready support with financing of
$400,000.
1922(5th
of Sivan, 5682): Erev Shavuot
1922: NYU
trained physician Michael A. Cohn, the son of Abraham and Zissel (Kornick) Cohn
and a supporter of HIAS and the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged
as well as a “writer in English and Yiddish on social, political and economic
questions” married Annie Maretsky today.
1922: The
Isaacson Company which was formed by M.E. Speilman, Mrs. Hyman B. Isaacson and
Harry D. Bornstein following the death of Hyman B. Isaacson and the dissolution
of the firm in which they all had a stake, today, at their Fifth Avenue
location, present “their Fall Line…of high grade Juvenile Novelty suits in a
variety of weaves and patterns at popular prices.”
1923: The
articles published in today’s issue of The National Jewish Weekly edited
by Isaac Landman included “Mr. Jacob of Virginia, “Poor Man’s Luck, “
“Arbitration in the Business World” and “A Walking Encyclopedia.”
1923: “The
Jewish Tribune in an open letter to William R. Hearst, published today,
criticizes him for endorsing Henry Ford for President,” pointed out that Mr. Hearst in his
publications has consistently opposed Mr. Ford’s attitude toward the Jews and
expresses wonder that he should not suggest him as a candidate for President of
the United States.
1924: Today,
the law firm of Stanchfeld and Levy merged with Chadbourne, Babbitt and Wallace to create
the firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield and Levy with Yale graduate and Columbia
trained attorney Louis Samter Levy, the Forkland, AL born son of Jennie Samter
and Maurice Levy as a named partner.
1924:
Thirty-year-old illustrator Aaron Broun, the London born son of Abraham and
Lean (Santman) Broun married Sadie Cohn today in New York City.
1925(9th
of Sivan, 5685): Seventy-five-year-old Hannah Heller Sanger, the wife of Samuel
Sanger and the mother of Carrie, Charles, Asher, Alex and Eli Sanger passed
away today after which she was buried in the Hebrew Rest Cemetery in Waco, TX.
1926: A
farewell banquet is scheduled to held his evening for the Hakoah Team which
played its last game of the tour on Decoration Day at the Polo Grounds.
1926: Benny
Leonard is the chairman of a committee sponsoring tonight’s scheduled
testimonial dinner being given in honor of the Hakoah Soccer team at the
Pennsylvania Hotel, on the eve of the team's departure from the United States.
(As reported by JTA)
1926: Bernard
Flexner, President of the Palestine Economic Corporation, announced that the
organization’s primary activity will be to help provide financing for the
hydroelectric station on the Jordan River and the necessary transmission lines
to connect the existing Diesel engine power stations at Tel-Aviv, Haifa and
Tiberias. The Palestine Economic Corporation was organized in February, 1925.
1926: Bertha
Solomon “was admitted to the Johannesburg Bar, becoming one of the first
practicing women advocates in South Africa and the first woman to plead a case
before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein.”
1926: In
Portsmouth, UK, Morry and Becky Morris gave birth to Aubrey Jack Steinberg who
gained fame as actor Aubrey Morris.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/aubrey-morris?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
1926:
Birthdate of Norma Jean Baker, who gained fame as Marilyn Monroe, the actress
who converted to Judaism before she married playwright Arthur Miller.
1926(19th
of Sivan, 5686): Hungarian political leader and government official Vilmos
Vázsonyi died today after being assaulted “notorious anti-Semite Laszlo
Vannay.”
1927: Hugo and
Mathilde Gutmann gave birth to Helen Eakley
1927: Winifred
“Winnie” Mark and Victory Aubrey Lownes, Jr, the “parents of Playboy executive
Victor Lownes III” were married today.
1927: Rabbi
Arthur S. Montaz gave the invocation this evening before dinner at this
evening’s session of the Fourth Western Interstate Conference in Spokane,
Washington.
1928:
Birthdate of Lazarus “Larry” Ziedel the Montreal native who played hockey for
the 1952 Stanley Cup winning Detroit Red Wings, the Chicago Black Hawks and the
Philadelphia Flyers.
1928: Attorney
General Albert Ottinger’s investigation of complaints by the Hebrew Religious
Protective Association against certain cemeteries was resumed today when
Assistant Attorney General Robert S. Conklin questioned Philip Gresner,
Superintendent of the Baron Hirsch Cemetery at Port Richmond, Staten Island,
about complaints by plot owners that charges were increased without warning and
that even “funeral processions had been halted to demand payment in arrears.
1929: Twenty-five-year-old
Baltimore native Bernard Jacob Bamberger received his Doctor of Divinity degree
from Hebrew Union College today.
1929(22nd
of Iyar, 5689): Parashat Bamidbar
1929(22nd
of Iyar, 5689): Seventy-three-year-old New York political leader and former
U.S. Congressman Henry Mayer Goldfogle passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/06/02/91801691.html?pageNumber=26
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/henry-mayer-goldfogle
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000260
1930(5th
of Sivan, 5690): Erev Shavuot
1930: The
funeral Judge Hugo Pam of the Superior Court in Chicago who is survived by his
sisters Miss Carrie Pam and Mrs. Walter Blumenthal is scheduled to take place
today followed by burial in Rose Hill Cemetery
1930:
Birthdate of Jo Amar. Jo Amar, a Moroccan-born Jewish singer whose melding of
Andalusian and Israeli musical influences would make him a star in Israel and a
popular performer in Jewish communities around the world. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 79.
1931: “The
Second Little Show,” “a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music
mostly by Arthur Schwartz” opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theater where it
ran for 136 performances.
1931(16th
of Sivan, 5691): In the North Hills section of Pensacola, FL the cornerstone
was laid today for a building that would be home to Temple Beth-El, a reform
congregation which is reportedly “he oldest Jewish house of worship” in the
Sunshine State.
1931:
Birthdate of Ira Pastan, the husband of poet Linda Pastan who “was awarded the
International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine.”
1932: Franz
Von Pappen, who in 1933 would serve as vice chancellor under Hitler and who
believed he could manage Hitler for his own ends, “succeeded today in form a
government of ‘national concentration’ which had been envisaged by President
Hindenberg.
1933(7th of
Sivan, 5693): Second Day of Shavuot
1933: The
League of Nations approves The Bernheim petition which is a protest aimed at
Nazi anti-Jewish legislation in German Upper Silesia.
1933: Martin
Riesenburger began serving ‘the Jewish Community in Berlin” where he served as
the rabbi “in the Jewish old people's home in Grosse Hamburger Strasse and in
the Jewish Hospital.”
1933: Germany introduces the Law for Reduction of
Unemployment, which provides for marriage loans and other incentives to
genetically “fit” Germans. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1933:American
modernist writer Gertrude Stein published her autobiography, ironically titled The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas,
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/01/1933/gertrude-stein
1934: After a
prolonged oratorical assault on "reactionary aristocrats, the
intelligentsia and the philistine bourgeoisie," today “the Nazi campaign
against "carpers and killjoys" seems to be shifting back again to the
Jews.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/06/02/94536055.html?pageNumber=9
1935(29th
of Iyar, 5695): Parashat Bamidbar
1935: It was
announced today that “proceeds of the 22nd annual Palestine Flower
Day” which is scheduled to take place tomorrow “will be used to aid the program
for acquiring land in Palestine as national property.”
