This Day, November 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November
14
109 BCE (25 Cheshvan, 3652): John Hyrcanus defeated the Samaritans in Samaria and destroyed
their temple. The Samaritans were a mixed race who had been in conflict with
the Jews since the end of the Babylonian Exile.
They believed in…
November 14
109 BCE (25 Cheshvan, 3652): John Hyrcanus defeated the Samaritans in Samaria and destroyed
their temple. The Samaritans were a mixed race who had been in conflict with
the Jews since the end of the Babylonian Exile.
They believed in a form of monotheism but rejected all oral law. They
believed that Mt. Gerizim, near Nablus, was their place of sacrifice. John Hyrcanus was a nephew of Judah
Maccabee. He was the third son of Simon,
the last of the original Maccabee brothers.
John Hyrcanus ruled from 134 BCE through 104 BCE. He felt that it was his mission to restore the
territory of the original Davidic Kingdom to Jewish control. The victory over the Samaritans was part of
this grand plan of conquest
565:
Roman Emperor Justinian dies at 82. As Christianity grew in power in the Roman
Empire it influenced the emperors to limit further the civil and political
rights of the Jews. Justinian's Law said Jews may not offer testimony against
Christians who are engaged in litigation.
1305: In Lyon, consecration of Pope Clement, the first of the “Avignon Popes” who was the “first pope to threaten Jews with an economic boycott in an attempt to force them to stop charging Christians interest on loans.”
1417:
On St. Martin’s Day, the Council of Constance elected Otto Colona Pope who as
Martin V accorded “many privileges” to the Jews of Ancona in an effort to
“increase the economy of the city and the state.”
1491:
Six conversos and two Jews were burned at the stake in town Aivila at the end
of an inquisition trial that revolved a blood libel that created the Holy Child
of La Guardia.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/la-guardia-holy-child-of
1650:
Birthdate of King William III of England.
Also known as William of Orange, he was the ruler who came to the throne
as a result of the Glorious Revolution, which was financed, in part by Dutch
Jews. The newly readmitted Jewish
community in England had nothing to fear from the new who King who be the first
English monarch to bestow knighthood on a Jewish subject.
1791:
In New York City, Leah Nathan and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to Rebecca
Hart the wife of Moses Seixas.
1792:
Moses Ephraim married Lydia Nathan at the Great Synagogue today.
1794:
In Wartha, Poland, Sarah and Fischel Cohen gave birth to South Carolina
resident Rabbi Hartwig Cohen, the husband of Deborah Cohen with whom he had
seven children.
1797:
Birthdate of Moses M. Haarbleicher the German-Jewish poet and critic whose
father founded the Jewish School of Hamburg.
1802:
Nathan Salomons married Esther Aron Goldsmid at the Great Synagogue today.
1805:
Birthdate of pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn. Her brother was Felix Mendelssohn and
according to some, his closest confidante.
Fanny was the granddaughter of Moses Mendelssohn. Both of her parents were Jewish at the time
of her birth. As a youngster, her
parents had her (and her other siblings) baptized as Lutherans. Her father, like five of the six of Moses
Mendelssohn’s children would also convert.
1810:
Birthdate of educator and author Jacob Auberbach, the brother-in-law of
novelist Berthold Auerbach who wrote Lessing and Mendelssohn and a History
of the Jewish Community of Vienna from 1874.
1815:
Birthdate of Moritz Duschak, the
Moravian born rabbi who had studied with Rabbi Moses Sofer and who had served
the community of Cracow, before finally settling “in Vienna where he spent his
last days in neglect and disappointment.”
1820:
Birthdate of “Marylebone, London” native Hannah da Cunha, the mother of Ventra
da Cunha.
1820:
“Margherita d’Anjou” an operatic melodramma semiseria in two acts by
German-Jewish composer Giacomo Meyerbeer was performed for the first time in
Milan, Italy.
1821:
In Charleston, SC, Rabbi Peixotto officiated at the wedding of Myer J. Ellis
and Miss Francis Polack Abrahams, the daughter of Jacob Abrahams.
1824:
In Philadelphia, Henry Benjamin Nones, the Philadelphia born son of “Abraham
Benjamin None and Miriam Marks de Nones and his wife Anna M. Nones gave birth
to Jefferson Henry Nones
1825:
Three days after she had passed away, Elizabeth Phillips, the wife of Lyon
Phillips and the mother of Joseph Phillips was buried to in the “Brompton
(Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery” today.
1827:
Lesser Gottheimer married Elza Zachariah at the Great Synagogue today.
1828(8th
of Kislev, 5589): Five days after his 40th birthday “playwright,
critic and journalist Isaac Harby a scion of a Sephardic family who advocate
reforms in Jewish ritual practices passed away today.
1831:
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel passed away. The work of this leading thinker of the Age
of Enlightenment is beyond our grasp.
For a better understanding of Hegel’s views on Judaism and his impact on
Jewish thought see Chapter Three of Hegel's Philosophy of History by
Robert L. Perkins entitled “The Fossil and the Phoenix: Hegel and Krochmal on
the Jewish Volksgeist” by Shlomo Avineri or the entry in the Jewish
Encyclopedia
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=509&letter=H&search=Hegel
1932(15th
of Cheshvan, 5693): Eighty-nine year old Dr. Herman Bendell, the Albany, NY
born son of “Edward and Hanah (Stern) Bendell, husband of Wilhelmina Bendell
and father of Beulah, Joseph, Myra and Berta Bendell who served as surgeon in
the Union Army during the Civil War and Superintendent of Indian Affairs under
President Grant passed away today.
http://www.jmaw.org/bendell-jewish-arizona/
1834:
Moritz Wolff and Fanny Schwabe gave birth to Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, a German
born British shipbuilder and politician. Wolff’s family had converted in 1819
so he was raised as a Lutheran.
1835:
In Prague, Lazar and Helena Brandies gave birth to future Omaha, Nebraska
resident Jonas Leopold Brandeis, the husband of Franziska Brandeis with whom he
had four children – Emil, Sarah, Hugo and Arthur.
1837:
Danish painter David Monies married Bolette Jacobsen the daughter of Isaac
Jacobson, a merchant and his wife, the former Sara Heimann.
1838:
In Charleston, SC, Marx E. married Armida Harby, the “daughter of the later
Isaac Harby.”
1848:
Birthdate of Sándor Wekerle, the Hungarian Premier who introduced a bill into
the Hungarian Parliament that provided “for equal religious rights for Jews and
Christians.”
1852:
In St. Louis, MO, Joachim Fleischman and Kathrine Bloch gave birth to Samuel M.
Fleischman, the husband of Mathilda Kahn who served as a rabbi in Akron, Ohio
from 1880 to 1886 and began serving as Superintendent of the Jewish Foster Home
and Orphan Asylum at Philadelphia in 1886.
1853:
Isidore Newman arrived in New Orleans today.
1853:
Birthdate of New Orleans native “impresario” Theodore David “Ted” Marks, the
grandson of New Orleans merchant and philanthropist Isadore Newman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/02/10/104890825.pdf
1855:
Two days after she had passed away, 55 year old Mary Kensington Levy, the wife
of Moses Levy of Notting Hill (London) with whom she had ten children, “who
opened the first soup kitchens in the East End” was buried today at the Brady
Street Jewish Cemetery.
1862:
In Aldershot in Hampshire in 1862, the eldest son of Russian-born and
naturalized-British subject Woolf Henry Cohen, marine store dealer, pawnbroker
and later a tobacco manufacturer, and his Polish-born wife Harriett, née
Phillips, the daughter of Aldershot businessman Moses Phillips, a watchmaker
and jeweler gave birth to Orthodox Rabbi Francis Lyon Cohen, “the music editor
of the Jewish Encyclopedia,” a driving force behind the creation of Jewish
Lads’ Brigade and “first Jewish chaplain in the British Army who was the
husband of Rose Hast the “chief minister of the Great Synagogue in Sydney,
Australia.”
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-francis-lyon-5710
1864:
In Jonesboro, TN, Helen (Gugggenheimer) Cone and grocery store own Herman Cone
gave birth to Women’s Medical College of Baltimore graduate Clarible Cone, the
medical researcher and lecturer whose travels to Europe included developing
friendships with Picasso, Matisse and Gertrude Stein.
1864:
During the Civil War, Sherman’s Army, including the 82nd Illinois
Infantry under the command of Colonel Edward Selig Salomon spent its last night
in Atlanta as it prepared for the March to the Sea.
1867:
In Chicago, Louis and Mina Goodkind gave birth to Williams College graduate and
Columbia trained medical doctor Maurice Goodkind, the husband of Rose Snydaeker
and long-time chief of medical service at Michael Reese Hospital who reached
the rank of Colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps during WW I and was decorated
by the French Government.
1870:
An English language production of “La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein,” an
operetta, based on a libretto co-authored by Ludovic Halevy at the Metropolitan
in New York City.
1871:
A conference today in Liverpool formed The Vigilance Association, which became
the Personal Rights Association which published the writings of economist
Joseph Hiam Levy.
1871:
In “Paddington, London,” Hannah de Lara and Henry Russell gave birth to Henry
Russell, the oldest born son from his second marriage.
1871:
It was reported today that “during the remainder of the Jewish year the
following holidays will be observed by our Hebrew population: Dec. 8, Feast
Chanukah; Dec. 22, Feast of Teveth; March 21, 1872, Fast of Esther; March 24,
Purim; March 25, Shushan Purim; April 23, first day of Passover; June 12, Feast
of Weeks; July 23, Fast of Tammuz; August 13, Fast of Av.”
1873(24th
of Cheshvan, 5634): Seventy-three year old Louis (Ludwig) Bischoffsheim who had
married the daughter of Chaim Goldschmidt of Frankfort-on Main and the son of
Raphael (Nathan) Bischoffsheim passed away today.
1875:
In Berlin, banker Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Marie Warschauer a
granddaughter of Alexander Mendelssohn, gave birth to banker and art collector Paul
Robert Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy who married Elsa Lucy Emmy Lolo von
Lavergne-Péguilhen after divorcing Charlotte Reichenheim and whose art
collection was plundered by the Nazis which has led to litigation lasting into
the 21st century.
1878:
Birthdate of “author, art critic and art collector and Columbia graduate George
S. Hellman, the grandson of banker “Joseph Seligman founder of J & W
Seligman” who was the husband of the former Hillda Emily Josephthal and Mrs.
Irene Shuman Shafer with whom he had two children – Geoffrey and Rhoda.
http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1376
1878:
Josef Kahn, the Czech born son of Jacob and Franziska Kahn and his wife Julie
Kahn gave birth to Bertha Kahn, who became Bertha Fischer when she married Dr.
Emilian Fischer and who died after being sent to Auschwitz in 1944.
