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69: Tiberius JuliusAlexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance toVespasian as emperor. This consolidation of Vespasian’s imperial power helpedto seal the fate of Jerusalem since the destruction of the Jewish capital washis way of proving that law and order would prevail in the empire.
70 C.E.: Titus set upbattering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem.
397: EmperorsArcadius and Honorius decree that Jewish clergy are allowed to keep their ownlaws and rituals and are exempt from service in municipal senates. This createsthe superficial impression that Jewish clergy are on an equal footing withtheir Christian counterparts. (As reported by Austin Cline)
985: In Barcelona,several Jewish residents were killed by the Moslem leader Al-Mansur. Many ofthem were land owners who left no heirs. According to the law, all their landswere given over to the Count of Barcelona. In Spain at this time it was not uncommonfor Jews to own vineyards and other lands.
294: Cassius Dio, thenamesake of the historian who “frequently records the religiouszeal and self-sacrificing spirit of the Jews” and whose account of the JewishWar against the Roman Empire that resulted in the destruction of the Temple ismore favorable to the Jews than that given by Josephus began serving as Proconsulargovernor of Africa
295: Cassius Dio, thenamesake of the historian who “frequently records the religiouszeal and self-sacrificing spirit of the Jews” and whose account of the JewishWar against the Roman Empire that resulted in the destruction of the Temple ismore favorable to the Jews completed his service as Proconsular governor ofAfrica.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/dio-cassiusdeg
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/cassius-dio/cassius-dio-on-bar-kochba/
https://www.judaism-and-rome.org/cassius-dio-roman-history%C2%A0xxxvii16-17
1187: As the showdownbetween Crusaders and Saracens gets closer, the forces of Saladin bypassBelvoir, whose defenders fail to come to do battle, and heads forTiberias. The Jews are bystanders asthese two interlopers fight to protect their “claim” to the Promised Land.
1233:Today “Burriana,an important Muslim city which was the capital of La Plan Valencia fell to theforces James I of Aragon who in 1263 “hosted” “formal ordered medievaldisputation between representatives of Christianity and Judaism regardingwhether Jesus was the Jewish Messiah.”
For more about theJews of Burriana see
https://www.magnespress.co.il/en/book/Three_Jewish_Communities_in_Medieval_Valencia-1015
1244: Duke FrederickII granted a charter to all Jews under his control which “became the model bywhich the status of the Jews of Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, Silesia, and Polandwas regulated.”
1388: Jews ofLithuania received a Charter of Privilege.
1392: Pope BonifaceIX “appointed the physician Solomone de Sabalduchio his "familiaris."
1462: In a documentsigned today, King Georg reconfirmed the requirement that Jews of Pilsen willpay “the Reeve (local ruler) for each household on St. Martin's Day onecorn-fed goose, at Christmas a pound of pepper, and at Easter one guilder plusone pound of pepper” and “confirmed that the Jews are obliged to register theirpledges” with the added proviso that failure to register will “loose the pledgeor the income from the pledge.”
1490: Twenty-year-oldYucef Franco, a Jewish cobbler from Tembleque and his 80 year old father ÇaFranco was arrested by the Inquisition.
1517: “GilesAntonini, referred to as Giles of Viterbo” was “elevated to the rank ofCardinal by Pope Leo X” which provided him with the position and power to offersanctuary to the Jewish grammarian Elias Levita whose family lived with theCatholic prelate for ten years.
1534: King ChristianIII of Denmark and Norway and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg gave birth toFrederick II of Denmark who moved to keep Jews out his realm by ordering ‘thatall foreigners in Denmark had to affirm their commitment to 25 articles offaith central to Lutheranism on pain of deportation,
1569: The Union ofLublin joins The Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania into aunited country called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic ofBoth Nations. This had to be an improvement in the situation for the Jews ofLithuania who were governed by statutes that read in part, "The Jews shallnot wear costly clothing, nor gold chains, nor shall their wives wear gold orsilver ornaments. The Jews shall not have silver mountings on their sabers anddaggers; they shall be distinguished by characteristic clothes; they shall wearyellow caps, and their wives kerchiefs of yellow linen, in order that all maybe enabled to distinguish Jews from Christians." During the 15th and 16th centuries the Jewsof Poland enjoyed an increasing amount of political autonomy and economicwellbeing which would come to a crashing end with the Ukrainian uprisings inthe 17th centuries.
1581: Gregory XIIIissued “Antiqua judaeorum improbitas,” a Papal Bull that “authorized theInquisition directly to handle cases involving Jews, especially thoseconcerning blasphemies against Jesus or Mary, incitement to heresy orassistance to heretics, possession of forbidden books, or the employment ofChristian wet nurses.” (Jewish Virtual Library shows the date as June 1, 1581)
1589: In Antwerp,Christophe Plantin, a Dutch publisher who printed “a good many Hebrew texts”passed away today. Plantin printed the“Biblia Poygotta” a Bible containing five languages one of which was Hebrew.“The first four volumes contain the Old Testament. The left page has twocolumns with the Hebrew original and the Latin translation, the right page hassame text in Greek with its own Latin translation. Underneath these columnsthere is an Aramaic version on the left-hand page and a Latin translation ofthis on the right-hand side. For printing the Hebrew text Plantin used amongothers Daniel Bomberg's Hebrew type, which he had received from Bomberg'snephews.Volume 5 contains the New Testament in Greek and Syriac, each with aLatin translation, and a translation of the Syriac into Hebrew. Volume 6 hasthe complete Bible in the original Hebrew and Greek, as well as an interlinearversion that has the Latin translation printed between the lines.” The last twovolumes contain dictionaries (Hebrew-Latin, Greek-Latin, Syriac-Aramaic,grammar rules, list of names, etc.) that were of value to scholars
http://forward.com/articles/186552/solution-to-antwerp-mystery-leads-to-yet-another-m/
1651: Poland wasvictorious over the Cossacks. The Jews were allowed to return to their landsbut the society that they had built was gone forever.
1715: In New YorkColony, Jacob Franks and Bilhah Abigail Levy, gave birth to Naphtali Franks thehusband of Phila Franks with whom he had four children who settled in Englandin 1737.
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/naphtali-franks-b-1715-192081
1734: In conformitywith an agreement with Prince Carl, Duke of Wurttemberg Joseph Oppenheimer tookcontrol of the mint having guaranteed the ruler a large increase in revenue.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11740-oppenheimer-joseph-suss
1736: Ahmed III, theSultan who appointed Judah ben Samuel Rosanes to serve a “hakam bashi” (ChiefRabbi of the Ottoman Empire passed away.Rabbi Judah was a noted scholar who was an ardent opponent of theShabbethaians (the followers of the “False Messiah”)
1742: In Darmstadt,Pastor Johan Conrad Lichtenberg and his was wife gave birth to physicist andsatirist Georg Chrsitoph Lichtenberg whose “invention of a ‘Compass ofMotives;’”Sigmund Freud (in his “Why War?” letter to Albert Einstein)mentioned in a discussion on thecombination of human compounded motives and quoted him as saying, “The motivesthat lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds andmight be given names on the same pattern: for instance, ‘food-food-fame’ or‘fame-fame-food’.”
1749(26thof Tammuz, 5509): Elisha ben Abraham ben Judah, the Russian rabbi who was chiefof the Yeshiva at a Luciez passed away today.
1772(30thof Sivan, 5532): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1772(30thof Sivan, 5532):The infant daughter of Abraham de Leon died today, the day ofher birth.
1774: In Montreal,Marie Elizabeth Louise Dubois and Ezekiel Solomon gave birth to Joseph Solomon.
1776: “Cherokeesattacked settlement along the” South Carolina frontier resulting in a “PaulRevere-like Ride” by Francis Salvador to sound the alarm for those livingwithin a 30-mile radius.
1776: First Jew losthis life in the American Revolution.
1782: “Wealthy Philadelphiaand New York merchant” David Franks, “asignatory to the Non-Importation Agreement of 1765” turned Loyalist arrivedtoday “without more than forty or fifty pounds in his pocket and without “awife a family to support him” was final given 125 pounds by the by the English government“instead of he 1,125 pounds he had asked for” but it would appear that Frankswas satisfied with the treatment he had received” since he returned to Philadelphiawhere he spent the last ten years of his life.
1783(1stof Tammuz, 5543): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1792: Baruch Hays,and his second wife Rachel (de Costa) Hays gave birth to Joseph Lopez Hays
1798: In Switzerland,special taxes on the Jews were finally abolished.
1798: After eludingthe British fleet, the French Army under Napoleon landed at Alexandria in amilitary action where the Eliyahu Hanavi Syngouge which had been built in 1354was bombed to such an extent that it would not be re-built until 1850.
1805(4th of Tammuz,5565): Pinchas Horowitz, a rabbi and Talmudist who was born at Chortkiv in 1731died today at Frankfort-on-the-Main
1810: The reign ofLouis Napoléon Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, as King ofHolland, came to an end. Bonaparte sought to improve the condition of theJews. Among other things he abolishedthe “Oath More Judaico” and opened military service to Jews by creating twobattalions made up exclusively of Jewish soldiers and officers.
1815: According toVarnhagen von Ense, in his work Nach de Wiener Kongress, today “PrinceHardenberg prohibited, at Israel Jacobson’s instance, the performance ofanti-Semitic play Die Judenshucule, oder Unser Verkehr.”
1815: CharlotteDrace, the daughter of Sara and John King, “moneylender and radical writer” whowrote “under the pseudonym ‘Rosa Mtailda’” married widower Nicholas Byrnetoday.
1818: Joseph Leighmarried Sarah Abrahams at the New Synagogue.
1819: Today “theliberal Burschenschaft student Karl Ludwig Sand murdered the conservativewriter August von Kotzebue” which provided the excuse for Metternich to callfor a meeting of Austrian ministers which led to the passage of the “CarlsbadDecrees,” a package of reactionary rules which were passed during “The Hep-Hep riots which were pogroms against Ashkenazi Jews,that began in the Kingdom of Bavaria, during the period of Jewish emancipationin the German Confederation.”
1821(1stof Tammuz, 5581): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1824:Twenty-eight-year-old Isaac Tobias, the son of Rachel Aarons and Joseph Tobiasmarried Isabella Cowen today, after which they had six children – Augustus,Virignius, Colleton, Sara, Marion and Sophie.
1825: In Virginia,Hyman Levy Seixas, the New York born son of Benjamin Mendes Seixas and ZipporahMendes Seixas and his wife Abigail Nunez Seixas gave birth to ,,Sarah Hass, thewife of Henry Haas.
1829(30thof Sivan, 5589): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1829: Jamaica nativeJoseph Gutteres Henriques, the son Saran and Jacob Beuno Henriques and ElizaHenriques gave birth to Alfred Gutteres Henriques
1835: The day afterhe had passed away, 70 year old Simon Medex was buried today at the “BradyStreet Jewish Cemetry.”
1845: David LevyYulee began serving as the United States from Florida. This was in the daysbefore the direct election of Senators.After Florida joined the Union, the state legislature chose Yulee tofill the position. This made him thefirst Jew to be elected to the United States.Yulee would desert the Union and join the Confederacy at the start ofthe Civil War. Yulee would ‘desert’ thefaith of his fathers’ when he married a Christian and raised his children inher faith.
1845: In London,Moses Botibol and the former Jessie Myers gave birth to Isaac Botibol.
1850: InPhiladelphia, George H. Earle, Sr. and Mrs. Frances ("Fanny") VanLeer Earle gave birth to American Poet Florence Earle Coates.
http://florenceearlecoates.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-dreyfus-affair.html
1851: Morris Leemarried Laura Levy at the Great Synagogue.
1853: Coleman Defriesmarried Cordelia Magnus today.
1853: GeorgeWashington Mordecai, the Warrenton, NC born son of Rebecca and Jacob Mordecaismarrie Margaret Cameron today
1855: In Georgetown,SC, Joseph Sampson and Esther Cohen gave birth to Arthur Fischel Sampon, thegraduate of U. Va. Medical School who practiced medicine in Galveston, TXbefore settling in San Francisco in 1901 where he invented the Sampson UrethalSpeculum.
1857: According tothe New York Times, there are 1,500,000 Jews living in Russia out of apopulation estimated at 63,000,000.
1858: The House ofLords took up the question of admitting Jews into Parliament. Lord Derby expressed a willingness to end hisopposition to the measure as a way of avoiding a major collision with the Houseof Commons. [Editor’s note – The issue of Jewish emancipation was not strictlya “Jewish issue.” It may also be seen aspart of a larger power struggle between the Establishment as represented by theLords and the changing economic and social milieu as represented by theCommons. The issue of Jewish Emancipationwas but one of many issues over which this battle was fought with the Commonsultimately emerging victorious.]
1859: “In Kalamazoo,Michigan, Mannes and Tillie, the first Jews to settle in Kalamazoo” gave birthto University of Michigan astronomer Edward Israel who perished on a PolarExpedition “under the leadership of Adolphus Greely.”
1860:Twenty-nine-year-old Anthony-Mayer, the second son of Solomon Benedict deWorms, the Baron de Worms, married Emma Augusta the daughter of Baron FrederickVon Schey of Vienna.
1860: In Memphis,Simon Tuska was unanimously elected to serve as the rabbi at Temple Israel andsigned to a three-year contract at $800 per year”
1861(23rd of Tammuz,5621): Bernhard Beer, a member of the prominent Bondi family, who as ajournalist worked for the emancipation of his co-religionists in Saxony andwho, although a layman, “was the first to introduce German language sermons atthe congregation in Dresden, passed away today.
1862: Russian Jewswere granted permission to print Jewish books
1862: InPhiladelphia, Elias Wolf and Amelia Mayer gave birth to Benjamin Wolf, thehusband of Fredora Kahn the Treasurer of the National Metal Edge Box Companyand Vice President of Standard Machine Company who was also the Director of theHebrew Education Society and Vice President of the Jewish Hospital.
1862: While servingwith Company H of the 61st Regiment, Jacob Miller was wounded at the Battle ofMalvern Hill.
1862: Captain Leon Jastremski, the French born son of Vincent Jastremski, aPolish Jewish émigré served in a brigade that fought at the Battle of MalvernHill.
1863: First day ofthe Battle of Gettysburg. Just as the war pitted brother against brother, so itpitted Jew against Jew. At Gettysburg, Prussian born Major Adolph Proskauer ofMobile led the 12th Alabama against the Army of the Potomac which included LieutenantAbraham Cohn, a native of East Prussia, who fought with the 6th New HampshireVolunteers. Cohn fought in 11 battlesand won the Congressional Medal of Honor.Proskauer did not survive his service with the Rebel Army.
