#ourCOG This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
May 24
1218: The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. The
driving forces behind the crusade were two Popes who broke new ground in the
mistreatment of the Jews – Innocent III and his successor, Honorius III. One of their most infamous innovations was
the creation of “the Jew Badge,” which usually took the form of circle or
square of saffron yellow cloth. The
Crusade itself was a debacle and the forces of Islam continued to hold onto
Jerusalem. Given a choice, at this time,
for the Jews this outcome was the lesser of two evils.
1241(6th
of Sivan, 5001): Shavuot
1241(6th
of Sivan, 5001): The community of Frankfort-on-Main was attacked after Jews
tried to prevent a child from being baptized. As a result, a number of
townspeople were killed. Seeing no option, the Jews set fire to their houses.
The fire spread to the rest of the community destroying nearly half the city.
One hundred and eighty Jews died while twenty-four agreed to be baptized.
1293 (5053):
Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg passed away. Born circa 1225, he was the last of the
Tosophists and the leading Rabbi in Germany. Convinced that there was no future
in Germany, he agreed to lead a large contingent of families to Eretz-Israel.
While waiting for the other families, he was seized by the Bishop of Bas. The
Emperor ordered him held in prison as a lesson to any of “his Jews”
who would try to leave Germany and thus cause him financial loss. He refused to
be ransomed, saying that it would serve as an impetus for further extortion. He
died in a prison near Colmar, and his body was held there until it was ransomed
some years later.
1490: In
Toledo, Spain 21 Jews or Judaizers were burned at the stake and another “eleven
were sentenced to imprisonment for life.”
1494: Having
already issued a five Pentateuch with Haftorah,
and a Pentateuch with
Psalms, Gerson ben Moses Soncino began
issued a complete Bible today.
1588(14th of
Sivan): 24 Jews lost their lives in an auto-da-fe in Barcelona
1738: On a day
now celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day, John Wesley is
converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement. According to Building New Bridges in Hope the official statement of the United
Methodist Church on Christian-Jewish relations, “Christians and Jews are bound to God though biblical covenants that are
eternally valid… that God has
continued, and continues today, to work through Judaism and the Jewish people
1749(7th
of Sivan): Abraham Valentine Potocki the Polish count who had converted to
Judaism was burned at the stake
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12317-potocki-pototzki-count-valentine-abraham-b-abraham
1765: Elia
Judah Piza and Ester Leon were married today in London.
1776(6th of
Sivan, 5536): As the Founding Fathers debate the question of declaring
independence from Great Britain, Jews observe the first day of Shavuot.
1778(27th of
Iyar,5538): New York merchant and supporter of the American Revolution Benjamin
Etting, son of Asher and Rachel Etting,
who had fled when British troops occupied the city passed away today in
Norwalk, CT.
1781: George
Walton, William Few and Richard Howley wrote to Mordecai Sheftall, the Georgia
Jew who was serving as the “Agent for Purchasing Cloathing” that “the bills of
exchange which you have received by our order amounting to Four Thousand Two
Hundred Dollars, drawn by Congress upon their Minister France are intended to
produce the means or procuring clothing and other necessaries for the militia
upon actual duty belonging to the State of Georgia; and we hereby appoint you
to the Agent for conducting the business relying upon your discretion to do the
best in your power, for which the customary commission will be allowed to you.”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43057798?seq=9
1785: In New
York City, Grace Menes Nathan, the Strafford, CT born daughter of “Isaac Mendes
Seixas and Rachel Franks Seixas, and her husband Simon Nathan gave birth to
Isaac Mendes Seixas Nathan
1795(6th
of Sivan, 5555): Shavuot
1804: In
Cologne, Salomon Oppenheim, Jr. and his wife Therese Stein gave birth to their
second son Abraham Oppenheim, the German banker and husband of Charlotte Beyfus
which meant he was related by married to “the Rothschild family.
1806(7th
of Sivan, 5566): Second day of Shavuot and Shabbat
1810:
Birthdate of Rabbi Abraham Geiger the native of Germany who became an early
leader of the movement that became Reform Judaism and passed away in 1874.
1812: Godfrey
Elias and Eli Rachel were married today in the Great Synagogue in London.
1813: Henry
Neumann of Spain became a U.S. citizen today.
1814(5th
of Sivan, 5574): S.Wilhelm Königswarter’s mother Elisabeth passed away today.
1818(18th
of Iyar, 5578): Lag B’Omer
1818: In
Charleston, SC, Mr. Moses Joseph of Amsterdam married Miss Abigail Audler.
1820: Theodore
Solomon Hart and Rose Friedberg were married today in the Great Synagogue in
London.
1820: In
Sulzburg, Sara and Baruch Dukas gave birth to Leopold Dukas who was the husband
of Lea and Magdalena Dukas.
1820: Two days
after she passed away, Julia Henry, the three-year-old daughter of Abraham
Henry and Emma Lyon was buried today in England.
1824: Two days
after she had passed away, Julia Henry, the daughter of Abraham Henry and Emma
Lyon was buried today.
1824:
Birthdate of Philadelphia resident David Allman, the husband of Pauline Allman
and father of Estelle, Claudia, Millard, Belle, Hattie, Blanche, Justin and
Sydney Allman.
1825(7th
of Sivan, 5585): Second Day of Shavuot observed for the first time during the
presidency of John Q. Adams
1829:
Birthdate of Alsace native Benjamin Ulmann, the French painter who won the Prix
de Rome in 1859.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14574-ulmann-benjamin
https://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/author-profile/BmqlvIJH/
1830: In
London, Abraham Davis, a Shamas at the Great Synagogue in London, and his wife
gave birth to Isaac Davis, “the prime mover in the establishment of the Home
and Hospital for Jewish Incurables” and “one of the founders’ of the Jews’ Deaf
and Dumb Home” who was “warmly thanked by King Edward VII” for his service as
“a treasurer of the East London Committee of the People’s Palace.”
1833(6th
of Sivan, 5593): Shavuot on the same day that Virginia native John Randolph,
the United States Minister to Russia under Andrew Jackson passed away.
1837: In
Antwerp, Meyer Joseph Cahen d’Anvers and Clara Bischoffsheim gave birth to
future French banker Louis Raphaël Cahen d’Anvers.
1842: In
Balaton-Kojár, Hungary, Gabriel L. Dessauer and his wife gave birth Moritz
Dessauer, the German rabbi whose works included a book about Hobbes and
Spinoza.
1844(6th
of Sivan, 5604): Shavuot observed on the same day “Samuel F.B. Morse dispatched
the first telegraphic message” was taken from Numbers 23:23 “over an
experimental line from Washington, D.C.(Editor’s Note: The Jews begin reading
the Book of Numbers on the Shabbat just prior to this event.
1846: In New
Orleans, 24-year-old Cecilia Marks, the Charleston, SC born daughter of Elias
and Catherine Abrahams gave birth to Esther Marks who became Esther Scherck
when she married Isaac Scherck with whom she had four children.
1850: The
Jewish Chronicle reported that Rabbi Jacobs delivered a sermon on Shavuot based
on Deuteronomy, Chapter 16, verse 9.
1852(6th
of Sivan, 5612): Shavuot
1852:
Birthdate of Harris Lebus the English born son of Prussian cabinetmaker “who
joined his father’s firm” and turned it into “the largest furniture factory in
the world” which along with his communal activities earned him a knighthood in
1946.
1855(7th
of Sivan, 5615): Second day of Shavuot
1855: In
London, “Lucy (née Daines) and John Daniel Pinero, a solicitor” gave birth to
actor Sir Arthur Wing Pinero whose paternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews
and his maternal grandparents were English Christians.
1856:
Abolitionist John Brown and his men killed five slavery supporters at
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. Three of his followers – August Bondi, Jacob
Benjamin and Theodore Weinter – have been identified as Jews according to the
historian Rufus Learsi.
1857:
In Salisbury, Simon Ulman, the Pennsylvania born son of Sarah and Joseph Ullman
and his wife Caroline Ulman gave birth to Hannah Ulman.
1861: Major Mordecai and his family left the arsenal at
Watervliet, NY. For reasons of personal safety they left in the evening
without any fanfare since there were those who felt that Mordecai had betrayed
his country. Mordecai was one of the most prominent Jewish officers serving
with the U.S. Army prior to the Civil War.
A Southerner by birth, he had tried to arrange a transfer to a post in
the West that would enable him to serve his country without having to actually
fight family and friends. When this
attempt failed, Mordecai resigned. But
unlike other Southerners, he refused all of the offers to join the Confederate
Army. He entered civilian life and never
wore a uniform again.
1862: In Paris, Jacques and Hérminie Offenbach gave birth
to Auguste Offenbach
1862: Today in an anti-Slavery speech Henry
Ward Beecher deflated the argument that slavery was acceptable because it was
in the Bible when “he drew an amusing contrast between Hebrew and Southern
Slavery and carried his audience with him to the conclusion that the position
of the slave in the olden time, and slave brother of now-a-days, was somewhat
different.
1863(6th of Sivan, 5623): Shavuot observed as
Grant is laying siege to Vicksburg.
1864(18th of
Iyar, 5624): Lag B’Omer observed as Grant perused Lee across northern Virginia
in a series of battles called the Wilderness Campaign,
1868: A public
meeting of Hebrew Christians was held at Room No. 24, Cooper Institute, this
evening, for the purpose of presenting the claims of the Messiah to their
inquiring brethren.[Editor’s Note – this is a 19th century version
of the Jews for Jesus]
1870: In New
York City, Rebecca Washington (née Nathan) and Albert Jacob Cardozo, members of
a distinguished Sephardic family whose “ancestor had immigrated to the British
colonies from London before the American Revolution gave birth Columbia trained
attorney and jurist Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, the second Jew to serve on the
Supreme Court, an appointment he owed to a Republican from Iowa, Herbert Hoover
and whose nomination “sailed’ through the confirmation process that greeted the
nomination of Justice Brandeis.
https://www.oyez.org/justices/benjamin_n_cardozo
https://benuri.org/artists/57-enrico-glicenstein/biography/
1870:
A house at No. 215 West Seventeenth in Manhattan was dedicated today as a Home
for Aged and Infirm Hebrews. It is the first such institution in New York
State. The home is for those over the
age of 60 who, for reasons beyond their control, are not able to receive care
and treatment anywhere else. When the Home opened, it cared for only three
people. (By 1876 that number would grow to 57)/
1871:
In Detroit, Michigan, Magnus Butzel and Henrietta Hess gave birth University of
Michigan trained attorney Henry M. Butzel, the “vice president of United Jewish
Charities and Congregation Beth El.
1871:
Birthdate of James A. Samuel, the native of London who served as a member of
the Council of the United Synagogue and of the Board of Management of the East
London Synagogue and the Secretary of East London Orphan Aid Society.
1871:
In Lomza, Moses and Helen (Bishkowich) Morrison gave birth to NYU trained
attorney Isidore D. Morrison who in 1886 came to the United States in 1886
where he married Dora Levy in 1913 and among other accomplishments organized
the Russian American Hebrew Association “which engaged in the work of
Americanizing immigrants” living on the Lower East Side.
