September1
September is an auspicious month interms of JewishHistory. Likemostthings inthe world of Jews, it is amixed bag-- a combination of the bitter and the sweet.
Today we mark the anniversary of the startof World War II. By the end of the war, the world of European Jewry wouldlie in ruins. After two thousand years of growth and contribution, thatcivilization would cease to exist as we had known it.
September also marks theanniversary of the beginning of the Jewish community in the UnitedStates. From twenty-three stormed tossed refugees has come one of themost dynamic civilizations in Jewish history.
1312 BCE (10th of Tishrei):According to the Bible, the day on which Moses came down from Mt. Sinai withthe second set of Tablets on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed.
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tishrei_10.html
992: In Limoges, France, A Jewishapostate named Sechog ben Ester planted a wax figure in the ark of the localsynagogue and then accused the local Jews of using it to curse the local Lordby devil magic. Although they succeeded in deflecting the accusation, the ideathat Jews were devil worshippers was gaining more acceptance in the Christianworld. A brief account...
1181: Lucius III, who issued AdAbolendam – a Papal Bull condemning heresy which created the Inquisition – waselected Pope today/
1199(8th of Tishri): Maimonides wrote toSamuel Ibn-Tibbon, who as translating the "Guide to the Perplexed fromArabic into Hebrew. The letter includedadvice on how to do this as well as plea that Ibn-Tibbon not undertake hisplanned trip from France to Egypt to visit him.The distance was too great and he would be too busy since to see him formore than an hour since each day except Shabbat he must travel from Fostat toCairo where he spends half a day ministering to the Sultan and his court. Then he travels back to Fostat where he isbesieged by Jews, Moslems, et al all seeking his medical skill and advice.
1239: During the Baron’s Crusade, whoseleaders included Simon de Montfort, the Earl of Leicester who expelled the Jewsfrom his domain and cancelled all debts owed to the Jews of England, Theobold,the King of Navarre reach Acre
1267:Ramban (Moses Nachmanides or Moses ben Nachman) arrived inJerusalem. Born in 1194, Nachmanides was a famed commentator on the Torah andTalmud and a major communal leader in Spain.He also was the court physician to King James of Aragon (a part ofSpain). King James forced him to defendJudaism in a public debate with Pablo Christiani, a Jew who had converted toCatholicism. To make a long story short,Nachmanides vigorous defense angered the Dominican friars and Nahcmanides wasforced to flee. He gave life to a Jewishcommunity in Jerusalem that had fallen on such hard times that it had troublegathering a minyan. Among other thingshe built a synagogue in Jerusalem that was the sole such building for severalcenturies to come. Nachmanides moved toAcre in 1268 where he led that community until 1270.
1271: Gregory X, the pontiff who will issue “Sicut Judaeis” in1272 which absolved the Jews of “using Christian blood for ritual purposes”began his papacy.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Papal_Protection_of_the_Jews.html
1553: Today, amidst thechaos that followed the death of King Edward VI, Miles Cloverdale, a translator of the Bible into English whor*lied on Luther’s Bible and the Vulgate but who did have some knowledge ofHebrew as can be seen by the fact that “the name of the Diety appears in Hebrewon the Title Page” and that Hebrew characters are used to mark the divisions ofthe Book of Lamentations” was placed under house arrest in Exeter.
1566: Birthdate ofEdward Alleyn “a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre” known for hisportrayal of Barabbas in “The Jew of Malta.”
1577: Pope Gregory XIII, reconfirming the Bull offPopeNicholas
1584: Gregory XIII issued Sancta Mater Ecclesia, a Papal Bullconcerning the obligatory preaching of Christian sermons to Jews. The Bull required that 100 men and 50 womenbe sent every Saturday to listen to conversion sermons delivered in a churchnear the ghetto.
1592: Archbishop Salikowski ordered the Jews to build a church inLvov Poland marking a period of increasing persecution.
1614: Vincent Fettmich expelledthe Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany.
1690(8th of Tishrei, 5451): Rabbi Henoch FraenkelHa-Levi, A.B.D Bamberg and Hanau the Prague born “son of David Abner, HabnerEizenstadt, Halevi, the husband of Ritschel Rachel Fränkel and father ofElhanan Elkan Fraenkel; Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Fraenkel, A.B.D Rheinland-Pfalz andAnsbach; Baermann Fraenkel; Wolf Fraenkel; Moses Fraenkel; and Hirsch Frankel”passed away today in Furth, Germany.
1715: King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72years. The Sun King’s record in dealingwith the Jewish people was never good, but it got really awful just before hisdeath. Seized with the deathbedreligious fervor the debauched, he came fully to accept the position of theChurch and the Jesuits when he banned all Jews from Marseilles Toulon and therest of Provence in 1710. “The Jews were ordered, in his words, ‘to leave thekingdom without any belongs’ and local officials were told to take any and allmeans to expel the Jews ‘because that is our wish.’”
1738: A letter written today, informs Thomas Birch that Solomon“Mendes and his family…will take him to see the “Earl of Burlington’s House andGardens.”
1749: “The delegates of the Hungarian Jews, except those fromSzatmár County, assembled at Pressburg and met a royal commission, whichinformed them that they would be expelled from the country if they did not paythe ‘toleration-tax’ that had been imposed on them during the reign of QueenMaria Theresa the daughter of Charles IIIThe commission wanted 50,000 gulden; the queen wanted 30,000 gulden andthe Jews ended up paying 20,000 gulden a year for an agreement that allowedthem to stay in their homes for five years (Ant-Semitism is a money maker)
1752: The Liberty Bell arrived inPhiladelphia. The Bell is inscribed with words from the 25th chapterof Leviticus, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all theinhabitants thereof. It is but oneof many examples of how Jewish culture and values had an impact on Westerncivilization in general and, in this case, early American culturespecifically.
1761:Birthdate of German theologian Heinrcih Paulus, author of the “The JewishNational Separation: Its Origin, Consequences and the Means of its Correction”a pamphlet in which he “argued that "Jews were a nation apart and wouldremain so as long as they were committed to their religion, whose basic intentand purpose were to preserve them in that condition. In a country that was nottheir own, therefore, Jews could not claim more than the bare protection oftheir lives and possessions. They might certainly not claim politicalequality."
1763:Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home inMoscow. Betskoy was an educational reformer and accepting his plan was inkeeping with Catherine’s self-image of being “a child of the Enlightenment.”This happened a year after Catherine came to the throne in a period when herhold on the office was still shaky due to the way she had gained hercrown. At this time, Catherine was alsogingerly working her way around the anti-Jewish laws of her late mother-in-law“quietly” allowing “useful” Jews such as doctors, contractors and businessmanto work in St. Petersburg. Catherine’s accepting view of her Jewish subjectswould change during the last years of her reign, when the limitations she placedon them began the creation of what would become the Pale of Settlement.
1768: German-Jewish Hebraist and educationistNaphtali Hirz Wessely and his wife gave birth to German composer Karl BernhardWessely.
1786: Today,the Calcutta Gazette reported that the Court of Directors had appointed LyonPrager to serve as the exclusive dealer in pearls, diamonds and other preciousstones for a period of seven years in Benares.
1791: InLondon, Levi Barent Cohen,one of founders and first president of the Bread, Meat andCoal Society that provided relief for the poor Jews of London and theUtrecht born of Barend Zelig Cohen and his wife Lydia Barnet-Cohen gave birthto Isaac Cohen, the husband of Sarah Cohen and the father of John Cohen;Juliana de Rothschild; Anna Louisa Cohen and Lucy Cohen.
1795:Birthdate of James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the found of the New York Herald.When he died in 1872, he would be memorialized as “an honest supporter and truefriend” of the Jewish people whose newspaper “always gave firm and true supportto” the Jewish people.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE0DE1439EF34BC4153DFB0668389669FDE
1800: LyonNathan married Hannah Benjamin at the Great Synagogue today.
1805: InGeorgetown, SC, Sarah Judah and Lizer Joseph gave birth to Jacob Judah Joseph,the husband of Sarah Emanuel and the father of Lizar, Molcie, Josephine andJoseph ben Joseph.
1805: Duringthe dispute sparked by the publication of ‘Emeḳ ha-Shaweh (Vale of the Plain),Rabbi Moses Münz summoned two rabbis to come to Óbuda to form with him atribunal before which would hear the case against the author, Rabbi AronChorin.
1810: InJebenhausen, Germany, “Rehle (Sarah) Jonathan and Moses Faist Rosenheim gavebirth to Perez Rosenheim.
1819(11thof Elul, 5579): Seventy-six-year-old Abigail Seixas, the daughter of IsaacMenes Siexas and Rachel Franks Levy passed away today in Richmond, VA.
1820: FormerPresident Thomas Jefferson wrote to Dr. Jacob De La Motta of Savannah, GA. Jefferson repeated his belief in religiousfreedom and his happiness at “restoration of the Jews” especially as regards“their social rights.” He looks forwardto the day when they will take “their seats on the benches of science” aspreparation to “their doing the same at the board of government.” (As reported by the Jewish Virtual Library)
1822: Brazil declared its independence from Portugal. Soon afterthis declaration of independence many Spanish Jews from Morocco migrated to thearea. By 1879 Sephardim had settled all the way down to the Amazon rain forestarea.
1824(8th of Elul, 5584): Thirty-nine-year-old MosesMordecai, the New York City born son of Judith Myers and Jacob Mordecai, the husband of MargaretLane and the father of Henry, Ellen and Jacob Mordecai, passed away today in Sweet Springs, VA.
1824(8th of Elul, 5584): Thirty-nine-year-old MosesMordecai, the New York City born son of Judith Myers passed away.
1827: Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their sixthchild Samuel.
1829(3rd of Elul, 5589): New York City native MyerEllis, the husband of Francis Polock whom he married in 1821 passed away todayin New Orleans.
1830: In Germany, Lena Hellman and Clementine Lange Hellman gavebirth to Missouri wine merchant Louis Hellman, the father of Hetti, Max,Josephine and Milton Hellman
1830: Barnet Emanuel married Amelia Isaacs at the Great Synagoguetoday.
1835: Birthdate of Yosef Chaim, the Baghdad native who is alsoknown as Ben Ish Chai which is the name of his seminal work on halachah. Ben Ish Chai is Hebrew for “son of man wholives,” a term that harkens back to Ezekiel and the Valley of the Dry Bones(Son of Man, can these bones live?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Hayyim
1836 Reconstruction begins on the“Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid” in Jerusalem.
1837(1st of Elul, 5597): RoshChodesh Elul
1837: In Willoughby, OH, Dr. DanielMoses Levy Maduro Peixotto, the Amsterdam born of Chazan Moses Levi Maduro LevyMaduro Peixotto and Judith van Samuel Pexitto, and his wife Rachel Lopes MendexPeixotto gave birth Raphael Mozes Levy Maduro Peixotto.
1839: Today, in a move that would lead to the creation of Temple Concord Syracuse,“agroup of German Jews founded Society of Concord in the back room of Bernheimand Block's wholesale notion store where most of these peddlers bought theirmerchandise”
https://www.templeconcord.org/about-us/our-historic-congregation
1841: John Jacobs married Frances Samsonin Liverpool, UK.
1841: Based on the advice given to himby the Duke of Sussex that travel would improve his work, Solomon AlexanderHart left England on his way to Italy “where he made many architectural andother drawings, originally intended for publication as a series of engravingsbut which were ultimately used as studies for his pictures of Italian historyand scenery.”
1844: Birthdate of “Dutch philologistHerman Josef Polak” the native of Leyden who “in 1894 was appointed professorof Greek at Gröningen University.”
1848: In Suvalki, Poland, AbrahamFeinberg and his wife gave birth to Moses Feinberg who came to the UnitedStates in 1868 where he served as a cantor for Congregations New Beth Israel,Poale Zedek and Adath Yeshurun.
1852: Birthdate of Kaunas native MaxBernhard Weinstein, “a German physicist and philosopher” “best known as anopponent of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/092577a0.pdf
1853: The New York Times reportedthat civil unrest continues to rock Venezuela.“At Barcelona, the government of General Monagas has published a‘warning”” aimed at foreigners in general and Jews in particular accusing themof being the instigators of the unrest.After a delegation of Jews and other foreigners sought help from theDutch Consul at Caracas, a Dutch man-of-war sailed to Barcelona where it couldoffer protection to those who have been threatened.
1854: Thirty-year-old James (Jacob)Seligman, the co-founder of J & Seligman and Rosa Seligman gave birth to SamuelJefferson Seligman, the husband of Birdie Seligman and father of Cecile R.Lehman and James Samuel Seligman.
1854: In Chicago, Elias Greenbaum theGerman born son of Jacob Israel Greenebaum and Sarah Esther Greenebaum (Herz)and his wife Rosine Greenebaum gave birth to Dr. Henry Everett Greenbaum.
1855: Mademoiselle Rachel, the great French Tragedienne, is scheduled to makeher New York debut today. Mademoiselle Rachel is Elizabeth Rachel Felix, thedaughter of a German-Swiss Jew named Felix and his wife Esther Haya.
1857: Banker Henri Louis Bischoffsheimand his wife gave birth to Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart, néeBischoffsheim, the wife of William Cuffe, the 4th Earl of Desart“who has been called ‘the most important Jewish woman in Irish history.’”
1857: The New York Times reported that a decision has been made to carry the question ofadmitting Jews to Parliament has been carried over to the next session much tothe relief of Lord Russell.
1857: In Philadelphia, PA Judith Simha Solis and Myer David Cohen gave birthto Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen, an 1883 Jefferson Medical School graduate whotaught at Dartmouth College.
1858: The New York Timespublished a report today that Pierre Soule has arrived in Washington. Mr. Soule was described as “a man of power”who “possesses undoubted influence over public affairs.” The article alsoreported that if Soule decided to run for the Senate he could defeat JohnSlidell. Furthermore, the article reported that like Judah P. Benjamin, theSenator from Louisiana, “Mr. Soule is a Jew, and the Hebrew element is a risingone in the aggregate intellect of the country.”[Editor’s note – If Soule were in fact Jewish, the author is saying thatLouisiana would be the first state in the Union to be represented in the U.S.by two Jews.]
1861: Thomas Jordan General Beauregard’sAssistant Adjutant-General sent a letter on behalf of the Confederate Commanderto Rabbi M.I. Mechelbacker of Richmond denying his request to grant furloughsto Jewish Soldiers starting on September 2nd and lasting throughSeptember 15th so that might attend services for Rosh Hashanah andYom Kippur. The Confederate generals aresure that Jews in and out of the army will understand given the militarysituation which finds Southern forces “bivouacked in full view of the capitolof the late United States.” Jordanassured the Rabbi that the God who “released your people from Egypt bondage”will understand. (Like many Southerners,Jordan did not see the irony of the side that was fighting to preserve slaveryinvoking the liberation from Egyptian bondage.)
1861: Philadelphian Emil Meyer beganserving as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the 174th Regiment.
1861: Herman Bendel, the Albany, NY,born son of Elias Bendell and Hannah Stern, “was commissioned as assistantsurgeon to the 6th New York Keavy Artillery Regiment” after which“he returned to Albany Medical College to graduate with his class.”
1861 Paul Weinberger “transferred to the29th Regiment of the New York Volunteers” today.
1862: Jacob Rosentell who would rise tothe rank of Sergeant and was wounded in the Battle of Wilderness, began servingin company F of the 139th Regiment.
1863: “Abraham Dusch” who had beenserving with Company C of the 27th Regiment transferred today to the“Veteran Reserve Corps.”
1863: Today, Daniel Edward Bandmann, theGerman born son of Solomon and Rebecca Bandmann “appeared at Niblo's in the first performance in New York ofJohn Guido Methua's adaptation from the German of Emil Brachvogel,entitledNarcisse: or, The Last of the Pompadours” after which he “began a five-yeartour of North America principally in the roles of Hamlet, Shylock, Othello,logo, Gloucester, Macbeth, Benedict and Narcisse.”
1864(30th of Av, 5624): Rosh ChodeshElul
1864: Private Henry Arnold, who wouldrise to the rank of Corporal before his discharge, began serving in Battery ofI of the 204th Regiment of the Fifth Artillery.
1867(1st of Elul, 5627): Rosh ChodeshElul
1868: In Egeln, German, Selig Bumenthal,the son Salomon and Lea Blumenthal and his wife Juliane Blumenthal gave birthto Max Meyer Blumenthal, M.D.
1868: Twenty-seven-year-old Isaias WolfHellman co-founded Hellman, Temple and Co., the second official bank in thecity of Los Angeles which would be followed by Hellman co-founding Farmers andMerchants Bank of Los Angeles in 1871 which proved to be the city “firstsuccessful bank.”
1869: In Brooklyn, Jacob Baiz, theVenezuelan born son of Abraham and Sarah Miriam Baiz, and his wife Emily MendesBaiz gave birth to Anita Baiz.
1871(15th of Elul, 5632):Seventy-five-year-old Sara Simmons, the wife of “fancy costumier” John Simmonswhom she married in 1828 at the Western Synagogue and the mother of Abraham, Henry and Gabriel Simmonspassed away today.
1873: A Jewish peddler named SamuelBendtersar was arrested this morning in Flushing on charges of having assaultedJohanna Fatsner.
1874: Birthdate of Ismar Elbogen theGerman born rabbi and historian whose work included Jewish Liturgy: AComprehensive History published in 1913 and translated into English by RaymondP. Scheindlin in 1993
http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=476343
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0110/ms0110.html
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/489494
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Liturgy-A-Comprehensive-History/dp/0827604459
1876: Sir Julius Vogel completed his services as Prime Minister of NewZealand. Vogel was the first Jew to holdthis position.
1876: Hyman B. Isaacson and his wife,daughter of Russian cigar maker Reuben Pupkin, gave birth to their only sonNachum Isaacson who started a boy’s clothing manufacturing company in New Yorkwhere he worked until he passed away at the age of 38.
1877: “Notes from the Capital” publishedtoday described the recent dedication of Washington Hebrew Congregation duringwhich Rabbi Szold of Baltimore delivered the sermon. President Rutherford B. Hayes, who had promisedto attend, “sent a message expressing his regret at being unable to fulfill hispromise.”
1877: In Boston, Massachusetts, FishelCurrick and his wife gave birth to Max C. Currick the graduate of University ofCincinnati a Hebrew Union College who served as a rabbi at Fort Smith inwestern Arkansas before assuming the leadership of Anshe Chesed at Erie, PA in1901.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_04766.html
1878: It was reported today that 200delegates attended the opening session of the Pan-Jewish Conference inParis. Adolph Cremieux presided over themeeting at which it was reported that the organization had 24,000 members andhad collected 111,000 francs in the past year.The delegates sought ways to improve the moral, intellectual andpolitical conditions of the Jews living in various parts of the world.
1878: It was reported today that therewere those in England who claimed Disraeli would play the ultimate joke when hedied by renouncing his youthful conversion to Christianity and being buriednext to his Jewish father. Othersclaimed that Disraeli would do no such thing, choosing to be buried next to hiswife.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05E1DE153EE73BBC4953DFBF668383669FDE
1878: It was reported today that amongthe donations made to help those suffering from the Yellow Fever Epidemic inthe Deep South was $100 from the Hebrews of the St. Joseph Mission earmarkedfor the Howard Association in Memphis, Tenn.
1879: “Henry O’Brien’s Experiment”published today described the 12 year old Irish boy’s attempt to find out how aJew, in this case Harris Goldstein, would react when tricked into eating pork.(It must have been a slow news day in New York)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800EEDF103EE73BBC4953DFBF668382669FDE
1881: “Ephraim and Clara (Lerner) Teppergave birth to Georgetown University trained attorney and husband of MaryCollegeman Joseph L. Tepper, the Washington D.C businessman who was Presidentof the Guaranty Mortgage Company, Prescient of the Jewish Federation Societiesof the District of Columbia and member of the executive committee of theAmerican Jewish Congress.
1882: In Fifth District Civil Court inNew York City, Civil Justice Alfred Steckler heard Freund versus Selig in whichthe plaintiff sought to force the defendant Louis Selig to repay what heclaimed was a ten-dollar loan. Selig, awell-known Jewish police officer claimed that the ten dollars in questions wasnot a loan, but a gift made on his behalf as a political contribution.
1882: It was reported today that largenumbers of unemployed Jewish refugees “continue to besiege” the Hebrew AidSociety on State Street in search of financial assistance.
1882: Theobold Michael, President of theSynagogue and Talmud Torah at 622 Fifth Street, appeared at the Essex MarketPolice Court where he filed a complaint against Charles A. Leopold claimingthat the defendant “annoyed the congregation” during services “by swearing atthem, using insulting language” and throwing mud into the synagogue. Leopold denied the allegations and claimedthat the Jewish prayers disturbed his invalid wife. The Judge let Leopold go after telling himthat he not “disturb the congregation.”
1883: The military fired on a mob of twothousand peasants today who “had invaded” the town of “Krapina…for the purposedof attacking the Jews.
1883: It was reported today that Herrvon Tisza, the President of the Hungarian Council has instituted news measuresto protect Jews from any more attacks.From now on, any rioter who attacks a Jew and is condemned to deathunder a decree of martial law will be put to death within three hours afterbeing sentencing.
1884: In Vienna, Fannie Weirauch and EliasPhilip Shor gave birth to Brown University educated journalist and editorGeorge Gershon Shor, the husband of Leiah Luter and a veteran of the AEF,serving with the rank of Major
1884: In Paterson, NJ, founding of B’naiIsrael which holds services daily, owns a cemetery in Bergen, NJ and whosemembers include “Louis Urdond, Harris Jacob, Harris Rome, Nathan Elkind, DavidEtkin, Bernot Grazinsky and Lipman Simon.”
1884: Birthdate of May H. FriedmanFleisher the wife of Philadelphian Willis Fleisher.
1884: Birthdate of Friedrich Wilhelm vonPrittwitz und Gaffron the German Ambassador to the United States under theWeimar Republic who resigned in protest the day after Hitler came to power andwho warned German Jewish playwright Lion Feuchtwagner not to return to Germany.
1884: Birthdate of Charles EzekielPolowetski, the Russian born American painter.
http://www.askart.com/artist/Charles_Ezekiel_Polowetski/117580/Charles_Ezekiel_Polowetski.aspx
1884: It was reported today that fifty-five-year-oldDaniel Weinberger whose body was discovered yesterday in his room on SouthHalstead Street left a note for his landlord Winter Meyer asking that hisremains “be taken in a Jewish hearse to a Jewish burying ground” where he wouldbe buried by a Jewish burial society.
1885: Anthony M. Keiley, former mayor of Richmond who had beendesignated as the U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary and who had a Jewish wifewrote to Secretary of State Thomas Francis Bayard, President Cleveland’sSecretary of State that “no American citizen…who commits the crime, “inAustria’s eyes of marrying a Hebrew wife, shall be received in diplomaticcircles in Vienna, or permitted to represent the interests of the United Satesat the Austrian court” which means that “Austria claims the right to prescribea religious test for office in the United States and to determine what creedshall constitute the disqualifications.”
1885: “A Fight In A Synagogue” published today described a disputebetween Sol Goldstone and Abraham Jacobs that turned violent during the annualmeeting of a Jewish congregation in Montreal, Canada.
1886: Coroner Levy, the President of the Jewish Immigrants’Protective Association sought an interview with Immigration SuperintendentJackson to protest the treatment of Mr. and Mrs. Manheim and their 5 year oldchild who were being denied entrance to the United States.
1887: The San Diego Union noted that congregants at BethIsrael were talking of building a synagogue estimated to cost $20,000.
1888(25th of Elul, 5648): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilch;Leil Selichot
1888: Sixty immigrants, most of whom were Russian Jews, weredetained at Castle Garden before being sent to Blackwell’s Island. They were treated in this manner because theyhad been identified as “paupers.”
1889: The formal dedication of the new Sephardic synagogue to beused by the Moses Montefiore Congregation was scheduled to take place today.
1889: It was reported today that the only hotel in Tétouan,Morocco is “kept by a native Jew” which is unusual in area dominated by Berbersand Arabs.
1889: “The History of the Jews” published today provided a reviewof History of the People of Israel from the Reign of David up to the Capture ofSamaria by Ernest Renan.
1890: In the Essex Market Police Court Justice Hogan JacobRohnewitch accuses Israel Simovitch of stealing $90 worth of jewelry from himon August 8. Simovitch denied the charge and claimed that the charges weretrumped up so that he would pay out the $40 he had saved to “bring his wifefrom Russia.”
1890: The Central Labor Federation had its own Labor Day Paradetoday in New York which included large number of “Hebrew” workers includingmembers of “the shirt and cloak makers who have recently made themselves to thepublic by their strikes.
1890: During today’s Labor Day Parade, the “United Cloak and SuitMakers” stopped at cottage serving an informal reviewing stand where CoronerFerdinand Levy presented them with a silk flag.”
1890: In Scranton, “the extensive alterations” at the synagogueare scheduled to be completed today which means the congregation can stopholding services in the local Y.M.H.A.
1891: In Borispol Golda and Joseph Ya’acvo gave birth to JosephZaritsky, Israeli painter who was one of the founders of “Ofakim Hadshim” (NewHorizons) art movement
1891: It was reported today that “the Argentine Republic frownsupon the wholesale immigration of the” Jews expelled from Russia.
1892: In Cleveland, OH, Lillie M. Meyers and Louis J. Grossmangave birth to Harvard trained attorney Marc Justin Grossman, the husband ofCarolyn Kahn and Trustee of the Council Education Alliance of the Jewish SocialService Bureau who was vice chairman of the Jewish Recreation Conference.
1892: Leo M. Franklin began serving as the Rabbi for Temple Israelin Omaha, Nebraska.
1892: In Elizabeth, NJ, the city Board of Health plans on askingthe City Council “for an appropriation of at least $20,000 to help deal withthe sanitation problems including the installation of sewers in the First Wardwhich is inhabited primarily by Russian and Polish Jews
1893: “The Reverend Dr. Christian Adolf Stoecker, ex-Chaplain ofthe Court of Berlin…who is one of the founders of Christian Socialism and avigorous anti-Semite” arrived in New York aboard the SS Augusta Victoria.
1893: Max Feldman of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum was among the tenboys listed today as winners of the scholarships “offered by Joseph Pulitzer toboys desirous of preparing for an taking a college course.”
1893: In Cincinnati, OH, Lily Reis and Sigmar Stark gave birth toMiami of Ohio grained trained surgeon, the husband of Louise Johnson and thedirector of gynecology at the Jewish Hospital who was a member of the PlumStreet Temple.
1894(30th of Av, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1894: In Duluth, MN 43 Jewesses formed Council No. 10 of theNational Council of Jewish Women
1894: Eight hundred “finishers of clothing” who are Jewish aregoing on strike today to demand a increase in wages.
1894: Harry White and Meyer Schoenfeld will address a mass meetingof cloakmakers at New Irving Hall where they will discuss the “advisability ofgoing out on strike.”
1895: Birthdate of Austria native Henry Tannenbaum, the husband ofAnna Kreindler Tannenbaum whom he married in 1917.
1895: As New York Police enforce the Sunday Saloon Closing laws anunidentified Russian Jewish who operates a saloon on Clinton Street toldauthorities that one of his neighbors was “selling openly” and offered to takethe police to correct address.
1896: In “Kuznica, Russia, Wolf and Odessa Tarlowski” gave birthSalomon Tarlowski who “emigrated to the United States in 1914 where as Solomon“Sol” Tarlow he worked as a tailor in the dry goods store of his brother-in-lawSam Stolaroff in Roswell, NM where he and his wife Audra had three children –“Mildred, Edith and Sherrill.”
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99129125/solomon-tarlow
1896 (August 20 OS): Birthdate of Odessa native and acclaimedpianist Simon Barere who settled in the United States in 1935.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Barere-Simon.htm
1896: In La Crosse, WI, Congregation Ansche Chesed whichoriginally been the Hebrew Benevolent Society was “formally incorporated today.
1896: The attorney for the jewelry firm of Julius M. Lyon went topolice headquarters tonight to meet with Julius Stein to find out when Steinstole the thousands of diamonds from Lyon and the value of the stolenjewels. The self-confessed thief refusedto make any comment.
