This Day, September 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September
7
70: On the secular calendar the date on which a
Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.
1191: The Crusader army led by King Richard the
Lionhearted defeated the army of Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf, north of Jaffa.
The victory proved to be a tactical one, since Richard was not able to wrest
control of Jerusalem from Saladin. From
a Jewish point of view this was a definite plus since the Crusaders had
butchered the Jews of Jerusalem while Saladin had permitted them to return to
the City of David.
1307(10th of
Tishrei, 5068): Alexander Susskind
passed away. Susskind gave his whole
fortune as ransom for the body of Rabbi Meir of Rottenberg. Rabbi Meir ben
Baruch of Rothenburg was a Tosaphist (codifier and commentator on the Talmud),
as well as a liturgical poet. He was imprisoned in the town of Ensisheim, which
was located in Alsace in 1286. When he
died in 1293, the authorities refused to release the body. Fourteen years later the authorities
succumbed to their greed and allowed Susskind to buy it back. The remains were given a proper burial at the
town of Worms.
1312:
King Ferdinand IV of Castile passed away. During his reign the monarch employed a Jew
named Samuel as his treasurer. Ferdinand
followed his advice in political as well as financial matters. This earned him the enmity of the dowager
Queen, Maria de Molina who had ruled before Ferdinand reached his
majority. She, or her sympathizers, may
have been responsible for the near fatal beating suffered by Samuel
1533: Birthdate of Queen Elizabeth I. There were no practicing Jews living in
England during her reign but that did not keep anti-Semitism from being a part
of the Elizabethan cultural environment as can be seen from Shakespeare’s
merchants of Venice. There was a handful
of secret Jews and/or Marranos living in England during her reign. One of them
was Dr. Hector Nunes who provided valuable intelligence to English leaders on the
movement of the Spanish Armada. On the
other hand Dr. Roderigo Lopez who had served as the Queen’s physician, ended up
being executed at Tyburn for his part (real or imagined) in a plot to poison
the queen. The fate of Lopez was the
“led to new productions of The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe.
1628: Opening day of the Battle in the Bay of
Matanzas, a naval battle during the Eighty Year’s War fought off the coast of
Cuba in which the Dutch captured the Spanish treasure fleet. Moses Cohen Henrqiues, a Sephardic Dutch
pirate helped Piet Pieterszoon, the Dutch commander win the victory
1654: A group of 23 Jews from Recife, Brazil
arrived in New Amsterdam, 1654. They became the pioneers of the American Jewish
community. They arrived on a French
frigate called the St. Catherine. Their
unofficial leader was Asser Levy.
Governor Peter Stuyvesant did want the Jews to remain. Eventually they were allowed to stay with the
stipulations that “The poor among them shall not become a burden to the
community, but be supported by their own nation.” This statement would find fulfillment in a
variety of Jewish immigrant aid societies and other such philanthropic
endeavors.
1654: A petition by Jacques de la Motthe, the
French master of the ship St. Charles requested payment for Jews and their
freight which he brought to New Amsterdam from Cape St. Anthony. He said there
were “23 souls, big and little, who must pay equally.” After a week
passed, the Jews belongings were put up for auction, and it was said many
Christians bought the Jews belongings, only to give them back to the Jews.
1701: Today, during the War of the Spanish
Succession, Austrian Emperor Leopold I, who relied on “court Jew” Samson
Wertheimer and “Samuel Oppenheimer to procure the money necessary for”
equipping and supplying the imperial army, along with the Dutch Republic and
Britain “signed the Treaty of Hague” which renewed the Grand Alliance of 1689.
1710:A new decree was issued today for the Jews
of Hamburg, Germany.
https://keydocuments.net/source/jgo:source-29
1764: Birthdate of Revolutionary war veteran
and Mason Jacob de Leon, the son of Abraham de Leon who lived in Georgia, New
York and Charleston who married Hannah Hendriks in 1789.
1774(2nd of Tishrei, 5535) Second
Day of Rosh Hashana
1774(2nd of Tishrei, 5535: Isaac
Adolphus, the Bonn, Germany born son of Ephraim Reine Adolphus who was the
husband of Charity Hays and the uncle and business partner of Benjamin Etting
passed away today in New York
1787: Jonas Phillips, a member of a prominent
Philadelphia Jewish family sent a petition to the delegates of what became
known as the Constitutional Convention (the[ML1] body that wrote the
U.S. Constitution) asking that they not adopt a religious test for Federal
office holders.
1793(1st of Tishrei, 5554): Rosh
Hashanah and Shabbat
1804(2nd of Tishrei, 5565): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1812(1st of Tishrei, 5573): Jews on
both sides of the Atlantic were joined together by the observance of Rosh
Hashanah but American and English Jews were separated by the conflict known as
The War of 1812.
1814: Birthdate of German Jewish novelist
Ludwig Kalisch.
1822: Brazil declared its independence from
Portugal. Brazil’s declaration of
independence triggered an influx of Jewish settlers primarily from Morocco who
“set up a synagogue in Belem (northern Brazil) called Porta do Ceu (Gate of
Heaven) in 1824 and later one in Manaus (on the Amazon River).”
1823(2nd of Tishrei, 5584): Second
Day of Rosh Hashana
1826: In London, the Western or Westminster Synagogue
which had been championed by Myer Solomon “was consecrated” today.
SOLOMON, MYER – JewishEncyclopedia.com
1827: The Russian government decreed that the
draft of Jewish boys would begin at the age of 12. This was part of the Russian
government’s plan to deal with the Jewish problem. This early draft was intended to separate the
youngsters from their homes and families and force them to eventually adopt the
Christian religion.
1831(29th of
Elul, 5591): Erev Rosh Hashana
1835: Two days after he had passed away, Henry
Harris was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1836: In Gnesen, Prussia, Frintze and Julius
Peyser gave birth to Philip Peyser the husband of Natalie Ann Kiliñski both of
whom would be buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
1837: Birthdate of chess master Samuel
Rosenthal.
1842:In Sulzburg, Germany, Isaak ad Beile
Paulin Kahan gave birth to Rabbi Leo Lippman Elieser Kahn, the husband of Sarah
Kahn and the father of of Jenny Löwenthal; Leah Bamberger; Rosa Wyler; Klara
Nussbaum; Brendine Kahn; Mathilde Kahn and Isaak Kahn.”
1845: St. Louis, Missouri,
became the site of the first synagogue to be built in the Mississippi Valley.
For more information about the history of the Jewish community in St. Louis,
consult the two-volume Zion in the Valley by Walter Ehrlich is Professor
Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
1847: Dutch native Hannah Van Gelder and Philip
Marcus Leuw gave birth to Marcus Leuw.
1847: In Germany, Emanuel and Hannah Kramer
Wassan gave birth to Carolina Wassman Laski, the wife of New York City merchant
Marks Laski whom she married in 1874 and the mother of Leon and Caroline Laski
1848(9th of Elul, 5608): Forty-one-year-old
Abraham Kohn, the leading Reform Rabbi in Lemberg died today after having been
poisoned yesterday Abraham Ber Pilpel who had been hired by traditionalist
offended by impact that Reform was having on their concept of Judaism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=YGWkaoee5yEC
1849: In South Carolina, Max E. Cohen and
Armida Harby Cohen gave birth author Leah Cohen Harby, the granddaughter of
southern Jewish leader and author Isaac Harby and the sister of writer Caroline
Cohen Joachimsen.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/harby-leah-cohen
1850(1st of Tishrei, 5611): As Jews
celebrate Rosh Hashanah, Americans breathe a sigh of relief with the passage
this month of the legislation known as the Compromise of 1850 which avoided the
outbreak of Civil War. Unfortunately,
the compromise did not hold and ten years later, America would cross the abyss.
1851: In the Netherlands, Simon van den Bergh
and Elisabeth van der Wielen gave birth to future resident of France, Henry van
den Berg, the husband of Henriette Charlotte van den Bergh and
Father of Colonel Donald Stanley van den Bergh,
JP; Captain Seymour Jacob Henry van den Bergh; and Lieutenant Robert James
Henry van den Bergh.
1851: Dinah Levy and Benjamin Woolf Phillips
gave birth to Samuel Phillips.
1854(14th of Elul, 5614): Seventy-two year old
Moses Elias Levy, a native of Mogador, Morocco and “the son of a local courtier
and factor to the Sultan named Eliahu ha-Levi ibn Yuli who “founded a short
lived Jewish refugee colony in Micanopy, Florida, a state his son David Levy
Yulee represented in the United States and who finally settled in England where
he worked to gain support for improving the conditions of Russian Jews, passed
away today.
http://www.jewish-american-society-for-historic-preservation.org/images/Moses_Elias_Levy-5b.pdf
1855: In Rotterdam, Benjamin Moses Verveer, the
Antwerp born son of Mozes Abraham Verveer and Saartje Isaac van der Velden and
his wife Clara de Bok gave birth to a stillborn son.
1856: In “Kalwaryea, Russia Simon and Celia
(Epstein) Simons gave birth to realtor David Simons who came Detroit in 1870
where he worked in the junk business and operated a paper factor before he
began selling real estate, building houses and constructing factories under the
name of Simons Realty while serving as the treasurer of “Shaaryzedeck
Synagogue” and being the husband of the former Laura S. Broudy.
1859: Tuik Davis married Esther Emanuel at the
Great Synagogue today.
1860: Giuseppe Garibaldi captured Naples today
and set up a provisional government. Because of the family’s close political
connections with Austria and France, this put Adolf von Rothschild in a
delicate position. He chose to take temporary sanctuary in Gaeta with the
Bourbon king Francis II of the Two Sicilies but the Rothschild houses in
London, Paris, and Vienna were not prepared to financially support the deposed
king. With the ensuing unification of Italy, and the mounting tension between
Adolf and the rest of the family, after forty-two years in business the Naples
house closed in 1863.
1861(3rd of Tishrei, 5622): Shabbat
Shuva
1861: Twenty-nine-year-old German native
Abraham Hart enlisted today in the “73rd Pennsylvania Infantry,
Company at Philadelphia for three years” and was commissioned as a 1st
Lieutenant
1862: In New York Gustavus Speyer and Sophia
Speyer (née Rubino) gave birth to Sir Edgar Speyer the American born financier
and philanthropist who became a British subject whose loyalty to his adopted
home led him to be created a baronet.
1862: Today “Florian Moss, a son of Joseph L.
Moss of Philadelphia was appointed Captain’s Clerk on the United States Ship
‘Vermont’ which was attached to the South Blockading Squadron.”
1863: During the Civil War, Alfred Mordecai,
Jr. was promoted from Captain to Major in the Union Army. He would eventually become a Brigadier
General.
1864: In Rotterdam, “Jet Monasch” and “Eleazar
Van Biene” gave birth to Rebecca Van Biene, the wife of Salomon Linneweil and
the mother of Henriette Linneweil.”
1864: Corporal Joel J. Hertzog completed his three-year
enlistment with Union Army which included serving with Company M of the 28th
Regimen and Company D of the 147th Regiment.
1866: Birthdate of Paul Bernard who gained fame
as French man of letters and attorney Tristan Bernard and whose celebrity
finally earned his release from Drancy during WW II.
1867: The North Chicago Hebrew Congregation
which has been led by Rabbis Norden and Hirschberg and whose members have
including A.J. Franks and E.C. Hamburgher was founded today.
1868: In New York City, Simon Wormser and
Leonora Wormser gave birth to banker Isidor Wormser, the father of Edith L.
