OCTOBER 19
1187: Pope Urban III passed away. Urban was asupporter of the Crusades, the cause of so much Jewish misery. A large part ofhis papacy was spent in struggle with Frederick I, the Emperor who issued “TheConfirmation of Rights of the Jews of Regensburg” that stated, “We must makeprovision for them tom maintain their customs and secure peace for theirpersons and property.”
1216: KingJohn of England died at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-oldson Henry.Richard's brother John's lack of judgment andpopularity meant that he was always short of money and support. While hisbarons might grumble at John's incompetence and resist his ever-increasingdemands for money, the Jews had no such leverage. When the Baron’s forced him to sign the MagnaCarta they included a clause that restricted claims of Jews against debtors whodied owing them money. John pressed his Jews to provide a royal dowry for hisdaughter, Joan, followed too quickly by the massive so-called Bristol Tallage,which depleted the wealthiest Jews upon which it largely fell. Henry was only a nine-year-old child. As Henry III will also clash with the Baronsand will look to the Jews as a source of revenue to prop up his throne.
1216: KingHenry III who gave “Peter de Rivel gives him the office of Treasurer andChancellor of the Irish Exchequer, the king's ports and coast, and also"the custody of the King's Judaism in Ireland" began his reign today.
1295: Coronation of MahmudGhazan who converted to Islam in 1295 marking the start of a downgrading of theconditions of the Jews in Persia because they were forced back into the role of“dhimmis” – official second class citizens.
1298: Two hundred Jews were massacred inGermany. This was part of a period halfcentury of violence aimed against the Jews of Germany. Much of the popular sentiment was aroused byclaims that Jews were using Christian blood to make matzoth. The clerics were working to enforce lawsagainst any kind of intercourse between Christians and Jews. And the royalty was trying to figure out waysto strip the Jews of their wealth. Itwas this kind of violence that would cause Asher ben Yechiel (see above) to fleeGermany in 1303.
1329 (9th of Cheshvan 5090): Asherben Yechiel passed away. Born in 1250 this great Talmudic commentatorwas known as Rabbenu Asher or the "Rosh". He fought against theover-philosophizing of his day. Asher was a unique case. He was Ashkenazi and had begun his work amongthe Jews of France of Germany. When hislife was threatened in Germany he fled to Spain where he became rabbi of theSephardic Jews of Toledo. Hisrabbinical academy attracted students from Europe and Russia. His worksincluded "Diskei Rosh", discussions, over 1000 Responsa, a commentaryof the Mishnayot Zerayim and Teharot, and notes on someTalmudic Tractates. He encouraged his pupil, Isaac ben Yoseph, to write Yesod Olam "Foundation of the World," ascientific work on astronomy and the calendar. At the time of his death he waspreparing a codification of commentaries that for the first time included theviews of the German and Spanish rabbinical authorities. His son, Jacob ben Asher, would finish hisfather’s task by writing a code called Turim.
1433: In FiglineValdarno, Republic of Florence, Diotifeci d'Agnolo , “a physician under thepatronage of Cosimo de' Medici” and his wife gave birth to Marsilio Ficino, theRoman Catholic priest and Christian Kabbalist..
https://therealsamizdat.com/2014/09/26/marsilio-ficino-and-christian-kabbalah/
1466: InPoland, the Thirteen Years War comes to an end with Polish forces victoriousover the Teutonic Knights. This victorycame during that period of time when Poland was on its way to becoming home tothe largest Jewish population in Europe.
1469: Ferdinand II of Aragon wedded Isabella ofCastile, a marriage that paved the way to the unification of Aragon and Castileinto a single country, Spain. The marriage also paved the way to SpanishInquisition, The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the discovery of the NewWorld by Christopher Columbus. In otherwords, these two Hispanic lovebirds closed out what had been one of the mostvibrant Jewish communities in history and opened the door to what would becomethe most vibrant Jewish community in the history of the Diaspora.
1518: “Shealtiel aSephardic Jew who had served as Kahya for twenty years was ousted from officeby the community leaders, after many complaints of bribery and arbitrary taxeswere lodged against him by Jews. The community banned him and his sons fromholding the position of kahya or performing any other function involving contactwith the Ottoman authorities.” (As described by the Jewish Virtual Library)
1587: Forty-six-year-oldFrancesco I de’Medici, the 2nd grand duke of Tuscany who “invitedJewish merchants to settle in Livorno, granting them free residence, unlimitedaccess to trade and extensive self-government in this new Medicean free-port onthe Mediterranean” passed away today.
1686(2nd ofTishrei, 5446): Jacob Abendana passed away today after which he was buried inthe Velho Sephardic Cemetery.
1704: With his friendDr Samuel Nunes and two uncles, Isaac de Sequeira Samud was arrested in 1703,tortured and convicted, under duress, of practicing Judaism, at an auto da féin Lisbon today, which meant the death penalty if convicted again but which heavoided because he escaped to London where he joined the “Spanish andPortuguese in October 1790” and “was admitted as a licentiate by the RoyalCollege of Physicians” in March of 1722.
1733: The will ofBarbados resident Abraham Burssy was dated today.
1735(2nd ofCheshvan, 5496): Moses Kalman, grandfather of A.M.Rothschild passed away.
1739: In Portugal, Antonio Joseda Silva, who was a Converso born in Brazil to Converso parents was foundguilty of heresy. He was a well-known dramatist, and his works werepopularly referred to as those of “The Jew.” Da Silva whose parents had alsobeen persecuted by the inquisition was arrested numerous times and tortured.Although the King himself was inclined toward leniency, he was burned. At thesame time, one of his plays was playing in a popular theater in Lisbon. Despite the King’s inclination towardsleniency Da Silva was garroted and burnt at a Lisbon auto-da-fe. His wife, whowitnessed his death, did not long survive him.At the time of his death, one of da Silva’s plays was being performed ina popular Lisbon theatre. Da Silva'stragic story has inspired several modern writers, including the PortugueseCamilo Castelo Branco (author of the novel O Judeu), who was himself ofConverso origin.
1753(21stof Tishrei, 5514): Hoshana Raba
1766(27thof Cheshvan, 5527): Jamaica born Boston merchant Moses Alvarez passed awaytoday.
1767:Birthdate of Salomon Heine, the Hamburg born banker who was the father ofAmalie Friedlander and the uncle of Heinrich Heine.
1769(18thof Tishrei, 5530): Fourth Day of Sukkot observed on the same day that “GovernorNorborne, Baron de Botetourt issued a proclamation offering a bounty forkilling Indians.”
1773: InNew York City, Jonas Phillips, the son of Aaron Phillips and his wife RebeccaMendz Machado gave birth to the their second child and first son, NaphtaliPhillips who married Esther Siexas one year after the death of his first wifeRachel and became the publisher of the NationalAdvocate and who in 1796 “took the first copy of George Washington’sfarewell address that came off the press of the American Advertiser” which waslater place in the cornerstone of the Washington monument.
1778: Marksand Rachel Dorris Lazarus gave birth to Leah Lazarus who became Leah LazarusCohen when she married Mordecai Cohen.
1780(20thof Tishrei 5541): Sixth Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day that the Battleof Stone Arabia and the Battle of Klock’s Field took place during the AmericanRevolution.
1781(30thof Tishrei, 5542): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1781(30thof Tishrei, 5542): Sixty-three-year-old Samuel Judah the New York born son ofBaruch Judah and husband of Jesse Jonas who moved to Philadelphia passed awaytoday.
1781:Emperor Joseph II issues the Toleration Decree in which the Jews of Austriawere accorded civil and political equality.
1781: TheBritish fleet having been defeated by the French fleet thanks in no small partto the anti-Semitic plundering of St. Eustatius by Admiral Rodney, Cornwallis’sarmy which lacked supplies, provisions or a route of escape, marched out ofYorktown and surrendered to George Washington.
1781: Thearticles of capitulation were signed today marking the end of the siege ofYorktown and for all intents and purposes the end of the American Revolution.
1783(23rdof Tishrei, 5544): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the first time since thesigning of the Treaty of Paris which marked the end of the American Revolution
1790: Themerger of two Mason lodges – King David and St. John’s – took place with “mergedlodge being known as St. John’s Lodge, No. 1 of Newport” with Mose Seixasserving as its first Master, a position he held until he passed away in 1809
1790: Feiwel Duschenesand Brache Duschenes gave birth to Joachim Duschenes, the husband of SaraDuschenes.
1793: Birthdate ofGerman native Julia Isaak, the wife of Samson Nathan Eisendrath with whom shehad eleven children.
1796(17th ofTishrei, 5557): Third Day of Sukkot observed on the same day that “the Battleof Emmendingentook place during the French Revolutionary Wars during whichAustrian forces forced the French to retreat…”
1798: In Rhode Island,Esther Mordecai and Philip Moses Russell gave birth to Rachel Russell, the wifeof David de Oliveria Tobias and the mother of Orlando, Esther, Josephine,Thaddeus and Rachel H. Tobias.
1801(12th ofCheshvan, 5562): Michael Emanuel passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1803: In Great Britain,an official fast for success in the war against France begins.
1807(17thof Tishrei, 5568): Third Day of Sukkoth
1807: In Philadelphia,PA, Isaac and Rachel Cohen Lyons gave birth Jacob Cohen Lyons, the husband ofLouisa Elizaeth Hart Lyons and father of Isaac, Rachel, Isabelle, Hymen andTheodore Lyons who was raised in South Carolina and who owned a successfulgrocery store in Columbia, SC with his father Isaac an his brother Henry.
1807: InCharleston, SC, Priscilla Moses and David Lopez gave birth to Priscilla Lopez,the wife of Edwin Warren Moise and the mother of Cecilia, Sallie and TheodoreMoise.
1810: TheGrand Duke of Frankfurt, a French official, resisted granting full equality tothe Jews. A.M. Rothschild was sure thatthe Grand Duke was just holding out for a larger bribe.
1812: Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. This marks the beginning of the end for theemancipation of the Jews of Europe that had followed in the wake of France’smilitary victories. The defeat at Moscow would hasten the return of thereactionaries. Figuratively, if notliterally, ghetto doors that had been thrown open would be closed again.
1814(5thof Cheshvan, 5575): Savannah teenager Joseph Deylon, who was born to Dr.Abraham D’Lyon and Sarah Sheftall D’Lyon in 1800 passed away today.
1819(30thof Tishrei, 5580): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1819(30thof Tishrei, 5580): Charles Gompertz, the twelve-day-old son of Isaac Gompertzand the former Charlotte Florence Wattier passed away today in Cleveland Row,London.
1801(12thof Cheshvan, 5562): Michael Emanuel, the husband of Flora Emanuel, the fatherof Simon, Joel and Michael Emanuel passed away today in Charleston, SC.
1821(23rdof Tishrei, 5582): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the first time since Mexicoand the nations of Central America threw off the yoke of Spanish rule.
1824(27thof Tishrei, 5585): On the 23rd anniversary of her husband’s death, FloraEmanuel, the English born daughter of Mary and Mordecai Levy, the wife ofMichael Emanuel and the mother of Simon, Joel and Michael Levy passed awaytoday in Charleston, SC.
1826:Birthdate German Jewish philosopher Manuel Joel who followed Abraham Geiger asthe rabbi in Breslau.
1827: InFrance, Barbe Levi and Jacques Goudchaux who were married in 1813 gave birth toAnne Gouchaux.
1829(22ndof Tishrei, 5590): Shmini Atzeret
1832: Mosesand Amalie Schoenfeld gave birth to Raphael Schoenfeld, the brother of Salomon,Philip and Meyer Schoenfeld.
