This Day, November 12, In Jewish History by Mitchell A Levin and Deb Levin Z"L
November
12
1290: Al-Ashraf Khalil began his
reign as Sultan of Egypt and Syria during which he drove the Crusaders from
their last stronghold from Acre marking an end to the multi-century Christian
assault on the Holy Land which had brought so much d…
November 12
1290: Al-Ashraf Khalil began his
reign as Sultan of Egypt and Syria during which he drove the Crusaders from
their last stronghold from Acre marking an end to the multi-century Christian
assault on the Holy Land which had brought so much death and destruction to
Jews living in Europe and Asia Minor.
1414(Cheshvan, 5175): The Disputation of Tortosa, which had begun in
February of 1413 came to an end after nine months. At the final session of the disputation the
the Jews were forced to listen to the Treatise of Geronimo De Santa, a convert
to Christianity, in which he contended that the Talmud recognized Jesus as the
Messiah. Joseph ibn Vidal Labi, a prominent Spanish-Jewish scholar and orator,
son of the philosopher Solomon ibn from Saragossa, was one of the 25 rabbis who
by order of Pope Benedict XIII assisted at the disputation where he
distinguished himself by his oratorical ability. Of course, no amount of Jewish
scholarship or oratorical skill would change the outcome of these disputations
since the Church was always going to win. Jews tried to avoid participating,
and, when forced to, “pulled their punches” lest they anger Catholics or the
mob which result in riot or death.
1532: Giles of Viterbo, “a 16th-century Italian Augustinian friar, bishop of
Viterbo and cardinal” who “is coupled with the grammarian Elias Levita, who
honed his knowledge of Hebrew and Aramaic passed away today When the turmoil of
war drove Levita from Padua to Rome, he was welcomed at the palace of the
bishop, where, with his family, he lived and was supported for more than ten
years. It was there that Levita's career as the foremost tutor of Christian
notables in Hebrew lore commenced. The first edition of Levita's Baḥur (Rome,
1518) is dedicated to Aegidius. Aegidius introduced Levita to classical
scholarship and the Greek language, thus enabling him to utilize Greek in his
Hebrew lexicographic labors — a debt acknowledged by Levita, who, in 1521, dedicated
his Concordance to the cardinal.
1549: Thomas Lorkin, the father-in-law of Edward Lively, the Regius
Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge and considered “the greatest of Hebraist,
“matriculated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge today.
1558(21st of Cheshvan,
5319): Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph
passed away. Born in 1500, Shalom Shakna
was the Rabbi of Lublin, Poland and later of the entire province. Shakna and two of his contemporaries, Rabbi
Moses Isserles and Rabbi Solomon Luria laid the groundwork for the great
Yeshivot of Poland. Prior to this
period, Polish Jews were dependent upon the academies in Austria and
Germany. Considering the importance of
study to Jewish survival, the development of Polish centers of learning was
critical to the spiritual and communal foundation of the growing Jewish
community in Poland and Lithuania.
Shakna was also instrumental in founding the inter-communal government
that regulated the life of Jewish Poland. The institutions he helped
found were part of the Jewish way of life until the Holocaust when it was all
swept away.
1631: Simon Wolf Auerbach, the native of Posen who served as a rabbi in
several including Posen and Vienna passed away today in Prague where he had
been serving as Chief Rabbi.
1701: The will of Sarah Aboab Delawal, a widow living in Covent Garden was
probated today.
1720: Birthdate of Simon von Gelden, the native of Vienna who was a
traveler, author and the great uncle of Heinrich Heine who said of his
ancestor, “His charlantry, which we do not wish to deny, was not of a common
kind.”
1735: The will of Emanuel Abenatar aka Manuel Vander Croon was probated
today.
1772: In Buchau, Judith Essinger and Hirsch Naphtali Wallersteiner gave
birth to Jacob H. Wallersteiner, the husband of Roeschen Obermayer, and the
father of Samuel and Henriette Wallersteiner.
1777: In Fulda, Rabbi Joseph Joe who “later took the name of Wiesbaden” and
his wife gave birth to Ashe ben Joseph who Joseph Johlson became a leader of
the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment Movement.
1787: Joseph II (Austria-Hungary) forced
the Jews to adopt family names as part of his "Aufklaring" policy.
“Aufklaring was an eighteenth-century philosophical movement, characterized by
free thought, emancipation from dogma, and materialistic tendencies. In the Germanic Catholic world, it meant an
overhaul of the education system that included processes previously associated
with the Protestants. It also meant a comparatively more enlightened social
view than had prevailed and this included trying to make the Jews appear to be
more included (even if reality said otherwise).
1779: Abraham Salomon (Shabtay Cohen Kloot) the Amsterdam born Son of Samuel
/ Shabtay Abraham Cohen Kloot and Judith Grietje / Gitche Hartog / Hirts and
his wife Marretje / Mata Mozes Tokie gave birth to Mozes Abraham Verveer.
1789(23rd of Cheshvan, 5550): Seventy-six year old Moses
Vita-Chaim Montefiore Medina, the Italian born son of Saran and Judah Moses
Raphael Montefiore and the husband of Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore passed
away today in London.
1791: Camden, SC native Hannah Henricks and Columbia, SC native Jacob de
Leon gave birth to Mordecai Hendricks de Leon, the husband of Rebecca Lopez and
the father of David, Edwin, Agnes, Maria, Adeline and Thomas de Leon.
1792: The will of Lewis Bare was probated today.
1794: Sander Russelsheim married Rachel Moses at the Great Synagogue today
1795: Birthdate of Alsace-Lorraine native Joseph Marks, the husband of
Hannah Mendel with whom he had seven children
1796: In Offenbach-on Main, Wolf Breidebenbach and his wife gave birth to
University of Heidelberg trained jurist Mortiz Wilhelm August Briedenbach, who
held a number of positions in the government of Hesse and served “as the
principal author of its penal code.”
1797(23rd of Cheshvan): Judah ben Mordecai Halevi Hurwitz, physician and
author of Sefer Amudei Bet Yehudah, passed away
1799: In Aufhausen, Germany “Frummet Froelich” and Joseph Liebmann gave
birth to Samuel Baer Liebmann and husband of Sara Selz with whom he had ten
children.
1812: Birthdate of British portrait painter Julia Goodman née Salaman
1813: Following the Battle of Crysler’s Farm, the American forces including
Mordecai Myers who had commanded the 13th Pennsylvania Infantry
began the retreat that would eventually take them back to Plattsburg.
1817: In Charleston, SC, Dr. Abraham Sheftall a resident of Savannah, GA and
the son of the late Levi Sheftall married Miss Sarah De La Motta this evening.
1818: Birthdate of Jakob Eduard Polak, the native of Bohemia who was one of
the first westerners to teach medicine in Iran and who was the “personal
physician of Naser-aldin Shah,” the ruler of Persia.
1818: “Remarks,” on the subject of Jewish rights “including a separate
memorandum by Christian von Dohm, the German advocate for Jewish emancipation”
was submitted to the conference in Vienna today.
1819: Birthdate of German lexicographer Daniel Sanders, the native of
Strelitz who published a translation of the Song of Songs in 1866.
1825: In London, Esther and John Nathan gave birth to Rachel Nathan.
1831: In Germany, Seligmann Pinchas Luchs, the son of Moses and Marianne
Marie Luchs and Judith Rosenthal the daughter of Anselm Anschel (Ascher)
Rosenthal and Clara Klara Gietel (Gidel) Rosenthal were married today.
1831: Birthdate of Elie-Aristide Astruc, the native of Bordeaux who served
as Chief Rabbi of Belgium, helped care for the wounded during the
Franco-Prussian and returned to his native country in 1879 where he pursued a
career as an author.
1833: The Kentish Gazette reported that “Mr. Joseph Abrahams of Canterbury”
has married Fanny Nathan the daughter of a fruit merchant in Dover, UK.
1834: In “Haigerloch, Germany, Samuel
Newburger” and his wife gave birth to Morris Newburger, the “vice president and
chairman of the School Committee of the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in
Philadelphia” and “president of the Jewish Publication Society from 1888 to
1902.”
1834(10th of Cheshvan, 5595): Chazan Moses Belasco passed away
today which meant that Moses Cohen D’Azevedo Samuel Elias Daniels and Edward
Aaron Moses “acted alternatively” and without pay as the Chazanim until they
left Barbados for Philadelphia.
1836: Birthdate of Paris native and French composer Samuel David who studied
“musical composition with Jacques Fromental Halevy.”
1837: In Hungary Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam and his first wife Toyba Halberstam
gave birth to Naftali Halberstam, the husband of Frume Halberstam and Leah
Halberstam.
1841: The headline of today’s Voice of Jacob read: “The Attempt to Establish
a Synagogue On Principles Opposed To Our Laws and Customs” highlighted the
conflict between those attempt to “form a United Congregation” that reflected
the practices of the Reform movement
1841: The first edition of The Jewish
Chronicle appeared in London, UK
1841: In a postscript to a note thanking Nathan Marcus Adler for his
contribution to a fund to aid the Jews of Smyrna, Sir Moses Montefiore wrote I
feel most anxious to obtain a copy of your sermons. It would be presumptuous in
me to express how greatly they would prove serviceable to our brethren in
England.” At that Adler was serving the Jewish community of Hanover and nobody
could have known that someday he would become the Chief Rabbi in the UK.
1844(1st of Kislev, 5605): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1844(1st of Kislev, 5605): Thirty-three-year-old English civil
engineer, the London born son of Abraham Samuda and Joy d’Aguilar who joined
his brother Joseph d’Aguilar Samuda to form the shipbuilding firm of Samuda
Brothers.
1846: In Richmond, VA, Hannah Levy, the Philadelphia born daughter of Sarah
and Daniel da Silva Solis and her husband Isaac Abraham Levy gave birth to
Augustus Abraham Levy
1849: The first report of the Finance Committee of the Free Sons of Israel
was made at the 29th meeting of the Grand Lodge.
1849: In Wheeling, VA, founding of “Congregation Leshem Shomayim” (for the
sake of Heaven), the first Jewish congregation in West Virginia, which became
known as the Eoff Street Temple whose members included Samuel Kraft, Joseph
Emsheimer, Henry Baer, Irma Kraft, Millie Stein and Lee Baer.
1852: Birthdate of Busseto native Giuseppe Finzi, the “Italian scholar and
poet” who should not be confused with the 19th century Italian
politician or the composer who shared the same name.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6127-finzi-giuseppe
1854: Rabbi Zeev Wolf and Toba Bluma (née Barg) gave birth to Yehuda Dovid Eizensztejn who gained fame as
Julius (Judah David or JD) Eisenstein, the Polish-Jewish-American writer who
established America's first society for the Hebrew language, called Shocharei
Sfat Ever and was also the first to translate into Hebrew and Yiddish the Constitution
of the United States
1855: Birthdate of Hildesheim, Germany native Albert Bonnheim and husband of
Fannie Bonnheim who in 1872 came to the United States, settled in Sacramento,
CA, founded Sacramento Valley Bank and Trust Company, funded scholarships for
at several schools including the University of California and Stanford and was
an active member of Temple B’nai Israel.
