This Day, June 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 25
615:
On three dates that the revolt began in Jerusalem again Khosrau II, the Persian
Shah who was “was the last great king of the Sasanian Empire.”
750:
Today Abdullah ibn Ali marched to Antipartis
which is modern day Israel and massacred “80 members of the of Umayyad
dynasty” with whom his clan, the Abbasids were at war with.”
1080:
The Antipope Clement III who “protested strongly when Emperor Henry IV
permitted Jews who had become converted to Christianity during the anti-Jewish
riots of the First Crusade to revert to Judaism” began his papacy today.
1218:
Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, who expelled the Jews from Leicester,
died.
1221
Although the Archbishop of Canterbury forbade anti-Jewish riots in Erfurt,
Germany, they continued unabated. A group of religious ‘pilgrims’ on their way
to the Holy Land attacked the Jewish quarter burning two synagogues. Some 26
Jews were killed and others threw themselves into the fire rather than be forcibly
converted.
1240: In Paris, a
commission that was making an inquiry into the nature of the Talmud with a
specific interest in alleged derogatory comments about Jesus began its
deliberation.
1240: “A public
disputation” opened at the Court of Louis IX in the presence of Queen-Mother
Blanche between Parisian Talmudist Rabbi Yechiel and Nicholas Donin, an
apostate who wanted all copies of the Talmud to be burned. (He would get his way in 1244 when 24
cartloads of the sacred text were burned)
1477: At Ferrara, Italy,
Abraham die Tintori completed printing Tur Yorch De’ah a work of halacha by
Jacob ben Asher. Born in Cologne in 1269, he was known as the Ba’al ha-Turim,
the Master of the Rows. His works were divided into four turim or rows. The term probably comes from the tur or row
of Jewels on the breastplate of the High Priest described in the Torah. According to sketchy information he lived in
Chios, Greece before arriving at Toledo where he reportedly passed away in
1343.
1539: Joachim II Hector, Elector
of Brandenburg acceded to the request of Josel von Rosheim and allowed the Jews
to “settle in Margraviate again.
1608: Today Mattias, who
acceded to the wishes of the Dutch and “established religious peace” in their
provinces which helped to turn the Netherlands into a place of refuge for the
Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal, became Archduke of Austria and King of Hungary
and Croatia.
1629: Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller set out for
Vienna to face baseless accusations that he had abused his powers as Chief
Rabbi of Prague when raising funds demanded by the government to help pay for
fighting the Thirty Years War.
1644:
Lope de Vera (Judah the Believer) was drawn to Judaism by the outrages of the
Inquisition. He converted, and during his confinement in prison, he circumcised
himself with a bone. He was then burned for refusing to yield to the
Inquisition.
1656:
Rabbi Menashe Ben Yisrael applied for official permission to practice Judaism
in England. The Council of State granted permission. This took place during the
period when Oliver Cromwell was in effect the ruler of England. Cromwell and
his followers were devout Christians. The agreed to the readmission of the Jews
to England because it was pointed out to them that the Second Coming could not
take place until Jews populated all parts of the world.
1756:
Provincial Governor Sir Charles Hardy confirms the last will and testament of
Abraham Mendes Seixas. The will had been translated from Portuguese into
English.
1762:
New York native Abraham Mendes Seixas and Richea Hart, who were married at
Charleston in 1777 gave birth to Rachel Sixas
1784:
The Jewish Benevolent Society of South Carolina, the oldest Jewish charitable
organization in the United States, was founded today.
1788:
Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution making it the tenth state to enter the
Union. Virginia was of the states that
had purged itself of religious qualifications prior to joining the new
republic. In 1784 James Madison led the
forces that defeated a move to make Christianity the official religion of
Virginia. In 1786, Jefferson and Madison
joined forces “to secure passage of a law which removed religious
discrimination in Virginia.
1791:
In London, Michael and Judith Samson gave birth to Benjamin Samson who would
not survive to celebrate his first birthday.
1800:
Jacob Hyam Nathan married Polly Isaacs at the Great Synagogue in the UK.
1801(14th
of Tammuz, 5561): Eighty-seven-year-old Rebecca de Lucena, the New York born
daughter of Abraham Haim de Lucena and the wife of Mordecai Gomez passed away
today.
1807:
Mr. R.J. Ricardo and Miss Sarah Hyams, both of Charleston, SC, were married
this evening.
1827:
Protestant theologian Johann Gottfried Eichorn who “has been called ‘the
founder of modern Old Testament criticism’” passed away today.
1827(30th
of Sivan, 5587): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1827(30th
of Sivan, 5587): Lizar Joseph who was born at Mannheim, Germany in 1762 and who
was the husband of Sarah Judah and the father of Jacob Judah Joseph passed away
today in Georgetown, SC after which he was buried in Beth Elohim Cemetery in
Gerogetown.
1828:
Jones Spyer married Grace Josephs at the Great Synagogue in the UK.
1831(14th
of Tammuz, 5591): Parashat Balak
1831(14th
of Tammuz, 5591): Eighty-four year old Rebecca Mendes Phillips, the Reading, PA
born daughter of David Mendez Machado and Zipporah Nunez and the wife Jonas Phillips
who later became “one of the founding members of the Female Association for
Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstance” and a “director of the
Female Benevolent Society, the first Jewish charity in America unrelated to a
synagogue” passed away today.
1834:
Frederick Hart married Rebecca Hart at the Great Synagogue in the UK.
1836:
Birthdate of German-Jewish poet Friederike Kempner,
1837:
In Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany Leopold Hirsch and the former Therese Wormser
gave birth to Samuel “Saul” Hirsch, the husband of Serette Hirsch with whom he
had four children – Leah, Stella, Leopold and Adam” and who settled in Memphis,
TN.
1839:
Birthdate of William Myers, a resident of the United Kingdom.
1840:
In Bavaria, Abraham Michelbacher, the German born son of Jakob and Adelheid
Michelbacher, and his wife Gabriel gave birth to Gabriel Michelbacher.
1844:
The Jews of Mobile, Alabama, who had been meeting in private homes for the last
three years formed a congregation that adopted a constitution and by-laws and
titled itself “Sha’arai Shomayim U-Maskil El Dol,” which is Hebrew
for “Congregation of the Gates of Heaven and Society of the Friends of the
Needy.” Within a year the congregation hired its first rabbi – Benjamin da
Silva – and had its first home on St. Emanuel Street.
1846(1st
of Tammuz, 5605): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1850:
Following the British blockade of the port of Piraeus as part of the response
to Greece’s abuse of David Pacifico, Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston who had
defended this “man of Jewish persuasion” today “made a celebrated speech (June
25, 1850) which concluded that all British subjects ought to be able to say, as
did citizens of ancient Rome, “Civis Romanus sum” (“I am a
citizen of Rome”), and thereby receive protection from the British
government.”
1851:
Adolphus Simeon Solomons who “was a moving force in helping to establish the
American Red Cross” “married Rachel Seixas Phillips, a descendant of colonial
patriot families. They had eight daughters and a son.”
1852:
Three days after he passed away, 26 year old Leo Meyer was buried today at the
Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1856:
“The Way they treat the Jew in England” published today reports that “The
statesman who undertakes in England to bring forward a measure for the
admission of the Jews to the same rights and privileges enjoyed by other
citizens of that country, simply dooms himself to the Sisyphean labor of
rolling up each year to the House of Lords a measure which is quietly rolled
hack again.”
1857:
At Berirth Shalom Congregation, Rabbi Jacobs officiated at the wedding of Mr.
Iszair and Miss Ann Mintz.
1858:
“The Jew Bill in Parliament – Prospect of a Concession” published today spoke
approvingly of a compromise proposed by Lord Lucan. His compromise would allow the Lords and the
Commons to each adopt their own wording for the Oath of Office to be used by
those members who, for religious or other reasons, could not use the current
form of the oath. In effect, Lord Lucan’s compromise would permit either the two
Houses of Parliament to admit Jews by resolution. Since the Commons favors the admission of
Jews and the Lords opposes their right to sit in Parliament, Lucan’s compromise
would get the supporters of the “Jew Bill” half way to their destination. The compromise was withdrawn because the
members of the Commons objected to it.
If they had not, it appears that sufficient numbers of the Lords would
have voted for it even though they object to Jews serving in either house of
the English legislature.
1860:
Cecilia E. Levy and Israel Cohen who were married in 1859 gave birth to Joshua
I. Cohen.
1861(17th
of Tammuz, 5621): Tzom Tammuz
1861:
Thirty-eight year old Abdülmecid I, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman
Empire passed away. The Sultan carried out reforms begun by his fathers which
among other things allowed Jews to assume positions of importance as can be
seen by the appoint of Dr. Spitzer to serve as the representative at
Naples. This progress was marred by
“accusations of the blood libel in Syria and Rhodes which were part of the
Ottoman Empire.
1862:
Joel Solomon married Matilda Hart today in the UK.
1864:
Charles I began his reign as the king of Württemberg during which he bought on
the wooden models of the Temple Mount created by Conrad Schick, the “German
architect, archaeologist and Protestant missionary who settled in Jerusalem in
October of 1846. Schick “designed the
Mea Shearim neighborhood” and his home, Tabor House “is today considered one of
Jerusalem’s most beautiful buildings.” (Moshe Gilad)
1865:
Birthdate of Julius Hess the native of Lithuania who served as a rabbi for
several Midwestern congregations while living in St. Louis which was his
family’s home.
1866:
Charles and Johanna Wessolowsky gave birth to Julius M. Wessolowsky.
1870:
Birthdate of Helena Rubinstein, one of the creators of the American cosmetics
industry.
1871:
The Jewish Messenger complained that
while there were a number of wealthy Jews in America who were “good men and
true” they seemed to be more interested in making money than they were in
taking part in projects to promote the civic good. The Messenger compared the behavior of the
Americans with that of their European counter-parts who were “prominent in all
public matter – whether to relieve the poor or honor the rich; to rect a statue
to the living or a monument to the dead.”
1872:
In New York Isidor Straus and the former Rosalie Ida Blun gave birth to Jesse
I. Straus, the Macy’s executive and husband of Irma Nathan who “served as the
American Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936.”
1873:
In St. Louis, MO, Charles Bienenstok and Sarah Davis gave birth to Montefiore
Bienenstok, a reporter for the St. Louis Star and editor of The Owl and the
author of “short accounts about the Jews of St. Louis” as well as a novel on a
Jewish theme who also served as “Assistant Secretary of the Jewish Charitable
and Educational Union, Manager of the Free Employment Bureau of the United
Jewish Charities and Secretary of the Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites.”
1875: In Gutenberg, Germany, Isidor Straus and
Rosalie Ida Blun gave birth to Jesse Isidor Straus, scion of the famous Straus
department store family who served as FDR’s first Ambassador to France in 1933.
1875: According to a report
published today there are more Jews living in London today than living in
Palestine.
1875: The Jewish Messenger lamented the lack of
involvement by “Israelite” men in the affairs of the community, especially when
it came to better of civic activity and attempts to improve the lot of the less
fortunate. The paper feels that Jewish
men are “good men and true” who are willing to contribute their money to worthy
causes. But they are apparently are too
busy amassing wealth to give of themselves and their time. This is the opposite of the case in Europe
where wealthy Jews give both their time and money to causes that benefit both
the Jewish community and the general society as well.
