This Day, November 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 30
1215: The Fourth Lateran Council which had been led by
Innocent III came to a close. The Fourth Lateran Council made the first
official use of the term “transubstantiation,” with reference to the
Eucharist (Lord’s Supper). The adoption of this concept would lead to
anti-Semitic outbreaks based on charges that Jews had desecrated the Host i.e.
the wafer that was seen as being the body of Christ.
1286 Pope Honorius wrote to the Archbishops of Canterbury
and York, reaffirming the decision of the Lateran Councils. He enlarged on the
evils of relations between Christians and Jews and warned of the pernicious
consequences of the study of the Jews’ Talmud going so far as
to issue a bull condemning the Jewish text.
1518: Maria Lopez and her daughter Isabel were sentenced to
death by the Inquisition after having been charged with
“juadizing. (As reported by Renee Levine Melammed)
1597: Sir Henry Finch, the author of The World’s
Great Restauration, or Calling of the Jews, and with them of all Nations and
Kingdoms of the Earth to the Faith of Christ introduced a new bill
into the House of Commons for the relief of the poor.
1631(5th of Kislev, 5932): Rabbi Samuel
Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels passed away. Born in Cracow in 1555,
Edels is known by the acronym Maharsha. He was known as an outstanding
Talmudist and master of dialectics whose commentaries were of such value that
they were included in most editions of the Talmud. Edels was a man
of character as well as erudition. “He attacked the misuse of
rabbinic authority and the attempt made by wealthy individuals to monopolize
communal offices.”
1654: Sixty-nine year old John Selden an English jurist and
student of Jewish law whose writing included a 1646 treatise on marriage and
divorce among the Jews entitled Uxor Ebraica, passed away
today.
1654: Sixty nine year old English jurist and scholar John
Selden, “the first Talmudist in England since the expulsion of the Jews…who
recognized the humanness of Jewish marital law and found in Deuteronomy and the
Talmud a model for the proper relationsip between the judicial and executive
branches of government” and who wrote The Jewish Wife, a work “on the theory
and practice of Jewish marriage and divorce law” passed away today.
1670: Birthdate of John Toland, Anglo-Irish author and
philosopher. In 1714, at a time when Jews were still considered to be outsiders
by many Englishmen, Toland wrote “Reasons for Naturalizing the Jews” in which
he advocated “full citizenship and equal rights for the Jewish people.
1718(OS): King Charles XII who had who had “incurred
substantial debts with Jewish and Muslim merchants” while supply his army that
was fighting in Bessarabia which led to several Muslim and Jewish creditors
arriving in Sweden which led to Swedish law being altered to allow them to hold
religious services and circumcise their sons
1725: Today Felix de Castro, a Spanish physician living at
Agramunt “was condemned by the Inquisition for life for Judaizing.
1726: In Dusseldorf, Lazarus Eliezer Leiser Joseph van
Geldern and Sara Lea van Geldern gave brith to Dr. Gottschalk van Geldern.
1748(9th of Kislev, 5509): Mordecai ben
Jacob Ẓahalon, a doctor and rabbi who was part of a famous Sephardic family,
passed away today in Ferrara, Italy. Among his many books were Megillat
Naharot,” describing the miraculous rescue of the Jewish community of
Ferrara from the inundation that occurred in 1707.
1774: Pamphleteer Thomas Paine whose opposition to Monarchy
was based in part on his reading of the Bible where the Israelite kings had a
propensity for leading their subjects into the evils of idolatry, arrived in
Philadelphia on the eve of the American Revolution.
1778: The “40-year-old wife of Abraham ben Simon” was
buried today at the “Alderney Road (Globe Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1782: In Paris, representatives from the United States
and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later
formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1790: King Leopold II forwarded the petition from the Jews
asking for full equality with other citizens to the “chancelleries of Hungary
and Moravia” to see if this change would be supported.
1790: Georgia Governor, Edward Telfair granted to Levy
Sheftall, Cushman Pollock, Joseph Abrahams, Mordecai Sheftall, Abraham de Pas,
Emanuel de la Motta, and their successors a charter of incorporation wherein
they were declared to be “a body incorporates by the name and style of the
‘Parnass and Adjuntas of the Mickve Israel at Savannah.'” This charter is
still in the hands of the congregation, and it is the document under which it
operates to this day.
1790: Birthdate of Klingen, Germany native Samuel Weis, the
husband of Agatha Klein and the father of Julius and Sophia Weis.
1803(15th of Kislev, 5564): Sixty-year-old
Sarah Leon, the daughter of Abraham de Leon passed away today in Philadelphia.
1803: In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish
representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French
representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the
United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1805: In Chatham, Kent, England, Lazarus Magnus and Sarah
Moses gave birth to Jacob Magus.
1813: In the Hauge, Leonardus Levy Abraham Verveer and his
wife Caroline Elkan gave birth to Salomon Leonardus Verveer
1813: In Paris, Alkan Morhange and Julie Morhange, née
Abraham gave birth to Charles-Valentin Morhange, the descendant of Ashkenazi
from Metz who gained fame as French pianist and composer Charles-Valentin
Alkan.
1813: William VI, the future King William I who would play
an active role in the reorganization of the Dutch Jewish community arrived at
Scheveningen.
1817: Birthdate of German scholar and political leader
Theodore Mommsen who denounced the anti-Semitic campaign being led by his
colleague Heinrich von Treitschke and who descried the “position and influence
of Jews in the Roman Empire” in his multi-volume History of Rome.
1822(16th of Kislev, 5583): Parashat
Vayishlach
1822(16th of Kislev, 5583): Seventy-seven
Shinah Solomon the Lancaster, PA born daughter of Bilah Myers-Cohen and Joseph
Solomon who were married in London in 1738 and the wife of Elijah Etting with
whom she had eight children passed away today in Baltimore, MD.
1823: Birthdate of German botanist Nathanael Pringsheim who
“in 1882 established the German Botanical Society, which in twelve years
included over 400 German botanists, and of which he was annually elected
president until his death.”
1824(9th of Kislev, 5585): Sixty-year-old
David David, the Montreal born son of Lazarus David and Phebe Samuel, the fur
trader and militia officer who was the first Jew born in the Province of Quebec
passed away today.
1825: In Liverpool, Sarah and Lyon Samson gave birth to
Lewis Samson.
1828(24th of Kislev, 5589): The first
Chanukah Candle was kindled for the last time during the presidency of John Q.
Adams who had just lost a hotly contested election with Andrew Jackson.
1831(25th of Kislev, 5592): Chanukah
observed for the first time since the end of the Polish-Russian War that had
begun exactly a year ago with an uprising of the Polish officers.
1832: Georgetown, SC native Divnah Cohen and Isaac Minis
who had married in 1803 gave birth to Cecilia Minis.
1833: In London, Rebecca Jacobs and Michael Meir Myers gave
birth to Maia Golda Myers.
1836: Today, “Mr. Danofsky, of King Street, St. James,
Westminster married Mrs. Hughes, the widow of the late Mr. Moses Hughes at
Margate.”
1841: Alsey Harris and Abraham Ellis gave birth to Nancy
Ellis.
1845: Birthdate of Wisconsin Congressman Richard W.
Guenther who worked with Congressman Ford during the 1880’s to conduct a series
of hearing designed to exclude Jews from immigrating to the United States
1840: Birthdate of Ludovic Trarieux, the supporter of
Dreyfus who founded the League of Human and Civil Rights
1850(25th if Kislev, 5611): Shabbat Shel
Chanukah; Parashat Vayeshev observed for the first-time during Presidency of
Millard Fillmore
1852: Birthdate of Hermann Gollancz the Professor of Hebrew
at University College.
1854: Between 300 and 400 people danced to the music of
Dodsworth’s Band at the Hebrew Young Men’s Ball held in the New York City’s
Chinese Assembly Rooms. Proceeds from tonight’s event will be be
given to the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society.
1856(3rd of Kislev, 5617): Marcus Cone, a Jew who had been
living in New York, passed away today in Abbersweiler, Germany, his hometown.
1856: The Manchester Guardian reported a
“Great Fire” had taken place in Constantinople where 600 homes were
destroyed, and another devastated Adrianople.
1856: Two days after he had passed away, 49-year-old Joseph
Abrahams was buried at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1858: Today’s City Intelligence column reported that the
recent stories about the arrest of three Jews for their role in selling lottery
tickets were in error. At least one of those arrested was identified
as being a rabbi when in fact he made no claim to being a
clergyman. Apparently, he is the leader of a “Bet Hamidrash” or
House of Instruction which is attended by recently arrived poor immigrant
Russian Jews who speak little or no English. In Europe, the sale of
lottery tickets is legal and apparently the immigrants had no reason to think
that this was not the case in the United States. Those preparing the
original report were unaware of the fact that the term “Reb” merely implies
that one is a “master” or an “instructor” and not a clergyman.
1861: Emmanuel Marks, who was killed while serving in the
Union Army, began serving with Company K of the 28th Regiment.
1863: In Paris France, Sophie Neymarck and Elie Camille
Spire gave birth to Ferdinand Espir.
1863(NS): In Warsaw, Jewish shopkeeper Moishe-Leib Abramovych
Vynar and his wife gave birth to University of Warsaw trained attorney and
political leader Maxim Vinaver, the father of the radiologist Valentina
Maximovna Vinaver Kremer, the literary
historian and founder of the International Arthurian Society Eugène Vinaver)
and the lawyer Sofia Maximovna Vinaver Grinberg who developed a practice revolving
around the rising anti-Semitism that included organizing the successful defense
in the Vilna trial of David Blondes [ru], who was charged with ritual murder.
1864(1st of Kislev, 5625): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev
1864: In Tennessee, Colonel Frederick Knefler commanded a
brigade protecting the Union flank at the Battle of Franklin, one of the worst
defeats suffered by the Rebels during the Civil War.
1864: Private Abraham Greenawalt, Company G, 104th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, served with such valor at the Battle of Franklin that he
would be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for capturing the “corps
headquarters flag” of the Confederates.
1867: In Philadelphia, PA, Henrietta and Max B. Loeb gave
birth to Horace Harris Loeb the brother of Balance, Leonore, Jacob Bertha and
Harry M. Loeb.
1867: In Hungary, Eliyahu Menachem Goitein, the son of Zvi
(Armin) Hirsch Goitein and Szali (Sara) Sarolta Goitein and his wife Amalia
Mahala Goitein gave birth to Jacob Loeb Goitein.
1867(3rd of Kislev, 5628): Fifty-two-year-old
Wolf Alois Meisel, the Chief Rabbi in Budapest passed away while preaching a
sermon that was “later published by Simon and Wilhelm Bacher under the
title Die Brunnen Isaak’s”
1869: Two days after he had passed away, David Nathan, the
husband of Mary Lazarus with whom he had four children, was buried today at the
“Canterbury Jewish Cemetery.”
1870: E.B. Hart delivered the opening remarks at the Hebrew
Charity Fair. The lavish event was held to raise funds for the Mount
Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. In his speech Governor
Hoffman of New York said praised both institutions saying that the latter was
indeed populated primarily by Jewish children but that the former served all
members of the community, regardless of their religion.
1871(17th of Kislev, 5632): Thirty-five-year-old Gaston
Cremieux who along with fellow Jew Adolphe Carcassone headed the Revolutionary
Commission of the Département Bouches-du-Rhône was condemned to death and
executed today for his role in the revolt that had followed the Franco-Prussian
War in November 1871, the only one among the leaders of the Commune.
1873: The Jewish Maternity Association, originally known as
Ezrath Nashim (Helping Women) was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1874: Birthdate of Sir Winston Churchill, the
British statesman, orator and author who served as prime minister during World
War II. Churchill’s official biographer was the famous Jewish historian,
Martin Gilbert. Churchill often spoke of his support for a Jewish
homeland. During the war, his government studiously supported the
White Paper which effectively banned Jewish immigration to
Palestine. Churchill’s supporters explained this as being a wartime
necessity meant to ensure Arab support for the Allied cause. Even if
one accepts this argument, it does not explain Churchill’s support for the ban
on Jewish immigration after the Nazis had surrendered in May of 1945. For more
about Churchill and his relationship with the Jewish people, see Churchill
and the Jews by Martin Gilbert. Like all off Gilbert’s work
it is well researched and highly readable.
