This Day, November 10, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L

November 10

1217: During the Fifth Crusade, King Andrew II of Hungary defeated Sultan Al-Adi in what would prove to by a pyric on the banks of Jordan River.  The Moslems retreated into fortified positions from which they could not be dislodged, and the Hungarian monarch finally went home with little more than bags of “relics” to show for all of his campaigning. 

1290: The community of Huesca, Spain prohibited Christians from buying meat or poultry from Jews under a penalty of 70 days in jail.  

1444:  At the Battle of Varna, the Ottoman Sultan Murad II defeated a Christian Crusading Army under the Polish King Vladislus III.  The Turkish victory paved the way for the Ottoman Moslem conquest of parts of Eastern Europe as well as the conquest of Constantinople. The extension and consolidation of the Ottomans was “a good thing for the Jews” since Ottoman Empire was a place of refuge for Jews escaping Christian Europe. Murad II opened his empire to Jews escaping from persecution in Germany and employed two Jews as court physicians.  Vladislus III followed in the footsteps of his father Valdislus II and attempted to deny the Jews the rights and privileges granted by previous Polish monarch.  The Battle of Varna paved the way for the fall of Constantinople in 1453 which in turn provided some of the impetus for the search for a water route to the Orient which gave rise to the travels of Columbus which opened the way for what would become the American Jewish community.  No, this is not a shaggy dog story.  It is the law of unintended consequences that makes up the history of Jews.

1483: Birthdate of Martin Luther, German religious leader and reformer. At first Luther was friendly to the Jews thinking that this kindly treatment would them to accept his new form of Christianity.  When the Jews accepted his friendship but rejected conversions, he turned on them and began his anti-Semitic attacks.  He died in 1546.

1509: Emperor Maximilien issued a second mandate reproaching the Jews of Frankfort for disobeying his first edict and ordering the confiscation of their holy books to continue.

1549: Pope Paul III passed away.  According to the Graetz, “Paul III was specially well-disposed to Jews.”  According to a Bishop named Sadolet of Carpentras, “No pope has ever bestowed on Christians so many honors, such privileges and concessions as Paul III has givn to the Jews.  They are not onlyu assisted, but positively armed with benefits and prerogatives.”  Paul protected the Marranos from the Inquisition and employed a Jewish physician named Jacob Mantin.

1619: René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes would play a major role in the development of the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza with the Dutch Jew first accepting and the rejecting Descartes’ notion of duality.  Furthermore, while Descartes was able to maintain some semblance of religious practice even though his philosophy was at odds with Catholic doctrine, Spinoza took a different road. When he found a dissonance between his philosophy and Judaism, he ceased to follow its rituals and customs. 

1659(24^th of Cheshvan, 5420): Antonio Fernandez Carvajal(a Portuguese-Jewish merchant, who became the first naturalized English Jew passed away. He was born about 1590, probably at Fundão, Portugal. He appears to have left Fundão on account of the persecution of the Inquisition and, proceeding to the Canary Islands, acquired much property there, made many commercial connections, which led him (about 1635) to London, where he settled in Leadenhall Street. In 1649 the council of state appointed him one among the five persons who received the army contract for corn. In 1653 Carvajal was reported as owning a number of ships trading to the East and West Indies, to Brazil, and to the Levant. He dealt in all kinds of merchandise, including gunpowder, wine, hides, pictures, cochineal, and especially corn and silver, and is reported to have brought to England, on average, £100,000 worth of silver per annum. In the early days of his residence in England, Carvajal used to attend mass at the Spanish ambassador's chapel, and in 1645 was informed against for not attending church; but the House of Lords, on the petition of several leading London merchants, quashed the proceedings. In 1650, when war broke out with Portugal, Carvajal's ships were especially exempted from seizure, though he was nominally a Portuguese subject. In 1655 he and his two sons were granted denizenship as English subjects (the patent being dated August 17 of that year); and when the war with Spain broke out in the following year, his property in the Canaries was liable to seizure, as he was a British subject. Oliver Cromwell made arrangements by which Carvajal's goods were transported from the Canaries in an English ship which passed under Dutch colors. When Menasseh Ben Israel came to England in 1655 to petition Parliament for the return of the Jews to England, Carvajal, though his own position was secured, associated himself with the petition; and he was one of the three persons in whose names the first Jewish burial-ground was acquired after the Robles case had forced the Jews in England to acknowledge their creed. Carvajal, besides advancing money to Parliament on cochineal, had been of service to Cromwell in obtaining information as to the Royalists' doings in Holland (1656). One of his servants, Somers, alias Butler, and also a relative, Alonzo di Fonseca Meza, acted as intelligencers for Cromwell in Holland, and reported about Royalist levies, finances, and spies, and the relations between Charles II and Spain. It was to Carvajal that Cromwell gave the assurance of the right of Jews to remain in England. Under the date of February 4, 1657, Burton, in his diary, states: The Jews, those able and general intelligencers whose intercourse with the Continent Cromwell had before turned to profitable account, he now conciliated by a seasonable benefaction to their principal agent [Carvajal] resident in England. In 1648 a cargo of logwood belonging to Carvajal was seized by the customs officers. He assembled his servants and friends, broke open the government warehouses, and carried off his merchandise. The litigation to which this gave rise was interrupted only by Carvajal's death, which occurred in London.

1683: Birthdate of King George II of England who had shown himself so sympathetic when the Jewish representatives had told him about the sufferings of their brethren in Prague

1674: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster which ended the Anglo-Dutch War, the Netherlands ceded New Netherlands to England.  This meant that New Amsterdam would become New York and the Jewish community in the New World would be tied to the fate of an English speaking world.

1687: The Jews of Posen, Poland successfully defended themselves against attack by anti-Semitic mobs.

1726(27^th of Cheshvan, 5487): German Jewish banker and “Court Jew of the Electorate of Brunswick-Luneburg in Hanover, the son of Samuel Oppenheimer, husband of Frade Behrens and the father of Jacob Wolf Oppenheimer passed away today.  

1762: Rebecca Machado and Jonas Phillips, the parents of David Machado Phillips and the in-laws of Gitlah (Catherine) Phillips, were married today in Hickory Town, PA.

1762(24^th of Cheshvan, 5523): Six-month old Isaac Lopez, the son of Moses Lopez, passed away today.

1766: William Franklin (son of Benjamin Franklin born out of wedlock) royal governor of the colony of New Jersey, signs the charter of Queen’s College which is now known as Rutgers University. Today, “The Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers offers an interdisciplinary approach to the academic study of all aspects of the Jewish experience. Courses offered by the Department, which are open to all students, address the historical, social, cultural, religious and political life of the Jewish people from ancient times to the present. Students pursuing a B.A. degree may major or minor in Jewish Studies.”

1773: Birthdate of Joseph Perl, the native of Galicia who went from being a youthful follower of Chasidism to being a leader of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment Movement)

1775: The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.  Robert Magnus was probably the highest ranking Jew to serve with the Marine Corps.  When he retired in July of 2008 he had four stars on his shoulders and had just finished serving a tour as the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. Barney Ross is considered by some to be the most famous Jewish hero to serve with the Marine Corps.  Despite the fact that he was in this 30’s when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Ross enlisted in the Marines.  He rejected a ceremonial, public relations role and insisted on joining the combat forces.  He got his wish when he began a tour on Guadalcanal where he earned a Silver Star, the third highest commendation awarded for bravery in battle. The largest single contingent of Jewish members of the corps to serve in one place might have been at Iwo Jima where approximately 1,500 Sons of Jacob joined their fellow Leathernecks in the some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific.  The most famous novel to come out of World War II about the Marines was Battlecry written by Leon Uris, a Jewish Marine who had a flair for words and a combat veteran’s view of war that was up close and personal.

1776(28^th of Cheshvan, 5537): Six year old Aaron Levy, the song of David Segal Levi, who was described as “a darling and pleasant child” passed away today in the United Kingdom.

1790: In Richmond, VA, Judith (Judy) Myers and Jacob Mordecai gave birth to Ellen Mordecai.

1793: In Bonfeld, Germany, “Schoenle Lazarus” and Lazarus Ruben gave birth to Alexander Ottenheimer.

1800: In St. Thomas, V.I., Hazan Joshua Naar and Sarah Naar gave birth to Judge David Naar, the husband of Sarah Cohen Naar.

1807: The Jews of the region of Widdin on the Danube escape destruction leading to “an annual celebration known as the Purim of the Poisoned Sword.”

1808: Birthdate of Lewis Charles Levin the first Jew elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the American Party candidate from Pennsylvania in 1844. Born in Charleston South Carolina, he graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) with a law degree. He was a founder of the Native American Party and published and edited the Philadelphia Daily Sun. Levin was reelected twice before being defeated in 1850. He then returned to the practice of law in Philadelphia until his death on March 14, 1860. [The Native American Party, popularly called The No-Nothings, was a nativist, anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant party supposedly founded by WASPS.  So one must wonder how a Jew got involved with this and/or how did these people let a Jew became part of their party.]

1809: In Diespeck, Bavaria, Maier and Karoline Einhorn gave birth to David Einhnorn one of the most influential of the Rabbis in the early days of the Reform Movement who risked his life while serving at Har Sinai in the slave holding state of Maryland to denounce the institution and support the cause of the Union.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9505E1D71F3FE63BBC4B53DFB7678382669FDE

1810: Birthdate of Lazarus Adler, the Bavarian born rabbi and author whose last “work, favoring wise reforms, bore the title Hillel and Shammai.”

1810: Birthdate of Eduard Simson the Konigsberg born Jew whose family converted in 1823; a move which surely helped him rise to serve as the first President of the German Parliament.

1813: Lawrence Phillips married Esther Spyer at the Great Synagogue today.

1819: Emanuel Minden married Sarah Davis at the Great Synagogue today.

1823: In Sparrow Corner, Hanna and Abraham Harris gave birth to Lewis Harris.

1824: Solomon Hyams married Rachel Davis at the Great Synagogue today.

1824: Lewis Marks married Mary Solomons at the Great Synagogue today.

1824: In Hesse, Germany, Seligmann Falcke Goldschmidt, the “son of Jacob Falcke Goldschmidt and Eva Seligman” and his wife Schönchen Hinka Alexander gave birth to Levi Goldsmith who settled in Philadelphia, PA.

1826: In Loslau, Upper Silesia, David Hamburger and his wife gave birth to Jacob Hamburger the “editor of the first explicitly Jewish Encyclopedia.”

1826: Birthdate of German native and future St. Louis resident Jonas Meyberg, the husband of Emma Kornick Meyberg with whom he had six children – Bertha, Mitchel, Eugene, Jacob, Aimee and Saidee.

1828: Birthdate of Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, the French librettist who collaborated with Ludovic Halévy to create “Orpheus in the Underworld.”

1829: Hyman Levy Seixas, the New York born on of Benjamin Mendes Seixas and Zipporah Mendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to Isaac Mendes Seixas

1834: In Kolo, Poland, Marya Lachman and Jeremiasz Kleczewsi gave birth to David Colski who was buried in London’s Plashet Jewish Cemetery.

