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586BCE (9th of Tammuz, 3174): King Nebuchadnezzar’s army broke through the wallsof Jerusalem and entered the City of David.
1182:Phillip II, the seventeen-year-old French monarch “decreed the total expulsionof Jews from all royal possessions within two months. This was due in part todebts owed to Jewish moneylenders. The debtors were exempted from all paymentto the Jews but had to pay a tax of 20% of their debt to the Treasury. Thisonly served to force those Jews who were considered an asset into other Frenchprovinces not directly under the King's control. The Synagogue in Paris wasconverted into the Church of St. Madeleine, while the one in Orleans was changedinto the Chapel of St. Sauveur. This expulsion - with the confiscation of landand property - was a strong factor in Jews leaving agriculture as a professionin favor of moveable property and trade.” (As reported by Eli Birnbaum)
1190:Philip II Augustus of France and Richard the Lionheart of England break camp atVezelay and head off for the Holy Land, officially launching the Third Crusade.Phillip was openly anti-Semitic. Richardwas protective of his Jewish subjects.His absence during the Crusade left them to “the tender mercies” ofPrince John and the local Anglo anti-Semites.And of course, as always, the Jews suffered wherever the CrusadingChristians marched.
1241:Ivan Asen II, the Czar of Bulgaria also known as John Asen II who in 1230“defeated Theodore Ducas Angelus of Epirus and after which threw two Jews offof a cliff for refusing to put out his eyes passed away today.
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1298:Massacre of the Jews of Ifhauben, Austria.
1322:Charles IV of France expelled all the Jews from France without the promised oneyear's warning. This marked the second expulsion of the Jews from France.
1334:Vladimir IV, one of the attendees at the Banquet of the Five Kings began hisreign his King of Denmark which the Black Plague came to his realm with allthat that meant for the Jews of Europe.
1339:A party commissioned by Pope Benedict XII to go to China that included Giovannide' Marignolli left Constantinople and sailed across the Black Sea to Caffa. In1342, following his arrival in China, Marginollia told of having engaged"in glorious disputations" in Beijing with both Muslims and Jews.This was one several reports of Jews living in China during the 14thcentury. These included Andrew of Perugia’scomplaint in 1326 that “the Jews of Quanzhou obdurately refused toaccede to his pleas that they undergo baptism” and the Muslim traveler ibn Battuta descriptionof entering Hangzhou in 1346 “through a gate called the Jews’ Gate andstatement that among the inhabitants of the city there were “Jews, Christiansand sun-worshipping Turks.”
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1386:Birthdate John of Capistrano, a Franciscan friar who played a key role inhaving forty Jews burned at the stake in Breslau and sought to have King ofPoland abolish the special privileges accorded to his Jewish subjects.
1441:King Henry VI founded Eton College.While there were no Jews in the Eton’s first class (there were no Jewsliving in England, King Henry would be surprised to find out that by 2009 Mr.Jonathan Paull was Head of Jewish studies at Eton and that Jewish students wereputting on tefillin under the guidance of local Chabad representatives.
1509: Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crownedKing and Queen of England. There were no Jews living in England at thistime. Henry’s father (Henry VII) hadpromised Catherine’s parents (the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella) thatJews would never be allowed the realm of the English monarchs. Thanks to the turmoil that Henry would createwhen he went to shed Catherine as his Queen and royal mate, small numbers ofMarranos and crypto-Jews would be living in England by the end of the century.
1519:In Burgundy, “Pierre de Beze, royal governor of Vézelay” and Marie Bourdelotgave birth to French Protestant theologian TheodoreBeza, the successor to John Calvin at Geneva and who like Luther was a believer“that Christian churches were largely responsible for the current unbeliefamong the Jews and “that there would a large-scale conversion of the Jews”while still acknowledging “the Justice of divine anger the Jewish people.”
1550: Today,Boston born English Protestant clergyman and historian John Foxe whose famousliterary work, Book of Martyrs “included stories of Jews” and whose writings onJews show how a powerful writer conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-conscious,Protestant English national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology,race, and politics” was ordained deacon by Nicholas Ridely.
1646:Today, during the English Civil War, Edward Nicholas, the author of a pamphlet,“An Apology for the Honorable Nation of the Jews” which called for thereadmission of the Jews to England and “is one of the few examples ofpro-admission writing that does not also call for the conversion of the Jews”who was an adviser to King Charles I “had the duty of treating for thecapitulation of Oxford on which included seeking permission for Nicholashimself to retire abroad with his family.”
1648:In Tulczyn, Poland, an agreement between the 2000 Jews and 600 Christians todefend the town at all costs succeeded in preventing the Cossacks fromcapturing the town. The Cossacks persuaded the Christians that they would letthem go free if they would give them the Jews. The (furious) Jews werepersuaded by the Rabbi that if they took revenge on the Poles other Jews wouldsuffer. The gates were opened and most of the Jews killed. The Cossacks thenturned on the Poles and killed most of them as well. For the most part, duringthe entire war the Poles and the Jews were uneasy allies against the Cossacks.
1667:In the Basque Country of Spain, Felipe Nieto, the Venice born son of PhinehasNieto, and his wife Maria Flores gavebirth to Juana Nieto Viya
1692:Founding of Kingston, Jamaica. By now, Jamaica was an English colony and Jewscan only practice their religion as opposed to their secret observance that hadbeen the norm during the Spanish rule. There were enough Jews living inKingston that synagogues were reportedly opened in 1744 and 1787.
1699: A committee that had been formed to finda larger place for the growing Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews“leased from Lady Ann Pointz (alias Littleton) and Sir Thomas Pointz (aliasLittleton) a tract of land at Plough Yard, in Bevis Marks, for 61 years, withthe option of renewal for a further 38 years, at £120 a year.” This would bethe location for the famed Bevis Marks Synagogue which was more than a house ofworship. It was the center the center ofthe Anglo Jewish world when that world encompassed the British Empire.
1702: In Great Britain an “Act to oblige Jews to maintain andprovide for their Protestant children” took effect. This act of Parliament grewout of case involving Jacob de Mendez Berta and his daughter Mary who became aProtestant. According to one source, thefather refused to continue to support his daughter after she converted and hernewly adopted Protestant community did not want to shoulder the burden of hersupport. Hence, this legislation wasadopted and would stay in effect until the middle of the 19thcentury.
1725: Over the next 12 months, starting from today, 26 of theentries for shipments from the port of New York involved Jewish merchants. This was 6.7% of the total. Of these entries, 6 were credited to MosesLevy, one of the colony’s leading merchants.
1704: Birthdate of Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens,author of the novel Lettres Juives (The Jewish Letters) and “patron”Aaron Gumpertz, the graduate of University of Frankfurt who was the firstPrussian Jew to hold the degree of medical doctor.
1763: Nathan Raphael and his wife gave birth to Raphael Raphael,the husband of Julia Asher with whom he had nine children.
1781(1st of Tammuz, 5541): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1781: George Washington wrote to Comte de Rochambeau as plans aremade to move South and engage the British in Viriginia.
1785: In Savannah, GA, Jacob de Pass and his wife gave birth toRalph de Pass.
1785: In Savannah, GA, Jacob de Pass and his first wife Leah gavebirth to their daughter Sally.
1761(14th of Sivan): Moses Brandeis Charif the chief rabbi ofMayence and cabalist who was the son of Jacob Brandeis passed away.
1766(17th of Tammuz, 5526): Tzom Tammuz
1793: As France continues to be embroiled in a Revolution thatamong other things removed the restrictions against the Jews of that country,the National Convention adopted that country’s first “republican constitution.
1794:Bowdoin College was founded in Brunswick, Maine. Today about ten percent ofBowdoin’s 1,650 students are Jewish. The school has ten Jewish Studies coursesand a Hillel Chapter.
1803: In London, Judith (Barrow) Montefiore andEliezer Montefiore, a prominent English merchant gave birth to their youngestson, Joseph Barrow Montefiore who made his fortune in Australia beforereturning to his native England.
1806: Solomon Moses married Rachel Gratz, thedaughter of Philadelphians Miriam Simon and Michael Gratz.
1806: Áron Chorin “a Hungarian rabbi andpioneer of religious reform” who had been censured and punished by an Orthodoxtribunal appealed to the Imperial Government for relief. The government“annulled the judgment and condemned the leader of his adversaries at Arad topay the expenses of the lawsuit…Chorin declared that he forgave his adversaryand declined his claims for compensation of the expenses. To avoid furthertrouble, he determined to give up writing.
1807: Jacob Keyser married Harriet Jacobs atthe Great Synagogue in the UK.
1807: Joseph Phillips married Sarah Elizabethat the Western Synagogue in the UK.
1809: In Zülz, Prussian Silesia, Gittel andMarcus Jacob Loewe, Rabbi of Rosenburg gave birth to Louis Lowe who became aleading Orientalist and principal and director of Judith Lady MontefioreCollege at Ramsgate.
1812: Today the 685,000 men of the GrandeArmée, the largest army assembled up to that point in European history, crossedthe Neman River and headed towards Moscow” in what would be the first step in acampaign that ultimately led to the exile of Napoleon with all that that wouldmean for Europeans in general and Jews in particular.
1817: Birthdate of German native Sailing Wolfe,the wife of Sarah Cohen Wolf and the mother of Isabel, Rose, Solomon, Deborah,Henrietta, Sarah and Hartwig Wolfe.
1817: Birthdate of Polish native HenrietteGrossman Schottlander , the wife of Lobel Schottlander and the mother of JuliusSchottlander.
1826(19th of Sivan, 5586): ParashatBaeha’aloctcha
1826(19th of Sivan, 5586):Seventy-year old Israel ben Solomon Wahrmann, who had served as the rabbi atBodrogh-Keresztur passed away today.
1826: Eliezer and Esther Symons, natives ofHolland, gave birth to Henry Eliezer Symons, the husband of Emma Myers.
1832: Birthdate of Austrian native JacobFleishner, the husband of Fanny Fleischner and father of Isaac N. Fleischnerwho had settled in Portland, OR.
1834: Two days after she passed away, fifty-four-year-oldHarriet Gompertz, the unmarried daughter of Abraham Wiesel Gompertz was buriedtoday at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery today.
1838: In Goldingen in the Duchy of Courland inthe Russian Empire, Martin Sass Eder and Dorina Kaiser gave birth to JamesMartin Eder who was known as Santiago Martin Eder Kaiser don Santiago Eder inColumbia where he was a pioneer in the sugar industry and a leadingbusinessman.
1839: Birthdate of Solomon H. Sonnenschein, theHungarian born American Rabbi who served Congregation Temple Israel in St.Louis and Temple B’nai Yeshurun in Des Moines, Iowa before his death in 1908.
1840: Birthdate of Émile Duclaux, the Frenchchemist and microbiologist who “was a vocal support of Alfred Dreyfus.”
1842: In Sidney, Australia, The Voice of Jacob reported that theSultan of Turkey had called for an audience attended by all religious leaderswhich included the Hahambashi (Chief or Grand Rabbi) where he issued a firmanprotecting "all religious denominations" in Syria.
1843: “In in spite of the fact that the Jews ofthe city had contributed 12,900 scudi to do honor to the pope during his visitin 1841, an old decree was revived by Fra Vincenzo Soliva, Inquisitor of Anconaand other districts, forbidding Jews to reside or do business in any placewhere there was no ghetto, to employ Christian journeymen, to hire Christianservants, wet-nurses, or apprentices, to deal in books of any sort or inecclesiastical robes, etc.”
