This Day, August 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 10
612 BCE: Sinsharishkun, King of the Assyrian Empire was
killed and his capital city of Nineveh was destroyed. This is the same Assyria that destroyed the
Northern Kingdom and laid siege to Jerusalem.
This is also the same Nineveh…
August 10
612
70: According to sources, this is the date on
the secular calendar when the Second Temple was destroyed.
117: Start of the reign of Hadrian as Roman
Emperor. At first Hadrian seemed to be
a friend of the Jews. He executed the anti-Jewish governor of Judea and
promised to rebuild Jerusalem as a Jewish city. For some unknown
reason, he turned against the Jews banning circumcision throughout the Empire
and announcing the decision to build a major temple to Jupiter in
Jerusalem. The Jews responded with what has become known as Bar Kochba's
Rebellion. The fighting was intense on both sides and resulted in the
complete desolation of the land by the Romans. Hadrian banned Jews
from Jerusalem and renamed the city Aelia Capitolina. He even had a copy
of the Torah burned on the Temple Mount. Antonius Pius, Hadrian's
successor repealed many of Hadrian's anti-Jewish decrees including the bans on
Torah study and circumcision. But it was too late to save the Jewish
community of the Promised Land.
1002: “Shortly after gain the support of the
Saxons” Henry II, the Holy Roman Emperor whose expulsion of the Jews from
Mayence was lamented in dirges composed by the poet Simon ben Isaac and of
which Gershom ben Yehuda said, “Thou hast made those who despise They Law to
have dominion over Thy people…” “arranged for Archbishop Willigist to crown his
wife…as Queen of Germany” today “in Paderborn.”
1267: Birthdate of King James II of Aragon.
James would prove to show greater toleration towards his Jewish subjects than
his grandfather James I had. . He
permitted Jewish refugees from France to settle in Barcelona. In recognition of
Jewish financial support for his equipping his fleet, the King released many
Jewish communities from paying their taxes for a period of several years. James also protected the Jews from popular
anti-Semitic uprisings. In Barcelona in 1285, Berenguer Oller, announced that
he planned to kill the local nobles and the Jews following which he would
plunder their homes. The King intervened
to prevent the violence. Whether he was
more concerned about the well-being of the nobility or the Jews is unknown.
1391: The anti-Semitic rioting came to an end
with Barcelona with an untold number of Jews converting at the point of the
proverbial sword.
1391: Massacre of the Jews in Gerona, Spain.
1397: Birthdate of Albert II, who as Holy Roman
Emperor Agreed to accept 900 gulden from the city of Augsburg in return for
allowing them to expel their Jews.
1466: Birthdate of Francesco II Gonzaga the
ruler of the Italian city of Mantua who “stated in a grida (proclomiation) on
March 2, 1515 that the recent popular uprising against the Jews of Mantua
greatly displeased him” passed away today.
1492: A large group of Jews from Spain,
thousands strong, arrived in the Port of Naples. Jews from Sardinia soon joined
them.
1675: The Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in
Amsterdam.
1724: Birthdate of Frankfort-on-the-Main,
Germany, Elijah Etting who in 1758 came to America, became a merchant, married
Shinah Solomon in 1759 and was living in York, PA at the time of his death in
1778.
1751: Birthdate of Frankfort-en-Main native
Elijah Etting, the York, PA merchant and husband of “Shinah Solomon.
1762:Moses Vita-Haim Montefiore Medina, the
Italian born son of Sarah and Judah Moses Raphael Montefiore and his wife
Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore gave birth to Joshua Montefiore, an English
lawyer, soldier, and journalist who would eventually move to the United States
where he “edited Men and Measures, a
weekly political journal” before finally settling in St. Albans, Vt.
1775, Col. William Thomson and his SC 3rd
Regiment of Rangers including Lt. Abraham Alexander, Sr. were ordered to send
three companies of the Rangers to Orangeburgh
1778: Gotthold Lessing, while having trouble
sleeping, comes up with the inspiration for his play, “Nathan the Wise.”
1778: Birthdate of Aaron Lopez Isaacs, the
Norwalk, CT born son of Moses Isaacs who died in infancy.
1779: In Montreal, Aaron Hart, a prominent
Trois-Riveres merchant and Dorthea Judah gave birth to Benjamin Hart, the
husband of Judith Hart, the son-in-law of stockbroker Ephraim Hart who fought
with the Canadians in what Americans call the War of 1812 who eventually moved
to New York City where he passed away.
1780(9th of Av, 5540): Tish’a B’Av
1791(10th of Av, 5551): Just nineteen days
before his first birthday, Sampson Isaacs, the son of Joshua Isaacs died in New
York City.
1792: As the French Revolution, which would
eventually bring the rights of citizenship to French Jews, intensified, Louis
XVI was imprisoned today.
1793: On the first anniversary of the end of
the Louvre, which among other things contains “4,000 engravings, 3,000
drawings, and 500 illustrated books” donated by Baron Edmond de Rothschild in
1935, was opened to the public for the first time as a museum.
1793(2nd of Elul, 5553): Thirty-four
year old Jacob Aaron (Kopel ben Aaron Berstat) passed away today in London.
1794: In Detmold, Germany, ‘Talmud scholar
Immanuel Menachem Zunz and Hendel Behrens, the daughter of Dov Beer,] an
assistant cantor of the Detmold community” gave birth tobLeopold Zunz also known as Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz,
"the German Reform rabbi and writer who was the founder of what has been
termed the "Science of Judaism" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the
critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.
1796(6th of Av, 5556): “Tobacconist,
distiller, and merchant Abraham Isaac
Abrahams the son of Isaac Abrahams and husband of Elkaly Esther Lousada who was
a constable in New York City, a mohel and from 1762 to 1775 taught at
Congregation Shearith Israel in New York.
1805:Bella Hart, the London born daughter of
Mary and Mordecai Levy and her husband Daniel Hart gave birth to Samuel Hart, Sr.
1807: In Fürth, Marcus and Jeannette
Königswarter gave birth to Jonas Königswarter, the husband of Josephine Königswarter
who was a leading member of the financial community in Vienna whom Emperor
Francis Joseph “decorated with the Order of the Iron Crown of the third class,
elevated to the knighthood, and raised to the baronetage.
1808: Emanuel Lazarus married Sophia Simmons
today at the Great Synagogue.
1808: Isaac
ben Uri married Reizecha bat Judah Leib today at the Western Synagogue.
1810: Birthdate of Count Camillo di Cavour, the
Italian statesman who was part of the triumvirate that created the modern
Italian state. Cavour worked with Baron
James de Rothschild who secretly provided the funds with which the Piedmont
nobleman was able to fight the Austrian.
Cavour enjoyed good working relations with members of the Jewish community,
including “Isaac Arton, his confidential secretary and ‘faithful lieutenant’.”
1815: In an attempt to attract non-Hispanic
Europeans to Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Spanish government issued the Royal
Decree of Graces which allowed non-Spaniards to own land on the islands. While Jews did settle in the islands, the
decree really did not work to their advantage since only Catholics were allowed
to own land.
1816(16th of Av, 5576): Parashat
Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu observed for the last time during the Presidency of
James Madison who appointed Mordechai Noah to one of the first diplomatic posts
held by a Jew in the early days of the republic.
1818: In Bavaria, Suesel Schloss and his wife
gave birth to Moses Schloss who would move to New and become a successful dry
goods merchant.
1819: Anti-Semitic riots continue for a second
day in Frankfort.
1819: Birthdate of Julius Landsberger, the
native of Upper Silesia who was the rabbi at Darmstadt for thirty year and who
with his wife Pauline gave birth to Richard Landsberger, a pioneer in the field
“biological desntistry.”
1821: Missouri becomes the 24th
state to join the Union. Jewish
immigrants, many from Germany, had settled in the area since its territorial
days. The first known Jew settled in St.
Louis in 1807. The first Jewish lawyer
settled in St. Louis in 1817.
1824: Under Czar Alexander I, all foreign Jews
were prohibited from settling in Russia. Alexander I, after an initial period
of liberalism, reverted to the anti-Jewish proclamations of his predecessors.
It began with forbidding Jews to have Christian servants. After that came the
prohibition of settlement. The culmination of his policies came just before
when all Jews were banished from the larger villages in the Mohilev and Vitbesk
districts.
1832: In Creswell, PA, Anna and Isaac Kauffman
gave birth to Rudolph H. Kauffman, the husband of Frances Kauffman and Anna
Kauffman.
1832: Philip Minis, a Savannah physician and
the son of Judge Isaac Minis shot and killed James Stark after the latter had
called him a “damn Jew,” “a coward” and had pulled a gun on him in the City
Hotel at Savannah.
http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1955_07_01_00_doc_minis.pdf
1835(15th of Av, 5595): Tu B’Av
1835: Frederick David Goldsmid, MP and his wife
gave birth to their oldest daughter Helen who as the wife of Lionel Lucas whom
she married in 1855 was active in the Anglo-Jewish community as can be seen by
her service as the President of the Workrooms Committee of the Jewish Board of
Guardians, Treasurer of the Jewish Ladies’ West End Charity and Patroness of
the City of London Benevolent Society for Assisting Widows of the Jewish Faith.
1837(9th of Av, 5597): Tish’a B’Av
observed for the first time under President Martin Van Buren.
1839(30th of Av, 5599): Parashat
Re’eh and Rosh Chodesh Elul
1839(30th of Av,5599) : Isaac B.
Seixas a son of Benjamin Mendez Seixas who became rabbi of the Congregation
Shearith Israel, New York city, in 1828, in succession to Moses L. M. Peixotto
passed away today in New York City.
1843: Sixty-nine year old anti-Semite Jakob
Friedrich Fries passed away. “ In 1816 he wrote Über die Gefährdung des
Wohlstandes und des Charakters der Deutschen durch die Juden ("On the
Danger Posed by the Jews to German Well-Being and Character"), advocating
among other things a distinct sign on the dress of Jews to distinguish them
from the general population, and encouraging their emigration from German
lands. He blamed the Jews for the ascendant role of money in society and called
for Judaism to be "extirpated root and branch" from German society.”
1844: Jeanetta Mallan and Joseph Davis gave
birth to Lionel Cartwright Davis
1845: Two days after he had passed away,
Lambert Ellis, the husband of Sarah Ellis with whom he had six children –
Asher, Abraham, Esther, Jonas, Anna and Moses – was buried today at the Brady
Street Jewish Cemetery.