1840: Birthdate of Austro-Hungarian native Rabbi Alois Kaiser, the husband of Caroline Kaiser who in 1865 came to the United States where he began his long tenure as the Cantor of Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, MD during which he created “a transcription of Dr. Szold's prayer book into music .”

https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/alois-kaiser/

https://jewishmuseummd.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Kaiser%2C+Alois+%28Cantor%29

1848: Ibrahim Pasha, who served as the de facto Kehdive of Egypt and Sudan passed away. In 1840 he he had forbidden “the Jews to page the passage in front of the (Western) Wall” and had “cautioned them against ‘raising their voices and displaying their books there.’”

1849: In Ostend, Belgium, Julie Schoenholz and Aron Elsbach gave birth to Bertha Elsbach, the wife of Raphael Robert Reinsberg.

1850: In New York, Jacob Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Judith and Moses Benjamin Seixas and his wife Hortensia Seixas  gave birth to Franklin M. Seixas

1852: Dr Raphall is scheduled to give a lecture entitled “The Literature of the Hebrews” this evening at the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Association at Stuyvesant Institute in NYC.

1853: The Jews of Philadelphia established the Mercantile Club. Louis Bomeisler was its first president.

1854: In the United Kingdom, the will of Moses Alexander was probated today.

1856: Jews’ College, the rabbinical seminary of London opened its doors today

1859: In Moravia, Charlotte Eisler and Joseph Singer gave birth to Isidor Singer who served “as literary sectary to Count Foucher de Carell, the former French Ambassador at Vienna” before coming to New York in 1895 where he became managing editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia.

1860: In Philadelphia, David and Rebecca Allen Hackenburge Teller gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trained attorney Oscar Bower Teller, the brother of Solomon Teller and Alice Hannah Teller.

1861: Three rabbis, including Marcus Jastrow who had participated in Polish nationalist activities were arrested today and imprisoned in the citadel of Warsaw.

1861: In London, Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin gave birth to Amy Levy, the author and poet who was the first Jewish student to attend Newnham College, Cambridge and whose love affair with Vernon Lee provided the impetus for her work on Sapphic love.

http://www.poemhunter.com/amy-levy/

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levy-amy

1862: During the Civil War, Sergeant Henry H. Jacobs began serving with Company F of the 165^th Regiment.

1862: During the Civil War, Corporal Nathan From began serving with Company A of the 167^th Regiment.

1865: Henry Wirz, the commandant at Andersonville Prison whose inmates included Jewish Medal of Honor winner George Geiger, was hung today after a Union Court Martial found him guilty of conspiracy and murder for his role in administering the p.o.w. compound.

1865: Four days after he had passed away, 48 year old David Meyer Davidson, the son of Meyer Davidson and Jesse Cohen and the husband of Henrietta Cohen was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.

1865(21^st of Cheshvan, 5626): Fifty-eight year old Dr. Marcus Mosse the son of Salomon Moses and Henriette (Jette) Marcus Levin and husband of Ulrike Mosse passed away in Posen.

1866: Philip Peyser and Natalie Ann Kiliñski gave birth to Pauline "Lena" Peyser who would be buried in the Washington, DC Hebrew Cemetery in 1923.

1867: Birthdate of Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson a supporter of the Zionist cause who commanded the Zion Mule Corps and the Jewish Legion.

http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2008/the-seven-lives-of-colonel-patterson.html

http://www.zionism-israel.com/bio/John_Henry_Patterson_biography.htm

1867(12^th of Cheshvan, 5628): Fifty-three year old Solomon Klein, the Grand Rabbi at Colmar in Alsace, passed away today.

1868(25th of Cheshvan, 5629): Samuel Sampson, a solicitor and secretary to the London Board of Deputies passed away today. Born in 1804, he began life on the Stock Exchange, but after some time resigned his membership and entered the legal profession. He became honorary solicitor to several of the leading charities; as solicitor and secretary to the Board of Deputies his advice was sought on many important issues, and he accompanied Sir Moses Montefiore on his mission to Morocco. Samuel was a member of the committee of the Great Synagogue and of nearly all the charitable institutions, in the foundation of many of which he was concerned. He helped to establish the Jews' Infant School, London, and took an active part in its management. (As reported by Joseph Jacobs and Goodman Lipkind)

1869: Moritz Ellinger became publisher of The Jewish Times

1870: In San Francisco, Joseph M. Bramdenstein and Jane Jeannette Brandenstein gave birth to Edward Bransten.

1872: Birthdate of Riga native and Columbia trained civil engineer  Leon Solomon Moisseiff, a suspension bridge engineer and was awarded the Franklin Institute’s Louis E. Levy Medal.

1874: (1st of Kislev, 5635): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1875: In Chicago, Joseph and Miriam Cahn gave birth to Bertram Joseph Cahn the “husband of Irma Cahn” with whom he had three children and the Northwestern educated lawyer who served on the Crime Commission and belonged to the Urban League.

1875: Charles Harald Hansen married Dinah Nathan today in New Zealand.

1876: In Philadelphia, PA, The Centennial International Exhibition where Charles Fleishmann who “created the first commercially produced yeast” “demonstrated Viennese baking” which “dramatically increased” the revolutionary product, came to an end.

1877: In Shreveport, LA, J.A. Bergman and Annie Wise gave birth to University of Cincinnati grad and HUC trained Rabbi, Moise Bergman who served Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, Michigan before assuming the pulpit at Gates of Prayer in New Orleans in 1904.

1877: Birthdate of Ukraine native Louis Landau the Yiddish writer and editor of the Amerikaner who was the father of Betty and Max Landau.

1879: A report published today described conditions in the central Asian city of Merv including the fact that this “immense walled city with 2,000 houses and 5 palaces included “a small quarter for the Jews separated by a wall from the rest of the city.”

1880: “Polish Jewish refugee Max and Mary Epstein gave birth Jacob Epstein the New York City born sculptor who worked chiefly in England, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict but in the end was enough of an “establishment figure” that he was knighted for his effort thus becoming Sir Jacob Epstein

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/08/23/88813259.pdf

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-epstein-jacob.htm

1880: It was reported today that “3,000 Jews have left Romania” for the United States by way of the prot of Bremen.

1881: “A Home For Aged Hebrews” published today described plans for the new building that will be constructed by the Home for Aged and Infirm Jews at a cost of $100,000 for its clients and patients.

1883: It was reported today that Jews have joined with Protestants and Catholics in the opening of the celebration at Eisleben of the 400^th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther. (Considering how Luther treated the Jews, this is a surprising entry.)

1883: It was reported today that “a mob attacked the Jews” at Zalaloevoe, Hungary.  The mob fired on the police who came to protect the Jews.

1883: “Helping The Prophets” published today described the demise of the Palestine Railroad Company “which has been dissolved by order of a Massachusetts court.”  In addition to providing transportation for those traveling from Cairo to Jerusalem, the builders thought the locomotive fulfilled the prophetic vision “that fiery chariots would someday be seen in the streets of Jerusalem.”

1884: “A Rear Tenement Fire” published today described the efforts of fireman to put out a fire on Cannon Street that housed the shops of Jewish tailors, slipper makers and  cigar manufactures S.G. Goldsmith, Sieche & Hummel and Meigner & Kander. The loss to building and contents is estimated to exceed ten thousand dollars.

1884: English actor Henry Irving played the role of Shylock, the Jew, in tonight’s performance of “The Merchant of Venice” at the Start Theatre.  Shylock is one of Irving’s singular roles.

1885: Mrs. Clara Bronner Waterman, the daughter of Isaac H. Bronner applied for a divorce today in the Common Pleas Court in New York City.

1885: In St. Louis, MO, Frederick “Tiny” Pagels fired a double-barreled shotgun at a Kohn a Jewish business rival, killing him instantly. Pagels would be tried and sentenced to death for the crime. (Unlike in Europe, the fact that the victim was Jewish was not enough to beat the hangman.)

1886: A fire broke out this evening in a school run for Jewish children by Joseph Isaac Bluestone in New York City.

1886: Birthdate of New York City native and European trained chemist Henry Arnstein, the husband of Nettie Becker and the father of Bernard and Hugo Arnstein, who when worked as a consultant to “South American Republics while holding a membership in B’nai B’rith and Philadelphia’s Adath Jeshurun Congregation.

1887(23^rd of Cheshvan, 5648): In the UK, Solomon Levy the older brother of Abraham Levy passed away today.

1887: Birthdate of German born author and peace activist Arnold Zweig.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/11/27/89348588.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1887: In New York, Jacob and Jeanette B. Jablons gave birth to Cornell University trained physician Benjamin Jablons the bacterlogist who worked at the Pasteur Institute in Serbia, rose to the rank of Major while serving with the A.E.F. during  World War I and wrote several works including “Medical Experiences in the Balkan Wars”  based on his service there in 1913 and 1914.

1889: Celeste Martin and Julius P. Witmark peformed a musical sketch entitled “When We Are Married” as part of the benefit concert being held tonight for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society at Hardman Hall in NYC.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9904E0DB143AEF33A25752C1A9679D94689FD7CF

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F06E2DE173BE033A2575AC0A9679D94689FD7CF

1889: It was reported today that the “American Hebrew, the excellent Jewish newspaper pbished yb the American Hebrew Publishing company has issued a special” edition “to make the close of the 10^th and beginning of the eleventh year of its existence.”

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E03E4D71130E633A25753C1A9679D94689FD7CF

1889: A reception was held today at the newly completed annex at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews on 9^th Avenue between 105^th and 106^th Street in New York City.

1889: Ascher Lodge Number 13 of the Order of Free Sons of Israel celebrated its 20^th anniversary tonight at Webster Hall.

1890: “Literary Notes” published today included anecdotes about Lord Beaconsfield that can be found in James Anthony Froude’s biography of the British statesman including “one pertaining to the death of the Prince Imperial in Africa” of whom he said, “A remarkable people the Zulus.  They defeat our Generals, the convert our Bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.”

1890: According to reports published today, the third volume of Renan’s Histoire du People d’ Israel will soon be available in Paris.  In this volume, Renan presents the evidence that the turning point in the history of the world was the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity.  If this had not happened, he contends that Jews would have suffered the same fate as the citizens of the Northern Kingdom which would have meant Christianity would never have been created and the world would not have known the information contained in Biblical literature.

1890: Birthdate of Austrian native Zevi Hirsch Wolf Diesendruck, the scholar who translated Plato from Greek to Hebrew and “wrote several volumes on Maimonides and who was the chair of the Jewish Philosophy Department at Hebrew Union College.

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0462/ms0462.html

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/05/113087822.pdf

1890: Birthdate of Cologne, Germany native Alfred Salmony, “an internationally recognizes authority on Asian art” and Professor of Fine Arts at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.

1890: Birthdate of El Lissitzky, multi-talented Russian born artist.

1892(20^th of Cheshvan, 5653): Seventy-four year old Israel Meyer Japhet who “was choir director at the Realschule (Adass Jeschurun) in Frankfurt am Main” passed away today.

