OCTOBER 1
2016 B.C.E.: According to some the anniversary of theOrigin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this dateis easily open to debate. There is a general agreement among those whoaccept the existence of Abraham that he appeared about 2000 B.C.E. Thismeans that Jewish History spans a period of four thousand years. Whatmakes Jewish History unique is that it covers such a great span of time, thatit is not limited to a specific geographic area and that the most ancientevents of that history are an active part of the descendants of the people whomade that history.
331B.C.E:Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated the Persian army at Gaugamela. This victory cemented Greek domination overthe Persian Empire. Alexander would becrowned “King of Asia” after the battle. Alexander’s armies were instrumentalin bringing Greek culture to the lands of Asia Minor including the homeland ofthe Jewish people. This would mark thebeginning of the uneasy and sometimes violent interaction between the world ofMoses and Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, et al.
208: Birthdate ofAlexander Severus, the Roman Emperor whose respect for Judaism enabled Judah II(President of the Sanhedrin - the Jewish Supreme Court located in EretzIsrael), to obtain a revival of Jewish rights, including permission to visitJerusalem.
855: Based on an edictissued by Emperor Ludwig II, all Italian Jews must have vacated his realm as ofthis date
1207: Birthdate of Henry
1280: TodayRichard Swinefeld who in 1286 “threatened to excommunicate several of his flockwho wished to attend the wedding of the daughter of a leading Jew of Hereford”was named Archdeacon of London
1404: PopeBoniface IX passed away. Unlike his predecessors and successors “he treated theJews benevolently. He favored a succession of Jewish physicians and recognizedthe rights of Jews as citizens.” They were given legal right to observe theirShabbat, protection from local oppressive officials, their taxes were reducedand orders were given to treat Jews as full-fledged Roman citizens.
1499: Sixty-five-year-oldMarsilio Ficino, the Roman Catholic priest and Christian Kabbalist passed awaytoday.
https://therealsamizdat.com/2014/09/26/marsilio-ficino-and-christian-kabbalah/
1588: Seventeen-year-oldAbbas I of Persia, “the 5th Safavid Shah of Iran began his reignduring the early part of which “Jews prospered throughout Persia and wereencouraged to settle in Isfahan, the new capital.” As the years wore on, the conditions of theJews worsened and among other things, they “were forced to wear a distinctivebadge on their clothing and headgear.
1685:Birthdate of Charles III who followed in the footsteps of his father Leopold tomake life miserable for the Jews of Hungary.
1697(16thof Tishrei, 5458):Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto an Amsterdam born rabbi,kabbalist and poet “also known by the Hebrew acronym ReMe”Z” passed away today
1739: At anauto-de-fe in Lisbon, Antonio Jose de Silva, one of the most successful andpopular playwrights of the period was burned at the stake. He was a member of aNew Christian family, son of a mother who had been convicted twice ofJudaizing. On the night he was burned, one of his comedies was produced in thelocal town theater.
1753(3rdof Tishrei, 5514): Tzom Gedaliah
1759(10thof Tishrei, 5520): Yom Kippur
1762(14thof Tishrei, 5523): Erev Sukkot
1765(16thof Tishrei, 5526): Second Day of Sukkot
1768(20th of Tishrei, 5529): As theJews celebrate Shabbat she Sukkot, TheBritish Army's 29th Infantry Regiment of foot soldiers, which will carry outthe Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, arrives in Boston Harbor along with threeother regiments.
1771(23rdof Tishrei, 5532): Simchat Torah
1772: InOctober, in the Netherlands, King William V “visited the Pereira family inMaarsen as part of activities designed to express his thanks to the Jewish communityfor supporting him.
1773:Birthdate of Baden, Germany native Zacharias Oppenheimer, the husband of FratelOppenheimer who ‘founded the woolen cloth factory in Michelfeld” “specializedin the production of uniforms, including those used by the Prussian and Badenmilitary.F
1776(18thof Tishrei, 5537): Fourth Day of Sukkot observed on the same day that theContinental Congress adopted a resolution that a “committee of five beappointed to a prepare a plan” for the creation of a military academy.
1777(29thof Elul, 5537): Erev Rosh Hashana
1777: Thewill of Aaron Franks, the brother of Isaac Franks, dated September 2, 1777 was“proved” today.
1778(10thof Tishrei, 5539): Yom Kippur
1780(2nd of Tishrei, 5541): Second Day of RoshHashanah observed on the same day that convicted British spy Major John Andrewrote to American General George Washington
1784(16thof Tishrei, 5545): Second Day of Sukkoth
1786(9th of Tishrei, 5547): Erev Yom Kippur;Kol Nidre
1788(29th of Elul, 5548): Erev Rosh Hashana
1790(23rd of Tishrei, 5551): Simchat Torah
1792(15th of Tishre1, 5553): First Day ofSukkoth observed on the same day that Secretary of State Jefferson wrote toJames Madison expressing his opposition to Virginia chartering a state bankwhich was part of a plan to block the creation of a national bank.
1795(18th of Tishrei, 5556): Fourth Day ofSukkoth observed on the same day “the Austrian Netherlands is annexed to theFrench Republic, as the Belgian departments.”
1798(21st of Tishrei, 5559): Hoshana Raba
1799(2ndof Tishrei, 5560): The Rosh Hashanah Shofar is sounded for the last time in the18th century.
1800: Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty ofSan Ildefonso. Unbeknownst to theprinciples, this was the first act, in a “three act play” that would open theMississippi River Valley and the Great Plains to Jewish settlers. Jews couldnot live in Spanish Louisiana. The French bought Louisiana was part ofNapoleon’s grand dream of an American empire. The dream fell apart and threeyears later the French sold Louisiana to the United States. This opened most of the land west of theMississippi and east of the Rockies to Jewish settlers.
1801(24th of Tishrei, 5561): Bele Abraham whohad been born in Amsterdam in 1751 passed away today in the Netherlands.
1802:Simon Magruder Levy is one of two cadets in the first class to graduatefrom West Point
1803(15thof Tishrei, 5564): Sukkoth
1803:Zalegman Phillips wrote to President Thomas Jefferson requesting that he beappointed “Commissioner of Bankrupts for the District of Pennsylvania.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0338
1806(19th of Tishrei, 5567): Fifth Day ofSukkoth
1808(10th of Tishrei, 5569): For the lasttime, Jews observe Yom Kippur during the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, authorof the Declaration of Independence and a champion of the separation of churchand state.
1809(21st of Tishrei, 5570): Hoshana Raba
1809: Birthdate of Virginia native Louisa Block thedaughter of Jacob Block and the wife of Exeter, England native Abraham Jonas“the first permanent Jewish resident of Quincy, Illinois and a close friend ofAbraham Lincoln whom she married in 1829 and with whom she had nine children.
1810(3rd of Tishrei, 5571): Tzom Gedaliah
1810: John Jacob Hays, who may have been the first Jew tosettle in Indiana and his wife Mary gave birth to Elizabeth Hayes who becameElizabeth Brouillet when she married Bard Brouillet.
1811: The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi Riverarrives in New Orléans, Louisiana. The copper for the boilers in that steamboatwas probably supplied by Henry Hendricks, a prominent New York Sephardic Jewwho supplied the copper for all of Robert Fulton’s steamboats as well as thoseof many others.
1814: Following the defeat of Napoleon, theCongress of Vienna opens. The intent isto undue the effects of the French Revolution and return Europe to the days ofthe Ancien Régime. Among othermeasures, the victorious powers rolled back the concept that all citizens wereequal before the law. This change had aparticularly corrosive effect on the Jews of Europe whose emancipation haddepended on this concept.
1815: InLondon, Simon Marcus and Eleanor Levy gave birth to Hannah Marcus.
1816(9thof Tishrei, 5577): Erev Yom Kippur
1816(9thof Tishreti, 5577): Dutch born American businessman Eleazar Lyons, the husbandof Hannah Levy passed away today in Philadelphia.
1817(21stof Tishrei, 5578): Hoshana Rabba
1817:Birthdate of Vilna native Mathias Strashun the Russian Talmudist and successfulbusinessman who also served as an “adviser to the state bank.”
1818(1stof Tishrei, 5579): Rosh Hashanah
1818: InHemsbach,Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Feis Moses or Uri Pfaelzer, the sonof Moses Or Mosche Pfaelzer and Adelheid "Elkele" Pfaelzer and hiswife Hanna Fanny Pfaelzer gave birth to Babette (Braeunle) Oppenheimer, the “ifeof Jakob Rothschild and Meier (Maier) Oppenheimer and mother of HirschRothschild; Babette David; Leopold Oppenheimer; Heinrich / Naphtali HerzOppenheimer; Moses Oppenheimer; Fanny Bodenheimer; Jeanette Oppenheimer; EliseOppenheimer; Regina Oppenheimer; Feis Oppenheimer; Ricke Lina Metzger;Stillborn Oppenheimer; Rebeka Oppenheimer; Adelheid Oppenheimer; IsidorOppenheimer; Ida (Pfaelzer) Oppenheimer; Ferdinand Oppenheimer and (Son ofMaier) Oppenheimer
1820(23rdof Tishrei, 5581): As Jews observe Simchat Torah, Americans prepare to takeplace in what is the third and final of Presidential elections where thePresident, James Monroe, an virtually unopposed. It was a time known as the ear of goodfeelings.
1822(16thof Tishrei, 5583): Second Day of Sukkoth
1824(9thof Tishrei, 5585): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre chanted for the last time duringthe Presidency of James Monroe.
1825(19thof Tishrei, 5586): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1825: Thebrig The Mary among whose passengers was English adventurer Nathaniel Isaacsfoundered on a sandbank after anchoring off Port Natal.
1826(29thof Elul, 5566): Erev Rosh Hashana
1827(10thof Tishrei, 5588): Yom Kippur
1827: InEssex, Laurence Lazarus and Catherine Phillips gave birth to Sophie Lazarus.
1828(23rdof Tishrei, 5589): As Jews observed Simchat Torah, Americans were engaged inthe bitterest Presidential campaign the new nation had experienced as thesupports of Adams and Jackson engaged in almost non-stop “l’shon hara.”
1830:Birthdate of Jeremiah C. Sullivan, the Indiana lawyer, who while serving as ageneral in the Union Army refused to enforced General Order 11.
1831: IsaacPereire and Rachel Laurence Lopes Fonseca gave birth to Eugene Pereire, themember of the multi-generationalprominent French Jewish family who was an engineer by training and who became aprominent financier and businessman.
1835: InWeisskirchen, Moravia, Rabbi Abraham Placzek and his wife gave birth to his“son and successor” Baruch Jacob Placzek who became “the chief rabbi at Brünn”and was made a knight the Order of Francis Joseph.
1835:Birthdate of Austrian physician Adam Politizer, a pioneer in the field ofotology.
http://www.politzersociety.org/content.php?conid=683
1837(2ndof Tishrei, 5598): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the first timeduring the Presidency of Martin Van Buren
1838: InLondon, Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips, the London born son of Samuel and HannahPhilips who served as Lord Mayor of London and his wife Rachel Phillips gavebirth to Samuel Henry Faudel-Phillips, JP
1839(23rdof Tishrei, 5600): Simchat Torah
1839(23rdof Tishrei, 5600): Sixty-five-year-old Joseph Perl who wrote several booksabout Chasidim beginning with On the Nature of the Sect of the Hasidim,Drawn from Their Own Writings passed away today in Ternopil.
1839: InNew Orleans, Isaac and Julia Cohen Hart gave birth to Alexander Hart, thehusband of Leonora Levy Hart with whom he had three children – Amy, Albert andHorace.
1839(23rdof Tishrei, 5600): A month after The Great Fire in Mobile, Alabama, PhilipPhilips and his wife Eugenia Levy would be among those observing Simchat Torahin the Gulf Coast City.
1839: Forthe first time Simchat Torah is celebrated in Melbourne, Australia
1845(29thof Elul, 5605): Erev Rosh Hashana
1846:Birthdate of London native Adeline Solomon the wife of Henry Solomon, theLondon born son of Elizabeth and Mordecai Solomon, who was the mother of tenchildren.
1846: InGratz, Prussia, Dr. Markus Moses and his wife gave birth to German judge andlegal scholar Isaac Albert Mosse who was a “Foreign advisor to Meiji Japan
1847: InNew York Moses Lazarus and his wife, the former Esther Nathan gave birth toMary Lazarus who became Mary Lindau when she married Leopold Lindau.
1847:Birthdate of Hungarian journalist and holder of Ph.D. from the University ofBudapest Sigismund Sonnenfeld, who movedto Paris where he became director of the Baron de Hirsch philanthropicinstitutions, director of the Jewish Colonization Association and a member ofthe Central Committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13920-sonnenfeld-sigismund
1848: Thefirst edition of Ostdeutsche Post, publishedby Ignaz Kuranda, the son and grandson of second-hand book dealer, appearedtoday in Vienna.
1849(15thof Tishrei, 5610): Jews observe Sukkoth for the first and only time during thePresidency of Zachary Taylor.
1850: InSyracuse, NY, “Meier Barnet and Rebecca Hamburger” gave birth to Gates Banet,the husband of “Marion Barnet, who served as “President of the HebrewBenevolent Society “ both in Syracuse and Albany, NY.
1852(18thof Tishrei, 5613): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1853(28thof Elul, 5614): Parashat Nitzavim; last Shabbat of 5614
1854(9thof Tishrei, 5615): Erev Yom Kippur
1854: InAustralia, Sir Saul Samuel began serving his first term as a member of theLegislative Council of New South Wales
1855(19thof Tishrei, 5616): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1855:"The Hebrews: A Feast of Tabernacles" published today in New Yorkreported that "The Israelitish Festival of Tabernacles concluded onSaturday. The Levitcal law requires itscontinuance for seven days. During thewhole of this period, the faithful of the city have thronged to the synagogues.The services have continued without intermission...The recurrence of thesestated festivals of the Hebrews brings to mind the degree of persistency withwhich that ancient people adhere to their belief.