1833: In“Canterbury, Kent” Hannah Barnard and Nathan Jacobs gave birth to Asher Jacobs.
1834(16thof Tishrei, 5595) Second Day of Sukkoth
1836(8thof Cheshvan, 5597): Fifty-seven-year-old Slowey Hays, the Kingston, Jamaicaborn daughter of Rachel and Moses Michael Hays passed away today in Richmond,VA.
1837(20thof Tishrei, 5598): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1837(20thof Tishrei, 5598): Rachel Abrahams, the New York City born daughter of AbrahamIsaac Abrahams and the wife of Alexander Zuntz whom she married in 1779 passedaway today.
1839:Rebecca Roxas, the daughter of Judith and Isaac Nunez Cardoza and her husbandJacob Roxas gave birth to Abraham Roxas who passed away in 1850/
1842:Birthdate of Adolph Meyer, the native of Natchez, Mississippi and student atthe University of Virginia who left school to fight in the Confederate Army andwho later represented Louisiana’s First Congressional District for 18 years.
1845(18thof Tishrei, 5606): Fourth Day of Sukkot
1845: InCleveland, OH, Fannie Berg and Samuel Dittenhofter gave birth JacobDittenhoffer , the husband of Bettie Elsinger whom he married in 1875 who cameto St. Paul from Cleveland in 1886 and assisted in organizing the firm of W. H.Elsinger & Co., known as The Golden Rule, while serving as a directorNational German American Bank and Sharood Shoe Corporation.
http://genealogytrails.com/minn/ramsey/bios_d.html
1846(29thof Tishrei, 5607): Sixty-nine-year-old Jacob Hirsch Kann, the son Miriam andIsaac Jacob Kann and the husband of Jetta Kann with whom he had 13 childrenpassed away today.
1847: Afterstruggling for two years, Temple Emanu-El purchased “a church on ChrystieStreet between Hester Streets for $12,000 which it would alter so that it wasready to be used as a Jewish house of worship by Pesach, 1848.
1850(13thof Cheshvan, 5611): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1851(23rdof Tishrei, 5612): As the turmoil that would lead to the coup that would endthe Second Republic gripped France, Jews observed Simchat Torah
1853(17thof Tishrei, 5614): Third Day of Sukkoth
1854: InSpitalfields, Jane Silver and Henry Woolf gave birth to Louis Woolf.
1854:Ernestine Rose, a leading earlyAmerican advocate for women's rights, presided over the Fifth National Woman'sRights Convention in Philadelphia which ended today. (As reported by the JewishWomen’s Archive)
http://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/19/1854/ernestine-rose
1856(20thof Tishrei, 5617): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1857(1stof Cheshvan, 5618): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan observed as New Yorkers deal with thesixth day of bank closing that were part of the financial crisis known as thePanic of 1857.
1859(21stof Tishrei, 5620): Hoshan Rabba
1859:In Mulhouse, Alsace, Second French Empire, Raphaël Dreyfus was a prosperous,self-made, Jewish textile manufacturer and his wife Jeannette Dreyfus (néeLibmann) gave birth to the youngest of their nine children, Alfred Dreyfus, theFrench army officer whose trumped-up treason trial would split French societyand become a prime catalyst for the creation of the Zionist movement underHerzl.
1859:In Liverpool, Professor Prag and his wife gave birth to Joseph Prag, thegraduate of Queen’s College who was a member of the Anglo-Jewish Associationand the Conjoint Committee for Foreign Affairs as well as a Warden of theNorth-West London Synagogue.
1859:In Cincinnati, OH, Phebe Phillips and Morton S. Cohen gave birth to Universityof Cincinnati trained attorney Alfred Morton Cohen, the husband of MilliePhillips who served as a state legislator and city councilman.
1860(3rdof Cheshvan, 5621): Rebbe Eliezer Horowitz of Dzhikov, the son of Rebbe NaftaliTzvi passed away today.
1861:One day after he had passed away, 40-year-old Lazarus Leopard was buried todayat the “Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.”
1862:Philadelphian Abraham Kuhn completed his service with Company B of the 27thRegiment.
1863(23rdof Tishrei, 5764): Simchat Torah
1863; InGrand Ridge, IL, James Gibson Finley and Lydia Margaret McCombs gave birth toKnox College and Johns Hopkins University graduate John Huston Finley, anassociate editor of the New York Times in 1932 received The American HebrewMedal for the Promotion of Better Understanding Between Christians and Jews inAmerica.
1863:During the American Civil War, on the same day marking the end of the Jewish“holiday season” General U.S. Grant replaced William Rosecrans as Commander ofthe Army of with General George Thomas. Thomas will appoint Major AlfredMordecai Junior, Senior and Supervising Ordinance Officer of the Army of theCumberland. Young Mordecai was a West Point Graduate and the son of one of theArmy’s highest ranking Jewish officers in the pre-Civil War U.S. Army.
1864(19thof Tishrei, 5625): Chol Hamoed Sukkoth
1864:During the American Civil War, Union forces under the command General Sheridandecisively and dramatically defeated the Confederates at the Battle of CedarCreek. This victory marked the end of the Valley Campaigns of 1864. From this time on no Confederate Army couldthreaten Washington with invasion through the Shenandoah Valley and the richvalley farms would no longer be a source of supply for the armies of Robert E.Lee. The defeated Confederate was commanded by a general with a name straightout of Bereshit – Jubal Early. Major Lyon Levy Emanuel, a member of a prominentJewish family from Philadelphia was among those fighting with Union in theShenandoah Valley
1864:"Our Paris Correspondence" published today reported that "BaronErlanger and his fair bride, Miss Slidell, were the prime pets of the brilliantfeudal throng, and the joy at Baden-Baden knew no bounds…nothing remains of allthe Summer's gay humbug but Erlanger’s courtship with Miss Slidell. TheErlangers are German Jews, originally from Marburg, a University town in theElectorate of Hessen, but the academic glories of that town made but littleintellectual impression upon the Erlanger stock, who took themselves toFrankfort, where they attained to wealth by stock-jobbing, and to a baronetcyby the grace of the King of Portugal, to the great distress of Rothschild-- hebeing no longer the only Jew Baron…”Erlanger was a member of family of German-Jewish bankers who was head ofthe leading banking house in France.Miss Slidell was the daughter of John Slidell of Louisiana, aConfederate diplomat living in France who tried unsuccessfully to get theFrench to recognize the South’s independence during the Civil War. Erlanger was not the first Jew to marry intoSlidell’s family. August Belmont was hisbrother-in-law. The Rothschild’s claim tothe title Baron stemmed from the Austrian house of the famous banking family.
1867(20thof Tishrei, 5628): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1867: Inthe Kolin District of Central Bohemia, Caroline and Moses Kafka gave birth to futureNew York resident Hermine Zeisler, the wife of Rabbi Joseph Zeisler who led severalcongregations including San Bernardino’s Congregation Emanu El and BethHa-Tefilah in Ashville, NC.
1870: InNew York, Katherine and Allen Louis Mordecai gave birth to Robert E. LeeMordecai, the husband of Nellie King Mordecai
1871(4thof Cheshvan, 5632): Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Henrietta Bethlehem, the Czechborn daughter of Theresia and Dr. Jacob Isaac Joachim Weintraub, who was “thefirst Jewish woman in Hungary to be a public-school teacher and who marriedRabbi Aaron Albert Siegfried Bettelheim after the death of her first husband,Itzak Meisler, passed away today.
1871: InSt. Petersburg, a pharmacy owner and his wife gave birth to “Russian political activistand journalist, Fydor Ilyich Dan, a founder of the Mensheviks whom Stalinexiled after the Russian Revolution and who found refuge in the United States duringWW II.
FyodorDan, Social Democrat Leader, Dies in New York - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
http://pdfs.jta.org/1947/1947-01-23_019.pdf
1875(20thof Tishrei, 5636): Fourth Day of Sukkot
1875: InDarmstadt, Germany, “an army surgeon” and his wife gave birth to WW I GermanArmy officer Theodor Duesterberg “a leaderof Der Stahlhelm in Germany prior to the Nazi seizure of power” who “wasarrested by the Nazis during the Night of the Long Knives and sent to Dachauconcentration camp, where he was briefly interned” and survived the war afterwhich “he wrote The Steel Helmet and Hitler, in which he defended hispre-war political career and Der Stahlhelm and detailed the movement'sindependence from the Nazi Party and "the insane Jew hatred preached byHitler".
1876: Argentina completed legal reforms that would permitthe establishment and consolidation of Jewish agricultural settlements.
1876: Judith Aria, the eldest child of Alexander Aria andthe former Flaimngo Abigail was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.”
1876: Rosalie and Samuel Peck gave birth to Eleanor Peck,who became Eleanor Kuh when she married Millard F. Kuh with whom she had oneson, Howard Michael Kuh.
1877: The report of a correspondent who is traveling withthe Russian Army during the Czar’s war with the Ottoman Empire reported thatthere are more Jews at the Bulgarian town of Sistova now than on his lastvisit. He described the Jews as “morebestial than before.” Once he hadreached the Czar’s headquarter encampment, the correspondent found himselfeating food provided by “a firm of enterprising Israelites” that charges “FifthAvenue Hotel prices.”
1878(22nd of Tishrei, 5639): Shemini Atzeret
1878: “In Lipine, Silesia,” Wilhelm and JohannaLebowitsch Sonderling gave birth to Jacob Sonderling who in 1904 received aPh.D. from the University of Tiibgingen, “was ordained by Dr. Baruch Jacob” and“married Emma Kleman” with whom he had three sons – Egrmont, Fred and Paul –after which “during the First World War he served as a Germany Army Chaplain onthe staff of Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg and then came to the UnitedStates where he “founded the Fairfax Temple in Los Angeles.”
https://jewish-history-online.net/source/jgo:source-83
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/01/archives/rabbi-sonderling-zionist-aided-herzl.html
1879: In New York Mary Grunhut and Moritz Bullowa gavebirth to College of Physicians and Surgeons trained medical doctor JesseBullowa the assistant professor of clinical medicine at Fordham UniversityMedical School, the husband of Sadie Nones and a member of the Free Synagogueand Spanish Portuguese Synagogue.
https://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/jesse-gm-bullowa-1879-1943/
1879: In Bucharest, the Chamber of Deputies is scheduledto vote on a measure designed to resolve the issue of Jewish emancipation. Under the proposal, the Jews will have toapply individually for naturalization except for those who have served in thearmy. Jewish veterans will be grantedfull citizenship en bloc.
1880: It was reported today that in the past year St.Luke’s Hospital treated 1,114 patients in the last year, four of whom wereJewish.
1880: An article published today described the bustlingcommercial activity in Smyrna, a Turkish city where trade “is chiefly in thehands of the Greeks and the Jews.”Smyrna, according to the article, was the scene of “one of the moststriking episodes in the history” of the Jews – the rise to prominence ofShabbetai Zvi.
1881: InCharleston, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the marriage of Albert De Leon ofBaltimore, MD and Amanda Moise, the “eldest daughter of B.F. Moise.”
1882: TheYoung Men’s Hebrew Association is sponsoring tonight’s concert at ChickeringHall in New York.
1882: InBaltimore, Hannah Eliau and Ansel Bamberger gave birth to Florence EliauBamberger the holder of a B.S., M.A. and PhD from Columbia Teachers College,the advocate of progressive education as advocated by John Dewey and the firstwoman to become a full professor at Johns Hopkins University.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bamberger-florence
1882: IsraelEttler is scheduled to return to court today where he will face chargesinvolving his role in the recent “riot” among the immigrants on Ward’s Island.
