August 28
388: MagnusMaximus, an Hispanic usurper to the throne of the western Roman Empire passedaway. During his disputed reign Maximus issued an edict of which censuredChristians at Rome for burning down a Jewish synagogue which was condemned byBishop Ambrose who said people exclaimed: ‘the emperor has become a Jew’.
430: St.Augustine of Hippo passed away. Augustine believed that Jews should be allowedto survive in a Christian world to provide credence to roots of Christianity.But Jews should live at best as “second class” citizens in that Christian worldto serve as a reminder of their fall from God’s favor for rejecting Jesus asthe Son of God and as proof that God had made the Christians the new ChosenPeople.
1189: TheCrusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan. This two year longsiege was part of the Third Crusade which is known as a confrontation betweenEngland’s King Richard I and Saladin. The siege followed the Crusader defeat atthe Battle of the Horns of Hittin but was followed by Crusader victories nearJaffa. In the end, the Moslems kept Jerusalem, the Jews of England sufferedunder the rule of Prince John in the absence of the Crusading Richard and theJewish population of Eretz Israel suffered further depredations anddespoliation.
1349: Sixthousand Jews are killed in Mainz after having been accused of being the causeof the plague.
1378: Havingbeen promised the payment of 20,000 gulden in “voluntary taxes” in 1377 by theJewish community, the city of Worms “was granted the right of extendingprotection to the Jews.”
1453: ZbignievOlesnicki, Bishiop of Cracow and a heretic hunter named Capistrano, began a sixmonth long campaign turn Poland’s King Casimir against the Hussite heretics andthe Jews of Cracow.
1481: John IIof Portugal who chose Abraham Zacuto to serve as Royal Astronomer, began hisreign as King of Portugal.
1511: ThePortuguese conquer Malacca. “Malacca, Malaysia was in the 16th century a Jewishhub not only for Portuguese Jews but also for Jews from around the Red Sea andthe Malabar. With its synagogues and rabbis, Jewish Culture in Malacca wasalive and well. Visible Jewish presence existed in Malacca right up to the 18thcentury. Due to the Portuguese inquisition a lot of the Jews of Malaccaassimilated into the Malacca Portuguese (Eurasian) community. They are a creolecommunity often referred to as Kristang; and their Portuguese dialect PapiaKristang.”
1521: TheOttoman Turks occupy Belgrade. “The first written records of the presence ofJews in Belgrade date back to the 16th century when the city came under Ottomancontrol. “At that time Belgrade boasted a strong Jewish Ladino-speakingSephardic community mostly settled in the central Belgrade neighborhood calledDorćol. The city's Ashkenazi Jews, many of them from Central Europe and nearbyAustria-Hungary, mostly lived near the Sava River in the area where the currentactive synagogue stands.” Even with the official “second class” status accordedto Jews under the laws of Islam, the Ottoman Empire offered a haven for Jewswho had been expelled from Spain and/or were fleeing the clutches of theInquisition.
1565: St.Augustine, the oldest European settlement in what is now the United States, isestablished on the coast of Florida. According to Marcia Zerivitz, FoundingExecutive Director and Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum of Florida, "Itis possible that Jews were living in St. Augustine as conversos or secret Jewswhen Ponce de Leon first discovered Florida. There are Sephardic names amongthose who lived there in the 1500s. This is nearly 100 years prior to the firstsettlement of Jews in New York in 1654. Documented Jewish history in Floridabegan in 1763 when the Treaty of Paris was signed at the conclusion of theFrench and Indian War. In that treaty, Florida was taken from the Spanish andgiven to the British. Until that time, Jews had been prohibited from living inFlorida."
1619:Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. The Jesuit trainedmonarch was an arch foe of the Protestants who ruled during the first 18 yearsof the Thirty Years War. His treatment of the Jews was uneven to say the least.It was influenced by his hatred of the Protestants, the needs to finance thewar and his Jesuit training. He protected the right of Jews to live in Wormsand Frankfort because the Protestants had tried to drive them out of the city.He warned his generals not treat the Jews harshly since they were a source offunds for their fight. This protection came at a high price as can be seen bythe 40,000 florins that the Jews of Bohemia were forced to contribute annuallyto support the war effort. He did play a role in the unfortunate affairsurrounding Lipmann Heller, but the original cause of the affair was one ofjealousy in the Prague Jewish community. Once the emperor was involved no goodcould come of the matter. He did order the Rabbi brought to court in chains andeven though he was found innocent of the charges, his Jewish opponents wouldnot stop their attacks which resulted in the Emperor removing him as the ChiefRabbi in the Bohemian city. Now that the Jews had brought themselves to theCatholic monarch’s attention, he issued a decree in February, 1630, compellingthe Jews to listen to conversation sermons every Saturday morning between eightand nine. Two hundred Jews of both sexes had to be in attendance and at leastforty of them had to be between 15 and twenty years of age. The Jesuit trainedmonarch hoped these measures would lead to mass conversion of Jews.Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for the Jews, the Jesuits to whom heentrusted this task were more concerned with fighting Protestants thanconverting Jews.
1645: Sixty-two-year-oldof Delft native Hugo Grotious the diplomate and theologian who was a friend ofManasseh Ben Israel whose works he admired and an advocate for the admission ofJews to settle as full citizens in the Netherlands passed away today.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059491?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1655: PeterStuyvesant barred Jews from military service. Asher Levy led the fight for Jewsto able to serve as part of the local guard force. He rejected the notion ofpaying a special tax in lieu of military service. Service in the militia wasthe sign of first class citizenship. In a resolution of the New AmsterdamCouncil, Stuyvesant writes, "Whether the Jewish people who reside in thiscity, should also train and mount guard with the citizen's bands, this wastaken into consideration, and deliberated upon…" The result was that theDutch members of the citizen guard had a "disinclination" and"unwillingness" to be on guard with Jews in the same guardhouse. Theyalso pointed out that Jews were "not counted among the citizens…"
1703 TheAleinu prayer was prohibited in Brandenberg, Germany. Aleinu,( עָלֵינוּ)composed by Rav (one of the great Talmudist (d. 247)) had been part of theritual prayer for almost 1500 years. It served as a focal point for anti-Jewishattacks. Although the wording "For they bow down to emptiness and vanityand to a God that cannot save" which was taken from Isaiah (45:20)referred to idol-worshipers, some Christian leaders claimed it was an attack onChristianity. The part of the prayer was eventually eradicated from theAshkenazic siddur (prayerbook) entirely and only reprinted recently.
1730: KingFrederick William I gave permission to Moses ben Aaron to serve as the rabbi ofFrankfort-on-the Oder.
1764(30thof Av, 5524): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1765: BenjaminZe’ev ben Menachem Mendel married Sarah bat Eliezer today.
1766:Birthdate of Simon Edler von Lamel the native of Bohemia who became a leadingAustrian merchant while working to improve the conditions of his fellow Jews ascould be seen by his efforts to reduce their taxes. (Something that was notintended to benefit him)
1782: Afterthe death of Philadelphia merchant Moses Mordecai, a signatory of the 1765Non-Importation Resolutions, in 1781, his twenty-one-year-old widow Elizabethalso known as Esther today married Jacob I Cohen who helped to found the“Virginia’s first synagogue – Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalom in Richmond.”
1783(30thof Av, 5543): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed on the same day that American poetAnnis Stocckton, the wife of attorney Richard Stockton ‘”shared her thoughts onthe successes of George Washington and her admiration for them.
1789: InFrance, adoption of the declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
1793: AbrahamAaron who had passed away yesterday was buried today at the Alderney Road(Globe Road) Jewish Cemetery where his tombstone contains a Hebrew inscriptionsaying “Here lies an upright and proper man, Abraham ben Uri HaCohen ofHichburg.”
1793: Jonasand Sarah Levy were wed today at the Great Synagogue.
1797: Fourmonths after the entry of the French army into Padua Italy, the provisionalgovernment decreed that "Jews are able to live in every part of thecity." Jews enlisted in the National Guard and the main street in theghetto was changed to Via Libera. Unfortunately, as in most parts of Italy, thenewly won freedom only lasted until the arrival of Austrian troops 8 monthslater.
1799:Birthdate of Immanuel Wolf who gained fame as German Jewish educator ImmanuelWohlwill the director of the Jacobson School in Seesen.
1800: InLondon, Matilda De Metz and Levy Salomons gave birth to Eliza Salomons.
1803: InFrankfurt am Main, Benedict-Benedikt Moses Worms and Schönche Jeanette Wormsgave birth to Henriette Schnapper, the wife of Salomon May Schnapper and the “motherof Arthur Mayer Salomon von Schnapper; Moritz Schnapper von Wimsbach; RosaKaulla and Benedict August Schnapper.”
1817: InGermany, Jakob Mayer Moos and Jeanette Scheinle Moos gave birth to Rosine ReeleErlanger the wife of Simon (Schimele) Erlanger and mother of Isidor Erlanger;Abraham Erlanger and Jeanette Erlanger.
1819: Asconditions for the Jews of Hamburg continued to deteriorate Martin Steinthaltoday told how he had been forced to leave the Schweitzer Pavillion where hewas told that “as a Jews there was no place for him this coffeehouse or in thelarger society.”
1827: Two daysafter he had passed away, “Moses Isaacs of Cox’s Square, Bell Lane” was buriedtoday at the Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1828:Birthdate of Count Leo Tolstoy. As one commentator has said, Tolstoy did notlike Jews, but he did not hate them which made him a cut above other Russianauthors such as Dostoyevsky. In 1881 he reluctantly signed a private letter tothe Czar protesting a pogrom and publicly protested the infamous pogrom atKishinev. On the other hand, he held Jews responsible, in part, for loss of thewar with Japan. In the twilight of his career, he expressed a desire to writehow the teachings of Jesus, “who was not a Jew” were replaced by the teachingsof Paul, who was a Jew.
1833: One dayafter he had passed away, “58-year-old Meir bar Yehuda” was buried today at the“Brady Jewish Cemetery” today.
1833: TheBritish enact the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which put abolished slaverythroughout the British Empire. One of the driving forces behind this wasWilliam Wilberforce who also was a leader of London’s Jews Society, amissionary Christian group who advocated the return of the Jewish people toPalestine.
1839:Birthdate of Hungarian-born “Austrian actor and theatre manager” MaximilianSteiner, the father of theatre managers Franz and Gabor Steiner and thegrandfather of composer Max Steiner.
1839(18thof Elul,5599): Thirty-one-year-old Priscilla Lopez Moïse , the Charleston, SCborn daughter of Priscilla Moses and David Lopez and the wife of Dr. Edwin Warren Moïse passed away todayWoodville, Mississippi due to complications following the birth of her twinsafther which she was buried in the Old Hebrew Cemetery in Charleston
1840: Duringthe Damascus Affair, Mehemet Ali’s personal physician, who was Jewish, removeda boil from the royal buttock. During the procedure, the doctor is reported tohave told the Khedive that he would soon need all of his strength including thesupport of six million Jewish voices raised in his support.
1840: Inattempt to avoid appearing to be caving into pressure from the European powers,Mehmet Ali dispatched an order to Damascus order that the Jewish prisonersshould be set free much to the joy of Montefiore, Cremiuex and the Jews ofEgypt, where he three synagogues in Alexandria “resounded with prayers ofthanksgiving and blessing for Mehment Al…” The joy of the Jewish leaders wouldbe dampened when they read the text of the document which “implied that theJews were guilty” and that they were being released as an act of mercy.
1840: InHungary, Lean and Abraham Klein gave birth to Rabbi Julius Klein, the futureresident of Cleveland, OH and the husband of Deborah Klein.
1845: Frenchbanker Jules Isaac Mires sued his brother Alphonse, a wine merchants and hisbrother Edward in the Court of Assizes.
1846: InNatchez, Mississippi, Jessie and James Newlands gave birth to Francis Newlands,the Senator from Nevada who was the only Democrat to vote against theconfirmation of Louis Brandeis as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
1847: InMarietta, OH, Joseph Ullman, the German born son of Rosa and Hayim Uhlmman andSara Ullman gave birth to Lena Ulman.