For more informationabout Jews in the Civil War
seehttp://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/default.htm
1863: LieutenantColonel Israel Moses was among those who arrived with Sickle’s brigade as ittried to stem the Confederate tide on the first day of fighting at Gettysburg.
1863: Raphael Moses,“the chief commissary officer for General Longstreet” and a confidant ofGeneral Lee was among those who found themselves facing the Union Army at thesleepy Pennsylvania village of Gettysburg.
1863: Jacob EzekielHyneman had sufficiently recovered from the wounds sustained at the Battle ofBrandy Station to serve with United States Army Signal Corps at the Battle ofGettysburg.
1863: “The First NationalBank of Chicago” which would be described in glowing terms on its 50thanniversary by The Reform Advocate “opened its doors for business today.
1864: In Columbus,GA, Frank Rothschild, the German born son of Henriette and Isack Rothschild andhis wife Amanda Rothschild gave birth to Alfred Rothschild who gained fame asactor Alfred Redgis
1865: LieutenantTobias Rosensteel who had been serving with the 64th Regiment, also designatedas the Fourth Cavalry since 1861 completed his military service today.
1865: Americansurgeon and U.S. Naval officer Phineas Jonathan Horwitz was appointed Chief ofthe Bureau of Medicine and Surgery with a rank equivalent to that of Commodore.
1866(18th of Tammuz,5626): Tzom Tammuz observed because the 17th fell on Shabbat.
1867: WilliamFlegenheimer of Baden became a U.S. citizen today.
1867: Leon Jastremski, the French born son of Vincent Jastremski, aPolish Jewish emigre who settled in Louisiana married Rose Larguier today
1867: With thepassage of the British North America Act, Great Britain officially recognizesthe Dominion of Canada as an independent country. Jews had been living in Canada since theBritish took it from France in the 17th century. There were enough Jews livingin Montreal to allow for the creation of a synagogue called Shearith Israel.While most members of the small Jewish community lived in various towns in theeastern part of the country enough Jews arrived in British Columbia during theGold Rush that a synagogue was constructed in Victoria in 1862. At the time that Britain recognized theindependence of Canada there were about 1,000 Jews living in “our neighbor tothe North.” This number would explodeshortly thereafter with the beginning of the immigration of Russian Jews.
1868: In Pittsfield,MA, “Moses and Rosa Rosenthal England gave birth to Daniel England Sr. “vicepresident and treasurer of England Brothers Department store” founded by hisfather in 1857 and the husband of “the former Myra Bendell; with whom he raisedtwo sons and one daughter.
1869: Today, PhineasJonathan Horwitz completed his service as Chief of the Bureau of Medicine andSurgery and moved on to take charge of the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia.
1872: In what was“first case of its kind in Prussia,” it was reported today that the “GrandlodgeRoyal York” has decided to admit Jews as members making 1872 a year for“firsts” since Ludwig Traube became the first Jew to be appointed “to a regularprofessorship in Prussia” and Harry Bresslau became the first Jew to beappointed as teacher in the Berlin public schools.
1873: Prince EdwardIsland joins the Canadian Confederation. Apparently, Jews did not startsettling in Prince Edward Island until the first decade of the 20th centurywith the arrival of Louis, Israel and Abie Block. The three brothers were fromRiga and may have been the Jews who were described in 1908 newspaper article ashaving celebrated Passover in this part of Canada.
1873: The governmentclosed the “rabbinical school of Jitomir” where Chaim Lerner, a native of Dubnohad been service as the Hebrew teacher since 1851.
1873: In Detroit,Michigan, founding of Congregation B’nai Israel whose members included LouisGoldsmidt, Meyer Jacobson and Louis Thorner and which owned a cemetery onWilliams Avenue.
1873: In Berlin, EmilCohn and his wife Deborah Lenore Cohn, the daughter of Ulrike and Marcus Mossegave birth to Antonie Hirsch
1874: “Ivanhoe or,Rebecca, the Jewess,” a “dramatization” of Sir Walter Scott’s famous novelopened tonight at Niblo’s Theatre in New York City. The play, which presents a sympatheticdepiction of Isaac of York and his daughter was well received by theaudience. [Editor’s Note – The positiveresponse of the audience to Jewish characters stands at odds at with theoutbreak of genteel anti-Semitism that is soon about to infect polite societyin New York and elsewhere.]
1876: Sixty-two-year-oldMikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin one of the founders of Anarchism whoseanti-Semitism would seem to show that hating Jews was part of the Russianmentality regardless of political philosophy passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_01912.html
1877: It was reportedtoday that people in Bucharest were quite surprised to learn that Jewishcitizens in the United States had presented a petition to Secretary of StateWilliam Evarts asking him to intervene on behalf of their co-religionists inRomania and Turkey. According to thereports, the Jews of the region were even more surprised than the gentiles tohear of this request for intervention by the government of President RutherfordB. Hays.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE0DF133FE63BBC4953DFB166838C669FDE
1877: Philadelphiamerchant Edward J. Ettings’ son, Theodore Minis Etting, a student at the U.S.Naval Academy who at the age of sixteen volunteered to serve on active dutyduring the Civil War and who had risen to the rank of Lieutenant in 1874resigned his commission today and began studying law which would lead to acareer in maritime law that combined both of his interests.
1877: Wilhelm Bacher“was appointed by the Hungarian government to the professorship of the newlycreated Landesrabbinerschule of Budapest.”
1878: Karl Nobling“shot and wounded Kaiser Wilhelm I in a failed assassination attempt.” It wasthe second such attempt in less than a month and provided Chancellor Otto vonBismarck with the leverage of implement the Anti-Socialist Law in October whichwas meant to curb the growth the Marxist Social Democratic Party,
1878: At theinsistence of Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck the Congress of Berlinincorporated into the Treaty of Berlin an article intended to provide the Jewsof Romania with the opportunity for full citizenship. Unfortunately, the Romanians evaded thearticle and only a hand full of Jews would gain citizenship.
1879: In New YorkCity, ” Berlin-born Moses Arndstein who fought in the Franco-Prussian War” and“his wife Thekla Van Shaw” gave birth to Julius W. “Nicky” Arnstein a smalltime gambler and swindler whose greatest claim to fame was his marriage toFanny Brice.
1880: “A Survey ofAssyrian Art” published today provided a detailed review of Manual of OrientalAntiques, Ernest Babelon’s tome about the architecture, sculpture andindustrial arts of ancient civilizations which includes one chapter devoted tothe Jews. The representations of “Jewish art and architecture…supplied from thework of de Vogue and from ‘The Recovery of Jerusalem’ by Wilson and Warren.”
1880: “In Chernowitz,Austria-Hungary (now Chennivst, Ukraine) Abba and Chaya Fassler (Aaron andGussie Fassler) gave birth to Samuel Fassler, the owner of a trucking companyowner before founding Fassler Iron Works before WW I who was the City Commissionerof Buildings in New York, “a trustee of Yeshiva University and “founder andpresident of the Ninth Street Day Nursery and Orphans Home.
1880: (12th ofTammuz): Birthdate of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok who would become the SixthLubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe wouldovercome a terrifying imprisonment at the hands of Stalin’s henchmen in the1920’s. Later, he would escape theclutches of the Nazis and settle in Brooklyn where he revived the cause ofChabad-Lubavitch. The Rebbe wouldlaunch, what would become under his son-in-law who was the Seventh LubavitcherRebbe, one of history’s most successful Jewish outreach programs.
1881: “Scenes inParisian Life” published today reported that “Fashionable Paris kept its wordloyally” by keeping its promise not to leave the city until after the concertwhich was to raise funds for the Jews of Russian had been held. The Gauloissponsored a concert that included performances by Faure and Mme. Alder-Devriesthe proceeds of which were to go to the “evicted and demolished Israelite ofSouthern Russia.”
1881: “InCzęstochowa, Poland, “Sigmund and Dora Pasternak” gave birth their eldest sondirector and producer Joseph Alexander Pasternack, the brother of Samuel andDavid Pasternack and the husband of Helen Feirman with whom he “had two daughters, Florence and Cecile.”
1882: TheMemphis (TN) Avalanche reported that during the commencement addressdelivered by George Cable at the University of Mississippi, the distinguishedauthor call for embracing the future included the challenge - “Let us search provincialism out the land asthe Hebrew housewife purged her house of leaven on the eve of the Passover.”(Apparently this custom of the Jews was so well known that the New Orleansauthor felt that it would be easily understood by those attending an event inrural Oxford, MS.
1882: Birthdate ofCourland, Russia native and Johannesburg resident Abraham Z. Idelson, theteacher of music at Hebrew Teachers College School of Music in Jerusalem and HUCin Cincinnati and author of several works include the History of JewishMusic.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/08/15/98178850.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1883: It was reportedtoday that ten new rabbis will be ordained later this month at the firstgraduation ceremony of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1883: “A Middle AgeTrial” published today described the Christian community of Hungary as beingdense an dark in light of the trial being conducted Nyreghhaza where Jews arecharged with having killed a Christian girl “in order to use her blood in ceremoniesof the Passover;” a charge that “reads like a chapter from the history of theMiddle Ages…What is taking place in Hungary is what was a common occurrence afew hundred years along. It only withinthe present century that the cruel and causeless prejudice against Jews hasdisappeared in civilized communities…Hungary is only about four hundred yearsbehind the age.” [Note – The samearticle contained the oddly prophetic statement “In Germany the cry is raisedthat a few Jew have, by their talents and industry, made themselves the rulingclass.”
1883: JosephBlumenthal completed his term as President of the Board of Trustees of ShearithIsrael in New York City.
1883: Since the Boardof Directors were in a deadlock when they voted for a new president forShearith Israel, Joseph Blumenthal “was made Chairman Pro Tem and authored toact as President until” the board elects a president.
1884: Isaac Jacobs, amiddle-aged Jew, is being held in Boston, MA on charges that he murdered Mrs.Etta Carlton of Watertown in 1883.Jacobs had been extradited from New York where he had been arrested onan outstanding larceny warrant.
1884: It was reportedtoday that anti-Semitic riots have broken out in Algiers. Order was restored bytroops who put an end to the pillaging of the Jewish the city’s Jewish quarter.
1884: It was reportedtoday that in St. Petersburg, Russia The New Times has declared its oppositionto granting Jews equal rights with Christians saying that this “would be agreater misfortune for Russia” than when it had been ruled by the Mongols. [Statements like this should help readersunderstand the depth of anti-Semitism in Russia which propelled the massivemigration to the West, primarily to the United States.]
1885: In Brooklyn,Rabbi Leopold Wintner officiated at the wedding of New Yorker Arthur Hirsch andHelen Ottolengui, the “only daughter of Daniel Ottolengui” of Charleston, SC.
1886(28thof Sivan, 5646): Fifty-six-year-old Fridoline Kahnweiler Gimbel, the Rockenhausen,Germany born daughter of Benedict and Rosina Seligmann Kahnweiler, the wife ofAdam Gimbel, the founder of Gimbel’s and the mother of Haiet, Julia, Jacob,Sallie, Isaac, Charles, Daniel, Ellis, Louis, Benedict, Rose and Alfred Gimblepassed away today.
1886: The firstedition of the Menorah, a monthly magazine published by the B’nai Brith isscheduled to appear for the first time today.
1886: Birthdate ofIthak Katzenelson, a native of Karleichy who became a teacher, poet anddramatist. Like so many of his generation, he was caught in the web of theHolocaust. He took part in the WarsawGhetto Uprising before being murdered in May of 1944. He wrote Dos lid funem oysgehargetn yidishnfolk( "Song of the Murdered Jewish People") which was retrieved fromits hiding place after the war and taken to Israel.
1888: Rabbi JacobSharp who arrived this morning at Hoboken aboard the North German Lloyd steamermet with the welcoming committee but refused to leave the ship until sundownsince it was Shabbat.
1888(22ndof Tammuz, 5648): Chana Rachel Verbermacher, sometimes transliteratedas Hannah Rochel, Khana Rokhel, or Khana Rakhel, also known as the Maiden ofLudomir, the Maiden of Ludmir, the Ludmirer Moyd (in Yiddish), HaBetulamiLudmir in Hebrew), or rarely, the Ludmirer Rebbe, who was the only independent female Rebbe in thehistory of the Hasidic movement passed away today in Jerusalem after which shewas buried on the Mount of Olives.
1888: A summer terminstituted by the trustees of the Jewish Theological Seminary will begin today.Among the instructors will be Dr. Cyrus Adler who will lecture on“Assyriology.”
1889: Birthdate ofVinnytsia native Todros Geller the master printmaker and artist who moved toMontreal before going on to Chicago in 1918 where he refined his craft at theSchool of the Art Institute in Chicago.
https://www.chicagomodern.org/artists/todros-geller
1889: Manuel ofOriental Antiquities by Enest Babelon which was reviewed today devotes onechapter to the Jews. Information on Jewish art and architecture is based on TheRecovery of Jerusalem by Wilson and Warren and the works of Eugène-Melchior,vicomte de Vogüé
1889: The Will ofAlexander Bach which left bequests of $1,000 each to Mount Sinai Hospital,Montefiore Home for Incurables, Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society,United Hebrew Charities, Temple Gates of Hope Hebrew Free School Association,Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews and Temple Israel of Harlem was executedtoday.
1889: Birthdate ofRussian born artists and printmaker Todros Geller who settled in Chicago wherehe became a leader in the art community and an activist among Yiddish speakingartists.
1890: In Russia, Louisand Ida (Yetta) slu*tsky, thefuture co-founder of the Catskill resort Nevele Hotel and Country Club gavebirth to Max slu*tsky the “husband of Edna slu*tsky and Pauline slu*tsky and fatherof Rose H Patterson and Edward Slater.”
1890: In SanFrancisco, Samuel and Lillian Magnin gave birth to Edgar Fogel Magnin thehusband of Evelyn B. Rosenthal with whom he had two children – Henry andMae—and grandson of Mary Ann and Isaac, the founder I. Magnin department storeswho was the rabbi at Congregation B’nai B’rith and the Wilshire BoulevardTemple, referred to by some as the “Hollywood House of God” because so many ofits members were associated with the film and television industries.
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/magnin_edgar.pdf
1891: The Hansa LineSteamship Pichuben left Antwerp today carrying a large number of Jews who havebeen expelled from Russia.
1891(25th of Sivan,5651): Forty-four-year-old Alexander Weisse, a native of Budapest who had beenin the United States for six years and was the advertising agent for a Germanlanguage evening paper, took his own life after attempting to murder the younggirl who had been in his companion for several months.
