This Day, August 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
August 31
12 CE: Birthdate of Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor. Caligula was crowned in 37 and murdered in
41. Life for Jews during his reign was
part of the downward spiral that would result in three rebellions by the Jews
over the next one …
August 31
12 CE: Birthdate of Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor. Caligula was crowned in 37 and murdered in
41. Life for Jews during his reign was
part of the downward spiral that would result in three rebellions by the Jews
over the next one hundred years. Caligula
was crazy. Unfortunately, his insanity
had additional negative impact on the Jews.
Caligula thought he was divine and insisted on his statue being placed
in the Temple at Jerusalem. His efforts
were twice thwarted, and his untimely death prevented him from taking vengeance
against his Jewish subjects.
38 CE: Riots broke out in Alexandria, Egypt after the Jews spurned an
order by the Roman Prefect Flaccus to place a statue of Emperor Caligula in the
local synagogue. This was an outgrowth of antagonism between the Jews of
Alexandria and some of their pagan neighbors.
The pagans were angered by the Jews celebrating Caligula’s decision to
restore Agrippa, a descendant of the Hasmoneans to the Jewish kingship in
Palestine. They knew that the Jews could
not worship a statue so by forcing a statue of Caligula into the synagogue,
Apion, the pagan leader knew he was asking for trouble. The violence ended and
Flaccus was recalled to Rome. But this
was not the end of the trouble much of which was rooted in the fact that some
pagans begrudged the Jews their commercial success and wished to do away with
them as competitors. This would not be
the last time that those who sought to oust the Jews from commercial ventures
did so under the guise of religion.
161; Birthdate of Commodus, the Roman Emperor who reigned while Judah
ha-Nasi was compiling and editing the Mishna
1056: Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days
later, without children to succeed the throne ending the Macedonian dynasty.
This was a period of relative calm for the Jews of the Byzantine Empire. The last official persecution had taken place
at the end of the 10th century.
Conditions would not seriously deteriorate until the arrival of the
waves of Crusaders that began at the end of the 11th century.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10835-006-9025-0.pdf
1217: Ferdinand III who 1240 took Lucena which was called by some
“Jews’City” because of its large and
prosperous Jewish community, from the Moors was crowned King of Castille and
Toledo today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lucena
1481: Coronation of John II, the Portuguese monarch who employed Abraham
Zacuto whose accomplishment included the development of a new type of astrolabe
as Royal Astronomer and Historian.
1506: The first printed edition of Lashon Limudim, a Hebrew grammar by
David ben Yahya was published today in Constantinople.
1644: Writing to Edward Montague, the 2nd
Earl of Manacher today, Herman L’Estrange, the author of Americans no Jews, or improbabilities
that the Americans are of that Race which
refuted the theory that the “Indians were the ten lost tribes” who was a
Royalist “spoke of being reconciled to the sense of Parliament” which enabled
him to retire and live out his life in peace during the tempestuous years of
the English Civil War.
1694:
A difference between the
Jewish and Christian relations with the slave population in the Antilles is
evidenced in an act passed today by the Dutch Leeward Council and Assembly.
“The act was specifically directed at the Jews and states that it is: 'An Act
against Jews ingrossing Commodities imported in the Leeward Islands, and
trading with the slaves belonging to the inhabitants of the same.’”
1736: Isaac Levy arrived in Savannah today from London.
1774: “Austrian general, Gabriel Freiherr von Spleny entered Czernowitz
at the head of his troops” following which he administered the city in such a
way that “the situation of the Jews basically remained unchanged.”
1792: Birthdate of Louisa Hart, the daughter of Nathan Barnett and the
wife of Abraham L. Hart of Abraham Luria Hart whom she married in 1813.
1793(23rd of Elul, 5553): Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech and Leil
Selichot
1796: In Charleston, SC, David and Priscilla Moses Lopez gave birth to David
Lopez.
1800(10th of Elul, 5560): In Baltimore, Myer S. Solomon the
London born son of Bilah Myers-Cohen and Joseph Solomon and the husband of
Catherine Bush with whom he had seven children passed away today.
1801: Birthdate of Pierre Soulé, a United States
politician and diplomat from Louisiana during the mid-19th century. He is best
known for his role in writing the Ostend Manifesto, which was written in 1854
as part of an attempt to annex Cuba to the United States. The Manifesto was
roundly denounced, especially by anti-slavery elements, and Soulé himself came
under severe attack. According to an article published in the New York Times, Soule was Jewish.
1834: Birthdate of Simon Kayserling, a German educator and writer; who
was the principal teacher and inspector of the M. M. David'sche Freischule from
1861, and taught for several years in the Jewish teachers' seminary in Hanover.
1836: Isaac Kalischer married Rose Marks at the Great Synagogue today.
1836: Henry Worms married Rebecca Nathan at the Great Synagogue today.
1837(30th of Av, 5597): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1837: In Amsterdam, Salomon Bernard Sichel and Fanny Sichel gave birth to
their daughter Henrietta who became Henrietta Montefiore when she married
Joseph Mayer Montefiore.
1839: Birthdate of Julien Sée the Paris born librarian who made the first
translation in French of Joseph ha-Kohen's "'Emeḳ ha-Baka," a history
of the sufferings of the Jewish people from the time of their dispersion to the
present day.”
1841: Deborah and Israel Lindenthal gave birth to Nathaniel Lindenthal
1842: Birthdate of Adolf Pinner, the German chemist who began his
schooling at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau before attending the
University of Berlin where he earned a doctorate in Chemistry in 1867.
1842: In London, George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven Palmer gave
birth to Mary Corinna who became Mary Corinna Jacobi when, in 1873, she married
Dr. Abraham Jacobi, the Jewish physician known as the “father of American pediatrics.”
1843: In New York, Jacob Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Judith and
Moses Benjamin Seixas and her husband Hortensia Seixas gave birth to Camilla
Tunis, the wife of William E. Tunis and the mother of Arthur Tunis.
1847(19th of Elul, 5607): A month after his 63rd
birthday, Jonas Barnet the son of Nathan Barnett who served as a paymaster in
the United States Navy and who married Maria Marks in 1816 passed away today in
Allentown, PA.
1850: In New York Elizabeth Cohen the Dutch born daughter of of Emanuel
Levie Goldsmith and Alijda Joseph Joel Goldsmith and her husband Moses S.
Cohen gave birth to Clara Levine,
the wife of Julius Levine.
1852: One day after he passed away, “Simcha bar Meir” (Simon Marks) was
buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1853: Birthdate of Aleksei Brusilov, the Russian General who as Chief of
Staff in 1917 approved the appointment of Jewish Chaplains to serve alongside
Orthodox Priests.
1857: In New York, James and Rosa Seligman gave birth to Eugene Seligman.
1857: In Safed, Yaakov Mordechai Hirsch who had come to Palestine from
Pinsk in 1848 and his wife gave birth to Chaim Hirsch the future “Chief Rabbi
of Hoboken, NJ.”
1861(25th of Elul, 5621): Parashat Nitzavim-Vayeilech;
Selichot
1861: Philadelphian, Corporal Jacob Ullman began serving a four year hit
with Company E of the 75th Regiment.
1862:
This afternoon the
Congregation Baith Israel dedicated their new synagogue to public worship. The
synagogue, which is a very handsome brick structure, stands upon the lot at the
corner of State and Boerum streets, Brooklyn, and cost in the neighborhood of
$10,000. Rabbis Raphael and Isaacs entered the sanctuary which was packed with
congregants leading a procession that carried the synagogues “sacred
scrolls.” They were greeted by Baith
Israel’s spritiual leader, Rabbi Joel Alexander “who said or rather intoned the sacred welcome
"Boruch habo" -- when the choir, which was composed of several
beautiful black-eyed Hebrew maidens led by Felix Sanger, and accompanied by
Sanger's brass band, sang with strange effect one of their quaint and sacred
songs. The procession then marched around the room seven times, the Rabbis
successively chanting an appropriate song to which the choir responded with the
proper chorus. The eternal fire was lighted, the sacred rolls were deposited
behind the altar, the Synagogue was irrevocably dedicated to the worship of
God, the Father; and after other songs were given, Rabbi Raphael delivered the
consecration sermon. [Editor’s Note - Baith Israel was also known as Baith
Israel Anshei Emes and is now known as the Kane Street Synagogue, , the oldest continually running
synagogue in Brooklyn. Among the congregations Bar Mitzvah “boys” was Aaron
Copland.]
1864: In the Ukraine, Heinrich and Julia Zach gave birth to , Max Zach, the
orchestra conductor who began his career playing Viola with Boston Symphony
Orchestra before moving on to lead the Boston Pops and husband of Blach Going
with whom he had three children Leon, Phillip and Eleanor,
1864:
The New York Times reviews a new translation of the
Book of Job by J.M. Rodwell, “an eminent Oriental scholar who has lately
published the first readable English version of The Koran, in which the
chapters are chronologically arranged, and the poetical portions rendered
metrically.” His translation of the Book of Job, “the most sublime of the
Hebrews scriptures” follows the same pattern. Instead of following the normal
pattern of chapters and verses, Rodwell’s translation “divides the book
according to the stages of the narrative, arranging the text in couplets of
measured prose that represent the simple energy of the original.”
1864(29th of Av, 5624): Thirty nine year old Ferdinand
Lassalle died of wounds he sustained while fighting a duel two days ago that
had been precipitated by a star-crossed love affair.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11911.html
1864: The Union Army under General William T. Sherman began the final
assault on Atlanta. Among those leading the way was Frederick Knefler, an
immigrant from Hungary who rose to the rank of Major General in the Army of the
Cumberland.
1865: In San Francisco, Leopold Seligmann, the son of Fanny and David
Isaac Seligman and his wife Julia Levi gave birth to Florence Meyer, the wife
of Albert H. Mayer.