1876: Rabbi Einhorn is scheduled to deliver the sermon at
Temple Bethel’s Thanksgiving Services the first of which will be held at 10 AM
followed by a second service at 11 AM.
1876: Rabbi Gottheil will deliver the sermon at this
afternoon’s Centennial Thanksgiving Service at Temple Emanu-El. The service
will include a musical program by the congregation’s choir and a reading of the
President’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.
1876: In Philadelphia, a ceremony was held today unveiling
and dedicating a monument symbolic of Religious Liberty that was built with
contribution from member of B’nai Brith from throughout the United States.
1876: Two years after coming to America, in Rochester, NY
Jacob Lipsky and his wife gave birth to “Louis Lipsky, noted
Zionist leader, journalist and author” who “had
three sons: David Lipsky, a theatrical press agent, Eleazar Lipsky, a novelist,
and Joel Carmichael, a historian.
1876: It was reported today that the Ladies of the
Forty-fourth Street Synagogue’s Hebrew Benevolent Society are seeking donations
of goods and money for the fair they are holding during the last two weeks of
December.
1877: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and 1900 Harvard
University graduate Max Hirsch, the President of the Sachs Shoe Manufacturing
Company, Democratic Party activist and “patron of Hebrew University” who
married Marga Henie Hirsch after the death of his first wife Effie Wyler
Hirsch.
1878: Solomon A. Levy and Dilah Horner Levy gave birth to
Henry Horner, the first Jewish governor of Illinois.
1878: In the “Czech Republic,” Bertha and Hermann Ullmann
gave birth to Irma Ullmann who became Irma Hirsch when she married Albert
Hirsch.
1879: C.J. Fishel of Mellis & Fishel read the opening
prayer at the funeral of S.L. Lewis which was the first Jewish funeral to be
held in the Sandwich Islands which we know as Hawaii.
1881: It was reported today that new regulations issued in
Russia divided the Jews of Kiev into 8 different classes based on education and
occupation. Membership in a particular class determines your rights
including where you can live in the area and for how long.
1881: It is reported today that at least one Jew in St.
Petersburg has found a way to get around the government law forbidding Jews
from changing occupations. A Jew who began as a maker of ladies’
riding habits is now operating a counting house. He just never
changed the signage, something that everybody including the authorities is
aware of
1881: In Brooklyn, the fair sponsored by Temple Israel will
open today and last until December 10.
1882(19th of Kislev, 5643): Sixty-year-old
merchant David Hays Solis, the Mt Pleasant, NY born son of Jacob da Silva Solis
and Charity Solis and husband of Elvira S. Solis, a supporter of the B’nai Jeshurun Educational Institute the Hebrew Charitable
Fund, the Jewish Publication Society and the Hebrew Educational who was the
first president of the Congregation Beth-El Emeth, in Philadelphia, passed away
today in Philadelphia.
1882: It was reported today that the United Hebrew
Charities has contributed one hundred dollars to the Charity Organization
Society, an umbrella organization that investigates applicants for charities in
New York Society to make sure that they are really in need.
1883(1st of Kislev, 5644): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev
1883(1st of Kislev, 5644: In Rushville,
Indiana, a violent quarrel, including fisticuffs and gunfire, between Jewish
merchants Eli Frank and Jacob Block turned fatal when Frank was shot to death
by Block’s son.
1883 In Zalal Lovo, Hungary, a peasant woman informed a
Jewish merchant named Kohn
that “some bands had collected in the neighboring villages and that they
“planed “an attack upon him tonight. Kohn warned the mayor who
“strengthened the night watch” and the Jews prepared themselves for the worst.
1885: It was reported today that an unnamed Jew from
Pittsburg stole $475 from a co-religionist in Newark, NJ.
1885: “Le Cid” a four-act opera with a libretto co-authored
by Adolphe d’Ennery was performed for the first time at the Paris Opera.
1885: It was reported today that New York Police
Commissioner Stephen B. French, a Republican had several explanations for his
party’s defeat in the recent election, including the fact that in Fourth
Assembly there are “a great many Irish and a great many
Hebrews.” According to French, the Jews “are always nearly against”
the Republicans and the Irish have reverted to voting Democratic after their
apparent switch in the 1884 election. (Electoral postmortems are nothing new
and misguided ones are certainly not. Actually, in the post-Civil
War United States, Jews in the North and Mid-West tended to vote for
Republicans)
1886: The wife and daughter of a Polish Jew named Milkowski
who has lived in Louisiana for the last 30 years took refuge in Lake Providence
after a mob attacked their home in Caledonia.
1887: Based on information that first appeared in the
London Truth, it is reported that there are no more than 100,000 Jews in
France, but of the 86 prefectures (administrative chiefs) 60 are
Jews. Furthermore “Jews have the best places in the Treasury” and
“merit was the last consideration when they were
appointed.” (Editor’s note: This sub-text of French anti-Semitism
would play out in the Drefyus Scandal and continue into the darkest days of
Vichy)
1887: It was reported today that the recently concluded
conference of Reform Rabbis adopted a resolution introduced by Rabbi Isaac
Mayer Wise to appoint a committee to “consider establishing a reformatory for
Jewish children.” According to Wise, there are more than 150 Jewish
children in various reformatories, and they are never visited by a Rabbi.
1887: It was reported that the next national meeting of The
Jewish Ministers’ Association, an organization of Reform Rabbis will be held
this Spring in Washington, D.C.
1888: It was reported today that there had been a record
number of Jews attending Thanksgiving services and that the Thanksgiving Dinner
served to 200 east side children by the United Hebrew Charities was further proof
of Israelites enjoyment of this American holiday.
1888: Birthdate of Frank T. Fleisher who did not live to
see his second birthday.
1890: In Massachusetts, Eli and Bessie Aronson Levin gave
birth to Aaron Isaac Levin
1891: Benjamin Berensen, a leading member of the Boston
Jewish community disappeared.
1891: Birthdate of Chicago native and Kent College of Law
graduate Benjamin Kahane who entered the motion picture industry as general
counsel for what became RKO studios, after which he served as vice president of
Columbia Pictures and president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and
Sciences while being married to Mildred Kahane with whom he had two children –
Shirley and Benjamin, Jr.
1891(29th of Cheshvan, 5652): Seventy-three-year-old
Edwin de Leon, the native of Columbia, South Carolina who while serving as U.S.
consul-general to Egypt during the Franklin Pierce administration “rendered
conspicuous services in protecting American Missionaries in Jaffa,” passed away
today.
1892: The Hebrew Orphans Asylum band – 45 boys under the
direction of Martin Cohen – will perform at this evening’s session of the
American Institute Fair.
1892(11th of Kislev, 5653): Julius D. Bemb,
the Pittsburgh merchant and philanthropist who was a supporter of Pittsburgh’s Gusky
Home and Orphanage and “benefactor of Hebrew Union College” passed away today.
1893: Birthdate of author I.J. Singer, the older brother of
Isaac Bashevis Singer. Born in Poland, Singer gained fame as Yiddish
writer. He was the Polish correspondent for The Jewish Daily
Forward. He came to the United States in 1934.” Singer’s epic
masterpiece Di Bruder Ashkenazi (The Brothers Ashkenazi)
details Jewish industrial development before World War I.”
1893: “Three hundred children will be given a Thanksgiving
dinner of Turkey, cranberry sauce and trimmings at the Industrial School of the
United Hebrew Charities today at noon.”
1893(21st of Kislev, 5654): Sixty-six-year-old
Phoebe Elizabeth Solis, the Mt. Pleasant, NY born daughter of Charity Hays and
Jacob Da Silva Solis who were married in 1811, the wife of David De Moses
Sarfaty and the mother of Moses and Charity Sarfaty passed away today in New
Jersey.
1893: In the Reichstag, “toward the end of the budget
debate” Dr. Foerster declared that “anti-Semitism was not a passing phenomenon”
and that “it would endure as long as the Hebrew race.”
1894: Birthdate of Columbus, Ohio, native Donald Ogden the
Academy Award winning screenwriter who during the 1930’s was Chairman of the
Hollywood Ant-Nazi League “the first American anti-Nazi organization that was
not overtly linked to American Jews” and that “served as the focal point of the
film industry’s anti-Nazism from 1936 through 1939.”
1894: “Dedicated to Humanity” published today provided a
description of the Montefiore Home’s new additions which is a five-story
edifice that includes a new synagogue on the ground floor that will accommodate
500 worshippers as well “a vast kitchen and laundry in the basement” and
quarters for servant
1894: As of today, there are “3,383 children between the
ages of eight and fourteen years enrolled in the afternoon classes sponsored
Hebrew Free School Association; children who must attend public schools in the
morning to able to take these classes in Hebrew and “religious subjects.”
1895(13th of Kislev, 5656): Parashat
Vayishlach
1895: Birthdate of Samuel Norton “Sam” Gerson,
the Ukrainian born Jewish-American wrestler who won a Silver Medal at the 1920
Olympics and helped to organize Philadelphia’s Maccabi Sports Club.
1895: In New York, Daniel Ryan and Daniel Healy were each
fined $10 for “striking at every Hebrew they passed on Broadway” which the
court described as “Jew baiting.”
1895: Rabbi Joseph Silverman delivered a sermon entitled
“One Touch of Nature, our Appeal in Behalf of Armenia” at Temple Emanu-El
during Friday night services.
1896(25th of Kislev, 5657): For the last
time during the administration of President Grover Cleveland, first day of
Chanukah
1896: In Newark, NJ, Aaron and Theresa (Goldstein) Oschrin
gave birth to Barnard College graduate Elsie Oschrin who after marrying Adolph
Bregman, earned a Ph.D. from Columbia and gained fame as psychologist Elsie
Oscrhin Bregman.
1896: Prior to tomorrow’s start of the 15th Biennial
Council of the American Hebrew Congregation in Louisville, KY, the Executive
Committee met and chose temporary officers.
1897: “Ethnic Politics” published today described the
difficulties that the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which is polyglot
multi-national domain is having in creating a national identity as can be seen
even in Vienna where political lines “are drawn between Jews and
Jew-baiters.” The rise of Jews in Viennese culture has been matched
by a rise in Anti-Semitism which is opposed by the Emperor.
1897(5th of Kislev, 5658): Just 12 days
before his 65th birthday Abraham Carl (A.C.) Wertheim, a
partner in the Dutch banking house of Wertheim & Gompertz, the husband of
Rosalie Marie Wertheim who was a member of States-Provincial for twenty and a
leader of the Jewish community passed away today.
1897: Rabbi “Backowitz” (Berkowitz) of Philadelphia is
scheduled to deliver a speech this evening at Temple Emanu-El in New York
entitled “Jews’ Gifts to Humanity.”
1898: Leo M. Franklin an 1892 graduate of Hebrew Union
College who was the Rabbi at Temple Israel in Omaha, Nebraska, “became the 11th rabbi
of Congregation Beth El in Detroit, a position he would hold for the rest of
his life.”
1898: In San Francisco, Estella and Henry George Washington
Dinkelspiel gave birth to University of California alum and Harvard trained
attorney Martin Jerrold Dinkelspiel, the husband of Estella Dinkelspiel.
1898: As the measles epidemic at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
comes to an end 15 children ranging in age from 6 to 11, remain in isolation at
the hospital
1898: Private Will Hu Freudenstein of St. Louis finished
his military service when Light Battery A, Missouri Volunteers was mustered out
at Jefferson Barracks, MO.
1899: One thousand pounds of turkey was consumed by the
children under the care of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society. The daylong celebration included band music, a speech by
Dr. Kaufman on the meaning of Thanksgiving and an afternoon of play preceded by
the receipt of “a masquerade costume” for youngsters.