1856: The will of John Moses, the husband of Caroline Moses, a wine merchant
in Bristol was probated today naming William Wolfe Alexander and Thomas as
executors. (As described by David Alexander)
1856: In Bresalu, the former Arabella Auberbach and Dr. Leopold Auerbach, “a
professor of medicine at the University of Breslau gave birth to physicist and
patron of the arts Felix Auberach, the husband of German suffragette Anna
Silberleit, who was denied a full professorship at the University of Jenna for
most of his thirty year career because he was Jewish.
https://access.cjh.org/home.php?type=extid&term=1002270#1
1858: In New York City, August and Caroline Belmont gave birth to Oliver
Hazard Perry Belmont. August Belmont was
a German born Jewish American financier who chose the route of assimilation. His wife was the daughter of the naval hero,
Commodore Mathew Perry and the Great Niece of the even more legendary Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry, young Belmont’s namesake.
Belmont graduated from the United States Naval Academy, a school not
noted for its acceptance of Jews. One must wonder if his maternal Naval connection
were able to overcome his father’s Semitic origins. Belmont lived out the life
of a wealthy gentile playboy.
1859: William H. Seward, the U.S. Senator from New York, arrived in Paris
today on the return leg of his trip from Jerusalem and the Holy Land. No reason was given for the trip by the man
would who seek the Republican nomination for President in 1860 and served as
Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson.
1862: During the Civil War, Corporal Daniel Straus began his service with
Company F of the 167th Regiment.
1862: During the Civil War, Sergeant Joseph Jacoby began his service with
Company I of the 167th Regiment.
1866: Birthdate of Warsaw native and German author Sigmund Stefan Epstein,
the nephew of Abraham Epstein, who settled in Paris and was known by “pseudonym
Schimon Simel)
1868: Birthdate of New Orleans resident Albert Aschaffenburg, “a prominent
New Orleans Capitalist and Real Estate Developer who had planned to build the
Pontchartrain Hotel next door to the Orpheum Theater, the husband of Elvine
Schaefer Aschaffenburg and the father of Eugene Albert Aschaffenburg.
1865: One day after he had passed away, 56 year old Julius Sing, the husband
of Rika Woolf with whom he had three sons – Aaron, Jacob and Simon – was buried
today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1866: Birthdate of Sun Wen, known as Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the
Republic of China, who held admiration for the Jewish people and Zionism, and
who saw parallels between the persecution of Jews and the domination of China
by the Western powers, stating that “Though their country was destroyed, the
Jewish nation has existed to this day... [Zionism] is one of the greatest
movements of the present time…”
1870(18th of Cheshvan, 5631): Parashat Vayera
1870: Birthdate of Maryville, MD native and national director of the
National Council of Jewish Women Hattie Kahn, the wife of Adolph Kahn.
1870: In Stettin, German, Elias Witt and Sophie Schlesinger gave birth to
Max S. Witt, the husband of Margaret Gonzalez, who became a composer of popular
songs including “The Moth and the Flame” and “My Little Georgia Rose.”
1871: In St. Paul, MN, founding of the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society
whose members included Mrs. B.B. Plechner and Mrs. Sol Fox which “meets on the
first Wednesday of the month from September to April inlclusive.”
1871: Robert Strahl, Jr., Samuel D. Sewards, Davis Kisch and Joseph
Dorenfeld were among the speakers who addressed a meeting of the Hebrew Young
Men’s Literary and Benevolent Association that was held tonight at Cooper Union
in New York City.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE6DC1639EF34BC4B52DFB767838A669FDE
1879: It was reported today that Professor Felix Adler, “who has been
accused of being a rationalist,” an infidel and an atheist, proved his critics
wrong during his lecture entitled “Struggle of Free Religion in the United
States” in which “he paid a glowing and eloquent tribute…to the late Rabbi
Einhorn, one of the founders of Reformed Judaism.”
1880: Birthdate of Dutch physicist Leonard Salomon Ornstein
1880: Theodor Mommsen’s declaration that “referred to Anti-Semitism as a
contagious plague that threatened to poison the relationship between Jews and
Christians” which “was signed by seventy-five well-known scholars and other
public figures, Jews and non-Jews alike” was published today “in the Berlin
daily National-Zeitung.”
1881(20th of Cheshvan, 5642) Parashat Vayera
1881(20th of Cheshvan, 5642): Eighty-four-year old Hebraist Henry
Naphtali Solomon the London born son of Moses Eleazer Solomon and Elizabeth
(Betsy) Solomon, the headmaster of the Jews’ Free School and Elizabeth (Betsy)
and one of the founders of the Jews' and General Literary and Scientific
Institution who was the husband of Fanny (Felela) Solomon passed away today at
Edmonton, England.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13861-solomon-henry-naphtali
1883(12th of Cheshvan, 5644): Sixty-three year old Sigmund Max
Einhorn, the “son of Karoline and Maier Mendel Einhorn” and the husband of a
different Karoline Einhorn with whom he had four children, passed away today.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13861-solomon-henry-naphtali
1883: It was reported today that “the Lord Mayor of London has refused to
allow Herr Stocker, the ‘Jew-baiter,’ who is no in London to lecture at the
Mansion House.” (Stocker is Adolf Stoecker, a German Lutheran theologian. The
Lord Mayor was Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler)
1883(12th of Cheshvan, 5644): Fifty-four year old Lazar
Schorstein, the Vienna born son of Yitzhakd Schorstein and the husband of Clara
Schorstein passed away today after which he was buried in
“Greater London.”
1884: In New York Monseigneur Thomas John Capel delivered an address on
“Patriotism” to a meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1884: Birthdate of Pittsburgh, PA native and Jefferson College Medical
College physician Milton Homer Bachman the radiologist and WW I veteran.
1884: Businessman Mordecai Yitzhak Lubowsky a native of Lithuania who had
lived in the United States in 1870 “bought…a large tract of land of 2,800
dunams at “Maroun” …in the district of Safed.
1885: Rabbi Julius Lewis Mayerberg, the Lithuanian born son of Hannah and
Jacob Mayerberg, and his wife Hannah Mayerberg gave birth to Sarah Mayerber
1885: It was reported today that the Hebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society is
planning on hosting a fair to raise funds “to assist the poor without regard to
creed, color or nationality…”
1885: In an interview published today, Ohio Governor George Hoadley defended
issuing a Thanksgiving Proclamation that did not mention God by declaring that
“the founders of this Government wanted it free for the Jews and the Gentile,
the infidel and the worshiper… I have no right to command the people of this
State to worship God on a certain day.”
(This defense of religious freedom is one of the things that has made
the Jewish experience in America different from that in other places.)
1886(14th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Avraham of Kosover, also known as Rabbi Borcuh
Kosover, author of Amud ha-Avodah passed away today.
1886: In Topeka, KS, Henrietta Steinberg and Simon Greenbaum gave birth to Armour
Institute of Technology and Art Institute of Chicago trained architect Samuel
Greenbuam the husband of Ruth Wacker and partner in the Kansas City firm of
Greenbaum, Hardy and Schumacher which built several major edifices included
“the new Y.M.H.A.-W.H.A building and an annex to the Temple B’nai Jehuda.
1886(14th of Cheshvan): Jehiel Brill, publisher and editor of the Hebrew
monthly “Ha-Lebanon” and author of Yesod ha-Ma'alah passed away.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9A00E2D81730E13BBC4B53DFB566838D629EDE
1890: Birthdate of Lily Kronberger who was Hungary’s first World Champion in
figure skating.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kronberger-lily
1890: Max and Rose Sheuerman Shloss gave birth Irma Shloss who became Irma
Shloss Mannheimer when she married Eugene M. Mannheimer.
1891: Six days after she had passed away, 67 year old Ann Benjamin Braham,
the daughter of Alexander and Jane Jones and the wife of Isaac Benjamin and
Francis Brahm was buried today at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1892: The Metropolitan Press Club of which Abram Levy of the Hebrew World is Vice President is
scheduled to hold its second regular meeting tonight.
1892: The New York Times reports
on the successes and failures of organized Jewish agricultural efforts
including those in Connecticut and those in New Jersey sponsored by Baron
Hirsch.
1892(22nd of Cheshvan, 5653): Sixty-two year Seligman Adler, who
was born in Bavaria in 1830 and who established “the wholesale dry goods house
of Adler, Newbouer & Co at New York in 1858” passed away today.
1893: “Court Martial Oaths” published today traces the changes that have
taken place to the point now where “the Jews are customarily sworn by the five
books of Moses and the great God of Israel, that the evidence…shall be the
truth and nothing but the truth.”
1894: Following yesterday’s fire at a tenement on 80 Henry Street that
housed more than twenty Jewish families, losses today including those at Lewis
Fisher’s tailor shop, were estimated at $1,500.
1894: It was reported today that 100,000 Jews most of whom are poor, live
within a half-mile radius of Beth Israel which is the poorest of New York’s
Jewish hospital.
1896: H.W. Greene is scheduled to speak on “The Development of American
Song” this evening as part of the free lecture series sponsored by the
Educational Alliance at the Hebrew Institute in New York City.
1896: “(Mrs. J.B.) Rebecca M. Judah, the President of the Louisville, KY
Section of the National Council of Jewish Women submitted her report that
described the largest of the city’s four or five religious schools as having an
enrollment of 250 children “under the direct care of Dr. Adolph Moses” and
described the section as having 69 members divided into 5 circles.
1897: Rabbi Maurice H. Harris of Temple delivered a lecture this evening
entitled “The Value of Our Good Name in the Present Municipal Contest” in which
he decried “appeals to a Jew to vote as a Jew” as an “insult to the patriotism
of the Jew” and asks “How often need the depraved politician be informed that
in his civic duty here the Jew knows only one Nation, the American nation?”
1897: It was reported today Mr. Joseph Tobias Levy, who is an American
citizen, continued to be “detained by Moorish authorities” despite the fact
that “the United States has demanded his release...”
1897: It was reported today that “a neat sheet calendar for 5658 has been
issued by the Bene Israel Mutual Fund Society of Bombay.