1849: One dayafter he had passed away, “47 year old Benjamin Levy” the wife of Eve Levy withwhom he had four children – “Jane, Henry, Edward and Hannah” – was buried todayat “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1853: HenryDavid Thoreau’s journal entry described what would become “the ancestral vineto all of Lower East Side sugary sweet kosher wine.” “I detect my neighbor’s ripening grapes bythe scent twenty rods off, though they are concealed behind his house. Everypasser knows of them. Perhaps he takes me to his back door a week afterward andshows me with an air of mystery his clusters concealed under the leaves, whichhe thinks will be ripe in a day or two—as if it were a secret. He little thinksthat I smelled them before he did.” (As reported by Laurie Gwen Shapiro)
1855: “InPonevezh, Kovno region of Lithuania,” “a prominent mashkil” and his wife gavebirth David Apotheker the Yiddish poet and husband of Celia Shulman who came toUnited States in 1888 where he combined the role of “insurance broker” with“membership in the nihilistic movement.
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/A/apotheker-david.htm
1858: In NewYork City, Semel Sobel and the former Cecilia King gave birth to Isador Sobelto Erie, PA attorney and Republican political leader who served as President ofAnshei Chesed and was the husband of Emma Auerhaim
http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=19364
1860: A columnentitled General City News published today reported that “a new JewishCongregation has been organized in this City, which for now is worshiping inCooper Institute, Room No. 24 in the Cooper Institute, under the guidance ofRabbi Bondi, “whose learning and popularity will no doubt tend to advance thisorganization to the foremost rank among the Israelitish Congregations in thisCity.”
1861:Sergeant-Major Washington Cromelien completed his 3-month enlistment in the 27thRegiment which made it possible for him “accept a commission as a Lieutenant inthe 65th Regiment
1862: AlfredA. Rinehard, who would rise in rank from Sergeant to Captain began his servicewith Company D of the 148th Regiment.
1862: Duringthe Civil War, the Second Battle of Bull Run during which Joseph Aarons ofCompany B. of the 109th was captured began today.
1864; Duringthe Civil War, Philadelphia native Captain Charles Etting, the second son ofEdward J. Etting, of Philadelphia, and Philippa Minis, of Savanna, who had beenserving with the Union Army since 1862 was “detailed to perfect the organizationof the new regiments then forming in Philadelphia.’
1864:Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassalle was mortally wounded when he fought duelwith Count von Racowitza, the brother of Helene von Dönniges. The two hadfallen in love, but her family opposed the marriage.
1867: InVilna, Israel David Lascoff and Anna R. Lascoff gave birth to Russian trainedpharmacist Dr. J. Leon Lascoff , the husband of Clara Joacimson Lascoff who in1882 came to New York where founded J. Leon Lascoff and Son, served as“president of the American Pharmaceutical Association and earned the RemingtonHonor Medal.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/05/06/96562420.pdf
1869(21stof Elul, 5629): Parashat Ki Tavo
1869: Twelve-year-oldGottlieb Schumacher, the son of Jacob Schumach, arrived in Haifa from Buffalotoday.
1870: In SanFrancisco, “at a meeting held in the synagogue,” members of CongregationSherith Israel “subscribed the sum of $48,500 towards expunging theindebtedness of the synagogue and received in return ownership of the selectedseats in the synagogue.”
1871: In NewYork, the B’nai Brith held their annual meeting at the Masonic Hall duringwhich they elected officers for the coming year and heard the Treasurerreported that the balance on hand was $46,378.29.
1872: Isaac Levitt, the son of Solomon Levitt andthe former Ann Isaacs, was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1872: KateEmanuel and Philip Magnus gave birth to Laurie Magnus.
1873: A mannamed Irving who was in a San Francisco jail confessed to being the killer ofNew York businessman and Jewish community leader, Benjamin Nathan.
1874: Based oninformation that first appeared in the LondonEcho, that Edgardo Mortara is now Father Pius Mortara, an Augustine friaryin the Monastery of Notre Dame de Beacuhene. At the age of six, Mortara wassecretly baptized by a servant girl and then “kidnapped: by agents of thePapacy who raised him as a Catholic.
1874: In NewYork Fabian and Theresa Saxe gave birth to Martin Saxe, the New York StateSenator who introduced a bill that would have banned public announcements suchas were used by numerous establishments stating that "Jewish patronage isnot solicited." The bill was inspired by an episode involving BerthaRayner Frank in which she was refused a room at a hotel in Atlantic City.
1875: In NewYork City, Sara M. Ritterband and David Brickner gave birth Columbia trainedsurgeon Walter M. Brickner, the husband of Perla S. Abrahams who reached therank of Lt. Colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States havingserved overseas during World War I.
1878: AsLouisiana continued to grapple with the latest Yellow Fever Epidemic, it wasreported today that Messrs. Levy, Loeb, Scheuer and Co. of New York hasreceived and forwarded to Turo Infirmary and the Hebrew Benevolent Associationof New Orleans the sum of $65.00
1878: TheHebrew Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Montgomery, Alabama, sent $100 to thosesuffering during the Yellow Fever Epidemic.
1879:Birthdate of Mt. Pleasant, PA native and Pittsburgh, PA realtor Albert O.Homer.
1880: AtFrankfurt am Main Rabbi Isaac Seckel Bamberger and Julie Judith Bamberger(Klein) gave birth to their daughterRachel who married Mortiz Hellmannmaking her Rachel Hellman the name under which she would meet death at Sobiborin 1943.
1880: Leopoldde Rothschild was present at the cricket match played at Ascot House which leadto the family taking a leading role “in the formation of the BuckinghamshireCounty Cricket Club.”
1880: “Jews inGermany” published today cites information from the Pall Mall Gazette that “thesilly season in Germany promises again to be enlivened by a crusade again theJews.”
1881: It wasreported today that Richard Andree, a German ethnographer who has been studyingthe world’s Jewish population for the last 11 years says there are 6,080,000Jews in the world. This includes 403,000in Africa, 183,000 in Asia, 308,000 in American and 20,000 Australia. His figures do include the Falashas or “pseudo-Jews.”
1882: The New York Times reviewed TheProphets of Israel and Their Place in History by W. Robertson Smith.
1882: InManhattan, Mary Solomon and Max Epstein gave birth Hyman Epstein, the brotherof Louis and Jacob Epstein.
1882: It wasreported that there were 2,525 students enrolled in the various Sunday Schoolshosted by New York’s Temples and Synagogues.(This is a misleading number for anybody who knows how Jews educatetheir children)
1883: “AffairsIn Foreign Lands” published today described riots against the Jews in Hungaryand Russia where recent attacks on the Jews at Ekaterinoslav destroyed 346houses and caused damage valued at 611,000 rubles and attacks on the Jews ofBerchadi destroyed 80 houses leaving the inhabitants “without shelter andsuffering great privations.
1883(25thof Av, 5643): Eighty-six-year-old Solomon Plessner whose controversial viewsforced him to leave Berlin and settle at Posen in 1843 where he served as arabbi until he passed away today.
1883: Asviolence aimed at Jews worsened it was reported today that “the Russiangovernment has made a serious effort “to suppress the outbreaks against theJews” while “there are many indications that the authorities at Vienna andBudapest are not seriously trying to protect the Jews.” (In other words, for once the Czar is tryingto do something to protect his Jews, while Emperor Franz Josef is not)
1883:Following their meeting last month at the British Museum where they discussedthe antiquity of a scroll of Deuteronomy recently discovered by Moses Shapira,Shapira wrote to Edward A. Bond from Amsterdam asking him to reconsider hisevaluation of the scroll contending that “the sin of believing in a falsedocument is much greater than disbelieving the truth. The tendency of showing great scholarship bydetecting forgery is rather great in our age.”
1884: It wasreported today that Adolph Meyer, a wealthy Jewish cotton merchants, is challengingRepresentative Carlton Hunt for the 1st Congressional District inLouisiana. Meyer is a Democrat whileHunt is a Republican supported by the sugar cane and rice planters. (Meyer would have to wait until 1901 before hewould win a seat in Congress)
1884: Threedays after she had passed away, “Louisa Isaac, the daughter of Alexander Isaac”and the former “Sophie Levy” was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.”
1884(7thof Elul, 5644): Seventy-three-year-old Philadelphia native Henry Myer Phillips,the first Jewish member of the House of Representative from Pennsylvania passedaway today after which he was interred in Mount Sinai Cemetery.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000308
1885: Fourdays after she had passed away, Caroline Samuel, the daughter of “Philip MosesSamuel” and the former “Julia Goldsmid” was buried today at the “Balls PondRoad Jewish Cemetery.”
1885: InEdinburg, Scotland, “Alphonse and Marian Reis” gave birth to Emile MontagueReis.
1886:Birthdate of Burlington, VT merchant and civic leader Charles Levin.
1886: LouisSeigman Ehrich and Cornelia C. Sampson Ehrich gave birth to South Carolinian ArthurSamuel Ehrich who spent a several years “in New York where he was active in thetextile field.” (An obituary reports his birthdate as September 28)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21584929/arthur_samuel_ehrich#view-photo=99207129
1887: LizzieKauffman, the young German-Jewess whose body had been found floating in theriver at Philadelphia is scheduled to be buried today by the HebrewAssociation.
1888: The bodyof Jacob Noisotz, the Moldavian born banker and businessman who had passed awaytwo days ago was taken to “Temple Beth Jacob” where after a service he wasburied at the Jewish Cemetery in a service conducted by Rabbi Samuel DavidTauber.
1888: It wasreported today that Dr. John T. Nagle, the Deputy Register of Records at theSanitary Headquarters has complained to Commissioner John Griffin that a PolishJew was buried at Cypress Hills surrounded by “a few boards” rather than in acoffin. He considered this burial, whichis common among Polish Jews to be “unsanitary.”
1889(1stof Elul, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1890: As oftoday, it was reported that the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has receiveddonations totaling $8,000.17 including $309.70 from Isaac Stern, $306 fromBenjamin Stern and $5 from Herman Mendel.
1890: In NewYork, “Harris and Jennie (Yarzumbek) Nowak gave birth Abraham Nowak, the holderof degrees from CCNY, Columbia University and JTS and WW I Army Chaplain whoorganized two congregations in Cleveland before moving to Beth El in NewRochelle and was the husband of Ann Segal with whom he had two sons
1890: AdolphEisner who has been Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn forthe last six years left the asylum today “telling his wife that he was going toConey Island.”
1891: Jewishimmigrants from Russia, most of whom are penniless and do not speak Englishhave begun arriving in Detroit, Michigan.
1891: Americanchemist Julius Stieglitz, the twin brother of Leopold Stieglitz and the youngerbrother of photographer Alfred Stieglitz married Anna Stieffel today.
1891: A Jewishagricultural colony was established in New Jersey. This was one of severalattempts at Jewish settlement in the Americas. The failure of most of theseprojects confirmed the view that Jews needed a historical and religious link tothe soil upon which they would work in order for them to succeed.
1891:Birthdate of Providence, RI native and Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkinsand the husband of Simone Brangier Boas George Boas who earned a PhD at UCBerkley and was a commander in the USNR during WWII.
1892: Today isthe last day for the accused murders of Jake Marks to appeal for a writ ofhabeas corpus and avoid extradition from Canada to the United States. The victim and the accused (Blank andRosenweig) are all Jewish.
1892: Four-year-oldIda Samyan, the daughter of Russian Jewish couple who had just arrived inLondon from Hamburg was admitted to the London “suffering with the symptoms ofAsiatic Cholera.
1892: “TheProphets of Israel” published today provides a detailed review of Prophètesd'Israel par James Darmesteter published by Calmann-Levy.
