This Day, April 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
April 10
401: Birthdate of Theodosius II. As Emperor he
adopted many of the anti-Semitic views of his sister which led to the
destruction of innumerable synagogues and the murder of the Nasi, Gamliel IV
who had authorized the building of new synagogues. Theodosius abolished the position of Nasi in
425. The term Nasi means Prince and
starting with the last decade of the second century was the title given to the
head of the Sanhedrin. The Romans had recognized the importance of the position
and Jews were allowed to pay a tax for the upkeep of the Nasi. When Theodosius killed Gamliel and abolished
the position Nasi, he did not end the tax.
He diverted the money to the Roman government.
847:
Papacy of Leo IV begins.
879:
Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks (also known as France). Louis was part of the Carolingian Dynasty
which was comparatively sympathetic and supportive of the Jews living in the
realm as can be seen by the decrees of some of Louis III’s predecessors
including Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.
1096:
During the Crusades Bishop Egelbert offered to save all the Jews of Trier,
Germany who are willing to be baptized.
The Jews were seeking refuge from a mob that was threatening them with
death. Most of the Jews chose to drown
themselves rather than accept Christianity.
1191:
In the enfolding saga of King Richard’s crusade to the Holy Land that was so
costly to the Jews from the time of his departure until the payment of his
ransom, the English monarch set sail from Sicily for Palestine.
1201: King John of England confirms Charter of the
Jews. King John charged the Jews four thousand marks to re-confirm the rights
that had first been guaranteed by his great grandfather, King Henry
1439(25th
of Nisan): Poet and kabbalist Avigdor ben Isaac Kara of Prague passed away
today.
1516: The first ghetto was established in
Venice. There are various explanations of the origin of the term
ghetto. “The mostly likely explanation for the word ghetto, as
applied to a special place assigned to the Jews is that one such district, set
up in the city of Venice, was located near an iron-foundry which was
called ‘get’ in
the dialect of Venice.” While Jews had often sought to live in their
own communities, the ghetto was different because it was compulsory.
Under the ghetto system, Jews were restricted by law as to where they could
live while Christians were free to live everywhere.
1560(14th
of Nisan): The Pentateuch with a Yiddish translation was published in Cremona,
Italy
1583:
Birthdate of Delft native Hugo Grotious the diplomate and theologian who was a
friend of Manasseh Ben Israel whose works he admired and an advocate for the
admission of Jews to settle as full citizens in the Netherlands.
1570: The Chumash with Yiddish
translation was published in Cremona, Italy. There were less than a
thousand Jews living in Cremona at this time. In 1559, under pressure
from the Dominicans, copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books had been
publicly burned in Cremona. A quarter of a century after the printing of
the above mentioned Chumash, the Jews were expelled from Cremona.
1607:
As the Inquisition prepared to take action against “Jorge de Almedia, a
Portuguese residing in Mexico, the husband of Dona Lenor de Andrada who was
convicted by the Holy Office having kept observed the dead Law of Moses,
document were posted on the door of the Cathedral in the next step to bringing
him to “justice.”
1637: Venetian
Rabbi, Judah di Modena “received word that his Italian manuscript entitled
‘History of Hebrew’ customs had been published in Paris.” A gentile Parisian
publisher thought that “a book extolling Judaism, written by a Jew in Italian”
would be of interest to Christian
readers which was the authors “target audience.” (As reported by Abraham Bloch)
1625(3rd
of Nisan, 5385): Joshua Cohen Peixotto passed away.
1699:
Rabbi Samuel Orgels, a friend of Baer Cohen for whom he had arranged both of
his marriages, passed away. According to
the diary of Glückel of Hameln he “fell into a faint and died on the spot” on a
Friday evening while in the Synagogue.
1719: Fire
destroyed the Ghetto of Nikolsburg, Moravia
1728(1st
of Iyar, 5488): Rosh Chodesh
1728(1st
of Iyar, 5488): Solomon Ayllon, the
“Hacham” of Sephardic congregations in London and Amsterdam and who was alleged
to a supporter of Sabbatai Zevi, passed away today.
1738: John Da
Costa swears in writing that he has translated the will of Abraham Mendes
Seixas, also known as Migule Pnacheo Da Silva from Portuguese into English to
the best of his ability.
1739(2nd
of Nisan, 5499): Netanel son of Yaakov passed away after which he was buried in
the Yablonov Cemetery.
http://jgaliciabukovina.net/160536/tombstone/tombstone-netanel-son-yaakov
1754(18th
of Nisan, 5514) Sixth Day of Pesach
1769(3rd
of Nisan, 5529): Forty-five-year-old Dr. Aron Gumperz, the Berlin born son of
Salman and Schoene Aron Gumperz the
friend of playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing passed away today in Altona,
Hamburg, Germany.
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1770: In
Germany, Jettle and Salomon Ottehnheimer gave birth to Isaac Ottenheimer, the
husband of Sarah Weil with whom he had nine children.
1772: Empress Maria
Theresa issued an order allowing Jews to “sell new garments they had made
themselves” despite protests from the local tailor’s guild.
1789(14th
of Nisan, 5549): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach observed on the same that
John Hopkins wrote to President-elect George Washington offering to resign his
position as “Loan Officer of the United States in the State of Virginia.”
1790:
Birthdate of Maria S. Bomseisler, the wife of Siegfried Bomesiler.
1792(18th
of Nisan, 5552): Fourth Day of Pesach
1792: As Jews
munch on Matzah, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson wrote to Congress
concerning on the proposed treat with Algiers that would provide for the
release for captives held in their custodya.
1794:
Birthdate of Edward Robinson an American biblical scholar, known as the “Father
of Biblical Geography.” Robinson led a mission of exploration to Palestine in
1838. Among his many finds was “the
tunnel dug by Hezekiah shortly before the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701/02
BCE.” He is the Robinson of “Robinson’s
Arch,” a structure found on the south-western side of the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem.
1796: In
Easton, PA, Esther and Michael Hart gave birth to Henry S. Hart who passed away
in 1841.
1797(14th
of Nisan, 5557): Ta’ant Bechorot; erev Pesach
1800(15th
of Nisan, 5560): First day of Pesach
1800: In
Germany, Ester Isaac and Abraham Amson who had been married in 1797 gave birth
to Sirle Abraham, the wife of Moses Rosenfelder with whom she had two children
– Sophie and Abraham – the younger of which ended up living in Baton Rouge, LA.
1803(18th
of Nisan, 5563): Fourth Day of Pesach
1806(22nd
of Nisan, 5566): Eight Day of Pesach
1806: As Jews
munch on their matzah for the last time, Lewis and Clark are making their way
down the Columbia River in the vicinity of modern day Bonneville
1810:
Birthdate of London native Sarah Samuel, the wife of Isaac Cohen whom she
married at the Great Synagogue in 1827 and the mother of Juliana, Ann and Lucy
Cohen.
1811(16th
of Nisan, 5571): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
1816(12th of
Nisan, 5576): M.H. Bock, the native of Magedburg founded a well-regarded
private school “in 1807 at Berlin, and to which Christian as well as Jewish
pupils were admitted” passed away today.
1825(22nd
of Nisan, 5585): 8th day of Pesach
1825: As Jew
munched their matzah for the last time the first hotel in Hawaii opened today.
1828:
Birthdate of Isaac Honig, brother of Henry Honig, the native of Mayence who
came to the United States in 1850 where his mercantile prospered to the extent
that he could retire in 1865.
1835:
Birthdate of Johann Schnitzler “a Hungarian-Austrian Jewish laryngologist.”
1838(15th
of Nisan, 5598): First Day of Pesach
1844(21st
of Nisan, 5604): Seventh Day of Pesach observed for the last time during the
Presidency of John Tyler.
1845: The
Great First of Pittsburgh destroyed much of the Pennsylvania city
1845:
Birthdate of Missouri resident David Eiseman, Sr., the husband of Aurelia Stix
Eiseman and thater of Etta, Richard and Allice Eiseman.
1846(14th
of Nisan, 5606): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1847: Birthdate of Joseph Pulitzer. Born in
Hungary, Pulitzer came to the United States during the Civil War where he
served in the Union Army. After the war he learned English, became rich
as publisher of the St Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He
died in 1911. The Pulitzer Prizes were created by his will and were
first awarded in 1917. Pulitzer’s father was Jewish, but his mother was a
Roman Catholic. Although he was not Jewish, Pulitzer’s enemies attacked
him as one even condemning him for hiding the “fact” that he was one.
1849(17th
of Nisan, 5609): Third day of Pesach
1849:
Lion Metz married Julia Hart at the Great Synagogue today.
1849(17th
of Nisan, 5609): In Amsterdam, David Proops, the last member of a family of
printers that date back to the 18th century passed away today.
1852(2st
of Nisan, 5612): Seventh Day of Pesach and Shabbat
1852:
In London, Catherine Barnett and David Jonas gave birth to Jacob Jonas.
1853:
In Dublin, on the day after Shabbat HaGadol, London native Isabella Davis and
dentist Hyman Davis gave birth to James Davis, the author known as Owen Davis,
husband of Esther Josephine Da Costa Andrade, father of Isabelle, Hyman and
Dorothy Davis, and the brother of Julia Davis, known as the novelist “Frank
Danby.”
1853:
In Rulzheim, Germany, Sarah and Salomon Levi Landauer, gave birth to future
Dallas, TX resident Aaron Landauer, the husband of Henriette Landauer with whom
he had five children.
1854:
Birthdate of Rachel H. Hays, the Utica, NY born wife of attorney Daniel
Peixotto Hays, a member of one of New York’s oldest Jewish families who among
other things was a trustee and secretary of the Jewish Publication Society,
1855(22nd
of Nisan, 5615): Eighth Day of Pesach
1855(22nd
of Nisan, 5616): Shmuel Zanvil Friedland, the son Elia and Ze’ev Wolf
Friedland, the husband of Itke Friedland with whom he had four children, passed
away in Minsk today.
1855:
Birthdate of Kansas City, MO native Berry Dantzig, the husband of Anna Kasor
Dantzig
1855:
In Philadelphia, PA, Sigmund Juris and Theresa Trautmann gave birth to Louis
Jurist, the husband of Louise Stieglitz and graduate of Jefferson Medical
College where he served as a lecturer while also practicing laryngology at
Jewish Hospital.
1856:
In New York City, Meyer and Caroline Levy gave birth to the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum educated Texas and St. Louis liquor store businessman Lee Levy, the husband of Zetta Sproesser with
whom he had three children – Irene, Beebe and Meilton.
1857:
Birthdate of David Edrehi who would be buried at the Temple Beth-El Cemetery in
Pensacola, FL when he passed away.
