This Day, March 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March
5
363: Roman Emperor
Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire,
in a campaign which will lead to his own death. Julian followed Constantine to
the throne and turned back his predecessor’s pro-Christian promulgations. Effectively, his decrees gave validity to
other religions previously practiced in the Empire. On his was to fight the Sassanids, Julian
gave orders that the Temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt. His untimely death prevented this from
happening. The Sassanids were the
Persians of their day.
1133: Birth of King
Henry II of England during whose reign Jews would prosper as reported by
visitors including Abraham ibn Ezra and Isaac of Chernigov as well as the money
that flowed to his coffers through the estate of Aaron of Lincoln and “the
Saladin tithe.”
1179:
The Third Lateran Council opens at Rome.
At the end of the meeting the council would adopt the following as
matters of canon law: “Jews should be slaves to Christians and at the
same time treated kindly due of humanitarian considerations.” ”The
testimony of Christians against Jews is to be preferred in all causes where
they use their own witnesses against Christians.“
1245: As the Mongols continued their sweep
across Christian Europe, Innocent IV issued “Dei patris immense,” a Papal bull
urging them to be baptized. These are
the same Mongols who had destroyed the kingdom of the Khazars in 1239. Apparently, the Mongols were no more
impressed with Christianity than the Khazars had been since the latter, in a
legendary contest, had chosen Judaism over Islam and Christianity.
1291(3rd of Nisan): Sa’ad al-Da’ulah, Jewish
grand vizier under the Mongol ruler of Persia Argun Kahn was assassinated
today.
1326: Birthdate of
King Louis I “who initially had shown toleration to the Jews” and then expelled
them from Hungary after he failed to convert them to Catholicism
1328(15th of Adar, 5088): After the
death of Charles the Fair today, Pedro Olligoyen, a Franciscan friar, used the
Jews as a scapegoat against French rule. Starting today, Shabbat, all the
Jewish houses were pillaged and then destroyed. Approximately 6000 Jews were
murdered with 20 survivors. Among the dead were parents and four younger
brothers of Menachem ben Zerach, “then barely twenty years old who became a
scholar of commanding influence.” He was
saved by “a compassionate knight” who was a friend of the young Jew’s father.
1328(15th of Adar, 5088): Aaron ben Zerah,
a French Jew “banished from his original home in 1306 by order of King Philip
the Fair, of France, who confiscated his property” and who had sought refuge at
Estella, where, after a residence of twenty years, he, his wife, and several of
his sons were slaughtered by the Christians are described in “Ẓedah
la-Derek,” a work written by Aaron’s son Menahem, who escaped death.
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/104-aaron-ben-zerah
1563: Havazzelet ha-Shaon, a commentary on the
Book of Daniel by Rabbi Moses Alshekh was published for the first time today.
1605: Sixty-nine year old Pope Clement VIII who
“Implemented strict measures against Jewish residents of the Papal States”
including the 1592 papal bull that
forbade “the Jewish community of the Comtat Venaissin of Avignon, a papal
enclave, to sell new goods, putting them at an economic disadvantage; the 1593,
the bull Caeca et Obdurata that reiterated Pope Pius V’s decree of 1569 which
banned Jews from living in the Papal states outside the cities of Rome, Ancona,
and Avignon and the bull Cum Hebraeorum malitia that also forbade the reading
of the Talmud, passed away today.
1616: The Roman Catholic Church decreed that
the Copernican theory was “false and erroneous” and that teaching or believing
in the earth orbiting the sun was prohibited.
For one view of Copernicus and the Jews see
http://www.elijahnet.net/copernicusandthejews.html
1696: Birthdate of
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. His fresco,
“The Sacrifice of Isaac” is an example of how European artists used the Hebrew
Bible as an inspiration and resource. It also is an example of how deeply entrenched
Judaism is in the fabric of Western Civilization
1737: The Dragon, a fifteen-ton sloop built in
Lewes, Delaware was registered today by three individuals including Daniel
Nunez who in 1743 registered the sloop Sally and the twenty ton sloop Molly of
which he was part owner and Master. (Editor’s note- some show the date as 1738)
1767: In Boulay-Moselle, Jacob Bernard Fould,
“a small-time wine dealer” and his wife gave birth to Beer Léon Fould, “the
founder of the Fould banking dynasty.”
1779: In London, Lydia Cohen and Solomon
Gompertz gave birth to Benjamin Gompertz, the husband of Abigail Montefiore and
the father of Justina, Joseph and Juliana Gompertz who was “a British
self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal
Society.”
1783: King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski
granted rights to Jews of Kovno.
1787(15th of Adar, 5547): Shushan
Purim observed on the same day that “Dr. Erastus Sargeant writes to Major
General William Shepard describing being captured by Shays’ Regulators as they
attack and loot the town of Stockbridge” during a major threat to the newly
formed United States known as Shay’s Rebellion.
1791: Birthdate of Frankfurt, Germany native
Jantoff Lasse Oppenheim, the husband of Fanny Oppenheim and the father of
Betty, Louis, Moritz and Helene Oppenheim.
1792(11th of Adar, 5552): Moses
Alexander (Moshe ben Abraham) passed away today in London.
1795(14th of Adar, 5555): Purim
1798: Today French troops completely overran
Switzerland, leading to the collapse of the Old Swiss Confederation where
Jewish settlement had been limited to a couple of communities and creation a
month later of the Helvetic Republic.
1805: Jewish businessman David B. Nones who “had
a claim against for supplies taken from the Kitty,” wrote James Madison
requesting a passport for a voyage across “the Seas.”
1814(13th of Adar, 5574): Seventy-four-year-old
Solomon Pappenheim, the son of Rabbi Seligmann Pappenheim of Zulz, who was the
associate rabbi at Breslau and the author of a three volume work on Hebrew
synonyms passed away today.
1815: Birthdate of Austrian banker Friedrich
Freiherr Schey von Koromla, the father of Charlotte Przibram and the maternal
grandfather of biologist Hans Leo Przibram
1816: In Charleston, SC, Rachel and Nathan Hart
who were married in 1807 gave birth to Hyman N. Hart, the husband of Hetty
Maria Gomez.
1817: Birthdate of Sir Austen Henry Layard
whose excavations at Ninveh helped to provided historical context for the
events described in the Bible and whose discovery of the library of
Ashurbanipal provided a copy of the “Epic of Gilgamesh” a flood story that in
some respects parallels that of Noah and helped to establish the historicity of
the event.
1820: Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbade Jews to go to synagogues on
Sundays.
1821(1st of Adar II, 5581): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II
1821(1st of Adar II, 5581): Sarah
Hendricks, who had been born to Uriah and Eve Esther Gomez Hendricks in 1777
and who was the sister of Jochobed, Charlotte, Rebecca, Hanna, Mordecai and
Harmon Hendricks passed away today after which she was buried at the Third
Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan.
1825(15th of Adar, 5585): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shushan Purim observed for the first time during the presidency of
John Q. Adams.
1828: Jacob ben Eliezer HaCohen married Keila
bat Benjamin Zeev Wolf HaLevi today at the New Synagogue.
1829: Today, the London Tavern on Bishopgate
Street is scheduled to host the anniversary celebration for the Jews’ Free
School.
1832: In Frankfurt am Main, Charlotte and
Anselm von Rothschild, a chief of the Vienna House of Rothschild gave birth
their second oldest daughter Hannah Mathilde Rothschild who was known for her
musical skills and who married the banker Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, a cousin
of her father with whom she had two daughters, Adelheid and Minna Caroline
Rothschild.
1838: In Kent, England, Ann Crawcour and Reuben
Alexander gave birth to Fanny Alexander.
1841: In Philadelphia, Abraham Hart and Rebecca
Cohen Hart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaacks
gave birth to Myrtilla Eduora Hart who became Myrtilla Eudora Mitchell when she
married Lewis Allen Mitchell with whom she had four children – Estelle, Irving,
Percival and Clarence Mitchell.
1844(14th of Adar, 5604): Purim
1849: At “Government Vitebsk,” Levy Rapport and
his wife gave birth toe Rabbi N. Rapport the leader of Congregation Kneseth
Israel, in Reading, PA.
1851: In Beisegola, Russia, David Atlas and his
wife gave birth Elazar Atlas, the bookkeeper turned literary critic.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2090-atlas-elazar-lazar
1855(15th of Adar, 5615): Shushan
Purim on the same day that John Snow had submitted his paper on the cholera outbreaks
in Great Britains
1856: In New York, Esther (Nathan) Lazarus and
Moses Lazarus gave birth to Agnes Marx.
1856: Michael Heymanson married Adelaide Jewell
today at the Great Synagogue.
1858: In Vienna, Simon and Marie Spitzer gave
birth to Dr. Franz Spitzer
https://case.edu/ech/articles/a/anisfield-john
1861: Dr. Fischer delivered a paper at
tonight’s meeting of the New York Historical Society entitled “The History of
the Inquisition in America” that included a description of the life and death
by fire of the dramatist Antonio José da Silva.
Da Silva wrote most of his plays while imprisoned in a dudgeon and faced
the auto de fe rather than betray the faith of his fathers.
1861: William H. Seward
began serving as Secretary of State under President Abraham Lincoln. Seward had
visited Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine in 1859 and it is thought that
his talk about that visit may have been the factor that prompted Lincoln’s
comment that when his term was over he wanted to visit the “Holy Land” during
his travels aboard with Mrs. Lincoln.
1862(3rd of
Adar II, 5622): During the Civil War, Philadelphian Henry Bamberger, a Corporal
with Company E of the 79th Regiment who had been serving since
September of 1861 died today “at Munfordsville, KY.”
1863: The Zion Musical
Society which was formed by Rabbi and Cantor Gustave M. Cohen and which “may
have been the first public Jewish singing organization established in 19th
Century America” gave it first performance today at Cleveland, Ohio’s Melodeon
Hall.
1863(14th of Adar,
5623) Purim
1863: In New York, more
than three thousand Jews and their friends gathered tonight at the Academy of
Music to for the second annual grand ball of the Purim Association. The first
grand ball took place last year and it was a great success. Many of the guest
came in costumes including “one lady who was dressed … in garments made
entirely of Frank Leslie’s paper, and was decidedly a feature of the night, as
were “Joan of Arc,” “Old Aunt Dinah,” “Mehitabel Ann,”
“Old Mother Goose,” “Pocahontas,” “Anne Boleyn”
and the “Dame aux Camelias.” One lady was dressed in the height of
fashion, in garments made entirely of Frank Leslie’s paper, and was decidedly a
feature of the night, as were “Joan of Arc,” “Old Aunt
Dinah,” “Mehitabel Ann,” “Old Mother Goose,”
“Pocahontas,” “Anne Boleyn” and the “Dame aux
Camelias.” Myer S. Isaacs and his committee are to be congratulated for putting
on such a successful event which was orderly and entertaining.
1866: In London, Miriam
Solomons and Abraham Bittan gave birth to Benjamin Bittan.