1892: InDeadwood, South Dakota, the Hebrew Cemetery Association purchased a section inthe new cemetery for Jewish burials for the sum of $200. Hebrew Hill, as theJewish area was called locally, is located at the top right-hand side of thecemetery and is accessible via a pathway marked "Jerusalem," which ismost likely a Masonic, rather than a Jewish, reference. While there are morethan 80 Jews buried up on Hebrew Hill, or Mount Zion as it was known among thecommunity, Deadwood's most famous Jewish citizen, Sol Star, is not among them.In accordance with the wishes of his family, Star lies in the Mount SinaiCemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Two hundred and fifty meters up from theJewish section lies the grave of Deadwood's first sheriff and Star's long-timefriend and business partner, Seth Bullock. Among the Jews who are interred onHebrew Hill is Harris Franklin, né Finkelstein. Franklin was said to have beenDeadwood's wealthiest man, having made his fortune - estimated at $5 million -from the liquor business and the mining industry. Given his status and wealth,it is unsurprising that the Franklin headstone is the largest in the cemetery.His name is perpetuated in Deadwood through the Franklin Hotel in which he wasthe largest investor. The Franklin name is also prominent in the city's annalsowing to Harris's son, Nathan, who became the second Jewish mayor of Deadwoodin 1914, running on an anti-Prohibition platform. Also buried in the cemeteryis the Colman family, who arrived in Deadwood from Germany in the spring of1877. In 1878, Nathan Colman (born Kugelmann) was appointed justice of thepeace, an office he held until his death in 1906. Colman was also the layreligious leader for the Jewish community and officiated at the first Jewishwedding in the Black Hills, when Rebecca Reubens married David Holzman
1894: It wasreported today that there are 5,000 Orthodox Jews in Newark, NJ who worship atseven different synagogues.
1894: In“Siedice, Poland,” “David L. and Eve (Ossinholtz) Spiegleman” gave birth tojournalist and author William Zev Spiegelman who worked for the JewishTelegraphic Agency in London before serving as executive secretary of theJewish Educational Association of San Francisco and the first editor of theJewish Telegraphic Agency while writing such tomes as History of Development ofJewish Sects.
1894: As theleaders of the Central Labor Federation and the Central Labor Union compete forpower and membership, Abraham Cahan, the leader of the Jewish Socialists hasexpressed his dissatisfaction with the leadership of the Central LaborFederation and wants his supporters to join the Central Labor Union.
1895:Birthdate of New York City native and Columbia Law School trained attorney MiltonWinn the husband of Editha T. Austin Winn and active member of the AmericanJewish Committee who during WW II served as general counsel to the UnitedStates Office of Civilian Defense, senior deputy chief of UNRA in Czechoslovakiaand the co-president of the American Turkish Society which was part of “adistinguished record in helping to cement” friendship between the twocountries.
1895: TheBoard of Health has been told to improve the safety of the bathhouse at 26Ridge Street following the accidental drowning of 4-year-old Sarah Rubin whohad fallen into the tank that had no railing around it.
1896: NathanStrauss who had driven over from Manhattan Beach watched the racing from theParkway Driving Club at Brooklyn in preparation for “driving his roadster Cobwebs”in next week races.
https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:195323
1897(30thof Av, 5657): Parashat Re’eh; Rosh Chodesh Elul
1897: InGemuden, Germany, Rosalie Lorig and Joseph Wirth gave birth to University ofChicago trained sociologist and husband ofMary Bolton whose graduate work, according to Roger Salerno, was"first significant expression of interest in urban social disorganization,ghetto life, assimilation, consensus, and urban cultural conflict."
https://www.asanet.org/louis-wirth/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-biographies/louis-wirth
1897: It wasreported today that “at two o’clock thismorning a nephew of Charles Fleischmann” (a Jewish Hungarian-Americanmanufacturer of yeast who foundedFleischmann YeastCompany) went toBellevue Hospital and asked that a doctor come out to his yacht, the Hiawathaand examine his uncle who seemed to be quite ill. After examining him, the doctor “intimatedthat his condition was serious.”
1898: In NewJersey, found of the Paterson Hebrew Ladies’ Relief Society which meets everytwo weeks and whose members included Ida Kushner, Ester Limskey, Fannie With,Freda Finkelstein and Emma Urdanz.
1898: “ManyThemes Stir Paris” published today described the happenings in the Frenchcapital including Jules Guerin’s decision to start a new anti-Semitic paper L’Antijuif
1898: TheSecond Zionist Congress convened in Basel and heard an address from Dr. MaxNordeau. Herzl's father is among the delegates.
1898: PrivateHenry Behren, Company E, 31st Michigan Volunteer Infantry wasdischarged today due to a “physical disability.”
1898: PrivateM.A. Hahn of Mobile, Alabama transferred from Company I of the 1stLouisiana Volunteer Infantry to the Hospital Corps of the United States Army.
1898: AbramHerschberger “installed as the rabbi at the North Side Temple on Goethe Streetin Chicago, Illinois.
1899:Birthdate of Union City, NJ and NYU trained attorney Abraham Lieberman thepolice court judge in Weehawken, New Jersey who 1963 endowed “a professorshipin Hebraic studies and to provide scholarship aid to students in relatedprograms at New York University.”
1899: “LightFrom A Russian General On The Dreyfus Case” published today providedinformation about the soon to be published memoirs of the late GeneralAnnenkoff which “include certain evidence tending to prove that Henry andEsterhazy delivered War Office documents to the agents of several foreignpowers.”
1900: “Aspecial United States official is” in Vienna and is “investigating thecondition of the Romanian Jewish emigrants who intend to go to North America”and is paying particular attention those “suspected of planning to get into theUnited States through Canada.”
1900:Birthdate of Alexander Zeitlin who was a leading figure in the Air Force’sHeavy Press Program which “enhanced the US defense industry's capacity to forgelarge complex components out of light alloys such as magnesium and aluminum.”
1901:“Arrangements for the celebration of the Jewish New Year are progressingrapidly and it is now announced that service will be held in the Grand CentralPalace on September 14, 15, 22, and 23.”
1902:Birthdate Johnstown, PA native and University of Pennsylvania student LouisRobert Myers who settled in Canton, OH.
1902:Birthdate of Leo Hollander, the native of Hungary who married Goldie GertrudeFinegold Hollander and eventually settled in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1902: Theengagement of Edith Abraham, the youngest daughter of department store ownerAbraham Abraham to Percy S. Straus, “a member of the firm of R.H. Macy andCompany” was announced today.
1903:Birthdate of famed psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim. Born in Austria in 1903,Bettelheim survived the death camps. He is “best known for his pioneering workwith emotionally disturbed and autistic children. Bettelheim’s views on theJewish response to the Holocaust were controversial to say the least. On onepoint he does seem to track with “Man’s Search for Meaning” when he writes thatthose who survived the death camps were able to do so because they believed insome cultural or religious ideal that helped them transcend themselves. Hepassed away under tragic circ*mstances in 1990.
1903: Anabridged version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion begins to appear in aSt. Petersburg daily newspaper. (As reported by Austin Cline)
1903: TheSixth Zionist Congress came to a close after five days during which Herzlproposed using territory offered by Britain, specifically Uganda, as atemporary shelter for Jews fleeing Eastern Europe and Russia. The Russiandelegates, after a riotous debate, walked out and refused to return for thenext congress unless the plan was stopped. Herzl had been concerned about theimmediate physical well-being of Russian Jews who were faced with a series ofPogroms. The Russian Jews were telling Herzl and the world, that there was onlyone place for a Jewish homeland and that was Eretz Israel.
1904: “WomanShoots Merchant” published on the front page of the New York Times described the shooting of prominent New Jerseybusinessman Rogers Pinner. (The Times misspelled his name as Piner.)
1904: “Severalprominent rabbis from Philadelphia and Camden, NJ, Mayor Joseph E. Nowrey areamong those scheduled to speak at ceremonies this afternoon marking “thereopening of the synagogue of the Congregation of the Sons of Israel” whichwill be attending by the “Knights of Joseph, the Young Hebrew Zionists and theHebrew Educational Society.”
1905:Birthdate of Kiev native Semyon Fridlyand, the photographer who lived his adultlife in Moscow.
https://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/artists/24450.html
1905:Birthdate of Russian born actor Sholom Levene who gained fame as stage and filmactor Sam Levene who created the role of “Nathan Detroit” in the musical hit“Guys and Dolls.”
1905: “TheCatch of the Season” a musical produced by Charles Frohman opened today atDaly’s Theatre in New York City.
1906: “A replyis expected to-day...to the appeal of the National Committee for Relief ofSufferers by Russian Massacres regarding the thirty Jewish children who wereorphaned through the massacres in Russia, and who are being detained at EllisIsland. The committee feels convinced that they will be admitted.”
1906:Birthdate of Ukrainian born American composer David Tamkin who along with hisbrother Alex created an operatic version of The Dybbuk by S. Anksy (ShloymeZanvl Rappoport)
1907:Dispatches from Saffi and Morocco City say that the subscriptions and offers ofpresents in support of Mulai Hafig amount to not less than $1,000,000 and thatof that amount $200,000 “alone” has been given by the Jews of Morocco.
1908(1stof Elul, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1908(1stof Elul, 5668): Twenty-seven-year-old Jack Annenberg who had “served for thelast 10 years in the London Rifle Brigade before transferring to the NewTerritorial Force drowned today whileswimming at Plemont Jersey.
1908: InVienna, “left-wing bookshop owner” Wilhelm Suschitzky and the former AdeleBauer gave birth to Edith Suschitzky who gained fame as photographer andcommunist sympathizer Edith Tudor-Hart
http://spartacus-educational.com/Edith_Tudor_Hart.htm
1909: AbrahamIsaac Waremwasser, the paternal grandfather of broadcaster Barbara Walters
who changedhis surname to Warmwater when living in Londo arrived in New York City today.
1909: Aftervisiting ailing financial giant Edward Harriman, Jacob H. Schiff, the JewishNew York financier said that Harriman would “avoid the knife” and rely onmedical as opposed to surgical solutions. Schiff’s statement had a calmingeffect on the markets and the world of high finance. (Schiff was Jewish;Harriman was not)
1910: Abulletin issued by the Government that gives information about the clergy inAmerica reported that there were “1,084 Jewish rabbis in the United States in1906,” that the average salary of rabbis in cities having a population of300,000 or more is $1, 491” which is the lowest paid to clergy except for RomanCatholics and that in New York City “Jewish places of worship are valued at$8,700,000 with 19 per cent debts.”
1911:Birthdate of Dutch diplomat Joseph Luns who while serving as Secretary-Generalof NATO denied allegations that he had belonged to the Dutch Nazi party.
https://www.jta.org/archive/luns-denies-having-been-a-nazi
1912: InToronto, “Samuel and Rebecca Rosen,” two Russian Jewish immigrants from Minskgave birth to Goodwin George “Goody” Rosen who played centerfield for twoNational League Teams that no longer exist – the Brooklyn Dodgers and the NewYork Giants.
http://jewishbaseballmuseum.com/player/goody-rosen/
1912(15thof Elul, 5672): Seventy-year-old Confederate war veteran Max Guggenheimer, Jr,the husband of Bertha V. Rosenbaum Guggenheimer and prominent Lynchburg, VAbusinessman and philanthropist who founded the dry goods firm of Guggenheimer and Companyand one of the city’s principal national bans as well as the Lynchburg TrustCompany, the Lynchburg Cotton Mills and one of the larges shoe business inLynchburg passed away today at the Hotel Netherland.
1913:Birthdate of American cantor and operatic tenor Richard Tucker. Born ReubenTicker, gained fame as a Chazzan in Brooklyn before pursuing his operaticcareer. He debuted at the Met in 1945. He made his European debut in 1947 wherehe joined Maria Callas in La Gioconda. Tucker’s operatic career was such thatwhen passed away unexpectedly in 1975 he enjoyed the singular honor of beingthe only person to have his funeral take place on the stage of the MetropolitanOpera House. Tucker never lost his love of Jewish music or serving as achazzan. He was the brother-in-law of another famous American tenor and cantor,Jan Peerce. Can you imagine a Seder at their house?
1914: As theconflict in Europe turns into a Great War that will affect Jews serving ascombatants in forces on both sides of the fight, The Royal Navy defeated theKaiser’s fleet at the First Battle of Heligoland Bight on the same day thatAustro-Hungary declared war on Belgium.
1914; Birthdateof London native and Knesset member Zina Stern, the wife of Abraham Harman, “anIsraeli ambassador to the United States an President of Hebrew University andmother of three children: Ilana, Director of the Internal Medicine Departmentat Soroka Hospital, Naomi Chazan, a professor of Political Science who alsoserved as a member of the Knesset for Meretz and David, a professor ofeducation who worked in Youth Aliyah first as assistant to its head, HenriettaSzold, served as “a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations,where she worked until 1955” and “accepted the Nobel Peace Prize awarded toUNICEF in 1965.”