1876: The Home and Foreign
Events column published today reported that “nine Jewish ministers of
this City have united to call the attention of their people to the ‘growing
evil or extravagance and displays at funerals.” They suggest a
return ‘the simplicity by which Jewish funerals were formerly characterized,’
and that costly caskets and expensive floral displays be dispensed with.
1876: George Geiger, a
Jewish Sergeant from Cincinnati fought with distinction at the Battle of the
Little Big Horn today. According to the
commendation he received for the Medal of Honor. “With 3 comrades during
the entire engagement courageously held a position that secured water for the
command”
1876: The Home and Foreign
Events column published today reported that “The Jews of Khiva, it is
said, observe very strictly the feasts and ceremonies of the Jewish
religion.” [Khiva is a city in Uzbekistan.]
1876: “Justice in Persia”
published today contained examples of the lack of Justice available to the
residents of this ancient country including a Jewish silversmith in Isfahan
whose house “had been broken into and plundered by servants of the Governor”
claiming that they were going to take him “before the Prince to answer a case
in which a Persian” claimed he was really owed this money.”
1879:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Frances E.
Goldsmith and Rabbi E.S. Levy of Augusta, GA. (David Levy and E.S. Levy would
serve as visiting rabbis for the congregation in Sumter, SC which could not
afford a full time clergyman).
1881:
“Paris and Politics” published today described a benefit in the French capital
sponsored by Baroness Rothschild to raise funds for the suffering “Israelites
of Kiev and Elizabethgrad.” Russia.
1882:
During today’s session of the hearing investigating the sanity of Samuel
Obrieght, his brother Dr. Max, L. Obreight described half dozen attempts by
Samuel to commit suicide including taking strychnine, attempting to jump over
Niagara Falls and trying to cut his throat.
Obreight’s family did not move to commit him until he jilted his Jewish
fiancée and married a young Christian girl whom he had just met.
1882:
In Elizabeth, NJ, founding of Congregation B’nai Israel which holds services at
nine o’clock on Saturday morning, uses the Nak Lane Cemetery in Clinton
Township and is home to both the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and the a
ladies auxiliary called the Daughters of Israel.
1883:
Mayor Nathan Barnet got into a scuffle with a Republican Alderman at tonight’s
meeting of the Aldermanic License Committee in Paterson, NJ. Barnet, a Jew born
in Pozen is a Democrat won election in April of 1883.
1884:
Birthdate of Romania native Marcus Elie Ravage who “at the age of 16 came to
New York’s Lower East Side and worked as a peddler, bartender and in a
sweatshop as he struggled to learn English in night school” after he went on to
a career as an author whose seminal work was the autobiographical An
American in the Making.
1884:
In Syracuse, NY, Hyman and Elizabeth Gaba gave birth to University of Chicago
trained mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of
Nebraska, Dr. Meyer Grupp, the husband of Bertha Davis Meyers and member of
Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Lincoln, Nebraska.
1884:
Birthdate of British novelist of Gilbert Cannan who was a friend and patron of
Mark Gertler and the subject of his “Gilbert Cannan at his Mill.”
1884:
“Jew-Baiting in Russia” published today described an attack by Christians on
the Jews of Nizhnee-Novogrod after reports that a Jew had kidnapped a Christian
child and taken it to the local synagogue. An untold number of Jews were
injured in this latest version of the blood libel and nine were murdered.
1884:
In Germany, “Herman and Rosa Frandenfelder Badman gave birth to Theodore
Badman, the Eton educated “real estate and insurance agent’ who was active in
the Democratic Party and “President of the Manhattan Washington Lodge of the
B’nai B’rith and of the Free Sons of Israel Lodge.”
1886:
The Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is collecting funds to provide poor children
and their mothers with summer day trips out of New York City. Contributions can be sent to John J. Davis at
the office of the Hebrew Journal on
East 14th Street.
1888:
“Jew and Catholic United” published today described the marriage of Joseph J.
Herrmann (Catholic) and Bertha Cahn (Jewish) in New Orleans. Rabbi Emile Hirsch of Chicago performed the
ceremony since the rabbis in the Crescent City refused to do so.
1888:
It was reported today that Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society is caring for 575 youngsters, 400 of whom are boys and 175 are
girls. The boys are housed at building
on 11th Avenue while the girls are housed at a building on 87th
Street near the East River.
1890:Rabbi
Barnett Abraham Elzas, the South Carolina trained attorney and medical doctor
who began leading Congregation Beth Miriam in Long Branch, NJ in 1913 married
Annie Samuel today.
1890:
Birthdate of Odessa native and NYU Bellevue College of Medicine trained
retenologist and diagnostician Dr. Isaac Glassman, the husband of “the former
Celia Margolin” and “author of many papers on X-ray techniques and
gastro-intestinal procedures.”
1891:
“Too Many and Too Mighty” published today takes issue with the list of the
reasons given by the Russian government for its treatment of the Jews
contending that “cruel restrictive laws…have made the Hebrews in the Czar’s
dominions what they are.”
1891:
“Wants To Fight Tammany” published today described the decision of New York
attorney William A. Gans who had served as the President of the B’nai B’rith to
ally himself with Julius Harburger in the fight against the Democratic machine.
1891:
Point 14 of the platform of the Iowa Democratic Party published today included
an expression for the support of Russian Jews.
“We abhor the persecutions of Russia toward the Jewish people and we
believe that all civilized nations should protest against such barbarism and
inhumanity.
1892:
The new sanitarium for Jewish children is scheduled to open today at Rockaway
Park.
1892:
Birthdate of Minsk native Joseph Isaac Levitsky who in 1914 came to the United
States where he earned a B.S. from Temple University and a Ph.D. from Dropsie
afther which he taught at Gratz College in Philadlephia.
1892:
The Jews of Paris send condolences to the family of Armand Meyer, the Jewish
French military officer who was killed in a duel brought on by the Marquis de
Mores, a noted anti-Semite. Authorities take extra precaution because they fear
violence by the Jews. The reality is
that the Jews have been the victims of attacks, something which does not bother
these same officials.
1892:
“The French Duel” published today described the role of “an anti-Semitic
journal in Paris” which deliberately goads Jews into fighting duels with the
swashbuckling swordsman the Marquis de Mores who at least on one occasion has
killed his Jewish opponent.
1892:
The Berlin Board of Alderman passed a resolution “calling upon the police to
suppress the sale of indecent pamphlets assailing the Jews.”
1893:
All the students at the Jewish Theological Seminary including the members of
the senior, junior and preparatory classes underwent final exams today.
1893:
“French Views of Russia” published today provided a detailed review of The
Empire of the Tsars and The Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beauliue which warns
that “Western readers cannot apply to Russia rules and notions which prevail in
the West” because Russia belongs “to the Europe of three or four centuries ago.
1894:
Governor Flower appointed Edward Jacobs, a New York lawyer who was the brother
of the Joseph Jacobs both of whom were active in the Jewish community, to serve
as the new Quarantine Commissioner.
1894:
Birthdate of Dimitar Peshev “the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of
Bulgaria and Minister of Justice before World War II” who “rebelled against the
pro-Nazi cabinet and prevented the deportation of Bulgaria’s 48,000 Jews and
was bestowed the title of “Righteous Among the Nations”.
1894(21st
of Sivan, 5654): Sixty-eight year old Wilhelm Diamant, the husband of Johanna
Theres Diament and the son of Johanna and Hermann Diamant passed away today in
Budapest.
1894:
The Hog and the Ass” published today described the ancient Roman belief on why
Jews do not eat pigs. Even though Pompey and the soldiers of Titus saw that
there was no representation of the Divinity when they entered the Temple,
Romans still believed that “Jews worshipped clouds, celestial bodies and
animals” among them the Hog or Pig. They
deduced that since the Jews were forbidden from eating Hogs or even, in the
Talmud, from owning them, the Jews must worship this animal and the prohibition
about consuming it had do with not consuming their “god.”
1894:
“Last of Great Jewish Generals” published today provided a detailed review of Judas
Maccabaeus and the Jewish War of Independence by Calude Reignier Conder.
This edition is an improvement over the first one published by Major Condor
fifteen years ago because the author has been to Moab and Gilead in his role as
the head of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
1894:
Annie Cohen Kopchovsky’s, known as Annie Londonderry,
adventure began with a bet. In 1894, a gentleman in Boston bet another
gentleman, $20,000 against $10,000, that no woman could travel around the world
by bicycle, a feat that had been completed for the first time by a man in 1885.
Although it is not clear why she was chosen, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky set out
from Boston, to attempt the journey. Married and a mother of three children
under age six; she was an unlikely choice but a good example of the ways that
the bicycle was transforming women’s lives. Besides providing women with a
respectable form of independent transportation, the popularity of the bicycle
led to changes in women’s dress, for example, as bloomers replaced unwieldy and
inconvenient full skirts.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/25/1894/annie-cohen-kopchovsky
1895:
Samuel Shlomo Boorstein, the Son of Yechezkel Boorstein and Pessia Boorstein
and his wife Faiga (Fanny) Boorstein gave birth to Chana Boorstein who became
Chana Handelman when she married Abraham
Handelman with whom she had two children – Lillian and Arnold.
1896:
Birthdate of Omaha native and WW I veteran Harry Maurice Levin, the Creighton
University trained surgeon who practiced in Sioux City, IA.
1896:
In New York, a body of a young man who would later be identified as 25 year old
Simon Mischel an unmarried Jew residing on Delancey Street was found floating
in the Clyde River.
1896:
A summary of the United Hebrew Charities activity report the month of May
published today showed that 3,355 had applied for aid and that over $12,000 had
been spent in meeting their needs and the needs of previous applicants. The organization found work for 538 people
and provided transportation for an additional 157 people to travel to other
parts of the United States.
1897:
Rabbi Isaac Ruff wrote Declaration versus Declaration which appeared in today’s
issue of Die Welt. This was defense of Herzl who had been attacked by the
anti-Zionist “Protest Rabbis.”
1897:
In an example of Jew supporting Jew it was reported today that the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum Band had provided the musical program at the recent graduating
exercises for the students of the Hebrew Technical Institute.
1897:
Two days after he passed away, David Jewell was buried today at the Balls Pond
Road Jewish Cemetery.
1897:
“Jacob Scholle’s Bequests” published today contained a list of the charities
that were to receive $2, 500 according to the late bankers will including the
Montefiore Home, Mount Sinai Hospital, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum of San Francisco.
1898:
In Ferrara, Italy, Enrico Ascoli, a coal and lumber merchant, and Adriana Finzi
gave birth to Max Ascoli, a professor of political philosophy and law at
the New School for Social Research and the founder The Reporter, an influential
mid-twentieth century publication
https://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/max-ascoli/
1898(5th
of Tammuz, 5658): Seventy year old Ferdinand Julius Cohn “one of the founders
of modern bacteriology and microbiology” passed away today.
http://www.microbeworld.org/images/stories/history_pdfs/f3.pdf
1899:
It was reported today that officers of the newly formed Orthodox Hebrew Society
are President – Dr. Bernard Drachman, the Rabbi of Congregation Zichron Ephraim
and Vice President Max Cohen, a New York attorney. The Society was formed to promote traditional
Jewish observance in the face of the growing popularity of the Reform Movement.
