August 27
410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. Someview the Visigoths as just one more group of barbarians that helped to bring anend to the Roman Empire. But that isonly part of the story. The Visigoths were Arians, and they supplanted theanti-Jewish Catholic hierarchy, when they took control of parts of what is nowSpain later in the 5th Century. For the Visigoths, the Catholicswere synonymous with their Roman enemy, but they had no animosity for theJews. They took advantage of theirunique skills and the Jews repaid them by taking a leading role in defendingthe passes of the Pyrenees against invasion from the Catholic Franks andBurundians. All this would come to anend in the last half of the sixth century when the Visigoth kings converted toCatholicism and adopted the anti-Jewish policies espoused by the Church.
1097(16th of Elul): Samuel ben Shealtiel ha-Nasi passed away.
1255: The day on which Hugh of Lincoln reportedly died. Discovery of hisbody two days later touched off one of the first, if not the first, BloodLibel.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7921-hugh-of-lincoln
1490: The Grand Inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada issued an indictmentordering the transfer of the prisoners from Segovia to Ávila to await trial oncharges of having murdered an alleged victim of Jewish ritual murder who cameto be known as The Holy Child of La Guardia.
1492: John I Albert who “was not friendly to the Jews” and who frequentlyfound himself obliged to judge local disputes between Jewish and Christianmerchants such as the one in 1493 where adjusted the conflicting claims of theJewish merchants and the burghers of Lwów concerning the right to trade freelywithin the city succeed Casimir IV and began his reign as King of Polane.
1523: Cardinal Domenico Grimani who when asked by the German scholarJohann Reuchlin for a tutor on Hebrew Literature, recommended Rabbi Obadiah benJacob Sforno, passed away today.
1556: The reign of Charles, the King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor whodealt with the rise of the Protestant faith in the Netherlands in several waysincluding issue edicts “against Jews who had not been baptized” on severaldifferent occasions came to end when he had to abdicate due to declininghealth.
1590: Papacy of Sixtus V came to end. There seem to be competing view onhow he treated the Jews. According toone source “the condition of the Jews was somewhat improved. He repealed manyof the regulations established by his predecessors, permitted Jews to reside inall parts of his realm, and gave Jewish physicians freedom to practice theirprofession.” While another contends that “he revoked Pope Gregory’s policiesallowing Jews to reside in the Papal States and to print the Talmud.”
http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1580&endyear=1589
1698: (18 Elul): Birthdate of Rabbi Yisroel(Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר oftencalled Baal Shem Tov or Besht. There isno way to even begin writing about his effect on Judaism.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/baal.html
1770: Birthdate of Germanphilosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In his article “Sublimity andResentment: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews,” Yirmiyahu Yovel offers thefollowing comment about Hegel and the Jews.‘According to the Hegelian dialectic, every cultural form makes sometrue, genuine contribution to world history (and the world Spirit), after whichit is sublated (aufgehoben) and disappears from the historical scene.Yet the Jews continued to survive long after their raison d'tre had disappeared--indeed,after they no longer had a genuine history in Hegel's sense but merely existedas the dead corpse of their extinguished essence. With the French Revolution,the Jews were entering the modern world and claiming their rights and placewithin it. Hegel, despite his anti-Jewish bias, was perfectly disposed to grantthese rights, but he did not know what to do with the Jews in modernity asJews, nor could he explain their survival in terms of his system.”
1771: In Newport, RI, Isaac Elizer and his wife gave birth to MosesElizer who passed away in Charleston, SC.
1772: Birthdate of Moses Jacobs, the New York City born son of MichaelJacobs who had settled in Baltimore by 1791
1743: Henry Pelham, the Prime Minister who would pass the Jew of Act of1753 assumed office today.
1776: The British defeated American forces under the command of GeorgeWashington at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights in the first of a series ofmilitary actions that will lead to the British taking control of the city ofNew York for the duration of the war.While most of New York’s Jewish population favored independence, thecommunity was split between Rebels and Tories; a splitt which was even felt atShearith Israel.
1779: In Charleston, SC, Gershon Cohen married Rebecca Sazrzedas, thedaughter of the late Abraham Sarzedas from Georgia.
1779: In Philadelphia, Lean and Jacob Naphtali Hart gave birth to ReynaHart.
1782: While in Philadelphia, James Madison wrote to Edmund Randolph, Icannot in any way make you more sensible of the importance of your kindattention to pecuniary remittances for me than by informing you that I have forsome time been a pensioner on the favor of Haym Salomon, a Jew Broker.”
1787: Today Victor-Amédée III proclaimed an edict of tolerance, allowingthe Jews of Geneva ‘to benefit from the application of common law and to enjoytotal freedom of worship, a rare case in the history of Europe
1793(19th of Elul, 5553): Abraham Aaron (Abraham ben UriHaCohen of Hichburg) passed away today in London.
1794: Simon Magruder Levydistinguished himself at the Battle of Fallen Timbers while serving as anOrderly Sergeant under General "Mad Anthony" Wayne.
1801: Birthdate of Ludwig Hirzel who taught Hebrew at theCarolinum in Zurich and whose included a Commentary on the Book of Job that wasso popular it went through three editions after having first appeared in 1839.
1813: Birthdate of Moses Polydore Millaud, a native ofBordeaux who gained fame as the founder of LePetit Journal
1816: Birthdate of Polish born Jewish journalistAleksander Zederbaum who in 1860 founded Ha-Meliz, the first Hebrew languageperiodical published in Russia.
https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Zederbaum_Aleksander
1825(13th of Elul, 5585) Parashat Ki Teitzei
1825(13th of Elul, 5585): Seventy-three-year-oldFlora Aarons (Bluma bat Eleazer), the widow of Aaron Aarons passed away todayin England.
1828: Jacob Montefiore married Justina Lydia Gompertztoday.
1829: Birthdate ofHungarian born American rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss, the husband of Cecilia SteinerWeiss whom he married in 1864 whose seven children included Harry Houdini.
1830: Birthdate of Hungarian born Maximillian Steiner,the “Austrian actor and theatre manager” who collaborated with Johann Strauss,Jr. on such works as “Inidigo and the Forty Thieves.”
1832: In Hamburg, Germany, Heinrich Meyer, a liberal Jewishmerchant and his wife who died in childbirth gave birth to Margaret MeyerSchurz, who created “the first kindergarten in the United States and who wasthe wife of political leader Carl Schurz.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schurz-margarethe-meyer
1834: In New Orleans, LA Clarice Allain and George Eustisgave birth to James B. Eustis who was the U.S. Ambassador to France during theDreyfus Affair.
1840: Sixty-year-old Herman Wedel Jarlsberg, theNorwegian count who opposed the ban Jews settling in his country passed awaytoday.
1845: Isaac ben Eliezer HaLevi married Rebekah bat Mosheat the Great Synagogue today.
1846: In Graetz, Prussia, Rabbi Simon Moll and his wifegave birth to German educated rabbi Maz Moll,who led Congregation Adereth El I New York City for four years; B’naiJeshurun in Paterson, NJ for two years; and Aitz Raanan in Rochester, NY forseven years before becoming the “assistant minister in 1886” for CongregationBerith Kodesh in Rochester, NY.
1848: In Graetz, Prussia, Rabbi Simon Moll and his wifegave birth to Rabbi Max S. Moll who began serving as the “assistant minister toCongregation Bertih Kodesh in Rochester, NY in 1886.
1846: Charles V. Lewis married Eliza Isaacs today.
1851: In Baltimore, MD, Elka Bamberger, the German born sonof Isaak Jakob Bamberger and Gela Caroline Bamberger and his wife TheresaBamberger gave birth to Julius Bamberger the husband of Estelle Bamberger andthe father of Estelle Bamberger.
1854: Mary Levy and John Fileman gave birth to JuliaFileman.
1854: Birthdate of Marx Warley Platzek, a native of NorthCarolina, member of the 1894 New York Constitutional Convention tand he NewYork Supreme Court Judge who was President of the YMHA and a “benefactor of theAmerican Jewish Historical Society.”
1857: Sir George Jessel and his wife Amelia gave birth totheir third child Emma who married Ludwig-Nathan Hardy.
1857: Birthdate of Max Szabolcsi, author and newspapereditor who wrote numerous articles about the blood libel known as the Tisza-Eszláraffair
1858: Sixteen-year-old Nathan Cohen arrived in Tamworth,Australia so he could go to work in his Uncle William Cohen’s store on EbsworthStreet
1861: Birthdate of Edward Aaron who was buried in TheJewish Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA when he passed away in 1913 at the age of51.
1862: Philadelphian Lewis Constantine began his servicewith the Company C of the 143rd Regiment which would end when he waskilled while fighting at “White Oak Church” in 1865.
1861: Philadelphian Samuel Alexander enlisted in the 44thRegiment where he served as an Assistant Surgeon until he was killed during thefighting at Dranesville, VA in November.
1862: Henry Berg began serving as a Private in Company Eof the 107th Regiment – service which would lead to his beingwounded in fighting near Richmond in October of 1863.
1862: Birthdate of Altona, Germany native Arjeh YehudaWertheimer, the grandson of Akiba Wertheimer, the chief Rabbi of Altona andSchleswig-Holstein who was known by is pen-name Constantine Brunner, theGerman-Jewish philosopher who died in the Hague on his 75thbirthday.
http://constantinbrunner.info/pages/intro.html
http://constantinbrunner.info/pages/intro.html
1863: Two days after he had passed away, 63-year-oldbusinessman and author Israel Albu, the husband of the former Johana Cohen withwhom he had five children was buried today at the Lauriston Road JewishCemetery.
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/albu-israel/
1864: The New York Times published a letter inwhich the author complained about the difficulty in getting a navalsubstitute. He ties his complaints aboutthe process to involvement of the Jews.He claimed that all of the locations where one goes to complete theforms are “all located either above or alongside of Jew clothing stores,” thatthe naval substitutes are coerced into buying their outfits at these Jewishclothing stores and that Jews attempt to extort cash from the participants thatthey then split with government officials.[Ed. Note – The author is a draft dodger. Under the law, a draftee could buy asubstitute to serve in his place. Thisreinforced the concept that it was rich man’s war and poor man’s fight. The system was amazingly corrupt and led tothe infamous Draft Riots of 1863 in New York City.
1864: Rabbi Elias Hilikowitz and Riva Rebecca Hilikowitzgave birth to Rose Holzberg, the wife of Jacob Holzberg and mother of EthelHolzberg and Julius Holzberg.
1867: In Tamworth, Australia, Esther and Nathan Cohengave birth to Ida Cohen who married her first cousin Victor Cohen in 1901 withwhom she had three sons: George, Nathan and Alan
1867: In Memphis, TN, Netherlands native Jacob JosephPeres and Eve Chute Peres gave birth to Yale trained lawyer Israel Hyman Perexwho served on the School Board and was a member of the YMHA.