Wormser
1869(2nd of Tishrei, 5630): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah observed as the first passengers to arrive at the western
terminus of the newly completed transcontinental railroad spent their first
full day in San Francisco.
1871: One day after he had passed away, 16-year-old
Frank Phillip Eskell, “the son of Albert and Sarah Eskell” was buried today at
the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1871: The German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
conferred a barony on Julius Reuter, the German-born English pioneer of the
newswire service which is known as Reuters.
This meant that Israel Beer Josafat, the son of a rabbi who had become a
Lutheran would now be known as Baron de Reuter.
1871: “The Bed of the Tiber” published today
described various attempts to retrieve relics from the Roman river and/or to
divert it in attempts to clean its fetid waters. According to Addison’s His
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy in 1701, the Jews had approached the Holy See
with a proposal that they would clean the bed of the stream in exchanged for
the right to keep whatever they might find among the debris.
1872: Birthdate of Samuel S. Koenig the
Hungarian born American attorney and leader of the New York Republican Party.
1873: In Lithuania, Russia born Denver Rabbi
Elias Hilikowitz and his wife Riva Rebeca Hilikowitz gave birth to Philip Hillkowitz
1874: In Navasota, TX, Simon and Henrietta (Hyman) Levy gave
birth to Gustave Abe Levy, the husband of Nellie Stuart whom he married he
married in 1902 and who was the secretary and treasurer of the S.A. Rider
Jewelry company in St. Louis.
1877(29th of Elul, 5637): Erev of
Rosh Hashanah,
1877: Rebecca (Hart) Hallenstein, the wife of
Edward Ruben Hallenstein whom she married in Australia and with whom she had
eight children, was buried today at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery on
Beaconsfield Road
1877: Two days after she had passed and only
three days before her 30th birthday, Helene (Samuel) Flack, the
daughter of Lambert Samuel and Leopoldine Friedberger, and the wife of Ernest
Flack, with whom she had five children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemtery.
1877: “The Jewish New Year” published today
reported that “this evening the Israelites throughout the world will commence
the celebration of Rosh Hashanah or the New Year.” After describing the differences in the observance
of those “who still adhere to the Rabbinical ritual” and those “who have
enlisted under the banner of reform” the article points out that “the
celebration of the festival is considered as a preparation for the solemn fast
of Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement.”
1879: Rabbi Isaac Noot officiated at this
afternoon’s dedication service for the new synagoguehousing B’Nai Israel. Located on 4th street, the
building is a simple edifice lacking the expected Moorish columns and stained-glass
windows. The congregation’s leaders include its President, Meyer Rosenthal and
its Vice President, Lewis I. Schilt.
1879: The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
facility was officially opened to the public today in New York City. The society is committed to provide for the
needs of destitute and vagrant Jewish children.
Currently the society is provided shelter, food and education for 33
children ranging in age from 1 to 10 years.
1879: Rabbi E. M. Myers officiated at the
rededication of Baith Israel which had reconfigured its pews to allow for mixed
seating.
1880: It was reported today that “George
Solomon, a Jewish writer” has published a new work – The Jews of History and
the Jesus of Tradition Identified.
1881: Henry Lezinskey, a Jewish wholesale
liquor dealer from New York was arrested in Long Branch, NJ on charges of
stealing $775 from John J. Wheeler, the owner of the Germania Hotel.
1881: In Manhattan, Leonard and Rosalie Jacob Lewisohn
gave birth to Frederick Lewisohn, the husband of Rhoda Seligman Prudhomme whom
he married in 1907.
1882: Abraham Erlanger, the Germa born on of Simon (Schimele) Erlanger and
Rosine Reele Erlanger and his wife Bertha Bela Erlanger gave birth to Gali
Rivka Ascher, “wife of Maurice Halevi Ascher and mother of David Ascher; Simon
Ascher; Caroline Kreindel Munk; Mosi (Moshe) Ascher and Eva Spitzer.”
1883: In Podelov, Romania Rose Cohen and Meusha
Chaim Bauch gave birth to Solomon Stan Bauch who in 1900 came to the United
States where he earned a medical degree at Long Island College Hospital and
developed a specialty in treating tuberculosis.
1883: The
Indianapolis News reported that “a tag on a pair of boots in front” of a
store “on South Illinois Street” owned by a Jewish merchant reads “$1.25, not
each.” The reason for the strange
wording is that a competitor advertises boots at a $1.25 and then charges the
customer $2.50 because each boot costs $1.25.
1884: “To Fight the Machine” published today
described the battle for the First Congressional District in New Orleans
between the regular Democratic organization and the self-style “reform
Democrats” who are backing Carleton Hunt against General Adolph Mayer, “a
millionaire Jew with an ace for social distinction.
1884: Four days after he had passed away,
Michael Heymanson, the husband of the former Adelaide Jewell was buried today
at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1885: Three days after he had passed away,
Amsterdam native Sadok Schneiders was buried today at the Balls Pond Road
Jewish Cemetery.
1888(2nd of Tishrei, 5649): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1888(2nd of Tishrei, 5649):
Fifty-one-year-old Isaac Lowenburg, the German born son of Fanny and Samuel Lowenburg,
and husband of Ophelia Lowenburg and Fanny Lowenburg passed away today in
Natchez, Mississippi after which he was buried in the Jewish Plot of Natchez
City Cemetery.
1888: “The Beaches at Rockaway” described
economic and social conditions at various New York beaches during the just
ended summer season. Among other things, the clientele at the Far Rockaway
Beach has shifted from being “a fashionable resort” that attracted notables
like Horace Greely, to being so heavily visited by those of Irish origins that
it was called the “Irish Long Branch.” However,
during the past three years there has been such a growth in the number of
Jewish families that fewer and fewer old time families from Troy and Albany
have been coming to the beach.
1889:
In Frankfurt am Main Isa and Karl Flesh gave birth to Max Flesch-Thebesius
1890:
As of today, it is estimated that the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society will
need $74, 850 from the City of New York in 1891.
1890:
Today, in the United Kingdom, the Chief Rabbi consecrated the Hammersmith
Synagogue which needed to be enlarged in 1896 at which time “Rev. Michael
Adler” served as Minister and Secretary.
1890:
Birthdate of New York native and Yale University drop out Manuel Komroff who
traded in a career in engineering for that of a writer which included producing
45 novels including historical ones “on such subjects as Waterloo, life in the
Middle Ages, and on such personalities as Marco Polo, Caesar, Abraham Lincoln,
Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Talleyrand, Charlemagne and Marie Antoinette.”
https://www.amazon.com/Manuel-Komroff/e/B001HD0XD8%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
1890:
“New Publications” published today provided a review of Recha by
Dorothea Gerard.
1891: It was reported today that at least one
Jew has been arrested in Odessa on charges of having helped hundreds of wealthy
Jewish youths evade the draft by injecting them with a combination of petroleum
and cotton oil that gives them the appearance of “a serious skin infection.”
1891: Gittel and Shmul Yakov Weinberg gave
birth to Baltimore clothing manufacturer Harry E. Weinberg the husband of the
former Kate Markowitz and father of Selma Ruth (Weinberg) Richmon.
1891(4th of Elul, 5651): Heinrich
Graetz, one of the intellectual giants of the 19th century and the
author of multi-volume History of the Jews a seminal work in more ways
than one, passed away. (This blog cannot
do justice to his accomplishments and impact)
1892: In Brooklyn, Dr. A.W. Shepard completed
his examination of the corpse of Lazarus Aizenstat and determined that he had
been strangled by more than one attacker since three coils of rope were used.
Police believe that the Jewish immigrant from Odessa was killed by his roommate
a man known variously as Isaacs or Solomon in an attempt to rob him 35,000
rubles alleged to have been in his possession.
1892(15th of Elul, 5652):
Sixty-five-year-old Sarah Cohen Wolfe, the Charleston born daughter of Rabbi Hartwig
Cohen and Deborah Marks Cohen and the wife of Sailing Wolfe with whom she had seven
childrein – Isabel, Rose, Solomon, Deborah, Henrietta, Sarah and Hartwig –
passed away today passed away today in
Winnsboro SC after which she was buried in the Hebrew Benevolent Society
Cemetery in Columbia, SC.
1893: Moses Alvares Vega married Sara Teresea
Ameringen in Amsterdam today.
1893: The funeral for Charles Frank, the
Superintendent of the United Hebrew Charities will take place this morning at
58 St. Marks Place.
1893: Three days after he had passed away, ninety-year,
Joseph Barrow Montefiore, the husband of the former Rebecca Mocatta with whom
he had fourteen children was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish
Cemetery.
1893: “Women elbowed, trod on each other’s
toes, and did everything else they could without violating the
proprieties” to find a place in the overcrowded hall to hear women speak
at the first-ever Jewish Women’s Congress.
1893: Birthdate of (Isaac) Leslie Hore-Belisha,
1st Baron Hore-Belisha (of Devonport), statesman and inventor of belisha
beacons. Born in London, he was British secretary of state for war (1937-40)
who instituted military conscription in the spring of 1939, a few months before
the outbreak of World War II.
1895(18th of Elul, 5655): Parashat
Ki Tavo
1895: Birthdate of Joseph Richard Vogel who
replaced Arthur Loew as President of MGM where approved the production as such
hit films as “Gigi,” “North by Northwest” and “Ben Hur” as well as such flops
as “Mutiny on the Bounty.
1895: The Magistrate at the Essex Market Police
Court sent the son of Aaron Rosie Goldstein back to the New York Juvenile
Asylum from which he had escaped months ago after having been convicted of
being a burglar.
1896(29th of Elul, 5656): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1896: “As soon as the gun on Governors Island”
was fired announcing that it was “sundown” Rosh Hashanah services began in a
wide variety of venues and congregations in New York City.
1896: In the Bowery, large crowds attended
services at the Thalia Theatre and the Liberty Theatre. Rabbis Schengold and Silverman officiated at
the Orthodox service at the Thalia while Romanian Jews attended the services at
the Liberty.
1896: “Reader Isidor Kartschmaroff conducted
services” at Congregation Beth Israel and Dr. Levi Kleeburg delivered a sermon
on “the necessity of being as observant watchful the entire year as on its
first day.”
1896: Rabbi Kauffman Kohler officiated at New
Year’s services this evening at Temple Beth-El.
1896: Rabbis Joseph Silverman and Gustav
Gottheil conducted New Year’s Eve services this evening at Temple Emanu-el.
1896: Rabbi Moses Maisner conducted New Year’s
Eve services at Adath Israel Synagogue on 57th Street.
1897: “Mathew Sterling Borden, Yale ’95, the
son of Chicago millionaire C.D. Borden” married “Mildred N Nerbaur, the
daughter of Jewish tailor in New Haven; in Worcester, MA for the second time –
the first marriage having ended in a divorce forced on the couple by the senior
Borden.
1897: In Kiev, violinist Samuel Sherman who
after the 1903 Pogrom fled to the Austro-Hungarian Empire where he became a
concertmaster, first violinist and composer and his wife gave birth to Avrum
Sherman who gained fame as Tin Pan Alley song writer Albert Sherman, the father
of two other composers Robert and Richard Sherman.
1898(20th of Elul, 5658): Rabbi
Simon Brenner, the husband of Caroline Brenner and the father of Brooklyn
Magistrate Jacob A. Brenner passed away today.