1869: Birthdate of
Michael von Faulhaber who was Archbishop of Munich from 1917 until 1952 who
opposed the Nazis on certain issues but demonstrated the anti-Semitism
compatible with European Christianity as manifested by his work with Amici
Israel among other things.
1869: The first edition
of the Jewish Times appeared in New
York City. Mortiz Ellinger was the
publisher.
1869: Two days after
she had passed away, Jane Norden, “the daughter of the late Jacob Norden” and
Catherine Jacobs was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish
Cemetery.
1870: In Cambridge
City, Indiana, Michael H. and Rachel Levy Franklin gave birth to Leo Morris
Franklin the graduate of the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College
who began his career Temple Israel in Omaha before serving as Rabbi of
Detroit’s Temple Beth El for over four decades.
1871: In Zamość, Congress Poland, Russian
Empire, timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg and Line Löwenstein gave birth to German
revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSluxemburg.htm
1871: The clause of the Constitution of the
Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel “establishing an endowment fund
for widows and orphans” “went into effect” today which meant that “the widow
and orphans of a deceased member became entitled to receive $1,000 besides
monthly benefits.”
1872: In Uniontown, AL, Mary Wise and Leo
Obendorfer, a successful jeweler gave birth to Carrie Obedorfer Simon, the
graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and wife of Rabbi Abram Simon
with whom she had two sons, Leo and David, who was a founder of the Reform
movement’s National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods in 1913.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/simon-carrie-obendorfer
1873: In Kovno, Lithuania (part of the Russian
Empire), Fanny Sapira Morris and Jacob Samuel Samuels Morris gave birth to
Hyman Morris who was the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Leeds.
1873: In Russia, “Leib-Ber and Dinah Bernstein
gave birth to NYU trained attorney John L. Bernstein the husband of Celene J.
Richtier and the President of H.I.A.S. from 1917 to 1926.
1874: “A Gang of Swindlers” published today
described J. Moritz Ehrenberg, a college educated middle class Hungarian born
Jew as the leader of a group of con man who have preyed on members of the
American financial community in many cities. Michael Mandel, an Austrian born
Jew and Henry Hertz, a Russian born Jew are two of his comrades in these
larcenous schemes for which they have been imprisoned in New York and Missouri.
1874: In Berlin, Ignatz (Isidore) Hantke and
Johanne Hantke gave birth to Zionist leader Arthur Menachem “Max” Hantke, the
husband of Edith Alice Hantke and the father of Tehila and Jonathan Theodor
Hantke who made Aliyah in the 1920’s.
1876: It was reported today that a Purim
reception will be held at Delmonico’s 4 days after the actual celebration of
the holiday on the Jewish calendar.
1876: Birthdate of Francis Deak Pollak, the
native of NYC and Columbia Law School Graduate who was a partner in the firm of
Sullivan and Cromwell and served as a trustee of the Jewish Agricultural and
Industrial Aid Society.
1876: Karl Goldmark’s “Rustic Wedding Symphony
premiered in Vienna today.
1878(30th of Adar I, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Adar
II
1879: In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy
officiated at the wedding of Isaac Levy of Thomasville, GA and “Rachel Elias,
the daughter of the late Levy Elias.”
1879: In New York, Judge Gildersleve is
scheduled to rule on an application compelling the 3 Salomon brothers to pay
six dollars a week in support of Mrs. Fanny Solomon, their 70-year-old
mother. She had petitioned the court for
a payment of support. The sons had
contested the matter claiming that their mother was financially capable of
taking of herself.
1880: In Russia, Max and Sima (Plotka)
Silverman gave birth to Providence, RI Jewelry store owner and Jewish community
leader, Archibald Silverman the husband of Ida Camelhor and the father of
Irwin, Norman and Selma Silverman.
http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?iid=275
1880:
The would-be assassin of General Melilkoff, a leading figure in Russia,
who was to be hanged today, said while be interrogated that he had converted
from Judaism because it was impossible for a Jew to live in St. Petersburg.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E6DA173FEE3ABC4E53DFB566838B699FDE
1880:
Publication of “Was Shylock A Jew”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0CEEDB173FEE3ABC4D53DFB566838B699FDE
1881(4th of Adar II, 5641): Parashat
Pekudi
1881(4th of Adar II, 5641): Fifty-nine-year-old
Baruch Rothschild the son of Simon Rothschild and Rosina Ullman passed away
afer which he was buried at the Judischer Friedholf Wiesloch cemetery in
Wurttemberg, Germany.
1882(14th of Adar, 5642): Purim
1882: In Vienna, Albert Salomon von Rothschild
and Bettina Caroline de Rothschild gave birth to Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild
who had to pay the Nazi twenty-one million dollars to gain his freedom.
1884: Gustav Jacob Born and his first wife
Gretchen Kauffmann gave birth to their daughter Kathe.
1884: In the wake of an order expelling all
Jews holding foreign passports from Odessa and other Russian cities, The
Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Internal Relations, St.
Petersburg said that it could not provide Jewish citizens of America with
Russian permits of residence.
1885: Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
completed his terms U.S. Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur
during which he dealt with problems related to the persecution of Jews in
Russia and Russian discrimination against American Jews trying to do business
in the Czar’s empire.
1885: In Vienna, Dr. Alois Klemperer and
Eugenie Jenny Klemperer gave birth to Gustav Klemperer
1887: In Great Britain Jewish novelist Benjamin
Leopold Farjeon and Margaret Jefferson gave birth to Herbert Farjeon, a major
force in “the British theatre from 1910 until 1945.”
1890(13th of
Adar, 5650): Erev Purim
1890: “Dancing For Charity” published today
described the charity ball given by the Purim Association has raised between
ten and twelve thousand dollars for the United Hebrew Charities.
1890: In Baltimore, MD, Benjamin and Rose
Nathan Perlman gave birth to Philip B. Perlman who was appointed as U.S.
Solicitor General by President Truman in 1947, making him the first Jew to hold
that post.
1890: As Mr. and Mrs. Lazar Anezes and their
four children are detained by the Commissioners of Emigration as paupers and
the United Hebrew Charities work for their admission by offering “to go surety
for them” Judge O’Brien granted a writ of habeas corpus.
1890: Birthdate of Latvia native Bernard
Shulman, the John Marshall Law School trained Chicago attorney who was a
“director of the Orthodox Jewish Home for the Aged.”
1890: “Lipschutz Won Another Game” published
today descried the third game of the
match between Jewish chess champions Eugene Delmar and Samuel Lipshcutz
at the Manhattan Chess Club which Lipschutz
when Delmar “resigned” after the 49th move.
1891: In Boston, “Benjamin M. and Rena Etta
(Jaffe) Feinberg gave birth to Abraham Selig, the holder of a bachelor’s degree
from Bates College in Lewiston, ME and an LL.B. from Harvard.
1891 In one of the earliest manifestations of
popular non-Jewish support for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the
Blackstone Memorial was sent to President Benjamin Harrison. The petition was the creation of Reverend
William Eugene Blackstone and called for U.S. government support in the
endeavor. It was signed by 431 prominent Americans including John D.
Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and future President William McKinley and was
supported by a myriad of newspapers including the New York Times, Chicago
Tribune and the Washington Post. Harrison’s lack of response may have been
another sign of the ineptitude that would lead voters to deny him a second term
a year later.
1891: Birthdate of Boston native and Harvard
train lawyer and state district court judge Abraham Selig Feinberg.
1892: Kansas Congressman Funston was brought to
tears during his visit to Ellis Island today when he saw the conditions under
which the immigrants were living. A
member of the House Committee on Immigration, Funston was so moved by what he
saw that he took money from his own billfold and gave it to some of those whom
he encountered.
1892(6th of Adar, 5652): James
Solomon Moore who had suffered a stroke two years ago passed away this evening
in New York City. Born at Konigsberg,
Germany in 1821, he moved to England at the age of 17 where he pursued his studies
while living with his uncle, P.B. Moore.
He came to the United States during the 1840’s and in 1849 joined the
California Gold Rush. After a successful business career, he became interested
in economic theory and his advocacy of removing tarries earned him the title of
“The Father of Free Trade.” He married Amelia Moore in 1854 and was a member of
B’nai Jeshrun at Madison and 65th Street.
1892: In New York Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes
was shot in the abdomen at his home by a beggar named Jose Mizrachee. Born in
England, he had been the rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel of New York and
an active member of the Jewish community, who, among other things, established
the Jewish Theological Seminary and The American Hebrew. Misrachee
followed the rabbi home from the synagogue and forced his way into the house
and shot him during a botched robbery attempt.
The rabbi’s wife and baby were in the house at the town. Emergency surgery spared Mendes and permanent
harm. Mizrachee is described as an
“Arabian Jew” who came to the United States in 1890. He was well known to the victim and other
members of his congregation for his aggressive begging habits and his failure
to be content with any “alms” that were given to him.
1893: R.H. Macy & Co. was advertising the
sale of “Passover Goods for the Holiday” including “Matzoths, Matzoth Flour and
Potato Flour” for nine cents a pound on the fifth floor of its new building.
1893: It was reported today that tickets for
the upcoming Purim Ball will cost ten dollars and they may be purchased from
M.H. Moses as well as several other Jewish businessmen. Those wanting a box for the event must
contact S.B. Solomon or Simon Schafter.
1893: In Lemberg, “Gershom and Etti (Joanna)
Bader gave birth to Maximillian Bader, the husband of Ida Bader and father of
Izzak, Helen and Benedict Bader, who in 1913 came to the United States where he
practiced law and was “active in Democrat Party politics.”
1893: At today’s meeting of The Central Labor
Federation, “the Hebrew printers said they had conferred with Typographical
Union, No.6”
1894: “Russian Hebrew Immigrants published
today described some of the controversy surrounding the admission Jews to the
United States. According to the Bureau
of Immigration many of the Russian Jews are actually coming from South America
where they have been living in agricultural communities financed by the Baron
Hirsh Funds. The colonies in Argentina
have failed and the Jews have come to the United States where they have been
allowed to settle as long as they meet the legal requirements regarding health
and financial responsibility. Despite
criticism, the Bureau cannot turn people away because of their religion.
1894: In Hartford, CT, Annie Berman and Nathan
Slonim gave birth to NYU graduate and University of Pennsylvania trained
attorney turned St. Louis realtor Moses J. Slonim, a WW I veteran of the U.S.A.
Medical Corps and husband o Sophia G. Greenburg who was “active in Hebrew
educational wok and Zionism.
1894: In New York, Assemblyman Danforth E
Ainsworth, a Republican from Oswego County made use of the term “Jew
pawnbrokers” while addressing the legislature.
1895: Birthdate of Joseph Allen, the NYU
trained lawyer.
1895: Birthdate of Romania native Fannie Marcus
Eisman, the future California resident who was the wife of Mas Isackman Eisman and
the mother of Sadie and Evelyn Eisman each of whom died in infancy.
1895: “Fortunate Hebrew Foundling” published
today described the work of Henry S. Allen who has secured a place for a
homeless waif at the orphanage run by the Hebrew Guardian Sheltering society.