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Japhet,_Israel_Meyer

1892: In London, David and Pauline Greenberg Cohen gave birth to New York College of Dentistry graduate Dr. Milton Cohen, D.D.S., the NYU Professor of Ceramics and Prosthetic Dentistry and  the husband of Ada Cohen who was the mother of his daughter Shirley.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/07/26/223790632.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1893(1^st of Kislev, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1893: Baron Hirsch’s “four year old brown fill La Fleche” won the Liverpool Autumn Cup. Among the horses she beat was “The Jew” which had led as the horses turned into the straightaway and headed for home.

1893: As young Jewish men in New York seek to elicit support from leaders of the community such as Nathan Straus and Edward C. Stone, for an new facility for the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, it was reported that the organization has gained 200 members since last May bringing its membership up to 700 and that it has a small surplus having paid off all of its debts.

1893: The list of those receiving bequests from the late Louis Arnheim published today included  $500 each to the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society and Mount Sinai Hospital  and $100 each to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.

1893: The immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island today aboard the SS Poland most of whom were Russian Jews have been described by Commissioner Senner as “the worst lot he has had to contend with” and that “nearly all of them are impoverished, unclean and unkempt.

1894: In Newark, NJ, Ferdinand Bornstein told police today that four sets of the Ten Commandments were stolen from a closet in his synagogue. Bound in silver, they “were valued at $600.”

1894: In Poland, Solomon and Lea Weisgal gave birth to  World War One veteran author Meyer Wolf Weisgal, who at the age of 11 came to United States where he served as the managing editor of the Maccabean and The New Palestinian  who also served as president of both the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv.

https://www.jta.org/1977/09/30/archive/meyer-w-weisgal-dead-at-83

1894: In Kurenitz, Morris L. Kramer and Rachel Elka Stikan gave birth to their 7^th child, Samuel Kramer.

1894: “Well Merited Praise to a Journal” published today

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20714FE395515738DDDA90994D9415B8485F0D3

1895: In New York details are announced describing the events of "The Great Hebrew Fair" to be held in December.  The goal is to raise at least $225,000 to aide in educational endeavors.

1895; In Moravia, Joseph Singer and Charlotte Eisler gave birth to Isidor Singer who became the literary secretary to Count Foucher de Careil in 1887 and then move to New York in 1895 where he became the driving force for the creation of a Jewish Encyl

1897: In Vienna, there was an outbreak of violence caused by a demonstration that the Jewish students blamed on their German counterparts.

1897: President Henry Rice presided over the annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities held tonight at Temple Emanu-El

1897(15^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Sixty-six year old stockbroker and historian whose works included Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History passed away today.

http://www.jewishstore.com/books/Products.asp?ProdID=187105503

1897: Two days after she had passed away, 72 year old Leah Marks, the widow of Reuben Marks was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1898: Tammany leader Croker was reported today to have expressed his displeasure with Patrick Divver for waiting until election to tell him that the Democrats were in danger of losing the Jewish vote in New York County because if such were the case he should have known about “two weeks” before the election when he should have sounded the alarm.

1898: Henry Rice was re-elected President at tonight’s meeting of the United Hebrew Charities. Others chosen were Henry S. Allen and Isaiah Joseph, Vice Presidents; C.L Sulzberger, Treasurer and I.S. Isaacs, Secretary.

1898: The Hebrew Infant Asylum which had been housed at 490 Mott Avenue “moved into its new building on Eagle Avenue near 161^st Street.

1899: In Paris, “pandemonium” reigned in the Senate as the galleries echoed with cries of “Down with the Jews’ and a Dreyfusard Deputy traded blows with an anti-Dreyfusard journalist.

1899: A summary of the October report for the United Hebrew Charities of New York published today that the society had received 2,306 applications from 7,687 seeking various forms of relief and assistance including help with finding employment.

1900: In “Central Bohemia,” Ferdinand and Eugenie Pick gave birth to Elsa Pick, who became Elsa Rina when she married Wilhelm Rind who perished with her during the Holocaust.

1900: At Karl-Ferdinand University students call for a boycott of the classes taught by Czech patriot and intellectual Tomas Masaryk for his role in gaining a re-trial for Leopold Hilsner on the trumped up charges of ritual murder following the death of Agnes Hruza.  Masaryk felt that the faculty and the student body were “infected with the uncultivated virus of street anti-Semitism.

1901: In Vienna Victor Stern, “an Italian/Austrian doctor of Jewish descent attached to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and, later, to the International Red Cross” and her Roman Catholic mother Felicie gave birth to Elise Amelie Felicie Stern who gained fame as photographer Lisette Model.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/31/obituaries/lisette-model-a-photographer-is-dead-at-76.html

1902:Twenty-six year old Rabbi Abram Brill, the Ogdensburg, NY born son of “Rabbi Joseph and Charlotte (Tumim) Brill, married Edna Goldstein today while serving the congregation in Greenville, Mississippi.

1903: The trustees of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, including Jacob H. Schiff and Isaac Wallach, meet today and approved “the application of the St. Andrew’s Convalescent Hospital for admission to the association.”

1904: It was reported today that among the telegrams received by President Roosevelt congratulating him on election victory was one from Jacob H. Schiff that read “They made you the issue, I believe, and haven’t they received a fitting reply? I rejoice and congratulate you.”

1905: It was reported today that in St. Petersburg, “proclamation have been posted in the Alexander Market calling on the population to kill the Jews.”

1905: In Moscow, while “alarming rumors are in circulation that anti-Jewish outbreaks will occur simultaneously” in Russia’s two largest cities, “foreigners and Jews have received threatening letters and have asked the authorities for protection” – a request that so far has met with no response from the government.

1905: “At a meeting held in Washington, D.C.  about $2,000 was subscribed for the relief of the Jews in Russia” and  “committees were appointed to solicit further subscriptions.”

1905: It was reported today that at Rostoff-on-Don the “houses of 7,000 Jews were looted, the synagogue burned” and the families without shelter who “appealed to the authorities for protection…were shot.”

1906(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5667): Parashat Chayei Sara

1906(22^nd of Cheshvan, 5667): Seventy-eight-year-old attorney Martin Butzel, the Detroit born son of  Moses Leo Butzel and Hannah Butzel, the husband of Betty Binswanger Butzel and father of Fanny, Emma, Edwin and Leo Butzel who was a member of the American Jewish Committee passed away today.

1906: “Dr. Jacob Hamburger, the Landrabbiner of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who would be honored by the Central Conference of American Rabbis as “one of the most devoted workers in the field of literature” celebrated his 80^th birthday today.

1907(4^th of Kislev, 5668): Eighty-one year old Simon Hackes, the Bavarian born son of Zidone Wald and Joseph Hackes and the husband of Gette Frcheimer whom he married he 1851 and with whom he had fourteen children passed away today in Elizabeth, NJ.

1907 Jews from the greater part of the United States attended the annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee in an all-day session at the Hotel Astor today where Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia, PA.

1908: An encounter between the pan-German Students and members of the Jewish Students Corporation at the University of Vienna this morning “resulted in injury to about 100” people.”

1909: This morning’s session of the Central Conference of American Rabbis “was devoted to the reading of reports from various committees and biographic paper by Rabbi Kaufman Kohler, President of the Hebrew Union College…in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of” Rabbi David Einhorn.

1909: Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago’s Sinai Congregation delivered a memorial address in honor of the centenary of the birth of Rabbi David Einhorn. “Judaism…is not a matter of confession, nor yet of race.”  It is “a gift of birth that cannot be lost or shaken off and that carries with it the mission of spreading the monotheistic conception among all nations until the messianic age of love and righteousness be accomplished.”  At the same time, Dr. Hirsch spoke out against Zionism, Zionists and attempts to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E7D6123EE733A25752C1A9679D946897D6CF

1909: Birthdate of Mt. Vernon, NY songwriter Johnny Marks who, ironically is responsible for such Christmas hits as “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and Holly Jolly Christmas.”

https://www.songhall.org/profile/Johnny_Marks

1909: This afternoon delegates attending the meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis visited the Hebrew Technical School for Boys and the Hebrew Technical School for Girls at the United Charities Building in New York City.

1910: Harry Guggenheim married  Helen Rosenberg, the daughter of Herman Rosenberg at the Rosenberg residence on 166 West 78th Street.

1910: Birthdate of New York native Abe Eliowitz who in 1932 earned an honorable mention as Grantland Rice All America while serving as the co-captain of the Michigan State Spartans for whom he also excelled as a record setting baseball player.

1911: Rabbi Moses Franco of Rhodes was made Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.

1911: The British Board of Agriculture and Fisheries appointed Frederick M. Davis “as assistant naturalist in connection International Fisheries Investigations.

1911: A.H. Jessel, K.C. was “elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn.

1911: The Town Council elected Mayer Fredman as Mayor of Devenport.

1911: The Queen of Holland appointed R. Couvee as an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

1911: In Camden, NJ, the Congregation of the Sons of Israel held its annual meeting today.

1911: Press department of Zionist Central Bureau in Berlin denies report that Chief Rabbi of Tripoli had telegraphed to Rome welcoming Italians. The Hahambashi in Turkey declared there is no, and has not been any, chief rabbi in Tripoli for a long time.

1912(30^th of Cheshvan, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1912: Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society headquartered in Denver opened their 8^th annual meeting today in New York City.

1912: Dr. Emil G. Hirsch is scheduled to deliver a sermon “Two Reformations, Luther and Einhorn” at Sinai Temple on the south side of Chicago.

1912: In Chicago, Rabbi Joseph Stolz is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Responsibility of Power” at the Isaiah Temple. (Editor’s note – these are examples of the Reform movement’s attempt to make Sunday “the Sabbath” replacing the traditional Saturday observance.

1912: The People’s Synagogue Association is scheduled to hold services under the leadership of Dr. Gerson B. Levi at Chicago’s Ziefgeld Theatre.

1913: In Baltimore, traveling salesman Joseph Shapiro and “the former Sarah Omanksy gave birth to Carl Jay Shapiro who gained fame Karl Shapiro, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (Editor’s Note- the spelling change is not a typo but a result of the poet’s decision to legally change the spelling of his first name.) (As reported by Richard Severo)

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/17/books/karl-shapiro-prize-winning-poet-dies-at-86.html?searchResultPosition=3

1913: Birthdate of American poet James Broughton who would be the father of Gina, the daughter of film critic Pauline Kael.  (Kael was Jewish; I could find no record concerning him.

1914: In Brooklyn Al McCoy the New Jersey born Jewish Middleweight World Champion successfully defended his crown.

1914: Birthdate of Freudenburg native Berta Samuel who was interred at Drancy before being transported to Auschwitz where she died in 1942.

1914: The treasurer for the Central Committee for the relief of Jews “reported today that the committee has received $16,441 and that additional subscriptions were coming in at the rate of about $1,000 a day.”

1915: It was reported today that “the railroad system” in Palestine “has been greatly enlarged” since the start of the war with a new line reaching Gaza and “the line from Jaffa to Jerusalem” having been united with the Hedsmas Railway.”