1867: Following his trip to Romania, Sir Moses Montiforewrote a letter to Prince Charles concerning the treatment of the Jews ofRomania. Prince Charles will eventuallybe crowned as King Carlos I.
1868: Six days after he had passed away, Hamburg native Joseph Baum, “theson of Peter Frederick Baum” and the former “Hannah Behrens” was buried todayat the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1869: Today, Kahal Kadosh Bene Israel (now known as the Rockdale Temple) whichhad founded in Cincinnati in 1824 “dedicated a magnificent building at Eighthand Mound Streets.”
1869(20th of Elul, 5629); Rebecca Gratz passed away. Born in 1781 to a prominent Jewish family inPennsylvania, Gratz spent most of her adult life in Philadelphia where she wasthe patron of many philanthropic and social organization aimed at benefitingthe Jewish community. She is best known as the founder of the Jewish SundaySchool. “In 1838 Gratz and the women ofthe congregation of Mikveh Israel established the first Hebrew Sunday School inthe United States, which served as the model for all others thatfollowed.” Gratz, who was quite lovelyand never married, was reputed to be the model for Rebecca, the heroine in SirWalter Scott’s novel, Ivanhoe. [Ed. Note – a Jewish connection: WhenHollywood turned Ivanhoe into a big screen delight during the 1950’s, ElizabethTaylor played the part of the Jewess Rebecca.Taylor would convert to Judaism when she married Mike Todd.]
1871: It was reportedtoday that the editor of the Jewish Times supports “American Jewish Seminary”for the training of rabbis in America. The editor contends that the HebrewOrphan Asylum would provide a platform for creating such an institution since itwould have a ready-made group of candidates and the additional training couldbe added on to the courses already offered by the Asylum.
1872: Birthdate ofBoston native David Winters, the Racine, WI merchant and husband of NellieWinters.
1873(4th of Elul,5633): Fifty-one-year-old Amsterdam born journalist and editor of theHandelsbad passed away today.
1875: Birthdate ofAlbert M. Hyamson who was honored with the OBE for his work as the immigrationofficer in Palestine and who was the husband of Marie Rose Lavey with whom hehad two sons Captain Theodore Hyamson and Corporal Philipp Hyamson both of whomwere killed during WW II.
1877: Outfielder JayPike made his major league debut with the Hartford Dark Blues
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1877: Jacob Emanuel“Jay” Pike played in his first and last major league baseball game today whenhe took the field for the Brooklyn Hartfords of the National League. Pike went 1 for 4 giving him a battingaverage of .250. He was charged with 1 error but there is no record of hisfielding average. Pike may have been part of the first Jewish Family entry inmajor league baseball. His brother wasLipman Emanuel Pike whose career spanned sixteen seasons. Pike “batted and threw left-handed. He iscredited as the first ballplayer named Jay to appear in a major leaguegame…Pike also played the outfield for the Lowell, Massachusetts team that wonthe 1875 state championship and claimed the New England title. That same year,he also served as an umpire in the National Association.”
1878: In Vladislavov,Duvvid Schubart and Katrina Helwitz gave birth to their second son and fifthchild theatrical producer Samuel S. “Sam” Schubert who along with his brothersbuilt one of the most powerful “theatre empires” of the early twentieth century.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/shubert-brothers/
1878: In Trinidad, CO, Henryand Bessie Oppenheimer Jaffa gave birth to Benjamin Oppenheimer Jaffa, the husbandof Florence Schwartz Jaffa whom he married in 1913 and the father of Ruth WilmaJaffa Lowenstein.
1879: Sixty-year-old Swedishmezzo-soprano and voice tea Henriette Nissen-Salomon, the Gothenburg born daughterof “wholesale merchant Jacob Simon Nissen and Sara Meyer, who were of Jewishdecent” passed away today in Germany.
https://www.swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/nissen-saloman-henriette/
1880: In Leadville,Colorado, Eva Schloss and Lottie Beaumont performed with the Pinafore Companyat the Windsor Hotel.
1882: In Voronezh,Russia, pianist Michael Hambourg and his wife gave birth to violinist JanHambourg, the younger brother of pianist Mark Hambourg and the older brother ofcellist Boris Hambourg.
1882: According to some, birthdate of movie mogulSam Goldwyn. The confusion about his natal day was created by Sam himself. He is the ‘G’ in
1882: Birthdate ofslu*tsk, Russia native Rabbi Nathan Klotz who joined the faculty of YeshivaUniversity as a “professor of Bible” in 1926.
1882: “The Jews ofYork” published today described the conditions under which “the persecutedrace” lived in this English city during the 12th century. During the reign of Henry II and his sonRichard the Lionhearted, they enjoyed royal protection and prospered as couldbe seen by the “splendid houses” on Jubbergate.All of that change when Richard left for the crusades and the citizensof York massacred the Jews. WhileRichard expressed his displeasure, “no serous punishment was inflicted on themurderous people of York for their fiendish cruelty.” Ironically, the city’s long term punishmentcame in the loss of commerce and prosperity.Without the Jews to lend money, business went elsewhere.
1882: It was reportedthat Professor Robertson Smith has written the article on “Lamentations” thenew published edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica. According to Smith, Jeremiah is traditionallyviewed as the author of the text. Hesees a shift in the stance of the author as the book unfolds going from “anisolated figure among unsympathetic countrymen” to “a representative of Israelamong the heathen.”
1882: It was reportedtoday that little Jacob Greenhaldt a Hungarian Jewish immigrant “who was badlyinjured by a street car about a month ago” is out of the hospital and back atwork on the streets of Cleveland. Theboys are said to be “imbued with the spirit of trade” so characteristic of hisrace. They may make hard bargains, butthey are never beggars.
1882: “Facts AboutStreet Gamins” published today described changing conditions on the streets ofCleveland, Ohio. Immigrant Jewish boysfrom Hungary have replaced the Irish. TheHungarians begin as shoe shine boys. Butas soon as they learn enough English, they begin work selling newspapers.
1883: It was reportedtoday that Nathan Gottgetren, a 35-year-old Jew who uses the alias NicholasGilbert, will be appearing before the District Attorney in New York to facesmultiple charges of forgery.
1884: In New York, ElizaMagner and Mort J. Lichtenberg, “a direct descendant of Geroge Lichtenberg thewell-known 18th century physicist and satirist: gave birth toColumbia educated General Electric engineer Chester Lichtenberg, the husband ofBertha Stein and a Major in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who was “in charge of production in theBuffalo Engineering Procurement Division and who was the “author of numerouspapers and articles in several publications including The Journal of theFranklin Institute.
1884(6th ofElul, 5644): Schaje Tripock an octogenarian Polish Jew living with his son inan apartment on Essex Street apparently took his own life today. He was reported to “suffering from senileinsanity.”
1885: Birthdate ofNatchez, Mississippi native and American architect Samuel Abraham Marx, thehusband of Florence May and the son-in-law of David May, the founder of MayDepartment Stores.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/style/tmagazine/07marx.html?_r=0
1886: The Pope approvedof the Hungarian Diet’s vote to reject a bill that would legalize marriagesbetween Jews and Gentiles.
1887: It was reportedtoday that The Board of Managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children hasreceived a total of $3,238.95 in contributions.
1888: Birthdate of Romaniannative and New Jersey agricultural college graduate Joseph J. Hirsch, the Gimbel’furniture salesman and Milwaukee, WI Socialist who was elected for one term toserve in the Wisconsin State Senate for the 6th district and whoraised two daughters – Edith and Anne – with his wife Rebcca.
1889(30th ofAv, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1889: The funeral ofAaron Hershfield who died suddenly at Saratoga on August 24 is scheduled totake place this morning at his residence.
1890: Birthdate ofEmmanuel Radnitzky, the native of Philadelphia who gained fame as “Americanmodernist artist” Man Ray.
1890: The 10thfree excursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will set sail onthe East River at 9 a.m. this morning.
1891: “In Putzig, WestPrussia, Germany, Herman and Jenny (Eisack) Eisenstadt”gave birth Dr. JosephHerman Isenstead, a holder of the Iron Cross for his four years of service inthe Medical Corps of the German Army in WW II who, along with his wife the formerElly Neuman, in 1936 came to the United States where he practiced “medicinespecializing in the treatment of liver disease.”
1891: Birthdate of“Austrian-Jewish” composer whose first American film work included the musicfor Rudolph Valentino’s “The Son of the Shiek._”
1891: In today’seditorial, the New York Times expresses its sympathy with the plight of theRussian Jews on board the SS Marsala who were barred from entering the UnitedStates but insists that under the law Superintendent O’Beirne had no choice inthe matter. “The whole subject matter is a complicated one and it is like thatthe law will have to be amended in some particulars….” (Sounds as if this could have been written in2014 just as easily as 1891)
1892: As cholerathreatens to spread across Europe, “Hamburg is plague stricken today because ithumanely too on itself the brunt of the burn of the” exodus of Jews fromRussia.
1892: A representativeof “the Hebrew branch of the Federation of Labor” investigated conditions atZiontown, NJ, where Jewish settlers who have been on strike for six weeks face“actual starvation.”
1892: Four year old IdaSamyan the daughter of Russian Jews arrived today in London on a ship that camefrom Hamburg, Germany.
1892: In New York, theBoard of Health said that it does not know anything about a group of Jews fromOdessa who were supposed to come to this city but instead went to Havre wherethey were to go to Boston. (These reportsare all given against the background of a cholera epidemic that is breaking outin Europe)
1892: It was reportedtoday that near Mariapol, Russia a mob ten thousand “terrorized the villagekilling several Jews” as they expressed their resentment over governmentalmeasures to control cholera.