1897: Birthdate of Samuel W. Kalb, the WW I Marine Corps veteran and
graduate of Valparaiso University and the University of Cincinnati School of
Medicine who practiced obstetrics for 35 years in his hometown of Newark, NJ.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1992-11-05-9202270823-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/obituaries/samuel-w-kalb-obstetrician-94.html
1899: Birthdate of Galicia native Menashe Unger whose expertise in the field
Chasidism can be seen his book Social Origins of Chasidism” and who in
1934 came to NYC where he became “a writer for The Day” and lived with his wife
Ruth Brilliant Unger and their daughter Judith.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/12/menashe-unger.html
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32882
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/08/78386020.pdf
https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/09321/F875D5C9B3FCB52165AF1661B549804C9A77EA2A.html
1899: It was reported today that Jules Guerin, “who proposed to suppress all
who stood in his way and by the revolver to drive the Jews from France and by
that weapon to convert unbeliever to his doctrine of anti-Semitism” will
probably stand trial for his role in an attempted coup-d’état he had plotted
with Paul Déroulède
1900: Birthdate of Vienna born psychologist Paul Brodsky who came to the
United States in 1939 after which he lived in Los Angeles.
1900: Birthdate of Caroline Klein Simon, a pioneering attorney, communal
worker, and state official. After graduating from law school in 1925, Simon was
unable to find a law firm that would hire her. She turned to volunteering,
working as an unpaid clerk at a law office and immersing herself in political
work with many of New York City's secular and Jewish women's organizations. She
involved herself particularly in issues of crime prevention and correction. In
1935, Simon became executive director of the New York State Council of Jewish
Women. Throughout her long and active life, Simon worked to change a number of
discriminatory laws in her community. In the 1930s, Simon led a campaign to
allow women to serve on juries in New York. In the 1940s, she helped to draft
the nation's first state law on job bias based on religion, race, or
nationality, and was a founding member of the State Commission Against
Discrimination. In 1957, Simon became the first woman to be nominated for
city-wide office in New York City. Although she lost that election for
president of the New York City Council, Governor Nelson Rockefeller named her
New York Secretary of State in 1959. She held that position for four years. In
1958 Simon also served as the legal advisor to the American delegation to the
United Nations Human Rights Commission. In the 1960s, she sat on the New York
Court of Claims. Simon remained active in legal work into her nineties.
1900: Lord Robert Cecil, the uncle of Lord Balfour of Balfour Declaration
fame, completed his final term as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a
position that he had first held under his political mentor, Benjamin Disraeli.
1901: Twenty-eight year old Hungarian Zionist and journalist Samuel
Bettelheim, the Pressburg born son of Mortiz and Regina (Frey) Bettelheim
married Natalie Lipschitz today.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Bettelheim_Samuel
1902: Mary of Magdala, a play set in Biblical times starring Rose Eytinge
opened at the Manhattan Theatre
1902: Joseph Whyl married Rosa Phillips today.
1902: Birthdate of Frankfort, Germany native Dr. Walter J. Fischel, the
‘Semitic languages and literature at the University of California and the husband of the former Irene Markrich,
with whom he had a daughter, Corinne,
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/fischel
1902: Birthdate of Buffalo, NY, native Philip Halpern, the University of
Buffalo trained lawyer and “Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court’s
Appellate Division” and the husband of “the former Goldene Friedman with whom
he had two sons – James and Charles
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/26/89956283.pdf
1903: This morning, in the Court of Special Sessions, Justice Julius M.
Mayer issued the search warrants which would make it possible for the police
and agents of the Anti-Policy Society to raid an illegal gambling facility.
1904(4th of Kislev, 5665): Parshat Tolodot
1904: “Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland At Cornerstone Laying” published today
described how the wife of the former President had “laid the cornerstone of the
new building of the Hebrew Technical School Girls” using a silver trowel given
to her by Adolph Lewisohn, the Chairman of the Building Committee.
1905: Based on rumors that have been circulating in Moscow, “anti-Jewish
outbreaks” are scheduled to “occur simultaneously in Moscow and St. Petersburg
today.
1905: It was reported today that many Jewish families “are fleeing to
Finland” because of the on-going outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence
1905: “Arm the Jews Says Rabbi” published today described the view of
Charles Fleischer the rabbi at Temple Adath Israel in Boston that given the
pogroms taking place in Kishinev and Odessa, that “if the Russian Government
cannot protect the people against lawlessness then the law-abiding must
encouraged to protect themselves” which means entrusting the Jews with arms.”
1905: Meetings expressing support for the Jews of Russia and to raise funds
for their relief are scheduled to be held at Capitol Hall on Manhattan and 63
Meserole Street in Manhattan.
1905: “The fund being raised in” the United States “for the relief of the
victims of the Russian massacres was increased” today “by the addition of a
check for $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie who announced his gift in a letter to
Isidor Strauss.”
1905: Leah Dinah Goldberg, the wife of Morris Goldberg with whom she had
five children – Miriam Rachel, Kate, Annie and Mordecai – was buried today at
the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1905: The Jews of Paterson, NJ met this morning in Barnet Memorial Temple to
raise funds for the suffering Jews of Russia and ex-Mayor Nathan Barnet who
presided over the meeting said “I do not know how this money…is to be expended
but if I were to spend it I assure you the greater part of it would purchase
dynamite to be used for assassinating the Czar, the Romanoffs and their
followers.”
1905: In Pittsburgh, PA, Henry Jackson, President of the Zionists’ Council
of Pittsburg presided over a meeting at the Washington Street Synagogue this
evening “where steps were taken to assist in the relief of the stricken Jews of
in Russia.”
1905: At a meeting this afternoon at the Forest Street Temple in Cleveland,
Ohio, $541 which will be forward to Jacob H. Schiff was raised to help the Jews
of Russia.
1905: In Boston, “a mass meeting was held today in the Baldwin Place
Synagogue for the purpose of aiding a movement to raise $50,000 for the relief
of the Jews in Russia.”
1905: Herman Rosenthal, the chief of the Slavonic department of the New York
Public Library and one of the editors of the Jewish Encyclopedia was quoted as
saying that “In a nutshell the situation the situation” in Russia regarding the
Jews is this: “Russia in its attitude to Jews, is just about where England was
in the thirteenth century” where “the Jew was always pictured as the villain,
the man to be hated, despised and ill-treated.”
While the Anglo-Saxons decided three centuries ago that “the Jew was a
human being to be treated liked themselves” such is not the case in Russia, nor
will it be for some time to come.
1905: Tonight, 10,000 Jews of the East End of London gather “gathered in the
great assembly hall where a memorial services was held for the Jews recently
killed in Russia” during which “almost all present burst into tears and
mournful wailing during the chanting of the Fifth Chapter of Lamentations.”
1905: In Warsaw, “at 9 o’clock this evening an infantry patrol, without
provocation, fired into a crowd of Jews, seriously wounding eight.”
1905: In Chicago, $50 was raised for the relief of Russian Jews at a meeting
of Jewish peddler and the Central Committee announced that it had received
contributions in the amount of $400 for the same purpose.
1905: Mass meetings were held in Rochester, NY tonight to raise funds for
the Jews of Russia.
1905: In Baltimore, MD, Samuel Rosenthal presided over a meeting of Jewish
citizens including rabbis, lawyer, doctors and businessman at the Eutaw Place
Temple where plans were made to aid “their persecuted co-religionists in
Russia” and where $10,250 was raised in half an hour for that purpose.
1905: In St. Louis, MO, an inter-denominational meeting raised $16,000 this
afternoon to aid Jews of Russia.
1905: At a meeting this afternoon at Cincinnati’s Plum Street Temple $5,000
was raised “for the Jewish victims of the atrocities in Russia.”
1905: Five meetings were held in Philadelphia today for the purposed of
raising relief funds for the Jews of Russia, the largest of which was held at
Mercantile Hall where $20,000 was raised.
1905: In response to a message sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the
Metropolitan of St. Petersburg. “reminding him of his duty to exert the full
force of his influence to prevent a recurrence of the Jewish massacres” Chief
Rabbi Adler said today that “it as a noble utterance; a grand recognition of
the fact that the Russian horrors are something which concern not simply the
Jews but everybody who loves the right and abhors religious persecution and
fiendish inhumanity.”
1906: Forty-seven passengers, many of whom were Russian Jews on their way to
Chicago, were “either killed outright or were burned to death” today during a
collision near Woodville, IN while traveling aboard “an immigrant train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
1906: Birthdate of Charleston, SC born journalist Thomas Jefferson Tobias.
1907: Birthdate of Klara Fejer, the future wife of Alexander Steiner and
mother of Agnes Steiner.
1908: Birthdate of Harry Blackmun, who replaced Abe Fortas as U.S. Supreme
Court Justice. It would not be until 1993 that another Jew would successful to
a seat on the Supreme Court.
1909: Birthdate of Chemistry Professor David Perlman, the author of A
Guide of Qualitative Organic Analysis and the husband of “the former Evelyn
Rose.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/06/archives/dr-david-perlman-62-dies-chemistry-professor-here.html
1909: This evening, during the
week-long meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Sabbath
Services are scheduled to be held at Temple Emanu-El where Dr. Enelow of
Louisville will deliver the sermon and “Dr. Silverman, the senior rabbi at
Temple Emanu-El will deliver an address in honor of the one-hundredth
anniversary of the birth Samuel Adler” who served as a rabbi at Temple
Emanu-El.
1910(10th of Cheshvan, 5671): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1910: George Tech, led by Albert Lorch “Al” Loe who played Center for the
Yellow Jackets “where he was nicknamed ‘The Yiddish Wildcat’” lost to
Vanderbilt today.
1910: Isidor and Ida Weinstein gave birth Michigan physician Irving Posner,
the husband of Helen Posner.
1911: Birthdate of Yehoshua Rabinovitz, the native of Vishneva who made
Aliyah in 1934 and became Mayor of Tel Aviv in 1969. 1913: Rodosto, Turkey is
taken, and 60 Turkish Jewish families sought safety in Constantinople. The
Rodosto referenced here is a city in northwest Turkey that had originally been
founded Greeks. The fighting mentioned
here was part of The Balkan Wars, which preceded World I, and in some respects,
helped to provide the kindling that brought on that worldwide firestorm.
1912: In New York, third and final day of the 8th annual meeting
of the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society, which is headquartered in Denver,
CO.
1912: In Brooklyn, Charles (Guedale)
Avnet, the founder of “electronic parts distributor Avnet and Rose Dorfman gave birth to NYU alum and
philanthropist Lester Francis Avnet.
1913: At the Montefiore Home, opening of the largest Jewish hospital in the world,
built at a cost of nearly $2,000,000.
1913: In Konigsberg, Elkhanan Elkes, “a prominent doctor who became a
medical officer in the Russian Army during World War I and the Russian
Revolution” and his wife, the former Miriam Albin, both of whom were murdered
by the Nazis, gave birth to Dr Joel Elkes “who published the first scientific
trial of a medication for schizophrenia and became a foundational figure in
modern psychiatry…” (As reported by Bernard Carey)
1913: “Committees composed of both Christian and Jews, with the assistance
of the German government” are operating soup kitchens in Warsaw and Lodz to
help feed the hundreds of thousands in who are “suffering for want of food.”
