This Day, September 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September
24
416: “Roman emperors Honorius and
Theodosius II order that any Jews who have joined the Christian church to avoid
punishments for crimes must be allowed to return to Judaism because, in the
long run, Christianity will be better off without them.”
622: Prophet
Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina. According to at least one
source, Muhammad had gone to Medina by some of the local clans who were looking
for an outside arbiter to settle the conflicts between the Arabs and members of
a Jewish tribe called the Banu Qurayza.
768: Pippin
the Short, King of the Franks passed way. Pippin allowed the Jews of Narbonne
in the territory of Septimania (modern day southern France) to enjoy a measure
of freedom and prosperity in return for their help in fighting the Moors.
1038: Jews in
Granada celebrate a special Purim commemoration after the capture of the Muslim
leader Ibn Abbas who was brought to Granada, killed, and beheaded by a rival
(and Jewish tolerant) Muslim faction.
1230: Today Ferdinand III, whose “reign may be regarded as
marking a turning-point in the destinies of the Jews” began his de facto
rule of Leon and Galicia.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6081-ferdinand-iii
1272: Edward
I, a leader of the Ninth Crusade and the King who expelled the Jews from
England, left Acre today on the first leg of a trip that would take him to
Sicily where he would learn of his father’s death.
1491: In an
example of the Blood Libel, Benito Gracia, a Converso was accused today of
taking part in the mutilation and murder of Christian child in what would lead
to the creation of the legend of “The Holy Child of La Guardia.”
1652: English
playwright Richard Brome, the author of “The Jewish Gentleman” a worked created
when there were no Jews living in the kingdom, passed away today.
1569:
Birthdate of Ernst of Schaumburg the German count who “granted the first
permanent residence permits to Ashkenazic Jews so that they could settle in
Altona starting in 1611.
1659: As part
of an attempt by Anton Hulsisu to convert Jacob Abendana to Christianity, the
two began a debate via correspondence over the meaning of a verse in the Book
of Haggai: “The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the
former” (2:9), which Hulsius attempted to prove was a reference to the
Church.” Unlike similar debates that had taken place in Spain and France, this
exchange was amicable and posed no threat to the well-being of the Jewish
community.
1664: The
Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England. The English re-name the
city after the Duke of York and call it New York since there was already a York
in England. If it had not been for the name change, we would all be looking at
New Amsterdam style delis.
1665: One of
the two dates given for the death of Jacob Lumbrozo who was the first Jewish
person to settle in Maryland, arriving in the colony controlled by the Calverts
in 1656.
1683: The Jews
were expelled from all French possessions in America. The Jews would return to
Quebec in 1759 when the British were victorious in the French and Indian War.
1743(17th
of Tishrei, 5504): Emden, Germany born New York merchant Abraham Isaacs who had
been elected constable in 1725 and who was the husband of Hannah Mears passed
away today.
1758: After
yet another blood libel in Poland, the Jewish community sent Jacob Zelig to
Rome to seek relief from the Pope. He convinced Pope Benedict XIV to start an
investigation. Cardinal Ganganelli (Clement XVI) wrote an unequivocal
condemnation of the libels and asked the Holy See to intervene in Poland to
stop the accusations.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sofer_Mosheh
https://www.sefaria.org/person/Moses%20Sofer
1759(3rd of
Tishrei, 5520): Tzom Gedaliah
1761:
Birthdate of Dutch journalist, translator and author Moses ben Zaddik Belifante
1765:
Forty-one year old Frankfort-on-Main native Elijah Etting, the husband of
Shinah Solomon, became a naturalized citizen today after having come to America
in 1758.
1762:
Birthdate of Frankfurt am Main of Moses Schreiber, the son of Shumuel and
Reizel who gained fames as Moses Sofer, “known by the name of his work
“Hatam Sofer”, one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of Austrian –
Hungarian Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century” and “a powerful
opponent to the Reform movement in Judaism…”
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/moses-sofer/
1765:
Forty-year-old Frankfort-on-the-Main native Elijah Etting who in 1758 came to
the United States where he became a merchant and married Shinah Solomon in 1759
“was naturalized” today.
1767(1st
of Tishrei, 5528) Rosh Hashanah
1768:
Birthdate of historian Sharon Turner, the friend of Isaac D’Israeli who advised
him to have his children, including Benjamin, baptized during the elder
D’Isreali’s dispute with Bevis Marks Synagogue.
1771(16th
of Tishrei, 5532): Second Day of Sukkoth
1772:
Birthdate of “Italian physician and Hebraist” Vita Della Volta (Solomon Hayyim)
the “owner of a large Hebrew Library” and “a contribution to the periodical Kerem
Hemed.”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14713-vita-della-volta-solomon-hayyim
1778(3rd
of Tishrei): Tzom Gedaliah observed on the same day during the American
Revolution when 3,000 British troops advanced into Westchester County putting
an end to the national that the British were preparing to evacuate New York
City, most of whose Jewish population had fled to such places as Newport, RI
and Philadelphia,
1784(9th
of Tishrei, 5545): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1786(2nd
of Tishrei, 5547): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1789: The
office of U.S. Attorney General was established. Edward Levi, an appointee of
Republican President Gerald Ford, was the first Jewish Attorney General. He
served from 1975 to 1977. Judge Michael Mukasey has been nominated by George
Bush for the position. If approved, he will be only the second Jew to be
nation’s top lawyer.
1790(16th
of Tishrei, 5551): Second Day of Sukkoth
1794(29th
of Elul, 5554): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1797:
Birthdate of Gibraltar native Samuel Levy Bensusan.
1798(14th
of Tishrei, 5559): Erev Sukkoth
1808(3rd
of Tishrei, 5569): Shabbat Shuva observed for the last time during the
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
1805(1st
of Tishrei, 5566): Rosh Hashanah
1809(14th
of Tishrei, 5570): Erev Sukkot
1814(10th
of Tishrei, 5575): Yom Kippur observed as the British troops that had failed to
capture Baltimore ten days are sailing for New Orleans home to Judah Touro.
1816(2nd
of Tishrei, 5566): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1819: In
Sussex, Henrietta Rothschild and Abraham Joseph Montefiore gave birth to Nathan
Mayer Montefiore, the husband of Emma Goldsmid.
1822(9th
of Tishrei, 5583): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1824(2nd
of Tishrei, 5585): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time
during the Presidency of James Monroe.
1827(3rd
of Tishrei, 5588): Tzom Gedaliah
1828(16th
of Tishrei, 5589): Eighty-eight year old Michael Klapp, the husband of Sara
Klapp passed away today.
1832(29th
of Elul, 5592): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1832:
Jews living in Sydney, Australia, gathered in Mr. Rowell’s shop on George
Street which has been fitted out as a synagogue to begin the observance of Rosh
Hashanah.
1833:
Birthdate of Paris born French Army Captain Jules Benjamin Brandon, the “scion
of an ancient Sephardic family that went to France from Spain after the
expulsion in 1492” and the nephew by marriage of Jewish historian Joseph
Salvador who was captured by the Prussians at Sedan and who was killed by “a
stray bullet” while leading his artillery battery in Paris after which he was
eulogized “as one of the best and bravest officers of the second army corp.
1835(1st
of Tishrei, 5596): Rosh Hashanah
1839(16th
of Tishrei, 5600) Second Day of Sukkoth
1841(9th
of Tishrei, 5602): Kol Nidre
1841(9th
of Tishrei, 5602): Forty-one year old Abraham Basch who was secretary to the
Mayor Landsberg and a teacher of Hebrew a Weyl’s seminary before it closed
which left him to live of poverty, passed away today in Berlin.
1841(9th
of Tishrei, 5602): Forty-one year old poet and teacher Abraham Basch passed
away today.
1843(29th of
Elul, 5603): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1844: In
Manheim Baden, Amelia Wurzburger and Herman Noether gave birth to University of
Heidelberg trained mathematician Max Noether, the husband of Ida Amelia Kaufman
and the father of mathematicians Emmy and Fritz Noether.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Noether_Max/
1847(14th
of Tishrei, 5608): Erev Sukkoth
1851:
Birthdate of Posen native Henry Jonas who came to the United States in 1871
after which he settled in Butte, MT where he worked as a tailor and helped
organize the Jewish community.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/buttepubliclibrary/4147999913/
1852: In
Charleston, SC, Cecilia Moses and Abraham Alexander Solomons gave birth to Gertrude
Moses Solomons who died in April of 1853.
1853(21st
of Elul, 5613): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot observed for the first time
during the Presidency of Franklin Pierce.
1854(2nd
of Tishrei, 5615): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1855: Sir
Charles Wilson received his first commission in the Royal Engineers. Wilson
would put his engineering skills to good used when he would conduct the survey
of Jerusalem in 1864 and 1865. He published his findings in Notes on the
Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem.
1856: “The
Swiss Federal Council granted the Jews full political rights within Aargau, as
well as broad business rights. However, the majority Christian population did
not abide by these new liberal laws fully.
1856: The
building housing “The Birmingham Hebrew Congregation, commonly known as the
Singers Hill Synagogue, an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Birmingham, England”
which “replaced the
Severn Street
Synagogue” was completed today.
1858: In
Berkshire, VT, George Edmund Foss and Marcia Noble Foss gave birth to Eugene
Noble Foss the 45th Governor of Massachusetts who had employed Leo
Frank in 1906 and was a leader in the fight to have his conviction overturned
because he was sure Frank had not received a fair trial.
1862(29th of
Elul, 5622): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1862(29th
of Elul, 5622): Seventy-eight year old Judith, Lady Montefiore, the “fourth daughter of Levy Barent Cohen and his
wife, Lydia Diamantschleifer” and wife of Sir Moses Montefiore, the “linguist,
musician writer, philanthropist” and namesake of the Judith Lady Montefiore
College at Ramsgate, passed away today.
1862: As Jews
prepare to greet the New Year, fourteen governors declared their support for
Lincoln’s recently issued Emancipation Proclamation proving that the New Year
will be a time of new beginnings for those held in the bondage of slavery.
1864: In Kirn,
Germany, David and Charlotte (Loeb) Ullman gave birth to NYU grad and Columbia
Law School trained attorney Fredric Ullman, the president of Temple Beth Zion
and the Jewish Hospital, both of Buffalo, NY and the husband of the firmer
Beatrice Hirsh.