1915: It was reported today that “Ira S. Wile of the Board of Education” has told the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis that the Gary Plan has “dragged religion into the schools creating barriers and denominational differences between children, between children and their teachers and between homes.”

1915(3^rd of Kislev, 5676): Fifty-nine year old County Tax Commissioner Sam Cohn passed away today in Toledo, Ohio.

1915: “The German Branch of the Alliance Israelite Universelle issued a protest against the circular sent abroad by the French Secretary General of the organization which, the members of the German Branch say, contains the ‘gravest charges against our Fatherland.’”

1916: Today “the triennial convention of the Young Men’s Hebrew and Kindred Associations opened for a three day session in the Young Women’s Hebrew Association Building on 110^th Street”

1916: Birthdate of Lynn, MA, native Harold D. Ashkenazy who gained fame as Harold Ashe All-New England guard on the Bowdoin College football team.

1916: In Wheeling, West Virginia, the Eoff Street Temple “observed the 59th anniversary of the permanent organization and the 25th anniversary of the cornerstone laying of the Temple.”

1917: Rabbi Felix A. Levy is scheduled to lead Shabbat morning services at Temple Emanuel in Chicago.

1917: Three days after the armed insurrection that brought the Bolsheviks to power deposing the Kerensky government, opposition forces uses “posters and newspapers” to criticize the their action and refuse to recognize their authority.

1917(25^th of Cheshvan, 5678): Parashat Chayei Sara

1917(25^th of Cheshvan, 5678): During The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres where Monty Moss, a buyer for Moss Bros. which had been founded by his grandfather Moses and was now being run by his father George was killed ended today.

1917(25^th of Cheshvan, 5678): As of today, “over 350 Jewish men fight under British command are known to have been killed today since the start of the Battle for Passchendaele which began on July 31, 1917.

1917: It was reported today that 31 year old Rabbi David Goldberg has been commissioned in Acting Chaplain with the rank of Lt. Junior Grade (the equivalent of 1^st Lt. in the Army) by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels making him the first Jewish person to fill such a post in the history of the United States Navy.

1918: Sixty-eight year old social democrat Eduard Bernstein, the son of Jewish parents where were active in the Reform Temple” in Berlin  completed his service as a Member of the Imperial Reichstag from Silesia.

1918: Five days after he had passed away, Harry Geller, the son of Nathan and Rachel Geller, was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.”

1918: Following an angry denunciation against those whom he felt had betrayed him including the Jews, Kaiser Wilhelm, having abdicated the day before, “crossed the border by train and went into exile in neutral Holland.

1918: Samuel Untermeyer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Keren Hayeson announced that a dinner would be held on Sunday, November 13 for a delegation of Zionists led by Vladimir Jabotinsky that would be arriving in New York on November 11.

1918: Louis Marshall presided over the 12^th annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee at the Hotel Astor where a report of the war activities was submitted that “said from 150,000 to 200,000 Jews were serving in the American armed forces or about 130,00 in the army and about 20,000 in the Navy and Marine Corps.”

1919: A special committee formed by the House of Representatives to determine whether or not a convicted felon and war opponent should be seated as a member of Congress concluded that Victor L. Berger should not be allowed to take his seat.  The committee then declared his seat vacant.

1919: It was reported today that “a comprehensive drainage system” is being built in Jerusalem by the Zionist Administration Commission “which will provide the ancient city with adequate sanitary facilities.”

1920: The seventh annual convention of the Mizrachi Organization of the United States and Canada continued to meet on its second to last day in Baltimore, MD.

1920: The New York Times reported on a luncheon attended by about thirty members of the Jewish clergy, at the Cafe Boulevard honoring Dr. Frederick De Sola Mendes, one of the oldest rabbis in New York, following his retirement from the Rabbinate two weeks ago.

1920: The Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish Women continued to meet in Denver, CO at the Brown Hotel.

1921: Sixty-eight old Episcopal clergyman Professor John Punnett Peters, the well-known archaeologist and author of both the Hebrew Story, from Creation to the Exile” and Hebrew Literature passed away today.

1922: David Pinski, the Jewish author arrived  in New York today aboard the United States Lines ship “The President Roosevelt.”

1922: It was reported today that Isaac Marhulies of New York, representing the American Joint Committee has arrived to investigate the condition of the Jewish refugees in Salonika where the “Jewish community which numbers about 40,000 offered the Government half a million drachmas monthly on the condition that they be not asked to open their homes to refugees under the new hospitality law.”

1923(2^nd of Kislev, 5684): Parashat Toldot

1923: The opening of a $1,000,000 endowment fund for the Jewish Theological Seminary was announced today, at the same time that Sol M. Strock that announced the two hundred thousand dollars has been pledged to help the New York campaign reach its goal of five million dollars.

1923: At Dallas, TX, Hiram W. Evans, the Imperial Wizard of Klan has “grouped all Catholics, Jews and Negroes as persons who would never be able to measure up to the Klan standard of 100 per cent Americanism.”

1924: A campaign for 5,000 new members of the Hadassah -- the women s Zionist organization of America -- was launched at a luncheon attended by 2,000 women, in the Hotel Astor today. The guests of honor were Miss Henrietta Szold, President of the Hadassah, and Mrs. Edward Jacobs and Mrs. A.H. Fromenson, two members of the National Board, all of whom have recently returned from Palestine.

1925: Two days after she had passed away, 62 year old Rosa Volk, the daughter of Leopold and Sofie Sara Pick and the wife of Alexander Volk, was buried today in Vienna.

1926(4^th of Kislev, 5687): Sixty-six-year-old Mrs. Sarah Kempner, the widow of former Chief Magistrate Otto Kempner who was “honorary President of the auxiliary of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and of the Brooklyn section of the Council of Jewish Women” passed away today at her home in Brooklyn.

1926: Despite the contributions of $25,000 by S. A. Straus, $10,00 by Samuel J. Bloomingdale, $4,000 by Reuben Arkush and $4,000 by Frederick Strauss, Felix M. Warburg, with a donation of $75,000, was the largest contributor today in the tenth anniversary $4,720,000 campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.

1927: Birthdate of Detroit nave Barry Cohen who gained fame as Barry Crane  television producer and director Barry Crane, a world class bridge champion whose murder would go unsolved for almost three and half decades.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-barry-crane-cold-case-killing-tv-director-20190510-story.html

1928: Birthdate of Marilyn Keith Bergman who with her husband Alan Bergman formed successful songwriting duo that was “honored with four Emmys, three Oscars, two Grammys (including Song of the Year), and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.”

1928: Birthdate of New York native Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman, the actress known as Norma Crane who grew up in El Paso, “studied drama at Texas State College for Women in Denton (now NTSU) and then made the leap to Elia Kazan’s Actors Studio which prepared her for her Broadway debut in “The Crucible”

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/29/archives/norma-crane-dead-played-tevyes-wife.html

1929(7^th of Cheshvan, 5690): Seventy-five year old Joseph Hyman, “the organizer and former president of Tomchay Torah of the Bronx” and a leader of “the General Washington Lodge of the Old Order B’rith Abraham” passed away today.

1929: Birthdate of Marilyn Katz, the native of Brooklyn who became the wife of Alan Bergman and who as Marilyn Bergman joined him in creating decade’s worth of hit songs including the lyrics for the score of “Yentl” starring Barbara Stressiand and “The Way We Were” another Streisand film.

1930: It was reported today that “another proposal likely to reach President Ortiz Rubio within the next few weeks is one advocated by the National League against Chinese and Jewish penetration of Mexico” which will call for “a suspension of licenses for commercial houses operated by Asiatics and Jews in the Federal district” and prohibition of “marriages of Mexican women with Jews or Chinese” by the end of November.

1931: The 4^th Academy Awards ceremony was held today and Sam Mintz, who was “nominated in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay” did not walk away with the Oscar trophy.

1932: “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” a crime-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni was released today in the United States.

1932: Funeral services were held today for 57 year old Joseph Bragin, founder and principal of New York’s only Hebrew High School who had died in auto accident on November 6, after which he was buried at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.

1933: In Poland, “today Jewish students were ejected from lectures halls and severely beaten at the Agricultural School.”

1933: In Poland, “following anti-Semitic rioting, the Warsaw Agricultural and Technical Schools and the Commercial Academy were closed today.”

1933: Birthdate of Eliezer David Jaffe “the founder and president of The Israel Free Loan Association and a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem”

1934: Today in Brooklyn Federal Court, Judge Marcus B. Campbell sentenced the Schechter Brothers – Joseph, Alex, Aaron and Martin – the owners of two Brooklyn poultry markets who were represented by Joseph Heller and “who were convicted last week of violating the NRA live poultry code to a total of seven months in jail and aggregate fines of $7,500.”

1934: “Jacob W. Mack, newly elected chairman of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations” presided over “his first board meeting tonight where resolutions were passed in memory of the board’s late leader, Mr. Ludwig Vogelstein. (As reported by JTA)

1935: Seventy-three year old  British political leader Edward Shortt who in November of 1919 met with representative of the Deputies of British Jews concerning the deportation of “political subversives” passed away today.

1935: “More than a thousand people attended the 28^th anniversary dinner for the National Home for Jewish Children at Denver” which “ takes care of the children of parents suffering from tuberculosis”  which was held at the Waldorf-Astoria tonight.

1936: Nicolas Louis Alexandre, Baron de Gunzburg arrived in New York City today “and rented an apartment in the Ritz Tower.

1936: In London, the text of the government’s new public order bill aimed at curb the activities of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts and similar groups,” which was necessitated by the “recent violent disorders’ in the predominately Jewish neighborhoods of  East End of London, Manchester and Leeds  “was made availed to members of the House of Commons today.”

1936: During his visit to London, “Colonel Josef Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister asserted today that there was ‘no longer any reason for the existence of small Jewish shopkeepers’ in Poland” and said that he had discussed the need for letting Jews immigrate to Palestine with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.

1937: “Young Mr. Disraeli,” produced by Alexander Yokel opened on Broadway tonight at the Fulton Theatre.

1937: Benjamin Cohen, a 70-year old American Jew living in Tel Aviv sued Hebrew University for 5,000 pounds in damages for rejecting his discovery reversing the theory of Copernicus today in the District Court of Jerusalem.  The case was heard by Judge W. Clive Curry, President of the District Court. “After forty years of work” Cohen “has become convinced that the sun revolves around the earth and sets in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.”   Cohen contends that “the university committed a crime against science” by not accepting his discovery.  “Judge Curry rejected the claim for damages since the claimant had no contract with the University for accepting his discovery and since the institution caused him no damage in any sense whatsoever.”

1937:The Palestine Post reported that five young pioneers: Itzhak Migdal, Moshe Baumgarten, Joshua Puchovsky, Arie Mordecovitch and Aaron Olechowsky, members of Kvutzat "Bama’aleh" of Gordonia, were murdered by eight armed Arabs in the Judean hills while engaged in clearing grounds for a new settlement, "Kiryat Anavim B" (renamed Ma¹aleh Hahamisha in their honor). Police arrested 12 Arab villagers.

