This Day, November 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 19
1095: The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending
the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. The Crusades ushered in one of the
darkest periods in Jewish history. In
the name of Christianity, the Crusaders would leave a path of death and
destruction for the Jewish people that stretched from the Rhineland to the
streets of Jerusalem.
1190: Baldwin of Forde, the Archbishop of Canterbury who expressed his
displeasure with King Richard’s decision to allow a Jew who had been forcibly
converted to return to the faith of his fathers by saying “If the King is not
God’s man, he had better be the devil’s” passed away today while with serving
with the Crusaders in Palestine.
1557: Sixty-three year old Polish Queen Bon Sforza who modified and defined
the “rights of the Jewish community in 1549” by requiring them “to pay 17
percent of the taxes the government assessed against the city,” freeing them
“from some special taxes paid in kind” and required citizens to get “royal
permission” before selling a house to a Jew, passed away today.
1600: Birthdate of King Charles I. The English monarch who would be defeated
by the Puritan forces commanded by Cromwell and eventually be executed in 1649.
The death of Charles and the rise of the Puritans helped encourage Rabbi
Manasseh ben Israel to approach Cromwell about allowing the Jewish people to
return to England.
1621: Rabbi Isaiah ben Avraham
Ha-Levi Horowitz, known as the Shlah after the title of one of his major works Shnei Luchos Ha-Bris arrived in
Jerusalem. The Shlah was a renowned
Halachist, kabbalist and communal leader.
He was born in Prague in 1656 and eventually became head of the Jewish
community in Frankfort. He moved to
Jerusalem after the death of his wife.
The Shlah was a wealthy philanthropist who stressed man’s ability to
overcome the evil inclination and turn it into the good inclination. He passed away in 1650 and was buried in
Tiberias near the tomb of the Rambam.
1751: “The Shepherd’s Lottery” a play by English dramatist Moses Mendes was
unsuccessfully performed at Drury Lane today.
1756(26th of Cheshvan, 5517 ): Moses Hart, the Breslau born son
of a Rabbi who came to London in 1697 where he became one of the “Twelve Jew
Brokers on the Royal Exchange and who “funded the construction of the Great
Synagogue which opened in 1722 with his brother Aaron serving as the Rabbi
passed away today.
1775: In Charleston, SC, Rachel Andrews and Myer Moses, the English born
merchants who was an ardent supporter of the Revolutionary cause, gave birth to
Priscilla Moses, the husband of Newport, RI native David Lopez who settled in
his wife’s hometown where they had eleven children.
1793: The will of Amsterdam native David Lion Arons, the brother of Abraham
Lion Arons, was probated today.
1815: Joseph Levy married Hannah Isaacs at the Western Synagogue today.
1815(16th of Cheshvan, 5576): Mrs. Judith Lyon, the wife of
Mordecai Lyon passed away today.
1816: Warsaw University is established in the part of Poland that was
incorporated into the Russian Empire as part of the partitions that had taken
place in the waning decades of the 18th century. The fortunes of the university would follow
the ebb and flow of political and cultural events in Poland as it sought to
regain and then maintain its independence. In 1968, the government would
conduct and anit-Semitic and anti-democrat campaign at the university that
would touch off a wave of student unrest. During the subsequent government
crackdown professors of Jewish descent were removed from their positions and
many of them were forced to emigrate.
1829: In Frankfurt am Main, Zerline(Worms) Beyfus and Meyer Levin Beyfus
gave birth to Mathilda Emma Beyfus
1835(27th of Cheshvan, 5596): Fifty-nine year old Abraham
Mendelssohn, the second son of Moses Mendelssohn, the co-founder of the Berlin
banking firm of Mendelssohn & Co and who with his wife Leah Solomon gave
birth to Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy passed away today.
1836: In London, Rachel Mocatta and Lewis Raphael gave birth to banker
George Charles Raphael, the huasband of Charlotte Raphael with whom he had ten
children.
1843: In New York City, a group of Jews including Levy Philip, Wolf
Felsenheld, Marx Neuburg, Emanuel Stoffman, Jacob Blumenthal, Julius Meyer and
Kalman Jacobs founded a society dedicated to forming a new congregation which
would follow a more liberal or reform minchag.
1847: Caroline Samuel and Frederick Goldsmid gave birth to Francis Arthur
Goldsmid.
1849: In Amsterdam, Lea Nabarro and David Zacharias Baruch gave birth to
Clara David Baruch.
1849: As of today, in Amsterdam out of a total population of 224,949, 25,173
were Jews who divided into 22,426 Ashkenazim and 2,747 Portuguese (Sephardim).
1850: Birthdate of Benzion Liber’s father Yitskhok Libresko (Liber) who dramatized
Ayzik-Meyer Dik’s story “Di tsvey kleyne katerintshkes” (The two little organ
grinders) into a play with four acts and titled Di derfilte libe (Love
fulfilled)
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/03/ben-tsien-benzion-liber.html
1850(14th of Kislev, 5611): Sarah M. Cohen, the daughter of
Solomon Cohen passed away today.
1853(17th of Tishrei, 5614): Third day of Sukkoth
1853: “Natty,” “the eldest son of Baron de Rothschild M.P. having attained
the age of thirteen years was called to the reading-desk during the Reading of
the Holy Law and read a portion according to the custom on such occasions.
1857: In the Czech Republic, Helene and Daniel Low gave birth to Karl Low,
the husband of Rosa Law.
1860: Birthdate of Landstuhl, Germany native Ferdinand Ehrmann.
1862: During the Civil War, Jacob Cohen of the 27th Ohio Infantry
wrote to the Jewish Messenger from Davis’ Mill, MS where the Union Army had
gone into camp describing the victories at Iuka and Corinth.
1862(26th of Cheshvan, 5623): In Jamaica, Rebecca Nunes the wife
of Robert Nunes who was in her 41st year passed away today.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the
military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One of the
more interesting stories, if it is true involves Dr. M.L. Rossvally, a Jewish
surgeon who saved the life of a Christian drummer boy. Rossvally went on to become the Surgeon
General of the United States.
1868: Two days after she had passed away, Rebecca Levy, the wife of Goodman
Levy with whom she had four children, was buried today at the West Ham Jewish
Cemetery.
1869: It was reported today that in a manner similar houses of worship of
other denominations, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun hosted a Thanksgiving Service
where Rabbi Henry Vidaver delivered a sermon based on the words of Zechariah.
1869: In Indianapolis, Rabbi Mayer Messing and Rika Messing gave birth to
future California resident Dora Messing Meyberg, the wife of attorney Mitchel
S. Meyberg whom she married in 1888 and the mother of Dorothy, Leonard and
James Meyberg who “was the first President of Hadassah” and “a member of the
National Council of Jewish Women.”
1870: Deborah Lenore Cohn, the daughter of Dr. Marcus Mosse and Ulrike Mosse
and Emil Cohn gave birth to Bianca Israel
1871: Four days after he had passed away, Nathan Solomon was buried today at
the Balls Pond Jewish Cemetery.
1872: A meeting was held tonight at the Thirty-fourth Street Synagogue in
New York City to deal with impending immigration of Romanian Jews to the United
States who were seeking refuge from the persecution in their native land. A twenty-five man Executive Committee was
established that will contact various European Jewish Committees involved with
this issue to ensure that the emigrants come from the “industrial classes” and
to arrange for their transportation. Several hundred families are expected to
arrive in the Spring and the committee will set the mechanism to provide them
with employment and support.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D02E1DF163BEF34BC4851DFB7678389669FDE
1873(29th of Cheshvan, 5634): Sixty-three Year old Adeline Moses,
the wife of Columbia, SC native Levy I. Moses with whom she had nine children
passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1874: Nathan Aaronson, a wealthy Jew is spending tonight in the Tombs after
having been arrested and charged with numerous counts of grand larceny,
obtaining goods under false pretenses and other crimes related to a series of
swindles. Aaronson was arrested after having posted bail on similar charges in
New Jersey as he attempted to sail to Europe.
1874: Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler attended the start of the construction
of the Middle Street Synagogue which designed by architect Thomas Lainson.
1875(21st Cheshvan, 5636): Sixty-three year old Emanuel Sheftall,
the husband of Jane L. Theiss Sheftall with whom he had ten children passed
away after which he was buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery North in Savannah, GA.
1876: The New York Times published a review of The Ethics of
Benedict De Spinoza: From the Latin with an Introductory Sketch of his Life and
his Writings published in New York by D. Van Nostrand. According to the
review, this is believed to be the first translation of any of the writings
that has appeared in the United States.
1876: A report published today attributed the change in the writing style of
George Eliot( Mary Anne Evans) that resulted in Daniel Deronda was a
product of a collaboration with her consort, George Henry Lewes. Lewes claims that “he wrote every line of the
chapter which describes the discussion at the club to which Mordecai introduced
Daniel. Such a club as this really had an existence in London under the
presidency of a Jew upon whom Mr. and Mrs. Lewes modeled Mordecai.” The report concluded that many of Eliot’s
admirers are not pleased with the new novel feeling that literary partnership
“has destroyed the classic purity of the lady’s English.” Despite this, the novel is selling quite
briskly.
1878(23rd of Cheshvan): Poet Abraham Dov Levenson (Adam ha-Kohen) and
father-in -law of Jewish author Joshua Steinberg, passed away
1879: Miriam Maduro Davis, the New York born daughter Daugof Dr. Daniel
Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and her husband
Michael Marks Davis gave birth toColumbia trained “medical economist, Dr.
Michael Marks Davis, the husband of “the former Alice Taylor” with whom he had
two sons.
http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w62r3wx1
1880: The Jewish Chronicle reported that a “North German young lady who is
able to teach German, French, drawing, drilling and needlework wants a
situation in a family or in a school” in the Jersey, Channel Islands.
1880: Birthdate of Hugo Gutmann, the German Jewish officer who was Adolph
Hitler’s commanding officer during 1918 and who saw to it that the Austrian
corporal received the Iron Cross First Class.
1880: Based on information that first appeared in the Boersen Zeitung,
“public quarrels and duels have taken place between Jews and Germans.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E3DF123FEE3ABC4152DFB767838B699FDE
1881: In Kief, Bessie Pockriss and William Hussakof gave birth to CCNY and
Columbia trained biologist, Dr. Louis Hussakof, the Curator of the Department
of Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History who led expeditions
for the museum to the Middle West, Canada, Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico .
1881: “The Hebrew Union College” published today summarized plans to upgrade
HUC, the Cincinnati educational institution that is only place in the United
States dedicated to providing formal education for rabbis in the United States.
The plan is to create a million dollar endowment by selling 200,000
“subscription certificates at $5 each.”
(The rabbis trained here will be Reform and will not be able to address
the needs of the traditional movements of Judaism)
1882: It was a reported today that the Public Prosecutor has applied to the
court at Nyireghyhasa, for an order to disinter and re-examine the body of a
Christian girl, who it is alleged, was by the Jews at Tiszaeszlar” in order to
sift through the evidence “and put an end to a scandal which has lasted six
months.” (This is a reference to The Tiszaeszlár Affair, a blood libel that
began in April of 1882 and would actually resurface in the world of Hungarian politics in the 21st
century.)
