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1192: The Third Crusade ends as English king Richard the Lion-Heart andIslamic sultan Saladin sign a peace treaty that allows Christian pilgrims’access to Muslim held Jerusalem. Saladin is remembered as the ruler whor*admitted the Jews to Jerusalem in 1190 (4950) as ecstatically recounted bythe Jewish poet Al-harzi.
1347: Coronation of Emperor Charles IV, who classified his Jewishsubjects as vassals of the Emperor which meant he received an annual paymentfrom them, as King of Bohemia
1492: Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & QueenIsabella
1504: In Pilsen, “the councilors and aldermen” decreed “that all Jewsboth local and visiting must wear Jewish coats so they can be distinguishedfrom other people, and that Jewish women must wear a veil with a broad yellowand white ribbon. If Jews were found without such clothing, the penalty wouldbe five coppers for each offence. It was emphasized that Jews must notmanufacture veils or undertake any other gentile business.”
1649: In Italy, the Jews of Castro found refuge in Pitigliano when forcessupporting Pope Innocent X at the end of the Wars of Castro. The Jews had nothing to do with the fightingand their flight is what we would call today “collateral damage.”
http://www.comune.pitigliano.gr.it/index.php?T1=80000
1660: Hugh Peter the Puritan preacher who had renounced his belief thatJews should be readmitted to England while attending the Whitehall Conferenceof 1655 was arrested today for his role in the be-heading of King Charles I.
1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days,destroying 10,000 buildings. While Jews had already returned to London we canassume that none of the buildings that burned were synagogues. In 1656, the Jews had been denied the rightto build a synagogue or buy land for a cemetery. The famed Bevis Marks synagogue was not builtuntil 1701.
1686: When imperial troops recaptured Buda, most Jewish residents weremassacred, while a “lucky few” were captured and later released for ransom.
1726: Today a rescript for Copenhagen set for the information that “anagreement to build a house in any city that needed buildings was also a meansof gaining an entry into Denmark” which may have provided a way for German-Jewsin this tiny Scandinavian nation that would save its Jewish population duringthe Holocaust.
1728: An edict issued today allowed the Jews “to attend the fairs ofLittle Russia, provided they carried on wholesale business only.” (As reportedby Herman Rosenthal)
1731: In response to an application by Danil Pavlovich Apostl, who wasHetman of the Cossacks, Jews were permitted “attend the fairs of Little Russia,provided they” only engaged in wholesale business activities.
1735: Lewis Gomez, a Jewish merchant in New York sold 25 loads of lime tothe city for £6 pounds, 5 shillings. Gomez advertised his "lime" inthe newspaper as "good stone-lime."
1752: England and its American colonies use the Julian calendar for thelast time, dropping it in favor of the Gregorian one. Eleven days (September 3 – 13 inclusively)vanish as the calendar was adjusted forward so that September 14 followedSeptember 2. This does not directlyaffect Jewish history, but it is worth noting since it accounts for some of theseeming discrepancies in providing dates for events.
1763: Moses Lindo, the Surveyor and Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugsand Dyes wrote a letter from Charleston, South Carolina to Emanuel Mendez daCosta containing “an account of a new die from the Berries of a Weed in SouthCarolina.”
1767: In Richmond, VA, Rachel and Moses Michael Hays gave birth to JudithMoses Myers, the wife of Samuel Myers and the “mother of Samuel Hays Myers;Gustavus Adolphus Myers; Henry Myers, M.D.; Agnes Myers; Rebecca Hays Myers;Ella C. Myers and Rachel Hays Myers.”
1777(30th of Av, 5537): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1777: The will of Aaron Franks, the brother of Isaac Franks was datedtdaoy.
1778: Birthdate of Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, the youngest brother ofEmperor Napoleon, who thanks to his brother ruled Holland from 1806 to1810. During his short reign he soughtto improve the condition of the Jews with such steps as moving market day fromSaturday, abolishing the “Oath More Judaico” and allowing Jews to serve in themilitary for the first time by creating two battalions with Jewish enlisted menand officers.
1796: In Holland which now was called the Batavian Republic, the NationalAssembly voted in favor of emancipation for the Dutch Jews who numberedapproximately 50,000 – 20,000 of whom lived in Amsterdam. The Jews of Holland wereemancipated as the Dutch state became the Batavian Republic.