1891: According totoday’s “Theatrical Gossip” the comedy company of Jewish producer CharlesFrohman “has made a great hit in Chicago” with its performance of ‘Mr.Wilkinson’s Widows.’”
1892: “JewishPawnshops Must Go” published today described the government’s order that allMoscow pawnshops owned by Jews will be closed.The Jews will be given six months to close down their businesses.
1892: In Sheboygan, Wisconsin, “Max and Natalie (Fradkin) Eisenberg” gavebirth to U.S. Army WW I veteran David Berton Eisenberg, the husband of NatalieMarcus and “President of Graphic Arts Publishing Company” who was also a memberof the B’nai B’rith in Chicago.
1892: In SanFrancisco, 14-year-old Evelyn Kate Aronson, the daughter of Liverpool, UK,native Philip N. and Carrie Aronson and future wife of Max Margolis enteredGirls High School from which she would graduate in June of 1895 and then attendthe University of California, Berkley, from which she would graduate in 1900.
1892: Today’sinvestigation of an explosion at a New York Tenement that was home to Russianand Polish Jews including butcher shop owner Myer Kohn and the family MosesLefkowitz revealed the fact that the tenants have been complaining about thesmell of gas ever since the Consolidated Gas Company began putting a new pipeinto the building. Their complaints were ignored.
1893: Birthdate ofPaul Swartz, the native of Roumania who arrived in Canada in 1913 and served atEl Arish, Rafa, Ludd, Haifa, Kandara and Ismaliah as a member of the JewishLegion from which he was demobilized in 1919 allowing him to return to Canada in1919 where he married and had four children.
1894: It was reportedtoday that the Hebrew Institute will be hosting free talks by leadingphysicians on the “Care and Feeding of Infants and Children During the WarmWeather.”
1894: It was reportedtoday that the 265 students who have stayed at Cypress Hill, a facility fortruants, in the past year, 18 of them have been Jewish.
1894: In a commentthat would have a rabbi proud, Dr. Jesse W. Brooks told his Christian audiencethat “of all the ancient nations…the Hebrew was the only survivor because itobeyed God’s injunction to keep holy the Sabbath Day.”
1895: It was reportedtoday that “the notorious Jew-baiter Hermann Ahlwardt” is among those who areabout to be prosecuted by the Imperial Treasury “for their flagrant misuse offree passes to canal fetes.”
1895: A group ofunderprivileged children left today for a two day excursion at the RockawayBeach Hebrew Sanitarium.
1895: Colonel NicolasJean Robert Conrad Auguste Sandherr left his job at the Statistical Section(the counter-espionage service of the French Army) to take command of the 20thInfantry Regiment at Montauban. In 1894,when the Statistical Section had intercepted a handwritten note thatestablished that French military secrets had been handed over to the Germans,Sandherr convened the secret commission that “hastily” decided Alfred Dreyfuswas the spy. Sandherr was replaced by Colonel Georges Picquart who was a keyfigure in proving Dreyfus’ innocence.
1896: In Ukraine, Rochel?Krasnoshchek, the “Daughter of Yankel Osadchiy and Perel Osadchiy and herhusband Victor (Avigdor) Kramer gavebirth to future Massachusetts resident Isadore (Itzhak Leib) Louis Kramer, the “Husbandof Sarah Kramer” with whom he had two children.
1896: Newark, NJnative Louis Schlesinger, the founder of the Union Building Company and hiswife, the former Sophie Levy gave birth to Joel L. Schlesinger, the youngerbrother of Princeton graduate and U.S. Army Lieutenant Alexander L.Schlesinger.
1897: In Randegg,German, two “wealthy, observant Jews of Swiss-Jewish decent” gave birth to Universityof Zurich educated Irma Rothschild who gained fame as Irma Rothschild Jung, thehusband of Moravian-born Rabbi Leo Jung with whom she immigrated to the UnitedStates in 1922 and had four daughters – Ema, Roslie, Julie and Marcella – whileserving “as the director of the Bureau of the World Congress of Orthodox Jewryand the Central Bureau of the Agudath Israel World Organization and the“rebbetzin of the Jewish Center who “founded the women's branch of the Union ofOrthodox Jewish Congregations of America.”
1897: Birthdate of Clevelandnative Albert “Bert” Schneider, the Montreal raised boxer who “won the gold medin the welterweight division” at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp as a member ofthe Canadian team.
1898: Birthdate ofJacob A Samuel, the husband of MadelineSamuel
1898: In theSpanish-American War Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charged up San JuanHill in Cuba. The Rough Riders was acavalry unit recruited by Roosevelt that drew on every stratum of American lifefrom Western cowboys to Yankee Bluebloods.Several Jews served with the unit including Jacob Wilbusky, the firstRoughrider killed in action, Hyman Rafalowitz of Santa Fe, NM, who was aPrivate with Troop of the first 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, Adolph S. Wertheimof San Antonio, TX, who was a Private with Troop G of the 1st U.S. VolunteerCavalry, Frederick W. Wolff of San Antonio, Tx, who was a Private with Troop D and Hyman Litowski of Santa Fe, NM who was aprivate in Troop E of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. The Roughriders were forced to leave theirhorses back the United States, so the famous charge was made on foot.
1898: Three daysafter she had passed away, Priscilla Boam, the daughter of Henry Lyons andRachel Hart and the wife of Joseph Boam with whom she had had six children wasburied today in London at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1898(11th of Tammuz,5658): Sixteen-year-old Jacob Wilbusky of New York who had “enlisted in theRough Riders under the name ‘Jacob Berlin’” was killed today “in the firstskirmish.”
1898: Private SamuelGoldberg of Santa Fe, NM of Troop F, Rough Riders, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalrywas wounded today in action today.
1898: Four days aftershe had passed away, 49 year old Johana Plunket was buried today in London atthe “Plashet Jewish Cemetery.”
1898: Adolph Marixwho had served on the USS Maine before it was sunk took part in the SecondBattle of Manzanillo today as the commander of the USS Scorpion.
1899: The Conferenceof the English Zionist Federation comes to an end.
1899: After fiveyears of imprisonment, Alfred Dreyfus who had returned to France yesterday waslocked up today in the military prison in Rennes.
1900: Herzl turns toPrime Minister Koerber and asks him to use his influence with the Sultan topermit the Rumanian Jews to immigrate into Turkey and to receive him, in orderto discuss the question of colonization and settlement.
1901: In New YorkCity, “Moses and Runia Halpern gave birth to NYU trained attorney “YitzhakIsidore Halpern.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/02/obituaries/isidore-halpern-88-brooklyn-lawyer-dies.html
1901: The month inMorgan City, LA the building housing Shaarey Zedek burned down.
1901: In Chicago, twoJewish immigrants, William S. and Betty (Buxbaum) Phillips gave birth to theirtenth child, Irna Phillips, who began creating soap operas in the 1930’s.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/phillips-irna
http://www.oldradioshows.org/2011/02/irna-phillips-mother-of-the-soap-opera/
1901: “New Capital ofChina” published today that “Kai-fung-Foo in the Province of Ho-Nan” which is aremarkable city because it was, as first reported by Marco Polo, “the only cityin which there was a colony of Jews” will replace Peking as the capital ofChina.
1902: In Alsace,Leopold Weiller and Melanie Auerbach gave birth to Wilhelm Weiller who gainedfame as Oscar winning director Billy Wyler whose many classics including theWorld War II tear-jerker Mrs. Miniver.Ironically, his greatest hit was The Best Years of Our Lives, a filmthat described the return of four veterans to civilian life after World WarII. Once again, the Jews played a majorrole in crafting the cultural myths of Middle American Culture.
1902: In Grodno,Barnett and Rebecca Feinstein Cohen gave birth to American comedian Myron AaronCohen.
1903: Jacob A. Voice,the Jassy, Rumania born son of Nathan and Sofia Voice who was a senior managerwith the Consolidated Lithographing Company and the Pasbach-Voice LithographingCompany while serving as a trustee of the Temple Israel of Far Rockaway marriedEdith I. Littenberg today.
1903: In Detroit,“the reports of the Sabbath Commission to central conference of American rabbistoday provoked a hot discussion which occupied a large of the two sessions andresulted in the report being referred back to the commission to be place in moreconcise form.”
1903: It was reportedin this month’s issue of the Maccabean that “Miss Jane Addams of Hull House,Chicago” told the members of the Council of Jewish Women, that she “thinksJewish women are peculiarly well prepared to fill a place in the larger life”and “that among all the women in the foreign quarters of Chicago none showedthe same aptitude as Jewish women for absorbing the civic and social spiritcharacteristic of modern life.”
1904: As of today,only one person has been reported to have been injured in fire that broke outat the old Mount Sinai Hospital, which is being torn down and was started bythe explosion of leaking gas.
1904:Thirteen-year-old Harry William Davis, the Poltava born son of Louis Benjaminand Cyrl Dora Zlatkovski arrive in Duluth, MN after which earned a law degreefrom the University of MN in 1918, served in the U.S. Army during WW I, marriedIda Miriam Blehert in 1918 and became a leader of the Duluth Jewish communityas can be seen by his presidency as the Duluth District, director of the DuluthHebrew Brother Brotherhood and the trustee of Temple Emanuel.
1905: Sixty-six-year-oldformer Secretary of State John Hay whom The Board of Delegates on Civil andReligious Rights of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations hailed for hissupport of the Jews in Romania and Kishinev, passed away today.
1906: As of today,the Central Conference of American Rabbis has a total membership of 191.
1906: On New York’sLower East side, “Russian immigrants Harry and Clara Pressman gave birth to LeePressman Harvard Law School graduate turned Communist spy.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Lee_Pressman.htm
1906: The JewishHerald reported today that “in Sydney, Australia, rabbis are not permitted toreceive proselytes until the board of the congregation passes on them.”
1906: In Queens, NY,Rose Schotz Rosenthal, and Max Mentzer gave birth to Josephine Esther Mentzerwho became famous as Estée Laude, a woman who took her place in the world ofbusiness in a manner that marked her as a trailblazer. She was the co-founder,along with her husband, Joseph Lauder, of Estée Lauder Companies and the motherof Jewish leader Ronald Lauder.
1906: Birthdate ofEstee Lauder. Lauder was born Josephine Esther Mentzer, the daughter ofHungarian Jewish immigrants. She married Joseph Lauter who changed the familynamed to Lauder in the late 1930’s. Mrs. Lauder was CEO of Estee Lauder’sCosmetics. . She was one of several Jewish women who found fame and fortune inthe cosmetics business. She was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list ofthe 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She passed awayin 2004 at the age of 97.
1906: “At 3Kew-villas, Jersey, Alfred Krichefski and his wife, the former Sarah Blank,gave birth to a daughter.
1907: Birthdate offamed sportscaster Bill Stern.
1907: As of today,the Central Conference of American Rabbis has a total membership of 201
1907: CorrespondingSecretary Tobias Schanfarber reported that during the fiscal year that endedtoday the Central Conference of American Rabbis have issued 89 vouchersamounting to $6,959.73.
1907: The SS Casselentered the port of Galveston, Texas with 87 Russian Jews aboard, heralding thestart of the Galveston Movement - an organized attempt to bring Jews to lesspopulated parts of the US.
1908: The HebrewBoard of Relief contributed $50 to the National Conference of Jewish Charities.
1909: Birthdate ofAntonina Pirozhkova, the common-law widow of Russian literary giant Isaac Babelwho wrote a well-received memoir that provided a rare glimpse of the persecutedwriter's final years in the 1930s.
1909: It was reportedtoday that a helicopter built by Jewish inventor Emile Berliner and J. NewtonWilliams had lifted Williams “from the ground on three occasions at Berliner’slaboratory in the Brightwood neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
1910: Birthdate ofViennese native Harry Bachrach, who came to the United States after Anschlusswhere he became a manufacture of neckties, a student at Iona College and“elected Man of the Year by Men’s Neckware Foundation.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/29/obituaries/harry-bachrach-necktie-maker-79.html
1910: “Samuel Steinerbegan serving as a member of “the Board of Visitors of the Virginia StateSchool for Colored Deaf and Blind Children at Newport News.”
1911(5thof Tammuz, 5671): Parashat Korach
1911: “The Federationof American Zionists” did not meet today during their annual convention due toit being the Sabbath but many of the delegates from “a message from Dr. MaxNordeau declaring that American restriction of immigration would tend to closeto the Jews their most important harbor of refuge” and “he urged the Zioniststo oppose” any restrictive measures
1912: “Owing to thelack of space, the Trade School” of the Chicago Hebrew Institute wasdiscontinued today.
1913(26thof Sivan, 5673): Forty-seven-year-old Emanuel Abrahams passed away today afterwhich he was buried at the Jewish Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.
1913(26th of Sivan,5673): Seventy-eight-year-old Nanette Flesch, the aunt of Walter, Eugene, W.P.,Edwin and Rose K. Flesch passed away today at the Home for Aged Jews inChicago.
1913: John Monash whohad been given command of the 13th Infantry Brigade in 1912 “waspromoted to the rank of colonel” today.
1913(26th of Sivan,5673): Emanuel (Manny) Abrahams, the 20th ward alderman who was born in Chicagoin 1866 and went from begin a saloon owner to a career in politics thatincluded serving as “bailiff in the Maxwell Street Court” passed away “afterhaving spoken before the City Council Judiciary Committee” today.
1914: Worton HallStudios, one of the two studios that will later become Isleworth Studios wereofficially opened today under the leadership of producer George BertholdSamuelson.
1914: “Journalist,satirist and writer Kurt Tucholsky, who would be baptized in 1918, “left theJewish community today.”
1914: This morning at9:30, Rabbi William of Friedman is scheduled to offer the opening prayer attoday’s session of the “25th anniversary conference of the CentralConference of American Rabbis” being held “at Temple Beth El in Detroit,Michigan.”
1915: In Cincinnati,Ohio, Dr. Joseph Louis Ransohoff II, a surgeon who himself was the son of asurgeon and his wife gave birth to pioneer neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph LouisRansohoff II, who married psychotherapist Rita Meyer in 1940 and afterdivorcing her married Lori Cohen, DDS.
http://www.ajnr.org/content/ajnr/22/7/1440.full.pdf
1915: John M. Slaton,the former Governor of Georgia “who commuted the sentence of Leo M. Frank tolife imprisonment” talked with reporters today that he would return to Atlanta“after a trip to San Francisco and would continue his law practice there” whichsome might consider a rather bold statement considering the anger felt at thetime of the commutation.
1915: The list ofnewly elected officers of Hadassah published today included Henrietta Szold,Chairman; Sophia Berger, Treasurer; Lotta Levensohn, Recording Secretary andRose A. Herzog, Corresponding Secretary who enjoy the support of such prominentJews as Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Mrs. B.A. Rosenblatt and Miss Alice L.Seligsberg.