1882(6thof Cheshvan, 5643): Seventy-four-year-old Celia Marks, the daughter of Mosheand Hannah Wolfe and the wife of David Woolf Marks passed away today.
1883(18thof Tishrei, 5644): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1883: InNew York City, “Jacob Meyer and Hannah Horn” gave birth to Julia Horn thecollege educated public school teacher who after marrying Gabriel Max Hamburgerbecame Julia Horn Hamburger, the champion of numerous social causes and themother of Maxsina and Bernard Hamburger. (As reported by Daniel Bender)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hamburger-julia-horn
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/09/16/98446051.html?pageNumber=19
1883: Threedays after she had passed away, Henrietta (Montefiore) Samuel, the daughter of“Horatio Joseph Montefiore and the former Sarah Daniel Mocatta” and the wife ofHoratio Simon Samuel was buried today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1883: Itwas reported today that Mrs. Martin Scherbner has filed for a divorce in NewJersey Chancery Court because her husband deceived her before they weremarried. Before their wedding he assuredhis Catholic bride that he was not Jewish, but Catholic like her. After the wedding, he confessed that he wasJewish.
1883: Sir Moses Montefiore has given a gift of 99 English poundsto the London Sheriffs' charitable fund. That sum represented 1 pound for eachyear of the giver's age. Nearly 50 years ago the aging philanthropist had heldthe office of Sheriff for London and Middlesex.
1884: Itwas reported today that 40-year-old Benjamin Levy “is lying at hishome…dangerously near death.” Accordingto Levy and those who witnessed the event, Levy was beaten by a policeman inplain clothes. The officer claimed hehad been provoked by Levy and his companions “who were full of liquor” Theofficer’s claim is questionable since the beating took place on Yom Kippur.
1884:“Statistic of the Deaf and Dumb” published today reported that “in Berlin thegreater proportion of deaf-mutes is found the Israelites where consanguineousmarriages are frequent and the smaller number among the Catholics to whom suchmarriages are forbidden.” In evaluating these statistics, it should be notedthat the same article said that the causes of “deaf-mutism” are “dampatmosphere, uncleanliness, bad air in dwellings and” parents who arelaundresses, excavators, miners and weavers.
1885(10thof Cheshvan, 5646): A mounted officer serving with the New York Park Policefound the dead body of a man identified as 29-year-old Albert Unger proppedagainst a tree just south of Camp Grant.
1886(20thof Tishrei, 5647): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1886:Birthdate of Reb Velvel (Yitzchok Zev) Soloveitchik, the native of Belarus andson Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk
1886:”AThrifty Prince” published today erroneously reported that the Princess ofBattenburg, the wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse “was the daughter of a GermanJew” named Haucke. (Actually her father was a German professional soldier).
1886:“Violated the Sunday Law” published today described the plight of Wolf Bloom, a26-year-old Jewish immigrant from Russia who had been arrested on chargesbrought Cornelious Leary for having violated the Sunday Law (aka Blue Laws) byhaving the employees of his cloak factory work on Sunday. In his defense Bloom said that as a Jew heobserved Saturday as “his holy day” which is why he worked on Sunday. (In aworld where everything seems to be open 7/24/36, it is hard to remember thatSunday closing laws were the norm in many parts of the U.S. well into thesecond half of the 20th century)
1886: In New York City Angeline Seligman married Albert H. Gross
1887: Joseph Krauskopf began serving as the rabbi for Keneseth Israel, aReform congregation in Philadelphia, PA.
1888: Moshav Gederah was attacked by Arabs. Gederah was one of the firstagricultural settlements developed by Jewish pioneers. It was established by a Russian-born Jewnamed Yehiel Michael Pines in 1884.Money for purchasing the land came from the Moses Montefiore TestimonialFund. Grapes and grain were theprincipal products of the moshav.
1888: Ascharges of financial mismanagement swirl around the theatrical productions thatthe Jewish Order of the Harp of David have been sponsoring at Poole’s Theatrein New York, a threatened injunction brought by one group of claimants mightcancel tonight’s performance of “King Solomon.”
1888: Itwas reported today that Mrs. John Jacob Astor has made a bequest of $25,000 toSt. Luke’s Hospital in New York City.
1888: Itwas reported today that of the 1,793 patients treated at St. Luke’s, anEpiscopal Hospital in New York, 19 of them were Jewish.
1889: LuisI of Portugal who in 1869 conferred the noble title of viscount on David deSter in recognition of the work of Stern's bank in floating Portuguese loanspassed away today.
1889:Broadway producer and director George Washington Lederer married FlorineNewcombe with whom he had one son, theatre manager and present agent George W.Lederer, Jr and divorced in 1894.
1889: Itwas reported today that property valued at $27,500 owned by the Home for Agedand Infirm Hebrews and property valued at $4,000 owned by the Talmud Torah onEast Broadway, were among those charitable and educational institutions grantedan exemption from paying property taxes.
1890: Itwas reported today that during 1889, St. Luke’s Hospital a New York facilitysupported by Episcopalians that is non-denominational when it comes to offeringservices, served 1,997 patients of whom 38 were Jewish.
1890: Themanagers of theSociety of St. Luke’s hospital reported that of 1,384 patients treated thisyear four of them were Jewish.
1890: The Jews ofAlpena, Michigan met today and adopted the articles of incorporation andby-laws creating Temple Beth El for which they agreed to purchase a building onWhite Street to use as a sanctuary.
1890: “A Big HotelPlanned Where Jews Will Be Welcomed” published today described the purchase of10,000 acres owned by the Mutual Life Insurance Company in the Adirondacksaround Lake Saranac Nathan Strauss on which he along with Isidor Straus, MaxNathan and Mayor Hugh J. Grant will spend one million dollars to develop withcottages and a luxury hotel that will be open to all who wish stay which wouldset it apart from many of the hostelries in the areas which do not acceptJewish guests.
1891: “An Indictment ofRussia “ published today described the “golden age of the Jews in Russia” which“lasted from 1857 to 1877” was followed by a “return to oppression” in which“nobody in Russia has dreamed of paying a debt owed to a Jewish trader orartisan” in the past twelve months.
1892: InLancashire, Thomas and Annie Mackereth give birth to Sir Gilbert Mackereth whoin 1937 while serving as the British council “advisedan increase in border patrol around Palestine due to the high numbers of Jewishimmigrants fleeing Nazism in Hitler's Germany”At the same he “observed that the Arab nationalists had hired known criminals inSyria who crossed the frontier to join bandit groups in Palestine where theyblew up passenger trains, menaced and murdered both soldiers and civiliansalike, and indiscriminately robbed Arabs, Christians and Jews.” (As reported byLeslie Stein)
1892: InNew York City, William Israel Walter, the son of Henriette and Isaac DavidWalter, and his wife Florence Walter gave birth to Marjorie Walter who becameMarjorie Goodhart when she married Howard Lehman Goodhart.
1893: OnManhattan’s Lower East Side, German born Tammany Hall political leader SimonSteingut and the former Lean Wolbach gave birth to St. John’s College of Lawtrained attorney and Speaker of the New York State Assembly Irwin Steingut thehusband of Rae Kaufman Steingut and the father of Stanley Steigut who followedin his father’s political footsteps.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/09/27/84583213.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1894(19thof Tishrei, 5655): Fifth day of Sukkoth
1894(19thof Tishrei, 5655): Forty-five-year-old James Darmesteter who “published athesis on the mythology of the Avesta, in which he advocated that the Persianreligion of Zoroastrianism had been influenced by Judaism (and not backwards asmany scholars say) passed away today
1894: Aftervisiting his son Lester, Abraham Keyser, a retired grocer left to go home andwas never seen alive again.
1894: InNew York, morning newspapers described the decision of the Trustees of theHebrew Institute to not to let the Women’s Municipal League use its buildingfor a meeting even though only one of the five, Nathan Straus had opposed therequest.
1894: Thetwo children of Mrs. Urchittel, who had been sent to the Hebrew ShelteringGuardian Society, were returned to her at a meeting of the Lexow Committeewhich is investigating corruption in the New York City Police Department. The children had been taken from her based onthe testimony of two men from the 12th Precinct who claimed she ran“a disorderly house” when in fact her only crime was her refusal to pay themblackmail. State Senator Cantor hadpreviously testified before the committee on her behalf.
1895:Birthdate of New York City native Walter Staunton Mack, Jr. the Harvardeducated, WW I Naval officer and long-time President of Pepsi-Cola.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-19/news/mn-579_1_pepsi-syrup
1896: TheVitascope Theatre opened in Buffalo, New York.It was one of the first buildings built deliberately for the showing ofmotion pictures. The theatre was ownedby Mitchell Mark. In 1906 this Jewish entrepreneur teamed with his brother Moe,Adloph Zucker and Marcus Lowe to for the Automatic Vaudeville Company.
1896:GastonMichel Calmann-Lévy and Hélène Koenigswarter gave birth to Nicole GermaineOulman
1896:Colonel J.E. Bloom, Chairman of the Wage Earners Patrotic League presided overa mass meeting at Cooper Union where delivered an address opposing WilliamJennings Bryan and his Free Silver Platform.
1896:Birthdate of NYU star basketball player Nat Holman who went on to a successfulcoaching career at City College of New York that included winning both the NCAAand NIT titles
http://digital-archives.ccny.cuny.edu/exhibits/holman/intro.html
1896:Morris Lincoln Bettman, the son Matilda and “Baerlein (Bernhard) Betterman andAlma Bettman gave birth to Arthur Bettman, the brother of Louis RauhPappenheimer.
1897(23rdof Tishrei, 5658): Simchat Torah is observed for the first time during thePresidency of William McKinley
1897(23rdof Tishrei, 5658): In London, the Hambro Synagogue is scheduled to holdservices at Bonn’s Hall.
1897: “TheEast London Jewish Communal League winter session” opened this evening “with asocial gathering at the Stepney Jewish Schools.”
1897:Birthdate of Philadelphia native and pioneer radio television broadcaster Stanley Alexader Broza, the husband of EstherMalis Broza and father of composer and conductor Elliot Broza Lawrence whogained fame as Stan Lee Broza the long time producer of the Horn and HardartChildren’s which “was the incubator for many famous vocalists and actors.
1898: The Zionist Delegation aboard the "Emperor NicolaiII" is on its way to Palestine.
1898: Forty-two-year-oldHarold Frederic the journalist who visited Russia in 1891 to investigate theconditions of the Jews and who wrote The New Exodus: A Study of Israel InRussia in 1892 passed away today.
1899(15thof Cheshvan, 5660): Seventy-one-year-old Samuel Rosenwald, the Bunde, Germanyborn son of Vogel and Bendix Rosenwald and the husband of AugustaRosenwald who was the owner ofHammerslough Brothers, a clothing store in Springfield passed away inSpringfield, Il after which he was buried in Chicago.
1900: InBaltimore, the organization overseeing The Frank Free Sabbath School led byprincipal Martha Sromberg met today.
1901(6thof Cheshvan, 5662): Parashat Noach read for the first time during thePresidency of Teddy Roosevelt.
1902(18thof Tishrei, 5663, Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1902: Itwas reported today that Major Evans Gordon, M.P., a member of the RoyalCommission on Alien Immigration, who has just returned from a two months' visitto Russia, Poland, Galicla, and Roumania, where he has been studying the causesunderlying the Jewish exodus thence, speaking to a representative of TheAssociated Press today, said that quite apart from the Jewish side of thequestion of Romania’s treatment of these citizens, he believes “that England isbeing made and has long been made a dumping ground not only for the paupers,but for the criminals and undesirable persons of all Europe.”
