November 10
1217: During the Fifth Crusade, King Andrew II of Hungary defeated Sultan
Al-Adi in what would prove to by a pyric on the banks of Jordan River. The Moslems retreated into fortified
positions from which they could not be dislodged, and the Hungarian monarch
finally went home with little more than bags of “relics” to show for all of his
campaigning.
1290: The community of Huesca, Spain prohibited Christians from buying meat
or poultry from Jews under a penalty of 70 days in jail.
1444: At the Battle of Varna, the
Ottoman Sultan Murad II defeated a Christian Crusading Army under the Polish
King Vladislus III. The Turkish victory
paved the way for the Ottoman Moslem conquest of parts of Eastern Europe as
well as the conquest of Constantinople. The extension and consolidation of the
Ottomans was “a good thing for the Jews” since Ottoman Empire was a place of
refuge for Jews escaping Christian Europe. Murad II opened his empire to Jews
escaping from persecution in Germany and employed two Jews as court physicians. Vladislus III followed in the footsteps of
his father Valdislus II and attempted to deny the Jews the rights and
privileges granted by previous Polish monarch.
The Battle of Varna paved the way for the fall of Constantinople in 1453
which in turn provided some of the impetus for the search for a water route to
the Orient which gave rise to the travels of Columbus which opened the way for
what would become the American Jewish community. No, this is not a shaggy dog story. It is the law of unintended consequences that
makes up the history of Jews.
1483: Birthdate of Martin Luther, German religious leader and reformer. At
first Luther was friendly to the Jews thinking that this kindly treatment would
them to accept his new form of Christianity.
When the Jews accepted his friendship but rejected conversions, he
turned on them and began his anti-Semitic attacks. He died in 1546.
1509: Emperor Maximilien issued a second mandate
reproaching the Jews of Frankfort for disobeying his first edict and
ordering the confiscation of their holy books to continue.
1549: Pope Paul III passed away.
According to the Graetz, “Paul III was especially well-disposed to
Jews.” According to a Bishop named
Sadolet of Carpentras, “No pope has ever bestowed on Christians so many honors,
such privileges and concessions as Paul III has givn to the Jews. They are not onlyu assisted, but positively
armed with benefits and prerogatives.”
Paul protected the Marranos from the Inquisition and employed a Jewish
physician named Jacob Mantin.
1619: René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First
Philosophy. Descartes would play a major role in the development of the
philosophy of Baruch Spinoza with the Dutch Jew first accepting and the
rejecting Descartes’ notion of duality.
Furthermore, while Descartes was able to maintain some semblance of
religious practice even though his philosophy was at odds with Catholic
doctrine, Spinoza took a different road. When he found a dissonance between his
philosophy and Judaism, he ceased to follow its rituals and customs.
1659(24th of Cheshvan, 5420): Antonio Fernandez Carvajal(a
Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who became the first naturalized English Jew passed
away. He was born about 1590, probably at Fundão, Portugal. He appears to have
left Fundão on account of the persecution of the Inquisition and, proceeding to
the Canary Islands, acquired much property there, made many commercial
connections, which led him (about 1635) to London, where he settled in
Leadenhall Street. In 1649 the council of state appointed him one among the
five persons who received the army contract for corn. In 1653 Carvajal was
reported as owning a number of ships trading to the East and West Indies, to
Brazil, and to the Levant. He dealt in all kinds of merchandise, including
gunpowder, wine, hides, pictures, cochineal, and especially corn and silver,
and is reported to have brought to England, on average, £100,000 worth of
silver per annum. In the early days of his residence in England, Carvajal used
to attend mass at the Spanish ambassador's chapel, and in 1645 was informed
against for not attending church; but the House of Lords, on the petition of
several leading London merchants, quashed the proceedings. In 1650, when war
broke out with Portugal, Carvajal's ships were especially exempted from seizure,
though he was nominally a Portuguese subject. In 1655 he and his two sons were
granted denizenship as English subjects (the patent being dated August 17 of
that year); and when the war with Spain broke out in the following year, his
property in the Canaries was liable to seizure, as he was a British subject.
Oliver Cromwell made arrangements by which Carvajal's goods were transported
from the Canaries in an English ship which passed under Dutch colors. When
Menasseh Ben Israel came to England in 1655 to petition Parliament for the
return of the Jews to England, Carvajal, though his own position was secured,
associated himself with the petition; and he was one of the three persons in
whose names the first Jewish burial-ground was acquired after the Robles case
had forced the Jews in England to acknowledge their creed. Carvajal, besides
advancing money to Parliament on cochineal, had been of service to Cromwell in
obtaining information as to the Royalists' doings in Holland (1656). One of his
servants, Somers, alias Butler, and also a relative, Alonzo di Fonseca Meza,
acted as intelligencers for Cromwell in Holland, and reported about Royalist
levies, finances, and spies, and the relations between Charles II and Spain. It
was to Carvajal that Cromwell gave the assurance of the right of Jews to remain
in England. Under the date of February 4, 1657, Burton, in his diary, states:
The Jews, those able and general intelligencers whose intercourse with the
Continent Cromwell had before turned to profitable account, he now conciliated
by a seasonable benefaction to their principal agent [Carvajal] resident in
England. In 1648 a cargo of logwood belonging to Carvajal was seized by the
customs officers. He assembled his servants and friends, broke open the
government warehouses, and carried off his merchandise. The litigation to which
this gave rise was interrupted only by Carvajal's death, which occurred in
London.
1674: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster which ended the Anglo-Dutch
War, the Netherlands ceded New Netherlands to England. This meant that New Amsterdam would become
New York and the Jewish community in the New World would be tied to the fate of
an English-speaking world.
1683: Birthdate of King George II of England who had shown himself so
sympathetic when the Jewish representatives had told him about the sufferings
of their brethren in Prague
1687: The Jews of Posen, Poland successfully defended themselves against
attack by anti-Semitic mobs.
1726(27th of Cheshvan, 5487): German Jewish banker and “Court Jew
of the Electorate of Brunswick-Luneburg in Hanover, the son of Samuel
Oppenheimer, husband of Frade Behrens and the father of Jacob Wolf Oppenheimer
passed away today.
1762: Rebecca Machado and Jonas Phillips, the parents of David Machado
Phillips and the in-laws of Gitlah (Catherine) Phillips, were married today in
Hickory Town, PA.
1762(24th of Cheshvan, 5523): Six-month old Isaac Lopez, the son
of Moses Lopez, passed away today.
1766: William Franklin (son of Benjamin Franklin born out of wedlock) royal
governor of the colony of New Jersey, signs the charter of Queen’s College
which is now known as Rutgers University. Today, “The Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers offers an
interdisciplinary approach to the academic study of all aspects of the Jewish
experience. Courses offered by the Department, which are open to all students,
address the historical, social, cultural, religious and political life of the
Jewish people from ancient times to the present. Students pursuing a B.A.
degree may major or minor in Jewish Studies.”
1768(30th of Cheshvan, 5529): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1773: Birthdate of Joseph Perl, the native of Galicia who went from being a
youthful follower of Chasidism to being a leader of the Haskalah (Jewish
Enlightenment Movement)
1775: The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in
Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas. Robert
Magnus was probably the highest-ranking Jew to serve with the Marine
Corps. When he retired in July of 2008
he had four stars on his shoulders and had just finished serving a tour as the
Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. Barney Ross is considered by some to
be the most famous Jewish hero to serve with the Marine Corps. Despite the fact that he was in this 30’s
when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Ross enlisted in the Marines. He rejected a ceremonial, public relations
role and insisted on joining the combat forces.
He got his wish when he began a tour on Guadalcanal where he earned a
Silver Star, the third highest commendation awarded for bravery in battle. The
largest single contingent of Jewish members of the corps to serve in one place
might have been at Iwo Jima where approximately 1,500 Sons of Jacob joined
their fellow Leathernecks in the some of the fiercest fighting in the
Pacific. The most famous novel to come
out of World War II about the Marines was Battlecry written by Leon
Uris, a Jewish Marine who had a flair for words and a combat veteran’s view of
war that was up close and personal.
1776(28th of Cheshvan, 5537): Six-year-old Aaron Levy, the song
of David Segal Levi, who was described as “a darling and pleasant child” passed
away today in the United Kingdom.
1790: In Richmond, VA, Judith (Judy) Myers and Jacob Mordecai gave birth to
Ellen Mordecai.
1793: In Bonfeld, Germany, “Schoenle Lazarus” and Lazarus Ruben gave birth
to Alexander Ottenheimer.
1800: In St. Thomas, V.I., Hazan Joshua Naar and Sarah Naar gave birth to
Judge David Naar, the husband of Sarah Cohen Naar.
1807: The Jews of the region of Widdin on the Danube escape destruction
leading to “an annual celebration known as the Purim of the Poisoned Sword.”
1808: Birthdate of Lewis Charles
Levin the first Jew elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the
American Party candidate from Pennsylvania in 1844. Born in Charleston South
Carolina, he graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South
Carolina) with a law degree. He was a founder of the Native American Party and
published and edited the Philadelphia Daily Sun. Levin was reelected
twice before being defeated in 1850. He then returned to the practice of law in
Philadelphia until his death on March 14, 1860. [The Native American Party,
popularly called The No-Nothings, was a nativist, anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant
party supposedly founded by WASPS. So
one must wonder how a Jew got involved with this and/or how did these people
let a Jew became part of their party.]
1809: In Diespeck, Bavaria, Maier and Karoline Einhorn gave birth to David Einhorn
one of the most influential of the Rabbis in the early days of the Reform
Movement who risked his life while serving at Har Sinai in the slave holding
state of Maryland to denounce the institution and support the cause of the
Union.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E1D71F3FE63BBC4B53DFB7678382669FDE
1810: Birthdate of Lazarus Adler, the Bavarian born rabbi and author whose
last “work, favoring wise reforms, bore the title Hillel and Shammai.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/824-adler-lazarus-levi
1810: Birthdate of Eduard Simson the Konigsberg born Jew whose family
converted in 1823; a move which surely helped him rise to serve as the first
President of the German Parliament.
1813: Lawrence Phillips married Esther Spyer at the Great Synagogue today.
1816: In Prague, Rebeka and Laza Brandeis gave birth to Eva Brandeis, the
sister of Jakob and Moises Brandeis and relative of Jonas Leopold Brandeis, the
founder of the Brandies Department Store.
1817(1st of Kislev, 5578): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1819: Emanuel Minden married Sarah Davis at the Great Synagogue today.
1823: In Sparrow Corner, Hanna and Abraham Harris gave birth to Lewis
Harris.
1824: Solomon Hyams married Rachel Davis at the Great Synagogue today.
1824: Lewis Marks married Mary Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.
1824: In Hesse, Germany, Seligmann Falcke Goldschmidt, the “son of Jacob
Falcke Goldschmidt and Eva Seligman” and his wife Schönchen Hinka Alexander
gave birth to Levi Goldsmith who settled in Philadelphia, PA.
1826: In Loslau, Upper Silesia, David Hamburger and his wife gave birth to
Jacob Hamburger the “editor of the first explicitly Jewish Encyclopedia.”
1826: Birthdate of German native and future St. Louis resident Jonas
Meyberg, the husband of Emma Kornick Meyberg with whom he had six children –
Bertha, Mitchel, Eugene, Jacob, Aimee and Saidee.
1828: Birthdate of Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, the French librettist who
collaborated with Ludovic Halévy to create “Orpheus in the Underworld.”
1829: Hyman Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Benjamin Mendes Seixas and
Zipporah Mendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to Isaac
Mendes Seixas
1832: In Kroppenstedt, Oschersleben, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutschland, Salomon
Blumenthal and Lea Caroline Blumenthal gave birth to Selig Blumenthal, the
husband of Juliane Blumenthal and the “Father of Clara Bluemchen Lubarsch;
Margarethe Amalie Blumenthal; Alfred Blumenthal; Oskar Michael Blumenthal;
Willi Hans Wolf Blumenthal; and Dr. Max Meyer Blumenthal”
1834: In Kolo, Poland, Marya Lachman and Jeremiasz Kleczewsi gave birth to
David Colski who was buried in London’s Plashet Jewish Cemetery.
