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1255: The body oflittle boy who had disappeared was found in a well at Lincoln. The boy would become known as Little SaintHugh of Lincoln (England) was the subject of an infamous ritual murder libel.It was alleged that Jews enticed the boy and while starving him, invited Jewsof Lincoln to murder him ritually. (Jews did come to Lincoln at that time toattend a wedding.) His body was cast into a well and a month later,"miracles" followed the discovery of his corpse. On the basis of thealleged "confession" by Jopin (Jacob), the secular authorities (forthe first time) and the Church sent 91 Jews to the Tower of London. Eighteenwere executed before Richard and the friars stopped the killings. This incidentprovided Chaucer with the idea for his Prioress Tale and the hero of thepopular ballad, "Little Sir Hugh."
1261: Urban IV, whoreaffirmed Sicut Judaeis the papal bull first issued by Calixtus II which “wasintended to protect the Jews” during the Crusade, began his papacy today.
1263: King Jaime ofSpain gave the Jews three weeks to remove all blasphemy from their books(Talmud).
1288: Pope Nicholas IV“wrote to Emperor Rudolph “requesting the release of Meir b. Baruch ofRothenburg from prison.
1338: Pope Clement VIdirected “that an investigation be made into the miracles connected “with ahost in Pulka” the desecration of which was used as “as a pretext” forattacking and robbing the Jews.
1435: Paul of Burgosthe Spanish Jew who converted to Christianity, and became an archbishop, LordChancellor, and exegete passed away today. He was also known as Pablo de SantaMaria or Paul de Santa Maria. His original name was Solomon ha-Levi. Like manyconverts of his time he took a leading role in the persecution of his formerco-religionists.
1477: T'hilimwith Kimchi's commentary was published for the first time in Bologna, Italy byHayyim Mordecai and Hezekiah de Ventura.T’hilim is the Book of Psalms. Kimchi is David Kimchi also known asRaDAK. He was the third in a line ofgrammarians, lexicographers and Biblical commentators. RaDAK’s more accurate renderings of theancient texts helped to fuel the Protestant Reformation.
1484: Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter ofthe Spanish Inquisition, was elected Pope.The significance to Jewish history of this event is self-evident.
1526: An Ottoman armydefeated the Hungarians at the Battle of Mohács following which the Turkspillaged the city. The Christians nobles and the handful of wealthy Jews fledin fear of the Ottomans. While Jews hadlived in Hungary since the third century C.E., many of them had fallen on hardtimes during the 15th and 16th centuries as they dealtwith accusations of Blood Libels and decrees designed to avoid repayment ofjust debts. The Ottomans left butreturned to stay in 1541 when much of central Hungary became part of theOttoman Empire and a refuge for Sephardic Jews moving eastward to avoid theclutches of the Inquisition.
1541: The Ottoman Turkscapture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. On the anniversary of thebattle of Mohács, Sultan Suleiman I again took Buda by a ruse. This event marksthe beginning of Turkish rule in many parts of Hungary, which lasted down tothe end of the 17th century. The Jews living in these parts were treated farbetter than those living under the Habsburgs. During this period, beginningwith the second half of the sixteenth century, the community of Ofen (Buda)flourished more than at any time before or after. While the Turks held sway inHungary, the Jews of Transylvania (at that time an independent principality)also fared well. At the instance of Abraham Sassa, a Jewish physician ofConstantinople, Prince Gabriel Bethlen of Transylvania granted a letter ofprivileges (June 18, 1623) to the Spanish Jews from Turkey.
1596: Coronation ofChristian IV, the King of Denmark and Norway who lifted the restrictions thathad been placed on Sephardic Jews when he took control of the town of Altona.
1605: HermanL’Estrange, the author of Americansno Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race which refuted the theory that the “Indians were the tenlost tribes” was baptized today.
1611: In Hamburg, after the senate had obtained the expertopinion of Viadrina's faculty of Lutheran theology today that toleratingPortuguese Jews was "paternal and Christian" as is the continuationof this practice, the senate rejected the criticism by aldermen
1632: Birthdate of English philosopher John Locke. Lockeinfluenced the Founding Fathers of the United States. In 1689 he wrote his “Letter ConcerningToleration” in which he stated, “Neither Pagan, nor Jew, ought to be excludedfrom the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.” Locke was asked to right a constitution forthe new colony of South Carolina. At thetime, Christian merchants were complaining about the active involvement of Jewsin the trade between South Carolina and the English Colony of Barbados. Locke saw the problem as bigotry, not“swarming Jewish merchants.” He inserteda line in the colonial charter that called for the protection of “Jews, heathensand other dissenters.”
1643: The oldestexisting ketubbah written in the Western Hemisphere was executed in Surinam atthe marriage of Yehudit to Hakaham Yizhak Meatob. The Jewish community inSurinam began with the arrival of a party Sephardic Jews in 1630. By the secondhalf of the 17th century, there were at least Sephardic Jewish communities inthe colony, numbering several hundred families.As you can see from the attached, this item has been challenged
http://americanjewisharchives.org/journal/PDF/1984_36_01_00_cohen.pdf
http://www.suriname-jewish-community.com/our-history.html
1655:Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles XGustav of Sweden during The Deluge. The Deluge is a general expression for aseries of misfortunes that befell the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth startingwith the uprising of the Cossacks and including an invasion by the Swedes. Whenit was all over, Poland was a much diminished entity and much less tolerant ofits Jewish population. This defeat waspart of the long road that would lead to the partition of Poland in the late 18thcentury, which, among other things, would give Russia its large and unwantedJewish population.
1703:Following the death of Samuel Oppenheimer Emperor Leopold I named SamsonWertheimer to serve as his successor as “court factor” while extending “fortwenty years his privileges of free religious worship, denizenship, andimmunity from taxation.
1712:Today, during the Danish siege of the Prussian city of Stade “a fire broke outthat destroyed the Jewish street” and other parts of the town.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13981-stade
1756:Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War. The SevenYears War was one of what seems to be a long list of interminable wars inEurope. Americans know the Seven YearsWar as the French-Indian War; a fight that led directly to the AmericanRevolution and the creation of the United States, and all that that means forthe Jews of the world. Frederick’smistreatment of his Jewish subjects is too big a subject for this briefentry. After visiting Frederick’sBerlin, the French statesman Mirabeau described the Prussian monarch’s decreesconcerning Jews as “worthy of a cannibal.” Frederick characterized Jews“usurious vermin;” “wretches who“multiply infamously.” Saxony was thesite of Martin Luther’s famous fight with the Roman Catholic Church. He had the Jews expelled from Saxony in 1537.It would be centuries before they were readmitted, and they would not gain fullrights of citizenship until the second half of the 19th century.
1764(1stof Elul, 5524): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed 11 days after the birth of JudahLeib Ben-Ze’ev.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-leib-ben-ze-ev-jewish-virtual-library
1766(24thof Elul, 5526): Mrs. Esther Abrahams, the wife of Isaac Abrahams passed awaytoday in New York City.
1766: “Anenlarged building, designed by George Dance the Elder” which served as the homeof The Great Synagogue was consecrated today in London.
1770: Atthe age of 25, A.M. Rothschild married Guttle Schanpper, age 17.
1776(14thof Elul, 5536): Jose Pereira supplied a flotilla which General Washington usedto move his army across the East River and escape destruction at the hand ofthe British. Unfortunately, the youngSephard lost his life as helped to provide covering fire for the army as itcrossed to temporary safety.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112355/jewish/Dr-Pereira-of-Boston.htm
1783(1stof Elul, 5543): Rosh Chodes Elul observed five days before the signing of thePeace of Paris aka Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
1799:Papacy of Pius VI, who issued the anti-Semitic “Editto sopra gli ebrei” came toan end today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Edict1775.html
1813:Samuel Abrahams married Rachel Joseph at the Great Synagogue today.
1813: InLondon, Abraham Pinto, the Moroccan born so of Meir Pinto and his wife EstherPinto gave birth Meir Pinto, the “husband of Annaatje (Anna & Hannah)Joseph Pinto and father of Abraham J Pinto.
1814:Birthdate of London native Rebecca Micholls, the wife of David QuixanoHenriques.
1822: InLondon Morocco native Solomon Ben Masud Ben Abraham Sebag (Solomon Sebag andhis wife Sarah, “the eldest sister of Sir Moses Montefiore gave birth to SirJoseph Sebag-Montefiore, the stockbroker who held several positions includingJustice of the Peace of Kent and President of the Board of Deputies.
1825: Seventy-three-year-oldFlora Aarons, the widow of Aaron Aarons, who passed away two days ago wasburied today at the Brady Street in Jewish Cemetery in London.
1826:Birthdate of French portrait painter Emile Levy who passed away in 1890.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_L%C3%A9vy#mediaviewer/File:Barbey.jpg
1827: JacobLyons married Pessa Elizabeth at the New Synagogue today.
1829(30thof Av, 5589): Parashat Re’eh and Rosh Chodesh Elul
1832:Samuel Moses married Elizabeth Davis today.
1834: InBavaria, Jacob and Jeanette Bettmann gave birth to Bernhard Bettman who wouldbecome a successful businessman and leader of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Jewishcommunity.
1836:Samuel and Jane Stiebel, both of whom were natives of Germany gave birth toFlora Stiebel.
1837: InHamburg, Moses Nathan Levy, the Hamburg born son of Jette and Nathan Levy andhis wife Frederike Levy gave birth to Brunette Emma Levy.
1841:Birthdate of German native Lina Kahn Baldauf, the wife of Morris Baldauf whosettled in Louisville, KY where she had four children – Julius, Minnie, Leonand Cora.
1842: Jewsbegan arriving in Hong Kong after it was ceded to Great Britain by China today.The first synagogue would not come into use until 1870 when a house onHollywood Street was rented for that purpose.
1843(3rdof Elul, 5603): Sixty-year-old Ludwig Lewin Jacobson the Danish surgeon whodeveloped several surgical instruments including “the lithoclast for thecrushing of stones in the bladder.”
1843:Birthdate of David B. Hill, the Governor of New York who was supported bySamuel Gompers and opposed the American Protective Association (A.P.A.) theanti-immigrant organization that was hostile to Jews.
1846: In Apalachicola,FL, Major Raphael Jacob Moses, (CSA) and Eliza Matilda Nunez gave birth toPenina Septima Robison, “wife of William Moultrie Moses and Alexander Robisonand mother of Albert Luria Moses; Captain William Moultrie Moses, Jr. (USN);Montefiore Jacob Moses; Capt. Stanford Elwood Moses; Lionel Bel Moses; andWalter Robison.”