1865: A writer who simply signs his letter to the editor of the New
York Times “A Subscriber” took issue with Max Maretzee’s description of his
dispute with the New York Herald. In defending The Tribune, the unnamed letter
writer accuses Max of using “all the cunning of his Jewish origin.” Max Maretzee probably refers to the German
born composer and impresario Max Maretzek
1866: In Kingston, Jamaica, Rosita Abigail Lyon and Isaac H. de Mercado
gave birth to Beatrice de Mercado, the wife of Eliot Arthur De Pass and the
mother of Charles De Pass.
1867: The Detroit Free Press
published a description Temple Beth El at Washington Avenue and Clifford
Street.
1868: In Pilsen, Elise Herz, neé Edle von Lämmel, contributed 40,000
florins to establish a foundation that would help “respectable craftsman” to
set up their own business regardless of their religious affiliation – a caveat
that should not come as a surprise since the benefactor came from a prominent
Jewish family.
1869: In Schweinfurt, Germany, Philipp Salzer, the son of Maier and Silah
Salzer and his wife Lina Fuchs gave birth to Bertha Salzer
1872: Birthdate of Ruth Elen Hyam who lived for less than a year.
1873: Birthdate of Landstuhl, Germany native Abraham Sigmund.
1875: The New York Times
published a detailed description of Sir Moses Montefiore’s visit to Jerusalem
in the last weeks of July, 1875.
1875: Birthdate of New Haven, CT native Alexander Cahn, the Yale educated
engineer who served as “member of the Board of Education in New Haven.”
1876:
After only three months on
the throne, Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother
Abd-ul-Hamid II. During his reign, the Jews celebrate the four hundredth
anniversary of their arrival from Spain.
Abd-ul-Hamid II is the first Sultan to meet with Herzl. Unfortunately,
this meeting does not result in approval for Herzl’s plan to create a Jewish
homeland in Palestine as part of the Ottoman Empire.
1877: Birthdate of St. Louis, MO, native and Washington University and Cornell University educated engineer
Alexander S Langsdorf, the Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture
“who worked tirelessly for the advancement of new curricula, expansion of
scholarship and loan funds and the development of engineering graduate
programs” at his alma mater for thirty years.
1877: The recently re-built synagogue of Washington Hebrew Congregation
was dedicated this evening. President
Rutherford B. Hayes who was supposed to attend the service sent a message
expressing his regret that official business kept him from fulfilling his
obligation. Rabbi Benjamin Szold of
Baltimore’s Temple Oheb Shalom preached the sermon at the service. [Rabbi Szold
was the father of Henrietta Szold.]
1877: “The Life of Midhat Pasha” published today described the rise to
power of the leader of “Young Turkey,” the party of reform in the Ottoman
Empire. Pasha, who was born in 1822, is
the son of a Bulgarian Jew “who embraced Islam in order to make his fortune.”
(Sounds almost like a Turkish Disraeli)
1878: In New York, Judge Van Brunt rejected Lowenthal Cohen’s attempt to
use a writ of Habeas Corpus to regain “possession” of his daughter Rebecca who
had married Thomas F. Fallon. The young
couple had eloped and the Judge found the marriage to be perfectly legal. Cohen’s real objection to the marriage may
have stemmed from the fact that Fallon was not Jewish.
1878: As the Yellow Fever Epidemic continues in the Deep South, The Young
Men’s Hebrew Association of New York City has received an appeal for aid from
those living in New Orleans
Contributions can be sent to the offices on West 42nd Street.
1878: It was reported today that
the world’s population includes 8 million Jews.
Other reports have placed this number anywhere from 3,500,000 to
15,000,000. The claim that there are
only 73,000 Jews living in the United is thought to be low since it commonly
assumed that the U.S. Jewish population is approximately 150,000. The European portion of the Russian Empire
has the largest Jewish population (2,610,179) followed by Austria with
1,600,000. Surprisingly, Asia, not
counting Turkey is reported to have a total Jewish population in excess of
2,000,000 while Canada has one of the smallest number of Jews ranging anywhere
between 1,500 and 7,000. Spain and
Scotland are reported to have the fewest number of Jews of all the places
surveyed.
1878: Albert Chapsky who died of Yellow Fever in St. Bernard Parish was
buried today in the Hebrew Cemetery in New Orleans, LA. [In Louisiana, the term
Parish as used here refers to a county and is not a religious designation.]
1879: Birthdate of Alma Mahler.
https://mahlerfoundation.org/gt-member/alma-mahler/
1879: William Price died in a freak accident while driving a wagon filled
with the bodies of three children who were to be interred in the Hebrew
Cemetery at Cypress Hills.
1879: It was reported today that Mme. Caroline Bertrand, the daughter of
Samson Bertrand has written a placed called “Le Noveau Juif Errant” or in
English, “The New Wandering Jew.”
1879: In New York, Judge Van Brunt was satisfied that Rebecca Cohen, a 15
year Jewish girl, was legally married to Thomas Fallon, a Roman Catholic and
vacated the writ of habeas corpus that he had previously issued. The writ had been granted when the girl’s
father, Lowenthal Cohen, came before the court and claimed that his daughter
had been taken against her will or had been deceived into going off with
Fallon.
1879: At the Essex Market Police Court, Justice Smith decided that Henry
O’Brien was justified in hitting Harris Goldstein in the face with a shovel and
breaking his nose. O’Brien had tricked Goldstein into eating a piece of pork
and then tried to escape from him by taking refuge in his apartment. The judge felt Goldstein had earned his
punishment for letting his temper get the better of him and for breaking into
O’Brien’s apartment. The judge sent both
of the boys on their way.
1880: Birthdate of Washington, IN native Blanch Beitman Ottenheimer who
settle in Louisville, KY where she was an officer of the National Council of
Jewish Women and a member of the Kentucky League of Woman Voters.
1882: Three days after she had passed away, “Evelina Mocatta the widow of
Abraham Mocatta” was buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1883: In a letter to the Times,
Herman Strack, a Christian theologian who was an expert on rabbinic literature
and a supporter of the Jews against the rising tide of anti-Semitism in
Germany, provided his evaluation of the recently discovered scroll of the book
of Deuteronomy which he feels is a forgery.
1883: Jacobi Bornstein, the son of Aron and Sara Bornstein and Thelka
Bornstein gave birth to Alexander Bornstein1883: It was reported today
anti-Jewish riots are continuing at Egerszeg, Hungary despite the declaration
of martial law. After having burned the
homes of Jews and destroyed their crops, the peasants are now threatening to
attack their gentile landlords.
1884(10th of Elul, 5644): Daniel Weinberger, a German Jewish peddler was
found dead in his room on South Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois.
1885: A fight took place today in Montreal, Canada during the annual
meeting at the German and Polish Synagogue.
1885: Today, the U.S. Secretary of State wrote to the U.S. charge
d’affairs in Vienna expressing his disgust with the government of
Austria-Hungary’s refusal to accept Anthony M Keiley as the American minister
“on the ground of his wife being a Jewess.”
1886: In Hot Springs, AR, Bertha Less and Morris Moscowitz gave birth to
NYU trained attorney Grover M. Moscowitz the husband of Miriam H. Greenbaum
with whom she had three children – Grover, Jr, Marion Sue and Marion -- who began serving on the federal bench during
the Presidency of Calvin Coolidge.
1886(30th of Av, 5646): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1886: It was reported today that the 9 Russian Jews who arrived in the
United States two days ago and have not found sponsors will probably be sent
back to Europe.
1886: An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina. The
earthquake occurred in the same year that members of Sheartih Israel reunited
with members of Congregation Beth Elohim, Charleston’s (and the nations) oldest
continually functioning Reform Temple.
1887: The expenses for today’s excursion under the auspices of the Board
of Managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will be defrayed by the widow
and children of the late Edward J. King are doing this to honor his memory.
1887: In Vienna physiologist Joseph Paneth and his wife, both of whom
were Jewish, gave birth to British scientist Friedrich Adolf Paneth who life
his three brothers was raised as a Protestant. Knowing what he did of Hitler’s
racial rules and being opposed to his politics, Paneth did not return from a
speaking tour during the 1930’s and remained in Britain where he studied and
worked.
1888(24th of Elul, 5648): In New Jersey, two Jewish men from New York
were killed when they were struck by Pennsylvania Railroad express train. Louis Greenburg suffered internal injuries
and Israel Cohen was killed instantly.
1889: In St. Louis, “Abraham and Pauline (Schulcart) Ettlinger gave birth
to Harvard educated Hyman Joseph Ettlinger, the Associate Professor of Pure
Mathematics at the University of Texas and the husband of Rosebud Segal.
1890: Rabbi Taubenhaus is scheduled to deliver his inaugural sermon at
Mount Sinai Temple on East 72nd Street.
1892: It was reported from The Hague today that the man who was
identified as a cholera victim last night was a Jew from Vilna who had arrived
here from Hamburg.
1893: Birthdate of Lily Aimée Laskine, the Parisian who became one of the
leading harpist of the twentieth century
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lily-laskine-mn0000001729
1894(29th of Av, 5654): In his 62nd year, Jacob F.
Bamburger the husband of Pauline Bamburger passed away today at his home on
West 56th Street.
1895: During a meeting at the Hebrew Institute, the Street Cleaning
League adopted a resolution dealing with the “pushcart nuisance.
1896: Birthdate of Ukraine native, Sophie Udin, the feminist and Zionist
who married Pinhas Ginguld with whom she had two children – Yehuda and Marcia.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/udin-sophie-ada
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/udin-sophie-a
1897(3rd of Elul, 5657): Eight-two year old Bavarian native
Lazarus Morgenthau the son of Moses and Brunhilda Morgenthau and the husband of
Seline Babette Morgethau who was a major cigar manufacturer and the founder of
the Orphan Dowry Fund passed away in New York City.