1855: Todaymarked “the earliest contemporary reference to a Jewish Community in Portsmouth”Ohio.
1856(2ndof Tishrei, 5617): As the Republican Party is running its first candidate in apresidential election Jews observe the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
1859(3rdof Tishrei, 5620): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1859(3rdof Tishrei, 5620): Just eleven days before his 81st birthdayGerman-Danish merchant Hartvig Philip Rée, the son of German merchant Philip Hartvig Rée and his wife HannaHartvig and the husband of Thamar Reewhose business interest included a sugar refinery, a print shop, a dye businessand a clothes factory, passed away today in Copenhagen.
1860: In Bavaria, German, Gette Offenbacher and WilhelmBeckman gave birth State School for Commerce and Industry educated businessmanN. Henry Beckman who in 1880 came to the United States, settled in Cincinnati,OH where he was a clothing manufacturer, a member of the executive committee ofthe United Jewish Social Agencies, served a President of Congregation K.K.B.Iand was a member of the executive committee of the Union of American HebrewCongregations.
1860: In San Francisco, “a committee of Israelites, the topmostmen of that persuasion in town, have issued an appeal to the public formaterial aid to enable Israel Joseph Benjamin 2d to visit Arabia, and look intothe causes of the suffering of the Jews in that quarter. Mr. Benjamin is now inthis city. He calls himself Benjamin 2d to distinguish himself from theOriental traveler, Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela. He is from Foltitscheny on theMoldau, where, being ruined in the timber trade, he conceived the undertakingof visiting the oppressed of his race in the outskirts of the earth. His EightYears in Asia and Africa was praised by Humboldt and Ritter, and the Jewshereabout affirm that it is replete with information valuable to historians andgeographers. They credit to him the humane task of bringing the efficientprotection of Victoria and Napoleon to the rescue of the grievously oppressedHebrews in Persia. They went to see him searching in China for the Jews thatare said to sprinkle that vast hive, to hear him report upon the condition ofthe sons of Jacob scattered through Afghanistan, and, most of all, to have himscouring the Arabian peninsula to learn what is the measure of ill-usage of thecircumcised there, and pleading with civilized Europe and America for therelief which none ask now, though it is presumed to be sadly needed.”
1860:“Emperor in Africa” published today described Louis Napoleon’s visit to Algeriaduring which saw a wide variety of his subjects including “Moors, Maltese andJews.” [Jews had probably been living in Algeria since the destruction of theTemple. The community really grew afterthe expulsion from Spain. Jews gainedfull citizenship in 1870. Jews lost their right to citizenship in 1963 when thenew Algerian government decreed that only Moslems could be citizens.]
1862(7thof Tishrei, 5623): Lady Judith Montefiore, the daughter of Levi Barent Cohenwho had been born at London in 1874 and married Sir Moses Montefiore in 1812passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Judith_Montefiore.html
1862:During the American Civil War, the Jewish Ladies of Syracuse (New York) presentColonel Henry Barnum with a regimental flag to be used by the 149thRegiment of Volunteer Infantry.
1863:“Bread Riot In Mobile” published today described the outbreak of violencespearheaded by the women of this Southern port city who were demanding food forthemselves and their starving children. In his description of the violence, thereporter wrote, “In coming down Dauphine-street, two women went into a Jewclothing store, in the performance of the work connected with their mission.The proprietor of the store forcibly ejected the intruders and threw thenviolently down on the sidewalk. A policeman who happened to be near, thereuponset upon the Jew and gave him a severe beating.” [A mini-pogrom in the heart of Dixie; howironic when you consider the number of Jews who actually took up arms on behalfof the Confederacy.]
1863(18thof Tishrei, 5624): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1863(18thof Tishrei, 5624): Eighty-seven-year-old Rebecca Mears Myers, the Norwalk, CT.born daughter of Joyce and Myers Mears and the widow of Jacob Mears with whomshe had seven children passed away today in Richmond, VA.
1864(1stof Tishrei, 5625): As Jews observe Rosh Hashanah, Jews serving with GeneralSherman enjoy a respite from combat as they prepare for the March to the Seawhich will begin next month.
1865: InParis, Jules Dukas, “a banker” and “Eugénie, a capable pianist”” gave birth to“composer, critic, scholar and teacher” Paul Abraham Dukas best known creating“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
1865: “TheJewish Day of Atonement” published today reported that “The Jewish Day ofAtonement -- Yom Kippur -- which ended at sunset on Saturday, is one of themost important and generally respected of the fasts prescribed for observanceamong the Israelites. The origin and institution of the fast is to be found inLeviticus XVI: "And it shall be unto you a statute forever; in the seventhmonth, on the 10th of the mouth, you shall afflict your souls and do no work atall; the denizen as well as the stranger that sojourneth amongst you for onthat day shall ye be atoned for to purify you; from all your sins before theLord shall ye be purified. The first amongst your Sabbaths shall this day beamong you, and ye shall afflict your souls. And this shall be an everlastingstatute unto you, to make an atonement for all the children of Israel from alltheir sins once a year." And again, in Leviticus XXIII: "And the Lordspoke unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, and say, also onthe 10th day in this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be an holyconvocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls and offer aburnt-offering unto the Lord. And ye shall do no work in that same day, for itis a day of atonement, to atone for you before the Lord your God. And every onethat shall not be afflicted on that same day he shall be cut off from among hispeople. And every soul that does any work on that same day, that soul will Idestroy from among his people. You shall do no manner of work. This is astatute forever until all your generations and throughout all your dwellings.It shall be unto you the first amongst your Sabbaths, and ye shall afflict yoursouls; on the 9th day of the month (Visbri,) at even, shall ye afflict yoursouls; from even to even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath." When theIsraelites were still a nation, this day was observed with the most imposingceremonies. It was the only day throughout the year on which even the highpriest presumed to enter the holy of holies, or to pronounce the name of theDeity, which at any other time it was unlawful even for him to utter. Theglories of this day, while it was still celebrated in the place "which theLord had chosen there to enthrone his name," are, in these modern times,commemorated in the afternoon service at the synagogue. At present the day isobserved with no less fervor than of old, and the Jews throughout the world,however heedless of the precepts of their religion they may be occasionally,are all mindful of those which enjoin them to repent for the sins of the paston the Yom Kippur. At sunset the twenty-four hours' fast and continued prayerscommenced, the service consisting chiefly of confessions of sin and utterunworthiness. It is customary in the evening for parents to bestow theirbenediction on their children. Whosoever meet on the day, be they previouslyacquainted or complete strangers, are commanded to salute each other withbrotherly love and sincerity. If any quarrel exists between two Jews it isobligatory on them to become reconciled. He who is conscious of haying wrongedhis neighbor is bound to offer reparation. The law which ordains the observanceof the day likewise commands the Jew to afflict his soul, which affliction,according to tradition, consists in abstaining from five indulgences -- eatingand drinking, bathing, perfuming, wearing shoes and sharing the sensualpleasures. Yesterday the synagogues and many temporary places of worship werethronged with devout Israelites offering up their supplications, confessingtheir sins and imploring pardon.
1866(22ndof Tishrei, 5627): Shmini Atzeret
1866: In ChicagoSarah (née Vogel) and Nelson Morris gave birth to Edward Morris, the husband ofHelen Swift, the brother of diplomat Ira Nelson Morris, who succeeded hisfather as President of Morris and Company, one of the nation’s leading meatpacking companies.
1866: InNew York, Rosa and James (Jacob) Seligman gave birth to Angeline Seligman thefuture wife of Albert H .H. Gross.
1866: “TheMax Strakosch Alliance put on a "grand inaugural concert" today at“Cooper Institute”
1867(2ndof Tishrei, 5628): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah observed for the first time byWalter Rathenau who had been two days before, erev Rosh Hashana
1867:Abraham and Josepine Raff Kramer gave birth to Missouri resident Phillip M.Kramer,
1867: AtWorrell Sisters’ New York theatre, final performance of “Under the Gaslight” with Rose Eytinge in therole of Laura Cortlandt.
1868: InManhattan, “Judah Solomon, a cloth dealer and Caroline Mathilda Lemanns” gavebirth to Titanic survivor Abraham Lincoln Salomon the “wholesale stationer andhead of Salomon and Company who was the husband of Hattie Wolf.
1868: InSilesia, Ernestine Troplowitz and Max Bredig gave birth to “German physicalchemist” George Bredig who discovered that his identifying as a Protestant didnot save him from fleeing the Nazis because of his “Jewish descent” who foundrefuge in the United States thanks to the intervention by Ernest Cohen who“ironically” died at Auschwitz
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/tyeplmz
1869: InBrooklyn, Congregation Beth Jacob was formally incorporated
1869:Abraham Hoffman began serving as Chazan of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation atthe corner of Lloyd and Watson Streets which is known as the Lloyd StreetSynagogue.
1870: AsItalians prepare to vote on a plebiscite that will effectively create a modernkingdom of Italy under the constitutional rule of Victor Emmanuel, it wasreported today that the Italian papers have published an address from the Jewsof Rome to Victor Emmanuel expressing their joy at being released from Papalrule. The Jews had supported and foughtfor the unification of Italy. With thecreation of the modern state of Italy, the Jews would go from some of the mostoppressed people in Europe to being full citizens of a modern, liberal society.
1871(16thof Tishrei, 5632): Second Day of Sukkoth
1871: InLondon, Davis Colski and Sarah Kraijsman gave birth to Barnett Colski.
1871:“Observance of the Jewish Festival of Succoth or Ingathering” published todaydescribed the commencement of “the Jewish Festival of the harvest home, aseason which at all times and among all nations has been considered on hilarityand feasting.”
1872:Birthdate of Roaslie Israel who interred at the Freudenburg Cemetery in Germanywhen she passed away in 1906.
1873(10thof Tishrei, 5634): As Jews observe Yom Kippur, the New York Stock Exchangereopens having closed temporarily on September 20 during the Panic of 1873.
1874: InSt. Louis, MO, Adolph Ungard, the Cologne, Germany son of Loeb Leopold Ungar and Adelheid EdelUngar and his wife Henrietta Ungar gave birth to Leopold Leo Ungar.
1875(2nd ofTishrei, 5636): Rosh Hashanah
1876: “AnAutumn Festival,” published today reported that “the Jewish festival of Sukkothor tabernacles commences tomorrow evening at sunset and last for sevendays. This detailed piece of reportinggoes on to quote from the 23rd chapter of Leviticus so that thereader will understand the origin of the festival. The article gives a detailed description ofthe Lulav and Etrog as well as providing information about “the Azereth orconcluding feast” and Simchat Torah which “is kept for the purpose of rejoicingover the conclusion of the reading of the Pentateuch, which is divided intoweekly sections and gone through once every year.
1876: “Mr.Huxley and the Bible” published today attempts to find harmony between theJewish story of creation and the view of modern science. The author finds the Jewish account to beimmeasurably superior to any other version including the Persian and theGreeks. In their versions, creation isthe produce of superstitious gods and struggling spirits. “The Hebrew narrative gives us the sublimetruths of the whole present order of things have sprung from an intelligent andsupreme will. The Jewish story of creation is about bringing order out of chaoswhich is consistent with the latest scientific thought. The “visions or pictures in the narrative ofMoses are…not intended to be” taken “literally” but are to be viewed as a dramatic andpoetic description of events.
1877: The Berliner Zeitung, a newspaper known asB.Z founded today was bought by Jewish published Leopold Ullstein.
1877: InHungary, Charlotte Schlesinger and Ferdinand Braun gave birth to NationalAcademy of Desing trained artist Maurice Braun, the husband of Hazel Boyer “whobecame known for his impressionist landscapes of southern California.”
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/braun-maurice-kokg4xg4u4/sold-at-auction-prices/
1878(4thof Tishrei 5639): Judah ben Solomon Chai Alkalai, the Sephardic born native ofSarajevo whose Society of the Settlement of Eretz Yisrael founded in London in1852 pre-dated the Zionism of Theodor Herzl whose paternal grandfather, Simon Loeb Herzl, reportedly attendedAlkalai's synagogue in Semlin” passed away today in Jerusalem after which hewas buried on the Mount of Olives. (Some sources show his day of death asSeptember 1, 1878)
https://mizrachi.org/rabbi-yehuda-alkalai-1798-1878/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/judah-ben-solomon-hai-alkalai
1878: Iowanative Harry G. Leopold who eventually serve as a Lieutenant aboard the“Petrel” joined the United States Navy today.
1879(14thof Tishrei, 5640): Erev Sukkoth observed for the first time by Austrianmathematician Hans Hahn who was born four days before the start of the holiday.
1880: InLithuania, “Rabbi David Frisch and his wife Hannah (Baskowtiz) Frisch gavebirth to Rabbi Ephraim Frisch the native of Lithuania who came to the UnitedStates in 1888, was ordained at Hebrew Union College and married Ruth Cohenwhile serving a series of congregations from Pine Bluff, AR to New York City.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23885565?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1882: MajorLouis Alexander Gratz, the son of Salomon and Henrietta Gratz and his wife,Elisabeth Trigg Gratz gave birth to Hugh Turney Gratz.
1882: InUkraine, cabinet maker Yechezkel Boorstein and Pessia Boorstein gave birth toMoishe Chaim Boorstein, the husband of Toby Boorstein and father of PearlBoorstein and William Boorstein.
1882: InJassy, Roumania, Joseph Mearson and Ethel Marks gave birth to Canadian HighSchool graduate Ida Charlotte Ida Mearson,, “the Secretary of the JewishEndeavor Society” who helped establish three Sunday Schools in New York Citywhile serving as the chairman of society’s Religious School Committee.
1883:“Poverty, Wealth and Morals” an article published today that sought todescribed causes other than economics that produce crime reported that “theWestern Jews, who for generations have sought in personal luxuryindemnification for the humiliations, are as strong, as active, as healthy asever they were, and decidedly brighter-witted than they were in Palestine.”