1935: “The
Golden Shirts, a nationalist organization headed by Nicolas Rodriquez announced
that it will energetically seek all means to combat Jewish activities in
Mexico” including withdrawal of citizenship for Jews living in Mexico,
forbidding Jews to participate in politics and forcing Jews who own factories
to turn them over to “Mexican Laborers.”
1936(11th of
Sivan, 5696): As Arab attacks continue, snipers fired on two buses near
Jerusalem, killing one Jewish rider and wounding two others. In the evening, a Jewish constable in Givat
Shaoul was shot at by unknown assailants.
This is the same district of Jerusalem where another Jews was killed
yesterday.
1936: Leaders
of the current Arab uprising reportedly have sent letters to wealthy Arabs
“threatening their lives and homes unless they” provide economic support for
the uprising. In response, the targets
of the demands are “fleeing to Egypt, Lebanon and Europe.
1936: “A 50-year-old
Jewish merchant, Moszek Laufer, his wife and three other customers were wounded
this morning when a bomb exploded in a baker at Milsona” which is near Warsaw
and “has long be a center of the anti-Semitic National Radicals.”
1936: “H.H.
Trusted, speaking for the mandatory power assured the League of Nations
permanent mandates commission this afternoon” that “the British Government
regards the establishment of order in Palestine as of first importance and will
not be deflected from its policy by riots or threats.”
1936:
Alexander Kowalskis was sentenced to “two months in prison for singing
anti-Semitic songs in Warsaw’s streets and courtyards” which were intended to
stir up racial hatreds.
1936: Arab
snipers fired on Jewish motor vehicles in Palestine including two buses outside
of Jerusalem which one Jew dead and two more wounded.
1936: At the
conclusion of its conference today, “the Zionist Federation of Great Britain
and Ireland…expressed the opinion that no useful purpose would be “served by
the appointment of a royal commission to investigate the grievance of Arabs and
Jews in Palestine” and that the cause of peace would be better served by the
government taking “steps to make possible greatly accelerated immigration of
Jews in Palestine and Trans-Jordan.
1937:
Birthdate of Muhammed Wattad, “an Israeli Arab politician who served as an MK
between 1981 and 1988.
1937: Birthdate of Yisrael
Meir Lau, the Polish born rabbi whose father died at Treblinka, who became the
Chairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv.
1938: The Isaac Adler Prize which
was founded in 1934 by Mrs. Frida Adler in memory of her husband, for 1938 was
awarded to Dr. Wendell M. Stanley for his work on the isolation of
crystallizable factor which has developed a new approach in the study of viruses…”
1938: Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian
artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics
Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.
1939: It was reported today that “The Palestine authorities have started
wholesale arrests of Jews suspected of the shooting and bombing of the last few
days in which a half dozen Arabs have been killed and a score wounded.”
1939: Captain Gustav Shroeder of the Hamburg American liner Saint Louis
informed the Cuban authorities yesterday that he feared a "collective
suicide pact" among his 917 German Jewish refugee passengers, who are
scheduled to sail back to Hamburg with today, Cuba having refused to admit
them.
1940(24th of Iyar, 5700): Parashat Bamidbar
1940(24th of Iyar, 5700): Eighty-three-year-old Henry Belais,
the brother and business partner of David Belais who had been a business
partner with metallurgical chemist Sigmund Cohn passed away in New York.
1940: It was reported today that the Jewish Institute of Religion plans
on conferring an honorary degree of Doctor Hebrew Letters on Rabbi Moses Schorr
who is currently being held in a Soviet prison
1941(6th of Sivan, 5701): Shavuot
1941: “The outbreak of mob violence against Baghdad Jewry known as the
Farhud (Farhud is an Arabic term best translated as “pogrom” or “violent
dispossession”) erupted” today” which led to two days of anti-Semitic violence,
murder and of course looting that marked the beginning of the end for this
ancient Jewish community.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-farhud
1941: German mathematician Kurt Hensel, the grandson of Fanny Mendelssohn
and therefore a descendant of Moses Mendelssohn passed away.
1941:
In Baghdad, Pro Axis Rashid Ali,
began his revolution against the British by attacking the Jewish community.
Approximately 150 Jews were murdered and 800 injured during two days of
rioting. British troops stationed outside the city did not intervene. The
pogrom is known as the Farhood.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=16275
1941: The
Battle of Crete comes to an end with German victory. There were fewer than four hundred Jews
living in Crete at this time. “It was not until June of 1944, and almost as an
afterthought, that the Jews of Crete were arrested and sent to Herakleion,
where they were put on the ship Tanais, together with some 600 Greek and
Italian prisoners. For some years the details of the last hours of the Tanais
and the fate of its crew and human cargo was not clear. What was known is that
the ship had been sunk and that all had perished. Evidence has now appeared
through the Foreign Office in London that in fact the Tanais had been sighted
by a British U-Boat and was given two torpedo broadsides and sank within 15
minutes.”
1941: The
deportation of Bosnian Jews to regional concentration camps begins. By November, 14,000 Jews will have been
deported to these camps.
1941: Birthdate of Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan, a psychiatrist
who invented an influential approach to teaching children with autism and other
developmental problems. (As reported by David Corcoran)
1942: The story of a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum, (who
escaped from the Chelmno death camp after being forced to bury bodies as they
were thrown out of the gas vans), was published in the underground Polish
Socialist newspaper Liberty Brigade.
The West now knew the "bloodcurdling news ... about the slaughter of
Jews," and it had a name-Chelmno.
1942: The
World Jewish Congress, based in New York, announces at a press conference that
Eastern Europe is being turned into "a vast slaughterhouse for
Jews." As with the Sudan and Dafur
sixty years later, the world “does not hear.”
1942: Justice Frankfurter voted with the majority in Betts
v. Brady, a landmark case involving the right to counsel which was decided
today. (Ironically, Getts would be overturned by Gideon v. Wainwright whih
would find Justice Goldberg, the “Jewish Judge” voting in the majority.)
1942:
Between June 1 and June 30 more than 23,000 Jews are gassed at the Belzec and
Sobibór death camps
1942: During June, Auschwitz
is ravaged by an epidemic of typhus.
1942(16th
of Sivan, 5702): Germans invade Jewish hospitals in Sosnowiec, Poland,
murdering newborns and tearing patients from operating tables. Ambulatory
patients are sent to Auschwitz and gassed.
1942: A
young Sosnowiec Jew named Harry Blumenfrucht is captured and endures two weeks
of Nazi torture. He refuses to name his
co-conspirators in a scheme to steal weapons. His suffering ends when he is
hanged.
1942 (16th of Sivan, 5702 Jews
from Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland, led by Rabbi Isaac and gathered in a Jewish
cemetery, defy their Nazi captors when they hold hands, dance, and drink
"to life." The enraged Germans shoot and disembowel the entire group.
1942: At
Lutsk, Ukraine, Jewish resistance is led by Joel Szczerbat
1942: Starting
in the first week of June, three thousand Jews at Pilica, Poland, are deported
to Belzec, but several hundred manage to escape before the journey is complete
1942: In
Norway, Jews are given identity cards stamped with the letter "J."
1942(16th of Sivan, 5702): Mordecai
Gebirtig, a Kraków carpenter whose songs of freedom are sung throughout Poland,
is executed at Belzec.