1846: In Hungary, the residence tax wasofficially abolished. In order to have it cancelled the Jews had to pay aone-time fee of 1,200,000 florins.
1846(30th of Sivan, 5606): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1846: Isaac Harris married Rebekah Jacobs atthe Western Synagogue in the UK.
1859: In County Kerry, Lt. Col. Henry HoratioKitchener and Frances Anne Chevallier-Cole Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the greatBritish military leader known simply as Lord Kitchener. His first step on theroad to glory came in 1874 when the 24 year old Kitchener led a mapping andsurvey expedition to parts of “the Holy Land” under the direction of thePalestine Exploration Fund. The effects of the mapping expedition are stillfelt today since, among other thing, they provided the basis for delineating theborder between the state of Israel and Lebanon.
1856:In Rome, a contingent of papal carabinieri “acting at the orders of the localInquisitor, Father Pier Gaetan Feletti, took six year old Edgardo Mortara fromhis parent’s apartment because church officials discovered that Edgardo hadbeen secretly baptized by a servant girl five years ago and that he could nolonger “be raised in a Jewish household.”Thus began the scandal known as the Mortara Affair.
1861:Herman Makower helped to prepare “The General German Commercial Code”introduced in Prussia today.
1861:In New York City, Wolf and Henrietta (Rothschild) Marks gave birth to attorney,New York State Senate member and Justice of the Municipal Court, Jacob Marksthe husband of Henrietta Barnett who were members of the Central Synagogue inManhattan.
1862:InPoland, Isael Rypins and his wife gave birth to University of Cincinnati graduateand HUC ordained rabbi, Isaac L. Rypins who served a congregation inEvansville, IN before coming to St. Paul, MN in 1899 to lead Mount Zion HebrewCongregation.
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1863:Almost two years after becoming naturalized, Samuel (Isaac) Henry Glucksteinbegan working as a “cigar manufacturer.”
1864:On Gibraltar Sir Frederick Francis Maude, a general who had been awarded theVictoria Cross in 1855 during the Crimean War, and Catherine Mary Bisshopp,daughter of Very Reverend Sir George Bisshopp, 9th Baronet of Parham Sussexgave birth to Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Stanley Maude who commanded the 13thDivision during the Gallipoli Campaign where the Zion Mule Corps gained gameand then took command of British forces in Mesopotamia where he turned defeatinto victory as could be seen by his capture of Baghdad which was a complimentto Allenby’s campaigns that freed Palestine.
1864:A Report on the Petition of Haym M. Solomon was published today on page four ofthe Senate Reprots, No. 93, 39th Congress, 1st Session
1865:Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman, was mustered out as a soldier in the Union Army. He hadenlisted in the Union Army in 1862 and had participated “in the battles ofChancellorsville, Brandy Station (where he was wounded), Gettysburg, Mine Run(where he was again wounded), Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, ColdHarbor, Five Forks, Petersburg, and Appomattox Court House. He was also presentat the surrender of Lee
1865:“Inspired by the death of Lincoln, .Judah Roswald of Baltimore wrote a poem inHebrew called "Lincoln's Amnesty," the same being published in the Jewish Messenger today.”
1865:Philadelphian Henry Fr. Birnbuam who had enlisted as a Private in Company Hcompleted three years of service in the Union Army as a Sergeant in the 65thRegiment of the Fifth Cavalry.
1868:Saul Henriques Valetine married his second wife Sarah Ornstein, the daughter ofPhineas Ornstein and Adelaide Samuel who was born in 1845 at Middlesex.
1870:In Chicago, “Joseph B. and Clara (Wolfner) Greenhut gave birth to BenedictJoseph Gottlieb, the husband of Minnie Gottlieb who worked for his father, “thehead of the Whiskey Trust after which he served as Treasurer of Siegel-CooperCompany and President of Monmouth Securities.
1873:In a sermon, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher gave the first public warning ofrising anti-Semitism in the U.S. Beecher was a fighter for social justice, anabolitionist and the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
1874:In Germany, Bernhard Mayer and Babette Frank gave birth to University ofMissouri trained attorney Emil Mayer, the Superintendent of the Jewish AllianceEvening School and attorney for the St. Louis Wholesale Clothiers’ Association.
1876:In New York, Isador and Rosalie Ida Straus gave birth to Percy Selden Straus,the wife of Edith S. Straus and the father of Ralph, Donald and Percy, Jr.
1877:Birthdate of Austrian architect and WW I veteran of the Austrian Army, ArnoldKarplus the husband Else Karplus and thefather of Gerhard Karplus and famousdesigner Ruth Rogers-Altman, who was forced to move to New York in 1939following the Anschluss.
1877:According to reports published today, Judge Hilton is receiving more letters,calls and telegrams approving of his action (banning Jews from the Grand UnionHotel) than he has time to answer.Jewish leaders appear willing to let the matter die since they feel theyhave been supported in the court of public opinion.
1878:It was reported today that it appears as if there are no Jews spending thesummer at the resort hotels in and around Longbeach, NJ. According to one source, the absence ofJewish guests can be explained by the downtown in the New York real estatemarket which has caused great economic hardship. Other sources attribute the absence to adesire on the part of the Jews to avoid being humiliated in an incident similarto that which had occurred last year at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY.
1880:Mrs. Henry Goldsmith wrote to Sabato Morris telling him of the family’sdecision to donate the collection “Hebrew books belonging to her latefather-in-law,” Rabbi Emanuel Goldsmith and “her late husband Henry Goldsmith”“to the Theological Seminary.”
1882:It was reported today that in Russia, Count Tolstoy, the Minister of theInterior published a circular stating that officers who do not “preventoutrages against Jews” will be dismissed immediately.
1882:M.A. Kursheedt, the Managing Secretary of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society senta letter to Secretary Jackson of the Board of Emigration that “the society willnot take charge of any Russian refugees or other Jewish immigrants who mayhereafter arrive in this city.”
1882:“Aid Need For Hebrew Refugees” published today described the desperateconditions facing the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society which lacks the funds to meetthe needs of the growing stream of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe. Presently, the society can only provideshelter for only 500 of the 3,000 immigrants that include men, woman andchildren. To help meet the shortfall infunds, Jacob Schiff has contributed $10,000, Kuhn, Loeb & Co has given anadditional $5,000 and Jess Seligman has also contributed $5,000. But Secretary Kursheedt said that others muchfollow the example of these donors if the society is going to be able toprovide assistance to these immigrants let alone the thousands who are on theirway.
1882:At the sanity hearing of his brother-in-law Samuel Obreight, Bernard Tausickdescribed Obreight’s attempts at suicide “and his peculiar behavior at a partygiven in honor of his engagement to another young lady” whom he chose not towed.
1883:Birthdate of Friedrich Löwy, the native of Bohemia, who gained fame as thelibrettist and lyricist Fritz Löhner-Beda. His fame was not enough to save himfrom being beaten to death at a camp near Auschwitz. While at Buchenwald he wrote DasBuchenwaldlied ("The Buchenwald Song"): O Buchenwald, I can’t forgetabout you, because you are my fate. Who leaves you, only he can appreciate howwonderful freedom is! O Buchenwald, we don’t cry and complain and whatever maybe our destiny, even so we shall say "yes" to life for once the dayshall come when we shall be free!
1883:Three days after he passed way, David Marcus Davis, the husband of Sarah Marcusand the father of Alice and Ernest Davis was buried today at the Balls PondCemetery.
1883:Birthdate of Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born American physicist and winnerof the Nobel Prize. Hess was not Jewish,but his wife was. When the Nazis came toAustria, Hess came to America to protect his wife from persecution.
1884(1stof Tammuz, 5644): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1885:Joseph Cohen married Naomi Lipkie in the United Kingdom.
1885:It was reported today that the Pall Mall Gazette has printed “a hithertounpublished proclamation of the Emir of Afghanistan” which he issued to hissubjects in 1882. “It reviews the history of the Afghans, claiming that theyare descended from the 10 lost tribes of Israel. It traces their descent from Adam thoughJacob, their subjection in Egypt, their deliverance therefrom by Moses, theirwanderings in the desert and their settlement in Syria under…Saul and Solomon,to their Babylonian captivity, their release, their wanderings on the hills ofGhour and their final settlement in Afghanistan.” The proclamation includes with an exhortationfor his subjects “trust in God, who will preserve them from their terribleenemy, Russia” [Editor’s Note – Read in light of what has happened inAfghanistan since 1980, this is a fascinating little item.]
1886:As a sign of how accepted Jews were in New York, Rabbi Weiss and J.H. Hoffman,President of the Hebrew Technical Institute were among the dignitaries seatedon the platform at the graduation ceremonies for the Normal College of the Cityof New York, an institution of higher education for women.
1887:“Probable Case of Suicide” published today described the last days of JosephFreedman a Russian Jewish peddler who died in New Haven, Conn. After marryingRittie Polrovideh a month ago, he left his child from an earlier marriage withher and went to Montreal. She refused tojoin him there, even when he came back to New Haven to plead his case. The failure of his personal and financiallives may have led him to poison himself. [Editor’s note – This is consistentwith reports in the 21st century where there has been a majorincrease in suicides among the financially desperate in several southernEuropean countries.]
1888:Youngsters under the charge of the Orphan Asylum of the Hebrew ShelteringGuardian Society participated in a two-hour long ceremony today thatdemonstrated their knowledge of Jewish history and Judaism. The children go to public school starting atthe age of 6 and receive their training in Judaica at the asylum. PIncus Spiro received a box of tools forplacing first in the exams and Samuel Levi received drawing instruments forplacing second. Both boys have alreadypassed the entrance exams for CCNY and will enter there in the fall. Jennie Berdinger was the leading femalestudent.
1889(25th of Sivan, 5649): Sixty-seven-year-old Polishborn Bernard Kowalski, a veteran of the Mexican-American War and husband ofSophia Bernstein Kowalski with whom he had four children – Louis, Isaac,Benjamin and Zachary – passed away today in Brownsville, TX after which he wasburied in the Hebrew Cemetery.
1889:In Asbury Park, NJ, Julia Banett and Bavarian born Jewish investor, musicologist,author and chess aficionado Isaac Leopold Rice whose Electric Boat Company builtsubmarines for the Navy gave birth to Dorothy Rice Sims, the twice marriedauthor of the memoir Curiouser and Curiouser who “dabbled” in aviation,art and bridge.
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1891:At their state convention, Iowa Democrats adopt a platform with a plank thatreads “We abhor the persecutions of Russia toward the Jewish people, and webelieve that all civilized nations should protest against such barbarism andinhumanity.”
1891:Birthdate of Irving PIchel, the native of Pittsburgh and 1914 HarvardUniversity graduate who began as stage actor before shifting to films with theadvent of “talkies.”
1892:The Marquis de Mores, an anti-Semitic French officer, has been arrested forkilling Captain Mayer, a Jewish officer whom he forced into facing him in aduel.
1894:New York lawyer Edward Jacobs, the brother of the late Joseph A. Jacobs who wasDeputy Clerk of the City Court for fourteen year, received a telegram from theGovernor of New York “summoning him to Albany” so that he can be appoint aQuarantine Commissioner.