1899: Four hundred children attended the 19th annual
Thanksgiving Day Dinner at the Industrial School of the Hebrew Charities
Society.
1899: In New York City, “Isidor Heldenstein and Rose
Miller” gave birth to Columbia Law School trained attorney Herbert W.
Haldenstein, the President of the Central Bureau for the Jewish Aged who
married “the former Mrs. Jennie L. Whitehill” after his first wife Mrs. Marion
Kaufman Haldenstein had passed away.
1899: One hundred children who attend the kindergarten
sponsored by the Shearith Israel Sisterhood were provided with a free
Thanksgiving Dinner.
1899: In Branchville, SC, Julius and Etta Karesh Levin gave
birth to Sidney Levin, the future husband of Tina Levovitz Levin.
1899: Seventy-five-year-old philosopher and psychologist
Mortiz Lazarus, “son of Aaron Levin Lazarus” celebrated “the fiftieth
anniversary of receiving his doctorate.”
1900: Today an overflow crowd of enthusiastic
listeners—Jews and non-Jews alike—filled an auditorium in Moscow to hear a
lecture on Yiddish folk music given by the lawyer, amateur historian, and
folklorist Peysekh Marek followed by a concert that included new arrangements
of Yiddish folk songs and Hasidic nigunim that were created and introduced by
the composer, music critic, and musicologist Joel Engel.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/yiddish-folksong-classical-music
1900: It was reported today that industrialist and
philanthropist Andrew Carnage had been the main speaker at the Thanksgiving Day
reception at the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.
1900: Oscar Wilde passed away. The Picture of
Dorian Gray, possibly his most famous novel, includes a Jewish character
named Isaacs, a theatre manager. The author stresses both his Jewishness and
his ugliness describing him as “a hideous Jew,” a “horrid old Jew” who had
“greasy ringlets, and an enormous diamond … in the centre of a soiled shirt.”
1901: In Watertown, WI, Sarah Johnson Woodward and Frank
Elwin Woodward gave birth to Mary Woodward who gained fame as Mary Woodward
Lasker, the art historian and designer who was the second wife of advertising
executive Albert Lasker and the stepmother of Edward, Francis and Mary Lasker.
1902: Most of the national officers of the National Council
of Jewish Women, “including Mrs. Henry G. Solomon of Chicago, the President;
Mrs. Emanuel Mandel of Chicago, Second Vice President; Mrs. J.H. Seiz of
Chicago, Treasurer; Miss Minnie Loeb of Chicago, Auditor; and Miss Sadie
American of New York, Corresponding Secretary” arrived in Baltimore today a
week before the start of their National Convention.
1903: In a case of literary matrimony, Else Lasker-Schuler
married George Lewin, the author who used the penname Herwarth Walden.
1904: It was reported today that “the annual Charity Ball
of the United Austrian Hebrew Charities Association will be held at Arlington
Hall on December 18.”
1905(2nd of Kislev, 5666): Forty-two-year-old
chess champion Samuel Lipschutz passed away today.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=39131
1905: It was reported today that the massacre of Jews in
Minsk that was originally supposed to take place on November 26th will
now take place on December 3.
1905: Jacob Schiff presided over “the great celebration in
honor of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of the Jews in
the United States… held in Carnegie Hall” this afternoon which “included the
reading of a letter from President Roosevelt and “the singing in Hebrew of
‘Adon Olam’ by fifty members of the Downtown Cantors’ Association of New York
accompanied by 250 members of the Choral Union and the New York Symphony
Orchestra.”
1905: “John Hoar, an American jockey who has been riding
for Prince Louborinski in Russia arrived “in New York today and described “the
sights he witnessed” which “were so awful that he fainted” that included the
gutters in that “ran red with blood.
1905: It was reported from Paris today that prices on the
Bourse “have firmed” now that it has been confirmed that laws aimed at
restricting the Jews have “been abrogated.”
1905: The Orphan Hebrew Asylum observed Thanksgiving and
the 250th anniversary of the settlement of the Jews” in North
America with a reading of a sketch by Harry Schneidermann on the history of the
Jews in the United States followed by a dress parade and concert by the 400
member Cadet Corps and ending with a dinner for 1,030 children “provided by
Emanuel Lehman.”
1905: Jacob Schiff presided at the Thanksgiving Day
Services held at the Montefiore Home.
1905: Today, on Thanksgiving, “Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim gave
dinners to the 272 residents of the Montefiore Home in honor of her son
Robert’s wedding.”
1905: “The 1,245 immigrants detained on Ellis Island,” many
of whom were Jewish enjoyed a turkey dinner with all of the trimmings followed
by an evening of song that ended with the singing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
1905: “A copy of a manifesto issued by the Odessa Zionist
Central Committee” describing the murderous events in that city and the plans
for a response was received in New York City today.
1905: It was reported today that to date the National
Committee collecting funds to helping Jews being massacred in Russia has
raised, $942,548.17 including $100 from the Societe Israelite Francais, $100
from Elihu Root, $543 from the Hebrew Benevolent Association of Binghamton, NY,
$250 from Herbert Lehman, $100 from the Jews of Millville, NJ and $100 of
Congregation Beth-El in Jersey City, NJ.
1906: On the lower east side, following yesterday’s strike
by “patrons of little butcher shops, that included demonstrations in front of
the shops owned by William Ehrenhadrt, Abe Brochnor , Sam Goldberg and members
of the Hebrew Retail Kosher Butcher’s Association, “many of the butchers “close
their places today rather than take the headache” which is good news for the
fish peddlers.
1907(24th of Kislev, 5668): Parashat
Vayeshev; in the evening Kindle the first Chanukah Candle
1907: As of the of the fiscal year which ended today, there
had been “9,978 applicants for admission to Mount Sinai Hospital” of whom 6,173
were admitted.
1907: Saul Harris Kaufmann, the son of Jeanetter and Aron Kaufmann
and his wife Cora Kaufmann gave birth to Estelle C. Kaufmann the wife of
Malcomb Albert Reiser, the ex-wife of Marvin Gingold and the mother of Carter
and Malcom Kaufman.
1908: Birthdate of Bernard Bernstein, the economist who
rose to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army during WW II where he “served as a
financial adviser to General Eisenhower” until the Morgenthau Plan was rejected
as post war policy for the treatment of Germany.
1909(17th of Kislev, 5670): Seventy-one
Bavarian born, New Orleans businessman Isidore Newman who founded the Newman
Training School which became a leading private school and supported numerous
secular and Jewish charities including Turo Infirmary and the Young Men’s
Hebrew Association passed away today
1909: It was reported today that “A. De Sola Mendes, a son
of” Rabbi “F. De Sola Mendes of the West End Synagogue who is the Vice
President and General Manager of the Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad with
headquarter at Savannah and Darien, GA, has been elected First Vice President
of the Tampa and Jacksonville Railway Company which at the age of 26 makes him
“one of the youngest railroad officials” in the United States.
1910: Today, while serving as a member of the Board of
Alderman of Goldsboro, NC, University of North Carolina educated chemist and
geologist Lionel Weil, the Goldsboro, NC born son of Sarah Einstein and Solomon
Weil married Ruth Hayes after which he served as the state chairman of the
Jewish Relief Campaign and “invented a device for transplanting leaf pines and
other evergreens.”
1910: Lucille Selig the member of an “old” Atlanta Jewish
family that had founded the city’s first synagogue, married Leo Frank who would
come to a horrible end when he was lynched for a crime that he did not commit.
1910: Thirty-three-year-old University of North Carolina
trained chemist and geologist Lionel Weil, the Goldsboro, NC born son of
Solomon and Sarah Einstein Weil who was active in the civic affairs of his town
as well as the treasurer of Oheb Shalom Congregation married Ruth Heyn today.
1911: “The right of the Jew to citizenship, not as a
concession or gift grudgingly bestowed but freely granted because of the part
he has taken in the forming of our Republic and his patriotic services to the
State, was the subject of a sermon this morning by the Rev. Dr. Rudolph
Grossman in Temple Rodeph Sholom, Sixty-third Street and Lexington Avenue.”
1911: Congressman Sulzer was a principal speaker” tonight”
at the dinner of the Hebrew Veterans of the with Spain at the Palm Gardens.
1912(20th of Kislev, 5673): Parashat
Vayeshev
1912: Rabbi Weil is scheduled to lead services at Temple
B’Nai Jehoshua this morning in Chicago.
1912: Dr. A.B. Yudelson is scheduled to lead services this
morning at the South Side Hebrew Congregation.
1912: Rabbi Abram Hirschberg is scheduled to lead services
this morning at Temple Sholom in Chicago.
1912: In Chicago, Rabbi Israel Klein is scheduled to speak
at this afternoon’s Shabbat Children Service at the Institute.
1912(20th of Kislev, 5673): Seventy-five-year-old
Joseph Felsenthal, a Confederate veteran and communal leader passed away today
in Brownsville, TN.
1912: Yiddish actors Leon Blank, Francis Adler and Jacob
Adler are scheduled to perform at the Haymarket Theatre this eveing.
1913: Jacob H. Schiff, President of the Montefiore Home,
presided at the dedication ceremonies of the new buildings at the institution
located at Gun Hill Road and 210th Street, near Jerome Avenue. The
ceremonies included services at the synagogue located at the Montefiore Home.
1914: “To Meet Jewish Mark Twain” published today described
the arrival of Solomon Rabinowitz, the author known as Sholom Aleichem, his
wife and six children in New York who were making the second trip to the United
States; the first coming in 1906 when they were escaping the Kiev massacres.
1914: It was reported today that Sholom Aleichim will be
lecturing in New York “on the part the Jews are taking in the Great War.”
1914: “Contributions to the Central Committee for the
Relief of Jews suffering through the war reached a total of $28, 098.52” today.
1914: “Counsel for Leo Frank, who is under sentence for the
murder of Mary Phagan, a factory worker at Atlanta, GA, last year will ask the
United States Supreme Court at noon today for leave to file a petition for a
writ of error which, if it should be granted would lead to a retrial of the
case” and if it is denied it will be up to the Governor Slaton of Georgia to
save this victim of a wave of anti-Semitism and lynch mob mentality that has
swept the Peachtree State.
1914: At today’ session of the sixth annual convention of
the Federation of Jewish Farmers being held in the Educational Alliance, “it
was suggested’ that Jewish famers with holdings close to New York City should
cooperate that they could ship their produce to the city at a lower rate and
would then enable them to charge less when making sales on the Lower East Side.
1914: In response to an appeal for aid from Ambassador
Morgenthau, at Constantinople the American Red Cross cabled $3,000 from its
reserved contingent fund for relief work Mr. Morgenthau” the prominent Jewish
American businessman and diplomat.
1915: Twenty-two-year-old journalist, author and playwright
Ben Hecht, the New York born sone of Joseph and Sarah (Swernofsky) Hecht
married Marie Armstrong today.
1915: It was reported today that several million rubles,
much of which was donated by Jewish organizations, have been given to support
the 250,000 to 350,000 destitute people living in war-torn Warsaw.
1915: A large gathering of Rumanian Jews held a special
memorial service at the Manhattan Lyceum in honor of Dr. Solomon Schechter who
had passed away on November 20. While recognizing his leadership and
scholarly skills, the Rumanians were also honoring one of their own and voted
to name soon to be opened Jewish Home for Convalescents the “Professor Solomon
Schechter Memorial.
1915: It was reported today that Meyer London’s matzah
bakery which had originally been located on Bayard Street starting in 1871 is
now located at 494 Grand Street in New York.
1916: “While the majority of the London and provincial
newspaper” have kept silent “on peace topics, “the Northcliffe press today made
its chief feature a denunciation of Jacob H. Schiff’s American Neutral
Conference Committee.” A lengthy article by D. Thomas Curtin represents Schiff
as “a deadly enemy of the Allies” and “an arch-intriguer on behalf of Germany”
while “detailing his financial connections” with Kuhn, Loeb and Co which gives
him access to Paul Warburg whose “membership in the Federal Reserve Board
confers on Kuhn, Loeb at Washington an influence on government policy and
national finance enjoyed by no other banking institution.”