1942: During the first week in
June, Polish
Jews are deported from Hrubieszów to the Sobibór death camp. Another 500 will
be deported the following week
1942: Starting
in June, Warsaw's underground newspaper, Liberty Barricade, published by
the Polish Socialist Party, reveals Nazi gassing activity at the Chelmno death
camp
1942: I.G.
Farben's Buna-Monowitz synthetic-rubber and oil works opens near Auschwitz
1942(16th of Sivan, 5702):
Between today and the 7th of June seven thousand Jews
from Kraków, Poland, are murdered at the Belzec extermination camp.1942: First
mention ever in the press, in this case the underground Warsaw newspaper
"Liberty", of the ‘bloodcurdling news coming out of Chelmno.' Seven
Thousand Jews were sent from Cracow to Belzec. On this day tracks began to
be built connecting to a new death camp, Treblinka. Treblinka had been prepared
for the Jews of central Poland.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):
Jews of Dalmatia, Serbia, are transferred to the island of Rab, which is
off the coast of Croatia.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):
Starting today and lasting throughout the first two weeks in June 10,000
Jews from Lvov lose their lives in a combination of street assaults and
killings at Janówska, Ukraine,
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703): During liquidation of the ghetto at
Sosnowiec, Poland, which began on June 1 and ended on June 6, a spirited
resistance is led by Zvi Dunski. Ill-armed Jews fight back as deportations
proceed.
1943 (27th of Iyar, 5703: Seventy-year-old
Sallie Goldfinger Kahane, the Philadelphia born daughter of Charles Ignatz
Goldfinger and Celia Raucher Goldfinger and the wife of Max B. Kahane whom she
married in 1889 passed away today in Chicago after which she was buried at the
Waldheim Cemetery.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):
The liquidation of the Jewish ghetto at Buczacz, Ukraine begins. It will
end on June 6. Some Jews resist and
escape.
1943(27th of Iyar, 5703):
Actor Leslie Howard dies when the civilian plane he is flying on from
Lisbon to England is shot down by German fighters. The reason for the attack remains shrouded in
the cloak and dagger world of W.W.II.
Born Leslie Howard Stainer in
1893, Howard’s parents were Hungarian Jews.
He served in WW I and gained fame in both English and American
films. He is best remembered for his
portrayal of Ashley Wilkes, the classic cavalier in “Gone With the Wind.”
1943(27th of Iyar:
Just five weeks short of his 44th birthday, Wilfrid B. Israel, a
Berlin born businessman who worked to rescue children from the Nazis, died
aboard BOAC Flight 777, the same plane that was carrying Leslie Howard.
1944: An
American public opinion poll indicates that 57 percent of Americans anticipate
"a widespread campaign in this country" against Jews.
1944: From
today through June 30, 13,500 Jews are deported from Miskolc, Hungary, to
Auschwitz.
1944: With 55,000 unused United States quota slots
from Occupied Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt agrees to allow only 1000
Jewish refugees into the United States. They will be housed at Fort Ontario in
Oswego, New York
1944: After having been arrested on May 27, Mrs. Joel Brand
and Rudolf Kastner are released by the Arrow Cross.
1945: Out of a
total of 77 of the “staff” of the Beslen Concentration camp arrested by the
British in April, another 17 had died of typhus as of today.
1945: Birthdate of Rabbi Menachem Froman, the sabra who as
paratrooper helped reunify Jerusalem in 1967 and then went on to help found
Gush Emunim after which he worked to develop a peace accord with Hamas “known
as the Froman-Amayreh Agreement.”
1945: In Switzerland David Frankfurter was granted a pardon
for having assassinated the “Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm
Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.
1945: Displaced
Jews at Buchenwald, Germany establish Kibbutz Buchenwald, an agricultural
training center designed to help young Jews succeed at kibbutz
(communal) life
1945:
Public-opinion polls taken during June indicate that Americans consider Jews a
far greater threat to America than they consider German or Japanese Americans.
1945(20th of Sivan, 5705):
Seventy-three-year-old Eduard Bloch who treated Adolf Hitler and hismother
Klara before WW I passed away today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3816350,00.html
1945: Kibbutz
Nili is established on the former estate of Nazi big-wig Julius Streicher, near
Pleikershof, Germany, to train Jewish displaced persons in agriculture and
provide schooling for Jewish boys and girls.
1946: “Somewhere in the Night” directed by Joseph L.
Mankiewicz who also co-authored the script was released in the United States
today.
1946: Following
the murder of two Jews in Biala Podlaska, Poland, the town's remaining Jews
began leaving the country during June.
1946: Ion
Antonescu, the anti-Semitic former dictator of Romania, is executed after being
convicted of war crimes.
1947: “James G. McDonald, former member of the
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry for Palestine who returned last week from a
visit to that country, said tonight that its arid southern area the Negev could
be restored to cultivation by irrigation and take care of tens of thousands of
Jewish families now in camps in Europe.
1948: An Egyptian Ministerial Order carrying today’s date
“declared that all laws in force during the Mandate would continue to be in
force in the Gaza Strip, the piece of Palestinian territory conquered by the
Egyptian Army which they held on to for 19 years without any demands by the
people of Gaza that it be given to them as part of an independent Arab state.
1948: The Arab
states and Israel agreed to a cease-fire. After two weeks of fighting, the
Arabs realized that pushing the Jews into the sea would not be such an easy
matter after all.
1948:
According to today’s Scotsman, 'After the Jewish surrender over 1000
non-combatant residents were evacuated to Katamon, south-west of Jerusalem.”
1949: Today
marks the start of “UJA Month” a major fundraising event for the United Jewish
Appeal.
1950(16th
of Sivan, 5710): Sixty-six-year-old Solomon Stan Bauch who in 1900 came to the
United States where he earned a medical degree at Long Island College Hospital
and developed a specialty in treating tuberculosis and who was the Romanian
born son of Rose Cohen and Meusha Chaim Bauch passed away today.
1951:
“Sirocco” a film based on Coup de Grace written by Joseph Kessel, directed by
Curtis Bernhardt and co-starring Lee J. Cobb was released in the United Kingdom
today.
1951: In
Washington, DC, Milton S. and Berte (Luber) Garfinkle gave birth University of
Pennsylvania graduate Adam Garfinkle, a speechwriter for Secretaries of State
Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice who has taught at several university in Tel
Aviv University while raise three children – Gabriel, Hanna and Nathaniel –
with his wife Priscilla Elizabeth Taylor.
1951: In
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Nicole (née Raffel) and Serge Dassault
gave birth to French political leader Olivier Dassault, the grandson on Marcel
Dassault.
1952: Funeral
services are scheduled to held at “The Riverside” for attorney Louis B. Boudin,
the husband of Anna Pavitt Boudin with whom he had two daughters, Eleanor and
Vera, and a leader of the National ORT League who was a supporter of the Hotel
Trades Council.
1953(18th of
Sivan, 5713): Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, a native of Kovno who served as
Dayan of the London Beth Din for 20 years, passed away today in Jerusalem.
1954: Twenty-seven-year-old
Robert L. Lehman, the teenage escapee from Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Veteran and
Long Island University honor student was ordained as a rabbi today after
completing his studies at Hebrew Union College and began his career at
Baltimore’s Temple Oheb Shalom as an assistant rabbisworking under Rabbi
Abraham Shaw.
1954: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Jacob Cohen, the husband
of Frances Utitz Cohen Z”L who passed away on May 29.