1903: In Constantinople,Herman Margolis, “a halutz and agronomist and Cecilia Schwartz, the daughter of Dr. Solomon Schwartz, thepersonal physician to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire gave birth to Ohio StateUniversity and Western University educated social worker Laura Leah Margolis,the wife of Yiddish newspaper editor and member of the Resistance Marc Jarblumwhose amazing career with the JDC began in pre-war Cuba and continued inShanghai and included working with children smuggled over the PyreneesMountains from France into Spain.” (Editor’s note – there is no way that thisblog can do justice to the life of this fascinating person whose life soundslike something out of a James Bond movie, so we urge you to go to the linksbelow)
https://dc.uwm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1553&context=etd
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jarblum-laura-margolis
1903: “Dr.Kohler Installed’ published today described the services in Cincinnati, OHmarking the inauguration of Dr. Kaufman Kohler as the President of the HebrewUnion College which were opened by “Bernard Bettmann, President of the Board ofGovernors” who said, “Let us not speak today of the trials and troubles of theHebrew Union College but of its achievements and its triumphs.”
1904:Birthdate of Hayyim Schirmann, the Russian born Jewish scholars who specializedin Hebrew Poetry of the Middle Ages and who worked in Berlin until the rise of the Naziswhen moved to Palestine and began teaching at Hebrew University. He passed away in 1981.
1905(20thof Tishrei, 5666): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1905: A two-dayPogrom began at Kishinev. This was thesecond Pogrom at Kishinev in two years.The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 is the more famous (or infamous) of the two.
1906:Birthdate of Polish born, American cinematographer Irving Glassberg
1907: Afterwinning the first two games of the season, The Tennessee Volunteers coached byIzzy Levene lost to archrival Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
1907, Today,Louis Epstein, son of Max Epstein and Mary Solomon, married Deana Grozcky,daughter of Abraham Grozcky and Sarah Levy, in Manhattan, New York
1907: Twenty-year-oldactor and manager Nathan Goldberg the Austrian born son of Jacob and PaulinaGoldberg married seventeen-year-old American stage actress Rose Goldberg, theAustrian born daughter of Jacob and Bessie Finkenthal.
1907: InMorristown, NJ, Adelaide “Addie” Wolf and “Otto Herman Kahn, a wealthy bankerand patron of the arts gave birth to Roger Wolfe Kahn, jazz bandleader andcomposer, who like his father appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/07/13/81791687.html?pageNumber=23
https://syncopatedtimes.com/roger-wolfe-kahn-and-his-orchestra/
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Kahn_Roger_Wolfe.html
1908: JesseLewisohn” the son of Hamburg born Jewish merchant Leonard Lewison and RosalieJacobs “and Miss Edna McCauley, an actress who are romantically linked arescheduled to return to New York today from Atlantic City in what would prove tobe a step on the road to their marriage.
1908:“Irving Lehman” published today described the qualifications, career and familyhistory of 33-year-old Irving Lehman “who was nominated for Justice of theSupreme Court by the Tammany County Convention” and who will be the youngestperson to serve on the bench if elected which seems to be highly likely.
1909: TheJewish Record Story Contest which offers three cash prizes to the Jewish womenwho write the best articles “on prominent modern Jews” as well as thepossibility of being published in TheJewish Record came to an end today.
1909:Morningside College graduate Max Schlossberg, the Vilna born son of RachelAnselowtiz and Ezra Schlossberg who served as principle of the Sioux City, IAHebrew School before eventually become principle of the Lynn (MA) Hebrew Schoolmarried Fannie Friedland today.
1910:Today, John Purroy Mitchell, the President of the Board of Alderman received aletter today from Nathan Straus, an advocate of providing pasteurized milk tothe poor, praising him for comments his comments at mass meeting in which hegave “assurance that the municipal authorities will seriously grapple with thepublic duty of protecting the babies from the diseases that too often lurk inraw milk.
1911: InYorkville, NY, “a German-Catholic father and a Hungarian-Jewish mother” Helen Kleingave birth to American violinist Evelyn Kahn, the wife and colleague of Ukrainian-Jewishband leader Phil Spitlany who was bestknown for her performances as “Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.”
1912:Birthdate of Bernard “Red” Sarachek, the long-time basketball coach anddirector of athletics at Yeshiva University.
1912: Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya fromthe Ottoman Empire. “According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus,Jews were first settled in Cyrene and other parts of present-day eastern Libyaby the Egyptian ruler Ptolemy Lagos (323-282 B.C.E.) With their numbers likelybolstered by Berbers who had converted to Judaism, later supplemented by Jewsfleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, and, from the seventeenthcentury, by Jews from Leghorn and other Italian cities, Jews lived continuouslyin Libya for well over two millennia, predating the Muslim conquest in 642 C.E.by centuries. In 1911, 350 years of Ottoman rule ended and the Italian colonialperiod began. At the time, Libya’s Jewish population numbered 20,000. The nextquarter century was to prove a golden age for Libya’s Jews. By 1931, nearly25,000 Jews lived in Libya.” For moreabout the Jews of Libya see
1913(18th of Tishrei, 5674): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1913: “" Christianity and Christlessness in the Home of Jesus"was the subject of the second of the series of addresses based upon recentstudies and observations in the Holy Land, given by Dr. Stephen S. Wise beforethe Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall this morning.”
1914: “Predicting that the close of the European war will be the signalfor a tremendous Jewish immigration to American shores, Dr. Joseph Krauskopf,President of the National Farm School, nearly Daylestown, speaking at the annualmeeting of the school today, urged that plans be made at once for sending thethousands of immigrants "back to the soil," and thus preventcongestion in the tenement-house district of the great Eastern cities.”
1914: The Germans clash with the French, Belgian and BEF forces on theopening day of the First Battle of Ypres, one of the many futile attempts byboth sides to try and outflank the other and bring the war to the quick closethat had been promised with the slogans of “home by Christmas.
1915: In New York City, Jacob and Esther Nahem, immigrants from Aleppo,Syria gave to major league pitcher Samuel Ralph "Subway Sam" Nahem
1915: Ethel Seligman, the daughter of Addie and “De Witt J. (David)Seligman) and Edgar Dinkelspiel, the son of Lazarus and Pauline Dinkelspielgave birth to Edgar Ned Dinkelspiel
1916(22nd of Tishrei, 5677)” Shemini Atzeret
1916: Birthdate of New South Wales native Julius Cohen, the RAAF pilotand public servant who changed his name to Richard Kingsland to avoid being avictim of anti-Semitism.
1916: Tonight, “at a series of big rallies… which marked the start of thehomestretch” of the Presidential campaign in New York, Oscar charged “thatPresident Wilson and his advisers had insulted the Jews by appealing to them tosell their birthright as American citizens by voting for the President on theground that he had appointed a number of Jews to responsible offices…”
1916: Birthdate of pianist Emil Gilels.Born in Odessa, Gilels is variously described as a Ukrainian, and agreat artist who made his career in the Soviet Union until his death in1985. But his name appears on the listof Jewish Pianist. This litany of origins points once again to the difficultyof answering the question, “Who is A Jew?”
1916: Dr.Judah Magnes, “who went abroad in July armed with credentials from theSecretary of State to investigate the methods of distribution of the vast sumsof money raised in this country for the relief of Jewish War Sufferers” sailedfrom Europe today with the expectation that he will return to New York nextweek.
1917: BennyLeonard (the Ghetto Wizard) defeated Jack Britton in what would be the first ofthree bouts between the two.
1917: AtMoscow, the mayor and members of the Council of Workmen and Soldiers intervenedto stop anti-Jewish rioting.
1917: InIndianapolis, IN, Bella and Bernard Isaacs, the future “Superintendent ofHebrew Schools” in Detroit gave birth Irving Raphael Isaacs, WW II Army AirCorps veteran and the husband of Martha Lillian Horelick.
https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/irving-raphael-isaacs/
1917: InLugansk, “several Jewish shops and houses were looted and burned before themilitia could restore order.
1917: InPetrograd, “several Jews were injured” during “anti-Jewish rioting” which wastriggered by “a shortage of supplies.”
1918:Sergeant Abraham Blaustein, who was serving with the 165th Regimenton the Western Front left Excamont today to attend the Army Candidate School atLa Volbonne.
1918: InLockhart, Texas, Edith Violet (née Schwarz) and Charles H. Strauss gave birthto Robert Straus the Democratic political leader whose career included servingas U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union under Republican President George H.W.Bush.
1918: Inthe Bronx, Samuel and Molly Eisen gave birth to their only child, Max. MaxEisen was one of the nation’s leading press agents who “from 1954 to 1997… wasthe press agent for more than 60 Broadway shows and dozens of Off Broadwayproductions.”
1919:“Jewish Critic Here Tells of Pogrom” published provided the Samuel Charney’sdescription of the attacks on the Jews of Vilna which he experienced while withhis wife Bessie Lauria from which he was saved due to the intervention ColonelHouse who was attending the Peace Conference in Paris.
1919: The Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago White Sox, 5games to 3 in the16th World Series. This series is known as the Black SoxScandal since 7 White Sox players threw the series. Supposedly the Series was fixed by ArnoldRothstein. Although raised as anobservant Jew, Rothstein turned his back on his Jewish upbringing after his BarMitzvah. A son of wealthy middle-classparents, Rothstein hung out with “Irish gangsters” and married out of thefaith. Did Rothstein fix theseries? Or was this part of a pattern ofblaming Jewish and other foreign influences for corrupting a pristineAmerica. This was a common theme amongNatavists during the 1920’s.
1920:“Reports that published in a morning paper that foreign Jews had played aconspicuous rioting” in London, “led to a demonstration in Whitechapel todaywhen some hundreds of men began throwing stones and mud at the mounted police.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/10/20/109800806.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1920:Preliminary arrangements for the mass meeting at Madison Square Garden to beheld on the night of October 23 which will be presided over by Nathan Strausand which will feature a speech by Governor Cox were completed today.
1921:Today, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary, “Moses fails to enter Canaan, notbecause his life is too short but because it is a human life.”
1921:, Blanche Sternberger of Greensboro,N. C., daughter, of Emanuel Sternberger, a leading industrialist of Greensboro,N. C., and Bertha Strauss married New Orleans native and Harvard graduate EdwardBernard Benjamin, the father of Edward Bernard Benjamin, Jr.
1922:Today at the Carlton “backbench Conservative MPs decided to withdraw from theDavid Lloyd George–led coalition government” which toppled the government ofthe Prime Minister who had led Great Britain to victory in WW I and who issuedthe Balfour Declaration.
1922:Birthdate of author and historian Ruth Gay, a writer known for her nonfictionbooks documenting Jewish life in the Old World. Ms. Gay's books include SafeAmong the Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II which dealt with alittle-studied subject - the more than 250,000 Jews who returned toAllied-occupied Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War II. She alsowrote The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait which chronicled Jewishlife in Germany from the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 to the rise of Hitler in1933. Reviewing the book in The New YorkTimes Book Review, Peter Filkins called it "moving and lively.""What emerges is the portrait of a culture very much alive and aware ofits own rich heritage," he wrote. In 1997, Ms. Gay received the NationalJewish Book Award for nonfiction for Unfinished People: Eastern EuropeanJews Encounter America. In that book, she examined the immigrant experiencethrough the lens of her own girlhood in the Bronx. Ms. Gay has also coauthoreda book with her daughter, Sophie, entitled Ms. Gay's book The Jewish KingLear Comes to America. She passed away in 2008.
