July 15
763 BCE:
Forty-one years before their conquest of Israel, the Assyrians observe and
record a solar eclipse which is the basis for much of the dating of activities
in the Fertile Crescent, including Eretz Israel, prior to the seventh century
BCE (As reported by Austin Cline)
1099: Godfrey
de Bouillon entered Jerusalem, drove all the Jews into the synagogue, and set
them afire while he marched around the synagogue singing, "Christ, we
adore thee". This marked the end of Jerusalem as a Jewish center for
centuries, although Jews did return in limited numbers after the Moslem
reconquest in 1187. It is estimated that between 20,000 and 30,000 Jews were
massacred or captured and sold as slaves in Italy.
OR
(You pick the version)
1099: The
crusaders final assault on Jerusalem was successful and the city was sacked.
This was in keeping with the general rule that, if a fortified place did not
surrender, it might be sacked, and its inhabitants killed or enslaved. Although
there was considerable bloodshed in Jerusalem, , recent research has
demonstrated that crusade leaders intervened to protect some of the
inhabitants, including Muslims and Jews. Among those who took this step was
Godfrey of Bouillon. Some Muslims and Jews were slaughtered, but some were
escorted to Muslim territory.
1174: Baldwin IV was crowned
King of Jerusalem. Graetz claims that the Leperous King was the one who
banned the Jews from Jerusalem. That honor should go to his father who
took the throne in 1162 and the ban began in 1165 and last until 1175. Since
Baldwin was only 13 at the time of his coronation credit for lifting the ban
probably should go to the Raymond III of Tripoli, the regent who negotiated a
treaty with Saladin.
1205: Pope
Innocent III laid down the principle that Jews were doomed to perpetual
servitude and subjugation because they had crucified Jesus. This classic charge
of deicide was officially removed in 1963.
1291: King
Rudolf I, who had negated the freedom of Jews of Germany by declaring them servi camerae ("serfs of the
treasury") in 1286, passed away today.
1389: Murad I
is killed following the Ottoman defeat of the Christians at the Battle of
Kosovo also known as the Battle of Blackbird’s Field. Murad had allowed Jews
fleeing Hungary to settle in Thrace and Anatolia so his death was a net loss
for them. (While it is not a matter of Jewish History, memories of this battle
would resurface at the end of the 20th century when Moslems and
Christians squared off in the Balkan Wars following the dissolution of
Yugoslavia)
1555: Paul IV
issued Cum Nims Absurdum, the papal that “ordered the creation of a Jewish
ghetto in Rome.
1567: Not for
the first time, nor for the last time, the Jews were expelled from the entire
Republic of Genoa today.
1572 (5332)
Isaac Luria passed away. There is no way
this simple guide can do justice to the life of this giant of Judaism. For those who are interested, here are two
places to begin: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/111878/jewish/Rabbi-Isaac-Luria-The-Ari-Hakodosh.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Luria.html
1606: Birthdate of the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrandt lived in a Jewish
quarter in Amsterdam. He often depicted Jewish people on his canvases. One of his most famous paintings is styled
“Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law.” There are several special events
planned to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s and many
of them highlight his special relationship with the Dutch Jewish
community. For more on this subject, you
might want to read the recently published Rembrandt’s Jews by Steven
Nadler.
1629: A clerical commission meeting today to look into the guilt of
Yom-Tov Heller “asked him how he dared to eulogize the Talmud after it had been
burned by papal order” – a charge which he could not answer to the commission’s
satisfaction which to his being condemned to death.
1631: Birthdate of Richard Cumberland, the Bishop of Peterborough who was
the author of “An essay towards the
recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, by
help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state
many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations.”
1694:
The Jesuits, who were opposed to the printing efforts of Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass, “sent a letter to
the magistrate of Breslau to have the sale of Hebrew books interdicted on the
ground that such works contained "blasphemous and irreligious words"
1738(27th
of Tammuz, 5498): Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin were burnt alive in St.
Petersburg, Russia, with the consent of Empress Anna Johanova. Voznitzin, a
naval captain, was guilty of the crime of converting to Judaism. Laibov was
guilty of helping him. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=346&letter=B
1756(17th
of Tammuz, 5516): Tzom Tammuz observed as Prussia prepared to enter into an
alliance with Great Britain during the Seven Years War.
1766(9th
of Av, 5526): Tish’a B’Av
1766: In
Philadelphia, Jonas and Rebecca Mendes
Machado Phillips gave birth to Philadelphia Phillips Pesoa, the wife of Isaac
Pesoa.
1769: In
Newport, RI, Hillel Judah and his wife gave birth to merchant Emanuel Judah
“who married Grace Seixas” in 1815.
1783: Jacob Louzada
who at the start of the American Revolution in 1776 was forced to leave the “family
owned land at Bound Brook, NJ” arrived in New York today.
1790: Members
of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim of the Jewish Congregation of Charleston wrote
a letter to congratulate the President of the United States George Washington
on the occasion of the establishment of a federal government.
1794(17th
of Tammuz, 5554): Tzom Tammuz observed during the uprising in Vilnius, the home
to a large Jewish population including the Vilna Gaon.
1799: The
Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain
Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. The discovery of
the Stone helped to fuel interest in archaeology, including what would become
the field of modern Biblical archaeology.
1799:
Birthdate of Samuel Bleichröder the Jewish banker who worked with the
Rothschilds and who was the father of Gerson von Bleichröder and Julius
Bleichröder who followed in their father’s footsteps.
1801: In what
might seem like a weakening of the position of French Jews, Napoleon signs a
Concordat that recognizes Catholocism as the religion of “the great majority of
Frenchmen.”
1808: A day
after she had passed away, Elizabeth Town, the daughter of Benjamin Town was
buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1813(17th
of Tammuz, 5573): Tzom Tammuz observed on the same day that Abigail Adams,
attaches a letter from her husband, former President John Adams to former
President Thomas Jefferson expressing her regards for the man who, in his old
age, has become a friend again with her husband.
1815(9th
of Av, 5575): Tisha B’Av
1815(9th
of Av, 5575): The Chozen of Lublin (The Seer of Lublin) passed away. Born Yaakov Yitzchak in 1745, he was a
leading Polish Chasidc Rebbe.
1815: Napoleon
Bonaparte surrenders for the final TIME aboard HMS Bellerophon. Having
learned their lesson from Napoleon’s escape from captivity following his first
surrender, the conquering European powers exile him to St. Helena where he will
live out his days. This final surrender
seems to mark the return of the Ancien Regime to Europe in general and France
in particular. The forces of reaction
will try and undo the gains in liberty made by the Jews of Europe.
1817:
Birthdate of German orientalist Max Grunbaum who “mainly dealt with mythology,
Yiddish and Jewish-Spanish Literature.”
1818: In
Savannah, GA, Levy Hart married Abigail Minis Sheftall, the youngest daughter
of the last Levy Sheftall.
1818: Abraham
and Clara Moses were married today at the Great Synagogue.
1818: Mosely
(Moshe) Woolf and Hannah Woolf gave birth to Cecilia Woolf who became Cecilia
Marks when she married David Marks.
1820:
Birthdate of Dresden native and German actor and director Anton Ascher, trained by Ludwig Tieck who “made
his début in 1838 at Hainichen and who “was the director of the Carl Theatre in
Vienna” from 1866 to 1872 after which he appeared on Broadway in “Please Help
Emily,” “Just Married,” “Jane Our Stranger” and “The Spider.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1893-ascher-anton
1832(17th
of Tammuz, 5592) Tzom Tammus
1832: Solomon
Etting, a Jewish citizen of Baltimore, MD, wrote a letter to Henry Clay, the
U.S. Senator from Kentucky, saying that he other co-religionists “feel both
surprised and hurt by the manner in which you introduced the expression ‘the
Jew’ in debated in the Senate of the United States, evidently applying it as a
reproachful designation of a man whom you considered obnoxious in character and
conduct.” Since Ettinger did not know the man in question and since he assumes
that Clay has no “antipathy” for the Jewish people, he asked that Clay write to
him why he had used this particular expression in this particular manner.
1834: The
child-Queen Isabella's mother, Christina, issued an official and final edict
abolishing the Inquisition in Spain. The words read, "It is declared that
the Tribunal of the Inquisition is definitely suppressed. The Inquisitions had
been in place for nearly three and one half centuries.
1836: In
Michelfeld, thirty-seven year old Marx Oppenheimer and his second wife Sarah
gave birth to Karoline Levy.
1838: Ralph
Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School,
discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The
Protestant community reacts with outrage. This was not the first or last time
that Emerson would express views on religion that were out of step with
prevailing Christian views. In describing the Last Supper, Emerson states
“Jesus is a Jew sitting with countrymen
celebrating their national feast.”
Jesus’ Jewishness would not become an accepted tenant of many Christian
beliefs until the second half of the twentieth century.
1843:
Birthdate of Indiana native William W. Morrow who as a Congressman from
California who would champion the cause of Adolph Kutner, the Russian born
American businessman who was afraid to return to his native land because of the
Czar’s policies regarding Jews.
1844: In
Slovakia, Jacob Salzberger and his wife gave birth to Dr. Moritz Salzberger,
the Rabbi at Erfurt from 1886 to 1923, the husband of Anna Salzberger and
father of Gertrude, Rabbiner and Max Salzberger.
1850:
Birthdate of Amalia Loeb who was buried in the Jewish Cemetery a Morgan City,
LA.
1852:
Birthdate of Polish native Adolph Mendlowicz, the husband of Stefanie
Menelowitz with whom he had two
children.
1853: In
Bangor, Main, Julius Spitz and Julia Wolf gave birth to Nancy Spirtz, the
director of the Leopold Morse Home, the Hebrew Women’s Sewing Society and
honorary director of the Federation of Jewish Charities who is the wife of
Godfrey J. Spitz
1854(19th
of Tammuz, 5614): Parashat Pinchas
1854: The Israelite, the first Jewish
newspaper published in Cincinnati, Ohio, was established today. This English
language newspaper was founded by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the “founding father”
of Reform Judaism in America whose other “firsts” included the creation of the
Hebrew Union College.
1854: The New York Times published a letter
from E.R. McGregor, the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle in which he takes issue
with the Times report that a U.S. citizen named Jones has been guilty of
selling pieces of ancient columns and other such items to unsuspecting tourists
in Jerusalem According to McGregor Jones
is a “Christian and a gentlemen” who was sent to Palestine by the American
Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews (A.S.M.C. Jew) to examine the
feasibility of establishing “agricultural colonies and schools for the benefit
of the Jews and others residing in the country.” James Finn, the British Consul
in Jerusalem, is the source of the negative stories about Mr. Jones. According to McGregor, Finn is responsible
for large losses connected with land near Bethlehem that was supposed to be
purchased with American funds for the purpose of creating an agricultural
colony. (Editor’s note – Other sources describe Finn as “a
devout Christian, who belonged to the London Society for Promoting Christianity
Amongst the Jews, but who did not engage in missionary work during his years”
as British Consul in Jerusalem. According to these sources, Finn bought a piece
of land outside of the Old City that he turned into an agricultural training
facility for Jews. Finally, he bought land, at a place called Artas near
Bethlehem where employed otherwise impoverished Jews as laborers. Further research is obviously necessary.)
1855: In
Bratislava, Ignatz Isaak Loth and Caroline Honig gave birth to future New
Yorker Moritz Loth, the husband of Jennie Davidson and the father of Herbert
and Stanly Loth.
1856:
Birthdate of Charles Frohman, the native of Sandusky Ohio, one of the three
Frohman brothers, who became a noted Broadway impresario who co-founded the
Theatrical Syndicate.
1859: “In
Parshilee, Suvalky, Poland” which was part of the Russian Empire, “Abraham
Jacob and Rebecca (Levine) Marks gave birth to Rueben Marks, the grandson of
Irwin Levine, and successful lumber business man who settled in Des Moines, IA
in 1885 where he founded what became the Marks Hat Company, “established a
clothing factory in Chicago, and raised three children – Moses, Anna and Harry-
with his wife Belle Jacobs, the daughter of Joshua and Miriam Jacobson while
serving as President of Tiffereth, Israel,
President of the local lodge of B’nai B’rith and director of the
Cleveland Orphan Asylum
1860: In
Cologne, Albert Oppenheim, a member of the Jewish banking family who had
converted to Catholicism and his wife Pauline Engels gave birth to Max von
Oppenheim.
1861(8th
of Av, 5621) Erev Tish’s B’Av observed two days before the federal government
began issuing greenbacks during Civil War.