1916: University ofVermont rained engineer Jacob Frank, the Burlington, VT born son of Dora Shufroand Jospeh Elihu Frank was promoted to the rank of Captain while serving in the Coast Artillery Corps.
1916: In New YorkCity Rose and Samuel W. Halprin gave birth to landscape architect LawrenceHalprin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/design/28halprin.html
1916: “Theadvisability of resurrecting a petition addressed to President Harrison in 1891asking that the United States help the Jews re-establish themselves inPalestine will be discussed at the convention of the Zionist Organization ofAmerica which opened” in Philadelphia today.
1916: In Wildwood,NJ, “the 27th convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis formallyopened its business sessions tonight with the reading of the annual message ofthe President, Rabbi William Rosenau of Baltimore.”
1916: As the Battleof the Somme began, English composer Jane Marian Joseph who had left GitronCollege, Cambridge, took up part-time welfare work in Islington as part of herattempt to assist in the war effort.
1917: Per the requestof Colonel Milton J. Foreman, the conversion of the First Cavalry unit of theIllinois National Guard in the Second Field Artillery began today – a changethat Foreman wanted because he felt that would lead to his unit going to fightin France sooner than later.
1917: This evening abanquet is scheduled to be held as part of the Ninth Annual Convention of YoungJudaea being held in Asbury Park, NJ.
1917: Birthdate ofManhattan native and cartoon artist Jack Adler the winner of the Shazam Awardfor Best Colorist in 1971.
http://www.bailsprojects.com/(S(fulrppzyue13yt45mxat5rax))/bio.aspx?Name=ADLER%2c+JACK
1918: Louis MauriceJosephthal was promoted to Commander in the United States Naval Reserve wherehe was serving as Pay Inspector.
1918: “According toword received” today in New York by cable “842 American citizen are now in thehands of the Turks in Damascus and other cities of Galilee have been” forcibly“removed from Jerusalem when the Turk evacuated” that city as the British approachedthe city prior to its capture.
1919: MenachemRibalow the founder a newspaper for Jewish immigrants called Hadoar; which was published in New York and distributednationwide, and his wife Shoshana gave birth to sports columnist and authorHarold U. Ribalow.
http://www.jewishsports.net/PillarAchievementBios/HaroldURibalow.html
1919: In act ofgemilut chasadim, Elias A. Cohen hosted the first of the many summer “camps”for “deserving boys and girls at “Tranquility Farm and Camp.
1920: Sir HerbertSamuel, a British statesman was appointed High Commissioner of Eretz-Israel.His first official act was to grant amnesty to political prisoners includingJabotinsky. He governed the British Mandate for five years. Sir Herbertgoverned as a British official, not as a Jew and there were clashes between himand some Zionist leaders.
1920: In an attemptto strengthen the American labor movement, Benjamin “Schlesinger addressed aletter to the Neckwear Workers' Union of New York, the International JourneymenTailors' Union of America, the International Fur Workers' Union, the United GarmentWorkers of America, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and the UnitedCloth Hat, Cap Makers and Millinery Workers' Union of America, proposing analliance of all garment workers unions.”
1920: Nashville, TNborn Reform Rabbi Abram Simon, the longtime leader of Washington HebrewCongregation was elected president of the Board of Education today.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/simon-abram
1920:Thirty-six-year-old University of Vermont trained Chemical Engineer and WW Iveteran Jacob Frank, the Burlington, VT born son of Joseph Elihu and DoraFrank, who had joined the military in 1908 was promoted to the rank of Majortoday and was transferred to the Quartermaster Corps.
1921: Dr. Thomas G.Allen, Secretary of the Oriental Institute announced today that thanks to a$60,000 grant by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. the University of Chicago willexcavate the site of Armageddon or Megiddo.
1921: University ofColorado trained physician and surgeon Lewis Isaac Miller, the Denver born sonof Libby Lipchitz and Joseph Miller as well as the senior surgeon at BethIsrael Hospital in Denver married Ethel Bluestone today.
1922: After 96performances at the Winter Garden Theatre the curtain came down on “Make ItSnappy” a musical revue starring Eddie Cantor, who introduced the hit songsYes! We Have No Bananas and The Sheik of Araby.
1922: In Syracuse,NY, prominent lawyer Warren Winkelstein and his wife gave birth to WarrenWinkelstein, Jr. “a physician and researcher whose groundbreaking studiesconnected unprotected sex between men to AIDS, smoking to cervical cancer andair pollution to chronic lung disease” (As reported by Denise Grady)
1923(17thof Tammuz, 5683): Fast of the 17th of Tammuz
1923: In Mannheim,Germany, Otto Michel, the owner of a cigar factory and the former Frieda Wolffgave birth to Ernst Wolfgang Michel the Holocaust survivor who lived to theripe old age of 92.
1923: “The Heights Jewish Center,” which “initially met in the home ofJacob Makorr, was established “as the Heights Orthodox Congregation,” “thefirst Jewish Congregation in Cleveland’s eastern suburbs.
1923(17th of Tammuz, 5683): Milwaukee, WI born Ferdinand Levy, whoserved as a Captain in the New York Volunteers during the Civil War and whoseleading role in the Democratic Party led to him serving as a coroner and CityRegister in New York passed away today after having suffered “a stroke ofapoplexy.”
1924: Birthdate ofeconomist Harvey Joshua Levin
1924: In LondonKathleen Garman and Jacob Epstein gave birth Theodore Garman, the Englishpainter known simply as “Theo.”
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw58101/Ida-Kar-Theodore-Garman
1925: In Washington,“Assumption of responsibility for financing all medical work in Palestine wasurged on American Jewish women in a report presented today at the openingsession of the eleventh annual convention of 5Iadassah. the women's Zionistorganization of America.
1926: The New YorkJoint Board called a general strike by the International Ladies' GarmentWorkers' Union (ILGUWU)
1926: Birthdate ofRobert William Fogel, “Nobel-winning economist whose number-crunchingempiricism upended established thinking, most provocatively about the economicsof slavery” (As reported by Robert D. Hershey)
1927: (12th ofTammuz): Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok is liberated from his death sentence andimprisonment in the Soviet Union. Withthe outbreak of World War II, the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe would make his way toNew York where he would establish the headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in CrownHeights. From there, he would launchwhat would become a highly successful world-wide outreach program designed toeducate Jews and heighten their awareness of their heritage.
1927: Birthdate ofCsobaj, Hungary native Kathrine Tambor who survived Auschwitz and was liberatedby the U.S. Army.
1928: “Resolutionsasserting that Aaron Sapiro had rendered a distinguished service to the Jews ofthe world by his suit against Henry Ford, who subsequently apologized forarticles appearing in his Dearborn Independent were adopted tonight at theCentral Conference of the American Rabbis held at the Shoreland Hotel” inChicago.
1929: Opening of EarlCarroll’s Sketch book with the “book” by Eddie Cantor.
1929: Julian Mack“was reassigned as an additional judge to the United States Court of Appealsfor the Sixth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the SecondCircuit.:
1929: In Queens, NY,Dr. Edward Edelman and Anna (née Freedman) Edelman gave birth to Gerald MauriceEdelman, “an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiologyor Medicine.”
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1972/press.html
1930: At the morning session of the InternationalWailing Wall Commission, Rabbi Ben Zion Meyer Uziel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv,described Jewish prayer rituals conducted at the Wall declaring that the HighCommissioner’s recent ban on the use of the Torah Scroll, Lulav, tefillin andtallit was unacceptable. While questioning Rabbi Uziel, Arab leader Abdul Auniimplied that the Zionists were using bogus claims of the right to worship atthe Wall as a form of propaganda to recruit Jews to settle in Palestine. Atthis afternoon's meeting of the International Wailing Wall Commission, thethree commissioners watched a movie filmed in 1911 showing Jewish men and womenpraying at the wall, Jewish worshippers sitting on benches and Jewish womenkissing the stones of the Wall. Thecommissioners pronounced the film as authentic and thus it became furtherevidence of the long-standing connection of the Jewish people to the Wall. The International Wailing Wall Commission wasestablished by the League of Nations after Arab rioters violently denied Jewsaccess to the Western Wall
1930: Birthdate ofCarol Doris Schatz, the Philadelphia native who would marry Noam Chomsky in1949 and gain fame in her own right as a linguist and educator. Mrs. Chomsky passed away at the age of 78 inDecember of 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21chomsky-carol.html
1930: In Czestochowa,Poland, an account named Henryk Rozenblat and his wife Zyska Mariana Szydlowska,both of whom were murdered during the Holocaust gave birth to Zygmunt Rozenblatwho gained fame as “Sigmund Rolat, a Polish Holocaust survivor who tapped thewealth he accumulated as a businessman in the United States to support culturalprojects in his homeland, most notably a museum devoted to the history of Jewsin Poland that stands on the grounds of the Warsaw Ghetto,” (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/world/europe/sigmund-rolat-dead.html
1930: Three hundreddelegates are expected to attend the “eighth annual convention of JuniorHadassah” opening today in Cleveland, Ohio.
1930: Julian Mack“was reassigned to serve solely on the Second Circuit.
1930: In this month’sissue of The Atlantic Harvard Professor William Ernest Hocking describes hisview of conflict between “Zionists” and Arabs in “Palestine: An Impasse?” inwhich claim that the “two enemies of peace…are fanaticism and fear.”
1931: A nation-widestrike of all motor and bus lines which was scheduled to begin today waspostponed until July 22.
1931: “Dr. ChaimWeizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, placed his resignationofficially before the seventeenth World Zionist Congress today in a three-hour"farewell address" in which he vigorously defended his policies inthe last thirteen years.”
1932: Over the next11 months (June 1, 1933), the ZOA will clear the cases of 1,622 people wishingto settle in Palestine.
1932: Release datefor the German film Mensch ohne Namen (Man Without a Name) featuringperformances by Julius Falekenstein a Jewish actor who died the same year theNazis came to power and Fritz Grünbaum who would die at Dachau where heperformed for the last time for his fellow prisoners on New Year’s Eve, twoweeks before his death in January, 1941.
1932: Birthdate ofZe’ev Schiff, the French born Jew who gained fame as an Israeli journalist andmilitary correspondent for Haaretz.
1933: With a messageof "cordial greetings and best wishes" from President Roosevelt and adeclaration that "the calamity that has overtaken the 600.000 Jews inGermany has cast a shadow over everything else in Jewish life," the ZionistOrganization of America opened its convention today in Chicago. Five thousand delegates and observersattended this meeting which was described as being the largest in the historyof the ZOA. At this evening’s opening session at the Palmer House, MorissRothenberg, President of the ZOA reported that 20,000 Jews had entered theNational Home in the last 18 months and that during 1932 12 million dollars innew investments had been made in Palestine.While Rothenberg had words of praise for the British High Commissioner,Sir Arthur Grenfeel Wauchope, he was highly critical of the MandatoryGovernment (the British) for not increasing the allotment of immigrationcertificates in light of the events in Germany.
1933: “ThePresbyterian Theological Seminary of Chicago reports in a copyrighted articletoday that its excavations at Beth-zur, in Palestine, have produced "theprototype of the saloon," and that "the only divine image that wefound, except those stamped on coins, was the head of a very crude Astarte (thePhoenician goddess of love) figurine.
1933 The Germangovernment states that "Reich Chancellor Hitler still belongs to theCatholic Church and has no intention of leaving it."
1934: In Lafayette,IN Rebecca (née Miller) and DavidPollack, a semi-professional boxer and pharmacist gave birth to director SydneyPollack whose hits have included Tootsie and Presumed Innocent.
1934: Erich Gans wasmurdered in Dachau. It was the last such murder for ten months. The Jewishpopulation at Dachau was almost non-existent at the time since most had beenkilled or released by end of 1933.
1934: The New YorkTimes reviews From Nebuchadnezzar to Hitler by Danish author PeterHemmer Gudme. In this sympathetic study of the Zionist movement which thereviewer is sure will be translated in English, the non-Jewish Gudme traces theancient connection of the Jewish people with their homeland before describingmodern efforts beginning with Pinsker, Hess and Herzl to create a modern Jewishhome in Palestine. Gudme will die at the hands of the Nazis in Copenhagen in1945.
1934(18th of Tammuz,5694): Tzom Tammuz observed
1934(18thof Tammuz, 5694): Eighty-four-year-old Matilda Esberg, the wido of Mendel Esbergand the mother of Henry, Milton, Edith, and Justin Esberg who as “a member ofone of San Francisco's leading Jewish families served on the city's reliefcommittee following the 1906 earthquake and was also active in relief duringthe 1917 influenza epidemic.
1934: Birthdate ofJewish author Leonard Fein.
1935(30th of Sivan,5695): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1935(30th of Sivan,5695): In London, Sir Francis Abraham Montefiore the head of the LondonPortuguese community and a great philanthropist passed away today after whichhe was buried in the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Cemetery on Mile End Road,London
1935: In the NahalatAhim quarter of Jerusalem, Rosa and Musa Kraus gave birth to Israelientertainer Shmuel “Shmulik” Kraus.
1936: AlexanderBerkman, the anarchist who attempted to assassinate Carnegie Steel ChairmanHenry Clay Frick in 1892 was buried today in the Cochez Cemetery on theoutskirts of Nice, France under the direction of his long-time comrade EmmaGoldman
1936: The PalestinePost reported from London that the House of Commons discussed the question ofthe composition of the proposed Royal Commission for Palestine. The ColonialSecretary, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, explained that the appointment of women members to thecommission was undesirable, due to the sensitivities of the Moslems andOrthodox Jews.
1936: As Arabviolence continued to intensify, The Palestine Post reported that the Christiancommunities of Beit Jala and Kafr Kana were warned by Arab terrorists that theymust deliver 60 young men as volunteers for their ranks, or face theconsequences. There were sporadic shootings, bombs thrown and trees uprootedthroughout the country. Two British soldiers were hurt by flying debris duringthe demolition of houses in the old quarter of Jaffa.
1936: In New YorkCity, Lewis and Augusta Feuchtwanger gave birth to Rebecca Feuchtwanger.
1937: The EntarteteKunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition of "unacceptable" artwork by Jewsand others opens in Munich. A concurrent event of "approved" art heldnearby attracts far fewer people than the Entartete Kunst
1937: Pastor MartinNiemöller's anti-Semitism does not prevent the Nazis from arresting him becauseof his opposition to Hitler.