1898: Birthdate of New York City native and
CCNY trained CPA “Benjamin Louis Hiilson,” the graduate of JTS Teachers College
who was editor of Mizrachi Youth and co-editor of Aliyah,
1899: At the opening of
today’s session of trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, his counsel Maitre Labori
told the court that the former military attaches for Germany and Italy “would
be unable to personally before the court” and asked that special measures be
taken to receive their depositions. The
court rejected the request.
1899: In Pittsburgh,
Pa, Samuel and Lottie Ritz Parker gave birth to Benjamin Myron Parker, the
eldest of their six children, a graduate of Cooper Union and the Jewish
Institute of Religion from which he graduated in 1926 “with the degrees of
rabbi and master of Hebrew Literature” and the spiritual leader of Mizpah
Congregation of the Ochs Memorial Temple.”
1899: The second court
martial of Colonel Dreyfus comes to an end.
1899: The Beth Moshav
Z’keinim (Orthodox Home for Aged Jews), was organized today in Chicago.,
Illinois.
1899: Dr. Emil H.
Hirsch, the rabbi of Sinai Congregation and a member of the faculty of the
University of Chicago expressed his disapproval of the Jews of Memphis, TN
petitioning the Kaiser “to allow any evidence he may control to appear in the
Dreyfus case” because such a request, if made, should come from the American
community, not the Jewish community because Dreyfus was being tried as a man
and not as a Jew.
1900: As an alternative to suspending constitutional rights, Franz Josef,
Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, under whose reign the Jews enjoyed a
period of success and prosperity that led them to be loyal to him and the
empire, ordered the dissolution of the Abgeordnetenhaus, the elected body of the Reichsrat, Austria’s parliament
1901(23rd
of Elul, 5661): Parashat Nitzavim; Leil Selichot observed as the Boxer
Rebellion in China formally came to an end.
1902(5th
of Elul): On the Jewish calendar Yahrtzeit of author Solomon Zalman Geiger
(5635)
1903: S. H. Borofsky of Boston addressed “a
mass meeting” sponsored by the Sons of Zion in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
1903: Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer described how the police in Camden closed
down the amusements which were part of an outing sponsored by the Hebrew Social
and Education Club on Sunday “much to the indignation of the members” because
they violated the law.
1904: As of today, the trustees of Adath Israel
Congregation in Camden, NJ were listed as Abe Zuberman, J.Z. Blank, Henry
Pinsky, Louise Cade, William Fox, Harry Horwitz, William Blank, Philip
Auerbach, Nathan Fuhrman, J.H. Perksie, Jacob Weinstein and Harry Neuere.
1904: Dr. Rudolph J. Coffee conducted today’s
funeral service for Dr. Herman Baar, the former Superintendent of the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum in New York. Among the
attendees, were the children from the orphanage which currently serves almost
1,000 youngsters
1905: In Cleveland, OH Edith (née Joseph) and
Louis Rorimer gave birth to James Joseph Rorimer, the director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art who was the driving force behind the creation of
“the cloisters” and would have remained unknown to most people were it not for
his role as a member of U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section
making him one the “Monuments Men” who was the character portrayed by Matt
Damon in the film of the same name.
1905: Birthdate dermatologist
Abraham “Dutch” Koransky, the Purdue University fullback, graduate of the
University of Chicago’s Rush Medical School and decorated WW II Army Veteran
who practiced medicine until 1985.
1906: A Pogrom took
place in Shedlitz, Russia. This was part
of the pattern of unrest that preceded and followed the defeat of the Czar’s
army in the Russo-Japanese War.
1906: A 20-year-old Russian Jew, David Gruen,
landed at Jaffa. History would come to
know him as David Ben Gurion. Ben Gurion is Hebrew for Son of Gruen
1906: In Louisville, Adath Israel began three
days of ceremonies and exercise marking the dedication of its new sanctuary
under the leadership of Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow.
1907(28th of
Elul, 5667): Parashat Nitzavim; final Shabbat of 5667 since erev Rosh Hashanah
begins tomorrow night.
1908: In Schenectady,
NY “Joseph E. Grosberg, a grocery industry pioneer and one of the founders of
what later became the Price Chopper grocery chain” and his wife Rachel
Grossberg gave birth American cookbook author Mildred Grosberg Bellin, the wife
of Dr. Harold Bellin.
1908: Washington
University (St. Louis) trained medical doctor, the Leeds, England born son of
Becky Silverblatt and Abraham Singer married Flora Lowenstein today.
1908: It was reported that Dr. David Balustein,
the former head of the Educational Alliance presided over a meeting at Clinton
Hall during which hundreds of Jewish citizens “discussed Commissioner Bingham’s
article in a current magazine in which he asserts that more than fifty percent
of the criminal class in New York are Jews.”
1909(22nd of Elul, 5669): Abraham (Abe)
Schwabacher one of three Bavarian born Schwabacher brothers who settled in
Washington Territory where they developed businesses in Walla and Seattle
passed away today.
1909: Sigmund Freud Gives First of Five
Lectures on Psychoanalysis at Clark University
1910: Eighty-three-year-old English painter
William Hunt who in 1869 built a house at #64 Rehov HaNevi’im (Street of the
Prophets) where he planted a pear tree that would provide the inspiration for a
poem by Rachel Bluwstein.
1910: “Mother,” “the first successful play by
Jules Eckert Goodman, the Gervais, Oregon or so Jenette Rothschild and S. Newman
Goodman opened on Broadway today at the Hackett Theatre.
1911(14th of Elul, 5671): Seventy-five-year-old
Moses Freudeger de Obuda passed away today in Budapest, Hungary
1911: Birthdate of Nicole Sebbah who was
shipped to Auschwitz in 1942.
1911: Ceremonies marking the dedication of
Synagogue Oheb Shalom began today in Newark, NJ.
1912(25th of Elul, 5672): Parashat
Nitzavim-Vayeilech: Leil Selichot
1912: Following the Syracuse Convention, Oscar
Straus, the nominee for governor of New York on the Progressive and Independent
League tickets and his wife arrived in Tarrytown this afternoon where they will
rest for a few days before returning to the New York City where he would launch
what he said would “as strong a campaign as he was capable of making.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/09/08/100375253.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1913: “Jews of Today” provided a full-scale
review of The Jews of Today by Arthur Ruppin with an introduction by
Joseph Jacobs.
1913: Carl Jung made public break with Freud.
1913: Birthdate of Alexander Lerner, an expert
in cybernetics and refusenik who met with Senator Kennedy at his Moscow
apartment in 1974 and finally emigrated to Israel in 1988 where he worked “in
the mathematis department at the Weizmann Institute of Science.”
1913: In Washington Heights, “Joseph Durst, a
Jewish immigrant from Galicia” and the former Rose Friedwald gave birth to real
estate developer Seymour Durst, the creator of the National Debt Clock and
husband Bernice Herstein Durst with whom he had four children – accused murder
Robert Durst, Chairman of the Durst Organization, Douglas Durst, philanthropist
and writer Thomas Durst and philanthropist and writer Wendy Durst Kreeger.
1914: As the Allies fought desperately at what
was called the Battle of the Marne, the loss of which would mean a complete
German victory, a legend was born when six hundred taxicabs each carrying five
soldiers, brought re-enforcements from central Paris to the battle line at
Nanteuil-le Haudouin.”
1915: Outfield Sam Mayer made his major league
debut with the Washington Senators.
1915: As of today, the officers of The
Federation of Rumanian Jews of America include Dr. Julius Weiss, President;
Samuel Goldstein, Vice President; and Isaac Abreman, Chairman of the Building
Committee.
1915(28th of Elul, 5675): Sixty-three-year-old
Herman Gross passed away in Chicago.
1915: In London, “The Jewish Chronicle, referring to alleged German peace proposals
says: “We wonder whether it is really believed that the Jews of the United
States or elsewhere could be deceived by such a transparent move, and whether
any of our brethren anywhere are such downright simpletons as to act the part
of Germany’s instruments and help the Germans to an opportune peace in return
for a vague promise which they have neither the power nor the means to carry
out. We should like to know since when this people, the patentees of
anti-Semitism and its arch fomenters in Russia, have been bitten with such a
passion for Jewish freedom that they must needs head a pro-Jewish campaign or
perish.”
1916: “Came Here to Escape the War” published
today described the plight of forty-give Spanish Jews who had been living in
Greece where they “said bread was 50 cent a pound…and that there was great
poverty on account of the war and for whom the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant
Aid Society will provide assistance until they find employment here in the
United States.
1917:
Pavel Axelrod of the Organization committee of the Russian Social Democratic
Party and Karol Radek and Jacob Hanecki of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom
of Poland and Lithuania were among the delegates attending the “Third
Zimmerwald Conference” – a meeting of anti-War Socialists – continued to meet for a third day in
Stockholm
1918(1st of
Tishrei, 5679): Rosh Hashanah
1918: The Jewish
Welfare Board issued “a call to greater patriotic services” which was sent
“every community which ended by saying “In loyal devotion to the understanding
of serving the fighting forces of our country, may American Jewry find abundant
happiness during the coming year
1918: Rabbi Samuel
Buchler, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Ministers’
Association of America sent President Wilson a letter thanks him for his
positive attitude to the creation of Jewish Homeland in Palestine.
1918: For the first
time ever, in Washington Heights, Temple B’nai Israel is scheduled to hold Rosh
Hashanah services at the Y.M.H.A. building on St. Nicholas Avenue.
1918: Jewish sailors
and naval officers were able to observe Rosh Hashanah because of furloughs
granted by the Secretary of the Navy.
1918: At Temple Beth-El
on 5th Avenue, Rabbi Samuel Schulman delivered a sermon on “Is God
in the War?” that opened with the statement that “God is in the war because
humanity is paying the retribution for universal sin and defeat will come to
that power which most glaringly incarnates the sin of our civilization.
1918: Consecration the
“New Romanian Synagogue: in Manchester, UK.
1918: “Mounted militia
and leaders of the Council of Workmen and Soldiers’ Delegates were summoned to
disperse the mob when anti-Jewish riots began at a leather factory in Moscow.
1918: In San Sebastian,
Spain, Jewish New Year services were held for the first time in 400 years. The
services were attended by 30 worshipers.
1919: One day after his
32nd birthday Hebrew Technical Institute
graduate and Cooper Union trained chemical engineer Henry Irving Cohen, the New
York born son of Peiser and Miriam Cohen who was a member of the Society of
Civil Engineers and the Maimonides Benevolent Society married Gertrude Nathan,
1919: Date which the mother of Isaac Asimov
used to enroll him in the first grade – which showed him to be almost a year
older than he really was.
1919: Today, at the Broadway Central Hotel,
“more than 800 people attended a convention of the Federation of Ukrainian Jews
in America” it was decided “that the massacre of their brethren in Eastern
Europe must finally be stopped and” the assistance of the United States is
critical as can be seen by the fact that federation has already sought and
received support from Secretary of State Lansing.
1920: The Hebrew Technical Institute, one of
the oldest and “well-established Jewish institution” in New York whose nearly
2,000 graduates have gone on to be “architects, engineers, draughtsman,
electricians and skilled mechanics, is scheduled to begin its Fall Term today.
1921: The first Miss America Pageant was held
in Atlantic City, NJ. Bess Myerson was
the first Jew to win the contest in 1945.
1922(14th of Elul, 5682): Seventy-year-old
Russian born Yiddish author Joseph S. Glick who came to the United States in
1887 where he published a Yiddish paper in New York before moving to Pittsburg
where among other things he published The
Jewish Post, a weekly Yiddish paper passed away today.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/08/
1922: Birthdate of pianist Art Ferrante. This
non-Jew gained fame as part of the duo Ferrante and Tachere which recorded the
theme from “Exodus.”