1848(30thof Av, 5608): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1848(30thof Av, 5608): Deborah Cohen, the daughter of Jacob Raphael Cohen who marriedIsrael Moses in 1810, passed away today in St. Joseph, FL.
1848:Birthdate of Henry Schneeberger, the "first American-born, ordained rabbiwho was the spiritual leader of Chizuk Amuno in Baltimore, MD.
1849(11thof Elul, 5609): Seventy-year-old Judah Lyons, the Philadelphia born son ofEleazar Lyons who married Mary Levy in 1804 passed away today in New York City.
1851:The U.S.S. Mississippi, under the command of Captain Uriah P.Levy, the highest-ranking Jewish officer in the U.S. Navy, arrived today inConstantinople. TheAmericanwarship had been sent to theOttoman capital for the purpose of providing Louis Kossuth, the exiledHungarian political leader, with safe passage to France.
1853: Two days after having fallen victim to cholera, Major Meno Berg, thefist Jewish Prussian staff officer was buried with full military honors in theJewish cemetery in the Schönhauser Allee in a ceremony that police estimatedwas attended 60,000 people.
1853: Birthdate of Solomon Bibo. Born in Prussia,Bibo would come to the United States where, in the 1880’s he became the firstnon-Indian governor of the pueblo of Acamo in New Mexico Territory.
1854:Birthdate of Joseph Jacobs an Australian literary and Jewish historian, who wasa writer for the Jewish Encyclopedia.
http://www.mainlesson.com/displayauthor.php?author=jacobs
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html
1855(15thof Elul, 5615):Isaac Samuel Reggio passed away at the age of 71.Born in 1784 at Goriza, he was an Austro-Italian scholar and rabbi born atGorizia. Reggio studied Hebrew and Talmud with his father, Abraham Vita, theRabbi at Gorizia. At the same time he attended the gymnasium where he acquiredknowledge of secular science and languages. Reggio's father, one of the liberalrabbis who supported Hartwig Wessely, paid special attention to the religiousinstruction of his son, who displayed unusual aptitude in Hebrew, and at theage of fourteen wrote a metrical dirge on the death of Moses Ḥefeẓ, who hasserved as the Rabbi of Gorizia.
1855: The New York Timesreported that "a child of Mr. LouisLevinson of Providence, and of scriptural age, 'eight days old' was circumcisedaccording to the ancient Jewish method at the house of his father...Theceremony was performed by Mr. Wolf of this city."
1857:Birthdate of Waverly, PA native Clara Lieber Cardoz the wife of Daniel HenryCardozo whom she married in 1886.
1858:Birthdate of French archaeologist Salomon Reinach whose “first published workwas a translation of Arthur Schopenhauer’s “Essay on Free Will.”
1858: Dr. Joseph Bondi was installed as Rabbi of Anshi Chesed,the synagogue on Norfolk Street between Stanton and Houston Streets.
1859: TheTory (NY) Times reported that there was a quarrel taking place in the Jewishcommunity over the ownership of a Bible. The Hebrew Bible which mysteriouslydisappeared and was found only after a search warrant had been issued by amember of the local judiciary.
1861:Birthdate of San Francisco native Albert Ernest Castle, Sr. the husband ofVirginia Castle who was a member of the Committee of Fifty, an organizationcreated to deal with the aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906
1862:During the reign of Napoleon III modifications were made today in the decreepromulgated by Napoleon I in the method of choosing delegates to the JewishConsistory.
1862: TheSecond Battle of Bull Run, during which Philadelphian Morris Lang of the 12thCavalry, was taken prisoner, continued for a second day.
1863: Today,during the Civil War, Lieutenant CharlesE. Etting who had fought at Gettysburg and resumed command of his old companyon July 4 reported to Philadelphia as orderedand “was assigned to staff duty.”
1863: The five deserters in the Fifth corps, reprieved onWednesday, will positively be shot to-day, at 3 o'clock, in presence of thecorps. Two of them are Catholics, two Protestants, and one a Jew. Spiritualadvisers have been with them to-day, a Jewish Rabbi having come expressly atthe request of the one of that persuasion. The unfortunate men have finallymade up their minds that they must die, though they have made several effortsto have their sentences commuted to hard labor for life. But the President, tohis credit be it said, telegraphed yesterday that he could not interfere withthe sentence, and the men will die. Their death is necessary to save hundredsof other lives, and to put a stop to the desertion of this class of men. Thirtymore are on trial for the same offence in the first corps, and they willprobably meet with a like fate.
1863: InNew Haven, CT, “Morris and Mina (Fleischner) Ullman gave birth to Isaac MorrisUllman, the Quartermaster General of the Connecticut National Guard, “a memberof the firm of Strouse, Adler and Company, and Treasurer of the American JewishCommittee who was the husband of Flora Veronica Adler.
1864:Democrats nominated Union General George B. McClellan to run against AbrahamLincoln who enjoyed a significant amount of support among the Jewish communityin the upcoming Presidential campaign.
1865:Corporal Isaac Myers completed his service with Company G, 74thRegiment of the Union Army.
1865:Philadelphian Samuel Rothschild who rose from the rank of private to CommandingSergeant of Company I of the 74th Regiment completed his term ofservice in the Union Army.
1865: InPomerania, Hedwig and Isaak Lachmann gave birth to poet and translator HedwigLachmann. (As reported by Hanna Delf von Wolzogen)
1865: The New York Timesreported from Washington D.C. that the court-martial an Army Paymaster namedWebb has come to an end. Webb wasaccused of playing a key role in swindling hundreds of soldiers out a total$400,000. According to the report “a Jewwho was dismissed the service for defrauding the government at the beginning ofthe war” played a key role in the swindle.This unnamed Jew testified against Webb during the trial confessing hisown role in the scheme. [Editor’ note – the religion of no other personinvolved in the scheme was mentioned in the article.]
1865(7th ofElul, 5625): Dr. Robert Remak, Polish born German physician, neurologist andembryologist passed away at the age of fifty. While in medical practice, heresearched unpaid at university. As a Jew, he was barred from teaching. In 1847he became the first Jew to officially teach a university and was later promotedto the position of assistant professor. He discovered the fibers of Remak,nonmedullated nerve fibers and named the three germ layers he discovered of theearly embryo: the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm. In 1844 hediscovered the nerve cells in the heart now called Remak's ganglia and providedthe first illustration of the 6-layered cortex. He was a pioneer in the use ofelectrotherapy for the treatment of nervous diseases.
1867: Oneday after she had passed, 56-year-old Brina (Joseph) Morris, “the wife of HenryMorris” with whom she had four children – “Cordelia, George, Deborah and Roas”– was buried today at the “Plymouth Hoe Burial Ground.”
1867:Birthdate of Cincinnati native Belle Levy Johnson, an officer of the NationalCouncil of Jewish women and the husband of Frederic A. Johnson.
1868: InChicago, Benjamin and Theresa Eisendrath gave birth to MIT trained architectSimeon B. Eisendrath, the husband of Arlita L. Leszynsky who “designed manyJewish public institutions in Chicago including the Home for Aged Jews” whomoved to New York in 1901 where he designed several Jewish institutionsincluding The Free Synagogue and Beth Elohim.
UnitedHebrew Congregation – Temple Israel – Synagogues360 (anumuseum.org.il)
http://www.eisendrath-stories.net/cont_19thcenturystories_jewish_real_property_in_dorsten.php
1870(2ndof Elu, 5630): Forty-one-year-old Lazarus Geiger, the brother of Rabbi AbrahamGeiger and the nephew of Rabbi Abraham Geiger, who was “intrigued” by thepsychology of color passed away today.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Geiger,_Abraham
1871: InVilna, Sophia and Isaac Press gave birth to Lithuanian American violinist, conductor andmusic educator Mikhail (Moisej) Isaakovich Press, the husband of Vera Maurinaand a member of the violin faculty at Curtis institute Music who taught atMichigan State University for ten years and “was guest conductor with thePhiladelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra, among others.”
1871:“Sketch of the Prison Rosenzweig, Alias Archer” published today described theactivities of a German or Russian Jew named Rosenzweig who has been jailed forposing as medical doctor named Archer – a position for which he lacks bothtraining and credentials.
1872: Amongthe 400 passengers arriving in New York on board the Packet-ship Charles H.Marshall was a German Jew named Meyer Velt
1873: Thismorning’s New York newspapers published a copy of a telegram from San Franciscothat contains the confession of John T. Irving who claims to have murderedwealthy businessman Benjamin Nathan.
1873: “TheNathan Murder” published today described the confession of John T. Irving tothe murder of Benjamin Nathan which included a claim that his son WashingtonNathan was the mastermind of the crime.
1875: Asthe Shooting Season opens in France, Baron Hirsch entertains several of the“leading shots” on the land he leases in the forests around Saint-Germaine.
1878: Afterbeing attacked by a political opponent because of his religion, Raphael J.Moses, a prominent resident of Columbus, GA, responded in the local newspaperby asserting his Jewish pride in an article that was reprinted around thecountry: “I feel it an honor to be of a race whom persecution cannot crush,whom prejudice has in vain endeavored to subdue.” When he ran for congress,Moses explained, “I wanted to go to congress as a Jew and because I would haveliked in a public position to confront and do my part towards breaking down theprejudice.”
1878(30thof Av, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1878: Itwas reported today that there are four Jews serving on the newly created 18 manCommunal Council at Sarajevo.
1878: Itwas reported today that a Communal Council has been formed in Sarajevo. TheCouncil, which represents a cross section of Sarajevo’s religious communities,includes four Jews, five Muslims, three Catholics and six Orthodox (Greek orRussian, not Jewish).
1880: Birthdate of Jassy native Stephen Cahana,who in 1903 came to the United States where he earned an MD at the Universityof Illinois, practiced medicine in Milwaukee and served on the faculty ofMarquette University while also serving as President of the Wisconsin StateBoard of Health.
1882: Seventy-two-year-oldFriedrich Adolf Philippi the son a Jewish bank and family friend of theMendelssohn who converted to Christianity in 1829 and became a Lutheranminister passed away today.
1882: EliotArthur De Pass married Beatrice “Trixie” De Mercado in Jamaica today.
1883: InSouth Yarra, Australian journalist, Maurice Brodzky, the East Prussian born sonIsrael Brodzky and Bella Czerwynkowsky and his wife gave birth to his eldest sonLeon Herbert Spencer Brodzky known as Spencer Brodney and the husband of EstherSiebel who began his journalistic career by writing articles on the theatre.
