This Day, February 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
February
26
11
BCE: According to some sources, the day on which Herod dedicates the renovated
Holy Temple in Jerusalem. According to Heinrich Graetz, the building project
began in 20 BCE, the 18th year of Herod’s reign. A year and half
later, (18 BCE)…
February 26
11
BCE: According to some sources, the day on which Herod dedicates the renovated
Holy Temple in Jerusalem. According to Heinrich Graetz, the building project
began in 20 BCE, the 18th year of Herod’s reign. A year and half
later, (18 BCE) the inner part of the Temple was finished. It took another
eight years to build the outer walls, courts and galleries. The dedicatory
celebration took place on “the very anniversary of the day when twenty years
previously, Herod, with blood stained hands, had made himself master of
Jerusalem.” Herod reportedly built this modernized version of the Second
Temple because he loved to build things and because he was trying to show his
Roman masters that he was the beloved ruler of his people. Regardless, in
one sense, Herod sealed the doom of the Temple and the Jewish people because he
placed it under the protection of Rome. What Rome protected Rome could
destroy.
364:
Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. He was the last Emperor to rule the
Empire alone. A month later, he would appoint his brother Valens Emperor
in the East, while he would rule over the Western portion of the Empire.
Valentinian belonged to a minority sect called the Arians. In an attempt
to keep peace in the Empire, in 371 he issued a proclamation allowing
Christians and Arians to practice their religious belief without incurring any
“political disadvantage. This toleration was extended to the Jews.”
1147:
The Crusaders massacred the Jews of Wurtzburg; so much for all of those tales
of knights and chivalry.
1226:
At the Battle of Benevento, King Manfred of Sicily was killed during the
conquest of the Kingdom of Charles I of Anjou who in 1227 had Moses of Palermo
“learn the Latin language in order that Moses might translate a collection of
medical works preserved in Castel dell' Novo at Naples, the residence of
Charles of Anjou.”
1361:
Birthdate of Wenceslaus IV who as Emperor failed to continue the Imperial
protection of the Jews of Luxembourg led to their expulsion in 1391.
1418:
Emperor Sigsmund “issued commands to all the German princes and magistrates,
cities and subjects, to allow” the Jews the full enjoyment of the privileges
and immunities given them by the Pope who had denounced attacks on the persons
and property of the Jews and the practice of forced conversion.
1498:
Isaac Abravanel completed "Mashmia' Yeshu'ah" (Proclaiming
Salvation), one of three works “devoted to the exposition of the Jewish belief
concerning the Messiah and the Messianic age.”
1569:
Pius V issued Hebraeorum gens, a papal bull that accused the Jews of a variety
of evil deeds including the practice of magic.
1569:
Pope Pius V ordered the eviction of all Jews from the Papal States (excluding
Rome and Verona) who refuse to convert. Most of the approximately 1000 Jewish
families decided to emigrate.
1591:
“Vespasiano I
Gonzaga, Duke of Sabbioneta an enlightened ruler, educated in Greek, Latin, history,
Italian literature, the Talmud, and even Kabbalah who permitted the rise of the
Foà printing house, but also remained an enlightened protector of the Jews and
ruled over only one of two Italitan cities not to “establish a Jewish Ghetto”
passed away today.
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-fortunate-foas-of-sabbioneta
1592:
First performance of “The Jew Malta” by Lord Strange’s Men, an English
theatrical group.
1766:
Birthdate of Andover, MA native John Adams, the husband of Dorcas Faulkner with
whom he had eight children.
1767(27th
of Adar I, 5527): Judith Jones, the wife of Joseph Jones passed away today in
New York City.
1771:
In Philadelphia, PA, Martha Lampley and Samson Levy gave birth to Rachel Levy.
1776(15th
of Adar, 5534): Parashat Tetzaveh; Shushan Purim
1802
Birthdate of French man of letters Victor Hugo the “preeminent biblical poet
among the French Romantics.” He eulogized Isaiah and Ezekiel in William
Shakespeare (1864) and injected some basic knowledge of the Kabbalah (probably
gained from his Jewish admirer, Alexandre Weill) into Les Contemplations
(1856).
1809:
Birthdate of Rosanna Dyer Osterman, the native of Germany who married Joseph
Osterman who worked in his business in Galveston until he passed away at the
age of 57 when a steamboat exploded near Vicksburg, MS.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fos08
1812(13th
of Adar, 5572): Erev Purim celebrated for the last time before the outbreak of
the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain
1814:
In Holland, a law was enacted officially ending the French rule that had been
overseen by Napoleon’s. The Jews supported the new government under
William I and the Netherlands proved to be a welcoming home for the Jewish
population which thrived there throughout the rest of the 19th
century.
1818:
In Georgia, Divinah Cohen and Isaac Minis gave birth to Phillippa Minis, the
wife Baltimore native Edward Johnson Etting, part of one of the oldest and most
prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia with whom she had six children
including Civil War hero Charles Edward Etting.
1820:
In London, Rabbi David Aaron de Sola, the Amsterdam born son of Rafael Aron (v.
Haim David) de Sola and Sara v. Isaac Namias Torres who in 1818 had begun
serving as the rabbi at Bevis Marks in London and his wife Rebecca (Rica) de
Sola gave birth to Sarah de Sola, the wife of Solomon Pool and the mother of
Helena (Eleanor) Blok; Eva Kahn; Eliza Oppenheimer; Eleazar Solomon Pool; Adele
Polak; Blanche Pool and Florence Pool.
1821:
In the Netherlands, Salomon Levie Goudsmit, the son of Levie Emanuel Goudsmit
and Magdalena Hartog Goudsmit and his wife and Geertruida Abraham van Raalte
gave birth to Levij Lion Goudsmit, the husband of Leah Adelaide Aleida Themans.
1822,
In Strasburg (which at this time was part of France, Jacob and Caroline
Ashelmann Lauff gave birth to their “youngest child, Charles August Lauff.”
1825:
Maryland removed the requirement of a Christian oath for public office and
substituted a declaration of belief in reward and punishment and the World to
Come. This obviously made life in Maryland easier on its Jewish citizens. On
the very last day of the session of the legislature an act "for the relief
of the Jews in Maryland," which had already been passed by the Senate, was
passed by the House of Delegates by a vote of twenty-six to twenty-five.
Only fifty-one out of eighty members were present for the vote. The bill
provided that "every citizen of this state professing the Jewish
religion" who shall be appointed to any office of profit or trust shall,
in addition to the required oaths, make and subscribe a declaration of his belief
in a future state of rewards and punishments instead of the declaration now
required by the government of the state.
1825:
Thirty-one-year-old Hannah Aarons who passed away yesterday was laid to rest
today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery in London.
1827:
“Lady Georgiana Mary Walpole, a descendant of Robert Walpole, the first Prime
Minister of Great Britain” married Joseph Wolff, the son of Rabbi David Wolff,
who was baptized in 1812 and whose missionary travels and archaeological
studies took him took him to the Sinai, Jerusalem and Aleppo as well a large
part of Central Asia when began searching for the Ten Lost Tribes.
1829:
In Bttenheim, Germany, “Hirsch Strauss and his second wife Rebecca” gave birth
to Loeb Strauss who as Levi Strauss made the riveted blue denim trouser an icon
of American fashion called “Levi’s”
http://lsco.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Levi-Strauss-Full-Biography.pdf
1830: Birthdate of Philip Bondi, the Bohemian
born Rabbi who “in 1857 received his doctor's degree from the University of
Prague and his rabbinical diploma from Aaron Kornfeld and Daniel Frank” and
whose works included “a Bohemian translation of the Pentateuch.”
1830: Birthdate of Holstein, Germany native
Ernest Falck, the husband of London born Helene Samuel with whom he had five
children.
1832: Hayman Levy Seixas, the son of Zipporah
and Benjamin Mendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to
Solomon Seixas.
1844(6th of Adar, 5604):
Sixty-five-year-old Leah Lazarus Cohen, the daughter of Marks and Rachel Dorris
Lazarus, the wife of Mordecai Cohen and the mother of Eliza, Lucretia and Marx
Cohen based away today after which she was buried in the Coming Street Cemetery
in Charleston, SC.
1845: In Berlin, Rabbi Meyer Landsberg and his
wife gave birth to their eldest son Max Landsberg, a graduate of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Bresalau who became Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh at Rochester
in 1871 where he served for 44 years.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/12/10/98425024.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landsberg
1845: In London, Sarah Joseph Tolano and
Emanuel Samuel Genese gave birth to Samuel Emanuel Genese.
1848:
In the wake of revolutions that swept Europe, the Second French Republic comes
into being. The Republic lasted a mere four years when it was swept aside
when Louis Napoleon (Bonaparte’s nephew) proclaimed the second empire.
Just prior to the birth of the Republic, the Jew’s Oath had been declared
unconstitutional by the French courts. This opened the way to further
participation of the Jews in the general world of French business, society and
culture.
1850(14th
of Adar, 5610): Purim
1850:
In New Orleans, Rosina Meyer Dreyfus gave birth to Pine Bluff, AR businessman
Isaac Dreyfus, the husband of Bertha Simon Dreyfus.
1851:
In Charleston, SC, Samuel Samson married Abigail Goldsmith, the second daughter
of Morris Goldsmith.
1851:
In England, Phoebe Levy and Aaron Samuel gave birth to Emanuel Samuel.
1851:
Philadelphian Washington H. Nones was promoted from Third Assistant Engineer to
Second Assistant Engineer today.
1853:
The New York Times published a portion of a paper present by Dr. A.K.
Gardner on "the meats of New York" that was delivered before the
Academy of Medicine and was published in the New York Journal of Medicine.
According to Dr. Garnder unlike the other butchers, the Jewish butchers
"do not prostrate the animal with the ax but first suspend it and then cut
this throat. This must be performed in a peculiar manner. It is
necessary to have along knife, which must be from rust, nic, or any imperfection
of the cutting edge." Only one cut is allowed. If more cuts
are required, “the animal is deemed unfit for food for the Hebrews. After
the animal is dead, he is upon the fore-quarters. From the difficulty of
removing the blood vessels, as required by their law, from the hind quarters,
this portion is rarely eaten by the Hebrews, but the mark is placed upon them
for the benefit of many Christians, who prefer the meat thus examined.
