This Day, August 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 8
117
C.E.: Hadrian named Emperor of the Roman
Empire. He is remembered as the man who
accepted the limits of the Roman empire, as can be seen by the construction of
Hadrian’s Wall in what is today Great Britain.
It was design…
August 8
117
C.E.: Hadrian named Emperor of the Roman
Empire. He is remembered as the man who
accepted the limits of the Roman empire, as can be seen by the construction of
Hadrian’s Wall in what is today Great Britain.
It was designed to keep the barbarians out of the empire and was viewed
as the greatest engineering feat of the Roman legions. Hadrian was also seen as a man of culture who
a devotee of Greek learning. Jews
remember him as the man who brought on Bar Kochba’s Rebellion. At the end of this extended but ultimately
failed clash of arms. Hadrian made war on Judaism itself. He sought to build a temple to Jupiter on the
Temple Mount. He hunted down the Jewish sages
and created the list of martyrs some of whom we invoke by name each year on the
High Holidays. In Jewish writings he is
referred to as “the Wicked or the Evil One.”
1356:
The King of Aragon sent his Jewish physician to tend to the wounds of a Muslim
who was fighting in the king’s army.
1385:
In Rome, the Senate made good on Boniface IX’s promise “to the Jewish
physicians Angelo di Manuele and Solomone de Sabalduchio of Perugia” by
according the Jewish community of Rome a yearly reduction of 30 florins for the
taxes of the two doctors because of the services they had rendered to the
city’s poor.
1391:
In Barcelona, the citadel where many of the Jews had gone for protection was
stormed, by the mob and more than 300 Jews were murdered, among the slain being
the only son of Hasdai Crescas.
1488:
Makre Dardeke (Teach of Young
Children) was published for the first time in Naples Italy, by Joseph
Ashkenazi. This Judaic glossary was
trilingual: Hebrew, Arabic and Italian.
[For more see “A history and guide to Judaic dictionaries and
concordances, Volume 3, Part 1” by Shimeon Brisman]
1524:
Giles of Viterbo who studied Hebrew with “grammarian Elias Levita” and provided
him with sanctuary when war drove him for Padua to Rome today became Latin
Patriarch of Jerusalem.
1541:
The Jews of Great Poland were authorized by King Sigismund to elect a chief
Rabbi
1588:
In the war between England and Spain, the Battle of Gravelines comes to an
end. Conventional commentators see it as
turning point in history because it marked the end of the Spanish Armada's
attempt to invade England. Any defeat suffered by Spain, the land of the
Inquisition had to be seen as a plus from the Jewish point of view. More specifically, the end of the Battle of
Gravelines meant that the Spanish Armada could not support the landing of
Spanish troops in the Netherlands. Part
of the mission of the Armada was to provide support for Spanish forces fighting
to impose Catholic rule on the Protestant Dutch. The Spanish were determined to bring the
Inquisition to the Netherlands to punish the heresy of the Protestants and
would of course have doomed the future for the Sephardic Jews who had already
settled in Holland or would be settling there.
If the Spanish had been successful at Gravelines, the 23 Jews who would
sail into New Amsterdam would have found a Catholic government that would have
not provided them aid, shelter and a New World in which to settle. It is not too great a stretch to say that a line
can be drawn from Drake’s victory over the Armada at Gravelines to the founding
of the Jewish Community in America. As
we have said many times in our studies in Cedar Rapids, you must understand
history to understand Jewish history and seeing history through the Jewish
prism is not the same as seeing history in its general form.
1641(2nd
of Elul, 5401): Joseph Bueno, the Bordeaux trained doctor of medicine described
as “this new Jewish physician” by the French Ambassador E’Presses who was
unable to save the life of Prince Maurice of Orange and was the father of
Ephraim Bueno passed away today.
1648:
Mehmed IV began his reign as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire during which Safed,
the home to numerous Jewish mystics and sages “was destroyed by Arabs” and the
Jews of Yemen were banished to Mawza Desert.
1653:
Birthdate of Normandy native Jacques Basnage de Deauval, the Protestant
minister and author whose works included L'Histoire
des Juifs (History of the Jews) which the author said is "a
survey of all that pertains to the religion and the history of the Jews since
Herod the Great.”
1654:
Jacob Barsimson sailed for New Amsterdam from Holland aboard the Peartree and
landed on August 22. Some consider him to be the the first Jewish immigrant to
travel to what is now New York City. Other dates have been giving for this
sailing. Regardless, the official date of the start of the Jewish community
comes later in 1654 when 23 Portuguese Jews landed in New Amsterdam.
1655:
The Russians captured Vilna. As part of the peace settlement between
Chmielnicki and Czar Alexis, the east bank of the Dnieper became part of the
kingdom of Moscow. Jews were once again subject to expulsion and murder.
1670:
After Leopold I evicted the Jews from Vienna; he sold the Jewish quarter for
100,000 florins. The Jewish quarter was then renamed Leopoldstadt in his honor.
The Synagogue and the Bet Midrash (study hall) were turned into St. Margaret's
Church.
1741:
Hannah Solomons and Benjamin Sheftall who had been married at Savannah in 1738
gave birth to Solomon Sheftall who did not live to see his second birthday.
1765(21st
of Av, 5525): Elkalah Myers Cohen, the first wife of Myer Myers died at the age
of thirty, leaving him three sons and two daughters.
1770:
Reyna Levy and Isaac Moses were married today, fifteen years before giving
birth to Israel Moses.
1772(9th
of Av, 5532): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1778(15th
of Av, 5538): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu; Tu B’Av1797: In Lorraine,
France, Mayer Lippman, the Alsace born son of Raphaël Isaac Lippmann and Jutelé
Lippmann and his wife Madelleine Lippmann gave birth to Isaac Lippmann
1804:
Birthdate of Dr. Gedelia Daniel Rudolph Warburg.
1805:
Today Hungarian Rabbi Moses Münz “declared that” Aaron Chorin, the author of
"'Emeḳ ha-Shaweh" “was to blame for certain statements in the first
part entitled ‘Rosh Amanah’ which were apt to mislead the public” but
“reaffirmed that the book contained no heresies.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11226-munz-minz-moses
1808:
In London, Moses Alexander and his wife gave birth to Rose Alexander, the wife
of Isaac Abraham Boss.
1809:
Today Karl Ludwig Borne, the Frankfort born son of Jacob Baruch “secured his
degree as doctor of philosophy” today in Glessen.
1809:
A group of 70 people led by the followers of the Vilna Gaon arrived in Eretz
Yisrael.
1816:
Today “the Austrian Beobachter, a semi-official government newspaper,
vigorously attacked Lubeck for having expelled the Jews, without waiting for
the action on the Jewish question by the Diet.” (Max J. Kohler)
1817:
Frederick VI granted Hartvig Philip Ree “the right to build a sugar refinery at
Aarhus.”
1820:
Birthdate of composer and conductor Jules Stern the native of Breslau “who
established his reputation” when he conducted the first performance of
Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah” in 1847.
1821:
Herman Hendricks married Abigial Rose Levein at the Great Synagogue today.
1827(15th
of 5587): Tu B’Av
1827:
Moses ben Abraham HaCohen married Beila bat Menahem Mendel at the Western
Synagogue today.
1827:
Ralph Solomon married Blumah Simmons today at the Great Synagogue
1829(9th
of Av, 5589) Parshat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1829:
In Paris, Lucinde Paradol and Léon Halévy the son of the writer and chazzan
Élie Halévy gave birth to journalist Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1837(7th
of Av, 5597): David B. Nones, the Philadlephia born son of Miriam Marks and
Benjamin Abraham None who were married in 1782 who was the husband of Hannah
Nones and the father of Benjamin Nones passed away today.
1838:
In Barbados, a letter was read today from J.W. Lyon of Edinburgh requesting aid
to rebuild their synagogue – a request which had to be declined due to lack of
funds.
1838:
In London, Frances Cohen and Joel Benjamin gave birth to Julia Benjamin, the
wife of Abraham Ornstien with whom she had nine children.
1840(10th
of Av, 5600): Tisha B’Av observed
1841:
In Paris, Fanny Heilbronner and Isaac Samuel gave birth to Albert Samuel.
1846:
Second and concluding day dedicatory services for the Eagle Street Synagogue in
Cleveland, Ohio.
1847:
In Cracow, “Gittel Beer” and “Simmel Horowitz” gave birth to Maximilian
Horowitz.
1849:
Birthdate of Henri Cordier, the native of New Orleans who grew up in France and
eventually became President of the Société
de Géographie
1850(30th
of Av, 5610): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1854:
The New York Times reported that all of the
people of Jamaica, regardless of religious persuasion, have responded
sympathetically to the plight of the Jews living in Jerusalem and other parts
of Palestine. They have raised $2,000 to
help alleviate their suffering which includes the effects of a famine brought
on by an outbreak of “pestilence” and skyrocketing food prices. The suffering of the Jewish communities is
blamed on Czar Nicholas who has prevented the Jews from receiving financial aid
usually sent from Russia.
1857: In Fairfield, CT, “railroad tycoon William Henry
Osborn and his wife, Virginia Reed Osborn gave birth to Dr. Henry Fairfield
Osbron proponent of “biological determination” that was being used to keep
Jewish immigrants from entering the United States as could be seen during “the
hearings for the emergency immigration law of 1921.
1859(8th of Av, 5619): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1862: Philadelphia native Henry Arnold began his service
with Company F of the 123rd Regiment, a unit that would see action
four months later at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1862: During the Civil War, Philadelphian Michael Baer
began serving as a First Lieutenant in Company F of the 123rd
Regiment.