1862(17th
of Tammuz, 5622): Tzom Tammuz
1862: In
Poland, Abraham Jacob and Rebecca (Levine) Marks gave birth to Reuben Marks who
trained to be a rabbi under his uncle, Rabbi Abraham Levine, before coming to
the United States in 1884 where he organized the first Hebrew School in Des
Moines, IA and chaired the Des Moines District of the ZOA while being married to Rachel M. Barnett.
1862:
Birthdate of Frank Putnam Flint, the U.S. Senator from California who supported
efforts to get the Governor of Georgia to commute the death sentence of Leo
Frank.
1863: Today,
the 23rd Maine Infantry whose members included Moses Gould Beal, his
oldest so Jarvis and his brother William was mustered out of service in Portland
.
1863: In
Manitowoc, WI, Francesca Fannie Teweles and Jacob L. Brandies gave birth to
Arthur D. Brandeis, the husband of Detroit native Zerlina Freedman with whom he
had three children – Ruth, Leola and John and one of the operator of J.L.
Brandeis and Sons Department Store in Omaha, Nebraska.
1866: Ion
Ghica, “a valuable all for the Yiddish theatre in Bucharest” who “on several occasions he expressed his favorable view of the quality of
acting, and even more of the technical aspects of the Yiddish theater” began
serving as Prime Minister of Romania today.
1869: In New
York City, Adolph Tuska and Elise Robitscher gave birth to “consulting
engineer” Gustave R. Tuska, a graduate of CCNY and Columbia and husband of
Isabel Pappenheimer who filled severed as chief engineer for the Panama R.R.
Co, the Atlantic Construction Co. and the American Power Co. as well as
Director of the Hebrew Technical Institute.
1870: In
Cleveland, Ohio, Rabbi Max Lienthal of Cincinnati Ohio, presented the following
resolutions to a meeting of rabbis from across the nation who adopted them
unanimously.
Whereas, In consideration of the religious
commotion now agitating the public mind in both hemispheres, in accordance with
the principles of Judaism it is unanimously declared:
1.
Because
with unshaken faith and firmness we believe in one indivisible and eternal God;
we also believe in the common Fatherhood of God and the common brotherhood of
men.
2.
We
glory in the sublime doctrine of our religion, which teaches that the righteous
of all nations, without distinction of creed, will enjoy eternal life and
everlasting happiness.
3.
The
divine command, the most sublime passage of the Bible “Thou shalt love thy
fellow man as thyself,” extends to the entire human family without distinction
of either race or creed.
4.
Civil
and religious liberty, and hence the separation of Church and State, are the
inalienable rights of man, we consider them to be the brightest gems in the
Constitutions of the United States.
5.
We
love and revere this country as our home and fatherland for us and our
children, and therefore consider it our paramount duty to sustain and support
the Government, to favor by all means the system of free education leaving
religious instruction to the care of the different denominations.
6.
We
expect the universal elevation and fraternization of the human family to be
achieved by the natural means of science, morality, freedom, justice and truth.
According to
the attendees, “ these resolution…clearly express…the religious and political
creed of Judaism.”
1872: In Frankfurt-en-Main Sara Koeniswerther
and Leo Hertz gave to Alfred Hertz, the second conductor of the San Francisco
Symphony, who replaced Henry Hadley, in 1915, when the orchestra was just four
years old and who remained with the symphony until his farewell performance
April 15, 1930” and who was the husband of Lilly Dorn.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hertz.html
1873(20th of
Tammuz, 5633): Three-month-old Judah Aloof, the London born son of Abraham and
Mesoda Aloof passed aay today.
1874(1st of
Av, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Av
1874: In
Lithuania Michael Sheftal and Feigel Mayor Kaplan gave birth to Columbia
graduate and JTS ordained rabbi Bernard Michael Kaplan, who began his career at
the McGill Avenue Synagogue in Montreal after which he served several
congregations including the Bush Street Temple in San Francisco, B’nai Jershurun and Temple Israel in
Waterbury, CT while authorig “the Strange Melody and others plays which were
performed in the David Belasco Theatre in San Francisco."https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/11/23/105166460.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0\
1877:
“Protection for Jews in Palestine” published today included the text of a
letter from the Acting Secretary of State to Meyer S. Isaacs, President of the
Board of Delegates of American Israelites.
The letter was in response to a request from Mr. Isaacs seeking American
protection for Russian Jews living in and around Jerusalem from abuse by the
Ottoman authorities. Mr. Seward
explained that normally, the U.S. government only provides protection for its
own citizens living abroad. He conceded
that the United States has a reputation for helping oppressed people in foreign
countries; but that help can only be provided if all of the parties involved go
through proper diplomatic channels.
1877: Sixty-one-year-old
Isaac Phillips, the husband of Julia Hyman with whom he had two children
–Esther and Rebecca – and who was “one of the founders of the Jewish Female
Mourning Society” was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1877: The Jewish Messenger reported that
Secretary of State Seward had sent a letter to Meyer S. Isaacs, President of
the Board of Delegates of Israelites in response to his letter of June 4 asking
that the United States help provide protection for Jews from Russia living in
and around Jerusalem. Speaking in that unique language of diplomats, Seward
told Isaacs that the U.S. usually only extends such protection to its own
citizens living abroad. But he assured
him that the United States was sympathetic to “all the oppressed peoples in
foreign countries” and would act accordingly within the spirit of
“international courtesy and diplomatic usage…The desired protection will be
extended if these conditions are complied with.” [This was one of the first times that
American Jews had asked the United States government to intervene on behalf of
their co-religionists living in Eretz-Israel.
Seward’s understated reply was more potent than it might appear. He was a real power in the Republican having
served as a U.S. Senator and having been a serious candidate for the Presidency
in 1860. Also, he had actually visited
Palestine in the years prior to the Civil War so he had a firsthand knowledge
of the area and the Ottomans who ruled it .
1877: Union of
Hebrew Congregations completed its meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Several
speeches were delivered in favor of having all the Jews in the United States
represented by one national organization. The delegates agreed to hold their
next meeting in July of 1878 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1877: “The
English Jews in Politics,” published today reprinted the views of Goldwin Smith
that originally appeared in the
Fort-nightly Review. According to Smith, the Jews supported the Liberal
Party until they gained full rights (including the change in oath that made it
possible for them to sit in Parliament) and then they “gravitated toward the
party of wealth” – the Conservative Party.
Smith went on to describe Judaism as “surviving relic of the primeval
world” that was a “tribal religion” inferior to Christianity that belonged to
“the ages before humanity.” As such, Jews “cannot be expected to have much
sympathy with progress” and since they are now wealthy, they are obviously
supporter of the “plutocratic party.” [Editor’s note – What the publishers of
the article do not say is that Smith was a member of the Liberal Party and
strong opponent of Benjamin Disraeli, the leader of the Conservative
Party. He later became a professor at
Cornell University before finally settling in Canada. According to the Canadian
Encyclopedia, Goldwin Smith was “a major exponent of anti-Semitism in the 19th
century…. A pathological anti-Semite, Smith disseminated his hatred in dozens
of books, articles and letters. Jews, he charged, were "parasites,""dangerous" to their host country and "enemies of
civilization." His bilious anti-Jewish tirades helped set the tone of a
still unmoulded Canadian society and had a profound impact on such young
Canadians as W.L. Mackenzie King, Henri Bourassa and scores of others. Indeed
in 1905 in the most vituperative anti-Jewish speech in the history of the House
of Commons, borrowing heavily from Smith, Bourassa urged Canada to keep its
gates shut to Jewish immigrants.” This
should explain much of the content of Smith’s article.)
1878:
Birthdate of Polish native and NYU trained attorney Henry Lasker, the former
President of the Board of Alderman in Springfield, MA where he served as the
first president of the local B’nai B’rith Lodged and was a founder and
President of the Spring Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/12/12/issue.html
1879: At
Mercez, Rabbi Isaac Margolis and Hinda Zirilstein gave birth University of
Cincinnati grad and HUC ordained rabbi Elias Margolis who served as the rabbi
of Congregation Re’im Ahuvim in Stockton, CA before assuming the pulpit at
Temple Emanuel at Pueblo, CO in 1903.
1880: In
Meretz, Vilna, Lithuania, “Rabbi Isaac Margolis and Mrs. Hinde Bernstein
Margolis gave birth to Dr. Elias Margolis, who in 1885 came to the United
States where he received degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Hebrew
Union College and Columbia, led several congregations while leading the
Rabbinical Assembly of JTS and the Synagogue Council of America and raised five
children with his wife Esther Molly Jacobson Margolis.
1880: The
second annual convention of the National Rabbinical Association came to a close
today in Detroit, Michigan. About half
of the 56 member rabbis were in attendance.
A large number of non-Jews attended the sessions at which papers on
several topics related to Judaism were presented.
1880: An
unidentified man was buried in a pauper’s grave today in Hoboken, NJ. The undertaker had initially identified the
man as being Jewish and the town’s Jewish community had donated funds to
provide him with a Jewish burial. It is
not clear what caused the confusion, but the undertaker is refusing to return
the funds to the Jews.
1880: “Notes
of Literary News” published today described the upcoming publication of Jewish
Life in the East a collection of papers written by Sydney M. Samuel on the
condition of Jews living in Palestine and other parts of the Levant including
an examination of their physical and
moral condition and their manners and customs. At Jerusalem, in 1879-80, Sydney
M. Samuel found 416 heads of families pursuing 29 handicrafts, among whom were
tinkers, goldsmiths, watchmakers, smiths, turners, and masons ("Jewish
Life in the East," p. 78)
1880: Among
the charities designated to receive funds from Excise Fund in New York was the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society in the amount of $1,686.
1880: In
Merkine, Hinde Bernstein and Isaac Margolis gave birth to Elias Margolis.
1881(18th
of Tammuz, 5641): Sixty-six year old Austrian banker Friedrich Freiherr Schey
von Koromla, the father of Charlotte Przibram and the maternal grandfather of
biologist Hans Leo Przibram passed away today.
1881: Two days
after he had passed away, George Novra, a native of Prussia and the husband of
Rebecca Abrahams with whom he had four children – Henry, Maria, Benjamin and
Lewis – was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1881: Four of
the five newly elected officers of the Executive Board of the Hebrew Union come
from Cincinnati, Ohio, the home of Hebrew Union College. The only exception was
A.L. Sanger of New York who was elected to serve as Vice President.
1881: It was
reported today that the just concluded meeting of the Council of the Hebrew
Union had rejected Rabbi Wise’s proposal to provide stipends for worthy
students who lacked the funds to attend Hebrew Union College. Wise was concerned that “poverty” would keep
those with “talent” from serving as Rabbis. The attendees refused to even vote
on a proposal requiring that a rabbi must get the consent of his congregation
before talking to another congregation about a new position. The Council felt that they had no business
interfering in the relationships that rabbis had with their congregations.
1882: In an
attempt to eliminate a source of strikebreakers, it was suggested that the
striking freight handlers meet with the Polish Jews and offer to provide them
with enough money so that they can buy a stock of small goods and go on the
road as peddlers. The idea was based on
reports that the Polish Jews only planned to work on the docks until they had
earned enough money to go into business for themselves.
1882: “Russian
Refugees Returning Home” published today described the plight of Russian Jewish
immigrants who have arrived in Philadelphia in the last few months. Only a third of the 600 recent arrivals have
found jobs and 51 of the families will be shipping out from New York today as
they return to their homeland.
1883:”The
secretary of the Manchester Congregation of British Jews” Isaac Asher Isaacs,
the “son of Asher and Esther Isaacs” and Hannah “Annie” Isaacs gave birth to
Albert Phineas Isaacs today.
1883:
Birthdate of Polish born American dentist Dr. Anna Pavit Boudin, the founder
and first president of the Women’s ORT and wife labor lawyer Louis B. Boudin
with whom she had two children – Eleanor and Vera.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/10/26/89129345.html?pageNumber=29
1883: In
responding to charges by Charles D. Kellogg that “65 per cent of the public
charity was mis- directed” Superintendent Hirsch of the New York United Hebrew
Charities offered his ‘most emphatic dissent” saying that “very few
underserving persons are successful with us” “and what is better comparatively
few make the attempt.”
1884(22nd of
Tammuz, 5644): French painter Alphonse Hirsch passed away. Born in Paris in 1843, he studied with
Meissonier and Bonnat. Among his most famous portrait was one painted in 1877 -
“Isidor, the chief Rabbi of France.”
1884: The last
remnant of the Judengasse in Frankfort, Germany, is scheduled to be demolished
today.