1923:Hadoar, a Hebrew Language weekly published in the United States temporarilysuspends publication
1923: Czernowitz born author Rosalie BeatriceScherzer married Ignaz Ausländer. Her increasingly famous works werepublished under her married name, Rose Ausländer even though her marriageproved to be short-lived.
1923:Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett completed his service as Minister of Health inthe government led by David Lloyd George.
1924(21stof Tishrei, 5685): Hoshana Rabah
1924: Itwas reported to that “in Cuba, there are now 5,000 Jews en route from foreigncountries to the United States but who are unable to come here because of theimmigration restrictions according to an announcement made by the EmergencyCommittee…which is attempting to find a solution for the stranded refugeeproblem.
1925: RabbiStephen S. Wise, speaking at the Brooklyn Jewish Centre, 667 Eastern Parkway,asserted last night that there was no conflict between "the truth of theBible and evolution."
1926: InNew Haven, CT, Anna Henrietta Mendel and Sol Ellis Wallant gave birth to authorEdward Lewis Wallant.
1926: Birthdate of American moral philosopher JoelFeinberg.
1927(23rdof Tishrei, 5688): Simchat Torah
1927: PanAmerican World Airways, one of the corporate clients of press-agent BenjaminSonnenberg, began operations today.
1927:Birthdate of Schaerbeek, Belgium native abstract painter Pierre Alechinsky.
1927: Today,“Dr. Herman E. S. Chayes, President of the First District Dental Society of NewYork, the official and largest dental organization in the State, wrote to theState Superintendent of Insurance, offering the facilities of the society tomake available as expert witnesses in malpractice suits the best dentists inthe State” of New York.
1927: HarryBlitman who had not lost a bout, fought his 26th bout.
1928:Birthdate of “animator and voice actor” Louis Sheimer, the Pittsburgh, PA whohelped to found Filmation.
1928(5th ofCheshvan, 5689): Sixty-seven-year-old Chess Champion Berthold Lasker passedaway. Chess must have been in his genessince he was the brother of Emanuel Lasker.
1928: Terrenceand Benjamin Waldman, four and a half years old and fourteen months oldrespectively, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Milton S. Waldman, who was the daughterof Titanic victim Benjamin Guggenheim ofNew York and Paris, were killed this afternoon in a fall from the roof of theSurrey, a sixteen-story apartment hotel at 20 East Seventy-sixth Street.
1928: Itwas reported that Nathan Swindler, the “counsel for the three Jewish internswho were hazed at Kings County Hospital last summer,” has complained “that theLay Board of Kings County Hospital of which he is Chairman has bee unable tofunction since its organization five months ago because of the lack ofcooperation on the part of those who created it.”
1929(15thof Tishrei, 5690): Sukkoth
1929: InCincinnati, OH, “Co-incidentally withhis 70th birthday, Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati was awarded thehonorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Lawtoday at the opening exercises of the 55th academic year of theHebrew Union College.”
1930: Thedinner marking the opening of the 1930 campaign for the Support of JewishPhilanthropic Societies which is trying to $2,221,000 in New York “for themaintenance of the ninety-one social agencies comprising the Federation” whichhas been organized by Mortimer L. Schiff is scheduled to take place at theCommodore Hotel.
1930: SirHermann Gollancz, “the first British rabbi to be granted knighthood” was buriedtoday at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery followed by a memorial service at theBayswater Synagogue.
1931: Itwas reported today that the new members of the board of directors of the JNFinclude Isaac Allen of the ZOA, Juliet Benjamin of Hadassah, Benjamin Fein ofthe Sons of Zion, Rabbi A.D. Burack of Mizrachi and Meyer Brown of Poale Zion.
1932: Itwas reported today that Sir Ronald Storrs who “became Military Governor ofJerusalem in 1917 when Allenby took it and then served as the civil governor ofPalestine until 1926 is sailing for Northern Rhodesia where he will becomeGovernor.
1933: “Thetwentieth and final performance of "The Romance of a People," Jewishhistorical pageant, was held last night before 18,000 persons at theKingsbridge Armory marking an end of an event that raised $200,000 most ofwhich will go to help German Jews settle in Palestine.
1934: BoxerHarry Blitman fought his 76th and penultimate bout.
1934:“Forbidden Territory,” a film version of the book by the same name starringGregory Ratoff and with Music by Louis Levy was released in the United Kingdomtoday.
1935(22ndof Tishrei, 5696): Shimini Atzeret; Shabbat
1935: Itwas reported today that in Athens, Premier George Kondylis has received aspokesman for a Greek-Jewish organization to whom he declared “Greek Jewsconstitute a large part of our aristocracy in the professions an and the arts”and that “they can count on me as among their strongest supporters andprotectors.”
1935: Itwas reported today that Governor Herbert Lehman has said that “New York Statewill cooperate heartily with other States in raising and improving laborstandards, but it will enter into no alliances "if there is the slightestlikelihood" that these will be used as "an excuse or pretext forleveling down our own labor standards to those existing in some of ourcompeting States…”
1936: HarryNewman scored the Brooklyn Tigers' only touchdown in a loss to Pittsburgh atForbes Field
1936: InPhiladelphia, “about 2,000 delegates and visitors from 45 states” attending theannual convention of Hadassah hear a message from President Roosevelt in whichhe praised the “women’s Zionist organization” for its “fine humanitarian work.”
1936: “SirPhilip Game, the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police is demanding some Cabinetdecision… on which to base his plans for protecting the people of East London”a large number of whom are Jewish from “physical attack and oratorical abuse bySir Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts.”
1936: “LastThoughts,” published today, provide insight as to how Jesse Isidor Strauss, theU.S. Ambassador to France, dealt with the increase in the rate of federalestate taxes.
1937: HajAmin el Huseini, the Mufit of Jerusalem, leader of the latest wave of Arabviolence who is currently in Syria, is trying to get permission to take refugein Italy, where Mussolini’s fascist government has expressed support for theArabs.
1937(14thof Cheshvan, 5698): Fifty-five-year-old WW I veteran, former deputy sheriff and ZionistHarry Baron passed away today in Chester, PA.
1937: Arabviolence continues as bombs were thrown in the Shimon Hazadik quarter ofJerusalem, in Safed at group of reserve Jewish policeman and in the TelAviv/Jaffa area.
1937: In Berlin, Sala and Jacob Max gave birth to American Pop ArtistPeter Max who was raised in Shanghai, China and in Israel before his family settledin the United States in 1953 where his art work was influential and muchimitated in advertising design in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His artwork may be viewed at numerouswebsites.
1938: InGreat Neck, NY, Jeanette and Bernard Workman gave birth to Peter Israel Workmanthe founder of Workman Publishing.
1938: TheNational Council of Catholic Men sent a letter to President Roosevelt todayasking him “to exercise his influence to avert the closing of the doors ofPalestine to Jewish refugees and the abandonment of the Jewish national homepolicy Great Britain.”
1939: Atthe World’s Fair in New York, members of the New York Council Pioneer Women’sOrganization meet this morning for a ceremony at the Palestine Pavilionfollowed by a luncheon at the Café Tel Aviv.
1939:A Jewish ghetto at Lublin, Poland, is established.
1939: InPittsburg, Ross Freedman, “a traveling salesman” and Selma Freedman, “a nurse,”gave birth to “street photographer” Jill Freedman. (As reported by John Leland)
1939: The American film classic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” starringJimmie Stewart premiered. The realJewish connection comes from Columbia Studios the production company that madethe movie. Harry Cohn owned and ran thestudios. He was one of a group of Jewishmovie moguls who helped to create the middle brow American culture and themyths that were a part of it.
1939: OttoBlumenthal and his wife moved from Utrecht to Delft because they had been ableto find a flat in that Dutch city.Blumenthal could only find one student to tutor which left them soimpoverished that they had to live on charity.After the Nazi invasion, the Blumenthals would be forced to leave Delftbecause of ethnic cleansings. The tragiclife of the mathematician would end at Theresienstadt in 1944 where he had gonevoluntarily to care for his sister.
1940(17thof Tishrei, 5701): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1940: Airraid sirens sounded tonight in Jerusalem as Axis planes were spottedapproaching the coast of Palestine. Nobombs fell on the City of David.
1941(28thof Tishrei, 5702): Just ten days after celebrating 77th birthday,“Jessica Blanche Peixotto, Professor of Social Economics, Emeritus” at U.C.Berkeley passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/peixotto-jessica-blanche
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1941:During the Battle of Moscow, Stalin institutes martial law, ordering the NKVDto shoot looters and anybody else who looked suspicious. Yes, this was more of Stalin the brutal. But it replaced Stalin, the confused, thesupreme leader of the Soviets who had so supremely bungled everything in thefight against Hitler. Although theBattle for Moscow would rage into the spring of 1942, these aggressive tacticsprovided the impetus for the defense that brought the seemingly invincible Nazimilitary machine to a grinding halt.From a Jewish perspective (and from the point of view of the westerndemocracies as well) whatever was good for the Russians was good for the Jewsand the West in the fight against fascism in general and the Holocaust inparticular.
1942:Today, the Gestapo arrested Robert Abshagen who would later be beheaded for hiswork with the Red Orchestra resistance group.
1942:Seventy-one-year-old Julius Löwenbein, the Prague born “son of Ignatz IsakLöwenbein and Antonie Löwenbein, the husband of Julie Löwenbein and ather ofEdith Šulc / Schulz arrived Treblinka today after which he was murdered
1943: InTrieste, the Nazis conduct a roundup of Jewish citizens.
1943: OperationReinhard, the German program to murder all of the Jews in Poland, “wasterminated today by a letter from Odilo Globocnik which meant that operationsat Treblinka came to an end but the murder of the Jews continued.
1943: Afuneral service is scheduled to be held today in Brooklyn for banker andphilanthropist Nathan S. Jonas.
1943:Streptomycin the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolatedby researchers at Rutgers University by a Jewish research student fromConnecticut named Albert Schat. However, according to academic tradition,Schatz's supervisor, Professor Selman Abraham Waksman, took credit for hisstudent's discovery and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1952. Schatzwas belatedly awarded the Rutgers medal in 1994, at the age of 74.
1944(2nd ofCheshvan, 5705): Sixty-seven-year-old screen writer Isadore Bernstein, passedaway today.
1944: Todayfifty-nine-year-old Dr. Ernst Eylenburg who had been transported from Berlin toTerezin in 1943 was transported from Terezin to Auschwitz where he wasmurdered.
1944:Today, a month after her 51st birthday, Anna Skobisova who had beentransported from Prague in 1943 was transported to Terezin to Auschwitz whereshe was murdered.
1945:Today, Syria ratified the charter of the United Nations, the organization thattwo years later would, much to Syria’s dismay would vote to partition Palestineand create a Jewish state.
1946: Aftertwo weeks, the curtain comes down on “A Flag is Born” at the Adelphi Theatre.
1947:Prosecutors completed their preparations for the start of tomorrow’s trial forthe Nazi leaders of the “SS Race and Settlement Office.”
1948: Insome of the fiercest fighting of the War of Independence Israeli forces arevictorious at Huleikat after fighting both Egyptian and Saudi army units. This victory opened the road to the rest ofthe Negev.