1865: Today in London, at 10 Bell Lane, Spitafields, 23
year old Rosey Joseph married 23 year old Moses Gomes Da Costa, the son of
Aaron Gomes Da Costa
1866: In London, tea planter and journalist Edward
Ebenezer Meakin and his wife Sarah Ann Budgett gave birth to James Meakin the
author of The Moors: A Comprehensive Description that included “a
chapter on the literal and primitive customs of the Jews as practiced by the
Jews of Morocco” which “offers material for a comparative study of the social
and religious customs of Israel in Morocco with the observance of Jewish
ceremonial in other countries.”
1868:
Baron James Mayer Rothschild purchased a Chateau for 4.4 million francs. The
estate became Château Lafite Rothschild. However, Baron James, died just three
months after purchasing Lafite and the estate became the joint property of his
three sons: Alphonse, Gustave, and Edmond.
1871:
The Court of Special Sessions in New York, Judge Shandley presiding heard an
unusual case today. Mr. Robert Thomas,
a member of the Alanson Methodist Episcopal Church complained that a Jew named
Nathan Koyofski was disturbing their Sabbath (Sunday) Services with noise made
by his sewing machine. Koyofski lives in a tenement adjoining the building
housing the church. Requests from church
members that he stop his work had proven fruitless so they were forced to take
legal action. Koyofski ‘s lawyer
contended that any attempt by the state to dictate which days were for work and
which were for worship “would be an infringement of fundamental American
principles…” Shandley found Koyofski
guilty of violating the law that stated “explicitly that no one should
willfully disturb religious worship, of whatever nature it might be…” If
anybody disrobed the Jews on Saturday, they would have an equal righ to
complain. The Judge suspended the
sentence. But he warned Koyofski that if he were brought before him again on a
similar charge, he would have to go to jail.
1873(15th
of Av,5633): Tu B’Av
1873:
Louis and Lillian (Wolff) Seligsberg gave birth to Alice Lillie Seligsberg a
social worker and Zionist who helped to found Hadassah.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seligsberg-alice-lillie
1873:
Birthdate of Marguerite R. Falks, the wife of Gustave Falk.
1877:
In Forkland, AL, Maurice and Jennie (Samter) Levy gave birth to Yale Phi Beta
Kappa graduate and Columbia trained attorney Louis Samter Levy, the husband of
Irma Boskowitz and co-founder of Pi Lamba Phi Fraternity in 1895
1878(9th
of Av, 5638): Tish’a B'Av
1878:
In Russia, Liebe and Eliyahu Leib Levine gave birth to Rabbi Lipman Levine, the
“spiritual leader of Congregation Agudath Achim Anshe New Lots” and who was the
husband “of the former Frayde Syma Grudo with whom he had two daughters and
seven sons – Herman, Sol, Samuel, Jack, Abraham and Zush.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/02/14/83574803.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1878:
Abraham Moses Jacobson (Yankelewitz) and Sarah Leah Jacobson (Yankelewitz) gave
birth to Rebecca Jacobson who in 83 years of life never married.
1879:
A major fire has destroyed much of Sarajevo today including the city’s Jewish
quarter.
1881(13th
of Av, 5641): Just 6 days before his 52nd birthday Jules Moch a
Colonel of the 130th Regiment in the French Army, the father of
Gaston Moch and the grandfather of Jules S. Moch passed away.
1881:
Birthdate of Prussian native Gus Edwards, the American song writer and “talent
scout” whose discoveries included Eddie Cantor and George Jessel and who was
married to his wife, the former Lilian Boulanger for almost forty years.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/11/08/103602025.pdf
1882:
“Discontented Russian Jews” published today provided the reasons for the angry
outbursts that had taken place yesterday at the offices of the Hebrew Emigrant
Aid Society. After having been subject to indignities in various European
cities as they made their way to the United States, several of the Jews felt
betrayed when they found out that they would not be receiving 160 acres and enough financial support to begin life as
farmers. At the same time, their lack of
language skills has made them feel they will never be able to earn a living and
some are so frustrated that they want to return to Russia.
1882:
The Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society was reported to be sending groups of Russian
immigrants to agricultural communities near Hartford, CT and Vineland, CO on a
daily basis. The society is planning on
sending 25 men to South Orange, NJ next week so that they can start a new
colony.(The unprecedented mass migration of Eastern European Jews was already
overwhelming available resources in the first of its four decades)
1883:
It was reported today that the dinner provided at the recently held conference
of Jewish congregations in Cincinnati was a violation of Jewish dietary laws
since included Little Neck clams, soft shell crabs and shrimp salad. In
response to reports that some “of the conservative congregations would withdraw
from the union,” Rabbi Wise disavowed responsibility for the menu since it was
paid for by private individuals who could spend their money as they
please. Besides, the rabbi said that
“the American Hebrews’ religion does not center in the kitchen or the stomach.”
1883:
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Budapest following the acquittal of Jews charged
with the ritual murder of Esther Solymose
1884:
It was reported today that “The Woskhod,
the Hebrew journal, has received a warning from the authorities for violating
the press laws.” (This must be a
reference to Voskhod, a monthly founded by Adolph Landau in 1881. http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Voskhod
1885(27th
of Av, 5645): Parashat Re’eh
1885:
“The Four Great Moses” published today identifies the leading Jews with that
name – Moses of Biblical fame, Moses Ben Maimon (Maimonides), Moses Mendelssohn
and Moses Montefiore, who “put into practice the teachings of his three great
predecessors…”
1886(7th
of Av, 5646): Gedaliah Tiktin the son Solomon Tiktin whom he succeeded as the
rabbi in Breslau and who received the Order of the Red Eagle for his services
rendered during the Franco-Prussian War passed away today.
1887
A payment of $1, 097.23 was made to Leopold Feiss today by the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations.
1887:
A payment of $157.57 was made to A.J. Friedlander to by the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.
1888(1st
of Elul, 5648): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1888:
In Harrisburg, PA, “ Julius Kantor, a German orthodox rabbi, and Mary, a
Lithuanian, who immigrated to Pennsylvania some years earlier” gave birth to
J.R. (Jacob Robert) Kantor , the American psychologist who, while at the
University of Chicago married Helen rich with he had one child, “Helen J.
Kantor, “the professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kantor-jacob-robert
1888:
Birthdate of Austrian native Maurice Moses Maisel, who came to the United
States in 1897 after which he moved to Albuquerque, NM where he operated a
store.
1889:
The funeral of Isaac Phillips is scheduled to take place today at his home in
New York City.
1889:
The United States Deputy Marshall said that “Simon Baruch, a Spanish Jews
accused of stealing approximately $150,000 while in Austria arrived at New York
aboard the SS Hammonia.
1889:
In San Francisco, CA, Charles and Camilla (Mandlebaum) Altschul gave birth to
Edith Altschule who gained gamed as Mrs. Herman H. Lehman, the wife of New York Governor and United States Senator
Herman Lehman.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078517/index.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Lehman-Edith-Altschul]
1890:
N.J. Arbeely was appointed to serve as an interpreter at the Barge Office (the
major entry point for immigrants in New York) based on his fluency in several
foreign languages which includes Hebrew.
1890:
A squad of police moved through an a area bounded by Hester, Essex, Division,
Orchard and Norfolk streets arresting
fifty immigrants, including a number of Jews for violating city ordinances
concerning pushcarts, stands and other commercial conveyances that blocked the
streets.
1890:
The will of the late Alexander Bach was filed for probate today.
1890:
Mendel Feldstein saw two men, one of whom was Jacob Rohnewitch bury$90 worth of
jewelry that they had stolen from Israel Simovitch.
1891:
Birthdate of German violinist Adolf Busch.
Busch was not Jewish. But early
on, he saw the dangers of the rise of Hitler and moved to Switzerland. When WW
II he moved to the United States where he continued his career until his death
in 1952.
1891:
“No Swindle Like This One” published today described commercial machinations
engineered by Steve Ryan of Atlanta, GA
which victimized nearly 400 people most of whom were Jewish merchants
from several locations in the United States.
1892:
In London Golda Blonstein and Isaac Freehof gave birth to Solomon Bennett
Freehof “a prominent Reform rabbi, posek, and scholar. A native of London, he
moved to the U.S. in 1903, received a degree from the University of Cincinnati
in 1914 and was ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1915. He was a World War I army chaplain, a liturgy
professor at HUC, and a rabbi at Chicago's Congregation Kehillath Anshe Maarav
before moving to Pittsburgh.”
Rabbi
Freehof served as president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and
the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Beginning in 1955, he led the CCAR's
work on Jewish law through its responsa committee. He also spearheaded changes
to Reform liturgy with revisions to the Union Prayer Book. For many years, he
served as the pulpit rabbi at Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh, PA.” According to the congregation, "For more
than 35 years, Dr. Freehof's weekly book review series attracted audiences of
more than 1,500 Christians and Jews." He retired in 1966 and passed away
in 1990. He was a descendant of the Alter Rebbe.
1893:
Reverend Herman P. Faust of the Hebrew Christian Mission accused the United
Hebrew Charities of refusing to give needy Jews. He specifically cited the case of Joseph
Korman, a Russian Jew whom he said had been denied aid and when he died it was
left to his group to pay for the burial and provided for his widow and orphans
(more to come tomorrow)
1894:
In Manhattan, Louis Weinstein and Anna Goldman gave birth to Benjamin H
Whinston, the graduate of Cooper Union School of Architecture and a senior
architect and specification writer with the State Housing and Community Renewal
Division who had three children – Bertram, George and Roberta – with his wife,
the former Francis Klein.
1895:
Birthdate of New Jersey Law School graduate and “vice dean of the University of
Newark” Aaron Lasser, “an organizer and former President of the Newark Young
Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association” and husband of Hazel Lasser with
whom he had two children – Lawrence and John,
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/aaron-lasser-75-lawyereducator.html
1895:
Birthdate of Annie Stein Lazarus, the wife of Sam Lazarus with whom she had
five
children – Jacob, Leon, Frances, Ralph and Irwin – before passing away in 1970
and being buried in the Valdosta, Georgia.
