This Day, August 22, in Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin
August 22
70:
According to Josephus, Titus began the battering operations against the wall of
the Temple Court 6:4)
634: Abu Bakr,
the father-in-law of Mohammed and first Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate who
was a leader in the “campaign against the Jewish tribe of Banu Nadir” passed
away today.
634: Um ibn
Al-khattab, who was accompanied by Ka‘ab al-Aḥbār a Yemenite rabbi and early
convert to Islam on his journey to Jerusalem, succeeded Abu Bakar as the second
Caliph of The Rashidun Caliphate today.
1241: Pope
Gregory IX passed away today. “Gregory IX was a prominent opponent of Judaism
during his life, condemning it as “containing every kind of vileness and
blasphemy”. In the 1234 Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua
servitus iudaeorum – perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of
canonical law. According to this, the followers of the Talmud would have to
remain in a condition of political servitude until Judgment Day. The doctrine
then found its way into the doctrine of servitus camerae imperialis, or
servitude immediately subject to the Emperor’s authority, promulgated by
Frederick II. The Jews were thus suppressed from having direct influence over
the political process and the life of Christian states into the 19th century
with the rise of liberalism. In 1239, under the influence of Nicholas Donin, a
Jewish convert to Christianity, Gregory ordered that all copies of the Jewish
Talmud be confiscated. Following a public disputation between Christians and
Jewish theologians, this culminated in a mass burning of some 12,000
handwritten Talmudic manuscripts on June 12, 1242, in Paris. Subsequent popes
repeated this practice.”
1280: Abraham
ben Samuel Abulafia arrived in Rome today.
1280: Pope
Nicholas III whom Kabbalist and self-proclaimed Messiah “Abraham be Samuel
Abulafia had tried to convert” passed away today before he could hear the
request from Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia to “release captive Jews.” (Jewish
Virtual Library)
1370: Judah
Alatzar of Barcelona, a Spanish Jew, lent the king and queen 110,000 sueldos so
they could equip ten ships which would transfer the Pope from Rome to Avignon.
1400(1st
of Elul, 5160): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1400(1st
of Elul, 5160): On the day that Emperor Wenceslaus was deposed and Rupert of
the Paletine was elected his successor, seventy-seven Jews were executed and
three weeks later three more were led to the stake.
1454: Jews of
Brno (now a city in the Czech Republic; then a free imperial city of Moravia)
were expelled by King Ladislaus
1485: In
England the forces of Richard III are defeated at the Battle of Bosworth Field,
where Richard loses and the House of Plantagenet loses control of the throne to
the House of Tudor. It was a Plantagenet king who expelled the Jews from
England. Henry VIII, the second Tudor King to sit on the throne, promised that
no Jews would be allowed to live in England as part of the marriage agreement
with his Spanish born wife. But Henry would inadvertently open the way for the
Jews to return when he broke with the Catholic Church over the matter of his
divorce. So, on balance, the outcome of the Battle of Bosworth Field was a win
for the Jews even though they were not there and the “win” was a long time in
coming.
1604: An
exemption was issued by the Pope allowing Portuguese conversos to seek pardon
for their “offenses,” and have their items returned to them. This
order was not respected by the Inquisition in the New World.
1614: Vincent
Fettmilch of Frankfurt, a former pastry cook and leader of the Guilds, calling
himself the “new Haman of the Jews” attacked the synagogue while the
community was at prayer. Although many tried to organize a defense, they were
soon overpowered and many took shelter in the cemetery while the community was
destroyed. He and his accomplices were hanged and quartered for it 2 years
later. They were not hanged for their attacks on the Jews. They were hanged
because they had decided to attack the wealthy nobles.
1634: Fifty-three-year-old
MP and English Hebraist Rowland Cotton passed away today.
1639: Madras
(now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver
of land bought from local Nayak rulers. Jewish merchants played a significant
role in Madras as can be seen from the fact that three Jewish merchants were
among the 12 Alderman nominated to serve on the first local governing council
established in 1688. One of the first Jews who came to Madras with special
permission to reside and trade there was Jacques (Jaime) de Paiva (Pavia),
originally from Amsterdam. Most Jews living in Madras were or English or
Portuguese origin. They exported diamonds extracted from the mines at Goloconda
to England and imported silver and coral. The Jewish community in Madras no
longer exists but evidence of its vitality can be seen the Jewish cemetery
located on Mint Street.
1642: King
Charles I effectively began the English Civil War by branding the members of
the House of Commons as traitors. As a result of the war, Charles would lose
his head and Cromwell would become head of the English government. Cromwell
made it possible for the Jews to return to England in an open fashion after a three-century
absence.
1654: John
Lightfoot the English clergyman, Hebraist and Biblical scholar whose works
included A Handful of Gleanings out of the Book of Exodus “preached
before the House of Commons” today.
1654: Jacob
Barsimson, who some claim was the first Jew to settle in North America, arrived
in New Amsterdam. However, the official founding of the Jewish community in the
United States is dated from September 23, 1654, when 23 Jewish refugees arrived
from Recife.
1664(11th
of Elul, 5424): Today, the Jews were granted Royal protection when Kings
Charles II of England responded to a petition from “the Hebrews in his realm”
by saying that as long as they (the Jews) demean themselves peaceably and with
due submission to the laws, they may presumed they will enjoy the same favor as
they formerly held.
1681(7th
of Elul, 5441): “Haham Hashalem R Israel De Avila passed away today after which
he was buried at the Velho Sephardic Cemetery” in London.
1694(1st
of Elul, 5454): Venetian rabbi Samuel Aboab, the son of Abraham Aboab, whose
works included Debar Shemuel” (Word of Samuel and who was involved with
Nathan of Gaza, passed away today.
1752: Eighty-four-year-old
William Whiston best known for his translation of the works of Josephus
including Antiquities of the Jews passed away today.
http://sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/
1776(7th of
Elul, 5536): Ashner Anschel Franckel, the son of Menachem Mendel Franckel and
Sara Sussel Bacharach passed away today.
1787(8th of
Elul, 5547): Sarah Barrow, the wife of Lazarus Barrow and mother of Aaron and
Benjamin Barrow passed away today in London.
1790:In
Philadelphia, Moses Nathan Levy and his wife gave birth to Jacob Levy.
1791: Seventy-four-year-old
Johann David Michaelis part of family of Christian Hebraists including Johann
Heinrich Michaelis “the author of an annotated Hebrew Bible, who wrote a
dissertation defending “the antiquity and divine authority of the Hebrew vowel
points, passed away today.
1799: David
Leion, the president of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Savannah, GA divorced
Hannah Minis whom he had married on April 17, 1798.
1800(1st
of Elul, 5560): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1800:
Birthdate of Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_12907.html
1801: Judith
and Isaac Nunez Cardoza gave birth to Aaron Nunes Cardozo the brother of
Phineas Nunez Cardozo and Rebecca Roxas, the wife of Jacob Roxas.
1802: Rutger
Jan Schimmelpenninck, the Batavian (Dutch) Ambassador to France delivered a
note to the French foreign minister on behalf of the Jews of Germany.
1804(15th
of Elul, 5564): Elizabeth “Esther” Whitlock Cohen a native of England who
converted to Judaism when she married Moses Mordecai in Philadelphia and was
the mother of four sons – Jacob, Isaac, Joseph and Mordecai – passed away in
Richmond, VA.
1810 Birthdate
of Hirschel Eliazer Kann, one of the founders of Lissa & Kann, a Dutch
banking house.
1816: One day
after she had passed away, Julia Hart, the daughter of Stephen and Esther Hart,
was buried today.
1819: In
London, Isabel and Isaac Lyon Goldsmid gave birth to Emma Goldsmid , the wife
of Nathan Mayer Montefiore and the father of Alice, Leonard, Charlotte and
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore.
1821: Solomon
Corlyn married Leah Wilks at the Great Synagogue today.
1821: On this
day came an end of the Spanish Inquisition in Venezuela. The Venezuela
government wrote, “The Tribunal of the Inquisition, also known as the Holy
Office, shall be abolished.”
1827: Menahem
Monas ben Akiva married Malkah bat Jacob at the New Synagogue today.
1832: Angel
Haas married Elizabeth Mendoza at the Great Synagogue today.
1832: Moses
Mordecai married Kitty Isaacs at the Hambro Synagogue today.
1833:
Birthdate of Prussian native William Raphael, the graduate of the Berlin School
of Fine who pursued his painting career in Montreal where “he was a founding
member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Raphael#/media/File:Behind_Bonsecours_Market.png
1836:
Birthdate of Theobold Epstein, professor at the Philanthropin Secondary School,
the husband of Auguste Seligman and the father of Paul Epstein.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/myers-samuel
1843(26 Av,
5603): Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the third Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty,
popularly known as the “Tzemach Tzedek,” finally departed Petersburg
having successfully prevented the government’s disruption of traditional Jewish
life. “In 1843, the Interior Ministry of the Czarist government convened a
rabbinical conference in the Russian capital of Petersburg, to the end of
imposing changes in Jewish communal life and religious practice. Rabbi Menachem
Mendel of Lubavitch (1789-1866, known as the “Tzemach Tzeddek” after
his Halachic works by that name) was invited; as a primary figure in the
leadership of Russian Jewry, his compliance was required to lend legitimacy to
the government’s proposed “reforms”. In the course of the conference,
the Tzemach Tzeddek was placed under arrest no less than 22 (!) times for his
refusal to cooperate.” Third in the line of leaders of the Chabad movement was
after the title of his voluminous responsa.
1849: In New
York City, Jacob I. Moses, the Columbia, SC born son of Isaiah and Rebecca J.
Moses and his wife Sarah J. Moses gave birth to Hervey Hall Moses who would die
at the age of nine months.
1849: Sara
Marx, the daughter of Samuel Marx married Israel Lazarus today in Trier.