1937: William GeorgeArthur Ormsby Gore, the Secretary of State for Colonies announced today in theHouse of Common the British Government will attempt “to end the Jewish-Arabunrest in Palestine by a partition scheme as drastic as the separation of the Northand South of Ireland fifteen years ago.”
1938: “HavingWonderful Time,” a film version of Arthur Kober’s 1937 play with a script byMorrie Ryskind was released in the United States today.
1938: Birthdate ofHouston, TX native and Wellesley and Columbia alum Diane Silvers who gained fame as DianeSilvers Ravitch, a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, andformer United States Assistant Secretary of Education who became a researchprofessor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, andHuman Development.
1938: As of today,“the Italian Government has taken measures against the Jewish intelligentsia byissuing decrees designed to prevent or limit circulation of books by Jewishauthors among the Italian public” which puts the lie to the statement of February16 by the Foreign Ministry that “it was completely erroneous to think theItalian Government was about to inaugurate an anti-Semitic policy since nospecifically Italian Jewish problem existed.”
1938: Under aproposal called the Sosua Project, the Dominican Republic offers to accept100,000 European Jewish refugees, to be settled in an area near Santo Domingo,in return for payment of millions of dollars from the American Jewish JointDistribution Committee (JDC). (Under the plan the Dominican Republic actuallyadmitted on only about 500 Jews by 1940 when immigration was halted)
1939: Today, aboutthree months after Nazi troops goose-stepped into Prague and three days beforeVera Diamantova’s 11th birthday, she was bundled onto a train bound for Britainwith hundreds of other Jewish children which made her one of three of 16relatives she left behind would perish in the Holocaust.
1939: Henry Guggenheimmarried for the third time to Alicia (née Patterson) Brooks
1939: Fourteen-year-oldRudolf Wessely arrives in London from Prague.Wessely was the son of Charles Wessely, a successful Czech businessmanand civil servant. The British couldfind room for the son but not his 43-year-old father or 38 year old mother.
1939: In Park Ridge,Norman Ziegler and the former Elsie Reif gave birth to Karen Blanche Zieglerwho gained fame as actress Karen Black who starred in two 1970’s cult films –“Easy Rider” and “Five Easy Pieces.”
1940: A war emergencyprogram to aid in the defense of the 500,000 Jews in Palestine was adoptedunanimously by the convention of the Zionist Organization of America meetingtoday in Pittsburgh, PA.
1940: The AmericaFirst Committee is formed. It is the most significant American isolationistgroup, and it is also infiltrated by Nazis, who are working to prevent Americanintervention in Europe. Several prominent Americans speak in support of thecommittee. Many in Congress attack the Jews of Hollywood as attempting toinvolve America in opposition to Hitler.
1940: Bloodyanti-Jewish riots erupt in cities throughout Romania
1940: In a letter toGerman Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, Bishop Theophil Wurm, head of theprovincial Lutheran Church at Württemberg, Germany, objects to"euthanasia" killings at the nearby Grafaneck crippled-children'sinstitution; See September 5, 1940.
1940: In Holland, acollaborationist propaganda group, Nederlandse Unie (Netherlands Union), isestablished.
1940: A Jewish ghettois established at Bedzin, Poland.
1940: U.S. premiereof “The Sea Hawk” a 16th century swashbuckler directed by Michael Crtiz,produced by Hal B. Wallis with music byErich Wolfgang Korngold.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,5701): The first day of a three day killing spree in Drohobych, during whichUkrainians, assisted by Whermacht soldiers killed three hundred Jews.
1941: A Pogrom inJassy, the cradle of Rumanian anti-Semitism claimed 5000 Jewish lives.
1941: In New Haven,CT, Alfred Gilman who co-authored Goodman & Gilman's The PharmacologicalBasis of Therapeutics and his wife gave birth to Dr. Alfred G. Gilman recipientof the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1941: British codebreakers monitoring radio traffic coming from German troops in the Soviet Unionbecome aware of Nazi massacres of Soviet Jews.
1941: Two thousandmembers of Minsk, Belorussia's intelligentsia are executed by German troops ina nearby forest.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,5701): More than 2500 Jews are slaughtered at Zhitomir, Ukraine.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,5701): During an Einsatzkommando Aktion (murder operation) at Mielnica,Ukraine, a Jew named Abraham Weintraub hurls himself on a German officer andshatters the officer's teeth. Weintraub is immediately shot.
1941: In theBialystok region of Poland, Nazis murder 300 members of the Jewishintelligentsia.
1941: German killingsquads begin to murder Jews remaining in Kishinev, Romania.
1941: The Hungariangovernment undertakes a mass roundup of almost 18,000 Jewish refugees fordeportation to Kamenets-Podolski, Ukraine.
1941:Twenty-two-year-old Jew Haya Dzienciolski finds a pistol, leaves Novogrudok,Ukraine, and helps to organize a group of young partisans in nearby forests.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,5701): One hundred Jews are murdered at Lyakhovichi, Belorussia.
1941 (6th of Tammuz,5701): Hundreds of Jews are killed at Plunge, Lithuania.
1941 In the Ukrainiantown of Koritz, Nazi troops begin what would become a three day murderspree. The Jews are forced to preparethree burial pits, one each for men, women, and children. For sport, a man'scorpse is propped atop one of the pits, in which some Jews have been buriedalive.
1941: Harry A.Hatry’s resignation as vice president and merchandise director ofBloomingdale’s is scheduled to be effective today.
1941: Members of theEinsatzgruppen, the Wehrmacht, and Esalon Special, a Romanian unit, beginmurdering the Jews of Bessarabia in eastern Romania. By August 31st, they will have killed morethan 150,000 Jews.
1942: Hundreds ofGerman Jews are deported to the ghetto/camp at Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia.In Paderborn, Germany, all Jewish orphans are deported to Theresienstadt.
1942: In theNetherlands, the Westerbork “deportation” Camp became operational. The camp hadoriginally been established by the Dutch government as a place to house GermanJews fleeing Nazi Germany. The termdeportation camp is a bit mis-leading since it was the last stop beforearriving Auschwitz,, Bergen-Belsen or the other death camps.
1942: Seven trains ofJewish deportees leave Westerbork, Holland, for the Auschwitz death camp.
1942: Today, AbrahamIcek Tuschinski a Dutch businessman of Jewish Polish descent who ordered theconstruction of the Tuschinski Theater, a famed cinema in Amsterdam, “wastransported to the Westerbork concentration camp in the northeast of theNetherlands, and from there to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.:
1942: At Kleck,Belorussia, a few dozen Jews break out and join partisans.
1942 (16th of Tammuz,5702): The Jewish community at Gorodenka, Ukraine, is wiped out.
1942: Exterminationactivities at the Sobibór death camp are temporarily halted for railwayconstruction and enlargement of the camp's gas chambers.
1943: In an Americanradio broadcast, U.S. Congressman Emanuel Celler excoriates the U.S. governmentfor its continuing silence on Nazi treatment of European Jews. This is the sameCongressman Celler whom Senator Bilbo of Mississippi will refer to as a “kike”while giving a speech in the Upper Chamber; a reference that brings no responsefrom those who hear it and who will guide the 1964 Civil Rights Act to asuccessful in the House of Representatives.
1943: The AmericanWomen's International League for Peace and Freedom estimates that millions ofJews have already been murdered by the Germans in Poland, and that the Americangovernment and people share in the guilt for these atrocities because they arecomplacent cowards covered "with a thick layer of prejudice."
1943: Forty-eight-year-oldWillem Arondeus., a member the Resistance Council which worked to provide Jewswith false documents that would keep them out of the clutches of the Nazis anddeclared after his capture that “"Let it be known that hom*osexuals are notcowards." was executed by a firing squad today.
1944(10th of Tammuz,5704): Parshat Chukat
1944(10th of Tammuz,5704): Forty-nine-year Austrian born screenwriter Carl Mayer who had fled toLondon to escape the Nazis lost his two year battle with cancer died todayalmost penniless and forgotten.
1944: During themonth of July, Jewish-Soviet partisans from Poland and Lithuania are activebehind the lines at Lublin, Poland, and Kovno, Vilna, and Siauliai, Lithuania,as Soviet troops approach from the east.
1944(10thof Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-eight-year-old Coschocton, OH native and Ohio StateUniversity trained attorney Edwin J Schanfarber, the vice president anddirector of the National Hospital for Consumptives at Denver and the presidentof the United Jewish Fund and the Jewish Welfare Federation.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/07/03/83984121.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1944: The Red Armyliberates Lvov, Ukraine.
1944: The SScompletes the evacuation of the death camp at Majdanek
1944: The SSevacuates the concentration camp at Kovno, Lithuania
1944: NeutralSwitzerland ends long-standing, restrictive Jewish-immigration standards andadmits all Jewish refugees who wish and are able to enter.
1944: Jewish-AmericanLieutenant Colonel Murray C. Bernays is assigned by the U.S. Army Civil AffairsDivision to collect evidence of war crimes committed against Americanservicemen. Bernays begins to formulate his concept of Nazism as a criminalconspiracy, which will be central to the Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945-46.
1944: Eighteen-year-oldEva Fahidi arrived at Auschwitz.
1944: As the war putadditional strains on the German labor force, 1,000 Jews were taken fromBirkenau and put to work within Germany.
1944: “There werestill 185 Jews living in Magdeburg, mainly partners of mixed marriages, whomanaged to survive the war.” TheMagdeburg Jewish community was one of the oldest in Germany dating back to 965.
1944: In New York,Joseph Geffen and Therese Aub Geffen, the daughter of Jacob ad Bertha Mack,gave birth to Alice Geffen
1944: “I’ll Be SeeingYou” “a popular song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal”reached number on the pop charts today.
1945: Establishmentof “The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews”, whose primary offices werelocated in Munich, close to Leipheim. “The Central Committee represented175,000 Jews living in the DP camps in the American and British zones inGermany and Austria.” The committee was dissolved in December of 1950. (Asreported by Yad Vashem Archives)
1945: In New York,Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux gave birth to MichaelBurstein, who gained fame as actor Mike Burstyn who was nominated for DramaDesk Awards for his performance as Mayer in The Rothschilds off-Broadway in1990.
1945: “The firstregular passenger service at the Nahariya Railway Station began today duringthe British Mandate.
1945: Nathan D.Perlman was re-appointed as Justice of the Court of Special Sessions of theCity New York today.
1946: The Haganahofficially withdrew from its alliance with Irgun and Lehi. The Haganah did not renounce its role indefending the Yishuv against the British and Arab attacks.
1946: It was reportedtoday that "Palestine Jews were considering a campaign of passiveresistance" aimed at the British while the Irgun was threatening to killthree British hostages.
1946: As Americanbusinessmen, labor leaders, and consumers adjusted to the first day without theexistence of the OPA, "Israel Sachs, president of Sachs Quality Stores,announced that" his stores "would raise prices." "At the same time he "appealed toCongress to enact immediately 'intelligent, workable pricelegislation.'" At the same time,"Victor A. Fishcell, vice president and general sales manager ofSeagram-Distillers Corporaton announced that Seagram was continuing itsshipments at regular OPA ceiling prices."
1946: During aninterview given today at the New York office of the United Jewish Appeal, RabbiLeopold Neuhaus that "Jews returning from concentration camps ownednothing but cast-off army clothing and were living under 'infinitely worseconsiditons' than the Germans. RabbiNeuhuas, the "former Chief Rabbi of Hessen and liaison officer with theAmerican Military Government in Germany" said that "the situation ofthe Jews in Europe is growing morecritical, with displaced persons embittered by their 'no-man's land' status andthe renewal of anti-Semitic outbursts in many countries."
1946: "Dr. NahumGoldman, a member of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, said ata press conference today that Great Britain's latest program was a provocationto war, not only to the Palestinian Jews but to those all over the world. Dr. Goldman described as a 'breach offaith'...the arrest of 2,000 Jews in Palestine. 'If Britain persists in herpresent aggressive policy against the Jewish population in Palestine and itsofficially recognized leaders and bodies, she will create a state of permanenthostility against Britain on the part of Jews everywhere.' Dr. Goldman denied statements that the"British "government had informed" the United States government of itsplans to crack down on the Jews of Palestine, including a massive round-up ofJewish leaders.
1946: "Threehundred persons attended a funeral service today at the Free Synagogue, 40 WestSixty-Eighth Street, for Dr. Emanuel Libman, noted diagnostician, who died onFriday at the age of 73." During theservice, Dr. Stephen S. Wise praised his friend of sixty years, Dr. Libman, forhis efforts to train medical professionals and for his work on behalf of Mt.Sinai Hospital and the medical facilities at "the Jewish University ofJerusalem."
1946: In what wouldprove to be the first act in series of event that would lead to a pogrom inKielce, Poland , eight-year-old Henryk Blaszcyk of Kielce, Poland, hitched aride to his old hometown, visiting friends and picking cherries. Since his parents did not know about thisthey filed a missing person report with the local police.
1946: The FairEmployment Practices Commission issued a final report as it was forced to closedown due to Congress' failure to enact legislation that it would have extendedits existence. The report warned that "Wartimegains of Negro, Mexican-American and Jewish workers are being los through an'unchecked revival' of discriminatory practices." The report also said that "a survey ofjob seeking by Jews since V-J Day conducted in fifteen cities, showed a markedrise of discrimination against all Jewish applicants and that 'Jews who hadfought for their country fared no better than those who had not.'"
1946: In a displacedpersons camp at Stuttgart, German Jacob and Fanny Silberman gave birth to RosieSilberman who as Rosalie Abella became Canada’s first Jewish woman justice.
1946: The Mayor’sCommittee on Unity headed by Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. recommended to that theBoard of Regents conduct an investigation “into racial and religiousdiscrimination in the admission of students to intuitions of higher learning…” The committee contended that “there could notlong be any reasonable doubt that racial and religious discrimination waspracticed by” colleges and universities “in New York and elsewhere” usuallythrough the employment of some kind of quota system. According to the committee’s findings, thisdiscrimination is directed at “Jewish, Negro, Catholic and Italianstudents.” While Medical Schools seem tobe the prime practitioners of this discriminatory behavior, “it exists in othergraduate and undergraduate schools as well.”
1947: Arthur S.Davis, the treasurer of the E. GreenbaumMeat Packing Company was honored with a testimonial dinner tonight “forhis work on behalf of the HIAS” during which the featured speaker, formerSenator James M. Mead “declared that in post-war Wurope the solution for theproblems of the Jews as well as other displaced persons lies in ‘immigrationnow.’”
1947: “In a statementto the Associated Press, Haganah announced an early end to its temporaryinterruption of immigration which was halted for a time because of difficultiesin ports of embarkation.”