1899:
In London, Herzl takes part in the Conference of the English Zionist
Federation. Herzl says that he wants to obtain a Charter from the Turkish government,
in order to colonize Palestine under the sovereignty of the Sultan. The
conference ends on July 1st.
1899:
“The Jews of Germany” published today described the “continuing Jew-baiting
crusade” being conducted by Count Puckler.
During his lectures in Berlin he “invited his audience to wage a
merciless was on ‘godless, lying, thievish Jews.’”
1899:”
Fears that Dreyfus May Be Assassinated” published today described precautions
being taken at Rennes where the court-martial of the French officer is taking
place including placing “Gendarmes…at every corner” and the testing of all food
supplied to him by his jailers before it is eaten.
1899:
“France’s New Cabinet and its Peculiar Composition” published today described
the difficulty that Gallic politicians are having in forming a new government
in the wake of the ongoing crisis surrounding the Dreyfus Affair.
1900:
Birthdate of Philip Montagu D’Arcy Hart, the grandson of the 1st
Baron Swayting, the husband of gynecologist Ruth Meyer and father of economist Oliver
Hart who was a leading researcher in the field of tuberculosis treatment.
http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/philip-montagu-darcy-hart-1900-2006/
1900:
In New York City, David Eichler and Anna Strauss gave birth to real estate
developer Joseph Eichler.
http://forward.com/culture/152215/how-eichlers-brought-design-to-suburbia/
1900:
Birthdate of Moses Hadas, an American teacher, one of the leading classical
scholars of the twentieth century, and a translator of numerous works. Raised
in Atlanta in a Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jewish household, his early studies
included rabbinical training; he graduated from Jewish Theological Seminary of
America (1926) and took his doctorate in classics in 1930. He was fluent in
Yiddish, German, ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek, Latin, French, and Italian, and
well-versed in other languages. His most productive years were spent at
Columbia University, where he was a colleague of Jacques Barzun and Lionel
Trilling. There, he took his talent for languages, combined it with a
popularizing impulse, to buck the prevailing classical methods of the
day—textual criticism and grammar—presenting classics, even in translation, as
worthy of study as literary works in their own right. This approach may be
compared to the New Criticism school: even as the New Critics emphasized close
reading, eschewing outside sources and cumbersome apparatus, Hadas, in
presenting classical works in translation to an influx of post-war G.I. Bill
students, brought forth an appreciation of his domain for those without the
specialized training of classicists. His popularizing impulse led him to
embrace television as a tool for education, becoming a telelecturer and a
pundit on broadcast television. He also recorded classical works on phonograph
and tape. His daughter Rachel Hadas is a poet, teacher, essayist, and
translator. He passed away in 1966.
1901:
Eighty-seven year old Charles Kensington Salaman who passed away two days ago,
was described today as “the oldest living English composer” who, in the last
years of his life was best “known as the man who alone of living men, knew many
of the great masters of composition of the early part of the nineteenth
century.” This meant that that the late Jewish composer knew Mendelssohn,
Listz, Schumann, Mayerbeer and Wagner (and a whole lot more)
1902:
Joseph Pulvermacher, the president of the Sterling National Bank and Trust
Company today started his career ?when he became a messenger for the Hide and
Leather National Bank.
1902(20th
of Sivan, 5662) Samuel Edward Shrimski the native of Prussia who moved to
London in 1847, then to Melbourne in 1859 before settling in New Zealand in
1861 where he became a Member of Parliament died suddenly today. In addition to
supporting many secular institutions he was “vice president of the Otago branch
of the Anglo-Jewish Association.
1902:
“Heir to the British Crown” published today described the qualifications of
Prince George of Wales who in the event of King Edward’s death would take the
throne and whose service in the Royal Navy took him to Jaffa and other parts of
Palestine on journey that was memorable for the future monarch and the Jews he
visited.
1903: Birthdate of English author and social
commentator George Orwell. Orwell is best
known for such works as “1984” and “Animal Farm.” A lesser known work is his essay entitled
“Anti-Semitism in Britain.” First
published in 1945, this short article examines the conditions of the Jewish
population in Britain and calls for an examination of the causes of
anti-Semitism now that World War II was coming to an end.
1903(30th
of Sivan, 5663): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1904:
In Denver, CO, the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society which had been founded in
January was officially incorporated today.
1904(12th
of Tammuz, 5664): Parashat Chukat-Balak
1904:
“Hebrew Terms Defined” published provides a complete review of the latest
publication of The Guide for the Perplexed translated by Dr. Friedlander and
published by E.P. Dutton and Company.
1904(12th
of Tammuz, 5664): In Greenville, MS, sixty year old Edward Storm passed
away. Born in Berlin, he moved to
Mississippi and served in two Confederate cavalry units during the Civil War.
1905(22nd
of Sivan,5665): “At Baluty, a suburb of Lodz, this morning Cossacks attacked a Jewish
family of five persons who were driving in a cab to the railway station and
shot and killed all of them as well as the cabman.”
1906:
“Rabbi Abraham Orenstein chanted a hymn for the repose of the souls those
killed at Bialystok” during a mass meeting at Congregation Anshe Bialystok many
of whose members have lost relatives during the Bialystok massacres.
1906:
In Berlin, “thousands of persons of all classes attended a meeting at the
Tonhalle this evening to protest against the massacre of the Jews of Russia.”
1907:
It was reported today that the Adelaide Kelm’s “characterization” of Leah, the
Jewish maiden who is the title role in Agustin Daly’s “Leah, the Forsaken”
which is appearing at the Metropolis Theatre “was received by the large
audience” as could be seen from the “many curtain calls.”
1908:
“In the course of the meeting a Reveal between the King and the Czar, the Jewish Chronicle reported that “an
intimation was conveyed that a measure for ameliorating the conditions of the
Jews in the Russian Empire had been for some time in contemplation.”
1909:
Birthdate of Daniel Fuchs, a writer who was a product of the Lower East Side
and Williamsburg which provided the backdrop of “three early novels – Summer
in Willamsbrg, Homage to Blenholt and Low Company.
1909:
Hebert Louis Samuel, the 1st Viscount Samuel began his term as
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the government of Prime Minister
Herbert Henry Asquith.
1910: Congress passed
the Mann Act which was intended to curb prostitution, or as its supporters
called “white slavery” a term George Kibbe Turner used “in a 1907 article in
McClure’s Magazine that claimed a
“loosely organized association… largely composed of Russian Jews”
was the primary source of supply for Chicago brothels.
1911(28th of Sivan, 5671): Seventy-five-year-old German born Morris
Baldauf, the husband of Lina Kahn Baldau with whom he had four children –
Julius, Minnie, Leon and Cora – passed away today after which he was buried in
The Temple Cemetery at Louisville, KY.
1911: Birthdate
of biochemist William Stein. Stein won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in
1972. Jews have won 18% of the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry. Stein died at
the age of 68 in 1980.
1912: Birthdate of “Arnold Forster, an American
Jewish leader, lawyer and writer who was a longtime executive of the
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.”
1912: The 12th annual meeting of the
Alumni Association of the Jewish Theological Seminary whose president was Jacob
Kohn opened today in Tannersville, NY.
1913:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, officers are elected at the American Zionists’ convention
including Harry Friedenwald of Baltimore who is chosen to serve as Honorary
President and Louis Lipsky who is chosen to serve as Chairman of the Executive
Committee.
1913:
In Springfield, Illinois, the annual conference of the American Association of
Officials of Charities and Correction which Mortimer L. Schiff and Henry
Solomon both of New York were delegates continued for a second day.
1913:
In New York City, Harry and Anna Grossman gave birth to photographer and social
activist Sid Grossman, the graduate of City College who co-founded the Photo
League in 1934.
https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/sid-grossman
1914(1st
of Tammuz, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1914:
It was reported today that the late Isidor Wormser, a retired banker and
automobile racing enthusiast was a member of the New York Stock Exchange up to
the day of his death having kept is seat on the NYSE even after he had
liquidated his business holdings.
1914:
Birthdate of Newburyport, MA native Theresa Hilda Feldman who gained fame as
Hilda Terry, one of the first female cartoonist and creator if “Teena” which
ran for over almost a quarter of a century starting in 1941.
https://www.nysun.com/obituaries/hilda-terry-92-cartoonist-and-scoreboard-artist/41781/
1915(13th
of Tammuz, 5675): Hungarian born American pianist and composer Rafael Joseffy
passed away.
1915:
“In a long statement seeking to justify the use of asphyxiating gases in
war-fare, the semi-official Wolff Telegraph Bureau assert in German
newspaper…that the Allies first used such gases against the German.” According to Wolff, the French had authorized
use gas in February of 1915. [Like so many other agencies of this type, its
ownership had Jewish origins.]
1915:
Authorities believe that yesterday’s attack on Benny Snyder at the Tombs just
before he was to appear in court was brought on by those who thought that he
was going to provide the D.A. with information about criminal activities he had
acquired while in jail.
1915:
Delegates to the National Convention of Zionists are scheduled to begin
registering this morning at the Old City Club building on Beacon Street in
Boston while “official activities of the convention will actually begin in the
evening at Temple MIshkan Tefila.”
1915:
As the state of Georgia reels from the outgoing Governor’s decision to commute
the death sentence of Leo Frank to life in prison, two regiments of the state
militia are making their way to Atlanta to make sure that the inauguration of
Governor-elect Nat Harris goes smoothly.
1916:
Supreme Court Just Louis D. Brandeis is among the speakers who will address the
“seven hundred delegates scheduled to attend the annual convention of the
Federal of American Zionists opening today in the Metropolitan Opera House in
Philadelphia, PA.
1916:
“Henry Morgenthau delivered an address in the Dickinson High School at Jersey City
today to the movement for a Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Hudson County.”
1916:
“A military organization” known as the First New York Volunteers “having as its
nucleus men who allege they have been excluded from the New York National Guard
because they were Jews” was formed at a meeting attended by more than fifty men
and held today in the rooms of the Merchants’ Association in the Woolworth
Building. The meeting was chaired by Max J. Klein who was assisted by Captain
Lewis Landes, the Executive Secretary of the Army and Navy Branch of the Young
Men’s Hebrew Association.
1916:
Today which has been designated as “Flower Day” many florists throughout New
York City today “donated their wares to the Joint Distribution Committee for
the Relief of Jewish War Suffers: while “more than 1,500 Jewish young men and
women sold he flowers on the streets under the committee’s auspices.”
1917:
The Italian government publishes a decree assuring that all 10,000 Lire
($2,000) of a bequest from Emilio Treves will be awarded as a prize upon
publication of an Italian language manuscript to combat anti-Semitism.
1917:
After having lost the Welterweight Championship in 1916, Ted Lewis won it back
in a bout at Westwood Field in Dayton, Ohio.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/21/world/rabbi-hugo-gryn-66-a-reform-leader-in-britain.html
1917:
This evening a reception for delegates at the Convention of the Federation of
American Zionists is scheduled to be held at the Hotel Belvedere between
Charles and Chase streets.
1917:
In Cleveland, Ohio, after five years of service, Jacob Klein was unanimously
elected to continue serving as the Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun.