1915: Intoday’s Jewish Chronicle, IsraelZangwill described Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, DSO, the commanderof the Zion Mule Corps “as the soul of chivalry and gentleness.”
1915: Dr.Jacques Faitlovitch, an Ashekanzi Jew from Lodz “who studied Ethiopianlanguages at the Sorbonne and traveled to Ethiopia for the first time in 1904”set sail for Italy today having “completed a successful mission in the UnitedStates to raise fund for the education of the black Jews in Abyssinia who areknown as Falashas.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_06241.html
1916: Italydeclares war on Germany and Germany declares war on Romania. By the time Italyjoined in the fighting, the Jews of the country were so will integrated intothe national fabric that a Jew had served as prime minister and another Jew hadserved as Mayor of Rome for six years. Prior to World War I, Romania wasnotorious for its mistreatment of its Jewish population – the nation was ahaven for anti-Semitism and one of its major exports was Jews fleeing thecountry. Ironically, during the war, hundreds of Jews served in the RomanianArmy and were decorated for valor. The additions of these two combatants didnothing to shorten the war but it did add to the misery suffered by the peoplesof Romania and Italy.
1916: InChicago, the center of the grain trading market “The abrupt widening of theEuropean war zone sent wheat values tumbling as if the market had no bottom”while the value of the ruble which tumbled from 51 cents to 30 cents actuallymoved up in value by two cents.
1916: Today,“The plan for an American Jewish Congress, agreed to by representatives of theJewish Congress Organization and the Conference of National JewishOrganizations in the movement to demand equal rights for Jews in landsdiscriminating against them was submitted to a referendum of the delegates whohad given shape to the congress campaign at a preliminary conference held atPhiladelphia more than a year ago.”
1917: “Leave Itto Jane,” with music by Jerome Kern opened on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre.
1917: RussellDunne who “has been for some time making inflammatory speeches in which he hastried to stir up religious prejudice” was sentenced to one month in theworkhouse in Men’s Night Court for a speech he made in Madison Square where hedisparaged Jews and called them slackers – statements that brought a an angryresponse from Joseph Friedlander a Jewish soldier in uniform who was in thepark at the time.
1917: JusticeLeonard A. Snitkin was beaten up by two supporters of Russell Dunne as he leftthe courthouse today.
1917:Birthdate of Benjamin Saget, the supermarket executive who was the father ofcomedian Robert Lane “Bob” Saget.
1917:Birthdate of Jacob Kurtzberg, the son of Austrian immigrants who gained famedas Jack Kirby, one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artistsin American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters andpopular culture icons such as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, CaptainAmerica, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of themedium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is"The King."
1918: Americandiplomats Henry King and Charles Crane presented their report to the ParisPeace Conference. They recommended the joining of Palestine to Syria, an end tothe establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine and an internationaland interdenominational committee to supervise the Holy Places. Their reportproved to be meaningless when the U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty.What may come as a surprise to some is that this betrayal of Zionist principleswas prepared on the initiative of Woodrow Wilson.
1918: SamuelGompers arrived in London as the head of a labor delegation. He expressed thedelegation’s solidarity with workers in Europe and declared its support for allmeasures designed to win the war against the Germans.
1918: SamuelS. Koenig, Chairman of the New York Republican Committee was sent a lettertonight “tell him that forgeries had been committed by workers in the SixthAssembly District” of which he is the leader.
1919:Birthdate of German born Rabbi Walter H. Plaut, the graduate of Franklin andMarshall College and Hebrew Union College who served as the spiritual leader ofTemple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/01/04/rabbi-walter-plaut-44-dead.html
1919: Therecommendations of the King-Crane Commission with regard to Syria-Palestine andIraq were presented today.
1920(14thof Elul, 5680): Parashat Ki Teitzei
1920: Rabbi I.Mortimer Bloom is scheduled to deliver a sermon this morning on “The Seats ofthe Lowly” at the Hebrew Tabernacle on Broadway.
1920(14thof Elul, 5680): Forty-six-year-old Colonel Harry Cutler, the chairman JewishWelfare Board of United States, passed away today in London.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/cutler-harry
http://unitedwarwork.com/groups/jewish-welfare-board/
1920: “Mr. andMrs. Nathaniel Leipziger of Philadelphia” who have been entertaining Mrs.Nathan Sommer and Evelyn Sommer from Memphis, are scheduled to set sail forEngland today where they will meet Nathaniel Leipziger’s sister Pauline.
1920: “The RedCross ship Yomei Marua arrived in New York today from Valdistok” carrying 780children of 37 were Jewish and “77 prisoner of wars” from Siberia “of whom 17are Jews.”
1920: HenryFord’s Dearborn Independent publishedanother in a series of “major” anti-Semitic articles.
1920: At theinsistence of advertising maven turned campaign manager Albert Lasker, WarrenHarding, the Republican candidate for President delivered an address opposingentrance into the League of Nations where he said, (in Lasker’s words) therewould be “no more wiggling and wobbling” on foreign policy as there had beenunder President Wilson.
1920: Dr.Kaufmann Kohler, the President of the Hebrew Union College celebrated theirGolden Wedding Anniversary today “at the Catskill Mountain House.”
1921(24th ofAv, 5681): Eighty-four-year-old Florian Moss the son of Julia Levy and Joseph LyonsMoss who married in 1828 passed away today.
1921:Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for Rebecca LiefmansCohen, who passed away in her 87thyear and was the mother of six – Michael, Levi, Cecilia, Sophia, Sarah andRose.
1922:"The League of Nations is a Jewish idea, and Jerusalem someday will becomethe capital of the world's peace," declared Dr. Nahum Sokolow, Chairman ofthe Zionist Executive Committee, at a special meeting of the Zionist Conferencetoday.”
1923: ThreeJewish mobsters -Samuel “Sammy” Weiss, Jacob “Little Augie” Orgen and SamuelGipson - were arrested by police outside of the Essex Market Courthouse. Whenthe police found that they were each carrying pistols, they were charged withviolation of New York’s Sullivan Law.
1923(16th ofElul, 5683): "Kid Dropper" Nathan Kaplan was gunned down today byLouis Cohen, a member of Jacob “Little Augie” Orgen’s gaing.. Born in 1891, hewas “also known as Jack the Dropper. Kaplan was an American gangstercontrolling labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during thepost-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition in the early1920s.”
1924: InGeorgia, opponents of the Communist regime staged the August Uprising againstthe Soviet Union. Following the fall of the Czar’s Empire, Georgia declared itsindependence in 1917. Following their seizure of power, the Communists soughtto re-constitute the Russian Empire as the Soviet Union. When the Sovietsinvaded Georgia, approximately 2,000 Jews left the country. Following theAugust Uprrising, the Soviets cracked down on the remaining Jews, enacting lawsthat bankrupted their businesses and putting an end to all Zionist activities.Charges of blood libels would increase during the rest of the decade and thingswould get even worse in the 1930’s
1924:Birthdate of Rabbi Zalman Meshullam Schachter-Shalomi, the native of Zhovkvawho survived the detention camps of Vichy to settle in the United States wherehe eventually became a leader in what is called the “Jewish Renewal Movement.”
http://www.rzlp.org/Yesod-RZLP/Home.html
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_26084358/zalman-schachter-shalomi-dies-jewish-renewal
1924:Birthdate of American sculptor Stanley Bleifeld.
1925: “TheElegant Bunch” a silent film written by Adolf Lantz and featuring Hermann Pichawas released today in Germany.
1925: It wasreported today “a section of the law” dealing with citizenship” that authorizesthe issuing of university scholarships to high school students of New York Statemay bar 16-year-old Samuel Silverman who led the Manhattan list made public twodays ago from receiving the scholarship.
1926:Birthdate of Ursula Stern the Sobibor surivior who fought with the ParczewPartisans.
1927: In NewYork City, the Secretary of the Socialist Party confirmed reports that JacobPanken, the Socialist candidate for Municipal Court Justice, who describedhimself as “a Socialist” who “can only be a candidate of the party whichrepresents the workers” has rejected the endorsem*nt of the Republican Party.
1927: InMounds, Illinois Hessie and Eileen Sullivan gave birth to Elizabeth JosephineSullivan who gained fame Jo Sullivan Loesser, the wife of Frank Loesser whostarred in his Broadway hit show “The Most Happy Fella” and worked to preservehis legacy after his death. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1928: GeorgeEngles, the manager of Jascha Heifetz, announced that his employer had marriedfilm star Florence Vidor, the ex-wife of King Vidor. He was Jewish. She was not. (The marriage would end indivorce in 1945)
1929:Birthdate of Hungarian conductor Istvan Kertesz.
1929: As Arabviolence engulfs Palestine French troops are patrolling the Jewish quarter ofBeirut in case there are further attacks by Arabs in this Lebanese city. Sofar, Arab militants have contented themselves with demonstrations and clasheswith local police, but the French authorities are alarmed enough to have takenthese extra measures.
1930: Premiereof “A Student’s Song of Heidelberg” a German musical written by Billy Wilderalong with Hans Wilhelm and Ernst Neubach, the latter two who were fled fromthe Nazis even though they were not Jewish.
1931: “Figurescompiled by S.W. Straus and Company and announced today show that out of atotal of 580 cities throughout the United States, New York stood first in thevolume of building permits issued in June.”
1932: In NewYork, Markets Commissioner Thomas F. Dwyer made public a proposed schedule oflicense and permit fees that would among other things “bring the handlers ofkosher foods under the control of the department and through the collection offees make the kosher inspectional service self-supporting.”
1933: It wasreported today that Herman Bernstein, the United States Minister to Albania hasannounced his resignation and said that he plans to return to New York the endof September. Bernstein had served in the post for 3 years during which heenjoyed a positive relationship with the ruler, King Zog.
1933: LaurenceAdolph Steinhardt began serving as United States Ambassador to Sweden.
1933: InJohannesburg, South Africans, Jews and non-Jews, led by Tielman Roos, a leadingstatesman, express resentment against the attitude of Premier Hertzog towardsboycott of German goods.
1933: TheDeutsche Landhandelsbund, the Nazi department for agrarian trade and industry,informs the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that an agreement has practically beenconcluded between Germany and the Palestine Government whereby the Reich willimport oranges to the value of eight million to ten million marks for which itwill pay with exports of its goods to Palestine valued at twice that amountplus transportation in German ships. The Palestine Government, the BritishColonial Office and the World Zionist Organization issue denials of the Germanreport.
1933: InWarsaw, The Central Organization for the German Boycott wires protest toZionist Congress against the reported trade agreement between Germany andPalestine.
1933: InDavenport, IA, “Richard Emanuel and Bernice (Klemperer) Petersburger gave birthto Harvard educated Washington lawyer and U.S. Air Force veteran, Ralph IsaacPetersburger the husband of the formerHelen Blackham with whom he had two children – Clare and Wilfrid
1934: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today for Marcus W. Marks, the formerPresident of the Borough of Manhattan who passed away two days and who issurvived by his widow Esther Friedman Marks; two sons, Erich H. and Warren L.Marks and two daughters, Mrs. Bernice M. Stearns and Mrs. Doris M. Dreyfus. (Asreported by JTA)
1934(17thof Elul, 5694): Fifty-three-year-old Elias Harry Pofcher, the native of Odessawho earned an MD from Tufts and an LLB from Boston University and was a Zionistpassed away today.
1934(17thof Elul, 5694): After having “suffered a collapse while working near Asheville,NC, 52-year-old photographer Doris Ulmann passed away today in New York.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1568/doris-ulmann-american-1882-1934/
http://blog.nyhistory.org/doris-ullman/
1935: InLucerne, Black flags flew at half-staff today on buildings housing thenineteenth World Zionist Congress, a symbol of Jewry's protest against Nazi"persecution" of their race.
1935: Mostbaseball writers are reported to believe that Detroit’s slugging first basemanHank Greenberg will win this year’s MVP award for the American League.
1936(10th ofElul, 5696): David Nishri, a19 year old student was killed today “when Arabsambushed a bus traveling between Kiriat Anavim and Jerusalem” making him theseventy-eighth Jew to be killed during the 18 months of Arab riots andviolence.