1948: In JerusalemYehudith and Yaacov gave birth to Michael (Mickey) Gal (Hepner) who would beamong the crewman lost when the Dakar sank in 1968
1948: On the night ofJuly 1 - 2, the first shipment of arms to be used by the Jewish forces arrivedfrom Czechoslovakia by air. The armswere landed in a single DC-4 trans-port.The twin engine plane delivered 200 rifles, 40 machine guns and 150,000rounds of ammunition. In an act of daring, the plane landed at an abandonedBritish air field which was illuminated by intermittent flashes of light sothat the British forces would find out what was happening. The Jewish state wasstill six weeks way from reality and at this point in time, the British weredoing all they could to disarm the Jews even as the Arab attacks grew bolderand more deadly. The weapons would beused in Operation Nachshon, the desperate attempt on the part of the Yishuv toopen the road from the coast to Jerusalem, thus ending the Arab siege ofJerusalem.
1948: Birthdate ofMichael (Mickey) Gal (Hepner), son of Yehudith and Yaacovm the native ofJerusalem who perished aboard the INS Dotan at the age of 20.
1949(4thof Tammuz, 5709): Sixty-one year old attorney and Democratic Party memberBenjamin Charles Ribman, “a leader in the civic and Jewish communities” passedaway today in Brooklyn.
1949: At the RockdaleAvenue Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Nelson Glueck, the President of HebrewUnion College and Rabbi Victor Reichert officiated at the funeral services forDr. David Philipson who served as Rabbi of Rockdale Temple for 61 years and whowas the last surviving member of the first graduating class of Hebrew UnionCollege.
1950(16thof Tammuz, 5710): Parashat Balak
1950: Dr. SergeKoussevitzky, the 75 year old \emeritus conductor of the Boston Symphony isscheduled to conduct at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the Berkshire Hills.
1951: Six Arabterrorists were killed in two engagements with security forces in Emek Hefer,Israel. A number of other infiltrators fled into the Jordanian-occupiedterritory across the border.
1951: The JerusalemPost reported that six Arab terrorists were killed in two engagements withsecurity forces in Emek Hefer. A number of other infiltrators fled into theJordanian-occupied territory across the border.
1951: In “A FertileError” published today H.R. Trevor-Roper reviewed The Jews and ModernCapitalism by Werner Sombart who had written in Deutscher Sozialismus his contention that “the antithesis of theGerman spirit is the Jewish spirit, which is not a matter of being born Jewishor believing in Judaism but is a capitalistic spirit” and the "chieftask" of the German people and National Socialism is to destroy the Jewishspirit.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-jews-and-modern-capitalism-by-werner-sombart/
1951: The JerusalemPost reported that Israel presented to the US State Department a detailedaide-memoire urging the settlement of Israel's $1.5 billion restitution claimagainst Germany. The police had so far examined 150 war-crimes cases since theKnesset passed the War Crimes Law, directed at persons who cooperated with theNazi regime during the Holocaust. The experience of the first few cases hadraised some doubts as to the possibility of obtaining convincing evidenceagainst the accused.
1952(8th of Tammuz,5712): Seventy-five-year-old Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach the Philadelphianwho, along with his brother found the Rosenbach Museum and Library passed awaytoday.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/23/travel/a-library-where-rare-is-common.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7MVQ_Dr_A_S_W_Rosenbach_1876_1952
1952: Columbia andHarvard educated Dr. Jacques Jacob Bronfenbrenner who in 1909 came to theUnited States where became a Research Professor of Microbiology and Immunologyat the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University today.
1953: Harry A.Shulman, the Belarus native who came to the United States as a child in 1912and after graduating from Harvard Law School eventually became a Professor atYale University “received an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from BrownUniversity,” his alma mater today.
1953: ParamountPictures releases “Stalag 17” directed and produced by Billy Wilder, with ascreenplay by Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum, with a score by Franz Waxman andfeaturing Otto Preminger as the Nazi prison camp commandant. (Editor’s note –this is a great, must-see film)
1954: Harry A.Schulman became the Dean of the Yale Law School today, less than a year beforehe would die from cancer.
1953: “The 5,000Fingers of Dr. T” “a musical fantasyfilm” produced by Stanley Kramer was released in the United States today.
1954: Harry Shulmanbecame Dean of the Yale Law School.
1955: Louis F.Costuma who when named a deputy police inspector in 1929 was the highest-rankingofficer in the NYPD left the Parole Board today and went into retirement.
1955: “House of Bamboo,”with a screen play co-authored by Samuel Eller, who ws also the director wasreleased today in New York City.
1955: “Ain’tMisbehavin” a musical comedy starring Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs) andproduced by Samuel Marx.
1956: WCUNC graduateJanet Stern married Rutgers grad Leslie Howard Unger today in Newark.
1956:Funeral Servicesare scheduled to be held in Forest Hills for Albert Farkas, the husband SariFarkas, and the father of “Robert and the late George” Farkas who was“President of the American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers Association” which healso served as an executive board member.
1958: Birthdate ofBrooklynite Nancy Lieberman.
1958: Yosef Burgcompleted his term as Minister of Communications.
1959: “Master ofPersuasion” published today provided a sketch of the life and accomplishmentsof David Ben-Gurion.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/01/80590050.pdf
1960: “Theory ofAllowed and Forbidden Transitions in Muon Captures, co-authored by DanielGreenberg was published today.
https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.119.435
1960: It was reportedtoday that Louis H. Hartman would president of the L.H. Hartman would have aposition with The Grey Advertising Agency which is merging with L.H. Hartmancompany.
1961: CoronetMagazine published “Rudolf Kasztner” Eichman’s Last Victim”
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Rudolf_Kastner_Article_pdf
1964(21stof Tammuz, 5724): Eighty-two-year-old Russian born American architect Boris W.Dorfman, the husband of “the former Elizabeth Glassman” and father of Mrs. RoseCohan passed away today.
https://www.newyorkitecture.com/tag/boris-w-dorfman/
1964: Funeralservices are scheduled to take place in Forest Hills for Jacob Cohen, thehusband of Jean Cohen.
1965(1st ofTammuz, 5725): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1965(1st of Tammuz,5725): Eighty-nine-year-old Bessarabia born, University of Minnesota educatedhigh school biology teacher and holder of a Ph.D from Columbia Benjamin CharlesGruenberg the husband Sidonie MatsnerGruenberg, the author of Your Child Today and Tomorrow with whom he had fourchildren – Herbert, Richard, Hilda and Ernst – who was the managing editor of TheAmerican Teacher and a director for the American Association for Medical Progresspassed away today.
https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_384508
https://history.archives.mbl.edu/dc-subject-lcsh/gruenberg-benjamin-c-benjamin-charles-1875-1965
1965: The 68thannual convention of the Zionist Organization of America opened today at theHotel Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
1965: “The GreatRace” a comedy starring Tony Curtis and featuring Peter Falk, Larry Storch andMarvin Kaplan was released today in the United States.
1967(23rdof Sivan, 5727) Parashat Korach
1967: An Israeliarmored infantry company attacked an Egyptian force entrenched at Ras el 'Ish,located 10 miles south of Port Said. The Israeli company drove off theEgyptians but loses 1 dead and 13 wounded.
1967: Stephen NealShulman, the son of Harry Shulman, a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empirewho served as a professor and eventual dean at Yale Law School completed hisservices as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
1967: An Egyptiancommando force from Port Fuad moves south and takes up a position at Ras el'Ish, located 10 miles south of Port Said on the eastern bank of the SuezCanal, an area controlled by the Israelis since the ceasefire on June 9, 1967.
1969(15thof Tammuz, 5729): Just three days before his 85th birthday Grodnoborn American “calligrapher, designer and artist Joseph B. Abrahams, thehusband of “the former Mrs. Lillian Manning” whose creations included “thebronze doors of Temple Emanu-El” in New Yorkand “the interior décor for the Ziegfeld Follies” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/02/78354344.pdf
1970: The MordecaiHouse was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
1970: “The Boatniks”a comedy starring Phil Silvers and Norman Fell was released in the UnitedStates.
1971(8thof Tammuz, 5731): Bialystok born author Shmuel Zabludovski, who moved to MexicoCity where he continued his career until he passed away today.
1971: In one of thoseironies of “progress,” while bagel production and consumption soared to newheights, Local 338, the fabled bagel bakers local, ceased to exist and Local 3acquired a Bagel Division.
1971: In the UK,premiere of “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” a film whose primary protagonist is aJewish doctor “Daniel Hirsch” directed by Joseph Schlesinger and produced byJoseph Janni.
1972: After 12previews and 522 performances “Follies,” a musical with music and lyrics byStephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman completed its original run onBroadway.
1972: Screenwriterand novelist Don Mankiewicz, the German born so of “the screenwriter Herman J.Mankiewicz and brother of journalist Frank Mankiewicz” took his second tripdown the aisle today when he married Carol Bell Gidi today with whom he had twochildren, John, “a screenwriter and producer” and Jane, “a fiction writer”whose work has appeared in the New Yorker.
1973(1st of Tammuz,5733): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1973(1st of Tammuz,5733): A few minutes before 1 A.M. Colonel Yosef (Joe ) Alon and his wife Dvorareturned to their home in a quiet Washington, D.C., suburb. Alon, the airattaché at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, had been at a farewell party foran Israeli diplomat. They parked the car. Dvora went into the house and thenheard five gunshots. She rushed outside, saw her husband lying in a pool ofblood, and glimpsed a white car driving away. She and her daughter Dalia, then17, tried to help him. The other two girls, 14-year-old Yael and 6-year-oldRachel woke up. Joe tried to mumble something. An ambulance rushed him to ahospital, where he was pronounced dead. (The murder remains unsolved. Asreported by Yossi Melman)
1972: The “economicagreement between Israel and the Common Market” is scheduled to take effecttoday. (JTA)
1974: AnInternational scientific symposium at Professor Alexander Voronel’s apartmentin Moscow was thwarted by KGB while 3 scientists were removed by police andWestern correspondents were asked to leave.
1974: “AssemblymanFranz S. Leichter, who is challenging the State Senate minority leader, JosephZaretski, for the latter's seat, charged today that the Republican leadershipin Albany had used public money to help the Senator retain his post.”
1974: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held in Manhattan for Dr. I. Edwin Goldwasser, theholder of a Ph.D from NYU who “left teaching in 1915 to become the firstexecutive director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York “ andafter his retirement in 1953 “became a vice president of the Commercial FactorsCorporation.
1975: Rabbi BertramWallace Korn who began his chaplaincy career as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant duringWW II serving with U.S. Marines First and Sixth Divisions, “was promoted to therank of Rear Admiral in the Chaplain Corps, USNR” making him “the first Jewishchaplain to obtain flag rank in any of the United States armed forces.”
1976(3rd of Tammuz,5736): Seventy-three year old Philip Hickman, the Anglo-Jewish boxer who foughtunder the name of “Johnny Brown” passed away today in London.
1976: As the hostagecrisis at Entebe enters Day 5, in the morning, having been told that there isno viable military option to rescue the hostages, and with the deadline fastapproaching, the Israeli government reluctantly agrees to begin negotiations knowingthe terrorists will indeed keep their word about murdering those they hold.
1976: As the daywears on, Faiz Jaber, one of the hijackers takes special delight in torturingand beating Nahum Dahan whom at one point had a gun held to his head with thepromise that he would be shot if he did not cooperate.
1976: In the eveningBrigadier General Dan Shomron presented the plan for rescuing the hostages tothe Chief of Staff Motta Gura and Defense Minister Shimon Peres who accepted itfollowing which the operational officers began gathering the men and equipmentwho would carry out the mission.
1977: In Caribou,Maine, an “immigrant mother from Sweden and an Iraqi- Israeli physician gavebirth to astronaut Jessica Meir, the holder of a Ph.D. from the ScrippsInstitution of Oceanography who “is Assistant Professor of Anesthesia atHarvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-risk-no-reward-says-fearless-jewish-astronaut-jessica-meir/
1979(6thof Tammuz, 5739): Eighty-seven-year-old Columbia trained physician EphraimMichael Bluestone, the New York City born son of “Joseph Isaac Bluestone andSarah Bluestone” a Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps during WW I, a director ofthe Hadassah Hospital in Palestine and director of Montefiore Hospital as wellas the husband of “the former Bertha Rodetsky” passed away today.
https://library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu/obit/ephraim-michael-bluestone
http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=364826
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/03/archives/dr-em-bluestone-87-a-pioneer-in-home-care.html
1979(6thof Tammuz, 5739): Nathaniel Kaplan, the husband of Lucille Kaplan, father ofAlan Kaplan and a member of the Young Men’s Philanthropic League passed awaytoday.
1980(17th of Tammuz,5740): Tzom Tammuz is observed for the last time during the Presidency of JimmyCarter.
1981(29thof Sivan, 5741): Seventy-nine-year AIA Gold Medal winning architect MarcelLajos Breuer, the Hungarian born furniture designer whose artisticaccomplishments are far beyond the capabilities of this blog.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marcel-Breuer
1981: U.S. premiereof “S.O.B.” a comedy featuring Stuart Margolin, Marissa Berenson, ShellyWinters and Larry Storch.
1983: “How Am ISupposed to Live Without” a song co-written by Michael Boton was releasedtoday.
1983(20thof Tammuz, 5743): Six days before his 87th birthday Northwesterntrained federal judge Julius Hoffman the Chicago born son of Bertha an AaronHoffman who presided over the case the anti-war trial originally known as the“Chicago Eight” passed away today.
1984(1st of Tammuz,5744): Moshe Feldenkrais passed away.Born in the Ukraine in 1901, Feldenkrais moved to Palestine in 1918where he continued his education. Afterliving in France before World War II and serving with the British Navy in WorldWar II he returned to Israel. He was arenowned physicist and judo expert, who developed a method of education andself-awareness training called The Feldenkrais method.
1985(12thof Tammuz, 5745): Eighty-six-year-old Vilna born, and Harvard trained attorney GoodmanA. Sarachan, a former chairman of the New York State Investigation Commissionand the husband of Evelyn Simon Sarachan with whom he had three children –Donna, Niki and Richard – passed away today.
1985; Senda BerensonAbbott a figure of women's basketball and the author of the first BasketballGuide for Women was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributortoday.
1985: Today Paul R.Verkuil, the husband of Judith Rodin the Jewish academic and philanthropist whowas “the first permanent female president of an Ivy League University, beganserving as the 24th President of the College of William and Mary”today.