1892: Thefirst passenger train belonging to the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway arrived inJerusalem today. Reactions were mixed, with some local inhabitants declaring itto be the work of the devil. However, the Jewish Chronicle wrote:"The year 5653, which is about to burst upon us, will witness one of thegrandest sights that have been known in many centuries. May it prove an unmixedblessing." The Jaffa-JerusalemRailway was the first modern railway line to open in the Middle East. Therailway was built in response to the increasing demand of all the pilgrims whobegan visiting the Holy Land and specifically Jerusalem starting in the middleof the 19th century. In writing about the history of the railroadAnthony S. Travis notes that “building the railway was a tremendously ambitiousundertaking, considering the local conditions. Hundreds of tons of rails werebrought from Belgium, coal from Britain and rolling stock from France. Theunloading of all this in Jaffa's primitive harbor presented an immense challenge.A report in Railway Magazine said it was "a wonder that all thematerials for the railway were safely and without loss conveyed to theirdestination... Bulky but light articles, such as boiler barrels or water tanks,were thrown into the sea and tugged ashore..." The weather also presenteddifficulties, as heavy rains washed away the jetty, and in some places alongthe track bridges were destroyed. Despite other problems related toconstruction crews leaving to tend their crops, and outbreaks of disease in thework camps, work progressed fairly rapidly, and by December 4, 1891, the linehad reached Deir Aban (today's Beit Shemesh). From there, construction was muchmore difficult, owing to the mountainous terrain. While the first train didreach Jerusalem in August, the official opening would not take place untilSeptember of 1892. Theodor Herzl, who took the train in 1898 on his way to meetKaiser Wilhelm II, was not very impressed, calling the line a "miserablelittle railway." It was in stark contrast to the earlier part of hisjourney, in the luxurious Orient Express, with dining cars and sleepingaccommodation. The Jaffa-Jerusalem railway coaches did not have ashtrays ortoilet facilities, and according to Herzl, not even drinking water. He said theheat was "frightful... sitting in the cramped, crowded, scorchingcompartment was torture." As if that were not enough, when Herzl and hisparty arrived at the hotel for which they had reservations, it turned out therewere no rooms available, as they had been appropriated by Turkish officials andmembers of the Kaiser's entourage.” As an avid fan of science and technology,Herzl expressed his belief in the future of rail travel when in Altneuland hepredicted that by the 1920s there would be high-speed electric railwaysthroughout the country. Unfortunately, even now, more than a century later,Israel has not yet reached that stage, although railway development hascertainly come a long way in the last 20 years.
1893: “B’nai B’rith’s Jubilee” published today described the plans that arebeing for the celebration of “the well-known Hebrew benevolent organization’s”golden anniversary which will take place this October.
1893: “The Correspondence of 3,500 Years Ago” published today described newinformation that described the role of clay tablets in ancient Palestine. Inthe past such evident has been ignored “by those who regard the early Hebrews asavages and who think that, though place in the very center of the ancientcivilized world between the the Egyptians and Assyrians they were unacquaintedwith arts” or culture. This evidence shows that “the art of writing was knownin the time of Moses” and that the inhabitants of Palestine wrote on thin claytablets in the same way we write on a sheet of notepaper.
1893: Among the dead bodies taken to Henry Skelton’s undertakingestablishment in Newton, LI following the collision in Berlin 38 year old MaxStein who was employed by Abram Stein & Co, Mrs. Bertha Weinstein and heryoung son Sidney Weinstein who was identified by a medal of merit given to himTemple Rudolph Sholom.
1893: In Camden, NJ the Jewish shopkeepers and merchants are scheduled tomeet tonight to organize themselves to provide protection from the thieves andmarauders who have been attacking them.
1894: Rabbi Bernhardt Hailperin was chosen chief rabbi by the Orthodox Jewsof Newark.
1894: In Rixdorf, Germany, the police broke up a meeting of anarchistbecause the chairman “urged those present to use guns and dynamite toexterminate the Jews.”
1895: A coroner’s jury exonerated Solomon Pulka of charges that he hadcaused the death of nine year old Benjamin Pincus by kicking him in such amanner that it caused peritonitis.
1895: “Over on the East Side”published today described the changes in the district bounded by Catharine Street, the Bowery, Houston Street and theEast River where can now be found “the children of Israel in their new exodusout of the Russian Egypt and house of bondage into the Canaan of theWest.” More for 2015
1896: Abraham Gruver, Myer S. Isaacs, Julius Lowenthal and EdwardLauterbach were among those who listened to Benjamin Harrison’s speech lastnight at Carnegie Hall.
1897(29th of Av, 5657) Forty-eight year old David J. Seligman,the husband of Addie Walter Seligman, the eldest son of Babette and the lateJoseph Seligman who entered into the family banking business in 1880 when isfather died and who was “ a member ofthe American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art passedaway today at Hollywood, NJ as a result of complications from an operation tathad been performed on him for appendicitis.
1897: The funeral of the late Albert Tobias who had been a member of theYoung Men’s Hebrew Association and Chevra B’nai Israel will take place at hishome this morning.
1897: A list of the bequests by the late David Blumenthal published todayincluded two hundred dollars each to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the MontefioreHome and the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. Mt. Sinai Hospital will receive either twohundred or five hundred dollars.
1898: Based on information that first appeared in The Jewish Messenger, itwas reported that Colonel Teddy Roosevelt intends to recommend four men in hiscommand be promoted for gallantry including one Catholic, one Jew, oneProtestant and one whose religion is not known.The Messenger sees this an example of American brotherhood and uniquecooperation of those of all creeds.
1898: “Zangwill’s Visit” published today described the anticipation withwhich New Yorkers are filled now that that Israel Zangwill, the author of WithoutPrejudice and The Children of the Ghetto is about to arrive in theBig Apple.
1898: In Sheboygan, Wisconsin Congregation Adath Israel dedicated its newsynagogue.
1898: A review of Alexander Harkavy’s Yiddish Dictionary was publishedtoday.
1898: “Books and Authors” published today described “an extensivecollection of 2,500 Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts that has recently beenacquired by the British Museum.” Thecollection which “includes a number of Arabic deed, written both in Hebrew andArabic characters” has items that date fro the 9th through the 14thcenturies.
1899: In Chicago, trade unionist and newspaper man Benjamin "Ben"Schlesinger married Rae Schenhause with whom he had three children – two sonsand one daughter.
1899: “Answers To Correspondents” published includes a reply to J.F. whichtells him that there are between 350,000 and 400,000 Jews living in New York
1899: “Meyerbeer’s Posthumous Works” described yet another delay in theposthumous publication of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s compositions which according tohis will should have been published in 1894.One of his daughters Cornelie Meyerbeer who was married to GustavRichter refuses to allow the publication to take place.
1899: Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori the French attorney who defended Zolaand Drefyus was featured on the cover of “Le Petit Journal.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petit_journal_8_27_1899_Fernand_Labori.jpg
1900: In New York, Minnie London and Israel Morris Putterman gave birth toPace and Pace Institute trained Cantor David Josef Putterman
DavidPutterman (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
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1900: “For the firsttime in several months,” Nathan Straus drove over the course at the Speedway“seat behind his bay trotter, Alvez, who he did not send faster than a jog.”
1901: Samuel Kranzberg,the Russian born son of Mary Schechter and Solomon Kranzberg, the President ofNorthwestern Bottling Company and a member of B’nai Amoona Congregation marriedRose Sylvia Fitter in St. Louis today.
1901: In Newark, NJ,haberdasher Max Joachim and his wife Pauline gave birth to Albert Joachim whogained fame as Al Ritz, one of the Ritz Brothers.
1902: Herzl wrote tothe Polish writer Pauline Korvin-Piatrovska asking her to obtain an audiencewith the Czar.
1902: Today, “at ameeting of the Executive Committee of the United States Grand Lodge of theOrder B’rith Abraham” in New York City, chaired by Samuel Dorf, the GrandMaster of the Order, “resolutions were unanimously adopted condemning theriotous demonstrations against the Jews on the occasion of the funeral of RabbiJoseph.
1903: After today’ssession of the Zionist Congress where delegates “remodeled the National Fund”delegates continued to talk about establishing a Jewish colony in East Africaeven after the meetings came to an end.
1904: Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer described upcomingplans for the re-dedication of a synagogue in Camden, NJ.
1904: Rogers AdolphePinner, a senior partner of the Mutual Electric Company, was shot by his`former girlfriend', one Mrs. Augustina Hermann, a pretty hat-maker/designer ofFrench extraction, who was a two-time widow.”
1905: “10 Days’Massacre of Jews” published today described the violence in the town of Girjidwhere the police have directed those “pillaging in the Jewish quarter” andwhere “a general massacre of all the Jewish remaining Jewish inhabitants ofGirdji is expected.”
1906: It wasreported today that “the thirty Jewish children who were made orphans in therecent Russian massacres, and who arrived in New York on Saturday on theHamburg-American liner Amerika, to be cared for by the Jewish charitableorganizations of this city pending their adoption by Jewish families in thiscountry, were ordered excluded by one of the boards of special inquiry on EllisIsland.”
1906: Thepresident of the congregation in Knoxville, TN sent a “telegraphic protest toPresident Roosevelt today” expressing opposition to “the deportation of thethirty Jewish orphans now at Ellis Island saying “Knoxville Hebrews protestagainst deportation of Russian Hebrew Orphans. We will provide for two.”
1907(17th ofElul, 5667): Sixty-nine-year-old Nelson Morris, “the founder of Morris andCompany, one the three main meat-packing companies who was the husband of SarahVogel with whom he had five children -- diplomat Ira Nelson Morris; EdwardMorris (married to Helen Swift, daughter of Gustavus Swift, and father ofMuriel Gardiner and Ruth Morris Bakwin); Herbert Morris (who died suddenly in1898); Augusta Morris Rothschild (married to retailer Abram M. Rothschild); andMaude Morris Schwab (married to Henry C. Schwab) passed away today.
1908:Birthdate of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States.Unbeknownst to most people, Johnson played an active role in rescuing Jews fromHitler’s Europe. According to LadybirdLBJ wept when he visited Auschwitz in 1945. . Lyndon Johnson was a staunchsupporter of Israel. He helped theIsraelis exhaust all diplomatic possibilities to avoid the Six Day War in June,1967. The real test for Johnson came onJune 10 when the Soviets threatened Israel unless the Jewish state wouldimmediately surrender the gains it had made against the Syrians and Egyptians,which were their client-states. UnlikePresident Eisenhower in 1956, Johnson responded firmly by sending the SixthFleet towards Syria to thwart any Soviet moves.He also began supplying arms to Israel since DeGaulle had betrayedIsrael by cutting if its supply of weapons.As Israel’s Ambassador to the United States wrote, “When it came to thecrunch of 1967, the United States (thanks to Johnson) was firmly on Israel’sside, logistically and politically.” He passed away in 1973.
http://www.aish.com/jw/s/48942551.html
1908: Samuel Gompersto-day announced that he would take to the stump in a personal effort to driveSpeaker Cannon from the House. The President of the American Federation ofLabor will open the campaign, which he intends to make a general fight for the Democraticticket, at the Labor Day exercises at Danville, Ill., the home of "UncleJoe."
1909: According to anultimate from the Hebrew Trades, the Yiddish theatres under the management ofJacob Adler, David Kessler and Boris Tomascheffsky will not open tonight unlesstheir demands which include raising the musicians weekly salary from $24 to $27and re-hiring the dressers and billposters whose positions were eliminated, aremet.