1840: Birthdate of Austro-Hungarian native Rabbi Alois Kaiser, the husband
of Caroline Kaiser who in 1865 came to the United States where he began his
long tenure as the Cantor of Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, MD during which he
created “a transcription of Dr. Szold's prayer book into music .”
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/alois-kaiser/
https://jewishmuseummd.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Kaiser%2C+Alois+%28Cantor%29
1848: Ibrahim Pasha, who served as the de facto Kehdive of Egypt and Sudan
passed away. In 1840 he he had forbidden “the Jews to page the passage in front
of the (Western) Wall” and had “cautioned them against ‘raising their voices
and displaying their books there.’”
1849: In Ostend, Belgium, Julie Schoenholz and Aron Elsbach gave birth to
Bertha Elsbach, the wife of Raphael Robert Reinsberg.
1850: In New York, Jacob Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Judith and
Moses Benjamin Seixas and his wife Hortensia Seixas gave birth to Franklin M. Seixas
1852: Dr Raphall is scheduled to give a lecture entitled “The Literature of
the Hebrews” this evening at the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Association at
Stuyvesant Institute in NYC.
1853: The Jews of Philadelphia established the Mercantile Club. Louis
Bomeisler was its first president.
1854: In the United Kingdom, the will of Moses Alexander was probated today.
1856: Jews’ College, the rabbinical seminary of London opened its doors
today
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0042/ms0042.html
1860:
In Philadelphia, David and Rebecca Allen Hackenburge Teller gave birth to
University of Pennsylvania trained attorney Oscar Bower Teller, the brother of
Solomon Teller and Alice Hannah Teller.
1861:
Three rabbis, including Marcus Jastrow who had participated in Polish
nationalist activities were arrested today and imprisoned in the citadel of
Warsaw.
1861:
In London, Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin gave birth to Amy Levy, the author and
poet who was the first Jewish student to attend Newnham College, Cambridge and
whose love affair with Vernon Lee provided the impetus for her work on Sapphic
love.
http://www.poemhunter.com/amy-levy/
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levy-amy
1862:
During the Civil War, Sergeant Henry H. Jacobs began serving with Company F of
the 165th Regiment.
1862:
During the Civil War, Corporal Nathan From began serving with Company A of the
167th Regiment.
1865:
Henry Wirz, the commandant at Andersonville Prison whose inmates included
Jewish Medal of Honor winner George Geiger, was hung today after a Union Court
Martial found him guilty of conspiracy and murder for his role in administering
the p.o.w. compound.
1865:
Four days after he had passed away, 48-year-old David Meyer Davidson, the son
of Meyer Davidson and Jesse Cohen and the husband of Henrietta Cohen was buried
today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1865(21st
of Cheshvan, 5626): Fifty-eight-year-old Dr. Marcus Mosse the son of Salomon
Moses and Henriette (Jette) Marcus Levin and husband of Ulrike Mosse passed
away in Posen.
1865:
In Russia, Meyer Shugam and his wife gave birth to Rabbi William Shugam who
served Congregation Zichron Jacob in Baltimore before moved to Chicago and lead
Congregatio Bickor Cholem.
1866:
Philip Peyser and Natalie Ann Kiliñski gave birth to Pauline "Lena"
Peyser who would be buried in the Washington, DC Hebrew Cemetery in 1923.
1867:
Birthdate of Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson a supporter of the Zionist
cause, who commanded the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion.
http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2008/the-seven-lives-of-colonel-patterson.html
http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/John_Henry_Patterson_biography.htm
1867(12th
of Cheshvan, 5628): Fifty-three-year-old Solomon Klein, the Grand Rabbi at
Colmar in Alsace, passed away today.
1868(25th
of Cheshvan, 5629): Samuel Sampson, a solicitor and secretary to the London
Board of Deputies passed away today. Born in 1804, he began life on the Stock
Exchange, but after some time resigned his membership and entered the legal
profession. He became honorary solicitor to several of the leading charities;
as solicitor and secretary to the Board of Deputies his advice was sought on
many important issues, and he accompanied Sir Moses Montefiore on his mission
to Morocco. Samuel was a member of the committee of the Great Synagogue and of
nearly all the charitable institutions, in the foundation of many of which he
was concerned. He helped to establish the Jews' Infant School, London, and took
an active part in its management. (As reported by Joseph Jacobs and Goodman
Lipkind)
1869:
Moritz Ellinger became publisher of The
Jewish Times
1870:
In San Francisco, Joseph M. Bramdenstein and Jane Jeannette Brandenstein gave
birth to Edward Bransten.
1872:
In Riga, Latvia, Solomon and Anna Miosseif gave birth to
Columbia
trained civil engineer Leon Solomon
Moisseiff, a suspension bridge engineer who was awarded the Franklin
Institute’s Louis E. Levy Medal.
Leon
Solomon Moisseiff (1872 - 1943) | Structurae
https://structurae.net/en/persons/leon-solomon-moisseiff
1874: (1st of Kislev, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1875: In Chicago, Joseph and Miriam Cahn gave birth to Bertram Joseph Cahn
the “husband of Irma Cahn” with whom he had three children, and the
Northwestern educated lawyer who served on the Crime Commission and belonged to
the Urban League.
1875: Charles Harald Hansen married Dinah Nathan today in New Zealand.
1876: In Philadelphia, PA, The Centennial International Exhibition where
Charles Fleishmann who “created the first commercially produced yeast”
“demonstrated Viennese baking” which “dramatically increased” the revolutionary
product, came to an end.
1877: In Shreveport, LA, J.A. Bergman and Annie Wise gave birth to
University of Cincinnati grad and HUC trained Rabbi, Moise Bergman who served
Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan before assuming the pulpit at Gates of
Prayer in New Orleans in 1904.
1877: In Ukraine, Rachel Sternman and S. JosephLandau gave birth to Yiddish
writer and editor of the Amerikaner, Louis Landau, the husband Bertha Kalish and the
father of Betty and Max Landau who was the co-editor of the Yiddish English Encyclopedic
Dictionary and the co-editor of the three volume Humor and Satire as well as a
member of the Jewish National Workers’ Alliance Club and the American Jewish
Congress.
1879: A report published today described conditions in the central Asian
city of Merv including the fact that this “immense walled city with 2,000
houses and 5 palaces included “a small quarter for the Jews separated by a wall
from the rest of the city.”
1880: “Polish Jewish refugee Max and Mary Epstein gave birth Jacob Epstein
the New York City born sculptor who worked chiefly in England, where he
pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged
taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict but in the end was
enough of an “establishment figure” that he was knighted for his effort thus
becoming Sir Jacob Epstein
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/08/23/88813259.pdf
https://www.theartstory.org/artist-epstein-jacob.htm
1880: It was reported today that “3,000 Jews have left Romania” for the
United States by way of the prot of Bremen.
1881: “A Home For Aged Hebrews” published today described plans for the new
building that will be constructed by the Home for Aged and Infirm Jews at a
cost of $100,000 for its clients and patients.
1883: It was reported today that Jews have joined with Protestants and
Catholics in the opening of the celebration at Eisleben of the 400th
anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther. (Considering how Luther treated the
Jews, this is a surprising entry.)
1883: It was reported today that “a mob attacked the Jews” at Zalaloevoe,
Hungary. The mob fired on the police who
came to protect the Jews.
1883: “Helping The Prophets” published today described the demise of the
Palestine Railroad Company “which has been dissolved by order of a
Massachusetts court.” In addition to
providing transportation for those traveling from Cairo to Jerusalem, the
builders thought the locomotive fulfilled the prophetic vision “that fiery
chariots would someday be seen in the streets of Jerusalem.”
1884: “A Rear Tenement Fire” published today described the efforts of
fireman to put out a fire on Cannon Street that housed the shops of Jewish
tailors, slipper makers and cigar
manufactures S.G. Goldsmith, Sieche & Hummel and Meigner & Kander. The
loss to building and contents is estimated to exceed ten thousand dollars.
1884: English actor Henry Irving played the role of Shylock, the Jew, in
tonight’s performance of “The Merchant of Venice” at the Start Theatre. Shylock is one of Irving’s singular roles.
1885: Mrs. Clara Bronner Waterman, the daughter of Isaac H. Bronner applied
for a divorce today in the Common Pleas Court in New York City.
1885: In St. Louis, MO, Frederick “Tiny” Pagels fired a double-barreled
shotgun at a Kohn a Jewish business rival, killing him instantly. Pagels would
be tried and sentenced to death for the crime. (Unlike in Europe, the fact that
the victim was Jewish was not enough to beat the hangman.)
1886: A fire broke out this evening in a school run for Jewish children by
Joseph Isaac Bluestone in New York City.
1886: Birthdate of New York City native and European trained chemist Henry
Arnstein, the husband of Nettie Becker and the father of Bernard and Hugo
Arnstein, who when worked as a consultant to “South American Republics while
holding a membership in B’nai B’rith and Philadelphia’s Adath Jeshurun
Congregation.
1887(23rd of Cheshvan, 5648): In the UK, Solomon Levy the older
brother of Abraham Levy passed away today.
1887: Birthdate of German born author and peace activist Arnold Zweig.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/11/27/89348588.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1887: In New York, Jacob and Jeanette B. Jablons gave birth to Cornell
University trained physician Benjamin Jablons the bacterlogist who worked at
the Pasteur Institute in Serbia, rose to the rank of Major while serving with
the A.E.F. during World War I and wrote
several works including “Medical Experiences in the Balkan Wars” based on his service there in 1913 and 1914.
1889: Celeste Martin and Julius P. Witmark peformed a musical sketch
entitled “When We Are Married” as part of the benefit concert being held
tonight for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society at Hardman Hall in NYC.
1889: It was reported today that the “American
Hebrew, the excellent Jewish newspaper published by the American Hebrew
Publishing company has issued a special” edition “to make the close of the 10th
and beginning of the eleventh year of its existence.”
1889: A reception was held today at the newly completed annex at the Home
for Aged and Infirm Hebrews on 9th Avenue between 105th
and 106th Street in New York City.
1889: Ascher Lodge Number 13 of the Order of Free Sons of Israel celebrated
its 20th anniversary tonight at Webster Hall.
1890: “Literary Notes” published today included anecdotes about Lord
Beaconsfield that can be found in James
Anthony Froude’s biography of the British statesman including “one pertaining
to the death of the Prince Imperial in Africa” of whom he said, “A remarkable
people the Zulus. They defeat our
Generals, the convert our Bishops, they have settled the fate of a great
European dynasty.”
1890: According to reports
published today, the third volume of Renan’s Histoire du People d’ Israel will
soon be available in Paris. In this
volume, Renan presents the evidence that the turning point in the history of
the world was the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity. If this had not happened, he contends that
Jews would have suffered the same fate as the citizens of the Northern Kingdom
which would have meant Christianity would never have been created and the world
would not have known the information contained in Biblical literature.
1890: Birthdate of Austrian native Zevi Hirsch Wolf
Diesendruck, the scholar who translated Plato from Greek to Hebrew and “wrote
several volumes on Maimonides and who was the chair of the Jewish Philosophy
Department at Hebrew Union College.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0462/ms0462.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/05/113087822.pdf
1890: Birthdate of Cologne, Germany native Alfred Salmony, “an
internationally recognizes authority on Asian art” and Professor of Fine Arts
at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
1890: Birthdate of El Lissitzky, multi-talented Russian born artist.
1892(20th of Cheshvan, 5653): Seventy-four-year-old Israel Meyer
Japhet who “was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt
am Main” passed away today.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Japhet,_Israel_Meyer
1892: In London, David and Pauline Greenberg Cohen gave birth to New York
College of Dentistry graduate Dr. Milton Cohen, D.D.S., the NYU Professor of
Ceramics and Prosthetic Dentistry and
the husband of Ada Cohen who was the mother of his daughter Shirley.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/07/26/223790632.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1893(1st of Kislev, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1893: Baron Hirsch’s “four-year-old brown fill La Fleche” won the Liverpool
Autumn Cup. Among the horses she beat was “The Jew” which had led as the horses
turned into the straightaway and headed for home.
1893: As young Jewish men in New York seek to elicit support from leaders of
the community such as Nathan Straus and Edward C. Stone, for a new facility for
the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, it was reported that the organization has
gained 200 members since last May bringing its membership up to 700 and that it
has a small surplus having paid off all of its debts.