1894:Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts trained portrait painter Aaron Henry Gorson,the Kovno born son of Ida Alter and Hillel Gorson who has had exhibition atsuch venues as the Chicago Art Institute and the Corcoran Art Galleries inWashington, DC married Rachel Fine today.
1894:It is reported that the Czarevitch is visiting England accompanied by theCzar’s Court Chaplain, Janicheff, “a very prominent and active Jew-baiter.”
1894:It is reported today that population of Hungary includes 9 million Catholics, 3million Protestants and 5 million others that include Jews, Orthodox Serbs andRomanians
1894:It was reported today that there are 12 Jews serving the Hungarian Chamber ofDeputies and one serving in the upper legislative chamber. The Hungarian Diethad first recognized Jewish equality before the law in 1848 but was forced torescind it following anti-Semitic riots.In 1867, the rights were restored which has resulted in the currentelectoral mix.
1894:The officers of the newly formed Jesse Seligman Literary Circle were listedtoday as George M. Hommell, President; Miss Nellie Gotthaimer, Vice President;Harry Hammell, Secretary and Miss Ella Stein, Treasurer.
1896:Thirty-two-year-old University of California trained attorney, Lucious L.Solomons, the San Francisco born son of Gershom Seixas and Hannah (Marks)Solomons, who was a member of B’nai B’rith and Temple Emanuel in San Franciscomarried Helen Frank today.
1896(13thof Tammuz, 5656): Seventy-six-year-old Morris Langdsdorf, the Battenberg bornson of Herz Seelig Langsdorf and Bina Biene Bienchen Langsdorf and husband ofHannah Hessel Langsdorf with whom he had had nine children passed away today inSt. Louis after which he was buried in the New Mount Sinai Cemetery in Afton,MO.
1896: University of California trained attorney and author LuciusL. Solomons, a trustee of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives and amember of Temple Emanuel who was the San Francisco born son Hannah (Marks) Solomons and Gershom SeixasSolomons gave birth University of California trained attorney and author LuciusL. Solomons, a trustee of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives and amember of Temple Emanuel married Helen Franks today
1897:President James H. Hoffman delivered the opening address at the graduationexercises for the Hebrew Technical Institute which were held tonight at CooperUnion.
1897:At Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Gustav Gottheil is scheduled to officiate at thefuneral of Mayer Lehman, a native of Germany who moved from Alabama to New Yorkwhere he was a member of Lehman Brothers who was the husband of Babetta Newgoffof New Orleans with whom he had four sons and three daughters.
1897:The will of Jacob Seholle, the banker who passed away at Orange, NJ was filedfor probate today.
1897:The following bequests were reported today to be included in the will of thelate Mortiz Cohn – $1,000 for Temple B’Nai Jeshurun; $750 for the Hebrew OrphanAsylum and Mt. Sinai Hospital; from $100 to $200 to eight other Jewish schoolsand charities; $30,000 to his granddaughter Ethel Klopfer. The residue of the estates is to be dividedbetween his son Julius M. Cohn and his daughter Klopfer.
1897(24thof Sivan, 5657): Seventy-eight-year-old Sir John Law, the native of Jamaica whowanted to be a rabbi but became a successful lawyer instead which led to a seatin the House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party, passed away today.
1898:The funeral for Moses Stein, a resident of Bath Beach who had been a successfulwholesale butcher in Manhattan will take place this afternoon followed byinterment in Washington Cemetery.
1898:It was reported today that Abraham Richter was the valedictorian of the 1898Hebrew Technical Institute graduating class.
1898:In Boston, Julius B Rottenberg and Fannie Rottenberg gave birth to ViolaJosephine Rottenberg, the graduate of Wellesley who became Viola RottenbergPinanski when she married Harvard Law School graduate and future judge, AbrahamE. Pinanski
1898:During the Spanish American War, Adolph Rebenstisch of San Antonio, TX waswounded today while serving as a Private in Troop F.
1899:At Las Vegas, NM, Governor Theodore Roosevelt addressed a re-union of his“Rough Riders,” the regiment he created and led in the war against Spain. In an appeal for national harmony, Rooseveltreminder the listeners that his was a typical American regiment that includedJews as well as Protestants, Catholics, Easterners, Westerners Northerners andSoutherners.” (This mention of Jews putthe lie to claims being made at the time that Jews did not fight in Americanwars and were unpatriotic. It also was ashrewd move on T.R’s part since Jews were an important of his constituency inNew York)
1899“Burns and Scott Heroines” published today featured a comparison of the worksof Robert Burn and Sir Walter Scott whose “masterpiece Ivanhoe” includes“villains…who bleed a Jew” and a description of Rebecca watching the deeds ofthe Black Knights from the lattice window of Torquilstone.
1899:“Religious New and Views” published today described the plans of Temple SinaiCongregation to purchase the building belong to Calvary Presbyterian Church on116th Street near Lenox Avenue.After 18 years, the church is disbanding. The congregation is Reformed, “as are themajority of the New York Jewish congregations.”
1899:Attorney Max Cohen, the Vice President of the Orthodox Hebrew Society saidtoday that “the society did not object to mission churches…but did object tothe methods that have been employed.”
1899:Max Cohen said today that the Orthodox Hebrew Society is working to encourage“a more general observation of the Sabbath” and to that end is trying “tosecure a modification of the legislation in regard to opening stores onSunday.”
1899:“Religious News and Views” published today described the differences betweenthe practices of the Reform congregations in New York. In some, like the one on Hester, the men sitdownstairs and the women sit upstairs and them pray with their hats on. In other congregations, men and women sittogether and men do not wear hats. Finally, there are those where the men andwomen sit together, but the men pray with their hats on.
1900:According to a report issued by The Federation of Churches and ChristianWorkers on the “social conditions in a district in New York that runs fromSeventh to Fourteenth Street east of Third Avenue,” “the Hebrews average 2.54children per family,” “the proportion of Hebrew families with nine children issix times as great as in the Protestant families” and that Hebrews make up 17per cent of the families in the area.
1900:In the village of Bezwodne, Joseph and Bella (Pomerantz) Lemkin gave birth toRaphael Lemkin a lawyer who fought against genocide, a word he coined in 1943by coming the Greek “genos” (Family) and the Latin “cide” (Killing).
1901:Birthdate of New York City native and Barnard College graduate Edith Mendel whogained fame as Edith Mendel Stern the author of four novels the first of whichwas Purse Strings and the wife attorney William A. Stern II.
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1901:Start of the Jewish National Fund. The JNF or Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael wasestablished at the Fifth Zionist Congress, which declared that "the fundshall be the property of the Jewish people as a whole". The purpose of theFund was to collect money from Jews throughout the world to buy land inPalestine. Because of the nature of the purchases, the land belongedcollectively to all of the Jewish people. The JNF became famous for its"little blue boxes" and for its Tree Purchase Program. For more aboutthis amazing organization see www.jnf.org/site
1902:Prime Minister George Leake who was a political opponent New Zealand bornMatthew Moss, the Australian political leader whose grandfather had been“choirmaster at the Great Synagogue of London passed away today.
1902:University of Buffalo trained professor of gastro-enterology at Detroit collegeof medicine Charles Dettie Aaron, the Lockport, NY born son of Hanna Barnettand Abraham Higham Aaron married Winifred Comstock today.
1902:King Edward VII, the philo-Semitic son of Queen Victor underwent an emergencyappendectomy today which led to a delay in his coronation.
1878:One day after his birthday Boston University Law School graduate andMassachusetts Superior Court Justice David Abraham Lourie, the Lithuania bornson of, Rebecca Port and Haskell Lourie and director of Temple MishkaN Tefilahwho supported a wide variety of Jewish organization including the Hebrew FreeLoan Association, the Bureau of Jewish Education in Boston and the Jewish Committee married Annie FlorenceRichmond today in Boston, MA.
1903:“Interior Minister Plehve ordered the police to suppress ‘the propaganda of theideal of Zionism’” because the movement had abandoned “its aim of settling Jewsin Palestine in favor of organizing Jews ‘in places of their presentdomicile.’”
1903: In Cleveland, OH, Herman Pollak, the President of the Pollak Waist Company and his wife gavebirth to University of Chicago gradate Robert Pollak, the “stock and commoditybroker” and husband of Janet Spitzer who “also wrote columns about theatre andmusic for several Chicago newspapers and a “leading member of the ChicagoGramophone Society.”
http://nickmorgandiscography.org/index.php?title=Pollak,_Robert
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.POLLAK
1903:Birthdate of Moritz Meyer Bodd, the “retail clerk” who was arrested in 1942which was the first step on his trip to Auschwitz where he was murdered.
1903:Russia prohibited Zionist meetings.
1904:Birthdate of Linton, Indiana native Wonga Phil Harris who gained fame as bandleader Phil Harris who was “part of the famous Jack Benny radio ensemble from1936 to 1952” and became so popular as Benny’s sidekick that he got a radioshow of his own that followed Benny’s hour long broadcast.
1904:Today In a pseudo-secret ceremony, music publisher Leo Feist married BessieMeyer with whom he had had “three children: Leonard S. Feist (1911–1996),[3]Nathan Feist (1905–1965), and Milton Feist (1907–1975).”
1904:Miriam Finn Scott, the Russian born daughter of Moses and Gittel Fiinn and achild diagnostician and specialist in parent education, advocated that “thesoil of a child’s life was his home” and that parents could ensure the propergrowth of their children if only they transformed their homes into “gardens”married author and social worker Leroy Scott today.
1905(21stof Sivan, 5665): Parashat Bhea’alotcha
1905:Birthdate of Montreal native and University of California and MIT engineerDaniel Silverman a member of the faculty at UC, Berkley and who should not beconfused with Dr. Daniel S. Silverman the New Orleans born Tulane Universitytrained gastroenterologist.
1905:Violence continues in Lodz today following outbursts that began earlier in theweek during which authorities allowed the Christians to bury their dead, butrefused the same right and that left one Jewish girl dead after having beenfired on police while she was delivering a speech on “Black Friday.”
1906(1stof Tammuz, 5666): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1906(1stof Tammuz, 5666): Joseph “Joe” Strauss whose baseball record is so murky thathe either began his major career at the age of 26 or 40, was Jewish or was notJewish and played the outfield, the infield, catcher and pitcher, passed awaytoday.
1907:Twenty-six-year-old CCNY graduate and Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts trainedartist, Bernar Gussow, the Russian born son of Max and Leah Gussow marriedSuzanne K. Cook today in New York City.
1907:German native and University of Maryland trained medical doctor Irving J.Spear, the Professor of Neurology and Clinical Psychiatry at the University ofMaryland married Hortense Greenwald today.
1907:Rabbi Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanue-El officiated at the funeral service ofIsidor Wormser that was attended by many “person and business friends”including Henry Seligman, William Guggenheim, Samuel f. Schaeffer and ParkCommissioner Moses Herrman after which there was a burial at the Salem FieldsCemetery.
1908:Rabbi Martin Zielonka of El Paso, Texas, helps the Jews of Mexico organizetheir community.
1908:President Grover Cleveland died of heart failure. As President, Cleveland appointed OscarSolomon Strauss envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey in1887. In 1897 Cleveland vetoed animmigration bill that included a literacy test.The literacy test was a thinly veiled attempt to close the doors toimmigrants including the wave of Jews coming from Eastern Europe. In 1903, Cleveland, who was by now formerPresident, was the featured speaker at the New York City rally protesting theKishinev Pogroms.