1851: In
Wolfenbuttel, Philipp and Julie Ehrenberg gave birth to Victor Gabriel
Ehrenberg
1851:
Birthdate of Daniel Frohman, the native of Sandusky Ohio, who joined with his brothers
Charles and Gustave to become a successful theatrical producer and movie
producer.
1853:
Solomon Nunes Carvalho, a South Carolina born Sephardic Jew signed on with
explorer and U.S. military officer John C. Fremont as an artist and
daguerreotypist. Carvalho would create a
pictorial record of the “Pathfinder’s” expedition that explored the Rocky
Mountain region.http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/jewsinzion.html
1854: In
Poznan, Polan, Rosalie and Lewin Louis Freudenthal gave birth toe Phoebus Freudenthal,
the “husband of Amalia Freudenthal, the long-time member of the Women’s
Improvement Association, and father of Louis Edwin Freudenthal; Bernard W.
Freudenthal and Robert Freudenthal.”
1855:
Mademoiselle Rachel, the great French Tragedienne, whose visit to the United
States has been proclaimed in all the public prints for some months past,
arrived today on the SS Pacific. Mademoiselle Rachel is Elizabeth Rachel Felix,
the daughter of a German-Swiss Jew named Felix and his wife Esther Haya. She
has an older sister named Sarah with whom she used to sing as a child.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9502E4DC103DE034BC4B51DFBE66838E649FDE
1855:
Birthdate of Franz Heyse, the first son of Paul Heyse, German-Jewish author and
translator.
1858: Twenty-year-old
Jeanette Herzl married Jacob Herzl.
1858: It was
recorded today that the Jewish community of Pilsen “celebrated the birth of the
Prince” by collecting “20 silver florins” which were given “to the royal and
imperial regional administration to divide among the poor.”
1859:
Birthdate of Joseph Eagner, the husband of Ida Eagner.
1859: In
Austria the government promised enactment of “liberal legislation” that would
improve the conditions of the Jews including an unrestricted right to own real
estate.
1860(4th of
Elul, 5620): Samuel Holdheim who was born in 1806 and was a German rabbi and
author, and one of the early leaders of the Reform Movement in Judaism passed
away today.
1862: During
the Civil War, David Benjamin began a three year hitch with the 141st
Regiment which he would complete with the rank of Corporal in Company D.
1862:
Philadelphian Simon Arnold, who would be killed at Gettysburg, began serving
with Company G of the 140th Regiment.
1862: During
the Civil War, Philadelphian Elias B. Davidson began serving with the Company
G. of the 136th Regiment
1863(6th
of Elul, 5623): Seventy-six-year-old Jacob Rubino, the son of Minkel and Ruben
Moses Rubino passed away today.
1864: Twelve
nations sign the first Geneva Convention creating the Red Cross. The
International Red Cross, as opposed to the American organization, has a
negative image among Jews because of its unwillingness to recognize the Magen
David as a variant of the Cross even though it allows for other variations
including the Moslem Red Crescent.
1865(30th of
Av, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1866: In San
Francisco, Delia and Aaron Fleishhacker gave birth to Mortier Fleishhacker, the
banker, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist involved in the electrification of
California,” the “husband of Florence Isabelle (Bella) Fleishhacker and father
of Eleanor Belle Sloss and Mortimer Fleishhacker, Jr.” the WW II veteran ad
husband of Janet Fleishhacker.
https://www.fleishhackerfoundation.org/about/history
1867: In
Savanah, GA, Adeline Moses and Adolph J. Brady gave birth to Lillie Brady, the
wife of Washington Falk and mother of Henrietta, Adeline and Washington Falk,
Jr.
1868: In Dover
England, Eva Mendelson and Rabbi Isadore Barnston, gave birth to University of London and University of
Heidelberg graduate Rabbi Henry Barnston who in1900 came to the United States
where he “became rabbi of the Reform Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, Texas”
and after the death of his first wife Ethel Irene Kennard married her sister
Ruth Nina.
1869: In Cincinnati,
OH, Ricca Frank and Simo Baumgarten gave bit to “tenement house, inspector and
probation officer’ Yetta Rose Baumgarten, the “Head Resident of the Columbian
Council School Settlement.”
1870:
Birthdate of New York City native and Rhode Island State legislator Max Levy,
“a judge in the First District Court of Rhode Island, president of the Touro
Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island and the author “Settlement of Jews in Rhode
Island.”
http://www.rijha.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/RIJH-Notes-Volume-13.2-157-332.pdf
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rabinowitsch-kempner-lydia
https://litfl.com/emanuel-libman/
https://mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/contemporaries/emanuel-libman/
1873:
Henrietta Frank and Marx B. Loeb gave birth to Bridie Loeb who became Birdie
Loeb Gimbel which she married Philadelphia merchant Benedict Gimbel and who was
the mother of Bernard Gimbel, Jr. who worked for a time in the family business,
Gimbels Brother.
1874:
Birthdate of Max Scheler, German philosopher. Born to a Lutheran father and an
Orthodox Jewish mother, Scheler opted to convert to Catholicism.
1875: An
article was published today that had originally appeared in Fraser’s Magazine (an English
publication) which describes a visit to dealer in antiques and jewelry whose
small shop is located on a dark and dirty lane in London. The owner of the shop
is referred to as “Cohen Hertzog,” although that is not his name and he is
described as a “Hebrew” and “a cosmopolitan” – a little old man with high
wrinkled forehead and long white beard, a black velvet skull-cap upon his head,
keen eyes that sparkle like his diamonds, and an intellect as sharp…as the file
with which he tests them.” The Jew’s speech is written in a dialect saying
“dese” for these, “tings” for things, etc. And during his oration the Jew
reveals that the only thing for which he cares are the gems that he collects
and sells. No exactly a portrait of the Rothschilds but certainly a view of the
Jew held by many English men and women of the day.
1875: “The
Talmud” which was published today and was based on information first published
in the Cornhill
Magazine,
a popular Victorian journal describes why this “extensive storehouse of Hebrew
wisdom,” this “‘extraordinary monument of human industry, human intelligence
and human folly’” has become “a faded memory” for the “greater majority of both
Jews and Christians.” The reasons are two-fold. First, the Talmud is difficult
to study and master; having it own lexicon and language. Secondly, from the
Christian point of view the Talmud is filled with heresies which Bacon
describes as “absurd trash”; the same words he used to describe the Koran, the
Spurious Gospels and the Generations of Jesus.
1875: “The
Author of Toldoth Jeshu” which was published today and was based on material
first published in the Cornhill Magazine, a popular Victorian reported that the author
of this work known in English as “The Generations of Jesus” was written by a
17th century “Bohemian Jew” known as “Chaim or Joachim who was converted to
Christianity and baptized Ferdinand Francis. Thanks to the work of Johann
Christoph Wagenseil, the German professor of Oriental Languages, the book was
exposed as being blasphemous in its description of Jesus and Ferdinand Francis
was condemned to be hanged in the fish market at Vienna. When the condemned man
was offered a crucifix by a Jesuit he threw it on the floor and “told the
people…that he had only adopted the Christian faith for reason of political
convenience.” Ferdinand was then tortured by his captors but did not cry out in
pain. When they cut off his hand he said it was just punishment for turning his
back on the faith of his fathers. And he continued to utter the prayers of his
people until he died. In the mean time, the shops of the Jews were pillaged;
they were robbed of their money and gems even if that meant cutting off their
fingers and many were stoned to death. [Unfortunately for Ferdinand Francis,
Toldoth Jeshu had been around since the 6th century, so he could not have been
its author, regardless of he what he or Wagenseil might have said.]
1876:
Birthdate Alfred Herz who was transported from Ostrava to Terezin and then from
Terezin to Treblinka where he was murdered in the last quarter of 1942.
1877: Max
Furchgott of Charleston, SC, married Bertha Raffman, the youngest daughter of
Phillip Raffman of Neutra, Hungary at the “summer resident of the bride’s
parents in Sarluska, Hungary.
1877: In
Bavaria, Gretchen and Samuel Neuberger gave birth to Max Neuberger, the husband
of Bertha Neuberger.
1880: “A Lost
Tribe” published today reviewed Wojinstwujusci Israil by W.J.
Remirowitch-Dantschenko which described his encountered with a tribe in the
highlands of the Daghesan that look like Cossacks but are Jews who follow “the
Mosaic.” Their presence must date back
to the days of the Judean kings since they know nothing about the Second Temple
or the Temple.
1880: “The
English Oath of Allegiance” published today traced the history of the fight for
Jews to take an oath of office that require to say “upon the true faith of a
Christian. By 1866, through acts of Parliament there was “a full statutory
recognition of the civil equality of Jews with other subjects which though long
allowed in practice had never yet been expressly declared.”
1882: A review
of the new musical “Black Flag” published today described the humorous
performance by Nat Goodwin who played the role of “Sim Lazarus, an absurd
London Jews of the kind that pleases for some occult reason the sense of the
ridiculous in the average Hebrew…” [Goodwin was a famous 19th
century American actor whose roles included Shylock in “The Merchant of
Venice.”]
1882: Birthdate
of Pilsen native “Dr. Emil Lederer, noted German economist, professor of
economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science in the New
School for Social Research who left Germany when the Nazis came to power.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/05/30/93921133.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1883: It was
reported to that an unnamed American Jew was expelled from St. Petersburg in
accordance with Russian law that forbids Jews from living in the city.
1883:
“Christian David Ginsburg, the biblical and Masoretic Scholar reported to
Edward A. Bond, Principal Librarian of the British Museum that the manuscript
of Deuteronomy which Moses Wilhelm “Shapira has submitted to us for examination
is a forgery.”
1884(1st
of Elul, 5644): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1884: It was
reported today that fourteen houses and shops belonging to Jews were ransacked
and demolished during anti-Jewish riots in Yekaterinoslav, Russia. Two Jews and one rioter were killed during
the riots. Unlike other times, the Jews
defended themselves from their attackers.