1789: Founding theUnited States Department of the Treasury.Although there is some anecdotal evidence that the first Secretary ofthe Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was Jewish, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. is listedas the first Jewish Secretary of the Treasury.He was appointed by FDR and served from 1934 until 1945. Morgenthau was chosen because he was countrysquire neighbor of FDR and not for financial acumen.
1806: Birthdate ofMikhl Yosef Gusikow (Michael Joseph Gusikow) “a Klezmer musician from Shklovwho was popular in German and France during the 1830’s.”
1807: Barnett Nathanmarried Julia Solomons today.
1813: In Gibraltar,Abraham Israel Bernal and his wife gave birth to Esther Bernal, the wife ofSamuel Levy Bensusan and the mother of Orovida, Abraham, Jacob and MiriamBensusan.
1818: Laurence Lazarusmarried Catherine Phillips at the New Synagogue today.
1819: Birthdate ofLouisa Sophia Goldsmid, “a British philanthropist and education activistwho targeted her life at improving education provision for British women” who was the wife ofMember of Parliament Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid.
1822: BaronRothschildconferred with Prussian diplomat Friedrich von Gentz “atbreakfast regarding the Frankfort Jewish matter.”
1825: Mordecai ManuelNoah led a large group of Christians and some Jews to St Paul’s EpiscopalChurch in Buffalo, NY where they participated in a dedicatory ceremony markingthe founding of Ararat, which was to be a Jewish colony on an island in the NiagaraRiver.
1831: Thirty-seven-year-oldDaniel Lessmann, a veteran of the Battle Lutzen who converted in 1824, possiblyto advance his career as a poet and history.
1832: Hart Lyon, MosesCohen D’Azevedo, Meyer Abrahams, Abraham Finzi, Levi Eleazer and Joseph Hartwere among those who attended “a meeting of the Vestry” today.
1833:Oberlin College is founded by John Shepherd and Philo P. Stewart. Today Oberlinhas about 800 Jewish students out of a student body of 3,000. It offers tencourses in Jewish Studies as well as both a Major and a Minor in JewishStudies.
1839:Birthdate of London born Australian politician Elias Solomon, an Australian whomigrated to Australia as a child. He had no formal education, but in 1868became a clerk and auctioneer in Fremantle in Western Australia. In 1877 he waselected to the Fremantle City Council. In 1892, he was elected to the WesternAustralian Legislative Assembly as the member for South Fremantle, where heremained until 1901. In that year, he transferred to federal politics, winningthe Australian House of Representatives seat of Fremantle for the Free TradeParty. He was defeated by Labor's William Carpenter in 1903. Solomon died in1909.
1839: Threedays after he had passed away English portrait painter Solomon Polack, thehusband of Sarah Polack with whom he had five children was buried today at the“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
http://www.artnet.com/artists/solomon-polack/
1841:Birthdate of Hessen, Bavaria native and future Mississippian CarrieLichtenstadter Kory, the wife of Abraham Kory and the mother of Max, Eugene,Clarence, Solomon, Roscoe ad Edward Kory.
1843: InBuchau, Sophia Moos, the daughter of Abraham Veit Neuburger and NanetteNeuburger and her husband Hermann Naphtali Moos gave birth to Hedwig Haas, thewife of Beneditk Haas and mother ofAnton Haas;Lina Günzburger;Friedrich Haas;Ludwig HaasandJette Haas”
1844: InBavaria, Seligman Ben Schemmel Landaer, the Bavarian born of Samuel JosephArjeh Landauer and Rebecca Breindl Landauer and his wife Zirle (Cilli) Landauergave birth to Malka Landauer
1844: InBavaria, Emanuel Grabfelder and his wife gave birth to Samuel Grabfelder thehusband of Delia Griff who served President of the Guardians of Public Childrenof Louisville and the Jewish Free Hospital and President and a trustee ofTemple Adath Israel in Louisville, KY.
1845(30thof Av, 5605): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed for last time by the Jews living inthe Republic of Texas including Dr. Moses Albert Levy, the Dutch born son ofAbraham and Rachel Levy because by the end of the year the Republic of Texaswould become the state of Texas in the United States of America.