1923: Birthdate of Yiddish speaking American
actor Hy Anzell whose film credits included appearances in “Bananas” and “Annie
Hall.”
1923: Birthdate of Holocaust survivor Peter
David Bisseliches.
1923: JTA reported today that “Anti-Jewish
disturbances broke out simultaneously in two places in Roumania this week. In
Bacau student disciples of the anti-Semitic agitator, Professor Cuza, invaded
en masse a hall in which a Jewish students’ dance was being held and attacked
the guests. The police, according to eye-witnesses’ reports, received here,
worked in cahoots with the mob, arresting Jews who attempted to fight back
their assailants. Among those taken into custody are two officials, Solomon
Pascal and Carl Meyerowici. Deputy Christo Vianu, liberal, who witnessed the
attack issued a statement following the disturbance demanding the release of
the officials. He confirms that the police favored the assailants. A thorough
investigation of the attack and drastic punishment for the offenders is
promised by the Minister of Justice, who hurried to Bacau on receiving reports
of the disturbance. “With the beginning of the new semester at the University
of Klausenberg, the rector Jacobovicci has promised police protection to the
Jewish students who were routed from the campus. The Minister of instruction,
in view of the disturbances, has announced he will facilitate the issuance of
passports to Jewish students who desire to study in foreign countries. The
government is still timorous about opening all of the universities on account
of the fear of more trouble. The league of Non-partisan Students has issued a
memorandum appealing to the authorities to open “the universities before
we become gray”.
1923: The JTA reported today that Lord Rothschild had presided at Leeds at a meeting called
to reestablish the local branch of the Anglo-Jewish Association. Those
spreading anti-Semitism contend, Rothschild said, that the Jew is incapable of
becoming a good citizen. “We must prove to the world that this is a gross
libel. We must prove that the Jew cannot only be a good citizen but can be a
better citizen than anyone” he insisted. D’Avigdor Goldsmid who also spoke
said that the Anglo Jewish Association has existed for 52 years and in all of
that time had played an active part in Jewish affairs of the British Empire.The
Association, he said, takes a great interest in Palestine, having pledged to
support the British Government in the execution of the mandate and to do all
possible to assist in the development of the Jewish Home land.
1923: The
JTA reported that negotiations are now under way between representatives of the
Vaad Ha-Ir, or Jewish Council of the city with the Municipality of Montreal
over the issue of establishing schools for the Jewish children of Canada’s
largest municipality.
1923: JTA
reported that The American Keren Hayesod has made a second payment of $57,000
towards its 50,000 pounds subscription to the Rutenberg Electric Company,
sponsoring the electrification project in Palestine.
1924: Anna
Kasor Dantzig, the widow of Berry Dantzig passed away today in Kansas City MO.
1924: Birthdate of composer Leonard Rosenman
the Brooklyn native who created the theme for the television hit “Marcus
Welby, MD.”
1925: Today “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the
New York Free Synagogue, returned on the white Star liner Adriatic from a visit
to England, France, Switzerland, Spain and Austria, during which he attended
the Zionist Congress in Vienna as delegate from tile America Jewish Congress,
of which is the President.”
1926: In Los Angeles, motion picture pioneer
Samuel Goldwyn and actress Frances Howard gave birth to movie producer Samuel
Goldwyn, Jr.
1926: JTA published figures portraying the
employment picture in Palestine. Unemployment has increased since the cessation
of building activity in the country. In July 1925, the number of unemployed was
300, in August 950, September 975. October 1,750, November 2,000. December
2,700, in January 1926, 4,729, February 4,741, March 4,902, April 5,657, May
6,113 and June 6,400. Most of the unemployed are in Tel Aviv where they number
3,500; in Haifa there are 1,500 unemployed and in Jerusalem 300. About 2,000 of
the unemployed in Tel-Aviv belong to the building trades In the period from January to June 1926, over 5,000
immigrants are reported to have entered Palestine, about 1,400 of them being
absorbed in the colonies.
1926: In Montreal, “Morris Rosenfeld and the
former Vera Friedman” gave birth to Ezra Rosenfeld” whose mother changed his
name to Isadore which meant that he gained fame a cardiologist and author under
the name of Isadore Rosenfeld.
1927: JTA reported that the largest bequest ever received by the National Jewish
Hospital here was made by Louis Heineman of Jamestown, N. Y. A gift of $100,000
will be paid in 18 months by the Union Trust Co., of Jamestown, N. Y. from the
estate of Louis Heinemann, who was a patient at the hospital 12 years ago. A
sum of $100,000 was made in gifts to friends and relatives, and the remainder
of the estate of $300,000 will go to the local Jewish Hospital and the Hebrew
Union College of Cincinnati.
1927: JTA
reported that Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Relief
Committee, has expressed his astonishment at the sensational charges made by
Max D. Steuer on his arrival from Europe concerning the alleged existence of
fraud in the administration of unnamed Jewish relief funds prior to 1925.Mr.
Marshall invited Mr. Steuer to communicate to the Joint Distribution Committee
any facts bearing upon the subject to which he has referred. Mr. Marshall is
ready, he stated, to call a meeting of the Executive Committee at the
convenience of Mr. Steuer for the presentation by him of any evidence that he
may have. The statement also urged that judgment be suspended until
trustworthy, first-hand evidence is produced to justify such charges.Mr.
Marshall’s statement read: “I am astounded at the statement purporting to
have been made by Mr. Max D. Steuer on his return from his trip abroad, with
regard to the expenditure of funds collected in the United States by Jewish
agencies for the relief of suffering Jews in Europe. He is credited with saying
that the moneys collected since June, 1925, have reached the proper
destination, have done much good and have been economically administrated but
that the moneys contributed prior to that time have been uneconomically
administrated and a substantial part of them have never reached those for whom
they were collected and intened. He goes so far as to say a part of the money
was actually stolen by American representatives.
“The principal collecting and distributing agency
during the past thirteen years has been the Joint Distribution Committee and
its constituent organizations. The moneys collected and distributed prior to
June, 1925, for the relief of Jews in Europe have been received and disbursed
under identically the same auspices as those which functioned since June, 1925.
“Apparently Mr. Steuer is not speaking from personal
knowledge. It does not appear that he has actually been government. The
committee on immigration determined yesterday on a budget of £17,000 which will
be used for extending aid to the new arrivals and for maintaining a staff in
Palestine and in European centers. The program provides for the admission of a
minimum of 1,500 Chaluzim during the coming year.
The determination of the American delegates to carry
through their plan was handicapped by the fact that they were unable to name an
American to the triumvirate as was demanded by Dr. Weizmann. The carrying out
of the American efficiency program without naming an American to put it into
effect would be “Brandeisism without Brandeis,” Dr. Weizmann is
reported as having told the American delegation. He appreciated the Americans’ attitude,
but he would expect them to delegate their own man to carry through the
program. The labor groups and the Mizrachi have declared that they are opposed
to the American plan but advocate a coalition Executive which would assume
responsibility for the political and economic work. At this moment the
Americans were induced to abandon their original triumvirate proposal and agree
to an executive of four, it being understood that the fourth member is to be
Dr. Arthur Ruppin, the Zionist colonization expert. Dr. Ruppin, however, has
declined to accept nomination on the Executive.
The Committee on Committee has extended an invitation to
Messrs. Sacher, Kisch and Friesland to appear before it and present their
program. It was stated that Dr. Weizmann was persuaded to agree to an Executive
of five in Jerusalem and it is understood that he will submit his list to the
Committee on Committees today. In the meantime, many of the delegates are
leaving Basle, including several Americans.
Simon Rief, prominent Baltimores leader, died Monday,
aged 63.
Among the many projects with which Mr. Rief was
adentified were the Talmud Torahs and the United Hebrew Charities. He was a
leader in the Zionist movement in Baltimore.
He was formerly President of Mishkon Israel and B’nai
Israel Congregation
1927: “The
Prince of Pappenheim,” a silent film with a script co-authored by Robert
Liebman was released today in Germany.
1927: JTA reported that Alfred M. Cohen international President of the
Independent Order B’nai Brith returned on the steamer Hamburg from an extended
tour in Europe. He was met at the pier by Dr. Boris D. Bogen, Executive
Secretary of the Order and by numerous friends.
1927: JTA reported that a gift of $250,000 to the University of Chicago from
Louis B. Kuppenheimer was announced by Vice President Frederick C. Woodward.
The money will be used to establish an endowment fund to be known as the Louis
B. and Emma M. Kuppenheimer Foundation. The income is to be used for a study of
the structure, functions and diseases of the eye, and for the support of
teaching and research in the department of ophthalmology [Louis Kuppenheimer was
the son of Jonas Kuppenheimer and the brother of Albert Kuppenheimer, the trio
who over fifty years ago came to Chicago and stared what has become one of the
world’s largest clothing concerns in the world.]
1928: “Palestine Bank to Open in December”
published today quoted Jacob Siegel, President of the Palestine Holding
Corporation as saying “the bank will start its operations with several hundred
manufacturers, the most active element in the business life of Palestine, as
its depositors, each whom will own some stock in the bank.”
1928: “Lipsky Sees Progress in in Palestine”
published today quoted Louis Lipsky, the President of the Zionist Organization
of America as saying “the economic conditions in Palestine were improving and
that there were fair prospects of a resumption of Jewish immigration into
Palestine during the course of the year.”
1929: Based reports published today there are
now 9,200 refugees scattered throughout Palestine as a result of Arab terror
and violence. Of this number 2,500 are gathered in Jerusalem, 1,500 at Tel
Aviv, 2,700 at Haifa and 2,500 at Safed.
1930: In Bucharest “the government has
apparently relaxed all of the severe measures which promised against
anti-Semitic agitators” since today it released all of those who arrested with
the exception of two Orthodox priests.
1930: “Telegrams received in official quarters
in India from London confirm recent rumors that Sir Herbert Samuel, the former
High Commissioner for Palestine…will be the next Viceroy of India.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/09/08/92088406.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1931: “Julius Sizzer” a “two reeler” in which
Benny Rubin who co-authored the script, plays the parts of two brothers was
released today in the United States.
1931(25th of Elul, 5691): Seventy-six-year-old
pathologist Dr Nathan Weidenthal, the son of “Bernard and Dorothea (Deborah)
Weidental and the husband of “Ernestine (Esther) Weidenthal” passed away today
in his home town of Cleveland, OH.
1932: A memorial service was held in Baghdad to
mark the passing of Sir Eskell Sassoon, the First Finance Minister of Iraq who
was praised in a eulogy by the Prime Minister for his “character, culture, his
outstanding personality, his vast knowledge, sense of duty and the proper
fulfilment of that duty no matter how great the sacrifice was in time or in
life.”
1932: It was reported today that Ethel Cohen of
Providence, R.I. “was elected head of the ladies’ auxiliary” of the Jewish War
Veterans at their convention which came to an end yesterday in Atlantic City,
NJ.
1932: Representative Emanuel Celler of New
York, who returned today on the Europa, accompanied by Mrs. Celler, predicted
that beer and light wines would be legalized at the next session of Congress.
In anticipation of this he said that he went abroad as a member of the
Judiciary Committee to study the licensing systems of various European
countries.
1933: Louis Gradner began serving as the Mayor
of Cape Town, S.A.