1914(23rd of Cheshvan, 5675): Funeral services were held today
for 78 year old Mrs. Agie Roski, the “wife of the late Azer Roski after which
she was buried at the Oakwoods Cemetery.
1914: The medical staffs of the Montifore Home and Hospital for Chronic
Diseases and ADV-Sixteen are scheduled to be consolidated today.
1915: “Nerda,” a silent film starring Fania Marinoff, the Odessa born
daughter of Mayer and Leah Marinoff was released in the United States today.
1915(5th of Kislev, 5676): Samuel Schneyer, the Russian born
“actor who played leading roles at Kessler’s theatre for several years and who
was scheduled to start appearing in “Potash and Perlmutter” passed away today
at Bellvue where had been taken about two weeks after becoming “violently
insane after a rehearsal.”
1916: Benjamin David Weller, the Cleveland born son of David Weller, “the
owner of a very prosperous iron and steel business, who is a partner in D.
Weller and Son, which does business on a national scale and is borth a member
of Congregation Anshe Emeterh and B’nai B’rith married Hattie Judith Laufman,
the daughter of Sarah and Isaac Laufman who are known for their philanthropic
activities in Cleveland.
1916:”Dr. Samuel Schulman who preached this morning at Temple Emmanu-El on
‘The Jewish Congress’ said that the union of the Jews of all factions in this
country was necessary in to make an appeal to the ‘conscience of Christendom’
to provide fairly for the future of the Jews” in those parts of Europe “where
they are now oppressed.”
1916: “An International Committee of Correspondence to facilitate a
world-wide demand for the settlement of the Jewish problem at the end of the
war in Europe was proposed by Oscar S. Straus, Chairman of the Public Service
Commission, at the tenth annual convention of the American Jewish Committee
held at the Hotel Astor” today.
1916: At the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Committee, the
issued “was silent as to the condition of” the Jews in Russian whose “misery”
defied description.
1917: After a twelve day voyage across the Atlantic, Abraham Blaustein,
would become a decorated war hero arrived at Brest, France with the rest of the
165th Regiment.
1917: Following the Bolshevik takeover, anti-Bolshevik forces began fighting
the Red Guards at Tsarekoye Selo.
1917: Jewish Soldiers’ Councils were formed at Prague, Theresienstadt,
Olmutz and Bruenn with the approval Czech leaders.
1918; In New York, the Provisional Zionist Committee received a cable from
Dr. Chaim Weitzman, President of the British Zionist Committee and Dr. Nachun
Sokolow of the Inner Actions Committee “giving the complete text of the British
proposal” known as the Balfour Declaration “which differs somewhat from the
first reports published in” the United States.
1918: As World War I came to an end and the Austro-Hungarian Empire died and
the predominately Germanic portion of the old imperial state became a republic
called German Austria, popularly known as Austria. The new state included 300,
000 Jews, 200,000 of which were living in the capital city of Vienna. The little known Treaty of St. Germaine which
had a major impact on the inter-war years guaranteed, among other things, the
rights of Jews as a minority living in the news Austrian Republic. Unfortunately, this would mean little when
anti-Semitism reared its head in the 1930’s capped by the final blow of
Anshluss in 1938. 1918: Jozef Pilsduski, head of the newly-born Polish state
received a delegation of Jewish leaders.
Yizhak Gruenbaum, a prominent Zionist, demanded autonomy for Poland’s
Jews. Pilsduski promised to take
measures to repress anti-Jewish violence.
1918: Twenty-four-year-old Columbia University trained chemical engineer,
Leo Alternberg, the New York City born son of Henreitte Schwob and Joseph
Altenberg married May J. Shapiro today.
1918: Abraham and Mildred Gussow gave birth to Roy Gussow, “an abstract
sculptor whose polished stainless-steel works with swooping contours gleam in
public squares and corporate spaces.” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1919 Dr. J. Stanley Durkee in 1936 would criticize “Jews for declining to
become ‘an integral part of the civilization around them’ was “inaugurated as
President of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
1919: Governor Al Smith appointed Abram Isaac Elkus to fill a vacancy on the
New York Court of Appeals.
1919: Birthdate of ”Estelle Ellis Rubinstein, who as promotion director of
the brand-new Seventeen magazine
helped American businesses discover what she called ‘a whole new country’ — the
untapped market of millions of teenage girls” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1920: It was reported today that “A.C. Cuza, the last of Romania’s
anti-Semites in public life is retiring.”
1920: In New York, the former Dorothy Milius, the daughter of Pauline and
George Washington Milius and her first husband, Sidney Walter Kaufman, gave
birth to Katherine Kaufman
1920: Birthdate of Manhattan native Leonard James Schliefer, “the son of a
clothing-company executive” who gained fame as director James Sheldon. (As
reported by Anita Gates)
1920: The Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish Women which has been
taking place at the Brown Hotel in Denver came to an end.
1921: In Brooklyn, Rebecca Leiber and William Leiber, “a junk dealer” gave
birth to WW II Army veteran “modernist painter” Gerson Leiber (As reported by
Richard Sandomir)
1922: The Chicago Cardinals football team defeated the Akron Pros 7-0 thanks
to a long pass thrown by Arnold "Arnie" Horween
1922: In Camden, NJ, Lieutenant Lewis Liberman delivered an address entitled
“Y.M.H.A. Boys in Service” during a memorial service held this afternoon to
honor the five Y.M.H.A. members who lost their lives during World /War I.
1923: B.A. Altman & Co. the department store founded by Bavarian Jew
Benjamin Altman, advertised today that it has “placed on Special Exhibition for
the first time in America A Collection of Rare Antique Oriental Rugs.”
1924: “The Yeshivah of Slobodka opened a branch in Hebron
1924: During the first cycle of Daf Yomi “small siyums’ were held to mark
the completion of Tractate Berachot.
1925(25th Chesvhan, 5686): Fifty-nine year old Worcester College,
Oxford educated Classical Scholar Henry Straus Quixano Henriques, the husband
of Henrietta Sarah Henriques and father of Edward and Violet Henriques who was
“the Vinerian Law Scholar at Oxford in 1891, Deputy County Court Judge in the
Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset District and active member of the
Jewish community as can by his service as Warden at the West London
Synagogue, Member of the Anglo-Jewish Association and President of the Tredegar
Jewish Literary and Social Society passed away today.
1925: In the Bronx, Pauline and Milton Redlich gave birth to Norman Redlich,
a quiet luminary of the New York legal community who pioneered the pro bono
defense of indigent death row inmates and who, as a staff member of the Warren
Commission, helped develop the so-called single-bullet theory to explain how
President John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman. (As reported by Paul
Vitello)
1926: “Queen Marie’s expression of goodwill toward the Jews of Rumania will
be regarded as gratuitous,” Rabbi Israel Goldstein said in his Friday night
sermon at B’nai Jershurun Synagogue “unless she uses her prestige and her
talents to publicly condemn anti-Semitic outbreaks and to publicly condemn
anti-Semitic outbreaks and publicly protest against violations of the rights of
the Jew as a citizen.”
1926: “A plea for help was sent out today in the form of a letter to 150,000
representative Christians throughout the United States, by the American
Christian Fund for Jewish Relief, saying that there were 5,000,000 Jews facing
starvation in Central and Eastern Europe.”
1927: Seymour “Cy” Schindel fought
his 19th bout today which he lost on points to “Italian Joe Gans.”
1927: Leon Trotsky was expelled from Soviet
Communist Part as Stalin tightened his grip on the USSR after the death of
Lenin. Stalin played the card of
anti-Semitism in his fight with Trotsky.
It would not be the last time that the Georgian would show himself to be
a vindictive anti-Semite.
1928: In Portland, ME, Anna (Richardson) and Nathan Weinman, co-owner of a
dry goods store” gave birth to Marjorie Weinman who gained fame as Marjorie
Weinman Sharmat, the creator of the “Nate the Great detective series.” (As
reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)
1928: Today, Victor released a recording of “Making’ Whoopee” with lyrics by
Gus Kahn which was “first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical
Whoopee!
1929: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to
be held this afternoon “in the Riverside Memorial Chapel” on Amsterdam Avenue
for 75 Jewish religious and philanthropic leader Joseph Hyman.
1929: In New York City, Irving and Adele Saypol gave birth to Roger Saypol,
the twin brother of Dickson graduate and Brooklyn Law College trained attorney
Ronald Dietz Saypol , the president of the Lionel Corporation and Jackson Hole,
WY conservationist.
1930(21st of Cheshvan, 5691): Forty-five year old Israel George
“Izzy” Levene, the End on the University of Pennsylvania football team who went
on to head coaching jobs at Tennessee and Wake Forest.
1930(20th of Cheshvan, 5691): Forty-five year old U of
Pennsylvania All-American end Israel George “Izzy” Levene who served as an
assistant under the legendary John Heisman before serving as head coach at the
University of Tennessee and Wake Forest University passed away today.
1931: Sixty-three year old Harvard Professor Robert DeCourcy Ward, the
co-founder of the Immigration Restriction League who had informed Congressmen
in 1919 that Jews were about to enter the United States as part of
“well-organized immigration” plan passed away today.
1932(13th of Cheshvan, 5693): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1932: According to announcement first made “in the current issue of the
American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune, the national Anglo-Jewish weekly edited by
Rabbi Isaac Landman, “The American Hebrew Medal for the Promotion of Better
Understanding Between Christians and Jews in America for 1932 has been award to
Dr. John H. Finley, an associate editor of the NYT.
1933: The Nazis received 92%
of vote in Germany only a few months after gaining power through an electoral
squeaker.
1933: Birthdate of Abram Krivosheyev, the Soviet “middle distance runner”
who represented the Soviet Union at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.
1934: The Strathaird arrived in Melbourne where Egon Kisch” the refugee from
Nazi Germany who “was a delegate to the All-Australian Congress Against War and
Fascism” “was greeted by numerous supporters, whom he acknowledged from the
deck by raising his fist.
1934(5th of Kislev, 5695): Sixty-eight year old attorney Moritz
Rosentahl who “defended Standard Oil” in 1907 against the trust busting efforts
of President Teddy Roosevelt passed away today.
1935: “No Monkey Business” a British comedy with must by Benjamin Frankel
was released today in the United Kingdom.
1935: While destroying the economic opportunities of its Jewish citizens,
“Nazi Germany prohibited the export of food and industrial raw materials” “in
an effort to address nationwide supply shortages.”
1936(27th of Cheshvan, 5697): Fifty-six year old Hungary native
Gustave Hartman the “son of Sarah Luchs and Kalman Hartman,” and “lawyer, municipal court judge, city
court judge, Republican political leader
and philanthropist” who “founded the Israel Orphan Asylum” and was
honored by the creation of the Gustave Hartman Triangle in New York passed away
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/11/16/85435329.pdf
1936: “Although the Lord Chamberlain banned the public performance of
Lillian Hellman’s The Children's Hour in Great Britain in March 1935 the play
was presented in its entirety today “at a private performance at the Gate
Theatre Studio in London.