1897: In Omaha, Nebraska, founding of Bait Hamidrash Hagadol(formerly B’nai Israel).
1897: It was reported today thatat the concluding session of the Zionist Congress delegates heardreports “that the colonies in Palestine were flourishing,” appointed acommission to report on the feasibility of creating a university at Jerusalemand voted to hold the 1898 meeting in Jerusalem.
1898: On the Lower East Side, “an immigrant tailor” and his wife“who operated a candy store gave birth to Pulitzer Prize winning columnistMeyer “Mike” Berger.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/02/09/80760429.pdf
1898: At Fremantle, Western Australia, Russian born “Esor Masel, ajeweler, and his wife Leah, née Cohen” gave birth to “solicitor and Jewishcommunity leader” Alec Masel, the brother of Philip Masel, the husband of MarieSchwartz and :a founding member and president of the Zionist Federation ofAustralia.
1898: The first meeting of the International Congress of Historybegan today in The Hague.
1898: As part of the on-going cover-up to protect the FrenchGeneral Staff and keep Captain Dreyfus in prison Major Ferdinand Esterhazy whohad already been put on pension shaved off his mustache and fled to Englandwhere he lived for another 25 years contenting himself with writinganti-Semitic articles.
1899: All the newspaper comment published today in London, Berlin,Vienna and other cities “regards” the reversal of Dreyfus conviction as“inevitable.”
1899: Bennett Cassal, the husband of the former Dinah Nathan andthe father of Solomon Cassell was buried today in the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery”in London.
1899: “Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris paid a visit toPremier Waldeck-Rousseau on behalf of Jules Guerin, the anti-Semite agitatorand his companions now besieged in the headquarters of the Anti-Semite Leagueon the Rue de Chabrol.”
1899: Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Sinai Congregation, who returned toChicago today from Europe, said “Capt. Dreyfus will again be convicted oftreason” because “the French people are bound to have Dreyfus found guilty” and“the whole of Paris echoes and re-echoes… with the ravings of the anti-Semiticforces…”
1899: The Biblical World published “The Return of the Jews fromExile” by William Rainey Harper”
1899: “Emanuel Hospital Plans” published today described plans forthe new facility “which will be used principally as a lying-in asylum” and willreceive support from the United Hebrew Charities Society.
1899: Israel Zangwill addressed fears that the dramatization ofhis novel The Children of the Ghetto “will present the Jews from a standpointundesirable to them” by saying that “it will found that Jew has actuallyreceived his first and truthful and considerate attention when my play isproduced.”
1900: Birthdate of Bukowina native Hersch Zloczoweer who in 1913came to the United Stated where he gained fame Columbia trained philosopher andpsychoanalyst Harry Slowchere.
1900: Mose Levi the Hahambashi of Turkey presented an address toSultan Abdul Hamid on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of his accession tothe throne. The term Hahambashi means Head of Rabbis and is the appellation forthe Grand Rabbi of Turkey. The Hebrewterm for "wise man" Chacham has been adopted in Turkish tomean "Rabbi." This is to avoid the use of the word "Rabbi"since in Arabic the word "Rab" is one of the names of God and may notbe applied to a human.
1901: In Vienna, Dr. Armand Ahron Noach Kaminka, the son of Wolfand Sura Beile Kaminka and his wife Klara Kaminka gave birth to Ephraim FelixDavid Kaminka
1902: In Luka (Czech Republic, Hermann and Bertha Ullman gavebirth to Dr. Fritz Yitzchack Ullman, the husband of “Charlotte (Lotte)Einhorn.”
1902: New Orleans native Percy Abraham Lemann began his studies atVirginia Military Institute.
1902: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Cornell University alumAlexander Kevitz who also earned degrees in pharmacy and law while becoming aworld chess champion.
1903(9th of Elul, 5663): Thirty-eight-year-old authorand Jewish activists Bernard Lazare (Lazare Marcus Manasse Bernard) who was anearly vocal supporter of Dreyfus and who attended the First Zionist Congresspassed away today.
1903: It was reported today, that “a movement is afoot toestablish a Jewish hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts.
1904: In England, “Samuel and Bronwyn (Pachman) Gerstenfeld” gavebirth Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld the long-time rabbi of Washington HebrewCongregation, the oldest Jewish congregation in the District of Columbia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/01/28/89318887.pdf
1905: Alberta became the eighth province of Canada. Two brothers,Jacob and William Diamond were among the first Jewish people to settle inAlberta, in 1888 and 1892, respectively. They made the long journey from theirhome in Lithuania. The Diamond brothers went on to be successful merchants inAlberta, and, perhaps, more notable, they organized for a High Holy Day serviceattended by other Jewish Albertans who had arrived. Unlike the Diamondbrothers, early Jewish immigrants came to Alberta to establish farm colonies,settling in central and southern Alberta, near places such as Pine Lake,Trochu, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. This first attempt at farming was notoverly successful. Many of those who came were city-dwellers who had grown upin the cities of Europe. A Jewish relief agency in London England raised $400to distribute the destitute Jewish pioneers. Because of the difficultconditions in Alberta and the Jewish people’s inexperience in farming, many ofthe immigrants left Alberta soon after, some going to the United States. By1906, the community had largely reestablished itself in Calgary.
1905: In London, Shmuel and Braina Gerstenfeld gave birth toHebrew Union College graduate Norman Gerstenfeld, the long-time rabbi atWashington Hebrew Congregation and husband of Louise Gerstenfeld.
1905: Weber and Fields opened their own musical hall on Broadway.
1905: Saskatchewan became the ninth province of Canada. Six Jewishfarming communities were formed in Saskatchewan between 1886 and 1906. Thefirst of these colonies was a novelty and evoked considerable curiosity in thedistrict. Locals dubbed the colony "The New Jerusalem." Due toinadequate winter shelter against sub-zero temperatures, wind, driving snow,drought, etc., this settlement lasted only six years. Another colony, Hirsch,Saskatchewan was founded in 1892. Landau enlisted the assistance of the Frenchfinancier-philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Hirsch regarded the creationof a Jewish state as a fantasy; however, he took a great interest in Jewishagricultural colonization. Baron de Hirsch established the Jewish ColonizationAssociation to facilitate mass emigration of Jews from Russia and theestablishment of agricultural colonies in North and South America. Hirsch wasthe only Jewish farm colony in Canada that was directly organized and funded bythe Jewish Colonization Association. Hirsch favored colonization of Argentinarather than Canada. Edenbridge was founded in 1906. It no longer exists, butsome of the members of the founding families live in the area. The Beth IsraelSynagogue, built by the settlers in 1908, still stands today. It is a woodenstructure similar to many Russian churches of that period. The synagogue servedas a place of worship until 1964. Today it is a Saskatchewan historic site. TheSaskatchewan Wildlife Association maintains the synagogue building, theadjacent cemetery, and the 40 - 100 acres of wooded lands.
The settlers of Edenbridge were Lithuanian Jewish refugees who hadtemporarily settled in South Africa. They were lured to Canada by a federalgovernment promise of 160 acres of farmland for only $10. Charles Vickar, whosefather settled Edenbridge in 1906, stated that owning land was everything tothe Lithuanian Jews. When the refugees were assured that they could freelypractice their religion they jumped at the opportunity. They had no knowledgeof farming. They did not know how to use a plough or an axe. They were Talmudicstudents and petty tradesman.
These Lithuanian Jews took the Canadian Railroad as far west as itwent at the time. When they arrived at the end of the line, the Jewish pioneersopted to go north where they heard there was more wood and water. The farthernorth you go in Saskatchewan the more woods there are. Instead of joining someof the established farming communities in the level open country, they picked aspot by the Carrot River. The name, Edenbridge, means Jew's bridge. Thesettlers devised the town name in 1907, when a bridge was constructed over theCarrot River.
The Jewish farm population in Canada reached a peak of 2,568 by1921. Sixty-nine percent of Jewish farmers lived in Western Canada with themajority residing in Saskatchewan. By 1939, it was estimated that one out ofevery 16 Jews who were working on the Canadian prairies made his livelihood onthe farm. Most of the Jewish farming colonies lasted to the mid-point of thiscentury. Jewish farm colonies disappeared as a result of the great drought anddepression.
1906(11th of Elul, 5666): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1906(11th of Elul, 5666): Elias Eppstein, the Alsace-Lorraine born sonof Rabbi Mayer L. Epstein and the Bonntrained student of Rabbi Mertzig and author of “Confirmant’s Guide” and “BibleEvens” who served as rabbi at congregations “in Jackson, Michigan, Detroit,Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kansas City, Missouri and Philadelphia, beforesettling in at Congregation B’nai Shalom in Quincy, Illinois passed away today.
1906: In France, a newlaw requiring a day of rest “in every seven” for which the government hasdesignated Sunday goes into effect today, creating problems for “Jewishmerchants and workers” who want to substitute Saturday for Sunday.
1907: Birthdate ofNorfolk, VA native and University of Pennsylvania alum Elise NusbaumHofheimeer, the wife of Henry Clay Hofheier II with whom she had three children– Elis, Linda and Clay.
1908: First Conferencefor the Yiddish Language which had been convened by Nathan Birnbaum continuedfor a third day in Czernowitz
1909: Classical schooland for Iowa State University professor Berthold Louis Ullman married MaryLouis Bates who were the parents of noted geographer Edward Ullman
1909: In Vienna, “Egonand Edith Lucy Amalia Hedwig (Weissel) von Grunebaum” gave birth to Europeantrained Orientalist and Arabist Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum and husband ofGiselle Steuerman who after the Anschluss in 1938 came to the United States whichhe made his personal and professional home until his death in 1972.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1558945.Gustave_Edmund_von_Grunebaum
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/01/archives/gustave-e-von-grunebaum-medieval-scholar-is-dead.html
1910: Following theexpulsion of 749 Jews from Kiev in August, the expulsion of Jews to the Palecontinues today “a small scale.”
1911: The headquarters of the Zionist Movement was transferredfrom Cologne to Berlin
1911: At Bucharest, the Premier of Romania receive “a deputationwho requested relief from political disfranchisem*nt of several hundreds ofJews in Dobrudscha.”
1911: Herr Wolfsthal was appointed Attorney-General atFrankenthal, making him the first Jew to hold such a position in Bavaria.
1911: As part of the celebration of its 500thAnniversary, the University of St. Andrews conferred an honorary degree on Dr.Georg Brandes, the Danish born Jew who served as Professor of Literature at theUniversity of Copenhagen and Professor Raphael Meldola, the British chemist andentomologist.
1912: In Everett, MA, founding of Tifereth Israel synagogue.
1912: Two days after he had passed away, 59-year-old Mendel SSalsburg, the German born son Arthur and Sarah Salsburg and the husband ofRachel Naomi Salsburg was buried today in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
1912: In New York, at Greenpoint, founding of the HebrewEducational Alliance.
1912: In Hanco*ck, Michigan, founding the Congregation of IsraelSynagogue.
1913: Max Drob who had resigned “from the pulpit of Congregationof Adath Yeshuron in Syracuse” is scheduled to begin serving today as the Rabbiat Temple Bethel in Buffalo, NY which “is the largest orthodox congregationoutside of New York City.”
1914: Birthdate of Ralph Goldman, the native of Lehovitz who was aWW II veteran, close confidant of David Ben-Gurion and a “leader of theAmerican Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.”
1914: Birthdate of Ben L. Salomon, the Wisconsin born graduate ofthe USC Dental School who was one of only three dental officers to receive theCongressional Medal of Honor – in his case for a display of uncommon valorduring the Battle of Saipan.
1915: Birthdate of Sholom (Seymour) Jacob Pomrenze, the World WarII veteran who “was the first director of the Offenbach Archival Depot” makinghim one of those who really were Monuments Men.
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1463157
1915: It was reported that arrangements have been made “to issueeach synagogue in the United States subscription blanks for the relief of Jews”in war-torn Europe and Palestine which “are numbered” as part of an attempt “toobtain an approximate census of the Jews in the” United States.
1915: It was reported today that the Hebrew Sheltering andImmigrant Aid Society of America has made arrangements with similar nationalorganizations in Russia, Austria, Germany, England and France so thatcommunication may be re-established between relatives” who have been separatedbecause of the World War.
1915: Birthdate of New York native Bernard “Bernie” Opper who tookthe unusual step for his time of going south and playing basked at theUniversity of Kentucky where he as an All-American Guard and the mowed on tothe pros where he played for three teams including the Philadelphia Sphas, theABL team with Jewish roots.
1915: In New York, a new law went into effect requiring that meatsold as kosher must “bear the imprint of the supervising rabbi at theslaughterhouse.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9403E2DF103FE233A2575AC2A9649D946496D6CFF
1916: Today “The Jewish Chronicle welcomed the entry of Rumaniainto the war on the ground that it ‘completes the circle of Jewish questionswhich have troubled the world, and which must now come up for settlement”including those of Russia, Palestine and Rumania.
1916: Final Broadway performance of “Please Help My Emily”starring Anton Asher.
1917(14th of Elul,5677):Parashat Ki Teitzei
1917: Birthdate of “SalomonSebag.”
1917: Henry H. Rosenfelt, the assistant to the executive directorof the American Jewish Relief Committee announced today a campaign to raise$1,000,000 toward the $10,000,000 Jewish War Relief Fund will be conductedduring the upcoming Jewish holidays starting with Rosh Hashanah on September 17and ending with Yom Kippur on September 26.
1917: “After making more than a thousand pictures, the Lubin FilmCompany, founded by optometrist Siegmund Lubin “went out of business” todaybecause it had lost its European market due to the outbreak of WW I, forcingthe founder to return to his earlier career.
1917: In Paris, “the Minister of Foreign Affairs bestowed thedecoration of the Legion of Honor upon Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, the wife of theformer American Ambassador to Turkey, in recognition of the work she did at theFrench Hospital in the early part of the War.
1918: The Supplement, a monthly publication, tied to “theinterests of the Eight Avenue Temple” was established today in Brooklyn.
1918: During the Battle of Mont-Saint Quentin, Australian troopsunder the command of Sir John Monash “broke into Péronne and took most of thetown.”
1918: “Ferdinand Lassalle” a film based on the life of the 19thcentury German Jew directed and produced by Rudolf Meinert was released todayin Germany.
1918: In Columbus, OH, the Temple News, the Temple Israelfortnightly, was established.
1918: It was reported today that “the British Foreign Office hasdecided that the Ottoman subjects of Jewish Nationality residing in the BritishEmpire shall be exempt from the restrictions applicable to enemy and that theGreek government has adopted a similar policy regarding the Jews of Salonika.
1919: Hungarian cartographer and future Soviet agent AlexanderRado arrived in Vienna today after having fled Hungary because his homeland wasin the grip of “The White Terror.;
1919: William “Weinstone was elected as a delegate to the foundingconvention of the Communist Party of America, called to order in Chicago”today.
1919: Rabbi Abraham I. Kook arrived in Palestine today to assumehis role as Chief Rabbi.
1919: Charles J. Freund completed his service as the Rabbi forTemple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1919: Max I. Merritt, who has been the rabbi “of the WashingtonAvenue Temple in Evansville, Indiana for the last fifteen years” is scheduledto begin serving B’nai Abraham Zion, a Chicago congregation with 1,600 memberstoday.
1920: In Germany, premiere of “Sumurun” (One Arabian Night) asilent film directed by Ernst Lubtsch who also played “Yeggar, the HunchbackBeggar.”
1920: At the 39thStreet Theater, final performance of “The “Checkerboard” produced by MorrisGeist
1921: Today twelve-year-old Victor M. Carter, the Rostov-on-Donborn son of Fruma “Fanny” Rudnik and Mark Carter immigrated to the United Statesaboard the King Alexander after which he founded Builder’s Emporium, becamePresident of Republic Pictures and a leader of the Los Angeles Jewish Communityand an active member of the Democratic party.
Victor M. Carter (rootsweb.com)
1921:With delegates and visitors from every part of theworld in attendance, the International Zionist Congress opened its sessions inCarlsbad, Czechoslovakia.
1922: The body of 61-year-oldJewish actor Bernard Bernstein, the native of Warsaw who passed away on August29 is scheduled to be taken to the Hebrew Actor’s Club today where it will liein state until funeral services on September 3.
1922; Today, in Detroit, Rabbi Leo Franklin of Temple Beth devoted hismonthly column in the Detroit Jewish Chronicle “to the debate surroundingJewish identity that” had been raised by the treatment of Leonard Kaplan at thetime of is graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and in which “he wrote that aJew without a religion is not a Jew.”
1923(20th of Elul, 5683): Parashat Ki Tavo and LeilSelichot
1923: The Great Earthquake struck Honshu the main island of Japan.Forty Jewish families living at Yokohama cabled the Hebrew Immigrant AidSociety pleading for aid. “Help us or weperish.” Two thousand dollars was sent by the Joint Distribution Committee. (Asreported by JTA)
1924: “Sinners in Silk” a silent film with a script by BenjaminGlazer was released in the United States today.
1924: Clark College grad and Columbia trained attorney, JacobAsher ,the Worcester, MA born son of Mary Edelman and Abraham I Asher whoserved as Justice of the Central District Court in Worcester and a member ofthe board of directors of the United Jewish Charities of Worcester marriedDorothy Virginia Rogin today in New Britain, CT.
1925: In New York City, “Felicia (Fox) and Emanuel B. Glauber”gave birth to Bronx High School of Science grad and Harvard trained Nobel Prizewinning physicist Roy Jay Glauber, “one of the youngest scientists to work onthe Manhattan Project..
1926: In Atlanta, GA, “Fannie (Segal) Goldstein, a gifted pianist”and Irving Goldstein gave birth Stanley Goldstein who, before enrolling at theUniversity of California, Berkley, changed his name to David Cavell, the namehe would during a career that led to a professorship at Harvard.
1926: In the Bronx, “Harold Colan, an insurance salesman, andWinifred Levy Colan, an antique dealer” gave birth to Eugene Jules Colan “atowering figure among comic-book artists, whose depictions of some of thebest-known characters in the genre were lauded for their realism,expressiveness and painterly qualities.”According to Margalit Fox, the family’s name had been Cohen beforechanging it to Colan.
1927: In the Free City of Danzig, “Selik and Sonia Rosovsky,Jewish immigrants gave from Russia gave birth to “Henry Rosovsky, an economichistorian who as a Harvard University dean was instrumental in imposing aback-to-basics core curriculum while establishing groundbreaking undergraduateprograms in Black and Jewish studies…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1927:The Weizmann Administration, the Palestine Governmentand the British Government as the mandatory power were severely criticized onthe second day of the Fifteenth Zionist Congress which is in session here.Criticism came from several sources including Isaac Greenbaum, a member of thePolish Parliament and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, leader of the American Zionists.
1928(16th of Elul, 5688): Parashat Ki Tavo
1928(16th of Elul, 5688): Dr. Leon Harrison the rabbiof Temple Israel in St. Louis “was killed” today “by a subway train when hefell from the platform at 116th Street and Broadway.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/09/05/95605903.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37134783/leon_harrison
1928: In Brooklyn Michael and Eiga Charmatz gave birth to RitaCharmatz, the wife of David Sternheimer Davidson, the Yale law school graduatewho as Rita Charmatz Davidson “the first woman to serve on the Maryland Courtof Appeals
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/davidson.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Davidson-Rita-Charmatz
1929: Amir el-Hussein, Grand Mufti and President of the SupremeMoslem Council warned of “a grave national revolt” by 60 million Muslims ifGreat Britain persists in enforcing the Balfour Declaration.
1929: A crowd numbering more than 15,000 attending a meeting atLondon’s Albert Hall protested against Arab violence and urged the Britishgovernment to restore order, punish the guilty while making reparations for theloss of Jewish life and property.
1929: Following the Hebron Massacre, today, Sir John Chancellorcondemned ‘the atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and bloodthirstyevildoers... murders perpetrated upon defenceless members of the Jewishpopulation... accompanied by acts of unspeakable savagery.’
1929: The British HighCommissioner said that he would enforce the Jewish right of access to theWestern Wall despite violent Arab opposition.
1930: In the Bronx, Arthur and “Rose Goldstein) Greenstein gavebirth to historian Fred Irwin Greenstein whose works included TheHidden-Hand Presidency and The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style.
1930: Birthdate of Hadera native Ora Namir, an officer with theIDF in the War for Independence, an MK and Ambassador to China who was marriedto Tel Aviv Mayor Mordechai Namir.
1931: In Voivodeship, Poland, Dr. Israel Abraham Rabin and Dr.Else Rabin gave birth to Professor Michael Oser Rabin, “Israeli computerscientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.”
1931: Birthdate of Frank Magid. Frank Newton Magidwas born in Chicago and served in the Army during the Korean War. He graduatedfrom the University of Iowa and received a master's degree there in 1956 in thefields of social psychology and statistics. After teaching at Iowa's Coe Collegeand the University of Iowa, Mr. Magid launched his company in 1956. His firstclient was a bank; his fourth was WMT-TV, now KGAN-TV, in Cedar Rapids. Bycreating careful surveys and polling random samples of a population, Mr. Magidand his employees were able to provide highly accurate data that gavetelevision its first serious consumer research. The work paid off for the Iowastation, and the station's manager recommended Mr. Magid for a job atTime-Life's newly acquired KOGO-TV in San Diego. That, too, was successful, andit led to a contract for all the Time-Life stations. "And that really wasour launching pad because they were very kind to us and began to do someconsiderable amount of advertising to the trades, talking about how they werelistening to the public through this rather new, and at that time quite unique,kind of research,'' Mr. Magid told Electronic Media. His firm, from which heretired in 2002, also advised AM radio stations to get into the FM field, andurged broadcasters to invested in cable TV. He helped identify viability ofdirect broadcast satellite television and did the first research thatdetermined the viability of digital video recorders. Now based in Minneapolis,the privately-held company has about 200 employees and advises all kinds ofmedia, including The Washington Post, through its MORI Research division.
1931: As the fight for control of Cutters Union 4 of theAmalgamated Clothing Workers of America came to a head, Sydney Hillmanaddressed a meeting of 1,000 workers at Webster Hall where he denounced theousted officers Philip Orlofsky and Isidor Machlin
1931: In Los Angeles, 125members of Tifereth Israel attended groundbreaking ceremonies for thenew Temple being built on Santa Barbara Avenue.
1931: Birthdate of Michael Oser Rabin “an Israeli computerscientist and a recipient of the Turning Award.”
1932(30th of Av, 5692): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1932: The General Committee for the Protection of Real EstateBondholders announced today that it would seek modification of a plan ofadjustment proposed for $5,238,000 of bonds outstanding on the AldenApartments, at Central Park West and Eighty-second Street, and the Dorset, at26 West Fifty-fourth Street, by S.W. Straus Co., who sold the bonds.
1933: Birthdate of Professor Leonard Cole, the native of Paterson,NJ, an expert on terrorism who “was national chairman of the Jewish Council forPublic Affairs” and the author of Terror: How Israel Has Cope and WhatAmerica Can Learn.
http://www.leonardcole.com/bio.htm
1933:The Reichsvertretung derdeutschen Juden, the central representative body of German Jews emphasizingeducation, is established; it is led by Otto Hirsch and Rabbi Leo Baeck. It isthe only organization officially allowed to represent German Jews.
1934: The appointment of Albert Goldmanby Postmaster General James A Farley as Acting Postmaster of New York City isscheduled to take effect today, making Godman officially the first Jew tosupervise the world’s largest post office.
1934: “Gift of Gab” a comedy directed byKarl Freund, produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr., and with a script co-authored byPhilip G. Epstein.
1934:In Denmark, acollaborationist SS organization, National Socialistike Ungdom (NationalSocialist Youth), is established.
1935(3rd of Elul, 5695): Rabbi AvrahamYitzchak HaCohen Kook passed away today at the age of 69. His distinguishedcareer was capped off by his appointment as Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1919.
1935: The problem of who is to be president of the World Zionist Organizationwas dramatically settled in Lucerne, Switzerland, early today when Dr. ChaimWeizmann, noted scientist and internationally famous Zionist leader, announcedhis readiness to assume the full leadership of the Zionist movement.
1935: “A world conference of Jewishdoctors opened in Lucerne tonight to discuss Jewish health problems and toconsider the advisability of convoking a world Jewish medical conference in TelAviv.”
1935: Currently Jerusalem, Jaffa and TelAviv have ordinances in effect similar to those in several European cities thatlimit and/or ban the honking of horns in the late-night hours. Police in Palestine have adopted the sloganof “Don’t use your horn. Use yourbrains.”
1936: It was reported today that indiscussing the challenges facing the three major religious groups in the UnitedStates, Rabbi L.L. Mann of Sinai Temple in Chicago said that religions faced acommon foe, the recrudescence of paganism, irreligion and totalitarianism” and that “religions must unite againstpoverty, human exploitation, unemployment, crime, corruption and war.”
1936: It was reported today the actionscommittee of World Zionist Organization which has been meeting in Zurich“endorsed a world emergency campaign for $1,500,000 to aid the Jews inPalestine” who have been sufferingduring the violence of the Arab Revolt.
1936: “Tudor Rose” a dramatization ofEnglish period with music by Louis Levy and filmed by cinematographer MutzGreenbaum was released today in the U.K.
1936: Polish born Republican politicalleader Nathan Pearlman completed his term in office as a New York CityMagistrate today.
1936(14th of Elul, 5696): Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow passedaway. Rubinow really had twocareers. He was a medical doctor, whoamong other things played a key role in developing health services in Palestineimmediately after World War I. He went back to school and earned a Ph.D. inEconomics which provided him with a platform to deal with the issues of healthcare and its finances. He was a co-founderand the first president of the organization now known as Casualty ActuarialSociety. In 1934, he published the Quest for Security which pre-datedand greatly influence the creation of the New Deal social net including SocialSecurity.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=940CE1D6173DE33BBC4B53DFBF66838D629EDE
1937: Birthdate of Allen Weinstein, the son of Jewishdelicatessen owners in New York who became a leading academic, author andarchivists.
1937: “A special tax on eligible males who fail to servein the military forces” which “will fall heaviest on the Jews who are by lawdisqualified from service” is scheduled to go into effect today in Germany.
1937: Four Arab villagers were shot andkilled by unknown persons, apparently Jews, near Hadera. The authoritiessuspected that Jewish extremists were involved and carried out many arrests.The National Committee for Palestine Jewry (Val'ad Leumi) issued an appeal fornational discipline.
1938: In New Orleans, the FountainLounge opened at the Roosevelt Hotel which is now controlled by Seymour Weiss
1938: On the Island of Rhodes, newspapers carried the announcementof anti-Jewish laws. Ritual slaughterwas banned and all Jews who had come to Rhodes after 1919 were told they had toleave.
1938:A concentration camp isestablished at Neuengamme, Germany.
1938 Premier of “You Can't Take It With You,” the screenadaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S.Kaufman and Moss Hart, two of the Jewish giants of Broadway with a screenplayby Robert Riskin and music by Dimitri Tiomkin.
1938: In Williamsburg, Brooklyn Claire (née Ringel) and HarryDershowitz the co-owner of Merit Sales Company and “a founder of the YoungIsrael Synagogue” gave birth to Harvard Law Professor and outspoken commentatoron Jewish affairs Alan Dershowitz.
http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10210/Dershowitz
1938: Mussolini canceled civil rights of Italian Jews and expelledall foreign-born Jews.
1939:Leading Jewish-German juristGerhard Leibholz, stripped of his position at the University of Göttingen in1936, escapes to Switzerland with his wife and two daughters
1939: This date marked the beginning of World War II with theGerman attack on Poland. German forces overrun western Poland, instigatingWorld War II. Three thousand Jewish civilians die in the bombing of Warsaw.German troops enter Danzig, trapping more than 5000 Jews. Throughout Germanyand Austria, Jews may not be outside after in the winter and in the summer Out of the 3,351,000 Jews inPoland, 2,042,000 came under Nazi rule while 1,309,000 came under Soviet rule.Remember, the Soviets invaded Poland from the west after the Nazis had beguntheir blitz from the West. Within twodays the British and French declared war on Germany. During the war a millionand a half Jews fought on the side of allied forces: 555,000 for the USA;500,000 for the Soviet Union; 116,000 for Great Britain (26,000 from Palestineand 90,000 from the British Commonwealth); and another 243,000 for otherEuropean nations.
