This Day, March 13, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 13
624: Islamic forces under the command of
Muhammad were victorious at the Battle of Badr which cemented the power of the
Moslem leader with all that we would mean for civilization in general and the
Jews in particular.
1202: Seventy-six-year-…
March 13
624: Islamic forces under the command of
Muhammad were victorious at the Battle of Badr which cemented the power of the
Moslem leader with all that we would mean for civilization in general and the
Jews in particular.
1202: Seventy-six-year-old Mieszko III, the
Duke of Greater Poland who “employed Jews in his mint as engravers and
technical supervisors, and the coins minted during that period even bear
Hebraic markings” passed away today.
1245: As the Mongols sweep across Asia and
Christian Europe, Innocent IV issued “Cum non solum,” a letter addressed to the
Mongols asking them to desist from attacking Christian nations. This is the same Innocent IV who had ordered
the massive burning of Jewish books including many priceless copies of the
Talmud.
1366: During the Castilian Civil War, Peter of
Castile, whose depiction by his enemies as being friendly Jews was used against
was deposed as King of Castile and Leon.
1421 (10th of Nisan): After nearly a
year’s imprisonment, the Jews of Austria were ordered to be burned. “In Vienna
alone, more than a hundred perished in one field near the Danube.”
1421(10th of Nisan): Rabbi Aaron of Neustadt,
author Hilkhot Niddah died the martyr’s death in Vienna
1524: Suleiman II issued a firman that brought
closure to Abraham de Castro who had exposed the traitorous plans of Amad-Pasha
to take control of Egypt and protection for the Jews of Egypt, an event
memorialized by “Cairo Purim)
1601(19th of Adar II, 5361): Mordecai Marcus
Meisel passed away. Born in 1528, the son of Samuel Meisel, he was one of the
wealthiest people in Bohemia. A noted philanthropist, he was a leader of the
Jewish community in Prague. During his youth, the Jews of Prague were the
victims of the fanatical persecutions instituted by Ferdinand I. “In 1542 and
1561 his family, with the other Jewish inhabitants, was forced to leave the
city, though only for a time. The source of the great wealth which subsequently
enabled him to become the benefactor of his coreligionists and to aid the Austrian
imperial house, especially during the Turkish wars, is unknown. He is mentioned
in documents for the first time in 1569, as having business relations with the
communal director Isaac Rofe (Lékarz), subsequently his father-in-law. His
first wife, Eva, who died before 1580, built with him the Jewish Town Hall in
Prague, which is still standing, as well as the neighboring Hohe synagogue,
where the Jewish court sat. With his second wife, Frummet, he built (1590-92)
the Maisel Synagogue, which was much admired by the Jews of the time, being,
next to the Altneusynagoge, the metropolitan synagogue of the city.” After his death, despite the fact that “his
widow had given presents of tens of thousands of florins to the king and city,
soldiers would forcibly enter his house on the Sabbath and torture his nephews
until they ‘confessed’ that there was still more money hidden away. All the
money was declared property of the Bohemian Chamber with nothing left to the
family.”
1615:
Birthdate of Antonio Pignatelli who as Pope Innocent XII abolished Jewish
loan-banks in Rome 1682. In the following year he extended the ban to Ferrara
and other Jewish ghettos under his authority. He also prohibited the Jews under
his control from serving as shopkeeper and banned them most trades and crafts,
causing the Roman Jewish community to shrink.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/italytime.html
1639:
Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard. Eighty-three years later,
Harvard would hire its first Jewish instructor, sort-of. In 1722,” the officers
of Harvard Corporation vote that Judah Monis be approved as an instructor of
the Hebrew language at the College, under the condition that he convert to
Christianity. One month before assuming his post at Harvard, Monis converts
before a large assembly in College Hall.” It would take Harvard another 221
years to hire a Jewish professor without the requirement that he convert. Harry
Levin became the first Jewish full professor in the Harvard English department
in 1943.
1656: The Jews were denied the
right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam.
1682: Students in Cracow staged anti-Semitic
riots
1741: Birthdate of Joseph II, Holy Roman
Emperor. On the positive side, Joseph
did away with numerous humiliating conditions for his Jewish subjects including
the special badges and taxes. He wanted to liberate the Jews from “humiliating
and oppressive laws and to assure that all Austrian subjects could contribute
to the public welfare without any distinction with regard to nationality and
religion.” The thrust of his reforms were
intended to make Germans out of his Jewish subjects. This liberalization worried the empire’s
anti-Semites. But it also bothered
Jewish leaders including Moses Mendelssohn.
They feared that the price of being free was a diluted Judaism.
1745: Jews exiled from Prague.
1778(14th of Adar, 5538): Purim
1780: Isaac Touro sent an appeal for help to
Major General William Tryone stating that he was the rector the synagogue of
Rhode Island, had suffered every persecution and had come to New York” with the
troops and had “struggled to maintain his wife and family.”
1781: In a speech delivered today, Edmund Buke
gave credence to reports that “during an attack against the Loyalists” on Long
Island, Isaac Hart was “murdered with the greatest brutality by the rebels for
his attachment to Great Britain.”
1789(15th of Adar, 5549): Shushan
Purim observed for the last time before George Washington was inaugurated as
first president of the United States.
1797(15th of Adar, 5557): Shushan
Purim observed for the first time following the inauguration John Adams as
second president of the United States.
1805: In Bavaria, Fanny Reiling and Michael
Lilienthal gave birth to Bernhard Lilienthal who married Wilhelmine Schmidt in
1869 after having been married to Julia Schwabacher, the mother of his son
Ignatz Lilienthal
1808(14th of Adar, 5568): Purim
1808: Frederick VI, who had shown a great deal
of interest in his Jewish subjects while regent and who would support full
Jewish emancipation began his reign as King of Denmark.
1808: Levi Barent Cohen, who had three children
with his first wife Fanny and seven children with his second wife Lydia, was
buried today.
1809: Birthdate of Alexander Levi, a French
born Sephardic Jew, who was one of the early settlers of Dubuque, Iowa. He
would live there until he passed away in 1893.
Levi was a successful merchant and civic leader who was one of the first
Jews to hold public office in the Hawkeye state.
http://iagenweb.org/dubuque/religious/Jewish.htm
1811: Rachel and Nathan Hart gave birth to Mary
Hart the wife of David Hart.
1813: In South Carolina, Rachel Mordecai and
Charleston, SC native Isaac Harby gave birth to Samuel Harby who married
Frances Levy, the mother of Octavia, Julia, Isabel and Jeannette Harby after
having been married to New York native Sarah Philips Levy.
1815: In Pressburg, Sarel, the daughter of
Rabbi Akiva Eger and Rabbi Moses Sofer gave birth to Shmuel Binyomin Sofer a
leading 19th century Hungarian Rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the
Pressburg Yeshiva.
1816(13th of Adar, 5576): Fast of
Esther; Erev Purim
1816: One day after he had passed away, Isaac
Eliezer Davis was buried today at the “Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1819; Birthdate of Wilmington native Solomon
Solis, one of the first Jewish residents of Delaware of whom we have definitive
records.
1821: Rachel Cashmore and London born Moses
Joseph Cashman gave birth to Rebecca Cashmore.
1824(13th of Adar II, 5584): Parashat
Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; erev Purim
1825: Birthdate of Immanuel Heinrich Ritter who
succeeded Samuel Holdheim as the rabbi at the Berlin Reform Temple in 1860.
1825: Birthdate of Grigori Asaacovich Bogrov,
the native of Minsk, the Russian author whose first work was Memoirs of a
Jew in which he “portrays the vicissitudes of his life and surroundings”
and who left an unpublished Hebrew transcript on astronomy at the time of his
death in 1885.
1827(14th of Adar, 5587): Purim
1827: In Odenbach, Germany, Beir Grunebaum and
David Jacob Felsenthal gave birth to Johanna Felsenthal.
1830(18th of Adar, 5990): Shabbat
Paah
1833: David Nathan married Mary Lazarus at
Canterbury, Kent, UK.
1836: In Bavaria, Aron Emunuel Scharff and
Magdelanna Roos gave birth to Nicholas Scharff
1839: Two days after he had passed away today,
Isaac Cowen was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1840: In Rotterdam, Salomon Isaac Bril and the
former Mietje Maria Benedictus gave birth to Betje Bril
1843: Birthdate of Solomon Abedndana Belmonte,
the Hamburg born jurist who was elected deputy to the Hamburg Bürgerschaft, in
1887.
1844: Today, Henry Solomon, the first Chief
Constable of Brighton Borough Police in East Sussex, England, was bludgeoned by
a prisoner whom he was interviewing concerning the “theft of a roll of carpet.”
1844: In Paris, twenty-one-year-old Emma
Silberstein, “the daughter of Salomon Silberstein and Amilie Kempner married
Louis Loewe with whom she had four daughters and five sons, “one of whom was
James Lowe, Raphael Loewe’s grandfather.”
1845: Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is
premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. Born in 1809, Felix
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish parents had him baptized as a
Lutheran in 1816. The violinist
Ferdinand David was Jewish.
1846(15th of Adar, 5606): Shushan
Purim observed for the last time before the start of the Mexican American War
1847: In Mitwitz, Bavaria Abraham H. Freund and
Marie Hoenigsberger gave birth to Adolph Freund, the husband of Henrietta
Newman and trustee of both the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in
Denver and the Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites of
Cleveland who was he Diretor and Financial Representative of Cleveland, Ohio’s
Jewish Orphan Asylum.
1848(8th of Adar II, 5608): During
the Revolution of 1848, “as Viennese students thronged toward the Lower
Austrian Diet to submit their revolutionary demands, imperial troops fired into
the crowd” killing Carl Heinrich Spitzer, “a 17-year-old Moravian Jew” studying
at the Vienna Polytechnic making him “the first martyr of the revolution.
1850: David Meyer Davidson married Henrietta
Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.