1845: Birthdate of German physician Mortiz
Litten, the son-in-law of pathologist Ludwig Traube who was the son of a Jewish
wine merchant.
1846: President James K. Polk signed the
Smithsonian Institution Act into law” which created the museum known as the
Smithsonian Institution of which the National Museum of American Jewish History
would eventually become an affiliate institution.
1851: Eighty-nine year old German theologian
Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus, the anti-Semite who authored "The Jewish
National Separation: Its Origin, Consequences, and the Means of its
Correction" passed away today.
1854: The Jewish Theological Seminary of
Breslau opened today.
1855: In Missouri, United Hebrew Congregation
bought a 48 by 90 feet (15 by 27 m) lot near the corner of Sixth and St.
Charles for $6,240 (equivalent to $196,000 in 2022)
1856(9th of Av, Tish’a B’Av
1856: In Stuttgart, Dr. Friedrich Heimerdinger
and his wife gave birth to General Erwin von Heimerdinger the father of
Gertrude von Heimerdinger who “was employed in the German Foreign Office as
assistant Chief of the Diplomatic Courier Section. An anti-Nazi, she secretly
arranged for special passes to enable diplomat Fritz Kolbe (the main Allied
source of intelligence) to make frequent trips to Switzerland to pass on information
to Allen Dulles, head of American O.S.S.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1858(30th of Av, 5618): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1858: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, Rabbi Herman Rubin
and Jeanette (Long) Rubine gave birth to Joseph Herman Rubin, the watchmaker
and traveling salesman who by 1918 had become a director of Peoples Trust
Company of Philadelphia and president of Members Building and Loan Association
while serving as director of Keneseth Israel and being married to Clara
Kaufman.
1859: The New
York Times
reported that “there has recently arrived in this City an eminent Jewish
traveler, a Mr. Benjamin, the object of whose life hitherto has been to explore
the interior of the Asiatic and African continents for the purpose of
ascertaining the condition, occupations, hopes,
of his Hebrew brethren.”
1861(4th of Elul, 5621): Parashat
Shoftim
1861: Fifty-nine year old Frederick Julius
Stahl, the German lawyer and political leader who converted to Christianity
when he was baptized as a Lutheran at the age of 17 passed away today.
1861: The New York Times reported that
“The past week Mr. J.J. Benjamin, a Moldavian traveler and Jew, has been in
this city from California. This gentleman's ruling passion appears to be to
find out the "Ten Lost Tribes," to accomplish which purpose, he
states that he has already traveled over a great portion of the civilized and
the uncivilized world. He thinks he has discovered a clue to those missing
tribes in Northern Africa and in Asia. Whether or not any such clue exists in
this Great Basin, the world will, perhaps, be informed of in due time.”
[Editor’s Note: Mr. Benjamin and J.J. Benjamin
are the same person. J.J. Benjamin was a
Rumanian born Jewish businessman who became historian. Reportedly he modeled himself as modern day
version of Benjamin of Tudela, the famous twelfth century Jewish traveler. He
signed many of his writing as Benjamin II.]
1861: Forty-year old Samuel (Isaac) Henry
Gluckstein a cigar maker from Dusseldorf became a naturalized citizen of the
United Kingdom today.
1861: Philadelphian Nathan Rosenfelt who was
later wounded at the Battle of Antietam, began serving with company A of the 72nd
Regiment.
1861: Henry Isaacs “enlisted with Company M” of
the 72nd Regiment today.
1861: Joshua Pickering enlisted in the Cameron
Dragoons a “largely Jewish regiment” that was “the first completed regiment of
cavalry ever enlisted in the United States during” the Civil War.
1861: Philadelphian James Comelien began
serving in the 5th Cavalry where he reached the rank of Lieutenant.
1862: In a letter written to President Lincoln
today, August Belmont persisted in his advocacy of a negotiated peace with the
Confederates.
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=70&subjectID=3
1863: In Mohilev, Russia, Selman Radnitz and
his wife gave Russian trained cantor Samuel Radnitz who was a solo singer at
the Metropolitan Opera House and the Chazan at Congregation Beth Elohim in
Brooklyn.
1864(8th of Av, 5624): Erev Tish’a
B’Av observed as the Army of the Potomac continues the siege of Petersburg that
has been going on for almost two months.
1865: In Philadelphia, Cornelia Rhine and Jules
A. Menken gave birth to Columbia University trained attorney Percival S.
Menken, the husband of Gertrud Micholl Davies who was dean of the Kent Law
School, Secretary of the Jewish Theological Seminary Association and auditor of
the West End Synagogue, Shaaray Tefila.
1868(22nd of Av, 5628): Approximately three
months after her last performance, Adah Isaacs Menken passed away while living
in Paris. The cause of death was most likely peritonitis, tuberculosis, or the
combined ravages of both. She was buried in the Jewish section of the
Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/30/1868/adah-isaacs-menken
1868:In Hamburg, Germany Moritz and Charlotte
Esther (Oppenheim) Warburg gave birth to Paul M Warburg, the scion of a German
banking family and husband of Nina J. Loeb who came to New York and became a partner in Kuhn, Loeb
& Company and an advocate of a “central bank” that took form as the Federal
Reserve Board for which her served as a member from 1914 to 1918; a decision
that led him to resign from all of his financial organizations prior to
accepting the position
1870(13th of Av, 5630): Fifty-nine-year-old
Samuel Lyons Moss, the Philadelphia born son of Rebecca Lyons and John Moss who
were married in 1797 and the husband of Isabelle Harris whom he married at New
Orleans in 1838 and with whom he had seven children passed away today in
Ontario, Canada.
1873: A group of Jewish teachers met at #142
East 40th Street in New York today and formed a committee to develop
an organizational plan for a Jewish Teacher’s Association. The plan will be submitted at a future meeting
the time of which has not been established.
1873: It
was reported today that Anshey Chesed has decided to hire Dr. Isaac M. Wise of
Cincinnati to serve as it rabbi. The
congregation has just completed the building of a sanctuary on the corner of Lexington
and 63rd at cost of $250,000.
1873: In Cleveland, Ohio, William Hocking and
Julia Pratt gave birth to William Ernest Hocking the Harvard professor who in
1936 expressed his opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine because it
“lacks rainfall” and it is “the immediate” cause “for turbulence on the part of
the Arabs” while attacking the Pro-Palestine Federation led by its President,
Charles Edward Russell.
1874:
Herbert Hoover, future President of the United States, was born in West
Branch, Iowa. Hoover is best remembered by Jews as the President who nominated
Benjamin Cardozo to the Supreme Court in 1932.
In his memoirs, Hoover makes only a brief reference to the
appointment. There is no mention about
the fact that he was Jewish. Hoover was
concerned that there might be opposition because appointing Cardozo would mean
that there would be two New Yorkers sitting on the High Court. His Congressional supporters advised him that
this would not be a problem. So, thanks
to a Quaker from Iowa, the Supreme Court found itself with two Jewish Justices
(Frankfurter being the other) at a time when anti-Semitism was on the rise in
the United States and Europe.
1874: Queen Victoria allowed Solomon Benedict
de Worms to use his Austrian title of Baron in Great Britain.
1874: Sherrif Honscheidt of McClean County,
Illinois, wrote a letter today addressed to George Walling, the Superintendent
of the Police in New York City containing information about the murder Benjamin
Nathan. According to the Sherriff, a
German Jew named Levy came to his house and confessed that he had killed
Nathan. He gave the address of the
crime; described the murder weapon; and claimed that the motive was
robbery. Levy says he had an accomplice
whose name he will only reveal once he is back in New York. He claims that he has confessed because “he
has had no rest nor peace of mind since he committed the crime.” The Sheriff is not sure if Levy is telling
the truth if he is just some “humbug” looking for a free trip to New York.
(Nathan was a prominent Jewish member of the business community. His shocking murder provided a great deal of
scandal, but never produced a perpetrator)
1875(9th of Av, 5635): Tish'a B'Av
1875(9th of Av, 5635:
Fifty-three-year-old Moses Eschner, the Bohemian born son of Sara and Abraham
Eschner and the husband of Caroline “Lottie” Caroline Eschner passed away today
in Philadelphia.
1875: The New York Times reported that
“the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem will be
celebrated throughout the world to-day by the conservative Jews, as a day of
mourning.”
1876: Rabbi Juilus (Yoel) Klein, the Hungarian
born son of Lena and Abraham Klein and his wife Deborah Klein gave birth to
Edward Klein.
1877(1st of Elul, 5637): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1877: In New York City, Alexander Sender
Jarmulowsky, the Polish born son of Moszko Jarmulowski and Feiga Jarmulowski
who was a founder of the Eldridge Street Synagogue and his wife Rebecca
Jarmulowsky gave birth to Harry Jarmulowsky,
https://www.eldridgestreet.org/history/sender-jarmulowsky-a-synagogue-founders-story/
1878(11th of Av, 5638) Parashat
Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1878: Birthdate of San Francisco native and
U.C. Berkley undergrad, Saul Epsteen, noted mathematician and author.
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183416909
1878: In Stettin master tailor Max Döblin and
his wife Sophie gave birth to prolific author Bruno Alfred Döblin who would
convert to Catholicism while living the life of a refugee in Los Angeles during
WW II.
1879: In Dresden, “Gustav and Amalie Pinthus”
gave birth to Dora Pinthus who married Oskar Michael Blumenthal and became Dora
Blumenthal the name under which she was murdered at Theresiendstadt Ghetto.
1879: Two days after she had passed away,
Catherine (Elisa) Levy, the wife of Lewis Levy with whom she had had seven
children – Esther, Jane, Abraham, Amelia, Frances, Samuel and Philip – was
buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1879: According to reports published today,
there were eight societies in Great Britain devoted to converting Jews to
Christianity and a dozen more in continental Europe devoted to the same
purpose. Together, these organizations
have a half million dollars to spend and employ 250 in this work. The London Society for the Propagation of
Christianity Among the Jews is the oldest and most prominent of these groups
headquartered in London. The society has
34 offices encompassing those cities in Europe, along the Mediterranean and in
Abyssinia that have large Jewish populations. [These societies had little
success. Based on anecdotal evidence,
most conversions took place in Western Europe and Britain for purposes of
social and economic progress.]
1879: It
was reported today that the Jews play an activity role in the philanthropic
activities in London since the synagogues of that city have give $3,460 to the
hospital fund which is supported by donations from all denominations, “except
perhaps the Catholics.”