1916: It was reported today that following the defeat of
the Rumanians at Pitechti, a town sixty-five miles northwest of Bucharest, that
while the majority of the wealthy residents fled, the town’s Jews “who are
professedly friendly to the Germans” remained but did close their stores.
1916: It was reported today that Harry H. Schlacht of the
East Side Protective Association has asked that any upcoming peace conference
should have an “adequate representation of Jews” to ensure their religious,
civic and political liberty “even if the Christian nations could not be induced
to allow them re-establish an independent nation in Palestine.”
1917: According to an AP dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, a
German court-martialed hanged leaders in Jaffa after having used confessions
obtained through torture to convict them of espionage
1917: The Australian Light Horse, part of Allenby’s forces,
took the offensive against the Turkish forces blocking the way to Jerusalem
resulting in the capture of 200 Turks while the remainder fell back toward the
City of David.
1917: In Bieltsi, “two thousand Bolsheviki troops,
deserters and Black Hundreds” began three days of looting Jewish owned shops.
1917: In Ostrog, gangs carried out attacks on Jews and
their shops
1917: In reply to a deputation of Jews who asked him to use
his influence to put an end to the pogroms, Leon Trotsky said “that as in
Internationalist he sees no reason to defend the Jews.”
1917: Walter J. Finlay, an American engineer who has spent
the last four years in Palestine and Syria arrived in New York today where he
said that when he had “left Jerusalem in the early part of
September” there was no coal to be had I the city, the cost of food
and clothing had increased by five hundred percent and “that the small loaf of
common bread that cost one cent in normal times is now selling for twelve
cents” while “a can of kerosene costs $30.”
1917: As victorious British Imperial forces approached
Jerusalem, the Turkish governor began to make good on the promise that there
were would be no Jews in the city to welcome the British. Forty
American Jews living in Jerusalem and several Zionists of Ottoman nationality
were expelled from the city. A staff member of the German Consulate
in Jerusalem said that the Jews were driven out on foot and beaten like
criminals as they made their way towards Jericho.
1917: The Germans captured a British brigade
headquarters and ammunition dump at Masnieres and Les Rues Vertes, France.
Among those taken prisoners was the Captain Robert Gee, the son of Jewish
immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gee managed to escape and organized a party of
the brigade staff with which he attacked the enemy, closely followed by two
companies of infantry. He cleared the locality and established a defensive
flank, then finding an enemy machine-gun still in action, with a revolver in
each hand he went forward and captured the gun, killing eight of the crew. He
was wounded but would not have his wound dressed until the defense was
organized. Gee was awarded the Victoria Cross for this action.
1918: All Night” a “silent comedy-drama film” co-starring
Carmel Myers the San Francisco born daughter of an Australian rabbi and
Austrian Jewish mother was released today in the United States.
1918: In New York, violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. and
soprano Alma Gluck gave birth to actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. who was baptized as
a child in the Episcopal Church.
1918(26th of Kislev, 5679): Seventy-two
year old Jesse Lewisohn, the son of Leonard Lewisohn and the nephew of Adolph
Lewisohn, all of whom made fortunes in the copper mining business fell victim
to the infamous Spanish Flu Epidemic and passed away today.
1919(8th of Kislev, 5680): Forty-nine-year-old
Sir Lionel Barnett Abrahams the son of Mordecai Abrahams and the nephew of
Barnett Abrahams, the civil servant, economist who worked with John Maynard
Keynes and historian whose work included Jews from England in 1290 passed
away today.
1920(19th of Kislev, 5681): Seventy-two-year-old
Arthur Strauss, the British MP whose son George was a served as an MP for 46
and whose other son Victor was killed in 1916 while serving as a Lieutenant in
the Royal Flying Corps.
1921: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rosengarten announced the
engagement of their daughter Rose, the sister of the editor of The Jewish
Forum, to Aaron Metchlik whose uncle had married his fiancée’s sister earlier
in the year.”
1921: It was reported today that “State Senator Nathan
Straus told members of the Women’s League for the Protection of Riverside
Park…that one of his first ats upon the reopening of the legislature would be
to introduce an amended bill to improve and extend Riverside Park and remove
garbage dumps” from this picturesque property.
1922: “Students at Innsruck held a demonstration today
demanding control of the matriculation of Jews.”
1922: Despite orders for the resumption of lectures in the
State University in Vienna, “when Jewish student arrived …they found pickets
either barring the entrance to the universities or demanding baptismal
certificates.”
1923: New outbreaks of anti-Semitic demonstrations by
Nationalist students took place today, so the Rector gave up on his effort to
re-open the school today.
1923: Joseph Barondess head the Jewish delegation that went
to Ottawa to make the appeal for Canada to admit seventy-five Russian
immigrants being held at Ellis Island because of quota restrictions.
1924: Birthdate of songwriter and humorist Allan
Sherman author of the famous camp song that began, “Hello Muddah, Hello
Faddah.”
1924(3rd of Kislev, 5685): Fourteen-year-old
William Hayes Block, the son of Meir S. Block and Carly Pierson Block passed
away today in St. Louis.
1924(3rd of Kislev, 5685): Twenty-seven-year-old
Hannah Schnur passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/family-stumbles-upon-jewish-gravestone-on-beach-jetty/
1924: “Forbidden Paradise,” a silent film directed by Ernst
Lubitsch and produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky was released in the
United States today.
1925: Josephine Bloomingdale Sperry married Walter David
Yankauer today.
1925(13th of Kislev, 5686): Sixty year old
New York native and Columbia Law School graduate “a former Judge of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals passed away today.
1926: Birthdate of Andrew V. Schally. Schally is a
Polish-born American endocrinologist and co-recipient with Roger Guillemin and
Rosalyn Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Schally fled
Poland with his family in 1939. Schally became a U.S. citizen in
1962. He became senior medical investigator with the Veterans
Administration in 1973. He was noted for isolating and synthesizing three
hormones that are produced by the region of the brain known as the
hypothalamus; these hormones control the activities of other hormone- producing
glands. These accomplishments were the synthesis of TRH (thyrotropin-releasing
hormone), the isolation and synthesis of LH-RH (luteinizing hormone-releasing
hormone), and studies of the action of somatostatin.
1927: “On the Lower East Side of Manhattan,” taxi driver
Henry Hollander and garment worker Ida (Burak) Hollander gave birth to “Irwin
Hollander, an artist and a master printer who persuaded Willem de Kooning,
Robert Motherwell and other Abstract Expressionist painters to try their hands
at lithography in his East Village workshop.” (As reported by
Roberta Smith)
1928(17th of Kislev, 5689): Sixty-eight-year-old
Moses Shindeling, the Lithuanian born son or Rachel and Isiah J. Schoneling and
the usband of Dora Shindeling passed away today in Paterson, NJ.
1928: “10 Religious Groups Meet” published today described
the “community Thanksgiving service” that had been held in Carnegie Hall that
included participants from the Free Synagogue, the Central Synagogue, Temple
Israel, Tremont Temple, Congregation Rodeph Sholom and the West End Synagogue.
1929: “It’s You I Have Loved” a German film compared by
some to “The Jazz Singer” with a script by Walter Reisch was released today.
1929: In Phoenix, AZ, Pauline and Sylvan Ganz gave birth to
Joan Ganz, who as Joan Ganz Cooney gained fame as the television producer who
was one of the founders of the Children’s Television Workshop that created
“Sesame Street.” She was the granddaughter of Emil Ganz, the German Jewish
immigrant who served three terms as the mayor of Phoenix.
1930: At a meeting in London today, Dr. Chaim Weizmann
“insisted…that he did not and would not accept the MacDonald Government’s White
Paper.” While expressing his displeasure with the White Paper, the Zionist
leader “cautioned the Zionists…against taking sides in politics, a reminder
obviously directed toward the White-chapel by-election in the East End of
London, where it is said the preponderant Jewish vote may make trouble for the
Labor candidate.”
1931: “Secrecy surrounds the separate interviews held today
by High Commissioner Wauchope with the Jewish Agency and the Arab Executive”
which have led to “unconfirmed reports that the High Commissioner” is planning
on making an announcement about “the creation of a legislative assembly.”
1931: Drs. Arlazaroff, Hexter and Berkson represented the
Jewish Agency in secret talks held today with the British High Commissioner.
1932: Birthdate of Erich Dyner, who was living in Prague
when he was transported to Ujazdow at the age of nine after which he was
murdered.
1932(1st of Kislev, 5693): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1932(1st of Kislev, 5693): Nancy Weiler
Lazarus, the two-month-old daughter of Robert and Hattie Weiler Lazarus passed
away today after which she was buried at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, OH.
1932: “The David Baazov Museum of History of Jews of
Georgia, a principal museum of the Jewish history and culture in Tbilisi,
Georgia was established by the decision of Administration of the “Georgian
Committee for assisting the Poor” today as a departmental organization
within the framework of cultural base of Jewish workers.”
http://museum.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=160
1932(1st of Kislev, 5693): London born
choirmaster and music teacher David Montague Davis the long-time musical
director, choirmaster and organist of the New West End Synagogue who edited The
Voice of Prayer and Praise together with Rabbi Francis L. Cohen and founded the
Hebrew Choral Association.
1933: The David Baazov Museum of History of the Jews of
Georgia “was officially founded by the order of People’s Commissariat of
Education of Georgia today, under the title ‘Jewish Historic-Ethnographic
Museum’.”
1933: Today “Josephus”
by Lion Feuchtwanger opened at the Yiddish Art Theatre in Manhattan.
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/moyt/pih/josephus.htm
1933: Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman, of Temple Beth Israel,
delivered the Thanksgiving sermon today at a joint service attended by Jews and
Gentiles. The services were held in the First Baptist Church of which the Rev.
Carl Winters is pastor. (JTA)
1934: Today, the “trustees of the Lena Socolow Palestine
Scholarship announced the creating of a scholarship to awarded annually to a
man or woman over” the age of 18 which enable the recipient to spend “several
months residence in Palestine for study and direct contact with the creative
forces of the country.”
1934: “The National Labor Committee for Jewish Workers and
Pioneers in Palestine opened its tenth annual convention” tonight at the Hotel
Pennsylvania with more than one thousand delegates from North America in
attendance.
1934: “The Private Life of Don Juan” a British comedy
directed and produced by Alexander Korda and with music by Ernst Toch was
released in the United Kingdom today.
1935: “Palestine Honors Lehmans” published today described
the receipt of a certificate from the women’s division of the Jewish National
Fund by Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman “saying that 25 trees had been
planted in the George Washington Forest in Palestine in honor of their 25th wedding
anniversary” which “was celebrated several months ago.”
1935: Rosa and Avrom Shlavestein gave birth to their
daughter Nina. in Berdichev in the Zhitomir District, USSR (today in
Ukraine). Before World War II, Nina’s family lived in Moscow. When Germany
invaded the Soviet Union Nina was vacationing in Klintsy in the Bryansk
District of the Soviet Union, and was unable to return home because of the
invasion. Nina perished during the Holocaust. Her mother Rosa survived and
immigrated to Israel. Rosa submitted a Page of Testimony in Yiddish to
commemorate her daughter Nina, probably in the 1950s. (As chronicled by Yad
Vashem)
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/october/02.asp
1936: In Worcester, MA, John Hoffman and
Florence Schanberg gave birth to Abbot Howard Hoffman known as “Abbie Hoffman”
1936: In Jerusalem, while testifying before the Royal
Commission on the question of Jewish immigration especially as it pertained to
laborers, Moshe Shertok, the head of the political department of the Jewish
Agency, “indicated that far from overcrowding the labor market, the lasts group
of immigrants, accompanied as it was by new Jewish capital for
investment…increased opportunities for Arab laborers” who “are far better paid
in Palestine than in any neighboring country.”