1936: On the day before his 80th birthday took his place at the
Supreme Court just as he has every day for the last two decades since he was
appointed by President Wilson and “his deep tones rang clearly through the room
as he questioned New York attorney Frederick H. Wood on aspects of the New York
Unemployment Insurance Law.”
1936: Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress
announced today “that a series of public celebrations would be held to honor
Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis on his eightieth birthday tommorw,
November 13,
1936: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and classically-trained composer Mort
Shuman who gained fame as a popular song writer composing for everybody from
Elvis, to Janis Joplin to the music group known as “Dion and the
Belmonts.” If you ever heard “Save the
Last Dance For Me,” you have heard the works of Shuman.
1936: “Theodora Goes Wild” a comedy with a script co-authored by Sidney
Buchman and co-starring Melvyn Douglas was released in the United States by
Columbia Pictures.
1937: The Palestine Post reported that two Arabs were killed and five
wounded by a bomb which exploded outside the National Bus offices, off Jaffa
Road in Jerusalem. The bomb, which appeared to be home-made, exploded with a
tremendous force. A curfew was imposed on the city. Jewish extremists were
suspected of having thus responded to the murder of five young Israelis at
Ma¹aleh Hahamisha. The Mandatory authorities announced that henceforth any
member of the forces would be able to arrest any person reasonably suspected of
having planned or committed any offence that could be tried in military courts.
1937: “The Last Gangster” a crime film starring Edward G. Robinson and
featuring Lionel Stander was released in the United States by MGM.
1937: Birthdate of Ina Rosenberg the Brooklyn native who gained
famed as actress Ina Balin whose first break came when she appeared on the
Perry Como Show during the 1950’s. The
high point in her acting career came when she was nominated for a Golden Globe
for her work in From the Terrace. Balin
appeared in numerous pictures with some of Hollywood’s biggest name before her
untimely death at the age of 52.
1938: Hermann Goring
leads a discussion of German officials that results in a one-billion-mark
($400-million) fine against the German-Jewish community to pay for Kristallnacht.
Göring calls this extortion an "expiation payment." Seizing the money
German insurance companies were paying the Jews for their damages, the Nazis
require the Jews to pay for the repair of their own properties damaged in Kristallnacht.
1938: The Nazis decide
on a decree to remove all Jews from the German economy, society, and culture.
Reinhard Heydrich suggests that every Jew be forced to wear a badge. Nazi
Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels suggests that Jews be kept from using public
parks. Hermann Goring mentions that Hitler told him on the phone on November 9
that if war breaks out, Germany "will first of all make sure of settling
accounts with the Jews. [Hitler] is going to ask the other nations: 'Why do you
keep talking about the Jews? Take them!'" In the Nazi Party's principal
newspaper, Goebbels writes: "We want only one thing, that the world loves
the Jews enough to rid us of them all."
1938: Speaking at a
meeting with the South African minister of economics and defense, Hitler
remarks that Europe's Jews will be killed in the event of war.
1938: Hermann Goring announced consideration of Madagascar as a home for
European Jewry
1939: The Nazis ordered
the Jews of Lodz, Poland to wear yellow armband as they began to deport them to
other parts of Poland.
1939: Heydrich, Chief of German Secret Security, ordered Jews cleared from
portions of annexed Poland that were now considered to be part Greater
Germany. Heydrich was a truly evil
person. He was one of Hitler’s favorites
and many thought that he was Hitler’s successor. Heydrich was the prime author of the Final
Solution. He never got to fulfill his
dreams since the British had him murdered while he was serving in Bohemia.
1939: In “Activity in Palestine,” published today Peter Gradenwitz
reports on the successful year enjoyed by the Palestine Symphony Orchestra.
“The Summer heat, the pre-war mood and the outbreak of war in Europe have not
been able to paralyze Palestine’s musical life.
On the contrary the Palestine Orchestra had its most extensive Summer
Season since the start of its activities.
From June to September the orchestra played twice weekly in the
specially arrange gardens of the Levan Fair Grounds to a large an appreciative
audience, and in addition to the Tel Aviv concerts there were offerings in
Jerusalem, Hair and the Rechovoth.
1940: In Wadowice, Poland to Sala Gelbwachs and Arik Kriszer-Weinlez gave
birth to Roza Kriszer-Weinlez, the Holocaust survivor known as Ruth Rosenfeld.
https://www.chhange.org/personal-histories/stories/ruth-rosenfeld
1940: Vichy France ordered all Jewish businesses to be sold or expropriated
for Aryanization. In other words, the
French joined Germany in the plundering of Jewish assets. Anti-Semitism was and continues to be “good
business” for those who trade in it.
1940: “Land of Liberty” a documentary that traces American history from
pre-revolutionary days to 1939 written by Jesse L. Lasky, Jr with music by
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II premiere today at Williamspor.
1941(22nd of Cheshvan, 5702): Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, a hit-,man
for Murder Incorporated turned “stool-pigeon” fell (or was pushed) to his
death.
1941: Laurence Adolph Steinhardt completed his service as United States
Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
1941: In Berlin Friedrich Jeckeln met with Himmler who gave him orders on
liquidating the entire Riga ghetto.
1942: It was reported today that “concern over the future of approximately
200,000 Jews in what had hitherto been unoccupied France was expressed by
officials of relief agencies that have been carrying on humanitarian work
there, but this was counter-balanced somewhat by hope that the occupation of
French North Africa by American forces would greatly ameliorate the lot of more
than 300,000 Jews in that area.”
1942: “Mufti Pleads For Axis” published today described a broadcast “over
the radio from Bari, Italy” during which “the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem called
on ‘my peoples’ to fight the British and the Jews to death.”
1943: Benito Mussolini argued at a general Fascist Party congress to have
all Jews in Italy declared enemy aliens by law.
1943: William Schuman’s “Symphony for Strings” which “was commissioned by
the Koussevitzky Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky”
was performed for the first time today.
1943: Birthdate of Valerie Leon, the London born daughter of Textile Company
executive who went from being “a trainee fashion buyer at Harrods” to a career
in acting that including performing as “a Bond girl” in “The Spy Who Love Me”
and “Never Say Never Again.”
1943: Birthdate of actor Wallace Shawn
1943: Birthdate of Poughkeepsie native and Republic politcian Stephen M.
Saland the graduate of the University of Buffalo and Rutgers Law School who was
a Republican member of the New York State Senate, representing the 41st
District from 1990-2012.”
1944: Birthdate of sports reporter Al
Michaels. If Jews could not play the
game, they sure could write and talk about it.
1944: Otto Blumenthal, a German mathematician died in the Nazi concentration
camp Theresienstadt. Born a Jew, Blumenthal became a Protestant at the age of
19. He remained in Germany after the
rise of the Nazis. At the age of 67, he
asked to be sent to Theresienstadt so he could be with his sister who
reportedly had feel while imprisoned there.
Unfortunately for Blumenthal, she had died before his arrival.
1945: Six hundred rabbis march to Capitol and stop at White House and
British Embassy to plead that Palestine be opened for Jewish immigration.
1945:
The American League for a Free Palestine announced today that Senator Warren G.
Magnuson of Washington State, Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart of
California’s 9th Congressional District and Guy W. Gillette, the
former Senator from Iowa are scheduled to discuss “The United States Congress
and Palestine” in a program to be broadcast tomorrow night by the American
Broadcasting Company (ABC). Gillette was the president of the American League
for a Free Palestine, a pro-Zionist group seeking to create a Jewish state. (As
you can see, the term Palestine has not always by synonymous with Arabs),
1945: A photographic record is created of Kibbutz Buchanwald, “the first
agricultural training camp established in Germany after the Holocaust” which
was ironically established in what had been a death camp.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/13.asp
1946: It is announced that 1,050 Jews in Cyprus will be admitted to
Palestine under quotas until mid-January.
1947: A review of an episode “This Is Nora Drake” which was a product of
radio writer Milton Lewis which appeared in today’s addition of Billboard,
indicated that it followed a familiar pattern for radio soap operas: "The
stuff shapes up as old hat, but commercial".
1947, British troops attacked a house in Ra'anana where Lehi was conducting
a firearm course for a group of youths and in the attack, 4 children aged 15-18
and a 19-year-old instructor were killed.
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/B1Q3WU4Uu
1947: The Jewish Agency plans to establish Jewish state within boundaries
set by UNSCOP, regardless of any UN decision. There are rumors that King
Abdullah of Jordan plans to take over part of Palestine outside Jewish state
1948: Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion confirms that talks are under way
between Israel and two Arab governments (presumed to be Egypt and Transjordan).
Israel is opposed to new UN proposal whereby Israeli troops give up recent
gains in Negev. In original partition plan, Negev is consigned to Jews.
Ben-Gurion claims dispute can be settled in four weeks if U.S. stops Britain
from interfering with Arabs' wish to talk peace terms.
1948: UN mediator Ralph Bunche orders Israel to give up Iraq Suweidan.
1948: “No More Vices” a comedy directed and produced by Lewis Milestone with
a screenplay by Arnold Manoff and music by Franz Waxman was released in the
United States today by MGM.
1949: In an address tonight “at the Biennial National Convention of the
American Jewish Congress in the Hotel New Yorker,” “Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein
of Rochester, former, adviser on Jewish Affairs to the United States Army in
Germany warned” that Communism and its ideology must be rejected by Jews in”
the United States.
1950: “Southside 1-1000” a drama about a gang of real life counterfeiters
starring George Tobias was released today in the United States.
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported from Rehovot that more than 250,000
persons filed past the bier carrying the body of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first
president of the State of Israel, statesman and scientist. Sirens brought the
nation to a standstill at 2:30 p.m. A few hundred persons were privileged to be
present during the burial ceremony in his garden, while some 30,000 others
gathered on nearby hilltops. Messages of condolence poured from all over the
world. US President-elect Dwight Eisenhower sent a cable to the Israeli Ambassador,
Abba Eban, and asked him to forward it to Mrs. Vera Weizmann.
1952: Actress Ruth Roman, the daughter of Mary Pauline (née Gold) and Abraham Roman and
her “husband Mortimer Hall, the son of publisher Dorothy Schiff” gave birth
their son Richard.
1953: A “Salute From American Higher Education to the Hebrew University”
which will be attended by Professor Benjamin Mazar, the newly chosen President
of the Hebrew University, is scheduled to be held tonight at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
1954(16th of Cheshvan, 5715): Fifty-nine year old Rabbi Baruch I.