1918:
Tache Ionescu stated today “that ever since August 1914, it had been decided to
settle the Jewish question and place the Jews in Romania on a footing of
complete equality with their fellow subjects.”
1918:
The 21st Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionist
continued for a third day in Pittsburgh, PA. where delegated learned that “the
Jewish Legion of 8,000 men now fighting with British in Palestine is only the
nucleus of a Jewish legion ten times as great that is to become that national
standing army of the coming Jewish Republic.”
1918:
Twenty-seven-year-old JTS ordained Rabbi Abraham E. Halperin, the Toronto born
son of Rabbi Isaac and Fannie (Singer) Halpern, who served “Congregation B’nai
Amoona, St. Louis, Missouri for over 45 years” married Bessie Feinberg toay.
1918:
The Intercollegiate Zionist Association of America whose members included
Norman Winestine, Aaron Schaffer and Jonas Friedenwald held it is fourth annual
convention today.
1918:
The fifth annual convention of Hadassah continued for a second day in
Pittsburgh, PA.
1919:
The first national conference of the Religious Zionist Organization, Mizrachi,
opens.
1919:
In Brockton, MA, Rose Rosen “a Communist activist from the East of London” and
her husband gave birth to Harold Rosen, the graduate of University College in
London, U.S. Army veteran and “academic” at London University’s Institute of
Education who was the husband of Connie Isakofsky with whom he had three
children – Brian, Alan and Michael.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/1802/The%20real%20lives%20of%20Eastenders
1920:
Tonight,“the residents of the Young Women’s Hebrew Associaton” on 110th
Street “attended Synagogue where a special service was held for their bellowed
and revered Mrs. A. N. Chen whose loving devotion they shall” remember forever.
1920:
The Jewish Chronicle reported on a meeting of the Board of Deputies where they
discussed the disposition of the Cemetery at St. Heliers.
1920:
In St Anne’s-on-Sea, Lancashire, England, Maurice Copisarow “who in 1915
co-authored a paper on Chemistry with Chaim Weizmann” and his wife gave birth
to Alcon Charles Copisarow who “held serveral Civil Service and other
governmental posts” before being knighted in 1988.
1920:
Birthdate of William H. Prusoff, a pharmacologist at the Yale School of
Medicine who, with a colleague, developed an effective component in the first
generation of drug cocktails used to treat AIDS.
1920:
The sixth annual Tennis Tournament sponsored by the Chicago Institute for young
men under theage of 17 is scheduled to take place today with the winners
receiving “handsome cups and medals.”
1921(19th
of Sivan, 5681): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1921:
A sermon on “A Thought for Vacation” is scheduled to be delivered this morning
at Temple Emanu-El.
1921:
Rabbi Harry Halpern is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at the
Jewish Communal Center of Flatbush in Brooklyn.
1921:
Rabbi Samuel J. Levinson is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at the
Flatbush Temple in Brooklyn
1921:
Authorities in Syria do not issue passes to Jews who wish to leave the country.
1921:
In Newport News, VA, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Cohen gave birth to Sherman Cohen “a
one-time auto dealer who, with his two brothers, built a real estate empire of
more than 20 residential and commercial buildings across Manhattan…” (As
reported by Charles V. Bagli)
1922:
“Resolutions urging the British Government to take immediate steps to bring
about the final registration of the mandate over Palestine were adopted today
by the Zionist Organization of America in its twenty-fifth annual convention.”
1923:
Opening of the Summer Edition of the Ziegfeld Follies featuring songs, sketches
written and performed by Eddie Cantor.
1924:
In Philadelphia, PA, Polish born actor Baruch Lumet and Mrs. Lumet gave birth
to Director Sidney Lumet best known for the film Dog Day Afternoon
1925: The Polish Government, influenced by the
damage done to its credit abroad by the resentment of Poland’s Jewish citizens,
has made important concessions to them and are embodied in an agreement reached
by the Jewish deputies, M. Reich and Dr. Thon, with the Government after
parleys with Count Skrzynski, Foreign Minister, and Professor Stanislas
Grabski, Minister of Public Worship and Education.
1926: It was reported today that the attendees of
the 37th annual meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
were able to put aside “the gloom cast upon it by the sudden death of Rabbi
Herbert Samuel of Montreal” and conclude its conference with “a discussions of
religious freedom in American and a proposal to extend the education of Jewish
young men.
1927: In Long Branch, NJ, Rose Liebesman Stein “the
daughter of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants and Joseph Stein, the son of German
Jewish immigrants, who “worked as a journalist and later in the automotive
industry and opened the first Cadillac dealership in New Jersey: gave birth to Skidmore
College graduate Wilma Stein who fame as Wilma Tisch, the wife real estate
developer Laurence Tisch with whom she had four children – Andrew, Daniel,
James and Thomas.
1927:
Birthdate of Lorain, OH and Northwestern University alum Gerald Alan Freedman,
the “Dean of the Drama School at the University of North Carolina School of the
Arts” and “the first American ever invited to direct at the Globe Theatre in
London.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/theater/gerald-freedman-dead.html
1928:
Birthdate of Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian born physicist who now also
holds American citizenship. He was a co-recipient
of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003.
1928:
In New York, Isidore and Bess Junger Cohen gave birth to University of Chicago
graduate and award winning novelist and theologian Arthur Allen Cohen
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/01/obituaries/arthur-a-cohen-author-dies-at-58.html
1928:
After losing his only bout by a knockout in 1926, today Flyweight Pinky
Silverberg lost his second bout in a row, this time by points in a ten round
decision “at Laurel Garden in Newark, NJ.”
1929:
“President Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorizing the
expenditure of $165 million for the construction of the Boulder Dam” which was
designed by architect “Gordon Bernie Kaufmann, whose father was of Jewish
origin and whose mother’s maiden name was Isaacs” but may not have been Jewish
himself since he was “buried under the sign of a cross at Golden State National
Cemetery.” (As reported by Donald H. Harrison)
1929:
Birthdate of Thomas Eisner, “a groundbreaking authority on insects whose
research revealed the complex chemistry that they use to repel predators,
attract mates and protect their young, Thomas Eisner, a groundbreaking
authority on insects whose research revealed the complex chemistry that they
use to repel predators, attract mates and protect their young,”
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/science/earth/31eisner.html
1930:
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is scheduled to officiate at the funeral of Rabbi Maurice
H. Harris which is being held this morning at the Free Synagogue. (JTA)
1930:
Birthdate of Hugo Gabriel Gryn, the Czech born survivor of Auschwitz who served
as the Rabbi at West London Synagogue.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/21/world/rabbi-hugo-gryn-66-a-reform-leader-in-britain.html
1930:
Today Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed a new member to the Niagara
Frontier Bridge Commission to replace Emanuel Boasberg who had resigned from
the commission,
1930:
The two-day celebration of opening of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva founded by
Rabbi Meir Shapiro came to an end.
1931:
“The Magnificent Lie” a WW I themed movie with a script by Leonard Merrick and
Samson Raphaelson was released today in the United States.
1932(21st
of Sivan, 5692): Herbert Bentwich passed away in Jerusalem. Born in 1856, at
Whitechapel, he was a British Zionist leader and lawyer. “He was an authority
on copyright law, and owner/editor of the Law Journal for many years. He was a
leading member of the English Hovevei Zion and one of the first followers of
Theodor Herzl in England. In 1897 Bentwich he led a group of 21, including the
writer Israel Zangwill, on a tour of holy sites and new settlements in
Palestine on behalf of the Maccabaeans, and in 1911 he acquired land for
settlement at Gezer, near Ramleh on behalf of the Maccabean Land Company. He
later succeeded his brother-in-law Solomon J. Solomon as president of the
Maccabaeans. Bentwich was a founder of the British Zionist Federation in 1899 and
for some time served as its vice-chairman. He was a legal adviser for the
Jewish Colonial Trust. From 1916 to 1918 he served on the Zionist political
advisory committee under Chaim Weizmann. Bentwich was a regular visitor to
Palestine after 1921 and settled in Jerusalem in late 1929. Susannah Bentwich
died in London in 1915. He was survived by ten of his eleven children, eight of
whom eventually settled permanently in Palestine. His eldest son, Norman
Bentwich, a leading barrister, also spent much of his professional life there,
and another son, Joseph Bentwich, was awarded the Israel Prize, for education,
in 1962.”
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bentwich
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3010-bentwich-herbert
1933:
Outfielder Milt Galatzer made his major league debut with the Cleveland Indians
in doubleheader with the Washington Senators during which he got on base four
times in the first game (all by walks) and then got two hits in the second
game.
1933:
Funeral services were held today at the Farbund Culture Service today for
sixty-year old Russian born NYU trained attorney and national treasurer of the
Jewish National Workers Alliance Nathan Zvirin, the legal adviser to the Kosher
Butchers of Greater New York and husband of Ida Levine Zvirin with whom he had
three children – Pauline, John and Fred –
after which he was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield.
1934:
In Providence, R.I., funeral services were held tonight fifty-three-year-old Russian born, Jefferson
Medical College trained surgeon who had passed away last night “from blood
poisoning resulting from a slight cut on the hand suffered during an operation
on a patient for throat abscess ten days ago.”
1934:
Today, American banker Robert Owen Lehman, Sr. married his second wife, Ruth
“Kitty” (Leavitt) Meeker with whom he had one son, Robert Owen
Lehman, Jr.
1935:
In Bridgeport, CT, George and Rea (Wishengrad) Kramer gave birth to their
second son and Yale University attorney Laurence David Kramer “the noted writer
whose raucous, antagonistic campaign for an all-out response to the AIDS crisis
helped shift national health policy in the 1980s and ’90s.” (As reported by
Daniel Lewis)
1935: Joe Louis defeated Primo Carnera
at Yankee Stadium. Neither of the fighters
was Jewish. But Joe Louis’ manager Mike
Jacobs was Jewish. It was under his
guidance that Louis broke the “color barrier” and got his shot at being Heavy
Weight Champion of the World.
1935: In Bridgeport, CT, a Jewish
“attorney and a social worker gave birth to playwright and author Larry Kramer
who is also an LGBT rights activist.
1936: Sixty-nine year old American
diplomate and N.Y. National Guard Brigadier General Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
who spoke “glowingly” about Mussolini and Hitler and who failed to convince the
German dictator to allow “one token Jew” to take part in the 1936 Olympics,
passed away today.
1936: The Palestine Post reported that Haim Golowitzky, one
of the founders of Atarot who was on his way to milk cows, was shot dead by
Arab snipers, just outside his cowshed. Passengers in a Jewish bus in Haifa had
a remarkable escape from death when they succeeded in extinguishing burning
fuses in a suitcase left by an Arab passenger who jumped off their bus. British
troops continued their searches and confiscated arms in Arab villages
throughout the country. It was estimated that no fewer than 100,000 trees had
been destroyed and another 12,000 damaged by Arabs since April 19, 1936.
1936: Last broadcast of Camel Caravan, a radio show that showcased
several talented musicians including Benny Goodman.
1936: “Exemption of Jews from military service ‘in accordance with
the highest interpretation of Judaism’ was sought from the United States
Government in a resolution adopted tonight by the Central Conference of
American Rabbis at the social justice session of the organization’s
forty-seventh annual convention” being held at Cape May, NJ.
