This Day, September 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 26
1087:
Coronation of King William Rufus, the second son of
William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews
that occurred in Rouen, and across France and the Rhineland, in the bloody
frenzy the preceded …
September 26
1087:
Coronation of King William Rufus, the second son of
William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews
that occurred in Rouen, and across France and the Rhineland, in the bloody
frenzy the preceded the departure of the First Crusade in 1096” was fatally
struck by an arrow which may have been a hunting accident or part of calculated
plot to remove him from the throne.
1187:
Saladin launches his attack on Jerusalem
1280:
“Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, a kabbalist and mystic who proclaimed himself
Messiah in 1284 was released from imprisonment in Rome where he had been jailed
for twenty eight days for his attempt to convert Pope Nicholas III to
Judaism.
1348:
Pope Clement VI issued a Bull contradicting the libel against the Jews stating
that they were suffering just like the rest of Europe. Other rulers issued similar
denunciations but with little effect or no effect.
1350:
Coronation of King John II of France, The Jews had been banished from France so
there were no Jews living in his kingdom when he took the throne. Thanks to the King’s folly, the Jews would
return during his reign. During the
Hundred Years War, King John II was captured the English after the defeat at
Battle of Poitiers. The English demanded
a substantial ransom from the impoverished and impotent French Dauphin, the
future Charles V. To raise funds,
Charles enticed the Jews to return to France with a liberal charter of
rights. He then levied heavy taxes on them
which helped to free the king. A wiser monarch than King John might have
avoided the crushing defeat at Poitiers which meant that the Jews would have
continued to be exiled from a large portion of Western Europe.
1629:
Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller returned to Prague after having finally been
released from prison. The terms of his
release included payment of large fine and being deprived of the right to serve
as a Rabbi any place in the Holy Roman Empire. He took to his bed, a broken
man, for three months. Friends succeeded
in having the sentence reduced and helped him obtain a position in Russia. The tragedies that befell this sage were not
brought on by the gentiles. Rather, it was his fellow Jews in Bohemia, who felt
that they had been, taxed unfairly who went to the civil authorities and lodged
charges against him. Then, and only
then, did the Emperor become involved.
1669:
Today marked a continuation of events that had begun on September 25, 1669 in
what can only be described as another blood libel. After a warrant had been
sworn out for the arrest of Raphael Levi in the matter of the disappearance of
3 year old Christian child, the Jews of Metz (Germany) convinced him to
surrender to authorities. The Jews were
animated by what they sensed was a growing threat to their safety. Levi was a fifty-six year old merchant of
medium height with a long, black beard who had traveled to the Levant, Italy,
Germany and Holland on personal and Jewish communal business. Currently, he lived at Boulai, a village near
Metz, where he was the leader of the synagogue. Levi told authorities that he
come to Metz to buy a shofar for the upcoming holiday, oil, wine and fish. He arrived in Metz at 10 in the morning, left
the city about one in the afternoon and arrived at Boulai by four in the
afternoon. The prosecution decided that
he must have seen the child around 1 p.m., grabbed him and taken him home. Of
the eighteen witnesses called, five claimed to have seen a Hebrew enter the
city but only one of them identified Levi as being the person they had
seen. One witness “declared that he did
not think” Levi “was the man he had met. Regardless, the court found Levi
guilty and sentenced him to death. Levi
appealed to a higher court which granted him the right to call his own
witnesses. In the mean time, Levi was
held in jail awaiting the determination of his final fate. [More will follow on
this sad, but all too typical tale of European anti-Semitism]
1673:
At a conference held in Wischaw, Moravia, today, between representatives of the
government and of the Jews it was agreed that 250 Jewish families might return
to Vienna and occupy fifty business places in the inner city on payment of
300,000 florins and the former yearly tax of 10,000 florins. In view of the hopelessly
depleted treasury, the royal exchequer considered this offer a "remarkable
piece of good fortune."
1679:
In Dresden Samuel Benedict Carpzov and his wife gave birth German Old Testament
Scholar whom the Jewish Encyclopedia says
“represents both an advance and a retrogression in Biblical science — an
advance in fullness of material and clearness of arrangement (his Introduction
is the first work that deserves the name), and a retrogression in critical
analysis, for he held fast to the literal inspiration of the Hebrew text of the
Old Testament and bitterly opposed the freer positions of Simon, Spinoza, and
Clericus. His antiquarian writings are still interesting and useful.
1699:
Birthdate of Anglo-Irish actor Charles Macklin who revolutionized the portrayal
of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
1755(21st
of Tishrei, 5516): Hoshana Raba
1762:
Birthdate of Moses Schreiber, known to his own community and Jewish posterity
as Moshe Sofer, also known by his main work Chasam Sofer, (trans. Seal of the
Scribe and acronym for Chidushei Toras Moshe Sofer), (1762 - 1839), was one of
the leading Orthodox rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the
nineteenth century. He was a teacher to thousands and a powerful opponent to
the Reform movement, which was then making inroads into many Jewish communities
in Austria-Hungary and beyond. As Rav of the city of Bratislava, he maintained
a strong Orthodox Jewish perspective through communal life, first-class
education, and uncompromising opposition to Reform and radical change.
1764(29th
of Elul, 5524) Erev Rosh Hashana
1767(3rd
of Tishrei, 5528): Shabbat Shuva
1768(15th
of Tishrei, 5529): Sukkoth
1773(9th
of Tishrei, 5534): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1774(21st
of Tishrei, 5535): Hoshana Raba observed for the last time before the start of
the American Revolution.
1778(5th
of Tishrei, 5539): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva observed as in the area
around New York, George Washington is facing a British Army stronger than that
which Burgoyne had led at Saratoga in 1777.
1787(14th
of Tishrei, 5548): Erev Sukkoth
1789(6th
of Tishrei, 5550): Parashat Vayeilich; Sabbat Shuva observed for the first time
during the Presidency of George Washington.
1792(10th
of Tishrei, 5553): Yom Kippur
1794(2nd
of Tishrei, 5555): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1794:
Mungo Park, the Scottish explorer who “noted the presence of Jews in the region
of Timbuktu” “offered his services to the African Association” to lead an
expedition to “discover the course of the Niger River.”
1798(16th
of Tishrei, 5559); Second Day of Sukkoth
1803(10th
of Tishrei, 5564): Just two and a half months after the announcement of the
Louisiana Purchas, Jews observe Yom Kippur in a much larger United States.
1803:
Isaac Nunez Cardozo, the London born son Sarah and Aaron Nunez Cardozo and his
wife Judith Cardozo gave birth to Rebecca Roxas, the wife of Jacob Roxas.
1805(3rd
of Tishrei, 5566): Tzom Gedaliah
1809(16th
of Tishrei, 5570): Second Day of Sukkoth
1810:
Birthdate of Eleazer Levy Hyams, the native of Charleston, SC who passed away
in Natchitoches, LA in the summer before the start of the Civil War.
1817(16th
of Tishrei, 5578): Second Day of Sukkoth
1817:
Birthdate of Jacob Israel who is among the Jews buried in Natchitoches, LA.
1821(29th
of Elul, 5581): Erev Rosh Hashana
1822:
In the UK, Myer Collins, the son of Hyman Collins and Mary Davis was
circumcised today.
1825(14th
of Tishrei, 5586): Erev Sukkoth observed for the first time during the
Presidency of John A. Adams.
1832(2nd
of Tishrei, 5593): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1832:
In London Michael (Meyer) Solomon, “a successful Bishopsgate manufacturer, and one
of the first Jews to be admitted to the freedom of the City of London” and his
wife Catherine “Kate” Levy gave birth to painter Rebecca Solomon, the sister to
two other painters – Simeon Solomon and Abraham Solomon.
1832:
In “The New Year’s Eve and Day of the Sons of Abraham,” published today the
Sydney (Australia) Monitor reported that “the Jews of the colony assembled at
the Jews' Synagogue held over Mr. Rowell's shop in George Street which is
elegantly fitted out as such on Monday evening, being the last night of the
year, according to the ancient chronology of the tribe of Judah, when prayers
were said. On Tuesday morning and again in the evening, other meetings took
place and worship was again performed.
The
congregation formulated detailed rules of conduct. A committee member not
attired in decent and respectable manner was to be fined a guinea for each such
offence. No person could officiate at a service without permission from the
president. No conversation must take place during services; and "those
Gentlemen being the junior branches of their families will take special care
they behave themselves in a manner becoming a place of Divine Worship".
The order of service and religious principles of the congregation were to be
those laid down by the Chief Rabbi of London.
1834:
In Dover, UK, Betsy Isaacs and Solomon Nathan gave birth to Nathan Nathan.
1835(3rd
of Tishrei, 5596): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1836(15th
of Tishrei, 5597): Sukkoth observed for the last time during the Presidency of
Andrew Jackson, also known as “Old Hickory.”
1837:
Joseph Wolff, the son of a rabbi who converted to Christianity was ordained as
a deacon today in Newark, NJ.
1838:
In Germany, Elias and Babette Mandelbaum Sanger gave birth to Waco, TX
businessman Lehman Sanger, the founder of Sanger Brothers, husband of Isabella
Sanger and the father of Estella, William, Isaac, Philip, Eli, Joseph and
Bertram Sanger.
1838(7th
of Tishrei, 5599): Seventy-four-year-old Samuel Hays, the New York born son of
Isaac Hays and merchants who had worked with Chaim Salomon and who had been
married to Richea Gratz since 1794 passed away today in Philadelphia, PA.
1841:
In New Yor, Hetty Maria Gomez married twenty-five-year-old Charleston, SC
native Hyman Hart two years before the birth of Eudora Hart, the wife of Gratz
Nathan and mother of Constance and Frank Henry Nathan.
1843(2nd
of Tishrei, 5604): Rosh Hashanah
1844:
In Prague, Daniel and Lizzie Sicher gave birth to Missouri resident Lizzie
Sicher Fishell, the husband of Ferdinand Fishell and the mother of Regina,
Samuel, Henry, Daneil, Mamie and Arthur Fishell.
1846(6th
of Tishrei, 5607): Shabbat Shuva
1846:
Birthdate of William Daub, the native of Nidda, Germany and husband of Miriam
Lederer who in 1866 came to the United States where he worked for V.H.
Rothschild and Company, organized and served as president of “Temple
Hand-in-Hand, (Yad b’Yad) the first synagogue in the Bronx and, starting in
1901, servings Superintendent of the Lebanon Hospital in New York City.
1855(14th
of Tishrei, 5616) Erev Sukkot
1866
came to America where he became a
factor superintendent for V.H. Rothschild and Company and organized and served
as President of “Temple Hand-in-Hand, the first synagogue in the Bronx.
1849(10th
of Tishrei, 5610): Yom Kippur
1849:
Fifty Jews gathered in San Francisco for the first observance of Yom Kippur in
that city.