1858:
Jewish veterans of the Russian Army were given permission to settle in Finland
which was a province in the Russian Empire.
The Jewish soldiers would have had to complete 25 years of service to
gain this right.
1859:
In Ohio, Schachne Issacs, the husband of Reitz Tobias Isaacs, gave birth to
Abraham Isaacs, the husband of Rachel Friedman Isaacs and the father of Aaron
and Nathan Isaacs.
1861(30th
of Nisan, 5621): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1861(30th
of Nisan, 5621): As Confederate forces prepare to begin for the attack on Fort
Sumter, the Jews of Charleston joined their co-religionist throughout the world
in observing the first day of Rosh
Chodesh Iyar.
1863(21st
of Nisan, 5623): Seventh Day of Pesach
1863:
Jacob C. Cohen of the 27th Ohio Infantry writes from Corinth,
Mississippi about life in the Union Army which is resting in preparation for
what will be the climatic campaign to take Vicksburg, the “Confederate
Gibraltar” on the Mississippi River.
1863:
Today Ferdinand Leopold Samer was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a
chaplain in the Union Army. Born in Germany, Samar was elected by the 54th New
York Volunteer Regiment made up of mostly German speaking soldiers. Samer was the first Jewish chaplain to be
wounded in combat during the Civil War.
1864:
In London, Miriam Solomons and Arvrahom ben Yehoshua gave birth to Abraham
Bittan.
1865(14th
of Nisan, 5625): On the day after the meeting at Appomattox ending the Civil
War in the morning Jews, both North and South, observed the Fast of the First
Born and in the evening sat down to their fist “peaceful” Seder.
1866(25th
of Nisan, 5626): Fifty-nine year old Adolph Meyer, the scion of
multi-generational Hanover, Germany, banking family who with his wife Fanny had
eight children, passed away today.
1868(18th
of Nisan, 5628) Fourth Day of Pesach
1868:
Birthdate of London native Augustus George Andrews who gained fame as George
Arliss, the first British actor to win an Oscar which was awarded to him for
playing the title role in “Disraeli.”
1868:
Birthdate of Krakow native Asriel Gunzig, the holder of a doctorate from the
University of Bern who served as the rabbi of the Jewish congregation in
Lostice, Moravia for over a decade before becoming head of the Hebrew
Tachkemoni School at Antwerp in 1920 and who raised four children – Regina,
Sabine, Jacques and Hilda – with his wife, the former Amelia Schreiber.
1868:
Birthdate of Cracow native Asriel (Israel) Gunqzig, the rabbi of Lostice,
Moravia from 1899 to 1920 after which he became the head of the Hebrew
Tachkemoni School in Belgium while preparing scholarly works on the history of
the Haskalah in Galicia and raising four children – Regina, Max who was
murdered at Auschwitz, Jacques who was murdered at Mauthausen and Hilda – with
his wife Amalia.
1870:
In Russia Feiga and J. Moses Bayurk gave birth to Philadelphia resident Samuel
Bayuk, the founder along with his brothers Meyer and Max what became “Bayuk
Cigars, Inc., the manufacturer of ‘Phillies’” and the husband of Sadye Bayuk
with whom he had five children.
1871:
Anti-Semitic riots break out in Odessa Russia
1871:
Adolph and Johanna Loeb gave birth to Esther Loeb who became Esther Greenebaum
when she married Henry Napthali Greenebaum with she had four children.
1872:
Thirty-one year old Philadelphia born attorney Leon da Silva Solis-Cohen, the
son of Myer David Cohen and Judith Simha Solis, grandson of Jacob da Silva
Solis and veteran of the Union Army married his cousin, Lucia Manness Ritterband, with whom he had two daughters
(Jessie Myra and Gertrude) and one son (Leon Manness).”
1873:
In “Passover: The Jewish Festival and Feast of the Year,” published today The
New York Times reports that “to-morrow evening, the 11th of April the
Jewish part of the inhabitants of this City will begin the celebration of the
Feast of the Passover, an ancient Hebrew festival which Moses instituted to
commemorate perpetually the passing over the houses of the Israelites, and the
slaying of the first-born of the Egyptians, just previous to the exodus of the
children of Israel.” The article is remarkable for its detailed description of
the holiday including the insightful statement that “Passover is one of the
three important of the festival calendar and although observed by the Jews
everywhere yet the laws laid down in relation to its celebration are not
followed by all classes of Jews with equal strictness”
1874:
Birthdate Mehmed Talaat, a major leader of the Ottoman Empire during WW I who
played a prominent role in the “Armenian Genocide” which was described in
detail by Henry Morgenthau in his 1918 memoir Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story
1876(16th
of Nisan, 5636): Second day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1876:
Birthdate of Rumania native Joseph Harry Schanfeld, who in 1886 came to
Minneapolis, MN where he founded Joseph H. Schanfeld Company and leader of the
Jewish community where he served as the Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign
and director of the Jewish Family Welfare Association.
1876:
In New York City, Bertha and Levi Spiegelberg gave birth to Eugene E.
Spiegelberg
1879(16th
of Nisan, 5639): Second day of Pesach
1882: A pogrom in Podalia, Russia left 40 dead, 170
wounded and 1,250 dwellings destroyed. Fifteen thousand Jews were reduced to
total poverty. It was events like these that spurred the First Aliyah in
the Zionist movement.
1884(15th
of Nisan, 5644): 1st day of Pesach
1884:
Many of the settlers of Beersheba, a Jewish agricultural community observed
Pesach for the last time before moving away due to a dispute with administrator
Joseph Baum.
1884:
In Poland, Morris Goldberg and Sarah Bianko gave birth Abraham “Abe” Goldberg,
a tailor who married Minnie Weiss after the death of his wife Mimi Goldberg who
settled in Cleveland, OH.
1885:
Two days after he had passed away in New Zealand, 68 year old Samuel Jacobs,
the son of Moses Jacobs and Sarah Levy was buried today.
1887:
In New York City, “Meyer and Lena (Michael) Wyner gave birth to Brooklyn
Polytechnic engineer Emanuel Meyer and husband of Theresa Gluckselig whose
career including working for the Fort Pitt Bridge Company and the Wilputte Coke
Oven Corporation.
1887:
Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of
America. Among its most distinguished alums is David R. Levin a graduate of
university’s Columbus College of Law.
1888:
Twenty-six year old Savannah, GA businessman and philanthropist Leopold Adler,
the Prague born son of Moses and Rosie Adler, the founder of Leopold Adler
Department Store (at one time the largest in Georgia), the chairman of the
board of Savannah Bank and Trust Company, the President of Mikve Israel
Congregation and the Chairman of Jewish Relief Drives since World War married
Hannah Gukenheimer today in Savannah, GA.
1890:
Sixty-one year old Hungarian born Austrian poet Karl Isidor Beck who edited the
Lloyd, passed away today in Vienna.
1890:
The late Louis Lippman has left a bequest of $500 to each of the following:
Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, the Montefiore
Home for Chronic Invalids and the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews.
1892:
In “One of the Important Hebrew Festivals Begins To-Morrow Night,” published
today the New York Times reports
that “at sunset to-morrow evening, which corresponds with the evening of the
fourteenth day of the month of Nissan in the Hebraic calendar the Jewish
community through the world will commence the celebration of the feast of
Pesach or Passover.”
1893: “Rabbi
Gottheil’s Protest” published today described a lecture delivered by the leader
of Temple Emanu-El in which he “declared himself forcibly against the
missionary work among Jews which is carried on by the Christian churches.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/04/10/109698008.pdf
1893:
Birthdate of Lithuania native and poet Hillel Bavli who in 1912 came to the
United States where he became a
Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
1894: Polish
born, Manchester, England educated Samuel Hyman Borofsky who had been serving
as a Justice of the Peace since 1891 became a Notary Public today in Boston.
1895: In
Albany, NY, the State Board of Charities approved the certificate of
incorporation of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of the City of New York.
1896: A Jew
named Benjamin Dreyer who had been masquerading as Turk named Ben Ouni was
arraigned in Brooklyn on charges of having stolen a tray of rings.
1896: “David
Finkelstein of Bridgeport, CT, got a writ of habeas corpus” today “in Special
Term, Part II of the Supreme Court commanding Pesach Isenbroch…to bring into
court the court, the realtor’s wife, Ida Finkelstein” whom he alleges he
married under false pretenses.
1896: The
Young Folks’ League of the Hebrew Infant Asylum performed a two act play at the
Lexington Opera house as a fundraiser.
1897(8th
of Nisan, 5657): Parashat Metzora; Shabbat HaGadol
1897: “Books
and Periodicals” published today described plans to simultaneously release Ancient
Hebrew Tradition by Dr. Firtz Hommel in May. In this work, the noted
Semitic language expert “controverts the method employed by the higher critics
of the Old Testament and attacks the Graf Wellhausen hypothesis, also known as
the documentary hypothesis.
1898(18th
of Nisan, 5658): Fourth Day of Pesach
1898: Simon
Jacoby, a native of England who had joined the U.S. Navy in December of 1897
was serving as a Gunner today aboard the U.S.S. Oregon.
1898:
Birthdate of Evan P. Helfaer, the prominent Milwaukee businessman “who made a
major contribution to the Helfaer Community Service Building, completed in 1973”
before he died in February, 1974.
1898: In Los
Angeles, Mamie and Henry Klein gave birth to their only son, Arthur Louis Klein
who earned a Ph.D. in physics at Cal Tech where he eventually became a full
Professor of Aeronautical Engineering – a position he held when in 1946 he went
to Bikini to help evaluate the effect of the atomic tests.
1900: Herzl met
Arminius Vámbéry in Budapest in an attempt to enlist Turkish support for the
creation of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1900:
Birthdate of New Haven, CT native and Yale trained attorney Abraham Stodel
Ullman, the husband of the former Helen Green with whom he had two children who
served as state attorney from 1939 until 1961 while being a member of the YMHA,
B’nai B’rith and the United Jewish Appeal.
1901: “Aid for
Palestine Laborers” published today described plans for a “Passover celebration
and concert for the suffering Jewish farm laborers of Palestine” to be held
tomorrow at night at Cooper Union to raise funds for the Zionist settlers.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lili-darvas
1903: In
Vienna, Max Graf, “a member of Sigmund Freud’s circle of friends” and his wife
gave birth to opera producer Herbert Graf, who was also “the Little Hans
discussed in Freud’s 1909 study ‘Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy.’”
1904: In
Poland Ely and Bernice R. Shanis gave birth to Rose Shanis who became Rose
Shanis Glick when she married David Glick with whom she had a son, Stephen Jack
Glick and gained game as the founder of Rose Shanis and Company, a unique
lending institution in Baltimore, MD.
http://jewishmuseummd.org/tag/rose-shanis-glick/
1904: The
Eighth Biennial Convention of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Judah whose
members included Isidor Byk, Isaac Grossman, Levy Abrahams and Victor Steiner
was held today in New York City.
