This Day, August 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 27
410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. Some
view the Visigoths as just one more group of barbarians that helped to bring an
end to the Roman Empire. But that is
only part of the story. The Visigoths were Arian…
August 27
410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. Some
view the Visigoths as just one more group of barbarians that helped to bring an
end to the Roman Empire. But that is
only part of the story. The Visigoths were Arians, and they supplanted the
anti-Jewish Catholic hierarchy, when they took control of parts of what is now
Spain later in the 5th Century. For the Visigoths, the Catholics
were synonymous with their Roman enemy, but they had no animosity for the
Jews. They took advantage of their
unique skills and the Jews repaid them by taking a leading role in defending
the passes of the Pyrenees against invasion from the Catholic Franks and
Burundians. All this would come to an
end in the last half of the sixth century when the Visigoth kings converted to
Catholicism and adopted the anti-Jewish policies espoused by the Church.
1097(16th of Elul): Samuel ben Shealtiel ha-Nasi passed away.
1255: The day on which Hugh of Lincoln reportedly died. Discovery of his
body two days later touched off one of the first, if not the first, Blood
Libel.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7921-hugh-of-lincoln
1490: The Grand Inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada issued an indictment
ordering the transfer of the prisoners from Segovia to Ávila to await trial on
charges of having murdered an alleged victim of Jewish ritual murder who came
to be known as The Holy Child of La Guardia.
1523: Cardinal Domenico Grimani who when asked by the German scholar
Johann Reuchlin for a tutor on Hebrew Literature, recommended Rabbi Obadiah ben
Jacob Sforno, passed away today.
1556: The reign of Charles, the King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor who
dealt with the rise of the Protestant faith in the Netherlands in several ways
including issue edicts “against Jews who had not been baptized” on several
different occasions came to end when he had to abdicate due to declining
health.
1590: Papacy of Sixtus V came to end. There seem to be competing view on
how he treated the Jews. According to
one source “the condition of the Jews was somewhat improved. He repealed many
of the regulations established by his predecessors, permitted Jews to reside in
all parts of his realm, and gave Jewish physicians freedom to practice their
profession.” While another contends that “he revoked Pope Gregory’s policies
allowing Jews to reside in the Papal States and to print the Talmud.”
http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1580&endyear=1589
1698: (18 Elul): Birthdate of Rabbi Yisroel
(Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר often
called Baal Shem Tov or Besht. There is
no way to even begin writing about his effect on Judaism.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/baal.html
1770: Birthdate of German
philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In his article “Sublimity and
Resentment: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews,” Yirmiyahu Yovel offers the
following comment about Hegel and the Jews.
‘According to the Hegelian dialectic, every cultural form makes some
true, genuine contribution to world history (and the world Spirit), after which
it is sublated (aufgehoben) and disappears from the historical scene.
Yet the Jews continued to survive long after their raison d'tre had
disappeared--indeed, after they no longer had a genuine history in Hegel's
sense but merely existed as the dead corpse of their extinguished essence. With
the French Revolution, the Jews were entering the modern world and claiming
their rights and place within it. Hegel, despite his anti-Jewish bias, was
perfectly disposed to grant these rights, but he did not know what to do with
the Jews in modernity as Jews, nor could he explain their survival in terms of
his system.”
1771: In Newport, RI, Isaac Elizer and his wife gave birth to Moses
Elizer who passed away in Charleston, SC.
1772: Birthdate of Moses Jacobs, the New York City born son of Michael
Jacobs who had settled in Baltimore by 1791
1743: Henry Pelham, the Prime Minister who would pass the Jew of Act of
1753 assumed office today.
1776: The British defeated American forces under the command of George
Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights in the first of a series of
military actions that will lead to the British taking control of the city of
New York for the duration of the war.
While most of New York’s Jewish population favored independence, the
community was split between Rebels and Tories; a splitt which was even felt at
Shearith Israel.
1779: In Charleston, SC, Gershon Cohen married Rebecca Sazrzedas, the
daughter of the late Abraham Sarzedas from Georgia.
1779: In Philadelphia, Lean and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to Reyna
Hart.
1782: While in Philadelphia, James Madison wrote to Edmund Randolph, I
cannot in any way make you more sensible of the importance of your kind
attention to pecuniary remittances for me than by informing you that I have for
some time been a pensioner on the favor of Haym Salomon, a Jew Broker.”
1793(19th of Elul, 5553): Abraham Aaron (Abraham ben Uri
HaCohen of Hichburg) passed away today in London.
1794: Simon Magruder Levy
distinguished himself at the Battle of Fallen Timbers while serving as an
Orderly Sergeant under General "Mad Anthony" Wayne.
1801: Birthdate of Ludwig Hirzel who taught Hebrew at the
Carolinum in Zurich and whose included a Commentary on the Book of Job that was
so popular it went through three editions after having first appeared in 1839.
1813: Birthdate of Moses Polydore Millaud, a native of
Bordeaux who gained fame as the found of Le
Petit Journal
1816: Birthdate of Polish born Jewish journalist
Aleksander Zederbaum who in 1860 founded Ha-Meliz, the first Hebrew language
periodical published in Russia.
1825(13th of Elul, 5585) Parashat Ki Teitzei
1825(13th of Elul, 5585): Seventy-three year
old Flora Aarons (Bluma bat Eleazer), the widow of Aaron Aarons passed away
today in England.
1828: Jacob Montefiore married Justina Lydia Gompertz today.
1830: Birthdate of Hungarian born Maximillian Steiner,
the “Austrian actor and theatre manager” who collaborated with Johann Strauss,
Jr. on such works as “Inidigo and the Forty Thieves.”
1832: In Hamburg, Germany, Heinrich Meyer, a liberal Jewish merchant
and his wife who died in childbirth gave birth to Margaret Meyer Schurz, who
created “the first kindergarten in the United States and who was the wife of
political leader Carl Schurz.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schurz-margarethe-meyer
1834: In New Orleans, LA Clarice Allain and George Eustis
gave birth to James B. Eustis who was the U.S. Ambassador to France during the Dreyfus
Affair.
1840: Sixty-year old Herman Wedel Jarlsberg, the
Norwegian count who opposed the ban Jews settling in his country passed away
today.
1845: Isaac ben Eliezer HaLevi married Rebekah bat Moshe
at the Great Synagogue today.
1848: In Graetz, Prussia, Rabbi Simon Moll and his wife
gave birth to Rabbi Max S. Moll who began serving as the “assistant minister to
Congregation Bertih Kodesh in Rochester, NY in 1886.
1846: Charles V. Lewis married Eliza Isaacs today.
1854: Mary Levy and John Fileman gave birth to Julia
Fileman.
1854: Birthdate of Marx Warley Platzek, a native of North
Carolina, member of the 1894 New York Constitutional Convention and he New York
Supreme Court Judge who was President of the YMHA and a “benefactor of the
American Jewish Historical Society.”
1857: Birthdate of Max Szabolcsi, author and newspaper
editor who wrote numerous articles about the blood libel known as the Tisza-Eszlár
affair
1858: Sixteen year old Nathan Cohen arrived in Tamworth, Australia
so he could go to work in his Uncle William Cohen’s store on Ebsworth Street
1861: Birthdate of Edward Aaron who was buried in The
Jewish Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA when he passed away in 1913 at the age of
51.
1862: Philadelphian Lewis Constantine began his service
with the Company C of the 143rd Regiment which would end when he was
killed while fighting at “White Oak Church” in 1865.
1861: Philadelphian Samuel Alexander enlisted in the 44th
Regiment where he served as an Assistant Surgeon until he was killed during the
fighting at Dranesville, VA in November.
1862: Henry Berg began serving as a Private in Company E
of the 107th Regiment – service which would lead to his being
wounded in fighting near Richmond in October of 1863.
1863: Two days after he had passed away, 63 year old
businessman and author Israel Albu, the husband of the former Johana Cohen with
whom he had five children was buried today at the Lauriston Road Jewish
Cemetery.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/albu-israel/
1864: The New York Times published a letter in
which the author complained about the difficulty in getting a naval
substitute. He ties his complaints about
the process to involvement of the Jews.
He claimed that all of the locations where one goes to complete the
forms are “all located either above or alongside of Jew clothing stores,” that
the naval substitutes are coerced into buying their outfits at these Jewish
clothing stores and that Jews attempt to extort cash from the participants that
they then split with government officials.
[Ed. Note – The author is a draft dodger. Under the law, a draftee could buy a
substitute to serve in his place. This
reinforced the concept that it was rich man’s war and poor man’s fight. The system was amazingly corrupt and led to
the infamous Draft Riots of 1863 in New York City.
1864: Rabbi Elias Hilikowitz and Riva Rebecca Hilikowitz
gave birth to Rose Holzberg, the wife of Jacob Holzberg and mother of Ethel
Holzberg and Julius Holzberg.
1867: In Tamworth, Australia, Esther and Nathan Cohen
gave birth to Ida Cohen who married her first cousin Victor Cohen in 1901 with
whom she had three sons: George, Nathan and Alan
1867: In Memphis, TN, Netherlands native Jacob Joseph
Peres and Eve Chute Peres gave birth to Yale trained lawyer Israel Hyman Perex
who served on the School Board and was a member of the YMHA.
1867: Following his trip to Romania, Sir Moses Montifore
wrote a letter to Prince Charles concerning the treatment of the Jews of
Romania. Prince Charles will eventually
be crowned as King Carlos I.