1872:
Adolph Marix, the native of Germany who
joined the Navy while living in Iowa and who would serve as “Secretary to the
Board of Inquiry” that investigated the blowing up the battleship Maines, was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant today.
1873(27th
of Iyar, 5663): Parashat Behar-Bechukotai
1873(27th
of Iyar, 5663): Fifty-five-year-old American actor James William Wallack, the
London born son “actor-manager Henry John Wallack and Fanny Jones” passed away
today in South Carolina
https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-William-Wallack-II
http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801197
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/05/25/80319891.pdf
1874:Columbia
gradate, and Heidelberg trained medical doctor Isaac Adler, the Grand Duchy
born son of Henriette Frankfurter and Rabbi Samuel Adler who was an early expert
in Lung Cancer “married Frida Grumbacher” today/
1874:
In Omaha, Nebraska, “Edward and Leah (Colman) Rosewater gave birth to Cornell
educated newspaper executive Charles Colman Rosewater, the husband of Julia
Alice Warner, who began his career as the business manager of the Omaha Bee before moving on to the Los Angeles Express, the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Journal and the Seattle Post Intelligencer before
finally serving as the director of publications for Success Magazine in New York.
1876:
Delegates from fifteen congregations representing New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore and Brooklyn met in New York today to plan
for the establishment of Jewish theological seminary or college. Mr. Lewis May was chosen to preside over the
group and M.S. Isaacs served as secretary.
Mr. May informed the group that Temple Emanuel had already voted to
spend $2,000 a year to support any Jewish school that was established as a
result of these meetings.
1876:
Today, at the sixth session of Presbyterian General Conference being held in
Brooklyn, the delegates adopted the recommendation that the “mission to English
speaking Jews” should be discontinued. This unique action came amidst a flurry
of other motions to continue or expand missionary efforts a wide group of
people including Native Americans and citizens of China.
1876:
Rabbi Rubin officiated at the wedding of Kaufman Marks to Miss Jennie Baum of
Charleston, SC at the Synagogue on St. Philip Street.
1876:
Rabbi David Levy of Charleston, SC, officiated at the wedding of Robert
Caccavajo to Lena Levy in Kingstree, SC, the hometown of both the bride and
groom.
1877:
In Philadelphia, Jacob da Silva and Miriam (Binswanger) Solis-Cohen gave birth
to University of Pennsylvania trained physician Myer Solis-Cohen the husband of
Lotta Teschner and a Major in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States
Army who served in France, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Medical College and the Woman’s College of Pennsylvania, an author of more than
sixty medical journals who was a member of Mikve Israel and Temple Beth-El in
Philadelphia.
1877:
In Patterson, NJ, Judge Barkalow heard further testimony regarding an
application for the annulment of the marriage of Moses Tanneholz and Rachel
Blumenthal. Tanneholz is a cigar dealer
living in Patterson. Miss Blumenthal,
who is seeking the annulment, is the eighteen-year-old daughter of well to-do
resident of Montreal, Canada. Blumenthal
claims that she had not wanted to marry Tanneholz; that she thought the
marriage ceremony was only a betrothal ceremony; and that she was only 17 at the
time of the “marriage” which meant that she was under-age according to New
Jersey Law. Furthermore, she had gone to New York right after the ceremony and
the couple had never consummated the marriage.
The Justice who performed the ceremony testified today that the bridge
seemed to be fully cognizant of the fact that it was a marriage ceremony. The matter of her age only became important
when he had been told after the ceremony that this was a “runaway marriage” and
he told the groom that he would need affidavit signed by the bride saying that
she was at least 18 years of age.
Because of the prominence of the families involved, this case has
generated interested among the Jewish communities in the both New Jersey and
Montreal.
1878: The curtain came down
on the final performance of “The Sorcerer” in which Giulia
Warwick (born Julia Ehrenberg) had been performing “in the leading soprano role
of Aline”
1880:
Felix Adler married his “helpmate” Helen Goldmark Adler, whose “book An Outline
for Child Study, Intelligently Directed Observation for Mothers was one of
the first manuals of its kind” and who was the mother of Waldo, Laurence,
Eleanor and Margaret Adler
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/03/21/96588695.pdf
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-helen-goldmark
1882(6th
of Sivan, 5642): Shavuot
1882:
A Pogrom began in Rostov, Russia
1882:
In St. Paul, MN, Matilda Schloss and Joseph Oppenheim gave birth to Columbia
educated “novelist, poet and editor James Oppenheim, the husband of Lucy Seckel
and father of Ralph and James Oppenheim, Jr who “was a founder and editor of
The Seven Arts
https://poets.org/poet/james-oppenheim
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/483496.James_Oppenheim
1884:
Birthdate of Martha Schallek Wallenstein, the wife of Joseph S. Wallenstein.
1885:
In Turton, Lancashire, journalist and Methodist lay preacher William Fairhurst
and his wife Miam Sutherland gave birth to educational psychologist and
psychoanalyst Susan Sutherland Isaacs, the wife of “metals merchant” Nathan,
the son Jewish immigrants who gave up his career to join his wife in “her work
on early education.”
1886:
Birthdate of Upper Silesia native and multiply married art collector Hugo Perls
who came to the United States in 1941, worked at the Perls Gallery founded by
his Klaus and devoted himself to writing about philosophy
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/08/16/75296131.pdf
1887:
This evening “Adolf Raffmann of Charleston, SC, married “Pauline Ritzwoller, of
Peoria, Illinois” in the residence of her parents.
1888:
Today, Felix J. Dreyfus introduced a “bill which called for the creation of a
Police Board for the City of New Orleans” part of a movement to reform the
Crescent City’s Police Department which earned him “the unofficial title of
Father of the Policemen of New Orleans.”
1890:
The summaries of affidavits from two of the daughters of Mary Frohman – Lena
Frohman Vollman and Bertha Frohman – and the family physician Thomas Courtney
were published today which purport to show that “Mrs. Frohman is insane” and
should be prevented from disposing of her late husband’s estate and returning
to Germany.
1891:
In Coquimbo, Chile, American Methodist missionaries Cornish and Wilbur Finley
Albright gave birth archeologist and Bible scholar William F Albright, a
graduate of Upper Iowa University whose archeological studies or the studies of
those whom he inspired are the source of much about what we know about the
history of ancient Israel
1891:
In New Haven, CT, “Benjamin and Bessie (Mendoza) Bretzfielder” gave birth to
the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and Columbia University physician Karl Benjamin Bretzfelder the
husband of Amelia Kafka who was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army’s
Medical Corps, a surgeon for the New Have Police Department and physician for
both the Jewish Home for the Aged and the Jewish Orphans while serving as an
active member of the Horeb Lodge of B’nai Brith and Congregation Mishkan
Israel.
1891: The Jaffa–Ramla section of the Jaffa-Jerusalem was fully
opened for use today.
1891:
It was reported that Joseph Roth was responsible for preventing a major fire at
a tenement house on Ludlow Street. Roth
discovered a bundle of smoldering rags under the staircase which he stomped on
to keep them from breaking into flames, thus saving the building that is home
to 18 Jewish families including Max
Rudolf, a tailor who lived in the building with his family.
1892(27th
of Iyar, 5652): This morning in Budapest a wealthy Jewish land owner named
Karsay was mortally wounded in a duel.
1892:
“A special train left Long Island City carrying over 100 people left Long
Island City bound for Rockaway Park where they would attend the formal opening
of the new sanitarium that has been built for Jewish children.
1892:
It was reported today that Reverend Johnson of Sweden expressed his opposition
to a resolution adopted by a conference of Methodist ministers that called upon
the Czar to end the persecution of the Jews in Russia. He contended that the resolution would “tend
to aggravate the Russian Government against the Methodist Church” and
jeopardize the Methodist missions in that country.
1894:
“For the third time in the last two days Register Ferdinand Levy” today
“secured a summons from Justice Feltner of the Yorkville Police Court for
Florian Sicher…who is charged with annoying respectable people of all
nationalities and especially Hebrews” as can be seen from the signs in his
sausage store in which he advertises “Anti-Semitic Sausages” “Do Not Buy From the Jews” and “No Sale Made
to Jews.”
1894:
Moses and Julia Levy, who used to own a millinery store on Broadway are being
held in the Tombs Police Court having been charged with “secreting goods with
intent to defraud.”
1894:
“Theodore Seligman, an executor and trustee under the will of his father, Jesse
Seligman filed a petition with the Surrogate’s Court” that was one of the
preliminary actions necessary to presenting the will for probate.
1894:
It was reported that the American Conference of Hebrew and Christian Workers
for Israel has formed a committee “to discuss the proper methods of teaching
Christianity to the Jews.”
1895: Birthdate of Marcel Janco “a Romanian-born Israeli painter
and architect” who was “one of the founders of the Dada movement.”
1895:
A written request for a meeting from Theodor Herzl is received by French
railroad tycoon and philanthropist Baron Moritz de Hirsch.
1895:
A Jew named Samuel Samuelson who lives with his wife and family in Miles Alley
was shot this afternoon by an unknown assailant.
1895: In New
York, “Meier Neuhaus, was an immigrant from Vitebsk, Belarus; and Rose (née
Arenfeldt), from Austria-Hungary” gave birth to “the eldest of their eight
children,” Solomon Isadore Neuhaus who gained fame as Samuel Irving Newhouse,
American publisher and philanthropist whose
publications included Parade
Magazine, Vogue and Glamour.
1896: The New York Times describes the various
provisions of the last will and testament of the late Baron Hirsch. The big winner is his wife who is named as
“universal heiress.” In one sense, the
biggest loser is the Jewish Colonization Association which would have come into
possession of the inheritance had the Baroness predeceased the Baron.
1896: Today
Enzo, Russia native Herman H. Louis, who May of 1882 came to the United States
where he settled in Parkersburg, West Virginia two years later before settling
in Ashtabula, OH where he established the highly successful iron and metal yard
known as the Ashtabula Junk Company married Celi H. Orkin after which they had
three children – two boys and a girl.
1896: One day
before his 29th birth birthday Pittsburgh businessman Samuel
Maltinsky, the son of Sarah Maltinsky and “Dayyan” Hyman Maltinsky married Celia H. Orkin with whom he had had
three children.
1897: Colonel
Nicolas Jean Robert Conrad Auguste Sandherr the first person to accuse Dreyfus
of treason passed away.
1897: After a
motion to impeach Count Casimir who had clashed with anti-Semitic parties in
the Austrian parliament had been introduced, a riot triggered by the opposition
broke out causing “a suspension of the session to avoid a repetition” of this
violence.
1898:
Birthdate of Ovid, MI and Detroit College of Law trained attorney who
represented “James Crouch, alias Diamond Jim Crouch’ when the latter appealed
his conviction of having altered Federal Reserve notes with intent to
defraud….”
1898: It was
reported today that an insurance agent named Martin Beir has been elected
Governor for the New York State chapter of B’nai B’rith
1898: Privates
Julius T. Lansberg and Ike Lobisky were among the members of the 4th
Virginia Volunteer Infantry who were mustered into U.S. Service.
1898: During
the Spanish American War, in Boston, Maurice M. Goldstein enlisted today and
began serving with Battery C, 2nd U.S. Artillery.