1852: In Berlin, Louis and Pauline Blumenthal
gave birth to Oskar (Oscar) Blumenthal who morphed from theatre critic to
playwright and was the husband of Marie Blumenthal with whom he had one son –
Ferdinand.
1852: "Austria" published today reported that
"a Hungarian Jew has been arrested for trying to negotiate a number of
Kossuth notes that he had brought with him from Hamburg."
1853: In the Czech Republic, Anna Saphir, the Bohemia
born daughter of Salomon Kohn and Thekla Kohn and her husband gave birth to Markus
Saphir to Theresia Saphir.
1854(13th of Adar, 5614): Ta’anit
Esther; Erev Purim
1858: In Bialystok, Eve Fox and Wolf Dolitzky, “a
ritual slaughter” gave birth to writer Menakhem Mendel Dolitzky the husband of Rachel
Lea Sheinack and author of the play “The
Regrett” which “performed in the United
States who had come to the United States “where he became active in the Yiddish
and Hebrew press” and wee he was a member of the “Yude Leiv Peretz Writers
Society” in Los Angeles.
https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/D/dolitsky-menachem-mendel.htm
1861: Eleanore Mack, the Cincinnati born
daughter of Abraham and Henrietta Wolf, and her husband Max J. Mack gave birth
to Cincinnati native, and Harvard trained lawyer Harry Wolf Mack who served as
a “special assistant U.S. District Attorney.
1862(11th of Adar II, 5622): Fast of
Esther.
1862: Birthdate of Baltimore native Henriette
Hennie van Leer
1863: In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, Samuel and
Henrietta Gertrud Frauenthal gave birth Dr. Henry William Frauenthal, the
husband of Clara Heinsheimer Frauenthal with whom he was honeymooning aboard
the SS Titanic, a disaster which they both survived physically, but left them
destroyed mentally
Mr.Henry Frauenthal by
William Davis on Prezi
1864: Four days after she had passed away,
Eliza Anne (Baron) Jones the wife of John Alexander Jones was buried today at
the “Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1864: Edward Henirques, a native of Jamaica,
was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1865(15th of Adar, 5625): Shushan Purim
1865: After rejoining his regiment in December
of 1864, today Edward S. Salomon “received a brevet promotion to brigadier
general.”
1865: Frederick Knefler, who was serving under the
command of General William Tecumseh Sherman, was promoted to the rank of
brevet brigadier general just before the end of the Civil War. Born in Hungary in 1833, Knefler had the
distinction of being one of the few people to rise from the rank of private to
general during the course of a war. In
1861 he volunteered for the Union Army and became a captain within one
year. He passed away in 1901.
1865:
During the Civil War Major Alfred Mordecai, Jr was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army.
The newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel was the son of Alfred Mordecai, a
southern born officer in the United States Army. Mordecai Sr. resigned from the Army rather
than fight against the South, marking the end to an illustrious career. However, in a display of honor that was rare
among other Southerners who left the U.S. Army, he refused to accept a
commission in the Confederate Army or serve the South in any civilian capacity.
1865:
Thirty-three-year-old Philadelphia native Myer Asch who had been serving with
the Union Cavalry since 1861 and spent six months in Rebel prisons including
the infamous Libby Prison, was breveted as a Colonel of United States Vounteers
“for gallant and meritorious services during the war
1866(26th
of Adar, 5626): Seventy-one-year-old Julius Rubo who despite his brilliance and
ability found both a legal and academic career ultimately closed to him because
of his religion from which he refused to convert, passed away today.
including the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the
National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver.
http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php/Leon_Herrmann
1870:
At a meeting of the board of directors of the “B'nai Jeshurun Ladies' Hebrew
Benevolent Society, the President, Mrs. Henry Leo, the founder of the Society,
presented a report on the growing number of destitute Jews who were elderly and
in poor health. She urged the ladies to
develop a practical way of dealing with this growing problem
1870: A group of leaders of the Jewish community,
including Thomas H. Keasing, E.S. Isaacs and T.J. Solomon, met today to make
plans for establishing a society that would destitute Jewish immigrants when
they came to United States. A committee
of seven was selected to draw up plans for such an organization that would be
submitted to this group at its next meeting.
In the meantime, fifty dollars was donated to serve as “seed money” for
the group’s work.
1871:
One day after she had passed away, Kate Davis, the daughter of Pinchas Zelig
Harris and the wife of Abraham Davis was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish
Cemetery.”
1871:
The children of Aaron Adolphus, a wealthy New York Jew who passed away in
January, contested the terms of their father’s will in Surrogate Court.
1873(14th
of Adar, 5633): Purim
1873:
Birthdate of Benzion ben Moses Eisenstadt, the native of Minsk whose literary
output included poetry and biography of rabbis and scholars.
1873:
In New York, the Sabbath School Fair Association of the 57th Street
Congregation hosted a Purim reception and masked ball at the Terrace Garden.
1875:
It was reported today that the police in Hartford, Connecticut, have arrested a
swindler named W.F. Gerhardt. Gerhardt
is really an Hungarian born Jew named Moritz who worked his larceny in his
native land before being forced to flee to the United States. His confederates
include Michael Mandl, an Austrian Jew and Henry Hertz.
1876:
It was reported that the Jews in Washington, DC celebrated Purim with “a brilliant,
masked ball.”
1876:
A police officer found the body of Leopold King in front the building housing
Ahavat Chesed in New York City. The police found an empty blue vial in his hand
that smelled of prussic acid. The 54-year-old King was a native of Prussia who
had retired from his successful cap-making business and gone into real
estate. The family could offer no reason
for a suicide and said they thought “that he died from a fit of apoplexy.”
1876:
It was reported today that the managers of the Home for the Aged and Infirm
Hebrews has leased the “Old Hildebrand Mansion “at the corner of 87th
Street and Avenue A in New York City.
The number of people seeking admission has grown to such a large number
that the current facility on Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street is no
longer large enough.
1877: In Galicia, Austria, Sophie Cooperman and Wolff Tau gave birth to “Sigmund Thau, the founder and president of
the Mutual Lamp Manufacturing Company and leader of the Jewish community as can
be seen by his service as “treasurer of the JNF” and founder and director of
the Jewish Settlement House of the East Side who married Rose Thau after the
death of his first wife Devorah and who was the father of Sophie and Morris
Thau.
1877: In Troy, NY, Charles J. and Anne (Blatt)
Gilman gave birth to NYU trained attorney and vice president of the American
Bar Association, Samuel P. Gilman, the official of the Intercollegiate Menorah
Association and a member of the advisory board of the “Dormitory ad Vacation
Camp for Jewish Blind.”
1880(1st of Nisan, 5640): Parashat
Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan’; Shabbat HaChodesh.
1880: Jorge
Isaacs Ferrer, the son of “George Henry Isaacs, an English Jew originally from
Jamaica” and whom Isaac Goldberg described as “a half-Jew” “who is “Spanish
America’s most famous novelist” completed his service as the “President of the
Sovereign State of Antioquia.”
1881: Alexander II of Russia is assassinated,
which put an end to his half-hearted liberalism. He was succeeded by Alexander
1882: In Rochester, NH, “George Hobbs Sanborn
and Lillian Knight Hodgdon” gave birth to Harvard trained archaeologist Ashton
Sanborn the husband of Agnes Goldman and the brother-in-law of Hetty Goldman of
the Goldman-Sachs banking family who was “executive secretary of the American
Red Cross Commission with headquarters in Jerusalem after WW I.
1882:
In the United Kingdom, Sir Marcus Samuel and his wife “Fanny Elizabeth, the
oldest daughter of Benjamin Benjamin gave birth to their first child “Walter
Horace” who was “educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.”
1883(4th
of Adar II 5643): Just nine days before his 66th birth Emauel Nunes
Cavalho, the Charleston, SC bon of Sarah Cohen Dazevedo and David Nunes Cavalho
the husband Caroline Adella Woolf and te father of Isaac, David and Sarah
Carvalho passed away today in New York City.
1883: In
New York City, Rebecca Rosenblatt and Bernard Eiseman gave birth to JTS trained
rabbi and co-founder of ZBT Aaron Eiseman, the husband of Estelle Viola
Alexander and Army chaplain serving during the Mexican Mobilization and WW I
who began his rabbinic career at Beth Israel Bikur Congregation before settling
in at Mt. Neboh Temple where he earned the nickname “the marrying rabbi”
because he married two thousand couples a year during the decade starting in 1920.
1884: In
Romania, Abraham and Hannah Feinstein Achtenberg gave birth to birth to
University of Michigan trained attorney Benjamin Morris Achtenberg, the husband
of Minnie R. Robinson Achtenberg and the father of Beatrice Achtenberg who
practiced law in Kansas City, MO, while serving as the President of
Congregation Keneseth Israel Beth Sholem starting in 1923.
1884(16th of Adar, 5644):
Sixty-four-year-old Charlotte von Rothschild, the only daughter of Carl Mayer
von Rothschild and the wife of Lionel de Rothschild with whom she had five
children passed away today.
1887: In
Clinton, IA, a group of Protestants founded the American Protective Association
which was anit-Catholic and anti-immigrant at the same time that an untold
number of Jews were trying to escape from repressive regimes Russia and
Romania.
1888(1st of Nisan, 5648): Rosh
Chodesh Nisa
1888: Justice Samuel Greenbaum married Selina
Ulman today after which they had four children - Lawrence Samuel, Edward
Samuel, Grace and Isabel – before she passed away at 25 years of age.
https://history.nycourts.gov/biography/samuel-greenbaum/
1890: It was reported today that the Passover
Relief Association had raised nearly $250 at its annual Purim masquerade ball
which would go toward the fund it raises yearly to provide the Hebrew poor of
this city with the wherewithal to celebrate Passover.