1851(29th
of Elul, 5611): Erev Rosh Hashana
1851:
In Vincennes, Indiana, “prosperous merchant Adam Gimbel” and his wife Fridoline
Kahnweiler Gimbel gave birth to Jacob Gimbel, one of the brothers who founded
Gimbels in Philadelphia.
1854:
"Jamaica” published today reported that sermons are still being preached
on the island in an attempt to get additional funds to support the destitute
Jews in Jerusalem and its environs.
Despite the depressed economic conditions on the island, almost four
thousand dollars has been collected which will be forwarded to Sir Moses
Montefiore.
1855(14th
of Tishrei, 5616): Erev Sukkoth
1855:
One day after he had passed away at the age of “8 years and 4 months,” Leon
Rosenthal the sone of “Lewis Rosenthal and the former Charlotte Bamberger” was
buried at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1860(10th
of Tishrei, 5621): Yom Kippur
1860:
The Cattle Markets column published this evening attributes some of the
sluggishness in sales at the cattle yards on 44th street to the fact
that the Jewish buyers were not there to make purchases because they were
observing the Fast of Yom Kippur.
1860:
Today's General News column included an item styled, “Yom Kippur – Day of
Atonement’ that reported, “From sunset last evening until sunset to-day is
observed by the Jews as the most solemn fast in their calendar. It is the
"Day of Atonement," and during the time specified they abstain
entirely from food and drink. According to Hebrew tradition, the Yom Kippur,
even before the giving of the law, was a Day of Atonement and pardon. It is
customary in the evening for parents to bestow their benediction on their
children. If any quarrel or dispute exists between the Jews, it is obligatory
on them to become reconciled. The moral influence of such a day, when all Jews,
rich or poor, meet together in the synagogues and unite in the prayers, must
necessarily be great... The origin of the fast is found in Leviticus, chapter
xxiv., verse 26, which is as follows: "And the Lord spoke unto Moses,
saying, speak unto the children of Israel, and say, also on the tenth day in
the seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto
you. And ye shall afflict your souls, and offer a burn offering unto the Lord.
And ye shall do no work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement to atone
for you before the Lord your God. And every soul that shall not be afflicted on
the same day, He will cut off from among His people. And every soul that does
work on that same day, that soul will I destroy from among His people. Ye shall
do no manner of work; this is a statute for ever unto all your generations, and
throughout all your dwellings. It shall be unto you, the first among your
Sabbaths, and ye shall afflict your souls, on the ninth day of the month at even;
from even to even shall you celebrate your Sabbath."
1861(22nd
of Tishrei, 5622): Shemini Atzeret
1861:
“Benefit to the Jewish Hospital” published today reported that the will of
Henry Hendricks has been admitted to probate and leaves $1,000 to the Jew’s
Hospital and “$500 to Rev. J.J. Lyon, the Minister of the Congregation of the
Shearith Israel.” Hendricks was the member of a prominent Sephardic
family. Hendricks is an anglicized form
the Spanish name Henriques.
1861:
Jews and Christians alike took part in a national day of “fasting, humiliation
and prayer.” Jews filled their synagogues as the people of New York ceased from
commercial activity in a manner not even seen on the Sabbath.
1861:
Francis Reinhard, completed his service with Company B of the 27th
Regiment.
1862(2nd
of Tishrei, 5623): On the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah, Union Forces under the
Command of Don Carlos Buell solidify their position in Louisville, KY,
thwarting the Rebel efforts to take the border state into the Confederacy.
1863:
Alfred Cromelien, a first lieutenant Company C of the Fifth Cavalry resigned
his commission today after being twice captured by the Confederates.
1863:
In Minsk, Israel Freedman and his wife gave birth to Samuel Aaron Freedman a
graduate of the Warsaw Conservatory of Music who served congregations in Russia
and Cleveland, Ohio as a cantor before accepting a similar position at
Congregation B’Nai Amoona in St. Louis, MO.
1863:
Leopold and Sofie Sara Peck gave birth to Samuel Sema Peck
1864:
Adolph Marix, who was aboard the U.S.S. Maine when it blew up in Cuba, entered
the U.S. Navy as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy today and when he
graduated four years later, he was the first Jew to do so.
1864:
Founding of the Harmony Circle of Baltimore whose members would include Jacob
Preiss, Sylvan Hayes Lauchheier, Jesse Rosenfield, Isaac A. Oppenheim, L.B.
Bernei, H.I. Hambruger, Leon C. Coblens and Louis N. Gutman.
1865(6th
of Tishrei, 5626): Twenty-two-year old Cornelius Levy, the Richmond, VA born
son of Hannah and Isaac Abraham Levy passed away today in Philadelphia.
1867(16th
of Elul, 5627): Fifty-five year old English born boxer Israel “Izzy” Lazarus
who retired from the ring in 1837 and then moved to New York with his wife
where they “joined their two boxer sons Harry and Johnny” and he became a
boxing promoter.
1868(10th
of Tishrei, 5629): Yom Kippur observed on the same day that General Phillip
Sheridan wrote to the Governor of Kansas describing his plans for an unusual
winter campaign against the Cheyenne and the National Labor Congress whose
platform called for “a reform of the monetary system” and attacked the banking
system” continued its meetings in New York City.
1870(1st
of Tishrei, 5631): Rosh Hashanah
1870:
All of the 27 synagogues in New York City were filled with Jews celebrating
their New Year.
1870:
Chatham Street, the Bowery “and the various other streets” where the Jews
conduct their business were as devoid as empty as they would be on the weekly
day of rest.
1871
Four days after he had passed away, “58 year old Maurice Benesh” was buried in
the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1871:
In Lithuania, “Aba Ascher Levin and Golda Reizel Margolis gave birth to
Baltimore clothing manufacturer Isaac Aaron Levin, an organizer of the Hebrew
Charities and husband of Rachel Levin.
1870:
“At Charlottenlund Palace in Gentofte Municipality north of Copenhagen,” Crown
Prince Frederick of Denmark and his wife Louise of Sweden gave birth to
Christian X of Denmark who in 1933 attended the ceremonies marking the 100th
anniversary of the founding of the Grand Synagogue and who according to a
popular myth donned the Yellow Star of David during the Nazi occupation
(something he wrote about in his diaries”
1873:
In Brooklyn, Elizabeth Wolf and Henry Cohen gave birth to NYU trained attorney
Julius Henry Cohen, the husband of Ida Strasburger who while serving as
“counsel for the manufacturers in the cloak strike of 1910” helped to create
the “Protocols of Peace” in the women’s wear industry.
1874(15th
of Tishrei, 5635): Sukkoth
1874:
“Chag Hassakoth” published today described the observance that began yesterday
evening of the “Jew Festival of ‘Succoth,’ more familiarly known as the Feast
of Tabernacles.” “The attendance at the
synagogues and temples was not large, in consequence of the holiday following
so close on the New Year.”
1875:
In New York, theatre impresario Oscar Hammerstein and his first wife Rose Blau
gave birth to William “Willie” Hammerstein, “the manager of Victoria Theatre
and Roof Garden” who had married Annie Nemo, the sister of his first wife Helen
Nimo with who had two sons, Reginald and Oscar, the award winning “teammate of
Jerome Kern and Richard Rogers
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/06/11/100319583.pdf
1875:
It was reported today that there are 19 Jewish congregations in New York
1877:
Founding of the Herxheimer Fund which provides financial assistance that
‘enables poor Jewish students to attend normal schools in Germany.
1878(28th
of Elul, 5638): Two days before the celebration of Rosh Hashanah the Great
Synagogue of Warsaw which would e destroyed by the Nazis in 1943, opened today.
1878:
Several cases were heard in Part II of the Court of General Sessions (NYC) in
which the defendants were charged with violating laws that banned keeping live
fowl in dwellings. The accused were all
Jews who claimed that Jewish law required them to keep live fowl in their
possession for three days before they could be killed. Since a religious
defense was being used by the defendants, the prosecutor insisted that no Jews
should serve on the jury. After the jury
had been seated, one of the jurors was excused because he looked like a
Jew. It turned out that the juror was
the brother of a Christian minister. The
jury acquitted all of the accused.
1879(9th
of Tishrei, 5640): Erev Yom Kippur
1879:
In Philadelphia, Rosa E. Wolf and Sime Loeb gave birth to Drexel Institute and
University of Pennsylvania educated broker and author Oscar Loeb, the husband
Rebecca W. Thomas and member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange who was a vice
president of the Jewish Chautauqua Society, a director of Rodeph Shalom and the
editor of both The Review Magazine and the Red and Blue Magazine.
1879:
In Sussex, England “Nathaniel Louis Cohen and his wife Julia Matilda Cohen, the
daughter of Jacob and Matilda Waley” gave birth to “Charles Waley-Cohen.”
1879:
“The Jewish Feast of Atonement” published today reported that “this evening the
solemn fast of Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement, the most important observance in
the Jewish ritual will commenced by the Jewish throughout the world. The fast lasts from sundown on Friday evening
until sunset on Saturday” a time during which “the devout Israelite does not
permit either or drink of any kind to pass his lips.” The article noted that Orthodox Jews observe
the fast strictly while some Reform congregations in the United States have
abolished the practice. “The services…consist chiefly of repeated confessions
of the sins which have been committed during the past year and prayers for
forgiveness.”
1880:
Birthdate of Rochester, NY native and Columbia trained laryngologist Dr. Harold
M. Hays.
1881: “A Hebrew Memorial Meeting” published today
described how Mr. Samuel Greenbaum, President of the Young Men's Hebrew
Association presided over the Association's memorial service honoring the
late President Garfield. Among the dignitaries who attended the service
was Mr. R.J. de Cordova who gave an eloquent eloquent eulogy. Congressman
Einstein concluded his remarks by saying. "Garfield needs no granite shat
to mark his grave; he will live forever in the hearts of his countrymen."
1881: In Wilkes-Barre, PA, Adelheid Auerbach and Isaac
Jacobosky gave to Lehigh University trained civil engineer Gilbert Garfield
Jacobosky, the husband of Audrey Blumenthal and member of the United States
Army Corps of the Engineers who reached the rank of Lt. Colonel while serving
during WW I who returned to Wilkes-Barre after the war where he as a member of
B’nai B’rtih.
1881: Birthdate of Ernst Gräfenberg, the German born American
physician who developed the IUD. Gräfenberg literally owed his life to Margaret
Sanger who ransomed him from a Nazi prison and brought him to the United
States.
1883: Rachel Davis and Joseph Lipkie gave birth to Rosa
Lipkie.
1883: “The extra measures adopted by the Government for
securing public safety” that were necessitated by the violence following the
assassination of the Czar in 1881 “have been prolonged for a year throughout
the principal Provinces of Russia.” (Editor’s note – there was a wave of
Pogroms that began after the assassination of Alexander III that lasted off and
on for several years.)