1879:
Joseph Betzky lost five members of his family, including his wife and two sons
in a fire this morning in the tenement house at #80 Cannon Street in New York
City. Solomon and Lena Cohen were questioned about the origins of the fire
since the son of the building’s owner claimed that Mrs. Cohen had started it.
However, authorities released them without making any charges after the
deposition was taken.
1880:
“A Story of the East” published today provided a lengthy review Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace. The reviewer has nothing but praise for this creation by Civil
War General Lew Wallace who created the character of Judah ben Hur, a prince
among his people.
1881:
Birthdate of Nicholas M. Schenck, the native of Rybinsk who became one of the
early movers and shakers in the film industry.
1881:
Pavel Axelrod and his wife Nadezhda Ivanovna Kaminer, one of his former
students gave birth to their third child Sofia today.
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/zavel-zilberts/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/04/26/84210158.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1882:
Birthdate of Homel, Russia native Daniel Hill who in 1906 came to the United
State where he settled in Lincoln, NE.
1882:
Birthdate of Dr. William Fileerman who at the beginning of World War was the
President of the Federation of the Unions of the Jewish Communities in Romania
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Filderman_Wilhelm
1883:
State Supreme Court, Judge Larremore married Fannie Abraham and Samuel Moressor
who had agreed to marriage to avoid further incarceration on charges of breach
of promise of marriage.
1883:
In a case of Jew versus Jews, the Sheriff arrested Morris Dampsky in a suit for
$10,000 for breach of promise of marriage brought against him by Annie Zeiss.
1883:
In Manhattan, David Salzman, Russian Jewish youngster who earns his living by
blacking boots in Castle Garden, found a check in the amount of $1,250 today.
1884:
It was reported today that Rosa Schuminchler, who arrived in this country
yesterday, will be deported for a second time.
She had been sent back to Poland after she took part “in the disturbance
in the offices of the Hebrew Aid Society on State Street in New York City.
1884:
In Bloomsberg, PA, Lewis Cohen, a native of Nagle, Germany who came to the U.S.
at the age of 16 and served in the Union Army during the Civil before going
into the business of manufacturing cigars and Flora (Alexander) Cohen gave
birth to University of Pennsylvania trained physician and surgeon Joseph Cohen,
the husband of the former E. Grace Vaughn
1885:
The annual fair of the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society, a fund raising
activity, opened tonight at Parepa Hall in New York City
1885:
Birthdate of Galveston native and merchant George Solomon Cohen.
1885:
In Gradizhsk, a village in the Ukraine, Anne Terk Stern and Elie Stern give
birth to Sonia Stern, who as Sonia Delaunay became known for her vivid use of
color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions
between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker. (As
reported by Julio Maryann De)
1886:
The Board of Directors of the Hebrew Free School Association hosted a reception
today in honor of 3 of its members who have just returned from Europe.
1886:
Birthdate of Russian native and St. Lawrence University trained attorney Samuel
Goldstone who practiced law in Newark, NJ.
1886:
“M. De Giers” published today described the shifting foreign policy of the
Russian Empire and the increased role that Nicholas de Giers, who “comes from a
Swedish-Fin family of Jewish extraction” will be playing in shaping
relationships with Germany and other European powers. De Giers, “whom haughty
Grand Dukes, intriguing Panslavists and impatient Generals sneer at as ‘the
Jew’ has a reputation for taking the blame for policies that are not of his
making. In this case, he was supporting
the Czar’s continued desire to ally with Germany.
1886:
The residents of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews will be entertained this
evening by a concert featuring Master I. Wessell.
1887:
In Dusseldorf, Germany, Seligman Lazarus Cohn, the son of Caroline and Lazarus
Joseph Cohen and his wife and Sophie Cohn gave birth to Paul Cohn.
1887:
“Life in the Holy Land 1900 Years Ago” published today provided a detailed
review of Palestine in the Time of Christ by Edmond Stapfer
1888:
Twenty-six year old Charles Edward Bloch, the Cincinnati born son of Edward and
Henrietta Bloch who was the publisher of the Chicago Israelite and founder of
the Reform Advocate married Bertha Eisendrath today.
1889:
“Why The Child Is Not Buried” published today describes the fate of Abraham
Bergman, a child who died two weeks but remains unburied because Marcus
Sanftman, the former President of the Warschauer Benefit Sick and Burial
Society has refused to sign the burial permit even though the burial fee has been paid. By his own admission, Warschauer has failed
to act because of a dispute he is having with the newly installed President.
1889:
Birthdate of Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the movement for Indian Independence
and first Prime Minister of India. Nehru
was opposed to the creation of the state of Israel. Like so many others, Nehru admired the
suffering Jews, but did not like to see them in a position of power. More to the point, he opposed the creation of
a Jewish state in an attempt to curry favor with India’s Moslem minority. After the creation Israel, Nehru did what he
could to isolate the new Jewish state.
Fortunately, over the last decade, India and Israel have developed
harmonious relations at both the personal and governmental level.
1889:
In St. Louis, MO, Joseph Lazarus Kranson and Caroline Kranson gave birth to
Abraham H. Kranson.
1890(2nd
of Kislev, 5651): Polish born Samuel Lasker, the husband of Hulda Levi Lasker
whom he married in 1877 and with whom he had six children – Meyer, Helen,
Isaac, Rose, Tillie and Selmas – passed away today in New York after which he
was buried in the Union Field Cemetery.
1890:
Judge David McAdam, the Chief of the City Court and the Judge-elect of the
Superior Court published his campaign expenses today which included $25 owed to
the Hebrew World, $10 owed to the Hebrew Leader and $40 owed to the Jewish Daily News.
1890:
In New York City. De Witt J. (David) Seligman, the son of James (Jacob)
Seligman and Rosa Seligman and Addie Seligman gave birth to James Bernheimer
Seligman.
1892:
In St. Petersburg, the prohibition against Jews being allowed to emigrate “that
was enforce during the cholera epidemic” has been lifted.
1892:
In another example of how Jewish culture infuses Western culture, the New York premier of Israel in the
Wilderness, a cantata that opens with a
Hebrew Chorale and includes sections entitled “The God Abram Praise,” “Forth
from the Land of Egypt” and “O Fertile Land of Egypt” was well received by the
audience and the journalist who reviewed it.
1892:
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Reverend Henry P. Smith a noted Professor of Hebrew at
Lane Theologilical Seminary is being tried by his fellow Presbyterians for his
beliefs which question the inerrancy of Scripture and question the accuracy of
statements made in the Bible when one considers the differences between events
described the books of Samuel and Kings as opposed to the description in
Chronicles.
1892:
Judge Henry M. Goldfogle presided over the special meeting of the Grand Lodge,
District No. 1 Order of B’nai B’rith which had been called to deal with the
financial crisis facing the organization.
1892:
In an interview published today, former Chancellor Bismarck denied that Germans
or Russians wanted to fight a war with each other saying that “the only warlike
elements in Russia are the press, the Poles and the Jews.” (Bismarck seemed to
have forgotten the German decision not renew its alliance with Russia which
pushed it into the arms of the French.
But aw we have seen in our times, it is so much easier to blame the Jews
and the media)
1892:
Reports published in New York today relying on information provided by the
Vienna correspondent of the London Standard described the confirmation received
by “the leading financial house of Vienna” that “the Paris house of Rothschild
has declined to have anything with the new Russia loan. Baron Alphonse agreed
with the logic stated by the London house of Rothschild that the House of
Rothschild would not assist those who oppress Jews. (Contrary to the Shylock
image of the Jew, this was a case where principle outweighed profit)
1893(5th
of Kislev, 5654): Fifty-six year Baron Moritz von Königswarter, the Austrian
banker and spokesmen who was appointed
by the emperor a life member of the Austrian House of Peers in 1879 and who was
outspoken defender of his co-religionists passed away today.
1894:
The 15th annual reported of the President of the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society of New York which has been issued as pamphlet “contains an
interesting history of the work that has been done by the society.”
1896:
In Austria, Kieve and Salomea Brenner Kreindler gave birth to future New Yorker
Anna Kreindler the wife of Henry Tannenbaum whom she married in 1917.
1896:
In New York delegates are gathering from across the country for the first
convention of the National Council of Jewish Women which is scheduled to open
tomorrow.
1896:
Mr. Isidor Straus presided over the dinner at Delmonico’s given “in honor of
Joseph Jacobs, the English author and critic who is here to deliver a series of
lectures to the National Council of Jewish Women” before moving on to Johns
Hopkins University and the University of Chicago.
1896(9th
of Kislev, 5657): Eighty-four year old Ephraim Wolbach, a native of Bavaria who
“was engaged in the jewelry and tailoring businesses before retiring 24 years
ago” passed away today at the home of his niece, Mrs. Max Lion.
1896:
“The advanced pupils of the Academy of Dramatic Arts are scheduled to
participate in a pantomime and play directed by Henry E. Dixey” this evening at
the Hebrew Institute at the corner of East Broadway and Jefferson Street.
1897:
In Vienna, the authorities blamed the Jewish students for the second outbreak
of violence because they were angered by the Germans who had attacked them in
the first uproar earlier in the week.
1897:
“The winter program of the Jews’ College Literary Society” is scheduled to
begin today with a lecture by “Mr. Alexander” a rabbi who served “one or two
provincial congregations” before going into business in London
1897:
Professor Felix Adler delivered a lecture at Carnegie Hall to members of the
Society for Ethical Culture entitled “What Has Religion Done for Civilization?
1897(19th
of Cheshvan, 5658): Benn Levy, the youngest son of Joseph and Cordella Levy of
Leicester died today after “a fall from his horse.”
1897:
Three days after he had passed away, 33 year old Henry Barend Hayman was buried
today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London”
1897:
“Honors to the American Author” published today described the visit of Mark
Twain to Vienna where “the utmost attention is being paid him by the press, the
‘Jewish press’ as the big Vienna dailies are called. The anti-Semitic papers have hardly taken any
notice of his visit.” (While in Vienna, Twain would write about the
government’s used of anti-Semitism to deflect public attention from rioting in
the Empire and he later defended his comments in “Concerning the Jews” which
was published in Harper’s magazine.
1898:
Barnet Phillips is scheduled to deliver at lecture this evening entitled “The
Past in the Present” which will be the first in a series of weekly talks
sponsored by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1898:
“Israel Zangwill delivered an address on the religion of the Ghetto” tonight at
the annual meeting of the Education Alliance at Temple Emanu-el.
1898:
A “mass meeting” attended by 3,000 was held tonight at Oheb Zedek on Clinton
Street in an attempt to raise the $3,000 from the realtors wrecking ball.
1899:
Lord Rothschild, Sir Samuel Montagu and Mr. Benjamin Montagu were among the
Jewish leaders who were on the platform at the tercentenary celebration of
Oliver Cromwell which included “the unveiling of a statue of the Protecter.