1865(3rd
of Tishrei, 5626): Shabbat Shuva
1865: “Robert
W. Nathan and Annie Florence Nathan whose ancestor were among the early
settlers of New York City” gave birth to Harold Nathan, the graduate of
Columbia University Law School who was a “partner in the law firm of Cook,
Nathan, Lehman and Greenman,” a member of Temple Emanuel and the husband of
Sallie Gruntal Nathan with whom he had two children – Marian and Robert, “the
novelist and poet.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/21/87630044.pdf
1866(15th of
Tishrei, 5627): Sukkoth observed for the first time since the destruction and
desecration of the Bucharest Synagogue which was part of a wave of violence
that would lead to the loss of rights for the Jews of Romania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#Early_Modern_Age
1868: The Very
Reverend Henry Hart Milman, an English historian and ecclesiastic, passed away.
In 1829, Milman published History of the Jews, “which is memorable as the first
by an English clergyman which treated the Jews as an Oriental tribe, recognized
sheikhs and amirs in the Old Testament, sifted and classified documentary
evidence, and evaded or minimized the miraculous.” It is not known how the Jews
reacted to this work, but his fellow Christians were upset enough to slow his
climb up the ecclesiastical ladder.
1868(8th
of Tishrei, 5629): Seventy-seven-year old London born and Oxford educated
historian and poet whose poetry included “Fall of Jerusalem” and whose History
the Jews which disapproved of by the church.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10842-milman-henry-hart
1868: In
Gliwice, businessman Isidor Friend and his wife Cecilia Nothmann gave birth to
Rabbi Samuel Friend.
1869:
Birthdate of Alexander Büchler, the son of Talmudist Phineas Büchler, who
became a rabbi and teacher in the Hungarian Jewish community. He was murdered
at Auschwitz in July of 1944.
1871(9th of
Tishrei, 5632): Erev Yom Kippur
1871: In
Vicksburg, Nicholas Scharff and the former Carrie Bernheimer gave birth to
their first child Edward E. Scharff.
1871: It was
reported today that violence had broken out in El-Kesar, a Moroccan town with
9,000 inhabitants, a sizable number of whom are Jewish. The clash was between
members of the Shereef family that had come from Fez to celebrate a wedding and
people living in the surrounding mountains who decided to “join” in the
festivities. After presenting their wedding gifts, this band of 2,000 mostly
young men attacked and robbed the custom house and the local market. Then they
went to the Jewish Quarter, beat the inhabitants, fired their rifles into their
homes wounding many of the inhabitants and then took as plunder whatever they
wished. They then left for their mountain homes.
1872: David
Salomons married Cecilia Samuels today.
1872(21st of
Elul, 5632): Hannah Leo, the wife of Henry Leo, who was President of the
Auxiliary Society of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, passed away
1873(3rd of
Tishrei, 5634):Tzom Gedaliah
1875(24th
of Elul, 5635): Fifty-eight year old M. Guedalla passed way today at Cambrian
Villas, Beaumont, Jersey, UK.
1876: Based on
information that first appeared in the London
Jewish Herald, it was reported today that for the past four or five years
Jews have been returning to Palestine in unprecedented numbers. The Jewish
population of Jerusalem has doubled in the past ten years. Most of the
immigrants have come from Russia.
1876: In
Paris, France, “Joseph and Marguerite (Klatz) Blum gave birth CCNY, Columbia
and Ecole Des Bes Beaux Arts trained architect Edward Isaac Blum, the husband
of Irene Miller who formed a partnership with his brother that enabled to
design numerous structures including several Upper West Side apartment houses
and one at 322 Central Park West.
https://www.newyorkitecture.com/tag/george-edward-blum/
1876: The Jews
of Austin, Texas met at the Odd Fellows Hall and organized Congregation Beth
Israel.
1876: The Austin Daily Statesman
noted that all other Texas cities of similar size had synagogues so “we can see
no reason why Austin should not keep company with them.”
1878: As the
Yellow Fever Epidemic continues to grip the Deep South, it was reported today
that the children of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York “have received a
touching letter from Isaacson and Sims of New Orleans acknowledging the receipt
of $10.84” which the Jewish orphans had raised in small sums to provide relief
for the 200 infants living at St. Vincent’s. Disease does not recognize
religious differences and neither does extending a helping hand.
1879: Four
days after he had passed away, Lionel Lawson, the son of Moses Levy and the
former of Helena Moses, was buried at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery”
today.
1879: It was
reported today that the Romanian legislators have rejected a motion that would
have the government ignore the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin that called
for the emancipation of the Jews. The legislators also rejected that the
emancipation process be applied only to individual Jews. This clears the way
for the government to introduce a measure that will provide full citizenship
for the Jews living in Romania.
1880: Three
days after he had passed away, Jacob Joseph Israel Brandon was buried today in
London’s Nuevo Jewish Cemetery.1881(1st of Tishrei, 5642): Rosh Hashanah1881:
In New York City, Louis and Mary Strauss Frankenthaler gave birth to State
Supreme Court Justice Alfred Frankenthaler.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60D16FE3558127A93CAA9178AD85F448485F9
1881: It was
reported today that a special meeting of the Board of Deputies has been called
to prepare a condolence message for the widow of the late President
Garfield. The Board of Deputies is the
major organization representing the Jewish community in the United Kingdom
1882:
Leopold Bloch, the son of Samuel and Jeanette Bloch and his second wife Klara
Bloch gave birth to Bella Bloch today
1882:
Birthdate of Weimer, TX and Columbia University trained attorney Leon
Lauterstein, “a trust of the Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of New
York” and the husband of the “former Margaret Weil” with whom he had three
children – Lincoln, Henry and Janet.
1882:
“Judicial Torture In Hungary” published today described events surrounding the
disappearance of Christian girl at Tisza Eszlar and the arrest of a married couple named Schart following claims
that the Jews had killed her and “disposed of her remains.” The couple’s
attorney has addressed a petition to the Minister President “revealing a state
of things in Hungary worthy only of the Middle Ages.”
1882:
It was reported today that 17,693,643 Catholics living in Austria make up 92%
of the population. There are 1,005,394
Jews living in the country.
1882:
“Il Giudeo” published today recounts the life of Il Giudeo, the 16th
century Jewish renegade, from Smyrna who made his fortune sailing the Mediterranean.
1883:
The “New Books Received” list published today included The Laws of Marriage,
“containing the Hebrew and Roman law concerning the impediments to marriage
and the dissolution of the marriage bond” by John Fuller and Hannah: One of the
Strong Women by Julia McNair Wright.
1883
“Caring For Poor Hebrew Children reported today that the Hebrews Sheltering and
Guardian Society has cared for 418 children between the ages of 2 and 15 since
it was opened. Currently the society is
taking care of 175 children, an increase of 55 since last year. Besides
providing programs for poor children that include several summer excursions,
the society has provided 8, 392 meals to poor Jewish citizens.
1884:
“Hebrew Society Startled” published today described the refusal of Mr. and Mrs.
Solomon Scheuer to comment on events surrounding the elopement their daughter
Sarah. Sarah Scheur the 19 year old
Jewish heiress left New York to run away with Henry C. Friedman, a stockbroker
who is ten years her senior and “well known as a society man.”
1885(15th
of Tishrei, 5646): Sukkoth is celebrated for the first time during the
Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
1886:
In Sciota, IL, Veronika Lehmann and Herman Obermayer gave birth to University
of Pennsylvania trained attorney Leon Jacob Obermayer the husband of Julia
Sinsheimer and member of the firm of Edmonds and Obermayer starting in 1922 who
was active in many Jewish organizations including Jewish Welfare, the Hebrew
Sunday School Society of Philadelphia and Congregation Adath Jeshurun.
1886:
In New Haven, CN, Father John Maloney of St. Johns Roman Catholic Church
officiated at the marriage of one his parishioners,Kittie Cannon and David
Bretzfelder, a 28 year old Jewish letter carrier
1887:
In New York, Judge White is scheduled to render in a child custody case which
pits an African American couple named Lee and a Jewish couple named Brodcki
against each other over a 9 year old girl each claim is theirs.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C07E2DA1238E533A25757C2A96F9C94669FD7CF
1889:
Birthdate of New York native Flora Cahan, “the interior decorator” and a leader
of the women’s division of the American Jewish Congress, not to be confused
with the character “Flora” in the “Imported Bridegroom” by Abraham Cahan.
1889:
“Man and Money Captured” described events leading up to the arrest of Simon
Baruch in Hoboken, New Jersey. When originally confronted by the police, he
denied being the Austrian swindler since he only had one dollar in his
pockets. However, when he took authorities
to his hotel room, they found a safe filled with “a large amount securities and
cash” which gave credence to the charges leveled against him.
1890(10th
of Tishrei, 5651): Yom Kippur
1890:
Johann Most is scheduled to deliver a speech this afternoon at two in which he
will denounce Yom Kippur and Judaism; a speech the police have been ordered to
prevent even if it means arresting the anarchist.
1890:
In New York, “the public schools presented the appearance of partial desertion”
because all of the Jewish children “were their parent in the synagogues.”
1890:
In New York City, on “Broadway which during the last fifteen years has become
the principle highway of Jewish mercantile enterprise in America” “in store
after store the heavy iron shutters and darkened windows testified to the
absence” of the shopkeepers who were observing “Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of
Atonement, the most sacred of day in the Mosaic calendar.”
1890:
Joseph Fredlander, the rabbi at the orthodox synagogue on 57th
street is scheduled to lead Yom Kippur services at Lambden’s Hall in New
Rochelle.
1891:
It was reported today, that 7,000 Jews left Berdichef today bound for Argentina
which would seem to be impossible because there are no railroad facilities
there than could handle such a large number of people.
1892:
“Pandemonium” broke out between two and three this morning at Camp Low in Sandy
Hook, NJ when Polish Jewish immigrants became ill after gorging themselves
following the New Year’s observance during which they did not eat.
1892:
During the Cholera outbreak in New York a young Jew named Samuel Machinsky “was
allowed to lie on the sidewalk at the corner of Bowery and Houston Streets for
two hours” tonight “before an ambulance” came to take him to the hospital.
1893:
“New York Honors Heine” published today described the fountain that the Arion
Society will erect in honor of the poet whom Germany would not honor because,
even though he had converted, he was too Jewish for the Germans.
1894:
While on her trip to that would make her the first woman to bicycle around the
world, Annie Londonerry, the Latvian born daughter of Levi and Beatrice Cohen,
arrived in Chicago today having lost twenty pounds and “the desire to continue.