1936: “An American flag, the gift of Mayor a Guardia of New
York, was presented today to the municipality of Tel Aviv by the Maccabee
soccer team” which had just returned from a tour of the United
States. “The Maccabee also presented a flag of New York Harbor to
the new Tel Aviv port in ceremonies at the City Ha, where the athletes were
officially welcomed after a parade.
1937: The Arab owner of a house in Nazareth where “two
bombs and nineteen rounds of ammunition were found” yesterday remains under
arrest today while awaiting trial “in the military court at Haifa.”
1938: According to Michael Hesemann, Cardinal Eugenio
Pacelli – the future Pius XII – wrote a letter today urging Catholic
archbishops throughout the world to apply for visas for “non-Aryan
Catholics” and Jewish converts to Christianity who wanted to flee Germany
1938: Germany bans Jews from being lawyers
1938(7th of Kislev, 5699): Mrs. Jessie Fox
Mack, the wife of Judge Julian Mack of the United States Court of Appeals
passed away today “after an illness of several months.” (JTA)
1939: Just months after having divided Poland with its Nazi
ally, the Soviet Union invaded Finland in hopes of scoring another quick
victory that would re-establish Russian control of what was viewed as breakaway
province from the old Imperial System. The attack would further
confuse the military and political situation in Europe during the period of the
Phony War.
1939: Three months after the start of World War II, the
Soviet Union invaded Finland marking the start of the Winter War in which 204
Finnish Jews fought for the country with 27 being killed.
1939(18th of Kislev, 5700): Seventy-seven-year-old
Reuben Brainin, the Russian born Jewish journalist who was a delegate to the
first Zionist Congress passed away today.
1939: It was reported today that “there are already 45,000
Jews in the Lublin” ghetto” and that “more than 200,000 Lodz Jews will be sent
there now that the center of the Polish textile industry has been incorporated
into the Reich.
1939: It was reported today that “fifty thousand Jews have
already been driven from their homes in Warsaw” and that while “Polish schools
have been reopened” “Jewish schools are still closed.”
1939: In Paris, “Jewish circles are informed from Warsaw
that the Nazis suggested the abolition of ghettos for” a payment of
“1,000,000,000 zlotys” – an offer “Jewish leaders declined fearing the Nazis
would not keep their promise.”
1940: “Lady with Red Hair,” a biopic directed by Curtish
Bernhardt and produced by Jack Warner was released in the United States today.
1940: Anti-Jewish laws are established in Tunisia.
1940: “Bernhard Lichtenberg…the single most well-known
Catholic cleric who openly disagreed not only with the persecution of baptized
Jews but of Jews in general” said today “that the idea of Volksgemeinschaft (a
racially bound community) was unchristian and that the Holy Spirit goes
wherever it wishes irrespective of whatever Volk.”
1940: After the “Patria incident,” General
Wavell, Britain’s top military officer in the Middle East complains vehemently
to Sir Anthony Eden protesting the decision to let any Jewish refugees remain
in Palestine. He contends that the decision to let 1,900 Jews remain in Palestine
will undermine British relations with the Arabs. The Mufti, who is
Berlin with Hitler, will be strengthened. Nazi sympathizers in Syria
will be encouraged. And fifth columnists in Egypt will find it
easier to gain support for the Germans. At least Wavell was
honest. For him as for so many less honest Englishmen (and others)
it was all about keeping the Arabs happy.
1941: Start of the Rumbula Massacre, the liquidation of the
Riga Ghetto, a killing spree exceeded only by Babi Yar.
http://www.rumbula.org/remembering_rumbula.shtml
1941: The first group of Jews from Berlin were the first
group of Jews to die during the Rumbala Massacre – a crime that that the Nazis
would later describe as “1,000 Berlin Jews had been ‘disposed of.’”
1941: Eduard Strauch “participated, with 20 men under his
command, in the murder of 10,600 Jews of Riga in the Rumbula forest near the
city for which he was promoted to commander in Sipo and the SD and transferred
to Belarus.”
1941: Fifty-nine-year-old Max Kohn was deported from Prague
to Terezin today.
1941: Jews began to arrive at Theresienstadt from Prague.
1941: “Two-Faced Woman” a romantic comedy directed by
George Cukor, produced by Gottfried Reinhardt, with a script by S.N. Behrman
and Salka Vertel, filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg and co-starring
Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States by MGM.
1941: Haj Amin, leader of the Palestinians was
“ceremoniously received by Hitler.”
1942(21st of Kislev, 5703): Sixty-two-year-old
Vilna born “coal and fuel dealer” Edward M. Gans, the co-owner of Harris and
Gans, former Norwalk, CT, City Councilman and “Zionist” passed away today.
1942: Bernhard
Bästlein “gave the Gestapo a written statement explaining why he
had been and would remain a Resistance fighter.”
1943(3rd of Kislev, 5704): Esther “Etty”
Hillesum a young Jewish woman whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and
1943 describe life in Amsterdam during the German occupation died at Auschwitz.
They were published posthumously in 1981, before being translated into English
in 1983.
1943(3rd of Kislev, 5704): One of two dates
given for the death of 65-year-old movie actor Paul Otto who committed suicide
along with his wife in Berlin when his Jewish origins were discovered.
1943: All nine Palestinian Hebrew newspapers and the
German-language daily issued at Tel Aviv re-appeared today after eleven days’
suspension. “The suspension resulted from” the “simultaneous uncensored
publication” by these papers “of identical accounts with uniform editorial
comment on the search carried” out at a kibbutz named Ramat Hakovesh by British
forces looking for arms. The search turned violent resulting in the
murder of one of the Jewish settlers. The articles in the newspapers had been
part of the Jewish response which, among other things, continues to claim the
right for Jews to be able to defend themselves.
1943: Italy’s Interior Ministry orders the concentration of
all Italian Jews in camps.
1944(14th of Kislev, 5705): Anna Dresden-Polak’s husband,
Barend, died today, Auschwitz. Anna, a member of the Dutch ladies’ gymnastic
team that won the Gold Medal at the 1928 Olympics, had been killed the year
before at Sobibor along with Eva, her six-year-old daughter.
1944: More than 100,000 persons, more than half the
population of the city, greeted Dr. Chaim Weizmann when he visited Tel Aviv
today for the first time since arriving in Palestine two weeks ago. The
demonstration was the greatest welcome ever given to anyone in Tel
Aviv. Weizmann responded by saying, “I never imagined my own people
could have received me with such spontaneous joy.” When he went to Tel Aviv to
review 200 soldiers who were serving in the new Jewish bridged of the British
Army, he was greeted by crowds that were so large that they filled balconies,
windows, lamp posts, trees, and telephone poles. Weizmann saw a
direct connection between the fate of European Jewry, these troops and the
creation of a Jewish commonwealth. He told the crowd that the
“remnants of the European Jews” would receive the Jewish brigade as “a
harbinger of freedom and by the masses of Jewish soldiers serving in the Allied
armies as a symbol of national unity.”
1944: Cordell Hull completed his service as U.S. Secretary
of State, a post he had held since FDR’s inauguration in March, 1933. Hull’s
wife, Frances Witz, was the daughter of an Austrian Jew, something he worked
very hard to hide. He may have won a Nobel Prize for helping to
create the United Nations, but for Jews, his policy opposing the entry of
Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Europe, should have earned a large measure of
contempt.
1945: “Rudolf Hess dramatically told the tribunal at
Nuremberg that he had faked amnesia, fooling Allied medical experts and his own
attorney, but that he was now prepared to stand trial and “bear full
responsibility for everything I have done.”
1945(25th of Kislev, 5706): First Day of
Chanukah
1945(25th of Kislev, 5706): Fifty-six-year-old
New York born, Bellevue Hospital trained physician Maurice Shapiro, the
Bayonne, NJ dermatologist and father of Dr. Edward Shapiro, Lt. Samuel Shapiro
of the U.S. Army Signal Corps and Betty Maybaum, passed away today.
1945: “Heinz-Wilhelm Eck, 29, German U-boat commander was
executed as a war criminal for ordering his crew to shoot the survivors of the
Greek merchant ship Peleus in March 1944.”
1946: Bombs are set off in Jerusalem.
1946: “Christopher Blake,” a Moss Hart play produced by
Bernard Hart opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre.
1947: A day after the two-state solution is approved by the
United Nations, Arabs begin attacking Jews in Palestine.
1947: Arab rifleman fired shots at an ambulance on its way
to Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus.
1947(17th of Kislev, 5708): Arabs armed with machine guns
and grenades attacked a bus traveling from the coast to Jerusalem killing four
Jews including Jerusalemites Hirsh Stark and Hanna Weiss and twenty-year-old
Shoshana Mizrachi Farhi who had been on her way to Jerusalem to get married.
1947(17th of Kislev, 5708): In another attack on a bus
bound for Jerusalem, Arab gunmen killed Hehama Hacohen a pathologist at
Hadassah Hospital.
1947(17th of Kislev, 5708): Moshe Goldman, a twenty-five-year-old
from Jerusalem was shot dead at the Jaffa-Tel Aviv boundary.
1947(17th of Kislev, 5708): Fifty-five-year-old director,
actor, writer and producer Ernst Lubitsch passed away. Born in 1892, his urbane
comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood’s most elegant
and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as
having “the Lubitsch touch”.”
1947(17th of Kislev, 5708): Sixty-nine-year-old
Ukrainian native William Edlin who came to the United States in 1891 where
attended Stanford University where he acquired many of the Socialist ideas that
would influence his career as a journalist, author and activist who “helped to
found the Workmen’s Circle’ and serve as “president of the I.L. Peretz Yiddish
Writers Union” passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1947/12/01/archive/william-edlin-editor-of-jewish-day-dies-was-69-years-old
1947: On the day after UN decree for Israel, Arabs attacked
Jewish settlements. Even though the Jewish state would not officially declare
its independence until May 1948, this day marked the beginning of the Israeli
War of Independence as a bus near Lydda (Lod) was attacked by Arabs killing
five passengers. The Arabs proclaimed a general strike and attacked the
commercial quarter near the Old City of Jerusalem. The Arabs, including those
living outside of Palestine, were determined to destroy the Jewish homeland
before the mandate officially ended. Their efforts would include
attacks on Jewish settlements throughout the Yishuv as well as a siege of the City
of Jerusalem. The Arabs were well armed and moved about with
impunity. The Jews were limited in their response by an
international arms boycott and the presence of the British Army.
1947: Birthdate of David Mamet, an American playwright,
screenwriter, director and poet born to a Jewish family in a suburb of Chicago,
Illinois who first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in The Duck
Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo, who was awarded
the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross. In 2006 and who wrote The
Wicked Son, an examination of self-hating and assimilated Jews.
1948: In Philadelphia, comedian and late-night television
host Joey Bishop and Sylvia Rzga gave birth to Larry Bishop who partnered with
high school chum Rob Reiner, the son of Carl Reiner before pursuing a solo
career in director, writing and acting.
1948(28th of Cheshvan): Seventy-three-year-old
Brooklyn born realtor Joseph May, the recently “elected treasurer of the
Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and husband of “Aimee D. Loeb” passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/12/01/94953288.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1948: Colonel Moshe Dayan of Israel and Lieutenant
Colonel Abdullah el Tell of Transjordan Arab Legion sign cease-fire agreement
“which included provision for a fortnightly convoy to Mount Scopus.”
1948: The American Council for Judaism asks Attorney
General Tom C. Clark for a federal investigation of Menachem Begin’s U.S.
activities.
1949(9th of Kislev, 5710): Julia Ferber, the Milwaukee
born daughter of Louis and Henrietta Newumann, the wife of Jacob Charles Ferber
and the mother of Fanny Fox and famed novelist Edna Ferber passed away today in
New York City.
1949: Birthdate of Matti Caspi, the member of Kibbutz
Hanita who became a leading force in the Israeli pop music world.
http://www.matticaspi.co.il/home/index_eng.shtml
1950(21st of Kislev, 5711): William
Ackerman, the rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi passed away
opening the way for his widow, Paula Ackerman to become “the interim spiritual
leader” of the congregation. (Jewish Women’s Archives)
1950: Birthdate of Danny Sanderson, the native of Kfar
Blum, who began his musical in 1971 after leaving the IDF by recording “The
Left-handed Octopus” with the Egyptian-born musician Zouzou Moussa and the
orchestra of Israel Radio Arabic.