1897(10th
of Av, 5657): Tish’a B’Av observed
1897(10th
of Av, 5657): Forty-eight-year-old German chemist Viktor Meyer, the Berlin born
son “trader and cotton printer Jacques Meyer” and his wife Bertha who contributed greatly to knowledge of both
organic and inorganic chemistry and invented an apparatus for determining vapor
densities (and hence molecular weights), now named after him passed away today.
1897:
“From Cactus Aristocracy” published today described society in Los Angeles
where “the big fortunes are held …by three classes: “the native ranch interest;” “the lumber dealers;” and “the Jews.” “The
Jews…are socially conspicuous but less obtrusive than either of the other two.”
1897:
It was reported today that Herr von Diest’s pamphlet that accuses Bismarck of
“gaining wealth by questionable methods” will delight the anti-Semites because
of its attacks on the Rothschilds and Gerson von Bleichröder, the Jewish banker
who handled financial matters for the Chancellor and Prussia.
1898(20th
of Av, 5658) Sixty-seven year old Adolph Sutro, the first Jewish mayor of San
Francisco who made his fortune in the Comstock Lode passed away today.
1899
Israel Zangwill is scheduled to return to New York today after visiting with
Judge Meyer Sulzberger in Philadelphia.
1899:
Three days after she had passed away, Anna Hendelah Waley, the daughter of
Phillip Joseph Salomons and Cecilia Salomons and the wife of Simon Waley was
buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery today.
1899:
Funeral services for Myer Stern were held in the Temple Emanu-El today
forenoon, and many men prominent in business and fraternal circles were
present. Rabbi Gustav Gottheil and his assistant, Dr. Joseph Silverman,
officiated. In an earnest eulogy Rabbi Gottheil spoke of Mr. Stern's
philanthropic character, and of his activities in various organizations. In his
brief eulogy Rabbi Silverman said “Myer Stern made the world better for being
here. He catered neither to the great nor the strong but follolowed where the
principles of truth, right and justice led.”
Mr. Stern was the author of The Rise and Progress of Reform Judaism :
Embracing a History Made from the Offical Records of Temple Emanu-El of New
York, with a Description of Salem.
1900:
In Dresden, Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak gave birth to German
American director Robert Siodmak.
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/robert-siodmak-7661.php
1900:
Today “Moses Lehman hosted a 20th birthday party for his daughter
Lillian Lehman at the Chalybeate Springs Hotel in Bedford, PA
1900:
Birthdate of composer and conductor Victor Young, the native of Chicago who has
“received 22 Academy Award nominations.”
1901:
It was reported today that “The Rogers Brothers and their company, under the
direction of Klaw and Erlanger will appear at an “entertainment for the benefit
of the Seaside Sanitarium for Sick Hebrew Children” to be held at Rockaway
Park, L.I. on August 10.
1902:
In Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire, “Max Corash, a Jewish doctor facing
conscription into the Russian Army” and his wife gave birth to Goldie Corash
who married American real estate developer David Michelson and gained fame as
supercentenarian Goldie Michelson
http://www.clarku.edu/blog/goldie-michelson-110-clarks-marquee-name
1903(15th
of Av, 5663): Shabbat Nachamu and Tu B’Av
1903:
Dorothy Levitt drove the Napier motor-boat at Cowes and won the race.
1903:
Morris Rosenfeld recited an original poem and A.D. Savage spoke about “Zionism
from the Christian point of at today’s celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the founding of Peta Tikva hosted by the CCNY Students’ Zionist
Society.
1904:
Birthdate of Vilna native Yitskhok Shenyer the journalist who moved to Montevido
where he edited Unzer Lebn (Our Life) and wrote for Morgnstaytung (Morning newspaper)/
1904:
The will of Simon Lavenburg who died on July 5 at Heidelberg, which provides
bequests of five thousand dollars each to Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Montefiore
Home for Chronic Invalids the Hebrew Benevolent Society and the Hebrew
Benevolent Society upon the death of his wife, was filed for probate in the
Surrogate’s office today.
1904:
It was reported today that “B. Fine, a prominent merchant in Fulton, MO,” has
received a letter from Abraham Strauss, a boyhood friend serving with the
Russian Army at Port Arthur that “tells a pitiful tale of the hardships that
being undergone by the Russian soldiers.”
1905:
In Ashland, VA, Martha and William E. Dodd, FDR’s first Ambassador to Nazi
Germany gave birth to William Dodd, Jr.
The younger Dodd accompanied his father to the posting in Berlin and
became an ardent anti-Fascist at a time when famous Americans like Lindbergh
were cozying up to Hitler.
Unfortunately, like many of his political persuasion he became a victim
of the Right Wing Ant-Communist this college professor with a PhD ended his
days as a clerk at Macy’s. Whatever
their views before they came to Berlin Ambassador Dodd and both of his children
saw the danger of the Nazis and tried to warn America about it.
1906:
Birthdate of Philadelphia native and University of Pennsylvania trained
attorned Milton Morris Propper the novelist and create of the character of
Tommy Rankin, homicide detective.
http://www.lindashentonmatchett.com/2018/12/mystery-monday-who-was-milton-propper.html
https://embden11.home.xs4all.nl/Engels6/propper.htm
1907:
It was reported today that of the 15,000 Russian Jews who are planning on
settling in the vicinity of Eapico, Mexico once the 100,000 acres necessary for
the project have been purchased, 2,000 of them are already in California while
“the remainder will be brought directly from Russia.”
1908(11th
of Av, 5668): Shabbat Nachamu
1908:
Birthdate of Arthur J. Goldberg. Son of Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine,
Goldberg became a labor lawyer who championed the rights of the workers.
President Kennedy appointed him as Secretary of Labor in 1961. In 1962, Kennedy
named him as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed Felix
Frankfurter. Goldberg resigned to service as Ambassador to the United Nations
under President Johnson. Johnson named Abe Fortas to replace Goldberg on the
High Court. Goldberg passed away in 1990.
1909:
First Jewish community organization is founded in Santiago, Chile – Sociedad
Unon Israelita de Chile. At the same
time in Argentina, a group of Jewish students founded Juventud Israelita
Argentina which produce a journal entitled Juventud, which became a favorite
among Argentinian Jewish intellectuals.
1910: In the Bronx, “Rebecca (née Saperstein), a
Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a
clothing salesman” gave birth to Sylvia Kosow who as the actress Sylvia Sidney
Sydney arrived in Hollywood after playing leading roles on Broadway just as the
talkie era began. She quickly became one of Paramount's top women stars along
with Marlene Dietrich, Miriam Hopkins and Claudette Colbert. In the 1950’s her
career seemed to come to an end.
However, she gained fame toward the end of her life playing in the
television comedy “WKRP” and the film Bettlejuice. She passed away at the age
of 88.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/02/movies/sylvia-sidney-30-s-film-heroine-dies-at-88.html
1910:
Birthdate of Harry A. Pearson, a graduate of Cooper Union and NYU who went on
to become director of research at Sonotone Corporation.
1911:
During the 62nd Congress Public Law 62-5 sets the number of
representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. There
were 5 Jews serving in the House during the 62nd Congress including, Jefferson
Levy, Julius Kahn, Victor Berg, Henry Goldfogle, Adolph Sabath. By contrast,
the 111th Congress (the session meeting in 2010) there were 31 Jews
serving in the House of Representatives; 30 Democrats and one Republican.
1911:
Moses Gaster, the Romanian born Jewish scholar who was Chief Rabbi of the
Sephardic communities in England, wrote a letter to the Board of Deputies (the
governing body of the British Jewish Community) protesting the wording of an
amendment introduced into the Slaughter of Animals Bill before Parliament at
the insistence of the Board.
1912:
In Brooklyn, Helen Chugerman and attorney Samuel Chugerman gave birth to Daniel
Chugerman who gained fame as award winner director Daniel Mann, whose works
ranged from comedies like “The Teahouse of the August Moon” to weighty dramas
like “The Last Angry Man” and who was the father-in-law of Harold Ramis of
“Ghostbusters” fame.
1912:
Whitman College English Professor Ralph Boas and Louise Schultz gave birth to
mathematician Ralph Boas, Jr., the grandson of “Herman and Sarah (Eisenberg)
Boas.
1913(5th
of Av, 5673): Fifty year old Solomon H. Bauer, the Polish born rabbi who moved
to Jerusalem in 1885 with “his son-in-law, Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Waks” where he
“turned private homes in a residential religious college” and “cultivated Etrog
orchards near Tibeiras” before finally settling in the United States where he
led three Chicago Congregations ‘--Agudas Achim North Shore Congregation, Moses
Montefiore Congregation and Anshe Emet – passed away today.
1914(16th
of Av, 5674): Parashat Vaetchanan and Shabbat Nachamu
1914(16th
of Av, 5674): Seventy-six year old George Joseph Emanuel, the London born son
of Jane and Joseph Emanuel and the husband of Elizabeth Emanuel with whom he
had had seven children passed away today in Birmingham, UK.
1914:
During WW I, the Germans returned to Kalisz, a city which during the inter-war
period had a population that was almost thirty per cent Jewish and took and
shot 100 hostages.
1914:
German industrialist Walter Rathenau went to see the Head of the General War
Department in Berlin to offer his support to the war effort. “Rathenau proposed to ‘save Germany from
strangulation’, and with a few days was put in charge of a specially created
War Raw Materials Department.” His job
was to keep Germany in the war. But
because he was a civilian and a Jew he was faced with constant hostility from
the German General Staff.
1915:
According to reports published today German correspondents describe German
troops as being welcomed to Warsaw as liberators by crowds in the streets
“filled with Poles, Jews, Germans and Russians.”