1895:
“A report was received at the Department of State from Minister Clifton R.
Breckinridge” containing “a copy of the laws and regulations bearing upon the
admission of foreign Jews into Russia.
The information was requested” because “of the refusal of the Russian
Consul at New York to issue passports to American citizens” who are Jewish.
1895:
In Boston, “Louis and Rose G. Bertman” gave birth to Northeastern University
trained attorney Irving Bertman who was Present of the YMHA in Taunton,
Massachusetts, President of the Southern New England B’nai B’rith Congregation
and a member of the Temple Mishkan Tefila in Roxbury.
1895:
As of today, the Cossack riding in Will Bill’s Parade in Paterson, NJ who began
beating a Jewish spectator who called out to him, has not been apprehended.
1896:
“Santa Maria,” a comic opera “invented, written and composed by Oscar
Hammerstein” opened tonight at the Olympia Theatre.
1896: Three
days after he had passed away, 78 year old Sidney Goldsmid, the son of
Alexander Goldsmid and the former Eliza Israel, was buried today at the “Balls
Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1896:
Birthdate of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s most famous novel was The
Great Gatsby. In one memorable scene, Gatsby and Nick lunch with Meyer
Wolfshiem, a Jewish gambler who “fixed the 1919 World Series.”
Apparently, Gatsby owes his financial good fortune to the shadowy Jewish
gangster. Wolfshiem is a thinly veiled reference to Arnold Rothstein the man
who supposedly fixed the 1919 World Series. Popular American culture blamed the
sinister Jew for corrupting the national pastime. Fitzgerald portrayed
Wolfshiem as the corrupting influence on the eager but pure WASP, Jay Gatsby.
1897:
Birthdate of hardware store owner and Mayor of Monticello, NY Jacob
(Jack)Shulman, the husband of Sophie Schulman with whom he had two daughters –
Mildred and June.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/06/25/91103469.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1898: Herzl
addresses a letter to the Prince of Eulenberg, a German diplomat, pleading for
an audience with Kaiser Wilhelm II before he leaves for Palestine.
1898: In
Paris, Russian immigrants Etta and Menachem Valger gave birth to Featherweight
Boxing Champion Benny Valgar.
1899: At the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, in response to a request. Dr. Howard Agnew
Johnson preached “a sermon on the existing prejudice against the Jew.”
1899: In
Nebraska, founding today of the Omaha Jewish Hospital Association which “meet
the first Sunday of the month” with aim of securing “nurses and medical
attention for the sick and helpless.”
1899: In New
York, American Zionist welcomed the delegates returning from the 3rd
Zionist Congress at Basel with a public reception at Cooper Union
1899: “Zionist
Success Predicted” published today described the creation of the Jewish
Colonial Trust of London which “has a capital of $10,000,000 with 2,000,000
shares more than 100,000 of which have been purchased.”
1899: “The
annual pilgrimage to the National Farm School” near Doyelstown, PA, took place
today. The school, the only one of its
kind is “sustained and controlled by Jews from all over the country, it is open
to boys of all creeds and nationalities.”
1899: In
Chicago, a mass meeting co-sponsored by the Grand Lodge of the Western Star is
scheduled to take place at the Central Music Hall where attendees can express
their displeasure with the Dreyfus verdict.
1900(1st of
Tishrei, 5661): Rosh Hashanah
1900: Services
at Temple Beth-El, B’nai Jeshurun and B’nai Sholom were all well-attended.
1900: Rosh
Hashanah services were held this morning in many halls on New York’s East
Side which were rented specifically for this purpose.
1900(1st
of Tishrei, 5661): Seventy-three year old French author Louis Ratisbonne, the
son of Adolph Ratisbonne and Charlotte Oppenheim, who was also the nephew of
two famous French priest who had converted from Judaism passed away today.
1900: Toward
the end of Rosh Hashanah services at Temple Beth El, Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, Rabbi
Emeritus of the congregation, announced that he wished all members of the
congregation who desired their deceased family member’s names be mentioned in
the upcoming memorial services on the Day of Atonement should send a list of
such names to him. After he sat down, Rabbi Samuel Schulman rose from his seat,
walked to the front of the pulpit and “said that he was the one who would read
the memorial services, and that the names of the deceased to be announced
should sent to him at his residence…There was much whispering among the
congregation, many of whom remained after the service and discussed the affair
in small groups.”
1900: The 250
Jewish immigrants awaiting entrance into the United States will be able to have
kosher chicken for their holiday dinner due to the generosity of Emil Schwab.
1901:
Bloomingdales offers to deliver pianos including the Wilson which sells for
$155 once a down payment of five dollars has been made.
1902: Isidor Straus wrote to Abraham Straus
thanking him for the gift of a case of Scotch whiskey Abraham sent on the
occasion of the opening of the new Herald Square store: Can it be that you want
me to take a week off, to incapacitate me from putting forth what energy and force
I possess toward making the “send-off” of our new store a
success?” Are you afraid that unless the seductive smell and taste of it
produce a handicap, the sales at Thirty-Fourth Street and Herald Square will
Ieave Fulton Street so far in the rear that in our pride we will cease to
recognize you.”
1903(3rd of
Tishrei, 5664): Tzom Gedaliah
1903: Today,
the Russian correspondents of the Times of London, quoted from a letter from
Gomel that said 345 Jewish “were plundered and wrecked and so far as is yet known,
ten Jews were killed and over fifty were wounded.”
1904(15th of
Tishrei, 5665): Sukkoth
1904: In
Rozwadow, Abraham Katz, the son of Meier Katz and the former Hinda Garten was
circumcised today.
1905: Plans
are announced for the marriage of Miss Racie Friedenwald to Dr. Cyrus Adler,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, President of the Jewish Theological
Seminary and one of the editors of the Jewish Encyclopedia. The wedding is
scheduled to take place in Philadelphia, PA at Mikvah Israel with Rabbi Leon H.
Elmaleh officiating.
1906: “A box
containing an infernal machine (bomb) addressed to Jacob H. Schiff, the New
York Financier was taken today from a Chestnut Hill mailbox by thirteen year
old David Campbell who thereby unwittingly upset a plot against Mr. Schiff’s
life.
1907: Today,
in San Francisco “mining executive and Yale graduate Julius Kruttschnitt, the
New Orleans born son of Wilhelmina Kock and railway engineer Julius Kruttscnitt
married his first wife Marie Rose Pickering who passed away in 1940.
1907: David
Neumark was appointed as a professor at Hebrew Union College.
1908:
Birthdate of composer and arranger Gertrude Rittman who fled Nazi German and
created a career in the United Sates that began with composing the score for
“Palestine at War” made by the Palestine Labor Commission before pursuing a
career that produced such hits as “Brigadoon” and “South Pacific.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04EFD6163CF933A25750C0A9639C8B63
1909(9th
of Tishrei, 5670): Erev Yom Kippur – for the first time Kol Nidre is chanted
during the Presidency of William H. Taft
1909:
Birthdate of Crown Heights native Carl Sigman the decorated WW II veteran who
gave up practicing law to write songs including the big band era favorite
“Pennsylvanian 6-5000.”
https://www.songhall.org/profile/Carl_Sigman
1910(20th
of Elul, 5670): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
1911:
Birthdate of Austrian born American architect Henry P. Glass whose work
includes “The Henry P. Glass House…the first passive solar house in America.”
1912: Joseph
Basch, Philip Klafter, Henry Horner, Jr. and George Halperin all from Chicago,
Ill served as a delegate to the meeting of the Lakes-to-Gulf Deep Water
Association which opened today in Little Rock, AR.
1913: Today,
for the time first time in the history of the state of Illinois, Governor
Edward Dunne issued “an order whereby every employee in the service State who
is of the Jewish faith will have several holidays covering the Jewish New Year
and the Day of Attornment.”
1913: Today,
while thousands throng the funeral route, the body of Yiddish poet Eliakum
Zunser was taken into the headquarters of the Hebrew Sheltering Immigrant
society for a funeral at which Joseph Barondess, Commissioner of the Board of
Education, Rabbi Barnett Siegel of HIAS and Rabbi Hirsch Maliansky officiated.
1914: “Russian
Treaty Now A Possibility” published today described hopes that the Czar’s
government will be able to negotiated a new trade agreement with the United
States which will replace the one that “became inoperative” in 1913 “because it
was interpreted by Russia as permitting the exclusion of American Jews from her
dominions.”
1914:
According to a wireless sent by the government in Berlin, “the Russians have
brutalized the Jewish inhabitants in all places which they have occupied in
Galicia.” The Russians incite the Ruthenian peasants and “hand over the Jewish
property” to them. “This contrasts…with
the Czars manifesto to ‘his beloved Jews.’”
1914: The
Austro-Hungarian Consulate General in New York made public a communique
from the “Israelitische Alliance of Vienna” to the American Jewish Committee of
New York asking that money be sent through the embassy to aid the Jews who have
fled Austrian territories seized by the Russians and expressing their belief that
American Jews would support Austria in its war “to obtain human rights for” the
oppressed Russian Jews.
1915(16th
of Tishrei, 5676): Second Day of Sukkoth
1915: In
Buffalo, dedication of Beth Zion Temple.
1916: It was
reported today that among the contributions received by the Central Committee
for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War were $47 from their committee
in Oskaloosa, Iowa, $235 from N.C. Livingston and $250 from the Ezra
Association in New Orleans.
1917: Franz
Kafka wrote Max Brod today describing his “first impressions” of “the Bohemian
village of Zürau.”
http://theamericanreader.com/24-september-1917-franz-kafka-to-max-brod/
1917: The
American Jewish Relief Committee announced plans for an appeal to be made on
Yom Kippur for a fund of $1,000,000 “to provide aid for the three million Jews
who have been driven from their homes” in the European war zones.
1917: Four days
after he had passed away, Private Herbert Phillip Bennoson, the son of Michael
and Rosetta Bennoson was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in
London.”
1917: “J.C.
Hyman of the Jewish Board for Welfare Work in the United States Army and Navy
arrived Camp Upton today to take charge of work among the Jewish soldiers in
the Seventy-Seventh Division which numbers 25 to 30 percent Jewish soldiers
among its ranks.
1918: The 4th
Cavalry Division and the Australian Mounted Division completed their four day
long round up the “demoralized and disorganized troops in the Jezreel Valley”
1919(29th
of Elul, 5679): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1919: “Special
services for Jewish soldiers and sailors” stationed in New York “have been
arranged by the Jewish Welfare Board.