1890: “Hebrew Charities” published today
summarized the efforts of the United Hebrew Charities during the month of
February which including providing 226 applicants with work and providing 216
pupils with free instruction in the industrial school. The charity provided
over seven thousand dollars in direct aid.
1891: It was reported today that the funds
Jesse Seligman has received from Baron Hirsh “will be kept in the vaults of
various trust companies until the trustees of the fund decide” how it is to be
invested.
1892(14th of Adar, 5652): Purim
1892: Birthdate of New York native Lillian
Siegel May, the wife of Mortimer A. May, a member of the board of the National
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and an active member of the Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom.
1893: Felix Adler is among those scheduled to
meet with President Cleveland today to urge him to veto the newly passed Treaty
of Extradition with Russia.
1893: “Oriental Records Translated” published
today provides a detailed review of Records of the Past edited by A.H. Sayce
which includes the information that “in the soil of Palestine, for example, the
spade has brought to light evidence of the existence of a Canaanitish library
dating from a period earlier than the birth of Moses…” The material translated
provided a comparison between Biblical texts and those of other, recently
discovered civilizations in the East.
http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-antoine-louis-targe.htm
1894: “Want The School Reopened” published
today describe a meeting held to protest the closure of grammar school on
Hester Street which will impact 500 children, most of them who are Jewish. The leaders of the protest contend that the
Jewish “resident of the district were anxious to have their children the
English language” and were afraid that the closure would impede this. (Editor’s Note – Compare this view of the
English language by Jewish immigrants with that which has evolved in the 21st
century)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0B16FB3C5515738DDDAA0994DB405B8385F0D3
1894: In New York City, Wilhelmina Nykerk and
David Mendoza gave birth to violinist and conductor David Mendoza the husband
of Dorothea Shoeps who at the age 18
became a member of New York Symphony’s first section and rose to become the
first conductor of the Capital Theatre starting in 1923.
1894: The United Hebrew Charities is one of the
organizations distributing the proceeds from a concert given by Musurgia to
help aid those suffering during the current economic depression.
1895: Two days after he had passed away, 88
year old Abraham Marks, the son of Jacob Marks and Hannah Alexander was buried
today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1895: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s “The Notorious
Mrs. Ebbsmith” was produced for the first time at the Garrick Theatre.
1896: In Chicago, Benvendia Solis Firth, the
daughter of Moses Maness Ritterband and Esther Amada Ritterband and Emil Firth
gave birth to Mildred Rosenkranz, the wife Elias Victor Rosenkranz.
1897:
San Diego State University founded. The first Jew connected with San
Diego was a young adventurer named Louis Pollock who was temporarily imprisoned
in San Diego along with other Americans by Mexican authorities. By 1851, there were enough Jews in San Diego
for Lewis Franklin to organize the first High Holiday services held in southern
California. Today SDSU has approximately
2,500 Jews among its 27,000 undergraduates and 500 Jews among more than 6,300
graduate students. The school offers 15 courses in Jewish studies and students
can major or minor in Jewish Studies. The campus has an accredited Hillel with
its own Hillel House. For more information about the SDSU Jewish community see http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jewish/
1897(9th of Adar II, 5657): Parashat
Vayikra
1897: “Another Homer to be Identified”
published today provides a critique of “The Unknown Homer of the Hebrews” by
Amos Kidder Fiske the author of The Jewish Scriptures. According to Fiske, just as Homer is the
father of Greek literature, so is there one author un-named author who created
much of the Biblical literature. Based
on “higher biblical criticism” Fiske contends that the author is the Prophet
Elijah
1897: “The Austrian Election” published today
described the outcome of the vote for Mayor in Vienna where “Dr. Lueger, the
well-known Jew-baiter” has emerged victorious over Mayor Strohbach. The Emperor had nullified an earlier victory
by Lueger but the belief is that the he will not intervene for a second time.
1898: “Money Lenders Attacked” published today
summarized the testimony of Sir George Lewis “the well-known lawyer” and leader
of the Jewish community before the House of Commons in which he complained of
the behavior of money lenders, “the bulk of them” who “were Jews whom “the
Jewish community loathed and despised.”
The worst of the lot was one known as “Sam” who had played a key role in
the scandal surrounding Lord Nevill-Spender Clay.
1898: Lemercier-Picard, author of the forged
letter quoted by General de Pellieux a month earlier (the "faux
Henry"), is found hanging from the window-catch of his hotel bedroom. Circumstances of death remain unclear.
1899: While testifying before the Court of
Inquiry investigating “the beef counsel” Edward Tilden, the treasurer of Libby,
McNeill & Libby Packing Company testified that “the forequarter of the
carcass is the only part eaten by an Orthodox Jew” but that that the price of
the beef does not depend on “the number of Jews in the community.”
1899: Rabbi H.P. Mendez, Dr. Stephen Wise,
Rabbi Gustav Gottheil and his son were among the prominent Jews attended
Professor Thomas Davidson’s lecture entitled “Zionism from a Non-Jewish
Standpoint” at Shearith Israel Synagogue.
1899: This evening Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi
David Philippson is scheduled to deliver the “address of welcome” at the
preliminary meeting prior to the official opening of the annual Conference of
American Rabbis which will start tomorrow.
Dr. Joseph Silverman and Rabbi Isaac M. Wise are also scheduled to
address the meeting to which the general public has been invited.
1900: Birthdate of Alfred Harding who was
transported from Prague to Ujazdow to Majdanek in 1942 where he was murdered at
the age of 42.
1900: Henri Didon Louis Remy, the Dominican
Friar who wrote approvingly of the fifth and final volume of Renan’s History
of the Jews passed away today.
1901: Sixty-seven year old Benjamin Harrison,
the 23rd President of the United States whose Secretary of State,
James G. Blaine “instructed the American minister to Russia to exert his
influence against” any new anti-Jewish measures being adopted by the Czar and
whose administration received a memorial from William Blackstone and his
supporters calling for “an international conference to consider the condition
of the Israelites and their claims to Palestine as their ancient home” passed
away today.
1902: The Sultan approves the Rouvier project
(from the French government) for the consolidation of the public debt. This was
part of a project that Herzl had worked on, the idea being that assisting the
Ottomans with their financial needs would help smooth the way for the creation
of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel which was part of the Sultan’s empire.
1902: In Cincinnati, OH, Abraham and Rachel
(Friedman) Isaacs gave birth to Dr. Asher Isaacs ,the husband of Flora Meyers,
the University of Cincinnati Undergrad who earned his MA and Ph.D from Harvard
before pursuing an academic career in economics that led to his being name
Chairman of the Department of Economics at Pittsburgh
1903(14th of Adar, 5663): Purim
1903: Dr. Frederick Mueller, the assistant to
Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the distinguished Austrian orthopedist who yesterday was
welcomed by a Reception Committee of a dozen men representing B’nai B’rith and
Beth Israel including Dr. Isidor Singer, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia when
the steamship Barbarossa docked in Hoboken will begin his full day in New York
living in the Murray Hill Hotel and working in offices at Beth Israel Hospital.
1904(26th of Adar, 5664): Lieutenant
Bendix, “a German Government engineer” and “an officer of the Bavarian
Reserves” who “had been engaged on the construction of a railroad in German
West Africa” was killed today “in the fight near Owikokorereo against the Herreros.”
1904: During the presidency of Isaac Wallach,
the new buildings of the Mount Sinai Hospital in Madison Avenue (between 100th
and 101st streets) for which $1,500,000 had been raised, were dedicated today.
1904: Ludovic Trarieux, the French political
leader who served as Minister of Justice during the Dreyfus Affair where he
should great courage in taking up the cause of the French military officer who
was a victim of anti-Semitism and a conspiracy of right wing militarists passed
away today.
1905: “Kid” Herman (Herman Landfield) knocked
out former featherweight champion Dave Sullivan one month before he fought
Harry Lewis.
1906: Eighty-six-year-old social reformer and
suffragette Susan B. Anthony whose allies included Ernestine Rose, the Polish
born American and English suffragette whose slogan of “Agitate, Agitate” she
adopted, passed away today.
1906: In Stafford Springs, CT, Eli and Bessie
Aronson Levin gave birth to Mitchell Levin (no relation to the author of the
blog)
1906: It was reported today that the
“anti-Jewish proclamation” issued in Russia included “a demand for the
expulsion of the Jews from all the cities of European Russia and Siberia into
the Pale,” “the levying” of a tax on the Jewish people “in lieu of military
service,” forcing Jews to reassume their “Jewish names” if they have changed
them, and the prohibition of Jews from certain professions and from higher
education.
1906: Birthdate
of Oscar Nemon, the Slavonian born English sculptor, best known for his
series of more than a dozen public statues of Sir Winston Churchill as well as
sculptures of Harry Truman and Margaret Thatcher. After World War II, he made sculptures of a
spectacular list of high-profile figures including such war-time leaders as
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Earl Alexander of Tunis, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,
Lord Freyberg and Lord Beaverbrook. He
passed away in 1985.
1907: Montreal resident Clarence Isaac de Sola,
the son of Cantor Abraham and Esther de Sola and Belle Maud de Sola gave birth
to Gabriel (Oliviera) de Sola
1908: Birthdate of Walter Annenberg. The famed philanthropist built a publishing
empire around the Daily Racing Form,
the Philadelphia Inquirer and that
uniquely American cultural icon, TV
Guide.
1908: A major fire in the Jewish quarter of
Haskoy, Constantinople, Turkey destroys 500 houses. There were over 5,000 Jews
left without shelter. A cablegram was sent from Constantinople to Oscar S.
Straus, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor asking for assistance.
1909(20th of Adar, 5669): Parashat
Ki Tisa; Shabbat Parah
1909: Alexander Lyons served as the rabbi of
Temple Beth Elohim in Brooklyn
1910 It was reported today that Alma Gluck will
perform at matinee performance on March 17 at The New Theatre in New York.