1885: InRochester, NY, Samuel and Anna F. Egelson gave birth CCNY and Columbia alumLouis Egelson who became a Rabbi after studying at the Jewish TheologicalSeminary and served as Chaplian of the 91st Division of the AEFduring WW I after which he married Augusta Cronheim.
1886: Aparty of forty Russian Jews landed at Castle Garden today and was detained byauthorities.
1886(28thof Av, 5646): Gretchen Kauffmann Born, the first wife of Gustav Jacob Born andthe mother of Nobel Prize winner Max Born, passed away.
1887:Birthdate of Clarence Yale Palitz, the native of Lavia who came to the UnitedStates in 1900 where he became a lawyer, alderman and active member of theJewish community holding leadership positions with the Jewish Ladies DayNursery and the Jewish Social Service Association while raising three children– Lillian, Bernard and Clarence, Jr. – with his wife Ruth Krumnas Palitz.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/10/89074647.pdf
1888: Todaymarks the tenth free excursion of this season sponsored by the Sanitarium forHebrew Children. As of this date, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children the tenexcursions have provided relief from the summer heat for 6,127 babies, 3,812children and 3,678 mothers.
1888:Birthdate of St. Louis businessman and Jewish community leader Ben Weisman.
1888:“Bloody Days In Morocco” published today described the violence in the NorthAfrican country that has included Arab leaders calling for a Holy War. This hasprompted at least one newspaper in Tangiers to call for the European powers tosend ships to protect the Christians and the Jews.
1889(2ndof Elul, 5649): Eighty-one-year-old Gustav Weil who switched from studying tobe a rabbi to become a leading Orientalist and whose Mohammed der Prophet served as resource for WashingtonIrving when he wrote the Life of Mohammed passed away today.
1889:In DesMoines, IA, Israel and Yent Adler gave birth San Antonio merchant Ben Adler thehusband of Dora Hahn and father of Hortense and Edyth Adler who is “presidentof the Jewish Literary Society” and “a trustee of Agudah Ahim.”
1891:“Russian Jewish Refugees” published today described the “considerablecomplaints” being made by people in Detroit because “the Canadian authoritiessend all the penniless Jews who get into that country” here to be taken careof.
1891:Recorder Albert Hessberg of Albany was among those who greeted Senator Jacob A.Cantor of the Tenth Senatorial District and his wife when they returned fromEurope today aboard the Hamburg steamer Columbia today.
1891: InCincinnati, OH, Rachel Friedman and Abraham Isaacs gave birth to RaphaelIsaacs, the husband of Agnes Wolfstein,the University of Cincinnati educated physician and Associate Professorof Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan who served as the AssistantDirector of the Simpson Memorial Institute and the “Editor of the section of‘Pathology of the Blood’ in Biological Abstracts while also being “a member ofthe Editorial Board of the medical journal HarefuahHaivri.
https://www.ima.org.il/medicine/default.aspx
1892: “NoWay To Stop Immigration” published today discussed the challenges of protectingthe United States from the European cholera outbreak including the comment thatonce the danger from cholera is out of the way, “it is plain that the UnitedStates would be better off if ignorant Russian Jews…were denied a refuge here.”
1892:Birthdate of Alexandre Koyré, the Russian born French philosopher who servedwith the French Foreign Legion in WW I and spent WW II teaching at the NewSchool for Social Research in New York City.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4024941?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1892: InChicago, Benjamin R. and Belle (Austrian) Cahn gave birth to Alvin Robert Cahn,the Cornell alum and holder of Ph.D. from Illinois where he served on thefaculty and who was stationed at Dutch Harbor for three years during WW II.
1893: In“Solotwina, Austria,” “Jehuda Leib and Genendel (Schwager) Soltes, gave birthto Mordecai Soltes the holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia and husband of Ida Levywho was President of the Jewish Council of Greater New York, director of theExtension Education for the Bureau of Jewish Education of New York City andauthored numerous “articles on Jewish Education and Jewish Education Centers.”
1896:Birthdate of NewYork native Dr. John Henry Garlock a member of the faculties at Columbia andCornell
1897: The First ZionistCongress (Basle, Switzerland) was convened by Theodore Herzl. It wasrepresented by one hundred and ninety-seven delegates. This was one of the mostimportant yet unexpected convocation in modern Jewish History. Againstall odds, Herzl had Jews from twenty-four different states as varied Palestine,the United States and an array from across Europe. The Congress adopted adocument known as the Basile Program that declared, "The task of Zionismis to secure for the Jewish people in a Palestine in a publicly recognizedlegally secure homeland." The Congress also announced that it woulddedicate itself to strengthening Jewish consciousness and nationalfeeling." Writing in his diary on September 3 of the same year Herzlstated,” At Basle I founded the Jewish state. If I said this out loudtoday, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years,and certainly in fifty, everyone will know it." In 1947, just a fewmonths beyond those fifty years, the UN approved the partition of Palestinethat gave birth to the Jewish state.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/hdoc/Nordau_1897.htm
1897: In Memphis, TNSamuel and Esther Bronstein gave birth to University of Pennsylvania trainedgeneral practitioner Dr. Jacob H. Bronstein, the husband of former Betty Clarkand father of two – Maury and Roberta – whose activities in the Memphis Jewishcommunity include serving a first vice president of B’nai B’rith and being anactive member of the Temple of the Children of Israel. http://www.jhsmem.org/bio/JacobBronstein.pdf
1897: In Jersey City,NJ, Rabbi Jacob Boer led members of the Society of Teferith Israel in theceremonies which converted a structure that had housed the German EvangelicalChurch into a synagogue. Rabbi Moses Wechsler, Rabbi Jacob Goodman and theMayor of Jersey City were among the dignitaries who addressed the congregation.
1897: “The Snake in theBible” published today described two appearances of the serpent in the Torah –the first in the Garden of Eden and the second when God calls on Moses to gobefore Pharaoh – each of which shows a different aspect of Biblical philosophy.
1898: The ZionistConference chaired by Dr. Herzl continues for a second day in Basel,Switzerland.
1898: It was reportedtoday that at age 22, Abram Herschberger is youngest Rabbi to lead acongregation in Chicago, Illinois and he may be the youngest clergy of anydenomination serving in the Windy City.
1899: NYU trainedsurgeon Max Danzis the Russian born son of Benjamin and Rachel Danzis, the organizer of the Newark, NJ, Beth IsraelHospital and chairman of the “local chapter branch of the American JewishPhysicians Committee for Hebrew University, married Jennie Reich today.
1899: When the courtmartial of Captain Dreyfus resumed today Colonel Cordier, the Deputy Chief ofthe Intelligence Department was the first witness to take the stand and hetestified based on his examination of the documents in question “he was nowconvinced Dreyfus was innocent.”
1899: Nouri Bey received10,000 Francs to arrange an audience for Herzl with the Sultan.
1900(4th ofElul, 5660): Seventy-nine-year-old Sir Saul Samuel, 1st Baronet, theAustralian merchant, government official and leader of the Jewish communitypassed away today.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/samuel-sir-saul-4534
1902: In what soundsliked a merger of department store moguls, It was reported today that MissEdith Abraham, the daughter of Abraham Abraham of Abraham and Straus, is nowengaged to Harvard graduate Percy S. Straus the son Isidore Straus and “amember of the firm of R.H. Macy and Company.
1902: In Baltimore,Rena Ambach and attorney Eli Frank gave birth to Harvard trained attorney EliFrank, Jr. the state court of appeals judge who was the brother of Mrs. BertramS. Friedman and Mrs. Sydney M. Cone, Jr.
1903(6th ofElul, 5663): Parashat Shoftim
1903(6th ofElul, 5663): Forty-year-old Rabbi Hirsch Zvi Goiten, the Hungarian born son ofof Eliyahu Menachem Goitein and Amalia Mahala Goitein passed away today inCopenhagen, Denmark.
1903: Die Welt publishes the declaration ofthe British Government on the allocation of a "Jewish territory" inEast Africa. Die Welt was the name ofpublication started by Herzl in 1897 to further the Zionist cause. It should not be confused with the modernGerman publication of the same name.
1904: Joseph E. Nowrey,the Mayor of Camden, NJ, was reported today to have compared the conditions ofJews in the United States and in Russia when he said, “What a great sensationit would be if a Russian official, presiding over a city, should appear on aplatform and speak words of encouragement at the dedication of a Jewishsynagogue. But thing are different inthe broad land of ours.”
1904: Birthdate ofBrooklyn native Samuel Klaus, the Columbia trained attorned who held the rankof brigadier general in the U.S. Army during WW II and served as a “specialcounsel to the State Department.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/03/81820415.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1905: “The Jewish Name‘Gordon’” which first appeared The London Chronicle published today looks atexamples that “show that Gordon in Jewish nomenclature is by no means a case oflatter-day usurpation” and challenges the notion that there is a connectionbetween Jews named Gordon and the Russian town of Grodno.
1906: “The Union ofGenuine Russians” issued a platform that called for Jews to be denied the rightto serve in the military, to study at schools and universities, to bedruggists, journalists, and to vote while also calling for them to pay aspecial tax for not serving in the army or navy.
1907: At the behest of“Oscar S. Straus, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor,” who sought putting anend to the payment of fees to lawyers by Chinese workers, the Commissioner General of Immigration sentout a circular addressed to all Chinese Inspectors that stated “by direction ofthe Secretary you are instructed to encourage the practice among Chineselaborers who intend to leave this country and return after an absence, ofcalling upon Inspectors of the Immigration Service for assistance in fillingout their applications for return certificates.”
1908(2nd ofElul, 5668): Parashat Shoftim
1908: “The editorialstatement of President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor…inwhich he again called upon union men to support the Democratic Party surprisedlabor men” in New York.
1909: It was reportedtoday that “The Chocolate Soldier,” “the Viennese operetta by Oscar Straus” isscheduled to open at the Lyric Theatre on September 14th.
1910(24th ofAv, 5670): Sixty-eight-year-old San Francisco attorney and Democraticpolitician Joseph Naphthaly, the Prussian born son of Samuel and JuliaNaphthaly who married the former Sarah Schmitt, the daughter of Blaize L. andPauline Schmitt with whom he had two children, Samuel and Leon, passed awaytoday.
1911: In Great Britainthe Tredegar District Council adopted a resolution protesting against“disgraceful rioting and looting” attacks against Jews in New South Wales. The riots, which had begun on August 19following the end of strike, were the worst outbreak of anti-Semitic violencein the British Isles in modern times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/27/classified/paid-notice-deaths-borgenicht-jacob-moses-jack.html
1912: Birthdate ofWolfgang Suschitzky, the “the photographer and cinematographer” who was thebrother of Edith Tudor-Hart.