1884: “Defending Mr. Friedman” published today gave David
Longsdorf’s account of the events surrounding the elopement of Sarah Scheuer
and his friend Henry Friedman. Longsdorf
contends that the two had known each other for almost a year; that contrary to
the claims of the bride’s father, he had known the groom since the first of the
year. The two lived within a block of
each other and the groom’s sister had helped the bride with preparations for a
New Year’s party in 1884. The real
objection to Friedman stems from the fact that while he could provide Sarah
with a comfortable life-style, her father opposed the marriage because Friedman
could not provide her with the lavish lifestyle of her father. (Yes, this is the stuff of which news was
made long before Entertainment Tonight, etc.)
1884:
The Jews of New York City are scheduled to hold the first in a series of mass
meetings to protest the refusal of the School Superintendent to allow children
to be excuse from class for Yom Kippur.
1884:
The first in a series of services marking the centenary of Sir Moses Montefiore
are scheduled to be held in synagogues today all over Europe.
1884:
In Stry Austria, Bessie Fuchs and William Gardner gave birth Mrs. Benjamin L.
Abraham,
who
served as President of the Philadelphia Chapter of Hadassah and was “chairman
of the Women’s Division of the United Palestine Appeal…”
1885:
Judgment has not been rendered in the suit brought by Congregation B’Nai
Jeshurun which is attempting to recoup funeral expenses from the estate of the
late Joseph Levy who had committed suicide in Patterson, NJ.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0264/ms0264.html
1887:
Twenty-month old Russian born Sonya Kalish, the future Sophie Tucker, and her
family arrived in Boston having changed their name to Abuza to avoid problems
created by the fact that her father had successfully eluded military service
under the Czar’s anti-Semitic regime.
1888: Birthdate of the famed, influential poet,
T.S. Eliot. Was the author of “The
Wasteland” and “The Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock” an anti-Semite as some have
alleged? For at least one answer read T.
S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form by Anthony Julius.
1889: Birthdate of famed German intellectual,
Martin Heidegger. Heidegger
joined the Nazi Party on
1889(1st
of Tishrei, 5650): Rosh Hashanah
1889:
Possible birthdate of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira known as the Baba Sali or the
"Praying a leading Moroccan rabbi and kabbalist who was renowned for his
alleged ability to work miracles through his prayers. He was one of the leaders
of the Aliyah of Moroccan Jewry to Israel, which saw the transfer of nearly the
entire population of that community to the Holy Land. He passed away in
1894. His burial place in Netivot,
Israel has become a shrine for prayers and petitioners. The confusion about his
birthdate comes from the fact that he was reportedly born on Rosh Hashanah
5650. But he is also reported to have
been born in 1890. Rosh Hashanah in 1890
corresponds to 5651 on the secular calendar.
1891:
The New York Times reports Kaiser
Wilhelm II has reversed his policy of not providing financial help to Russia
and has permitted to Jewish banking houses in Berlin to open subscriptions for
a new Russian loan.
1891:
Solomon Hirsch, the United States Minister to Turkey sailed with his family on
voyage that will take him back to America for a vacation that he hopes will
last until December.
1892:
Health authorities announced that there were no cases of cholera in New York
City. “The present epidemic reached Western Europe from Russia and was mainly
if not wholly due to the migration of the Jews whose persecution has been
driving from that country.”
1893:
In an unfolding conspiracy aimed at Jacob Bauman “who is connected with some of
the wealthiest Hebrew families” in New York Max Kestenbaum and Ernest Sachs
were arrested and immediately claimed that his wife, Mrs. Annie Baumann had
paid them to lie during their divorce proceedings.
1894:
“A Most Successful Beggar” published described the fate of Charles Burkowitz, a
blind Russian Jew whose successful begging over the last ten years netted
$3,000 which his uncle stole and took with him to Boston.
1895:
Birthdate of Cincinnati native and University of Cincinnati trained attorney
Naomi Ranson.
1895:
The trial of Morris Schoenholz who is charged with arson in the first degree
and is represented by Abraham Levy began today in Part I of the Court of
General Sessions.
1896(19th
of Tishrei, 5657): Shabbat chol hamoed Sukkoth
1896:
“Thespians Sara and Jacob Adler give birth to their son Jay Adler, the American
actor who was the brother of Jacob and Sara Adler.
1897(29th
of Elul, 5657): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1897:
Birthdate of Bedriska Berlinerova who was living in Prague when she was
deported to Ujazdow where she was murdered.
1897:
Orders were issued from Police Headquarters to ignore the Sunday closing laws
and allow the Jewish businessmen on Hester, Orchard and Ludlow Streets to
conduct business prior to being closed for two days due to the Jewish New Year.
1897:
Windows were unbarred, and fire escapes were created in many of the buildings
being temporarily used for High Holiday services on the Lower East Side
following inspection visits by city building inspectors.
1897:
Birthdate of Max Schur, the native of Stanisławów who became a doctor and a
friend of Sigmund Freud.
1897:
A report of Rowland Strong published today described the meeting of the
Oriental Congress where a paper had been read describing a tribe of Abyssinian
Jews who are strictly observant but are faithful to the king “and exhibit no
desire join Herr Herzl in his trip to Palestine.”
1898(10th
of Tishrei, 5659): Yom Kippur
1898:
Samuel Bellarach, Samuel Weingarten and Major Harry Weinstock, all of whom were
serving with the 1st California Volunteers were reported to have
attended services today in the Phillipines.
1898:
The list of evening classes that will be offered by the YMHA starting in
October published today included bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting,
Spanish, German, Hebrew, Jewish History, literature, political economy, drawing
and sketching.
1898:
A summary of the third annual report of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of which Mrs.
Ester Wallenstein is President published today noted that there are currently
43 children under the age of five staying at the facility on Mott Street. The asylum does not care for children over
the age of five.
1898:
Dr. Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El is scheduled
to give a sermon today entitled “A Pure World.”
1898:
An article entitled “Yom Kippur Observance” reported that “At sundown yesterday
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the most solemn of all Jewish days of
religious observance, began for Jews of both the orthodox and reform churches,
to end at sundown to-day. These twenty-four hours are specially dedicated to
fasting and prayer, and serve the purpose of reconciling the soul of the devout
Jew to his God.” http://gershwin.com/
1898: In Brooklyn Morris Gershwine
and his wife Rose (Moishe Gershowitz amd Roza Bruskina) gave birth to Jacob
Gershwin who gained as composer George Gershwin who wrote most of his works
together with his elder brother lyricist Ira Gershwin including Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and Porgy
and Bess.
1900:
Birthdate of Gertrude Luckner the German social worker who was named as
righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem for assisting Jewish families in
German and Poland; acts of heroism that resulted being imprisoned in
Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.
1901:
The steamship Deutschland, part of the fleet of The Hamburg-American Line led
by general director Danish born Jew Albert Ballin arrived in New York this
“morning after a passage marked by the roughest weather, yet the great vessel
was only 5 hours and 5 minutes behind her best record for the west-bound
voyage.”
1902:
Hugo and Annie Piesen gave birth to Maurice “Pete” Piesen
1902
(24th of Elul, 5662): Seventy-three year old Levi Strauss, the man who put
America in Blue Jeans, passed away today in San Francisco.
http://lsco.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Levi-Strauss-Full-Biography.pdf
1902:
“Mercedes” was legally registered as a brand name for one of the automobiles
manufactured by DMG. The car was named
for Mercedes, the daughter of Jewish businessman Emil Jellinek.
1902:
An item in the Jewish Chronicle of London focused on the consecration of
a Sefer Torah and shofar in addition to several large barrels of apples and
small containers of honey, all to be used by Jewish immigrants sailing shortly
for South Africa. The short piece stressed that these items were needed since
"the immigrants will be on the high seas during the ensuing
festivals."
1903:
In Chicago, banker and Zionist Bernard Horwich, the Lithuanian born son of
Keize and Yakov Yankel Horwich, and his wife Mamie Horwich gave birth to
Theodore Horwich.
1904:
Three Days after she had passed away, “72 year old Sara Isaac Pereira Mendoza
(nee Monis), the wife of “Isaac Moses Pereira Mendoza” with whom she had eight
children” was buried at the “Nuevo (New) Jewish Cemetery.”
1905:
“Albert Einstein published the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing
the special theory of relativity.”
1906:
Replying to a deputation of municipal officials today “who complained of the
violence daily committed by members of the reactionary League of the Russian
People against peaceful citizens, Jews and Christians alike, Gov. Gen. Kaulbars
said he doubted whether it was possible or even desirable to attempt to
suppress the "exasperation of the loyal elements against the revolutionary
students, who are guided exclusively by Jews."
1907:
New Zealand gains dominion status in the British Empire. Jews first arrived in
Zealand in the 1830’s. By the turn of
the century, the Jewish population had reached about 1,300 souls which was less
than one per cent of the population. Most of the Jews lived in Auckland and
Wellington, home of Beth El Synagogue.
1908(1st
Tishrei, 5669): Rosh Hashanah
1908(1st
of Tishrei, 5669): In Philadelphia, thirty-seven-year-old Blanche A. Allman,
Steppacher, the daughter of Pauline and David Allman and husband of Emanuel
Meyer Steppacher passed away today after
which she was buried in Mount Sinai Cemetery.
1909:
“The Sabbath School of Beth Ahabah” which is expecting a large enrollment and
is looking for teaching is scheduled to open today.
1910:
“Seven doctors, constituting the medical staff of the Beth David Hospital, 246
East Eighty-second Street, having resigned at the request of the Board of
Directors, the Directors held a special meeting at the hospital tonight, at
which the formation of a new staff was postponed until the annual meeting in
October.”
1911(4th
of Tishrei, 5672): Fifty-two year old Leah F. Bissinger, the wife of Benjamin
Bissinger, the mother of Tessie Bernheim and the daughter of Gertrude and
Herman Felsenthal passed away today.
1911:
Funeral services were held today in Chicago for Mrs. Belle Lesem.
1912(15th
of Tishrei, 5673): Sukkoth
1912:
Jacob Silverman, the son Mr. and Mrs. Shlomo Silverblatt and his wife Rachel
Silverman gave birth to Baltimore resident David Silverman, the husband of
Frances Octavia Silverman.
1912(15th
of Tishrei, 5673): Sixty-one year old “communal worker” Hartwig Moss passed
away today in New Orleans.
1912:
Philip Klafter, Henry Horner, Jr. and George Halperin all from Chicago, Ill
served as a delegate to the meeting of the Lakes-to-Gulf Deep Water Association
which closed today in Little Rock, AR
1913:
Birthdate of Berthold Beitz, “the German steel industrialist who saves Jews”
(As reported by Melissa Eddy)
1913:
A list of the locations of “provisional synagogues” which “provide decorous and
impressive services for persons of limited means” to observe the upcoming high
holidays published today included Clinton on Clinton Street, the Lyceum on
Fourth Street, The Stuyvesant Casino on Second Avenue and the Auditorium of the
Hebrews Technical School for Girls at Second Avenue and 15th Street.