1911: Just a month after her 69th
birthday, Isabel Goldsmid, the daughter of Frederick David Goldsmid and
Caroline Samuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1912: Birthdate of Columbia Law School graduate
Charles Miller Metzner, the counsel to the General Jewish Council and U.S.
District Court Judge.
1912: Birthdate of Lillian Fruendlich , the
wife of Irwin Freundlich who had been born in 1908 and with whom she teamed to
perform recitals “featuring pieces for one piano and 4 hands.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/irwin-and-lillian-freundlich
1913: The Annual Conference on Child Labor to
which Leon Schwarz of Mobile, Alabama had been appointed as a delegate opened
today in Jacksonville, Florida.
1913(4th
of Adar II, 5673): Sixty-four-year-old Morris Moses Pfaelzer, the German born
son of Karoline and Marx Mordechai Pfaelzer and Philadelphia jeweler who
married Sophie Pfaelzer with whom he had two children – Frank Pfaelzer and
Henrietta Stern.
1913: Birthdate of Harold Hochstein who would
gain fame as Harold Stone, a character who played numerous roles on Broadway,
in Hollywood films and television. Stone usually played ‘heavies” or bad
guys. He was the sort of actor who
became the role. You might not recognize
the name but as you see the original version of Spartacus or re-runs of the
television series, The Untouchables, you will remember who he was.
1914: Premiere of Die geheimnisvolle Villa “a short silent German film directed by
Joe May” born Joseph Otto Mandel.
1915: Abraham Margulis, the Charkof born son of
Chaim and Pessy (Lifushitz) Margulis and University of Pennsylvania graduate
married Esther Andrussier today.
1915(27th of Adar, 5675): Shabbat
HaChdoesh
1915: Today, after further conversations with
the Prime Minister and the Foreign Herbert Samuel “circulated a revised text of
“The Future of Palestine” – a “Zionist memorandum” originally submitted by
Chaim Weizmann
1915: Sixty-five-year-old Count Sergei Witte a
leading progressive Russian minster, whose marriage to Matilda Ivanovna
(Isaakovna) Lisanevich, to a converted Jew caused a scandal and limited his
political effectiveness and who tried to reform the Empire while keeping Russia
from entering WW I which he feared would doom his country passed away today
1915: Among those listed as contributors to the
American Jewish Relief Committee for Sufferers from the War were Beth Gimel,
Ottumwa, IA; Beth Chayim Congregation, Cumberland, MD; Congregation Israel, Hot
Springs, Arkansas and the Literary Society of Beaumont, TX.
1916: The delegation from Brooklyn chosen to
attend the “proposed Jewish Congress” meeting Philadelphia later this month was
reported to include Judge Strahl, Magistrate Geismar, Rabbi Gold, Dr. H.L.
Melkin, Henry Eiser, Samuel Lippman, and Moe Wervelosky.
1916: It was reported today that the officers
of Temple of the Sinai Congregation of the Bronx include William Daub,
President; Emil Fleish, First Vice President; Samuel Grossman, Second Vice
President and William Mitchell, Secreatary.
1916: “The Day, the Jewish daily newspaper
edited by Herman Bernstein published…a cablegram from” its correspondent in
Berne that read “I have learned from an absolutely reliable source that the
Pope has prepared an important document of great interest to the Jewish people”
which “will prove of the same importance and significance as he bull issued by
Pope Innocent IV denouncing the ritual murder accusations against the Jews as
false and based on a cruel legend.”
1917: In expressing their support for I. Edwin
Goldwasser’s suggestion to do away with flowers at Jewish funeral and to use
that money to support charities, Louis Marshall said, “I have long thought the
practice wasteful, extravagant and in many instances vulgar” while Henry
Morgenthau said that “as long as the living are destitute and in despair, it
seems wise to direct those who wish to show regard for departed friends to do
so by contributing, in memory of their names, to a fund to alleviate the misery
of the poor.”
1918: The Joint Distribution Committee for
Jewish War Sufferers expressed its displeasure that Dr. Israel Friedlander had
resigned “from the commission which the American Red Cross is sending to take
part in the reclamation of Palestine” because of unfounded rumors that he had
been pro-German before the United States entered the World War.
1918: American Red Magen
David, the Jewish Red Cross, was formed.
1918: During a gathering of Lithuanians tonight
at Madison Square Garden, “Dr. Isaac Hourwich appealed for the cultural
autonomy of the Jews of Lithuania” within a newly created Lithuanian Republic
that will become a reality after the World War.
1919(11th of Adar II, 5679): Fast of
Esther
1919: U.K. bantamweight Johnny Brown, who
fought under the alias of Philip Hickman fought and lost his first professional
fight.
1919: Today, Alexander H. Geismar told “a story
of the suffering of Jews in war-stricken countries” to the workers in the
$500,000 drive for war relief” at the Brooklyn Committee’s headquarters on
Court Street.
1920(23rd of Adar, 5680): Parashat
Vayakhel-Pekudi; Shabbat Parah
1920: “Colonel Harry Cutler of the Jewish
Welfare Board announced” today “that the War and Navy Departments have issued
furloughs for the first two days of Passover for Jews in the Service.”
1921: U.S. premiere of “Know Your Men” filmed
by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg and produced by William Fox.
https://www.comicartfans.com/comic-artists/al_jaffee.asp
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jaffee_al.htm
1922: The campaign to
raise five million dollars in New York to provide relief for the Jews in Europe
“ends tonight with a rally at the Hotel Commodore.
1923: A dinner was
held tonight at the Hotel Dinner honoring Dr. Chaim Weizmann and kicking off a
drive to raise two million dollars for the Zionists during which Louis Marshall
urged “unity in the work of reconstructing Palestine.
1924: Birthdate of
“jazz pianist, arranger and producer” Dick Katz.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/music/13katz.html?_r=0
1925: Tonight while
speak at the Washington Heights Congregation, Julius Miller, the Borough
President of Manhattan “urged Jews never forget to conduct themselves” in such
a way “as to command the respect of the majority of the people of “ the United
States “who are not of the Jewish faith” and reminded his audience “that Jews
were sometimes misjudged as a whole because of the objectionable
characteristics of a few…”
1926: It was reported
today that 10,392 Jews were admitted to the United States “for the last United
States immigration year that ended on June 30, 1925 while 29,142 Jews settled
in Palestine during the same period of time.
1926: “Native Art
From Palestine” published today described the history of the Bezalel School of
Arts and Crafts founded by Boris Schatz which is displaying some of its works
at the Grand Central Palace in New York.
1926(27th
of Adar, 5675): Eighty-five-year-old Shlomo Elyashiv passed away. The grandson of Yosef Sholom Eliashiv, and
the son of Chayim Chaikl Eliashiv or Eliashoff , he is best known author of
Leshem Shevo V’Achlama
1926: In Rochester,
NY, Rose (nee Shaywitz) Weinstein and Harris Weinstein, an immigrant tailor
gave birth to Donald Weinstein, “an influential historian of the Italian
Renaissance.”
http://history.arizona.edu/user/donald-weinstein
http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion
1927: Representatives
of about 150 organizations” are scheduled “to attend the annual meeting of
HIAS, the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society which will be held today
at the Hotel Astor.”
1927: “A Jewish
Woman” published today provided a complete review of I Am A Woman – And A
Jew by Leah Morton.
1927: “A Jewish
project to establish immigrant aid station in South America for Russian and
Polish Jews excluded by the American quota law, was officially welcomed today
by the Consuls of Paraguay and Peru and received the warm endorsement of
Senator Royal S. Copeland.”
1928: Despite support
from Lloyd George and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, the
British Cabinet rejects a loan designed to support the “Zionist enterprise” in
Palestine in a manner consistent with the Balfour Declaration.
1928: NYC native and
Columbia trained Pharmacist, Miss Fanchon Hart, the bacteriologist and food and
drug analyst attended a meeting of The Torrey Botanical Society “an
organization of people interested in plant life…”
1928: Birthdate of Czech
native and HUC trained rabbi, Benard Martin, the holder of doctorate from the
University of Illinois who in 1934 came to the United States where he served as
a Chaplain in the U.S. Army and held successive pulpits Sinai Temple in
Champaign, Temple Sinai in Chicago and Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/martin-bernard
1929: Birthdate of
wrestler Jack Laskin, the native of Hamilton, Ontario who fought under various
aliases including Abe Levinsky who in the 1990’s “got a license to marry people
and became a lay rabbi” when people in his California community had difficulty
getting married by the local Orthodox rabbis.
1930(13th
of Adar, 5690): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1930: “Because the
Jewish deputies had to be present in parliament during “tonight’s “vote on the
budget, “Purim was celebrated this evening in the club room of the Jewish
members of Parliament” with a reading of the Book of Esther (As reported by
JTA)
1930: Woolf Barnato,
the youngest son of Barney Barnato, “set off from the bar at the Carlton Hotel”
this evening in his 6½ Litre Bentley Speed Six as he tried to win a bet that he
could reach London before the Blue Train reached Calais.
1931: Premiere of
Sturm im Wasseglas (Storm in a Water Glass) a film based on a play by Bruno
Frank with a script co-authored by Felix Salten, co-produced by Josef Somlo and
starring Paul Otto who would hang himself when his Jewish origins were
discovered during the Nazi period.
1932(5th
of Adar II, 5692): Seventy-five-year-old Mozes Gans, the Dutch born of Jacob
and Rebecca Mozes Gans and the husband of Sientje Gans passed away today in
Amsterdam.
1932: On Sunday,
Benjamin Cardozo was sworn in as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme. A liberal nominated by the conservative
President Herbert Hoover, he would join Louis Brandies as the second Jew to
serve on the High Court. Unlike Brandeis
whose confirmation hearing had been contentious with more than a whiff of
anti-Semitism, Cardozo’s nomination sailed through with near unanimous support.
http://www.oyez.org/justices/benjamin_n_cardozo
1933(15th of Adar, 5693): Shushan
Purim
1933: Jewish lawyers and judges were expelled
from court in Breslau
1933:
Birthdate of rock and roll composer Mike Stoller.