1910: A copy of theorder which allowed American the American Ambassador to Turkey to visit St.Petersburg, which read “The Ministry of the Interior permits the AmericanAmbassador to Constaninople, Oscar S. Straus, who belongs to the Jewishconfession to visit St. Petersburg with his family” was published today” and“is regarded as a striking illustration of the rigor with which the anti-Jewishregulations” in Russia “are being enforced.
1911: Today, MarquetteUniversity trained attorney and future motion picture executive Edward L.Klein, the Perioia, Il born son of Rose and Nathan W. Klein married EttaLazarus in Louisville, KY where he practiced law before settling in New YorkCity where he was the President and Treasurer of the World Wide DistributingCorporation.
1911: In Cleveland,Ohio found of Anshe S’fard.
1911: Birthdate of NewYork Native, Miriam Berz Rosenthal who married Otto Orkin in 1926
1911: “The sale of seats to those not members ofK.A.M. for the upcoming High Holiday is scheduled to take place for two hoursthis morning “at the Vestry Rooms of the Temple.
1912: Following thesudden death of Dr. David Blaustein, the superintendent of the EducationalAlliance in New York City, tonight in Chicago, A.M. Liebling, the publisher ofthe Daily Jewish Press said “We Jewish people of Chicago consider thedeath of Dr. Blaustein to be the greatest loss our race has suffered in anumber of years.
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1913: Former residentsof Tolna, a town in the Province of Kief, Russia, were busy today discussingplans for the formation of a synagogue and congregation of Jews of Tolna, fortheir former rabbi, David Mordecai, better known for his orthodoxy and rabbinicallore throughout Southern Russia as "der Tolna Zadik," whichtranslated means "the righteous man of Tolna.”
1914: As war betweenTurkey and the Allies appears to imminent, it was reported today that “manyJews in Palestine are destitute and that an appeal for funds has been made toJewish charities in America.”
1914: As the Battle of Tannenbergcontinued today, things went from bad to worse for the Russians as the Germans under Von Francois began tooverwhelm the Russian left flank while the German XVII Corps and I ReserveCorps continued to push back the Russian right wing in actions that AlexanderSamsonov, the Russian commander, was unaware of.
1915: “Meir Steinbrink,one of the Republican delegates” to the Constitutional Convention “fromBrooklyn” explained his vote in favor of “requiring a literacy test as a votingqualification” saying that Louis Marshall had exaggerated the negative reactionthat the state’s Jewish population would have to adding this provision to theNew York State Constitution.
1915: “Councilors ForWarsaw” published today described the new system of government set up for thePolish city by its German conquerors which includes the appointment ofcouncilors based on proportion of population which means there are twelveGermans, twelve Poles and six Jews holding these posts.
1915: As of today, itis reported that there are more than 50,000 black Jews or Falsha “inhabitingthe mountains of Abyssinia” for whom the American Jewish Committee has raised$5,000.
1916: It was reportedtoday that The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through theWar has received a $25,000 contribution from its Chicago Committee.
1916: Birthdate ofOregon State University “forestry professor,” Alan Berg, the husband of HelenBerg who became “the first woman to serve as mayor of Corvallis, Oregon.”
1916: The HebrewSheltering and Immigrant Aid Society announced today it has received more than100,000 letters in the past two weeks “from families in the provinces occupiedby the German Army in Russia and Poland” “in accordance with arrangements made withthe German Government by Isidore Hershfiled who had recently visited Germany.
1916: Violinist andconductor David Mendoza the New York Cit born son Wilhelmina Nykerk Mendoza whoat the age 18 became a member of New York Symphony’s first section and rose tobecome the first conductor of the Capital Theatre starting in 1923 married DortheaShoeps today,
1916: Clarence Butlerand William Hoffman, two instructors at the American College who returned toNew York today after making a circuitous trip home that included a stop inJerusalem said “There were no pilgrims in Jerusalem and no Jews…as the majorityhad been driven out Palestine shortly after Turkey entered the war “and thosewho remained were forced to convert to Islam so they could retain their landsand other property.”
1917: “Municipal Court JusticeLeonard A. Snitkin today the District Attorney “to investigate the remarksalleged to have been made by Russell Dunne at an open-air meeting in MadisonSquare Park” in which he “had assailed the Jews as slackers and had calledJoseph Friedlander, a Jewish soldier in uniform, vile names when the latterresented the defamation of his race.
1917: Simon Frank, thePresident of Temple Emanu-El in Brooklyn wrote a letter today inviting membersof the United States Army and Navy to attend High Holiday services at theTemple without being charged for their seats.
1918: During WWI, todaywhile serving with Company E of the 306th Infantry, USA, IsaacHirsch “showed great heroism, determination, determination and courage” whenwhile serving voluntarily as a stretcher bearer, carried wounded “in an areawhich was being swept by” fire from artillery, machine guns and rifles.
1918: “At ChateauDiable, near Fismes,” Sergeant Julius Goldstein, a Philadelphian” serving withCompany E of the 307th Infantry “displayed unusual coolness andgreat bravery in the face of terrific enemy machine gun fire” when “he took outa patrol of four men and led it through the enemy’s lines” and rescued a groupof soldiers from Company E who “had become lost in the woods.”
1919(1st of Elul,5679): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1919: It was reportedtoday that “Miss Frances Taussig has been elected Executive Director of theUnited Hebrew Charities of New York,” replacing Morris D. Waldman who hadrecently resigned from the position “to enter the field of private business.”
1919: During theRussian Civil War, forces of the White Army occupied Boguslav a Ukrainian city,“pillaged all the houses” and “massacred” approximately forty Jews. [This was the war between the Reds(Bolsheviks) and the Whites (supporters of the former Czarist regime). The Jews were often caught in the middle andslaughtered by both sides]
1920: On Friday night,“Dr. William Rosenau of Baltimore, MD, conducted the last in a series of sevenservices sponsored by Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Unionof American Hebrew Congregations at Oden, Michigan.
1920: “The AmericanBible Society” announced “the immediate publication of the Revised MandarinBible,” “a translation of the Bible into Chinese…which Chinese and foreignscholars have been” working “for more than a quarter of a century.
1920: It was reportedtoday that “the I.L. Peretz Writers’ Organization has donated the first $1,000”to a Jewish Writers’ Fund that is being created by the Jewish Writers ofAmerica to help fledgling authors.
1920: Mr. AlbertRosenblatt announced that the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society ofAmerica has received a contribution of $10000 to the Building Fund from the Arbeiter Ring or Workmen’s Circle.
1921: The New York Times published a letterfrom Samuel Gompers in which he corrects the Times report of his speech to the Kiwanis Club of AtlanticCity. Gompers contends that the“misquote” of his remarks changes them so that they read like support forbusiness instead of support for the workers of America.
1921: In Lawrence, MA,Jewish immigrants Elizabeth (née Melincoff) and Maurice Daniel Penn gave birthto WW II veteran, actor and director Leo Z. Penn, the father of Michael, Seanand Chris Penn.
1922: "The Leagueof Nations is a Jewish idea, and Jerusalem someday will become the capital ofthe world's peace," declared Dr. Nahum Sokolow, Chairman of the ZionistExecutive Committee, at a special meeting of the Zionist Conference today. Dr.Sokolow “said the Jews of the world will back the League and that Jerusalemwill be the International Peace Capital.”
1922: PrincetonUniversity graduate, WW I and New York Times man, Julius Ochs Adler, theChattanooga, TN born son of Ada Ochs and Harry C. Adler married BarbaraStettheimer today in Redwood City, CA.
1923: “The Vice ofGambling” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer Mutz Greenbaum was releasedtoday in German
1923: Birthdate ofDanzig native Yitzhak "Ike" Aronowicz the captain of the famous SSExodus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/world/middleeast/24ahronovitch.html
1924: On the door ofthe hall in Konigsberg, Germany where General Ludendorff was celebrating thetenth anniversary of the victory at the Battle of Tannenberg in WW I, a signwas posted which read “No Jews Admitted.”
1924: “Dr. JosephSilverman, rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanuel in New York City and President ofthe Jewish Memorial Conservatory of Music in Palestine announced that a heartyresponse is being given to the drive for funds with which to establish the conservatoryof music in Palestine as a memorial to the Jewish soldiers who in the WorldWar.”
1925: Israel Krowitz,Eleanor Rosenberg and Anna Goldberg were among those who names were left off thecollege scholarship list published today by the New York Times
1925: Birthdate ofHerman Cohen, the producer of horror film who helped launch the career ofMichael Landon when he featured him in “cult classic, ‘I Was a TeenageWerewolf.’”
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-06-12/news/0206120136_1_evil-adult-teenage-werewolf-mr-cohen
1926: FeatherweightHarry Blitman fought and won his second bout today.
1926: In Vlagtwedde,Vlagtwedde, Groningen, The Netherlands, Sophie Josephine Franks, the daughterof Louis and Emma Sachs and Siegfried Frank gave birth to Emma Frank
1926: “The White HorseInn,” a film version of the play by Oskar Blumentahl and Gustaf Kadelburgdirected and produced by Richard Oswald was released in Germany today.
1927: Birthdate ofHarlem native Morris “Mo” Levy, “owner of Roulette Records and the Birdlandjazz club who passed away before hecould begin serving a prison sentence after having been convicted of“conspiring to extort” in connection with an investigation into mob involvementin the record industry.
1927: In Scotland, Adaand “Yitzi Fievel Caplan” gave birth to Bernard Caplan, the husband of DoraCapaln.
1927: Samuel Greenwalddeclined to accept the Republican nomination for the Judgeship in the SecondDistrict Court of the Municipal Court in New York.
1927: Two years afteropening on Broadway, George S. Kaufman’s “The Butter and Egg Man” opented todayat the Garrick Theatre in London.
1928: TheKellogg-Briand Pact, which failed in its anti-war making goal but provided partof the legal justification for the Nuremberg War Crime trials was signed todayby “Germany, France and the United States.”
1929: Birthdate of Ira Levin, author of many popularnovels including Rosemary's Baby
1929: While Moslemleaders in Jerusalem have issued an appeal to Arab raiders to return to workand cease their attacks, widespread disorders occurred in Palestine. Maraudingband of Arabs have left hundreds of victims, dead and wounded, from Dan to Beershebawhile British troops have been unable to stop the violence.
1929: “Black Magic” asilent film featuring Fritz Feld as “James Fraser” was released in the UnitedStates today.
1930: “Monte Carlo” amusical directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch was released today in theUnited States.
1930:Funeral services are scheduled to held today for seventy-six-year-old “formerNew York State Supreme Court Justice and Columbia University trained attorneySamuel Greenbaum, the London, England born “son of Rachel Shlesinger and LouisGreenbaum” who “was a trustee of the Jewish Welfare Board, the JewishTheological Seminary and the Baron de Hirsch Fund.