Treiger, the graduate of JTS and husband of Leah F. Treiger who was serving at
Congregation Agudath Achim of Altoona, PA passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/11/14/110072133.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954(16th of Cheshvan
5715): Seventy-three-year-old “composer, conductor and voice teacher” Leo
Braun, the Breslau, Germany born son of Max and Fanny Braun who in 1903 came to the United States
where he “wrote secular and sacred instrumental and vocal music, including a
Sabbath service, ‘Shir Yisrroel,’ dedicated to Rabbi Max Meyer, spiritual
leader of the Free Synagogue” and served as the choir master for the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum while being married to “the former Helen Donhoe with whom he
raised three sons – Alan, Richard and Robert – “suffered a fatal heart attack
in the choir loft at the Free Synagogue” in flushing where he was preparing for
Kabbalat Shabbat services.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/11/14/110072139.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1881: In Breslau, Germany, Max and Fanny Landau Braun gave birth
1954: Ellis Island, the gateway to America for millions of immigrants,
including untold number of Jews, closed today.
https://www.yahoo.com/travel/bp/nov-12-1954-ellis-island-closes-admitting-millions-164516820.html
1954: Edward B. Lawson, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel presented his
credentials today.
1955(27th of Cheshvan, 5716): Parashat Chayei Sarah
1956: “Middle-East Echoes” published today described the impact of
Anglo-French military action during the Suez Crisis on the economy in general
and the commodities market in particular.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,824597,00.html
1958: Eighty-three year James Michael Curley, the quintescential Irish
politician who was best known for his terms as Mayor of Boston and who said in
1944 the “service and sacrifice by the
Jewish people entitle them to the respect of their fellow Americans and an end
of Jewish persecution here and abroad” passed away today.
1958: “Robert S. Benjamin, the board chairman of United Artists, received
the 1958 Human Relations Award at a luncheon” today “on behalf of the Joint
Defense Appeal” which was held at the Astor Hotel.
1960(22nd of Cheshvan, 5721): Parashat Chayei Sara
1960(22nd of Cheshvan, 5721): Sixty-four-year old Aaron Harry
Agruss, the son of Rose and Benjamin Arguss and the husband of Sue (Wise)
Agruss passed away today in St. Louis.
1960: Curt Swan work on the daily comic strip version of “Superman” that had
been created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster came to an end today.
1961(4th of Kislev, 5722):Seventy-four-year-old Russia native and
Columbia trained dentist Dr. Sol Boris Kahan who also pursed a forty year
career in sculpture during which his works were shown at the Whitney and
Brooklyn Museum and who was the husband of “the former Dr. Rose Coloms” and the
father of Dr. Boris Kahn” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/11/14/118523285.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1962: “Billy Budd” a movie version of the 19th century novel with
a screenplay co-authored by Robert Rossen and featuring Melvyn Douglas was
released in the United States today.
1962: In San Francisco, Deborah Goleman, an anthropologist and the author of
The Lesbian Community and “Leonard Wolf, a Romanian-born gothic horror
scholar at University of California, Berkeley and Yiddish translator” gave
birth to Yale and Oxford educated author and liberal political advisor whose
first book The Beauty Myth was “named one of the 70 most influential
books of the 20th century by The
New York Times” and whose latest work Outrages may be totally wrong.
1964: “New Comedy Opens at the Booth” published today provides a positive
review of Murray Schisgal’s “Luv” a comedy directed by Mike Nichols and
co-starring Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin.
1966: Thirty-six-year-old St. Lawrence College graduate and author Charlotte
Inez Pomerantz the Brooklyn born son Phyllis Cohen and Abraham Pomerantz
married Carl Marzani today.
1967: Today, “Rabbi J.J. Kokotek delivered the sermon at the New Liberal
Jewish Congregation’s annual service held “in commemoration of the 1938
pogroms” after which the “memorial panels on which the names of the
congregation’s past officers and members are inscribed” were dedicated.
1969: Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the son of Yiddish speaking
Litvak immigrants, broke the story of the My Lai Massacre.
1969(2nd of Kislev, 5730): Sixty-nine year old Columbia graduate
and Parkinson disease patient A. Wilfred May, the former foreign correspondent
for the New York Herald Tribune, NANA and The London Financial Times and
“economic expert with the SEC” fell to his death from his 4th floor
suite at the Plaza Hotel
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/11/13/83689321.pdf
1969: Sam Melville the son of Dorothy and William Grossman who had named him
Samuel Joseph Grossman, was connected to today’s bombings at the “New York City Criminal
Courts Building on Center Street…”
1969(2nd of Kislev, 5730: Harry Scherman an American economist. passed away.
He wrote several works during the second third of the twentieth century. Maybe
his best known book is The Promises Men Live By, published in 1938. In
it he develops an analysis of economic problems in terms of people beliefs. His
open criticism to accepted policies and then fashionable Keynesianism brought
his work to oblivion; something a little ironic, taking into account that he
had been one of the co-founders of The Book of the Month Club in 1926. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079308/
1970: “The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer” a British
satirical film co-starring Harold Pinter and featuring Valerie Leon was
released today in the United Kingdom.
1970(13th of Cheshvan, 5731):
Eighty-six-year-old Haverford and University of Pennsylvania, Berlin and
Marberg educated philosopher Henry Slonimsky, the Minsk born son of Sarah
Epstein and M.S. Slonimsky and husband of Minnie Tennenbaum who taught at
Columbia, Johns Hopkins and HUC passed away today at a time when he was dean
emeritus of the New York School of Hebrew Union College‐Jewish Institute of Religion.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0637/ms0637.html
1971: It was reported today that “In My Father’s Court,” a
“mellow memoir about early-century Warsaw Jewry by Isaa Bashevis Singer “has
been beautifully brought from printed page to Yiddish stage by the Folksbiene
Playhouse, New York's oldest (57 years) repertory theater.”
1973(18th of Cheshvan,
5734): Eighty-nine Dutch born American cinematographer David Abel “who filmed
110 films for RKO” and who was the husband of Eva “Chava” Rayevsky, passed away
today in Los Angeles.
1973: “A Delicate Balance” produced
by Ely Landau was released today in the United States.
1976(19th of Cheshvan,
5737): Eighty-seven year old “Pessie Poupko, the widow of Rabbi Eliezer Poupko,
former dean of Orthodox rabbis in Philadelphia, and a Talmudic scholar in her
own right, passed away today in Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn.
1976(19th of Cheshvan,
5737): Seventy year old Yale trained psychologist and psychiatrist Dr. Samuel
Yochelson the World War II veteran of the Army Medical Corps and the husband of
“the former Kathryn Mersey” passed away today.
1976: “Two-Minute Warning” one of
those epic disaster films directed by Larry Peerce and co-starring Martin
Balsam was released in the United States today.
1978(12th of Cheshvan,
5739): Thirty-eight year old Barry Multer the son of Samuel L. Mutler and
Estelle Strossman who played Guard for Rhode Island passed away today.
1980: Mayor Ed Koch admitted
to trying marijuana. Ah yes, the Jew
with the Joint.
1982: Israeli political leader Avraham Hirschson and his wife gave birth to
their second son Elroi.
1982: The Path to Power, Robert Caro’s fist volume about Lyndon
Johnson which would win the 1983 National Book Award was released today.
1982: “White Dog,” a cinematic treatment of Romain Gary’s novel of the same
name and directed by Samuel Fuller was released in the United States today.
1982: The Tucson Citizen published
“Jewish Pioneers, Temple Due Honors” today which “snapshots of the lives of
pioneer Jews Samuel and Philip Drachman, Albert Steinfeld, Isodore Gotthelf,
and Sam Mansfeld.”
http://swja.arizona.edu/content/jewish-pioneers-temple-due-honors
1992(16th of Cheshvan, 5753): Eighty-three year old Edward Mier
Mayehoff the Baltimore born salesman turned actor passed away today.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562305/bio
1985: Birthdate of Roy Kafri the native of Moshav Nahal who has carved a
career in the Israeli entertainment industry.
1992: Two days after he had passed away, 75 year old accountant Albert
Weiner, the son of “Soloman Weiner and Gertrude Talesknic” and the husband of
“Sylvia Cooper” was buried today in Baltimore, MD.
1993: CBS broadcast the final episode of “ Family Album,” a sitcom created
by David Crane and Marta Kauffman.
1995: “Showtime” broadcast “Fearless” an episode of “Fallen Angels” based on
“a novelette of the same name” by Walter Mosley who identifies as
“African-American and Jewish.”
1996(1st of Kislev, 5757): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1996(1st of Kislev, 5757): Seventy-seven year old Denver native
Aaron Klausner, the son Tillie (Bienenstock) Klausner and Josef Klausner and
the husband of Pearl Kalusner passed away today.
1997: In an unusual move, The Berlin Literary
Trust released a statement that included Sir Isaiah Berlin's last letter
expressing his views on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and
the events surrounding the writing and publication of the letter.
1997:
Terrorist Ramsi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the bombing of the
World Trade Center in 1993.
1997:
Despite a tire-burning protest set off by the main event up the road – Today
marked the grand opening of a new fortified complex encasing Rachel's Tomb, the
traditional burial place of the wife of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The
festivities, attended by hundreds of strictly Orthodox Jews, Defense Minister
Yitzhak Mordechai and Israel's two Chief Rabbis, were a celebration of Israel's
continued control of the ancient shrine venerated by Jews for generations. The
opening took place despite a tire-burning protest which was part of the violent
Palestinian protests that have been going on for the past twelve months.
1998:
At the Vivian Beaumont Theatrre “first preview performance” of “Parade” a
musical that “dramatizes the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank.”
1998:
A Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s “Little Me” opened today at the Criterion
Center Stage Right
2000: The New York
Times featured reviews of books by Jewish
authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Echoes Down The Corridor: Collected Essays,
1944-2000 by Arthur Miller,
Edited by Steven R. Centola, Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life
in a Half-Changed World by Peggy Orenstein, Karl Popper – The Formative
Years, Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna 1902-1945 by Malachi Haim
Hacohen, Lower East Side A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner and
One Palestine, Complete:Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom
Segev, Translated by Haim Watzman.
2000(14th
of Cheshvan, 5761): Leah Rabin, widow of Yitzchak Rabin, passed away.
2001(26th
of Cheshvan, 5762): Eighty-one year old “German American composer and actor”
Albert Hague passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/arts/albert-hague-81-a-composer-and-actor.html
2002:
“Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Likud Party convention tonight that
the first thing he would do if elected prime minister would be to expel Yasir
Arafat, the Palestinian leader.”
2003:
Rabbi Asher Wade tackles questions of Holocaust, God at local lecture”
published today described a lecture given by the Jewish leader who had been a
pastor in the United Methodist Church until he converted in 1983.
http://ww2.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2003/200345/frederickcty/county/186594-1.html
2004:
Yasar Arafat was buried in Ramallah today leaving the Israelis to have to deal
with Mahmoud Abbas as Chairman of the PLO.