1899:
Birthdate of Warsaw native Louis Isenberg who in 1912 came to Canada, joined
the Jewish Legon in May of 1918 “and served in Palestine with 38th
Royal Fusiliers” before being demobilized in 1919 and returning to Canada.
1899: Herman
Lichtner, a Hungarian tailor who has lived in the United States for the last 15
years set sail on the White Star Liner Cymric with his daughter as they made
their way back to Europe.
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mittleman_jewish_community_center/#.YKmnrI2SlPY
1901(6th
of Sivan, 5661): Shavuot
1901: Seventy-seven-year-old
Charlotte May Yonge the author of The Patriots of Palestine, a tale of
the Maccabees passed away today.
1902(17th
of Iyar, 5662): Parashat Behar
1902:
Birthdate of New York native and Columbia educated Dr. Michael Alper who was
ordained by the Jewish Institute of Religion and served as “a director of
Jewish Education of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum” while editing several Jewish
magazines and authoring “several textbooks” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/01/31/92844715.pdf
1902: It was
reported today that sixteen Jews including Sarah Goldstein has each been fined
three dollars for their part in demonstrations in front of kosher butcher shops
in Boston.
1903:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Ethel Friedman Gabel, the Secretary of the
Association for the Care of Jewish Aged and Infirm who was the wife of Jacob L.
Gabel.
1903: A copy
of the memorandum adopted by the American Baptist Missionary Union in Buffalo,
NY, condemning the massacre of the Jews at Kishinev was published today being
with the opening declaration, “The recent massacre of Jews in Russia calls for
our sympathy, our prayers and our protests.”
1904(10th of
Sivan, 5664): Eighty-year-old Kalonymus Wissotzky, “the largest tea
manufacturer in Russia, noted philanthropist and leading member of Choveve
Zion” passed away today in Moscow.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Wissotzky_Kalonymus_Zeev
1904(10th
of Sivan, 5664): Myer S. Isaacs, for years President of the Baron de Hirsch
Fund and leader in many other charitable and philanthropic movements of the
Jewish people, died in the Equitable Building, 120 Broadway, this afternoon
from heart disease, a condition that had afflicted him for an extended period
of time. Born in 1841 at New York City,
he was the oldest son of Rabbi Samuel M. Isaacs. He graduated from University of the City of
New York in 1859 and graduated from its law school in 1862. He passed the bar exam on May 8, 1862. His
successful business and legal career included serving as vice President of the
Real Estate Exchange (1867), serving as Justice of the Marine Court (1880),
Justice of the Superior Court (1891) and State Supreme Court Justice (1895). He
was active in Jewish affairs. In 1857,
he and his father founded the Jewish Messenger. He served as President of the
Board of Delegates of American Israelites and the Hebrews Free School
Association. He also played a key role
in establishing the United Hebrew Charities, the Montefiore Home, the Hebrew
Technical Institution and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. He was preceded in death by
his wife the former Marie Solomon and is survived by 6 children including I.S.
Isaacs and Louis Isaacs
1905: Sixteen-year-old
Herman Maltz, the future owner of a furniture store in Los Angeles arrived at
Ellis Island.
1906: It was
reported today that “the Bureau of Licenses has refused to issue peddler’s
licenses to Jews for two years and that it is alleged “that every pushcart
license held by a Jew on the east side represents ‘graft’ paid to some
politician.”
1907: “Bill To
Protect Jews In Hotels” described legislation that has been introduced by New
York State Martin Saxe to see to it that nobody is banned from a hotel because
of their religion as happened to Mrs. Berth Rayner-Frank of Baltimore. She and her nieces were turned away from a
hotel in Atlantic City because they were Jewish. Legislators in the Empire State who were
unmoved by what happened to the Seligman family at Saratoga Springs in the
1870’s now wanted to take action.
1907: In
London, Cantor “Bernard and Janie (Spector) Schacthel gave birth to University
of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College graduate Hyman Judah Schachtel who began
his rabbinic career at New York’s West End Synagogue before beginning more than
three decades of service at Houston’s Congregation Beth Israel which included
delivering the inaugural prayer for LBJ in 1965 while raising two children with
his wife Barbara.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsc83
1908: “The
Jewish Publication Society of America, which held its twentieth annual meeting
to-day in Broad Street Temple, announced that the Board of Publication had
finally completed arrangements for the successful carrying on of the Bible
translations, which it is expected will now be accomplished in a short time.
1909:
Birthdate of South African dentist Philip Blaiberg, the third heart transplant
patient.
1910: In
Richmond, VA, “a strongly worded resolution was submitted this afternoon at the
District Grand Lodge, No. 5, of the B’nai B’rith, the leading Jewish
organization in the South, condemning the caricaturing of the Jewish race on
the stage and in the magazines.”
1910: “Dr.
Judah Leon Magnes, who is to leave Temple Emanu-El at the expiration of his
term in October as a result of the disagreement between him and the
congregation in the matter of service and ritual will continue Jewish work” in
New York City according to a statement
he made at his home on 17 Livington Place tonight.
1911: The New
York Public Library opened. Abraham Solomon Freidus was the first head of the
library’s Jewish Division.
1912: Today,
Titanic survivor Miriam Kantor, the widow of Sinai Kantor, who died when the
ship went down “received her husband’s clothing, Russian passport, notebook,
telescope, corkscrew, “silver watch and strap,” and Russian, German and English
currency.”
1912: Philip Margulies,
a maker of women’s cloaks, received a mysterious box today which he and his
wife thought was a bomb but the police discovered was “filled with washing soda.”
1912: All of
today’s hearings in the divorce action of Simon Werner, the artist, which is being
tried before Justice Ford and a jury in the Supreme Court, was taken up with
the examination of Mrs. Anna Werner, the defendant.”
1912: Montefiore G. Kahn’s mother publicly addresses her concern
that the reports her son has given to the American Immigration and Distribution
League are not accurate and she fears that her son misspoke himself or was
misunderstood.
1912: In
Russia, the peasants in the villages of “Zasela and Kherson” “unanimously
decided to ask the authorities to declare” their place “a townlet” so that the
Jews can settle there.”
1912: It was reported
today that ‘at a meeting of the American Immigration and Distribution League at
the Hotel Manhattan, Montefiore G. Kahn, Acting Secretary of the organization,
announced that he would give to the league 13,000 acres of farming and clay
lands in New Jersey, valued by the donor at more than $2,600,000, to be
parceled out free to deserving immigrants who desire to become farmers.
1912: In
Russia, the “Minister of the Interior and Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod”
expressed “sympathy with the demands of a deputation of anti-Jewish agitators
from the South of Russia for new measures of ‘protection’ against the Jews.”
1912(8th
of Sivan, 5672): Less than a month before his 56th birthday, Sir
Edward Albert Sassoon, the eldest surviving son of Sir Albert Sassoon, who was
a successful British businessman and political leader passed away today.
1913: A murder
indictment was returned against Leon Frank by a grand jury in the death of Mary
Phagan.
1913: Birthdate
of Polish native Shoshana Shifriss, the wife of Israeli native Ovid Shifriss.
1913: As the
police continue to look for the person who had strangled Mary Phagan, Jim
Conley, the pencil factory’s janitor, who was a suspect in the case, continued
to give conflicting testimony as to what had happened. By now, he was
attempting to implicate Leo Frank in the murder.
1914: In
Posen, “Dr. Alfred Peiser, a German Jewish surgeon and Rose Lissman, an
Austrian Jewish stage actress gave birth to Lili Marie Peiser who gained fame
as award winning actress Lilli Palmer.
1914: In
Budapest, Kornél Tábori, who would die at Auschwitz in 1944 and Elsa Tábori
gave birth to György Tábori, who gained fame as George Tabori the playwright
and director who would flee to England in 1936 where he would continue a career
that included Alfred Hitchcock’s “I Confess” and the 1955 BFTA award winning
“The Young Lovers.”
1914(28th
of Iyar, 5674): Seventy-five-year-old Elias Marx, the German born son of Jette
Ottenheimer and Simon Marx, the wife of Fanny Ottenheimer with whom he had nine
children.
1915(11th of
Sivan, 5675): Seventy-one-year-old Rebecca Henriques Valinetine, the native of
Middlesex and wife of David Moss passed away today.
1915:
Birthdate of Brooklyn native Joel Edward Saltzman the “vice president and
director of Twayne Publishers who attended NYU and Columbia and was the husband
of Hilda Kluger Saltzman with whom he had two children – Roslyn and Lawrence.
1915: The body
of Charles Frohman, who had died when the Lusitania was torpedoed, “arrived
back in New York City” today in flower covered coffin.
1915: “Calls
Frank Victim of Cry Against Jews” published today provides a summary of Dr.
Madison C. Peters, a Baptist minister, views on the Leo Frank case including
his belief that “The American believes in a square deal, a fair trial should be
given to Frank. To commute his sentence
only adds to the outrage. Nothing less than a fair trial is just. What has
happened to Frank may happen equally as well to any citizen of the
Republic. If you believe that Frank has
not gotten a fair deal, say so.” (Editor’s note – Peters was an unusual figure
when you consider that among the many books he wrote you would find Justice
to the Jew and The Jew as a Patriot.)
1915: It was
reported today that “the jurors who found Leo Frank guilty will meet this week
to decide whether to ask the Prison Commission to commute the death sentence to
life imprisonment.
1915: “A
resolution appealing for” the commutation of Leo Frank’s death sentence is
scheduled to “be submitted to the Governor” by a “body of ministers” who
include Dr. John E. White, pastor of the Second Baptist Church and Reverend
C.B. Wilmer of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta.
1915: The list
of the newly elected officers of the American branch of the Alliance Israelite
Universelle published today included Justice Leon Sanders, President and Major
Kaufman Mandel, U.S.A. (ret) Treasurer.
1915: In
remarks published today Justice Leon Sanders “said the Jews in the eastern
theatre of the European War were the worst sufferers and express the hope that
when the time came for peace treaties provision would be made for the
advancement of the Zionist movement for a home for Jews in Palestine.”
1915: Louis H.
Levin, Superintendent of the Federation of Jewish Charities in Baltimore, MD,
who went to Palestine aboard the Vulcan which was carrying $100,000 in relief
funds from the United States via Alexandria to Jaffa is now in charge of the
relief work in Palestine.
1915: At
Atlantic City, NJ, “Resolutions lauding President Wilson for his stand in
relation to the Lusitania disaster were adopted and telegraphed to Washington
today at the convention of the United States Grand Lodge of the Independent
Order of Sons Israel” which stated “that the President in his note to Germany
had expressed the sentiments of every loyal member of the Jewish race in
America…”
1915: Over
4,000 letters asking for clemency for Leo M. Frank were received by Governor
Slaton today including epistles from Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois,
Governor James E. Ferguson of Texas, Judge Glendy B. Arnold of the Circuit
Court of St. Louis and Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the Juvenile Court in Denver,
Colorado.
1915: A
resolution adopted by the Alliance Israelite Universelle in New York
protesting” in the name of the Jews of the United States against the execution
of Leo Frank” based on the belief “that the Frank verdict was the result of
race prejudice” was reportedly being sent to the Governor of Georgia.