1914:
Israel Zangwill wrote from the Jewish Territorial Organization offices at
King’s Chambers on Portugal Street that “there would be no great misfortune for
humanity than a victory for German arms.”
1915(18th
of Tishrei, 5676): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1915:
Young Judea sponsored “seventeen gatherings in theatres” throughout New York
City where 35,000 children attended illustrated lectures on Sukkoth followed by
musical numbers” and a moving picture on “Jewish subjects.”
1915:
It was reported today that 20,000 of the 30,000 Russian Jews living in
Palestine have become Turkish subjects and that of the 8,000 who left
Palestine, most settled in Egypt where “they are taken care of by a special
Jewish committee acting for the Provisional Jewish Relief Committee.”
1915:
It was reported today that the relief work for the Zionists in Palestine is being
coordinated by Copenhagen bureau of the Provisional Jewish Relief Committee
except for efforts in the United States which are being coordinated by the
Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs.
1915:
In Brooklyn founding of B’nai Israel Synagogue.
1915:
In Columbus, Ohio, founding of Tifereth Israel.
1915:
In Richmond, VA, founding of Zion Institute.
1915:
“Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, President and founder of the National Farm School said
today in an address to the Directors of the institution at Farm School, Bucks
County, PA, that the farm should be enlarged and better equipped and that other
such institutions should be established in order to take Jews from sweatshops
and from congested districts in cities and place them on farms.”
1916:
It was reported today, that in his letter to the American Hebrew, President
Wilson paid “a high tribute to the citizenship of the Jews” writing that “No
man who knows the history of America or, indeed of the world, could fail to
appreciate their notable contributions to industry, philanthropy, intellectual
development and political liberty.”
1916(28th
of Elul, 5676): Elizabeth Solomon, a daughter of Isaac Solomon who had married
Adelaide, Australia rabbi Abraham Tobias Boas in 1873 passed away today.
1917(10th
of Tishrei, 5678): Yom Kippur
1917:
“An appeal for a fund of one million dollars to alleviate the suffering of Jews
in the European war zones” is scheduled to “be made in 1,000 synagogues” today
1917:
During services at the B’Nai Israel in Bay Ridge, congregants contributed
$10,000 to a fund for constructing a new synagogue. Rabbi Solomon Goldman officiated at the
service.
1917:
Congregants at Temple Emanu-El responded to the appeal of Louis Marshall
contributing $20,000 and pledging another $30,000 to the fund that has been set
up to provide financial assistance to the Jews trapped in the European war
zone.
1917:
Congregants at Temple Beth-El, which is served by Rabbi Samuel Schulman
contributed between $9,000 and $10,000 to the fund that has been set up to
provide financial assistance to the Jews trapped in the European war zone.
1917:
Congregants as Ohav Zevek, the largest Orthodox synagogue in New York,
contributed more than $17,000 to the fund that has been set up to provide
financial assistance to the Jews trapped in the European war zone.
1917:
Congregants at the Pincus Elijah Synagogue in New York City pledged close to
$15,000 to the fund that has been set up to provide financial assistance to the
Jews trapped in the European war zone.
1917:
On Yom Kippur, Dr. Maurice H. Harris delivered a sermon at Temple Israel in New
York entitled “Religion and Education.”
1918:
Alvin Lucks, who was stationed at Camp Hancock, GA completed his time in
“welfare service” today.
1918:
Near Eclisfontaine, France, U.S. Army Sergeant Phillip Katz voluntarily crossed
“an area swept by heavy machinegun fire,” advancing “to where the wounded
soldier lay and carried him to a place of safety." This bravery earned him a Congressional Medal
of Honor
1918:
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would include the 77th
Division of the U.S. Army, a unit with thousands of Jews in it, began today.
1919(2nd
of Tishrei, 5680): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1919:
The Hahambashi of Turkey was granted an audience with the Shah of Persia, who
paid tribute to the patriotism of Jews of Persia. The Shah attributed the
progress of civilization to the Alliance Israelite Universelle schools.
1919:
“An Exchange of Wives,” produced by Walter Hast opened on Broadway at the Bijou
Theatre.
1919:
In Manhattan, stockbroker Arthur Rosenthal and his wife Grace gave birth to
Arthur Jesse Rosenthal, “a publisher of intellectual masterworks in an era of
fast-buck publishing who led Basic Books in the 1950s and ’60s and created a
model for universities nationwide by leading Harvard University Press to
solvency in the ’70s and ’80s.” (As
reported by Paul Vitello)
1920:
Former Ambassador Abram I, Elkus and Miss Irma May, the fiancée of Rabbi
Bernard Cantor are among those scheduled to speak at a memorial service to be
held for Rabbi Cantor at the Free Synagogue.
1920:
Miss Irma Abramowicz May of Lemberg, Galicia, fiancé of the late Dr. Bernard
Cantor, spoke in Carnegie Hall before the congregation of the Free Synagogue
this morning at a memorial service in Cantor’s honor. He was killed by Bolshevicks in the Ukraine
in July while aiding the suffering Polish Jews caught in the Civil War racking
the former Czarist Empire.
1920:
In response to the death yesterday of Jacob Schiff “Personal tributes to his
philanthropic instincts and the humanitarian work” poured in from a variety of
sources including such Jewish leaders such as Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler, Dr. Cyrus
Adler and Judge Mayer Sulzberger as well as leaders from the secular society
including famed statesmen Elihu Root and George Baker of the Grover Cleveland
Association.
1920(14th
of Tishrei, 5681): Erev Sukkoth
1920:
At this evening’s service Rabbi I. Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver a
sermon on “Bringing in the Sheaves” at the Hebrew Tabernacle on Broadway.
1921:
It was reported today that last nights dinner at the Hotel Pennsylvania raised
$85,000 dollars leaving the Jews of Brooklyn needing to raise $65,000 to cover
the $150,000 operational deficit of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities
for the last three months of 1920.
1922:
It was reported today that “there are thirty-five Jewish girls at Radcliff now
and several more are entered in the freshman class.”
1923(16th
of Tishrei, 5684): Second Day of Sukkoth
1923:
Funeral services are scheduled to held today in Brooklyn for Samuel
Blumenstock, the husband of Hadassah member Anna Blumenstock.
1923:
“A Woman of Paris” “written, directed, produced and later scored by Charlie
Chaplin” was released today in the United States.
1924:
“Michael,” the film version of the novel Mikael featuring Grete Moseheim and
Karl Fruend who also worked as a cinematographer was released today in Berlin.
1925(8th
of Tishrei, 5686): Shabbat Shuva
1925:
Second baseman Buddy Myer made his major league debut with the Washington
Senators.
1926(18th
of Tishrei, 5687): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1926:
Today, ten years after making his big league debut with the St. Louis
Cardinals, second baseman Sam Bohn made his last major league appearance with
the Brooklyn Robins.
1927(29th
of Elul, 5687): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1827:
It was reported today that John L. Bernstein, Chairman of the Campaign
Committee has announced “the appeals in behalf of the $500,000 campaign of the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of America…will be made on the” Jewish high
holidays “in the 175 synagogues” in New York City.
1927(29th
of Elul, 5687): Seventy-four year old Russian born, Johns Hopkins trained
archaeologist Immanuel M. Casanowicz, the assistant curator in the “Division
Old World Archaeology at the U.S. National Museum” and Vice President of the
Anthropological Society of Washington passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Paronomasia-Old-Testament-Immanuel-Casanowicz/dp/1378420187
1928:
“The Lady with the Mask,” a silent film with a script by Henrik Galeen was
released today in Germany.
1928:
Following the attempt by the police to remove the mechitza at the Wall on Yom
Kippur, a delegation consisting of Colonel Frederick H. Kisch, Dr. Joshua Thon,
Chief Rabbis A.H. Kook and Jacob A Meir, and Mssrs. Kalvarsisky and Meyuchased
met with Acting High Commissioner H.C. Luke for two hours today to discuss the
need to discipline those responsible for the action taken against the
worshippers and a way in which problems at the Wall could be avoided in the
future. The police officials explained
that they had removed the “screen” to avoid violence since the Moslems
threatened to stone the Jews if the mechitzah remained in place.
1929:
Today, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Jewish Daily Bulletin publicly
expressed “their deep appreciation to Shalom Schwartz, editor of the Palestine
Bulletin…” for risking his life during the recent emergency in Jerusalem for
providing uninterrupted cable service so that the rest of the world might find
out the facts during the violence that started in the last week of August and
lasted into the first week of September.
1930:
Abraham Herman, the President of HIAS announced today that appeals from Jews of
many countries are urging the society, which is trying to overcome a $150,000
deficit, not to curtail its work.
1931(15th
of Tishrei, 5692) First Day of Sukkoth and Shabbat
1931:
“Sidewalks of New York” a comedy produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed
by Jules White was released today in the United States by MGM.
1931:
“Five Star Final” a crime movie directed Mervyn LeRoy, produced by Hall Wallis,
based on a play by Louis Weitzenkorn and starring Edward G. Robinson was
released today in the United States by Warner Bros.
1931:
“From pulpits embanked with fruits of the harvest rabbis of thirty Reform
synagogues in the metropolitan New York area are scheduled to urge parents to
register their children in religious schools as part of drive to “strengthen
and renews Jewish spiritual life and awaken interest in synagogue membership.”
1932:
Tribute to the work of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which,
comprises all Reform congregations in the United States and Canada, and the
urgent needs of the union at the present time were voiced by Ludwig Vogelstein
at the first meeting this afternoon of a special committee which has been
established in Congregation Emanu El on hehalf of the welfare of the union.
1933:
Emil Ludwig, born Emiel Cohn, the biographer and historian, said today on his
arrival on the French liner Paris that he hated biographies and would write no
more of them.
1933:
“The Empress of Abyssinia arrived here this morning for a visit to Palestine in
circumstances quite different from those of the Queen of Sheba, the ancestor of
her husband, who came to the Holy Land bearing rich gifts of vassalage for King
Solomon 3,000 years ago.
1934(17th
of Tishrei, 5695): Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
1934(17th
of Tishrei, 5695): Eighty-three year old Alexander Moszkowski, the German
Jewish author and philosopher who was the first to write a book about his friend
Albert Einstein passed away today.
1934:
It was reported today that the just published 36th volume of the
American Jewish Year Book “contains a summary of what the preface calls ‘the
continuing crisis in the lives of the Jews of Germany.’”
1934:
Shipping officials announced today that “all steamers which carry Jewish
immigrants from Constanza, Rumania and Trieste, Italy are completely booked
until the end of October” and that “the majority of the tickets were purchased
by Polish Jews emigrating to Palestine.
1935:
Slugger Hank Greenberg declared that his Tigers were the best team in baseball;
better even than the Chicago Cubs who think they will make it into the World
Series.
1936(10th
of Tishrei, 5697): Yom Kippur
1936:
At Rodeph Sholom Rabbi Wendell told his congregants that “the world speaks of
chaos, cruelty and mass murder, but the Jewish people speak of love and
compassion” while standing as “one congregation with each person confessing all
sins.”
