#ourCOG This Day, June 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
This Day, June 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
JUNE 29
1096: Crusaders massacred the Jews of Mehr.
1106: Moses Sephardi was baptized at Huseca, Spain
and took the name of Petrus Alphonsi, the noted “physician, writer, astronomer
and polemicist.” Among those who took
issue with Alphonsi’s multiple attacks on Judaism was Jacob be Reuben, a
Spanish rabbi who wrote Sefer Milhamot Adonai (“Book of the Wars of
the Lord”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1195-alfonsi-petrus
1312: Today, upon the return of Emperor Henry VII
“from his coronation in the Lateran Basilica, he was presented with a scroll of
the Law by a delegation of Jews which had gone to meet him.”
1397: Birthdate of John II of Aragon who reigned
from 1456 until his death in 1479. During John’s reign Conversos and Jews held
positions of power and influence. John even employed a Jew as his personal
physician. Within 13 years of his death,
the Jews would be expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.
1494: A fire broke out destroying part of Warsaw.
The Jews were accused of setting the fire and attacked. King John I ordered
them to leave the city and move to the “suburb” of Kazimierz, which
became the first Polish ghetto. Jews were confined to the ghetto until 1868.
1509:
Lady Margaret Beaufort whose son King Henry VII agreed to Spanish demands that
Jews not be allowed to live in England as part of the terms of the marriage of
his son to Catherine and whose grandson Henry VIII purchased a Talmud in his
attempt justify divorcing Catherine and marrying Anne Boleyn, passed away
today. (As reported by David Sedley)
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/parshat-ki-teitzei-king-henry-viii-and-the-talmud/
1598:
Birthdate of English preacher and political leader Hugh Peters who supported
the ideas of Roger Williams which included “writing on behalf of the toleration
of Jews.”
1613: Fifteen years after the copyright was obtained
for the “Merchant of Venice,” Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burned.
1652(23rd of Tammuz): Bible scholar Moses
de Meccado passed away today.
1654: In Cuenca, Spain, 57 Marranos were taken to
the auto-da-fe. Ten were burnt to death. One of them, Balthasar Lopez,
announced as he was taken to the stake “I don’t believe in Christ even if
you bind me.” He had returned recently from Bayonne in order to persuade
his nephew to return to Judaism when he was captured by the Inquisition.
1654: A large auto-de-fe took place in Cuenca where
many were burned to death. One man about to be burned threw the crucifix away
from him. A priest scrambled to retrieve it and managed to talk the man into
holding it again. As the executioner began to do his job, the priest asked if
the man was truly repent, the dying man looked at him and said, “Father…do
you think that this is a time to joke?”
1654: Sir Edward Nicholas, the secretary of Charles
II who had written “An Apology for the Honorable Nation of the Jews which
called for their readmission to England and who was then living in exile “wrote
to his fellow royalist sir Marmaduke Langdale, going so far as to doubt the
report that Cromwell was in communication with the Jews ‘who are a very craft
and worldly-wise generation’ and stressing that ‘the Jews are numerous and rich
and offer great matters for their privileges in England.’”
1660: John Thurloe, a supporter of Oliver Cromwell
who “had been instructed to study the Jewish Question” and who met with the
Jews of Amsterdam including Menasseh be Israel at a time when plans were being
made to officially re-admit the Jews to England was released today after having
been arrested on charges of high treason.
1665: During the Inquisition, a “great auto-de-fe”
took place in Cordova.
1720: Judah Monis, the son of Portguese conversos
who had been educated at Jewish schools in Italy and Holland submitted
handwritten copy of A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue to the Harvard
Corporation which led to his being award a Masters of Degree making him the
first Jew to graduate from Harvard. He
would later convert so that he could join the school’s faculty.
1756(1st of Tammuz, 5516): Schoeneche Moses, A.M.
Rothschild’s mother, dies from smallpox.
1776(12th
of Tammuz, 5536): Parshat Chukat
1776:
David S. Franks, who “joined the Americans as a volunteer in their retreat from
Montreal back accorss the border into upstate New York” “received permission to
enter the United States at Albany” today with a pass that “certified he is a
friend to the American cause.”
1776:
Jews in the 13 colonies observed Shabbat for the last time as British subjects
since the Continental Congress would be publishing the Declaration of
Independence in the upcoming week.
1776:
As members of New York’s Congregation Sheartih Israel observe Shabbat, the
massive British fleet carrying the army that was ordered to crush the rebellion
in North America dropped anchor in the water’s just outside of the city.
https://www.1696heritage.com/a-history-of-american-women-worth-sharing/
https://archives.cjh.org/agents/people/9408
1779: Birthdate of Amsterdam native Isaac Haim
Bitton, who, at the age of ten, moved to London with his father where he became
noted bare-knuckle (pre-Marquis of Queensbury) boxer.
1783(29th of Sivan, 5543): Sixteen-day-old Samson
Mears Isaacs, the son of Jacob Isaacs passed away today in New York
1790(17th of Tammuz, 5550): Tzom Tammuz observed as
“diplomats from England, Austria, Prussia and the United Provinces were meeting
at Reichenbach “to discuss possible military intervention against the French
Revolution.
1792(29th of Tammuz, 5552):
Seventy-seven-year-old English physician Ralph Schomberg, the Cologne born son
of Dr. Meyer Low Schoberg, twin brother of Isaac Schomberg and father of British
Naval Captain Isaac Schomberg, according to some who had converted “to advance
his career passed away today at Reading, England.
https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13298-schomberg-ralph-raphael
1805: In Philadelphia, Miriam Marks an Benjamin
Abraham Nones who were married in 1782 gave birth to their 13th
child, Jefferson Nones.
1806: Two days after he passed away, Samson
Gompertz, the son of Barent Gompertz and Rachel Benjamin Isaac was buried today
in the United Kingdom
1807: Birthdate of mathematician Mortiz Abraham
Stern, the native of Frankfurt who “was the first Jewish full professor at a
German university” in this case Göttingen University.
1813: In New York, Eleazar Samuel Lazarus and
Zipporah Lazarus gave birth to Moses Lazarus the husband of Esther Lazarus who
were the parents of the famous poet Emma Lazarus.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9690-lazarus-moses
1814: Aaron
Nathan married Mary Mosely at the Great Synagogue.
1818: In New York, Alexander and Esther Hetty Marks
gave birth to Joseph Hart Marks, the husband of Cecilia Marks.
1818: Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his wife gave
birth to their fourth son, Baron Mayer Nathan de Rothschild who married his
first cousin Juliana, the eldest daughter of Isaac Cohen in 1850. He was the father-in-law of Lord Rosebery.
1819: In Cologne, Germany, the former Marianne
Rindskopf and Isaac Juda Offenbach né Eberst gave birth to their second son Jakob Offenbach who
gained game as cellist and prolific composer Jacques Offenbach, the creator of
almost 100 operettas.
1820: In Krakow, “Jekuthiel Solomon, a scholarly
merchant who claimed he was a descendant of R. Moses Isserles” and his wife
gave birth “to Polish Galician rabbi and historian Haim Nathan Dembitzer.”
1827(4th of Tammuz, 5587): Sixty-five year old Moses
Belinfante who founded Sulamith, the
first Dutch newspaper devoted to reporting the news of the Jewish community
passed away today at The Hague.
1828(17th of Tammuz, 5588): Tzom Tammuz
1828: Birthdate of Solomon Loeb, the German-American
merchant and banker who founded Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
1832(1st of Tammuz, 5592): Rosh Chodesh
Tammuz
1832(1st of Tammuz, 5592): Eleven year
old George Levy, the son of Hayman and Almeria Levy passed away today.
1836: Today twice married Joshua Lopez, the son of
Sarah Rodriguez Rivera and Aaron Edward Lopez married Mary Ann Gomez, the
mother of his son Aaron Edwin Lopez.
1839: Birthdate of Hanover native and holder of
degrees from the universities of Breslau and Göttingen, and the rabbinical
seminary of Breslau who was an expert on the life and writings of Spinoza.
1841: In the United Kingdom, the general election
which saw Disraeli win a seat for Shrewsbury began today.
1843; It was reported today that Ellen Ezekiel had married
Bristol resident Abaham Mosely, the son of Moss Mosely.
1847: Barnet Samuel Phillips married Philippa Samuel
at the Great Synagogue.
1849: Birthdate of Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte, the
1st Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire whose career had
suffered because his second wife, Matilda Ivanovna (Isaakovna) Lisanevich, was
a converted Jew.
1852: “Hospital for the Jews” published today reported that “a number
of Jewish citizens have united together for the purpose” of providing
medical and surgical care to their poor co-religionists. The article
provides a long list of names to which contributions can be sent including
Samson Simson, John I. Hart and Benjamin Nathan.
1852: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Fannie and Solomon Loeb were married today.
1852: Henry Clay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky and Secretary of State, passed
away. In 1832, Senator Clay had used the term “Jew” in a manner that Samuel
Etting of Baltimore considered a slur on his people. He wrote to Clay complaining of his
language. Clay wrote back and apologized
assuring Ettinger that he had not intended the use of the word Jew to be taken
in that manner and that he had the utmost respect for the Jewish people. In 1850, Senator Clay led the fight in the
Senate to reject a treat with the Swiss Confederation which would have subjected
American Jews traveling in Switzerland to the laws of that country that
discriminated against any Jews living there regardless of their
nationality. [When you consider how few
Jews there were living in the United States at this time, let alone in
Kentucky, one cannot assume that Clay’s positive interaction on Jewish matters
was one that he thought would bring him great political gain.]
1852(12th of Tammuz, 5612): Rabbi Aaron Moses Taubes passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_19635.html
1853: An article entitled “France,” subtitled “Theatrical
and Operatic Intelligence” published today reports from Paris that
Halevy’s opera, “The Nabob” will be produced in less than a
month. It is his first production since the close of “The Wandering
Jew.”
1855: Joseph Moses Levy agreed to print the Daily Telegraph & Courier
which was founded today and which Levy acquired when the original owner failed
to pay his printing bill.
1857: The New York Times reported that “both
Houses of Parliament were engaged in consider the Jews’ Oath and Disabilities
bill.” A motion to insert the words “on
the true faith of a Christain” as is found in the current oath was rejected by
a vote of 341 to 201. During the debate,
Lord Palmerston said “that with the passage of the bill there was nothing to
prevent Jews from hold the office of Lord Chancellor or Prime Minister.
1857: In Jonesborough, TN, Helen Guggenheimer Cone
and Herman Moses Cone gave birth to Moses Herman Cone who married Bertha Lindau
Cone in 1888 and was known as the “Denim King” because he and his brother
Caesar established “a textile empire in
Greensboro, North Carolina that became the largest provider of denim material
in the world, outstripping even Levi Strauss and Company.”
1857: The New York Times reported that “In the House of
Commons, Lord Palmerston gave notice that he would bring a bill to remodel the
Parliamentary oaths – to omit the words ‘on the true faith of a Christian’
and thereby to admit Jews into Parliament. Leave was given to bring in
the bill.”
1862(1st of Tammuz, 5622): A month to the day after
General Beauregard’s Confederate Army abandoned Corinth to the Union Army, Jews
observed Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.
1863: During the Civil War, the 11th
regiment of the New York State Militia under the command of Colonel Joachim
Maidhof which had been folded into the Union Army, “took part in a skirmish
near Oyster Point, PA.”