1915:
Birthdate of opera singer Rena Galibova the daughter of Bukharan Jewish parents
“who was named the People’s Artist of Tajikistan.
1915: In
Chicago, today is scheduled to be “known as Frank Day” since hundreds of women
“will be stationed on street corners and at other public places” seeking
signatures for the petition calling for clemency for Leo Frank.
1915: Today,
on the day “known as Frank Day” approximately 400 members of fifty women’s
organizations are scheduled to canvass the streets of Chicago seeking
signatures on petitions asking for clemency for Leo Frank.
1916: “Dr.
J.L. Manges, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kehillah said”
tonight “ that further complains of Jews, who had conclusive proof to offer
that they had been prevented from joining the National Guard because” they were
Jewish “would be investigated if presented at the offices of Kehillah” on
Second Avenue.
1916: Over 500
young men and women attended a meeting at Temple Emanu-El to hear speakers
including Dr. J.L. Magnes talk about the work of the Kehillah.
1916: It was
reported today that Isidore Heshfield, the lawyer who has been working for the
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society distributing aid to Jews in
war-torn Europe, was the guest of honor at banquet at the home of Mrs. Sarah
Spurney which was a celebration of his return to the United States.
1917: The
Turkish minister at The Hague, Netherlands, issued a statement regarding
deportation of the Jews in Palestine and denied reports that they were being
slaughtered.
1917: David
Lindo Alexander and Claude Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish
Association signed a letter published in today’s Times of London which declared “grave objections” to two claims in the
“published statements of the Zionist leaders”: “The first is a
claim that the Jewish settlements in Palestine shall be recognized as
possessing a national character in the political sense… the second… is the
proposal to invest the Jewish settlers in Palestine with certain special rights
in excess of those enjoyed by the rest of the population”.
1917: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held this morning for Amalie Freudenberg, the wife
of Charles A. Freudenberg at a chapel on 4649 Prairie Avenue in Chicago.
1917:
Following a funeral service, Sol Bloom, the husband of Carrie Hartz Bloom is
scheduled to be interred at the Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago.
1917: Funeral
services for Julia Frieler Stein, the wife of Bernhard Stein, are scheduled to
be held today at the Zion Temple on the corner of Washington Boulevard and
Ogden Avenue.
1917: The Times of London published an
anti-Zionist manifesto issued by the Conjoint Foreign Committee of British
Jews. Lucien Wolf, historian, author and advocate for Jewish rights was a
leading member of the Conjoint Foreign Committee of British Jews. He had
already written to James de Rothschild, arguing against Zionism which he
believes sees “Jews as aliens in foreign lands” thus making it
similar to anti-Semitism in insisting that Jews will never be integrated into
other cultures. David Lindo Alexander and Claude Montefiore, the president of
the Anglo Jewish Association were co-signatories of this document.
1917:
Birthdate of sculptor Milton Elting Hebald.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-milton-hebald-20150108-story.html#page=1
1918: Four
days after he passed away, Barney Barret was buried today at the Plashet Jewish
Cemetery in London.
1918:
Birthdate of Samuel M. Rubin, who was known as “Sam the Popcorn Man”
for making popcorn almost as popular in New York City movie theaters as jokes
and kisses”. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1918: As of
today, the news officers “of the American branch of the Alliance Israelite
Universelle” were Leon Sanders, President, who “said Jews in the eastern
theatre of the European war were the worst suffers” and Major Kaufman Mandel,
Treasurer.
1918:
Birthdate of Samuel M. Rubin who was known as “Sam the Popcorn Man”
for making popcorn almost as popular in New York City movie theaters as jokes
and kisses. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
1919: In
Ellenville, NY, Samuel and Sarah Leventhal gave birth to music manager and song
plugger Harold Leventhal. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E0D61130F935A35753C1A9639C8B63
1919: “Jewish
Post-Biblical History Through Great Personalities” published today provided a
review Jewish Post Biblical History by Adele Bildersee, “an experienced
teacher in the New York High Schools who has been in charge of the Religious
School of Temple Beth EL” which covers the period from Joachanan ben Zakkai to
Moses Mendelsohn
1920(7th of Sivan, 5680): Yizkor is recited on the Second Day
of Shavuot for the last time during the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
1920(7th of Sivan, 5680): Fifty-two year old Abraham Adelberg
passed away today after which he was buried in Flushing at the Mount Hebron
Cemetery.
1921: Trial of
Sacco and Vanzetti began. Harvard law
professor and future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter would play an
active role in what would ultimately be their futile defense.
1921: The
America Jewish Physicians’ Committee whose purpose was “to build a medical
college in connection with Hebrew University” was organized today in New York
City.
1922: As of
today, the new officers of the American Jewish Congress are President, Nathan
Strauss; Vice Presidents, Judge Aairon J. Levy, Samuel Untermyer and Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise; Executive Direction, Bernard G. Richards and Treasurer, George
I. Fox.
1923:
Birthdate of Stanley H. Biber, the Des Moines, Iowa, native and graduate of the
U of I Medical School who became the
internationally renowned dean of
sex-change surgery. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1923: In New
York City, Albert Israel Becker and
Miriam Rosner Becker gave birth to “David V. Becker, a pioneer in using
radioactive materials to diagnose and treat thyroid disease and an expert on
the thyroid damage caused by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in 1986.” He passed away in 2010 at the age of 86.
1924: Clifford Danforth Cardozo, the Manhattan born son of Clara and
Daniel Henry Cardozo, SR and his wife Constance gave birth to C. Danforth J.
Cardozo Jr. the husband of Suzanne and Patricia Cardoza.
1924: In Pittsburgh, David and Libby Kalser Pearlstine gave birth “Philip
Pearlstein, an artist whose coolly observed nudes reclaimed the naked human
body for painting, and who found a persuasive modern idiom for the portrait
genre…” (As reported by William Grimes)
1925: A law
was put into force in Salonica demanding Sunday as a day of rest. The Jewish
community formally disputed this, and in the end the Council of the Jewish
Community at Salonica resigned to the governor general of Salonica.
1926: “The
United Jewish Campaign to raised six million dollars in Greater New York for
the relief of the Jews in Eastern Europe ended” today “with a rally in the
Biltmore Hotel.”
1926: In
Religion Section entitled “Jew and Jew”, published today Time Magazine
describes the philanthropic activities of some of the America’s leading civic
and business leaders.
Greek wars
with Greek; Jew helps Jew …” a procurator wrote to his Emperor, Trajan.
He was not the first to observe what he expressed so pithily: the racial
loyalty of the Jewish people, a loyalty that has kept them together, like a
colossal freemasonry, while other nations light the world for a while, then
crumble down. For some weeks past the Jews in various U.S. cities, animated by
this tradition, have been working to raise money for the relief of the Jews in
Eastern Europe. Felix Warburg, Louis Marshall, William Fox and other rich Jews
are on the committee which, with headquarters in Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, has
sent its representatives and its publicity up and down the country — the most
intense activity being in Greater New York. “There is one hope for the
Jews in Eastern Europe,” great posters state; “that hope is in the
drive for fifteen million dollars. . . .” Speakers have outlined the
purposes, the causes of the campaign: “Women and children are dropping
dead of hunger on the streets in Bessarabia. Many others are found dead in
their homes in Poland. A horrible scourge of typhus is sweeping over the Jews
in both lands. . . Children eat what they can find in garbage cans . . . sleep
in alleys, in cellars. . . . Hundreds are killing themselves . . . the Jews of
America must respond. . . .” To emphasize this appeal, posters in
streetcars, on the pillars of subway stations, the billboards of vacant lots,
present the picture of a woman in a shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of
her wrist; her eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad,
sharpened Jewess; the thing that has pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is
not age but weariness; she is the incarnation of the most desolate of physical
woes, fatigue. “Are You Tired of Giving?” asks the caption. “You
Don’t Know What It Is to Be Tired. . . .” Money came in fast. Felix
Warburg gave $400,000, Herbert Lehman, Mrs. S. W. Straus, Mortimer Schiff gave
$50,000 each; Louis Marshall, William Fox, Benjamin Winter made big
contributions, and a disabled veteran sent $28 (government allowance for war
wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and
dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the
dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical
and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians,
rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers — all were
appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling their quotas. Adolph
S. Ochs, genius of the New York Times, by many revered as the greatest U. S.
newspaper proprietor and the greatest U. S. Jew, swung into the campaign
handsomely. His paper advocated the fund far more than any other Manhattan
journal, exhorted, reported extensively, published stimulating daily lists of
contributors. Nor were Jews the only people to help Jews. Onetime Ambassador
James Gerard spoke at a meeting, and a bellboy contributed $5 that he had won
on a baseball game. Senator James W. Wadsworth composed a plea, Governor Alfred
Smith of New York sent a check by messenger, a Negro elevator man gave two
dollars, and Thomas Burke, editor of the official organ of the Irish Temperance
Society, wrote “I’m an Irishman . . . but I’ve advised my race to imitate
the good qualities of yours.” Meanwhile, reflective Jews and Gentiles
asked: “What is the matter with the Jews in Eastern Europe? Are they any
worse off than the Christians there? Do they really need 15 million
dollars?” They do need their $15,000,000 and untold millions more.*
Indeed, when the leaders of the Fund Campaign and of the cooperating
organizations† realized that the sum fixed would be oversubscribed in the two
weeks allotted (April 25 -May 9), they raised the goal to $25,000,000 and extended
the formal collection period another week, well knowing that the donation
momentum would continue. The whole country and Canada besides have contributed
— not only the cities of close Jewish concentration — New York City, Boston,
Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia — but also the hamlets where a
stray Jewish family persists in traditional pioneering. The whole $25,000,000
more than the original goal was not reached, yet was approximated. There will
be no cessation of ingathering or of giving. Fertile lands, of high Jewish
concentration appropriated after the War from Tsarist Russia by Romania. In the
past $60,000,000 have been donated and spent for East European Jews.
1927: Dr.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, the pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church who “spent
several months in the Near East last year” today told a meeting of alumni of the Union
Theological Seminary that in his opinion “Zionism is heading for a supreme
tragedy unless some of its leaders in Palestine turn away from their extreme
nationalism.”
1928(5th
of Sivan, 5688): Erev Shavuot
1928: The
resumption of State Attorney General Albert Ottinger’s investigation into the
conduct of certain Jewish cemeteries brought out testimony in support of
charges that the Baron Hirsch Cemetery of Port Richmond, S.I. charged unjust
fees, barred cars from the burial ground forcing mourners to walk to gravesites
and fees for grass cutting had been raised from fifty cents to two dollars a
lot.
1928: In the
Bronx, “Frank Solomon, a textile manufacturer” and his wife, “the former Dora
Sado” gave birth to Leonard Burke Solomon who changed his last name to Sand and
as Leonard B. Sand, became a leading federal jurist
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sand-leonard-b
1929(14th
of Iyar, 5689): Pesach Sheni
1929: The Marx
Brothers made cinematic history with the opening of their first film, The
Cocoanuts
1930: Leo
Adler, the son of “Baer and Fannie Adler” and his wife Bella (Worms) Adler gave
birth to Gunther Adler.