1896: In New Haven, Pennsylvania, Aaron and
Jennie Marcus gave birth to Jacob Rader Marcus, the Reform Rabbi who founded
the American Jewish Archives at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, Ohio.
He passed away in 1995 at the age of 99.
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Marcus__Jacob_Rader.html
1896: Birthdate of Dr. William Zev Malamud, the
native of Kishinev and Canadian trained physician who became a “professor of
Psychiatry at the State University in Iowa City” which is now known as the
University of Iowa.
1897: In Ohio, Theresa and Henry William Mack
gave birth to Rebecca Mack.
1898: “Notes of Forthcoming and Recent
Publications” published today described an article by Israel Zangwill written
by Israel Zangwill “for the Sunday School
Times on the second Moses – Moses Maimonides – without a knowledge of whom
the old Hebrew prover ‘From Moses to Moses there was non like Moses,’ is
meaningless.”
1898: “Bargain Books” published today listed
The Jew at Home by Joseph Pennell as costing $.10
1898: “Colonel Picquart, who was disciplined
for giving testimony favorable to the case of Emile Zola,” the defender of
Dreyfus, “at the recent trial of the author, fought a duel with swords today in
the riding school of the Military School with Colonel Henry who testified
against Zola.”
1898: “New Jewish Synagogue” published today
described plans for the construction of a new synagogue being built by
Congregation Hand-in-Hand, the first such building to take place in the Borough
of the Bronx. The congregation, which received a gift of $1,000 from Baroness
Hirsch for its building fund, has been meeting at the North Side Republican
Club Hall
1899: Four days after she had passed away,
Miriam (Joel) Leapman, the wife of Lewis Leapman was buried today at the
“Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1899: “Rabbis Will Meet in Cincinnati”
published today described the decision of reform movement to hold its Annual
Central in March instead of July because March
marks the birthday of Dr. I. M. Wise and the rabbis wish to honor the
man who mentored so many of them.
1899: In the UK “Joseph and Etty Roth” gave
birth to the youngest of their four sons, historian Cecil Roth.
http://www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/resources/further-reading/170-cecil-roth-1899-1970
1899: “Reminiscences of Rothschild” published
today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D15FF3E5811738DDDAC0894DB405B8985F0D3
1900: “Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan,”
“a play in one act by David Belasco premiered today at the Herald Square
Theatre in New York.”
1900: Today, Otto Jaffe, the German born Irish
businessman who helped turn The Jaffe Brothers into the “largest linen exporter
in Ireland before becoming Lord Mayor of Belfast was “knighted at Dublin Castle
by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1900: Birthdate of Lilli Schlüchterer who
gained famed as the German Jewish doctor Lilli Jahn “who gained international
fame posthumously following the publication of her letters to her five children
which she wrote during her imprisonment in the labor camp Breitenau before
being deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz where she was murdered.
http://www.amazon.com/My-Wounded-Heart-Lilli-1900-1944/dp/B008SMX8W4
1901(14th of Adar, 5661): Purim
1901: Birthdate of Yocheved Ba-Miriam the
Russian born Israeli poet who made Aliyah in 1928 who “never wrote another
poem” after her son Nahum (Zuzik) Haaz “died in the Israeli War of
Independence.”
1901(NS): Birthdate of Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky
who gained fame as Philadelphia architect Louis Isadore Kahn.
1902: Mizrachi (literally: “Eastern”,
but actually derived from the Hebrew acronym for “Spiritual Centre”)
was established by Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines as a religious Zionist organization
based on the Basel Program and commitment to the Torah. Their slogan is
“Eretz Israel for the people of Israel according to the Torah of
Israel.” Mizrachi is a worldwide religious Zionist movement. Its main
ideal is that Torah should be the spiritual center of Zionism. In Israel, it
initiated the Ministry of Religion and helped pass laws for “Kashrut”
and Sabbath observance in public life and in the Israel Army. During WWII, it
participated in the American Zionist Emergency Council.
1902: Leopold
Greenberg, one of Herzl’s most devoted followers and representative in London
suggested that Herzl should appear before the Royal Commission in London.
1902:26th of Adar I,
5662: Fifty-four-year-old New York businessman Leonard Lewisohn passed awa at
the London home of his son-in-law Charles S. Henry. A native of Hamburg, Mr.
Lewisohn came to the United States when he was 16 years old. He was President
of the United Metals Selling Company and a philanthropist who had mad generous
contributions to numerous Jewish charities.
1902: Reports of the
death of Leonard Lewisohn “caused some weakness in the stock market where
Amalgamated Copper declined 1 and 3/8 points.
1902: In response to
the death of Leonard Lewishon who was trying “make a bull market in coffee” the
coffee market opened 10 to 20 points lower than the day before but regained its
losses by the close of business
1902: Louis
Seligisberg, who represented the business interests of Leonard Lewisohn
announced that his death would not affect the coffee business of the firm
1903: Birthdate of
Irving Kahal, the native of Houtzdale, PA, the songwriter who collaborated with
composer Sammy Fain (Samuel E. Feinberg)
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C49?exhibitId=49
1903: A committee was
appointed to secure a site for a new building at Hebrew Union College.
1904(18th
of Adar, 5664): Parashat Ki Tisa
1904: The Criminal
Chamber of Cassation grants Dreyfus a re-investigation of his case.
1904: David Blaustein
of the Educational Alliance is scheduled to be one of the speakers at this
afternoon’s meeting of the University Settlement of New York.
1905: Birthdate of
László Benedek the native of Budapest who “worked as a writer and editor in
Hungarian cinema until World War II when Louis B. Mayer helped him escape and
brought him to Hollywood where he directed his first film for MGM in 1944 as a
stand-in.”
1906: Two days after
he had passed away, 76-year-old Ernest Falck, the native of Holstein, Germany
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1906: A description
of the Pogrom in Russia provided by Abraham E. Lubarsky, a wealthy tea merchant
from Odessa who has escaped to safety in New York included praise for the “Soma
Borona (Self Defense)” which “is composed of armed young Jews” that Cossacks
“have learned to fear.”
1906: A Jewish
Congress which has been authorized by the Government is scheduled to meet today
in St. Petersburg.
1907: In Baltimore,
MD, Anna Rosenbloom and Solomon Rosenbloom, “the owner of a successful
work-clothing manufacturing company gave birth to Dale Carroll Rosenbloom, the
halfback for the University of Pennsylvania football best known as Carroll
Rosenbloom the man who brought the NFL to Baltimore as the owner of the Baltimore Colts and who
latter traded his ownership to become the owner of the Los Angeles Rams.
1907: At its annual
meeting today in Berlin, The German Jewish Relief Society “paid tribute to
Jacob H. Schiff,” the “noble philanthropist” who was instrumental in inducing
the United States Government to take the initiative at the Algeciras
Conference” in raising the question of the treatment of the Jews in Morocco.
1908: It was reported
today that in his “Report on Milk in Its relation to Public Health,” the
Surgeon General of the United States” noted that “references will be observed
to the achievements of Mr. Nathan Straus in promoting the use of clean,
pasteurized milk for infants and the establishment of infants’ milk depots both
in the United States and abroad and it is proper her to give recognition to his
philanthropic and successful efforts.”
1909: Alianza Hispano-Israelita formed in Spain
to bring about the return of Spanish Jews.
1909: Oscar Solomon Straus completed his terms
as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Straus had been appointed by
Theodore Roosevelt and left when William Howard Taft took office. A year later Straus would return to a post he
had held before, U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire.
http://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/essays/cabinet/1799
1910(24h of Adar I, 5670): Parashat Vayakhel
1910: This afternoon, Oscar Hammerstein mounted
a production of the opera Salome by Richard Strauss whose conduct during the
Nazi period was motivated by his need to “to protect his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice and his Jewish
grandchildren from persecution” and being sent to a concentration camp.
1911: “As A Man
Thinks Staged” published today described the opening performance in New Haven,
CT of August Thomas’ latest play, “As A Man Thinks” which “deals with the
American Jew” and stars John Mason in the role “Dr. Seelig, the Jewish
physician” and Amelia Gardner as “Mrs.Selig.”
1912: In London,
Waldorf Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne gave birth to journalist David Astor
who wrote “Two Wronged People” in 1967 that examined the Arab-Israel
confrontation.
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1967/jun/04/featuresreview.review
1913(26th of Adar I, 5673): One
hundred five-year-old Abraham Isaac Trager, a rabbi from NYC, passed away today
at Columbia, SC.
1913: Dr. Joseph H. Hertz, “the newly chosen
English Chief Rabbi” is scheduled to set sail for London today aboard the
Mauretania today, when it is rumored that Dr. Moses Hyamson, “his principal
competitor for the position” is sailing from England to New York where he is
expected to become the rabbi of Orach Chaim, replacing Rabbi Hertz who had held
that position.
1913: Mrs. Philip Stein is scheduled to lecture
on “To and From Jerusalem” at today’s meeting of the Isaiah Woman’s Club at the
Isaiah Temple in Chicago.
1914: “Lied Against Frank, Newsboy Swears”
published today reported that “the case of Leo M. Frank, convicted of the
murder of Mary Phagan,” developed a new twist “when attorneys for Frank gave an
affidavit signed by George W. Epps, Jr., a 15 year old newsboy in which he
repudiated parts of his testimony at the…murder trial” and in which “he admits
he gave false testimony “because he was persuaded to do so by Detective John
Black” and Solicitor Dorsey.
1915: Birthdate of French mathematician,
Laurent Schwartz. His considerable
mathematical work, including the theory of distributions, won him the Fields
Medal in 1950. During World War II the
Schwartz hid his Jewish identity by using numerous aliases including that of Laurent
Sélimartin. He passed away in 2002.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/07/guardianobituaries.obituaries
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1404336/Laurent-Schwartz.html
1915: It was reported today that Dr. Robert
Tuttle Morris the former President of the American Association of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists believes that “Zangwill’s melting pot theory…is absurd
biologically” because “the Jews are not going to cross with the Aryans” which
means “they are not melting away” and they have “a sort of racial feeling that
they must come again to rule the earth” which “keeps them together.”
1915: As of today, the Fund of the American
Jewish Relief Committee has collected $532,937.14.
1916: Pianist Lois Adler is scheduled to
perform during ‘the 18th regular Sunday afternoon concert” at the
Chicago Hebrew Institute today.
1916: Thanks to the efforts of Isidore
Hershfield of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society who was sent to
Poland by HIAS, the German authorities have granted the Jews of the
Governmental District of Warsaw postal privileges which will enable them to
send letters asking friends and relatives for financial assistance and
informing of them of lifestyle events such as births and deaths.
1916: “The sixteenth concert of the fourth
season of the Sinai Orchestra” conducted by Arthur Dunham is scheduled to take
place this evening at Sinai Temple in Chicago.
1917: Sylvan Cole, Sr. the Los Angeles born son
of Nathan and Fannie (Prager) Cohn “the founder and
chairman of National Shirts, a men’s apparel chain,” the father of Sylvan Cole,
Jr, “an internationally art dealer who helped foster the explosion of
printmaking and print collecting in the United States in the decades after WW
II married Dorothy B. Stein today.