1951: “The Central Bureau of Statistics announced today
that the population of Israel at the end of September had reading 1, 554,000 of
who 1,382,000 were Jews.”
1951: Birthdate of Christian Bernard, the former “Imperator
of AMORC” who is the grandson of “French playwright, novelist, journalist and
lawyer Tristan Bernard who was interred at Drancy but escaped deportation to
Auschwitz.
1952: Birthdate of Semyon Mayevich Bychkov a
Russian-American conductor who is the brother of the conductor Yakov Kreizberg,
of blessed memory.
1952: In Chicago, “Doris “Doralee” (née Sinton),
a homemaker, and Lester Patinkin, who operated two large Chicago-area metal
factories, the People’s Iron & Metal Company and the Scrap Corporation of
America” gave birth to Mandel Bruce Patinkin who gained fame as Mandy Patinkin
who attended Kenwood High and the University of Kansas before beginning his
Broadway career that playing Che Guevara in Evita and a leading role in Stephen
Sondheim’s Follies.
1953: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Uganda is
deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. “Sir
Andrew was from a distinguished Anglo-Jewish family. He was a descendant of
Levi Barent Cohen, the founder of the oldest Ashkenazi family in Britain.”
1953: “Confessions of a Nervous Man” by George Axelrod
which depicts a “playwright waiting anxiously in a theatre district bar for the
newspaper reviews of his first play to hit the streets” was broadcast on the
television drama show, “Studio One.”
1953(23rd of Kislev, 5714): Elvira Nathan
Solis, “the daughter of David Hays Solis and Elvira Nathan Solis, sister of
Emily Grace Soils Solis-Cohen and Isaac Nathan Solis, and a granddaughter of
Jacob da Silva Solis” passed away today in New York
1954: As Churchill celebrated his 80th birthday, Moshe
Sharett (formerly Shertok), sent the aging British statesman a telegram
praising him for his leadership again the Nazis during World War II and for his
steadfast support of Zionism in general and the Balfour Declaration in
particular.
1954: The Alma Trio including pianist Adolph Baller, whose
hands were crushed by the Nazis in 1938 after which his fiancée, Edith Strauss-Neustadt helped him to escape to
the United States, performed the first of three Beethoven concerts tonight at
Town Hall in New York City.
1955: Birthdate of Kiev native Peter
Fishman who became a leading sculptor and painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fishman#/media/File:Admiral_Makaroff.JPG
1955: “Pipe Dream” the seventh Rogers
and Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway today at the Shubert Theatre.
1956(26th of Kislev,
5717): Second Day of Chanukah
1956: Thirteen-year-old violinist Paul
Zukofsky, “a deadpan bundle of talent made his debut tonight in Carnegie Hall,
“where “he went through a difficult program without turning a hair or moving a
facial muscle.”
1956(26th of Kislev,
5717): Seventy-eight-year-old Budapest native Jean Schwartz, the songwriter who came to
the United States at the age of 13 who wrote “Mr. Dooley” – a song “which was
sung by the title character in The Wizard of Oz” passed away today.
1957: Eighty-three-year-old Winston Churchill receives
early Christmas presents – a case of Israeli oranges from Vera Weizmann, widow
of Israel’s first President and longtime friend of Churchill and a Virginia Ham
from American Jewish financer Bernard Baruch.
1958(18th of Kislev, 5719): Seventy-five-year-old
Russian born Yiddish author and co-founder of the Sholem Aleichem Schools,
Joshua Kaminsky who in November of 1937 “introduced the new Kinder
Tsaytung (Children’s newspaper) with a “cover that features a buoyant
impressionistic drawing by Nota Koslowsky” passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1958/12/02/archive/joshua-kaminsky-educator-and-author-dies-in-new-york
1958: Rabbi Samuel D. Goldfarb and Cantor Aaron Caplow
officiated at the marriage of Freda Gail Goldberg and Samuel Bernard Garbose at
the Atlantic Hotel in Long Beach, L.I.
1959: Today’s broadcast of the Play of the Week featured
the David Susskind production Sartre’s “Crime of Passion” translated by Lionel
Abel, the Brooklyn born son of author Anna Schwartz Abelson and Rabbi Alter
Abelson whom “Sartre called the most intelligent man in New York City.”
1960: Birthday of Hiam Abbass, the Israeli Arab actress and
director born in Nazareth.
1961: “Naked as Nature Intended” produced by Tony Tenser
and Michael Klinger was released today in the United Kingdom.
1961(22nd of Kislev, 5722): Ninety-one-year-old
Louis Parnes, the chairman of the board of the Paul Parnes Corporation and a
founder of the Brooklyn Jewish Center and the Louis Parnes Foundation passed
away today.
1962: The United Nations General Assembly elected U Thant
of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General. U Thant was the Secretary General who
caved in to President Nasser’s demand to remove the UN peace keeping force from
the Sinai. The men in the Blue Helmets were the guarantee that Egypt
would not remilitarize the Sinai. U Thant’s spineless behavior, in
violation of the understandings that had caused the Israelis to withdraw after
the 1956 Sinai Campaign, set events in motion that would lead to war in June of
1967.
1962: Birthdate of actor Ben Stiller
1962(3rd of Kislev, 5723): Seventy-three
year old Samuel Lipman, “a former member of the Bricken Construction Company
and with his associates a builder of “many business structures in the garment
center and luxury apartment houses on Park Avenue and Central Park West as well
at the Transportation Building at Barclay Street who was the husband of “the
former Frances Harten” with whom he had four children – Norma, Grace, Jacob and
Robert – passed away today.
1964(25th of Kislev, 5725): first day of
Chanukah
1964(25th of Kislev, 5725): Ninety-four-year-old
pediatrician Sidney Valentine Haas, the Columbia trained doctor who made great
strides in the treatment of celiac disease passed away today.
1964: In Mexico City, actor and producer Muni Lubezki and
his wife gave birth to cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern.
1964: “The Diamond Ring” a song written by Al Kooper and
Irwin Levine was recorded today.
1965: Ninety-four out the 100 prominent Washingtonians whom
Charles E. Smith had invited to a dinner at the Mayflower listened to his
vision of what would become a campus on Montrose Road in Rockville that would
include the Wasserman Residence, the JCC and the Charles E. Smith Day School
1966: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
In 1667 “many Jews moved to Barbados to retain their British citizenship. Jews
are believed to have been established in Barbados as early as 1628. In 1661,
three Jewish businessmen requested permission to institute trade routes between
Barbados and Surinam, which was still part of the British Empire. As will be
seen repeatedly, even though the Jews had full legal citizenship and were
allowed by the government to trade and conduct business, their success caused
the other settlers to try to limit the scope of Jewish trade. British
businessmen claimed the Jews traded more with the Dutch than the British, and
the government did finally put limits on the Jews’ ability to trade. They were
not allowed to purchase slaves and were required to live in a Jewish ghetto. By
1802, the colonial government in Barbados had removed all discriminatory
regulations from the Jews living there. A Jewish community remained on Barbados
until 1831, when a hurricane destroyed all of the towns on the island.” By the
time Barbados gained its independence, there were approximately 80 Jews living
in the country. In 1987, the Nidhei Israel Synagogue would be rededicated in a
new location and the Old Jewish cemetery in Bridgetown would be restored. “The
former Nidhei Israel building, which served as the synagogue, is today used for
a library. The Jewish cemetery in Barbados is considered to be the oldest
graveyard in the Western Hemisphere. A few of the graves date back to the 1660s
and include Samuel Hart, son of Moses Hart, and Moses Nehemiah (the first Jew
to live in Virginia). Today, approximately 40 Jews live on Barbados. It was the
Jewish community of Barbados that initiated and maintains the Caribbean Jewish
Congress.”
1966: Birthdate of Leonard “Lenny” Abrahamson, the native
of Dublin whose films have twice won the IFTA award for best film.
1967: After having premiered in Hollywood in June, “The
Happiest Millionaire,” a music al with a score b Jack Elliot and songs by
Richard and Robert Sherman was released today Radio City Music Hall.
1968: “The Shakiest Gun in the West” a comedy written by
Everett Greenbaum was released today.
1969(20th of Kislev, 5730): Fifty-four-year-old
Montreal born McGill trained architect and WW II veteran Harold cooper who came
to the U.S. in 1938 passed away today.
1969: In New York City, “actress Susan
Kohner and Berlin-born novelist/menswear designer John Weitz” gave birth
Christopher John Weitz who “is best known for his work with his brother Paul
Weitz” for their work on the films “American Pie” and “About a Boy.”
1970: Birthdate of Montclair, NJ native and Yale graduate
Jodi Wilgoren who went from the New York Times to serving as editor of The
Forward under the name of Jodi Rudoren, the wife of the former Gary Ruderman
who is known as Gary Rudoren.
1971(12th of Kislev, 5732): One day before
his 61st birthday, NYU grad and Brooklyn Law School trained
attorney, Arthur A. Klotz, a judge of the New York Civil Court, who was the
husband of the former Rose Cohen and the father of Dr. Richard, Howard and
Susan Klotz passed a way today.
1971: In Montreal, Toby Gilsig who is Jewish and his wife
Claire gave birth to actress Jessalyn Sara Gilsig who had a Jewish wedding when
she married Bobby Solomon.
1972(24th of Kislev, 5733): Kindle the
first Chanukah Candle
1972(24th of Kislev, 5733): Seventy-seven-year-old
of University of Cincinnati and HUC graduate Samuel Wohl, the long-time rabbi
of the Reading Road Temple, founder of the League of Labor Zionism and husband
of Belle F. Meyers Wohl passed away today after which he was buried at the
Montgomery United Jewish Cemetery in Montgomery, OH.
1974(16th of Kislev, 5735): Seventy-four-year-old
Bert Gordon (Barney Gorodetsky) whose career spanned the golden age of radio
(Eddie Cantor Program) to the golden age of television (Dick Van Dyke Show)
passed away today.
1974: In northern Israel, one Muslim was killed, and
another was wounded during a home invasion at Rihaniya.
1975: WABC-AM is scheduled to broadcast Message of Israel
with an address by Dr. Human Judah Schachtel.
1975: WBAI is scheduled to broadcast “A Hanukah Offering –
Shtetl on the Hudson with Issac Bashevis Singer, Leonard Michaels and Jerome
Charyn, writers who transformed the Jewish experience from the old country to
New York
1975: WMCA is scheduled to broadcast a 2-hour program
featuring an interview of playwright Dore Schary.
1975: WNBC is scheduled to broadcast the long-running
Jewish radio series, Eternal Light, with an appearance by Harry Kemelman,
author of “Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red.”
1975: New York Senator Jacob Javits, the state’s most
prominent Jewish Republican, is scheduled to appear on a broadcast of Focus on
Youth.
1976(8th of Kislev, 5737): Eighty-five year
old Philip Reis Alstat, the native of Lithuania and graduated of Columbia
University and Jewish Theological Seminary who was a leading rabbi in the
Conservative movement, ardent Zionist and author for 40 years of “Strange to
Relate,” a weekly syndicated newspaper column passed away today.
1977: In South Africa, Harry Schwarz began serving as
“Shadow Minister of Finance.”
1977: U.S. premiere of Neil Simon’s “The Goodbye Girl”
directed by Herbert Ross, co-starring Richard Dreyfus in his Oscar winning
performance as “Elliot Garfield.”
1978(30th of Cheshvan, 5739): Rosh Chodesh
Kislev
1979(10th of Kislev, 5740): Seventy-eight-year-old
Zeppo Marx, the youngest of the famed Marx Brothers, passed away.
http://www.marx-brothers.org/biography/zeppo.htm
https://www.biography.com/people/zeppo-marx-21181001
1979: Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian
Hostages (ABC)
1979: Stephen Roy “Reinhardt was nominated by President
Jimmy Carter today, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, to a new seat authorized by 92 Stat. 1629.