1879: As various hotels and resorts began
excluding Jews one merchant published an ad today designed to further their
inclusion. “Although the Jews have been excluded from Manhattan Beach, they are
not prohibited on account of their religious principles from buying Humphrey’s
Parisian Diamonds. They are for sale
only at Humphrey’s Jewelry Store…Price list sent free.”
1880: In Romania, Abraham and Vera Landesco
gave birth to Alexander A. Landesco, the graduate of the University of
Wisconsin Law School and director of “relief work in East Europe for the Joint
Distribution Committee” after World War I who spent 25 years with Lazard Freres
and Company was the husband of Olga Spiegel Landesco.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/09/05/82146327.pdf
1881: Over 2,500 people attended the
corner-stone laying ceremony for the Home for the Aged and Infirmed in
Yonkers. Joseph E. Newberger gave the
opening remarks on behalf of the B’Nai Brith and was followed by Norton Otis,
the May of Yonkers.
1883: “The Outrages in Hungary” published today
described the violent anti-Semitic reaction to the acquittal of Jews who have
been standing trial at Nyireghyhaza on charges of ritual murder i.e. killing a
young Christian girl. Joseph Scharf, the
father of Moritz Scharf, has been attacked several times because his son’s
testimony during the trial. There have
been several outbreaks of arson aimed at the Jewish population of the town in
which the dead girl lived.
1883: August Rholing, notorious slanderer of
Jews and the Talmud brought charges of defamation against Rabbi Joseph Samuel
Bloch of Vienna
1883: The escape by Theodore Hoffman, who was
convicted of murdering Zife Marks, a Jewish peddler, was thwarted today.
1884: It was reported today that Jews in
England are seeking to have their government intervene on behalf of their
co-religionists in Romania who have been harmed by “the new hawking law.”
1884: It was reported today that Novoje Vremya, “the chief Jew-baiting
organ in Russia” has received a warning from the authorities to cease its
attacks on Jews.
1884 During today’s Earthquake in New York
City, Jews living on Ludlow Street threw their furniture out of their windows
and fearfully ran out of their houses carrying trunks, valises and mattresses.
1885: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and
Harvard Law School graduate who was a WW I veteran and a director of Big
Brothers in Chicago.
1886(9th of Av, 5646): Tish’a B’Av
1886: “The Fast of AB” published today
described “the fast of Ab or ‘black fast,’ as it is it is sometimes called
among the Jews” which “is one of the
most solemn occasions in the Hebrew worship and scrupulously observed by
orthodox Jews” because “it commemorates the destruction of the two temples of
Judea.”
1887: Abe Furst and Dr. Charles H. Rosenthal
both of Cincinnati, Ohio, each donated $10 to the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
1887: The Sanitarium for Hebrew Children are
providing another free excursion today for the poor children of the Lower East
Side.
1888: In Columbus, OH, Amelia and Max
Gunersheimer gave birth Allen Gundersheimer, the father of Robert and Lois Jean
Gundersheimer.
1889: “Bernard and Anna (Levy) Bloom” gave
birth to Columbia graduate Irving Mortimer Bloom the HUC trained Reform Rabbi
who led the “Hebrew Tabernacle in New York City” and used “radio talks,
articles, sermons and lecturers” to advocate for closer relations “between
Liberal Jews and Liberal non-Jews.”
1889: In Brooklyn, “Mary (Miriam) Natelson and
Samson Nateslon” gave birth to Ethiel Weiner who married Dr. Meyer Weiner and
gained fame as Ethel Weiner, the Brooklyn school teacher, “vice president of
the Jewish Teachers Association” and “a sister of the Rachel Natelson… who
collaborated with Henrietta Szold in founding Hadassah.”
1890; “Dr. Cyrus Adler” delivered the sixth in
a series of lectures sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary at Cooper
Union entitled “The Bible and Modern Discoveries with Special Reference to the
Geography of Egypt and Palestine” which was attended by a large number of
people including several ladies.
1890: “Waiting for A,B,C” published today
relied on information that first appeared in the Edinburgh to traces the
history of written alphabets including a listing of ancient inscriptions, one
of which is “the Hebrew text…known as the Siloam inscription” which “is very clearly of the age of Hezekiah”
approximately 700 BCE.
1890: Birthdate of Solomon Rosenthal, the
native of Vilnius who became a chess master.
1890 It has been determined that the Polish
Jews who fell ill yesterday were not victims of food poisoning. They had all drank coffee deliberately
poisoned by Mrs. Levy, the wife of a second-hand clothing proprietor. No reason has been given for her action. As
to the victims, Jacob Schmidt and Jacob Levenson will recover but two of the
mothers and their daughters are still in danger. The mass poisoning was made
possible by the fact these Jews cook and eat a communal meal at the Sabbath.
1891: “A Rabbi At Chautauqua” published today
described the incredulity of some Christians that Rabbi Gustav Gottheil is
scheduled to speak before this organization.
1891: “Caring For Jewish Immigrants” published
today described plans that leaders of the Jewish Alliance of America have to help their co-religionists arriving
in this country including helping them to settle in several states, find work
for those “who are skilled mechanics or laborers” and “to purchase cheap arable
lands for those” who want to farm.
1892: The SS
Kehrwider sailed from Hamburg today bound for New York carrying a
significant number of passengers who were poor Jews fleeing Poland and Russia.
1893: James O’Mara and William Davison sole the
pack of a Jewish peddler went he entered Patrick Devitt’s saloon in
Brooklyn. Two policemen arrived and
arrested the thieves.
1893: In St. Louis, MO, Dora Becker and Samuel
Noel Leventhal gave birth to Frank Levnethal, “a pioneer researcher in animated
cartoon and three dimensional motion picture techniques, the husband of
Elizabeth Leventhal and the father of Doris Leventhal
1893(28th of Av, 5653): Rabbi Naftali Zvi
Yehuda Berlin passed away today in Warsaw. Born in Mir, Russia, in 1816, he
“was also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym
Netziv.” Berlin “was…dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works
of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.”
ttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Naphtali-Zevi-Judah-Berlin
1895: “A score of charitable” people from
Brooklyn who are spending the summer at Tannersville, NY, hosted a fund raiser
for the benefit of the Hebrew Sanitarium.
1895: Lucian Sanial spoke first tonight at the
mass meeting in Union Square sponsored by several Jewish organizations held
“express sympathy with the locked-out hat and cap makers.”
1895: During the mass meeting at Walhalla Hall
on Orchard Street, it was announced that the strike by the tailors, most of
whom are Jewish has come to an end.
1895: Birthdate of Harold Reichman, the native
of Cincinnati, Ohio who at the age of 18 changed his name to Harry Richman –
the name under which he carved out a career as “a singer, actor, dancer,
comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer” who began
his film career in the classic “Putting on the Ritz.”
1896(1st of Elul, 5656): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1896: Birthdate Pediatrician Dorothy Wilkes
Weiss, the wife of Charles Wilkes who was active in Hadassah while living in
San Francisco.
1896: In New Haven, CT, “Jacob and Sonya
(Secoll) Sobol gave birth to WW I veteran Louis Sobol, the “Broadway Columnist”
who married Pearl Antman Sobol after the death of his first wife Leah Helen
Cantor Sobol with whom he had had one child – Natalie Muriel Sobol Spritzler.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/10/obituaries/louis-sobol-90-dies-broadway-columnist.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1986-02-11-8601090630-story.html
1896:
“Education in Germany” published today provided a statistical analysis by
religion of the Germans “attending the universities and other higher
educational institutions. For every
10,000 Protestants, 50 of them are students; for every 10,000 Roman Catholics,
32 are students: for every 10,000 Jews, 333 are students. “These figures
testify to the extreme value set on a university education by Jews in Germany
and explain how it is that young Hebrews are pressing into all the learned
professions in far greater proportion than their ratio to the entire population
of the country would warrant.” (While the Jews may have been elated about this,
many Germans thought the progress of the Jews had to be part of some evil plot
which, however irrationally, fueled the flames of anti-Semitism)
1897(12th of Av, 5657): Moses
Schloss, a native of Bavaria who has been a successful merchant in New York for
the past 50 years passed away today, which was his 79th birthday.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60A1EFE3B5D11738DDDA80994D0405B8785F0D3
1898: Edward David Tausig, the son of Austrian
Jewish immigrants Abba Abeles and wool broker Charles Tausig was promoted to
the rank of commander ask he became the skipper of the gunboat USS Bennington.
1898: In Wellington, Nevada, the sheriff is
about to close down the Occidental Colony Company which was organized and
operated by Jewish immigrants from Russia.
1898: Birthdate of Russia native Harry Louis
Kava, the NYU trained gynecologist and obstetrician
1898: One day after she had passed away. Phoebe
Winkel, the “wife of Israel J. Winkel” with she had five children – Joseph, Solomon,
Kate, Sarah and Leah – was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in
London.
1899: Birthdate of Magarete Heyman, who gained
famed as Grete Marks, the “German ceramic artist who founded the Haël Workshops
for Artistic Ceramics at Marwitz” and who, after the rise of Hitler, moved to
Jerusalem where she continued her artistic endeavors/
http://objekte.jmberlin.de/person/jmb-pers-233306
1900(15th of Av, 5660): Tu B’Av
1900: Birthdate of Philip Levine, the Russian
born American pioneer in the research “of serums and antibodies who discovered
the Rh factor in human blood.” (As reported by Peter B. Flint)
1901(25th of Av, 5661): Parashat
Re’eh
1901: “Andrew Lang” published today provides a
lengthy review his latest book Magic and Religion which includes a
lengthy attack on James Frazier’s theories about the origins of the stories
about the “last days of Christ” which Frazier say can be found in the rites and
rituals of other religions including the
Purim feast of the Jews.
1901: The Rogers Brothers and their company,
under the direction of Klaw and Erlanger are scheduled to appear at an
“entertainment for the benefit of the Seaside Sanitarium for Sick Hebrew
Children” to be held at Rockaway Park, L.I. today.
1901: It was reported today, that as part of
the “Sermon Seed Series” two volumes will be published next month including
“Sermons on the Psalms” and “Sermons on Isaiah.’
1902: Birthdate of Canadian Oscar winning
actress Norma Shearer who converted to Judaism in 1927 when she married movie
mogul Irving Thalberg.
1902: in Podgorze, Kraków's Jewish quarter,
Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak, a devout Hasidic scholar gave
birth to Kurt Siodmak who gained fame as “novelist and screenwriter” Curt
Siodmak.