1938: It was learned today that “fifty-one of the sixty-eight persons condemned since the establishment of military courts” on November 18, 1938 “had been hanged.”

1938: The synagogue in Hanau, a town outside of Frankfurt am Main was set afire today.  The Jewish community shrank from less than 500 in 1933 to a mere 82 souls in pre-war 1939.

1938: The Neu-Isenburg orphanage which had been founded by the late Bertha Pappeheim was attacked today and the main building was burned to the ground.

1938: One hundred thousand cheering Germans attend a rally in Nuremberg, Germany, celebrating Kristallnacht.

1938: After 24 hours of nationwide violence, 91 Jews have been killed, 30,000 more have been arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, and 8,000 have been evicted from Berlin. Tens of thousands of shops and homes have broken into and Nazi Storm Troopers have set fire to 191 Synagogues.

1938: Most of the men living in Karlsruhe were arrested today and sent to Dachau.

1938: The largest synagogue in Vienna, The Leopoldstädter Tempel, was destroyed during the Reichskristallnacht. The building designed by Ludwig Förster was built in 1858. All that remains is a memorial plaque that reads: Here stood the Leopoldstädter Tempel, built in 1858 in the moorish style according the plans of architect Leopold Förster, all but the foundation of which was completely destroyed by National Socialist barbarians on the so-called "Night of Broken Glass", on the 10th of November 1938).

1938: American musical icon Kate Smith sang her signature song, Irving Berlin’s God Bless America, for the first time on radio.

1938: Paul “Sachs, one of the founding members of The Museum of Modern Art, who had been serving as a trustee since 1929 completed his service in that role today.

1938: One day after Kristallnacht, the main building of the Neu-Isenburg orphanage for Jewish girls, founded by Bertha Pappenheim was burned down “and the other buildings were burned down.

1938: As the Kristallnacht violence continued the Nathan Israel Department Store which had been started by Nathan Israel is 1815 was set on fire.

1939: U.S. Premiere of “First Love” directed by Henry Koster and co-produced by Koster and Joe Pasternak,

1940: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for sixty-two year old CCNY trained investment banker Arthur Mathew Lamport, the Franklin Falls, NY born son of Nathan and Sarah Goldenheim Lamport and unofficial economics advisor to President Roosevelt who was national treasurer of the United Palestine Appeal, co-treasurer of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs and the husband of “the former Sadie Payson” with whom he had three children – Harold, Helen and Natalie

1940: Sir Norman Angell, the British author and Nobel Peace Prize winner told five hundred members attending the United States Palestine Appeal Conference that “the British and Jewish peoples now share the honor of being the two peoples of all the earth upon whom Hitler visits his deadliest enmity.”

1940: “Prizes were awarded today to 700 children chosen from 30,000 in the Jewish Religious Schools of Greater New York for highest merit in attendance, scholarship and deportment at a program sponsored by the Jewish Education Committee of New York at the Washington Irving High School.”

1941: Friedric Jeckeln, arrived in Berlin where he would discuss plans with Himmler for the liquidation of the Riga Ghetto.

1941: The scholarship fund of the Neighborhood Playhouse of the Theatre, “a non-profit organization founded in 1928 by Miss Irene Lewisohn of New York and her sister, Mrs. Herbert Crowley, the former Miss Alice Lewisohn to train students in the theatre arts” “will benefit from the performance of ‘Blithe Spirit’ at the Morsco Theatre” this evening.

1942: “Arthur Babbit, one of Walt Disney’s earliest animators” who later sued Disney after he was terminated enlisted in the Marines today.

1942: During World War II, Germany invaded Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.  Vichy referred to the pro-Nazi “rump” French government headed by Marshall Petain.  As bad as things were for the Jews under Vichy, they would get a whole lot worse now that the Nazis were in total control.

1942: Six thousand Polish Jews who have been hiding in forests since the spring of 1942 surrender after the Germans promise safe passage to a new Jewish ghetto.

1943(12^th of Cheshvan, 5704): Fifty-four year old Russian born Dr. Max Bakst, the 1911 graduate of Long Island College Hospital Medical School and associate otolaryngologist at Beth Moses Hospital who was the husband of Frannie Graf Bakst with whom he had two children – Daniel and Grace – passed away today in Brooklyn.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/13/85132966.pdf

1944(15^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Thirteen members of the anti-Nazi Ehrenfeld group which included “escaped detainees from forced labor camps and Jews” were “publicly hanged in Cologne.

1944(15^th of Cheshvan, 5658): Thirty-five year old Miklós Radnóti was murdered by militia man while a group of 3,200 Jews was being forced march into central Hungary and “buried in a mass grave near the village of Abda.”

http://forward.com/articles/187883/hungarian-jewish-poets-statue-struck-by-a-car-brea/

1945: In New York City, William Lindsay Gresham, the author of Nightmare Alley and Joy Davidman the author of Smoke on the Mountain gave birth to author and actor Douglas Howard Gresham who with his wife Merrie has had five children.

1946: “It was learned today” that “Britain has asked the Italian government to exercise increased vigilance over Jewish refugee camps, especially in southern Italy, to aid in preventing the flights of Jews toward Palestine.”  (See the entry for 1940 for an example of irony in spades)

1947: “The United States and the Soviet Union reconciled their basic differences over Palestine today to support a new United Nations plan for enforcement of partition under which Britain would bother her mandate and her military occupation of the Holy Land” by May 1, 1948.

1948: The United Nations ruled that the Israelis had violated the truce.

1948: In Hopkins, MN, Morton Brown, a scrap dealer, and his wife Rose gave birth to broadcast journalist Aaron Brown, the professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, husband of Charlotte Raynor and father of Gabby Brown.

1948: Today there were reports that the Israelis had detained two UN representatives who were trying to observe the fighting in the Negev.

1949(18^th of Cheshvan, 5710): Seventy-six year old Cincinnati, OH native Eli Winkler, the co-founder and chairman of the board of the United States Alkali Export Association in New York passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/11/11/84285257.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1949: Israel holds a reception for new immigrants.  According to the Jewish Agency 32,000 Yemenite Jews have been flow from Aden to Israel and that another 15,000 will be flown out in the next two weeks.  At the same time, Jews living in the USSR, Romania and Hungary have been prevented by their governments from making Aliyan

1950: Broadway premiere of “The Country Girl” written and directed by Clifford Odets, the Philadelphia born son of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Romania.

1951: “Artist and muralist Shelia Rogoff” and Mortimer Rogoff, “the former chairman and President of Navigation Sciences gave birth to Connecticut and Harvard alum Alice Nicole Rogoff , “newspaper publishing executive and philanthropist” who gained fame as Alice Nicole Rubenstein, the wife of David Ruentstein, “the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of the Carlyle Group whom she divorced in 2017.

1952: In New York City, actress Judy Holliday and clarinet player  and television producer David Oppenheim gave birth to film editor and producer Jonathan Louis Oppenheim best known for “Paris Is Burning.”

1952: The Jerusalem Post reported extensively on the death of the first president of the State of Israel, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, 78, who died at his home in Rehovot on the morning of 21 Heshvan, 5713, November 9, 1952. The funeral was planned to take place on a consecrated spot in Rehovot, in an olive grove of 75 trees planted in honor of his 70th and 75th birthdays. Born in Russia in 1874, Weizmann was trained as a biochemist in Switzerland.  He moved to England in 1905 where he became a leader in the Zionist movement.  Weizmann’s discovery of acetone played a key role in the issuance of the Balfour Declaration.  Weizmann played a leading role during the inter-war years in developing the Jewish home in Eretz Israel.  He was elected Israel’s first President in 1949 and was received by President Truman in that capacity at the White House.

1952: During a parliamentary debate on Egypt, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to pay tribute to Chaim Weizmann who had passed away the day before and to the accomplishments of the Zionist movement.

1956(6^th of Kislev, 5717): Just ten days before his 45^th birthday photojournalist David Seymour was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the aftermath of the Suez War.

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/16/a-second-look-chims-children-of-war/#1

http://merrill.umd.edu/events/visible-scars-children-and-war-photography-david-chim-seymour

http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/bio_chim.html

1957(16^th of Cheshvan, 5718): Sixty-three year old Leopold Weil the born son of Leopold and Rebecca Weil Columbia Law School trained attorney Frank Leopold Weil, the husband of the former Henrietta Simons who was active in the Jewish community as can be seen by “chairmanship of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America” passed away way today and who was award the Medal of Merit by President Truman, passed away today.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059041?seq=1

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0048/ms0048.html

1957(16^th of Cheshvan, 5718): Seventy-three year old Siegmund Salomon Baruch, the German born on of Jakob Baruch and Ida Edelchen Baruch and the husband of Helene Baruch passed away today in Westchester County, NY.

1958: At Temple Israel in Monroe, LA Rabbi Jacob Lantz officiated at the funeral of Seventy-two year old Rabbi Ferdinand Kilsheimer Hirsh, the Hamilton, OH born son of Isaac and Minnie Kilshemer Hirsh and husband of Nellie L. Hirsh who was a graduate of Hebrew Union College and the University of Georgia Law School and who served as the rabbi at the “Children of Israel Congregation in Athens, GA and Temple B’nai Israel in Monroe, LA which was followed by burial in the Jewish Cemetery in Monroe.

1959(9^th of Cheshvan, 5720): Sixty-nine year old New York City native and Columbia graduate, E Knight Harris, the New York Law School trained attorney and member of the Queens Country Republican Committee who was the chairma of Sunday Services Committee of Temple Israel and the husband of “the former Nan Harris” with whom he raised a son, Arthur Harris, passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/11/11/80560079.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1960(20^th of Cheshvan, 5721): Sixty year old Brest-Litovsk born, University of Pennsylvania trained composer and pianist Isadore Freed, the husband of dance Riva Hoffman passed away today.

https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/isadore-freed/

1961: Tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone is “Deaths-Head Revisited” Rod “Serling's statement on the Holocaust, written in reaction to the then-ongoing Eichmann trial, in which a former Nazi, on a nostalgic visit to Dachau, is haunted and ultimately driven insane by the ghosts of inmates he had killed there during the war including “Alfred Becker” portrayed by Austrian born American actor Joseph Schildkraut.

1965: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Dr. Erwin Sills, the husband of Dr. Esther Goldman

1966: “Penelope” a film version of novel by Howard Fast, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Peter Falk, Dick Shawn and Lou Jacobi was released today in the United States.

1967: The HMS Totem formerly a British submarine, was commissioned as the INS Dakar by the Israeli Navy.

1968: A testimonial dinner was held in honor of Samuel Lerner “who had completed forty years of service” to Congregation Shaar Hashomayim of Montreal, “the last fifteen of them as principal of the congregational schools.”

1968(19^th of Cheshvan, 5729): Eighty-nine year old Ada Rosenthal Salus the wife of University of Pennsylvania trained lawyer and Republican political leader Samuel Salus and the mother of Arthur S. Salus passed away today.