1893: The list of those receiving bequests from the late Louis Arnheim
published today included $500 each to
the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society and Mount Sinai Hospital and $100 each to the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews, the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids and the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society.
1893: The immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island today aboard the SS Poland
most of whom were Russian Jews have been described by Commissioner Senner as
“the worst lot he has had to contend with” and that “nearly all of them are
impoverished, unclean and unkempt.
1894: In Newark, NJ, Ferdinand Bornstein told police today that four sets of
the Ten Commandments were stolen from a closet in his synagogue. Bound in
silver, they “were valued at $600.”
1894: In Poland, Solomon and Lea Weisgal gave birth to World War One veteran author Meyer Wolf
Weisgal, who at the age of 11 came to United States where he served as the
managing editor of the Maccaban and The New Palestinian who also served as president of both the
Weizmann Institute of Science and the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv.
https://www.jta.org/1977/09/30/archive/meyer-w-weisgal-dead-at-83
1894: In Kurenitz, Morris L. Kramer and Rachel Elka Stikan gave birth to
their 7th child, Samuel Kramer.
1894: “Well Merited Praise to a Journal” published today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20714FE395515738DDDA90994D9415B8485F0D3
1895: In New York details are announced describing the events of "The
Great Hebrew Fair" to be held in December. The goal is to raise at
least $225,000 to aid in educational endeavors.
1895; In Moravia, Joseph Singer and Charlotte Eisler gave birth to Isidor
Singer who became the literary secretary to Count Foucher de Careil in 1887 and
then move to New York in 1895 where he became the driving force for the
creation of a Jewish Encyclopedia
1897: In New York Talmudist, kashruth inspector Shoil Saul Brandwein, the son
of Gershon Brandwein and Chaya Rochel Brandwein and his wife Rebecca (Etta
Breina) Brandwein gave birth to Ivan Brandwein the resident of New Jersey and the
husband of Belle Brandwein.
1897: In Vienna, there was an outbreak of violence caused by a demonstration
that the Jewish students blamed on their German counterparts.
1897: President Henry Rice presided over the annual meeting of the United
Hebrew Charities held tonight at Temple Emanu-El
1897(15th of Cheshvan, 5658): Sixty-six-year-old stockbroker and
historian whose works included Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History passed
away today.
http://www.jewishstore.com/books/Products.asp?ProdID=187105503
1897: Two days after she had passed away, 72-year-old Leah Marks, the widow
of Reuben Marks was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”
1898: Tammany leader Croker was reported today to have expressed his
displeasure with Patrick Divver for waiting until election to tell him that the
Democrats were in danger of losing the Jewish vote in New York County because
if such were the case he should have known about “two weeks” before the
election when he should have sounded the alarm.
1898: Henry Rice was re-elected President at tonight’s meeting of the United
Hebrew Charities. Others chosen were Henry S. Allen and Isaiah Joseph, Vice
Presidents; C.L Sulzberger, Treasurer and I.S. Isaacs, Secretary.
1898: The Hebrew Infant Asylum which had been housed at 490 Mott Avenue
“moved into its new building on Eagle Avenue near 161st Street.
1899: In Paris, “pandemonium” reigned in the Senate as the galleries echoed
with cries of “Down with the Jews’ and a Dreyfusard Deputy traded blows with an
anti-Dreyfusard journalist.
1899: A summary of the October report for the United Hebrew Charities of New
York published today that the society had received 2,306 applications from
7,687 seeking various forms of relief and assistance including help with
finding employment.
1900: In “Central Bohemia,” Ferdinand and Eugenie Pick gave birth to Elsa
Pick, who became Elsa Rina when she married Wilhelm Rind who perished with her
during the Holocaust.
1900: At Karl-Ferdinand University students call for a boycott of the
classes taught by Czech patriot and intellectual Tomas Masaryk for his role in
gaining a re-trial for Leopold Hilsner on the trumped up charges of ritual
murder following the death of Agnes Hruza.
Masaryk felt that the faculty and the student body were “infected with
the uncultivated virus of street anti-Semitism.
1901: In Vienna Victor Stern, “an Italian/Austrian doctor of Jewish descent
attached to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and, later, to the
International Red Cross” and her Roman Catholic mother Felicie gave birth to
Elise Amelie Felicie Stern who gained fame as photographer Lisette Model.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/31/obituaries/lisette-model-a-photographer-is-dead-at-76.html
1902:Twenty-six-year-old Rabbi Abram Brill, the Ogdensburg, NY born son of
“Rabbi Joseph and Charlotte (Tumim) Brill, married Edna Goldstein today while
serving the congregation in Greenville, Mississippi.
1903: The trustees of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association,
including Jacob H. Schiff and Isaac Wallach, meet today and approved “the
application of the St. Andrew’s Convalescent Hospital for admission to the
association.”
1904: It was reported today that among the telegrams received by President
Roosevelt congratulating him on election victory was one from Jacob H. Schiff
that read “They made you the issue, I believe and haven’t they received a
fitting reply? I rejoice and congratulate you.”
1905: It was reported today that in St. Petersburg, “proclamation have been
posted in the Alexander Market calling on the population to kill the Jews.”
1905: In Moscow, while “alarming rumors are in circulation that anti-Jewish
outbreaks will occur simultaneously” in Russia’s two largest cities,
“foreigners and Jews have received threatening letters and have asked the
authorities for protection” – a request that so far has met with no response
from the government.
1905: “At a meeting held in Washington, D.C. about $2,000 was subscribed for the relief of
the Jews in Russia” and “committees were
appointed to solicit further subscriptions.”
1905: It was reported today that at Rostoff-on-Don the “houses of 7,000 Jews
were looted, the synagogue burned” and the families without shelter who
“appealed to the authorities for protection…were shot.”
1906(22nd of Cheshvan, 5667): Parashat Chayei Sara
1906(22nd of Cheshvan, 5667): Seventy-eight-year-old attorney
Martin Butzel, the Detroit born son of
Moses Leo Butzel and Hannah Butzel, the husband of Betty Binswanger
Butzel and father of Fanny, Emma, Edwin and Leo Butzel who was a member of the
American Jewish Committee passed away today.
1906: “Dr. Jacob Hamburger, the Landrabbiner of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who
would be honored by the Central Conference of American Rabbis as “one of the
most devoted workers in the field of literature” celebrated his 80th
birthday today.
1907(4th of Kislev, 5668): Eighty-one-year-old Simon Hackes, the
Bavarian born son of Zidone Wald and Joseph Hackes and the husband of Gette
Frcheimer whom he married he 1851 and with whom he had fourteen children passed
away today in Elizabeth, NJ.
1907 Jews from the greater part of the United States attended the annual
meeting of the American Jewish Committee in an all-day session at the Hotel
Astor today where Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia, PA.
1908: An encounter between the pan-German Students and members of the Jewish
Students Corporation at the University of Vienna this morning “resulted in
injury to about 100” people.”
1909: This morning’s session of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
“was devoted to the reading of reports from various committees and biographic
paper by Rabbi Kaufman Kohler, President of the Hebrew Union College…in honor
of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of” Rabbi David Einhorn.
1909: Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago’s Sinai Congregation delivered a
memorial address in honor of the centenary of the birth of Rabbi David Einhorn.
“Judaism…is not a matter of confession, nor yet of race.” It is “a gift of birth that cannot be lost or
shaken off and that carries with it the mission of spreading the monotheistic
conception among all nations until the messianic age of love and righteousness
be accomplished.” At the same time, Dr.
Hirsch spoke out against Zionism, Zionists and attempts to create a Jewish
homeland in Palestine.
1909: Birthdate of Mt. Vernon, NY songwriter Johnny Marks who, ironically is
responsible for such Christmas hits as “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,”
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and Holly Jolly Christmas.”
https://www.songhall.org/profile/Johnny_Marks
1909: This afternoon delegates attending the meeting of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis visited the Hebrew Technical School for Boys and
the Hebrew Technical School for Girls at the United Charities Building in New
York City.
1910: Harry Guggenheim married Helen
Rosenberg, the daughter of Herman Rosenberg at the Rosenberg residence on 166
West 78th Street.
1910: Birthdate of New York native Abe Eliowitz who in 1932 earned an
honorable mention as Grantland Rice All America while serving as the co-captain
of the Michigan State Spartans for whom he also excelled as a record setting
baseball player.
1911:
Rabbi Moses Franco of Rhodes was made Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
1911:
The British Board of Agriculture and Fisheries appointed Frederick M. Davis “as
assistant naturalist in connection International Fisheries Investigations.
1911:
A.H. Jessel, K.C. was “elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn.
1911:
The Town Council elected Mayer Fredman as Mayor of Devenport.
1911:
The Queen of Holland appointed R. Couvee as an Officer of the Order of
Orange-Nassau.
1911:
In Camden, NJ, the Congregation of the Sons of Israel held its annual meeting
today.
1911: Press department of Zionist Central Bureau in Berlin denies report
that Chief Rabbi of Tripoli had telegraphed to Rome welcoming Italians. The
Hahambashi in Turkey declared there is no, and has not been any, chief rabbi in
Tripoli for a long time.
1912(30th of Cheshvan, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1912: Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society headquartered in Denver opened
their 8th annual meeting today in New York City.
1912: Dr. Emil G. Hirsch is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Two Reformations,
Luther and Einhorn” at Sinai Temple on the south side of Chicago.
1912: In Chicago, Rabbi Joseph Stolz is scheduled to deliver a sermon on
“The Responsibility of Power” at the Isaiah Temple. (Editor’s note – these are
examples of the Reform movement’s attempt to make Sunday “the Sabbath”
replacing the traditional Saturday observance.)
1912: The People’s Synagogue Association is scheduled to hold services under
the leadership of Dr. Gerson B. Levi at Chicago’s Ziegfeld Theatre.
1913: In Baltimore, traveling salesman Joseph Shapiro and “the former Sarah
Omanksy gave birth to Carl Jay Shapiro who gained fame Karl Shapiro, Pulitzer
Prize winning poet and fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library
of Congress (Editor’s Note- the spelling change is not a typo but a result of
the poet’s decision to legally change the spelling of his first name.) (As
reported by Richard Severo)
1913: Birthdate of American poet James Broughton who would be the father of
Gina, the daughter of film critic Pauline Kael.
(Kael was Jewish; I could find no record concerning him.
1914: In Brooklyn Al McCoy the New Jersey born Jewish Middleweight World
Champion successfully defended his crown.
1914: Birthdate of Freudenburg native Berta Samuel who was interred at
Drancy before being transported to Auschwitz where she died in 1942.
1914: The treasurer for the Central Committee for the relief of Jews
“reported today that the committee has received $16,441 and that additional
subscriptions were coming in at the rate of about $1,000 a day.”
1915: It was reported today that “the railroad system” in Palestine “has
been greatly enlarged” since the start of the war with a new line reaching Gaza
and “the line from Jaffa to Jerusalem” having been united with the Hedsmas
Railway.”
1915: It was reported today that “Ira S. Wile of the Board of Education” has
told the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis that the Gary Plan has “dragged
religion into the schools creating barriers and denominational differences
between children, between children and their teachers and between homes.”
1915(3rd of Kislev, 5676): Fifty-nine year old County Tax
Commissioner Sam Cohn passed away today in Toledo, Ohio.
1915: “The German Branch of the Alliance Israelite Universelle issued a
protest against the circular sent abroad by the French Secretary General of the
organization which, the members of the German Branch say, contains the ‘gravest
charges against our Fatherland.’”
1916: Part III of the German silent film “The Uncanny House” with a script
co-authored by Richard Oswald and Robert Lieberman, two Jews who fell afoul at
the hands of the Nazis and directed by Richard Oswald was released today in
Germany.
1916: Today “the triennial convention of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred
Associations opened for a three-day session in the Young Women’s Hebrew
Association Building on 110th Street”
1916: Birthdate of Lynn, MA, native Harold D. Ashkenazy who gained fame as
Harold Ashe All-New England guard on the Bowdoin College football team.
1916: In Wheeling, West Virginia, the Eoff Street Temple “observed the 59th
anniversary of the permanent organization and the 25th anniversary of the
cornerstone laying of the Temple.”
1917: Rabbi Felix A. Levy is scheduled to lead Shabbat morning services at
Temple Emanuel in Chicago.