1931: Birthdate of NewYork City native and holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota GeorgeLevine the U.S. Army veteran and English literature professor who spent “mostof his career at Rutgers University.
1931: Earl Carroll'sVanities of 1931 with additional lyrics by Nathaniel Lief opened today at theEarl Carroll Theatre.
1931: Birthdate of“actress, singer and AIDS activist” Marilyn Lovell Matz, the wife of composerPeter Matz
http://richardskipper.blogspot.com/2012/04/marilyn-lovell-matz-remembrance.html
1932: In Milwaukee,Wisconsin, attorney Morris Fromkin “and the former Selma Strelsin, the sisterof Albert A. Strelsin, the industrialist and arts patron” gave birth tohistorian David Fromkin, the author of A Peace to End All Peace, a must-readbook by anybody who wants to talk intelligently about events in the Middle Eastand beyond. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1933: Birthdate of magazine editor, author andPresidential speech writer, Ben Wattenberg.
1933: Birthdate ofLeonard Irving Weinglass who wasaccording to some “the nation’s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, whor*presented political renegades, government opponents and notorious criminaldefendants in a half century of controversial cases, including the ChicagoSeven, the Pentagon Papers and the Hearst kidnapping.” (As reported by BruceWeber)
1933: In Prague, theeconomic development of Palestine is outlined in a report of the ZionistExecutive to the Congress, which reveals the following: During the past twoyears £3,252,000 has been invested in Palestine, of which £1,350,000 or 42%went into agriculture, mainly citrus planting, £1,400,000 or 43% went intobuilding, and the remainder into industry and handicraft. A survey of 213immigrants of the capitalist class shows that 54% of their total capital of£697,000 was invested in agriculture. During this period 21,767 immigrants cameinto the country; 11,384 workers on labor schedule, 3,122 capitalists, 2,697certificates went to relatives of residents and 4,168 people came underunspecified classifications.
1933: Testimony givenin the magistrate's court at Jaffa, on August 25th,alleging thatRevisionist extremists had contemplated recourse to murder over shadowed allother issues here as the eighteenth World Zionist Congress entered its secondweek of deliberations today.
1934(16th ofElul, 5694): Four days before his 41st birthday, Yale educatedengineer Alexander Cahn passed away today in Branford, CT.
1934: “The originalBroadway production of ‘Life Begins at 8:40’ a musical revue with music byHarold Arlen, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg and sketches by DavidFreedman opened at the Winter Garden Theatre.”
1934: In Iraq many Jewswere dismissed from public service and quotas were set up in colleges anduniversities
1935: The next ZionistConference is scheduled to open in today in Lucerne, Switzerland.
1935: In Switzerland,Rabbi Dov Yehuda and Sarach Schochet gave birth to Rabbi Dov Yehuda Schochet.
1935: In Chicago, “SamPatinkin, a scrap dealer and the form Eva Brezinsky” gave birth to SheldonPatinkin, a writer, director and teacher who helped shape the theatrical lifeof Chicago over half a century.” (As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chi-sheldon-patinkin-dies-20140921-column.html
1935: The FederalTheatre Project is established. Elmer Rice, the Manhattan born son of Jacob andFanny Lion Reizenstein, was the first director of the New York office of theFederal Theatre Project, but resigned in 1936 to protest government censorship ofthe FTP's "Living Newspaper" Ethiopia, about Mussolini's invasion ofthat country. The FTP included a Yiddish Unit.
1935: In New York,Morris Yablans, a cab driver and his wife Annette gave birth to producer andstudio executive Frank Yablans, the younger brother of producer Irwin Yablans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/business/media/frank-yablans-film-executive-dies-at-79.html
1936: In Brooklyn,“Rose (Farber) Kovel” and Louis Kovel, “an accountant and the namesake of theKovel Rule, a legal doctrine that extended the lawyer-client confidentialityprivilege to other professionals and experts” gave birth to psychiatrist and“eco-socialist” Joel Kovel.
https://louisproyect.org/2018/05/02/joel-kovel-1936-2018-an-appreciation/
1936: “Leaders of theArab Youth party began collecting signatures for a memorandum demanding an Arabboycott of the Royal Commission” coming to Palestine to investigate the causesof the violence begun by the Arabs in April, 1936. The Arabs are demanding that Jewishimmigration and land sales must be stopped before there will be anynegotiations.
1936: It was reportedtoday that Senator William H. King cabled Max Rhoade, the Washingtonrepresentative of the Zionist Organization of America from San Juan that “Aspresident of the American Palestine Committee, I have followed with muchanxiety and concern the serious disorders for the last few months in Palestine”and have refrained from any public expression with regard to Great Britain’spolicy in Palestine because he thinks we can rely “on the good faith of theBritish to carry out their pledge to Jews and to the League of Nations for theestablishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
1936: “Rabbi Stephen S.Wise, president of the Zionist Organization of America said today on his returnfrom Europe that the great task facing the Zionist movement in this country andof all Jews throughout the world who are concerned with the rebuilding of theJewish national homeland in Palestine was firm resistance to the threatenedsuspension of Jewish immigration in Palestine.”
1937(22nd of Elul,5697): Lionel Walter Rothschild passed away. The 2nd Baron Rothschild was aBritish zoologist who became a great collector and founded the RothschildNatural History Museum in London. The museum was opened to the public in 1892.As the eldest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, he wassomewhat of a disappointment to his father as his life was devoted to naturalhistory and not banking. His interest in natural history began when he was achild, collecting butterflies. Numerous species and sub-species of animals werenamed after him. He issued Novitates Zoologicae from Tring, his countryestate and published scores of scientific papers. He received his titles on thedeath of his father in 1915. The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum becamepart of the Natural History Museum.
1937: Birthdate ofPhilip Arthur Shulman, the native of Glasgow, Scotland who gained game as PhilShulman, “a member of the progressive rock group Gentle Giant.”
1938(30th ofAv, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1938: As British forcessought to bring an end to the latest wave of Arab terror two Arab youths werewounded, one fatally, when troops today opened fire on a group that refused todisperse when caught setting fire to a closed wine shop at Jaffa. Meanwhile“armed Arab completed the evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Jamam in theBeersheba district and set fire to every building there.”
1939: In France, “theCommunist deputies” were excluded from the Assembly “after the Nazi-Soviet pactwas signed.”
1939: “After two daysof packing, truck convoys” filled with art from the Louvre including thecollection of engravings, drawings and illustrated books that had belonged toBaron Edmond de Rothschild which had been donated in 1935 “began to leaveParis” as it became obvious that war was about to break out in Europe.
1940(23rdof Av, 5700): One of first to reprisals against the Germans, Israel Karp wasshot by Germany military authority in France.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seligsberg-alice-lillie
1940: The Vichy Frenchgovernment rescinded the law forbidding racial hatred. This made hating Jews legal.
1941(4th of Elul,5701): First group of 11,000 Jews from Kamenets are taken out of town to a pitand gunned down in bomb craters.
1941: Isidore Newmanwho was being trained as a Wireless Officer with SOE “went for a long walktoday saying he was suffering from nostalgia.
1941(4th of Elul,5701): The Nazis massacred the Jewish community of Posvol, Lithuania
1941(4th ofElul, 5701): “Detachments of the Einsatzgruppen in Kamenets-Podolsk and troopsunder the command of the Higher SS and Police Leader for the southern region,SS General Friedrich Jeckeln, began to carry out mass killings of the Jewishdeportees as well as the local Jewish population.
1942: Thirty-six-year-oldMohammad Essad Bey, who was Lev Nussimbaum before converting to Islam passedaway today.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/the_many_lives_of_lev_nussimbaum_20050408
1942(14th of Elul, 5702): Eight thousand Jews from Wieliczka,Poland, are killed at the Belzec death camp.
1942(14th of Elul, 5702): When a transport train carrying 6000 Jewsfrom Miedzyrzec, Poland, arrives at the Treblinka extermination camp, guardsdiscover that all 6000 have died of suffocation during the 75-mile journey.
1942(14th of Elul, 5702): Several thousand Jews from Chortkov,Poland, are assembled in the town square and forced to witness the murders ofthe community's children
1943(26th of Av, 5703):All the Jews working at a cement factory atDrogobych, Ukraine, near the Janówska labor camp, are murdered. One of thevictims is Dr. Mojzesz Bay, a 36-year-old graduate of the Sorbonne.
1943: “Hitler’sMadman,” a “film about the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich and theLidice massacre revenge taken by the Germans” based on a story by AlbrechtJoseph and Emil Ludwig with a screenplay by Peretz Hirschbein, Melvin Levy andEdgar G. Ulmer was released in the United States today.
1943: RAF Squadron, a unitedflying the Bristol Blenheim, a light bomber, completed its tour of duty at RAFStation Lyda that would become Lod Air Force Base, home of the IAF
1944: Bruce Sundlin theU.S. bomber pilot who had been working the Marquis (French Resistance) andserving with OSS was among those who took part in the battle at Marseillestoday during which most of the city was liberated from German control.
1944: As of todayVictor Cavendish Bentinck, assistant under-secretary in the British ForeignOffice still doubted the existence of gas chambers when he said, 'I think weweaken our case against the Germans by publicly giving credence to atrocitystories for which we have no evidence.'These mass executions in gas chambersremind me of the story of the employment of human corpses during the last(1914-18) war for the manufacture of fat, which was a grotesque lie and led tothe true stories of German enormities being brushed aside as being merepropaganda.'
1945: Premiere of “True Glory” --“a documentary account of the alliedinvasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly1400 cameramen” – directed by Garson Kanin with a script created by PaddyChayefsky and Eric Maschwitz among others.
1945: TodayHermannGöring became the first Nuremberg defendant to be interrogated intensively bythe Allies.
1945: It was reportedtoday that Louis Lipsky, president of Bnai Zion, fraternal Zionist organizationof America, has that he was confident the British Labor party would assist inopening Palestine to the Jews.”
1946(30th of Av, 5706):Rosh Chodesh Elul
1946: It was reportedtoday that “representatives offive Jewish Agencies who have from a survey of United States Army camps fordisplaced persons in Germany praised the Army's handling of the problem and thecontribution of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to theaid of homeless refugees.”
1947: “Kiss of Death,”a film based on a story by Eleazer Lipsky and a screenplay by Ben Hecht, wasreleased today in the United States.
1947: “Golden Earrings”a spy film with a script by Helen Deutsch and Abraham Polonsky and music byVictor Young was released in the United States today by Paramount Pictures.
1947: In Queens, NY,Jewish police officer Howard I. Golbach and his wife Marjorie who was notJewish gave birth to Barbara Goldbach who gained fame as actress Barbara Bachthe future wife of Beatle Ringo Starr.
