July 28
450:Theodosius II the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor from408 to 450 passed away. His reign was not a good period for the Jews people. In425 “on the death of the Jewish Patriarch Gamaliel II, the patriarchate, andthe Jewish council associated with it, is ended.” In 429 the “Roman empireformally abolished the Jewish Patriarchate and diverted the Jewish temple taxto the imperial treasury. In 439 The Theodosian Code was “published which,among others, imposed the death penalty on any Jew who tried to convert aChristian to Judaism” and excluded Jews from holding public office.
532: “Emperor Justinian issues a new law condemning Manichaeans,Samaritans, and heretics. In the process, he categorizes Jews as beingheretics” "Since many judges, in deciding cases, have addressed us in needof our decision, asking that they be informed what ought to be done withwitnesses who are heretics, whether their testimony ought to be received orrejected. We therefore ordain that no heretic, nor even they who cherish theJewish superstition, may offer testimony against orthodox Christians who areengaged in litigation, whether one or the other of the parties is an orthodoxChristian." (As reported by Austin Cline)
1232: In a grant issued today, King Henry III gave Peter de Rivel“the office of Treasurer and Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, the king'sports and coast, and ‘the custody of the King's Judaism in Ireland’” whichmeant that all Jews in Ireland shall be intentive and respondent to Peter astheir keeper in all things touching the king".
1294: Adolf of Nassau “issued an order” forbidding Jews in Wormsto acquire real estate and banning them from occupying “the commons” i.e.territory belonging to the commonwealth.
1315:Nine years after he had expelled the Jews (1306), KingLouis X of France issued an edict that permitted “the Jews to return for aperiod of twelve years, authorizing them to establish themselves in the citiesin which they had lived before their banishment. He issued this edict in answerto the demands of the people. Geoffroy of Paris, the popular poet of the time,says in fact that the Jews were gentle in comparison with the Christians whohad taken their place, and who had flayed their debtors alive; if the Jews hadremained, the country would have been happier; for there were no longer anymoneylenders at all (Bouquet, xxii. 118). The king probably had the interestsof his treasury also in view. The profits of the former confiscations had goneinto the treasury, and by recalling the Jews for only twelve years he wouldhave an opportunity for ransoming them at the end of this period. It appearsthat they gave the sum of 122,500 livres for the privilege of returning. It isalso probable, as Vuitry states, that a large number of the debts owing to theJews had not been recovered, and that the holders of the notes had preservedthem; the decree of return specified that two-thirds of the old debts recoveredby the Jews should go into the treasury. The conditions under which they wereallowed to settle in the land are set forth in a number of articles; some ofthe guaranties which were accorded the Jews had probably been demanded by themand been paid for. They were to live by the work of their hands or to sellmerchandise of a good quality; they were to wear the circular badge, and notdiscuss religion with laymen. They were not to be molested, either with regardto the chattels they had carried away at the time of their banishment, or withregard to the loans which they had made since then, or in general with regardto anything which had happened in the past. Their synagogues and theircemeteries were to be restored to them on condition that they would refundtheir value; or, if these could not be restored, the king would give them thenecessary sites at a reasonable price. The books of the Law that had not yetbeen returned to them were also to be restored, with the exception of theTalmud. After the period of twelve years granted to them the king might notexpel the Jews again without giving them a year's time in which to dispose oftheir property and carry away their goods. They were not to lend on usury, andno one was to be forced by the king or his officers to repay to them usuriousloans. If they engaged in pawn broking, they were not to take more than twodeniers in the pound a week; they were to lend only on pledges. Two men withthe title "auditors of the Jews" were entrusted with the execution ofthis ordinance, and were to take cognizance of all claims that might arise inconnection with goods belonging to the Jews which had been sold before theexpulsion for less than half of what was regarded as a fair price. The kingfinally declared that he took the Jews under his special protection, and thathe desired to have their persons and property protected from all violence,injury, and oppression.”
1586: The first potato arrived in Britain. Since thepotato is indigenous to Peru and Bolivia this date means that European Jewscould not have enjoyed such delicacies as Latkes and Potato Knishes until atleast the 17thcentury.
1588: As the English continued their fight against the Armada,whose victory would have brought the Inquisition to the Netherlands whereSephardic Jews had found a refugee, today, “the English sent five fireshipstoward the Spanish fleet, which avoided being damaged by scattering which gavethe English an edge in the decisive Battle of Gravelines.
1609: Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English SeaVenture, en route to Virginia. “Historically, few Jews moved to Bermuda becauseof the harsh policies of the English toward Jews on the island in the 18thcentury. There is one place on the island, Jews Bay, which proves Jewishorigins in Bermuda. The name of the bay dates back to the early 1600s, and isconsidered to be named after a group of Jews who did business on theisland.”http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/bermuda.html
1627: Emperor Ferdinand II, “the terror of the Protestants” sent a“threatening letter” to the senate in Hamburg expressing his indignation that“the Lutheran city on the Elbe would not allow Catholics to build a church” butwould allow the Jews open a synagogue because of their importance in thetrading life of the city. The city relied on the support of PortugueseJews living in Amsterdam for financial support and had allowed a group of themto settle in the city.
1648:Three thousand Jewish children were killed by Chmeilnicki's hordes inKonstantnow.
1666:As the English battled with the French for control of the islands off of theAmericas, a force under Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham,under whose leadership a group of Sephardic Jews migrated to Suriname in 1652and “settled in the Jodensavanne area” prowled off Martinique and thenGuadeloupe, where he sent a frigate to assault the harbor.”
1677:In Saint Michael, Barbados, Rodriguez Marques and Rachell Laborde gave birth tofuture New York resident, Isaac Rodriguez Marques the husband of Rachel Simpsonwith whom he had 8 children.
1754(9thof Av, 5514): Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time during the French andIndian War.
1764:In York, PA, Shinah Solomon and Elijah Etting gave birth to Solomon Etting, theBaltimore businessman and politician who led thesuccessful fight to end Maryland’s laws that banned non-Christians from holdingpublic office and practicing law and who married Rachel Gratz after the deathof his first wife, Rachel Simon.
1765(10th Av, 5525): Tish’a B’Av observed on the sameday “Empress Xiaoyichun was granted the title of Imperial Noble Consort Ling (令皇貴妃), which was second only to Empress Ulanara.”
https://mummipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Empress_Xiaoyichun
1768: Birthdate of Isaac Gomez, Jr. the author of “a manuscriptentitled ‘The Genealogy of the Gomez Family Down to the Year 1826’.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43057642?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
1773(8thof Av, 5533): Erev Tish’a B’Av observed for the first time after the passage ofTea Act which led to the Boston Tea Party which led to the American Revolution.
1776: Jonas Phillips “sent a letter to a relative and businesscorrespondent of his in Holland, Gumpel Samson by way of the Dutch Island ofSt. Eustatius. The letter begins by discussing his last letter and otherbusiness matters. He moves on to discuss the conflict with England andlaconically mentions that the Americans have 100,000 soldiers to the British25,000. He finishes the letter with an appendix of items he want sent toAmerica so he may sell them. There are two important things about thisletter. First, Jonas enclosed within the letter a newly-minted copy of theDeclaration of Independence. And secondly, Jonas wrote the letter in Yiddish.Since at war with Britain Jonas would have expected the letter to beintercepted, but by writing in Yiddish they would not be able to read it. TheBritish did intercept the letter and not knowing in language it was writtenconcluded it was in code.” Phillips was born in Germany in 1736 and came toAmerica in 1756. After working as an indentured servant in Charleston SC,he moved North, eventually settling in New York City where he became asuccessful merchant who was active in the Jewish community of both NYC andPhiladelphia and supporter of the American Revolution. He was thegrandfather of Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish Commodore in the UnitedStates Navy.
1762(8th of Av, 5522): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1770(15th Av, 5520): Tu’Bav
1773(8th Av, 5533): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1775(1st of Av, 5535): Rosh Chodesh Av
1779(15th of Av, 5539): Tu B’Av observed on the sameday that during the American Revolution, under heavy covering fire from theTyrannicide, Hunter, and Sky Rocket, American Brigadier General Peleg Wadsworthled an assault force of 400 (200 marines and 200 militia)[34] ashore beforedawn at Dyce's Head on the western tip of the peninsula with orders to captureFort George.
1786: Joseph Abraham Stelicki, a well-educated middle-classCatholic who converted to Judaism was not charged with failure to pay thespecial taxes on Jews because he was deemed to “be mentally unbalanced.”
1789(5th of Av, 5549): Meir ben Saul Barby the scholar who escapedpoverty and served as rabbi at congregations at Halberstadt and Halle-on-the-Salle.
1792((9thof Av, 5552): Parsahat Devarim, Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av observed as anarmy of Austrians and Prussians invaded France in the first year of the “War ofthe First Coalition.”
1794: French political leader and revolutionary, MaximilienRobespierre meets his fate with the guillotine. Whatever his othershortcomings, Robespierre took the unpopular stance of advocating full rightsfor the Jews of France when the subject first was debated in 1789.In parthe stated, “How can you blame the Jews for the persecution they have sufferedin certain countries? These are, on the contrary, national crimes that wemust expiate by restoring to them the imprescribable rights of man of which nohuman authority can deprive them…Let us give them back their happiness, theircountry and their virtue by restoring them their dignity as men andcitizens…The vices of the Jews are born of the abasem*nt in which you[Christians] have plunged them. Raise their condition and they willspeedily rise to it!”
1797: Sixteen-year-old Baltimore native Zipporah Russell, thedaughter of Philip Moses Russell and the granddaughter of Dr. Samuel Nunez, theSephardic Jew who brought the first Torah to Savannah, GA, married Isaac D.Mordecai today.
1808: Birthdate of Salomon (Solomon) Formstecher, “a German rabbiand student of Jewish theology.”
1809(15th of Av. 5569): Tu B’Av
1811(7th of Av, 5571):
1812: In Warsaw Jan Kraszewski and Zofia Kraszewska née Malskagave birth to Józef Ignacy Kraszewski author ofThe Jewsinwhich the protagonist Jacob, a “highly-educated and philosophical Jews” “isforced to take part in the revolution” “against his will” and who “found manycolorful words to describe Jewish women of whom he wrote “Nearby industriousJewess sit in their little stores, aloof from the crowds of people, and withtheir shrieks and yells they call people in, tempt them, beg, pull in ,quarrel, bargain, even fight – with astonishing multitasking astuteness andunappreciated talent.”
1814: Birthdate of Betty Berta Warburg.
1817(15th of Av, 5577): Tu B’Av
1817: In London, Isaac Isaacs and Elizabeth Davis gave birth toBarnett Isaacs.
1821: Jose de San Martin declares Peru’s independence from Spain.San Martin was one of the great leaders in the fight to free South America fromSpanish rule. At the time of Peru’s liberation from Spanish rule,whatever Jewish population existed in “the land of the Incas” was made ofconversos or secret Jews. The Jewish Peruvians slowly made their presenceknown but it was not until the middle of the 19thcentury thatthey would become an open, functioning community.