1917: Three days after the armed insurrection that brought the Bolsheviks to
power deposing the Kerensky government, opposition forces uses “posters and
newspapers” to criticize the their action and refuse to recognize their
authority.
1917(25th of Cheshvan, 5678): Parashat Chayei Sara
1917(25th of Cheshvan, 5678): During The Battle of Passchendaele,
also known as the Third Battle of Ypres where Monty Moss, a buyer for Moss
Bros. which had been founded by his grandfather Moses and was now being run by
his father George was killed ended today.
1917(25th of Cheshvan, 5678): As of today, “over 350 Jewish men
fight under British command are known to have been killed today since the start
of the Battle for Passchendaele which began on July 31, 1917.
1917: It was reported today that 31-year-old Rabbi David Goldberg has been
commissioned in Acting Chaplain with the rank of Lt. Junior Grade (the
equivalent of 1st Lt. in the Army) by Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels making him the first Jewish person to fill such a post in the history
of the United States Navy.
1918: Sixty-eight-year-old social democrat Eduard Bernstein, the son of
Jewish parents where were active in the Reform Temple” in Berlin completed his service as a Member of the
Imperial Reichstag from Silesia.
1918: Five days after he had passed away, Harry Geller, the son of Nathan
and Rachel Geller, was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”
1918: Following an angry denunciation against those whom he felt had
betrayed him including the Jews, Kaiser Wilhelm, having abdicated the day
before, “crossed the border by train and went into exile in neutral Holland.
1918: Samuel Untermeyer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Keren
Hayeson announced that a dinner would be held on Sunday, November 13 for a
delegation of Zionists led by Vladimir Jabotinsky that would be arriving in New
York on November 11.
1918: Louis Marshall presided over the 12th annual meeting of the
American Jewish Committee at the Hotel Astor where a report of the war
activities was submitted that “said from 150,000 to 200,000 Jews were serving
in the American armed forces or about 130,00 in the army and about 20,000 in
the Navy and Marine Corps.”
1919: A special committee formed by the House of Representatives to
determine whether or not a convicted felon and war opponent should be seated as
a member of Congress concluded that Victor L. Berger should not be allowed to
take his seat. The committee then
declared his seat vacant.
1919: It was reported today that “a comprehensive drainage system” is being
built in Jerusalem by the Zionist Administration Commission “which will provide
the ancient city with adequate sanitary facilities.”
1920: The seventh annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of the
United States and Canada continued to meet on its second to last day in
Baltimore, MD.
1920: The New York Times reported
on a luncheon attended by about thirty members of the Jewish clergy, at the
Cafe Boulevard honoring Dr. Frederick De Sola Mendes, one of the oldest rabbis
in New York, following his retirement from the Rabbinate two weeks ago.
1920: The Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish Women continued to
meet in Denver, CO at the Brown Hotel.
1921: Sixty-eight old Episcopal clergyman Professor John Punnett Peters, the
well-known archaeologist and author of both the Hebrew Story, from Creation
to the Exile” and Hebrew Literature passed away today.
1922: David Pinski, the Jewish author arrived in New York today aboard the United States
Lines ship “The President Roosevelt.”
1922: It was reported today that Isaac Marhulies of New York, representing
the American Joint Committee has arrived to investigate the condition of the
Jewish refugees in Salonika where the “Jewish community which numbers about
40,000 offered the Government half a million drachmas monthly on the condition
that they be not asked to open their homes to refugees under the new
hospitality law.”
1923(2nd of Kislev, 5684): Parashat Toldot
1923: The opening of a $1,000,000 endowment fund for the Jewish Theological
Seminary was announced today, at the same time that Sol M. Strock that
announced the two hundred thousand dollars has been pledged to help the New
York campaign reach its goal of five million dollars.
1923: At Dallas, TX, Hiram W. Evans, the Imperial Wizard of Klan has
“grouped all Catholics, Jews and Negroes as persons who would never be able to
measure up to the Klan standard of 100 per cent Americanism”
1924: A campaign for 5,000 new members of the Hadassah -- the women s
Zionist organization of America -- was launched at a luncheon attended by 2,000
women, in the Hotel Astor today. The guests of honor were Miss Henrietta Szold,
President of the Hadassah, and Mrs. Edward Jacobs and Mrs. A.H. Fromenson, two
members of the National Board, all of whom have recently returned from
Palestine.
1925: Two days after she had passed away, 62 year old Rosa Volk, the
daughter of Leopold and Sofie Sara Pick and the wife of Alexander Volk, was
buried today in Vienna.
1926(4th of Kislev, 5687): Sixty-six-year-old Mrs. Sarah Kempner,
the widow of former Chief Magistrate Otto Kempner who was “honorary President
of the auxiliary of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and of the Brooklyn
section of the Council of Jewish Women” passed away today at her home in
Brooklyn.
1926: Despite the contributions of $25,000 by S. A. Straus, $10,00 by Samuel
J. Bloomingdale, $4,000 by Reuben Arkush and $4,000 by Frederick Strauss, Felix
M. Warburg, with a donation of $75,000, was the largest contributor today in
the tenth anniversary $4,720,000 campaign of the Federation for the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
1927: Birthdate of Detroit nave Barry Cohen who gained fame as Barry
Crane television producer and director
Barry Crane, a world class bridge champion whose murder would go unsolved for
almost three and half decades.
1928: Birthdate of Marilyn Keith Bergman who with her husband Alan Bergman
formed successful songwriting duo that was “honored with
four Emmys, three Oscars, two Grammys (including Song of the Year), and were
inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.”
1928: Birthdate of New York native Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman, the actress
known as Norma Crane who grew up in El Paso, “studied drama at Texas State
College for Women in Denton (now NTSU) and then made the leap to Elia Kazan’s
Actors Studio which prepared her for her Broadway debut in “The Crucible”
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/29/archives/norma-crane-dead-played-tevyes-wife.html
1929(7th of Cheshvan, 5690): Seventy-five year old Joseph Hyman,
“the organizer and former president of Tomchay Torah of the Bronx” and a leader
of “the General Washington Lodge of the Old Order B’rith Abraham” passed away
today.
1929: Birthdate of Marilyn Katz, the native of Brooklyn who became the wife
of Alan Bergman and who as Marilyn Bergman joined him in creating decade’s
worth of hit songs including the lyrics for the score of “Yentl” starring
Barbara Streisand and “The Way We Were” another Streisand film.
1930: It was reported today that “another proposal likely to reach President
Ortiz Rubio within the next few weeks is one advocated by the National League
against Chinese and Jewish penetration of Mexico” which will call for “a
suspension of licenses for commercial houses operated by Asiatics and Jews in
the Federal district” and prohibition of “marriages of Mexican women with Jews
or Chinese” by the end of November.
1931: The 4th Academy Awards ceremony was held today and Sam
Mintz, who was “nominated in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay” did not
walk away with the Oscar trophy.
1932: “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” a crime-drama film directed by
Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni was released today in the United States.
1932: Funeral services were held today for 57-year-old Joseph Bragin,
founder and principal of New York’s only Hebrew High School who had died in
auto accident on November 6, after which he was buried at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
1933: In Poland, “today Jewish students were ejected from lectures halls and
severely beaten at the Agricultural School.”
1933: Tonight, on the night before the plebiscite on Nazi rule, President
Hindenburg appealed to the voters to support their president and their
chancellor, Adolph Hitler.
1933: In Poland, “following anti-Semitic rioting, the Warsaw Agricultural
and Technical Schools and the Commercial Academy were closed today.”
1933: Birthdate of Eliezer David Jaffe “the founder and president of The
Israel Free Loan Association and a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem”
1934: Today in Brooklyn Federal Court, Judge Marcus B. Campbell sentenced
the Schechter Brothers – Joseph, Alex, Aaron and Martin – the owners of two
Brooklyn poultry markets who were represented by Joseph Heller and “who were
convicted last week of violating the NRA live poultry code to a total of seven
months in jail and aggregate fines of $7,500.”
1934: “Jacob W. Mack, newly elected chairman of the executive board of the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations” presided over “his first board meeting
tonight where resolutions were passed in memory of the board’s late leader, Mr.
Ludwig Vogelstein. (As reported by JTA)
1935: Seventy-three-year-old British
political leader Edward Shortt who in November of 1919 met with representative
of the Deputies of British Jews concerning the deportation of “political
subversives” passed away today.
1935: “More than a thousand people attended the 28th anniversary
dinner for the National Home for Jewish Children at Denver” which “ takes care
of the children of parents suffering from tuberculosis” which was held at the Waldorf-Astoria
tonight.
1936: Nicolas Louis Alexandre, Baron de Gunzburg arrived in New York City
today “and rented an apartment in the Ritz Tower.
1936: In London, the text of the government’s new public order bill aimed at
curb the activities of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts and similar groups,”
which was necessitated by the “recent violent disorders’ in the predominately
Jewish neighborhoods of East End of
London, Manchester and Leeds “was made
availed to members of the House of Commons today.”
1936: During his visit to London, “Colonel Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign
Minister asserted today that there was ‘no longer any reason for the existence
of small Jewish shopkeepers’ in Poland” and said that he had discussed the need
for letting Jews immigrate to Palestine with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
1937: “Young Mr. Disraeli,” produced by Alexander Yokel opened on Broadway
tonight at the Fulton Theatre.
1937: Benjamin Cohen, a 70-year-old American Jew living in Tel Aviv sued
Hebrew University for 5,000 pounds in damages for rejecting his discovery
reversing the theory of Copernicus today in the District Court of
Jerusalem. The case was heard by Judge
W. Clive Curry, President of the District Court. “After forty years of work”
Cohen “has become convinced that the sun revolves around the earth and sets in
the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.”
Cohen contends that “the university committed a crime against science”
by not accepting his discovery. “Judge
Curry rejected the claim for damages since the claimant had no contract with
the University for accepting his discovery and since the institution caused him
no damage in any sense whatsoever.”
1937:The Palestine Post reported that five young pioneers: Itzhak
Migdal, Moshe Baumgarten, Joshua Puchovsky, Arie Mordecovitch and Aaron
Olechowsky, members of Kvutzat "Bama’aleh" of Gordonia, were murdered
by eight armed Arabs in the Judean hills while engaged in clearing grounds for
a new settlement, "Kiryat Anavim B" (renamed Ma¹aleh Hahamisha in
their honor). Police arrested 12 Arab villagers.
1938: It was learned today that
“fifty-one of the sixty-eight persons condemned since the establishment of
military courts” on November 18, 1938 “had been hanged.”
1938: The synagogue in Hanau, a town
outside of Frankfurt am Main was set afire today. The Jewish community shrank from less than
500 in 1933 to a mere 82 souls in pre-war 1939.
1938: The Neu-Isenburg orphanage
which had been founded by the late Bertha Pappeheim was attacked today and the
main building was burned to the ground.
1938: One
hundred thousand cheering Germans attend a rally in Nuremberg, Germany,
celebrating Kristallnacht.
1938: After 24 hours of nationwide
violence, 91 Jews have been killed, 30,000 more have been arrested and sent to Dachau
concentration camp, and 8,000 have been evicted from Berlin. Tens of thousands
of shops and homes have broken into and Nazi Storm Troopers have set fire to
191 Synagogues.
1938: Most of the men living in
Karlsruhe were arrested today and sent to Dachau.
1938: The largest synagogue in
Vienna, The Leopoldstädter Tempel, was destroyed during the
Reichskristallnacht. The building designed by Ludwig Förster was built in 1858.
All that remains is a memorial plaque that reads:Here stood the Leopoldstädter Tempel, built
in 1858 in the moorish style according the plans of architect Leopold Förster,
all but the foundation of which was completely destroyed by National Socialist
barbarians on the so-called "Night of Broken Glass", on the 10th of
November 1938).
1938: American musical icon Kate
Smith sang her signature song, Irving Berlin’s God Bless America, for the first time on radio.
1938: Paul “Sachs, one of the
founding members of The Museum of Modern Art, who had been serving as a trustee
since 1929 completed his service in that role today.
1938: One day after Kristallnacht,
the main building of the Neu-Isenburg orphanage for Jewish girls, founded by
Bertha Pappenheim was burned down “and the other buildings were burned down.
1938: As the Kristallnacht violence
continued the Nathan Israel Department Store which had been started by Nathan
Israel is 1815 was set on fire.