1897: Three days after he had passed away, 43 year old Solomon Rosenthal
was buried at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1897: A meeting of the Old Fifth Street School Association will take
place today in the office of Maurice B. Blumenthal who is the secretary of the
organization.
1897: In Basel, “Dr.
Theodor Herzl…presided at the morning” session of The Zionist Congress. The
delegates discussed” a plan “to centralize the Zionist Movement” with the
formation of Central Committee that would be headquartered in Vienna.” The committee would “consist of twenty-three
members representing” all of the major Jewish “natural groups” who would be
expected to contribute to a central operating fund.
1898: Major Hubert- Joseph Henry, one of those who was arrested yesterday
on charges of having forged the evidence used against Alfred Dreyfus was found
dead in his cell. The assumption was
that he had committed suicide.
1898:”Boy Kills A Rabbi” published today described the murder of Rabbi
Rosenbloom who was kicked to death by a mob of a half a dozen “young men” led
by seventeen year old John Schlechta who
had been terrorizing the Levi family.
1899: “It was learned” today “that as soon as the State Board of
Charities” approves “the plans of incorporation for the Emanuel Hospital and
Dispensary of New York, Dr. Maurice J. Burstein will select a site” and begin
erect a building.
1899: As a result of his role in creating forgeries during the Dreyfus
Case, the Minister of War struck Major Esterhazy from the army lists.
1899: “The Degenerates” which premiered in London tonight includes a
series of “well drawn characters” including “the rich Jew who sneers at his own
race.”
1899: Today’s session of the courtmartial of Captain Dreyfus “opened
behind closed doors” so that General Deloye and Majors Hartmann and Ducros
could testify about the secret artillery information contained in the documents
that had been given to the Germans.
1900(6th of Elul, 5660): Eighty-year old Ferdinand Falkson,
the German physician and doctor possibly best known for his three battle to
have his marriage recognized passed away today.
1901(16th of Elul, 5661): Parashat Ki Tavo
1901(16th of Elul, 5661): Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Hertz
Oppenheim, the Charleston, SC born son of Catherine and Hertz Wolf Oppenheim
and the husband of Hanna Oppenheim passed away today.
1901: It was reported today that “Mme. Bertha Tansman, prima donna from
the Thalia Theatre; Tillis Hirschman, the leading lady form the People’s
Theatre and Harry J. Ginsberg, the best known Jewish tenor in America” have
been brought to Chicago from New York thanks to the efforts of Ellis Glickman,
manager of the Jewish Theatre.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/08/31/117973031.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1902: Mrs. Adoph Landenburg introduces the split skirt for riding
horseback.
1903: Herzl's last meeting with German nobleman Grossherzog Friedrich of
Baden on the island of Mainau. Herzl presents his difficult dilemma between
East Africa and Palestine. "We would be glad to renounce the good land of
East Africa for the poor land of Palestine. I in particular would see an
honorable rescue for our poor Jews if this exchange could be made."
1904: In Commercy, France, Ferdinand Ach, the Pierrepont born son of
Sameul Ach and Charlotte Abraham gave birth to Andre Ach
1905(30th of Av, 5665): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1905: Birthdate of Dore Schary,
American screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. The son of immigrant
Russian parents, Schary’s first name came from shortening the original which
was Isadore. Shary provided the Oscar
winning script for the film “Boys Town.”
He also produced another all-American film, “Lassie come Home.” Shary was part of that gaggle of first
generation American Jews who created the cinematic version of the American
Myth. Shary’s greatest success came
late in his career when he wrote the script for “Sunrise At Campobello” the
popular play and film that focused on FDR’s fight with polio. Shary was active in numerous Jewish
organization including the Anti- Defamation League. He passed away in 1980.
1905: In Brooklyn, the former Bertha Knoepfler and furrier Hermann
Meisner gave birth to Sanford Meisner, American actor, teacher and creator of
the Meisner Technique.
1906(10th of Elul, 5666): Edward Rosewater, the founder of the
Omaha Bee and unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate from Nebraska passed
away. His son Victor took over
leadership of the paper.
1907: In Chicago, Illinois, Benjamin T. and Anna (née Bransky) Chon gave
birth to William Shawn the editor of The New Yorker magazine.
http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A21723202
1908:
First Conference for the Yiddish Language continued for a second day in
Czernowitz
1909(14th of Elul, 5669): Joseph Goldberg passed away.
1909: Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich began the first chemotherapy when with
his assistant Sahachiro Hato, a rabbit infected with syphilis was injected with
"Preparation 606." This number marked the 606th chemical devised and
tested by Ehrlich's team at his Frankfort laboratory. The compound was so
successful that the sores on the rabbit promptly healed. The term
"chemotherapy" was coined by Erhlich.
1910: “After prolonger negotiations, Oscar S. Straus, the United States
Ambassador to Turkey succeeded in obtaining a decision from the Council of
state approving the act of the council of Ministers by which all foreign
religious, educational and benevolent institutions are exempted from the
provisions of the Ottoman law.”
1911: “Maggie Pepper,” a play written by Charles Klein that includes “the
character of a Jewish drummer” who is portrayed as being both “amusing and
occasionally sympathetic” opened this evening at the Harris Theatre in New
York.
1912(18th of Elul, 5672): Parashat Ki Tavo
1912(18th of Elul, 5672): Sixty-eight year old “communal
worker” Samuel Hirsch passed away at Niagara Falls, NY.
1913: Birthdate of Helen Levitt, the Brooklyn native “noted for her
street photography around New York City.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/03/helen-levitt-obituary
1914: In Berlin, Kurt W. Rosenthal, a flour merchant, and Elsa Rosenthal
(née Kirschstein) gave birth to their second son Franz Rosenthal who the Louis
M. Rabinowitz professor of Semitic Language at Yale and then the Sterling
Professor Emeritus of Arabic at the same institution.
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2003/04/11/scholar-rosenthal-dies-at-88/
1914: In response to an appeal by the Yishuv’s leaders and his own
knowledge of the desperate condition of the thousands of Jews living in
Palestine Henry Morgenthau, Sr., the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire sent
a cable to Jacob Schiff that read, in part, “PALESTINIAN JEWS FACING TERRIBLE
CRISIS … BELLIGERENT COUNTRIES STOPPING THEIR ASSISTANCE … SERIOUS DESTRUCTION
THREATENS THRIVING COLONIES … FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS NEEDED.” Within a month
the appeal produced $50, 000 (the equivalent of 1 million dollars in the 21st
century)
1915: “The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America of
which ex-Judge Leon Sanders is President announced today that it had
established at its offices, 229 East Broadway, a bureau through which dependent
Jews in the war zones may be more readily located by their immigrant relatives
in this country seeking to render them assistance.”
1915: At Beth Hamidrash Hagadol a synagogue on Norfolk Street, “Rabbi
Israel Rosenberg of Paterson presided over a service attended by 25 rabbis and
1,000” congregants which he opened the ark and the attendees began singing
Avienu Malkenu.
1915: “Resolutions calling for an American-Jewish congress to formulate
plans for the unification of the 3,000,000 Jews in the United States were
adopted at a meeting” in Chicago, “tonight of the Lawyers’ Jewish Congress
Committee.”
1915: George Breitman, a native of the Ukraine who was working as a
laborer in Australia enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).
1916: In the Bronx, “Russian Jewish immigrants, Tillie Godiner and
Gedaliah Tchornemoretz gave birth to broadcast journalist Daniel Schorr. To the current generation, Schorr is the wild
old political voice on NPR. To an
earlier generation, he is one of the journalists who made Richard Nixon’s
infamous “Enemies List.” To an even
older generation, Schorr was the voice of CBS news from Moscow during the
coldest days of the Cold War in the 1950’s.
The Soviets finally go disgusted with Schorr that they expelled. This gave Schorr the singular distinction of
antagonizing the Communist Russians and the ant-Communist Nixon.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/jul/26/daniel-schorr-obituary
1917: Birthdate of Henrik, the native of Budapest who gained fame as
communist politician György Aczél/
1917: In Berlin, premiere of “Hilde Warren Und der Tod” directed and
produced by Joseph Otto Mandel who would be known as Joe May with a screenplay
by Fritz Lange and featuring Hermann Picha.
1917: “A deputation of prominent English Jews head by Lord Swaything
visited the Secretary of War…and urged the abandonment of the title ‘Jewish
Regiment’ which had been adopted for the new regiment recently organized”
because “the 40,000 Jews now serving in the army were fighting not as Jews but
as British subjects…”
1917: “It was announced tonight that Rabbi Samuel Greenfield and Reverend
Einer Larsen had reached an agreement that would allow the Jews of the Isaiah
Temple to temporarily use the quarters of the Swedish Baptist Church for
worship services until they can build a sanctuary of their own.
1917: “An Invitation to Soldiers” published today described an
announcement by Simon Franks that Temple Emanu-El in Brooklyn will have “free
seats” for any members of the United States Army and Navy who attend Rosh
Hashana or Yom Kippur Services at this congregation.
1918: Following petition of leading Jews, the Polish Council of State
abolished existing restrictions respecting the purchase of land by Jews.
1918: For the past 7 months, ending today, Lt. Hugo Gutman, a Jewish
officer serving with Kaiser’s army commanded Adolph Hitler who received the
Iron Cross First Class thanks to Gutman’s efforts.
1918: The Polish Council of State adopted a resolution giving authorities
power to open in existing schools separate classes for Jewish children which
shall be closed on Saturday if a sufficient number of parents apply for such a
privilege and recognizing as private schools all Talmud Torahs and hedarim in
which the teaching of Polish is to be obligatory and in which instruction in
all elementary secular subects is to be give in Polish.