1908:“Justice in Russia” published today reported that “in the riots at Bialystok,Russia, in 1905, 73 Jews were killed and 82 wounded. Incidentally 11 Christianslost their lives and 23 were wounded.”
1909:The German Reichstag voted 195–187 against an inheritance tax proposed byChancellor Bernhard von Bülow who in 1898 overturned the Kaiser’s decision towork with Herzl when he “pointed out that that the wealthy Jews were not behindthe idea” of Zionism and that none of “big papers” supported the idea either.
1909:In West End, NJ, Sailing Wolfe Baruch, the Camden, SC born daughter of Dr.Simon Baruch and Isabelle Baruch and his wife Leonora M. Baruch gave birth toDonald Edward Baruch, the nephew of famed financier and presidential advisorBernard Barcuh.
1910:Birthdate of Albany, NY Emanuel Rackman, the attorney turned rabbi whose longand distinguished career included serving as Provost of Yeshiva University andPresident of Bar-Ilan University
https://traditiononline.org/rabbi-emanuel-rackman-zl-a-critical-appreciation/
1910(17thof Sivan, 5670): Johnathan M. Emanuel who entered the U.S. Navy in 1862 andbegan his service aboard the “iron-clad” Keokuk during the Civil War andretired in 1891 with the rank of Lt. Comdr. Passed away today in Philadelphia.
1910:Birthdate of Judge Irving Kaufman, the presiding judge in the Rosenberg SpyCase. He was the one who sentenced them to death after they were bothfound guilty. Of course, the anti-Semites who used the involvement of theRosenbergs in a Soviet spy ring to further their claims of Communism being aJewish conspiracy conveniently overlook the fact that Jews were involved in theprosecution and sentencing of the Rosenbergs. Kaufman passed away in 1992at the age of 81.
1911(28thof Sivan, 5671): Sh’lach
1911:“A Violation of the treaty” publishedtoday begins by pointed out that in the treaty the United States entered intowith Russia in 1832, there is no warrant whatever for Russia’s obstinaterefusal to honor passports issued by thegovernment to American citizens who happened to be of the Jewish race” and that“the treaty is violated every time a Russian diplomatic or consularrepresentative refuses to honor such a passport.
1912:Thirty-year-old Johns Hopkins graduate Frederick L. Guggenheimer, the Baltimoreborn son of Henry and Emma Guggenhiemer, who had been practicing law in NewYork since 1906 married Rose M. Blatner today in Albany, NY after which he wentto serve as the executive secretary of the Free Synagogue in New York.
1912: The University of Wisconsin and Columbia University trainedProfessor of Economics William Morris Leiserson, the Estonian born son of SarahSnyder and Mendel Leiserson married Emily Nash today.
1912(9thof Tammuz, 5672): Julia Richman the first Jewish woman to serve as principal inthe New York Public School system and the first woman district superintendentof schools in the City of New York died in Paris as result of an infection thatdeveloped after an emergency operation.
1913:In Springfield, Illinois, the annual conference of the American Association ofOfficials of Charities and Correction which Henry Solomon of New York was adelegate opened today.
1913:In Chicago, “the monument in memory of Mrs. Mark T. Goldstine (nee SadieRichter)” is scheduled to “be dedicated” this afternoon “at GracelandCemetery.”
1913:A dispatch sent to The Standard in London from St. Petersburg “says thatPresident Woodrow Wilson has declined Russia’s request for a renewal of thetreat of commerce except on the absolute condition that American Jews areallowed to enter Russia freely.”
1914(30thof Sivan, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1914:Four days before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in what wouldbe an example of the Alliance System that helped to bring on WWI,Austria-Hungary prepared a letter calling for the creation of an allianceagainst Russia that would include the Austro-Hungarians, Ottomans, Germans andBulgarians
1914: Birthdate of Jan Karski, “a Polish WorldWar II resistance movement fighter who in 1942 and 1943 reported to the Polishgovernment in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupiedPoland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the secretive Naziextermination camps.”
1915:Benjamin “Benny” Snyder was attacked by three fellow inmates at the Tombs thismorning just before he was to appear in court plead guilty to manslaughter inthe death of “Joe the Greaser” Rosenzweig. The plea meant he got off with a tenyear sentence but it earned him the reputation for being a rat and asquealer.(Yes, there are Jewish gangsters; but they are not the pride and joyof the community)
1915:Birthdate of Sophie Falkenstein, the wife of German-Jewish immigrant ArthurCaan and the mother of famous actor James Edmund Caan whom many know as “Sonny”the oldest of the Godfather’s three sons.
1916:It was reported today that plans for “the great federation for the support ofJewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City which have been underconsideration for a long time have been approved by the Special Committee onPreliminaries” and been printed pamphlet form so it may be submitted forconsideration prior to a final vote next month.
1916:It was reported today that “while the Jewish population” of Romania whichnumbers about 250,000 “are not threatened with physical danger, they arepersecuted…under civil laws” and “have never been admitted to generalcitizenship.”
1917:Delegates are scheduled to register today as part of the opening session of theTwentieth Annual Convention of the Federation of American Zionists.
1917:Mrs. Sam C. Klein presided over the June Social sponsored by the Ashe EmesSisterhood.
1917:“A plaque was awarded to the Hebrew Educational Society as the winner of aseries of debates with the South Brooklyn Y.M.H.A.”
1917:At Zion Temple on Ogden Avenue, Samuel Druck is scheduled to deliver a talk onHenri Bergson a today’s last regular meeting of the Jewish Literary Society.
1917:“Felix M. Warburg entertained one hundred of the most prominent and activeworkers in the news local federation of charities at a lawn party on thegrounds of his summer home at White Plains, NY.
1918:In Pittsburgh, the 21st annual convention of the Federation ofAmerican Zionists continued for a second day.
1918:The fifth annual convention of Hadassah opened today in Pittsburgh, PA.
1918:Dr. Aaron Schaffer of Johns Hopkins University presided over “the fourth annualconvention of the Intercollegiate Zionist Association.”
1918:Jacob Schiff of New York City protests against the Red Cross which hasdiscriminated against Jews from Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as Germany andAustro-Hungary. Red Cross stated Jews from these lands, or children who havefathers who were born in these lands cannot serve in the Red Cross.
1919:On the day before his 35th birthday, University of Chicago trainedmathematician Meyer Grupp Gazba , the Syracuse born son Hyman and ElizabethGrupp Gaba married Bertha Davis Meyers today while he was serving as professorof mathematics at the University of Nebraska.
1919:In the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewskisigned the Minorities Treaty that “awarded full civil, religious and politicalrights to all citizens of the new Poland, with the term ‘citizen’ appliedbroadly to all person either born or ‘habitually’ resident on Polishterritory.” This meant that the Jews ofPoland were guaranteed full citizenship in the newly reconstituted Poland. Louis Marshall, a prominent American Jew whohad been part of Wilson’s delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, wasresponsible for this language; language would be incorporated in other treatiesthat grew out of the Versailles Conference which, on paper at least, opened thepath to full citizenship for the Jews of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey.
1920(9thof Av, 5680): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1920:In London, Stephen Winsten and his wife gave birth to Ruth Winsten who gainedfame as the “animal welfare campaigner” Ruth Harrison.
1920:In Cologne, German “painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus, a well-known arthistorian, journalist and a victim of the Nazis at Auschwitz gave birth toHans-Ulrich Ernst who gained fame as artist Jimmy Ernst.
http://jimmyernst.net/pages/chronicle.html
1921:“The House in Dragon Street” a silent film directed and produced by RichardOswald was released today in Germany.
1921:At Friday evening services, Rabbi I. Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver asermon on “Scapegoats” at the Hebrew Tabernacle on Broadway and 158thStreet.’
1921:At Friday evening services, Rabbi B.A. Tintner is scheduled to deliver a sermonon “Organized Labor” at Temple Mount Zion on West 119th Street.
1922(28thof Sivan, 5682: An anti-Semiticnationalist assassinated Walter Rathenau, the Jewish German Foreign minister.Ironically, Rathenau was a German patriot who had been responsible formaintaining the German industrial might that enabled it to fight on for fouryears despite the Allied blockade.
1922:The Literary Digest published Harvard ‘Talk’ About Jews today whichdescribed Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell’s views about Jewishattendance at his elite institution.
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Antisemitism-at-Harvard-University
1922:In Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Harry Chakrin and the former Anna Borofsky gavebirth to Jack Chakrin who gained fame as Jack Carter, a comedian whose careerspanned almost forty years. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1923:Premiere of Kurt Weill’s “String Quartet, Op 8” today by the Hindemith-AmarQuartet.
1923:Thirty-year-old attorney and WW I veteran Nathan Vigran, the Cincinnati, OHborn son of Alex and Agnes Vigransky married Bertha Cohn today.
1924:In New York City, Fay (née Resenthal), a secretary and bookkeeper, and OscarPerl, a stationery salesman who founded a printing and advertising company gavebirth Martin Lewis Perl who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995.
1925:It was reported today that a steward servingaboard the SS Arthur of the American-Palestine line “a steamship companyformed in 1924 for the purpose of providing direct passenger service from NewYork to Palestine and was reportedly the first steamship company owned andoperated by Jews, quarreled with a passenger aboard the ship and killed himwhile the ship was in Italian waters.
1926:“A delegation from the Jewish Postal Workers’ Welfare League of New York City”gave David M. Bressler, the Chairman of the United Jewish Campaign a check for“$1,700 which represented contributions from 46 post office stations inManhattan and the Bronx.”
1927:Birthdate of American Physicist, Martin Lewis Perl. The son of Eastern European Jewishimmigrants, Perl won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1995.
1928:”Julius Louis Selzer, a general practitioner, and the former Gertrude Schneider,a singer who performed in local musicals and operas” gave birth to AlbanyMedical College graduate and U.S. Army veteran “Richard Selzer, a surgeon whoturned his operating-room experiences into fictional stories that blended thegore, the beauty and the absurdity of modern medicine.” (As reported by RandiHutter Epstein)
1928:The national finals of Young Judea National Oratorical Contest is scheduled toend today at Long Branch, NJ.
1928:Reports published today describedmass meetings held in Tel Aviv protesting the unwarranted deportation of Jewishimmigrants from Palestine. A cableprotesting the deportations sent by the citizens of Tel Aviv to the ColonialOffice in London stated that “every Jew who enters Palestine is returning tohis home. He cannot, therefore, beexpelled under any law…The expulsions are an insult to the entire Jewishpopulation…and…cause despair in the minds of the masses in the Diaspora,undermining every hope for entering Palestine.”
1929(16thof Sivan, 5689): Seventy-year-old Joseph Prag, the graduate of Queen’s Collegewho was a member of the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Conjoint Committee forForeign Affairs as well as a Warden of the North-West London Synagogue passedaway today.
http://www.jta.org/1929/06/25/archive/joseph-prag-english-jewish-leader-dies
1930(28thof Sivan, 5690): Rabbi “Ben Zion Perl” passed away today in New York City
1930:Ceremonies began today marking the opening of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva.