1868: Six days after he had passed away, Hamburg native Joseph Baum, “the
son of Peter Frederick Baum” and the former “Hannah Behrens” was buried today
at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1869(20th of Elul, 5629); Rebecca Gratz passed away. Born in 1781 to a prominent Jewish family in
Pennsylvania, Gratz spent most of her adult life in Philadelphia where she was
the patron of many philanthropic and social organization aimed at benefiting the
Jewish community. She is best known as the founder of the Jewish Sunday
School. “In 1838 Gratz and the women of
the congregation of Mikveh Israel established the first Hebrew Sunday School in
the United States, which served as the model for all others that
followed.” Gratz, who was quite lovely
and never married, was reputed to be the model for Rebecca, the heroine in Sir
Walter Scott’s novel, Ivanhoe. [Ed. Note – a Jewish connection: When
Hollywood turned Ivanhoe into a big screen delight during the 1950’s, Elizabeth
Taylor played the part of the Jewess Rebecca.
Taylor would convert to Judaism when she married Mike Todd.]
1871: It was reported
today that the editor of the Jewish Times supports “American Jewish Seminary”
for the training of rabbis in America. The editor contends that the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum would provide a platform for creating such an institution since
it would have a ready-made group of candidates and the additional training
could be added on to the courses already offered by the Asylum.
1872: Birthdate of
Boston native David Winters, the Racine, WI merchant and husband of Nellie
Winters.
1873(4th of Elul,
5633): Fifty-one-year-old Amsterdam born journalist and editor of the
Handelsbad passed away today.
1875: Birthdate of
Albert M. Hyamson who was honored with the OBE for his work as the immigration
officer in Palestine and who was the husband of Marie Rose Lavey with whom he
had two sons Captain Theodore Hyamson and Corporal Philipp Hyamson both of whom
were killed during WW II.
1877: Outfielder Jay
Pike made his major league debut with the Hartford Dark Blues
Or
1877: Jacob Emanuel
“Jay” Pike played in his first and last major league baseball game today when
he took the field for the Brooklyn Hartfords of the National League. Pike went 1 for 4, giving him a batting
average of .250. He was charged with 1 error but there is no record of his
fielding average. Pike may have been part of the first Jewish Family entry in
major league baseball. His brother was
Lipman Emanuel Pike whose career spanned sixteen seasons. Pike “batted and threw left-handed. He is
credited as the first ballplayer named Jay to appear in a major league
game…Pike also played the outfield for the Lowell, Massachusetts team that won
the 1875 state championship and claimed the New England title. That same year,
he also served as an umpire in the National Association.”
1878: In Vladislavov,
Duvvid Schubart and Katrina Helwitz gave birth to their second son and fifth
child theatrical producer Samuel S. “Sam” Schubert who along with his brothers
built one of the most powerful “theatre empires” of the early twentieth
century.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/shubert-brothers/
1880: In Leadville,
Colorado, Eva Schloss and Lottie Beaumont performed with the Pinafore Company
at the Windsor Hotel.
1882: In Voronezh,
Russia, pianist Michael Hambourg and his wife gave birth to violinist Jan
Hambourg, the younger brother of pianist Mark Hambourg and the older brother of
cellist Boris Hambourg.
1882: According to some, birthdate of movie mogul
Sam Goldwyn. The confusion about his natal day was created by Sam himself. He is the ‘G’ in
1882: Birthdate of
Slutsk, Russia native Rabbi Nathan Klotz who joined the faculty of Yeshiva
University as a “professor of Bible” in 1926.
1882: “The Jews of
York” published today described the conditions under which “the persecuted
race” lived in this English city during the 12th century. During the reign of Henry II and his son
Richard the Lionhearted, they enjoyed royal protection and prospered as could
be seen by the “splendid houses” on Jubbergate.
All of that change when Richard left for the crusades and the citizens
of York massacred the Jews. While
Richard expressed his displeasure, “no serous punishment was inflicted on the
murderous people of York for their fiendish cruelty.” Ironically, the city’s long term punishment
came in the loss of commerce and prosperity.
Without the Jews to lend money, business went elsewhere.
1882: It was reported
that Professor Robertson Smith has written the article on “Lamentations” the
new published edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica. According to Smith, Jeremiah is traditionally
viewed as the author of the text. He
sees a shift in the stance of the author as the book unfolds going from “an
isolated figure among unsympathetic countrymen” to “a representative of Israel
among the heathen.”
1882: It was reported
today that little Jacob Greenhaldt a Hungarian Jewish immigrant “who was badly
injured by a streetcar about a month ago” is out of the hospital and back at
work on the streets of Cleveland. The
boys are said to be “imbued with the spirit of trade” so characteristic of his
race. They may make hard bargains, but
they are never beggars.
1882: “Facts About
Street Gamins” published today described changing conditions on the streets of
Cleveland, Ohio. Immigrant Jewish boys
from Hungary have replaced the Irish.
The Hungarians begin as shoe shine boys.
But as soon as they learn enough English, they begin work selling
newspapers.
1883: It was reported
today that Nathan Gottgetren, a 35 year old Jew who uses the alias Nicholas
Gilbert, will be appearing before the District Attorney in New York to faces
multiple charges of forgery.
1884(6th of
Elul, 5644): Schaje Tripock an octogenarian Polish Jew living with his son in
an apartment on Essex Street apparently took his own life today. He was reported to “suffering from senile
insanity.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D05E5DC1338E033A2575BC2A96E9C94659FD7CF
1885: Birthdate of
Natchez, Mississippi native and American architect Samuel Abraham Marx, the husband
of Florence May and the son-in-law of David May, the founder of May Department
Stores.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/style/tmagazine/07marx.html?_r=0
1886: The Pope approved
of the Hungarian Diet’s vote to reject a bill that would legalize marriages
between Jews and Gentiles.
1887: It was reported
today that The Board of Managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has
received a total of $3,238.95 in contributions.
1889(30th of
Av, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1889: The funeral of
Aaron Hershfield who died suddenly at Saratoga on August 24 is scheduled to
take place this morning at his residence.
1890: Birthdate of
Emmanuel Radnitzky, the native of Philadelphia who gained fame as “American
modernist artist” Man Ray.
1890: The 10th
free excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will set sail on
the East River at 9 a.m. this morning.
1891: “In Putzig, West
Prussia, Germany, Herman and Jenny (Eisack) Eisenstadt”gave birth Dr. Joseph
Herman Isenstead, a holder of the Iron Cross for his four years of service in
the Medical Corps of the German Army in WW II who, along with his wife the
former Elly Neuman, in 1936 came to the United States where he practiced
“medicine specializing in the treatment of liver disease.”
1891: Birthdate of
“Austrian-Jewish” composer whose first American film work included the music
for Rudolph Valentino’s “The Son of the Shiek._”
1891: In today’s
editorial, the New York Times expresses its sympathy with the plight of the
Russian Jews on board the SS Marsala who were barred from entering the United
States but insists that under the law Superintendent O’Beirne had no choice in
the matter. “The whole subject matter is a complicated one and it is like that
the law will have to be amended in some particulars….” (Sounds as if this could have been written in
2014 just as easily as 1891)
1892: As cholera
threatens to spread across Europe, “Hamburg is plague stricken today because it
humanely too on itself the brunt of the burn of the” exodus of Jews from
Russia.
1892: A representative
of “the Hebrew branch of the Federation of Labor” investigated conditions at
Ziontown, NJ, where Jewish settlers who have been on strike for six weeks face
“actual starvation.”
1892: Four year old Ida
Samyan the daughter of Russian Jews arrived today in London on a ship that came
from Hamburg, Germany.
1892: In New York, the
Board of Health said that it does not know anything about a group of Jews from
Odessa who were supposed to come to this city but instead went to Havre where
they were to go to Boston. (These
reports are all given against the background of a cholera epidemic that is
breaking out in Europe)
1892: It was reported
today that near Mariapol, Russia a mob ten thousand “terrorized the village
killing several Jews” as they expressed their resentment over governmental
measures to control cholera.
1892: The
first passenger train belonging to the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway arrived in
Jerusalem today. Reactions were mixed, with some local inhabitants declaring it
to be the work of the devil. However, the Jewish Chronicle wrote:
"The year 5653, which is about to burst upon us, will witness one of the
grandest sights that have been known in many centuries. May it prove an unmixed
blessing." The Jaffa-Jerusalem
Railway was the first modern railway line to open in the Middle East. The
railway was built in response to the increasing demand of all the pilgrims who
began visiting the Holy Land and specifically Jerusalem starting in the middle
of the 19th century. In writing about the history of the railroad
Anthony S. Travis notes that “building the railway was a tremendously ambitious
undertaking, considering the local conditions. Hundreds of tons of rails were
brought from Belgium, coal from Britain and rolling stock from France. The
unloading of all this in Jaffa's primitive harbor presented an immense
challenge. A report in Railway Magazine said it was "a wonder that
all the materials for the railway were safely and without loss conveyed to
their destination... Bulky but light articles, such as boiler barrels or water
tanks, were thrown into the sea and tugged ashore..." The weather also
presented difficulties, as heavy rains washed away the jetty, and in some
places along the track bridges were destroyed. Despite other problems related
to construction crews leaving to tend their crops, and outbreaks of disease in
the work camps, work progressed fairly rapidly, and by December 4, 1891, the
line had reached Deir Aban (today's Beit Shemesh). From there, construction was
much more difficult, owing to the mountainous terrain. While the first train
did reach Jerusalem in August, the official opening would not take place until
September of 1892. Theodor Herzl, who took the train in 1898 on his way to meet
Kaiser Wilhelm II, was not very impressed, calling the line a "miserable
little railway." It was in stark contrast to the earlier part of his
journey, in the luxurious Orient Express, with dining cars and sleeping
accommodation. The Jaffa-Jerusalem railway coaches did not have ashtrays or
toilet facilities, and according to Herzl, not even drinking water. He said the
heat was "frightful... sitting in the cramped, crowded, scorching
compartment was torture." As if that were not enough, when Herzl and his
party arrived at the hotel for which they had reservations, it turned out there
were no rooms available, as they had been appropriated by Turkish officials and
members of the Kaiser's entourage.” As an avid fan of science and technology,
Herzl expressed his belief in the future of rail travel when in Altneuland he
predicted that by the 1920s there would be high-speed electric railways
throughout the country. Unfortunately, even now, more than a century later,
Israel has not yet reached that stage, although railway development has
certainly come a long way in the last 20 years.