1919: In his
sermon this evening at Temple Beth-El on Fifth Avenue, “Rabbi Samuel Shculman
declared that in all countries there is the ruthless assertion of the will to
power and the whole world seem to be relying on might alone” as can be seen by
“the occupation of Fiume…and the pogroms in some of the Eastern European
countries.”
1919: In his
sermon this at Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Joseph Silverman “spoke in support of the
League of Nations.”
1920: It was
reported today that the 35th annual report of the Montefiore Home
and Hospital for Chronic Diseases “shows that 1,975 patients were provided for
in the City Institution and at the Country Sanitarium during 1919.”
1920: It was
reported today that “Acting Police Inspector Isaac Frank” who is “in charge of
the Sixteenth Inspection in District in Brooklyn” and is a thirty-two year
veteran of the force is retiring with a pension of $2,000 a year.
1920: In
London, “an appeal to all Jews to ‘prove themselves worthy of their historic
duty’ and help establish the Jewish National Home in Palestine was made in a
manifesto to the Jewish people of the world” on a manifesto published by the
executive office the Zionist organization.
1920: “Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, Justice Abram I. Elkus and Joseph M. Levine, President of the
Bronx Free Synagogue” are scheduled to address a meeting this evening at the
Prospect Avenue Methodist Church as part of the drive to raise “$125,000 for
the purchase of the church as the Bronx Free Synagogue Community Center”
1921:
Birthdate of sportscaster Jim McKay, who is not Jewish. McKay was covering the
1972 Olympics for ABC. He provided moving coverage of the seizure of the
Israeli Olympic Team by Palestinian terrorists.
1922(2nd of
Tishrei, 5683): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1922: “In
Palestine Land of Promise” published today, Dr. Maurice H. Harris, the rabbi of
Temple Israel of New York City who “has just returned from a three month trip
to Palestine and Syria” says that Palestine “is fast getting in stride behind
walls that are medieval, at least in years and upon territory that is biblical
in history.”
1923(14th
of Tishrei, 5684): Erev Sukkoth
1923(14th
of Tishrei, 5684): William H. Moses, the son of Gustave Moses and Harry Leon
Moses “who was primarily a photographer but was also a painter, draftsman and
architect” passed away today in New Orleans where he had settled sometime after
1896.
https://www.askart.com/artist/William_H_Moses/116801/William_H_Moses.aspx
1923:
Birthdate of Ernest Joachim Sternglass the Berlin native and son of two doctors
who escaped the Nazis to become a leading American physicist. (As reported by
Kenneth Chang)
1924:
Frederick John “Kiesler arranged the world premiere in Vienna today of the
16-minute film Ballet mécanique
1924: Minick is “a three-act Broadway play written by Edna Ferber and
George S. Kaufman” which was “based on Ferber’s 1922 short story “Old Man
Minick” opened today at The Booth Theatre.
1924: “Near
Riga, Chaim Aron, a custom women’s shoe designer” and his wife Sonia, gave
birth to Kalman Aron, the artist whose sketching skills saved him from the
fires of the Holocaust. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1925: “The
salvation of the Jew in Russia can come only through farming declared Dr.
Joseph A. Rosen, head of the work in Russia of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee in an address tonight before the Jewish Writers’ Club.”
1926(16th
of Tishrei, 5687): Second day of Sukkoth
1926: In
Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi James Heller is scheduled to conduct the funeral
services of Rabbi Louis Grossman whose body is supposed to arrive this morning
from Detroit where he passed away.
1926: “Dr.
Jacob Kohn, the Rabbi of Temple Ansche Chesed” is scheduled to speak at
services being held this evening at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1927(27th
of Elul, 5687) Parashat Nitzavim
1927: Since
Jewish postmen substituted for Catholic postmen “at the time of the last annual
corporate communion in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Reverend John J. Kiernan
sent a letter to asking Catholic postman
to substitute for their Jewish co-workers so they can observe the Jewish New
Year and Day of Atonement.
1928 (10th of
Tishrei, 5689): Yom Kippur
1928: On Yom
Kippur the Jerusalem police interfered with the worshipers who resisted the
removal of a screen separating the men and women. Jews at their Yom Kippur
prayers at the Western Wall placed chairs and customary screens between the men
and women present. Jerusalem commissioner Edward Keith-Roach, while visiting
the Muslim religious court overlooking the prayer area, pointed out the screen,
precipitating emotional protests and demands from the assembled sheiks that it
be removed. Unless it was taken down, they said, they would not be responsible
for what happened. This was described as violating the Ottoman status quo that
forbade Jews from making any construction in the Western Wall area, though such
screens had been put up from time to time. The British issued an ultimatum for
its removal. When police officers in riot gear were then sent in, a scuffle
took place with worshippers and the screen in question was destroyed. The
intervention drew censure later from senior officials who judged that excessive
force had been exercised without good reason. Haj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti
of Jerusalem exploited the incident by distributing leaflets to Arabs in
Palestine and throughout the Arab world which claimed that the Jews were
planning to take over the al-Aqsa Mosque. One consequence was that Jewish
worshippers frequently were subjected to beatings and stoning.
1928: On the
Day of Atonement, the local rabbi of Massena, New York was called to police
headquarters to answer charges of ritual murder after a four-year-old girl
disappeared. This is part of the event known as the Massena Blood Libel.
1929: “Cleveland
holds the record for contributions to Jewish community chests, according to a
survey covering ten important cities made public today by the Federation for
the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.”
1929: “The
funeral of Louis Marshall, lawyer and Jewish leader, is scheduled to be held at
10 A. M. today at Temple EmanuEl, the new structure at the corner of Fifth
Avenue and Sixty-fifth Street, which had been hurriedly prepared for the
occasion in advance of its formal opening.”
1930(2nd
of Tishrei, 5691): 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah
1930: “Once in
a Lifetime” the first of 8 plays on which Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
collaborated opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.
1931: In
London, Frances Grace Newley, whose mother was Jewish and George Kirby gave
birth to actor, singer and songwriter Anthony Newley who “received an Academy
Award nomination for the film score of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate
Factory,”
1932;
Birthdate of Joanne Greenberg, author of 12 novels and four collections of
short stories, including the bestselling I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/24/1932/joanne-greenberg
1932: “Smilin’
Through” the Academy Award nominated film co-starring Norma Shearer and Leslie
Howard was released today in the United States.
1933(4th of
Tishrei, 5694): Tzom Gedaliah
1933: Herman
Bernstein completed his service as U.S. Ambassador to Albania.
1933: Dr.
Ferdinand Blumenthal, a leading German oncologist, was forced to retire today
which led him to move Vienna so he could continue his research. (The doctor would have to move again when the
Nazi’s annexed Austria which is why he was in Riga when died in 1941)
1934(15th
of Tishrei, 5695): Sukkoth
1934(15th
of Tishrei, 5695): Fifty-seven year old Martha Levy, the wife of Maurice Steinfield,
the daughter of Morris Levy and Isabelle Baker and the daughter-in-law of Jacob
Steinfeld and Caroline Stern passed away today in St. Louis, MO.
1935: Louis
Lipsky, the honorary president of the Zionist Organization of America and the
National co-chairman of the UJA who had had “attended the Nineteenth World
Zionist Congress in Switzerland which he said had resulted in a reconciliation
of parties that should increase immigration in Palestine from 50,000 to 100,000
Jews annually” arrived in New York aboard the Cunard White Star liner Aquitania
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/09/25/93776213.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1936: More
than 120,000 Jews from all parts of Palestine paid a last tribute to Meier
Dizengoff, Mayor of Tel-Aviv, as his funeral procession passed through the
principal streets of the city this morning from the Tel-Aviv Museum where his
body had lying in state, to the cemetery. Pall bearers included Tel Aviv’s vice
mayors I. Rokach and Dov Hos. In honor of Dizengoff’s wishes there were no
eulogies and children, whom he considered “flower of Palestinian Jewry,”
escorted his remains to the grave. He was buried between the grave of his late
wife and those of Max Nordau and Achad Haam.
1936: “Adolf
Hitler’s attempt at the Nazi Congress in Nuremberg to connect the Jews and
communism is only a mask to his real assault on democracy and world peace,
according to a statement issued” today “on behalf of the American Jewish
Committee by Dr. Cyrus Adler, its president and Sol M. Stroock, chairman of
tits executive committee.”
1936: In
Germany, Jewish druggist received notice today that they have until October 1
to “lease” their stores to “Aryans.”
(The profit motive in anti-Semitism)
1936: In
Germany, “Dr. Franz Meyer, second secretary general of the Reich Central
Commission for Jew and Rabbi Max Nussbaum and Dr. Benno Cohn, both directors of
the League for Jewish Culture were taken in custody today by the secret
police.”
1936: Lord
Dudley Marley, Louis B. Boudin, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Emily M. Rosenstein and
Adolph Held were among the speakers at dinner sponsored by Ort (Society for the
Promotion of Trades and Agriculture Among Jews in Eastern Europe) presided over
by Clarence Y. Palitz which was held at the Hotel Commodore.
1937: “The
‘120 greatest living Jews’ were named today to a Jewish Hall of Fame selected
in a world-wide poll by The Ivrim, the honor society of Chicago Jewish
students. Their purpose was to hold up ‘living ideals’ to Jewish youth, and
they required only that nominees must have been alive on Rosh Hashanah (Jewish
New Year) of 5697 (Sept. 28, 1936). Albert Einstein, actor Paul Muni, Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau and Supreme Court Justices Brandeis and Cardozo won
election to the group.” Seven nominees had passed away including Adolph Ochs
publisher of the New York Times, businessman Percy Selden Straus, pianist Ossip
Ga-Crilowitsch, journalist Jacob de Haas, composer George Gershwin,
psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Adler and the Mayor of Tel Aviv, Meier Dizengoff.
1937: The Palestine Post reported
that the Sixth Political Committee of the League of Nations concluded the
Palestine debate with a statement by Lord Cranborne who assured the delegates,
representing all interested countries, that their views would receive full
consideration of the British government. He added that his government was
open-minded and quite willing to carry out all suitable recommendations. The
next step, it was agreed unanimously, was to wait for the report of a new
British commission, a special body which was be sent to Palestine in order to
recommend ways and means of implementing the country’s partition. The Post
published the full texts of Mr. Philly’s and Lord Samuel’s testimonies made for
the benefit of the Royal (Peel) Commission on Palestine.