1934: Today, “Pro-Hitler pressmen printed and
folded hate literature into an edition of the Los Angeles Times
1935: Birthdate of philosopher and political
commentator Michael Walzer.
1936: It was reported today that in Prztyk, a
town in central Poland where 80 per cent of the inhabitants are Jewish, the
Jews endured a month’s long boycott where trade is so restricted that they
cannot buy even such a basic necessity of milk for their children.
1936: In Poland, a mob raided the Jewish shops
at Turka and order was restored only after the police finally intervened and
“arrested twenty rioters.”
1936 In New York, “a good will Sabbath” was
held at the Mount Neboh this evening (Friday night) “marking the opening of the
congregation’s Silver Jubilee program” where members of the congregation and
visitors, who include “representatives of the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic
faiths” heard Rabb Abraham L. Feinberg “say that the class and labor struggles
were no less destructive than the widespread anxiety caused by intense
nationalism.”
1936(19th of Adar, 5696): Seventy-six-year-old
“Henry Wollman, senior member of Wollman and Wollman, attorneys at law and a
member of Tempe Emanu-El passed away today.
1936: Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, the first
New Zealand-born Prime Minister of New Zealand, passed away. His Jewish mother
had converted before he was born.
1937(1st of Nisan, 5697): Parashat
Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChodesh
1937: “Navy Spy” directed by Joseph H Lewis
with music by Abe Meyer was released today in the United States.
1937(1st of Nisan, 5697):
Eighty-four-year-old former Fire Commissioner Jacob Solis Carvalho, a native of
Charleston, West Virginia and the son of Sarah Solis and Solomon Carvalho
passed away today in New York
1938: On Sunday, just after his native Austria
had been annexed into the Reich, “Adolf Hitler placed a wreath on his parent’s
grave in his adopted hometown of Linz, Austria.”
1938: While walking home from school in
Hungary, Tom Lantos sse a newspaper with the headline: "Hitler Marches
into Austria.” Years later, Lantos said that he sensed that this historic
moment would have a tremendous impact on the lives of Hungarian Jews, my
family, and myself."
1939:
Birthdate of musician Neil Sedaka, a product of Brooklyn’s Sephardic
Community.
1939: Commissioner William B. Herlands is
scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Real Facts About Communists and Jews” at the
West Side Institutional Synaogue.
1939: Churchill wrote to a leading Albanian
diplomat stating that he had been authorized to negotiate ways to establish a
refuge for Jews fleeing Germany in Albania.
The plan came to naught when Mussolini invaded the little Balkan country
a month later.
1939: Today, “a British Cabinet subcommittee
started drafting British proposals for solution of the problem of the Holy
Land.”
1940: The three-month war between Finland and
the U.S.S.R which had begun with the Soviet invasion of its neighbor and in
which 204 Finnish Jews had fought (with 37 dead) ended today with the signing
of the Moscow Peace Treaty.
1941(14th of Adar,
5701): Russian author Isaac E Babel was executed during one of Stalin’s periodic
purges. The Soviets exonerated him in 1954.
1942: The first trainload of 1000 deportees
arrived from Theresienstadt at the village of Izbica Lubelsak, just north of
Belzec. Only six would survive the war.
1943(6th of Adar II, 5703): Parashat
Pekudei
1943(6th of Adar II, 5703):
Sixty-five-year-old Olga Ullman, the Czech born daughter of Bertha and Hermann
Ullmann was murdered today at Terezin.
1943(6th of Adar II, 5703):
Sixty-two-year-old Rachel Hellman the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Seckel Bamberger
and Julie Judith Bamberger (Klein) and the wife of Moritz Hellman was murdered
today at Sobibor.
1943(6th of Adar II,
5703):
German forces liquidated the Jewish ghetto in Cracow. Two thousand Jews were
rounded up for deportation at Cracow, Poland. Before the trains left hundreds
of children were shot to death, hundreds of elderly were killed in the streets,
and an untold number of patients were killed in the hospital wards.
1943(6th of Adar II, 5703):
Fifty-five-year-old Rachel Levor the German born daughter of Isaak and Malchen
Amalie Rothschild, the wife of Joseph Levor and mother of Bruno and Manfred
Levor died today at Sobibor.
1943: An attempt to assassinate Hitler
masterminded by General Henning von Tresckow failed today when a bomb that had
been smuggled aboard the Fuhrer’s plane failed to detonate.
1944: Twenty thousand people attended “The Show
of Shows” which featured “stars of stage, screen and radio and raised $80,000
for the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe.”
1944: Today, in New Orleans, Senator James M.
Mead “addressed an emergency war conference for Palestine” during which he
praised “the contributions of the Palestine Jewish Community to the war effort
of the United Nations and their achievements in reconstructing a home for more
than half a million Jews…”
1945: Today, Mrs. Moses P. Epstein told a
meeting at Carnegie Hall honoring Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah who
passed away in February that a foundation was being formed “to perpetuate her
memory thourgh service in keeping with principles of her life.”
1946(10th of Adar II, 5706): Seventy-one-year-old
Russian native Mrs. Max Danzis the founder of the Volunteer League of Beth
Israel Hospital where her husband was the “senior visiting surgeon” and chief
of staff passed away today in East Orange, NJ.
1946: Birthdate of Yonatan "Yoni"
Netanyahu who was a commander in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit of the Israel
Defense Forces. His younger brothers are Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime
Minister of Israel, who previously held that office from 1996-99, and Iddo
Netanyahu, an Israeli author and playwright. Yoni was awarded the Medal of
Distinguished Service (Hebrew: עיטור המופת) for his conduct in
the Yom Kippur War. He was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe
airport, by Ugandan soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after
an aircraft.
1946(10th of Adar II, 5706): Seventy-seven-year-old
Swiss born and educated William Dreyfus, the “chief chemist of the West
Disinfecting Company and chairman of the National Association of Insecticide
and Disinfectant Manufacturers passed away today.
1946: During Aliyah Bet, British police kill
one female member of the Palmach as they fired on “the schooner Wingate which
was attempting to land 248 refugees – an attempt that was thwarted by the HMS
Chevron which took the captured vessel to Haifa.
1947: The Lerner and Lowe musical “Brigadoon''
opened on Broadway.
1947: Tonight, the British government in
Palestine announced that it had arrested 78 people including 15 members of the
Stern gang and 12 members of the Irgun. The arrests of these “terrorists” had
been made possible, in part, because of “assistance from the Jewish community.”
1947: “Some resistance was encountered by
British troops today when 703 Jews who arrived in Palestine waters yesterday
after running the naval blockade were taken aboard the steamer Empire
Rival.” The Jews are reportedly being
shipped to camps in Cyprus.
1948(2nd of Adar II, 5708): Parashat
Pekudi
1948: “Paying tribute to Jan Masaryk as a
friend who ‘rescued Jews in distress and championed Jewish cause,’ Rabbi Louis
I. Newman in Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third Street, said today that
‘Masaryk has died a martyr to the madness which is sweeping the world.’”
1948: As a reminder that the crisis in
Palestine was only one issue with which the United States was wrestling, a
Republican Senate voted to provide the funding that Democratic President Truman
had proposed which would make the Marshall Plan possible.
1948: While speaking at the ceremony marking
the induction of Dr. Nelson Glueck as head of Hebrew Union College Samuel I.
Rosenmean, who has served as a special assistant to both Presidents Roosevelt
and Truman, assails appeasement. He called for a "policy of
resistance" rather than appeasement and said that the Russian dictatorship
had started rolling westward in true Hitler manner.
1949: “The mystery enveloping the Aqaba area on
the Red Sea was dispelled today when it was learned that Arab Legion troops had
been driven out from strategic positions they had held in Israeli territory of
the Negeb and also had been forced to withdraw from outposts along the highly
contested area to the north of Aqaba.”
1949: In the Roof Garden of the Pierre Hotel,
Rabbi Louis I Newman officiated at the wedding of Hunter and Wellesley alum Florence Epstein
and Fred Gould, the Phi Beta Kappa graduate of CCNY.
1949: “Samuel H. Telsey, president of the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, announced today at its sixty-fourth annual
meeting that HIAS had set a budget of $5,005,000, the largest in its history,
as "the minimum sum to carry on the imperatively urgent work among the
displaced and suffering Jews of the world."
1950: Birthdate of Polish native Shmulik
Firstenberg, the Jerusalem raised Loyola Marymount graduate who gained fame as
director Sam Firstenberg whose most famous work maybe in the “American Ninja” series.
https://samfirstenberg.tripod.com/
1950: In Manhattan “Orthodox Jewish immigrants
Shulim Krauthammer, a lawyer who spoke nine languages and the former Thea
Horowitz gave birth to Charles Krautheimer, the graduate of McGill University
and Harvard Medical School who turned from medicine to become a Pulitzer prize
winner and television news personality who has shown a propensity for appearing
on FOX.
1950: The body of Dr. Mordecai Eliash, Israel’s
first ambassador to the United Kingdom, arrived at Lydda Airport today and was
taken to Jerusalem where it will lie in state until tomorrow’s funeral.
1950: Dr. Walter Caly Lowdermilk, American
expert on soil erosion, met today with Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and
Finance Minister Elizar Kaplan before leaving for London.
1951: Israel demanded DM 6.2
billion compensation from Germany
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that Eilat was bedecked and
illuminated to mark the third anniversary of the town¹s liberation. A military
parade was held and a message was read from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,
who said: "The military victory will be won only if pioneers make the land
fertile."
1954: Mr. and Mrs. Sol S. Fuerman announced the
engagement of their daughter Judith Anne to Dartmouth College senior Richard
Philip Lederer.
1960(14th of Adar, 5720): Last Purim
observance during the Presidency of Ike Eisenhower.