1893: “B’nai B’rith’s Jubilee” published today described the plans that are
being for the celebration of “the well-known Hebrew benevolent organization’s”
golden anniversary which will take place this October.
1893: “The Correspondence of 3,500 Years Ago” published today described new
information that described the role of clay tablets in ancient Palestine. In
the past such evident has been ignored “by those who regard the early Hebrews a
savages and who think that, though place in the very center of the ancient
civilized world between the the Egyptians and Assyrians they were unacquainted
with arts” or culture. This evidence shows that “the art of writing was known
in the time of Moses” and that the inhabitants of Palestine wrote on thin clay
tablets in the same way we write on a sheet of notepaper.
1893: Among the dead bodies taken to Henry Skelton’s undertaking
establishment in Newton, LI following the collision in Berlin 38 year old Max Stein
who was employed by Abram Stein & Co, Mrs. Bertha Weinstein and her young
son Sidney Weinstein who was identified by a medal of merit given to him Temple
Rudolph Sholom.
1893: In Camden, NJ the Jewish shopkeepers and merchants are scheduled to
meet tonight to organize themselves to provide protection from the thieves and
marauders who have been attacking them.
1894: Rabbi Bernhardt Hailperin was chosen chief rabbi by the Orthodox Jews
of Newark.
1894: In Rixdorf, Germany, the police broke up a meeting of anarchist
because the chairman “urged those present to use guns and dynamite to
exterminate the Jews.”
1895: A coroner’s jury exonerated Solomon Pulka of charges that he had
caused the death of nine year old Benjamin Pincus by kicking him in such a
manner that it caused peritonitis.
1895: “Over on the East Side”
published today described the changes in the district bounded by Catharine Street, the Bowery, Houston Street and the
East River where can now be found “the children of Israel in their new exodus
out of the Russian Egypt and house of bondage into the Canaan of the
West.”
1896: Abraham Gruver, Myer S. Isaacs, Julius Lowenthal and Edward
Lauterbach were among those who listened to Benjamin Harrison’s speech last
night at Carnegie Hall.
1897(29th of Av, 5657) Forty-eight year old David J. Seligman,
the husband of Addie Walter Seligman, the eldest son of Babette and the late
Joseph Seligman passed away today at Hollywood, NJ.
1897: The funeral of the late Albert Tobias who had been a member of the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association and Chevra B’nai Israel will take place at his
home this morning.
1897: A list of the bequests by the late David Blumenthal published today
included two hundred dollars each to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Montefiore
Home and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. Mt. Sinai Hospital will receive either two
hundred or five hundred dollars.
1898: Based on information that first appeared in The Jewish Messenger, it
was reported that Colonel Teddy Roosevelt intends to recommend four men in his
command be promoted for gallantry including one Catholic, one Jew, one
Protestant and one whose religion is not known.
The Messenger sees this an example of American brotherhood and unique
cooperation of those of all creeds.
1898: “Zangwill’s Visit” published today described the anticipation with
which New Yorkers are filled now that that Israel Zangwill, the author of Without
Prejudice and The Children of the Ghetto is about to arrive in the
Big Apple.
1898: In Sheboygan, Wisconsin Congregation Adath Israel dedicated its new
synagogue.
1898: A review of Alexander Harkavy’s Yiddish Dictionary was published
today.
1898: “Books and Authors” published today described “an extensive
collection of 2,500 Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts that has recently been
acquired by the British Museum.” The
collection which “includes a number of Arabic deed, written both in Hebrew and
Arabic characters” has items that date fro the 9th through the 14th
centuries.
1899: In Chicago, trade unionist and newspaper man Benjamin "Ben"
Schlesinger married Rae Schenhause with whom he had three children – two sons
and one daughter.
1899: “Answers To Correspondents” published includes a reply to J.F. which
tells him that there are between 350,000 and 400,000 Jews living in New York
1899: “Meyerbeer’s Posthumous Works” described yet another delay in the
posthumous publication of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s compositions which according to
his will should have been published in 1894.
One of his daughters Cornelie Meyerbeer who was married to Gustav
Richter refuses to allow the publication to take place.
1899: Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori the French attorney who defended Zola
and Dreyfus was featured on the cover of “Le Petit Journal.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petit_journal_8_27_1899_Fernand_Labori.jpg
1900: “For the first
time in several months,” Nathan Straus drove over the course at the Speedway
“seat behind his bay trotter, Alvez, who he did not send faster than a jog.”
1901: Samuel Kranzberg,
the Russian born son of Mary Schechter and Solomon Kranzberg, the President of
Northwestern Bottling Company and a member of B’nai Amoona Congregation married
Rose Sylvia Fitter in St. Louis today.
1901: In Newark, NJ,
haberdasher Max Joachim and his wife Pauline gave birth to Albert Joachim who
gained fame as Al Ritz, one of the Ritz Brothers.
1902: Herzl wrote to
the Polish writer Pauline Korvin-Piatrovska asking her to obtain an audience
with the Czar.
1902: Today, “at a
meeting of the Executive Committee of the United States Grand Lodge of the
Order B’rith Abraham” in New York City, chaired by Samuel Dorf, the Grand
Master of the Order, “resolutions were unanimously adopted condemning the
riotous demonstrations against the Jews on the occasion of the funeral of Rabbi
Joseph.
1903: After today’s
session of the Zionist Congress where delegates “remodeled the National Fund”
delegates continued to talk about establishing a Jewish colony in East Africa
even after the meetings came to an end.
1904: Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer described upcoming
plans for the re-dedication of a synagogue in Camden, NJ.
1904: Rogers Adolphe
Pinner, a senior partner of the Mutual Electric Company, was shot by his
`former girlfriend', one Mrs. Augustina Hermann, a pretty hat-maker/designer of
French extraction, who was a two-time widow.”
1905: “10 Days’
Massacre of Jews” published today described the violence in the town of Girjid
where the police have directed those “pillaging in the Jewish quarter” and
where “a general massacre of all the Jewish remaining Jewish inhabitants of
Girdji is expected.”
1906: It was
reported today that “the thirty Jewish children who were made orphans in the
recent Russian massacres, and who arrived in New York on Saturday on the
Hamburg-American liner Amerika, to be cared for by the Jewish charitable
organizations of this city pending their adoption by Jewish families in this
country, were ordered excluded by one of the boards of special inquiry on Ellis
Island.”
1906: The
president of the congregation in Knoxville, TN sent a “telegraphic protest to
President Roosevelt today” expressing opposition to “the deportation of the
thirty Jewish orphans now at Ellis Island saying “Knoxville Hebrews protest
against deportation of Russian Hebrew Orphans. We will provide for two.”
1907(17th of
Elul, 5667): Sixty-nine-year-old Nelson Morris, “the founder of Morris and
Company, one the three main meat-packing companies who was the husband of Sarah
Vogel with whom he had five children -- diplomat Ira Nelson Morris; Edward
Morris (married to Helen Swift, daughter of Gustavus Swift, and father of
Muriel Gardiner and Ruth Morris Bakwin); Herbert Morris (who died suddenly in
1898); Augusta Morris Rothschild (married to retailer Abram M. Rothschild); and
Maude Morris Schwab (married to Henry C. Schwab) passed away today.
1908:
Birthdate of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States.
Unbeknownst to most people, Johnson played an active role in rescuing Jews from
Hitler’s Europe. According to Ladybird
LBJ wept when he visited Auschwitz in 1945. . Lyndon Johnson was a staunch
supporter of Israel. He helped the
Israelis exhaust all diplomatic possibilities to avoid the Six Day War in June,
1967. The real test for Johnson came on
June 10 when the Soviets threatened Israel unless the Jewish state would
immediately surrender the gains it had made against the Syrians and Egyptians,
which were their client-states. Unlike
President Eisenhower in 1956, Johnson responded firmly by sending the Sixth
Fleet towards Syria to thwart any Soviet moves.
He also began supplying arms to Israel since DeGaulle had betrayed
Israel by cutting if its supply of weapons.
As Israel’s Ambassador to the United States wrote, “When it came to the
crunch of 1967, the United States (thanks to Johnson) was firmly on Israel’s
side, logistically and politically.” He passed away in 1973.
http://www.aish.com/jw/s/48942551.html
1908: Samuel Gompers today
announced that he would take to the stump in a personal effort to drive Speaker
Cannon from the House. The President of the American Federation of Labor will
open the campaign, which he intends to make a general fight for the Democratic
ticket, at the Labor Day exercises at Danville, Ill., the home of "Uncle Joe."
1909: According to an
ultimate from the Hebrew Trades, the Yiddish theatres under the management of
Jacob Adler, David Kessler and Boris Tomascheffsky will not open tonight unless
their demands which include raising the musicians weekly salary from $24 to $27
and re-hiring the dressers and billposters whose positions were eliminated, are
met.
1910: A copy of the
order which allowed American the American Ambassador to Turkey to visit St.
Petersburg, which read “The Ministry of the Interior permits the American
Ambassador to Constantinople, Oscar S. Straus, who belongs to the Jewish
confession to visit St. Petersburg with his family” was published today” and
“is regarded as a striking illustration of the rigor with which the anti-Jewish
regulations” in Russia “are being enforced.