1850: InSilesia, “railway entrepreneur and coal mine owner Rudolf Pringsheim and his wife Paula, née Deutschmann” gavebirth to “German mathematician and patron of the arts” Alfred Pringsheim.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pringsheim.html
1851:Lazarus Powell began serving as the 19th Governor of Kentucky who inan act that was totally disingenuous condemned General Grant’s General OrderNo.11 two years after it was issued and withdrawn as part of his on-goingattempt to thwart Lincoln’s policies to save the Union and free the slaves –something that Powell opposed.
1852:Birthdate of Paul Charles Joseph Bourget one of several French authorsincluding Maurice Barres, Charles Maurra and Leon Daudet who engaged in“literary anti-Semitism” that “portrayed Jews as cosmopolitan financiers,rapacious parasites, unscrupulous parvenus, intruders and strangers, verydifferent from ‘ordinary’ Frenchman.” (Alan Corcos)
1856: The"Foreign Correspondence” column published today reported that when thesubscription books opened to buy shares in the Zurich Credit Mobilier, BavarianJews with with millions in their bags, were reportedly seen in the crowd ofpurchasers.
1857”Solomon Isaacs married Jane Abrahams at the Great Synagogue today.
1857: YoungBarney Aaron the son of “Hall of Famer Barney Aaron” “became the first Jewishfighter to a win a championship” when he defeated American Lightweight ChampionJohnny Moneghan in Providence, RI in a fight that went 80 rounds and lasted 3hours and 20 minutes,
1857: SimonGoldman married Julia Phillips at the Great Synagogue today.
1861: RabbiAaron Siegfried Bettelheim, the Slovakian born of Samuel and Chava EvaBettelheim and is wife Anna Henrietta Bettelheim gave birth to Felix AlbertBettelheim, who became a successful doctor in the United States.
1863:Birthdate of Budapest native, Isidore Phillip, “the French composer andpianist.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/02/21/83395510.pdf
1863: Threedays after she had passed away, 11 year old Isabella Kisch, the daughter ofSimon Abraham Kisch and the former Flora Davis was buried today at the“Brompton (Fulham Road) Jewish Cemetery.
1864(1stof Elul, 5624): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1864(1stof Elul, 5624): Zidone Walkd, the wife of Joseph Hackes whom she married in1850 and the mother and Simon YettaHackes, passed away today in New York city.
1864: The79th Indiana Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Kneflerfought the Rebels in Georgia at the Battle of Lovejoy’s State.
1864: SolomonB. Kaufman, who rose to the rank of Sergeant began serving with Company B ofthe 202nd Regiment.
1864:Corporal Adam Salzmann began serving with Battery G of the 204thRegiment.
1864:Birthdate of Abraham “Abe” Reuf, the native of San Francisco and graduate ofHastings College of Law who began his career as a fighter against politicalcorruption but ended up “a big city boss” who served time for his misdeeds.
http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist1/ruef.html
1864:General Sherman and his Union soldiers capture Atlanta.
1868: RoseRosenberg, the daughter of Elias N. Oberndorfer and Frances (Fanny) Oberndorferand her husband William Rosenberg gave birth to Minnie F. Hirsh, the wife ofHarry B. Hirsh and “mother of Elizabeth Fleisher; Rose "Jim" Hirsch;Edward W. Hirsch and Margaret Valguarnera.”
1870: InButka, “in that part of Austria which later became Czechoslovakia Simon andEsther Moskowitz Hertz gave birth to Columbia trained attorney who at the ageof 14 came to the United States where he became a leader in New York’sRepublican Party and leading expert on Abraham Lincoln while raising fivechildren with his wife Balance Rosenthal Hertz.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hertz-emanuel
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/05/24/91581059.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1871(16thof Elul, 5631): Parashat Ki Tavo
1871: InCharleston, SC, “Maier and Hannah (Reichman) Trieste gave birth to College ofCharleston and Columbia graduate Montague Triest, the husband of Addie Israeland, during WW I, a member of the Sumter Guard Reserve Company and President ofthe Hebrew Orphan Society as well as chairman of the United Jewish ReliefCampaign.
1873: InVienna, Dr. József Bettelheim, the Son of Samuel Bettelheim and Chava EvaBettelheim and his wife Ernestine Bettelheim gave birth to FriedrichBettelheim.
1874: PrincesRoad Synagogue a synagogue on Princes Road in the Toxteth district ofLiverpool, England which is the home of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregationthat “was founded in the late 1860s, designed by William James Audsley andGeorge Ashdown Audsley, and consecrated today.