1900(22nd
of Cheshvan): Author Judah Behak passed away
1900:
“Leopold Hilauer, a Jew, who in 1898, was charged with the murder – immediately
before the Jewish Passover – of a peasant girl whom it was alleged he waylaid
in a lonely forest on the road from Kuttenberg to Prague was today found guilty
of being an accomplice in the crimes and was condemned to death by hanging.”
1900(22nd of Cheshvan): Sixty-eight year old Adolph Pollitzer,
the Budapest native who “was regarded as the most eminent” violin teacher “of
his time in England” and who “became leader at Her Majesty's Theatre under Sir
Michael Costa as well as the leader the new Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Royal Choral Society” passed away today.
1900:
Leopold Hilsner was found guilty of the ritual murder of Agnes Hruza of Polna
Bohemia
1900:
Herzl seeks a meeting with Lord Rothschild.
1900: In Brooklyn, Harris Morris Copland, a
merchant who had Anglicized its name from the original Kaplan, and Sarah
Mittenthal Copland gave birth to Aaron Copland who was noted for a variety of
concertos for piano and clarinet, the suite Quiet City and the Ballets Billy
the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.
He won a Pulitzer Prize for this last creation. He passed away in
1990. ‘Many of Aaron Copland's fans have
wondered how a young Jewish music-lover from Brooklyn came to compose such
works as Billy the Kid and Rodeo. Copland himself had a handy
explanation: his grandparents had once lived in Texas, where his grandfather
owned a store in Dallas. Frank James -
brother of Jesse James – was reputed to have been one of the employees. But for
the persistence of choreographer Agnes de Mille, Rodeo might never have
been produced. After the success of Billy the Kid, she suggested that
Copland write another Western ballet. Copland resisted giving as his initial
response, ‘I've already composed one of those. Can't you do a ballet about
Ellis Island?’"
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200182578
https://www.biography.com/people/aaron-copland-9256998
1901: Six hundred people attended the banquet at Madison
Square Garden celebrating the victory of the “Fusion forces” with Jacob A.
Cantor, the President-elect of the Borough of Manhattan, Dr. Felix Adler, Jacob
H. Schiff and Justice-elect Greenbaum joining the Mayor-elect at the head
table.’
1901(3rd of Kislev, 5662): Sixty-one-year-old
clothing store owner Charles B. Bachrach, the German born son of Aaron and
August Straus Bachrach and the husband of Leonora Goldman Bachrach whom he
married in 1868 and with whom he had five children – Mara, Sampson, William,
Hertha and Robert – reportedly died by his own hand today in Chicago.
1902:
“The Jewish Chronicle asserts this
morning that the name of the Romanian Minster was omitted from the list of
diplomates invited to attend the Lord Mayor’s inaugural banquet” as a sign of
the “displeasure” felt for “the persecution of the Jews in Romania.”
1902
“In its issue of today, “The American
Hebrew says that as a sequel to Secretary Hay’s note on behalf of the
Romanian Jews to the signatories of the Berlin treaty, the Alliance Israelite
Universelle of Paris has addressed a petition to the French Government, through
Foreign Minister Delcasse, asking it to take a similar position to that of the
United States.”
1903:
“A few of his veteran friends” celebrated the 50th anniversary of
the arrival of Isidore Newman in New Orleans
1904:
In Camden, NJ Abraham Lichtenstein purchased the property at 335 Liberty Street
which had previously belonged to Congregation Sons of Israel today.
1904:
Today, “on the West Side of Manhattan, David Mannes and the former Clara
Damrosch - founders of the Mannes College of Music” gave birth to “author,
journalist and critic” Marya Mannes “who wrote under the pen name of ‘Sec’”.
1904:
As of today “the nature of the rift that has split the Camden, NJ Jewish
community with the Sons of Israel going to” property at South and Sycamore
Street and others staying at 335 Liberty Street is unknown.
1905(16th
of Cheshvan, 5666): Five year old Morris Samuel Abrams passed away today after
which he was buried at the Shaare Zedek in Pittsburgh, PA.
1905:
David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West," premieres in New York City.
Belasco’s father was Jewish. His mother
was Roman Catholic.
1905:
“Three influential Jews left Odessa for St. Petersburg today to present to the
Council of Ministers a full account of the outbreak at Odessa, supported by
documentary evidence.”
1905:
The list of the Directors of the Educational Alliance published today included
“James Frank, Albert Friedlander, Samuel Greenbaum, Ferdinand Kuhn, Henry M.
Leipziger, Louis Marshall, William Salomon, Isidor Straus and Benjamin Tuska.”
1905:
Today’s American Hebrew called for “new measures to cope with” the massacres of
Russian Jews including “convening a Jewish congress in the United States” for
the purpose of coordinating the relief efforts of every Jewish organization.
1905:
It was reported today that in Odessa, P.D. Neidhart has been replaced by
“General Gergorieff, a conservative anti-Semite. (This is the same general who
will massacre the Jews of Odessa in the Summer of 1919 during the Russian Civil
War)
1905:
As of today, “the fund for the relief of Jewish sufferers from the Russian
massacres” “has reached at $200,000 although there is actually in hand about
$70,000 less than that sum.”
1905:
The Citizens’ Permanent Relief Committee is scheduled to meet in the office of
the Mayor of Philadelphia today to discuss ways of providing “immediate relief
to the survivors of the massacre in Russia.”
1906:
“Miss Alice Lewisohn Is Now An Actress” published today provided the
explanation by the daughter of the late philanthropist and businessman Leonard
Lewisohn that she concealed her identity while performing in “Pippa Passes” at
the Majestic Theatre because she did not plan on being a professional actress
and that her appearance was purely for educational purposes that would help her
with the amateur theatrical productions at the Henry Street Settlement House.
1907:
In Brooklyn, Joseph Steig, a house painter, and his wife Laura Ebel Steig, a
seamstress gave birth to multi-talented graphic artist William Steig.
1908:
Oscar Straus' musical "Der tapfere Soldat," premieres in Vienna.
. Straus dropped the second‘s’ at the
end of his name so he would not be confused the more famous Strauss family.
1908:
Albert Einstein presents the quantum theory of light
1908:
Birthdate of Yedida Shofet the native of Kashan, Iran who was the last Chief
Rabbi of Iran “and the worldwide spiritual leader of Persian Jewry.
1909:
Following yesterday’s observance of Shabbat, the meeting of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis, the largest organized body of Jewish ministers”
in the United States continued for another day.
1909(1st
of Kislev, 5670): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1909(1st
of Kislev, 5670): Thirteen year old Benze Zieg passed away today.
1909:
Birthdate of artist, illustrator and author of children’s books William Steig
who sold his first cartoon to the New
Yorker Magazine in 1930 and whose work would appear so often in that
publication (including 117 covers, that he was dubbed the “king of cartoons.’
more covers go to
http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/031020onco_covers_gallery
1909:
Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, the Rabbi at Chicago’s Temple Sinai, gave an address
tonight at the Broad Street at event celebrating the centenary of Rabbi David
Einhorn, of blessed memory. During his speech he demonstrated how the Reform
movement had revitalized Judaism from the dead hand and hypocrisy of Orthodoxy.
“Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand Orthodox Jews who pray
regularly to back to Jerusalem would be stricken with apoplexy if the Messiah
should suddenly announce that they could go back.”
1910:
Emma Keyman “the second daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Keyman” married David
Krichefski, the youngest sont of Mr. & Mr. Krichefski of Jersy at the
Wellington Road Synagogue.
1910:
Birthdate of Warsaw native and University of
California trained plant physiologist Daniel I. Arnon the winner, in 1973 of
National Medal of Science for “his fundamental research into the mechanism of
green plant utilization of light to produce chemical energy and oxygen and for
contributions to our understanding of plant nutrition” who was the husband of
Lucile Soule with whom he had five children – Stephen, Dennis, Ann, Ruth and
Nancy.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-24-mn-12580-story.html
1910:
Today, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded German poet and novelist Paul Johann
Ludwig Heyse the Nobel Prize for Literature.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9806EED61F39E333A25756C1A9679D946196D6CF
1911:
It was reported today that “Judge Julian W. Mack, Justice of the new Commerce
Court and President of the National Conference of Charities and Correction” has
“made a plea for more liberal policy of immigration” saying that “the greatest
task of this country is to weld together the multitude of races that have come
here so that their children of the second generation may be American.”
1912(4th
of Kislev, 5673): Eighty-three year old Civil War veteran Joseph Rosenthal
passed away today in Chicago.
1913(14th
of Cheshvan, 5674): Seventy-five year old Joseph Hiam Levy, the native of
Aldgate and son of Lawrence Levy whom he upset by leaving the Great Synagogue
for the more liberal West London Synagogue and who was an Inspector of Accounts
at the Department of Education before becoming a lecturer at Birkbeck College
and a leader of the Personal Rights Association passed away today.
1914:
In Georgia, the appellate court, upheld the trial court’s ruling denying Leo
Frank a new trial.
1914:
Birthdate of Shmuel Tankus, the native of the Neve Shalom district of Jaffa who
became the 5th commander of the Israeli Navy.
1914:
It was reported today that “there will be five Jews in the next Congress”
including two Democrats – Julius Kalen of California and A.T. Sabath of
Illinois --, two Socialists – Victor Berger of Wisconsin and Meyer Loudon of
New York – and one Republican – Isaac Sigel of New York.
1914:
It was reported today that “the Massachusetts Commission recently stated that
Russian Jews in Massachusetts presented a larger proportion of naturalized
citizens than any other nationality with which the commission came into
contacts.”
1915:
“Old Heidelberg” a silent romance co-starring Erich von Stroheim was released
today in the United States.
1915:
Louis D Brandeis is expected to be in Montreal for the upcoming convention of
the Montreal Zionists.
1915:
“Revive Jewish Artistry” published today described an exhibition in New York of
works from Jerusalem’s Bezalel School under the leadership of Professor Boris
Schatz who has led to the revival of the arts among “the Hebrews in Palestine.”
1915(5th
of Kislev, 5676): “Miss Sophie Love, a partner in the firm of Loeb and Currie
dressmakers” who had been in business for 27 years passed away today.
1915:
An order signed today by Russian Cavalry General Oblonsky commands “that when
the Russians enter a town of the enemy, or reconquer a town of their own , the
leaders of the Jewish community be taken and held as hostages” and that “at the
same time a warning should be given to all Jews that if any one of them should
be in any way help the enemy, even after we have left the town, these Jewish
leaders will be killed.”
1915:
“It was decided at the ninth annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee”
which held was held today at the Hotel Astor in New York City “to call a
conference “which will take steps to organize “organize a congress of American
Jews” that will meet after the end of the World War “to consider” ways to
ensure “the rights of Jews in belligerent lands and Romania.”
1916:
As control of Poland shifts from Russia to Germany during WW I, it was reported
that Herman Bernstein, the editor of the American Hebrew has urged all
concerned “that steps should be taken” to ensure that Jews enjoy “equal rights
with others in Poland after war” comes to an end.