1864: Elias Leon Hyneman a trooper in the 5th
Pennsylvania Cavalry was taken prisoner during a raid near Petersburg, VA. Hyneman was captured after he had given his
horse to a wounded trooper whose horse had been shot out from under him and
gave his boots to another wounded comrade who was barefoot. Hyneman ended up the hell of Andersonville
where he died in January of 1865. It was a miserable end for man who had
volunteered at the start of the war and had fought with the Army of the Potomac
from 1862 through the Wilderness Campaign of 1864.
1864(25th of Sivan, 5624): During the Civil War,
Henry Cohen of South Carolina was killed while serving with the Confederacy.
1865: Philadelphian Ellis C. Strouss who had
enlisted as a Private in Company K of the 57th Regiment in 1861
completed his service having reached the rank of Captain.
1865: Jacob Herrman, who had risen to the rank of
Sergeant in Company C of the 98th Regiment and who had been “wounded
at Cedar Creek, VA in 1864 completed his service that had begun in 1861)
1868(9th of Tammuz, 5628): Fitty-eight-year-old
physician, lawyer and Louisiana political leader Edwin Moise, the Charleston,
SC born son of Hyam and Ceclia Mose who
married Louise Hubert after the death of his first wife Priscilla Lopez passed
away today in Jefferson Parish, LA after which he was buried in New Orleans.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92610329/edwin-warren-mo%C3%AFse
1869: Elie-Aristide Astruc, who had been serving as
the Chief Rabbi of Belgium of 1866 attended the Synod at Leipzig which began
today.
1869:
In Indianapolis, IN, John and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington gave birth to novelist
Newton Booth Tarkington who gained fame as Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
Booth Tarkington author of The Magnificent Ambersons whom, according to
Greg Wright may, or may not have been an anti-Semite of sorts. (Editor’s note –
I will leave this up to the readers to make their own decision)
http://dramatic-insights.org/tarkington/index.php/2012/tarkington-antisemite/
1870(30th of Sivan, 5630): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1870: In NYC, Louis and Adelaide Spitzer gave birth
Bellevue Hospital Medical Colle trained physician Edward L. Spitzer, the directing
of Medicine at the Jewish Memorial Hospital Clinic and the husband of Kate Levy
whom he married in 1909.
1872: Birthdate of Prague native Alertina Advelova
who was murdered at Terezin.
1872: Jacob Levi, a Jew from Germany, living in New
York, was arrested by Captain Leary on charges of having swindled Alois
Grieshaber out of $545 and Joseph Ruath out of $1,000. He was “committed to the
Tombs” where he will stay until his trial takes place.
1875: In New
York City, Eva Stark and Sigmund Naumburg gave birth to CCNY graduate and New
York University trained attorney Bernard Naumberg, the husband of Elsa G. Herzfeld
and “chief instructor and supervisor of lecturers in the Post Graduate Law
Depart of CCNY” who was secretary of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society and
a delegate to the Federation of Jewish Charities.
1875: Birthdate
of University of California trained civil engineer Philip Lee Bush, the
two term president of the San Francisco Board of Education and Chief Engineer
of the California Pack Corporation.
1875: Emperor
Ferdinand I of Austria passed away. During Ferdinand’s reign the Jews became
full-fledged citizens of the Empire under the terms of the “Ausgleich”.
1877: Today, Frederick W. Seward, the U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State wrote a letter today to Meyer S. Isaacs, the President of
the Board of Delegates of American Israelites.
The letter was written in response to one that the Board of Delegates
had sent asking that the U.S. government intervene on behalf of the Jews, many
of them who are from Russia, living in and around Jerusalem. The secretary said
that normally protection of the U.S. government is given only to U.S. citizens
living abroad. However, the U.S. has
shown its “sympathy for all the oppressed peoples in foreign countries” so long
as it actions can be taken in accordance with “international courtesy and
diplomatic usage.”
1878: “A Large Furniture House Fails” published
today described the surprising demise of B.L. Solomon and Sons, a 45-year-old
concern whose partners included four Solomons – Barnet, Solomon, Judah and
Simon. The company reported that it had
$300,000 in liabilities. The failure was
attributed to the inability to liquidate real estate own by B.L. Solomon which,
if it had been sold, would have been able to provide more than adequate working
capital for the company. [Drop in the real estate market causes business
failure – sound familiar?)
1879: In Budapest, Herman and Theresa Leblang gave
birth to American “theatrical financier” and husband of Tillie Richter Joseph
LeBlang who was the “sole owner of the George M. Cohan Theatre” on 48th Street.
1879: In Lubeck, Germany Frieda and Abraham Adolph
Moses Lissauer gave birth to Dr. Meno Lissauer, the founder and chairman of the
Associated Metals and Minerals Corporation who made his way from Nazi occupied
Holland via Lisbon to the United States where he became “a director of the
American Federation of Jews in Central Europe and established a scholarship and
endowment at Brandeis while raising a son and daughter – Franz and Hannah –
with his wife Meta.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/05/28/82695526.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1881: The Board of Estimate and Apportionment
awarded $51,556.42 to a variety of charitable insituions including $2,020.00
for the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
1881: Birthdate of Berlin native and noted
musicologist Curt Sachs, a refugee from the Nazis who settled in the United
where he taught at NYU and Columbia and whose contributions to his field of
endeavor are remember in the Curt Sachs Award created by the American Music
Instrument Society.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/02/06/80759518.html?pageNumber=25
1882: In Beirut, Lebanon B.A. and Emma R. Leon gave
birth to attorney Maurice Leon, the stepson of Professor Richard J.H. Gottheil
who in 1894 came to the United States where he was “instrumental in getting the
French government its first war loans in the United States” in the amount of
ten million dollars and organized in 1915 the “double anniversary of the birth
of General Lafayette and the Battle of the Marne” while being active in the
Republican Party and writing such books as The Problem of Aggression in 1943.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/10/11/93581886.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1882: In
Baltimore, MD, Benjamin Hopkins and Fannie Kahn gave birth toe John Hopkins
trained physician and Captain in the Medical Reserve of the United States Army
Solomon Strouse who married Edith J. Mayer in Chicago while he was serving as
an attending physician at Michael Rseese and an associate professor of medicine
at Northwestern University.
1882: As the Freight Handlers’ Strike continues to
slow down commercial activity in New York and New Jersey, foreign born
strike-breakers including150 Russian Jews were kept busy at the piers of the
Empire and Star Union Lines. Other foreign born workers including those from
Germany and Italy were work elsewhere on the docks.
1882: The Board of Estimate and Apportionment met in
the Mayor’s office today and awarded $27,427.98 to a variety of charitable
institutions including $1,433.81 to the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
1882: “A Noble Hebrew Charity” published today
reported that the newly opened Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews in Yonkers is
the first of its kind to be built and furnished by the B’nai B’rith. The plan
is to build an orphanage on the same grounds once funds are available. Both facilities are for the use members and
their families. The home has a capacity
for approximately 250 men and women.
1882: According to reports from Odessa (Russia), the
District Court of Tiraspol (Moldavia) has sentenced the “anti-Semites” who
killed one Jew and injured several others during riots at Dubosari (Moldavia)
in April. The guilty parties have been
deprived of their civil rights and transportation (to Siberia) for three years.
1882: It was reported today that the Sultan is about
to issue a “firman” granting Jewish refugees the right to settle in parts of
North Syria and Mesopotamia
1883: “Pauper Immigrants” published today described
the quandary faced by the Emigration Commissioners in dealing with those
arriving on ships from Great Britain who appeared to be indigent. According to
the Attorney General of New York, those without funds would be admitted only if
they could prove that they had friends who were willing and able to care for
them. The deliberations never mentioned Russian or Romanian Jews, but they
would obviously be affected by the ruling. [Editor’s Note – Immigration policy
disputes are not a 21st century invention.]
1884: The Jewish quarter was pillaged today during
anti-Semitic riots in Algiers.
1884: The Mound Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio
was the scene of today’s graduation exercises for those who have successfully
completed the course of study at the Hebrew Union College, which describes
itself as the only Rabbinical College in the United States. The class of five was the second to
graduate. All of last year’s graduates
are employed. So far, one member of this
year’s class has been hired by a congregation in Leavenworth, Kansas and the
others expect job offers within the near future.
1886: Birthdate of LaSalle, Illinois orphan and
University of Michigan alum Harry Lachman, a painter and film director” who was
“a friend of Picasso, Renoir, Matisse and Monet.”
1887: It was reported today that the Hebrew
Technical Institute on Stuyvesant Street is beginning new classes that will
include instruction in mechanical drawing, word working, clay modeling and
metal working as well as math, physics and English. The full course of instruction takes three
years to complete. [The emphasis on vocational education reflects the need to
provide skills for eastern European Jews who did not know how to compete in the
industrial world of their new home country.]
1888: In Paris, Jules Halphen and Marie
Rodrigues-Péreire gave birth to Noémie Halphen, the granddaughter of financier
Eugène Péreire of the Sephardic-Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were
banking rivals of the Rothschilds who gained fame as philanthropist Noemie de
Rothschild, the wife of Maurice de Rothschild and mother Edmond Adolphe de
Rothschild
1889(30th of Sivan, 5649): Rosh Chodesh
Tammuz and on the Jewish calendar, the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Moses Najara of
Damascus.
1889: Birthdate of Russian native, Esther Cohen
Belsky, the resident of Massachusetts and wife of Charles Eizia Belsky wit whom
she had five children – Gloria, Abraham, Frederick, Robert and Theodore.
1890: In Rochester, NY, Sarah Davis and Morris Jacob
Henshel, the husband of Harry Davis Henshel and a member of the board of
directors of the Y.M.H.A.NY who was vice president of the S.S. Corporation and starting
in 1919, President of the Hensel Company.
1890: “Arrested For Arons published today described
claims by authorities that they have affidavits from witnesses claiming they
saw Samson Hiedenheimer, a prominent Galveston, TX Jewish businessman set fired
to the Standard Oil Mill and then drive off in a buggy with his brother Isaac
Heidenheimer. The Heidenheimers own the
company and it is alleged they burned it to collect insurance money.
1891: In Xanten, Prussia, the libelous charges of
ritual murder were uttered publicly. The rise of anti-Semitism culminating in
this libel resulted in an exodus of Jews from Germany to the United States and
other countries.
1891: Serious “anti—Semitic riots are reported” to
have broken out in Kherson in southern Russia.
1892: “Will Challenge De Mores” published today
described the plans of Captain Andre Crémieu-Foa,
a Jew serving in the French army to fight a duel with Marquis de Mores after he
has stood trial for killing Captain Armand Mayer. De Mores has already fought a duel with
Eduard Drumont following his articles in Libre
Parole claiming that Jews have too much control over the French Army
1892: “In a letter to his mentor Josef Breuer,
Sigmund Freud makes his first references to the ‘unconscious’ and to
unconscious motivation.”
1893(15th of Tammuz, 5653): Thirty-three-year-old
historian Julius Aronius who was working on a history of the Jews of Germany
during the Middle Ages which gave “in chronological order, under each date, an
abstract of every entry in the medieval chronicles and documents relating to
the Jews of Germany” at the time of his death today in Rastenburg.
1895: Annie Silverman, the wife of Wolf Silverman
passed away today in New York.
1895: “Homeless and Destitute Jews” published today
relies on information that first appeared in The London Daily News to described
the plight of the “nearly two hundred Jews” who have been left “homeless and
destitute” by the terrible fire at Brest-Litovsk. The refugees are being take care of by the
Hebrew Benevolent Association at Odessa.
1896: Birthdate of Boris Podollsky, the Russian born
American physicist who worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen, the father
of Dr. Joe Rosen.