1903: The New York Times featured a
review of a compendium of the writings of Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler entitled Studies
in Jewish Literature.
1904: Judge Alton B. Parker accepted the
Democratic Party nomination for President with a speech deemed as a fiasco by
historians in which he was highly critical of the very popular incumbent Teddy
Roosevelt who enjoyed overwhelming support among Jewish voters for several
reasons starting with his handling of a German anti-Semite who had come to New
York while he Police Commissioner to his response to Russian Pogroms.
1905(9th of Av, 5665): Tish’a B’Av
1905:
The Russians and the Japanese begin peace talks at Portsmouth under the
watchful eye of President Theodore Roosevelt.
The talks would bring an end to the Russo-Japanese War. The Russians were humiliated by the
defeat. The Czar did make some half-hearted
attempts at democratic reform which was encouraging to the Jews in the emerging
Russian middle class. At the same time,
the Slavophiles, extreme Russian nationalists also sought power; trying to
convince Nicholas II that Russia would only find greatness when it had rid
itself of all Western and foreign (i.e. Jewish) influences. In the end, nothing changed for the better
and the Communists would come to power thirteen years later. Russian
anti-Semitism gave the Japanese an edge in fighting the war. The Russian government had refused to take
responsibility for pogrom. It had blocked American attempts to investigate the
treatment of the Russian Jews. When war broke between the Russians and the
Japanese, several American Jewish financiers were instrumental in insuring that
Japanese war underwritten which meant that the Japanese would have money to
fight the war.
1906: Birthdate of Abie Bain, the native of St.
Petersburg, Russia who reportedly began his boxing career in the United States
at the age of 12 as a flyweight but boxed as middleweight for most of his
career except when he stepped up to Light Heavyweight class to fight Maxie
Rosenbloom.
1907: At Cowes, Lord Rothschild is one of the
notable guests aboard the famed yacht Margaritta one of only two vessels of
interest at this fabled nautical event.
1908: It was reported today, that thanks to the
efforts of Deputy Police Commissioner Frederick H. Burgher, Sigmund Schwartz,
President of the United Citizens Peddlers’ Association, can assure his members
that they can sell their wares in a six block area on Park Avenue “from 110th
to 116th Streets” with two flocks for the Italians, two blocks for
the Jews and two blocks for the Greeks” because “it would never do to mix them”
since “ a riot would break out in no time.”
1909: “New Shubert Theatre” published today
described the plans of Thirty-ninth Street Company “of which Lee Shubert is the
head” to build a new theatre “opposite the Casino Theater” which will have two
balconies, cost approximately $125,000 and “be called the Shubert Theatre.”
1910: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that
two valuable silver cups had been stolen from the Sons of Israel Synagogue in
Camden, NJ.
1910: Birthdate of Veit Klein, who in 1942 was
transported from Prague to Ujazdow where he was murdered.
1910(5th of Av, 5670): Portland, OR,
banker Benjamin Cohen passed away today.
1911: Samuel Gompers, President of the American
Federation of Labor, headed a delegation of men interested in labor
publications who appeared before the Congressional commission on second-class
mail matter to protest against the raise in the rates.
1911: Birthdate of American playwright Jerome
Chodorov, the New York native who is the brother of playwright Edward Chodorov.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE6DB1030F937A2575AC0A9629C8B63
1912(27th of Av, 5672): Parashat
Re’eh
1912:
Approximately 75 people attended services at the Social Hall of the Forest
House in Kennebunkport, Maine, led by Rabbi Bernard. G. Ehrenreich of
Montgomery, Alabama.
1912: Pitcher Barney Pely “known as ‘the
Yiddish Curver’” appeared in his last major league as a member of the
Washington Senators of the American League
1913: The Second Balkan War comes to an end
with the signing of the Treaty of Bucharest. As a result of the war, the final
boundaries for the modern Greek state were finally established. This led to an end of the “protected status”
many Balkan Jews had enjoyed under Ottoman rule as they became citizens of Greece.
1913: One day after he had passed away, Myer
Friedland, the husband of Eva Friedland with whom he had two children – Martha
and Annie – was buried today at “the Belfast Jewish Cemetery in Northern
Ireland.”
1913: The treaty ending the Second Balkan War
signed today gave the town of Monastir, which had been home to a Jewish
community since Roman times became part of Serbia and was renamed Bitola
although the local Jews continued to refer to it by its Ottoman name.
1914: During WW on the Eastern Front, the
Russian Army reached Tilsit.
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sovetsk/Tilsit_Jews.html
1914: Isaac and Annie Muss gave birth to
“Jewish community leader and builder” Louis Muss who built houses, apartments
and shopping centers in Brooklyn, Queens, Chicago and St. Louis” and who was an
active alum of Yishiva University while raising three children – Henry,
Elizabeth and Dorothy – with his wife, “the former Rita Lane.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/05/17/140560962.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1914: Samuel Prince, a former Assemblyman from
the east side and a labor agitator passed away and includes a bequest of fifty
dollars to Samuel Gompers for use in supporting strikers in Colorado.
1915: During the Gallipoli campaign, which saw
the appearance of the Zion Mule Corps, forces under Mustfa Kemal (who would
gain fame as Ataturk)) defeated the Allies during the Battle of Sari Bair.
1916: Oscar S. Straus and Henry Morgenthau, the
two previous U.S. Ambassadors to Turkey were sitting at the speakers table with
Abram I. Elkus, the latest appointee to the position at a dinner at the
Fruendschaft Society where the attendees expressed “satisfaction and pride in
the service rendered to the nation by the Jews.”
1916: Chief Rabbi of Salonica received a telegram
from the Minister of Interior stating the government has taken steps to ensure
tranquility for the Jews on Corfu, after a blood libel accusation arose.
1916: It was reported today that in Warsaw
which is now under German rule “death from starvation” is so prevalent among
the Jews, “that Jewish mothers feel happy to see their nursing babies die”
because it puts an end to their suffering and that even the “wealthiest” Jews
“cut off their daughters’ hair and sell it to be able to buy indispensable thing
like bread for their dying children.”
1916: It was reported today that a commission
has been to Switzerland to seek help in maintaining the soup kitchens for the
Jews in Warsaw, but that the real hope is that American Jews will send aid
because “should America not aid” them, the Jews of Warsaw “will be lost.”
1917: Dr. Reuben Blank sent a telegram today
from Petrograd to Lucien Wolf in London that “in the press and proclamations”
the “extreme Russian reactionaries, the extreme revolutionaries and the Black Hundreds”
“go so far as to throw upon the Jews the entire responsibility for the war and
for the obstacles in the way of a peace with Germany.”
1917: The Central Committee of Council of
Workmen and Soldiers” having learned “of the revival of anti-Semitic activity
in the northwestern and southwestern provinces” dispatched “fifteen delegates
to the affect districts to counteract the agitation.”
1917: “Professor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard,
the assistant to the Secretary of War, who went abroad recently as a member of
a semi-official commission” that sought to determine “the condition of the Jews
of Palestine” returned to Washington, D.C.
1917: In Berlin, “five orthodox representative
of the Jewish community resigned because of the appointment of a radical reformer,
Dr. Benzion Kellerman, as a rabbi of the synagogue of the South-eastern
district.
1918: During the Battle of Amiens for which
General John Monash was the commanding field officer, the French re-took the
town of Montdidier.
1918: Russia born, West Point graduate Captain
(brevet) Myer L. Casman began serving at the Engineer Officers’ Training School
at Camp Humphreys, VA.
1919(14th of Av,
5679): The
Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1919: Today, twenty year old New York native
Barnett Robert Brickner who would serve as
the
rabbi at Anshe Chesed for 33 years, “married Rebbeca Ena Aronson, a co-worker
at the Bureau of Jewish Education” with whom he had two children – “Joy Marion
and Arthur James Balfour Brickner.”
1920: The Turkish government renounced its
sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael and recognized the British mandate.
1920: “Dr. Otis A Glazebrook, the United States
Consul in Jerusalem,” who arrived in the United States today on a leave of
absence “said that the British Government had a difficult problem to handle in
its mandate over Palestine and the restoration of the country to the Jews.”
1920:
Birthdate of Basketball coach William Red Holzman When he retired, Red
Holzman was the second winingnest coach in NBA history with 696
victories in regular season play, mostly with the New York Knickerbockers. His
Knick teams won NBA championships in l970 and l973. Red was elected to the
Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach in 1986. Incidentally, the only man ahead of
Holzman on the all-time win list was another Jew, Red Auerbach of the Boston
Celtics.
1920: In London “Eight year old Jewish chess
wonder” Samuel Rzeschewski “played simultaneous games against twenty strong
amateur player at the Gambit Chess rooms” his evening and won 18 of he games
and having two end in a draw.
1920(26th of Av, 5680): Eighty-four year old
pioneer physician Adam Politzer and a founder of otology passed away today.
http://www.politzersociety.org/content.php?conid=687
1921: Eight days she had passed away, Rebecca
Linneweil, the wife of Salomon Linneweil and the mother of Henriette Linneweil
was buried today at London’s Edmonton Adath Yisroel Jewish Cemetery.
1921: In Wichita, KS, Harry Weinstein, a sales
manager and the former Bess Brodach, an actress gave birth to Brooklyn raise
Jack Bertand, the husband of Evelyn Horowitz, who was a U.S. Navy Lieutenant
during WW II and a graduate of Columbia Law School best know for being “a legal
scholar and famously independent federal judge in Brooklyn who led the legal
system into an era of mass tort litigation, changing the way huge classes of
people claiming injuries from toxins, pollutants and faulty products could get
redress in the courts…” (As reported by Laura Mansnerus)
1922: “Forty Jews, sentenced for various
political offenses were executed by the Rumanian military authorities despite
the recent amnesty decree by the King, say a report today by the local Magyar
Orszag.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/11/99054950.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1922: Columbia graduate and JTS ordained rabbi,
Harry Cohen who led several congregations including Rodef Shalom in Newport
News, VA married Basya Katz today.
1923: In Carslbad, Dr. Glickson, a delegate to
the Thirteenth Zionist Congress denounced the policy of the British
administration in Palestine toward the Jews of the country and toward the
Zionist movement. He declared that "the Government hinders the upbuilding
of the Jewish national home."