1882: It was reported today that a radical newspaper editor has fought a
duel with a member of the parliament who defended Jews against charges in The
Tiszaeszlár Affair.
1883: Birthdate of Chicago and University of Michigan trained attorney Hugo
Sonnenschein, “a founder of the North Shore Temple Israel and a member of the
board of Allstate Insurance who was the husband of Irene Plaut Sonnenschein
with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/03/86693225.html?pageNumber=13
1884: In Minneapolis, MN, Charlotte and John Gruenberg gave birth to
Frederick Paul Gruenberg, the husband of Bertha Gruenberg.
1884(1st of Kislev, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1885: Upon his return to Cincinnati from the national of Reform Rabbis in
Pittsburgh, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise said, “The meeting was an official
expression and confirmation of principles which have been advanced and
advocated by progressive Jews for a decade past.”
1885: It was reported today that the Reform movement has adopted a
resolution that would effectively allow the substitution of Sunday morning
services to replace the traditional Saturday morning Shabbat services.
1885: “The Hebrew Asylum Ball” published today provided a description of the
fundraiser hosted for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” which was attended a large
segment of notables including Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wechsler, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Wechsler and Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Oppenheimer.
1886: In Prague,Jakob and Barbara Bondy gave birth to Rudolf Bondy
1886: It was reported today that based on information that first appeared in
the Vossische Zeitung, Jews make up the largest contingent of the Hungarian
immigrants crossing Germany on their way to the United States.
1887(3rd of Kislev, 5648): Emma Lazarus passed away. Born in 1849, Lazarus is remembered as the
poet who wrote the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty. When Emma Lazarus
died on November 19, 1887 at the age of 38, the obituary published in the New York Times referred to
her as “an American Poet of Uncommon talent,” but did not mention her
poem, “The New Colossus,” which today is indelibly associated with
The Statue of Liberty. One of the first successful Jewish American authors,
Lazarus was part of the late nineteenth century New York literary elite, and
was celebrated in her day as an important American poet. In her later years,
she wrote bold, powerful poetry and essays protesting the rise of anti-Semitism
and arguing for Russian immigrants’ rights. She called on Jews to unite and
create a homeland in Palestine before the title Zionist had even been coined.
She is best known today for her poem, “The New Colossus,” which was
written in 1883 as part of the effort to raise money for a pedestal to the Statue
of Liberty. France was donating the statue to the United States, but Americans
had to raise the funds for the pedestal. Her untimely death, probably from
cancer, was mourned in both the Jewish and broader communities. It was only,
however, after Lazarus’s friend Georgina Schuyler installed a bronze memorial
tablet inside the entrance to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903,
inscribed with the lines from the “New Colossus,” including
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free,” that Lazarus’s memory became forever associated with her powerful
vision of America as a symbol of hope for the down-trodden.
1887: In Cleveland, OH, Herman and Sarah Fox Bubis gave birth to Samuel S.
Bubis.
1888: Birthdate of Samuel “Sam” Melitzer, the native of New York’s Lower
East Side and Columbia University who experienced anti-Semitism when southern
crowds would shout “Get the Jew” and who after coaching at NYU traveled the
world as mining engineer before becoming a high school Phys Ed and math
teacher.
1888: In the Czech Republic , Rosa and Karl Low gave birth to Ernst Low, the
husband of Rosa Low and the father of Herbert Gertrude Low.
1890(7th of Kislev, 5651): Thirty-nine year old Hannah Primrose, Countess of
Rosebery, the daughter of Juliana and Mayer de Rothschild, who was rumored to
be the richest woman in Britain, passed away. (There is no way that we can do
justice to the life of this woman. She is far more fascinating than any
fictional character created by Bronte sisters and those other writers of 19th
century romance novels)
1890: The Citizens’ Savings Bank paid out $113,000 to depositors as a run on
the bank began following a story “in an east side Hebrew Newspaper.”
1891: The more than four hundred pupils attending the Louis Down-Town
Sabbath and Daily School are the beneficiaries of the Palestine Bazaar which is
being held for a second day at Carnegie Hall.
1891: Montague Daniel Jacobs, the “son of Samuel and Julia Ann Jacobs” and
his wife Flora Jacobs gave birth to Ivan Albert Jacobs.
1892: “Prussians Jealous of Hebrews” published today, relying on information
that first appeared in the London Daily News described a debated taking place
among “Prussian Conservatives” on the “ways and means of decreasing the
influence of Jews in public life.” The
Conservatives are especially upset because the Jews “get themselves better
educated than their neighbors and so win their way to professorial chairs.”
1892(29th of Cheshvan, 5653): Fifty two year old Jacques de
Reinach, the French banker who successfully invested in the Canadian Pacific
Railway before becoming embroiled in the scandals surrounding the building of
the Panama Canal passed away today.
1892: During an interview Otto Von Bismarck warned “the anti-Semites that
‘in trying to obtain State legislation against the Jews, they got hold of the
wrong insect powder. (The term used was Wanzenpulver which has a contation that
is even more insulting than the English translation and gives one the idea of
the low esteem in which the Iron Chancellor held the Jewish people)
1893: According to a rumor published today, the Jews are fleeing Melilla
because they fear what “the inquiry into the illicit trade firearms’ might
reveal. (The implication is that the Jews are guilty of selling guns to the
Berbers who are revolting against their Spanish colonial masters)
1893: In Bialystok, Harris and Amelia (Malinsky) Bloom gave birth to Julius
Harry Bloom who in 1905 came to the United States where he became a merchant in
Greenville, SC, served as President of Congregation Beth Israel and served in
combat with the A.E.F. during WW I after which he married Leonora Shatenstein.
1893: Today’s review of “The Bells” praises Henry Irving’s performance of
Mathias whom he plays as “a large, spectacular figure” who is a victim of
remorse; a portrayal that is not consistent with that found in the translation
of Leopold Lewis. The reviewer concludes his portrayal of this Jewish figure is
“always worth seeing once” and then worth seeing a second time because Irving’s
“Mathias is to be remembered because of its historical importance.”
1894: In Germany Elizabeth (nee Kirchner) and Wilhelm Hopf a Jew who
converted gave birth to mathematician Heinz Hopf.
1894: Three days after he had passed away, 70 year old Montague Durlacher,
who married Annie Durlacher after the death of his first wife, the former
Deborah Benjamin, was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1894: In Newburgh, NY, Russian immigrants Lena Friedland and Simon Silverman
gave birth to Morris Silverman, the long-time Rabbi at The Emanuel Synagogue,
editor the classic Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book which was the standard
prayer book for the Conservative movement for decades and the husband of author
Althea H. Osber.
http://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/04/archives/rabbi-morris-silverman-author-and-editor-deadj.html?_r=0
1894: Birthdate of Columbia trained pediatrician and WW I Army Medical Corps
veteran Dr. Harry Bakwin the husband of Dr. Ruth Morris who joined together to
become major art collectors.
http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=11848
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/12/27/91064521.pdf
1894: In Bialystok, “Harris and Amelia (Malinsky) Bloom gave birth to Julius
Henry Bloom who in 1910 settled in Greenville SC with his family, served in
combat on the Western Front during WW I after which he married Leonara
Shatenstein in Washington D.C with whom he had three children serving as
President of Congregation Beth Israel and running Bloom’s Department Store
which his father had founded.
http://archives.library.cofc.edu/findingaids/mss1118.html
1894: “Not Antagonistic To Christianity” published today provided Dr. Joseph
Silverman’s views on the attitude to of Judaism to non-Judaic religions. Among other things, he said that Judaism’s
view on this has always been represented; that Judaism is neither “tribal,
narrow nor exclusive” but universal.
While Christianity claims that only those who believe in its doctrine
can be saved, “Judaism has never claimed that universal salvation depends on
universal conversion to Judaism.”
1894: “Linguistic Pundits of Glasgow” published today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05E0D61131E033A2575AC1A9679D94659ED7CF
1895: While visiting Paris and London trying to gain Jewish support for a
Jewish homeland, Herzl gained one “convert’ – Max Nordeau
1896: The Young Men’s Hebrew Association of New York and the Hebrew
Technical Institute were reported today to be among the institutions willing to
host a “series of popular lectures on the affairs of the City” which will lead
to greater civic participation.
1896: The first national convention of the National Council of Jewish Women
which was held at Tuxedo Hall in New York City between came to an end. Founded
at the conclusion of the Jewish Women’s Congress held at Chicago’s World
Columbian Exposition in November 1893, the National Council of Jewish Women was
the first national open-membership organization for American Jewish women.
Addressed by the leaders of the nation’s leading women’s organizations and
numerous prominent rabbis, it was clear that the Council was helping to
establish the legitimacy of Jewish women’s presence on a public stage. The
convention received extensive coverage in the New York Times and other papers. During its
first three years, Council sections around the country had focused on diverse
activities ranging from Bible study to education for children to active
philanthropy in the interest of immigrant women and children. Representatives
at the first convention summarized these achievements, established a clear
institutional structure and sought to offer guidance to local sections.
Conflict emerged in relation to the Jewish character of the Council. Hannah
Solomon of Chicago presided over the convention, but some members objected to
her advocacy of Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath. Solomon memorably responded
“I consecrate every day in the week.” As the New York Times reported,
“Pandemonium reigned for five minutes, and then Mrs. Solomon was
re-elected.” In its first few decades, NCJW transcended these religious
divisions by focusing especially on aid to newly arrived Jewish immigrants. In
sections across the country, NCJW provided an early training ground for Jewish
women leaders and a forum for Jewish women’s concerns within and outside the
Jewish community.
1897: It was reported today that in London, “the alterations at the Talmud
Torah on Brick Lane have been completed.
1897: It was reported today that plans are being made for a larger synagogue
to meet the needs of the Stepney Orthodox Congregation whose numbers “have
greatly increased and whose “affairs are flourishing.
1897: Birthdate of Russian native and Brown University alum Samuel Temkin,
the Georgetown U. trained attorney
1897: Herzl publishes his article “Die jüdische Kolonialbank”
-“The Jewish Colonial Bank” in Die
Welt.
1897: “Dreyfus May Be A Victim” published today offers the unique theory
that the French Captain was actually the victim of a blackmail plot gone
awry. Taking advantage of the “wave of
Jew-baiting” that was sweeping Europe in 1893, these conspirators forged the
documents that would lead to the conviction of Dreyfus. The conspirators had used “a beautiful woman
whose house” was a refuge to many French officers and foreign diplomats as a go
between to try and extort money from Mrs. Dreyfus who was wealthy in her own
right in exchange for the document. When
the Dreyfus family refused to be involved, members of the press who were part
of the plot helped to incite the public in such a way that the conviction of
Dreyfus was inevitable.
1898: “Dr. Gottheil’s 25 Years” published today included a summary of the
accomplishments of the Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El who according to some stem the
tide of assimilation while raising his voice for “justice and the down-trodden
of his race’ “when anti-Semitism raised
the black flag of intolerance in Germany, Austria and other European
countries.”