1896: Two days after he passed away, seventy-seven
Hannah Nathan (nee Hart) who had been married to Morris Horowitz before she
married Moses Nathan was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1896: Herzl leaves Turkey in possession of the
“Commander’s Cross of the Order of the Medjidje” as visible evidence
of the seriousness of the negotiations. On the way back to Vienna, Herzl spends
a few hours in Sofia. He his conducted to the Zionist Society and the
synagogue. Hundreds of people cheer him.
1896: “Julius S. Abecasis, the well-known rubber
broker” and prominent member of the Sephardic community in New York, was
injured today “in a collision between his bicycle and an express wagon driven
by Charles Reilly.
1897: “The Hebrew Technical School for Girls held
its commencement exercises today at the school building on Henry Street.”
1897(29th of Sivan, 5657): Sixty-five-year-old
Solomon Bloomfield, a member of the Free Sons of Israel, died this morning at
Mt. Sinai Hospital. A native of Germany,
he came to this country 40 years settling first in New York before moving to
California where he operated a successful tobacco business. Upon returning to
New York “he opened a shoe store on Sixth Avenue” which he continued to operate
“until two years ago when he retired.”
1897: “Jews Persecuted in Persia” published today
described reports by the United States Minister of Persia of a recent Muslim
invasion of the Jewish quarter in Teheran. His appeal to the Shah failed to
improve matters since “the officers sent to protect” them “extorted all their
money.”
1898: Today University of Cincinnati graduate HUC
ordained rabbi, Dr. Frederick Cohn the East Attleboro, MA born son of Bertha
Hartman and Joseph Cohn, and the holder of a Ph.D. from the University of
Nebraska who was a member of the board of directors of Omaha Jewish Welfare
Federation, married Esther Kleimen Hagan.
1898: Luigi Luzzatti, the second Jew to serve as
Prime Minister of Italy, completed his first stint as Minister of the Treasury.
1900: The Prinzessin Victoria Luise a German
passenger ship of the Hamburg-America Line of some 4,409 gross register tons
credited with having been the first purpose-built cruise ship which was built
after Albert Ballin, the director of the Hamburg-American Line envisioned the
project and order it built, was launched today.
1901(12th of Tammuz, 5661): Parashat
Chukat-Balak
1901: It was reported today that according to
figures “contained in the preliminary report on the census of Ireland, there
are now 3,769 Jews living on the island which represents an increase of 1,990
from the last head count.
1901: “Our London Cable” published today took note
of the recent death of composer Charles Kensington Salaman author of The
Jews as They Published which contained an “ingenious chapter entitled
‘Shylock from a Jewish Point of View’.” (Editor’s note – the item did not
mention that this distinguished musician was Jewish.)
1902:” A Museum of Peace and War” published today
described the opening of the museum in Lucerned found by the late Russian
financier, economist and author of The Future of War, Jan Gotlib Bloch
who was born Jewish but converted to Calvinism.
1903: In New York City, real estate developer
Abraham Felt and his wife gave birth to Wharton graduate James Felt who
followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather when he went into to
the real estate business instead of becoming a Rabbi and went on to become the
Chairman of the City Planning Commission
1903: Birthdate of Alan Blumlein, English engineer,
who played a key role in developing electronic equipment for the RAF that was
critical in holding the Germans at bay in the years following the fall of
France in 1940.
1904: In Louisville, KY, The Committee on Synod
delivered its report to conference of Reform Rabbis that favored the
establishment of “a synod to for the central government of the church” which
would be the most important step taken since the start of the Reform movement
because up until now, each congregation has acted in a virtually autonomous
manner.
1904: Today, in Scranton, PANYU trained attorney
Henry B. Singer, the Carbondale, PA son of Samuel and Dorothea Singer married
Frances Moses who as Frances Moses
Singer was active in the Red Cross and who during World War Two worked for
“Bundles for Britain” and made “kits for wounded soldiers under the auspices of
the Ladies Auxiliary of Temple Emanu-El.”
1905: It was reported today that fervor of
revolution “has spread to the cities in the Jewish Pale in all the old Polish
provinces along the border of Russian Poland proper” and in Kiev about 200 Jews
“were ridden down by gendarmes and Cossacks” after they had been found carrying
a red flag and shouted “Down with the war!”
1905: Today, twenty-eight-year-old Berlin University
Ph.D. Ludwick Silberstein, the Warsaw born son of Emily and Silberstein married
Rose Eisenman while serving as professor of mathematical physics at the
University of Rome and after which he went on to be a researcher of Eastman
Koka and lecturer at Cornell, the University of Chicago and Toronto University.
1906: Birthdate of Port Arthur, TX, native and
Harvard Law School graduate Irving Loeb Goldberg, the WW II naval veteran who
capped his legal career by serving as Judge of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
1906: Birthdate of San Francisco native Benjamin A.
“Benny” Lom, the three-season all-star halfback at the University of
California, Berkley “best known for his attempt to stop a team mate from
running the “wrong way” in the 1929 Rose Bowl
1907(17th of Tammuz, 5667): Parashat
Balak
1907: The 120 delegates attending the Zionist
Conventions in Tannersville, NY, did not transact any business today because it
was Shabbat.
1908: Birthdate of Dr. Cyrus H. Gordon, American
Jewish archaeological scholar. Dr. Cyrus H. Gordon was a scholar of Near
East culture and a leading expert on ancient languages. Dr. Gordon was
professor of Near Eastern studies at Brandeis University from 1956 to 1973 and
chairman of its department of Mediterranean studies from 1958 to 1973. He was a
professor of Hebrew studies at New York University from 1973 to 1989, when he
retired. In part, his claim to fame came from his writings on Ugaritic, an
ancient language spoken in part of what is today
is modern Syria. Based on his linguistic and other
studies, Dr. Gordon believed that the Greeks and the Israelites had a common
cultural origin. Dr. Gordon passed away in 2001.
1909: Twenty-five-year-old NYU trained attorney
Louis Brodsky, the Russian born son of Sarah and Ely and Brodsky who went on to
become a Judge in the Magistrates Court in New York City while serving a
Chairman of Borough Park Branch of Keren Hayesod and a director of the Hebrew
Orphan Home, today married Rebecca Nieberg in New York City.
1909: “Money Spent to Guard Jews” published today
described plans by the reactionaries governing Odessa to “bring an action
against” those governing the city in 1909 for the misuse funds because among
other things, they spent a large amount of money “for the maintenance of a
special militia against the anti-Jewish outbreaks.”
1910:
Birthdate of composer Frank Loesser. Loesser wrote such Broadway hits as
“Guys and Dolls” and “How To Succeed in Business Without Trying.” He
won an Oscar for “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” He passed away
in 1969.
1911:
In Los Angeles, The American Medical Association elected 85 year old Dr.
Abraham Jacob, “a specialist in children’s diseases” who “took part in the
German revolution of 1848 and came to the United States as refugee, to serve as
President making him the first person to be so chosen who was not a convention
attendee.
1911:
Birthdate of Polish native and Holocaust survivor Laura Ellenbogen.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-card/laura-ellenbogen
1911:
Joseph Seligman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Seligman is scheduled to
marry Josephine Knowles of Pensacola, FL, in Massawittie Lodge in North Hatley,
Canada.
1911:
Birthdate of composer Bernard Herrmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from
Russia who created the theme music of a whole host of films. He created the music for the Orson Wells’
classics, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Amberson. He was a favorite of Alfred Hitchcock for
whom provided the theme muic for Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, North by
Northwest and Psycho. He passed away in
1975. Herrmann is another example of the
Jewish role in creating modern American culture.
1912:
According to today’s issue of Scientific American, the U.S. Secretary of
War selected a special board of officers to investigate the accident that
killed test pilot Arthur L. Welsh and his passenger, Lieut. Leighton
Hazelhurst, officer-aviator of the U.S. Signal Corps. The investigation would
place the blame on Welsh. Investigators
reported that Welsh and Hazelhurst were testing out a new weight-carrying
military biplane just delivered for trial by the Wright Company. They began a
climbing test of 200 feet a minute for 10 minutes with a weight of 450 pounds,
and fuel for four hours. The investigation stated that Welsh rose to about 150
feet in order to dive at an angle of about 45 degrees to gain momentum for a
sharp rise. The report concluded that the reversal occurred too suddenly. The
Welsh family did not agree with the outcome of the investigation. Welsh’s “widow always believed that the War
Department pushed too hard for tests that were sure to fail. On the day of the
crash, not only was Welsh carrying too much of a load, but he also carried his
passenger and was expected to climb too quickly and too high when you consider
the weight. Too much was expected.” Regardless of which view one believes,
the final word on Welsh’s career may be been written by General “Hap” Arnold,
the five star general who served in both the U.S. Army Air Forces and the newly
created U.S. Air Force. In a 1930 letter to Welsh’s sister, Arnold wrote,
“The pioneers in the aviation game were the ones who took all the risks
and received little in exchange for their daring. Al was one of those
pioneers.” In his book Global Mission, Arnold wrote: “He had
taught me all he knew, or rather, he had taught me all he could teach. He knew
much more.”
1912:
Birthdate of Lucie Bernard who married Raymond Samuel, the French Jewish
engineer who gained fame as Raymond Aubrac and she gained fame as Lucie Aubrac
his fellow fighter against the Nazi occupation.
1913:
The convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United
States and Canada which was founded 15 years ago is scheduled to open this
morning at the Uptown Talmud Torah.
1913:
In New York, Tifereth Israel dedicated its new synagogue.
1913:
In Manhattan, formation of Temple of Moses Anshe Trob.
1913:
Birthdate of Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro, the scion of “a prominent Sephardi
family” who converted to Christianity and served as an MK for the Conservative
Party.
1913:
In New York dedication of Temple Moses Anshe Trob
1913:
Start of the Second Balkan War.
1914:
In McKeesport, PA, Sam and Lena Spiegel gave birth to Herbert Spiegel, the
famous physician who “treated pain, anxiety and addictions by putting people
into a trance.” (As reported by Benedict Carey)
1914:
In Rochester, NY, the convention of the Federation of the American Zionists
which Max Schulmam of the Knights of Zion and Miss Bessie Schulman of the
“Hoachuzah Order are attending as delegates is scheduled to continue for a
second day.
1914:
A day after the Austro-Hungarians declared war on the Serbians, Czar Nicholas
sent a telegram to Kaiser Wilhelm II suggesting “submitting the
Austrian-Serbian problem to the Hague Convention” for resolution.
1915(17th
of Tammuz, 5675) Tzom Tammuz
1915:
Rabbi Moses G. Gries, the president of the of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, delivered an address today the its 26th convention
in which he said that “the fate of half the Jews of the world is trembling in
the balance as a result of the great war in Europe” in part because, “millions
of Jews in want and wretchedness now experience intensified cruelty.”
1916:
Isidore Hershfield, Director of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society
who has just returned from the European War Zone “declared in a meeting at
Carnegie Hall that in occupied Russia alone, 750,000 Jews were on the verge of
starvation” and he urged immediate relief measures” to alleviate their
suffering including “the prompt shipment of foodstuffs to the staring districts
of Poland, Courland, Lithuania and Galicia.”
1916(28th
of Sivan, 5676): Sixty-two-year-old
“communal worker” Charles Jacobs passed away today in Glasgow, Scotland.
1916:
Twenty-eight-year-old Columbia trained chemist Michael Heidelberger, the New
York born son of Fannie and David Heidelberg who was a researcher at
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the author of numerous works on
chemistry married Nia Tachau today in Philadelphia.
