#ourCOG This Day, June 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
This Day, June 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 14
1287:
Kublai Khan defeated the force of Nayan and other traditionalist
Borjigin princes in East Mongolia and Manchuria. It is quite possible that there were Jewish
soldiers serving under the great Mongol warrior who became Emperor of China. According to Marco Polo, Kubla Kahn
celebrated the festivals of the Jews as well as those of the Muslims and
Christians, indicating that a Jewish community existed that could make itself
felt at the highest level of the Empire.
1514:
Azemmour, a city in Morocco, offered privileges to Jews fleeing from Portugal.
1637:
William Prynne, an opponent Jews settling in England and Puritan leader who
opposed everything from stage plays to the celebration of religious holidays
“was sentenced to a fine of £5,000, to imprisonment for life, and to lose the
rest of his ears.”
1656:
Directors of the Dutch West India Company sent a strong letter to Peter
Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam ordering him to give “more respect” to
the “Jews or Portuguese people” in his city. A principle shareholder
in the company, a Jew named Joseph d’Acosta had assisted in obtaining this
statement.
1728(18th
of Tammuz, 5488): Sixty-three-year-old Moses Raphael Levy, the German born
brother of Joseph and Samuel Levy, who was an advocate for “erecting a
synagogue to tale the place of the frame building which had been for a long
time in use on Mill Street,” passed away today in New York City.
1751
Pope Benedict XIV issued an encyclical “On Jews and Christians Living in the
Same Place” in which he bemoans the growing presence of Jews in Poland. (The
Pope would seem to be a little late in dealing with this. Jews had been living in Poland for centuries,
having been encouraged to settle their by the monarchs who saw them as
financial and commercial asset. By the
middle of the 18th centuries, the position of the Jews had
deteriorated and in less than fifty years, Poland would disappear as an independent
Kingdom.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Pope_Benedict_on_Jews.html
1760(30th
of Sivan, 5520): Parashat Tammuz; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1786:
Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born son of “Benjamin Johan Cohen and Eva
Jacob” and his first wife “Elisabeth Gompertz” the daughter of of Salomon
Barend Gompertz and Martha Gompert gave birth to “Lewis Abraham Cohen.”
1790:
Today, George Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of the City of
Savannah. “I rejoice that a spirit of liberality and philanthropy is much more
prevalent than it formerly was among the enlightened nations of the earth; and
that your brethren will benefit thereby in proportion as it shall become still
more extensive.”
1796: French forces attacked Frankfurt. An artillery barrage aimed at the Austrian
arsenal next to the ghetto struck the Judengasse instead. The subsequent fired burned so much of the
ghetto that 2,000 of its inhabitants were left homeless. This forced the city’s senate to suspend the
decree forbidding Jews from living elsewhere in the city. The fire effectively marked the end of the
Jewish Ghetto in Frankfurt.
1798(30th
of Sivan, 5558): As events in France tumbled toward revolution, Rosh Chodesh
Tammuz was observed three days before the third estate, with its
representatives drawn from the commoners, reconstituted themselves as the
National Assembly, a body whose purpose was the creation of a French
constitution.”
1799(11th
of Sivan, 5569): The avoidance of massacre when the French forces withdrew gave
rise to the annual observance of Purim Ubrino
1804(5th
of Tammuz, 5564): Forty-nine-year-old Isaac Abraham Euchel, the Copenhagen born
Hebrew author and founder of the “Haskalah Movement” passed away in Berlin.
1809:
Jacob Davis married Leah Barnett in the United Kingdom today.
1813:
In Breslau, Roeschen and Alexander Baruch Schefftel gave birth to Simon Barcuh
Schefftel, the husband of Henrietta Schefetel who was a successful merchant in
Posen and the author of “a large Hebrew commentary on the Targum Onkelos which
was published posthumously by his son-in-law Joseph Perles.”
1821(14th
of Sivan, 5581): Seventy-two-year-old Chaim Volozhin (Chaim ben Yitzchok of
Volozhin), author of Nefesh Ha-Chaim passed away. Born in 1749, he studied with the Vilna Gaon
before establishing the Volozhin Yeshiva in 1803 in which he applied the
methods of his famous master. The
Yesshiva outlived its creator, remaining open for 90 years.
1821:
In London, Samuel Moss Solomon and Esther Solomon gave birth to Elizabeth
Solomon who became Elizabeth Cashmore when she married Michael Cashmore.
1822:
In Freudenthal, Germany, Hayum Löb Moses Horkheimer and Händle Moses Horkheimer
gave birth to future Ohio resident Simon Horkheimer, the “son of Hayum Löb
Moses Horkheimer and Händle Moses Horkheimer, the husband of Babette Horkheimer
and father of General Morris Horkheimer; Bennett Horkheimer; Diana Horkheimer;
Meyer Horkheimer and Nellie Horkheimer.
1828(2nd
of Tammuz, 5588): Parashat Korach
1831:
Birthdate of Copenhagen native and University of Copenhagen trained physician Frederik
Jacob Trier, the “resident physician of the clinical division of the Communal
Hospital of Copenhagen, and president of the medical section of the
International Congress of Physicians, held at Copenhagen in 1884, who was a member of the medical board of revisers
of the “Pharmacopea Danica”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14510-trier-frederik-jacob
1837:
Birthdate of Lyon Levy Emanuel, the native of Philadelphia, PA and brother of
Louis Manly Emanuel who served in the Union Army from 1861 to 1864 and moved to
New York to pursue business interest before returning to Philadelphia due to
being seriously ill.
1839(2nd
of Tammuz, 5599): Alice Abrahams, the daughter of Judith and Emanuel Abrahams,
the wife of Solomon Solomons and the mother of Caroline, Fanny, Joseph and Emma
Solomons passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1841:
Colonel Charles Henry Churchill wrote to Sir Moses Montefiore expressing his
support for the creation of Jewish state in Palestine and identifying the first
steps that must be taken. First, the
Jews must “take up the matter universally and unanimously. Secondly, the
European Powers” must aid them in their endeavor by taking Syria and Palestine
“under their protection” and governing them “according to the spirit of
European administration.” Churchill was a British soldier and diplomat who was
among the first people, if not the first person, to propose a practical
political plan for the creation of a Jewish state in what is now the state of
Israel.
1842(6th
of Tammuz. 5602): Dr. Joel Hart passed away today. Born in Philadelphia in 1874 he was trained
in London where he married his wife Louisa Levien. He served as U.S. Counsel of
Leith, Scotland from 1817 until 1832. He
was a charter member of the Medical Society of the County of New York.
1845:
In Melbourne, Michael and Elizabeth Cashmore gave birth to Esther Cashmore who
became Esther Cohen when she married Henry Cohen.
1846:
In Richmond, VA, William Thalhimer, the German born founder of Richmond, VA,
Thalheimer Brothers, Inc. and Mary Millhiser Thalhimer gave birth to Gustavus
Thalheimer, the husband of Pauline Thalhimer.
1847:
Joseph Ullman, the German born “son of Hayim Simon Uhlmann and Rosa V Uhlmann”
and his wife Sarah Ullman gave birth to Rosa Ullman who became Rosa Gottschalk
when she married Albert Gottshalk.
1848:
In Charleston, SC, Jacob J. Moses of Columbus, GA and Sara Ottolengui were wed
today.
1848:
Henry Woolf married Jane Silver at the Great Synagogue in London.
1852:
In Wilkes-Barre, PA, David Coons and Helena Lang gave birth to attorney Joseph
David Coons the husband of Ella Constine who was an active member of the B’nai
B’rith and President of Congregation B’nai B’rith in Wilkes Barre.
1854:
In Baltimore, Md, Aaron and Augusta Straus Bachrach gave birth to future
Illinois resident John S. Bachrach, the husband of Emilie Mandel Bachrach.
1854:
Saul Henriques Valeinte married Sarah Russel today in Bishopgate, London.
1855:
In London, Rosetta Pinto, the London born Daughter of Rabbi David Aaron de Sola
and Rebecca (Rica) de Sola and her husband Henry (Haim) Pinto gave birth to
Jessie Pinto who died as an infant.
1856:
Rosa and Jacob Seligman gave birth to Washington Seligman
1858:
Birthdate of the Marquis de Morès, an anti-Semitic French nobleman who attacked
Jews in France and Algeria
1861:
In Eufaula, Alabama, Frank Rothschild, the German born son of Henreitte and
Isack Rothschild and Amanda Blun, the Worms born daughter of Wilhelmina and
Nathan Blun, gave birth to Simon F.
Rothschild, the husband of Lillian Abraham who served as member of the Board of
Directors for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and the Brooklyn society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
1862:
In Philadelphia, PA, Wolf and Caroline Meyer Steppacher gave birth to Emanuel
Meyer Steppacher, the husband of Blanche A. Allman Steppacher.
1863:
Twenty-six-year-old Aaron Friedenwald, the Baltimore born son of Merle Baier
and Jonah Friedenwald married twenty-two-year-old Bertha Bamberger the German
born daughter of Babette Treu and Isaac Jacob Bamberger today in Baltimore, MD
after which they had five children – Harry, Julius, Bernard, Norman and Edgar.
1863:
Today, the 38th Iowa Infantry crossed the Mississippi River, and occupied the
bluff above Warrenton, Mississippi as part of General Grant’s plan to take
Vicksburg and open the Mississippi River during the war to save the Union.
1867:
In what is now the Czech Republic, Daniel Low, the son of David and Eva Low and
this wife Helene Low gave birth to Rich Low.
1864:
German born Julius Freiberg, who established a successful distillery in
Cincinnati and his wife Duffie Freiberg gave birth to Sally Workum Heinsheimer
1868:
In Baden bei Wien, Fanny Hess and Leopold Landsteiner gave birth to Karl
Landsteiner, the Austrian born American physician who received the Nobel Prize
for Medicine for his work on differentiating the blood groups in 1930.
1872:
In Kansas City, MO, founding of Congregation B’nai Jehuda whose members
included Leon Block, A.S. Flersheim, Alfred Hart and B.A. Feineman.
1874:
In Berdychiv, Pauline and Fiebish “Feivel” Jolles gave birth to Estella
(Estera) Jolles.
1874:
“The Mystery of Metz: An Old Cause Célèbre” an article published today
described the blood libel which took place at that ancient German city in
1669. According to the author, who
described the even in great detail, this was an example of another groundless
attack that Jews had to suffer during the Middle Ages.
1876:
Thirty-three-year-old Henry Solomon, the Plymouth, England born son of Josiah
and Rose Solomon, who was “one of the founder of the Montefiore Home and
Hospital married Harriet Simon today in Cincinnati, OH.
1877:
“While on their way home to New York City, Joseph Seligman and his family were
delayed by a boat accident and rerouted to the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga
Springs, New York. Saratoga was America’s top resort town, and the Seligmans
had summered at the Grand Union for the better part of a decade. This time,
however, and seemingly all of a sudden, the Seligman family was not welcomed.
This unexpected rejection and the commotion it caused, now infamous as the
Seligman Affair, compelled Jews of the time to reckon with how Protestant
America viewed and even ranked them.”
1878:
In Berlin, Emil Cohn and Deborah Lenore Cohn, the daughter of Dr. Marcus Mosse
and Ulrike Mosse gave birth to Else Franziska Hirsch
1878:
In New York City, “Sol and Esther (Emden) Sulzberger gave birth to NYU trained
attorney Myron Sulzberger, the husband of Rena Fuld with whom he raised two
sons, of Myron Jr and Edward and Democratic Party activist who served in the
New York Assembly and Judge while being an active member of the Jewish
community as can be seen by his services as a trustee of Tempe Beth-El and a
member of the Beth-El Men’s Club.