The butcher paid by the Society in which he worships an annual salary and in
addition he receives a small sum per animal from the keeper of the slaughter
house for his services."
1854:
Henry Cohen, a native of London who came to the United States in 1844 and
Matilda Cohen gave birth to “social economist” Mary M. Cohen
1858:
Disraeli began serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in a government led by
Lord Derby and most of whose members sat in the Lords which gave him an unusual
amount of power since he led the Tory Party in the House of Commons.
1860(3rd
of Adar, 5620): Seventy-seven-year-old educator and author Michael Hess the
brother of Mendel Hess and the son of Rabbi Isaac Hess Kugelmann who among
other accomplishments tutored “young Baron James Rothschild” passed away at
Frankfort-on-Main.
1861:
“The Fundamental Law of February 26, 1861” was promulgated in Austria today
after which Raphael Basch, he served as the official spokesman government of
Anton Ritter von Schmerling. Born in Bohemia, Basch alternated between being a
journalist and political activist who actually became part of successive
Austrian governments. This latter element was unusual for a Jew living in
the Austrian Empire at this time.
1862:
In Wilna, Joel Kopelovitz and Zine Danishevsky gave birth to Victor Harris,
founder and editor of the B’nai B’rith Messenger,
the secretary of Congregation Beth Israel and a court interpreter in Los
Angeles, CA.
1863:
Two days after he had passed away, 73-year-old “Samuel Lawrence of St. Philips
Terrace, Kensington” was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1865(30th
of Shevat, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1865:
Birthdate of Louisville, KY, native Bernard Flexner the “founder and first
president of the Palestine Economic Corporation and the brother of “Dr. Abraham
Flexner, former head of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Dr.
Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and Mary
Flexner.
1869(15th
of Adar, 5629): Shushan Purim observed for the last time during the Presidency
of Andrew Johnson
1870:
A “scheme of amalgamation” involving The Great Synagogue, the Habmro Synagogue
and the New Synagogue as well as their branches on Portland Street and the
Bayswater was incorporated in the Seventeenth Report of the Charity
Commissioners of England and Wales so it could be presented by them to
Parliament.
1870:
In Augusta Georgia, Ellen Gobert and Phillip Lawrence Cohen gave birth to
journalist, Democratic Party leader and U.S. from Georgia John Sanford Cohen
who was raised as a Jew but raised in the Episcopalian faith of this mother.
1871:
Today, on his 26th birthday, Max Landsberg, the Berlin born son of
Rabbi Meyer Landsburg a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Bresalau
who became Rabbi at B’rith Kodesh at Rochester in 1871 where he served for 44
years married Miriam Isengarten with whom he had three children – Emil, Clara
and Rose.
1872:
Birthdate of New York City native Moses Henry Cohen, the Tampa, FL, lawyer,
Spanish-American War veteran and secretary for 28 years of Schaarai Tzedek who
married Julia Wolf, “whose family owned Wolf Brothers.
1873:
It was reported today that the recent Hebrew Charity Ball in Philadelphia
raised $7,920 after expenses. The money has already been distributed to
several of the city’s Jewish institutions.
1876(1st
of Adar, 5636): Rosh Chodesh Adar and the Sabbath of Shekel.
1877(13th
of Adar, 5637): Fast of Esther
1877:
“The Home for Aged Hebrews” published today described it as “one of the most
delightful” institutions of its kind in New York City. The building,
which was originally a country home of the Astor family, offers views of the
East River and Long Island Sound. The facility currently is home to 70 older
men and women who live in “air well-furnished rooms,” are well clothed and
enjoy excellent food on a daily basis which is complimented by wine if so
desired.
1880(14th
of Adar, 5640): Purim
1880:
The Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host a Purim entertainment
and reception this evening at the Harlem Music Hall.
1880:
In New York, the Purim Association sponsored a ball in the Academy. A tableaux
featuring Queen Esther surrounded by the Muses, preceded the evening’s dancing.
1880:
Sixty-year-old Dr. Simon Rosenberger, a distinguished Philadelphia, PA Jewish
physician and Ida Smith, a servant girl working in his house, were the victims
of a mysterious malady. Miss Smith passed away after suffering convulsions
brought on possibly by coal gas that had seeped into the house from the
cellar. Rosenberger who is unconscious and near death is thought to be a
victim of the case or possibly an ingestion of poison.
1882:
“The Hebrew Charity Ball” published today described plans for the upcoming
Purim Association’s upcoming fancy dress ball. This ball, which has been
a part of the New York Social Scene for two decades, will be held at the
Academy of Music under the leadership of M.H. Moses, the association’s
President.
1882:
A review of “Divorce and Divorce Legislation” by Theodore D. Woolsey notes that
the volume includes a chapter devoted to the history of divorce among the
Jewish people.
1882(7th
of Adar, 5642): German painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim passed away. He is often
regarded as the first Jewish painter of the modern era. His work was shaped by
his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his German Jewish
contemporaries chose to convert to Christianity. Oppenheim is considered to be
in sympathy with the ideals of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of
Judaism) movement, because he remained "fair to the present" without
denying his past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moritz_Daniel_Oppenheim_The_Return_of_the_Jewish_Volunteer.jpeg
http://www.jewishart.org/Oppenheim/wedding.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Moritz_Oppenheim.html
1884:
Birthdate of Bialystok native Zusman Segalowitch, the “Yiddish, poet, novelist
and journalist” who found refuge in Tel Aviv during the Holocaust.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/segalowitch-zusman
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Segalovitsh_Zusman
1885(11th
of Adar, 5645): Ta’anit Esther observed today on the same day that the Berlin
Conference also known as the Congo Congress came to an end.
1887:
In Cincinnati, OH, Rebecca and William Jacob Mack gave birth to Robert Tandler
Mack who had three children – Robert, Jr., Julian and Susan – with his second
wife Jeanette Mack.
1888(14th
of Adar, 5648): Purim
1888:
Birthdate of Alfons Klauber who was deported from Prague in 1942 to Ujazdow
where he was murdered.
1888:
The grant of citizenship for businessman, banker and philanthropist Jacob
Noisotz was approved by the upper house of the Romanian legislature today but
would fail to gain his goal when the lower house rejected the request in
December.
1889:
In Baltimore, founding of the Hebrew Free School Society whose members included
Joseph Eisner and Abraham S. Shochet and which sponsored a Talmud Torah that
offers daily instruction for three hours from 4 until 7 and that “maintains a
school for girls” as well
1890:
In honor of a request made to Charles Frohman by child acting star Elsie
Leslie, 500 children from the Industrial Schools of the Associated Hebrew
Charities attended today’s matinee performance of the “Prince and the Pauper
(Frohman was one of three Jewish brothers from Ohio who were involved with the
Broadway theatre before World War I)
1891:
The Purim Association hosted its 30th annual charity ball at the
Metropolitan Opera House tonight in New York City.
1892:
The New York Times “has received $20 for Russian Hebrew immigrants from
‘A.Y.E.’”
1893:
In Newark, NJ, Clara Michaelson and Adam Frankel gave birth to CCNY and Yale
educated “chemical technologist” Edward M. Frankel, “the holder of a series of
U.S. and foreign patents” who married concert Saai Biro and after the death of
his first wife Dr. Florence Frankel.
1893:
“New Things in Lawsuits” published today described a lawsuit brought by Max
Bronestein against three New Jersey constables for desecrating his home “by
cooking and eating meals which had not been prepared according to the Hebraic
usages and principles” including the use of “pork sausage.”
1894:
Birthdate of Baltimore native and John Hopkins graduate Simon Cohen who was
ordained a HUC and who served as a staff member at the Universal Jewish
Encyclopedia for twenty years starting in 1924.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0077/ms0077.html
1894:
“Zangwill’s New Jewish Stories” published today provided a review The King
of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill.
1894:
It was reported today that Rabbi Henry Berkowitz offered the opening prayer and
then presided over the non-denominational memorial service held in Philadelphia
at Keneseth Israel in memory of George W. Childs who was a newspaper and public
benefactor in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf the rabbi at Keneseth
Israel delivered an address that highlight Mr. Child’s philanthropic work.
1895:
Emily Speilman, the daughter of Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore and Adelaide
Sebag-Montefiore and her husband Sir Isidore Spielmann gave birth Adelaide
Cohen, Baroness Cohen the wife of Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen.
1895:
Three days after he had passed away, Benjamin Lazarus was buried today at the
“Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1896:
More than 3,000 people are expected to attend tonight’s charity ball sponsored
by the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home. This
ball is the successor to Purim balls which were a popular social and
fundraising event in New York City for many years. Among the expected
attendees are Mayor Strong and Governor Morton.
1896:
Birthdate of Portsmouth, VA native Moses Abraham Jacobson, the 1916 graduate of
Virginian Polytechnic Institute, the holder of an M.S. in Agriculture from
Purdue University and a medical degree from the University of Chicago where he
pursued a career as a bacteriologist.
1898:
“London Literary Letter” published today described Israel Zangwill’s new novel
as being “a Jewish story” similar to the one that was his “first great
success.” Zangwill’s attendance at the “congress called to consider” “the
project of colonizing Palestine with Jews” means “that he intends to do more
than write stories of the Ghetto.”
1898:
It was reported today that David Christie Murray, the English author, “is
emulating Zola in taking up the defense of Dreyfus.
1898:
Picquart is dismissed from the Army.
1898:
Emile Zola appeals his conviction.
1899(16th
of Adar, 5659) Shushan Purim – the 15th of Adar fell on Shabbat
1899:
Two days after she had passed away, Bamberg, Germany native Caroline Zimmer,
the wife of Nathan L.D. Zimmer and mother of David, Menki and Rebecca Zimmer
was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London
1899:
The children attending the religious school at Congregation B’nai Jershurun on
the corner of 65th Street and Madison Avenue celebrated Purim today.
1899:
Two days after he had passed away, Amsterdam native Henry Waas, the husband of
Mariam Waas with whom he had had nine children was buried today at “Plashet
Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1899:
In Syracuse, NY, Rabbi and Mrs. Simon J. Finkelstein gave birth to Columbia Law
School and Harvard Law graduate Dr. Maurice Finkelstein, a member of the St.