1905: In
Charleston, SC, Rabbi Simenhoff officiated at the wedding of Jacob Lichmon and
Rosa Dautschman.
1906:
Birthdate of Wilhelm Kauders who gained fame as Czech electrical engineer Vilém
Klíma who survived Terezin and the death march to Auschwitz.
1907: It was
reported today that Russian Jews living in the southern part of the Empire are
“in a panic” over the possibility of “wholesale anti-Jewish attacks” and are
selling their homes so they can get away from the impending pogroms.
1908: “Hebrew
Charity Aids Thousands” published today described how fifty-thousand pounds of
matzoth were given away yesterday in a 12 hour period to the “Hundreds of poor
Hebrews” on the East Side where a greater demand for aid exists this year to
the unusually large number of “Jewish laboring people” who are out of work.
1909(19th
of Nisan, 5669: Fifth Day of Pesach and Shabbat Shel Pesach.
1909: “A
benefit concert was given this evening at Carnegie Hall by the Council of
Jewish Women. New York Section, that effected the first American appearance of
an organization calling itself the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and enlisted
the services of five soloists — Mmes. Nordica and Frieda Langendorf, Miss
Germaine Schnitzer, and Messrs. Albert Spalding and David Bispham.”
1909: “By an overwhelming
majority the Republican Club passed a resolution tonight condemning the
Grady-Francis bills authorizing the erection by the National Academy of Design
of a gallery in Central Park” which is in accord with the views of The Jewish
Daily News which supports defeating the project because “under no circumstances
should we allow any dimunition of the one natural resource that the city
possess” and that “this principle should be established – let the Park remain
exactly as it is.”
1910: Two days
after his death, sixty-three year old Dr. of Jurisprudence Alois Klemperer, the
son Julie Klemperer and Rabbi Gutmann Klemperer and husband of Eugenie
Klemperer was buried in Vienna.
1910: Rabbi
Avraham Elyashiv (Erener) of Gomel, Belarus, and Chaya Musha, daughter of the
kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv gave birth to Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv
1910: More
than seven hundred members of the Hebrew Retail Kosher Butchers’ Protective
Association met today at 763 First Avenue and resolved not to buy a pound of meat
for twenty-four hours.
1910:
Birthdate of Hyman Lazarus who was buried in Columbus, OH after she passed
away.
1910:
Birthdate of New York businessman Samuel “Sam” Schulman who was best known as
the owner of the NBA SuperSonics and a minority owner of NFL San Diego
Chargers.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/14/local/me-schulman14
1910:
“Oppressed Jews in Morocco Seek From Powers” published today described the
desperate condition of these North African Jews and their attempts to get the
Alliance Israelite of Paris and the Anglo-Jewish Association in London to
enlist the aid of their respective governments ‘in forcing the Sultan to keep
the promise of his grandfather, made to Sir Moses Montefiore in 1864, that his
Jewish subjects should be dealt with justly, not cruelly”
1911: Today,
The Edward Rosenstein Association distributed free matzoth to needy Jews living
on the Lower East Side
1912: Sixty-eight
year old French historian Gabriel Monod who “became convinced” that Dreyfus did
not write the infamous “bordereau”, testified on his behalf at the Court of
Cessation in 1899 and after his pardon assured Dreyfus “that come what may, he
would always…defend him.”
1912: Due to
an unexpected request from her editor to cover the “Paris-Roubaix races” which
had forced her to delay her sailing for New York, todayEdith Rosenbaum, the
Paris correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily boarded the RMS Titanic today along
with her “19 pieces of baggage.”
1912:
Archibald Grace IV, the man who would provide the account of Isidor Strauss’s
last moments boarded the Titanic at
Southampton today.
1912: Mr.
Abraham Joseph Hyman who was born in the Russian Empire in 1878 and the husband
of Manchester naïve Esther Levy boarded the Titanic today at Southampton as a
third class passenger (ticket number 3470 which cost £7, 17s, 9d) which was the
first step on journey to visit his brother Harry in Springfield, MA.
1912: Today,
twenty-four year old Philadelphian Jacob Morris Langsdorf who attended
Haverford College for one year married Dorothy May Kirschbaum with whom he had
three children – Jack Bernard, Robert Morris and Elizabeth May Langsdorf.
1912:
One hundred young women under the leadership of Mrs. Israel Unterberg, many of
them this season’s debutantes, are scheduled participate in the work of raising
$200,000 for the Young Women’s Hebrew Association building fund in the two
weeks’ whirlwind campaign which opens today.
1912: Tonight,
marks the start of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association’s campaign to raise
$250,000 for a new building. Abram I. Elkus, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the campaign; Supreme Court Justice Samuel Greenbaum, Rabbi
Schulman, and other speakers will address the workers at the kick-off function.
1913(3rd
of Nisan, 5673): Fifty-five year old Isaac “Ike” Tuck the “publisher of the
Produce Bulletin and one of the best known men in fruit trade circles all over
the United States” passed away this evening at his home in Brooklyn
1913: In Romania,
Morris and Mary Schachter gave birth Rabbi Marcus Schachter, the husband of
Claire Schachter “who, for 46 years, was the central pillar of the Halachah
L’Maaseh program at RIETS where he held the Rabbi Dr. and Mrs. Leon Katz
Professorship in Rabbinics”
1913: Birthdate of
Hellmuth Flieg, a German – Jewish writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym.
He lived in the United States (or served in its army abroad) between 1935 and
1952, before moving back to the part of his now-partitioned native Germany
which was the German Democratic Republic (GDR, “East Germany”). He
published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite
longstanding criticism of the GDR remained a committed socialist.
1914:
Birthdate of Raphael Silverman, the native of Ithaca, NY who gained fame as
“Raphael Hillyer, the founding violist of the Juilliard String Quartet and a
soloist and teacher known for the warmth and expressivity of his tone.”
1914(14th of
Nisan, 5674): Four hundred and fifty Jewish servicemen including sailors from
the battleships Texas, North Dakota, Washington, Ohio, Wyoming and Louisiana
are scheduled to take part in a seder tonight specifically for military
personnel at Tuxedo Hall in Manhattan.
1914(14th of
Nisan, 5674): In a pre-Passover tragedy, George Rothstein discovered the bodies
of his sister Bessie Diamond and three of her young children who were victims
of an apparent murder-suicide. According
to Mrs. Diamond’s husband, Mrs. Diamond had been suffering from severe
depression for which her doctor had recommended she be sent to a sanitarium.
1915: As of
today at Temple Emanu-El the sisterhood which was founded in 1889 and the
brotherhood which was founded in 1900 are active in providing social service
and settlement work on the Lower East Side.
1915(26th
of Nisan, 5675): Parashat Shimini
1915: Services
were held today at Congregation B’nai Jehoshua in Chicago were Rabbi A.R. Levy
delivered the sermon in German.
1915: Rabbi
Joseph Hewesh delivered the sermon at Anshe Emeth in Chicago.
1916:
Birthdate of Abraham Basalinsky, the native of Bethnal Green, London who gained
fame as actor Alfie Bass.
1916: One day
after he had passed away, Aaron Herbert, the husband of the former Rebecca
Jenny and the father of Leo, Sophia and Eley Herbert, was buried today in the
Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern Ireland.
1916: In
Berlin at a meeting of the Relief Committee for Indigent Jews, “the President
that 700,000 Jews in the occupied districts of Poland required assistance.
1916: Chairman
Nathan of the Hebrew Benevolent Association today “paid a tribute to the work
of American Jews in supporting the sufferers in Poland.
1916: The
Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
In 1942, Herman “Barron became the first Jewish golfer to win an official PGA
Tour event by winning the Western Open by two strokes over Henry Picard at
Phoenix Golf Club in Phoenix, Arizona.”
1917: “Henry
Morgenthau, Chairman of the campaign to raise $10,000,000 for the immediate aid
of the Jewish sufferers in the eastern war zone said” today “that Governor
Simon Bamberger of Utah had pledged to give one-tenth of the total amount that
his state might raise for the fund.” (Editor’s note – Simon Bamberger was the
first non-Mormon and the first Jew to serve as governor of Utah.)
1917: In New
York, “the Provisional Executive Committee for general Zionist affairs
announced” tonight that it had received a cablegram from Moscow saying that
today, “the first Zionist convention ever held in Russia has just closed its
sessions which were marked with tremendous enthusiasm, due to the fact that
this is the first time they have been able to assemble from all part of the
country and to publicly discuss questions of interest to the Jewish people
without fear or arrest.”
1918:
Birthdate of Alfred P. Slaner, the developer of Supp-Hose hosiery who also made
Nixon’s Enemies’ List.
1918: “Zionist
Unit Prepares” published today described the upcoming departure for Palestine of
“the American Zionist Medical Unit with forty members” that “will co-operate
with the Jewish Administrative Commission which is laying the foundation for
the future Jewish State.”
1918:
Birthdate of Cornell Capa, a globe-trotting photojournalist who founded the
International Center of Photography in New York and dedicated himself to
preserving the legacy of his older brother, war photographer Robert Capa. He died on May 23, 2008 at the age of 90 of
Parkinson’s disease.
1919:
Based on reports the American Jewish Committee has received from its agents in
Czechoslovakia which are similar to others received from Jews in Poland,
Rumania and the Ukraine, the committee led by Judge Julian W. Mack, its
Chairman and Louis Marshall, its Vice Chairman “are building their case to
convince the Peace Conference that the Jews in Eastern European countries must
have their rights provided for by treaty.”
1920(22nd
of Nisan, 5680): Moritz Benedikt Cantor, a German historian of mathematics,
passed away.
1920(22nd
of Nisan, 5680): 8TH Day of Pesach
1920:
First Lieutenant Meyer L. Casman was completed the treatment for his eyes today
at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.
1920:
Birthdate of Alexander Livshiz, the son of Russian born parents living in
Yokohama who gained fame as Dr. Alexander Leaf.
http://nutrition.med.harvard.edu/personnel/biosketch/Leaf_bio.pdf
1921:
Professor Mordecai M. Kaplan, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky and Rabbi Judah L. Magnus
were among the speakers tonight at “a dinner marking the dedication of the
Jewish Center on the east side which was erected for the purpose of making
better Jews and better Americans of the children there.”
1922: It was
reported today that “a resolution urging the approval and registration of the
Palestine mandate at the forthcoming session of the League of Nations at Geneva
was approved by representatives of Jewish national organizations representing
every element in American Jewry at a conference at the Hotel Astor.”