1939: “Heinrich Himmler issues a decree forbidding Jews from goingoutside after 8PM.”
1939: With the outbreak of World War II and the closure of Germanborders the “Leica Freedom Train” came to an end.
http://archive.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4975_52.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxGbNXt_Is
1939: Mrs. Max Lowenstein, the widow of Nuremberg chazzan MaxLowenstein and the adopted mother of Heinz Bernard planned to leave Germanytoday to join her son whom she had sent on ahead to England which was to be “away-station” on their trip to the United States. Her plans were thwarted by today’s invasionof Poland.
1939: As of this date, there were “185,000 Jews in ‘integral’German, together with 70,000 in Austria and 190,000 in Czechoslovakia.”
1939: Arnold Bernstein who had served in the German Army in WorldWar and who had survived German prisons arrived in New York having beenstripped of his shipping company and all other possessions by the Nazis whoknew that anti-Semitism was a good business.
1939: From September 1 toOctober 25, 1939,Operation Tannenberg, carried out by SS Einsatzgruppen(mobile kill squads), leads to the murders of Polish Jews and Catholicintellectuals and to the burnings of synagogues in Poland.
1939: “Hitler Appoints Karl Brandt & Philipp Bouhler to LeadNazi T-4 Euthanasia Program.”
1939: With the outbreak of WW II today, the headquarters of theWJC was moved from Paris to Geneva where it was thought that Switzerland’sneutrality would “facilities communications with Jewish communities throughoutEurope.
1939: General George C. Marshall is named Chief of Staff of theUnited States Army. Marshall is theunsung hero of World War II. He was acritical force in convincing a reluctant Congress to accept peace timeconscription in 1940 so that America was not completely unprepared for war whenit came to America at Pearl Harbor. Hewas the architect who managed a war that raged across the entire globe in daybefore the e-mail, the internet and computers.He won the Nobel Prize for Peace for the Marshall Plan. It is most unusual for a top military leaderto have this award. The only chink inMarshall’s armor was his opposition to the creation of the state of Israel. He feared that American support of the Jewishstate would destroy American stature among the Arabs and open the way to Sovietdomination of the Middle East. He alsodid not believe that the Israelis could defeat the Arabs and feared theslaughter that would follow. There is norecord of how his views may have changed once the Israelis proved they couldsurvive without the need of American military support.
1939: Today, “while at Oxford University Chaim Michael DovWeissmandl who would be “the first to demand that the Allies bomb Auschwitz”volunteered to return to Slovakia as an agent of World Agudath Israel.
1939: Premiere of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” with ascript by Edwin H. Blum
1939: After spirited but hopeless fight by the Polish Army, theWerhmacht occupied the city of Chonjnice today after which “German militiamenbegan attacking Jewish and Polish neighborns.
1939: Because of the outbreak of WW II, the last of the eight“Winton Trains” did not leave because “all borders controlled by Germany wereclosed” and the 250 children on board “were never seen again” leading to theassumption that all “perished in concentration camps.”
1939: “The Women” a comedy directed by George Cukor, starringNorma Sheater and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released inthe United States by MGM.
1940: TheNational Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States isscheduled to come to an end today in Boston.
1940(28th of Av, 5700): Seventy-three-year-old Lillian D. Wald theCincinnati born graduate of New York Hospital’s School of Nursing whosecontributions to society included the founding of the Henry Street SettlementHouse and play a role in the founding of the N.A.A.C.P. passed away today.
http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/wald
1940:Polish underground officerWitold Pilecki penetrates the main camp at Auschwitz with the intention oforganizing secret resistance groups inside the camp.
1940:Soviet authorities orderJapanese Consul Sempo Sugihara to leave Kovno, Lithuania, where he has issued3500 exit visas to Jews
1940: “The official newspaper of the diocese of Freiburg, whereConrad Gröber is archbishop, describes the victories of German soldiers asproof that God guides history.”
1941: Birthdate of Tzvi Gal-Chen a sabra who would gain fame forhis work in retrieval of wind and thermodynamic variables from a single Dopplerradar.
1941: In Hungary,Einsatzkommandos, with the help of some Hungarian militia, murdered 11,000 Jews.In August, Hungary had pushed 17,000 stateless Jews across the border toKamenets-Podolski in the Ukraine. The German army protested that the largenumber of refugees interfered with the war effort and Hungary took a fewthousand back as slave laborers, leaving the rest in the hands of the Germans.There were no survivors.
1941: Wearing the yellow star became obligatory for all Jews inthe Reich.
1941: The Ukrainian newspaper Volhyncarried the following - "The element that settled our cities (Jews). . .must disappear completely from our cities. The Jewish problem is already in theprocess of being solved.”
1941: As of today, “the Nazis requiredGerman Jews to wear a yellow badge on their clothing…”
1941: “Lady Be Good” a musical producedby Arthur Freed with a score by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein and George andIra Gershwin and co-starring Phil Silvers was released today in the UnitedStates by MGM>
1941: Birthdate of Tzvi Gal-Chen fatherof author Rikva Galchen. Tzvi grew up as an Israeli Sabra on a collective farm.He served in the Israeli Army. He earned a B. Sc. and M. Sc. in 1967 and 1970,both from Tel Aviv University, with specialization in applied math and physicswhich he used in his studies of wind and thermodynamic variables.
1942: As Daniel Schwarzwald jumped fromthe window in the Lvov Ghetto he was shot by the Germans.
1942:Moshe Skoczylas and MichaelMajtek formed Jewish partisan units at Dzialoszyce, Poland.
1942:Fourteen thousand Jews are taken to gravel pits atPiatydni, Ukraine, and machine-gunned.
1942:German troops reach theCaucasus and begin exterminations of indigenous Jews.
1942:SS chief Heinrich Himmlersuggests that camp inmates be put to work in on-site arms factories. Armamentschief Albert Speer objects, offering a compromise accepted by Hitler: Himmler'sinmates will be made available to Speer for labor in conventional armsfactories.
1942:New York Congressman EmanuelCeller submits legislation to allow French Jews about to be deported to theirdeaths in Eastern Europe to immigrate to the United States. The bill is killedby the House Committee on Immigration.
1942:As Jews are being deportedfrom France to their deaths in the Third Reich, the Vichy Ministry ofInformation urges the press to remember "the true teaching of Saint Thomasand the Popes...the general and traditional teaching of the Catholic Churchabout the Jewish problem."
1942(19th of Elul, 5702):An SSguard on a deportation train headed for the Belzec death camp shoots and killsJadzia Beer, a Polish girl from Jaworów, after her skirt becomes caught in arailcar window and she dangles helplessly from the window.
1942:Thousands of Jews from Stry,Ukraine, are murdered at the Belzec death camp.
1942:A German shepherd that licksthe face of a Jewish baby at the Treblinka extermination camp is savagelybeaten by its SS master before the guard tramples the baby to death
1942:Security forces raid fivehospitals in the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, evacuating and slaughtering patients.Babies are thrown out of an upper-story windows, some bayoneted before they hitthe ground.
1942:In the town Wlodzimierz Wolynski, the Germans asked the Jewish Councilto gather 7,000 Jews for transport. Jocob Kogen a member of the councilcommitted suicide because he did not want to bear the responsibility of sendingpeople to their death. Wlodzimierz Wolynski was in eastern Poland at the startof World War II. This was the part ofPoland that Hitler had ceded to Stalin as part of the price for their infamousNon-Aggression Pact. In 1941, theGermans seized the town as they moved forward with the plan to conquer theSoviet Union. Some Poles rationalizedthe slaughter of the Jews by claiming that they had collaborated with theSoviets during their occupation of the town. These same sources also said the Jewshad earned their death because they had lived so much better than the Polesbefore the war. To understand thesuccess of the Holocaust, one must understand the pervasiveness ofanti-Semitism in European society.
1943(1st of Elul, 5703): RoshChodesh Elul
1943(1st of Elul, 5703): Eighty-eight-year-oldretired banker Edward S. Rothschild passed away tonight at the City Hospital“an hour after” being struck “by taxicab at Fifth Avenue and 47thStreet.”
1943(1st of Elul, 5703): Sixty-nine-year-oldAlbert Klein the founder and President of the American Food Company until hisretirement twelve years ago passed away today in Newark, NJ. A native of Czechoslovakia, he moved toNewark at the age of 17. He is survivedby his widow Kamilla Cohn Klein.
1943: The Belgian news agency reported“that armed Belgian patriots had intercept a train on which 1,500 Jews werebeing taken from Malines, Belgium to Poland.” The Belgians “fought a gun battlewith the German guards and released part of the captives from the cattle carsin which they were being transported.”
(For more on this see The Twentieth Train by MarionSchreiber
1943: “The Snark Was A Boojum” produced by Alexander Yokel openedon Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre.
1943:Germans send a Polish laborbattalion into the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto to flatten any walls and otherstructures still standing following the German assault of the previous spring.Most survivors of the April-May "liquidation" die during thisdemolition.
1943:The American Council forJudaism declares that Jewishness exists in a religious sense only, and thatattempts to establish a Jewish homeland would be disloyal to the homelandnations of individual Jews.
1943: “Palestine Goal Passed” published today described afundraising luncheon where the attendees heard from Dr. Israel Goldstein,president of the JNF and Bernard A. Rosenblatt, president of the PalestineFoundation Fund.
1943: Jews at the Sobibór death campattack SS guards with stones and bottles. All attackers are killed.
1943:Jewish women and children, aswell as the elderly and the sick, left on the island of Rab after deportationfrom Dalmatia, Serbia, are transferred to a concentration camp at Zemun,Yugoslavia, and killed. Others remain on the island and are protected bypartisans.
1943:Hundreds of Jews escape fromVilna, Lithuania, and head east toward the Soviet front line.
1943:Vilna-based partisan VitkaKempner blows up an electrical transformer located in the city. A day later,she enters the labor camp at Keilis, near Vilna, and smuggles several dozenprisoners to safety. Still later, she travels with five other partisans toOlkiniki, Poland, where she helps torch a turpentine factory.
1943:In Paris, three Jewishpartisans ambush and assassinate Karl Ritter, aide to Nazi slave-labor ChiefFritz Sauckel.
1943:After refusing for months,the Hungarian government accedes to German demands for Jews to be used as slavelabor at copper mines at Bor, Yugoslavia.
1943: There was an uprising in Vilna, Lithuania. After thedisaster of July and the death of Yitzhak Wittenberg, many of those in theunderground decided to flee the city. The German entry into the ghetto was asurprise and there was no time to organize. Forty fighters led by YechielScheinbaum fought until they were all killed. Approximately 200 more left theghetto and joined the partisans. A second Aktion on September 23 markedthe end of the ghetto
1943: “Jewish Conferees Assail Rival Plan” published today
1943: The Army Show, a musical comedy review featuring FrankShuster and Johnny Wayne was performed for a final time before a civilianaudience in Halifax, Canada.
1944: In Los Angeles, Felix Slatkin, “the violinist, conductor andfounder of the Hollywood String Quartet” and cellist Eleanor Aller gave birthto orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin whose brother Frederick is a cellist.
http://www.leonardslatkin.com/
1944(13th of Elul, 5704): Barbara (née Drapczyńska) Baczyński, thepregnant wife of poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński who was killed by a Germansniper on August 4, 1944, the fourth day of the Warsaw Uprising, passed awaytoday after having been “mortally wounded when a shard of glass pierced herskull.”
http://cosmopolitanreview.com/krzysztof-kamil-baczynski/
1944:Five thousand women and 500men are evacuated from Auschwitz north to Stutthof, Germany. Three thousandinterned women are evacuated from Auschwitz northwest to Neuengamme, Germany.
1944:Following American bomberhits on factories at Auschwitz, the SS gives wounded inmates excellent medicalattention as well as flowers and chocolate--a propaganda ploy for the benefitof German media. Once recovered, the inmates are exterminated. 44:The Gestapo and SS men inPrzemysl, Poland, execute eight members of a non-Jewish Polish family and alittle Jewish girl after discovering the group playing together in a courtyard.
1944:Despite the objections ofForeign Secretary Anthony Eden, Prime Winston Churchill finally ordered thecreation of a Jewish Brigade of Palestinian Jews in the British Army. Churchillhad long supported the creation of such a unit.
1944: Birthdate of Margaret H. Marshall the 24th ChiefJust of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the wife Jewish columnistAnthony Lewis.
1944: Aufbau, “a journaltargeted at German-speaking Jews” begun by members of the German-Jewish Club ofNew York began printing lists of Jewish Holocuast survivors as well as lists ofthe victims.
1944: “In a note written in Yiddish” today, “Hirsch Brik wrotefrom Kovno, Lithuania, to friends in Palestine:
I’m alive and I’m free. After three torturous years, I am back tobeing a man like all other men. The German bastards have murdered my entirefamily. … There isn’t a long enough paper to list all the names of our commonfriends who have been savagely murdered.”
1945(23rd of Elul, 5706): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilec
1945: As his ship sailed west across the Pacific Lt. Col. LouisGeffen, a judge advocate in the US Army who was trying to organize RoshHashanah found” his Baal Koreh. This gentleman had no Torah to read from, buthe would use the Humash - Hebrew five books of Moses.”
1945:Ichud (Unity), aJewish political organization, is established by the leadership of theLandsberg displaced persons (DP) camp. It initially acts as an intermediarybetween DPs and the United States Army in negotiations for DP immigration toPalestine.
1945(23rd of Elul, 5705):YaakovWaldman, a survivor of a 1942 death march, is murdered by Poles in Turek
1946: Birthdate of Shalom Hanoch, the native of Kibbutz Mishmarotand rock star who founded two bands – The Churchills and Tamouz
1946: Birthdate of Adrienne Cooper, the singer who played a majorrole in reviving Yiddish culture and music with a special emphasis on Klezmer.
http://www.adriennecooper.com/Adrienne_Cooper/Adrienne_Cooper_Home.html
1946: “A tentative agreement was reached between the RabbinicalAssociation of the American Zone in Germany and the JDC religious departmentcreating a pool of religious supplies and agreeing in principle to cooperate intheir distribution.”
1947: Date on which UNSCOP is scheduled to provide its findings tothe U.N. General Assembly.
1947: After premiering in Chicago a month ago in August, “TheSecret Life of Walter Mitty” a movie based on the short story character of thesame name produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Danny Kaye and featuring songsby Sylvia Fine and a score by David Raskin, was released in the United Statestoday.
1947: “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” a comedy directed byIrving Reis, produced by Dore Schary and a script by Sidney Sheldon premieredtoday in New York City.
1948(27th of Av, 5708): Sixty-one-year-old LeonFriedman who served as Louisiana State Representative from Natchitoches Parishfrom 1932 to 1940 following in the footsteps of an older brother J. IsaacFriedman who had served in both house of the state legislature.
1948: “Sorry, Wrong Number,” a “film noir” direct and produced byAnatole Litvak with music by Franz Waxman was released in the United Statestoday.
1948: “Long is the Road” “the first German-made film to accuratelyportray the Holocaust” was released today.
1949: Birthdate of Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues.
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/209405/transgender-activist-leslie-feinberg-dies-at-65/
1949(7th of Elul, 5709): Sixty-five-year-old FlorinaLasker, the Galveston born daughter of Morris and Nettie Davis and graduate ofthe University of Texas and New York School of Social Work who was an activeleader of the ACLU and “secretary of the New York Labor Standards Committee”passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/09/02/85653995.html?pageNumber=17
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lasker
1950: Today, Israel charged Jordan with “’full and absoluteresponsibility for continual acts of aggression’. A government spokesman said Jordon condonedmurder and sabotage by allowing infiltrators and criminals to cross the borderinto Israel and by taking no action to discourage or punish these criminals.
1951: “The People Against O’Hara,” the film version of the novelby Eleazar Lipsky was released in the United States today.
1951: Birthdate of singer-songwriter Steven D. Grossman.
1951: The Yugoslav representative in the U.N. Security Councilvoted in favor of a resolution guaranteeing all nations the right to use theSuez Canal. The resolution wasconsidered a victory since it was designed to overcome the Arab closure of theinternational waterway to ships that had docked in Israel or that sailed underan Israeli flag. The issue of canalusage would be part of the reasons for going to war in 1956.
1951:The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, parentbody of Reform Judaism in the United States and Canada, moved into its new$1,000,000 headquarters at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-Fifth Street
1952: The Israeli government announcedthat extra rations for meat and poultry would be available for the High HolyDays. Those people who only know of thencomparatively affluent society of present-day Israel should remember that lifeduring the early years of the Jewish state were quite grim. Between the austerity of the land, thein-gathering of the exiles and the attacks from surrounding Arab states, lifein Israel was more akin to living on the American frontier than a modernWestern state.
1952: During the fiscal year whichbegins today MGM is scheduled to make 38 pictures as opposed to the 40 madeduring the previous fiscal year according to a previous announcement byNicholas M. Schnenck, the President of Loew’s and Dore Schary who is in chargeof production
1952: Zev Zahavy was appointed to serveas rabbi of East Park Synagogue.
1953: "Human Ornithosis inIsrael" by Dr. Aaron Valero appeared in today’s issue of, Harefuah, amedical journal published by the Israel Medical Association. Dr. Aaron Valerowas a an Israeli physician born in 1913 “who helped establish hospitals andmedical schools, authored medical publications and contributed greatly to theadvancement of medical education in Israel in the latter half of the 20thcentury.” He passed away in 2000.
1953(21stof Elul, 5713): Sixty-five-year-old Siegfried FrischHartman, for many years a leading lawyer in New York and the husband of VeraHarman, fell or jumped to his death at 6:45 o'clock tonight, the policereported, from a window of his office on the thirty-sixth floor at 39Broadway.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/09/02/83853103.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954: “Romeo and Juliet” a movie versionof Shakespeare’s drama starring Laurence Harvey as “Romeo” was released in theU.K. today.
1954; Birthdate of Los Angeles nativeand University of Colorado graduate Lisa Jo Gottsegen who gaied fame as Lisa Hoffman,the wife of Dustin Hoffman whom she married in 1980 and the founder andpresident of Lisa Hoffman Beauty
1954: In Perth Amboy, NJ, Robert N.Wilentz and Jacqueline Malino Wilentz gave birth to award winning author,journalist and professor of English Amy Wilentz who is married to NicholasGoldberg of the Los Angeles Times.
1955: On his seventieth birthdayFriedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron the German Ambassador to the UnitedStates under the Weimar Republic who resigned in protest the day after Hitlercame to power and who warned his dinner companion German Jewish playwright Lion Feuchtwagnernot to return to Germany passed away after having served as a member of theParliament of Bavario “from 1946 to 1954.”
1955: Publication date for MarjorieMorningstar by Herman Wouk.
1955: Birthdate of Efraim Gur, thenative of Georgia SSR who made Aliyah in 1972 and eventually became an MIK andcabinet minister
1955(14th of Elul, 5715): Actor PhilipLoeb passed away. Loeb played the role of Jake in the early television sitcom“The Goldbergs.” The show starredactress Molly Goldberg and revolved around the life of an obviously Jewishfamily living in Brooklyn. Loeb was 61at the time of his death.
1957: “Slaughter on 10thAvenue” a crime-buster biopic featuring Walter Matthau and Sam Levene wasreleased in the United States today by Universal-International.
1960(9th of Elul, 5720): Seventy-four-year-oldpianist and musicologist Laurence and the son of Felix Adler, the founder ofthe Ethical Culture Society passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/03/90664087.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1961: Publication of “Tonybee’s Epistleto the Jews.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/toynbees-epistle-to-the-jews/
1962: Jack Benny’s latest contract with CBS takes effect. Benny is 68 and thecontract is for two years which means the famed tightwad will have a source of income until he is70.
1962: Professor Sidney Axelrad beginsserving as , head ofthe department of anthropology-sociology as director of graduate work at QueensCollege.
1963: Publication of Arthur Hertzberg’sreview Jews, God and History by Max Dimont.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jews-god-and-history-by-max-i-dimont/
1963(13th of Tishrei, 5724): NYUtrained medical doctor Benjamin Dubovsky, the Russian born son of Bath SheivaPuchkoff and Abraham Dubovsky and the husband of Lena Smith who was a member ofthe faculties of NYU and Bellevue Medical College and who was the president ofthe National Federation of Ukrainian Jew passed away today.
1964: Rabbi Martin Riesenburger delivered the sermon and Cantors Werner Sander,Estrongo Nachama and Leo Roth provided the music during today celebration ofthe 30h anniversary of the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin.
1965: Outfielder Richie Scheinblum madehis major league début with the Cleveland Indians.
1967: British poet and author SiegfriedSassoon passed away. His father wasAlfred Sassoon, a member of the wealth and distinguished Indian –Jewish Sassoonfamily. His mother was an AngloCatholic. The family disinherited theelder Sassoon when he married her and Sassoon was not raised as a Jew.
1967: Sixty-year-old Ilse Koch, the wifeof the commandant of Buchenwald and Majdenek, hung herself at Aichach, Germanywhere she was serving a life sentence for a string of crimes that led her to bedubbed “the concentration camp murderess.
1968: In “Henry James and the Jews: ACritical Study” published today Leo B. Levy examines the great author’sdepictions and views of the “chosen people.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/henry-james-and-the-jewsa-critical-study/
1969: Pitcher Lloyd Allen made his majorleague début with the California Angels.
1969: Today, “President Richard Nixonsigned a law authorizing the district to purchase the building “that had housedthe Sixth and I synagogue’ and lease it to the Jewish Historical Society ofGreater Washington for historic preservation purposed at one dollar a year for99 years.
1969: Twenty-seven-year-old MuammarQaddafi staged a successful coup and replaced King Idris as head of Libya. Bythe time that Qaddafi came to power the Libyan Jewish community which was 2,500years old had been reduced to a couple of hundred souls. He exacerbated theirplight, as well as that of the Jewish exiles, by confiscating all propertyowned by Jews and by canceling all debts owed to those Libyan Jews whoseproperty had already been seized or destroyed. He also attempted to makehimself a leader in the fight to destroy Israel by giving untold millions tothe PLO.
1970: Shimon Peres begins serving asCommunications Minister of Israel.
1970: Yosef Burg replaced Golda MeirMinister of the Interior
1970: Palestinian terrorists attack KingHussein of Jordan’s motorcade in a failed attempt to assassinate him and bringan end to the Hashemite Kingdom. Husseinwas a complex figure whose whole kingship was influenced by the assassinationof his grandfather by fanatics who thought he was going to make peace withIsrael. In the end, Hussein’s visionovercame his fears, and he signed a peace treaty with Israel.
1971(11th of Elul, 5731): Mordechai Oferpassed away at the age of 47. An Israelipolitician, he served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment and LaborParty from 1965 until his death. Born in Kraków in Poland in 1924, Ofer madealiyah to Mandate Palestine the following year. He joined the Mandate-eraJewish Police force and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.After being demobilized in 1950 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he beganworking for Egged. He became a member of the co-operative's board, and from1961 until his death, served as director of its Finances department. In 1965 hewas elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. He was re-elected in 1969 butdied in office while still in office.
1971: Moshe Shahal took his seat in the Knesset as a replacementfor the deceased Mordechai Ofer.
1972: Mathematician and WW II Code Breaker Peter Hilton was“appointed Louis D. Beaumont University Professor at Case Western ReserveUniversity.
1973: Professor Peter Hilton actually began teaching at CaseWestern University.
1974: Eighty “leading Soviet Jewish activists from Moscow, Kiev,Leningrad and other cities issued statement advising caution in negotiations onthe Jackson-Vanik Amendment.”
1974:“Yuri Vudka, of Ryazan, wass released from labor campafter serving seven year sentence for “anti-Soviet activities”.
1976(6th of Elul, 5736): MK Zvi Guershoni who had madeAliyah in 1936 passed away today.
1976: As part of a mass demonstration, Uri Geller’s photograph appeared on thecover of the magazine ESP with the caption "On Sept. 1, 1976 at 11pmE.D.T. THIS COVER CAN BEND YOUR KEYS."
1977: The Prime Minister Menachem Beginwon a flat “No” on the subject of the recognition of what he described as ‘themurder organization called the PLO.’ The Knesset vote was 92 to four.
1977: Birthdate of actress ShoshanaElise Bean.
1978: In Los Angeles, mystery novelistsFaye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman gave birth to American author Jesse OrenKellerman.
1979(9th of Elul, 5739): Sixty-seven-year-oldAll American football player and movie producer Aaron Rosenberg passed awaytoday
http://www.footballfoundation.org/Programs/CollegeFootballHallofFame/SearchDetail.aspx?id=30122
1981: Seventy-six-year-old Albert Speer,Hitler’s architect, confidant and convicted war criminal who beat the hangman’srope died a free man to today in London.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/02/obituaries/albert-speer-dies-at-76-close-associate-of-hitler.html
1982:Washington announces the “Reagan Plan” that included the principle ofself-government for the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Banks in associationwith Jordan. The Americans saw it as thenext step after the Camp David Accords.The Begin government would reject the plan because it was not preparedto give up control of what it called Judaea and Samaria.
1983(23rd of Elul, 5743): Eighty-two-year-oldsongwriter and composer Arthur Herzog, Jr, the “father of novelist ArthurHerzog and grandfather of Amy Herzog” passed away today in Detroit, Michigan.
1987: Today representatives of the Holy See's Commission forReligious Relations with the Jews and of the International Jewish Committee onInterreligious Consultations “were received at Castel Gandolfo by His HolinessPope John Paul II, who affirmed the importance of the proposed document for theChurch and for the world. His Holiness spoke of his personal experience in hisnative country and his memories of living close to a Jewish community nowdestroyed. He recalled a recent address to the Jewish community in Warsaw, inwhich he spoke of the Jewish people as a force of conscience in the world todayand of the Jewish memory of the Shoah as "a warning, a witness, and asilent cry" to all humanity.”
1983: Henry "Scoop" JacksonDemocratic Senator from Washington passed away at the age of 71. Jackson was anoutspoken supporter of Israel and the Jews in the Soviet Union. In 1974, Jackson co-sponsored theJackson-Vanik amendment with Charles Vanik, which denied normal trade relationsto certain countries with non-market economies that restricted the freedom ofemigration. The amendment was intended to allow refugees, particularlyreligious minorities, specifically Jews, to escape from the Soviet Bloc.Jackson and his assistant, Richard Perle also lobbied personally for some peoplewho were affected by this law — among them Natan Sharansky.
1983(23rd of Elul, 5743): Twenty-three-year-oldAlice Ephriamson-Abt the daughter of Hans Ephriamson-Abt was among the 269passengers aboard KAL 007 who were killed when the plane which was bound forSeoul was shot down by Soviets who claimed, “the flight was a spy plane.” Herdeath would lead her father to become “an internationally known advocate forfamilies of air-crash victims.”
1984: Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade ofYarmouth, the son of theatrical agent Leslie Grade became Controller of BBC 1today.
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1987/arnaldo-dante-momigliano
1989(1st of Elul, 5749): RoshChodesh Elul
1989: In Warsaw, Leonard Bernsteinconducted a concert commemorating the outbreak of World War II.
1990: In “Roots of Muslim Rage”published today Bernard Lewis explains “why so many Muslim deeply resent theWest and why their bitterness will not be easily mollified.”
1990: After 622 performances at thePlymouth Theatre the curtain comes down on Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prizingwinning drama “The Heidi Chronicles
1990(11th of Elul, 5750):Parashat Ki Teitzei
1990: Eighty-year-old Syracuse nativeAlexander “Mine Boy” Levinsky, the nine-year NFL veteran passed away today.
http://mapleleafslegends.blogspot.com/2010/06/alex-levinsky.html
1991: Uzbekistan declares independence from theSoviet Union. Depending upon whichversion of history you believe Jews have been living in what is now Uzbekistansince the period following the destruction of the first Temple or the period ofPersian domination of Judea. At the timeof the declaration there were approximately 15,000 Jews living in the countrycentered in four major population centers.
1991: Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks wasappointed Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.
1991(22nd of Elul, 5751): Eighty-year-oldCanadian political leader Allan Grossman, the son of Russian immigrants and thefather of Canadian political leader Larry Grossman passed away today.