1938: Hank
Greenberg hits his 55th and 56th home runs of the year. In the remeaing 9 games
of the season, Greenberg needs to hit 4 four-baggers to tie Ruth and 5 round
trippers to surpass Ruth’s record.
1938(21st of
Elul, 5698): Russian born mathematician Lev Schnirelmann passed away.
1938: “Harry
Ettlinger” who would become a Monument’s Man, “celebrated his bar mitzvah in
Karlsruhe’ magnificent Kronenstrasse Synagogue which was filled to capacity by
Jews who were seeing this ancient ritual performed for the last time.
1939: German
forces reached Rozadow Poland, the hometown of Holocaust survivor Laura
Ellenbogen, where “many Poles in the town were glad to see them.”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-card/laura-ellenbogen
1939(11th
of Tishrei, 5700): Seventy-two year old pioneer movie mogul Carl Laemmle who
helped to found Universal Studios and who worked to save Jews from Nazi
Germany, passed away today.
1939:
Historian, Bible scholar and orientalist Rabbi Moses Schorr who had fled Warsaw
to escape the Nazis only to find himself imprisoned by the NKVD was transferred
from Łuck to Lvov where the Russians began to interrogate him in their own
unique manner.
1939(11th
of Tishrei, 5700): Seventy-nine year old Marcus Raphael Sulzer, the native of
Madison, Indiana, son of Raphael and Rachel Sulzer, the brother of Louis Sulzer
with whom he operated a business called Sulzer Brother which was at one time
was the largest seller of medicinal herbs in the United States and whose
communal interests included an active role in the Indiana Republican Party and
serving as president of his district’s chapter of B’nai B’rith passed away
today.
1940(21st
of Elul, 5700): Sixty-one year old Cleveland native Solomon Emanuel Ullman, the
son of Sarah and Emanuel Ullman and “the husband of Belle May Loewenstein”
passed away today in Richmond, Va.
1940: Director
Veit Harlan’s anti-Semitic film Jud Süss premiered in Berlin.
1941(3rd of
Tishrei, 5702):Tzom Gedaliah
1941: In New
York, attorney Lee Eastman and his wife Louise Sara (Linder) Eastman gave birth
to Linda Louise Eastman who gained fame as Linda McCartney, the wife of Beatle
Paul McCartney.
1941: In
Scarsdale, NY “Leopold Vail Epstein (the son of Jewish immigrants who had
changed his name to Lee Eastman) and Louise Lindner Eastman (daughter of the
founder of the Lindner Company clothing store)” gave birth to Linda Eastman who
married Paul McCartney in 1969.
1941: Two
thousand women and children were taken from the Wolkowysk Ghetto and murdered.
Wolkowysk was located in southeastern Lithuania.
1942: At the
urging of von Ribbentrop, Martin Luther, of the German Foreign Ministry began
plans to set up negotiations between the governments of Bulgaria, Hungary and
Denmark with the object of starting the evacuation of the Jews of these
countries. The evacuations meant trips to the death camps for the Jews. The
fate of the Jewish communities in each of these countries is an interesting
story in and of itself. Bulgarian Jews would enjoy the intervention of the
Papal Nuncio who would later be a Pope. Raoul Wallenberg intervened in an
attempt to save the Jews of Hungary. The Jews of Denmark were saved by the
gutsy intervention of the crews of the Danish fishing fleet.
1942: British
Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison opposes any
further admission of Jewish immigrants into Britain. He fears this would
encourage the French Vichy government to “dump” Jewish children into
Britain.
1942: “My
Sister Eileen” a comedy produced by Max Gordon, written by Joseph A. Fields and
Jerome Chodrov, and featuring George Tobias and the Three Stooges was released
in the United States today by Columbia Pictures.
1942 German
Foreign Office official Martin Luther passes on to subordinates the desire of Nazi
Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that deportations of Jews from across
Europe be accelerated.
1942: Today,
fifty-nine year old Lina Bach, a residence of Wurzburg, was deported from
Nuremberg to Terezin
1943: Himmler
secretly ordered the Gestapo chief in Rome to arrest all of the Jews in the
city.
1944: The 45th
Infantry Division, a unit that includes Raul Hilberg, took the French town of
Epinal.
1944(7th
of Tishrei, 5705): Fifty-four-year-old Hadassah activist Bertha F. Brown
Sieroty, the Polish born daughter of Raphael and Esther Baumgart Brown and the
second wife of Adolph Sieroty whom she married in 1917 passed away today after
which she was buried at the Home Of Peace Memorial Park in East Los Angeles.
1944: Having
murdered 400,000 Jews over the summer at Birkenau, the gassings slowed down. A
comparative few 200 Sonderkommando prisoners were to be gassed. Only 661
Sonderkommando were left at the camp to be party to the continuation of the
German dirty work.
1945: Five
months after the Nazis had surrendered a pogrom took play at Topoľčany,
Czechoslovakia, known as the Topoľčany Pogrom in which at least 48 Jewswere
“injured.” “There were about 3,200 Jews living in Topoľčany before World War
II, of which 550 survived the Holocaust and returned to the town after the war
ended. Anti-Semitism was widespread at that time due to both Slovak state
official policy and also the strong economic position of Jews, which contrasted
with a lack of basic commodities among the majority population. According to
the protocol of county police boss Zidor, rumors began to spread in the town
two days before the pogrom that Jews are about to overtake a local church
school. The school was run by Catholic nuns at that time. Also, there were
rumors that Jews had already created a separate classroom for Jewish children,
in which they desecrated a crucifix. Further, according to rumors, the Jews
were said to had overtaken a school in the nearby village of Bojná, run by
Catholic monks. Local women wanted to protest against the rumored actions, but
local authorities refused them. A pack of people, mostly women, then entered
the school. Coincidentally, a Jewish doctor was at the time vaccinating
children against smallpox in one of the school’s classrooms. Some of the
vaccinated children cried, which gave base for a new rumor to spread among the
angry crowd: a Jewish doctor poisons Slovak children! People then attacked and
beat the doctor. As new rumors spread to the streets, many more Jews were
beaten both in the streets and in their homes. Jewish property was plundered in
the process.” [Jews who sought to return to their hometowns after the war
suffered similar greetings. The non-Jews who had moved into the homes of the
Jews or taken over their businesses during the Holocaust did not want to give
up their new found wealth.]
1945: A
private funeral service is scheduled to be held today for Judge Irving Lehman,
the brother of former Governor Herman Lehman. Dr. Nathan A. Perilman, associate
rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El will officiate, with burial in the family plot
in Cypress Hills Cemetery.
1945: “Mildred
Pierce” a cinematic treatment of the novel with the same name directed by
Michael Curtiz, produced by Jerry Wald and with music by Max Steiner was
released to in the United States by Warner Bros.
1945: “Pride
of the Marines” starring John Garfield, written by Albert Maltz and with music
by Franz Waxman was released in the United States today by Warner Bros.
1946: “Charles
J. Liebman, the president of the Refugee Economic Corporation announced to the
receipt of a gift of $100,000 from Mrs. Jerome L Hanauer,” “the widow of Jerome
J. Hanauer who was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb” and Mr. Strauss, a member of Kuhn,
Loeb and the Present of Temple Emanu-El and his wife.
1946: “Former
Governor Herbert H. Lehman, first Director-General of the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration, recommended” today “that the United States
and all other countries liberalized their immigration laws to give a have to
Europe’s 850,000 displaced persons.”
1947(10th
of Tishrei, 5708): Yom Kippur
1947: Today,
the House Un-American Committee (HUAC) grilled Hanns Eisler the Jewish composer
who had fled Nazi Europe before World War II.
1948(20th
of Elul, 5708): Seventy-five year old J. Campbell Phillips, the New York born
son of Isaac and Adeline Phillips and “noted portrait painter” whose last work
was a portrait of his cousin Bernard Baruch passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C06E1DC153DE03ABC4D51DFBF668383659EDE
https://www.artprice.com/artist/60852/john-campbell-phillips
1948:
“Morituri,” a German film set at the end of WW II producer by Artur Brauner was
released today in Germany.
1948:
Operation Velvetta, a secret mission designed to deliver Supermarine Spitfires
purchased from Czechoslovakia to Israel began today with a flight of 60
aircraft from Czechoslovakia to an abandoned Luftwaffe airbase at Nikšić ,
Yugoslavia.
1948: Six
Velvetta 1 Spitfires left Kunovice, Czechoslovakia for Niksic, Yugoslavia, 300
miles away, with Modi Alon, Boris Senior, Syd Cohen, and Tuxie Blau joining Sam
Pomerance and Jack Cohen behind the controls
1949(1st of
Tishrei, 5710): Rosh Hashanah
1949: Israelis
celebrate their first Rosh Hashanah in “peace” i.e. after the truce agreements
had been signed with the Arab states that had attempted to destroy the Jewish
state.
1950: In
Brooklyn, Louis Colmes, an auctioneer, and the former Fay Wax gave birth to
Alan Samuel Comes, the “house liberal” and proverbial punching bag at FOX. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
1950: A series
of meetings focused on the economy which the Israeli government had begun on
September 1 came to an end without any official announcements or public policy
changes. The meeting had focused on the failure of the program imposed in
August that centered around rationing clothes and shoes. The three smaller
parties making up the four-party coalition government were highly critical of
Supply Minister Bernard Joseph who had overseen what they see as they failed
rationing program. The Mapai Party, the largest member of the coalition seemed
to clinging to it socialist policies and pedigree. No decision was made on
proposals to move a little more towards a free-market economy; proposals that “included
relaxation of controls for imports and trade in foreign exchange.”
1950: During
“Operation Magic Carpet”, most of the Jews living in Yemen are
transported to Israel
1951:
Birthdate of Bronx native David Pecker, the Pace University educated CEO of America
Media, confidant of Donald Trump and since 1987, the husband of Karen Balan
1951: While
the Israeli government said that it was studying the newly circulated peace
proposals from the United Nations Palestine conciliation Commission, an Arab
spokesman representing the views of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan rejected
the proposal as “unneeded,” unwanted” or “old stories” or that they covered
matters beyond the scope of the Commission’s area of responsibility.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported
that Barbara Propper, 22, a member of Sde Boker, was shot and killed while
tending a herd of goats some 300 meters from the kibbutz. Infiltrators from
Jordan fired at Jerusalem Corridor settlers in an attempt to steal irrigation
pipes and cattle.