1960: ABC broadcast, “The Rattler,” an episode
of “The Rebel” directed by Ivin Kershner.
1960(14th of Adar, 5720):
Seventy-nine-year-old Rose Paglin Dubinsky, the wife of Harry Hessel Dubinsky
and the mother of Anne Dubinsky Wexler
and Maxwell Henry Dubin, the long-time assistant Rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard
Temple in Los Angeles passed away today after which she was buried at the
Hadrath Israel Cemetery in Melrose, MA.
1961: Monash University, the Australian school
named in honor of Sir John Monash accepted its first 347 students today at
Clayton.
1962(7th of Adar II, 5722):
Seventy-eight-year-old Polish born, JTS trained cleric and Columbia trained author
Rabbi Jacob S. Minkin, the husband of the former Fanny R. Rabinowitz, and the Jewish
chaplain at Fordham Hospital since his appointment by Mayor Fiorello H.
LaGuardia in 1937, passed away today in Shutan Hospital, Tel Aviv, while on a
visit to Israel.
: Today,
Francis Henry Russell, who had served as “a special assistant for Israeli-Arab
relations under Secretary John Foster Dulles and who served as charge
d’affaires at the United States Embassy in Tel Aviv in 1953 and 1954 completed
his service as the 2nd United
States Ambassador to Ghanah.
1964: Two days after Rabbi Morris Adler had
passed away, per the declaration of Governor George Romney, today was observed
“as a day of mourning for Rabbi Adler throughout Michigan.”
1965: In Los Angeles, CA, Martin Landau and
Barbara Bain, the Jewish stars of “Mission Impossible” gave birth to actress
Juliet Rose Landau.
1966: Based on a declaration by Governor George
Romney is a day of mourning for Morris Adler, the rabbi of Shaaray Zedek in
Detroit who had been shot by mentally ill attacker during Shabbat services on
February 12, throughout the state of Michigan.
1966:
Two days after he had passed away funeral services were held at Temple Israel
in St. Louis for 75 year-old Riga born Harry Edison “one of five brothers who
started with one shoe store in Atlanta in 1921 and built into the nationwide
chain of Edison Brothers, Inc consisting of 535 stores and who raised two
children, Edna and Sidney, with his wife “the former Mae Goodhart.”
1967: Margaret Arnstein became dean of the Yale
University School of Nursing. As dean, she brought Yale's nursing school into
the forefront of nursing education. Arnstein's lifetime of work was well
recognized in her later years. In 1966, she became the first woman to receive a
Rockefeller Public Service Award. In 1971, she received the Sedgwick Memorial
Medal, the American Public Health Association's highest honor.
1967: Broadway opening of “You Know I Can’t
Hear You When the Water’s Running” for which Martin Balsam won the Tony for
best performance by a leading actor in a play.
1967: Larry Blyden began appearing as “George”
“Chuck” and “Richard Pawling” in You Know I can’t Hear You When the Water’s
Running.”
1968(13th of Adar, 5728): Fast of
Esther observed for the last time during the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson, a
strong supporter of the state of Israel who helped to rescue Jews during the
1930’s.
1969: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today in Newark, for 83-year-old Alexander Harris, the retired president of the
Ronson Corporation, the husband of the former Hannah Lightenburg and father of
Dr. Jonathan L. Harris followed by burial “B’nai Jeshurun Cemetery in Hillside,
NJ.”
1969(23rd of Ada, 5729): Seventy-five-year-old
“Max Wiener, the founder in 1928 of Max Wiene and Company, men’s clothing manufacturers”
and a member of both the ZOA and B’nai B’rith who married Sara Glickberg after
the death of his first wife Fannie Herin Wiener suffered a fatal heart attack
today in Miami Beac.
1969(23rd of Adar, 5729): Paul Burlin, famed
abstract expressionist painter, passed away. Burlin joined such artists as
Picasso, Manet, Monet, and Degas at the famous Armory Show in 1913 which was
the turning point in public acceptance of expressionism in the United States.
1970: In Metro Detroit, Anita and Jerome
Fesltein gave birth to Tamara Rith Kolton, the clinical psychologist and first
person to be ordained as a rabbi in the Humanistic Jewish movement who is the
wife Petah Tikva native Isaac Kolton with whom she had two children, Lior and
Maya.
1971: Jerry Wolman, the former owner of the
Philadelphia Eagles, has agreed to sell historic Shibe Park which he had
purchased in 1964 for $757,500.
1973: The
New York Times reviewed the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Nine of the 12 women who first formed
the collective that created this groundbreaking women's health reference were Jewish.
1973: “After thirteen previews, the revival of”
“Irene” a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and co-starring George Irving
“opened at the Minskoff Theatre.
1974: One of David Wolper’s crews filming a
National Geographic history of Australopithecus at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
was killed when the Corvair 440 Sierra Pacific Airlines plane exploded on
takeoff from Eastern Sierra Regional Airport in Bishop, California killing all
35 on board including 31 Wolper crew members.
1976(11th of Adar II, 5736): Shabbat
Zachor observed for the last time during the Presidency of Gerald Ford.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported from Washington that Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin was surprised to find out that when the US State Department spoke
about "minor adjustments" in the pre-1967 Israeli borders, it
referred to border changes of only a few hundred meters, or "straightening
out of the line" in such places as Latrun or Kalkilya. It was in order to
correct such assumptions that Rabin repeated that under no circumstances would
Israel go back to the 1967 lines. "We believe that we are entitled to decide,
when it comes to our defense, where the boundaries will be which will defend
Israel in the future," Rabin concluded.
1977(23rd of Adar, 5737):
Sixty-eight-year-old Edward Leo Canter, the son of Joseph and Pauline Canter
who was married to Adele Liebling and then to Jean Hyman Canter passed away
today after he was buried at Beth El Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.
1977: The
Jerusalem Post reported that In Washington Hanafi Moslem terrorist leaders
freed their hostages in return for their release without bail, guaranteed by
the authorities.
1978(4th
of Adar II, 5738): Seventy-nine-year-old historian and biographer Matthew
Josephson an acolyte of economic determinist Charles Beard who created and
popularized the term “robber barons” to describe certain 19th
century “captains of industry.” (Editor’s note – NYT shows March 13; his
official papers show March 15)
1979(14th of Adar, 5736): Purim
1979(14th of Adar, 5736):
Seventy-one-year-old Austin born Harvard trained attorney Bernard H Levinson,
an associate justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court and the uncle University
of Michigan Law School trained attorney Steven H. Levinson who served as an Associate
Justice Supreme Court from 1992 to 2008.
1979(14th of Adar, 5736):
Sixty-three-year-old New York City native and attorney Gilbert Kanter, an
active member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed away today in
his hometown.
1981(7th of Adar II, 5741): Jacques Zucker, an
artist whose paintings in post-Impressionist style were seen in many one-man
shows in the United States and abroad, died today at Beth Israel Hospital after
a long illness. Mr. Zucker, who lived in Manhattan, was 80 years old. His work,
including landscapes, still lifes and portraits, is part of permanent
collections in Paris, Tel Aviv and the collection of Joseph Hirschorn in
Washington, D. C. He was born in Radom, Poland. As a youth studied art at the
Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. He continued his art studies in Paris and
maintained a home there.
1985(20th of Adar, 5745): Sixty-five-year-old
record producer Bob Shad (Abraham Shadrinsky) passed away today.
http://blog.superflyrecords.com/storyboard/judd-apatow-bob-shad-was-a-true-innovator/
1985: In Topanga, California, Margaret Esther
(née Davenport) and David M. Hirsch gave birth to actor Emile Davenport Hirsch
1986(2nd of Adar II, 5746): Ninety-three-year-old
Leo Korbin “an owner of Kobrin Brothers” passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/22/obituaries/leo-kobrin.html
1986(2nd of Adar II, 5746): Seventy-four-year-old
archeologist George M.A. Hanfmann who led the expeditions to Sardis, the
capital of ancient Lydia, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/15/obituaries/george-hanfmann-archeologist-at-harvard.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=V9J5PgAACAAJ
1987: A poll conducted by the Yediot Aharonot
newspaper today indicated that two-thirds of Israelis believed their government
should help Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Pollard.
1987(12th of Adar, 5747): Eighty-three-year-old
Trinidad, CO native David Lewis the movie producer responsible for the cinema
classic “Dark Victory” passed away today.
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-15/local/me-10964_1_david-lewis
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/16/obituaries/david-lewis-83-dies-produced-classic-films.html
1989: “Attorney and women’s rights activist”
Harriet Pilpel who “was widowed in 1987…married New York Medical College
administrator Irvin B. Schwartz” today.
1990(16th of Adar, 5750): Bruno Bettelheim, noted child psychologist,
psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor committed suicide six years after his wife
had died from cancer.(As reported by Daniel Coleman)
1991: “Paris is Burning,” a documentary
directed Jennie Livingston, the Dallas born daughter of poet, children's book
author and anthologist Myra Cohn Livingston” and “Richard Livingston an
accountant and author of the children's book The Hunkendunkens” and edited by
Jonathan Oppenheim, the son actress Judy Holliday and musician and television
produce David Oppenheim was released today in New York City.
1993(20th of Adar, 5753): Simha Levy, a woman
who worked as driver taking Palestinians from Gaza to their jobs inside the
pre-1967 borders was axed to death in her van at Khan Yunis.
1994: The “stained-glass ‘Sephardic Heritage
Windows’ designed by Israeli artist Raphael Abecassis” that had been
“commissioned by the Maurice Amado Foundation” and that used “Jewish symbols
and Sephardic motifs” to “depict the history of Sephardic Jews, beginning with
their expulsion from Spain in the 15th Century” are scheduled to be dedicated
this morning at The Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in Los Angeles.
1997(4th of Adar II, 5757): Seven school girls
aged twelve and thirteen, all from the same school at Beit Shemesh, were shot
dead and Hila Levy was injured by a Jordanian soldier who went berserk on the
Jordan Border after which King Hussein paid surprise and much appreciated
condolence call on the grieving families.