1916(18th
of Cheshvan, 5677): Sixty-six year old Ferdinand Aufesser, the German born son
of Mary Pretzfedler and the Moses Aufesser who was living in the 1st
Ward of Albany New York in 1860 and who was the husband of Amalia Barnet passed
away today in Albany.
1916:
Birthdate of writer and producer, Sheldon Schwartz, another Jew who played a
key role in the creation of what some call middlebrow American culture as can
be seen by the fact that he wrote for Ozzie
and Harriet, produced The Brady Bunch
and created and produced Gilligan’s
Island.
1917:
“A bloody battle” was fought between the Turks and The Kiwis (New Zealand
soldiers fighting under General Allenby) at Ayun Kara, a village “southeast of
Tel Aviv.”
1917:
It was reported today that “the declaration by Great Britain of its purpose to
facilitate the effort of the Zionists to establish a national home for the
Jewish people in Palestine…carries with it a proviso that the establishment of
a Jewish State in the Holy Land shall not in any way conflict with the rights
of non-Jewish communities now existing in Palestine” while carrying “pledges by
Great Britain to oppose any project which might in any way impair the rights
and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
1917:
Today, Al McCoy, the son of a kosher butcher finally losing by a 6th-round
knockout.
1917:
Amid growing attempts to prevent Jewish students from receiving scholarships,
Stuart Samuel and Charles Emanuel met with Cyril Cobb, the Chairman of the
London County Council’s Education Committee and Sir Robert Cecil in a failed
attempt to thwart the change in policy that would require eligible candidates
“to be British when applying for the award and to have been born or have
fathers who were born in Britain or in the Dominions.”
1917:
Twenty-seven year old Detroit College of Law trained attorney and Acme Mills
executive Abraham Spere, the Toledo born son of Moses and Bluma Spere married
Anna Katz today in Detroit.
1918:
Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. Jan Masaryk was the guiding force behind
this effort the first president of the new Czech Republic. Masaryk was one of
the most decent and courageous leaders of the 19th and 20th
century. During the 1880’s when Prague
was swept by a series of anti-Semitic riots including charges of the blood
libel, Masaryk condemned the anti-Semites and worked to alleviate the suffering
of the Jews. Ironically, in 1916,
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies, whose parents had emigrated from Bohemia
(later to be part of Czechoslovakia) who arranged for Masaryk’s first meeting
with President Wilson. Wilson’s support
would prove to be critical in the creation of the Czech Republic. Thanks to the
Masaryk’s Jews enjoyed the benefits of full citizenship in law as well as in
fact. “Jewish communal institutions and
holidays enjoyed full juridical recognition and protection.” Jews played a key role in creating a vibrant,
Czech economy and played a leading role in the areas of art and culture. Of course, the most famous Jewish artist of
the time was Franz Kafka. We are not
better acquainted with the rest of these Jewish Czech artists because the Nazis
did their job all too well.
1918:
Days after the Armistice was signed, Rabbi Hyman Gerson Enelow wrote today that
“these have been wonderful days in Paris” where “the streets have been full of
wild enthusiasm” and “the people don’t seem to be able to find a way to express
their joy” now that “the most terrible war in human history has come to an end.
1919: In a move that must have made the Jews feel
"uncomfortable," the Constituent Assembly in Poland declared Sunday
as the official day of rest.
1920: Birthdate of Izo Hertzig, the native of Siret,
Romania who gained fame as Israeli MK Yitzhak Artzi.
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/my_homeland/yitzhak_artzi.asp
1920: “The fourteenth annual meeting of the American
Jewish Committee…was held at the Hotel Astor” today where “President Louis
Marshall presented the annual report of the Executive Committee, which dealt
with endeavors to obtain improvement of the condition of the Jews in Poland,
the Ukraine, Hungary and Rumania.”
1920: “Dolls of Death,” a silent movie filmed by
cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was released today in Germany.
1920(3rd of Kislev, 5681): Sixty-one year
old Jacob Wertheim, the son of Baruch
and Henrietta Wertheim who turned ownership in a small New York cigar story in
“the United Cigar Manufacturers Company with a capital of twenty million
dollars” and who was “one of the foundrs of the Federation ofr the Support of
Jewish Philanthropic Societies” passed away today.
1920: Today, “leading Jews in America untied to protest
against the announced proposal to undertake an evangelization campaign among
the Jews of New York City” for which “the Presbyterian Church has” raised
“nearly $200,000.”
1920: Birthdate of Irving Dover Ravetch the Newark born
son of a Jewish immigrant who had fled the Russian pogroms, became a pharmacist
and, later, a rabbi. His mother, an immigrant from what is now northern Israel,
was a Hebrew teacher. He gained fame as Irving Ravetch, whose playwriting
career stalled on the brink of Broadway but who became half of one of
Hollywood’s most successful husband-and-wife screenwriting teams, creators of
the Oscar-nominated scripts for “Hud” and “Norma Rae,”
1921: “Nature’s Nobelman” written by Samuel Shipman and
Clara Lipman and “staged” Louis Mann opened on Broadway at the Apollo Theatre.
1921: “Honor Lauterbach For Aid To Orphans” published
today described the honors paid to Edward Lauterbach for his 39 years of
service to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum including a brief talk by one of the
children, Paula Schwartz who “said that this name would be everlastingly
remembered by those who were housed in the institution during his trusteeship.”
1922: In a brief statement made today “which was
amplified by Ellis A. Gimbel of Philadelphia, the “five brothers of the late
Jacob Gimbel of Philadelphia and who was the head of the Gimble corporation
operating store in New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee” “have arranged to give
away more than one million dollars which would have come to them a residuary
legatee under the terms of their brother’s will.
1923(6th of Kislev, 5684): Eighty-six-year-old
Isaac Lazarus Lyons, the Columbia, SC born son of Jacob Cohen Lyons and Louisa
Louisa Elizabeth Lyons, the husband of Eva Lyons and the father of Randlolph,
George and Issac Lyons passed away today in New Orleans.
1923:
Winston Churchill told British businessman and leading member of Jewish
community, Sir Robert Waley Cohen, that he would no longer be able to work with
him on the merger of two of Cohen’s companies with the Anglo-Persian Company. Churchill turned his back on this lucrative
business arrangement because he had decided to return to public life as a
Member of Parliament. Ironically,
Churchill would lose his first bid to return to Parliament in March of
1924. It speaks to Churchill and his
business partners sense of rectitude that both wanted to avoid an appearance of
impropriety regardless of any financial reverses that either of them might
suffer.
1924:
In Shanghai, Celia Krisel and Alexander Krisel, “a lawyer and distributor for
United Arts films,” gave birth to architect William Krisel. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
1924(17th
of Cheshvan, 5685): Fifty-three year old Utica, NY born “Judge Hyman Lazarus of
the Court of Common Pleas of Hudson County, NJ and since 1911 publisher of The Bayonne Times” passed away today
early this morning at his home in Bayonne. NJ.
1924: Birthdate of famed Russian violinist Leonid
Kogan who won the Lenin Prize in 1952 proving that regardless of which side of
the Iron Curtain you looked you would find a Jewish Fiddler on the Roof.
1925:
Birthdate of Gladys Lenore Blum who would attain theatrical success as Gladys
Nederlander, producer of nine Broadway shows who passed away in July, 2008
1926:
“Contributions totaling $473,000 from members of the Real Estate Club of the
Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies in the
federation's $4,720,000 campaign, were announced at the fifth anniversary
dinner of the club at the Hotel Biltmore” tonight.
1927:
As part of its pre-Broadway run “Funny Face,” a George and Ira Gershwin musical
opened today in Wilmington, DE.
1927:
As Stalin consolidated his control over the Communist Party, Leon Trotsky, the
most famous Jewish Bolshevik was
expelled from the Party.
1928:
“Impressive Armistice Day Celebration is Held in Jerusalem” published today
described how “two hundred members of the former Jewish Legion which fought in
the British Army during the World War for the liberation of Palestine passed in
review before Acting High Commissioner H. C. Luke” as part of the ceremonies
marking the anniversary of the end of the World War.
1929:
Birthdate of Alan J. Shallack who collaborated with Margaret Rey starring in
the 1970’s to bring Curious George, the creation of her late husband, to the
television.
1929:
It was reported today that “the Abyssinian government has awarded the Order of
the Ethiopian Star to Dr. Jaques Faitlovitch, the international explorer and
executive director of the work among the Falashas in Abyssinia” who “has made
six expeditions into Abyssinia, during which he made scientific studies of the
Falasha, a people that has observed the Jewish faith for over 2,000 years.” (As
reported by JTA)
1929:
Fritz and Charlotte Fuerst got married today in Vienna, Austria. “Fritz Fuerst
illegally immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1938. His wife, Charlotte, was deported
to Kielce, Poland. Charlotte perished in the Holocaust “
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/01.asp
1930:
“Morocco” a romantic film for which Josef von Sternberg received an Oscar
nomination for Best Director was released in the United States today.
1931:
With Sid Gillman playing End, Ohio State defeated Wisconsin for its fifth
victory out of seven games played to date.
1931:
After 91 performances, the curtain came down on “The House of Connelly”
starring Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Clifford Odets which was staged
by Lee Strasberg at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1931:
Montefiore Kahn, vice president of Oil Shares, Inc., a $6,000,000 corporation
having its principal offices in Jersey City, was held on $25,000 bail for a
hearing Tuesday, upon his arraignment before Magistrate Capshaw in Jefferson
Market Court on a charge of being a fugitive from justice in New Jersey. He is
wanted in connection with the theft of $100,000.
1932:
“The eighth academic year of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem is scheduled to
open today according to an announcement by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, President of
the American Friends of the Hebrew University, Inc.”
1932(15th
of Cheshvan, 5693): Eighty-nine year old Albany Medical College trained
physician Herman Bendell, the Albany, NY born son of Elias and Hannah (nee
Stern) Bendell, the husband of
Wilhelmina Lewi and “a surgeon with the
86th New York Volunteer Infantry” during the Civil War who served as
the “examining surgeon of the Bureau of Pensions and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Arizona Territory
passed away today.
1933:
In Passaic, N.J., Nathan and Anne Zion gave birth to Sidney Zion, “a journalist
and author who turned his daughter’s death at New York Hospital in 1984 into a
crusade that led to national reforms in the training, workload and supervision
of young doctors.” (As reported by Robert D. McFadden
1934:
It was announced today that Leo Arnstein, the “vice president and treasurer of
J. H. Rossbach and Bros., Inc., and the Rossbach Brazil Co., who is a director
of Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Associations” “was elected a member of
the Board of Trustees of the Central Savings Bank.”