1915:
After having failed in the attack on Hill 970 during the Gallipoli Campaign,
troops under the command of Sir John Monash unsuccessfully attacked Hill 60
after which they were withdrawn to Lemnos.
1915:
A Conference of Jewish representatives from 110 organizations took place today
at the Educational Alliance Building in New York where plans were made to raise
additional funds for Jews trapped on the Eastern Front which includes 600,000
of their co-religionists.
1915:
“A group of secular, Yiddish-speaking socialists formed a third committee, the
People's Relief Committee (PRC), whose officers were Meyer London, chairman,
and Isaac Goldberg, treasurer. The Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) accepted
the PRC as its third constituent member and limited the organization's
activities to house to house collections from the non-Orthodox Jewish
community.
1916(9th
of Av, 5676): Tish’a B’Av
1916:
It was reported today that in his sermon marking the start of the Tish’a B’Av
observance Rabbi Mendes told the congregants at Shearith Israel that “it was
particularly sorrowful to the Jews at this time to know that their
co-religionists were fighting against one another under every banner in Europe”
and that “in the heart of every Jew there was the hope that after the struggle
(WW I) justice would be done to his race.”
1916:
After The Battle of Romani “the last ground attack of the Central Powers on the
Suez Canal at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during the
First World War” which was an Allied victory, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles
Brigade and the 3rd Light Horse Brigade reached Debais, while “the
Bikanir Camel Corps and a squadron of aircraft continued searching the desert
sands for missing men.” (Editor’s note – this was a strategic victory for the
British since it meant the Suez Canal would remain open. It was also the first part of journey that
would end with Allenby in Jerusalem.)
1917:
Birthdate of scriptwriter Malvin Wald who was responsible for the gritty film
noir “The Naked City” starring Kirk Douglas
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-03-09-wald-obit_N.htm
1917:
During WW I, “representatives of several national Jewish organization met in
Washington today and formed the Jewish Board for Welfare Relief Work in the
United States Army and Navy” which will provide services “for the benefit of
the 50,000 or more Jewish youths who will be among the first American fighting
forces sent to war’ similar to those provided by the YMCA for non-Jewish
military personnel.
1918(30th
of Av, 5678): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1918:
Samuel Brimberg , the Warsaw born
son of Bessie and Joseph Brimberg and the father of Shirley and Elaine Rita
Brimberg who came in 1901 came to the United States where he became a director
of the National Wholesale Women’s Wear Association and Merchants Ladies Garment
Association, trustee of Beth Israel Hospital in NYC and a member of the
Businessmen’s Council of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of
NYC married Florence Rosenberg today.
1918:
Australian troops under General John Monash spear headed the successful attack
of the British army at the Battle of Amiens.
Amiens was the opening round in the great allied offensive that would
force the surrender of the German Army.
Monash’s key role would be recognized when he was Knight Commandeer of
the Order of the Bath by King George V.
1919:
Birthdate of Murrey Marder, the crusading journalist who was the first to
expose the tissues of lies created by Joe McCarthy during the Anti-Communist witch
hunt – a smear campaign that the Right continues to in the second decade of the
21st century.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg060613.php3#.UgGD4Z0o6po
1920:
Birthdate of Bernard Schoenbaum, the son of Jewish immigrants, “who in hundreds
of cartoons in The New Yorker needled the relatively affluent, the
media-conscious, the irony-besotted and the socially competitive.”
1920:
Establishment of Gdud HaAvoda VeHaHaganah al shem Yosef Trumpeldor a “socialist
Zionist work group also known as Gdud Ha’Avoda that its name from Joseph
Trumpeldor, the one-armed Russian soldier who died defend Tel Hai from attacks
from the Arabs.
1921:
In Manhattan actress Lillian Bonner and movie producer Ephraim Asher gave birth
to “William Asher, a producer, director and screenwriter in the early days of
television who directed some two dozen shows — most notably “Bewitched,” which
starred his wife, Elizabeth Montgomery, and more than 100 episodes of “I Love
Lucy” (As reported by Denise Grady)
1922:
Birthdate of Gertrude Himmelfarb, the native of Brooklyn who gained fame as Bea
Kristol, the husband of Irving Kristol and mother of William Kristol who has
made her career as an intellectual historian and has perhaps made her larger
mark on the world as a conservative public intellectual.
1922:
In Vienna, Siegmund Gernreich and Elisabeth (née Müller) Gernreich gave birth
to Rudi Gernreich, a designer of American
fashions for women who created and/or popularized such then daring items as the
miniskirt and the topless bathing suit.
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-22/news/mn-21986_1_fashion-industry
1922: Birthdate of Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who
“conducted some of the first rigorous studies of autism, attention deficit
disorder and learning delays and became a prominent advocate for children
struggling with disabilities.” (As reported by Benedict Carey)
1923: Samuel J. Bloomingdale, the President of
Bloomingdale Bros. hosted a luncheon at his office today during which Francis Leffler
announced the completion of plans to raise funds from the manufacturers in the
house furnishing trades that will help erase the $500,000 deficit in the budget
of the New York Federation that supports the Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
(As reported by JTA)
1924: In Bălți, Simon Greenberg and his wife gave
birth to Lia Greenberg whose parents sent her to Palestine in 1940 where gained
famed as Lia van Leer “the founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem
Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival.”
1924: Plutario
Elias Calles, President-elect of Mexico, spent a few hours in Atlantic City
today for the so he could meet with Jewish labor leader Samuel Gompers and the
Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, which is in session here
at the Ambassador Hotel.
1925: In one of their largest rallies ever, 40,000
Ku Klux Klansmen marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The Klansmen marched in full hooded regalia
and were watched by adoring throngs. The
Klan was not just a Southern organization.
Large groups could be found in such Mid-Western states as Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio. The Klan was
anti-Semitic as well as anti-Catholic and opposed to all non-Caucasian races
including African-Americans. Memories of
this march help to explain the timidity of the Jews in the 1930’s when it came
to pressing the case for opening the doors to refugees from Nazi Europe.
1925:
In Manhattan, Michael Goldman, “a native of Dublin” and “the former Rebecca
Perlman” both of whom were lawyers gave birth to Arnold Perlman Gold, the Texas
Longhorn undergrad and “pediatric neurologist who, along with his wife Sandra
was a leading proponent of “an empathetic bedside manner.” (As reported by
Richard Sandomir)
1926:
Hundreds of residents of the Jewish quarter of Paris assembled at the Garenord
station at 11 o'clock tonight to greet the poet Chaim Nachman Bialiak with
shouts of "Heidad!", and the singing of Hatikvah on his visit to the
French capital after “the conclusion of the Zionist Actions Committee in
London.” (JTA)
1927:
It was reported today that having won their eleventh and final game at
Hawthorne Field, the the Maccabees of Palestine finished their American tour with
a record of five victories and defeats, in addition to one tie.
1928:
Birthdate of Toronto of Oscar nominated scriptwriter Stanley Mann whose the
father of London born British broadcaster Daniel Richler.
1928(22nd
of Av, 5688): Seventy-four year old Alfred S. Brandeis, the son of Adolph and
Fredericka Brandeis, the husband of Jennie Brandeis and the brother of Louis
Brandeis, the first Jewish Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court passed
away today.
1929:
Heinrich Himmler and his wife gave birth Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna
Himmler, their only biological child” who was loyal to her father up until the
moment of her death in 2018.
1929:
“On the ground that Alfred Dreyfus, a writer and sculptor, has been committed
to a sanitarium as insane although he is of sound mind, an application was
made” today “to Supreme Court Justice Frankenthaler for an order directing that
the question of his sanity be determined by a jury. Dreyfus had been committed to a mental
institution more than a year ago by his brother Walter Ludwig Drefyus.
1930:
Today, four anti-Semitic students, disciples of Professor Cuza, were arrested
and sentenced to anywhere from one to four weeks in jail for threatening the
life of Minister of Justice Junian.
1931:
Birthdate of Joshua Matza Israeli political figure and “president and CEO of
State of Israel Bonds, a global enterprise that generates more than $1 billion
in annual sales. Israel utilizes the funds for economic development projects.
Matza was recommended for the post in 2002 by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
and then-Finance Minister Silvan Shalom. Matza served 18 years in the Knesset,
Israel’s parliament, as a member of the Likud party. He was a cabinet minister
in the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, holding the portfolio of minister of
health. Matza also served 20 years on the Jerusalem City Council, 10 of which
were in the capacity of deputy mayor.”
1931:
The Arab National Association adopts a resolution indicating that the Arabs do
not intend to obey the government's orders to cease agitation against sealed
armories and will continue to defy the British government in Palestine.
1932:
Robert K. Straus and Arthur Sulzberger were among the official guests who
attended tonight’s dinner meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations where the
principal speaker was the U.S. Secretary of State.
1933:
Dr. Daniel Mulvihill, a New Yorker visiting Berlin “was assaulted by a German
citizen…apparently because he had failed ‘to salute a Nazi detachment.’”
1933:
The police and the Aeronautics Board of the Department Commerce began an
investigation today into reports that a an unidentified plane had, for the last
two days, been dropping German language pamphlets on a meeting of the United
Singers Society protesting the exclusion of the Friends of the New German from
its activities. The Friends of Germany
is pro-Nazi while the United Singers Society is a conservative German
organization that does not support the Nazis.
The investigation was begun at the behest of Albert F. Frosh, president
of the United Singers Society.
1933:
In Czernowitz, Romania, the Maccabee sports organization submits a claim for
100,000 lei as compensation for cancelling the Maccabiade, international meet
of Jewish athletes, forbidden by Rumanian Government, owing to fears that Lord
Melchett, head of Maccabee World Union, would be molested by anti-Semites. Lord
Melchett was Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, the son of Ludwig Mond. He was a leading British businessman,
politician and supporter of Zionism.