1911: Today, Marquette
University trained attorney and future motion picture executive Edward L.
Klein, the Perioia, Il born son of Rose and Nathan W. Klein married Etta
Lazarus in Louisville, KY where he practiced law before settling in New York
City where he was the President and Treasurer of the World Wide Distributing
Corporation.
1911: In Cleveland,
Ohio found of Anshe S’fard.
1911: Birthdate of New
York Native, Miriam Berz Rosenthal who married Otto Orkin in 1926
1911: “The sale of seats to those not members of
K.A.M. for the upcoming High Holiday is scheduled to take place for two hours
this morning “at the Vestry Rooms of the Temple.
1912: Following the
sudden death of Dr. David Blaustein, the superintendent of the Educational
Alliance in New York City, tonight in Chicago, A.M. Liebling, the publisher of
the Daily Jewish Press said “We Jewish people of Chicago consider the
death of Dr. Blaustein to be the greatest loss our race has suffered in a
number of years.
1913: Former residents
of Tolna, a town in the Province of Kief, Russia, were busy today discussing
plans for the formation of a synagogue and congregation of Jews of Tolna, for
their former rabbi, David Mordecai, better known for his orthodoxy and
rabbinical lore throughout Southern Russia as "der Tolna Zadik,"
which translated means "the righteous man of Tolna.”
1914: As war between
Turkey and the Allies appears to imminent, it was reported today that “many
Jews in Palestine are destitute and that an appeal for funds has been made to
Jewish charities in America.”
1915: “Meir Steinbrink,
one of the Republican delegates” to the Constitutional Convention “from
Brooklyn” explained his vote in favor of “requiring a literacy test as a voting
qualification” saying that Louis Marshall had exaggerated the negative reaction
that the state’s Jewish population would have to adding this provision to the
New York State Constitution.
1915: “Councilors For
Warsaw” published today described the new system of government set up for the
Polish city by its German conquerors which includes the appointment of
councilors based on proportion of population which means there are twelve
Germans, twelve Poles and six Jews holding these posts.
1915: As of today, it
is reported that there are more than 50,000 black Jews or Falsha “inhabiting
the mountains of Abyssinia” for whom the American Jewish Committee has raised
$5,000.
1916: It was reported
today that The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the
War has received a $25,000 contribution from its Chicago Committee.
1916: Birthdate of
Oregon State University “forestry professor,” Alan Berg, the husband of Helen
Berg who became “the first woman to serve as mayor of Corvallis, Oregon.”
1916: The Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society announced today it has received more than
100,000 letters in the past two weeks “from families in the provinces occupied
by the German Army in Russia and Poland” “in accordance with arrangements made
with the German Government by Isidore Hershfiled who had recently visited Germany.
1916: Clarence Butler
and William Hoffman, two instructors at the American College who returned to
New York today after making a circuitous trip home that included a stop in
Jerusalem said “There were no pilgrims in Jerusalem and no Jews…as the majority
had been driven out Palestine shortly after Turkey entered the war “and those
who remained were forced to convert to Islam so they could retain their lands
and other property.”
1917: “Municipal Court
Justice Leonard A. Snitkin today the District Attorney “to investigate the
remarks alleged to have been made by Russell Dunne at an open-air meeting in
Madison Square Park” in which he “had assailed the Jews as slackers and had
called Joseph Friedlander, a Jewish soldier in uniform, vile names when the
latter resented the defamation of his race.
1917: Simon Frank, the
President of Temple Emanu-El in Brooklyn wrote a letter today inviting members
of the United States Army and Navy to attend High Holiday services at the
Temple without being charged for their seats.
1918: During WWI, today
while serving with Company E of the 306th Infantry, USA, Isaac
Hirsch “showed great heroism, determination, determination and courage” when
while serving voluntarily as a stretcher bearer, carried wounded “in an area
which was being swept by” fire from artillery, machine guns and rifles.
1918: “At Chateau
Diable, near Fismes,” Sergeant Julius Goldstein, a Philadelphian” serving with
Company E of the 307th Infantry “displayed unusual coolness and
great bravery in the face of terrific enemy machine gun fire” when “he took out
a patrol of four men and led it through the enemy’s lines” and rescued a group
of soldiers from Company E who “had become lost in the woods.”
1919(1st of Elul,
5679): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1919: It was reported
today that “Miss Frances Taussig has been elected Executive Director of the
United Hebrew Charities of New York,” replacing Morris D. Waldman who had
recently resigned from the position “to enter the field of private business.”
1919: During the
Russian Civil War, forces of the White Army occupied Boguslav a Ukrainian city,
“pillaged all the houses” and “massacred” approximately forty Jews. [This was the war between the Reds
(Bolsheviks) and the Whites (supporters of the former Czarist regime). The Jews were often caught in the middle and
slaughtered by both sides]
1920: On Friday night,
“Dr. William Rosenau of Baltimore, MD, conducted the last in a series of seven
services sponsored by Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations at Oden, Michigan.
1920: “The American
Bible Society” announced “the immediate publication of the Revised Mandarin
Bible,” “a translation of the Bible into Chinese…which Chinese and foreign
scholars have been” working “for more than a quarter of a century.
1920: It was reported
today that “the I.L. Peretz Writers’ Organization has donated the first $1,000”
to a Jewish Writers’ Fund that is being created by the Jewish Writers of
America to help fledgling authors.
1920: Mr. Albert
Rosenblatt announced that the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of
America has received a contribution of $10000 to the Building Fund from the Arbeiter Ring or Workmen’s Circle.
1921: The New York Times published a letter
from Samuel Gompers in which he corrects the Times report of his speech to the Kiwanis Club of Atlantic City. Gompers contends that the “misquote” of his
remarks changes them so that they read like support for business instead of
support for the workers of America.
1921: In Lawrence, MA,
Jewish immigrants Elizabeth (née Melincoff) and Maurice Daniel Penn gave birth
to WW II veteran, actor and director Leo Z. Penn, the father of Michael, Sean
and Chris Penn.
1922: "The League
of Nations is a Jewish idea, and Jerusalem someday will become the capital of
the world's peace," declared Dr. Nahum Sokolow, Chairman of the Zionist
Executive Committee, at a special meeting of the Zionist Conference today. Dr.
Sokolow “said the Jews of the world will back the League and that Jerusalem
will be the International Peace Capital.”
1922: Princeton
University graduate, WW I and New York Times man, Julius Ochs Adler, the
Chattanooga, TN born son of Ada Ochs and Harry C. Adler married Barbara
Stettheimer today in Redwood City, CA.
1923: Birthdate of
Danzig native Yitzhak "Ike" Aronowicz the captain of the famous SS
Exodus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24ahronovitch.html
1924: On the door of
the hall in Konigsberg, Germany where General Ludendorff was celebrating the
tenth anniversary of the victory at the Battle of Tannenberg in WW I, a sign
was posted which read “No Jews Admitted.”
1924: “Dr. Joseph
Silverman, rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanuel in New York City and President of
the Jewish Memorial Conservatory of Music in Palestine announced that a hearty
response is being given to the drive for funds with which to establish the
conservatory of music in Palestine as a memorial to the Jewish soldiers who in
the World War.”
1925: Birthdate of
Herman Cohen, the producer of horror film who helped launch the career of
Michael Landon when he featured him in “cult classic, ‘I Was a Teenage
Werewolf.’”
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-12/news/0206120136_1_evil-adult-teenage-werewolf-mr-cohen
1926: Featherweight
Harry Blitman fought and won his second bout today.
1926: In Vlagtwedde,
Vlagtwedde, Groningen, The Netherlands, Sophie Josephine Franks, the daughter
of Louis and Emma Sachs and Siegfried Frank gave birth to Emma Frank
1926: “The White Horse
Inn,” a film version of the play by Oskar Blumentahl and Gustaf Kadelburg
directed and produced by Richard Oswald was released in Germany today.
1927: Birthdate of
Harlem native Morris “Mo” Levy, “owner of Roulette Records and the Birdland
jazz club who passed away before he
could begin serving a prison sentence after having been convicted of
“conspiring to extort” in connection with an investigation into mob involvement
in the record industry.
1927: In Scotland, Ada
and “Yitzi Fievel Caplan” gave birth to Bernard Caplan, the husband of Dora
Capaln.
1927: Samuel Greenwald
declined to accept the Republican nomination for the Judgeship in the Second
District Court of the Municipal Court in New York.
1927: Two years after
opening on Broadway, George S. Kaufman’s “The Butter and Egg Man” opented today
at the Garrick Theatre in London.
1928: The
Kellogg-Briand Pact, which failed in its anti-war making goal but provided part
of the legal justification for the Nuremberg War Crime trials was signed today
by “Germany, France and the United States.”
1929: Birthdate of Ira Levin, author of many popular
novels including Rosemary's Baby
1929: While Moslem
leaders in Jerusalem have issued an appeal to Arab raiders to return to work
and cease their attacks, widespread disorders occurred in Palestine. Marauding
band of Arabs have left hundreds of victims, dead and wounded, from Dan to Beersheba
while British troops have been unable to stop the violence.
1929: “Black Magic” a
silent film featuring Fritz Feld as “James Fraser” was released in the United
States today.
1930: “Monte Carlo” a
musical directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch was released today in the
United States.
1930:
Funeral services are scheduled to held today for seventy-six-year-old “former
New York State Supreme Court Justice and Columbia University trained attorney
Samuel Greenbaum, the London, England born “son of Rachel Shlesinger and Louis
Greenbaum” who “was a trustee of the Jewish Welfare Board, the Jewish
Theological Seminary and the Baron de Hirsch Fund.
1931: Birthdate of New
York City native and holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota George
Levine the U.S. Army veteran and English literature professor who spent “most
of his career at Rutgers University.