1899: In San Francisco, Samuel and Beatrice Dinkelspiel gave birth to
Stanford alum and Harvard trained attorney Lloyd William Dinkelspiel who rose
to the rank of Lt. Col in the U.S. Army Air Force during WW II and raised two
children with his wife Florence.
1900:In Mainz, “antiquarian and art dealer” Isidor Reiling and Hedwig Fuld
gave birth to Anna (Netty) Reiling, who gained fame as the author Anna Seghers.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130704063048/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/seghers.htm
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seghers-anna
1900: It was reported today that “an entertainment and reception by the
Young Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Leagues of the Montefiore Home will be held at
the Waldorf-Astoria on November 22 in an attempt to raise funds for this worthy
organization.
1901: It was reported today that Jacob Schiff, an ally of E.H. Harriman has
been re-elected to serve as a director of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy
Railroad Company.
1901: In Wien, Austria, Juris Doctor Marcus Ettinger, the Tarnow born son of
Isaak Ettinger and Rebecca Schapiro and
his wife Adele Ettinger gave birth to Curtis Thomas Marie Erich Ettinger.
1902: Twenty-one year old Aline Frankau, the daughter of Rebecca and Joseph
Frankau became Aline Bernstein today when she married “Wall Street broker,
Theodore Bernstein” with whom she “had two children – Theodore and Edna – while
pursuing a career as stage and film set designer.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aline-bernstein
1903: Judge Davidoff is scheduled to preside over the special court opening
today where four hundred prisoners who have obtained 100 attorneys are going on
trial for their in the riots at Kishineff that will also consume the time of
judges in the criminal courts as well since 3,000 witnesses have been called on
to testify.
1904: Birthdate of New Haven, CT native Beatrice Hahn, “the director of
finance of the National Council of Jewish Women” and “former national president
of the Council of Jewish Juniors.” https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/11/05/84895367.html?pageNumber=31
1904(11th of Kislev, 5665): Parashat Vayetzei
1904: Birthdate of Nathan
Leopold. Leopold and Loeb, sons of
wealthy Chicago families, saw themselves as a superior intellects not bound by
the rules. Their murder of Bobby Franks
and the trial that followed (where they were defended by Clarence Darrow)
forever marked both of them as venal, vile killers. Leopold died in 1971.
1904: “Jewish Encyclopedia” published today described ‘the eighth volume of
the Jewish Encyclopedia published by Funk Wagnall’s with a sale price of
six dollars that is nearing completion so rapidly under the editorship of Dr.
Isidore Singer and a distinguished board of associates, which includes 1,644
topics between “Leon” and “Moravia.” with nearly 100
monographs on the study of the Bible, Talmud, and Post-Talmudic literature,
history, theology, and biography.
1905: As the killing of Jews in
Odessa, Kiev and Kishinev was addressed, “In his address in the Great
Synagogue” today, Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler declared ‘How can you live in
safety and happiness in this dear England, how can you endure to see the
tribulation of your brethren without try to effectually to help them.’” (As
described by Martin Gilbert)
1905: Tonight, in Boston, “at a special service in the Warren Avenue Baptist
Church Rabbi Charles Fleischer urged President Roosevelt to warn Russia against
further persecution of the Jews and declared that the Jews in Russia should be
armed for self-defense.”
1905: Birthdate of “Isaac Kashdan, an international grandmaster chess player
and chess editor for The Times” (As reported by Michael Seiler)
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-02-22/local/me-614_1_grandmaster-chess-player
http://www.chessgames.com/player/isaac_kashdan.html
1905: As the Zemstvo Congress is scheduled to open today, “we are witnessing
a series of massacres of Jews carried out by the rabble, thanks to the criminal
tolerance of the authorities.
1905: In his address today in the Great Synagogue, Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler
declared “How can you live in safety and happiness in thes dear England, how
can you endure to see the tribulation of your brethren” in Odessa, Kiev and
Kishinev “without trying effectually to help them.” (As reported by Martin
Gilbert)
1905: Rabbi Harris of Temple Israel and Frank Moss, an attorney, addressed
the congregation in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Our Savior tonight at a
service, “the proceeds of which are for the benefit of the Jews in Russia.”
1905: In London, “the Evangelical Alliance, which is composed of
representatives of several denominations of Christians decided at a meeting at
Exeter Hall to open a fund for the relief of the Russian Jews” which it is
hoped “will touch broader circles of Christians life than any other appeal
having the same purpose.”
1905: “Several hundred men, women and children attended a mass meeting”
today “at Temple Adath Israel…to protest against the massacre of Jews in Russia
and to raise subscriptions for the relief fund.
1905: Miss Sadie American presided over a memorial meeting in honor of Emma
Lazarus which was held tonight at Temple Beth-El under the auspices of the New
York Section of the Council Jewish Women at which Adele Szold read a biography
of the Jewish poetess.
1905: “Boiled Jewish Children” published today described the murder of
approximately 1,500 Jews in one quarter of” Odessa” which was as large La
Chapelle in Paris” by “the police and Cossacks” who “poured boiling water on
the children and threw the old men out of the windows.
1906: Birthdate of Henri Temianka, a native of Scotland who was the son of
Polish-Jewish immigrants. Among his
accomplishments was a performance of the Bach Double Violin Concerto with four
other Jewish violinists – David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Henryk Szeryng and
Jack Benny.
1906: “Big Crowd Attends Funeral” published today in the Brooklyn Standard
Union describes the funeral of Rabbi Raphael Benjamin at Congregation Beth
Elohim which was so well attended “that hundreds of men and women were unable
to gain admittance..”
1907: The Board of Pharmacy where Leo W. Chulock was pass his exam for
Assistant Pharmacist began today in Chicago.
1907: In Philadelphia, Meir Bayuk, the Polish born son of Feiga and J. Moses
Bayuk, and his wife Julia Bayuk gave birth to Sylvia Bayuk whom became Sylvia
Bayuk Kaplan when she married Albert Joseph Kaplan.
1907: Actress Rose Greenfield, the Galicia born daughter of Charles and
Taube Treitler got married today.
1908: Heilner Wolf and the Realty Mortgage Company have sold, through L.J.
Phillips Co., to Adolph Lewisohn, the plot of four lots on the south side of
151st Street, 125 feet west of Broadway.
1908: It was reported today that “the newspapers of St. Petersburg have
announced the institution of a special railroad passenger traffic for Jews
emigrating to America or other countries not in Europe as laborers.”
1909: In Russia, “ Fishel and Sosel (Shimshilevitch) AvRutick gave birth to
Yeshiva University rabbi Abraham Noah Avrutick, thw husband of Frances Ruth
Feldman with whom he had three children – Naomi, Rena and Judith – who in 1921
came to Canada and then moved to the United States where he held pulpits
at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1936-1938, Newburgh, New York, 1938-1946. Rabbi
Agudas Achim Synagogue, Hartford, Connecticut, from 1946 while successively
serving as secretary, treasurer, vice president Rabbinical Council American,
president, 1962-1964, honorary president, 1965.
1909: “Alma Gluck first appeared on stage with the Metropolitan Opera today
in the role of Sophie in Massenet’s Werther. (JWA)
1909: At the request of the Hahambashi, the Grand Vizier of Turkey directs
the Minister of War to appoint Jewish chaplains to battalions where Jews serve,
to grant soldiers the ability to observe the high holidays and to facilitate
they be provided with kosher food. The Hahambashi also requested that all
teachers in Jewish school and rabbinical students be granted an exemption from
military service.
1910: Birthdate of Yeshiva University rabbi Abraham Noah Avrutick, the
Russian born son of “ Fishel and Sosel (Shimshilevitch) AvRutick, and husband
of Frances Ruth Feldman with whom he had three children – Naomi, Rena and
Judith – who in 1921 came to Canada and then moved to the United States where
he held pulpits at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1936-1938, Newburgh, New
York, 1938-1946. Rabbi Agudas Achim Synagogue, Hartford, Connecticut, from 1946
while successively serving as secretary, treasurer, vice president Rabbinical
Council American, president, 1962-1964, and honorary president, 1965.
1910(17th of Cheshvan, 5671): Parashat Vayera
1910: Despite the best effort of a team led by Center Albert Lorch “Al” Loe,
known as the Yiddish Wildcat, George Tech lost to archrival Georgia today.
1911: In London, the “vote of censure for the President of the Board of
Deputies” was defeated today.
1911: David Lindo Alexander upheld the action of the Board of Deputies “in
regard to the recent” riots in South Wales.
1911: Birthdate of Zagreb native Zdenka Buchler, the “operatic soprano” who
gained fame as Zdenka Rubinstein, when she married Bartold Rubinstein who had
his wife and daughter Mira convert, along with him, to Catholicism in an
attempt to avoid the anti-Semitism that was sweeping Europe in the 1930’s.
1911: The First Hebrew Congress opened today in Lemberg, Galicia.
1911: In Jersey City, NJ, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association “adopted a
“resolution protesting against discriminated by the Russian Government against
American citizens.
1911: Herman Bernstein, who has written for such publications as The Nation and The New York Evening Post delivered an address to the Mikve Israel
Association in Philadelphia, PA, entitled “Anti-Semitism in Russia, Germany and
Elsewhere.” According to Bernstein,
while political and social progress has been made “in every part of the world”
anti-Semitism is the one age-old evil “for which no remedy has been found.”
[Bernstein would go to a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent with
the New York Times and as U.S. Ambassador to Albania. His History of a Lie provides an
account of the history of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.]
1912: The New York State Conference of Charities and Corrections which was
attended by delegates Samuel Gompers and Lee Frankel of New York City opened in
Syracuse, NY.
1912: In Hesse, Germany, Rabbi Joseph Bruer, the Hungarian born son of Rabbi
Solomon Breuer and Sophie Bruer and his wife Rika Breuer gave birth to Marc
Bruer whose maternal grandfather was Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.
1913: Serbian troops enter and loot Monastir. As part of the violence,
Jewish shops were burned and robbed.
1913: Professor Israel Friedlander of the
Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Joel Magnes, Rabbi David de sola Pool and
Cecil B. Ruskay are scheduled to be the to the speakers at mass meeting in the
auditorium of the Educational Alliance where Young Israel will outline its
upcoming course of 25 public lectures that enjoy the support of many “prominent
Jewish citizens” including Jacob H Schiff, Louis Marshall, Justice Samuel
Greenbaum and Dr. Solomon Schechter.
1913: Today The Daly Mails Odessa
correspondent sent telegraph that read “It is reported on good authority from
Kieff that the police have found an important clue in the Yushinksy murder case
which will not improbably lead to the arrest of the actual of the crime for
which Mendel Bellis was recently tried.”
1913: Birthdate of Morris Ziff, the Brooklyn
native, who was an award winning expert in rheumatic diseases and who investigated how the body sometimes turns
on itself to cause such illnesses (As reported by Jeremy Pearce)
1914(1st of Kislev, 5675): Rosh
Chodesh Kislev
1914(1st of Kislev, 5675):
Forty-nine year old Frannie Bernstine passed away today after which she buried
at the Temple Beth-El Cemetery in Pensacola, FL.