1939: U.S. Premiere of “First Love”
directed by Henry Koster and co-produced by Koster and Joe Pasternak,
1940: Funeral services are scheduled
to be held today for sixty-two year old CCNY trained investment banker
Arthur Mathew Lamport, the Franklin Falls, NY born son of Nathan and Sarah
Goldenheim Lamport and unofficial economics advisor to President Roosevelt who
was national treasurer of the United Palestine Appeal, co-treasurer of the
United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs and the husband of “the
former Sadie Payson” with whom he had three children – Harold, Helen and
Natalie
1940: Sir Norman Angell, the British author and Nobel Peace Prize winner
told five hundred members attending the United States Palestine Appeal
Conference that “the British and Jewish peoples now share the honor of being
the two peoples of all the earth upon whom Hitler visits his deadliest enmity.”
1940: “Prizes were awarded today to
700 children chosen from 30,000 in the Jewish Religious Schools of Greater New
York for highest merit in attendance, scholarship and deportment at a program
sponsored by the Jewish Education Committee of New York at the Washington
Irving High School.”
1941: Maxim Litvinov, the second son of Lithuanian Jewish banker Moses
Wallach and Anna Wallach who had named him Meir Henoch Wallach, began serving
as the Russian Ambassador to the United States.
1941: Friedric Jeckeln, arrived in
Berlin where he would discuss plans with Himmler for the liquidation of the
Riga Ghetto.
1941: The scholarship fund of the
Neighborhood Playhouse of the Theatre, “a non-profit organization founded in
1928 by Miss Irene Lewisohn of New York and her sister, Mrs. Herbert Crowley,
the former Miss Alice Lewisohn to train students in the theatre arts” “will
benefit from the performance of ‘Blithe Spirit’ at the Morsco Theatre” this
evening.
1942: “Arthur Babbit, one of Walt
Disney’s earliest animators” who later sued Disney after he was terminated
enlisted in the Marines today.
1942: During World War II, Germany
invaded Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an
armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
Vichy referred to the pro-Nazi “rump” French government headed by
Marshall Petain. As bad as things were
for the Jews under Vichy, they would get a whole lot worse now that the Nazis
were in total control.
1942: Six thousand Polish Jews
who have been hiding in forests since the spring of 1942 surrender after the
Germans promise safe passage to a new Jewish ghetto.
1943(12th of Cheshvan,
5704): Fifty-four-year-old Russian born Dr. Max Bakst, the 1911 graduate of
Long Island College Hospital Medical School and associate otolaryngologist at
Beth Moses Hospital who was the husband of Frannie Graf Bakst with whom he had
two children – Daniel and Grace – passed away today in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/13/85132966.pdf
1944(15th of Cheshvan,
5658): Thirteen members of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld group which included
“escaped detainees from forced labor camps and Jews” were “publicly hanged in
Cologne.
1944(15th of Cheshvan,
5658): Thirty-five-year-old Miklós Radnóti was murdered by militia man while a
group of 3,200 Jews was being forced march into central Hungary and “buried in
a mass grave near the village of Abda.”
http://forward.com/articles/187883/hungarian-jewish-poets-statue-struck-by-a-car-brea/
1945: In New York City, William
Lindsay Gresham, the author of Nightmare Alley and Joy Davidman the author of
Smoke on the Mountain gave birth to author and actor Douglas Howard Gresham who
with his wife Merrie has had five children.
1946: “It was learned today” that
“Britain has asked the Italian government to exercise increased vigilance over
Jewish refugee camps, especially in southern Italy, to aid in preventing the
flights of Jews toward Palestine.” (See
the entry for 1940 for an example of irony in spades)
1947: “The United States and the
Soviet Union reconciled their basic differences over Palestine today to support
a new United Nations plan for enforcement of partition under which Britain
would bother her mandate and her military occupation of the Holy Land” by May
1, 1948.
1948: The United Nations ruled that
the Israelis had violated the truce.
1948: In Hopkins, MN, Morton Brown,
a scrap dealer, and his wife Rose gave birth to broadcast journalist Aaron
Brown, the professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, husband of Charlotte Raynor and father of Gabby Brown.
1948: Today there were reports that
the Israelis had detained two UN representatives who were trying to observe the
fighting in the Negev.
1949(18th of Cheshvan, 5710): Seventy-six-year-old
Cincinnati,
OH native Eli Winkler, the co-founder and chairman of the board of the United
States Alkali Export Association in New York passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/11/11/84285257.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1949: Israel holds a reception for
new immigrants. According to the Jewish
Agency 32,000 Yemenite Jews have been flow from Aden to Israel and that another
15,000 will be flown out in the next two weeks.
At the same time, Jews living in the USSR, Romania and Hungary have been
prevented by their governments from making Aliyan
1950: Today, jurist, combat veteran
of World War I, member of the Resistance in WW II and leader of the
French Jewish community Renee Samuel Cassin was photographed at a UN radio,
alongside Karim Azkoul, Georges Day and Herald CL Roy, participating in a
roundtable discussion for the use of French-speaking countries which is “all
the more interesting because Azkoul and Cassin differed so strongly in their
perspectives concerning the politics of Zionism.”
1950: Broadway premiere of “The
Country Girl” written and directed by Clifford Odets, the Philadelphia born son
of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania.
1951: “Artist and muralist Shelia
Rogoff” and Mortimer Rogoff, “the former chairman and President of Navigation
Sciences gave birth to Connecticut and Harvard alum Alice Nicole Rogoff ,
“newspaper publishing executive and philanthropist” who gained fame as Alice
Nicole Rubenstein, the wife of David Ruentstein, “the co-founder and co-chief
executive officer of the Carlyle Group whom she divorced in 2017.
1952: In New York City, actress Judy
Holliday and clarinet player and
television producer David Oppenheim gave birth to film editor and producer
Jonathan Louis Oppenheim best known for “Paris Is Burning.”
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported extensively on the death of the first
president of the State of Israel, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, 78, who died at his home
in Rehovot on the morning of 21 Heshvan, 5713, November 9, 1952. The funeral
was planned to take place on a consecrated spot in Rehovot, in an olive grove
of 75 trees planted in honor of his 70th and 75th birthdays. Born in Russia in
1874, Weizmann was trained as a biochemist in Switzerland. He moved to England in 1905 where he became a
leader in the Zionist movement.
Weizmann’s discovery of acetone played a key role in the issuance of the
Balfour Declaration. Weizmann played a
leading role during the inter-war years in developing the Jewish home in Eretz
Israel. He was elected Israel’s first
President in 1949 and was received by President Truman in that capacity at the
White House.
1952: During a parliamentary debate
on Egypt, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to pay tribute to
Chaim Weizmann who had passed away the day before and to the accomplishments of
the Zionist movement.
1953 “Children of Love,” a French
drama film directed by Léonide Moguy (born Leonid Mohylevskyi) was released
today in France.
1953(3rd of Kislev,
5714): Seventy-one-year-old Elsa Kramer, the daughter of Abraham and Josephine
Raff Kramer passed away today after which she was buried at the New Mount Sinai
Cemetery in Afton, MO.
1956(6th of Kislev,
5717): Just ten days before his 45th birthday photojournalist David
Seymour was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the aftermath of
the Suez War.
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1
http://merrill.umd.edu/events/visible-scars-children-and-war-photography-david-chim-seymour
http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/bio_chim.html
1957(16th
of Cheshvan, 5718): Sixty-three year old Leopold Weil the born son of Leopold
and Rebecca Weil Columbia Law School trained attorney Frank Leopold Weil, the
husband of the former Henrietta Simons who was active in the Jewish community
as can be seen by “chairmanship of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting of
the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America” passed away way
today and who was award the Medal of Merit by President Truman, passed away
today.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059041?seq=1
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0048/ms0048.html
1957(16th
of Cheshvan, 5718): Seventy-three-year-old Siegmund Salomon Baruch, the German
born on of Jakob Baruch and Ida Edelchen Baruch and the husband of Helene
Baruch passed away today in Westchester County, NY.
1958:
At Temple Israel in Monroe, LA Rabbi Jacob Lantz officiated at the funeral of Seventy-two
year old Rabbi Ferdinand Kilsheimer Hirsh, the Hamilton, OH born son of Isaac
and Minnie Kilshemer Hirsh and husband of Nellie L. Hirsh who was a graduate of
Hebrew Union College and the University of Georgia Law School and who served as
the rabbi at the “Children of Israel Congregation in Athens, GA and Temple
B’nai Israel in Monroe, LA which was followed by burial in the Jewish Cemetery
in Monroe.
1959(9th of Cheshvan, 5720): Sixty-nine-year-old New York City
native and Columbia graduate, E Knight Harris, the New York Law School trained
attorney and member of the Queens Country Republican Committee who was the
chairma of Sunday Services Committee of Temple Israel and the husband of “the
former Nan Harris” with whom he raised a son, Arthur Harris, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/11/11/80560079.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1960(20th
of Cheshvan, 5721): Sixty-year-old Brest-Litovsk born, University of
Pennsylvania trained composer and pianist Isadore Freed, the husband of dance
Riva Hoffman passed away today.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/isadore-freed/
1960: “The World of Suzie Wong” produced by
Ray Stark, the husband of Frances Brice and the son-in-law of Fanny Brice, was
released today in the United States and the United Kingdom
1961:
Tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone is “Deaths-Head Revisited” Rod
“Serling's statement on the Holocaust, written in reaction to the then-ongoing
Eichmann trial, in which a former Nazi, on a nostalgic visit to Dachau, is
haunted and ultimately driven insane by the ghosts of inmates he had killed
there during the war including “Alfred Becker” portrayed by Austrian born
American actor Joseph Schildkraut.
1965:
“The Zulu and the Zeda” directed by Dore Schary opened on Broadway at the Cort
Theatre.
1965:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Dr. Erwin Sills, the
husband of Dr. Esther Goldman
1966:
“Penelope” a film version of novel by Howard Fast, directed by Arthur Hiller
and starring Peter Falk, Dick Shawn and Lou Jacobi was released today in the
United States.
1967: “Tony
Rome,” a “crime film” produced by Aaron Rosenberg and featuring Shecky Green
was released today in the United States.
1967: The HMS Totem formerly a
British submarine, was commissioned as the INS Dakar by the Israeli Navy.
1968: A testimonial dinner was held
in honor of Samuel Lerner “who had completed forty years of service” to
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, “the last fifteen of them as
principal of the congregational schools.”
1968(19th of Cheshvan,
5729): Eighty-nine-year-old Ada Rosenthal Salus the wife of University
of Pennsylvania trained lawyer and Republican political leader Samuel Salus and
the mother of Arthur S. Salus passed away today.
1969: NBC broadcast episode nine of
“My World and Welcome to It” created by Melville Shavelson, produced by Sheldon
Leonard and co-starring Harold J. Stone.
1969: Debut of Sesame Street. Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the two creators of
the program, was a Roman Catholic.
However, her father was Jewish, and her maternal grandfather was Emil
Ganz, the three-mayor of Phoenix, AZ, where Cooney grew up.
1970 “Where’s Poppa,” directed by
Carl Reiner, based on the novel written by Robert Klane, co-starring George
Segal and Ron Leibman and introducing Rob Reiner was released today in the
United States.
1970: Richard Rodger’s “Two By Two”
a musical based on Clifford Odets's play “The Flowering Peach” that tells the
story of Noah's preparations for the Great Flood and its aftermath with a cast
that included Danny Kaye and Madeline Kahn opened at the Imperial Theatre
today.
1972(4th of Kislev,
5733): Sixty-six-year-old composer Francis Chagrin, who as Alexander Paucker
was the Bucharest born son of Jewish parents and who was the father of actors
Nicolas and Julian Chagrin as well as the father-in-law of actress of Roland
Chagrin passed away today.
https://www.naxos.com/person/Francis_Chagrin/39519.htm
1973(15th of Cheshvan,
5734): Parashat Vayera
1973(15th of Cheshvan,
5734): Seventy-year-old Bessarabia born Yiddish writer Falki Lerner, who
pursued his career in Argentina and Chile passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/falik-lerner.html
1973: The mood was somber, but the
spirit to carry on was quietly evident today as the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations ended the second day of its five‐day biennial convention
in the New York Hilton Hotel. The reason for the somberness was the death last
night of the union's lead for the last 30 Years, Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath
who died of a coronary attack in his suite at the Hilton moments before he was
deliver his valedictory remark upon retirement as president of the Reform
Jewish organization.”