1931: Birthdate of
“actress, singer and AIDS activist” Marilyn Lovell Matz, the wife of composer
Peter Matz
http://richardskipper.blogspot.com/2012/04/marilyn-lovell-matz-remembrance.html
1932: In Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, attorney Morris Fromkin “and the former Selma Strelsin, the sister
of Albert A. Strelsin, the industrialist and arts patron” gave birth to
historian David Fromkin, the author of A Peace to End All Peace, a must
read book by anybody who wants to talk intelligently about events in the Middle
East and beyond. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1933: Birthdate of magazine editor, author and
Presidential speech writer, Ben Wattenberg.
1933: Birthdate of
Leonard Irving Weinglass who was
according to some “the nation’s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who
represented political renegades, government opponents and notorious criminal
defendants in a half century of controversial cases, including the Chicago
Seven, the Pentagon Papers and the Hearst kidnapping.” (As reported by Bruce
Weber)
1933: In Prague, The
economic development of Palestine is outlined in a report of the Zionist
Executive to the Congress, which reveals the following: During the past two
years £3,252,000 has been invested in Palestine, of which £1,350,000 or 42%
went into agriculture, mainly citrus planting, £1,400,000 or 43% went into
building, and the remainder into industry and handicraft. A survey of 213
immigrants of the capitalist class shows that 54% of their total capital of
£697,000 was invested in agriculture. During this period 21,767 immigrants came
into the country; 11,384 workers on labor schedule, 3,122 capitalists, 2,697
certificates went to relatives of residents and 4,168 people came under
unspecified classifications.
1933: Testimony given
in the magistrate's court at Jaffa, on August 25th,alleging that
Revisionist extremists had contemplated recourse to murder over shadowed all
other issues here as the eighteenth World Zionist Congress entered its second
week of deliberations today.
1934(16th of
Elul, 5694): Four days before his 41st birthday, Yale educated engineer
Alexander Cahn passed away today in Branford, CT.
1934: “The original
Broadway production of ‘Life Begins at 8:40’ a musical revue with music by
Harold Arlen, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg and sketches by David
Freedman opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.”
1934: In Iraq many Jews
were dismissed from public service and quotas were set up in colleges and
universities
1935: The next Zionist
Conference is scheduled to open in today in Lucerne, Switzerland.
1935: In Switzerland,
Rabbi Dov Yehuda and Sarach Schochet gave birth to Rabbi Dov Yehuda Schochet.
1935: In Chicago, “Sam
Patinkin, a scrap dealer and the form Eva Brezinsky” gave birth to Sheldon
Patinkin, a writer, director and teacher who helped shape the theatrical life
of Chicago over half a century.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chi-sheldon-patinkin-dies-20140921-column.html
1935: The Federal
Theatre Project is established. Elmer Rice, the Manhattan born son of Jacob and
Fanny Lion Reizenstein, was the first director of the New York office of the
Federal Theatre Project, but resigned in 1936 to protest government censorship
of the FTP's "Living Newspaper" Ethiopia, about Mussolini's invasion
of that country. The FTP included a Yiddish Unit.
1935: In New York,
Morris Yablans, a cab driver and his wife Annette gave birth to producer and
studio executive Frank Yablans, the younger brother of producer Irwin Yablans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/business/media/frank-yablans-film-executive-dies-at-79.html
1936: In Brooklyn,
“Rose (Farber) Kovel” and Louis Kovel, “an accountant and the namesake of the
Kovel Rule, a legal doctrine that extended the lawyer-client confidentiality
privilege to other professionals and experts” gave birth to psychiatrist and
“eco-socialist” Joel Kovel.
https://louisproyect.org/2018/05/02/joel-kovel-1936-2018-an-appreciation/
1936: “Leaders of the
Arab Youth party began collecting signatures for a memorandum demanding an Arab
boycott of the Royal Commission” coming to Palestine to investigate the causes
of the violence begun by the Arabs in April, 1936. The Arabs are demanding that Jewish
immigration and land sales must be stopped before there will be any
negotiations.
1936: It was reported
today that Senator William H. King cabled Max Rhoade, the Washington
representative of the Zionist Organization of America from San Juan that “As
president of the American Palestine Committee, I have followed with much
anxiety and concern the serious disorders for the last few months in Palestine”
and have refrained from any public expression with regard to Great Britain’s
policy in Palestine because he thinks we can rely “on the good faith of the
British to carry out their pledge to Jews and to the League of Nations for the
establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
1936: “Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, president of the Zionist Organization of America said today on his return
from Europe that the great task facing the Zionist movement in this country and
of all Jews throughout the world who are concerned with the rebuilding of the
Jewish national homeland in Palestine was firm resistance to the threatened
suspension of Jewish immigration in Palestine.”
1937(22nd of Elul,
5697): Lionel Walter Rothschild passed away. The 2nd Baron Rothschild was a
British zoologist who became a great collector and founded the Rothschild
Natural History Museum in London. The museum was opened to the public in 1892.
As the eldest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, he was
somewhat of a disappointment to his father as his life was devoted to natural
history and not banking. His interest in natural history began when he was a
child, collecting butterflies. Numerous species and sub-species of animals were
named after him. He issued Novitates Zoologicae from Tring, his country
estate and published scores of scientific papers. He received his titles on the
death of his father in 1915. The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum became
part of the Natural History Museum.
1937: Birthdate of
Philip Arthur Shulman, the native of Glasgow, Scotland who gained game as Phil
Shulman, “a member of the progressive rock group Gentle Giant.”
1938(30th of
Av, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1938: As British forces
sought to bring an end to the latest wave of Arab terror two Arab youths were
wounded, one fatally, when troops today opened fire on a group that refused to
disperse when caught setting fire to a closed wine shop at Jaffa. Meanwhile
“armed Arab completed the evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Jamam in the
Beersheba district and set fire to every building there.”
1939: In France, “the
Communist deputies” were excluded from the Assembly “after the Nazi-Soviet pact
was signed.”
1939: “After two days
of packing, truck convoys” filled with art from the Louvre including the
collection of engravings, drawings and illustrated books that had belonged to
Baron Edmond de Rothschild which had been donated in 1935 “began to leave
Paris” as it became obvious that war was about to break out in Europe.
1940(23rd
of Av, 5700): One of first to reprisals against the Germans, Israel Karp was
shot by Germany military authority in France.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seligsberg-alice-lillie
1940: The Vichy French
government rescinded the law forbidding racial hatred. This made hating Jews legal.
1941(4th of Elul,
5701): First group of 11,000 Jews from Kamenets are taken out of town to a pit
and gunned down in bomb craters.
1941: Isidore Newman
who was being trained as a Wireless Oifficer with SOE “went for a long walk
today saying he was suffering from nostalgia.
1941(4th of Elul,
5701): The Nazis massacred the Jewish community of Posvol, Lithuania
1941(4th of
Elul, 5701): “Detachments of the Einsatzgruppen in Kamenets-Podolsk and troops
under the command of the Higher SS and Police Leader for the southern region,
SS General Friedrich Jeckeln, began to carry out mass killings of the Jewish
deportees as well as the local Jewish population.
1942: Thirty-six year
old Mohammad Essad Bey, who was Lev Nussimbaum before converting to Islam
passed away today.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/the_many_lives_of_lev_nussimbaum_20050408
1942(14th of Elul, 5702): Eight thousand Jews from Wieliczka,
Poland, are killed at the Belzec death camp.
1942(14th of Elul, 5702): When a transport train carrying 6000 Jews
from Miedzyrzec, Poland, arrives at the Treblinka extermination camp, guards
discover that all 6000 have died of suffocation during the 75-mile journey.
1942(14th of Elul, 5702): Several thousand Jews from Chortkov,
Poland, are assembled in the town square and forced to witness the murders of
the community's children
1943(26th of Av, 5703): All the Jews working at a cement factory at
Drogobych, Ukraine, near the Janówska labor camp, are murdered. One of the
victims is Dr. Mojzesz Bay, a 36-year-old graduate of the Sorbonne.
1943: “Hitler’s
Madman,” a “film about the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and the Lidice
massacre revenge taken by the Germans” based on a story by Albrecht Joseph and
Emil Ludwig with a screenplay by Peretz Hirschbein, Melvin Levy and Edgar G.
Ulmer was released in the United States today.
1944: Bruce Sundlin the
U.S. bomber pilot who had been working the Marquis (French Resistance) and
serving with OSS was among those who took part in the battle at Marseilles
today during which most of the city was liberated from German control.
1944: As of today
Victor Cavendish Bentinck, assistant under-secretary in the British Foreign
Office still doubted the existence of gas chambers when he said, 'I think we
weaken our case against the Germans by publicly giving credence to atrocity
stories for which we have no evidence.'These mass executions in gas chambers
remind me of the story of the employment of human corpses during the last
(1914-18) war for the manufacture of fat, which was a grotesque lie and led to
the true stories of German enormities being brushed aside as being mere
propaganda.'
1945: Premiere of “True Glory” --
“a documentary account of the allied
invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly
1400 cameramen” – directed by Garson Kanin with a script created by Paddy
Chayefsky and Eric Maschwitz among others.
1945: Today Hermann
Göring became the first Nuremberg defendant to be interrogated intensively by
the Allies.
1945: It was reported
today that Louis Lipsky, president of Bnai Zion, fraternal Zionist organization
of America, has that he was confident the British Labor party would assist in
opening Palestine to the Jews.”
1946(30th of Av, 5706):
Rosh Chodesh Elul
1946: It was reported
today that “representatives of
five Jewish Agencies who have from a survey of United States Army camps for
displaced persons in Germany praised the Army's handling of the problem and the
contribution of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to
the aid of homeless refugees.”