1952: The Post reported that the
Austrian government expressed its willingness to negotiate a global restitution
settlement with the Jewish people, calculated in proportion to the reparation
agreement agreed upon with West Germany. After World War II, Austrians liked to
portray themselves as the first victims of Nazi aggression. The open arms with
which the Austrians welcomed the Nazis belied that claim as does this attempt
to make financial restitution.
1953(15th
of Tishrei, 5714): Sukkoth
1953(15th
of Tishrei, 5714): Fifty-five year Santo Wayburn Jeger, the Anglo-Jewish doctor
turned politicians who supported the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War
and served as an MP passed away unexpectedly today.
1953(15th
of Tishrei, 5714): Sixty-eight year old Vienna native and screenplay writer
Berthold Viertel, the son of “Salo and Anna Viertel” and the first husband of
actress Salka Viertel, passed away today
https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=235057&p=1560057
https://www.jta.org/1953/09/28/archive/berthold-viertel-austrian-jewish-poet-dies-was-68-years-old
1955(8th
of Tishrei, 5716): Shabbat Shuva
1955: At the
Broadhurst Theatre, the curtain came down on “Anniversary Waltz” produced by
Bernard Hart and starring Kitty Carlisle (born Catherine Conn) for the last
time
1956(19th
of Tishrei, 5717): Attackers killed a girl in the fields of the farming
community of Aminadav, near Jerusalem.
1957: The
Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in their last game in Ebbets
Field. The Dodgers would move to LA for the 1958 season. With Brooklyn’s large
Jewish population, the Beloved Bums enjoyed a disproportionately large amount
of support from Jewish fans. In New York, the split among Jews was not
Ashkenazim versus Sephardim or Orthodox versus Reform; the real split was
between Jews who rooted for the Yankees and the Jews who rooted for the Dodgers
when they would face each other in those Subway Series.
1957:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends United States National Guard troops to
Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the rulings of the federal court system which
banned school segregation. When the segregationist forces led by Orville Faubus
would attempt to close the Little Rock school system to maintain racial
segregation, Harry Ehrenberg, Sr., a leading member of the Jewish community
would seek signatures for petitions to keep the schools open. Harry Ehrenberg,
Jr. has carried on the family tradition of active participation in the Jewish
community and supporting the causes of “the widow, the orphan and the stranger
in your midst.
1958(10th
of Tishrei, 5719): Yom Kippur
1958: “The
Defiant Ones” directed and produced by Stanley Kramer snd starring Tony Curtis
and Theodore Bikel opened today at the Victoria Theatre in NYC.
1960(3rd of
Tishrei, 5721): Shabbat Shuvah
1960(3rd
of Tishrei, 5721): Fifty-five year old Hungarian born English composer Mátyás
György Seiber died today in an automobile accident.
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/featuredmusicians/matyasseiber/
1961: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today in Brooklyn for Jacob Silverstein (Jack
Silver) the husband of Annette Silverstein.
1961:
Birthdate of Christopher L. Eisgruber, the President of Princeton University,
who “while helping his son with a school project…discovered his Berlin-born
mother, who had arrived in New York as an eight-year-old refugee, was Jewish”,
leading him to identify “as a nontheist Jews” and claim a reward from the
Holocaust claims tribunal.
1963: CBS
broadcast the first episode of the long-running sit com “Petticoat Junction,”
starring Bea Benaderet, “the daughter of Samuel David Benaderet, a Turkish
Sephardic emigrant who settled his family in San Francisco.
http://www.picluck.net/media/1341013789784778724_1797116743
1963(6th of
Tishrei, 5724): Seventy-one year old Warsaw native “Eliash Almi Sheps” known as
Eli A. Almi, who began writing Yiddish poetry at the age of 9 and reporting for
the Yiddish daily Der Moment at 18 before coming to the United States in 1913
to write for the Yiddish daily Tageblat
and writing several of volumes in both Yiddish and English including The
Life and Philosophy of Buddha and The Strange Death of Baruch Spinoza
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/25/94306159.pdf
1963: “Yaakov
Herzog, a deputy at the Foreign Ministry of Israel, secretly met in London with
King Hussein of Jordan, beginning a dialogue between the two neighboring
nations that were, officially, enemies.”
1964: NBC
broadcast the first episode of “Daniel Boone” a fictionalized show about the
frontiersman produced by Barney Rosenzweig.
1964:
Birthdate of Yasmine Dehaene, the wife Mischaël Modrikamen, the son of a Jewish
immigrant from Poland who fled anti-Semitism and was arrested by the Gestapo as
a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II who became a right wing
political leader in Belgium where he co-founded the People’s Party and
published Le Peuple.
1966(10th
of Tishrei, 5726): Yom Kippur
1966(10th
of Tishrei, 5726): Sixty-one year Vienna native Paul Phillip Gelles, who “came
to the United States in 1920,” graduated from NYU after which he pursued a
career in business that led him to serve as Chairman of the Board at “B.V.D.” a
company best known for manufacturing men’s underwear and who was the husband
“of the former Jeanne Peterzell with whom he had two children – Harry and Leda
– passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/09/25/89647267.pdf
1966(10th
of Tishrei, 5726): Eighty-five year old Vera Weizmann, the widow of the great
Zionist leader Chiam Weizmann passed away.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weizmann-vera
1967: In East
Finchley, London “fashion designer and feminist activist” gave birth to King’s
College Cambridge PhD educated Noreena Hertz, an “academic, economist and
bestselling author” the great-granddaughter of Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz and the
husband of television executive Daniel Nicholas Cohen whom she married in 2012.
1968(2nd
of Tishrei, 5729): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1968: The
first “60 Minutes” was broadcast. Don Hewitt and Robert Chandler, two Jews,
played a key role in creating America’s first and most successful television
newsmagazine.
1968(2nd
of Tishrei, 5729): Seventy-three year old Alfred J. Ellish, the owner of a fur
business in Nyack, NY and vice president of the ZOA who was the “founder and
past president of the Jew Community Center in Spring Valley, NY and married
Anna Ellish after the death of his wife, “the former Fannie Buchanan” with whom
he had two sons, Howard and Morton, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/09/25/76882970.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969:
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” starring Paul Newman, with a script by
William Goldman and music by Burt Bacharach opened today in New York City.
1969:
“Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” the Caldacott Medial winning children’s book
written and illustrated by William Steig was published today.
1970(23rd
of Elul, 5730): Ninety-one year old “civic reformer Edna Fischel Gellhorn, the
St. Louis born daughter of Dr. Washington E. Fischel and “educator Martha Ellis
Fishel and the wife of Dr. George Gellhorn who is remembered by many as the
mother of photographer Martha Gellhorn, passed away today.
https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/g/gellhorne/
1971: “The
Go-Between” a movie version of the novel by the same name with a script by
Harold Pinter was released in the United Kingdom today.
1972(16th
of Tishrei, 5733): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the last day during the
first Nixon Administration.
1972: “K.O.
Phil Kaplan” was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame today.
http://www.njboxinghof.org/k-o-phil-kaplan/
1973(27th
of Elul, 5733): Eighty-two year old Joseph Cohen who was a professor criminal
law at McGill University and who serviced in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec
for nine years passed away today in Montreal.
1974: The
Kingsbridge Armory, which had been designed by the architectural firm one of
whose principles was William G Tachau, who had also designed Congregation
Mikveh Israel, Gratz College and Dropsie College, was designated as a New York
City Landmark today.
1975: In
Paris, 20,000 people participated in a “march of solidarity with Soviet Jewry.”
1975:
“Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)”, a song
written by Michael Masser and Gerald Goffin, was released today.
1975: “RSFSR
rejected an appeal by Mark Nashipits who had been “sentenced to five years
exile” last May.
1975(19th
of Tishrei, 5736): Seventy-nine year old Florence S. Perlman, the national
Hadassah leader and widow of Justice Nathan D. Perlman passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9405E1DC1039E63BBC4D51DFBF66838E669EDE
1976(29th
of Elul, 5736): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1976(29th
of Elul, 5736): Ninety-five year old Sophie Lazarsfield an “Austrian-American
therapist and writer” who was the wife of Robert Lazarsfeld, the mother of Paul
Lazarsfeld and a student of Alfred Adler passed away today in New York City.
1976: “Oh!
Calcutta!” for which Sy Presten, whose birthname was Seymur Herman Prutinsky
and whose “father rain a tailor shop” handled advertising and promotions opened
on Broadway today.
https://www.playbill.com/person/sy-presten-vault-0000001981
1977:
President Carter sent a letter to Prime Minister Begin strongly expressing his
displeasure over the fact that Israeli forces had crossed into Lebanon to help
Christian militias repel new attacks by PLO units under Yasser Arafat’s
command. In that unique form of Carter even-handedness, no such expression of
displeasure was sent to Arafat.
1979(3rd
of Tishrei, 5740) Tzom Gedaliah
1979(3rd
of Tishrei, 5740): Fifty-six-year old Herman Lukoff, the Philadelphia born of
anna Slemovitz and Aron Lukoff and University of Pennsylvania trained
Electrical Engineer who as a pioneer in the field of computers helped to
develop ENIAC and EDVA while raising four children – Arthur, Barry, Andrew and
Carol – with his wife Shirley passed away today.
1984(27th
of Elul, 5744): Eighty-two year old Fritz Bamberg the German Jewish scholar who
came to the United States in 1939 and gave up his academic career to edit
“Coronet” magazine passed away today.
1985(9th of
Tishrei, 5746): Erev Yom Kippur
1986: “The
Name of the Rose” which provides a dark look at monastery life co-starring Ron
Perlman was released today in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
1987(1st
of Tishrei, 5748): Rosh Hashanah
1987: The fourth
season of “The Cosby Show” co-created by Ed Weinberger begins to air on NBC
tonight.
1988: “High
Hopes,” directed and written by Mike Leigh was released today in the United
Kingdom
1989: “The
Preppie Murder” featuring Allen Arbus as “Arnold Domenitz” aired for the first
time today on ABC.
1989: The
sixth season of “The Cosby Show” co-created by Ed Weinberger begins to air on
NBC tonight.
1990: “Rust in
Peace,” the first album that Marty Friedman recorded with Magadeth was released
today.
1990(5th
of Tishrei, 5751): Seventy-year-old Howard Louis Grobe, the Youngstown, OH born
son of Sarah and Jacob Grobstein and the husband of Emily Grobe who served as a
Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II passed away
today in Buffalo, NY after which he was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery.