1948: Birthdate of LosAngeles native Elliot Miles Goodman the Antioch graduate and composer who wasthe cousin of Johnny Mandel.
http://america.pink/miles-goodman_3015112.html
1949(2nd ofElul, 5709): Parashat Shoftim
1949: It was reportedtoday that Samuel B. Ratoff, President of The Hebrew Institute, the onlyOrthodox synagogue in White Plains, NY said that in addition to a new synagoguethat building which will be building on Greenridge Avenue “would house clubrooms,a banquet hall, a kitchen, a gymnasium and a two-story school wing.”
1951: Rabbi IsraelGoldstein was re-elected today president of the World Confederation of GeneralZionists, and Mrs. Rose Halprin and Dr. Emanuel Neumann vice presidents. Theyare all from New York.
1952: In Peekskill, NY,Judy and Milton Rubenfeld gave birth to Paul Reubenfeld who gained games asPee-Wee Herman.
1952: The Knesset endorsed by an overwhelming vote the agreement with theUS for the purchase of arms and for the negotiations in Washington for militaryaid, within the framework of the Mutual Security Act. The vote came in the formof a vote of no confidence in the government, introduced by Mapam and supportedby the Communists, which was defeated by 69 votes to 13.
1952: Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end inLuxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks.
1953(16th of Elul, 5713): Ida Lustig, the mother of Irving andPhillip Lustig and the mother-in-law of Anita Lustig passed today after whichshe was buried at the Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, NY.
1953: Birthdate of Jonathan David Simons, the native of Glasgow whose“first novel The Credit Draper…is set primarily with the Glasgow Jewishcommunity in the early part of the 20th century.”
1954: “Shield for Murder” directed by Howard W. Koch was released todayin the United States by United Artists.
1954(28th of Av, 5714): Seventy-three-year-old Philadelphianative a holder of a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania, “Dr. Armand J.Gerson, the retired associate superintendent of the Philadelphia schools” andauthor of These Dickens Folks passed away today in Ocean City, NJ.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/08/28/84131408.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1954: In Dallas, TX, Regina Elfenbein, the “daughter of Chaim and ChanaNankin” gave birth to Jessic Lynne Schwartz.
1955(9th of Elul, 5715): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1955: Sandy “Koufax threw a two-hit, 7–0 complete game shutout againstthe Cincinnati Reds for his first major league win.”
1955(9th of Elul, 5715): Sophie Ratner, the wife of BenjaminRatner and the mother of director, producer and actor Gregory Ratoff known forplaying suave, sophisticates, passed away today.
1956: In Trenton, NJ, Rabbi Joshua Haberman of Ha Sinai Temple officiatedat the wedding of Barbara Joyce Cohen and Stuart G. Crane.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/28/86688944.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1957(30th of Av, 5717): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1957(30th of Av, 5717): Ninety-two-year-old Abraham LincolnFilene, the Boston born son of Clara Ballin and Filene Department store founderWilliam Filene, the husband of There Weill, who used the family fortune tosupport social causes such as the women’s right to vote and various culturaland artistic activities passed away today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lincoln-Filene
1960: In Cleveland, Ohio, Victor and Ellen Cohn gave birth to GoldmanSachs millionaire Donald Cohn the husband of Lisa A. Pevaroff who was namedDirector of the National Economic Council by President Donald Trump whom hecontinued to serve despite publicly expressing his displeasure with thePresident’s response to Nazi Torchlight Marchers in Charlottesville, VA.
1963: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' SoSad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition was the firstplay written by Arthur Kopit which had opened off-Broadway “transferred toBroadway at the Morosco Theatre” today.
1964: The Democratic National Convention comes to an end having nominatedtwo pro-Israel candidates – Lyndon Johnson for President and Hubert Humphreyfor Vice President. Johnson had helped Jewish refugees enter the United Statesthrough Mexico in the 1930’s, passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and wouldstand up to Russians on behalf of Israel in 1967 in stark contrast to thecraven behavior of the Eisenhower administration during the Suez Crisis of1956)
1964: “Mary Poppins” with an Oscar winning score by Richard and RobertSherman and featuring Ed Wynn as “Uncle Albert” premiered at Grauman’s ChineseTheatre in Los Angeles.
1964: Sixty-two-year-old comedian Gracie Allen, the wife and partner ofGeorge Burns, passed away today.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22
http://www.biography.com/people/gracie-allen-9542415#synopsis
http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/581126
1965: Today, in a letter to Zippora Saar’s mother in Israel, Filippus Mosesco “wrote that he and Lillianhad moved from New York City to the farm 15 years earlier because of healthailments that included his being “badly disabled” in France during World War I.”
https://www.jta.org/2014/03/02/lifestyle/across-the-ocean-a-poignant-end-to-an-israelis-search
1966(11th of Elul, 5726): Parashat ki Teitzei
1966(11th of Elul, 5726): Eighty-five-year-old writer andtranslator John Counos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun to a Russian Jewish family,the husband of Helen Kestner Satterthwaite who was also an author and published under thepseudonyms Sybil Norton and John Hawk and anti-Communist passed away today in NewYork.
JohnCournos Biography (bookrags.com)
1967: Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, passed away. Yes, the lads from Liverpool were managed byan English Jew.
1968(21st of Av, 5727):Movie Director Robert Z. Leonard passed away
http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/robert-z-leonard/
1969(13th ofElul, 5729): Sixty-three year old Erika Mann, the actress and writer who wasthe “eldest daughter of Thomas Mann and Katia Mann and who had been baptized asa Protestant passed away today.
1969(13th ofElul, 5729): Chicago born CPA and University of Michigan alum Melvin D. Skolinkpassed away today.
1969: “Medium Cool” adirected, written and filmed by Harold Wexler and starring Verna Bloom wasreleased in the United States today.
1970(25th ofAv, 5730): Eighty-eight-year-old Yale graduate and Columbia University trainedattorney Jerome Sayles Hess, the “lawyer who represented the Mexican Governmentin the United States for more than 50 years” and was the husband of “the formerHariette Peloubet” passed away today in Saratoga Springs, NY.
1971(6th of Elul,5731): Bennett Cerf, founder of RandomHouse and panel member on the television hit What’s My Line, passed away at the age of 73
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/cerfb/profile.html
1971: Sixty-seven-year-oldMargaret Bourke-White, one of the great photographers of the 20thcentury, if not of all times whose father was from an Orthodox Jewish familyand whose mother was Irish passed away today. (For those who grew up in a worldof hand-held video cams, satellite communications and cable network news, it ishard to appreciate the important role played photographers andphoto-journalists like Bourke-White. Her photos filled the pages of suchpublications as Life Magazine, which brought the world of natural disasters,war and high fashion to Middle America. If you know anything about Jews andphotography you will see why this was a must post item and a reason forsupporting Patrilinealism)
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/margaret-bourke-white/
http://time.com/4355162/margaret-bourke-white-cameras/
http://iphf.org/inductees/margaret-bourke/
1973: “The Recipes ofChairman Mao" by Marshall Brickman's appeared in The New Yorker.(Brickman was Jewish; Mao was not)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/08/27/the-recipes-of-chairman-mao
1976: It was reportedtoday that the “release of Briton Robert G. Clegg” who had been charged withspying for the Israelis during the raid on Entebbe by Idi Amin came as asurprise since the Uganda government had previously said “it had no record ofhim ever being in the country.”
1977: The US State Department confirmed that a member of the PalestineLiberation Organization had applied for a visa to the US in order to be allowedto open a PLO Information Center there. But the PLO¹s rejection, at a specialmeeting held in Damascus, of both UN Resolution 242 and Israel¹s right to existwas seen here as a serious setback to President Carter¹s Middle East peaceefforts. He was reported to be in a rather pessimistic mood.
1977: In Bucharest Prime Minister Menachem Begin described his Sabbathvisit to the Bucharest synagogue as the most moving day in my life since theday Israel announced its independence. Begin sought to comfort Romanian Jewsand praised President Ceausescu for his policy of tolerance toward religiouspractice. Ceausescu would lose much of his luster and ultimately be killedduring a anti-Communist revolt.
1979: Funeral services for Joseph H. Blass, a member of Young Israel ofFlatbush and the husband of Edythe Blass, the “Honorary Sisterhood President”are scheduled to take place this morning in Brooklyn
1979: After Lord Mountbatten was murdered by a terrorist bomb he wasburied in Romsey Abbey which was celebrated for its collection of Hebrew books.
1980(15th of Elul, 5740): Sam Levenson passed away at the age of 68.Levenson was a Brooklyn school teacher who became a television star in the1950’s. The Sam Levenson Show was quite popular in its day. This was quite since surprising consideringthe source of Levenson’s humor. He wasthe son of Jewish immigrants who had worked as a school teacher in Brooklyn.These experiences were the basic material for his witty stories and quips.
http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/neh-preservation-project/2012/nov/09/sam-levenson/
http://catskills.brown.edu/confReports/levenson.shtm
1983: Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus) “performed a landmark open-airconcert at Blenheim Palace in Britain, an event that he told the audience was"one of the most exciting nights" in his life being the first suchevent ever held at that venue and was attended by a conservative estimate of40,000 people.”
1984(29th of Av, 5744): Seventy-three-year-old “characteractor” Billy Sands, the Bergen, NY born son of “John F. and Dana Alice Sands”best known for his recurring role as Pvt. Dino Papparelli, on “The Phil SilversShow” and Harrison “Tinker” Bell on “McHale’s Navy.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1984/08/31/164374.html?pageNumber=78
1985: In Jerusalem, award winning author David Grossman and his MichaelGrossman gave birth to Uri Grossman who as a 20-year Staff Sergeant in the 401stTank Brigade was killed while fighting in Southern Lebanon in 2006.
https://www.benderjccgw.org/yom-hazikaron/uri-grossman/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/20/syria.comment
1986: ''We Were So Beloved,'' Manfred Kirchheimer's documentary aboutJews who escaped Germany before the Holocaust opened today Film Forum 1 in NewYork City. (As reported by Vincent Canby)
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE3D7133EF934A1575BC0A960948260
1987: “Services and interment are scheduled to be held a the BaltimoreHebrew Congregation this afternoon for SelmaAmansky Caston, the daughter of Rose Bransky Amansky and Maurice “Mannie:Amansky and the wife of New York City native Saul Caston the “associateconductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra” until 1945 “when he was hired as theDenver Symphony’s Conductor and Music” which he led with such success that in1951 Time wrote that “the Denver Symphony was among the leaders in performingAmerican music”
1988: “A Friendship in Vienna,” a film set in Vienna at the time of theAnschluss starring Stephen Mach and Edward Asner premiered today on the DisneyChannel.