1947: “Kiss of Death,”
a film based on a story by Eleazer Lipsky and a screenplay by Ben Hecht, was
released today in the United States.
1947: “Golden Earrings”
a spy film with a script by Helen Deutsch and Abraham Polonsky and music by
Victor Young was released in the United States today by Paramount Pictures.
1947: In Queens, NY, Jewish
police officer Howard I. Golbach and his wife Marjorie who was not Jewish gave
birth to Barbara Goldbach who gained fame as actress Barbara Bach the future
wife of Beatle Ringo Starr.
1948: Birthdate of Los
Angeles native Elliot Miles Goodman the Antioch graduate and composer who was
the cousin of Johnny Mandel.
http://america.pink/miles-goodman_3015112.html
1949(2nd of
Elul, 5709): Parashat Shoftim
1949: It was reported
today that Samuel B. Ratoff, President of The Hebrew Institute, the only
Orthodox synagogue in White Plains, NY said that in addition to a new synagogue
that building which will be building on Greenridge Avenue “would house
clubrooms, a banquet hall, a kitchen, a gymnasium and a two-story school wing.”
1951: Rabbi Israel
Goldstein was re-elected today president of the World Confederation of General
Zionists, and Mrs. Rose Halprin and Dr. Emanuel Neumann vice presidents. They
are all from New York.
1952: In Peekskill, NY,
Judy and Milton Rubenfeld gave birth to Paul Reubenfeld who gained games as
Pee-Wee Herman.
1952:
The Knesset endorsed by an overwhelming vote the agreement with the US for the
purchase of arms and for the negotiations in Washington for military aid,
within the framework of the Mutual Security Act. The vote came in the form of a
vote of no confidence in the government, introduced by Mapam and supported by
the Communists, which was defeated by 69 votes to 13.
1952: Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in
Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
1953: Birthdate of Jonathan David Simons, the native of Glasgow whose “first
novel The Credit Draper…is set primarily with the Glasgow Jewish
community in the early part of the 20th century.”
1954: “Shield for Murder” directed by Howard W. Koch was released today
in the United States by United Artists.
1954(28th of Av, 5714): Seventy-three-year-old Philadelphia
native a holder of a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania, “Dr. Armand J.
Gerson, the retired associate superintendent of the Philadelphia schools” and
author of These Dickens Folks passed away today in Ocean City, NJ.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/08/28/84131408.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954: In Dallas, TX, Regina Elfenbein, the “daughter of Chaim and Chana
Nankin” gave birth to Jessic Lynne Schwartz.
1955(9th of Elul, 5715): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1955: Sandy “Koufax threw a two-hit, 7–0 complete game shutout against
the Cincinnati Reds for his first major league win.”
1955(9th of Elul, 5715): Sophie Ratner, the wife of Benjamin
Ratner and the mother of director, producer and actor Gregory Ratoff known for
playing suave, sophisticates, passed away today.
1956: In Trenton, NJ, Rabbi Joshua Haberman of Ha Sinai Temple officiated
at the wedding of Barbara Joyce Cohen and Stuart G. Crane.
1957(30th of Av, 5717): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1957(30th of Av, 5717): Ninety-two year old Abraham Lincoln
Filene, the Boston born son of Clara Ballin and Filene Department store founder
William Filene, the husband of There Weill, who used the family fortune to
support social causes such as the women’s right to vote and various cultural
and artistic activities passed away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lincoln-Filene
1960: In Cleveland, Ohio, Victor and Ellen Cohn gave birth to Goldman
Sachs millionaire Donald Cohn the husband of Lisa A. Pevaroff who was named
Director of the National Economic Council by President Donald Trump whom he
continued to serve despite publicly expressing his displeasure with the
President’s response to Nazi Torchlight Marchers in Charlottesville, VA.
1963: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So
Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition was the first
play written by Arthur Kopit which had opened off-Broadway “transferred to
Broadway at the Morosco Theatre” today.
1964: The Democratic National Convention comes to an end having nominated
two pro-Israel candidates – Lyndon Johnson for President and Hubert Humphrey
for Vice President. Johnson had helped Jewish refugees enter the United States
through Mexico in the 1930’s, passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and would
stand up to Russians on behalf of Israel in 1967 in stark contrast to the craven
behavior of the Eisenhower administration during the Suez Crisis of 1956)
1964: “Mary Poppins” with an Oscar winning score by Richard and Robert
Sherman and featuring Ed Wynn as “Uncle Albert” premiered at Grauman’s Chinese
Theatre in Los Angeles.
1964: Sixty-two year old comedian Gracie Allen, the wife and partner of
George Burns, passed away today.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22
http://www.biography.com/people/gracie-allen-9542415#synopsis
http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/581126
1965: Today, in a letter to Zippora Saar’s mother in Israel, Filippus Mosesco “wrote that he and Lillian
had moved from New York City to the farm 15 years earlier because of health
ailments that included his being “badly disabled” in France during World War I.”
https://www.jta.org/2014/03/02/lifestyle/across-the-ocean-a-poignant-end-to-an-israelis-search
1967: Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, passed away. Yes, the lads from Liverpool were managed by
an English Jew.
1968(21st of Av, 5727):
Movie Director Robert Z. Leonard passed away
http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/robert-z-leonard/
1969(13th of
Elul, 5729): Sixty-three year old Erika Mann, the actress and writer who was
the “eldest daughter of Thomas Mann and Katia Mann and who had been baptized as
a Protestant passed away today.
1969(13th of
Elul, 5729): Chicago born CPA and University of Michigan alum Melvin D. Skolink
passed away today.
1969: “Medium Cool” a
directed, written and filmed by Harold Wexler and starring Verna Bloom was
released in the United States today.
1971(6th of Elul,
5731): Bennett Cerf, founder of Random
House and panel member on the television hit What’s My Line, passed away at the age of 73
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/cerfb/profile.html
1971: Sixty-seven year
old Margaret Bourke-White, one of the great photographers of the 20th
century, if not of all times whose father was from an Orthodox Jewish family
and whose mother was Irish passed away today. (For those who grew up in a world
of hand-held video cams, satellite communications and cable network news, it is
hard to appreciate the important role played by photographers and
photo-journalists like Bourke-White. Her photos filled the pages of such
publications as Life Magazine, which brought the world of natural
disasters, war and high fashion to Middle America. If you know anything about
Jews and photography, you will see why this was a must post item and a reason
for supporting Patrilinealism)
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/margaret-bourke-white/
http://time.com/4355162/margaret-bourke-white-cameras/
http://iphf.org/inductees/margaret-bourke/
1973: “The Recipes of
Chairman Mao" by Marshall Brickman's appeared in The New Yorker.
(Brickman was Jewish; Mao was not)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/08/27/the-recipes-of-chairman-mao
1976: It was reported
today that the “release of Briton Robert G. Clegg” who had been charged with
spying for the Israelis during the raid on Entebbe by Idi Amin came as a
surprise since the Uganda government had previously said “it had no record of
him ever being in the country.”
1977: The US State Department confirmed that a member of the Palestine
Liberation Organization had applied for a visa to the US in order to be allowed
to open a PLO Information Center there. But the PLO¹s rejection, at a special
meeting held in Damascus, of both UN Resolution 242 and Israel¹s right to exist
was seen here as a serious setback to President Carter¹s Middle East peace
efforts. He was reported to be in a rather pessimistic mood.
1977: In Bucharest Prime Minister Menachem Begin described his Sabbath
visit to the Bucharest synagogue as the most moving day in my life since the
day Israel announced its independence. Begin sought to comfort Romanian Jews
and praised President Ceausescu for his policy of tolerance toward religious
practice. Ceausescu would lose much of his luster and ultimately be killed
during a anti-Communist revolt.
1979: Funeral services for Joseph H. Blass, a member of Young Israel of
Flatbush and the husband of Edythe Blass, the “Honorary Sisterhood President”
are scheduled to take place this morning in Brooklyn
1979: After Lord Mountbatten was murdered by a terrorist bomb he was
buried in Romsey Abbey which was celebrated for its collection of Hebrew books.
1980(15th of Elul, 5740): Sam Levenson passed away at the age of 68.
Levenson was a Brooklyn school teacher who became a television star in the
1950’s. The Sam Levenson Show was quite popular in its day. This was quite since surprising considering
the source of Levenson’s humor. He was
the son of Jewish immigrants who had worked as a schoolteacher in Brooklyn.
These experiences were the basic material for his witty stories and quips.
http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2012/nov/09/sam-levenson/
http://catskills.brown.edu/confReports/levenson.shtm
1983: Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus) “performed a landmark open-air
concert at Blenheim Palace in Britain, an event that he told the audience was
"one of the most exciting nights" in his life being the first such
event ever held at that venue and was attended by a conservative estimate of
40,000 people.”
1984(29th of Av, 5744): Seventy-three year old “character
actor” Billy Sands, the Bergen, NY born son of “John F. and Dana Alice Sands”
best known for his recurring role as Pvt. Dino Papparelli, on “The Phil Silvers
Show” and Harrison “Tinker” Bell on “McHale’s Navy.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1984/08/31/164374.html?pageNumber=78
1985: In Jerusalem, award winning author David Grossman and his Michael
Grossman gave birth to Uri Grossman who as a 20-year Staff Sergeant in the 401st
Tank Brigade was killed while fighting in Southern Lebanon in 2006.
https://www.benderjccgw.org/yom-hazikaron/uri-grossman/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/20/syria.comment
1986: ''We Were So Beloved,'' Manfred Kirchheimer's documentary about
Jews who escaped Germany before the Holocaust opened today Film Forum 1 in New
York City. (As reported by Vincent Canby)
1988: “A Friendship in Vienna,” a film set in Vienna at the time of the
Anschluss starring Stephen Mach and Edward Asner premiered today on the Disney
Channel.