1874: InNew Orleans, David and Selma (Franko) Goldman gave birth to NYU trained attorney Mayer C. Goldman “whomade a lifelong fight to have public defenders attached to every court tohandle free the cases of poor accused persons” while raising two children ,Allan and Helen, with his wife Matti Marcosson Goldman.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/11/25/94743940.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1875: LucyDeborah Leonino, the London born daughter “of Ippolito Leonino and HannahLeonino, and her husband Adolfo Kogangave birth to Casimir Lisakowsky.
1876: InNew York City, Robert and Betsey (Stone) Strahl gave birth to N.Y Law Schoolgraduate and Municipal Court Judge Jacob S. Strahl the resident of Brooklyn andhusband of Beatrice Reiss who was President of the Judea Industrial Corporationof New York, “owner of the Near East and Palestine Exhibition and Grand Masterof the Order of the Sons of Zion.
https://www.jta.org/1965/01/25/archive/judge-jacob-s-strahl-veteran-zionist-dies-in-new-york-was-88
1877:Birthdate of Cecile M. Pilpel, the native of Wissembourg, France and wife ofEmmanuel Pilpel who “became a leader in parent education and…an executive ofthe Child Study Association of America.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0CE6DC123CE03BBC4852DFB566838D649EDE
1877: Alarge group of Jews from New York and Brooklyn attended today’s dedication ofthe Salem Fields Cemetery which is adjacent to Cypress Hills. The cemetery is the property of TempleEmanu-El on New York’s Fifth Avenue.Several lots have been sold to other Jewish congregations and benevolentsocieties. Louis May, President of Temple Emanu-El and Rabbi Gottheilofficiated during the event.
1878:Birthdate of Cincinnati native Herbert Oettinger, the investment broker whoserved on the Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1878: InNew York, Rosetta Moses, the daughter of Joseph and Martha Jonas and herhusband Dr. Montefiore Moses gave birth to Montrose Jonas Moses, the “husbandof Lucille Dorothy Moses and Leah Agnes Moses and father of Montrose JamesMoses and Lawrence Sutherland Moses.”
1878: The“Israelites” of Vicksburg, MS, have made an appeal to their co-religioniststhroughout the United States to provide aid for “their sick and destitutebrethren” who are trying to survive the current Yellow Fever Epidemic. Money should be sent to Alexander KuhnTreasure of the Hebrew Relief Society of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1881: Basedon information that first appeared in the DailyNews, it was reported today that an Anglo-Jew named Lewishon who has thesupport of Lord Granville has been given permission by the Russian Governmentto visit Novgorod. The British government intends to pursue the central issue –the right of citizens, including Jews to reside and conduct business in Russiaunder the terms of the treaty signed by the two countries.
1881: InChicago, Moses Jacobs, a Polish Jew who was attacked by Thomas Kennedy at Clarkand Taylor Streets is in critical condition.
1882: Itwas reported today that that Ignace Eprhussi & Co a Jewish banking house inOdessa was ceasing operations in Russia because of the persecution of Jews inthe land of the Czars. Founded by Charles Joachim a Russian grain trader, thefirm moved its operations to Vienna
1883:American labor leader Daniel De Leon and his wife gave birth to Solon De Leon,who followed in his father’s footsteps and who created The American Labor Who'sWho which is a registry or directory of people involved in the American LaborMovement.
1883(30thof Av, 5643): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1883(30thof Av, 5643): Eighty-one-year-old Léon Halévy a French dramatist and historianwho was the son of cantor Elie Halevy, the brother of composer and JacquesHalevy and the father of Ludovic Halevy passed away today.
1883: “TheHungarian Riots” published today described th renewed attempts by the militaryto stop the attacks on the Jews in Zala.
1885:Nine-year old Samuel Neuman was sent to the Riverside Hospital because he was sufferingfrom smallpox which he caught in Hamburg or while sailing to America on boardthe SS Firsa.
1886: Itwas reported today, Jacob H. Schiff, Jess Seligman and the banking firm ofKuhn, Loeb & Co are among those who have contributed to a fund that willallow The Hebrew Technical Institute to move into new, enlarged quarters. Founded in 1884 to provide instruction in themechanical arts to poor Jewish boys, the institute now is serving 100youngsters.