1936: It was announced today that a testimonial luncheon will be
given for Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman at the Hotel Commodore by the Women’s Division
of the Greater New York Campaign of the Joint Distribution Committee for the
benefit of the campaign whose goal is to raise $1,500,000.
1937: “North of the Rio Grande” a western film featuring Lee J.
Cobb as “RR President Wooden” was released today in the United States.
1937: “The Great Gambini” a mystery directed by Charles Vidor,
produced by B.P. Schulberg
1937: Birthdate of Baron Wolman Rolling Stone magazine’s first Chief Photographer.
1937: It was reported today
that Italian newspaper publisher Generoso Pope has said that “he had received
the word of Mussolini that would be no persecution of Jews in Italy ‘as long as
they obey the laws’ and that the Premiere had told him the Jews “will be
treated just like all other Italians as long as the laws of the country are
obeyed.”
1938: As Arab violence flared, “a gain of terrorist entered a
hospital in Haifa seeking a wounded Arab ‘traitor’ who was a patient
there.” When they could not find him,
“they killed another Arab patient. “A manifesto issued today by the Tel Aviv
municipality called on Jews to remain calm and not resort to violence.
1938: Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the U.S. adopts a
minimum wage which is set at $.40 an hour. Sidney Hillman, head of the
“Amalgamated” and advisor to FDR played a key role in drafting and gaining
support for this landmark legislation.
1938: German-Jewish doctors are allowed to
treat only Jewish patients.
1939:
Over one thousand delegates attended the 42nd annual meeting of the
ZOA began this afternoon at the Hotel Commodore where they heard a cable from
former Prime Minister Lloyd George who “bid them to be of good cheer until the
clouds pass.”
1940: France formally surrenders to Nazi Germany.
1940:
As Churchill worked to transfer the eleven battalions of Regular British troops
from Palestine back to England so that they can help defend the British Isles
against the pending Nazi invasion, he wrote to the Secretary of State for
Colonies, Lord Lloyd, asking “what weapons and organization the Jews have for
self-defense.” Churchill wants to arm
the Jews so they can protect themselves against Arab attackers. Lloyd opposes the arming of the Jews and
would rather have the British troops remain.
1941
(30th of Sivan, 5701): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1941:
Members of the Lithuanian militia marched Jews to the Seventh Fort in Kovno
where they would be murdered after suffering abuse at the hands of the local
sadists.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/june/06.asp
1941:
“President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8802 prohibiting
government contractors from engaging in employment discrimination based on
race, color or national origin. This order is the first presidential action
ever taken to prevent employment discrimination by private employers holding
government contracts. The Executive Order applies to all defense contractors
but contains no enforcement authority. President Roosevelt signs the Executive
Order primarily to ensure that there are no strikes or demonstrations
disrupting the manufacture of military supplies as the country prepares for
War.” By the standards of the 21st
century, this action might seem “weak.”
But it gives us an idea of the level of bigotry which was sanctioned in
the society. At the time Roosevelt
signed this order it was considered a major step in the fight against
prejudice.
1941
(30th of Sivan, 5701): Many Jews were killed in a pogrom at Jassy, Romania. The following appears in The Tragedy of
Romanian Jewry by Randolph L. Braham. “At the outbreak of the war, Jassy had a
population of slightly over 100,000 inhabitants, approximately 50,000 of whom
were Jews. The city was very close to the frontier with the Soviet Union, and even
before launching the anti-Soviet war on June 22, 1941, a number of secret
anti-Semitic measures had been initiated in Romania. Between June 20 and 26 the
Jews of Jassy were forced to dig two large mass graves in the Pacurari Jewish
cemetery. About the same time, the Soviet air force bombed Jassy twice, the
second time inflicting serious damage. The rumor spread that Soviet
paratroopers were active throughout the city and that these paratroopers were
being given shelter by the Jews. On the morning of 29 June, 1941, Jews were
formed into columns and marched from Tatarasi, Pacurari, Sararie, and Nicolina
Streets to police headquarters. Most of the prisoners were men but among them
were also some women with children. Some were dressed, others were in their night
clothes many had been beaten and had bruises and open wounds. Civilian onlookers as well as soldiers and
gendarmes, Romanian and German spat at them and hit them with stones, broken
bottles, clubs, crowbars and rifle butts. Civilians joined the police and the
military in dragging Jews out of their homes. All told, thousands of Jews were
herded into the courtyard of the Jassy police headquarters. In another report,
addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Lieutenant-Colonel Chirlovici,
reported 1,000 Jewish prisoners at 9:00 a.m. and 5,000 by nightfall. He stated
that at noon there were 3,500 Jews in the courtyard. At about 1:30 PM German
soldiers and Romanian gendarmes and soldiers surrounded police headquarters and
an area close by. At about 2:00 p.m., the German and Romanian soldiers began to
fire directly into the crowds; they were joined by some civilians. They used
machine-guns, automatic weapons, or rifles. Crazed with terror some Jews tore
down the fence of the courtyard and tried to take refuge near the Sidoli cinema
… They too were mowed down without mercy. The massacre continued
intermittently until 6:00 p.m. It is difficult to establish the number of
victims of the massacre at police headquarters. Four trucks and 24 carts
transported the corpses; it took two whole days to move them. Approximately
2,500 Jews survived the massacre in the police headquarters courtyard. At about
8:00 p.m. the process of getting them to the railroad station began. Two
thousand five hundred Jews were herded were herded into freight cars. The train
left Jassy on June 30, 1941 between 3:30 and 4:15 a.m. At about 4:00 a.m. the
same morning, a second group of approximately 1,900 Jews to be evacuated were
rounded up at police headquarters. Two death trains left Jassy between 3:30 and
4:15 a.m. on Monday, June 30, 1941. The first one … consisted of from 33 to
38 sealed freight cars and contained between 2,430 and 2,530 Jews. When the
train was emptied there were 1,076 survivors.]The history of the second car is
… equally horrifying. On June 30, 1941 at about 6:00 A.M., 1,902 Jews were
loaded onto a second train comprising 18 cars. Of the 1,902 Jews put on the
train, 1,194 died and were buried in the Podul Iloaei cemetery. The total
number of victims of the Jassy pogrom cannot be established with certainty.
While the number of victims on the trains is known and relatively accurate, it
is not known how many Jews in Jassy were buried in communal graves, how many
such graves there were, and how many corpses were simply thrown onto garbage
heaps or into the Bahlui River. German diplomats estimated at least 4,000
victims… The most reliable source seems to be documents from the archives of
the Romanian Ministry of the Interior which … place the number at over 8,000.”
1941:
Soviets renew the attacks on Finland that had been part of the earlier “Winter
War” with a large air attack on the Fins.
1941
(30th of Sivan, 5701): In the town of Luck, Poland, Dr. Benjamin From aged
forty-seven refused to stop operating on a Christian woman, so he was dragged
out of operating room, taken to his home and killed with his entire family.
1941(30th
of Sivan, 5701): Ninety year old “German mathematician and patron of the arts”
Alfred Pringsheim passed away in Zurich where he had been forced to flee by the
Nazis.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Pringsheim.html
1941
(30th of Sivan, 5701): In Jedwabne, Poland, local Polish citizenry begin a
pogrom aimed at the Jews living in the town.
1941:
Two days after the retreating NKVD had machine gunned 4,000 political prisoners
“including Poles, Jews and Ukrainians” the Wehrmacht captured the city of Lutsk
following which the Nazis forced the Jews into a Ghetto before murdering
approximately 25,000 of them on Gorka Polonka Hill.
1942: Tom Driberg, who in 1945 would be one part of
the official delegation sent by Church
“to examine the newly liberated concentration camps” was elected to Parliament
for the first time today.
1942: An article in the London Daily
Telegraph reports, “More than 700,000 Polish Jews have been
slaughtered by the Germans in the greatest massacres in the world’s
history.”
1942:
It was reported today that “a Torah captured by the British forces when they
were attacking Derna several months ago” and which was found among the German
and Italian stores seized by the British” “has been turned to the Tel Aviv
rabbinate…” (As reported by JTA)
1942:
During WW II, Moe Dalitz enlisted in the U.S. Army after which he rose from
private to first lieutenant.
1943:
Crematorium III at Auschwitz begins operation. Also, Otto Ben, from the Foreign
Ministry reports that the “100,000th Jews has been removed from
Dutch Society.”
1943:
“Jitterbugs” a comedy film produced by Sol M. Wurtzel with music by Lew Pollack
was released in the United States today.
1943:
The Germans began the final destruction of the people living in the Czestochowa
Ghetto. The Jews put up armed resistance in a series of bunkers. Czestochowa is
located in Poland and is famous as the home of the “Black Madonna.”
1944:
In Brooklyn Anne Goldberg, a bookkeeper and postal worker George Goldberg gave
birth to Gary David Goldberg who would gain fame as a television producer and
writer.
http://www.garydavidgoldberg.com/
1945:
In the Bronx, “Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of Simon & Schuster and a
classical pianist who often played Frédéric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven at
home” and “Andrea Heinemann Simon (née Heinemann), a civil rights activist and
singer” gave birth to singer and songwriter Carly Elisabeth Simon.
1945:
Today “Baltimorean Rudolf Sonneborn” who would serve as national chairman of
the UJA “brought together Jewish industrial leaders in a New York meeting with
David Ben-Gurion, then chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive in Palestine.”
1946:
“Books Published Today” included Jews in American History: 1654-1865 by Philip
S. Foner and The Jewish People: Past and Present, Vol I, Jewish Encyclopedic
Handbooks—A series of essays on various aspects of Jewish history and culture.
1947:
The Diary of Anne Frank
is published.
1947:
In Los Angeles, Samuel Kurtzman, a Russian born dentist and the former Roselle
Rosencranz gave birth to Joel Allen Kurtzman the “economic Cassandra” who
seemed to do a 180 degree change when in 2014 he predicted a “Second American
Century of unimaginable prosperity.”
1948:
As Israel fought for its survival, as prelude to a full blockade “the Soviets
stopped supplying food to the civilian population in the non-Soviet sectors of
Berlin” in what was part of a plan to drive the Western Allies from Berlin and
eventually from West Germany. (Editor’s note – this serves as a reminder that
Jewish history does not take place in a vacuum and to understand it, it is
necessary to understand the happenings of the world at large.)
1948:
In Brooklyn actor Harvey Lembeck and Caroline Dubs gave birth to actor
and television director Michael Lembeck
1948: Warner Bros. released “Romance on the High Seas” a musical
comedy written by Julius and Philip G. Epstein with additional dialogue proved
by I.A.L. Diamond today.
1949: At their 60th annual convention, “three hundred
rabbis, representing Reform congregation throughout the United States” today
unanimously approved resolutions calling “for the including of Jerusalem with
the boundaries of Israel” and urging “the full adoption of President Truman’s
civil rights program.”
1950: Birthdate of Israeli actress Nitza Saul.
1950: The beginning of the Korean War, with the
invasion of the South by the North. Jews fought in the Korean War just as they
had in every war since the call to arms went out in 1775.
See http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/sugar10.html for a partial list of
those who served. In an article entitled “Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in North
Korea, 1951, Remembered,” Warren Zundell, MD (Captain, 11th Evacuation Hospital
SMBL, 10th Corp. 8th Army, Korea) provides us with a glimpse of what it was
like during what some derisively called a “police action.”