1912(16th ofElul,5672): Seventy-eight-year-old Nathan Keyfitz, the former “Crown Rabbi atRogacheff, Russia” passed away today in Toronto.
1912(16th ofElul, 5672): Eighty-year-old Brno born philosopher and author Theodor Gomperzpassed away today.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Gomperz,_Theodor
1913(26th ofAv, 5673): David Shubert, the Lithuanian born husband of Gittel Helvich Shubertwhose children – Lee, Fannie, Samuel, Sarah, Jacob and Dora – the male membersof which were the famous producers and theatrical entrepreneurs passed awaytoday in Manhattan.
1913: Birthdate ofSylvia Fine, the Brooklyn native who was an “American lyricist, composer,producer and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye.”
1914: Two-year-old futureaward-winning author Barbara Tuchman and her father traveled from Constantinopleto Jerusalem today “to deliver funds to the Jewish community” in the “City ofDavid.”
1914: Solomon StandwoodMenken, a Memphis born New York lawyer who had converted to Christianity“returned to the United States today” from Great Britain where “he helped formthe National Security League, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated tohigher military budgets, universal conscription and tight regulation of theeconomy” after having seen how poorly prepared the United Kingdom had beenprepared to go to war against the Central Powers.
1914: Much to thedelight of the Jews serving with the Kaiser and to the disappointment of Jewsserving under the Tricolor, the Germans thwarted an attack at Guise which wouldlead to further retreat by the French.
1915: In Atlantic City,NJ, 500 people attended a meeting at the Garden Pier sponsored by the CentralCommittee for the Relief of Jews suffering through the war where arrangementswere completed “for raising a fund throughout the country for the relief ofJews in Poland and Palestine.”
1915: “The dedicationof the home for the convalescents established by the Federation of RumanianJews of America did not take place this afternoon as planned due to inclementweather.”
1915: According toreports published today, Dr. Jacques Faitlovich is planning on starting “aschool for the Abyssinian black Jews in the Italian colony of Eretria” with thehelp of two young men he had brought to Italy for an education, and which issupported “by Jewish organizations in America.”
1915: In Chicago, Jacoband Ester Pritikin, the University of Chicago dropout and millionaire inventorwho created the “Pritkin Diet.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-23-mn-1021-story.html
https://www.pritikin.com/home-the-basics/about-pritikin/38-nathan-pritikin.html
1915: James Hunekerprovides an insight into the works of Russian author Mikhail Artsybashevincluding “The Doctor” which provides “a view of pogrom in a tiny Russianprovince town” that provides details “of the wretched Jews shot down rippedopen, maltreated and driven into the wilderness” which makes the reader “shudder.
1915: In Richmond, VA,founding of Beth Israel Synagogue.
1915: In Baltimorefounding of Ahavas Sholom.
1915: In Newark, NJ,founding of Aahavath Zion Synagogue.
1915: In Los Angelesdedication of the Home for the Aged.
1916: During World WarI, Paul von Hindenburg became Chief of the German General Staff. Hindenburg’ssupposed brilliance was really the work of his loyal lieutenant ErichLudendorff. Among other things, Hindenburg helped provide ammunition for themyth that that German Army was stabbed in the back (by the Jews) and actuallybrought Hitler to power as Chancellor.
1916: Jacob de Hass,the Secretary of the Provisional Committee for General Zionists wrote a lettertoday in which he took exception to a report by three teachers from Americancolleges in Turkey who said “that on their visit to Palestine they learned thatall the Jews had been deported from Jerusalem with the exception of a few whohad accepted the Moslem faith.”
1916: “Austrian Threatsto Jews” published today described two orders by the military commander of theChelm District which The Day, a Jewish newspaper published in New Yorkdescribed as “an open provocation, the purpose of which is to make the Jews ofinvaded Poland the scapegoat for all Austrian misfortunes.”
1917: Today, in Moscow,at the closing session the third sitting of the national conference, “therepresentative of the Jews said that they loved their country, notwithstandingtheir unprecedented persecution under the old regime and had contributed greatlyto the emancipation of the people and the defense against the enemy.”
1918: In ManhattanThomas Rockwell Shepard Sr. and the former Marie Maze Dickinson gave birth toThomas Rockwell Shepard Jr. the last publisher of Look magazine “which helped to launch the photography career ofStanley Kurbrick” and which published Thomas Morgan’s ““The Vanishing AmericanJew: Leaders fear threat to Jewish survival in today’s ‘crisis of freedom.'”
1918: CharlesRosengarten the New York City born son of Dora Drexler and Isaac Rosengartenand President of the Waterbury, CT Board of Fires Underwriters who was vicepresident of Congregation Bethel married Florence Rohowsky today in Hartford.
1918: Samuel Gompers,President of the American Federation of Labor, who arrived in Great Britainyesterday from the United States at the head of a labor delegation, visited hisbirthplace in Spitalfields.
1918: “Bennett ChargesForgery” published described complaints of voting irregularities that had beenlodged by Ex-Senator William Bennett who was seeking the Republican nominationfor Lt. Gov. of New York with Samuel S. Koenig, the chairman of the countyRepublican Committee – charges which the Jewish political leader dismissed asbeing groundless.
1919: Sendel and RivaGrynszpan gave birth to Mordechai Grynszpan, the brother of Herschel Grynszpanthe man who assassinated Ernst vom Rath which was the excuse for Kristallnacht
1919: Harvard graduateand Columbia trained medical doctor Bernard Sutro Oppenheimer, the New YorkCity born so of Laura Sutro and Leopold Oppenheimer who was a professor ofclinical medicine at Columbia and officer in the U.S. Army medical corpsserving in France during WW I married Enid Simmons today in New York.
1920: At Surprise LakeCamp, Cold Spring on the Hudson, Herman Lehman presided over the dedication ofthe Marx Building where the 75 attendees heard a speech by Judge SamuelGreenbaum and “a talk by Eddie Cantor who traced the beginning of histheatrical career to the summer, 18 years ago, when he was first sent toSurprise Lake Camp by the Education Alliance” and found himself providingentertainment for his 450 fellow campers.
1920: “The first issue of Di Tsayt,” a Yiddish daily newspaper that would survivefor two year “was published today in New York.
1920: JTS trained rabbi, Herman Price, theLithuanian born son of Judith Baron and Beer Price married Ida M. Schneidertoday after which he led several congregation culminating with assuming the atBeth El Congregation in Sunbury, PA.
1921: In Budapest, theUnited States and Hungary signed a peace treaty because the Senate had rejectedthe Versailles Treaty – a rejection that many believe was a step on the road toWW II and all that that came to mean.
1921: In Queens, NY, SamuelBarrel “whose family owned a glass and mirror business” and the former Sadye “Syd”Asofsky gave birth Iris Barrel, the NYU and University of Wisconsin alum whomarried Carl Apfel and who as Iris Apfel gained fame as “an Americanbusinesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for herflamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses” who “was thefocus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary Iris”
IrisApfel, Eye-Catcher With a Kaleidoscopic Wardrobe, Dies at 102 - The New YorkTimes (nytimes.com)
HowIris Apfel became an icon in her 90s (bbc.com)
1922: Comintern agentMikhail Borodin was arrested today in Glasgow, “ostensibly for breakingimmigration regulations” but more likely because the authorities in the UK knewabout his role as a spy and agent for the Soviet government.
1923: Jewish gangstersSamuel "Sammy" Weiss, Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen and SamuelGepson were arraigned at Essex Market Courthouse today on charges of havingviolated New York’s Sullivan Law.
1924: Birthdate ofWarsaw born filmmaker and actor Jakub Goldberg whose most famous collaborationwith Roman Polanski.
1924: Birthdate VictorParsonnet, the WW II Navy veteran and NYU Med School graduate “who became athoracic and cardiac surgeon in Newark, New Jersey and is affiliated withNewark Beth Israel Medical Center” and served as Chairman of the New JerseySymphony Orchestra.
1925: Today marks “theanniversary of the foundation of a committee for the settling of the Jewishpopulation on the land in the region of Kherson, in Ukraine” which over thelast five years has “settled eighty-thousand Jewish land-worker in forty-five coloniescovering “upward of 25,000,000 acres.”
1926: Observers arewaiting to see whom the powerful Ku Klux Klan of Monroe Country, NY willendorse in the race for the 38th Congressional District since “JamesE. Cuff, the Republican candidate is a Catholic while his opponent on theDemocratic ticket is Representative Meyer Jacobson who is Jewish.”
1926: The 14thZionist Congress continued to meet today in Vienna.
1927: In Atlanta, GA,Florence Rubin and Samuel A. Massell gave birth to University of Georgiagraduate and U.S. Air Force Samuel A. “Buddy” Massell, the realtor and firstJewish mayor of Atlanta who married Sandra Gordy after the death of his firstwife Doris.
1927: In Worms,birthdate of furniture designer Vladimir Kagan who was brought to the UnitedStates in 1937 by his mother Hildegard to escape the Nazis.
1928: Birthdate ofPerry K. Peskin, the Western Reserve University educated high school and U.S.Army veteran who was best known for his hobby as a “Bird Watcher”
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/cleveland-heights-oh/perry-peskin-7670471
1929: The day beganwith an Arab attempt to massacre the Jewish population of Safed, one of thesacred cities of Palestine and the center of study of the Kaballah. Initiallynine Jews were killed and thirty wounded. As day turned into night the attackcontinued with the Arabs killing twenty-two Jews, wounding scores more andburning the whole town except the government buildings. Fighting proceeded foreight hours before British troops arrived from Tiberias. At least one American was found among thewounded. According to reportscirculating in the ancient Jewish settlement 3,000 have been left homeless andsome of the wounded were tortured by the Arab raiders.
1929: After six days ofArab attacks, 133 Jews had been killed throughout Palestine. The casualties would have been higher if hadnot been for the work of the Haganah.Established nine years earlier, members of the Haganah worked to defendsettlements through Palestine. At Hulda,twenty-three Haganah members held off more than 1,000 Arab attackers. The success came at a cost - Ephraim Chizik,commander of the unit and one of the earliest members of the Jewish defenseforce was killed during the action.
1929:After a week of Arab riots that started on August 23, as of today, 113 Jews hadbeen killed and 339 wounded. As a result of the riots, Sir Walter Shaw headed acommission which urged the banning of Jewish immigration and absolved the Arabsand the Mufti of guilt. Another commission led by Sir John Simpson declaredthat the entire Zionist operation was unsound and undesirable. Both of thesecommissions were under the auspices of Lord Passfield, the British ColonialSecretary.