1914: “Jews Raise Relief Fund” published
today described a fund raiser to provide relief for the Jews of Palestine where
the attendees heard from Professor R.J.H. Gotteheil of Columbia University,
Rabbi Ephraim Frisch and Rabbi Jacob Lichter of Far Rockaway, NY.
1914: “Forced Czernowitz To Raise Ransom”
published today described the “how humble Hebrews sacrificed their ritual
candelabra” to help meet demands made by General Arintinoff when his Russian
Army entered the Austrian city that the citizens pay “a levy of 600,000 rubles
in gold or silver.
1914: “For Relief of Jews” published today
provides a list of those who have contributed to the Central Committee for the
Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War including Ike Scher of Richmond, VA,
Congregation Shaarey Tzedek of Windsor, Ontario, Congregation Tree of Life, Oil
City, PA, Rebecca Bender of Ashly, ND and Congregation B’nai Jacob of Vineland,
NJ.
1915: “The Jewish News learns from Warsaw
that a fund of $125,000 raised by an American committee for the relief of Jews
in Poland, has just been transmitted to a joint committee representing the
Jewish population of Poland.”
1915 (12th of Kislev, 5676): A wide variety of Jewish and gentile leaders
including Louis Marshall, Jacob Schiff, John H. Finley, President University of
the State of New York at Albany and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of
Columbia, expressed their sense of sorrow and deep admiration for Dr. Solomon
Schechter who passed away today in New York. Schechter’s original fame rested
on his work with the Cairo Geniza. As President of the United Synagogue of
America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he was the
driving force behind Conservative Judaism.
He was an early Zionist who played an active role in the work of the
Jewish Publication Society. This brief
entry cannot do justice to his impact on the world at large or the Jewish
community in particular.
1915: In speaking today about the death of Dr. Solomon Schechter, Dr. Cyrus
Adler, the President of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning said
that they “were friends for twenty-five years” and that he considered Schechter
“the greatest Jewish scholar of his generation and the on towering personality
among all the Jews no resident in America” – “a great thinker, a great scholar,
a great leader and the most lovable of all men.”
1915: Jewish opera singer David Kronland was “appointed professor of singing
at Lemberg Conservatory of Music” today.
1915: In Vienna, formation of the “Committee for the Enlightenment of
Eastern Jewish Question.”
1915: Birthdate of Gyoengyoes, Hungary, native and Holocaust survivor,
Stephen Jeffrey Roth, the British based Director of the Institute of Jewish
Affairs and the husband of Eva Gandos.
https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-stephen-roth-1596303.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13501679508577809
1916: Today, twenty year old Russian born David Alper married his first wife
Frieda Alper.
1916: Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn
established Goldwyn Company which would become one of the most successful
independent filmmakers.
1916: Approximately 3,000 people “representing membership in thirty
affiliated Zionist societies” attended “the annual reception and ball”
sponsored by “the Zionist Council of New York” which “was held” tonight “at the
Central Opera House on East 67th Street.”
1916: “During the laying of the cornerstone of the building for the Young
Men/s and the Young Women’s Hebrew Association” today at Borough Park in
London” a telegram was read from President Wood Woodrow Wilson that said, “My
warmest greetings and good wishes. I
hope the building of which the cornerstone is now being laid will contribute in
every way to the promotion of the admirable purpose of the Y.M.H.A. and
Y.W.H.A.”
1916: “Not a single child under the age of 5 years can be found in large
areas of Poland according to a report presented to the People’s Relief
Committee for Jewish War Sufferers which opened its national convention” today
in Boston.
1916: While speaking this afternoon at the graduation exercises of the
Schools for Jewish Girls of the Kehillah at Stuyvesant High School Louis
Marshall said, “America is the logical new center of the Jewish faith and the
Jewish population of the world.”
1917: David A. Brown announced tonight that “Jacob H. Schiff has given
$200,000 to start the $5,000,000 New York campaign for Jewish War Relief and
for the Jewish Welfare Board in the United States Army and Navy.
1917: In “Jews Against Bolsheviki,” published today Herman Bernstein “who
had spent three months in Petrograd after the revolution” said that from the
point of view the Jews in Russia men like Trotsky “are not Jews in the real
sense of the word,” “are not sympathetic to Jewish culture or Jewish ideals”
and are the enemies of the Jewish people.
1917(4th of Kislev, 5678): Sixty-seven year old “communal worker”
Max Tapolsky, the Russian born son of Harris Tapolsky and the husband of Sara
Barton with whom he had one child, Harry, passed away today in Pittsburgh, PA.
1917(4th of Kislev, 5670): Forty-one year old Dr. Richard Weil
Sr, the New York born son of Matilda and Leopold Weil and the husband of Minnie
Weil who was a major in the U.S. Army passed away today at Camp Wheeler in
Georgia.
1917: “Against War Time Wealth” published today included the views of Jacob
Schiff who said that “No man should seek to increase his personal fortune for
the period of the war” since it is “the duty of every American at this time to
devote his whole thought and effort to the needs of the Government and to the
needs of those who have been made to suffer through the war.”
1917: This evening, as British forces were fighting their way to Jerusalem a thunderstorm followed by a drenching
downpour broke over the opposing armies leaving every wadi in the foothills and
on the plain in a flood making it almost impassable for wheeled vehicles,
1918: According to a cablegram
received in New York today by the ZOA, “Jewish and Zionist brigades…are being
organized throughout Austria, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia” to fight
agains those responsible for “the anti-Semitic disturbances in Galicia and
Poland” that have been going on since the first of the month.
1919: The U.S. Senate, under the leadership of the Republicans, fails to
ratify the Versailles Treaty. This meant
that the United States would not be joining the League of Nations which meant
that the League was DOA. It also
signaled America’s return to isolationism.
The rejection of the Versailles Treaty was a contributing cause to the
rise of Hitler, World War II and the Holocaust.
1919: Birthdate of Pisa native Gillo Pontecorvo the Italian filmmaker and
during WWII anti-fascist resistance fighter who won “the Golden Lion at the
Venice Film Festival in 1966” for “The Battle of Algiers.”
1919: Twenty-three-year old Avoyles Parish native Lucielle Weil Levy married
Dr. Jacob Mahne Bodenheimer today in New Orleans after which they moved to
Shreveport where he practiced medicine and they had two children – Berth and
Elias.
1919: Birthdate of Judge Wapner of People’s
Court Fame. Considering the Torah’s
injunctions about Judges, what do we make of the fact that both Judge Judy and
Judge Wapner are Jewish?
1920: “Free Synagogue Institute Arranges Courses” published described the
establishment of a Teacher’s Institute by the Free Synagogue in New York “to
meet the need for trained teachers in the field of Jewish Religious Education.”
1920: It was reported today that in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the Temple Emanuel
Sisterhood “plans to erect: a building “which will serve as a center for all
Jews regardless of the form of worship to which they adhere.”
1921: Today Joseph Missrahi Orpahli, an Oriental Jew, became the first Jew
to receive the death penalty for murder in connection with the August
riots. “Orphali was accused of firing
from a rooftop into a mob of Jaffa Arabs who had congregated supposedly for an
attack on Tel Aviv.” Three British
police officers Dixon had testified that “they had heard no shots besides those
of the police who fired on the mob, but relatives of Arabs killed declared the
accused had killed on Arab purposely and another unintentionally.”
1921: “Thirty-seven Arabs of the Tireh village, near Haifa who had
previously been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, had their sentences
reduced on appeal today to three months.
They had been accused of participating in an attack on Bath Gilim, a
suburb of Haifa.”
1921: Pinchas Ruthenberg, director of the Palestine Electric Corporation and
chairman of the Palestine National council, told the commission of inquiry”
sent from London to find the reasons for the Arab August riots and the lack of
preparation on the part of the police, “how he had warned H.C. Luke, acting
High Commissioner, of the gravity of the situation developing over the Wailing
Wall, and was told by Mrs. Luke that he was exaggerating the danger. Mr. Rutenberg’s suggestions for precautions
were not followed.”
1922: At the Hotel Astor, Dr. Samuel Buchler presided over a meeting this
afternoon of a conference of the American Cantors’ Association where plans were
discussed for the creation in New York City “for an institution for training in
traditional Jewish music and for the creation of a home for retired and
infirmed chief singers in the synagogues.
1922: In “Oscar Straus and Four Presidents” published today, Newton Fuessle
provided a lengthy review of Under Four Administrations by Oscar Straus.
1923: In Charleston, SC, Louis D. Rubin, Sr. and Jeanette Weinstein Rubin
gave birth Louis D. Rubin, Jr. “a teacher, novelist, essayist, editor and
publisher, among other things —who was devoted to the practice and promotion of
American Southern writing.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1924: Twenty-one-year-old Anne Elzabeth Whelan, the Essex, NJ born daughter
of Sarah Louis Du Plessis and Charles Augustus Whelan married Gilbert Wolf
Kahn son of Otto Hermann Kahn.
1924: At a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Herbert N. Straus, the secretary
and treasurer of R.H. Macy &Co. and the individual who “had charge of the
notion merchandising at Macy’s for years “told members of the National
Association” that “it is a mistake to regard the notions department of a retail
store as unimportant.”
1925: Birthdate of Zygmunt Bauman the Polish born sociologist who was forced
to take refuge in England in 1970 following an anti-Semitic purge orchestrated
by the Polish Communist Party. Bauman
“has made some of the most important observations about the Holocaust and
modernity.”
https://baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/about/
1926: Birthdate of Newark, NJ, native Herbert “Herb” Krautblatt, the
left-handed shooting guard for Rider University who was drafted by the
Baltimore Bullets for whom he played in 1948.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/krauthe01.html
1927(24th of Cheshvan, 5688): Parashat Chayei Sara
1927: A mass meeting at Oham Zedek Synagogue tonight marked the opening
session of the three-day convention of the Union Orthodox Jewish Congregations.
1927: In Vienna, sports physical therapist and soccer referee Arnold Steiner
and Katrina Steiner gave birth to Elise “Lisl” Steiner “a flamboyant
photojournalist who was celebrated for her intimate, emotive images of
history-tilting figures like Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., as well as luminaries of music, stage and sports…” (As
reported by Alex Williams)
1928: “The New York State Law of 1923 aimed at the rules of secrecy adopted
by the Ku Klux Klan” which hearings at a House Committee had established “was
conducting a crusade against Catholics Jews and negroes and stimulating hurtful
religious and race prejudices” “was upheld as constitutional today by the
Supreme Court of the United States.”
1928: A concert featuring Alexander Baerwald and Thelma Yellin was held in
Jerusalem as the European born Jews of Jerusalem celebrated the centenary of
the death of Schubert.
1929: Birthdate historian Norman F, Cantor, the native of Winnipeg who
specialized in the medieval period and whose sound scholarship was embodied in
an accessible style with narrative drive, which made his major textbook, The
Civilization of the Middle Ages the most widely-read overview of medieval
history.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1473036/Norman-Cantor.html
1929: U.S. premiere of “The Love Parade,” a musical comedy directed and
produced by Ernst Lubitsch co-starring Lillian Roth.