1923: In the
Netherlands, Sophie Josephine Frank, the daughter of Louis and Emma Sachs and
Siegfried Frank gave birth to Julius Frank.
1923: Premiere
performance of Kurt Weil’s “Divertimento for Orchestra” by the Berlin
Philharmonic.
1924: Today,
Michael “Balcon married Aileen Freda Leatherman, the daughter of Max Jacobs and
Beatrice Leatherman, with whom he had two children Jonathan and Jill who
married Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis whose children were Tamasin Day-Lewis and
Oscar winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
1925(16th
of Nisan, 5685): Second Day of Pesach
1925: The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in New York City,
by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Among the characters who populate this classic
study of life in the Roaring Twenties is Meyer Wolfsheim a gambler with
underworld connections who claims to have fixed the 1919 World Series. The character is a thinly veiled fictional
version of the Jewish gambler Arnold Rothstein, whom according to some, fixed
the 1919 World Series. Rothstein has
been portrayed as the evil Jew who corrupts America’s pristine pastime and its
innocent Christian athletes. Is
Fitzgerald trying to imply that whatever shady deals Gatsby may have engaged in
are the product of the corrupting influence of this Jewish gambler?
1926: “Simche
and Reizel Ehrenreich” gave birth to Bernard Ehrenreich, the father of Laurence
and Simon Ehrenreich.
1926: In
Nuremberg, Germany, “Juda and Fanny Metzger immigrants from Poland” gave birth
to “artist and political activist”
Gustav Metzger who came to Great Britain from Germany as part of the
Kindertransport and created the concept
of Auto-Destructive Art while being an active member of the anti-nuclear peace movement.
1926: “Chairman
David A. Brown of the United Jewish Campaign which is seeking to raise
$15,000,000 for relief and reconstruction work among the Jews of Eastern
Europe” reported today “to the 1,200 members of the national committee” that
original goal would be surpassed and the contributions would actually come
close to $25,000,000.
1927:
Birthdate of Marshall Warren Nirenberg “an American biochemist and geneticist
who shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968.”
1927:
“Anti-Semitism in Russia” published today provides the views of Alexander
Kerensky, who led the Russian government after the fall of the Czars and before
the takeover by Lenin, “that hatred toward Jews is intense at present in his
country” and that “only the advent of a politically free and economically sound
system of government in Russia will put an end to anti-Semitism there.”
1928(19th
of Nisan, 5688): Fifth day of Pesach
1928: In Mount
Vernon, NY “Chauncey Freedman and the former Dorothea Kornblum” gave birth to “Monroe
H. Freedman, a dominant figure in legal ethics whose work helped chart the
course of lawyers’ behavior in the late 20th century.” (As reported by Margalit
Fox)
1928(19th
of Nisan, 5688): Seventy-one year old Amalia “Molly” Finkelstein Mogulesko who
performed in Goldfaden’s “Grandmother with Grandson” and was the
widow of Yiddish actor Sigmund Mogulesko passed away today.
1928:
Birthdate of Claude Newman Rosenberg, the Jewish philanthropist who authored,
“Wealthy and Wise: How You and America Can Get the Most Out of Your
Giving”
1929: Today,
in Albany, NY, Governor Franklin Roosevelt approved a bill sponsored by
Assemblyman Irwin Steingut that provides “for the incorporation of the
Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America” which should
“according to the bill” “promote traditional Judaism, advance the cause of
Jewish learning and foster the spirit of fellowship among rabbis and other
Jewish scholars in America.
1930(12th
of Nisan, 5690): Fast of the First Born
1930: In
Austin, TX, “the land for Agudas Achim’s new building was purchased for $12,500”
today
1931: “My
Cousin from Warsaw” produced by Arnold Pressburger was released today in
Germany and France.
1931: It was
reported today that Montreal gave a banquet yesterday in honor of the 500
scientists” including Professor A.M. Oppenheimer of Columbia University
attending “the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology.
1932: Today in
Portland, OR, “at a special meeting of Congregation Ahavai Sholom” former
Portland resident and HUC trained rabbi Raphael Goldentsein a graduate of
University of Cincinnati and husband of the former Clair V. Silber of Montreal
“was unanimously elected to serve as spiritual leader of the congregation.
1932: Birthdate of actor Omar Sharif.
The Egyptian born Sharif, who starred in such films as “Dr. Zhivago” and
“Lawrence of Arabia,” found his films banned in the Arab world because he played
opposite Jewish singing star Barbra Streisand.
1933(14th of Nisan, 5693): Fast of the First Born; erev Pesach
1933: German Vice-Chancellor Frtiz von Papen met with Cardinal Pacelli,
the future Pope Pius XII and presented Hitler’s offer for a Concordant between
the new Nazi government and the Vatican.
1934: In Englewood, NJ. Jacob and Florence Landau gave birth Jacob
Charles “Jack” Landau the attorney who served as one of the founders of the
Reported Committee for Freedom of the Press.
1934: “The American foundations which promote research and spiritual
progress were extolled here this afternoon by Professor Albert Einstein at a
formal reception to him by the New Jersey Legislature.”
1934: U.S. premiere of “Viva Villa!” produced by David O. Selznick with a
script by Ben Hecht and featuring Joseph Schildkraut as “Gen. Pascal.”
1934: In New York City, an Army surgeon, Dr.
Charles A. Halberstam, and a schoolteacher, Blanche Levy Halberstam gave birth
to David Halbestram the winner of a Pulitzer in 1964 for his coverage in the New
York Times of the Viet Nam War who gained further fame as the author of the
best-selling Best and the Brightest and who has been a prolific author
on a variety of topics but ironically has never wrote a book on a “Jewish”
topic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html?nytmobile=0
1935: In
Przemysl, Poland, Adollph Sternhell, a veteran of the Polish Army and Ida
Sternhell who was murdered by the Nazis along with her daughter gave birth to
author and historian Zeev Sternhell the Holocaust survivor and ardent Zionist
who settled in Israel where he became a leading authority on the rise of
fascism and ironically was injured in attack by a right-wing “pro-settlement”
zealot.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/zeev-sternhell-obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/world/middleeast/zeev-sternhell-mideast-scholar-dies.html
https://www.amazon.com/Zeev-Sternhell/e/B001HNMZ3Y%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
1935 At Temple Emanu-El, Mrs. Israel Goldstein presided over a conference
of the “leaders of Jewish women’s organizations with a combined membership of
several hundred thousand” where the attendees “pledged cooperation with the
Jewish National Fund” in the work of redeeming the land of Palestine.
1936(18th of Nisan, 5696) Fourth Day of Pesach
1936(18th of Nisan, 5696):
Fifty-six year old illustrator
Malcom Atherton Strauss, the New York born son of Nathan Straus and
Minnie Gladken, whose works appeared in numerous publications including Life
magazine and the New York Herald passed away today.
http://www.allposters.com/-st/Malcolm-A-Strauss-Posters_c40723_.htm
1936: It was announced today that “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, national chairman
of the $3,500,000 campaign of the United Palestine Appeal for the settlement in
Palestine of a maximum number of the Jews of Germany, Poland and other lands
has received messages endorsing the drive from Governor Paul V. McNutt of
Indiana, Representative Schuyler Merritt of Connecticut, Governor Tom Berry of
South Dakota and Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey.”
1936: Tonight, in a broadcast over WEAF in New York, banker and
philanthropist Felix M. Warburg described “the rehabilitation work of the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in fifty countries during the last
twenty-two years including the current training programs “to train and rehabilitate
for vocational work Jewish youths and adults in Germany who have been barred”
by law taking part in commercial and professional activities.
1936: “Citing a clause of the Treaty of Versailles, Supreme Court Justice
Philip J. McCook refused to recognize the ‘sovereign immunity’ claim in the
courts by the German State Railroads which was the basis for its defense
brought by Marcel M. Holzer, a former employee who claimed he had been
discharged as a ‘non-Aryan’ and his internment in a German concentration camp.
1936: The mandatory government “prohibition on the use of the term ‘Eretz
Israel’ (Land of Israel) over the radio became a national issue today when a
suit was filed” in Jerusalem” to force lifting the ban.”
1937: In a pre-birthday interview given today, Dr. Pereira-Mendes, the
rabbi emeritus of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue said that any
celebration of his upcoming 85th birthday would be a “surprise” to
him.
1937: “She Was an Acrobat’s Daughter,” an animated short directed by
Isadore Freleng, produced by Leon Schlesinger and featuring the voice of Mel
Blanc was released in the United States today.
1937: Final performance on Broadway of White Horse Inn which was produced
and directed by Erik Charell took place today.
1938: The
Palestine Post
reported that Itzhak Petrenko, 32, had been shot and killed and that two Arab
terrorists were killed in their attack on the Nesher quarry, near Haifa. Two
other Arab terrorists were killed after they attempted to attack a convoy
escorting the mayor of Nablus, Suleiman Bey Toukan, on his official duties. A
number of unexploded bombs were found in Jerusalem’s Ben-Yehuda pedestrian
mall.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that Maestro
Toscanini, who had turned down an offer to participate in the Salzburg
Festival, arrived in Haifa for a series of concerts.
1938: The
Palestine Post
reported that The Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulcher was closed to the
public due to urgent repairs and restorations.
1938:
Birthdate of Denny Zeitlin the son of Highland Park, Il physician who gained
fame as a jazz pianist and composer.
1938:Dr. Jonah
B. Wise officiated at the wedding of Esther Schulman and Dr. Samuel Frederick
Groopman after which the wedding party attended a reception and dinner at the
Waldorf Astoria.
1938: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in the Chapel of Temple Emanu-el for
fifty-eight year old NYU trained attorney, Irving L. Ernst, the Philadelphia
born son of “clothing merchant Louis Ernst” and Augusta Ernst and the husband
of Margaret O. Ernst who was a partner
in the firm of McManus, Ernst and Ernst and “a director of the lawyers’
division of the federation for the support Jewish Philanthropic Societies of
New York City.
1938: Dr.
Lewis I. Newman officiated at the wedding of Yvette Jean Gordon and Ralph
Michael Abrams which was held at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Gordon which is located at 5 West 86th Street in Manhattan.
1938: In Tel Aviv, Arturo Toscanini directed his first rehearsal with the
Palestine Orchestra.
1938: In the revolving door of French politics during the Third Republic,
the government led by Premiere Leon Blum fell and meaning the first Jewish
Premier of France, who had been physically attacked by anti-Semites lost his
position for the second and final time.
1939: Laurence Steinhardt completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to
Peru.
1939: Birthdate of Alan Rothenberg, President
of the U.S. Soccer Association.