2005:
NYPD Chief of Detectives Al Seedman said that his decision to become a police
officer date back to when “as a kid” he had been made “an Official Stairwell
Monitor.”
2005: “Nothing Lasts Forever” a comedy
produced by Lorne Michaels in 1984 that was not released to the public,
co-starring Mort Sahl, Sam Jaffe and Eddie Fisher with music by Howard Shore
was screened today at the St. Louis International Film Festival.
2006: “Grace period” granted to American born Joel Covington (a.k.a. rapper
Rebel Sun) his wife Soshanna and their two Israeli born children is scheduled
to come to an end. The African American
musician and his family have been attempting to make aliyah since 1999. They are not Jewish. They want to convert, but they cannot take
part in a conversion program until they have visas and so far the government
has not granted them visas; talk about “Catch 22.”
2006: The New York Times features
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner and Too Soon to
Say Goodbye by Art Buchwald.
2006: “Box on the Boulevard, an
outdoor exhibit of large-scale Keren Kaymet boxes by contemporary Israeli
artists,” opened in Haifa at the Carmel Auditorium. These artistic renderings of the famed
“little blue charity boxes” were warmly received at its opening in Tel
Aviv. The exhibit will be open in Haifa
until November 26.
2006(15th of Cheshvan, 5767): Gary Siegel passed away at the age 62. He was associate accounting professor at
Depaul University and founder of the Jewish Burial Society of Chicago.
2006: The 10th Annual Dayton Jewish Book
Fair comes to an end.
2006:
Today, Bruce “Karatz retired from KB Home and agreed to pay the Company the
profits he received based on KB Home’s stock option back-dating procedures.”
2007: The Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra under Doron Salomon presents a program
featuring Balkan music at Ein HaShoresh in the Natania-Hadera region.
2007: Jewish economist Robert
Kuttner, founder and co-editor of the magazine American Prospect,
discusses and signs The Squandering
of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity at
Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
2007 (2 Kislev 5768): Staff-Sergeant Asaf Waxman, 28, from Rishon Leziyon,
was killed and four others were lightly to moderately injured when an armored
personnel carrier overturned during a training exercise in the Golan Heights.
2007 (2 Kislev 5768): Seventy eight year old Ira Levin, “a mild-mannered
playwright and novelist who liked nothing better than to give people the
creeps” passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/books/14levin.html
2008: As part of the Israeli Voices Series, the Israeli guitar playing
vocalist Chava Alberstein regarded by many as Israel's most accomplished
singer, having released five dozen recordings since the late 1960s, many of
them now gold or platinum performs at the 92nd St Y in Manhattan
2008:
U.S. Jewish
organizational leaders are scheduled to meet with the King of Saudi Arabia.
2008:
This afternoon, IDF troops gunned down four Gaza terrorists as fresh clashes
raised new concerns that the increasingly shaky five-month-old truce could
collapse. ]
2008: In
Budapest, “The 20th meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee (ILC) of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the
Jews and the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations
(IJCIC)” came to a close today.
2008:
Following a very close race, the media declared that Alaska Congressman Don
Young had defeated Ethan Berkowitz and Don Wright. Berkowitz is Jewish. The other two are not.
2009:
“Crocodile Tears” by Anthony Horowitz, the 8th Alex Rider novel, was
released in the UK today.
2009: The
31st Annual Jewish Book Festival comes to a close.
2009:
Opening of Jewish Book Month, an annual event sponsored by The Jewish Book
Council.
2009:
In Iowa City, Israeli
Film & Food Night will include a showing of the award-winning Israeli film,
The Band’s Visit.
2009:
Judge Joseph “Wapner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame” today.
2009:
Today a jury found Sholom Rubashkin, formerly a manager of the Agriprocessors
plant in Postville, guilty of 86 charges of money laundering and bank, mail and
wire fraud. He faces another trial on 72 immigration charges.
2010:
“The Electric Mind,” a documentary created by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Harel is
scheduled to have its U.S. premiere at the American Museum of Natural History
in NYC.
2010:
IAF pilot
Major Amichai Itkis who had died in a training crash along with his navigator,
Major Emanuel Levi will be buried today in Kfar Saba.
2010:
Antonia
Fraser’s new memoir, “Must You Go? My Life With Harold Pinter,” is the first
tome listed on the New York Times list of Coffee
Table Books.
2010 Morris
Lapidus: Architecture of Joy is one of the books on antiques that the New
York Times recommends buying as a gift during the upcoming Holiday Season.
[Lapidus is the Russian born American architect who set the style for the
resort hotels built in Miami Beach and its environs during the 1950’s]
2010:
Ariel Sharon was moved from the long-term care facility to his home in Havat
Shikmim for a 48-hour period, the first of five planned home visits.
2010:
“Tiny Furniture” “a comedy-drama written by, directed by and starring Lena
Dunham” and also co-starring Laurie Simmons and Alex Karposvsky was released in
the United States today.
2011(15th
of Cheshvan, 5772): Seventy-five year old “Evelyn H. Lauder, a refugee of
Nazi-occupied Europe who married into an illustrious family in the beauty
business and became an ardent advocate for breast cancer awareness, raising
millions for research” passed away today. (As reported by Cathy Horn)
2011: The
3rd Annual International Holiday Bazaar is scheduled to begin at the
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2011: The Hadassah
Attorneys' Council of Greater Washington
is scheduled to sponsor a lecture by Charles S. Fax entitled
"Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: Suing the Hungarian
State Railroad Company in Federal Court For Its Role in Transporting Jews to
the Auschwitz Death Camp"
2011: The
JCC of Northern Virginia is scheduled to sponsor its Fall Fundraising Gala: A
Night of the Arts in Arlington, VA.
2011: Around 10,000
people gathered in Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv this evening for a memorial
for the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated 16 years ago by
a right-wing Jewish extremist.
2011: Seventy-five year
old “Evelyn H. Lauder, a refugee of Nazi-occupied Europe who married into an
illustrious family in the beauty business and became an ardent advocate for
breast cancer awareness, raising millions for research died today from the effects
of nongenetic ovarian cancer. (As reported by Cathy Horyn)
2012: At the UK Jewish
Film Festival premiere screening of “Life In Stills,” about the life and work
of Israeli photographer Rudi Wasserstein.
2012: Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “The
Ritchie Boys” as part of the Veteran’s Day commemorations.
2012: Dorit Beinisch,
the first woman to serve as President of the Israeli Supreme Court, “was
awarded Doctor of Philosophy "honoris causa" degree from the Weizmann
Institute of Science.”
2012: Muhamad Abd al-Wahab, Farid al-Atrash,
Layla Mourad and Asmahan are scheduled to perform at the Jerusalem
International Oud Festival. (The pear-shaped instrument is compared to the
lute)
2012: A Grad rocket
landed in the yard of a house in the southern city of Netivot this morning. No
one was injured, but the explosion caused damage to the building and its
surroundings, leading to power outages in parts of the city. Twenty-six people
were treated for shock.
2012: There’s no
predominantly anti-Israel sentiment on most American campuses – rather apathy
is the true danger facing the Jewish state, according to an Israeli diplomat.
2012: Israel fired at
and struck two Syrian mortar launchers today, following the second time in as
many days that Syrian artillery shells exploded in Israeli territory.,
2013:
The Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Anne
Frank Trust is scheduled to host Baroness Helena Kennedy who will speak on
“What Does the Rule of Law Really Mean?”
2013:
In Jerusalem, the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America
chaired by CEO Jerry Silverman is scheduled to end today.
2013:
Today, in Washington, D.C, “75 people” including Bulgarian Ambassador Elena
Poptodorova, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and Neil Glick attended a
ceremony naming “the intersection adjacent to the Embassy of Bulgaria at 22nd
Street and R Street, NW, Dimitar Peshev Plaza” in honor of Dimitar Peshev, the
Bulgarian leader who helped to prevent the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000
Jews “ for which he was named one of the "Righteous Among the
Nations".
2013:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present “Water: Israeli-Palestinian
Cinematic Project.
2013:
Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called
today for the urgent release of imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard a day
after US Ambassador Dan Shapiro appeared to end hope that he would be freed any
time soon. (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2013:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu directed Housing and Construction Minister
Uri Ariel to "reconsider" plans for preliminary planning of some
24,0000 housing units beyond the Green Line, saying this would harm efforts to
stop Iran's nuclear program. (As reported by Herb Heinon and Tovah Lazaroff)
2013:
Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar responded today to Beit Shemesh Mayor Moshe
Abutbul's homophobic remarks in a Friday interview with Channel 10, saying:
"I condemn, in the most unequivocal way, the words of Beit Shemesh mayor.
The things that he said represent a dark and outrageous perception, and it's
hard to believe that someone would say these things in this day and age."
(As reported by Omri Efraim)
2014:
“In a new spree of anti-Semitic incidents in Paris, a kosher restaurant is
firebombed, and a Jewish student wearing a yarmulke is assaulted outside his
private high school.”
2014:
The Skirball Center and the United States are scheduled to host “Rescuing the
Evidence: Three Minutes in Poland”
2014:
The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Modeling the Synagogue –
from Dura to Touro.”
2014:
The University of Connecticut is scheduled to host a lecture by Professor
Sanders on “Scholem’s Myth of Oral Torah and Jewish Interpretation before the
Bible”
2014:
“The Foreign Ministry announced today it would not cooperate with the UN
inquiry into the summer Gaza conflict, and rejected an entry request issued by
three members of the investigative committee seeking to gather evidence,
leaving them stranded in Amman. (As reported by Mariss Newman)
2014:
“A new report from the Ministry of Health into the leading causes of death in
Israel between 2000 and 2011 shows a significant decline in mortality from
heart disease, stroke, accidents, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases
over the past decade. At the same time, there has been a dramatic increase in
fatalities from Alzheimer's and dementia.” (As reported by Yaron Keiner)
2014:
Oren Kosansky, an “Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the
Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lewis & Clark College” is
scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Jewish-Muslim relations in Morocco as
part of Portland Jewish Book Month.
https://t.e2ma.net/click/yti4g/yd6jwg/ey0ddc
2015(30th
of Cheshvan, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
2015(30th
of Cheshvan, 5776): Ninety-three year old portrait artist Aaron Shikler passed
away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2015:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held at Temple Judah for 93 year old Fred
Rodgers, a long-time member of the Cedar Rapids Jewish Community followed by
burial at Eben Israel Cemetery.
Ironically, Mr. Rodgers passed away on November 10, the day after
Kristallnacht. For years, Mr. Rogers would speak each about Kristallnacht
describing his family’s experience at that time while living in Frankfort.
2015:
Hezbollah weapons warehouses were the targets of this afternoon’s Israeli airstrikes in Syria.
2015:
Angela Bothelo is scheduled to lecture on “Modern Marrano: German Jews and the
Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion as part of the Speakers Series
sponsored by the Tulane University Jewish Studies Department.