1974: Anatoly Sharansky and Anatoly
Malkin were detained in Minsk. During the search materials about the
persecution of Jews in Minsk, letters of the Jews to various state
institutions, and notebooks were confiscated.
1974: It was reported today that “Soma
Suzanne Golden, a reporter for The New York Times, and William Alexander Behr,
a graduate student in psychiatric social work, plan to be married on
Thanksgiving Day at the home of the prospective bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs.
Benjamin E, Golden of Washington.”
1975:
PLO leader Yasser Arafat addressed the United Nations General Assembly. In a low point in the history of an
organization founded to support peace, the members of the General Assembly
applauded as the pistol-packing Arafat arose to address them with the blood the
Israeli athletes slaughtered at the Munich Olympics on his hands. In the 21st century the world
learned the price of those applauses as terrorists struck from New York, to
London, to Madrid, to Mumbai, to…the list goes on.
1975:
In New York City, Adele and R. Gerald Grodstein gave birth to Columbia
University graduate Lauren Grodstein, the novelist and Rutgers University
Professor best known for the novel A Friend of the Family who was married to
musician Ben Freeman with whom she had two children – Nate and Penny.
1975: The UN General Assembly voted to equate Zionism with Racism. This infamous proclamation was officially
retracted 16 years later in December 1991.
1975: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, America's Ambassador to the UN proclaimed:
“The United States does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never
acquiesce in this infamous act.” The “infamous act” was Resolution 3379,
calling Zionism racism, slandering one form of nationalism, Jewish nationalism.
1975: Israel's Ambassador Chaim
Herzog, carrying the dignity of 4,000 years of Jewish history, declared: “I
stand here not as a supplicant. For the issue is neither Israel nor Zionism.
The issue is the continued existence of this organization, which has been
dragged to its lowest point of discredit by a coalition of despots and racists.
You yourselves bear the responsibility for your stand before history. We, the
Jewish people, will not forget.” Herzog then ripped the resolution to shreds.
1976: “The Next Man,” a thriller centering around Israel and OPEC produced
by Martin Bregman was released in the United States today.
1976: “Prisoners of Zion Yuri Vudka and Lazar Lubarsky received exit visas
to Israel.”
1976: “The United Nations Security Council issued a Consensus Statement,
which warned Israel “that any act or profanation of the Holy Places, religious
buildings and sites, or any encouragement of, or connivance at, any such act,
may seriously endanger international peace and security.’ Ironically, the first
Israeli interference with worship in Jerusalem was made against the Jews, whom
the Israeli authorities prevented praying on the Harram, in deference to Muslim
sensibilities.”
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli jets bombed PLO bases in
South Lebanon, in response to the Katyusha rocket attack by Palestine
terrorists in which Rivka Lupu, 35, was killed and five persons were wounded by
shrapnel
1978: Hannah Ruppin the widow of the late Zionist
leader Arthur Ruppin and a longtime resident of Jerusalem expressed her concern
that the treaty with Egypt would not work. She wrote a letter stating, “As I am
a Pessimist, I don’t believe we will have peace.” There was a special poignancy in these words
since Arthur Ruppin had been a supporter of a bi-national state. He gave up on the concept during the Arab
Riots that started in 1929 and became a supporter of an independent Jewish
state.
1979(20th of Cheshvan,
5740): Parashat Vayera
1979(20th of Cheshvan,
5740): Seventy-one-year-old Vienna born Austrian writer Friedrich Toberg ,
known by his pen-name Friedrich Kantor who was forced to flee to the United
States because of his Jewish origins and who was identified by the New York
Pen-Club as one of the “Ten outstanding German Anti-Nazi-Writers” passed away
today.
1978(10th of Cheshvan,
5739): Eighty-seven-year-old American born jurist Juris Arthur Lehman Goodhart
who became a leading British professor of law passed away today in London.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf
1980: Funeral services are scheduled
to take place this morning for Frederick Margareten, the former president and
Honorary Trustee of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun who was instrumental in the
found of the Ramaz School and who was predeceased by his wife Mary with whom he
had three children -- Muriel, Jerome and
Renee.
1981(13th of Cheshvan,
5242): Seventy-five-year-old Manfred Erich Swarsensky, the German born rabbi
who survived being imprisoned Sachsenhausen concentration camp and escaped to
America in 1940 where he served for 36 years as the spiritual leader of Temple
Beth El in Madison Wisconsin.
1982(24th
of Cheshvan, 5743): Sixty-eight-year-old Miriam Ottenberg, the Washington, DC
born daughter of attorney Louis
Ottenberg and “Nettie (Podell) Ottenberg, one of the first
training social workers in the United States who won the first federal funding
for day care” and the first woman news reporter for The Washington Star
who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960, for a series of articles exposing the
practices of unscrupulous used car dealers in Washington D.C. passed away
today.
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/miriam-ottenberg-0
1983:
“Amen Corner” a musical “with a book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell” who also
wrote the lyrics opened on Broadway today at the Nederlander Theatre.
1984(15th
of Cheshvan, 5745): Parsahat Vayera
1984(15th
of Cheshvan, 5745): Seventy-eight-year-old British mathematician Louis
Rosenhead who “noted for his work on Fluid mechanics, and who was Head of
Department at Liverpool University from 1933 to 1973 passed away today.
1984: Rabbis Samuel Geffen and Michael Morgan
officiated at the wedding of Jody S. Fink, an attorney with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission in New York, and David B. Lippman, a bond
trader with PaineWebber Real Estate Securities Inc., also in New York, which place
at the Woodcrest Club in Syosset, L.I.
1988: Fifty-four-year-old
Ron Huldai, the Hulda born son of Ozer Obarzański who was among the founders of kibbutz Hulda and the
principal of its school, and Hana Obarzański who was a teacher and headed the
organization of performances at the kibbutz began serving as the 10th
Mayor of Tel Aviv today.
1989: A revival of Paddy Chayefsky’s
“The Tenth Man” opened at the Lincoln Center Theatre.
1990: Final broadcast of Pee-wee’s
Playhouse starring Paul Reubens.
1991: Today marked the final
performance of “City of Angels,” “a musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman,
lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart” at the Orange County
Performing Arts Center.
1991: Marty Glickman broadcasts his
1,000th football game. What is less remembered about the Nazi Olympics
is the saga of two American Jewish sprinters, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller.
In 1936, Marty Glickman was an 18-year-old track and football star at Syracuse
University. Glickman and Sam Stoller, a
star athlete at the University of Michigan made the 1936 U. S. Olympic squad as
members of the 400-yard relay team. Glickman and Stoller traveled to Germany
and prepared diligently for the relay race. The day before the race, however,
with little explanation, the U.S. track team coaches replaced Glickman and
Stoller with two other runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, both
African-Americans. By Glickman’s own account, the last-minute switch was a
straightforward case of anti-Semitism. Avery Brundage, chairman of the United
States Olympic Committee, was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler’s regime and
denied that the Nazis followed anti-Semitic policies. Brundage and assistant U.
S. Olympic track coach Dean Cromwell were members of America First, an
isolationist political movement that attracted American Nazi sympathizers.
Additionally, Cromwell coached two of the other Olympic sprinters, Foy Draper
and Frank Wyckoff, at the University of Southern California and openly favored
those two over Glickman and Stoller. Glickman’s suspicions about the fairness
of the relay team selection process began at the American Olympic team trials
in New York, when he was told he placed fifth of the seven runners competing in
the sprint finals. Finish-line photography was not yet in use at that time, but
films of the race seem to indicate that Glickman actually finished third behind
Owens and Metcalfe. The judges, apparently under pressure from Cromwell, placed
Glickman fifth behind Draper and Wyckoff. As a result, Glickman was not one of
the three sprinters entered in the 100-yard dash, a premiere Olympic event.
Instead, Glickman and Stoller traveled to Berlin as part of the 400-yard relay
team, each scheduled to run a 100-yard leg of the race. As an 18-year-old,
Glickman was grateful to be going to the Olympics; even if he felt that he’d
been robbed of his chance at a medal in the 100 yard dash. There was an effort
made by some American Jewish organizations to convince the U. S. Olympic
committee to boycott the Nazi Olympics, but Brundage prevailed, and the team
went. Glickman, like most American Jews, thought that the anti-Semitism he
might encounter in Berlin would be no worse than what he faced growing up in
Brooklyn. Like many Americans, Glickman had no inkling of the horrific fate
awaiting German Jewry in the years after 1936. Once in Germany, Glickman,
Stoller, Draper and Wyckoff spent two weeks practicing as the 400-yard relay
team. They were confident of victory. Then, on the day of the qualifying
trials, head track coach Lawson Robertson told Glickman and Stoller that Owens
and Metcalfe would be replacing them. To his credit, Owens protested to
Robertson that Glickman and Stoller deserved to run. Glickman pointed out to
Robertson that any combination of the seven teammates could win the race by 15
yards. Robertson replied that he would enter his four best athletes in the
relay and that, in his judgment, Owens and Metcalfe were better than Stoller
and Glickman. Robertson said his goal was winning, nothing more. Glickman
turned to assistant coach Cromwell and said, "Coach, you know that Sam and
I are the only two Jews on the track team. If we don’t run there’s bound to be
a lot of criticism back home." Cromwell retorted, "We’ll take our
chances." The American team won in record time as Glickman watched from
the stands. Glickman (who remained a close friend of Owens until the latter’s
death) and Stoller were devastated by the decision. Stoller, age 21, announced
his retirement from track competition but later recanted. Later that year, he
won an NCAA sprint championship. Glickman returned to college and became a
football All-American. After a brief professional career in football and
basketball, Glickman went on to become a distinguished sportscaster, best known
as the voice of the New York Knicks and football Giants. He joined the radio
station WHN and by 1943 was its sports director. A long, distinguished
broadcasting career followed. When the New York Knickerbockers were formed in
1946, Glickman was their radio announcer. Later, he was the National Basketball
Association's first announcer for TV. He was the voice of the football Giants,
for 23 years, of the Knicks for 21, Yonkers Raceway for 12, the New York Jets
for 11. Glickman did pre- and postgame shows for the Dodgers and Yankees for 22
years; he broadcast track meets, wrestling matches, roller derbies and rodeos,
even a marbles tournament. NBC employed him as a critic and teacher of its
sports announcers. In 1988 WCBS hired him for his second tour as the Jets'
play-by-play announcer on radio. It was from that position that Glickman
quietly said goodbye to his last audience in December 1992, at age 74. Glickman
underwent heart bypass surgery Dec. 14. He died of complications from the
operation at the age of 83.
1992(14th of Cheshvan, 5753): Six days before his 76th
birthday, Albert Weiner, the son of “Soloman Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic” and
the husband of “Sylvia Cooper” passed away today in Baltimore, MD.
1992: John Zorn completed his recording “Kristallnacht,” an album, whose
compositions “were based around the events before, during and following the
“Night of the Broken Glass.”
1994(7th of Kislev, 5755): Ninety-two-year-old Columbia trained
attorney Louis Nizer, the London born son of Bella and Joseph Nizer and the
husband of Mildred Nizer passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/11/obituaries/louis-nizer-lawyer-to-the-famous-dies-at-92.html
https://famous-trials.com/rosenberg/2008-nizer
1994: In Los Angeles, “actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch” gave
birth to actress Zoey Deuch who “was raised in her father's Jewish religion and
had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.”
1997: The Dark Side of Camelot by Jewish investigative reporter
Seymour Hirsch is published.
1997: Edward S. Walker, Jr. was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1997: Daniel Charles Kurtzer, a graduate of Yeshiva University, was
appointed U.S. Ambassador to Egypt by President Clinton.
1998(21st of Cheshvan, 5759): Seventy-nine-year-old Brooklyn
College graduate Doris Rabinor Feld, the Bronx born daughter of Aaron and
Esther Rabinowitz and wife of Joseph Feld passed away today.
1998(21st of Cheshvan, 5759): Milton C. Handler the Bronx born,
Columbia Law School trained attorney and law school professor who clerked for
Justice Harland Fiske Stone and served in several capacities with the federal
government during the New Deal when he was one of FDR’s advisor’s on anti-trust
matters while marrying Miriam Adler after the death of his first wife Marion
Winter Kahn, the mother of their daughter attorney Carole E. Handler.