November 14, 1935:
The Nazis began the First
Implementation Order to the Reich Citizenship, Clause 5; "A Jew is a
person descended from at least three grandparents who were full Jews by
race." For more see https://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
This meant that a lot of Christian
Germans found out that they were “really Jewish” since the conversion of their
parents offered no protection from being designated as a Juden. As
many as 500,000 German citizens fall into the Mischlinge or mixed-race category. Marriages
between Jews and second-generation Mischlinge are prohibited by law.
1935: Seventy-year old German
classical scholar Friedrich Münzer “was officially classified as Jewish, upon which
many colleagues and acquaintances distanced themselves from him.”
1935(18th of Cheshvan,
5695) Seventy-five year old French banker and art collector Count Moïse de
Camondo who rebuilt the family mansion on Parc Monceau complete with a Kosher
Kitchen, passed away today. Unfortunately the family’s position and wealth was
not enough to protect his family. The Camondo family disappeared after the
French deported his daughter,
Béatrice, his son-of-law Léon Reinach and their children, Fanny and Bertrand to
Auschwitz where they were murdered.
http://forward.com/articles/123207/camondo-splendor/
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/travel/past-prologue-and-paris.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
1935: Birthdate of King Hussein of
Jordan. The Jordanian monarch presented
a mixed bag when it came to relations with Israel. In 1967, despite pleas from the Israelis,
Hussein joined Syria and Egypt in waging war against Israel. It was his fortunate choice of action that
resulted in Israel ending up with all of Jerusalem and the West Bank. At the same time, Hussein personally and
publicly apologized for terrorist attacks against Israelis in 1997. Finally, in 1994, with cancer consuming his
body, the King signed a peace agreement with Yitzchak Rabin. As he said, he finally completed the work
begun by his grandfather, King Abdullah.
1935: Herbert Samuel completed his
service as MP for Darwen which had begun in 1929.
1935(18th of Cheshvan,
5695): New York attorney Morris Cooper, the husband of Alice Jaretzki Cooper
with whom he had two children – “Richard M. Cooper and Mrs. Gay V. Land”—passed
away today.
1935(18th of Cheshvan,
5695): Philadelphia manufacture Max N. Aaron passed away today.
1936: Sophomore Harry Shorten helped
lead NYU to victory over Rutgers.
1936: Today, “the Provincial
Commission in Tripoli issued an order…to the effect that all shops were to
remain open all days of the week except Sunday” which was part an attempt to
force Jewish shopkeepers to leave the new quarter of the city and return to the
less economically attractive old quarter of Tripoli.
1936: “Representative Samuel
Dickstein of New York, the chairman of the House Immigration Committee”
announced “that in view of the large amount of religious and racial ‘hate
propaganda’ brought out in the Presidential election campaign he will offer a resolution
in the Congress for an investigation of subversive and un-American activities
by the House committee which in 1934 looked into Nazi activities” in the United
States.
1936: An exhibition of paintings by
Elias Newman, an American artist who lived in Palestine for eight years that
has been on display at the Jewish Club in New York comes to an end.
1937: The New York Times
reports on the publication of the text of “And Stars Remain” by Julius S. and
Philip G. Epstein, a comedy produced by the Theatre Guild during the 1936
season
1937: Dancer and choreographer Anna Sokolow debuted on Broadway. Sokolow got
her professional start in "radical dance" in 1929 when she joined
Martha Graham's dance company, and for the next decade she studied and danced
with Graham, but she also began to work with other groups and to choreograph
pieces of her own. Sokolow felt the need to move beyond Graham's orbit to draw
upon her own ethnic background and to use dance to dramatize the economic,
social, and political crises of the time. Sokolow's first major composition for
a group, Anti-War Trilogy,
was performed at the 1933 First Anti-War Congress, and the dangers of war and
fascism continued to be reflected in her later work. Sokolow was a key figure
in the development of modern dance in both Israel and Mexico, and worked with a
variety of dance forms. Sokolow often worked with theater productions,
choreographing many Broadway performances. She was a central figure in the
choreography and staging of the musical Hair
in 1967. In the later part of her career, Sokolow incorporated Jewish themes
more heavily in her work. Her first piece with clear Jewish content was The Exile (1939), and many
of her compositions returned to the themes of exile and suffering. Her 1945 Kaddish, which was
choreographed just as the war was ending, drew upon traditional Jewish elements
to express her pain and suffering. Sokolow's 1961 work, Dreams, was the first
serious dance exploration of the Holocaust. She also based a number of her
works on Jewish female figures, both Biblical and modern, ranging from Ruth and
Deborah to Hannah Senesh and Golda Meir.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/nov/14/1937/anna-sokolow
1937: It was announced today that Dr. Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is the winner of the 1938 William H.
Nichols Medal of the New York section of the American Chemical Society.
1937: “In the mixed Arab Jewish quarter of Romemah on the outskirts of
Jerusalem Arabs attacked Jew who was rescued by a policeman. Two Jewish girls walking along the road were
hit by a stray bullet and injured slightly.”
1938: “Daniel Frohman, dean of Broadway theatrical producers was one of the
many show people who signed a telegram” sent to President Roosevelt today
“urging him to ‘express the feeling of horror and indignation of American
people toward Nazi brutality by invoking” his “Executive powers under existing
American laws to declare an official embargo on all trade with Germany.”
1938: Dorothy Thompson, who in 1934 had become the first American journalist
to be expelled from Nazi Germany, made an impassioned broadcast to an estimated
5 million listeners in defense of Herschel Grynszpan, pointing out that the
Nazis themselves had made heroes of the assassins of Austrian Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.
1938: “Contrary to early reports, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the
Treasury was not consulted in advance on the new French financial decrees and
knew nothing of the French plans until he read of the in the newspapers, the
Secretary said at a press conference this afternoon.”
1938: “Storm Over Bengal” which received a an Oscar nomination for Best
Score for the music written by Cy Feuer was released in the United States
today.
1939: Divisional meetings of members of the League for Palestine were today
at the homes of members throughout the Long Island area today to discuss plans
for a campaign to raise $100,000 for a new league center in Jerusalem similar
to those already established in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1939: “Five hundred Jewish refugees, mostly from Poland and the first to
arrive since the war started, landed near Tel Aviv today and were taken into
custody by British officials who said their entry was illegal.”
1940(13th of Cheshvan, 5701): Eighty year old Albert Kahn, the
son cattle dealer Louis Kahn and Babette Bloch, a millionaire Parisian banker
and philanthropist whose plan to use his fortune to document the world in
photographs was thwarted by the Great Depression died in France today during
the Nazi occupation.
https://thebioscope.net/2007/05/21/searching-for-albert-kahn/
1940: During the Blitz, the Nazis bombed Coventry. Unbeknownst to people at
the time, the bombing of Coventry, a civilian target of no military value,
presented Churchill with his greatest moral dilemma of the war. Because of Ultra, the English could “read”
Nazi communications which gave them a great edge. When Churchill found out that the Nazis were
going to bomb Coventry which lacked anti-aircraft defense, he had to decide if
he should send guns to the city which would have tipped the Germans off that the
English were reading their code which would have led to them changing the code
or let them remain defenseless during the terror raid. He opted for the latter. As cold-blooded as this decision may seem to
us today, to have done otherwise might have led to the loss of the Battle of
Britain which would have brought The Final Solution to the British Isles. http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/coventryh.htm
1941: In a message to the Jewish Chronicle Winston Churchill
recognized the Jewish suffering. "None has suffered more cruelly than the
Jew... The Jew bore the brunt of the Nazis' first onslaught upon the citadels
of freedom and human dignity." Fine
words, but there was no action to back them up.
The doors to Palestine remained firmly shut and millions of Jews
perished.
1941: “I Wake Up Screaming” a film noir produced by Milton Sperling was
released in the United States today.
1941: Nine thousand Jews
from Slonim, Belorussia, are murdered at Czepielow
1942: The Nazis set up Ghettos in Radom, Cracow, and Galicia.
1942: In Perth Australia engineer Simon Feldman and his wife gave birth to
Guggeheim Fellow and Dan Prize winner Marcus Feldman, who, ironically earned
one of his degrees at Monash University, a school named after Sir John Monash
the leading Australian general in WW I and a leader of the post-war Australian
Jewish community.
http://www-evo.stanford.edu/Feldman-cv.pdf
1942(5th of Kislev, 5703): Sixty-one year old Henry Charles Dyte,
the son of Isabella Benjamin and David Moses Dyte passed away today.
1943: At today’s general Fascist Party Congress, Benito Mussolini arranged
“to have all Jews in Italy declared enemy aliens” under the law.
1943: Italian fascists in Ferrara killed 3 Jews in cold blood in
broad daylight. They were not arrested or prosecuted in any way.
1943: Chicago Bear’s Sid Luckman passed
for 7 touchdowns as the Monsters of the Midway defeated the New York Giants, 56
to 7.
1943: Having recently been appointed assistant conductor of the New York
Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein made his conducting debut on
last-minute notification—and without any rehearsal—after Bruno Walter came down
with the flu. He became instantly famous because the concert was nationally
broadcast. The soloist for that concert was Joseph Schuster, solo cellist of
the New York Philharmonic, who played Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Because
Bernstein had never conducted the work before, Bruno Walter coached him on it
prior to the concert. It is possible to hear this concert thanks to a
transcription recording made from the CBS radio broadcast that has since been
issued on CD.
1944(28th of Cheshvan, 5705): Seventy-one year old Hungarian violinist Carl
Flesch died in Lucerne, Switzerland today.
1944: The Nazis hanged German businessman Walter Cramer, for his role in the
attempt to kill Hitler on July 20.
1945: Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, joint chairmen of the
American Zionist Emergency Council, criticized the U.S. for agreeing to the
creation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry designed to determine the
facts concerning the conflict in Palestine and to make recommendations to
improve the situation.
1945: Hadassah and World Jewish Congress criticized British foreign minister
Ernest Bevin.
1945: Former Senator Guy Gillette, who is the President of the American
League for a Free Palestine, is scheduled to fly to London today as head of an
unofficial delegation to the British Government on behalf of the establishment
of Palestine as a “free and democratic state.” [Until the creation of the state
of Israel, the Jewish homeland was referred to as Palestine and Gillette was
head of a Zionist organization.”]
1946: Birthdate of folk musician Jay Ungar who with his wife Molly Mason
wrote “the soundtrack to the acclaimed documentary film Brother's Keeper” and
“Ashokan Farewell.”
http://thejewniverse.com/2015/the-jew-behind-the-famous-civil-war-lament/
1946: The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemns the idea of
anti-British being expanded from Palestine to Britain.
1946(20th of Cheshvan, 5707): Sixty-two-year-old heart specialist
Dr. Samuel Barbash, the medical director
of the Atlantic City hospital, the husband of the former Rae Alper passed away
today in Atlantic City.
1947: In Egypt, Lucy and Eliyahu gave birth to Yosef Frachi who was a member
of the INS Dakar when it was lost at sea in 1968.