1931: “The
work they Haym Salomon Monument Committee which seeks to raise $150,000 to
erect a memorial to the financier of the American Revolution at Lincoln Square
will be pushed by an additional committee of twenty-five representatives of
Jewish organizations appointed” today “at a conference at the Hotel McAlpin.
1932(18th
of Iyar, 5692): Lag B’Omer
1932: In
London, Leah and Joseph Wesker gave birth to British dramatist Sir Arnold
Wesker. Dr. Samuel Sacks, the father of Oliver Sacks, delivered the youngster.
1932: In
Chattanooga, TN, shopkeeper Louis Diamond and his wife, the former Esther Deich
gave birth to Henry Louis Diamond, the lawyer turned conversation crusader.
1933(28th
of Iyar, 5693): Dr. Alfred Strauss was murdered at Dachau today.
1933:
During a gang war this Spring “when the Big Mob” which included Louis (Lepke)
Buchalter, Jacob (Gurrah) Shapiro, Benjamin (Bugs) Siegel, and Meyer Lansky,
among others, was after Waxey Gordon,
Morris (Dimples) Wolinsky was shot down today in front of the Half Moon,
“a speakeasy near 80th Street and Broadway.”
1933:
Birthdate of Aharon Lichtenstein the Paris born American Orthodox rabbi and
rosh yeshiva.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/renowned-rabbi-aharon-lichtenstein-dies-at-81/
1934: James G.
McDonald, high commissioner for refugees from Germany, returned today on the
Italian liner Rex after attending a series of conferences abroad, the most
important of which was the gathering of
the General Jewish Relief Congress in London early this month
1935: In
Omaha, Nebraska, “Doris (Shoshone) and Maurice David Micklin gave birth Sarah
Lawrence College graduate Joan Micklin who became Joan MIcklin Silver when she
married Raphael D. Silver, the son of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and under which
name she gained fame as an award winning movie director whose films included
the marvel “Crossing Delancy” while raising three daughters — Dina, Marisa (a
director) and Claudia (a producer)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/movies/joan-micklin-silver-dead.html
1936: At
Lansing, Michigan, Captain Ira. H. Marmon, head of the Michigan State Police
ordered “a state-wide man hunt to arrest every ranking officer of the Black
Legion, the night riding terror gang” which has “decreed that each member
should fight for white Protestants and bear arms against Jews, Communist,
Catholics and Negroes.”
1936: Rabbi B.
Benedict Glazer and Religious School Committee Chairman Frank L. Weil presided
over the closing exercises of the Temple Emanu-El Religious School where
“Marjorie Frankenthal, daughter of Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Alfred
Frankenthaler, who received the Lewis May Medal for scholarship” “delivered the
closing words” in which she “pointed out that her classmates would have to face
anti-Semitic hatred.
1936: In
“Britain Will Protect Her Hold in Near East” published today Harold Callender
attributed the violence in Palestine to “the effendi or land-owning class –
many of whom have sold their land to the Jews – who are most active in stirring
up discontent among the Arabs and making propaganda against the Jews of whose
success they are bitterly jealous. Moslem intolerance toward non-Moslems
combines with antagonism to new ideas and customs in creating Arabian hatred of
both the Jews and the British in Palestine.”
1936: Samuel
Blitz, the Executive Director of the United Palestine appeal “reported that of
the $1,208, 145.66 already raised of the national quota of $3,500,000, $490,247
was contributed by New York City.
1936: A
contribution of $3,500 to the United Palestine Appeal by Governor Lehman was
announced today.
1936:
Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes is scheduled to be the guest of honor at
a dinner in the Hotel Astor that is part of the New York chapter of the United
Palestine Appeal’s effort to raise funds “for the settlement in Palestine of
persecuted Jews of Germany, Poland” and other European countries.
1937: An
“Institute of Bible Study” “which will be attended by a large proportion of the
more than forty educators, theologians and Orientalists who are members of the Semi-Centennial Committee of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America” is scheduled to begin today.
1937: “Money
Mad,” Edward Relkin’s first foray into serving as a Broadway producer, opened on Broadway at the 49th
Street Theatre
1937: “Three
million Jews in Poland went on strike for two hours today to protest against
the latest serious out-break of anti-Semitic violence…in which 1,200 shops and
were wrecked and looted.” (Editor’s note – the attempt to of the Polish
government to distance itself from the Holocaust is belied by these stories of
violent anti-Semitism during the 1930’s.)
1938: Robert
Hollitscher, the son-in-law of Sigmund Freud, and his daughter Mathilde left
Vienna for London.
1938: In
Haifa, 3 Arabs were killed during a gunfight with members of the Irgun.
1939(6th
of Sivan, 5699): Shavuot
1939(6th
of Sivan, 5699): Fifty-eight year old Barney Pelter a pitcher with the St.
Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) and Washington Senators (now the
Minnesota Twins) who earned the nickname “The Yiddish Curver” when in 1906 his
record of 16 and 11 was coupled with an ERA (Earned Run Average) of 1.59 passed
away today.
1939: After
reading about Churchill’s speech opposing the White Paper, Nathan Laski wrote
to him from Manchester: “May I congratulate you upon the great and
statesmanlike speech you made on the Palestine questions last night. I think it is not exaggerating to say that
you will get the blessings of millions of Jews all over the world.”
1940: “Russian
Bank” with set designed by Louis Bromberg opened tonight on Broadway at the St.
James Theatre.
1940: Today
FDR met with Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, JR at eleven o’clock at the
White House.
1940:
Birthdate of the Russian born, American poet Joseph Brodsky who won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1987 and was U.S. Poet Laureate in 1991.
1941:
Birthdate of Bob Dylan. Born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth MN, Dylan has
enjoyed a successful career as a singer and songwriter while bouncing
back and forth between Judaism and other religions.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Bob_Dylan.html
1941:
U.S. premiere of “Crook’s Tour” featuring the Burmese-Jew Abraham Sofaer as
“Ali.”
1942:
Birthdate of Aron “Ali” Bacher, the native of Johannesburg who “is an
administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa. He was born to
Lithuanian-Jewish parents who emigrated to South Africa and got his nickname
“Ali” at the age of seven from Ali Baba. Ali married Shira Teeger,
and they have two daughters and one son. His nephew Adam Bacher played for
South Africa in the 1990s. Ali started playing cricket while at school and
represented Transvaal at the age of 17. He played in 12 Tests for South Africa,
three against England and nine against Australia; he was captain in the last
four. In a first-class match for Transvaal against the visiting Australian
cricket team in 1966/67, he made a high score of 235 in the second innings. He
captained the national team in only one series: in 1969/70 against Australia at
home in which the South Africans won all the Tests in the four match series. He
studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and became a general
practitioner. In 1981 he had heart bypass surgery.”
1943: Birthdate of British conductor James Levine
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/james-levine-mn0000155653
1943: While
training at an Army boot camp in South Carolina, future Mayor Ed Koch wrote in
his diary “Had an argument with several of the boys over anti-Negro prejudice,
this led to arguments over Jews and the usual line. It’s a pity that there are
so few liberals in the land and so many ignorant people.”
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/171416/ed-kochs-lost-diary-recalls-face-down-with-jew-hat/#ixzz2U4vZm7UU
1943: Dr.
Josef Mengele arrived at Auschwitz shortly after celebrating his thirty-second
birthday. He began conducting horrific medical experiments on the Jews. Aside
from his ‘experiments’ he would also personally inject his victims with phenol,
gasoline, chloroform or air. With a wave of his hand, Mengele dispatched the
old, injured, crippled, children, and pregnant women to their death in the gas
chambers because they were not fit for work.
1943: A
Jewish partisan group organized by Judith Nowogrodzka escapes from the
Bialystok (Poland) Ghetto. The escape is led by Szymon Datner.
1943: The
Period known as Black May, which marked the climatic month in the Battle of the
Atlantic, Admiral Karl Donitz, ordered “a temporary halt to the U-Boat
campaign” which meant that the Allies could now send increasing amounts of men
and supplies that would be critical to the success of the Normandy invasion a
year, an event that was a milestone on the road to saving at least a remnant of
European Jewry.
1944: Violette
Szabo who was in reality an agent for Special Operations Executive (Britain’s
fabled SOE) who would eventually be murdered at Ravensbruck was promoted to
Ensign in the FANY (The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal’s Volunteer
Corps) which had to be one of the more bizarre cover stories in the history of
spycraft.
1944(11th of
Sivan, 5770): At Auschwitz, Hungarian Jews being led to the gas chamber
scatter but are shot down by the SS
1944: The
deportations from Hungary to Birkenau are now averaging 13,000 Jews per day.
1945:
According to figures released by the Jewish Agency, of the 1,500,000 Jews who
appear to have survived in Europe 30,000 are in Rumania, 175,000 “in Budapest
and elsewhere in Hungary,” 170,000 in France and “250,000 Polish-Jewish
refugees inside Russia.”
1946: The Arab
Higher Committee under the chairmanship of Jamal el Husseini today rejected
“the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee on Inquiry” and “demanded
the establishment of an ‘Arab Independent State of Palestine,’ the withdrawal
of all foreign troops and an immediate end of Jewish immigration.” (Editor’s note – And where is the part of the
two-state solution?)
1947(5th
of Sivan, 5707): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1947: Jewish
underground fighters, believed to be Stern Gang members, raided two bridge
clubs in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv early today and escaped with $3,200 in
cash from one of them.
1947: The
British loaded 1,457 Jewish refugees onto a ship that would take them to
detention camps on Cyprus. According to
the British, some of the Jews used crowbars in an attempt to break down the
barbed-wire enclosures in the hold of the vessel but the Tommies were able to
subdue them with water hoses and the firing of weapons in the air. The Jews had
been caught the day before trying to enter Palestine in violation of the
British blockade.
1948: South
Africa recognized Israel.
1948: The
Egyptian army captured Yad Mordecai. Yad Mordecai was one of the kibbutzim
blocking the road to Tel Aviv. The Egyptian army and air force had attacked Yad
Mordecai on May 19. The Jewish force was the size of a company composed of
farmers and handful of Haganah troops.
For five days the Jews fought off the Egyptians. Before dawn, on May 24 the final Egyptian
assault began with two infantry battalions, one armored battalion and one
artillery regiment. That night, having used all of their ammunition, the
defenders snuck through the Egyptian lines carrying their wounded with
them. Four hundred Egyptian soldiers lay
dead. More importantly the defenders of
Yad Mordecai had bought the Israelis five precious days to strengthen their
position at Ashdod and Tel Aviv.
According to at least one expert, those five days saved Tel Aviv.
1948: Yitzhak
Rabin, commander of the Jewish forces in Jerusalem sends Ben Gurion a desperate
plea for help. While the Israelis had
been able to thwart an attack by Jordanian armored forces at the New Gate,
Rabin feared they could not beat back an additional attack. Also, the city was faced with Egyptian forces
to the south which had attacked Ramat Rahel.
1948: In the evening, the Seventh Brigade begins
its attack on the fortress at Latrun that is blocking the road from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. One of the first companies
into the fray was led by a sabra named Ariel Sheinermann. Sheinermann would survive the wounds he
suffered that day and as Ariel Sharon, would become one of Israel’s most daring
and controversial generals.