1917:
John Sloan wrote to Abraham F. Levinson saying that he was welcome to come to
Gloucester, MA where he could stay ‘and perhaps work indoors.’
1917:
“British, French, Russian and Italian Ministers at the Hauge made joint
representations to the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs asking that the
Netherlands Minster at Constantinople be instructed to approach the Turkish
Government and to request that in the name of humanity, a stop be put to Jewish
persecutions.”
1918:
“Yiddish conversation was prohibited in the streets” of Romania.
1918:
Consecration of the Dalston Talmud Torah in London.
1919:
“Sahara” a silent film with music Hugo Riesenfeld was released today in the
United States.
1919:
Soldiers, sailors and marines who are in uniform were admitted free of charge
at this evening’ dance hosted by the Chicago Hebrew Institute.
1919:
This afternoon, The Maccabee School is scheduled to host “entertainment” in the
Social Hall of the Administration Building of the C.H.I.
1919:
The 21st Annual Convention of the Progressive Order of the West
ended today in Chicago.
1919:
In New York City, “Edgar J. and Mabel (Untergerg) Nathan gave birth to Yale
University trained attorney and U.S.A.A WW II veteran Edgar J. Nathan, the
husband of Ruth Gottesman with whom he had three children while serving as
Judge for the United States District Court and as President of Congregation
Shearith Israel in NYC.
1920:
Thirty-nine-year-old Johns Hopkins and University of California educated
mathematician Benjamin Abram Bernstein, the Lithuania born son of Wolfe and
Chaija Bernstein married Rose Davidson today while serving as an associate
professor of mathematics at the University of California.
1920:
Dr Adolph Werner, professor emeritus of the City College who died last August
at the age of 80 “left an estate that was appraised at $91, 2525 net in the
Surrogates’ Court today/
1920:
Colonel Gustav Porgas was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal today.
1920:
Harry Levy Services Corp, a Manhattan film agency located at 525 Riverside
Drive was chartered today
1920:
This evening in Rochester, NY, “Miss Sadie Huyla Rose, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard Rose” married Rabbi Baruch Weilerstein, the spiritual leader of
“Temple Emanu-El of Borough Park in Brooklyn.
1921:
Today, twenty-six-year-old Harvard Law School trained attorney and officer in
the Naval Reserve during WW I Henry Epstein, the Port Royal, SC born son
married Ethel Maxwell Steuer, the mother of Alan and Eric Steurer who was a
member of Temple Israel in Rockaway, NY and a member of the Intercollegiate
Menorah Association.
1921:
Dr. Emil G. Hirsh, the Rabbi of Chicago’s Temple Sinai, officiated at the
marriage of Mrs. Edith R. Sulzberger the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald
and Edgar B. Stern of New Orleans. This
Stern should not be confused with Alfred K. Stern who is the fiancée of Edith’s
sister Marion.
1922:
Birthdate of Trondheim native Lilly Dvoretsky, the seamstress who was deported
from Norway February of 1943 aboard the Gotenland
and murdered at Auschwitz in March of 1943.
1922:
Birthdate of Ottawa born Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Officer Lawrence
Balfour who enlisted in 1940 and was killed almost three years to the day later
after which he was buried in Cheshire, UK.
1923:
According to reports published today the land purchased by “Mary Fels, the
prominent Zionist and widow of Joseph Fels will be opened to the “colonists of
Petach Tikvah and Zichron Yaakv.”
1923:
Meyer Dizengoff, Mayor of Tel Aviv, addresses a letter to the New York Times
thanking everybody from the Mayor on down for the hospitality shown to him
during his recent trip to New York. He
expressed his hope that the “first Jewish city” would benefit from the things
shown him including the city’s public utility system.
1923:
Thirty-two-year-old NYU and JTS graduate Israel Elfenbein, the Austrian born
son of Elaykim and Rebecca Elfensbein married Etta Hurwitz today which serving as the rabbi at Hunts Point
Jewish Center in the Bronx,
1924(27th
of Sivan, 5684):Seventy-five-year-old Joseph Martin Raub, the New Jersey born
son of Elizabeth Koch and Philip Raub and the husband of Ophelia Clarik with
whom he had two children – Bertha and Joseph – passed away today in Brooklyn
1924: Birthdate of composer Ezra
Laderman, a leading 20th century classical composer. He has won the Rome Prize and several
Guggenheim Fellowships. He has taught at
several leading institutions including Sarah Laurence and has been the visiting
composer at Yale.
1925: In Oradour, Jean Hebras, “a
veteran of World War I, led a team in charge of upkeep of the local tramway and
made extra money delivering telegram” and his wife Marie gave birth to “Robert
Hébras, who, shielded under dead bodies, survived an infamous 1944 massacre in
which members of an SS Panzer division killed almost everyone in the village of
Oradour-sur-Glane in France…” (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/world/europe/robert-hebras-dead.html
1925: In Brooklyn, baker Sam Storch
and his wife Bessie gave birth to actor and producer Arthur Storch. (As
reported by Paul Vitello)
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/theater/arthur-storch-theater-director-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=0
1926: In Buffalo, NY, action to hasten the extension of
the Jewish agency to include the non-Zionists as well as Zionists in the
upbuilding of Palestine as the Jewish homeland was taken in a resolution
adopted at this afternoon’s session here of the convention of the Zionists organization
of America.
1926: Salomon Kornfeld, the eighty-one-year-old cantor who
arrived on the Deutschland on June 28th to his visit his sister Mrs.
Rebecca Adelstein at Cleveland, whom he had not seen for 69 years, went to
Ellis Island” today after which he was admitted to the United States for three
months under a $500 bond.
1926(17th of Tammuz, 5686): Tzom Tammuz
1926: “We Belong to the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment” a
silent film directed, produced and written by Richard Oswald and starring Frit
Spiral was released in Germany today.
1926: Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of
Canada. In 1925, while serving as leader
of the “loyal opposition” he spoke during ceremonies dedicating the new Hebrew
University. Echoing traditional English-Canadian views on the Holy Land and
Jewish restoration, Meighen said, “Of all the results” of World War “none is
more important and more fertile in human history than the re-conquest of
Palestine and the rededication of that country to the Jewish people.” Meighen
went on to express the hope that “Jews in Canada [would] take a proper pride in
this great event and that the sons of generations to come may go back to the
land of their destiny.”
1927: In Vienna, the former Anna Kahane and Kalman
Rubinger gave birth to Israeli photojournalist David Ruginger.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/david-rubinger-12-iconic-photos-of-israel/
1928(11th of Tammuz, 5688): Morris Rich, founder of Atlanta’s
famed Rich’s Department Store, passed away.
1929(21st of Sivan, 5689): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1929(21st of Sivan, 5689): Rabbi William Lowenberg, who
had been born in 1854, passed away today in Philadelphia.
1929: “Two of the biggest and most successful department stores in
the United States became one today when R.H. Macy Co. announced the purchase of
L. Bamberger Co. of Newark following negotiations begun ten days ago.”
1929: Birthdate of Lalla Fatima Zohra the wife of Moulay Ali
Alaoui, the Moroccan prince who was one of the two principal negotiators with
the Israelis in Operation Yakhin that made it possible for almost 100,000 Jews
to leave the country and go to Israel.
1929: After his first wife passed in 1927, today in the New Kahal
Chassidim Synagogue, Titanic survivor Abraham Joseph Hyman married the “widow
Esther Libbert, née Rosengrass” whose husband, the jeweler Abraham Libbert”
with whom she had had two children – Jack and Fanny
1929:
Birthdate of Edgar Bronfman, Sr. CEO of Seagram’s until 1994
1930: Birthdate of producer Robert Evans
1930: In Cleveland, “Zionist leaders from all parts
of the United States are scheduled to attend the unveiling of the Fountain in
the center of the Philosopher’s Circle which is the first unit of the Hebrew
Gardens.”
1931: The Seventeenth World Zionist Congress is
scheduled to open in Basle.
1932: Birthdate of British poet and critic Philip
Dennis Hobsbaum.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/07/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
1932: The Dow Jones industrial average dipped to 42
and Roy R. Neuberger married Marie Salant, a graduate in economics from Bryn
Mawr who had gone to work in the research department of Halle & Stieglitz
two years earlier.
1933: It was reported today that “London Jews are
being asked to close their shops and or other businesses places on July 20 when
the United Jewish Protest Committee has arranged to hold an all-Jewish
demonstration to arouse indignation against Hitlerite policies.”
1933: German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen is in
Rome in the hopes of “preparing the ground for the conclusion of a concordat
placing the relations between the Holy See and Reich on a clear and permanent
basis.”
1933: Birthdate of Brooklyn native and Syracuse
University graduate Robert Morton Fass, who gained fame as radio pioneer and
iconoclast Bob Fass.
1933(5th of Tammuz, 5693): Seventy-year-old
Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart, née Bischoffsheim who has been called
‘”the most important Jewish woman in Irish history” passed away
today.
1934: Birthdate of Alan Cohen who gained fame as
Corey Allen “an American film and television director, writer, producer, and
actor… be best known for playing the character Buzz Gunderson in Nicholas Ray’s
1955 film classic, “Rebel Without a Cause.”
1934: It was reported today that “shirt manufacturers
throughout New York City have organized a special division of the Trades
Council of the United Jewish Appeal has raised more than five thousand dollars
for the relief and rehabilitation of the Jews of Germany.”
1935(28th of Sivan, 5695): Parashat
Sh’lach
1935: General Sessions Judge Otto A Rosalsky set
sail tonight on the Cunnard White Star ship Majestic.
1936: Rumania was wracked with widespread
“anti-Semitic and Fascist agitation today” during which several Jews “were
wounded.”
1936: In Tirguocna, Rumania, anti-Semitic students
forced a boycott of Jewish shops while “a number of Jews were beaten” and the
windows of their stores and homes were smashed.
1936: The
Palestine Post reported that a government school was set on fire in Jaffa.
Sniping continued on convoys of buses traveling on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem-Hebron roads. The long-awaited reply of the Arab Higher Committee
addressed to the High Commissioner and the Colonial Office stated that the
British government continued to ignore all its undertakings given to the Arab
people.
1936: In Saratoga Springs, NY, Governor Lehman
addressed the convention of the Independent Order of B’rith Abraham today
during which “he advocated the founding of more Jewish community centers
declaring ‘the future depends upon the integrity, intelligence and character of
our youth.’”
1936: The newly formed American League for Religious
Liberty “composed of Catholics, Protestant and Jews” of which Governor Lehman
is one of the honorary chairmen, “began a national campaign today to unite
Americans religious persecution”
1937: Leon Blum began serving as Vice-Premier of
France.
1937: At a public meeting marking the closing of the
40th anniversary convention of the Zionist Organization of America,
United States Senator Robert F. Wagner told the delegates that “Great Britain
must honor her objection to the Jews in Palestine and America has the right to
expect her to do so.”
1937: In Bulgaria, the latest anti-Semitic attacks
took place tonight when a ‘bombing attempt was made against a synagogue” at the
same time that “the explosion of an infernal machine at Varna…wrecked a Jewish
merchant’s house.”
1937: In San Antonio, policeman conducted a
“violent” raid on the headquarters of the Worker’s Alliance which was condemned
by Ephraim Firish the rabbi at Temple Beth-El a reform congregation in this
southwest Texas city.
1938: “The Voelkischer Beobachter, the official Nazi
organ, today published the names of 7,126 Vienna Jews ‘temporarily removed’
from the list of practicing lawyers.