1822(10thof Av, 5582) Fast of Tisha B’Av observed
1830: In Lauterbourg, France “David Caspari and the formerCharlotte Baruch gave birth to Leopold Caspari who came to the United Statesafter the Revolution of 1848 and settle in Natchitoches, Louisiana which heeventually represented in the state legislature where he worked for thecreation of what is now Northwestern State University.
1833: In Lengsfeld, Menke Barkhouse and Bertha Schwab gave birthto Louisville, KY resident Louis Barkhouse, the husband of Nancy C. Sikels whowas the “director of the Jewish Hospital” and “president of Congregation AdathIsrael.
1834(21stof Tammuz, 5594):Abraham HirshLwow passed away today.
1836(14thof Av, 5596): Nathan Mayer Rothschild,the founder of the London branch of the House of Rothschild passed away. TheJewish Virtual Library provides an interesting synopsis of his life.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/RothschildN.html
1836: Herman and Johanna Diamant gave birth to Jeanette JohannaHerzl, who married Jacob Herzl and became the mother of Theodor Herzl.
1837(25th of Tammuz, 5597): Solomon M. Hyams, theDublin born son of Judith Hyams and husband of Rebecca Hyams and CatherineHyams passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1841(10thof Av, 5601): Revolutionary War veteranand medical doctor David Sarzedas, the husband of Sarah Sarzedas and father ofDavid Sarzedas, Jr. passed away today in Charleston, SC
1841: In “ho*ringhausen, Germany, Sarah and Hirsch Böhm” gavebirth to “real estate developer” Abraham Boehm who was married to Ida Knoblochand Hazel Handforth.
1844:In Bechtheim, Germany, Abraham Love and Jeanette Joseph gavebirth to Leo Loeb the husband of Rosetta Wolf, who staring in 1891 beganserving as the President of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum inPhiladelphia.
1847(15th of Av, 5607): Tu B’Av
1847: Jacob Waley married Matilda Solomon in the Great Synagoguetoday.
1849(9th of Av, 5609): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’aB’Av
1849: The First National Assembly of Hungary led by therevolutionary leader Kossuth, granted complete political and civil rights tothe Jews in recognition of their loyalty.
1851: In Maryland, “Sophie (née Baer) and Joseph Sachs, bothJewish immigrants from Bavaria, Germany” gave birth to Samuel Sachs, thebrother of Julius, Emily, Henry and Bernard Sachs and husband of LouisaGoldman, the daughter of Marcus Goldman whose business he joined after workingwith Philip Lehman of Lehman brothers eventually necessitating the firm beingcalled “Goldman Sachs.”
1852: In Maryland, Solomon Eliel and Ellen Goldschmidt gave birthto Hanna Eliel, the wife of Henry Pretzfedler, the “senior member of thewholesale shoe firm of Pretzfelder and Company, and mother of Gertrude and Miriam Pretzfelder.
1852: Rabbi Lyon officiated at the wedding of P.S. Jacobs fromColumbia, SC and Mary Ann Adler of Charleston, SC.
1854: Hyman Cohen, the husband of Maria Cohen with whom he had sixchildren – Matilda, Rachel Lionel, Lawrence, Alfred and David - was laidto rest today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1855(13th of Av, 5615):Eighty-year-old Salomon Mayer vonRothschild the second son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild and the founder of theViennese branch of the House of Rothschild whose children were Anselm Salomonvon Rothschild and Betty Salomon passed away today. A measure of hisaccomplishments can be seen by the fact that in 1822 Emperor Francis I awardedhim the hereditary title of “Baron” making the Jewish financier a part of theAustrian nobility.
1855: Today’s “Foreign Extracts” column reported that John Abrams,a Polish Jew, has been charged with trying to induce members of the ForeignLegion stationed at Shorncliffe to desert. Based on the questioning of officersand enlisted men, it is believed that Abrams is an agent of the Russiangovernment. [This episode took place during the Crimean War when Britainand France were fighting Russia.]
1858(17thof Av, 5618): Sixty-five-year-old Frenchbanker Benoît (Bénédict) Fould, the husband of Helena Oppenheim, the daughterof Salomon Oppenhiem, who was also “active in Jewish communal affairs” passedaway today.
1859: Three days after he had passed away, David Jonassohn waslaid to rest today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1859: Birthdate of Professor Herman Volrath Hilprecht, the Germanand American trained archaeologist who was “in charge of the University ofPennsylvania Babylonian Expedition at Nippur which has discovered cuneiformtablets which confirm that the history of the Babylonian Empire, the Empirethat destroyed the First Temple at Jerusalem, “can be traced back to seventhousand years before Christ.”
1860(9thof Av, 5620): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’av observed forthe last time during the pathetic presidency of James Buchanan.
1861:A review ofHistory of CivilizationbyThomas Buckle reports that "Jews and heretics were persecuted withunrelenting vigor" in pre-711 Spain when Arian Visigoths and the orthodoxFranks were contesting for power.
1861: Three days after she had passed way, fifty-five-year-oldMary Solomons, the wife of Lewis Marks was buried today at the “Brompton(Fulham Road) Synagogue.
1863:As the United States implemented a draft during theCivil War that resulted in a major riot in July of 1863, it was reported todaythat “a Jew broker, from New-York, reached West Chester with a dozen men tohire out as substitutes. The men boasted that they were from New-York, and wereengaged in the late riots.”
1863: In Strassburg, West Prussia, “Rabbi Samuel H. Willner andSarah Hertzfeld gave birth to Yale University and Johns Hopkins Universityeducated Wolff Willner who served as the Rabbi at Congregation Ohen Sholom inNewark, NJ, Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, TX, the Eden Street Synagogue in Baltimore, MDand, Congregation Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi starting in 1895.
1863: During the Civil War, First Sergeant Emanuel Myers ofCompany I of the 165thRegiment and Quartermaster MiltonSultzbach of the 166thRegiment were mustered out of the UnionArmy.
1866: In London, England, Esther Ascoli and Jonas Vaz-Martines whomarried at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in 1865 gave birth to David IsaacVaz-Martines, the husband of Katie Levy whom he married at Bevis Marks Synagoguein 1893..
1868(9th of Av, 5628) Tish’a B’Av
1868: The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United Statesis certified, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing dueprocess of law.The“Due Process Clause” prohibits state and localgovernments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property withoutcertain steps being taken to ensure fairness. This clause has been used to makemost of the Bill of Rights applicable to the individual states, which was aboon for Jewish interests because of the language in the First Amendment thatguarantees freedom of religion.
1868: Birthdate of French poet and Zionist André Spire
1870: On what would turn out to be the last night of his life,prominent New Yorker Benjamin Nathan went to sleep on mattresses on the second-floorreception room of his mansion. Nathans’ house was being renovated so hecould not spend the night in his bedroom. His son Frederick returned to thehouse before midnight. His otherson, Washington, returned after midnight when his father was already asleep.
1872: Birthdate of Russia native and Royal Academy of Viennatrained sculptor Alexandre Zeitlin, the creator of portrait busts and statuettes“many famous persons including Emile Zola, Albert Einstein and King Edward VII”and the husband of Sophie Zeitlin.
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/alexander-zeitlin-5543
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/03/05/88337509.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1872(22nd of Tammuz, 5632): William Moss, Jr., the infant son ofMary Norohna and William Moss passed away today.
1874: Birthdate of Breslau, Germany native and “renownedphilosopher” Ernst Cassirer “who was ousted from a professorship at theUniversity of Hamburg under the Aryan and political conformity sections of theHitler Civil Service Act” and came United States in 1941 where he became avisiting professor of philosophy at Columbia where he and his wife Toni BondyCassirer raised three children – Heinrich, Georg and Anne.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cassirer/
1875: Birthdate of Jacob Solomons who gained famed as John Parkerauthor ofWho's who in the theatre; a biographical record of thecontemporary stageandThe Green Room Book: Who’s Who on theStage.
1875: Sir Moses Montefiore visited the large Ashkenazi synagoguein Jerusalem where he was greeted by Haham Bashi who later entertained theBritish nobleman at his home. A crowd of 20,000 that included Jews,Muslims and Christians, greeted the Baronet as he walked the streets of theCity of David.
1876” In Zutphen, Netherlands, Julie Winter and Leser Schwartz, gavebirth to Samuel Leser Schwarz, the painter,graphic artist and book cover designer known as Mommie Schwarz, the husband ofElsie Berg and despite reports that he “had cult all ties with Judaism” wasdeported to Weterbork and then shipped to Auschwitz where he was murdered atthe age of 66.
1876: The German parliament passed the Austrittsgesetz, whichallowed Jews to secede from their religious community which led “Samson RaphaelHirsch of Frankfurt, who had campaigned for the law to be passed, to declarethat Orthodox Jews in Frankfurt had the duty to officially secede from thenon-Orthodox Grossgemeinde.”
1877:Birthdate of Philadelphia native and NYU trained attorney Herbert Louis May,the former counsel to the High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany
1879(8th of Av, 5639): Erev Tish'a B'Av
1879: In Paris, Helene and Leon Yehudah Tedesco gave birth toGiacomo Tedesco.
1881: “The Troubles In Russia” published today described “thedisinclination” of the United States to join European governments in a proposedcommunique being sent to the Czar to protest Russia’s treatment of her Jewssince it has “already instructed its Minister to Russia on the subject.”
1882(10thof Av, 5582): Tish’a B’Av
1882: The Polish Jews traveling in steerage got the fright oftheir life today when the SS. Gellert caught fire as it sailed from New York toHamburg. The fire which was caused by smoldering tobacco melted part ofthe iron deck before it was extinguished.
1882: In New York City, “Max and Rae (Frankel) Stern gave birthNYU trained attorney Adolph Stern, “a member of the New York State Assembly”for two years, the husband of the former Blanche Moshkovitz and an activeleader of the Jewish community as can be seen by his service as Grandmaster andcounsel for the International Order of B’nai B’rith, director of the AssociatedHebrew Day Nursery and Infants Home and member of the “Advisory Board ofEditors for the 1926 edition of the “Who’s Who in American Jewry.”
1883: In Russia, Moses and Isabelle (Kuklinsky) Fox gave birth toUniversity of Chicago graduate ad HUC trained rabbi Gresham George Fox, thehusband of Hortense Lewis who served as the Rabbi for Congregation Beth El inFt. Worth, TX and found the South Short Temple of Chicago in 1922.
1883: At Nyireghyhaza, Hungary, where a group of Jews has beencharged with murdering a Christian girl the prosecution and defense gave theirsummations today. The prosecution contended that for the Jews, “ritualmurder was common and frequent.” The defense “derided the charge” thatJews shed Christian blood as part of their rituals and said the charge was alie used to “excite Christians against Jews.”
1884: James R. Osgood & Company has publishedStrayLeaves from Strange Literature, a collection of myths and legends includingsome from the Jewish people, by Lafacdio Hearn.
1884:A court circular from Marlborough House dated todaynoted that Walter Goodman had submitted the portrait of The Duke of Albany tothe Prince and Princess of Wales, from where it was currently displayed at TheGuildhall. Goodman was the second generation of Jewish painters in his familysince his mother was Julia Salaman.