1991: Publication of Politics,Religion and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley and EdwinMontagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu by NaomiLevine.
http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Religion-Love-Asquith-Venetia/dp/0814750575
1992: Publication of Murder of Mercyby Stanley M. Rosenblatt.
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mercy-Stanley-M-Rosenblatt/dp/0879757728
1992(3rd of Elul, 5752): Nine-four-year-oldMorris Carnovsky the native of St. Louis whose 60 year acting career wasinspired childhood visits to the Yiddish theatre passed away today. (Asreported by James Barron)
1994: “Il Postino: The Postman” directedby Michael Radford premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
1994: Stanley "Stan" Fischerbegan serving as First Deputy Managing Director of the International MonetaryFund
1994: Today, “a memorial to theJews killed in the Second World War was unveiled in Klooga on the territory ofthe former concentration camp.”
1995: Graham B. Spanier who would becomea major player in the Jerry Sandusky- Penn St. child abuse scandal assumed hisduties as President of Penn State University.
1997: “Wilde,” a film version of thebiography written by Richard Elman, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev andRomaia starring Stephen Fry premieredtoday at the 54th Venice International Film Festival.
1998: The curtain came down for the lasttime on the Open Air Theatre, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London, productionof the Jule Styne musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” which had opened in July.
1999: The Jew in the Lotus anaccount of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the XIV Dalai Lama byRodger Kamenetz which inspired a PBSdocumentary of the same name produced and directed by Laurel Chiten, was onIndependent Lens today.
2000(1st of Elul, 5760): RoshChodesh Elul
2000: Funeral services are scheduled tobe held at “The Riverside” for Rita Muss, the wife of the late Louis Muss withwho she had three children – Elizabeth, Marion and Henry.
2000: “Clinton campaign officials saidtoday that Senate candidate Hillary Clinton’s intervention “to save JonathanPollard…from transfer to a more dangerous unit of the federal prison where heis serving a life sentence” “was not necessarily a precursor to” an attempt togain the clemency for the convicted spy.
2001: “With an Israeli-Palestinian truceholding on Jerusalem's southern fringe today, diplomatic efforts were made tosee if calm could be extended elsewhere to finally bring the conflict of thelast year under control.” (As reported by Clyde Haberman)
2002: The NewYork Timesincluded reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewishinterest including The Book ofIllusions by PaulAuster.
2003(4thof Elul, 5763): David Adelman, who is memorialized at B’Nai Israel inSpartanburg, SC, passed away today.
2003:Publication of Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernhard-Henri Levy.
2004: “Palestinians celebrate deadlyIsraeli bus bombings” published today described how “thousands of joyful Hamassupporters took to Gaza's street , throwing sweets in the air and singing songsto celebrate a twin suicide bombing that killed 16 people on Israeli buses.”
2004: “Promised Land” by Amos Gitaipremiered at the 61st VeniceInternational Film Festival which opened today.
2005: In Israel approximately 1,700,000pupils begin the new school year.
2005: At the Vienna International FilmFestival, premiere of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” one of the most significantfilms of the decade produced by Grant Heslov.
2005: As of today, the IDF “hadwithdrawn 95% of its equipment” from Gaza.
2005: In Hong Kong, Nancy Ann Kissel wasfound guilty of murdering her husband Robert Kissel, a senior banker withMerrill Lynch. First she gave him a milkshake laced with sleeping medicationsand crushed his skull. Then she wrappedhis body in a carpet and stuffed into a moving box. The jury did not believe that Mrs. Kissel hadacted in self-defense. The scandalousmurder trial sent shock waves through the financial communities in Hong Kongand New York as well as the Jewish community in Hong Kong. It included everything from Mrs. Kissel’sextramarital affair to a multi-million-dollar New York real estate fraudinvolving the descendant’s brother Andrews Kissel. Who says Jews are only good for stories aboutTalmud and Accounting?
2006: In a strange twist of fate, twoMoslem countries are making plans to send troops to serve as part of the UNpeacekeeping force designed to maintain peace along Israel’s border withLebanon. Turkey's government submitted a resolution to parliament to sendpeacekeepers to Lebanon despite public opposition to the deployment. Israel hasdropped its objections to Indonesia joining the UN peacekeeping force in southLebanon, and discussions are underway as to when Jakarta would send a plannedcontingent of 1,000 troops
2006: An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada Jazz flight inMontreal for praying.
2007: In Jerusalem, Larry Fogel and Moni Arnon perform "Simon and Garfunkel" music.The duo provides an authentic rendition of the famed Americans’ acousitcharmonies in their performance at the Bible Lands Museum tent.
2007: Craig Breslow “was promoted to theBoston Red Sox” from the minors.
2007(18th of Elul, 5767):Parashat Ki Tavo
2007(18th of Elul, 5767):Eighty-three year old Sir Abraham Goldberg, the son of Jewish immigrants whorose to be “one of the most outstanding physician scientists of his generation”passed away today.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12772438.Sir_Abraham_Goldberg/
2007: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturdayof Labor Day Weekend, the traditional Shabbat morning service at Temple Judah(a reform congregation with just over 100 families as members) attractedsixteen congregants confounding critics who are always predicting the demise ofthe American Jewish Community while TheCedar Rapids Gazette featured an article entitled “Kosher gardening showsJewish law in practice.”
2007: (Elul 18) Birthdates of the BaalShem Tov and Rabbi Schneur Zalman Liadi, founder of Chabad-Lubavitch.
2007: A Des Moines rabbi who was namedFriday in online media reports as planning to marry two gay men said he didn'tknow of the plan. Rabbi David Kaufman of Temple B'nai Jeshurun in Des Moinessaid today that he couldn't have married Sean Fritz and Tim McQuillan becauseneither man was Jewish. The pair were married Friday before a ban on same-sexunions was reinstated. Kaufman said he would have referred the couple toUnitarian Minister Mark Stringer, who performed the ceremony. Following isKaufman's statement on the events: “Someone who knew that I would be willing toperform same sex ceremonies evidently decided that I was going to do one fortwo gay friends of hers and let the press know about it. Neither of the men wasJewish. I didn't know anything about the plan, much less participated in it,and couldn't do a wedding this morning (Friday) anyway, since I was otherwisecommitted. I wouldn't have done this particular ceremony because neither wasJewish in the first place. Instead I would have referred them to Rev. MarkStringer of the Unitarian Church, who I know is a strong proponent of civilmarriage and same sex ceremonies and who eventually did the marriage anyway. Icommend him for so doing. In the meantime, it was posted for a while on the DMRegister website that I was doing the ceremony and the news media, includingnational news media with multiple TV cameras, showed up at the Temple. Thephone was ringing off the hook for about two hours. Meanwhile, I wasn't even inthe building and had another life cycle event to perform at the time that themedia was gathered. For those interested, I both support Civil Marriage and Iwould do a same sex commitment ceremony, but my requirements for so doing wouldbe exactly the same as for a non-hom*osexual couple. Someone has to be Jewishand the couple must either be prepared to raise their children as Jews or havediscussed it or not decided. I do not act as "Justice of the Peace"in a secular capacity. When I do weddings of any kind, I represent the Reform Jewishtradition in general and my beliefs as a Reform Jewish Rabbi in particular. Iam there as a Rabbi, not as Justice of the Peace. Meanwhile, let me offer ahearty Mazal Tov to Sean and Tim."
2008: A busy day in Israel on a varietyof fronts as 1.4 million pupils ended their summer vacation and began the2008/09 school year
2008: Mike Slive, the commissioner ofthe Southeastern Conference is scheduled to begin serving as Chair of theDivision 1 Men’s Basketball Committee for the 2008-2009 academic year today.
2008: Athletic mogul Arkadi Gaybamaksacked the entire Betar management team
2008: The WUJS Arad program relocates from the southern desert town to theCentral region. The program moves to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for the fallsession, which is expected to draw 50 participants from overseas. Thefive-month program will be extended by a month for that term.
2008(1st of Elul, 5768): Rosh ChodeshElul Rosh; Begin blowing the Shofar at Shacharit
2008: Deadline for submitting entries tothe D.C. Jewish Community Center'sthird annual writing contest entries for which must come from residents of theWashington Metro area and must consistshort essays or stories that illuminate how humor has been helpful indifficult times -- is looking for entries.
2008 (1 Elul, 5768): Eighty-five-year-old comedy writer SheldonKeller passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/television/04keller.html?_r=1
2008 (1 Elul, 5768): Forty-six-year-old Oded Schramm, who meldedideas from two branches of mathematics into an equation that applies to amultitude of physics problems from the percolation of water through rocks tothe tangling of polymers, died in a fall at Guye Peak near Snoqualmie Pass inWashington State. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/science/11schramm.html?_r=0
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/schramm/
2008: The fifth AICE Israeli Film Festival opened on today at the Palace Como,South Yarra. More than 400 people attended the Opening Night of the Festival,officially launched by The Ambassador of Israel, H.E. Yuval Rotem. Otherspeakers on the evening included Tony Lupton MP, Cabinet Secretary of Victoriaand Evan Thornley MP, Deputy Cabinet Secretary (both of whom represented theVictorian Premier, John Brumby), guest of the Festival Gal Zaid, leading memberof the Aboriginal community, Warren Mundine, Founder and Chairman of AICE,Albert Dadon AM and AICE Executive Director, Keith Lawrence. Australian actressKerry Armstrong, international jazz pianist Joe Chindamo, Sir Zelman and LadyAnna Cowen, Melbourne Film Festival director Richard Moore, award-winning filmand television producers Sue Maslin and Ros Tatarka were just some of theguests at the opening night. The opening film was the multi-award winning 'TheSecrets', written, directed and produced by Avi Nesher, whose previous film,'Turn Left at the End of the World' opened the festival in 2005. Awards includeBest Film and Best Script at the 2008 Jackson Hole International Film Festivaland nominations for 8 Israeli 'Ophirs' (including Best Film).
2009: During a breakfast reception atthe Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, Governor Tim Kaine provides abriefing on his recent trip to Israel highlighting visits with top electedofficials and business leaders. The Virginia Israel Advisory Board hostedGovernor Kaine's Israel mission with support from the JCRC.
2009: In Israel, the start of the2009-2010 school year
2009: At Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park,Madonna appears at the first of two concerts that are the last stop on her“Sticky and Sweet” tour. Shefirst appeared at Hayarkon Park 16 years ago as part of her Girlie Tour, andalso visited Israel in 2006 during the Jewish High Holidays along with 2,000other students of Kabbalah.
2009:Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky told Jewish students at the LipmanJewish Day School in Moscow today how much has changed in their country sincehe fought for the rights of Jews in the Soviet Union and spent nine years as apolitical prisoner. He entertained the teenage students with tales of how heused a toilet to practice his Hebrew with other Jewish dissidents in prison. Hedescribed how pleased he was to see a new generation of Russian Jews free toattend Jewish schools and visit Israel. But hanging over his visit was thepersistence of anti-Semitism in Russia today. "There is anti-Semitism ineveryday life, and a lot of it," the school's deputy director IrinaSukhalinskya said. Sharansky praised Russian authorities for combatinganti-Semitism and improving ties with Israel. Galina Kozhevnikova, deputydirector of the Moscow-based Sova hate crimes watchdog, said the level ofanti-Semitism is stable and "has not changed in years." The number ofattacks on Jews and cases of vandalism against Jewish cemeteries and synagoguesis declining, however, she said.
2009,A special "Winton train" set off from the Prague Main railwaystation. The train, consisting of an original locomotive and carriages used inthe 1930s, headed to London via the original Kindertransport route. On boardthe train were several surviving "Winton children" and theirdescendants, who were to be welcomed by Nicholas Winton in London. Sir NicholasGeorge Winton organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children fromGerman-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operationlater known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them andarranged for their safe passage to Britain
2009:An investor group including Andreessen Horowitz (Ben Horowitz) announced it hadacquired a majority stake in Skype for $2.75 billion
2009:After having been “convicted of embezzling millions of shekels from theNational Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman” Avraham Hirchson“began serving his five years and give months” prison sentence.
2010:Meiron Reuven is scheduled to begin serving as Israel’s new ambassador to theUN.
2010:President Barack Obama is scheduled to host a dinner attended by Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and former BritishPrime Minister Tony Balir this evening prior to the start of peace talks whichare scheduled to begin tomorrow.
2010(22ndof Elul): 25th Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, of blessed memory;Husband of Deborah, father of Judy Rosenstein of blessed memory, David Levinand Mitchell Levin. You wouldn’t bereading this if it hadn’t been for him and that statement is true in more waysthan one!
2010:Today Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke about yesterday’s fatal terror attackin Kiryat Arba, promising that "the IDF will do everything possible toquickly bring the perpetrators to justice, to prevent the possibility of a waveof terror attacks from developing, to prevent other terror missions fromdisrupting the fabric of relationships and relative quiet which has beencreated in the area in recent years and even the intent to harm the comingpeace talks."
2010:Kol Shira performed at a Taste of the Market- Iowa City's Farmers Market
2010:President Obama today began the arduous process of coaxing and pressing themain Middle East participants to define and embrace a comprehensive peacesettlement, declaring that “the status quo is unsustainable.”
2010:Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with atrove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used forreligious rituals, officials said today. The head of the Jordanian AntiquitiesDepartment, Ziad al-Saad, said the sanctuary dates to the eighth century B.C.and was discovered at Khirbat 'Ataroz near the town of Mabada, some 20 miles(32 kilometers) southwest of the capital Amman. The Moabites, whose kingdom ranalong present-day Jordan's mountainous eastern shore of the Dead Sea, wereclosely related to the Israelites, although the two were in frequent conflict.The Babylonians eventually conquered the Moabites in 582 B.C.
2011:Shlomo Benizri began serving his prison term after having been “convicted ofaccepting bribes, breach of faith, obstructing justice, and conspiracy tocommit a crime for accepting favors worth millions of shekels from his friend,contractor Moshe Sela, in exchange for inside information regarding foreignworkers scheduled to arrive in Israel.”
2011:The Ohr Chadash Academy, a new Modern Orthodox day school is scheduled to openat Park Heights Jewish Community Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
2011;The family of Nahum Itzkovich, Jerusalem district psychologist of the IsraelEmployment Service and husband of The Jerusalem Post’s veteran health andscience reporter Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, sits shivah for the last time today.
2011:The school year is scheduled to begin today in Israel.
2011:Between the Lines a novel written by Marv Levy is scheduled to bepublished today by Ascend Books.
2011:The 7th Annual Jerusalem Beer Festival is scheduled to come to anend tonight.
2011:The Tel Aviv District Court ruled today to release singer and Kohav Nolad (AStar is Born) judge Margalit Tsanani to house arrest.Tsanani is being chargedwith extorting a previous agent.The decision came after the prosecution hadasked the court to remand her in custody for the duration of the trial becausethey alleged she posed a threat to the public because of her connections withunderworld figures.
2011: Vandalsdestroyed a monument to victims of a World War Two pogrom against Jews inPoland, covering it with racist inscriptions and swastikas in green paint,police said today. It was the latest in a recent series of racist andxenophobic acts of vandalism targeting the small Jewish and Muslim communitiesin eastern Poland as well as the tiny Lithuanian minority.
2011: Approximately300 Israelis of Ethiopian descent, including students and their parents,demonstrated this morning outside the Nir Etzion School in Petah Tikva.
2011: “Radio pulled its coverage of the IsraeliPhilharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London this evening as asmall number of anti-Israel protestors disrupted the concert by shoutinganti-Israel slogans at the orchestra, which was performing as part of theprestigious annual BBC Proms classic music festival.”
2011: The New York Mets baseball team announced thatit broken off negotiations to sell a minority interest to hedge fund managerDavid Einhorn. The Mets are owned and/or run by Fred Wilpon, Sault Katz and Jeff Wilpon.
2011(2nd of Elul, 5771): Ninety-two-year-oldjurist and legal scholar Sidney H. Asch, passed away today. (As reported byPaul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/nyregion/sidney-h-asch-judge-and-author-dies-at-92.html
2012: “Frances Ha,” a “comedy –drama” directed,produced and written by Noah Baumbach “premiered at the Telluride FilmFestival”
2012: The 15th annual JerusalemInternational Chamber Music is scheduled to open today.
2012: Temple Judah is scheduled to host the LaborDay Shabbat traditional/egalitarian minyan.
2012(14thof Elul, 5772): Ninety-one-year-old lyricist Hal David passed away today in LosAngeles (As reported by Rob ho*rburger)
2012:Eighty-six-year-old Sy J. Schulman who helped create Riverbank State Parkpassed away today at White Plains, NY. (As reported by Leslie Kaufman)
2012:“An Israeli military strike has been granted increased legitimacy due to theevents of the past week, former minister Tzachi Hanegbi said today at acultural event in Kiryat Motzkin. The airstrikes came after several rocketswere fired at Israel over the past week, one of which struck and damaged a homein Sderot early yesterday morning.” (As reported by JPost staff)
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=283433
2012:IAF aircraft struck two centers of terrorist activity in the Gaza Stripovernight in response to rockets fired from the coastal territory into southernIsrael, according to the IDF Spokesman's Office.
2012: Threepeople were injured during a rock-throwing fracas in Jerusalem this afternoon.“The incident began when a group of haredim started throwing stones at the Arabneighborhood of Shuafat in the capital’s northeast. Police arrested threeharedim, two minors and an adult, for throwing rocks.” (As reported by MelanieLidman
2013:Jeremy Jones is scheduled to moderate “Appeasing Hitler – Nazi Supporters DownUnder as part of Sydney Jewish Writer’s Festive being held at the Eric CasparyLearning Centre, Shalom College, University of New South Wales
2013:András Schiff and the Erlenbusch Quartet are scheduled to perform Brahms’ PianoQuintet in F minor, op. 34 at The Jerusalem International Chamber MusicFestival
2013:Ephraim Mirvis took office as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ofthe Commonwealth replacing the retiring Lord Sacks.
2013:The New York Times book section included two features: “Jonathan Lethem: By theBook” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/jonathan-lethem-by-the-book.html?ref=review and “Articles of Faith” by Dara Horn thatexplores her belief that “a number of contemporary Jewish writers are engagingwith religious belief in their works”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/articles-of-faith.html?ref=review&pagewanted=all&_r=0
2013:“Security forces led by the Shin Bet announced t0day that they had foiled abomb attack plotted by Hamas in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, timed for theHigh Holy Days.” As reported by Yaakov Lappin and Yonah Jeremy Bob)
2013(26thof Elul, 5773): Seventy-four-year magazine editor Judith Daniels passed awaytoday. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2014:According to Forbes, “Sheldon Adelson has returned to the top 10 richest in theworld for the first time since 2007 after making an average of $32 million aday over the last year, third-most of anyone on the planet’ meaning theeighty-one year old Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas sands is worth approximately$33.2 billion.
2014:Four days after she had passed away, graveside services are scheduled to heldat Sharon Memorial Park this afternoon for Shirley (Berlin) Kahn, the widow ofArnold L. Kahn with whom she had three children – Jeffrey, Jill and Jonathan.
2014:“After a summer dominated by Code Red sirens and few days of real vacation,2,105,394 students are scheduled to return to school in some 2,100 newclassrooms and 495 preschools that were built to meet demand in the new schoolyear.” (As reported by Shahar Hay)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4566135,00.html
2014:Peter Schaefer, “a German academic who had previously led PrincetonUniversity‘s Judaic studies program,” is scheduled to replace W. MichaelBlumenthal as Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin. (As reported by JTA)
2014:“A three-year-old toddler was lightly wounded tonight by Arab terrorists thathurled rocks through the window of the bus she was riding in, as it passedthrough Uzi Narkis Street in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.”(As reported by Ido Ben-Porat, Ari Yashar)
2014:“Justice Minister Tzipi Livni today condemned a government decision toappropriate about 1,000 acres of land near the West Bank settlement of Gva’ot,in the Etzion Bloc, asserting that the move would prove detrimental to Israel’ssecurity and damage the country’s reputation with the international community.”(Times of Israel)
2014:Peter Hanco*ck took over as CEO of AIG replacing Robert “Bob” Benmosche, theBrooklyn born descendant of Lithuanian Jews who relinquished his position todue lung cancer.
2015:In Falls Church, VA, Temple Rodef Shalom’s Treasure Gift Shop is scheduled tobe open for a special pre-Rosh Hashanah evening of sales complete with a 10%discount.
2015:“Proceedings to determine the punishment for “Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 74, aformer Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of racist and anti-Semitic actions”who “was convicted of capital murder yesterday in the shooting deaths of threepeople a year ago at a Jewish community center and an assisted living facilityin suburban Kansas City.”]
2016(28thof Av, 5776): Yarhrzeit for Larry Rosenstein, of blessed memory, husband ofJudy Levin Rosenstein, of blessed memory. Gone too soon but alwaysremembered!
2016(28thof Av, 5776): Eighty-nine-year-old Fred Hellerman, the last surviving member ofthe Weavers, a driving force behind the folk music and social justice movementspassed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2016:“Is That You? The Road Not Taken” a film that tells the story of a 60-year-oldIsrael projectionist is scheduled to be shown for the last time at CinemaVillage.
2016:The screening sponsored by UKJF of “Mr. Gaga” is scheduled to be shown for thelast time.
2017: 78th Anniversary of the start ofWorld War II
2017:“1917: How One Year Changed The World” is scheduled to open in New York at theAmerican Jewish Historical Society.
2017:“Lady Bird” produced by Scott Rudin and featuring Beanie Feldstein “premieredat the Telluride Film Festival” today.
2017:The Jeff Portman era really comes to an end as Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz isscheduled to lead services this evening for the first time at CongregationAgudas Achim.
2017:As Jews across Texas and the United States prepare for Shabbat, they are comingto grips with Taryn Baranowski,’s estimate that at least “Seventy-one percentof the city’s Jewish population of 63,700 lives in areas that have experiencedhigh flooding.
2017:The Diver Festival continues for a second day in Tel Aviv with performances ofmodern dance
2017:In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Greene Family and Young Judea camps continueto offer shelter to families who have lost everything.
2017:The new school year began in Israel this morning “with a total of 2,272,000students filling the classrooms throughout the country.”
2017:Today, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey “Michael Dell, the founder of DellTechnologies announced a thirty-six million dollar donation today to theRebuild Texas Fund “established by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
2017:As the Texas Gulf Coast grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey the Jewish-Herald Voice, “Houston andthe Texas Gulf Coast's Jewish Community Newspaper Since 1908” is prepared to“offer a free e-edition.” http://jhvonline.com/
2018(21stof Elul, 5778): Parashat Ki Tavo;
2018:In Cedar Rapids, the Bat Mitzvah of Hannah Homrighausen-ho*r is scheduled totake place at Temple Judah.
2018:The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screeningof Jacob Gladwasser’s “Laces.”
2019:Etgar Keret’s Fly Already which is scheduled to come out in English inSeptember.
2019:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding And How Are You Dr. Sacks? by Lawrence Weschler.
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Blinded by the Light.”
2019:Eightieth Anniversary of the start of World War II
2019(1st of Elul, 5779): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh ChodeshElul.
2020: 18Doors Boston is scheduled to present online a discussionof “Multi-Generational Interfaith Families and the High Holidays.
2020: The VirtualSephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Women’sBalcony.”
2020: Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host “Talk Trope Tuesdays”with Cantor Dave Malecki during which particpants can review the special HighHoliday melodies.
2020: The Mandel JCC and the Boulder JCC are scheduled to host“an online Rosh Hashanah cooking demonstration with celebrated Jewish cookbookauthor Leah Koenig.”
2020: The Greater New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah and Sisterhoodof Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation is scheduled to hold a paneldiscussion on “Me Too Affects You Too!”
2020: Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to host online Modeh Aniwith Rabbi Louis Polisson as he sings “classic Jewish and American songs whiletelling “some classic Jewish Children’s stories.”
2020: Todaymarks the return of This Day….In Jewish History which was last updated onAugust 10 and was forced to halt publication for the first time in its historydue to 120 mile winds that tore through Cedar Rapids, uprooting trees,destroying the electrical city and closing down the internet. (Editor’s note –this house took a direct hit leaving it with gaping hole in the roof amongother damages)
2021: The National Museum of American Jewish History isscheduled to host a program with Howard Mortman, author of When Rabbis BlessCongress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayer on Capitol Hill.
https://www.nmajh.org/events/when-rabbis-bless-congress-2021/
2021: The Birthright Israel - Sephardic IsraelTrip for this Summer is scheduled to come to an today.
2021: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center isscheduled to host investigative reporter for The Washington Post, CraigWhitlock who has covered the global war on terrorism since 2001 discussing “TheAfghanistan Papers, the Pentagon Papers for a new generation.”
2021: The Jewish Climate Action Network isscheduled to present the second session, online, of “How to ‘Bentshmark ‘YourSynagogue’s Carbon Footprint.”
2021: Schools in Israel are scheduled tore-open today.
2022: 83rd anniversary of the Germaninvasion of Poland marking the start of WW II.
2022: In California, as part of the JewishMusic Series, Sonoma State University is scheduled to “Saul Goodman’s KlezmerBand” during which Clarinetist Mike Perlmutter and his bandmates will lead aneducational concert during which attendees get to know klezmer music and itsroots in Ukraine, Poland, and Central and Eastern Europe.
2022: In Waltham, MA, the Mandel Center for theHumanities is scheduled to host “a seminar on The Jewish Bookshelf from the SixDay War to the Yom Kippur War, with Matt Silver, professor of modern Jewishhistory at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel.
2022: Online, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, aco-founder of Ms. magazine, is scheduled to discuss “Shanda” (shame/disgrace inYiddish), her new memoir about three generations of complicated, intense20th-century Jews whose lives were ruled by their desire to fit and/or theirfear of public embarrassment.
2022: The YIVO Institute is scheduled topresent a lecture by Tzipora Weinberg on “Orthodox, Female Poet: The LitvishLife of Hadasah Hirshovitz Levin.
2022: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judeais scheduled a morning minyan with Rabbi Fievel Strauss and Cantor AbbieStrauss
2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage isscheduled to host Professor Sarah Stein as she delivers a talk which willsurvey the historical landscape of WW II era in North America as she explores historiesof race laws, internment forced labor, deportation, and the everydayexperiences of the region’s Jewish people.
2022: Based on the last minute agreementreached between the Finance Ministry and the Israel Teachers Union, schools inIsrael are scheduled to open today.
2023:“The Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition is scheduled to open atthe Jacksonville Public Library (Jacksonville, FL), Snow College, Karen H.Huntsman Library (Ephraim, UT), Pikes Peak Library District (Colorado Springs,CO) and Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL).
2023:Tamar Nissim, an Israeli multidisciplinary artist is one of the contributors tothe exhibition “Shadow-work, Season III – International Resiliency Exhibition”opening tonight at the NARS Main Gallery in New York City.
2023:Lech-Lecha is scheduled to host a hike called the Catskills Challenge.
2023:In San Francisco, the Great American Music Hall is scheduled to host “John Zornat 70” during which the “composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger andproducer known for his avant-garde and experimental sound performs with hisensemble New Masada Quartet.”
2024;The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a walking tour of the LowerEast Side that will “follow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte,and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-KindFamily.”
2024:Today is scheduled to be the last time visitors to the Capital Jewish Museumcan see the exhibition “I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli.”
2024:In Columbus, OH, deadline for signing the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood New Year’sCard.
2024:“We Will Dance Again,” a film that provides “a horrifying glimpse through theeyes of the individuals who endured the brutal October 7th onslaught at theNova music festival” is scheduled to be screened in theatres in Los Angeles.
2024(28thof Av): Yarhrzeit for Larry Rosenstein, of blessed memory, husband of JudyLevin Rosenstein, of blessed memory. Gone too soon but alwaysremembered!
2024:The NYT list of “19 New Books Coming in September” features books by Jewishauthors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Nexus byYuval Noah Harari, Stolen Pride by Arlie Russell Hochschild and TheGates of Gaza, by Amir Tibon
2024: 85th Anniversary of the Start of WW II.
2024:As September 1st begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 331 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
September1
September is an auspicious month interms of JewishHistory. Likemostthings inthe world of Jews, it is amixed bag-- a combination of the bitter and the sweet.
Today we mark the anniversary of the startof World War II. By the end of the war, the world of European Jewry wouldlie in ruins. After two thousand years of growth and contribution, thatcivilization would cease to exist as we had known it.