1884: In New
York, Justice Power is scheduled to hear the case of Alexander Labotsky whose
wife Frieda accused him of having deserted her.
Frieda came to the United States ago from Poland. Labotsky said he left Poland because of her;
that he had sent her papers for a divorce; and that he would support her
financially but would never leave with her again as the Judge had previously
suggested.
1884: “A
Midnight Murder” published today described the discovery of the body of Sam
Lavner, a Jewish man from Chicago who had murdered by shot fired by an unknown
party. “On top of his head and one arm
were fastened little cubes which on being cut open were to contain the Ten
Commandments in Hebrew, such as used by the orthodox Jews in their worship”
1885: The New York Times published a brief
outline of the will of Sir Moses Montefiore that was executed in January, 1882.
The estate was valued at between 350,000 and 380,000 British pounds. The
summary quoted the Jewish
Chronicle
which listed the multiplicity of his charitable bequests.
1885: “The
Will of Montefiore” published today uses information that originally appeared
in the London Jewish Chronicle to provide a detailed summary of the will of the
Sir Moses Montefiore which was executed in January of 1882. The will is twenty pages long and shows that
his personal estate is worth between £350,000 and £380,000. The executors
include Lord Rothschild, Joseph Sebag and Arthur Cohen. Among those receiving
bequest are United Synagogue, Bevis Marks and various charitable institutions
in Jerusalem and Palestine.
1885: “His
Father to the Rescue” published today described an altercation in Chicago
between Henry L. Ottenheimer who spanked 8 year old Robbie Garland for calling
him a “Polish Jew” and his father R.H. Garland who came to the boy’s rescue.
1886: Eighty-four-year-old
Professor Calvin E. Stowe, the husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe passed
away. Among his best-known works were History
of the Hebrew Commonwealth and Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the
Hebrews
1887: The will
of millionaire Levi Rosenfeld was admitted to probate today in Chicago,
Illinois.
1887: Abraham
Tombitsky who was treated at Gouverneur Hospital is in too much pain because of
his fractured leg to give a statement to authorities who are investigating
charges that Patrolman John Etterick was responsible for the injury during his
attempt to enforce the Sunday Closing Laws by clearing the Hester and Ludlow
streets of crowds of Russian and Polish Jews.
1888: The
ninth free excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will leave
from the foot of the 5th street pier and the East River this
morning.
1889:
Birthdate of San Francisco native and composer/songwriter Irving Bilbo.
1889: As
president of the board of regents of Indiana’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument,
Frederick Knefler, the Jewish Civil War general, oversaw today’s laying of the
cornerstone in the center of Indianapolis.
1890: New
York, Jennie Yarzumbeck and Harris Nowak gave birth CCNY and Columbia graduate
JTS trained rabbi, Abraham Nowak, the husband of Anna Segal who served as
chaplain during WW I with the rank of 1st lieutenant and in 1923
began serving as the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in
Cleveland, OH. (Some sources show his birthdate as August 28)
https://case.edu/ech/articles/n/nowak-abraham
1891: At
Baltimore thirty-nine Russian Jews who arrived aboard the Slavonia and 4
Russian Jews who arrived aboard the Caspian are still waiting to be
investigated by authorities for their suitability to land in this country.
1891:
Birthdate of Jacques Lipchitz. Born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in Druskininkai,
Lithuania, this American artist was a leading Cubist sculptor.
1892: Three
days after he had passed away, 52-year-old Felix Joseph, the son of Abraham and
Sarah Joseph was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1892: Lt. Gen.
de Richter, the Czar’s aide-de-camp, acting on “formal instructions” returned
the resolution to the New Zealand Legislative Assembly that it asked him to
present the Czar urging more humane treatment for Russian Jews because he is
not authorized to receive such petitions.
1893: In Long
Branch, NJ, which was the location of their Summer Home, New Yorkers Jacob Nery
and Eliza Annie Rothschild gave birth to Dorothy Rothschild who gained fame as
Dorothy Parker, an American writer and poet best known for her caustic wit,
wisecracks, and sharp eye for twentieth century urban foibles.
http://www.dorothyparker.com/wordpress/gallery/new-york-times-obituary
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/22/1893/dorothy-parker
1893:
Birthdate of Frank Glick, the Pittsburg, PA native , the all-star Princeton
University Captain, World War I Army Captain and Lehigh University head coach.
1893: New York
Mayor Thomas Gilroy appeared to respond favorably today to a request from
Samuel Gompers, President of the American of Labor that “the municipality”
should “help the unemployed and relieve their distress by ‘making working’ for
them”
1893: Jacob
Milch chaired the meeting of the Hebrew Trades this evening at the Pythagoras
Hall.
1894(20th
of Av, 5654): Dr. Bernhard Grunhut “was drowned at sea” today while sailing to
Europe aboard the SS Bothnia.
1894: Two days
after he had passed away, 74-year-old Samuel Harris was buried today at the
West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894:
“Religious Duties May Interfere – Hebrews May Not Serve as Inspectors of
Election in October,” published today described
the plight of Jews who will be
limited in their ability to serve as voter registration officers this fall
since the first day of registration falls on October 9 which is Erev Yom
Kippur. Jewish officials will have to leave their posts early because they have
to be in their synagogues before sundown.
1894: In
Louisville, KY, Alfred and Jennie Brandeis gave birth to Jean Tachau, the niece
of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
1894: Joseph
Goldwasser was arrested this morning on charges of having beaten his 14-year-old
son Benjamin who is a “deaf-mute.”
1894: Julius
Marcus, the young Jew who killed Mrs. Juliette Fournier and then shot himself
was buried today in Bayside Cemetery by a “Hebrew benevolent society.” Because
Marcus was a self-confessed atheist there was no rabbi at the burial which was
attended on by his parents, brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces.
1894: In
Naarden, the Netherlands, Hendrik Cornelis Ardoneus and Catharina Wilhelmina de
Vries gave birth to Willem Johan Cornelis Ardondeus who was arrested and
executed after participating in the bombing of “the Amsterdam Public Records
Office” in an attempt to foil attempts to deport Dutch Jews
1895: The
first conference of Russian Zionists that was secretly held in Warsaw comes to
an end.
1895: Edgar
Barney the principle of the Hebrew Technical Institute and twelve of his
“tutors” took 300 students on an excursion to Coney Island.
1895: Sol
Rubenstein is trying to replace Frank J. Butler as the Democratic leader of the
12th Assembly District. “Mr. Rubenstein wants the leadership”
because of the number of Jewish “votes in the district.”
1897: In what
was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire “Anna Rosa (née Wagner) and Emil
Ettel, a merchant” gave birth to Elisabeth Ettel who gained fame as Elisabeth
Bergner, the winner of the Distinguished Medal from the Drama League for her
performance on Broadway in “The Two Mrs. Carrols.”
1897: “The
disturbances begun on August 20 by the fanatical opponents of the Jews began
again today in Pilsen, Bohemia. “An
anti-Jewish mob” attacked the police “and then small the window in the
synagogue, the Jewish schools and the houses of the best-known Jews.”
1897:
“Reminiscence of Barney Barnato” published today provided a brief sketch of the
personality of the late diamond mining magnate.
1897: “Jews
Are Split on Zionism” published today described the opposition led by German
Rabbis to Zionism and the call they have to “oppose the Zionist ideas as
contrary to Judaism” and “to keep away from the Basil Congress.”
1898: Zigmund
Markovich Rozenblum, a Russian born operative for Scotland Yard married
Margaret Thomas at Holborn Registry Office in London which enabled him to
“craft a new identity” as “Sidney George Reilly.
1898: The
funeral of Leopold Minzesheimer, the Superintendent of Mount Sinai Hospital is
scheduled to take place at 10 A.M. at the hospital.
1898: It was
reported today that George Blumenthal is the President of the Mount Sinai
Training School for Nurses.
1898:
“Entertainment for Hebrew Children” published today described a fundraiser
organized by Mrs. J.F. Emanuel held at the Waldorf Amusement Hall that raised
$900 for the Rockaway Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.
1898: It was
reported today that Henry Gitterman is the acting President of the Board of
Directors of Mt. Sinai Hospital.
1898: In
Verdun, France “J. Louis La Remee and Sarah Adler, a sister of the Yiddish
stage star Jacob Adler gave birth actress Francine Larrimore.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/03/08/79737076.html?pageNumber=28
1899(16th of
Elul, 5659): Thirty-three-year-old Aaron J. Wechsler, the eldest son of the
late Joseph Wechsler who was a partner in the dry goods firm of Wechsler &
Abraham passed away today at his home in Brooklyn.
1899: Fernand
Labori, the lead attorney for Alfred Dreyfus returned to the court today after
enduring a “murderous attack” on August 14. He was accompanied by his wife, his
physician and police inspectors. He was
greeted by a cheering throng that wanted to shake his hand.
1899: The USS
Scorpion (PY-3) which had been commanded by Adolph Marx the first Jewish
graduate of the United States Naval Academy during the Spanish-American War was
recommissioned today.
1900: In Pine
Bluff, AR, Adolph and Rachel (Rae Solmson) Bluthenthal gave birth to their
first child Adele who as Adele Bluthenthal Heiman would play an active part in
the Little Rock, AR, Jewish community where she was an active member of Temple
B’Nai Israel, the largest Jewish congregation in the state.
1901:
Birthdate of New York City native Saul Caston the “associate conductor of the
Philadelphia Orchestra” until 1945 “when he was hired as the Denver Symphony’s
Conductor and Music” which he led with such success that in 1951 Time wrote
that “the Denver Symphony was among the leaders in performing American music.”
1901:
Birthdate of Abraham Ber Tabachnik, the native of Russia who came to the United
States in 1921 where he became “a writer, literary critic and editor for the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a wire service for the Yiddish, Hebrew and Anglo
Jewish press.”