1929: In a letter to The Times of London, British ZionistHarry Sacher refuted Arab claims that the Wailing Wall was part of the Mosqueof Omar and that the Jews had no right to be there. The Mufti had claimed that the Arab Riotswere provoked by Jews marching to the Wailing Wall and violating the law byhosting a Zionist flag. (Please note the similarity of this claim to the onethat would be made at the end of the century to justify the violence known asthe Second Intifada.)
1930: Details of theposition of the Jewish Agency regarding Palestine were outlined in Berlin“today by Felix M. Warbug, chairman of the administrative committee at asession of the committee attended by members from all parts of the world…”
1931: In London, ofAnthony Gustav de Rothschild and Yvonne Lydia Louise Cahen d'Anvers gave birth to Trinity College Cambridge educatedpolo playing financiers Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild a member of theRothschild banking family and the namesake of “his uncle Evelyn Achille de Rothschild who was killed inaction in World War I” and the father of Jessica, Anthony James and David Mayerde Rothschild who in 1968 was appointed a director of Paris-based de RothschildFrères, the first leg on a business career that culminated in the founding ofthe holding company E.L. Rothschild wit his fourth wife Lynn Forester.
https://family.rothschildarchive.org/people/132-evelyn-robert-adrian-de-rothschild-1931-2022
1931: Robert Szold saidin a statement issued on behalf of the administration of the ZionistOrganization of America that the great majority of the American delegation tothe recent World Zionist Congress at Basle applied itself to averting continuedinternal dissension in the organization and accomplished that goal.
1932(27thof Av, 5692): Sixty-eight-year-old Hyman M. Lasker, the rabbi of Beth Israel inTroy, NY and the grandfather of Harold I Saperstein, the Rabbi at TempleEmanu-El in Lynbrook, NY passed away today after which he was buried in “BethTephilah Cemetery” in Troy, NY.
https://kevarim.com/rabbi-chaim-mordechai-lasker/
1932: In Vienna, Nazisattacked the Palace of Justice, smashed furnishings and “menaced” the Presidentof the Chamber who was Jewish.
1932: “A 250-year-oldJewish cemetery in Oschersleben, Germany was desecrated by vandals.”
1933(7th ofElul, 5693): Ninety-year-old Sir Philip Magnus, the rabbi who gave up thepulpit to pursue a career furthering technical education and the husband ofKatie Magnus with whom he had two children biographer Philip Magnus andpublished Laurie Magnus.
http://www.jta.org/1933/08/30/archive/sir-philip-magnus-dead-scientist-communal-leader
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/29779957.pdf
1933: In the Bronx, theformer Rachel Gutman, a nutritionist and Judah Wattenberg, a real estate lawyerwho gave birth to Joseph Ben Zion Wattenberg who gained fame as DemocraticParty activist, author and social commentator Ben Wattenberg.
1933: “Dinner at Eight”the film version of the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, directed byGeorge Cukor, produced by David O. Selznick with a script by Herman Mankiewiczwas released in the United States by MGM.
1933: “The New York Times runs a story aboutthe existence of 65 concentration camps in Germany where at least 45,000 peopleare being held in inhuman conditions. Most of the prisoners in these camps arepolitical: communists, socialists, and liberals of various sorts.”(As reportedby Austin Cline)
1933: In Canada, Aspokesman of the Immigration Department publicly announces that the Governmentdoes not intend to amend the present restrictive immigration policy, thusresponding to the objections of anti-Jewish groups and a section of the pressto the proposed admission of German-Jewish refugees.
1933: The conflictwithin the World Zionist Congress, caused by the presentation during theweek-end of charges that the Palestine labor leader, Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, hadbeen murdered by Zionist Revisionists, overshadowed today’s discussions whenthe congress met today.
1933: Dr. Chaim Weizmann definitely declines toaccept the presidency of the World Zionist Organization, though he agrees tohead the campaign for funds to settle German Jews in Palestine.
1934: “Reich BishopLudwig Meuller issued an order reinstating the portion of last year church lawsinvolving the enforced retirement of Protestant pastors of Jewish origin orpastors with Jewish wives.”
1935: The delegates tothe World Zionist Congress were saddened by the death of Queen Astrid of theBelgians. This was reflected by the decision of the delegates to limit theiractivities today the holding a series of quiet sectional conferences.
1935: The Los AngelesTimes reported that “a Los Angeles based anti-Nazi League” had been operatingin that city at least since February of 1934.
1935: In Chicago, LouisFriedkin, “a semi-professional softball player, merchant seaman, and men'sclothing salesman” and Rachael (née Green) Friedkin, “an operating roomregistered nurse gave birth to Oscar winning director whose works included the“French Connection” and “The Exorcist.”
1935: New York premiereof “Top Hat” a musical produced by Pandro S. Berman with a score by IrvingBerlin and Max Steiner.
1936: Pravda, the official newspaper of theSoviet Union, “warns that Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are planning amassive war that will lead to slaughter across Europe.”
1936: It was announcedtoday that “The American Committee Appeal for the Relief of Jews in Poland”which is seeking to raise one million dollars “has asked Jewish congregationsthroughout the United States to raise funds during the coming Jewish holidaysfor the relief of destitute co-religionists in Poland.”
1936: Two Britishsoldiers were killed tonight and three more were wounded when Arabs attacked apatrol near Mount Tabors.
1936: Arabs attackedJewish settlement in the Sharon Valley in southern Judea and in the JordanValley tonight.
1936: In lightof the violence in Palestine and the pressure being brought on the Britishgovernment to stop Jewish immigration, a special evening prayer is scheduled tobe recited in all Dutch synagogues in response to an order from the Associationof Chief Rabbis of Holland.
1936: “Unlessunforeseen circumstances arise between tonight and tomorrow morning, an ArabHigh Committee meeting then will accept the intervention of General Nuri Pashaas-Said, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, for a settlement of the present deadlockbetween the Palestine Arabs and the Palestine (British Mandate) Government.
1937(22nd of Elul,5697): In the ongoing violent uprising against the Jews andin an attemptto silenceArab opposition,Abraham Berkowsky, aged 45, a Tel Avivtailor, was killed on an Egged bus by a terrorist firing from an ambush just aboveMotza.
1937: At Oxford, Prof.Dr. Herbert Danby, who translated the Mishna into English, severelycriticized Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi scholar and the head of the GermanForeign Affairs section, who had just published his book The Immorality ofthe Talmud. Danby said that the book, published by Friends of Europe, wasfull of malice and misquotations
1937: New York’s WNEWradio station broadcast a memorial show honoring cartoonist Frederick BurrOpper who had passed away on August 28.
1938: In New York City,Sylvia (née Seiderman) and Alexander Rubin gave birth to Robert Rubin, theUnited States Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton.
1938: In Brooklyn, theformer Lucille Raver and Bernard Goldstein gave birth to Elliott Goldstein whogained fame as Elliot Gould one of the most prominent American film actors inthe early '70s, best known for playing Trapper John in the satirical 1970 filmM*A*S*H.Time magazine put him on its cover in1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a"star for an uptight age
1938: According to the LondonDaily Mail, a group of Arabs attacked Jerusalem tonight. The same report included a description of anattack on Mothea, a kibbutz known for its dairy, during which the barns wereburned and “a number of the pedigreed cattle” were deliberately burned alive.
1939: On the eve ofWorld War II, Chaim Weizmann informed the prime minister of England that theJews of Eretz Israel would stand by Great Britain and fight on the side of thedemocracies.
1939: Birthdate of directorWilliam Friedkin. He is best known forhis work with The Exorcist and the French Connection for which he won an Oscar.
1939: Birthdate of movie director Joel Schumacherthe son of Marian (née Kantor) Schumacher, whose “mother was a Swedish Jew.”
1940: The NationalEncampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States continued to asecond day in Boston.
1940: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held this afternoon for Sadie Ullman the Waynesboro, PAborn date of Ansel and Maggie Blum Ullman followed at interment at the HebrewFriendship Cemetery in Baltimore, MD
1941: The remainder of11,000 displaced Hungarian Jews (forced laborers), now living in KamenetsPodolsk and whom Hungary did not want to take back were taken out of town to apit and machine gunned down.
1942(16th of Elul,5702): Rabbi Simcha Oberbaum, Aleksanderer Chassid; a central figure in theLodz Jewish community; born in Warsaw in 1852, died in the Lodz ghetto.
1942(16th ofElul, 5702): Parashat Ki Tavo
1942: As can be seenfrom the attached photograph, more Jews were deported today from WiesbadenGermany to Auschwitz.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/august/08.asp
1942: It was reportedtoday that Dominican President Rafael L. Trujillo’s offer to provide a havenfor 3,500 Jewish refugee children living in Vichy has been forward, MarshalPetain, the head of the French government. A few years earlier, Trujillo had providedland at Sousa for a Jewish refugee colony.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sosua1.html
1942: Twelve JewishAmerican women were included among the first graduating class of WAAC officersat Fort Des Moines, Iowa. They were Ruth Ginns, Beatrice Berg, Carolyne Casperand Jean Korn from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kathryne Goldfluss, Rose Rossand Joan Strongin from New York, New York; Bee Rosenberg and Ruth Spivak fromChicago, Illinois; Rita Fink and Isabel Bayley of Buffalo, New York; andElizabeth Morgenstern of Seattle, Washington.a
1942:TheJewish community from Olesko, Ukraine, is deported to the Belzec death camp
1942:Occupationofficials in the East inform Berlin that the "Jewish problem" hasbeen "totally solved" in Serbia. Since German occupation, 14,500 ofSerbia's 16,000 Jews have been murdered.
1943: The AmericanJewish Conference “opened at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. More than five hundred delegates were presentrepresenting sixty-five different national organizations.” Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver gave an“electrifying speech” in which he “convinced his audience to support theBiltmore Declaration.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/biltmore.html
1943: After almost 8years, the New Deal agency known as The Federal Art Project (FAP) whose artistsincluded Leon Bibel, Adolph Gottlieb, Harry Gottlieb, Isaac Soyer, Moses Soyer.Raphael Soyer and Lee Krasner came to an end
1943: Six hundredprisoners were sent from Larissa to Athens so they could be held Haidari, aconcentration camp that was really a stopping point for the ultimate trip toAuschwitz.
1943: In Denmark, theofficial chief rabbi, Dr. Max Friediger is detained as a "hostage" ofalong with some 100 prominent Danes, including a dozen Jews, in a camp nearCopenhagen.