1936:
“Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the rabbi at the Free Synagogue delivered “a radio
address on WABC” in which he reviewed the past year which he “found painful and
dreary” because, among other things “Germany and Spain loom large and ominous
again on the horizon of Jewish history.”
(Everybody remembers about Hitler, but how many know about the threat
posed by Franco and fascist Spain)
1936:
At Kehilath Jehsurun, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein led the congregation “in a
special prayer for the Jews and the British soldiers who have been killed in
the riots in Palestine.”
1936:
At Congregation B’nai Jershurun, Rabbi Israel Goldstein delivered a sermon on
“Integrated Personalities.”
1936
At Ohab Zedek, Rabbi William Margolis told worshippers that “the Jew is the
supreme pacifist” because he already understands “the utter uselessness and
extreme horror of war.”
1936:
At the Institutional Synagogue, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein called for
“universal atonement” because the League of Nations and the “major powers” had
permitted “first one and then another nation to annex unto itself land
belonging to another nation” in the name of “peace” – “a peace that is a false
peace.”
1936:
At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer “called for a fight for freedom”
saying that “if the people of most of Europe have lost their nerve, we in
American cannot afford to do so” and “Jew and Christian must aid in this
struggle.”
1936:
After six days of detention, today, the Gestapo released Rabbi Emil Bernhard
Cohn “the well-known Zionist scholar and author” whose “arrest is believed to
have been in response to remarks made during his Rosh Hashanah sermon.”
1936:
It was reported today following their practice yesterday at Yankee Stadium The
Maccabees, the Palestine soccer championship team, who are used to playing on
clay found that the grass field gave them more speed and increased their chance
for victory in tomorrow’s charity game.
1937(21st of
Tishrei, 5698): Hoshana Raba
1937:
The Palestine Post reported that another wealthy Christian landowner was
murdered by Arab terrorists in the Maloul village, near Nazareth. [Editor’s
Note: One of the unreported stories has been the departure of the Christian
Arabs from PLO controlled territory.
Other ancient Christian communities have felt the pressure of Arab
and/or Islamic groups including those in Iraq, the Sudan, Lebanon and Nigeria.]
1937:
In Brooklyn, jeweler Samuel Weintraub and his wife gave birth to Jerome “Jerry”
Charles Weintraub.
1937(21st
of Tishrei, 5698): Seventy-seven year old department store owner and
philanthropist Edward Albert Filene, the Salem, MA born son of “William Filene
and Clara Ballin” passed away today in Paris.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/amrlhtml/dtfilene.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/09/26/96749418.pdf
1937: The
Palestine Post reported that the Polish government published warning
posters against disturbances of any kind and arrested large numbers of
hooligans who took part in the recent anti-Jewish excesses. A Polish delegation
which visited Madagascar reported that there were large areas of potentially
fertile lands for a possible Jewish settlement.
1937:
During the Arab Revolt, Lewis Andrews, the Acting Commissioner of the Galilee,
Pirie-Gordon (the assistant district commissioner) and Andrews' bodyguard (a
British police constable) were on their way from attending service at the
Anglican Christ Church, Nazareth when they were gunned down by four Arabs. Andrews died on the spot and the bodyguard
died later at the hospital.
1938(1st
of Tishrei, 5699): Rosh Hashanah
1938:
Plans were made for Levi Yitzchok Bender and his wife to escape the clutches of
Soviet authorities because he had visited the grave of Rebbe Nachman at Uman in
defiance of the government’s ban on such religious observances.
1938:
Birthdate of American actor Jonathan Goldsmith turned advertising executive who
may be best known for his role as the “face” of Dos Equis Beer where he adopted
the persona of “the most interesting man in the world.
1938(1st
of Tishrei, 5699) Seventy-nine year old Lena Catosk Pearlstone, the Oskya born
daufhter of Lois and Mina Hart and the wife of Barney Pearlstone passed away
today in New Orleans after which she was buried in Waco, TX.
1939:
“Freud’s body was cremated today “at the Golders Green Crematorium in North
London, with Harrods of Knightsbridge acting as funeral directors, on the
instructions of his son, Ernst following which “funeral orations were given by
Ernest Jones and the Austrian author Stefan Zweig.
1939:
In Manhattan “Robert Pilpel and Harriet (Fleishel) Pilpel gave birth to Judith
Ehtel Pilpel who gained fame in the world of book publishing as Judith
Appelbaum, the author of How to Get Happily Published. (As reported by
Anita Gates)
1940(23rd
of Elul, 5700): Official date of death for Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish
intellect whose endeavors covered a myriad of fields. Benjamin actually committed suicide the
evening before after finding out that the Franco government was going to force
him return to France where he faced certain imprisonment by the Nazis.
http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=137556
1940:
In Manhattan attorney Harold Herzstein and his wife Jean gave birth to
historian Robert Herzstein.
1940:
The Center of Jews (UHU) was founded in Slovakia to organize Jewish life. The
UHU was a government apparatus to determine the fate of Jews in that country.
UHU disbanded all 175 Jewish organizations in Slovakia.
1941:
“It Started with Eve” a comedy directed by Henry Koster and produced by Joes
Pasternak was released in the United States today by Universal Pictures.
1941:
Paramount Pictures released “Hold Back The Dawn co-authored by Billy Wilder and
co-starring Paulette Goddard whose father “was the son of a prosperous Jewish
cigar manufacturer from Salt Lake City.”
1941:
Today, in response to an anti-Semitic radio broadcast by Charles A. Lindberg in
which he accused “Jews” among others “of fomenting a war hysteria and
advocating the entry of America into the war” and contended that the Jews’
“greatest danger to this country lies in their large influence and ownership of
our motion pictures and press” a document containing the signatures of 700
prominent Christian leaders appear accusing Lindbergh of “following identically
the Hitler technique.” They contended
that American Christians dare not repeat the mistake of German Christians who
failed to speak forth their condemnation clearly and unequivocally when this
evil first raised its head in that unhappy land…The only effective method is to
attack anti-Semitism as a moral disease.
1941(5th of Tishrei, 5702): The SS shot 412
men, 615 women and 581 children in Kovno all of whom were Jews described as
sick people and carriers of epidemics.
1941:
The Nazi began deporting approximately 2,000 Jews from Łódź and to the Chełmno extermination camp
1941(5th of Tishrei, 5702): Jews of
Swieciany, Lithuania, are massacred in the nearby Polygon Woods. Several
hundred young Jewish men manage to escape
1941(5th
of Tishrei, 5702): Seventy-four year old Sergeant Herman Kahn, a thirty-five
year veteran of the New York Police Department, the husband of Ida Kahn and
father of Rudolph Kahn passed away today
1941:
In Ejszyszki, Lithuania, the killing of Jews that had begun on Rosh Hashanah
came to an end. Almost four thousand
Jews were killed. About 300 Lithuanians
voluntarily participated in the killing "actions" undertaken by
Einsatzgruppe A in the Baltic region, which annihilated about 90 percent of the
Jewish population. Only 30 Jews from Ejszyszki survived the war.
1942(15th
of Tishrei, 5703): Sukkoth
1942:
Instructions were issued to the Swiss Police stating, "Refugees on the
grounds of race alone are not political refugees". This meant that
thousands of Jews would now be sent back from the border. Swiss behavior regarding the Nazis and the
Jews paints a peculiar picture. The
supposedly neutral Swiss would be more or less or responsive to Nazi requests
based on what was happening on the battlefields of Europe. In 1942 the Germans were in control of
Western Europe and were blitzing their way across Russia so a ruling like this
is not surprising. The Swiss would not
surrender most the money deposited by Jewish refugees until a half century had
gone by; and then only after litigation and political pressure.
1942: SS Lieutenant General August Frank
advises camp administrators that jewelry and other valuables seized from Jews
should be sent to the German Reichsbank, and that razors and other
practical items should be cleaned and delivered to front-line troops for sale
to them. Proceeds will go to the Reich. Further, confiscated household items
are to be distributed to ethnic Germans.
1942: Brussels Jewish leader Edward Rotbel is
deported to Auschwitz. Several hundred Dutch Jews are gassed there
1942: German railway officials meet in Berlin
for two days to plan track upgrades and additional trains in order to hasten deportations
of Jews.
1942: For three days search parties of German and
Ukrainian police capture 1000 of 2000 Jews who escaped from the Tuchin
(Ukraine) Ghetto on September 24. Some Jews would be taken to Tuchin's Jewish
cemetery and shot, while most are killed where they are found in the forest.
1943:
Following the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, Abba Kovner led his resistance
group on a dangerous trip through gutted buildings and dank swamps to the
forests of Poland where they could continue the fight against the Nazis and
their Estonian allies.
1943:
One day after official instructions arrived ordering the deportation of the
Jews of Rome the Nazis demanded that Ugo Foa, president of the Union of Italian
Jewish Communities, have the Jews hand over 110 pounds of gold within 36 hours
or 200 Jews would be deported.
1943:
Following the demand by the head of the German security police in Rome, that
the Jewish community either pay a ransom of 50 kilograms of gold (worth about
$56,000 at the time) within three days, or a list of Jewish men from the city
would face deportation, “the Jews began hurriedly collecting gold, both among
its own members and from non-Jews including the Vatican whose treasurer
“Monsignor Nogara promised a loan of the needed quantity” if the Jews could not
raise it elsewhere.
1943: At the Novogrudok, Belorussia, labor
camp, Jews complete secret work on a tunnel dug under the wire. Of the 220 Jews
who use the tunnel to attempt escape, 120 are killed or captured.
1943:
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia warned the Jewish community in his regular Sunday
broadcast that the price of whitefish, which will be in greater demand for the
Jewish holidays beginning next Thursday, was likely to be increased to $1 or
$1.25 a pound, according to trade information.
1944(9th
of Tishrei, 5705): Erev Yom Kippur
1944(9th
of Tishrei, 5705): Sixty-one year old “British businessman, philanthropist and
cricket enthusiast Sir Julien Cahn” passed away today.
1944: Operation Market-Garden ends in failure. Montgomery advocated this plan to slice
through Holland and seize the bridges over the Rhine River. The idea was folly and best and certainly was
beyond Montgomery’s capability since it required rapid movement of his
troops. Implementing the plan drew
supplies away from the rapidly advancing forces of George Patton. Failure prolonged the war and increased the
number of Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
1944:
Victor Kugler, one of the people who helped to hide the Frank family who had
been captured by the Nazis was among the 1,100 men forced to start digging
anti-tank trenches.
1944: One thousand young boys are assembled at
Auschwitz in the presence of Dr. Josef Mengele. Any boy whose head does not
reach a board Mengele has nailed to a post is set aside for gassing.
1944:
Archibald Maule Ramsay, a former British Army officer and Member of Parliament
who was an out-spoken anti-Semite was released from custody today. He had been
arrested in 1940 under regulation 18B which allowed the government to detain
Nazi sympathizers. Following his release,
he returned to his seat in the Commons where he attempted to have the Statue of
the Jewry, a piece of anti-Semitic law dating back to the time of Longshanks,
reinstituted.