1930: “Expressing condemnation of the White Paper and the British policy in
Palestine, the National Council of Palestine Jews, which is the supreme body of
local Jewry, tonight issued a statement calling the new policy an endeavor to
undo all Jewish work in Palestine and announcing a lack of faith in the British
government.”
1931: “The Office Manager “ a comedy directed by Hans Behrendt, who died at
Auschwitz in 1942 and starring Felix Bressart, the Jewish actor who escaped to
the United States before WW II, was released today in Germany.
1932: In Brooklyn, “Alfred Pomeroy, a furniture designer who own a store on
Flatbush Avenue” and “the former Florence Greenberg gave birth to architect Lee
Harris Pomeroy.
1932: ‘The White Demon” a German language film that looks at the drug
culture starring Peter Lorre was released today in Germany by UFA.
1932: Birthdate of Avner Friedman, who earned his doctorate from Hebrew
University in 1956 and became Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and
Physical Sciences at Ohio State University.
1933(1st of Kislev, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1933: Birthdate of Gerald “Jerry” Sheindlin who served as a judge
on the television show The People’s Court and is married to Judith Sheindlin,
known as television’s Judge Judy.
1933(1st of Kislev, 5694): “Samuel Leib Gordon, noted Hebraist, teacher and
scholar who translated Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ and Zangwill’s ‘Children of
the Ghetto died’ in Tel Aviv today.” The sixty-six year old intellectual had
lived in Tel Aviv since 1924. “Mr.
Gordon was born in Lida, Lithuania in 1890.
He taught Hebrew in Jaffa from 1898 to 1910 and wrote and edited many
textbooks in Hebrew. For a time he
edited Olam Kata, a Hebrew magazine for Jewish youth, published in
Warsaw. Several volumes of a scientific
commentary on the Bible which he began in 1903 have also been published. His
son, Moses Gordon, has followed in his father footsteps by serving as general
secretary of Tarbuth, the Hebrew education movement.
1933: In Brooklyn, Jennie (Gitlitz) and Edward Jonaton Zeiger gave birth to Lawrence
Leibel Harvey Zeiger who gained fame as radio and television personality Larry
King.
1934: As the Nazis worked to revamp German culture, today “German Labour
Front leader Robert Ley decreed that time clock punching would be abolished and
replaced with bugle calls.”
1934: Birthdate of French artist Sam
Szafran.
1935(23rd of Cheshvan, 5696): Eighty-five year old Arthur
Eloesser, the Brandenburg, Germany born son of Leo and Ida Eloesser, and
husband of “Molly Helen Eloesser” passed away today in San Francisco.
1935: “The University of Budapest closed for a day due to anti-Semitic
rioting.”
1936: “Johnny Johnson,” a Kurt Weill musical directed by Less Strasburg and
a cast that included Luther Adler, Lee J. Cobb, John Garfield and Sandy Meisner
had its Broadway premiere at the 44th Street Theatre.
1936: As Hitler seeks to gain support from the Catholic Church by creating
an alliance based on the anti-Communism of the Nazis and the Church, “Pius XI
announced that communism had moved to the head of the list of ‘errors/’”
1936: One of the reasons for the issuance today of a “decree compelling the
owners of certain foreign securities to deposit them with the Reichsbank or its
designated agents bank” was “revealed by the newspaper Angriff which charges
that foreign securities are in Jewish hands.”
1936: “The occupants of the leading history chairs
in Reich universities were forced to drop their lectures and seminars for the
latter part of this week and come” to Munich “for the opening tody of the
Jewish research section of the Institute for the History of New Germany” which
“is in reality a propaganda institution devoted almost exclusively to
anti-Semitism and other National Socialist doctrines.”
1936: Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, the rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El made “a
please for strong self-respect by the Jewish people” in address he gave “at a
testimonial luncheon at the Astor Hotel” in honor of “Mrs. David E. Goldfarb
who has completed twenty-four years as president of the Mount Neboh Sisterhood”
which was attended by more than one thousand members of the sisterhood.
1936: “Evidence that that there is not and never has been unemployment among
the Arabs of Palestine since the start of the British occupation was given by
E. Mills, Director of Migration and Statistic of the Palestine Government
before the first public session of the Royal Inquiry Commission” meeting today
in Jerusalem.
1937: Today marked the end of the first of a four week London Season for the
Habima Players. They had demonstrated
what is known as the “Habima Method” in their performances of the
Dybbuk.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that the
country was generally quiet, but the Jerusalem curfew continued for the eighth
day in succession. Telephone lines were cut between Hebron and Beersheba and
Beersheba and Gaza.
1937: “Damsel in Distress,” a musical produced by Pandro S. Berman,
co-starring George Burn and featuring music and lyrics by Ira and George
Gershwin was released today in the United States.
1937: In an article critical of the Jewish development of Galilee The Post
pointed out that the Jewish settlement of Mahanayim had been completely
deserted since the riots of 1929. Mishmar Hayarden, “The Watch Over the
Jordan,” was almost a dead village with many of the farmyards burned to
the ground. The Post demanded rapid
development of this area, with particular attention given to the settlement of
those Jewish lands which belonged to persons who did not live in Palestine.
1938: “Nuremberg Ousts Jews” published today described how “uniformed storm
troops rounded up the Jewish population of Nuremberg and marched them to the
Labor Front office” where “they were ‘persuaded to accept a plan for released
their property under which the Labor Front retains 90 per cent of the
realizable value.” (Editor’s Note – Once again we see that anti-Semitism is a
profitable business.)
1938(25th of Cheshvan, 5699): Seventy-two year old existentialist
philosopher Lev Isaakovich Shestov
passed away. Born in Czarist Russia in
1886, he fled from the Bolshevicks in 1921 and settled in France where he
continued to work until his death. While not well-known today, Shestov influenced
many more famous philosophers and writers including Albert Camus.
http://www.shestov.arts.gla.ac.uk/html/biog.htm
1939: “Barricades patrolled by armed guards cut off Warsaw’s ghetto from the
rest of the city today, all Jews being strictly confined to this district.”
1939: “Anti-Semitism is not solely a Jewish problem, but one that
Protestants, Catholics and Jews must study and solve together for their mutual
security, the Rev. Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, executive director of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews, declared in an address today.”
1940: William King, the Senator from Utah who in 1927 “declared…that he
favored the United States severing diplomatic relations with any country which
failed because of anti-Semitism to protect its Jewish nationals” and “expressed
the belief that eventually Palestine would be able to support a population of a
million Jews” began serving as “President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate”
today.
1940: A Christian is killed
by German soldiers for throwing bread into the Warsaw ghetto. Close to 400,000
Jews would be contained within approximately 37,200 apartments.
1941: In the West, gassing has become the popular method of exterminating
the Jews. Eichmann moved forward on his plans for the deportation of Jews.
1941: In Brno, during the reign of Heydrich, a round up and massacre that
had begun in September during which “239 were killed outright” and at least one
thousand more met their deaths came to an end today.
1941: Friedrich Jeckeln decided that Rumbula was the best site to murder the
Jews imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto.
1942: Birthdate of Calvin Klein, the Bronx born son of Jewish-Hungarian
immigrants who went on to became a leading figure in the American fashion
industry.
1942: Birthdate of Congressman Gary Ackerman who represents New York’s Fifth
District.
1942(10th of Kislev, 5703):
The Germans shot 100 Jews from Potrkow outside of the town.
1942: Germans in Debica,
Poland, announce that as of December 1, any Pole who assists Jews “will be
punished by death.”
1942: The Forverts (The Forward) published “A soycher fun fel” (A
fur merchant), by Galician born American Yiddish author and poet Fradle Shtok.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/shtok-fradel
1942(10th of Kislev, 5703): In the Drohobycz Ghetto, the Nazis
gunned down, at random, 250 Jews on what was known as “Black Thursday.”
1942(10th of Kislev, 5703):
Bruno Schulz, the brilliant Polish Jewish author and artist, was gunned down by
a Nazi officer in the Drohobycz ghetto.
http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR29.6/paloff.php
1943: Jewish prisoners at Janowska,
a labor and extermination camp, revolted against their captors. The revolt
failed and the camp was liquidated. One
thousand of the survivors were taken to the town of Sandomierz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janowska_concentration_camp
1943: One thousand Jews
are shot at the Jewish cemetery outside Sandomierz, Poland.
1944: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment in which Max Kampelman was one of
the 36 participants began today.
1945: Five months after
World War II ended in Europe, Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Lublin, Poland. Jan T.
Gross would document post Holocaust anti-Semitism in Poland in Fear:
Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz published in 2006.
1945: It was announced today that the curfew imposed on Tel Aviv after
rioting last week will lifted effective tomorrow.
1945: “Five thousand officers and men of a Jewish brigade in the British
Army of the Rhine began a hunger strike today in protest against Foreign
Minister Bevin’s declaration on Palestine.”
Some did not go to the mess hall “while others sat idly before full
plates. The Jewish brigade is deployed
in a swath of territory from northwest Belgium and through southwest
Netherlands
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70E12FA3D5B127A93C2AB178AD95F418485F9
1945: In London members of the American League for a Free Palestine called
on Great Britain to immediately allow 100,000 Jews to settle in Palestine. Guy Gillette, a former U.S. Senator from Iowa
and head of the league warned the British that any delay would be unpopular
with the citizenry of the United States.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70E12FA3D5B127A93C2AB178AD95F418485F9
1945: Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee met twice today to discuss the situation in Palestine.
Among the attendees were Robert F. Wagner the Democratic Senator from New York
and Robert A. Taft the Republican Senator from Ohio “co-authors of a proposed
Senate resolution favoring immediate unlimited Jewish immigration to Palestine.”
[Wagner, who was a Liberal and Taft, who was a Conservative, were polar
opposite on most issues. Dealing with
the DP Jews of Europe and Palestine brought them together in common cause.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70E12FA3D5B127A93C2AB178AD95F418485F9
1946:
Inky Lautman and Sol Schwartz are among the members of the Philadelphia Sphas,
“the runner-up to Baltimore in the American Basketball League playoffs” who, it
was reported today, will take the court against the Brooklyn Gothams on
November 24.
1947(12th
of Kislev, 5752): Sixty-six year old Lodz born and European trained surgeon Dr.
Arthur Abram Salvin who had come to New York in 1923 after working in Russian
hospitals passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/11/20/104377097.pdf
1947: Chaim Weizmann “rose from his sickbed” and
went to Washington to meet with President Truman to talk about the creation of
a Jewish state that included the Negev.
1947:
A British government “spokesman said today that by the end of November, the
army already would have re-requisitioned 5,000 acres” which Zionist leaders in
Palestine are worried that the British would sell thus limiting the size of any
future Jewish state.
1947:
“Two new colonies were established today within twenty-five miles of the
Egyptian border, bring the total number of Jewish settlements in the Negev to
19 and the number of” settlers to 1,900.