1917: As of today, there are 200,000 Jews
living in the province of Kalisch, “of whom 100,000 are destitute” and 500,000
Jews in the district of Warsaw “of whom half are in want…”
1918: Constantin C. Arion, who said that his
“Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with the peace treat”
and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of the Rumanian
Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens, and that
naturalization is only possible for them individually” began his service as the
Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs today.
1918: President Wilson ordered the removal of
the sentence “The foreign born and especially Jews, are more apt to malinger
than the native born” which had inadvertently been included in the manual sent
to medical advisory boards in February.
1919: Rabbi Hyman
Gerson Enelow who served “as a member of the Overseas Commission of the Jewish
Welfare Board, which went to France in July, 1918” wrote today that “I am in
Paris for several days and busier than ever.
My last trip covered…a vast area all the way from Marseilles to Brest”
where I opened up a number of centers for the Jewish War Board and delivered “a
great many addresses.”
1919: In
a letter published in the New York Times Emir Feisal wished “the Jews a
hearty welcome home” and asserted “our two movements complete one another.”
“There is room in Syria for both of us” he concluded.
1919: Birthdate of Albert J. Rosenthal, who as
dean of Columbia Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped increase
the number of women on the school’s faculty.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1920(15th of, 5680): Shushan Purim
1920: It was reported today that as “Poland is
confronted wit the with worst typhus epidemic in the history of the world,”
“the joint distribution committee for all-American Jewish relief funds,
instructed it representative in Warsaw to expend $100,000 for coal to be used
in starting disinfecting plant in the typhus zone.”
1921: Birthdate of Milton “Milt” Kaiman the
native of Hurleyville, NY, who was a standup comedian appearing on numerous
variety and talk shows as well as a frequent actor on television shows and
movies whose sole Broadway credit in “The Passion of Josef D” – one of those
“Jewish culture things” since it was written by Paddy Chayefsky and starred
Luther Adler and Peter Falk.
1921: Rueben Mattus, “arrived at the Port of
New York on the SS Vestris with his widowed mother Lea today several months
before Rose Vesel, his future wife and co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream,
1923: In New York City, twenty-seven-year-old
Kuhn, Loeb investment banker Lewis Lichtenstein Straus, the Charleston, W.Va.
born son of Lewis and Rosa Straus married Alice Hanauer.
1923: In Brooklyn, Russian immigrants Sadye
Tisch and Al Tisch a “former All-American basketball player at the City
University of New York who owned a garment factory as well as two summer camps”
gave birth to businessman Laurence Tisch,
of CBS from 1986 through 1995.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/16/local/me-tisch16
1924: In Seattle, WA, Moe and Rose Minnie
(Cohn) Bernhard gave birth to producer, writer and real estate executive Harvey
Bernhard, the husband of Lillian Vera Kramer.
1924: Dr. Joseph Silverman, “Rabbi Emeritus of
Temple Emanu-El” who had gone to Palestine to study conditions there and his
wife are scheduled to set sail for New York from South Hampton, England aboard
the SS Aquitania.
1925: In Germany, “Jewish Mensevik refugees”
“Lazar Michael Pistrak” and his wife Raissa gave birth to Senaida “Zena”
Pistrak, the elder sister of Vera Katz, the future mayor of Portland, Oregon.
1925: Birthdate of Menahem Stern, the native of
Bialystok and son of a mitnaged father and Chasidic mother (talk about mixed
marriages) who made Aliyah in 1938 and who began his climb up the academic
ladder as “Lecturer of the History of the Jewish people in the Second Temple
period.”
1926: “The Bohemian Dancer” a silent film based
on a 1907 operetta directed and produced by Frederic Zelnik was released today
in Germany.
1926: William Fox, the chairman of the United
Jewish Campaign in New York City announced today that national campaign which
will begin in April will be trying to raise fifteen million dollars of which
six million dollars will be raised locally.
1927: The Kosher Meat Law introduced by Assemblyman
Harry Lyons of Los Angeles which is modelled after the New York State Kosher
Meat Law and “, provides punishment for falsely representing meat as kosher while
requiring merchants to display signs stating whether or not the meat they offer
for sale is kosher” was passed today by the lower house of the California state
legislature.
1927: In response to a call by Bishop Manning
“for a joint effort by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish churches to preserve
marriage and the home” Rabbi David de Sola Pool said “he believed that such
cooperation between these three religious groups was feasible and that headway
could not be made against the divorce evil without it.”
1927(1st of Adar II, 5687): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II and Shabbat Shekalim
1927: David Louis Podell and Sara (Cissie)
Podell gave birth to Margaret A. Shulman, the wife of Mark Shulman.
1928(13th of Adar, 5688): Ta’anit
Esther and Erev Purim
1928: Herbert Samuel’s successor as High
Commissioner, Field Marshal Viscount Plumer, a distinguished WW I commander,
opened Jerusalem’s first Arts and Crafts Exhibition which was held in the
Citadel at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem.
1929: John D. Rockefeller Jr. spent the day
viewing ancient and historic sites in Jerusalem, including the Mosque of Omar
and the Holy Sepulcher.
1929: “Dr. Nathan Kraus, the rabbi at Temple
Emanu-El” is scheduled to officiate today at the “funeral services for the late
Justice Louis D. Gibbs of the New York State Supreme Court” which will be
followed by burial “in Mt. Hebron Cemetery” in Flushing, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/03/02/95885301.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1929: In the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Halpern
gave birth to Howard Marvin Halpern, “psychotherapist who wrote popular
self-help books about severing or realigning burdensome relationships.” (As
reported by Bruce Weber)
1930: In New York, Dr. Bernard Goodman and the
former Alice Matz, the heir to a fortune created by “Ex-Lax” gave birth to Roy
M. Goodman who was powerhouse among liberal Republicans when there really were
such people.” (As reported by Richard Perez-Pena)
1930(5th of Adar, 5690): Isaac
Isaacs, the first husband of “Fannie Shubert Weissager” passed away today after
which he was buried at the Ahavath Achim Cemetery in Syracuse, NY.
1930: Birthdate of David Lawrence Goldberg, the
native of Crown Heights who gained fame as political consultant David Garth,
the political guru behind the elections of Mayors John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani
and Michael Bloomberg. (As reported by
Sam Roberts)
http://nypost.com/2014/12/15/political-guru-david-garth-dies/
1931: “Jews Urge Right To Trade On Sunday”
published today described attempts by “Jewish citizens” to get the New York
state legislature to pass a bill that would permit them to engage in business
on Sunday which according to Rabbi Bernard Drachman, the president of the
Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America is not a matter of commercial concern but a
matter of religious and spiritual needs.
1931: Following a farewell dinner last night at
the Hotel Astor hosted by the American Palestine Campaign, Albert Einstein, who
expressed his appreciation for his treatment while visiting the United States
is on the Atlantic sailing aboard the Hamburg-American liner Deutschalnd which
is bound for his home in Germany
1932: Three members of the team of athletes
assembled by the Maccabee Association of the United States to participate in
the Jewish Olympic Games in Palestine sailed on the SS Aquitania. The three athletes included co-captains David
White and Lesslie Flaskman representing the Maccabee Association of Boston and
Harold Ginsburg representing the 92nd Stree Y.M.H.A. The other ten
members of the team are to sail next week on the Majestic or the Conte Grande.
1932(27th of Adar I, 5692): Parashat
Vayakhel and Shabbat Shekalim
1932(27th of Adar I, 5692): A week
before her 85th birthday, rebbetzin Rosa Sonneschein passed away
today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sonneschein-rosa
1933: Last democratic election during Hitler’s
lifetime. Nationalists gain 52 seats, but not enough to establish a
dictatorship by consent of Parliament. The Third Reich is born.
1933: When Jeanette Wolff, an outspoken critic
of the Nazis, returned home from an election campaign today and was arrested by
SA men.
1934: In Tel Aviv, while visiting relatives in
Tel Aviv, Ruth Kahneman gave birth to Israeli economist and Nobel Laurette
Daniel Kahneman, whose father “Efrayim “was picked up in the first major
round-up of French Jews. He was a key pioneer and theorist of behavioral
finance, which integrates economics and cognitive science to explain seemingly
irrational risk management behavior in human beings. He is famous for
collaboration with Amos Tversky and others in establishing a cognitive basis
for common human errors using heuristics and in developing prospect theory.
Kahneman spent his childhood years in Paris, France and moved to Palestine in
1946. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics and psychology from the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem in 1954, after which he served in the Israeli Defense
Forces principally in its psychology department. In 1958 he came to the United
States and earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California,
Berkeley in 1961. Currently a faculty member at Princeton University and a
fellow at Hebrew University, he is the winner of the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize
in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work in prospect theory,
despite being a research psychologist and not an economist. In fact, Kahneman
claims to have never taken a single economics course — he claims that what he
knows of the subject he and Tversky learned from collaborators Richard Thaler
and Jack Knetsch. In explaining why he entered the field of psychology,
Kahneman once wrote: “It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were
required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew. I had gone to
play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late. I turned my brown sweater
inside out to walk the few blocks home. As I was walking down an empty street,
I saw a German soldier approaching. He was wearing the black uniform that I had
been told to fear more than others – the one worn by specially recruited SS
soldiers. As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed that he was
looking at me intently. Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me.
I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater. He was
speaking to me with great emotion, in German. When he put me down, he opened
his wallet, showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money. I went home
more certain than ever that my mother was right: people were endlessly
complicated and interesting.”
1934: “In New York “Sandor Harmati “conducted
the American Ballet at the world premiere of Balanchine’s ballet Dreams.”
1934: “In New York “Sandor Harmati “conducted
the American Ballet at the world premiere of Balanchine’s ballet Dreams.”
1935: A brothel run by Polly Adler was raided
resulting in the only conviction for which the famed madam served jail time (24
days of a 30-day sentence).
1936(11th of Adar, 5696): Observance of the
Fast of Esther since the 13th of Adar fell on Shabbat
1936: The men’s division of the New York
campaign of the United Palestine Appeal is scheduled to “hold a luncheon rally
at the Hotel Astor” today.
1936: It was reported today that “in the House
of Lords, the government’s intentions” “to establish a legislative council for
Palestine” “were assailed by peers of all parties, notably by the Marquees
Lothian who predicted that the proposed council ‘would exaggerate racial
difficulties, not heal them’” and would lead to Chaim Weizmann using “all of
his powers of persuasion at the Colonial Office…to postpone or scrap this
project.”
1936: “Responding to the appeal from Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, for funds to aide
Jewish refugees in various parts of Europe, leaders of the United Palestine
Appeal opened a campaign here today” with a luncheon at the Hotel Astor
presided over by Nathan Straus, chairman of the campaign.
1936: Jewish leaders estimated that at least
thirty people had been injured during the attacks by nationalist students in
Warsaw who threw “firecrackers and stench bombs in several classrooms.”