1879:
After having served in the United States Navy during the Civil War,
Philadelphia merchant Edward J. Etting’s son, Theodore Minis Etting who had
“studied law in the office of Henry R. Edumunds” and “attended lectures at the
Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania” “was admitted to the Bar”
today.
1880:
Mortiz Hartman, an official of the Simon Benevolent Association went to the
morgue in New York and asked for the body of a young Jewess named Kate
Ungerleider who had died of whooping cough. Hartman and Louis Davis took the
body of the child that had been given to them and brought it to the Bay Ridge
Cemetery where they turned it over to the wife of the cemetery caretaker so
that she could wash it and prepare it for burial according to Jewish law. The woman took the body into her house and
immediately came back out telling the men that the body was that of a Christian
boy. They interred the remains in a
temporary grave and returned to the morgue in search of Kate’s body. When no action was taken, Hartman went to the
Commissioner of Charities and Corrections who instituted a successful search
for the body. This was the third known
instances of such errors in the last six weeks.
The officials returned to the Bay Ridge Cemetery and interred it there
in accordance with Jewish law.
1880(5th
of Tammuz, 5640) A 32-year-old tailor named Maurice Moses Heineltrop took his
own life today after Seligman & May refused to pay him for a batch of
waistcoats he had made for them.
Heineltrop’s sense of desperation stemmed from the fact that he employed
16 men and he would not be able to pay them for their work.
1880:
It was reported today that Professor Grazidadio Ascoli, the chairman of
comparative philology at the Accademia Scientifico-Litteraria of Milan is
scheduled “to publish his essay on the Hebrew inscriptions at Venosa, in
Calabria. These seem to be the earliest
Hebrew inscriptions found in Europe…” [This may be reference to the
inscriptions in Hebrew, Greek and Latin found in Jewish catacombs that date
from the 4th and 5th centuries of the Common Era.
1881:
“A grand festival” is scheduled to be held at the Trocadero today “to assist
the unhappy Jews are just now have so rough a time of it in Southern Russia.”
1881:
Ninety-year-old Bloomah (Jacobs) Levy the wife of Joseph Levy and the mother of
Henry, Israel, Samuel and Elizabeth Levy, was buried today at the “West Ham
Jewish Cemetery.”
1881:
Based on a Reuter’s dispatch from St. Petersburg, it was reported today that
peasants living in a village in the district of Kiev have paid 800 rubles to
the Jews as compensation “for the sufferings they have undergone.
1882:
In New Orleans, marriage of Miss Jessie Green and Isaac Feitel. Born an Episcopalian, she converted before
her marriage. The couple had previously
been married in a civil ceremony.
Today’s wedding was performed by a local rabbi.
1884:
In Cincinnati, OH, Nannie and Emil A. Cohn gave birth to Pearl Trost, the wife
of Phillips Solomon Trost, and mother of Philip Solomon Trost, Jr.who worked
for the Curtis Publishing Company and was president of the Society for Crippled
Children.
1884:
It was reported today that a half shekel coin from the time of Simon Maccabeus
was sold for $10.25 at an auction conducted this week to dispose of rare coins
held by Thomas Warner, a member of the American Numismatic Society. The price compares favorably when you
consider that the rarest coin in the collection sold for 25 dollars. The half shekel had a chalice of manna with a
Hebrew inscription on one side and a render of a triple lily or Aaron’s Rod on
the other side.
1885(1st
of Tammuz, 5645): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1885:
In a demonstration of the impact of Jewish culture on Western civilization Dr.
A.P. Peabody chose the words from Nehemiah “Then I consulted with myself” as
the text for the Baccalaureate sermon at Harvard. “He could not, he said think of any more
appropriate basis for his remarks than these words of the foremost figure in
Hebrew history from the time of Moses to the time of Christ.” [Yes, at Harvard, Jesus was apparently
considered to be Jewish]
1887:
Birthdate of Worcester, MA native and University of Pennsylvania graduate Rabbi
Julius J. Price, the holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia and graduate of JTS who
was “chaplain of the Bronx County Jail and spiritual director of Sinai Temple
who was the husband of “the former Florence Cooper” with whom he had two sons,
Winston and Ira Price.
1888:
James H. Hoffman and H.M. Leipziger addressed the more than four hundred
attendees at the fourth annual exhibition sponsored by the Hebrew Technical
Institute located on Stuyvesant Street.
The exhibition gave the supporters of the school a chance to examine the
projects and accomplishments of the 78 youngsters attending the school.
1888(5th
of Tammuz, 5648): Russian teacher and poet Wolf Ha-Kohen Kaplan, whose most
famous work was “Ereẓ ha-Pela’ot” passed away today in Riga.
1890:
In New Orleans, LA, Rabbi Max Heller and Ida Annie Heller gave birth to Cecile Mathilde Heller
1891:
“Russia’s War On Jews” published today begins with an eyewitness account of the
Czar’s plans for his Jewish subjects.
“Jews in bands of from 1,000 to 2,000 are being escorted to different
points on the German frontier and put across the line into the latter
country. There can be no question as to
the intention of the Russian Government to expel all the Jews from its domain.”
1891:
“Helping Sick Children” published today includes a summary of the annual report
issued by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children.
Among other accomplishments, the society sponsored ten free excursions
last year for 18,124 sick children and their mothers and is about to begin
using the new facility at Rockaway that cost $20,225.
1891:
“Browning’s Story Told” published today provides a detail review of Life and
Letters of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr. “Mrs. Orr begins this
memoir of Robert Browning with a refutation of a story current in his lifetime
and revived after his death, that Jewish blood coursed in his veins, active
support of which was obtained from his known interest in the Hebrew language
and literature and his friendship for many members of the London Jewish
Community.”
1893:
“Caught In A Death Trap” published today provided details of the fatal fire at
building on Montgomery Street that was the home to numerous tailoring
operations.
1893:
While talking to reporters at the Victoria Hotel in New York City, Pierre
Botkine, Secretary of the Russian Legation said that “The Russian laws enacted
against the Jews which resulted in driving many of them out of the country are
necessary to protect the Russians. He
went on to say that these laws were not a matter of religion but were a matter
of economics. “Jews are so much more
clever than Russians…that they would capture everything if granted liberty.”
1893(30th
of Sivan, 5653): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1893(30th
of Sivan, 5653): Moses Bloom the native of Alsace, France who opened what
became the “Moses Bloom Clothing Store” in 1857 at Iowa City, Iowa where he
served as an alderman and Mayor before serving in the Iowa House and the Iowa
Senate passed away today.
1893(30th
of Sivan, 5653): Sixty-year-old Louis David, the German born son of David
Israel Davis and Caroline ‘Ketchen’ Israel/David and husband of Julia Bermann
passed away today.
1894:
The annual commencement exercises of the Hebrew Technical Institute at
Arlington Hall. Abraham Steinberg who worked in the second floor shop of Isidor
Shlivek was one of the few who was able to escape down the stairway although he
almost suffocated before reaching the street. Benjamin Signel, a Janitor at the
Hebrew Free School said he saw two men standing at the third floor window who
were afraid to jump. They tried the fire escape instead but one of the men
still fell to his death. (The Triangle
Shirt Fire made headlines, but fires like this were all too common in the
garment district for several decades. It
took the labor unions to create safe working conditions. The description of this fire reminds one of
those that take place in the 21st century in “third world garment
factories”)
1894:
Sidney Sonnino completed his service of Minister of Finance in Italy.
1894:
Sophie Markison and Benjamin Ratner, the parents of actor Gregory Ratoff were
married today in Russia.
1894:
The Jewish Theological Seminary hosted its commencement exercises the Music
Hall in New York City.
1894:
Leopold Minzesheimer continued to serve as the Superintendent of the Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York.
1894:
Herman Baar continues to serve as the Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum. The officers are Emanuel Lehman,
President and Henry Rice, Vice President.
The trustees are Morris Tuska, Nathan Necarsulmer, Julian Nathan, Myer
Stern, H.S. Allen, Theodore Seligman and S. J. Bach.
1894:
It was reported that the daughter-in-law of Moses Levy, had obtained a judgment
of $12,000 after suing him “for alienating the affections of her husband.
1895:
In Cincinnati, OH, Rabbi Simon Isaac Finkelstein, the Lithuanian born son of
“of Judah Tsvi Finkelstein and Feyge Rive Finkelstein” and Hannah Basha
Finkelstin gave birth to CCNY and Columbia educated JTS ordained rabbi Louis
Eliezer Finkelstein, the husband of Carmel Bentwich and starting in 1919, the
leader of Congregation Kehilath Israel who was also an instructor in Talmud at
JTS, vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly and the author of “Jewish
Self-Government in the Middle Ages.”
1896:
Based on information that first appeared in the London Chronicle it was reported today that fortune of the late
Baron Hirsch will eventually be inherited by an unnamed “little Roman Catholic
girl” who has been recognized of the heir of Lucien de Hirsch, the Baron’s son
who predeceased his father.
1896:
Louis Michael filed a response in the Chancery Court at Paterson, NJ in which
the Jewish husband is being sued for divorce by his Christian wife.
1896:
In St. Louis, during a dispute at the Republican National Convention, Edward
Lauterbach the Chairman of the Republican New York County Committee was taunted
because of his “Hebrew descent.”
1897(14th
of Sivan, 5657):When the British steamship Scot arrived at the Island of
Madeira off the west coast of Morocco, it was announced that Barney Barnato,
the South African “diamond king” had committed suicide by jumping overboard.
His body would be recovered and buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, London
amidst protestation that he had not taken his own life.
1897:
A fire broke out at the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island which had
been in use since January 1, 1892.
1897(14th
of Sivan, 5657)
1897:
“Hebrew Free Schools Confirmation” published today described the annual
confirmation exercises at which Albert F. Hochstadter, President of the Hebrew
Free School Association awarded the Freida Schiff Prize, The Linette
Friedlander Prize, The Myer S. Isaacs Prize and the Clarence Korn Memorial each
of which carried a fifty-dollar prize.
1898:
The government has dispatched troops to Lemberg in response to anti-Semitic
riots.
1898:
Abraham and Grace Cahan gave birth to Morris Cahan, the “husband of Lillian
Cahan” today.
1898:
Morris I. Schamberg, D.D.S, M.D. today “enlisted as a private in Co. D, 1st
Pennsylvania Infantry.
1898:
After day after her death, 32-year-old Rachel Koenigsberg, “the wife of Jacob
Moses Reese” with whom she had two children, was buried today at the “West Ham
Jewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road”
1899:
“Mr. Dunlop Before the Mayor” published today described a meeting between New
York Mayor Van Wyck and Wilson W. Dunlop who is a missionary aggressively
trying to convert Jews on the Lower East Side to Christianity. When Dunlop
complained that he had been attacked while preaching in the street the Mayor
said “You have been using the streets for a crusade against the Jewish religion
and you musn’t do it anymore. This is a
free country and you can make a fight against any religion you choose but you
can’t do it in the streets. If you want
to conduct a crusade against the Jews go and hire a hall.”