1944:More than 800 Jews earmarked for forced labor are transported from Auschwitz tothe labor camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, for assignment to nearby factories.Elsewhere in Germany, about 72 ill or pregnant Jews are taken from a labor campnear Leipzig and transported to gas chambers at Auschwitz.
1944: The lasttransport left the Lodz Ghetto after two months of final liquidation of theJewish population. Only 600 Jews remained from 76,000 who were still alivethere on June 15, 1944.
1944: Father GiuseppeGirotti was arrested today when he was “caught in the middle of transferring awounded Jewish partisan” to a safe house –a deed that earned him a one-wayticket to Dachau where he was murdered on Easter Day. (As reported by JTA)
1945: Lt. Colonel JudahNadich entered the Feldafing D.P. camp.Nadich was a rabbi serving as the senior Jewish chaplain in Europe. Nadich was repelled by the barbaric conditionsunder which the Jews were living; especially by the fact that they wereconfined behind barbed wire just as had been the case in the ConcentrationCamps while “The conquered Germans had complete freedom.”
1945: Lt. Col. LouisGeffen, who had served as a judge advocate in the US Army since January 1941,set sail from Oakland, CA for Japan.
1945: Rabbi Samuel M.Cohen, who resigned last Dec. 31 after twenty-seven years as executive directorof the United Synagogue of America, died today, after a long illness, at hishome, 785 West End
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/30/305793892.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1946: “Message fromPresident Truman, Governor Dewey, Senator James M. Mead and Representative SolBloom were read today at the opening of the twenty-fourth national conventionof the Agudath Israel Youth Council of America.”
1947: In Brooklyn,Sally Cohen Sher, a rent control examiner for New York City’s Housing andDevelopment Administration and Benjamin, a postal worker, had participated inthe Normandy invasion in World War II gave birth to NYU trained attorney NealMatthew Sher and husband of Bonnie Kagan “who for 11 years ran the federaloffice that rooted out World War II-era Nazis in the United States and moved torevoke their citizenship and deport them…” ( As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1947: “Moshe Levy NahumMukhtar of the Yemenite Jewish quarter of Jaffa, who was sometimes called ‘Kingof the Yemenite Jews’ had forty Arabs and Jews at peacemaking feast in hishouse today,” in attempt to counteract the Arab-Jewish rioting that has takenplace on the border between Jaffa and Tel Aviv.
1948: Based on commentsmade by Julius Levine who has spent nine month as the director of the JointDistribution Committee activities in Prague it was reported today that “theCzechoslovak administration is especially helpful to Jews who wish to go to Israel”and that emigration from Czechoslovakia to the United States, Israel and otherlands has reached 500 a month.”
1949: “Unit of ReligionAmong Jews Urged,” published today described the start of “a movement to doaway with sectarianism in Jewish religious life in favor of a ‘universalsynagogue’” which has begun in Paterson, NJ with the established ofCongregation Beth-El under the leadership of Rabbi Reuben Kaufman.
1951: In Chicago,Edward H. Levi the former President of the University of Chicago and AttorneyGeneral and his wife gave birth to David F. Levi who served a federal judgebefore becoming Dean of the Duke University School of Law.
1952: Birthdate ofBaltimore native Karen S. Hesse winner of the Newbery Medal for Out of theDust and the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2005 for The Cats in KrasinskiSquare.
1954: WNBC is scheduledto broadcast “first radio performance of Maria del Carmen (Granados) andConcerto for Trombone and Orchestra by Nathaniel Shilkret.”
1955: In New York City,the former Ruth Turoff, and Irving Lew “a Jewish lawyer and rare book dealerwho came to the United States from Poland as a child” gave birth Harvardgraduate and Georgetown University trained attorney Jacob Joseph “Jack” Lew, thehusband of Ruth Schwartz with whom he had two children and member of at leastthree Orthodox Congregations – Beth Sholom, Kesher Isreal and the Hebrew Instituteof Riverdale – who has served as White Chief Staff under Obama, Secretary ofthe Treasury under Obama and U.S. Ambassador to Israel under Biden.
1956: After having beendestroyed by a fire in 1955, Mr. Kelly’s, the famous Rush Street nightclubowned by Oscar and George Mairenthal reopened today.
1957: Premiere of The Pajama Game featuring a score by RichardAdler and Jerry Ross, two more of the Jews who created and nurtured the“Broadway Musical,” one of America’s unique contributions to the world ofentertainment.
1958: United States AirForce Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado. According to the latestfigures available, there are approximately fifty Jewish cadets attending theAcademy.
1959(25th ofAv, 5719): Parashat Re’eh
1959(25th ofAv, 5719): Sixty-two-year-old Denver born Zionist leader David Tannenbaumpassed away today in Tel Aviv.
https://www.jta.org/1959/08/31/archive/david-tannenbaum-director-of-z-o-a-house-in-tel-aviv-dies
1960(6th ofElul, 5720): Fifty-two-year-old Hedwig “Vicki” Baum whose 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel would be madeinto the Academy Award winning “Grand Hotel” passed away today.
http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/192334/throwback-thursday-vicki-baum-wrote-a-novel-per-y/
1961: “Bear Meat,” ashort story by Primo Levi, was published for the first time in Il Mondo.
1961: The Sixth Maccabiah opened today in Tel Aviv.
1963(9th of Elul,5723): Eighty-two-year-old Harry Fleishman Affelder, the Pittsburgh born son ofCatherine and Jacob Isadore Affelder and the husband of Rhoda E. Affelder withwhom he had two children – Lewis and Ruth – who was a member of the ClevelandHospital Council passed away today in Cleveland.
1964(21st ofElul, 5724): Leil Sleichot
1964: After 964performances, the curtain came down on the original Broadway production of “AFunny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” the Stephen Sondheim Tony awardwinning musical comedy starring Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford (both of whom hadbeen blacklisted) featuring Karen Black
1965(1st of Elul,5725): Rosh Chodesh Elul
https://hyperleap.com/topic/Fritz_Max_Cah%C3%A9n
1968: In Chicago, theNational Democratic Convention which has been held against a backdrop ofdemonstrations led in part by Lee Weiner, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, comesto an end.
1969: At the New YorkShakespeare Festival, final performance of “Electra” featuring David Hurst inthe role of “Paedagogus”
1969: A derangedAustralian tourist who was a Christian fundamentalist set fire to the Al AksaMosque claiming that it was “Satan’s Temple.”
1969: Two Palestinianshijacked a TWA plane after it had left Los Angeles and forced it to land atDamascus where 6 Israeli passengers were detained.
1969: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held at the Riverside Chapel for Brooklyn born and Columbiatrained attorney 64 year old federal judge William B Herlands who was “involvedin tracking down Nazi fifth columnists and a member of the Jewish EducationCommittee while raising three children – Barbara, James and Jonathan – with hiswife “the former Gertrude Carol Bendheim.
1970: Plans forIsrael's forthcoming appeal to the world's Jews for $1-billion next year fornondefense needs of the country were outlined at a meeting of the newlyreorganized Jewish Agency
1972(19th of Elul,5732): René Leibowitz, Polishborn French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher passed away.
1973: Birthdate ofArgentine movie director Daniel Burman who “is of Polish-Jewish descent” and “one of the members of the so-called"New Argentina Cinema", which begancirca1998.”
1974: Just days beforehis 65th birthday, Biblical scholar and archeologist George ErnestWright who directed the Drew-McCormickArchaeological Expedition to Shechem and the Hebrew Union College Biblical and ArchaeologicalSchool Expedition at Tell Gezer passed away today.
1975: Colonels Lev Ovsischer and Yefim Davidovichand other Zionist activists protested the imminent screening in Minsk of newanti-Zionist documentary film, “The Secret and the Obvious”.
1976: John Darnton described the volatileconditions in sub-Saharan African including “the recent dispute between Kenyaand Uganda stemming from President Idi Amin’s charge of Kenyan complicity inthe Entebbe raid.”
1976: The first Conference on Alternatives inJewish Education began at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/29/1976/caje
1977(15th of Elul,5737): Seventy-nine-year-old Aharon Menachem Shapira, the son of Avraham andLiba Rochel Shapira passed away today at Petah Tikva.
1977: Prime MinisterMenachem Begin and Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu cruised peacefully onLake Snagov, discussing peace prospects and bilateral relations. Theyreaffirmed Israeli-Rumanian friendship but haggled over the wording of thefinal joint announcement.
1977: In JerusalemMayor Teddy Kollek asked whether the ³equalized services² promised for the WestBank and Gaza by the new Likud government would be extended to east Jerusalem,as well as to the new Jewish neighborhoods, deprived so far of adequate religious,educational and communal facilities.
1979(6th ofElul, 5739): Eighty-four-year-old newspaper mogul Samuel I. Newhouse passedaway today.
1979: Birthdate of Ehud“Udi” Tenenbaum the native of Ramat HaSharon who was arrested for hacking intoa wide variety of computer systems including those at NASA, MIT and theKnesset.
1981(29th ofAv, 5741): Parashat Re’eh
1981(29th of Av, 5741):Ninety-one-year-old Rajgrod born NYU University Law School graduate Samuel Orr,the husband of Bertha Orr with who he had one son, Martin and the Socialist politician who was expelled fromthe New York State Assembly during the Red Scare of 1920 who practiced law withfellow Jews Nathan Bijur and Benjamin Cardozo passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/01/obituaries/samuel-orr-dies-at-91-former-assemblyman.html
1982: Dr. Sari LynnKramer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian S. Kramer of South Orange, N.J., wasmarried to Samuel L. Margulies, son of Mrs. Emmanuel Margulies of New York andthe late Mr. Margulies. Rabbi Barry Greene of Livingston, N.J., performed the ceremonyat the home of the bride's parents.
1982(10th of Elul,5742): Eight-seven-year-old Zionist leader Nahum Goldmann, the founder of theWorld Jewish Congress passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/goldmann.html
1983: “Strange Brew”directed and written by Rick Moranis who also starred in the comedy wasreleased in Canada today by MGM.
1984(1st ofElul, 5744): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1985: One person wasinjured during a stabbing attack by a terrorist in Jerusalem.
1986: “In an essayentitled "Encumbered Remembrance: The Controversy about theIncomparability of National-Socialist Mass Crimes" first published in theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today, Joachim Clemens Fest claimed that ErnstNolte's argument that Nazi crimes were not "singular" was correct.”
1986: Birthdate ofCanadian actress, Lauren Collins.
1992(30th ofAv, 5752): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
1992: Eighty-seven-year-oldJean S. Greene, the wife of Philip M. Greene passed away today.