1933: Seventy-one year old Edward Grey, 1st
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the
start of World War I who signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement which has had such a
significant impact on the Middle East and Israel and who in 1914 when asked by
MP Herbert Samuel “about a homeland for the Jewish people” replied “that the
idea had always had a strong sentimental appeal to him and he would be prepared
to work for if the opportunity arose” passed away today.
1934: “A condensed and revised version the
Jewish historical pageant, “Romance of a People,” will be presented
on the stage of the Roxy Theatre beginning” today.
1934: The New York Times reviewed Those
Who Perish, Edward Dahlberg’s novel about “the psychological repercussions
of Hitlerism on the people who worked for a Jewish community house in the town
of New Republic, NJ.
1935(9th of Elul, 5695): Parashat Ki
Teitzei
1935(9th of Elul, 5695): Rabbi Max
Fried passed away today in Brighton Beach.
1935: In Chicago, insurance salesman and
Ukraine native Morris Mandel and Molly Lavin, “a secretary to a music
publisher” Molly Lavin gave birth to Lois Jean Mandel the University of Chicago
graduate and wife of Myron Liben who gained fame as “Lois Libien, who broke
ground in the 1960s as a female journalist in a largely male field but who
attracted her widest readership by providing household hints in books and a
nationally syndicated newspaper column…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1936: It was announced today that the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and its affiliate, the American Joint
Reconstruction Foundation, appropriated $1,040,000 in 1935 to help Jews in
Poland and other Eastern European Countries.
1936: A 25-percent tax
is imposed on all Jewish assets in Germany.
1937: “Funeral services were held today a
Golders Green Jewish Cemetery” for Sir Albert Levy, the founder of Adrath
Tobacco Company and creator of the State Express cigarette brand who donated
millions to bot Jewish and non-Jewish charities and institutions.
1938: Birthdate of Newark, NJ native and
Barnard College graduate Susan Levitt who gained famed as Susan Stamberg “one
of NPR’s ‘Founding Mothers’” who was the wife of Louis C. Stamberg and the
mother of Josh Stamberg.
1938: In Brooklyn, Celia Liebes and salesman
Samuel Moskowitz gave birth to “Charlie Moss, the visionary advertising
executive credited with producing the stunningly successful “I ♥ NY” tourism
campaign in the mid-1970s — a time when garbage, graffiti, crime, racial strife
and a serial killer made America’s cultural capital anything but lovable” who
was the husband of Susan Calhoun Moss and the father of Sam and Mary Moss. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
1939: During World War II, the Polish air force
was now completely destroyed after less than a week of combat. Germany began
plans to move troops to the West (French Border.) Despite being sworn to
support Poland, France declined to attack or militarily engage Germany. This inaction was a prelude to France’s
feeble resistance to the German attack in the Spring of 1940 and the
willingness with which many Frenchmen would collaborate with the Nazis.
1939: As the Wehrmacht and the SS death squads
swept through Poland, persecution of the Jews began with the application of
economic sanctions placed on the Jews of Bedzin.
1939: At approximately 5 p.m., Polish
government, which had left Warsaw the day before, arrived at Łuck which would
lead to bombing of the town since German intelligence quickly found out about
it
1939: In keeping with the spirit of the
non-aggression pact the Soviet Union signed with Hitler Stalin approved the new
party line which was to be adopted by Communists throughout the world that the
war being waged by the French and English was unjust and imperialist.
1939: Polish “rabbi, historian, politician,
Bible scholar, assyriologist, and orientalist” Moses Schorr who had “entered
the Jewish Civil Committee” left Warsaw with his wife Tamara because he knew
the Nazis would arrest him when they got to the Polish capital.
1940(4th of Elul, 5700): Parashat
Shoftim
1940(4th of Elul, 5700): Eighty-one-year-old
Baden native and owner of the “brush manufacturing firm J. Dukas and Company”
Julius J. Dukas who came to the United States at the age of 19, married Sarah
Hyman Dukas with whom he had one daughter and whose activities in the Jewish
community included serving as “President of the Hebrew Free Loan Society for 35
years” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/09/08/93990672.pdf
1940: In a speech to a special SS Squad,
Himmler said that there was only one goal, “. . . To create an order that
will spread a consciousness of Nordic blood until we draw to us all the Nordic
blood in the world.”
1940
Duneera arrives at Sydney, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis countries,
incarcerated as enemy aliens.
1940: As the Luftwaffe attempted to make good
on its promise of defeating the English through air attacks, the Nazi air force
shifts tactics and begins daylight and nighttime bombing of London.
1941: British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden notes that “if we must have preferences, let me
murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews.” This strain of anti-Semitism was acceptable
at certain levels of British society and certainly was part and parcel of the
British Foreign Office. Eden was
Churchill’s protégé. Supposedly he was responsible for the policies that kept
the British for doing more to rescue the Jews of Europe and to admit them to
Palestine. Eden finally became Prime
Minister in the 1950’s. His government
fell as a result of the Suez crisis when Eden clumsily tried to remove Nasser
from power; a ploy that included covert support for an Israeli strike across
the Sinai Peninsula.
1942: At least 5000
Jews from Kolomyia, Ukraine, are deported to Belzec; 1000 are killed in the
Kolomyia Ghetto itself.
1942: Milwaukee native Mildred Fish-Harnack and
her husband Arvid Harnack, members of the “Red Orchestra” were arrested by the
Gestapo today
1942: Third baseman Cy Block made his major
league debut with the Chicago Cubs.
1942: The main article on the foreign page of The Time of London was headed
“Vichy’s Jewish victims, children deported to Germany.” Where they
were deported was not stated. There was
plenty of information floating around that England’s “newspaper of
record” could have at least speculated as their fate.
1943: A transport left Westerbork for
Auschwitz. Among those on board were
Etty Hillesum and her family.
1943: Today at the Free Synagogue House Dr.
Stephen S. Wise officiated at the funeral services for seventy-seventy year old
Harvard law school trained federal judge and Zionist leader Julian W. Mack, the
San Francisco born son of William Jacob and Rebecca Tandler Mack who married
the former Cecile B. Blumgart after his first wife Jessie Fox had passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/09/06/87423798.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1944: After having been interrogated by the
Gestapo for almost a month, Victor Kluger, one of those who helped hide the
Frank family, “was moved to the prison on Weteringschans, in a cell with people
sentenced to death.”
1944:
Following the eruption of the Partisans’ Revolt in Slovakia, the Nazis resumed
their deportations of the Jews which today resulted in the arrest of Rabbi
Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, his wife, his four daughters and one son in Nitra
which lead to their ultimate transport to Auschwitz.
1944: Hungarian
authorities permit Ottó Komoly, a Jew, to rent buildings in Budapest to be used
for the protection of Jewish children. Komoly will ultimately protect 5000
children in 35 buildings.
1944: As World War II reached its climax and
the realignment that would produce the end of the British mandate in Palestine,
today the United States recognized the independence of Syria and Lebanon.
1945(29th of Elul, 5705): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1945(29th of Elul, 5705): Seventy-year-old
“general medical practitioner” and graduate of Columbia’s College of Physicians
and Surgeons Milton A. Gershel, the “former house physician at Mt. Sinai
Hospital and “resident physician for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society”
passed away today in Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/09/08/306184892.pdf
1945: Abe Bloomberg began serving as Mayor of
Cape Town, SA.
1945: “In the reconstructed wing of a
war-damaged synagogue in the Kreuzberg section of Berlin, 400 members of the
capital’s remaining community of Jewish gather at sundown tonight for the first
Rosh Hashanah observance since their liberation from a twelve year campaign of
extermination.”
1945: “Americans Capture Warsaw Murder”
published today described the capture in Japan of Joseph Alfred Meissinger, the
German war criminal who “ordered the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and sent
10,000 Jewish children to a concentration camp where they were killed during
the Rosh Hashanah holy days.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C01E6D71438E133A25754C0A96F9C946493D6CF
1945: The Hebrew Sheltering and immigrant Aid
Society will conduct Rosh Hashanah services for detainees at Ellis Island
“while other services will be held for recent arrivals” no longer convinced to
the immigration facility “at the society’s synagogue at 425 Lafayette Street.
1945: “For the first time in fifteen years,
Frank L. Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board said all Jews
could feel a surge of hope as they welcomed a New Year,” “but he added that the
victory only highlighted the magnitude of the tragedy that has befallen the
oppressed peoples and provided new outlets for traditional American generosity.
1946: “The Jewish Progressive Moderate party,
Aliyah Hadasah, today cabled Dr. Chaim Weizmann” the president of the Jewish
agency, “urging that the Jewish Agency should attend the Palestine conference”
scheduled to open in London on September 9.
1946: The Cypriot Government “announced that a
woman claiming to represent an American news agency” who stated “that she had
traveled the entire distance with a group of Jewish immigrants on the vessel
Four Freedoms” had surrendered to authorities at a detention camp and was being
“interrogated” by members of the British military.
1946: Settlement of a three-month-old strike in
three plants of the D. Emil Klein company, cigar manufacturers” was announced
today after the owner agreed to a twelve and a half cent wage increase, a new
minimum wage and a group life insurance plan for the employees.
1946: In Stuttgart, Germany, Holocaust
survivors Lily Gliksman and Sy Zaks gave birth toe Dartmouth and Smith College trained
Tony award winning director Jerry Zaks, the husband of Jill Rose with whom he
had two children – Hannah and Emma – and the winner of the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves (1986), Lend Me a
Tenor (1989), and Six Degrees of Separation (1991) and the Tony Award for Best
Direction of a Musical and Drama Desk Award for Guys and Dolls (1992) who “served
as Resident Director at Lincoln Center from 1986 to 1990 and is a founding
member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.”
1947: “Harry Levine, a plastics manufacturer
from Leominster, MA, who plans” to build a “$500,000 factory in Palestine said
today that he saw” the possibility “of creating a large industry based on the
research at the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehoveth.”
1947: “A secret broadcast by Irgun Zvai Leumi…
emphatically denied published reports, which it described as of British origin,
that the organization had welcomed the proposal of the majority of the United
Nations Special Committee on Palestine for partitions of the Holy Land.”
1948: “An undisclosed number of casualties were
inflicted on Israeli troops and civilians today while Arab forces in northern
Jerusalem suffered three killed and six wounded in a violent artillery and
machine gun battle in Jerusalem that continued from dawn until almost noon.”
1948: “Sundown Beach” by Bessie Breuer opened
on Broadway in NYC.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/07/1948/bessie-breuer
1949: The USS Benjamin Peixotto, a
decommissioned “liberty ship” that had been sold to China “went aground in Tola
harbor at Hong Kong during a typhoon.
1950: Two Holocaust survivors from Budapest who
moved to Israel Peter David Bisseliches and Agnes Steiner married today
1950:
Birthdate of Emmy award winning actress Julie Kavner. Kavner is best known for her role as Brenda
Morgenstern in “Rhoda” and the voice
of Marge on “The Simpsons.”
1951: Fritz Sonnenberg began serving as Mayor
of Cape Town, SA.
1951: “Spurred by the current food crisis,
Israel has signed a contract with a private Ethiopian group for the purchase
within the next year of 10,000 tons of meat equal to six months’ rations for
the entire Israeli population. Shipments from Eritrea through the Red Sea and
the Gulf of Aqaba to the Israeli port of Elath are expected to begin in a few
months.”