John’s faculty from 1926 until his death in 1957 and the father of Helen and
James Finkelstein.
1900:
Birthdate of Syracuse University college football star and Medal of Freedom
winner Harry Herbert, the director of the support and development services the
National Jewish Welfare Board and husband of “the former Marian Seltzer” with
whom he had one daughter Joanne Shebes.
http://www.jta.org/1974/10/09/archive/harry-herbert-dead-at-74-was-active-in-jwb-and-jdc
1901:
Birthdate of Aharon Zisling, the native of Minks who helped to found Youth
Aliyah, the Palmach and Ahdut HaAovoda and was Israel’s first Minister of
Agriculture.
1901: Maurice Weil, the German born son of
Marum and Malchen Weil who in 1884 came to the United States where founded Weil
Kalter Manufacturing company, married Paula Kalter today and later became an
active leader in the St. Louis, MO Jewish community as can be seen by his
founding of the Jewish Loan Association of St. Louis, and serving as a director
of the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Charities,
https://www.ojmche.org/oral-history-people/leon-feldstein/
1902:
In Vienna, Ida Wolf and Siegfried Reginald Wolf gave birth to Irma Wolf.
1903:
Rabbi Kaummann Kohler was elected to the presidency of Hebrew Union College in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1903:
Leopold Greenberg arrives in Brindisi and sends a short telegram whose
obscurity of wording strikes dismays Herzl.
1903:
A paper by Victor Rosewater was read at The National Convention on Municipal
Ownership and Public Franchises which is meeting at the Reform Club in New York
City. Rosewater was arguing for the ownership of electric lighting plants
by municipalities. Rosewater was the editor of the Omaha (Nebraska) Daily Bee,
an important Republican political leader and an active member of the Jewish
community.
1904:
It was reported today that David Blaustein of the Educational Alliance will be
one of the speakers at the upcoming meeting of the University Settlement
Society of New York.
1904:
Today Saks and Company advertised that it “Spring Topcoats for Men” at prices
from $12.50 to $38.00.
1905(21st
of Adar I, 5665): Abraham Adolphe Sée the
attorney who “president of the Jewish consistory of Colmar and was “the brother
of Marc Sée and Gustave Sée” passed away today in Paris.
1905:
In Galicia, Naftaili and Sarah Pearl Taubes gave birth NYU graduate and JTS
trained rabbi, Morris Aaron Gutstein who in 1921 came to the United States where
he led “the famed Touro Synagogue of Newport, RI and then went on to Congregation
Shaare Tikvah in Chicago “which he led for twenty-four years” while producing serval
noteworthy articles, teaching at the Spertus College of Judaica and winning several
awards for his work one from Valley Forge’s Freedom Foundation.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Morris-Gutstein/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AMorris+A.+Gutstein
1906:
The New York Times reported that the Motor Yacht Club of Great Britain
has received two challenges from E.J. Schroeder of New York, owner of the
Dixie, to compete in races for the Hamsworth Cup and the International Cup
which was won last year by Napier II, a vessel owned by Lord Montague and
Lionel Rothschild.
1906:
“The Jewish congress for the attainment of full civil and political rights of
Jews which met” secretly in St. Petersburg “decided to participate in the
elections for members of the National Assembly and to for a party to defend the
interests of the Jewish masses.”
1907:
Birthdate of Cyrus Sol “Cy” Malis the native of Philadelphia who pitched in one
game for the hometown Phillies.
1908:
Birthdate of Bridgeport, CT native Yale trained microbiologist and Boston
University trained physician Louis Weinstein. (As reported by Lawrence K.
Altman)
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/21/health/louis-weinstein-92-infectious-disease-expert.html
1909:
Birthdate of Claude Cahen a native of Parish who was “a specialist in the
studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the crusades and the
social history of the medieval Islamic Society.”
1910:
Today, the board of commissioners of the City Park received a letter from Isaac
Delgado,” “a Kingston, Jamaica-born Jew who came to New Orleans as a young man
and made a fortune dealing in sugar and molasses” “tendering to it a donation a
sum of $150,000 for the erection of a building where objects of art may be
collected through gifts or loans and where exhibits can be held from time to
time by the Art Association of New Orleans…”
1910:
In Germany, Isaac Plaut, the German born son of Simon and Lina Plaut, and his
wife Sophie Plaut gave birth to Julius Plaut
1911:
Today’s final session of the Jewish Kehilla of New York which has “238
constituent organizations including 138 congregations, 58 lodges, 44
educational and benevolent society and 3 federations” closed today “with the
election of seventy-nine members of the Executive Committee and the Advisory
Council.
1912(8th
of Adar, 5672): Sixty-one-year-old Manheim, Germany native Ernst Thalmmann who
in 1867 at the age of 16 came to the
United State where he became a member of several exchanges including the NYSE
and the Cotton and Produce Exchange of New York while rising to being a “senior
member of Landenburg, Thalmann and Company, one of the leading international
banking houses” in New York and serving as a Trustee of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, passed away today.
1912:
Forty-six-year-old Columbia Law School graduate and Republican New York State
Attorney General Julius Mayer began serving as “Judge of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York
1913(19th
of Adar I, 5673): Seventy-seven-year-old, the president of William Sicher Dry
Goods Compan who had come to St. Louis in 1852 and was a member of Share Emeth
Hebrew Congregation passed away today.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-william-sicher-2/12014315/
1914:
“Five hundred unemployed Jewish garment workers held a mass meeting presided
over by M.B. Martin which sent a telegram to President Wilson demanding jobs
for the 150,000 unemployed workers.
1914:
This evening, a group of unemployed Jewish workers marched to City Hall in
Chicago where M.B. read the following “Resolved, The unemployed Jews of
Chicago, comprising a part of the 150,000 jobless army, demand a job.”
1914:
“While a stormy meeting of depositors of the failed bank of Henry Siegel Co.
was being held in the temporary headquarters of the bank at 43 West Thirteenth
Street” today, “preferred stockholders of the Siegel Stores Corporation at the
Hotel Astor, discussed their standing and the plan for reorganizing the New
York stores.”
1915(12th
of Adar, 5675): Seventy-year-old Rosalie Steiner Schonberger, the Hungarian
born daughter of Hannah Heller Steiner and the wife of Herman Schonberger
passed away today after which she buried at the Hungarian Union Field Cemetery.
1915:
For a second day, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments
concerning the granting of a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Leo M. Frank
who was found guilty of murdering a factory girl in 1913 in a courtroom
“pervaded by mob spirit.”
1915:
Arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States on the appeal of Leo M.
Frank from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by a Federal District Came to
an end this afternoon” when Louis Marshall concluded his speech for the defense
and Attorney General Grice and Solicitor General Dorsey argued for the State of
Georgia
1916:
Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, who has just returned from
Constantinople, is to be honored today by the public at the Great Hall of the
College of the City of New York. Cleveland H. Dodge, acting on behalf of
the Mayor, is chairman of the committee sponsoring the event. Among the
speaks will be Mayor Mitchell, Bishop Greer, Oscar S. Straus, Rabbi Wise John
H. Finley, President Sidney E. Mezes and Ambassador Morgenthau himself.
1916:
Birthdate of award-winning composer Mordecai Seter. Born in Russia, he
moved to Palestine in 1923 where he spent the rest of his life. Among his
earliest work was The Sabbath Cantata, patterned after Renaissance
music. Several of his most important works included Biblical
themes. These included music for the ballet Judith commissioned by
Martha Graham Jephthah’s Daughter commissioned for the Bat Sheva Dance
Company and a symphony simply entitled Jerusalem.
1917:
A. M. Sharp is scheduled to lead the daily service at Temple Emanu-El where Dr.
Enelow will speak on “The Jewish Characteristics of Jesus.”
1917:
As the Romanoff dynasty hurtled towards its final days, with all that that
meant for the Jewish people, Tsar Nicholas “order the Duma to close down” today
1918(14th
of Adar, 5678): As World War I enters its final year, Jews celebrate Purim
1918:
“A memorial meeting in honor of the late Dr. Henry M. Leipziger” the long time
“Supervisor of Lectures in the public schools was held” tonight “at Temple
Emanu-El under the auspices of the Judeans, an organization which he had been
President for many years.
1919:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Mason Adams the multi-talented actor whose most
famous role was as the anonymous voice of Smucker jams and jellies which ended
with his tagline - "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good."
1920:
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” “a silent horror film…written by Hans Janowitz
and Carl Mayer” was released in Germany today.
1920:
Major General Louis Bols, the Officer Administering the Government of
Palestine, issued an official proclamation that the British government intended
to carry out the terms of the Balfour Declaration
1920:
Birthdate of Tony Randall. Born Leonard Rosenberg in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Randall is best remembered for his role as Felix Unger in the television
version of The Odd Couple. Randall often played light comedic
roles in the movies but in reality, he was an accomplished actor and very
urbane, cultured individual. During the 1950’s, Randall lived near the
Met. In the evening he would take around the neighborhood often stopping
in to catch the last two or three acts of that evening’s opera. As Ed
Murrow said when visiting Randall’s apartment during “Person to Person,”
Randall’s apartment was not only filled with books, but Randall had actually
read the books.
1921(18th
of Adar I, 5681): Parashat Ki Tisa
1921(18th
of Adar I, 5681): Thirty-year-old Russian born Professor of Philosophy and the
Talmud in the Jewish Theological Seminary Dr. Wilfred Phineas Kotkov, a
graduate of the University of Chicago, Dropsie College and JTS passed away
tonight from the injuries he “received when attacked by four hold-up men on”
February 24th.
1922:
It was reported today that according to the will of Alfred S. Heidelbach, the
“well-known banker of New York, London and Paris” who had passed away on
February 1, he has given $150,00 to Mount Sinai Hospital to endow the Alfred
and Julie Heidelbach ward” and left “bequests of $5,000 each are left to the
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum…”
1923:
It was reported today that three thousand people had filled Sinai Congregation
to attend the memorial services which were held in memory the late Emil G.
Hirsch who had served the as the rabbi for the Chicago congregation for 43
years.
1924:
Carlos and Elizabeth, a silent film produced and directed by Richard Oswald (born
Richard Ornstein) and starring Conrad Viet who “his new Jewish wife Ilona
Prager left Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power” was released today
in Germany.