1885(16th of Av, 5645): Sir Moses Montefiore, one of the mostfamous and influential Jew of the 19thcentury passed away inthe 101styear of his long and fruitful life. Ironically, whilemany Jews living in the 21stcentury have heard the nameMontefiore in connection with a particular institution or building, includingthe famous Windmill in Jerusalem, few know much about his lifetime ofaccomplishments. There is no way that this Blog can do him justice.These websites should help fill in some of the gaps.
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/110.3/green.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/770671/jewish/Sir-Moses-Montefiore.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/montefiore.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD4ERPVUGHM
1886: “Europeans in Persia” published today described the impactthat westerners were having on Tehran including the local Jewish populationwhich has benefited from the arrival of a Jewish dentist, doctor and “chemist”(pharmacist).
1886: In Pittsburgh, PA, “Herman and Lena (Berger) Gross gavebirth to Howard Albert Gross who went from being an executive in the autosupply business, to serving as secretary and treasurer of the InternationalRealty Company, to serving as secretary of the S and S Film and Supply Companywhich, thanks to growing popularity of motion pictures “yielded himincreasingly larger returns” while at the same time being a member of theAmericus Republican Club and a member, with his wife, the former Clara Griffithswas a member of Congregation Rodeph Shalom.
1886: The Castle Garden Committee of the Commissioners ofEmigration is scheduled to meet today to consider the offer of several New Yorkrabbis to provide financial guarantees for recently arrived Jewish immigrantsfrom Russia so that they would not be deported as paupers.
1887: Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike, reportedly one of thefirst professional Jewish players played his last game today as a member of theNew York Metropolitans. (This 19thcentury team should not beconfused the modern day NY Mets)
1887: Today, the members of the Progress Club whose founders hadincluded Levi Samuels, Jesse S. Epstein, Henry Goodman and Charles Eisig “soldits building for $105,000 and spent double that amount--$235,000 to be exact—onthe 100-square foot corner lot on Fifth Avenue at 63rd Street.
1888:Yellow Fever” seeped into Jacksonville, today at the same that Jacob Cohen wasmaking his mark in the dry goods business in Florida’s “northern metropolis.”
1890: In Mayfair, London, Albert and Augusta Lessing gave birth tobarrister, WW I and WW II veteran and Liberal party politician Edward AlbertLessing.
1890: “Manning and the Jews” published today described the plansof several prominent English Jews including “Dr. Adler, the acting chief rabbi,Sir Julian Goldsmid, Mr. Frederick D. Mocatta, Sir John Simon Mr. Claude G.Montefiore and others” to present Cardinal Manning “with an illuminated addressof congratulations on the occasion of his silver jubilee” on “behalf of theJews of Great Britain.” The gift shows the high esteem in which theCardinal is held by the Jewish community who greatly appreciated his efforts onbehalf of the Jews of Russia.
1891: The Russian Jews who came to Boston on board the SS Kansashave been detained because of the requirements of the new immigration laws.
1891(22nd of Tammuz, 5651): Six-month-old MiltonZeisler, the Chicago born son of Irma and Rabbi Joseph Zeisler passed awaytoday.
1889: Dr. Cyrus Adler of John Hopkins University will deliver alecture on “The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser” at Cooper Union in NewYork. The lecture is part of the Summer Course sponsored by JTS.
1890:In London, Henry van den Bergh, the Dutch born on of Simon van den Bergh andElisabeth van der Wielen and his wife of Henriette Charlotte van den Bergh gavebirth to Captain Seymour Jacob Henry van den Bergh
1891:In Shreveport, LA, Ben and Stella Baer Holzman gave birth to Hortense HolzmanCarlisle and the wife of Dr. Joseph Conn whom she married in 1909 and most importantof all, the mother of actress and television personality Kitty Carlisle, thewife playwright Moss Hart.
1891: The Sanitarium for Hebrew Children is scheduled to sponsoran excursion that will sail up the Hudson River.
1893:“The PhiladelphiaJewish Exponentannouncedthat Henrietta Szold would be moving to Philadelphia from her home in Baltimoreto serve as the secretary and first paid employee of the Jewish PublicationSociety (JPS). Szold had been elected as the only female member of the JPSpublication committee when the organization was founded in 1888 in order toprovide a steady series of substantive works of Jewish culture to an Americanaudience. Despite the initial apathy and opposition that the JPS encountered,Szold committed herself to the society, at one point "personallyaddressing eleven hundred circulars and membership blanks" although in theend they only yielded 75 responses. She had already served the organization asan author, translator, and editor, but now she would be a paid employee. WhileHenrietta Szold's most significant impact on Jewish life would come after shefounded Hadassah, the Zionist women's organization in 1912, her work at JPSconstituted a major contribution to the creation of an American Jewish culture.TheJewish Exponentarticle about her move to JPS suggeststhat, even before the formal commencement of this work, Szold was recognized asa woman who had and would continue to play an important role in the AmericanJewish community. Szold had already established herself as an educator and,through newspaper columns, as an astute observer of Jewish life. According tothe Exponent article, "no one better equipped could be found than MissSzold." Upon being offered the job of secretary in 1893, Szold withdrewfrom her positions in Baltimore, including her role as superintendent of theRussian night-school of the Hebrew Literary Society. As the school's founder,superintendent, fundraiser and one of its teachers, she had, according to thearticle, surrounded herself with teachers "whom she has made thoroughlyconversant with her masterful manner of teaching English to Russo-Jewishimmigrants and in the sympathetic manner of engaging their undivided attentionso as to develop in them an appreciation of American ideals." Szold's workfor JPS was monumental. Although she worked under the title and salary ofsecretary, she served as translator, indexer, fact checker, proofreader,statistician, administrator, and editor, overseeing the publication of 87 booksduring her tenure. Szold's clear mind, exhaustive dedication, and meticulousattention to detail enabled the Society to offer a remarkable literary andscholarly array. Many of the translations and original works published by JPSduring this time still inform contemporary American Jewish culture andscholarship. A new Bible translation and the series of American Jewish YearBooks that commenced publication in 1900 began to define the contours of adistinctive American Jewish intellectual world. After twenty-two years, Szoldwithdrew from JPS work in 1916 when a group of Zionists offered to provide herwith an annuity in order to support her growing work for Hadassah.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/28/1893/jewish-publication-society
1893: Birthdate of Telechany, Poland native Bessie (Basha) Riff,the wife of Rabbi Natofly Riff, the “spiritual leader of Congregation of Sonsof Israel” which was “popularly known in Camden, New Jersey’s Jewish Communityas the ‘8thStreet Schul’’ who came to America in 1923, wasnaturalized in 1924 and was the mother of their daughter Roselyn.
1893: “Driven From Home By Fire” published today described theaftermath of the tenement on Clinton Street which included Morris Lewenthal’sloss of his butter and provision store which cost the Russian Jewish immigrant$500 in losses that were not insured.
1894: In Rochester, NY, Tillie Berger and “Bernard Rose the own ofan optics factor gave birth to University of Rochester graduate Sadie RoseWeilerstein the wife of Rabbi Baruch Reuben Weilerstein with whom she had fourchildren – Herschel, Judith, Deborah and Ruth -- who was the creator of “the characterK’tonton, who became a beloved Jewish story-book hero”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weilerstein-sadie-rose
1895: Louis Parnes and Clara Asia Parnes gave birth to SamuelRandolph Parness, the husband of Rose Meyerson Parnes with whom he had fivechildren.
1895: “Jordan Ceased To Flow” published today includes a summaryof an article by Lt. Col C.M. Watson of the Royal Engineers that had appearedin the last quarterly of the Palestine Exploration of London which described “astoppage in the flow of the River Jordan” that had occurred in the 14thcenturywhich bore “a likeness to the miraculous” stoppage “of the river at the time ofthe…Israelites.”
1895: Founding of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association inSpringfield, MA whose members included Henry Lakser, L.J. Steinberg and PaulKramer.
1896: Twenty-year-old George H. Webb is scheduled to appear incourt today to face charges of abduction after having failed to agree todivorce Dora Webb, a sixteen-year-old Jewess whom he secretly married but neverlived with.
1891930(3rdof Av, 5690): Sixty-two-year-old Alfred S. Guggenheimer, the New York born “sonof Simon Guggenheimer and Fredericka Guggenheimer, the husband of Rebecca E. Guggenheimer and fatherof Claire Guggenheimer Schlesinger Friend and Robert A. Guggenheimer who waspresident of the United Manufacturing Company and the Fiberloid Corporation aswell as “a director of the Home forHebrew Infants” passed away today.
1896: The City of Miami is incorporated. According to one sourceSamuel Singer was reportedly the first Jew to move to Miami, arriving there in1895. Others report that Isidor Cohen who signed the city’s charter in 1896deserves the honor. There were enough Jews in the city when it was founded tohold regular religious services. But the population dwindled in the firstdecade of the 20thcentury. The anti-Semitic practices ofearly developers hampered the growth of what today is one of the largest Jewishcommunities in the United States.
1896: Birthdate of Florence Bierman, the New York City native andgraduate of Barnard College who as Florence Perlman, the wife of Justice NathanD. Perlman was a member of the New York State Commission for HumanRights, chairman of The Jewish National fund and national secretary, vicepresident and treasurer of the National Board of Hadassah
1897: Two days after she had passed away, fifty-five-year-old JaneCohen, the wife of Goodman Cohen, was buried at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery inLondon.
1897: Birthdate of Russian native and St. Lawrence Universitytrained attorney Sidney Gondelman, “the president and chairman of the CentralFoundry Company” and the husband of “the former Rae Schonfeld,” with whom hehad two sons, Herbert and George.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/03/archives/sidney-gondelman.html?searchResultPosition=1
1897: In Burgkunstadt, Upper Franconia, Karl Iglauer and his wifegave birth to Elsie Pelz, the wife of Emil Pelz and mother of Irene Rose Freimark.
1898(9thof Av, 5658): Tisha B’Av
1898: Meyer Bendit, the Bavarian born son of Jeannette andLippmann Bendit, and his wife “Amalie (Emily) Bendit gave birth to Kurt MartinBendit
1899: John Ireland, the Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Paul, MNtold friends in New York that while in France he did not see as much “turmoilover the Dreyfus” as reported in the press and “that the decision of thecourt-martial, whatever it may be, will be accepted as final since the matteris no longer seen as involving the honor of the army.”
1899: Messrs. Heinemann announces the publication of two books ofinterest because of the Dreyfus case. One is by Lionel Decle, an AnglicizedFrenchman. The other isThe Modern Jew, by Arnold White.
1900(2nd of Av, 5660): Parashat Matot-Masei; as theJews are completing the book of Numbers, King Umberto was murdered by ananarchist in what was part of a wave of assassinations that were part of thepre-World War I lanscape
1901: The fifth annual session of the summer assembly of theJewish Chautauqua Society came to an end.
1901: After more than a month of effort, Arnold Schönbergcompletes his work “on the opera-fragment "Die Schildbürger"(dramatic setting of Gustav Schwab's short story of the same name).”