1939: The Dutch
government opened camp Westerbork for German Jews. The impulse to start
the construction of the camp came from the Dutch authorities themselves, who in
the years preceding the Second World War, sought to provide housing and shelter
for Jewish refugees fleeing the horrors of Nazi-Germany. A camp was necessary
because the authorities wanted to keep these refugees out of the cities, towns
and villages. When the Nazi-armies invaded The Netherlands during the month of
May 1940 the camp-infrastructure including inhabitants was an easy prey.”
1940(2nd
of Nisan, 5700): Marie Knapp, the wife of concert pianist Harold Bauer whom he
had married in 1906, passed away today.
1940: Justice
Felix Frankfurter and two others met with President Roosevelt today at the
White House at 4:30 and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and two
others met with him at 5:30 pm.
1941: Rav
Aaron Kotler who had been rescued by the Vaad Hatzalah arrived in San Francisco
and two years later “in 1943 fond Beth Medrash Vovoha in Lakewood, NJ.
1942: Two
hundred of the four hundred Jews who arrived yesterday in Havana on the last
day of Pesach are reported to continue traveling to New York on the Portuguese
ship which they had boarded last month in Lisbon.
1942: In a
move that does not bode well for the large Jewish population of Lithuania,
“German controlled newspapers in the Baltic reported today that a
“rectification” of Lithuanian borders
has been made around Vilna making room
for the resettlement in the area of thousands of Germans.”
1943: Twelve Jewish patients of Herren
Loo-Lozenoord, a facility for the mentally disabled escaped from the Nazi’s.
1943:
Katherine Scherman, the New York born daughter of Harry and Bernadine Scherman
married Book-of-the-Month Club chairman Axel G. Rosin and became Katherine
Scherman Rosin under which name she worked as an editor and author of ten
books.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=katharine-rosin&pid=137434177
1944:
“Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz and carried detailed
information about the death camp to outside world.” (Virtual Jewish Library
1944:
In Tel Aviv, the deputy superintendent of police “beat death” by surviving the
attack of an unknown gunman who fired three shots at him in front of the police
headquarters in the central part of the city.
1944:
“Tampico” starring Edward G. Robinson, with music by David Raksin was released
in the United States today
1945: U.S. Armed
forces liberated the prison camp at Buchenwald, Germany. It was estimated that
nearly 57,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished in the gas chambers of
Buchenwald during its eight-year existence as a Nazi concentration camp.
1946:
In Cleveland, Ohio, the Men’s Club of the Euclid Avenue Temple hosted Variety
Nite, an evening of entertainment “for men’s club members and their ladies.”
1946:
U.S. premiere of “Dragonwyck,” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also wrote
the script, co-produced by Ernst Lubitsch with music by Alfred Newman.
1946:
At its annual spring luncheon at the Hotel Astor, the Women’s League for
Palestine launched a building drive designed to raise $150,000 to upgrade the
league’s Home for Immigrant Girls in Tel Aviv.
According to Mrs. David Isaacs, the League’s vice president, “Palestine
will soon have an influx of thousands of young women from displaced camps
abroad seeking shelter and rehabilitation.”
The luncheon was attended by 1,340 supporters.
1947(20th
of Nisan, 5707): Sixth Day of Pesach
1947:
Birthdate of New York native David Abraham Adler the author “of nearly 200
books for children and young adults” including “several acclaimed works about
the Holocaust for young readers.”
1947:
The Hapoel soccer team is scheduled to arrive in New York today, on the first
stop on its good will tour of the United States. The team is scheduled to play
all-star teams in several cities including Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis,
Chicago Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
1948: “A group of Jewish immigrants from Egypt set
up a camp in an area near Sderot which would be the future location of Bror
Hayil.
1948(1st of Nisan, 5708): Rosh Chodesh
Nisan
1948: The Haganah repelled an Arab attack
on Mishmar HaEmek. Kibbutz Mishmar
Ha-Emek (Guard of the Valley) was located on the western rim of the Jezreel
Valley and had been founded by Polish chalutzim in 1926. The fight for this strategic point lasted for
eight days during which the Arab Liberation Army had the military advantage
thanks to having the use of field artillery supplied by the Syrian Army. Please note that this fight took place before
the creation of the state of Israel in May, 1948. It came during the unsuccessful attempt by
the Arabs to cutoff Jerusalem from the rest of the Yishuv.
1949:
What Makes Sammy Run?, Budd Schulberg’s novel based on his father B.P.
Schulberg that gave the world “Sammy Glick” was dramatized for the first time
on Philco Television Playhouse.
1950:
Birthdate of Haim Ramon, a native of Jaffa who served in the IAF before
pursuing a political career.
1950(23rd
of Nisan, 5710): Fifty-eight-year-old New York native and WW I veteran Maxwell
Lown the publisher of the Olean News, a weekly tabloid newspaper he had founded
in 1932 passed away tonight at his home in Olean, NY.
1952(15th of Nisan, 5712): 1st day of Pesach
1952: In Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Alexei Yavlinsky and “Vera Naumovna,
a Russian Jewish chemistry teacher gave birth to free market economist Grigory
Yavlinsky, the twice defeated candidate for the Presidency of Russia.
1953: Ernest Gruening completed his term as 7th Territorial
Governor of Alaska.
1953: Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, better known as movie star Hedy
Lamar, became a citizen of the United States.
1953: “Small Town Girl” a musical produced by Joe Pasternak, with
a score by Nicholas Brodszky and André Previn and filmed by cinematographer
Joseph Ruttenberg was released today in the United States.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that the foreign minister, Moshe Sharett, had held “a brief
interview” at the White House, with US president, Dwight Eisenhower.
1953: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that Israel received as a gift, or purchased at lowered prices,
America’s food surplus: wheat, beans, potatoes, cheese, powdered milk, dried
eggs and butter. Another important purchase was 100,000 tons of the strictly
rationed American steel for local pipe factories.
1954(7th of Nisan, 5714): Parashat
Metzora
1954(7th of Nisan, 5714):
Seventy-three-year-old Harold Lewis the New York born son of “Edith Roaslie
Lewis and Hyman Philip Lewis and the husband of Frances Wolff Lewis with whom
he had three children –Evelyn, Philip and Harley – passed away today.
1955(18th of Nisan, 5715): Fourth Day of
Pesach
1955: Dr Jonas Salk successfully tested
his Polio vaccine.
1958(20th
of Nisan, 5718): Sixth Day of Pesach
1958:
Birthdate of Yefim “Fima” Naumovich Bronfman a Russian born Israeli
pianist.
1960: ABC broadcast “The Captive of
Temblor,” an episode of “The Rebel” directed by Irving Kershner and written by
Milton S. Gelman
1962(9th of Nisan, 5722): Seventy five
year old Michael Curitz passed away. Born Manó Kertész Kaminer on Christmas Eve
in 1886, to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary (then Austria-Hungary), he ran away from home at age 17 to join a
circus, then trained for an acting career at the Royal Academy for Theater and
Art. His best known films include, The
Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca and White Christmas.
http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/2377/michael-curtiz
1962:
Birthdate of New York native Danielle Joyce “Dani” Shapiro the author of Hourglass:
Time, Memory, Marriage who is married to Michael Maren.
1962 South
Korea and Israel whose relationship dated back to 1950 when Ben Gurion
supported sending UN Troops to stop the invasion from North Korea established
official diplomatic relations today.
1963(16th
of Nisan, 5723): Second Day of Pesach; 1st day of the Omer.
1966(20th
of Nisan, 5726): Sixth day of Pesach
1966(20th
of Nisan, 5726): Eighty-six year old Joseph Newman, the husband of Tilly Cohen,
of blessed memory and the father of Captain Isidore Newman who had served as
“Beadle and Collector” for Hull Central Synagogue passed away today.
1968: “Belle
de Jour” a French film “based on the 1928 novel Belle de jour by Joseph Kessel was released in the United
States today.
1968: “George
M!” a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Francine Pascal, produced by
Emanuel Azenberg and starring Joel Grey opened on Broadway at the Palace
Theatre.
1970: During
the War of Attrition, “two 201 Squadron Phantoms attacked a radar facility at
Wadi Zur.”
1971(15th
of Nisan, 5731): Pesach
1971(15h of
Nissan, 5731): Eighty-two year old Ida Weinstein Posner, the wife of Isidor
Posner and the mother of Rhoda and Irving Posner passed away today after which
she was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan.
1971:
Passover—A Rite of Spring an “exhibition, commemorating the exodus from
Egypt, is a showcase for the ritual objects of various times and from various
places used in Passover, such as Seder plates and Elijah cups as well as pertinent
photographs and books is on display at the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue.
1973:
Operation Spring of Youth came to an end.
This was an amphibious assault by the IDF on Beirut and Sidon aimed at
those who had massacred Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spring_of_Youth
1974(18th of Nisan, 5734): Fourth Day of
Pesach
1974: Yitzhak Rabin replaced Golda Meir
as Prime Minister. Mrs. Meir had
resigned, a casualty of the Yom Kippur War.
1974:
“Our Time” a coming of age film directed and written by Peter Hyams was
released in the United States today.
1974:
In St. Louis, MO, Becky and Robert Greitens gave birth to Eric Greitens the
decorated war hero and Rhodes Scholar whose accomplishments are so varied that
he can truly be called “Renaissance Man.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-former-navy-seal-sets-his-sights-on-governorship/
http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-great-jewish-hope/
1975:
The government of Israel recognized Falashas as Jews under the law.
1977(22nd
of Nisan,5737): Eight Day of Pesach observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1978(3rd
of Nisan, 5738): Ninety-one year old Irma Levy Lindheim, the second president
of Hadassah passed away today.
http://www.jta.org/1978/04/12/archive/irma-levy-lindheim-dead-at-91
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/lindheim.html
1978:
Harold H. Saunders who played a key role in the creation of the Camp David
Accords, completed his service as the 6th Assistant Secretary of
State for Intelligence and Research.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that the
UNIFIL’s acute lag in recruiting to beef up the projected 4,000-man force had
decreased the prospects of an early, complete Israeli withdrawal from South
Lebanon.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that top US
officials were reported to have been studying the possibility of an American
treaty guarantee for a Middle Eastern settlement, “backed by a US air base
in the Sinai and a naval base at Jaffa.” The use of glass bottles was
prohibited on Israeli beaches.
1979(13th
of Nisan, 5739): One person was killed and 36 were injured when a terrorist
bomb went off in a market at Tel Aviv.
1980:
Birthdate of Israeli tennis player, Andy Ram
1980:
A funeral service is scheduled to be held this afternoon in Amherst, MA, for fifty year old Vanderbilt University Phi
Beta Kappa graduate Peter Farb, the linguist and author of such books as Man’s
Rise to Civilization and Word Play: What Happens People Talk, the
New York City born son of Solomon and Cecilia Farb and the husband of the
former Oriole Horch with whom he had two sons – Mark and Thomas.