1933:
The German Government announced that those East European Jews who will be
deprived of their citizenship in accordance with a recent decree will be given
the status of Staatenlose (men without citizenship in any country); this
explanation is accompanied by estimates that 10,300 East-European Jews had been
naturalized in Prussia alone since 1922.
1933:
The All-German Richard Wagner Association, meeting at Beiruth to arrange for
the Wagner Festival, decides to amend its by-laws so as to exclude all
"non-Aryans," and to instruct its branches throughout Germany to
expel Jewish members. It was actions like this that created the myth that
Wagner, who was dead by now, was an anti-Semite.
1933: In Regina, the Jewish Colonization
Association prepares statistics for the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference
which show that 557,000 Jews in eight countries engage in agriculture and
cultivate 5,410,750 acres of land, and that the Jewish farmers in Canada raise
500,000 bushels of wheat annually. The family of Ekiel Bronfman was one of
those Jewish families who did not succeed in its agricultural endeavors. Thanks to Ekiel’s son Sam, they found another
way to make money from grain besides growing it
1933:
In Germany, The Ministry of Labor issues an ordinance which provides that no
Jewish physician is to remain associated with any sick benefit association,
with the exception of front-line war veterans, and establishes an official list
of sick fund doctors, from which all Jews are excluded.
1934:
Station WBNX is scheduled to broadcast the “Jewish Woman’s Hour” at 1:30 this
afternoon.
1935(9th
of Av, 5695): Tish’a B’Av
1935
(9th of Av, 5695): Yiddish poetess Rivka Galin passed away
1935:
“Following complaints from Dr. Schacht plus reports on the public disagreement
with the wave of anti-Semitic violence, Hitler ordered a stop to
"individual actions" against German Jews today.”
1936:
The World Jewish Congress was convened in Geneva. Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldman
founded the Congress. Although they organized a boycott of German goods, they
felt that a more direct approach would prompt the Nazis "to even harsher
policies."
1936:
“Girls’ Dormitory” starring French born actress Simone Simon whose Jewish father
would die in a WW II concentration camp was distributed in the United States
today by 20th Century Fox.
1937(1st
of Elul, 5697): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1937(1st
of Elul, 5697): Sixty-four year old Theodore A. Peyser the native of
Charleston, West Virginia, passed away today while representing New York’s 17th
congressional district.
http://www.jta.org/1937/08/11/archive/congressman-peyser-dead-at-64
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000281
1937:
As the debate over the Peel Commission Report continued Rabbi Dr. Stephen Wise,
president of the Zionist Organization of America, assailed the partition plan
as abandonment of trust, but his rejection did not oppose the very idea of the
creation of a Jewish state. He said that Great Britain cannot say that it
failed as a trustee. It failed to try and, if the whole truth be told, it has
tried to fail. David Ben-Gurion refused even to consider the notion that Jews
might ever remain a minority in their homeland. He wanted Eretz Yisrael to
provide the solution to the entire Jewish problem. Ben-Gurion held that the
Jewish state should be proclaimed immediately, as an alternative to the Peel
Commission's partition. This will accelerate the country's development and Jews
will become a powerful factor in Palestine. He firmly believed that Jews and
Arabs can live in peace. A decade later Ben-Gurion would take an opposite
stance and embrace partition with Jerusalem as an international city.
Ben-Gurion was a Zionist. He was also a realist and statesman.
1937:
In Los Angeles, Lillian (née Gold) and prop supervisor Harry Hoffman gave birth
to their second son Dustin Hoffman, the younger brother of attorney and
economist Ronald Hoffman.
1938:
Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, the High Commissioner of Trans-Jordan and
Commander in Chief of Palestine issued an appeal for an end to the “ruinous
campaign of murder and sabotage.
1938:
An Italian newspaper, the Tevere, printed an attack on the Jewish
historian Emil Ludwig. The attack on
Ludwig was triggered by comments about
“the race problem” made by Mussolini “in 1932 that are included in his
book, Conversations With Mussolini that are in sharp contrast with the
views now expressed by the Fascist dictator who has allied himself with Hitler.
1938:
Hadassah headquarters in the United States received a cable from the Youth
Aliyah offices in Berlin stating that fifty seven Jewish boys and girls fleeing
Germany and Austria had arrived in Palestine and that another 110 young Jewish
refugees embarked today for the trip to Palestine.
1938:
The Nazis opened the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration camp.
1939:
“French customs authorities announced today that two ships carrying Jewish
refugees who presumably intended to slip into from France from Italy had been
seized during the night in the Mediterranean off the coast of Monaco.”
1940: Today, when Hermann Goering instructed the
German Air Force to commence Operation Adler “he informed his subordinates that
‘within a short period you will wipe the British Air Force from the sky.”
(Editor’s
Note – if he been correct, the Holocaust would have come to the British Isles
and who knows where else. And all of the
“smart people:” including Lindbergh and Joe Kennedy, the American Ambassador to
the Court of St. James” thought Goering would have his airborne victory.)
1941(15th
of Av, 5701): Tu B’Av
1941(15th
of Av, 5701): Samuel David “Solomon” Farber, the son of Anna Frida Farber and
the husband of Bella Farber passed away today in Seattle after which he was
buried in the Seattle Historic Sephardic Cemetery
1941:
Neilma Myer, the daughter of Australian businessman and philanthropist Sidney
Myer, became Neilma Gantner when she married Vallejo Gantner in Melbourne.
1941:
In Hungary, enactment of The "Third Jewish Law" which prohibited
intermarriage and penalized sexual intercourse between Jews and non-Jews.
1941:
Georges Mandel, the Franco-Jewish journalist who became a leader of the
Resistance and whom Winston Churchill “was believed to have preferred as a
leader of the Free French” instead of DeGaulle was arrested “on the orders of
Pierre Laval the Prime Minister of the fascist, anti-Semitic Vichy government.
1941:
Corporal Hank Greenberg, the all-star baseball player now serving with the U.S.
Army is placed in charge of a five man anti-tank crew.
1942:
Gerhart Mortiz Riegner sent the “Riegner Telegram” describing plans for the
Final Solution to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the President of the World Jewish
Congress. “Have received through foreign office following message from Riegner
Geneva STOP Received alarming report that in Fuhrers headquarters plan
discussed and under consideration all Jews in countries occupied or controlled
Germany number 3½ to 4 million should after deportation and concentration in
East at one blow exterminated to resolve once and for all Jewish question in
Europe.”
http://americanjewisharchives.org/aja/aje/details.php?id=550
1942:
“During World War II, six German saboteurs who secretly entered the United
States on a mission to attack its civil infrastructure were executed by the
United States for spying” today.
1942(25th
of Av, 5702): Parashat Re’eh
1942(25th
of Av, 5702): Eighty-two year old Samuel Ach, the Dayton, OH born son of Jacob
Ach, the husband of the former Esther Ruth Kahn and the head of the Samuel Ach
Company of Cincinnati, OH which a “tailor made hat department.”
https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll6/id/3457/
1942:
All 2,000 Jews of Szczebrzeszyn refused to gather for a deportation round up.
The Germans commenced a search for them. Only 400 were found. They were all
killed.
1943:
The JNF, under the leadership of its president, Dr. Israel Goldstein,
“disclosed today that I had cabled $500,000 to Palestine for new land
acquisition.”
1943:
Today, “Moses Schonfeld, the honorary secretary of the American Chapter of the
Religious Emergency Council of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain…released
details of the program for the Jewish day of mourning that has been proclaimed
by the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Dr. J.H. Hertz”
1944:
The Frank family and all those who had been hiding with them in attic were
taken from their prison cells and sent to the Westerbork Concentration Camp.
1944:
After a kangaroo trial in Berlin that was overseen by Goebbels, Hitler hung
several of the German officers and other conspirators who tried to kill him.
They are hung on meat hooks with chicken wire around their necks. The butchery
is filmed and sent to Hitler for review. Over the next several months many more
conspirators would be sent to trial.
1944:
Seventy-seven year old Gustav Fruend who had been living in Prague before being
deported to Terezin was murdered there today.
1944(19th
of Av, 5704): Famed expressionist painter Chaim Soutine passed away. Born
in Belarus in 1894, Soutine moved to Paris in 1911 where he developed his
unique style. He flourished in the inter-war years. However, his good times
were not to last after the invasion of France by German troops at the start of
World War II. As a Jew, Soutine had to escape from the French capital and hide
in order to avoid arrest by the Gestapo. He constantly moved from one place to
another and was sometimes forced to seek shelter in forests, sleeping outdoors.
Suffering from a stomach ulcer and bleeding badly he had to leave his safe
hiding place for Paris in order to undergo emergency surgery, which failed to
save his life. Chaim Soutine died of a perforated ulcer just two weeks before
the French capital was freed by Allied forces. After his death his vivid colors
and passionate handling of paint gained him recognition as one of the foremost
Expressionist painters. If Soutine had merely been an Expressionist Painter and
not a Jewish Expressionist Painter, he would have probably lived to a ripe old
age covered with glory and honors.
1944:
Wireless operator Denise Bloch, a French born Jewish secret agent working with
the SOE (the British version of the American OSS) was shackled to one of her
fellow agents today after having captured by the Nazis and was placed on a
train – the first leg of a trip that would end with her execution at
Ravensbruck.
1945:
2nd Lt. Stanley H. Levine, a flight engineer attached to the “20th
Air Force” a unit of the USAAF in the Pacific was reportedly captured today and
became a POW.
1945:
Birthdate of Boston native and Tufts graduate Barbara Ruth Greenberg who gained
fame as romance novelist Barbara Delinsky, the author of “19 New York Times
best sellers” and the wife of Steve Delinsky.