1951: Sir Zelman Cowan, the 19th
Governor General of Australia and his wife gave birth to Rabbi Shimon Cowen,
the “Director of the Institute for Judaism and Civilization” in Melbourne who
is according to at least once “affiliated with Chabad Chasidism” the Jewish
traditional Jewish group best known for its work of outreach among
non-affiliated Jews.
1952(17th
of Elul, 5712): Eighty-three-year-old Moses David Lederman, the Manhattan born
son of David and Helena Bien Lederman the husband of Belle Weil Lederman passed
away today in the Bronx after which he was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in
Brooklyn.
1953: Following the death of Stalin, Nikita
Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee. During the post-World
War II period, Nikita Khrushchev had governed the Ukraine, an area of intense
suffering for the Jews during the war and an area where the local population
had worked with the Nazis to murder their Jewish neighbors. “Ukrainian Jews who
fled to Soviet Asia during the occupation slowly returned to reclaim their
homes, possessions and jobs. The Ukrainians who remained in the communities were
hostile to the returning Jews. “The Khrushchev led government refused to
interfere in the conflicts between the Russians and the Jews. As a result,
anti-Semitic sentiments surfaced everywhere — in the nation’s literature and
art, and through political propaganda.”
In his new position, Khrushchev was the first among equals. He did not replicate Stalin’s paranoid
anti-Semitism and Jews actually benefited from Khrushchev’s program of
de-Stalinization that began in earnest in 1956.
Khrushchev would use his new position to support the Arabs in the Middle
East. He would proivde the arms and
support for the Egyptians and the Syrians which made them a threat to Israel’s
very existence in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.
1954(9th of Elul, 5714): Sixty-seven-year-old
Evelyn Mosenfelder, the St. Louis, MO born daughter of Pauline and George
Washington Milius and the wife of Simon Mosenfelder with whom she had three
children – Robert, Dorothy and Margaret – passed away today in her hometown.
1954: “Betrayed” a WW II spy story movie
directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, featuring Theodore Bikel and with a musical
score co-authored by Walter Goehr was released in the United States today.
1955(20th of Elul, 5715): Seventy-four-year-old
Aline Bernstein, the pioneering Broadway designer passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aline-bernstein
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9503E7DA103AE73ABC4053DFBF66838E649EDE
1955(20th of Elul, 5715):
Seventy-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained physician Dr. Israel
Bram, the goiter specialist passed away.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/09/09/79442621.html?pageNumber=23
1955: Birthdate of mathematician Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov. Born in the Soviet Union, Zelmanov has taught
in a number of American universities as he did the academic work that led to
him winning the Fields Medal in 1994.
1955: In Istanbul, a
pogrom aimed at the city’s Jewish, Armenian and Greek populations came to an
end.
1956(2nd
of Tishrei, 5717): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1956: Roman Catholic Ralph
Branca the son of Italian born trolley car conductor and Kati Berger, a Jewish
immigrant from Hungary whose uncle Jozsef Berger died at the Majdanek
concentration camp, and whose maternal aunt Irma died in Auschwitz
concentration camp in 1942 pitched his last game for the Brooklyn Dodgrs.
1956: In Columbus, OH, Florence Mazie (née
Cohen), an amateur tap dancer, and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for the
Sara Lee Corporation and a former amateur singer gave birth to
multi-dimensional musician Michael Jay Feinstein.
1959: In Detroit, Michigan, Clarita
(Gershowitz) Karlin and Julian John Schamus gave birth to U.C. Berkley graduate
James Allan Schamus the “award-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Good Machine
production company, and the CEO of Focus Features.”
1959: In Chicago, the 3rd Pan
American Games in which Eugene Selznick’s Volleyball team won the gold medal
came to an end.
1960: Two days after he had passed away funeral
services are scheduled to held at Riverside Chapel for 64-year-old Jack David
Tarcher, the husband of Mary Tarcher with whom he had three children – Jeremy,
Judith and Miriam – who was a leader of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
of New Yew York, having served as a Trustee at Large for more than two decades
1961: Alf Honikman began serving as Mayor of
Cape Town, SA.
1963(18th of Elul, 5723): Parashat
Ki Tavo
1963(18th of Elul, 5723): Eighty-four-year-old
Hungarian born and JTS educated Morris D. Waldman who had spent more than forty
years working with various Jewish social agencies including the New York United
Hebrew Charities, the American Joint Distribution Committee and Jewish
federations in Boston, Brooklyn and Detroit passed away today. (As reported by
JTA)
1964(1st of Tishrei, 5725): As Jews
observed Rosh Hashanah, they now enjoyed a new sense of inclusion thanks to the
efforts passage two months ago of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed
discrimination based on religion. Jews
would repay the efforts of Lyndon Johnson, the man who made this possible by
voting for him in overwhelming numbers in the November elections.
1965: It was reported today “Playroom,”
described as a “thriller” is scheduled to be produced on Broadway this November
by Kermit Bloomgarden who “will dispense with the usual out-of-town tour.”
1966: ABC broadcast the first episode of “The
Monroes,” a family Western created by Milt Rosen and co-starring Barbara
Hershey
1966(22nd of Elul, 5726): Sixty-seven-year-old
comedian Al Kelly, the native of Russia named Abraham Kalish and husband of
Mary Kelly suffered a fatal heart attack tonight at the Friars Club, two years
after celebrating his 50th anniversary in show business.
1967: Walter Gradner completed two years of
service as Mayor of Cape Town.
1969: During the ‘War of Attrition “Shayetet 13
carried out Operation Escort, raiding the Egyptian anchorage at Ras Sadat and
destroying a pair of Egyptian P-183 torpedo-boats.”
1970(6th of Elul, 5730): Ninety-year-old
the Warsaw born Zionist Yitzhak Gruenbaum who was the first Interior Minister of Israel
passed away today.
http://www.jspacenews.com/yitzhak-gruenbaum-israels-king-jews/
1972: “Preparations were under way today for a
full state funeral” for the Israeli athletes murdered by the Palestinian
terrorists at the Munich Olympics which will take place after Brig. Gen.
Mordechai Prion, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF has returned with the bodies.
1972: “Munich, 1972” published today questions
the propriety of resuming the Olympic Games while “the bodies of the eleven
Israeli athletes and coaches killed by Arab terrorists were still unburied”,
places the blame for the slaughter on all “of the Arab nations” except for
Jordan and asks “the basic question” of “how to guard the international
community against the depredations of such fanatical madmen.”
1972: As the world reacted to the Munich
Massacre, The White House issued a statement “saying that President Nixon ‘was
deeply saddened at the outcome of the tragic incident and offers heartfelt
sympathy to the victims” and “Pope Paul told a group of visiting pilgrims that
the massacre at the Olympic Games ‘truly dishonors our time.’”
1972: In New York, “more than 2,000 people
filled City Hall Plaza for a memorial ceremony honoring the Israeli athletes
murdered at Munich “presided over by Mayor Lindsay” where many of those in
attendance wept as Cantor David Koussevitsky changed El Mole Rachmim.”
1973: “Ha’aretz
theatre critic Tzipora (Tzipi) Shoat” gave birth to Israeli classical
composer Gil Shoat.
http://www.dailyjews.com/articles/379_gil_shohat_interview.htm
1975(2nd of Tishrei, 5736): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1975: As the Soviet Union continued to follow
its path of increasing its influence in the Arab world, much to the detriment
of Israel, “a delegation of army political workers from South Yemen began a
week-long visit to the USSR.
1976: As relations continued to worsen between
Uganda and Kenya, due in part to Idi Amin’s anger and embarrassment over the
Israeli rescue mission at the Entebbe airport, “intelligence information
reaching Paris today said that President Idi Amin has planned a ‘revenge
operation’ against Kenya.”
1978(5th of Elul, 5738): Sixty-two-year-old
Cecil Aronowitz , the South African viola player who was appointed “head of the
String Department at the royal Northern College of Music in Manchester” passed
away today at Suffolk while “performing a piece by Motzart.”
1979: Leo Leonard (born Maxwell Lefkowitz)
delivered the “first words” on “Sports Center’s inaugural broadcast” which “launched…ESPN
on its path to becoming a television empire.”
1982(19th of Elul, 5742): Fifty-three-year-old
Leonard Marvin Kramer, the son of Ida and Jacob (Yankel0 Kamer and the husband
of Anita Shirley Kramer passed away today in Boston, MA.
1983(29th of Elul, 5743): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1983: “Revenge of the
Ninja,” directed by Sam Firstenberg, produced by Menahem and Yoram Globus and
filmed Tel Aviv born cinematographer David Gurfinkel was released today in the
United States.
1984: Blood Simple” a
crime file “written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
which was the directorial debut of the Coens and the first major film of
cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld” was released today in the United States.
1985: “A staged concert” featuring music from
Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” took place at Lincoln Center.
1985: “My Beautiful Laundrette” a comedy
directed by Stephen Fears premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
1986(3rd of Elul, 5746): Thirty-one-year-old
music promoter Ruth Polsky passed away today “after being crushed by a runaway
cab on the steps of the Limelight club in New York.”
http://thejewniverse.com/2017/this-jewish-punk-heroine-died-tragically-young/
1989: Today, “Barris Industries, Inc. an
American game show production company that was founded by Chuck Barris” “was
renamed Guber-Peters Entertainment Company”
1991(28th of Elul, 5751): Parashat
Nitzavim; last Shabbat of 5751
1991: In “Seeking Symmetry Between Palestinians
and Jews” Edward Rothstein reviews “Death of Klinghoffer” an opera that
provides a rationalization for throwing a wheel-chair bound American Jew off
the deck of cruise ship that had been hijacked by terrorists.
1992: After having ousted the incumbent, Bud
Selig began serving as “acting commissioner” of Baseball.
1993(21st of Elul, 5753):
Seventy-nine-year-old Polish born “Bruce B. Teicholz, who helped save many Jews
from the Nazis in World War II and later became a real-estate owner, manager
and broker in the New York area, passed away today at his home in Manhattan.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/teicholz-bruce-b
https://jewishjournal.com/news/214477/bruce-teicholz-my-father-always-said-he-wasnt-a-hero/
1994(2nd of Tishrei, 5755): Second
Day of Rosh Hashanah
1994: Eighty-two-year-old mathematician Dr.
Abraham Gelbart, “the founding dean of the Belfer Graduate School of Science at
Yeshiva University passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/obituaries/abraham-gelbart-mathematician-82.html
1994: “Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle”
where in a case of a Jew plays a Jew when Jennifer Jason Leigh stars in the
role of Dorothy Parker was released in the United States today by Fine Line
Pictures.
1996: ABC broadcast the first episode of “Bone
Chillers,” a television horror series created by Adams based on novels
co-authored by Daniel Weiss.
1997: “In concert with the publication of
Lauren Greenfields’s debut monograph, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of
Hollywood, her first major show, “Fast Forward” had its US debut at
the International Center for Photography (ICP) today
1997: The
New York Times book section includes reviews of Uncrowned King:The Life of Prince Albert by Jewish author Stanley Weintraub
and A Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World: A
Life in Hollywood by Stanley Kramer
1998: Google was co-founded by Larry Page and
Russian born Sergey Brin and while they were students at Stanford
Umiversity. Sergey Brin was born to a Jewish family in
Moscow. He moved to the United States at the age of six when his father took a
teaching position at the University of Maryland.
2000: The Academy Award winning documentary
“Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” was released today
in the United States.