1956: Fifty-four-year-old Newark, NJ native and NYU trained
attorney Lionel P. Kristeller the WW I veteran who was the husband of Helen
Salmon Kristeller retired as president of New Jersey Bar Association.
1958: “The
Lineup” a police movie directed by Don Siegel and starring Eli Wallach was
released today in the United States.
1958: In
Trenton, NJ, at Adath Israel Synagogue Rabbi Joshua S. Kohn officiated at the
wedding of Maxine E. Rosenthal and Harvard graduate Murray A. Lampert.
1958: This
afternoon, at the Madison Jewish Center in Brooklyn, Rabbi Charles Ozer
officiated at the wedding of Susan Devra Shulman and Geoffrey Richstone.
1959: It was
reported today that Professor David Rudavsky of NYU and Samuel H. Dinsky of the
Jewish Education Committee of New York had compiled figures showing that “of
the 335,000 Jewish boys and girls of high school age in the United States, only
42,000 get some kind of Jewish education and of those half go to school one day
a week, (Editor’s note – And from the view of sixty years ago, one can see
where the seeds for many of the problems of the American Jewish community were
planted)
1960(6th
of Sivan, 5720): As JFK tries to nail down enough delegates to win the
Democratic Party nomination for President, Jews observe Shavuot.
1961: In San
Francisco, Doris Feigenbaum Fisher and Don Fisher, the co-founders of Gap, Inc.
gave birth to John J. Fisher who owns several athletic teams including the
Oakland Athletics baseball team.
1962: Leo
Frederick Rayfiel, who has served on the federal bench for the last 15 years,
appeared as witness today in the trial of State Supreme court Justice J.
Vincent Keogh and former assistant U.S. attorney Elliot Kahaner who are charged
with having attempted to fix a case being heard by Judge Rayfiel.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50612FD3C5D167B93C0A9178DD85F468685F9
1963:
Birthdate of Belarus native Arkadi Duchin who made Aliyah at the age of 15
where he a popular “singer-song writer, musical producer and the husband of
Sima Duchin.
1963(9th
of Sivan, 5723): Parashat Naso
1963(9th
of Sivan, 5723): Seventy-eight-year-old Samuel
Brimberg, the Warsaw born son of Bessie and Joseph Brimberg, the husband of
Florence Rosenberg and the father of Shirley and Elaine Rita Brimberg who in
1901 came to the United States where he became a director of the National
Wholesale Women’s Wear Association and Merchants Ladies Garment Association,
trustee of Beth Israel Hospital in NYC and a member of the Businessmen’s
Council of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of NYC passed away
today.
1964: U.S.
release date of “Kapò” an award winning Italian moved about the Holocuast
co-starring Susan Strasberg, the American Jewish actress who created the role
of Anne Frank on Broadwa.
1964: Estelle
Sommers got her start in the dance world when she transformed her first
husband's Cincinnati piece-goods retail store into a dancewear specialty shop.
1965:
Militants attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftah.
1967: Having
seen its plans to organize an international flotilla to break the blockade of
the Straits of Tiran come to naught, the United States government shifts its
policy. Previously, President Johnson
cautioned Israel not to fire the first shot in even of war. On this day, when Secretary of State Rusk was
asked if the U.S. would restrain Israel from taking precipitate actions, he
replied, “ I do not think it is our business to restrain anybody.” On this same date, Abba Eban realized that
diplomacy would not work and that war looked like the only viable option. However, the months of diplomatic negotiation
had earned Israel the support of the U.S. government, support it would need in
the coming weeks when the Soviet Union sought to reverse Israel’s military
successes.
1967: In response to the mounting tensions and
popular demand, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol forms a government of national unity
with membership from the total spectrum of Israeli political. Moshe Dyan is named Defense Minister and
meets with Chief of Staff Rabin who outlines the military’s plans. Dyan approves that which had already been
prepared.
1968(5th
of Sivan, 5728): Parashat Bamidbar; Erev Shavuot
1968(5th
of Sivan, 5728): Ninety-four-year-old Albert Bachrach, who worked in Bachrach’s
clothing store which had been started by his father Henry, passed away today
after which he was buried at Fairlawn Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois.
1968:
Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson", theme for the hit movie “The
Graduate,” was number one on the charts.
1969: In
Boston, Rabbi Roland Gittelson officiated at the wedding of NYU graduated Phyllis
Fox and 2nd year Columbia Law School student William F. Wolff 3rd
whose late father “was a senior partner of the New Yor law firm of Greenbaum,
Wolff and Ernst.”
1969: At Temple
Beth-El, Rabbi Jacob P. Rubin officiated at the wedding of Smith College and
Harvard educated Rosaline Vee Avnet, “a daughter of Lester F. Avent, Chairman
of the board of Avnet, Inc a leading producer in the electronics industry and Yale
and Harvard educated attorney “Simon Lazarus 3rd, the grandson of
the late Simon Lazarus, the Columbus department store mogul and executive director
o the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs” whose boss in Bess Meyerson
Grant, who gained fame as Bess Meyerson, the first Jewish person to be named “Miss
America,”
1969: Seventy-six-year-old
Austrian born, Columbia University graduate and veteran of the U.S Cavalry, Dr.
Frank Tannenbaum, “the professor emeritus of Latin American history, founder of
and director of University Seminars at his alma mater who also had time to
become a criminology teacher passed away today which would have been the 52nd
anniversary of his wedding to Esther Abramson
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/02/90108763.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0032885511404382
1970(26th
of Iyar, 5730): Seventy-four-year-old Brooklyn Law School and CPA Abraham
Kraditor, the veteran of both world wars and the wife of the former Henrietta
Lipschutz who “was former national commander of the Jewish War Veterans
suffered from a fatal heart attack today.
1971:
Birthdate of Tel Aviv native and accomplished linguist Ghil’ad Zuckermann the
“Professor of Linguistics and Chair of Endangered Languages at the University
of Adelaide, Australia
1971(8th
of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three year of old New York City native and textile
manufacturer Jack H. Fields, the ‘president of Garden State Prints’ and “the
grand secretary of the Free Sons of Israel” passed away today at the Beacon
Hotel on Broadway.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/06/03/79704307.pdf
1971: The
Broadway production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” a musical based on
the popular cartoon co-starring Bob Balaban as the blanket-hold Linus opened
today at the John Golden Theatre.
1972: U.S.
premiere of “The War Between Men and Women” directed by Melville Shavelson,
produced by Danny Arnold with music by Marvin Hamlisch and featuring Herb
Edelman as “Howard Mann.”
1973(1st
of Sivan, 5733): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1973(1st
of Sivan, 5733): Sixty-four-year-old Lillian Rosenthal Elmark, the wife of
U.VA. graduate Harry Eugene Elmark the president and editor of the Washington
Star Syndicate which publishes Washington, DC’s evening paper, passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/02/archives/mrs-harry-e-elmlark.html
1974(11th
of Nisan, 5734): Parashat Nasso
1974(11th
of Nisan): Eighty-one-year-old economist Dr. Abraham D. H. Kaplan, “a former
senior staff member of the Brookings Institute,” “former chairman of the
Economics Department at the University of Denver and the author of several
works including Big Business in a Competitive System and Small
Business: Its Places and Problems who raised two children – Stephen and
Nancy – with his wife Bella, passed away today.