1918: In Nizhni-Novgorod, authorities arrested seven ringleaders for
their role in “anti-Jewish riots.”
1918: In Chovol, a Council of Workmen and Soldiers put an end to efforts
to start a Pogrom.
1918:
The Australian Corps under
the command of Sir John Monash broke the German lines at the Battle of Mont St.
Quentin and the Battle of Péronne.
1918: Birthdate of Alan Jay Lerner, American librettist and lyricist for
stage and screen. Lerner was yet another
of a myriad of Jews who created and refined that most original American art
form – the Broadway musical. One of his
most famous contributions was “My Fair Lady.” He passed away in 1986
1919: Thirty five members of the Jewish Defense Organization were
disarmed and shot after the Ukrainian National Army recaptured Kiev from the
Bolsheviks. As an organized unit, the Jews had played an important role in the
defense of Kiev. This was part of massacre of the Jews at Kiev.
1919(5th of Elul, 5679): Sixty-year old Austrian born Dr.
Joseph Zeisler, the son of Anna and Isaac Leonard Ziesler and husband of
“Theresa Freuchtmean” who was recognized
as an expert in the fields “of skin and venereal diseases passed away today
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/fullarticle/489184
1920: In Boston, three thousand children are scheduled “to gather in
Franklin Field” today “for a grand outing and pageant” sponsored by the
Recreational Bureau of the Federated Jewish Charities with the assistance of
the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools,
the Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools, the Council of Jewish Juniors,
the Home for Jewish Children and the Jewish Welfare Centers.”
1921: Birthdate of Madeline Rochelle Barotz who as Madeline Rochelle
Amgott was a pioneer in the early days of broadcast television news – a role
made all the more difficult because was the first and only member of her sex to
do this in the 50’s and early 60’s.
1921: “Ilona” a silent film produced by Joe May, with a script
co-authored by Adolf Lantz was released today in Germany.
1922: “Following the barring of Mrs. Alfred Kann of New York from the
fashionable Winthrop Hotel, the Young Men's Hebrew Association and the Young
Women's Hebrew Association held a joint meeting, retained Attorney Aaron Allen
as counsel and declared their intention to expose the discriminatory tactics
exercised by some of the residents” of Bosto1922: It was reported today that in
Philadelphia, Mayor Moore addressed a cheering crowd of more than 10,000 people
who had gathered to show their joy at the League of Nations support for the
creation of a national homeland in Palestine.
1923: As a result of a search for Henry Ford’s property which resulted
from a libel suit brought against him and his paper, the Dearborn Independent
by Herman Bernstein over states made on connection with a general attack on the
Jewish people, today in New York City Deputy Sheriff Charles Kramer was
notified today that Mr. Ford has $115,834 deposited in the Corn Exchange Bank.
1924(1st of Elul, 5684): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1924: Birthdate of actor and
comedian Buddy Hackett.
1925: Abraham Goldberg, Jacob Fishman and Henrietta Szold were among the
Americans elected to the Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization in
Vienna.
1925: “After a stormy all-night session the fourteenth Zionist World
Congress disbanded at 6 o'clock this morning.”
1926: Birthdate of Sochaczew, Poland native and Holocaust survivor Canto
David Wisnia whose singing ability saved his life.
https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/trenton/name/david-wisnia-obituary?id=10715493
1926: In Chicago, “Louis and Clara (Ruttenberg) Wolfberg gave birth to
Anita Rochelle Wolfberfg who gained famed as independent publisher Anita
Miller. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1926: Robert and Lillian Mulwitz gave birth to their daughter Ruth at
Port Chester New York. The family
changed their name to Roberts and it was as Ruth Roberts that she gained fame
as the “songwriter best known for her cheerful and durable baseball anthem
‘Meet the Mets.’”
1927:
Dr. Leon Motzkin presided
over today's session of the Fifteenth Zionist Congress in Basel.
1928:
“The Threepenny Opera” with
music by Kurt Weill was first performed
at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin today.
1929(25th of Av, 5689): Parashat Re’eh
1929: Bedouins attacked nearly a dozen Jewish settlements in the northern
Galilee pillaging the houses and burning the crops.” According to at least one report, at least 22
Jews were wounded in the attacks. “In
Jerusalem, houses of Georgian Jews located near the Damascus Gat which were
reportedly left open by police during their unsuccessful search for weapons
were looted by Arab marauders.
1929:
A party of thirty-seven
Jewish settlers left for Palestine today on the steamer Carnaro bound for
Jaffa. Dr. A. Kligler of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, Professor Roth,
the Palestine labor leader Ben Gurion, Dr. Benzion Mossensohn, director of the
Hebrew High School at Tel Aviv, and other Palestinian Jewish leaders sailed on
the same steamer.
1930: It was reported today that the Jewish Welfare Board has announced
that Jewish Community Centers and other organizations affiliated with the board
would hold exercises in celebration of Constitution Day which falls on
September 17 and that the army, navy and Coast Guard would grant furloughs so
that Jewish service men could observed Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
1931: The administration of the Zionist Organization in America was
accused today by Louis Lipsky, former president of the Zionist Organization of
America, of ulterior motives in issuing its appeal last Saturday to “American
Zionists to lend support to the new World Zionist executive” because he said
the appeal was merely a decoy to divert public attention from domestic issues
to create the impression that the differences of opinion American Zionists
relate to the conduct of word Zionist affairs.”
1932(29th of Av, 5692): Seventy-two year old Sir Sassoon
Eskell, the first Finance Minister of Iraq passed away today.
http://www.liquisearch.com/sassoon_eskell/death
http://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Sassoon%20Eskell
1932(29th of Av, 5692): Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
died of a heart attack in New York City.
Born in 1886, he was a Yiddish-language modernist poet raised in a
traditional Jewish household in Zlotshev, Galicia and brought to Vienna at the
age of 12 in 1898 to study commercial art. Halpern began writing modernist
poetry n German while living in Vienna. Upon returning to his hometown in 1907,
he switched to writing in Yiddish. In 1908, Halpern emigrated to New York City
in order to avoid the military draft. There he became associated with a group
of Yiddish poets called Di Yunge (The Young Ones). He published his
first book of poetry in 1919, In
nyu york (In New York). That same year, he married. He had a
son in 1923. His second book, Di
goldene pave (The Golden Peacock), was published in
1924. Halpern also wrote for satirical magazines and Frayhayt (Freedom), a communist Yiddish newspaper.
1933: Rabbi
Joseph Zvi Dushinsky becomes the Chief Rabbi of the Agudath Israel in
Jerusalem.
1933: The Jiidische Rundschau is permitted to
reappear. The popular Jewish weekly,
which had been published since 1902, had been forced to suspend publication for
producing editorials that had challenged Nazi charges against the Zionists. The
magazine would be forced to close in 1938.
1933: The
eighteenth World Zionist Congress adopted a resolution providing for sending a
commission to Palestine to investigate charges of terrorism in connection with
the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, the Zionist leader who had been killed in
Tel Aviv.
1933:
Professor Selig Brodetsky told members of the World Zionist Congress that
Zionist organization has inaugurated conversations with Arab leaders of Syria
and other neighboring lands for the extension of Jewish colonization.
1933: The
Council of the Warsaw Jewish Community sends a protest to the Zionist Congress
against agreements for exchange of goods between Nazi Germany and Palestine.
1933(9th of
Elul, 5693): Nazi agents murdered Theodore Lessing in Marienbad,
Czechoslovakia. Lessing was an anti-Nazi Jewish philosopher and Zionist who had
taught at Hanover Technical High School.
He had moved to Czechoslovakia because he feared for his safety.
1934: Problems
of international interest to Jews, including the boycott on German goods, will
be discussed at the national encampment of Jewish War Veterans, which opened
tonight in New Britain, CT.
1934: “Jewish
fur manufacturers and their Jewish employees received permission from the NRA
today to take time off to celebrated the Jewish holidays” which take place
during the next four weeks” and that NRA “code regulations will be relaxed
sufficiently to permit making up the lost time.
1935(2nd of Elul, 5695): Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook known as Rav Kook
passed away. Rabbi Kook was the first Chief Rabbi Ashkenazic of
Palestine, serving from 1921 until his death in 1935. Born in Russia in
1865, Kook was a child prodigy and star student at the famed yeshiva in
Volozhin He served as a Rabbi in several communities in Europe before
moving to Eretz Israel in 1904 where he served as a rabbi in Jaffa as well as
for the new Zionist settlements. "Kook was the outstanding leader
and thinker of the religious Zionist movement at a time when the great majority
opposed of Orthodox Jewry Zionism. He endeared himself to the nonreligious
elements in Israel by sympathy and support for the secular sector, particularly
in the agricultural settlements." He regarded all who made Alyiah,
"regardless of their beliefs to be inspired by holy sparks "since
they were laying the foundation for the ultimate messianic redemption."
1935(2nd of Elul, 5695): Herman Bernstein an American journalist, writer, translator, and
diplomat, passed away. Herman Bernstein was born in 1876, at Vladislavov which
was on the Russo-German border to David and Marie Bernstein. In 1893, he
emigrated to the United States, where he completed his education and married
Sophie Friedman on December 31, 1901. “His first stories were published in
1900. He contributed to the New York Evening Post, The Nation, The Independent,
and Ainslee's Magazine. He was the founder and editor of The New London Day
and an editor of the Jewish Tribune and of the Jewish Daily Bulletin.