1988(14th of Elul, 5748): Seventy-nine year old Dr. Max Black
passed way today in Ithaca, NY.
1988: A single was recorded today with Carole Bayer Sager’s “A Groovy
Kind of Love” on the “A-side.”
1989(26th of Av, 5749): Fifty-eight year old Melvin “Mel”
Seeman , the Lincoln High graduate and star forward and center for NYU passed away.
1992: FOX broadcast the first episode of “The Heights” produced by Aaron
Spelling.
1993: “Estate Fee To Wachtler Is $800,000” published today
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/27/nyregion/estate-fee-to-wachtler-is-800000.html
1994: After 320 performances the curtain came down on the original
Broadway production of Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”
1995(1st of Elul, 5755): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1996(12th of Elul, 5756): Fifty tow year old Tel Aviv native
Yair Rosenblum the composer who was musical director of the IDF passed away
today.
http://www.radiohazak.com/Rosenblum.html
1997(24th of Av,
5757): Forty-eight year old television
whiz-kid executive Brandon Tartikoff passed away.
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9708/27/tartikoff.obit.update/
http://www.biography.com/people/brandon-tartikoff-9542058
1998: Eric Edelman began
serving as U.S. Ambassador to Finland.
1999: “The Muse” a
comedy directed, written by and starring Albert Brooks and featuring Mark
Feuerstein was released in the United States today by October Films
2000: The New York Times book section featured
reviews of Left Back: A Century of
Failed School Reforms by Jewish born education reformer Diane
Ravitch. The Secret Parts of Fortune
Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms by
Ron Rosenbaum and The Presidential
Difference: Leadership Style From FDR to Clinton by Fred
Irwin Greenstein
2000(26th of Av, 5760):
Sixty-five year old Gilbert de Botton, the financial manager who was a
descendant of the rabbinical scholar Abraham de Botton passed away. (As
reported by Paul Lewis)
2000: At the Crystal
Plaza in Livingston, NJ, Rabbi Arziel C. Fellner is scheduled to officiate at
the wedding of Dara Horn, Cambridge University Hebrew literature student, and
Yale Law School graduate Brendan Michael Schulman.
2001: Israeli
helicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows and killed Mustafa
Zibri, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP
2002: Thirty-eight year
old Meir Lixenberg was shot today by terrorists.
2002: Moshe
"Bogie" Ya'alon told Haaretz; "The Palestinian threat
harbors cancer-like attributes that have to be severed. There are all kinds of
solutions to cancer. Some say it's necessary to amputate organs but at the
moment I am applying chemotherapy."
2003(29th of Av, 5763):
Ninety-one year old Austrian born American architect and designer Henry P.
Glass who survived Dachau and Buchenwald passed away today.
http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/artists_pages/henry_glass_obituary.html
2004(10th of
Elul, 5764): Sixty-four year old actress Susan Peretz passed away today from
Breast Cancer.
http://variety.com/2004/scene/people-news/susan-peretz-1117909852/
2004: “Adam & Paul”
a movie about drug addicts directed by Lenny Abrahamson was released in Ireland
today by Element Pictures.
2004: “The Brothers” a
Danish film directed by Susan Bier was released today by Nordisk Film.
2005: Under the
leadership of President Scott Cowen, “Tulane began to publicly respond to the
arrival of Hurricane Katrina today with an initial plan to close the university
until September 1.”
2005: The
Jerusalem Post reported on the Red Sea Jazz Festival at Eilat, Israel’s
southern seaport. This marked the 19th
year for this annual event and the response of the crowd indicated that Jazz is
a live, well and thriving in Israel.
Apparently the rocket attack in Jordan which resulted in an errant
warhead hitting Eilat by mistake did not dampen the spirit of the attendees who
ranged in age from teens to grandmothers swaying in the aisles.
2006:
In “Green's Chase Revives Greenberg's Name and Fame,”
published today, Murray Chass notes that “Shawn Green, with 314 career home runs, is only
17 from matching Hank Greenberg's standard as the career leader among Jewish
players.
2006: The Sunday New York Times book section
included a review of Selected
Letters of Martha Gellhorn
(St. Louis born Jewish novelist, travel writer and journalist), edited
by Caroline Moorehead.
2006: “New Torah scroll
presented to the Beth Israel Synagogue in New Orleans.”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/27/2006/katrina
2006:
As those who study history know, history is determined, in no small part, by
the person writing the history. With
that in mind, please excuse this
shameless orgy of self-adulation in publishing the following letter as it appeared
in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Letters
A Man in Cedar Rapids
To the Editor:
After a lifetime of reading about Jewish lawyers, doctors,
brilliant writers and Nobel Prize winners, I cannot tell you how excited I was
to read about A Woman In Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua (Aug. 13). I am
totally blown away — a novel where the leading character is a Jewish human
resources manager. I am a longtime Jewish human resources director and I never
thought I would make it as a character in a novel, let alone the main
character. Of course, I do this in Cedar Rapids, which is not exactly
Jerusalem. But if you ever want to know what it is like to be Jewish in the
heartland, hey, that’s a book I could write.
Mitchell A. Levin
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2007: “The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains
Popularity,” published today described the changing face of kibbutz movement
in Israel.
2007: As Phil Spector stood trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson, Bruce
Clarkson, his second defense lawyer withdrew and was replaced with Linda Kenney
Baden.
2007: In Cedar Rapids, Harold
Becker, a pillar of the Jewish community and Guaranty Bank & Trust was
honored for donating $75,000 to The Arc of East Central Rapids. This is just one more example of Mr. Becker’s
philanthropic efforts on behalf of both the Jewish Community and the people of
Cedar Rapids and its environs.
2007: The New Republic featured
a review of Davide Ferrairo’s film, “Primo Levi’s Journey,” which follows,
figuratively, Levi’s footsteps as made his way from Auschwitz back to his home
in Turin.
2007(13th of Elul, 5767): Seventy-two year old, Gad Yaacobi
passed away. A native of Kfar Vitkin he was an MK and held several ministerial
positions.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3442660,00.html
2008(26th of Av, 5768): Eighty one year old Abie Nathan the Israeli air force trained pilot and self-declared peace
activist who flew a plan from Israel to Egypt a decade before Sadat flew to
Jerusalem passed away today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/29/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast
http://www.abie-nathan.com/pages-eng/biography.html
2008: Yale University announced that Peter Salovey will succeed Andrew
Hamilton as Provost, making him the fourth provost appointed by President
Richard Levin
2008: Second night of the inaugural Gilboa
Coexistence Festival taking place throughout the Gilboa region featuring David
Broza with Yair Dalal and Ibrahim Eid.
2008 Florida Congressman Robert Wexler addressed the Democratic National
Convention for the first time on the subject of national security and foreign
policy. Wexler represents Florida’s 19th
district, one of the most heavily Jewish congressional districts in the United
States and I considered a strong advocate for Israel in Washington.
2008: The Washington Post
featured a review of The End of the Jews, the new novel by Adam
Mansbach.
2009: Opening of the Ceremonies commemorating the 65th
Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz by German
authorities.
2009: Six days after he passed away, funerals services are scheduled to
be held for 93 year old Robert Bendheim, the “former president and chairman of
M. Lowenstein Corporation, member of the Board of Trustees of Mt. Sinai
Hospital who had graduated from Princeton and served in the Navy during WW II.
2009:
The Israeli unemployment rate rose to 8
percent in the second quarter despite encouraging economic indicators pointing
to a recovery, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today.
2009:
Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29
blueprints presented to Israel’s prime minister today lay out the Nazi death
camp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousing
facilities and watch towers drawn to scale.
2009: Eighty-two year old Alex Grass the creator of Rite Aid Corporation
passed away today. (As reported by Charles Duhigg)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/29grass.html
2009:
The publicly funded Multicultural Center's
(Werkstatt der Kulturen) decision to remove educational panels of the Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, who was an ally of Adolf
Hitler, from a planned exhibit, sparked outrage today among a district mayor,
the curator of the exhibit, and the Berlin Jewish community.
2010: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah celebrates the start of the
fourth season of “Musical Shabbat.”
2010: In “Black and Jewish, and Seeing No Contradiction,” published today
Trymaine Lee describes the life of African-Americans who are Orthodox Jews.
2011:
Hutzot Hayotzer, the popular
international arts and crafts fair that has become a Jerusalemite ritual, is
scheduled to come to a close today.
2011: In the United Kingdom the curtain comes down on “Nine Suitcase” “a
solo piece performed by British actor David Prince” which is a theatrical
adaptation of Béla Zsolt’s novel of the same name which recounts the
experiences of the author during the Holocaust.
http://www.thepublicreviews.com/ed-fringe-2011-nine-suitcases-%E2%80%93-venue-13/
2011:
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to
the streets tonight to participate in demonstrations protesting the high cost
of living in Israel.
2011: Saeb Erekat
repeated his claim that meeting that Consul-General Daniel Rubenstein had threatened that the US would cut off
aid to the Palestinians if they insisted on going to the UN., adding that the Americans
have threatened to veto the PA statehood bid and cut off financial aid to the
Palestinians. The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem denied Erekat’s claim when he
first made it yesterday.
2011: Norfolk’s Beth El Synagogue did not hold service today as Hurricane
Irene barreled its way up the East Coast.
2011(27th of Av, 5771): Eighty-three year Ezat Delijani, Iran
born businessman and philanthropist passed away today. (As reported by Dennis
McLellan)
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/aug/30/local/la-me-ezat-delijani-20110830
2012: Christian Dawid is scheduled to appear tonight at The Montreal
Jewish Music Festival.