1886: Itwas reported today that Mr. and Mrs. Harris Manheim and their five-year-old sonhave been sent back to England before Coroner Levy of the Jewish Immigrants’Protective Association could meet with them.It was alleged that the Manheims were indigent when in fact that they“had a valuable Jewish parchment which…could have easily sold for $200 or $300.
1888: InBrest, Richard and Sarah Brodsky gave birth to Samuel Brodsky.
1888:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Charles Gerard Eichel, the NYU educated publicschool teacher and principal.
1888(26 ofElul, 5648): Eight-year-old El Sanger, the son of Samuel and Hannah HellerSanger passed away today after which he was buried in the Hebrew Rest Cemeteryin Waco, TX.
1888: Threedays after she had passed away “in her 88th year,” Ester (Aarons)Ellis, the wife of Samuel Ellis and the daughter of Aron Aarons was buriedtoday at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1889: TheNew York Times reviewed The Jew In English Fiction by Rabbi DavidPhilipson.
1889: InLos Angeles, Nathan and Fannie (Prager) Cohn gave birth to Sylvan Cole, Sr,“the founder and chairman of National Shirts, a men’s apparel chain,” thehusband of Dorothy B. Stein and father of Sylvan Cole, Jr, “an internationallyart dealer who helped foster the explosion of printmaking and print collectingin the United States in the decades after WW II… (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1890: “JewsOrdered To Go” published today described the issuance of an by the Governor ofthe Transcaspian Territories of the Russian Empire expelling the Jews of thatregion.
1891: Inthe United States District Court in Brooklyn, Judge Benedict heard the case of19 Russian Jews who were seeking to reverse the order of the ImmigrationCommissioner that would not let them remain in this country “because they hadno visible means of support.”
1892: InNew York, the Eldridge Street police, at the request of Justice Hogan, arelooking for “some information” that will help him decide whether or not IsraelSimovitch did or did not steal $90 of jewelry from his fellow Russian Jew JacobRohnewitch.
1892: AsEurope deals with concerns about an outbreak of Cholera, it was reported todaythat “hundreds of Russian Jews” arriving at Stettin “by sea from Memel or byrail from Eidtkuhnen” are kept in quarantine until they board steamers headedfor America.
1892:“Duels and French Duels” published today described the acquittal of Marquis deMores on charges of having murder Captain Mayer, a Jewish officer in the FrenchArmy, because the killing took place during a duel and regardless of the letterof the law, the jury rendered a verdict “that is exactly what might expect froma jury in Mississippi or South Carolina.”
1892: Asupply of flour arrived today at Zionsville, the Russian Jewish Colony inGloucester County, NJ and was quickly turned in to bread to feed the “famished”Jewish “families.
1892: A“carload of Russian Jews arrived at Port Huron, Michigan tonight from Liverpoolby way of Montreal.
1892: Inthe UK, the Jewish Chronicle described the arrival of a group of Polish Jews atthe Isle of Jersey and their desire to hold services if they can obtain a SeferTorah.
1892:Gottlieb Deininger, a member of the Haifa Templer Colony passed away todayleaving his widow Mary and their children an estate valued at 50,488 Piastersincluding stone house, a two and half acre vineyard and 243 gallons of “newCarmel wine.” (The Zionists were not theonly Europeans who were settling in this part of the Ottoman Empire prior to WWI)
1893: Itwas reported today that the Jews of Camden, NJ, have formed “The HebrewProtective Club” to protect “the members from robbery, insult, assault andmurder” and will be retaining a lawyer “who will be permanently engaged to lookafter their interests.”
1893: Dr.Christian Adolf Stoecker the former Chaplain of the Court of Berlin and leadinganti-Semite who arrived in New York yesterday left from Philadelphia where hehad stayed with the house surgeon of the German Hospital today for Chicago.Stoecker joined the anti-Semitic movement in 1888 “because he believed that theHebrews in several cities and districts in Germany were persecuting andoppressing the Christians.” (This is four decades before the rise of Hitler)
1893: Inwhat may be the first round of a general strike in the clothing industry, thefinishers went on strike. Eighty per-cent of the 25,000 workers in the clothingin New York’s clothing industry are Jewish, most of whom are immigrants fromRussia and Poland.