1902(23rd of Tammuz, 5662): Rabbi Jacob Joseph passedaway.Born in Krozhe, a province of Kovno, in 1840, he studied in theVolozhin yeshiva under the Netziv, where he was known as "Rav YaakovCharif" because of his sharp mind. He was one of the foremost students ofRabbi Yisrael Salanter. He became successively rabbi of Vilon in 1868, Yurburgin 1870, Zhagory and then Kovno. His fame as a preacher spread, so that in 1883the community of Vilna selected him as its maggid. He came to the United Statesin 1888 where he served as chief rabbi of New York City's Association ofAmerican Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, a federation of Eastern European Jewishsynagogues. The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School is named after him, and a playgroundis named after and honors the memory of a great-grandson of Rabbi Jacob Josephwho carried his name.
1902: In Vienna, Simon Siegmund Carl Popper, “a lawyer fromBohemia” and Jenny Schiff gave birth to philosopher Karl Popper whosegrandparents were all Jewish but who was raised as a Lutheran because hisfamily had converted before he was born.In an all-too-common pattern, Popperleft Austria in 1937 to avoid the pending Nazi takeover. He made his wasto New Zealand where he continued his academic work. In 1946 he moved toEngland where he gained further fame as a member of the faculty of the London Schoolof Economics.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/
Board of Deputies for the Transvaal and Natal.
1904: In Camden, NJ, Birthdate of Emory trained attorned and Miamibusiness executive Max Orovitz, an officer in the General Jewish Federation anda member of the board of the University of Miami.
1904: Vyacheslav von Plehve, the director the Czar’s Secret Policeand Interior Minister was killed by a bomb thrown by a revolutionary.Plehve was the Interior Minister during the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903. Hereportedly gave orders for government forces not to interfere with the riotersduring the three days of carnage.
1905:The New York Timesreported that Max Nordaugave an “eloquent eulogy” in memory of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of theZionist movement at the opening session of the Seventh Annual Zionist Congress.Herzl passed away in 1904.
1905: In the UK, the Evening Standard published “Friday Night atBevis Marks Synagogue” by Samuel Lewis Bensusan who served as editor JewishWorld in 1897 and 1898.
1906: Birthdate of the Laborite Lord Mayor of Newcastle BenjaminErnest (Bennie) Abrahams, the native of Burton-on-Trent and husband of MarionShapiro whom he married in 1939 with whom they had one son David Abrahams.
1907: Birthdate of Goldie (Promsik) Arguss, the wife of ArthurArguss and “sister of Louis Peromsik; Meyer Peromsik; Nathan Peromsik; CeliaPeromsik and Morris Peromsik.’
1907: In Brooklyn, Louis and Lena Yablok gave birth to Julius“Izzy” Yablock, the quarterback for Colgate University from 1926 to 1929 andquarterback for the NFL Brooklyn Dodgers who coached football for St. FrancisCollege, was a law partner of the famous Mickey Marcus and the husband ofMiriam Yablock.
1908: Adelphi College graduate and Washington University LawSchool graduate Phillip L. Seman, the Polish born so of Salk Geizler and LouisSeman married Beatrice Prigozen todaywhile serving as the Superintendent of the Jewish Educational Alliance of St.Louis who continued his career in “social service” in Chicago while authoringsuch works as “The Jews and Americanism.”
1908:It was reported today that George M. Cohan will be one of those appearing atthe upcoming annual benefit of the Hebrew Infants Asylum of New York City.
1909: The cornerstone for Gymnasia Herzliya’s new building onHerzl Street in the Ahuzat Bayit neighborhood of Tel Ave took place. Founded atJaffa in 1905, it was the first Hebrew high school in what would become thestate of Israel.
1909: British Ambassador Sir Gerald Lowther visited the Hahambashi(Chief Rabbi) in Constantinople.
1909: Birthdate of Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss, acontract killer for Murder, Inc.
1910: In Zurich, Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Maricgave birth to their second Eduard Einstein.
1911: In London, Sir Matthew Nathan was appointed Chairman of theBoard of Inland Revenue.
1911: The King of Spain, who exercises sovereignty in Mellila,Morocco, replies favorably to the petition of these Moroccan Jews for equalrights since they pay taxes and serve in the army. The liberal press commendsthe Spanish Monarch's attitude and hopes for annulment of discriminatory lawsstill in force against the Jews.
1911: In Holyoke, MA, “Joseph and Minnie Davis) Goldenberg gavebirth to Julliard graduate Morris Goldenberg, the percussionist, composer andfor almost thirty years a faculty member of his alma mater who raised twochildren – William and Lucille – with his wife, the former Isabella Leon.
https://www.pas.org/about/hall-of-fame/morris-goldenberg
1912:Today, Morris D. Waldman, the manager of the United Hebrew Charities said thathe had investigated an organization called the Federation of Citizens Peddlersand found that its claim to be holding a mass meeting was really part of theattempts by the those who rent pushcarts and who make money by renting pushcartpeddlers advantageous position to prevent the establishment of pushcart marketsat the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges.
1913: In what turn out to be the worst single act of anti-Semitismin the United States, Leo Frank went on trial for the murder of MaryPhagan.
1913(23rdof Tammuz, 5673): “Herman Hinckowitz,ex-grand master of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham who was born inHungary 55 years ago” and came to the United States 30 years ago passed awaytoday in Chicago.
1913: A “free dispensary” is scheduled to open today at theMaimonides Hospital on South California Avenue.
1914: According to an appraisal filed today by the State TaxAssessor, the estate of the late Dr. Morris Loeb has a gross value of$2,474,585. The largest beneficiary of the estate was his widow, Mrs. EdaK. Loeb and Harvard College. He left several bequests to numerous Jewishand non-Jewish charities the Hebrew Technical Institute and the Solomon andBetty Loeb Memorial Home for Convalescents. "Mrs. Loeb, Felix M.Warburg, Paul Warburg and Julius Goldman are the executors of the estate."
1914: In St. Petersburg, the Twelfth InternationalOphthalmological Congress which Jewish physicians were promised they couldattend without any of the usual restrictions on the “length of sojourn” wasscheduled to open today.
1914: The Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbiathus starting World War I. The war will prove devastating for the Jews ofEastern Europe. Even worse, it will sow the seeds for the Second WorldWar. There is a straight line between the decisions reached in the heatof the summer of 1914 and the ashes of Auschwitz.
1914: On the day Austria declared war on Serbia, German economistMoritz Julius Born and his wife found themselves on board the passenger shipGeorge Washington which was taking them to the United States where he wasscheduled to serve visiting professorships at the University of California, theUniversity of Wisconsin and Cornell University.
1915: Following the aborted attempt on his life, nothing Leo Frankcontinued to heal from his wounds.
1916: Birthdate of Gerhart Friedlander, “a veteran of theManhattan Project…and a pioneer of nuclear chemistry who later exploited thefirst particle accelerators to do major research as head of the chemistrydepartment at Brookhaven National Laboratory.”
1917(9thof Av, 5677): Shabbat Chazon, ParashatDevarim, Erev Tish’a B’Av
1917(9thof Av, 5677): Eighty-four year old DanielTallerman, the native of London who arrived in Australia in 1853 and enteredinto several enterprises before establishing a business that dealt with theshipping of plain and kosher potted meat” passed away today in London.
http://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/tallerman-daniel-21111
1917: Birthdate of Irving Copilovich, the native of Duluth, MN whogained as philosopher and logician Irving Copi who among other things examinedthe possibility that the writings of Lewis Carroll were anti-Semitic.
http://forward.com/culture/217470/alice-in-anti-semitic-land/
1917: It was reported today that “The War Office has announced theformation of a special Jewish” infantry regiment whose “regimental badge willbe a copy of King David’s shield” and to which “Jewish soldiers with knowledgeof the Yiddish or Russian languages already serving with British regiments willbe transferred.”
1917: The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society sent a listto the New York Times of the “thousands of Jews in Russia and Poland seekingrelatives in the United States” who have not been able to make a connection yetalong with instructions of how those being sought can “get in touch with” theirsuffering co-religionists.
1918(19thof Av, 5678): Twenty-year-old CorporalHarry Weiner who had lived at “185 Rivington Street, NYC” and who was servingwith “Company M, 26thInfantry, U.S. Army” a part of theAmerican Expeditionary Force died at a “Base Hospital in France” after havingbeen wounded in action.
1918: Gavrilo Princip, “the assassin who started WW I” by killingthe Archduke Ferdinand died of tuberculosis in Theresienstadt, the sameTheresienstadt that would become the show ghetto during World War II.
1919: The 21stAnnual Convention of theProgressive Order of the West whose members included Samuel Handelman ofChicago, and Louis Levy of Kansas City continued to meet for a second day inChicago,
1919: Jacob Schiff was the toastmaster at a dinner tonight at theWaldorf Astoria for “Louis Marshall, the Chairman of the American-JewishConference” which had sent him to the Peace Conference which was given in hishonor by the Jews of New York City.
1919: Despite “the sweltering weather,” “more than 4,000 men,women and children” gathered at Carnegie Hall” to hear the report of LouisMarshall and his fellow delegates to the Paris Peace Conference describe theirwork during this major world events
1920: “The French Foreign office announced today that Emir Feisalis no longer King of Syria now that General Gouraud has captured Damascus andthat he is “a private citizen who has been invited to the country with all ofhis family” an offer some he has already accepted by fleeing to Jerusalem whichis under British control.
1921: “The Zionist Organization of America is in receipt of acable from Professor Albert Einstein in he emphatically disclaims the interviewhe is alleged to have givena Dutch journalist in which he criticizedunfavorably some of the institutions he observed in” the United States saying“I am not disappointed with America” and “in general I may say that my entireimpression of America was most favorable.”
1922: Birthdate of William Coblentz, one of California’s mostinfluential lawyers who battled Govenor Ronald Reagan, representedhostage/fugitive Patti Hearst and was “a donor both to the S.F.-based JewishCommunity Federation and the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.”
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/59260/attorney-and-civic-leader-william-coblentz-dies-at-88/
1922: On being released from prison after serving a fourweek long sentence, Hitler declares, “The Jewish people stands against us asour deadly foe and will so stand against us always, and for all time.”
1922: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson, writesChurchill expresses his (and other un-named supporters) opposition to Zionistactivity in Palestine.
1923(15thof Av, 5683): Shabbat Nachamu and TuB’Av
1923: In Moscow, Victoria and Isaac Raeff gave birth to Marc Raeffwho became one of America’s “scholars of Russian history.” (As reportedby Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/education/29raeff.html
1923: Opera life began in pre-statehood Israel today with theperformance of Verdi’s “La Traviata. The performance brought to life the visionof Mordechai Golinkin described in his thesis “The Vision of the Hebrew ArtTemple of Opera Work in Palestine.” Since there were opera houses in thenew Jewish city, the performance took place in a movie theatre.
1924: “Three hundred and fifty Jews accused of belonging toZionist organizations were arrested by the Soviet authorities in several townsof the Government of Podol.”