1902: Bertha
Ida (Scherlach) and “Alfred
Theodor Paul Riefenstahl, a successful heating and ventilation company” gave
birth to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
1903: Seventy-three-year-old
Lord Salisbury who was political opponent of Disraeli even though they were
both members of the Conservative Party and who served as Prime Minister at the
end of the 19th century when Russian persecution of Jews caused some
of his countrymen to fear “a wholesale invasion of pauper Jews’ (Something he
said during a speech in the House of Lords would not happen) passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C04E1DA133BE533A25751C0A96E9C94619ED7CF
1903: A
concert is scheduled to be given by “the Bnoth Zion Kadimah…at the University
Settlement Building.”
1903(29th
of Av, 5663): Parashat Re’eh
1903: After
attending the Shabbat service in the Basel synagogue, Herzl invites a number of
leaders including the Russians Mandelstamm, Yelski, Bernstein-Kohan and
Tshlenov as well as Wolfssohn, Marmorek, Cowen and Zangwill into Joseph Cowen’s
room in order to win them over to the Uganda Project. The final decision is to
present the offer to Congress.
1903: In New
York, Louis Lipsky and A.H. Simon spoke to those attending a concert given by
the “Benoth Zion Kadimah.”
1904: In
Galicia, Max and Eugenia (née Dittler) Wilder gave birth to producer and
director William Lee Wilder the brother of the more famous Billy Wilder.
1905: It was
reported today that “Detective Sergt. Carey, who is trying to discover the
identity of the senders of the bombs to Jacob H. Schiff and M. Guggenheim’s
Sons, has learned that letters were received about two months ago by Mr.
Schiff, the Guggenheims, and one of the members of the brokerage firm of
Wassermann Brothers, at 42 Broadway, threatening them with death.”
1906(1st
of Elul, 5666): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1906: It was
reported today that “under the influence” of massacres in places like Kishineff
and Bialystok, “the number of Jewish emigrants from Russia, which to 185,000
last year has risen to 300,000 in the first half of” 1906.
1907: It was
reported today that during an interview with the Tageblatt, “Congressman
William S. Bennett, a member of the United States Immigration Commission” said
that “the condition of the Jews in Romania was simply fearful.
1907: In
Philadelphia Jewish immigrants Morris and Ethel Sinkov gave birth to
super-cryptologist and mathematics professor Abraham Sinkov.
https://www.amazon.com/ELEMENTARY-CRYPTANALYSIS-Abraham-Sinkov/dp/B00B45AJO2
1908(25th
of Av, 5668): Parashat Re’eh
1908: “As a
result of opening of the doors of the Hebrew Children’s Sanitarium at Rockaway
Park to the crippled children of Binghamton, N.Y., a seashore home for these
helpless little ones is being urged. Miss Evelyn Goldsmith of that place, in a
letter to Herman Levy, a Director in the sanitarium, a plea is made for a
cottage on the Rockaway Park shore.”
1909:
Birthdate of Sergius Kagen, the native of St. Petersburg who was the son of
Lithuanian Jew and a Russian atheist who became a leading “American pianist and
composer.”
1909:
Birthdate of Boris Schapiro, the native of Riga who became a British
international bridge player.
1909:
Birthdate of Screenwriter Julius J. Epstein who wrote the un-produced play that
became the Academy Award winning film Casablanca. He is also the great-uncle of
Theo Epstein, the baseball executive who brought the Red Sox the World Series
Championship that broke the Babe Ruth Curse. During the Red Scare, Epstein
appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee where he denied
being a member of the Communist Party. However, when asked if he had ever
worked for a subversive organization he reportedly replied, “Yes, Warner
Brothers.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/02/guardianobituaries.filmnews
1909: Rabbi
J.L. Magnes of Temple Emanu-EL is one of the rabbis scheduled to speak tonight
at meeting at Derech Emunah where the
leaders hope “to start a movement to enlist the cooperation of the Jews” in the
United States “in an effort to establish Jewish” settlements “in Palestine.”
1909: Birthdate
of screenwriter Philip G. Epstein, the native of Brooklyn who co-authored the
Oscar winning script for “Casablanca” with his twin-brother Julius
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/141861/the-brothers-who-co-wrote-casablanca
1910(17th
of Av, 5670): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Asher b. Shlomo Zalman
of Vilna “the author of Mayim Adirim” who passed away in 1796.
1910: In New
York, Arthur Rembrandt Mosler, Sr, and engineer and the son of Sarah Cahn and
artist Henry Mosler and his wife Estelle Mosler gave birth to Arthur Rembrandts
Mosler, Jr.
1911: A
weekend long dedication of the Orthodox Home for the Aged Annex in Cleveland
came to an end today.
1911: During
the Tredgar Riots, another day of attacks on the Jews of New South Wales in the
worst outbreak of anti-Semitic violence in modern British history.
1911:
“Football Player’s Romance” published described the impending nuptials of
former Yale football John Nathan Levine and Florence Flanders, the sister of
one his former teammates with whom he roomed while in college.
1912: The body
of General William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, who had toured
Palestine in 1905 was taken Congress Hall in Clapton where it lay in state for
the next two days.
1913: “The Sea
Urchin” a silent film featuring Robert Z. Leonard was released today in the
United States.
1913:
According to a summary published in 1915 Leo Frank was brought to trial today.
1913: At the
Leo Frank trial “opening arguments for both sides were delivered today.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401E7DD123FE633A25751C2A96E9C946296D6CF
1913: In
Brooklyn, Isaac and Sophie Sackler gave birth to “Dr. Arthur M. Sackler,
medical researcher, publisher and art collector extraordinaire…”
1913: In
Marina di Pissa, Italy, Massimo Pontecorvo and his wife Maria née Maroni gave
birth to Bruno Pontecorvo the fourth of their eight children and nuclear
physicist who authored “numerous studies in high energy physics” with a special
emphasis on neutrinos.
1914: Lt.
Edward Louis Spears, the British liaison officer serving with French General
Lanrezac, whom the French ambassador in London would describe as “a most
dangerous person…a very able and intriguing Jew who insinuates himself
everywhere, witnessed and described the gallant behavior of the 1st Tirailleurs
and 2nd Zouaves as they tried to retake the river bridges held by the Germans
at Charleroi. (As described by Max
Hastings)
1914: In
Poland, the Russians evacuated Kyeltsi with all that that would mean for the
Jews living in Galicia.
1915: Based on
wireless message sent from Berlin today via Sayville, Long Island, “the
Overseas News Agency announces” that Rabbi Levi of the Association of Jews in
Germany has issued an appeal to halt the sale of arms to Russia “based on the
assumption that American shells are being thrown in Polish town believed to
harbor Germans” such as Lemberg which is the home their Jewish co-religionists.
1915: It was
reported today that “owing to the occupation by the Germans of a great part of
the Pale of Jewish Settlements…the condition of the Jews is critical” with
500,000 having been forced to leave their homes and seek shelter in “the
interior provinces where they have no legal rights.
1915: In
Ottumwa, Iowa, founding of Temple B’nai Jacob.
1915: It was
reported today, that in response to report by Minister of the Interior
Cherbattoff on the desperate condition of the Jews, “the Council of the Empire
has decided to temporarily permits Jews settle in the cities of the empire with
the exception of Moscow, Petrograd and the suburban residences of Czar
Nicholas.”
1915: In a
speech delivered tonight Louis Marshall in which he said that one million Jews
in New York would look upon the adoption of a “proposal requiring a literacy
test as a voting qualification” by the Constitutional Convention meeting Albany
“as a deliberate insult” implying that they would oppose adopting the new state
charter; a view which was sharply questioned by Meir Steinbrink, a Jewish
Republican from Brooklyn who was also attending the convention.
1916:
A news dispatch that reached New York today cited a report from Paul Miliukov
of Moscow University “that a bill is to be introduced in the Russian Imperial
Duma when it convenes in November abolishing the Pale and giving the Jews the
same rights as other Russians.”
1916:
Prime Minister Lloyd George, who favored the Zionist cause address the House of
Commons today, providing the members with an update on the war including the
face that the Allies had destroyed 35 Zepplins.
1917(4th
of Elul, 5677): Sixty 60 old banker Robert von Mendelssohn, the son of Paul
Alexander Franz* von Mendelssohn and Marie Antoinette Enole Mendelssohn
(Biarnez) and husband of Giulietta von Mendelssohn passed away today in Berlin,
1917: As of
today, Dr. Boris Bogen and Max Senior will begin working with Amsterdam banker
Frederick Solomon Van Nierop to deliver funds from Jews in the United States to
Jews in Eastern Europe because the Dutch are neutrals and the Americans are now
belligerents which means the Central Powers do not want Americans distributing
aid to anybody.
1918: The
Provost Marshall announced today that Jews who have turned 21 since June 5 will
not be required to register for the draft on August 24 since it is their
Sabbath and will be allowed to register on Monday, August 26.
1918: New York
attorney and political leader Bernard Deutsch “married the former Frances
Weinstein of New York” today.
1919:
Birthdate of Sir Leo Pliatzky the native of Salford who was “the son of a
Russian born English shopkeeper.”
http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/may/07/guardianobituaries.davidwalker
1920: This
morning, the Inwood Country Club is scheduled to host its first golf tournament
for men over the age of fifty which is to become an annual events “known as the
Senior Golf Tournament.”
1921: One
hundred thousand dollars collected by the American Red Cross during the war for
solider relief work was turned over by the society today to the American Legion
which has created fund that will be used by several organizations including the
Jewish Welfare Board to form “flying squads charged with aiding needy service
men.”
1922:
Birthdate of Ivry Gitlis, the Haifa born “Israeli violist and UNESCO Goodwill
Ambassador.”