1945:
First baseman Mike Schemer made his major league debut with the New York
Giants.
1946:
The Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities of the National Welfare
announced that appointment of five rabbis --- Ralph H. Blumenthal, Max
A.Bradue, Edward Ellenbogen, Philip Pincus and Samuel Rosen – “all of whom
served overseas during the war,” to serve as Chaplains in the regular Army
which marked a departure from past procedure when “rabbis had served in the
Officers Reserve Corpos and were called to active duty only during times of
national emergency or for peace-time maneuvers.”
1946:
“President Truman was confronted tonight, on the eve of the deadline set by the
British Cabinet for his answer, with a unanimous opinion that his approval of
the proposed federation plan for Palestine would violate the Constitution of
the United States.”
1947:
The Empire Lifeguard which had suffered a hold blown its hole at Haifa while
transporting Jewish DPs was “refloated today and towed to Port Said” for
repairs
1948(3rd
of Av, 5708): Seventy-eight year old Leo Morris Franklin, a leading Reform
rabbi who served Temple Beth El in Detroit from 1899 to 1941, passed away
today.
1948:
As the Arab states divided the pieces of Palestine they had seized an order was
issued today “vested an Egyptian Administrator-General with the powers of the
High Commissioner.”
1949:
Today, the death toll from the bombing of a Synagogue in Damascus erev Shabbat
rose to twelve while another eighteen victims are still in the hospital
1950(25th
of Av, 5710): Seventy-nine-year-old New York City native and Jewish
philanthropist Morris Golde, the retired “head of the clothing firm of S. Golde
& Sons” and “a founder of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism who
raised two sons and two daughters with his wife Becky Golde, passed away today
in New York. (Editor’s note – not to be confused with a New York businessman of
the same name who passed away in 2001.
1950:
Today, one of the guests who attended Lillian Lehman’s 20th birthday
party hosted a party at the same hotel to celebrate the 70th
birthday of Lillian Lehman Strassburger the wife of Harvey Strassburger.
1951:
Birthdate of Bronx native Martin Brest the NYU grad who went on to a career as
a director, screenwriter and producer that got its biggest start with “Going in
Style” and “Beverly Hills Cop.”
1953: Birthdate of Donny Most who played Ralph in
the sitcom “Happy Days.”
1953:
Birthdate of Alexander Pinkhosovich Podrabinek the Russian born human rights
activist and “refusnik”
https://upclosed.com/people/alexandr-podrabinek/
1954(9th
of Av, 5714): Tish’a B’Av
1954((9th
of Av, 5714): Eighty-one-year old attorney William Lieberman, the native of Szentes,
Austria-Hungary who in 1878 came to the United States where he graduated from
City College, became active in Republican politics in Brooklyn which led to him
serving as delegate to the 1924 National Republic Convention where he authored
an ant-Ku Klux Klan Resolution and served as the Federal census supervisor and
chief enumeration supervisor of New York, passed away today in Queens, NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/08/10/84130100.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1957(11th
of Av, 5717): Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born American civil engineer Lazarus
Trommer the graduate of Cooper Union who 1905 came to the United States where
he also pursued a literary career using the pen name Elbert Aidline and who
raised two daughters, Alice and Rachel, with his wife the former Sarah Sussman
passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/10/90832901.html?pageNumber=10
1958:
In North Woodmere, NY, Morris S. Friedman, the rabbi at “Temple Hillel, a
Conservative Congregation” and his wife, “a high school English teacher” gave
birth to NYU trained attorney and the United States Ambassador to Israel.
https://il.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/our-ambassador/
1959(4th
of Av, 5719): Shabbat Chazon
1959:
Kaddish is said today for Salman Schocken, “the book publisher and former head
of a department-store chain in Germany who passed away two days ago in
Switzerland.
1960
(15th of Av, 5720): Tu B’Av
1960(15th
of Av, 5720): Seventy-one year old Harvard trained attorney and former special
justice of the Dorchester Municipal Court, Jacob J. Kaplan who for “nearly 50
years was a leader of the Greater Boston Jewish Community and who raised three
sons with his wife Anne passed away today.
1961:
In Indianapolis, IN, building contractor Stanley Klain and travel agent Sarann
Horwitz gave birth to Georgetown grad and Harvard trained attorney Ron Klain,
who began serving as White House Chief of Staff under Joe Biden on January 20,
2021 and who raised three children – Hannah, Michael and Daniel – with his wife
Monica Media.
1962:
“Valley Jewish Center Dedication Scheduled” published today in the Los Angeles Times
1963:
In New York, “comedy writer Saul Turtletaub” and his wife gave birth to
director and producer Jonathan Charles “Jon” Turtletaub who is responsible for
some forgettable films such as “3 Ninjas.”
1964:
French music man Serge Gainsbourg and his second wife Françoise-Antoinette
"Béatrice" Pancrazzi gave birth to their daughter Natacha.
1964:
“Della” a dramatic film with music by Fred Steiner was released today in the
United States.
1964:
It was reported that Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening was one of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The two senators saw the resolution as
“unconstitutional because it was ‘a pre-dated declaration of war power’
reserved to Congress. This vote cost him his seat in the Senate; a fate that
many of the johnny-come-lately opponents such as the anti-Semite J. William
Fulbright were spared.
1965(10th
of Av, 5725): Tish’a B’Av
1965(10th
of Av, 5725): Eighty-seven year old San Francisco native Edith Jacobi Baerwald
passed away today passed away today in Neptune, NJ>
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/baerwald-edith-jacobi
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078513/
1965(10th
of Av, 5725: Seventy-one year old Minks native Sidney Davidson, the founder of
“Davidson Brothers” a New York “underwear company, a founder, in 1939 “of the
United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York” and the husband of “the former Sarah
Machilis” with whom he had two children – Jean and Morton – passed away today
after suffering a heart attack.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/08/10/101560339.pdf
1966:
Three months after having been released in the United Kingdom and Australia,
“It Happened Here,” a film that looks at what might have happened if the Nazis
had won WW II filmed by cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, was released in the
United States today.
1967:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held in Brooklyn today for Isidore Kahan,
the husband of Sara Kahan, a member of Temple Eman-El of Boro Park led by Rabbi
Baruch Silverstein .
1967:
Birthdate of Cleveland, OH native and USC educated Oscar winner Lee Edward
Unkrich the husband of “Laura Century” and the father of “Hannah, Alice and
Max” Unkrich.
1972(28th
of Av, 5732): Seventy-two year old University of Virginia trained attorney
Michael Benjamin Wagenheim, the Norfolk, VA born son “Herman and Sophie
(Sheffield) Waggenheim) who practiced law in his home town for fifty years
while also serving with a number of civic organizations including Goodwill
Industries and the Hampton Roads Sanitation Commission passed away today.
1973:
“The Stone Killer” a film about murdering Italian and Jewish mobsters” directed
and produced by Michael Winner starring Martin Balsam, Stuart Margolin and
Norman Fell was released today in the United States.
1973:
In a move that will have profound repercussions for the United States, the rest
of the World (and of course the Jews, Richard Nixon delivered an address to the
nation tonight saying this his Presidency would officially end tomorrow at
noon.
1975:
Jacob “Jack” Austin was appointed to the Upper House of the Canadian Parliament
today to serve as a Senator from Vancouver.
1975:
“Farewell My Lovely” the murder mystery produced by Elliot Kastner and Jerry
Bruckheimer, with a screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and music by David Shire
was released in the United States today.
1976(12th
of Av, 5736): Sixty-six year old Berlin born Eddie Rosner, the jazz musician
known as “The White Louis Armstrong,” passed away today,
1976:
Three Israelis were injured when a bus was fired on near Hebron.
1977:
Officials in Washington agreed that there was no evidence that more than 8,000
pounds of the lost American enriched uranium and plutonium had ever reached
Israel.
1977:
The Jerusalem YMCA, one of the most beautiful in the world and the only one to
have a membership 98 per cent Jewish, celebrated its centenary.
1979(15th
of Av, 5739): Tu B’Av
1980:
Today, the National Park Service determined that Dewey House which had been
designed by David Adler was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.”
1980:
As part of the on-going Soviet campaign to punish Jewish refusniks, Grigorii
Geishis was put on trial at Leningrad.
1981(8th
of Av, 5741): Parshat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1981(8th
of Av, 5741): Eighty-three year old City College trained business executive and
philanthropist Jerome Ira Udell the New York born son of Max and Jane Wallcott
Udell who was the CEO of Max Udell Sons
and Company, a manufacturer of men’s clothing and a long time “member of the
Board of Directors of Beth Israel Medical Center” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/10/obituaries/jerome-i-udell.html
1982:
Just two weeks before her 84th birthdate Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck,
the author whose works include Athene Palace passed away. Born a German Jew in 1898, she converted to
Catholicism and became a U.S. citizen in 1939
1982:
“Where are the Arab ‘brothers' now?” by Daniel
Pipes appears in the Chicago Tribune.
http://www.danielpipes.org/5322/where-are-the-arab-brothers-now
1984:
Funeral services were held today in Jerusalem for “Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz,
former Chief Rabbi of the Orange Free State in South Africa and more recently a
Herut Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem.” (As reported by JTA)
1984:
Based on an order from the Israeli Supreme Court, financer Shmuel Flatto-Sharon
is scheduled to report to jail today where he is “to start a three- month
sentence for bribery during his campaign for the Israeli Parliament in 1977,
which was successful.”
1986:
“The Transformer: The Movie” an animated feature film featuring the voices of
Judd Nelson, Lionel Stander and Leonard Nimoy was released in the United States
today by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group.
1986:
Warner Bros. released “One Crazy Summer,” a romantic comedy produced by Michael
Jaffe and featuring Jeremy Piven in the role of “Ty.”