1923: The American delegation to the Thirteenth
Zionist Congress cabled the newly installed U.S. President, Calvin Coolidge, “a
message of greeting” including wishes for
a “successful administration. The
Zionists…recalled that the President has on various occasions expressed his
admiration of the effort to re-establish Palestine as the Jewish homeland.
1923: JTA does not publish its daily news
bulletin today because it is the National Day of Mourning in memory of
President Warren G. Harding.
1924(10th of Av, 5684): Tish’a B’Ab
(observed)
1925: More 30,000 members of the ILGWU held a
rally today at Yankee Stadium. The Union
was dominated by Jewish members and leaders including Morris Sigman the
president from 1923 to 1928 who battled communists and bosses to improve the
lot the working men and women of America.
1926(30th of Av, 5686): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1927: Today it
was discovered that Matt Shortt of the Brooklyn Wanders had broken a bone in
the last game played by the Palestine Maccabees in the tour of the United
States.
1928: Joseph
J. Boris , the editor of “Who’s Who in Colored America” received a letter from
W.E.B Du Bois.
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b046-i391
1928: In Brooklyn, “businessman” Herman Sabin
and pharmacist turned homemaker “Rachel (Davidson) Sabin” gave birth to drummer
Ira Sabin, the founder of JazzTimes
magazine. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1928: In Philadelphia, PA, Gitte (later
Katherine "Katie" Winokur; 1) and Joseph Tisch gave birth to Edwin
John Fisher who gained fame as Eddie Fisher, the “crooner” and teen-age heartthrob in the
1950’s who dumped Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor who in turn dumped
him to marry Richard Burton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/arts/25fisher.html
1929(4th of Av, 5689): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1929(4th of Av, 5689): Seventy-five
year old Aletta Jacobs, the female trailblazer who followed in her father’s
footsteps and became a physician and was an active suffragette passed away
today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-aletta-henri-x00eb-tte
1929(4th of Ave, 5689): Seventy-five
year old Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs “the first woman to attend a Dutch University
officially and the first female physician in the Netherlands” passed away
today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jacobs-aletta-henriette
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jacobs-aletta-henri-x00eb-tte
1929: Two days before his 17th
birthday, historian Max Dimont who had sailed to the United States in steerage
aboard the SS Berengaria was discharged from the hospital on Ellis Island and
begin the trip to his new home in Cleveland, Ohio with the rest of his family.
1929: “The Awful Truth” a comedy filmed by
cinematographer David Abel was released today in the United States.
1930: The fourth world congress of the Zionist
Revisionists opened in Prague today under the presidency of Vladimir
Jabotinsky. The Revisionists constitute the Opposition in the World Zionist
Organization.
1931: “Protest against the spiritual depression
in American religious life was voiced at the convention of the Rabbinical
Association of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva
College which began” today at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York.
1932(8th of Av, 5692): Erev Tish’a
B’Av
1932: In today’s diary entry, 18 year old
Hermann Pressman, who would survive the Holocaust” described spending his
Sunday evening with friends at a Berlin café.
1932: In Berlin “conductor and composer Walter
Goehr” and wife gave birth to “British composer and professor Peter Alexander
Goehr.
https://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/alexander-goehr
1933: In Amsterdam, 225 German-Jewish children,
chiefly from the Rhine region, arrived to stay with Dutch Jewish families.
1933: Eighteen year old Heddy Lamarr married
“Austrian military arms merchant and munitions manufacturer” Friedrich Mandl
who “was reputed to be the third richest man in Austria.
1933: Der Ernes, the Yiddish
language newspaper published in the Soviet Unon, reported that a farmer named
Leiser Kabakoff, had been expelled from his collective in the Crimea for his
efforts to get other farmers to refrain from working on the Sabbath.
1934(29th of Av,5694):
Forty-three-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney Benjamin L
Rubinsohn, the president of the Foster Home for Jewish Orphans and chairman of
the United Palestine Appeal Region 4 passed away today in Philadelphia at the
Jewish Hospital.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/08/11/95490734.html?pageNumber=13
1935(11th of Av, 5695): Shabbat
Nachamu on the same day that Pierre Laval, the future French Nazi collaborator
“warned that a dictatorship in France was not unlikely if his economic measures
failed to be enforced.”
1936: At Geneva, “the Polish delegation to the
World Jewish Congress charged early today in a statement present at the third
day’s session that Poland’s 3,500,000 Jews were being terrorized and made
paupers. (Editor’s note – the rising tide of Polish anti-Semitism during the
1930’s might help to explain the ease with which her Jewish population was all
but wiped in the Shoah)
1936: It was reported today that economist
Jacob Lesthiesky estimated that “Nazism has reduced 20 to 22 per cent of All
Germans to dependence on relief and 20 per cent of the Jews have already
liquidated their affairs in preparation for emigration” and that Polish
economist Dr. Arjeh Tartakower estimated that 200,000 Jews in world are being
compelled to emigrate due to “economic or political pressure.”
1937: The Weizmann
policy on the partition of Palestine took textual form today in the draft of a
resolution submitted to the political resolutions committee of the World
Zionist Congress here. This body, elected today, started what promises to be an
all-night secret debate on this resolution, particularly on the last two and most
crucial points.
1937(3rd of
Elul, sixty-eight-year-old Russian born opera singer Aaron Kaplan who “had sung
at Covent Garden in London, the Opera Comique in Paris and the Metropolitan in
New York: and who for “twenty years
served as cantor for Temple Judea passed away today leaving behind a widow,
four daughters and two sons.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/08/11/94411017.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1937(3rd of
Elul, 5697): Seventy-four
year old Sarah Nathan, the Philadelphia born daughter of “Elvira S. and David
Hays Solis,” the wife of Edgar Joshua Nathan and mother of Edgar Jr., Rosalie
and Emily Nathan passed away today in Mamaroneck, NY.
1938: A group of Arabs carried out a daring day
time robbery of the Barclays Bank at Nablus.
The proceeds of the action are thought to be a source of funding for the
on-going wave of Arab terror and violence which claimed more Jewish victims
today when a car filled with Jewish workers approaching an orange grove near
Hadera struck a land mine and a Jewish cart driver was wounded by sniper fire
as he drove along the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
1938: Three Hebrew language dailies, including Davar,
published editorials condemning violence that was traced back to the
Revisionists wing of the Zionist movement.
1938: Nuremberg Synagogue is burnt down.
1939: Bernhard Maissner (also known as Bejrich
Bernhard Majzner) was forced to move to Bentschen, Poland before being shipped
to Treblinka where “later he was declared to have perished.”
1940(6th of Av, 5700) Shabbat Chazon
1940: The government of Rumania passed
anti-Jewish racial laws.
1941: The Red Army counterattacked invading
Nazi forces near Yelnya, a city in which almost three hundred Jews were living
in 1939.
1942(27th of Av, 5702): Twenty-seven year old
Berta Samuel who had been shipped to Auschwitz from Drancy died at the Nazi
death camp today.
1942: This was the first of thirteen days when over 40,000 Jews were shipped
from Lvov to the death camp at Belzec.
By the end of the month, another 36,000 Jews from Lvov and its
surrounding area would be shipped to Belzec where they would meet a similar
fate.
1943(9th of Av, 5703): Tish'a B'Av
1943(9th of Av, 5703): Twenty-seven more Jews
were found in the ‘Aryan' portion of the ghetto in Warsaw and were shot.
1943(9th of Av, 5703): Seventy-five
year old Boston merchant and credit union pioneer Felix Vorenberg, the Chairman
of the Board of the Gilchrist Company and who with fellow merchant Edward A.
Filene, the founder of the Massachusetts Credit Union, “the first of its kind”
in the United States and who was the husband of the former Rose Frankenstein the
father Frank Vorenberg, the President of the Gilchrist Company passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/08/11/87422916.html?pageNumber=19
1944: In Manhattan, “Dr. Abraham Leff, a
psychiatrist, and the former Rose Levy, a pharmacist” gave birth to Eugene Joel
Leff, the lawyer who got justice for the victims of Love Canal. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1945(1st of
Elul, 5705): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1945: A day after the
United States dropped the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, the Japanese government sent
word through diplomatic channels that it would accept the terms of the Potsdam
Conference which meant that WW II was close to coming a close.
1945(1st of
Elul, 5705): Staff Sargent Jack Winer, he “only son of a Jewish immigrant
mother from Russia” and “a navigator for the 345th Bombardment Group, was
killed during an air raid today days before the surrender of Japan” after which
he was reinterred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in 1949 and
erroneously “ended up with a cross on his headstone instead of the Star of
David.”
1946: Kitty “Carlisle married playwright and
theatrical producer Moss Hart today.
1947(25th of Av, 5707): “Members of
an armed band wearing Arab dress opened an unprovoked attack tonight in a
Jewish cafe on the bank of the Yarkon River at Tel Aviv, killing four Jews and
wounding ten, seven of them seriously/”
1948(5th of Av, 5708): Sixty-five year old
Viennese native Nathan Eibschutz, the “son of Rabbi Rahmiel Eibschutz,” “a
founder of Israel Zion Hospital,” the President and Treasurer of the Night and
Day Press printing house and the husband of Ceclia Friedman Eibschutz, of
blessed memory and the former Monya W. Tepperman, passed away today in
Manhattan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/08/11/85304588.pdf
1948: In another
example of how a Jew helped to create American pop culture, Allen Funt's
"Candid Camera" TV debuted on
1948: A concert was held in Tel Aviv attended
by Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and Moshe Sharett.
1949(15th of Av, 5709): Tu B’Av
1949: “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby directed by
George Sherman and produced by Leonard Goldstein premiered today in Chicago,
Illinois.
1949(15th of Av, 5709): Yiddish
author and Belarus native, Yosef or Joseph Tunkel who used “he pen name Der
Tunkler” passed away today and was then “buried in the New Mount Carmel
Cemetery.
1950: “Sunset Boulevard” a film noir set in
Hollywood directed by Billy Wilder who also co-authored the script, with music
by Franz Waxman and co-starring Erich von Stroheim was released in the United
States by Paramount Pictures.
1953: “The Caddy” a Martin and Lewis comedy
directed by Norman Taurog and a script co-authored by Danny Arnold was released
in the United States today.
1954: Today, Dr. Joseph Alexander, “a
specialist in the study and treatment of
lung diseases” who played college football at Syracuse and who in 1925 “ was
the first player to sign with the New York Giants football team when it was
awarded an NFL franchise “was elected to the National Football Hall of Fame…”
1957(13th of Av, 5717): Parashat
Vaetchanan
1957: “The Rising of the Moon,” an Irish
anthology film featuring Harold Golblatt in “A Minute’s Wait” was released in
Ireland today by Warner Bros.