1922(28th
of Av, 5682): Sixty-seven year old Harris Weinstock, the London born son of
Solomon and Rachel Lubin Weinstock and husband of Barbara Felsenthal who
settled in California where he “co-founded Lubin and Weinstock, a department
store, served in the National Guard where he reached the rank of Colonel and
“was elected first President of the Commonwealth Club of California” died of a
skull fracture today after falling from a horse he was riding.
1922:
Birthdate of Canadian poet Elizabeth Brewster.
1923(10th
of Elul, 5683): Thirty-eight-year-old David Pope, the president and treasurer
of the Pope Fur Manufacturing Corporation passed away today at the Jewish
Hospital in Brooklyn.
1924: “It was
established” in Vienna “today that Hans Herzl” the son of the founder of the
modern Zionist movement did not convert to Catholicism but became a Baptist in
“a ceremony performed in the Baptist Chapel in Vienna by Pastor Georg Sarre.”
1925:
Birthdate of Irving David Chais Irving D. Chais, owner and chief surgeon of the
New York Doll Hospital.
1926: In Stargard,
Siegfried and Anna Spitz, both of whom were physicians, gave birth to Hebrew University-trained
forensic pathologist Werner Spitz who in 1959 “immigrated to the United States”
where he “became a professor of pathology at Wayne State University School of
Medicine in Detroit, Michigan” and was involved in several high-profile cases including
the assassinations of President John Kenney and Reverend Martin Luther King,
Jr.
1926:
Birthdate of Montreal native Red Fisher the award-winning sports editor and
sports columnist of the Montreal Gazette.
1927: “The
Country Doctor,” a silent film starring Rudolph Schildkraut in the title role
was released today in the United States.
1927: French
architect René Sergent, who helped Moise de Camondo design the family mansion
on the Parc Monceau which included “a kosher kitchen with separate sections for
meat dairy” passed away today.
1927:
Birthdate of Walter Goodman, the Bronx native and reporter for the New York Times and “the author of a
widely read history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities.” (As
Reported by Douglas Martin)
1928:
Birthdate of Slavko Goldstein, the Croatian author who fought in the Israel War
for Independence and who worked with his son historian Ivo Goldstein to restore
the Zagreb Synagogue.
1929:
Following Arab attacks on Jews in Jerusalem, the Arab representatives “said
they were ready to recognize Jewish visiting rights at the Wall in exchange for
Jewish recognition of Islamic prerogatives a Buraq” which the Jewish
representative said was a concession “beyond his brief” which was limited to an
appeal for calm – an appeal which the Arabs refused to agree to.
1930: In Fort
Worth, TX, Solomon Brachman, the Latvian born son of Marcus and Chaya Bachman
and his wife Etta Brachman gave birth to Marilyn Hoffman
1931: “An
American Tragedy” a film treatment of the novel by the same name directed and
produced by Josef von Sternberg was released in the United States today by
Paramount pictures.
1931:
Birthdate of Irmgard Neuman who in 1942 was one of the last nine Jewish
inhabitants of Kleinsteinach all of whom died during the Holocaust.
1932(20th of
Av, 5692): New York City native and Columbia School of Mines trained architect
Harry Allan Jacobs, the winner of the Prix de Rome, husband of Elsie Wolfe
Jacobs and the father of investment banker
Harry Allen Jacobs, Jr. and architect Robert Allan Jacobs, passed away
today.
https://newyorkbefore.com/architecture.php?architect=Harry%20Allan%20Jacobs
https://www.landmarkwest.org/architect/harry-allen-jacobs/
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_3460623/
1933: The Central Verein Zeitung, the
“official organ of the Central Union of German Jews, was ordered closed until
September 2 without explanation.”
1933: A demand
that within the next ten years land and employment must be provided in
Palestine for hundreds of thousands of Jews and in the next two generations for
millions was the feature of the political report presented in today’s session
of the Eighteenth World Zionist Congress meeting in Prague by Professor Selig
Brodetzky of Leeds, England.
1934: Today, thirty-year-old
Warsaw born Nathan Alterman “an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist and translator”
Nathan “Alterman married
Rachel Marcus,
an actress in the ‘Cameri Theatre’” after which, in 1941, they gave birth to “their
only daughter was born: Tirtza Atar, who would grow up to become a poet
herself.”
1934: “The
commission for the organization of a World Jewish Congress voted unanimously
tonight to convoke the congress for August 1935, at Geneva.”
1935: Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise of New York was invited today to address the World Zionist
Congress on Jewry’s position throughout the world after he had demanded a full
discussion of the situation in Germany.
1936: Based on
information from “the most reliable authority” an American journalist “learned
tonight that it now has been definitely decided to order a stoppage of Jewish
immigration from the time of the arrival of the British Royal Commission coming
to investigate the Palestine disorders, until after all the work in connection
with the investigations and recommendations of the commission has been
completed.”
1936: “Two
British soldiers were wounded today when a military patrol was fired upon by
Arabs near Nur-Es-Shem in the Nablus district on the same day that seven Arabs
were detained near Kfar Saba for their role in the murder of three Jews on
August 21st.
1936: “Captain
Wolfgang Fuerstner, the creator of the Olympic Village and one of the last, if
not the last “non-Aryan” officer in the German Army who was being forced to
leave the service because he was classified as Jewish under the Nuremberg Laws,
who committed suicide was buried today with full military honors today.
1936: The
American consul general in Jerusalem cabled the U.S. Secretary of State to
report, “A local committee of five representative Americans (leading Zionists)
has been formed to meet the [Senate] party on arrival and has planned
propaganda visits to Jewish colonies before proceeding [to] Jerusalem… [The]
junket is designed to appeal to pro-Jewish propaganda…. The [British] Chief
Secretary of the Palestine Government takes position on grounds of safety alone
that the party cannot be permitted to tour country. With this I fully concur, particularly in
view of present recrudescence of terrorism and especially as Zionists are
sponsoring tour.”
1937: The
Jewish Agency Council successfully completed its deliberations at Zurich. After
prolonged deliberations unity had been achieved between the Zionist and
non-Zionist members. A unanimously adopted resolution stated that partition or
no partition, the Zionist work in Palestine must go on. Dr. Chaim Weitzman
stressed that the Jewish people were and would always be deeply conscious of
their debt to Great Britain, which had exerted herself to do something for the
Jewish people and created the indispensable conditions for the creation of a
Jewish National Home. The Zionist Executive resolved to ask the British
Government to discuss the implementation and broadening of the Peel Report and
to arrange for a joint Jewish-Arab conference.
1937: Lazar
Moiseyevich Kaganovich completed his first term as People’s Commissar for
Transport of the Soviet Union.
1937: The
Jewish Variety Hour will premiere at 5 p.m. on CKOC in Hamilton, Canada. Entertainment will be provided by tenor Lou
Herman, his three sisters – Fay Miriam and Goldie, tenor Max Mendel and
accordionist Sherman Ghan, “the blind musician who has mastered the violin,
piano and organ.”
1938(25th of
Av, 5698): Jonah Israelovitch, a 36 year old laborer was shot to death by Arab
snipers who fired on a bus near Tel Aviv that was carrying workers to Holon.
1938:
Firefighters in Jerusalem fought to contain a blaze in a Jewish owned
lumberyard started by Arab arsonists that threatened to spread to nearby
petroleum storage tanks owned by Standard Oil.
1938:
Authorities found the bodies of three Arabs on the Acre-Safed road with a note
pinned to the victims written in Arabic that state “So may it be done
traitors.” The dead bodies with the note attach appear to be part of a campaign
by Arab terrorists to intimidate those in their community who do not support
their aims and/or tactics.
1938: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in Brooklyn for Louis Zuckerman, the
husband of Lena Zuckerman with whom he had three children – Benjamin, Max and
Henry.
1938: As the
crisis over Czechoslovakia, moved to a climax, radical French politician George
Bonnet “had
Charles Corbin, the French Ambassador in London, press for an explicit British
commitment to come to France’s side in the event of war breaking out in Central
Europe and used the ensuing British refusal as a reason to justify France’s
lack of intervention in a German-Czechoslovak conflict” which was another step
on the road to WW II and the Shoah.
1938: Maurice
W. Monheimer, the husband of Sylvia Monheimer with whom he had two children –
William and Gladys – was interred today at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on Staten
Island.
1939: Today,
one day after terminating talks with the French and the British, “Moscow
revealed that” the German Foreign Minister would be visiting Stalin tomorrow –
a move that would lead the world down the road to World War on the first of
September.
1939(7th
of Elul, 5699): Fifty-six-year-old Russian born illusionist Horace Goldin, the
American magician “who invented the trick of cutting a woman in half with a
circular saw” passed away today in London. (Some sources show his d.o.d. as
August 21)
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/08/23/93949629.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1940: As
novelist Stefan Zweig and his wife Lotte Atlmann continued their flight from
the Nazis, they move to Petrópolis, Brazil the city in which they would commit
suicide in 1942.
1941: The
invading German Army occupied Cherkasy, a Ukrainian town whose Jewish
population traced its origins back to the 16th century, in what
would be the first step in the liquidation of most the town population of from
300 to 900 Jews.
1942(9th
of Elul, 5702): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1942: Ten
thousand Jews from Wielun, Poland, are deported to the Chelmno death camp.
1942: The
U.S.S. Blue, a destroyer that Ensign Nathan Asher had taken control of on
December 7 and guided to the safety of open waters while Ensign Milton Moldane
manned the forward machine guns in a successful effort to fight off the
attacking Zeroes, was severely damaged during fighting off Guadalcanal today.
1942: A
combination of Ukrainians, Polish Police and SS troops murdered 2,000 Jews in
the cemetery at Siedice and shipped 10,000 more off to Treblinka.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/07.asp
1942: In
Siedlce, Poland after four hundred Ukrainians had joined by the Polish police
and SS troops in surrounding the ghetto,
10,000 Jews were deported to the Treblinka death camp and 2,000 were executed
in the Jewish cemetery
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/07.asp
1942: The
Jewish community from Losice, Poland, is liquidated at the Treblinka death
camp.