1980: Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side
Story” closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 341 performances
1980: “For the second successive Sunday police prevented
Moscow refuseniks from attending the unofficial scientific seminar in the
apartment of Victor Brailovsky.”
1981: “Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon arrived at the
Pentagon today for a meeting with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on the
strategic cooperation between Israel and the United States.”
1983(24th of Kislev, 5744): In the evening
kindle the first Chanukah light
1983(24th of Kislev, 5744): Sixty-two-year-old
New York born Florida, Miami and NYU trained attorney Philip E. Heckerling, a
professor of law at the University of Miami for the past twenty years and
husband of Ruth Kaufman Heckerling with whom he raised two children – Stephanie
and Dale – passed away today.
1985(17th of Kislev, 5746): Ninety-four year old Israeli
artist Joseph Zaritsky, native of the Ukraine, qho studied art in Kiev before
making Aliyah in 1923, moved to Jerusalem in 1929 and finally settled Tzova, a
kibbutz near Israel’s capital city, passed away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:313_69~Yossef_Zaritsky,_Safed,_c_1924_1.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zaritsky,_Yossef,_Painting,_1950-1~B74_0036.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zaritsky,_Yossef,_Painting,_1950-1~B74_0036.jpg
1988(21st of Kislev, 5749): Amiram Nir, who
“was said to have been in Mexico on avocado business” “boarded a one-engine
Cessna on a flight from Uruapan to Mexico” which ended “when the plane went
down in the mountains” killing Nir.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-counterterror-chiefs-son-blames-us-for-his-1988-assassination/
1988(21st of Kislev, 5749): Seventy-four-year-old
Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter (née Rothschild) the daughter of
Charles Rothschild, a patron of Jazz and bebop passed away today.
http://www.thejazzbaroness.co.uk/
1988: As Israeli political leaders continue try and form a
government following the election held on November 1, today the Labor Party
decided to end coalition negotiations with Likud. At about the same time, its
leader, Shimon Peres, vowed that if a measure redefining who is Jewish under
the Law of Return were put to a vote in Parliament, every Labor member would
”vote clearly against it.”
1988: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco
for $25.07 billion. All three of the takeover kings were Jewish.
1990: “Misery,” directed by Rob Reiner, with a screenplay
by Rob Reiner, with cinematography by Barry Sonnenfeld, with music by Marc Shaiman
and co-starring James Caan and Lauren Bacall was released today in the United
States.
1993: “Schindler’s List,” the movie version Schindler’s Ark
premiered in Washington, D.C. today
1994: Mark B. Cohen completed his service as “Democratic
Whip of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.” Today.
1994(27th of Kislev, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old “Lionel
Stander, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants whose gravelly voice and beetling
brow made him a memorable presence on stage and screen and whose political
beliefs in the era of the Hollywood blacklist earned him a long exile from
American films, died today at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles.
(As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)
1997(1st of Kislev, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1997(1st of Kislev, 5758): Kathy Acker (née Karen Lehmann)
“an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist,
postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer” passed away.
1997: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including The Darkside of Camelot by Seymour Hersh and an
essay by Alfred Kazin entitled “Missing Murray Kempton.”
1998: Michael Dobbs examines the interaction between major
American companies and the Nazis in “Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi
Collaboration” published today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
2000(3rd of Kislev, 5761): Seventy-five-year-old
Holocaust survivor Ilona Karmel who was remembered as the author of the novel,
An Estate of Memory passed away today. It is considered one of the
most significant novels in English to address the experiences of Jewish women
during World War II. Born in Cracow in 1925, Karmel was interned along with her
mother and sister in three different labor camps after the Nazi occupation of
Poland. She sustained severe leg injuries during the war and required years of
recuperation before immigrating to the United States in 1948. Within four years
of arriving in the United States, Karmel graduated from Radcliffe College, won
a fiction-writing contest sponsored by Mademoiselle Magazine, and
completed her first novel, Stephania. Stephania focused
on the physical and spiritual recovery of a young woman who had survived the
Nazi concentration camps. In 1969, Karmel published An Estate of Memory,
which was reissued by the Feminist Press in 1986. Reviewed on the front page of
the New York Times Book Review, it was one of the earliest
significant literary treatments of Jewish experience in the Nazi camps and
remains one of the most significant novels to address Jewish women’s
experiences during the Holocaust. Karmel taught creative writing at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology for many years where an annual writing
prize that she established has been renamed in her honor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/18/arts/ilona-karmel-75-who-wrote-of-holocaust.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/karmel-ilona
2000: Time of Favor (Ha-hesder) Israeli writer-director
Joseph Cedar’s 2000 debut film, starring Aki Avni was released in Israel today.
2000(3rd of Kislev, 5761): Seventy-five
year old Ilona Karmel, “literary chronicler of the Holocaust and author
of An Estate of Memory, passed away. (As reported by the Jewish
Women’s Archives)
http://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/30/2000/ilona-karmel
2001(15th of Kislev, 5762): Ninety-three-year-old
Syracuse native Robert P. Jacobs who served as the Rabbi at Temple Adas Emuno
and Temp Beth Ha-Tephila before founding the Hillel House at Washington
University in 1946 which he served as director until 1972, passed away today in
St. Louis, MO.
2001: South African businessman Cyril Kern gave Gilad
Sharon a loan to help cover the shortfall in the contributions being raised for
his father’s campaign.
2002(25th of Kislev, 5763): First Day of
Chanukah; light second candle in the evening
2002: The Food Network broadcast the first episode of
Barefoot Contessa, a cooking show created by Ina Garten.
2003: The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special interest to Jewish
readers including In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices From Wall Street
to Washington by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg, Secrets
of the City by Anne Roiphe, Primo Levi: A Life by Ian
Thomson and Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait by Midge Decter
2004 An animal-rights group released grisly undercover
videotapes today showing cows in a major kosher slaughterhouse, Agriprocessor
in Postville, IA, staggering and bellowing in seeming agony long after their
throats were cut.
2004: “Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s shaky government
coalition survived three no-confidence votes in Parliament, though the
opposition managed a strong showing.”
2005: It is official. Former Labor chairman Shimon Peres
announced that he was ending his political activity in the Labor Party and
would support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the upcoming March elections.
2006: Haaretz reported that a small room
in Kibbutz Merhavia which was once home to Israel’s first woman prime minister,
Golda Meir, has been renovated and refurbished in the style of the 1920s when
Golda lived there. It will soon be opened to visitors seeking to learn a little
about that period and the severe austerity that prevailed in the Meir
household.
2006(9th of Kislev, 5767): Poet, songwriter and journalist
Eli Mohar who wrote the “Goings On Around Town” column in the Tel Aviv weekly
Ha’ir passed away from cancer at the age of 58.
2006: Sasson Somekh, visiting professor in Jewish Studies,
opened the Jews Among Arabs conference at Vanderbilt with a lecture based on
his memoir Baghdad Yesterday.
2007: John Strugnell, controversial Dead Sea Scrolls
scholar, passed away.
2007: The Wall Street Journal listed Ramaz
as one of the top schools for graduates entering the top eight universities in
the country, with 10 out of a class of 100 (class of 2007) going to these
schools. The Ramaz School is a coeducational, private Modern Orthodox Jewish
prep school located on the Upper East Side of the New York City borough of
Manhattan.
2007: At The Sydney Jewish Museum an exhibition styled
“Butterflies of Hope” a very special exhibition designed to raise awareness of
the plight of children trapped in war came to and end.
2007: The weeklong launch of “Operation: Last Chance”
will continue with a press conference in Chile. The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s
“Operation: Last Chance” is targeted to find and bring to justice at
least some of the thousands of Nazis still hiding in South America 62 years
after the end of World War II. It will probably be the final major effort to
locate and bring to justice Nazis in hiding scattered around the world.
2007: The New York Times reviewed The
Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by
Mark Kurzem.
2007(20th of Kislev, 5768): IDF Private Ma’ayan Rotenberg
of Kibbutz Beit Haemek passed away as a result of an accident while training
with a tank unit. He died a week before his 19th birthday.
2007(20th of Kislev, 5678): Ninety-three
year old Isaac Cohen who served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1958 to 1979
passed away today.
2008: The Orthodox Union’s National Conference meeting, at
the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem comes to a close. Participants
included Rabbi Metzger, Rabbi Lau, Rabbi Menachem Genack and Rabbi Herschel
Schachter. The Keynote address was given by British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
2008: The International Conference on Contemporary Issues
and Halacha, opens at Yeshurun Synagogue in Jerusalem
2008: Four of eight soldiers wounded in terrorist attacks
on the Nahal Oz Base Gaza crossing during the Sabbath remained hospitalized..
2009: “Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza” a play
panned by The Sunday Times, condemned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews
and described as “a blood libel” by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic opened
at the Lebanese American University in
Beirut, Lebanon
2009: “Pray for You” a song
written by Joel Brentlinger & Jaron Lowenstein and recorded by American
singer Jaron Lowenstein was released today.
2009: Amy Goodman, host of the radio and television program
“Democracy Now!,” discusses and signs her new book, Breaking
the Sound Barrier, at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C.
2009: AJWS and its President, Ruth Messinger join
Congregation Emanu-El, Congregation Emanu-El’s Young Adult Community,
Congregation Beth Sholom, Congregation Sherith Israel, Taube Center for Jewish
Life at the JCCSF, The Hub of the JCCSF, The SF Bay Area Darfur Coalition and
Congregation Sha’ar Zahav to cosponsor an advance screening of Reporter the new
documentary featuring Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New
York Times columnist. Reporter documents Kristoff’s efforts to write
about the gut-wrenching conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2009: The opening of the John Demjanjuk trial today in
Munich had to be delayed by over an hour because of the flood of visitors –
including Holocaust survivors – who wished to observe what might be the last
prosecution of an alleged Nazi war criminal.
2009(13th of Kislev, 5770): Eighty-nine-year-old
Columbia Law School graduate Charles Miller Metzner, the former “counsel
to the General Jewish Council” and a federal judge starting in 1959 passed away
today.
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1385066
2010: “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish,
and I’m Home for the Holidays!,” is scheduled to have its first
performance in Charlotte, NC.
2010: The 92nd Street Y in New York
apologized for the way Deborah Solomon had conducted her interview of Steve
Martin along with an offer to refund their money.
2010: The Shin Bet has arrested three Palestinian militants
suspected of carrying out a shooting attack against two Israelis in late
September, it emerged today
2010(23rd of Kislev, 5771): Eighty-four-year-old
Cleveland native Lawrence E. “Larry” Gelfand, Professor-Emeritus in the
Department of History at the University of Iowa and husband of Miriam Ifland
passed away today in Irvine, CA.
2010: Norman Lebrecht reviews “Why Mahler?: How One Man and
Ten Symphonies Changed Our World.”
2010: “Through the Gale,” the third album of Asaf
Avidan & the Mojos was released in Israel today.
2011: The Chabad Jewish Center in Metairie, LA, is
scheduled to host its monthly Rosh Chodesh event which this month is entitled
“Impression & Expression: The Essential Woman.”
2011: In New Orleans, Temple Sinai is scheduled to host its
final session of this month’s Adult Education Series, “The Major Message of the
Minor Prophet!”
2011: David Schmahmann is scheduled to discuss his new
novel “The double Life of Alfred Buber” at the final event of the Jewish
Community Center of the North Shore’s Jewish Book Month.
2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top cabinet
ministers approved the handover of $100 million in tax money to the Palestinian
Authority today, despite the vocal opposition of Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman.
2011: An errant volley of projectiles landed in the
vicinity of a top Israel Defense Forces officer today, in what preliminary
reports say was a severe mishap during a large-scale drill in Israel’s south.
2012: Adi Neuhaus, first prize winner of the “Voice of
Music Young” Artist Competition is scheduled to perform at noon today in
Jerusalem.