1993(11th ofElul, 5753): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1993(11th ofElul, 5753): Eighty-year-old Arthur J. Katzman, the native of Belarus andBrooklyn Law School graduate who served on the City Council for almost threedecades passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/09/01/694993.html?pageNumber=20
1994: Solomon “Sol”Wachtler, the Republican Chief Judge of the New York of Appeals who had beenconvicted and sentenced to prison for “acts stemming from threats he madeagainst a former lover and her daughter” was scheduled to be released to ahalf-way house today.
1994(22nd of Elul,5754): Ninety-five-year-old Walter Gilbert Peiser, the Brooklyn born son ofWilliam and Jennie Peiser and the husband of Frances Henrietta Peiser who was agraduate of the University of Cincinnati and the Hebrew Union College and whoserved as a rabbi in Cleveland, OH, Austin, TX and Baton Rouge, LA where healso served on the faculty of LSU passed away today.
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0805/ms0805.html
1996: The DemocraticNational Convention comes to an end having nominated Bill Clinton for Presidentcomes to an end. His secondadministration will include Monica Lewinsky, a failed attempt to force a peaceagreement at Camp David and the pardon of Marc Rich.
1996(14th ofElul, 5756): Eighty-three-year-old Irving Simon Katcher, the North Dakota bornson of ois and Rebecca Katcher and the husband of Nettie Katcher passed awaytoday after which he was buried in the Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery inLivonia, Michigan.
1997(26th ofAv, 5757): Seventy-three-year-old Ilya Gazarkh, a resident of Pisgat Ze’ev whohad survived the combat of WW II, died of the wounds he sustained during aterrorist bombing at the Mahane Yehuda Market in July.
1999: David Bergercompleted his service as Canada’s Ambassador to Israel.
1999: “The ChicagoJewish Historical Society – in cooperation with the Dawn Schuman Institute – isscheduled to lead a tour of southwest Michigan led by Leah Axelrod whereparticipants will “learn about early Jewish farmers” and the development of theresorts at South Haven and Benton Harbor.
1999: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston andthe Catholics Stayed by Gerald Gamm, The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents inChinese History by Joanna Waley-Cohen daughter of Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, the Jewishbusinessman who became Lord Mayor of London, Kosovo Crossing by DavidFromkin and The Birth ofShylock and the Death of Zero Mostel by Arnold Wesker.
1999: The 7th World Championships in Athletics in which AleksandrValeryevich Averbukh placed third in the Pole Vault representing Israel came toa close today in Seville, Spain.
2000(28th of Av, 5760): Ninety-seven-year-old Gertrude H. Schaefler, thewidow of the late Leon Schaefler passed away today.
2001(10th of Elul, 5761): Thirty-five-year-old Oleg Sotnikovwas shot by terrorists today.
2002: “The Israeli Defense Ministry said today that an Israeli ship hadbeen detained in the German port of Hamburg on suspicion that its cargo ofrubber treads for armored personnel carriers was bound for Iran, “a spokeswomansaid that the export license had indicated Thailand as the destination, andthat Israel was joining Germany in an investigation.”
2003(1st of Elul, 5763): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2003(1st of Elul, 5763): The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades “claimedresponsibility for the murder of 25 year old Shalom Har-Melekh and the woundingof his “wife Limor who was seven months pregnant” and subsequently “gave birthto a baby girl by Caesarean section.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003: Eric Edelman began serving as United States Ambassador to Turkey.
2003: Pulitzer-PrizeWinning Poet Louise Glück (pronounced “Glick”) was named poet laureate of theUnited States. http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/29/2003/louise-gluck
2004: In the followingarticle entitled “In New York Try and Find A Genuine New York Bagel,” MollyO’Neill decries the downward spiral of the genuine bagel while providing a listof places where the aficionado can find this unique hunk of boiled dough.
Beware the billowybagel. It bears no resemblance to its small, gnarly forebears. The traditionalbagel was as tough as New Yorkers imagine themselves to be. It was a workout:the carb count of a handmade bagel was net zero once the chewing was done. Thisbagel was one of the reasons that the typical New Yorker found it difficult towake up elsewhere and one reason people came here. Today the typical New YorkCity bagel is no different from the ones served in malls nationwide. Thetraditional bagel, born of Eastern European shtetls, was made of yeast, malt,flour, water and salt. It was rolled by hand, first boiled and then baked.Today's version is made from yeast and sugar, flour, water and salt, extrudedthrough machines and baked. The result is a big, fat, soft pillow suitable onlyfor naps. Had we not been focused on other issues in recent years, New Yorkerswould have taken swift and certain action against the airy and flaccidinterlopers that dare to call themselves bagels. Rather than a daily entitlement,the authentic bagel has become a special event. We generally find them behindwell-steamed windows -- the secret is in the malt, the baker and the boiling --in places like these:
BAGEL HOLE -- 400Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, (718) 646-2210
BAGEL OASIS -- 183-12Horace Harding Expressway, Queens, (718) 359-9245
BAGELWORKS INC. -- 1229First Avenue, (212) 744-6444.
ESS-A-BAGEL -- 359First Avenue, (212) 260-2252; 831 Third Avenue, (212) 980-1010.
MURRAY'S BAGELS -- 242Eighth Avenue at 23rd Street; (646) 638-1335
NEPTUNE BAGELS -- 371 Neptune Avenue,Brooklyn; (718) 462-2830
ROCCO'S PASTRY SHOP ANDESPRESSO CAFE -- 243 Bleecker Street between Avenue of the Americas and SeventhAvenue, (212) 242-6031
2004: The Sunday New York Times book sectionincludes a review of Blackbird House by Jewish novelist Alice Hoffman.
2004: The New York Metsheld their annual “Jewish Heritage Day” game by playing the Los Angeles Dodgerswho roster includes Shawn Green, the 21st century version of SandyKoufax.
2005(24th ofAv, 5765): Seventy-eight-year-old Rabbi Balfour Brickner whose accomplishmentsincluded the founding to Temple Sinai in Washington, DC passed away today.
https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E1DB1731F932A3575AC0A9639C8B63
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/AR2005083102485.html
2005: Hurricane Katrinastrikes New Orleans causing untold suffering among the Jewish community as wellas the secular community. In the coming days, the world will be treated toTzizth wearing rabbis rescuing Torah Scrolls from flooded buildings as the CrescentCity suffers one of the worst disasters in American history.
2005: The issue of Sports Illustrated Magazine of this datecontained an article entitled “Stars Of David” about the two Arab Israelisnamed Abbas Suan and Walid Badir. Theyare stars on Israel’s World Cup soccer team.They each scored a critical goal in two games that have left Israelundefeated in seven qualifying games and on the verge of reaching its firstWorld Cup in 36 years.
2005: In Little Rock,AR, Rabbi Pinchas Ciment and his wife Estie Ciment announce the arrival oftheir new son.
2006: In San Francisco a SUV struck two people in front of the JewishCommunity Center of San Francisco onCalifornia Street, a few blocks from where the hit and run rampage ended. Bloodcovered the sidewalk in front of the center’s gift store entrance, and 50 feetfarther down the sidewalk lay a mangled bicycle. Security cameras in front ofthe center captured images of the incident, which happened at 1:12 p.m.,according to Aaron Rosenthal, spokesman for the community center
2007: In Eilat, second night of the Red Sea Jazz Festival.
2007:In response to the Larry Craig scandalAl Goldstein declared in his blog that he was bisexual, and said he'll be"the first presidential candidate to admit to sucking cock and the firstto turn fully gay mid-campaign."
2007: Boaz Mauda won Kochav Nolad 2007 with 50% of the votes.
2008: “Lifetimes To Go in OldMexico” published today provides a of “My Mexican Shiva” based on "Morirse está en hebreo," a shortstory by Ilan Stavans “about Jewish life in Mexico at the time of the 2000presidential election.”
http://www.nysun.com/arts/lifetimes-to-go-in-old-mexico-my-mexican-shivah/84860/
2008: The Red Sea Jazz Festival comes to an end.
2008: The Avishai Cohen Trioperforms at the Blue Note in New York City. “Acclaimed bassist AvishaiCohen, whose most recent recording, “Gently Disturbed,” continues to earn ravereviews, visits NYC for three days of performances where he is joined by thesame trio – Shai Maestro on piano and Mark Guiliana on drums – who perform withhim on Gently Disturbed, which Jazz Timesrecently lauded as “scintillating”, Downbeatpraised as “simultaneously delicate and fierce,” and which the Washington City Paper called “unpredictable” and “deeplycompelling.”
2009: Ceremonies commemorating the 65th Anniversary of theLiquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto by German authorities came to an end.
2009:Palestinian militants fired a Qassamrocket into the western Negev early Saturday. The rocket fired by Palestinianmilitants hit an open area in the Sdot Negev regional council. The Qassam, fired at around 6 A.M., was one of severalmilitary incidents along Israel's border with Gaza, coming after months ofrelative calm.
2009:In the evening, The Cedar Rapids Jewishcommunity gathers for the first Shiva minyan honoring Peggy McHugh belovedmother of Sabrina Thalblum and the mother-in-law of Rabbi Todd Thalblum.
2010:Annual dinner to support Magan DavidAdom in Israel is scheduled to take place at Adat Shalom Synagogue inFarmington Hills, Michigan
2010: The Stern Senior Art Show is scheduled to come to an end at YeshivaUniversity Museum.
2010: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewishauthors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Freedomby Jonathan Franzen
2010: With Mideast peace talks due to restart in Washington this week,Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with Jordan' King Abdallah today to offerassurances that Israel is committed to a lasting peace with the Palestinians."Peace is a strategic objective for Israel," Barak told the king."We expect the Palestinians to come to the peace talks withopenness."
2010: It was reported from Jerusalem today that “recent discoveries oflarge natural gas reserves off Israel's coast have set in motion a battlebetween investors and the government over how to divide up the profits.
2011: “Ushpizin” is scheduled to be the movie shownat Movies Under the Stars at the Chabad Community Campus in Fairfax, VA.
2011: Sevenpeople were injured in south Tel Aviv early this morning, when a terrorist fromthe West Bank carjacked a taxi and rammed it into a police road blockprotecting a Tel Aviv nightclub, before going on a stabbing spree .
2011: TopIsraeli singer and TV personality Margalit "Margol" Tzan'ani andconvicted criminal Michael Hazan were indicted this morning on charges ofextortion, and conspiracy to commit a crime..
2012: “Advanced Kashrut Seminar for Women” isscheduled to take place at the OU Headquarters in New York City.
2012: In “Boys Own Adventures in Wartime andSterling Public Service” published today John Farquharson described theexemplary life of Sir Richard Kingsland who had been born Julius Cohen butchanged his name “to avoid anti-Semitism.”