1900:
Hawaii was organized as a territory of the United States. There were
approximately four hundred Jews living in Honolulu at this time. A German Jew named Paul Neumann had served
as an advisor to the last King of Hawaii.
In 1899, the first Jew born in Hawaii was married in Honolulu. The first synagogue would be established in
1901.
1901(27th
of Sivan, 5661): Frederick Knefler passed away. A native of Hungary, Knefler
settled in Indiana where he worked as a carpenter before becoming a
lawyer. When the Civil War broke out,
Knefler enlisted in the 11th Indiana Infantry under the command of
his friend Lew Wallace. He served with the Union Army in the west fighting in a
series of battles including Stones River, Chickamauga, and Missionary
Ridge. He then played a leading role in
Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign where he commanded a brigade. His finest moment may have come at the Battle
of Franklin where is bravery earned him the rank of Brevet Brigadier General
making him one of the highest-ranking Jewish officers to serve during the war.
After the war, he returned to Indianapolis where he practiced law, worked for
the government and devoted his spare time to veterans’ affairs.
1902(9th
of Sivan, 5662): Parashat Nasso
1902:
Jesus the Jew, Other Addresses by Dr. Harris Weinstock of Sacramento, CA
which presents “ a discussion of the relations to the Jews to the Gentile
world” and in which “the author writing from the standpoint of a Jew, advocates
the newer and more liberal views that are coming to the front by reason of
which the ‘middle wall of partition’ that has until now kep the Jew isolated
from the rest of mankind is swiftly crumbling to pieces” was published today.
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Jew-addresses-Harris-Weinstock/dp/B0056WIQ7Q
1902:
Birthdate of Chicago native and George Washington University graduate Samuel
Mayer Dodek, the Jefferson Medical College and Case Western University Reserve
trained obstetrician and gynecologist and husband of Miriam Dodek with whom he
had two daughters – Samayla and Mariamne.
1903:
Today twenty-three-year-old John Marshall Law School trained attorney Barnett
Ellis Marks, the Russian born son of Isaac and Jennie Marks Samson married
Freeda Lewis after which he settled in Phoenix, AZ where he served as legal
adviser to the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County and a member of the
board of directors of Congregation Beth Israel.
1903:
Macedonians attacked the Jewish quarter of Sophia, Bulgaria.
1903:
In Colchester, CT, a group of young Jews met at the home of the Nahinsky family
where they “organized a society under the name of the Colchester Zionists and
elected officers including Leon Broder, President; Louis Cohen, Vice President;
Esther Nahinsky, Second Vice President and David Nahinsky, Sergeant at Arms.
1904(1st
of Tammuz, 5664): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1904:
Birthdate of Margaret Bourke-White, whose father was from an Orthodox Jewish
family and whose mother was Irish. For
those who grew up in a world of hand-held video cams, satellite communications
and cable network news, it is hard to appreciate the important role-played
photographers and photo-journalists like Bourke-White. Her photos filled the pages of such
publications as Life Magazine, which
brought the world of natural disasters, war and high fashion to Middle America
http://time.com/4355162/margaret-bourke-white-cameras/
1904:
In St. Louis, MO, Sadie Simon and Harry C. Bren gave birth to movie producer
Milton Harold Bren, the movie producer whose most famous work was the
light-hearted comedy “Topper.”
1905:
Sailors aboard the Russian Warship Potemkin mutiny. These events will provide the material for Battleship Potyomkin, a 1925
silent film classic directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
1905(11th
of Sivan 5665): Seventy-eight-year-old lawyer and government official Moritz Ellstätter, the son of David
Ellstaetter and Fanny Ellstaetter and husband of Marie Ellstaetter passed away today in Baden
Wurttemberg, Germany
1906(21st
of Sivan, 5666): Sixty-four-year-old Heinrich Alphons Strauss, the son of
Samuel Strauss and Rosalia Drucker and the brother of English MP Arthur Strauss
passed away today.
1906:
Start of three days of anti-Jewish violence known as the Bialystok Pogrom. The
violence began when “two Christian processions took place; a Catholic one
through the market square celebrating Corpus Christi and an Orthodox one
through Białystok’s New Town celebrating the founding of a cathedral. The
Orthodox procession was followed by a unit of soldiers. A bomb was thrown at
the Catholic procession and shots were fired at the Orthodox procession. A
watchman of a local school, Stanislaw Milyusski, and three women Anna Demidyuk,
Aleksandra Minkovskaya and Maria Kommisaryuk were wounded. These incidents
constituted signals for the beginning of the pogrom. Witnesses reported that
simultaneously with the shots someone shouted, “Beat the Jews!” Once the shots
were fired, the violence began immediately. Mobs of thugs, including members of
the Black Hundreds, began looting Jewish owned stores and apartments on
Nova-Linsk Street. Policemen and soldiers who had earlier followed the Orthodox
procession either allowed the violence to happen or participated in it
themselves. The first day of the pogrom was chaotic. While units of the Czarist
army, brought to Białystok by Russian authorities, exchanged fire with Jewish
paramilitary groups, thugs armed with knives and crowbars dispersed throughout
the main areas of the city to continue the pogrom.[10] Some Jewish sections of
the city were protected by self-defense units, usually organized by the labor
parties, which moved against the thugs and looters. They were in turn fired
upon by Czarist dragoons. Thanks to the Jewish self-defense units several
working class sections of the city were spared the violence and thousands of
lives were saved.”
1907:
Jacob Weinberger married Blanche Solomon.
Blanche was the daughter of I.E. and Anna Solomon one of the earliest
and most successful Jewish families to settle in the Arizona Territory
1908:
Charles Dickinson was arrested today after trying to unsuccessfully trying
reach the roof garden of Hammerstein’s Victoria Musical.
1908:
It was reported today that “Nathan Straus of New York has opened…an exhibition
of models his milk pasteruing appartauts” “at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin.”
1909:
The Order of Brith Abraham held its Golden Jubilee dinner at the New Star
Casino in New York. The dinner was
attended by 2,000 guests including several notables the most important of which
was the District Attorney Jerome who was the featured speaker for the evening.
1909:
Rabbi Judah Magnes addressed the Zionist convention being held at the Terrace
Garden. Pointing to the changes that had come about in the Ottoman Empire due
to the recent Turkish revolution Magnes urged the Jews to “work for an
autonomous state under Turkish suzerainty rather than an independent
government.”
1910(7th
of Sivan, 5670): Second Day of Shavuot
1910:
“Made Insane by Expulsion” published today reported that “the expulsion of Jews
from Keiff is attended with many pathetic incidents.”
1911:
In Glasgow, Emanuel “Manny” Shinwell “played a prominent role in the six-week
strike” by the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union which was part of
nationwide strike.
1912:
Educator and advocate for social change, Julia Richman arrives in France
following an ocean crossing on the Victoria Louise and is taken to the American
hospital where she was immediately operated on for appendicitis.
1912:
“Forty-nine Zionists” in Vnnitza, Russia, were each fined twenty rubles for
attending a Zionist meeting.
1912:
In Russia, “three hundred Jewish families were expelled from Lask.”
1912:
In Kiev, the police demanded the “power to confiscate without a trial the
property of Jewish merchants…”
1912:
A clause in the Judicial Bill that would have permitted Jews to be selected as
Justices of the Peace was defeated today in the Duma.
1913:
President Wilson’s Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, met for thirty
minutes with “Nahum Sokolov, a member of the Zionist Inner Actions Committee,
Louis Lipsky, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Federation of
American Zionists and Abram Goldberg, the editor of Dos Yiddishe Folk, at which
time he “expressed his great interest in the work the Jews were doing for the
development of Palestine” and “said that the endeavors of the Jewish people to
better their condition by their own efforts had his sympathy and moral
support.”
1913:
Birthdate of Solomon Schwartz, the native of Whitechapel, England who gained
fame as composer and conductor Stanley Black
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1414500/Stanley-Black.html
1914:
“The Fourth Annual Children’s Spring Festival of the Chicago Hebrew Institute”
which “will consist mostly of high class and artistic dancing coach by the children’s
leaders themselves” is scheduled to be held this afternoon.
1914(20th
of Sivan, 5674): Seventy-eight-year-old Seattle, WA merchant Henry Greenbaum
passed away today.
1915:
It was reported today that following the Zeppelin bombing raid on London, “two
shops owned by Russian Jews were attacked…in the belief that the owners were
Jewish.”
1915:
Attorney Frank representing Leo Frank and Solicitor Dorsey representing the
state of Georgia are expected to make their final arguments when Governor
Slaton resumes “the Frank hearing at 9 o’clock this morning.”
1915:
Due to the fact that he had to leave Atlanta at eight o’clock tonight so he
could deliver the commencement address at the University of Georgia in Athens
so at six o’clock this evening Governor Slaton adjourned the Leo Frank clemency
hearing promising to resume the day after tomorrow.
1915:
“When a series of letters exchanged by Senor Juan Riano, the Spanish Ambassador
to the United States” on the one hand and “Louis Friedman of New York and Oscar
S. Straus” on the other “were made available for publication” today it became
known that “after being closed for hundreds of years the doors of Spain have
been thrown open to the Jews’ and that it is expected that “in a short time,
thousands of Jews now living in the Balkans and the war-stricken area will
respond to the official welcome and return to Madrid.”
1916:
Birthdate of Yale football player Albert “Al” Hessberg II the first Jewish
member of the Skull and Bones and a long-time practicing attorney in Albany.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/26/obituaries/albert-hessberg-2d-albany-lawyer-78.html
1916:
Twenty-four-year-old University of Buffalo trained attorney A. Howard Aaron,
the Buffalo born son of Nathan Esther (Freedman) Aaron who was a member of the
Jewish Federation for Service in Buffalo married Arline Schwartz today in
Buffalo.
1916:
Samuel Utermeyer attended the Democratic National Convention which opened today
as a delegate from New York.
1916:
“The Board of Directors of the Board of Directors of the Young Men’s Hebrew
Association of the Bronx unanimously adopted a resolution” today “urging Jacob
Schiff to reconsider his intention of retiring from leadership in Jewish
affairs and assuring him of the esteem and affection in which the overwhelming
mass of Jews held him.”
1917(24th
of Sivan, 5677): Solomon Canter passed away today in New York City.
1917:
Biochemist and holder of a Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania Harry Ennis
Dubin, the Russian born son , Fanny Gold and Abraham M. Dubin whose works
included Physiology of Phenols married Estelle Amy Schacht today.
1917:
It was reported today that the delegates at the “Zionist Convention which is
now being held in Petrograd “ “hailed President Wilson” as the friend of human
freedom and the regeneration of the Jewish people” and declared their
“gratitude to former Ambassador Morgenthau for his tireless efforts on behalf
of the Jewish population in Palestine.”
1918:
A list of the bequests made by the late Anna Shane published today includes
$100 to the Jewish Sheltering Home in Philadelphia and Congregation Rodeph
Shalom of Atlantic City; $50 each to the Central Talmud Torah of Philadelphia,
the Hebrew Orphans’ Home of Philadelphia and the Jewish Ladies’ Relief Society
of Camden, NJ; and $25 each the Jewish Consumptives’ Institute of Philadelphia
and the Talmud Torah of Atlantic City, NJ.
1918:
The list of those representing the Camden (NJ) Hebrew Republican Club at the
State League of Republican Clubs’ Convention published today included Israel
Weitzman, Human Bloom, and Joseph Varbalaw who will follow the lead of the
President, Benjamin Natal.