1893:Birthdate of Hobart, Tasmania, native Betty Lewis, the sculptor and “wife ofCity Magistrate Julius Isaacs.
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/3426
1894(1st ofElul, 5654): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1894:“Man’s Oldest Civilization” published today provided a lengthy review of NewLight on the Bible and the Holy Land: Recent Discoveries in the East byBasil T. Evetts.
1894:Approximately 600 employees decided to go on strike at Julius Stein & Co inNew York City.
1894: In Brody, Galicia, Marie Grubel and Nachum Roth gave birth to Joseph Roth whose worksincluded “his family saga Radetzky March about the decline and fall ofthe Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life, Job and hisseminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft” translated into English in “TheWandering Jews” died today in Paris where he had gone to escape the Nazis.
https://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/results/?qtype=pid&term=121485
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/01/05/rootless-brilliant-tragic-life-joseph-roth/
1895: Thetailors, most of whom are Jewish, “will celebrate their victory over thecontractors today, Labor Day, with a big mass meeting and parade.”
1895(13thof Elul, 5655): Eighty-one-year-old Joshua Heschel Schorr a leading proponentof the Haskalah (Enlightenment Movement) whose criticism of traditional rabbisand their teachings were recorded in He-Haluz,a Hebrew magazine that he edited, passed away today in his hometown ofBrody today
1896Birthdate of Odessa native Shmuel Yeivin, the Israeli archaeologist who servedas the Director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities from 1948 to 1961.
1896:“Stein’s Heavy Stealings” published today described how the jewelry firm ofJulius M. Lyon was forced to close its doors do the embezzlement orchestratedby 26 year old Julius Stein, his most trusted employee, that cost the firm over $200,000.
1897: Dr.Julius Wasserman conducted the funeral services for Lazarus Morgenthau at theresidence of is son J.C. Morgenthau which were followed by burial “in thefamily vault at Salem Fields, Cypress Hills Cemetery.”
1897:Birthdate of concentration camp commandant who was hung for his crimes whilehis wife was sentenced to life imprisonment.
1897:Writing in the American Israelite,Reform Rabbi Isaac M. Wise expressed his belief in the impossibility of theZionist dream due in part to Herzl’s ignorance about Judaism and the inevitableclash between him and Orthodox Jewry.
1898: Atthe Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan where John Maxwell who would support thecreation of the Zion Mule Corps but opposed a Jewish “fighting force” led he 2ndBrigade in a battle that helped to burnish the reputation of Winston Churchillwho would go on to have close, yet strange relationship, with Jewishconstituents and political leaders including Chaim Weizman
1898: The“wealthy Jews” living at Hempstead, Long Island and surrounding villages areconsidering a plan to build a synagogue.
1898:During the Dreyfus affair, the presidential decision that ratified the board ofinquiry’s decision to discharge Estherhazy “for habitual misbehavior” was madetoday, three days after Colonel Henry’s suicide.
1898: Herzlleaves Basel and sets out for the Bodensee Island of Mainau, for an audiencewith the Grossherzog Friederich of Baden. The main topic of the audience isKaiser Wilhelm's journey to Palestine.
1899:“Notes and News,” a compilation of information from various publishing housesreported today that the September issue of Century contains a “timely article”entitle “An American Forerunner of Dreyfus” that tells the story of a gallantnaval officer who early in the present century was persecuted throughout hiscareer because he was a Jew.” (Editor’snote – this must be a reference to Commodore Uriah P. Levy)
1900: Itwas reported today that “former Congressman Isador Strauss of New York whor*cently bought an ocean-front tract of land will shortly begin the erection ofa fifty-thousand-dollar country seat” at Long Branch, NJ.
1901: NotedTemperance Leader Carrie Nation who wrote that she “always treated the Jewswith respect,” acknowledged that “Our Savior was a Jew” and said admiringlythat “ wherever a Jew goes no matter how long he stays he remains a Jew” made her debut today as a lecturer today atConey Island.
1902(30thof Av, 5662): Rosh Chodesh Elul observed as the state of Vermont held “itslection for the House of Representatives.
1903:Today, “The Times's "Russian Correspondents" state that a secretcircular has been issued by Minister of the Interior de Plehve to the Governorsof the provinces, Prefects, and other authorities against Zionism” and that notonly “explains the hostility of Russia to the promotion of the Jewish nationalidea” orders steps to be taken “to prevent its consummation” including notallowing “public meetings of Jews,” forbidding “conferences of delegates whoare members of Zionist organizations’ and preventing “the collection of moneyfor the Jewish nation fund.”