As a correspondent of the New York Times, Bernstein regularly travelled
to Europe. In 1915, he went to Europe to document the situation of Jews in the
war zones. He documented the Russian Revolution in 1917 for the New York
Herald, which led him to both Siberia and Japan with the American
Expeditionary Forces. He also covered the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 for
the same newspaper. In 1921 Bernstein published a book History of a Lie,
an account of the notorious forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
According to GPU agent Pavlovsky (Yakshin), arrested in Germany in 1929,
Bernstein worked for both GPU and Comintern, arranging pro-Soviet coverage in
American press. One of his main goals was to describe White army and White
emigres as anti-Semitic instigators of pogroms and suppress coverage of pogroms
by units of the Red Army and other forces allied to Bolsheviks during the
Russian civil war. GPU supplied Bernstein with forged documents for
publication. In 1921 Bernstein received 17 000 gold rubles for his services.
http://blog.aacl.com/rescue-in-albania/chapter-three/
1936: “Fear that the future of Jews in Palestine was imperiled by British
‘inaction’ was voiced today in a declaration issued at the close of an
extraordinary session of the general council of the World Zionist Organization”
that was held in Zurich.
1936: In Cincinnati, OH, “Joe and Sarah (Feibel) Mendelsohn” gave birth
to Harvard Medical School graduate John Mendelson the husband of research
chemist Anne Charles, who was best known for his work in cancer research
including serving as head of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. (As reported by Katie Thomas)
1936: “The problem of uniting the religions of the United States, not
under one banner of dogma or doctrine, but a united front to deal with civic,
social and welfare problems of the nation was discussed” at a meeting in
Appleton, Wisconsin, tonight by three clergymen of the Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish faiths” the latter of which was Rabbi L.L. Mann of Sinai Temple in
Chicago.
1936: Dr. Alexander Rosenfeld, vice president of the Tel Aviv Sports
Organization received a cable today saying that the Maccabees Palestine Soccer
team is scheduled to arrive in New York on September 14.
1937: In Brooklyn Frieda (née Shapkin) and Elias Berlinger, a building
contractor gave birth to actor Warren Berlinger whose career included
everything from appearing in the original Broadway production of “Annie Get
Your Gun” to the ever-popular kids’ show “Howdy Doody.”
1937: The violence orchestrated by Arab leaders that was designed to end
Jewish immigration and land purchases continued with seven Arab attacks on Jews
in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Karkur. Three Jews and four Arabs were killed and
there were many wounded. Moshe Goldenberg, the mukhtar (village elder) of Beit
Alfa, had a narrow escape when shot at in Beit Shean. (Yes, this is
the same Beit Shean where the bodies of Saul and his sons were taken as
described in the Book of Samuel.) Jewish and Arab leaders were
summoned by district commissioners who appealed for the restoration of law and
order.
1938: Moslem terrorists sought to extend their power by killing other
Arabs. “Tewfik Shantin an Arab broker
was shot dead in the waiting room of an Arab doctor in Jaffa” while an unnamed
Arab village chieftain was shot to death while walking with a friend in the Old
City of Jerusalem.
1938(4th of Elul, 5698): Mordecai Leznick, a Jewish policeman riding on
an Arab owned bus traveling between Lydda and Jaffa was shot to death by an
Arab passenger.
1938(4th of Elul, 5698): In Tel Aviv Schmuel Weiner died from wounds
sustained when he was stoned last Friday while riding through Ramleh.
1939: The last day of peace in Europe before the outbreak of World War
II. Every one waited to see if the
Poles would cave into German demands.
Every one waited to see if the British would betray the Poles as they
had the Czechs in 1938. What the world
did not know was that Hitler issued Directive no.1, 1939 ordering the attack on
Poland to begin at dawn the following day. Already, 1,500,000 German troops
were poised to enact Case White, the invasion of Poland, The plan to create a fake attack by Polish
troops on a German transmitter was about to be enacted. By
1939: Nazi Germany
mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station giving them an excuse to
attack Poland the following day, starting World War II.
1940: From July 9
through today, Chiune Sugihara, the Vice Counsel for the Empire of Japan in
Lithuania issued over 2,000 visas to Polish Jews so that they could escape from
the Nazis. This does not count the three
to five thousand visas issued to Lithuanian Jews without his government’s
approval that enabled them to escape as well.
1940: The National
Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States continued for a
third day.
1941: Churchill received 17 reports of the shooting of Jews and Russians
in numbers ranging between 61 and 4,200.
These reports covered the two month period beginning with June, 1941
when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union and the special Killing Squads began
their work.
1941: In response to a Jewish reprisal raid on a German patrol, all Jews
were confined to their homes. That evening the "action" commenced.
The entire Jewish section of Vilna was raided.
As a result 2,019 women, 864 men, and 817 children were taken away to
pits in Ponar forests and all shot dead. This event is notable for two reasons.
First it is unusual because it includes the report of Jewish resistance. Second
it is unusual because the Nazis supplied a specific reason for killing Jews
other than their usual anti-Semitic drivel.
1941: As the month came to a close, “the Vichy Government of France had
enacted laws that discriminated against Moroccan Jews” by setting quotas on the
number of Jewish doctors and lawyers, which forced many Jews living in the
European quarters to move to the mellahs.
1942: One day after he had passed away funeral services are scheduled to
be held this afternoon at the Park West Memorial Chapel for fifty-two year old
Nissim Joseph Ovadia, the Turkish born chief rabbi of Vienna and Paris who came
to the United States after the French surrendered to the Nazis
1942: A story headlined "Jewish Children Interned by Vichy"
appeared in today’s Chicago Sun.
1942: By the end of August SS officer Kurt Gerstein has failed in his
attempt to publicize his knowledge of the mass gassings of Jews. He is rebuffed
in his approach to the German papal nuncio, Cesare Orsenigo
1942: In Ternopil,
western Ukraine, at 4.30 am, German SS organize the first deportation of Jews
from Ternopil ghetto to death camp in Belzec, about 5,000 Jews were deported to
face death in Belzec. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived
in the city.
1943(30th of
Av, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1943:
Vice Chancellor John O. Bigelow today ordered an audit of the first accounting
of the estate of Abraham Wolff of Morristown, N.J., who was a partner in the
New York banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb Co.
1943: The Swedish
ambassador in Copenhagen was given clearance by the Chief Legal Officer Gösta
Engzell to issue Swedish passports in order to "rescue Danish Jews and
bringing them here".
1943: The USS Drum, an
American submarine, with Maurice Rindskopf serving as Executive Officer sank a
Japanese cargo ship while patrolling off New Georgia
1943: During its
meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria the “American Jewish Conference adopted a
resolution accusing the American Council for Judaism of an ‘attempt to sabotage
the collective Jewish will to achieve a unified program’ by its statement made
public” yesterday “in Philadelphia opposing the creation of a Jewish state.”
1943: By the end of August, 47 Jewish women and 50 Jewish men are
executed after being discovered in the "Aryan" section of Warsaw.
1943: “Vice Chancellor
John O. Bigelow ordered an audit of the first accounting of the estate of
Abraham Wolff of Morristown, NJ who was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
1943: In Toronto, the
Group on Racial Relations presented a report today in which “Christians were
called up to accept Jews a members of the community on a basis of complete
equality and to take drastic action in opposing discrimination” in both the
personal and social interactions.
1943: “Zionists in
England have exceeded the £250,000 goal set for this year’s Palestine
Foundation Fund campaign, Mrs. Archibald Silverman reported today at a luncheon
in her honor held at the Belmont Plaza Hotel by the Palestine Fund and the
Jewish National Fund.”
1943: In Halifax the Army Show which had first been seen by “an all
service audience” staring the comedy team of Frank Shuster and Johnny Wayne who
came to be known simply as Wayne & Shuster was seen by a civilian audience
for the first time tonight.
1944(12th of Elul,
5704): Fifty-three year old Yiddish actor Ludwig Satz passed away today.
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/S/satz-ludwig.htm
http://www.jta.org/1944/09/03/archive/ludwig-satz-star-of-yiddish-stage-dies-in-new-york-was-53
1944: Jews liberated from the Novaki labor camp joined the battle for
Banska Bystrica. Four weeks later Eichmann exacted revenge for the Slovak
Uprising by deporting 8,975 Slovak Jews to Birkenau where most met their
deaths.
1944: Over the next four days Jews formerly interned at the Nováky
labor camp fight in a Slovakian uprising against the Germans. In all, more than
1500 Jews join 16,000 Slovak soldiers and partisans. One partisan battalion
commander, a Jewish woman named Edita Katz, covers the retreat of her men with
a machine gun and hand grenades until she is killed by Germans and the Hlinka
Guard. Another Jewish partisan, Tibor Cifea, is shot by Germans and left
hanging for three days.
1944: A photograph was
taken of a small group of survivors from the Kovno, a town in Lithuania that
had been liberated on August 1. At the
start of the war there were approximately 40,000 Jews living there. There were
only 2,000 still alive at when the Soviets liberated the city.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/14.asp
1945: The Liberal Party
of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies. During the Parliamentary elections
in August, 2010, The Liberal Party sought the support of the Jewish community
by picturing itself as being a better friend of Israel than the Labor Party.
1945: President Truman
endorsed a proposal for 100,000 Jews to be immediately admitted to Palestine
and so informed the British Prime Minister.
Mr. Atlee was, to say the least, not pleased.
1945: Birthdate of Itzhak Perlman. Born in Tel Aviv, Perlman was stricken
with polio. He triumphed over the adversity to become one of the world’s
greatest violinists.
1945: Lt. Col. Louis Geffen, a judge advocate in the US Army who was
sailing across the Pacific to his new duty station was allowed to use an area
on the bow of the ship for Kabbalat Shabbat services.
1946: “Edward M.M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee,
270 Madison Avenue, announced today that allocations of the Committee to date
this year for the relief, rehabilitation and emigration of Jewish survivors
overseas had soared to $38,140,210 --a figure greater than the Committee's
appropriations for all of 1945.”
1947: UNSCOP, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine,
published its report. Under the plan,
Palestine was to be partitioned into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Jerusalem was to be a demilitarized, neutral
city governed as an international trusteeship under the United Nations.