1999(1st of Kislev, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1999(1st of Kislev, 5760): Eighty-nine-year-old Austrian-American
violinist Felix Galmir who was expelled from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
because he was Jewish which led him to make Aliyah and join the Palestine Philharmonic
Orchestra, an all Jewish group that was the forerunner of the Israeli Philharmonic,
passed away today.
Obituary:
Felix Galimir | The Independent | The Independent
1999: “Light it Up featuring Amy Landecker in the role of a “Reporter” was
released in the United States today.
1999(1st of Kislev, 5760): Actress Mary Kay Bergman who continued in the
tradition of Mel Blanc as the voice for numerous animations ranging from South Park to Mrs. Butterworth, the
symbol of pancake syrup passed away toeay.
2000(12th of Cheshvan, 5761):Sgt. Shahar Vekret, 20, of Lod was
fatally shot by a Palestinian sniper near Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to
Bethlehem.
2001: Frank “Auerbach was the subject of a television film entitled ‘Frank Auerbach:
To the Studio’ directed by Hannah Rothschild and produced by Jake Auerbach
(Jake Auerbach Films Ltd)” which was first broadcast on the arts programmer “Omnibus
on 10” today.
2002(5th of Kislev, 5763): Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons,
Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer -
and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the
kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
2002: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish
interest including the following two works released in new paperback editions: Collected
Stories by Saul Bellow; All but one of these 13 stories appeared in earlier
collections, but together they provide new and old fans with an immersion into
Bellow's vibrant world, a place where events happen, (typically brainy)
characters think about them and then the fun begins. The Same Sea by
Amos Oz; Set in modern-day Tibet and Tel Aviv, this novel revolves around the
sexual mixing and matching of several sets of characters, including a
middle-aged widower and his son, who wanders off to the Himalayas in search of
himself. (The characters telephone the author from time to time, criticizing
him for the way he portrays them in the novel.)
2003(15th of Cheshvan, 5764): Irv Kupcinet, the famed Chicago Sun-Times columnist passed away at the age of 91. (As
reported by Richard Severo)
2004: Today, the U.S. Federal Reserve, chaired by Alan Greenspan raised the overnight federal-funds interest
rate a quarter point.
2005: Cantor Rebecca Garfein performed a concert at Carnegie Hall where she
presented the debut of “Golden Chants in America…Commemorating 350 Years of
Jewish Music, 1654-2004.
2005: Haaretz reported on the work of Aaron Lansky, founder and director
of the National Yiddish Book Center in
Massachusetts. Lansky started the center
27 years ago when he singled handedly set out to save the remaining Yiddish
books in the world from extinction. The center which is located at Hampshire
College is the home of a large book center, which now houses 1.5 million books
in Yiddish and has 32,000 members. The center is active all over the world,
inviting young people to study Yiddish language, literature and culture. The
center's story is documented in Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a
Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books.
2006: In Halbe, Germany suspected
neo-Nazis attacked a memorial to a synagogue burned down on Kristallnacht, the
anti-Jewish pogrom of 1938. The German government vows to take action to bring
the perpetrators to justice. What a difference six decades can make.
2006:After
the original Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade was cancelled but the Jerusalem Open
House announced that it would hold a parade today after reaching an agreement
with the police and with the municipality
2007: “One Family”, an exhibit of the
works of Israeli photographer Vardi Kahana opens at New York’s Andrea Meislin
Gallery.
2007: The Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra under
Doron Salomon presents its Balkan music program at Kibbutz Givat Brenner.
2007: Zeev Tene releases his new album
“Heder” at a concert in Tel Aviv.
2007(29th of Cheshvan, 5768): Novelist,
Pulitzer Prize winning writer and pseudo-social rebel, Norman Mailer passed
away at the age of 84. The Brooklyn Jew
with the engineering science degree from Harvard used his experiences as a
soldier in the Philippines to launch his literary career with The Naked and
the Dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/10/books.booksnews
2007: Freshman Congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords, a third generation Arizona Jew, married astronaut Mark Kelly.
2008: In New York City, presentation of two works by Israeli
choreographer Netta Yerushalmy that are parts of two larger works – “Dispostif”
and an unnamed project scheduled to premiere in 2009.
2008: Time magazine publishes a list of “The 50 Best Inventions of
the Year” that lists at the thirty first spot “Einstein's Fridge.” That Albert
Einstein guy had some pretty good ideas — relativity, the photoelectric effect,
the "up" hairdo — but his contributions to the field of refrigerator
theory have been sadly neglected. No longer; scientists at Oxford University
have resurrected an eco-friendly refrigerator design that Einstein and a
collaborator patented in 1930. Instead of cooling the interior of the
refrigerator with freon — a serious contributor to global warming — Einstein's
design uses ammonia, butane and water. It also requires very little energy.
Though Einstein's original refrigerator wasn't all that efficient, the Oxford
researchers have tweaked his version and believe it could eventually compete in
the marketplace. Then maybe we'll remember Einstein the way he wanted — as a
guy who liked to keep things cool.
2009:Patrick K.
O'Donnell discusses and signs They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish
Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany at Borders in Baileys Crossroads,
Va.
2009:Jonathan
Tropper as he discusses his latest novel, This Is Where I Leave You, at
the Fourth Annual JCCNVJ Jewish Book Festival.
2009: The
hardcover edition of “A Friend of the Family” by Lauren Grodstein was published
today.
2009:
Charles London, author of Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish
Community, shares his personal journey grappling with his heritage and
coming to terms with his connection to Israel at a session of the 40th Annual
Book Festival sponsored by the JCCGW.
2010:
Robert L. Bernstein delivered The Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Lecture
University of Nebraska at Omaha on Human Rights entitled “Human Rights in the
Middle East
http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1317489&ct=8884881
2010:
Paramount Pictures releases “Morning Glory,” a marvelous, underappreciated
comedy co-produced by J.J. Abram and co-starring Jeff Goldlbum
2010:
Elaine Hall author of Now I See The Moon: A Mother, A Son, A Miracle and
Abraham H. Foxman, author of Jews & Money: The Story of a Stereotype
are scheduled to appear at The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, which is :Proud
to be the Largest Jewish Book Festival in the U.S.!”
2010: It
was reported that The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York has charges against 17
people for participating in a $42.5 million fraud at the Claims Conference
2010:The storied career
of an indomitable ultra-Orthodox political fixer appears to have entered its
final phase with the conviction of Rabbi Milton Balkany, known to the press as
the “Brooklyn Bundler.”
2011(13th of
Cheshvan, 5772): Durham, N.C. native and University of North Carolina graduate
Robert Alan Koch (MFA) who retrieved stolen art during and after WW II as one
of the Monuments Men passed away today.
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/koch-lt-robert-a
2011: Sonia Taitz is
scheduled to discuss her novel “In the King’s Arms” at the JCC of Northern
Virigina’s Jewish Book Festival.
2011: In Israel “the
supreme court delivered its opinion today unanimously upholding Moseh Katsav's
conviction and sentence.”
2011: Bob Gruen and Joel
Dovev are schedule to participate in the “Rock & Roll Retro Nite” at the 33rd
Annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.
2011: “Jewish Political
Behavior in Europe, Israel and the United States,” a two-day symposium that will explore aspects of Jews' political
experience in Eastern Europe, the United States, Israel, and in the international
arena is scheduled to open at the University of Michigan.
2011: Professor Brian
Horowitz, of Tulane University, is scheduled to take part in “Jews in Russian
and East European Politics in Historical Perspective,” a panel discussion that
is part of a symposium sponsored by the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic
Studies.
2011: Dennis B. Ross, a
seasoned diplomat who has been one of President Obama’s most influential
advisers on Iran, the Middle East peace process and the political upheaval in
the Arab world, will leave the White House in December, a senior administration
official said today.
2011: Jewish comedian Billy Crystal has
agreed to take over the role of Oscar host.
2011:A delegation of
Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Druze religious leaders in Israel met today with
Pope Benedict XVI in a high-profile display of their efforts to promote
interfaith peace initiatives in the region.Israeli chief rabbi Yonah Metzger praised the
"historic" nature of the audience with the German-born pope and noted
that it fell on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the Nazi's 1938
anti-Jewish pogrom which left 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues
and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted.
2011(13th of
Cheshvan, 5772): Ninety-one-year Robert Alan Koch, the Durham, NC born son of
“Frederick Henry and Loretta Jean (Hannigan) Koch who was a “museum curator,
scholar of Northern Renaissance of Art” and one of the Monuments Men passed
away today.
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/koch-lt-robert-a
2011(13th of
Cheshvan, 5772): Ninety-three-year-old Irving H. Franklin, co-founder of
Franklin Sports and innovator of the baseball batting glove, passed away.(As
reported by Douglas Martin)
2012: Temple Judah’s
Tessa Cohen is scheduled to appear in tonight’s final performance Neil Simon’s
“Brighton Beach Memoir” at Linn-Mar High School
2012: Temple Judah’s
Bentlee Birchansky and Lincoln Ginsberg are scheduled to appear in tonight’s
final performance of “Guys & Dolls.”
2012: In Greensboro, NC,
the URJ Southern Region Shabbaton hosted by Temple Emanuel is scheduled to come
to an end.
2012: “Off White Lies” is
scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2012: The 4th
International Holiday Bazar is scheduled to open today at the Illinois
Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
2012: Maggie Anton,
author of the book-club favorite Rashi’s Daughter, Secret Scholar, is
scheduled to introduce her new historical novel, Rav Hisda’s Daughter: A
Novel of Love, the Talmud and Sorcery at Beth Shalom of Whittier, in
Whittier, CA.
2012:Southern Israel
came under a barrage of rocket fire from Gaza tonight, in a cross-border
escalation following an earlier terrorist attack that injured four soldiers.
Israel carried out counter-strikes, killing five Palestinians and wounding 30.
2012:Intermittent
rainfall accompanied by strong winds and unseasonably cold weather were
experienced in the North and Center this morning after yesterday’s showers
caused flooding and damage in Haifa and Eilat. Rain was expected to weaken this
afternoon; however additional showers were likely to fall at the beginning of
next week, according to the Israel Meteorological Service.
2012:
David “Amram was the recipient of the second annual Pete and Toshi Seeger Power
of Song Award at Symphony Space in New York City, in a gala evening presented
by Peter Seeger's Clearwater Foundation.”
2013:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin and John
Heilemann, With A Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah adapted by Amy
Ehrlich, The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales by Shoshanah Boyd Gelfland
and the recently released paperback edition of The New Religious Intolerance
by Martha C. Nussbaum
2013:
Sholem is scheduled to present “Yiddish on the Silver Screen – Tevya “ @Westdie
Neighborhood School
2013:
Members of Temple Judah as well as friends and family from the community are
scheduled to take a field trip to the Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Illinois.
2013:
“The Jewish Cardinal,” a dramatization of the life of Cardinal Jean Marie
Lustiger is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2013:
The Fourth Annual Israeli-Russian Film Festival is scheduled to take place at
the Tribeca Film Center.
2013:
Lauren Strauss presented “Kosher Southern Belles and Yankee Bubbies Confront
America’s Greatest Crisis: Jewish Women and the Civil War” at the Jewish Museum
of Baltimore.
2013:
The General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America is scheduled to
open in Jerusalem.
2013:
Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem to
express their displeasure with Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks that
gave the green light to terrorists to start a 3rd Intifada because
of “Israeli intransigence.” (As reported
by Daniel K. Eisenbud)
2013:
Today “the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center commemorated the 75th
anniversary of Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass,” when Nazis swept
through Jewish towns and neighborhoods throughout Germany burning homes and
synagogues, destroying shops, and attacking Jews. (As reported by David Lev)
2013:
“Imprinting on Clay” is scheduled to come to an end at the Eretz Israel Museum
in Tel Aviv.
http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/282/
2014:
As part of its World War I and the Jews initiate, the Center for Jewish History
is scheduled to host “Jews and the Great War: A Reflection at the Centennial.”
2014:
In Melbourne, “Yalom’s Cure” and “The Israeli Code” are scheduled to be shown
at the Jewish International Film Festival.