1884: “At the
Great Synagogue, Sydney, Henry Emanuel married Sophie Frank the daughter of Leo
Frank of Hanover, Germany who had arrived in Sydney some twelve months
previously as governess to Sigmond Hoffnung’s children.”
1884: Twenty
people from four families arrived in New York today aboard the SS India. Their passage had been paid for by the Hebrew
Relief Committee of Breslau.
1884:
Birthdate of Professor Leonardo Olschki, the son of a Verona, Italy “book
dealer and publisher” who taught at universities in Germany and Italy before
coming to the United States 1939 and becoming an American citizen in 1945 while
teaching at Johns Hopkins and the University of California at Berkeley while
being married to Kate Mosse Olschki.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/12/12/118526395.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1885: In what
appears to be a botched murder/suicide brought on by a domestic dispute,
Augustus Erwin, a German Jew, shot his wife and Margaret and then turned the
gun on himself.
1885: It was
reported today that the newly formed Union of Hebrew Charities will require
favorable responses from 12 of the Jewish charitable organizations before it
will officially begin its work.
1885:
Birthdate of Ukraine native Max Hirsh, the husband of Olga Hirsh
1886:
Birthdate of Milwaukee native Irma Cain, the graduate of Vassar who become Irma
Cain Firestone when she married Northwestern University Law School graduate
Milton Firestone and was the mother of “Ruth Firestone Brin” her “third child
and only daughter.”
1886: It was
reported today the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will be sponsoring three free
excursions this summer for the enjoyment of the poor Jewish children and their
mothers.
1886: Today’s
outing to the Catskills sponsored by the Five Points Mission was an ecumenical
affair since it included children of Italian, German, Irish and Jewish
immigrants. Actually, the mixture merely
mirrored the multiplicity of immigrant groups that were living in the squalor
of the Lower East Side’s worst neighborhood.
1886:
Birthdate of Gillespie, Illinois native and Parisian trained artists Walter F.
Isaacs, who became the Director of the University of Washington School of Art
in Seattle.
http://tacoma.emuseum.com/emuseum/people/45/walter-f-isaacs
1886: In
Bloomington, Illinois, Miss Ida Clark who converted to Judaism last week so
that she could marry an English Jew named Holland tonight suffered a great
embarrassment and disappointment today.
She received word that he had changed his mind and had called off the
engagement without any explanation.
1886: “Dog
Catchers Defeated” published today described how James Flanagan, Joseph Kelly
and James Murphy unsuccessfully tried to capture a spitz owned by Nathan
Weissbaum. Their ineptitude was
exacerbated by the interference of “several hundred Polish Jews” bent on
mischief who unhitched the dogcatcher’s horse from its cart leaving the trio
afoot on Hester Street.
1887: “Harry
the Jew,” a well-known New York crook sent to the county jail Asbury Park, NJ
to await charges of having robbed several bathhouses. Harry’s last name is various listed as
Harris, Fell and Luster.
1887:
Birthdate of “artist William Meyerowitz, a native of Ekaterinoslav (later
Dnepropetrovsk), Russia and student of the National Academy of Design in New
York and husband of Theresa Berstein who in 1943 had a reached a point of such
prominence that in one year he had exhibitions at numerous institutions
including the “Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the
New-York Historical Society.”
https://theresabernstein.newmedialab.cuny.edu/?page_id=4235
https://rogallery.com/Meyerowitz_William/meyerowitz-biography.html
1887:
Birthdate of Pittsfield, MA native and University of Maryland trained surgeon
Maurice Solomon Eisner, who was a member of the Jewish Publication Society.
1887(23rd of
Tammuz, 5647): One hundred nine-year-old Hirsh Harris, known as “Rabbi Hirsch,”
passed away today in Brooklyn.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990DE5DA1430E633A2575AC2A9619C94669FD7CF
1888: Birthdate
of Ber Coffet, the Russian born American
sculptor who passed away while living in New Jersey.
https://www.fold3.com/record/8417449-ber-coffet
1888:
Birthdate of New York native and Brooklyn Law School trained attorney Abraham
L. Doris, “ a Deputy State Controller from 1927 to 1943 and a Deputy City
Controller from 1946 to 1953 who was the husband of Esther Doris with whom he
had two children, Irma and Marcia.
ABRAHAM
L. DORIS, HELD FISCAL POSTS - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
1889: In San
Francisco Lillian Garlinda Kindelberger and Marcel Rambau gave birth to actress
Marjorie Burnet Rambeau who according to Bernard Sobel was the responsible for
the creating the Ruben Sandwich which she “inaugurated when” she visited
the Reuben's Delicatessen one night when the cupboards were particularly bare.”
1889: In
Victoria, TX, the Jewish Children’s Aid Society was founded five years before
Congregation B’nai Israel was founded “under the supervision of Rabbi Cohen of
Galveston.”
1890:
Birthdate of Latvian Chasid Morris Indritz who came “Chicago at the age of 24
where “he became an important member of the city’s Yiddish literary scene,
writing for the Jewish Daily Courier, a Yiddish newspaper paper that catered to
Orthodox Jews.”
https://www.spertus.edu/typewriter-used-morris-indritz
1891: There
was “a large party” of Russian Jews aboard the SS Pickhuben that arrived today at Montreal.
1891: The
Democrats nominated Gustavus H. Wald as their candidate for Justice of the
State Supreme Court in Ohio. The
Hamilton County Jew had been a Republican until 1884 James Blaine was nominated
to run for President.
1891(9th
of Tammuz, 5651): Jerome Blumenthal, the fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Blumenthal drowned today.
1891:
Birthdate of Riga native Harry Edison, who along with his brothers Sam, Mark,
Irving and Simon who founded Edison Brothers Stores that began as a chain of
shoe stores.
1891: For
reasons that nobody can explain, it was reported today that few Jews attended
the Bastille Day celebration at Lion Park in New York during which the French
organizers had planned on marking the 100th anniversary of the
emancipation of French Jews. (This might
reflect that there were few French Jews in New York or that a large number of
the Jews living in New York were from Germany and like most Germans, had little
or not affection for the French who were their continental enemies.)
1891: “Jews
Barred From Romania” published today described conditions on the border between
Romania and Russia where Romanian troops have been deployed to prevent any Jews
from crossing over from the land of the Czars.
In addition to which, policies have been enacted to keep Russian Jews
from landing at Romanian ports.
1892: “Russian
Synagogue Schools Abolished” published today described a series of measures
approved by the Imperia Council that “abolish synagogue schools in the form in
which they now exist and to replace them by Government schools where the
elements of the Jewish religion, Hebrew and the holy Scriptures shall be taught
by men under the constant control of a special board of Orthodox Greek
inspectors.” The changes appear to be due “to a desire to improve the Jewish
schools” but “really aims at their complete suppression.
1892: “A Jew
Enters the Greek Church” published today described the baptism of Nakhim
Aphroim Zeldin a 19 year old Jew being held “in the prison of Sergivey
Possad.” As soon as the ceremony was
completed the Russian authorities released him from prison.
1892:
Birthdate of Walter Benjamin German literary critic and writer who died in 1940
on the border between France and Spain as he tried to escape from the
Nazis. According to some he committed
suicide, although this is disputed by others.
Regardless this brilliant man who combined the ideas of Brecht and
Scholem died too soon, another victim of the Holocaust.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-mysterious-death-of-walter-benjamin/article/1487
http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-arcades-contemporary-art-and-walter-benjamin
1892: Birthdate
of Quincy, MA native Joseph Gossman, “treasurer of Grossman's, a building
materials company’’ and the husband of Esther Starr whom he married after the death of his first wife, Esther
Loman who was a benefactor of Beth Israel Hospital, Quincy City “Hospital,
Jewish Memorial Hospital, New England Sinai Hospital, Brandeis University, and
the Combined Jewish Philanthropies” and who was a member of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives as well as “the first Jewish member of the Governor's
Council.”
1893: The SS Umbria arrived in Queenstown town
with one less passenger than had been on board when the ship left New York
because Asher Weinstein, a New York realtor who “was connected with several
Hebrew charitable organizations”, had fallen overboard in what is assumed to
have been a tragic accident and not a suicide.
1893: Four
hundred of the 800 passengers, most of whom are Russian Jews, who arrived in
New York yesterday aboard the SS Red will be “debarred as paupers” and will be
sent back to Europe. Authorities feel
the immigrants were victims of a scheme concocted by the ship’s owners to dump
unsuspecting foreigners on American soil with the assumption that the U.S.
government would pay for their expenses to stay or be returned. That is why the government is demanding that
the ship’s owners post a ten-thousand-dollar bond to cover the costs.
1893: An
unknown number of “rascals…cut the backs and sets cushions of an early a
hundred seats and broke several chairs” at the Thalia Theatre as part of
protest trigged by “a boycott declared against Isidor Lindemann…by the United
Hebrew Trades.”
1893: “The
German Reichstag announced that for first time a Jew has been elected to the
Town Council of Rostock.”
1894: Three
days after she had passed away, fifty year old Hanna Jacobs, the wife of Lewis
Jacobs with she had had five children – Rachel, Normal, Solomon, Joseph and
Fanny – was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894: Having
completed its investigation of the management of charitable institutions in
eastern New York, the Committee on Charities of the Constitutional Convention
chaired by Edward Lauterbach will turn its attention to the charitable
institutions in the western part of the state. (Attorney Lauterbach is
Republican leader, defense attorney and longtime supporter of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum.
1894: A
portion of the Board of Trade’s annual report showed that aliens living in
Whitechapel, most of whom are Russian Jews make up 18 per cent of the
population but “contribute less than 1 per cent to its pauperism.” The Russian
Jews do not compete in lines of work performed by the English and “the average
earnings of Jewish girls” working “in tailoring establishments are higher than
those of English girls.”
1895(23rd
of Tammuz, 5655): Simon Sternberger, who suffered from Bright’s Disease passed
away today in Long Branch, NJ.
Sternberger came to the United States 50 years ago, settling first in
Philadelphia before coming to New York where he “amassed a large fortune” and
served as a Director of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
1895: “The
Summer session of the Hebrew Technical Institute opened” today.
1896: In
Patterson, NJ, founding of the Patterson Hebrew Free School Association whose
members incude Nathan Barnert, Marcus Cohen, Joseph Krulansky, D.H. Bilder and
I.H. Levine.
1896: While
serving as the Rabbi at Temple Israel in Omaha, Nebraska. Rabbi Leo Morris
Franklin married Hattie Oberfelder at her parent’s home in Chicago
Illinois. Their first daughter, Ruth,
was born in Omaha.
1897: Moses
Alexander, who become the first practicing Jew to be elected as a governor
began serving his first term as Mayor of Boise, Idaho.
1898(25th
of Tammuz, 5658): Fifty-year-old Charles Lewis, “a well-known wool merchant”
and founder of Charles Lewis & Brothers whose activities in the New York
Jewish community included serving as Treasurer of the West End Synagogue,
passed away this morning.
1898: Philip
H. Stern began serving as a 1st Lt. with the U.S. Volunteer Infantry
during the Spanish American War.
1899(8th
of Av, 5659): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1899: Le Roy
Eltinge, the author of Psychology of War which contained such
anti-Semitic passages as “He doesn’t know what patriotism means”, “the soldiers
lot is hard physical work” which “the Jew despises and “he does not have any of
the qualities of a good soldier” – remarks which forced the War Department to
order him to go over the book and remove all such objectionable portions – was
promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant in the 6th United States Cavalry
1899: At
tonight’s meeting to discuss the future of the Presbyterian Church in New York
City, Revered Alexander J Kerr said that some of the churches on the Upper East
Side have given up their mission because “a large Jewish population has settled
in that district.” (Editor’s note – This is one denomination that would flee
than fight i.e. spend time trying to convert the Jewish population)
1900(18th
of Tammuz, 5660) Tzom Tammuz observed
1900: The
Vienna corresponded of the New York Times reported on “the extraordinary
emigration of Romanian Jews through Austria and Hungary” which is of such
“proportions…as to cause the imperial authorities in Vienna to demand that that
the Romanian Government place restrictions upon the exodus.”
1901(28th
of Tammuz, 5661): Forty-seven year old German mathematician Ferdinand Caspary
passed away today in Berlin.
1901:
Birthdate of Russian born American educator and archaeologist Pierre Pinchas
Delougaz whose primary work was in Iraq and Israel.
1902: “Wealthy
Chicago contractor Harry Korshak” and Rebecca Beatrice Lash, the father of
Sidney Roy Korshak whom the FBI said was “the most powerful in the world” were
married today.