1938: “In the Augruarten, the park in the Second
District or center of the Jewish population in Vienna, Jewish women were forced
to cut grass and afterward groups of Hitler Youths accompanied by Storm
Troopers raided many houses and forced Jewish men and women to come out and
paint on the walls of the Augarten ‘Entry to this park is prohibited to Jews.’”
1938 (30th of Sivan, 5698): Chanting the song of the
Revisionist party and dressed in its uniform, 19-year-old Solomon ben Yosef
steadily walked to the gallows in the troop-surrounded prison at Acre at 8 A.
M. He was sentenced to be hanged by the British for alleged terrorist
activities, which in fact consisted of being part of a group that scared away
Arabs by firing a shot in the air. His last words were “Yechi Jabotinsky
(Long live Jabotinsky); Lamut o Lichbosh et Hahar (To die or take the mountain)”
after which he sang “Hatikvah.” No Rabbi was present since today was Rosh
ChodeshTammuz. In fact, some Jews had hoped that the British might use this as
an excuse for commuting his death sentence. British airplanes, policemen and
troops tonight patrolled a Palestine which had been made tense by the hanging
of the Jewish youth.
1939: Thirteen
Arabs were killed and four wounded in shooting outrages in the early hours of
this morning in Southern Palestine. Two of the victims were shot dead on the
outskirts of Tel Aviv. In general, Jewish opinion condemns the attacks on
innocent Arab civilians. “This evening’s
edition of the daily Davar headlines all its news with this bold type
query: ‘Who will put an end to the outrages that sully our struggle and ruin
our population.’” The attacks are seen as a reaction to the new British land law
that “is regarded even by moderates as flagrant breach of faith on the part of
Great Britain to the Jews.”
1939: “Early this morning a boat carrying 742 Jewish
immigrants trying to land clandestinely without visas was apprehended by the
Coast Guard near Gaza”. The passengers
were taken by train to Haifa. If they
are released, their number will be deducted from small quota of “legal Jews”
who will be allowed to enter Palestine.
1940(23rd of Sivan, 5700): Parashat
Korach
1940: As the effects of the humiliating defeat of
the French become more evident it was announced toay that The Franco-German
commission for carrying out the terms of the armistice will begin to function
tomorrow and Spanish Army officers led by General Lopez Pinto promised
“material and moral support to Germany.”
1941 (4th of Tammuz, 5701): In Jassy, Rumania;
soldiers and police, under the watch of the SS, kill over 260 Jews. 5,000 other
Jews are stripped of all belongings and then placed into cattle cars, (over 100
in each), and sent to Mirteshet. On the way over 600 Jews would die. Once there
another 327 would die. Within an eight-day period, over 2,500 people would die
during the train ride.
1941: Nazis murdered the male Jews of Drobian,
Lithuania.
1941: Nazi forces led by the 291st
Infantry Division captured Liepāja, Latvia which led to a series of massacres
of the Jewish population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liep%C4%81ja_massacres#/media/File:LiepajaLatvia1941.jpg
1942: One-year anniversary of the founding of the
Judenrat in Bialystok. A quote from Ephraim Barash’s diary captured
the feelings of the time, “It is lucky that we cannot foresee the
future, for if we could, we would not have lived and reached the present stage.
There is no place for optimism in the ghetto.”
1942(14th of Tammuz, 5702): Armed Jewish
resistance takes place at Slonim, Belorussia. The Germans burn Jews to death,
killing nearly 15,000.
1942:
A 13-year-old girl in Amsterdam who would gain fame as Anne Frank wrote in the
diary which she had received as a birthday present only eight days before:
“I want to write, but, more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of
things that lie buried deep in my heart.”
1942: A second gas chamber begins functioning
at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1942:
The Blue Network broadcast the last episode of “I Love a Mystery” sponsored by
Fleischmann’s Yeast and featuring Tony Randall (Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg).
1943 (26th of Sivan, 5703): South of Warsaw,
five Poles are shot for hiding four Jews. The latter also are shot.
1943 (26th of Sivan, 5703): At the Biala-Waka
labor camp near Vilna, Lithuania, 67 inmates are shot as reprisal for the
escape of six Jews to a nearby forest.
1943(26th
of Sivan, 5703): Fifty-three-year-old Polish born cantor and composer Elias
Zaludkowsiki who had served as chazzan for synagogues in New York and Detroit
before assuming that position at Beth Sholam in Pittsburgh passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/06/30/87420647.pdf
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/07/elyohu-zaludkovski-elias-zaludkowski.html
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32592&
1944:”
Some nervousness has been occasioned in Arab circles by the nomination of
Governor Dewey as the Republican candidate for President, and a report printed
in the press” in Cairo “that his party intended to include in its platform a
plank or declaration urging the British to implement the Balfour Declaration on
Palestine”
1944:
It was reported today that Under-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius had
announced “at a Jewish Unity Dinner honoring Representative Sol Bloom that the
British Government had just agreed to the establishment of a new war refugee
haven in one of the former Italian colonies in Libya.”
1945:
Churchill writes to Weizmann justifying his decision to continue the White
Paper of 1939 by reminding the Jewish leaders that many Conservative MP’s were
opposed to the Zionist cause and that many members of the Labor Party were
adopting the view as well. He urged
Weizmann to stop looking to the British and seek support from the United States
to gain the opening of Palestine to Jewish immigration.
1945:
Sir Louis Halle Gluckstein “was appointed as a King’s Counsel” today.
1946:
Birthdate of Zvi (Mickey) Har-Even (Harivan), the son of Sylvia and Aurel who
emigrated from Romania in 1950. He died
at the age of 22 while serving on board the Submarine Dakar.
1946: This day was the Black Sabbath in Pre-state
Israel. In the largest operation to date, thousands of British soldiers and
policemen raid kibbutzim looking for hidden weapons. The British arrested 2,700
Jews living legally in Palestine in an attempt to destroy the Yishuv. The
British dubbed this action “Operation Agatha” and Kibbutz Yagur, an important
center for the Haganah, was a major focal point for their raids. The British claimed their actions were part
of a plan to stamp out terrorism. Apparently, there were no Arab terrorists
since no Arabs we arrested.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/black-sabbath-june-1946
http://www.etzel.org.il/english/ac09.htm
1946: A scheduled luncheon meeting between Abba
Eban and Moshe Sharett is cancelled amid reports that the British are arresting
large numbers of Zionist leaders.
1947: In Brooklyn, “Bill Lewis, owner of a kosher
catering business” and Blanche Goldberg gave birth Ohio State University alum
Richard Philip Lewis who began a career as a standup comic in the 1970’s
http://www.richardlewisonline.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/arts/television/richard-lewis-dead.html
1947(11th of Tammuz, 5707): Judge Isaac Siegel, a
Republican politician who had represented New York’s 20th District
in the House of Representatives, passed away.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000404
1947: “Of the Unknowable” published today provided a
review of Challenge of the Unknown: Exploring the Psychic World by Louis K.
Anspacher which was described as “one of the most ambitious general
commentaries on psychic matters that has ever been attempted.”
1948: Mike Flanagan Irishman who fought in the
British army during World War II and participated in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp in 1945 and his friend and tank commander Harry McDonald,
broke into a military base near the Haifa airport, stole the two tanks and
drove them to Tel Aviv where Hagana operatives were waiting.
1948: Meir
Tobianski, native of Kovna who joined the Haganah and was working as an
engineer for the Jerusalem electricity company swore allegiance to the newly
created IDF.
1948: Al Freeman arrived in Israel to serve as pilot
with 101 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force.
1948: Birthdate of William “Billy” Keyserling” the
native of Beaufort, SC and grandson of immigrant Jews who after earning degrees
from Brandeis University and Boston University pursued a career in politics
that was capped by becoming Mayor of his hometown.
1949(2nd of Tammuz, 5709): Eighty-seven-year-old
Dr. David Philipson, a native of Wabash, IN, who became a leader of the Reform
movement whose literary works included The Reform Movement in Judaism
and Old European Jewries passed away today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30614FA395B167B93C2AA178DD85F4D8485F9
1949: “The Great Sinner” directed by Robert Siodmak,
produced by Gottfried Reinhardt and co-starring Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard
Hesselberg) was released in the United States today.
1949: In Tel Aviv, Ted Arison, co-founder of
Carnival Corporation and Minna Arison gave birth to Micky Arison an
Israeli-American businessman and the Chief Executive Officer of Carnival
Corporation, the world’s largest cruise operator, and owner of the NBA’s Miami
Heat. At one time, Forbes magazine places Arison’s wealth at $6.1
billion, making him the 94th wealthiest person in the world as of 2006. He is
the son of the late Ted Arison, Carnival Corporation’s founder and the brother
of Shari Arison reputed to be the wealthiest woman in Israel. While Arison is a resident of Miami, he
maintains a home in Israel.
1949:
Tonight, “at a dinner given by the UJA at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in memory
of Dr. Stephen S. Wise,’ former Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who had just
returned from a trip to Israel “said that the faith of Israelis in their future
was based in no small measure on the encouragement and support that has been
given them by the American Jewish community” while providing “a serious
appraisal of the enormous problems” still confronting the newly formed state.
1950: “The Next Voice You Hear” produced by Dore
Schaty and with music by David Raskin released in the United States today.
1951: The
Jerusalem Post reported that the zone limits scheme, imposed on the public
by the Ministry of Transportation in order to save foreign currency, will
continue. M.S. Tamar, Zim’s newest fruit-carrier vessel, was launched in
Holland.
1951: “The Prince who was a Thief” produced by
Leonard Goldstein and starring Tony Curtis premiered in Detroit, Michigan.
1952: Travel writer Diana Rice describes the
progress being made on constructing the Nordeau Plaza Hotel in Tel Aviv. The hotel is scheduled to open in September.
The four million dollar seaside structure boasts luxury suites, a variety of
shops intended to attract tourists and a banquet hall that will seat 1,000.
1952(5th of Tammuz, 5712): Parshat Korach
1952(5th of Tammuz, 5712): Sixty-four-year-old
Nathan David Perlman whose career included serving in the House of
Representative, “justice of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New
York” and as “a senior official of the American Jewish Congress” passed away
today at Beth Israel Hospital.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990DE4D6143AE23BBC4850DFB0668389649EDE
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nathan-david-perlman
1952(5th of Tammuz, 5712): Seventy-nine-year-old
attorney Isaac Calhoun Straus, the Florence, SC born son of Alfred A. Straus, a
native of German and the former Amelia Weinberg, a native of South Carolina who
was president of the Palmetto Insurance Company, president of the Sumter Trust
company and president of Congregation Sinai in Sumter, SC passed away today.
1954: After its premiere in New York City “About
Mrs. Leslie” directed by Daniel Mann, produced by Hal Wallis and with a script
co-authored by Hal Kanter opened in Los Angeles today.
1954: The Atomic Energy Commission refused to
reinstate the security clearance of Robert J. Oppenheimer, the “father of the
Atomic Bomb.” This might be seen as a
case of Jew v Jew since Edward Teller testified against Oppenheimer and Lewis
Strauss, chairman of the commission, had pushed for the revocation in the first
place.
1955: Haim-Moshe
Shapira succeeds Israel Rokach as Minister of Internal Affairs.
1956: It was reported today that Dr. Israel Bettan,
Professor of Homiletics and Midrash at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion was unanimously chosen to as President of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, succeeding Rabbi Barnett Brickner.
1958: Today, on the final day of the annual meeting
of the Central Conference of American Rabbis which was being held at the
Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago Dr. Jacob P. Rudin was re-elected President
and Dr. Bernard J. Bamberger was named vice president.