1918:
In Rome, “the Council of the Jewish Community” thanked “the government for
endorsing the British declaration on Palestine.”
1919:
In Chicago, Illinois, “Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Nikolayev, tailor
Maurice Wattenmacker (Manus Watmakher) and his wife Molly (Bobele) gave birth
to Samuel Watenmaker who gained fame as actor and director Samuel Wanamker,
“the father of actress Zoe Wanamaker.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/obituaries/sam-wanamaker-actor-74-who-led-new-globe-theater.html
1919:
In New York City, “Meyer and Tillie (Lapidus) Dworkis” gave birth to University
of Michigan graduate and NYU PhD Martin Bernard Dworkis, the USAA World War II veteran
and husband of Ida Levine whose academic career was capped off by serving as
the first president of Manhattan College starting in 1964.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/08/21/101563141.pdf
1919: Birthdate of Eugene Klass, the Brooklyn
native better known as Gene Barry who
went on to a long, commercially successful career in film and television. He often played suave, sophisticated types
whose voices never betrayed even a bit of Brooklyn. Barry played a starring role in the 1950’s
version of War of the Worlds as well
as the title role in the television western series “Bat Masterson.”
1920: Birthdate of Dr. Arnall Patzin an ophthalmologist whose research upset
medical convention but ended up saving countless babies from blindness. He
was born in rural Elberton, Ga., the youngest of seven children. His father, an
immigrant from Lithuania, was a peddler who insisted on maintaining Jewish
customs in Elberton, where his was the only Jewish family. He passed away in
2010 at the age of 89.
1920: Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein
and Congressman Isaac Siegel are scheduled to address those attending this
evening celebration of Flag Day at the Institutional Synagogue.
1921: During a speech in the House of Commons,
Winston Churchill, who had just returned from a visit to the Middle East,
praises the accomplishments of the Zionist settlers and describes how the Arabs
have benefited from their efforts. He
denounced as “disgraceful” any action of the British government that would such
progress to “fanatical attacks” by outsiders.
1921:
During a debate on Palestine, Lord Winterton “warned Churchill that once
you begin to buy land for the purpose of settling Jewish cultivators you will
find yourself up against the hereditary antipathy which exists all over world
to the Jewish race.” It would seem that from the earliest days, there was a
direct connection between being anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic.
1922: On
the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Romanian immigrants Joseph and Eva Barris
gave birth the youngest of their nine children – photographer George Barris.
http://www.georgebarrisphotos.com/
1923: Louis I. Newman, who was born in 1893 and
who wrote “The Voice of God” married Lucile Helene Uhry today with he had three
children Jeremy Uhry Newman, Jonathan Uhry Newman, and Daniel Uhry Newman.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.447616032021695.1073741829.318795741570392&type=3
1923: In Berlin, German theatre critic Alfred
Kerr and his wife Julia gave birth to Anne Judith Kerr who arrived in London
with her family in 1935 where she became an author and illustrator.
1924(12th of Sivan, 5684): Parashat
Naso
1924: It was reported today that Controller
Craig has made public a letter to Richard Seidenberg “testifying to his
admiration of persons of German and Jewish ancestry and regrettubg that
anything he might have said had implied to the contrary.”
1925: Birthdate of Serge Moscovici a Romanian
born Jew who survived the Holocaust escaped from his native country following
the Communist takeover and settled in France where, among other things he
founded the “European Laboratory of Social Psychology.”
1925: Birthdate of New Orleanian Henry
Thalsheimer.
1927: In Brooklyn accountant Nathan Lazar and
his wife, the former Rita Tannenbaum, gave birth to entertainment lawyer
Seymour Lazar.
1926: It was learned today in Jerusalem that
about “500 professors of American universities will visit Palestine in February
of 1927.”
1927: Flag Day celebrated today commemorates
the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the design for the American
flag by Congress. On the previous
Shabbat, in response to a resolution adopted by the Synagogue Council of
America, rabbis devoted their sermons to this topic.
1929: Birthdate of Seymour Kaufman who gained
fame as Cy Coleman the Tony Award winning composer and pianist.
1929(6th of Sivan, 5689): Shavuot is
observed for the first time during the Presidency of Herbert Hoover.
1930(18th of Sivan, 5690): Parashat
Beha’alotcha
1930: “A plea for more generous support for the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations and for ten regional rabbis was made” in
Atlantic City “this evening by Ludwig Vogelstein of New York at a meeting of
the executive board of the union, of which he is chairman.”
1930: The annual convention of the Council of
Young Israel is scheduled to continue for a second day at the Hotel Scarboro in
Long Branch, NJ.
1931: Meir Shapiro “was appointed Rav of Lublin
in the old synagogue of the Maharshal.”
1931: Twenty-six-year-old Louis J. Lefkowitz,
the future Attorney General for the State of New York married Helen Schwimmer
with whom he had two children – Stephen Lefkowitz and a daughter, Joan
Lefkowitz Feinbloom.
1931: Deadline for submitting results of
delegate election to the Executive of the Jewish Agency which is making plans
for the Seventeenth Zionist Congress.
1932: Almost nine years to the day after
earning his B.A. at Johns Hopikins and three years to the day after earning his
Doctor of Divinity Degree from HUC,Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberg married Ethel “Pat”
Kraus with whom had two sons: Henry, who was ordained as a rabbi in 1961 at the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and David, who wrote four
textbooks for Jewish religious schools while pursuing a career as an opera
producer/director.”
1933(20th of Sivan, 5693):
Seventy-seven year old Ukrainian native Isaac Piroshnikof, “the founder of the
Warsaw Conservatory” and “military bandleader at Vilna” who in 1912 came to the
United States where “he organized the Workmen’s Circle chorus…and several children’s
choruses” passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1933/06/16/archive/isaac-piroshnikoff-dies-popular-concertina-artist
1934(1st of Tammuz, 5694): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1934: A Nuremberg court sentenced a non-Jewish
wife of a Jew to four months in prison as a ‘race-defiling female.’
1934: Hitler met with Mussolini for the first
time. Hitler was the junior partner at
this first meeting. As the thirties
progressed the roles would be reversed and Mussolini would shift his policies
to satisfy the Nazi dictator.
1934: With a Star of David on his boxing
shorts, Max Baer KO’d Primo Carnera in 11rounds to win the World Heavyweight
Championship. However, Baer’s Jewish persona was considered to be more of a box
office thing than a religious reality. Born in 1909 in Nebraska, his mother was
Scotch-Irish and his father was described as “only nominally Jewish.”
Baer himself married a Catholic and did not take part in Jewish activities.
1935: In the Bronx, Louis and Bess Gornikc gave
birth to American author Vivian Gornick who “was the Bedell Distinguished
Visiting Professor in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa” and whose latest
work is The Odd Woman and the City.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian
1935: In Paris, Jacques Schiffrin “a Russian
Jew who had emigrated to France where he worked as publisher and his wife gave
birth author/editor Andre Schiffrin the Yale University graduate whose life
story can be found in his 2007 autobiography A Political Education: Coming
of Age in Paris and New York.
1935: Today, Warsaw born pianist, composer and music
teacher, Isidor Acrhon, the young brother of violinist and composer Joseph
Achron married Helsinki native Lea Karina, “a mezzo-soprano who made her
singing debut with the Helsingfors Symphony Orchestra in 1931 under the baton
of Jean Sibelius.”
1936(24th of Sivan, 5696): Seventy-eight-year-old
Paducah, KY native Marcus “Marc” Alonzo Klaw, the son of Jewish immigrants
from Germany and the 1879 graduate of Louisville Law School who moved to NYC
and went from serving as the legal advisor for theatre executive Gustave
Frohman to being a partner of A.L. “Abe” Erlanger in Klaw and Erlanger, the
leading theatrical booking agency passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/06/15/93521692.pdf
1936: Birthdate of Avraham Shochat, the Tel
Aviv native, who helped found the city Arad and has served as an MK and held
several cabinet posts.
1936: A letter to the editor written by William
Ernest Hocking, the Harvard professor whose writings fall somewhere between
genteel anti-Semitism and Pro-Arab, published today, said erroneously that
Palestine was the shape and size of New Hampshire, that it is “a barren land
lacking in rainfall” and that the “settling of the Jews on land in Palestine
has pressed the Arabs into the poorer parts of the land.
1936: In Washington, DC, the American Jewish
Congress, “which is acting as the organizing agency for the World Jewish
Congress” continued for a second day.
1936: “Disorders marked a ceremony by the
nationalist war veterans’ organization, the Croix de Feu, to in honor of the
Jewish World Ward dead at a Paris synagogue.”
1936: “Colonel Francois de la Rocque, leader of
the semi-Fascist organization was hooted by members of the League Against
Anti-Semitism as he entered his car” and his followers fought with “the hooters
until the policemen arrived.”
1936: The Palestine Post reported that once more the Jezreel Valley
settlements of Kfar Yehezkel and Tel Yosef were singled out for concentrated
Arab attacks. The settlement of Sejera in Lower Galilee suffered its stormiest
night ‚ grain and cornfields were set on fire and over 250 old olive trees were
cut down. After all Arab train passengers left a train at Kalkilya, a bomb
thrown inside one of the coaches injured 18 Jews near Tulkarm.
1936: In attacks in and around Jerusalem today
Arabs wounded five Jewish truck and bus drivers as well as an additional number
of and workers, two of whom are in a serious condition. Only recently, in the
same vicinity, Jewish travelers were killed in similar attacks.
1937: At the thirty-second annual convention of
the Independent B’rith Sholom, a “Jewish fraternal order with 18,000 members in
twenty-two states,” the delegates called on President Roosevelt and Secretary
of State Cordell Hull “ to intercede” with Polish government to put an end to
the ostracism of the Jews and the pogroms that were taking place. (Editor’s
note: Yes, this is inter-war Poland
where anti-Semitism was rife and helps to explain why the Shoah was so successful
in that country.)
1937: Chaim Weizmann wrote to Winston Churchill
thanking him for the support he had given to Zionist cause by trying to
convince Colonial Secretary William Ormsby-Gore that the Southern part of
Palestine should not be incorporated into any future Arab state that would be
set up in Palestine.
1938: All Jewish
businesses that have not already been registered and marked must now comply
with the Reich requirement.
1939: At that the same day that Flag Day was
being observed in Baltimore public schools, “the Congressional Committee on
Un-American Activities announced plans to investigate the branding of 14-year-old
Melvin Bridge, a Jewish student at Gwynn’s Falls Junior High School” who said
that he was attacked by “forty youths with swastikas inked on their arms” who
“cut the letter ‘H’ on his neck.”
1940:
Over two hundred papers throughout the United carried a full page ad for Flag
Day co-sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans.
1940:
Four Son” a movie set in Czechoslovakia after the Nazi conquest featuring
Ludwig Stossel was released today in the United States today.
1940:
Auschwitz was opened. Approximately 2.5 million people were killed and another
500,000 died of starvation and disease there. The first inmates, included
teachers, priests, and other non-Jewish Poles,
1940:
Artist Jan Komskiwas in the first group of about 750 prisoners assigned to
Auschwitz, in southern Poland, on the day it opened. His number, 564, was
tattooed on his forearm.