1902(10th
of Tammuz, 5662): Seventy-one-year-old Adelaide Samuel (Malkah bat Eliezer) a
native of Lancashire and the daughter of Louis SamDuel (Eliezer ben Menachem)
passed away today.
1903: “The
building of an institution on the same lines as the Young lien's Hebrew
Association in Manhattan by the Jews in Williamsburg was assured tonight at a
meeting held in Capital Hall, 16-18 Manhattan Avenue” which was attended by
several hundred Jews of the Sixteenth Ward.”
1903: John D.
Hertz, Szklabinya born son of Kattie Schlessinger and Jacob Hertz, the Chicago
sports reporter who founded the Yellow Cab Company married Frances Kesner
today.
1904: In
Allenhurst, Rose Harris and Lew Fields a Jewish immigrant and half of the team
of Weber and Fields gave birth to Dorothy Fields “who wrote lyrics to over 400
songs over a half a century including "I Can't Give You Anything But
Love,""On the Sunny Side of the Street,""I'm in the Mood
for Love," and "Don't Blame Me," all in 1928. “In a field in
which the names of Jewish men from George and Ira Gershwin to Richard Rodgers
and Stephen Sondheim are ubiquitous, Fields made her mark with some of the American
musical theater's most memorable songs.” (According to some sources, her
birthdate was 1905)
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/15/1904/dorothy-fields
http://www.dorothyfields.org/songs.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/dorothy-fields/
https://www.rnh.com/bio/38/Fields-Dorothy
1904:
Vyacheslav Von Plehve, Russian Minister of Interior was assassinated. Von
Plehve was responsible for the Kishinev massacres in which forty-seven Jews
were killed, ninety-two severely wounded or crippled, and five hundred slightly
wounded. His assassin was a member of the socialist revolutionary movement,
which had suffered as well by his policies. Czar Nicholas was frightened into
making a few concessions. Unfortunately, he did not make enough to meet public
demand.
1905: American
portrait painter Paul Moschowitz, the Hungarian born son of Maurice and Rose
Moschowitz, the winner of the Silver Medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition
whose works included “Portrait of Young Woman in Opera Box with Classical
Background” married Madeline Rabb today.1906:Twenty-four-year-old Dr. Edwin P. Solomon, the Cincinnati, OH born
son of Emanuel and Mary (Schneider) Solomon and University of Cincinnati
trained surgeon who settled in Birmingham, AL. married Cecile Schwarzenberg
today.
1906:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Fordham University trained pharmacist Solomon
S. Goldwyn who practiced law for 30 years after graduating from Brooklyn Law
School and who served as “president of the Great Neck Synagogue, North Shore
Hebrew Academy, National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education and the
Colony of Hope in Israel” which three children – Martin, Sharon and Judith –
with his wife, “the former Bella Skolnick”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/08/29/90221025.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1907: “A
dispatch from Odessa” the site of several attacks on the Jewish population said,
“that seven people were killed and many injured by an explosion in a secret
bomb factory in that city.”
1907: “Big
Reactionary and Anti-Jewish Demonstration in St. Petersburg” published today
described a mass meeting held after the Ikon of the Resurrection which had been
brought from Palestine and presented to the Czar during Prince Volkonsky called
upon all who were listening to him “to register a vow that not a single Jew be
allowed to enter the portals of the third Duma…”
1908: Birthdate of Max M. Fisher who would gain
fame as a Detroit oil and real estate magnate known for his philanthropy and
for the advice he gave Republican presidents on the Middle East and Jewish
issues.
1908: A convention of the American Zionists meeting
in Atlantic City is scheduled to come to a close today.
1908: Birthdate of Chicago native Louis James
“Lou” Gordon, the standout lineman with the University of Illinois from 1927 to
1929 who went on to play with NFL teams – Chicago Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers,
Green Packers and the Chicago Bears – from 1930 through 1938.
1909: In Montreal, “Louis Shlakman, a tailor
and shirtwaist factory foreman, and the former Lena Hendler, both Jewish
immigrants from Eastern Europe” gave birth to economist Vera Shlakman who lost
her job during the Red Scare of the 1950’s. (Editor’s note – It wasn’t just Ten
Hollywood writers who lost their careers thanks to a bunch or Right Wing
pseudo-patriorts.)
1909: In
Massachusetts, Benjamin and Fanny Posner gave birth to Stanley Irving Posner,
the Harvard trained attorney holding degrees from Amherst and the University of
Chicago who was the husband of Lillian Kahn and the father of James, Elizabeth
and Lawrence Posner..
1909: The Associated Jewish Charities of
Vicksburg, Mississippi donated $5.00 to the National Conference of Jewish
Charities.
1909: Birthdate of Jean Hamburger “a French
physician, surgeon and essayist” who “is particularly known for his
contribution to nephrology, and for having performed the first renal
transplantation in France in 1952.” He
passed away in 1992.
1910: “The Department of Commerce and Labor
announced today that Russian Jewish immigrants coming to this country in
response to promises made by agents of American Jewish aid societies would be
barred under the contract labor laws.”
1910: Birthdate of Ostrów Lubelski, Poland native and author,
Shmuel Abarbanel who “was active in the Freeland League and the left Labor
Zionist” who spent WW II in the Soviet Union before making Aliyah in 1949.
1911(19th of Tammuz, 5671): Parashat
Pinchas
1911(19th of Tammuz, 5671): Eighty-year-old
Rabbi and author Eliezer Simcha Rabinowtsch passed away in Kalvaria, Poland.
1912: Pitcher
Ed Mensor made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1912: In
Poland, Esther Greenberg and Julius Singer gave birth to University of Texas
alum and University of Chicago Ph.D. Milton Borah Singer who was a renowned
anthropologist specializing in the study of India.
https://whowaswho-indology.info/10420/singer-milton-borah/
1913:
Birthdate of Avrom Sutzkever. Born in Russia, this Holocaust survivor is
variously described as “an acclaimed Yiddish poet,” “one of the great poets of
the 20th century” and "the greatest poet of the
Holocaust." According to David G. Roskies, Sutzkever was the greatest poet
of the Holocaust, who was also a leader of the Vilna ghetto and a partisan
fighter. It would have been enough, he tells us, had Sutzkever been only ''a
symbol of hope and creative power for the powerless Jews of the ghetto,'' but he
was much more. As ''the foremost among Jewish poets'' Sutzkever ''made the
memory of the dead the nexus of his artistic expression.'' In his major prose
poem, ''Green Aquarium,'' Sutzkever accomplishes the transcendence of the dead
by proposing the victory of poetry over death, art over destruction,
neo-classical form over chaos, and the beauty of what remains in the universe
after barbarism has done its terrible work He passed away in Tel Aviv. There is no way to do justice to his work,
which you can read in English at http://books.google.com/books?id=sj_2zrw2_bMC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=%E2%80%9CThere+is+no+God,+no+World+Creator%E2%80%9D+by+Sutzkever&source=bl&ots=JG4u2QKDQN&sig=6vpMQYzJq5SY7Bp9mOOOPsKllJE&hl=en&ei=sdocTqWtMuG60AGMzZDVBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
(Editor’s Note
– Special thanks to Murray Wolf, playwright, poet and translator of Yiddish
authors who first brought Sutzkever to my attention.)
1914: Two days
after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning
for Julian Schloss, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee L. Schloss after which he will
be interred at the Rosehill cemetery.
1914: In
Chicago, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for “Mrs. Fannie E.
Amixter,” the widow of Isaac Amixter.
1915(4th
of Av, 5675): Sixty-eight-year-old Martin Engel, native of the Bowery who
followed in his father’s footsteps and became a kosher butcher before becoming
a Tammany leader who based his power on the immigrant “Jews from Russia,
Rumania, Bohemia and Hungary” passed away today at his home at 29 East Third
Street.
1915: Based on
a dispatch that first appeared in Neueste Nachrichten, “a Munich Journal” it
was reported today that before the fall of Lemberg, “Grand Duke Nicholas issued
an order of the day to the Jewish soldiers in his army, stating that he had
decided to give them a special opportunity of showing courage and patriotism.”
Since, he said, “one of the aims of the struggle with Turkey was” the
re-conquest of “Palestine for the Jews so they could live there united and
independent” he called upon the Jewish soldiers the Jewish soldiers in the
Galician army who “were then transferred to the Army of the Caucasus” to
“reconquer Palestine for yourselves and a new day of glory will dawn for
Jewry.”
1915:
Birthdate of London native and English solicitor Sir David Napley, the husband
of Leah Rose Saturley whom he married after serving in WW II.
1915: In St.
Louis, MO, Benjamin Landesman, an immigrant Jewish artist from Berlin, and his
wife Beatrice, who dealt in antiques, gave birth to Irving Ned Landesman, who
gained fame as Jay Landesman, a writer and editor whose journal Neurotica
analyzed the anxieties of postwar America and whose Broadway musical, “The
Nervous Set,” has been called the first (and only) Beat musical…(As reported by
William Grimes)
1916(14th
of Tammuz, 5676) Parashat Pinchas
1916(14th
of Tammuz, 5676): Seventy-one-year-old Nobel Prize winning immunologist Elie
Metchnikoff whose mother was “Emilia Lvovna (Nevakhovich), the daughter of the
Jewish writer Leo Nevakhovich” passed away today in Paris.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/elie-metchnikoff
1916: Today,
Jack Melnick, a rifleman in the 12th Regiment who was “listed as
wound and missing on September 9, 1916” wrote a postcard today while fighting
in the Battle of the Somme which had begun on July 1.
https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/jmm-object/jack-melnicks-postcard/
1916: It was
reported today that Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Judge Hugo Pam of Chicago and
former Judge Leon Sanders are scheduled to peat at the upcoming conference of
Jewish organizations to be held at New York’s Astor Hotel.
1916: Dr.
Talcott Williams, Dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia, who was born in
Turkey and who is in close touch with affairs in Oriental countries” today gave
a summary of the Moslem situation as it affects and is affected by the
European” including the observation that “if the Allies win the final victory
in the European war it is an open secret that Great Britain…would secure
English domination in the East” and that Central Powers win the “Caliphate on
the Bosporus” i.e. Turkey, will remain in place. (Editor’s note: This should serve as a
reminder that events in the Middle East were being decided by the European
powers and not by the Zionists or the Arabs.)
1916: Today
was the deadline those “societies” that wish to join the proposed federation of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies to “give their consent to the plans” for the
federation and to “name their representatives on both the Organization
Committee and Board of Delegates.”
1917: Among
the contributions made to The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews
Suffering the War of which Harry Fischel is the treasurer acknowledged today
were $580 from Congregation Orach Chodesh and $705 from The Jewish Daily News.
1917: Among
the contributions made to The American Jewish Relief Committee for the Suffers
from the War of which Louis Marshall is the Chairman acknowledged today were
$5,000 from Congregation Beth Emeth of Albany New York and $25,000 from Julius
Rosenwald.
1917: It was
reported today that “Chaim Berman, a merchant and teacher from Grodno, Poland,
has come to America in hope of finding his wife and children from whom he
became separate when the Germans” invaded Poland.
1918: During
World War I, start of the Second Battle of the Marne. The Second Battle of the
Marne marked the climactic German offensive on the Western Front during World
War I. With the Russians already out of
the war, victory here would have meant that the Kaiser and his forces would
have won “The Great War.” The mind
boggles at what that might have meant i.e. no Hitler, no Holocaust? Who knows?
The fact remains that the Allies would halt the Germans. The great offensive would collapse and the
Germans would surrender in November of 1918.
1918: The
Second Annual Zionist Summer Course sponsored by the Intercollegiate Zionist
Association are scheduled to being today in New York.
1918: During
World War I, 500 German and Turkish prisoners of war were marched through the
streets of Jerusalem.
1919:
Birthdate of Irving Ned Landesman, the St. Louis native, who gained fame as
“Jay Landesman, a writer and editor whose journal Neurotica analyzed the
anxieties of postwar America and whose Broadway musical, “The Nervous Set,” has
been called the first (and only) Beat musical.”
1919: In the
United States, The War Department General Orders No. 90 of this date described
the heroism shown by Private Jean Mathis, Company F, 5th Regiment,
United States Marine Corps during the fighting at Bellau Woods saying “For
extraordinary heroism in action in the Boise de Belleau, France” on June 11,
1918 when “after all the other members of his group had been killed or wounded
by fire from an enemy machine gun, Pvt. Mathis charged the position alone,
killing three of the crew and capturing the gun.”