1883: Amongthe charities that received excise moneys from the Board of Estimate andApportionment today were the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society ($1,997.43) andLadies’ Deborah Nursery and Child’s Protectory ($1,980.00), a small fraction ofthe $34,398.39 that was disbursed to all charities.
1883(29thof Elul, 5643): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1883(29thof Elul, 5643): A small group of Sephardic Jews met today and decided thatthere was need for a second synagogue to meet the needs of New York’sSpanish-Portuguese community.
1883(29thof Elul, 5643): Seventy-nine-year-old Abraham Michelbacher, the son of JakobNathan Michelbacher and Adelheid Michelbacher and husband of SophieMichelbacher passed away today in his native Oettingen, Germany.
1883: “TheJewish New Year” published today described events related to the celebration ofRosh Hashanah and its connection to the upcoming observance of Yom Kippur. “At sunset this evening the Jewish communitywill begin the celebration of the festival of Rosh Hashanah or the NewYear. The coming year will be known as5644 in the Jewish calendar, beginning on the first day of the month ofTishri.” (What makes this article significant is that it appeared in thesecular, and the not the Jewish, press.)
1884: InLithuania, Jonas and Mildred Lewis gave birth to University of Pennsylvaniaeducated Philadelphia City Councilman William M. Lewis, the Municipal CourtJudge and husband of Marie Rosenthal who was a member of the board of directorsof the Federation of Jewish Charities.’
1884: Ahearing was to be held today regarding charges that three Jews – LawrenceBraham, Hyam Friewald and Benjamin Levy - had assaulted a policeman namedSamuel Murphy while they were walking in Central Park on the afternoon of YomKippur.
1885: Birthdate of poet and critic Louis Untermeyer. Untermeyerwas one of the earliest American foes of Hitler. Just weeks after Hitlerassumed power on
1885(22ndof Tishrei, 5646) Shmini Atzeret
1885:In NewYork City, Eugene Otterbourg, the son American “envoy to Mexico, MarcusOtterbourg” and his wife gave birth to Edwin M. Otterbourg, the 1904 graduateof CCNY, the third-generation attorney who “was a founder and senior partner ofOtterbourg, Steindler, Houston and Rosen” where he was “a specialist inbankruptcy and reorganization law.”
1885: InHesse, Germany, Jakob and Ida Edelchen Baruch gave birth to Minna Baruch whobecame Minna Falk when she married Julius Falk and who died in 1942 during theHolocaust.
1885: Inaddition to the services being held as part of “The Feast of Tabernacles”congregants at Temple Beth-El in New York participated in a memorial servicefor the last Sir Moses Montefiore. Dr.Kaufmann Kohler delivered a eulogy in German which praised the many virtues ofthe great Jewish philanthropist and humanitarian.
1885: In Hungary, Sarah Weisberger and Meyer Lefkowitz gave birthto SamuelS. Lefkowitz, the husband of Yetta Lefkowitz who was “a registered pharmacistand a chiropractor” and “served as the secretary-treasurer of the AmalgamatedChiropractors Association of New Jersey” for almost 20 years passed away todayat his home in Hackensack, NJ.
1885: Eighty-four-year-oldAnthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, “an early proponent of theRestoration of the Jews to the Holy Land” who in 1841 “provided the first proposal by a major politician toresettle Jews in Palestine.”
1885: During the year ending today, the UnitedHebrew Charities of the City of New York, “the Executive Committee held 39meetings, acted upon 2,615 new applications for aid and 2,377 cases forinvestigation.”
1887: AnnieLee, a little girl who is claimed by a Jewish family and an African-Americanfamily is under the care of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty toChildren per the order of Justice White who has said the matter is one thatwill have to be settled by the state Supreme Court.
1888: InRussia, Deborah Cherniac and Abraham Aaron Brill gave birth to Columbia trainedphysician Isidor Cherniac Brill, the husband of Ruth Lowengart, and a firstlieutenant serving overseas with the Medical Corps during WW I who worked atthe University of California Medical School before eventually becoming anassistant professor of Medicine at the University of Oregon.
1888:Birthdate of Brown County, MI native and University of Minnesota trainedattorney Albert M. Hershman, the WW I and Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney.
1889: “AGreat Hebrew Fair” published today described plans that are being made for afundraiser sponsored by the People’s Free School Association, the Aguilar FreeLibrary Society and the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Associations thatwill be held during the last half of December.The sponsors hope to raise between $150,000 and $200,000 which will beused to erect a facility on the Lower East Side which will be used by theAguilar Library.
1889: “ThePractical Education” published today praised the Hebrew Technical Institute ledby Professor Henry M. Leipziger as being “one of the most conspicuous exemplarsof the progressive idea in education” to be found in New York City (more infofor next year)
1889: InNew York City, Ida and Abraham L. Kass gave birth to David Kass, the founderand “President of the Overland Trading Company, Director of the Trade Bank ofNew York, President of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and husband of Sadie Kasswith whom he had two daughters – “Helen Joy and Babette.”
1889: “HisSons-In-Law Worried Him” published today included the last wishes of LeopoldNewland, a Polish Jew, that Nathan Mauric and Samuel Unger, his sons-in-law,not be allowed his funeral.
1890: “The newlycompleted Hebrew Sanitarium at Rockaway Park was destroyed by fire early thismorning.”
1891:Stanford University opened its doors for the first time. Currently, students atStanford may major or minor in Jewish Studies. There are approximately 655Jewish students among the 6555 undergraduates and 1,800 students among the12,000 graduate students. Stanford is also home to the Rohr Chabad House andthe Taube Center for Jewish Studies.
1891: “Acase of diphtheria was discovered today at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Dr.Cyrus Edison sent the patient to the Willard Parker Hospital.”
1891: JacobH. Schiff presided over the banquet tonight at Delmonico’s given in honor ofJesse Seligman by the officers of severalNew York “Hebrew charitable institutions” and the trustees of TempleEmanu-El withLewis May serving as Toastmaster
1891: As oftoday Herman Faust will no longer receive a salary from the synagogue inPoughkeepsie having been relieved as the congregation’s rabbi because of “grossbreaches of discipline.”
1891:Starting today the United Hebrew Charities began providing work for from sixtyto eighty families “with work at distance mills.” Manufacturers provide the charity with joblistings and the charity fills the work orders
1892(10thof Tishrei, 5653): Yom Kippur
1892(10thof Tishrei, 5653): In Cleveland, Ohio, a congregation of Russian Jews holdservices in the assembly room of the new Young Men’s Christian AssociationBuilding having decided that the crosses on the façade do not interfere withthe Jewish ceremonials or sensitivities.
1892: TheUniversity of Chicago holds it first classes
1892: As oftoday, “the partnership between Isaiah Woolf Jacobs and Abraham Hast carryingon business in Cambridge under the style of Jacobs and Hast has been dissolvedby mutual consent.
1892: Afight took place today a group of peddlers at the corner of Hester and LudlowStreets during Louis Krabitz, a Russian Jew was taken to Governor’s Hospitalafter having fallen unconscious when he was kicked in the abdomen.
1893: As oftoday there were the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society was providing a homefor 437 boys and 352 girls, an increase of 84 from the total from a year agowhile providing various services for a total of 2,339 children.
1893: “TheThalia Theatre was crowded this afternoon with members of the United HebrewTrades who had come to hear the report of Abraham Cahan who had been theirdelegate to the recent International Labor Congress in Zurich, Switzerland.”
1893:“Depend on Good Candidates” published today provided an analysis of theupcoming election in Cleveland, OH, including the fact that the Democrats havenominated “ Rabbi Hahn, a Hebrew of great ability and popularity whoseelection” to the state legislature “is practically assured” and the failure ofthe Republicans to nominate any Jews as candidates for the state legislature.
1893:“Rector Ahlwardt About to Serve his Sentence In Prison” published todaydescribed the upcoming imprisonment of the famous anti-Semite following hisconviction for libeling Loewe & Co, the Jewish owned company thatmanufactures rifles for the Army.
1893: Itwas reported today that a Congress of North German Anti-Semites adopted aplatform that included a proposal forbidding Jews from employing Germanservants.
1893:Between today and March 1 of 1894, the United Hebrew Charities would receiveover 18,000 applications for relief representing 50,440 people.
1894(1stof Tishrei, 5655): Rosh Hashanah
1894: “Nowthe Period of Rosh Hashanah” published today described the ceremonialsconnected with the holiday as well as the seemingly miraculous rescue of LouisBerghold who nearly drowned when he went to the bathhouse at 23 Orchard Streetwhere he had gone to bathe prior to the holiday in keeping with “the Jewishcustom of the New Year.”
1894:Council No 11 of the National Council of Jewish Women was formed in St. Paul,MN with 35 members.
1894: RabbiDe Sola Mendes is scheduled to deliver a special sermon at Congregation ShaaraiTephilla’s new sanctuary.
1894:Captain Dreyfus began serving with the 39th Regiment of the Line inParis.
1894: “Nosales or real estate auctions were held today” in part because it was a Jewishholiday.
1895:Following the removal of the religious disabilities by the Hungarian Reichstagthe first bride to marry under the law is the daughter of Deputy Mezel.
1895: InNew York City, Paul Warburg married Nina J. Loeb, daughter of Solomon Loeb,founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Company after which the couple had two children -- James Paul Warburgand Dr. Bettina Warburg.
1895: Birthdateof Berlin nativ and University of Berlin trained physician Dr. Manfred M.Zachart , a WW I veteran of the German Army “who was a leader among the Germanrefugees” in New York and, beginning in1936, president of the German Jewish Congregation
1896: As oftoday, there was a balance of $42.90 in the treasury of the Hebrew ShelteringGuardian Society.
1896: OnLong Island, Robert Morse and Cambridge Livingston were arraigned today afterhaving been charged by Samuel Burnstein, a Jewish dry goods peddler, withstealing and abusing his horse.
1897: As oftoday, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children of the City of New York, has provided35 summer excursions during 1897 and that from June 1 of this year throughtoday, the agency has provided service to 684 people including “93 mothers withnursing infants and 591 children.”
1898(15thof Tishrei, 5659): Sukkoth
1898: Czar Nicholas II expelled the Jews fromseveral major Russian cities. Seventhousand Jews were forced to leave Kiev.This was part of the Russian policy to destroy the Jewish populationthrough forced conversion, immigration and death.
1898: In Amsterdam,Herzl receives a call to the German consulate. Wilhelm II is inclined to takethe migration of the Jews under his protection. He also wishes to receive Herzlat the head of a delegation in Jerusalem.
1899: Irene Carver ofBaltimore, MD wrote to the New York Times expressing her concerns aboutIsrael Zangwill’s “Children of the Ghetto” which she said should have beencalled “The Strange Story of a Strange People.”
1900: In Berlin, “thepapers publish reports that an organized Jewish movement is being formed and itis intimated that a national meeting of the Jews will be held annually tocombat anti-Semitism.
1900(8th ofTishrei, 5661): Sixty-one-year-old Abraham Wolff, the German born sone ofDaneil and Rebecca Scheuer Wolff, the husband of Lydia Cohen Wolff with whom hehad two children – Addie and Clara – who was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb andCompany and who left an estate valued at eighteen million dollars.
1901(18th ofTishrei, 5662): Fourth day of Sukkoth
1901:Approximately1,000,000 British Pounds are being transferred to theBritish Government in connection with the estate duty of the late Baron Hirsch.
1902(29thof Elul, 5662): Erev Rosh Hashana
1902:Kesher Israel was established today in Harrisburg, PAby breakaway membersof Chisuk Emuna B'nai Russia Synagogue
1902:Today, in “commenting upon Secretary Hay's note to the Powers on the treatmentof the Rumanian Jews The Times's Paris correspondent says that the FrenchGovernment must not be expected to show any very great eagerness in supportingthe contention of the United States.”
1902:“Jewish Immigration Into London” notes that “at the present time the chiefalien immigration to Great Britain is from Romania and consists of Jews driveout by the systematic persecution to which the recent note of Secretary Haycalled attention in earnest but in a dignified protest.”
1903(10thof Tishrei, 5664): Yom Kippur
1903:Birthdate of Warsaw native and Fordham University trained attorned Arthur B.Ewig who in 1904 came to the United States where he raised two daughter, Joanand Barbara with his wife Mahriya.
1903: The NationalLeague Pennant winning Pittsburgh Pirates and the American League Pennantwinning Boston Americans play the first game of the first World Series. TheWorld Series was the brainchild of Barney Dreyfus, a German born Jew who cameto the United States in 1881. Dreyfussettled in Kentucky where he became President of the Louisville Colonels of theNational League. The Louisville team wasdropped from the National League in 1899 and Dreyfus became part owner andPresident of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1900.Under his guidance the Pirates won three straight National LeagueChampionships. During the 1903 season,Dreyfus met with the owner of the American League leading Boston Americans andproposed that the two teams meet at the end of the season. The two shook hands and, despite oppositionfrom National League owners, the two teams met in a best of nine seriesstarting on October 1. The Boston teamwon the first series, five games to three.But the Pittsburgh players made more money. The Boston team received 75 percent of the ALrevenues with the rest going to the team owner.But Dreyfus gave his team 100 percent of the NL revenues, keepingnothing for himself. Dreyfus is also theman who built Forbes Field, the Pirates historic baseball park and he helpedcreate the office of the Commissioner of Baseball.
1903: Birthdate of "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom. Born in New York City, Rosenbloom was light-heavyweightbox champ from 1932 to 1934. This wasthe Golden Age for Jewish prizefighters.
1904(22nd of Tishrei,5665): Shemini Atzeretz
1904: In the nexttwelve months, beginning today, “100,388 Jewish immigrants were admitted to NewYork City” according to the reports of the United Hebrew Charities of the Cityof New York.
1904:Birthdate of Vladimir Horowitz. The Russian-born pianist was considered one ofthe most accomplished players of the 20th century. He is one in a long line ofworld-class Jewish pianists. He passedaway in 1989.