1943: Maxim
Litvinov completed his service Soviet Ambassador to the United States.
1944: In
Teaneck, NJ, “a Manhattan pharmacist and a homemaker gave birth to billionaire
hedge fund manager Paul Elliott Singer, a signer of “The Giving Pledge” and
founder of the Paul E. Singer Family Foundation.
1944: “A
Manhattan pharmacist and his homemaker spouse” gave birth to hedge fund manager
and philanthropist Paul Elliott Singer, the founder and CEO of Elliot
Management Corporation who “singed the Giving Pledge which signals a commitment
by individuals to donate more than half of their wealth within their lifetime
to address society’s “most difficult moral and economic challenges.”
1944: Oskar
Schindler signed a letter at his enamelware factory in Krakow, Poland, written
on behalf of one of his employees, Adam Dziedzic, who had “received a
clearings contract for unloading and assembling war-necessary machinery and has
been sent to Sudetengau.” (As reported by Reuters)
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=323228
1945 “The
Institute of Arab-American Affairs made public” today “a letter to President
Truman protesting against the unlimited immigration of Jews into Palestine.
1945: “The
prosecution hurled charges of murder today against Vidkun Quisling in the
deaths of two outstanding Norwegian patriots–one of them his relative.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/23/113128099.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946: “The
World Jewish Congress” reported today “that the Norwegian Government would
permit 600 Jewish displaced person from the German camps to settle in Norway”
because of “a request for the admission of Jewish displaced person which was
made last February by Rabbi Mordecai Nurock, World Jewish Congress leader…”
1947: The
British Foreign office issued a cable warning “diplomats that they should be
ready to emphatically deny that the Jews from the SS Exodus were to be housed
in former concentration camps after they were offloaded in Germany and that
German guards will not be used to keep the Jews in the refugee camps.”
1947: Premiere
of “Body and Soul” directed by Robert Rossen, with a screenplay by Abraham
Polonsky and starring John Garfield.
1947: Premiere
of “The Pretender” produced and directed by W. Lee Wilder
1948:
Birthdate of Hawthorne, CA native David Lee Marks, the guitarist who was “an
early member of the Beach Boys.”
1949: It was
announced that “two state scholarships have been set aside yearly by Rutgers
University in memory of Samuel Pesin” the State Assemblyman who “was
instrumental in establishing the scholarship” which since 1937 have enable
thousands of students to attend New Jersey’s land grant college
1950:
Birthdate of Queens, NY native Steven Brill the graduate of Yale Law School,
the founder of “Court TV,” “media watchdog” and author whose first book The
Teamsters was published in 1978
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/books/review/steven-brill-tailspin.html?module=inline
1950: Two days
after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held for Aaron
Parsonnet, the Newark, NJ physician who received his M.D. degree from Loyola
University and was the husband of the former Julia Lifson at Temple B’nai
Abraham followed by “internment in Oheb Sholom Cemetery in Hillside, NJ.)
1953(11th
of Elul, 5713): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1953(11th
of Elul, 5713): Sixty-five-year-old Austrian born American architect Rudolph
Schindler whose design put him in the Modernist School passed away today.
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s230340.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/08/23/84046208.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954:
Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, opens its fortieth
annual convention today at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
1957(25th
of Av, 5717): Sixty-four-year-old Lemberg, Austria born NYU trained accountant
Jacob Alson, “the national treasurer of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith” who raised “two sons, Lawrence and Ernest Alson” with his wife Adele
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/23/84754586.pdf
1960: After
starter Don Drysdale is driven from the mound by the bats of the Giants, Larry
Sherry tames San Francisco and gets the win when the Dodgers bats come alive
for an 8 to 5 victory.
1960: At the
Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, premiere of “Beyond the Fringe” co-authored
by Jonathan Miller who also performed in this British comedy revue.
1962(22nd
of Av, 5722): Seventy-two-year-old Beatrice Joseph Kahn, the “wife Ely Jacques
Kahn and the mother of Cyrus L. Sulzberger and Mrs. Leonard Trilling, who
served as President of the New York Section of the National Council of Jewish
Woman passed away today.
1963: “The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency asked the New York Herald Tribune today to publish a
correction of assertions made in a Herald Tribune syndicated column earlier
this week, to the effect that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency had accused Senator
Barry Goldwater, Arizona Republican, of anti-Semitism.”
1964: ITV
broadcast the final episode of the British sitcom “The Larkins” starring David
Kossoff.
1965: Thirty-one-year-old
award-winning historian Robert A. Dallek, “the son of Rubin (a business-machine
dealer) and Esther (Fisher) Dallek” married “policy health analyst, Geraldine
Kronmal.”
1966:
“For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” is a song by Paul Simon and sung
by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their third studio album,
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” was recorded today.
1966: In an
interview published today, Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits described his challenge
while serving as the leader of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue as being “to make
Orthodoxy elegant and fashionable and to show that you don’t have to live on
the Lower East Side in squalor to be a strictly traditional Jew.” Jakobovits is the newly named Chief Rabbi of
the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10D16F63F5F107B93C0AB1783D85F428685F9
1966: Simon
and Garfunkel recorded “For Emily, When I May Find Her” and “”7 O’Clock
News/Silent Night”.
1967: Premiere
“The Flim-Flam Man” directed by Irvin Kershner with music by Jerry Goldsmith.
1967(16th
of Av, 5727): Sixty-seven-year-old “Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the
three “fathers” of the birth-control pill” passed away tonight.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0409.html
1967: In
Miami, Anita and David Ozersky gave birth to food blogger and author Joshua
Avram Ozersky.
1968(28th
of Av, 5728): Eighty-six-year-0ld Sarah Sacks Brukenfeld, the widow of realtor
and philanthropist Morris Brukenfeld passed away today at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
1969:
Birthdate of Jonathan Stuart Goldstein, “an American-Canadian author, humorist
and radio producer” who is “known for his work on the radio programs ‘This
American Life’ and ‘WireTap’.”
1970(20th
of Av, 5730): Parashat Eikev
1970(20th
of Av, 5730): Fifty-seven-year-old Philadelphia born Temple University graduate
Martin Levey, the chemist who earned a doctorate in the history of science from
Dropsie College and was member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
and a member of the faculty at SUNY, Albany, passed away today.
http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/awards/Dexter%20Papers/LeveyDexterBioJJB.pdf
1971(1st of
Elul, 5731): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1972:
Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization, emphasized its concern about the
plight of Soviet Jews by giving its highest award to a Soviet Jewish woman and
announcing a training program for 20 refugee Russian Jewish doctors and 10
scientists now in Israel.
1973:
Birthdate of Commack, NY native and Harvard trained attorney Craig Greenberg, “a
co-founder, president, and chief executive officer of 21c Museum Hotels” and 51st
Mayor of Louisville, KY.
1973: U.S.
President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State. Kissinger
is the first Jew to hold this post. This stands in stark contrast to the
anti-Semitic remarks that one hears uttered by Nixon on several of his taped
conversations.
1974(4th
of Elul, 5734): Sixty-six-year-old Jacob Bronowski, the Polish-Jewish British
scientist who is remembered by many for his role in the13 part television
series, “The Ascent of Man” and was the husband of Rita Bonowski passed away
today.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Bronowski.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/22/rita-bronowski-obituary
1974: Sylva
Zalmanson, one of a group refuseniks who had tried to hijack a plane in an
attempt to get to the West was released from a labor camp today after 4 years
due to failing health.
1975(19th
of Elul, 5735): Seventy-seven-year-old Frederick William Spiegel, the Chicago
born son of Lena Straus and Modie Joseph Spiegel, the“director of the
successful, huge mail-order company, Spiegel’s Home Furnishing Company and the grandson
of Joseph Spiegel, founder of a local home furnishing business” who earned the Italian
Croix de Guerra while serving as “in the American ambulance service” in WW I and
“was a Captain the U.S.A.A. during WW II” passed away today in Chicago.
1976(26th
of, 5736): Reb Avraham Yaakov, the leader of the Sadigur Chassidim passed away
today in Israel
1976: The
West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D, a novel
written by Nicholas Meyer finished an eleven week run on The New York Times
Best Seller List.
1977: The US
confirmed that Israel had used American-supplied military equipment to assist
the Christian forces fighting in Southern Lebanon but denied that such action
was a violation of any US-Israeli agreement.
1977: Egypt
was accused by a senior defense source of serious violations of the Sinai
agreement by moving forces in the Limited Forces Zone far beyond the acceptable
limits.
1977: The
Haifa Rabbinical Court ruled that artificial insemination does not constitute
adultery. A husband whose wife bore a child by artificial insemination with his
consent is responsible for the child’s upkeep.
1978(19th
of Av, 5738): Sixty-six-year-old Dr. Nathan Nata Silver, the Harrisburg, PA born
Son of Rabbi Eliezer Silver (Zilber) and Bessie (Batya) Silver (Aronowitz), the
husband of Lillian Silver with whom he had three children and the “brother of
Rabbi David Leib Silver, A.B.D. Kesher Israel Congregation; Yocheved (Yetta)
Izenstein and Fruma Pessia Gershuni” suffered a fatal heart attack today in Cincinnati, OH.
1982: Rabbi
Wall of Burlington presided at the ceremonies formally dedicating the new home
of Congregation Beth-El in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
1982: General
Ariel Sharon urged Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence.
1984(24th
of Av, 5744): Eighty-one-year-old Latvian born Marquette University School
graduate Max Raskin, the Socialist politician and Milwaukee County Circuit
Judge passed away today.
1986(17th
of Av, 5746): Two Israeli soldiers were stabbed to death today by terrorists in
Jerusalem.