1920: Today,
“Mr. Mortimer L. Schiff sailed for London aboard the Cunard line “Imperator” so
that he can attend “the first international conference of Boy Scout executives.
1921: The
former Estelle Simons and Pratt Institute and Adelphi College trained artist
and World War I veteran Joseph Newsman, the New York born son of Nettie
Herskowitz and Isaiah Newman gave birth to Sheya Gisella today
1921:
Birthdate of Liselott Margaret Kupfer, the convert to Judaism who gained fame
as “a German-American poet and Texas Southern University faculty member Lisa
Kahn the wife of fellow poet and scholar Robert L. Kahn and mother of Peter and
Beatrice Kahn
1922: Birthdate of American physicist and Nobel
Prize Winner, Leon Lederman
1922:
Birthdate of Jacob Mincer, the native of Poland who survived WW II to become
Joseph L. Buttenwiser Professor of Economics and Social Relations at Columbia
University.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/09/mincer.html
1923: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in New York for “former Congressman
David Louis Baumgarten” after which he will be buried in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1923(2nd
of Av, 5683): Sixty-eight-year-old Austrian philosopher who “is regarded as the
discoverer of the literary talent of the deaf-blind writer Helen Keller”
suffered a fatal heart attack today.
1924: Adolph
S. Oko, the librarian of the Hebrew Union College has volunteered to head the
expedition of scholars and social workers who will study the history of the
ancient Jewish Chinese colony of Kai Feng, which is the capital of Honan
Province.
1925:
Fifty-two-year-old clothing merchant Benjamin Cohen who is determined to die in
Jerusalem set sail for Palestine today without knowing that his wife had set
sail for the same destination with the intent of getting to come home and
“spend his last days with her and his seven children.”
1926:
According to Sir Alfred Mond, the Economic Board for Palestine has invested
private capital worth one and a half million English pounds in Palestine during
the past year.
1927: In
Vienna, The July Revolt in which Elias Canetti took part and which ignited his
fascination with nature of crowds and their behavior, began today.
1927: In
Brooklyn homemaker and part-time opera singer Gazella Goldfisher and Benjamin
Turkel, a tailor, gave birth to Joseph Turkel who gained fame as “a gaunt-faced
yeoman character actor who appeared in scores of movies but is best known for
two of his final performances — as Lloyd the bartender in “The Shining” and Dr.
Eldon Tyrell in “Blade Runner” (As reported by Clay Risen)
1928(27th of
Tammuz, 5688): Sir Charles James Jessel, the son of famed English jurist Sir
George Jessel, passed away. A successful barrister and magistrate in his own
right, he was a member of the Anglo-Jewish aristocracy as can be seen by his
marriage to Edith Goldsmid, the daughter of Sir Julian Goldsmid. The fact that the North Borneo Company named
its leading trading post Jesselton in his honor attests to his business acumen.
He was also one of several Jews who had served as High Sheriff in Kent.
1929(7th of
Tammuz, 5689): Hugo von Hofmannst passed away. Born in 1874, He was an Austrian
novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. His
great-grandfather, to whom his family owed the noble title "von
Hofmannsthal," was a Jewish merchant ennobled by the Austrian emperor.
1929: One day
she had passed away, Nachama Liba Miller, a native of Russia who had settled in
Belfast and who was the wife of Israel
Miller with whom she had five children – Harris, Fanny, Abraham, Pauline and
Annie – was buried today in the Belfast Jewish Cemetery.
1930: In El
Biar (Algiers) Haïm Aaron Prosper Charles (Aimé) Derrida and Georgette Sultana
Esther Safar gave birth to Jackie Élie Derrida who gained fame as philosopher
Jacques Derrida.
1930(19th of
Tammuz, 5690): Hungarian born violinist Leopold Auer passed away. Born in 1845, Auer taught many violinists who
later became famous, including Efrem Zimbalist, Nathan Milstein, Mischa Elman,
and Jascha Heifetz. Sometime before his
death Auer converted to Christianity.
http://leopoldauersociety.com/leopold-auer-bio-2/
1930(19th
of Tammuz, 56900: Sixty-eight-year-old Rudolph Schildkraut the native of
Istanbul who became a successful actor in Austria passed and who married Erma
Weinstein the mother of his son actor Joseph Schildkraut, passed away today in
Los Angeles.
http://www.jta.org/1930/07/16/archive/rudolph-schildkraut-noted-jewish-actor-dies-at-70
1931:
Birthdate of Dr. Renata Laxova, the native of Brno, Czechoslovakia and
“American pediatric geneticist who survived the Holocaust thanks to the
Kindertransport and discovered “the Neu-Laxová syndrome, a rare congenital
abnormality involving multiple organs, with autosomal recessive inheritance.”
1931:
Birthdate of American graphic designer Thomas Geismar who in 1957 joined with
Serge Chermayeff, a Russian born Jew, to form Chermayeff & Geismar &
Haviv
1932: “Strange
Interlude,” the film version of the stage play by the same name starring Norma
Shearer was released today in the United States.
1932:
Birthdate of Helen M. Berg, the wife of forestry professor of Alan Berg and
“the longest serving mayor of Corvallis, Oregon.:
https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_fd4053cc-a967-11df-a42f-001cc4c002e0.html
1932: The
New York Times reported that a list of 133 prominent Jews outside of the
United States was published in today's issue of The American Hebrew and Jewish
Tribune. The journal describes the list as "Our Foreign "Who's Who,
being the first roster ever printed of outstanding Jews in lands other than the
United States. Among those listed are Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, Governor General
of Australia…Oscar Straus, Viennese composer; Paul Hyams, Belgian Minister of
Justice; Georg Cohn, counselor to the Foreign Ministry of Denmark…”
1933: In
Philadelphia, Clare Laventhol and Jesse Laventhol, “a political reporter for
the Philadelphia Record” gave birth to newspaper publisher David Abram
Laventhol.
1934(3rd
of Av, 5694): Seventy-year-old Charleston, SC native Louis Albert Sussdorf, “a
retired member of the New York Stock Exchange” passed away today.
1934: Seventy-year-old
composer and conductor Louis Ferdinand Gottschalk passed away today in Los
Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/07/17/94552317.pdf
1934: “Greek
Jews were up in arms today against a scurrilous attack on them made in the
Greek Senate in Athens by the Venizelist leader Jassonides.” (JTA)
1934:
Sixty-five Jewish homes were looted and 3,000Jews fled from Kirklisse to
Istanbul an official government report of the recent Turkish anti-Semitic
excesses admitted today.” (JTA)
1934: Funeral
services were held this afternoon for Dr. Morris Hirsch Kahn, the Cornell
Medical School trained cardiologist who had been the chief cardiologist at Beth
Israel Hospital since 1920 followed by interment at Washington Cemetery.
1934(3rd of
Av, 5694): In Germany, Simon Strauss and his son were shot dead by Kurt Baer.
The court found that the murdered Jews actually "committed suicide".
Baer found guilty only of breaching the peace.
1935(14th
of Tammuz, 5695): Amelia J. Allen, the Philadelphia born daughter of Miriam and
Lewis Marks Allen, “the superintendent of the Northern Hebrew Sunday School”
and “Supervising Principal for the Daniel Webster Combined Secondary and
Primary School” as well as “one of the founding members of the women’s branch
of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association” passed away today.
https://library.temple.edu/scrc/amelia-j-allen-diary
1935: Nazi
gangs attacked Berlin Jews as part of a round of Anti-Jewish riots.
1936:The Palestine Post reported that nine Arab terrorists were killed
by British troops near Jenin and Safed. One British soldier was killed and
several wounded when their lorry overturned during the engagement. There were
repeated attempts by Arab terrorists to interfere with railway traffic. Arab
merchants expressed considerable dissatisfaction and asked for a speedy end to
their prolonged general strike.
1936:
Birthdate of New York native and horror and science fiction film creator
Lawrence George Cohen and brother of publicists Ronni Chasen
1936: It was
reported today that according to the United Palestine Appeal, “14,707 Jewish
immigrants reached Palestine from January 1, 1936 through April 30, 1936.”
1936: In
Vienna, “grave anxieties are expressed among the Jews” as Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg prepares to appoint pro-Nazis members to the General Council of the
Fatherland Front which was created by the recently adopted Fatherland Front
Law.
1937: A
concentration camp was established at Buchenwald, Germany.
1937: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held at 2 P.M. at Temple Emanu-El in New York for
composer George Gershwin whose body arrived in New York form Hollywood this
morning while a simultaneous service is scheduled to be held at 10 A.M.
(Pacific Coast Time)at the B’nai B’rith which will be led by Dr. Edgar F.
Mangin.
1937: “While
British reaction to the report of the Palestine commission and its
recommendations for the partition of that country have been almost unanimously
favorably” today in London “there is increasing apprehension…that the bitter
hostility of the Arab extremists, led by Haj Amin Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem,
if allowed to proceed unchecked, will wreck the chances of a settlement.”
1938(16th
of Tammuz, 5698): Sixty-year-old Joseph Adler, the native of Kletzk who in 1909
came to the United States where he served as a rabbi in New York City, passed
away today.
1938: “The
Shopworn Angel,” a WW I tear-jerker produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and filmed
by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released today in the United States.
1938: At
Evian, France, the international conference on refugees came to an end.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/02.asp
1938(16th
of Tammuz, 5698: Sixty-one-year-old Josef Adler, the Lithuanian born son of
Shlomo Adler who in 1909 immigrated to the United States where he served as
rabbi at several congregations including Ahavat Zion and starting in 1931
became the popular “head of Mesivat Tepheret Jerusalem in New York” passed away
today.
1938(16th of
Tammuz, 5698): At an orange grove near Hadera, Arab attackers shot and killed a
Jewish worker while a group of workers leaving a grove near Tulkarm were
attacked with one being wounded seriously, but not mortally.
1938: Police
found a bomb at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem two hours before it was set to
detonate while a large store of arms and munitions was found near the Mosque of
Omar.
1938:
Birthdate of Petr Hanak who was deported from Prague to Ujazdown where he was
murdered in 1942.
1939: After
291 performances, the curtain came down on the Broadway production of “Leave It
to Me!” a musical with a book by Samuel and Bella Spewack.
1940: As they prepared to
leave Lisbon for Rio, Margret and Hans Rey, the creator of Curious George,
"had their vaccination papers signed and stamped.”
1940: Five
hundred Jews who had been taken from Szczebrzeszyn, Poland were sent to various
work camps. From then on all Jews between the ages of sixteen and fifty had to
report daily for selection.
1940: Today,
the Lawrence family including future American alpine ski racer David Judah
Lawrene who had received help from Portugues consul Arsitides de Sousa Mendes,
checked out of the Grande Hotel and “boarded the Pan Am Yanke Clipper headed
for New York City.”
1941:
Birthdate of Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen “an American film producer,
director, and screenwriter” who “is best known for directing his own
low-budget, satirical, and inventive horror films and thrillers that are laced
with scathing social commentary about modern American society.”
1941: (20th
Tammuz, 5701): Nazi forces and local Lithuanian sympathizers massacred the male
population of Telz, including Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch and the faculty of
the yeshiva.
1941: Among
the people disembarking in Montevideo from the ship Cabo de Buena Esperanza
(Cape of Good Hope) today was German-born photographer Jeanne Mandello, who had
managed to escape from France.
1941: Fourteen
days after 65-year-old Bohemian and
Havana industrialist and art collector Heinrich Waldes, had passed away
and almost two years after he had been imprisoned by the Gestapo at Dachau, was
cremated today in New York
1942: A two-week
killing spree came to an end in Sevastopol during which time over a thousand
“refuges and Jewish POWs and another one thousand residents of the city were
killed.
1942: The
first 2,000 deportees left Holland from the Westerbork transit camp for
Auschwitz. Most of them were German Jews who found safety there years earlier.
1942: “That
Old Black Magic” a popular tune with music by Harold Arlen was recorded for the
first time today.
1942(1st of
Av, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Av
1942(1st of
Av, 5702): One thousand Jews from Moczadz were taken to the woods and shot
dead.
1942(1st of
Av, 5702): One thousand Jews were murdered in Bereza Kartuska, Belerus in the
Soviet Union.
1942: Etty
Hillesum “received an appointment to the office on the Lijnbaansgracht” where
she worked until she was transferred to Westerbrook.
1942: At the
end of the workday, 48-year-old Alfred Le Guellec, “who held an important
position in the service of foreign national for the Prefecture of Police is
upset when he hears a rumor that a mass arrest of Jews is planned for tomorrow.