September also marks theanniversary of the beginning of the Jewish community in the UnitedStates. From twenty-three stormed tossed refugees has come one of themost dynamic civilizations in Jewish history.
1312 BCE (10th of Tishrei):According to the Bible, the day on which Moses came down from Mt. Sinai withthe second set of Tablets on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed.
http://www.aish.com/dijh/Tishrei_10.html
992: In Limoges, France, A Jewishapostate named Sechog ben Ester planted a wax figure in the ark of the localsynagogue and then accused the local Jews of using it to curse the local Lordby devil magic. Although they succeeded in deflecting the accusation, the ideathat Jews were devil worshippers was gaining more acceptance in the Christianworld. A brief account...
1181: Lucius III, who issued AdAbolendam – a Papal Bull condemning heresy which created the Inquisition – waselected Pope today/
1199(8th of Tishri): Maimonides wrote toSamuel Ibn-Tibbon, who as translating the "Guide to the Perplexed fromArabic into Hebrew. The letter includedadvice on how to do this as well as plea that Ibn-Tibbon not undertake hisplanned trip from France to Egypt to visit him.The distance was too great and he would be too busy since to see him formore than an hour since each day except Shabbat he must travel from Fostat toCairo where he spends half a day ministering to the Sultan and his court. Then he travels back to Fostat where he isbesieged by Jews, Moslems, et al all seeking his medical skill and advice.
1239: During the Baron’s Crusade, whoseleaders included Simon de Montfort, the Earl of Leicester who expelled the Jewsfrom his domain and cancelled all debts owed to the Jews of England, Theobold,the King of Navarre reach Acre
1267:Ramban (Moses Nachmanides or Moses ben Nachman) arrived inJerusalem. Born in 1194, Nachmanides was a famed commentator on the Torah andTalmud and a major communal leader in Spain.He also was the court physician to King James of Aragon (a part ofSpain). King James forced him to defendJudaism in a public debate with Pablo Christiani, a Jew who had converted toCatholicism. To make a long story short,Nachmanides vigorous defense angered the Dominican friars and Nahcmanides wasforced to flee. He gave life to a Jewishcommunity in Jerusalem that had fallen on such hard times that it had troublegathering a minyan. Among other thingshe built a synagogue in Jerusalem that was the sole such building for severalcenturies to come. Nachmanides moved toAcre in 1268 where he led that community until 1270.
1271: Gregory X, the pontiff who will issue “Sicut Judaeis” in1272 which absolved the Jews of “using Christian blood for ritual purposes”began his papacy.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Papal_Protection_of_the_Jews.html
1553: Today, amidst thechaos that followed the death of King Edward VI, Miles Cloverdale, a translator of the Bible into English whor*lied on Luther’s Bible and the Vulgate but who did have some knowledge ofHebrew as can be seen by the fact that “the name of the Diety appears in Hebrewon the Title Page” and that Hebrew characters are used to mark the divisions ofthe Book of Lamentations” was placed under house arrest in Exeter.
1566: Birthdate ofEdward Alleyn “a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre” known for hisportrayal of Barabbas in “The Jew of Malta.”
1577: Pope Gregory XIII, reconfirming the Bull offPopeNicholas
1584: Gregory XIII issued Sancta Mater Ecclesia, a Papal Bullconcerning the obligatory preaching of Christian sermons to Jews. The Bull required that 100 men and 50 womenbe sent every Saturday to listen to conversion sermons delivered in a churchnear the ghetto.
1592: Archbishop Salikowski ordered the Jews to build a church inLvov Poland marking a period of increasing persecution.
1614: Vincent Fettmich expelledthe Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany.
1690(8th of Tishrei, 5451): Rabbi Henoch FraenkelHa-Levi, A.B.D Bamberg and Hanau the Prague born “son of David Abner, HabnerEizenstadt, Halevi, the husband of Ritschel Rachel Fränkel and father ofElhanan Elkan Fraenkel; Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Fraenkel, A.B.D Rheinland-Pfalz andAnsbach; Baermann Fraenkel; Wolf Fraenkel; Moses Fraenkel; and Hirsch Frankel”passed away today in Furth, Germany.
1715: King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72years. The Sun King’s record in dealingwith the Jewish people was never good, but it got really awful just before hisdeath. Seized with the deathbedreligious fervor the debauched, he came fully to accept the position of theChurch and the Jesuits when he banned all Jews from Marseilles Toulon and therest of Provence in 1710. “The Jews were ordered, in his words, ‘to leave thekingdom without any belongs’ and local officials were told to take any and allmeans to expel the Jews ‘because that is our wish.’”
1738: A letter written today, informs Thomas Birch that Solomon“Mendes and his family…will take him to see the “Earl of Burlington’s House andGardens.”
1749: “The delegates of the Hungarian Jews, except those fromSzatmár County, assembled at Pressburg and met a royal commission, whichinformed them that they would be expelled from the country if they did not paythe ‘toleration-tax’ that had been imposed on them during the reign of QueenMaria Theresa the daughter of Charles IIIThe commission wanted 50,000 gulden; the queen wanted 30,000 gulden andthe Jews ended up paying 20,000 gulden a year for an agreement that allowedthem to stay in their homes for five years (Ant-Semitism is a money maker)
1752: The Liberty Bell arrived inPhiladelphia. The Bell is inscribed with words from the 25th chapterof Leviticus, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all theinhabitants thereof. It is but oneof many examples of how Jewish culture and values had an impact on Westerncivilization in general and, in this case, early American culturespecifically.
1761:Birthdate of German theologian Heinrcih Paulus, author of the “The JewishNational Separation: Its Origin, Consequences and the Means of its Correction”a pamphlet in which he “argued that "Jews were a nation apart and wouldremain so as long as they were committed to their religion, whose basic intentand purpose were to preserve them in that condition. In a country that was nottheir own, therefore, Jews could not claim more than the bare protection oftheir lives and possessions. They might certainly not claim politicalequality."
1763:Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home inMoscow. Betskoy was an educational reformer and accepting his plan was inkeeping with Catherine’s self-image of being “a child of the Enlightenment.”This happened a year after Catherine came to the throne in a period when herhold on the office was still shaky due to the way she had gained hercrown. At this time, Catherine was alsogingerly working her way around the anti-Jewish laws of her late mother-in-law“quietly” allowing “useful” Jews such as doctors, contractors and businessmanto work in St. Petersburg. Catherine’s accepting view of her Jewish subjectswould change during the last years of her reign, when the limitations she placedon them began the creation of what would become the Pale of Settlement.
1768: German-Jewish Hebraist and educationistNaphtali Hirz Wessely and his wife gave birth to German composer Karl BernhardWessely.
1786: Today,the Calcutta Gazette reported that the Court of Directors had appointed LyonPrager to serve as the exclusive dealer in pearls, diamonds and other preciousstones for a period of seven years in Benares.
1791: InLondon, Levi Barent Cohen,one of founders and first president of the Bread, Meat andCoal Society that provided relief for the poor Jews of London and theUtrecht born of Barend Zelig Cohen and his wife Lydia Barnet-Cohen gave birthto Isaac Cohen, the husband of Sarah Cohen and the father of John Cohen;Juliana de Rothschild; Anna Louisa Cohen and Lucy Cohen.
1795:Birthdate of James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the found of the New York Herald.When he died in 1872, he would be memorialized as “an honest supporter and truefriend” of the Jewish people whose newspaper “always gave firm and true supportto” the Jewish people.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE0DE1439EF34BC4153DFB0668389669FDE
1800: LyonNathan married Hannah Benjamin at the Great Synagogue today.
1805: InGeorgetown, SC, Sarah Judah and Lizer Joseph gave birth to Jacob Judah Joseph,the husband of Sarah Emanuel and the father of Lizar, Molcie, Josephine andJoseph ben Joseph.
1805: Duringthe dispute sparked by the publication of ‘Emeḳ ha-Shaweh (Vale of the Plain),Rabbi Moses Münz summoned two rabbis to come to Óbuda to form with him atribunal before which would hear the case against the author, Rabbi AronChorin.
1810: InJebenhausen, Germany, “Rehle (Sarah) Jonathan and Moses Faist Rosenheim gavebirth to Perez Rosenheim.
1819(11thof Elul, 5579): Seventy-six-year-old Abigail Seixas, the daughter of IsaacMenes Siexas and Rachel Franks Levy passed away today in Richmond, VA.
1820: FormerPresident Thomas Jefferson wrote to Dr. Jacob De La Motta of Savannah, GA. Jefferson repeated his belief in religiousfreedom and his happiness at “restoration of the Jews” especially as regards“their social rights.” He looks forwardto the day when they will take “their seats on the benches of science” aspreparation to “their doing the same at the board of government.” (As reported by the Jewish Virtual Library)
1822: Brazil declared its independence from Portugal. Soon afterthis declaration of independence many Spanish Jews from Morocco migrated to thearea. By 1879 Sephardim had settled all the way down to the Amazon rain forestarea.
1824(8th of Elul, 5584): Thirty-nine-year-old MosesMordecai, the New York City born son of Judith Myers and Jacob Mordecai, the husband of MargaretLane and the father of Henry, Ellen and Jacob Mordecai, passed away today in Sweet Springs, VA.
1824(8th of Elul, 5584): Thirty-nine-year-old MosesMordecai, the New York City born son of Judith Myers passed away.
1827: Löbl Strakosch and Julia Schwarz gave birth to their sixthchild Samuel.
1829(3rd of Elul, 5589): New York City native MyerEllis, the husband of Francis Polock whom he married in 1821 passed away todayin New Orleans.
1830: In Germany, Lena Hellman and Clementine Lange Hellman gavebirth to Missouri wine merchant Louis Hellman, the father of Hetti, Max,Josephine and Milton Hellman
1830: Barnet Emanuel married Amelia Isaacs at the Great Synagoguetoday.
1835: Birthdate of Yosef Chaim, the Baghdad native who is alsoknown as Ben Ish Chai which is the name of his seminal work on halachah. Ben Ish Chai is Hebrew for “son of man wholives,” a term that harkens back to Ezekiel and the Valley of the Dry Bones(Son of Man, can these bones live?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Hayyim
1836 Reconstruction begins on the“Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid” in Jerusalem.
1837(1st of Elul, 5597): RoshChodesh Elul
1837: In Willoughby, OH, Dr. DanielMoses Levy Maduro Peixotto, the Amsterdam born of Chazan Moses Levi Maduro LevyMaduro Peixotto and Judith van Samuel Pexitto, and his wife Rachel Lopes MendexPeixotto gave birth Raphael Mozes Levy Maduro Peixotto.
1839: Today, in a move that would lead to the creation of Temple Concord Syracuse,“agroup of German Jews founded Society of Concord in the back room of Bernheimand Block's wholesale notion store where most of these peddlers bought theirmerchandise”
https://www.templeconcord.org/about-us/our-historic-congregation
1841: John Jacobs married Frances Samsonin Liverpool, UK.
1841: Based on the advice given to himby the Duke of Sussex that travel would improve his work, Solomon AlexanderHart left England on his way to Italy “where he made many architectural andother drawings, originally intended for publication as a series of engravingsbut which were ultimately used as studies for his pictures of Italian historyand scenery.”
1844: Birthdate of “Dutch philologistHerman Josef Polak” the native of Leyden who “in 1894 was appointed professorof Greek at Gröningen University.”
1848: In Suvalki, Poland, AbrahamFeinberg and his wife gave birth to Moses Feinberg who came to the UnitedStates in 1868 where he served as a cantor for Congregations New Beth Israel,Poale Zedek and Adath Yeshurun.
1852: Birthdate of Kaunas native MaxBernhard Weinstein, “a German physicist and philosopher” “best known as anopponent of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/092577a0.pdf
1853: The New York Times reportedthat civil unrest continues to rock Venezuela.“At Barcelona, the government of General Monagas has published a‘warning”” aimed at foreigners in general and Jews in particular accusing themof being the instigators of the unrest.After a delegation of Jews and other foreigners sought help from theDutch Consul at Caracas, a Dutch man-of-war sailed to Barcelona where it couldoffer protection to those who have been threatened.
1854: Thirty-year-old James (Jacob)Seligman, the co-founder of J & Seligman and Rosa Seligman gave birth to SamuelJefferson Seligman, the husband of Birdie Seligman and father of Cecile R.Lehman and James Samuel Seligman.
1854: In Chicago, Elias Greenbaum theGerman born son of Jacob Israel Greenebaum and Sarah Esther Greenebaum (Herz)and his wife Rosine Greenebaum gave birth to Dr. Henry Everett Greenbaum.
1855: Mademoiselle Rachel, the great French Tragedienne, is scheduled to makeher New York debut today. Mademoiselle Rachel is Elizabeth Rachel Felix, thedaughter of a German-Swiss Jew named Felix and his wife Esther Haya.
1857: Banker Henri Louis Bischoffsheimand his wife gave birth to Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart, néeBischoffsheim, the wife of William Cuffe, the 4th Earl of Desart“who has been called ‘the most important Jewish woman in Irish history.’”
1857: The New York Times reported that a decision has been made to carry the question ofadmitting Jews to Parliament has been carried over to the next session much tothe relief of Lord Russell.
1857: In Philadelphia, PA Judith Simha Solis and Myer David Cohen gave birthto Dr. Solomon Solis Cohen, an 1883 Jefferson Medical School graduate whotaught at Dartmouth College.
1858: The New York Timespublished a report today that Pierre Soule has arrived in Washington. Mr. Soule was described as “a man of power”who “possesses undoubted influence over public affairs.” The article alsoreported that if Soule decided to run for the Senate he could defeat JohnSlidell. Furthermore, the article reported that like Judah P. Benjamin, theSenator from Louisiana, “Mr. Soule is a Jew, and the Hebrew element is a risingone in the aggregate intellect of the country.”[Editor’s note – If Soule were in fact Jewish, the author is saying thatLouisiana would be the first state in the Union to be represented in the U.S.by two Jews.]
1861: Thomas Jordan General Beauregard’sAssistant Adjutant-General sent a letter on behalf of the Confederate Commanderto Rabbi M.I. Mechelbacker of Richmond denying his request to grant furloughsto Jewish Soldiers starting on September 2nd and lasting throughSeptember 15th so that might attend services for Rosh Hashanah andYom Kippur. The Confederate generals aresure that Jews in and out of the army will understand given the militarysituation which finds Southern forces “bivouacked in full view of the capitolof the late United States.” Jordanassured the Rabbi that the God who “released your people from Egypt bondage”will understand. (Like many Southerners,Jordan did not see the irony of the side that was fighting to preserve slaveryinvoking the liberation from Egyptian bondage.)
1861: Philadelphian Emil Meyer beganserving as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the 174th Regiment.
1861: Herman Bendel, the Albany, NY,born son of Elias Bendell and Hannah Stern, “was commissioned as assistantsurgeon to the 6th New York Keavy Artillery Regiment” after which“he returned to Albany Medical College to graduate with his class.”
1861 Paul Weinberger “transferred to the29th Regiment of the New York Volunteers” today.
1862: Jacob Rosentell who would rise tothe rank of Sergeant and was wounded in the Battle of Wilderness, began servingin company F of the 139th Regiment.
1863: “Abraham Dusch” who had beenserving with Company C of the 27th Regiment transferred today to the“Veteran Reserve Corps.”
1863: Today, Daniel Edward Bandmann, theGerman born son of Solomon and Rebecca Bandmann “appeared at Niblo's in the first performance in New York ofJohn Guido Methua's adaptation from the German of Emil Brachvogel,entitledNarcisse: or, The Last of the Pompadours” after which he “began a five-yeartour of North America principally in the roles of Hamlet, Shylock, Othello,logo, Gloucester, Macbeth, Benedict and Narcisse.”
1864(30th of Av, 5624): Rosh ChodeshElul
1864: Private Henry Arnold, who wouldrise to the rank of Corporal before his discharge, began serving in Battery ofI of the 204th Regiment of the Fifth Artillery.
1867(1st of Elul, 5627): Rosh ChodeshElul
1868: In Egeln, German, Selig Bumenthal,the son Salomon and Lea Blumenthal and his wife Juliane Blumenthal gave birthto Max Meyer Blumenthal, M.D.
1868: Twenty-seven-year-old Isaias WolfHellman co-founded Hellman, Temple and Co., the second official bank in thecity of Los Angeles which would be followed by Hellman co-founding Farmers andMerchants Bank of Los Angeles in 1871 which proved to be the city “firstsuccessful bank.”
1869: In Brooklyn, Jacob Baiz, theVenezuelan born son of Abraham and Sarah Miriam Baiz, and his wife Emily MendesBaiz gave birth to Anita Baiz.
1871(15th of Elul, 5632):Seventy-five-year-old Sara Simmons, the wife of “fancy costumier” John Simmonswhom she married in 1828 at the Western Synagogue and the mother of Abraham, Henry and Gabriel Simmonspassed away today.
1873: A Jewish peddler named SamuelBendtersar was arrested this morning in Flushing on charges of having assaultedJohanna Fatsner.
1874: Birthdate of Ismar Elbogen theGerman born rabbi and historian whose work included Jewish Liturgy: AComprehensive History published in 1913 and translated into English by RaymondP. Scheindlin in 1993
http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=476343
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0110/ms0110.html
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/489494
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Liturgy-A-Comprehensive-History/dp/0827604459
1876: Sir Julius Vogel completed his services as Prime Minister of NewZealand. Vogel was the first Jew to holdthis position.
1876: Hyman B. Isaacson and his wife,daughter of Russian cigar maker Reuben Pupkin, gave birth to their only sonNachum Isaacson who started a boy’s clothing manufacturing company in New Yorkwhere he worked until he passed away at the age of 38.
1877: “Notes from the Capital” publishedtoday described the recent dedication of Washington Hebrew Congregation duringwhich Rabbi Szold of Baltimore delivered the sermon. President Rutherford B. Hayes, who had promisedto attend, “sent a message expressing his regret at being unable to fulfill hispromise.”
1877: In Boston, Massachusetts, FishelCurrick and his wife gave birth to Max C. Currick the graduate of University ofCincinnati a Hebrew Union College who served as a rabbi at Fort Smith inwestern Arkansas before assuming the leadership of Anshe Chesed at Erie, PA in1901.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_04766.html
1878: It was reported today that 200delegates attended the opening session of the Pan-Jewish Conference inParis. Adolph Cremieux presided over themeeting at which it was reported that the organization had 24,000 members andhad collected 111,000 francs in the past year.The delegates sought ways to improve the moral, intellectual andpolitical conditions of the Jews living in various parts of the world.
1878: It was reported today that therewere those in England who claimed Disraeli would play the ultimate joke when hedied by renouncing his youthful conversion to Christianity and being buriednext to his Jewish father. Othersclaimed that Disraeli would do no such thing, choosing to be buried next to hiswife.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05E1DE153EE73BBC4953DFBF668383669FDE
1878: It was reported today that amongthe donations made to help those suffering from the Yellow Fever Epidemic inthe Deep South was $100 from the Hebrews of the St. Joseph Mission earmarkedfor the Howard Association in Memphis, Tenn.
1879: “Henry O’Brien’s Experiment”published today described the 12 year old Irish boy’s attempt to find out how aJew, in this case Harris Goldstein, would react when tricked into eating pork.(It must have been a slow news day in New York)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800EEDF103EE73BBC4953DFBF668382669FDE
1881: “Ephraim and Clara (Lerner) Teppergave birth to Georgetown University trained attorney and husband of MaryCollegeman Joseph L. Tepper, the Washington D.C businessman who was Presidentof the Guaranty Mortgage Company, Prescient of the Jewish Federation Societiesof the District of Columbia and member of the executive committee of theAmerican Jewish Congress.
1882: In Fifth District Civil Court inNew York City, Civil Justice Alfred Steckler heard Freund versus Selig in whichthe plaintiff sought to force the defendant Louis Selig to repay what heclaimed was a ten-dollar loan. Selig, awell-known Jewish police officer claimed that the ten dollars in questions wasnot a loan, but a gift made on his behalf as a political contribution.
1882: It was reported today that largenumbers of unemployed Jewish refugees “continue to besiege” the Hebrew AidSociety on State Street in search of financial assistance.
1882: Theobold Michael, President of theSynagogue and Talmud Torah at 622 Fifth Street, appeared at the Essex MarketPolice Court where he filed a complaint against Charles A. Leopold claimingthat the defendant “annoyed the congregation” during services “by swearing atthem, using insulting language” and throwing mud into the synagogue. Leopold denied the allegations and claimedthat the Jewish prayers disturbed his invalid wife. The Judge let Leopold go after telling himthat he not “disturb the congregation.”
1883: The military fired on a mob of twothousand peasants today who “had invaded” the town of “Krapina…for the purposedof attacking the Jews.
1883: It was reported today that Herrvon Tisza, the President of the Hungarian Council has instituted news measuresto protect Jews from any more attacks.From now on, any rioter who attacks a Jew and is condemned to deathunder a decree of martial law will be put to death within three hours afterbeing sentencing.
1884: In Vienna, Fannie Weirauch and EliasPhilip Shor gave birth to Brown University educated journalist and editorGeorge Gershon Shor, the husband of Leiah Luter and a veteran of the AEF,serving with the rank of Major
1884: In Paterson, NJ, founding of B’naiIsrael which holds services daily, owns a cemetery in Bergen, NJ and whosemembers include “Louis Urdond, Harris Jacob, Harris Rome, Nathan Elkind, DavidEtkin, Bernot Grazinsky and Lipman Simon.”
1884: Birthdate of May H. FriedmanFleisher the wife of Philadelphian Willis Fleisher.
1884: Birthdate of Friedrich Wilhelm vonPrittwitz und Gaffron the German Ambassador to the United States under theWeimar Republic who resigned in protest the day after Hitler came to power andwho warned German Jewish playwright Lion Feuchtwagner not to return to Germany.
1884: Birthdate of Charles EzekielPolowetski, the Russian born American painter.
http://www.askart.com/artist/Charles_Ezekiel_Polowetski/117580/Charles_Ezekiel_Polowetski.aspx
1884: It was reported today that fifty-five-year-oldDaniel Weinberger whose body was discovered yesterday in his room on SouthHalstead Street left a note for his landlord Winter Meyer asking that hisremains “be taken in a Jewish hearse to a Jewish burying ground” where he wouldbe buried by a Jewish burial society.
1885: Anthony M. Keiley, former mayor of Richmond who had beendesignated as the U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary and who had a Jewish wifewrote to Secretary of State Thomas Francis Bayard, President Cleveland’sSecretary of State that “no American citizen…who commits the crime, “inAustria’s eyes of marrying a Hebrew wife, shall be received in diplomaticcircles in Vienna, or permitted to represent the interests of the United Satesat the Austrian court” which means that “Austria claims the right to prescribea religious test for office in the United States and to determine what creedshall constitute the disqualifications.”
1885: “A Fight In A Synagogue” published today described a disputebetween Sol Goldstone and Abraham Jacobs that turned violent during the annualmeeting of a Jewish congregation in Montreal, Canada.
1886: Coroner Levy, the President of the Jewish Immigrants’Protective Association sought an interview with Immigration SuperintendentJackson to protest the treatment of Mr. and Mrs. Manheim and their 5 year oldchild who were being denied entrance to the United States.
1887: The San Diego Union noted that congregants at BethIsrael were talking of building a synagogue estimated to cost $20,000.
1888(25th of Elul, 5648): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilch;Leil Selichot
1888: Sixty immigrants, most of whom were Russian Jews, weredetained at Castle Garden before being sent to Blackwell’s Island. They were treated in this manner because theyhad been identified as “paupers.”
1889: The formal dedication of the new Sephardic synagogue to beused by the Moses Montefiore Congregation was scheduled to take place today.
1889: It was reported today that the only hotel in Tétouan,Morocco is “kept by a native Jew” which is unusual in area dominated by Berbersand Arabs.
1889: “The History of the Jews” published today provided a reviewof History of the People of Israel from the Reign of David up to the Capture ofSamaria by Ernest Renan.
1890: In the Essex Market Police Court Justice Hogan JacobRohnewitch accuses Israel Simovitch of stealing $90 worth of jewelry from himon August 8. Simovitch denied the charge and claimed that the charges weretrumped up so that he would pay out the $40 he had saved to “bring his wifefrom Russia.”
1890: The Central Labor Federation had its own Labor Day Paradetoday in New York which included large number of “Hebrew” workers includingmembers of “the shirt and cloak makers who have recently made themselves to thepublic by their strikes.
1890: During today’s Labor Day Parade, the “United Cloak and SuitMakers” stopped at cottage serving an informal reviewing stand where CoronerFerdinand Levy presented them with a silk flag.”
1890: In Scranton, “the extensive alterations” at the synagogueare scheduled to be completed today which means the congregation can stopholding services in the local Y.M.H.A.
1891: In Borispol Golda and Joseph Ya’acvo gave birth to JosephZaritsky, Israeli painter who was one of the founders of “Ofakim Hadshim” (NewHorizons) art movement
1891: It was reported today that “the Argentine Republic frownsupon the wholesale immigration of the” Jews expelled from Russia.
1892: In Cleveland, OH, Lillie M. Meyers and Louis J. Grossmangave birth to Harvard trained attorney Marc Justin Grossman, the husband ofCarolyn Kahn and Trustee of the Council Education Alliance of the Jewish SocialService Bureau who was vice chairman of the Jewish Recreation Conference.
1892: Leo M. Franklin began serving as the Rabbi for Temple Israelin Omaha, Nebraska.
1892: In Elizabeth, NJ, the city Board of Health plans on askingthe City Council “for an appropriation of at least $20,000 to help deal withthe sanitation problems including the installation of sewers in the First Wardwhich is inhabited primarily by Russian and Polish Jews
1893: “The Reverend Dr. Christian Adolf Stoecker, ex-Chaplain ofthe Court of Berlin…who is one of the founders of Christian Socialism and avigorous anti-Semite” arrived in New York aboard the SS Augusta Victoria.
1893: Max Feldman of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum was among the tenboys listed today as winners of the scholarships “offered by Joseph Pulitzer toboys desirous of preparing for an taking a college course.”
1893: In Cincinnati, OH, Lily Reis and Sigmar Stark gave birth toMiami of Ohio grained trained surgeon, the husband of Louise Johnson and thedirector of gynecology at the Jewish Hospital who was a member of the PlumStreet Temple.
1894(30th of Av, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1894: In Duluth, MN 43 Jewesses formed Council No. 10 of theNational Council of Jewish Women
1894: Eight hundred “finishers of clothing” who are Jewish aregoing on strike today to demand a increase in wages.
1894: Harry White and Meyer Schoenfeld will address a mass meetingof cloakmakers at New Irving Hall where they will discuss the “advisability ofgoing out on strike.”
1895: Birthdate of Austria native Henry Tannenbaum, the husband ofAnna Kreindler Tannenbaum whom he married in 1917.
1895: As New York Police enforce the Sunday Saloon Closing laws anunidentified Russian Jewish who operates a saloon on Clinton Street toldauthorities that one of his neighbors was “selling openly” and offered to takethe police to correct address.
1896: In “Kuznica, Russia, Wolf and Odessa Tarlowski” gave birthSalomon Tarlowski who “emigrated to the United States in 1914 where as Solomon“Sol” Tarlow he worked as a tailor in the dry goods store of his brother-in-lawSam Stolaroff in Roswell, NM where he and his wife Audra had three children –“Mildred, Edith and Sherrill.”
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99129125/solomon-tarlow
1896 (August 20 OS): Birthdate of Odessa native and acclaimedpianist Simon Barere who settled in the United States in 1935.
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Barere-Simon.htm
1896: In La Crosse, WI, Congregation Ansche Chesed whichoriginally been the Hebrew Benevolent Society was “formally incorporated today.
1896: The attorney for the jewelry firm of Julius M. Lyon went topolice headquarters tonight to meet with Julius Stein to find out when Steinstole the thousands of diamonds from Lyon and the value of the stolenjewels. The self-confessed thief refusedto make any comment.
1897: In Omaha, Nebraska, founding of Bait Hamidrash Hagadol(formerly B’nai Israel).