1957: Birthdate of Vienna native Danielle
Spera, the journalist who brought new life to the Jewish Museum of Vienna when
she began serving as director Vienna in 2010 and who had converted to Judaism
(her father was Jewish but her mother was Catholic), married “psychoanalyst
Martin Gilbert” with whom she is raising “three children – Samuel, Rachel and
Deborah – in a traditional Jewish home.
1959: In
New York City, Brenda Olivia “Mardi” Nowak and Lewis Arquette gave birth Emmy
nominated actress Rosanna Lisa Arquette who proved she could work “behind” the
camera when directed the documentary “Searching of Debra Winger
1959: Today, the World Jewish Congress was told
that “Premiere Nikita S. Khrushchev has indicated a willingness to discuss the
condition of Jews in the Soviet Union when visits the United States next
month.”
1960: Sander Levin and Vicki Schlafer gave birth to
Michigan congressman Andrew “Andy” Levin the husband of Mary Freeman
1960: In East Bergholt, Suffolk, “screenwriter,
novelist and journalist” Frederic Raphael gave birth to English artist Sarah
Natasha Raphael.
1960: The original “Ocean’s 11” directed and
produced by Lewis Milestone, co-staring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop and
featuring Norman Fell was released in the United States today.
1962: President Kennedy's Secretary of State
Dean Rusk criticized Daniel Schorr's actions in a diplomatic cable today for a
checkbook journalism story in which, “Schorr involved himself in a matter which
was far beyond his private or journalistic responsibilities and proceeded
amateurishly in a matter filled with greatest danger for all concerned.” (This
was neither the first time nor the last time that Schorr would draw the ire of
a government official including those in Washington and Moscow.
1964: 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
Gruening 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(12th of Av, 5725): Eighty-eight year old
“specialist in criminal law and a founder of the doctrine of international
criminal law” Emil Stanisław Rappaport passed away today.
http://www.bornglorious.com/person/?pi=/m/09v85c4
1966: “The Idol,” produced by Joseph E. Levine
and written by Patterson NJ native and West Virginia football player Millard
Lampell the blacklisted television and movie screenwriter whose first brush
with social protest appears to have come from songwriting with Pete Seeger and
Woody Guthrie was released today in the United States.
1969(26th of Av, 5729): Seventy-two
year old Arthur J “Art” Strauss also
known as Dutch Strauss the fullback and running back for Phillips College
before turning pro with the Toledo Marrons and the Kansas City Blues passed
away today.
1970(8th of Av, 5730): Erev Tish’a
B’Av
1970(8th of Ave, 5730): Eighty-two-
year-old Russian born Benjamin S. Snyder, the husband of Clara Rose Lazarus
Snyder with whom he had three children – Sylvia, Ruth and Milton – passed away
today in Gloucester County, NJ after which he was buried at the Montefiore
Cemetery in Abington Township, PA.
1970: “Diary of a Mad Housewife,” the film
version of the novel by Sue Kaufman, starring Richard Benjamin was released in
the United States today by Universal Pictures.
1972(30th of Av, 5732): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1972(30th of Av, 5732):
Eighty-year-old Doris Epstein Unterberg Powell, the New York born daughter of
Israel and Bella E. Epstein Unterberg and the husband of Milton J. Powell
passed away today after which she was buried at the Beth Olom Cemetry in
Ridgewood, NY.
1972: In
“Who Speaks for The Jewish Leaders” published today Rabbi David Greenberg of
the Scarsdale Synagogue takes issue with three Jewish leaders who support
President Nixon because of his policy on Israel, saying that “it is erroneous
to assume that Jews vote on the basis of Middle East Policy alone” and that
“the Government of Israel nor the self-styled American Jewish leaders direct
Jewish citizens when they enter the voting booth” because Jews “are directed by
their own moral convictions about what is right for America and for the world.”
1973: It was reported today that the “national
commander of the Jewish War Veterans” has described “the Watergate episode as
the culmination of a decade of moral delinquency in the United States.” (JTA)
1976: In Toronto, the Paralympic Games in which
volleyball player Hagai Zamier earned a Gold Medal, came to a closes.
1976(14th of Av, 5736):
Fifty-five-year-old Chicago born and University of Chicago and Northwestern
Miriam Albert the executive director of B’nai B’rith Women and daughter of
Blanche Albert passed away today in Washington, D.C.
1977: “The Kentucky Fried Movie,” a comedy
written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker was released in the
United States today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/11/archives/miriam-albert.html?searchResultPosition=2
1979: “Americathon” a comedy produced by Joe
Roth and starring Harvey Korman and Peter Riegert was released today in the
United States today.
1981(10th of Av, 5741): Seventy-five year old
Yeruham Cohen, an Arabic-speaker of Yemeni origin who was “an early Israeli
undercover soldier” passed away today. He was a top aide to the commander of
Israel's underground forces during the country's war for independence in 1948
and also belonged to a unit whose members disguised themselves as Arabs to
infiltrate enemy lines. Mr. Cohen is
most famous for his acquaintance with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, whom he met
in 1948 during the Israeli war for independence while Israeli forces encircled
Egyptian troops the southern Negev. According to historical accounts, Mr. Cohen
saw the future President while watching the Egyptians retreat, shouted and ran
toward him, and they shook hands warmly.
1980(28th of Av, 5740): Seventy-four year old
Karl Wolf, a native of Austria who was the husband of Margit Wolf passed away
today in Haifa.
1981: Pitcher Bob Tufts made his major league
debut with the San Francisco Giants.
1982: Today President Ronald Reagan nominated
UCLA trained attorney Alex, Kozinski, the Bucharest born son of Holocaust
survivors to serve on the United States Claims Court.
1983(1st of Elul, 5743): Rosh
Chodesh Elul
1983: “Jewish husbands who refuse to grant
their wives divorces under Jewish religious law will be barred from obtaining
civil divorces under a measure signed today by Governor Cuomo.”
1986: A Broadway revival of “Me and My Girl”
featuring George S. Irving in “his Tony nominated performance as Sir John”
opened today at the Marquis Theatre.
1988:
After opening in Australia, “Crimes of the Future,” “a Canadian sci-fi
film” directed by, produced by, written by, filmed by and edited by David
Conenberg was release today in the United States.
1989(9th of Av, 5749): Tish’a B’Av
1989: Birthdate of Ben Sahar, Israeli born
football (soccer) star.
1990: “Flaterliners” a sci-fi thriller directed
by Joel Schumacher, the son of Swedish Jewess, was released throughout the
United States today by Columbia Pictures.
1990: Eighty-two year old Martha Dodd Stern,
the daughter of William Dodd, FDR’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, who
became an anti-Nazi, passed away today.
(As reported by Glenn Fowler)
1991(30th of Av, 5751): Shabbat and
Rosh Chodesh Elul
1991(30th of Av, 5751): Eighty-five
year old Hans Jacob Polostky, the native of Zurich and German educated
orientalist who made Aliyah in 1935 to escape the Nazis and became an award
winning Professor at Hebrew University passed away today.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13173/medilangrevi.8.1994.0001?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn as an
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme court.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/10/1993/ruth-bader-ginsburg
1994(3rd of Elul, 5754): Paul
Grossman, who had been married to Shirley Gorssman and was a member of
Larchmont Temple in Larmchont, NY passed away today
1997: The
New York Times book section featured reviews of books by Jewish authors
and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Secret Channels: The Inside Story of
Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations by Mohamed Heikal and Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a
Christian America by Elliott Abrams
1997(7th of Av, 5757): Sixty-three year old
Professor George Zames “known for his fundamental contributions to the theory
of robust control” and who was one of the Jews saved by Japanese Consul Senpo
Sugihara passed away today.
http://www.autsubmit.com/editorials/ed34_3.html
2000(9th of Av, 5760): Tish’a B’Av
2000(9th of Av, 5760): Pauline
(Leibner) Kelein, the widow of Philip Klein with whom she had three children –
Estelle, Doris and Harold – passed away today.
2000: At the U.S. Olympic swimming
trials in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dara Torres swam the 100-meter butterfly in a
time of 57.86.
2001: “American Pie 2” a sequel to “American
Pie” with a story by David H. Steinberg and Adam Herz who also wrote the
screenplay and co-starring Eugene Levy was released in the United States today
by Universal Studios.
2002(2nd of
Elul, 5762): Parashat Shoftim
2002: Thirty-one year
old Yafit Herenstein was shot in her home by members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades
2003: “Shattered Glass” a biopic based on the
fraudulent journalistic career of Stephen Glass premiered today at the Toronto
International Film Festival today.
2003: The
Sunday New York Times book section includes reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including When
the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh Hashanah Tale, Erica
Silverman’s adaption of a story
by Sholom Aleichem illustrated by Matthew Trueman, Lay Back the Darkness, a collection of
poems by Edward Hirsch a
Midwestern man with a Jewish
heritage and Ronit Matalon's novel Bliss
translated by Jessica Cohen that “focuses on Israel's two pains: the kind
it suffers and the kind it inflicts”
2003(12th of Av, 5763): Sixteen year
old Haviv Dadon was “killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell fired from
Lebanon.”
2004(23rd of Av, 5764): Eighty-eight-year-old
Floryne Eleanor Gorov, the Baltimore born daughter of Hattie Rose Cohn and
Abraham Benjamin Cohn and the wife of Jack gorov passed away to day in
Farmington, Michigan, after which she was buried in Ferndale, Michigan.
2004: Today, President Jacques Chirac condemned
the desecration of 60 Jewish graves in the city of Lyon, the latest in a wave
of attacks on Jewish and Muslim cemeteries in France.”
2004: In “Resolutions by Exchanges Of (Ooof!
Kapow!) Ideas” published today, Neil Genzlinger reviews “Blue Collar,” “a pair
of Israel Horovitz plays.
2005: “Escape:
Human Cargo,” co-starring Sasson Gabai was broadcast for the first time in
Hungary.
2005: “In his first speech before the Knesset
following his resignation, Netanyahu spoke of the necessity for Knesset members
to oppose the proposed disengagement” from Gaza.
2006(16th of Av, 5766): IDF Staff Sergeant Kobi
Idan, 26, from Eilat was killed and at least 16 other soldiers were wounded,
nine of them seriously, in the clashes with Hezbollah.