1904: Birthdate ofAustrian-born English physicist Otto Robert Frisch. In 1938 he and Lise Meitnerwere the first to describe fission of uranium after bombardment by neutrons.During World War II Frisch was part of the British delegation to the ManhattanProject, working as head of the Critical Assembly Group. He returned to Englandto direct the physics department at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Hedied in 1979, one of the many Jewish scientists who fled the Nazis and enrichedthe West.
1905(2nd ofTishrei, 5666): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1905: “Jews toCelebrate” published today described a pamphlet being distributed thatdescribed plan for “the celebration of the 250th anniversary of theJews in the United States” that will include “the celebration to be held inCarnegie Hall on Thanksgiving Day, November 23rd.”
1905:” Some 2,000 Jewswere attacked on the Pike Street Recreation Pier on the East River front thisafternoon by two-score Italian and Irish laborers” for no reason except theywere Jews
1906: In New York,Emanuel ad Nettye M. Unger gave birth Jerome Unger the father of sculptor DavidUnger who served as the rabbi at Vassar Temple in Poughkeepsie, NY TempleMenorah from 1963 to 1973.
1906: “Ivan Pavlovwrites a science article which includes an early description of the phenomenonof classical conditioning.”
1906: In Galveston, TXHerbert and Henrietta Blum Kempner gave birth to Harvard educated businessmanto Herbert Isaac Kempner, Jr the brother of Harris L. Kempner, recipient of theLegion of Merit for his service with Navy during WW II and president of ImperialSugar.
1907(23rd of Tishrei,5668) Simchat Torah
1907: James S.Metcalfe, dramatic critic of Life,won his fight against the theatrical managers of New York when the Court ofAppeals to-day handed down a decision that Charles S. Burnham, the manager ofWallack's Theatre, had been properly arrested and confined in the city prisonon a charge of conspiracy brought by Mr. Metcalfe” “who had been barred frommany houses on account of certain cartoons and remarks about Jews that had beenprinted in Life” and which themanagers asserted “constituted an attack upon a race and” should not bepermitted to continue.
1907: Thirty-one-year-oldHarvard trained attorney Herbert J. Friedman, the Chicago born son of Jacob andHenrietta (Kahn) Friedman who was the first president of Young Men’s AssociatedJewish Charities married Elsie Seidenberg today.
1908: Dr. Joseph Pedottof Chicago received $100 from the National Conference of Jewish Charities.
1909(16th ofTishrei, 5670): Second Day of Sukkoth observed for the first time during thePresidency of William Howard Traft
1909: In Evansville,IN, Archie Synenberg and Annie Gerson, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe,gave birth to Pearl Louis Synenberg who in1931 married Mark Berg with whom shehad two sons – Alan and Robert -- and whogained fame as Pearl Berg an American supercentenarian who was the oldestJewish person alive and also the 9th oldest living person in the world” at thetime of her death .
1910: Birthdate ofRabbi Chiam Pinchas Scheinberg,
1910: “The season ofthe German stock company at the Irving Place Theatre” in New York openedtonight “with the performance for the first time on any stage of a melodramatictragedy in three acts by Paule Heyse” the German-Jewish “novelist and poet,entitled “The Veiled Statue at Sais.”Heyse was the first Jew to win the Nobel Prize for Literature which hewon in 1910.
1911(9th ofTishrei, 5672): Erev Yom Kippur
1911: In Chicago,Illinois, James and Emma Kostal gave birth to songwriter and arranger IrwinKostal, the brother of James, Jerome and Violet Kostal.
1911: Mr. and Mrs.Joseph L. Seligman, who have been spending “their honeymoon in the West”, arescheduled to take up residence at 16 East 81st Street today in NewYork City. The bride is the formerJosephine Knowles of Pensacola, Fl.
1912(20th ofTishrei, 5673): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1912(20th ofTishrei, 5673): Forty-eight-year-old merchant Nathan Stein passed away inPittsburg, PA.
1912(20th ofTishrei, 5673): Eighty-year-old Jacob Leo Samuel, the “president of the SpanishPortuguese Synagogue passed away today at Montreal.
1913(29th ofElul, 5673): Erev Rosh Hashana
1913: Birthdate ofYisrael Barzilai, the Polish native who made Aliyah in 1934 and became activein politics serving as an MK and Cabinet Minister.
1913: Morris Wolff was“appointed third deputy attorney-general for Pennsylvania” today.
1913: In Brooklyn,Morris and Pauline Rangell gave birth to Dr. Leo Rangell, a leadingpsychoanalyst during the heyday of classical Freudian talk therapy in the 1960sand ’70s, and a relentless advocate for the slow approach to treating emotionaldistress even as antidepressants and managed care made short-term treatment thenorm´ (As reported by Paul Vitello)
1914: In Atlanta, Ga, Samuel Boorstein, “an attorney who participated inthe defense of Leo Frank and his wife gave birth to Daniel Boorstin, author of The Americas: The Democratic Experience for which he won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, the 12thLibrarian of Congress and the husband of Ruth Carolyn Frankel, the graduate ofWellesley College who “became his partner and editor for his first book TheMysterious Science of the Law.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/mar/01/guardianobituaries.obituaries
1914: Today, EvelynJoseph, the Pretoria, South Africa born son of Fred and Matilda Joseph andmember of the “Birmingham Hebrew Congregation”enlisted in the British Army where he served with the 14thBattalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment reaching the rank of Sergeantbefore being killed in action in Flanders in 1916.
1915(23rd ofTishrei, 5676): Simchat Torah
1915: Birthdate of Cruz“Allen” Rivera, the Catholic Puerto Rican who a Jewish waitress, LillianFriedman with whom he had a son Gerald Michael Rivera, known as Geraldo.
1915: The JewishChronicle reported that Private Abraham Lippman of the Zion Mule Corps “was inthe 3rd Northern General Hospital in Sheffield suffering from an eyewound where he was met by British Army Jewish Chaplain Rabbi Barnett I. Cohen.(Jewish Virtual Library).
1915: “Jew In Czar’sCouncil” published today described the election by representatives of commerceand industry of the first Jew to the Council of the Empire which “has equallegislative powers with the Duma.”
1916: It was reportedtoday that the Jews “constitute only 3 percent of the population of Russia.
1916: University ofPennsylvania trained attorney Colonel Samuel R. Rosenbaum, the son of Morrisand Hannah Rosenbaum and Rosamond gave birth to thrice married RosamondMargaret Benier.
1916: It was reportedtoday that “in addition to the large number of schools” exclusively for Jewishstudent” permission has been granted by the Russian government “for theestablishment of Jewish gymnasiums (high or predatory schools) in Petrograd.”
1917(15th ofTishrei, 5678): Sukkoth
1917: At Temple Israelof Harlem Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to speak on “Food Conservation.”
1917: According toremarks by Jacob Billikopf, the Executive Director of the American JewishRelief Committee “The Yom Kippur appeal” which raised about a half a milliondollars “was made possible through the generosity of Sam C. Lamport who,without solicitation, offer to pay the entire cost of the campaign.
1918: During World WarI, Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia")capture Damascus. The Arabs had the mistaken notion that capture of Damascuswould result in the recreation of the Caliphate located in the Syrian city. The British and French had other plans –plans that would help to destabilize the region that reverberate into the 21stcentury with the violence in Iraq, Lebanon and, of course Syria. This is another example of regionalconfrontation that had, and has, nothing to with the Jews, Zionism or Israel.(In reality, it was the forces under Allenby, including the Jewish Legion thatresponsible for the victory)
1918: “Anti-Semitism inGermany” published today summarized information contained in a pamphlet byIsrael Cohen published by the English Federation which “sketches the history ofthis movement from Bismarck through Stocker and Ahlvardt” and which the authorsays “has concealed its fangs during the war” but will, at its firstopportunity “come out of its lair and begin to spread its poison anew.”
1918: The 165thRegiment including Sergeant Abraham Blaustein left La Marche today and hiked toViocourt as they continued to advance against the Boche in the last greatoffensive of WW I.
1919: The London Officethe Jewish Correspondence Bureau was opened today by Mr. Meer Grossman andJacob Landau “as a private company.”
1919: Today MajorGeneral Hans von Seeckt “became chief of the newly established Truppenamtagency” “the cover organization for the German General Staff” that hid trainingbanned by the Versailles Treaty until 1935” when, under Hitler, “the GeneralStaff of the Germany Army was re-created.” (Editor’s note – This is but onemore example of the reality that German leaders, long before Hitler came topower, were determined to undue the outcome of WW I and re-establish Germany asthe dominate power in Europe.)
1919: Alexander Berkmanwas released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary after having served the maximumsentence following his conviction for violation the Espionage Act of 1917 forhis role in trying to dissuade Americans from registering for the Draft inWorld War I.
1919: Final performanceof “An Exchange of Wives” produced by Walter Hast at the Bijou Theatre in NewYork City
1920: On New York’s Lower East Side, Rose (née Berolsky), a LithuanianJewish immigrant who worked in a garment sweatshop, and Milton Matthow, a Russian Jewish peddler andelectrician, from Kiev gave birth to Walter John Matthow who gained fame asactor Walter Matthau whose most famous role may have been as Oscar Madison in“The Odd Couple.”
http://matthau.com/walter-matthau/
1920: Mr. and Mrs.Edgar Troutfelt and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Loeb who spent the Summer at Seagate,NY returned to their New York homes today.
1920: A new building at64 East 55th Street in New York which is owned by Henry AllanJacobs, the architect who designed the building is scheduled to be ready foroccupancy today.
1920: Two days after hehad passed away, Woolf Davis, the husband of Mina Davis with whom he had fourchildren – “Isaac, Ann, David and Leah” – was buried today at the East HamJewish Cemetery.
1921: As of today, the“temporary officers of the newly formed Camden, NJ, lodge of the IndependentOrder of B’nai B’rith which has 30 members are Sig Schoenagle, President; AbeFurhrman; Bernard Bertman, Secretary
1922: Twenty-six-year-oldArmy veteran and Rutgers University football player “John Alexander madefootball history today while playing for the Milwaukee Badgers against theChicago Cardinals” when “he became the first person to ever play the ‘outsidelinebacker position.’”
1923(21st ofTishrei, 5684): Hoshana Rabah
1923: It was reportedtoday that “one hundred and fifty private automobiles and taxicabs, withseveral sightseeing buses provided by Nathan Straus, Louis Marshal, Judge OttoA. Rosalsky and other members of” the Jewish community in New York City, havetoured the East Side and Harlem as partof “a registration drive by the Jewish Education Association with the object of registering 10,000 poorJewish children for education in Jewish institutions in addition to the publicschools.”
1924: Birthdate ofPresident Jimmy Carter. President Carter brokered the Camp David agreementsthat led to the historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. In the 21stcentury he openly allied himself with the Palestinians in a book whose titleequated Israel with the former white supremacist regime of South Africa.
1924: Birthdate ofHerbert Breslin, the Bronx native who used his skills as a publicist to promotetenor Luciano Pavarotti to the status of “superstar.” (As reported by Daniel J.Wakin)
1925: As the Senatorswere closing out their pennant winning season, Buddy Myer played in the thirdof the four regular season games that would mark his major league debut.
1925: In Buenos Aires,Argentina, Ann Koel and Salomon Kaminsky gave birth to Adolfo Kaminsky who was raised in Paris and who served in theResistance during WW II where his skills as a forger saved thousands of livesbecause of his creation of false identity documents.
1926(23rd ofTishrei, 5678): Simchat Torah
1926: “Jacob Strahl,the President of the Judea Industrial Corporation who return from CentralEurope today on board the Cunard liner Aquitania said that the anti-Semiticfeeling in Romania was ‘as ugly as ever” and he added that European Jewry waswatching with interesting the development of the first Jewish insurance companyin Palestine.”
1927(5th ofTishrei, 5688): Parashat Vayeilech; Shabbat Shuva
1927: In Chicago, DoraHeyman and Benjamin Bosley gave birth to DePaul Thomas Edward “Tom” Bosely theTony Award winning actor for his performance as Fiorello La Guardia in the musical“Fiorello” and creator of the role of Howard Cunningham in the popular sitcom “HappyDays” who married Patrcia Carr after the death of his first wife Jean and whowas a main character in the television series “Murder, She Wrote” and the “FatherDowling Mysteries” where he played a Catholic priest.
1927: In Washington,Lillian and Albert Small gave birth to Carolyn Small the Woodrow Wilson Highand American University graduate who became Carolyn Alper when she marriedMorton Alper, DDS, the third generation Washingtonian and “artist, decoratorand philanthropist.”
1928(17th ofTishrei, 5689): Third Day of Sukkoth
1928: In Joniškis,Lithuania, Ella (née Zotnickaita) and Ber Skikne, gave birth to LaruschkaMischa Skikne known in Hebrew as Zvi Mosheh who gained fame as actor LaurenceHarvey whose parts were as varied as a Texan at the Alamo and a brainwashedassassin in “The Manchurian Candidate.
1929: “The Devil’sMaze” a dramatic film with music by Louis Levy was released today in the UnitedKingdom.
1929: “According toMorris Whinston, the architect who designed the structure,” “the ManhattanBureau of Buildings has approved plans for a three story building for 423-25Lexington Avenue and 132 East Forty-fourth Street which will be built by heMarquis Lunch Company whose president in Morris Goldman
1929: Today, JosephPulvermacher, the future president of Rodeph Sholom who had begun career asmessenger for the Hide and Leather National Bank in 1901 resigned his positionas vice president of Chase National Bank and became president of the newly formSterling Bank.
1930: Members of thearmy navy and Coast Guard were granted furloughs so they could observe YomKippur.
1930(9th ofTishrei, 5691): Erev Yom Kippur
1930: Birthdate ofSamuel Winfield Lewis, the native of Houston whose distinguished diplomaticcareer included serving as U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1977 to 1985.
1930: The PassfieldWhite Paper, dated as of today, recommended limiting Jewish immigration toPalestine following the Arab riots of 1929.
1931(20th ofTishrei, 5692): Sixth Day of Sukkoth.