2001: Israeli helicopter gunships killed two
Palestinian men in a failed attempt to kill one of their companions, a leader
of the local Palestinian forces who, together with his driver, escaped the
strike with moderate wounds” and a male Israeli soldier was shot dead and an
Israeli woman seriously wounded tonight as they drove on the other, Israeli,
side of the boundary” (As reported by James Bennet)
2001: Despite today’s outbreak of violence,
“Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister, said tonight after weeks of
uncertainty that he would meet next week with Yasir Arafat, the head of the
Palestinian.”
2002(1st of Tishrei, 5763): Rosh
Hashanah
2002(1st of Tishrei,5763): Uziel “Uzi” Gal the German-born-
Israeli gun designer best remembered as the designer and namesake of the Uzi
submachine gun passed away.
2003(10th of Elul, 5763): Rock
musician and songwriter Warren Zevon passed away at the age of 56. His father was Jewish and his mother was
Mormon.
2003: “And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself”
written and co-produced by Larry Gelbart and co-starring Alan Arkin was
released in the United States today.
2003: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish
interest including Triangle: The
Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle. Woody Allen: A Life in Film by
Richard Schickel
2004: It was reported today that an Israeli spy
satellite intended to increase the country’s surveillance over Iran has landed
in the Mediterranean Sea after a rocket malfunction shortly after takeoff,
Israeli.
2005(3rd of Elul, 5765): Eighty-one-year-old
Bessie Hope Wolf Garber who gained fame as actress and television personality
“Hope Garber,” hostess of “At Home with Garber” passed away today.
2005: Haaretz
reported that The Jewish Agency has invited university students in New Orleans
– Jews and non-Jews alike – to study in Israel. According to the Jewish Agency,
some 20 college students have taken an interest in the offer. Tens of thousands
of students are enrolled in universities in New Orleans, 2,000 of them Jewish.
The Agency’s initiative was welcomed by universities in Israel and will be
funded by the United Jewish Communities of North America and the Hillel
Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. The Jewish Agency put forth the initiative
after it was discovered that Tulane University, in central New Orleans, was
flooded and closed. The Jewish Agency has committed to partially funding the
students’ flights to Israel, and is also considering covering some of the
tuition fees, although the amount of funding has yet to be determined.
2005: “The IDF announced that it planned to
advance its full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to September 12, pending
cabinet approval.”
2006: Based on complaints from four different
women, the police decided that they had enough evidence to indict Moshe Katsav.
2006: According to an article in Haaretz, “Britain’s Jewish community
faces an unprecedented level of anti-Semitism and feels more threatened than
ever, according to the report of the all-party parliamentary inquiry into
anti-Semitism, which is to be released Thursday.
2007: On the first day of his three-day trip to
Austria, Pope Benedict XVI “paid solemn tribute to Holocaust victims, extending
his ‘sadness, repentance and friendship’ to the Jewish People.”
2007: As part of his “private” visit to Israel Prince Edward, who is seventh in
line for succession to the British throne attends a Shabbat dinner in Jerusalem
with Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, as well as prominent members of the British
community in Israel. During his visit,
Prince Edward went to Yad Vashem where a tree has been planted in honor of his
grandmother Princess Alice of Greece, who was recognized as “Righteous
Among the Nations” for sheltering a Jewish family in her Athens home
during the Holocaust.
2007: Five Moroccan Jews, three of them women,
ran in elections for positions in the Parliament of Morocco.
2007: “Iran’s Unlikely TV Hit” published today
described the popularity of “Zero Degree Turn,” a drama that “centers on a love
story between an Iranian-Palestinian Muslim man and a French Jewish woman”
during the Holocaust.
2008: “The Fly,” an opera in two acts by
composer Howard Shore was first performed at the Los Angeles Opera Company.
2008:
Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical response service, opens this
year’s “Lifesaving Olympics” on the top of Masada. The four-day
event, in which paramedic teams from all over Israel and the world
will show off their lifesaving skills, will see 180 participants
from thirteen countries competing.
2008: At Lester J. Morris Hillel at Michigan
State University, UJC Network Midwest Cluster Leadership Meeting Hosted by the
Jewish Federation of Greater Lansing.
2008: First day of Sunday School at Temple
Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa marking the start of another year of Jewish
education programs designed to meet the needs of this small, but vibrant
eastern Iowa Jewish community.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, presentation of a
concert titled “Klezmer to Clasiccal.”
2008: The Washington Post book section
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of Jewish interest
including Hot, Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — And
How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Steven Hawking to Make the
World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind and The New Paradigm for Financial
Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros.
2008: The New
York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish reader including the recently paperback editions of Mort Zachter’s Dough:
A Memoir and Yael Goldstein Love’s
The Passion of Darsky.
2009:
Opening night of the Second annual Piyyut Festival in Jerusalem featuring
Cantor David Riachi, an orchestra and a children’s choir.
2009:
Opposition leader and Kadima party chief Tzipi Livni blasted the Netanyahu
government today, calling its policy amateurish and indecisive and denying she
had any intentions of having Kadima join the government.
2009:
Today, the Jerusalem Post obtained an exclusive letter from German
President Horst Köhler criticizing the decision to award Germany’s highest
Medal of Honor – the Federal Cross of Merit – to anti-Zionist attorney Felicia
Langer.
2010:
Notyetness, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Israeli-American Yael
Kanarek is scheduled to open at Bitforms Gallery in New York City.
2010:
The DVD of “The Round Up” a French movie “based on the true story of a young
Jewish boy that depicts the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv) — the
mass arrest of Jews by French police who were Nazi accomplices in Paris in July
1942
2011: The Gilad Hekselman Quartet is scheduled
to perform at the Jazz Standard in NYC where they will celebrate the release of
Gilad’s third album ‘Hearts Wide Open’ on Le Chant Du Monde label of Harmina
Mundi
2011: “The Exchange,” an Israeli Hebrew
language film “directed by Eran Kolirin” premiered at the Venice International
Film Festival today.
2011: Rabbi Mindy Avra Portnoy is scheduled to
lead the opening session of “Not the Matriarchs: Lesser Known Women of the
Hebrew Bible” at the JCC of Greater Washington.
2011: Day @ the J is scheduled to feature a screening of the
documentary “Yiddish Theater: A Love Story,” a hot lunch, and an
Israeli art exhibit, Expressions Fine Art at the Jewish Community Center of Greater
Washington, in Rockville, MD.
2011: Israeli settlers in the West Bank
vandalized an Israel Defense Forces base today, carrying out a “price
tag” operation against the army for the first time since adopting the
policy in recent years.
2011: Today, Israel Police began dismantling
social protest encampment sites in Tel Aviv and Holon, less than two months
after activists set up the tent cities to demonstrate against the high cost of
living in the country
2011(8th of Elul, 5771): Eighty-four-year-old
William Lee Frost, the Jewish philanthropist who had succeeded his father a
President of the Jewish Telegraphic agency passed away today. (As reported by
JTA)
http://forward.com/articles/142577/william-lee-frost-former-jta-leader-dies-at-/
2011(8th of Elul, 5771): Daniel
Rogov, Israel’s leading food and wine critic and veteran writer for Haaretz,
passed away today. Rogov, who wrote under a pseudonym, was born in the U.S.A.
He finished his high school studies at the age of 15 and flew to Paris, where
he began his journalistic career by writing articles about food and wine for
American magazines and newspapers. He later widened his repertoire and wrote
for publications in France and Switzerland and appeared on television programs
as an expert in the subject. He moved to Israel in 1978 and began writing for
the Jerusalem Post, quickly establishing himself as the leading wine
expert in Israel. He started writing for Haaretz in 1984. Rogov was the author
of “The Rogov Guide to Israeli Wine,” an annual study of the year’s best
vintner selections. Rogov announced he was leaving Haaretz just three days
before his death, due to his deteriorating health. A month earlier, on August 29, top members of
the wine industry organized an evening in his honor at the Dan Panorama hotel
in Tel Aviv. Rogov contributed to Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book, and the Tom
Stevenson wine report, and managed the Wine Lovers Page website. Rogov prepared
a goodbye message for members of the website’s forum. “When it comes to food
and wine… I wrote about them throughout the years out of a sense of love and
devotion, both emotional and intellectual,” he wrote in the message. As I hope I showed, food and wine for me are
not just things that go into our bodies. They are a reflection of our
anthropology, our history, our psychology, out social needs, and of course,
enjoyment.” “Like all critics who take themselves seriously, I greatly enjoyed
sharing my thoughts, and in a certain sense I consider myself as the Umberto
Eco of wine and culinary criticism, my writing reflects both and accurate and
post-modern, that leaves the intelligent reader to come to his own conclusions.
At the end of the day, this was a good life.”
2011: commissioner Insp.-Gen. Yochanan Danino
has set up a special task force to tackle far right elements in the West Bank
suspected of being behind a string of recent attacks launched as a response to
demolitions of illegal outposts. The task force will be made up of officers
from the elite national Lahav 433 unit and Judea and Samaria police district,
police said today.
2012: A symposium sponsored by the Library of
Congress entitled “The Stations That Spoke Your Language: Radio and the Yiddish
American Cultural Renaissance” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2012: Elad Lassry’s Untitled (Presence) is
scheduled to open at the Kitchen in NYC.
2012(20th of Elul): Yahrtzeit of Dr.
Jacob Levin – a great man who lives on in so many ways.
2012: Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip
fired two Kassam rockets into the western Negev early today.. (As reported by
Times of Israel Staff)
2012: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel
may reoccupy parts of the Gaza strip in the future, while speaking at a meeting
of the Fisher Institute on “Operation Cast Lead” today.
2013:
Thanks to change in policy by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, elections
are scheduled to take place instead of on Yom Kippur as originally planned by
his predecessor Julia Gillard.
2013(3rd
of Tishrei, 5774): In Cedar Rapids, guest Chazan Ilan Caplan leads traditional
Shabbat Shuvah services at Temple Judah.
2013(3rd
of Tishrei, 5774): Ninety-four-year-old cellist Fred Katz passed away today.
(As reported by Margalit Fox)
2013:
As Israelis and Jews around the world wait for “the next shoe to drop” Egyptian
troops move into the Sinai “to clean out insurgents,” CNN released videos
showing victims of Syrian gas attacks and supporters of the Assad regime
threaten all kinds of retaliation ranging from terrorism to cyber-attacks aimed
at disrupting commerce and industry around the world.
2013:
Israel drew 1-1 with Azerbaijan tonight in a disappointing performance which
made the team’s World Cup 2014 hopes a very long shot.
2014:
The New York Times published reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including 10:04 by Ben Lerner and Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The
Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth.
2014: Zvi Eckstein is scheduled to speak on “The
Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History” at the Center for Jewish
History
2014:
As part of events marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of
“Fiddler on the Roof” the Slidell (LA) Little Theatre is scheduled to present
its final performance of the Broadway hit. (As reported by the Crescent City
Jewish News, the source of information about Jewish communities along the
bayous and Gulf Coast)
2014:
The Chicago Bears, led by Coach Mark Tressman, the only Jewish NFL coach opened
their seasons by losing to the lowly Buffalo Bills.
2014:
Bruce Levenson, the owner of the Atlanta Hawks announced today he will sell his
controlling interest in the National Basketball Association franchise because
of racially insensitive remarks he made, in an echo of a scandal involving the
former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team.”
2014:
The memorial service for comedian Joan Rivers took place this afternoon at
Temple Emnanu-El in New York City.