1925: “In Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ida (Simonoff) and MeyerBlumberg, a lawyer,” gave birth to Baruch “Barry” Samuel Blumberg, “the NobelPrize-winning biochemist and medical anthropologist who discovered thehepatitis B virus, showed that it could cause liver cancer and then helpeddevelop a powerful vaccine to fight it, saving millions of lives.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/health/07blumberg.html?pagewanted=all
1926: In the town of Bukacrowce, in southeastern Poland, Berta andJoel Mandel gave birth to Solomon Mandel, whose family got meat from schoctin“Joel Nagelberg and his son Shimon Nagelberg” who were murdered during theHolocaust and who were survived by “a grandson Joel Nagelbert.
1927: “Formation of an organization to be known as the Irish Jewsof America was announced today by twenty-five charter members of the societywhich held its first meeting at the home of Alexander Freeman where Jack S.Levine was chosen to serve as chairman.”
1928(11th of Av, 5688): Parashat Vaetchanan
1928: Max Adler, “the former vice president of Sears, Roebuck andCo. sailed today “on the S.S. Homeric for Europe” where he plans on making “astudy in connection with his plan to construct a planetarium” in Chicago forwhich he has donated a half million dollars.
1929: Exercises are scheduled to be held at the Gabels PublicTheatre marking the anniversary of the death of Theodore Herzl where thespeakers will include Jonah Goldstein and Chaim Greenberg.
1929:Charles M. Bender is the delegate from Texas attending the16thWorld Zionist Congress in Zurich.
TimesMachine: July 29, 1930 - NYTimes.com
1931: Birthdate of Françoise-Antoinette "Béatrice"Pancrazzi the second wife French musical artist Serge Gainsbourg.
1931(14thof Av, 5691): German Jewish physicistEmil Gabriel Warburg, a member of the famous Warburg family, passed away today.
1931: The 27th annual convention of the Progressive Order of theWest is scheduled to come to an endtoday at the Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis, MO.
1932: In Hartford, CT, “the former Lee Green” and Samuel Neusner,the publisher “ofThe Jewish Ledger, a weekly newspaper” gave birthto Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner. (As reported by William Grimes)
1933(5thof Av, 5693): Sixty-five-year-old Polishborn painter Leopold Pilichowski who moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 wherehe lived until he passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15770.html
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Pilichowski_Leopold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Pilichowski#/media/File:Leopold_Pilichowski_Sukkot.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Pilichowski#/media/File:Leopold_Pilichowski.jpg
1934(16thof Av, 5694): Shabbat Nachamu
1934: After 351 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre, thecurtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Men In White” thePulitzer Prize winning drama directed by Lee Strasberg with a cast thatincluded Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky, J. Edward Bromger, Sanford Meisner andClifford Odets.
1935(27th of Tammuz, 5695): Elias Werlinsky, thehusband of Bessie Werlinsky and the father of Morris Werlinsky and Jacob BaerWerlin passed away after which he was buried in the Montefiore Cemetery in AbingtonTownship, PA.
1935: “William Green, President of the American Federation ofLabor, called on the government tonight to take "appropriate action"against the Hitler regime in Germany to stop "brutal, inhumantreatment" of the laboring class, Jews and Catholics.”
1936(9th of Av, 5696): Tisha B’Av
1936(9th of Av, 5696): Forty-two-year-old “PhillipKlotz” the native of Austria husband of Hanna Kraus Klotz and AEF veteran whowas the “senior partner in the wholesale ribbon firm of Klotz Brothers” “diedsuddenly today at Belmar, NJ.
1936:The New Massespublishes “The Travels ofLester Cohen,” Robert Gessner’s review ofTwo Worldsby LesterCohen.
1936: Based on stories first carried inDer FuehreofKehl, it was reported today that “the woman manager of the German Labor Front’sBarcelona office was attacked by ‘Jews and German emigres’ who threatened toshoot her if she did not reveal the names and address of National Socialistdistrict leaders” after which this “mob poured petroleum over her, dragged herinto the street and threatened to burn her alive.” (Editor’s note – thisincident took place during the Spanish Civil War when the Germans sent troopsincluding air forces to fight on the side of Franco.)
1936: It was reported today that this September, Henry Holt willpublishSpring Up Oh Wellby Dorothy Ruth Kahn. The bookdescribes the growth of the Jewish community in Palestine, including thedevelopment of Tel Aviv and surrounding “hamlets.”
1937: Kfar Menahem, a moshav that had been abandoned in 1936during the Arab Revolt “was re-established as part of the tower and stockadeprogram.
1937: “Zelig Tygel, the executive director of the Federation ofPolish Jews of America sailed for Europe” today aboard the Queen Mary boundultimately for Antwerp where he “help make arrangements for the second world conferenceof the World Federation of Polish Jews Abroad” which will be held there inAugust.
1937:In Neuilly-sur- Seine Pierre-Gilles Veber, who wasJewish and his wife who was Armenian gave birth to Paul Veber. He escapedthe fate of his grand-uncle Tristan Barnard who was sent to Drancy since he wasbaptized.
1938: “In connection with the establishment of the new federationof Germans, it was pointed out here today that there were still 300,000 Jews inGerman, including those in annexed Austria.”
1938: “Any doubt of the real meaning of Field Marshal HermannGoering’s decree compelling Jews to register their property with the governmentwas dispelled when the Berlin Police President issued detailed instructionsregarding the legal formalities for the ‘Aryanization’ of Jewish businessenterprises.”
1939: On the Mediterranean Sea north of Tel Aviv, “authoritiesdetained 373 Jews today as unauthorized immigrants after the British destroyerImperial halted the Colorado, a vessel flying” the Panamanian flag.
1940: Hitler called for an intensification of anti-Jewish actionsin Slovakia.
1940(22ndofTammuz, 5700): Fifty-seven year old Riga born and NYU trained attorney Dr.Joseph Kahn, the holder of Ph.D. who lectured at NYU at City College and was asenior partner of Kahn and Zorn wjhile serving as a director of the HebrewNational Orphan Home Asylum in Yonkers, NY passed away today.
1940:Hugo Gutman and his family arrived in Vichy after escaping from Brussels andreceived the emigration permit today that would letthem enter Portugal.
1941:David Rose marries Judy Garland. It is the secondof Rose’s three trips to the altar. The third visit will be the one thatlasts.
1941: In Scranton, PA, Rabbi Melech Schachter and his wife gavebirth to Rabbi Herschel Schachter who followed in his father’s footsteps toserve as a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University.
1941: In Lithuania, the Nazis killed the Jews living in Anikshtand Vilkovishk.
1941: As German troops over run Russian territory, the killings ofJews increased in frequency and numbers.
1941:Local police and militiamen, acting with theacquiescence of SS troops at the prison at Drogobych, Ukraine, use guns, clubs,and fists to slaughter hundreds of Jews. The streets are choked with badlyinjured fleeing Jews and mangled corpses.
1941(4thof Av, 5701): Seventy-six-year-oldphotographer Jacob H. Perskie, the Minsk born resident of Baltimore who createdthe last official visual images of Franklin Roosevelt and who was the husbandof Lena Abramowitz with whom he had 13 children including his “eldest son LeonPerskie” who followed in his father’s photographic footsteps passed away today.
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/volozhin/vol_pages/stories_photographers.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/07/29/87649212.pdf
1941(4th of Av, 5701):German occupation troops in and aroundBelgrade, Yugoslavia, execute 122 Communists and Jews for resistance.
1941(4thof Av, 5701): Sixty-seven year old BenZion Halberstram the Second Bobover Rebbe was murdered today along with 20,000other Jews including his son and three sons-in-law who were shot.
1941(4th of Av, 5701):Forty mental patients from Lódz,Poland, are taken from a hospital and executed in a nearby forest.
1942(14th of Av, 5702): The Nazis killed 10,000 Jews in Minsk.
1942: Jacques Gunzig the son of Rabbi Asreil Gunzig and the formerAmalia Schreiber who had been born at Lostice in 1904 was murdered today atMauthausen.
1942:SS chief Heinrich Himmler writes to a senior SSofficial that the Occupied Eastern Territories "are to become free ofJews."
1942(14th of Av, 5702): Jewish parents in Tarnów, Poland, areforced to watch as their children are shot by Gestapo agents. The parents andother adults are subsequently deported to the camp at Belzec for extermination.
1942:In the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto, two male Jews, one just 16years old, are hanged after escaping a work gang.
1942:Young members of the Warsaw Ghetto establishZydowskaOrganizacja Bojowa(ZOB; Jewish Fighting Organization). At this time,the only weapon in the ghetto is a single pistol.
1942: Over the next three days 30,000 Jews are killed in Minsk,Belorussia.
1942: Karla “Raveh and her family — her parents, siblings, and twograndmothers — were deported to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia.”
1942: As Operation Reinhard entered its sixth day, a Jewishresistance group was set up. Their arsenal consisted of two pistols. OperationReinhard was the name given to the German plan to wipe out the Jewishpopulation of occupied Poland.
1942(14th of Av, 5702): In Tarnow, Poland, the Jewish childrenwere taken to the edge of town and shot. The rest of the town's Jews were takento Belzec.
1942: Eighty-nine-year-old Sir William Matthew Flinders Petriepassed away. The famed archaeologist made his first of many trips to Palestinein 1890 when led a dig at Tell el-Hesi. His most famous discovery came in1896 when he identified the ‘Israel’ or Merneptah stele.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/s/sir_william_matthew_flinders_p.aspx
1943: Using the information, they found on the dead bodiesof the members of the Leon Group, the Nazis entered the ghetto at Vilna andarrested 32 friends and family members of the murdered partisans. The 32were taken to the killing grounds of Ponar where they were executed. TheGermans published an announcement warning the family and friends of anybodyelse who planned to escape the ghetto that a one-way ticket to Ponar would betheir reward as well.
1943: Jan Karski, the Polish officer who risked his life to bringfirst reports of the conditions facing the Jews of Europe, including the massmurders and concentration camps met with President Roosevelt for an hour in theOval Office. British Foreign Minister had not shown any interest in hisreport and Prime Minister Churchill was “too busy” to see him. Beforemeeting with Roosevelt, Karski had met with Supreme Court Justice FelixFrankfurter who said, “I am unable to believe you.´Karski began by describingthe activities of the Polish underground. The president listened withfascination, asked questions and offered unsolicited advice, some of it a biteccentric -- such as his idea of putting skis on small airplanes to flyunderground messengers between England and Poland during the winter. But whenKarski related details of the mass killings of the Jews, Roosevelt had nothingto say. The president was, as Karski politely put it, "rathernoncommittal." (Editor’s note – The British were too busy, FDR wasnot. As to being “noncommittal” the reality was that the war was notgoing well and that is a gross understatement. At this point the Allieshad just landed in Sicily, were still trying to win the Battle of the Atlanticand had only scratched the surface of the Island Hopping Campaign against Japan
1943: During World War II the British bomb Hamburg causing afirestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. In a twist of irony, the missionis named Operation Gomorrah. (There is no record of an air mission calledOperation Sodom.)