1974: Soviet
authorities thwarted plans for an international symposium “on the basis of
scientific seminar of physics of scientist-refusenik Professor Alexander
Voronel.
1974:
Seventeen Jewish activists, including Joseph Beilin, Anatoly Novikov and Lev
Gendin staged a demonstration outside of the Moscow “Intourist Hotel” today.
1975:
Refusenik Sender Levinson of Bendery, Moldavis was sentenced to six years in a
labor camp for ‘speculation.’”
1978(25th
of Iyar, 5738): Eighty-two-year-old New York City native and Cornell graduate
Charles Marion Levy the foreign service officer who attended the University of
Lyons passed away toda.
1978: Broadway
premier of “Tribute” directed by Arthur Storch and produced by Morton Gottlieb.
1979(6th of
Sivan, 5739): First Day of Shavuot
1979: A week
after being released in the United States, “The Brood” a sci-fi thriller
directed and written by David Cronenberg and music by Howard Shore was released
today in Canada.
1980: Actress
and singer Barbra Streisand appeared at an ACLU Benefit in California
1980: Today,
“a new sports hall of fame built in Eger” was named for Ferenc Kemény the
Hungarian born Jew who was a founding member of the International Olympic
Committee and who avoided beings sent to the death camps in 1944 by committing
suicide.
1981(28th
of Iyar, 5741): As Israelis celebrate Yom Yerushalayim they contemplate what
kind of friend the newly inaugurated Ronal Regan will make for Israel.
1981(28th
of Iyar, 5741): Ninety-year-old “Tamar de Sola Pool, an author and educator and
a former president of Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization, died today at
Lenox Hill Hospital.” (As reported by Walter H. Waggoner)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pool-tamar-de-sola
1981: Filming
of “The King of Comedy” co-starring Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall and Sandra
Bernhard began today.
1981: Naim
Khader, the PLO representative in Belgium, was assassinated in Brussels.
1983(20th
of Sivan, 5743): Eighty-two-year-old novelist Anna Seghers who told the tales
of the victims of Nazi Germany in such novels as The Seventh Cross and Transit
passed away today in Berlin.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130704063048/http:/www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm
1983: After
six years, Wilem Polak completed his service as mayor of Amsterdam.
1984(1st
of Sivan, 5744): Rosh Chodesh of Sivan
1984: A week
after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “Once Upon a Time America” a film
that “chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in
New York City's world of organized crime” based on The Hoods by Harry
Grey was released today in the United States.
1984: “Streets
of Fire” co-produced by Joel Silver and co-starring Rick Moranis was released
in the United States today.
1984: Susan
Weidman Schneider published Jewish
and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today
1985: Princeton graduate and Oxford and Columbia trained attorney
Charles Anthony Fried, the Prague born son of Marta Fried and Skoda Works
executive Anthony Fried who fled Europe in the wake of Hitler’s invasion of
their homeland and the husband of Anne Summerscale began serving as the 38th
Solicitor General of the Unied States.
1986(23rd of Iyar, 5746): Eighty-seven-year-old Rudolf
Sonneborn an American businessman whose
support of the Zionist cause dates back to 1919 when as a 20 year old he
visited Palestine for the first time.(As reported by Wolfgang Saxon)
1987: Meir Rosenne ends his term as Israeli Ambassador to Washington.
1988(16th Sivan, 5748): Eighty-five-year-old
Austrian-American philosopher Herbert
Fiegl, the son of a Bohemian textile designer and husband of Maria Kaspar who
emigrated to Iowa where he taught philosophy at the University of Iowa passed
away today.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/feigl-herbert
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feigl/
1990(8th of Sivan, 5750): Eighty-one-year-old Estelle
Strossman , the wife of Samuel Multer and mother of Rhode Island basketball
star Barry Multer passed away today.
1991(19th of Sivan, 5751): Parashat Beha’alotcha
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/obituaries/anthony-papp-jewelry-designer-29.html
1991(19th of Sivan 5751): Twenty-nine year old jewelry
designer Anthony Papp, the son of Shakespeare Festival director Joseph Papp,
passed away today.
1994: Premiere of “The Patriots’ a French film that provides a
fictionalized account of Mossad operations starring Yvan Attal as “Ariel
Brenner.”
1994: Today marked the final performance of the first West End rival of
Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
1995: James D. Wolfensohn began serving as the 9th President
of the World Bank Group.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/archive/history/past-presidents/james-david-wolfensohn
1996(14th of Sivan, 5756): Parashat Nasso
1996: This evening at the Pierre hotel in New York, Rabbi Amy Ehrlich
officiated at the wedding of Caryn Stephanie Nathanson, “the supervisor of
rights and clearance for NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’” and “Jeffrey Adam Zucker
the executive producer of NBC’s ‘Today’ show.” (Editor’s note- when NBC says
that they are one big happy family they sure aren’t kdding(
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The Rothschild Gardens by Miriam Rothschild,
Kate Garton and Lionel de Rothschild, and the recently released paperback
edition of Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
by
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
1997: For the
second time Jack Lang began representing Loir-et-Cher in the French National
Assembly.
1998(7th
of Sivan, 5758): Second Day of Shavuot
1999: Brooksly E. Born, the wife of Jack Landau
resigned as chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
1999: Paper
Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky the Yiddish poet who had passed
away in 1975 was published today.
https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Bridges-Selected-Poems-Molodowsky/dp/0814328466
2000: “Syria
is ready to accept Israel's retreat last week from southern Lebanon as a
complete withdrawal, a United Nations envoy said today, a move that could
lessen the possibility of renewed violence along the Israeli-Lebanese border.”
2001: Rapper
Shyne, whose legal name is Moses Michael Levi, was sentenced to ten years in
prison after having been “convicted of, attempted murder, assault, and reckless
endangerment.”
2001(10th
of Sivan, 5761): Twenty-one Israelis were killed and another 132 were injured,
most of whom were high school students when a suicide bomber blew himself up in
Tel Aviv at the Dolphinarium.
Maria
Tagiltsiva (14), Raisa Nimrovsky (15), Ana Kazachkova (15), Katherine
Kastaniyada-Talkir (15), Irena Nepomnyashchi (16), Mariana Medvedenko (16),
Yulia Nelimov (16), Liana Saakyan (16), Marina Berkovizki (17), Simona Rodin
(18), Aleksei Lupalu (16), Yelena Nelimov (18), Irena Usdachi (18), Ilya Gutman
(19), Roman Dezanshvili (21), Diez Normanov (21), Ori Shahar (32), Yael-Yulia
Sklianik (15), Sergei Panchenko (20), Jan Bloom (25), Yevgeniya Dorfman (15
2001: Authors
Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon to their third child Ida-Rose or “Rosie.”
2002: “The
Israeli Army imposed a curfew on Nablus, took over houses for sniper posts,
surrounded the Balata camp -- birthplace and stronghold of the terrorist group
known as the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades
2003: “Walking
a little faster and wearing more layers than usual, marchers in the Salute to
Israel Parade stepped and drove up a chilly, wet Fifth Avenue today beneath
thousands of Israeli flags, their heads, caps and skullcaps tucked against the
blowing drizzle.”