1930:In Montreal, Isaac Rabinovitch and the former Fanny Shulman gave birth toCanadian real estate mogul Jack Rabinovitch who established Canada’s leadingEnglish language prize, the Giller Prize, which was named in honor of hissecond wife, premiere journalist Doris Giller. (As reported by Ian Austen)
1931(9thof Tammuz, 5691): Ninety-one-year-old Estonia native and Civil War veteran OttoMears known as the “Pathfinder of the San Juans” because of all of his railroadbuilding activity in Colorado passed away today.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110805004546/http://ghostdepot.com/rg/history/otto%20mears.htm
1932(20thof Sivan, 5692): Sixty-nine-year-old Kovno native Rabbi Asher Lipman Zarchy,“the senior orthodox rabbi in Louisville, KY” and rabbi emeritus at KensethIsrael Synagogue” who was the husband of Mollie Fishman Zarchy and who hadserved as rabbi in Des Moines, IA for ten years suffered a fatal heart attacktoday.
1932:In Karlsruhe, Germany Leo Traub who was a banker before the rise of the Nazisand Mimi Nussbaum gave birth to their only son Joseph Frederick Traub “whofounded the computer science department at Columbia University and who helpeddevelop algorithms used in scientific computing in physics and mathematics aswell as on Wall Street.” (As reported by Steve Lohr)
1933(30thof Sivan, 5693): Parshat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1933(30thof Sivan, 5693: Sixty-year-old Russian born NYU trained attorney and nationaltreasurer of the Jewish National Workers Alliance Nathan Zvirin, the legaladviser to the Kosher Butchers of Greater New York and husband of Ida LevineZvirin with whom he had three children – Pauline, John and Fred – passed awaytoday
1933:On the day of her return from a three-month trip through Palestine, Russia andother countries Jewish theatrical star Molly Picon, said that a new culture,made up of elements of the cultures of many peoples, is being built up inPalestine by Jews.
1933:Rabbi and Mrs. Morris Ginsberg gave birth to Sir Ian Derek Gainsford who servedas Dean of King’s College of Medicine and Dentistry, Vice Principal of King’sCollege London and President of the Maccabaeans, a leading Anglo-Jewishcharitable organization dating back to the 19th century.
1934(11thof Tamuz, 5694): Fifty-three-year-old Russian born, Jefferson Medical Collegetrained surgeon passed away tonight “from blood poisoning resulting from aslight cut on the hand suffered during an operation on a patient for throatabscess ten days ago.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/06/26/93761630.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1934:Morris Rothenberg, ZOA president and Louis Lipsky are scheduled to be theprimary speakers at tonight’s banquet at the La Reine Hotel which is thehighlight of the three-day long convention of the Sons of Zion.
1934:An advertisem*nt for “Rosebrae Guest House, the only Jewish Boarding House onthe Isle of Jersey which was Kosher” appeared in today’s Jewish Chronicle.
1934:Rabbi Ralph B. Hershman is scheduled to be one of the speakers at today’s annualmeeting of the New Jersey B’nai B’rith Council lead by President Harr Green ofEast, Orange, NJ.
1934:The Western Interstate Conference of the National Council of JewishJuniors which San Francisco resident DorothyTonn, Frances Mordecai, Erna Schwarts, Pearl Levin and Audelia Wyatt have beenattendings is scheduled to come to a close today in Los Angeles.
1935:Premiere of “Die schweigsame Frau”(The Silent Woman) for which Stefan Zweig provided the libretto
1936: As Arab violence continued to escalateunabated, The Palestine Post reported that Arabsnipers killed one Jew and wounded four others on a bus close to Rosh Pina. TheArab Strike Committee threatened and punished Arabs who refused to join thegeneral strike or refused to contribute to their strike funds. Five Arab villagerswere killed by the railway military patrol after trains were ambushed twice.Jewish damages since April 19, the day on which the Arab disturbances began,were estimated at some quarter of a million pounds.
1937:Comedian Henny Youngman performed on the “Kate Smith Bandwagon” a variety showbroadcast by WABC.
1937:Arthur Fiedler conducted a performance by the Boston Pops Orchestra broadcastby WJZ.
1937:After visiting with Benito Mussolini, Generoso Pope, a prominent New York CityItalian American contractor, returned to the United States with a message fromthe Italian leader intended to reassure Jews in the United States that they hadno reason to be concerned about the conditions of Italian Jews.
1937:New Yorker Paul Safro presided over the opening of the fourth annual conventionof “Massada, the youth section of the Zionist Organization of America” beingheld at the Roosevelt Hotel where attendees heard Isaac Imber recommend “thelaunching of a movement to train pioneer groups for Palestine.”
1938:The outbreak of violence in the Jaffa-Tel Aviv area that began yesterdaycontinued today with episodes of bomb-throwing and stabbing. In one incident an as yet unidentified Jewfrom Tel Aviv who was out walking with his wife and brother-in-law was stabbedby a group of Arabs who fled before the authorities arrived.
1938:The mutilated body of Father Mario Rozzine, head of an Italian convent nearJerusalem was discovered by the side of the road. While the Italian Consulate claimed thepriest was killed by unidentified personal enemies, others believe that he hadfallen victim to Arab terrorists.
1938:Today “movie-maker” Emeric Pressburg “married Ági Donáth, the daughter of AndorDonáth, a general merchant” in what would be a short, childless union.
1939:Brazil admits three thousand Jewish refugees from Germany.
1939:At the World’s Fair in New York City, The Café Tel Aviv at the PalestinePavilion offers Kosher Cuisine including Palestinian specialties ranging inprice from $.50 to $.85, lunch for $.65 and a complete dinner for $1.25.
1940: Margret and Hans Reymade telephone calls and wrote letters from Lisbon letting friends and familyknow that they were safe.
1940(18th ofSivan, 5700): Seventy-one-year-old Rochester, NY native and Republican Partyleader Max I. Holtz, the former head of Louis Hotlz and Sons, Inc. and thePresident of the Rochester Clothiers Exchange suffered a fatal heart attacktoday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/25/112742865.html?pageNumber=23
1940: Portuguese PrimeMinister and “strongman” sent a message recalling Portuguese Consul Aristidesde Sousa Mendes because the diplomate would not half his efforts to help Jewsand others escaping from the Nazis who were sweeping their way across Franceand headed for the Iberian Peninsula.
1941:As it invaded Lithuania, the Wehrmacht occupied Kovno where 10,000 Jewswill be murdered by the end of July and Vilna and killed the Jews of Gorzhdy.(Please note: with some of the military activity in WW II there is a varianceof dates by one or two days according to different sources. This can beaccounted for in several ways including discrepancies between when an event mayhave begun and when it reached its height or the difference between the date anevent happened and the date it appeared in the newspaper or other journals.)
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/november/10.asp
1941(29thof Sivan, 5701): Seventy-three-year-old attorney and former acting Mayor ofRochester, NY, Isaac Adler, the son of Levi and Theresa Wile Adler “died thisafternoon while at tending a city planning meeting at the Chamber of Commerce”in Rochester.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/25/87634041.pdf
1941:Birthdate of Arthur Bruce “Art” Heyman, the 6’5” New Yorker who led DukeUniversity to its first appearance in the Final Four before being drafted bythe Knicks of the NBA. (As reported by William Yardely)
1942:“The Nazi radio in Berlin today reported that British military forces inPalestine and Syria are being transferred in anticipation of hostilities onEgyptian soil.” (JTA)
1942:Today, thhousands of Jews from of Lvov inthe Ukraine were killed at Janówska,Ukraine, and Piaski, Poland.
1942:In Los Angeles, CA, Sylvia Helen (née Silverstein) and Jack Dusick gave birthto Michele Lee Dusick who gained fame as the multi-talented Michele Lee whosecareer spanned television, Broadway and cinema.
1942:“Star and Garter” a musical revue produced by Mike Todd “opened at Broadway’sMusic Box Theatre.”
1942:“Leopold Prince opened his fifteenth season of outdoor concerts with the CityAmateur Symphony Orchestra” tonight on the Mall in Central Park, where “Mayor LaGuardia was among thelarge audience” that joined in the singing of Irving Berlin’s “God BlessAmerica.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/06/24/87714189.html?pageNumber=22
1943:In the wake of the Detroit Race Riots that started on June 20 and ended on June22, it was reported today that Central Conference of American of Rabbis hadadopted “a resolution decrying recent riots,” stating that “the spirt ofHitlerism has achieved a triumph on American soil” and demanding that “theforces our government be called upon to ferret out those organized groups orindividuals who have been responsible for inciting these race riots.
1944: The United States Military Air Operationsdeclares that bombing rail lines to Auschwitz is "impracticable"because it could be achieved only by diverting air support from "decisiveoperations" in progress; i.e., bombing German synthetic-oil plants. Thefact is that many of these plants are located near Auschwitz.
1944: Lovers Edward Galinski, a Polish gentile,and Mala Zimetbaum, a Jew, escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau in purloined SSuniforms and remain at liberty for two weeks.
1944:At Birkenau, a Pole and a Jewish girl escaped. The girl, Mala Zimetbaum,escaped through an airlock in the gas chamber waiting room. She became the campinterpreter and fell in love with a Polish man. They managed to escape only tobe eventually caught and brought back to Auschwitz where they were tortured.They then were to be hung in public view by thousands of prisoners. Instead,she produced a razor blade and slashed her wrists in front of the onlookers.Incensed, the SS shot her dead.
1944:Chaim Barlas sent a copy of the ‘Auschwitz Protocols’ to his friend GiuseppeRocalli – the future Pope John XXIII- and Rocalli immediately sent a summary ofthe protocols by telegraph to the Vatican.This undercuts the Vatican’s claim that it did not know about Auschwitzuntil October of 1944
1945: TheU.S.S.R. captures the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg. The Free Republic of Schwarzenberg(German: Freie Republik Schwarzenberg) was a de facto independententity that existed for several weeks after the German capitulation on May 8,1945. The term Free Republic of Schwarzenberg actually derives from the1984 novel Schwarzenbergby Stefan Heym. As the novel is based on actual events, the term has becomeused as a convenient short-hand for them. Stefan Heym was a German Jewish writer born in 1913 in Chemnitz. Heym’sworks included The King David Report, The Wandering Jewsand Schwarzenberg. Stefan Heymwas actually the pen name for Hellmuth Fleig who won the Jerusalem Prize in1933. He died in Jerusalem during theHeinrich Heine Conference.
1946: As of today, “the British have at least three divisions” inPalestine, five thousand police and a number of naval units in Palestine whoseprimary mission is thwart attacks by various Jewish groups who are opposed toBritain’s decision to put further limits on Jewish immigration while allowingthe return of the Grand Mufti who spent part of WW II in Berlin.
1947: “The City Amateur Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Prince isscheduled to open its twentieth anniversary season” this evening “with thefirst of six concerts to be given this summer on the Mall in Central Park.
1947: Judge Simon Rifkind of New York, who had served on Ike’s staff,sent General Eisenhower a memo contending that establishing a Jewish state inPalestine would be in America’s best political and military interests. Ike sent copies of the memo to Secretary ofState George Marshall and General Tom Handy who would take it to the Secretaryof War.