1947:
Lessing J. Rosenwald, the President of the American Council for Judaism
expressed his opposition for “plans to establish the American Jewish Conference
on a permanent basis to coordinate all Jewish activities” in the United States.
1947(6th
of Kislev, 5708): Sixty-six University of Zurich trained physician Arthur A.
Salvin, the Lodz, Poland born son of “Zelman Salmonowicz and the former Hinda
who in 1923 came to the United States where he later became an attending
surgeon at Sydenham Hospital in New York passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/11/20/104377097.pdf
1948(16th
of Cheshvan, 5709): Seventy-one year old Columbia, PA born dermatologist
Dr. Ralph Bernstein, a “veteran member of the Hahnemann Medical College
faculty” passed away today.
1948:
UN mediator Ralph
Bunche accepts Israel’s proposal made yesterday that included the Jewish
state’s stated readiness to begin an armistice with the Arabs.
1948:
In an unprecedented move that would have serious consequences for the region th
UN General Assembly approves $30 million fund for relief of Palestinian
refugees forming the UNRPR. Assembly asks UN member countries for
contributions. No money would be provided for Jewish citizens forced to flee
from their homes in Arab and/or Moslem countries. These funds would create a permanent and
ever-growing refugee population on Israel’s borders and would keep the Arab and
Moslem states of the region of offering a home to their Palestinian brethren.
1949(27th
of Cheshvan, 5710): Parashat Chayei Sara
1949:
In Brooklyn, Beatrice Gutman and Holocaust survivor gave birth to Radcliff,
London School of Economics and Harvard Ph.D Amy Gutman, the wife of Michael
Doyle and mother of Abigail Doyle whose varied and distinguished career has included serving as the President
of the University of Pennsylvania and U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
1949:
It was reported today that “Moshe Sharett, the Israeli Minister of Foreign
Affairs” has arrived in the United States “to take part in the final session of
the U.N. General Assembly” where he will oppose the “plan to internationalize
Jerusalem.”
1950:
“Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shapiro of Baltimore, MD announce the engagement of their
daughter Florence to Alan Kruger to Mrs. Ida Kluger and Mr. David Kluger of New
York City.”
1950:
Birthdate of Haifa native and University of Haifa graduate Avron Kantor the
author and husband of Hagar Feinmesser with whom he had four children – Mierav,
Matan, Eitay and Neta.
https://www.ithl.org.il/page_14110
1950:
Two days after he had passed away funeral service were held in Montreal for
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Cohen, dean of the Canadian Rabbinate and president of the
Montreal Council of Orthodox Rabbis”
1951(20th
of Cheshvan, 5712): Seventy four year old Cleveland, OH businessman Abraham J.
Bialosky “the last of three brothers who gave the nursery wing to Mt. Sinai
Hospital in 1918 and one of the foundrs of the old Cleveland Jewish Center”
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/21/94280389.pdf
1951:
“Tillie’s Unpunctured Romance” published today described the love affair
between Tillie Louse (born Myrtle Ehrlich) with the tomato.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,857087-1,00.html
1952(1st
of Kislev, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1952:
“The Road to Bali” a comedy with a script co-authored by Hal Kanter and
featuring Leon Askin as “King Ramayana” was released today in the United States.
1952: The
Jerusalem Post
reported that Albert Einstein had declined to accept the offer of the Israeli
Presidency. Einstein said that while he was deeply touched by the offer, he
felt unsuited for such an office.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported
that the minister of social affairs, Mrs. Golda Myerson, promised that the new
immigrants’ tent cities would completely disappear within the next half
year. Mrs. Myerson was a former
schoolteacher from Milwaukee who would change her name to Meir and go to serve
as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister.
1953(12 of Kislev, 5714): Eighty-nine-year-old Leo Siegmund Levy, the
Buffalo born son of Siegmund Nathan Levy and Marie Emilie Ulrike Levy and the
brother of Hannah Von Hofe and Otto D. Merpall passed away today in Little
Rock, AR.
1953: As tensions mounted between Israel and Jordan because Palestinian
terrorists repeatedly crossed from Jordan into Israel, Prime Minister Churchill
cautioned against sending British troops to support the Jordanians lest they be
caught in a cross-fire between Israeli and Arab forces.
1954: Entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile
accident.
1955(4th of Kislev, 5716): Parashat Toldot
1956(15th of Kislev, 5717): Lillian Friedman Stone passed away
today after which was buried at the Home of Peace Cemetery and Emanu-El
Mausoleum in Colma, CA
1958: U.S. premiere “Houseboat,” a romantic comedy produced by Jack Rose who
also co-authored the script.
1958: In New York City, Helen and Myron Kaufman gave birth to NYU grad and
award winning film maker Charlie Kaufman whose best known film may be “Being
John Malkovich and who has had one child with his wife Denise.
1959: ABC broadcast the first episode of “The Adventures of Rocky and
Bullwinkle and Friends” for which Hans Conried provided the voices of “Snidely
Whiplash” and “Dudley Do-Right.”
1959: David Susskind produced an adaptation of “The Power and the Glory” for
tonight’s broadcast of the Play of the Week.
1961(11th of Kislev, 5722): Seventy-five year old Lithuania born
Harvard trained attorney Henry Hurwitz, the Editor-in-Chief of the Menorah
Journal and the husband of Ruth Sapinsky who used the pen name Ruth Sapin with
whom he had two sons, David and Harry, Jr., passed away today in New York City.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0002/ms0002.html
1962: S(amuel) N(athaniel) Behrman’s “Lord Pengo,” premiered in
New York City
1965: In New Orleans, Benjamin and Richard Swig acquired the Roosevelt Hotel
from Seymour Weiss, renaming it the Fairmont-Roosevelt before finally changing
the name to the Fairmont New Orleans.
1963: It was announced today at the 47th biennal General Assembly
in Chicago, that a “survey to determine the attitudes of Reform Jews towards
worship practices in the synagogue has been initiated by the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.”
1967: “The Happy Time,” “a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred
Ebb, and a book by N. Richard Nash” premiered today in Los Angeles.
1968: During the pre-Broadway tryout of “Dear World” a musical with lyrics
and music by Jerry Herman, the NYT reported today that Producer Alexander Cohen
had denied reports of backstage friction.
1969: “The Comic” directed by Carl Reiner who co-produced and co-wrote the
film with Aaron Ruben was released in the United States today.
1969(9th of Kislev, 5730): Morris Garfinkle, the “husband of Eva
Rivka Garfinklle” and the father of Cyril Harold Gary passed awe today.
1969(9th of Kislev, 5730): Sixty-three year old Harvard trained
labor lawyer Lee Pressman, the husband of the former Sophia Platnik passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/21/89385294.pdf
https://spartacus-educational.com/Lee_Pressman.htm
1971(1st of Kislev, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1971: Birthdate of Laurel, MD native and Oberlin College English major, Myla
Goldberg, the musician whose instruments of choice are the banjo and the
accordion and author of the Bee Season, which was the basis for the 2005 film
of the same name.
http://www.fluxfactory.org/fluxers/myla-goldberg/
http://www.grendel.org/milgeek/myla.html
1971 (1st of Kislev): Seventy-five year old Yiddish poet and essayist Jacob
Glatstein passed away
http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/761/features/summoned-home/
http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/jacobglatstein.html
1971(1st of Kislev, 5732): Sportscaster Bill Stern passed away at the age of
64.
http://www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/BillStern.htm
1971: U.S. premiere of “Werewolves on Wheels” filmed by cinematographer
Isidore Mankofsky.
1972(13th of Kislev, 5733): Eighty-seven year old Nathan M
Orbach, the founder of the department store chain that bears his name passed
away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ohrbach
1972: In Kent, NY. Rabbi Charles Roth officiated at the wedding of Rona
Carol Lefkowitz, “the daughter of Nat Lefkowitz, the president of the William
Marris Agency and Stephen Leon who works at the theatrical agency.
1974(5th of Kislev, 5735): Seventy-seven-year old Solomon
Brachman, the Latvian born son of Marcus Mordechai Brachman and Chaya Mindel
Brachman and the husband of Etta Brachman passed away today.
1975: Birthdate of New York native Lauren Grodsein, the Rutgers University
professor and novelist whose works included the best-seller A Friend of the
Family
1975: U.S. premiere of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: produced by Saul
Zaentz with a screenplay co-authored by Bo Goldman filmed by cinematographer
Haskell Wexler.
1976: “Mark Lutsker, who had recently completed a two year sentence for
draft evasion” received “an exit visa” so he could go to Israel.
1976: “Dorothy Schiff, editor in chief and publisher of the New York Post
announced that she had agreed to sell the afternoon daily to Rupert Murdoch,
the Australian publisher.”
1977: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in
Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1977: Birthdate of gymnast Kerri Strug, the Tucson, AZ, native who was a
member of the Magnificent Seven
1978: In Israel, four people were killed and thirty were injured as a result
of bus bombing that was aimed at citizens of Belgium, Canada, Sweden and the
UK.
1979: Thirteen people waiting at a
bus stop were injured by a bomb that had been placed on a bus.
1979: A second bomb placed on a
different bus exploded but there were no reports of casualties.
1980: CBS TV bans
Calvin Klein’s jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields. [He is Jewish; she is not.]
1980: “Taxi” starring Judd Hirsch and created by Ed Weinberger begins its
third season.
1981(22nd of Cheshvan, 5742): Seventy-one year old Michigan State
and CFL star and Detroit High School football coach Abe Eliowitz who was the
husband of Gertrude Lipman and Ida Sara Lachman passed away today.
1982(3rd of Kislev, 5743): Sixty year old Canadian born Erving
Groffman sociologist passed away today. (As reported by William Dicke
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/goffmanbio.html
1983(13th of Kislev, 5744):
Fifty seven year old lyricist Carolyn Leigh passed away.(As reported by
G. Gerald Fraser)
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/21/obituaries/carolyn-leigh-lyricist-for-peter-pan-dies.html
1984: The final entry of The Making of the President 1984, co-authored by
Theodore White titled “The Shaping of
the Presidency, 1984” which was “a lengthy post-election analysis piece in
TIME, in its special Ronald Reagan issue which was published today.
1985: Des Moines resident and Polish born Holocaust survivor Fred Badower
was interviewed today.
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn693347
1986(17th of Cheshvan, 5747): Seventy-six year old German born
“Swiss musicologist” Harry Goldschmidt passed away today in Dresden.
1987(27th of Cheshvan, 5748): Eighty-nine year old Belarus born
Simon Halkin, the Israeli “poet, novelist and teacher” who translated the works
of Shelley, Shakespeare and Walt Whitman into Hebrew passed away today.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080309153253/http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=107
1988: A month before his death at the age of 79, Alter Mojze Goldman was
elected to the Légion d’Honneur on for his role in the French Résistance today.