1948: Anaval battle took place between three Israeli warships near Majdal, and anEgyptian corvette with air support. An Israeli sailor was killed and fourwounded, and two of the ships were damaged. One Egyptian plane was shot down,but the corvette escaped. This naval clash was part of the Israeli attempt tothwart the Egyptian drive up the coast through Gaza with the aim of taking TelAviv. [While people have heard of the Israeli Air Force and the accomplishmentsof the IDF’s armored and infantry units, they are unaware of the fact that HeilHaYam HaYisrael (the Israeli Navy) has played an active role in the defense ofJewish people going back to the days of the British Mandate.
1948: StanAndrews, who had promoted to the rank of major and made the IAF “liaison to theUN truce supervision forces in the South” today “flew as an observer in aBeaufigher D-171” belonging to Squadron 103.
1948:Thisafternoon, Len “Fitchett left Ramat David to take part in a naval skirmish offMajdal but before he could reach the Egyptian vessel, he encountered threeEgyptian fighters: two Spitfire LF9s and a Fury. Fitchett jettisoned hisordinance and dove for the surface, maneuvering violently. The Fury moved infor a rear attack. Just before hitting the sea, Fitchett hauled back on thestick and leveled out. The Fury slammed into the sea. Its pilot, Sqn LdrMuhammad Abd al Hamid Abu Zaid, commanding officer of 2 Sqn REAF since May 22,was considered one of the REAF's top flyers and had flown 72 sorties since May.”
1948: InIraq, “the discharge of all Jewish officials and workers from all governmentaldepartments was ordered.’
1948:Tonight, the 51st Battalion of the Givati Brigade launched anunsuccessful attack from the south on the Egyptian held police fort of IraqSuwaydan
1948:Founding of Tzova, a kibbutz in the Judean hills outside of Jerusalem.
1949: The firstsession of the 81st Congress, which came to an end down, sixteenmillion dollars was appropriated for the relief “of 500,000 refugees inPalestine, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Egypt and Iraq.”
1949: Itwas reported today that Gottlieb Hammer, the executive director of the Americansection of the Jewish Agency for Palestine who has just returned from a threeweek tour of Israel said that “he and his group were as much to blame as theother Jewish organizations “for giving out statements that resulted inpessimism and defeatism” that appear in the newspaper stories about Israel.
1950: InHaifa, Ashkenazi Jews Avi and Liza Litman gave birth to Israeli film,television and stage actor and model Daniel Litman, the husband of Shiri Lubl andsupporter the Maccabi Haifa Football Club who is best “known for his roles inMossad 101 and The Little Drummer Girl and who “since the 2023 Hamas-led attackon Israel on October 7, he has been visiting Israelis evacuated from theirhomes and wounded civilians and soldiers.”
1950: TheDumont Television Network broadcast the first episodes of “The Adventures ofEllery Queen,” for which Helene Hanff wrote scripts.
1951:During the Korean War, near Kumson, when his platoon came under enemy attackSgt. Jack Weinstein volunteered to stay and provide cover while his menwithdrew. Weinstein killed six enemy combatants and, after running out ofammunition, used enemy grenades around him to keep the enemy forces back.Weinstein held his position until friendly forces moved back in and pushed theenemy back. (He received the Medal Honor for this action)
1951: Incompliance with a decision reached in 1950 at a meeting of the foreignministers of France, the UK and the US, the United States officially ended the“state of war with Germany” that had existed since December of 1941.
1952:“Two’s Company” a musical revue with lyrics by Sammy Cahn opened its out oftown tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1953: In aradio broadcast to the nation Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion blatantly“says that no IDF unit had left its base on the night of the attack on Qibyaand that it seems as though it was done by a group of local Israeli villagers.”
1953(10thof Cheshvan 5714): Seventy-two-year-old Anna Shulman, the wife of HarryShulman, passed away after which she was interred in the Agudas Achim Cemeteryin Iowa City, IA.
1953(10thof Cheshvan, 5714): Forty-six-year-old attorney Felix Solomon Cohen whoreceived the Department of Interior’s Distinguished Service award for hishandbook on federal Indian law passed away today.
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1232
1953(10thof Cheshvan, 5714: Fifty-nine-year-old Mercer University graduate and member ofthe Georgia bar Solomon Louis Wisenberg, the Russian born son of Abraham Issacand Bluma (Ruchel) Wisenberg and the husband of Bessie Mindel whom he marriedin 1917 who taught Hebrew in Macon GA, practiced law in Georgia and served as the treasurer of the MississippiWholesale Company in Laurel, Mississippi passed away today in Harris, TX.
1954(22ndof Tishrei, 5715): Shmini Atzeret
1954(22ndof Tishrei, 5715): Seventy-year-old Sholom Joseph Perlmutter, the vicepresident of the Hebrew Actors Union, co-founder of the Society of JewishComposers and the Jewish Playwrights League as well as a “historian of theJewish theatre” who wrote Jewish Dramatists and Jewish Composers passed awaytoday at Coney Island Hospital.
1961: HelenShaprio’s “Walkin’ Back to Happiness” topped the UK pop charts today.
1962(21stof Tishrei, 5723): Hoshana Raba
1962: NewYork police are pursuing leads in the death of Rabbi Bernard Eisdorfer, “aprominent disciple of the Satmar Rabbi” who was beaten to death on the thirdday of Sukkoth.
1963(1stof Cheshvan, 5724): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan; Parashat Noah
1963(1stof Cheshvan, 5724): Eighty-one Russian born American author Elias Tobenkin, theson of Marcus and Fanny Tobenkin and the husband of the former Rae Schwid withwhom he had one son, Paul, passed away today.
http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6259g62
http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00256
1963:Birthdate of New York native “Jonathan David Haidt, the Professor of EthicalLeadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business.”
1963: Todayactress Hope Lang married Jewish producer, director and writer Alan J. Pakulawho would marry the former Hannah Cohn Boorstin after this union ended in 1971.
1964:Simonand Garfunkel's first LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., which consisted of 12songs in the folk vein and five written by Paul Simon was released today andinitially was a flop.
1965(23rdof Tishrei, 5726): Simchat Torah
1965: “TheMan Who Has Almost Everything Gets Another Honor” published today tells ofSandy Koufax being named the outstanding player in this year World Series,which helped the Dodgers win by pitching three victories even though he hadrefused to pitch the opening game because it was Yom Kippur.
1966:United Artists released “The Fortune Cookie,” a comedy directed and produced byBill Wilder, with a screenplay written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond andstarring Walter Matthau.
1966: InQueens, Madeleine and Charles gave birth to actor Jon Favreau who followed thefaith of his mother and “attended Hebrew school and had a Bar Mitzvah.”
1967(15thof Tishrei, 5728): Sukkoth
1967: Polishborn Canadian physician and Holocaust survivor Henry Morgentaler “presented abrief on behalf of the Humanist Association of Canada before a House of CommonsHealth and Welfare Committee that was investigating the issue of illegalabortion.”
1968(27thof 5729): Parashat Bereshit – on Shabbat the cycle begins again
1968(27thof Tishrei, 5729): Sixty-eight-year-old Polish born poet Anatol Stern who wassent to the Gulag at the start of WW II and then allowed to live in Palestinebefore returning to Warsaw where he passed away today.
1970(19thof Tishrei, 5731): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1970: Seventy-five-year-oldLazaro Cardenas, the President of Mexico, whose government had hired MorrisSwadesh to promote the education of “indigenous peoples” passed away today.
1970:Birthdate of SNL cast member Chris Kattan the son of an Iraqi born Jew
1970: Afterthirteen previews, the Broadway production “The Rothschilds” produced byEmanuel Azenberg and directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd, opened todayat the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it ran for 505 performances. Hal Linden,who happened to be Jewish, played Mayer Rothschild. “The Rothschilds” is amusical that tells the story of the rise of the famous Jewish banking family
1971:Broadway premiere of “The Incomparable Max,” with a script co-authored byJerome Lawrence based on a collection of short stories by Max Beerbohm.
1971: Reedv. Reed for which Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the plaintiff’s brief was arguedbefore the Supreme Court today.
1971: Lookmagazine which had carried a large feature article on the demise of theAmerican Jewish community was published for the last time – while the Jewishcommunity continued to survive and thrive.
1973: “TheWay They Were” a film that spans the Depression through the Post-War yearsdirected by Sydney Pollack, written by Arthur Laurents, with must by MarvinHamlish, starring Barbra Streisand and featuring Herb Edelman was releasedtoday in the United States by Columbia Pictures.
1973 (23rdof Tishrei, 5734): Simchat Torah
1973: TheBattle of Ismail which took place south of the Egyptian city as part of a planto cut off supplies to Egypt’s Second Field Army continued for a second day.
1973: TheYom Kippur War continued to exact its toll.By nightfall, the Syrian counterattack on the Golan Heights had beenrepelled with losses that included thirty Jordanian and Iraqi attacks. Israel may have been alone, but the Syrianscertainly were not. On the Suez frontseventy Egyptian tanks were knocked out and fourteen of Sadat’s aircraft hadbeen shot down. With the war enteringthe end of its second week, the Arabs were looking to the Soviets to bringabout a face-saving cessation of hostilities.Secretary of State Kissinger, who had arrived in Moscow, joined theSoviets in issuing a call for the end of hostilities.
1975: In“My Name is David Lurie” Hugh Nisserson provides a review of Chaim Potok’slatest novel In the Beginning which is another of his works that thatfeatures a narrator who is a brilliantly gifted Orthodox Jewish boy” accommodating himself to modern life.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/19/archives/my-name-is-david-lurie-in-the-beginning.html
1975:“Hester Street,” a film based on a novel by Abraham Cahan, directed by JoanMicklin Silver who also wrote the script and directed by Raphael Silver wasreleased today in the United States.
1976:“Thirteen activists held a demonstration at the Supreme Soviet” at the end of which participants were detained and taken into the woods where some of the refuseniks, including Zahar Tesker, werebeaten up by the police.
1976: A “press-conferenceorganized by Natan Sharansky was held at Vladimir Slepak’s apartment inconnection with beating of activists in the forest near Moscow, following thedemonstration at the Supreme Soviet.”
1976: At “ajoint Israeli-American committee meeting in New York participants agreeinprinciple to restrict aid to “drop-outs” in Vienna.”
1977: U.S.premiere of “Looking For Mr. Goodbar” the film version of the novel by JudithRossner directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Freddie Fields, the brotherof band leader Shep Fields.
1979:“French Postcards” a comedy produced and written by Gloria Katz and starringMandy Patinkin and Debra Winger was released today in the United States.
1979: “ChillyScenes of Winter,” an American romantic comedy film written and directed byJoan Micklin Silver was released today in the United States.
1979: Afterpremiering in Toronto, “AndJustice for All” a film that looks at the dark side of the judicial system withan Oscar nominated script co-authored by Barry Levinson, featuring LeeStrasberg, Darrell Zerwling and Sam Levene was released in the United Statestoday.
1980(9thof Cheshvan, 5741): Sixty-year-old Sydney Stuart Baron, the “son of a Brooklynshoemaker,” “an ‘A’ English student at New Utrecht High School” and husband ofhigh school sweetheart Sylvia Schreibman whose public relations clientsincluded Anheuser-Busch, Iona College, Beth Jacob Schools and Carmen G. DeSapiowhom he served as press agent passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/02/13/97657964.pdf
1982:Yitshak Moda’I began serving as Minister of Energy and Water Resources.