2014:
“Hora 79” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
Israeli television is scheduled to air a segment that “focuses on the search
for shadowy commander Muhammad Deif.” (As reported by Avi Issacharoff)
2014(17th of Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty-year-old
Almog Shiloni was stabbed today by a terrorist as he walked to a train station
in Tel Aviv.
2014(17th of Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-three-year-old Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, the surfing physician
passed away today
2014(17th of Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty-six-year-old
Dalia Lemkus was murdered by a terrorist as she waited at a bus stop.
2014: “An Israeli legal group filed suit
against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the International
Criminal Court today, arguing that the Fatah head was responsible for rocket
attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli cities during the summer conflict which
were claimed by members of his faction.”
2014: Sydney A. Katz completed his service as
Mayor of Gaithersburg, MD.
2014: A federal jury found 67-year-old Rasmieh
Yousef Odeah charged with immigration fraud guilty for failing to disclose her
conviction and imprisonment for taking part in the bombing of a Jerusalem
supermarket that took the lives of two people.
2015:
“In partnership with The Foundation for Jewish Studies and the Jewish War
Veterans of the U.S., the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is
scheduled to host special bus trip to study the Civil War in Anacostia at the
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum and Frederick Douglass House.
2015:
“The Last Marranos” which “takes a fascinating look at the village of Belmonte,
Portugal” is scheduled to be shown in St. Augustine, Florida, on the Flagler
College Campus.
2015:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a tour of the Ackman &
Ziff Family Genealogy Institute “a cutting-edge facility for family history
research.”
2015:
CUNY New York City College of Technology is scheduled to host “Kristallnacht,
77 Years After: Never Again Anti-Semitism, Indifference and Racism! in Brooklyn.”
2015:
In Washington, DC, the annual General Assembly of the Federations of North
America came to an end.
2016:
“Some 500 Jewish mothers from around the world bonded in Jerusalem” today “as
they participated in “The Great Big Challah Bake” and baked hundreds of the
twisted egg bread loaves “for Israeli soldiers.”
2016:
“The annual concert of works by Israeli composer Emanuel Vahl took placed at
the Studio of ‘Hassadna’ Convservatory in Jerusalem.
2016;
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and the Genocide
Studies Project at PSU are scheduled to host From humanitarian relief to
Holocaust rescue: Tracy Strong Jr. and the fate of Jewish refugees in southern
France.
2016
The WRJ SW District Biennial is scheduled to open today in Memphis, TN.
2016:
“The Babylon Line” by Richard Greenberg, “premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln
Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater” today.
2016:
The Habima National Theater is scheduled to stage “A Simple Story,” based on a
story by S. Y. Agnon, in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba for the first
time after sparking criticism of the theater troupe amid an ongoing dispute
over a government attempt to have cultural acts toe a more nationalistic line.
2016:
“Denial” is scheduled to be shown in Auckland as part of the Jewish
International Film Festival.
2016:
In Toronto, Michael Gray is scheduled lead a discussion about “Exploring the
Future of Holocaust Education in a Contemporary Setting.
2016:
Today, President Obama met in the Oval Office with Donald Trump whose election
led to a drive by “Arizona-based Modern Orthodox Rabbi Shmuly Yankolowitz,”
“the dead of the Valley Beit Midrash and co-founder of the Orthodox social
justice movement Uri L’Tzedek” to replace the recitation of “Hanoten Teshua”
with a new “Prayer for our Nation.”
2016:
“Moon in the 12th House and “Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love
Story” are scheduled to be shown at the 20th UK International Jewish
Film Festival.
2016:
The multi-talented Leonard Cohen, a member of congregation Shaar Hashomayim was
laid to rest “in a simple pine casket” in Montreal “at a cemetery on Mount
Royal.”
2016:
“The Kind Words’ and “Voice of Peace” are scheduled to be shown at Chicago
Festival of Israeli Cinema.
2017:
JNF’s National Conference which it describes as “the premiere annual event in
Jewish philanthropy” is scheduled to open at The Diplomat Resort and Spa in
Hollywood, FL.
2018:
Omer Meir Wellber, a sabra from Be’er Sheva is scheduled to conduct a
“performance of Bizet’s Carmen” as part of his Metropolitan Opera debut.”
2018:
Oxford Jsoc 5th Week MT Shabbat is scheduled to continue today with Morning and
Afternoon services, lunch and Seudah Shlishit.
2018:
“Bye Bye Germany” and “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel” are scheduled to
be shown at the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.
2018:
In Springville, IA, the Springville Public Library is scheduled to host a book
signing for Barbara Feller, the Hebrew teacher par excellence, author of the
newly released Road to Waubeek: Discovering Jay G. Sigmund.
2018:
Avi Avital is scheduled to bring his “mandolin magic” to the Stern Auditorium
at Carnegie Hall.
2018(2nd
of Kislev, 5779): Parashat Toldot;
2019:
“The Tobacconist” and “God of the Piano” are scheduled to be shown at the UK
Jewish Film Festival.
2019:
“Sustainable Nation” and “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben
Ferencz” are scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film
Festival.
2019:
In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “S.F. writer and
actor Roger Grunwald performing his one-man play about the Holocaust and related
socio-historical issues” as part of a commemoration of Kristallnacht.
2019:
In San Francisco, the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California is
scheduled to host “an induction gala” honoring Dave Feldman, Pat Gallagher, Joc
Pederson, Henry Schulman and Jerry Seltzer.
2019:
“The City of Joel” and “Tel Aviv on Fire” are scheduled to be shown today at
the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.
2019: In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host a screening of “the film ‘Henri Dauman: Looking Up’” which
“celebrates the work and inspiring story of the artist behind some of the
world’s most iconic images” including photos of “Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda and
Elvis Presley.”
2019:
The Jewish War Veterans of the USA and the National Museum of American Jewish
Military History are scheduled to host a “Veterans Weekend Walking Tour of
Jewish Sites at Arlington National Cemetery.”
2019:
The “Third Annual Conference on Jews and Conservatism” is scheduled to take
place today in New York City.
2020:
The S.F. Jewish Community Library is schedule to co-present “The Rise of
Religious Cinema In Israel” during which SFSU Israel studies professor Eran
Kaplan will talk about the shift from secular cinema/TV in Israel to a growing
interest in religious themes.
2020:
The Mississippi Center for Justice is scheduled to host a screening of
“Rosenwald.”
2020:
The Addison-Penzak JCC is schedule to host “Olympics, Doping, Anti-Semitism and
Betrayal” an “event for Russian speakers during which former Russian national team
wrestler Ilya Khinskiy will talk about different aspects of sports
2020:
The 2020 ADL Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate is scheduled to host its first
virtual session.
2020:
Dr. Lisa Leff, the Director of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is schedule to provide a recap
of the material that should have been covered in the postponed screen sessions
of “The French Jewish Experience” before the series resumes on November 17.
2020:
“Hotels in the southern resort town of Eilat and the Dead Sea” will not be
opening today following yesterday’s decision by Health Minister Yuli
Edelstein’s to strike the bill that would have allowed them to open.
2021:
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is scheduled to
present an online “Conversation with Congressman Jake Auchincloss.”
2021:
The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present a virtual talk on
“Fortress in Brooklyn” during which “UC Santa Cruz Jewish studies professor
Nathaniel Deutsch explores the history of Williamsburg, its relationship to
race, real estate and politics, and how its Hasidim rejected assimilation while
still undergoing forms of Americanization and racialization.”
2021:
The Boston Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to officially open with a
screening of “Robert Brustein: A Celebration” which “is the official
documentary film that chronicles the ongoing indelible impact that Robert
Brustein has had on the world of theater, literature, dramatic criticism and
the arts, plus the film shares the devotion Brustein has to his family.”
2021:
Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled to present online “Can We Talk About
Israel?” during which “Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel Fund and former
director of S.F.-based Federation, talks about his new book on the history and
basic issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” in a conversation with Rabbi
Jessica Zimmerman Graf and Gordon Gladstone.”
2022:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to celebrate opening night with a screening of
“Karaoke,” an Israeli film directed by Moshe Rosenthal.
2021:
The Breman Museum and the Simon Wiesenthal Center are scheduled to present a
special interview featuring Silvia Foti author of My Nazi Grandfather: How I
Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal
2022:
Holocaust Education in Florida which is held annually in the second November
which coincides with the anniversary of Kristallnacht is scheduled to continue
today.
2022:
N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver said that he didn’t believe Nets guard Kyrie Irving,
who has been facing backlash for promoting an antisemitic film on Twitter last
month. was antisemitic after meeting with him in person this week at the
league’s headquarters in Manhattan.
2022:
The Weitzman is scheduled to host “Reservation Dogs” starring Sarah Podemski
and Rabbi Shira Stutman.
2022:
The Neighborhood and the Jewish Book Council are scheduled to host “a
conversation and preview of Emily Bowen Cohen’s forthcoming graphic novel, Two
Tribes.
2022:
In London, The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to present via
zoom a lecture by Dr. Kate Vigurs on “Mission France: The true history of the
women of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).:
2022:
The ADL is scheduled to host “Never Is Now,” “the world’s largest annual summit
on anti-Semitism and hate.
2022:
YIVO is scheduled to present a discussion of Ida Maze’s autobiographical novel Dineh
with Yermihayu Aron Taub.
2023:
In New Orleans, The Ben Katz Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) is
scheduled to host a memorial to honor
Jewish veterans at Hebrew Rest Cemetery.
2023:
Members of The Ben Katz Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) are
scheduled to assemble at Congregation Gates of Prayer for worship services
there with an oneg following services that will feature the Missing in Action /
Killed in Action (MIA/KIA) table event with post commander Lt Col. Carol Berman
(USAR).
2023:
In Saratoga, CA, Congregation Beth David is scheduled to host a Sigd
Celebration which is “the holiday observed by Ethiopian Jews and other Jewish
Africans to mark the day when God was first revealed to Moses.”four-hour pauses will
take place in a different northern Gaza neighborhood each day, with residents
notified three hours ahead of time.
2023:
As November 10, begins in Israel, in a
move unprecedented in modern warfare, “Israel has agreed to put in place daily
four-hour pauses in its assault on Hamas in select areas of northern Gaza to
allow civilians to leave,” even as the IDF moves forward in Gaza, while Israel
faces more attacks from rockets and missiles fired by Hezbollah and the Houthis
in Yemen and the Hamas hostages begin day 35 in captivity. (As reported by
Emanuel Fabian)(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)
2024:
The Steve Tisch owned NY Giants are scheduled to try and break a three-game
losing streak when they line up against the Carolina Panthers.
2024:
“JewCE which stands for the JEWISH COMICS EXPERIENCE is the ultimate comics and
pop culture event is scheduled to be brought to you by the Center for Jewish
History in New York City
2024:
Stand Together Unity, Strength and Resilience is scheduled to take place today
in Washington.
https://standtogethernovember10.org/
2024:
The ban on demonstrations is scheduled to continue today in Amsterdam in the
wake of Friday’s anti-Semitic riots.
2024:
In the second session of a new online
lecture series with Dror Burstein is scheduled to look at cows not as food but
as living creatures: motherly and loving creatures worthy of love.
2024:
The American Sephardi Federation, as the Sephardic Voice in the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is scheduled to once again join
forces with the Jewish Federations of North America and other organizations
gathering in Washington, D.C. to reaffirm shard American values, support for
Israel, and to strengthen Jewish unity and resilience.
2024;
Technicon UK is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Real Estate” at the
Phoenix Cinema.
https://ukjewishfilm.org/film/real-estate/
2024:
The International conference for Jewish Federation lay leaders and staff is
scheduled to begin today.
2024:
In Metairie “Marching Towards Veterans Day with Shir Chadash!” which includes “a
morning Minyan followed by a scrumptious breakfast, presented by the Shir
Chadash Men’s Club and sponsored by Nathan & Robin Lew to honor the best”
is scheduled to begin at 9:15 this morning.
2024:
The Eldridge Eats Food Tour which includes a visit to historic Lower East Side
sites and nosh on delicious rugelach, pickles, knishes, and dumplings” is
scheduled to take place today.
2024:
The New York Times featured reviews on books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Every Valley: The Desperate
Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s “Messiah” by Charles King
2024:
As November 10th 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 401 in captivity while Israelis brace for more
rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran and terrorists based in
Iraq (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)