2004(12th of
Sivan, 5764): Seventy-four-year-old ophthalmologist Charles Kelman passed away
today. (As reported by Eric Nagourney)
2005:
"Celebrated Piano Instructor Kaplinsky Counts Student as Cliburn
Finalist".
http://keranews.org/post/celebrated-piano-instructor-kaplinsky-counts-student-cliburn-finalist
2005: United
States premier of the Israeli film “Or” (my treasure starring Dana Igvy.
2005: U.S.
premiere of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” with a script by Delia
Ephron.
2005: Moshe
"Bogie" Ya'alon completed his term as Chief of Staff of the IDF.
2005: Dan
Halutz “was officially appointed the eighteenth Chief of Staff of the Israel
Defense Forces and was awarded the rank of Rav-Aluf (Lieutenant General). It is
the second time in the history of the Israel Defense Forces that a former IAF
commander became the head of the entire military.”
2005: The
Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Los Angeles holds its annual gala. The honorees
are CAA agent Rick Kurtzman; his brother, Fox business affairs executive Howard
Kurtzman; and their brother-in-law, William Morris Agent David Lonner (married
to their sister Janet).
2005: In
“Sarah Aaronsohn's Heroic Silence” published today, Seth Lipsky provides a
review of A Strange Death by Hillel Halkin which provides a look at this little
known piece of Jewish history from WW I.
http://www.nysun.com/arts/sarah-aaronsohns-heroic-silence/14688/
2005: “After
39 previews, the Manhattan Theatre Club production” of “After the Night and the
Music” a one-act play in three parts, written by Elaine May opened today at the
Biltmore Theatre where it “ran for only 38 performances.
2006: The
Minnesota Twins drafted Danny Valencia.
2006: The
Kennedy Center production “Mame,” a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and
lyrics and music by Jerry Herman opened today.
2006: At a
commencement address he delivered at Queens College today, Alan “Hevesi told
his audience that Senator Charles Schumer was so tough he would "put a
bullet between the President's eyes if he could get away with it." Several
hours after his remarks, Hevesi apologized for his comments, calling them
"beyond dumb,""remarkably stupid," and "incredibly
moronic\.”
2006:
Archaeologists Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University and Mordechai E. Kislev and
Anat Hartmann of Bar-Ilan University report that they have found evidence that
ancient people grew fig trees some 11,400 years ago, making the fruit the
earliest domesticated crop. Remains of the ancient fruits were found at Gilgal
I, a village site in the Jordan Valley north of ancient Jericho,. Gilgal was
abandoned more than 11,000 years ago. Figs that are edible do not produce seeds
and are propagated by planting shoots. Bar-Yosef said that ''In this
intentional act of planting a specific variant of fig tree, we can see the
beginnings of agriculture. This edible fig would not have survived if not for
human intervention.''
2006:
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, in conjunction with the
Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish Consulate in New York paid tribute to
Diplomat and Savior of the Holocaust, Eduardo Propper de Callejón at the
Instituto Cervantes in New York City.
2007:
The Metropoline Company joined the Egged Bus Cooperative in providing bus
service to Arad.
2007: Hadassah
national president June Walker’s appointment to head the Conference of
Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations goes into effect. The Presidents'
Conference is the umbrella group that represents 50 American Jewish
organizations on issues of national and international concern.
2007: Michel
Graber, the magistrate who has been overseeing the investigation into the fire
that damaged Geneva’s largest synagogue on May 24 said that it was a criminal
act which he described as arson. But he said there had been no indication that
it was set by extremists. The May 24 blaze raised fears among Geneva's Jewish
community that the fire might have been an anti-Semitic attack.
2007: On the
same day when three more Kassam rockets struck Israel, the IAF killed a member
of an Islamic Jihad Kassam cell in an air strike.
2007: “Knocked
Up” a comedy directed, produced and written by Judd Aptow, starring Seth Rogen
and Paul Rudd and featuring Jason Segal, Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow, Harold
Ramis and James Franco was released in the United States today.
2007: British
historian Geoffrey Alderman “joined the University of Buckingham” today.
http://www.geoffreyalderman.com/
2007:
“Flyboys” a film about WW I allied pilots starring James Franco and David
Ellison, the son of Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and with music by Trevor Rabin
was released in the United Kingdom today.
2008:
Washington, D.C, Manhattan, NYC and Boston all host celebrations honoring
Israel at Sixty.
2008: Mrs.
Jacob (Betty) Levin gathers with her family and friends for the unveiling of
the Matzevah of Dr. Jacob Levin (of blessed memory). Of course, his real Matzevah is impact he
made on the lives of his loving family and devoted friends.
2008: “Israeli
President Shimon Peres honored David Littman for his role in Operation Mural
which was designed to save the Jewish children of Morocco, at a Presidential
residence special commemorative event with his wife and family and former key
Mossad agents in attendance.”
2008: In
Chicago, the Spertus sponsors a book signing for “Louis Zukofsky The Modernist Poet as Jew” by Dr. Mark Scroggins.
2008: The Chicago Sun Times
features a review of “The Dream” by ninety-eight year old Harry
Bernstein. “The Dream” follows “The
Invisible Wall” as the second in a trilogy that traces the life of the
immigrant son of Yankel and Ada Bernstein.
2008: The Washington Post
features a review of “1948: A History of the First
Arab-Israeli War” by Benny Morris as well as listings for “Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role
in Protecting Democracy”, by Natan Sharansky, “Golda” by Elinor Burkett,” A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman
Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel” by Gudrun Krämer, “Jerusalem:
City of Longing” by Simon Goldhill and The Story of Israel: From Theodor Herzl to the Roadmap for Peace”
by Martin Gilbert.
2008(27th of Iyar, 5768):Yosef (Tommy)
Lapid passed away at the age of 76. Born
in Yugoslavia in 1931, Lapid and his mother (his father died in the Holocaust)
made Aliyah in 1948 where he became a successful journalist and political
leader.
2008(27th of Iyar, 5768):In Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, Penny Binger a student of Chasidic Judaism and devote of Shlomo Carlbach
passed away.
2008: In front page article entitled “Baghdad Jews Have Become a Fearful
Few” The New York Times describes the plight of one of the world’s
oldest Jewish communities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/world/middleeast/01babylon.html.
2009: Final showing of Sol LeWitt’s “Wall Drawing #260(1975)” at New
York’s Museum of Modern Art.
2009: Sports Illustrated magazine features a review of Bill
Russell’s “Red and Me” which focuses on the close, unique relationship between
the all-star center and coach and Red Auerbach, Russell’s coach and mentor.
Between the two of them, they changed the game and made a unique social
statement. “Russell writes that they were drawn together by a mutual
hardheadedness, united y the ‘tribulation of our tribes’: Russell was an
African American who grew up in the Jim Crow South and the Oakland projects,
Auerbach a street-savvy urban Jews.” While everybody knows about the alliance
between African-Americans and Jews that helped to make the Civil Rights
Revolution, fewer people are aware of this unique Black-Jewish Alliance which
created its own revolution.
2009: The Washington Nationals drafted Danny Rosenbaum.
2009: During “Turning Point 3” the government’s emergency headquarters
will discuss coordination measures
2009:Security forces uprooted the outpost of
Nahalat Yosef today and arrested several activists who protested the
destruction. Among those arrested was MK Michael Ben-Ari. Following those
events, security forces converged on Ramat Gilad, where residents are concerned
at the prospect of a confrontation but say they will resist any attempts to
evict them from the area.