2012: A 25 person Israeli team is set to compete atthe Paralympic Games which are scheduled to open today in London (As reportedby Aaron Kalman)
2012: One hundred fifteenth anniversary of theopening of the First Zionist Congress in Basle.
2012: A NewYork City hardware store clerk who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, killing anddismembering a lost little boy was sentenced today to 40 years to life inprison
http://www.timesofisrael.com/leiby-kletzys-killer-sentenced-to-minimum-of-40-years/
2012: Theoffice of Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg, who has been serving the Berlin Jewishcommunity since 1997, confirmed today in an email that criminal charges hadbeen filed against him. Ehrenberg has received a letter from the prosecutor’soffice because of comments he made on a nationwide broadcast television show,an aide confirmed. At this point it is not known who filed the complaint andwhat exactly the letter states.
2012:In “Peeking through the highrises: famed Jerusalem street's old architecturalglories” published today Moshe Gilad provides cultural history of the Jewishstate disguised as a tour of Jerusalem's Hanevi'im (Prophets) Street
2013:The Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival presents “In Conversation with LaurentBinet” whose award winning first novel HHhh “recounts the assassinationof Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.”
2013:Denis Kozhutkin is scheduled to play Hindemith’s Piano Sonata no.3 in B flatmajor at The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013:Nicholas and Jacobina, the children of Judith (Perlman) Martin “began sharingthe credit for the Miss Manners columns today.
2013:Félix Lajkó and his band are scheduled to perform at the Dohany StreetSynagogue in Budapest.
2013:"Praying for peace is not enough when God’s children are being gassed,” aleading British rabbi, Dr Jonathan Romain, said in an expression of support formilitary intervention in Syria, British media reported today.”
2013:“Thousands of Israelis lined up outside gas mask distribution centers today,despite efforts by authorities to calm fears of being on the receiving end of athreatened Syrian retaliation should the US take military action against theAssad regime.” (As reported by Rettig Gurg and Stuart Winer)
2014:Valerie Sassyfras is scheduled to perform “a vocal set of original songs” atthe Banks Street Bar in New Orleans.
2014:The Tel Aviv International Synagogue is scheduled to host a Carelbach KabbalatShabbat Service followed by a Champagne Kiddush.
2014:At Friday night services in Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah celebrates the 10thanniversary of Kathe Goldstein’s serving as Cantorial Soloist.
2014:Twenty-three-year olf Aaron Sofer, a US yeishiva student from Lakewood, NHwhose body had been found in Ein Kerem, “was laid to rest in Beit Shemesh.” (Asreported by Marissa Newman and Advi Sterman)
2014( 3rd of Elul, 5774); Twenty-two-year-oldSgt. Natanel Maman died this morning at the Beilinson Hospital in PetahTikva as a result of shrapnel wounds suffered last week when arocket exploded next to Gan Yavneh in the Ashdod region. (“In life he wasloved and admired; he was swifter than eagles and stronger than lions.”)
2015: As the Israel Museum celebrates its 50thanniversary “6 Artists / 6 Projects” an exhibition featuring contemporaryIsraeli artists is scheduled to come to a close today.
2015: This year’s Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival which hasfeatured the work of Israeli choreographers:Hofesh Shechter, Saar Harari, Roy Assaf,Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar isscheduled to have its finale tonight.
2016(25th of Av, 5776): Eighty-three-year-oldcomedic actor Gene Wilder passed away today. (As reported by Daniel Lewis)
2016: Only months after having signed him a one yearcontract, the Detroit Lions released thirty year old Offensive Guard GeoffSchwartz today.
2016: “The Kind Words,” a comedy about three JewishIsraeli siblings at The Hampton Synagogue Film Series which is now in its 14thyear.
2016: Classes are scheduled to begin at Missouri StateUniversity the academic home of Marc Cooper, a professor emeritus of historywho was stabbed to death last week. (As reported by Ari Feldman)
2016: “A free public reception is scheduled to take placeat 402 College Street, the home of Makom, a space dedicated to ‘creativedowntown Judaism’ which is also the location for Mandel’s Dreamery, an artinstallation at the Fenster Gallery in Toronto.
2016: In Chicago, the Institute of Cervantes is scheduleto host a screening of “Heaven in Auschwitz,”“a documentary film that tells the incredible story of 13 Jewishchildren during World War II, whose lives were changed forever by the legendaryFredy Hirsch, a German-Jew who worked to provide arts, culture and sports toimprove the lives of children in the Terezin Ghetto.”
2017:In Israel, the Foreign Ministry is scheduled to host the third and final of itstwo-hour tours of its Jerusalem offices complete with short lectures designedto provide families with a sense of “what it is like to be a diplomat.”
2017:The Rothbard Trio featuring Wayne Escoffery is scheduled to appear at the RedSea Jazz Festival today.
2017:“The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco” is scheduled to opentoday.
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/invisible-museum-history-and-memory-morocco
2017:“Sketching "Fiddler": Set Designs by Mentor Huebner” is scheduled toopen today.
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/sketching-fiddler-set-designs-mentor-huebner
2017:“The Power of Attention: Magic & Meditation in Hebrew "shiviti"Manuscript Art” is scheduled to re-open today.
http://magnes.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/power-attention
2018:“Operation Finale,” a cinema depiction of the capture of Adolf Eichmann isscheduled to open today in the United States.
https://www.fandango.com/operation-finale-212332/movie-overview
2018:In Jerusalem, Hashaa Theatre is scheduled to host a performance of “TheDolphin,” “musical fantasy for children.”
2018:“Map Story – an experiential activity for children who like stories and forthose willing to set out on adventures and discoveries between the words” isscheduled to come to an end today at the National Library of Israel.
2018:At part of the “Home: Lens on Israel” series, the Temple Emanuel StreickerCenter is scheduled to open the photographic exhibition “The Storied DruzeVillage of Yanuh-Jat.”
2018: In Sandy Springs, GA, Israeli pianist Asrtith Baltsan is scheduled toperform at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center.
https://www.musiccathedra.com/astrith-baltsan-english
2019:“Author and theologist Robert Schoen” is scheduled to discuss his book OnGod’s Radar at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland, CA.
2019(28th of Av): Yarhrzeit for LarryRosenstein, of blessed memory, husband of Judy Levin Rosenstein, of blessedmemory. Gone too soon but always remembered!
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the final two screening of “Skin,” “Israelifilmmaker Guy Nattiv’s first English language feature” film.
2019:The Website Holocaust. CZ, which is an amazing resource, is up and runningagain.
2020:Princess Lockerooo, a woman of Jewish and Dominican ancestry who grew up onRogers and Hammerstein, “is a whirling force with a singular focus: spreadingthe gospel of waacking.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/nyregion/waacking-nyc-club-dance.html?searchResultPosition=3
2021:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Fruits and SpicedRound Challah for Rosh Hashana with chef and scholar Hélène Jawhara-Piñer’s.
2021:Tickets are scheduled are on sale today for the Alliance for Jewish Theatre’sVirtual Conference which will take place in October.
2021:German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not be meeting with Prime Minister Bennettor participating in today’s cabinet meeting because she has postponed her tripto Israel because the situation in Afghanistan.
2021:The Breman Museum is scheduled to host guided tours of the exhibition “Absenceof Humanity.”
2021:The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host a All-of-a-Kind FamilyWalking Tour which “follows in the footsteps of Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte,and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in Sydney Taylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-KindFamily”
2021:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Today A Woman Went Mad In theSupermarket, stories by Hilma Wolitzer
2022:At Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, CA Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel Fund andformer executive director of S.F.-based Federation, talks with Rabbi JillPerlman about his 2021 book Can We Talk About Israel on the basics ofthe Israeli-Palestinian conflict, subtitled “A Guide for the Curious, Confused,and Conflicted.”
2022:The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is scheduled to present “T-JEM: NewYear, New Ideas’” a series of online workshops by the ASF Institute of JewishExperience for Jewish educators on understanding the Jewish mosaic andpractical applications for incorporating the beauty, depth, diversity, andvitality of the Jewish experience into their classrooms.
2022:The Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition is scheduled to come to aclose in Laramie, WY, Independence, KS and Watertown, SD.
2022(2ndof Elul, 5782): Eighty-eight-year-old “ground-breaking photographer” and filmdirector Melvin Sokolsky passed away today. (Editor’s note – another Jew with acamera)
Melvin SokolskyPhotography - Holden Luntz Gallery
2023:Lockdown University is scheduled to host lecture by Howard Epstein on “Sizilard: The Father of the Manhattan Project.”
2023:The Aden Conference presented by the ASF”s Institute of Jewish Experience isscheduled to continue for a second day.
2023:The Agnon House is scheduled to host another meeting of joint reading ofAgnon's stories, this time called "Until Here".
2023:In Saratoga, CA, “Beth David Women isscheduled to present a discussion with retired Superior Court Judge LaDorisHazzard Cordell, the first Black woman judge in Northern California and thefirst Black judge in Santa Clara County, talking about her 2021 memoir.
2023:The Boston Synagogue is scheduled to present online “Judaism 101.”
2023:In New Orleans, the National Council of Jewish Women is scheduled to hold itsExecutive Committee Meeting.
2024:In Berkley, CA, Urban Adamah is scheduled to host a screening of “May God WithYou,” a film by Cléo Cohen, who investigates her own identity as thegranddaughter of Jewish Arabs who emigrated from Tunisia and Algeria to France.
2024:“Virtuoso singer and musician Marina Maximillian’ and her band –-- MichaelHershkowitz – Guitars; Omri Behr – Keyboards and computer; Ofer Levi – Drums; GiladAbro – Bass --- are scheduled to perform this evening at the Idan and BatiaOfer Park at the National Library of Israel,
2024:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host “Beauty Behind Walls ofHorror: The Role of Music During the Holocaust” during which Internationallyrenowned flutist Dr. Christine Erlander Beard will “present a powerful recitalof music performed in the concentration camps and ghettos of German-occupiedEurope during the Holocaust, accompanied by a discussion.”
2024;In Oakland, CA, Moishe House Rockridge is scheduled to host “Music Mishmar,” aweekly Jewish sacred music jam that rotates throughout the East Bay area.
2024: At Temple Judea in palm BeachGardens, FL, davening is a “family affair” as the husband-and-wife team ofRabbi Feivel and Cantor Abbie are scheduled to lead the morning minyan.
2024:As August 29th begins inIsrael, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamassupporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise theirhands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 328 incaptivity. (Editor’s note: thissituation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