1984(23rdof Tishrei, 5745): Simchat Torah
1984: In“New Moon Offered” published today, Allen Hughes provides a glowing review ofLight Operate of Manhattan’s production of Sigmund Romberg’s 1928 class “NewMoon.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/19/arts/opera-new-moon-offered.html
1986(16thof Tishrei, 5747): Second Day of Sukkoth
1986(16thof Tishrei, 5747):Eighty-one-year-old Moses Asch, the driving forcebehind Folkways Records passed away today. (As reported by Jon Pareles)
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/21/obituaries/moses-asch-who-founded-folkways-records-dies-at-81.html
1987(26thof Tishrei, 5748): Forty-two-year-old Jacqueline du Pre the brilliantAnglo-Jewish cellist who had been stricken by multiple sclerosis passed awaytoday.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/20/obituaries/jacqueline-du-pre-noted-cellist-is-dead-at-42.html
1987: Today’s “BlackMonday” stock market crash created “ a funding crisis” for the Museum of JewishHeritage because it "wiped out" funds of potential donors for themuseum as well as dropped real estate prices.
1987: Eighty-four-year-oldIgor Newerly, the Polish novelist and educator passed away today.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0627846/
1988: LeonLederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger win the Nobel Prize for Physics.
1989: ALondon revival of “Stop The World – I Want to Get Off “directed by, andstarring, Anthony Newley opened today at the Lyric Theatre.
1990: Twodays after opening in Los Angeles, “Reversal of Fortune” a film adaption of AlanDershowitz’s book produced by Edward R. Pressman and co-starring Ron Silveropened in New York today.
1992(22ndof Tishrei, 5753): Shemini Atzeret
1992(22ndof Tishrei, 5753): Eighty-three-year-old Magnus Alfred Pyke “the son of awholesale confectioner and cousin of Geoffry Pyke” passed away today afterenjoying a career as food scientist, author and broadcaster.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-magnus-pyke-1558840.html
1994(14thof Cheshvan, 5755): Twenty-one Israelis and one Dutch national were murderedand another fifty were injured by a Hamas terrorist who set off a bomb as buswas approaching Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizengoff_Street_bus_bombing
1994: SivanHoresh survives the No. 5 bus bombing on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv.
1995: Arevival of David Merrick’s “Hello Dolly” opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
1995(25thof Tishrei, 5756): Sixty-nine-year-old Sir Peter Esmond Lazarus, the Bayswaterborn Mary Rebbeca Lazarus and Kenneth M. Lazarus passed away today in London
1996:During the U.S Presidential election, Chris Wallace served as moderator for theThird Presidential Debate.
1996: “TheFortune Cookie,” a comedy directed, produced and written by Billy Wilder andI.A.L. Diamond and co-starring Walter Matthau was released to theatres today.
1996: Thetalents of cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Jules Feiffer wereon display as he spoke to a gathering at the Library of Congress in Washington,D.C.
1997: The New York Times featuresreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics related to Jewish historyor culture including Perfidia by Judith Rossner, Miriam’s Kitchen A Memoir by Elizabeth Ehrlich and The World Is TheHome Of Love and Death by Harold Brodkey.
2000(20th of Tishrei, 5761): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
2000(20th of Tishrei, 5761): Sixty-four-year-old RabbiBinyamin Herling was murdered today when “Fatah members and Palestiniansecurity forces opened fire on a group of men, women and children” at MountEbal.
2001: In “Her Name Still Rings A Bell” published today described the“life of Mercedes Jellinek, daughter of a wealthy Austrian businessman with apassion for the newly invented motorcars at the turn of the 20th century.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/automobiles/her-name-still-rings-a-bell.html
1999: The 1960 production of Peter Pan with music by Mark “Moose” Charlapand July Styne and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was released todayon DVD.
2000: “Disregarding a plea by the United Nations secretary general, thePalestinians carried their bitter confrontation with Israel into a specialsession of the General Assembly today” which “prompted an angry rebuttal fromthe Israeli ambassador, Yehuda Lancry.
2001: “Israelis and Palestinians talked today about assassination and warrather than any peace effort, as their forces clashed in two West Bank cities”following the murder of Rehavam Zeevi, Israel’s Minister of Tourism.
2002: “Assistant Secretary of State William J. Burns, who arrived inEgypt today at the start of a Middle East tour, is to meet Israeli andPalestinian officials next week to discuss an American blueprint for a peacesettlement that was given to Mr. Sharon in Washington.”
2003(23rd of Tishrei, 5764): Simchat Torah
2003: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics related to Jewishhistory or culture including Blacklist by Sara Paretsky, ArthurMiller: His Life and Work by Martin Gottfried and The Beginning ofWisdom: Reading Genesis by Leon R. Kass.
2004:Archivists in the Dutch City of Tilburg announced the discovery of the diary ofa Holocaust victim that has an eerie similarity to that of Anne Frank. The Holocaust era diary and love letterswritten by Helga Deen, a Jewish woman, for her Dutch boyfriend while sheimprisoned in a Dutch internment camp were donated by the family of the nowdeceased Dutch man. Deen died atSobibior.
2004: In“Cole Porter and Moss Hart’s Jubilee: Still Smart, Funny and Tuneful” publishedtoday Michael Dale sings the praises for the musical Juiblee.
2004: Adam Aptowitzer, a tax and charity lawyer in Ottawa and “formerOntario chairman of B'nai Brith Canada’s Institute for International Affairs” “madestatements today on the broadcast of theMichael Coren Show defending the bulldozing of Palestinian terrorists' homes asa means of deterring further suicide bombings” arguing “that such actions werepermissible when used to prevent deaths.”
2005(16thof Tishrei, 5766: Second Day Sukkoth
2005:“Stalking Kosher Game (Hold the Giraffe)” published today described the uniquemeals created “in the strictly kosher kitchen at Levana on the Upper West Side”run by chef Bill Spitz.
2005: “Israelis weighing a plan to bar Palestinians from the main roads in the West Bankwith the aim of protecting Israeli motorists from roadside shootings, accordingto Israeli officials and a newspaper report today.”
2006: The Times of London reported on thepremier of the documentary “Spell YourName” by the Ukrainian director Sergei Bukovsky. The 90 minute film recordstestimonies of Jews who survived the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. The highlightof the event was the appearance of Steven Spielberg whose grandparents camefrom the Ukraine.
2006: Whilespeculation about the political ambitions of New York Mayor Michael Bloombergare subject of intense it was reported that he has decided to sell Bloomberg LPwhich “could be worth as much as twelve billion dollars.”
2007:“Things We Lost In The Fire” directed by Susanne Bier with a script by AllanLoeb was released today in the United States and Canada.
2007: RexDitto, one of the men convicted of murdering Allen Shalleck who co-authoredparts of the Curious George series with Margaret Rey in the 1970’s wassentenced to life in prison today.
2007: The Washington Post featured a review ofJezebel: The Untold story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen by LeslieHazelton.
2007: The New York Times featured a review of YoungStalin by Jewish historian Simon Sebag Montifore. This book could be viewed as a prequel toMr. Montifore’s Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar.
2007:“TheLast Jews of Libya” opens atSão Paulo International Film Festival in São Paulo, Brazil. “The Last Jews of Libya documentsthe final decades of a centuries-old North African Sephardic Jewish communitythrough the lives of the remarkable Roumani family, who lived in Benghazi,Libya, for hundreds of years. Thirty-six thousand Jews lived in Libya at theend ofWorld War II, today none remain. The film traces the story of theRoumanis from Turkish Ottoman rule through the age of Mussolini and Hitler tothe final destruction and dispersal of Libya's Jews in the face of Arabnationalism.”
2008:The New York Times includes reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein and Explainers a newanthology “which gathers all of Jules Feiffer’s Village Voice strips from 1956 to 1966.
2008: A formerIsraeli soldier, Marti Mintz, who was trained in a counter-terror unit of theIDF and is married to an Australian risked his own life today to save fivepeople during during a fire that had broken out in supermarket in Perth,Australia.
2009(1stof Cheshvan, 5770): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2009(1stof Cheshvan, 5770):Ninety-one-year-oldJosephWiseman a Canadian actor, best known for starring as the titular antagonist ofthe first James Bond film, Dr. No, passed away today. (As reported by AdamBenstein)
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-joseph-wiseman21-2009oct21-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/arts/20wiseman.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/20/AR2009102003549.html
2009:At Olam Tikvahthenew sisterhood Co-President Rachel Rothberg, leads a discussion of thewell-reviewed book Sarah by Marek Halter.
2009: In ChevyChase, MD, Richard Breitman, a professor of history at American University,discusses and signs Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G.McDonald, 1935-1945. McDonald was the first U.S. ambassador to Israel.
2009:In “A Believer in Heroism, to Jews’ Lasting Gratitude,” published today JosephBerger described the exploits of Dr. Tina Strobos who is scheduled tobe honored today by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center, based inWestchester.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/nyregion/17metjournal.html
2009:CBS is scheduled to hold a memorial service today at the Time Warner Center inNew York for Don Hewitt the creator and longtime executive producer of ''60Minutes.'' Hewitt died of cancer in August at age 86. In addition to his workat ''60 Minutes,'' Hewitt also produced the first televised presidential debatein 1960.
2009:At The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival a screening of“Adam Resurrected” based on novel of the same name in which “a former circusclown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands ofJews as they marched to their deaths, Adam Stein is now the ringleader at anasylum in the Negev desert populated solely by Holocaust survivors.”
2009: “JewishTransit Berlin: From Hell to Hope,” the 52-minute documentary, which premieredtoday at the Berlin Jewish Museum, relates the unusual and brief history of theDisplaced Persons camps set up in postwar Berlin.
2009: “Schmatta: Rags To Riches To Rags,” adocumentary about the rise and decline of New York’s garment district — and theefforts to preserve what remains of a sector that played a vital role in theAmerican Jewish experience during the past century — premieres tonight on HBO..
2010: Scribner published a collection ofshort stories, Palo Alto, by James Franco
2010: Israeliauthor David Grossman who was named the winner of the Germany's bookpublishers' association’s 2010 Peace Prize in honor of his support forreconciliation between Israel and the Palestinians is scheduled to be awardedthe $30,200 prize today during the annual Frankfurt Book Fair.
2010: Leon Wieseltier, Literary Editor at TheNew Republic is scheduled to introduce “Ruth Franklin, A ThousandDarknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction” at the Hyman S. & FredaBernstein Jewish Literary Festival in Washington, DC.
2010: Labor Partylawmakers lambasted their fellow MK, Einat Wilf today for proposing to cancelthe annual memorial rally marking the assassination of prime minister YitzhakRabin
2010: PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that his cabinet needed more time todecide when and how to dismantle certain illegal West Bank outposts, due to the"political implications" involved.
2010(11th of Cheshvan, 5771):Tom Bosley, best known for his role as Richie’s father on the t.v. sitcom“Happy Days” passed away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/television/20bosley.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
2011: “It was reported today that TheoEpstein’s official title with the Chicago Cubs would be President.”
2011(21stof Tishrei, 5772): Hoshanah Rabbah
2011: Thisafternoon Israel Defense Forces soldiers thwarted a stabbing attack at the GushEtzion junction in the West Bank, Channel 10 reported.
2011: Aday after returning to his home in Mitzpe Hila after five years in Hamascaptivity, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit marked the Simchat Torah holiday athome with his family tonight.