1924:
The trial against Hitler began in Munich. Hitler was on trial for
his part in attempted coup that began in a Munich Beer Hall. The coup
failed. Hitler was found guilty and sent to jail. While in jail, he
wrote Mien Kampf. He was treated like a celebrity while in jail
and came out stronger politically than when he went in.
1925:
Seventy-four-year-old James Edgar who as U.S. Senator from New Jersey succeeded
in getting the Senate to adopt a resolution in 1916 “asking the President to
set aside a day as Jewish relief day for Jewish war sufferers” passed away
today.
1925:
As a sign of the growing power of the Nazi Party, The Völkischer Beobachter the
party’s official newspaper begins publishing again.
1926:
In London, David and Rose Pollack gave birth to Dr. William Pollack, who in
1980 along with his colleagues won the Lasker Award “for excellence in
biomedical research.”
1926:
In New York City, Isaac and Bertha Belack, Jewish immigrants from Russia, gave
birth to Doris Belack, the veteran actress known for her roles on “Law and Order”
and the hit comedy “Tootsie” who was also the wife of Philip Rose, the producer
of “A Raisin in the Sun.” (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1926:
Fearing trouble now that students at Bucharest University have gone on strike
because the school has not acted to limit the number of Jewish students, the
government is having the streets of the city “patrolled by military policy” who
have orders to “prohibit” “all authorized gatherings.”
1926:
According to Menorah Journal Editor Henry Hurwitz, while in “the last century
many of the finest minds and spirits in Europe and America turned their backs
on Judaism, today, the intelligent Jew is seeking not avenues of but the road
to return to Judaism.”
1926:
According to reports published today, that according to H.J. Reit Chairman of
the Washington Heights section of the United Palestine Appeal, the organization
has reached its goal of $125,000 after raising $90,000 at its recent one
hundred dollar a plate dinner.
1926:
According to the official figures of the British Colonial Office published in
the United States today, “during 1925 a total of 33,801 Jewish immigrants
entered Palestine, 2,141 Jews emigrated from Palestine” for a “net increase in
the Jewish population for the year of 31,660.”
1927:
Ten-year-old Yeudi Menuhin made his European debut as a soloist with the
Lamoureux Orchestra under the baton of Paul Paray in Paris
1928:
In Kfar Malal, Shmuel Scheinerman of Brest-Litovsk and Vera (née Schneirov)
Scheinerman of Mogilev gave birth to Ariel Scheinermann who would gain as
soldier-statesman Ariel Sharon.
1929:
Birthdate of Breslev native and Glasgow University and LSE educated journalist
and author Chaim Icky Bermant, the son of a rabbi and husband of Judith Rose
Weil with whom he raised four children – Aliza, Evie, Azriel and Danie – who
was a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle and whose published works
included two autobiographies – Genesis: A Latvian Childhood and Coming
Home.
1930:
Birthdate of pianist Lazar Berman. Born in Leningrad to Jewish parents,
he placed third in the piano competition at Budapest in 1956.
1930:
Birthdate of Bronx native and DeWitt Clinton High graduate Donald R. Siegel who
gained fame as actor Don Devlin.
1930:
Moe Berg received his LL.B. today.
1930(28th
of Shevat, 5690): Rabbi Samuel Isaac Andron, who for thirty years lived in New
York where he founded the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School and who had moved to
Palestine in 1922 passed away today in “Givoth Shaual.”
1931:
In Buffalo, grocery store owner Max Bernhard “and the former Katie Benatovich”
gave birth to Melvin Bernhard who gained fame as Tony and Pulitzer Prize
winning director Melvin Bernhardt. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1931(9th
of Adar, 5691): Otto Wallach passed away at the age of 93. The German
born chemist was a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War and won the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry in 1910.
1932(19th
of Adar I, 5692): Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, or Sonnenfeld, passed away.
Born in 1848. He “was the Chief Rabbi and co-founder of the Edah HaChareidis,
Haredi Jewish community in Jerusalem, during the years of the British Mandate
of Palestine. He was originally given the name "Chaim", however, the
name "Yosef" was added to him while he experienced an illness.
Sonnenfeld was born in Verbó, Hungary (today: Vrbové, Slovakia). His father,
Rabbi Avraham Shlomo Zonnenfeld, died when Chaim was five years old. He was a
student of Rabbi Samuel Benjamin Sofer (the Ksav Sofer), the son of Rabbi Moses
Sofer (the Chasam Sofer). He was also a student of Rabbi Avraham Schag in
Kobersdorf (who was himself a disciple of the Chasam Sofer); Sonnenfeld moved
from the latter city to Jerusalem in 1873. He became an important figure in
Jerusalem's Old City, serving as the right-hand man of Rabbi Yehoshua Leib
Diskin and assisting the latter in communal activities, such as the founding of
schools and the Diskin Orphanage, and the fight against secularism. He refused
to meet with Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany who visited the Old City because he
believed that the Emperor was a descendant of the nation of Amalek. Sonnenfeld
sent a delegate, a former Dutch diplomat and writer who had become a baal
teshuva, Dr. Jacob Israël de Haan, to Jordan with a peace proposal for King
Abdullah.” Contrary to what some might have claimed, “he had a warm
relationship with and mutual respect for Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, although the
two were vigorous opponents in many areas. Indeed, in 1913 the two traveled
together to Northern Israel to try to return lapsed Jews to Torah Judaism.”
1933:
Birthdate of Anglo-French financier Sir James Michael "Jimmy"
Goldsmith.
1933:
A program marking the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of Chaim Nachman Bialik, national Hebrew poet,
was held this evening in the auditorium of the College of the City of New York.
Bialik’s birthdate was actually January 9, 1873.
1933(30th
of Shevat, 5693): Rosh Chodesh Adar
1933(30th
of Shevat, 5693): Therese Loeb Schiff, the daughter of Solomon Loeb and the
wife of Jacob Schiff, who “organized a literary series for wealthy German
Jewish women, donated ten thousand dollars to the National Council of Jewish
Women to help cope with Jewish prostitution among young immigrant women, and
lectured for the Consumers League in support of protective legislation to end
child labor and the exploitation of women” passed away today.
1934:
The New York Times featured a review of “’The Dream of My People, a film
described as “a screen trip though Palestine with Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt”
produced by the Palestine-American Film Company now showing at the Acme Theatre
which is also showing “Lot in Sodom.”
1935:
In violation of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler orders the rebuilding of the
Luftwaffe. This is one of the many times the West missed a chance to stop
Hitler’s march that would lead to the Holocaust.
1935:
The Jerusalem Shopkeepers Association announced today that it will be
conducting a one day work stoppage next week in a “a protest against rising
rents and the refusal of the Municipal Council to pass a rent restriction law.”
1936:
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the Iowa native and longtime leader for the
emancipation of women, delivered an address today “before the women’s division
of the American Jewish Congress” said that Jews and Christians “together must
uphold the standard of individual rights” and “singled out Germany for
condemnation” because of “Nazi persecution of Jews, Catholics and Protestants.”
1937(15th
of Adar, 5697): Shushan Purim
1937:
“Under the spur of Governor Lehman, the Senate Labor and Industry Committee
today reported the new Minimum Wage Bill” which be subject to a floor of the
New York State Legislature next week.
1937(15th
of Adar, 5697): Sixty-six-year-old Pressburg Yeshiva graduate Aaron Tanzer, the
holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin and the “chief rabbi of Tyrol
and Vorarlberg who served as Jewish Chaplain on the Eastern Front with the
German Army during WW I passed away today.
1937:
Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman was among those who addressed the Women’s Committee of
the National Women’s Conference of Jews and Christians at the Hotel McAlpin
where the theme was “Woman’s Contribution to Better Human Relations.
1938(25th
of Adar I, 5698): Parashat Vayakhel and Shabbat Shekalim
1938:
“Penrod and His Twin Brother” a comedy featuring Jay Adler, the eldest son of
Jacob and Sara Adler as “Johnson” was released today in the United States.
1938:
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a meeting of the pro-Nazi German-American Volksbund
ends in a riot. (A meeting like this in America’s heartland provides part of
the background around which FDR made his decisions about the Jews of Europe
This is not an excuse. It is an explanation.)
1939:
The first in a series of sponsored by the New Friends of Music featuring the
first of five symphonies, each of which has been verified “as the work of the
Austrian master by Dr. Alfred Einstein who has restored them to their original
form” is scheduled to place today in Carnegie Hall.
1939:
Jews held protest demonstrations in Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, and several of
the large kibbutzim this evening. The demonstrations were sparked by credible
reports from London that the British government intends to create an
independent Arab State in Palestine which will be structured in such a way to
ensure that Jewish people will be permanently relegated to “minority
status.”
1939:
Israel Rokach, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, sent a telegram to Colonial Secretary of
Malcolm MacDonald expressing the displeasure of the 150,000 citizens of his
city over what is reported to be the British decision to turn Palestine into an
Arab State in which Jews will permanently be a minority. He wrote
that “establishment of a Jewish National Home in the historic land of our
ancestors was accepted by fifty-two nations as a sacred trust” and the Jewish
people would never agree to accept this newly created permanent minority
status.
1939:
Professor Max Lerner of Williams College is scheduled to deliver an address
today on “Is It Later Than You Think” at Temple B’nai Jeshurun
1939:
Tehilla Lichtenstein is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “The Uses of
Adversity” today at the Jewish Science Society
1939:
The sixth annual observance of Brotherhood Week which is sponsored by the
National Conference of Jews and Christians, and which has been endorsed by
President Roosevelt came to an end today.
1940:
It was learned today in Paris that “deportation of Jews to the Lublin
Reservation in Central Poland near the German-Soviet border has been resumed by
the Nazis” who have shipped “nearly one thousand men and women there from
Northern Germany. (Reservation – what a quaint way to describe a Ghetto)
1940:
In Brooklyn Anne Rosenberg and jewelry store owner Edward Drossman gave birth
toe Alfred University graduate Neil Arthur Drossman who gained fame as “ad
writer” Neil Drossman, “famous for his wit and word play” “who began his career
in copywriting at the tail end of the “Mad Men” era and went on to create some
of the most admired tag lines and campaigns in the history of the advertising
business” for such “products such as Meow Mix cat food, Einstein Moomjy
Carpets, Airwick air freshener and Chemical Bank.”
https://adage.com/article/agency-news/neil-drossman-remembered-lee-garfinkel/2531671
https://www.instagram.com/nyjewishweek/p/C0utGC_ssLB/
1941:
On the second day of deportations, 1,349 Jews were shipped from Gora Klilwaria,
Poland today to Warsaw where they either perished or stayed alive long enough
to be sent to Treblinka. (As reported by Yad Vasehm)
1941:
In the Netherlands, the citizens of Utrecht and Zaandam staged strikes
protesting Nazi raids on the Jews.