1936: Inresponse to the violence in Palestine and the pressure being brought on theBritish government to stop Jewish immigration, the Association of Chief Rabbisof Holland has ordered a special evening prayer to be recited in all of thecountry’s synagogues.
1936: Four“children were injured when three bombs exploded in Tiberius” and two morepeople were injured when Arabs attacked on bus traveling to Jerusalem.
1936: “Theauthorities’ determination to stamp out ‘Jew-baiting’ in Great Britain wasemphasized in the Old Street Police today when the Magistrate ordered JohnPenfold to pay a fine and “to be on good behavior for 12 months” after beingfound guilty of using “insulting words” in an open-air meeting in the East Endwhich included his statement that “he would turn all Jews out Britain headed byLeslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport, Sir Philip Sassoon, theUnder-Secretary for Air” and the sculptor Jacob Epstein who “would be therewith is grotesque monstrosities to keep the birds away from the Wailing Wall.”
1936: “Adenial that Father Coughlin was prompted by anti-Semitic motives in his attackson ‘money changer’ coupled with a statement he will continue to assail Jewishinternational bankers” is scheduled to be carried today “in his publication Social Justice.”
1937(21stof Elul, 5697): Parashat Ki Tavo; Leil Selichot
1937(21stof Elul, 5697): Eighty-year-old comicstrip pioneer Frederick Burr Opper who created the Happy Hooligan comic strippassed away today.
https://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/newspaperartists/opper/Opper_bio.html
http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/bio_opper.htm
1937: InLondon, it was announced that Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, the English Jew towhom the late Lord Balfour addressed the famous Declaration promising Jews aNational Home in Palestine had passed away on August 27. The BalfourDeclaration was actually a letter dated November 2, 1917 written by the ForeignMinister, Arthur Balfour, which began “Dear Lord Rothschild” and was deliveredto Rothschild’s home. This should give one an excellent idea of howwell-connected the English branch of the House of Rothschild. Lord Lionel waswell known for his philanthropies, but like all of the Rothschilds, power andmoney never separated them from the House of Israel.
1937: InBerlin, Henrietta Szold addressed a meeting of parents of 100 Youth Aliyachildren leaving for Palestine. She told them how during her recent visit toEretz Israel she was impressed by the Jewish German youth working on the land,unhindered and conscious of their task. Youth Aliyah, the Hadassah sponsoredprogram to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis, saved the lives ofapproximately 22,000 Jewish-German youngsters.
1938(1st ofElul, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1938: As “ArabIrregulars continued their sniping and arson: today, “curfews were imposed onJaffa, Ramleh, Jenin, Nablus and Beersheba.”
1938:Dispatches reaching New York “say that the United States Embassy in Berlin isnot accepting any more applications from German (including former Austrian)Jews and has enough on hand to fill available immigration quotas for virtuallytwo years.
1939: Fifteen-year-oldHeinz Bernard’s mother sent him from Germany to England as part of a plan forthe two to eventually join family members in the United States.”
1939(13thof Elul, 5699): Fifty-year-old Mary Gelperin Aronoff, the wife of Isaac Aronoffwith whom she had three children – Sarah, Nathan and Louis – passed away todayafter which she was buried in Cincinnati, OH.
1940: ChiuneSugihara, the Vice Counsul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania continued todefy his government and issued visas on his own initiative to thousands of Jewsfleeing from certain death in Poland and Lithuania.
1940: TheNational Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States isscheduled to begin today in Boston.
1940: Afterseven weeks of traveling by train across Eastern Europe and Asia, and then byship across the Pacific Ocean to escape the terror of Nazi Germany, Eva SchottBerek and her parents arrived at the Angel Island Immigration Station one weekbefore Eva’s 19th birthday
1941: ChicagoBears’ quarterback Sid Luckman led the Monsters of the Midway to a 37 to 13victory over the College All-Stars in what had become an annual event atSoldier Field
1941: Secondday of a two-day Aktion under the command of Obergruppenfuehrer FriedrichJeckeln at Kolomija nearKamenets-Podolsk during which a total of 23,600 Jews were murdered. Of thetotal between 14,000 and 18,000 of them were Hungarian Jews. The Germans wereassisted by the Hungarians during the two days of slaughter. A completedescription of the event can be found in Jeckeln’s report (Operational ReportUSSR No. 80).
1941: TheGestapo murdered more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews in the occupied Ukraine.
1941: IsidoreNewman, who was training to serve as a Wireless Officer with SOE was describedby one of his trainers as seeming to be “depressed” while adding that his“colloquial French” is not good even though his French vocabulary is improvingbut that his proficiency in Morse Code is such that “he does excellent work ininstructing other students.
1941(5th ofElul, 5701): A Jewish butcher, one of 2000 Jews forced into a ditch atKédainiai, Lithuania, resists by inflicting a fatal bite upon the throat of oneof the Einsatzkommando soldiers. The butcher and the other Jews are immediatelyshot.
1941(5th ofElul, 5701): Lithuanian Nazi collaborators murdered Rochel Leah and sonsHillel, Shimon and Avraham in Panevezys.
1941:Thousands of Jews are murdered at Czyzewo-Szlachecki, Poland.
1942: JosephC. Hyman executive chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committeeannounced tonight that it was sending$25,000 to the OSE to provide for 1,200 Jewish children trapped inoccupied France.
1942: It wasrevealed today that President Rafael L. Trujillo has offered to allow 3,500Jewish children between the ages of 3 and 14 living in Vichy France to settlein the Dominican Republic.
1942: Forty-one-year-oldBension Gotlob and 43-year-old Regina Gotlop were among those who left Drancytoday in Convoy 25 which was headed for Auschwitz. Among the 285 children heading for the deathcamp were seven-year-old Salomon Gottlob and his two year old sister Tama,
1942: Fourteenthousand Jews are killed at Sarny, Ukraine.
1942:Fleischer Studios, Inc which was found in 1921 as Inkwell Studies by Max andDave Fleisher and had been acquired by Paramount Studios went “defunct” today
1942:Seventy-seven General Antoine Louis Targe (Retired) who played a key role inproving the innocence of Captain Dreyfus passed away today.
1942: WorldJewish Congress (WJC) President Stephen S. Wise receives a cable from Swiss WJCrepresentative Gerhart Riegner regarding the "Final Solution." Wiseelects to suppress the information until it can be verified;
1942: Tenthousand Jews are murdered at Miedzyrzec, Poland.
1942: Jews ofChortkov, Ukraine, are put into freight cars and transported to the death campat Belzec.
1942: Germanauthorities order the arrests of Parisian priests who have sheltered Jews.
1942: TheAntwerp police roundup 1,243 Belgian Jews and ship them to the death camps.
1943(27thof Av, 5703): Parashat Re’eh
1943(27thof Av, 5703): Sixty-two-year-old Ukrainian born historian Elias Tcherikower whoeventually came to the United States to work with the U.S branch of YIVO withhis wife, the former “Riva or Rebecca Teplisky” in 1940 passed away today.
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Tsherikover_Elye
http://www.mydearchildrendoc.com/the-treasure-of-the-tcherikower-archive/
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Tcherikower-Archive-and-why-is-it-important-to-Jewish-history
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32545
1943: TheDanes began a general strike against the Nazi occupation.
1943: Two daysafter returning from Berlin, King Boris dies under mysterious circ*mstances inSofia, Bulgaria. According to some sources, the Nazis had poisoned the king aspunishment for protecting the Jews of his kingdom. Thanks in part to themonarch who was a “reluctant hero,: most of Bulgaria’s fifty thousand Jewsavoid the deadly consequences of the final solution.
1944: Aninternal memo bearing today’s date, a copy of which is in the Eric M. Lipmancollection, was circulated to all SD branches by Rudolf Brandt, Himmler’spersonal administrator, “informing all recipients that the perpetrators of July20 were a small “clique” of high-ranking Wehrmacht officers who did not in theleast represent the overall loyal attitude of the Wehrmacht to the Führer.”
1944(9th ofElul, 5704): Jewish Sonderkommando Auschwitz inmates beat to death sixty-seven-year-oldChaim Mordechai Rumkowski
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/rumkowski.html
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/rumkowski-chaim.htm
1945: Finalentry in the third of the three marriage registers the Artillery Lane Synagoguewhich was “incorporated into the Ezras Chaim Synagogue.
1945:Birthdate of producer Robert Greenwald.
1945:Birthdate of Benny Lévy the native of Cairo, Egypt who served as personalsecretary to Jean-Paul Sartre from 1974 to 1980.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/oct/21/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
1945: TheBritish Mandate Government published the Fitzgerald Plan for governingJerusalem. The system of dividing the city into boroughs had some merit, but itwas predicated on the notion that the British Mandate would continue. The plan,like so many before and after it, was “dead on arrival.”
1946(1stof Elul, 5706): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1946: “Afteran all-night closed session that end early this morning, the national executiveof the Zionist Organization of America unanimously reaffirmed its confidence inthe leadership of its president, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, in the currentPalestine crisis.”
1947: “TheSong of the Thin Man” the last of the “Thin Man films” produced by Nat Perrinwho also co-authored the screenplay was released in the United States today byMGM.
1948: InEgypt, “Jews were forbidden to engage in banking or foreign currencytransactions. (In the following month Egyptian Jews would be” dismissed fromthe railways, the post office, the telegraph department and the FinanceMinistry on the” unfounded “ground that they were suspected of ‘sabotage andtreason’”]
1949(3rdof Elul, 5709): Fifty-seven-year-old “social worker and childcare authority”Mary E. Boretz the wife of Henry Friedman and executive director of what becameknown as the foster home depart of the Jewish Child Care Association passedaway today in New York.
1949: “IsraeliForeign Minister Moshe Sharett said in an interview today that his governmentwas willing to sponsor joint development schemes in cooperation withneighboring Arab states” adding that “he would be prepared to consider jointaction with the Kingdom of Jordan on the Jordan Valley Authority scheme…”
1950: Today,Lee Pressman, a spy for the Soviets during the 1930’s said of Nathan GregorySilvermaster his fellow Jewish spy for the Soviets, “"I believe he waswith the Maritime Labor Board when I was with the CIO, and in that connection,I may have had some business dealings with him"
1951(26thof Av, 5711): Sixty-two-year-old Lawrence S. Greenbaum, a senior partner in theNew York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff Ernst and a former chairman of the NewYork State Board of Social Welfare, the graduate of Columbia Law School and sonof Selina and Justice Samuel Greenbaum passed away today.
1952: Thereparations talks between Israelis and West Germans ended in The Hague. WestGermany was to pay Israel 3 billion marks (about $714m.) in the form of goods.She was also bound to deliver to Israel goods worth 450m Marks (about $106m.),to cover the claims of world Jewry. This was part of very painful processespecially for those Israelis who had survived the Holocaust or who had lostfamily and friends at the hands of the Germans. Many, including Menachem Begin,did not want to accept anything from the Germans. For some acceptance of themoney was part of a forgiveness process in which they were unwilling toparticipate. [The East Germans - the Communist half of Germany did not takepart in the talk. Unlike West Germany, East Germany never conducted anyde-Nazification program or made any attempt to make amends for Germany'sslaughter of the Jewish people.]
1952: Thefirst, undated letter written by Mordechai Oren, the Mapam leader imprisoned inCzechoslovakia, was received by his family.
1952: In anaddress to the Knesset, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion reported that Arabinfiltrators killed 62 Israelis, injured 110 and abducted 29 during 1951. Theseon-going attacks would have several impacts on Israeli society. One was thatthe military developed an aggressive stance in fighting these terrorists.Another was the Suez War of 1956. Part of the Israeli goal was to destroy thebases of Egyptian sponsored terrorists in Gaza.
1953: InBaltimore, MD, a marriage license was issued to Kaye Snyer and sheet metalworker Samuel Rosneblit which enabled Rabbi Simon Bayarsky of B’nai Reuben tomarry the couple.
https://www.tumblr.com/marryingmaryland/177552995830/its-a-just-married-throwback-thursday-from-the
1953: In theevening, Unit 101, under the command of Ariel Sharon, conducted its firstmission.