1947: Violence erupted in Palestine after the British kill three Jewish
girls and two boys are at a farmhouse where a cache of weapons is found.
1948: The review of Snow Dog
illustrated by Jacob Landau was published today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/11/14/96438050.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1948: "While Iraqi troops were still on the
battlefield, an Iraqi law had added 'Zionism' to communism, anarchism and
immorality in a list of offences whose propagation was punishable by seven
years in prison or a heavy fine.
1948(12th of Cheshvan, 5709): Sixty-seven year
old Samuel Abelow, the Lithuanian born son of Harris Abelow and the husband of
Jeanette Abelow who served on the Board of Education of the School of Biblical
Instruction passed away today after which he was buried at the Mount Hebron
Cemetery in Queens.
1949: “The United Nations Palestine Conciliation
Commission formally replied today to the widespread criticism both” in the
United States “and abroad of its draft statute for the internationalization of
Jerusalem” which included a plan that “would vest all normal powers of
government in the local Israeli and Arab authorities in Jerusalem” while
allowing for a United Nations commissioner and two tribunal that “would be
empowered to supervise free access to the Holy Places in the Jerusalem area and
insure peaceful relations and normal intercourse between the Arab and Jewish
sectors of the divided city.”
1950: “An official publication Reshumot (Portofolio of
Notifications 130) announcement on the election to Jerusalem municipality
council, that were held today, states that among the approved candidates Rabbi
Amram Aburbeh was candidate number 7 to honor the Yichud Shevet Yehudah party
candidates list, representing the religious Sephardi Jews.”
1950(5th of Kislev): Fifty-year old New York
born mental hygiene activist Florence Brooks the widow of Arthur Adler, “the
president of the Adler Shoe Company” and mother of Richard B. Adler, who was an
active member of the National Council of Jewish Women and the “organizer of the
Norwalk Allied Nations Committee for Home Hospitality passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/11/16/91118756.html?pageNumber=31
1952(26th of Cheshvan, 5713): Seventy-three
year old Don Kaplan who had been imprisoned for his anti-Czarist activities and
who in 1900 came to the United States where rose from writing poetry and short
stories to the editorship of the Sunday literary page of the Jewish Daily
Forward passed away today aboard a train that was taking him to Miami Beach.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/11/19/93589885.html?pageNumber=29
1953(7th of Kislev, 5714): Parashat Vayetzi
chanted for the first time during the Presidency of D.D. Eisenhower.
1956: The Knesset agreed to an Israeli withdrawal from all territory
captured in the Sinai campaign, provided that the United Nations Emergency
Force (UNEF) could be used to keep Egypt from closing the Straits of Tiran to
Israeli shipping and stop Gaza from serving as a base for terrorists attacking
Israel. Eleven years later, it would be
the unilateral withdrawal of UNEF from the Sinai and the blockade of the
Straits that would lead to the famous Six Days War in June of 1967.
1956: “Love Me Tender” Elvis Presley’s first film with music by Lionel
Newman was released in the United States today.
1956: Birthdate of Avraham “Avi” Cohen a football player who played for
Liverpool in England.
1957: The West End production of the musical “Bells Are Ringing” “with a
book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne
1960: Alexander "Alex" Bittelman was formally expelled from the
Communist Party.
1960: “The Facts of Life” co-directed, co-produced and co-written by Melvin
Frank and featuring Louis Nye was released in the United States today.
1962(17th of Cheshvan, 5723): Just days before his 67th
birthday Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, the Russian born educational director of the
Commission of the Jewish Education of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and past president of the National Council for Jewish Education
passed away today.
https://www.bjpa.org/search-results/publication/5697
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gamoran-emanuel
1962: Birthdate of Keyboardist Josh Silver.
1963: “The Servant,” Harold Pinter’s film adaptation of a novelette of the
same name in which he appears as “Society Man” “opened at London's Warner
Theatre.”
1965: “Baker Street,” a musical with lyrics by Raymond Jessel,, directed by
Hal Prince and starring Martin Gabel as arch-villain Professor Moriarty closed
today after over three hundred performances on Broadway.
1966(1st of Kislev, 5727): Rosh Chodesh Kislev
1966(1st of Kislev, 5727): Seventy-eight year old Rabbi Moses
Aaron Poleyeff, a native of Minsk who was on the faculty of Yeshiva College
passed away today in Jersey City, NJ.
1968(23rd of Cheshvan, 5729): Seventy-two year old Riga native, Samuel J.
Briskin who worked at produced films for several major studies including
Columbia, RKO, Paramount, MGM and Liberty as well as the U.S. government during
WW II passed away today.
1968: “The Shoes of the Fisherman,” the film version of the novel of the
same name produced by George Enguland, the son of Mabel Albertson and the
nephew of Jack Albertson, was released in the United States today.
1969: Two days after he had passed away, funeral services were held today
for 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”
1971(26th of Cheshvan, 5732): Sixtyyear old Paris native and
Sorbonne attendee Dr. Nathan Edlemean, the CCNY undergrad and hold of a Ph.D.
from Columbia, who taught French at two colleges and wrote Attitudes of 17th
Century France Toward the Middle Ages passed away today.
1972: Birthdate of wrestler Mathew Jason “Matt” Bloom.
1974: Birthdate of actor David Moscow. When asked about his religious
upbringing Moscow said, “My father is Jewish, and my mother is Mormon.
Culturally, I was raised Jewish. We celebrated the major holidays in my house,
but we celebrated many Christmases with my mother’s side of the family.”
1974: “Leading Jewish activist Victor Polsky received an exit visa” which
will lead to his arrival in Israel on December 24th.
1976: Funeral services are scheduled to be at “The Riverside” for Edna
Horwitte, the wife of Samuel Horwitte.
1977: In an interview with CBS newscaster Walter
Cronkite, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat repeated his willingness to
visit Israel.
1977: In an unauthorized interview, IDF Chief of Staff, General Motta Gur
said that Egyptian forces were being prepared for an attack against Israel in
1978.
1978(14th of Cheshvan, 5739): Eighty year old Edwin Herbert Samuel, 2nd
Viscount, the son of Herbert Samuel and the father of Professor David Samuel
passed away. A WW I veteran who served
with the Jewish Legion he served as the last Director of the Palestine
Broadcasting Service which was part of the Mandatory Government.
1978: David Samuel, the 3rd Viscount Samuel, began serving in the
British House of Lords.
1980: It was reported today that 1,424 Soviet Jews had emigrated during the
month of October.
1980(6th of Kislev, 5741): Seventy-seven-year-old NYU alum and Columbia trained dentist and
oral surgeon Manuel Monash Maslansky passed away today.
1980: “The Idolmaker,” a musical co-starring Tovah Felshuh was released in
the United States today.
1980(6th of Kislev, 5741): New
Jersey businessman Harry L. Denburg, an opponent of anti-Semitism passed away
today at West Orange, NJ.
1981: ''House Music,'' a new play by Hans
Sahl, a drama, staged by Carl Weber, that concerns a Jewish refugee returning
to Berlin 30 years after World War II will have its premier performance today.
1986: “Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky” the son of Jewish Detroit
delicatessen owners “pleads guilty to insider trading and agrees to pay a $100
million fine and cooperate with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s
investigation.”
1986: “Streets of Gold” a movie about Jew who wants to play on the Russian
basketball team directed and produced by Joe Roth was released in the United
States.
1986: Five days after he had passed away, a memorial service for
seventy-three year old A. James Speyer, the Pittsburg born “son of Stella
(Tillie) Speyer and Alexander C. Speyer and graduate of Carnegie Institute of
Technology who was one of the “leading experts on contemporary American and
European art” is scheduled to be held today at the Art Institute.
1986: U.S. premiere of “Hoosier’s” the basketball movie with the signature
score by Jerry Goldsmith.
1986: “Every Time We Say Goodbye,” a movie about “a gentile American in the
Royal Air Force, stationed in mandatory Jerusalem, who falls in love with a
girl from a Sephardic Jewish family” directed and written by Moshe Mizrahi and
filmed mostly in Israel” was released in the United States today.
1988: Neil Simon’s latest play, “Rumors” is scheduled to open today at the
Broadhurst Theatre under the direction of Gene Saks.
1990(26th of Cheshvan, 5751): Seventy-one year composer Saul
Kaplan passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/obituaries/sol-kaplan-71-dies-composer-and-pianist.html
1990: U.S. premiere of “The King’s Whore” with a script by Frederic Raphael.
1991: Today, the music video for "Black or White" which John
Landis helped to create “premiered on MTV, BET, VH1, and Fox (giving them their
highest Nielsen ratings ever at the time) as well as the BBC's Top of the Pops
in the UK.”
1992: At the Jewish Community Center of Harrison, NJ, Rabbi Norton Shargel
officiated at the marriage of Carol Ann Loeb, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eric
Loeb and William Bennet Meyers, the son of Dr. Marian B. Meyers and Richard N.
Meyers.
1993: “The Kentucky Cycle” “in association with Benjamin Mordecai” opened on
Broadway at the Royale Theatre.
1993: BBC 1 broadcast the final of episode of
“Scarlet and Black” co-starring Rachel Weisz as “Mathilde de la Mole.”
1994: In East Jerusalem, the al-Wasiti Art Centre was opened in Sheikh
Jarrah. Its first exhibition of
paintings was entitled ‘From Exile to Jerusalem.’
1999: A revised production of “Do I Hear a Waltz? a musical with a book by
Arthur Laurents, music by Richard Rodgers, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim”
which had opened on October 13 the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick,
NJ, came to an end today.
1999: The New York Times featured
reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest
including The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World Since 1948 by Avi
Shlaim Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999
by Benny Morris, The David Story: A
Translation With Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel by Robert
Alter, Spanking Watson by Kinky Friedman
and Give Us A King Samuel,
Saul, and David: A New Translation of Samuel I and II with an introduction and notes by
Everett Fox.
2000: “Judge William G. Bassler of Federal
District Court today dismissed 45 of the 49 suits against German companies that
used forced labor under the Nazis, moving toward disbursing $5.1 billion in a
trust established for victims.”
2000(16th of Cheshvan, 5761): In
what “was the worst one-day toll since fighting broke out six and half weeks
ago, Palestinian snipers killed two Israeli soldiers and a civilian…”
2000: Two days after he had passed away,
funeral services are scheduled to be held in Bethesda, MD for Congregation Beth
El member Israel Rubin, the husband of the late Janet Rubin and the fiancée of
Barbara Rosnblum.
2001(28th of Cheshvan, 5762):
Seventy-one year old “American classicist and philosopher and long-time member of the faculties of New York
University and The New School” Seth Benardete, the New York born son of Mair
Jose Benardette, an expert on Sephardic and culture and his wife who was an
English Professor at Brooklyn College passed away today.