1959:
It was reported today that “Premier David Ben-Gurion has informed leaders of
his Mapai Party that he resign if the Left-wing labor parties in his coalition
Government continue their attacks on the sale of Israeli-manufactured arms to
West Germany” a move which was quite controversial coming just fifteen years
after the end of the Holocaust
1959(23rd of Sivan, 5719): Seventy-year-old
French art dealer Paul Rosenberg passed away today.
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/collectors/rosenberg-paul.htm
1960: “Strangers When We Met” a story of infidelity
starring Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau was released in the United States
today.
1960: In London, “Soviet historian Alexander Nove”
and his wife gave birth to BBC newsreader and announcer Charles Alexis Nove.
1961: NBC broadcast the final episode of “The Ford
Show” written by Norman Lear and directed by Bud Yorkin.
1964(19th of Tammuz, 5724):
Seventy-five-year-old Brest native William Auberbach-Levy, the graphic artist
and caricaturist who in 1894 came to the United States where he taught at the
at the Educational Alliance Art School, provided artwork for magazines
including The New Yorker and collaborated with his wife Florence Von Wien
passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/30/william-auerbach-levy-dead.html
1964(19th of Tammuz, 5724): Tillie
Frankel, the wife of David Frankel passed away today in Miami Beach, FL.
1964: Funeral services are scheduled to be held
today for Sam Chaikin, the husband of Beckie Chaikin and father of Sol Chaikin
who was “a retired member of the Cloak Joint Board, I.L.G.W.U.
1965: “Ex-Doughboy Scores De Gaulle as ‘Ingrate’”
published today described the decision of Hammond, Indiana jeweler and
Russian-Jewish immigrant Irving N Chayken
to return the Croix de Guerre he received for his service as a member of
AEF during WW I in protest over the behavior of President Charles de Gaulle
whom he described as “a major threat to the peace of the Western Hemisphere.”
1966: “Even though reforms he suggested during the
primary campaign could reform him out of a job if he is elected a New York
County Surrogate, Supreme Court Justice Samuel J. Silverman said today, after
winning the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, that he thought the reforms
should be pressed.”
1966: “Walk, Don’t Run” a comedy produced by Sol
Siegel with a script co-authored by Sol Saks was released today in the United
States.
1966: “A Fine Madness” a film version of the novel
by the same name directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Jerome Hellman and
featuring Zohra Lampert was released in the United States today.
1967: The official reunification of Jerusalem begins
as 8,570 acres of west Jerusalem are united with 18,750 acres of east
Jerusalem. It was not only Jews who
hailed this event. Nabil Khoury wrote in
the Beirut weekly al-Hawadith, ‘On June 29, in Jaffa Road, the main street of
Jerusalem, the Hebrew tongue disappeared.
On that day, along the entire length of the street, Palestinian Arabic,
in all its different dialects, was heard.’
1967: In Tel Aviv, David Ben-Gurion told his
supporters that “the re-building of Jerusalem must be at the center of the
national effort.” These words followed
naturally for the man who had fought to keep the road to Jerusalem open during
the dark days of 1947-1948 when so many told him that it could not be done.
1968(3rd
of Tammuz, 5728) Parashat Korach
1968(3rd of Tammuz, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-old Colgate
University graduate and executor of the estate of theatrical producer Lee
Shubert Sydney R. Golde, the New York born son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Golde and
the husband of the former Shubert Wolfe, “a niece of Lee and J.J. Shubert”
passed away today in Greenwich, CT.
1969: Fifty-six-year-old University of Virginia graduate and community
party member turned savings and loan mogul Bart Lyndon, the New Castel born son
of Ina Rabinowitz and Benjamin Otto Shulman who had named him Bernard Shulman
and who was the husband of the former Beth Golden, passed away today in Los
Angeles after having suffered a fatal heart attack.
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19690630.2.23&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——–1
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/30/78384908.html?pageNumber=39
1971(6th
of Tammuz, 5731): Sixty-one year old Amelia Held Ullman, the wife of Gilbert
Victory passed away today in her hometown of Richmond, VA.
1972(17th of Tammuz, 5732): Tzom Tammuz
1972: “The Candidate” a movie about senatorial
politics featuring Melvyn Douglas, Allen Garfield and Michael Lerner with music
by John Rubinstein, the son of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, was released in the
United States today.
1974(9th of Tammuz, 5734): Parashat
Chukat
1974(9th of Tammuz, 5734):
Ninety-five-year-old Israel Edwin Goldwasser, the City College graduate, holder
of an MA from Columbia who was an educator, philanthropist and businessman
passed away at the Jewish Home and Hospital.
1974: David Chernoglaz, who was sentenced in
Kishinev trial in June 1971 to five years labor camp, was scheduled to be
transferred from Perm camp to Vladimir prison for participating in hunger
strike before President Nixon’s visit.
1975: “Two groups of refusniks met separately with
ten senators visiting Moscow in the room of New York Senator Jacob Javits.
1975(20th
of Tammuz, 5735): Seventy-five-year-old New York native Jess Ward the “founder
and president of Jess Ward & Co., Inc., woolen merchants” and husband of
Lenore Ward with whom he had had two sons – Sanford and Berry—passed away today
in Jerusalem while on trip where he and his wife were “to dedicated an
amphitheater they had donated to the Kfar Batya Children’s Village.”
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported from Entebbe,
Uganda, that hijackers held there more than 250 Air France Airbus passengers
and threatened to blow them all up if Uganda’s security forces intervened.
Uganda’s President Idi Amin paid a visit to the hijackers. The Israeli Embassy
in Paris was assured that France would do everything it could to secure the
release of all hijacked passengers.
1976:
From Entebbe, the terrorists released their demands : The release of fifty-three
of what they called freedom fighters and civilized people called murdering
terrorists and/or their supporters, imprisoned in five countries had to be
flown to Uganda by noon GMT along with $5 million “or the terrorists would blow
up the plane with the hostages on board.”
1976:
In the evening, the terrorists at Entebbe began the process of separating the
Israelis and Jews from the other hostages.
1978:
United Artist released “Fedora,” directed by Billy Wilder with a screenplay by
Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond.
1978(24th
of Sivan, 5738): Two people were killed and 47 were injured when terrorists set
off a bomb in Jerusalem market.
1979:
In Canada, premiere of “Meatballs” the first of series of off-beat comedies
directed by Ivan Reitman, written by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg and Harold Ramis
with music by Elmer Bernstein.
1980:
After 557 performances and 19 previews, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
Fleet Street,” a Stephen Sondheim musical completed its first Broadway run.
http://organicreactions.org/index.php?title=Boris_Weinstein
1983:
Helen Reddy who had converted to Judaism before marrying Jeff Wald, married
Milton Ruth today.
1984(29th
of Sivan, 5744): On his seventy-eighth birthday San Francisco native Benjamin A. “Benny” Lom, the three-season all-star
halfback at the University of California, Berkley “best known for his attempt
to stop a teammate from running the “wrong way” in the 1929 Rose Bowl passed
away today.
1985(10th of Tammuz, 5745): Parashat
Chukat
1985(10th of Tammuz, 5745): Rabbi Morris
D. Rosenblat, the leader of Kneseth Israel Congregation in Annapolis, MD from
1945 to 1983 passed away today.
1987:
”Yiddish Theater in London, 1880-1987,” an exhibition that is part of this
summer’s Jewish East End Celebration at Lyttleton Circle Foyer, National
Theater
1987:
Birthdate of Gal Nevo, the Olympic Israeli swimmer who is a native Kibbutz
Hamadia in the Beit She’an Valley.
1990(6th of Tammuz, 5750): Seventy-four-year-old
author Irving Wallace passed away.
1995(1st of Tammuz, 5755): Rosh
Chodesh Tammuz
1995(1st of Tammuz, 5755):
Eighty-one year old Lewis Jacob Affelder, the Cleveland born son of Harry
Fleishman Affelder and Rhoda E. Affelder and the husband of Ruth Steinbach
Affelder passed away today in his home town.
1995: Betzalel Tabib who had been Head of the Local
Council in Arad since 1986 completed his service today.
1996: “As Marie and Roy
Neuberger celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary today, the Dow
Jones industrial average climbed to 5,704.
Mr. Neuberger later described their time together as “64 wonderful years
together.”
1997: After 89 performances and 27 previews “An American
Daughter,” a play written by Wendy Wasserstein completed its first Broadway
run.
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by
Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “Handsome
Is Adventures With Saul Bellow: A Memoir” by Harriet Wasserman, “The Twisted
Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich” by Michael H. Kater and “A
Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist’s Life in a Turbulent World, the
autobiography of Dutch born Jewish physicist
Abraham Pais
1999(15th of Tammuz, 5759): Sixty-two-year-old
Northwestern University alum Allan Carr who went from running the talent agency
Allan Carr Enterprises to a successful career as a screenwriter and a producer
who “was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre
Owners.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/01/arts/allan-carr-62-the-producer-of-grease-and-la-cage.html
2000: “The Israelis and Palestinians appeared today to remain far
from meeting the conditions set down by the Clinton administration for an early
summit meeting in Washington, but Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, who
came here to assess the two sides’ readiness, said that President Clinton would
make a decision in the next few days.”
2001: “A,I.” a science fiction film about artificial intelligence
directed and produced by Steven Spielberg who also co-authored the script was
released in the United States today.
2002: At Temple Israel in Lawrence, NY, Rabbi Balfour Brickner
officiated at the wedding Catherine Michelle Levine, “publicist for ABC’s
‘World News Tonight with Peter Jennings’” and political consultant Joshua
Daniel Isay “the manager of Andrew M. Cuomo’s campaign for
governor of New York
2003: “During the Second Intifada a temporary armistice was
unilaterally declared by Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which declared a
ceasefire and halt to all attacks against Israel for a period of three months
which really meant that violence decreased somewhat in the following month but
suicide bombings against Israeli civilians.”
2003:
President Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met at the White House.
2003:
Today, in the Denver Botanic Garden, basketball coach and teacher Todd Schayes
married Diane Lipner.
2003: The pre-Broadway run of the Stephen Schwartz musical
“Wicked” came to a close in San Francisco where it was favorably received by
critics and the public.
2003(29th of Sivan, 5763): Aluf (Maj. Gen.) Mordechai “Mottie” Hod who “was
the Commander of the Israeli Air Force during the 1967 Six-Day War” passed away
today. A sabra born at the famous Kibbutz Degania, Hod was one of the real
heroes who helped to create and defend the state of Israel.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1434579/Major-General-Mordechai-Hod.html
2004(10th of Tammuz,
5764): Thirty-six-year-old Sgt. Alan D. Sherman was killed by a roadside bomb
in Baghdad. “Alan Sherman is most remembered for being a loving and devoted
father. A Marine reservist who worked as a licensed practical nurse when he was
not on duty, Sherman spent most of his time with his two sons, Joshua and
Logan. Sherman lived with his parents in the Wanamassa section of Ocean
Township, N.J. His ex-wife, Dolores Sherman, told The Associated Press that the
two had maintained a close friendship and kept in regular contact even while he
was away. Sherman adored his children, spending as much time with them as he
could. Michael Sherman said his brother had “left [his children] his honorable
name, as a hero and as a loving father.” “He wanted to come home to his boys.
But he knew he was doing the right thing. He wanted to fight for his boys so
they wouldn’t have to do it,” Dolores Sherman said. “He totally believed in
what he was doing.” (As reported by The Forward)
2004(10th of Tammuz, 5764): Seventy-seven-year-old
singer and actor Arik Lavie passed away today.