1936: “The largest single group of Jewish
refugees to reach” the United States “from Germany, 200 men, women and children
arrived” today “on the United States liner Washing as quota immigrants” which
meant “they were admitted as permanent residents on the basis, in most case, of
avowals given by relatives here that none would become public charges.”
1936: “Sir John Simon, Minister of Home
Affairs, admitted today in the House of Commons there was Jewish persecution
going on in the East End of London which he a attributed to the Fascist
movement” – a movement led by Sir Oswald Mosely – but “denied that police had
shown any political bias in the matter” i.e. supporting the Fascists.
1936(11th
of Adar, 5696): Rabbi Yosef Rosen, known as the Rogatchover Gaon
(Prodigy/Genius), passed away in Vienna today. Born in 1858, and raised in the
Belarusian city of Rogatchov, he served for decades as a rabbi in the Latvian
city of Dvinsk (Daugavpils). He was an unparalleled genius, whose in- depth
understanding of all Talmudic literature left the greatest of scholars
awestruck. He habitually demonstrated that many of the famous debates between
the Talmudic sages have a singular thread and theme. Rabbi Rosen authored tens
of thousands of responsa on the Talmud and Jewish law. Many of them have been
compiled in the set of volumes Tzafnat Paneach.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_17112.html
1936: The Spitfire went through its first
test-flights. The famed fighter plane
would play a key role in the defeat of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of
Britain. Thanks to the Spitfire and the
spirited pilots of the Royal Air Force (RAF), Hitler’s seemingly invincible
legions were stopped for the first time; the British Isles remained free and
would become the launching point for the Allied invasion of Europe which would
save a remnant of European Jewry. Robert Roland Stanford Tuck, known as “Lucky
Tuck” was one of the Jewish pilots in the RAF who flew the Spitfire. In his case he flew it at the Battle of
Dunkirk where he earned a DSO. The Spitfire was the favorite plane of Ezer
Weizmann the father of Israel’s Air Force and later President of the Jewish
state. He had his own Spitfire which was
featured in flyovers by IDF planes during various Israeli celebratory
activities.
1937:
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull offered a public apology for New York
Mayor LaGuardia’s suggestion that the “1939 New York World’s Fair would include
a ‘chamber of horrors’ displaying that ‘brown-shirted fanatics who is menacing
the peace of the world.’” (Hull’s comments came during the hey-day of
Isolationism in the United States. His
apology came in the same year that the United States ignored a Japanese attack
on an American gunboat in China.)
1937:
Despite an apology issued by the State Department, Mayor La Guardia said he
stood by his declaration that Hitler is a “brown-shirted fanatic who is
menacing the peace of Europe.”
1937:
British author Mary Frances Butts who had been the wife of Jewish poet and
published John Rodker whose career she had worked to further and with whom she
had one child passed away today.
1937: Birthdate of Czech native Theodore K.
Rabb, the Oxford and Princeton trained historian who specialized in the
Renaissance and was the husband of Tamar Rabb with whom he had three children –
Susannah, Jonathan and Jeremy.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=theodore-rabb&pid=191228154
1937: The wave of Arab terror spread into
southern Palestine when an Arab entered a Jewish orange grove near the colony
of Less Tzionah and shot Vladislav Louga, a non-Jewish worker from Poland, in
the stomach. Louga was rushed to a
hospital in Tel Aviv where he is in critical condition.
1938(2nd of Adar II, 5698): Parashat
Pekudi
1938: During his sermon at the Mount Zion
Congregation, Rabbi B.A. Tinter said “the non-sectarian Temple of Religion to
be erected at the New York World’s Fair of 1939 was ‘one of the greatest
contributions the fair will offer to posterity.”
1938: In his sermon at Mount Neboh Temple
Abraham L. Feinberg warned that “dictatorship in the style of Hitler and
Mussolini has become so alluring to many, even in America.”
1938: During his sermon at the West Side
Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein said, “the present trial in
Moscow is the greatest indictment against liberalism” because “liberalism
brought about the breakdown of the autocracy of the Czar and ushered in through
Communism the slavery of the body, mind and soul.”
1938: During a sermon at Temple Ansche Chesed,
Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin said he “saw in the darkness of the California floods a
ray of light in the thought that so many
have rallied to the aid of those who have been so unfortunate as to have lived
in communities swept away by rushing waters.”
(Editor’s note – Eighty years later, we are still dealing with these
same California floods.)
1939: The
New York Times reported that Palestine Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Eugen Szenkar has just completed four subscription concerts in a tour that
included stops in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem where the symphony played before
audiences totaling 30,000 music lovers.
1939(14th of Adar, 5699): Purim
1939(14th of Adar, 5699): Moses Gaster, the Romanian
born Jewish scholar who served as Hakam of the Spanish and Portuguese
Congregation in London passed away today at the age of 82. In addition to all
of his other accomplishments he was the father of the renowned scholar, Thedore
Herzl Gaster.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60E15FA3858127A93C4A91788D85F4D8385F9
1940: The Jewish Labor Committee, representing
about 500,000 members of Jewish labor unions in the United States, sent a cable
to the Labor Party in England requesting the Laborites oppose the recent
British restriction of Jewish land purchases in Palestine.
1940: In the Bronx, attorney William Rosenthal
and “the former Lillian Kellin” gave birth to photographer Melvyn “Mel”
Rosenthal. (As reported by Neil
Genzlinger)
https://kenanmalik.com/2017/11/12/the-human-lens-of-mel-rosenthal/
1940: A delegation consisting of Henrietta
Szold, Mrs. Isaac Herzog, wife of the Chief Rabbi of Palestine and “others
representing the Council of Jewish Women of Palestine” met with the British
High Commissioner and gave him a memorandum protesting the recent change in the
land laws that was intended to be forwarded to his superiors in London.
1941: Birthdate of Alain Boublil a Tunisian
musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with
the composer and co-religionist Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on
Broadway and London’s West End including: La Révolution Française (1973), Les
Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996), The Pirate Queen
(2006), and Marguerite (2008).
1942: At the “Selection” of
Jews at Baranowicze, Poland those sent to the left were beaten and placed in
trucks where they sent away to their death in a pit just outside of town. Those
on the right looked on. Of the 12,000 Jews living in the town at the start of
the war, 3,500 were killed that Purim.
1942: “49th Parallel,” a British war
movie based on an original story by Emeric Pressburger who wrote the screenplay
and starring Leslie Howard premiered in New York as “The Invaders.”
1943: In the Ukraine, over
1,000 Jews were murdered outside the Khmeilnik ghetto.
1943: Office of Strategic Services interviews
Dr. Eduard Bloch, a Jewish Austrian physician who had been doctor and confidant
to Adolf Hitler and his family while the future Fuehrer was growing up, and who
ministered to Hitler’s mother Klara during her losing battle with breast
cancer.
1944(10th of Adar,
5704): Max Jacob
French writer and painter, died at the Drancy, the French concentration camp at
the age of 68. Born in Brittany in 1876,
Jacob converted to Roman Catholicism in 1914. He spent most of the war hiding
from the Nazis and their French fascist allies. He died while awaiting
transport from France to a concentration camp in Germany Apparently his
conversion was not enough to get the Roman Catholic Church to intervene on his
behalf. His friends, who included the renowned Pablo Picasso, saw to it that he
had a fine burial after the war, but were unable to do anything so save him
from the fate common to most of the Jews of Europe, great and small alike.
1944(10th of Adar,
5704): Ernst Julius Cohen, “a Dutch chemist known
for his work on the allotropy of metals,” was murdered today in a gas chamber
in Auschwitz. Born in 1869, “Cohen studied chemistry under Svante Arrhenius in
Stockholm, Henri Moissan at Paris, and Jacobus van’t Hoff at Amsterdam. In 1893
he became Van’t Hoff’s assistant and in 1902 he became professor of Physical
Chemistry at the University of Utrecht, a position which he held until his
retirement in 1939. Throughout his life, Cohen studied the allotropy of tin.
Cohen’s areas of research included polymorphism of elements and compounds,
photographic chemistry, electrochemistry, pizeochemistry, and the history of
science. He published more than 400 papers and numerous books. He was elected a
Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1926.
1945: Today, a
gathering took place at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, deemed “the greatest
Jewish synod to be held in the Holy City in modern times” by The Palestine
Post, which reported that: “… all the rabbis in Palestine assembled in
conclave, from town and settlement, Sephardi religious leaders in their flowing
oriental robes, side by side with Hassidic rabbis, among them the heads of the
famous Sadagora dynasty, and rabbis from Europe who had found shelter here from
Nazi persecution…”
Before
Liberation: Mourning the Holocaust in 1945 (nli.org.il) https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lbh-the-original-holocaust-memorial-day-1945/?_atscid=3_2269_208004503_10110639_0_Txtatteftwshuhhw2hc&utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%20English%20Newsletter%20-%2026.01.2021
1945: While excavating
the site near Crematorium II at Auschwitz, Soviet soldiers found a German
canteen which contained the diaries of Salmen Gradowski. One of the entries
read, “At almost each block, beside the
men standing in line, bodies of three, four persons are lying. These are the
victims of the night that have not lived to see the day. Even yesterday they
were standing members of the roll-call and today they lie, lifeless,
motionless. Life is not important at the roll-call. Numbers are important.
Numbers tally…” Gradowski’s diary was published in a book entitled Amidst a
Nightmare of Crime: Manuscripts of the Sonderkommando which describes life
in the death camp through the eyewitness accounts of four Sonderommandos. For
more about this work, Gardowski and the others who supplied the material see
http://www.wce.wwu.edu/nwche/reviews/amidst.shtml
1946: Birthdate of
Martin Levi van Creveld “an Israeli military historian and theorist. Van
Creveld was born in the Netherlands in the city of Rotterdam and has lived in
Israel since shortly after his birth. He holds degrees from the London School
of Economics and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has been on the
faculty since 1971. He is the author of seventeen books on military history and
strategy, of which Command in War (1985), Supplying War: Logistics
from Wallenstein to Patton (1977, 2nd edition 2004), The Transformation
of War (1991), The Sword and the Olive (1998) and The Rise and
Decline of the State (1999) are among the best known. Van Creveld has
lectured or taught at many strategic institutes in the Western world, including
the U.S. Naval War College.”
1947: Birthdate of Dr. John Kitzhaber the
Oregon physician who served as governor from 1995 to 2003.
1947: As the Jews of Palestine endure their
fourth day of living under martial law, banks in Tel Aviv are scheduled to
reopen thanks to a shipment of coins and currency in an amount equal to
thirty-two million American dollars having arrived from Jerusalem. In an attempt to exercise greater control,
the British suspended the press passes of correspondents which had enabled the
journalists to enter and leave zones of military occupation.
1948: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver warned the U.N.
Security Council today “that the Jews of Palestine would fight for survival
even without the United Nations if the world organization is unable to carry
out its own decisions” i.e. the Partition vote that created an Arab State, a
Jewish state and a Jerusalem governed by an international body.
1948: Actor Eli Wallach married actress Anne
Jackson in what marked the start of 66 year marriage that only ended with his
death.