1948: Ariel
Sharon, the future IDF General and Prime Minister leads a platoon during the
IDF’s attempt to capture the Latrun Police Compound.
http://www.ariel-sharon-life-story.com/02-Ariel-Sharon-Biography-1948-Independence-War.shtml
1949: In
Atlantic City, “The Rabbinical Council of America today reaffirmed its call to
American Jews to recognize the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as the central
religious authority for world Jews”
1949:
“Contributions totaling $2,500,000 were made” tonight “to the United Jewish
Appeal at a series dinners held throughout” New York City, the largest of which
was the Cotton Goods Dinner that raised $750,000.
1950: “An
authoritative source said today that Israel would pay an indemnity of $54,000
to the family of Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator who was
assassinated in Jerusalem in September, 1948.”
Israel “was also expected to pay $3,000 to the United Nations as a
special premium on war risk insurance carried by the Swedish mediator and other
United Nations in personnel in Israel.”
1950: Foreign
Minister Moshe Sharret leaves Israel today on a “good-will” mission to South
African Jewry.
1950:
According to Health Minister Moshe Shapiro the Polio outbreak continues to
spread with 191 cases reported in May as opposed to 83 cases in April. The outbreak in Israel follows the pattern
seen in nations in Western Europe and the United States.
1950:
Sixty-seven-year-old Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell who “in August,
1937, was transferred to Palestine, during the Arab Revolt to be General
Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan” passed
away today.
1951(18th
of Iyar, 5711): Lag B’Omer
1951(1ith
of Iyar, 5711): Fifty-four-year-old Charles Pores the son of Samuel and Celia
Pores and the husband of Adele Meltsner who was a member of the Irish American
Athletic Club which had been organized by Tammany politicians who used it as
vehicle for attracting support among Jewish immigrants.
1951: Fanny
Brice suffered a stroke which would prove fatal.
1952: In the
fight against Apartheid, Emil “Solly” Sachs addressed 15 000 people on the
steps of the Johannesburg City Hall at a meeting arranged by the Garment
Workers’ Union in defiance of the decrees issued by the Minister of Justice.
1954: In
Helsinki, Finland, Abram Zyskowicz who had survived Sachsenhausen and his wife
Ester gave birth to Ben Zyskowicz the first Jew elected to the Finnish
parliament.
1957: Senator
Thomas E. Matin of Iowa took part in “the annal memorial services honoring
Jewish War Veterans of the United States at Adas Israel in Washington, D. C
1958(5th
of Sivan, 5718): Parashat Bamidbar; erev Shavuot
1961: Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion left Israel for a visit to the United States that
would include his first meeting with President John Kennedy who had assumed
office in January of 1961.
1962: “The
Inspector,” a film about “a Dutch-Jewish girl who survived Auschwitz” and
produce by Mark Robson was released today in the US and UK.
1963(1st
of Sivan, 5723): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
1964:
Birthdate of David I. Adelman, the New York native turned U. of Georgia Bulldog
with a law degree from Emory University whose political career included a stint
in the Georgia State Senate and service as the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore.
1965(22nd
of Iyar, 5725): Seventy-eight-year-old Fannie Eitingon, the wife of Motty
Eitingon “a New York fur dealer who had been imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and
whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the
world but also led to his being questioned by the FBI.
1966(5th
of Sivan, 5726): Erev Shavuot
1966: “Mame” a
musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a “book” co-authored by
Jerome Lawrence premiered on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre.
1967(14th
of Iyar, 5727): Pesach Sheni
1967: “Belle
de Jour” a French film “based on the 1928 novel Belle de jour by
Joseph Kessel was released in France today.
1967: After
233 performances the curtain came down on the original U.S. production of “Eh?”
“which marked “the first major critical success in Dustin Hoffman’s career,
garnering him a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award for his performance.”
1967: CIA
Director Richard Helms reports that there are no nuclear weapons in the eastern
Mediterranean or the adjacent territory.
The report was in error since the Soviets had ships in the area armed
with nuclear weapons and instruction to use them against Israel if need be to
support the Arabs.
1969(7th of
Sivan, 5729): Yizkor is recited on the Second Day of Shavuot for the first time
during the Presidency of Richard M. Nixon
1970(18th
of Iyar, 5730): Lag B’Omer
1970: During
the “War of Attrition” Abba Eban and Yitzchak Rabin meet with Nixon and
Kissinger to discuss ways of ending the violence between Egypt and Israel.
1971: Arkadii
Spilberg, Rut Alexandrovich, Mikhail Shepshelovich, Boris Maftser went on trial
in Riga.
1972(11th
of Sivan, 5732): Benjamin Graubart, the Ukrainian born son of Hilda Kronenberg
and the father of Eli and Issa Graubart succumbed to colon cancer and passed
away today in Israel. (He is not to be confused with Lomza native and
University of Louisville graduate of the same name who served as a rabbi and/or
high school principal in Columbus, Louisville and Poughkeepsie.
1975: Larry
Blyden videotaped a pilot for “Showoffs,” a game show created by Mark Goodson
and Bill Todman.
1975: Today,
Larry “Blyden was furious that studio delays forced him to miss his daughter’s
graduation play, but he remained professional and hosted the pilot.”
1976(24th
of Iyar, 5736): Sixty-two-year-old historian Mary Plug Handlin the wife and
colleague of Professor Oscar Handlin passed away today
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/5/25/mary-flug-handlin-dies-at-62/
1977(7th of
Sivan, 5737): Second Day of Shavuot observed for the first time during the
Presidency of Jimmy Court.
1978: Gary
Gutherie’s “spliced-together duet version of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” a
song written by Neil Diamond first aired on WAKY todayl
1979: Funeral
services are scheduled to be held today for Lawrence Schiff, the husband of
Gertrude Schiff and the father of David and Mortimer Schiff who a leader of the
Brooklyn division of the UJA, a supporter of the Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric
Center and a board member of the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center of Brooklyn
1981: It was
reported today that Ukrainian Jewish activist Kim Friedman was sentenced to
year in prison for “parasitism.” He would be released in 1982 but would have to
wait another six years before he could make Aliyah.
1981: In “By
Train Through A Sandstorm From Aswan to Cairo” David K. Shipler, the New York
Times bureau chief in Jerusalem described how Arie Kandel, an Israeli travel
agent in Egypt “saved his trip to the land of the Pharaohs.
1982:
Psychologist Carol Gilligan published In a Different Voice, the first
book to argue that women’s psychological development could not be understood by
studying men.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/may/24/1982/carol-gilligan
1985: After
having premiered in San Francisco, “A Time to Kill,” a James Bond film
co-starring Tanya Roberts born Victoria Leigh Blum, to the former Dorothy Smitch
and Oscar Blum, the son of Theodore Blum who has been called “the most
outstanding oral surgeon in America” for his pioneering work in local
anesthesia and the use of x-rays in dental care.”
1986: Final
broadcast of “Krovim Krovim” “an Israeli sitcom created by Ephraim Sidon.
1987: In An
English Rainbow,” published today Anna sue McCleave Wilson portrays the history
of Exbury, the estate originally created by Lionel de Rothschild and describes
the postwar rejuvenation undertaken by Major Edmund de Rothschild, which has
turned the estate into one of the ten most visited properties in England.
1991:
Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
“Operation Solomon was a 1991 covert Israeli military operation to take
Ethiopian Jews to Israel. In 1991, the sitting Ethiopian government, the Mariam
regime, was close to being toppled with the recent military successes of
Eritrean and Tigrean rebels, threatening Ethiopia with dangerous political
destabilization. Several Jewish organizations, including the state of Israel
were concerned about the well-being of the sizable population of Ethiopian
Jews, properly referred to as Beta Israel, residing in Ethiopia. Also, the
Mariam regime had made mass emigration difficult for Beta Israel residing in
Ethiopia, and the regime’s dwindling power presented a promising opportunity
for those Beta Israel who had been wanting to emigrate to Israel. In the
previous year, 1990, the Israeli government and Israeli Defense Forces, aware
of Mariam’s worsening political situation, made covert plans to airlift the
Beta Israel population in Ethiopia to Israel. This became the largest
emigration of Beta Israel to date. In 36 hours, non-stop flights of 34 El Al
C-130s, filled to absolute capacity with seats transported 14,325 Beta Israel
émigrés from Ethiopia to Israel, where they were given food and shelter. After
it was over, Operation Solomon took twice as many Beta Israel émigrés to their
spiritual homeland as Operation Moses and Operation Joshua combined.”
1991:
During Operation Solomon a world record was set for single-flight passenger
load when an El Al 747 carried 1,122 passengers to Israel (1,087 passengers
were registered, but dozens of children hid in their mothers’ robes).
“Planners expected to fill the aircraft with 760 passengers. Because the
passengers were so slight, many more were squeezed in. Two babies were born
during the flight. Operation Solomon was a 1991 covert Israeli military
operation to take Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1994(14th
of Sivan, 5754): Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky Israeli kibbutz-founder passed away at
the age of 96.
1994:
The INS Eilat, a Sa’ar 5 class
corvette was commissioned today.
1996(6th
of Sivan, 5756): Shavuot
1996: Jews
praying in an egalitarian minyan at the Western Wall in the early hours of
Shavuot morning were verbally and physically attacked by Orthodox men and boys,
according to participants in the prayer group. The group of about 50 men and
women, some of whom were from the Conservative and Reform movement’s rabbinical
seminaries in Jerusalem, had studied throughout the night, as is customary on
Shavuot. Before dawn, they, along with thousands of other Jews, walked from
other parts of Jerusalem to the Wall. Members of the egalitarian minyan began
praying shortly after 5 a.m. in the rear right-hand corner of the plaza that
fronts the wall, near the flagpoles that stand at the back. A few guys in
tallitot stood in the front so that others could not see the women wearing
tallitot and kipot and to prevent any possible problems. As they finished the
Morning Prayer on Shavuot, the minyan swelled to about 125 people, and as they
continued by reading the Book of Ruth, most of the minyan sat down. It was at
that time that the trouble began as Haredi men soon walked up and began to
curse and shout at members of the egalitarian minyan. An Orthodox woman who had
been part of a prayer group next to the egalitarian minyan approached the
haredi men to ask them to be quiet, because they were disturbing other prayers
besides those of the mixed group. They spit on her and threw rocks at the man
chanting haftarah.
1998:
The New York Times featured reviews
of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers
including Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin, 1922-1995 by Dan
Kurzman and Crossing the Jordan: Israel’s Hard Road to Peace by Sameul
Segev.
1998(28th
of Iyar, 5758): Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day
1998:
In New London, CT, an op/ed article in The
Day reminded readers of the courage of Hiram Bingham when it wrote,
“Collectively Bingham and 10 righteous diplomats from other countries
“clandestinely saved 200,000 lives from the Holocaust, by writing visas
and affidavits of eligibility for passage, and planning escapes from Europe,
circumventing their superiors’ orders. There are an estimated 1 million
descendants of these survivors.”
1999: UPN
broadcast the last episode of “The Sentinel” a Canadian television series
created and written by Danny Bilson.
1999(9th
of Sivan, 5759): Eighty-eight-year-old CPA Samuel Kahn the husband of Mimi
Eisenberg passed away today.