1897: It was reported today thatat the concluding session of the Zionist Congress delegates heardreports “that the colonies in Palestine were flourishing,” appointed acommission to report on the feasibility of creating a university at Jerusalemand voted to hold the 1898 meeting in Jerusalem.
1898: On the Lower East Side, “an immigrant tailor” and his wife“who operated a candy store gave birth to Pulitzer Prize winning columnistMeyer “Mike” Berger.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/02/09/80760429.pdf
1898: At Fremantle, Western Australia, Russian born “Esor Masel, ajeweler, and his wife Leah, née Cohen” gave birth to “solicitor and Jewishcommunity leader” Alec Masel, the brother of Philip Masel, the husband of MarieSchwartz and :a founding member and president of the Zionist Federation ofAustralia.
1898: The first meeting of the International Congress of Historybegan today in The Hague.
1898: As part of the on-going cover-up to protect the FrenchGeneral Staff and keep Captain Dreyfus in prison Major Ferdinand Esterhazy whohad already been put on pension shaved off his mustache and fled to Englandwhere he lived for another 25 years contenting himself with writinganti-Semitic articles.
1899: All the newspaper comment published today in London, Berlin,Vienna and other cities “regards” the reversal of Dreyfus conviction as“inevitable.”
1899: Bennett Cassal, the husband of the former Dinah Nathan andthe father of Solomon Cassell was buried today in the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery”in London.
1899: “Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris paid a visit toPremier Waldeck-Rousseau on behalf of Jules Guerin, the anti-Semite agitatorand his companions now besieged in the headquarters of the Anti-Semite Leagueon the Rue de Chabrol.”
1899: Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Sinai Congregation, who returned toChicago today from Europe, said “Capt. Dreyfus will again be convicted oftreason” because “the French people are bound to have Dreyfus found guilty” and“the whole of Paris echoes and re-echoes… with the ravings of the anti-Semiticforces…”
1899: The Biblical World published “The Return of the Jews fromExile” by William Rainey Harper”
1899: “Emanuel Hospital Plans” published today described plans forthe new facility “which will be used principally as a lying-in asylum” and willreceive support from the United Hebrew Charities Society.
1899: Israel Zangwill addressed fears that the dramatization ofhis novel The Children of the Ghetto “will present the Jews from a standpointundesirable to them” by saying that “it will found that Jew has actuallyreceived his first and truthful and considerate attention when my play isproduced.”
1900: Birthdate of Bukowina native Hersch Zloczoweer who in 1913came to the United Stated where he gained fame Columbia trained philosopher andpsychoanalyst Harry Slowchere.
1900: Mose Levi the Hahambashi of Turkey presented an address toSultan Abdul Hamid on the occasion of his 25th anniversary of his accession tothe throne. The term Hahambashi means Head of Rabbis and is the appellation forthe Grand Rabbi of Turkey. The Hebrewterm for "wise man" Chacham has been adopted in Turkish tomean "Rabbi." This is to avoid the use of the word "Rabbi"since in Arabic the word "Rab" is one of the names of God and may notbe applied to a human.
1901: In Vienna, Dr. Armand Ahron Noach Kaminka, the son of Wolfand Sura Beile Kaminka and his wife Klara Kaminka gave birth to Ephraim FelixDavid Kaminka
1902: In Luka (Czech Republic, Hermann and Bertha Ullman gavebirth to Dr. Fritz Yitzchack Ullman, the husband of “Charlotte (Lotte)Einhorn.”
1902: New Orleans native Percy Abraham Lemann began his studies atVirginia Military Institute.
1902: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Cornell University alumAlexander Kevitz who also earned degrees in pharmacy and law while becoming aworld chess champion.
1903(9th of Elul, 5663): Thirty-eight-year-old authorand Jewish activists Bernard Lazare (Lazare Marcus Manasse Bernard) who was anearly vocal supporter of Dreyfus and who attended the First Zionist Congresspassed away today.
1903: It was reported today, that “a movement is afoot toestablish a Jewish hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts.
1904: In England, “Samuel and Bronwyn (Pachman) Gerstenfeld” gavebirth Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld the long-time rabbi of Washington HebrewCongregation, the oldest Jewish congregation in the District of Columbia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/01/28/89318887.pdf
1905: Alberta became the eighth province of Canada. Two brothers,Jacob and William Diamond were among the first Jewish people to settle inAlberta, in 1888 and 1892, respectively. They made the long journey from theirhome in Lithuania. The Diamond brothers went on to be successful merchants inAlberta, and, perhaps, more notable, they organized for a High Holy Day serviceattended by other Jewish Albertans who had arrived. Unlike the Diamondbrothers, early Jewish immigrants came to Alberta to establish farm colonies,settling in central and southern Alberta, near places such as Pine Lake,Trochu, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. This first attempt at farming was notoverly successful. Many of those who came were city-dwellers who had grown upin the cities of Europe. A Jewish relief agency in London England raised $400to distribute the destitute Jewish pioneers. Because of the difficultconditions in Alberta and the Jewish people’s inexperience in farming, many ofthe immigrants left Alberta soon after, some going to the United States. By1906, the community had largely reestablished itself in Calgary.
1905: In London, Shmuel and Braina Gerstenfeld gave birth toHebrew Union College graduate Norman Gerstenfeld, the long-time rabbi atWashington Hebrew Congregation and husband of Louise Gerstenfeld.
1905: Weber and Fields opened their own musical hall on Broadway.
1905: Saskatchewan became the ninth province of Canada. Six Jewishfarming communities were formed in Saskatchewan between 1886 and 1906. Thefirst of these colonies was a novelty and evoked considerable curiosity in thedistrict. Locals dubbed the colony "The New Jerusalem." Due toinadequate winter shelter against sub-zero temperatures, wind, driving snow,drought, etc., this settlement lasted only six years. Another colony, Hirsch,Saskatchewan was founded in 1892. Landau enlisted the assistance of the Frenchfinancier-philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Hirsch regarded the creationof a Jewish state as a fantasy; however, he took a great interest in Jewishagricultural colonization. Baron de Hirsch established the Jewish ColonizationAssociation to facilitate mass emigration of Jews from Russia and theestablishment of agricultural colonies in North and South America. Hirsch wasthe only Jewish farm colony in Canada that was directly organized and funded bythe Jewish Colonization Association. Hirsch favored colonization of Argentinarather than Canada. Edenbridge was founded in 1906. It no longer exists, butsome of the members of the founding families live in the area. The Beth IsraelSynagogue, built by the settlers in 1908, still stands today. It is a woodenstructure similar to many Russian churches of that period. The synagogue servedas a place of worship until 1964. Today it is a Saskatchewan historic site. TheSaskatchewan Wildlife Association maintains the synagogue building, theadjacent cemetery, and the 40 - 100 acres of wooded lands.
The settlers of Edenbridge were Lithuanian Jewish refugees who hadtemporarily settled in South Africa. They were lured to Canada by a federalgovernment promise of 160 acres of farmland for only $10. Charles Vickar, whosefather settled Edenbridge in 1906, stated that owning land was everything tothe Lithuanian Jews. When the refugees were assured that they could freelypractice their religion they jumped at the opportunity. They had no knowledgeof farming. They did not know how to use a plough or an axe. They were Talmudicstudents and petty tradesman.
These Lithuanian Jews took the Canadian Railroad as far west as itwent at the time. When they arrived at the end of the line, the Jewish pioneersopted to go north where they heard there was more wood and water. The farthernorth you go in Saskatchewan the more woods there are. Instead of joining someof the established farming communities in the level open country, they picked aspot by the Carrot River. The name, Edenbridge, means Jew's bridge. Thesettlers devised the town name in 1907, when a bridge was constructed over theCarrot River.
The Jewish farm population in Canada reached a peak of 2,568 by1921. Sixty-nine percent of Jewish farmers lived in Western Canada with themajority residing in Saskatchewan. By 1939, it was estimated that one out ofevery 16 Jews who were working on the Canadian prairies made his livelihood onthe farm. Most of the Jewish farming colonies lasted to the mid-point of thiscentury. Jewish farm colonies disappeared as a result of the great drought anddepression.
1906(11th of Elul, 5666): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1906(11th of Elul, 5666): Elias Eppstein, the Alsace-Lorraine born sonof Rabbi Mayer L. Epstein and the Bonntrained student of Rabbi Mertzig and author of “Confirmant’s Guide” and “BibleEvens” who served as rabbi at congregations “in Jackson, Michigan, Detroit,Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kansas City, Missouri and Philadelphia, beforesettling in at Congregation B’nai Shalom in Quincy, Illinois passed away today.
1906: In France, a newlaw requiring a day of rest “in every seven” for which the government hasdesignated Sunday goes into effect today, creating problems for “Jewishmerchants and workers” who want to substitute Saturday for Sunday.
1907: Birthdate ofNorfolk, VA native and University of Pennsylvania alum Elise NusbaumHofheimeer, the wife of Henry Clay Hofheier II with whom she had three children– Elis, Linda and Clay.
1908: First Conferencefor the Yiddish Language which had been convened by Nathan Birnbaum continuedfor a third day in Czernowitz
1909: Classical schooland for Iowa State University professor Berthold Louis Ullman married MaryLouis Bates who were the parents of noted geographer Edward Ullman
1909: In Vienna, “Egonand Edith Lucy Amalia Hedwig (Weissel) von Grunebaum” gave birth to Europeantrained Orientalist and Arabist Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum and husband ofGiselle Steuerman who after the Anschluss in 1938 came to the United States whichhe made his personal and professional home until his death in 1972.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1558945.Gustave_Edmund_von_Grunebaum
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/01/archives/gustave-e-von-grunebaum-medieval-scholar-is-dead.html
1910: Following theexpulsion of 749 Jews from Kiev in August, the expulsion of Jews to the Palecontinues today “a small scale.”
1911: The headquarters of the Zionist Movement was transferredfrom Cologne to Berlin
1911: At Bucharest, the Premier of Romania receive “a deputationwho requested relief from political disfranchisem*nt of several hundreds ofJews in Dobrudscha.”
1911: Herr Wolfsthal was appointed Attorney-General atFrankenthal, making him the first Jew to hold such a position in Bavaria.
1911: As part of the celebration of its 500thAnniversary, the University of St. Andrews conferred an honorary degree on Dr.Georg Brandes, the Danish born Jew who served as Professor of Literature at theUniversity of Copenhagen and Professor Raphael Meldola, the British chemist andentomologist.
1912: In Everett, MA, founding of Tifereth Israel synagogue.
1912: Two days after he had passed away, 59-year-old Mendel SSalsburg, the German born son Arthur and Sarah Salsburg and the husband ofRachel Naomi Salsburg was buried today in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
1912: In New York, at Greenpoint, founding of the HebrewEducational Alliance.
1912: In Hanco*ck, Michigan, founding the Congregation of IsraelSynagogue.
1913: Max Drob who had resigned “from the pulpit of Congregationof Adath Yeshuron in Syracuse” is scheduled to begin serving today as the Rabbiat Temple Bethel in Buffalo, NY which “is the largest orthodox congregationoutside of New York City.”
1914: Birthdate of Ralph Goldman, the native of Lehovitz who was aWW II veteran, close confidant of David Ben-Gurion and a “leader of theAmerican Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.”
1914: Birthdate of Ben L. Salomon, the Wisconsin born graduate ofthe USC Dental School who was one of only three dental officers to receive theCongressional Medal of Honor – in his case for a display of uncommon valorduring the Battle of Saipan.
1915: Birthdate of Sholom (Seymour) Jacob Pomrenze, the World WarII veteran who “was the first director of the Offenbach Archival Depot” makinghim one of those who really were Monuments Men.
http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1463157
1915: It was reported that arrangements have been made “to issueeach synagogue in the United States subscription blanks for the relief of Jews”in war-torn Europe and Palestine which “are numbered” as part of an attempt “toobtain an approximate census of the Jews in the” United States.
1915: It was reported today that the Hebrew Sheltering andImmigrant Aid Society of America has made arrangements with similar nationalorganizations in Russia, Austria, Germany, England and France so thatcommunication may be re-established between relatives” who have been separatedbecause of the World War.
1915: Birthdate of New York native Bernard “Bernie” Opper who tookthe unusual step for his time of going south and playing basked at theUniversity of Kentucky where he as an All-American Guard and the mowed on tothe pros where he played for three teams including the Philadelphia Sphas, theABL team with Jewish roots.
1915: In New York, a new law went into effect requiring that meatsold as kosher must “bear the imprint of the supervising rabbi at theslaughterhouse.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9403E2DF103FE233A2575AC2A9649D946496D6CFF
1916: Today “The Jewish Chronicle welcomed the entry of Rumaniainto the war on the ground that it ‘completes the circle of Jewish questionswhich have troubled the world, and which must now come up for settlement”including those of Russia, Palestine and Rumania.
1916: Final Broadway performance of “Please Help My Emily”starring Anton Asher.
1917(14th of Elul,5677):Parashat Ki Teitzei
1917: Birthdate of “SalomonSebag.”
1917: Henry H. Rosenfelt, the assistant to the executive directorof the American Jewish Relief Committee announced today a campaign to raise$1,000,000 toward the $10,000,000 Jewish War Relief Fund will be conductedduring the upcoming Jewish holidays starting with Rosh Hashanah on September 17and ending with Yom Kippur on September 26.
1917: “After making more than a thousand pictures, the Lubin FilmCompany, founded by optometrist Siegmund Lubin “went out of business” todaybecause it had lost its European market due to the outbreak of WW I, forcingthe founder to return to his earlier career.
1917: In Paris, “the Minister of Foreign Affairs bestowed thedecoration of the Legion of Honor upon Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, the wife of theformer American Ambassador to Turkey, in recognition of the work she did at theFrench Hospital in the early part of the War.
1918: The Supplement, a monthly publication, tied to “theinterests of the Eight Avenue Temple” was established today in Brooklyn.
1918: During the Battle of Mont-Saint Quentin, Australian troopsunder the command of Sir John Monash “broke into Péronne and took most of thetown.”
1918: “Ferdinand Lassalle” a film based on the life of the 19thcentury German Jew directed and produced by Rudolf Meinert was released todayin Germany.
1918: In Columbus, OH, the Temple News, the Temple Israelfortnightly, was established.
1918: It was reported today that “the British Foreign Office hasdecided that the Ottoman subjects of Jewish Nationality residing in the BritishEmpire shall be exempt from the restrictions applicable to enemy and that theGreek government has adopted a similar policy regarding the Jews of Salonika.
1919: Hungarian cartographer and future Soviet agent AlexanderRado arrived in Vienna today after having fled Hungary because his homeland wasin the grip of “The White Terror.;
1919: William “Weinstone was elected as a delegate to the foundingconvention of the Communist Party of America, called to order in Chicago”today.
1919: Rabbi Abraham I. Kook arrived in Palestine today to assumehis role as Chief Rabbi.
1919: Charles J. Freund completed his service as the Rabbi forTemple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1919: Max I. Merritt, who has been the rabbi “of the WashingtonAvenue Temple in Evansville, Indiana for the last fifteen years” is scheduledto begin serving B’nai Abraham Zion, a Chicago congregation with 1,600 memberstoday.
1920: In Germany, premiere of “Sumurun” (One Arabian Night) asilent film directed by Ernst Lubtsch who also played “Yeggar, the HunchbackBeggar.”
1920: At the 39thStreet Theater, final performance of “The “Checkerboard” produced by MorrisGeist
1921: Today twelve-year-old Victor M. Carter, the Rostov-on-Donborn son of Fruma “Fanny” Rudnik and Mark Carter immigrated to the United Statesaboard the King Alexander after which he founded Builder’s Emporium, becamePresident of Republic Pictures and a leader of the Los Angeles Jewish Communityand an active member of the Democratic party.
Victor M. Carter (rootsweb.com)
1921:With delegates and visitors from every part of theworld in attendance, the International Zionist Congress opened its sessions inCarlsbad, Czechoslovakia.
1922: The body of 61-year-oldJewish actor Bernard Bernstein, the native of Warsaw who passed away on August29 is scheduled to be taken to the Hebrew Actor’s Club today where it will liein state until funeral services on September 3.
1922; Today, in Detroit, Rabbi Leo Franklin of Temple Beth devoted hismonthly column in the Detroit Jewish Chronicle “to the debate surroundingJewish identity that” had been raised by the treatment of Leonard Kaplan at thetime of is graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and in which “he wrote that aJew without a religion is not a Jew.”
1923(20th of Elul, 5683): Parashat Ki Tavo and LeilSelichot
1923: The Great Earthquake struck Honshu the main island of Japan.Forty Jewish families living at Yokohama cabled the Hebrew Immigrant AidSociety pleading for aid. “Help us or weperish.” Two thousand dollars was sent by the Joint Distribution Committee. (Asreported by JTA)
1924: “Sinners in Silk” a silent film with a script by BenjaminGlazer was released in the United States today.
1924: Clark College grad and Columbia trained attorney, JacobAsher ,the Worcester, MA born son of Mary Edelman and Abraham I Asher whoserved as Justice of the Central District Court in Worcester and a member ofthe board of directors of the United Jewish Charities of Worcester marriedDorothy Virginia Rogin today in New Britain, CT.
1925: In New York City, “Felicia (Fox) and Emanuel B. Glauber”gave birth to Bronx High School of Science grad and Harvard trained Nobel Prizewinning physicist Roy Jay Glauber, “one of the youngest scientists to work onthe Manhattan Project..
1926: In Atlanta, GA, “Fannie (Segal) Goldstein, a gifted pianist”and Irving Goldstein gave birth Stanley Goldstein who, before enrolling at theUniversity of California, Berkley, changed his name to David Cavell, the namehe would during a career that led to a professorship at Harvard.
1926: In the Bronx, “Harold Colan, an insurance salesman, andWinifred Levy Colan, an antique dealer” gave birth to Eugene Jules Colan “atowering figure among comic-book artists, whose depictions of some of thebest-known characters in the genre were lauded for their realism,expressiveness and painterly qualities.”According to Margalit Fox, the family’s name had been Cohen beforechanging it to Colan.
1927: In the Free City of Danzig, “Selik and Sonia Rosovsky,Jewish immigrants gave from Russia gave birth to “Henry Rosovsky, an economichistorian who as a Harvard University dean was instrumental in imposing aback-to-basics core curriculum while establishing groundbreaking undergraduateprograms in Black and Jewish studies…” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1927:The Weizmann Administration, the Palestine Governmentand the British Government as the mandatory power were severely criticized onthe second day of the Fifteenth Zionist Congress which is in session here.Criticism came from several sources including Isaac Greenbaum, a member of thePolish Parliament and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, leader of the American Zionists.
1928(16th of Elul, 5688): Parashat Ki Tavo
1928(16th of Elul, 5688): Dr. Leon Harrison the rabbiof Temple Israel in St. Louis “was killed” today “by a subway train when hefell from the platform at 116th Street and Broadway.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/09/05/95605903.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37134783/leon_harrison
1928: In Brooklyn Michael and Eiga Charmatz gave birth to RitaCharmatz, the wife of David Sternheimer Davidson, the Yale law school graduatewho as Rita Charmatz Davidson “the first woman to serve on the Maryland Courtof Appeals
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/davidson.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Davidson-Rita-Charmatz
1929: Amir el-Hussein, Grand Mufti and President of the SupremeMoslem Council warned of “a grave national revolt” by 60 million Muslims ifGreat Britain persists in enforcing the Balfour Declaration.
1929: A crowd numbering more than 15,000 attending a meeting atLondon’s Albert Hall protested against Arab violence and urged the Britishgovernment to restore order, punish the guilty while making reparations for theloss of Jewish life and property.
1929: Following the Hebron Massacre, today, Sir John Chancellorcondemned ‘the atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and bloodthirstyevildoers... murders perpetrated upon defenceless members of the Jewishpopulation... accompanied by acts of unspeakable savagery.’
1929: The British HighCommissioner said that he would enforce the Jewish right of access to theWestern Wall despite violent Arab opposition.
1930: In the Bronx, Arthur and “Rose Goldstein) Greenstein gavebirth to historian Fred Irwin Greenstein whose works included TheHidden-Hand Presidency and The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style.
1930: Birthdate of Hadera native Ora Namir, an officer with theIDF in the War for Independence, an MK and Ambassador to China who was marriedto Tel Aviv Mayor Mordechai Namir.
1931: In Voivodeship, Poland, Dr. Israel Abraham Rabin and Dr.Else Rabin gave birth to Professor Michael Oser Rabin, “Israeli computerscientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.”
1931: Birthdate of Frank Magid. Frank Newton Magidwas born in Chicago and served in the Army during the Korean War. He graduatedfrom the University of Iowa and received a master's degree there in 1956 in thefields of social psychology and statistics. After teaching at Iowa's Coe Collegeand the University of Iowa, Mr. Magid launched his company in 1956. His firstclient was a bank; his fourth was WMT-TV, now KGAN-TV, in Cedar Rapids. Bycreating careful surveys and polling random samples of a population, Mr. Magidand his employees were able to provide highly accurate data that gavetelevision its first serious consumer research. The work paid off for the Iowastation, and the station's manager recommended Mr. Magid for a job atTime-Life's newly acquired KOGO-TV in San Diego. That, too, was successful, andit led to a contract for all the Time-Life stations. "And that really wasour launching pad because they were very kind to us and began to do someconsiderable amount of advertising to the trades, talking about how they werelistening to the public through this rather new, and at that time quite unique,kind of research,'' Mr. Magid told Electronic Media. His firm, from which heretired in 2002, also advised AM radio stations to get into the FM field, andurged broadcasters to invested in cable TV. He helped identify viability ofdirect broadcast satellite television and did the first research thatdetermined the viability of digital video recorders. Now based in Minneapolis,the privately-held company has about 200 employees and advises all kinds ofmedia, including The Washington Post, through its MORI Research division.
1931: As the fight for control of Cutters Union 4 of theAmalgamated Clothing Workers of America came to a head, Sydney Hillmanaddressed a meeting of 1,000 workers at Webster Hall where he denounced theousted officers Philip Orlofsky and Isidor Machlin
1931: In Los Angeles, 125members of Tifereth Israel attended groundbreaking ceremonies for thenew Temple being built on Santa Barbara Avenue.
1931: Birthdate of Michael Oser Rabin “an Israeli computerscientist and a recipient of the Turning Award.”
1932(30th of Av, 5692): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1932: The General Committee for the Protection of Real EstateBondholders announced today that it would seek modification of a plan ofadjustment proposed for $5,238,000 of bonds outstanding on the AldenApartments, at Central Park West and Eighty-second Street, and the Dorset, at26 West Fifty-fourth Street, by S.W. Straus Co., who sold the bonds.
1933: Birthdate of Professor Leonard Cole, the native of Paterson,NJ, an expert on terrorism who “was national chairman of the Jewish Council forPublic Affairs” and the author of Terror: How Israel Has Cope and WhatAmerica Can Learn.
http://www.leonardcole.com/bio.htm
1933:The Reichsvertretung derdeutschen Juden, the central representative body of German Jews emphasizingeducation, is established; it is led by Otto Hirsch and Rabbi Leo Baeck. It isthe only organization officially allowed to represent German Jews.
1934: The appointment of Albert Goldmanby Postmaster General James A Farley as Acting Postmaster of New York City isscheduled to take effect today, making Godman officially the first Jew tosupervise the world’s largest post office.
1934: “Gift of Gab” a comedy directed byKarl Freund, produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr., and with a script co-authored byPhilip G. Epstein.
1934:In Denmark, acollaborationist SS organization, National Socialistike Ungdom (NationalSocialist Youth), is established.
1935(3rd of Elul, 5695): Rabbi AvrahamYitzchak HaCohen Kook passed away today at the age of 69. His distinguishedcareer was capped off by his appointment as Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1919.
1935: The problem of who is to be president of the World Zionist Organizationwas dramatically settled in Lucerne, Switzerland, early today when Dr. ChaimWeizmann, noted scientist and internationally famous Zionist leader, announcedhis readiness to assume the full leadership of the Zionist movement.
1935: “A world conference of Jewishdoctors opened in Lucerne tonight to discuss Jewish health problems and toconsider the advisability of convoking a world Jewish medical conference in TelAviv.”
1935: Currently Jerusalem, Jaffa and TelAviv have ordinances in effect similar to those in several European cities thatlimit and/or ban the honking of horns in the late-night hours. Police in Palestine have adopted the sloganof “Don’t use your horn. Use yourbrains.”
1936: It was reported today that indiscussing the challenges facing the three major religious groups in the UnitedStates, Rabbi L.L. Mann of Sinai Temple in Chicago said that religions faced acommon foe, the recrudescence of paganism, irreligion and totalitarianism” and that “religions must unite againstpoverty, human exploitation, unemployment, crime, corruption and war.”
1936: It was reported today the actionscommittee of World Zionist Organization which has been meeting in Zurich“endorsed a world emergency campaign for $1,500,000 to aid the Jews inPalestine” who have been sufferingduring the violence of the Arab Revolt.
1936: “Tudor Rose” a dramatization ofEnglish period with music by Louis Levy and filmed by cinematographer MutzGreenbaum was released today in the U.K.
1936: Polish born Republican politicalleader Nathan Pearlman completed his term in office as a New York CityMagistrate today.
1936(14th of Elul, 5696): Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow passedaway. Rubinow really had twocareers. He was a medical doctor, whoamong other things played a key role in developing health services in Palestineimmediately after World War I. He went back to school and earned a Ph.D. inEconomics which provided him with a platform to deal with the issues of healthcare and its finances. He was a co-founderand the first president of the organization now known as Casualty ActuarialSociety. In 1934, he published the Quest for Security which pre-datedand greatly influence the creation of the New Deal social net including SocialSecurity.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=940CE1D6173DE33BBC4B53DFBF66838D629EDE
1937: Birthdate of Allen Weinstein, the son of Jewishdelicatessen owners in New York who became a leading academic, author andarchivists.
1937: “A special tax on eligible males who fail to servein the military forces” which “will fall heaviest on the Jews who are by lawdisqualified from service” is scheduled to go into effect today in Germany.
1937: Four Arab villagers were shot andkilled by unknown persons, apparently Jews, near Hadera. The authoritiessuspected that Jewish extremists were involved and carried out many arrests.The National Committee for Palestine Jewry (Val'ad Leumi) issued an appeal fornational discipline.
1938: In New Orleans, the FountainLounge opened at the Roosevelt Hotel which is now controlled by Seymour Weiss
1938: On the Island of Rhodes, newspapers carried the announcementof anti-Jewish laws. Ritual slaughterwas banned and all Jews who had come to Rhodes after 1919 were told they had toleave.
1938:A concentration camp isestablished at Neuengamme, Germany.
1938 Premier of “You Can't Take It With You,” the screenadaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by George S.Kaufman and Moss Hart, two of the Jewish giants of Broadway with a screenplayby Robert Riskin and music by Dimitri Tiomkin.
1938: In Williamsburg, Brooklyn Claire (née Ringel) and HarryDershowitz the co-owner of Merit Sales Company and “a founder of the YoungIsrael Synagogue” gave birth to Harvard Law Professor and outspoken commentatoron Jewish affairs Alan Dershowitz.
http://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10210/Dershowitz
1938: Mussolini canceled civil rights of Italian Jews and expelledall foreign-born Jews.
1939:Leading Jewish-German juristGerhard Leibholz, stripped of his position at the University of Göttingen in1936, escapes to Switzerland with his wife and two daughters
1939: This date marked the beginning of World War II with theGerman attack on Poland. German forces overrun western Poland, instigatingWorld War II. Three thousand Jewish civilians die in the bombing of Warsaw.German troops enter Danzig, trapping more than 5000 Jews. Throughout Germanyand Austria, Jews may not be outside after in the winter and in the summer Out of the 3,351,000 Jews inPoland, 2,042,000 came under Nazi rule while 1,309,000 came under Soviet rule.Remember, the Soviets invaded Poland from the west after the Nazis had beguntheir blitz from the West. Within twodays the British and French declared war on Germany. During the war a millionand a half Jews fought on the side of allied forces: 555,000 for the USA;500,000 for the Soviet Union; 116,000 for Great Britain (26,000 from Palestineand 90,000 from the British Commonwealth); and another 243,000 for otherEuropean nations.