1981: “Shimon
Peres, chairman of the opposition Labor Party, said today that he would name
Abba Eban as Foreign Minister and Haim Bar Lev, a retired general, as Defense
Minister if his party won the June 30 elections.”
1982: “Senior
Administration officials said today that there had been new Israeli military
movements near the Lebanese border over the last 72 hours, causing grave
American concern about a possible Israeli assault into southern Lebanon” but
the administration did not express any concern over the build-up of PLO forces
on the border with Lebanon which is a violation of the cease-fire agreement
arranged on July 24, 1982.
1983: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
Abrams of Roslyn, L.I., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Lori
Sue Abrams, to Alan Barry Greenfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Greenfield,
also of Roslyn. The groom is attending the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel
Aviv, Israel
1984(8th of
Nisan, 5744): Eighty-seven American movie producer and director Jack White,
born Jacob Weiss in Budapest, who used “the pseudonym ‘Preston Black’” after
his divorce passed away today.
1985(19th
of Nisan, 5745): Fifth Day of Pesach
1985: “Israel
and Egypt are working on the substance of a ”package deal” to settle
differences blocking normalization of relations between the two countries, a
senior official in Jerusalem said today.”
1986: Benjamin
Netanyahu, Israel’s delegate to the United Nations “examined a secret United
Nations file on Kurt Waldheim today and said afterward that there was ”clear
need for further comprehensive investigation” of Mr. Waldheim’s war record.”
1987(11th of
Nisan, 5747): Two Israeli soldiers were killed and two wounded in southern
Lebanon, The attack occurred near Qantara, inside the ”security zone.”
Military sources said the attackers were Shiite Moslem guerrillas from the
Party of God and Amal movements.
1988: As of
today, in Israel “there has been no public response… to reports that an army
investigation found that a teen-age girl whose death had drawn vows of
vengeance against Arabs was killed by a bullet, apparently fired in panic by
her Israeli guard.”
1989: Rite
Aid, the drug store chain founded by Scranton businessman Alex Grass, acquired
Peoples Drug’s 114 unit Lane Drug of Ohio.
1990(15th
of Nisan, 5750): Pesach
1990: NBC
broadcast the first episode of the sitcom “Wings” co-starring Rebecca Schull.
1990:
Following his major league debut yesterday, White Sox pitcher Scott Radinsky
“picked up his first major league win with one and a third innings” of relief
pitching today.
1990; Ninety
year old actress Natalie Schafer whose career which began in the 1920’s is
remembered primarily for her role on the sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” passed away
today.
1992: In the
UK, Malcolm Rifkind completed his service as Secretary of State for Transport
and began serving as Secretary of State for Defense.
1992: After premiering in Cleveland, Ohio, “The Player” a
satirical film featuring appearances by Sydney Pollack, Peter Falk, Jeff
Goldblum and Gina Gershon was released today in the rest of the United States.
1992: U.S.
premiere of “Newsies” with music by Alan Menken, filmed by cinematographer
Andrew Laszlo.
1993(19th
of Nisan, 5753): Fifth Day of Pesach; Shabbat Shel Pesach
1993(19th
of Nisan, 5753): Ninety-five year old Maxim Lieber, the son of Adolph and
Natalie Leiberman and the husband of Minna E. Lieber, the literary agent and
alleged Communist spy passed away today.
https://myturntosoundoff.wordpress.com/essays/the-case-of-a-most-reluctant-witness/
1996(21st
of Nisan, 5756): Seventh Day of Pesach
1996(21st
of Nisan, 5756): Eighty-year old Brooklyn born, Columbia grad and JTS ordained
rabbi, Moshe Davis, “the first American to earn a doctorate at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem” who “established the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem” and helped to found “the Camp Ramah network of Jewish
camps” while authoring several books including The Emergence of Conservative
Judaism and Israel: Its Role in Civilization passed away today.
1997(3rd
of Nisan, 5757): Seventy-six year old London born “journalist, author and
songwriter, Jack Fishman the winner of first Ivor Novello Award in 1955 for the
song “Everywhere” passed away today after which he was buried at the
Golders Green Jewish Cemetery.
1998(14th of
Nisan, 5758): In the evening, First Seder.
1998: In “At
the Movies” published today Bernard Weinraub described the making of a film
about Lindberg based on the work of biographer A. Scott Berg.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/10/movies/at-the-movies.html
1998: “My
Giant” a comedy starring Billy Crystal who also produced and wrote script for
the film was released in the United States today.
1998 “The Odd
Couple II” written and produced by Neil Simon, directed by Howard Deutch and
co-starring Walter Matthau in his second to last film was released in the
United States today.
1999(24th of
Nisan, 5759): Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat passed away. Born in Germany in 1910, he fled Nazi Germany
ultimately settling in the United States where he served on the faculty of the
University of California for over 40 years.
He was a noted biochemist famous for his viral research.
2000: “It was
a busy day of fighting in southern Lebanon as “the Iran-backed Hezbollah
guerrilla fighters wounded two soldiers from the Israeli-backed South Lebanese
Army,” teroirst fired a mortar shell across the border into Israel” and
following which Israeli warplanes struck suspected guerrilla targets while
Prime Minister Barak defended his “plan for unilateral withdrawal of troops
from Lebanaon.”
2001(17th
of Nisan, 5761): Third Day of Pesach
2001: Belgium born American billionaire Michel P.
Fribourg, the “chairman and CEO of Continental Grain” who was the fifth
generation to lead the family business that stretched back to the early decades
of the 19th century and who raised five children – Robert, Paul,
Charles, Nadine and Caroline – with his wife Mary Ann passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/12/classified/paid-notice-deaths-fribourg-michel-p.html
2002(28th
of Nisan, 5762): Ninety-two year old Israel political leader and jurist Haim
Cohen passed away. The native of Lubeck is also the author of The Trial and
Death of Jesus “in which he argued that it was the Romans, not the Sanhedrin,
who tried and executed Jesus.
2002(28th
of Nisan, 5762): “Eight were killed and 22 injured in a suicide bombing on
Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz
Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Avinoam Alfia, 26, of Kiryat
Ata; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shlomi Ben Haim, 27, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Nir
Danieli, 24, of Kiryat Ata; Border Police Lance Cpl. Keren Franco, 18, of
Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Ze’ev Hanik, 24, of Karmiel; Border Police Lance
Cpl. Noa Shlomo, 18, of Nahariya; Prison Warrant Officer Shimshon Stelkol, 33,
of Kiryat Yam; and Sgt. Michael Weissman, 21, of Kiryat Yam.”
2003(8th
of Nisan, 5763): St.-Sgt.
Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat
Shmuel were killed and nine others wounded when Palestinian terrorists opened
fire before dawn on their base near Bekaot in the northern Jordan Valley. (As
reported by Jewish Virtual Library.
2004(19th
of Nisan, 5764): Fifth Day of Pesach and Shabbat shel Pesach.
2004: In describing
the 13th century painting “Christ Crucified by the Virtues” Peter
Steinfels pointed out that “the role of Jewish authorities in the death of
Jesus, like the Roman role, may be missing from this picture, but
Christianity’s claim to have superseded Judaism is not.”
2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Splendid
Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio by Jeffrey Kluger, Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
and the recently released paperback edition of Potemkin: Catherine the
Great’s Imperial Partner by Simon Sebag Montefiore
2005: In
Stockholm, The Zionist Federation of Sweden presents “Herzl: Up Close and
Personal,” the traveling exhibit which was produced by the Department for
Zionist Activities, World Zionist Organization, to celebrate the visionary of
the Jewish state on the 100th anniversary of his passing.
2006: The Cedar Rapids Gazette featured a
photo display entitled “preparing a Jewish Tradition,” featuring pictures of
bakers at the Shmurah Matzoh Bakery in Brooklyn preparing “the unleavened bread
traditionally eaten by Jews at Passover.”
2007(22nd of
Nisan, 5767): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor, for Orthodox and
Conservative Jews
2007: Moshiach’s
Seudah marks the end of Pesach
2007: At the
Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, the “Fourth Annual Stanley F. Chyet Literary Event”
features Etgar Keret. “Israel’s popular young writer Etgar Keret is at once
court jester, literary crown prince, and national conscience. His painfully
funny and honest books, including “The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God”
and “Jetlag,” have earned him international recognition. Also a
respected filmmaker, Keret took home the Israeli Film Academy Award for Best
Picture for his film Skin Deep.”
2008:
In Washington, D.C., Madeleine M.
Kunin, the former governor of Vermont, the first Jewish woman governor and an ambassador under the
Clinton administration, discusses and signs her new book, “Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can
Win and Lead.”
2008(16th of Nisan, 5769): Barry H.
Gottehrer, a journalist whose award-winning newspaper series “City in Crisis”
helped elect John V. Lindsay mayor of New York in 1965 and who then joined the
administration to help defuse the subsequent crises the city faced, died
tonight near his home in Wilmington, N.C. at the age of 73.
2008:
“Fram” featuring Clare Lawrence Moody in the role of “Ruth Fry” premiered in
London today.
2008: In New York, at the Jewish Museum
presents a lecture “When Great Art Meets Great Evil” during which chief New
York Times music critic James Oestreich speaks with authors Henry Grinberg
and Eugene Drucker about their respective novels “Variations on the Beast”
and “The Savior.” Both books deal with the contradictions between the
greatness of German musical cultureand the depths of depravity to which Germany
sank while the Nazis were in power.
2008: The Jerusalem Post reported that
while Jewish parents are well-known for wanting their children to work in
certain professions with law and medicine have usually topping the list, a new
challenger is climbing the ranks – hi-tech.
2009(16
Nisan 5769): Second Day of Pesach; first day of the Omer
2009:
The French government appointed Rabbi Gilles Uriel Bernheim Knight [Chevalier] in the Légion d’honneur
2009:
In “Artwork from Hearst Castle returned to heirs of Jewish couple,” published Michael
Rothfeld describes how the grandchildren of a two German Jews who perished in
the Holocaust received some their artistic legacy.
2009:
In a column entitled “Next Year In Jerusalem,” Cecilia Hanley, the food editor
for the Cedar Rapids Gazette described attending a home Seder noting that “the
food Deborah [Levin] served was so delicious, I ate way more than was
comfortable.” She noted that Deb made brisket with her adaptation of the
Classic Brisket Recipe from “New York Times Passover Cookbook” which Hanley
shared with her readers.