1969: NBC broadcast episode nine of “My World and Welcome to It” created by Melville Shavelson, produced by Sheldon Leonard and co-starring Harold J. Stone.

1969: Debut of Sesame Street.  Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the two creators of the program, was a Roman Catholic.  However, her father was Jewish and her maternal grandfather was Emil Ganz, the three-mayor of Phoenix, AZ, where Cooney grew up.

1970: Richard Rodger’s “Two By Two” a musical based on Clifford Odets's play “The Flowering Peach” that tells the story of Noah's preparations for the Great Flood and its aftermath with a cast that included Danny Kaye and Madeline Kahn opened at the Imperial Theatre today.

1972(4^th of Kislev, 5733): Sixty-six year old composer Francis Chagrin, who as Alexander Paucker was the Bucharest born son of Jewish parents and who was the father of actors Nicolas and Julian Chagrin as well as the father-in-law of actress of Roland Chagrin passed away today.

https://www.naxos.com/person/Francis_Chagrin/39519.htm

1973(15^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Parashat Vayera

1973(15^th of Cheshvan, 5734): Seventy-year old Bessarabian born Yiddish writer Falki Lerner, who pursued his career in Argentina and Chile passed away today.

http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2017/06/falik-lerner.html

1974: Anatoly Sharansky and Anatoly Malkin were detained in Minsk. During the search materials about the persecution of Jews in Minsk, letters of the Jews to various state institutions, and notebooks were confiscated.

1975: PLO leader Yasser Arafat addressed the United Nations General Assembly.  In a low point in the history of an organization founded to support peace, the members of the General Assembly applauded as the pistol-packing Arafat arose to address them with the blood the Israeli athletes slaughtered at the Munich Olympics on his hands.  In the 21^st century the world learned the price of those applauses as terrorists struck from New York, to London, to Madrid, to Mumbai, to…the list goes on.

1975: In New York City, Adele and R. Gerald Grodstein gave birth to Columbia University graduate Lauren Grodstein, the novelist and Rutgers University Professor best known for the novel A Friend of the Family who was married to musician Ben Freeman with whom she had two children – Nate and Penny.

1975: The UN General Assembly voted to equate Zionism with Racism. This infamous proclamation was officially retracted 16 years later in December 1991.

1975: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, America's Ambassador to the UN proclaimed: “The United States does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act.” The “infamous act” was Resolution 3379, calling Zionism racism, slandering one form of nationalism, Jewish nationalism.

 1975: Israel's Ambassador Chaim Herzog, carrying the dignity of 4,000 years of Jewish history, declared: “I stand here not as a supplicant. For the issue is neither Israel nor Zionism. The issue is the continued existence of this organization, which has been dragged to its lowest point of discredit by a coalition of despots and racists. You yourselves bear the responsibility for your stand before history. We, the Jewish people, will not forget.” Herzog then ripped the resolution to shreds.

1976: “The Next Man,” a thriller centering around Israel and OPEC produced by Martin Bregman was released in the United States today.

1976: “Prisoners of Zion Yuri Vudka and Lazar Lubarsky received exit visas to Israel.”

1976: “The United Nations Security Council issued a Consensus Statement, which warned Israel “that any act or profanation of the Holy Places, religious buildings and sites, or any encouragement of, or connivance at, any such act, may seriously endanger international peace and security.’ Ironically, the first Israeli interference with worship in Jerusalem was made against the Jews, whom the Israeli authorities prevented praying on the Harram, in deference to Muslim sensibilities.”

1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli jets bombed PLO bases in South Lebanon, in response to the Katyusha rocket attack by Palestine terrorists in which Rivka Lupu, 35, was killed and five persons were wounded by shrapnel

1978:  Hannah Ruppin the widow of the late Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin and a longtime resident of Jerusalem expressed her concern that the treaty with Egypt would not work. She wrote a letter stating, “As I am a Pessimist, I don’t believe we will have peace.”  There was a special poignancy in these words since Arthur Ruppin had been a supporter of a bi-national state.  He gave up on the concept during the Arab Riots that started in 1929 and became a supporter of an independent Jewish state.

1979(20^th of Cheshvan, 5740): Parashat Vayera

1979(20^th of Cheshvan, 5740): Seventy-one-year-old Vienna born Austrian writer Friedrich Toberg , known by his pen-name Friedrich Kantor who was forced to flee to the United States because of his Jewish origins and who was identified by the New York Pen-Club as one of the “Ten outstanding German Anti-Nazi-Writers” passed away today.

1978(10^th of Cheshvan, 5739): Eighty-seven year old American born jurist Juris Arthur Lehman Goodhart who became a leading British professor of law passed away today in London.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps/WPS2010-01_Goodhart.pdf

1980: Funeral services are scheduled to take place this morning for Frederick Margareten, the former president and Honorary Trustee of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun who was instrumental in the founding of the Ramaz School and who was predeceased by his wife Mary with whom he had three children  -- Muriel, Jerome and Renee.

1981(13^th of Cheshvan, 5242): Seventy-five year old Manfred Erich Swarsensky, the German born rabbi who survived being imprisoned Sachsenhausen concentration camp and escaped to America in 1940 where he served for 36 years as the spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Madison Wisconsin.

1983: “Amen Corner” a musical “with a book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell” who also wrote the lyrics opened on Broadway today at the Nederlander Theatre.

1984(15^th of Cheshvan, 5745): Parsahat Vayera

1984(15^th of Cheshvan, 5745): Seventy-eight year old British mathematician Louis Rosenhead who “noted for his work on Fluid mechanics, and who was Head of Department at Liverpool University from 1933 to 1973 passed away today.

1989: A revival of Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Tenth Man” opened at the Lincoln Center Theatre.

1990: Final broadcast of Pee-wee’s Playhouse starring Paul Reubens.

1991: Today marked the final performance of “City of Angels,” “a musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart” at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

1991: Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game. What is less remembered about the Nazi Olympics is the saga of two American Jewish sprinters, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. In 1936, Marty Glickman was an 18-year-old track and football star at Syracuse University.  Glickman and Sam Stoller, a star athlete at the University of Michigan made the 1936 U. S. Olympic squad as members of the 400-yard relay team. Glickman and Stoller traveled to Germany and prepared diligently for the relay race. The day before the race, however, with little explanation, the U.S. track team coaches replaced Glickman and Stoller with two other runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, both African-Americans. By Glickman’s own account, the last-minute switch was a straightforward case of anti-Semitism. Avery Brundage, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee, was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler’s regime and denied that the Nazis followed anti-Semitic policies. Brundage and assistant U. S. Olympic track coach Dean Cromwell were members of America First, an isolationist political movement that attracted American Nazi sympathizers. Additionally, Cromwell coached two of the other Olympic sprinters, Foy Draper and Frank Wyckoff, at the University of Southern California and openly favored those two over Glickman and Stoller. Glickman’s suspicions about the fairness of the relay team selection process began at the American Olympic team trials in New York, when he was told he placed fifth of the seven runners competing in the sprint finals. Finish-line photography was not yet in use at that time, but films of the race seem to indicate that Glickman actually finished third behind Owens and Metcalfe. The judges, apparently under pressure from Cromwell, placed Glickman fifth behind Draper and Wyckoff. As a result, Glickman was not one of the three sprinters entered in the 100-yard dash, a premiere Olympic event. Instead, Glickman and Stoller traveled to Berlin as part of the 400-yard relay team, each scheduled to run a 100-yard leg of the race. As an 18 year old, Glickman was grateful to be going to the Olympics; even if he felt that he’d been robbed of his chance at a medal in the 100 yard dash. There was an effort made by some American Jewish organizations to convince the U. S. Olympic committee to boycott the Nazi Olympics, but Brundage prevailed and the team went. Glickman, like most American Jews, thought that the anti-Semitism he might encounter in Berlin would be no worse than what he faced growing up in Brooklyn. Like many Americans, Glickman had no inkling of the horrific fate awaiting German Jewry in the years after 1936. Once in Germany, Glickman, Stoller, Draper and Wyckoff spent two weeks practicing as the 400-yard relay team. They were confident of victory. Then, on the day of the qualifying trials, head track coach Lawson Robertson told Glickman and Stoller that Owens and Metcalfe would be replacing them. To his credit, Owens protested to Robertson that Glickman and Stoller deserved to run. Glickman pointed out to Robertson that any combination of the seven teammates could win the race by 15 yards. Robertson replied that he would enter his four best athletes in the relay and that, in his judgment, Owens and Metcalfe were better than Stoller and Glickman. Robertson said his goal was winning, nothing more. Glickman turned to assistant coach Cromwell and said, "Coach, you know that Sam and I are the only two Jews on the track team. If we don’t run there’s bound to be a lot of criticism back home." Cromwell retorted, "We’ll take our chances." The American team won in record time as Glickman watched from the stands. Glickman (who remained a close friend of Owens until the latter’s death) and Stoller were devastated by the decision. Stoller, age 21, announced his retirement from track competition but later recanted. Later that year, he won an NCAA sprint championship. Glickman returned to college and became a football All-American. After a brief professional career in football and basketball, Glickman went on to become a distinguished sportscaster, best known as the voice of the New York Knicks and football Giants. He joined the radio station WHN and by 1943 was its sports director. A long, distinguished broadcasting career followed. When the New York Knickerbockers were formed in 1946, Glickman was their radio announcer. Later, he was the National Basketball Association's first announcer for TV. He was the voice of the football Giants, for 23 years, of the Knicks for 21, Yonkers Raceway for 12, the New York Jets for 11. Glickman did pre- and postgame shows for the Dodgers and Yankees for 22 years; he broadcast track meets, wrestling matches, roller derbies and rodeos, even a marbles tournament. NBC employed him as a critic and teacher of its sports announcers. In 1988 WCBS hired him for his second tour as the Jets' play-by-play announcer on radio. It was from that position that Glickman quietly said goodbye to his last audience in December 1992, at age 74. Glickman underwent heart bypass surgery Dec. 14. He died of complications from the operation at the age of 83.

1992(14^th of Cheshvan, 5753): Six days before his 76^th birthday, Albert Weiner, the son of “Soloman Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic” and the husband of “Sylvia Cooper” passed away today in Baltimore, MD.

1992: John Zorn completed his recording “Kristallnacht,” an album, whose compositions “were based around the events before, during and following the “Night of the Broken Glass.”

1994(7^th of Kislev, 5755): Ninety-two year old Columbia trained attorney Louis Nizer, the London born son of Bella and Joseph Nizer and the husband of Mildred Nizer passed away today.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/11/obituaries/louis-nizer-lawyer-to-the-famous-dies-at-92.html

https://famous-trials.com/rosenberg/2008-nizer

1994: In Los Angeles, “actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch” gave birth to actress Zoey Deuch who “was raised in her father's Jewish religion, and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.”

1997: The Dark Side of Camelot by Jewish investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch is published.

1997: Edward S. Walker, Jr. was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

1997: Daniel Charles Kurtzer, a graduate of Yeshiva University, was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Egypt by President Clinton.