2009:Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak began a
round of meetings with top U.S. officials today in a bid to head off an
increasingly sharp dispute between the United States and Israel over the
expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory.
2009: The Saul Steinberg:
Illuminations travelling exhibition, which displays original Steinberg works
comes to a close in Hamburg, Germany.
2010: Mothers Circle, an
education and support group for non-Jewish women raising Jewish children is
scheduled to have its first meeting for the summer at the Historic Sixth &
I Street Synagogue.
2010: Peter Stansky review of The
Spanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945: Anti-Semitism and Opportunism by
Isabelle Rohr was published today.
http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/book-review-the-spanish-right-and-the-jews/
2010: In the wake of naval action
off the coast of Gaza, Prime Minister Netanyahu does not meet with President
Obama as originally scheduled.
2010:An Islamic militant group in the Gaza Strip
said three of its members had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern
Gaza. The Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad group said its fighters were killed
shortly after firing two rockets into southern Israel. Israeli authorities said
the rockets landed in open areas and caused no injuries.
2011: The Masada, Dead Sea and
Jerusalem Opera Festival is scheduled to begin.
2011: Final session of Hebrew
Literacy: Aleph, Bet, and Beyond is scheduled to take place today at the
Historic Sixth & Synagogue in Washington, DC
2011: In Washington, DC, Adas
Israel is scheduled to hold its Annual Meeting and honor the 2011 Yad Kakavod
recipient, David Bickart.
2011(28th of Iyar,
5771): Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem
Reunification Day
2011:President Shimon Peres said today that peace
could be achieved in Jerusalem in "our time", declaring that Israel
has replaced the divisions that once wracked the holy city by offering freedom
to all faiths and creeds.
2011: The American Jewish
Committee lauded the Obama administration today for its decision not to take
part in the upcoming United Nations’ Commemoration of the Durban World
Conference Against Racism, set to take place in September in New York.
2011: Susan Herbst is an American
political scientist and academic administrator began serving the 15th president
of the University of Connecticut, making her the first woman to hold that
position since the school’s founding in 1881.
2011: In Helsinki, Ben Zyskowicz,
a member of the National Coalition Party who was recently appointed speaker of
the Finnish parliament, was attacked by a middle-aged man shouting a racial
epithet against Jews.
2011:Attorneys for Howard Ackerman, an Orthodox
Jewish prisoner in Carson City, Nev., filed a lawsuit against the state. The
suit claimed that the state's corrections department intended to stop serving
kosher meals to inmates within a week, thus violating their client’s freedom to
practice his religion. Attorneys representing the state prison system filed
court papers saying new menus are being considered, but that there are no plans
to discontinue the kosher meal program.
2012: Cellist Yoed Nir is
scheduled to perform tonight at Town Hall in New York
2012: Larry and Mindy Fogel are
scheduled to perform a musical salute to the Carpenters in Kfar Vradim. arry and
2012: The Kühn Choir of Prague is
scheduled to give an a-capella concert at the Henry Crown Concert Hall as part
of the Israel Festival being held in Jerusalem.
2012: Jennifer Herren is
scheduled to begin her Bat Mitzvah weekend in Cedar Rapids, Iowa by helping to
lead Shabbat Eve services which will include a special appearance by singers
and musicians of Shir Yehuda.
2012: Early this morning members
of the 12th Battalion of the famed Golani Brigade thwarted a border
crossing which appears to have been the prelude to a major terrorist
infiltration. Planes from the IAF
followed up with targeted attacks on Gaza.
2012(11th of Sivan,
5772): Eighty-one year-old Marion Sandler, the wife of Herbert Sandler, passed
away today. (As reported by Michael J. De La Merced
2012: Andy Samberg’s spokesperson
announced that he had left SNL
2012(11th of Sivan,
5772): Twenty-one-year-old Golani Staff-Sergeant Netanel Moshiashvil, from
Ashkelon, was killed today while stopping a terrorist infiltrator attempting to
cross into Israel from Gaza.
2013: A children’s adaption of
“As You Like It “ is scheduled to be performed as part of the Israel Festival
in Jerusalem.
2013: Professor Krzysztof
Jasiewicz , a Polish Historian, is scheduled to lose his position as head of
the Department of Analysis of Eastern Issues following an interview in which he
partly blamed the Jews for the Holocaust. (As reported by JTA and Times of
Israel)
2013:“For its first pavilion at the prestigious
Venice Biennale international art festival which is scheduled to open today,
the Vatican is presenting an exhibit inspired by the first book of the Torah,
rather than by a New Testament theme. Called “Creation, Un-Creation,
Re-Creation,” the three-part show in the Vatican’s pavilion will draw on the
first 11 chapters of Genesis, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the
Pontifical Council for Culture, told reporters Tuesday at a news conference
presenting the concept.” (As reported by JTA)
2013: Eilat residents were
slightly unsettled this afternoon as a mild earthquake shook the southern
city’s streets and buildings. There were no reports of injury or serious damage
(As reported by Adiv Sterman)
2013: Today a French judge put
under formal investigation a 31-year-old man suspected of helping an
al-Qaida-inspired gunman prepare a shooting spree in the southern France city
of Toulouse last year, a judicial source said.
2014: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Delicious
by Ruth Reichl and Here Comes the Night The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the
Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues by Joel Selvin.
2014:”The Sturgeon Queens” is scheduled to be shown at the
Allentown Jewish Film Festival
2014: A revival of “Driving Miss Daisy” is scheduled to be
performed at The Bayou Playhouse in Lockport, LA.
2014: “The 10th Annual Matzohball
5K and 1 Mile Fun Run!” sponsored by Temple Isaiah in Fulton, MD, is scheduled
to take place at Centennial Park in Howard County.
2014: “Palestinians in Gaza fired a rocket
early this morning at the Eshkol region in southern Israel.” (Times of Israel)
2014:“Maj.
Gen. Yoav Mordechai, head of COGAT, the IDF’s civil administration in the West
Bank, personally denied travel permission to Ramallah for three Palestinian
leaders from Gaza slated to be appointed ministers in the expected Fatah-Hamas
unity government.” (Times of Israel)
2014: Today, “European Jewish leaders on Sunday
praised the arrest of a suspect in the Brussels Jewish Museum attack and called
for preemptive measures to protect Europe’s Jewish communities from additional
attacks.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014: Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in
over 100 films, was a joyful participant in todays annual Celebrate Israel
parade in New York City. (As reported by Lazar Berman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/samuel-l-jackson-celebrates-israel-at-ny-parade/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/with-pomp-and-flags-thousands-mark-celebrate-israel-parade/
2014: The cabinet approved the “Joint
Initiative of the Government of Israel and World Jewry” which “aims to enhance
the connection between the Jewish people and the State of Israel” today. (As
reported by Sigal Samuel)
2014: With Lewis Katz's sudden death yesterday,
his son, Drew, is expected to assume a large role in the ownership and
management of the Philadelphia Inquirer and other organizations owned or
influenced by his father.
2014: “Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth
Gruber is scheduled to come to an end at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center.
http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/pages/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/
2015: Today “Israel accused the United Nations of
granting "UN non-governmental organization status" to an association
linked to militant Palestinian group Hamas that it said promotes
"anti-Israel propaganda in Europe."
2015: Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. will preside over
the bench trial scheduled to begin today which will decide the ownership of “a
set of silver Torah bells known as rimonim, thought to be worth more than $7
million.” (As reported by Paul Berger)
2015: Today marked the “first International Farhud Day
at the United Nations.’