1939: “Heinrich Himmler issues a decree forbidding Jews from goingoutside after 8PM.”
1939: With the outbreak of World War II and the closure of Germanborders the “Leica Freedom Train” came to an end.
http://archive.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4975_52.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxGbNXt_Is
1939: Mrs. Max Lowenstein, the widow of Nuremberg chazzan MaxLowenstein and the adopted mother of Heinz Bernard planned to leave Germanytoday to join her son whom she had sent on ahead to England which was to be “away-station” on their trip to the United States. Her plans were thwarted by today’s invasionof Poland.
1939: As of this date, there were “185,000 Jews in ‘integral’German, together with 70,000 in Austria and 190,000 in Czechoslovakia.”
1939: Arnold Bernstein who had served in the German Army in WorldWar and who had survived German prisons arrived in New York having beenstripped of his shipping company and all other possessions by the Nazis whoknew that anti-Semitism was a good business.
1939: From September 1 toOctober 25, 1939,Operation Tannenberg, carried out by SS Einsatzgruppen(mobile kill squads), leads to the murders of Polish Jews and Catholicintellectuals and to the burnings of synagogues in Poland.
1939: “Hitler Appoints Karl Brandt & Philipp Bouhler to LeadNazi T-4 Euthanasia Program.”
1939: With the outbreak of WW II today, the headquarters of theWJC was moved from Paris to Geneva where it was thought that Switzerland’sneutrality would “facilities communications with Jewish communities throughoutEurope.
1939: General George C. Marshall is named Chief of Staff of theUnited States Army. Marshall is theunsung hero of World War II. He was acritical force in convincing a reluctant Congress to accept peace timeconscription in 1940 so that America was not completely unprepared for war whenit came to America at Pearl Harbor. Hewas the architect who managed a war that raged across the entire globe in daybefore the e-mail, the internet and computers.He won the Nobel Prize for Peace for the Marshall Plan. It is most unusual for a top military leaderto have this award. The only chink inMarshall’s armor was his opposition to the creation of the state of Israel. He feared that American support of the Jewishstate would destroy American stature among the Arabs and open the way to Sovietdomination of the Middle East. He alsodid not believe that the Israelis could defeat the Arabs and feared theslaughter that would follow. There is norecord of how his views may have changed once the Israelis proved they couldsurvive without the need of American military support.
1939: Today, “while at Oxford University Chaim Michael DovWeissmandl who would be “the first to demand that the Allies bomb Auschwitz”volunteered to return to Slovakia as an agent of World Agudath Israel.
1939: Premiere of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” with ascript by Edwin H. Blum
1939: After spirited but hopeless fight by the Polish Army, theWerhmacht occupied the city of Chonjnice today after which “German militiamenbegan attacking Jewish and Polish neighborns.
1939: Because of the outbreak of WW II, the last of the eight“Winton Trains” did not leave because “all borders controlled by Germany wereclosed” and the 250 children on board “were never seen again” leading to theassumption that all “perished in concentration camps.”
1939: “The Women” a comedy directed by George Cukor, starringNorma Sheater and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released inthe United States by MGM.
1940: TheNational Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States isscheduled to come to an end today in Boston.
1940(28th of Av, 5700): Seventy-three-year-old Lillian D. Wald theCincinnati born graduate of New York Hospital’s School of Nursing whosecontributions to society included the founding of the Henry Street SettlementHouse and play a role in the founding of the N.A.A.C.P. passed away today.
http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/wald
1940:Polish underground officerWitold Pilecki penetrates the main camp at Auschwitz with the intention oforganizing secret resistance groups inside the camp.
1940:Soviet authorities orderJapanese Consul Sempo Sugihara to leave Kovno, Lithuania, where he has issued3500 exit visas to Jews
1940: “The official newspaper of the diocese of Freiburg, whereConrad Gröber is archbishop, describes the victories of German soldiers asproof that God guides history.”
1941: Birthdate of Tzvi Gal-Chen a sabra who would gain fame forhis work in retrieval of wind and thermodynamic variables from a single Dopplerradar.
1941: In Hungary,Einsatzkommandos, with the help of some Hungarian militia, murdered 11,000 Jews.In August, Hungary had pushed 17,000 stateless Jews across the border toKamenets-Podolski in the Ukraine. The German army protested that the largenumber of refugees interfered with the war effort and Hungary took a fewthousand back as slave laborers, leaving the rest in the hands of the Germans.There were no survivors.
1941: Wearing the yellow star became obligatory for all Jews inthe Reich.
1941: The Ukrainian newspaper Volhyncarried the following - "The element that settled our cities (Jews). . .must disappear completely from our cities. The Jewish problem is already in theprocess of being solved.”
1941: As of today, “the Nazis requiredGerman Jews to wear a yellow badge on their clothing…”
1941: “Lady Be Good” a musical producedby Arthur Freed with a score by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein and George andIra Gershwin and co-starring Phil Silvers was released today in the UnitedStates by MGM>
1941: Birthdate of Tzvi Gal-Chen fatherof author Rikva Galchen. Tzvi grew up as an Israeli Sabra on a collective farm.He served in the Israeli Army. He earned a B. Sc. and M. Sc. in 1967 and 1970,both from Tel Aviv University, with specialization in applied math and physicswhich he used in his studies of wind and thermodynamic variables.
1942: As Daniel Schwarzwald jumped fromthe window in the Lvov Ghetto he was shot by the Germans.
1942:Moshe Skoczylas and MichaelMajtek formed Jewish partisan units at Dzialoszyce, Poland.
1942:Fourteen thousand Jews are taken to gravel pits atPiatydni, Ukraine, and machine-gunned.
1942:German troops reach theCaucasus and begin exterminations of indigenous Jews.
1942:SS chief Heinrich Himmlersuggests that camp inmates be put to work in on-site arms factories. Armamentschief Albert Speer objects, offering a compromise accepted by Hitler: Himmler'sinmates will be made available to Speer for labor in conventional armsfactories.
1942:New York Congressman EmanuelCeller submits legislation to allow French Jews about to be deported to theirdeaths in Eastern Europe to immigrate to the United States. The bill is killedby the House Committee on Immigration.
1942:As Jews are being deportedfrom France to their deaths in the Third Reich, the Vichy Ministry ofInformation urges the press to remember "the true teaching of Saint Thomasand the Popes...the general and traditional teaching of the Catholic Churchabout the Jewish problem."
1942(19th of Elul, 5702):An SSguard on a deportation train headed for the Belzec death camp shoots and killsJadzia Beer, a Polish girl from Jaworów, after her skirt becomes caught in arailcar window and she dangles helplessly from the window.
1942:Thousands of Jews from Stry,Ukraine, are murdered at the Belzec death camp.
1942:A German shepherd that licksthe face of a Jewish baby at the Treblinka extermination camp is savagelybeaten by its SS master before the guard tramples the baby to death
1942:Security forces raid fivehospitals in the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, evacuating and slaughtering patients.Babies are thrown out of an upper-story windows, some bayoneted before they hitthe ground.
1942:In the town Wlodzimierz Wolynski, the Germans asked the Jewish Councilto gather 7,000 Jews for transport. Jocob Kogen a member of the councilcommitted suicide because he did not want to bear the responsibility of sendingpeople to their death. Wlodzimierz Wolynski was in eastern Poland at the startof World War II. This was the part ofPoland that Hitler had ceded to Stalin as part of the price for their infamousNon-Aggression Pact. In 1941, theGermans seized the town as they moved forward with the plan to conquer theSoviet Union. Some Poles rationalizedthe slaughter of the Jews by claiming that they had collaborated with theSoviets during their occupation of the town. These same sources also said the Jewshad earned their death because they had lived so much better than the Polesbefore the war. To understand thesuccess of the Holocaust, one must understand the pervasiveness ofanti-Semitism in European society.
1943(1st of Elul, 5703): RoshChodesh Elul
1943(1st of Elul, 5703): Eighty-eight-year-oldretired banker Edward S. Rothschild passed away tonight at the City Hospital“an hour after” being struck “by taxicab at Fifth Avenue and 47thStreet.”
1943(1st of Elul, 5703): Sixty-nine-year-oldAlbert Klein the founder and President of the American Food Company until hisretirement twelve years ago passed away today in Newark, NJ. A native of Czechoslovakia, he moved toNewark at the age of 17. He is survivedby his widow Kamilla Cohn Klein.
1943: The Belgian news agency reported“that armed Belgian patriots had intercept a train on which 1,500 Jews werebeing taken from Malines, Belgium to Poland.” The Belgians “fought a gun battlewith the German guards and released part of the captives from the cattle carsin which they were being transported.”
(For more on this see The Twentieth Train by MarionSchreiber
1943: “The Snark Was A Boojum” produced by Alexander Yokel openedon Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre.
1943:Germans send a Polish laborbattalion into the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto to flatten any walls and otherstructures still standing following the German assault of the previous spring.Most survivors of the April-May "liquidation" die during thisdemolition.
1943:The American Council forJudaism declares that Jewishness exists in a religious sense only, and thatattempts to establish a Jewish homeland would be disloyal to the homelandnations of individual Jews.
1943: “Palestine Goal Passed” published today described afundraising luncheon where the attendees heard from Dr. Israel Goldstein,president of the JNF and Bernard A. Rosenblatt, president of the PalestineFoundation Fund.
1943: Jews at the Sobibór death campattack SS guards with stones and bottles. All attackers are killed.
1943:Jewish women and children, aswell as the elderly and the sick, left on the island of Rab after deportationfrom Dalmatia, Serbia, are transferred to a concentration camp at Zemun,Yugoslavia, and killed. Others remain on the island and are protected bypartisans.
1943:Hundreds of Jews escape fromVilna, Lithuania, and head east toward the Soviet front line.
1943:Vilna-based partisan VitkaKempner blows up an electrical transformer located in the city. A day later,she enters the labor camp at Keilis, near Vilna, and smuggles several dozenprisoners to safety. Still later, she travels with five other partisans toOlkiniki, Poland, where she helps torch a turpentine factory.
1943:In Paris, three Jewishpartisans ambush and assassinate Karl Ritter, aide to Nazi slave-labor ChiefFritz Sauckel.
1943:After refusing for months,the Hungarian government accedes to German demands for Jews to be used as slavelabor at copper mines at Bor, Yugoslavia.
1943: There was an uprising in Vilna, Lithuania. After thedisaster of July and the death of Yitzhak Wittenberg, many of those in theunderground decided to flee the city. The German entry into the ghetto was asurprise and there was no time to organize. Forty fighters led by YechielScheinbaum fought until they were all killed. Approximately 200 more left theghetto and joined the partisans. A second Aktion on September 23 markedthe end of the ghetto
1943: “Jewish Conferees Assail Rival Plan” published today
1943: The Army Show, a musical comedy review featuring FrankShuster and Johnny Wayne was performed for a final time before a civilianaudience in Halifax, Canada.
1944: In Los Angeles, Felix Slatkin, “the violinist, conductor andfounder of the Hollywood String Quartet” and cellist Eleanor Aller gave birthto orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin whose brother Frederick is a cellist.
http://www.leonardslatkin.com/
1944(13th of Elul, 5704): Barbara (née Drapczyńska) Baczyński, thepregnant wife of poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński who was killed by a Germansniper on August 4, 1944, the fourth day of the Warsaw Uprising, passed awaytoday after having been “mortally wounded when a shard of glass pierced herskull.”
http://cosmopolitanreview.com/krzysztof-kamil-baczynski/
1944:Five thousand women and 500men are evacuated from Auschwitz north to Stutthof, Germany. Three thousandinterned women are evacuated from Auschwitz northwest to Neuengamme, Germany.
1944:Following American bomberhits on factories at Auschwitz, the SS gives wounded inmates excellent medicalattention as well as flowers and chocolate--a propaganda ploy for the benefitof German media. Once recovered, the inmates are exterminated. 44:The Gestapo and SS men inPrzemysl, Poland, execute eight members of a non-Jewish Polish family and alittle Jewish girl after discovering the group playing together in a courtyard.
1944:Despite the objections ofForeign Secretary Anthony Eden, Prime Winston Churchill finally ordered thecreation of a Jewish Brigade of Palestinian Jews in the British Army. Churchillhad long supported the creation of such a unit.
1944: Birthdate of Margaret H. Marshall the 24th ChiefJust of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the wife Jewish columnistAnthony Lewis.
1944: Aufbau, “a journaltargeted at German-speaking Jews” begun by members of the German-Jewish Club ofNew York began printing lists of Jewish Holocuast survivors as well as lists ofthe victims.
1944: “In a note written in Yiddish” today, “Hirsch Brik wrotefrom Kovno, Lithuania, to friends in Palestine:
I’m alive and I’m free. After three torturous years, I am back tobeing a man like all other men. The German bastards have murdered my entirefamily. … There isn’t a long enough paper to list all the names of our commonfriends who have been savagely murdered.”
1945(23rd of Elul, 5706): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilec
1945: As his ship sailed west across the Pacific Lt. Col. LouisGeffen, a judge advocate in the US Army who was trying to organize RoshHashanah found” his Baal Koreh. This gentleman had no Torah to read from, buthe would use the Humash - Hebrew five books of Moses.”
1945:Ichud (Unity), aJewish political organization, is established by the leadership of theLandsberg displaced persons (DP) camp. It initially acts as an intermediarybetween DPs and the United States Army in negotiations for DP immigration toPalestine.
1945(23rd of Elul, 5705):YaakovWaldman, a survivor of a 1942 death march, is murdered by Poles in Turek
1946: Birthdate of Shalom Hanoch, the native of Kibbutz Mishmarotand rock star who founded two bands – The Churchills and Tamouz
1946: Birthdate of Adrienne Cooper, the singer who played a majorrole in reviving Yiddish culture and music with a special emphasis on Klezmer.
http://www.adriennecooper.com/Adrienne_Cooper/Adrienne_Cooper_Home.html
1946: “A tentative agreement was reached between the RabbinicalAssociation of the American Zone in Germany and the JDC religious departmentcreating a pool of religious supplies and agreeing in principle to cooperate intheir distribution.”
1947: Date on which UNSCOP is scheduled to provide its findings tothe U.N. General Assembly.
1947: After premiering in Chicago a month ago in August, “TheSecret Life of Walter Mitty” a movie based on the short story character of thesame name produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Danny Kaye and featuring songsby Sylvia Fine and a score by David Raskin, was released in the United Statestoday.
1947: “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer” a comedy directed byIrving Reis, produced by Dore Schary and a script by Sidney Sheldon premieredtoday in New York City.
1948(27th of Av, 5708): Sixty-one-year-old LeonFriedman who served as Louisiana State Representative from Natchitoches Parishfrom 1932 to 1940 following in the footsteps of an older brother J. IsaacFriedman who had served in both house of the state legislature.
1948: “Sorry, Wrong Number,” a “film noir” direct and produced byAnatole Litvak with music by Franz Waxman was released in the United Statestoday.
1948: “Long is the Road” “the first German-made film to accuratelyportray the Holocaust” was released today.
1949: Birthdate of Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues.
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/209405/transgender-activist-leslie-feinberg-dies-at-65/
1949(7th of Elul, 5709): Sixty-five-year-old FlorinaLasker, the Galveston born daughter of Morris and Nettie Davis and graduate ofthe University of Texas and New York School of Social Work who was an activeleader of the ACLU and “secretary of the New York Labor Standards Committee”passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/09/02/85653995.html?pageNumber=17
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lasker
1950: Today, Israel charged Jordan with “’full and absoluteresponsibility for continual acts of aggression’. A government spokesman said Jordon condonedmurder and sabotage by allowing infiltrators and criminals to cross the borderinto Israel and by taking no action to discourage or punish these criminals.
1951: “The People Against O’Hara,” the film version of the novelby Eleazar Lipsky was released in the United States today.
1951: Birthdate of singer-songwriter Steven D. Grossman.
1951: The Yugoslav representative in the U.N. Security Councilvoted in favor of a resolution guaranteeing all nations the right to use theSuez Canal. The resolution wasconsidered a victory since it was designed to overcome the Arab closure of theinternational waterway to ships that had docked in Israel or that sailed underan Israeli flag. The issue of canalusage would be part of the reasons for going to war in 1956.
1951:The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, parentbody of Reform Judaism in the United States and Canada, moved into its new$1,000,000 headquarters at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-Fifth Street
1952: The Israeli government announcedthat extra rations for meat and poultry would be available for the High HolyDays. Those people who only know of thencomparatively affluent society of present-day Israel should remember that lifeduring the early years of the Jewish state were quite grim. Between the austerity of the land, thein-gathering of the exiles and the attacks from surrounding Arab states, lifein Israel was more akin to living on the American frontier than a modernWestern state.
1952: During the fiscal year whichbegins today MGM is scheduled to make 38 pictures as opposed to the 40 madeduring the previous fiscal year according to a previous announcement byNicholas M. Schnenck, the President of Loew’s and Dore Schary who is in chargeof production
1952: Zev Zahavy was appointed to serveas rabbi of East Park Synagogue.
1953: "Human Ornithosis inIsrael" by Dr. Aaron Valero appeared in today’s issue of, Harefuah, amedical journal published by the Israel Medical Association. Dr. Aaron Valerowas a an Israeli physician born in 1913 “who helped establish hospitals andmedical schools, authored medical publications and contributed greatly to theadvancement of medical education in Israel in the latter half of the 20thcentury.” He passed away in 2000.
1953(21stof Elul, 5713): Sixty-five-year-old Siegfried FrischHartman, for many years a leading lawyer in New York and the husband of VeraHarman, fell or jumped to his death at 6:45 o'clock tonight, the policereported, from a window of his office on the thirty-sixth floor at 39Broadway.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/09/02/83853103.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954: “Romeo and Juliet” a movie versionof Shakespeare’s drama starring Laurence Harvey as “Romeo” was released in theU.K. today.
1954; Birthdate of Los Angeles nativeand University of Colorado graduate Lisa Jo Gottsegen who gaied fame as Lisa Hoffman,the wife of Dustin Hoffman whom she married in 1980 and the founder andpresident of Lisa Hoffman Beauty
1954: In Perth Amboy, NJ, Robert N.Wilentz and Jacqueline Malino Wilentz gave birth to award winning author,journalist and professor of English Amy Wilentz who is married to NicholasGoldberg of the Los Angeles Times.
1955: On his seventieth birthdayFriedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron the German Ambassador to the UnitedStates under the Weimar Republic who resigned in protest the day after Hitlercame to power and who warned his dinner companion German Jewish playwright Lion Feuchtwagnernot to return to Germany passed away after having served as a member of theParliament of Bavario “from 1946 to 1954.”
1955: Publication date for MarjorieMorningstar by Herman Wouk.
1955: Birthdate of Efraim Gur, thenative of Georgia SSR who made Aliyah in 1972 and eventually became an MIK andcabinet minister
1955(14th of Elul, 5715): Actor PhilipLoeb passed away. Loeb played the role of Jake in the early television sitcom“The Goldbergs.” The show starredactress Molly Goldberg and revolved around the life of an obviously Jewishfamily living in Brooklyn. Loeb was 61at the time of his death.
1957: “Slaughter on 10thAvenue” a crime-buster biopic featuring Walter Matthau and Sam Levene wasreleased in the United States today by Universal-International.
1960(9th of Elul, 5720): Seventy-four-year-oldpianist and musicologist Laurence and the son of Felix Adler, the founder ofthe Ethical Culture Society passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/09/03/90664087.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1961: Publication of “Tonybee’s Epistleto the Jews.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/toynbees-epistle-to-the-jews/
1962: Jack Benny’s latest contract with CBS takes effect. Benny is 68 and thecontract is for two years which means the famed tightwad will have a source of income until he is70.
1962: Professor Sidney Axelrad beginsserving as , head ofthe department of anthropology-sociology as director of graduate work at QueensCollege.
1963: Publication of Arthur Hertzberg’sreview Jews, God and History by Max Dimont.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jews-god-and-history-by-max-i-dimont/
1963(13th of Tishrei, 5724): NYUtrained medical doctor Benjamin Dubovsky, the Russian born son of Bath SheivaPuchkoff and Abraham Dubovsky and the husband of Lena Smith who was a member ofthe faculties of NYU and Bellevue Medical College and who was the president ofthe National Federation of Ukrainian Jew passed away today.
1964: Rabbi Martin Riesenburger delivered the sermon and Cantors Werner Sander,Estrongo Nachama and Leo Roth provided the music during today celebration ofthe 30h anniversary of the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin.
1965: Outfielder Richie Scheinblum madehis major league début with the Cleveland Indians.
1967: British poet and author SiegfriedSassoon passed away. His father wasAlfred Sassoon, a member of the wealth and distinguished Indian –Jewish Sassoonfamily. His mother was an AngloCatholic. The family disinherited theelder Sassoon when he married her and Sassoon was not raised as a Jew.
1967: Sixty-year-old Ilse Koch, the wifeof the commandant of Buchenwald and Majdenek, hung herself at Aichach, Germanywhere she was serving a life sentence for a string of crimes that led her to bedubbed “the concentration camp murderess.
1968: In “Henry James and the Jews: ACritical Study” published today Leo B. Levy examines the great author’sdepictions and views of the “chosen people.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/henry-james-and-the-jewsa-critical-study/
1969: Pitcher Lloyd Allen made his majorleague début with the California Angels.
1969: Today, “President Richard Nixonsigned a law authorizing the district to purchase the building “that had housedthe Sixth and I synagogue’ and lease it to the Jewish Historical Society ofGreater Washington for historic preservation purposed at one dollar a year for99 years.
1969: Twenty-seven-year-old MuammarQaddafi staged a successful coup and replaced King Idris as head of Libya. Bythe time that Qaddafi came to power the Libyan Jewish community which was 2,500years old had been reduced to a couple of hundred souls. He exacerbated theirplight, as well as that of the Jewish exiles, by confiscating all propertyowned by Jews and by canceling all debts owed to those Libyan Jews whoseproperty had already been seized or destroyed. He also attempted to makehimself a leader in the fight to destroy Israel by giving untold millions tothe PLO.
1970: Shimon Peres begins serving asCommunications Minister of Israel.
1970: Yosef Burg replaced Golda MeirMinister of the Interior
1970: Palestinian terrorists attack KingHussein of Jordan’s motorcade in a failed attempt to assassinate him and bringan end to the Hashemite Kingdom. Husseinwas a complex figure whose whole kingship was influenced by the assassinationof his grandfather by fanatics who thought he was going to make peace withIsrael. In the end, Hussein’s visionovercame his fears, and he signed a peace treaty with Israel.
1971(11th of Elul, 5731): Mordechai Oferpassed away at the age of 47. An Israelipolitician, he served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment and LaborParty from 1965 until his death. Born in Kraków in Poland in 1924, Ofer madealiyah to Mandate Palestine the following year. He joined the Mandate-eraJewish Police force and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.After being demobilized in 1950 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he beganworking for Egged. He became a member of the co-operative's board, and from1961 until his death, served as director of its Finances department. In 1965 hewas elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list. He was re-elected in 1969 butdied in office while still in office.
1971: Moshe Shahal took his seat in the Knesset as a replacementfor the deceased Mordechai Ofer.
1972: Mathematician and WW II Code Breaker Peter Hilton was“appointed Louis D. Beaumont University Professor at Case Western ReserveUniversity.
1973: Professor Peter Hilton actually began teaching at CaseWestern University.
1974: Eighty “leading Soviet Jewish activists from Moscow, Kiev,Leningrad and other cities issued statement advising caution in negotiations onthe Jackson-Vanik Amendment.”
1974:“Yuri Vudka, of Ryazan, wass released from labor campafter serving seven year sentence for “anti-Soviet activities”.
1976(6th of Elul, 5736): MK Zvi Guershoni who had madeAliyah in 1936 passed away today.
1976: As part of a mass demonstration, Uri Geller’s photograph appeared on thecover of the magazine ESP with the caption "On Sept. 1, 1976 at 11pmE.D.T. THIS COVER CAN BEND YOUR KEYS."
1977: The Prime Minister Menachem Beginwon a flat “No” on the subject of the recognition of what he described as ‘themurder organization called the PLO.’ The Knesset vote was 92 to four.
1977: Birthdate of actress ShoshanaElise Bean.
1978: In Los Angeles, mystery novelistsFaye Kellerman and Jonathan Kellerman gave birth to American author Jesse OrenKellerman.
1979(9th of Elul, 5739): Sixty-seven-year-oldAll American football player and movie producer Aaron Rosenberg passed awaytoday
http://www.footballfoundation.org/Programs/CollegeFootballHallofFame/SearchDetail.aspx?id=30122
1981: Seventy-six-year-old Albert Speer,Hitler’s architect, confidant and convicted war criminal who beat the hangman’srope died a free man to today in London.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/02/obituaries/albert-speer-dies-at-76-close-associate-of-hitler.html
1982:Washington announces the “Reagan Plan” that included the principle ofself-government for the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Banks in associationwith Jordan. The Americans saw it as thenext step after the Camp David Accords.The Begin government would reject the plan because it was not preparedto give up control of what it called Judaea and Samaria.
1983(23rd of Elul, 5743): Eighty-two-year-oldsongwriter and composer Arthur Herzog, Jr, the “father of novelist ArthurHerzog and grandfather of Amy Herzog” passed away today in Detroit, Michigan.
1987: Today representatives of the Holy See's Commission forReligious Relations with the Jews and of the International Jewish Committee onInterreligious Consultations “were received at Castel Gandolfo by His HolinessPope John Paul II, who affirmed the importance of the proposed document for theChurch and for the world. His Holiness spoke of his personal experience in hisnative country and his memories of living close to a Jewish community nowdestroyed. He recalled a recent address to the Jewish community in Warsaw, inwhich he spoke of the Jewish people as a force of conscience in the world todayand of the Jewish memory of the Shoah as "a warning, a witness, and asilent cry" to all humanity.”
1983: Henry "Scoop" JacksonDemocratic Senator from Washington passed away at the age of 71. Jackson was anoutspoken supporter of Israel and the Jews in the Soviet Union. In 1974, Jackson co-sponsored theJackson-Vanik amendment with Charles Vanik, which denied normal trade relationsto certain countries with non-market economies that restricted the freedom ofemigration. The amendment was intended to allow refugees, particularlyreligious minorities, specifically Jews, to escape from the Soviet Bloc.Jackson and his assistant, Richard Perle also lobbied personally for some peoplewho were affected by this law — among them Natan Sharansky.
1983(23rd of Elul, 5743): Twenty-three-year-oldAlice Ephriamson-Abt the daughter of Hans Ephriamson-Abt was among the 269passengers aboard KAL 007 who were killed when the plane which was bound forSeoul was shot down by Soviets who claimed, “the flight was a spy plane.” Herdeath would lead her father to become “an internationally known advocate forfamilies of air-crash victims.”
1984: Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade ofYarmouth, the son of theatrical agent Leslie Grade became Controller of BBC 1today.
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-1987/arnaldo-dante-momigliano
1989(1st of Elul, 5749): RoshChodesh Elul
1989: In Warsaw, Leonard Bernsteinconducted a concert commemorating the outbreak of World War II.
1990: In “Roots of Muslim Rage”published today Bernard Lewis explains “why so many Muslim deeply resent theWest and why their bitterness will not be easily mollified.”
1990: After 622 performances at thePlymouth Theatre the curtain comes down on Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prizingwinning drama “The Heidi Chronicles
1990(11th of Elul, 5750):Parashat Ki Teitzei
1990: Eighty-year-old Syracuse nativeAlexander “Mine Boy” Levinsky, the nine-year NFL veteran passed away today.
http://mapleleafslegends.blogspot.com/2010/06/alex-levinsky.html
1991: Uzbekistan declares independence from theSoviet Union. Depending upon whichversion of history you believe Jews have been living in what is now Uzbekistansince the period following the destruction of the first Temple or the period ofPersian domination of Judea. At the timeof the declaration there were approximately 15,000 Jews living in the countrycentered in four major population centers.
1991: Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks wasappointed Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.
1991(22nd of Elul, 5751): Eighty-year-oldCanadian political leader Allan Grossman, the son of Russian immigrants and thefather of Canadian political leader Larry Grossman passed away today.