1998(21^st of Cheshvan, 5759): Seventy-nine year old Brooklyn College graduate Doris Rabinor Feld, the Bronx born daughter of Aaron and Esther Rabinowitz and wife of Joseph Feld passed away today.

1998(21^st of Cheshvan, 5759): Milton C. Handler the Bronx born, Columbia Law School trained attorney and law school professor who clerked for Justice Harland Fiske Stone and served in several capacities with the federal government during the New Deal when he was one of FDR’s advisor’s on anti-trust matters while marrying Miriam Adler after the death of his first wife Marion Winter Kahn, the mother of their daughter attorney Carole E. Handler.

1999(1st of Kislev, 5760): Rosh Chodesh Kislev

1999: “Light it Up featuring Amy Landecker in the role of a “Reporter” was released in the United States today.

1999(1st of Kislev, 5760): Actress Mary Kay Bergman passed away.  Bergman continued in the tradition of Mel Blanc as the voice for numerous animations ranging from South Park to Mrs. Butterworth, the symbol of pancake syrup.

2000(12^th of Cheshvan, 5761):Sgt. Shahar Vekret, 20, of Lod was fatally shot by a Palestinian sniper near Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem.

2001: Frank “Auerbach was the subject of a television film entitled ‘Frank Auerbach: To the Studio’ directed by Hannah Rothschild and produced by Jake Auerbach (Jake Auerbach Films Ltd)” which was first broadcast on the arts programmer “Omnibus on 10” today.

2002(5^th of Kislev, 5763): Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2002: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interest including the following two works released in new paperback editions: Collected Stories by Saul Bellow; All but one of these 13 stories appeared in earlier collections, but together they provide new and old fans with an immersion into Bellow's vibrant world, a place where events happen, (typically brainy) characters think about them and then the fun begins. The Same Sea by Amos Oz; Set in modern-day Tibet and Tel Aviv, this novel revolves around the sexual mixing and matching of several sets of characters, including a middle-aged widower and his son, who wanders off to the Himalayas in search of himself. (The characters telephone the author from time to time, criticizing him for the way he portrays them in the novel.)

2003(15th of Cheshvan, 5764): Irv Kupcinet, the famed Chicago Sun-Times columnist passed away at the age of 91. (As reported by Richard Severo)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/us/irv-kupcinet-91-dies-chronicled-chicago-for-60-years.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

2004: Today, the U.S. Federal Reserve, chaired by Alan Greenspan  raised the overnight federal-funds interest rate a quarter point.

2005: Cantor Rebecca Garfein performed a concert at Carnegie Hall where she presented the debut of “Golden Chants in America…Commemorating 350 Years of Jewish Music, 1654-2004.

2005:  Haaretz reported on the work of Aaron Lansky, founder and director of the National Yiddish Book Center in Massachusetts.  Lansky started the center 27 years ago when he singled handedly set out to save the remaining Yiddish books in the world from extinction. The center which is located at Hampshire College is the home of a large book center, which now houses 1.5 million books in Yiddish and has 32,000 members. The center is active all over the world, inviting young people to study Yiddish language, literature and culture. The center's story is documented in Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books.

2006: In Halbe, Germany suspected neo-Nazis attacked a memorial to a synagogue burned down on Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish pogrom of 1938. The German government vows to take action to bring the perpetrators to justice. What a difference six decades can make.

2006: After the original Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade was cancelled but the Jerusalem Open House announced that it would hold a parade today after reaching an agreement with the police and with the municipality

2007: “One Family”, an exhibit of the works of Israeli photographer Vardi Kahana opens at New York’s Andrea Meislin Gallery.

2007: The Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra under Doron Salomon presents its Balkan music program at Kibbutz Givat Brenner.

2007: Zeev Tene releases his new album “Heder” at a concert in Tel Aviv.

2007(29th of Cheshvan, 5768): Novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning writer and pseudo-social rebel, Norman Mailer passed away at the age of 84.  The Brooklyn Jew with the engineering science degree from Harvard used his experiences as a soldier in the Philippines to launch his literary career with The Naked and the Dead.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/10/books.booksnews

2007: Freshman Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a third generation Arizona Jew, married astronaut Mark Kelly.

2008: In New York City, presentation of two works by Israeli choreographer Netta Yerushalmy that are parts of two larger works – “Dispostif” and an unnamed project scheduled to premiere in 2009.

2008: Time magazine publishes a list of “The 50 Best Inventions of the Year” that lists at the thirty first spot “Einstein's Fridge.” That Albert Einstein guy had some pretty good ideas — relativity, the photoelectric effect, the "up" hairdo — but his contributions to the field of refrigerator theory have been sadly neglected. No longer; scientists at Oxford University have resurrected an eco-friendly refrigerator design that Einstein and a collaborator patented in 1930. Instead of cooling the interior of the refrigerator with freon — a serious contributor to global warming — Einstein's design uses ammonia, butane and water. It also requires very little energy. Though Einstein's original refrigerator wasn't all that efficient, the Oxford researchers have tweaked his version and believe it could eventually compete in the marketplace. Then maybe we'll remember Einstein the way he wanted — as a guy who liked to keep things cool.

2009: Patrick K. O'Donnell discusses and signs They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany at Borders in Baileys Crossroads, Va.

2009: Jonathan Tropper as he discusses his latest novel, This Is Where I Leave You, at the Fourth Annual JCCNVJ Jewish Book Festival.

2009: The hardcover edition of “A Friend of the Family” by Lauren Grodstein was published today.

2009: Charles London, author of Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community, shares his personal journey grappling with his heritage and coming to terms with his connection to Israel at a session of the 40th Annual Book Festival sponsored by the JCCGW.

2010: Robert L. Bernstein delivered The Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Lecture University of Nebraska at Omaha on Human Rights entitled “Human Rights in the Middle East.

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1317489&ct=8884881

2010: Paramount Pictures releases “Morning Glory,” a marvelous, underappreciated comedy co-produced by J.J. Abram and co-starring Jeff Goldlbum

2010: Elaine Hall author of Now I See The Moon: A Mother, A Son, A Miracle and Abraham H. Foxman, author of Jews & Money: The Story of a Stereotype are scheduled to appear at The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, which is :Proud to be the Largest Jewish Book Festival in the U.S.!”

2010: It was reported that The U.S. Attorney's Office in New York has charges against 17 people for participating in a $42.5 million fraud at the Claims Conference.

2010: The storied career of an indomitable ultra-Orthodox political fixer appears to have entered its final phase with the conviction of Rabbi Milton Balkany, known to the press as the “Brooklyn Bundler.”Balkany was found guilty today of attempting to extort $4 million from Steven A. Cohen, a hedge fund manager. The rabbi is now home on $1 million bail, allowed only to see his doctor and to attend synagogue once a week as he awaits sentencing.  Balkany, whose only official job is as dean of a Boro Park girls yeshiva, has been known for decades as a major donor to conservative politicians, capable of bringing home significant government cash to causes dear to the Orthodox community. He has also escaped conviction in a number of previous financial scandals.

2011(13^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Durham, N.C. native and University of North Carolina graduate Robert Alan Koch (MFA) who retrieved stolen art during and after WW II as one of the Monuments Men passed away today.

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/koch-lt-robert-a

2011: Sonia Taitz is scheduled to discuss her novel “In the King’s Arms” at the JCC of Northern Virigina’s Jewish Book Festival.

2011: In Israel “the supreme court delivered its opinion today unanimously upholding Moseh Katsav's conviction and sentence.”

2011: Bob Gruen and Joel Dovev are schedule to participate in the “Rock & Roll Retro Nite” at the 33^rd Annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.

2011: “Jewish Political Behavior in Europe, Israel and the United States,” a two-day symposium  that will explore aspects of Jews' political experience in Eastern Europe, the United States, Israel, and in the international arena is scheduled to open at the University of Michigan.

2011: Professor Brian Horowitz, of Tulane University, is scheduled to take part in “Jews in Russian and East European Politics in Historical Perspective,” a panel discussion that is part of a symposium sponsored by the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.

2011: Dennis B. Ross, a seasoned diplomat who has been one of President Obama’s most influential advisers on Iran, the Middle East peace process and the political upheaval in the Arab world, will leave the White House in December, a senior administration official said today.

2011: Jewish comedian Billy Crystal has agreed to take over the role of Oscar host.

2011: A delegation of Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Druze religious leaders in Israel met today with Pope Benedict XVI in a high-profile display of their efforts to promote interfaith peace initiatives in the region. Israeli chief rabbi Yonah Metzger praised the "historic" nature of the audience with the German-born pope and noted that it fell on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the Nazi's 1938 anti-Jewish pogrom which left 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted. 

2011(13^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Ninety-one year Robert Alan Koch, the Durham, NC born son of “Frederick Henry and Loretta Jean (Hannigan) Koch who was a “museum curator, scholar of Northern Renaissance of Art” and one of the Monuments Men passed away today.

https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/koch-lt-robert-a

2011(13^th of Cheshvan, 5772): Ninety-three year old Irving H. Franklin, co-founder of Franklin Sports and innovator of the baseball batting glove, passed away.(As reported by Douglas Martin)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/sports/baseball/irving-franklin-maker-of-batting-gloves-dies-at-93.html

2012: Temple Judah’s Tessa Cohen is scheduled to appear in tonight’s final performance Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoir” at Linn-Mar High School

2012: Temple Judah’s Bentlee Birchansky and Lincoln Ginsberg are scheduled to appear in tonight’s final performance of “Guys & Dolls.”

2012: In Greensboro, NC, the URJ Southern Region Shabbaton hosted by Temple Emanuel is scheduled to come to an end.

2012: “Off White Lies” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2012: The 4^th International Holiday Bazar is scheduled to open today at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.

2012: Maggie Anton, author of the book-club favorite Rashi’s Daughter, Secret Scholar, is scheduled to introduce her new historical novel, Rav Hisda’s Daughter: A Novel of Love, the Talmud and Sorcery at Beth Shalom of Whittier, in Whittier, CA.

2012: Southern Israel came under a barrage of rocket fire from Gaza tonight, in a cross-border escalation following an earlier terrorist attack that injured four soldiers. Israel carried out counter-strikes, killing five Palestinians and wounding 30.

2012: Intermittent rainfall accompanied by strong winds and unseasonably cold weather were experienced in the North and Center this morning after yesteday’s showers caused flooding and damage in Haifa and Eilat. Rain was expected to weaken this afternoon; however additional showers were likely to fall at the beginning of next week, according to the Israel Meteorological Service.

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=291210

2012: David “Amram was the recipient of the second annual Pete and Toshi Seeger Power of Song Award at Symphony Space in New York City, in a gala evening presented by Peter Seeger's Clearwater Foundation.”

2013: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, With A Mighty Hand: The Story in the Torah adapted by Amy Ehrlich, The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales by Shoshanah Boyd Gelfland and the recently released paperback edition of The New Religious Intolerance by Martha C. Nussbaum

2013: Sholem is scheduled to present “Yiddish on the Silver Screen – Tevya “ @Westdie Neighborhood School

2013: Members of Temple Judah as well as friends and family from the community are scheduled to take a field trip to the Holocuast Museum in Skokie, Illinois.