1931: In London,Mahatma Gandhi declared in an interview that “Zionism in its spiritual sense isa lofty aspiration, but Zionism meaning the reoccupation of Palestine has noattraction for me…”
1932(1st of Tishrei, 5693): RoshHashanah on Shabbat
1932: Herbert Samuelcompleted his service as Home Secretary under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
1932: “Men of Tomorrow”directed by Zoltan Korda and Leontine Sagan and produced by Alexander Korda wasreleased in Great Britain.
1933: Formation of the6th Airlift Squadron in which author James Salter would servefollowing WW II.
1934(22nd ofTishrei, 5695): Shmini Atzeret
1934: Paul Guilluame,the art critic who was the first to champion the work of Italian-Jewish painterModigliani passed away.
1935: Actress SylviaSidney, “the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and VictorKosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a clothing salesman” marriedBennett Cerf today.
1936(15th ofTishrei, 5697): Sukkoth
1936: In Budapest,French Premier Leon Blum was “assailed” as “Red Jew during a ally of ChristianNational students who then went to the Jewish quarter where they broke the“windows of the chief synagogue” during “an anti-Semitic demonstration.” (Editor’s note – these anti-Semitic attackswere not an aberration and help to explain the acquiescence in the Holocaust)
1936: “An appeal forfunds to combat the widespread anti-Jewish propaganda in Eastern and CentralEurope was made “today” by Morris C. Troper, the controller of the AmericanJewish Joint Committee” who had just returned from a tour of Europe where hesaid “the Jews in Germany had been deprived of their civil and religious rightsand that a similar deprivation is threatened in Poland, Austria, Rumania,Lithuania and Latvia.”
1936: Sixty-year-oldLouis Thomas McFadden, a Congressman from Pennsylvania an outspoken foe of theFederal Reserve Board who blamed the board for the Great Depression and saw itas part of a Jewish conspiracy to control the economy and who inserted“excerpts from The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion into theCongressional Record” passed away.
1936: “A total of$2,500,000 was expended by the Jewish Agency for Palestine on immigration,colonization, security and other activities, including the settlement of GermanJews during the year” that end today.
1936: “White HorseInn,” produced and directed by Erik Charell opened at the Center Theatre today.
1937: Cambridge,Massachusetts, native Philip Rahv (born Fevel Greenberg) “was officiallyexpelled as a Trotzkyite by the American Communist Party.” (Editor’s Note: Thiswas part of the contest between Stalin and Trotsky for control of the CommunistParty – a conflict which was literally a matter of life and death in those days,but which is unknown to almost everybody at the start of the 21stcentury.)
1937: The Palestine Post reported on thefestive opening of the new Haifa-Hadera-Tel Aviv-Jaffa highway, an achievementdescribed as a "remarkable engineering feat" and "a grand stepin the development of the country."
1937: The Palestine Post reported thataccording to some moderate Arab sources, it was the well-known band of SheikhIzzadin Kassam which was responsible for the murder of Mr. L.Y. Andrews, theDistrict Commissioner for Galilee, and of his driver, Constable PeterRobertson. This terrorist group, known as having committed many murders before,shot and killed Andrews and Robertson as they were about to enter the AnglicanChurch in Nazareth.
1937: The Palestine Post reported thataccording to some London newspapers, the British and French diplomats in Genevadiscussed the possibility of Jewish settlement in
1938(6th ofTishrei, 5699): Parashat Vayelich
1938:ThePolish government revoked the passports of all Jews who have lived outside ofPoland for more than five years, rendering them stateless.
1938: Today followingthe Anschluss of last March, the medical practice of Eduard Bloch, who had onebeen the physician of Hitler’s family, was closed today, following which he,his daughter and his son-in-law “emigrated overseas.
1938: According toClaretta Petacci, today Mussolini said that "Hitler is a big softy, deepdown." Petacci was Il Duce’s mistress.
1938: In Argentina, adecree is scheduled to go into today designed to limit the number of emigreswho can enter into the country which many assume is intended to stop the flowof Jewish immigrants coming from “Greater Germany and Poland.”
1938:CiviltáCattolica, the foremost Jesuit journal, which is published in Rome andcontrolled by the Vatican, calls Judaism sinister and accuses Jews of trying tocontrol the world through money and secularism. The journal says that the devilis the Jews' master; Judaism is evil and "a standing menace to theworld."
1939: “The JewishCalendar” a pamphlet “compiled and arranged by Solomon M. Neches” “withcorresponding dates for the year 5700 Anno Mundi, 1939-1940 Common Era” waslisted today among “the latest books received” today.
1939:In Vienna, Austria, Übersiedlungsaktion (Resettlement action) isinstituted against able-bodied Jewish men. These Jews are deported to Polandfor forced labor
1939:Nazisbegin the internment of Polish "mental defectives" in the Polishvillage of Piasnica.
1939: In keeping with the terms of their pact with Nazi Germany, Russia“poured well over 1,000,000 men with full equipment into her share of thepartitioned Polish State.
1939: “Speaking tonight at the Temple of Religion” at the World’s Fair,“where Congregation B’nai Jeshurun celebrated the beginning of its 114thyear in New York, Dr. Israel Goldstein, the congregation’s rabbi assailed the‘menace of Nazi-Communist paganism’ and advised Jews and Christians to unite‘to uphold and defend religion and religious values.’”
1939: Today, “Edward L. Bernays announced his withdrawal as non-salariedcounsel on public relations for the World’s Fair” being held in New York.
1940: The Nazis deport 6500 Jews from Germany's Palatinate, Baden, and Saarregions to internment camps at the foot of the French Pyrenees.
1940:Jewsare forced to pay for and build a wall around the Warsaw (Poland) Ghetto
1940:Reichtheoretician Alfred Rosenberg writes an article, "Jews toMadagascar," which suggests mass deportation of Jews to the island off theAfrican coast.
1940:Germanauthorities forbid Norwegian Jews to teach and participate in otherprofessions.
1940:YoungJewish men return from the Belzec, Poland, camp to Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, aftera ransom of 20,000 zlotys is paid to Nazi captors.
1940: In his New Year’smessage, excerpts of which were published today, Dr. Emil Wleipziger of NewOrleans, President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, asked ReformRabbis “to assume the strategy of audacity, whereby they might teach theircongregations to give divine thanks in the hour of agony that He has kept usalive, has sustained us and allowed us to reach this day..”
1940: Wendell Willkie,the Republican candidate for President, “told Jewish citizens tonight that ‘inso far as it is within my capacity to keep so sacred a pledge, the UnitedStates of American will never harbor racial or religious intolerance and persecution.’”
1940: It was reportedtoday, that “the Jewish New Year holidays which begin at sundown” tomorrow“will confine the kosher slaughter to three days this week” in New York.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):Yom Kippur
1941:On this Jewish Day of Atonement, Jews are taken from theghetto at Podborodz, Ukraine, and killed.
1941:Majdanek, a concentration outside of Lublin, Poland began operating today.During its 34 months of operation at least 59,000 Jews were murdered there.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):At Zalgar, the Nazis killed 633 men, 1,017 women, 496children.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):At Butrimantz,Lithuania the Nazis murdered 976 Jews in front of Lithuanian crowds seated onbenches for "a good view." For more on the destruction of thisLithuanian Shtetl see, If I ForgetThee: The Destruction of the Shtetl Butrimantz (Butrimonys, Lithuania.TheNazis sent 3,000 more Jews from Vilna to Ponar where they would all be shot.
1941:TheGerman government prohibits further Jewish emigration from Germany
1941:Atthe Auschwitz camp, SS officer Arthur Johann Breitwieser takes note when acomrade is rendered unconscious after accidental exposure to a disinfectantcalled Zyklon B. A gaseous variant of the compound will eventually be used tokill millions of Jews.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):Einsatzgruppen members gather Jews of the Baltic port of Libau andmachine-gun them at the local naval base.
1941(10 Tishrei, 5702):Germans drown 30 Jewish children in clay pits near Okopowa Street in the WarsawGhetto.
1941:Seventychildren in the Warsaw Ghetto are found frozen to death outside destroyedhouses following the season's first snowfall.
1941: From this date until
1942:Jewsare deported to Auschwitz from Holland and Belgium; to the Treblinka death campfrom central Poland and the Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia camp/ghetto; and tothe Belzec death camp from the Eastern Galicia region of Poland.
1942: The Nazis openedChelmek as a labor camp. The Jews there and elsewhere were used as slave labor for the German wareffort.
1942: Nazis deported4000 Jews from Lukow, a town near Lublin in Poland.
1942: The Nazisdeported 2,000 Jews from Czechoslovakia.
1942:AtNovogrudok, Belorussia, 50 Jews escape from the Germans and join localresistance led by Tuvia Bielski
1942:As3000 Jews are arrested at Pinczów, Poland, Jewish resistance is led by MichaelMajtek and Zalman Fajnsztat
1942:Five thousand Jews are deported fromZawichost, Poland to Belzec
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1942: TheBritish Vatican Ambassador Francis d'ArcyOsborne writes in his diary that Pope Pius XII only occasionally denouncesmoral crimes. But such rare and vague declarations "do not have...lastingforce and validity." Osborne points out that the Pope's "policy ofsilence in regard to such offences against the conscience of the world mustnecessarily involve a renunciation of moral leadership."
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703):At a small labor camp at Budy, Poland,female German non-Jewish prisoners beat, mutilate, and kill dozens of captiveJewish women. When the massacre is over, Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hössinspects the scene
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703: Eighty-five-year-old Dayton, Ohio,native Louis D. Beaumont who with “his two brothers joined with David May,their brother-in-law, in the 1880s to form the May Shoe and Clothing Company,which became the predecessor to May Department Stores” and who created theLouis D. Beaumont Foundation which funded several programs at the WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis passed away today.
1942:TheChelmek slave-labor camp, located in Poland near Auschwitz-Birkenau, opens tohouse Jews draining swamps to provide water to the nearby Bata shoe factory.
1942(20th of Tishrei, 5703):In Luków, Poland,Jewish Council member David Lieberman is told by German authorities that moneyhe has collected to ransom Lublin's Jews is useless, and deportations willcontinue, whereupon Lieberman tears the money to pieces and slaps the Germanofficial in the face. Ukrainian guards kill Lieberman immediately, and 4000 ofthe Jews Lieberman had hoped to protect are deported to the Treblinkaextermination camp, where they are gassed.
1942:Hundredsof Jews escape the Ukrainian town of Luboml but are quickly hunted down. Inall, some 10,000 of the town's Jews are killed.
1943(2nd of Tishrei,5704): Second day of Rosh Hashanah
1943: In ManhattanGertrude Levy and Joseph Slater gave birth to “Robert Slater, a journalist andthe author of more than two dozen books, including biographies of figures asdiverse as the Israeli leader Golda Meir, the businessman Jack Welch and the billionaireand philanthropist George Soros.” (As reported by William Yardley)
1943:SS chief Heinrich Himmler delivers aspeech at a "Final Solution" conference.
1943:The Jewish ghetto at Chernovtsy, Romania,is liquidated
1943(2ndof Tishrei, 5704): Just before their murders, several Jewish women use theirbare hands to attack SS troops at Auschwitz.
1944(14thof Tishrei, 5705): Erev Sukkot
1944:Birthdate of Dror Kashtan, the native of Petah Tikva who became a leadingIsraeli footballer. (What Americans call soccer)
1944(14thof Tishrei, 5705): Fifty-one-year-old Max Ehrlich who had been a highlysuccessful German entertainer was gassed at Auschwitz for the crime of being aJew.
1944:Three years after they began, the final transport of Jews left Cologne forTheresienstadt today.
1944:The Germans initiate death marches ofprisoners from Auschwitz to camps in Germany, including Dachau, Bergen-Belsen,and Sachsenhausen.
1944About 15,000 Jews are deported from theTheresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, camp/ghetto to Auschwitz.
1944(14thof Tishrei, 5705): At the Stutthof, Germany, concentration camp, executions ofJewish prisoners begin. Initial killings are carried out by assembling inmateswith their backs to an infirmary wall with the stated purpose of medicalexaminations. Slits in the wall behind the heads of each inmate allow a pistolshot to be fired into their brains from the adjoining room
1944:Some 150 twins, most of them children,remain in Dr. Mengele's medical block at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1944(14th of Tishrei,5705): The Nazis gassed 1,000 more Jewsfrom Theresinstadt at Birkenau.
1945(24th of Tishrei, 5706):At Boleslawiec, Poland, eight Jews aremurdered by an anti-Semitic Polish underground group. Yes, this happened fivemonths after the end of World War II.
1945: David Ben-Guriondecided “launch an armed struggle against the British which resulted in thePalmach joining The Hebrew Resistance Movement.
1945: Birthdate of Rod Carew.
1946: The film version of Theodore Strauss’ “Moonrise” with a script byCharles F. Haas was released today in the United States after having premieredin Los Angeles.
1946: Today, Mrs. Belle J. Goldstein, national president of the MizrachiWomen’s Organization of America, described the conditions in Palestinefollowing her four month visit to Eretz Israel where she took special pains toinspect the 45 child care facilities supported by Mizrachi. She compared conditions in Palestine to thosein Ireland. She described the curfewswhich would come without warning leaving families without such basics as breadand milk. She reiterated the fact that Mizrachidid not condone the actions of the Stern Gang or the Irgun, she reported thatmost of the Yishuv was actively or passively a supporter of the Haganah.
1947: “Six British destroyers raced out of Haifa today to intercept” twoships carrying over three thousand Jewish refuges that have passed throughDardanelles and according to RAF patrols are somewhere between Cyprus andnorthern Palestine. Just in case that ahalf dozen modern British warships were unable to cope with the threat posed bythese two vessels, 3 more destroyers were standing by in Haifa should they beneeded.
1947: In Haifa, Bluma Lubashevsky, a teacher of English, andYitzhak Ciechanover an office worker in a law firm who had immigrated to Israelfrom Poland in the 1920s gave birth to Israeli biologist Aaron Ciechanover whowon the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2004.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2004/ciechanover/biographical/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2004/ciechanover/prize-presentation/
1948: Birthdate of New York City native and Syracuse University LynnAhrens, the lyricist “who won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and OuterCritics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime.”