2004(10th of Tammuz, 5764): Moshe Yohai, 63, of Ashdod, was found shot to
death in Beit Rima, a Palestinian Authority-controlled village near Ramallah,
where he had apparently gone on business. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed
responsibility. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2004: “Three Way,” a crime film co-starring Al
Israel and Gina Gershon was released in the United States today.
2005: “Right-wing Israeli clashed with the Israeli
security forces and Palestinians today in a tense corner of the Gaza Strip,
causing several injuries.”
2005(22nd of Sivan, 5765): Lebanese
Hezbollah terrorists killed an Israeli soldier today which led to IAF bombing
the “outskirts of two south Lebanese border villages.”
2006(3rd of Tammuz, 5766): Early this
morning, “the IDF recovered the body of 18 year old Eliyahu Asheri who had been
kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian terrorists, from an open field near
Ramallah.
2006: This afternoon at the Mount of Olives Shlomo
Amar, the Chief Sephardic Rabbi eulogized Eliyahu Asheri during his funeral.
2006: In “Holocaust collides in 2 Lives, As the
Camera Rolls” published today, Mary McNamara reviewed “Inheritance,” which
“documents the story of Monika Hertwig, a German woman who in her early 60s
finally comes to terms with her parents’ participation in the Holocaust.”
2006:
“Mary McNamara reviewed ‘Inheritance,’ a film that shows an interview between
the daughter of the commandant of Plaszow and a Holocaust survivor.”
2007:”Baroness Neuberger” better known as Julia
Babette Sarah Neuberger – Britain’s second female rabbi “was appointed by the
incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the government’s champion of
volunteering.”
2007: At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem an exhibit
entitled “Yemima Ergas: Hidden Cities” opens. “A new series of drawings by
artist Yemima Ergas depicts fantastical cityscapes reminiscent of the majestic
Modernist architecture of the early twentieth century. In the delicate pencil
and charcoal drawings we see bridges, public buildings, factories, and
stadiums, but a longer look reveals that it is all a fiction – we are in fact
looking at discarded computer motherboards.”
2007: In Jerusalem, the Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra performs Berg`s Concerto for Violin and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
at the Sherover Theater at The Jerusalem Theater
2007: As part of his plea bargain President Moshe
Katsav resigned as President of Israel. Katsav is schedule to be indicted on
Sunday July 1. At the time he is
expected to plead guilty to to three charges, and will receive a suspended
sentence and be ordered to pay compensation to the complainants. While one of the charges will be for a
serious sex related crime, under the terms of the plea bargain he will not be
charged with rape.
2007:
Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill “was appointed by Prime
Minister Gordon Brown as a special adviser on constitutional reform to the
Secretary of State for Justice” today
2007: Acting President Dalia Itzik replaces Moshe
Katsav and will serve as President of Israel until July 15 when President-elect
Shimon Peres takes office. Ms. Itzik is a 54 year old native of Jerusalem who
has enjoyed a long political career.
2007(13th of Tammuz, 5767): Joel Siegel, Emmy
Award-winning film critic for ABC’s “Good Morning American” passed away at the
age of 63.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/30/local/me-siegel30
2008: In Chicago, the Spertus features “Private Lives of Public Figures: How Moral Do Our Leaders Need To Be?” From King David to contemporary politicians, leaders who engage in
immoral or unethical behavior inevitably face questions regarding their
suitability to govern. What do Jewish sources say about these issues? Should
moral turpitude exclude someone from public office? Are all transgressions the
same? Exactly how moral do our leaders need to be? In this text-based study
session and discussion, facilitated by Jewish leadership scholar Dr. Hal M.
Lewis, participants look at several classical Jewish sources that address these
and related matters. Hal M. Lewis is Dean of
Public Programming and Continuing Education at Spertus, where he also serves as
Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies. A recognized authority on
Jewish leadership, he is author of Models
and Meanings in the History of Jewish Leadership and From Sanctuary to Boardroom: A Jewish
Approach to Leadership.
2008: Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois holds
it annual meeting and presents “Ask the Experts at Temple Beth Israel in
Skokie, Il. www.jewishgen.org/jgsi
2008: The
Sunday New York Times book section features reviews of The Spies of
Warsaw, a novel by Jewish mystery writer Alan Furst, The Hebrew
Republic:How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at
Last by Bernard Avishai and Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing
Along the Borderlands, Michael Chabon’s first collection of nonfiction as
well as an essay entitled “Cultural Crossroads of the Levant” which describes
Ibis Editions “a boutique Jerusalem Press owned by the husband and wife team of
Peter Cole, a MacArthur award-winning poet and translator, and Adina Hoffman, a
biographer and critic that has published
English translations of works in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, French, German and
Judeo-Spanish — all relating to the Levant.
2008: The
Washington Post book section features reviews of The Dream by Harry Bernstein and America America
by Ethan Canin
2008: At Congregation
Ansche Chesed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, One World Symphony presents a
performance of the opera “Adriadne Auf Naxos” by composer Richard Strauss who
was appointed President of the German State Music Bureau by Joseph Gobbels. In fairness to Strauss he later resigned the
position and is credit with saving “several Jewish lives later in the war,
specifically those of his daughter-in-law and her son.” On the other hand, the true measure of the
man may be found in his 1945 declaration “that the Allied bombing of the
Hoftheater, his favorite opera house in Munich, was ‘the greatest catastrophe
that has ever disturbed my life.
2008: Israel’s government
voted to trade one of the most notorious convicts in its prisons, a Lebanese
murderer, for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers whose cross-border capture led
to and partly motivated its month-long war with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah
in summer 2006. After a wrenching national debate that drove hesitant
officials, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud
Barak, to accept the deal, the cabinet voted 22 to 3 to trade the prisoner,
Samir Kuntar, along with four other Lebanese, for Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad
Regev, the two Israeli soldiers. Mr. Kuntar was part of a cell that in 1979
raided the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, fatally shooting a civilian,
Danny Haran, while his daughter Einat, 4, watched, then smashing the girl’s
head, killing her as well. Mr. Haran’s wife, Smadar, hid with their 2-year-old
daughter, accidentally suffocating her in an effort to stop her from crying
out.
2008: Veteran
Civil Rights leader John Lewis was honored at a
luncheon on Sunday by New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and the
black-Jewish Alliance, which was inaugurated in January to address the 25
percent surge in anti-Semitic and racist incidents in the black and Jewish
communities. The luncheon, hosted by Joe Lazar, who is running for City Council
in September 2009, included 40 black and Jewish elected officials and community
leaders. “As blacks and Jews, the wind may blow, the rain may beat down on
an old house, be it a house in Brooklyn, Atlanta, America, Israel or Africa,
but we all live in the same house,” Rep. John Lewis, a leader of the civil
rights movement who stood behind Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial in 1963, told a group of Jewish and black leaders in Brooklyn
this week. “We are one people, one family and we must stay together and
build a society at peace with itself,” he added.
2008: United Nations
negotiator Gerhard Konrad informed the Israeli government that according to
Hesbollah, Ron Arad is dead. This claim has yet to be confirmed by the
government
2008:
As part of his first concert tour in fifteen years, Leonard Cohen appeared on
the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England
2009: Starting today,
Cantor Jack Chomsky of Congregation Tifereth Israel in Columbus, helps to lead
“Poland to Israel: A Journey Through Time,” in which 100 cantors connect 1,000
years of Jewish History in Poland with 4,000 years of history in the homeland
of the Jewish people.
2009: Bernard Madoff is
sentenced to 150 years. This record
sentence is fitting for the man who engineered the largest Ponzi swindle in
history.
2009: JuliusGenachowski,
a yeshiva student who had studied in Israel, assumed the position of Chairman
of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
2009: During Question Period Lord Steinberg
asked “Her Majesty’s Government what were (a) the total value of trade between
Israel and the United Kingdom, and (b) the total value of exports from the
United Kingdom to Israel, over the past three years.
The Minister for Trade and Investment (Lord Davies of Abersoch): The data requested are
shown in the following table:
|
£ million |
UK exports of goods to Israel |
UK exports of services to Israel |
UK imports of goods from Israel |
UK imports of services from Israel |
2010: Today Larry King announced
that “Larry King Live” woud come to an end at the end of the year.
2010: Gilad Barkan Trio
is scheduled to perform at 55 Bar in New York City
2010(17th of Tammuz,
5770): Tzom Tammuz
2010: Today forest fires
raged across Israel, destroying over 300,000 trees and burning over 750 acres
of forested and open areas. Arson is suspected in many cases, and conditions
worsened due to Israel’s severe heat wave.
2011: The Peltz Center
for Jewish Life and Lubavitch of Wisconsin are scheduled to sponsor “Gimmel
Tamuz,” “a community wide event to mark the anniversary of the passing of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe of righteous memory.”
2011: Tnuva caved in to
a nationwide cottage cheese boycott today and announced that they would be
lowering the product’s price to the recommended retail price of NIS 5.9. Tnuva
announced that instead of selling cottage cheese to stores at the fixed price
of NIS 5.2, they will now sell the cheese for NIS 4.55, thus enabling stores to
sell the staple product at the recommended price. Tnuva guaranteed that they
would not raise their prices at least until the end of 2011.
2011: Today the Zionist
Organization of America (ZOA) sent a letter to Delta Air Lines CEO Richard H.
Anderson voicing concerns that the airliner’s new alliance with Saudi Arabian
Airlines would lead to discriminatory practices against Jewish travelers.
2011(27th of
Sivan, 5771): Rabbi Chaim Stein one of the Roshei Yeshiva the Rabbinical
College of Telshe passed away.
2011(27th of
Sivan, 5771): Sixty-four-year-old Larry Bogdanow, the founder of Bogdanow
Partners Architects and restaurant designer whose work included the Union
Square Café, passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/dining/larry-bogdanow-architect-dies-at-64.html
2012: Without any
frosting, lace, or chuppahs in our midst, Rabbi Shira Stutman is scheduled to
lead a salon-style Shabbat evening with prayers and conversation about the
“rites” and wrongs of women in Judaism, as well as God’s feminine side at the
historic 6th & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2012: Israeli cellist
Yoed Nir is scheduled to perform at the Garden Party Festival in Helsinki,
Finland.
2012: Austrian
authorities are investigating the desecration of 43 graves in two Jewish
sections of Vienna’s main cemetery.A police statement said toay that tomb
stones and slabs were found toppled or damaged at the Austrian capital’s
Central Cemetery. It said the vandals did not deface the graves with graffiti.
Vienna Jewish community head Oskar Deutsch says he is confident that police
will find the culprits.
2012: Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s supersize coalition was showing its first serious signs of
stress today in its quest for a more universal draft system in Israel.
2012: The United States
and Israel are expected to hold a joint military exercise sometime around
October, after postponing it earlier this year, the US chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff said today, confirming previous reports that it was back on
track.
2013: “A seven-week
immersion experience in Hebrew” offered by Brandeis University-Middlebury
School of Hebrew is scheduled to begin today.
2013: Communications
Minister Gilad Erdan and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz attacked each
other fiercely today ahead of tomorrow’s elections for the heads of the Likud’s
institutions. (As reported by Gil Hoffman)
2014: The New York Times
featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to
Jewish readers including On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by
Alice Goffman
and Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of
Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda,
2014: “Shabbat – Inside and
Out” an exhibition at the Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled to come to an
end.