These evenings occurred years ago, but every Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur, they return as vividly as if they happened last year.In May,
1951, my hospital unit was transported from Sasebo, Japan to Pusan, Korea. I
was on the Orthopedic Surgery Team. Five months later, on the day before Rosh
Hashanah, our hospital Chaplain (a Catholic priest), asked me if I was planning
to attend services the next day, being conducted some 40 or 50 miles north of
our location, just over the 36th parallel, in North Korea. We were in Wonju,
South Korea. I knew the Rabbi who was to conduct the services, as he would
visit our hospital from time to time. Knowing this would be a 40 or 50 mile
trek through sniper-infested mountains, I answered negatively, even though I
knew that the Rabbi might be disappointed. The following conversation then
ensued:
Chaplain: You have to go.
Me: Why do I have to go?
Chaplain: There are about 30 Jewish boys around here who
want to go.
Me: So let them go.
Chaplain: An Officer has to go to be in charge of the
convoy.
Me: Why me? I am a Doctor.
Chaplain: You are the only Jewish Officer in this hospital,
so you go. He was a Major, I was a Captain. I think he was giving me a direct
order. He then informed me that he would lend me his jeep in which to head the
convoy of trucks. It had a big white cross on the front hood, which he implied
would protect us from sniper fire. He didn’t say anything about land mines.
That afternoon we assembled the convoy and headed North. It may have been the
first all-Jewish convoy in the history of Korea. As Jews, we were not fully
convinced that the white cross would totally protect us from sniper fire. We
were therefore well-armed. A few uneventful hours later we crossed the 38th
parallel into North Korea. We were making Jewish history. Soon we checked into
10th Corp. HW. The Rabbi (Major Meir Engle) seemed happy to see us. The next
day was Rosh Hashanah. We had a big tent in which to hold services. There were
about 300 Jewish boys attending, including my 30. I was proud to be there.
After services we reassembled our convoy and returned to our hospital, without
incident. When Yom Kippur came, I was called upon by the Chaplain again. I
didn’t want to push my luck, with a baby daughter back home whom I had never
seen. Nevertheless, I soon found myself in the same Jewish convoy. But between
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there had been heavy fighting on the 10th Corp.
Front. Instead of 300 Jewish boys attending Yom Kippur services, there were
less than 150. Korea is now referred to as the “Forgotten War”. What
it really means is that this country has literally forgotten the more than
34,000 Americans who died there, including those Jewish boys who died between
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in the year 1951.”
Korea also presented the
newly independent state of Israel with one of its first great foreign policy
challenges not directly related to the Middle East or its own immediate
survival. Israel’s shifting policy, as
described below, demonstrated how quickly conflict in the Middle East and
conflict in the Far East were joined together because of the Cold War. The shift also resulted, in part, from the
Soviet Union’s change of policy towards Israel.
Stalin’s smile quickly turned sour, while Harry Truman’s never did. “Israel’s foreign policy underwent a change during the Korean War. In the
first two years after its establishment, Israel maintained a stance of
nonalignment. However, it became clear from the anti-Jewish attitude of the
Communist bloc and especially Joseph Stalin that strengthening relations with
the United States was the only way to safeguard Israel’s continued existence
and long-term interests. Both Israel’s foreign and domestic policy during the
Korean War reflected a growing U.S. influence, which has only deepened with
time. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went one step further during the Korean
War when he suggested that an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit be sent to join
the UN forces fighting North Korea and the Chinese volunteers. A debate broke
out in Israel over whether it should provide support to U.S. and UN policies
given that Washington had made no such request. The leading opponent of sending
an IDF unit was the political party Mapam, which was part of the governing
coalition and openly favored North Korea. With the Achdut Ha’Avoda party,
another member of the coalition, also against the measure, the government
decided to limit its assistance to medical aid and food shipments. In addition,
Israel lent political support during the UN deliberations on whether its troops
should cross the 38th parallel northward. In February 1951, the UN General
Assembly condemned China as the aggressor and placed a boycott on certain
strategic supplies to China. Here, too, Israel continued to side with the
United States, the United Nations, and South Korea, though formal diplomatic
ties with the latter were still more than a decade away. From the 1951
ideological debate between the Israeli parties until 1960, there were no
initiatives on the question of relations with South Korea.”
1950:
Israeli airline El Al began service.
1950:
The outbreak of the Korean War delayed the build of a new Jewish Community
Center in Salt Lake City Utah delaying its completion until 1959.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that 20 lists of parties
were registered for the Second Knesset elections. Israel and Switzerland
decided to establish diplomatic relations. The quality of sweets had improved,
but the quality of beverages had deteriorated, according to the Quality Control
Department of the Ministry of Agriculture.
1951: Today, in Baltimore, Jacob Balustein, the president of the
American Jewish Committee announced today “at the annual meeting of the
Associated Jewish Charities” that his mother, Mrs. Henrietta Blaustein had made
“a gift of one million dollars for an obstetrical and gynecological build of
the Sinai Hospital Unit of the new Jewish Medical Center” in honor of her late
husband Louis Balustein.
1952: A government spokesman reported that an Israeli army patrol
had shot three Arabs who were trying to enter Israel from Jordan.
1952: Jospeh Pulvermacher, the president of the Sterling National
Bank and Trust Company of New York who began working on this date in 1902 as a
bank messenger is scheduled to complete fifty years in banking today.
1953:
Robert and Gérald Finaly, two Jewish children, who
were hidden during the Occupation by a Catholic network, were brought back to
France from Spain where they had been by Catholics who did want to return to
Jewish authorities.
1956(16th of Tammuz, 5716): One hundred four year old
Cincinnati native and 1870 Ohio University graduate Dr. Philip Zenner who
“received his license to practice medicine in 1896” and who “was a charter the
Jewish Hospital medical staff” and a Professor Neurology at the University of
Cincinnati passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/06/27/84701702.html?pageNumber=31
1955(5th of Tammuz, 5715): Parashat Korach
1955: Columbia University announced today that Franz Kallman has
been promoted to a full professorship and will serve a Professor of Psychiatry.
1956: William Goldman started writing The Temple of Gold,
his first novel, which was written in less than three weeks and then was almost
immediately picked up for publication.
1956: The last Packard automobile was manufactured in the United
States. Starting in 1903, Packard automobiles had been manufactured at a start
of the plant in Detroit designed by Albert Kahn.
1960(30th of Sivan, 5720): Parashat Koraach; Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
1960: In their sermons today, Dr. Julius Mark, the senior rabbi at
Temple Emanu-El, Dr. Judah Nadich, the rabbi at the Park Avenue Synagogue and
Dr. Zev Zahavy, the rabbi at Congregation Zichron Ephraim each “commend Mayor
Wagner for refusing to grant a permit for an America Nazi party rally in Union
Square on July 4.”
1960: During a Shabbat morning service at Detroit’s Temple Beth El
which marked the end of “the 71st annual convention of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis,” “Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion” warned the attendees “against
permitting the ‘getting and giving of money’ to become the major premise in
community life” while taking “issue with every kind of vague humanitarianism
and well-fed sentimentality when these tend to supplant the restless search for
truth and the realistic implementation of the imperatives of” the Jewish faith.
1961: The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins was number 9 on
the New York Times bestseller list on the same day that Murray Schumach began
his review of the novel with “It was not quite proper to have printed The
Carpetbaggers between covers of a book. It should have been inscribed on
the walls of a public lavatory.”
1962: The U.S. Supreme Court decides that non-denominational
prayer allowed in New York States is an unconstitutional violation of the
separation of church and state.
1964:
U.S. premiere of “Circus World” produced by Samuel Brontson, with a script
co-authored by Ben Hecht and music by Dimitri Tiomkin who won a Golden Globe
for his effort.
1965:
When followed home from a meeting of Canadian Nazis, Henryk Van der Windt told
the Toronto Star that he was working under cover for the Canadian Jewish
Congress who had hired him to spy on Nazi leader John Beattie. For more on this see “Delayed Impact” by
Frank Bialystok.
1965:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today in the chapel of the Jewish
Cemetery at Veyrier, a Geneva suburb for Seventy-year-old
“Moses A Leavitt, a leader of relief and resettlement activities for Jews
throughout the world” passed away today at hospital in Geneva “after having
suffered a stroke” “after wich the body will flown to New York for burial.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/leavitt-moses-a
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/06/22/106994817.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1966(7th
of Tammuz, 5726): Parshat Chukat
1966(7th
of Tammuz, 5726): Fifty-four-year-old contractor Abraham Scolnick, a vice president
of the Cauldwell-Wingate Company and husband of the former Mildred Kesten with
whom he had two children –Adrienne and Michael – passed away today in the
Bronx.
1966(7th
of Tammuz, 5726): Sixty-five year old Columbus, Ohio native Mose “Moe” Solomon whose major league career
consisted of two games with the New York Giants passed away today.
http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=baseball&ID=60
1967:
After 1,530 performances Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” finished its first
Broadway run today.
1968:
Herb Gray began serving as a Member of Parliament for Windsor West.
1968:
“The Secret Life of an American Wife” directed, produced and written by George
Axelrod and starring Walter Matthau was released today in the United States.
1969(9th
of Tammuz, 5729): Seventy-five year old Alene Stern Erlanger, the wife of
Erlanger Mills director Milton Erlanger and Barnard College graduate “who was
responsible for the formation of the U.S.A.’s canine corps during WW II passed
away today.
https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss243.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/26/78353833.html?pageNumber=41
1969:
“The Gladiators” known as “The Peace Game” in Sweden filmed by cinematographer
Peter Suschitzky, the son of cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky was released
today.
1970(21st of Sivan, 5730)
Seventy-seven-year old WWI veteran and Columbia trained attorney Carl Joseph
Austrian, the Williamsport, PA born son of Joseph and Selma Silverman, who “led
efforts to rescues German Jews” and “who directed the recovery of more than
$100‐million in sav ings for 400,000 New Yorkers who thought
they had lost all when the Bank of United States closed in the Depression”
passed away today.
1970(21st
of Sivan, 5730): Eighty-one year old Austrian born, and University of Chicago
educated journalist Hermann B. Duetsch, the columnist for the States-Item and
“authority on Huey P Long” passed away today.
1971:
“Klute,” a “crime thriller “directed and produced” by Alan J. Pakula was
released today in the United States.
1972(13th of
Tammuz, 5732): Eighty-four year old boxing expert and founder of Ring Magazine
Nat Fleisher passed away today.
http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/nonparticipant/fleischer.html
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/126210-why-did-the-boxing-world-ever-listen-to-nat-fleischer
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/06/26/80794128.pdf
1972:
Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan began serving his second term as Chief Minister of
Gibraltar.
1973(25th
of Sivan, 5733): Eighty-four year old Jessie Danz, the New York born daughter
of Annie and Maurice Mordechai Mohr and the wife of John Danz who “served as an
“officer of the Jewish Welfare Society” and the National Council of Women in
Seattle passed away today.
1974(5th of Tammuz, 5734): Eighty-one year
old Hungarian physicist and mathematician Cornellius Lanczos who “served as
assistant to Albert Einstein during the period of 1928–29” passed away today.