1948: Publication of a review of Mark
Hellinger’s final film, “The Naked City.”
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06E4DA143BE33BBC4D53DFB5668383659EDE
1949: Operation Uvda, the final Israeli
campaign of the War of Independence which is intended to secure portions of the
Negev began oday.
1949: Negev Brigade forces set out from
Beersheba to the Ramon Crater, through Bir ‘Asluj. Golani forces simultaneously
set out from Mamshit to Ein Husub on the first day of Operation Uvda, one of
the final campaigns of the War for Independence.
1950: Jordanian political leader Samir Rifai
Pasha has rejected King Abdullah’s request that he form a new government. Pasha’s refusal is tied to opposition to the
non-aggression pact with Israel which was first made public on February 28,
1950. Despite Abdullah’s support, the
pact seems doomed since Jordan’s political leaders do not.
1950: Iraq’s announcement that effectively, the
Jewish population must leave the country within the next twelve months
represents a reversal of its policy of not allowing Jews to move to Israel
while completely dislocating “Israel’s immigration program for 1950.” The
Jewish agency had budgeted for the absorption of 150,000 immigrants, including
50,000 from Arab countries and 50,000 from eastern Europe. Since there are approximately 150,000 Jews
living in Iraq, the Israelis will have to find some way to raise additional
funds allowing for the in-gathering of twice as many as Jews as had been
originally planned.
1950: Daniel Frisch, the President of the
Zionist Organization of America, underwent surgery today at
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center today after having named Benjamin G.
Bowdy, on the ZOA’s vice president, as acting president.
1952(8th of Adar, 5712):
Fifty-five-year-old, the Massachusetts born son Rosa Shapha and Rabbi Solomon
Nathan Lurie who had passed away in Milwaukee passed away today after which he
was buried at Forest Park in Cook County, Illinois.
1952(8th of Adar, 5712): Sixty-six-year-old
Rachael “Rae” Landy the Cleveland born nurse who helped create the health
system in pre-World War I Palestine and rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel in the
U.S. Army passed away today.
http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=LRD
1953: Birthdate of Michael J. Sandel, the
Minneapolis born Harvard Professor “best known for his course ‘Justice.’”
1953: Stalin died disrupting plans for mass
deportations of Russian Jews. The Soviet dictator was an
anti-Semite. Unlike Hitler, he could curb his anti-Semitism when it
suited his purposes. For example, he allowed the government of
Czechoslovakia to sell modern arms to Israel at the moment of its birth.
He later switched his views and followed an anti-Zionist as well as
anti-Semitic policy.
1953: Lazar Kaganovich began serving as the
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers in the Soviet Union.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Lower House of the Bonn
Parliament passed the first reading of the West German agreement to pay
reparations to Israel and World Jewry for the Nazi persecution.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that in the Knesset, Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion defined the role of the army in national life. The Knesset
extended for a year the provisional military law currently in force, providing
for prison terms for any form of propaganda intended to undermine the authority
of the state.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Abill to legalize the
requisition of land or property for the development, security or settlement,
from the establishment of the State in May 1948, to the end of April 1, 1952,
was presented for the second and third reading.
1954(30th of Adar I, 5714): Rosh
Chodesh Adar II
1954(30th of Adar I, 5714):
Forty-year-old Donald Bloomingdale the son of Rosalie and Irving Bloomingdale
and the onetime husband of Bethsabée de Rothschild passed away today.
1954: “The Girl in Pink Tights, a musical
comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book
by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields” opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger
Theatre.
1955: In the United Kingdom, Phyllis April
Jaffé, child Lithuanian Jewish refugees and Stephen Eric Seabag-Montefiore, the
descendant of “a line of wealthy Sephardic that included “his great-great uncle
Sir Moses Montefiore” and veterans of both World Wars,gave birth to Nicholas
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore the barrister turned author who wrote Dunkirk: Fight to
the Last Man, the ultimate “big book” about this moment in British history and
who is the brother of historian Simon Sebag Montefiore who authored “the big
book” on the history of Jerusalem. (Editor’s note – can you imagine what the
dinner conversation was like in their home. Wow)
1955: Birthdate of Julien Dray, the native Oran
which was then part of French Algeria, who became a leader of the French
Socialist party.
1956: The album “Songs For Swingin’ Lovers”
which featured Irving Kahal’s hit tune “You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me”
was released today.
1956(22nd of Adar, 5716):
Fifty-year-old pianist and composer Erich
Itor Kahn, the son mathematician and cantor Leopold Kahn and husband of Frida
(nee Rabinowitch) Kahn, both of whom escaped to America when the Nazis came to
power, passed away today.
1957(2nd of Adar II, 5717):
Seventy-nine-year-old Mamie Fishell, the Louisiana born daughter of Ferdinand
and Lizzie Sicher Fishell passed away today in Pine Lawn, MO after which she
was buried at New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum.
1957: Jewish comedian
Phil Silvers in the role of “Sergeant Ernie Bilko” satirizes rock star Elvis Presley.
1958(13th of Adar, 5718): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim
1958: The Uraga Dock Company, “a leading
Japanese shipbuilding concern…announced today that it would export two oil
tankers each of 46,000 deadweight tons to Israel.”
1960(6th of Adar, 5720): Parashat
Terumah
1960(6th of Adar, 5720): Julius W.
Bronstein, the husband of Evelyn M. Bronstein passed away today after which he “was
buried in Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in Saint Louis, MO.
1960: “Ben Hur,” which has been nominated for
12 Oscars is being screened at the Loew’s New State.
1961: Final Broadway performance at the Phoenix
Theatre of “The Octoroon” for which Karl Bernstein served as the General Press
Representative.
1962: “Rome Adventure,” a romantic comedy
co-starring Suzanne Pleshette with music by Max Steiner was released in the
United States today.
1962: In Washington, DC, “law professor and
Kennedy administration member Abram Chayes and lawyer and former Undersecretary
of the U.S. Air Force Antonia Handler Chayes” gave birth to Sarah Chayes “a
former award winning reporter for NPR” and “a senior associate in the Democracy
and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.”
1966(13th of Adar, 5726): Shabbat
Zachor; Erev Purim.
1966: In a move that would change the economic
landscape for major league baseball in particular and all professional general
sports in general, the “player representatives selected United Steel Workers
executive Marvin Miller as executive director of the Major League Players
Association” in what would prove to be an attack on the “plantation world of
the owners.”
1967(23rd of Adar I, 5727):
Sixty-one-year-old Mischa Auer the native of Russia who transitioned from the
Yiddish theatre to movies, which included a 1936 Oscar nomination passed away
today.
1967: Last minute replacement Rodney Dangerfeld
was the surprise hit of tonight’s Ed Sullivan Show on CBS.
1969(15th of Adar, 5729): Shushan
Purim is celebrated for the first time during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
1970: U.S. premiere of blockbuster “Airport”
directed by George Seaton who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and called
himself a “Shabbos Goy” produced by Ross Hunter with music by Alfred Newman.
1970: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
“today at Max Sugarman Funeral Parlor in Providence, R.I.”
eighty-three-year-old Solomon A. Wald the President of S.A. and Wald, Co, the
marine cargo salvage company he founded in 1916 which ironically got the
“contract to dismantle the German dirigible Hindenbrug” the pride of the Nazi
lighter than air fleet” when it crashed in Lakehurst.
1971(8th of Adar,5731):
Sixty-sixty-year-old Mainz, Germany born holder of a doctorate in chemistry and
chemical engineering from the University of Munich Dr. Max Eugene Grunewald who
came to the United States at the age of 21 where he eventually became board chairman and president of the Copley
Cement Manufacturing Company of Copley, Pa., near Allentown and who married the
former Edith Burlin after the death of his first wife, the former Frances Bloch
while his daughter Eva passed away today.
1973: Baritone Robert Merrill (Moshe Millstein)
“celebrated his 500th performance” at the Metropolitan today.
1973: Marcel Marceau appears at Hancher
Auditorium in Iowa City, IA.
1973: Funeral services for eighty-six-year-old
Lithuanian born, LSE trained, American labor leader Ossip Walinsky, the founder
of the Women’s Trade Union and the “International Leather Goods, Plastics and
Novelty Workers Union who was the husband of Rose (Newman) Walinksy are
scheduled to be held today “at the Park West” in Manhattan.
1974: In the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal as step towards
ending hostilities brought on by the Arab sneak attack. Ariel Sharon was responsible for the audacious
attack across the Suez Canal which gave the strategic advantage to the Jewish
forces.
1974(11th of Adar, 5734): Solomon I
“Sol” Hurok US impresario, passed away at the age of 85. Hurok
was responsible for bringing a troupe of Yemenite Jews who had moved to Israel
to perform in the United States. Thanks to these efforts Yemenite culture
was introduced to Americans (Jews and non-Jews alike). Not only did this
help to preserve an ancient part of the Jewish heritage, it helped create a
positive image of Israel as a homeland for persecuted Jewry no matter
where they lived.
1975(22nd of Adar, 5735): Thirty-eight-year-old
Colonel Uzi Yairi who had become head of the Sayeret Matkal at the age of 31
was killed when rescuing hostages being held by Palestinian terrorists at the
Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv.
1975 After hearing gunfire from Tel Aviv’s
Savoy Hotel, Private Moshe Deutschmann, a soldier from the Israeli army’s
Golani Brigade who was on home leave, grabbed his weapon, ran to the hotel
after hearing gunfire and was mortally wounded during a firefight with
terrorists who were trying to escape from the Saoy. Deutschmann was
posthumously awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service.
1976(3rd of Adar II, 5736): Eighty-seven-year-old
Warsaw born, American plastic surgeon Dr. Jacques W. Maliniac passed away
today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/06/archives/jacques-maliniac-a-plastic-surgeon.html
1977(15th of Adar, 5737): Parashat
Tetzaveh
1977(15th of Adar, 5737): Just 16
days before his 71st birthday Avraham Margalit. The son of Taub and
Moshe Dov Bear Margalit passed away today in his home town of Petach Tikva.
1978: A revival of David Merrick’s “Hello
Dolly” that would run for 147 performances began at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that the US State Department was
upset and angered that between the time that Prime Minister Menachem Begin
presented his peace plan to US President Jimmy Carter in early December, and
when the same plan was submitted at the end of the month to Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat, significant changes were made in the text. The draft added
Israel’s right to maintain security and “public order” in Judea, Samaria and
Gaza, and stipulated that only those Palestinians who accepted Israeli citizenship
could buy land in Israel, while any Israeli could purchase land in the
administered areas. The Americans demanded complete reciprocity.
1978: University of Maryland graduate Jill
Joanne Pollack, the daughter of Dorothy and Morton Pollack is sched scheduled
to marry Edward Mark Feldman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Feldman are
scheduled to be married today at the in the Sephardic Temple of Cedarhurst, LI.
1979: “The stalemated Middle East peace process
took a dramatic turn today with the White House announcement that President
Carter will leave Washington tomorrow afternoon with President Anwar Sadat in
Egypt and Premier Menachem Begin in Israel?