2006: In “Party No. 3” published today David
Brooks “imagined a moderate McCain-Lieberman Party in opposition to both major
parties, which he perceived as polarized and beholden to special interests.
2006: Twenty-four year old Angelo Frammartino,
from Monte Rotondo, Italy was stabbed to death by an Arab terrorist in
Jerusalem.
2006: During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict,
Israeli authors, David Grossman, Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua spoke at a press
conference calling upon the government to agree to a ceasefire as a basis for
talks toward a negotiated solution, describing further military action as
"dangerous and counterproductive" and expressing particular concern
for the Lebanese government. [Editor’s note - Two days later, Grossman’s
20-year-old son Uri, a staff sergeant in an armored unit, was killed by an
anti-tank missile during an IDF operation in southern Lebanon shortly before
the ceasefire.]
2007: The Indianapolis Colts placed tight end
Mike Seidman on the injured reserve list
2007: Colonel Giora "Hawkeye" Epstein
“was the primary subject of the "Desert Aces" episode of The History
Channel series Dogfights that aired for the first time tonight.”
2007 (26th of Av): On the secular
calendar commemoration of Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson’s, the third Rebbe of the Chabad dynasty, popularly known as
the "Tzemach Tzedek," departure from Petersburg after having
successfully prevented the government's disruption of traditional Jewish life.
2008(9th of Av, 5768):
Tish'a B'Av
2008: The New York Times book section
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish
interest including The Challenge:
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power by Jonathan
Mahler, My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates, American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story
of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem by Jane
Fletcher Geniesse and Kingmakers:The Invention of the Modern Middle East
by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.
2008: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Jewish
Agency has released a statement that some 200 Jews living near the town Gori,
on the South Ossetia border, were advised to evacuate to the Georgian capital
after the outbreak of hostilities with Russia two days ago.
2008(9th of Av, 5768): Howard G. Minsky, a former Hollywood talent agent and the producer of the
movie “Love Story,” passed away today at the age of 94. Mr. Minsky began his
career during the silent-film era and sold reels of film door to door before
breaking into the Hollywood scene. He worked as an executive for 20th Century Fox
and Paramount Pictures and as a talent agent for the William Morris Agency. In
the 1960s he left the agency to produce the romantic drama “Love Story,”
written by one of his clients, Erich Segal. Released in 1970, it became a
blockbuster, winning five Golden Globes, including best picture, and an Academy
Award for music.
2009: The exhibit, Bagels & Barbeque: The
Jewish Experience in Tennessee which documents the history of Jewish
immigration to Tennessee opened at Chattanooga State, the College on the River.
2009: Opening of the
Tzfat [Safed] Klezmer Festival
2009 (20th
of Av): On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson,
father of the seventh and last Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson. A brave and educated soul, he after being imprisoned by the Soviets
for thwarting the Communists attempts to wipe out Jewish civilization.
2009: Israeli
aircraft bombed tunnels early today along the Gaza Strip border with Egypt,
Hamas officials and witnesses said.
2010(30th of Av,
5770): David L. Wolper, an award-winning movie and
television producer best known for the groundbreaking mini-series “Roots,”
passed away today at the age of 82. Mr.
Wolper produced hundreds of films and television shows, including the hit 1983
mini-series “The Thorn Birds,” a romantic drama set in Australia, with Richard
Chamberlain and Rachel Ward. But the work with which he was most closely
associated was “Roots,” shown in eight parts on ABC in 1977. The saga of an
African-American family’s journey from Africa to slavery and emancipation,
based on the best-selling book by Alex Haley, “Roots,” with a cast including
LeVar Burton, Ben Vereen and many others, was not the first mini-series, but it
was the first to have a major influence not just in the ratings but in American
culture. One of the highest-rated entertainment programs in television history,
it went on to win nine Emmy Awards and ignited a lively national discussion
about race. Another of Mr. Wolper’s productions,
“The Hellstrom Chronicle” (1971), a film concerned with mankind’s real and
imagined difficulties with insects, won an Academy Award. Mr. Wolper was also a tireless showman and a
flamboyant organizer of major events. He oversaw the opening and closing
ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, replete with sky
divers, break dancers and 84 pianists playing music by George Gershwin. He
again dazzled an international television audience when he choreographed a
celebration in New York Harbor on July 4, 1986, to observe the 100th
anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, in which several
thousand rockets were set off amid a backdrop of hundreds of tall ships gracing
the harbor around the statue. Mr. Wolper initially made his mark as a producer
of documentaries and later focused on fictionalized accounts of historical
events. He drew his share of criticism: it was sometimes suggested that his
documentaries were not sufficiently probing, that his so-called docudramas took
too many liberties with the facts, that he was more showman than historian. In
1966 Jack Gould, the television critic of The New York Times, noted that some
financiers and government officials had been permitted an advance look at Mr.
Wolper’s CBS documentary “Wall Street: Where the Money Is.” “Wolper is
incredibly naïve if he fails to understand the consequences of allowing
participants in a controversial news story to have the right of advance
approval,” Mr. Gould wrote. Mr. Wolper admitted that he had let the officials
see the film or read his script before it was broadcast, but insisted he had
made no deletions and was not asked to make any. Critics were also cool to many
of his big-screen productions, which included “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be
Belgium” (1969), “I Love My Wife” (1970) and “One Is a Lonely Number” (1972),
although he received good reviews for some, notably “Willy Wonka & the
Chocolate Factory” (1971) and “L.A. Confidential” (1997), which won two Oscars.
“The Bridge at Remagen” (1969), about a World War II battle in Germany, was
probably the Wolper movie that attracted the most attention — not for what was
on the screen, but because his production company was run out of Czechoslovakia
when the Soviet Army invaded. Mr. Wolper scored an early success in 1963 with
the television documentary “The Making of the President 1960,” based on
Theodore H. White’s best-selling book about John F. Kennedy’s quest for the
White House. It won four Emmys, including program of the year. Other noteworthy
television projects in the 1960s included the series “Biography,” “Hollywood
and the Stars” and “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” In the 1970s he
branched out into sitcoms, producing “Chico and the Man” and “Welcome Back,
Kotter” with James Komack. David Wolper (he had no middle name, but used the
middle initial L to distinguish himself from an uncle also named David Wolper)
was born on the East Side of Manhattan on Jan. 11, 1928, the only child of
Irving S. Wolper, a businessman, and the former Anna Fass. As a teenager he
spent a lot of time watching movies, and people noticed that he had a knack for
selling things. Upon graduation from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School,
he entered Drake University in Des Moines, remained there a year, then
transferred to the University of Southern California for two more years. He
left the university at the end of his junior year because he thought he could
make money by purchasing old movies and selling them to television stations all
over the country. He was right.
In 1958, sensing that
the footage shot of the Soviet satellite Sputnik would be worth something, he
purchased 6,000 feet of it from Artkino, the official Soviet distributor, and
used it as the basis for a documentary, “The Race for Space,” which he sold to
more than 100 stations in the United States after all three networks turned it
down. Making documentaries for television, he soon learned, was not easy. The
networks had large news and public affairs departments staffed by seasoned
journalists, and network executives tended to be wary of documentaries produced
by outsiders. Undaunted, Mr. Wolper began Wolper Productions on a shoestring.
The company’s early projects included “The Rafer Johnson Story” (1961),
“Hollywood: The Golden Years” (1961) and “D-Day” (1962). Reviews were mixed,
but viewers were receptive. By the mid-1970s Wolper Productions had grown from
two people in a one-room office to more than 200 employees using 40 cutting
rooms. In 1971 Mr. Wolper produced “Appointment With Destiny,” a series that
mixed historical footage with dramatic re-enactments. John J. O’Connor, writing
in The Times, criticized it as “pure fiction cleverly masquerading as reality.”
Mr. Wolper responded in a letter to the editor: “How else can we approach the
past? Shall we leave it, defeated and ignorant, because we cannot fully
reconstruct it any more than we can relive it?” Mr. Wolper remained active as a
producer of mini-series and documentaries well into the 1990s. Besides “The
Thorn Birds,” his noteworthy later productions included “North and South”
(1985). In 2002 he revisited his most famous production with the television
special “Roots: Celebrating 25 Years.” Mr. Wolper was inducted into the Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2003 he published his
autobiography, written with David Fisher. Its title was “Producer.” (As reported by Richard Severo)
2010(30th of Av, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2010(30th of Av, 5770): Ninety year old author Nancy Freedman
passed away.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/22/local/la-me-nancy-freedman-20100822
2010(30th of Av, 5770): Eighty-two year old David L. Wolper, who changed
America’s view of race and slavery with “Roots”, passed away today. (As
reported by Richard Severo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/arts/12wolper.html
2010: Paul Hunt began serving as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
2010: The first public screening of “A Film Unfinished” is scheduled to
take place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.
2010: While testifying before the Turkel Committee today, Defense
Minister Ehud Barak “placed the blame” for the botched flotilla raid “on the
IDF, which he said was responsible for warning the government if ‘the mission
cannot be carried out.’ In the case of the flotilla the IDF did not warn, Barak
said.
2010: “The Human Resources Manager” the movie version of the A.B.
Yehoshua novel by the same name directed by Eran Riklis and starring Mark
Ivanir was released today in Israel.
2011: The
International Master Course for Violinists which has been taking place amid the
scenic mountains of the western Galilee at Kibbutz Eilon is scheduled to come
to an end today.
2011: The DC Premiere “Maya” is scheduled to take place at this evening’s
WJFF (Washington Jewish Film Festival)
Friend-raiser Screener and Party
2011: Philip Levine was named tody as the new poet
laureate of the United States. Levine has an MFA through the University of Iowa
Writer's Workshop. His works include a "continuous examination of his
Jewish immigrant inheritance.
2011The
Romanian Academy said today that it will change its definition of an
anti-Semitic slur in a dictionary to make it clear the word is pejorative.
2011: The International Master Course for Violinists which is taking place at
Kibbutz Eilon is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: Rookie
right tackle Mitchell Schwartz is scheduled to start in the Detroit Lions’
first exhibition pro-football game.
2012: The
Russian Olympic basketball team coached by Israeli-American David Blatt is
scheduled to play Spain today in the semifinals.
2012: Victor
Lieberman is scheduled to lead Shabbat eve services at B’nai Israel in Grand
Forks, ND
2012: Ben
Sarasin will help lead Shabbat eve services at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, as part of his “Bar Mitzvah Weekend.”