1945:
In response to an inquiry from the embassy in Washington “prompted by a
published reported of anti’-Semitism, especially in Slovakia, the foreign
office in Prague issued a message saying that “Czechoslovakia is seeking to
practice toleration.”
1945:
“President Truman indicated today that the United States would keep an open
mind on the Palestine question, and he also denied flatly that President
Roosevelt had made any commitment to King Ibn Saud not to support Jewish claims
if and when they should arise.”
1946(1st
of Tishrei, 5707): Rosh Hashanah
1946:
Thirty-four year old Canadian born outfielder played his last major league team
as a member of the New York Giants.
1946:
Today, “one disclosure of literary importance was the announcement that ‘The
Gioconda Smile,’ a short story published twenty-five years ago…will be rough to
the screen by Zoltan Korda as an independent production.”
1947:
In Sdot Yam Israel, Hanne Ruth Warburg married Gershon Lasch.
1948:
Prime Minister Ben Gurion met with his cabinet to discuss plans for the Galilee
if fighting should be renewed.
1948:
The Israeli cabinet decided against continuing the war with Jordan and
conquering the Judea-Hebron region as well as Jerusalem thus avoiding a
confrontation with Britain and leaving Israel free to confront Egypt in the
south.
1948:
The serialization of Oyf Fredme Vegn (On
Foreign Roads) by Hirschbein which had begun in November in 1947 in Der Tag
(The Day) was completed today.
1948:
Birthdate of Ehud Yatom, the Netanya native who served as an agent for Shin Bet before being elected
to the Knesset.
1949(3rd
of Tishrei, 5710): Tzom Gedaliah
1949:
Having “purchased the rights to the name ‘Sazerac Bar’ form the Sazerac Company
and renovated a store front on Baronne Street,” Seymour Weiss opened the new
Sazerac Bar which drew a large number of female customers because Weiss
abolished “the men only house rule” and allowed women to patronize the bar.
1950(15th
of Tishrei, 5711): Sukkoth
1950:
On the eve of the Maccabiah games which open tomorrow, five hundred Jewish
athletes from twenty countries are living in the Maccabiah Village (a converted
army camp) as they prepare to compete in the first “Jewish Olympics” held since
1935. The games began in 1932 under the
sponsorship of the Maccabee sport organization.
Among the competitors are two Olympic champions from the United States –
Henry Wittenberg, light heavy-weight wrestler and Frank Spellman, middleweight
weightlifter.
1951(22nd
of Tammuz, 5711: Seventy-four year old Lena Hemmelstiein, the orphaned Jewish
child from Lithuania who founded Lane Bryant clothing chain for plus-size women
passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lena-bryant-malsin
1952:
It was reported today Alex Traub, who has designed engines for tanks and
automobiles in the United States and
Europe will be coming to Israel in January to act as an advisor on automobile
engineering.
1952:
Eighty-eight year old philosopher George Santayana whose famous aphorism
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is
inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration passed away today. For more on his relations with Jews and his
anti-Semitism see
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/02/004-santayana-lately-revisited
http://berenson.itatti.harvard.edu/berenson/items/show/3028
1952:
It was reported today that the new professors coming to work at the Institute
of Technology in Israel include aeronautical experts Dr. Hirsch Cohen of PSU
and H. Jerome Shafter of Princeton as
well as “ a specialist in the solvent extraction of petroleum, Dr. Jacob M.
Geist.’ (MIT)
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that two
Jews, a soldier and a farmer, were murdered by terrorist infiltrators near the
Egyptian border.
1952:
The Jerusalem Post reported that a
second group of urban workers who decided to return to the land, under the
auspices of the town-to-the-village movement, settled in Upper Galilee,
northwest of Ma¹ayan Baruch.
1952: The
Jerusalem Post reported that after more than four months of protracted
negotiations, Yitzhak Kariv, a local Mizrahi Bank manager, was elected mayor of
Jerusalem by a right-wing coalition.
1954:
The former Eleanor Neyens and William “Bill” Scheuller gave birth to Zwingle,
IA resident Deborah “Deb” Scheuller” a trained nurse and practicing attorney
who married Mitchell Levin and as Deb Levin created the two blogs and made every Jewish holiday a
memorable event!
1954(26th
of Elul, 5714): Fifty-two year old Temple University Law School Graduate
William M. Gerber, “who was an international vice president B’nai B’rith” and
“a director of the Allie Jewish Appeal” passed away tonight at his home in
Philadelphia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/09/28/93410181.pdf
1955(10th
of Tishrei, 5716): Yom Kippur.
1956:
Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres drove to the headquarters of Colonel Ariel Sharon
the officer commanding the paratroops who had been instructed to carry out an
attack in reprisal for Arab attacks including those of September 23 and
September 25 that had cost five non-combatant deaths among the Israelis.
1956:
The IDF reprisal raid commanded by Ariel Sharon successfully attacked the
Jordanian outpost at Wadi Fukin. The
Jordanians lost 37 soldiers and two civilians at a cost of ten IDF dead.
1957(1st
of Tishrei, 5718): On the first day of Rosh Hashanah Mitchell Levin chants
Samuel for the first time.
1957: Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on
Broadway. The Jewish musician takes Shakespeare’s Romeo
and Juliet and converts into a musical set among the gang culture of
mid-twentieth century New York City.
1957:
“The Joker is Wild” directed by Charles Vidor, based on biography about Joe E
Lewis by Art Cohn and with music by Walter Scharf was released in the United
States today by Paramount Pictures.
1958: Release date in the United States of the cinematic
version of “Damn Yankees,” featuring lyrics and music by Richard Adler and
Jerry Ross.
1958: In Athens, historian Donald Kagan and his wife gave
birth to Ivy League educated historian and neo-conservative Robert Kagan, the
husband of diplomate Victoria Nuland and brother of military historian Frederik
Kagan.
1959: Eisenhower and Khrushchev conclude their two day
summit meeting at Camp David where the President urged the Soviet leader “to
resolve issues concerning the status of Jews in the USSR citing the “deep
concern” expressed to him by Jewish groups.”
1961: Bob Dylan, the musical voice of the
counter-culture makes his debut.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman,
Dylan even made a bar mitzvah before assuming the role of musical rebel
1963:
According to reports published today, “Jack Benny, who left the National
Broadcasting Company 15 years ago to pick up a quick $2,260,000 at the Columbia
Broadcasting System, will return to N.B.C. next fall.”
1963: Pitcher Larry Yellen made his major league
debut with the Houston Colt .45’s.
1964: Twenty-six year old Auburn University graduate
Alan Goodman Koch, the right-handed pitcher who began his major league career
with the Detroit Tigers, pitched his last big league game today as a member of
the Washington Senators.
1964: CBS broadcast the first episode of “Gilligan’s
Island” a sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and co-starring Natalie Schafer
as “Lovey Wentworth Howell.”
1965(29th of Elul, 5725): Erev Rosh
Hashanah
1965: “President Zalman Shazar marked the beginning
of the Jewish New Year, 5726 at dusk” tonight “with a message to Jews the world
over.”
1965: Birthdate of London native David Goldblatt,
who has written a series of books about “football” (which Americans call
soccer) including The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football which
has been described as the "seminal football history.”
1965: In Chicago, “public relations consultant,
coach and writer, Elaine Soloway and psychiatrist Dr. Harry J. Soloway” gave
birth to award winning director Jill Soloway
1968: In New York City, business consultant Shepard
A. Sheinkman and attorney Katherine Sheinkman gave birth to Benjamin Sheinkman
who gained fame as actor Ben Shenkman.
1968(4th of Tishrei, 5729: Israeli physician Ben
Shlomo Lipman-Heilprin passed away. Born
in Bialystok in 1902, he studied medicine in Germany before making Aliyah in
1934. His accomplishments were of such
merit that he was the first recipient of the Israel Prize for medicine.
1968: “Oliver,” the film version of Lionel Bart’s
Broadway play of the same name was released in the United States today.
1969:
Opening of the trial of the Chicago Seven.
The accused leaders of the riots on the streets of Chicago during the
1968 Democratic Convention included the requisite number of Jews. Ironically, the Judge in the case was also
Jewish. At one point it was Abbe Hoffman
versus Judge Hoffman.
1972:
A two day National Conference on Soviet Jewry during which Senator Henry
Jackson of Washington “proposed legislation linking access to trade benefits
for communist nations to liberalizing their emigration practices” comes to an
end.
1973(29th
of Elul, 5733): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1973:
The first of two batches of reservists were called up by the Egyptian Army who
were supposed to be participating in a training exercise but were, in reality,
part of the invasion force that would strike Israel on Yom Kippur.
1973:
The Israeli 7th Brigade was ordered to move one battalion to the Golan Heights
to strengthen the Barak Armored Brigade, under the command of Yitzhak Ben
Shoham.
1974(10th
of Tishrei, 5735): Yom Kippur
1974(10th
of Tishrei, 5735): Seventy-five-year-old Holocaust Survivor John Edgar
Reinhardt passed away today.
1975:
In Los Angeles, Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner gave birth to Jake Paltrow, the
brother of Gwyneth Paltrow and cousin of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
1976(2nd
of Tishrei, 5737): Second day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the last time
during the Presidency of Gerald Ford.
1977:
In Glen Dale, W. VA, Maria and Hal Pastern, “a high school/AAU coach and
basketball promoter,” gave birth to Georgia Tech basketball coach Joshua Paul
Pastner, ”the 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the
Year.”
1977:
The Jerusalem Post reported that
Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned Gush Emunim not to implement its plan for
an immediate establishment of 11 new settlements in Judea and Samaria, without
the Ministerial Committee on Settlement¹s proper authorization. One of the
on-going challenges for the Israelis over the last quarter of a century has
been the willingness of some of the leader the "settlers' movement"
to disobey or disregard the law. This
challenge transcends issues of Israeli security and goes to the heart of the
nature of Jewish and not just Israeli values.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan argued in Washington that Israel had agreed only to a
'symbolic' reconvening of the Geneva Middle East Peace Conference. Israel,
Dayan said, would refuse to negotiate at any forum which might include the
PLO. A quarter of a century later, this
whole issue has become meaningless in the sense that the Israelis have
negotiated with the PLO since the days of the Oslo Accords. This does serve to show that the Israelis
have been willing to shift their stance and deal with the Palestinians In a
political venue. The fact of the matter
is that the other side has still not matched this.
1978(24th
of Elul, 5738): Sixty-seven Russian born Franco-American historian Zosa
Szajkowski passed away today.
http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il/tmr/tmr02/tmr02.035.txt
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19444.html
1980(16th
of Tishrei, 5741): Second Day of Sukkoth
1980:
U.S. premiere of “Resurrection” produced by Howard Rosenman.