1904: Basedon reports from St. Petersburg, it can be stated today “that on high authorityRussia will decline to enter in the negotiations proposed by the United Stateson August 21 in regard to the unrestricted recognition of American passports”which means that in effect that Russia will continue to bar American Jews whohad come from Russia to do business in that empire.
1905(2ndof Elul, 5665): Parashat Shoftim
1905: A disastrous firein Adrianople, Turkey destroyed 1500 Jewish homes and 13 synagogues which that 10,000Jews were rendered homeless along with the 40,000 who already were.
1906(12th ofElul, 5666): Rabbi Elias Epstein passed away.
1906: Birthdate of Atco, NJ native andbusinessman Frederick Gordon Borowsky, a member of the board of AlbertEinstein College of Medicine who is buried in the Montefiore Cemetery inJenkintown, PA.
1907: Sir MatthewNathan, the son of Jewish Paddington businessman Jonah Nathan became the 7thGovernor of Natal.
1908: The Conferencefor the Yiddish Language organized by Nathan Birnbaum continued to meet inCzernowitz.
1909: InPhiladelphia, newspaper publisher J.David Stern and his wife gave birth to Harvard graduate David Stern III “thepublisher of the New Orleans Item and author of the novel Francis theTalking the Mule which gave rise to a series of films about the four leggedanimal.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/David_Stern_III
1909: There are mixedreactions to reports that Dr. Cook had reached the North Pole, a geographicpoint that has been the subject of speculation among Jews in the past as can beseen the 1881 story that Captain Joseph Wiggins had discovered an island nearthe Pole “graced with vegation and fruit trees” where the inhabitants spokeHebrew and were thought to be the descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes.
1910: “Still ExpellingJews from Kieff” published today described the daily expulsion of twelve Jewsfrom the city that has been occurring since July 30 with over seven hundredforced to return to the Pale in the last months while another 336 have been expelledfrom the suburbs of Solomenka and Damieffka.
1911: Alderman HenryE. Davis was re-elected May of Gravesendin Great Britain.
1912: Birthdate ofDavid Daiches, the Scottish literary critic and writer whose memoir wasentitled “Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood.”
1913(30th ofAv, 5673): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1913: The 11thWorld Zionist Congress met today in Vienna where it approved a resolution “toestablish a Hebrew University in Palestine.”
1913: Birthdate ofIsrael Gelfand, the prize-winning Soviet born mathematician who immigrated tothe United States in 1989 and who married his second wife Tatiana after havingdivorced his first wife mathematician Zorya Shapiro.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6440484/Israel-Gelfand.html
https://www.israelmgelfand.com/index.html
1914: “A Moscowdispatch to the Central News” today said “it is announced that on account ofthe war Jewish doctors and students will be admitted to the courses of theRussian Red Cross Society” which is a departure from the pre-war law forbiddingtheir admission.
1914: “Palestine JewsFace Crisis” published today reported that “cablegrams received from HenryMorgenthau the American Ambassador at Constantinople and from other reliablesources” indicate “that the Palestinian Jews were confronting a serious crisis”because of the discontinuance of contributions from the warring nations inEurope and “that the destruction of a number of flourishing colonies wasthreatened” without immediate financial assistance from the United States.
1915(23rd ofElul, 5676): Sixty-four-year-old Nathan S. Gutman, the German born son of Joeland Bertha Gutman, and the husband of Emma Eleanor Gutman passed away todayafter which he was buried in Chicago.
1915: In San Francisco,“Morris and Rachel (Margolis) Podvidz gave birth to Lily Judith Pokvidz thegraduate of Hunter College and Columbia University who married Nathan Edelmanand as Lily Edeleman gained fame as an educator and the author of children’sbooks including The Sukkah and the Book Wind.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/27/obituaries/lily-p-edelman-writer-and-b-nai-b-rith-official.html
1915: NYU trainedattorney Frank Aranow, the son of Max and Pauline (Slepien) Aranow, “who taughtat Emanuel Brotherhood on the East Side” and a partner in a law firm headed bySamuel S. Koenig, the former Secretary of State of New York, married Blanche Bodenheimertoday.