1940(8th
of Sivan, 5700): Forty-year-old Dr. David Perla, the “associate pathologist and
immunologist at Montefiore Hospital since 1927” who developed “a method for the
prevention and treatment of surgical shock” and who along with his wife
published “The Spleen and Its Relation to Resistance” died of a heart attack
today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/06/15/112741730.pdf
1940:
German Forces entered Paris. At the time France housed 300,000 Jews. Ernst
Weiss, noted novelist and German-Jewish refugee who was living in Paris committed
suicide.
1940:
In Paris, Gestapo officers went to the flat of Walter Benjamin with the intent
of arresting the expatriate German intellectual. They failed because Benjamin and his sister
had already left Paris for Lurdes.
1941:
Etty Hillesum, a student at Amsterdam University described the treatment of
Dutch Jews by the Nazis. “More arrests,
more terror, concentration camps, the arbitrary dragging of fathers, sisters,
brothers. Everything seems so menacing
and ominous, and always that feel of total impotence.”
1941:
As the Final Solution came into full fury, 400 Jews were deported from Estonia.
1941:
In the Netherlands, based on a decree by the German occupiers, today was the
last day on which doctorate degrees could be issued to Jews. Physicist Albert Pais, who had completed his
doctoral work on June 9, was the last Jew to earn a doctorate in the
Netherlands until World War II came to an end.
1942: Anne Frank begins to keep a diary
1942: Two thousand Jews break out of Dzisna,
Byelorussia.
1942:
Fifty-eight-year-old Austrian author Else Feldman “was captured by the Gestapo”
today “and sent to Sobibór where she was
murdered.
1943:
“The Belgian Government in exile said today that the Germans had removed nearly
all 52,000 Belgian Jews to concentration camps in Germany, Poland and Russia.”
1943:
Demonstrations were held today throughout Palestine and all adult Jews were
asked to sign a petition to the United Nations for the rescue of hundreds of thousands of persons in Europe.
1944: Two thousand Jews are deported from
Corfu, Greece, to Auschwitz.
1944(23rd of Sivan, 5704): Leon Sakkis was
killed by German machine-gun fire while aiding a wounded comrade in Thessaly,
Greece. Sakkis was part of a group of Jewish resistance fighters, who along
with other partisans were working to keep the Germans from enjoying the “fruits”
of the harvest taking place in Greece.
1945:
“War Comes to America” is the seventh and final film in the Why We Fight World
War co-directed by Antaloe Litvak, with a script co-authored by Julius J.
Epstein and Philip G. Epstein and music by Dimitri Tiomkin was released today.
1945:
In London, Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s son, tells Chaim Weizman
that he ‘had tried to save 115 Jews in Yugoslavia; he has save 112, but 3 had
perished.’ In 1944 Randolph Churchill had parachuted behind German lines to
worth Marshall Tito and his Yugoslav partisans in the fight against the
Nazis. As part of that mission, young
Randolph worked to have Palestinian Jews parachuted into Europe to help the
partisans and to try and rescue the Jews who had not gone to the Death
Camps.
1946:
In Paris, Jean and Jeanne Madeline (née Depierre) Louis-Dreyfus gave birth to
Robert Louis Drefyus a great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of the
Louis-Dreyfus Group who became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Adidas-Salomon
and Saatchi & Saatchi.
1946:
Bernard Baruch – widely seen by many scientists and some members of Truman’s
administration as unqualified for the task – presented his Baruch Plan, a
modified version of the Acheson-Lilienthal plan, to the UNAEC, which proposed
international control of then-new atomic energy. The Soviet Union rejected
Baruch’s proposal as unfair given the fact that the U.S. already had nuclear
weapons, instead proposing that the U.S. eliminate its nuclear weapons before a
system of controls and inspections was implemented. A stalemate ensued.
1947(26th
of Sivan, 5707): Parashat Sh’lach
1947:
It was reported today “that 9,000 Jews came to Palestine during the past six
months.”
1947:
The Joint Distribution Committee announced today that it was sending a four man
psychiatric team headed by Dr. Paul Friedman to Cyrus to help develop a mental
health program for the detainees there’re, most, if not all, of whom are
Jewish.
1948(7th
of Sivan, 5708): Second Day of Shavuot
1948:
“The trial of the fifty-seven persons accused of the complicity in the massacre
of more than 800 Jews in Jassy in June of 1941 began today.”
1948:
The Paris representiatives of the Government of Israel issued a statement that
“urged the public to be on guard against statements destined to create the
impression that the Israeli Government is not respecting the Palestine truce.”
1948:
As Arab armies continue their attempt to destroy the state of Israel, “it was
announced today” that “the Arab League has protested to the United Nations
truce control organization against the immigration of ‘several hundred Jews of
military age’ to Palestine.”
1949:
Tonight at New York International Airport, “Joseph Levy, owner of the McAlpin
Hotel” left for Israel where he will “supervise the construction of a modern
office building in Tel Aviv” which marks “the first American sponsored project
of its kind in Israel.”
1949:
In Cape Town South, Lithuanian Jews Margery (Abramowitz) and Emmanuel Sher gave
birth to “Sir Antony Sher KBE a British actor, writer and theatre director of
South African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a four-time
nominee, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many
roles, as well as appearing on film and television. In 2001, he starred in his
cousin Ronald Harwood’s play Mahler’s Conversion, and said that the story of a
composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity
struggles.”
1949:
It was reported today that delegates at the annual convention of the
Independent Order of B’rith Abraham voted in favor of constructing a
“rehabilitation hospital in Tel Aviv as a memorial to Colonel David Marcus who
was killed on June 10, 1948.”
1950:
The Dumont TV network broadcast the final 15 minute version of “Easy Aces.”
1950:
An Israeli army spokesman denied Jordanian charges that Arabs who had
infiltrated Israel “had been mistreated while being returned across the
frontier” to Jordan. What the Jordanians
have not explained is why the Hashemites allow their Kingdom to be used as base
for those who want to enter Israel with the intention to attack the Jewish
population.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Mapai won eight of
11 seats in Migdal Gad’s first municipal council elections. Hapoel Hamizrahi
won two and Mapam one. While there were 1,973 eligible voters, only 1,543
actually voted. Nine additional clothing points and 11 shoe points were
released for the month of July. The Kaiser-Frazer plant in Haifa which was
hailed as a model of American production efficiency assembled the first cars
for sale in Israel.
1951: In Albuquerque, NM, premiere of “Ace in the Hole” directed,
produced and written by Billy Wilder.
1952: Birthdate of Leon Wieseltier, editor of The New Republic and the author of “Kaddish” one of the finest
books of its kind which Theodore Bikel did a marvelous job of recording.
1952:
The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. This was a major milestone in the creation of
America’s ace-in-the-hole in the Cold War – the fleet of nuclear attack
submarines against which the Soviets never did develop an effective defense.
Admiral Hyman Rickover, who suffered his share of anti-Semitism in the Navy,
was the father of the nuclear Navy and the submarine fleet.
1953(1st
of Tammuz, 5713): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1953:
In Jaffa, two Polish born Holocaust survivors gave birth award winning actress
Hana Laszlo, the wife of “Israel media proprietor Aviv Giladi” with whom she
had two sons, Itamar and Ben, “film prouder that works for Len Blavatnik;s
Al-Film.
1953:
Herbert Aptheker was listed as a Sponsor of The National Committee to Secure
Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell
1953:
One hundred and eight bachelor’s degrees were awarded during the commencement
ceremony at Brandeis University. It was
the newly created school’s second commencement ceremony. Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, Professor of Talmud and
Rabbinics at JTS and George Alpert, Chairman of the Brandeis Board of Trustees
received honorary degrees during the ceremony.
1954: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a
bill into law that places the words “under God” to the United States’
Pledge of Allegiance. Despite its
apparent invocation of the divinity, this insertion did not evoke a storm of
protest in the name of separation of church and state. Everybody knew that this was a political
statement, not a religious one. At the
height of the Cold War, it was a line in the stand between the West and the
forces of “mindless, godless Communism.
1954(13th
of Sivan, 5714): In Shenandoah, VA, “education advocate, philanthropist, art
collector, and college trustee Margaret Seligman Lewisohn passed away today.
1955(24th
of Sivan, 5715): Seventy-two-year-old Eldon Spencer Lazarus, the son “of Henry
Lawrence Lazarus and Sarah Sallie E. Solomon,” the husband of Hilda Lazarus and
the father of “Virginia Lazarus who became Virginia Rich when she married
Richard H. Rich” and Eldon S. Spencer Lazarus, Jr. passed away today after
which he was buried at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, LA.
1956:
The “Catered Affair” directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Sam Zimbalist’
based on Paddy Chayefsky television play with music by Andre Previn was
released today in the United States
1957:
Birthdate of Leonard “Len” Blavatnik the “Russian-born American businessman”
who in 2015” was named Britain’s richest man with an estimated net worth of
£17.1 billion as of April 2015.”
1958:
Birthdate of Wafa Sultan a Syrian born American author and critic of Muslim
society and Islam who trained as a psychiatrist in Syria. Following one of her
critiques of Moslem culture in which she said “no Jew has blown himself up
in a German restaurant” the American Jewish Congress invited her to visit
Jerusalem.
1958:
In Hewlett Harbor, NY, textile manufacturer Reuben Geller and his life Lillian
gave birth to “political activist” Pamela Geller who is co-founder and
president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and co-author of The
Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America
1959:
David Joel Horowitz, the founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, married
Elissa Krauthamer in a Yonkers, NY synagogue.
1959:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held at Park Wester for Bernard “Barney”
Cohen, the husband of Miriam Cohen with whom he had three children – Rubin,
Yvette and Shirley.
1961(30th
of Sivan, 5721): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1961
(30th of Sivan, 5721): Eighty-three-year-old Harry Goodwin, “a
founder of Mother’s Food Products of Newark” passed away today in Montclair,
New Jersey.
1961:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Lea Bloom, a member and
past officer of the Highbridge Chapter of B’nai B’rith who was the wife of Morris Bloom and mother of Alfred
Bloom at “Park West.”
1962:
U.S. premiere of “That Touch of Mink” a comedy with a script co-authored by
Stanley Shapiro who also produced the film along with Martin Melcher.
1963(22nd
of Sivan, 5723): Fifty-nine-year-old actor and writer Alan K. Campbell who was
of “German-Jewish descent” and who was the husband of Dorothy Parker (Dorothy
Rothschild) passed away today after which he was buried “at Hebrew Cemetery in
Richmond, VA.”
http://dorothyparker.com/dorothy-parker-homes/los-angeles/west-hollywood-end
1964(4th
of Tammuz, 5724): Seventy-nine-year-old Samuel Zuckerman, the Moldavian born
son of Fannie and Benjamin Zuckerman the husband of Elizabeth Moore and the
father of Sidney and Herma Zuckerman passed away today in Los Angeles.
1964:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at the Weiss Memorial
for Archie Gould, the husband of Helen Gould with whom he raised two children,
Henry and Carol.
1965:
Chuck “Barris formed his production company Chuck Barris Productions” today.
1966:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon at “The Riverside” for
Rose Perry, the widow of Jerome Perry Z”L and the mother of June Levine and
Robert Perry who was an active member of the Temple Beth Sholom sisterhood.
1967(6th
of Sivan, 5727): First Day of Shavuot
1967(6th
of Sivan, 5727): On the First Day of Shavuot an estimated 200,000 gathered in
and around the Wall to celebrate the first major festival following the
reunification of Jerusalem. When Teddy
Kollek appeared at the Wall he was hailed “as the first Mayor of Greater
Jerusalem.”