1948: A National Palestinian Council meeting in Gaza elected the Mufti asits president and declared itself to be the provisional government of “AllPalestine.” Trans-Jordan’s King Abdullahimmediately denounced the All-Palestinian government which he declared wouldnot be allowed jurisdiction of the areas under the control of the Arab Legioni.e. the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem.
1949: Birthdate of SdeEliyah native and Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University IsraelJacob Yuval, the founder of Scholion - Interdisciplinary research center in theHumanities and Jewish Studies “the academic director of the Jack, Joseph andMorton Mandel School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and the TeddyKollek Chair for the Study of Cultural Aspects of Vienna and Jerusalem.”
1949(8th ofTishrei, 5710): Parashat Ha’Azinu; Shabbat Shuva
1949: As part of theceremonies connected with Yom Kippur which begins tomorrow evening, “Dr. NelsonPresident of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion” isscheduled to “speak over the American Broadcasting Company network today at10:15 P.M.”
1950: During theMaccabiah, competition opens in Haifa for various aquatic events includingswimming, diving and water polo.
1950: In “Land of aDetermined People,” published todayfamed correspondent and author Quentin Reynolds reviews Watch For theMorning by Thomas Sugrue. Accordingto Reynolds, this not only the latest book to be published describingIsrael, “but well may be the best book yet published on the new state. It is certainly the most exciting and mostinteresting.”
1950: During a play-offgame between the Dodgers and Phillies which decided who would meet the Yankeesin the World Series Cal Abrams was thrown out at the plate as he tried to scorefrom second base – a play which would help lead to the Dodgers defeat.
1951(1st ofTishrei, 5712): As U.S. forces slug it out on the Korean peninsula, Jewsobserve Rosh Hashanah.
1953(22nd ofTishrei, 5714): Shmini Atzeret observed for the first time during thepresidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1953(22ndof Tishrei, 5714): Sixty-year-old American biochemist Edwin Cohn passed awaytoday. In 1940 the hard-driving Harvardbiochemist Edwin Cohn broke plasma down into its different proteins — and savedmillions of soldiers' lives Most fatalities in World War I occurred not fromthe direct physical damage of bullet wounds but from loss of blood. In thespring of 1940, as another war seemed inevitable, finding a way to replace lostblood became a medical priority. Edwin Cohn, a Harvard biochemist, took on theproblem of breaking down blood plasma to isolate a protein called albumin thatcould be stored for long periods without spoiling, shipped efficiently and usedeasily on a battlefield to save lives. Patriotic blood drives yielded wholeblood from which a small inventory of albumin had been accumulated by December7, 1941. It was rushed to Pearl Harbor where it proved enormously successful inthe first battlefield setting. Cohnheaded up a government effort to oversee the production of albumin. His workthroughout the war to improve the process and the consequent successes of bloodproducts on the battlefield were one of the keys to victory for the Americansin World War II.
1954: CBS broadcast thefirst episode of “The Lineup” several episodes of which were directed by DanSiegel.
1955(15th ofTishrei, 5716): Sukkoth
1955: After havingpremiered in New York last month, “Killer’s Kiss,” “directed by Stanley Kubrickwho wrote the script along with Howard Sackler” was released today in the restof the United States.
1955(15th ofTishrei, 5716): Sixty-six-year-old Soviet Jewish actor and director AlexeyDenisovich Dikiy “who worked at Moscow Art Theatre and later worked with HabimaJewish theatre in Tel-Aviv” and whose career fell and rose on the whim ofJoseph Stalin meaning he was a prisoner in the Gulag as well as a recipient ofthe Stalin Prize passed away today.
http://www.vakhtangov.ru/en/persones/dikiy
1955: At Ebbets Field,the Dodgers win the fourth game of the World Series leaving them in a tie withthe Bronx Bombers.
1956(26th of Tishrei,5717): Albert Von Tilzer passed away in Los Angeles. Born in 1878, he was an American songwriter,the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the musicto many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The BallGame". He was born Albert Gumm, in Indianapolis, Indiana; his last namehad been shortened by his parents from Gumbinski, or possibly Guminski. As ayoung man he worked briefly at his older brother Harry Von Tilzer's publishingcompany, and Albert's earliest songs were published by Harry. Within a very fewyears Albert formed his own firm, The York Publishing Company, and thereappears to have been no further collaboration between Albert and Harry VonTilzer, although both of them wrote and published many hundreds of songs.Tilzer was Albert and Harry's mother's maiden name. When oldest brother Harrybegan his song writing career he assumed the professional name Von Tilzer,adding the honorific "Von" to his mother's maiden name. Albertfollowed suit, as did younger brothers Will and Jules Von Tilzer, both of whomwere also active in the music industry. Von Tilzer was a top Tin Pan Alley tunewriter, producing numerous popular music compositions from 1900 continuingthrough the early fifties. He collaborated with many lyricists, including JackNorworth, Lew Brown, and Harry MacPherson. A number of his tunes were performed(and recorded) by jazz bands and continue to be played decades later. His songsincluded "The Alcoholic Blues", "Apple Blossom Time","Chili Bean", "Dapper Dan", "Honey Boy", "IMay Be Gone for a Long, Long Time", "I'm Glad I'm Married","I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town", "The Moon Has His Eye OnYou", "My Cutie's Due at Two-to-Two", "My LittleGirl", "Oh By Jingo!", "Oh How She Could Yacki- Hacki, Wicki-Wacki,Woo", "Put on Your Slippers and Fill Up Your Pipe, You're Not GoingBye-Bye Tonight", "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey", "RollAlong, Prairie Moon", "Take Me Out To The Ball Game", "WaitTill You Get Them Up in the Air, Boys", and hundreds of others.
1956: The Israelidelegation returned from France following highly secret negotiations on how todeal with the threat posed by President Nasser of Egypt.
1956: “The Diary ofAnne Frank” “opened simultaneously in seven German cities.”
1957: Today marked thepublication of the first of a 12-part series written by Alexander Bittlementfor The Worker that described the liberalizing process that was taking place inthe Communist Party in the wake of the exposure of Stalin’s excesses and theHungarian Revolution.
1957: “Affair inHavana” a crime film directed by Laslo Benedek, with music by Ernest Gold and ascreenplay by Maurice Zimm, the Waterloo, IA born son of Jewish immigats.wasreleased today in the United States.
1958(17th ofTishrei, 5719): Third Day of Sukkoth
1958: Seventy-two-year-oldBaltimore born Dr. Oscar E. Bransky, the holder of a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins,a 38-year veteran of Standard Oil of Indiana ,and “the former chief of the petroleumbench of the Economic Cooperation administration, who raised two daughters anda son with his wife Thelma passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-obituary-for-osear-e-bransky/77545917/?locale=en-US
https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Crude-Petroleum-Through-Fullers/dp/1407676164
1958: “Onionhead,” acomedy-drama set in WW II directed by Norman Taurog and featuring WalterMatthau and Joey Bishop was released in the United States today.
1958: “Man of the West”produced by Walter Mirisch and co-starring Julie London and Lee J. Cobb wasreleased in the United States today.
1958: “Handful ofFire,” a two-act play written by N. Richard Nash opened today “on Broadway atthe Martin Beck Theatre.
1958: “The Big Country”a big-screen western epic that was a popular hit directed and produced byWilliam Wyler, with an overpowering score by Jerome Moross and co-starringCarroll Baker was released today in the United States by United Artists.
1959: Henry Popkin’sreview of Harold Loeb’s The Expatriate Twenties: The Way It Was waspublished today.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-way-it-was-by-harold-loeb/
1959: The first episodeof “Law of the Plainsman” co-produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions (JulesLevy, Arthur Garnder and Arnold Laven) was broadcast today on NBC.
1960(10th of Tishrei,5721): Yom Kippur
1960: U.S. and Greekpremiere of “Never on a Sunday,” written and directed by Jules Dassin who alsoco-starred in the film.
1960: “Camelot,” theLerner and Loewe musical “premiered in Toronto at the O’Keefe Center where itdisastrously ran for over four hours instead of the expected two hours.
1960: After 337performances at the Music Box Theatre, the curtain came down on the originalBroadway production of “Five Finger Exercise” written by British playwright SirPeter Levin Shaffer, the twin brother of playwright Anthony Shaffer.
1961(21st ofTishrei, 5722): Hoshana Rabba
1961: Gertrude Berg,the actress best known as “Molly Goldberg” appeared for the third time as themystery guess on “What’s My Line?”
1961: British diplomateSir Andrews “was involved in the transfer of the Trust Territory of SouthernCameroons to the French-controlled-state of the Caermoun Republic” today.
1962(3rd ofTishrei, 5723): Tzom Gedaliah
1962,Today, Groucho Marx, after acting as occasional guest host of The Tonight Showduring the six-month interval between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, introducedCarson as the new host The Tonight Show.
1962: “A Kind ofLoving” directed John Schlesinger and produced by Joseph Janni was releasedtoday in the United States.
1962: “Little AnnieFanny,” a comic series created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder that debutedin Playboy.
1962: Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract with ColumbiaRecord Company
1962: Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977.
1962: “ICan Get It for You Wholesale,” a musical with music and lyrics by Harold Romeand a book by Jerome Weidman starring Elliott Gould featuring Lillian Roth andBarbra Streisand as “Miss Marmelstein” transferred from the Shubert Theatre tothe Broadway Theatre.
1964: The Free SpeechMovement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. Among the movement’s leaders were severalJews including Suzanne Goldberg, Bettina Aptheker and Jackie Goldberg.
1965: Harold Brownbegan serving as the 8th United States Secretary of the Air Force.
1965(5th ofTishrei, 5726): Sixty-three-year-old Edward Podolsky, the author of severaltomes including The Doctor Prescribes Colors: The Influences of Colors onHealth and Personality passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Edward-Podolsky/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AEdward+Podolsky
1966(17th ofTishrei, 5727): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1966(17th ofTishrei, 5727): Seventy-one-year-old Latvia native Yiddishist Zalman (Salman)Yefroiken who in 1921 came to the United States where he eventually became theeducation director of the “Workmen’s Circle High School,” editor of “Cultureand Education and the author of Jews Do Not Surrender while raising twochildren with his wife ‘the former Amy Goldberg.
1966: Birthdate ofactress and model Cindy Margolis. And you thought I only knew about deadrabbis, old authors and antique actors.
1967(26th ofElul, 5727): Seventy-year-old Solomon “Sol” Vigran, the Cincinnati born son ofAlex and Agnes Salaway Vigransky and the husband of Zelda Weinstein Vigran whowas graduate of the University of Cincinnati Law School and President ofEliokum Investment Corporation passed away today after which he was buried atthe Kneseth Israel Cemetery in Cincinnati, OH.
1967: “Far FromVietnam” a documentary co-directed by William Klein was released in Francetoday.
1967: In Toronto, thecornerstone was laid to the expansion project at Shaar Hashomayim. Thesynagogue, which had been designed to serve 300 families, was now serving 1,750families which necessitated the building project.
1968(9th ofTishrei, 5629): Erev Yom Kippur observed for the last time during thePresidency of Lyndon Johnson
1969(19th ofTishrei, 5730): Five Day of Sukkot.
1969(19th ofTishrei, 5730): Ninety-two-year-old Baltimore native and Johns Hopkins trainedphysician turned stockbroker Leonard Keene Hirshberg who was found guilty of defrauding investors of one million dollarsin a mail fraud investment scam and sent to the federal prison at Atlanta for twoyears.
1970(1st ofTishrei, 5731): Rosh Hashanah
1970: In Philadelphia,“Arthur and Karen (Spivak) Lobel gave birth to historian Cindy Renee Lobel. (Asreported Katherine Rosman)
1970: “The Baby Maker”starring Barbara Hershey (Barbara Lynn Herzstein) was released today in theUnited States.
1971(12th ofTishrei, 5732): Seventy-three-year-old “Bella Finkel Muni” the actress, sisterof “director of Abe Finkel” and the wife of award winning actor Paul Muni,passed away today in Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/10/04/90693586.pdf
1971: In the UK, ITVbroadcast the first episode of “The Mary Feldman Comedy Machine” starring MartyFeldman who wrote for the show along with others including Larry Gelbart andBarry Levinson.
1971(12th ofTishrei, 5732: Eighty-one-year-old Benjamin Marcus Priteca, the Glasgow bornarchitect who designed Chevra BikurCholim synagogue in 1912 which is now the Langston Hughes Performing ArtCenter, Seattle and The Alhadeff Sanctuary of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch Sinaipassed away today.
http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/1774
1972(23rd ofTishrei, 5733): Simchat Torah
1972(23rd ofTishrei, 5733): Seventy-four-year-old French born American Benny Valgar whofought and lost in bout for the Featherweight Championship of the World passedaway today.
1972: “Follies,” amusical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldmanwas performed for the last time at the Schubert Theatre in Los Angeles.
1973: According to theAgranat Commission Lieutenant Benjamin Siman Yov, order of battle intelligenceofficer for the Southern Command gave his superior Lt Colonel Gadalia documentsindicating Egypt's war preparations; a warning that the Commission said wasignored.
1973: The Egyptian andSyrian armies when on full alert today.Israeli intelligence officers at the highest level ignored the potentialsignificance of the move and did not respond with appropriate counter-measures. This decision would have near catastrophicconsequences five days later.
1974: Birthdate ofAleksandr Averbukh, the Russian born Israeli Olympic level pole vaulter.
1975: “Sylva Zalmansonbegins the second week of her hunger strike outside the UN building in New Yorkin support of her husband Edward Kuznetsov and her brothers Israel and WolfZalmanson who are still imprisoned in the USSR.
1975: “An unofficialgroup of five Israelis” that had been visiting the USSR for the last ten daysat the invitation of the of the Soviet Peace Committee left today.
1976(7th ofTishrei, 5737): Seventy-four-year-old Goldie Feinstein passed away today.