2014:
“Rioters, angry over the today’s death of an East Jerusalem teenager from
wounds sustained a week earlier after being shot by Israeli police during a
riot threw rocks and attacked a gas station convenience store near the seam
line between the East and West sides of Jerusalem Sunday night, as the capital
saw the worst spate of violence since the killing of an East Jerusalem teen in
June.” (Times of Israel)
2014:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to
sponsor “a Sephardic-focused walking tour of South Portland, including a behind
the scenes look at Portland’s Sephardic synagogue, Congregation Ahavath Achim.”
2014:
Robyn Helzner, whose underground performances in the Soviet Union inspired
countless Jews and refuseniks is scheduled to perform at the ceremonies marking
the opening of “Voices of the Vigil: Documenting the Soviet Jewry Movement.”
2014:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Creative Corridor’s cultural season opens with
Brucemorchestra presenting an “American Salute” featuring the music of those
all-American composers, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.
2015:
In Leeds, UK, Michael Meadowcroft is scheduled to deliver a lecture about the
life of Joshua Samuel Walsh, the solicitor who was Lord Mayor of Leeds from
1966 to 1967.
2015:
At the Neue Galerie, the exhibition “”Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer:
The Woman in Gold” is scheduled to come to a close but the Portrait of
Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimit is on permanent view at the gallery.
http://neuegalerie.org/content/gustav-klimt-and-adele-bloch-bauer-woman-gold
2015:
At the University of Michigan, Janice Bluestein Longone is scheduled “kick-off
her last show a look at the evolution of menus and guidebooks over the decades,
titled “Dining Out: Menus, Chefs, Restaurants, Hotels and Guidebooks.”
http://forward.com/culture/213166/cookbook-collector-savors-recipes-for-living-in-mi/
2015:
In Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, The
Crescent Jewish News in partnership with Torah Academy is scheduled to
present the 1st Original Red Beans & Rice Cook-Off.
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Red-Beans-Rules_Final1.pdf
http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cookoff1.jpg
2016:
Dr. Steven Feller, the Chair of the Physics Department at Coe College is
scheduled to be awarded today with one of three very special, and highly
prestigious, Centenary Fellowships, which have been created to celebrate the
100th Anniversary of the founding of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) at
the SGT100 Centenary Conference which is being held in conjunction with the
biennial European Society of Glass Conference in Sheffield, UK.
2016:
“Jackie,” a biopic about the former first lady written by Noah Oppenheim and
starring Natalie Portman premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.
2016:
“The Jewish Book Council, Met Council, and the Yeshiva University Museum at the
Center for Jewish History” are scheduled to host “The Newest Dish on Jewish
Fish” – a panel “discussion on the culinary histories of the most
“acquired tastes” of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine” followed by a guided
tour of the Yeshiva University Museum’s feature exhibit, “Nourishing Tradition:
Jewish Cookbooks and the Stories They Tell.”
2016:
As Border Police and Israel Police officers were leaving the Shuafat
neighborhood in Jerusalem today, a car began to speed up in the officers’
direction in an attempt to hit them. When the driver ignored warnings and
continued driving at high speed toward the group, the officers fired, killing
him
2016:
Baxter St at CCNY is scheduled to host the opening reception for Polaris an
exhibition that includes the works of Israeli born artist Ofri Cnanni.
2016:
Michael Dell’s “Dell Inc. completed the acquisition of EMC Corporation, which
“at $67 billion has been labeled the highest-valued tech acquisition in
history.”
2017(16th
of Elul, 5777): Ninety-four-year-old Buffalo born illustrator Jerimiah Goodman
passed away today
2017:
Rabbi Zamir Cohen and Rabbi Charlie Harary are scheduled to speak in Great Neck
at today’s Hidabroot Event.
2017:
The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2017:
In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel launches its latest museum exhibit, “Cinema
Judaica: The War Years, 1939-1949.”
2017:
Today “nearly 10 years to the day after Israel allegedly destroyed a Syrian
nuclear reactor,” the IAF “allegedly carried out an airstrike against a Syrian
advanced weapons development facitly” known as the Scientific Studies and
Research Center. (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)
2017:
The Philos Project and American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to host
“Nosotros: Strengthening Bonds Between Jewish and Latino Communities,” “an art
exhibit featuring the work of three renowned Latino artists–Juan Bravo
(Dominican Republic), Angel Urrely (Cuba), and Carlos Ayala (Puerto Rico)–as a
symbolic recognition and “step forward” to improving Jewish-Latino relations.
Each piece reflects the shared roots of Jewish and Latino communities and
expresses hope for a more positive future from the perspective of each
respective artist
2018:
Beit Avi Chai is scheduled to host “Kabbalat Shabbat Elul” with a theme of
anticipating the New Year with “forigiveness, hope and prayer for new and
blessed beginnings.”
2018:
The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screening
of “Transit,” a tale of about escaping from the Nazis with a strange, romantic
twist.
2018:
The Meteor Musical Festival is scheduled to continue for a second day in the
Upper Galilee.
https://meteorfestival.com/programme/
2018(27th
of Elul, 5778): Because of a quirk in the calendar, Shabbat falling on the 28th
of Elul, the Shofar is blown for the last time in 5778.
2019(7th
of Elul, 5779): Parashat Shoftim;
2019:
“Jerusalem International Connection Israel” is scheduled to sponsor a “Couples
and Families Third Meal Picnic at Beit Elisheva.”
2019:
In Columbus, OH, in addition to its other Shabbat observances, Congregation
Tifereth Israel is scheduled to a Religious School Retreat for Grades 4 – 8.
2019:
This evening, JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to host comedian Mike
Capozzola.
2019:
In Jerusalem, the Train Theater is scheduled to present “Dragon – There Is No
Such Thing.”
2019:
Fortieth anniversary of Leo Leonard (born Maxwell Lefkowitz) delivering the
“first words” on “Sports Center’s inaugural broadcast” which “launched…ESPN on
its path to becoming a sports powerhouse.”
2020:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the first session of its Virtual High
Holiday School with Melissa Clark who shows how to plan and organize your
festive meal.
2020:
The Virtual Sephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of
“Leona.”
2020:
“Outside the Box Encounters” Tours is scheduled to begin its trip into “the Jewish-Orthodox
reality in Jerusalem at “Davidka Square with a short talk about the Jewish
Orthodox world.
2020:
As Labor Day is celebrated in the United States, Jews, who are commanded to
Labor for six days before they can rest, might want to contemplate their
changing views and roles in the history of the American Labor Movement (Lest we
forget, in the garment industry it was often Jewish owners versus Jewish
sweatshop workers
http://www.csjo.org/resources/essays/jews-in-the-american-labor-movement/
https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/herberg-labor.pdf
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2006/01/readings_on_the_american_jewis_1.html
2020:
Proving that Jewish study time never takes “a holiday” Temple Sinai of
Marblehead is scheduled to host the first session of “Rabbi David’s Torah Study
Class.”
2020:
Lost Tribe Esports which serves Jewish communities during the coronavirus
crisis and beyond, offering online esports and social opportunities for teens
and young adults, in partnership with a wide range of Jewish organizations is
scheduled to an online Madden 20 Xbox 1 Online Tournament
2020:
The 29th Annual Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to
come to an end with a “2016 documentary that includes foot of old interviews
with David Ben Gurion.’
2020:
In what some would say is a reminder of the power of Haredi political leaders,
Israelis are scheduled to adhere to “a night-time curfew for 40 settlements, cities and communities with a high
infection rate instead of a full lockdown, following pressure from
ultra-Orthodox leaders.”
2021(1st of Tishrei, 5782) Rosh
Hashanah;
2021:
YJP Boston is scheduled to host a Rosh Hashanah New Year’s Banquet, that
incudes “a gourmet brisket dinner, imported wines and traditional Rosh Hashanah
delicacies” at the Chai Center in Brookline.
2021:
As Israelis celebrate Rosh Hashanah, they have additional reason to celebrate
because, according to a health officials report issued yesterday, “the
country’s coronavirus infection rate has hit a two-week low.” (As reported by
Yaron Drukman)
2021:
Because the pro—pandemic forces have made it possible for the virus to mutate
and spread while rendering the vaccines less effective JTA’s partner site My
Jewish Learning has compiled a list of free Rosh Hashanah services online,
covering all U.S. time zones so you can find a service that meets your needs.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/where-to-stream-rosh-hashanah-services/?utm_source=MJL_Maropost&utm_campaign=70FM_Events&utm_medium=email
2022: Hillel of Silicon
Valley, Jewish Silicon Valley, Jewish High Tech Community, Jewish Community
Federation and Oshman Family JCC are scheduled to present Dermatologist-entrepreneur
Dr. Kathy Fields giving a talk titled “Driven to Fulfillment: A Plan for Action
in the Quest for Purpose.”
2022: The Center For
Jewish History is scheduled to present a discussion of Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds, “a new collection of short stories by Jewish and non-Jewish
writers, including numerous award-winning authors, exploring the light and dark
sides of religion and culture, examining such issues as the enduring legacy of
negative stereotypes amid rising anti-Semitism, prejudice, assimilation, and
questions of regional, national, and ethnic identity.”
2022: In Florida, Temple
Judea is scheduled to host a Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Feivel Strauss
lecturing on “Albert Einstein – Get to the Jewish Innovators.”
2022: Congregation Beth
Israel of Merrimack Valley is scheduled to host “Open House Week.”
2023: The Laurie M.
Tisch Gallery of the Marlene Meyerson JCC is scheduled to host the opening
reception of Tales and Textiles, “two exhibits from the Contemporary Art Center
Ramle curated by Dr. Smadar Sheffi.
2023: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on an English love
triangle “Herbert Asquith, Edwin Montague and Venetia Stanley.”
2023: The Center for
Jewish History is scheduled to present a “CJH book discussion, led by Lauren
Gilbert, Director of Public Services at the Center for Jewish History” which
will feature a discussion of Kantika, a dazzling, multigenerational Sephardic saga that spans
continents, telling a story of endurance and reinvention based on the true
history of author Elizabeth Graver’s own family.
2024: In Columbus, OH at
Tefireth Israel, Rabbi Hillel Skolnik is scheduled to lead the first session in
the High Holiday Learning Series.
2023: JDC Archives is
scheduled a webinar lecture by Yair Wallach on “Rethinking Ashkenazi History in
the Modern Middle East: Early 20th Century Egypt and Palestine.”
2023: The ASF’s
Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “Sefarad,” “a film about
the revival and rebirth of a Jewish community…”
2024: Hundreds of people
are expected at an event to mark 11 months to the day since the Nova music
festival massacre which will take place this afternoon outside the Israeli
embassy in central London and will pay
special tribute to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex
Lobanov and Almog Sarusi, taken hostage from Nova and executed by Hamas last
week.
2024: This evening Israelis
prepare to deal with another round of weekly Saturday night protests.
2024: Agnon House is scheduled
to host a discussion led by Ofir Lifshitz
which will
deal with the Jewish, religious and spiritual renewal of the city, the
dedication of the synagogue, the religious customs of the city’s residents, and
various small anecdotes that Agnon places under the titles “Messiah”,
“Elijah’s Throne” and “The Polished Chandelier”.
2024: Temple Judea is
fortunate to have Rabbi Feivel Strauss lead today’s scheduled Torah study
session
2024: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Peimer on The Great
Dictators: Spielberg, Part 1.”
2024(4th of Elul, 5784):
Parashat Shoftim (Judges)
16:18-21-9 Devarim
(Deuteronomy) For more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:
As September 7th 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 337 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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