1997: Virologist and immunologist, Hilary
Koprowski who invented the world's first effective live polio vaccine received
the Legion d'Honneur from the French government.
1997: “The Devil’s Own,” a film that pits two
Irish institutions – the IRA and the Boston Police Department -- against
themselves directed by Alan J. Pakula premiered today in New York City.
1998: Former major league catcher and manager
of the Detroit Tigers Brad “Ausmus and his wife Liz whom he married in 1995
gave birth to their first daughter, Sophie.
1999(25th of Adar, 5759): Director Garson Kanin
passed away. From a Jewish point of view, Kanin’s claim to fame is that he
direced the play Diary of Anne Frank. The play premiered in 1955 and ran for 717
performances. In 1964 he directed the
Broadway hit Funny Girl, the story of
Fannie Brice. The musical ran for over a
thousand shows.
1999: “A Professor in Nanjing Takes Up Jewish
Studies” published today examines the rise of a Center for Judaic Studies in
the central Chinese city of Nanjing.
1999(25th of Adar, 5769): Ninety-year-old
multi-talented artist Lucienne Bloch, the youngest child of Ernst Bloch, passed
away today. (As reported by Thomas Roberts, Jr.)
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/nyregion/lucienne-bloch-muralist-is-dead-at-90.html
2000: “''The Three Stages of Life'' (1898) a
triptych by Count Leopold von Kalckreuth, “a painting that was left behind by a
Jewish woman fleeing Vienna during World War II, taken by the Nazis and held
for most of the intervening years in storage at a museum in Munich was returned
today to the heirs of the original owner.”
2001: In “Year by Year, a Witness to the Nazis’
Affronts,” published today Bruce Weber reviews “I Will Bear Witness: The
Diaries of Victor Klemperer” by Victor Klemperer; adapted by Karen Malpede and
George Bartenieff; translated by Martin Chalmers a one-actor theatrical
adaptation of the second volume of Klemperer’s diaries that had been published
last year.
2003: “The highest-ranking diplomat at the
Iranian Embassy” chargé d'affaires, Mohammad Ali Tabatabai, was recalled as a
result of a growing dispute over responsibility for the bombing at a Jewish
community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people.”
2003(9th of Adar II, 5673):” Israeli
troops and a helicopter gunship, on high alert for a possible Palestinian
attack, opened fire with automatic weapons today in the southern West Bank and
mistakenly killed two Israeli security guards in civilian clothes, the army
said.”
2004: Evelyn Franklin the wife of photographer
Richard Avedon, and mother of John Avedon, passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/richard-avedon-the-eye-of-fashion-dies-at-81.html
2005: Disney announced that Bob Iger would
succeed Michael Eisner as CEO, and Iger was placed in charge of day-to-day
operations,
2005: In a case of Jew follows Jew, Disney
announced that Bob Eiger would succeed Michael Eisner as CEO
2005: The
New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
interest to Jewish readers including recently released paperback editions of An Almost Perfect Moment by Binnie Kirshenbaum a darkly comic
novel, set in the 1970's that revolves around a Jewish teenager in Brooklyn who
thinks she's the Virgin Mary and There
Are Jews in My House by Lara
Vapnyar
2006: Cole Meyer announced that it was selling
Myer, an Australian department store chain founded by Sidney Meyer (born Simcha
Myer Baevski) ”to a consortium controlled by US private equity group Newbridge
Capital, part of the Texas Pacific group:
2006(13th
Adar): The Fast of Esther has been designated International Agunah Day by Yad
L'Isha. An agunah is a woman who is unable to obtain a get
(Jewish divorce).
2007: Under the direction of its founder Eylon
Nuphar, Mayumana opens its production of “Be” at the Union Theatre Square.
“Mayumana is a corruption of the Hebrew word for skill, and the players display
a variety of them, in a show that combines mime, dance, gymnastics, music and
percussion in a joyous celebration of life.”
2007: What the Dead Know “a crime
thriller by the American writer Laura Lippman” was published today.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-lippman/what-the-dead-know/
2008: In Washington, D.C. veteran scriptwriter
and television producer Gary David
Goldberg, creator of the series "Family Ties" and "Spin
City," discusses his new memoir, Sit,
Ubu, Sit: How I Went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the Same Woman, the Same
Dog, and a Lot Less Hair at the Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue formerly the site of Adas Israel which relocated to Connecticut Ave
and Porter and is the only Conservative Synagogue still located in the District
of Columbia.
2008: Israeli President Shimon Peres paid
tribute to the French who saved Jews during the Holocaust in a somber ceremony
at the Pantheon in the Latin Quarter,and visited a French Foreign Ministry
exhibition about the origins of the state of Israel.
2009: “The Saul Steinberg: Illuminations”
travelling exhibition opened in Hamburg, Germany
2009(17th of Adar, 5769): Eighty-four-year-old
David Jacob Cohen the German born son of Jakob and Hanna Cohen and the husband
of Dina Berger passed away today in Israel.
2009: Award winning Israeli author Etgar Keret
comes to Albany University for a screening of his film “Wristcutters: A Love Story” sponsored by the
Albany Center for Jewish Studies and the Writers Institute.
2010:
Israeli diva Rita is scheduled to begin her U.S. Tour today.
2010: As
part of the Scholar-In-Residence program, Professor David Kraemer is scheduled
to speak on “Laity in the Lead” following Shabbat morning services.
2010: Late today Israel Defense Forces
soldiers arrested a top Hamas official in Ramallah, suspected of leading
military cells responsible for the murder of more than 70 Israelis over the
course of the second Intifada. Mahar Udda, 47, has been wanted in Israel for
over a decade for his alleged involvement in terror activity including the
deadly double terror attack at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem and at the bus stop
near the Tzrifin military base in central Israel on September 9, 2003. He was
one of the founding members of Hamas and built the Islamist movement's military
cell in the West Bank in the early 1990s. The cell under his command allegedly
gathered ammunition for Hamas terror activity against Israel and also kidnapped
Palestinians suspected of cooperating with Israel. He was arrested by the
Palestinian Authority in 1998 but released shortly after. Udda's arrest late
Saturday was executed in a joint effort between the IDF, Israel Police and the
Shin Bet security service.
2010: Around 1,000 demonstrators
marched this evening outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem to
protest Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz's decision to allow the
continuation of single-sex bus lines that serve the Haredi community.
2011(7th Adar II): Yahrzeit
of Moshe Rabbeinu. According to tradition Moses passed on his 120th
birthday, Adar 7, 2488 (1273 BCE). This same tradition teaches that he was born
in Egypt on the 7th of Adar of the year 2368 from creation (1393 BCE).
2011(7th of Adar II): Burial Society Day. “The Chevrah
Kadisha (Jewish Burial Societies) hold their annual get-together and feast on
Adar 7th. This is based on the tradition that God Himself buried Moses on this
day.”
2011: The Palestinian leadership must be held accountable for continued
incitement and failure to stop the glorification of murderers, a senior aide to
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said today as the Fatah faction named a town
square in El-Bireh after the leader of the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre.
2011: Chabad Lubavitch of Northern
Virginia is scheduled to present The Rabbi Samuel and Zehava Friedman Annual
Yeshiva Day.
2011: “Jubanos: The Jews of Cuba” and
“The Fig Tree” (La Higuera) are two of the films scheduled to be shown at the
15th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
2011: As
part of its commemoration of the Triangle Waist Factory Fire and the changes
that followed in its wake, the Jewish Women's Archive has organized a walking
tour which is scheduled to take place today.
2011:
The second wedding to take place at the Huvra Synagogue since its re-dedication
is scheduled to take place today.
2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest
to Jewish readers including The Executive Unbound : After the Madisonian
Republic co-authored by Eric A. Posner and the recently released paperback
editions of Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the
American City by Anthony Flint and Making a Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt.
2011: Former Knesset member Tawfik Toubi aged 89 a Haifa resident, who was
the last remaining living member of the first Knesset was laid to rest in
Haifa's Kfar Samir (Sde Yehoshua) cemetery.
Toubi, a Christian Arab Israeli, was a member of the Communist Party.
2011: An orthodox Jewish prayer
observance by three passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight today
alarmed flight attendants unfamiliar with the
ritual, prompting them to lock down the cockpit and issue a security alert,
officials said.
2011: Tens of thousands attended the
funeral for five members of the Fogel family massacred at Itamar.
2012:
A Chabad rabbi who was serving the tiny ancient Jewish community in Cochin,
India, and his wife were expelled today and sent back to Israel for allegedly
engaging in illegal activities. Indian authorities accused Rabbi Zalman
Bernstein of failing to declare on his visa application that he would be
conducting religious activities and of trying to convert foreigners. A local
daily accused him and his wife of spying for Israel.
2012: Gaza militants fired a Grad-type Katyusha rocket toward the western
Negev today, despite an Egypt-mediated cease fire between Israel and militant
groups that went into effect earlier in the day. The rocket struck a residential area if the
town of Netivot, with one person lightly wounded. Eleven people were treated
for shock.
2012: Israel's Counter Terrorism Bureau warned Israeli citizens today against
travelling to Turkey, citing intelligence that terror groups were planning
attacks against Israeli or Jewish institutions in the country.
According to the warning, Israelis are
asked to refrain from travel to Turkey over information of intent to go forward
with the attack in next few days.
2012: Israeli composer and organist,
Roman Krasnovsky is scheduled to perform a solo recital at the Central
Synagogue in New York City.
2012: Shmuel Ashkenasi is scheduled to perform with the Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center.
2013: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington is scheduled to sponsor a private tour lead by Dr. Peggy Pearlstein
of Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress,
1912-2012
2013: Seton Hall basketball player Tom Maayan
informed his uncle David Fuchs that he could not postpone his service in the
IDF any longer and packed his bags for the flight to Tel Avv.