1976(7th ofTishrei, 5737): Seventy-five-year-old Tillie Feinstein of Paramus, NJ, passedaway today.
1978(29th ofElul, 5738): Erev Rosh Hashanah
1978: Thirty-year-oldRon Blomberg played his final game for the Chicago White Sox today.
1979(10th ofTishrei, 5740): Yom Kippur.
1979(10th ofTishrei, 5740): Diana G. Jaffe, thehusband of Samuel Jaffe and the mother of Rona Jaffe passed away today.
1980(21st ofTishrei, 5741): Hoshana Raba
1980(21st ofTishrei, 5741): Seventy-eight Kiev native Harry Grey, the author whose worksincluded The Hoods and the husband of Mildred Becker with whom he had threechildren – Beverle, Harvey and Simeon – passed away today.
1980: The West Endproduction of “They're Playing Our Song,”“a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, andmusic by Marvin Hamlisch” opened today at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
1981: As of today, inthe last thirty days, 405 Jews left the U.S.S.R.
1982(14th of Tishrei,5743): Erev Sukkoth
1982: “The LastAmerican Virgin” directed by Boaz Davidson who also wrote the script, producedby Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenbergwas released in Finland today.
1983(24th ofTishrei, 5744): Parashat Bereshit
1983: CBS broadcast thefirst episode of “Cutter to Houston” a medical show created by Sandor Stern.
1983(24th ofTishrei, 5744): Eighty-two year old Lucille Feinstein passed away today.
1984: ABC network saidtoday that 43 year old John T. Lazarus, vice president of sports marketing andsales at the ABC Television Network, has resigned his position.
1985: The WestProduction of the “Torch Song Trilogy” by Harvey Fierstein opened today at thwAlbery Theatre
1985: President RonaldReagan today announced his intention to nominate Richard Schifter to beAssistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Hewould succeed Elliott Abrams. Mr. Schifter is a partner in the law firm ofFried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Kampelman in Washington, DC.
1985: In what is knownas “Operation Wooden Leg,” The Israeli air force bombed PLO Headquarters inTunis in response the Yom Kippur hijacking of yacht off the coast of Cyprus andthe cold-blooded murder of the three Israelis tourists on board.
1987: Their MajestiesKing Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain paid a visit to Sephardic TempleTifereth Israel in Los Angeles in a secular event in their honor.
1988(20th ofTishei, 5749): Shabbat shel Sukkot
1988: “Heathers” acomedy starring Winona Ryder (Winona Laura Horowwitz) who also served asnarrator was released in Italy today.
1989: “Congress adoptedthe Lautenberg-Spector Amendment which contains new rules of immigration to theU.S. from USSR which include a quota of 40,000 Jews a year and direct flightsfrom Moscow to USA.”
1989: General ColinPowell began serving as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. DuringOperation Desert Storm, Powell sent Patriot Batteries to Israel to thwart theScud attacks from Iraq. This was thefirst time that Israel had entrusted any part of her defense to anothernation. Israel did so not because shewas unable to protect herself, but because the United States asked Israel tostay on the sidelines so as not to upset the coalition the Bush Administrationhad gathered to fight Iraq.
1990: Harvard graduateand Stanford educated attorney, David Frank Levi, the son of Kate Levi andEdward H. Levi, a former president of the University of Chicago and UnitedStates Attorney General under President Gerald R. Ford and husband of Nancy RanneyLevi with whom he had two sons – Will and Joseph -- began serving as the Judge of the UnitedStates District Court for the Eastern District of California.
1990: The UNESCO Courier publishes Manuel Osorio’s interview of Claude Levi-Strauss - French socialanthropologist.
1991(23rd of Tishrei, 5752): Simchat Torah
1991: The Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) which had been battling Croatianforces began the Siege of Dubrovnik during which two thirds of the old city wasin some way damaged, including the” including the Sephardic synagogue which isthe second oldest such edifice in Europe, “where shells and grenades hit theadjacent buildings shattering the windows of the sanctuary and Jewish CommunityHeadquarters.”
1992(4th of Tishrei, 5753): Seventy-nine-year-old DorothyFishman Weiss, the Denver born daughter of Abraham and Sarah Eckstein Fishmanand the sister of Bernard Fishman passed away today after she was buried atRose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City, CO.
1993: The movie version of “M. Butterfly” directed by David Cronenbergand with music by Howard Shore was released today in the United States.
1993: David Levi, the son of U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi beganserving as Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern Districtof California.
1993: “Cool Running” a sports movie directed by Jon Turteltaub and withmusic by Hans Zimmer was released in the United States today.
1993: “Malice” a thriller with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, music byJerry Goldsmith and co-starring Bebe Neuwirth was released in the United Statesby Columbia Pictures.
1993: “For Love Or Money” a comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, producedby Brian Grazer and featuring Bob Balaban was released today in the UnitedStates.
1994: The City ofAnchorage, Alaska honored Rabbi Harry L. Rosenfeld by proclaiming this “RabbiHarry Rosenfeld Day.”
1994: Abner J. Mikvabegan serving as White House Counsel under President Clinton.
1994: “The age ofHobsbawm: The people's historian is turning his long gaze to a short century”published today provided a review Age of Extremes: The Short TwentiethCentury – 1914 to 1991 by Eric Hobsbawm.
1995: “Piranha” the film which marked the debut of Mila Kuniswas released in the United States today.
1997: Ninety-seven oldEsther Gottesman who had been a “national board member of Hadassah since 1934”and who convinced her brother-in-law D. Samuel Gottesman to help finance theacquisition of the Dead Sea Scrolls passed away today. (As reported by EnidNemy)
1997: It was reportedtoday that the 1990’s have seen “a continuation of Jewish day school growth”with an enrollment of over “200,000 students nationwide” which is seen as being“part of a resurgence in Jewish culture.”
1997: The Red Tent byAnita Dimant is published. The novel examines Jewish history through feministeyes, featuring Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter.In the Bible Dinah is portrayed as a rape victim who is avenged by herbrothers.
1997: CBS broadcast thefirst episode of season five of “The Nanny” a sitcom created by Peter MarcJacobson and Fran Drescher who starred “as Fran Fine” a Jewish nanny fromQueens.
1999(21st of Tishrei,5760): Hoshana Raba
1999: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held in Boca Raton, FL, for 98 year Clara Adler Hoffman,the New York born daughter of Sadie Simon and Dr. Charles Adler and wife ofdentist Dr. M. Robert (Buddy) Hoffman who “were a founding family of the JewishCenter in 1934 and Sinai Reform Temple in 1948 both located in Bayshore, NY.”
1999(21st ofTishrei, 5760): Seventy-five-year-old Willem Polak, the former mayor ofAmsterdam, passed away today.
1999(21st of Tishrei,5760): Ted Arison, an Israeli-American businessman who co-founded NorwegianCruise Lines in 1966 with Knut Kloster and founded Carnival Cruise Lines in1972, passed away. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1924, he fought in the JewishBrigade of the British Army during World War II. He moved to the United Statesin the early 1950s and created Carnival Cruise Lines in 1972 in which he madehis fortune. Later, he established the National Foundation for Advancement inthe Arts based in Miami. He brought professional basketball to South Floridawith the forming of the Miami Heat in 1988, and established the philanthropicArison Foundation in Israel and the United States. In 1990, he renounced hisU.S. citizenship, in an effort to avoid U.S. Estate Taxes (and failed to meetthe 10 years out of the United States rules on this matter, when he died in1999) and returned to Israel and founded Arison Investments. In 1997 he headeda consortium that purchased the controlling share in Bank Hapoalim for morethan $1 billion -- the largest privatization deal in Israel's history. Hischildren include Micky Arison and Shari Arison.
2000: The New York Times included reviews of TheAvengers by Richard Cohen and The Talmud and the Internet byJonathan Rosen.
2000(2nd of Tishrei,5761): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2000: Arab Israelistook part in violent demonstrations aimed at showing their support for theSecond Intifada
2000:The 2000 Summer Olympic in which canoer Rami Zur competed for Israel came to aclose today.
2001: Hamas took creditfor today’s bombing in Talpiot, a neighborhood in Jerusalem.
2002(25th of Tishrei,5763): Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist, passed away.
2002: “True Courage ofOne Who Had to Act” published today described the life of Necdet Kent, “aTurkish diplomat who risked his life to save Jews from Nazi concentration campsduring World War II.”
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/30/1033283437468.html
2003: Charles Princereplaced Sanford Weill as the CEO of Citigroup.
2003: CBS broadcast thefirst episode of season six of “The King of Queens” co-starring Jerry Stiller.
2004(16th of Tishrei,5765): Second Day of Sukkoth
2004(16th ofTishrei, 5765): Eighty-one-year-old fashion photographer Richard Avedon passedaway today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/02/obituaries/richard-avedon-the-eye-of-fashion-dies-at-81.html?_r=0
2004: A month afterpremiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, “I Heart Huckabees”starring Dustin Hoffman and featuring Isla Fisher was released in the UnitedStates by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
2004: Opening of the“exhibition ‘David Bomberg en Ronda’ at the Museo Joaquin Peinado in Ronda inAndalusia that showed work by Bomberg in the city and environment which he hadcelebrated in paintings and drawings in 1934-35 and 1954-47.
2005: The King inthe Window, “a children's fantasy novel written by American author AdamGopnik, was published today by Hyperion Books.”
2005(27th of Elul,5765): A marvelous day for the Jewish community in Cedar Rapids. Temple Judah marked the last Shabbat of 5765with Traditional Saturday morning services.The Cedar Rapids Gazettecarried three articles featuring Jewish topics. First, the question in the “GodSquad” column began with “I don’t see why synagogues force people to havetickets for services at the High Holidays.”Goldman and Hartman responded with a column about the need to providefinancial support for religious institutions while assuring the questioner thatnobody is turned away at the synagogue door because they cannot afford topay. Second, there was a story aboutRabbi Peter Schweitzer donating his ten thousand item collection of Jewishmemorabilia to the National Museum of American Jewish History. Finally, there was a lengthy article aboutKalman Feinberg winning the national Great Shofar Blast Off.
2006: The New York Times book section featuresreviews of two books about I.F. Stone – All Governments Lie: The Life andTimes of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone by Myra MacPherson and The Best ofI.F. Stone edited by Karl Weber.
2006: The Washington Post book section featuresreviews of Gonzo Judaism: A BoldPath for Renewing an Ancient Faith By Niles Elliot Goldstein and Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jewby Robin Chotzinoff
2006: A Lubavitcher hasid reportedly responded to a request fromYiddish scholar Itche Goldberg and help him put on Tefflin
2006(9th of Tishrei, 5767): Yom Kippur observance begins with Kol Nidre
2006: Over 100,000 people participated in the seventh annual “YomKippur for Everyone,” an event which brings an open and educational Yom Kippurservice to community centers and schools throughout Israel. The idea is to create a meaningful spiritualexperience for those who avoid traditional religious services.
2007(19th of Tishrei, 5768): In Chevy Chase, Maryland, Israel Kugler, a leader of teachers’ andJewish labor organizations, passed away at the age of 90. Kugler was presidentof the United Federation of College Teachers during the turbulent 1960s, and hewon a reputation as an outspoken advocate for teachers’ rights.
2007: U.S. News & World Report Magazine features a report onJudge Michael Mukasey, the Orthodox Jew President Bush nominated to U.S.Attorney General as being “a respected law-and-order man with a compassionatestreak.”
2007: In a reminder of the connection between Jews and humor, TimeMagazine featured a review Robert Klein: The HBO specials 1975-2005,a
2007: Vacationers visiting Charles Clore Park in Tel Aviv expressedtheir disgust with the filth they encountered much of which was cause peoplebarbecuing, a practice that the municipality had banned.
2007: Plaza Hotelowners Yitzhak Tshuva and the Elad Group paid $120,000 for the giant birthdaycake that marked the 100th anniversary of the landmark New York hotel
2008: Amy Goodman wasnamed as a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, often referred to asthe "Alternative Nobel Prize" — the first journalist to be sohonored. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation cited her work in"developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots politicaljournalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that areoften excluded by the mainstream media."
2008(2ndof Tishrei, 5769): Second Day Rosh Hashanah
2008(2ndof Tishrei, 5769): One hundred nine-year-old Boris Yefimov, “a Russiancartoonist despised by Hitler and beloved by Stalin” passed away today. (Asreported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/europe/05yefimov.html?_r=0
2008: Professor Sarah Stroumsa replaces Professor Haim D.Rabinowitch, as rector at Hebrew University. He has served in the position forthe last seven years.
2008: In the evening, at the New York film festival, a screening of “Waltz with Bashir” directed by Ari FolmanAccording to critics, “many films have shown us that war is hell..
2008: Peter Salovey, isscheduled to become Provost at Yale.
2009: An off-Broadwayproduction of “Loss, and What I Wore” a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron“officially opened at the Westside Theatre.”
2009: A.J. Jacobsdiscusses and signs his new book, "The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as anExperiment," at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, in Washington, D.C.
2009: The ColumbusJewish Federation holds its 2009 Annual Meeting and 2010 Annual CampaignKickoff, an event that will feature the presentation of the Ben M. MandelkornAward for Distinguished Service & Therese Stern Kahn and William V. KahnYoung Leadership Award.
2010:Rick Sanchez, a daytime anchor at CNN, was fired today aday after telling a radio interviewer that Jon Stewart was a bigot and that“everybody that runs CNN is a lot like Stewart.”
2010(23rd of Tishrei,5771): Simchat Torah
2010: “According to ashort speech delivered today during Cornelius Lanczos' induction to the NISTPortrait Gallery of Distinguished Staff, his daughter-in-law, Alice Lanczos,described his return to Hungary in 1939 from his then-position at Purdue University,when he attempted to convince his family to return to the US with him due tothe anti-Jewish Nazi threat” – an attempt that was only partially successfullysince he was able to rescue his five year old son, but not his “wife who wastoo ill to travel and died several weeks later from tuberculosis”
2010:”In the PenalColony, a chamber opera in one act and 16 scenes composed by Philip Glass basedon a work by Franz Kafka completed its month long premiere performance run thathad begun on August 31.