2015: The funeral and interment of Rochelle Shoretz
whose own breast cancer diagnosis “led to her founding of Sharsheret” was
scheduled to take place today.
2015: Daniel Kahneman “was awarded an honorary
doctorate from the Faculty of Arts at McGill University in Montreal.”
2016: Dr. Gary Zola is scheduled to “share insights
about his work as Executive Director of the Jacob Radar Marcus Center of the
American Jewish Archives” which houses “over ten million pages of documentation
and 8,000 linear feet of archives, manuscripts, nearprint materials,
photographs, audio and video tape, microfilm, and genealogical materials” at
luncheon at the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.
2016(24th of Iyar, 5776): Ninety-seven-year-old
cartoonist Anatol Kovarsky passed away today, (As reported by William Grimes)
2016: InPortland, Oregon,
Barnes & Noble is scheduled to host barbeque maven Steven Raichlen who will
discuss his new book Project Smoke.
2016: “The landmark compromise over the future of the
Western Wall remains unresolved following a tense meeting today between Reform
and Conservative leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
2017(7th of Sivan, 5777): Second Day of
Shavuot
2017: Today,
“the State Prosecutor’s Office won the postponement of hearing scheduled for
the following week into shortening the sentence of Ehud Olmert.” (As reported
by Raoul Wootliff)
2017: “The Israel Festival, an annual three-week
Jerusalem-based celebration of local and international music, dance, theater
and performance art” is scheduled to begin today.
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host Shavuot services, followed by lunch and dinner.
2017: “Two men tied to Hezbollah” – Samuel El Debek
and Ali Kourani – “who had been plotting attacks against Americans and Israelis
in the US and Panama were arrested today.”
2018(18th of Sivan, 5778): Eighty-four-year-old
cookbook editor and food columnnist Barbara Kafka, the daughter of
Lillian(Shapiro) Poses, one of the first women to graduate from NYU law school
and the wife of Dr.Ernest Kafka, passed away today.(As
reported by Sam Roberts and Matt Schudel)
2018: Today, Eric Greitens resigned from office as
the Governor of Missouri after the Missouri Legislature commenced a special
session to consider impeachment
2018: In Jerusalem those craving the “real thing” can
find it at Joseph Burger and Diner Bar from 11 a.m. until the start of Shabbat.
2018: After premiering at Sundance six months ago, “A
Kid Like Jake” co-starring Landecker was released today in the United States.
2018: At 12 noon, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of Entebbe in London.
2018: As Israelis prepare for Shabbat, they “digest”
the statement by Tamir Pardo, who served as head of Mossad from 2011 to 2016
that Prime Minister Netanyahu had given “the order in 2011 for the military to
prepare to attack Iran within 15 days.”
2019: The 2019 California Democratic Party State
Convention, where “a platform resolution authored by David Mandel” that is
“fiercely critical of Israel” and includes a suggestion “that the Israeli
government is partly responsible for the atmosphere for inspring last October’s
massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue” is scheduled to be introduced” continues to
meet for a second day” (As reported by JTA)
2019 (27th of Iyar, 5779): Parashat
Bechukotai: Chapter V Pirke Avot;
2019: At sundown, beginning of the observance of Yom
Yersushalayim.
2019: “Jews and tourists” are scheduled to be barred from
the visiting the Temple Mount today because it will be closed, as it is every,
on “the last days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan” which ironically
coincides with the start of Jerusalem Day.
2019: Today marks the scheduled beginning of Anne Frank
Month at the Illinois Holocaust Museum which coincides with the birth month of
the famous diarist and Holocaust victim.
2020: Natalie Farahan, a Jewish communal professional of
Iraqi Jewish-descent, and founding member of JIMENA’s Los Angeles Chapter is
scheduled to serve as moderator for a Virtual
“Remembering the Farhud, “ a look back at the pro-Nazi 1931 pogrom in
Baghdad, featuring a man who lived through it, Joe Samuels, author of Beyond
the Rivers of Babylon.
2020: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheulded
to present “Values and Consequences in the Halakhic Process: A Sephardi
Perspective” by Bar-Ilan University Professor Zvi Zohar
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host: The Women
of Shtisel: Dikla Barkai, Shira Haas, Neta Riskin, Hadas
Yaron, and Ayelet Zurer
2021: The Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is
scheduled to present online, “The Crisis in Israel” with Israeli tour educator
Raz Shmilovich who family lives in Moshav Netiv Ha’asarah, the closest Israeli
community to the Gaza Strip.
2021: Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Yamina chief Naftali
Bennett hope to inform President Reuven Rivlin on today that they are able to
form a government, with the aim of having it sworn next week on June 9. (As
reported by TOI)
2021: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to
present “Dan Abrams in conversation with Floyd Abrams discussing The Forgotten
Trial of Jack Ruby: America’s First Major Television Case.”
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture
“Study the Bible: Know What is in it and What is Not” with Rabbi Jeremy Rosen.
2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled to offer the final
session of “Paul: Radical Convert or Lifelong Jew?” with Dr. Mark W. Weisstuch
2021:The Wiener Holocaust Memorial Library is scheduled to
present a “Testimonies of the Farhud in the Sephardi Voice,” a hybrid event
that “will introduce the Sephardi Voices UK archive, explore testimonies of
those who lived through the 1941 pogrom, the Farhud, and discuss the long-term
effects on Baghdad's Jewish population.”
2022: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled present
“Standing Again at Sinai,” a virtual Shavuot Seminar with Rabbi Aviad Bodner.
2022: In New Orleans, Queen’s native Rabbi Phil Kaplan, the
husband of Abra Kaplan and the father Roee Kaplan is scheduled to begin his
term of office as the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel.
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled
to present New Works Wednesdays with Arnon Z. Schorr and Joshua Edelglass as
they discuss their new book José and the Pirate Captain Toledano”!
2023: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is
scheduled to present “Pride Month: Defying the Nazi Campaign to Control
Sexuality.”
2023: The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host a
workshop where families can create their own personalized cookbook.
2023: Lockdown University if scheduled to host a webinar
during which Philip Rubenstein will lecture on “Fritz Bauer: The Man who Found
Eichmann and put Auschwitz on Trial.”
2023: The 11th Annual Israel Film Center
Festival is scheduled to begin to at the Marlen Meyeson JCC Manhattan.
2023: Based on
previously published information, “a far-right group is gearing up for
potential violence at Thursday’s Jerusalem Pride Parade, posting many
threatening messages in an internal chat group wishing for the deaths of the
pro-LGBTQ marchers…” (As reported by Michael Bachner)
2024: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “Musical
Journeys: Between Vienna and Hamburg” featuring Gilad Harel, clarinet ;Yoni
Gotlibovich, cello and Arnon Erez, piano.
2024: In Jerusalem, the Agnon House Book Club is schedule
to observe the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka with a
joint reading of his story "Epistle from the Emperor" after which Adin
Ner-David, “will compare the Kafkaesque story to the Kabbalistic parable about
the girl from the castle, which deals with knowledge of the Torah in all its
forms.”
2024(24th of Iyar, 5784): Parashat Bechukotai
(In my statutes); Pirke Avot Chapter Five; For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024: As June1st begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas
held hostages begin day 239 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time.)