2012: “A Late Quartet,” Israeli director Yaron Zilberman’s
engrossing drama about an illustrious string quartet, is scheduled to shown at
several cinemas in New York City.
2012: “A Search for God Through Bluegrass and Klezmer”
published today described the career of Andy Statman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/nyregion/andy-statmans-search-for-god-in-music.html?ref=music&_r=0
2012: In a clever combination of Mitzvot (Tzdekah and
Shabbat) the Young Professionals Network is scheduled to host a Shabbat dinner
where the attendees will make contributions toward the B’nai B’rith’s Disaster
Relief Fund for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
2012: Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, who
delivered a supportive speech of Israel at the UN before its vote yesterday on
the Palestinian statehood, said today “the bottom line is we will not let
the Jewish people and the State of Israel stand alone when the going gets
tough.”
2012: At a meeting of the Saban Forum, U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the Palestinians for the collapse of
the peace talks in 2000, when she said, “I don’t care how many people try to
revise that history, the fact is [Arafat] said no at Camp David.”
2013(27th of Kislev, 5774): Shabbat
Chanukah
2013: Scheduled opening of the Jerusalem Jewish Film
Festival.
2013: A Palestinian was shot to death this morning by
Border Guard volunteers, who were searching after illegal aliens in the area of
Yarkon Cemetery in Petah Tikva. The Border Guard stated that a policeman shot
the Palestinian after the latter attempted to stab him. (As reported by Hassan
Shaalan)
2013: Beduin Israelis and their supporters throughout the
country staged protest demonstrations today against the controversial Prawer
resettlement plan.
2014: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present
“Modeling the Flood Story – from Ancient to Modern Times.”
2014: As part of UK Jewish Comedy Festival, LOCO and JW3
are scheduled to present “Time Travel” with Woody Allen
2014: In Melbourne, “King of the Jews” and “Magic Men” are
scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.
2014: Thirty-one-year-old Gill Rosenberg, “an
Israeli-Canadian woman who traveled to Syria to fight alongside the Kurds there
earlier this month has been abducted by Islamic State fighters, Hebrew media
reported today, citing Syrian jihadist-linked media
2014: According to a report published today in Haaretz,
Jerusalem’s “is plumbing new depths to devise funerary solutions to Israel’s
shortage of space and has broken ground on two experimental crypts near the
entrance to the city.
2014: “Rafi Eitan, the head of the Bureau of Scientific
Relations in November 1985 that ran Jonathan Pollard confirmed Sunday for the
first time that the prime minister Shimon Peres and defense minister Yitzhak
knew full well that Israel had a spy within the US armed forces” who was in
fact Jonathan Pollard.
2014: The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
George Marshall by Debi and Irwin Unger with Stanley Hirschon and an essay “To
Russia, With Tough Love” by Marsha Gessen
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/books/review/to-russia-with-tough-love.html?ref=books
2015: Friends and family of Dr. Fred Goldblatt, whose
incomparable contributions to the Cedar Rapids Jewish community include a
willingness to share his considerable musical skills, prepare to celebrate his
natal day.
2015(18th of Kislev, 5776): “Janet Wolfe —
gleeful gadabout, archetypal Gothamite and the longtime executive director of
the New York City Housing Authority Symphony” passed away today at the age of
101. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2015: Seventy-one-year-old Sheldon Silver “the son of a
hardware store owner on the Lower East Side” who rose become “one of the most
feared politicians in New York State was found guilty…of federal corruption
charges” today.
2015: “Righteous Among Us: Two Who Defied the Nazis,” a
film about how Waitsill and Martha Sharp worked to save Jews from the Shoah in
1939 is scheduled to be shown at Congregation Beth Shalom in Northbrook,
Illinois.
http://www.ushmm.org/online/calendar/eventDetails.php?event=MWEPHEMERALPP1115
2016: It was announced today that “Britain’s Home Secretary
Amber Rudd has pledged 13.4 million euros to provide guards for Jewish schools,
nurseries, synagogues, and colleges all around the United Kingdom.”
2016: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to
host a memorial tribute for Elie Wiesel this evening.
2016: “For the first time in three months, Israeli jets
reportedly struck targets in Syria early this morning, hitting a Bashar Assad
regime military base and a Hezbollah convoy en route to Lebanon, according to
foreign media.”
2016: “Army reported” today that “several leading rabbis
have decided to campaign against moves by the IDF to further integrate women
into combat units and plan to advise religious male soldiers to avoid orders
relating to mixed-gender activities.”
2016: During an interviews on CNBC today, future Secretary
of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said that the Trump administration’s job is to
“make sure that the average American has wage increases and good jobs” and “his
priority was getting a sustained growth of GDP of 3% or 4%.”
2016: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to
present “We Were Neighbors: Remembering Middle Eastern Jewish Communities”
which will include “scholarly, first-person reflections by award-winning
writers Lucette Lagnado (The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish
Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World) and André Aciman (Out
of Egypt)
2017(12th of Kislev, 5778): Seventy-four-year-old
Leslie Wolfe, the Washington born daughter of Theodore and Isabelle Rosenberg
and holder of a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Florida who
was a leader in the fight for equality of women through her work with the
Center for Women Policy Studies passed today in Rockville, MD. (As reported by
Amisha Padnani)
2017: The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to
host a noontime “chill and chat” with Rabbi Michael Rosenfeld-Schueler who also
will be leading an “in-depth text-based Gemara learning” session before the
weekday evening meal.
2017: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to
host Peter G. Weintraub’s first session of “Introduction to Judaism.”
2017: The Jewish Music Forum is scheduled to host a lecture
by historian Daniel Jütte on “Gustav Mahler: Jewish Identity and
Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture” followed by a concert featuring Arnold
Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn’s chamber orchestra arrangement of Mahler’s Das
Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)
2017: “The Jstyle Winter Premiere Party” is scheduled to
take place at the StoneWater Golf Club in Highland Heights, Ohio.
2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education is
scheduled to host “An Evening of Unity.”
2017: Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us
with a chance to contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as
David Fromkin whose works included the must-read A Peace to End All
Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle
East continues today.
2018: “The 10 Best Books of 2018” from the NYT included How
To Change Your Mind: What the Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About
Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence by Michael
Pollan, “the son of author and financial consultant Stephen Pollan and
columnist Corky Pollan.”
2018: As of today, the Kfir Infantry Brigade has “completed
an extensive two-month exercise simulating a war in the Gaza Strip against the
Hamas terror group” prior to the unit being “stationed outside the coastal
enclave” in 2019.
2018: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former personal
lawyer who has twice pleaded guilty to crimes that have implicated Mr. Trump in
illegal or questionable conduct, asked a federal judge late tonight that he be
allowed to avoid prison when he is sentenced in less than two weeks.”(As
reported by Benjamin Weiser and Maggie Haberman.
2018: The Israel Museum is scheduled to host a lecture on
“Vayeshev” with “Noga Elias-Zalmanovitch” at 11:00 A.M.
2018: As American Jews prepare for Shabbat, they dealt with
reports of arsonists being responsible for a fire at an Orthodox synagogue in
Houston, the attack by vandals on the offices of Professor Elizabeth Midlarksy
at Columbia who painted the walls with Swastikas and the ramifications of
Michael Cohen’s plea deal that included claims that were diametrically opposite
to President Trump’s description of the same events.
2019: “The Israel Defense Forces said it had launched
airstrikes against the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza in the predawn hours this
morning after weapons were fired at Israel from the Strip yesterday.” (As
reported by Times of Israel Staff)
2019: In a testament to the vitality of Jewish life in the
rural heartland, in Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host the “Baby
Blessing Ceremony” of Juniper Josephine Kline, daughter of Jake Kline and Alice
Baker and Ariella Rose Greenfield, the daughter of Andrea and Brandon
Greenfield.
2019(2nd of Kislev, 5780): Parashat Toldot;
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the fourth
and final lecture by Martin Kaufman on “The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt’s
Eichmann in Jerusalem. “
2020: The jHUB Young Professionals are scheduled to host a
monthly book club where they discuss books about Jewish themes, identity and
experiences which this month is reading Naamah: A Novel by
Sarah Blake.
2020: The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s
Virtual Israel Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2020: As more lockdown restrictions are scheduled to be
lifted, Israelis face the reality that the national coronavirus infection rate
has spiked to over 3%.
2020: The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center of Jewish Culture is
scheduled to host Kenneth D. Wald, author of The Foundations of
American Jewish Liberalism which seeks to answer the conundrum – “why
Jews, one of America’s most affluent and upwardly ethnic groups, have continued
to vote against what would appear to be their class interest. “
2021(26th of Kislev, 5782): Second Day of
Chanukah
2021: A double Simcha – while the friends and family of
Fred Goldblatt kindle the second Chanukah light, they will also light the
candles on the cake marking the celebration of birthday of a first class
mensch.
2021: In partnership with Menemsha Films, the Jewish
Heritage Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to present a screening of “The
Tattooed Torah”as part of the Hanukah Film Festival
2021: Chanukah Lighting Across Iowa is scheduled to take
place this evening via Zoom.
2021: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled
to present “Reclaiming Identity: Jews of Arab Lands and Iran share stories of
identity, struggle and redemption” “a first-of-its-kind global virtual event
marking November 30, Israel’s national day of commemorating the effectual end
of Jewish life in many Arab lands and Iran.”
2021: The Stanford Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the
Center for Jewish History and YIVO are are scheduled to present, online, The
Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust” during which U. of
Michigan professor Jeffrey Veidlinger will discuss his book, “In the Midst of
Civilized Europe,” while exploring conditions that led to the Holocaust.
2021: Lockdown University is scheduled to present a lecture
via Zoom by Trudy Gold on “Menasseh Ben Israel and the Return to England.”
2022: In Metairie, LA, the Chabad Center is scheduled to
host a “Women’s Event.”
2022: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “On the
Page and Our Stage during which Idina Menzel, Cara Mentzel, Lisa Barr, Anna
Quindlen, Jenny Mollen and Zibby Owens “discuss their latest books, their
newest characters and what it means to be a powerful woman in the 21st century.”
2022: YIVO is scheduled to present online, “Nick Underwood
as he explores how left-wing Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe
created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s in his new
publication, Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar
France.
2022: The NY Jewish Week, B’nai Jeshurun Congregation,
Natan Fund, Jewish Book Council, and ASF Institute of Jewish Experience are
scheduled to present: An Evening with “One Hundred Saturdays.”
2022: Thanksgiving is past and Channukah seems far away,
but the friends and family of Dr. Fred Goldblatt have something to celebrate –
his natal day!
2023: The Jewish National Fund’s Global Conference for
Israel which is now dedicated to standing with Israel is scheduled to begin
today.
2023: In Washington, DC, the Kościuszko Foundation Art Show
in Connection with the New Film “A Pocketful of Miracles” is
scheduled to come to an end.
2023: JWA is scheduled to host the final class in Jewish
Women in the Medieval World series with a lecture by Renee Levine Melammed on
“Women’s Voices as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah.”
2023: Friends and family celebrate the natal day of Fred
Goldsmith, a world class physician and a Beetles fan par excellence whose craft
skills include changing toilet seats but who is most important of all a mensch
of the first order!
2023: JCC north shore is scheduled to host Jennifer
Rosener, author of Once We Were Home in the last even of the 29th
annual JCCNS Jewish Book Month Series.
2023: The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at
Brandeis University is scheduled to present a special Spotlight Session in
honor of the university’s 75th anniversary, at which Brandeis scholars of
Jewish education share some of the most important developments in the field of
Jewish education and why they matter for the flourishing of individual students
and the vibrancy of the Jewish community.
2023: As November 30 begins in Israel, the Combined Jewish
Philanthropies are scheduled to host an “Interfaith Security Summitt the
includes the FBI and the Massachusetts State Police in response to the rising
tide of anti-Semitism in the United States, “the on-going truce is scheduled to
end after a six-day pause” while the rest of the
Hamas held hostages begin day 55 in captivity.
(Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
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