2010:
The Westchester Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to show “Ahead of Time,” a
documentary narrated by Ruth Gerber, the
Brooklyn born foreign correspondent, photojournalist, author, and
humanitarian who describes her
remarkable 70-year career during which she escorted Holocaust refugees to
America in 1944, covered the Nuremberg trials in 1946, and documented the
voyage of the ship Exodus in 1947, emerging as the eyes and conscience of the
world with her lifelong devotion to assisting Jewish refugees
2010: “A Tiny Piece of
Land” is scheduled to have its first performance at the Pico Playhouse in Los
Angeles, CA.
2011: The American Jewish
Historical Society, Centro Primo Levi, Center for Jewish History, The Katz
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and
Yeshiva University Museum are scheduled to present: “Conversations on Conversion”
moderated by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer
2011: “Jewish veterans of
the 1960s women’s liberation movement gathered at New York University for a
conference on “Women’s Liberation and Jewish Identity.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/radical-feminism-conference
2011: The Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor “Walking Tour: Downtown Jewish Washington”
including the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum and the former sites of
Ohev Sholom, Adas Israel, and Washington Hebrew Congregation.
2011: Tulane Professor
Brian Horowitz is scheduled to attend a seminar on Hebrew literature at the
University of Florida.
2011: The Los Angeles Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Panorama,” a novel in
which “Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler depicts the world of German and Austrian
Jews before the Nazis came to power.”
2011: The New York Times published reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Say Her Name” by
Francisco Goldman and “The Eichmann
Trial” by Deborah E. Lipstadt.
2011:
Israel’s government approved the famous personalities who will appear on a new
series of shekel banknotes. The approval of the list today, which includes some
of Israel’s most beloved national poets, comes after the list was finalized
last month by the Bank of Israel following more than a year of heated debate.
The personalities who will grace the new notes are Rachel the Poetess on the 20
shekel note, Shaul Tchernichovsky on the 50 shekel note, Leah Goldberg on the
100 shekel note and Natan Alterman on the 200 shekel note. Rachel, who died in 1931, is a leading poet
in modern Hebrew whose works have been set to music. Tchernichovsky was a
two-time winner of the Bialik Prize for Literature. Goldberg, who died in 1970,
was a poet, author, playwright, literary translator and researcher of Hebrew
literature who translated “War and Peace” into Hebrew. Alterman, an
author, playwright, poet and newspaper columnist who died in 1970, won the 1968
Israel Prize for Literature. “In order to maintain the public’s trust in
the State’s currency, the governor decided to replace the currency series with
a new series which will include some of the world’s most advanced security and
identification markings in a bid to make counterfeiting more difficult,”
the Bank of Israel said in a statement.
The current faces on Israeli currency are former Prime Minister Moshe
Sharett on the 20 shekel note; S.Y. Agnon on the 50 shekel note; and former
presidents Yitzhak Ben- Zvi and Zalman Shazar on the 100 shekel and 200 shekel
notes.
2012:
Grand Central published A Natural Woman: A Memoir the autobiography of
Carole King.
http://www.caroleking.com/book
2012:
Heather Klein is scheduled to provide a program of Yiddish Passover Songs in
Palo Alto, CA.
2012:
Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band are scheduled to perform at The Sixth Street
Community Synagogue in New York City.
2012(18th
of Nisan, 5772): Eighty five year old
Zvi Dinstein, the native of Tel Aviv who served as an MK for a decade
passed away today.
2012(18th
of Nisan, 5772): Ninety-seven year old French Resistance leader Raymond
Aurbrac, born Raymond Samuel, passed away today. (As reported by Douglas
Martin)
2013:
On the secular calendar, 65th anniversary of the Haganah’s victory over the
Arabs at Mishmar ha-Emek (On the Jewish calendar this event took place on the
1st of Nisan, 5708)
2013:
As part its “Days of Remembrance” program, the University of Utah is scheduled
to host “Holocaust Workshop” for which students can receive course credit.
2013:
“Aliyah” is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival
2013: In Skokie, Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center, is scheduled to “a special advance screening and reception
for ‘No Place On Earth.’”
2013(30th
of Nisan, 5773): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2013:
At a performance today, “using slides, musical interludes and short videos,” Israeli
concert pianist and music scholar Astrith Baltsan delved into the surprisingly
storied history of Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem…”
https://azm.org/astrith-baltsan-performs-hatikvah
2013:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to be considering a proposal by
Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky to establish an egalitarian prayer plaza
along part of the Western Wall.
2014:
Ed Millieband, the leader of the British Labor Party who has a good chance of
becoming the next Prime Minister, is scheduled to arrive in Israel today for a
three day visit that will have special meaning for this son of Jewish
immigrants. (As reported by Raphael Ahren and Miriam Shaviv
2014:
Today, French author and college professor Alain Finkielkraut whose father was
Polish leather goods manufacturer and Auschwitz survivor “was elected member of
the Académie française.”
2014(10th
of Nisan, 5774): If the legislation is by the Knesset today, the 10th
of Nisan will be the “official day of national celebration in which Jewish
immigration to Israel is honored and noteworthy immigrants are recognized for
their contributions to the nation. (As reported by Debra Kamin)
2014:
“The Sturgeon Queens’ is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film
Festival.
2014:
“Golda’s Balcony” staring Tova Feldshuh is scheduled to be performed at DCJCC’s
Theatre J.
2014:
In Bethesda, MD, Congregation Beth El is scheduled to host Ambassador Gideon
Meir who will speak on “International Media Coverage of Israel During
Conflict.”
2014(10th
of Nisan): According to the Book of Joshua today is the day “that the
Israelites crossed the Jordan River into the Promised Land on that date, ending
their 40 years of wandering in the desert.” (As reported by Debra Kamin)
2015(21st
of Nisan, 5775): Seventh Day of Pesach
2015(21st
of Nisan 5575): Eighty-eight year old Judith Malina, the Kiel, Germany born
daughter of Rosel and Rabbi Max Maline “an American theater and film actress,
writer, and director, who was one of the founders of The Living Theatre” passed
away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://forward.com/the-assimilator/218426/judith-malina-theater-rebel-dies-at-88/
2015: Fifty eight year old Cornell College (IA)
graduate Rocel R. Kingman, the Minneapolis born daughter of Samuel and Betty
Rattner and wife of David Kingman with whom she raised three sons – Sam, Benner
and Teddy—passed away today.
2015:
“The Decent One,” “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem” and “Anywhere Else” are
scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015:
“Woman in Gold” is scheduled to premiere in the United Kingdom.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-woman-in-gold-premieres-meet-the-man-who-battled-for-the-klimt/
2015:
“Dutch researchers said today they believe they have uncovered a new mass grave
at the former Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, almost exactly 70 years
after it was liberated’”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-researchers-say-new-mass-grave-found-at-nazi-camp/
2015:
Jewish graves were destroyed today when a tropical storm “devastated the Jewish
cemetery of the State of Bahia” in eastern Brazil according to Luciano
Fingergut, the community’s president.
2015:
Temple Judah is scheduled to host another of its ever-popular “Musical
Shabbats.”
2016:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
included the recently published paperback editions of When the Facts Change:
Essays by Tony Judt, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson and Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of
Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson.
2016:
“Rabin In His Own Words” is scheduled to be shown on the final day of the
Hartford Jewish Film Festival today.
2016:
“Karski & The Lords of Humanity” a documentary about the mission of Jan
Karski, is scheduled to be shown at The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Center
2016:
“Raise the Roof” and “Fauda, Part III” are scheduled to be shown at the
Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2017(14th
of Nisan, 5777): One-hundred-three year
old journalist Jesse Lurie who began writing for the Palestine Post (now
Jerusalem Post) in the 1930’s and continued having his columns published until
January of this year passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=185095725
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jesse-lurie-longtime-hadassah-magazine-editor-dies-at-103/
2017:
“Eric Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general paused to wish his
fellow Jews” a happy Pesach saying “We are commanded not only to remember our
story, but to imagine that we ourselves were enslaved in Egypt, and then freed
— so that we may empathize with the plight of those who are fleeing oppression
and danger today” in what some saw as a thinly veiled jab at President Donald
Trump” whose ban on entry into the US by refugees as well as travelers from seven
Muslim majority countries Schneiderman had successfully challenged.
2017(14th of
Nisan, 5777):
Fast of the First Born; Erev Pesach
2017: Jews living in the lands of “the former
Soviet Union” will be able to enjoy a ritually appropriate seder thanks to the
efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee which has provided their
co-religionists “with at least ten tons of matzah.”
2017(14th of
Nisan, 5777):
On the Jewish calendar, anniversary of the second most important Pesach of the
twentieth century. On the 14th
of Nisan, 5677(April 6, 1917) the United States entered WW I on the side of the
Allies. Ironically, most Jews were fixated on the recent revolution in Russia
and the message of freedom that it sent to the Jews in the country and their
kinsman around the world. Indeed the year
1917 which included two Russian Revolutions, the U.S. entry into the war and
the Balfour Declaration could be said to be one of the seminal years in the
four thousand years of Jewish history.
14th of Nisan,
5622(1862):
In the evening, during the Civil War, Pesach begins with 21 Union soldiers of
the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment celebrating with a Seder in Fayette, West
Virginia.
14th of Nisan, 5660( 1900): Poor Jews living on the Lower East Side were
relieved to find that free matzoth were being distributed at Charles “Silver
Dollar” Smith’s “old place on Essex Street.”
There was concern that the distribution would end since Smith had passed
away last year. Before he had changed
his name, Smith was known as variously as Charles Goldschmidt or Charles
Solomon. A New York alderman who was
part of the Tammany Hall machine, he was called “Silver Dollar” because of the
“2,400 silver dollars used as a studded inlay in his saloon…”
14th of Nisan, 5671(1911): This evening, the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association host a public Seder in New York and “special
services” for the Jewish immigrants currently detained at Ellis Island.
14th of
Nisan, 5631(1871): As the Jews of Newark, New Jersey, begin the celebration
of Passover this evening, it is estimated that they will consume 10,000 to
15,000 pounds of matzoth during the eight days of the holiday
14th of Nisan, 5671(1911): This evening, the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association host a public Seder in New York and “special
services” for the Jewish immigrants currently detained at Ellis Island.
14th of Nisan,
5674(1914):
Four hundred and fifty Jewish servicemen including sailors from the battleships
Texas, North Dakota, Washington, Ohio, Wyoming and Louisiana are scheduled to
take part in a seder specifically for military personnel at Tuxedo Hall in
Manhattan.
14th of Nisan,
5700(1940):
The Sommer family sit down to their first Seder in Liechtenstiein. How this family of German Jewish refugees
from Munich came to be there was chronicled by Susi Pugatsch-Sommer in an
article entitled “A Pesach Miracle in Nazi Germany.”
14th of Nisan, 5703(1943): Members of Belgium
Jewish underground aided by Christian railroad men derailed a train filled with
Jewish deportees bound for the extermination camps. Several hundred Jews were
saved.