1954: MortimerMay, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said tonight that theState Department's proposed policy of arming the Arab states would not thwartthe advance of communism.
1955: Funeralservices are scheduled to held today in Far Rockaway, Long Island, for RebeccaCohen, the widow of Michael Cohen and mother of Harry and Charles Cohen.
1957(1stof Elul, 5717): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1957: “Perri,”the Walt Disney filme based on Perri: The Youth of A Squirrel by Felix Salten,the Hungarian born grandson of an Orthodox Rabbi, was released in the UnitedStates today.
1957:Birthdate of actor Daniel Stern a graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase in suburbanWashington who made his debut as the off-beat “Cyril” in “Breaking Away” butwho may be best known for his appearance in the comedy “City Slickers” andwhose brother is television writer David M. Stern.
1959: The PanAmerican Games in which Eugene Selznick would coach the United StatesVolleyball Team opened today in Chicago.
1959(24th ofAv, 5719): Fifty-nine-year-old Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish attorney whocreated the word “genocide” passed away today.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p-19_Martin.html
1960(5th ofElul, 5720): Eighty-five-year-old Wing Commander Lionel Frederick WilliamCohen, DSO, MC (World War I), DFC (World War II) was known as 'Sos' or sausageto all who knew him, and Evergreen to all his RAF comrades, passed away today.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wing-commander-lionel-cohen
http://www.militarian.com/threads/wing-commander-lionel-cohen-the-man-with-a-hundred-lives.6855/
1960: RabbiEdward Klein officiated at the wedding of Jeptha Piatigrosky, the daughter ofcellist Grego Piatgorsky and the “granddaughter of the Baroness Edward deRothschild of Paris and the late Baron de Rothschild and Dr. Daniel Drachman,the “grandson of Mrs. Bernard Drachman and the late Rabbi Bernard Drachman whowas spiritual of Temple Zichron Ephraim.”
1961: Milk andHoney, the musical featuring the music and lyrics of Jerry Herman, began itspre-Broadway tryout run at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven. “The story centerson a busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch husbands while touringIsrael and is set against the background of the country's fight for recognitionas an independent nation. It was Herman's first Broadway book musical.”
1963: TheMarch on Washington which shows support for the “Administrations’ proposedcivil rights legislation” and is supported by many Jewish organizationsincluding the National Council Of Jewish and the American Jewish Congress whosepresident Rabbi Joachim Prinz is one of the “ten founding chairmen of themarch” is scheduled to take place today.
1963: IsaacFranck, executive director of the Jewish Community Council, Hyman Bookbinderand the Washington Board of Rabbis were among the 250,000 people who attendedthe March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom made famous by Martin Luther King,Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. (As reported by the Jewish Historical Society ofGreater Washington)
1964: AlAronowitz brought Bob Dylan to the Delmonico Hotel in New York City where heintroduced them to the Beatles.
1965(30thof Av,5725): Parashat Re’eh and Rosh Chodesh Elul
1965(30thof Av, 5725): Fifty-six-year-old Florence Italy born Israeli physicist Giulio (Yoel) Racah who “served as deputycommander of the Israeli forces defending Mount Scopus” during the War forIndependence and “was acting President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalempassed away today.
1966(13th ofElul, 5726): Sixty-year-old Brooklyn born Fordham University trained pharmacistSolomon S. Goldwyn who practiced law for 30 years after graduating fromBrooklyn Law School and who served as “president of the Great Neck Synagogue,North Shore Hebrew Academy, National Committee for Furtherance of JewishEducation and the Colony of Hope in Israel” which three children – Martin,Sharon and Judith – with his wife, “the former Bella Skolnick” passed awaytoday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/08/29/90221025.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969: InWashington, DC, Adele and Joel Sandberg gave birth to Sheryl Kara Sandberg, theHarvard grad who became COO of Facebook.
1969: In SantaMonica, CA, Judith and Thomas Black gave birth to actor Joe Black
1970:Birthdate of Richard Samuel “Rick” Recht, the Jewish troubadour known, amongother things for his Shabbat Alive programs.
1972: MarkSpitz wins the first of his seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich.He earned the medal by setting a new world’s record for the 200-meterbutterfly.
1973: “Gonewith the Wind” a musical adaptation of the novel by the same name with lyricsand music by Harold Rome opened today at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LosAngeles.
1973: FormerU.S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating presented his credentials as U.S. Ambassador toIsrael.
1974(10thof Elul, 5734): Seventy-seven-year-old CCNY graduate and WW I U.S. Navy LieutenantArthur Schwartz the chairman of the board of the Commercial Publishing Companywhich is the “publisher of The Commercial Bar, a legal directory” passed awaytoday in Decatur, GA.
1975(21stof Elul, 5735): Nizhni-Novgorod, Russia native Maurice Beckeer who in 1892 cameto the United Stated where he became “a radical political artist best known forhis work in the 1910s and 1920s for such publications as The Masses and TheLiberator” passed away today “atthe Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania in Scranton, PA.
1977: AmosHorev, president of the Haifa Technion, announced that Israel was on thethreshold of a major breakthrough in water desalination. He claimed that Prof.Abraham Kogan had completed work on a revolutionary invention on desalination,ready for industrial exploitation. Negotiations were advancing for a full-scalemillion-cubic-meter a year desalination plant. Water has always been a majorissue in Israel and continues to be to this day. Desalination projects such asthis were critical for those seeking to irrigate the Negev, among other things.
1979: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held this morning in New York City for HylveBlomberg, the widow of Philip Blomberg and the mother of Norman and RichardBlomberg.
1980: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held at “The Riverside” for Milton Sklarz, thehusband of Elsie Sklarz.
1981: “BodyHeat” a thriller directed by Lawrence Kasdan who also wrote the script wasreleased in the United States by Warner Bros.
1981(28thof Av, 5741): Eighty-two-year-old “Hungarian footballer and coach” Bela Guttmanpassed away in Vienna.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/18/bela-guttmann-benfica-european-cup-eusebio
1982: JackWeinstein was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Air Force.
1983(27thof Av, 5703): Parashat Re’eh
1983(27thof Av, 5703): Seventy-seven-year-old Texas native Marguerite Wallenstein“Peggy” Feldheym, the wife of Norman Frank Feldheym, the longtime Rabbi ofTemple Emanu-El in San Bernardino who served as an Army chaplain in WW II andKorea, passed away today, marking the end of their 49-year marriage.
1983: IsraeliPM Menachem Begin announced his resignation.
1984(30thof Av, 5744): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1984: SecondLt. Jack Weinstein was promoted to the rank of 1st Lt. in theU.S.A.F.
1984: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held today for eighty-six-year-old Abraham Isaac “Abe”Lasfogel the New York City born son of “a Yiddish-speaking animal skinner whohad fled Russia in 1889 to escape the pogroms” who began with the William MorrisAgency in 1912 and worked his to the presidency of the world’s leading talentagency.
1986: FirstLt. Jack Weinstein was promoted to the rank of Captain in the U.S.A.F.
1986:Birthdate of Galid Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas in June, 2006
1986: Premiereof “A King and His Movie” an Argentine comedy written by Jorge Goldenberg thenative of Buenos Aires whose other works include “Los Gauchos judíos,” a 1975 film about Russian Jews settling inArgentina in an effort to escape from the Pogroms in their native land.
1986: “DannyArnold sold his production company Four D Productions, Inc. to Coca-Cola'sColumbia Pictures Television Group for $50 million after Arnold dropped thefederal and state lawsuits against Columbia Pictures Television accusing themof antitrust violations, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty.”
1987:“Matawan” a cinematic treatment of the 1920 coal strike for which HaskellWexler was nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography and featuring JoshMostel, the son of Zero Mostel, was released in the United States today.
1987: Multi-talentedmusician John Zorn who is the leader of “the musical group Masada” whose worksincluded “Kristallnacht,” which was based around the events before, during, andfollowing the infamous Night of Broken Glass began recording “News for Lulu, analbum of hard bop composition.”
1988: LeonardBernstein’s three day long 70th birthday celebration comes to an end.
1991: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held today for eighty-four-year-old “retired CookCounty deputy sheriff, local restaurant owner and “lifelong long resident ofRogers Park, Hyman Hirsch.
1991: Ukrainedeclares its independence from the Soviet Union. Approximately 80% of Ukraine'shalf million Jews left the country. At the dawn of the 21st century there was arejuvenation of Jewish life in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the anti-Semitism thathas been endemic to Ukraine continues to rear its ugly head.
1996: “ThePortrait of a Lady,” the cinematic version of the novel of the same namestarring Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey and Shelley Winters premiered at theVenice Film Festival.
1997 Boston'sJewish Advocate ran a story entitled "Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) set forlaunch into cyberspace," which outlined JWA's origin, mission, and work,and announced a new chapter in the organization's history. JWA was a youngorganization, just two years old, when the launch of its "virtualarchive" was announced in the Advocate article. The goal of the virtualarchive is to identify and link existing materials and archives around thecountry. JWA's founding director Gail Twersky Reimer explained that althoughJewish women's letters, diaries, personal papers, and more exist, "mostmaterial is not readily identifiable and needs to be resurfaced." Sheenvisioned the virtual archive as a gateway for scholars and the public to gainaccess to otherwise-hidden resources. As Reimer told the Advocate, documentingexisting collections is only part of JWA's mission. JWA was also working tocreate new materials, primarily by conducting oral history interviews withelderly women from the congregation of Temple Israel in Boston. This project,called "Women Whose Lives Span the Century," led to an art exhibit ofworks based on the interviews; the exhibit took place at the Jewish CommunityCenter in Newton, MA. Reimer also told the Advocate that JWA was engaged inlong-term planning to assemble the resources to fulfill its mission. Thearticle reported that that mission had been recently refined to focus onarchival and educational work. In the eleven years since the launch of theVirtual Archive, JWA has been at the forefront of collecting and disseminatingthat information. Through Women of Valor web exhibits and posters; curriculummaterials; oral history projects in Baltimore and Seattle; Women Who Daredevents honoring local Jewish activists; an exhibit on Jewish Women and theFeminist Revolution; Katrina's Jewish Voices; the Jewesses with Attitude blog;and the This Week in History feature which you are reading now, JWA has led theway in putting Jewish
http://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/28/1997/jewish-womens-archive
1998:Congregation member Daniel Z. Nelson was celebrating his 43rd weddinganniversary with his family at his home in Amagansett, New York, when helearned that Manhattan's Central Synagogue was in flames.
1998:“Indiscreet” a made for television “thriller” starring Gloria Reuben whosefather was Jewish and featuring Lisa Edelstein as “Beth Sussman” was broadcastfor the first time today.