1980:
“Divine Madness,” a concert film starring Better Midler was released in the
United States today.
1980:
Refusenik Alexander Vilig, who was sentenced in February 1979 to 18 months’
imprisonment on a charge of draft evasion, was released today.
1980:
Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories” was released today by United Artists.
1981:
Today, “the IAEA Conference condemned” Israel’s attack on Iraq’s nuclear
reactor, which if completed, could produce weapons grade material “and voted to
suspend all technical assistance to Israel but voted down a resolution to expel
her from the IAEA.
1982(9th
of Tishrei, 5743): Erev Yom Kippur
1982:
“One Day At A Time,” the ever popular sit-com starring Bonnie Franklin began
its 8th season.
1982:
“Moonlighting” for which Hans Zimmer help to create the music was released
today.
1983:
St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex “a historic Episcopal Gothic
Revival church at 2500 Westchester Avenue and Saint Peters Avenue in the Bronx,
New York City” which was built in 1853 to designs by the architect Leopold
Eidlitz:” was added to the National Registry of Historic Places today.
1984(29th
of Elul, 5744): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1985:
Opening of “Bernstein: The Television Work” at the Museum of Broadcasting in
New York City.
1985:
NBC began broadcasting the fourth season of “Family Ties” a sitcom created by
Gary David Goldberg
1985:
NBC began broadcasting the second season of “The Cosby Show” co-created by Ed
Weinberger.
1987:
“Unsettled Land,” an Israeli film directed by Uri Barbash premiered at the
Tokyo International Film Festival today.
1988:
15th of Tishrei, 5749): Sukkoth
1988:
15th of Tishrei, 5749): Forty-eight year old, journalist, author and ‘returning
Jew’ Paul Cowan passed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
1994(21st
of Tishrei, 5755): Hoshana Rabba
1995(2nd
of Tishrei, 5756): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
1995:
President Clinton nominated Merrick Garland, whom “the American Bar Association
Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary gave a ‘unanimously well-qualified’
committee rating – its highest – “to the D.C. Circuit seat vacated by his
longtime mentor Abner J. Mikva.”
1997:
After premiering at Cannes, “Ice Storm” a film version of the novel with a
script by James Schamus who also served as one of the producers was released in
the United States today.
1997(24th
of Elul, 5757): Eighty-four year old All-American fullback Isadore “Izzy”
Weinstock who played college ball for Pittsburg and pro-ball for the
Philadelphia Eagles passed away today in Florida.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/W/WeinIz20.htm
1998(6th
of Tishrei, 5759):Parashat Veyeilch; Shabbat Shuvah
1998(6th
of Tishrei, 5759): Esther Marowitz, the 106 year old Beloit Michigan native and
wife of Arthur Marowitz passe away today in Santa Monica.
1998:
The International Puppet Festival which provided a “a rare revival of the
E.Y.”Yip” Habrburg musical “Flahooley” closed today in New York.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The
Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S.
Jones, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret
History of Pius XII by John Cornwell, The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays
With the People Who Make Them by Studs Terkel and An Affair of State: The Investigation,
Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton by Richard A. Posner.
1999:
Broadcast of the first episode for the second season of “Felicity” a television
drama on which Brian Grazer served as executive producer that was created by
J.J. Abrams and co-stars Greg Grunberg.
1999:
FOX broadcast the first episode of the 11th season of the Simpsons,
a cartoon sitcom developed by James Brooks and Sam Simon
2000:
“In an effort to improve a strained relationship, Prime Minister Ehud Barak and
Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, met tonight for the first time since the
Camp David peace talks ended two months ago.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2000(26th
of Elul, 5760): Seena Fish (Nee Israel), the Brooklyn Heights resident and wife
of Charles Fish passed away today.
2001(9th
of Tishrei, 5762): Erev Yom Kippur
2001(9th
of Tishrei, 5762): Sixty-four year old Zvia Pinhas “was stabbed to death in her
home” today by Fatah.
2002(20th
of Tishrei, 5763): On the 6th day of Sukkoth, Rabbi Zerach
Warfhaftig, the native of Volkovyski who made Aliyah in 1947 passed away. During WW II, he worked with Japanese
Vice-Consul in Kaunas Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, the courageous diplomat who
defied his government by issuing visas that saved the lives of thousands of
Jews. Warfhatig was one of the
signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence and served in the first 9
Knessets.
2002: NBC broadcast the first episode of “Good Morning, Miami,”
“a sitcom created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and starring Mark Fuerstein.
2002: Today “the U.S. Congress passed the
Foreign Relations Authorization Act Section 214 of which entitled "United States Policy
with Respect to Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel," included various
statutes regarding the status of Jerusalem, including invoking the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 to urge the President to move the U.S. Embassy in
Israel to Jerusalem, cutting budget
authorizations for the publication of official documents "which lists
countries and their capital cities unless the publication identifies Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel," and authorizing American citizens born in
Jerusalem to name "Israel" as their birthplace on official government
documents.
2003(29th
of Elul, 5763): Erev Rosh Hashanah
2003:
It was reported today that the Prime Minister had implied that Ariel will be
included in the security barrier being constructed to protect Israelis from
suicide bombers.
2003:
“The Duplex,” a comedy featuring Tony-Award winning actor Harvey Fierstein was
released in the United States today by Miramax Films.
2004:
Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, a senior member of Hamas' military wing, was killed
in a car bombing in the al-Zahera district of southern Damascus, Syria for
which the Israelis were blamed because of his involvement in the Beersheba bus
bombing in August.
2004: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Just
Enough Liebling by the legendary
New Yorker Writer by A. J. Liebling, The Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman. Joy Comes in the Morning by Jonathan Rosen, Lying Together: My Russian Affair by Jennifer Beth Cohen, The Flawed
Architect: Henry Kissinger and American
Foreign Policy by
Jussi Hanhimaki and an essay “Sex
Books: The Elements of Sexual Style” by Amy Sohn.
2004(11th of Tishrei, 5765): Sixty-two
year old Barristers Allan Edward Levy who was a champion of rights for children
passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/allan-levy-6160521.html
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/sep/29/guardianobituaries.children
2005: Time
Magazine of this date contains reviews of two books written by Jewish
authors – E.L. Doctorow’s, The March and Myla Goldberg’s Wickett’s
Company. Both novels center around historic events. The March is a tale told about
Sherman’s March during the Civil War. Wickett’s Company uses the flu
epidemic at the end of World War I as its backdrop. In the same issue, the movie review
immediately following the book reviews reads “Guy Walks into a Shtetel” which
is the opening gambit in a review of Everything
Is Illuminated, a film about Holocaust survivors. These three items
appearing in an icon of American culture help to sharpen one of the overarching
questions being studied on Monday nights in Cedar Rapids – just what is Jewish
culture? Is it anything done by Jews or
does it have to have a uniquely Jewish content or is it a little of both?
2005:
Richard H. Jones presented his credentials as U.S. Ambassador to Israel
2005: Israel killed Islamic Jihad commander
Mohammad Khalil and his bodyguard
2005:
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan and Lady Elaine Sacks were amongst those praising
David Collins, 21, on his receiving the 2005 Herzl Award. The award was
initiated in 2004 to commemorate the centenary of Herzl's passing, by the
Department for Zionist Activities of the World Zionist Organization.
2005: On the Jewish calendar, 22 Elul, the Yahrzeit
Joseph B. Levin, Yosef Dov ben Avraham Elimelch the man who taught me that
Jewish education never stops unless the Jew chooses to stop his education.
2006:
Canadian actress Jessalyn Sarah Gilsig and producer Bobby Salomon gave birth to
their daughter Penolope.
2006:
In Cedar Rapids, celebration of the birthday of Deb Levin, a true Ayshish
Chayil or Woman of Valor. Like Rashi’s
daughters, she is a student in her own right.
Like Akiva’s wife, she challenges her husband to study and allows him
the time to produce things like “This Day In Jewish History.” Thanks to her effort and support, there is a
traditional Saturday morning service in Cedar Rapids and Torah and Adult
Education pages on the Temple Judah Website.
And if that is not enough, she makes one mean challah, creates kosher
pizza from scratch and makes the best matzo balls in the world. When Joe Lieberman was running for President
and came though Cedar Rapids, he needed a kosher meal to go. When he got on the plane, Deb was the one who
provided him with myriad of dairy and parve homemade delights, all
appropriately marked of course.
2006:
Alan Hevesi said he will pay the state more than $82,000 for having a public
employee chauffeur his wife, after his Republican challenger, Christopher
Callaghan, asked the Albany County District Attorney's office to investigate.
2006:
As a part of the commemorative events marking 65 years since the tragedy at
Babi Yar this evening’s special exhibits will be displayed in the Ukrainian
House Arts Palace.
2007:
Erev Sukkoth, 5769 in Cedar Rapids begins with a Sukkoth Potluck Dinner
followed by evening services at Temple Judah.
2007:
Barrages of Kassam rockets and mortar shells continued to rain down on the
western Negev as violence heated up in the Gaza strip.
2007:
Israeli spokesman Mark Regev and Doug Cassel, a defender of Mershiemer and
Walt’s book on the power of the Jewish Lobby appeared on Worldview, Jerome
McDonnell’s radio show on WBEZ in Chicago.
2007:
Judge Fidler declared a mistrial because of a hung jury in Phil Spector’s first
murder trial in the death of Lana Clarkson.
2008:
Having survived a plane crash in Columbia, SC, DJ AM, (Adam Michael Goldstein)
was released from the hospital today.
2008: Happy Birthday Deb: another year of making so
much joy and happiness a reality including two blogs – This Day in Jewish
History and Downhome Davar Torah.
2009
(8 Tishrei, 5770): The observance of Shabbat Shuvah or the Sabbath of the
Return takes on an additional meaning as we “return” to where we were a year
ago, celebrating the birthday of Deb Levin.
2009:
Israeli maestro Dan Ettinger makes his Met debut on the podium as Mozart's
comic masterpiece, Le Nozze di Figaro, returns to the Met in New York City.
2009:
Director Roman Polanski was taken into custody in Switzerland today on a
31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant, organizers of the Zurich Film Festival said.
2010: Rich Recht Concert & Sukkot Celebration
are scheduled to take place at Temple B’nai Shalom in Fairfax Station, VA.
2010:
Family and friends join in celebrating the birthday of Deb Levin, an Ayish
Chayel in the truest sense of the word.
Not only does she make the best Kosher pizza on either side of the
Mississippi River she is also for all of the technology related to two blogs -
This Day…In Jewish History and Weekly Torah Reading / Weekly Torah Portion.
2010:
“Last Gasps of the Morton D. May House” a slide show about this edifice
designed by Samuel Marx was delivered today.
http://andrewraimist.com/2010_09_01_archive.html
2010:
The creator of This Day…In Jewish History is scheduled to be interviewed on the
South African radio station Chaifm by Ronnie Mink starting at 6 pm Johannesburg
time, 11 am Cedar Rapids time. The interview can be heard by streaming audio at http://www.chaifm.com/
2010:
The New York Times featured books by Jewish writers and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including To the End of the Land by David
Grossman and Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future by Robert
Reich.