1942:
Isidore Newman and Edward Zeff, two Jewish wireless operators with the SOE
began the trip that would end with them landing in Occupied France by take a
train to Bristol and then flying to Gibraltar.
1942:
For twelve hours today, between midday and midnight, the Jewish population of
Palestine observed a voluntary stoppage of all commercial and business. During
this period all persons remained indoors in a self-imposed curfew, as a sign of
mourning for the loss of the more than 700 Jews who died when the Struma, sank
in the Black Sea north of the Bosporus. The Jewish passengers were trying to
escape from Nazi dominated Europe and settle in Palestine, something opposed by
the British and the Arabs.
1943
The French Jewish Representative Committee which is affiliated with the World
Jewish Congress issued a statement today calling for the “immediate and
complete restoration of rights to the Jews of North Africa following the
precedent established in other territories liberated from the Axis…”
1943:
“More than 20,000 persons gathered” tonight “at 100 separate meetings
throughout metropolitan New York to protest against the Nazi persecution of the
Jewish people in Europe.”
1944:
Birthdate of Ronald Steven Lauder “an American businessman, civic leader,
philanthropist, and art collector. Forbes lists Lauder among the richest people
of the world with an estimated net worth of $3.0 billion in 2007.”
1944:
Primo Levy and Dr. Leonardo de Benedetti arrive at Auschwitz after a four day
trip from a detention camp at Fossoli in central Italy.
1944: Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The
Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
1945: Birthdate of Ohio native Stephen Allan “Steve” Hertz who
played five games for the National League Houston Colt .45s in 1964 and managed
the Tel Aviv Lightning in the Israel Baseball League.
1946: As they searched for those responsible for last night’s
attacks on three RAF airfields that destroyed and/or severely damaged 22
aircraft, British troops “seized 5,000 Jews today and imposed a paralyzing
night traffic ban throughout Palestine.” The British have already found the
body of a dead Jew near one of the airfields. The deceased is assumed to
have been one of the attackers.
1946: Birthdate of Ephraim Sidon the Jerusalem born author of
satirical and children books now living in Tel Aviv who in 2004 “was a
co-recipient along with David Grossman and Haya Shenhav of the Bialik Prize for
literature.
http://www.jacketflap.com/ephraim-sidon/47232
1946(25th
of Adar I, 5706): Seventy-seven-year-old Albany Law School graduate and “former
City Court Judge in Albany, Julius Illch, the son of Simon and Celia Illch, who
was “treasurer of the Albany Jewish Social Service, a trustee of Temple Beth
Emeth and a past president of the Capital District Court B’nai B’rith” passed
away today in Coronado, CA while in vacation after which he was buried at the
Beth Emeth Cemetery in Albany County, NY.
1946: “Inveterate Los Angeles Gambler, publicist and nightclub
owner W.R. ‘Billy Wilkerson’” who had “bought a thirty-three-acre site between
the El Rancho Vegas and the airport” “signed a contract with (Meyer) Lansky’s
agent, Harry Rothberg, for a syndicate of investors to buy 60 percent of
Wilkerson’s property for one million dollars. (The Mob meaning Lansky and Bugys
Siegel, would completely buy-out Wilkerson)
1946: A resolution is scheduled to be introduced today in the
United States Senate that would call for a “Congressional investigation of the Palestine
situation…The measure calls for a joint House-Senate committee to be sent to
the Holy Land to investigate conditions there and report its findings to
Congress.”
1947:
Jacob and Niza Gabbai arrived in New York from Palestine today. The
couple is here to continue their education. The Gabbais were married in
Tel Aviv in 1944 while Mr. Gabbai, who was serving with the Jewish Brigade of
the British Army, was home one leave. After the war, Mr. Gabbai became
co-editor of the Maavak (Struggle), “a publication of the Young
Palestinian League in Tel Aviv, which seeks to integrate the country’s cultural
resources.
1948:
Members of the Irgun and the Haganah “clashed tonight in the center of Tel
Aviv.”
1948:
“Former Governor Herbert Lehman and Senator Charles Tobey, the New Hampshire
Republican were among the speakers at a meeting of 400 delegates representing
62 organizations which demanded the “implementation of the United Nations
decision on the partition of Palestine.”
1949:
“I Shot Jesse James” a low budget western directed by Samuel Fuller and
featuring J. Edward Bromberg as “Harry Kane” was released in the United States
today.
1950:
Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety" premiered in New York City.
1951:
Monnett B. Davis presented his credentials as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.
1951:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native and U. Cal, Berkley, Ph.D. Michael Scott Kimmel
the Stony Brook University Sociology Professor and “spokesperson of the
National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) who ironically has been
accused of “sexual harassment, bullying and academic conduct while remaining
married to Journalism professor Amy Aronson.
1953(11th
of Adar, 5713): Ta’anit Esther
1953:
The Jerusalem Post reported that an agreement on the future status
of the Haifa Refineries was initialed by the representatives of the government,
the Consolidated Refineries Ltd. and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd.
1953:
The Jerusalem Post reported that the fourth anniversary of the
liberation of Eilat was celebrated by a military parade attended by President
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and "a show of local achievements."
1954: In
New Haven, CT, Helen (née Gubin) and George Bolotin gave birth to Michael
Bolotin the younger brother of Orrin and Sandra Bolotin who gained fame as singer
and actor Michael Bolton and who won the Grammy in 1990 and again in 1992 as
the Male, Best Pop Vocal Performance.
1954(23rd
of Adar I, 5714): Sixty-eight-year-old Ukraine born Yiddish author and HIAS
staff member David Ignatoff, the husband of Minnie Radnitz Ignatoff with whom
he had two children passed away today in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/27/84109362.pdf
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=33701
https://yiddishkayt.org/view/ignatoff/
1954:
Birthdate of Yuli Tamir the veteran of “Aman” who has served as an MK and held
various ministerial posts.
1955:
Final performance of “Peter Pan” a musical version the 1904 play “Peter Pan:
with music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty
Comden and Adolph Green.
1957:
The Diary of Anne Frank, which had been running on Broadway at the Cort Theatre
since October 1955, re-opened at the Ambassador Theatre after it had left the
Cort four days ago.
1957:
In Jerusalem, Geula Cohen, a prominent member of the 1940s underground group
Lehi and later MK for Likud and Tehiya and Immanuel Hanegbi, was the Operations
Officer for the Lehi gave birth to MK, cabinet member and security expert
Yitzhak “Tzachi” Hanegbi
1958(6th
of Adar I, 5718): Eighty-seven-year-old “American illustrator and anarchist
Modest Stein, the Kovno born son of pharmacist Laza Aronstam, the husband of photographer Marcia Mishkin and
father of Luba Stein who in 1888 came to the United States were he joined his
cousin Alexander Berkman as a member of the “Jewish anarchist group, the
Pioneers of Liberty” before becoming “a successful pen and ink artist for the
New York World, New York Sun, and other New York newspapers” and finding “even
greater success as an illustrator for periodicals such as Argosy, and drew
numerous covers for other pulp magazines including The Cavalier, All-Story
Weekly, and People's Favorite Magazine” passed away today.
1959(18th
of Adar I, 5719): Eighty-five-year-old agronomist Selig Suskin, a native of the
Crimea who was one of the founders of Be’er Tuvia, and a delegate to the Sixth
Zionist Congress passed away
1961:
Fifty-one-year-old Mohammed V, the Sultan of Morocco, who according to Meredith
Hindley, found Vichy’s laws pertaining to Jews “appalling” and did what he
could given his limited power, to ameliorate their affect, passed away today.
1961(10th
of Adar, 5721): Sixty-five-year-old Uberto De Morpurgo, the son of Julius Baron
von Morpurgo and Mary Catherine and husband of Claire Clara Maria de Morpurgo who
was Italy’s leading male tennis player during the 1920’s passed away today.
1962(22nd
of Adar I, 5722): Eighty-three-year-old Riga native Rabbi Harris M. Lazarus,
the longtime “minister at the Brondesburgy Synagogue in northwestern London”
and “who was acting Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth from 1946 to 1948”
passed away today in London.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/02/27/81785586.html?pageNumber=33
https://www.jta.org/archive/rabbi-lazarus-former-deputy-chief-rabbi-of-britain-dies-in-london
1964:
“He Rides Tall” a western with a musical score by Irving Getz was released
today in the United States.
1968(26th
Shevat, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old Harvard trained physician Joel J. Pressman,
the Philadelphia born sone of Peter and Rose Pressman, the husband of movie
star Claudette Colbert and World War II flight surgeon who was “an authority on
the larynx passed away today.
1969(8th
of Adar, 5729): Seventy-year-old orthopedic surgeon and World War II veteran
Philip Palew, the husband of Dr. Stephanie Shick Palow passed away today.
1969(8th
of Adar, 5729): Levi Eshkol passed away. Eshkol is one of the ironic
characters in Jewish History. He was the Prime Minister sandwiched in
between such giants as David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir. Yet this
comparative political non-entity was the Prime Minister in 1967. He was
the one who made the decisions that saved the state in those fateful days of
May and June. And he was the Prime Minister who reunited Jerusalem
and reclaimed the City of David.
http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/index.html
1970:
“Beverly Hills developer Louis Lesser filed suit in San Diego Superior Court
today claiming half interest in the estimated $100 million Rancho Los
Penasquitos Inc. development company.”
1970:
“Georgy” “a musical with a book by Tom Mankiewicz, lyrics by Carole Bayer”
opened today at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1970:
“The Dreyfus Fund announced today that Howard Stein, who has been president had
been given the additional office, of chairman.”