1948: As Israel fights for its very existence, the Soviet blockade ofBerlin began today on the same day that the Selective Service Act (America’sfirst peace-time military draft) went into effect. (Editor’s note – As always Jewish historytakes place on the wider mosaic of world history and it necessary to understandthe interaction of the two. In thiscase, President Truman was confronted with the challenge of stopping Sovietimperialism which limited his range of action during the creation of the Jewishstate.)
1949: Daniel Frisch, the President of the ZOA who arrived in Israelyesterday, said “The small businessman is the forgotten man in Israel” and thathe plans on asking Prime Minister Ben Gurion “to approve moves by the ZOA toundertake the rehabilitation of disabled Israelis and to offer economicassistance of the Israeli middle class.”
1949: The Central Conference of American Rabbis is scheduled to continuemeeting for a second day today in Brenton Woods, N.H.
1950: In the UK, Annette Krarup and Walter Freud gave birth to DavidAnthony Freud, the great grandson of Sigmund Freud who went from a career as ajournalist and businessman to as political leader.
1950(9th of Tammuz, 5710) Parashat Chukat
1950(9th of Tammuz): Fifty-two-year-old hardware store ownerand Mayor of Monticello, NY Jacob (Jack)Shulman, the husband of Sophie Schulmanwith whom he had two daughters – Mildred and June – passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/06/25/91103469.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1950: An Italian ship filled with 300 Torah scrolls, 2,000 prayer booksand other religious items that had been left in Yemen by Jewish refugees dockedat Elath after having sailed up the Gulf Aqaba, making it the first ship to usethis route to reach the Jewish state. Up until now, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, whocontrolled the east and west sides of the Gulf had not allowed passage of anyships bound for Israel. Nobody knows whythe two Arab states did not stop the vessel or if the waterway would remainopen.
1950: In Kiryat Haim,David Smilansky and Batya Silber gave birth to Moshe Smilansky who as Moshe"Bogie" Ya'alon served as Chief of Staff of the IDF before joiningLikud and serving in the Knesset “as well as the country's Vice Prime Minister andMinister of Strategic Affairs.”
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that despite all therecent Iraqi threats, six aircraft arrived from Baghdad with 574 immigrants,and the seventh was expected shortly. It was estimated that some 4,000 Jewswaited in Baghdad for transportation to Israel.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the Council ofKibbutz Meuhad met at Givat Brenner with only Mapam members participating,following the Mapai members' decision to leave the movement.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Ffunerals took placeof four Israeli soldiers killed in a clash with the Arab Legion near KiryatAnavim.
1952(1st of Tammuz, 5711): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1952(1st of Tammuz, 5711): Sixty-four-year-old WaxGordon died at Alcatraz where he was serving a twenty-five year sentence.
1952: Tel Aviv police were detaining two people suspected ofstealing gold objects from the National Museum valued at $70,000 and thenmelting them down for sale as gold bullion.The objects in question have been missing for over a month.
1953: “Robot Monster” a black and white sci-fi film with music byElmer Bernstein was released in the United States today.
1954(23rd of Sivan, 5714): Seventy-nine-year old SanFrancisco native and U of CA trained eningeerPhillip Lee Bush who was a member of the San Francisco Board ofEducation passed away today.
1955: With Brooklyn Dodgers trailing the Milwaukee Braves 7 – 1,Sandy Koufax made his major league debut in the fifth inning facing ShortstopJohnny Logan who “hit a bloop single” off the man who became one of thegreatest pitchers of all-time.
1956: Twenty-four-year-old Syracuse University trained chemist,Charles Gelman, the son of Fay Gleman and the founder of Gelman InstrumentCompany married Rita Gelman with whom he had four children - Rebecca, Nina,Steve and Eric Gelman.
1957: In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules thatobscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. Roth is Samuel Roth, thePolish born Jew who began a literary career after moving to the Lower East ofNew York.
1961(10th of Tammuz, 5721): Parashat Chukat
1961(10th of Tammuz, 5721): Fifty-four-year-old Atco,NJ born businessman Frederick Gordon Borowsky, a member of the board of AlbertEinstein College of Medicine passed away today in Boston after which he wasburied in the Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, PA.
1962: In Mexico City “chemist Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz andbiologist Annie Pardo Cemo gave birth to “Mexican politician, scientist andauthor” Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo who “has been the head of the government ofMexico City” since December 2018 and following the election in 2024, the firstwoman to be elected president of Mexico.
1962: In Pittsburgh, Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper presided overCongregation Beth El’s groundbreaking ceremonies which included speeches byMilton Sussman and Rabbi Kenneth Bromberg.
1962: After 16 performancesat the New York City Center, the curtain come down a revival of “Fiorello!” theJerry Bock musical with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book co-authored byJerome Weidman
1964: Birthdate of Macalester Collee and Union Theological Seminargraduate and ordained Baptist minister Paul Brandeis Raushenbush who is ironically, the great-grandson SupremeCourt Justic Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the High Court and aleader of the American Jewish community.
1966: A week after first being shown in London “Cul-de-Sac” a“comic thriller” directed by Roman Polanski and co-starring Lionel Stander, wasshown at the Berlin International Film Festival.
1968: Birthdate of Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand.
1969: Eighty-year-old WW I German Army veteran and Swiss lawyerAdolf Wach, a grandson of composer Felix Mendelssohn passed away today “atWilderwsil, near Interalken.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/26/78353831.pdf
1969(8th of Tammuz, 5729): Sixty-eight-year-old“Immanuel Ben-Dor, an archeologist and professor of Biblical Archeology atEmory University” who had previously taught at Harvard passed away today whiletraveling “to an archeological excavation in Israel.”
1970: The movie version of Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” was releasedtoday in the United States
1973:In Sioux City, Iowa, Laurie Goldblatt becomes Mrs. Bob Silber in a ceremonythat joins together two future pillars of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa JewishCommunity.
1974:“Soviet police arrested Professor Alexander Voronel, principal organizer ofrefusenik scientists’ seminar following an unsuccessful attempt to induce himto cancel the seminar.”
1974:“Andrei Sakharov urged President Nixon and Brezhnev to give more emphasis tohuman rights during their Moscow talks, including the release of Sovietpolitical prisoners and free emigration.”
1976:Today at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue Rabbi Emanuel Rackman presided at thefuneral services for “Dr. Maurice Sage, the President of the Jewish NationalFund of America, the Russian born, French trained rabbi who father was “a chiefrabbi of Paris.”
1976: Premiere of “Buffalo Bill and the Indians orSitting Bull's History Lesson” co-starring Paul Newman and Harvey Keitel.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli pound wasdevalued by another 2 percent to IL7.97 to the dollar. This was the 10thcreeping devaluation, begun as a policy in June 1975.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Gush Emunimannounced that it would resist moving out from Kaddum, unless the resettlementwas part of an overall plan for establishing Jewish settlement throughout Judeaand Samaria.
1976: At a dinner hosted by Brandeis University, Elliot Richardsonreceived the second annual Louis Dembitz Brandeis medal for distinguished legalservice. Richardson was the AttorneyGeneral dismissed by President Nixon for his courageous refusal to participatein the Watergate Cover-up. The firstrecipient of the medal named for the distinguished Jewish lawyer and jurist,was Leon Jaworski who was a key player in the Watergate Investigations
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin had asked Israelis to consume less and work more, and to accustomthemselves to the realization of the country's difficult economic situation.
1979(29thof Sivan, 5739): Eighty-eight-year-old Lessing J. Rosenwald, who succeeded hisfather as Julius as President and later Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuckand Company passed away today. (As reported by Eric Pace)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F70F17FA395D12728DDDAF0A94DE405B898BF1D3
1979:“Two Palestinians were killed while driving a truck bomb near a bus station inTel Aviv.
1980(10thof Tammuz, 5740): Seventy-three-year-old Oscar and Golden Globe Award winningcinematographer Boris Abelevich Kaufman, the native of Bialystok and thebrother of filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman passed away today in NewYork.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/06/27/111251079.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1981:Moshe Dayan announced that Israel has the capacity to make an atomic bomb.
1983:“Twilight Zone: The Movie” based on the Rod Serling television series producedby Steven Spielberg and co-starring Vic Morrow and Albert Brooks was releasedin the United States today.
1983:Yasser Arafat was banned from Damascus. Arafat had more enemies among the Arabsthan he did among the Israelis. He was thrown out of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
1983: The New York Times reported onMathilde Krim's newly established AIDS Medical Foundation.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/24/1983/mathilde-krim
1985:Birthdate of Michael Steven “Mike” Brown the native of Northbrook, Illinois whoplayed hockey for the University of Michigan before going on to a career in theNHL.
1987(27thof Sivan, 5747): One-hundred-two-year-old American Greeting Cards founder JacobJ. Saperstein, the Polish born son of Rabbi Issac and Molly Saperstein and the husband of Jennie Kantor with whom hehad four children – Irving, Morris, Harry and Bernice – who in 1906 came to Cleveland,OH where he went from “selling postcards in the Hollenden Hotel” to eventuallyowning his greeting card company originally known as Saperstein Card Companypassed away in University Heights today after which he “was buried in Zion MemorialPark.”
https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/sapirstein-jacob-j
1991(12thof Tammuz, 5751): Eighty-one-year-old Natie Brown, the native of Washington,DC, who fought Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis twice, reached the rank ofSergeant in WW II and lived in Charleston, West Virginia for 26 years where heworked for Mackie Incorporated WholesaleCompany and attended B’nai Jacob Synagogue passed away today.
1992:In “Lee v Weisman” the U.S. Supreme Court protected the concept of separationof church and state by holding that “Including a clergy-led prayer within theevents of a public high school graduation violates the Establishment Clause ofthe First Amendment.” In this case, a Jewish family objected to a prayer at agraduation even though, in this case, it was led by a Rabbi.
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/lee_v_weis.html
1993:Yale computer science professor Dr. David Hillel Gelernter lost the sight inone eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving amail-bomb from the Unabomber. Gelernteris classified variously as a conservative in the true sense of the word and/oran iconoclast. There was no apparentconnection between his political beliefs and this evil deed.
1993:In Los Angeles, “Sharon Lyn (née Chalkin), a costume designer and fashionstylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses” gave birthto actress Elizabeth Greer “Beanie” Feldstein the Wesleyan University graduateand sister of “music manager Jordan Feldstein” and “actor Jonah Hill.”
1994(15thof Tammuz, 5754): Eighty-six-year-old Sir Anthony Baruh Lousada, “a member of aprominent Anglo-Sepharid family who followed in the footsteps of his fatherJulian George Lousada, the solicitor and collector of impressionist paintings,passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-anthony-lousada-1425832.html
1995(26thof Sivan, 5755): Esther Rome, creator of the “Women and Their Bodies” andauthor of Our Bodies, Ourselves passed away.
1995(26thof Sivan, 5755): Meir "Zarro" Zorea passed away. Born in Bessarabiain 1923, he made Aliyah in 1925. Duringhis service with the Jewish Brigade during World War II he received theMilitary Cross for bravery. His servicewith the IDF included leading a battalion during the War of Independence,aiding in the capture of Eichmann and commanding a tank corps in the Sinaiduring the Six Day War. After retiring with the rank of Major General he servedas a member of the Knesset.
1998(30thof Sivan, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1998(30thof Sivan, 5758): In Delray Beach, FL, Bayside NY resident Irving Lieberman, thehusband Ruth Lieberman with whom he had three children – Judith, Frederic andRoy – who was an Esteemed teacher and advisor to many students at Martin VanBuren High School.