1987(4thof Tammuz, 5747): Seventy-eight-year-old University of Arizona trained songwriter and pianist Jerry Livingston, theDenver born son of Dora Lazarus and Sam Livingston and husband of Ruth Schwartzwho wrote the theme music for many television shows including “77 Sunset Strip”and “Bourbon Street Beat” and movies including “The Hanging Tree” and “CatBallou” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/10/obituaries/jerry-livingston-dies-wrote-mairzy-doats.html
1987: ''Portraits ofan Era: Photographs by Irv Kline'' opens Bishopsgate Institute Foyer as part ofthis summer's Jewish East End Celebration.
1989: Sidney Altman, the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, andDevelopmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University who shared in the NobelPrize for Chemistry in 1989 “returned to the post of professor on a full-timebasis.
1990: Final Broadwayperformance of “The Cemetery Club” produced by Philip Rose.
1991(19th of Tammuz,5751): Michael Landon, born Eugene Horowitz, passed away at the age of 54.Landon gained fame for his portrayal of Little Joe on the television western,Bonanza. He gained additional fame for his work in front and behind the camerain another television hit, Little House on the Prairie. (As reported by PeterFlint)
1992: “A League oftheir Own” with a screenplay Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel and featuring JonLovitz was released today in the United State.
1992: U.S. premiereof “A League of Their Own” a film based on women’s baseball teams in WW II witha screenplay by Lowell Ganz and music by Hans Zimmer.
1993: Today, LeonardB. Sands completed fifteen years of service as Judge of the United StatesDistrict court for the Southern District of New York and began serving as“Senior Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of NewYork?
1993: Anne LapidusLerner became Vice Chancellor of the Seminary, the first woman to hold thatpost. As Vice Chancellor, Lerner was one of the highest-ranking women in all ofAmerican Jewish institutional life. In that role, she devoted her energy to adulteducation, working to bring Jewish education to the lay community. Afterearning bachelor’s, master's, and doctoral degrees from Harvard, Anne LapidusLerner joined the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS)in 1969, becoming the first American-born woman to hold a full-time positionthere. JTS trains rabbis and cantors for the Conservative movement and offers arange of masters and doctoral degree programs. Today, Lerner is an assistantprofessor in the Department of Jewish Literature at JTS, where she teachescourses in Hebrew and American Jewish poetry, modern Jewish literature, and theportrayal of women in Jewish literature. In addition, she is the director ofthe JTS Jewish Women's Studies Program, which she also founded, and Director ofthe Jewish Feminist Research Group. In 2001-02, she was a visiting lecturer atthe Harvard Divinity School. Lerner has published two books and is at work on athird. In Passing the Love of Women: A Study of Gide's "Saül" and ItsBiblical Roots Lerner examines how the Biblical book of Samuel inspired a novelby French author André Gide. In Who Has Not Made Me a Man: The Movement forEqual Rights for Women in American JudaismLerner discusses the interaction between Judaism and the modern Americanfeminist movement. A new book on the image of Eve in Jewish literature is dueto be completed soon. In addition, Lerner has published a range of articles,and sits on the editorial boards of the journals Women's League Outlook,Hadassah, Judaism, Nashim, and Lilith.
1993 (12th of Tammuz,5753): Olga Khaikov a Jewish immigrant from Russia and the mother of an 11-year-olddaughter was killed when terrorists tried to seize a bus near French Hill inJerusalem.
1993: Gil Stein’sterm as President of the NHL came to an end. The duties of the president weregiven to the commissioner. Stein then served as advisor to the commissioner forover three months, retiring from the league in October.
1993: “RudolphGiuliani, who would become the next mayor of New York, called the Crown Heightsriot a "pogrom" today in a speech at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: "Youcan use whatever word you want, but in fact for three days people were beatenup, people were sent to the hospital because they were Jewish.”
1994: PLO chairmanYasser Arafat drove from Egypt into Gaza, returning to Palestinian land after27 years in exile.
1994: Judith Rodinbegan serving as President of the University of Pennsylvania.
1995: Sir James DavidWolfensohn began serving as the 9th President of the World Bank.
1996: Robert Wilentzresigned as Chief Justice of the New Jersey State Supreme Court because of hiscancer.
1997(26th of Sivan,5757): Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan, GBE, KCMG, LVO, QC passed away. Born in 1915,he “was a Gibraltarian politician, and first Mayor and Chief Minister ofGibraltar, serving two terms as Chief Minister for a total of 17 years. He isseen as the key figure in the civil rights movement in Gibraltar and played akey role in the creation of the territory's institutions of self-government.”
1998: Butchers Hillthe award winning mystery by Larua Lippman was published today by Avon Books.
1998: First Lady Hillary Clinton, her daughterChelsea and Secretary of State Madeline Albright visited the Ohel RachelSynagogue in Shanghai, China, accompanied by Rabbi Schneier. In a speech onthis date the First Lady commented, "So, for [the Ohel Rachel Synagogue]to be restored, I think, is a very good example of respect for religiousdifferences and an appreciation for the importance of faith in one'slife."
1998: U.S. premiereof science fiction disaster flic “Armageddon” directed by Michael Bay, Producedby Jerry Bruckheimer, with a script co-authored by J.J. Abrams with music byTrevor Rabin.
1999(17th of Tammuz,5759): Tzom Tammuz is observed for the last time in the 20th Century.
1999(17th of Tammuz,5759: Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, known as Yaakov Weinberg an Orthodox Jewishrabbi, Talmudist, and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Ner Israel Rabbinical College inBaltimore, Maryland passed away today.
1999(17th of Tammuz,5759): Eight-eight-year-old film star Sylvia Sidney (Sophia Kosow) passed awaytoday.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/02/movies/sylvia-sidney-30-s-film-heroine-dies-at-88.html
1999: “After JanetRosenberg Jagan returned from the European-Latin American summit in Rio deJaneiro, she was admitted to St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in the capital,Georgetown, due to chest pains and exhaustion.”
2000(28th of Sivan,5760): Actor Walter Mattheau passed away. Born Walter Matthow in 1920, Mattheaubegan work at the age of 11 selling candy and playing bit parts in a Yiddishtheatre on the Lower East Side. Years later he claimed that his birth name wasMatasschanskayasky. According to his son, his father did this as a prank.However, the myth has become accepted as fact by many sources. Mattheau had along, successful career playing in films some of the best of which paired himwith Jack Lemmon. These included, "The Fortune Cookie," a re-make of"Front Page," and that greatest of hits, "The Odd Couple."
2000: Publication ofHaviva Ner-David's book, Life on the Fringes: A Feminist Journey TowardTraditional Rabbinic Ordination,.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/01/2000/haviva-ner-david
2000: The judge inthe Revolutionary Court in Shiraz announced the verdicts on the 13 Jews ontrial for spying for Israel. The harsh verdicts against 10 of the defendantsrange from 4 to 13 years. The three defendants, who had been out on bail sinceFebruary, were acquitted. The international community, Jewish groups around theworld and human rights groups vocally condemned this verdict and expressedoutrage at the lack of due process throughout the trial.
2001: Bruce Fleischerwon the U.S. Senior Open.
2001: Caesarea-PardesHanna Railway Station was opened today “as a suburban station on the newlyinaugurated Tel Aviv – Binyamina Suburban Service. The station was constructedto provide a railway link for the area's growing population as well asencourage rail commuting to the industrial zone in the vicinity.”
2001:Fifty-two-year-old Aaron Brown, the Minnesota born son of Rose and MortonBrown, who had left ABC news began working at CNN today where he would win theEdward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the attack on 9/11.
2001: Eric Garcettibegan representing the 13th district on the Los Angeles City Council.
2002: AnInternational Criminal Court for which American attorney and WW II war crimesinvestigator Benjamin B. Ferencz had expressed strong support in DefiningInternational Aggression-The Search for World Peace was established today.
2002: U.S.A.F. Lt.Col Jack Weinstein was promoted to Colonel today.
2002: Michael Slivewho had been the Commissioner of Conference USA since 1995 today became theseventh commissioner of the powerful South Eastern Conference of SEC.
2003(1st of Tammuz,5763): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2003(1st of Tammuz,5763): Seventy three year old Jazz legend Herbie Mann, born Herbert Jay Solomonpassed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/03/arts/herbie-mann-73-musician-who-gave-flute-a-jazz-sound.html
2003: “Fifty-nineyears to the day after she arrived” at Auschwitz-Birkenau Eva Fahidi returnedto death camp.
2003: Elena Kaganbegins serving as the 11th Dean of the Harvard Law School.
2004: Actor MarlonBrando passed away. No, Brando was notJewish. But he did have this to sayabout Jews. “Marlon Brando…once told an interviewer that, per capita ‘Jews havecontributed more to American…culture than any other single group.’ Withoutthem, the actor claimed, ‘we wouldn’t have music,’ ‘we wouldn’t have muchtheater,’ and we wouldn’t have “all the songs that you love to sing.’”
2005: The New YorkTimes reported that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had moved decisively todeal with killing of a African-American man by two white males in HowardBeach. The Times favorably comparedBloomberg’s swift action with the city’s reaction to a racially inspiredkilling in the same neighborhood in 1986.
2005: The New YorkTimes reported that Time’s editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine madethe decision to follow a court order and turn over a reporter’s documents to agrand jury investigating a leak of a CIA operative’s identity. Pearlstine wrestled with the compellingissues – freedom of the press versus the need to submit to the rule of law –and he came down on the side of the latter.The decision was not an easy one for a man who was a lawyer as well asthe head of one of America’s flagship communication corporations.
2005: The New YorkTimes reported that Bank of America had agreed to buy MBNA. MBNA was founded by Alfred Lerner who passedaway in 2002. Learner supported numerous philanthropies including the JewishFoundation for the Righteous. The JFRseeks out to fulfill the age-old injunction to seek out and recognizerighteousness. In particular, the JFRworks to help aged and indigent righteous gentiles who helped save Jews duringthe Shoah.
2005: Future UnitedStates Senator Michael Bennet began serving as the Superintendent of the DenverPublic Schools oday.
2006: The New YorkTimes featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including The Din In the Head: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
2006(5th of Tammuz,5766): Eighty-three-year-old Philip Rieff the author of a number of books aboutSigmund Freud passed away today.(As reported by Robert D. McFadden)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/us/04rieff.html
2006(5th of Tammuz,5766): Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs, who founded the British branch of the ConservativeMovement and was voted the greatest Jew in the history of Britain's Jewishcommunity last year, passed away today. (As reported by Ari L. Goldman)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/world/europe/09jacobs.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print
2006: David J.Skorton begins serving as President of Cornell University.
2007: Arnie Eisenassumed the office of Chancellor-elect of the Jewish Theological Seminary
2007: The Opening Daygame of the Israel Baseball League is broadcast on a delayed basis on PBS inmajor US markets.
2007: The New YorkTimes featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including the recently released paperback edition of AmericanVertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri Lévyand The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope by JonathanAlter.
2007: The SundayWashington Post book section featured a review of a collection of here-to-forunpublished stories by Primo Levi entitled A Tranquil Star. According to the review, those who think ofLevi only in terms of being a “Holocaust writer” will be pleasantly surprisedby the wide ranging topics and unique style displayed in this posthumouslypublished tome.
2007: AvrahamHirschson resigned as Israel’s Minister of Finance following an investigationof an alleged embezzlement in which he was allegedly involved.
2007: Moseh Katzavresigned as President of Israel.
2007: Dalia Itzik,who had been serving as Speaker of the Knesset became action President of thestate of Israel.
2007: Marvin Krislovbecame the 14th President of Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio
2008: Lauren Weisberger, author of the bestsellingnovel The Devil Wears Prada, reads from and signs her new book, Chasing HarryWinston, at a Borders Books in suburban Virginia.
2008: Arnie Eisen,who took office as Chancellor-elect of the Jewish Theological Seminary on July1, 2007 assumed the position full time
2009: In CedarRapids, IA, meeting of the Hadassah book club discusses Courtesan, a novel byDora Levy Mossanen.
2009: After 29 yearsof serving as supporting characteralongside Marvel greats like the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, Sabra, thealias of Ruth-Bat Seprah, mutant superhero and former agent, makes her firstheadlining print appearance in the Marvel anthology Astonishing Tales #6
2009: Today PresidentShimon Peres invited Saudi King Abdullah to come to Jerusalem, or meet him inRiyadh, to initiate discussions that would enable the implementation of acomprehensive peace between Israel and all the Arab states.
2009: AChabad-sponsored Women's Empowerment Rally is held at Tel Aviv's Nokia Stadium.
2009: Leonard “Cohenstarted his marathon European tour, his third in two years.
2009: Romanian Jewishleaders met in Bucharest today to address allegations that medical studentshave been using the remains of Holocaust victims for research.
2009: In “Ruth Madoffand the Husband She Never Knew” published today, Richard Cohen described thelife of the wife of the financial predator who was his classmate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063002895.html
2009: In a case ofJewish Woman follows Jewish Woman Professor Martha Louis Minow, the legalscholar who is the daughter former FCC Chairman Newton Minow became the 12thDean of the Harvard Law School replacing Elena Kagan.
2010: YeshivaUniversity Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art are scheduled to present “Asit is Written: Lectures on the Art of Hebrew Manuscripts and Books” in New YorkCity.
2010: The Wall StreetJournal reported today that Tehran has equipped Damascus with a sophisticatedradar system to help thwart a surprise Israeli strike against Iran's nuclearfacilities. The move would also help bolster the defenses of Syria and Hezbollahagainst Israel, the newspapers quoted U.S. and Israeli officials as saying.According to both the Israeli and U.S. officials, the weapons transfer occurredsometime in mid-2009 as part of increased military coordination between Iran,Syria, and Hezbollah. The transfer is in violation of UN resolutions.
2011: Cantor JoelCaplan, son of Richard and Ellen Caplan, and father Ilan Caplan is scheduled tolead a Shabbat evening program called “Shabbat Spirit” that includes guitar,keyboard and PowerPoint projections of all the songs that will be sung.
2011: Today, SusanHerbst took office as the 15th President of the University ofConnecticut making her the first of her gender to hold the postion.
2011: As the casesexual assault case fell apart due to questions of credibility regard of thealleged victim, Dominque Strauss-Kahnwas released from house arrest today.
2011: At Shabbat EveServices at Temple Judah a baby naming is to take place for Natanel, the son ofChavah and Stephen Rosenbaum of Jerusalem and the grandson of Kathe and GaryGoldstein of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2011: With thedeparture of Rabbi Joseph R. Black, today Harry L. Rosenfeld becomes the rabbiof Congregation Albert in Albuquerque, NM which was established in 1897 makingit “the oldest Jewish organization of continued existence in the state of NewMexico.”
2011: Abbie Silber,daughter of Laurie and Dr. Bob Silver (pillars of the Cedar Rapids JewishCommunity) and Rabbi Feivel Strauss are scheduled to receive a blessing atShabbat Eve services as they prepare for their upcoming nuptials.