As soon as he was safely away from the building he warned everybody he saw
wearing a yellow star about the impending doom and told them to hide. This
bravery would save the life of his friend Marcel Skurnik, his wife and their
daughter Dora. (More tomorrow)
1943:
Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves,
director of the Manhattan Project (the super-secret project to build the
Atomic Bomb) verbally ordered that Robert J. Oppenheimer be given security
clearance regardless of accusations about his loyalty.
1943: A week
after Bruno Kittel, an Oberscharfuhrer in the German Security Police ordered
Jacob Gens, “the de factor head of the Vilna Ghetto” to immediately surrender
“Itzik Wittenberg, the Communist commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner
Organizatsye (FPO), the United Partisans Organization, the ghetto’s underground
resistance movement” today “Jacob Gens summoned the leaders of the
FPO—Wittenberg, Abba Kovner, Abrasha Chwojnik, and Chenia Borowska—to a meeting
at his office in the Judenrat building, Gens’s headquarters.”
1943: Henry
Levin began his Hollywood career as dialogue director for “Appointment in
Berlin,” a war move that premiered today which was produced by Samuel Bischoff
and featured Felix Basch as Hoppner
1944(24th
of Tammuz, 5704): Parashat Pinchas
1944: After
7,176 Jews had been shipped from Lodz to Chelmon, deportations were
halted. They would resume again in
August.
1944: The Red
Army approached Siauliai, Lithuania, so the Germans cleared the town of its
remaining four thousand Jews. More and more Jews were finding freedom in the
arms of the advancing Red Army.
1944: The
Kovno Ghetto was cleared out of its remaining Jews.
1944: The
Chicago Sun reported "1,000,000 Hungarian Jews Face Massacre, Hull
Says." Hull was Cordell Hull the
Secretary of State whose wife’s father was a Jewish immigrant from Austria. She
was raised as an Episcopalian. The level
of anti-Semitism in the United States was such that, according to biographer
Irwin Gellman, Hull hid her Jewish connection to protect his political
career.
1944: Today
“Anne McCormick, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times wrote in
defense of Hungary as the last refuge of Jews in Europe, declaring that
"as long as they exercised any authority in their own house, the
Hungarians tried to protect the Jews.
1944:
Birthdate of Kobi Oshrat “an Israeli composer and conductor who composed and
conducted the winning entry at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest Hallelujah sung
by Gali Atari and Milk and Honey.”
1944:
Australian Prime Minister John Curtin informed Isaac Steinberg that “the
Australian government would not ‘depart from the long-established policy in
regard to alien settlement in Australia’ and could not ‘entertain the proposal
for a group settlement of the exclusive type contemplated by the Freeland
League’” i.e. the settlement of a large number of Jewish refugees in the
Kimberly region of Western Australia.
1945: “The
internationalization of Palestine as part of a long-range program to settle
difficulties in the troubled Middle East was suggested today by the Foreign
Policy Association” in a report that said “Any course the United States pursues
toward Palestine must be developed in relation to our broader policy with
respect to Britain and Russia” even if that means ignoring the conflicting
claims of the Zionists and Arabs.
1946: “Jewish
veterans, protesting against British action in Palestine, told President Truman
today that they were prepared to recruit "a full division of Jewish
volunteers for service in the Holy Land" if he felt it desirable to send
United States forces to facilitate the entry of 100,000 European Jews into that
country.”
1947: “Two
hundred leaders of the Amusement Industry Division, including motion picture
executives, producers and composers, contributed $200,000 today to the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater New York at an emergency luncheon at the Hotel Astor.”
1948:President
Harry Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic Party. Truman’s candidacy was pronounced dead on
arrival. The Dixiecrats left the party
over the issue of Civil Rights and backed Strom Thurmond for President. Part of the left wing of the party left to
support the candidacy of Henry Wallace, the man who had been Vice President
during Roosevelt’s third term. Truman’s
victory over Dewey would be one of the greatest upsets in political history. Truman garnered a large part of the Jewish
vote which was congregated in key states with large electoral votes. Jewish support was in no small part a reward
for Truman’s decision to recognize the Jewish state which was fighting for
survival as the man from Missouri fought for his political life.
1948: Still
seeking a way to reach Tel Aviv, the Egyptians attacked Be’erot Yitzhak. In a day long desperate fight, the
outnumbered defenders drove off the Egyptians.
As the Egyptians retreated, seventeen of the Israeli fighter lay dead
and all of the settlement’s buildings had been destroyed. Tel Aviv was saved, but the cost was high.
1948: Continuing their drive for Nazareth,
Israeli forces take Zippori after fierce fighting.
1948: While
the fighting flared, the diplomats dithered.
The United Nations decided that the Arab rejection of the extension of
the truce that had been proposed by Count Bernadotte was a “breach of the
peace” and ordered a permanent cease-fire.
The Arabs ignored the threat of sanctions and rejected the
cease-fire.
1948: Israeli
forces renewed their attempts to retake the Old City by launching attacks on
the New Gate, the Jaffa Gate and the Zion Gate, none of which would prove
successful.
1948: During
Operation Dekel, Israeli planes attacked the village of Saffuriya
1948: Israeli
forces began another attack on the Latrun Fortress, the Jordanian held military
installation that was blocking the road to Jerusalem.
1948: Yosef
“Sprinzak was elected to the position of speaker of the provisional
parliament.”
1949: “Miss
Liberty,” a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin, “directed by Moss
Hart and choreographed by Jerome Robbins” opened on Broadway at the Imperial
Threatre
1949: “The
best known version” of "I Can Dream, Can't I?" a popular song written
by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal “was recorded by the Andrews Sister”
who were not Jewish.
1949: “Any
Number Can Play” the film version of the novel by the same name directed by
Mervyn LeRoy, produced Arthur Freed and with a script by Richard Brooks was
released in the United States today.
1951: Ted
Lurie, The Jerusalem Post reporter
and future editor, visited Eilat and described the difficulties facing the new
settlers. There was no bakery, the water tasted rusty and caused diarrhea,
there was no facility to chill water or bottled drinks. But a large
cold-storage plant was being planned to make the import of meat from East
Africa possible.
1952: The
first production of “The Seven Year Itch” the hit comedy by George Axelrod, the
son of Russian Jewish immigrant Herman Axelrod took place at the Fulton Theatre
in New York City.
1953:
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” the movie version of the Broadway musical with a
book by Joseph Fields and music by Jules Styne, produced by Sol C. Siegel and
starring Marilyn Monroe who would later convert to Judaism, was released by 20th
Century Fox today in the United States.
1954: “A national
income of $600,000,000,000 a year with jobs available for 100,000,000 persons
with the next twenty-five years was described as probable” today by Samuel
Bronfman, president of the Distillers Corporation-Seagrams, Ltd during a speech
delivered at the Waldorf-Astoria.
1954(14th
of Tammuz, 5714): Sixty-five-year 0lf Newark born Pace Institute graduate,
Jacob N. Spiro, a veteran of the Mexican Border incursion and the WW I and a thirty-year
veteran of the leather goods industry passed who was married to Ida Agriss
Spiro with whom he had two children, passed away today while on vacation.
1955: “The
Cobweb” the film version of the novel by the same name co-starring Lauren
Bacall with music by Leonard Rosenman was released in the United States today.
1955: Eighteen
Nobel laureates signed the Mainau
Declaration against nuclear weapons. The declaration was created by Otto
Hahn and Max Born. Hahn had stayed in
Germany after the rise of the Nazis and played a major role in the atomic
program. Born had to leave Germany in
1933. He had become a Lutheran but his
parents were Jewish and as far as the Nazis were concerned Born was still
Jewish.
1956(7th
of Av, 5716): Forty-one-year-old Canadian born author David W. Petegorsky who
was the Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress passed away today
http://www.archeion.ca/david-w-petegorsky-fonds;rad
1958: Five
thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western
government. This landing took place at the same time that the pro-Western
government of Iraq was being overthrown. The fighting in Lebanon was part of an
on-going struggle between the Christians and the Moslems which had supposedly
been settled by a power-sharing agreement set up by the French before they
ended their imperial role there. The collapse of this power-sharing agreement
would explode in a civil war in the 1970’s, the aftermath of which exists
today. Needless to say, this instability in its northern neighbor has added to
Israel’s problems.
1959: “A Hole
in the Head,” a film version the 1957 play be Arnold Schulman who wrote the
script for the movie was released in the United State States today.
1959(9th of
Tammuz, 5719): Swiss-born American composer Ernest Bloch passed away. While his works covered a variety of themes,
from a Jewish point of view, one of his most interesting works was Schelomo, a
composition for cello and orchestra written in 1915 that was completed during
Bloch's "Jewish Cycle," which lasted from 1912–1926
1959:
Birthdate of Istanbul native David Tzur, who made Aliyah at the age of six and
pursued a career in security with the government before being elected to the
Knesset in the elections of 2013.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189006#.VRMh5fmsWhE
1960:”Pension Schöller is a
1960 West German comedy film” featuring Leo Askin as “Fritz Bernhardi” was
released today/
1961: David
Saul Marshall who would later serve as the first Chief Minister of Singapore
began serving as the the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Anson today.
1963: It was
reported today, that in Los Angeles at the 66th annual convention of
ZOA, California Congressman James Roosevelt, the eldest son of FDR expressed
his support for Israel saying that “If Israel is to survive, the U.S.A. must
convince the Communists and the Arab world that the full strength of our military
and economic resources are behind the achievement of peace between Israel and
her neighbors.” (JTA)
1965: “Eve of
Destruction,” written by P.F. Sloan was recorded with Sloan on guitar and Hal
Blaine on drums.
1965:
Birthdate of David Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party.
1966(27th
of Tammuz, 5726): Seventy-seven year old Sally Pinansky Wingersky, the daughter
of Nathan and Ida Ginsberg Pinanski passed away today after which she buried at
Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in West Roxbury, MA.
1967(7th
of Tammuz, 5727): Parashat Balak
1967: Carole
Avnet, the daughter of Lester Avnet and the granddaughter of Russian-Jewish
immigrant Charles Avnet, the founder of what became Avnet, Inc. married Jerome
B. Rochelle this afternoon at the home of her parents.
1967: During
the War of Attrition an Israeli Air Force Mirage III is shot down by Egyptian
MiG-21.
1968: ABC
broadcast the first episode of “One Life to Live” a soap opera in which Doris
Belack appeared for nearly a decade as “Anna Wolke Craig” a role which she
created
1969(29th
of Tammuz, 5729): Eighty-eight-year-old, the German born son of banker Leo
Isaac who came to the United States in 1915 who worked with Eugene Meyer before
going on to the “investment firm of Halle and Stieglitz and husband of the
“former Lucile Martin” passed away today in Little Lake, NY.
1969:Rod
Carew ties the record with his 7th steal of home in a season. Carew is not Jewish, although he has been
mistakenly identified as one. He is
married to a Jewish woman and his children have been raised in the faith of
their mother.
1970: “The
Revolutionary,” based on the novel of the same name produced by Edward R.
Pressman was released in the United States today.
1970: “Joe,”
with a screenplay written by Norman Wexler was released today in the United
States.
1970: “The
second internation Summer Science Institute, bringing together teen-age science
enthusiasts from six countries” opened at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot,
Israel.
1972(4th
of Av, 5732): Parasaht Devarim and Shabat Chazon.
1973: General
Shmuel Gonen assumed command of Israel’s Southern Front. He replaced Ariel Sharon who was leaving the
army to go into politics. Just prior to
the change in command, Sharon told Defense Minister Dayan that Gonen lacked the
experience to handle the command if war should break out. Dayan assured Sharon that Gonen had plenty of
time to gain the needed experience since there was not going to be a war in
1973.
1973 CIA
Director Richard Helms sent a telegram to Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon's National Security Advisor,
stating that King Hussein of Jordan had told him that Jordanian intelligence
had learned of a Syrian attack to recapture the Golan Heights originally which had been delayed since June could take
place at any time; probably sooner than later. One of the Jordanian
intelligence sources was the commander of a Syrian armored brigade, and the
Jordanians had obtained a copy of the battle plans, which had been coordinated
with Egypt and Iraq. Once again, instability in the Middle East is shown not to
be “an Israeli problem.” In fact the
Americans would call upon the Israelis to assist in thwarting the planned attacked.3
1974:
Birthdate of Menachem Stark.
http://forward.com/news/190580/who-was-menachem-stark-and-why-was-he-murdered/
1974: “Over
150 Belgian academics handed a petition to Soviet Ambassador Sobelev expressing
concern at the fate of their colleagues who seek to emigrate from the USSR.”