1992: FOX
broadcast episode 1 on the 4th season of the Simpsons, a cartoon
sit-com developed by James L. Brooks and Sam Simon.
1992: Filming
began today of “The Crush” starring Alicia Silverstone “in her feature film
debut.”
1993(9th
of Tishrei, 5754): Erev Yom Kippur
1993(9th
of Tishrei, 5754): Yigal Vaknin was stabbed to death by terrorists in an
orchard near the trailer home where he lived near the village of Basra. A squad
of the Hamas’ Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack.
1993: ABC
released the first episode of “Boy meets World” a sitcom starring Ben Savage.
1993(9th
of Tishrei, 5754): Eighty year old Italian born physicist passed away today in
Dubna, just outside of Moscow. (As reported by Randy Kennedy)
1993: CBS
broadcast the first episode of “Family Album” a sitcom created by David Crane
and Mara Kauffman.
1993: In Los
Angeles, Julie Beren and Marc Platt, “film, television, and theater producer
whose credits include Legally Blonde, Into The Woods, La La Land, Mary Poppins
Returns, and the musicals Dear Evan Hansen, and Wicked” gave birth to Benjamin
“Ben” Schiff Platt, the multi-talented actor whose career began with a Broadway
production of The Music Man in 2002 and has included appearances in several
films as well as playing “Blake” in the sit-com “Will & Grace.”
1994(19th
of Tishrei, 5755): Seventy-nine year old English solicitor Sir David Napley
passed away today at Slough, England.
https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/about-us/our-history
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12671206.Sir_David_Napley/
1994:
Fifty-seven year old Muhammed Wattad an Arab Israeli who served in the Knesset
between 1981 and 1988 passed away today.
1994: Robert
Badinter began serving as French Senator from Hauts-de-Seine.
1995: Israel
and the PLO agreed to sign a pact at the White House ending nearly three
decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities.
1995: Patricia
Holt’s review of The Life of Gloria Steinem was published today.
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Making-Ms-Story-The-biography-of-Gloria-3024219.php
1995: “The
Banality of Love” published today provided a lengthy review of Hannah
Arendt, Martin Heidgegger by Elizbieta Ettinger.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/24/books/the-banality-of-love.html
1996: After
almost three years, Rena Sofer stops portraying Lois Cerullo in the soap opera
General Hospital – a portrayal which earing her an Emmy Award.
1999: “Jakob
the Liar” the movie version of Jurek Becker’s novel of the same name directed
Peter Kassovitz and co-starring Alan Arkin, Live Schreiber and Bob Balaban was
released in the United States by Columbia Pictures.
1997(22nd
of Elul, 5757): Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin
1997(22nd
of Elul, 5757): Eighty year old Herb Gershon who played professional basketball
during the 1940’s passed away today.
1999: NBC
broadcast the first episode of what
would be the last season of “Boy meets World” a sitcom starring Ben Savage.
2000: In San
Francisco final performance of a concert version of Jerry Herman’s “Dear World”
that had been staged by 42nd Street Moon.
2000: The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, The Moral
Obligation to be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling; edited by
Leon Wieseltier and Only Yesterday by S. Y. Agnon; translated by Barbara
Harshav.
2001: CBS
broadcast the first episode of season four of “The King of Queens,” a sitcom
co-starring Jerry Stiller.
2001: Twenty
eight year old Salit Sheetrit was shot and wounded by terrorists from Islamic
Jihand.
2001: In a
column in today’s edition of the New Yorker, following 9/11, Susan Sontag
criticized U.S. public officials and media commentators for trying to convince
the American public that “everything is O.K.”
2002: NEEMO 4,
whose NASA Aquanaut Crew included Jessica Meir, continued operations for a
second day.
2003(27th
of Elul, 5763): Ninety-one year old New
York native Edward Isaac Lending who served with the Lincoln Brigade during the
Spanish Civil War and the U.S. Army during WW II passed away today.
http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/edward-issac-lending
2003: Norman
Finkelstein “calls Professor Alan Dershowitz’s new book on Israel a ‘hoax’
2004(9th of
Tishrei, 5765): Erev Yom Kippur
2004: Red Sox
rookie Kevin Youkilis “appeared in the dugout in uniform but declined to
participate in the game” because it was a Jewish holiday.
2004: At
sunset, as Yom Kippur begins traditional services will be held in Cedar Rapids,
IA. Traditional High Holiday services have been held for more than a century in
“The City of Five Seasons.” The services began at Beth Jacob, the Orthodox
Synagogue founded in 1906 and have continued as the “downstairs
minyan” at Temple Judah. It is a tribute to the resiliency and the
cooperative nature of the Jewish Community in Cedar Rapids and at Temple Judah
that this service has continued for over a century.
2005: Haaretz reported that Raphael Izraelov,
a 28-year-old Israeli, is being hailed as a hero for his work with victims of
Hurricane Katrina.
2005: Lewis
Black recorded “The Carnegie Hall Performance” which won the Grammy for Best
Comedy Album.
2006: 2nd of
Tishrei, 5767): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
2006: In one
of the ironies of the world of calendars the first day of Ramadan falls on the
second day of Rosh Hashanah.
2006. The Sunday New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including How Bush Rules; Chronicles of a radical regime
by Sidney Blumenthal, Creationist: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 by E.L.
Doctorow, Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became
Americas Hidden Power Brokers by Gus Russo and The Lost: A Search for
Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelssohn.
2006: The Washington Post featured
a review of The Greatest Story Ever Told by Frank Rich.
2006: The Chicago Tribune featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Creationist: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 by E.L. Doctorow, Friendship:
An Expose, the latest work by Joseph Epstein, social commentator, author
and Northwestern University emeritus professor of English and Supermob: How
Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became Americas Hidden Power Brokers
by Gus Russo. Russo’s book offers a detailed picture of the role played by
Chicago based Jews in the growth of the underworld. Two of the more interesting
revelations concern the role that the Supermob played in the building of the
Pritzker’s family fortune (Hyatt Hotels) and the growth of Music Corporation of
America (MCA) the giant talent agency headed by Jules Stein and Lew Wasserman.
2007: Three
days after signing a contract with the Titans, kicker Josh Miller appeared in
his first game for the Tennessee NFL team.
2007: The face
of Alan Greenspan graces the cover of Newsweek
as the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board provides the source for the
magazine’s cover story, “The World According to Greenspan.” Greenspan, like his
successor, is Jewish.
2007: Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust denier who has called for the
destruction of Israel, is slated to speak at Columbia University in New York
City. Michael Bloomberg, the Jewish mayor of New York City, will be responsible
for providing security protection for the visit.
2007:
Swastikas were discovered this evening at the tops of exterior staircases at
two synagogues in Brooklyn Heights, and the police are actively investigating
the vandalism as a possible bias crime. The two synagogues are Congregation
B’Nai Avraham, an Orthodox synagogue at 117 Remsen Street, and the Brooklyn
Heights Synagogue a Reform synagogue at 131 Remsen Street.
2008: In
Washington, The Hyman S. &Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival comes to
a close.
2009: The
Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present a lecture by Jan-Pieter
Barbian, Director of the Duisburg Municipal Library entitled “After the Book Burning:
Publishing in Hitler’s Germany.”
2009: As part
of its Fall Colloquium and Film Series Tulane University’s Jewish Studies
department is scheduled to present Hanna Wise Heiting’s lecture on “Rite
de Sortie.”
2009 Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address the United Nations General
Assembly.
2009: Mark A.
Grey, Michele Devlin and Aaron Goldsmith are scheduled to discuss their new
book “Postville, U.S.A.” at Barnes and Noble in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2009: Former
MK Avraham Hirschson appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court of Israel.
Hirschson had been found guilty of charges that he had embezzled millions of
shekels from the National Workers Labor Federation while serving as its
chairman. He was sentenced to a prison term of five years and fined 450,000
shekels.
2009(6th of
Tishrei, 5770): Eighty-nine year old Joseph Gurwin, the Lithuanian born
American businessman and philanthropist who was duped by Bernard Madoff, passed
away today (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/nyregion/27gurwin.html?_r=0
2009: Leonard
Cohen completed his concert tour by appearing at Rat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv
where “at the end of the show he blessed the crowd with the Priestly
Benediction.”
2010: The New
York Film festival is scheduled to open with a showing “The Social Network,” a
biting tale of the Silicon Valley giant Facebook and its founder Mark
Zuckerberg.
2010(16th of
Tishrei, 5771): Second Day of Sukkoth.
2010: Four
months after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, “Wall Street: Money Never
Sleeps,” with a script co-authored by Allan Loeb and starring Shia Lebeouf and
Eli Wallach in what his final film performance was released today in the United
States.
2010: “Ahead
of Time” is scheduled to open in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Theaters
2010: The New York Times reviews books by
Jewish authors including Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
by Robert B. Reich.
2010: Mark
Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and America’s youngest billionaire, announced
his biggest expenditure to date: a $100 million grant aimed at improving public
education in Newark, in partnership with Cory A. Booker, the city’s mayor, and
Chris Christie, New Jersey’s governor.
2010: Yossi
Alfi will deliver a talk today entitled “The ten basic principles of the
storyteller in the community” at an international conference which is part of
the International Storytelling Festival in Givatayim.
2010: The New
York Film festival is scheduled to open with a showing “The Social Network,” a
biting tale of the Silicon Valley giant Facebook and its founder Mark
Zuckerberg.
2010: Students
from all three Bexley (Ohio) elementary schools spent this morning dropping
eggs from the third floor of the Cassingham Complex. The egg-dropping exercise
was part of the school district’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and
mathematics) initiative. Jacob Levin’s egg carrier worked fine when dropped
from the first floor. The carrier had a door that opened when students dropped
it from the third floor for a trial run. “When we dropped it from the
third floor it opened and the egg bounced out,” he said.His egg carrier
was constructed of cardboard, plastic bags, toilet paper rolls, paper towels,
and masking tape. He also had an issue with size. The first egg carrier had to
be redesigned.
2011: Chief
Chazzan Chaim Adler is scheduled to officiate at Selchot at the Jerusalem Great
Synagogue accompanied by The Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir conducted by Elli
Jaffe. Israel’s Chief Rabbi, the Rishon L’Zion, Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar is
scheduled to deliver the Davar Torah
2011: The
Selichot observance at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids will include the Changing
of the Torah Covers and a study session led by Rabbi Todd Talblum on the story
of Hannah from the Haftarah for Rosh Hashanah as well as the penitential
prayers for the evening.