1972(11th
of Adar, 5732): Parashat Tetzaveh
1972(11th
of Adar, 5732): Eighty-four-year-old Margarete Caecilie Tietz, the Berlin born daughter
of Albert Ariel Dzialoszynski, a Jewish wholesaler from Kępno, and his wife
Emma Sarah Meyermann, who came from Vilnius, the wife “Cologne merchant Alfred
Leonhard Tietz and the daughter-in-law of the department store founder Leonhard
Tietz who was active in a number of social improvement organizations in Germany
during WW I and post-war Germany, who fled to Palestine when the Nazis came to
power and who eventually settled in the United States passed away today in
London.
1973(24th
of Adar I, 5733): Eighty-five-year-old Nathan Kolko, the Polish born son of
Solomon and Rose Goldstock Kolko, and the husband of Sarah Alpert Kolko passed
away today after which he was buried in the Britton Road Cemetery in Greece,
NY.
1974:
At its founding convention The American Sephardi Federation announced its
goals: First to revitalize Sephardi heritage, and second to provide for aid the
underprivileged population in Israel.
1974(4th
of Adar, 5734): Five days after his 68th birthday Alameda CA born,
Cal Berkley Law School grad Tevis Jacobs, the “senior partner in Jacobs, Sills
and Coblentz,” and active member of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco who
for 38 years was the husband of children’s right advocate Jill Jacobs and the
father of Diane, Leatrice, Lori and Stephen Jacobs passed away today.
https://www.jweekly.com/1999/10/22/jacobs-advocate-for-children-s-rights-dies-at-85/
1975(15th
of Adar, 5735): Shushan Purim
1975(15th
of Adar, 5735): Ninety-four-year-old Annie Elizabeth (Wannamaker) Strauss, the
wife of Mordechai A. Strauss and daughter-in-law of Amelia and Alfred Abraham
Strauss passed away today and after she was buried in Orangeburg, S.C.
1977(8th
of Adar, 5737): Parashat Terumah; Shabbat Zachor
1977(8th
of Adar, 5737): Eighty-nine-year-old Wharton graduate Morton Gustavus
Thalhimer, the Richmond born son of Pauline and Gustavus Thalhimer and husband
of Ruth Wallerstein Thalhimer passed away today after which he was buried in
the Hebrew Cemetery in his hometown.
1978(18th
of Adar I, 5738): Parashat Ki Tisa
1978(18th
of Adar I, 5738): Joan Colb Fried, the mother of Leanna Belson and Yael Fried
passed away today in Israel.
1978:
“Deathtrap” written by Ira Levin debuted on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre
with Marian Winters in the role of “Helga ten Dorp,” a part that she would stop
playing in October when she was diagnosed with Cancer that would claim her
life.
1978(18th
of Adar I, 5738): Eighty-one-year-old Vilna native Menahem G. Glenn who in 1914
came to the United States where he graduated from Columbia and earned a Ph.D.
from Dropsie Colle while pursuing a career as a Yiddish author, poet and
journalist.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/09/menakhem-gershon-glen-menahem-g-glenn.html
1980:
Egypt and Israel exchanged ambassadors for the first time. This was
one of the tangible outcomes of the historic Sadat - Begin Peace
Accords. While the peace may have turned out to be a cold one, the
peace has held.
1980:
An Off-Broadway production of “Biography” written by S.N. Behrman opened at
Stage 73.
1982:
It was reported today that Labor Party chairman Shimon Peres had “told the
party’s Central Committee that he had responded negatively to a letter from
Begin because he believed that before there could be any talk of a national
unity government there had to be a debate on a joint policy.
1982(3rd
of Adar, 5742): Sixty-two-year-old Vilnius born Rutgers Ph.D. “Arcadius Kahan,
the professor of economics and history at the University of Chicago” who had
two daughters – Vivian and Miriam – with his wife Pearl passed away today.
1984:
Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledged that he called New York City,
"Hymietown". What can I say? Twenty years later we get Mel
Gibson and his dad.
1984:
ABC broadcast the first half of “Lace” a two part min-series featuring June
Brown as “Mrs. Trelowney.”
1986:
Seventy-four-year-old Czech jazz musician Karel Vlach who had “a day job as a
traveling salesman for Jewish notions firm until the German occupation made it
untenable” and who played with several Jewish musicians including Fritz Weiss
before the war when Weiss was ultimately shipped to his death at Auschwitz
passed away today.
1987:
Israeli officials contended tonight that the Tower Commission had played down
the Israeli role in the Iranian arms deal as secondary to that of the United
States. ''At first glance, it doesn't seem to stress especially the role of
Israel; we are not being blamed,'' said Avi Pazner, spokesman for Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir. ''But that's at first glance, and we have to study it
in depth.'' Unofficially, Government members appeared generally relieved that
the report did not disclose any involvement deeper than that already attributed
to Israeli officials and middlemen.
1987(27th
of Shevat): Eighty-three-year-old Fredric R. Mann, an industrialist and patron
of the arts who helped finance music centers in Philadelphia and Tel Aviv, died
of cancer this morning in Miami. (As reported by Tim Page)
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/obituaries/fredric-r-mann-arts-patron.html
1988:
Secretary George Shultz is scheduled to meet with Israeli leaders today in an
attempt to promote the Bush Administration’s latest peace proposals for the
Middle East.
1988:
“Alien From L.A.” a sci-fi thriller produced by Yoram Globus was released in
the United States today.
1988:
“Frantic” a fast-paced mystery directed by Roman Polanski was released in
France and the United States today.
1988:
Settlers from the West Bank demonstrated in Jerusalem today outside the office
where Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was meeting with Secretary of State George
P. Shultz at the start of a new Middle East peace drive. The demonstrations
stood in stark contrast to the expression of other Israelis, notably Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres, who are willing to consider trading occupied land for
peace.
1988:
Naum Meiman a 77-year-old Soviet Jew who battled for 13 years to leave the
Soviet Union embraced his daughter when he arrived in Israel today. Mr. Meiman
hugged his daughter, Olga Plam, 50, of Boulder, Colo., who left the Soviet
Union 14 years ago and had not seen her father since then. Meiman, who is
a mathematician, said, “Some of us managed to get out. Many are still left
behind.'' Soviet authorities said they delayed Mr. Meiman's emigration request
because of his ''access to state secrets.'' Mr. Meiman had worked on classified
calculations in 1955.
1989:
In an article entitled “Design: Imagine This,” Carol Vogel describes architect
Ron Arad's gallery and office including the small back room in which the
architect is drafting his design for the new opera house in Tel Aviv.
1991:
The Bank of Israel said today that it would permit foreign companies to issue
stocks and bonds on the Tel Aviv stock exchange. But the amount of money a
foreign concern could take out of the country would be limited to 20 percent of
any new issue. Previously the central bank had turned down applications by
foreign firms to issue shares on the stock market. The change of policy
"will make the Israeli stock market more international," said Gideon
Schurr, speaking for the Bank of Israel."Now we need local investments,
not Israeli investments abroad."
1993:
In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade
Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand. One of the bombers
claimed the attack was in retaliation for American support of Israel. The
bombers were later found to be connected with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
1993:
“Leon the Pig Farmer, “a British comedy starry Mark Frankel and Janet Suzman
was released today in the United Kingdom.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104710/
1993(5th
of Adar, 5753): Sixty-four-year-old Carol Solomon author of Report from the
Asylum: Afterthoughts of a Shock Patient, “an account of the shock-therapy
treatment used to treat patients in asylums, drawn directly from personal
experience.”
1994(15th
of Adar, 5754): Parashat Ki Tisa; Shushan Purim
1994:
Eight-six-year-old Sofka Skipwith, the Russian émigré and Communist who was
honored by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during the Shoah passed away today.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sofka-skipwith-1427738.html
1994:
The Peace Now supporters rallied tonight in central Jerusalem, demanding an
independent inquiry into the Friday massacre and an evacuation of the 400
Jewish settlers living in overwhelmingly Arab Hebron.
1994:
Palestinians rioted and fought with Israeli soldiers across the occupied
territories and in predominantly Arab towns in Israel today to protest the
massacre here on Friday of at least 40 Arab worshipers by a Jewish settler.
1996(6th
of Adar, 5756): Mieczysław Weinberg passed away. Born in Warsaw in 1919, he
moved to Moscow in 1943. He lived and composed in the Soviet Union for
the rest of his life. His musical virtuosity did not keep him from being
arrested during the period Stalin’s “Doctor Plot.” (He left a large body of
work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets;
according to one reviewer he ranked as, "the third great Soviet composer,
along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich".[1
1999:
Jewish American cultural historian Maurice Berger when writing in the Los
Angeles Times about “the flap at Inglewood High School over Black History Month
and Cinco de Mayo observances” reminder readers that “that history can be a
valuable force for social change.”
2000:
‘After a lull of close to a week, fighting resumed in south Lebanon” with Israeli
warplanes firing six rockets and an exchange of ground fire near the Israeli
border where “a mortar shell landed in a field in northern Israel.”
2001:
In Israel, the Labor Party joined a coalition government with Ariel Sharon as
Prime Minister, Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as
Minister of Defense.
2002(14th
of Adar, 5762): Purim
2002:
“Two pregnant women one Palestinian, the other Israeli -- gave birth today
after being shot and wounded in separate attacks across their political divide,
as violence proceeded unabated the day after Israel decided to keep Yasir
Arafat confined to the West Bank city of Ramallah.” (As reported by James
Bennet)
2002:
“The Bank of Israel raised its monthly benchmark interest rate for the first
time in more than three years in a bid to stem inflation, which has been
accelerated by a two-month slide in the shekel.”
2003:
The paperback edition of 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile
part of the Jewish Latin America Series was published today
2004:
A fourth Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” today and ran for 36
previews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre in NYC.
2005(17th
of Adar I, 5765): Henry Anatole Grunwald an Austrian-born journalist and
diplomat perhaps best known for his position as managing editor of TIME
magazine and editor in chief of Time, Inc passed away today. (As reported by
Richard Severo)
2005(17th of Adar I, 5765): Sixty-one-year-old Jeff Raskin an
America human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh
project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s passed away tody
2005: In “The Morning After the Tel Aviv Bombing” Joseph M.