1979: Twelve people were injured in Jerusalem
when a terrorist bomb exploded on a bus at the Plaza Hotel.
1979: In Tel Aviv, a bomb exploded on a bus but
nobody was injured.
1981(29th of Adar I, 5741):
Seventy-five-year-old “Bernard Postal, associate editor of The Jewish Week,
passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1981/03/09/archive/bernard-postal-dead-at-75
https://myjewishdetroit.org/2014/12/fresh-pure-delicious/
1982: Gail Winston and journalist Frank Rich
gave birth to novelist Nathaniel Rich, the brother of screenwriter Simon Rich.
1982: “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can” produced
by Scott Rudin and featuring David Margulies as “Walter Kress” and Ellen Greene
as “Karen Mulligan” was released today in the United States.
1982: U.S. premiere of “Diner” with a script by
Barry Levinson who also directed what would the first of four films set in
post-war Baltimore, produced by Jerry Weintraub co-starring Steve Guttenberg
and Ellen Barkin and featuring Paul Reiser.
1986: CBS broadcast the first episode of “Fast
Time” produced by Amy Heckerling who directed the 1982 film on which the
television series was based.
1987: Today, in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister
Yithak Rabin, read a statement in English apologizing to the American
government and the American people for the Pollard sypinng operation, an
operation that foreign minister Shimon Peres had characterized as a mistake.
1987: Yossi Sarad, a member of the Knesett,
called for the dismissal of Rafael Etian from his job as chairman of the
state-owned Israel Chemicals since he was the Defense Ministry official who
organized the Pollard spying operation.
1993: In the United Kingdom premiere of “Toys”
a comedy directed and co-produced by Barry Levinson who also co-authored the
script and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg.
1995: The
New York Times features a review of The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
by Anne
Frank; edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler; translated by Susan
Massotty
1996(14th of Adar, 5756): Purim
1997(26th of Adar I, 5757): Eighty-eighty-year-old
Zalman Abramov the Israeli politician who had been born in Minsk, made Aliyah
in 1920 and served as an MK from 1959 to 1977 passed away today.
1997: U.S. premier of “The Watermelon Woman”
with music by Paul Shapiro whose specialties include Klezmer music.
1999: U.S. premiere of “Analyze This” directed
by Harold Ramis, produced by Paula Weinstein and Jane Rosenthal with music by
Howard Shore and co-starring Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow.
1999: The
Times of London featured a review of Brother Against Brother: Violence
and
Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to
the Rabin Assassination by Ehud Sprinzak.
2000: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or special interest to Jewish readers including The Unruly Life of Woody
Allen: A Biography by Marion Meade, Law of Return: Short Stories by
Maxine Rodburg and Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs,
and Rituals by George Robinson.
2000: Today, “The
Israeli cabinet voted to withdraw from southern Lebanon by July” of 2000.
2001: “Prime
Minister-elect Ariel Sharon put the final elements of his unity government
together today as police officers stood guard throughout the country in a state
of high alert, braced for a repetition of the terror bombing that killed three
Israelis and wounded scores more in a coastal city yesterday.”
2002(21st
of Adar, 5762):
Police officer FSM Salim Barakat (33),
Yosef Habi (52), and Eli Dahan (53) were murdered today in Tel Aviv when a Fatah
terrorist opened fire on diners at two restaurants.
2002: “The Vagina
Monologues” with Idina Menzel opened at the West Side Theatre.
2003: Victor
Brailovsky began serving as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.
2003 (1 Adar II, 5763): Seventeen people were
killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 37 in the Carmel
section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. The blast, which took place on
the city’s main Moriah Boulevard near the Carmel Center, turned the bus into a
charred wreck and scattered bodies along the road. The bus driver, a Christian
Arab from Shfaram, was moderately injured. Police said the bomb was laden with
metal shrapnel in order to maximize the number of injuries and strapped to the
bomber’s body. This was the first suicide bombing in two months, following the
bombing in the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood in Tel-Aviv on January 5, in which 23
people were killed. The Hamas spokesman praised the attack. The suicide bomber
has been identified as a member of Hamas. A letter found on his body praised
the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers. The
victims included the following all but two of whom died on the day of the
attack:
·
Kmer
Abu Khamed, 12, from Daliyat al Karmel
·
Yuval
Mendelevitch, 13, from Haifa
·
Smadar
Firstatter, 17, from Haifa
·
Avigail
Lietel, 14, from Haifa
·
Asaf
Tzur, 16, from Haifa
·
Daniel
Harush, 16 , from Safed
·
Tom
Hershko, 16, from Haifa, and his father-
·
Motti
Hershko, 41, from Haifa
·
Tal
Kehrmann, 17, from Haifa
·
Elizabeth
(Liz) Katzman, 17, from Haifa
·
Meital
Katav, 20, from Haifa
·
Moran
Shushan, 20, from Haifa
·
Anatoly
Biryakov, 20, from Haifa
·
Be’eri
Ovad, 21 , from Rosh Pina
·
Eliyahu
Laham, 22, from Haifa
·
Miriam
Atar, 27, from Haifa
·
Mark
Takash, 54, from Haifa
2003: Victor Brailovsky begins servicing as
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.
2004: “A demonstration planned for” tomorrow
“to rally support for the release of Erich Priebke, a 90-year-old convicted
Nazi war criminal serving a life sentence under house arrest in Rome, has
angered Jewish groups and city officials, and his critics are also planning a
demonstration, also for tomorrow. Mr. Priebke, a former SS captain, was
convicted in 1997 for a 1944 massacre in which more than 300 Italian civilians
were killed. Jason Horowitz
2005: “Dear Esther,” an Arizona
Jewish Theatre Company production had its last performance in Phoenix,
Arizona. The play is based on the life
of Esther Rabb and her experiences as recorded in “Escape from Sobibor” about
the 1943 uprising.
2006(5th of Adar, 5766): Eighty-four-year-old
Haifa native Yael Alingham, the daughter of Yehiel Weitzman, wife of Conal
Wolsey Allingham and the sister of Israeli pilot, politician and president Ezer
Weizman passed away today.
2006: A
restoration of a 1942 freight car, the type used to carry Jews to death camps
went on display at the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas. The freight car is
intended to symbolize the penultimate step in the industrialized mass murder of
the Jews of Europe.
2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that
American Jewish leaders welcomed the decision by British architect Richard
Rogers to resign his membership in a professional organization that has called
for the boycott of Israel’s construction industry.
2006: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Absolute Convictions, a
biography of Dr. Shalom Press by his son Eyal Press, The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government
in the Twenty-First Century by Michael Mandelbaum and Intuition
by Allegra Goodman.
2007: CBS broadcast the final episode of “The
Class” a sitcom created and produced by David Crane and starring Lizzy Caplan
and Jon Bernthal.
2007: Opening of an exhibition styled “Studio Man Ray: Photographs by Ira Nowinski” at the
Judah L
Magnes Museum.
2008: Sheldon Adelson ranked #12 on the list of
The World’s Billionaires published today.
2008(28th of Adar I, 5768): Joseph Weizenbaum
“a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT”
passed away.
2008: As part of “Hadassah on Tour,” Dr.
Michael Wilschanski, the Director of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Unit of the
Division of Pediatrics at Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, speaks in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
2008: A Yarhtzeit on the civil calendar – Five
Year Anniversary of the bombing of Egged Bus 53 carried out by a Hamas suicide
bomber who killed 17 innocent civilians.
2008: Following the completion of Operation Hot
Winter, today “Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office announced that Israel would
maintain its pressure on Hamas
2008: In “A City That Was and Is No Longer”
published today, Aharon Appelfeld examines the history of Czernowitz.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/a-city-that-was-and-is-no-longer-1.240681
2009: Israeli model Bar “Refaeli received the
World Style Award presented by the Women’s World Awards for her “natural
elegance, sense of style and compassion/.”
2009: Sherman Oaks-based mortgage banker Bruce
Friedman, whose Friedman Charitable Foundation committed $10 million to the
Children’s Museum of Los Angeles and $1 million to Brandon’s Village, a
special-needs park in Calabasas, was indicted on securities fraud charges today
by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
2009: Professor Anat Helman of Hebrew
University delivers a talk and visual presentation exporing the deeper meanings
of Israeli styles of the 1950s at Rutgers University entitled “Fashion and Identity in Israel in the
1950s.”
2009: “Love in the Big
City,” a Russian-Ukrainian film set in New York City directed by Maryus Vaysberg
and staring Volodymyr Zelensky, the future President of Ukraine who would lead his country in the fight against Russian aggression was released in today in Russia, Ukraine and the
United States.
2009: An exhibition of paintings by Simon Black
hosted by the Manchester Jewish Museum comes to an end.
2009: An Arab terrorist identified as 26-year-old
Mir’i Redeideh attacked police officers and civilians in Jerusalem with his
bulldozer today
2010: The Washington
DCJCC is scheduled to host Interfaith Couples Shabbat Dinner with Rabbi Tamara
Miller explaining the rituals while attendees enjoy a traditional Shabbat
Dinner.
2010: A major
security exercise is scheduled to take place today at the Sha’ar Ha’ir building
in Ramat Gan, next to the Diamond Center.
2010: Clashes broke out between Israeli police
officers and Muslim rock throwers at the end of Friday prayers on the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem following a sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include
two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites.
2010: Vandals have
defaced a former Nazi concentration camp with anti-Jewish and anti-Turkish
graffiti, Austrian authorities said today.
2010: Marc Trestman
of the Montreal Alouettes Marc “won the Coach of the year award.”
2011: Ravid Kahalani, a veteran of Israel’s
renowned Idan Raichel Project who uses his music to showcase his
Yemenite-Jewish heritage is scheduled to appear in Berkeley, CA at opening
night of the Jewish Music Festival.
2011: Israeli
sculptor Ohad Meromi is scheduled to host a series of events as the culmination
of his evolving New Commission project in New York City.
2011: Leonard I.
Weinglass, filed brief on behalf Mumia Abu-Jamal that was part of “a post-conviction
motion to vacate the conviction of his client,” (Weinglass was Jewish;
Abul-Jamal was not)
2011(29 Adar I):
Shabbat Shekalim
2011: A computer glitch which had been preventing
the flow of natural gas at the Mari-B natural gas field operated by the Yam
Tethys conglomerate off of Ashdod was fixed after several hours today.
2012: “A Child of the
Ghetto” is scheduled to be shown at Prague in the Czech Republic.
2012: The second of
the annual AIPAC Policy Conference capped off by an gala evening event is
scheduled to take place in Washington, DC
2012: Yeshiva University Museum with
Fantagraphics Books is scheduled to present: “Diane Noomin’s Graphic Details:
Glitz-2-Go Book Launch.”
2012: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met
with President Barak Obama at the White House.
2012: President Shimon Peres today praised US
President Barack Obama’s speech to the AIPAC annual policy conference, saying
he had offered the maximum support for Israel that an American president could
possibly offer.