1987:
Mary Travers, the folk singer, plays Emma Lazarus, as one of a series of radio
spots for a a program entitled “Voices of Freedom.” Ms Travers said her character also had such
contemporary relevance. ''She doesn't talk about history as if it's frozen in
time,'' Ms. Travers said of Lazarus. ''Her words are valuable not as the words
of a woman willing to struggle with inequity in 1883, but as the words of an
American willing to struggle with inequity in 1987.''
1987: ''Yiddish Theater in London, 1880-1987 an
exhibition included in this summer's Jewish East End Celebration is scheduled
to come to an end.
1987: ''Daughters of the Pale,'' an exhibition that in words and
photographs documents the experiences of daughters of Jewish immigrants, is
scheduled to come to an end in London
1988:
Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arad met with Rev. Jesse Jackson. The two men and
their advisers said they discussed a wide range of issues, including the
conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians; the plight of black Israelis;
Israel's relationship with South Africa, and recent friction between blacks and
Jews in this country, particularly in Chicago and New York.
1988:
Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arad met with Rev. Jesse Jackson. The two men and
their advisers said they discussed a wide range of issues, including the
conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians; the plight of black Israelis;
Israel's relationship with South Africa, and recent friction between blacks and
Jews in this country, particularly in Chicago and New York.
1989:
A Broadway revival of the musical “Shenandoah” with a “book” co-authored by
producer Philip Rose opened today.
1990:
Oil prices fell and the stock markets in the New York and Tokyo steadied today
after the United States decision to send troops to Saudi Arabia and reports
that the oil-rich kingdom would increase its production in what would be part
of the start of Gulf War I, the first conflict in which Israel would stand down
and trust the United States to defend its airspace from Arab attack.
1990:
“I’m Dangerous Tonight” a horror film featuring Natalie Schafer debuted on USA
Network tonight.
1993: The third in a series of family tours to Israel sponsored by the
American Jewish Congress is schedule to begin today.
1993: The Bosnian family sponsored by Temple Beth Am arrived in Seattle,
Washington.
1995:
Eighty-nine year old SS officer Kurt Becher who was involved in deals to trade
money and goods for sparing the lives of Hungarian Jews that included dealings
with Rudolf Kastner passed away.
http://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/microsoft%20word%20-%205978.pdf
(For
more about Rudolf Kastner see Gaylen Ross’s award winning documentary “Killing
Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis” and Kastner’s Train by Anna
Porter and http://www.killingkasztner.com/
1996:
Mel Torme, an icon of the American Jazz scene, suffered a stroke which
effectively ended his career.
1996:
“Haifa” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
1998:
“Shakespeare’s Villains,” “a one man-man player created and performed by Steven
Berkoff” came to a close “at London’s Royal Theatre in Haymarket.”
1998:
Christiane Amanpour, the chief international correspondent for CNN, was married
twice today to James Phillip Rubin, the Assistant Secretary of State for Public
Affairs, first in a Roman Catholic ceremony performed The Rev. Ambrose
O'Farrell, a Roman Catholic priest, at the Church of Santo Stefano in
Bracciano, Italy and then “later in the day, in a Jewish ceremony performed by
Rabbi Guy D. Hall.
1999:
PGA golfer Bruce Fleisher won the Lightpath Long Island Classic.
1999:
The New York Times includes reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Between Silk and Cyanide:
A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 by
Leo Marks, Walter Benjamin: Selected
Writings: Volume 2, 1927-1934
and Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates, the author who discovered late in life her
own family's Jewish history: Her grandmother, who immigrated to the United
States in the 1890s, kept her religion hidden for fear of persecution.
1999: Avery Corman, the novelist, who has just
completed working on a new musical with Cy Coleman, discusses ''The Musical:
The American Jewish Theater in Its Heyday'' at Temple Adas Israel on Elizabeth
Street in Sag Harbor.
2000: “In a new sermon today, the spiritual leader
of the Shas Party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef offered no explicit apology for his
remarks made in a broadcast “in which he said the six million Jews who perished
in the Holocaust died because they were reincarnations of sinners” but did
appear “to backtrack from his earlier statement” when he said, ''Six million
Jews, among them one million children, were killed by the wicked Nazis,'' he
said. '' All were holy and pure and complete saints.”
2000: Two days after he had passed away, funeral
services were scheduled to be held for Harvard trained physician and
gastroenterologist Dr. Benjamin B. Banks who rose to the rank of Colonel during
his five years of service in WW II and who served as trustee of Temple Israel
in Boston and Chairman of Boston Chapter of the American Jewish Committee while
raising a family with his wife of 69 years, Alice Banks.
2001: Hamas claimed credit for today’s bombing at
Moshav Beka’ot
2002: “Queen’s Opens J.B. Salsberg Papers to the
Public” published today included a brief description of the life of the Polish
born Canadian Labor Zionist.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050925022858/http:/www.cjnews.com/pastissues/02/aug8-02/front3.asp
2003(10th of Av, 5763):Third Petty Officer Roi Oren,
20, an Israel Navy commando, was shot in the head and killed in an assault on a
Hamas bomb factory in Nablus.
2004: Second and final performance by the Royal English Opera Company of
Rockford, Illinois of “The Nautch Girl,” a comic opera composed by Edward
Solomon. These are the only times the
opera has been performed in North America.
2004: The New
York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight
for Middle East Peace by Dennis Ross
2005: Legislation is introduced in Congress that
would make it illegal to deny life insurance to people based on their travel
habits.
2005:
Today “Haaretz quoted a top
Palestinian Authority religious cleric, Sheikh Jamal al-Bawatna, the mufti of
the Ramallah district, in a fatwa (a religious edict) banning shooting attacks
against Israeli security forces and settlements, out of concern they might lead
to a postponement of the pullout.
2005:
“Kevin Youkilis took the field in the 9th inning along with Adam Stern and Gabe
Kapler, setting a "record" for the most Jewish players on the field
at one time in American League history and the most in Major League Baseball
history since four Jewish players took the field for the New York Giants in
1941. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2005:
Wolf Blitzer began hosting The Situation Room, a two-hour afternoon/early
evening program on CNN
2005(3rd
of Av, 5765): Eighty-seven year Nathan “Fred” Asher, the Naval Academy
Graduate, who took command of the destroyer U.S.S. Blue during the bombing of
Pearl Harbor and was the husband of Slema Straus with whom he had three
children – Dennis, Karen and Jeffrey – passed away today in California.
2006:
Five ambulances donated to Magen David Adom by Canadian Jewry were flown to
Israel from New York by
2006
(14th of Av, 5766): Staff Sergeant Oren Lifschitz, 21, of Kibbutz Gazit and
Staff Sergeant Moran Cohen, 21, of Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov were killed in battles in the south Lebanon village of
Bint Jbail. St.-Sgt. Yesmao Yallao 26, from Or Yehuda and Cap. (res.) and Gilad
Balahsan, 28, of Karmiel were killed in clashes with Hezbollah near Leboneh.
2007: The last two concerts The Zimriya - The World Assembly of Choirs are held
at 8 P.M., at Einav Cultural Center in Tel Aviv and at Independence Hall on Mt.
Scopus. The Zimriya has been held every three years since 1952.
2007:
Donald Fisher the founder of GAP “announced plans to build a
100,000-square-foot (9,300 m2) museum in the San Francisco Presidio,
tentatively named the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio, to house his art
collection” – plans which would be abandoned in 2009 when Fisher and his wife
“decided to enter into a partnership with SFMOMA to display the world famous
collection.”
2007(24th
of Av, 5767): Melville “Mel” Shavelson, writer, director and producer passed
away at the age of 90.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/obituaries/11shavelson.html
2008:
Israeli President Shimon Peres attended the Olympic Games' opening ceremony at
the invitation of the Chinese government.
2008:
In “Jewish Roots in India,” published today the Washington Post reviews The
Girl From Foreign by Sadia Shephard in which the American born author
traces the Jewish roots of her Indian grandmother who lived as a Moslem.
2008:
In Virginia, Jody Wagner resigns her position as Secretary of Finance.
2008(7th
of Av, 5768): Ted Solotaroff passes away at the age of 80
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/books/12solotaroff.html?_r=0
2009:
In Jerusalem, Beit Avi Chai's Saturday night music line, directed by Shaanan
Street, presents "Eve’s Women": Four musicians create a magical,
diverse musical world, with fresh, new arrangements of familiar melodies and
songs from Jewish tradition, klezmer tunes, and Hasidic songs. A fascinating
musical journey including improvisations created in each concert.
2010:
A documentary entitled “Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades” is scheduled to be
shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2010:
At the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA, Rabbi Arthur Ruberg is scheduled
to officiate at the wedding of Rachael Anne Wagner, and Samuel Jeremy Abrams,
“a professor of political science at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.”
2010:
Bankito, sometimes referred to as "Jewstock" -- a youth-oriented
Jewish culture festival on the shore of Bank Lake, north of Budapest is
scheduled to come to an end.
2010:
In Norfolk, VA, Rabbi Arthur Ruberg is scheduled to officiate at the wedding of
Rachael Anne Wagner and Samuel Jeremy Abrams at the Chrysler Museum of Art.
2010:
First Jewish Women's Music Festival at Falls Village, CT is scheduled to come
to an end.
2010:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including two novels set in Nazi-occupied Holland
by Dutch author Hans Keilson – The Death of the Adversary and Comedy
in a Minor Key, Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, As
Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs, 97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman and Jack
Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; The Letters Edited by Bill Morgan and David
Stanford
2011:
The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2011(8th
of Av): Erev Tisha B’Av – fast starts at sundown
2011:
This evening, a delegation of 18 Washington-based ambassadors from four
continents and one other senior diplomat who have embarked on a fact-finding
mission to Israel and the West Bank organized by The Israel Project (TIP) will
go to the Old City of Jerusalem to observe the commemoration of Tisha B’Av
2011:
Three mortar shells fell last night in Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, causing
damage to a fence.