2013: “The Jewish Cardinal,” a dramatization of the life of Cardinal Jean Marie Lustiger is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2013: The Fourth Annual Israeli-Russian Film Festival is scheduled to take place at the Tribeca Film Center.

2013: Lauren Strauss presented “Kosher Southern Belles and Yankee Bubbies Confront America’s Greatest Crisis: Jewish Women and the Civil War” at the Jewish Museum of Baltimore.

2013: The General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America is scheduled to open in Jerusalem.

2013: Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem to express their displeasure with Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks that gave the green light to terrorists to start a 3^rd Intifada because of “Israeli intransigence.”  (As reported by Daniel K. Eisenbud)

2013: Today “the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center commemorated the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass,” when Nazis swept through Jewish towns and neighborhoods throughout Germany burning homes and synagogues, destroying shops, and attacking Jews. (As reported by David Lev)

2013: “Imprinting on Clay” is scheduled to come to an end at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.

http://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/e/282/

2014: As part of its World War I and the Jews initiate, the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Jews and the Great War: A Reflection at the Centennial.”

2014: In Melbourne, “Yalom’s Cure” and “The Israeli Code” are scheduled to be shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.

2014: “Hora 79” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2014: Israeli television is scheduled to air a segment that “focuses on the search for shadowy commander Muhammad Deif.” (As reported by Avi Issacharoff)

2014(17^th of Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty year old Almog Shiloni was stabbed today by a terrorist as he walked to a train station in Tel Aviv.

2014(17^th of Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-three year old  Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz, the surfing physician passed away today

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/sports/dorian-paskowitz-doctor-and-surfer-who-lived-an-endless-summer-dies-at-93.html?_r=1

2014(17^th of Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty-six year old Dalia Lemkus was murdered by a terrorist as she waited at a bus stop.

2014: “An Israeli legal group filed suit against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the International Criminal Court today, arguing that the Fatah head was responsible for rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli cities during the summer conflict which were claimed by members of his faction.”

2014: Sydney A. Katz completed his service as Mayor of Gaithersburg, MD.

2014: A federal jury found 67 year old Rasmieh Yousef Odeah charged with immigration fraud guilty for failing to disclose her conviction and imprisonment for taking part in the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket that took the lives of two people.

2015: “In partnership with The Foundation for Jewish Studies and the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host special bus trip to study the Civil War in Anacostia at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum and Frederick Douglass House.

2015: “The Last Marranos” which “takes a fascinating look at the village of Belmonte, Portugal” is scheduled to be shown in St. Augustine, Florida, on the Flagler College Campus.

2015: The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host a tour of the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute “a cutting-edge facility for family history research.”

2015: CUNY New York City College of Technology is scheduled to host “Kristallnacht, 77 Years After: Never Again Anti-Semitism, Indifference and Racism!  in Brooklyn.”

2015: In Washington, DC, the annual General Assembly of the Federations of North America came to an end.

2016: “Some 500 Jewish mothers from around the world bonded in Jerusalem” today “as they participated in “The Great Big Challah Bake” and baked hundreds of the twisted egg bread loaves “for Israeli soldiers.”

2016: “The annual concert of works by Israeli composer Emanuel Vahl took placed at the Studio of ‘Hassadna’ Convservatory in Jerusalem.

2016; The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and the Genocide Studies Project at PSU are scheduled to host From humanitarian relief to Holocaust rescue: Tracy Strong Jr. and the fate of Jewish refugees in southern France.

2016 The WRJ SW District Biennial is scheduled to open today in Memphis, TN.

2016: “The Babylon Line” by Richard Greenberg, “premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater” today.

2016: The Habima National Theater is scheduled to stage “A Simple Story,” based on a story by S. Y. Agnon, in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba for the first time after sparking criticism of the theater troupe amid an ongoing dispute over a government attempt to have cultural acts toe a more nationalistic line.

2016: “Denial” is scheduled to be shown in Auckland as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.

2016: In Toronto, Michael Gray is scheduled lead a discussion about “Exploring the Future of Holocaust Education in a Contemporary Setting.

2016: Today, President Obama met in the Oval Office with Donald Trump whose election led to a drive by “Arizona-based Modern Orthodox Rabbi Shmuly Yankolowitz,” “the dead of the Valley Beit Midrash and co-founder of the Orthodox social justice movement Uri L’Tzedek” to replace the recitation of “Hanoten Teshua” with a new “Prayer for our Nation.”

2016: “Moon in the 12^th House and “Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story” are scheduled to be shown at the 20^th UK International Jewish Film Festival.

2016: The multi-talented Leonard Cohen, a member of congregation Shaar Hashomayim was laid to rest “in a simple pine casket” in Montreal “at a cemetery on Mount Royal.”

2016: “The Kind Words’ and “Voice of Peace” are scheduled to be shown at Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema.

2017: JNF’s National Conference which it describes as “the premiere annual event in Jewish philanthropy” is scheduled to open at The Diplomat Resort and Spa in Hollywood, FL.

2018: Omer Meir Wellber, a sabra from Be’er Sheva is scheduled to conduct a “performance of Bizet’s Carmen” as part of his Metropolitan Opera debut.”

2018: Oxford Jsoc 5th Week MT Shabbat is scheduled to continue today with Morning and Afternoon services, lunch and Seudah Shlishit.

2018: “Bye Bye Germany” and “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel” are scheduled to be shown at the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.

2018: In Springville, IA, the Springville Public Library is scheduled to host a book signing for Barbara Feller, the Hebrew teacher par excellence, author of the newly released Road to Waubeek: Discovering Jay G. Sigmund.

2018: Avi Avital is scheduled to bring his “mandolin magic” to the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

2018(2^nd of Kislev, 5779): Parashat Toldot;

2019: “The Tobacconist” and “God of the Piano” are scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film Festival.

2019: “Sustainable Nation” and “Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz” are scheduled to be shown at the Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.

2019: In San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El is scheduled to host “S.F. writer and actor Roger Grunwald performing his one-man play about the Holocaust and related socio-historical issues” as part of a commemoration of Kristallnacht.

2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California is scheduled to host “an induction gala” honoring Dave Feldman, Pat Gallagher, Joc Pederson, Henry Schulman and Jerry Seltzer.

2019: “The City of Joel” and “Tel Aviv on Fire” are scheduled to be shown today at the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.

 2019: In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a screening of “the film ‘Henri Dauman: Looking Up’” which “celebrates the work and inspiring story of the artist behind some of the world’s most iconic images” including photos of “Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda and Elvis Presley.”

2019: The Jewish War Veterans of the USA and the National Museum of American Jewish Military History are scheduled to host a “Veterans Weekend Walking Tour of Jewish Sites at Arlington National Cemetery.”

2019: The “Third Annual Conference on Jews and Conservatism” is scheduled to take place today in New York City.

2020: The S.F. Jewish Community Library is schedule to co-present “The Rise of Religious Cinema In Israel” during which SFSU Israel studies professor Eran Kaplan will talk about the shift from secular cinema/TV in Israel to a growing interest in religious themes.

2020: The Mississippi Center for Justice is scheduled to host a screening of “Rosenwald.”

2020: The Addison-Penzak JCC is schedule to host “Olympics, Doping, Anti-Semitism and Betrayal” an “event for Russian speakers during which former Russian national team wrestler Ilya Khinskiy will talk about different aspects of sports

2020: The 2020 ADL Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate is scheduled to host its first virtual session.

2020: Dr. Lisa Leff, the Director of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is schedule to provide a recap of the material that should have been covered in the postponed screen sessions of “The French Jewish Experience” before the series resumes on November 17.

2020: “Hotels in the southern resort town of Eilat and the Dead Sea” will not be opening today following yesterday’s decision by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein’s to strike the bill that would have allowed them to open.

2021: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is scheduled to present an online “Conversation with Congressman Jake Auchincloss.”

2021: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to present a virtual talk on “Fortress in Brooklyn” during which “UC Santa Cruz Jewish studies professor Nathaniel Deutsch explores the history of Williamsburg, its relationship to race, real estate and politics, and how its Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing forms of Americanization and racialization.”

2021: The Boston Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to officially open with a screening of “Robert Brustein: A Celebration” which “is the official documentary film that chronicles the ongoing indelible impact that Robert Brustein has had on the world of theater, literature, dramatic criticism and the arts, plus the film shares the devotion Brustein has to his family.”

2021: Congregation Sherith Israel is scheduled to present online “Can We Talk About Israel?” during which “Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel Fund and former director of S.F.-based Federation, talks about his new book on the history and basic issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” in a conversation with Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf and Gordon Gladstone.”

2022: UK Jewish Film is scheduled to celebrate opening night with a screening of “Karoke,” an Israeli film directed by Moshe Rosenthal.

2021: The Breman Museum and the Simon Wiesenthal Center are scheduled to present a special interview featuring Silvia Foti author of My Nazi Grandfather: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal

2022: Holocaust Education in Florida which is held annually in the second November which coincides with the anniversary of Kristallnacht is scheduled to continue today.

2022: N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver said  that he didn’t believe Nets guard Kyrie Irving, who has been facing backlash for promoting an antisemitic film on Twitter last month. was antisemitic after meeting with him in person this week at the league’s headquarters in Manhattan.

2022: The Weitzman is scheduled to host “Reservation Dogs” starring Sarah Podemski and Rabbi Shira Stutman.

2022: The Neighborhood and the Jewish Book Council are scheduled to host “a conversation and preview of Emily Bowen Cohen’s forthcoming graphic novel, Two Tribes.

2022: In London, The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to present via zoom a lecture by Dr. Kate Vigurs on “Mission France: The true history of the women of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).:

2022: The ADL is scheduled to host “Never Is Now,” “the world’s largest annual summit on anti-Semitism and hate.

2022: YIVO is scheduled to present a discussion of Ida Maze’s autobiographical novel Dineh with Yermihayu Aron Taub.

2023: In New Orleans, The Ben Katz Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) is scheduled to host a  memorial to honor Jewish veterans at Hebrew Rest Cemetery.

2023: Members of The Ben Katz Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) are scheduled to assemble at Congregation Gates of Prayer for worship services there with an  oneg following services  that will feature the Missing in Action / Killed in Action (MIA/KIA) table event with post commander Lt Col. Carol Berman (USAR).

2023: In Saratoga, CA, Congregation Beth David is scheduled to host a Sigd Celebration which is “the holiday observed by Ethiopian Jews and other Jewish Africans to mark the day when God was first revealed to Moses.”

2023: As November 10, begins in Israel,  in a move unprecedented in modern warfare, “Israel has agreed to put in place daily four-hour pauses in its assault on Hamas in select areas of northern Gaza to allow civilians to leave,” even as the IDF moves forward in Gaza, while Israel faces more attacks from rockets and missiles fired by Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen and the Hamas hostages begin day 35 in captivity. (As reported by Emanuel Fabian)

(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)