1986(17th
of Av, 5746): Seventy-nine-year-old Prahta G. Sieorty, the Los Angles born
child of Adolph and Maye M. Brown Sieroty and the sibling of Julian M. Sieroty
passed away today in Los Angeles after which she was interred at the Home of
Peace Memorial Park.
1987: ”From
Marees to Picasso: Masterworks From the Von der Heydt Museum of Wuppertal,” a
new selection of Israeli art, on display at the Tel Aviv Museum is scheduled to
come to any.
1989(21st
of Av, 5749): Seventy-five-year-old Ferdinand M. Aufsesser passed away today.
1990(1st of
Elul, 5750): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1991: The NYPD
changed their tactics in dealing with the violence in Crown Heights. Initially,
the Department had practiced a strategy of containment in response to mounting violence
in the streets, directing its officers only to stop the spread of disorder, but
not to try to dispel it. At the same time some community leaders engaged in
“blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric” including Reverend Al Sharpton who said,
“The world will tell us that he (Cato) was killed by accident. Yes, it was
a social accident? It’s an accident to allow an apartheid ambulance service in
the middle of Crown Heights.”
1993:
Belgian middle distance runner Nathan placed 10th in 800 metres at
the 1993 World Championships which ended today at Stattgart.
1993: The
Independent published “Why the BBC ignored the Holocaust: Anti-Semitism in the
top ranks of broadcasting and Foreign Office staff led to the news being
suppressed” by Stephen Ward.
1994: The
third in a series of family tours to Israel sponsored by the American Jewish
Congress is scheduled to come to an end.
1996: Mary
Wilson, the African-American singer “who was a member of the Supremes” is
scheduled to take over the role of Marlena Weiss-Grossman, an abrasive and
judgmental Jewish aunt, in the play “Grandmas Sylvia’s Funeral” because
director Glenn Wein doesn’t think that an actress needs to be white or Jewish
to play this role.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/12/nyregion/chronicle-793396.html?searchResultPosition=2
1997: Premiere
of action comedy “Money Talks” directed by Brett Ratner with a script by Joel
Cohen and Alec Sokolow
1997: “Event
Horizon,” a sci-fi film previously released in the United States produced by
Lloyd Levin, co-starring Jason Isaacs and with music by Michael Kamen was
released today in the United Kingdom.
1998(30th of
Av, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1998: On
cemetery ridge overlooking Dawson City in Canada’s far northwest Yukon
Territories, “Beth Chaim,” the resting place of some five Jews, was
today. Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray, who is Jewish, was the keynote
speaker and guests from Vancouver to Toronto joined locals to commemorate the
Yukon-led cleanup of this old, nearly forgotten testament to the wandering Jews
of a century ago.
1999: The New York Times book section featured
a review of Foreign Brides by Elena Lappin, editor London’s “Jewish
Quarterly” Actual Air Poems by David Berman, Three Dollars by
Australian Jewish author Elliot Perlman and Identity’s Architect: A
Biography of Erik H. Erikson by Lawrence J. Friedman whose grandfather, “an
Orthodox Jew and a Talmudic scholar, who would always be at the kitchen table
going through books, the Old Testament, everything else, and insisting that I
would study with him, that I would be clear, be logical, be precise, and I
could sometimes win some arguments against my folks by doing that.”
2000: Funeral
services are scheduled to held today at Temple Israel in New Rochelle for 48
year old Warren Goldstein, the husband of Janet Goldstein and father of Peter
and Laura Goldstein who passed away yesterday.
2000: It was
reported today that over the weekend Prime Minister Ehud Barak told his
supporters during the weekend that he planned to push a ”civil reform”
through Parliament that, among other things, would strip the Jewish religious
establishment of many privileges and powers.” (As reported by John Burns)
2001(3rd
of Elul, 5761): Ninety-two-year-old Jeanette Felsen Fishman, the widow of
Bernard “Ben” Fishman and daughter-in-law of Abraham and Sarah Eckstein Fishman
passed away today after which she was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce
City, CO.
2002: After
spending his rookie year as the third-string quarterback for the Washington
Redskins, Sage Rosenfels “was acquired by the Miami Dolphins today in exchanged
for a 2003 seventh round draft pick.
2003:
Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, was suspended for his refusal to obey a
federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of
his courthouse. This is one of a series of attempts to undermine the doctrine
of the separation of church and state which is cornerstone of American
democracy and one of the reasons that Jews have thrived in the United States.
2004: The Sunday New York
Times
book section includes a review of A Man’s Guide to a Civilized Divorce: How
to Divorce With Grace, a Little Class, and a Lot of Common Sense
by Jewish attorney Sam Margulies and Jerome Robbins: His Life, His
Theater, His Dance by Deborah Jowitt, “ grand survey of the great and
deservedly popular choreographer of ballet and Broadway, as well as a personal
examination of a radically unhappy man; at 57 he could call himself ‘’a Jewish
ex-commie fag who had to go into a mental hospital.’”
2004: After
three seasons, final broadcast of “Da Ali G Show, a British-American satirical
television series created by and starring English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.”
2005(17th of
Av, 5765): Ninety-one-year Dr. Morris Ziff, an expert in rheumatic diseases
passed away today in Dallas. (As reported by Jeremy Pearce)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/30ziff.html?pagewanted=print
2005: Red Sea
Jazz Festival Opens.
2005: It was
announced that gaming giant Square Enix would purchase 247,900 Taito shares
worth ¥45.16 billion (US$409.1 million), to make Taito Corporation which was
founded in 1953 by Russian Jewish businessman Michael Kogan, a subsidiary of
Square Enix
2005:
“Netzarim was evacuated by the Israeli military today officially marking the
end of the 38-year-long presence of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip, though
the official handover was planned for several weeks later.”
2005: Israeli
newspapers reported that all but one settlement in Gaza had been evacuated. The
evacuation has gone faster than the government had planned and bulldozers have
already begun leveling the buildings left behind.
2006: Bernard
Lewis speculated that today, the day on which the Iranian President said he
would “respond to U.S. demands regarding that country’s development of nuclear
power” might be a day for an Iranian attack on Israel because August 22, 2006
“corresponded to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427, the day
Muslims commemorate the night flight of Muhammad from Jerusalem to heaven and
back.”
2006: Shawn
Green was dealt, along with $6.5 million in cash, by the Arizona Diamondbacks
to the New York Mets for Triple-A 23-year-old left-handed pitcher, Evan
MacLane. Green is Jewish; MacLane is not.
2006: Israel’s
police raid the home of their State President and seize computers and documents
in connection with rape and abuse allegations against him.
2007(8th
of Elul, 5767): Eighty-four-year-old author and social activist Grace Paley
passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/books/23cnd-paley.html?pagewanted=print
2007: The Palestine Monitor a blatantly
pro-Palestinian publication openly rebukes American Presidential candidate Rudi
Giuliani for his statement that ‘Palestinian statehood will have to be earned
through sustained good governance, a clear commitment to fighting terrorism,
and a willingness to live in peace with Israel.’
2008: The Saul
Steinberg: Illuminations travelling exhibition, which displays original
Steinberg works at various museum and galleries around the world is scheduled
to open in Zurich.
2008: At the
Jerusalem Cinematheque a screening of “The Summer of Aviya \ הקיץ של.”
2008: The Cedar Rapids
Gazette
reported that Iowa State labor officials are citing meatpacking plant
Agriprocessors with 31 new and repeat safety violations
2008: An
article in the Chicago
Jewish News
describes the relationship between the Obama family and Rabbi Capers Funnye.
According to the New York Times, “Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic
presidential nominee, and Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader of a mostly
black synagogue on Chicago’s South Side, are first cousins once removed.
Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and Michelle
Obama’s paternal grandfather, Frasier Robinson Jr., were brother and sister.
Funnye (pronounced fuh-NAY) is chief rabbi at the Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken
Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in southwest Chicago. He is well-known in Jewish
circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and the much smaller,
and largely separate, world of black Jewish congregations, sometimes known as
black Hebrews or Israelites. He has often urged the larger Jewish community to
be more accepting of Jews who are not white.”
2009: Today
“it was reported that Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle would be paid only $1 for his base salary for
the fiscal year of 2010, down from the $1,000,000 he was paid in fiscal 2009.”
2009: In
Jerusalem, The Acco Theater’s Dance Incubator presents
“Neuronervana”, a unique and creative dance performance.
2009: As we
sit in the synagogue and hear the opening lines of “Shoftim,” friends and
family of Shelly Luber, of blessed memory, are reminded that this was his Bar
Mitzvah portion a quarter of a century ago.
2009: Hurling
rocks and chanting slogans, hundreds of haredi protesters took part in
demonstrations on Saturday evening against the opening of a parking lot
opposite the Old City, in what has become a weekly confrontation over Shabbat
observance in the capital.
2010: In
Quebec, KlezKanada is scheduled to come to a close.
2010: An
exhibit featuring 150 photographs of Willy Ronis is scheduled to come to a
close at the Musée de la Monnaie in Paris.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The
Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan
Schneer
2010: A
demonstration is scheduled to take place today outside of the BBC headquarters
to protest “Death in the Med,” a documentary that examined the ill-fated
confrontation between the Israelis and blockade-breaking flotilla headed for
Gaza.
2011: The New
York City International Film Festival is scheduled to show נגטיב (Negative)
directed by Yoav Hornung and בן חוזר הביתה (Ben is Back).
2011: After a
meeting that concluded at 3 o’clock this morning Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers concluded that Israel will not respond to
the attacks from Gaza with a large-scale operation.
2011:
Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel resumed yesterday
evening and continued into the early hours of this morning after a lull during
the afternoon. In the morning, more than 20 rockets were fired at southern
cities. Three Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip after midnight landed in
Sderot, the Eshkol Regional Council area and on the outskirts of Ashkelon. No
injuries or damage were reported in the attacks.