1967:
A contingent of Mossad agents that had fanned out across the West Bank to meet
with members of the Palestinian elite immediately following the Six Day War
submitted their classified report to the head of Military Intelligence. It
argued that an independent Palestinian state should be established as quickly
as possible in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, “under the auspices” of
the Israel Defense Forces and “in agreement with the Palestinian
leadership.” They suggested that the borders of the Palestinian state be
based on the 1949 armistice lines that had served as the border until earlier
that month, with some minor adjustments. “In order to enable an honorable
agreement,” the document continued, Israel should “take upon itself
the initiative to solve the [refugee] problem once and for all” by
organizing an international effort to resettle them in the new Palestinian
state.
1968(18th
of Sivan, 5728): Seventy-year-old Forest Hills resident “Abraham Waldman, a lawyer
who specialized in Surrogates Court work”
passed away today in Queens.
1971:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon for Abe Gordon, the
husband of Fan Gordon, father of two doctors – Barbara and Gordon “and Board
Member of The Millinery Center Synagogue.
1972(2nd
of Tammuz, 5732): Eighty-eight-year-old New York native and CCNY graduate
Samuel Goldman, the husband of the former Jeanette Shalet and father of Dr.
Virgina Miles and Robert Grey who in 1952 retired “as principal of Public
School 16 in Brooklyn” passed away today in Flushing, Queens.
1972:
Martin Dies, former member of the House of Representatives from and Chairman of
the House Un-American Activities Committee passed away today. A man of
considerable influence in his day, Dies was a red- baiting reactionary who,
among other things, was an anti-Semite.
1974:
“One thousand, two hundred twenty-five Jews were reported today to have the
USSR during May 1974 “as compared to an average of 3,000 a month in 1973.”
1974:
“The Parallax View” directed by and produced by Alan J. Pakula was released in
the United States today.
1975:
“Lev Yagman, David Chernoglaz and Lassal Kaminsky, convicted in the 1971
Leningrad trial, were freed following completion of their five year sentences”
1975
The film “Calculated Risk” which had been; filmed in Moscow with the
participation of Anatoly Sharansky and Vladmir Slepak was screened in England
today.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Ephraim
Katzir became the first president of Israel to be entertained at the Windsor
Castle by Queen Elizabeth of England. A British naval vessel arrived in Haifa
to purchase provisions for the Royal Navy in the eastern Mediterranean. The British
military attaché told the Post that
“Haifa is a friendly port” and was therefore chosen. Such purchases
have not been made in Haifa in the past.
1977(28th
of Sivan, 5737): Sixty-nine-year-old actor Alan Reed, (Herbert Theodore
Bergman) whose career included appearances in such major films as “Breakfast at
Tiffany’s but is best known for being the voice of “Fred Flintstone” passed
away today in Los Angeles.
1978:
“I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road” produced by Joseph Papp
opened at the Public Theatre in New York.
1980(30th
of Sivan, 5740): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz; Parashat Korach
1980(30th
of Sivan, 5740): Seventy-six-year-old Rabbi and Biblical scholar Bernard Jacob
Bamberger, the graduate of Johns Hopkins and HUC, spiritual leader of New
York’s Congregation Shaaray Tefila and the husband of Ethel “Pat” Kraus
with whom he had two sons –Henry and Pat—passed away today.
http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6qv67zp
1980:
“About 90 American Jews, some of them prominent, issued a statement aligning
themselves with the Peace Now movement in Israel, which opposes the
Government’s policy of establishing further Jewish settlements in the occupied
West Bank territory.”
1982:
Israeli tanks cut off Muslim West Beirut, trapping leaders of the PLO, during
the Lebanese Civil War.
1985:
TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah.
Long before 9/11, Moslem fanatics were making war against the West. Supported by Iran, Hezbollah splits its time
between terrorist activities aimed at Israel, trying to control Lebanon and
making war against Western civilization.
1986(7th
of Sivan, 5746): Sixty-seven-year-old composer Alan Jay Lerner passed away. In
one of the many cultural ironies that are so much a part of the American scene,
Lerner composed with fellow Jew to write “Camelot,” a musical about English
king that became a Broadway and cinematic classic that was loved by JFK, the
first American Catholic President. (As reported by Samuel G. Freedman)
1986(7th
of Sivan, 5746): Second Day of Shavuot
1987:
Today, at the Sheraton Stamford Hotel Towers, Rabbi Elazar Cohen, a great-uncle
of the bridegroom, officiated at the wedding of Deborah Shira Lewis and David
Allen Isaac.
1987:
The annual International Israel Festival which began on May 18 is scheduled to
come to an end today.
1991:
Eighty-four-year-old artist Joy Finzi, the “found of the Finzi Trust, a
foundation named for her deceased husband, composer Gerald Finzi passed away
today.
1993:
President Bill Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be an associate justice
on the United States Supreme Court.
1995:
Today David John Pleat began managing the Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
1998:
“The Cable Guy,” directed by Ben Stiller, co-produced by Judd Apatow and co-starring George Segal was released today in the United States.
1998:
Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for the former Libby Polacheck,
the widow of Rabbi Israel Mowshowitz and the “daughter of Rabbi Solomon
Polachek, renowned head of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Academy of
Yeshiva University (”the Meitchiter Illui”),”
1997(9th
of Sivan, 5757): Seventy-seven-year-old
Jay Ziskin, the California psychologist and lawyer who was the father of movie
producer Laura Ziskin passed away
1998:
Yad Vashem recognized Sofka Skipwith as Righteous Among the Nations.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/skipwith.asp
1998: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including “Ghost Country” by Sara Paretsky
1999(30th of Sivan,
5769): Ninety-seven-year-old pediatrician and Harvard Professor Dr. Louis
Diamond and father of author Jared Diamond passed away today.(As reported by
Nick Ravo)
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/25/us/louis-diamond-97-a-pediatrics-legend-dies.html
https://fa.hms.harvard.edu/files/hmsofa/files/memorialminute_diamond_louis_k.pdf
2000: “Pushing its habitual
brinkmanship to the latest brink, the Shas Party said today that its ministers
would quit the Israeli governing coalition at the next cabinet meeting on order
from its rabbis.” (As reported by Deborah Sontag)
2001: “Palestinians and Israelis
began the delicate search today for ways to carry out the American-brokered
agreement reached earlier in the day to extend the truce that has reduced
Middle East violence during the last 12 days.” (As reported by Douglas Frantz)
2002: “The Bourne Identity” a
thriller directed and co-produced by Doug Liman and filmed by cinematographer
Saar Klein was released today.
2003(14th of Sivan,
5763): Parashat Nasso
2003(14th of Sivan,
5763): Fifty-seven-year-old University of Pennsylvania trained attorney, real
estate investor and philanthropist, Paul Bernbach, the son advertising great
William Bernbach and the father of Thérèse Berbach with who he raised three
children – Elizabeth, Sarah and Mathew – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/nyregion/paul-bernbach-57-investor-and-art-patron.html
2003: At the Piccadilly Theatre,
the curtain comes down on the West End production Ragtime, a musical based on
the E.L.Doctorow of novel of the same name produced by Sonia Freeman, starring
Maria Friedman “in the role of Mother for which she won the 2004 Olivier Award
for Best Actress in a Musical (The Freemans are sisters, the daughters of
Russian born, English violinist Leonard Friedman.
2004(25th
of Sivan, 5764): Max J. Rosenberg, “an American film producer, whose film
career stretched across six decades” passed away in Los Angeles at the age of
89. “He was particularly noted for his
horror or supernatural films and found much of his success while working in
England. Rosenberg was born in the Bronx, New York. In 1945 he entered the film
business by becoming a foreign film distributor. Although he primarily produced
horror or supernatural films, his first film Rock, Rock, Rock (1956) was a
musical. His partner in this film was Milton Subotsky, and the two would start
the British company Amicus Productions in 1964. During his career he produced
more than 50 films, on some of which he was not credited. Among the horror and
supernatural films he produced were such titles as Tales from the Crypt (1972),
The Land That Time Forgot (1975), and its sequel, The People That Time Forgot
(1977). In 1957 he produced the first horror film in color, The Curse of
Frankenstein. Rosenberg also produced a children’s film, Lad, a Dog (1962), a
pair of films based on the Doctor Who series, and director Richard Lester’s
first film, It’s Trad, Dad! (1962). He was particularly proud to have produced
the 1968 film of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, starring Robert Shaw and
directed by William Friedkin. He worked well into his 80s; his final film
credit was 1997’s Perdita Durango aka Dance With the Devil.
http://www.ducts.org/12_06/html/profiles/evanier.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/max-rosenberg-38700.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/17/local/me-rosenberg17
2005(7th
of Sivan, 5765): Second Day of Shavuot
2005:
It was reported today that Lawrence A. Franklin, “a former Pentagon analyst”
has been indicted by a federal grand jury that has charged “him with disclosing
classified information to an Israeli official, including intelligence about a
weapons test related to Iran’s nuclear program.”
2006:
Leaders of the largest Orthodox rabbinical organization in the U.S. have
reached a compromise regarding overseas conversions with Chief Rabbi Shlomo
Amar.
2006:
ABC broadcast the final episode of “Commander in Chief,” created by Rod Lurie
and produced by Steve Bocho.
2007(28th
of Sivan, 5767): Shirlee Mages, whose father owned a thriving Roosevelt Road
restaurant in the 1930s and ’40s and whose husband put his name on a sporting
goods chain, died today at the age 88
“in her Gold Coast home of natural causes, said her daughter, Lili Ann Zisook.
Mrs. Mages was the widow of Morrie Mages, a 1950s Chicago television staple who
was often in the company of the late broadcaster Jack Brickhouse touting his
sporting-goods stores through the sponsorship of a late-night movie called
“Mages Playhouse.” Morrie Mages and his family had a chain of 14
stores in the 1960s, but the business ran into hard times and was sold. That
led Mrs. Mages to take a job managing the Pompian Shop, a ladies boutique on
Michigan Avenue, her daughter said. “My mother was just a woman who did
what she had to do,” Zisook said. Morrie Mages subsequently rebounded with
a smaller chain, anchored by a store at LaSalle and Ontario Streets. He died in
1988 at 72. Mrs. Mages, born Shirlee Gold, grew up in the Lawndale neighborhood.
Her father, Meyer, owned Gold’s Restaurant at 810 W. Roosevelt Rd. Gold’s had a
ballroom where many weddings were celebrated and future musical star Benny
Goodman would sometimes play clarinet there, Zisook said. After her graduation
from Marshall High School, Mrs. Mages attended Northwestern University before
getting married in 1939. Always strong with numbers, she worked as a stock
broker in the 1950s, her daughter said. In retirement, during which she
wintered in Palm Springs, Calif., she was devoted to the mastery of canasta and
mah jongg. Mrs. Mages survived bouts with breast and colon cancer and quadruple
bypass surgery, her daughter said. “She was such a strong woman, not so
much physically, but her mind,” Zisook said. When her husband was alive,
the couple organized the Morrie and Shirlee Mages Foundation, which provided
sports equipment to needy youths. After his death, she led the charge to name a
playground in Lincoln Park after her late husband.
2007:
An exhibition entitled The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the
Jewish-American Dream opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.