1999:“The Department of the Navy Board for Correction of Naval Records the ultimatearbiter of whether or not Admiral Jermey Boorda was entitled to wear the Combat"V", determined that despite the additions to Boorda's personnelfile, he was not” marking an end to this tragic moment in the career of anillustrious naval officer.
2000:“The governing Social Democrats urged former Chancellor Helmut Kohl to resignfrom Parliament a day after he made comments comparing their recent treatmentof him over illegal campaign funds with Nazi persecution of the Jews.”
2000:The judge in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel eight ofwhom have pleaded guilty said today he “will issued a verdict in the case onJuly 1.
2001: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interestto Jewish readers including Edward the Caresser: The Playboy Prince WhoBecame Edward VIIbyStanley Weintraub and Frontiers of Legal Theory by Richard Posner.
2002:”PresidentBush demands that the Palestinian Authority’s first step to peace begins withdemocratic accountability, economic reforms, and immediate cooperation inending terrorist acts.”
2002:President Bush unveils his “vision of two states living side by side in peaceand security as the key to peace, and to the roadmap as the route to getthere.”
2003:“Five Israeli Arabs were charged today with funneling an estimated $10 millionto the Islamic group Hamas, marking a rare instance in which leading IsraeliArabs have been accused of links to militant Palestinian movements.”
2003:“As the United States pressed an ambitious effort to cement Middle East peacediplomacy with economic reform and free trade, Secretary of State Colin L.Powell urged the Palestinians and Israelis today not to ''blow up the roadmap,'' the newest set of peace proposals.”
2004(5thof Tammuz, 5764): Ninety-seven-year-old Olga Rubinow Lurie “a childpsychologist and specialist in the emotional health of children,” the wife ofWalter A. Lurie and the daughter of “Dr. I. M. Rubinow, noted authority on andadvocate for Social Security” passed away today.
2004:Elie Wiesel was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary bythe nation’s president today. (Eight years later the Jewish Holocaust survivorand author would repudiate the award after accusing Hungary of “whitewashingtragic, criminal episodes.”
2005: Closing session of Security Israel - The 19thannual International Homeland Security Exhibition.
2005(17thof Sivan, 5765): Paul Winchell passed away at the age of 82. Born Paul Wilchin had a successful career asa ventriloquist and “voice actor.”Television audiences from the 1950’s will remember him and his twowooden-headed sidekicks – Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smif. Winchell never moved his lips. One of his best comic bits was drinking aglass of water while Jerry Mahoney kept “talking.” (As reported by AdamBernstein)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/26/AR2005062601247.html
2005:Release date for “Bewitched” directed and co-produced by Nora Ephron with ascript by Salk Saks, Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron.
2005(17thof Sivan, 5765): Ninety-six year old Yedida Shofet the former Chief Rabbi ofIran passed away in Los Angeles.
2006: In an article entitled “Another Page from anEpic Chapter,” Danny Rubinsteinreviewed Mihutz laofek,mi'ever larehov (Beyond the Horizon, Across the Street) by HanochBartov.
http://www.haaretz.com/another-page-from-an-epic-chapter-1.191211
2007:The opening game of the Israel Baseball League’s season takes place with theModi’in Miracle facing the Petach Tikva Pioneers at Yarkon Sports Complex inPetah Tikva. This is not just the firstgame of the season; it is the first professional baseball game played inIsrael.
2007:The Sunday New York Times booksection featured a review of Travis Holland’s first novel, The Archivist’sStory which revolves around the fate of the Russian-Jewish short-storymaster Isaac Babel, author of the inimitable Red Cavalry tales. The New York Times also reviewed The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany andthe Jews, 1939-1945 bySaul Friedländer. This is the second volume of Friedlander’s two-volume historyof “Nazi Germany and the Jews.” The first volume, published in 1997 wasentitled The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. In these volumes,Friedländer convincingly challenges the view that the Holocaust was simply theresult of bureaucrats doing what they were told.
2007:The Los Angeles Times reviewed Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of theNew Digital Disorder by DavidWeinberger.
2008:In Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club Attorney Ted Sorensen, a trusted adviser to President John F. Kennedy,discusses and signs his new memoir, Counselor:A Life at the Edge of History.When asked about his religious, this native of Lincoln, Nebraska this son of a Unitarian lawyer of Danishlineage and a mother of Russian-Jewish descent responded that “under Jewish law I am Jewish, but Iconsider myself Unitarian.”
2008(21st of Sivan, 5768): Ninety year old LeonidHurwicz, the Nobel Prize winning economist passed away today. (As reported byWilliam Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/business/26hurwicz.html
2008: Sotheby's inIsrael conducted an auction that was a fund-raiser for IsrALS, the localorganization benefiting sufferers of the degenerative disease ALS.
2008: The Jewish Agency for Israel wrapped up ameeting of its boards of governors facing a shortfall of $20 million to $30million in the current fiscal year and a gap of $45 million for next year’sbudget caused by the steady decline of the value of the American dollar.
2008: Three Kassam rockets hit the western Negevthis afternoon, in a second violation of a cease-fire between Hamas and theIsraeli government. One of the rocketsdamaged a house in Sderot.
2009: Canadian born actress Neve Campbell returnedto television in a starring role on NBC's The Philanthropist. The descendant ofSephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism, Campbell has said, "I am apracticing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'mJewish, I say yes"
2009: David Makovsky, a fellow at the WashingtonInstitute for Near East Policy, signs copies of his new book, Myths,Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East whichwas written with Ambassador Dennis Ross, special adviser to the secretary ofstate for the Gulf and Southwest Asia) at Politics and Prose in Washington,D.C.
2009: Bernard-Henri Lévy posted “a video onDailymotion in support of the Iranian protesters who were being repressed afterthe contested elections.”
2010: The sixth season of “Futurama” starring KateySagal as “Leela” began airing today.
2010: TheLeo Baeck Institute is scheduled to present a book signing and discussionfeature Eric Metaxes author of the newly released Bonhoeffer: Pastor,Martyr, Prophet, Spy.” Bonhoeffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
2010: Seventy-three-year-old Ben Sonnenberg thefounder of the literary quarterly Grand Street passed away today. (Asreported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/books/26sonnenberg.html?scp=1&sq=Ben+Sonnenberg%2C+Jr.&st=nyt
2011: Downtown Shabbat featuring Robyn Helzner andCantor Larry Paul is scheduled to take place at the Historic 6th& I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: Stephen M. Saland, “a Republican member ofthe New York State Senate, representing the 41st District voted for New York’sMarriage Equality Act today providing the decisive vote in the passage of thelegislation – legislation he had opposed in December of 2009.
2011: “Ghost the Musical” for which Cassie “Levyoriginated the role of Molly Jensen” transferred “London’s West End at thePiccadilly Theatre.”
2011: The Hebrew Educational Alliance is scheduledto sponsor “Nashira! Let Us Sing”followed by a community Shabbat Dinner.
2011: CongregationShaarey Zedek and the Alliance for Jewish Education are scheduled to sponsorShabbat in the Park in Birmingham, Michigan.
2011: TheObama administration is stepping up pressure on activists planning to challengeIsrael's sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, warning that they will face actionfrom Israeli authorities and that American participants may also be violatingU.S. law.
2011: The first Citizenship Ceremony was held inDublin Castle. The ceremon “where new citizens swear an oath to the state andobtain their certificate of citizenship” was the creation of Irish politicalleader Alan Joseph Shatter.
2011: According to today’s New Jersey Star Ledger,“Last week, the fledgling group,” Better Education For Kids co-founded by DavidTepper, “launched a one million dollar campaign to advertise its mission andsolicit donations.”
2012: The Los Angeles Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding HHhH, Laurent Binet’s novel about the Nazi monster ReinhardHeydrich and the two Czechoslovakian war heroes who set out to assassinate him– “Jozef Gab¿ík, a Slovak, and Jan Kubiš, a Czech, both soldiers who made theirway to England after their nation was overrun by Hitler.”
2012: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Missionto Paris by Alan Furst, The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery byWitold Pilecki, Hitler by A. N. Wilson and As Consciousness Is Harnessed ToFlesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag.
2012: TheAmerican Conference of Cantors-Guild of Temple Musicians' Convention isscheduled to pen in Portland, OR.
2012: HAZAKis scheduled to sponsor a docent led tour of the Columbus Museum of Art whichwill include a visit to the Lod Mosaic Exhibit.
2012: TheLeague for Yiddish and YIVO Institute are scheduled to sponsor a program inmemory of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter Z"L. during which Dr. Kalman Weiser ofYork University, Toronto, will speak on "Max Weinreich's Attitude toAmerican Jews and the Beginnings of Yiddish Studies at American Universities inthe 1940s.".
2012: Israeli cellist Yoed Nir is scheduled toperform at solo recital in Teaneck, NJ as part of the Classical Sunday Concertseries.
2012: Dr. Bob & Laurie Silber celebrate 39years of wedded bliss
2012: Fivemortar bombs landed in the Eshkol Regional Council, ending several hours ofrare calm in the south. One of the bombs fell near a community dining room andanother other two in an open area. No damage and injuries were reported.Earlier today Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to hit back at Gaza forany infraction of the truce.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/mortars-land-in-eshkol/
2012: French police said they were investigatingdeath threats made against the country’s chief rabbi. Polices said that theyare looking for people connected to a photomontage disseminated throughFacebook which shows Rabbi Gilles Bernheim with a revolver pointing at hishead. The picture shows Bernheim wearing a Star of David on his forehead. (Asreported by Times of Israel staff)
2012: PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said tonight that Israel would respect thedemocratic process and the results of the vote in Egypt. Muslim Brotherhoodcandidate Mohammed Morsi was declared a winner of a run-off vote for presidentof the country today, the first civilian and democratically elected person tohold the title. Israel had expressed fears that an Egypt ruled by the hard-lineIslamist Brotherhood would undo the peace treaty between the countries and leadto frostier relations with Cairo. Netanyahu’s statement seemed designed toiterate the importance of keeping to the three-decade old peace agreement.
2012: “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” which openedin January is scheduled to have its final performance today at the RichardRodgers Theatre in Manhattan.
2013: The Center for Jewish History and the JewishWomen’s Archives are scheduled to present “Bread and Roses, Too” a paneldiscussion about the role of Jewish women in the early labor movement.
2013: In San Diego, CA, the Center for JewishCulture is schedule to host “The Merchant of Venice: What is it About Shylockand the Jews?” featuring Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of the Old Globeand Associate Producer of NYC’s Public Theatre’s recent Broadway production ofThe Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino
2013: The 29thAnnual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies is scheduled to opentoday in Los Angeles, CA
2013: Friends and family celebrate the 40th WeddingAnniversary of Dr. Bob and Laurie Silber.
2013: The hotly debated “Prawer bill,” regulating Beduinsettlements in the Negev narrowly passed in its first Knesset reading Monday,with 43 in favor and 40 opposed. (As reported by Lahav Harkov and Ariel BenSolomon)
2013: At least 6 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towardssouthern Israel very early this morning.Two of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missiledefense system. The other rockets landedwithout causing any injuries. The areasthat were hit include Rahat, in the Bnei Shimon Regional Council, Be’er Shevaand the Lachish Regional Council. Three more rockets were fired toward theAshkelon area. (As reported by Lori Lowenthal Marcus)
2014: The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust &Genocide is scheduled to host Marina Cantacuzino who will talk about TheForgiveness Project and “forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution.”