2010: “The World ofJewtopia” is scheduled to open in Charlotte, NC.
2012: A movie based onZuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, “The Social Network” wasreleased today
2011: Under the new“summer clock” to be used in Israel, today should mark the end of daylightsavings time. But since October 1 fallson Shabbat, the winter clock should have begun on the day before. But sincethat was Rosh Hashanah, Daylight Savings time should come to an end on October2.
2011(3rd ofTishrei, 5772): In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, guest chazzan Ilan Caplan is scheduledto lead Shabbat Shuvah services at the traditional minyan at Temple Judah
2011: Keren Ann Zeidel,an Israeli sound designer, singer, songwriter, is scheduled to perform at theCity Winery in New York City.
2011: “President Obamawas considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going tolet him out before his time.’ If it were up to me, he would stay in jail forlife,” U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was quoted as saying during a meeting withrabbis in Florida in a New York Times article published today
2011: An Israeli airstrike wounded three Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip today, the Israelimilitary and Palestinian medical officials said.
2011(3rd ofTishrei, 5772): Eighty-five-year-old Sholom Rivikin “an Israeli-born Americanrabbi who was the last Chief Rabbi of St. Louis” passed away today.
2011: Gene Simmons whois Jewish married Shannon Lee Tweed who was not.
2012(15th ofTishrei, 5773): Sukkoth
2012(15th ofTishrei, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old “Eric J. Hobsbawm, whose three-volumeeconomic history of the rise of industrial capitalism established him asBritain’s pre-eminent Marxist historian” passed away today. (As reported byWilliam Grimes)
2012(15th ofTishrei, 5773): Eighty-six-year-old Holocaust survivor, economist and governorof the Bank of Israel passed away today.
2012: American-Canadianprofessional tennis player Jesse Levine achieved his career-high singles rankof world no. 69 today
2012(15th ofTishrei, 5773): Eight days before her 90th birthday, Joan MorgenthauHirschhorn (Dr. Joan E. Morgenthau) passed away today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenwichtime/obituary.aspx?pid=160282693#fbLoggedOut
2012(15th ofTishrei, 5773): Ninety-five-year-old “Irving Cohen, who was known as King Cupidof the Catskills for his canny ability to seat just the right nice Jewish boynext to just the right nice Jewish girl during his half-century as the maîtred’ of the Concord Hotel” passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
2012: The Brazilianadaptation of the Israeli hit "Be Tipul" premiered on GNT, under thetitle "Sessão de Terapia" ("Therapy Session").
2012(15th ofTishrei): Yarhrzeit of William “Bill” Schueller, beloved husband of EleanorSchueller, father of Deb Levin and father-in-law of Mitchell Levin
2012(15thof Tishrei, 5773): Eighty-eight-year-old” Shlomo Venezia was one of the firstJews to climb out of the freight car when it came to the end of the line at theAuschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on April 11, 1944” passed awaytoday. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
2012: It was reportedtoday that “archaeologists working in Northern Israel's Nahal Me'arot, Unesco'smost recently declared World Heritage Site, found evidence that thegenealogical relatives lived side by side and perhaps even interbred, accordingto The London Times.
2012: Lorraine LotzofAbramson, author, My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up under Apartheid in SouthAfrica is scheduled to beinterviewed on Channel 75 in NYC
2013: Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu plans to warn the international community to learn from itsmistakes with North Korea and not to be fooled by Iran’s new conciliatoryattitude toward its nuclear weapons program, when he speaks at the UnitedNations General Assembly in New York today (As reported by Tovah Lazaroff)
2013: The JCRC and theJCC GW are scheduled to host “Environmentalism as a Pathway to Peace: Israeli,Palestinian and Jordanian Hydro-politics.
2013(27th ofTishrei, 5774): Ninety-year-old Israel Gutman, one of the Warsaw Ghettofighters and editor in chief of the four volume Encyclopedia of theHolocaust passed away today. (As reported by Isabel Kershner)
2013: The world can never cease its fight forjustice and against racism, Finance Minister Yair Lapid told the HungarianParliament today, during a visit to participate in a conference called"Jewish Life and anti-Semitism in Contemporary Europe".(As reportedby Lahav Harkov)
2014:“The historic Ellis Island hospital complex, through which many Jewishimmigrants to the US passed in the first half of the 20th century, is scheduledopen to the public today for the first time in 60 years. The complex of 29unrestored buildings is located across the ferry slip from the fully-restoredimmigration museum.”(As reported by Collen Long)
2014:Dr. Peggy Pearlstein, former Head of the Hebraic section of the Library ofCongress is scheduled to present “A Tale of Two Books: The Sarajevo Haggadahand the Washington Haggadah.”
2014:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “Echoes of the Borscht Belt:Contemporary Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld.”
2014:In London, the Wiener Library is scheduled to present a lecture by RogerMoorhouse, “The Devil's Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941.”
2014:“With a display of mutual empathy and support, Israel’s Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu and US President Barack Obama held their first meeting today sincethe collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the summer’s 50-dayIsrael-Hamas war.
2014(7thof Tishrei, 5775): Eight-six-year-old Shlomo Lahat who served as Mayor of TelAviv for 19 years passed away today.
2015(18thof Tishrei, 5776): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
2015(18thof Tishrei, 5776): Ninety-five-year-old Jacob Pressman who served as the rabbiat Temple Beth Am for 35 years passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-rabbi-jacob-pressman-dies-at-95-20151005-story.html
2015:A mother and her six-month-old son were when “a group of rock-throwingterrorist attacked Israeli vehicles today near the Tekoa community of GushEtzion.”
2015:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to host “French ChamberMasterpieces: Fauré Piano Quartet and Franck Piano Quintet.”
2015:In Little Rock, AR, a Sukkoth Party with the BMX Stunt show is scheduled totake place at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life under the leadership of RabbiPinchas Ciment.
2016(28thof Elul, 5776): Final Shabbat of 5776
2016:“Police said a 40-year-old man” had been arrested this evening “after anintruder shot a security guard at Moscow synagogue with an air pistol.”
2016:“From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer” which “delves headlong into theabsurdities and neuroses of matrimonial rites as an Israeli weddingphotographer repeatedly finds himself embroiled in psychodramas with the bridesand grooms who hire him” is scheduled to be shown at the 54th NewYork Film Festival.
2017(11thof Tishrei, 5778): Eight-nine-year-old publisher S.I. Newhouse, Jr. passed awaytoday. (As reported by Jonathan Kandell)
2017:“Disabled protesters blocked a road junction north of Tel Aviv today, rejectinga deal signed between other disabled activists and the government” two days ago“to increase stipends and end traffic-halting demonstrations.” (As reported bySue Surkes)
2017:Today, “Michael Robert Marrus, a Candian history of the Holocaust and modernEuropean and Jewish History” wrote a letter to Hugh Seal resigning his position“as a Senior Fellow of Massey College” and apologizing for poorly statedattempt at humor which would have been found offensive to “the black student”who heard it.
2017:After expressing how “dismayed he was by the Trump Administration” CharlesPhillip “Chuck”Rosenberg officially stepped down from his position as“Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration” today.
2017:While delivering a speech marking the “Shiite holy day of Ashura,” HassanNasrallah, “the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group”…”warned Jews livingin Israel to leave the country as soon as possible…” (As reported by DovLieber)
2017:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding After Anatevka by Alexandra Silber, At the Stranger’s Gate:Arrivals in New York by Adam Gopnik, Vanishing New York: How a GreatCity Lost Its Soul by Jeremiah Moss and One Nation After Trump: A Guidefor the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet-Deportedco-authored by Norman J. Ornstein.
2017:“Balfour Accomplished,” “a large-scale oil canvas by Beverley-Jane Stewart isscheduled to go on display at Jerusalem’s Machtarot Museum today as “thecenterpiece of an event dedicated to the Balfour Declaration at this year’sJerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art.”
2017: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and EducationalCenter is scheduled to host a “History of Rock and Soul: Music for SocialChange.”
2018:As of today, David Michael Solomon, the Hamilton College educated son of Alanand Sandra Solomon succeeded Lloyd Blankfein as CEO of Goldman Sachs.
2018:Road To Waubeek: Discovering Jay G. Sigmund by Barbara Feller, who hastaught more students Hebrew in Cedar Rapids that any other person, is scheduledto go on sale today.
2018:The Oxford University Jewish Society scheduled to host a Shemini Atzeretluncheon
2018(22ndof Tishrei, 5779): Shemini Atzeret
2019:Katherine Rose Miller, the wife of Stephen Miller became Press Secretary to theVice President.
2019:“After moving to Shakhtar Donetsk, Manor Solomon scored his first UEFAChampions League goal today in the 95th minute of an away match against Italianside Atalanta that ended in a 2–1 victory” which made “him the then youngestIsraeli footballer ever to score in the Champions League, at the age of 20.”
2019:This evening, in Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host ascreening of “Bialik: The King of Jews,” a “documentary for Hebrew speaks aboutthe life and art of Hebrew pioneer poet Chayim Nachman Bialki.”
2019(2ndof Tishrei, 5780): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah
2020:In New Orleans Tuoro Synagogue is scheduled to host its board meeting.
2020:Temple Ahavat Achim and Lappin Foundation are scheduled to host an, interactiveonline book party to celebrate the publication of Going Rogue (at HebrewSchool) by local author Casey Breton.
2020:The Steicker Center is scheduled to host a virtual screening of “Teheran” thatincludes meeting the cast and creators of the new Apple television series.
2020:Matthew Sackel, the Associate Manager of Education at the Illinois HolocaustMuseum is scheduled to read a chapter from Lalla’s Story which “follows Holocaust Survivor Lala Weintraub as she moves fromtown to town, driven by her fear of being discovered. More than a story ofsurvival, this is also the story of a young girl's resolute struggle to defy,resist, and ultimately defeat the evil forces pursuing her.”
2020:Osher Marin JCC is scheduled to present “a discussion of the symbolism ofsukkahs, and a demonstration on how to make fig and ricotta flatbread withhoney and thyme.”
2020:The “JFCS Holocaust Center is scheduled to present a testimony from thedaughter of a Holocaust survivor followed by an interactive tour of artifactsfrom the Tauber Holocaust Archives
2020:As Israelis face another day of lockdown, they are dealing with PrimeMinister’s Netanyahu’s statement yesterday that "exiting the lockdown willbe slow and gradual this time, and could last even half a year to a year."(As reported by Itamar Eichner)
2021:Congregation Ner Shalom is scheduled to present, online, the first session of“The Sacred Feminine in Judaism,” which is an exploration of “pre-Judaicgoddesses of the ancient Near East, Hebrew goddesses and their presence in theBiblical text, and the Shekhinah in ancient and modern Jewish mysticism.”
2021:In Beachwood Ohio, Temple Tifereth-Israel is scheduled to host “NefeshShabbat,” a participatory Kabbalat Shabbat service.
2022:“Repertory Theater,” a play by Israeli Eldad Cohen is scheduled to have it’sAmerican debut performance at the Krane Theatre.
2022:Following yesterday’s statement by the Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Israelisholding Russian citizenship will have to decide whether to heed the warningagainst traveling their or returning from Russia since they would be subject toconscription under Putin’s expanded military efforts.
2022(6th of Tishrei, 5783):Shabbat Shuvah (Sabbath of the Return)
Vayeilech(And he went)31:1-30 Devarim (Deuteronomy)
2023(16thof Tishrei, 5754): Second Day of Sukkoth
2023:Rosh Yehudi should not be able to set up Sukkah today on Zamenhof Street in TelAvi because the Tel Aviv municipality has “canceled permits given to an Orthodox religious group to holdpublic events during the upcoming Sukkot holiday in the city, after theorganization attempted to hold a public Yom Kippur prayer service with animprovised gender divider…” (As reported by Michael Horovitz)
2023:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including The Maniac by BenjaminLabatut, The Ascent by Stefan Hertmans and Germany 1923:Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis, by VolkerUllrich.
2023:In New Orleans, Touro Synagogue is scheduled to hold its Board of TrusteesRetreat.
2023:The Haifa International Film Festival is scheduled to host The Haifafilmmakers’ forum which “was established for promoting film and televisioncreation and strengthening the connection between film and television personnelin the greater Haifa area.”
2024:In San Francisco, City Arts and Lectures is scheduled to present Israelimedieval and military historian Yuval Noah Harari discusses his new book, Nexus:A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI which “examineshow different societies and political systems have wielded information toachieve their goals.”
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled host a lecture by Lyn Julius on “FromHolocaust Survivor to Olympic Champion.”
2024:The Weiner Library is scheduled to host a hybrid event “Sex, Violence andSpeech in the Holocaust: The Case of Yiddish, Hannah Pollin-Galay with ZoeWaxman.”
2024:Via Zoom Tobi Kahn is scheduled to provide a look at some of his Judaicaobjects that are on display at Eldridge Street and provide an insiderperspective on the artist's inspiration and process.
2024:The friends and family of Sabrina Thalblum will be celebrating a day beforeerev Rosh Hashana because it is the natal day for this marvelous rebbetzin whois a friend indeed, especially those in need and a real “woman of valor.”
2024:The Weiner Library is scheduled to host a “Black History Month Talk: ThePersecution of the Black Community in Nazi Germany” led by the Library’sDigital Engagement and Community Outreach Officer Yasmin Gledhill, whose talkwill include an exploration of the story of Ronald Roberts, who was born inWiesbaden to a white German mother and a British/Barbadian father.
2024:“In another lecture in the online lecture series "Legend of theGolem", Prof. Tzachi Weisswill is scheduled to follow the incarnations ofthe legend in the early modern period - from the 17th century, in which thecreation of the Golem was attributed to Rabbi Eliyahu of Chelm, to the legendof the Golem from Prague.”
2024:As October 1st begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism thathas included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New Yorksubway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas heldhostages begin day 361 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocketattacks by Hezbollah (Editor’s note:this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