1991(12th of Kislev, 5752): Two days before his 92nd
birthday, “Austrian-Swiss ophthalmologist and
inventor Hans Goldmann passed away today.
http://ascrs.org/honorees/hans-goldmann-md
https://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/76/6/384.full.pdf
1991: The Dallas Symphony Orchestra performed a rare Mavin Hamlisch
classical symphonic suite titled Anatomy of Peace (Symphonic Suite in one
Movement For Full Orchestra/Chorus/Child Vocal Soloist)
1992: Robert Strauss completed his tour as United States Ambassador to
Russia.
1993: “Addams Family Values” a sequel to “The Adams Family” directed by
Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Scott Rudin and with a script by Paul Rudnick was
released in the United States today.
1994: The Shagmar Commission which had been established to conduct to
investigate the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin held its first meeting today.
1998: During the Mona Lewinsky scandal, The United States House of
Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S.
President Bill Clinton.
1997: “The Hunter” an 1833 painting by Danish painter David Moines was sold
at Butterfield’s today.
1998(30th of Cheshvan, 5759): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1998(30th of Cheshvan, 5759): Seventy-seven year old American film producer,
writer and director Alan J. Pakula the Yale educated son of Jewish parents from
Poland passed away. Some of his more memorable efforts included “To Kill a
Mockingbird,” “Sophie’s Choice,” “Klute” and “The Pelican Brief.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/20/movies/alan-j-pakula-film-director-dies-at-70.html
1999(10th of Kislev, 5760): Eighty-seven year old publisher and
editor Alexander Liberman passed away today.
1999: In Atlanta, GA, the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities
comes to an end.
2000: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including At
Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture
by James E. Young, Highlanders:
A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yoav Karny, Lying
Awake by Mark Saltzman and Louisa by by Simone Zelitch
2001: During the investigation of Jack Abramoff’s business dealings in Guam,
U.S. Attorney Frederick A. Black, the chief prosecutor for Guam and the
instigator of the indictment, was unexpectedly demoted and removed from the
office he had held since 1991.
2002: Amram Mitzna “won the Labour’s leadership elections today with 54% of
the vote.”
2003(24TH of Cheshvan, 5764): Patricia Ter´n Navarrete, 33, of
Ecuador was killed and four other tourists, pilgrims from Ecuador, were wounded
when a terrorist entered the Israel-Jordan border crossing terminal north of
Eilat from the Jordanian side and opened fire..
2003(24th of Cheshvan, 5764): Nineteen year old Sgt. Liron Siboni
of Ramat Gan died today from the wounds suffered on September 9th
when Hamas terrorist attacked the bus stop next to Tzrifin military base.
2004(6th of Kislev, 5765): Children’s book illustrator Trina Schart Hyman
passes away.
2004: “National Treasure” an adventure movie directed by Jon Turteltabu who
co-produced it along with Jerry Bruckheimer, with music by Trevor Rabin and
co-starring Harvey Keitel was released today in the United States.
2004: “Palaces of Prayer,” sponsored by the Angel Orensanz Foundation,
Eldridge Street Project and the Lower East Side Conservancy came to a close
today at the Angel Orensanz Center.
http://forward.com/culture/4420/built-judaism/
2004: The Wall Street Journal
publishes “They Call It Chrismukkah: ‘The O.C.’ launches a new
interfaith holiday” in which columnist Jonathan Eig describes another response
to the confluence of Christmas and Chanukah in America. “The O.C.,”
is a television show which traces the lives of some hip teens in Orange County,
Calif. One of them is Seth Cohen, the fictional son of a Protestant mother and
a Jewish father.
2005: The movement that was the first to welcome intermarried families into
its synagogues nearly three decades ago now will focus on actively inviting
non-Jews to convert to Judaism. That was one of the initiatives announced by
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, during his
Shabbat sermon at the movement’s 68th biennial in Houston.
2006: The New York Times book section featured reviews of Celebrate
Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of
Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan, Collected Poems:1947-1997
by Allen Ginsberg, and I, Goldstein:
My Screwed Life by A
Goldstein and Josh Alan Friedman
2007: Eighty-eight year old André Bettencourt, who like so many Frenchmen of
his generation had a checkered pass, as can be seen by his service as cabinet
under President Pierre Mendès France after having written during the days of
Vichy France that Jews were “hypocritical Pharisees whose race has been forever
sullied by the blood of the righteous” for which “they will be cursed” passed
away today.
2007: In Jerusalem, as part of the International Oud Festival, Dovid Broza
and Yair Dalal present an evening of love songs in Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic.
2007(9th of Kislev, 5768): Ninety-one year old Wiera Gran passed
away.
2007: In “Bad and Badder” published today described F. Murray Abraham’s
reaction to playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Barabas in
Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta
http://nymag.com/arts/theater/profiles/26544/
2007(9th of Kislev, 5768): Ido Zuldan, a 29 year old resident of Shavei
Shomron was killed by Palestinian gunman while traveling between two villages
on the West Bank while in a separate incident, five Qassam rockets and 18
mortar shells struck the western Negev including at least one rocket that
struck the city of Ashkelon.
2008: Barney Rosset receives a lifetime achievement award from the National
Book Foundation in honor of his many contributions to American publishing,
especially his groundbreaking legal battles to print uncensored versions of Lady
Chatterley’s Lover and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. He is also
the subject of “Obscene,” a documentary by Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O’Connor.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hadassah Book Club discusses The History of Love by Nicole
Krauss at the home of Amy Barnum.
2008: On its final night the Ninth Annual Rutgers New Jersey Jewish Film
Festival presents “Four Seasons Lodge”, a movie about a bungalow colony in New
York’s Catskill Mountains, has provided idyllic refuge to a group of Holocaust
survivors and their families for nearly three decades.
2008: Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor won his race to become the new
minority whip today, becoming the second-ranking Republican in the US House of
Representatives.
2008: Facing a tight economic crunch, the New York-based Anti-Defamation
League has laid off nearly 10 percent of its staff at its national
headquarters, the organization said today..
2008: Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb
of biblical King Herod said today they have unearthed lavish Roman-style wall
paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East and signs of a regal
two-story mausoleum, bolstering their conviction that the Jewish monarch was
buried here
2008: Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg replaced Moshe Tamir as commander of
The Israel Defense Forces Gaza Division (Territorial) which is subordinate to
the Southern Regional Command.
2008: Today, following dozens of Qassam rockets and mortar rounds which
exploded on Israeli soil, the plan for operation cast lead was brought for
Barak’s final approval.
2008: John Key assumed office as the 38th Prime Minister of
Australia.
2009: Melvin Urofsky, a professor of law and public policy, discusses and
signs “Louis D. Brandeis: A Life,” his new biography of the Supreme
Court justice, at the National Archives
2009: At the Trade Fair and Convention Center in Tel Aviv the Fifth
International Water Technologies and Environmental Control Exhibition – WATEC
Israel 2009 comes to an end.
2009: Moshe Holtzberg, son of
Barvriel and Rivka Holztberg of blessed memory who were murdered by the
terrorists in Mumbain in 2008, receives his first haircut at a ceremony called
upshiren.
2009: The Iowa Department of Economic Development Board
approved state incentivizes of more than $600,000 that will help kosher
meatpacker Agri Star Meat & Poultry in Postville launch a $6.7 million
expansion to add a line of oven-baked beef and poultry.
2010: Israeli/International Folk Dance for Seniors is the
scheduled activity for today at The Jewish Folk Arts Festival.
2010: An exhibition featuring the work of Ayala Gazit, the
Haifa born photographer, entitled “Was It A Dream,” is scheduled to open in New
York City.
2010: Following multiple rockets and mortar shells being fired
into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip today, the IDF confirmed that IAF jets
successfully struck three terror-related targets in Gaza in response.
2010(12th of Kislev, 5771):
Children’s writer Betty Jean Kirschner, the wife of psychiatrist Robert Jay
Lofton, the son of Harold A. Lofton and Ciel Roth, passed away today.
2010(12th of Kislev, 5771): Seventy six year
old Marvin Levin,
a real estate developer who wore a wire in his cowboy boots during a major FBI
anti-corruption sting of California’s state government in the 1980s, passed
away today
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/11/local/la-me-marvin-levin-20101211
2011: “Now I Am Talking, Memories of a Woman
Partisan” a film that tells the story of Vitka Kovner, the Jewish resistance
fighter who was the wife of Abba Kovner, is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish
Eye World Jewish Film Festival.
2011: Adat Reyim is scheduled to host its
annual Autumn Art Auction in Springfield, VA.
2011: Cellist Inbal
Segev is scheduled to perform selected string trios as part of the Amerigo trio
with Glenn Dicterow and Karen Dreyfus at the music for Youth Concert in New
York.
2011: David “Amram was awarded the 1st Annual
Bruce Ricker Lifetime Achievement Award under the auspices of The Paso Digital
Film Festival.”
2011: Israel sees
cracks in Syrian power structures amid increasingly violent unrest, and there
are signs President Bashar Assad may not be in power for long, Defense Minister
Ehud Barak said on today.
2011: Israel Police
and the Communications Ministry cut off the broadcasts of Kol Hashalom radio
station today, claiming that they are pirate broadcasts.
2011(22nd of Cheshvan, 5772):
Eighty-one year old museum curator I. Michael Heyman passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/us/michael-heyman-smithsonian-leader-dies-at-81.html
2011(22nd of Cheshvan, 5772):
Ninety-three year old “Sanford D. Garelik, a former New York City mayoral
candidate and a City Council president who served the city amid the fiscal and
criminal turmoil of the 1970s” passed away today. (As reported by Matt
Flegenheimer)
2012: Jean-François Copé begins serving as
President of the Union for a Popular Movement Group in the French National
Assembly,
2012: The Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present “Jewish World in Action: Facing the Polish-Jewish Refugee
Crisis, 1648-1683.”
2012(5th of Kislev, 5774): Eighty
two year old Warren Rudman, the senator who led the fight for a balanced budget
passed away today. (As reported by Adam Clymer)
2012: The Wiener
Library and the University of London are scheduled to host “The Strongest
Possible Terms”: The Evolving Role of Parliamentary Condemnations of
Atrocities Past and Present a debate marking the 70th Anniversary of the United
Nations Declaration on the Persecution of the Jews.
2012: The Jewish Community Center of Northern
Virginia is scheduled to sponsor a musical evening celebrating 100 years of
Woody Guthrie.
2012: To date, since the start of the year,
more than 1,700 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza.
2012: As Sunday gives way to Monday, Israel
continues to defend itself during Operation Pillar of Defense.
2012: Two Katyusha missiles aimed at Israel
from Lebanon were “discovered” today in the southern region.
2012: Israel’s
operation to stem Palestinian rocket fire on southern Israel continued in its
sixth day today. The Israel Air Force struck over 80 terrorist targets in Gaza,
while Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired 130 rockets into Israel.
2013:
“It’s Better To Jump” and “The Lesson” are scheduled to be shown at the Other
Israel Film Festival.
2013:
Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs warned today “that chances of
peaceful end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be ‘irreparably damaged’
unless steps are taken to prevent new Israeli settlement building and ‘other
negative developments.’” The U.N.
official did not define what he meant by “other negative developments” but apparently,
they do not include the murder of Israelis by Arab terrorists and the mortar
and rocket attacks that have taken place since the talks began following Israel
releasing dozens of terrorists.