1974:
In Novosibirsk, Yuri and Anna Berkovsky went on trial having been charge with
“speculation and unauthorized possession of fire arms.”
1975:
“Catholic Vazken, head of the Armenian Church and Metropolitan Philaret, head
of the Russian Church in East Berlin and Central Europe” “held separate prayer
services at Yad Vashem” in Jerusalem today “in memory of the six million Jews
killed by the Nazis.”
1975: “Israel handed
over 20 convicted terrorists from Sinai and the Gaza Strip to Egyptian
authorities today and received in exchange coffins bearing the remains of
Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Ben Tzuri who were hanged in Cairo” in 1945 after
having been convicted of murdering Lord Moyne.
1976:
“Notes on People” published today described the release of Morton Sobell “who
served part of a 30-year sentence to commit espionage in the Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg treason case” “from having to report periodically to a probation as
condition of his parole.
1976:
It was reported today Dr. Saul Lieberman and Dr. Herman F. Marks “are this
year’s recipients of the Israel Institute of Technology’s annual $35,000 Harvey
Prize. Seventy-eight year old Lieberman, the rector of JTS, was recognized for
his “research on Palestine in the Greek and Roman eras and his two books on
Jewish life in the Hellenistic period.
Eighty-one year old Marks, the dean emeritus of the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn “was honored for his pioneering research in synthetic
fibers.”
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Foreign
Minister Yigal Allon and his West German counterpart, Hans Genscher, signed in
Bonn an agreement which could secure and encourage large German investment in
Israel.
1976:
Three weeks after opening in the United Kingdom, “The Omen” a horror film
directed by Richard Donner, produced by Henry Bernhard, written by David
Seltzer and with music by Jerry Goldsmith was released in the United Sates
today.
1977(9th
of Tammuz, 5737): Parashat Chukat
1977:
Twenty-one year old Lizabeth Cohen, the daughter of accountant and businessman
Paul Martin Cohen and attorney Dorothy (Rodbell) Cohen married Herrick Eaton
Chapman today.
1977(9th
of Tammuz, 5737): Fifty year old Sue Kaufman the novelist best known for The
Diary of a Mad Housewife and the wife of Jeremiah A. Barondess passed away
today
1979(30th
of Sivan, 5739): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1979(30th
of Sivan, 5739): Eighty-four year old David “Dave” Fleisher the creator of
several iconic cartoon characters and co-owner of Fleischer Studios passed away
https://www.biography.com/people/max-fleischer-082515
1979(30th
of Sivan, 5739): Seventy-three year old portrait photographer Philippe Halsman
passed away.
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/halsman/intro.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Halsman#/media/File:Philippe_Halsman_self.jpg
1980(11th
of Tammuz, 5740): Chaya Ehrenerich, the President of the Pioneer Women and
associate of Golda Meir passed away today in Brooklyn.
https://jwa.org/media/pioneer-women-2-still-image
1981:
In the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, the former Jean
Hively, now known as Ariella Lehrer and civil rights lawyer David Lehrer gave
birth to Jonah Lehrer, the Columbia University graduate and Rhodes Scholar who
parlayed his knowledge of neuroscience into a successful career that included
the publishing Proust Was a Neuroscientist, How We Decide and Imagine:
How Creativity Works
1982:
WJC President Edgar Bronfman became the first leader ever of a Jewish
organization to address the United Nations General Assembly
1982:
Two days after he passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today
for Nathan Peskin, “the executive director at the Workmen’s Circle.”
1987:
Pope John Paul II received Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the
Vatican. Apparently, the Pope was able to overlook Waldheim’s Nazi
past. But then he was not alone. The United Nations also could
overlook it when he was chosen Secretary-General. “Never
forget” – ah what short memories.
1988(10th
of Tammuz, 5748): Twenty-six year old
Israeli-born, American musician Hillel Slovak, the original guitarist with Red
Hot Chili Peppers, passed away.
1990:
Geula Cohen began service as Deputy Science and Technology Minister.
1990:
A disagreement appeared to break out today among the leaders of Israel’s new
Government over whether Soviet Jewish immigrants would be settled in the
occupied territories. The dispute adds further confusion to Housing Minister
Ariel Sharon’s statement that the migrants would not be settled in occupied
land.
1991(13th
of Tammuz, 5751): Eighty-seven-year old Vilinius born American actor Irving
Cohen passed away today in Scottsdale, AZ.
1991(13th
of Tammuz, 5751): Award winning pathologist Michael Heidelberger passed away
today at the age of 103.
1993(6th
of Tammuz, 5753): Eighty-nine year Wilma Shannon Warburg, the wife of Frederick
Marcus Warburg, passed away today in Middleburg, VA after which she was buried
at Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.
1993:
“Sleepless in Seattle” directed by Nora Ephron who also co-authored the script,
featuring Rob Reiner, with music by Marc Shaiman was released in the United
States today.
1996:
The Landmarks Preservation Commission added the Aguilar Branch of the New York
Library to its list.
1998: Pitcher Mike Saipe made his major league
debut with the Colorado Rockies.
1999: NBC broadcast the last episode of
“Another World” a daily soap opera in which Doris Belack played three different
roles “during the shows 35-year run.”
1999(11th of Tammuz, 5759): Dr.
Samuel Bloom, the Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of
Otolaryngology at Mt. Sinai Hospital and winner of the Bronze Start for his
service during WW II in the U.S. Medical Corps who was the husband of Zita
Bloom and father of Betty and Lloyd Bloom passed away today.
2000: The
New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including A
Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel by David Horovitz and Life So Far by
Betty Friedan.
2001:
Today, Alan David Schwartz became Co-President and Co-COO of Bear Stearns.
2002:
It was reported today that “A federal judge in Brooklyn has dismissed a lawsuit
against the government of Poland by a group of Holocaust survivors and their
families, who said they were entitled to compensation for real estate seized by
Polish Communists after World War II” because the plaintiffs had “failed to
show that a United States court had jurisdiction over claims against a foreign
government.”
2003:
Former head the Shin Bet and Commander-in-Chief Ami “Ayalon launched, together
with Palestinian professor Sari Nusseibeh, a peace initiative called “The
People’s Voice” the goal of which is to collect as many signatures of
Israelis and Palestinians as possible for the peace plan guidelines supporting
a two-state solution without the right of return for Palestine.
2003(25th
of Sivan, 5763): Aaron Hyman, the husband of Betty Hyman Z”L passed away today.
2004:
“After weeks of prodding, the
Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, has agreed to appoint an interior minister to
take charge of security for the Palestinian Authority, Israeli and American
officials said today.”
2005(18th of Sivan, 5756): Parashat
Sh’lach
2005: “Palestinian gunmen carried out a
drive-by shooting on a group of Israelis at a hitchhiking post yesterday,
killing a 17-year-old male and wounding four near the West Bank town of Hebron,
the Israeli military and media said” today.
2006:
“Inheritance,” “a documentary film about
Monika Hertwig a.k.a. Monika Christiane Knauss, the daughter of Ruth Irene
Kalder and Amon Goeth, Commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp”
“produced for PBS by James Moll, film director, documentary producer and the
Founding Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute focusing on
testimonies of the Holocaust survivors” was released in the United States
today.
2006: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Bronfamns: The Rise and Fall of
the House of Seagram by Nicholas Faith and Failed States by
Noah Chomsky.
2006: In The Killing after the Killing” published today Elie Weisel
reviewed of Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan T. Gross.
2006: Members of the Popular Resistance
Committee, another Palestinian terrorist organization, kidnapped 18 year old
high school Eliyahu Ashrei whom they would then murder.
2006: IDF Corporal Galid Shalit was kidnapped
by Hamas terrorists.
2007: In the newly
minted Israel Baseball League, four teams debut with Netanya Tigers vs. Bet
Shemesh Blue Sox at Kibbutz Gezer Field and Ra’anana Express vs. Tel Aviv
Lightning at Sportek in Tel Aviv.
2007: Kevin Youkilis played in his 120th
consecutive game at first base without an error, breaking the prior Red Sox
record set in 1921 by Stuffy McInnis
2007: The
Israel Museum in Jerusalem presents the first of five lectures by painter Meir
Appelfeld and painter and art critic Dror Burstein entitled “Five Comments on
the Language of Painting.”
2008: The Jerusalem Kabbala Museum opens in the
city’s Nahlaot neighborhood.
2008: In
“Genes and Identities,” published today Jerome Groopman reviews Jacobs’s
Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History by David Goldstein.
2008: In
Kensington, Maryland, Poet Gretchen
Primack, who “lives in the delightfully Jewish feminist-rich Hudson
Valley” reads from her new work The
Slow Creaking of Planets
as part of the poetry series at the Kensington Row Bookshop.
2008: In
Jerusalem, at 8 p.m., the Bridge of Strings, popularly known as the Calatrava
Bridge, will be inaugurated at a dazzling celebration complete with
performances by David De’or, Dudu Fisher, the Jerusalem Dance Troupe and
hundreds of dancers – at a cost of NIS 2 million.
2009: In
Des Moines, Iowa, AIPAC hosts The 2009 Iowa Annual Event featuring Aharon
Barnea Anchorman and Senior Correspondent in the USA, Channel 2 TV News, Israel
with a Special Address by Krista Allen AIPAC Campus Liaison at Louisiana State
University who will describe her recent maiden visit to Israel and how a
Catholic student from Louisiana became engaged as a pro-Israel political
activist
2009: The Montreal International
Yiddish Theater Festival comes to a close.
2009: The opening day of G’day Shalom
Salaam Israel, presented by the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange, floods the
Jewish state with the flavor of Australia.
2009: New York City police arrested two
youth who vandalized two Lower East Side synagogues on Thursday with eggs,
smoke bombs, and swastikas.
2009 (3rd Tammuz): Third of Tammuz
marks the Rebbe’s Yahrzeit. “The day of passing of a holy tzadik is an
auspicious day to reflect and bond with the tzadik’s soul by studying from his
teachings as well as to ask the soul to intercede on High on our behalf,
especially as it ascends even higher on his Yahrzeit.” click
here to read more about the anniversary of the Rebbe’s passing . Rabbi Pinchas Ciment will join tens of
thousands of other people from around the world to pray at the Rebbe’s resting
place, The Ohel .
2009: Some 2,000 Israelis gathered in front of
the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv today to mark three years to the
day in which Israel Defense Forces Gilad Shalit fell into captivity in a
cross-border raid by Gaza-based Palestinian gunmen.
2010: Mark Ethan is scheduled to lead a
discussion at the 92nd St Y following a screening of “A Man For All
Seasons.”
2010: Ronit Elkabetz, an Israeli actress from
Beersheba married architect Avner Yasharon
2011: Fifth anniversary of the kidnapping of
Galid Shalit.
2011: Jewish comedian and actress Sarah
Silverman is scheduled to perform a night of stand-up comedy in Tel Aviv
2011: The National Yiddish
Theatre is scheduled to present a performance of “The Adventures of Hershele
Ostropoyler.”
2011: For the second time
in two day, oil spills tainted the waters off of Eilat.
2011: France’s ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot met this afternoon
with the parents of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and presented them with a
letter in which French President Nicolas Sarkozy directly addressed Shalit.