2014: “Big Bad Wolves” which was nominated for 11 Israeli AcademyAwards is scheduled to be shown at the Portland (OR) Jewish Film Festival.
2014: “A draft of one of the most popular songs of all time, BobDylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” sold today for $2 million, which the auctionhouse called a world record for a popular music manuscript.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-does-it-feel-dylans-like-a-rolling-stone-draft-sells-for-2m/
2014: “Four rockets were fired from Gaza Strip at Israel thisevening, prompting the IAF to return fire and attack Gaza terror targets.” (Asreported by Matan Tzuri)
2014: “Rachel Fraenkel, the mother of kidnapped teen NaftaliFraenkel, pleaded for international assistance to secure the release of her sonand fellow captives Eyal Yifrach and Gil-ad Shaar, at the UN Human RightsCouncil in Geneva” today. (As reported by Marissa Newman)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rachel-fraenkel-its-wrong-to-use-boys-as-instrument-of-struggle/
2014: Dr. Michael Steinlauf is scheduled to leave JFK today as heleads a tour of “Jewish Poland” sponsored by Gratz College.
2014: As he sought to serve in the U.S. House of Representativesfrom New York’s 1st district, Lee Zeldin won the Republican Primarytoday.
2014: A French court drops its lawsuit against Dieudonné M’balaM’bala, ruling the French comedian’s video mocking the Holocaust doesn’tconstitute hate speech. (Europe’s notoriously strict hate speech laws regulateHolocaust denial as well as “racially or religiously discriminatoryexpression”.) (As reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014(26th of Sivan, 5774): Ninety-eight-year-old actorEli Wallach whose sixty year acting career on both stage in screen encompasseda wide variety of roles including, oddly enough, the role of thevillainous Mexican bandito in the machocult classic “The Magnificent Seven.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/movies/eli-wallach-multifaceted-actor-dies-at-98.html?_r=0
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/eli-wallach-dead-good-bad-714794
2015: Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order, in thepresence of the” family of Steve Sotloff of blessed memory “and other hostagefamilies, for a broad overhaul regarding how it handles U.S. hostages heldabroad by groups such as ISIS,”
2015: Today, Dutch supermarket operator Ahold, the owner of Stopand Shop, whose “roots can be traced back to 1892, when Solomon and JeanieRabinowitz opened a grocery shop, called the Greenie Store, at 134 SalemStreet, in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts,” announced “that it wouldmerge with Brussels-based Delhaize Group…”
2015: “Israel canceled permission for hundreds of residents ofGaza to enter Jerusalem to pray during Ramadan in Al Aqsa Mosque, thethird-holiest site in Islam, after rocket fire from the coastal enclave,Israeli officials said” today.
2015: In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club is scheduled tomeet at Temple Judah where attendees will discuss The Midwife of Veniceby Roberta Rich.
2015: Hadassah Associates of Hadassah Greater Washington isscheduled to host a charity Golf Outing in support of Hadassah’s Men's HealthInitiative.
2015: Steve Gimble, author of Einstein: His Space and Times isscheduled to talk about the famous scientist at the National Museum of AmericanJewish History.
2016: This evening Shoshana Dembitz and Abigail Grafton “hosted aShabbat dinner, during which their extended families met for the first time.”
2016: The “6th Annual International CybersecurityConference, also known as Cyber Week…organized by Tel Aviv University’sBlavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, together with the IsraeliNational Cyber Bureau and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs” is scheduled tocome to an end today.
2016: “Three Kinds Words,” a “dramedy about three Jewish Israelisiblings” is scheduled to be shown at the Lincoln Plaza Cineman.
2016: “Septembers of Shiraz,” “a film about a prosperous Jewishfamily in Iran caught up in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution that overthrewthe Shah, based on Dalia Sofer’s well-received 2007 novel of the same name andwhich used her own family’s experiences as source material” is scheduled to“officially open a commercial run in New York and Los Angeles” today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-the-holocaust-septembers-of-shiraz-and-me/
2017(30th of Sivan, 5777): Parashat Korach; RoshChodesh Tammuz
2017(30th of Sivan, 5777): Seventy-three-year-old RabbiMeir Zlotowitz, the founder of ArtScroll Mesorah, the dominate force in Jewishtexts and husband of Rachel Zlotowitz with whom he had eight children includingIra, “the founder and President of Eastern Union Funding,” passed away today.(As reported by Joseph Berger)
2017: “Several mortar shells exploded in an open area in the GolanHeights near the border with Syria” this afternoon “leading to retaliatory airstrikes.”
2017: Today “three women were kicked out of the Chicago Dyke Marchfor carrying rainbow flags emblazoned with Jewish stars.”
2017: In Marseille, “a group of half a dozen women read the Torahat the Fleg Jewish.
2017:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a Shabbat lunchfollowing service for those “still around in 9th week.”
2017: “The Sounds,” a four weeklong classicalmusical festival is scheduled to end today in Israel.
2018: “The American Sephardi Federation andCaminos De Sefarad: Red de Juderías de España are scheduled to present a pop-upphotographic exhibition on Spain’s formerly Jewish Quarters” during an eveningthat will also feature a presentation by Doreen Alhadeff, a member of Seattle’sSephardic community, who was one of the first to be recognized under Spain’sSephardic citizenship law, as well as a Spanish kosher wine tasting.”
2018: In Manchester, UK, JW3 is scheduled tohost a screening of “Zuzana: Music is Life” a film based on the life ofharpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, who survived “three concentration camps,including Auschwitz.”
2018: In a testament to the vitality ofsmall-town Jewish life, in Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim is scheduled to holdits Sisterhood Mitzvah Brunch.
2018: The Yotam Ben-Or Quartet is scheduled “tocelebrate the release of their debut album in NYC” at the Cornelia Street Café.
2018: “Speak Truth to Power: Human RightsDefenders Who Are Changing Our World,” an exhibit featuring black and whiteportraits of human rights defender from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winningphotojournalist” is scheduled to close today at the Illinois Museum andEducation Center.
2018: The photographic exhibition “Bedouin andArab Israeli Communities in the Negev” which is part of the “Home: Lens onIsrael” series, at the Temple Emanuel Streicker Center is scheduled to come toan end today.
2018: The United States government continues tosort out the issue of re-uniting the children of illegal immigrants with theirparents following a change in a policy reportedly championed by White Houseofficial and Trump supporter Stephen Miller, whose Yiddish speaking family hadcome to the United States in the early 20th century “to escape theanti-Semitic pogroms in the Russian Empire.”
2018: “The Maimonides Scholars Program isscheduled to open at Yale University.
2018: “The 2018 Southern California JewishSports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are scheduled to take place thisafternoon, at American Jewish University in West Los Angeles.”
http://scjewishsportshof.com/home.html
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research isscheduled to present “In the ‘Freud Laboratory’: The Yiddish Translation andReception of Psychoanalysis” a talk that “explores the intersection between thelinguistic architecture of modern Jewish psyche, in which Yiddish and otherJewish languages lie "deeper" than European tongues, and Freud'sstratified notion of the psyche.”
2019: In London, JW3 is scheduled to host ascreening of the documentary “Inside the Mossad.”
2019: Turkish Film Week is scheduled to come toan end at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
2020: The Columbus Jewish Film Festival, inCelebration of Andrew Ethan Stern, is scheduled to present a virtual screeningof the film “Standing Up, Falling Down,” starring Billy Crystal and BenSchwartz.
2020: Israelis are scheduled to begin paying aNIS 500 for failing a face mask in public, up from the previous amount of NIS200.
2020: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies arescheduled to host, online, “Jewish Views of Perfecting the World.”
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to hostonline, Ian H. Solomon and Ilana Kaufman as they discuss “Building on SharedDreams.”
2020: The National Museum of American JewishHistory is scheduled to host a livestream conversation and concert featuringJoey Weisenberg as part of the Songs of Our People, Songs of Our Neighborsseries.
2020: ASF Broom &Allen Fellow, researcher, writer,and performerDr. Vanessa Paloma Elbazis scheduled to present SephardiJudeo-Espagnole: Threads Across the Strait, part of the multi-part series TheMusic of North Africa.
2021:Artkkot is scheduled to host an “important Judaica auction including paintingby Raphel Nouril and Timur Tsaku at the Pillar Hotel in London.
2021: TheCombined Jewish Philanthropies is scheduled to present, online, “Beyond theHeadlines: A Time of Change in Israel” with “Israeli political expert ReuvenHazan.”
2021: InAmherst, MA, The Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to reopen to visitors today.
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
2021: The Jewish Studio Project is scheduled tomark the Summer Solstice, the longest day of light each year by utilizing“creative exploration to understand this moment in time when we are mostawake…”
2021: The Jewish Community Center of the NorthShore is scheduled to present, online, “aconversation with Jonathan Tobin, editor-in-chief of the Jewish NewsSyndicate, contributing writer for National Review and a columnist for The NewYork Post, Haaretz and other publications.
2021: The Contemporary Jewish Museum isscheduled to host “Opening Day for GOLEM: A Call to Action.”
https://thecjm.org/programs/895
2022: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled topresent “40s(ish) Qabbalat Shabbat and Dinner.”
2022: In Washington, DC, Adas Israel isscheduled to host its Friday Morning Parsha study group that will provide anexclusive in-depth look at the Torah portion with either Rabbi Holtzblatt whowill explore the parsha through the lens of Hassidut and mysticism, RabbiAlexander who will use the Talmud as the prism for the weekly reading or Rabbi Krinsky who will teach the hiddenrecesses of the Parsha’s passages and discover its meaning and relevance.
2022: Today. according to President Zelensky,marks four months since the Russians invaded Ukraine and Moscow declared waragainst Kyiv claiming that they were fighting “Nazis” which sounds hollow whenyou consider that Zelensky is Jewish.
2023: A double simcha – Shabbat and the celebrationof the 50th wedding anniversary of the former Laurie Kay Goldblattand Dr. Robert Alan Silber who were for so many decades pillars of the CedarRapids Jewish Community and as befits “a woman of valor” and “mensch” areenjoying life with their grandchildren in Florida.
2023(5th of Tammuz, 5783): ParashatKorach
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta lecture by William Tyler on “Churchill, the Jews and Arabs in the MiddleEast.”
2024: At the Center for Jewish History, YIVO isscheduled to present a discussion by Jeffrey Shandler of his new book Homes ofthe Past: A Lost Jewish Museum which explores a “largely unknown episode ofmodern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project,even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in thedynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe,”
2024: In another lecture in the online lectureseries "The Legend of the Writers: Kafka and Agnon", Prof. GaliliShachar is scheduled to try to illuminate Kafka's literary estate through acomparative reading of Agnon's story and with the help of literary scholar PeterSondi discuss “The Old Wall Cabinet” which “is a fragment from Franz Kafka'slast year of life, written when he was exiled from his hometown of Prague andlived in the Steglitz district of Berlin.
2024: Proving Leo Durocher’s adage “nice guysfinish last” was wrong, Laurie and Bob Silber’s friends are overjoyed to joinin celebrating their 51st wedding anniversay.
2024: As June 24th 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 262 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.)