1948: In New York City,
Jean (née Farber) and Irving Ganz, an arts supply executive gave birth to
screenwriter Lowell Ganz
1948: Birthdate of
Steve Soboroff, successful businessman, Republican political leader and
executive for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1949: “The American
Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists today labeled as
"fantastic" a memorandum submitted to the United Nations last month
by the Jewish League against Communism in which “the latter charged that
400,000 Jews had been uprooted from their homes by the Soviet Government and
exiled to Siberia.
1950: Birthdate of
David Bedein, a journalist who established the Israel Resource News Agency and
“serves as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.”
1950: “Summer Stock,” a
corny musical produced by Joe Pasternak, based on a story by Sy Gomberg for
which he won an Oscar and with songs by Harold Arlen was released today in the
United States.
1950: Business leaders,
Cabinets members and leading representatives from the Knesset held an all-day
session to discuss Israel’s worsening economic conditions. “The economic troubles stem mainly from the
fact that the expansion of production is unable to keep up with the growth of
the population, which increased in 27 months from 655,000 to 1,125,000.”
1951(29th of
Av, 5711): Ninety-one year old Abraham Cahan the socialist newspaper editor
whose name is synonymous with the Jewish Daily Forward passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/cahan.html
1952: IN Monmouth
County, Sidney Goldman, Justice of the Superior Court of New Jersey was the
principle speaker at the cornerstone laying for Temple Beth Miriam’s new
facility.
1952: The final draft of the Reparations Agreement signed at The Hague
was sent to Bonn. It was still waiting for the West German government's formal
approval. The UN submitted to Bonn for special consideration a list of more
than 380 survivors of the Nazi scientific experiments conducted in
concentration camps. More than 200 such victims were still living in Germany.
1954: Operation Binyamin 2 led by Ariel Sharon and Meir Har-Zion came to
an end with the capture of 3 Jordanian soldiers.
1955:In response to repeated attacks from Fedayeen (the term for
terrorists at this time) forces under the command of Mordechai “Motta” Gur and
Rafael “Raful” Eitan led an attack which destroyed the military installations
at Khan Yunis in what was known as Operation Elkayanm.
1956(24th of Elul, 5716): Austria native and
neuropsychiatrist Dr. Moses Keshner, the holder of degrees from CCNY, Columbia
Medical School and New York Law School who was a Clinical Professor of
Neurology at Columbia and raised four children – Myron, Sidney, Harold and
Hortense – with his wife Dorothea passed away today.
1956: Birthdate of Baltimore native Jonathan I Rosenblatt, the Johns
Hopkins and Columbia University trained modern American Orthodox Rabbi and
husband of Tzipporah Rosneblatt.
1958(15th of Elul, 5718): Forty-nine year old Boston born Suffolk Law
School trained attorney, George Fingold, the Attorney General of Massachusetts
and Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, the wife of Evelyn
Fingold and the son of Hyman Fingold, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/09/01/79460434.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1959: Premiere of “Middle of the Night” a drama featuring a May to
December romance deftly told in a script by Paddy Chayefsky which features
“future Oscar winners Martin Balsam and Lee Grant.
1961: Those “sons of Moses,” the Sherry brothers, combined their efforts
to give the Dodgers a 5 to 2 victory over the Cubs. Norm Sherry hit a two-run
homer for the Los Angeles Dodgers today and Larry Sherry pitched well enough in
relief to get credit for the “save.”
1961(19th of Elul, 5721): Seventy-eight-year-old Baltimore
native and close associate of Henrietta Szold, Mrs. Florence Robinson Brodie,
the wife of attorney Israel B. Brodie who was a member of the national board of
Hadassah passed away today in Hamptons Bay, Long Island.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/02/98542277.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1962(1st of Elul, 5722): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1962: Seventy year old Henrikas Rabinavicius, “the only Jew to have
served in the Lithuanian diplomatic corps” after it gained its independence
following World War I, and the husband of the former “Ethel Edna Kabat, passed
away today in New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/09/01/83515186.pdf
1962: In Egypt Alaa al-Zayat “a prominent doctor and professor of
medicine” and his wife gave birth to Ahmed Zayat who gained fame as Ephraim
David Zayet the American businessman who
owns 2015 Triple Crown Winner “American Pharoah.”
1962: Trinidad and Tobago become
independent. The Jewish community dates back to the 18th
century. At the time of independence
there were approximately 700 Jews living in the two islands.
1967(25th of Av, 5727): Ilya Ehrenberg, Soviet author, journalist,
apologist and political survivor par excellence, passed away.
1967(25th of Av, 5721): Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider, known as
Tania the Guerillera, a German-Jewish guerrilla fighter in the National
Liberation Army of Bolivia, led by Che Guevara was killed today by the Bolivian
Army.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/31/1967/tamara-bunke-aka-tania-guerrillera-killed-bolivian-army
1968: Birthdate of Yossef (Joseph) Cedar the native of New York who “grew
up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood in Jerusalem” and became an award winning
director and screenwriter best known for the 2011 tale of clash between
academics and fathers and sons – “Footnote.”
1972: Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, both of whom were Jewish “answered
the advertisement of Peter Criss in Rolling
Stone that would lead to the formation of KISS.
1972(21st of Elul, 5732): Seventy-six year old David Abraham
Jessurun Cardozo, the Dutch born, English educated Sephardic rabbi who was the
assistant rabbi at New York’s prestigious Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and
the first Rabbi to led Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services in Spain since the
1492 Expulsion passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/05/archives/rabbi-cardozo-dies-a-sephardic-leader.html
1973(3rd of Elul, 5733): Seventy-two-year old Dr. Gregory Razran,
professor emeritus of psychology at Queens College and a leading authority on
Russian psychological research was drowned tofay while swimming off St.
Petersburg Beach, Fla.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/razran-gregory
1975(17th of Elul, 5735): Seventy-eight year old “Max Artz,
the vice chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/09/01/76597551.html?pageNumber=18
1976(5th of Elul, 5736): Ninety-three year old non-communist
Russian revolutionary and Time magazine’s expert on Soviet affairs Mark
Vishniak passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/09/03/121537713.html?pageNumber=74
1977: “You Light Up My Life” a romantic comedy written, directed and
produced by Joseph Brooks who also composed the score and starring Didi Conn
was released in the United States today by Columbia Pictures.
1977: US Undersecretary of State Philip Habib assured Israeli Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz that the US would block any Arab attempt to change UN Security
Council Resolution 242. This UN Resolution included a guaranteed of the
right of Israel to exist and was part of the diplomatic efforts surrounding the
Six Day War. Various Arab leaders have erroneously claimed that this
resolution required Israel to return to the truce lines that existed in June,
1967.
1979(8th of Elu. 5739): Eighty-four-year-old Ida Tobolowsky,
the daughter of Samuel and Temmie Wyll Tobolowsky, the wife of Jacob Frank
Leventhal and mother of Grace Jean Leventhal Goodman passed away today after
which she was buried at the Shearith Israel Memorial Park in Dallas, TX.
1979: “Time After Time” a sci-fi film directed by Nicholas Meyer who also
wrote the screenplay was released today in the United States.
1981(1st of Elul, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1981(1st of Elul, 5741): Prof.
Elias J. Bickerman, a historian and authority on the influence of the Greeks in
the Middle East at the time of Jesus and before, died today in Tel Aviv, where
he was on vacation. He was 85 years old and lived in Manhattan.
1981(1st of Elul, 5741): Eighty-two year old businessman and
philanthropist Joseph Hirschhorn whose name became famous because of the art
museum of which he was “the founder and benefactor” passed away today. (As
reported by John Russell)
1981: Today, at the United Nations, Israel denounced the PLO’s attack on
Vienna Synagogue on Shabbat (August 29, 1981) as part of “a ruthless murder
campaign” aimed at “Jews and the Jewish people everywhere.”
1983: Flight 007, among whose passengers were 23-year-old Alice
Ephraimson-Abt, the daughter of Hans Ephraimson-Abt completed “a refueling stop
in Alaska” and “took off for Seoul.”
1987: “On the occasion of a meeting in Rome today of representatives of
the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and of the
International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, the then
President of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews,
Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, announced the intention of the Commission to
prepare an official Catholic document on the Shoah.”
1988(18th of Elul, 5748): Seventy-five year old Lin Jaldati,
the Dutch born Holocaust who brought Yiddish music Communist controlled
countries in Asia passed away today.
https://yiddishkayt.org/art-is-my-weapon/
https://www.davidshneer.com/art-is-my-weapon.html
1989(30th of Av, 5749): Eighty-nine Morris Barney Dalitz, the
gangster known as Moe Dalitz passed away today.
http://lasvegassun.com/news/1989/sep/01/las-vegas-gaming-pioneer-moe-dalitz-dies-89/
1990: Rabbi Bonnie
Koppell, the first female Jewish chaplain in the U.S. military, was profiled in
the Omaha "Jewish Press"
1994(24th of Elul,
5754): Harry Rosenblatt, one of the last survivors of the Jewish Legion of
World War I, which fought with the British against the Turks in Palestine,
passed away. He was 101 years old. A
native of Rovno, Ukraine, he came to New York at the age of 17. He joined the British Army after hearing a
speech in Union Square by Vladimir Jabotinsky in 1916 in which the Zionist
leader called for volunteers to join in the fight to help the British wrest
control of the Palestine from the Ottoman Empire. “Mr. Rosenblatt was among the troops entering
the city, and his picture and biography are on display in the Museum of the
Israeli Defense Forces.” After the war,
“he returned to New York, became a U.S. citizen and opened a tailor shop which
he kept open until he turned 90.”