1991: Publication of Politics,Religion and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley and EdwinMontagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu by NaomiLevine.
http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Religion-Love-Asquith-Venetia/dp/0814750575
1992: Publication of Murder of Mercyby Stanley M. Rosenblatt.
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mercy-Stanley-M-Rosenblatt/dp/0879757728
1992(3rd of Elul, 5752): Nine-four-year-oldMorris Carnovsky the native of St. Louis whose 60 year acting career wasinspired childhood visits to the Yiddish theatre passed away today. (Asreported by James Barron)
1994: “Il Postino: The Postman” directedby Michael Radford premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
1994: Stanley "Stan" Fischerbegan serving as First Deputy Managing Director of the International MonetaryFund
1994: Today, “a memorial to theJews killed in the Second World War was unveiled in Klooga on the territory ofthe former concentration camp.”
1995: Graham B. Spanier who would becomea major player in the Jerry Sandusky- Penn St. child abuse scandal assumed hisduties as President of Penn State University.
1997: “Wilde,” a film version of thebiography written by Richard Elman, the son of Jewish immigrants from Kiev andRomaia starring Stephen Fry premieredtoday at the 54th Venice International Film Festival.
1998: The curtain came down for the lasttime on the Open Air Theatre, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London, productionof the Jule Styne musical “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” which had opened in July.
1999: The Jew in the Lotus anaccount of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the XIV Dalai Lama byRodger Kamenetz which inspired a PBSdocumentary of the same name produced and directed by Laurel Chiten, was onIndependent Lens today.
2000(1st of Elul, 5760): RoshChodesh Elul
2000: Funeral services are scheduled tobe held at “The Riverside” for Rita Muss, the wife of the late Louis Muss withwho she had three children – Elizabeth, Marion and Henry.
2000: “Clinton campaign officials saidtoday that Senate candidate Hillary Clinton’s intervention “to save JonathanPollard…from transfer to a more dangerous unit of the federal prison where heis serving a life sentence” “was not necessarily a precursor to” an attempt togain the clemency for the convicted spy.
2001: “With an Israeli-Palestinian truceholding on Jerusalem's southern fringe today, diplomatic efforts were made tosee if calm could be extended elsewhere to finally bring the conflict of thelast year under control.” (As reported by Clyde Haberman)
2002: The NewYork Timesincluded reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewishinterest including The Book ofIllusions by PaulAuster.
2003(4thof Elul, 5763): David Adelman, who is memorialized at B’Nai Israel inSpartanburg, SC, passed away today.
2003:Publication of Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernhard-Henri Levy.
2004: “Palestinians celebrate deadlyIsraeli bus bombings” published today described how “thousands of joyful Hamassupporters took to Gaza's street , throwing sweets in the air and singing songsto celebrate a twin suicide bombing that killed 16 people on Israeli buses.”
2004: “Promised Land” by Amos Gitaipremiered at the 61st VeniceInternational Film Festival which opened today.
2005: In Israel approximately 1,700,000pupils begin the new school year.
2005: At the Vienna International FilmFestival, premiere of “Good Night, and Good Luck,” one of the most significantfilms of the decade produced by Grant Heslov.
2005: As of today, the IDF “hadwithdrawn 95% of its equipment” from Gaza.
2005: In Hong Kong, Nancy Ann Kissel wasfound guilty of murdering her husband Robert Kissel, a senior banker withMerrill Lynch. First she gave him a milkshake laced with sleeping medicationsand crushed his skull. Then she wrappedhis body in a carpet and stuffed into a moving box. The jury did not believe that Mrs. Kissel hadacted in self-defense. The scandalousmurder trial sent shock waves through the financial communities in Hong Kongand New York as well as the Jewish community in Hong Kong. It included everything from Mrs. Kissel’sextramarital affair to a multi-million-dollar New York real estate fraudinvolving the descendant’s brother Andrews Kissel. Who says Jews are only good for stories aboutTalmud and Accounting?
2006: In a strange twist of fate, twoMoslem countries are making plans to send troops to serve as part of the UNpeacekeeping force designed to maintain peace along Israel’s border withLebanon. Turkey's government submitted a resolution to parliament to sendpeacekeepers to Lebanon despite public opposition to the deployment. Israel hasdropped its objections to Indonesia joining the UN peacekeeping force in southLebanon, and discussions are underway as to when Jakarta would send a plannedcontingent of 1,000 troops
2006: An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada Jazz flight inMontreal for praying.
2007: In Jerusalem, Larry Fogel and Moni Arnon perform "Simon and Garfunkel" music.The duo provides an authentic rendition of the famed Americans’ acousitcharmonies in their performance at the Bible Lands Museum tent.
2007: Craig Breslow “was promoted to theBoston Red Sox” from the minors.
2007(18th of Elul, 5767):Parashat Ki Tavo
2007(18th of Elul, 5767):Eighty-three year old Sir Abraham Goldberg, the son of Jewish immigrants whorose to be “one of the most outstanding physician scientists of his generation”passed away today.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12772438.Sir_Abraham_Goldberg/
2007: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturdayof Labor Day Weekend, the traditional Shabbat morning service at Temple Judah(a reform congregation with just over 100 families as members) attractedsixteen congregants confounding critics who are always predicting the demise ofthe American Jewish Community while TheCedar Rapids Gazette featured an article entitled “Kosher gardening showsJewish law in practice.”
2007: (Elul 18) Birthdates of the BaalShem Tov and Rabbi Schneur Zalman Liadi, founder of Chabad-Lubavitch.
2007: A Des Moines rabbi who was namedFriday in online media reports as planning to marry two gay men said he didn'tknow of the plan. Rabbi David Kaufman of Temple B'nai Jeshurun in Des Moinessaid today that he couldn't have married Sean Fritz and Tim McQuillan becauseneither man was Jewish. The pair were married Friday before a ban on same-sexunions was reinstated. Kaufman said he would have referred the couple toUnitarian Minister Mark Stringer, who performed the ceremony. Following isKaufman's statement on the events: “Someone who knew that I would be willing toperform same sex ceremonies evidently decided that I was going to do one fortwo gay friends of hers and let the press know about it. Neither of the men wasJewish. I didn't know anything about the plan, much less participated in it,and couldn't do a wedding this morning (Friday) anyway, since I was otherwisecommitted. I wouldn't have done this particular ceremony because neither wasJewish in the first place. Instead I would have referred them to Rev. MarkStringer of the Unitarian Church, who I know is a strong proponent of civilmarriage and same sex ceremonies and who eventually did the marriage anyway. Icommend him for so doing. In the meantime, it was posted for a while on the DMRegister website that I was doing the ceremony and the news media, includingnational news media with multiple TV cameras, showed up at the Temple. Thephone was ringing off the hook for about two hours. Meanwhile, I wasn't even inthe building and had another life cycle event to perform at the time that themedia was gathered. For those interested, I both support Civil Marriage and Iwould do a same sex commitment ceremony, but my requirements for so doing wouldbe exactly the same as for a non-hom*osexual couple. Someone has to be Jewishand the couple must either be prepared to raise their children as Jews or havediscussed it or not decided. I do not act as "Justice of the Peace"in a secular capacity. When I do weddings of any kind, I represent the Reform Jewishtradition in general and my beliefs as a Reform Jewish Rabbi in particular. Iam there as a Rabbi, not as Justice of the Peace. Meanwhile, let me offer ahearty Mazal Tov to Sean and Tim."
2008: A busy day in Israel on a varietyof fronts as 1.4 million pupils ended their summer vacation and began the2008/09 school year
2008: Mike Slive, the commissioner ofthe Southeastern Conference is scheduled to begin serving as Chair of theDivision 1 Men’s Basketball Committee for the 2008-2009 academic year today.
2008: Athletic mogul Arkadi Gaybamaksacked the entire Betar management team
2008: The WUJS Arad program relocates from the southern desert town to theCentral region. The program moves to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for the fallsession, which is expected to draw 50 participants from overseas. Thefive-month program will be extended by a month for that term.
2008(1st of Elul, 5768): Rosh ChodeshElul Rosh; Begin blowing the Shofar at Shacharit
2008: Deadline for submitting entries tothe D.C. Jewish Community Center'sthird annual writing contest entries for which must come from residents of theWashington Metro area and must consistshort essays or stories that illuminate how humor has been helpful indifficult times -- is looking for entries.
2008 (1 Elul, 5768): Eighty-five-year-old comedy writer SheldonKeller passed away today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/television/04keller.html?_r=1
2008 (1 Elul, 5768): Forty-six-year-old Oded Schramm, who meldedideas from two branches of mathematics into an equation that applies to amultitude of physics problems from the percolation of water through rocks tothe tangling of polymers, died in a fall at Guye Peak near Snoqualmie Pass inWashington State. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/science/11schramm.html?_r=0
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/schramm/
2008: The fifth AICE Israeli Film Festival opened on today at the Palace Como,South Yarra. More than 400 people attended the Opening Night of the Festival,officially launched by The Ambassador of Israel, H.E. Yuval Rotem. Otherspeakers on the evening included Tony Lupton MP, Cabinet Secretary of Victoriaand Evan Thornley MP, Deputy Cabinet Secretary (both of whom represented theVictorian Premier, John Brumby), guest of the Festival Gal Zaid, leading memberof the Aboriginal community, Warren Mundine, Founder and Chairman of AICE,Albert Dadon AM and AICE Executive Director, Keith Lawrence. Australian actressKerry Armstrong, international jazz pianist Joe Chindamo, Sir Zelman and LadyAnna Cowen, Melbourne Film Festival director Richard Moore, award-winning filmand television producers Sue Maslin and Ros Tatarka were just some of theguests at the opening night. The opening film was the multi-award winning 'TheSecrets', written, directed and produced by Avi Nesher, whose previous film,'Turn Left at the End of the World' opened the festival in 2005. Awards includeBest Film and Best Script at the 2008 Jackson Hole International Film Festivaland nominations for 8 Israeli 'Ophirs' (including Best Film).
2009: During a breakfast reception atthe Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia, Governor Tim Kaine provides abriefing on his recent trip to Israel highlighting visits with top electedofficials and business leaders. The Virginia Israel Advisory Board hostedGovernor Kaine's Israel mission with support from the JCRC.
2009: In Israel, the start of the2009-2010 school year
2009: At Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park,Madonna appears at the first of two concerts that are the last stop on her“Sticky and Sweet” tour. Shefirst appeared at Hayarkon Park 16 years ago as part of her Girlie Tour, andalso visited Israel in 2006 during the Jewish High Holidays along with 2,000other students of Kabbalah.
2009:Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky told Jewish students at the LipmanJewish Day School in Moscow today how much has changed in their country sincehe fought for the rights of Jews in the Soviet Union and spent nine years as apolitical prisoner. He entertained the teenage students with tales of how heused a toilet to practice his Hebrew with other Jewish dissidents in prison. Hedescribed how pleased he was to see a new generation of Russian Jews free toattend Jewish schools and visit Israel. But hanging over his visit was thepersistence of anti-Semitism in Russia today. "There is anti-Semitism ineveryday life, and a lot of it," the school's deputy director IrinaSukhalinskya said. Sharansky praised Russian authorities for combatinganti-Semitism and improving ties with Israel. Galina Kozhevnikova, deputydirector of the Moscow-based Sova hate crimes watchdog, said the level ofanti-Semitism is stable and "has not changed in years." The number ofattacks on Jews and cases of vandalism against Jewish cemeteries and synagoguesis declining, however, she said.
2009,A special "Winton train" set off from the Prague Main railwaystation. The train, consisting of an original locomotive and carriages used inthe 1930s, headed to London via the original Kindertransport route. On boardthe train were several surviving "Winton children" and theirdescendants, who were to be welcomed by Nicholas Winton in London. Sir NicholasGeorge Winton organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children fromGerman-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operationlater known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them andarranged for their safe passage to Britain
2009:An investor group including Andreessen Horowitz (Ben Horowitz) announced it hadacquired a majority stake in Skype for $2.75 billion
2009:After having been “convicted of embezzling millions of shekels from theNational Workers Labor Federation while he was its chairman” Avraham Hirchson“began serving his five years and give months” prison sentence.
2010:Meiron Reuven is scheduled to begin serving as Israel’s new ambassador to theUN.
2010:President Barack Obama is scheduled to host a dinner attended by Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and former BritishPrime Minister Tony Balir this evening prior to the start of peace talks whichare scheduled to begin tomorrow.
2010(22ndof Elul): 25th Yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, of blessed memory;Husband of Deborah, father of Judy Rosenstein of blessed memory, David Levinand Mitchell Levin. You wouldn’t bereading this if it hadn’t been for him and that statement is true in more waysthan one!
2010:Today Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke about yesterday’s fatal terror attackin Kiryat Arba, promising that "the IDF will do everything possible toquickly bring the perpetrators to justice, to prevent the possibility of a waveof terror attacks from developing, to prevent other terror missions fromdisrupting the fabric of relationships and relative quiet which has beencreated in the area in recent years and even the intent to harm the comingpeace talks."
2010:Kol Shira performed at a Taste of the Market- Iowa City's Farmers Market
2010:President Obama today began the arduous process of coaxing and pressing themain Middle East participants to define and embrace a comprehensive peacesettlement, declaring that “the status quo is unsustainable.”
2010:Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with atrove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used forreligious rituals, officials said today. The head of the Jordanian AntiquitiesDepartment, Ziad al-Saad, said the sanctuary dates to the eighth century B.C.and was discovered at Khirbat 'Ataroz near the town of Mabada, some 20 miles(32 kilometers) southwest of the capital Amman. The Moabites, whose kingdom ranalong present-day Jordan's mountainous eastern shore of the Dead Sea, wereclosely related to the Israelites, although the two were in frequent conflict.The Babylonians eventually conquered the Moabites in 582 B.C.
2011:Shlomo Benizri began serving his prison term after having been “convicted ofaccepting bribes, breach of faith, obstructing justice, and conspiracy tocommit a crime for accepting favors worth millions of shekels from his friend,contractor Moshe Sela, in exchange for inside information regarding foreignworkers scheduled to arrive in Israel.”
2011:The Ohr Chadash Academy, a new Modern Orthodox day school is scheduled to openat Park Heights Jewish Community Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
2011;The family of Nahum Itzkovich, Jerusalem district psychologist of the IsraelEmployment Service and husband of The Jerusalem Post’s veteran health andscience reporter Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, sits shivah for the last time today.
2011:The school year is scheduled to begin today in Israel.
2011:Between the Lines a novel written by Marv Levy is scheduled to bepublished today by Ascend Books.
2011:The 7th Annual Jerusalem Beer Festival is scheduled to come to anend tonight.
2011:The Tel Aviv District Court ruled today to release singer and Kohav Nolad (AStar is Born) judge Margalit Tsanani to house arrest.Tsanani is being chargedwith extorting a previous agent.The decision came after the prosecution hadasked the court to remand her in custody for the duration of the trial becausethey alleged she posed a threat to the public because of her connections withunderworld figures.
2011: Vandalsdestroyed a monument to victims of a World War Two pogrom against Jews inPoland, covering it with racist inscriptions and swastikas in green paint,police said today. It was the latest in a recent series of racist andxenophobic acts of vandalism targeting the small Jewish and Muslim communitiesin eastern Poland as well as the tiny Lithuanian minority.
2011: Approximately300 Israelis of Ethiopian descent, including students and their parents,demonstrated this morning outside the Nir Etzion School in Petah Tikva.
2011: “Radio pulled its coverage of the IsraeliPhilharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London this evening as asmall number of anti-Israel protestors disrupted the concert by shoutinganti-Israel slogans at the orchestra, which was performing as part of theprestigious annual BBC Proms classic music festival.”
2011: The New York Mets baseball team announced thatit broken off negotiations to sell a minority interest to hedge fund managerDavid Einhorn. The Mets are owned and/or run by Fred Wilpon, Sault Katz and Jeff Wilpon.
2011(2nd of Elul, 5771): Ninety-two-year-oldjurist and legal scholar Sidney H. Asch, passed away today. (As reported byPaul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/nyregion/sidney-h-asch-judge-and-author-dies-at-92.html
2012: “Frances Ha,” a “comedy –drama” directed,produced and written by Noah Baumbach “premiered at the Telluride FilmFestival”
2012: The 15th annual JerusalemInternational Chamber Music is scheduled to open today.
2012: Temple Judah is scheduled to host the LaborDay Shabbat traditional/egalitarian minyan.
2012(14thof Elul, 5772): Ninety-one-year-old lyricist Hal David passed away today in LosAngeles (As reported by Rob ho*rburger)
2012:Eighty-six-year-old Sy J. Schulman who helped create Riverbank State Parkpassed away today at White Plains, NY. (As reported by Leslie Kaufman)
2012:“An Israeli military strike has been granted increased legitimacy due to theevents of the past week, former minister Tzachi Hanegbi said today at acultural event in Kiryat Motzkin. The airstrikes came after several rocketswere fired at Israel over the past week, one of which struck and damaged a homein Sderot early yesterday morning.” (As reported by JPost staff)
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=283433
2012:IAF aircraft struck two centers of terrorist activity in the Gaza Stripovernight in response to rockets fired from the coastal territory into southernIsrael, according to the IDF Spokesman's Office.
2012: Threepeople were injured during a rock-throwing fracas in Jerusalem this afternoon.“The incident began when a group of haredim started throwing stones at the Arabneighborhood of Shuafat in the capital’s northeast. Police arrested threeharedim, two minors and an adult, for throwing rocks.” (As reported by MelanieLidman
2013:Jeremy Jones is scheduled to moderate “Appeasing Hitler – Nazi Supporters DownUnder as part of Sydney Jewish Writer’s Festive being held at the Eric CasparyLearning Centre, Shalom College, University of New South Wales
2013:András Schiff and the Erlenbusch Quartet are scheduled to perform Brahms’ PianoQuintet in F minor, op. 34 at The Jerusalem International Chamber MusicFestival
2013:Ephraim Mirvis took office as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ofthe Commonwealth replacing the retiring Lord Sacks.
2013:The New York Times book section included two features: “Jonathan Lethem: By theBook” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/jonathan-lethem-by-the-book.html?ref=review and “Articles of Faith” by Dara Horn thatexplores her belief that “a number of contemporary Jewish writers are engagingwith religious belief in their works”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/articles-of-faith.html?ref=review&pagewanted=all&_r=0
2013:“Security forces led by the Shin Bet announced t0day that they had foiled abomb attack plotted by Hamas in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, timed for theHigh Holy Days.” As reported by Yaakov Lappin and Yonah Jeremy Bob)
2013(26thof Elul, 5773): Seventy-four-year magazine editor Judith Daniels passed awaytoday. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2014:According to Forbes, “Sheldon Adelson has returned to the top 10 richest in theworld for the first time since 2007 after making an average of $32 million aday over the last year, third-most of anyone on the planet’ meaning theeighty-one year old Chairman and CEO of Las Vegas sands is worth approximately$33.2 billion.
2014:Four days after she had passed away, graveside services are scheduled to heldat Sharon Memorial Park this afternoon for Shirley (Berlin) Kahn, the widow ofArnold L. Kahn with whom she had three children – Jeffrey, Jill and Jonathan.
2014:“After a summer dominated by Code Red sirens and few days of real vacation,2,105,394 students are scheduled to return to school in some 2,100 newclassrooms and 495 preschools that were built to meet demand in the new schoolyear.” (As reported by Shahar Hay)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4566135,00.html
2014:Peter Schaefer, “a German academic who had previously led PrincetonUniversity‘s Judaic studies program,” is scheduled to replace W. MichaelBlumenthal as Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin. (As reported by JTA)
2014:“A three-year-old toddler was lightly wounded tonight by Arab terrorists thathurled rocks through the window of the bus she was riding in, as it passedthrough Uzi Narkis Street in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.”(As reported by Ido Ben-Porat, Ari Yashar)
2014:“Justice Minister Tzipi Livni today condemned a government decision toappropriate about 1,000 acres of land near the West Bank settlement of Gva’ot,in the Etzion Bloc, asserting that the move would prove detrimental to Israel’ssecurity and damage the country’s reputation with the international community.”(Times of Israel)
2014:Peter Hanco*ck took over as CEO of AIG replacing Robert “Bob” Benmosche, theBrooklyn born descendant of Lithuanian Jews who relinquished his position todue lung cancer.
2015:In Falls Church, VA, Temple Rodef Shalom’s Treasure Gift Shop is scheduled tobe open for a special pre-Rosh Hashanah evening of sales complete with a 10%discount.
2015:“Proceedings to determine the punishment for “Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 74, aformer Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of racist and anti-Semitic actions”who “was convicted of capital murder yesterday in the shooting deaths of threepeople a year ago at a Jewish community center and an assisted living facilityin suburban Kansas City.”]
2016(28thof Av, 5776): Yarhrzeit for Larry Rosenstein, of blessed memory, husband ofJudy Levin Rosenstein, of blessed memory. Gone too soon but alwaysremembered!
2016(28thof Av, 5776): Eighty-nine-year-old Fred Hellerman, the last surviving member ofthe Weavers, a driving force behind the folk music and social justice movementspassed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2016:“Is That You? The Road Not Taken” a film that tells the story of a 60-year-oldIsrael projectionist is scheduled to be shown for the last time at CinemaVillage.
2016:The screening sponsored by UKJF of “Mr. Gaga” is scheduled to be shown for thelast time.
2017: 78th Anniversary of the start ofWorld War II
2017:“1917: How One Year Changed The World” is scheduled to open in New York at theAmerican Jewish Historical Society.
2017:“Lady Bird” produced by Scott Rudin and featuring Beanie Feldstein “premieredat the Telluride Film Festival” today.
2017:The Jeff Portman era really comes to an end as Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz isscheduled to lead services this evening for the first time at CongregationAgudas Achim.
2017:As Jews across Texas and the United States prepare for Shabbat, they are comingto grips with Taryn Baranowski,’s estimate that at least “Seventy-one percentof the city’s Jewish population of 63,700 lives in areas that have experiencedhigh flooding.
2017:The Diver Festival continues for a second day in Tel Aviv with performances ofmodern dance
2017:In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Greene Family and Young Judea camps continueto offer shelter to families who have lost everything.
2017:The new school year began in Israel this morning “with a total of 2,272,000students filling the classrooms throughout the country.”
2017:Today, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey “Michael Dell, the founder of DellTechnologies announced a thirty-six million dollar donation today to theRebuild Texas Fund “established by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
2017:As the Texas Gulf Coast grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey the Jewish-Herald Voice, “Houston andthe Texas Gulf Coast's Jewish Community Newspaper Since 1908” is prepared to“offer a free e-edition.” http://jhvonline.com/
2018(21stof Elul, 5778): Parashat Ki Tavo;
2018:In Cedar Rapids, the Bat Mitzvah of Hannah Homrighausen-ho*r is scheduled totake place at Temple Judah.
2018:The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screeningof Jacob Gladwasser’s “Laces.”
2019:Etgar Keret’s Fly Already which is scheduled to come out in English inSeptember.
2019:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding And How Are You Dr. Sacks? by Lawrence Weschler.
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Blinded by the Light.”
2019:Eightieth Anniversary of the start of World War II
2019(1st of Elul, 5779): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh ChodeshElul.
2020: 18Doors Boston is scheduled to present online a discussionof “Multi-Generational Interfaith Families and the High Holidays.
2020: The VirtualSephardic Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Women’sBalcony.”
2020: Temple Emanu El is scheduled to host “Talk Trope Tuesdays”with Cantor Dave Malecki during which particpants can review the special HighHoliday melodies.
2020: The Mandel JCC and the Boulder JCC are scheduled to host“an online Rosh Hashanah cooking demonstration with celebrated Jewish cookbookauthor Leah Koenig.”
2020: The Greater New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah and Sisterhoodof Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation is scheduled to hold a paneldiscussion on “Me Too Affects You Too!”
2020: Congregation Or Atid is scheduled to host online Modeh Aniwith Rabbi Louis Polisson as he sings “classic Jewish and American songs whiletelling “some classic Jewish Children’s stories.”
2020: Todaymarks the return of This Day….In Jewish History which was last updated onAugust 10 and was forced to halt publication for the first time in its historydue to 120 mile winds that tore through Cedar Rapids, uprooting trees,destroying the electrical city and closing down the internet. (Editor’s note –this house took a direct hit leaving it with gaping hole in the roof amongother damages)
2021: The National Museum of American Jewish History isscheduled to host a program with Howard Mortman, author of When Rabbis BlessCongress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayer on Capitol Hill.
https://www.nmajh.org/events/when-rabbis-bless-congress-2021/
2021: The Birthright Israel - Sephardic IsraelTrip for this Summer is scheduled to come to an today.
2021: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center isscheduled to host investigative reporter for The Washington Post, CraigWhitlock who has covered the global war on terrorism since 2001 discussing “TheAfghanistan Papers, the Pentagon Papers for a new generation.”
2021: The Jewish Climate Action Network isscheduled to present the second session, online, of “How to ‘Bentshmark ‘YourSynagogue’s Carbon Footprint.”
2021: Schools in Israel are scheduled tore-open today.
2022: 83rd anniversary of the Germaninvasion of Poland marking the start of WW II.
2022: In California, as part of the JewishMusic Series, Sonoma State University is scheduled to “Saul Goodman’s KlezmerBand” during which Clarinetist Mike Perlmutter and his bandmates will lead aneducational concert during which attendees get to know klezmer music and itsroots in Ukraine, Poland, and Central and Eastern Europe.
2022: In Waltham, MA, the Mandel Center for theHumanities is scheduled to host “a seminar on The Jewish Bookshelf from the SixDay War to the Yom Kippur War, with Matt Silver, professor of modern Jewishhistory at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel.
2022: Online, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, aco-founder of Ms. magazine, is scheduled to discuss “Shanda” (shame/disgrace inYiddish), her new memoir about three generations of complicated, intense20th-century Jews whose lives were ruled by their desire to fit and/or theirfear of public embarrassment.
2022: The YIVO Institute is scheduled topresent a lecture by Tzipora Weinberg on “Orthodox, Female Poet: The LitvishLife of Hadasah Hirshovitz Levin.
2022: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Temple Judeais scheduled a morning minyan with Rabbi Fievel Strauss and Cantor AbbieStrauss
2022: The Museum of Jewish Heritage isscheduled to host Professor Sarah Stein as she delivers a talk which willsurvey the historical landscape of WW II era in North America as she explores historiesof race laws, internment forced labor, deportation, and the everydayexperiences of the region’s Jewish people.
2022: Based on the last minute agreementreached between the Finance Ministry and the Israel Teachers Union, schools inIsrael are scheduled to open today.
2023:“The Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition is scheduled to open atthe Jacksonville Public Library (Jacksonville, FL), Snow College, Karen H.Huntsman Library (Ephraim, UT), Pikes Peak Library District (Colorado Springs,CO) and Marshall Public Library (Marshall, IL).
2023:Tamar Nissim, an Israeli multidisciplinary artist is one of the contributors tothe exhibition “Shadow-work, Season III – International Resiliency Exhibition”opening tonight at the NARS Main Gallery in New York City.
2023:Lech-Lecha is scheduled to host a hike called the Catskills Challenge.
2023:In San Francisco, the Great American Music Hall is scheduled to host “John Zornat 70” during which the “composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger andproducer known for his avant-garde and experimental sound performs with hisensemble New Masada Quartet.”
2024;The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a walking tour of the LowerEast Side that will “follow in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte,and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-KindFamily.”
2024:Today is scheduled to be the last time visitors to the Capital Jewish Museumcan see the exhibition “I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli.”
2024:In Columbus, OH, deadline for signing the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood New Year’sCard.
2024:“We Will Dance Again,” a film that provides “a horrifying glimpse through theeyes of the individuals who endured the brutal October 7th onslaught at theNova music festival” is scheduled to be screened in theatres in Los Angeles.
2024(28thof Av): Yarhrzeit for Larry Rosenstein, of blessed memory, husband of JudyLevin Rosenstein, of blessed memory. Gone too soon but alwaysremembered!
2024:The NYT list of “19 New Books Coming in September” features books by Jewishauthors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Nexus byYuval Noah Harari, Stolen Pride by Arlie Russell Hochschild and TheGates of Gaza, by Amir Tibon
2024: 85th Anniversary of the Start of WW II.
2024:As September 1st begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 331 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