1998: CentralSynagogue in Manhattan burned today. The Central Synagogue, believed to be theoldest continuously used Jewish house of worship in New York, was built between1870 and 1872. Its cornerstone was laid by the founder of Reform Judaism in theUnited States, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. Built as a fifth synagogue for theAhawath Chesed congregation, which was formed in 1846 by Bohemian Jews, thebuilding was designed by Henry Fernbach, one of the first Jews to make a namefor himself in American architecture. According to Cissy Grossman, a member ofthe congregation and the author of a 1989 book about the synagogue called TheJewish Family's Book of Days, at the time it was built, American Jews werecasting about for a style that could represent both their sense of modernismand their desire to root themselves in a rich past. The search expressed itselfin a revival of Spanish, Moorish and Egyptian style and, in the CentralSynagogue, in a profusion of arches and lacy arabesque designs carved into thewoodwork. Ms. Grossman continued, ''It was the whole idea of finding astylistic thing that has the feeling of being Jewish and also refers to thefact that Jews lived in the Islamic world for so long and had a peacefulexistence.'' Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president emeritus of the Union ofAmerican Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella organization of Reform temples,said: ''I come from Nazi Germany, so I don't tie myself to a building. But thisone hit me that way. The architecture was awe-inspiring. It's a place that madethe spirit soar.'' Over the years, the congregation undertook several majorrenovations. Yet another repair project was under way to restore the originalpainted designs on the interior walls, some of which had been painted over.That dedication to maintaining the glory of the synagogue and uncovering itsoriginal splendors apparently has saved many of its treasures. Ms. Goldman, whooversees the synagogue's extensive collection of Judaica, said most of theprecious historical objects, many Torah scrolls and even the originalarchitectural plans from the 19th century had already been moved to warehousesover the last few months. So had much of the congregation's archive of weddingand birth records, letters, cemetery maps and other documents. Despite thefire, records of what the synagogue looked like and how it was built survive.''There are many restorers in New York who know that building very well,'' Ms.Goldman said. ''Every aspect of it has been photographed and many people haveworked on it.'' The fate of two of the synagogue's most beloved treasures,vestiges of the lost Jewry of Eastern Europe, was still unknown. One is a grandbronze Hanukkah lamp from the 18th century that was donated by some of theoriginal members of the congregation. The other is a recovered and restoredfragment of a Torah scroll that had been confiscated by the Nazis from one ofthe countless synagogues destroyed, along with their members, in World War II.''If they are not able to rescue it,'' Rabbi Schindler said, ''it will burntwice.'' In 1970, at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the dedicationof the Central Synagogue, Rabbi Schindler recalled the simple people -- theshopkeepers and tailors of the lower East Side -- who pooled their money to buythe land at 55th Street and Lexington Avenue where they would eventually buildtheir temple. ''We can imagine the trepidation that filled their hearts as theystood here that morning,'' Rabbi Schindler said then. ''We can imagine thedoubts they knew and the fears they had. But they conquered these fears anddoubts and gave strength to their children and their children's children and tous.'' But as the Central Synagogue burned today, Ronald Goldberger recalled thesmall personal moments he had shared there with his family: the naming of hischildren, their bar mitzvahs, the service when his wife blew the shofar, orram's horn, to signal the arrival of the Jewish New Year. And then Mr.Goldberger, who said he has been a member for more than 20 years, wept. ''That'smy synagogue that's burning up,'' he said hoarsely, as a friend embraced him inthe pall of smoke.
1997: Boston’sJewish Advocate ran a story entitled "Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) set forlaunch into cyberspace," which outlined JWA's origin, mission, and work,and announced a new chapter in the organization's history. JWA was a youngorganization, just two years old, when the launch of its "virtualarchive" was announced in the Advocate article. The goal of the virtualarchive is to identify and link existing materials and archives around thecountry. JWA's founding director Gail Reimer explained that although Jewishwomen's letters, diaries, personal papers, and more exist, "most materialis not readily identifiable and needs to be resurfaced." She envisionedthe virtual archive as a gateway for scholars and the public to gain access tootherwise-hidden resources. As Reimer told the Advocate, documenting existingcollections is only part of JWA's mission. JWA was also working to create newmaterials, primarily by conducting oral history interviews with elderly womenfrom the congregation of Temple Israel in Boston. This project, called"Women Whose Lives Span the Century," led to an art exhibit of worksbased on the interviews; the exhibit took place at the Jewish Community Centerin Newton, MA. Reimer also told the Advocate that JWA was engaged in long-termplanning to assemble the resources to fulfill its mission. The article reportedthat that mission had been recently refined to focus on archival andeducational work. In the eight years since the launch of the Virtual Archive,JWA has been at the forefront of collecting and disseminating that information.Through Women of Valor web exhibits and posters; curriculum materials; oralhistory projects in Baltimore and Seattle; Women Who Dared events honoringlocal Jewish activists; and the This Week in History JWA has led the way inputting Jewish women's history firmly on the map. The website of thisorganization has been an invaluable resource for the feeble effort styled “ThisDay in Jewish History which you are reading.
2000:''Friendly fire'' may have been responsible for killing three Israeli soldiersin a bungled West Bank antiterror operation on Saturday, Israeli officialsacknowledged today. But they defended the late-night attack on the hideout of aman accused of terrorism who heads Israel's most-wanted list. (As reported byWilliam A. Orme, Jr.)
2001: Aneditorial in today’s Washington Post urged Secretary of State Colin Powell tosupport the proposal to support the proposal for a postage stamp honoring U.S.diplomat Hiram Bingham IV who risked his career to save thousands from theNazis.
2002: Justbefore Amir Hadad and Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi emerged from the tunnel into theGrandstand court at the National Tennis Center, flanked by a half-dozenescorts, they peered out, looking unsure of what awaited them tonight.Theirunusual pairing had become a celebration of sorts as they reached the thirdround of Wimbledon, this Israeli/Pakistani, Jewish/Muslim sports partnershipthat crossed not only national lines but also religious ones. Hadad and Qureshiwere a two-man peace initiative, with rackets.
2003(30th ofAv, 5763): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2003: Thepresident, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ordered the Zayed InternationalCenter, a political research center financed by him and sponsored by the ArabLeague, closed. The center, opened in 1999, has drawn criticism from Americanand British groups that accuse it of promoting anti-Semitism. The center hadinvited European and Arab scholars who lectured against Israeli and Americanpolicy, including a French writer, Thierry Meyssan, who contends that theterrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were a Jewish-American conspiracy todefame Islam. (As reported by Abeer Allam)
2004(11thof Elul, 5764): Parashat Ki Teitzei
2004: “Administrationofficials say that the Pentagon official who has been accused of passingsecrets to Israel and who has been identified in some news reports but whocould not be reached for comment early today works in the office of Douglas J.Feith, the under secretary of defense of policy. (As reported by StevenErlanger)
2005: the IDFbegan dismantling Gush Katif's 48-grave cemetery. All of the bodies wereremoved by special teams of soldiers supervised by the Military Rabbinate andreburied in locations of their families' choosing. In accordance with Jewishlaw, all soil touching the remains was also transferred, and the dead weregiven second funerals, with the families observing a one-day mourning period.All coffins were draped in the Israeli flag on the way to reburial. The
2005: RabbiDavid M. Gordis and Rabbi Barry Freundel officiated at the wedding of FernSchad and Alfred Moses a senior partner with Covington & Burling who servedas U.S. Ambassador to Romania.
2005: TheUniversity of California published Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse ofAnti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, Norman Finkelstein’s attack on AlanDershowitz and his latest work, The Case for Israel
2005: MatanVilnai began serving as Minister of Science and Technology.
2005: “Israeliauthor Amos Oz received the German city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize for 2005 atthe city's St Paul's Church. The prize, which is awarded every three years,went to the 66- year-old Oz for his "thematic diversity" and"stylistic virtuosity", the awards judges said. "Through hisliterary works Amos Oz transmits to readers in all parts of the world a deepprofound all-surpassing feeling of humanity, moral values andcooperation," the judges said. The highest honor bestowed by the centralGerman city of Frankfurt, the Goethe Prize has been in existence since1927.Previous recipients included Sigmund Freund (1930), Ingmar Bergman (1976)and Siegfried Lenz (1999).”
2005: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Indecisionby Benjamin Kunkel, The Amorous Busboy of Decatur: A Child of the FiftiesLooks Back by Robert Klein and 100 People Who Are Screwing UpAmerica(And Al Franken Is #37) by Bernard Goldberg.
2006:Sportscaster Max Kellerman lost out in the competition to serve as host on the7 pm timeslot at WEPN also known as 1050 ESPN Radio in New York City.
2006: Familyand friends of Corporal Gilad Shalit came to Kerem Shalom, where he wasabducted, to mark his 20th birthday. Shalit was kidnapped two months ago whenPalestinian militants tunneled out of the Gaza Strip and attacked his post. Hisfather said, "On August 28 we have come to Kerem Shalom to mark yourbirthday. We will not be able to celebrate this year. I doubt you know whatdate it is today, and that you are 20 years old today. We came to where yourcomrades Pavel slu*tzker and Hanan Barak fell. We came to remind everyone thatyou have been in captivity for 65 days ... we came to remind the Israeligovernment and the army of their moral debt to you, and that soldiers are notleft behind in the battlefield or in captivity."
2006(4th ofElul, 5766): Melvin Schwartz, who shared in the Nobel Prize for Physics in1988, passed away.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/schwartz-bio.html
2006: PrimeMinister Ehud Olmert appointed Nahum Admoni “to be chairman of an investigationcommittee, charged with investigating the actions of the government during the2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.”
2006: TodayJackie Mason who described himself as Jewish as a Matzah ball or kosher salami“filed a lawsuit against the group Jews for Jesus for using his likeness in apamphlet in which his image was used next to the tag line "JackieMason...a Jew for Jesus!?"
2007: “PrimeMinister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas,discussed the core issues of contention between their peoples at a meeting heretoday, but it was unclear how closely they moved toward a foundation for afinal settlement.” (As reported by Steven Erlanger and Isabel Kershner)
2008: ZehavaBen along with Sarit Hadad and Israeli Arab singers Lubna Salame and RihamHamadi join forces at the third and final night of the inaugural GilboaCoexistence Festival taking place throughout the Gilboa region. The singerswill be accompanied at the Ein Harod Amphitheater on the 28th by the Ra'ananaSymphonette Orchestra and the Nazareth Orchestra.
2008: RabbiDavid Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism,will be making history today as he opens the Democratic convention’s last day,in front of an expected crowd of 70,000 in the audience and millions morewatching from afar.
2008: TheDemocratic National Convention which Ayelet Waldman, a law school classmate andsupporter of Barak Obama attended as a delegate came to an end.
2009(8th ofElul, 5769: Thirty-eight-year-old DJ AM (Adam Michael Goldstein was found deadin his apartment today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=132025382
2009: Premiereof “Taking Woodstock,” a comedy co-starring Henry Goodman, Liev Schreiber,Eugene Levy and Emile Hirsch.
2009: Today“the Vancouver Canucks signed Mathieu Schneider to a one-year, $1.55 millioncontract.”
2009: AtTemple Judah Friday night services are a ‘family affair in the best sense ofthe word. Dr. Bob and Laurie Silber, pillars of the Jewish community, lead theTefillah, while their daughter Abbie leads the singing bringing her own specialbrand of musical excitement and joy to the celebration of Shabbat.
2010: TheGilead Barkin Trio is scheduled to perform at the Indium Jazz Club in New YorkCity.
2010:Palestinian Authority Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat rejected Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu's calls for fortnightly face-to-face meetings with PAPresident Mahmoud Abbas during upcoming peace negotiations between Israel andthe Palestinians, Israel Radio reported today, citing an interview Erekatconducted with the BBC in Arabic. In the interview, Erekat added that it is toosoon to establish who exactly will meet for negotiations, how often they willdo so, and where the meetings will take place.
2011: KolShira is scheduled to perform at the Agudas Achim end of summer picnic in IowaCity.
2011: TheBritish Jewish community is marking Gilad Schalit’s 25th birthday today bylaunching a new awareness campaign and calling on the government and Red Crossto press for his release.
2011: Israelijazz clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader Anat Cohen is scheduled to performat the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in New York City.
2011(28thof Av, 5771): “David Reichenberg, a 50-year-old Orthodox Jewish father of fourfrom Spring Valley, N.Y. died saving a father and his 6-year-old son from adowned power line when Reichenberg came into contact with the live wire and waselectrocuted.” (As reported by JTA)
2011: The bodyof eighty-two-year-old Rozalia Gluck, one of two Jews reported to have diedduring Hurricane Irene was recovered this evening. (As reported by JTA)
2011: Today,“as part of its 75th anniversary, the CBC is showing an hour of old Wayne andShuster comedy material.”
2011(28thof Av, 5771): Eighty-one-year-old CBS culture critic Leonard Harris passed awaytoday. (As reported by Daniel Slotnik)
2012: “Two of the Upper West Side ofManhattan’s most renowned Cantors – Rebecca Garfein, Senior Cantor ofCongregation Rodeph Sholom, and Dan Singer, Cantor at Stephen Wise FreeSynagogue – are scheduled to perform at the Enrico Caruso Room at GrottaAzzurra Ristorante in Little Italy” this evening. 2012: Magillah, Montreal’sYiddish/Klezmer Band directed by Henri Oppenheim is scheduled to perform at theMontreal Jewish Music Festival.