2012: At the WienerLibrary in London, Dr. Ruth Levitt is scheduled deliver a lecture on “Jews inthe Netherlands,” a country where “some 75 percent” of the Jews “were deploredand killed in the Holocaust
2012: Director ArnonGoldfingers award winning film, “The Flat,” is scheduled to open at the LincolnPlaza Cinemas
2012: Four maskedindividuals infiltrated the IDF's Naftali camp near the Golani junction in theNorth early this morning and stole four weapons. The infiltrators tied up thesoldier on guard duty, stealing his and three other weapons before escaping
2012: The American IsraelPublic Affairs Committee (AIPAC) announced today that the long-time director ofits Jerusalem office, Wendy Singer, will be leaving her position early nextyear. Singer will be replaced by Leslie Levy Mirchin, who is currently the lobbyinggroup’s local director of policy and research
2013:As part of the Performing Arts Series, the Jewish Community Center is scheduledto present “The Marcy and Zina Show” featuring Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich.
2013:In California, the Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to present Khaossia,performing EOSLove Across Time, Space, and Sound, a concert based on a lovestory from Puglia, after the Shoah.
2013:Gaza-based Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called today for Palestinians towage a “popular uprising” in the West Bank.
2014:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest including SpoiledBrats by Simon Rich and The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guideto Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker.
2014:In Washington, DC, the Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festivalis scheduled to begin today.
2014:Ed Stein’s comic strip “Freshly Squeezed” ended today.
https://www.gocomics.com/freshlysqueezed/about
2014:“Hitler’s Hidden Drug Habit” is scheduled to be shown on British Channel 4.
2014:The Center For Jewish History is scheduled to show “Jacques Faitlovitch and theLost Tribes,” a film that explores the ‘extraordinary odyssey’ of Jacques Faïtlovitch,a Polish Jew who “discovered” Ethiopian Jewry, in 1904, and thereafter setabout reestablishing a connection between their community and the rest of theJewish world.”
2014:“Police opened an investigation today after graffiti was found in the TempleMount compound depicting a swastika as the equivalent of a Star of David.”
2014:“The daughters of slain American tourist Leon Klinghoffer released a statementtoday, a day before the opening of the play recounting the murder of theirfather, saying it “rationalizes, romanticizes and legitimizes” the killing. (Asreported by Lazar Berman)
2014:A spokesman for Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital confirmed reports issued today byReuters that it had treated a daughter of Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader forHamas, following complications during a standard medical procedure in Gaza.”(As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014:In Boston, Ashkelon native Roni Vorvoreanu, 16, will fly the Israeli flag todayfor the first time in the Head of the Charles Regatta rowing race, consideredone of the sport’s premier events. (As reported by Tamar Pleggi)
2014:Funeral services for Mildred Puro Pittman, the widow of Joseph Puro and HowardPittman is scheduled to take place in Great Neck, NY
2014:“Louis-Fest!” a celebration of the life of local realtor, bicycle enthusiastand musician Louis Lederman of blessed memory will be held today at The Willow(formerly Jimmy’s Music Club
followingthe Saints vs. Detroit Lions game. (As reported by the Crescent City JewishNews)
2014:“Dancing in Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at The Twin City Jewish FilmFestival
2014:“Ester Rada, an Ethiopian-Israeli actress and singer-songwriter, released “NanuNey,” a song which was a major successand became the first Amharic song played on Israeli pop radio.”
2014(25thof Tishrei, 5775): Eighty-four-year-old photographer Alfred Werthimer passedaway today. (As reported by William Yardley)
http://www.alfredwertheimer.com/
2015:“Israeli Bedouin leaders today expressed shock, surprise and outrage at newsthat the perpetrator of yesterday’s deadly terrorist attack at the Beershebacentral bus station was an Israeli Arab from a Bedouin village east of thecity, in the country’s Negev region.
2015:“A Jewish and a Muslim cemetery were defiled with Nazi symbols and anti-migrantslogans in western Austria, police said today, just weeks after similar attackson a refugee hostel and Jewish museum.”
2015:Martin Kaufman is scheduled to begin teaching the Leon Finley Course in JewishStudies which will focus on the lives and teachings of Maimonides andNachmanides.
2015:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to a screening of “The Blum Affair”directed by Erich Engel
2016(17thof Tishrei, 5777): Third Day of Sukkoth
2016: Today, “the municipality of Amstelveen southof Amsterdam where several thousand Jews live, inaugurated a street signbearing the name of” writer Jules “Schelvis, who survived seven Naziconcentration and death camps” and who “died earlier this year in Amstelveen.”
2016:In Little Rock, Chabad Center for Jewish Leadership under the leadership ofRabbi PInchas Ciment hosted “Sushi in the Sukkah.”
2016:In Jerusalem, the Admaya Conference “where architects, builders and creativetypes discuss the opportunities for building with earth” is scheduled to opentoday.
2016:Dora Horn is scheduled to “provide a look at the contemporary significance ofthe Book of Job” during an appearance at Ursinus College.
2016:“A safari in search of wild animals” is scheduled to place in the center ofJerusalem this evening.
2016:The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC), incooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), isscheduled to present a one-day professional development workshop on"Choice and Responsibility during the Holocaust."
2017:Case Western Reserve University is scheduled to host “What are the Dead Scrollsand Why are They Important” with Alex Jassen.
2017:“Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters launched major protests against thearrest of draft-dodging community members today, capping a week ofroad-blocking actions and scuffles with the police”
2017:JW3 is scheduled to host two screening of “Moos,” a comedy about Jewishfamilies following their dreams.
2017:“Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters launched major protests against thearrest of draft-dodging community members today, capping a week ofroad-blocking actions and scuffles with the police.”
2017:The Dodgers defeated Theo Epstein’s defending World Champion Chicago Cubdenying them a chance to return to the World Series to try for a second chancechampionship.
2017:“Designs on Britain” an exhibition depicting “how much of the most iconicBritish design was produced by immigrants” to the UK opened today at the JewishMuseum in London.
2017:Katinka’s Tail, the latest book by Judith Kerr, the 94 year old Englishauthor whose family fled Nazi Germany is scheduled to “be published byHarperCollins in hardback” today.
2017:The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host “An Evening with MelBrooks,” the man who gave us The 2000 Year Old Man, The Producers, BlazingSaddles and Young Frankenstein.
2017:The Leo Baeck Institute and the Jewish Review Books are scheduled to presentAbraham Socher, David Sorkin and Leora Batnitzky discussing “Why MosesMendelssohn Matters.”
2017:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Rescuing EndangeredJews: The Unit for Aliyah, Absorption, & Special Operations.”
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2018: “Architect Leora Berry, the Deputy Directorof the Bible Land Museum is scheduled to lead a tour that “will highlight thearchitectural qualities originating from countries of the ancient East, whichare incorporated in the museum`s modernist façade, as well as models from themuseum`s collection that illustrate ancient construction techniques and the philosophiesand beliefs associated with architectural elements that appear on ancientartifacts.”
2018:“Architect and geographer Michael Jacobson” is scheduled to lead a tour of theLibrary and Garden at the National Library of Israel.
2018:The Oxford University Jewish Society Friday Night Book Club is schedule to“Rachel Adler’s short essay ‘Feminist Judaism: Past and Future.’”
2018:After premiering at Tellluride, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” a film “based on theconfessional memoir of the same name by Lee Israel” with a screenplayco-authored by Nicole Holofcener was released today in the United States.
2018:Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak is scheduled to “deliver remarks during”Friday night serves at Temple-Emanuel followed by “an extended Oneg Shabat anda moderated conversation.”
2019:Despite having found “an Israeli flag defaced with a swastika and whitesupremacist symbols” on its grounds right after Yom Kippur, the Falmouth JewishCongregation is scheduled to host its “open Sukkah program” this afternoon.
2019:In Napa, CA, Congregation Beth Shalom is scheduled to host “L’Chaim NapaValley,” “a benefit and dinner celebrating Jewish vintners.”
2019:In New Orleans, the New Avodah 2019-2020 Cohort is scheduled to celebrateHavdalah in their Sukkah.
2019(20th of Tishrei, 5780): Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Sukkoth
2020: The JCC Literary Consortium is scheduled to host a“virtual JCC Book Fest in Your Living Room” during which “Jonathan Safran Foertalks about his new environmental nonfiction book, We are the Weather: Savingthe Planet Begins at Breakfast.”
2020: The Mandel JCC Cleveland Jewish FilmFest isscheduled to make available a home-viewing window for “Asia.”
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “live fromIsrael” a presentation on “Israel and the Dangers Ahead” presented by CarmiGillon, the former head of Shin Bet.
2020: The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Cultureis scheduled to present online “Jews and Race: A Fireside Conversation withFormer Governor Deval Patrick and Rabbi Jonah Pesner.”
2020: The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host “avirtual tour revealing Black History and Black Jewish History” in the museum’scollection led by Learning Officer Shereen Hunte.
2020: Today, Jeffrey Toobin was suspended from The NewYorker after he masturbated on camera during a Zoom video call between NewYorker and WNYC radio staffers.
2020: In New Orleans, the Jewish Community is scheduled tohost a “Seminar on the 2020 Election.”
2020(1st of Cheshvan, 5781): Rosh ChodeshCheshvan
2021: “A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South”published today “the new $5.5 million Museum of the Jewish Experience” locatedin New Orleans which tell the “350-year history of Jews in America’s Southernstates.”
2021: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host “JoyceMaynard: Women on the Move.”
2022: ToI@10 is scheduled to present – “Paralyzed Nation:How Israel's dysfunctional electoral system still could be fixed.”
2022: The Weitzman National Museum of American JewishHistory is scheduled to host “Beyond Chicken Soup: Ashkenazi Herbalism” withDetra Cohen and Adam Siegel.
2023: As part of the “Jewish Values and Strategy inWartime” series Tikvah is scheduled tohost a lecture by J.J. Kimche on “Why Is Israel Hated? Three Big Falsehoods.”
2023: In Washington, the Capital Jewish Museum isscheduled to host “The Notorious RBG.”
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2023: This afternoon in New Orleans, the Jewish CommunityCenter is Scheduled to host a screening of “Dead Sea Guardians” by Ido Glassand Yoav Kleimann followed by a Q&A with Gidon Bromberg, Director ofEcoPeace.
2023: “Psalm to David: An Exhibition Marking the 50thAnniversary of the Yom Kippur War” which was to have been a tribute tophotographer, poet and graphic designer Tamir Lahav-Radelsmer was scheduled toopen this morning at the Agnon House before the terrorist attacks caused apostponement of all such events.
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2023: Brigadier General (Res) Amir Avivi is scheduled toprovide his lates update on the current war in Israel.
2023: YIVO isscheduled to present a panel discussion of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies, ahandbook of Jewish music that addresses the diverse range of sounds, texts,archives, traditions, histories, geographic and political contexts, andcritical discourses in the field with contributors Eléonore Biezunski, Jessica Roda,and Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad, introduced and led by editor Tina Frühauf.
2023: As of midnight, October 19, President Bident isflying back to the United States from Israel, “rocket fire from the north andthe south intensifies,” and mass demonstrations take place in front of Americanand Israeli embassies take place in the wake of the disaster at a hospital inGaza which Hamas blames on Israel but which the White House says, based onavailable intelligence, was done by “the other team.”
(Editor’snote: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are justproviding a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to begin its 56th concertseason
2024:The rallies, led by families of hostages, which have been held weekly since the Hamas terrorgroup launched its October 7, 2023, attack, killing some 1,200 people andtaking 251 hostages into Gaza are scheduled to take place this evening.
2024(17thof Tishrei, 5785): Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Sukkoth
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2024(17thof Tishrei): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Bernard Eisendorfer who was beaten to death in1962 at the age of fifty-five.
2024:As October 19th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism thathas included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New Yorksubway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas heldhostages begin day 379 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocketattacks by Hezbollah (Editor’s note:this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