1995: Ninety-four year
old Gertrude Luckner, a Christian social worker who resisted the Nazis and
provided food and assistance to Jews during the Shoah passed for which was
named as a righteous among the nations by Yad Vashem passed away today.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/luckner.asp
1996(16th of
Elul, 5756): Parashat Ki Tavo
1996(16th of
Elul, 5756): Seventy-seven Helen A. Karsh Weinstock, the daughter of Louis and
Rose Karsh and the wife of Isadore Weinstock passed away today after which she
was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, CO.
1997: The New York Times featured a review of
Private Matters: In Defense of the
Personal Life by Janna Malamud Smith the daughter of Bernard
Malamud.
2000(30th of Av, 5760):
Rosh Chodesh Elul
2000: Graveside
services for Gertrude Schaefler, the widow of the late Leon Schaefler were held
today.
2000: “In the Penal
Colony,” an opera composed by Philip Glass, based on a story by Franz Kafka,
premiered today in Seattle, Washington.
2001: Adel Mughrabi
purchased the MV Karine A so that the
Palestinian Authority could use it to smuggle a large shipment of arms to
terrorists
2001: Stanley “Stan”
Fischer completed his term as First Deputy Managing Director of the
International Monetary Fund.
2001: “Children of a
Vanish World” an exhibition of photographs by Roman Vishniac is scheduled to
come to a close at the Spertus Museum in Chicago.
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2001/02/01/28027.html
2001(12th of Elul,
5761): Seventy-five year old Lord Hamlyn, the son of refugees from Hitler’s
Germany and became a publishing mogul passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/sep/03/guardianobituaries.politics
2001(12th of
Elul, 5761: Seventy-nine year old child prodigy violinist Jacob Morris
Kramalnick, who served as concert master with several orchestras passed away
today.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jacob-Krachmalnick-former-concertmaster-of-2881754.php
2001: An exhibition
entitled “Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Jewish Identity in 19th-Century
Art” comes to a close at Yeshiva University Museum in Manhattan. Oppenheim was one of the first Jewish artists
to become successful in the 19th century. His “chief claim to fame was as a portraitist
to the Rothschild family. He was called
‘the painter of the Rothschilds, and the Rothschild of painters.’” In the
following article entitled “Out of the Jewish Ghetto and Into the Mainstream,”
Grace Glueck reviews the exhibition while providing an interesting portrait of
this Jewish artist.
2002: The Israeli
Defense Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, issued a statement expressing
"regret" over "harming" civilians in Tubas when an Israeli
helicopter fire four missiles at a car in which the local leader of the al-Aqsa
brigade was thought to be riding but which actually contained five civilians
and one teenager accused of being part of the terrorist organization
2003: Luis Sandoval and
two unidentified co-conspirators went to Cafe Bazel, a chic restaurant popular
with expatriate Israeli artists in the Encino area, and fatally shot a man
suspected of stealing 76 kilograms of Ecstasy tablets from Moshe Malul and Itzhik
Abergil. This hit appears to have been the high point of the Israelis'
collaboration with the Vineland crew.
2003: The Sunday New York Times book section
includes a review of Off With Their
Heads:
Traitors, Crooks and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media and Business
by Jewish political consultant Dick Morris.
2004(14th of Elul,
5764): Hamas suicide bombers blew up two buses in Beersheba, Israel, killing 16
passengers and wounding 100’s more. The
dead included Shoshana Amos, 64; Aviel Atash, 3; Vitaly Brodsky, 52; Tamara Dibrashvilli,
70; Raisa Forer, 55; Larisa Gomanenko, 48; Denise Hadad, 50; Tatiana
Kortchenko, 49; Rosita Lehman, 45;
Karine Malka, 23; Nargiz
Ostrovsky, 54; Maria Sokolov, 57; Roman
Sokolovsky, 53; Tiroayent Takala, 33; Eliyahu Uzan, 58 and Emmanuel Yosef
(Yosefov), 28 all from Beersheba.
2004: The Philadelphia Inquirer featured a
review of a biography of Jewish born violinist Efrem Zimbalist entitled Efrem
Zimbalist: A Life by Roy Malan.
2005(26th of Av,
5765): Sir Joseph Rotblat passed away at
the age of 96. The physicist was the
only scientist who quit working on the development of the atomic bomb for
“moral reasons.” The Polish born
scientist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to him and the Pugwash conferences in
1995 for their work in trying to limit and ultimately eliminate nuclear
weapons.
2005: “The Constant
Gardner” a movie version of the novel by the same name starring Rachel Weisz
was released today in the United States.
2005: Mikhail
Khodorkovsky, Russian born Jewish oligarch and businessman, announced that he
would run for parliament.
2006: A mass rally
calling for the release of the three kidnapped IDF soldiers, Gilad Shalit,
Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser attracted thousands to Tel Aviv Rabin's Square.
2006(7th of Elul,
5766): Bernard J. Wohl passed away at the age of 76. An advocate for New York’s
poor and homeless; he served as Executive Director of the Goddard Riverside
Community Center for 26 years.
2006(7th of
Elul, 5766): Sixty-two year old Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Ph.D. the Professor at the
University of Chicago Divinity School and award winning author whose works
included Reading the Women of the Bible passed away today.
2007: In Jerusalem, clarinetist Karl-Heinz Steffens joins
members of the Jazz Faculty of the Israel Conservatory of Music for a Jazz
Concert.
2007: The ZF conference
entitled “Israel at 60” opens in London.
2007: In an address
given at the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America Rabbi Eric
Yoffee, president of the Union for Reform Judaism “pleaded with American
Muslims to transcend the differences that have their people for decades and
Join Jews to confront the extremist factions and prejudice that plague both
religious traditions.”
2007: Today, Rabbi Israel Rubin took his students on an unusual
field trip. They went to Barn 70 on the backside of Saratoga Race Course to see
a trainer about a horse. The trainer was Bob Baffert, and the horse,
Maimonides, was a fast one, who just may capture the Kentucky Derby next May.
Maimonides cost $4.6 million at last year’s Keeneland September Sale, and last
month he appeared as if he was worth every penny when he won his debut by 11 ½
lengths..
2008: The Sunday New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including g Still Alive! A Temporary
Condition: A Memoir by Herbert Gold and two books by Adam
Krisch; Invasions and The
Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry.
2008: The Washington Post featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Man
in the Dark by Paul Auster, Dough: A Memoir by Mort Zachter, issued in paperback
and Norman Mailer's Miami and the Siege of Chicago, now reissued for the
40th anniversary of those groundbreaking 1968 presidential conventions.
2008: At Yeshiva
University Museum, an exhibition entitled “The Six Day War Series: Painting by
Ira Moskowitz” comes to an end.
2008: Dr. Andrew G.
Bostom, author of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to
Solemn History a book that describes what it was like living as Jew under
Moslem rule, was interviewed on Israel National Radio's Tamar Yonah Show
2009(11TH of
Elul, 5769): Fifty-five year old documentary film maker Elliot Berlin who made
“Paperclips” one of the best Holocaust related movies ever passed away today.
2009: Opening night of
the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2009 The Education
Ministry announced this evening that an agreement to enroll Ethiopian students
initially banned from some of the city's schools had been reached following a
meeting between Petah Tikva Mayor Yitzhak Ohayon, Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar
(Likud) and other Education Ministry officials.
2009: The stock of
Africa Israel investments, a real estate firm owned by Lev Leviev “fell another
13.7 percent today as the firm floated the idea of renegotiating the terms of
its debts with bond holders and banks.” (As reported by Marcy Oster)
2010: An exhibition,
The Works of Mordechai Rosenstein, on display at the Fine Family Art Gallery
and the Katz Family Mainstreet Gallery of the MJCCA is scheduled to come a
close today in Atlanta, GA.
2010: Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and his negotiating team took off for Washington this
morning, ahead of the relaunch of peace talks with the Palestinians..
2010(21st of
Elul, 5770): Sixty-five year old Gail Koff a partner in Jacoby & Meyers,
passed away. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/nyregion/03koff.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2010(21st of
Elul, 5770): Four Israelis were shot dead in their car today near the West Bank
settlement of Kiryat Arba less than a day before Israeli and Palestinian
leaders meet in Washington for a summit to announce the resumption of direct
peace talks. The attack, for which Hamas has claimed responsibility, shattered
years of relative calm in the West Bank. The victims are a couple from the
settlement of Beit Hagai and two residents of Kiryat Arba. One of the dead was
a woman believed to have been pregnant. The Beit Hagai couple has been
identified as Yitzhak and Tali Ames, 45 and 47. They are survived by six
children, the oldest 24 and the youngest 5.
2011(1st of
Elul, 5771): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2011: Rami Feinstein,
“a widely popular Israeli artist who has developed a diverse and devoted
following over the last seven years” is scheduled to perform at the Bitter End
in New York City
2011: Today, the head
of the government-appointed committee on socioeconomic change in Israel, Prof.
Manuel Trajtenberg, defended the recent criticism cast upon the leaders of the
social protest, and explained they were simply "inexperienced." Today
marked the committee's last meeting with representatives from the public, which
included the participation of 17 representatives from tent encampments from
across the country.
2011: Summer rainfall
took Israelis by surprise today when slight showers were felt in Hadera,
Netanya, and even Tel Aviv.
2011:
The Israel Air Force deployed a third battery of the Iron Dome rocket defense
system outside the southern city of Ashdod today in the face of continued
rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
2011:
Over 20,000 are expected to attend the 7th Annual Jerusalem Beer Festival
tonight and tomorrow night at the Old Train Station in Jerusalem
2012:
Israel responded bitterly today to comments by the chairman of the US Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, who said yesterday that he did not want
“to be complicit” if Israel were to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Dempsey’s comments were “strange” and characterized the failure of the United
States to take a determined position against Iran’s nuclear drive, a source in
Jerusalem was quoted as saying
2012:
The White House today dismissed statements made by Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney yesterday that the Obama administration had “thrown
allies like Israel under the bus” regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
“Cooperation with Israel between our military and intelligence communities has
never been closer” under the Obama administration, White House Press Secretary
Jay Carney told reporters.