2011(22nd
of Av, 5771): Eighty-eight-year-old Casey Ribicoff, the widow of the late
Senator Abraham Ribicoff passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2011(22nd
of Av, 5771): Seventy-eight-year-old Jerry Leiber who wrote so many rock and
roll hits of the fifties and sixties passed away. (As reported by William
Grimes)
2011(22nd
of Av, 5771): Seventy-four-year-old Holocaust researcher Harry W. Mazal passed
away today.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/He-created-widely-used-library-in-S-A-2136383.php
http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-intrigue-and-theft-cu-boulder-gains-huge-holocaust-collection/
2011(22nd
of Av, 5771): Eighty-five-year Samuel
Menashe the Greenwich Village poet who won the first Neglected Masters Award in
2004, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/samuel-menashe-new-york-poet-dies-at-85.html?pagewanted=print
2012:
Algerian pianist Maurice El Médioni – King of Rai and a legendary figure on the
world music scene – is scheduled to host
the Dialna Quintet for an evening of Jewish-Arab-Andalusian soul music with
Boogie-Woogie, Rhumba and Flamenco rhythms at the Hazan Hall as part of the Oud
Festival.
2012:
“Vasermil” a film that tells the story of three Israeli teenagers
from separate marginalized communities, who pin their hopes on soccer as a way
out” is scheduled to be shown at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC
2012:
Anyone who tries to harm Israel will taste “the deadly strength of the IDF,”
Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz warned today
2012:
Heiress, businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison placed 64th on Forbes’
2012 list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, which was released today.
Forbes’ list includes politicians, businesswomen, journalists, writers and
celebrities. Arison, who was raised in Israel and the United States, was #57 in
last year’s rankings.
2013:
An exhibit, “The White Rose” which tells the story of a group of legitimate
anti-Nazi German, which is being hosted by UNLV’s Lied Library is scheduled to
come to a close today.
2013:
The Macabeats are scheduled to begin a concert tour in Venice, Italy.
2013:
“Fill the Void” is scheduled to open the
Cape Ann Community Cinema in Gloucester, MA
2013:
An extreme right-wing activist imprisoned for illegal political activity sent
threatening letters to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, police said this
morning. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
2013:
Four rockets fired from southern Lebanon targeted northern Israel this
afternoon, setting off air raid sirens in Acre, Nahariya, and additional areas
in the Western Galilee and sending frightened local residents fleeing for
cover.(As reported by Yaakov Lappin)
2014: At Agudas
Achim in Coralville, Iowa, Meirav Isaaca Flatte is scheduled to help lead
Friday night services as part of her “Bat Mitzvah Weekend.”
2014: Three people were injured today when a rocket fired
from Gaza struck a synagogue in Ashdod “causing significant damage to the
building.
2014: “A Jewish school in Copenhagen had its windows
smashed and anti-Jewish graffiti referring to the conflict in Gaza
spray-painted on its walls, the school said today.”
2014(26th
of Av, 5774): This afternoon four year old Daniel Tregerman, the son of Gila
and Doron Tregerman was murdered by Hamas terrorists when “a mortar fired from
Gaza struck his kibbutz in the Sha’ar Ha Negev Council.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4562301,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4562008,00.html
2014(26th of Av, 5774): Seventy-seven-year-old
Jan Karako who “established Oren Bayan, one of the most famous textile brands
in Turkey and his 69 year old wife Georgia were murdered in their apartment in
Istanbul today. (Times of Israel)
2015: In Alexandria, VA, as part of “Get to Know us
Weekend” Temple Beth El is scheduled to host “Tot Shabbat.”
2015: “Mistress America” a comedy written and directed by
Noah Baumbach, which ha premiered at the Sundance Festival was released in the
United States today.
2015: Isaac DaBoom is scheduled to perform at Bar Kaymar
2015: “Into the Wild,” a “day Shmita Expedition” is
scheduled to come to an end.
2016: “Hill Start” is scheduled to be shown at the
Jerusalem Film Festival hosted by the Hampton Synagogue
2016: On the anniversary of her birth publication of “25
of Dorothy Parker’s Best Quotes” by Stacy Conrdat.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52358/25-dorothy-parkers-best-quotes
2016: “The iconic, charismatic Morrissey, originally of
Manchester indie band The Smiths, now a solo artist” is scheduled to perform
“in Tel Aviv’s Heichal HaTrburt.” (As report by Jessica Steinberg)
2017(30th of Av, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Elul; for
more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2017: Hebrew Hawkeye Time – At the University of Iowa,
Hillel is scheduled to host a welcome dinner for incoming freshmen and
freshwomen
2017: The offices of the Jewish Family Services of
Washtenaw County in Ann Arbor, Michigan, were evacuated today after a bomb
threat was called in by “an unidentified male voice.”
2017: Jamaican singer and rapper is scheduled to return to
Tel Aviv with a performance “at the Live Park in Rishon LeZion on the outskirts
of Tel Aviv.
2018: A “Gaga/People Dance Class” based on “Gaga, the
movement research developed by renowned choreographer and Artistic Director of
Batsheva Dance Company, Ohad Naharin” is scheduled to place at Central Park in
Manhattan.
2018(11th of Elul, 5778): Ninety-two-year
economist Martin Shubki, the son of Jewish immigrant Joseph and Sara
(Soloveychik) Shubik and the brother of cancer researcher Philippe Shubik and
BBC producer Irene Shubik passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/obituaries/martin-shubik-dead.html
2018: Israelis contemplated a mixed bag of news from India
which included reports of “six intoxicated men attempting to break into the
room of four Israeli female backers in northern India” and the delivery of
humanitarian aid by “Israeli Consul in Bangalore Dana Koresh and consulate
staff” to the “victims of the monsoon floods in the India state of Kerala.
2018: It was reported today that lawyer Michael Cohen,
Donald Trump’s self-declared “fixer” had already “reached a deal with federal
prosecutors in New York to plead guilty to campaign finance violations, bank
fraud and tax evasion”
2019: “The Cleveland Jewish News and Ganley Subaru of
Bedford” are scheduled to “present 12 Under 36: Members of the Tribe,
recognizing young Jewish leaders who are influencing the future of Northeast
Ohio through their professional and personal achievements” today “at The Venue
at Stonewater.”
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of
“Untouchable an important if painful account of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged
crimes, and the culture of silence that allowed them to happen” followed by a
Q&A.
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the
two final screenings of “JT LeRoy.”
2019: In New Orleans the Jewish Federation is
scheduled to host “JNOLA Chai Society Event.
2019: In
North Carolina, the Wilmington Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a
screening of “Love in Suspenders.”
2020(2nd of Elul, 5780): Parashat
Shoftim
2020: “11-Year-Old Scores Viral Rap Hit but
Trips on Gaza Politics” published today tells the story of “Abdel Rahman
al-Shantti, a Palestinian rap star” who faced an avalanche of anger “when he
advocated ‘love between” Palestinian “and Israel.”
2021: The Birthright Israel – Sephardic Israel
Trip for this Summer is scheduled to begin today.
2021: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host a tour of their Holocaust Gallery, “Absence of Humanity.”
2021: The headstone unveiling for Gary
Goldstein is scheduled to take place today at 4:30 pm at Eben Israel Cemetery
in Cedar Rapids, IA.
2021: Following yesterday’s attacks by Hamas
supporters at the border between Gaza and Israel, a police officer who was shot
by person or persons unknown in Gaza is being treated for a severe head injury
at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. (As reported by YNET and Reuters)
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is
scheduled to host a tour of its “newest special exhibition – Shanghai: Safe
Haven During the Holocaust.”
2021: The Museum at Eldridge is scheduled to
host a “Lower East Walking Tour” which a season guide will help participants
experience the neighborhood of a hundred years ago.
2021: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Rachel to the Rescue by Elinor Lipman, All The Frequent
Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the
German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner and Samuelson
Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market by Nicholas Wapshott.
2022: The Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv vs Hapoel Nof
HagGalil soccer match is scheduled to take place today.
2023: The Hunt by Faye Kellerman
featuring the husband-and-wife Jewish duo of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus is
scheduled to be released today.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/faye-kellerman/the-hunt-kellerman/
2022: Ligat HaAl, Sektzia Nes
Tziona vs Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona is scheduled to take place at Ness Ziona
Stadium.
2023: The Reading Room and Exhibition of the
Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to be closed today due to
pre-planned.“maintenance works.”
2023: Case Western Reserve University is
scheduled to host a lecture by Dr. Ezra Blaustein on “Muhammad and the Jews,”
which “will provide an overview of the ways in which Muhammad and the early
Muslim community related to Judaism in general and the Jews of Arabia in
particular” through Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program.
2023: This year’s literary festival at the Agnon
House which starts today will feature lectures by Haim Be’er, Bilha Ben-Eliyahu
and Dina Berdichevsky.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled present a
lecture by Trudy Gold on “The Comic Genius of Zero Mostel.”
2023: Israel is working “round the clock” to catch
the terrorists responsible for yesterdays’ deadly attack near Hebron which is
part of spike in such attacks that government says is financed by Iran.
2024: In New Orleans, JNetwork and its partners are
scheduled to host a networking evening “in the iconic segment of the Eiffel
Tower on St. Charles.”
2024: Tifereth Israel and its Men’s Club are
scheduled to host a visit to Huntington Park for a Columbus Clippers baseball
game.
2024: The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to
present a screening of “When We
Went Mad! presents the (unauthorized) history of America’s
oldest and most influential humor magazine.”
2024: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judea is
scheduled to host “a Music Sharing” with Cantor Abbie Strauss.
2024: The Documentary Film Festival at the National Library
of Israel is scheduled to host screenings of “Hostages” and “We Will Dance
Again.”
2024:
As August 22nd 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 321 in captivity.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we
are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
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