1988(14th of Elul, 5748): Seventy-nine year old Dr. Max Blackpassed way today in Ithaca, NY.
1988: A single was recorded today with Carole Bayer Sager’s “A GroovyKind of Love” on the “A-side.”
1989(26th of Av, 5749): Fifty-eight-year-old Melvin “Mel”Seeman , the Lincoln High graduate and star forward and center for NYU passedaway.
1992: FOX broadcast the first episode of “The Heights” produced by AaronSpelling.
1993: “Estate Fee To Wachtler Is $800,000” published today
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/27/nyregion/estate-fee-to-wachtler-is-800000.html
1994: After 320 performances the curtain came down on the originalBroadway production of Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor”
1995(1st of Elul, 5755): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1996(12th of Elul, 5756): Fifty tow year old Tel Aviv nativeYair Rosenblum the composer who was musical director of the IDF passed awaytoday.
http://www.radiohazak.com/Rosenblum.html
1997(24th of Av,5757): Forty-eight-year-old televisionwhiz-kid executive Brandon Tartikoff passed away.
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9708/27/tartikoff.obit.update/
http://www.biography.com/people/brandon-tartikoff-9542058
1998: Eric Edelmanbegan serving as U.S. Ambassador to Finland.
1999: “The Muse” acomedy directed, written by and starring Albert Brooks and featuring MarkFeuerstein was released in the United States today by October Films
2000: The New York Times book section featuredreviews of Left Back: A Century ofFailed School Reforms by Jewish born education reformer DianeRavitch. The Secret Parts of Fortune
Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms byRon Rosenbaum and The PresidentialDifference: Leadership Style From FDR to Clinton by FredIrwin Greenstein
2000(26th of Av, 5760):Sixty-five-year-old Gilbert de Botton, the financial manager who was adescendant of the rabbinical scholar Abraham de Botton passed away. (Asreported by Paul Lewis)
2000: At the CrystalPlaza in Livingston, NJ, Rabbi Arziel C. Fellner is scheduled to officiate atthe wedding of Dara Horn, Cambridge University Hebrew literature student, andYale Law School graduate Brendan Michael Schulman.
2001: Israelihelicopters fired a pair of rockets through office windows and killed MustafaZibri, Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP). He was also known as Abu Ali Mustafa. “The PFLP is designated aterrorist organization by Israel and many western states. Israel held Mustafapersonally responsible for 10 different car-bomb attacks undertaken by the PFLPduring his time as general secretary.”He had been allowed to return to the West Bank in a deal worked out betweenArafat and Barak. But apparently killingIsraelis was more attractive than following the path of peace.
2002: Thirty-eight-year-oldMeir Lixenberg was shot today by terrorists.
2002: Moshe"Bogie" Ya'alon told Haaretz; "The Palestinian threatharbors cancer-like attributes that have to be severed. There are all kinds ofsolutions to cancer. Some say it's necessary to amputate organs but at themoment I am applying chemotherapy."
2003(29th of Av, 5763):Ninety-one-year-old Austrian born American architect and designer Henry P.Glass who survived Dachau and Buchenwald passed away today.
http://www.architechgallery.com/arch_info/artists_pages/henry_glass_obituary.html
2004(10th ofElul, 5764): Sixty-four-year-old actress Susan Peretz passed away today fromBreast Cancer.
http://variety.com/2004/scene/people-news/susan-peretz-1117909852/
2004: “Adam & Paul”a movie about drug addicts directed by Lenny Abrahamson was released in Irelandtoday by Element Pictures.
2004: “The Brothers” aDanish film directed by Susan Bier was released today by Nordisk Film.
2005: Under theleadership of President Scott Cowen, “Tulane began to publicly respond to thearrival of Hurricane Katrina today with an initial plan to close the universityuntil September 1.”
2005: TheJerusalem Post reported on the Red Sea Jazz Festival at Eilat, Israel’ssouthern seaport. This marked the 19thyear for this annual event and the response of the crowd indicated that Jazz isa live, well and thriving in Israel.Apparently the rocket attack in Jordan which resulted in an errantwarhead hitting Eilat by mistake did not dampen the spirit of the attendees whoranged in age from teens to grandmothers swaying in the aisles.
2006:In “Green's Chase Revives Greenberg's Name and Fame,”published today, Murray Chass notes that “Shawn Green, with 314 career home runs, is only17 from matching Hank Greenberg's standard as the career leader among Jewishplayers?
2006: The Sunday New York Times book sectionincluded a review of SelectedLetters of Martha Gellhorn(St. Louis born Jewish novelist, travel writer and journalist), editedby Caroline Moorehead.
2006: “New Torah scrollpresented to the Beth Israel Synagogue in New Orleans”
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/27/2006/katrina
2006:As those who study history know, history is determined, in no small part, bythe person writing the history. Withthat in mind, please excuse thisshameless orgy of self-adulation in publishing the following letter as itappeared in The New York Times SundayBook Review.
Letters
A Man in Cedar Rapids
To the Editor:
After a lifetime of reading about Jewish lawyers, doctors,brilliant writers and Nobel Prize winners, I cannot tell you how excited I wasto read about A Woman In Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua (Aug. 13). I amtotally blown away — a novel where the leading character is a Jewish humanresources manager. I am a longtime Jewish human resources director and I neverthought I would make it as a character in a novel, let alone the maincharacter. Of course, I do this in Cedar Rapids, which is not exactlyJerusalem. But if you ever want to know what it is like to be Jewish in theheartland, hey, that’s a book I could write.
Mitchell A. Levin
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2007: An articlepublished today entitled “The KibbutzSheds Socialism and Gains Popularity,” described the changing face of kibbutz movementin Israel.
2007: As Phil Spector stood trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson, BruceClarkson, his second defense lawyer withdrew and was replaced with Linda KenneyBaden.
2007: In Cedar Rapids, HaroldBecker, a pillar of the Jewish community and Guaranty Bank & Trust washonored for donating $75,000 to The Arc of East Central Rapids. This is just one more example of Mr. Becker’sphilanthropic efforts on behalf of both the Jewish Community and the people ofCedar Rapids and its environs.
2007: The New Republic featureda review of Davide Ferrairo’s film, “Primo Levi’s Journey,” which follow,figuratively, Levi’s footsteps as made his way from Auschwitz back to his homein Turin.
2007(13th of Elul, 5767): Seventy-two-year-old, Gad Yaacobipassed away. A native of Kfar Vitkin he was an MK and held several ministerialpositions.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3442660,00.html
2008(26th of Av, 5768): Eighty-one-year-old Abie Nathan the Israeli air force trained pilot and self-declared peaceactivist who flew a plan from Israel to Egypt a decade before Sadat flew toJerusalem passed away today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/29/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast
http://www.abie-nathan.com/pages-eng/biography.html
2008: Yale University announced that Peter Salovey will succeed AndrewHamilton as Provost, making him the fourth provost appointed by PresidentRichard Levin
2008: Second night of the inaugural GilboaCoexistence Festival taking place throughout the Gilboa region featuring DavidBroza with Yair Dalal and Ibrahim Eid.
2008 Florida Congressman Robert Wexler addressed the Democratic NationalConvention for the first time on the subject of national security and foreignpolicy. Wexler represents Florida’s 19thdistrict, one of the most heavily Jewish congressional districts in the UnitedStates and I considered a strong advocate for Israel in Washington.
2008: The Washington Postfeatured a review of The End of the Jews, the new novel by AdamMansbach.
2009: Opening of the Ceremonies commemorating the 65thAnniversary of the Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz by Germanauthorities.
2009: Six days after he passed away, funerals services are scheduled tobe held for 93 year old Robert Bendheim, the “former president and chairman ofM. Lowenstein Corporation, member of the Board of Trustees of Mt. SinaiHospital who had graduated from Princeton and served in the Navy during WW II.
https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9404EED6133AF937A1575BC0A96F9C8B63.html
2009:The Israeli unemployment rate rose to 8percent in the second quarter despite encouraging economic indicators pointingto a recovery, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today.
2009:Sketched on yellowing parchment, the 29blueprints presented to Israel’s prime minister today lay out the Nazi deathcamp at Auschwitz in chilling detail, with gas chambers, crematoria, delousingfacilities and watch towers drawn to scale.
2009: Eighty-two-year-old Alex Grass the creator of Rite Aid Corporationpassed away today. (As reported by Charles Duhigg)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/29grass.html
2009:The publicly funded MulticulturalCenter's (Werkstatt der Kulturen) decision to remove educational panels of theGrand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, who was an ally ofAdolf Hitler, from a planned exhibit, sparked outrage today among a districtmayor, the curator of the exhibit, and the Berlin Jewish community. Thecurator, Karl Rössler, said that it is a "scandal" that the directorof the Werkstatt, Philippa Ebéné, sought to censor the exhibit. "One must,of course, name that al-Husseini, a SS functionary, participated in theHolocaust," said Rössler. The exhibit covers the "The Third Worldduring the Second World War" and three exhibit panels of 96 are devoted tothe mufti's collaboration with the Nazis. The grand mufti delivered a talk tothe imams of the Bosnian SS division in 1944, and was a key Islamic supporterof Nazi Germany's destruction of European Jewry.
2010: In Cedar Rapids, IA, Temple Judah celebrates the start of thefourth season of “Musical Shabbat.”
2010: In “Black and Jewish, and Seeing No Contradiction,” published todayTrymaine Lee describes the life of African-Americans who are Orthodox Jews.
2011:Hutzot Hayotzer, the popularinternational arts and crafts fair that has become a Jerusalemite ritual, isscheduled to come to a close today.
2011: In the United Kingdom the curtain comes down on “Nine Suitcase” “asolo piece performed by British actor David Prince” of a this theatricaladaptation of Béla Zsolt’s novel of the same name which recounts theexperiences of the author during the Holocaust.
http://www.thepublicreviews.com/ed-fringe-2011-nine-suitcases-%E2%80%93-venue-13/
2011:Tens of thousands of Israelis took tothe streets tonight to participate in demonstrations protesting the high costof living in Israel
2011: Saeb Erekatrepeated his claim that meeting that Consul-General Daniel Rubenstein had threatened that the US would cut offaid to the Palestinians if they insisted on going to the UN., adding that theAmericans have threatened to veto the PA statehood bid and cut off financialaid to the Palestinians. The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem denied Erekat’s claimwhen he first made it yesterday.
2011: Norfolk’s Beth El Synagogue did not hold service today as HurricaneIrene barreled its way up the East Coast.
2011(27th of Av, 5771): Eighty-three-year Ezat Delijani, Iranborn businessman and philanthropist passed away today. (As reported by DennisMcLellan)
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/aug/30/local/la-me-ezat-delijani-20110830
2012: Christian Dawid is scheduled to appear tonight at The MontrealJewish Music Festival.