2013:
Terrorists in Gaza fired mortars at IDF soldiers on the Israel side of the
border between the Palestinian “entity” and the Jewish state.
2013:
IAF destroyed a weapons factory and two tunnels used by terrorists this evening
in response to Arab attacks which come on the first anniversary of Pillar of
Defense.
2013(16th
of Kislev, 5774): Ninety-eight year old children’s book author and editor
Charlotte Zolotow passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “The Rosenburg Files: The
German Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi Past.”
2014:
Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life is scheduled to present
Charles Asher Small speaking on “The Dimensions of Global Anti-Semitism: Will
it spread to the U.S.?”
2014:
“Dancing in Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the Oregon Jewish Museum and
Center for Holocaust Education.
2014:
The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department under the leadership of Dr.
Brian Horowitz is scheduled to present Erga Atad speaking on “How News Becomes
News: The Israeli Case.”
2014:
Decent people everywhere mourn the loss of Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, 40, Rabbi
Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Rabbi Kalman Levine, 50, Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59 and
Police Officer Zidan Saif, 30 who were brutally murdered yesterday in
Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood by two Arab terrorists.
2014:
“Members of Kehilat Bnei Torah Synagogue returned today for morning prayers
(Shacharit), the first service held at the shul since the gruesome terror
attack Tuesday that left five people dead.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/congregants-return-to-synagogue-for-first-prayers-after-attack/
2014:
“Police set up checkpoints around some Arab neighborhoods and beefed up their
presence across Jerusalem Wednesday as the city boosted security efforts a day
after a deadly attack on a synagogue that left five people dead.”
2014(26th
of Cheshvan, 5775): The multi-talented 83 year old Mike Nichols passed away
today.
2015:
“According to a new Weizmann Institute study by Professor Eran Segal and R.
Eran Elinav” published in today’s issue of the journal “Cell,” the reason it
may be “so hard for some people to lose weight” is “because different people’s
bodies respond differently to the same meal, depending on their gut bacteria.”
2015:
In Los Angeles, the 29th Israel Film Festival is scheduled to come
to an end.
2015:
“A major American Academic association, the American Anthropological
Association, overwhelmingly approved a resolution to boycott Israeli academic
institutions during the group’s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado” today.
2015:
Micah Goodman, a
lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a research fellow at the Shalom
Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the director of Israel’s Ein Prat Midrasha
is scheduled to discuss his latest work, Maimonides and the Book That
Changed Judaism at the Skirball Center.
2015:
“The Zionist Idea” and “The Kind Words” are scheduled to be shown in Melbourne
during the Jewish International Film Festival.
2016(18th of Cheshvan,
5777): Shabbat Vayera
2016(18th of Cheshvan,
5777): Eighty-eight year old Oscar winning production designer Paul Sylbert
passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/movies/paul-sylbert-dead-oscar-winner-heaven-can-wait.html
2016(18th of Cheshvan,
5777): Ninety-five year old optometrist Irving Fradkin the creator of the
Dollars for Scholars program passed away today.
https://scholarshipamerica.org/fradkin/
2016: Today, “black paint was poured
on a monument for Holocaust victims on Mogilev, a city in Belarus located 150
miles east of the capital of Minsk” which was just one more sign of an increase
in anti-Semitism among Ukrainians
2016; “The Pickle Recipe” and “One
Week and A Day” are scheduled to be shown in Brisbane, Australia as part of the
Jewish International Film Festival.
2016; “The Wedding Date” and “The 90
Minute War” are scheduled to be shown at the 20th UK International
Jewish Film Festival.
2016: After six months, “Sign from
Iran” an exhibition of 60 original Iranian art posters on display at Jerusalem’s Museum for Islamic ‘Art is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2017(1st
of Kislev, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Kislev;
2017:
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to hold its
annual meeting where attendees will discuss “Envisioning Our Future Museum.”
2017:
Elisha Wiesel, son of the late Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Elie Wiesel, is scheduled to speak at Highland Park, Illinois High School
Auditorium where he will reflect “on the indelible legacy his father left for
him and the world, and how he works to advance his father’s message today.”
2017:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel by Francine
Klagsbrun, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn,
Heather, The Totality by Matthew Weiner, The Age of Perpetual Light
by Josh Weil, Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin and Dead
Girls and Other Stories by Emily Geminder as well as he audiobook The
State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
2017:
“The Algemeiner is scheduled to host a conversation with journalist and former
Taliban captive Jere Van Dyk on “From Daniel Pearl to Steven Sotloff: Jews and
Political Kidnapping.”
2017:
“Ben-Gurion, Epilogue” and “Bye Bye Germany” are scheduled to be shown today in
London at the 21st UK International Jewish Film Festival.
2017:
As part of its series of Biblical trials series, the Streicker Center is
scheduled to host “The People vs. Eve with Kelly Ayotte as prosecutor and Alan
Dershowitz, the attorney who helped Kalus Von Bulow beat the charge of murder,
serving as defense attorney.
2017:
Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
contemplate Jewish books and the lives of authors such as Joan Nathan whose
wide variety of cookbooks included The Jewish Holiday Baker and Jewish
Cooking in America continues today.
2018:
“Makeup and lifestyle persona, Ashley Waxman Bakshi” is scheduled
to meet her fans at the Jerusalem Azrieli Mall.
2018: Three days after he had passed away, funeral services are
scheduled to be held for 93 year old WW 2 U.S Navy Veteran and ISU electrical
engineering graduate Arnold Bucksbaum, who worked on the Apollo Moon Landing
Project at Collins and who was a long time member of Temple Judah following
which he will be buried at Eben Israel Cemetery.
https://www.cedarmemorial.com/Obituary/2018/Nov/Arnold-M-Bucksbaum/
2018:
“Steve Pinker Thinks the Future Is Looking Bright” published today provides a
snapshot of the views of the iconoclastic Harvard psychologist and author of Enlightenment
Now.
2018:
“The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With
Others” published today provided a review of Trinity by Louisa Hall.
2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dr. Diane Sharon lecturing on “The
Secret Life of The Psalms” and Dr. David Kraemer lecturing on “Maimonides: The
Man and His Genius.”
2018:
The YIVO Institute is scheduled to host Harriet Jackson lecturing on “Political
and Spiritual Resistance, From Russia to France: The Extraordinary Case of
Rabbi Zalman Schneerson.”
https://www.yivo.org/Zalman-Schneerson
2019:
In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Federation is scheduled to a Day of
Philanthropy that will include a luncheon featuring “keynote speaker Sander
Weill” and honoring Alvin H. Baum, Jr.
2019:
In New Orleans, the JCC is scheduled to host “SHUK: From Market to Table, the
Heart of Israeli Home Cooking” which is part of The Cathy and Morris Bart
Jewish Cultural Arts Series.
2019:
In University City, MO, Kol Rinah Synagogue, in cooperation with the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum is schedule to host “American and the
Holocaust: What Did Missourians Know?” presented by Dr. Edna Friedberg, the
Director of Strategic Relationships at the USHMM.
2019:
In Glasgow, the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of
“The Unorthodox.”
2019:
Benny Ganz is down to his last two days to form a government
2019:
The Petaluma, CA Community Center is scheduled to host Leon Malmed the “Holocaust
survivor from France discussing his family’s harrowing experiences, with video
presentation.”
2020:
Dr. Michael Braffman, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Pennsylvania
Hospital and an Infectious Disease Specialist, who has been on the front lines
in the fight against COVID is scheduled to be honored this evening during the
Center for Jewish History Virtual Gala.
2020:
The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to stream “The Sign Painter”
and “The Shiva Baby.”
2020:
Israelis awake to a world with new Covid rules which will “allow a maximum of
10 customers inside one store in an effort to combat overcrowding in open-air
malls.”
2020:
The Columbus Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the final screening of
“Breaking Bread” followed by a Q and A with director Beth Hawk.
2020:
The Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces is scheduled to host online, David
Friedman, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel discussing stories from the secret UAE
Peace Treaty Negotiations.
2020:
The Maine Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the last screening “Every
Mother’s Son.”
2021:
A live broadcast is scheduled to take place on Kan Kol Muska of “Vocal Music in
Ein Kerem.”
2021:
Chabad of Oakland, CA is scheduled to host “YJP Friendsgiving Shabbat” where
Young Jewish Professionals enjoy an evening that “includes kiddush, drinks, and
a full dinner with homemade challah.”
2021:
The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online “JLive With Mandy
Silverman” during which Instagram challah guru Mandylicious’s Mandy Silverman will
share “the secrets of her creative and exceptional challah-baking, which to
date includes over 300 unique, original, kosher recipes, several of which have
been enjoyed at JArts’s flagship food celebration, Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen.”
2022:
The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to host “A Viennese Morning,” a chamber
music concert with the Ben Haim Trio.
2022:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host screenings of “The Forger” and “The Man in
the Basement.”
2022:
In Putnam Valley, NY, the Eden Village Camp is scheduled to host a special
Havdalah gather complete with a musical havdalah ceremony, fire-roasted snacks,
DIY besamim (spice) bags and candles, and shmoozing!
2022
(25th of Cheshvan, 5783) Chayei Sarah (The Life of Sarah)
2023:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum in partnership with the Consulate General of
Ukraine in Chicago, is scheduled to host a live conversation in honor of the
90th anniversary of the Holodomor, one of the least known genocides of the 20th
century, and how Russia’s current war of aggression and atrocity crimes has
unearthed genocidal policies against Ukrainians today.
2023:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Wham! Bam! Pow! Creating Comic Book
Characters,” a unique workshop exploring the art of character development and
illustration led by PJ Our Way author Dov Smiley.”
2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a panel discussion about
what it truly means to reject ageism and age well in its historic Main
Sanctuary.
2023:
The Jewish Museum of Monmouth County is scheduled to host its “Hanukkah Menorah
Painting.”
2023:
In London, AJEX, the Jewish Military Association is scheduled to host a parade
and ceremony at the Cenotaph “honoring the men and women who fought for use.
2023:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host screenings of “The Camera of Doctor
Morris,” “Queen of the Deuce,” “The Narrow Bridge” and “Revenge: Our Dad the
Nazi Killer.”
2023:
At the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History the museum store is
scheduled to host a pre-Chanukah event.
2023:
In Atlanta, The 32nd annual edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA is
scheduled to come to an end today.
2023:
The New York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including the audiobook Going Infinite: The Rise and
Fall of a New Tycoon which tells the tale of Sam Bankman-Fred and The
Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
which includes a “chapter on David Oppenheim (“The Rabbi”), who, in
late-17th-century Worms, began collecting manuscripts from “across the whole
diaspora of international Judaism” and who “maintained an active relationship
with the Hebrew printing industry while facing “Christian censorship and
antisemitic destruction.”
2023:
As November 19 begins in Israel, tensions on the northern border increase following yesterday’s
launch of at 25 rockets that triggered sirens in several northern towns, Hamas
continues to be threat as can be seen by yesterday’s rocket launches and the Hamas held
hostages begin day 44 in captivity.
(Editor’s
note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just
providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
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