1999:
Congressman Paul Ryan identifies Ayn Rand as one of the two authors who has the
most influence on him. The other is the
“author” of the Bible.
1999:
A joint U.S.–Israeli team which was searching for the remains of the INS Dakar
used information received from U.S. intelligence sources that led to the
detection a large body on the seabed between Crete and Cyprus, at a depth of
some 3000 meters (9800 ft). The team was led by subcontractor Thomas Kent
Dettweiler of the American Nauticos Corporation.
2000(19th
of Iyar, 5760): Sandra Zuckerman Rothstein, the wife of Edward Zuckerman and
board member of the American Cancer Society of Long Island lost her battle with
breast cancer today.
2000:
Israeli troops leave southern Lebanon after 18 years.
2000: The
final episode of the second season of “Felicity” created by J.J. Abrams was
broadcast today.
2001: “The
Temptation of St. Anthony” by Jan Wellens de Cock, “the first painting from a
Dutch art collected looted by the Nazis and almost sold at auction was returned
“ today by “Christie’s to Marei von Saher, the widow of the son of the
collection’s owner, Jacques Goudstikker, who died escaping the Nazis.”
2002: In Tel
Aviv, a security guard at Studio 49 Disco killed a Palestinian terrorist who
“was attempting to detonate a car bomb.”
Despite his quick action, five people were seriously injured.”
2002(13th
of Sivan, 5762): Twenty-three-year-old Sergeant First Class Oren Tzelnik of Bat
Yam was killed by terrorists and two of his comrades were seriously wounded.
(Jewish Virtual Library)
2003(22nd
of Iyar, 5763): Parashat Bechuokotai
2003: Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon said today that Israel was ”prepared to accept the
steps” in a new international peace plan, after the Bush administration said
it would ”fully and seriously” address Israel’s reservations while seeking
Arab-Israeli peace and a Palestinian state within three years.(As reported by
James Bennet)
2004: ”Anne
Frank: A Private Photo Album” which
includes 8 original photographs, 69 copies, a facsimile of Anne Frank’s
diary and reproductions of family photo albums assembled by Otto Frank, the
girls’ father, and his wife, Edith is on display at the Kraushaar Galleries,
724 Fifth Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets in Manhattan
2005: IDF
soldier Majde Halabi was reported missing. He was assumed to have been taken
hostage or killed by Arab terrorist.
2005: Opening
session of Biotech-Israel 2005
2006: An
exhibit entitled “Dear Dr. Janzow” opened at the Sydney (Australia) Jewish
Museum. “Dear Dr. Janzow is an exhibition of original letters from the Lutheran
Archives in Adelaide, curated by Dr Peter Monteath, Senior Lecturer in History
at Flinders University. In 1938 the Lutheran Churches in Australia announced
they would help European Jews escape the clutches of Nazi Germany. The
announcement appeared in the London Times November 18 edition. Such was the
intensity of their despair at that time that many Jews responded to the offer
by writing to the General President of the Australian Lutheran Synod, Dr.
William Janzow. Altogether 73 letters were received, extraordinary moving
testimonies to those bleak times.”
2006: The U.S.
Postal Service began selling “Distinguished American Diplomats’ stamps and
first day covers today. The six diplomats honored included Hiram Bingham IV who
risked his career and his life to issue “live-saving visas” to Jews and
non-Jews fleeing Hitler’s Europe.
2007(7th of
Sivan, 5767): Second Day of Shavuot – Yizkor
2007(7th
of Sivan, 5767): Seventy-two-year-old U.S. Army Lt. General Sidney T. “Tom”
Weinstein” whose career earned him induction into the Military Intelligence
Hall of Fame passed away today in Great Falls, VA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502231.html
2007: The
Hekhal Haness Synagogue, the largest synagogue in Geneva was severely damaged
by a fire today. Nessim Gaon, the Sudanese born Swiss financier who created the
Noga Company, and has served as President of the World Sephardi Federation is
one of the congregation’s most prominent members.
2007: The
three day Metula Poetry Festival comes to an end.
2007(7th of
Sivan, 5767): Ninety-three-year-old Philip M. Kaiser, a retired diplomat and
high-ranking Labor Department official who served as an ambassador to four
nations passed away today.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402429.html
2007: At
Cannes, first showing of “Ocean’s Thirteen” co-starring Elliot Gould and Carl
Reiner, featuring Ellen Barkin, Bob Einstein, Jerry Weintraub and Scott L.
Schwartz, with a script by Brian Koppelman and produced by Jerry Weintraub.
2007: In
Ireland, Alan Joseph Shatter began serving his second term as a member of
Teachata Dala.
2008: Bradlee
Birchansky celebrates his Bar Mitzvah at Shabbat Morning Services at Temple
Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
2008 (5768):
Finish Vayikra, Book of Leviticus
2008:
The Cedar Rapids Jewish community watches with pride as Dan Abramson takes part
in the graduation ceremonies at Kennedy High School.
2009(1st
of Sivan, 5769): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2009:
Seventh season of “A Star is Born” begins on Israeli television.
2009:
The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of
special interest to Jewish readers including “One State, Two States:
Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict” by Benny Morris, “The
American Future: A History” by Simon Schama, “Rhyming Life and Death” by
Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange and “The Amos Oz Reader”
selected and edited y Nitza Ben-Dov; translated by Nicholas de Lange and
others.
2009: As he ended a four-day trip to Israel
today, Canada’s minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism
warned against a “new anti-Semitism” that emanates from an alliance
of Western leftists and Islamic extremists is more dangerous than the “old
European” form of Jew-hatred” The existential threat faced by Israel
on a daily basis is ultimately a threat to the broader Western
civilization,” said Jason Kenney, explaining the staunchly pro-Israel
positions of his government, led by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“It’s a threat that comes from profoundly undemocratic forces that don’t
have the same conception of human dignity or freedom, and which abuse Israel as
a kind of representative of the broader West and Western liberal-democratic
values,” said Kenney. “I also very acutely understand the nature of
the new anti-Semitism, and I think it’s even more dangerous than the old
European anti-Semitism. “Kenney said many anti-Israel attacks come from
adherents of a form of anti-Semitism that who appear to view a Jewish homeland
as illegitimate. “Israel is not perfect, obviously,” Kenney said.
“Israelis should be the first to admit that. But we acknowledge that so
much of the criticism Israel faces is motivated by a dangerous form of
anti-Semitism that tries to hide behind anti-Zionism and is represented by a
coalition of the far left in the West with extreme currents of jihadi Islam
that seek the destruction of the Jewish nation. They seem to believe that the
Jewish people are the only people in the world that don’t have a right to a
homeland.” The 40-year-old, who earlier this month was elected Canada’s
“Best Overall MP” by fellow parliamentarians, prides himself on being
responsible for his country’s decision to shun the United Nations-sponsored
Durban II conference on racism, based on fears it would be misused as a
platform for unfair criticism of Israel. Canada was the first country to
announce its boycott of the meet, even ahead of Israel. Before coming to
Israel, Kenney visited Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, as Canada is home to many
immigrants from these countries, he said. After arriving Thursday, he visited a
Jewish Agency absorption center in Mevasseret Zion, outside Jerusalem, and met
with his Israeli counterpart, Immigration Minister Sofa Landver. He also spoke
to Minority Affairs Minister Avishay Braverman and Information and Diaspora
Minister Yuli Edelstein, who is also the former chairman of the antiparliamentary
Canada-Israel Friendship Group.
2010: Fifth anniversary of Majdi Halabi, the
druse IDF soldier who disappeared while hitchhiking from his home at Daliyat
al-Karmel to the military base where he was serving on active duty.
2010: Shami Leibowitz, the grandson of
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, was sentenced to 20 months in prison today after having
“pleaded guilty…to knowingly and willfully disclosing five Secret level FBI
documents to a blogger who then published information derived from those
documents on the blog.”
2010: In New York, the YIVO is scheduled to
present a lecture entitled “Coming to America?
Max Weinreich and the Making of YIVO in New York, 1939-41.”
2010: In a case of Jew versus Jew, following
today’s after the University of Michigan dismissed the charges surrounding its
football program, journalist Jonathan Chait claimed the Michael Rosenberg’s
claims that the school “had operated a football sweatshop has been totally
debunked.”
2011: The AIPAC
Policy Conference is scheduled to come to a close in Washington, DC.
2011: In celebration
of Jewish-American Heritage Month, the Frequency String Quartet is scheduled to
perform a program entitled “Different Trains: Stories From the Holocaust Told
Through Music” at the National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH.
2011: YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research is scheduled to present a lecture by Lecture Natan M. Meir,
Lorry I. Lokey Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Portland State University
entitled “A ‘Russian Zion,’ or a Jewish Nightmare?: Jewish Life in Tsarist Kiev.”
2011: “Jews, Slavery, and the Civil
War” a program sponsored by The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, The
Center for Southern Jewish History at the College of Charleston and The Jewish
Historical Society of South Carolina is scheduled to open this evening with a
screening of “Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray.”
2011: “Marseille
Port”, “a work by Romanian born artist Marcel Janco, one of the founders
of Dadaism who later in life moved here and established the Ein Hod artist
village, is the top lot in Bonhams Israeli Art & Judaica auction in London
which is scheduled to take place today.
The painting is estimated to sell for £120,000-180,000 at Bonhams. “Born
in 1895, Janco was among the principal founders of the Dada Movement which was
opposed to war, aggression and the changing world culture. Dadaist events included
poetry, avant-garde music, and mask wearing dancers in elaborate shows, but the
movement also tested cultural conventions about the role of art in society and
its apparent irreverence enraged audiences. Dada came as a direct result of
artists’ shock in view of the carnage of World War I but the movement was not
all nihilistic; Dadaist ideas evolved in the 1920s into Surrealism, arguably
one of the most influential streams in 20th century art. Janco had an eclectic
style which brilliantly combines abstract and figurative elements,
expressionist in nature. In 1941 he moved to Eretz Israel, seven years before
the establishment of the state. Here he painted idyllic watercolor and oil
images and was captivated by the exotic sights of his new surroundings. Ein Hod
was established in 1953 and the northern village now boasts the Janco Dada
Museum, dedicated to the artist’s work. In 1967 he was awarded the Israel Prize
for Painting. In the last years of his life he worked together with friends to
erect the museum, dying just ten months after its inauguration in 1984.
2011: “Jerusalem, City Center” a work painted
by Israel Hershberg in 1989-1990 is scheduled to go on sale at Bonham’s in
London. It is expected to sell for anywhere from £100,000 to £150,000.
Hershberg is an Israeli realist painter and who founded the Jerusalem Studio
School. He “was born in 1948 in a displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria. In
1949 he was brought to Israel but at the age of nine he immigrated to the
United States. Following an extensive program of studies in the US Hershberg
moved back to Israel with his wife and family in 1984. In 1991, he was awarded
the Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art and in 1998 the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize
for Israeli Art.
2011(20th of Iyar, 5771): Eighty-two-year-old
Arthur Goldreich, a native of South Africa who was an ally of Nelson Mandela in
the fight to end apartheid, passed away today in Tel Aviv. (As reported by
Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/world/africa/27goldreich.html?_r=1
2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
addressed a joint session of Congress this morning.