2011: Steve Sobroff resigned his management position with the Los Angeles
Dodger after Major League Baseball seized control of the club.
2011: Acclaimed British writer Howard Jacobson who won the prestigious
Man Booker Prize last year for his novel, “The Finkler Question,” which tackled
themes relating to anti-Semitism, Jewish identity and Israel, criticized fellow
novelist Alice Walker for her planned participation in the upcoming flotilla to
Gaza. [Editor’s note: A year later Walker would announce that she would not let
The Color Purple be translated into Hebrew.]
2011(23rd of Tammuz,
5771): Seventy year old college professor and anthologist Martin Harry
Greenberg passed away today.
2011(23rd of Tammuz, 5771): Eighty-year old Eugene H. Kummel,
who had led McCann Erikson Worlwide during a period of creativity that saw the
appearance of signature commercials for Coke and Miller Lite, passed away
today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/business/media/29kummel.html?_r=1
2011(23rd of Tammuz, 5771): Ninety-four year old Gilbert Sedbon,
a longtime correspondent for Reuters who scooped the world on the 1952 “Free
Officers” Egyptian army coup against King Farouk with the help of Anwar Sadat
passed away today. (As reported by the Eulogizer in JTA)
2012: At the Wiener Library in
London, Dr. Iris Groscheck is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Murder of
the Children of the Bullenhuser Damm: How a challenging history of the Shoah
can be told to young people” during which she will and discuss the challenges
of engaging school-age audiences with violent and disturbing historical events.
2012:
Center for Jewish History and
Society for the History of the Czechoslovak Jews are scheduled to present
“Bratislava/Pressburg Returns to the Map of Jewish Europe” a lecture by Dr. Maroš Borský, Director of the Slovak
Jewish Heritage Center in Bratislava
2012: The Boston Red Sox traded Kevin Youkilis to the Chicago White Sox.
2012:
At a ceremony in Netanya alongside
visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israel’s President Shimon Peres
today honored Russian soldiers who were killed while fighting the Nazis, saying
the “Red Army prevented the world from being brought to its knees.” (As
reported by Aaron Kalman)
2012: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews participated in a mass rally this
morning in Jerusalem’s Shabbat Square. (As reported by Yoel Goodman)
2013: The Israel Museum is scheduled to host a symposium beginning today
entitled “In a Strange Land: The Photographic and Artistic Interpretation of
Unfamiliar Environments.”
2013(17th of Tammuz, 5773): Shiva
Asar Be-Tammuz (Seventeenth of Tammuz),
a minor fast day that commemorates the breaching of the walls of
Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. by the Babylonians and again in 70 C.E. by the Romans.
2013(17th of Tammuz, 5773): On the
Jewish calendar, observance of American Independence Day. In 1776, the 4th
of July fell on the 17th of Tammuz. So for those of you who want to
get a head start on celebrating American Independence, here is your chance.
2013: Archaeological excavation prior to the
installation of a drainage pipe has exposed for “the first time…such a finely
preserved section of the road in Jerusalem,” the Israel Antiquities Authority
announced today.
2013: “Charlies and the Chocolate Factory” a
musical version of the children’s novel directed by Sam Mendes with lyrics by
Marc Shaiman “had its world premiere at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in
London” today.
2014: In London The Wiener Library is scheduled
to be hosting a special networking evening for the grandchildren of Holocaust
survivors
2014: “Hanna’s Journey” is scheduled to be
shown at the Portland Jewish Film Festival.2014: The Hadassah Book Club is
scheduled to meet in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2014: “The United States will not allow Iran to
develop a nuclear weapon and will continue to remain steadfast on topics
central to Israel’s security in the nuclear negotiations, US President Barack
Obama assured Israeli President Shimon Peres during a meeting this afternoon at
the White House.”
2014: Responding to a plea from the mothers of
the three kidnap victims – Naftali Frenkel (16), Gilad Sha’ar (16), and Eyal
Yifrah (19) – the Security Cabinet said tonight that “Operation Brother’s
Keeper will continue at full force.”
2015: In Coralville, Iowa, Congregation Agudas
Achim is scheduled to host its annual congregational meeting.
2015: “A plan to link the cities of Amsterdam
and Tel Aviv as twin towns was canceled today after pro-Palestinian groups
pressured the Dutch capital’s mayor into backtracking on his proposal.”
2015: “The U.N.’s Gaza Report Is Flawed and
Dangerous” published today provided Richard Kemp’s analysis of Judge Mary
Davis’ report on the fighting in Gaza.
2015: An exhibition of creations by the Judaica
design brand Mi Polin (the Hebrew words for “From Poland” which created the
“Mezuzah from This Home” project is scheduled to come to an end at the PJCC
Foster City, California.
2015: In London, Anthony Grafton is scheduled
to deliver a lecture on “How Jesus celebrated Passover: Early Modern Views of
the Last Supper” sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of England.
2016: In Nashville, TN, the Oz Art Festival
featuring the work of “Israeli-American street artist Adam Yekutieli (aka KNOW
HOPE)’s” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2016: In Oregon, “Fever at Dawn” a movie about
Hungarian who survived the death camps is scheduled to be shown at the 24th
annual Portland Jewish Festival.
2016: “During this morning’s aufruf, a synagogue
event to honor her upcoming marriage” to Shoshana Dembitz, Abigail “Grafton
spoke about the pain of the recent mass murder at a gay nightclub in Orlando.”
(As reported by Alix Wall)
2016: Steen Metz, a concentration camp survivor
who had been born at Odense, Denmark is 1935 is scheduled to be the featured
speaker in the “In Our Voices” program at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center.
2016(19th of Sivan, 5776): Shabbat
Beha’alotekha;
2017: The cabinet today suspended a
government-approved plan to establish a pluralistic prayer pavilion at
Jerusalem’s Western Wall, following calls by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition allies to scrap the deal.”
2017: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including More Alive and Less Lonely: On
Books and Writers by Jonathan Lethem, The Global Novel: Writing the
World in the 21st Century by Adam Kirsch and The Heirs by
Susan Rieger.
2017: Alon Day is scheduled to “become the
first Israeli to compete in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series — the sport’s
highest league of competition — when he races the No. 23 car for the BK Racing
team at the Sonoma Raceway in Southern California” today.
2017: Am event “organized to mark 100 years
since a historic 67-word letter was sent from the then-foreign secretary Lord
Balfour to the second Lord Rothschild, signaling British support for a Jewish
homeland in Palestine” is scheduled to take place today in London.
2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center is scheduled to host a book launch of “The Children’s Tree
of Terezin, written by children’s author Dede Harris and illustrated by
Sara Akerlund that tells the true story about how children in the Terezin
concentration camp overcame unimaginable obstacles to give life to a small tree
sapling.”
2017: “The Ride For the Living” which starts at
the gates of Auschwitz and ends at the JCC in Krakow is scheduled to take place
today.
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2017(1st of Tammuz, 5777): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
2018: “Kulna Jerusalem” and the Tower of David
Museum are scheduled to host the of three events marking the opening of the
2018 FIFA World Cup games
2018(12th of Tammuz, 5778):
Eight-seven year old South African photographer David Goldblatt, the son of Eli
and Olga Goldblatt passed away today.
2018: Jason Kander announced he would run for
mayor of Kansas City, MO today.
2018: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of “The Boy Downstairs” starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear.
2018: “The Center for Jewish History and
Instituto Cervantes are scheduled to a host a Sephardic music concert
(“Juderias”) by Lara Bellow” tonight.
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a
screening of the documentary “Inside the Mossad.”
2019: The Chevra Kadisha in Edmonton is
scheduled to hold a “special meeting” this evening.
2019: As part of his series on “The Ten Lost
Tribes” Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, the Dean of the London School of Jewish
Studies is scheduled to lecture on “The Failed Siege of Jerusalem.”
2020: As part of the “Leading through Crisis
and Change: Jewish Women at the Turn of the 20th Century” series,
Rebecca Kobrin ,the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American
Jewish History at Columbia University and the Associate Director of Columbia’s
Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies is scheduled to deliver a lecture via
Zoom on Emma Lazarus.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
on-line an on-line screening of “Resistance,” a film about Marcel Marceau’s
role in rescuing Jewish children in Nazi-occupied France followed by a
discussion with the film’s star, Jesse Eisenberg.
2020: As a sign of the resilience of Judaism in
the “Heartland” during the Pandemic, The Jewish Federation of Greater Des
Moines virtual Annual Meeting is scheduled to be held this evening.
2020: The Jewish Museum of Maryland is
scheduled to host the live stream event “Houdini Comes Alive.”
2020: In Ohio, the “Columbus Jewish Film
Festival in Celebration of Andrew Ethan Stern, is scheduled to present a
virtual screening of the film “Standing Up, Falling Down,” starring Billy
Crystal and Ben Schwartz.”
2020: As proof that Jewish study continues
despite the Pandemic B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduled to present
online, “Ethical & Ritual Issues Through the Lens of Conservative Jewish
Law with Rabbi Stephen Weiss”
2020(3rd of Tammuz, 5780): Yahrtzeit
of the man simply known as The Rebbe.
2021: Congregation Beth Elohim is scheduled to
present “A Cross-Cultural Musical Celebration of Pride Shabbat.”
2021: Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast a “Young Artists
Concert featuring the winners of the “Dina Turgeman Chamber Music Competition”
2021: In a sign of communal vitality, in Cedar
Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is scheduled to host in person Shabbat services that
will also be available on Zoom.
2021: J.Proud, the Philadelphia Consortium of
Jewish organizations committed to LGBTQ inclusion, is scheduled to host a pride
shabbat!
2021: In
San Francisco, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav is scheduled to host Pride Shabbat
2022: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to
host “Ensemble Millennium, Ensemble in Residence and Friends.”
2022: Amid reports that “the Mossad spy
agency has managed to thwart three Iranian attacks targeting Israeli civilians
in Turkey in recent days” the travel warning for Israelis visiting Turkey
remains in effect. (As reported by TOI and YNET)
2022: Boston Dance Theater is scheduled to
perform live music and dance with Boston-based musician Yoni Battat.
2022: In Columbus, OH, at Tefirith Israel,
during Shabbat Morning Services the congregation is scheduled to share its
gratitude for Miriam Ber, the outgoing Director of Life and Learning with a
special Aliyah.
2022 (26th of Sivan): Parashat Shelach-Lecha
(Send forth)
2023: In Cedar Rapids, IA, The Memorial Service
for Craig Margulis, father of Aaron Margulis and ex-husband of Nancy Margulis,
is scheduled to take place this morning at Eben Israel Cemetery.
2023: Agnon House is scheduled to present “Hirschel’s
Forest: Reading a Simple Story” an Online lecture with Dr. Dina Berdichevsky
2023: Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan, a key
witness in one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption cases, is scheduled
to testify at the premier’s corruption trial via video link from Brighton,
England, beginning today. (TOI)
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street Museum is
scheduled to host a “Virtual Tour of the Jewish Lower East Side.”
2023: An event honoring the 1948 founding of
the Jewish Family service of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to take place
today.
2023: ASF’s Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to present “Living the Parsha with Mati Seri,” a discussion of actor,
singer, presenter and author Mati Seri’s new book “52 Weeks of Devotion” on the
weekly Torah portion.
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