1943: In Chicago, Harold Bloomfield, the founder of BloomfieldIndustries, and the former Dorothy Klein gave birth to guitar playing composerMike Bloomfield, the older brother of Allen Bloomfield.
http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/nbio3.htm
https://bolesblogs.com/2010/08/30/the-madding-end-of-mad-mike-bloomfield/
1944: In the east the Soviet Army began the Kaunaus Offensivewhile in the west Operation Cobra, the Allied breakout from the NormandyBeachhead was into its second day which saw the capture of Coutance
1944: Final entry in the diary of writer, author and veteran ofthe Austro-Hungarian Army Oskar Rosenfeld, the Moravian born son of JeanetteRosenfeld and co-founder of the new Jewish Theatre in Vienna who had six of hisnovel published in 1920 “under the titleTage und Naechte” which hehad begun in 1942 and finished before being deported to Auschwitz in August of1944 where he was murdered.
1945: Following its premiere performance by the New York Symphonyin February, Nathaniel Shilkret’s “Concerto for Trombone” was performed todayat the Hollywood Bowl by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
1946:“The new partition scheme for Palestine was attacked today by Dr. ChaimWeizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, in a message to a massmeeting of Jews” in London.
1947: “Wyoming” a cowboy film with music by Ernest Gold wasreleased in the United States today.
1948” Leon Blum began serving as Vice Premier of France in thegovernment of Prime Minister Andre Marie.
1948: “United Nations peace envoy, Folke Bernadotte, issued astatement which said that there was ‘no evidence to support claims ofmassacre’” at al-Tira, a village near Haifa, that had been made by Azzam Pasha,the Secretary General of the Arab League.
1948: Arthur Miller’s award winning play “Death of a Salesman”opened it London.
1949: Today’s proposal by the Ben-Gurion to the UN that wouldallow 100,000 Arabs to return to Israel touched off a wave of opposition thatwould later lead to its withdrawal.
1950: At Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Dr.Milton Abramson and theformer Ruth Levenson gave birth to Elliot Lewis Abramson, the grandson of Dr.and Mrs. Samuel M. Levenson.
1951: In Brooklyn, Marcella (née Rosenthal) and Irving B. Haassgave birth to American diplomat Richard N. Haass who has been a “close advisorto Secretary of State Colin Powell”has served as the President of the CouncilRelations.
1952: It was reported today that “the U.S. Government, may withina few days, issue a statement deploring the laws passed earlier this month bythe Austrian Parliament restoring property and civil rights to more than 20,000former members of the Nazi Party in Austria.”
1954: “On the Waterfront” a film that provided a gritty, realisticview waterfront corruption produced by Sam Spiegel, written by Budd Schulberg,filmed by Cinematographer Boris Kaufman, featuring Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsamand Nehemiah Persoff with music by Leonard Bernstein was released in the UnitedStates today by Columbia Pictures.
1955(9thof Av, 5715): Tish’a B’Av
1955:According to reports made available tonighthe twelve Americans killed when anEl Al plane was shot down over Bulgaria included 35 year old Rabbi PincusIngberman, 35 year old Mrs. Zahawa Sheinbuam, the wife of Moshe Sheinbaum and61 year A.M. Goffman known professionally as Avram M. Mann the advertising manwho served “as master of ceremonies for several Yiddish language programsbroadcast over radio station WEVD.
1956(20thof Av, 5716): Parashat Eikev
1956(20th of Av, 5716):Abraham Telvi “a Jewish-Americanmobster and hitman for New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio, known most notablyfor blinding crusading New York journalist Victor Riesel with acid” was gunneddown today.
1958: Birthdate of New York City native and Professor of theHumanities at College of Staten Island Sarah Schulman whose first novel was TheSophie Horowitz Story,
1959: Premiere of “North by Northwest” the suspense thriller witha script by Ernest Lehman, music by Bernard Hermann and featuring Martin Landauin one of his early roles and Ned Glass as a “ticket seller.”
1959(22nd of Tammuz, 5719): Fifty-six-year-old DavidSilverman who had risen from being an office boy at the Minneapolis Star toserving as the assistant editor of the Minneapolis Star and the MinneapolisTribune while also serving as an officer and member of the National Conferenceof Christians and Jews suffered a fatal heart attack today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/29/89228189.html?pageNumber=29
1960: In South Los Angeles, Judith Gold, “a school librarian” andIrwin Gold, “a probation officer gave birth to food critic Jonathan Gold.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-fo-jonathan-gold-obit-20180721-story.html
1961(15thof Av, 5721): Tu B’Av is celebrated forthe first time during the Presidency of John F. Kennedy.
1964: Birthdate of Ian Paul Livingston, Baron Livingston ofParkhead the Scottish businessman who is “The fourth-generation son ofPolish-Lithuanian Jews who arrived in Scotland 120 years ago.”
1964: “Abe Feinberg, general director of Supersol, a chain ofsupermarkets in Israel owned largely by Canadian investors, was arrested inIsrael in connection with suspected arson” which means the destruction of thewarehouse, store and offices of Supesol that destroyed virtually all of thecompany records.
1964: Yad Vashem decided to recognize Reverend Hermann Maas as oneof the Righteous Among the Nations.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/maas.asp
http://www.maasfoundation.com/en/index.html
1967(20thof Tammuz, 5727): Seventy-one year old Florence Kahn Strauss, the Louisianaborn daughter of Sigmund and Rose Bendel Kahn and the wife of Charles LeonStrauss passed away after which she was buried in Houston’s Beth IsraelCemetery.
1968: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning inNew York for Lillian (Klein) Pollack, the wife of Milton Pollack and mother ofStephanie Singer and Daniel A. Pollack who was an active member of numerousJewish organizations including the Brooklyn Women’s Division of the Federationof Jewish Philanthropies, the Jewish Child Care Association and the JewishHospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn.
1968: Four days after he had passed away eighty year old Aleppoborn Isaac I Shalom, who went from being a textile peddler on the Lower EastSide to founding and running “the handkerchief firm of I. Shalom and Co., whichdeveloped into one of the leading manufacturers in its field in the UnitedStates” which provided him with the wherewithal to become a leading benefactorfor “the Sephardi and Syrian Jewish communities in New York” and who raisedfive children with his wife, the former Alice Chabot, was buried on the Mountof Olives in Jerusalem.
1968(3rdof Av, 5728): Ninety-three year oldHedwig Gutman, the daughter of Baruch and Fanny Rothschild and wife of BernhardGuttman with whom she had had five children, passed away today in Copenhagen.
1969: Operation Boxer came to an end with a dogfight between IAFMirages and Egyptian MIG-21s during which neither side was able to score avictory.
1969: Opening of the Eighth Maccabiah where Mark Cohn ofPhiladelphia, Laurie Segel of Miami and Fred Turoff of Philadelphia were partof the U.S. Gymnastic Team.
1970: During the War of Attrition Soviet military personnel werereportedly among the casualties during an attack by Israeli aircraft.
1970(24thof Tammuz, 5730): Seventy-eight-year-oldeconomist Dr. Melchior Palyi passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9B0DEFDB1E3AE03BBC4950DFB166838B669EDE
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.PALYI
1971: Marvin Israel discovered the body of photographer DianeArbus two days after she had taken her own life.
1972(17th of Av, 5732): Scribe Samson Margolis passedaway today.
1973(28thof Tammuz, 5733): Parashat Matot-Masei
1974(9thof Av, 5734): Tish’a B’Av
1976(1stof Av, 5736): Rosh Chodesh Av
1976(1stof Av, 5736): Seventy-seven-year-oldBerlin born actress Lucie Mannheim who broadcast anti-German propaganda duringWW II passed away today in Lower Saxony. (Some sources show her death date asJuly 19)
http://www.leninimports.com/lucie_mannheim.html
1978(23rdof Tammuz, 5738): Seventy-seven-year-old“Benjamin Bass, the founder of Manhattan’s Strand Book Store and husband ofEsther Bass with whom he raised two daughter – Dorothy and Eleanor – and oneson, Fred who now runs the store passed away today.
1978: In Queens, funeral services were held this morning in Queensfor Sylvia (nee Diskin) Marshall, who had been pre-deceased by her husbandMilton and the mother of Bonnie and Alex Moskowitz,
1979(4thof Av, 5739): Shabbat Chazon
1979(4thof Av, 5739): Sixty-six-year SumnerMarcus, the New Brunswick, NJ born son of “Abraham and Lena (Wolfson) Marucs, aWW II U.S. Army veteran, the holder of JD from Harvard and a Ph.D from theUniversity of Washington where he served as a dean and lived with his wife, theformer Elizabeth Tribby Caldwell, passed away today.
1979(4thof Av, 5739): Seventy-year-old filmproducer and screenwriter Wolfgang Reinhardt who “was nominated for an AcademyAward for Original Screenplay in 1962 for the film Freud” passed away today.
1980(15th of Av, 5740): Tu B’Av
1980; Birthdate of Mathew Harris Orenstein the namesake for The Matthew Harris Ornstein MemorialFoundation who was established in 2015 in honor of Matthew who died on January3, 2015, as the result of a tragic accident.”
1981(26th of Tammuz, 5741): Ninety-one-year-old PaulineG. Sievers, the husband of Samuel Sievers with whom she had two children –Wieder and Virginia – passed away today after which she buried at the New MountSinai Cemetery in Afton, MO.
1982(8th of Av, 5742): Erev Tish'a B'Av
1984: The 1984 Summer Olympics opened in Los Angeles where BernardRajzman earned a Silver Medal as a player with the Brazilian Volleyball Team.
1985(10thof Av, 5745): Tish’a B’Av observed onSunday
1985(10th of Av, 5745): Seventy-nine-year-old Dashev,Russia born American labor leader Israel Broslow who was an active member ofthe ILGWU and the Workmen’s Circle passed away today.
1987: Cellist Mischa Maisk and his wife gave birth to Parisiannative and classical pianist Lily Maisky who is the sister of concert violinistSascha Maisky.
1988: Jordan canceleda $1.3 billion development plan in theWest Bank.
1988:Israeli diplomats arrived in Moscow for theirfirst visit in 21 years.
1988: At Temple Beth-El in Dallas, Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger is scheduledto officiate at the funeral of one-hundred-year-old Meredith Rathbone Carb, theson Isadore and Hattie Kahn Carb, the husband of Bessie Brown Carb, the fatherof Meredith Carb Jr. and the brother of “Harvard graduate and New Yokplaywright and drama critic David Carb whose historical novel, Sunrise in theWest, is about his grandmother, Babette Carb, who emigrated from Alsace toMississippi, survived he Civil War, and made her way to Texas’
1988: Jack Lang completed his first term in office as Member ofthe French National Assembly for Loir-et-Cher.
1989(25th of Tammuz, 5749): Eighty-eighty-year-old Dr.Jay N. Fishbein, the son of Louis and Sarah Miller Fishbein and TuftsUniversity trained physician who specialized in ENT, passed away today afterwhich he was buried at the Lincoln Park Cemetery in Warwick, R.I.
1989: Units of the IDF crossed into Lebanon and seized Sheik Abdal-Karim Obeid a Hizballah cleric and military commander of IslamicJihad.This took place during what is now called theFirstIntifada.