2013: The Yeshiva University Museum is schedule
to sponsor a curator’s tour “Passages Through the Fire: Jews and the Civil
War.”
2013(2nd of Nisan, 5773): Eighty-four-year-old
actor Malachi Throne passed away today. (As reported by Daniel E. Slotnik
2013: In another case of “Jew on Jew” Larry
page announced in a blog post that Andy Rubin “had moved from the Android
division to take on new projects at Google.”
2013: “A new documentary, ‘Philip Roth:
Unmasked’ opened at New York City’s Film Forum today.
2013: Bruce Ruben, director of the School of
Sacred Music at HUC, is scheduled to a lecture entitled “Max Lillienthal and
the Making of the American Rabbinate” at the Leo Baeck Institue.
2013: In Washington, DC, the Religious Action
Center for Reform Judaism is scheduled to host a community organizing training
program for those participating in the Jewish Energy Network.
2013:
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinian cardinal who was elected pope late today
and will take the name Francis I, is said to have a good relationship with
Argentinian Jews.
2014:
The 17th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled
to open at the Center for Jewish History.
2014:
The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host “The Immigrant Experience in
Movies.”
2014(11th
of Adar II, 5774): Fast of Easter observed on Thursday.
2014:
Terrorists continued their rocket attack firing missles at Ashdod and Ashkelon
in the morning and at Sderot and surrounding communities this afternoon. (As
reported by Maayana Miskin)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178453#.UyI3optOWpo
2014:
“CBS announced the second season renewal of ‘Mom,’” the sit-com created by
Chuck Lorre.
2014:
There was no confirmation today by Israel of Islamic Jihad’s claim that an
Egyptian brokered cease fire had gone into effect. (As reported by Spencer Ho)
2015:
Team Crossroads is scheduled to participate in today’s Jerusalem Marathon.
2015: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host its last Friday Night of the academic term.
2015(22nd of Adar, 5775): Ninety-one-year-old
MVP winning Cleveland Indians third baseman Al Rosen passed away today.
http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/856879/235182/Donald-Weinstein-Historian-of-Civic-Religion
2015(22nd of Adar, 5775): Ninety-six
cartoonist Irwin Hasen passed away today.
2015(22nd Adar, 5775): Lia van Leer,
the cinema pioneer who founded “the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem
Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival” passed
away today.
http://www.romanianjewish.org/en/index_isro_arhiva_30.html
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/van-leer-lia
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/lia-van-leer-israeli-film-dead-at-90-1201452774/
2015: “Many Jewish bodies in Europe are being
bankrupted by the growing need for security measures, the US State Department’s
special envoy on anti-Semitism said today.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/european-jews-bankrupted-by-security-costs/
2015:
This morning, erev of Shabbat, over 25,000 people participated in the Jerusalem
Marathon. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-take-part-in-jerusalem-marathon/
2015: “The Argentine government today
declassified its files on an unsolved 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish
center that is at the center of a new political firestorm.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-declassifies-files-on-jewish-center-bombing/
2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to appear at the
Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savanah, GA.
2016: In North Carolina, “Serial (Bad)
Weddings” and “A Tale of Love and Darkness” are scheduled to be shown on the
last day of the Charlotte Jewish Film Festival
2016: The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is
scheduled to celebrate its 78th season by performing at the State
Theatre where it performed in April of 1988 when the State Theatre “was
officially reopened as a nonprofit performing arts center.
2016: In London, the Pears Institute for the
Study of Anti-Semitism is scheduled to host a screening of “The Last of the
Unjust” followed by a panel discussion led by Director David Feldman and
Professor Jacqueline Rose.
2016: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is
scheduled to host “Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ – the music of Harold Arlen.
2016: The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for
Holocaust Education is scheduled to host a reception marking the opening of
“Ruth Gruber, Photojournalist” an exhibition that “celebrates the remarkable
life, vision, and heroic tenacity of a twentieth-century pioneer and
trailblazer” who is now in her 104th year.
http://www.ojmche.org/experience/exhibit-2016-03-10-ruth-gruber-photojournalist
2016: At London’s Tate Britain, an exhibition
of 36 paintings by Frank Auerbach is scheduled to come to an end today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/artist-becomes-subject-in-new-tate-exhibition/
2016: The
New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including The Secret of the American
Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built by Jack Viertel, Is that Kafkfa?
by Reiner Stach and Anna and The Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
2017: Tony Nominee Tovah Feldshuh is among the
stars scheduled to appear the Streicker Center’s “Jewish Broadway.”
2017: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to
open “Atlanta Collects” to the public today.
2017(15th of Adar, 5777): Shushan
Purim
2017(15th of Adar, 5777): Fifty-one
year old author and filmmaker tragically succumbed to ovarian cancer today. (As
reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/style/amy-krouse-rosenthal-dies-modern-love.html?_r=0
2018: Claire Foy, the star of “The Crown” was
paid less than her male co-star Matt Smith for the show’s first two seasons,
producers of the Netflix period drama revealed at a panel during the INTV
Conference in Jerusalem today.
2018: As Hamas and the Palestinian Authority
continued their fight for control, “a roadside bomb blast damaged several
vehicles in the convoy of PA PM Rami Hamdallah” today.
2018: In response to today’s allegations in the
New York Times that he “had sexually or harassed” five women, Cornell
University trained architect Richard Meier, the winner of the 1984 Pritzker
Architecture Prize said he would take a six months leave of absence from his
firm.
2018: “The Pirate Captain Toledano,” “Sara Levy
Cohen,” “116 Cameras” and “Keep It Cool” are scheduled to be shown at the New
York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of
“Bombshell: The Hedy Lamar Story” in London.
2018: “Dr. Stranglelove” is scheduled to be
shown at the Houston Jewish Film Festival.
2019: The Illinois Holocaust and Education
Center’s 2019 Humanitarian Awards 10th Anniversary Dinner is
scheduled to take place this evening.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host an evening with
Bart van Es, the author of The Cut Out Girl that “tells the true story of the
author’s grandparents and the young girl they fostered to hide her from the
Nazis in occupied Holland.”
2019: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is
scheduled to host a screening of “Who We Are: The Number on Great-Grandpa’s
Arm”
2019: The Jewish Study Center is scheduled to
host Michael Rugel as he presents “Echoing the Maccabees: How Jewish Soldiers
Restored Synagogues after WWII.”
2020: Friday the 13th is a lucky day
for those preparing to celebrate the natal days of Sasha Anderson and JoyAnn
Ruscha.
2020: The Oxford University Jewish Society is
scheduled to host the “8th Week Friday Night Dinner, the last Friday
night dinner of this school term.
2020: The display of the works of Tali Margolin
at the Noyes Museum of Art is scheduled to continue today.
2020: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker is
scheduled to host Abraham as he talks about “Battling Bigotry.”
2020: As of 3:00 pm today the Center for Jewish
History in New York will be closed until the end of March.
2021: Israeli artist David Reeb’s “Colors in
the Studio” and “Boats, from the Green Line Series” were sold at auction today.
https://www.artnet.com/artists/david-reeb/colors-in-the-studio-AEWDPaGLdzJ5Pvw7W4YGSQ2
https://www.artnet.com/artists/david-reeb/boats-from-the-green-line-series-eKq0BPh-rFLFDlugMBms0w2
2021: In Columbus, OH at Tifereth Israel,
Michael Botkin is scheduled to be called the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah.
2021: In Atlanta, GA, Ahavath Achim is
scheduled to host SOJOURN Celebrates Purim Off Ponce At The Drive-in: The Rocky
“Hora” Picture Show
2021: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to
present online, “Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom with Ariel
Burger.
2021: The Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston
is scheduled to begin today with them of “Ve’Shuv Itchem-Together Again!”
2021(29th of Adar, 5781): Parshat
Vayaykel-Pekudi; Shabbat Ha Chodesh; Machar Chodesh.
2022: HUC-JIR Jewish Language Project, Iranian
American Jewish Federation, Nessah Synagogue, and USC Caden Institute present “Judeo-Persian
in the 20th century: New research” with Dr. Habib Borjian and Ibrāhīm Šafiʿī.
2022: The JCC Chicago Film Festival returns to
the Illinois Holocaust Museum with the screening of four films including “Three
Minutes: A Lengthening.”
2023: The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural
Center is scheduled to present “Life is a Cabernet,” with cantors Sara
Anderson, Mo Glazman, Sam Rosen and Talya Smilowitz.
https://streicker.nyc/current-season/cabernet
2023: Based on previous statements by
Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman committee
hearings on the judicial reform bills are scheduled to continue today.
2023: YIVO, the Center for Jewish History, LBI
and the American Society for Jewish Music are scheduled to present an in-person
event with cantor David Berger and pianist Joyce Rosenzweig performing “Art
Songs by Jewish American Refugee Composers.”
2023: The first session of the Lobel Teachers
Colloquium is scheduled to continue for a second day.
2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host
Naama Shefi, the founder of the Jewish Food Society as she joins with James
Beard Award winning chef and restauranter Michael Solomonov,” co-author of the
cookbook Zahav, as they “share the stories behind the recipes, and to
discuss how food is an expression of Jewish identity.”
2024: In London, The Weiner Holocaust Library
is scheduled to host “Dr Becky Jinks, in conversation with Dr Christine
Schmidt, curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest
exhibition” so attendees can “learn more about how they developed the
exhibition and their curatorial choices.’
2024: President Brian Cohen is scheduled to
chair the board meeting at Temple Judah.
2024: YIVO is scheduled to a presentation on
The Light of Leaning that “that tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic
revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust” with its author Glen Dynner along with performances of Hasidic nigunim by
Lorin Sklamberg of the Klezmatic>>
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a
lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be
Relevant Today? Numbers 11:16, Rebellion within the Ranks.’
2024: As March
13th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages begin
day 159 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.)