2015:
“Fired Birds” and “Sabena” are scheduled to be shown at the 29th
Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles.
2015:
The Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College is scheduled to host a screening of
“The Return,” “a documentary about being young and Jewish in today’s Poland,
followed by a discussion with director Adam Zucker.”
2015:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host “author
and film historian Thomas Doherty-Professor of American Studies at Brandeis
University-as he addresses the impact of Nazism in films and newsreels from his
book Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939.”
2016(11th
of Cheshvan, 5777): Parashat Lech-Lecha
2016:
The Shabbos project continues
https://www.theshabbosproject.org/en/?gclid=CMG4vpOMldACFQcIaQodGIEGrQ
2016:
“The Diary of Anne Frank” and “A Grain of Truth” are scheduled to be shown at
the 20th UK International Jewish Film Festival.
2016;
In Canberra, “The People vs Fritz Bauer is scheduled be shown at the Jewish
International Film Festival.
2016:
The 106 year old Mexican-born actress Lupita Tovar, the wife of Paul Kohner,
the Czechoslovakian born Jewish producer whom she married in 1932 and the
mother of actress Susan Kohner, passed away today.
2016;
Agudas Achim is scheduled to host “Eat, Sing, Love--an Evening of Jewish Music”
as part of the congregation’s centennial celebration.
2016:
“Wounded Land” and “Sand Storm” are scheduled to be shown at the
11th
Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema.
2016:
“Israel moved into third place with nine points in its soccer World Cup
qualifying Group G by beating Albania 3-0 in Elbasan, near Tirana” tonight.
2016:
“Big: The Musical” featuring music by David Shire and with a book by John
Weidman, the son of Jerome Weidman is scheduled to have its final performance
at the Theatre Royal Plymouth tonight.
2017:
The New York Times features reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory by
Michael Korda, The Bad Mood and The Stick by Lemony Snicket, The Boy
and The Whale by Mordicai Gerstein and the recently released paperback
editions of Idaho by Emily Ruskovich and Thank You for Being Late: An
Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L.
Friedman as well as Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
by Jonah Winter which appeared on list of “The Best Illustrated Children’s
Books of 2017.”
2017:
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a “reading
of Toni and Markus written by Walter Roth explores the everyday lives of the
author's relatives both in German, and as refugees in Chicago.”
2017:
In Des Moines, Beit Sefer Shalom is scheduled to host a “Global Day of Jewish
Learning.”
2017:
In Manchester, UK, as part this year’s “Remembrance Sunday” members of the
Jewish community are scheduled “to place small wooden Magen Davis poppies”
which “are an innovative joint initiative between the Jewish Representative
Council (JPR) and the Manchester branch of the national Association of Jewish
Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX)” “at cenotaphs across the city.”
2017:
The Primo Levi Center is scheduled to present “Dressing the Sacred Text:
Mappòt, Me’ilim and Parochyot in the Synagogues of Rome.”
2017:
In honor of Veterans Day, The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, the
National Museum of American Jewish Military History and Jewish War Veterans of
the USA are scheduled to co-host a tour the Jewish Sites at Arlington National
Cemetery.
2017:
The 19th annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Seminar is scheduled to take place today in NYV.
2017:
Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such Herman Wouk who has been with us
for more than half a century and Jewish books for the next thirty days is
scheduled to begin today.
2018:
In an interview broadcast on CBS’s “60 Minutes, “six-time Olympic medalist Aly
Raisman” who is Jewish “said that she was sexually abused by Dr. Larry Nassar,
who worked as the women’s gymnastics national team doctor of decades.”
2018: The Zionist Organization of America feted Stephen K. Bannon, a founding
member of the board of Breitbart News, at a gala dinner in New York tonight
2018:
The “Parallel Lines” Jewelry Exhibition featuring works by Israeli artists
Naama Bergman, Tamar Navama, Ruta Reifen, Dana Hakim, Noga Harel, Vered
Kaminski, and Einat Leader” is scheduled to open today in New York City.
2018:
Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to host curator Jacob Wisse as he leads
“a tour of Lost & Found, exploring the remarkable story of a pre-war family
photo album that was owned a woman who was deported from the Kovno Ghetto in
1943.”
2018:
Dr. David Kraemer is scheduled to teach the second class on “Maimonides, The
Man and His Genius” at the Streicker Center
2018:
Centro Primo Levi and The American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present
an evening with Dora Piperno, Celeste Pavoncello Piperno and Rav Umberto
Piperno who will discuss “The Silk Tallit Renaissance.”
http://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/filo-so-fare/
2018:
The Temple Emanu-El Steicker Center is scheduled to host “Jewish Broadway”
during which “leading Broadway and nightclub stars will celebrate the iconic
tunes that brought the Jewish American songbook to life, putting its indelible
stamp on the popular culture of our country and the world.”
2018:
Classes have been canceled in Israeli communities along the border with Gaza
following rocket attacks and clashes with Hamas terrorists that claimed the
life of a yet to be identified IDF officer
2019:
In London, the UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “A
Cantor’s Head
and “The Diary of Diana B.”
2019:
The Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society and The
Workmen’s Circle are scheduled to host “History Behind the Headlines:
Socialism”, “the first in a series of programs designed to look at today’s
political issue against the backdrop of history.”
2019:
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is scheduled to host “The Origins
of, Parallels between, Zionism and Black Nationalism,” the “third and final
event in the HNCU Speaker Series.
2019:
In Sebastopol, CA, the Sonoma County Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host
a screening of the comedy “Abe.”
2020:
The Jewish Community Center of Youngstown is scheduled to offer a virtual
program “Senior Scams: Protecting Older Adults from Fraud and Elder Financial
Abuse”
2020:
Paul Nahme, Judaic studies professor at Brown U., is scheduled to talk about “Jewishness”
in the Weimar era as Part of the “Jews and Race” series produced by four
Jewish/religious scholarly entities in Berkeley.
2020:
The JDC Archives is scheduled to host the webinar “Jewish Resilience and
Resourcefulness During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995.”
2020:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Private
Benjamin.”
2020:
For a second day, the Columbus Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to offer a
virtual screening of “Crescendo.”
2020:
As part of the Holocaust Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University is scheduled to
host “Running and Hiding from the Nazis: My Miraculous Escape from the
Holocaust” by Miriam Klein Kassenoff
2020:
The Jewish Book Council is scheduled to host “a celebration of the 69th annual
National Jewish Book Award winners, a virtual celebration featuring our winners
live from their homes!”
2020:
The Graduate Theological Union is scheduled to present Rabbi and author Jay
Michaelson analyzing the results of the election and the long-term implications
for the LGBTQ Jewish community.
2021:
Homecoming weekend is scheduled to begin at Tulane University.
2021:
In Andover, MA, Rabbi Emeritus Robert Goldstein Cantor Idan Irelander, soloist
Gitit Shoval, the Abbas and Soul Sisters are scheduled to participate at the
installation services of Rabb Max Chaiken at Temple Emanuel.
2021:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to present online a screening of 'Maverick
Modigliani’ that includes an Introduction by Curator of Tate Modern's
Modigliani Exhibition Dr Nancy Ireson
2021:
The Boston Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening online of
“Shalom Taiwan.”
2022:
Hadassah is scheduled to host the “Greater Kansas City 5th Annual
touch of Red Gala.
2022(18th
of Cheshvan, 5783): On the Jewish calendar 4th yahrzeit Joyce
Fienberg, 75,Richard Gottfried, 65, Rose Mallinger, 97;Jerry Rabinowitz, 66; Cecil,
59 & David Rosenthal, 54; Bernice, 84 & Sylvan Simon, 86; Daniel Stein,
71; Melvin Wax, 88 and Irving Younger, 69 who were murdered by anti-Semitic
gunman at the Or L’Simcha ((Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9lRNebyKe8
2022:
The Shabbat Project, an international grassroots movement that brings together
Jews from all walks of life and all levels of observance to keep one Shabbat,
celebrated in a spirit of global Jewish unity is scheduled to come to an end
today.
https://www.theshabbosproject.org/?gclid=CMG4vpOMldACFQcIaQodGIEGrQ
2022:
The New Plaza Cinema is scheduled to host a screening of Cahiers Noirs: Ronit
followed by a Q&A with Director
hosted by Nicole Krauss.
2022:
Post Commander CarolBerman is scheduled to continue Veterans Day observance by
reading the list of the names of the fallen at Congregation Beth Israel, 4004
West Esplanade Avenue in Metairie.
2022:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled to host a gala at Manchester, England.
2022
(18th of Cheshvan, 5783)
Va-yayra
(“Appeared” i.e., “And God appeared to him…”)
18:1-22:24
Bereshit (Genesis)
2023:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The Devil’s
Confession” and “Matchmaking.”
2023:
Brandi Larsen is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the virtual Jewish
Book Club’s Writer’s Conference.
2023:
This year’s Cleveland Jewish Book Festival, presented by the Mandel Jewish
Community Center in Beachwood, which will feature 17 authors through a two-part
event that beings today.
2023:
In Atlanta, The Breman Museum is scheduled to present “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” a
play by Mark St. Germain.
2023:
In Deerfield, Il, the Fall Leadership Retreat sponsored by Hadassah Great
Plains is scheduled to come to an end.
2023:
In Miami Beach, the Betsy Hotel is scheduled to a reading by poet and National
Jewish Book Award winner Rodger Kamentz on the opening night of the Jewish
American and Holocaust Literature Symposium.
2023:
The Alliance for Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host a conversation with Jackie
Hoffman who will talk “about her illustrious career in the theater, from
playing Yente in Yiddish Fiddler to her one-woman show.”
2023:
The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to co-present the second day of JewCE!The
Museum and Laboratory of the Jewish Comics Experience.
2023:
The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “The
Rugrats Move,” “Alliance” and “Jewish Shorts.”
2023:
The Ben Katz Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) is scheduled to a
Sunday morning breakfast minyan at Shir Chadash as part of Veterans Day observances.
2023:
In Cedar Rapids, the Temple Judah choir is scheduled to participate a community
“Thanksgiving Musical Celebration.”
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to present “ Bring Them Home,” a special program
showcasing the incredible talents of singers, musicians, artists, and actors
from all corners of Israel who have come together voluntarily, offering their
heartfelt support to a nation in mourning and anxiously awaiting news about the
safety of the hostages.
2023:
As part of the “Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime” series, The Tikvah
Academy is scheduled to host a lecture by Cole Aronson on “The Problem of Evil:
A Jewish Reflection” and Alan Rubenstein on “America Jews: What is Our Duty?”
2023:
As November 12, begins in Israel, the
IDF suffers more casualties as it continues its fight in Gaza, the IDF responds
to attacks from Hezbollah, Israel is scheduled to provide assistance to the
Shifa Hospital as it evacuates babies from the facility and the Hamas held hostages begin day 37 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)