1993: Catcher Brad Ausmus made his major league debut with the SanDiego Padres.
1993: “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” a musical comedy parody of theRobin Hood myth directed and produced by Mel Brooks who wrote the script alongwith J. David Shapiro and co-starring Richard Lewis as “Prince John” wasreleased today in the United States.
1995(1st of Av, 5755): Rosh Chodesh Av
1995(1st of Av, 5755): Ninety-three-year-old Harry Zimmerman, thephysician who helped found Albert Einstein College of Medicine and made majorcontributions in dealing with diseases of the nervous system, passed awaytoday. (As reported by Robert Thomas, Jr.http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/31/obituaries/dr-harry-zimmerman-93-dies-founded-albert-einstein-college.htm
1996: The newly opened William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum isthe site of a reception for the Israeli Olympic team and a commemoration of the1972 massacre at the Games in Munich when terrorists killed 11 of the country'sathletes and officials.
1997(23rd of Tammuz, 5757): Forty-seven-year-old NYUgraduate and University of Michigan Law School trained attorney “Barry LewisZaretsky, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and a scholar in the fields ofbankruptcy and commercial law” the wife Joan Glatman with whom he had threechildren – Arielle, Joseph and Tamar – who “was appointed by the FederalBankruptcy Court to examine whether the $1.25 billion leveraged buyout ofRevco, the drug store chain, was an improper transfer of the company's capitalto banks, investment bankers, lawyers and shareholders in what is known inlegal circles as fraudulent conveyance” died today “in an explosion thatdestroyed his vacation home in Canaan, N.Y.”
1998: Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity so that shecan testify against President Clinton.
1999: “Deep Blue Sea,” a sci-fi film co-produced by AkivaGoldsman, co-starring Michael Rapaport and with music by Trevor Rabin wasreleased in the United States today.
2000(25th of Tammuz, 5760): Abraham Pais, Dutch-born Americanphysicist and science historian passed away. Pais was the son of a fatherfrom the old Dutch Sephardic community while his mother was Ashkenazik.His trials and tribulation during World War II are the kind of harrowing talethat would make a great adventure novel. Yet they were true. Hisacademic achievements were equally amazing.
2001(8thof Av, 5761): For the first time duringthe Presidency of George Bush, Parasaht Davarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’sB’Av
2002:The New York Timesfeatures reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincludingAmerican Sonnetsby Jewish poet Gerald SternandMan Walks Into A Room, the first novel by Jewish poet NicoleKrauss
2002: David Levy and his breakaway Gesher faction left thegovernment due to their opposition to the budget.
2003: “Monitoring Calls in New World of Quality Assurance”described the role that software is playing in fulfilling Shlomo Shamir’svision of changing call centers from being “cost centers” to being “strategiccenters.” Shamir is the President of the American arm of Nice, an Israelicompany that is the leader in this software field. (As reported by Claudia H.Deutsch)
2004(10th of Av, 5764): Eighty-six-year-old LillianNapsky Ableman, the wife of Max Ableman who was buried at Westlawn Cemetery inCook County, Illinois.
2004:“Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in an unusual meeting today with a smallgroup of Egyptian civic group leaders and other activists, was told thatAmerican backing for political reform in the region would only truly gainmomentum if Washington pushed for a fair settlement to the Israeli-Arabdispute.”(As reported by Neil MacFarquhar)
2005: As reported in theOakland (CA) Tribune,Pacifica resident Lillian Greenwald is praised for having volunteered at theJewish Home for nearly 25 years. Although this is a significant achievement byitself, it is the quality of her service that is exceptional. Lillian Greenwaldis an exemplary role model for any volunteer program, and the Jewish Home isfortunate to have her.”
2006: Five Katyushas struck Peki'in and one directly hit ahome next the yard where a family was preparing for an afternoon wedding. Tenpeople were lightly wounded and treated for shock.Peki'in is anagricultural settlement in the Upper Galilee.
2007 In Jerusalem, a classical music concert entitled"Musicin All the Shades" took place at the Sisters of Zion convent presented"Songs, Trombone, and Piano," featuring Galina Chipper Blat,mezzo-soprano, Natalia Jadanov on piano, and Olga Melchovski and YuriProkofchok on the oboe.
2007(13th of Av, 5767: Shabbat Nachamu
2007: In Calgary Sharon Fichman was the runner-up in today’sprofessional tennis match.
2008:In Washington, D.C., veteran Jewish photographyeditor Leora Kahn discusses and signsDarfur: Twenty Years of War andGenocide in Sudan
2008: In Washington, D.C., Michaele Weissmandiscusses andsigns her new book,God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the PerfectCoffee
2009: Father Patrick Desbois, secretary to the French Conferenceof Bishops for relations with Judaism as well as an adviser to the Vatican onthe Jewish religion, discussesThe Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest'sJourney to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews, an investigationof German atrocities in the Ukraine in World War II, at the Sixth & IHistoric Synagogue in Washington, D.C.
2009:Police dismantled the West Bank outpost of MitzpeAvihai near the town of Hebron.
2010: Hadassah 95thannual convention isscheduled to come to a close today.
2010:"Surviving Hitler: A Love Story,” is scheduled tobe shown today at The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2010:Ninety-year old Samuel Kunz, a former Nazi death campguard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews andother crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said today.
2010:The New York Timesfeatured a reviewof97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One NewYork Tenementby Jane Ziegelman
2010:Terra Olivio, the first Mediterranean internationalolive oil competition and conference, which attracted over 120 people fromIsrael and abroad was held today at Jerusalem’s Inbal Hotel. Dr. Shaul Eger – atrained physiologist who has been spending many years developing olive-oilbased products said that Israel can play a prominent role in the development ofnew foods and therapeutic products based on the health promoting oil.
2011:“LIVE FROM JERUSALEM: An Evening with the IsraelPhilharmonic Orchestra,” conducted by Zubin Mehta With Renee Fleming and JosephCalleja is scheduled to be shown at more than 480 select movie theatersnationwide this evening.
2011: The 92ndSt Y is scheduled to present“Always: Irving Berlin,” an evening filled with the music of one of America’sgreat composers and lyricists.
2011: The Foreign Ministry announced today that Israel hasestablished full diplomatic relations with the government of the newlyUN-recognized South Sudan.
2011:Histadrut Labor Federation Chairman Ofer Eini told ArmyRadio today that he does not intend on "bringing down the government"by joining the housing protests but stressed that it must take action to lowerhousing prices and cost of living.
2011(26th of Tammuz, 5771): Sixty-two-year-old Elazar Abuhatzeira,“Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist, known among his followers as the"Baba Elazar” was stabbed to death today “in his Beersheba yeshiva” by“42-year-old Asher Dahan of El'ad, who was said to have been unhappy withmarital advice the rabbi had given him.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4101783,00.html
2012(8thof Av, 5772): Ninety-three-year-oldpioneer in children’s theatre Judith Martin passed away. (As reported byDouglas Martin)
2012: The California premiere of “Six Million and One” isscheduled to take place at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2012: After a 12-week season the curtain comes down on the WestEnd production of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys.”
2012: Thousands of people attended a Tisha B’Av prayer service atthe Western Wall in Jerusalem tonight
2012:Four rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southernIsrael today landing in unpopulated areas and causing no direct damage. Two ofthe rockets landed in an open field near Sderot and two more in an open fieldin the Eshkol region.
2012: Rabbi Yossi Nemes service of The Gerson Katz Chabad Centerin Metairie, LA is scheduled to officiate at tonight’s memorial service inhonor of the athletes murdered in Munich including wrestler David Berger agraduate of Tulane University who made Aliyah shortly before the Olympics
2013:The New York Timesfeatured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincludingThis Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus Plenty of ValetParking! — in America’s Gilded Capitalby Mark Leibovich,TheLove-Charm of Bombs Restless Lives in the Second World Warby LaraFeigel,Foolsby Joan Silber andRendezvous WithDestiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America Intothe War and Into the Worldby Michael Fullilove
2013: The Washington, DC is scheduled to sponsor an outing to theballpark featuring the Nats against the Mets in “Hadassah Plays Ball!”
2013: “Hannah Arendt” is scheduled to shown this evening at theCastro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013: “A brand new festival called Machaol Olam – World Dance”that began in Israel on July 11 is scheduled to come to a close.
2013: 99thanniversary of the start of World WarI, a conflict about which so many know so little while its effects continue toreverberate into our lives in the 21stcentury.
2013: The cabinet voted 13 to 7 today to approve talks with thePalestinians and to allow a ministerial committee to release 104 imprisonedPalestinian terrorists over the next 9 months. (As reported by Herb Keinon)
2013: Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Yitzhak Molcho left forWashington to take part in peace talks under the aegis of U.S. Secretary ofState John Kerry.
2013:A robber carrying an automatic pistol stole jewelry andwatches belonging to Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev worth millions of eurosfrom the luxury Carlton Hotel in Cannes today, police and judicial sourcessaid.
2014: Today, “President Obama nominated Rabbi David Saperstein tobe the first non-Christian to hold the post of United StatesAmbassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.”
2014: “Brave Miss World” and “Hunting Elephants” are scheduled tobe shown at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival.
2014:The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US HolocaustMemorial Museum (USHMM) and The Wiener Library host a workshop "TheHolocaust in Eastern Europe in the Records of the International Tracing ServiceDigital Archive," which is scheduled to open today at the USHMM inWashington, DC.
2014: One hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I – “thewar to end all wars.”
2014(1stof Av, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Av
2014: Two days after he had passed away, 84 year old Arthur J.Klein, the 1952 graduate of U. of Indiana where he was a member of ZBT and thehusband of Ruth Edelman Klein was laid to rest in the Beth-El Cemetery North.
2014(1stof Av, 5774): Sixty-eight-year-old LittleRock native Margot Adler passed away today.
http://wvpublic.org/post/margot-adler-npr-journalist-three-decades-dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/business/margot-adler-68-journalist-and-priestess-dies.html?_r=1
2014: At 12:40 pm today the unofficial ceasefire between Israeland Hamas was broken when Code Red sirens blared in the Hof Ashkelon RegionalCouncil as four rockets were fired from Gaza. (As reported by Itay Blumenthaland Yoav Zitun)
2014: “Charlotte Salomon” an opera based on the life of the GermanJewish artists with a libretto by Barbara Honigmann “was first performed” today“at the Slazburg Festival.
2014: The rocket alert siren was sounded in Zikhron Ya'akov,Binyamina, Hadera, Caesarea and other cities in northern Israel at around7:11pm and two rockets were fired at the Carmel area this evening
2014: Today, “police reported that swastikas were spray-painted onthe front pillars of a Northeast Miami-Dade synagogue which has left the localJewish community on edge…”
2014: “A judge issued a sweeping victory today for RochelleSterling, ruling that she had the authority to sell the Los Angeles Clippers tothe businessman Steve Ballmer, who has agreed to pay a record $2 billion forthe franchise.