2014: “Tel Aviv’s secular residents suffered a double
blow in their fight for freedom from religion today when Interior Minister
Gideon Sa’ar and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni thwarted two pieces of
legislation that would allow the opening of businesses during Shabbat and the
operations of public transport during Judaism’s weekly day of rest.” (As
reported by Gilad Morag and Moran Azulay)
2014:
Firefighters responding to a call to put out a small brush on the Golan Heights
“were fired on by forces on the other side of the Syrain border” but completed
their mission successfully without any casualties. This is the latest in a series of incidents
on the border one of which claimed the life of an innocent 15 year old boy.
2014:
In two different responses today to the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, a
mammoth rally featuring artists and celebrities was held at Rabin Square while
“the Rosh Yeshiva of the Beit El Yeshiva, Rabbi Zalman Melamed, urged the
public to set up a protest in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv to call
for a tougher crackdown against Hamas.”
2014:
As rocket attacks from Gaza continue for another night one terrorist was killed
and several more were wounded when the IAF “launched a targeted attack against
a rocket launching cell in the Gaza Strip apparently belonging to Hamas’
military branch.”
2014: “The Illinois Holocaust
Museum & Education Center is scheduled to host “Life? Or Theatre?” a
documentary by Franz Weis that explores the life and work of German Jewish
artist Charlotte Salomon.
2014: “The Sturgeon Queens” is
scheduled to be shown at the Skirball Culture Center in Los Angeles and the
Circle Cinema in Tulsa, OK.
2014: Nate “Freiman was called
up to the A’s today, after leading the Pacific Coast League to that point in
RBIs, and tying for seventh in home runs.”
2014: “The Last of the Unjust”
is scheduled to be shown on the final day of the Portland Jewish Film Festival
2015: “Tiger, Mog and Pink
Rabbit: A Judith Kerr Retrospective” is scheduled to open at the Jewish Museum
in London.
2015: “Vandals attacked the Max
Rayne Hand-to-Hand dual Hebrew and Arabic language school in southern Jerusalem
tonight” making this the second such incident in eight months.” (As reported by
Judah Ari Gross)
2015: “After a grueling
legislative battle, US President Barack Obama signed into law a trade measure
that also contains landmark legislation combating the boycott, divestment and
sanctions (BDS) movement in Europe.” (As reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)
2016: The Center for Jewish History
and Leo Baeck Institute are scheduled to host a presentation by Monika Hanková
who “will present the unique biography of Magdalena Robitscher-Hahn, a
German-Jewish doctor from the Sudetenland, whose life story allows for analysis
of specific theoretical issues connected with biographies of German-Jewish
women from former Czechoslovakia.”
2016(23rd of Sivan,
5776): Eighty-five year old “Irving Gottesman, a pioneer in the field of
behavioral genetics whose work on the role of heredity in schizophrenia helped
transform the way people thought about the origins of serious mental illness”
passed away today.
2016: “The captain of Israel’s
soccer national team Eran Zahavi signed a deal with the Chinese club Guangzhou
R&F today, ending a period of doubt that the beloved star would remain with
Maccabi Tel Aviv.”
2016: The Center for Jewish
History is scheduled to host Bonnie Slotnick, “owner of Bonnie Slotnick
Cookbooks who “will share some of her experiences with Jewish cookbooks over
many years of selling out-of-print cookbooks, and bring a fresh perspective to
the real significance of historical and contemporary culinary texts.”
2016: Israeli Bassist and
arranger Noam Wiesenberg is scheduled to debut “his new and original
compositions” at the Cornelia Street Café alongside the Haggai Cohen-Milo Trio.
2016: In a testament to the
vitality of small Jewish communities, in Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club
is scheduled to meet this evening where it will discuss The Ritual Bath by Faye
Kellerman.
2016: The Oregon Jewish Museum
and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled to host its Annual Membership
this evening flowed by the opening of “Every Minute Counts” “a remarkable vision of Roosevelt-Era
social and political culture through the lens of photojournalist Katherine
Joseph.”
2017: The last screening of
Elan Kolirin’s “Beyond The Hills”
sponsored by JW3 is scheduled to take place today in London.
2017: The “jstyle Summer
Premiere Party” is scheduled to take place this evening in Mayfield Heights,
Ohio.
2017: Today, “the American
pilots” who had ferried aircraft to Israel during the Yom Kippur War “attended
a flight course completion ceremony at the Hatzerim Air Force base, where they
saw Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin
speak.”
2017: The final screening of
“Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled to take in several California cities
including Los Angeles, Pasadena, Claremont and San Francisco.
2018: After six months, the
exhibition styled The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco is
scheduled to be shown for the last time at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art
and Life at the University of California, Berkley
2018: “High Holy Days at the
Luna Park: Show-card Posters from the Firschein Press (Brooklyn, NY,
1920-1974)” an “exhibition that presents a selection from the over one hundred
“show-card” posters printed by the Firschein Press, a small business operated
by East European Jewish immigrants, that served local Jewish and non-Jewish
communities in Brooklyn for the better half of the 20th century” is scheduled
to come a close today at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the
University of California, Berkley.
2018: Today, “a week after an El Al flight was
delayed by ultra-Orthodox men’s refusal sit beside women,” an “Austrian
Airlines plane left Ben Gurion Airport 40 minutes late due to the refusal of 26
ultra-Orthodox men to be seated by women passengers” which led to a late
arrival in Vienna which meant other passengers missed their connecting flights.
2018: New York Times obituary writer,
par excellence Margalit Fox who could
capture the lives of the great, the near great and those of whom we had never
heard with a rare skill and who was never too busy to answer a reader’s question is scheduled to
officially pass through the doors of 620 Eighth Avenue for the last time today
marking an end to a career that including writing more than 1,400 obituaries
each of which was a literary gem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/insider/obituary-writer-margalit-fox-retires.html
2018(16th of Tammuz, 5778):
One-hundred-four-year-old pioneering attorney Patricia Schiller, the Brooklyn
born daughter “pharmacist Louis Silverman” and “homemaker Gussie (Zuckerblatt)
Silverman” and wife of fellow attorney Irving Schiller passed away today.(As
reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2019(26th of Sivan, 5779): Parashat
Shelach-Leach
2019: Limmud Bay Area is scheduled today with
both Orthodox and Egalitarian Shacharit services and a variety of presentations
including “Indian Jews and their synagogues – A New Guide to 30+Syangoues in
India” by Janice Farber and Marian Scheuer Sofaer and “It Isn’t Neild Diamond
Singing Kol Nidre: the influence of Traditional Jewish Melodies on Classical
Music” with Brian Wilson.
2019: As part of the “Survivor Speaker” program
the Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a presentation by Steen
Metz.
http://www.steenmetzneverforget.com/
http://www.steenmetzneverforget.com/my-story.html
2019: Today, in one of those quirks of the
calendar Shabbat falls on June 29, just as it did in 1776 when Jews in the
thirteen colonies observed the day of rest for last time as British colonials
which should provide subject matter for a sermon as Americans begin a week-long
celebration of their independence.
2020: The YIVO institute is scheduled to host
live on Zoom “Eating Right and Left: Food and Political Alignment in the
Yiddish Press.”
2020: The Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy
Institute is scheduled to host live on Zoom, “Family History Today: Jewish
Refugees and the U.S.-Mexico Border.”
2020: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is
scheduled to present JLife Art with Cecilia Kremer, the Argentine born
epidemiologist who makes “Judaic mosaic art and works with schools and temples
to create customized gifts (i.e. tzedakah boxes and mezuzahs) for special
occasions and milestones.”
2020: ASF IJE Travels in Jewish History… from
home and E’eleh BeTamar are scheduled to present “Journey to Yemen,’ a trip in
time and space powered by Diarna Geo-Museum Tours.
2020: As California agencies struggle with the
challenge of dealing with the Pandemic the Addison-Penzak JCC in Los Gatoswill
is scheduled to launch its summer camp for grades 1-8 today.
2020: The Contra Costa JCC and Congregation
B’nai Shalom are scheduled to host, via Zoom an online presentation by Rafael
Danziger, Senior Research Advisor and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, of the Near
East Report at AIPAC on “How the Six Day War Forms Today’s Middle East.”
2021: JIMENA, ENGAJ and Moishe House Silicon Valley
are scheduled to “present a three-part virtual tour to learn Jewish Yemenite
history, culture and recipes.”
2021: Nadav Tamir, the executive director of J Street
Israel is scheduled to talk about how Israel might change in the Biden era and
the post-Netanyahu era.
2021: Alina Adams is scheduled to discuss Nesting
Dolls, “her novel about a Jewish family’s saga stretching from 1930s
Siberia to current-day Brighton Beach.”
2021: The 9th annual edition of the
Israel Film Center Festival is scheduled to come to an end today.
2021: Suzannah Warlick, Director of Passage to
Sweden, Leo Goldberger, Son of a cantor, Leo whose family were among 8000
Danish Jews rescued by their neighbors, Chana Sharfstein, Daughter of the chief
rabbi of Stockholm during WWII, and Howard Veisz, Caretaker of Gerda III, the
boat that ferried Danish Jews to safety, who chronicled its missions in Henny and Her Boat
are scheduled to take part in a discussion following a screening of “Passage to
Sweden.”
2021: Judy Batalion, author of The Light of
Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos is
scheduled to discuss the young women who found different ways of fighting back
against the Nazis with filmmaker Aviva Kempner, who produced and co-wrote the
documentary “Partisans of Vilna: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during
World War.”
2022: In Atlanta, GA, the final session of the
AJPA 2022 Annual Conference is scheduled to come to an end .
2022: Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to
partner with Chicago-Kent College of Law on their upcoming program, “Never
Again? Investigating and Prosecuting War Crimes: Then and Now.”
2022: The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience is
scheduled to present an episode of New Works Wednesdays where Mark Schneergurt
discusses “Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of
16th-Century CryptoJews.”
2022: The Tillies Center for the Performing
Arts is scheduled to host “Violins of Hope” which includes “the first ever
appearance on Long Island of the world famous instruments originally played by
victims of the Nazi Concentration Camps, finally gathered together and restored
for inspired music making once again!!”
2022: The 2022 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer
National Conference for Educators, a virtual event sponsored by the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to come to an end today.
2022: JDC Archives Fellow Jonathan Zisook is
scheduled to present a Webinar on “Passover for the Passe Over: Jewish
Religious Life in Poland after 1968.”
2022: LSJS is scheduled to host the first
session of “Why Rabbis Argue: The genesis and genius of the Oral Law” with
Rabbi Dr. Harvey Belovski
2022: “The legislation for the Knesset’s
dispersal is expected to pass its final readings by” today “at midnight.” (As
reported by Carrie Keller-Lynn)
2023: Temple Judea is scheduled to host “Modern
Mussar with Michael Ross.”
2023: The Jewish Federation of Greater Des
Moines’ 109th Annual Meeting and Reception is scheduled to take place this
evening at Caspe Terrace.
2023: Mosaic is scheduled to host “Ant-Semitism
and the Battle for the American Right” during which “Douglas Murray, Samuel
Goldman, and Tamara Berens discuss anti-Semitism on the American right.”
2024: The Agnon House is scheduled to a joint
reading “The Horse Race” followed by a discussion led by Ofir Lifshitz “about
the character of the narrator, the synagogue and the rural Jewish community,
and observe the play revealed to the readers towards the end of the story.”
2024: The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to
host a pianist Benjamin Hochman performing a concert “The Glorious Sound of the
Piano.”
2024(23rd of Sivan, 5784): Parashat
Shelach-Lecha; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024: As June 29th 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 267 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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