1976(17th
of Tammuz, 5736): Tzom Tammuz
1976: It was
reported today that the Labor Party Government is being pressed by a large
number of British citizens “to take some firm action” in response to the
“presumed death of 73 year old Dora Bloch, an Anglo-Israeli who disappeared
after the Israeli raid on Entebbe.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that former
defense minister Moshe Dayan called for an arrangement whereby Jews and Arabs
would live together in the administered territories, with the Arabs remaining
Jordanians and the land remaining under Israeli control. He stressed that Israelis
were in the territories by right, not as conquerors. Questioned whether Arabs
would agree to this, he replied that if we had to do things according to the
desires of the Arabs, we could pack our bags and go to Canada. A delegation of
Israeli legal and atomic energy experts visited Washington to work out final
details of the sale of two US 450-megawatt reactors to Israel.
1977: The I
Love NY Logo designed by Milton Glaser today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_New_York#/media/File:I_Love_New_York.svg
1977(29th
of Tammuz, 5737): Eighty-two-year-old talent and literary agent Adeline Jaffe
passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schulberg-adeline-jaffe
1978(10th
of Tammuz, 5738): Parashat Chukat
1978(10th
of Tammuz, 5738): Sixty-nine-year-old Phillip P. Elfenbein, “the son of Samuel
and Celia Elfenbein” and “husband of Sarah Elaine Elfenbein” passed away today
in “West Covina, CA.”
1979:
Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were scheduled to held
today for seventy-six-year-old “Rabbi Joseph Hyman Lookstein, a Jewish educator
long prominent in Orthodox Judaism and rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun
on the Upper East Side for half of Its more than 100 years.”
1979:
It was disclosed today, “on the eve of Israel Air Force Day” that “a
sophisticated American made reconnaissance and intelligence gathering aircraft,
the Hawkeye, recently acquired by Israel is fully operational and has already
seen action.” (JTA)
1981(13th
of Tammuz, 5741): Three people were murdered and 25 more injured “in rocket
attacks today in northern Israel.
1982: “The
Last American Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script,
produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and filmed by cinematographer Adam
Greenberg was released in Germany today.
1983(5th
of Av,5743): Sixty-six-year-old U.S. Army WW II veteran Leon Abrahams, the New
York born son of Max and Fannie Danovitch Abrahams passed away in Branford, CT
after which he was buried at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY
1986(8th of
Tammuz, 5746): Actor and comedian Benny
Rubin passed away at the age of 87.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/17/obituaries/benny-rubin-an-actor-and-vaudeville-comic.html
1986(8th
of Tammuz, 5746): Sixty-year-old Edmund I. Kaufmann, the District of Columbia
born “son of Cecil David Kaufmann and Isabelle Kaufman” and husband of Myrna D.
Kaufmann passed away today.
1988: “Aviya's
Summer,” a movie version of the Hebrew-language bestseller that was an autobiographical
novel by actress Gila Almagor was released in Israel today.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095433//
1990: Funeral services
are scheduled to be held this morning at Temple Beth El in Spring Valley for sixty-three-year-old leukemia
victim, Republican State Senator Eugene Levy a WW II veteran serving in the Navy
Medical Corps, the husband of Geraldine Schak Levy and the father of William Levy.
1991(4th
of Av, 5751): Seventy-nine-year-old New York native Morris “Moe” Spahn the
all-star basketball player for CCNY who went on to a successful pro career in
the American Basketball League and was the father Dartmouth basketball player
Steve Spahn, passed away today.
http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=basketball&ID=187
1991: Award
winning “British economic historian” Robert Skidelsky, the father of journalist
William Skidelsky and university lecturer Edward Skidelsky, “was created a life
peer as Baron Skidelsky, of Tilton in the County of East Sussex.”
1991: The
Landmarks Preservation commission held a public hearing on the proposed
designation as a Landmark of the New York Public Library, Aguilar Branch, and
the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site. “The Aguilar Branch of
the New York Public Library initially was built for the Aguilar Free Library
Society which was founded in 1886 as an independent library to provide
circulating books for immigrant Jews.
The society was named after Grace Aguilar a popular 19th
century British novelist and essayist of Sephardic Jewish descent.” (As
reported by the Landmarks Preservation Commission)
1992: In
“Orphans Gather For A Family Reunion” published today Ron Grossman provides a
history of the Marks Nathan Home.
1997(10th
of Tammuz, 5757): Fifty-eight year old NYU player and coach Mark Reiner passed
away today.
1993:
Fourteenth Maccabiah comes to an end.
1994: “Angels
in the Outfield” a baseball comedy/fantasy co-produced by Joe Roth and Roger
Birnbaum and music by Randy Edelman was released in the United States today.
1995: “He’s
The Real Kosher Link” published today described the life and times of Rabbi
David Hill, “the president of Real Kosher Sausage Company…the home to the last
kosher salami factory in Manhattan.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/real-kosher-link-article-1.701144
1999(2nd
of Av, 5759): Eighty-year old Benjamin Forester “Ben” Sohn the San Diego High
School who was an all-star lineman at USC in the late 1930’s and played a
season for the New York Football Giants passed away today.
1999: “The
Last Days” a documentary that “tells the stories of five Hungarian Jews during
the Shoah” that “focuses on the horrors of life in the concentration camps” was
released in Australia today.
1999:
“Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1244, the nominated Dr. Bernard
Kouchner as the second UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations
Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
2000: Whizzing
around Camp David in golf carts and on bicycles, as if they were resort guests
and not confined like prisoners of diplomacy in a pressure-cooker summit
meeting, Israeli and Palestinian leaders spent their fourth day in secluded
negotiations today. (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Supreme Injustice by Alan
M. Dershowitz, Vote: Bush, Gore and the Supreme Court edited by Cass R.
Sunstein and Richard A. Epstein, to be published by the University of Chicago
Press in October and currently available as an e-book on the Web site www.thevotebook.com) and the recently released paperback editions
of Scandalmonger by William Safire and Oberammergau: The Troubling
Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play by James Shapiro
2001: A
revival of “Do I Hear a Waltz?” a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music
by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim opened today at the Pasadena
Playhouse.
2001: TBS
began broadcasting “The Mists of Avalon,” a mini-series co-starring Juliana
Margulies.
2002: Ahmed
Omar Saeed Sheikh and three other suspects were convicted of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003(15th
of Tammuz, 5763): “Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian
armed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby on Tel Aviv's beachfront
promenade, after a security guard prevented him from entering the Tarabin cafe
and was wounded. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member of
the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2004: “With
immigration to Israel down sharply in recent years, a charter flight delivered
nearly 400 new arrivals from the United States and Canada today as part of an
expanding program, Nefesh B’Nefesh” that has been bringing middle-class Jews
from North America
2005: Today,
The Washington Post reported that Judith Miller could face criminal contempt
charges as the government continues to investigate the role Scooter Libby
played in exposing Valery Plame’s CIA identity.
2005: Lily
Gasway begins the celebration of her Bat Mitzvah by leading Friday Services at
Temple Judah. In Cedar Rapids, thanks to Lily and the Gasway family
"Am Yisroel Chai."
2005(8th
of Tammuz, 5765): Ninety-two-year-old Scottish author and literary critic David
Daiches whose works included his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh
Jewish Childhood passed away today at Edinburgh.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/18/guardianobituaries.obituaries
2005: “Wedding
Crashers” a comedy co-starring Isla Fisher and Jane Seymour was released in the
United States today.
2006: In
“Missile, Not Drone, Hit Israeli Warship” published today, the Guardian
described the outcome of an investigation into an attack on an Israeli ship off
the coast of Lebanon.
2006: In response to orders from The Home Front
Command businesses and clubs in Karmiel remained closed as Katyusha alerts rang
throughout Karmiel sending residents into bomb shelters. In light of the
situation, the Home Front Command has decided to operate a silent radio wave in
the following frequencies: FM 102.2, 98.5, 95.7. This enabled those keep the
Sabbath to leave the radio turned on and listen to emergency announcements.
Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel cannot interfere with those who are “Shomer Shabbos.”
2007: Hadassah
opens its 93rd national convention in New York City.
2007: Gad
“Elmaleh premiered his fifth one-man show, Papa
est en haut, in Montreal as part of the “Just for Laughs” festival
2007: Shimon
Peres formally becomes President of Israel, a post that he will hold for a
seven year term.
2007: The
Rochester Jewish Film Festival presents a screening of “Yippee: A Journey to Jewish
Joy.”
2007: The
National Art Gallery presents a screening of “Children Must Laugh,” one of the
few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before WWII.
2007: The Sunday New York Times book sections
featured reviews of 1967: Israel,
the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev, translated by Jessica
Cohen and Presence, a collection of stories written by Arthur Miller in
the years before his death in 2005.
2008: In
Washington, D.C. Professor Alvin S.
Felzenberg discusses and signs The
Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating
Game at the National Press Club.
2008: As part
of complicated and controversial prisoner exchange, President Shimon Peres
signed the pardon of Samir Kuntar, the terrorists who murdered several Israelis
in cold blood in 1982. Peres said that
the pardon in no way should be seen as an act of forgiveness. Arabs in Lebananon await the release of
Kuntar who will be greeted as a hero.
2008: In
suburban Washington, D.C.,Ellen
Rachlin, author of Until
Crazy Catches Me and the forthcoming chapbook Captive to Residue, reads from
her work as part of the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Series
2008: The 79th
All Star Game is played at Yankee Stadium in New York City. At least three
players of Jewish descent made the lineups of Major League Baseball's All -Star
teams. Boston Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis will start for the American
League Ian Kinsler, the second baseman from the Texas Rangers, will be a
reserve for the American League. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun will
start for the National League. The all-star selections were announced Sunday.
Youkilis, whose nickname is "The Greek God of Walks," openly
identifies as Jewish. In explaining his charity work, he once told mlb.com,
"In my religion, the Jewish religion, that's one of the biggest things
that's taught, is giving a mitzvah, forming a mitzvah." He also said,
"I was always taught as a kid giving to charity. You're supposed to give a
good amount of charity each and every year." Both Braun and Kinsler have
Jewish fathers and reportedly identify as half-Jewish.
2009: Once a
year the banks of Paris’ Seine River are transformed into a makeshift beach
known as “Paris Plages”, complete with parasols, beach chairs, amusement rides
and plenty of shirtless Parisians. This year the French capital honors its twin
city of Tel Aviv-Yafo with an Israeli beach party on the Seine’s left bank.
2009: At the
18th Maccabiah Games, Israel plays Australia in Cricket.
2009: At the
Randi & Bruce Pergament Jewish Film Festival a screening of “Noodle,
a touching comic-drama about two human beings, as different as Tel Aviv is from
Beijing, on a remarkable journey together to find their way back to a
meaningful life.”
2009: Today Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat ordered his municipality to halt all services
to the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Geula and Mea Shearim.
2009(23rd of Tammuz, 5769): Julius Shulman, an American architectural photographer best known for his photograph
"Case Study House #22” passed away.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-julius-shulman17-2009jul17-story.html#page=1
2009(23rd of Tammuz, 5769): Seventy-eight-year-old
Avraham Ahituv “who served as director of the Shin Bet, Israel's security
agency, from 1974 to 1980” passed away today.
2009: “Mark Polansky was the commander of the
STS-127 mission, which launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour” today.
2009: Swindler Sam Israel III was sentenced to an
additional two years in prison for failing to report to authorities,
effectively escaping prison before showing up to be jailed.
2010: In Washington, D.C. Norman Shore is scheduled
to lead the final class of “I Kings: May the King Live! A Study of King Solomon
and his Heirs.”
2010:Critically acclaimed Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy, known for her
aggressively physical work is scheduled to bring five dancers together for
their final performance of the week in the courtyard at John Street United
Methodist Church in New York City.
2010:Haim Pearlman, suspected of four counts of murder and seven counts of
attempted murder, was remanded in custody until July 22 by the Petah Tikva
District Court today. The suspected, who is associated with the outlawed Kach
movement, was arrested two nights ago by Jerusalem Police and the Shin Bet
(Israel Security Agency).
2010:Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has appointed Meiron Reuven, Israel's
ambassador to Colombia, as the new ambassador to the UN today Israel Radio
reported.
2011: “Lucky,” a comedy starring Jeffrey Tambor was
released in the United States today.