2011:
Today, the High Court of Justice rejected a petition asking that the government
be ordered to deploy the Iron Dome rocket defense system in Gaza border
communities.
2011:
During a discussion on the subject, the High Court criticized the Israel
Medical Association's (IMA) conduct during negotiations with the finance and
health ministries.
2012:
The Summer Learning Institute is scheduled to begin at the Hebrew Union College
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2012:
“Hope Springs” a comedy directed by David Frankel was released today in the
United States by Columbia Pictures and MGM.
2012:
“Photographer David Rubinger, who immortalized paratroopers reaching the Wall
in the 1967 war, recreated his iconic image with a female trio holding a Torah
scroll (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/womens-group-liberates-the-western-wall/
2012:
Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the annual free festival of music and dance, is
scheduled to present the U.S. debut of The Alaev Family, a Bukharin groove band
from Israel with deep roots in the music of Tajikistan and Jewish Bukhara.
2012:
Citing disappointing results for Israeli athletes in the 2012 Olympic games,
Minister of Culture and Sports Limor Livnat announced today that she will
establish a committee of experts to look into this year’s failures in order to
bring about better results in the next Olympics, set to take place in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil in the summer of 2016
2012:
The British Guardian newspaper today acknowledged it was wrong to call Tel Aviv
Israel’s capital, but reiterated its stance that Jerusalem is not the capital
either, since it is not recognized as such by the international community.
2012:
A series of Hezbollah terror attacks inside Israel were foiled recently by the
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) after a group of Israeli-Arabs helped smuggle
20 kilograms of high-grade explosives into Israel. Today, eight residents of
Nazareth and the town of Ghajar - half of which is in Israel and the other half
in Lebanon - were charged in the Nazareth District Court with assisting in the
infiltration of the explosives.
2013:
“Esther Broner - A Weave Of Women,” a documentary about the pioneering feminist
and scholar is scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013:
At Zefat, the three day International Klexmer Festival “the biggest festival of
Jewish soul music in the world” is scheduled to come to an end.
2013:
Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton psychologist known for his
application of psychology to economic analysis who “escaped Nazi Europe and served
in the Israeli army” was one of the people President Obama named as a recipient
of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
2013:
In response to a “security concerns” no planes were allowed to land at or leave
the Eilat airport when the IDF closed the facility for two hours today. (As
reported by Asher Zeiger)
2013(2nd
of Elul, 5773): Ninety-two year old Jack Zomlefer, a brilliant chemist,
successful business and educated Jew who shared his last years enhancing the
quality of the Jewish community in Cedar
Rapids ,passed away today.
2013*2nd
of Elul, 5773): Ninety-year old opera star Regina Resnik passed away today. (As
reported by William Yardley)
2013(2nd
of Elul, 5773): Actress Karen Black passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/movies/karen-black-versatile-character-actress-dies-at-74.html?hpw
2014:
Israel’s Dimona Theatre/Cultural Lab and the Classical Theatre of Harlem are
scheduled to “present a succinct journey into Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Sugar
Hill.
2014:
“High-profile Toronto Jewish delicatessen owner Zane Caplansky is scheduled to
send his food truck to the outdoor screening ‘Laila’s Birthday’ a dark comedy
by Palestinian director by Rashid Masharawi.” (As reported by Renee Ghert-Zand)
2014:
In Milwaukee, Congregation Shalom is scheduled to host its final concert of the
summer featuring Becky Spice and Jack Forbes in “an original cabaret show.”
2014:
True to its word Hamas ended the cease fire by firing rockets into Israel today
including one that scored a direct hit on a house “in the embattled city of
Sderot.”
2014:
“United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the renewed rocket fire
on Israel and also called for a return to a truce in Gaza. (As reported by
Yitzhak Benhorin)
2014(12th
of Av, 5774): Eighty-five year old director/producer Menahem Golan passed away
today.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/menahem-golan-producer-1980s-action-movies-dies-85-210106837.html
2015(23rd
of Av, 5775): Parsha Ekev
2015(23rd
of Av, 5755): Eighty-seven year old
Columbus, OH born, Yale educated philosopher, physicist and mathematician Abner
Shimoy, the husband of Annemarie Anrod, passed away today.
https://www.bu.edu/cphs/about/abner-shimony/
2015(23rd
of Av): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Benjamin Arron of Cracow
2015:
In New York, “a live performance of chamber ensemble led by the Music Director,
Israeli Cellist Elad Kabilio” is scheduled to be part of this evening’s Ballet
Festival.
2015:
The 92nd St is scheduled to host “Le Roc USA Party”
2016:
Judge Claudio Bonadio’s decision to reopen a criminal complaint against former
President Kirchner in which had been accuse of conspiring to derail an
investigation into the bombing of Jewish community center in 1994 which took
the lives of 85, was made public today.
2016:
“Jerusalem Boxing Club is scheduled to be shown as part of The Hampton
Synagogue Film Series now in its 14th year.
2016:
Noam Banai, son of Meir and cousin to Ehud, Yuval and Elisha continued his tour
of Israel tonight with a performance at 26 Bialik, Beersheba.
2016:
Gary Gans is scheduled to speak on “What Mourning Customs Did Our Immigrant
Families Bring with Them” and Avraham Groll is scheduled to speak on “Jewish
Life In Poland (10th-18th centuries) at the 36th
IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy today in Seattle.
2017:
This evening in Weimar, Germany YSM is scheduled to host a series of jam
session featuring Yiddish songs and klezmer music.
2017:
“An ensemble of four male dancers combining hip hop with ballet, choreographed
by Roderick George, a former soloist of American Dance Company Cedar Lake is
scheduled to perform part of this year’s “Tel Aviv Dance.”
2018:
Diarna, The Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life is
scheduled to present “Beyond Tunis: A Comprehensive Mission to Tunisia”
featuring photographer Chrystie Sherman as part of the Passport to Jewish
History series.
2018:
“Zionist Union activists waved copies of Israel’s Declaration of Independence
in the Knesset plenum today during a special debate on the nation-state law.”
(TOI)
2018:”Operation Wedding,” a documentary that tells the story of “young Soviet
Jews seeking to escape the Soviet Union: is scheduled to be shown at the Kew
Gardens Festival of Cinema.
https://www.operation-wedding-documentary.com/
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education
Center is scheduled to co-host the last program connected with the Purchased
Lives exhibition during which the “panel will discuss implications of this
history on contemporary American society, including issues of mass
incarceration, community disinvestment, poverty, and trauma.”
2019: The Green Bay Packers, who owe their
survival back in the 1920’s, at least in part to Nate Abrams, who had played
one game for the Packers in 1919 and who gave “Curly” Lambeau three thousand
dollars in 1922 to keep the team afloat, are scheduled to play the Texans in a
pre-season opener.
2020(18th of Av, 5780): Parashat
Ekev; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2020: The Temple Tifereth Isael is scheduled to
host Rabbi Cohen who will discuss Jewish time, text, memory and identity during
this afternoon’s adult learning session
2020: URJ 6 Points Sci-Tech Academy is
scheduled to present a “Multi-Sensory Havdalah.”
2020: In Coralville, IA, Naomi Greiner is
scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah at Agudas Achim during the
livestreamed Shabbat services.
2020: The Albuquerque Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to host the final virtual screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate.”
2020(18th of Av, 5780): Yahrzeit Sol
Maikon, the dean of traditional Judaism in Cedar Rapids, IA
2020: In addition to dealing with the reality
of the Pandemic, Jews in Cedar Rapids are observing Shabbat with concerns about
an outbreak of anti-Semitism after reports were received yesterday from at
least four different residences in southeast Cedar Rapids where resealable
plastic bags were found that contained a letter with a fascist symbol and the
words “White Pride” on it.
2021: Urban Adamah and Makor is scheduled to
present “spiritual leaders Norman
Fischer and Rabba Dorothy Richman leading a day of Jewish meditation, prayer
and learning in preparation for the High Holidays.
2021:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a Virtual Program
“From
Lawbreakers to Lawmakers: A Conversation with Judge Albie Sachs and The
Honorable Irwin Cotler.”
2021:
In Atlanta, The Breman is scheduled to host a docent-led tour of the Holocaust
exhibition, Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years 1933-1945.”
2021:
The cabinet is scheduled to consider the appointment of retired Brig. Gen
Michael Herzog to serve as Israel’s next ambassador to the United States. (As
reported by Jacob Magid)
2021:
American Friends Israel Philharmonic are scheduled to present a virtual “showcase
premiere featuring 10 top musicians from the philharmonic’s Keynote and Sulamot
education programs.
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Putting It Together: How
Stephen Sondheim and I Created “Sunday in the Park With George” by James
Lapine and Period. End of Sentence: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual
Justice by Anita Diamant
2021(30th
of Av, 5781): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2022:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host a book talk for Hebrew speakers, Tamar Yogev
addresses her new book Exitland, writing, Hebrew literature outside of Israel
and the representation of Silicon Valley in Hebrew literature.
2022:
In San Francisco, the Commonwealth Club is scheduled to host Panel discussion
on an upcoming film “Who Are The Marcuses?” about Holocaust survivors Lottie
and Howard Marcus, whose $400 million gift to fund water research in Israel was
the Jewish state’s largest donation ever.
2023:
The Center for Early Relationship Support®, a part of Jewish Family &
Children’s Service, is scheduled to offer a support group for pregnant people
to give and receive support, ask questions and begin building a parent community
close to home.
2023:
In Cedar Rapids, the Board of Temple Judah is scheduled to meet this evening
with Brian Cohen presiding as President for the first time.
2023:
Base Bay in Oakland is scheduled to host a “Queer Jewish Dating Party.”