2011(25th
of Elul, 5771): Ninety-six year old Anglo-Jewish poet Emanuel Litvinoff known for his memoir Journey Through A Small
Village and his poetry that exposed the anti-Semitism of T.S. Eliot, passed
away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/books/emanuel-litvinoff-poet-dies-at-96.html
2012: Davey and Peter Rothbart are scheduled to appear at the
Historic Sixth & I Synagogue where they will discuss Davey’s latest book, My
Heart is an Idiot and Peter’s new album, “You Are What You Dream.”
2012:
“A family spokesman announced that Bonnie Franklin had pancreatic cancer and
was undergoing treatment.”
2012:”I
Survived the Holocaust: Anna Brands’s personal account of life between
1939-1945″ by Mark Bernat is scheduled to be presented at the University
of Iowa.
2012: It was
reported today that “an obscure militant group based in Egypt’s North Sinai
region claimed responsibility over the weekend for a cross-border attack that
killed an Israeli soldier last week. The claim called fresh attention to the
uphill struggle the newly formed Egyptian government is facing to control the
restive Sinai region.”
2012: Defense
Minister Ehud Barak called for a unilateral pullout from much of the West Bank
in published comments today, saying Israel must take “practical steps” if peace
efforts with the Palestinians remain stalled.
2013:
Yityish Aynaw, 21, the first Ethiopian-born woman to win the Israeli beauty
pageant is scheduled to deliver a message about Jewish diversity at the JCC of
Northern Virginia in Fairfax, VA
2013:
Mike Ross, the son of Holocaust survivor Stephen Ross, who first visited Israel
at the age of 17, is one of the candidates running in today’s Mayoral Primary
where the Democrats will choose their candidate of the upcoming Boston general
election in November.
2013:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a panel discussion based on
“the newly published Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
by Dona-Lee Frieze.
2013:
The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to sponsor an all-day
event “Sukkot at the Ranch including Rabbi Gabi Arad’s examination of
kabbalistic rites related to the festival.
2013:
Friends and family of Arnold Bucksbaum, a pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish
Community, prepare to celebrate his 88th birthday.
2013:
According to a criminal complaint filed today, William E. Rapfogel the leader
of the Metropolitan New York Council on Jewish Poverty and two accomplices
stole over $5 million during the last twenty years.
2013:
Jerusalem police closed the Temple Mount to non-Muslim visitors this morning,
citing security concerns — a surprise announcement that caused many holiday
pilgrims and tourists to be turned away at the site. (Gavriel Fiske)
2014(29th
of Elul): Erev Rosh Hashanah
2014:
In Grand Forks, ND, B’nai Israel erev Rosh Hashanah services will be followed
by a congregational oneg.
2014:
Friends and family of Arnold Bucksbaum, a pillar of the Cedar Rapids Jewish
Community, prepare to celebrate his 89th birthday.
2014:
In Nebraska, shiva for Dr. Guinter Kahn which has been held in the house of his
brother and sister-in-law Marcel and Ilse Kahn is scheduled to come to an end
today.
2014:
As 5774 comes to an end, here is a list of Jews who inspired us during a
challenging year. (As reported by JTA and the Times of Israel)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jews-who-inspired-us-in-5774/
2014:
As Jews prepare to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, two leading papers give different
views of Jews and Judaism with the Washington
Post providing a look at holiday recipes http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/recipes-for-rosh-hashanah/2012/09/11/205e87b6-fc3b-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_gallery.html?hpid=z8
While
the New York Times provides a picture
of growing anti-Semitism.
2015:
In a moment of unalloyed joy, the friends and family of Arnold Bucksbaum
prepare to celebrate his 90th birthday.
2015(11th
of Tishrei, 5776): Seventy-four year old Vivian Stromberg, the elementary
school music teacher, advocate for racial equality and co-founder of “Madre”
passed away today. (As reported by
William Grimes)
2015:
“The tragedy of the Yom Kippur War in which the nation was caught unprepared
remains an open wound, President Reuven Rivlin said today at the memorial
service on Mount Herzl Military Cemetery commemorating the 42nd anniversary of
the war.”
2015: The second Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art
which will showcase the work of nearly 200 Israeli and international artists in
10 exhibitions at 7 venues is scheduled to open today.
2015:
“Officials at Lincoln Center in New York bade farewell to Avery Fisher Hall
today, formally renaming the storied classical music venue David Geffen Hall in
recognition of the entertainment mogul’s $100-million gift toward its planned
renovation.”
2016(21st
of Elul, 5776): Shabbat Ki Tavo
2016:
“Around 15,000 people marched in central Helsinki today to protest against
rising racism and violent right-wing extremism, police said, following the
recent death of a man allegedly attacked by a neo-Nazi leader.”
2016:
At Congregation Beth Ahm Novelist Dara Horn is scheduled to speak at a Shabbat
Lunch and Learn “On the Purpose of Jewish Storytelling.”
2016:
Congregation Beth Ahm is scheduled to host a unique Selichot program that will
feature novel Dara Horn speaking on “Technology, Memory and the Past that Lives
in the Present.”
2016:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host Ben
Goldwater, a native of Brussels whose parents were able to secure a hiding
place for their children during the Nazi occupation as part of their In Our
Voices Survivor Talks.
2017(4th
of Tishrei, 5778): Tzom Gedaliah
2017:
In Iowa, Kever Avot Community Memorial Services are scheduled to held at the
Jewish Woodland Cemetery and then at the Jewish Glendale Cemetery.
2017:
In New York, Rabbi Marc Schneier is scheduled to serve as “honorary grand
marshal” of today annual Muslim Day Parade.
2017:
The Illinois Holocuast Museum and Education Center is scheduled “Art and Music
That Rocks” led by poster maker and musician Jay Ryan.
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals about our Power to
Change Others by Tali Sharot, Scienceblined: Why Our Intuitive
Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong by Andrew Shtulman and Thanks
Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt.
2018(15th of Tishrei): On the Jewish
calendar, Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller, beloved husband of Eleanor
Schueller, father of Deb Levin and father-in-law of Mitchell Levin
2018: As Jews hold
their lulavs and etrogs for the first time in 5779, they cannot help but wonder
if Iran really plans to take a vengeance on Israel because of terrorist
bombings and what will happen now that the Russians appear to trying to find a
satisfactory scenario to explain the downing of one of their aircraft by their
Syrian allies.
2018(15th of
Tishrei, 5779): Sukkoth
2018(15th of
Tishrei, 5779): Ninety-two year old Holocaust survivor turned New York
restaurateur and provider of traditional Jewish dishes to New Yorkers
passed away today.(As reported by
Richard Sandomir)
2019: “There
were reports, from outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, that
various WeWork directors were planning on asking Israeli native Adam Neumann to
step down as CEO, after “a tumultuous week in which his eccentric behavior
and drug use came to light” prior to a planned IPO.
2019: In San Francisco,
the JCCSF is scheduled to host “Jews, San Francisco and Vaudeville.”
2019: The Temple
Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “A Conversation with Chief
Justice of the United States John Roberts, Jr.
2019: In Palo Alto, CA,
the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Jews In Irish Music” that will
include a concert by Riggy Rackin, Marla Fibish and Lewis Santer.
https://www.harmonyproject.com/stillhavejoy-stories-michelle/
2020: Fort Mason Flix and Jewish Film Institute is
scheduled to present “Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles”a 76-minute, 2020
documentary about a chef’s quest to recreate Versailles in cake form.
2020: The London School
of Jewish Studies is scheduled to present “Dr. Lindsay Simmonds who will give a
lunchtime shiur for women looking in-depth at themes of Yom-Kippur.”
2020? Via Zoom the, the
Temple Emanu-el Streicker Center is scheduled to host a screening of “the Comey
Rule.”
2020: The Lappin
Foundation is scheduled to present online “Renewal and Return,” “a pre-Yom
Kippur program designed to help open hearts and souls “for Yom Kippur through
contemplation, community and prayer.”
2020: The ADL is
scheduled to host “a Fighting Hate from Home webinar with UAE Ambassador to the
United States Yousef Al Otaiba.
2020: The Illinois
Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to co-host a virtual lunch
and learn that tackles “Reflections on Memorial Art – What Happens When
Monuments Become Dated?”
2020: In New Orleans,
the Uptown Jewish Community is scheduled to hold its Board Meeting
2020: Associate Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bade Ginsburg Z”L is scheduled to “lie in repose under the
portico at the top of the Supreme Court’s front steps until day, according to
the Supreme Court, so that the public can pay respects as she lies in repose.
2021: In conjunction
with exhibition “Paints, Politics and the Monuments Men: The Berlin
Masterpieces in America” the Monuments Men Foundation is scheduled to host its
“virtual symposium” today.
2021: The East Bay-based Young
Jewish Professionals are scheduled to celebrate the holiday with “YJP Sukkot
Under the Stars.”
2021: Modern Jewish Couples is
scheduled to present “Cider in the Sukkah.”
2021: The Contemporary Jewish
Museum is scheduled is to present a virtual “Drop-in Writing Class: Leonard, My
Muse” which will include an analysis of the poetry Leonard Cohen.
2021(18th of
Tishrei, 5782): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2022: Keshet is scheduled to
mark the end of shabbat and to welcome the new week with a virtual Havdalah led
by Keshet youth!
2022: Israelis troops are on
heightened alert because of the upcoming holidays and because armed attacks two
of which a group calling itself “Lion’s Den” claimed credit.
2022: Israel is scheduled to
play Albania at Bloomfield Stadium.
2022
(28th of Elul, 5782):
Parashat Nitzavim (Are Standing)
2023:
The New York Times list of recommended books to be read this week
includes Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family,
and the Secret History of Poland in World War II by Judy Rakowsky.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/books/review/jews-in-the-garden-judy-rakowsky.html
2023:
In Oakland, CA, the PJ Library is scheduled to present a “family-friendly
community tashlich where participants toss crumbs into the water to cast off
the parts of us that no longer serve us to prepare for the New Year and Yom
Kippur.”
2023(9th
of Tishrei, 5784): Kol Nidre
“G’mar chatima tova v’tzom kal! May you be sealed for a good year
and have an easy fast!”
2023:
In Cambridge, Harvard Hillel is scheduled to host Kol Nidre services which to
which all current Harvard students are admitted free of charge.
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