2012:
Israeli composer Guy Barash’s musical series “Eavesdropping” is scheduled to
return to The Tank in NYC.
2012:
As his mother Debbie looked on with pride, Josh Rosenbloom graduated from
medical school today.
2012:
NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced that man was in custody who had
implicated himself in the disappearance of Etan Patz.
2012:
Anouk Markovits, the author of I Am Forbidden, is scheduled to do a
reading at Corner Bookstore in New York.
2012(3rd
of Sivan, 5772): Sixty-three-year-old Kathi Kamen Goldmark passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50E13FA395F10738DDDAD0A94DD405B8085F0D3
2013:
In London, The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a presentation by Dr. Helen
Roche entitled “Why we knew nothing about Auschwitz” in which she will explore the diverse
reactions to the trouble legacy of the Holocaust demonstrated by those who had
attended an elite Nazi school.
2013:
The IPO Patron Trip to Israel is scheduled to begin today.
2013:
In Portugal, the Lisbon Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end
2013:
Opening of “No Place On Earth” in Coral Gables, FL and Tulsa, OK
2013:
A Carlebach-inspired service honoring the Jewish Fallen Heroes of Iraq and
Afghanistan is scheduled to be held at the Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in
Washington, DC.
2013:
The landmine of the type that exploded in the Golan Heights on Tuesday, killing
Cpl. Roi Alphi, was known to be faulty and susceptible to heat, Hebrew media
reports said today.
2013:
The time has come for Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take difficult steps
in pursuit of peace, US Secretary of State John Kerry said as he spoke with
reporters in Ben-Gurion International Airport today at the end of a two-day
visit.
2014:
Zohar Hodis is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at
Lubavitch of Iowa City under the leadership of Rabbi Avrohom Blesofsky.
2014:
Pope Francis is scheduled to begin his trip to “the holy land”
2014:
“Pope Francis sent his good wishes to President Shimon Peres and to the Israeli
people via his pilot as he flew to neighboring Jordan to kick off his regional
“pilgrimage of prayer” tour.Peres reciprocated with a message of his own,
telling the pope that Israel will receive him “with love and appreciation, as a
pope who builds bridges of peace between religions.”
2014:
Belgium stands “united” against the “abhorrent” attack today at the Brussels
Jewish Museum that killed three people and critically injured one, Belgian
Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo said hours after the shooting
2015(6th of Sivan, 5775): Shavuot
2015(6th of Sivan, 5775): Sixty-three-year-old
Harvard Law School Professor and Principal Deputy Counsel to President Barack
Obama Daniel Meltzer, the son of Nuremberg prosecutor Bernard D. Meltzer and
husband Ellen Semonoff passed away today.
https://today.law.harvard.edu/in-memoriam-daniel-j-meltzer-75/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
2015: In “Art Garfunkel Lashes Out at Paul Simon in New
Interview” published today the former Columbia architecture student and AEPi
brother described his singing partner as “having a Napoleonic complex” which
prevented the two from experiencing a “re-union tour.”
2015: “The harrowing Holocaust drama “Son of Saul,”
offering unflinching depictions of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, claimed the
runner-up Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival” today.
2015: “Two Israeli teens were moderately injured after
being stabbed near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate” early this morning.
2015: The New York
Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special
interest to Jewish readers including another Holocaust novel, The Book of Aron
by Jim Shepard and The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American
Sublime by Harold Bloom.
2016: The retrial of 55-year-old man “accused of killing
Etan Patz, the 6 year old boy who vanished in 1979, will begin after Labor Day,
a judge ruled” today.
2016(16th of Iyar, 5776): Eighty-nine-year-old
award winning cartoonist Mell Lazarus passed away today. (As reported by Sam
Roberts)
2016: Marcia J. Zerivitz, founding Executive Director of
JMOF-FIU is scheduled to deliver a PowerPoint lecture on “Impact of
Jacksonville’s Jews at the Jacksonville, FL Historical Society.
2016: Prof Yuli Tamir, President of Shenkar College in
Ramat Gan is scheduled to give the opening remarks where the public will have
their last chance to see the Boi Kalah (Here Comes the Bride) exhibit at Temple
Emanu-El featuring “12 bridal gown designed by Shenkar students,
integrating the heritage of the Jewish People with present-day fashion.”
2016: “The Law Library of Congress in collaboration with
the Embassy of Italy and the University of Maryland” are scheduled to “mark the
500th anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice” today “with a
program on the history of the segregation of the Jewish community in Venice
from the surrounding society.”
2016: The Sousa Mendes Foundation and the American
Sephardi Federation are scheduled to host a screening of “With God Against Man”
that tells the story of “Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese
Consul-General in Bordeaux, France, who courageously rescued thousands of
refugees, many of them Jews, from the Nazis in the spring of 1940 by issuing
visas in defiance of the strict orders of his government.”
2017(28th of Iyar, 5777): Yom Yerushalayim or
Jerusalem Day which takes on a special meaning this year since it marks the 50th
anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel.
2017: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled
to host a performance of “Isle of Klezbos,” “Eve Sicular’s six-piece all-gal
band.”
2017(28th of Iyar, 5777): Eight-nine-year-old
novelist Ann Birstein, the ex-wife of Alfred Kazin and the mother of Cathrael
Kazin passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2017: The USHMM is scheduled to host an appearance of
Holocaust survivor Sylvia Rozines as part of its “First Person Series.”
2017: ELI Talks is scheduled to host presentations by
Chicago Social Worker Beth Horwitz, Debbie Cosgrove, the President of the
Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York and Bradley Solmsen, the Executive
Director of Surprise Lake Camp
2018: In Des Moines, IA, the Jewish Federation is
scheduled to host a screening of “RBG” the film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
2018: “Israeli pianist Daniel Gorlter” is scheduled to
return “to the Jewish Museum” today “for a performance honoring American
composer John Corigliano’s 80th birthday.”
2018: “Choreographer Andrea Miller and Gallim” are
scheduled to perform for the last time tonight at the Met Breuer.
2018: Holocaust survivor Michel Margolis is scheduled to
talk about his experiences today at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum.
2018: JW3 is scheduled to host the final screening of “The
Young Karl Marx” today in London.
2019: As Israel continues to cope with the combination of
high heat and catastrophic fires, based on the warnings from Public Security
Minister Gilad Erdan, Israelis are preparing “for the possibility that a
national emergency will be declared with today’s temperatures expected to
eclipse 100 degrees F throughout the country. (As reported by Jacob Magid)
2019: In response to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s call for
help from the international community to help fight the fires plaguing Israel,
aircraft from Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Croatia are scheduled to depart for
Israel this morning.
2019: A screening of Avi Kempner’s “The Spy Behind Home
Plates” is scheduled to be shown at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC.
2019: The Oxford Jewish Society is scheduled to host
Kabbalat Shabbat services this evening followed by Friday night dinner.
2019: A touring company led by “Tony-winning director
Bartlett Sher and Israeli choreographer Hofesh Schecter is scheduled to perform
“Fiddler on the Roof” in San Jose, CA.
2020(1st of Sivan, 5780): Rosh Chodesh Sivan
2020: Ma’ayan is scheduled to host “First Fruits: A
Multidisciplinary Approach to Bikurim and Happiness” with Tal Attia.
2020: Shearith Israel is scheduled to join with “sister
Congregations in Amsterdam, Bayonne Curacao, Livorno, London Manchester,
Montreal, Paris, Philadelphia and Rome for a reading of the Azharot” which
brings together almost all of the Spanish and Portuguese communities extant
today.”
2020: The Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to host
a “Sunday Stories” on Facebook Live that examines director Stanley Kubrick’s
movies and uncovers the Jewish context behind his biggest hits.
2020: KlezCalifornia is scheduled to host an online
conversation for fluent Yiddish speakers.
2020: The Consulate General of Israel is scheduled to
collaborate in the concert Yotam Silberstein #JazzfromHome .
2020: The New York Times features books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including The Arab
Winter: A Tragedy by Noah Feldman.
2021: The Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program
at Case Western Reserve University is schedule to host “After Class: What’s New
in the Bible” which “will focus on Alison Joseph’s Lecture that
was held in partnership with the Pose Library of Jewish
Culture and Civilization.
2021: The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, the Jewish
Federation of Greater Des Moines, the Jewish Federation of the Corridor,
Congregation Beth Israel at the Tri-City Jewish Center, Rock Island, Temple
Emanuel, Davenport, Temple Beth El, Dubuque, Agudas Achim, Iowa City, Tifereth
Israel Synagogue, Des Moines, Judaic Resource Center of Iowa, Des Moines, Sons
of Jacob, Waterloo, Chabad Lubavich of the Quad Cities, Ames Jewish
Congregation, Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Des Moines, and Chabad Lubovitch of Iowa City
are scheduled to co-host AJC (American
Jewish Committee) CEO David Harris in “an off-the-record conversation about
what lies ahead for global Jewish advocacy.”
2021: The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to
continue its series exploring the Torah of Rabbi Sacks zt”l this time
Rabbi Johnny Solomon, who will be exploring Rabbi Sacks’ ideas on our
connection with God.
2021: The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood is
scheduled to “virtually host its eighth annual Maltz Heritage Award ceremony
this evening in honor of Carole F. Hoover, president and CEO of Hoover
Millstein, a financial services and real estate development firm, and Vanessa
L. Whiting, president of A.E.S. Management Corp., the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
franchisee in Northeast Ohio.
2021: The CRIF & Combat Anti-Semitism
Movement is scheduled to present “Justice for Sarah Halimi: An International
Movement is Born.”
https://justiceforsarah.combatantisemitism.org/?mc_cid=d5d8bcae41&mc_eid=9870a7a862
2022:
The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray as they
discuss “King v. Alabama.”
2022:
As a sign of improving relations Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is
scheduled to begin a two day trip to Israel today.
2022:
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is looking for a new chief of statement since
Tal Gan Zvi who has been with him “since the beginning of his political career”
resigned yesterday.
2022:
The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host “Wise Up: Unpacking
Proverbs” with Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum. 2023: YIVO is scheduled to host a
screening of “The Laugh” followed by a Q&A with director Ferne Pearlstein
and special guest Alan Zweibel.
2023:
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in partnership with the
Association of Jewish Libraries are scheduled to present “We Love Libraries”
during which four experts in the field as they explore and share the unique
Jewish collections at the New York Public Library, the Los Angeles Public
Library, and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
2023:
The 31st annual gala for Shalom Bayit, the Bay Area center for domestic
violence prevention and response within the Jewish community is scheduled to
take place today.
2023:
JCCNS is scheduled to present the final screening of “HALLELUJAH: Leonard
Cohen, a Journey, a Song.”
2023:
Cemetery scholar Judi Leff presents “Buried Treasures,” a virtual tour of past
and present burial grounds in San Francisco.
2024:
Pianist Evgeny Kissin is scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall.
2024:
The Vogue Theatre in San Francisco, the Rafael Film Center and the Avalon are
scheduled to host screening of “Farewell Mister Hafman,” a film that tells the
story of a Jewish jeweler trying to survive the Nazi occupation of Paris.
2024:
As May 24th begins in Israel,
an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 231 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid
for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at
midnight Israeli time.)
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