2007:
In a press release, Hebrew University announces that “the valuable and unique
Nuremberg Mahzor of 1331 has been scanned and uploaded to the Internet site of
the Jewish National and University Library of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. The Nuremberg Mahzor can be viewed at:
2008: Garrett Reisman “returned to Earth today on board STS-124 on
Space Shuttle Discovery.”
2008: “State Renews Efforts to Bring Disputed Jewish Manuscripts
From Russia published today described the
efforts by the state of Israel to bring the Ginzburg Collection from Russia to
a permanent home in the Jewish state.
2009: Esther M. Sternberg, a doctor and the author of The
Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions, discusses and
signs her new book Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being
at Politics and Prose, in Washington, D.C.
2009: The Washington Post featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including
“Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing” by Steven J.
Zipperstein and “The American Future: A History” by Simon Schama.
2009: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including 1948:
A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris, Weimar Germany:
Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz and Atmospheric Disturbances by
Rivka Galchen.
2009:
A Kassam rocket fired by Gaza terrorists hit the
Ashkelon Beach region this afternoon. No one was wounded and no damage was
reported. The attack came hours after an explosive device was detonated near
IDF troops patrolling the Gaza border fence. None of the soldiers were wounded
in the Sunday morning incident and no damage was reported. The bomb attack came
hours after the IAF struck two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip.
2010: Shabtai Rosenne was appointed to the Israeli special
independent public Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid
2010: Mark Feuerstein “appeared as the guest host” on today’s
“edition of WWI Raw to promote” an episode of his television show “Royal
Pains.”
2010: The long history and deep roots of Jews in the Tar Heel
state are coming to life in an ambitious new multimedia project that is
scheduled to begin today with an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of
History in Raleigh. “Down Home,” which encompasses a slickly produced
documentary film and handsomely illustrated coffee-table book, celebrates
Jewish contributions to North Carolina social, civic and commercial life. But
the project also aims to capture a nearly vanished way of life for Jews in the state’s
mill and market towns, according to Leonard Rogoff, an organizer of the project
and historian at the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, which is
producing “Down Home.” “Elderly Jews who
lived the rural small-town experience are an endangered species,” said Rogoff,
who also authored the companion book, “Down Home: Jewish Life in North
Carolina” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). “Synagogues have
shuttered in cities like Tarboro and Lumberton. Smaller communities are
expiring. We need to document them.” The project “tells an important part of
our state’s story,” wrote Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary of the North Carolina
Department of Cultural Resources, in an e-mail to the Forward. “Jewish culture
has helped shape North Carolina in its rural areas as well as its urban centers
for centuries.” North Carolina’s state legislature kicked in $350,000 toward
the project’s $1.25 million budget, according to Rogoff; the rest came from
foundation grants and individual donations. The investment has paid off with
research that “contributes new insights into Jews in the South,” Rogoff said.
“Histories typically focus on the pre-Civil War era and German-Reform Jews as
normative southerners. We’ve emphasized the East European experience in the New
South as well, and it’s updated to include the Sunbelt.” Rogoff’s team at JHFNC
is also creating classroom material for 4th- and 8th-grade “People of North
Carolina” courses in the state’s public schools with talks about expanding the
lessons “across all grades and disciplines,” he said. According to Rogoff, the
“Down Home” project tells stories of Jews from Joachim Gans, who arrived on
Roanoke Island on Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition in 1585, to Jacob Henry, who
in 1809 delivered a speech in defense of religious freedom after his right to
serve in the state legislature was challenged. And it spotlights civil-rights
era heroes like Harry Golden, publisher of the esteemed The Carolina Israelite
newspaper, “known nationally for his civil-rights advocacy, delivered in a
Lower East Side accent,” Rogoff said. In a folksier vein, the book, film, and
exhibit highlight experiences of prominent, prosperous families like the clan
of Eli Evans, whose own history provides one narrative thread of the “Down
Home” project. Evans’s paternal grandfather was an immigrant peddler, his
mother’s father a shopowner; his businessman father, Emanuel, became a wildly
popular six-term mayor of Durham in the 1950s, and his mother Sara served on
Hadassah’s national board for 40 years. Now a New Yorker, Evans himself went on
to write what many consider the definitive history of southern Jews, “The
Provincials” (University of North Carolina Press, 1973), which has continuously
been in print for nearly three decades. “The story of the Jews is the untold
story of the South,” said Evans, a onetime speechwriter for President Lyndon
Baines Johnson who went on to run several charitable endowments, including the
Carnegie Foundation. “The region has whatever image it has from whatever
violence there was. But that’s not the story of the Jews. Ours is the story of
successful integration and good relationships.” The Jewish experience in North
Carolina was unique in the South, Evans said, because North Carolina was unique
in the South. “We didn’t have a strong Klan in our state. We had a commitment
to public education, a more moderate political atmosphere, and enlightened
political leaders,” he said. “I’m not saying no antisemitism existed. But there
was a philo-Semitism that manifested itself in many ways.” The exhibit itself,
which will travel across North Carolina over the next year, uses artifacts and
photos to recreate a series of “environments”: A synagogue sanctuary, dry-goods
store, family Sabbath table, and a study based on Harry Golden’s Charlotte home.
The 81-minute “Down Home” DVD documentary, (available through the JHFNC’s
website), complements the museum show with a somewhat academic mix of archival
footage, insightful interviews and unfortunately costumed re-enactments. While
the exhibit’s partly intended to educate North Carolinians about their own
history, Rogoff said he hopes “Down Home” might reach other Jews — especially
from the Northeast. “All native southern Jews have humorous stories about
meeting New Yorkers who cannot believe that Jews actually live in the South,”
he said. “They associate a New York accent, not a southern drawl, with being
Jewish. That’s a very old cliché. New Yorkers especially can be terribly
parochial, and the famous Saul Steinberg cartoon of a terra incognita beyond the
Hudson aptly illustrates their provincialism.” While it spends a lot of time
looking back, the “Down Home” project also suggests a Jewish southern future
that looks increasingly suburban and metropolitan. “Jews are finding
opportunities in the hospitals, universities, research laboratories, and
financial centers that have typified the development of the state’s
post-industrial economy,” said Rogoff. “North Carolina is especially inviting
for two-career couples where both are professionals. Newcomers who explore the
local Jewish communities generally report finding warm welcomes, contrasting
the neighborliness with what they found up north. You get a heckuva lot more
house for the money, and the climate is a whole lot better.” But one area where
Rogoff admitted the North may have an edge is bagels. “There isn’t much aside
from the ubiquitous Bruegger’s,” he said. “Cary [near Raleigh] and Chapel Hill
have independent bagel makers, but a really good deli and Jewish-style bakery
are opportunities waiting to happen. “
2010: Israeli superstar David Broza is scheduled to perform at
(Le) Poisson Rouge in New York.
2010(2nd of Tammuz, 5770): One of the Israeli police officers,
Yehushua “Shuki” Sofer, who was shot in a terror attack on a patrol
car this morning in the Hebron Hills area has succumbed to his wounds. “
2011:
Rabbi Bernice K. Weiss, author of “Converting to
Judaism – Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories” is scheduled to lead “Basic Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike” a “7-part series
that provides an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how to
observe kashrut and the Jewish laws of death and mourning” at the Historic 6th
and I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: The 8th Grade Graduation is scheduled to take
place at the Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit.
2011: Flag Day is celebrated in the United States to mark the
anniversary of the Continental Congress’ adoption an official flag. According to Dr. Gary Zola, the Stars and
Stripes probably made their first appearance in American synagogues during the
period surrounding the assassination of President Lincoln. This coincided with the Union victory that
marked the end of the Civil War and a feeling of patriotism was running at full
flood. Zola thinks, although he can
offer no proof, that American flags appeared on the bima at Jewish houses of
worship during the First World War, another period of patriotic fervor. Dr. Jonathan Sarna believes that the custom of displaying the flag in houses
of worship – Jewish as well as Christian – dates back to the Spanish American
War of 1898. This also was a period of
great patriotic fervor, marking a popular war that enabled those of the North
& South to join together in common cause.
Regardless of when the flags first appeared, by the 1930’s they were a
permanent ornamentation on the bimah, possibly as antidote to the simmering
anti-Semitism that was part and parcel of the Great Depression.
2011: National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau instructed Noble
Energy to develop the Noa North gas reserve in the Noa license after concerns
that the field spilled over into Palestinian territory..
2011: Actress Natalie Portman has given birth to a baby boy
fathered by a choreographer she met while she filmed her Oscar-winning role in
Black Swan, People magazine reported today.
2011:
Today brought strange weather to both the northern
and southern regions of Israel. Meteorologists confirmed that the ash cloud
from an Eritrean volcano had indeed reached Eilat, but authorities insisted
there was no health danger to civilians and also that flights at both Eilat
Airport and Ben-Gurion International Airport were running on schedule. In the north of the country, residents of the Golan and
Galilee regions were surprised this morning to awake to rain, an extremely rare
occurrence during the summer months. The precipitation was accompanied by
increased winds. The winter weather is not expected to last for long, however.
Tomorrow’s forecast is dry with an increase in temperatures — which is back to
normal for June.
2011:
President Shimon Peres visited the Negev Beduin
village of Hura today, praising the community as a prime example of Negev
development
2011: Deputy Mayor of Economic and Housing Development and Brick
City Development Corporation Chair Stefan Pryor, Manischewitz Company Co-CEOs
Alain Bankier and Paul Bensabat, Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, and BCDC
CEO Lyneir Richardson, will cut the ribbon to open the new Corporate
Headquarters and Plant for The Manischewitz Company,today, at 11 a.m.
2012: “Gershwin Shows’ Tonys
Fuel Plans for a Musical” published today described plans by the
trustees of George and Ira Gershwin’s estates to produce more musicals in light
of the Tony won by “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ which won in the
musical-revival category.
2012: Anouk Markovits, author of I Am Forbidden is
scheduled to have a reading at McNally-Jackson on Prince Street in NYC.
2012: A Palestinian sniper in the southern Gaza Strip fired at an
Israeli farmer working in a field near Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Eshkol Regional
Council area today.
2012: Mahler on the Couch is scheduled to complete it New York
City theatrical run
2012: The Jewish Museum of Australia is scheduled to host the
media preview of its newest permanent exhibition, “Calling Australia Home
http://theschmooze.org/c/pdf/CAH%20MR_61412.pdf
2012: “SERET 2012” – the first London Israeli Film &
Television Festival opened in London.
Seret os the Hebrew word for “movie.”
http://www.close-upfilm.com/2012/05/seret-2012-the-first-london-israeli-film-television-festival/
2013: “Man of Steel,” a blockbuster film that brings Superman back
to the screen is scheduled to be released to the general public today in
covnentail , 3D and IMAZ theatres.
Superman is a creation of Jerry Siegel and Jose Shuster. David S. Goyer wrote the screenplay and
Israeli actress Auyelter Zurer plays the role of Superman’s mother.
2013: “Fill the Void,” a film that “tells the story an Orthodox
Chassidic family from Tel Aviv” is scheduled to open in several new venues
including the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and the Ritz at The Bourse 5 in
Philadelphia.
2013: After straining his back again, New York Yankee Kevin
Youkills put back on the disabled list.
2013: U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is scheduled to meet
with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in Washington, DC.
2013: In the United States, observance of Flag Day, a holiday
pioneered by Ben Altheimer, Sr. a Jewish businessman from Arkansas who
convinced President Woodrow Wilson to adopt it as a national holiday in 1916.