2012: Shai
Wosner is scheduled to perform at Lincoln Center
2012: New Zealand Jewish sailor Jo Aleh and her partner Polly Powrie won the gold
medal in the women’s 470 regatta. Aleh, 26, whose parents are dual Israeli-New
Zealand citizens, skippered the pair into the lead from the start of the gold
medal race today at the London Olympic Games
2012: Israeli
rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin leapt to the finals after her ribbon routine in
the individual qualifiers today at the London Games.
2012: Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have “almost finally”
decided on an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities this fall, and a
final decision will be taken “soon,” Israel’s main TV news broadcast reported
this evening.
2013: “Dancing in
Jaffa” and “Gideon’s Army” are scheduled to be shown at the San Francisco
Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Kol HaOt is
scheduled to sponsor “The Sounds of Elul” featuring Yehuda Katz.
2013: An
al-Qaeda-linked group active in the Sinai Peninsula said today that its fighters
were the target of a reported Israeli drone strike into Egyptian territory, a
rare operation that could indicate increased Egyptian-Israeli security
cooperation against militants in the lawless border zone. (As reported by
Maamoun Youssef)
2013: “Israeli tennis
star Shahar Pe'er won her first tournament in four years today, defeating
unseeded Zheng Saisai 6:2, 2:6, 6:3 in the final of the Suzhou Ladies Open in
Suzhou China.”
2014: The New York Times featured books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Lena
Finkle’s Magic Barrel written and illustrated by Anya Ulinich, Becoming
Freud:
The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips, Lucky
Us by Amy Bloom and Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles
Marsh.
2014: Congregation HarTzeon – Agudath Achim is
scheduled to host a trip to NYC see the off-Broadway musical “Atomic” about the
Manhattan Project.
2014: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center is scheduled to host a “conversation with Holocaust survivor
Steen Metz.”
2014: “Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip
continued today, with over nine rockets being shot at Israel throughout the
day. Six hit the Eshkol Regional Council in the early hours, while two others
slammed into Sderot, starting a small fire. Two more rockets were intercepted
about the city.” (As reported by Ilana Curiel)
2014:” Air raid sirens sounded in Ashdod at 10
pm, two hours before the start of an Egyptian-brokered temporary truce.”(As
reported by Matan Tzuri)
2014: The Miami Herald reported today that “the
Jewish community of Miami is offering $50,000 reward for information that leads
to the arrest of the two suspects in the death of Rabbi Joseph Raksin” who was
murdered while walking to services on Shabbat.
2014: Rabbi Joseph Raskin who was murdered in
Florida yesterday as he walked to Shabbat services is scheduled to be buried
today.
2014: For King and Country? a major new
exhibition exploring the Jewish experience of the First World War is scheduled
to come to a close today at the Jewish Museum in London.
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/kingandcountry
2015: YIVO and the Congress for Jewish Culture
are scheduled to present “Night of the Murdered Poets” during which Ala Zuskin
Perelman, daughter of Soviet Yiddish actor, Benjamin Zuskin will discuss her
recent biography, The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin about her father’s
tragic life and work as an actor and artistic director of the Moscow State
Jewish Theater.
2015: Thanks to the efforts of New York State
Assembly member Todd Kaminsky, the nephew of Mel Brooks, the emergency room at
the Long Beach Community Center that had been closed since Hurricane Sandy
reopened today.
2015: The 2015 AIPAC Iowa Annual Event is
scheduled to take place this evening in Des Moines.
2015: “I’m convinced that Fiamma Nirenstein”
whose appointment as Israel’s ambassador to Rome has rattled the Italian Jewish
community “will bring with her to the position lots of diplomatic and political
experience, and will succeed in deepening the relationship between Israel and
Italy, our close friends, and act for diplomatic, economic, cultural and
security cooperation,” Netanyahu said in a statement today
2015: “A disaster at Ben Gurion International
Airport was narrowly averted today when a drone came dangerously close to an
incoming plane, forcing the aircraft to adjust its course.”
2015: Just days before his death, Kate Edgar,
“the longtime personal assistant” of Dr. Oliver Sacks “who described herself as
his ‘collaborator, friend, researcher and editor’ wrote in an email ‘He is
still writing with great clarity. We are
pretty sure he will go with fountain pen in hand.’”
2015: “The Obama administration, citing the
potential for economic and political harm to the Palestinian Authority and the
broader peace process, asked a judge today to “carefully consider” the size of
the bond he requires for the authority to appeal a huge damages award for its
role in six terrorist attacks in Israel that killed and injured Americans.
2016: William Korn is scheduled to lecture on
“Pioneer Jews of Leadville, Colorado, 1878-1914” and David McDonald is
scheduled to lecture on “A Gentile in the Tribe: Using Christian Church
Records” at the 36th IAJGCS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy in Seattle.
2016: Today Luciana Berger was not selected by
the “Labor Party candidate for the position of Metro Mayor of Liverpool.”
2016: “Deli Man” a film that paints a portrait
of the rapidly disappearing delicatessens in the United States” is scheduled to
be shown in London tonight.
2017: In Weimar, YSW is scheduled to host both
a Dance Orchestra Workshop and Dance Workshop followed in the evening by a
series of Yiddish music jam sessions.
2017: “Ballet Pécs, the first contemporary
ballet company of Hungary,” is scheduled to present “Carmen” as part of the
dance festival in Tel Aviv.
2017: In light of terrorist tunnel attacks, an
Israeli military official said “that the army does not believe Hamas has any
justification to prevent Israeli from building a protective barrier” and
“therefore it will tolerate an attempts by the terror group to interfere with
its construction.”
2018: Seventy years and one day after fifty
year old Chaim Soutine died in Paris while trying to avoid capture by the
Gestapo, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host a tour of the exhibition “Chaim
Soutine: Flesh” featuring thirty of picture painted by the French
expressionist.
2018: “Classical Bridge, an international music
festival, academy and conference designed to build bridges through the music”
featuring violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein is
scheduled to continue today in New York.
2018: As Israelis awaken, the question on
everybody’s mind is will the truce with Hamas that was supposed to go into
effect last night hold or will the rockets and flammable kites return.
2019: In Pittsburgh, PA, the Manor Theatre is
scheduled to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate” that “among the
dedications at the end of the Film is the Tree of Life Congregation” which was
attacked by a gunman in October of 2018.
2019: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center are scheduled to host a book signing with Steve Schapiro, “the
photojournalist behind” the museum’s “Activists and Icons” exhibit.
2019(9th of Av, 5779): Parashat
Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av;
2019(9th of Av, 5779): Sixty-six
year old financier and sex offender Jeffrey Edward Epstein died today while in
jail, reportedly by hanging himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide.html
2020: The IAJGS 40th International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy, a virtual event, is scheduled to begin today.
2020: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is
scheduled to present, online, “JLive Art” with glass artist Sidney Hutter.
2020: LSJS is scheduled to host “What is and
isn’t ‘work’ – and why?” during which Rabbi Miachael Pollak and Jacqueline
Nicholls provide “a unique summery of the Talmud on Shabbat.”
2020: The Albuquerque Virtual Jewish Film fest
is scheduled to host a screening of “Incitment.”
2020: On Facebook Live and YouTube, the YIVO
Institute is scheduled to present the instrumeanl and vacl chamber ensemble
Cana Profana as it performs “Gustav Mahler’s epic song symphony, Das Lied von
der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in Arnold Schoenberg and Rainer Riehn’s
chamber orchestra arrangement.”
2020: As part of its virtual webinar series, the
Streicker Center is scheduled to host Ambassadors Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk
as they discuss “Is There Any Light Left at the End of the Middle East Tunnel?”
2020: Part 1 of “The Obscene, Indecent and
Offensive in Hollywood an “East Bay International Jewish Film Festival event
with director Riva Gambert talking about pre-1934 film censorship and pre-World
War II films that failed to capture what was occurring in Nazi Germany” is
scheduled to take place online today
2020: As Israelis awake this morning, they are
confronted with the fact that as of last night the national COVED death toll
has reached 600.
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
“Exploring Nine Centuries of Jewish Life,” a tour led by Yoram Bitton and Dr.
Jordan Finkin.
https://streicker.nyc/events/huc-jir
2021: In Palm Beach Gardens, FL, members of
Temple Judea are scheduled to “Help Feed the Hungry” by donating sandwiches to
benefit the St. George’s Soup Kitchen.
2021: Based on information released yesterday,
Israelis awaken this morning to the possibility that their country “may see
over 1,200 severely ill coronavirus patients by the end of August if it doesn't
take tougher measures to battle the surge of COVID-19.” (As reported by Alexandra
Lukash and Nir Cohen)
2021: William Burns, the head of the C.I.A. is
scheduled to begin a three day visit to Israel today.
2022: The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth
County is scheduled to host a talk by Rabbi Dr. Brooks Susman on zoom and
in-person on 21st Century Jews… How we got to believe what we believe. And do
we all agree?
2022: The National Library of Israel is
scheduled to host a lecture by Khrystyna Semeryn, a Ukrainian independent
researcher, journalist, and writer on “The Jewish World in Ukrainian Short
Fiction of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.”
2022: The New York Jewish Agenda, the Forward,
Jewish Community Relations Council, Lincoln Square Synagogue, Marlene Meyerson
JCC and Temple Emanu-El are scheduled to present a debate between Jerry Nadler,
representing the West Side of Manhattan, and Carolyn Maloney, representing the
East Side who are facing off in a rare incumbent-vs-incumbent primary.
2023: The Jewish Climate Action Network, with
the support of Temple B’nai B’rith and the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social
Action, is scheduled to host an online “presentation on three key climate bills
in the Massachusetts legislature.”
2023: The S.F. Black and Jewish Unity Coalition
and Congregation Sha’ar Zahav are scheduled to present an “Update on State Task
Force on Reparations.”
2023: Yeshiva University Museum’s Director
Gabriel Goldstein is scheduled to host a guided tour of “Rhe Golden Path:
Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,” illuminating the life and impact of the
multifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage across continents and cultures
through rare manuscripts and books.
2023: In Brookline, MA, Congregation Kehillath
Israel is scheduled to present a concert by The Ariel Quartet which will
perform “Beethoven and Mendelssohn quartets as well as music by Israeli
composers Matan Borat and Paul Ben Ham.”
2023: This evening, in Cedar Rapids, a minyan is
scheduled to gather to mark the Yahrzeit Deb Levin who passed away on the 24th
of Av, 5779.