Hochstein provided a portrait of the indomitable will of the citizens of Tel
Aviv in the face of senseless slaughter.
http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000337.htm
2006(28th of Shevat, 5766): Sixty-six-year-old artist
and photograph editor Sally C. Fox passed away.
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01175
2006(28th of Shevat, 5766): Sir Hans Singer, a refugee from Nazi
Germany and a well-known British development economist, passed away.
2006: In
“Betty Friedan's Enduring 'Mystique'”, published today Rachel Donadio describes
the importance of the writings and career of the recently deceased author and
feminist.
2006: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel's two
chief rabbis, Rabbis Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger have “questions” for the
Archbishop of Canterbury but will not cancel plans to meet the leader of
Britain's state church this May in light of the vote by the General Synod of
the Church of England to divest its shares in companies whose products are used
by the Israeli government in the territories.
2007: Members of Histadrut remained on the job giving authorities
more time to affect an immediate solution to the problem of salary debts in 40
local authorities.
2007:
Starting today Diane Ravitch “participated in a ‘blog debate’ called ‘Bridging
Difference’ with Deborah Meier on the website of Education Week.”
2007:
“It was announced today that former Major League Baseball player Steve Hertz
would be the manager of the “Tel Aviv Lightning” a team in the Israel Baseball
League that would finish in second place at the end of the 2007 season.
2007:
Knesset members yesterday urged the legal authorities to explore ways of
indicting Professor Ariel Toaff over his book Pasque di Sangue, which
alleges a factual basis to a 15th-century blood libel.”
2008: In New York, The Center for Jewish History and the American
Jewish Historical Society presents distinguished writer and journalist Janet
Malcolm reading from her stunningly perceptive work Two Lives, in which
she pursues the charmed life of famed literary couple Gertrude Stein and Alice
B. Toklas while living in a Vichy, France village and pursues the larger
question of biographical truth.
2008: The New York Times reports on the results of a survey of religious affiliation
by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. http://religions.pewforum.org/. The
report indicates that the behavior of American Jews in terms of religious
affiliation may be more a function of their behavior as Americans as opposed to
their behavior as Jews. The report supports the bi-modal nature of
religious behavior in America – a quest for spirituality which is not
necessarily tied to usual patterns of denominational affiliation – which is
also apparent in the Jewish community.
2008(20th of Adar I, 5768): Lt. Gen. Dan
Shomron, a former chief of Israel’s general staff and the paratroop commander
who planned and led the storied 1976 raid in which Israeli troops freed 103
hijacked hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, in Israel. He was 70. He was
the 13th Chief of Staff for the IDF.
2008:
Rabbi Charles A. Klein, a Conservative rabbi and for
the last 30 years the spiritual leader of the Merrick Jewish
Center-Congregation Ohr Torah, will be
installed today as the 59th president of the New York Board of Rabbis, the
world’s oldest and largest interdenominational rabbinical board.
2009:
Comedian and actor Eugene Mirman discusses and signs
his new book, The Will to
Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life, at Barnes
& Noble in Georgetown.
2009: The Nineteenth Annual KOACH Kallah, sponsored by KOACH, the
college program of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism opens at the
Brandeis-Bardin Campus of the American Jewish University in Simi Valley, CA.
2009: In Venezuela, assailants threw an explosive at a Jewish
community center today, but nobody was hurt which was the second assault
against Venezuela's Jewish community this year.
2009: Today Sergio Widder of the Los Angeles-based Simon
Wiesenthal Center criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for failing to
take steps aimed at curbing anti-Semitism.
2010: U.S. premiere of “The Yellow Handkerchief” produced by
Arthur Cohen with music by Eef Barzelay.
2010: Harry Baron, the first Jewish justice to serve on the Irish
Supreme court whose wife Harriet had passed away 13 years ago, was laid to rest
today at “Dolphin’s Barn’s Jewish Cemetery.
2010:
Rabbi Barry Baron, co-Director of Jewish Welfare
Board is scheduled to lead Purim festivities and services at Fort Belvoir.
2010:
Today's issue of Haaretz Magazine is scheduled
to publish the exclusive story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Sheikh Hassan
Yousef, a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank, who served for
over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the
militant organization's leadership.
2010(12th of Adar, 5770): Eighty-eight-year Daniel
Kapilow, the “retired President of Teamster Local 966” and advocate for
providing aid to retired boxers who was predeceased by his wife Natalie with
whom he had two children – Susan and Gloria – passed away today.
2010:
ABC News President David Westin confirmed in an
interview today that the network's ranks of bureau correspondents, which
currently number several dozen, would be cut in half and be replaced with
"digital" journalists who would be expected to shoot and edit their
own stories. As part of the deep cuts announced this week at ABC News, the
network plans to close all of its physical bureaus around the country except
Washington and halve the number of its domestic correspondents.
2010(12 Adar, 5770): Prof. David Bankier,
one of the world's most renowned Holocaust scholars who also served as the head
of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, died at
the age of 63 today after a four-year battle with cancer.
2011:
Five Brothers,
a film about a brotherhood of Algerian Jews living in France who rally to
defend themselves while avenging the memory of their murdered father, is
scheduled to be shown at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
2011: In Iowa City, Benjamin Coelho and other local musicians are
scheduled to perform at Hillel’s Champagne & Classical Evening, which
is a fundraiser for this vital part of the University Of Iowa and Iowa City
Jewish communities.
2011: In Fairfax, VA, the Olam Tikvah Mens Club is scheduled to
host its Judaism is for Lover’s Party.
2011: Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan is scheduled to perform as
part of the People’s Symphony Concerts in NYC.
2011:
Palestinians in Gaza reported today that IDF planes
hit targets in Gaza belonging to Islamic Jihad west of Khan Younis, but the IDF
did not confirm the Palestinian reports.
2011:
Iran and Syria have agreed to cooperate on naval
training, Reuters reported Iran’s official news agency saying today.
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Eighty-nine year old “Judith
Coplon, a former Justice Department employee who became a sensation in 1949
when she was accused of being a Soviet spy” passed away today.(As reported by
Sam Roberts)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/us/02coplon.html?_r=0
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Arnost
Lustig, an acclaimed Czech author who drew on his own harrowing experiences as
a teenager in World War II to produce novels and short stories laced with tales
of young people who survive the Holocaust, passed away today the age of 84. (As
reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/06lustig.html
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Ora Eyal, one
of Israel’s most successful children’s book illustrators, whose work included
the Israeli classic “A Tale of Five Balloons,” passed away today at the age of
64. “Eyal was born in Jerusalem in 1946 and studied at the Bezalel Academy in
the city. She also worked as a translator from Italian. Eyal won the 1994 Ben
Isaac Prize for Illustration from the Israel Museum. She was awaiting delivery
of the final book she illustrated, “Everyone Went for a Trip,” just before she
died.” (As reported by the Eulogizer)
2011(22nd Adar I, 5771): Howard R.
Johnston, 86, a retired lieutenant colonel, passed away today. A native of
Bruce Lake, Indiana, he spent 23 years on active duty, and was a combat veteran
of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was a senior aviator, qualified in fixed
and rotary wing aircraft, and a certified flight examiner. (As reported by the
Eulogizer)
2012:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “The Technologist” by Matthew Pear
and the recently released paperback edition of “Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s
Remarkable Rise and Fall — From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of
Madness” by Frank Brady.
2012:
Today, the IDF is expected to open the southwest segment of a highway that
leads to Eilat for the first time since a terror attack near the border with
Egypt left 8 Israelis dead after having made major security improvements
including the erection of 23-foot-high fence. (As reported by Yoav Zitun)
2012:
“The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” is scheduled to be shown at Temple
Beth-El in Poughkeepsie, NY
2012:
“Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg” is scheduled to be shown at the Greater Phoenix Jewish
Film Festival in Scottsdale, AZ
2012:
In London, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of J Street and the author
of “A New Voice for Israel” and Jonathan Freedland who writes a weekly column
for The Guardian are scheduled to take part in a panel discussion
entitled “A New Voice for Israel” as part of Jewish Book Week.
2012:
The new edition of “IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin Black will be released
today at a special Live Global Streaming Event at Yeshiva University’s Furst
Hall in New York. The Event can be seen at http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
http://hnn.us/articles/new-ibm-correspondence-about-holocaust-revealed-edwin-black
2012(3rd
of Adar): Anniversary of the completion of the Second Temple.
[Editor's Note – This ushers in one of the best periods in Jewish History; we
got to be Jewish and nobody tried to kill us! It is puzzling that we
celebrate the tragedy of the destruction of the Temple but do not celebrate the
joy of it completion. It is also puzzling that we celebrate an invented
moment in our history (Purim) and do nothing to celebrate a real moment of
joy.]
2012:
One-hundred-one year old Canadian violinist Ethel Stark founder of the Montreal
Women’s Symphony Orchestra passed away.
http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/blog/?p=1296
2012(3rd
of Adar, 5772): Ninety-four-year-old Sol Schiff who so dominated his sport that
he was known as “Mr. Table Tennis” passed away today. (As reported by Dennis
Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/sports/sol-schiff-mr-table-tennis-dies-at-94.html?hpw
2012:
Workers at Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat ports called a general strike starting at 6
A.M. this morning, after overnight talks between representatives of the finance
and transportation ministries, leaders of the Histadrut labor federation and
workers’ committees failed to reach an agreement to prevent the strike.
2012:
Israeli aircraft bombed two targets in the southern Gaza Strip overnight, the
military said today.
2013:
“MAKERS: Women Who Make America,” which is
follow up to “Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words” is scheduled to be shown on PBS
this evening
2013((16th of Adar, 5773):
Ninety-five-year-old Stéphane Hessel, the hero of the Resistance, concentration
camp survivor and French diplomat passed away.
2013: The 92nd Street Y is
scheduled to host “Political Earthquake In The Middle East: Are There Any Good
Options For The U.S. and Israel” with Walter Russell Mead and Warren Kozak
2013: A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at Ashkelon early
this morning, breaking months of quiet between Israel and the Palestinian
enclave.
2013: US President Barack Obama will not
present a new peace initiative when he visits Israel and the Palestinian
territories next month, and instead is coming “to listen,” Secretary of State
John Kerry said today
2014:
The Thaler Holocaust Committee under the leadership of Dr. Bob Silber is
scheduled to meet at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2014:
Author and newswoman Hoda Kotb is scheduled to talk about her memoir with
Jonathan Tisch at the 92nd Street Y.