2010(18th
of Tishrei, 5771): Eighty-four year old investment manager and philanthropist
Stanely Cahis, whose reputation was besmirched as a result of the Bernard
Madoff Scandal passed away today. (As reported by Barry Meier)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/business/28chais.html
2011:
Na terapiji the Slovenian version of the Israeli hit television show BeTipul premiered on POP Brio today.
2011:
Memorial services sponsored by the Lo Tishkach Foundation are scheduled to be
held in Brovary, Ukraine, to mark the 70th anniversary of the
massacre of the Jews there during World War II.
2011:
Israeli violinist Misha Vitenson is scheduled to join pianist Michael Brown and
the Jupiter musicians in a performance of chamber music at Good Shepherd Church
in NYC.
2011:
Overcoming health challenges that would sideline a lesser individual, Deb Levin
celebrates her birthday by preparing for the community celebration of Rosh
Hashanah. In addition to all of her culinary skills, Deb is the creator of the
architecture that makes possible This Day…In Jewish History and Weekly Torah
Reading / Weekly Torah Portion.
2011(27th
of Elul, 5771): Eighty-one year old Academy Award nominated screenwriter David
Zelag Goodman passed away today. (As
reported Daniel E. Slotnik)
2011:
President Shimon Peres said today that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is
the best Palestinian leader Israel could work with toward the goal of resuming
the peace process
2011:
An Israeli government committee established to respond to this summer's
protests recommended expanding social welfare spending by $8 billion over five
years.
2012(10th
of Tishrei, 5773): Yom Kippur
2012(10th
of Tishrei, 5773): Eighty three year old Sam Steiger, the New York native “who
transformed himself into a Western rancher and served five terms in the House
as a Republican from Arizona” passed away today. (As reported by William
Yardley)
2012:
When Illan Kaplan leads the “Downstairs Minyan” at Temple Judah, it will mark
the continuation a more than century old tradition that began with Beth Jacob,
the original synagogue in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2012:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu left hours after the end of Yom Kippur
tonight for New York to address the United Nations where he pledged to give a
fitting response to Iran's desire to "sentence us to death."
2012:
“While most Israelis had the day off on Yom Kippur, Magen David Adom paramedics
had a busy day, treating 2,334 people across the country for a variety of
ailments.”
2012: Friends and family will have to wait until
after sundown to eat cake as part of the celebration of the birthday of Deb
Levin, the “women of valor” whose contributions include being the driving force
behind the Traditional Shabbat Minyan and the techie responsible for This
Day…In Jewish History and Weekly Torah Reading/Weekly Torah Portion
"Tzom Kal" as well as "G'mar Hatimah Tovah"
2013:
Israeli video artist Tal Rosner is one of the collaborators helping to create
“Fold Here” which is scheduled to open at Montclair University.
2013:
El Al is scheduled to cancel all its flight to Eilat starting today “due to a
mandated change in flight route that the company says require additional tests
for safety reasons.” (As reported by Sharon Udasin)
2013(22nd
of Tishrei, 5774): Shemini Atseret
2013(22nd
of Tishrei, 5774): Eighty-three year old Massachusetts native Irving Warshawsky
passed away in Michigan today after which he was buried at Pelham, N.H.
2013:
Charles Krauthammer “received the William F. Buckley Award for Media
Excellence” today.
2013:
This evening at the 6th & I Historic Synagogue Rabbi David
Shneyer is scheduled to lead “Dancin’ in the Streets” A Simchat Torah
Celebration
2013:
Seventy-nine year old Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig issued a
formal statement for the first time saying he will retire in January of 2015.
2013:
“Syria has deterrent weapons, more advanced than anything in its chemical
arsenal, that could blindside Israel in mere moments, Syrian President Bashar
Assad claimed today.”
2014(2nd
of Tishrei, 5775): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
שנה טובה, כתיבה וחתימה טובה.
2014: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEB! Nothing would be possible without you!
2014:
This evening, Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at Westbury Theatre.
2014:
“Transparent” a web distributed comedy created by Jill Soloway and starring
Jeffrey Tambor was broadcast for the
first time today.
2014:
On the second day of the Jewish New Year Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas showed that there is nothing new in his “bag of tricks” when he
“railed against Israel’s “absolute war crimes” and “genocide” against
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and said he’d seek a UN resolution to end
Israel’s presence in the Palestinian territories.” “Abbas accused Israel of committing genocide
in its recent conflict with terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, and said that
Israel was not interested in living in peace with its Palestinian neighbors.”
2015:
In Salem, OR, Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Historic Elsinore
Theatre
2015:
Ramat Gan is scheduled to host the Dov Porat Chess Festival.
2015:
“Tens of thousands of Israelis hit the road today, heading for the country’s
national parks and forests a full day before the Sukkot holiday begins with
“favorite destinations in the north include the Agamon Hula Tourism Park in the
Hula Valley, through which millions of migrating birds pass each year, and
Biriya Forest in the Galilee.”
2015:
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to open its doors
free of charge on today as part of Smithsonian magazine's 10th annual Museum
Day Live!
2016:
“Rabin, the Last Day” is scheduled to be shown at the Cineworld at part of the
Jewish Film Festival in the UK.
2016:
“An Israeli gas consortium today signed what Israel called a “historic” $10
billion deal with the Jordan Electric Power Company to supply the Hashemite
Kingdom with natural gas for 15 years
2016:
Friends and family of Deb Levin, who does it all from making kosher Pizza from
scratch to creating the architecture for This Day…In Jewish History, are
scheduled to celebrate her natal day.
2016(23rd
of Elul, 5761): Ninety-year old movie director Herschell Gordon Lewis passed
away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2016(23rd
of Elul, 5761): Ninety-three year old comic actor Milt Moss passed away
today.(As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik)
2016(23rd
of Elul, 5761): Yahrzeit of Daniel “Danny” Mark Lewin and all the others who
died during the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
2017:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “The Exception.”
2017:
“Police in St. Gallen, Switzerland, met with 61 year old actress Renate Langer
today who accused “Roman Polanski of raping her in 1972 when she was 15.”
2017(6th
of Tishrei, 5778): At Har Adar near Jerusalem, “a 37 year old Palestinian
gunman shot and killed 20 year old Solomon Gabrieh, 25 year old Or Arish and
Youssef Ottman” while wounding one other person.
2017: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEB! Nothing would be possible without you!
2018:
The photographic exhibition “The Storied Druze Village of Yanuh-Jat” which is
part of the “Home Lens on Israel” series is scheduled to come an end at the
Temple Emanuel Streicker Center.
2018:
This evening in Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled to
discuss Elizabeth Poliner’s novel As Close to Us as Breathing
2018(17th
of Tishrei, 5779): Chol Ha Moed Sukkoth
2018:
Best Birthday wishes to Deb Levin who has done it all from feeding Kosher food
to a Jewish presidential candidate, to organizing a Shabbat minyan that in
fourteen years featured everything from a Kosher Pizza Kiddush to Sundaes on
Saturday and so much more that it almost impossible to list everything in which
she has made a difference.
2019: Sixty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Deb
Levin. You missed it by one month and
one day. So instead of singing Happy
Birthday, we say Kaddish. See 2017 and
all of those years before for the truth of the matter.
2019:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host an “on-line
event, “Through the Eyes of a Witness: World War II Begins.”
2019:
Stanford University is scheduled to host “Writing History, Writing Biography:
Capturing H.G. Adler’s Many Worlds” during which “biographer and translator
Peter Filkins discusses the intersection of biography and history in shaping
the story of Adler’s life, who survived four concentration camps and went on to
chronicle his experience in two dozen books.”
2019:
In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final two screenings of “Safe Spaces.”
2019:
In Berkley, CA, St. John’s Presbyterian Church is scheduled to host “Magic,
Transformation and Teshuvah” during which “Rabbi Jonathan Seidel discusses the
traditions, spells and heritage of the Ba’alei Shem in Hasidic tradition.”
2019:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “All in the Family: Songs
and Trios by the Schumanns and the Mendelssohns” during which “the Phoenix
Chamber Ensemble (Vassa Shevel and Inessa Zaretsky, pianists) will celebrate
the 200th anniversary of Clara Schumann's birth by joining with Anna Elashvili
(violin), Andrew Janss (cello) and Pavel Sulyandziga (tenor) to present an
evening of Songs and Trios from Clara and Robert Schumann and Fanny and Felix
Mendelssohn.
2020:
Due to nationwide Pandemic Lockdown “Hebrew-language media reports suggested
that synagogues would in any case be closed for the Sabbath.”
2020:
The Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival is scheduled to come to an
end.
2020:
The virtual theatrical presentation of “The Art of Forgiveness” is schedule to
be presented by Jewish Women’s Theatre “one of the best live theatre groups on
the west side of Los Angeles.”
2020:
Anne Lamott, “the Marin author is scheduled to read from her forthcoming book
“Dusk Night Dawn” and speaks with Chochmat HaLev teacher Jhos Singer about the
hills and valleys of the spiritual path.:
2020:
Sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth Deb Levin Z”L who would have appreciated
the irony that her birthday falls on “The Sabbath of Return”
2020(8th
of Tishrei, 5781): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva;
2021:
KlezCalifornia and Congregation HaLev are scheduled to present “Yiddish-klezmer
choreographer-dancer Steve Weintraub teaching “how to express love and joy in a
Jewish way” for Simchat Torah.
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including More Than I Love My Life, a
novel by David Grossman and the recently released paperback editions of Magic
Lessons by Alice Hoffman and Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs
of a Neurotic Filmmaker by Barry Sonnenfeld.
2021:
The Addison-Penzak JCC is scheduled to host a gathering that includes
lulav-etrog stations, arts, crafts storytelling (in Russian, English and
Hebrew) and unveiling of new community mural.
2021: Sixty-seventh anniversary of the birth of Deb Levin Z”L who is
missed more than ever.
2021(20th of
Tishrei, 5782): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
2022(1st of
Tishrei, 5783): Rosh Hashanah
2022: In one of those supreme
ironies, the anniversary of the birth of Deb Levin Z”L falls on Rosh Hashanah
2022: Kanisse: A Modern
Sephardic + Mizrahi Community is scheduled to present “Multicultural High
Holiday Services” @ Pier 57 57 Hudson River Greenway (at 15th Street), New
York, NY.
2023: Anniversary of the birth
of Deb Levin, Z”L who left a hole that is still not filled.
2023: In commemoration of the
50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, JTA is scheduled to host for
"The Yom Kippur War: 50 Years Later," a conversation with expert
Matti Friedman, author of Who By
Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai and
JTA Senior Reporter Andrew Lapin.
2023: The Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a conversation between broadcast journalist Gayle King and America’s
first Black female billionaire, Sheila Johnson, author of the memoir Walk Through Fire.