2011: This Day In…InJewish History makes its first appearance on http://shtetl.ca/ a must readwebsite for anybody interested in the comings and goings of the Canadian Jewishcommunity.
2011: DominiqueStrauss-Kahn was released from house arrest today as the sexual assault caseagainst him moved one step closer to dismissal after prosecutors told aManhattan judge that they had serious problems with the case.
2011: The CanadianJewish Congress for which Bernie M Farber served as the chief executive officerwas absorbed by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
2011: The GreekMinistry of Citizen Protection issued a statement today saying that the Minister, C. Papoutsis, decided toprohibit the departure of ships flying either Greek or foreign flags "tothe maritime area" of Gaza.
2012: A revival of“On Second Avenue,” “a musical journey through Yiddish Theatre” is scheduled tohave its final performance at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. (Asreported by Mike Cohen)
2012: The Labor Partyis scheduled to hold its convention today in Tel Aviv.
2012(11th of Tammuz,5772): Eighty-six-year-old “Evelyn Lear, an American soprano who became a starin Europe in the 1950s and later won acclaim in the United States for singingsome of the most difficult roles in contemporary opera” passed away today. (Asreported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/arts/music/evelyn-lear-versatile-soprano-dies-at-86.html?hpw
2012(11th of Tammuz,5772): Ninety-two-year-old “Estelle Ellis Rubinstein, who as promotion directorof the brand-new Seventeen magazine helped American businesses discover whatshe called “a whole new country” — the untapped market of millions of teenagegirls —” passed away today. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
2012: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish authors includingthe recently released paperback edition of Bloom of Darkness, AharonApplefeld’s novel about “a Jewish child is hidden in a brothel in a Ukrainianvillage during the Holocaust.
2012: MarioBalotelli, a black Italian soccer start who was raised by a Jewish Italianfoster mother from the age of three is scheduled to lead his team into thefinal of the Euro 2012 soccer championships. (As reported by the Times ofIsrael)
2012: Today thecabinet approved doubling the 2013 budget deficit target to 3 percent of grossdomestic product, despite strong opposition from central bank and Treasuryofficials. It also agreed to set a new long-term target of gradually reducingthe deficit back to 1.5% by 2019.
2013: The AlephKallah –Connecting the Divine Within and Around Us – is scheduled to begintoday.
2013: The NorthAmerican Jewish Date is scheduled to move from the University of Connecticut tothe Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) in New York.
http://www.jewishdatabank.org/
2013: ChristopherLudwig Eisgruber who was raised Catholic but now describes himself as nontheistJew became the 20th President of Princeton University today. “While helping hisson, then in the fourth grade, with a school project, he discovered that hisBerlin-born mother, who had arrived in New York as an eight-year-old refugee,was Jewish. In 2009, a Holocaust claims tribunal awarded Eisgruber and histhree sisters 162,500 Swiss francs, representing the value of the bank accountof their maternal great-grandfather, Salomon Kalisch”
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.532963
2013: Peter Salovey,a descendant of the Soloveichik rabbinic family, became the 23 President ofYale University.
2013: Mark Dreyfusbegan serving as Minister for the Public Service and Integrity in Australiza.
2013: With StanleyFischer's eight-year term as Bank of Israel Governor completed as of lastnight, his deputy Karnit Flug stepped into the role of acting governor today.(As reported by Niv Elis)
2013: Eric Garcettibegan serving as the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles.
2013: As part of thefallout from a reported cover-up of sexual abuse by Yishiva University rabbis,Rabbi Norman Lamm stepped down as the chancellor and Rosh yeshiva. (As reportedby Uriel Heilman)
2014: Angela Buchdah became Central Synagogue’s senior rabbi today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/16/2011/this-week-in-history-angela-buchdahl-named-one-of-america-s-50-most-influential
2014: Decent peopleeverywhere continue to react with shock and horror to the news concerning themurder of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers - Naftali Frankel, 16, GiladShaar, 16; and Eyal Yifrach, 19 - who wereabducted on their way home from school on June 12 and whose bodies were foundnear Hebron.
2014: A communitywide memorial service is held for Three Israeli Teens, z”l today at the JewishCenter on West 86th Street
2014: Scott S. Cowenis scheduled to step down as President of Tulane University.
2014: In Israel “1.5million elementary students and over 71,000 teachers are scheduled to begintheir summer break.”
2014: Today, MarkSteven Schlissel was named the 14th president of the University ofMichigan.
2014(3rd of Tammuz,5774): Ninety-two-year-old spy David Greenglass who betrayed his country andhelped send his sister to the electric chair passed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/one-million-to-mark-anniversary-of-three-teens-killing-as-unity-day/
2014(3rd of Tammuz):20th Yarhrzeit Menachem M. Schneerson of blessed memory simply known as “theRebbe.”
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/244372/jewish/The-Rebbe-A-Brief-Biography.htm
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schneerson.html
2014: Opening of theChabad-Lubavitch Library.
http://chabadlibrary.org/exhibit/exhibition2.pdf
2014: “Terroristsfrom Gaza launched a salvo of mortar shells towards the Eshkol Regional Counciltoday, during the very hours that hundreds of thousands attended a funeral inModi'in for the three teens who were abducted and murdered by Hamas terroristson June 12.”
2014: Mushiral-Masri, a Hamas spokesperson released a statement just after the funeral ofthe three kidnapped Jewish boys in which he labeled the abduction as “anactivity that failed.”
2014: Hugh Segalbegan serving as “5th Principal of Massey College” today.
2014: Followingindividual funerals. Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrach were laidto rest side by side in Modi'in cemetery this evening, a day after the bodiesof the three teens were found in the West Bank and 19 days after they vanishedwhile hitchihiking near Hebron. (As reported by Shahar Chai, Itay Blumental andAhiya Raved
2015: Today,Frederick Lawrence is scheduled to step down as President of BrandeisUniversity.
2015: Dr. David J.Skorton assumed the position of the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian whichmeans he “oversees 19 museums and galleries, 20 libraries, the National Zoo andnumerous research centers, including the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, theSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Smithsonian EnvironmentalResearch Center.”
2015: “The firstanniversary of the deaths of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach,the Israeli teenagers kidnapped and killed by Palestinian terrorists lastsummer, is being marked today with a Unity Day.”
2015: “Severalhundred Israelis demonstrated in Jerusalem this evening, calling on PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu to act against a recent surge in deadly attackscarried out by Palestinians.”
2015: “Auto |Biography,” an exhibition that explores the social phenomenon of Jews and theircars is scheduled to open at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center For HolocaustEducation.
2015(14th of Tammuz,5775): Terrorist murder Rabbi Miki Markand wounded three of his family members in a drive-by shooting south of Hebron.
2015(14th of Tammuz,5775): Ninety-year-old Israeli born multimillionaire jeweler Shlomo Moussaieffwho spent the last 52 years of his life in the United Kingdom and was the foundof Moussaieff Jewellers Ltd passed away today in Jerusalem.
http://www.jpost.com/printarticle.aspx?id=407717
http://www.gemselect.com/other-info/moussaieff.php
2015: “Milk” isscheduled to shown during the “70’s Summer Cinema” program at the NationalMuseum of Jewish History in Philadelphia, PA.
2015: Sir NicholasGeorge Winton, the man who arranged the “Kindertransport” from Czechoslovakiawhich saved 669 Jewish children from the Holocaust at a time when most peopledid nothing passed away today.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-33350880
http://www.nicholaswinton.com/
2015: In Coralville,Iowa, the mantle of Rabbi officially transfers from Rabbi Jeff Portman to RabbiBarry Diamond.
2016: Two days afterhis confirmation on June 18,, David L. Goldfein began serving as the 21st Chefof Staff of the United States Air Force today.
http://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108013/general-david-l-goldfein/
2016: Ronald D.Liebowitz is scheduled to assume the presidency of Brandeis University.
2016: Mahin Khan, whowould plead “guilty to plotting an attack on government buildings and theTuscon Jewish Community Center” was arrested today at his parents’ home.
2016(25th of Sivan,5776): As Jews prepare for Shabbat, all decent people pray for the recovery ofthe men stabbed by a terrorist in Netanya on June 30 and mourn the loss of 13-year-oldHallel Yafa Ariel who was stabbed to death as she slept in her bed on June 30.
2017(7th of Tammuz,5777): Yahrzeit of Saul Lowenstam who followed his father Aryeh Leib ben Saulas Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam and who diedon the 7th of Tammuz, 5550 (1790)
2017(7th of Tammuz,5777): Yahrzeit of Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister and secondPrime Minister who passed away on the 7th of Tammuz, 5725 (1965).
2017(7th of Tammuz,5777): Parashat Chukat;
2018: JW3 isscheduled to host the first screening of “Entebbe” today in London
2018: The New YorkTimes featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish readers including the recently released paperback editionsof Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and WrestlingWith His Angel by Sidney Blumenthal.
2018: 155thanniversary of the start of the Battle of Gettysburg where Union Lt. AbrahamCohn faces against Confederate Major Adolph Proskauer showing the House of Israel to be divided.
2018: 120thanniversary of the Teddy Roosevelt and his Roughriders, including JacobWilbusky, the first Roughrider killed in action charged up San Juan Hill andinto the White House and the history books.
2018: Having wonnearly 50% of the vote against six other candidates, 56 year old ClaudiaSheinbaum Pardo was elected mayor of Mexico City today.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/01/2018/claudia-sheinbaum-pardo-elected-mexico-citys-first-female-mayor
2019: “Sde DovAirport, which is located in northern Tel Aviv, is set to close” today, leaving“Ben-Gurion Airport, located 20 kilometers southeast of the metropolis, as theonly domestic origin for Eilat-bound flights, a change that many experts saywill have a devastating impact on tourism to the southern city.”
2029: Susan Herbst’sstepped down today as President of the University of Connecticut after whichshe planned to remain on the faculty, teaching political science at theStamford campus.
2019: The YIVOInstitute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present “Radical Traditions ofYiddish Poetry” a talk that “will survey the radical traditions of Yiddishpoetry focusing on anarchist poetics and the press.”
2019: “After morethan a century of service in Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa and Solano counties,the Jewish Federation of the East Bay” is scheduled to dissolve today, “withcore programs and operations to be absorbed into the San Francisco-based JewishCommunity Federation and Endowment Fund.”
2019: As Americansprepare to rush off for their Independence Day celebrations, hopefully theywill take a moment to remember the thin Blue Line of Union troops who held offthe Rebel waves on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
2020: Live via Zoom,the American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host “The Must of NorthAfrica: Modern and Contemporary Judeo-Arabic Song and Performance.”
2020: The government is “due to start disusing asof today,” a plan which will make “some 30% of the West Bank” including areashome to several Jewish settlements a part of the state Israel but which willnot include certain archaeological sites that “Safeguarding Eternity” see ascritical to maintaining “the connection of Jewish people to its land andheritage.” (As reported by Rinat Harash)
2020: The IllinoisHolocaust Museum is scheduled to host Dov Boros as part of the “Coffee with aSurvivor” program.
2020(9thof Tammuz, 5780): Ida Haendel, the native of Chelm who became a world-classviolinist in Great Britain where she played for factory workers and militarypersonnel passed away today.
http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/haendel.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/01/ida-haendel-obituary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXArQJA3Po
2020: The LappinFoundation is scheduled to host online, “The Joys, Oys and Challenges of Beinga Jewish Transracial Family.
2020: The NationalMuseum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host a livestreamconversation and concert featuring Joey Weisenberg as part of the Songs of OurPeople, Songs of Our Neighbors series.
2020: CongregationRodef Sholom’s Rabbi Stacy Friedman is scheduled to host Dr. Marc Dollinger ashe lectures on “1619, 1654, 2020: Jews, Race, and American Jewish History.”
2020 Live on Zoom theJewish Genealogical Social of New York and the Leo Baeck Institute arescheduled to host “Rescue and Resettlement: Researching Refugees from NaziEurope.”
2021: The Osher MarinJCC is scheduled to present James Sokol singing Broadway, pop, country andother genres in honor of Independence Day.
2021: The JewishCommunity Center of the North Shore is scheduled to present “Israeli FolkDancing.”
2021: First day of“The Last Days of Pompeii: A Jewish Perspective” is scheduled to open atHAMAQOM.
2021: AllenWeisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump organization isexpected to appear in court today as district attorney’s office is expected tobring charges on tax-related crimes.
2021: At the LondonSchool of Jewish Studies Dr Rona Novick is scheduled to lead the firstinteractive workshop as part of the new Baderech program.
2021: The YIVOInstitute is scheduled to present Mark Slobin, the Winslow-Kaplan Professor ofMusic Emeritus at Wesleyan University, lecturing on the Yiddish Folksong.
2021: The Sir MartinGilbert Learning Centre is scheduled to host a lecture on “Where History MeetsGeography: Travels with an Historian” during which “Esther, Lady Gilbert, will presentan A to Z of wanderings through Jewish history with Sir Martin Gilbert.”
2022: A livebroadcast on Kan Kol Hamuiska is scheduled to feature a concert by the winnersof the Dina Turgeman Chamber Music Competition.
2022: In Newton, MA,Beth Menachem Chabad is scheduled to present a “Musical Tot Shabbat and ChallahBake.”
2022: Based on aprevious announcement by Peter Title, Rabbi Scott Hoffman is scheduled to takeover as the spiritual leader of Shir Chadesh Conservative Congregation today.
2022: Israelisprepare to observed Shabbat with a new prime minister, Yair Lapid, the son ofHolocaust survivor, Yosef “Tommy” Lapid.
2023: Eden-TamirMusic Center is scheduled to host “Flute Sounds in Ein Kerem with Noam Buchmanand Friends.
2023: At TempleJudea, Rabbi Feival Strauss is scheduled to lead the Torah Study session
2023(12thof Tammuz, 5783): Parashat Chukat/Balak
2024: The AmericanSephardi Federation and Kulanu are scheduled to presents the ASF New YorkPremiere of “Between the Stone and the Flower” which ‘”follows the journey ofGenie Milgrom, a direct descendant of the Pre-Inquisition Jews of Spain in herquest to uncover her hidden Jewish lineage.”
2024: The merger of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple and TheTemple-Tifereth Israel, both in Beachwood, OH, is scheduled to take placetoday.
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/anshe-chesed-fairmount-temple-the-temple-tifereth-israel-approve-unification/article_bffa85f0-dca2-11ee-bf76-2bfda6fb1a57.html
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by William Tyler on “TheBritish Mandate in Palestine.”
2024: As July 1st begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 269 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time.)