14th of Nisan, 5703(1943):
PASSOVER, WARSAW Ghetto UPRISING; The Jews were determined not to be moved
without giving up a fight. 2,100 Germans, fully armed, enter the Ghetto. The
Jews fighting force consisted of about 700 men and women. They were armed with 17 rifles, 50 pistols
and several thousand grenades and Molotov cocktails. A small group of Jewish fighters open fire on
the entering German troops. After an hour of skirmishing, the Germans
retreated. The final liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto began on the Eve of
Passover,
The deportation did not come as a surprise. The Germans had amassed a military
force to carry it out, but did not expect to engage in a confrontation that
included street battles. Armed German forces ringed the ghetto at
ghetto encountered armed resistance and retreated. The main ghetto, with its
population of 30,000 Jews, was deserted. The Jews could not be rounded up for
the transport; the railroad cars at the deportation point remained empty. After
Germans and rebels fought in the streets for three days, the Germans began to
torch the ghetto, street by street, building by building. The entire ghetto
became a sizzling, smoke-swathed conflagration. Most of the Jews who emerged
from their hideouts, including entire families, were murdered by the Germans on
the spot. The ghetto Jews gradually lost the strength to resist. On April 23,
Mordecai Anielewicz the ZOB commander wrote the following to Yitzhak Zuckerman,
a member of the ZOB command who was stationed on the “Aryan” side: “I
cannot describe the conditions in which the Jews are living. Only a special few
will hold out; all the others will perish sooner or later. Their fate is
sealed. None of the bunkers where our comrades are hiding has enough air to
light a candle at night…. Be well, my dear, perhaps we shall yet meet. The
dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self – defense in the ghetto will
have been a reality. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting
of Jewish men of battle”. The rebels pursued their cause, even though they
knew from the outset that they could not win. The Jewish underground would
continue to fight the Nazis until the middle of May. The Polish underground
only gave minimal help because of anti-Semitism prevalent among many. Although
the Allies will neither publicize events nor try to help, even before the war
ended, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising became a symbol of Jewish resistance
14th of Nisan,
5708(1948):
Erev Pesach the rations given out in Jerusalem for the observance of Passover
included 2 lbs. of potatoes, ½ lb of fish, 4 lb. of matzo, 1 ½ oz. dried fruit,
½ lb. meat, and ½ lb. of matzo flour. As one who was there later wrote, “For
the trapped citizens of
who had become accustomed to privation, the Passover provisions seemed like a
banquet. However, for the citizens of
it was not a particularly merry affair. On the verge of their national freedom,
the inhabitants of
sat somberly around their tables. This was the first time since the nightly
shellings that the city’s citizens had come together in assembly in the various
homes throughout the city that had been the dream of two thousand years’
Seders. Tonight is a holiday, but tomorrow the struggle will go on. As they sat
to begin the Seder, they heard the beginning of the snipers bullets looking for
a straggler in the streets. But tonight was different. As they opened the door,
as they had done for scores of generations, to welcome in Elijah, there was no
fear. Tonight is a night of divine protection. As the Holy One protected the
Jews in
so shall he protect us here in the war torn city of Jerusalem. “Once we
were slaves, but today we are free men” recited in the Haggadah, took on
new meaning. The British are leaving, the Arabs are attacking, and we are
beginning our new national lives as free men in our own country. “Next
year in
had a meaning that we never before understood. We meant it; we would not
relinquish our dream to return to our homeland, to the city that has been in our
hearts throughout the two thousand year exile. Now we are free men, tomorrow we
must continue the fight to remain free.
2018:
It was reported today that “Yasser Murtaja” who had been described as a
“Palestinian journalist” after he “was shot dead by Israeli protests along the
Gaza border” was, “for years,” “an officer in the Hamas security apparatus in
Gaza.”
2018:
Director Aviva Kempner and Pam Horowitz, a former attorney with the Southern
Poverty Law Center and the widow of Julian Bond are scheduled to attend
tonight’s screening of “Rosenwald” at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
2018:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Four Strangers, Three
Faiths, One Escape to Freedom.”
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/four-strangers-three-faiths-one-escape-to-freedom-tickets-43752148855
2018:
Author Gil Troy is scheduled to “discuss the impact of Young Judaea on the
Zionist Ideas” at an alumni gathering in Manhattan.
2018:
The Temple Emanu-El Steicker is scheduled to host and “Evening with David
Grossman,” “one of Israel’s most celebrated writers, winner of countless
awards, the only Israeli ever to win the prestigious International Man Booker
Prize, for his novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar”
2019:
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a discussion led
by Mark Slobin that will those attending Carnegie Hall’s upcoming “musical
program ‘From Shtetl Stage’” that highlights “the musical legacy of Eastern
European Jews.”
2019:
In Philadelphia, at the University of Pennsylvania, the Kata Center for
Advanced Judaic Studies is scheduled to host Yigal S. Nizri, an assistant
professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and Centre for Jewish
Studies at the University of Toronto, as he presents “The Hebrew Tongue That
Prevails in Our Times”: Jewish Moroccan Language and Writing at the Turn of the
Twentieth Century.
2019:
Shiva is scheduled to come an end this morning for Cantor Sherwood Goffin.
https://yucommentator.org/2019/04/sherwood-goffin-renowned-cantor-and-educator-dies-at-77/
2019(5th
of Nisan, 5779): Seventy-seven year old University Minnesota educated
businessman Irwin L. Jacobs known as “Irv the Liquadtor” whose holdings
included a minority interest in the NFL Minnesota Vikings was found dead this
morning, the apparent victim of a murder-suicide with his wife.
2019:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a presentation
by Holocause survivor by Louise Lawrence Israel’s as part of its “First Person”
series
2019(5th of Nisan, 5777): On
the Jewish calendar Yahrzeit for fifty-four year old Amy Barnum, the
wife of Joel Barnum with whom she raised three daughters – Emma, Sasah and Gail
– and daughter Jack and Bette Kozlen of Omaha who was a pillar, in the truest
sense of that term, of the Jewish community in Cedar Rapids and a driving force
behind the Traditional Services at Temple Judah whose
untimely passing can only be described as a tragic loss for all of us.
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2017/Apr/Amy-M-Barnum/
2020:
The complete lockdown under which Israelis have been living since April 7 is
scheduled to come to an end today for Cantor Sherwood Goffin.
https://yucommentator.org/2019/04/sherwood-goffin-renowned-cantor-and-educator-dies-at-77/
http://sherwoodgoffin.com/about-me/cantorial-biography
2020:
Shomrei Torah, the Santa Rosa synagogue is scheduled to take its freedom-,
justice- and equality-centered Seder online on StreamSpot
2020:
This evening, Kehilla Community Synagogue of Piedmont is scheduled to take to
Zoom for a gathering that will explore themes of collective liberation,
engaging in disability and racial justice and new ways of honoring indigenous
land
2020(16th
of Nisan, 5780): Second Day of Pesach; First Day of the Omer.
2021(28th
of Nisan, 57810: Parahat Shemini; Pirket Avot, Chapter One
2021:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to begin its phased re-opening
plan with in-person services where all Pandemic Protocols will be practiced.
2021:
The annual East Bay International Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to r return
for its 26th year today with a virtual offering of 20 films over two weeks.
2021:
In
the framework of the exhibition “This is not My Tree” at NARS Foundation,
curator Nina Mdivani is scheduled to moderate a virtual panel on the theme
Notions of Belonging, with artists Yael Azoulay, Omer Ben-Zvi, and Michal Geva.
Photo: Eli Barak,
2021:
Neil Friedman, co-founder of Menemsha Films and one of the developers of
ChaiFlicks, a streaming service bringing Jewish and Israeli films to U.S.
viewers is scheduled to discuss the perennial question: What makes a film
Jewish?
2021:
In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, at Temple Judea, Rabbi Feivel Strauss is scheduled
to lead another informative Torah Study and Meadow Miller and Abby Francisco
are each scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah.
2021:
In Beachwood, OH, ceremonies marking the installation of Vladimir Lapin as the
Cantor at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple are scheduled to come to an end.
2021:
In Jerusalem, the Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “Flute Sounds in
Ein-Kerem,” a piano and Fantasia for Flue Oboe where seating will be limited
“due to the restrictions of the Green Badge.
2021:
In Israel, many curbs on the education system that have
remained in place are set to expire today.
2021: Based on reports published yesterday, Israel’s
much vaunted vaccination program could come off the tracks because “Pfizer is
threatening to delay further shipments of vaccines to Israel over a delay in
payments, reportedly warning that the Jewish state could go the back of the
line if it does not pay up.”
2022: In Boston, MA, the Alexander Magnolia Coop
is scheduled to host the 16th Cape Verdean-Jewish Seder which brings
“together Jews and Cabo Verdeans from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to meet
face-to-face, share and celebrate their cultures, and explore what they have in
common.”
2022: In London, JW3 Cinema is scheduled to host
a screening of “The Lucky Star.”
2022: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present a lecture by Rabbi Albert Gabbi on “Why Is The Sephardi
Haggadah Different From All Other Haggadot?”
2022: The National Library of Israel is scheduled
to host a lecture by Yoel Finkelman on “What To Do When You Can’t Afford a
Manuscript: The Passover Haggadah as a Material Object.”
2022: The New York Times features review
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World
at War by Deborah Cohen and The Trials of Harry Truman: The
Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 by Jeffrey Frank
which examines the foreign policy decisions of the President who proudly played
such a key role in the creation of the modern state of Israel.
2022: The 13th Annual Axelrod Jewish
International Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Replacement” on its final night.
2022: Shiva service is scheduled to be held
tonight in Cedar Rapids for Brian Thalblum the brother of Temple Judah’s Rabbi
Todd Thalblum.
2022: “Taste of the World Festival” is scheduled
to open to at the Habonim Gardens next to the Jaffa Gate, featuring “some of
the best chefs in Israel, preparing special dishes from all over the world.”
2023( 19th of Nisan, 5783):
Fifth Day of Pesach.
2023: Zivug is scheduled to present online
“Shadow Dancing Through the Omer.”
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to
host a webinar during which Trudy Gold and Aurelia Young discuss “Leslie Howard
– A Fascinating Life.”
2023: Bank Hapoalim is scheduled to
continue to sponsor free entrance to 170 museums, national parks, and heritage
sites in Israel, including ANU – Museum of the Jewish People.
2023: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir are scheduled to take part in
the march that “is set to begin at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West
Bank — five kilometers from the Palestinian town of Huwara, which has recently
been the site of multiple Palestinian terror attacks in recent months, as well
as a revenge rampage by hundreds of settler extremists — and will finish at the
Evyatar settlement outpost.”
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