2013: The field of candidates in today’s
Mayoral election in Los Angeles includes Wendy Gurel a synagogue attending
Christian married to a Jew whose 10-year-old son studies Hebrew and is being
raised in the Jewish tradition, City Councilman Eric Garcetti whose mother is
Jewish and City Councilwoman Jan Perry, an African-American who converted to
Judaism while in college. (As reported by Bill Boyarsky)
2013: Iranian born Israel singer Rita
Yahan-Faourz, known simply as Rita, sang in Persian, Hebrew and English at
performance in the UN General Assembly Hall tonight.
2013: The London Sinfonietta, conducted by Brad
Lubman, at the Royal Festival Hall in London gave the world premiere of Radio
Rewrite for ensemble with 11 players, inspired by the music of Radiohead.
2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Zalmen Mlotek entitled “100
Years of Yiddish Theater Music.”
2013: Defense Minister Ehud Barak is scheduled
to meet with newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel today. This will be Hagel’s first meeting with a
foreign defense chief since his confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
2013: The AIPAC conference is scheduled to come
to an end in Washington, DC
2013(23rd of Adar, 5773):
Eighty-seven-year-old actor and director Arthur Storch passed away today.
(As reported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/theater/arthur-storch-theater-director-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=0
2013: The daughters of a Yiddish writer
persecuted under communism reclaimed copies of his works today, following a
prolonged legal fight to establish their ownership.
2013: The first Hebrew language edition of
Playboy magazine was launched in Tel Aviv.
2013: Thousands attended the funeral of
Menachem Froman in the Judean Desert settlement of Tekoa today, remembering the
mystic rabbi and activist as a unique figure in Israel’s religious and
political landscape.
2014:
The Library of Congress is scheduled to host “Dancing in Jaffa,” Diane
Nabatoff’s documentary about ballroom dance Pierre Dulaine.
2014:
“The Women Pioneers” and “Shtisel” are scheduled to be shown at the 24th
Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2014:
“Where It Began” by Joseph Dorman published today provided a review of Genesis:
Truman,
American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict by John B. Judis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/books/review/genesis-by-john-b-judis.html
2014:
The Jewish Study Center is scheduled to present “Two 20th-Century
Theologians: Herberg and Soloveitchik.”
2014:
“If/Then” a musical featuring Idina Menzel is scheduled to open at the Richard
Rodgers Theatre.
2014:
Today, IDF Special Forces intercepted a ship in the Red Sea carrying an Iranian
arms shipment headed for the Gaza Strip in what was known as “Operation Full
Disclosure.”
2014:
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the United States-Israel
Strategic Alliance and Security Act, which is aimed at further enhancing the
two countries’ already strong defense relationship
2015(14th
of Adar, 5774): Purim
2015(14th
of Adar, 5774): Eighty-eight year “award winning documentarian” Albert Maysles
passed away today. (As reported by Anita Gates)
2015:
The funeral for Chabad Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, the husband of Esther Rochel
Moscowitz and the father of nine children is scheduled to take placed today in
Chicago.
2015:
This evening the Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a “Purim
Spiel.”
2015:
“The elections for the 20th Knesset have officially begun for thousands of
Israeli diplomats across the globe” today. (As reported by Raphael Ahren
2015:
“Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan lambasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
a Channel 2 interview previewed today, calling his speech before Congress
“bullshit,” and charging that his policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians endangered
the Zionist dream. (As reported by Avi Lewis)
2016(25th
of Adar I, 5776): Shabbat Shekalim
2016:
The board of trustees of Oberlin College in Ohio “has denounced as
‘anti-Semitic and abhorrent’ social media post” by Joy Karega, a professor in
the rhetoric and composition department that referred to ISIS as a “C.I.A. and
Mossad organization.”
2016:
The Jewish Children’s Regional Service (JCRS) which has been serving families
since 1855 is scheduled to host its annual fund-raiser “The Jewish Roots of
Celebration!”
2016:
“Wedding Doll,” starring Moran Rosenblatt and Asi Levi is scheduled to be shown
at the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival.
2017:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including A Horse Walks Into A Bar by David Grossman, The Fortunate
Ones by Ellen Umansky, Well Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and
Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie by Noah Isenberg and Stalin
and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 by Simon
Ings.
2017:
The Jewish Historical Society and Congregation B’nai Israel are scheduled to
host “The Release of Natan Sharansky: The Back Story” during which “John Martin
– former FBI agent and Director of the Department of Justice Internal Security
Section – will discuss the behind-the-scenes negotiations leading to the
release of former Soviet refusenik Anatoly (Natan) Sharansky, and share
never-before-seen film footage of Sharansky’s 1986 historic crossing of the
snow-covered Glienecke Bridge to freedom.”
2017:
In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to continue it “Bearing Witness”
program during which Hungarian native Murray Lynn will share his story of
survival.
2017:
WLIW is scheduled to broadcast the television concert “Dudu Fisher in
Jerusalem.”
2017:
Today, Michael Schmidt broke the story that the FBI director had asked the
Justice Department to publicly refute Trump’s claims that President Obama had
him wire-tapped during the 2016 campaign.
2017:
In London, Sarah Kaminsky spoke about Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life,
the biography she wrote about her father.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wwii-counterfeiter-who-forged-ahead-in-the-face-of-horror/
2017:
“An NYPD spokesman said” today “that the department’s hate crimes division had
been notified of the “headstones toppled in a Brooklyn Jewish cemetery”
yesterday.
2017:
The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to sponsor an “all-day
festival to launch the special issue of the journal East European Jewish Affairs featuring “opening remarks by guest
editor Anna Katsnelson” and including “panels on current issues in the field of
Russian Jewish American cultural production, writers and visual arts.”
2018:
The annual AIPAC Conference is scheduled to continue for a second day.
2018:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to co-sponsor a talk by
Liliane Umubyeyi, a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
who “has been named Ultimate Campaigner of the Year for her work with Survivors
Fund, of which she is a trustee.”
2018:
President Trump is scheduled to meet in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu with hopes of soon reaching a long-sought Mideast peace
agreement, as both world leaders try to make international progress amid the
strains of domestic investigations into each of their governments. (As reported
by Joseph Weber)
2018:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to begin today.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Foxtrot,” the
“winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by
Samuel Maoz.
2019: In Washington, DC, 2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “Foxtrot,” the “winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice
Film Festival,” directed by Samuel Maoz.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Foxtrot,” the
“winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Film Festival,” directed by
Samuel Maoz.
2019: In Washington, DC, “Israel’s Rock troubadour, Ehua Banai” is
scheduled to perform at the Howard Theatre which is near Howard University and
has its own sets of stores to tell from when the Nation’s capital was a
segregated city.
2019: “Perfectly Normal for Me is scheduled to shown at the
“ReelAbilities Film Festival” which in a case of tikkun olam is being hosted by
the JCC of Northern Virginia
2019: The JCC Sonoma County is scheduled to host the screening of
Israeli films in Hebrew with English subtitles as part of the Israeli Film
Festival.”
2019: Haifa-born fashion designer Ruti Zisser is scheduled to
discuss what styles and trends in Israel reveal about its culture and society
in Belmont, CA.
2019: The Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host a discussion
of Churchill: Walking With Destiny with the author Andrew Roberts and
moderator “David Horspool, the History Editor of the Times Literary Supplement”
and a discussion of Jerusalem on the Amstel with the author Lipika
Phelham and the moderator Keren David.
2019: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to host
a panel discussion with Barbara Dobkin, Jane Eisner and Pamela Nadell as they
discuss issues raised in Nadell’s new work, America’s Jewish Women: A
History From Colonial Times To Today.
2019: The 68th
Annual National Jewish Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony is scheduled to take
place this evening at Bohemian National Hall in New York City.
2020: In Berkley, “Hamaqom” is scheduled to host the first session
of a “multi-part workshop on the story of Hebrew literature and its history as
an amalgam of languages.”
2020: In Brookline, MA, Congregation Kehillath is scheduled to
host the first meeting of Yachad, “an organization devoted to creating an
inclusive environment for Jewish individuals with disabilities.”
2020: In San Francisco, the JCCSF is scheduled to host a fund
raiser with a theme of “It’s Your to Play.”
2020: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the last two screenings
of “Waiting for Anya.”
2020: At the Museum of Modern Art, Amos Gitai is scheduled to
introduce a screening of his film “Carmel.”
2020: TCM is scheduled to broadcast a series of Kirk Douglas
movies in memory of the actor who recently passed away and who transcended the
role of “movie star” when helped to break the “blacklist” with the making of
“Spartacus.”
2021: Boston Jewish Film is scheduled to present online screenings
of “Menachem Begin: Peace and War” and “Sky Raiders.”
2021: “In a session examining UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection,
curators Francesco Spagnolo and Shir Kochavi are scheduled to talk about an
exhibit that studies modern Jewish culture via lists and inventories.
2021: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online
“Adriana Katzew,” whose “work searches to unearth stories and memories of
people, moments and places, with much of her photography-based work featuring
images of her own Mexican Jewish family.”
2022: The Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School is
scheduled to host its annual Winter
Auction today at the school in Beachwood after previously postponing the
fundraiser last month due to COVID-19 cases.
2022: The Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Israel
Chamber Project Vienna.”
2023: The Atlanta Jewish Times is scheduled to present the Atlanta
Jewish Life Festival at the Georgia Aquarium.
2023: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel and Augdas Achim are
scheduled to host a Community Purim Carnival.
2023: The National Library of Israel is scheduled to present “The
Talmud and #MeToo
A Lecture in Anticipation of the Fast of Esther and International
Women’s Day” with Mira Beth Wasserman an associate professor of rabbinic
literature and director of the Center for Jewish Ethics at the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, outside Philadelphia, PA.
2023: The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host “Purim and
Pride Family Day.”
2023: The Jerome Robbins-inspired “Fiddler on the Roof” with music
and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, a book by Joseph Stein and
direction by Bartlett Sher, which is on a national tour is scheduled to come to an end
today at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans.
2023: In Coralville, IA, the Agudas Achim religious school is scheduled
to host a Purim Bake Sale.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled “Eldridge Eats: A
History of the Lower East Side Food Tour.”
2023: The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is scheduled to host
Faith Kramer, the author of 52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a
Global Jewish Kitchen.
2024: The
online screening of “Karaoke,” hosted by the UK Jewish Film, directed by Moshe
Rosenthal is scheduled to come to an end.
2024: “I
another lecture in the online series “The Book, That’s the Whole Story” David
Ivgy is scheduled to discuss the place of the boo within the works of art…”
2024: AJHS is scheduled
to host a discussion on organized and informal Jewish labor movements in early
20th century New York City.
2024: As part
of the Women on the Move series, the Streicker Center is schedule to host “
7th-generation Sabra born in Tel Aviv, Talia Carner is the author of five
earlier novels”
2024: Today, at
1pm Cantor Abbie Strauss from Temple Judea is scheduled to sing the national
anthem at the opening of the Twins Vs. Cardinal baseball game.
2024: As March
5th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 151 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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