2002: In “Holocaust Writer in Storm Over Role of Catholic Church, “ published
today Mark Landler describes the response of the Catholic Church to 'A Moral
Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled
Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
2003: In an interview conducted by Yedioth Ahronoth reporters Alex Fishman
and Sima Kadmon, Ami Ayalon and three other former heads of the Israeli
Security Agency (ISA), Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri and Carmi Gillon “warn of an
impending "catastrophe" for Israel and urge the public to rally
behind a document created which sets out the principles of a two-state solution
for Israel and Palestine.”
2004: The New York Times
features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish
interest including What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building
by Noah Feldman, Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by
Michael Korda and The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael
Chabon.
2004: Shalshelet’s 2004 Inaugural Festival of New Jewish
Liturgical Music which was held at Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, Maryland,
comes to an end.
2004: Graveside services are
scheduled to be held today in Saddle Brook, NJ for Bernard Abrams, the husband
of Elayne Abams Z”L/
2005: Boychicks, Beantown,
Basketball, Baseball. Sports Illustrated Magazine of this date
carried stories about Red Auerbach and Theo Epstein. Auerbach, a coach legend in his own time and
the President of the Boston Celtics attended the team’s home opener at the age
of 88. Feisty and competitive as ever,
Red, sans cigar, was insisting that it was time for another championship,
something that has eluded the Celtics since 1986. Epstein, last year’s boy-wonder who broke the
Boston Red Sox jinx, found himself out a job.
Even a genius general manager has a boss. In the world of work, when employees clash
with the boss, the boss always wins even when he (or she) is not right.
2005(12th of Cheshvan, 5766): Ninety-three-year-old Bernard “Red”
Sarachek, the longtime basketball coach and director of athletics at Yeshiva
University passed away today.
2006: At Brown University a three day conference entitled “The Jerusalem
Perspective: 150 years of Archaeological Research” comes to an end. The conference features abstracts by Jon
Seligman, Jerusalem region archeologist for the Antiquities Authority.
2006: Fran Dreshcer guest starred today in “The War at Home,” an episode of
Law & Order: Criminal Intnent.
2006: “Thin,” a “documentary direct by Lauren Greenfield was released today
in the United States.
2006: Those participating in the Perek Yomi Program complete the final
chapter of the Book of Chronicles, the final book of the Tanach. This calls for a Siyum Tanach, a party
celebrating this milestone in Jewish study.
Siyum is the Hebrew word meaning “finish.”
2007: “The Quarrel” is
performed at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
in New York followed by a discussion with playwright Rabbi Joseph
Telushkin
2007(3rd of Kislev,
5768): Eighty-five year old clarinetist David Oppenheim, the former Dean of the
N.Y.U. School of Arts passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/arts/03oppenheim.html
2007: The Israel Antiquities
Authority announced that the remains of an ancient terraced street that dates
back to the Roman Period have been uncovered in the Western Wall tunnels. The
street, which likely led to the nearby Temple Mount itself, dates back nearly
2,000 years when the city was call Aelia Capitolina during the second to fourth
centuries of the Common Era.
2007: New York Governor Elliot
Spitzer withdrew an executive order that would have allowed the state to issue
driver’s licenses to illegal aliens starting in December.
2007: “The Farnsworth Invention” “a
stage play by Aaron Sorkin did not open on Broadway as scheduled today due to a
strike by stagehands.
2008: “No Rock Like You: Songs for the Jewish Soul” Shalshelet’s annual musical
festival comes to an end in Washington, D.C.
2008: Today, Rabbi Rachel Cowan was
awarded HUC-JIR’s President's Medallion at Jerusalem Academic Convocation
2008 “The First Basket,” a
documentary about Jews and basketball, opens in Los Angeles. www.thefirstbasket.com.
2008: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Curtis David Litow, son of Kathy and Charlie Litow, begins his Bar
Mitzvah weekend by leading Friday Evening Services. “Am Yisroel Chai”
2008: At an initial appearance today on new charges of bank fraud, former
Agriprocessors Chief Executive Officer Sholom Rubashkin, 49, was ordered by
Magistrate Judge Jon Scoles to be held until a detention hearing.
2008: Following the morning's Kassam rocket strikes on Sderot and the Sha'ar
Hanegev region, the Ashkelon area also came under attack.
2009: Congregation Sha’are Shalom, Loudoun County’s Conservative synagogue,
hosts its annual art auction this evening. Proceeds from the art auction will
be used to benefit the synagogue.
2009: In Acre Registration begins for the Second UNESCO World Heritage
Workshop on “Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural Heritage. “
2009: In San Francisco, after Shabbat, Yuri Foreman became the first Israeli
to claim a professional boxing crown when he defeated Daniel Santos of Puerto
Rico to take the WBA junior middleweight (under-70 kilogram) title on points.
2009:
Hundreds of hareidi religious Jews picketed outside the plant belonging to
computer chip giant Intel at the Har Hotzvim hi-tech industrial area in
Jerusalem, in protest of the fact that the plant employs workers on the
Sabbath..
2009:
Tonight was a split decision for Jewish boxers.
In New Castle, England, Dimitry Salita lost to Amir Khan when the two
fought for the WMA light welterweight title. In Las Vegas, Yuri Foreman won the
WBA super welterweight championship by a unanimous
2010:
The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or
of special interest to Jewish readers including I Remember Nothing and Other
Reflections by Nora Ephron
2010: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa the Hadassah Donor
Dinner features Temple Judah’s own Murray Wolfe, an award-winning playwright,
who is scheduled to read from his one-man autobiographical play, “My Name is
Moses Volvovic.” Murray’s many interests and accomplishments mark him as the
epitome of the term Renaissance Man.
2010:“With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East,”
an online event promoting peace through cross-border cooperation is scheduled
for a global broadcast today at www.withearthandeachother.org. Anti-Israel groups have failed to get Pete
Seeger and others to refrain from taking part in the event.
2010: The 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Jewish Historical Society
is scheduled to take place at Adas Israel, one of two Conservative
congregations in the District of Columbia.
2010: The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “A Moroccan
Jewish Odyssey.”
2010: Major Emanuel Levi who was serving as navigator for IAF pilot Major
Amichai Itkis when their plane crashed earlier this week will be buried today
at 11:30 a.m.
2010: As part of Jewish Book Month, Michelle Edward read from her new book,
“The Hannukkah Trike” this morning.
2010: The Temple Rodef Shalom Players performed “Fools” – A Comic Fable by
Neil Simon
2010: The head of state-owned French railway company SNCF made an
unprecedented show of regret today for the company’s responsibility in sending
some 76,000 Jews in France to Nazi death camps.The apology came as part of a
bid to assuage American and Jewish community reticence about working with a
company that notoriously collaborated with Nazi occupiers.
2011: The Jewish Agency for Israel’s board of governor is scheduled to
convene today in Argentina.
2011: Molly Birnbaum and Rabbi Andrea Myers are scheduled to take part in
the “Memoir Panel” at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.
2011: “Love Me Please” based on the life of Russian journalist Anastasia
Baburova is scheduled to be shown at the Jewish Eye World Film Festival.
2011 Funeral service for Evelyn Lauder are scheduled to be held at 11:30 at
Central Synagogue in New York City.
2011: Archaeologists have deciphered a grey marble slab whose 800-year-old
Arabic inscription makes it the only Crusader artifact in that language ever
found in the Middle East, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said today.
2011: The Knesset approved this evening a bill proposing to abolish the rule
that a justice cannot be appointed Supreme Court president unless he is at
least three years short of the mandatory retirement age of 70
2012: “Simon and the Oaks,” a film depicting the story of Simon Larsson’s
childhood under the specter of Nazi German, is scheduled to be shown at the UK
Jewish Film Festival
2012: Shawn Joe Lichaa is scheduled to deliver a lecture “As It Is Written -
Karaite Judaism: Texts, Textualists and Tradition” at the Library of Congress
in Washington, DC
2012: Harry Brod read from Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book
Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way Prairie Lights in Iowa City.
2012: “A New York grand jury indicted
Pedro Hernandez on charges of second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping
in the case of Etan Kalil Patz the six year old who disappeared from his New
York neighborhood in 1979.
2012: Dorit Beinisch, the first woman to service as president of the Supreme
Court in Israel was awarded "Doctor
of Humane Letters-Honoris Causa” by The "Hebrew Union College Jerusalem.”
2012: In response to the incessant rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip - more
than 800 have struck Israel since the beginning of the year, and more than 120
since Saturday - the IDF has launched a widespread campaign against terror
targets in Gaza. The operation, called Pillar of Defense, has two main goals:
to protect Israeli civilians and to cripple the terrorist infrastructure in
Gaza
2012: Second and final day of Kosherfest
2013:
The 7th annual Other Israel Film Festival is scheduled to open today
in NYC
2013:
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio is scheduled to perform at the 92nd
Street Y.
2013:
Four mortars were fired into Israel from Gaza with one landing in the Eshkol
Regional Council, one landing in “PA Arab Territory” and two landing around
Ofakim.
2103:
The IAF blasted “two concealed missile launchers in northern Gaza in response
to a barrage of rockets and mortars fired by terrorists.
2013:
Today “a United Nations interpreter, unaware that her microphone was on,
uttered words of truth in reaction to the General Assembly’s adoption of nine
politically-motivated resolutions condemning Israel, and zero resolutions on
the rest of the world.”
2013:
“Janet Yellen breezed through questions about the financial crisis, the Fed's
stimulus efforts and banking regulation, as the Senate Banking Committee
weighed her nomination to serve as future head of the Federal Reserve” today
2014(21st
of Cheshvan): “Yahrtzeit of Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra (1480-1573), known by the
acronym of his name, Radbaz who served as the Chief Rabbi of Egypt.”
2014(21st
of Cheshvan, 5775): Ninety-three year old composer Irving Getz passed away
today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/movies/21gertz.html
2014:
In Melbourne, “Night Will Fall” and “Operation Sunflower” are scheduled to be
shown at the Jewish International Film Festival.
2014(21st
of Cheshvan, 5775): Eighty-six year old Princeton graduate James “Jim” Avram
Lebenthal who went from a career as a journalist, to filmmaking where he was
nominated for an Academy Award to finance at which time he joined the family
business Lebenthal and Company where he specialized in municipal bonds passed
away today.
https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/nytimes/173198508
2014:
“This Is Where I Leave You” is scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish Film
Festival
2014:
In Coralville, IA, at Agudas Achim composer Samuel Adler and guest cantor Deborah Norin-Kuhn are scheduled
to lead Friday night services.
2014:
“Walking With the Enemy” is scheduled to open in Cedar Rapids, IA.
http://www.walkingwiththeenemy.com/
2014: The family of Palestinian terrorist Abdel-Rahman al-Shauludi who
killed two people including an infant at light rail station in Jerusalem last
month has forty-eight hours to appeal the order issued today for the demolition
of the home in Silwan.