2012: “Hutzot Hayotzer, the popular international arts and crafts fairthat has become a Jerusalemite ritual” is scheduled to come to an end.
2012(9th of Elul, 5772): Seventy-one-year-old Duke Basketballstart Art Heyman passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)
2012(9th of Elul, 5772): Ninety-five-year-old WW II AustralianRAAF war hero Sir Richard Kingsland who had changed his name from Julius Cohen“to avoid anti-Semitism” passed awaytoday.
2012:President Shimon Peres said today thathe could not understand the stupidity of the ongoing rocket campaign beingwaged by Palestinian terrorists, which has escalated in the lead into Israel's2012-2013 school year. "
2012:An IDF soldier was critically injuredduring a joint exercise involving infantry units and armored corps in the GolanHeights this morning, according to the IDF Spokesman's Office. The soldier,from the IDF's Golani Brigade, received first aid treatment on the scene beforebeing evacuated to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
2013:Tango Apassionata in Yiddish – A Night with Sharon Brauner is scheduled to takeplace at the Budapest Music Center.
2013:The Muzsikás Ensemble is scheduled to perform tonight as part of the JewishSummer Festival in Budapest.
2013:With the US poised for military action in Syria and amid uncertainty as to howDamascus will react, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense MinisterMoshe Ya'alon made clear today that while Israel will not get involved, it willrespond severely if attacked. (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2013:“The 5774 (2013-2014) school year formally opened today with over 2.13 millionschoolchildren arriving in more than 4,500 schools nationwide for their firstday of classes.” (As reported by Haviv Rettig Gur)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/2-1-million-israeli-children-kick-off-new-school-year/
2014(1st ofElul, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Elul – the shofar is blown for the first time
2014: Dr. Eric Goldman is scheduled to present the finalsession of “Hollywood Zion: Israel Through the Lens of American Film Makers.”
2014: Noa Meir, Director of Israel Action Center &International Affairs for Jewish Community Relations is scheduled to speak atShaare Tefila in Olney, MD on “Current Events and How to Advocate for Israel.”
2014: “An Israeli officer in the Golan Heights wasmoderately injured by apparent stray fire from fighting in Syria this morning,as an al-Qaeda linked rebel group took control of the only crossing betweenIsrael and Syria.” (As reported by Spencer Ho)
2014: While Prime Minister Netanyahu’s supporters praisedthe most recent ceasefire, others including the Foreign Minister and residentsof southern Israel questioned its value or condemned it as a failure becauseHamas remained in power.
2014: Aaron Sofer, a New Jersey yeshiva student whodisappeared while hiking in the Jerusalem Forest has not been found despite theoffer of 100,000 shekel reward by his parents.
2015: “Prosecutors in Kansas rested their case today “inthe murder trial of white supremacist” 74 year old Klu Klux Klan member FrazierGlenn Cross” “after playing a recorded call in which he expressed surprise thethree people fatally shot outside two Jewish centers in suburban Kansas City,MO,last year were not Jewish.” (As reported by Kevin Murphy)
2015: Miri Ben-Ari,a Grammy Award-Winning sabra violinist/producer/humanitarian, “UN GoodwillAmbassador of Music to the United Nations Associations of Brazil”, and GlobalBrand Ambassador for Harman Kardon is scheduled to perform at the HighlineBallroom
2015: The historic Georgia Railroad Freight Depot isscheduled to host “Kosher Food & Wine Atlanta” during which Sandra Bank ofA Kosher Touch Catering will be honored for her twenty years of service to thecommunity.
2015:Friends and family of Murray Wolfe, led by his loving wife Charlene, prepare tosay one last goodbye as he his laid to rest in California.
2016:The International Al Jolson Society is scheduled to host “The 20thAnnual Long Island Jolson Festival” featuring a “A Tribute to Al Jolson.”
2016:At Temple Israel in Memphis, TN Michael Hirsch, son of Marci and GeoffreyHirsch, will become bar mitzvah.,
2016:Agudas Achim Congregation which is now located in Coralville, IA, is scheduledto host its Centennial Celebration Dinner in Iowa City.
2016(23rdof Av, 5776): Shabbat Ekev;
2016(23rdof Av, 5776): Seventy-nine-year-old Jamie Davidovich who “helped create theArtists’ Television Network, which broadcast “The Live! Show” passed awaytoday. (As reported by William Grimes)
2017(5thof Elul, 5777): Eighty-five-year-old Syd Silverman who had followed in thefootsteps of Sime Silverman to become the editor of Variety passed away today.
2017:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t for Professors,Parents and Students by Jacques Berlinerblau ,Galaxy Love: Poems byGerald Stern, This Is Just A Test by Madelyn Rosenberg and WendyWan-Long Shang and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequalityby Jonah Winter.
2017(5thof Elul, 5777): One hundred- and four-year-old”Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak, a career military officer, civilservant and diplomat” passed away today
http://www.timesofisrael.com/yitzhak-pundak-made-a-general-at-100-dies-at-104/
2017:As Hurricane Harvey ravaged Houston this weekend, The JCC of Houston whichcollected relief supplies would remain closed today and based on reports fromthe Texas Jewish Herald-Voice homesin heavily Jewish populated Houston subdivisions, including Meyerland, werereporting flooding this morning, for the third time in as many years. .
2017:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education a “special presentation with RomaniScholar Dr. Ian Hanco*ck” styled “Romani Life: Then and Now.”
2017:The Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to host “Grand Slam Sunday –Jewish Community Day Nationals Park.”
2017:“Our Great Tchaikovsky,” Hershey Felder’s latest one man show which challengedthe actor’s ability to deal with the composer’s alleged anti-Semitism isscheduled to come to an end a the Hartford State in Hartford, CT
2017:The Red Sea Jazz Festival is scheduled to open at Eilat.
2017:The Kansas City Jewish Community is scheduled to host “Day of Discovery –Explore the Joy of Jewish Learning” in Overland Park, Kansas.
2017:As part of its centenary celebration Montreal’s Federation CJA to host “a bigbirthday party…that promises family fun.”
2017:“An exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum called ‘Noah’s Beasts: SculptedAnimals from Ancient Mesopotamia” is scheduled to come to a close today.
2018:In Jerusalem, Mercaz Hatarbuyot is scheduled to host a “Tribute to Chopin”featuring award winning concert pianist Eliah Zabaly this evening.
2018:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host a series of concertsstarting at 3 p.m. featuring Sara Aroeste, Gerard Edery, Nashaz, Adam Maaloufand the Future of the Tribe and Steven Cehera at the Center for Jewish History.
2019:After two months, In Tel Aviv,“The Art of the Brick, an international LegoExhibition” is scheduled to come to an end.
2019:In San Francisco, “Oracle Park, “the Giants game against the Diamondbacks” isscheduled to be designated “Giants Jewish Heritage” complete with Jewish-themedGiants T-shirt and a pregame party in Lot A.
2019:In San Rafael, CA, the Osher Marin JCC s scheduled to host “Tomer Persico,Koret visiting assistant professor at UC Berkeley, as he leads a talk onIsraeli society, the two-state solution and the upcoming election.
2019:In New Orleans, JNOLA is scheduled to host a back to school “school suppliesdrive” this evening.
2019:The dedication of the Peace Garden is scheduled to take place at the IllinoisHolocaust Memorial Museum.
2020:“The auto parts maker Continental became the latest German company to issue aconfessional study of its Nazi past Thursday, saying it was “a pillar of theNational Socialist armaments and war economy” that employed around 10,000 slavelaborers, often in inhumane conditions.” (As reported by Jack Ewing)
2021:The Alliance for Jewish Theatre is scheduled to host its August 2021 Menschsand Mentors Q&A with Barbara Brooks, Deborah Eliezer and Ari Weinberg.
2021:The High Holiday Food Drive during which Jewish Family and Children’s Services’will be accepting shelf-stable items for distribution at JFCS food banklocations across the Bay Area is scheduled to begin today.
2021:Today U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett are scheduledto “seek to reset the tone of U.S.-Israeli relations in their first White Housemeeting and find common ground on Iran despite differences on how to deal withits nuclear program.” (YNET and Reuters)
2021:Flesh of my Flesh,” an exhibition featuring the works of Tel Aviv native EfratLipkin is scheduled to come to an end today.
https://aicf.org/artist/efrat-lipkin/
2022:Final day of installation celebration activities for Rabbi Yael Dadoun arescheduled to take place Temple-Tifereth Israel in Beachwood, OH.
2022:In Waterloo, IA Rabbi Kushner of Sons of Jacob Synagogue is scheduled toofficiate at the unveiling for Dorothy Weinberg at Waterloo Memorial ParkCemetery.
2022:Ma’yan Tikvah – A Wellspring of Hope is scheduled to present an hour or two ofconversation, prayer, meditation, reflection and Torah discussion whileenjoying the outdoors.
2022(30thof Av, 5782): Parashat Re’ay (see); Rosh Chodesh Elul
2023:The Indiana Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to induct the new members ofthe Hoosier Jewish Legends Hall of Fame.
2023:Deadline for applying to be a “’23-’24 ASF Sephardi House Fellow.
2023:Yom Sport is scheduled to take place at Caspe Terrace in Waukee, IA.
2023:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Sandra Myers on “TheKosher Nostra, Part 2: Gangsters for Zion.”
2023:The 34th Annual Conference of the World Federation of Jewish HolocaustSurvivors and Descendants is scheduled to continue for a third day inWashington, D.C.
2023:YUM’s Director of Museum Education Ilana Benson is scheduled to lead a “guidedtour of The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries, illuminating thelife and impact of the multifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage acrosscontinents and cultures through rare manuscripts and books.”
2023:In Coralville, OH, Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a concert byharpsichordist Trevor Stephenson.
2023:The Macher Lab sponsored by the Alliance for Jewish Theatre is scheduled tomeet for a third session today.
2023:In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host its annual picnic.
2024;Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Daniel Snowman on “TheCultural Impact on Britain of the 'Hitler Emigrés', Part 2: Their Artistic andIntellectual Contributions.
2024:“The Oath,” “a Jewish play written and directed by Jewish writer Clara Grusq”is scheduled to be performed at The Tank on W. 36th Street for asecond straight evening.
2024:Agnon House is scheduled to host the first in a series of online lectures todaywit Dr. Lilach Netanel who will examine “three of the most beautiful works inHebrew literature of the beginning of the last century: "Sepih" by HaimNachman Bialik, "Mud" b yDeborah Baronand and "Night ofHorror" by Shlomo Zemach.
2024;Congressman Troy Carter is scheduled to participate in a Jewish Community TownHall sponsored by the JCRC of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans.
2024:As August 27th 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 326 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)