2012: “Hutzot Hayotzer, the popular international arts and crafts fair
that has become a Jerusalemite ritual” is scheduled to come to an end.
2012(9th of Elul, 5772): Seventy-one year old Duke Basketball
start Art Heyman passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)
2012(9th of Elul, 5772): Ninety-five year old WW II Australian
RAAF war hero Sir Richard Kingsland who had changed his name from Julius Cohen
“to avoid anti-Semitism” passed away
today.
2012:
President Shimon Peres said today that
he could not understand the stupidity of the ongoing rocket campaign being
waged by Palestinian terrorists, which has escalated in the lead into Israel's
2012-2013 school year.
2012:
An IDF soldier was critically injured
during a joint exercise involving infantry units and armored corps in the Golan
Heights this morning, according to the IDF Spokesman's Office. The soldier,
from the IDF's Golani Brigade, received first aid treatment on the scene before
being evacuated to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
2013:
Tango Apassionata in Yiddish – A Night with Sharon Brauner is scheduled to take
place at the Budapest Music Center.
2013:
The Muzsikás Ensemble is scheduled to perform tonight as part of the Jewish
Summer Festival in Budapest.
2013:
With the US poised for military action in Syria and amid uncertainty as to how
Damascus will react, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister
Moshe Ya'alon made clear today that while Israel will not get involved, it will
respond severely if attacked. (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2013:
“The 5774 (2013-2014) school year formally opened today with over 2.13 million
schoolchildren arriving in more than 4,500 schools nationwide for their first
day of classes.” (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/2-1-million-israeli-children-kick-off-new-school-year/
2014(1st of Elul, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Elul –
the shofar is blown for the first time
2014: Dr. Eric Goldman is scheduled to present the final
session of “Hollywood Zion: Israel Through the Lens of American Film Makers.”
2014: Noa Meir, Director of Israel Action Center &
International Affairs for Jewish Community Relations is scheduled to speak at
Shaare Tefila in Olney, MD on “Current Events and How to Advocate for Israel.”
2014: “An Israeli officer in the Golan Heights was
moderately injured by apparent stray fire from fighting in Syria this morning,
as an al-Qaeda linked rebel group took control of the only crossing between Israel
and Syria.” (As reported
by Spencer Ho)
2014: While Prime Minister Netanyahu’s supporters praised
the most recent ceasefire, others including the Foreign Minister and residents
of southern Israel questioned its value or condemned it as a failure because
Hamas remained in power.
2014: Aaron Sofer, a New Jersey yeshiva student who
disappeared while hiking in the Jerusalem Forest has not been found despite the
offer of 100,000 shekel reward by his parents.
2015: “Prosecutors in Kansas rested their case today “in
the murder trial of white supremacist” 74 year old Klu Klux Klan member Frazier
Glenn Cross” “after playing a recorded call in which he expressed surprise the
three people fatally shot outside two Jewish centers in suburban Kansas City,
MO,last year were not Jewish.” (As reported by Kevin Murphy)
2015: Miri Ben-Ari,
a Grammy Award-Winning sabra violinist/producer/humanitarian, “UN Goodwill
Ambassador of Music to the United Nations Associations of Brazil”, and Global
Brand Ambassador for Harman Kardon is scheduled to perform at the Highline
Ballroom
2015: The historic Georgia Railroad Freight Depot is
scheduled to host “Kosher Food & Wine Atlanta” during which Sandra Bank of
A Kosher Touch Catering will be honored for her twenty years of service to the
community.
2015:
Friends and family of Murray Wolfe, led by his loving wife Charlene, prepare to
say one last good bye as he his laid to rest in California.
2016:
The International Al Jolson Society is scheduled to host “The 20th
Annual Long Island Jolson Festival” featuring a “A Tribute to Al Jolson.”
2016:
At Temple Israel in Memphis, TN Michael Hirsch, son of Marci and Geoffrey
Hirsch, will become bar mitzvah.,
2016:
Agudas Achim Congregation which is now located in Coralville, IA, is scheduled
to host its Centennial Celebration Dinner in Iowa City.
2016(23rd
of Av, 5776): Shabbat Ekev;
2016(23rd
of Av, 5776): Seventy-nine year old Jamie Davidovich who “helped create the
Artists’ Television Network, which broadcast “The Live! Show” passed away
today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2017(5th
of Elul, 5777): Eighty-five year old Syd Silverman who had followed in the
footsteps of Sime Silverman to become the editor of Variety passed away today.
2017:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t for Professors,
Parents and Students by Jacques Berlinerblau ,Galaxy Love: Poems by
Gerald Stern, This Is Just A Test by Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy
Wan-Long Shang and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
by Jonah Winter.
2017(5th
of Elul, 5777): One hundred and four year old
”Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak, a career military officer, civil
servant and diplomat” passed away today
http://www.timesofisrael.com/yitzhak-pundak-made-a-general-at-100-dies-at-104/
2017:
As Hurricane Harvey ravaged Houston this weekend, The JCC of Houston which
collected relief supplies would remain closed today and based on reports from
the Texas Jewish Herald-Voice homes
in heavily Jewish populated Houston subdivisions, including Meyerland, were
reporting flooding this morning, for the third time in as many years.
2017:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education a “special presentation with Romani
Scholar Dr. Ian Hancock” styled “Romani Life: Then and Now.”
2017:
The Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host “Grand Slam Sunday –
Jewish Community Day Nationals Park.”
2017:
“Our Great Tchaikovsky,” Hershey Felder’s latest one man show which challenged
the actor’s ability to deal with the composer’s alleged anti-Semitism is
scheduled to come to an end a the Hartford State in Hartford, CT
2017:
The Red Sea Jazz Festival is scheduled to open at Eilat.
2017:
The Kansas City Jewish Community is scheduled to host “Day of Discovery –
Explore the Joy of Jewish Learning” in Overland Park, Kansas.
2017:
As part of its centenary celebration Montreal’s Federation CJA to host “a big
birthday party…that promises family fun.”
2017:
“An exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum called ‘Noah’s Beasts: Sculpted
Animals from Ancient Mesopotamia” is scheduled to come to a close today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ny-a-wild-exhibit-on-biblical-noahs-feral-seafarers/
2018:
In Jerusalem, Mercaz Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host a “Tribute to Chopin”
featuring award winning concert pianist Eliah Zabaly this evening.
2018:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host a series of concerts
starting at 3 p.m. featuring Sara Aroeste, Gerard Edery, Nashaz, Adam Maalouf
and the Future of the Tribe and Steven Cehera at the Center for Jewish History.
2019:
After two months, In Tel Aviv,“The Art of the Brick, an international Lego
Exhibition” is scheduled to come to an end.
2019:
In San Francisco, “Oracle Park, “the Giants game against the Diamondbacks” is
scheduled to be designated “Giants Jewish Heritage” complete with Jewish-themed
Giants T-shirt and a pregame party in Lot A.
2019:
In San Rafael, CA, the Osher Marin JCC s scheduled to host “Tomer Persico,
Koret visiting assistant professor at UC Berkeley, as he leads a talk on
Israeli society, the two-state solution and the upcoming election.
2019:
In New Orleans, JNOLA is scheduled to host a back to school “school supplies
drive” this evening.
2019:
The dedication of the Peace Garden is scheduled to take place at the Illinois
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2020:
“The auto parts maker Continental became the latest German company to issue a
confessional study of its Nazi past Thursday, saying it was “a pillar of the
National Socialist armaments and war economy” that employed around 10,000 slave
laborers, often in inhumane conditions.” (As reported by Jack Ewing)
2021:
The Alliance for Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host its August 2021 Menschs
and Mentors Q&A with Barbara Brooks, Deborah Eliezer and Ari Weinberg.
2021:
The High Holiday Food Drive during which Jewish Family and Children’s Services’
will be accepting shelf-stable items for distribution at JFCS food bank
locations across the Bay Area is scheduled to begin today.
2021:
Today U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett are scheduled
to “seek to reset the tone of U.S.-Israeli relations in their first White House
meeting and find common ground on Iran despite differences on how to deal with
its nuclear program.” (YNET and Reuters)
2021:
Flesh of my Flesh,” an exhibition featuring the works of Tel Aviv native Efrat
Lipkin is scheduled to come to an end today.
https://aicf.org/artist/efrat-lipkin/
2022:
Final day of installation celebration activities for Rabbi Yael Dadoun are
scheduled to take place Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood, OH.
2022:
In Waterloo, IA Rabbi Kushner of Sons of Jacob Synagogue is scheduled to
officiate at the unveiling for Dorothy Weinberg at Waterloo Memorial Park
Cemetery.
2022:
Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope is scheduled to present an hour or two of
conversation, prayer, meditation, reflection and Torah discussion while
enjoying the outdoors.
2022(30th
of Av, 5782): Parashat Re’ay (see); Rosh Chodesh Elul
2023:
The Indiana Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to induct the new members of
the Hoosier Jewish Legends Hall of Fame.
2023:
Deadline for applying to be a “’23-’24 ASF Sephardi House Fellow.
2023:
Yom Sport is scheduled to take place at Caspe Terrace in Waukee, IA.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Sandra Myers on “The
Kosher Nostra, Part 2: Gangsters for Zion.”
2023:
The 34th Annual Conference of the World Federation of Jewish Holocaust
Survivors and Descendants is scheduled to continue for a third day in
Washington, D.C.
2023:
YUM’s Director of Museum Education Ilana Benson is scheduled to lead a “guided
tour of The 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 Coralville, OH, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a concert by
harpsichordist Trevor Stephenson.
2023:
The Macher Lab sponsored by the Alliance for Jewish Theatre is scheduled to
meet for a third session today.
2023:
In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host its annual picnic.