2014(1stof Av, 5774): Twenty-two year old StaffSgt. Eliav Eliyahu Haim Kahlon from Safed, 23 year old Staff Sgt. Adi Brigafrom Beit Shikma, 20 year old Corporal Maeidan Maymon Biton from Netivot, 20year old Corporal Niran Cohen from Tiberius and 20 year old Sgt. Moseh Davinofrom Jerusalem were killed today.(“In life they were loved and admired;they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.”)
2015: “The Outrageous Sophie Tucker” is scheduled to be shown atthe Washington Jewish Film Festival.
2015: The Annual Karmiel Dance Festival is scheduled to begintoday.
2015: “The trial of Dalibor Škopán, a Czech man accused ofmurdering Jirí Fiedler, his country’s leading scholar of Jewish history, beganin Prague today.
2015: Today “Carnegie Deli was closed for upgrades to its energylines after the discovery of improperly siphoning off natural gas for theprevious six years.”
2015: Representative Sander D. Levin, a Democrat from Michigan whois “the longest-serving Jewish member of Congress” “announced his support in astatement” today that “he will support the Iran nuclear deal.”
2015: Today, “Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium opened its first-everkosher hot dog stand, Jeff’s Gourmet Sausage Factory” “which is open for theseason’s remaining home games, except for those on Shabbat and Jewishholidays.” (As reported by Lisa Keys)
2015: Jonathan “Pollard’s pro bono attorneys announced in a newsrelease” today that Jonathan Pollard who has been granted a parole is scheduledto be released on November 21st.
2016: “Former Wall Street Banker, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski”, “the sonof a Jewish doctor from Germany,” “was inaugurated as Peru’s new presidenttoday, vowing to kick-start the economy and unite a country torn by aphoto-finish election.”
2016:Excerpts from Invisi'BALL by Nadine Bommer, the “NewYork-born, Israeli-bred choreographer” are scheduled to be shown at the NewVictory Theatre.
2016: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center isscheduled to host a show of “Liga, Terezin,” “a documentary that tells thestory of a 1942 soccer league that played in the Terezín Concentration Camp”followed by a discussion with Terezin survivor Steen Metz.
2016: UKJF is scheduled to host a screening of “Haven,” a film byAmikam Kovner, staring Lana Ettinger and Nevo Kimchi, filmed by cinematographerand Itay Marom and edited by Asaf Lapid
2016: The Democratic National Convention is scheduled to come toan end in Philadelphia.
2017: After having premiered at Sundance six months ago “Person toPerson,” starring Tavi Gevinson and Abbi Jacobson and featuring Ben Rosenfieldand Benny Safdie was released in the United States today.
2017: In Manhattan, the 5thAvenue StreetSynagogue is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbat services following by a dinnerthat “is a celebration of the Jewish connection to Israel including “a shortD'var Torah/discussion about the denial of Jewish history in Israel at the UN andin the Arab world, led by MJE's Rabbi Jonathan Feldman and the ZOA's ZachStern.
2017: Today FDA Commissioner Scott “Gottlieb delayed applicationdeadlines on newly deemed tobacco products, including premium cigars andelectronic cigarettes, and announced that the FDA would take steps to regulatenicotine levels in combustible cigarettes to render the combustible cigarettes"minimally or non-addictive",[25] causing shares of tobacco companyAltria that day to initially decline by 19%”
2017: The 9th International Conference on Borate Glasses, Crystalsand Melts and the 2nd International Conference on Phosphate Materials where Dr.Steve Feller of Coe College in Cedar Rapids will honored is scheduled to end atSt. Anne’s College, Oxford University
2017: “A Quiet Heart” and “The Young Karl Marx” are scheduled tobe shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival today.
2017: “Letters From Baghdad” is scheduled to open at theatres fromcoast to coast and in between including Lake Worth, FL, Lincoln NE and SanFrancisco, CA.
2018(16thof Av, 5778): Parashat Va-etchanan;Shabbat Nachamu; anniversary of the Bar Mitzvah of David Levin when a largegroup of people got to hear, for the first time, the voice of this “sweetsinger of Israel”
2018: The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference forSocial Studies and History educators which is designed to “introduceparticipants to the” United States Holocaust Memorial “Museum’spedagogical approaching to teaching about the Holocaust, as well as Museumresources” is scheduled to come to an end today.
2018: On what would have been the 58thbirthday offood critic Jonathan Gold, who passed away a week ago, several buildingsincluding the home of the “Los Angeles Times, City Hall, Union Station and thepylons at LAX” are scheduled to be lit up in honor of the occasion. (Asreported by Andrea Chang)
2018: “The Oslo Diaries” and “A Paris Education” are scheduled tobe shown this evening at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival.
2018: “The exhibition ‘Placing Memory’ which showcases therelations bounded by architecture and collective memory through thecollaboration between two Israeli born artists, Zac Hacmon and Gal Cohen” isscheduled to come to a close at the Clemente Cultural and Educational Center.
2019: JW3 is scheduled to host screenings of “Tel Aviv on Fire” inManchester and in London.
2019: In Atlanta, the Breman Museum will host Ronald Santos as helectures on “Harry Houdini: Pulling Back the Veil in Search of Cecelia.
2019: Michael Winograd lead to the Klezmer orchestra, TheHonorable Mentshn, to showcase an interactive panorama of classical and folkKlezmer music is among the musicians scheduled to appear at “Made In NYC 2.0:Heritage Sunday.”
2019:The New York Timesfeatured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincludingThe Escape Roomby Megan Goldin and the recentlyreleased paperback editions of The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice and theWelfare State by Yascha Mounk andInto the Hands of the Soldiers:Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle Eastby David D.Kirkpatrick.
2020:Congregation B’nai Torah is scheduled to present on line “Summer Song andStory” with Rabbi Dr. Lisa Eiduson and Cantorial Soloist Jodi Blankstein
2020:Temple Beth Shalom in New Albany and Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield,Michigan are scheduled to host a virtual tour during which Participants willexplore the Nabatean Spice Route.
2020:Peninsula JCC is scheduled to present judicial professor Kimberly Papillontalking about anti-racism, anti-Semitism and how to reduce the effects ofunconscious prejudices on decision-making.
2020:The 11th Annual Axelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival is schedule tohost a virtual screening of “An Irrepressible Woman.”
2020:The Jewish Museum of Maryland is scheduled to host a livestream “Jews in Space:A Sneak Peek.”
2020:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host a lunchand learn on “Resistance in the Ghetto,” part of the resilience series.
2020:The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to Emma Lazarus’s RedManuscript, part of a new interactive Zoom Series.
2020: Two days after she had passed away,funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Harriet Gasway, the wifeBill Gasway, pillars of the Jewish community in Cedar Rapids and so much more.
2020: Today, actress Shira Haas “became thefirst Israeli to be nominated for an Emmy Award for her lead role in“Unorthodox.”
2020: As Israelis greet the day they continueto deal with the threat of the Pandemic but also may be confronting a renewalof the active of Hezbollah following yesterday’s success of the IDF atthwarting an attempted infiltration from Lebanon.
2021: The Jewish Heritage of Monmouth County isscheduled to present Beth Burn and Vic Schippo live in concert at the museum oron Zoom performing “Reunited in Song,” “from the Great American Songbook.
2021: In Collaboration with the Jerusalem LyricOpera and the Czech Embassy, the Eden Tamir Music Center is scheduled topresent “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” featuring the works by Liszt, AntoninDvorak and Johannes Brahms performed by Israeli and International artists.
2022: Hadassah Brandeis Institute is scheduledto present the opening of the exhibition “Seven Species, Three Generations,” inwhich “seven women artists in the Schon family offer a feminist interpretationof Israel’s seven species: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olivesand dates.”
2022: The S.F. Jewish Film Festivals isscheduled to present a screening of “Minyan Duty,” the 14-minute drama-comedyin English as part of the program “Jews in Shorts: Narrative Program II whichis about two sisters and a non-Jewish passerby attempting to recite Kaddish.
2022: AJT is scheduled to host “A ListeningTown Hall,” led by Executive Director Willow Jade Norton and Board PresidentJesse Bernstein.
2022: The JWA Book Club is scheduled to host atalk by Siona Benjamin, contributor to Growing Up Jewish in India: From theBene Israel to the Art of Siona Benjamin, about the Jewish communities ofIndia, and illustrator of the children’s book I Am Hava, a story about theworld’s most famous Jewish song—as told by the song herself.”
2022: The 108th Annual Meeting of the JewishFederation of Greater Des Moines which will feature guest speaker (via Zoom)Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who drew international acclaim for his handling ofa January 15, 2022 hostage-takeover at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville,Texas is scheduled to begin this even.
2022: The Klezmer Street Party Fundraiser of*ckrainian Refugee Relief during which participants can Dance in the street to abig band of about 20 musicians from and friends of Saul Goodman's Klezmer Bandis scheduled to take place this evening outside of Saul’s Deli in Berkley, CA.
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta webinar withTrudy Gold lecturing on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: The VirusSpreads
2022: Congregation Kehillath Israel isscheduled to present “Jazz Meets Israeli and Jewish Melodies” featuring Internationallyrenowned Israeli pianist and composer Moshe Elmakias
2022: An Israeli delegation is scheduled to be Moscowtoday to meet with Russian officials amid the Russian crackdown on the JewishAgency's branch in the country.
2023: Closing date for applications to become amember of the young people’s jury that will select the best short film for theupcoming 2023 UK Jewish Film Festival.
2023: In Coralville, Agudas Achim is scheduledto welcome RAGBRAI riders to attend a Shabbat dinner prior to services as wellas opening the building to RAGBRAI participants camping the parking lot or thein the adjacent park.
2023: Chabad of Iowa City is scheduled to host“Ragbrai Shabbat” with services followed by a Shabbat Dinner.
2023: In the midst of a triple digit heat wave,in Cedar Rapids, graveside services are scheduled to be held at Eben IsraelCemetery for Andreya “AJ” Schneider.
2023: Anti-judicial overhaul protests areexpected to continue in Israel today.
2023: The Illinois Holocaust Museum isscheduled to waive admissions so that everyone can “visit and be inspired byUpstanders fighting for social and human rights causes in the Take a StandCenter, delve into the history and lessons of the Holocaust in the KarkomiHolocaust Exhibition, and more.”
2024: The Hadassah National Conference isscheduled to begin today in Las Vegas
2024: In Ellenville, NY Borscht Belt Fest 2024sponsored by the Catskills Borscht Belt Museum is scheduled to come to an end.
2024: The Jewish Heritage Museum of MonmouthCounty is scheduled to host a screening “American Matchmaker.”
2024: Chazak’s Midsummer Bagel Brunch is scheduledto take place at Block’s Bagels in Reynoldsburg, OH.
2024: Following yesterday’s rocket attack fromLebanon on “a soccer field in the northern Druze town of Majdal Shams in theGolan Heights” dozens of those wounded struggle for survival while all decentpeople mourn the twelve victims most of whom were children and teens of theattack attributed to Hezbollah.
2024: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Autocracy,Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
2024: As July 28th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengerson a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and theHamas held hostages begin day 296 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time