2011: In a time of communal sorrow, the funeral of
Suzanne Katz, the wife of Bert Katz, is scheduled to take place at Eben Israel
Cemetery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2011:Firefighters extinguished
a fire in the Golan today, after battling the blaze that broke out in the Ein
Tina Nature Reserve yesterday.
2011: Five Kassam rockets were fired into southern Israel overnight and an
additional mortar shell from Gaza landed in the Negev this morning. No one was
hurt in the attacks and no damage was reported. The IAF responded to the rocket
attacks with airstrikes on six targets in Gaza.
2011(9th of Tammuz, 5681): The original Penang Jewish community
ceased to exist with the death of 89 Mordecai (Mordy) David Mordecai today.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/oeyvind/38778517515
2011:Defense
Forces officials issued a statement Friday, condemning Hamas for not taking
action to stop rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel, shortly after Chief
of Staff Benny Gantz called an emergency meeting to discuss the increased
violence in southern Israel..
2012: Those celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of
Walter Benjamin today might be reading his essay “On the Concept of History” or
Walter
Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Professor Eli Friedlander, the head of the
Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv University.
2012(25th of Tammuz, 5772): Centenarian Jacqueline Piatigorsky
(Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild) passed away today.
http://main.uschess.org/content/view/11816/141/
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jacqueline-piatigorsky-20120722-story.html#page=1
2012: “Spies, Traitors and Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America” a
creation of the International Spy Museum, is scheduled to open at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
2012: “Silk Stones,” an exhibition feature the works of Rochelle Rubinstein
is scheduled to come to a close at the Yeshiva University Museum.
2012: Jack Markell, the Governor of Delaware began serving of as Chair of
the National Governors Assoication.
2012: The final screening of Israeli documentary filmmaker Michal Aviad’s
“Invisisble” at the Museum of Modern Art.
2012: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including the recently released
paperback editions of The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift,
and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities by Katharine Weber and Why This
World George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family’s Legacy of Infidelities by
Katharine Weber
2012:US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in Israel this evening in
preparation for talks tomorrow for meetings with top Israeli leaders on Iran,
Egypt, Syria and the frozen peace process with the Palestinians.
2012:About
a hundred protesters clashed with police near the Prime Minister's Residence in
Jerusalem today, in a rally summoned following the self-immolation of a Haifa
resident during a protest marking one year since the onset of social unrest in
Israel.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-rally-in-solidarity-with-self-torcher-in-tel-aviv/
2012: The battle for universal draft arrived at the Arab public’s doorstep
today when nearly 100 right-wing protestors held a demonstration in the Israeli
Arab city of Nazareth in the lower Galilee.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/right-wing-activists-demonstrate-for-universal-draft-in-nazareth/
2013: The Seventh Biennale
of Israeli Ceramcis is scheduled to open at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel
Aviv.
http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/282/
2013: In the evening
members of the Fort Belvoir Jewish Congregation and Beth El Hebrew Congregation
will join together for a Tisha B’Av observance that will include a study
session – “Should Israel Build the Third
Temple?” – followed by the chanting of Eicha, Lamentations.
2013:Israel
approved a request by the Egyptian army to increase its forces in Sinai,
following a rise in violence in the peninsula in recent weeks.
2013: Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein barred Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel
Eliyahu from running for the position of Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel because
of derogatory statements he made in the past regarding the Arab community. (As
reported by Jeremy Sharon)
2013:Ian
Paul Livingston, the fourth generation son Litvak immigrants to Scotland
“became a member of the House of Lords, as a life peer” today.
2013: Hamas has developed the ability to
locally manufacture rockets with the range to hit Israel’s heartland including
Tel Aviv, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said today. (As reported by Stuart
Winer)
2014: Rabbi Shira is scheduled to lead a
discussion of “What Does It Mean to Be Jewish?” at the Historic Sixth & I
Synagogue.
2014(17th of Tammuz): Shiva Asar
Be-Tammuz – As a new round of enemies seek to “breach the walls of Israel”
observance of a minor fast day that
commemorates the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. by
the Babylonians and again in 70 C.E. by the Romans
2014: “Macon Openshaw, 21, of Salt Lake City who pleaded guilty in U.S.
District Court for the District of Utah to firing three rounds from a handgun
at the Congregation Kol Ami synagogue in Salt Lake City” is scheduled to be
sentenced today. (JTA)
2014: Thirteen Palestinian children, six from
Gaza and seven from Judea and Samaria, are expected to arrive today at Wolfson
Medical Center in Holon. The children are brought by the Israel- based
international charity Save a Child's Heart to undergo life-saving heart
treatments at Wolfson.
2014: In the wake of anti-Israel protests in
several countries and violent attacks against Jews in France, Morocco and
Australia, the Ant-Defamation League issued a security advisory to all Jewish
institutions and synagogues.”
2014: Following another rocket attack from
Syria, the IAF struck Base 90, a Syrian military airbase.
2014(17th of Tammuz, 5774): After
Israel accepted the ceasefire; Hamas rejected it and continued to bombard
Israel with rockets.
2014(17th of Tammuz, 5774):
Thirty-seven year old Dror Hanin, a civilian from Beit Aryeh, was killed by
mortar fire from Gaza while he was delivering food and drinks to IDF troops.
2015: “Being There” is scheduled to be shown at
the National Museum of American Jewish History as part of the “Seventies Summer
Cinema” program
2015(28th of Tammuz, 5775): Eighty-nine-year-old
English born actor Aubrey Morris passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/16/aubrey-morris?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
2015: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host “Summer Wednesdays” where “kids can cool down and explore the
exhibition Where the Wild Things Are:
Maurice Sendak in his Own Words and Pictures.
2015: “The Second Mother” and “The Mud Woman”
are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2015: Following a similar episode two weeks ago
when “a 20-year-old female IDF soldier was stabbed by a female Palestinian
attacker outside of Bethlehem” a teenage girl stabbed an Israeli soldier today
after which he was “evacuated to Tel HaShomer Hospital” and she “arrested by
security forces.”
2015: Three masked men of African descent armed
with handguns assaulted and robbed a family in suburban in a crime that was
thought to have been motivated, in part, by the fact that the family was
Jewish.
2015: A German court sentenced 94 year old Oskar Gröning, a former SS soldier to four years in jail for complicity in
the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944.
2015: Tonight, terrorists in Gaza launched a
rocket attack on the Hof Ashkelon region.
2016: “Nazi Art Loot Returned…to Nazis”
published today Doreen Carvajal and Alison Smale
2016: “The First Monday in May” and “Johnny
Guitar” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2017(21st of Tammuz, 5777): Parashat
Pinchas;
2017(21st of Tammuz, 5777): Eighty-nine-year-old
Oscar winning actor Martin Landau who gained fame as one of the agents in the
original television series “Mission: Impossible” passed away today, (As
reported by Anita Gates)
2017(21st of Tammuz, 5777):
Ninety-six year old Bob Wolff, for whom many is known for his broadcast of such
famous sports events as Don Larsen’s Perfect Game, but who for the author of
this blog will always be the voice of the Washington Senators, passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” a film that tells
“the true story of Gertrude Bell and Iraq” is scheduled to open in Hudson, NY.
2017: Director Philippe Garrel and producer
Caroline Deruas are scheduled to attend the screening of “Lover for a Day” at
the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018: “The Testament” is scheduled to be shown
today at the 9th Annual AXELROD Israel Jewish Film Festival.
2018: Three days after he had passed away
funeral services are scheduled to be held for “Richard Siegel, Director
Emeritus of the HUC-JIR Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management.”
2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two
screenings of “Keep the Change”
2018: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Little Panic: Dispatches From
an Anxious Life by Amanda Stern and Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t
Afford America by Alissa Quart.
2019: According President Mike Fitts, now that
the worst is over” from Hurricane Barry classes are scheduled to resume today
at Tulane University, home of the Tulane University Jewish Studies Department
and Professor Brian Horowitz as well as the alma mater of 2019 graduate Adam
Burstein, the son of Drs. Todd and Jennifer Burstein
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is
scheduled to present “The Rise of Yiddish Scholarship and the History of YIVP,”
a lecture by Cecil Kuuznitz that explores “the origins of Yiddish scholarship and why YIVO's work
was seen as crucial to constructing a modern Jewish identity in the Diaspora.”
2019: In Tunkhannock, PA, the Dietrich Film Theater, home of the Summer
Fest Summer Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy Behind
Home Plate” which the LA times has rated as one of “the best movies of 2019 (so
far).”
2019: In
New York, a bond hearing is scheduled in the case of registered sex-offender
Jeffrey Epstein, in which his attorneys will seek to have him released to his
home and federal prosecutors will fight to keep him in jail, because, among
other things, he is a flight risk.
2020: Mayyim Hayyim is scheduled to host a
virtual program that includes study of mikveh’s biblical roots and a virtual
tour of Mayyim Hayyim.
2020: Live on Zoom, the Center for Jewish
History is scheduled to host “Being Heumann with Judy Heumann” “an
internationally recognized leader in the disability community and a lifelong
civil rights advocate.”
2020: Case Western Reserve University is
scheduled to host online “Moving West: A History of the Jewish Midwest” with
Mara Cohen Ioannides the Senior Instructor, Missouri State University and
President, Midwest Jewish Studies Association and the Ozarks Studies
Association
2020:
JCRC is scheduled to host an on-line talk about ethnic studies, the
upcoming revised draft of the state’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum and the
stakes for the Jewish community.
2020: Open Circle Jewish Learning is scheduled
to host online “Poetry as a Spiritual Exercise.”
2021: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled
to present Deborah Levinson talks about her
2018 book, The Crate, which tells “the true story of her parents
surviving the Holocaust, resettling in Canada and then making a horrifying
discovery underneath their cottage.”
2021: Hamaqom is scheduled to present the first
lecture on “Love and Passion in the Biblical World” presented by Dr. Jehon
Grist.
2021: The American Jewish Historical Society is
scheduled to host lunchtime conversation with “author and journalist Julie
Salamon and writer and actor Mara Wilson.
2021: The 7th Global Forum for
Combating Ant-Semitism” is scheduled to come to an in Jerusalem.
2021: JWA is scheduled to host a book talk with
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, professor and author of The Disordered Cosmos,“a journey into the world of particle physics that is vibrant, buoyantly
non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions.”
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host “Quo Vadis Aida?”, the “2021 Oscar nominee for Best
International Feature Film that recounts and dramatizes the legacy of one of
the worst mass murdrs in European history since the Holocaust…”
2021: Or Shalom Jewish Community is scheduled
to host the “opener of a four-part lecture series with educator Vavi Toran
focuses on how Jews and Arabs can coexist is Israel and the May violence.”
2021: Based on
announcement by the Prime Minister yesterday, as of today Israelis will
now have to live with three news measures including “the enforcement of masks
in enclosed spaces and fines for anyone who fails to do so; a return to social
distancing, in particular at large events; and a recommendation for Israelis
not to travel abroad” which are aimed a countering the “Delta pandemic which
has seen the otal number of coronavirus cases soar from a little over 200 last
month to more than 5, 000 at present.” (As reported by Adir Yanko)
2022:
Kan Kol is scheduled to broadcast a Piano Recital featuring the winner of the
Sara and Joseph Seidner Prize.
2022: Despite reports of a new wave a more
contagious strain of COVID, The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture
is scheduled to host a “small group tour of The Vilna.
2022: After having signed a pledge with Israel
“to deny Iran nuclear weapons” and after having received Israel’s Presidential Medal of Honor from
President Isaac Herzog who “tanked his American counterpart of his longstanding
support of Israel” yesterday, President Biden is scheduled to continue his trip
to the Middle East with meetings in Saudi Arabia today.
2023: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to
sponsor the season’s final concert with the
Ensemble Millennium/Toscanini Quartet.
2023: In Stockholm, the police have given
performed for a Torah and a Christian Bible to be burned today at a rally in
the Sweden’s capital city
2023(26th of Tammuz, 5783): Double
Portion Matot-Masay
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host
a lecture by William Tyler on “Post-War Palestine, the Creation of Israel and
War.”
2024: The Agnon House travel event “Touring Jewish
Life, Literature and Learning in Poland is scheduled to begin today with a 5:05
am flight from Ben Gurion airport to Chopin Airport in Warsaw.
2024: The Limud which is part of “Week of Goodness” is scheduled to end this
evening at 8pm Israeli time followed by an on-line Siyum.
2024: In Waterloo, IA, Sons of Jacob is
scheduled to hold its monthly board meeting.
2024: As July 15th begins in Israel, an
unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling
for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the
United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 283 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.)