2012:Congregation Shir Hadash is scheduled to offer “Taste of Judaism,” aninteractive class designed to provide an introduction to Jewish perspectives onethics and values, study, community, holidays, and spirituality
2012: The JewishHistorical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a tour of thespecial exhibition To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington & ReligiousFreedom at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia
2012(10th ofElul, 5772): Sixty-seven-year-old Shulamith Fireston, author of The Dialecticof Sex passed away today (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/firestone-shulamith/dialectic-sex.htm
2012: “Two of the UpperWest Side of Manhattan's most renowned Cantors – Rebecca Garfein, Senior Cantorof Congregation Rodeph Sholom, and Dan Singer, Cantor at Stephen Wise FreeSynagogue – performed at the Enrico Caruso Room at Grotta Azzurra Ristorante inLittle Italy.”
2012(10th ofElul, 5772): Eighty-year-old Eva Figes, a leading feminist, author and refugeefrom the Holocaust passed away today. (As reported by Leslie Kaufman)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/arts/eva-figes-author-and-feminist-dies-at-80.html?hpw
2012: Police indictedthe nine suspects connected with the near-deadly beating of an Arab teenagertwo weeks ago in downtown Jerusalem today in the Jerusalem District Court. Thesuspects were indicted on charges of assault and battery, racial incitement andinciting violence.
2012: An Israeli judgeruled today that the state bore no responsibility for the death of RachelCorrie, the young American woman who was run over by a military bulldozer in2003 as she protested the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip.
2012: Two rockets and amortar were fired from Gaza into the Eshkol Region in the Western Negev thisevening.
2013: Tel Aviv WoodwindQuintet - Roi Amotz , Danny Erdman, Yigal Kaminka , Nadav Cohen , Itamar Leshem– is scheduled to perform Kleine Kammermusik, op. 24/2 by Hindemith inJerusalem.
2013: Stúdió11 Band isscheduled to perform “Evergreen – selection from Barbra Streisand’s songs” atthe Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest
2013(22nd ofElul): Yarhrzeit Joseph B. Levin, husband of Deborah Levin z”tzl, father ofJudy z”tzl, Mitchell and David without whom literally, this blog would neverexist.
2013(22nd ofElul, 5773): Ninety-one-year-old Murray Gershenz who ran a used record store inLos Angeles for fifty years passed away today. (As reported by William Yardley)
2013: “The SecurityCabinet approved a limited call-up of reserve soldiers as preparations for apossible US strike on Syria and retaliation against Israel intensified thisafternoon. The call-up, already under way today, was mainly for personnel fromHome Front Command and the IAF’s Active Defense wing, charged with defendingthe country from rocket-fire and aerial incursions.” (As reported by GavrielFiske and Mitch Ginsburg)
2013: “Thousands ofIsraelis failed in their attempts to obtain gas masks today as growing numbersof citizens flooded post offices and IDF Home Front Command distributioncenters ahead of an expected US strike on Syria.” (As reported by Haviv GettigGur)
2013:Ethiopian-Israelis are planning a protest outside of Prime Minister BinyaminNetanyahu’s office at the same time that a plane representing the official endof Ethiopian aliya is scheduled to land at Ben-Gurion Airport today. (Asreported by Sam Sokol)
2014: Roey Gilad, the Consul General of the State ofIsrael is scheduled to speak at the ceremonies marking the 70thanniversary of the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto and Hazan Alberto Mizrahi ofAnshe Emet Congregation is scheduled to provide the cantorial music for theevent at Chicago’s Union Club.
2014: “The body of missing US student Aaron Sofer, 23, ofLakewood, New Jersey, was found near the capital’s Ein Kerem neighborhood,Hatzalah said in a statement today” (As reported by Marissa Newman and AdivSterman)
2014: As tensions rose on the border with Syria, rebelswho have taken control of the area and fired into Israel abducted 40 members ofthe UN Peacekeeping force.
2015: Dor Zweigenbom’s “Why I Killed My Mother” isscheduled to be performed at Under St. Marks in New York City.
2015: A Study Mission to New Orleans sponsored by theAmerican Jewish Archives as part of its Travels in American Jewish History isscheduled to continue for a third day.
2015: “Adam J. Szubin, the top Treasury Departmentofficial who helped negotiate the accord between Iran and six world powers” isscheduled to arrive in Israel today to defend the nuclear containment deal withIran and try to reassure a government and public deeply opposed to the accordthat the United States is still prepared to inflict severe financial penaltieson Tehran for its sponsorship of terrorism and support for military proxies.”
2015: “Avid Life Media, the parent company of AshleyMadison, announced that its chief executive, Noel Biderman, stepped down today,more than a month after hackers broke into the company’s computer systems andreleased data and emails that suggested it engaged in questionable businesspractices.”
2016: The New York Times featured reviews of booksby Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to RaiseSuccessful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children by Marjorie Ingall ADHD Nation:Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic by Alan Schwarz, The Gardner and theCarpenter What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About theRelationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik, The ShipwreckedMind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla,Against Everything: Essay by Mark Greif and The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner.
2016:“Weiner” the winner of the 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentarythat examines the behavior Anthony Weiner, the husband of one of HillaryClinton’s closest advisors is scheduled to open at JW3 Cinema.
2016:The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington is scheduled to pay tribute to “thenational pastime” by sponsoring Grand Slam Sunday Jewish Community at the homeof the Washington Nationals baseball team.
2016:Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia and the American Sephardi Federationare scheduled to host a screening of “Disobedience: The Sousa Mendes Story” afilm that describes the exploits of “Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the PortugueseConsul-General in Bordeaux, France, who courageously rescued thousands ofrefugees, many of them Jews, in the spring of 1940 by issuing visas contrary tothe strict orders of his government.”
2016:The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to host “Nusakh VilneMemorial” – a commemoration of the Jewish community in Vilna” featuring apresentation by Executive Director Jonathan Brent.
2016:In Los Angeles YIDDISHKAYT is scheduled to commemorate the start of Stalin’sGreat Terror “which led to the devastation of Yiddish culture” in the SovietUnion “at the Southern California Arbeter Ring | Workmen's Circle”
2016:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host theU.S. premiere of “Heaven in Auschwitz” “a documentary film that tells theincredible story of 13 Jewish children during World War II, whose lives werechanged forever by the legendary Fredy Hirsch, a German-Jew who worked toprovide arts, culture and sports to improve the lives of children in theTerezin Ghetto.”
2016(24thof Av, 5776): Eight year old Iraqi born Israeli leader Binyamin Ben-Eliezerpassed away today.
2016:UKJF is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Mr. Gaga” directed by TomerHeymann
2017:The Catherine Russell Quartet and the Josh Evans Quintet are scheduled toperform at the Red Sea Jazz Festival.
2017:Gilad Katz, “Israel’s consul general in Houston said today that people wereliving like “cavemen” in the city as a result of the flooding brought on by theheavy rains from Harvey, saying many residents of America’s fourth-largest citywere stuck without food, water and electricity.”
2017:For a second day, “the Foreign Ministry” is scheduled to open “its doors to thediplomatic compound” so the public can see “just how diplomacy is done.”
2017:The City Contemporary Dance Company of Hong Kong is scheduled to perform at thedance festival in Tel Aviv.
2017(6thof Elul, 5777): Seventy-six-year-old mechanical engineer and son of Jewishimmigrants from Poland, Maurice Bluestein, the “maven of the wind chill index”pass away today. (As reported by Amisha Padnani)
2017: Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak, whose contributions tothe birth of Israel included creation of 53rd battalion of the Givati Brigadeduring Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, founding of the IDF’s Nahal unitwhile serving as its first commander, and leading the IDF Armored Corps in the1950s.who passed away yesterday is scheduled to be buried this afternoon atKibbutz Nitzanim next to his wife.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5008344,00.html
2018:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host concerts featuring ItamarBorochow and David Serero this evening at the Center for Jewish History.
2018:“The new Tree House musical show…together with an original screen art workwhich incorporates still photography and animation, created by Daniel Zini andYair Moss are scheduled to be shown in Jerusalem as part of the “End of SummerFestival..”
2018:“Hebrew folk country band Jane Bordeaux which is considered one of the mostintriguing and surprising musical phenomena of recent times” is scheduled toperform tonight in Jerusalem.
2018:Following yesterday’s outbreak of fire in Be’eri and Shokeda forests and inSa’ad Junction which were started by incendiary balloon, it appears that thoseelusive peace talks have not put an end to the violence from Gaza.
2018(17thof Elul, 5778): Sixty-nine-year-old historian Jan Ellen Lewis the historian whoused DNA evidence to develop a full picture of President Jefferson’s otherfamily, passed away today. (As reportedby Richard Sandomir)
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host the penultimate screening of “Skin,”“Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv’s first English language feature” film.
2019:In Walnut Creek, CA, Congregation B’nai Shalom is scheduled to offer the firstsession of the three part course “The Longest Hatred: Anti-Semitism Then andNow.”
2019:In Metairie, LA, Slater Torah Academy is scheduled to host “Curriculum Night.”
2020:It was reported today that “unsealed archives give fresh clues to Pope PiusXII’s response to the Holocaust.”
2020:Hitler and the Holocaust published today provided a detailed review of Hitler:Downfall 1939-1945
byVolker Ullrich.
2021(20thof Elul, 5781): Parashat Ki Tavo; in the evening Selichot
2021(20thof Elul): Yahrzeit Dr. Jacob Levin, who along with his wife Betty created atribe and world which combined both the best of what is secular and what isJewish, who was Yaink or Yainkel to his brother Joe and Uncle Jack to me a manloved by so many who will never be forgotten.
https://legacy.suntimes.com/us/obituaries/chicagosuntimes/name/jacob-levin-obituary?pid=93838997
2021:The Rabbinical Assembly and the Conservative/Masorti movement are scheduled tosponsor a virtual “Selichot Night Life
2022:Interplay Jewish Theatre is scheduled to present a staged reading of “The Dogsof Pripyat” at the Mandel Jewish Community Center’s Stonehill Auditorium.
2022:As part of the National Library of Israel's In Her Majesty's Kingdom series,Israeli diplomat and international lawyer, Daniel Taub, is scheduled to look athow conceptions of Israel have changed over time in British literature, andconsider whether these tell us more about the Jewish state they are describingor the authors who are writing them.
2022:In Atlanta, Jessica Kirson, “the irreverent Jewish queen of the Prank Call” isscheduled to perform at the RoundTrip Brewing Company.
2022:The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host an “historic walk to theJewish Burying Ground, “the oldest Jewish Cemetery in the United States.
2022:As the “talking heads” are scheduled to discuss inflation on the Sunday morning“news” shows, they would well to take into account the words of ProfessorJeremy Siegel, who was one of the first to warn about the dangers of inflationand who is now calling for the Federal Reserve to take it slow withinterest-rate hikes as the central bank seeks to rein inflation back in.
2022(1stof Elul, 5782): Rosh Chodesh Elul
2023:The Aden Conference presented by the ASF’s Institute of Jewish Experience isscheduled to begin today.
2023:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center is scheduled is scheduledto host its fifth annual “Friends, Funds and Games” event that includes “gameplay” and museum tours.
2023:The 34th Annual Conference of the World Federation of Jewish HolocaustSurvivors and Descendants is scheduled to come to an end today in Washington, D.C.
2024;In New York, the Wesbeth Gallery is scheduled to host an opening reception for “ArtLives Here: Collecting” a curated exhibition that includes the works of Haifanative Yadel Dresdner.
2024:Magen David Sephardic Congregation Sisterhood in cooperation with the AmericanSephardi Federation is scheduled to present a screening of The Wolf of Baghdadwith filmmaker Carol Isaacs.
2024:In Cedar Rapids, IA, the Hadassah Book Club under the leadership of NancyMargulis is scheduled to discuss Blank Hill by Zibby Owens.
2024:The Big Ideas Book Club that explores “important Jewish ideas at the Iowa CityPublic Library is scheduled to discuss The Amen Effect by Sharon Brous.
2024;Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Dr Hilary Pomeroy on “Foodand Sephardi Identity: Aubergines, Cardamon and a Drizzle of Honey.”
2024(24thof Av, 5784): A yahrzeit minyan will be held in memory of Deborah “Deb” Levin a true woman of valor whopassed away five years ago, in the house in Cedar Rapids, IA that was her homefor over a quarter of a century.
2024:As August 28th begins inIsrael, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamassupporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise theirhands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 327 incaptivity. (Editor’s note: thissituation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