2012:
The Fifteenth Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to open today.
2012:
After premiering at the Sundance Film Festiva.
“For a Good Time, Call” a comedy starring Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller,
who co-authored the screenplay was released today in the United States.
2012: In Leesburg, VA, Congregation Sha'are Shalom
is scheduled to greet the Sabbath Queen with a Musical Shabbat and Ice Cream
Social
2012:
“Labor on the Bimah” is scheduled to begin Erev Shabbat.
http://www.jufj.org/our_work/programs_and_events/labor_bimah
2012(13th
of Elul, 5772): Seventy-nine year old British composer whose family was
murdered at Auschwitz and “a world authority on the Dreyfus Affair” who cred
the Dreyfus Centenary in 1994 passed away today.
2013:
At the Rose and Crown Theatre the curtain came down on a London production
“Little Me,” a Neil Simon musical
2013:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiated at the wedding of Michael Kaiser and
John Roberts “in what was the first-ever instance of a U.S. Supreme Court
Justice performing a same-sex marriage.”2013: An exhibit celebrating the 100th
anniversary of the Columbus (Ohio) Jewish Center which was developed by the
Columbus Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to come to an end today.
2013:
The Tel Aviv Woodwind Quintet is scheduled to play Ligeti’s “6 Bagatelles For
Wind Quintet” at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013:
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Temple Judah marks Selichot a study session, services and
the Changing of the Torah Covers ceremony.
2013:
“Ivri Lider, one of the most successful Israeli musicians of his generation” is
scheduled to perform at the Budapest Music Center.
2013:
Israeli communications company Spacecom has successfully launched a state of
the art satellite to space tonight from the Zenit launching pad in Baikonur,
Kazakhstan.
2013:
Labor MK Omer Bar-Lev today criticized Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee chairman Avigdor Liberman for refusing to call a meeting of the
committee to discuss a possible US strike on Syria and its implications on
Israel.
2014:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness by Joel Gold and Ian Gold and
a Q & A with Rick Pearlstein whose most recent work is The Invisible
Bridge: The Fall Nixon and the Rise of Reagan.
2014:
Dr. Judith Rosenbaum is scheduled to succeed Dr. Gail Reimer as Executive
Director of the Jewish Women’s Archives.
2014(5th
of Elul, 5774): Twenty year old Paratrooper Shahar Shalev passed way today as a
result of wounds suffered from an IED explosion four and a half weeks ago that
took place while he was working to locate and destroy the Hamas terror tunnels
during Operation Protective Edge. (“In life he was loved and admired; he was
swifter than eagles and stronger than lions.”)
2014:
“The Israeli Air Force downed an unmanned drone (UAV) over the Golan Heights as
it attempted to enter Israeli airspace from Syria.” At this time, the IDF does
not know who launched the drone or if it was weaponized. (As reported by Uzi
Baruch)
2014:
Tenth anniversary of the Beersheba Bus Bombings.
2015:
A Classical Trio Concert featuring Gabriel Chouraki - violinist and Eyal Heiman
- cellist is scheduled to take place at Migdalei haYam haTichon in Jerusalem.
2015:
In Coralville, Iowa, Hebrew School is scheduled to begin today.
2015:
The Toronto Blue Jays announced that Mark Shapiro would become their new
president and chief executive officer (CEO) at the end of the 2015 season
2015:
After a weeklong trial, jurors deliberated for about two hours before
convicting Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 74, a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a
history of racist and anti-Semitic actions in the shooting deaths of three
people a year ago at a Jewish community center and an assisted living facility
in suburban Kansas City.
2015:
The Jewish Historical Society of Great Washington is scheduled to co-sponsor
screening “Rosenwald” “the documentary by Aviva Kempner” that “tells the
incredible story of how businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald (who
made his fortune at the helm of Sears, Roebuck and Co) joined with Booker T.
Washington and African-American communities in the South to build schools
during the early part of the 20th century.”
http://www.rosenwaldfilm.org/home.php
2016:
“The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at
Nuremberg” published today tells the tale of Ben Ferencz, “the last surviving
prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials.”
2016:
Today, “a U.S. appeals court threw out a $655.5 million verdict against the
Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization for damages
suffered by American families from terrorist attacks in Israel.”
2016(27th
of Av, 5776): Eight-six year old photographer Nathan Lyons passed away today.
2016:
In Memphis, TN, The Temple Israel Chazak Campaign is scheduled to come to a
close.
2017:
Esther Hugenholtz, the Congregation Agudas Achim’s new rabbi is scheduled to
arrive this evening at the Eastern Iowa Airport.
2017:
Today, “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin” declined to endorse a plan that
would have Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson as the face of the twenty
dollar bill.
2017:
“Energy Department official William Bradford who is Jewish and was appointed by
President Trump to lead the Office of Indian Energy and who made disparaging
remarks about President Barack Obama’s Kenyan ancestry and called Facebook
founder Marc Zuckerberg a “self-hating Jew” resigned today. (CJN)
2017:
The Diver Festival, three weekends of modern dance in and around Jaffa and Tel
Aviv is scheduled to begin today.
2018
The U.S. State Department announced today that “Special Reprsentatives for
Syria Engagement James Jeffrey and Special Envoy for Syria “will meet with
senior Israeli officials to discuss ‘maintaining Israel’s security while
countering Iran’s destabilizing activity throughout the region…’”
2017:
JW3 is scheduled to host the two final screenings in London of “Alone in
Berlin,” a haunting tale about a German husband and wife who were guillotined
for mounting an anti-Hitler postcard campaign.
2018:
“As a Blue Star Museum, the Illinois Holocaust Museum” is scheduled to begin
offering “free admission to active-duty military personnel and up to five of
their family members” today which will continue through Labor Day Monday.
2018:
Starting at 6 pm the Ayalon Highway Company was scheduled to close the Ayalon
Highway for twenty-four hours in the first of six weekend closures so the
“construction of a pedestrian and cycling bridge” could be completed until
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz order a halt in response to threats from
“Haredi parties.” (As reported by Roi Rubinstein, Moran Azulay)
2018:
The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host screenings of
“Her Love Boils Bathwater” and “Transit.”
2018:
In what has become a weekly ritual, thousands of Palestinians protested along
the border between Gaza in Israel.
2018(20 Elul): Yahrzeit of Dr. Jacob Levin, of blessed memory,
beloved husband of Betty, loving father of Michael (Gigi Cohen) Levin, Stephen
(Dian Garton) Levin, Sharon (Philip) Wein and Lawrence (Sandra Morrison) Levin
and proud Zaide to a whole tribe of grandchildren. To his brother
Joe, he was the incomparable “Yaenkel” and to me his was my wonderful Uncle
Jack – living proof that good guys finish first.
2019: As part of its “Survivor Talks” series the Illinois
Holocaust Memorial is scheduled to host Kurt Gutfreund as he talks about
surviving the Holocaust as a seven year old interred at Terezin.
2019: In Great Barrington, MA, the Triplex Cinema is scheduled
to host a screening of “The Spy Behind Home Plate” followed by a Q and A with
“consultant Neil Goldstein.”
2019(30th of Av, 5779): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh
Elul
2020: With the virus spreading quickly in Gaza, Israel and the
Palestinian militant group Hamas agreed tonight to ease up on bombarding each
other” and “Israel agreed to let fuel flow back to Gaza’s power station, and a
cash infusion from Qatar helped seal the deal.
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host David Grossman,
“one of the world’s leading wrters on the legacy of war and the courage to
love.
2021: Chabad of Peabody, MA, is scheduled to present a “Women’s
Honey Cake Bake.”
2021: In Sun Valley, ID, The Alturas Institute is scheduled to
host Judy Batalion who “will participate in the IN PERSON “Conversations with
Exceptional Women” Conference.
2021:
Boston-area challah guru Mandy Silverman of Mandylicious and 18Doors’ Molly
Kazin Marshall are scheduled to host a virtual challah-making class.
2021:
Based on court and cabinet decisions reached last night, as of today the Green
Pass Mandate now includes the teaching staff and teachers must wear a facemask
or be barred from teaching students in person.
2022:
In Belvedere Tiburon, CA, Chabad of Tiburon is scheduled to present “Kosher
Wine Tasting Kabbalah,” an educational event with winemaker Jonathan Hajdu, a
tasting of kosher wines and a presentation on the “Kabbalah” (mystique and
power) of wine.
2022:
One day before schools in Israel are scheduled to open, students do not know if
they will return to class because teachers are threatening to strike on
September 1.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “The Simon
Wiesenthal Story.”
2023:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a lecture by Robert Wolf the
son of Holocaust survivors author of Not a Real Enemy, that tells “about his
family’s story of cloak-and-dagger adventures, daring escape in the dead of
night, terrifying oppression, tragedy, and triumph.”
2023:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a walking tour of the Jewish
Lower East Side which “saw unparalleled growth as waves of immigrants settled,
prayed, played, worked, shopped, and attended school in this neighborhood as
they built their new lives in a new land.”
2023:
JCC East Bay, Keshet and A Great Good Place for Books are scheduled to present
a lecture by Hilary Zaid as she discusses her new tech thriller, about a queer
single mother and aspiring artist who finds herself in the thick of a plot to overthrow
Big Data, with Alex Green, editor in chief of Stereo Embers Magazine.
2023:
Temple Emanuel of Newton is scheduled to present “Kvetch, Kvell, Ice Cream as
Well” for those who are tired of only hearing about people like Kanye West and
the rising tide of anti-Semitism.