2014:
Jordan warned today that it might review a 1994 peace treaty with Israel after
Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s sensitive
Temple Mount.
2014:
Yad Vashem recognized Sebastián Romero Radigales as Righteous Among the
Nations.
2014:
“It was announced today that actress Jessica Lange would be the new face of Marc
Jacobs Beauty (He is Jewish – she isn’t)
2014:
Israeli troops along the border with Lebanon were on high alert tonight after
Hezbollah threatened action over what it said was an Israeli air raid
2014:
Pulitzer-prize winning author Philip Schultz is scheduled to discuss The
Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse about a young man translating his mother
mother’s diaries that “concern the Jedwabne massacre.”
2015:
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For Holocaust Education is scheduled to
host “The Hiding Place: A Queer Storytelling Tribute to the Diary of Anne
Frank.”
2016:
In New York, the Jewish Museum is scheduled to host 45 minute tours of the
exhibition “Unorthodox” led by the Museum’s docents.
2016:
“Ten terrorist attack victims who won financial claims against Iran can seize a
$2.8 million judgment owed to that country’s Defense Ministry, a federal
appeals court said today.”
2016:
“Feeling are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer” and “Cremator” are scheduled to
be shown at the 26th Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2017(30th
of Shevat, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Adar; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2017:
The New York Times published books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Almost
Complete Poems by Stanley Moss, When Police Kill by Franklin E.
Zimring, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the
Older by Richard Haass and the recently released paperback edition of Not
In God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
2017:
“Cloudy Sunday,” a film that tells “of a war-time romance in Thessaloniki
between a Jewish girls and a young resistance fighter” is scheduled to be shown
for the last time at JW3 in London.
2017:
Soprano Rachel
Joselson and pianist Rene Lecuona are scheduled to perform selections by
composers who were prisoners of Nazi Germany in Theresienstadt during the
Holocaust, including Viktor Ullmann, Adolf Strauss, Ilse Weber and Gideon
Klein at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
2017:
Among those waiting to see if they will win an Oscar tonight are actress
Natalie Portman, actor Andrew Garfield and the creator of “Joe’s Violin.”
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/a-violin-thats-a-survivor/
2017:
“The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936” – an exhibition that “explores whether a
controversial proposed boycott might have strengthened international resistance
to Nazi tyranny and how the Nazis used the games as propaganda to further their
agenda” is scheduled to come a close at California African American Museum.
2017:
Efraim Halevy, the ninth director of the Mossad is scheduled to be interviewed
by David Horovitz tonight at the Hirsch Theatre in Jerusalem.
2017:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “An Evening with Wolf
Blitzer.”
2018:
The Center for Jewish History and YIVO Institute are scheduled to host the
opening of the exhibition of “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit.”
2018:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “An Evening with
Israeli Master-Mentalist Lior Suchard.”
2018:
“Prayer” is scheduled to be the topic for the interdenominational scripture
discussion group co-sponsored by the Oxford University Jewish Society.
2018:
The Jewish Women’s Group is scheduled to celebrate Purim at the Brody Center at
the University of Virginia.
2019:
The “workshop at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture” on “Transdisciplinary
Perspectives in the Field of Jewish Cultural Studies” is scheduled to come to
an end today.
2019:
“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Museum of
American Jewish History” are scheduled to host “Race and Society in Nazi
Germany and the US: From Swastika to Jim Crow” which will include “a film
screening that will explore the encounter between two groups targeted by
oppression, brutality, and forced segregation who were brought together by
World War II and racism in their societies” followed by a panel discussion
moderated by “Edna Friedberg, PhD, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum.”
2019:
The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “Woman in Gold: A
Quest for Justice” during which “Helen Mirren, the star of ‘Woman in Gold,’
discusses “the ironic transformation of the portrait of a Jewish woman into an
Austrian national treasure…and the importance of pursuing truth.”
2019:
In San Francisco, the Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host a screening
of “Above and Beyond,” “a feature-length documentary, created from a mix of
archival footage and special effects from Industrial Light and Magic” that “tells
the story of WWII volunteer pilots, Jews and non-Jews alike, who risked
everything to defend Israel in its War of Independence in 1948.”
2019:
At Berkeley, CA, “UC Berkeley professor John Connelly is scheduled to discuss
Poland between World War I and the Nazi invasion” as part of the “Around Arthur
Szyk” lecture series.
2020:
In Berkley, Congregation Netivot Shalom is scheduled to host a “Earth Seder
Workshop” during which Rabbi Ellen Bernstein shares the earthy wisdom of
Passover through her new Haggadah, “The Promise of the Land.”
2020:
Keren Ann is scheduled to host Avishai Cohen at the Tzidkiyahu Cave.
2020:
The New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of
“Everytime We Say Goodbye” and the U.S. premiere of “The Final Hour.”
2020:
In San Rafael, CA, the Osher Martin JCC is scheduled to host a screening of
“Picture of His Life,” a “documentary that follows Amos Nachoum, an underwater
still photographer.”
2020:
The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to Joanne Greenway, the Chief
Excutive of the London School of Jewish Studies as she talks about difficult
cases of “Get Refusal she worked on while with the London Beth Din.”
2020(1st of Adar, 5780): Rosh
Chodesh Adar.
2021: In London, Highgate Synagogue is scheduled
to host a Morning Service followed by a Megillah reading that will finished “by
8:10 a.m.”
2021: The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is
scheduled to begin hosting a virtual screening of “Here We Are” and “Love It
Was Not.”
2021: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah is
scheduled to host a virtual Purim Service and Megillah reading to which
congregants are encouraged to wear costumes.
2021: The final episode of “Losing Alice”
starring Ayelet Zurer as Alice is scheduled to be broadcast today.
2021: Congregation B’nai Torah is scheduled to
present online a “Post Purim Shabbat Service” followed by a “Purim After Party
featuring comedian Orli Matlow.”
2021: In Florida, Temple Judea is scheduled to
host a two-hour Noon Drive by Event where attended are encouraged to “bring
Matanot L’Evyonim.”
2021: Israel’s Purim Pandemic Curfew which
began yesterday evening continues to be in effect today as part “an effort to
stop mass celebrations during the ongoing” health crisis.
2021: Based on reports published yesterday, as
of today Israel will have halted shipment of vaccines to friendly nations
following a request for a clarification by Attorney General Mandelbit and
criticism from several sources including Defense Minister Ganz.
2021(14th of Adar, 5781): Purim
2022: In New York, KnJ Theatre at Peridance is
scheduled to host “Am I, an evening-length solo performance
collaboration between choreographer Michael Getman and dancer Talia Paz.”
2022: The Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to
host a Multipiano Ensemble with pianists Tomer Lev, Berenika Glixman, Nimrod
Meiri-Haftel and Alon Kariv
2022: In another example of David and Goliath,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
leads his country in the fight against invading Russian forces whose President,
oddly enough justifies his action as a response to a need for de-Nazification
which sounds hollow when you realize that Zelensky is Jewish.
2022(25th of Adar I, 5782): Shabbat
Shekalim
2023: In Haverhill, MA, Temple Emanu-El is
scheduled to present online a lecture by Rabbi Barbar Aneillo on “the remarkable story of the Jewish presence in southern Italy, including
Sicily and Calabria, and explain how Jewish families who fled the Spanish
inquisition and settled in those areas maintained remnants of their rituals and
traditions for nearly 500 years” as well as “her experiences as a “bat anusim,”
whose ancestors were forced to abandon Judaism and accept Christian
conversion.”
2023: The Jewish
Film Festival is scheduled to host the second an final day of the tenth annual
WinterFest in San Francisco.
2023: The
National Library of Israel is scheduled to host a lecture by Yohanan
Petrovsky-Shtern, the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor
of Jewish History in the History Department at Northwestern University on Five Shifts
in Ukrainian-Jewish Relations One Needs to Know.
2023: The Breman
Museum is scheduled to present a lecture Hungarian Holocaust survivor Robert
Ratonyi as part of the Bearing Witness program.
2023: The Limmud
Festival sponsored by Limmud of North America
is scheduled to begin today.
2023: Today, the
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience and Chabad of Louisiana are scheduled
to host a family hamantaschen-making workshop in New Orleans.
2023: The New
Jersey-Israel Commission and COGIC are schedule to present “Symphony of
Brotherhood,” a special concert for Black History Month.
2023: The East
Bay Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “Dream Girl: The
Making of Marilyn Monroe.”
2023: In San
Mateo, CA, Chabad North Peninsula is scheduled to host a “Violins of Hope,” a
“concert subtitled “Strings of Resilience” with Cantor Aryeh Hurwitz features
violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust that have been restored.
2023: The New
York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors including A
Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier.
2023: Today, Jordan
is scheduled to host a "political-security" meeting between Israel
and the Palestinians to try and restore calm to the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip after deadly violence, a Jordanian government official said.
2023: Temple
Emanu-El, in Sandy Springs, has an event entitled, “Georgia’s Fight Against
Antisemitism,” from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. today with speakers including Georgia
House Reps. Esther Panitch, from north Fulton County, and Long Tran, whose
district includes most of Dunwoody and part of Chamblee.
Vigilance
Urged for Saturday’s Anti-Jewish ‘Day of Hate’ - Atlanta Jewish Times
2024: In San
Francisco, Congregation Beth Shalom is scheduled to host Jennifer Lang
discusses her memoir, Places We Left Behind “which details her life as
an American married to a French man she met while living in Israel during the
first intifada and their family’s struggle to find a place to call “home.”
2024: Rabbi
Fievel Strauss and a cadre of his fellow clergyman are scheduled to begin a
two-week long “pilgrimage” to Israel.
2024: At the
Green Library in Stanford, CA Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is scheduled to discuss her
novel, The Wolf Hunt, “which explores themes of antisemitism and
Black-Jewish relations.”
2024: YIVO is
scheduled to present, live on zoom a conversation with historian Matthias
Kuntzel and Jeffrey Herf on “Hamas and the Origins of Islamic Antisemitism.”
https://yivo-institute.myshopify.com/collections/the-origins-and-ideology-of-hamas
2024: As
February 26th begins in Israel, the Hamas held
hostages begin day 143 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.)