2013: According to a Lebanese report today, embattled Syrian
President Bashar Assad plans to open a “resistance” front on the Golan Heights
and thinks such a move could unify the various factions in Syria.
2013:
Representatives passed a defense authorization bill
that would make it U.S. policy to take “all necessary steps” to ensure Israel
is able to “remove existential threats,” among them nuclear facilities in
Iran. (As reported by JTA)
2013: Donald Carr, the president of The Canadian Jewish News
announced today that the board of director has confirmed that the print
newspaper which has been publishing for the last 53 years will continue to
publish canceling earlier plans to cancel the paper on June 20th.(JTA
and JPOst)
2013: “Judge Judy” starring Judith Sheindlin won its first Daytime
Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program on its 15th nomination
2013: A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning
villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials
to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly
after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.
2014: “Operation Sunflower” and
“Hanna’s Journey” are scheduled to be shown at the Israel Film Center Festival
be held at the JCC of Manhattan.
2014: The search for three missing Israeli
youths who disappeared in the West Bank two days ago and who are presumed
kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists will not be over within a matter of hours,
and could last many days, a senior military official told Channel 10 news today
adding that it was not clear the three were still alive. (As reported by Itamar
Sharon)
2014: “Israeli officials today
released for publication the identities of three Israeli youths who went
missing near Hebron on the night of June 12th. The three are Gil-ad Shaar (16)
from the settlement of Talmon, Naftali Frenkel (16), a dual Israeli-American
citizen from Nof Ayalon near Modi’in, and Eyal Yifrach (19) from Elad, near
Petah Tikva. (As reported by Itamar Sharon)
2014: The ZviDance which has already
given a special performance sponsored by Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs is
scheduled to perform for the last time in New York City.
Léon
Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist, Move: Putting America’s
Infrastructure Back in the Lead, The Dorito Effect Saint Mazie by
Jami Attenberg
2015: In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mike
Heeren is scheduled to perform his last Presidential duty as the chief chef at
the BBQ preceding the annual congregational meeting where he will pass the
baton to the incoming President, Nancy Margulis which will guarantee this
small, vibrant congregation the same kind of seamless leadership that the
Israelites experience when Moses passed the mantle to Joshua. Chazak, chazak!
2015: American female adventurer
Sonya Baumstein “was rescued off the Japanese Pacific coast a week into her
solo attempt to row across the Pacific, the Japan Coast Guard said today.”
2016:
In Rockville, MD, Temple Shalom is scheduled to host Rabbi Dr. Yehoyada
Amir speaking on “New Challenges: Reform and Liberal Judaism in Contemporary
Israel.
2016: The American Jewish Historical
Society is scheduled to present “A Family Fun Night of Baseball In Celebration
of the Pop-Up Exhibition Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American” which
“weaves together America’s favorite pastime and national identity with the
story of American Jewish immigration and integration,”
2017: Flag Day a holiday which was
reportedly originally conceived by banker and philanthropist Benjamin
Altheimer, is schedule to be celebrated today in the United States.
2017: Amos Oz and David Grossman are
two of the authors awaiting to know if they have been selected as the winners
of this year’s Man Booker International Prize.
2017: The Aleph Society is scheduled
to celebrate the 80th birthday of Rabbi Steinsaltz at a dinner this
evening.
2017: Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
& Center for Jewish History are scheduled to host the second session of
Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism taught by Dr. Samantha Hill.
2018(1st of Tammuz, 5778): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
2018: The United States is scheduled to
celebrate Flag Day, a day intended to honor the “Stars and Stripes” and all
that they stand for which ironically, was championed Benjamin Altheimer, a Jew
from Pine Bluff who was born 13 years after the forces of the “Stars and Bars”
which were committed to the destruction of the United States were defeated.
2018: The American Sephardi Federation is
scheduled to present a performance of “Don Giovanni” starring David Serero in
the title role at the Center for Jewish History.
2018: “Israeli poet Amir Or” is scheduled
visit New York’s Cornelia Street Café for a celebration of “the publication of
his latest collection, Wings, in an English translation by Seth
Michelson.”
2018: “The Alliance Theatre at the Breman
Museum” is scheduled to present “From Script to Stage: The Evolution of New
Works of Art” at noon.
2018: As part of the 2018 Unpacking the Book
Events, the Jewish Book Council and the Jewish Museum are scheduled to host
“Writers Make the Best Detective” featuring Rachel Kadish and Lisa Moses Leff
in conversation with Stephanie Butnick
2019: In France, the Toulouse City Council is
scheduled to debate whether to follow the example of Paris and erect a memorial
to “Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, and two of his children, Arie and Gabriel, ages 6
and 3, and Miriam Monsonego, 8” who murdered “at the Otzar Hatorah school
Tolouse” in 2012 by Mohamed Merah.
2019: In San Francisco, at a dinner following
services “Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, PhD will speak on “The Meaning of
the Hour: On Jewish Ethics in Times of Distress” at Congregation Emanu-El
2019: Starting today, the Illinois Holocaust
Museum is scheduled to begin allowing “Dads to visit free” as part of the
celebration of Father’s Day.
2020: Today, Daniel “Berger won the 2020
Charles Schwab Challenge, and received a winner’s check of $1.375 million.
2020: The New York Times featured reviews of
books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Everything
Is An Emergency: An O.C.D. Story in Words and Pictures by Jason Adam
Katzenstein and The World: A
Brief Introduction by Richard Haas
2020: The ASF’s Institute of Jewish
Experience & E’eleh BeTamar are scheduled to present “Yemenite Men
& Women and their Music: during which Barak Oded, “a
musicologist who specializes in Yemenite songs of all types, as well as the
language and tunes involved in the context of other Jewish communities. In
these sessions will show the uniqueness of Yemenite song and prayers as they
were distinct from other communities.
2020:
NYU Skirball Department and the Consulate General
of Israel in New York are scheduled to co-host “a virtual discussion with
filmmaker Yair Qedar on his film about poet Avoth Yeshurun.”
2020: In the spirit of business must go on, in Cedar Rapids, Temple
Judah is scheduled to host its Board Meeting over Zoom this afternoon.
2020: The Jewish Community Library is scheduled to host on line “Former
GTU and current U. of Toronto professor Naomi Seidman talks about her 2019 book
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement, about the education of
Orthodox Polish girls
2020: Temple Beth David of the South Shores is scheduled to present a
talk entitled “Shattered Stars/Healing Hearts: Returning Home” during which
Irene Frielich Shares Her Family’s Holocaust Survival Story
2020: During the virtual presentation of “That Good Ole Jewish Sound,” Veretski Pass musician Josh Horowitz is scheduled to break down klezmer
melodies into components to study them.
2020: “The Illinois Holocaust Museum and 60 other museums and
cultural institutions around the world are scheduled to host the virtual event
“We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope” featuring
award-winning media personalities Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Adrien
Brody, Mayim Bialik, Jackie Hoffman, and Tiffany Haddish
2020: Flag Day, which gained its inspiration
from Benjamin Altheimer, a lawyer born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is scheduled to
be celebrated throughout the United States today.
https://www.jta.org/2011/06/14/default/is-flag-day-a-jewish-holiday
https://archive.jewishcurrents.org/tag/benjamin-altheimer/
2021: The
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is scheduled to host during which
virtual book discussion led by Museum historians and educators will examine The
Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson.
2021: The
National Library of Israel is scheduled to present, online, Professor Dr. Paul
Mirecki as he talks about “a Sefer Torah taken in 1840 from the synagogue in
Media, Algeria.”
2021: The
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is scheduled to present,
online, “a conversation with Senator Eric Lesser.
2021: The Joan
S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Films and the Israel Office of
Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York are scheduled to
present a screening of “Asia” starring Shira Haas.
2021:
JEWISHcolorado’s Shaliach Itai Divinsky is scheduled to about current events in Israel via Zoom.
2021: The
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, IA is scheduled to hold its annual
meeting today.
2021: Elisha
Weisel (Eli Weisel’s son), Michal Oshman (Tik Tok executive and author of What
Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid), Dina Horowitz (Chabad Rebbetzin and
international speaker), and more are scheduled to share timely lessons that
they have learned from both the Rebbe’s teachings and living example as Jewish
communities from around the world, hear from inspiring Jewish personalities and
performers in an event commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Rebbe’s
passing.
2022: After a
six day closure due to Covid exposure, the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth
County is scheduled to reopen today.
2022: LBI is
scheduled to present the New York premier of “Lieber Thomas(Dear
Thomas).
2022: The
Closing Plenary of the AJC Global Forum is scheduled to included New York Times
Op-ed Columnist Bret Stephens and American University Professor of History and
Jewish Studies Pamela Nadell tackling the question: Is the Golden Age of
American Jewry Over?
2022: Lockdown
University is scheduled to host a webinar with Trudy Goal lecturing on “Zalman
of Liadi: The Creator of Chabad.”
2022: The
United States is scheduled to celebrate Flag Day, a day intended to honor the
“Stars and Stripes” and all that they stand for which ironically, was
championed Benjamin Altheimer, a Jew from Pine Bluff who was born 13 years
after the forces of the “Stars and Bars” which were committed to the
destruction of the United States were defeated.
2022(15th
of Sivan, 5782): Eighty-five-year-old A.B. Yehoshua who has a special place in
my heart because he wrote a novel where the protagonist was a Jewish human
resources manager, passed away today.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/great-israeli-novelist-a-b-yehoshua-dies-aged-85/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/a-b-yehoshua2\
2023: It is
predicted that both sides in the negotiations for judicial reform will confirm
an agreement has been reached breaking the logjam.
2023: JDC
Archives Fellow Robin Buller is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Ottoman
Echoes: Remnants of the Empire among Sephardi Immigrants to France, 1919-1945.”
2023: The ORT
UK Business Breakfast is scheduled to return today with “an incredible panel of
sporting stars, as they discuss how they’re making an Impact through Football.”
2023: In New
Orleans, Tulane Hillel is scheduled to host its Board Meeting.
2023: The
Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to host a “Virtual Exhibition Panel:
Jewish Archives, Artefacts and Memory in Transit.”
2023: P&T Knitweaer is scheduled to hold a
book signing with Dana Shem-Ur author of her debut novel Where I Am that
will include a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Joshua Cohen.
2023: Prosecutors plant to wrap up their case
in of Robert Bowers who is on trial for the murder of 11 Jewish worshippers at
the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA.
2024: As part of the Young Artists Concert
series, Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast a performance by The Gertler
String Quartet.
2024: In San Rafael, CA, JFSC-Marin is scheduled
to host its “volunteer appreciation lunch, featuring guest lecture by Professor
Marc Dollinger on the complex history and sociology of Jews and racial identity
in America.’
2024: Flag Day, which gained its inspiration
from Benjamin Altheimer, a Jewish lawyer born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas is
scheduled to be celebrated throughout the United States today as a wave of anti-Semitism
rolls across the United States
https://www.jta.org/2011/06/14/default/is-flag-day-a-jewish-holiday
https://archive.jewishcurrents.org/tag/benjamin-altheimer/
2024: Rosalie Gerut, Kerem Shalom of Concord’s
cantor, is scheduled to lead an on-line “Shabbat Around the Table” during which
attendees will share our meals together with candle-lighting, singing, prayers,
discussing the Torah parsha and remembering our loved ones with the Kaddish
prayer
2024: As June 14th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of
anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers
on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the
Hamas held hostages begin day 252 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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