2014: MKs Hanin Zoabi (Balad) and Afu Agbaria (Hadash) as well as Sheikh
Raed Salah, head of the radical wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel were
among those demonstrating in Umm al-Fahm while others threw rocks and blocked
the road north of Jerusalem today. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)
2015: “Son of Saul” is scheduled to be shown at Auckland as part of the
Jewish International Film Festival.
2015: The Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival began today.
2015: “Afterthought” and “Man in the Wall” are scheduled to be shown at the
29th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles.
2015: A screening and discussion of the 2003 documentary El último sefardí
(The Last Sephardic Jew) are scheduled to take place at the Yiddish Book Center
2016: “The Second Time Around” and "The Settlers” are scheduled to be
shown at the 20th UK International Jewish Film Festival.
2016: “In Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow,’ Deathbed Stories Illuminate an Era”
published today provides a complete review of a novel described as “faux
memoir.”
2016: “The Tenth Man” and “Sand Storm” are scheduled to be shown in Sydney,
Australia as part of the Jewish International Film Festival.
2016: The American Jewish Historical Society and American Sephardi
Federation are scheduled to host author Yossi Sucary in “a staged reading” of Benghazi
Bergen-Belsen, “the first novel exploring the experiences of Libyan Jews in
the Holocaust.”
2017: In New Orleans, the Bart Jewish Cultural Series is scheduled to host
an evening with author Walter Isaacson who latest work is a biography of
Leonardo da Vinci.
2017(25th of Cheshvan, 5778): Ninety-three year old Tulane
trained, iconic architect Albert C. Ledner passed away today in New Hampshire.
(As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
http://architecture.tulane.edu/news/2017/11/article-2884
https://www.dezeen.com/2017/11/20/american-modernist-architect-albert-c-ledner-dies-aged-93/
2017: Today Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered humanitarian
assistance to the victims of the devastating earthquake that has killed
hundreds in Iran and Iraq.
2017: It was revealed to that “an Iron Dome missile defense battery was
deployed in the Dan region — made up of Tel Aviv and the surrounding suburbs to
protect against a possible rocket attack.”
2017: The Jewish Federation’s General Assembly is scheduled to come to an
end today in Los Angeles.
2017: “Lenny” and “Monsieur Mayonnaise” are scheduled to be shown at the 21st
UK International Film Festival.
2017: Dr. Naomi Weinberger is scheduled to lecture on “American Priorities
in the Middle East” at the Streicker Center.
2017:
Jewish Book Month, an annual event that provides us with a chance to
contemplate the lives of Jewish authors such Sir Martin Gilbert, the official
biographer of Winston Churchill and the author of 80 books many of which
provide a highly literate look at the Jewish people and the events of the World
Wars, and Jewish books for the next thirty days is scheduled to continue for a
third day.
2018:
While the people of Gaza danced last night celebrating the truce that had been
reached after their unprecedented, massive barrage of rocket and mortars,
Israelis are awakening this morning to reports of squabble among government
ministers over what actions should have been taken and will be taken
2018:
Tali Rubinstein, an Israeli born and raised musician is scheduled to make her
debut at Lincoln Center.
2018:
The Gersham Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the Philadelphia premiere
of “Heather Booth: Changing the World
2018:
Irene Pletka, a Vice Chairman of the YIVO Board and Founder and Chairman of the
Kronhill Pletka Foundation,” is scheduled to honored this evening as “The YIVO
Institute Research’s 2018 Gala Award Dinner.”
2018:
The Breman Museum is scheduled to host “The Science of Photography: Jewish
Pathways” in which “Professor Michael Berkowitz will explore the particular
historical circumstances that allowed and encouraged Jewish innovators”
including “Gabriel Lippmann, a French pioneer in color photography; Nahum
Luboshez, responsible for huge advances in radiography; Leopold Mannes and
Leopold Godowsky, Jr., the co-inventors of Kodachrome; and Edwin Land, founder
of Polaroid” “to challenge photographic conventions.”
2018:
The Oxford Jewish Society and the Islamic Society are scheduled to host
tonight’s “Interfaith Formal Dinner” at Lady Margaret Hall.
2018:
The Uri Gurvitch Quarter whose leader “was only 20 years old when he won
Israel’s Jazz Player of the Year competition” is scheduled to perform at
“Dizzy’s Club at Coca-Cola.”
2018:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a screening of “In Love and Anger”
followed by a discussion with screenwriter and AIDS “activist” Larry Kramer.”
2018:
The 30th Kosherfest is scheduled to come to an end today at the Meadowlands
Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ.
2019:
Congregation Beth Emek is scheduled to host Julie Golde of S.F.-based
Federation as she discusses the demographics based on a recent 10-county Jewish
population study.
2019:
In Berkley, CA, Professor Ron Hassner, the Faculty Director at the Berkeley
Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies is scheduled to deliver “the
inaugural lecture of the Helen Diller Family in Israel Studies” during he “will
explore how religion affects modern militaries.”
2019:
In San Francisco, the Mechanics Institute is scheduled to co-sponsor a lecture
by Lori Harrison the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy and
the Black-Jewish Imaginary during which she “will discuss the career of
writer and suffrage activist Miriam Michelson, an overlooked figure of the
early women’s rights movement” whose The Superwoman and Other Writings
she edited.
2019:
In Palo Alto, CA, the Mitchell Park Community Center is scheduled to host the
“Great Pink Challah Bake,” “a communal baking session with ingredients and
aprons provided for women of all ages.”
(Editor’s note - are men required to provide their own ingredients and
aprons!)
2019:
“My Polish Honeymoon” and “Latter Day Jew” are scheduled to be shown at the
Rutgers Jewish Film Festival.
2019:
The Oxford University of Jewish Society is scheduled to host Rabbi Igor's Lunch
and Learn” during which he discuss ‘Guard my tongue from evil’ (Berachot 17a):
Jewish Concepts of Ethical Communication and Social Media.’”
2019:
“The Last Resort” and “Fig Tree” are scheduled to be shown at the UK Jewish
Film Festival.
2019:
“Xhemal Veseli, 93, who is among a handful of Muslim rescuers alive today, will
travel to Warsaw with Albania’s foreign minister, Edmond Panariti, whose family
also saved Jews from the Holocaust where they will attend in Warsaw an event
titled “An Evening for the Righteous” scheduled to be held today. (As reported
by JTA)
2019:
The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to host “a special evening honoring
Ambassador Alfred H. Moses.”
https://www.promnetwork.com/about/the-company/board/alfred-h-moses
2020:
The Columbus Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to offer its first virtual
screening of “The World Without You.”
2020:
JCC Literary Consortium and JCCs across the nation are scheduled to present
Journalist Lawrence Wright talking about his pandemic-themed thriller The
End of October.
2020:
The UK Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host its awards ceremony and the UK
premiere screening of “The End of Love.”
2020:
The Long Beach Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “The
Spy Behind the Plate.”
2020:
In Columbus, OH, Noah Grischkan is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar
Mitzvah
2020:
The Southern University Law Center is scheduled to host a second screening
“Rosenwald.”
2020(27th
of Cheshvan, 5781): Eighty-eight-year old Des O’Conner, the “TV star whose
mother was Jewish, and claimed to be the only person named O'Connor to have had
a bar mitzvah, died following a fall at his Buckinghamshire home.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/tributes-paid-to-ultimate-entertainer-des-oconnor-who-dies-aged-88/
2020(27th
of Cheshvan, 5781): Yahrzeit of Deborah D. Levin, wife of Joseph B. Levin with
whom she had three children – Judy, Mitchell and David.
2020(27th
of Cheshvan, 5781): Parashat Chayei Sara.
2021:
In Cedar Rapids, Shiva services are scheduled to be held at Temple Judah for
Ray Heeren, father of Michael Heeren.
2021:
The National Museum of American Jewish History, for which Mitchell Levin is an
“official content provider” turns ten.
2021:
The Boston Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host “a live conversation with Asaf Galay, director of “The
Adventures of Saul Bellow,” moderated by Professor Saul Zaritt.
2021:
The New York Times features reviews of book by Jewish authors or of
special interest to Jewish readers including Generation Occupy: Reawakening
American Democracy by Michael Levitin, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln,
Slavery and the Refounding of America by Noah Feldman and The Book of
Magic by Alice Hoffman.
2022:
Martin Kaufman is scheduled to deliver another lecture on “Maimonides’
Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Scripture.”
2022:
LBI is scheduled to present a lecture by Vivan Heller on Analysis and Exile:
Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud which s the story of the
childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be
psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud and one of the 20 students invited to attend her
experimental school in 1920s Vienna.
2022:
UK Jewish Film is scheduled host screenings of
“A Tree of Life,” “We Might As Well Be Dead” and “The Man in the
Basement.”
2022:
As part of its “Leadership Lessons from Bold Women” series, the Streicker
Center hosts a lecture by Ambassador Nikki Haley.
2022:
Based on previously published reports Israeli tourists in Istanbul are still
advised to remain in their hotel rooms and not explore the Turkish city,
following a bombing on a popular pedestrian street that left six dead and
dozens wounded.
2023:
LBI, the Yeshiva University of Museum and the Center for Jewish History is
scheduled to present live on zoom “Family History Today: Wimples – Textiles As
Windows Into the Lives of Our Ancestors.”
2023(1st
of Kislev, 5784): Rosh Chodesh Kislev; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2023:
“We Stand With Israel,” a “March for Solidarity” is scheduled to take place
today in Washington, DC.
2023:
As part of the “Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime” series, The Tikvah
online Academy is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo on
“Peace: A Jewish Aspiration and Ideal.”
2023:
The Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host encore screenings of
“Delegation” and “Remembering Gene Wilder.”No
2023:
The 69th Annual Humanitarian Award Celebration hosted by The
Diversity Center of Ohio is scheduled to honor Christopher Gorman and Roby
Minter Smyers.
2023:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the penultimate session of How To
Read the Guide For the Perplexed taught Martin Kaufman.
2023:
The Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium being held at the Betsy
Hotel in Miami Beach is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023:
As part of UK Jewish Film, the Picturehouse Central is scheduled to host a
screening of “Shoshana” followed by a Q&A with Michael Winterbottom.
2023:
Award winning social studies teacher Kelly Stefan is scheduled to bring the World Religion Class from Vinton High
School to Cedar Rapids for their annual field trip to Temple Judah.
2023:
Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on “The German
Jews Arrive” and Trudy Gold who interviews Dr Dave Rich, Author of ‘The Left's
Jewish Problem’ and ‘Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into our World’.
2023:
As November 14, begins in Israel, despite the rise in anti-Semitism in the
world “the 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they
described as the terror group’s use of hospitals and civilians as “human
shields” in its war against Israel,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has
held an assessment at the Northern Command in Safed, after which he vowed to
restore security to residents of northern Israel, the IDF continues its mission
to destroy Hamas
and the Hamas held hostages begin day 39 in captivity.
(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)