1915: “Brooklyn JewsGreet Gov. Alexander” published today described plans for the upcoming visit ofIdaho Governor Moses Alexander, the only Jewish person to serve as a statechief executive.
1915: Two weeks afterthe lynching of Leo Frank, Tom Watson equated the hanging with an act of God ashe wrote in The Jeffersonian, “the voice of the people is the voice ofGod.”
1915: The circulationof Tom Watson’s The Jeffersonian reached 87,000 today, triple the number ofissues sold before Watson began writing articles condemning Leo Frank as themurder of Mary Phagan.
1916(4th ofElul, 5676): Glasgow-born Lt Edwin Schonfield, 2/19 London Regiment was killedtoday on the Western Front.
1916: “The JointDistribution Committee of the Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferersannounced” today “that it had been notified from Washington that the cruiserDes Moines now at Barcelona had been ordered to Alexandria by the Secretary ofthe Navy to carry” medical supplies for the hospitals in Palestine which hadbeen embargoed by the Allies to the port of Jaffa.
1916: It was reportedtoday that Jacob de Hass, the Secretary of the Provisional Committee forGeneral Zionists had recently written a letter in which he took exception to areport by three teachers from American colleges in Turkey who said “that ontheir visit to Palestine they learned that all the Jews had been deported fromJerusalem with the exception of a few who had accepted the Moslem faith.”
1917: It was reportedtoday that it is imperative that the drive to raise at least a million dollarsin the upcoming drive for the Jewish War Relief Fund to be successful forJulius Ronsewald of Chicago to make good on his offer “to give an amount equal to10 per cent of all funds raised in America.”
1917: “A committee of100 women to canvas the east side of New York for money to be used in reliefwork among the families of Jewish soldiers was organized” today “in the officeof Dr. Louis Glucksman…where the committee will have its headquarters.
1917: The AmericanJewish Congress meeting did not take place today as planned because it waspostponed until November based on a recommendation made by the AdministrativeCommittee.
1918: “Australians ofthe Second Division” under the command of Sir John Monash completed theircapture of the rest of Peronne during the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin.
1918: Private DanielStern who had been drafted in February, 1918 and landed in France where heserved as a bugler was totally blinded for six week after he was gassed duringfighting today in the Argonne.
1919: “Seek Fund to AidJewish Orphanage” published today described plans to a hold dinner next week atthe Hotel Astor to mark the formal start of a campaign to raise $500,000 forthe care of Jewish orphans, five hundred of whom are now being cared for by“non-Jewish institutions.”
1920: According to adispatch received in Vienna today from Pressburg, Czechoslovakia, that during aconference of Agudth Israel which has organized “a Central Council offorty-five members” these “Europeanorthodox Jews have resolved to call a world conference” which may be held inits new headquarters in London.
1921: “Roswolsky'sMistress” a silent German filed directed by Felix Basch based on a novel byGeorge Froeschel who wrote the script along with Henrik Galeen and HansJanowitz.
1922: In Brooklyn,Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants Isadore and Anna Ashkin gave birth to the Columbiaand Cornell trained Nobel Prize in Physics Arthur Ashkin.
http://www.laserfest.org/lasers/pioneers/ashkin.cfm
1923: Birthdate ofMazkeret Batya native and Palmach officer Moshe Kelman whose military recordincluding commanding the third battalion during Operation Yiftach and OperationDanny and who “worked as an investment consultant and in thedesign and construction of factories and industrial zones” in Israel afterearning a B.A. from Columbia University.
1923: UniversalPictures released the Irving Thalberg production of “The Hunchback of NotreDame.”
1924: In Wolomin,Poland, Izaak Krasucki and his wife gave birth to French trade unionist HenriKrasucki.
1925: In the Bronx,homemaker Molly Kurtzman and Nathan Turkel, the owner of the New York Wet WashLaundry gave birth to Stanley Howard Turkel the hotelier, hospitalityconsultant and historian whose works included Great American Hotel Works. (Asreported by Sam Roberts)
1925: In statement madetoday that bodes ill for the Jews of the United States, “Charles Evans Hughes,former Secretary of State, opened the forty-ninth meeting of the American BarAssociation here today by sounding a warning to the United States that theliberty of the nation is being endangered by the character of its numerous lawsand an "Intolerant spirit" which he called the "most ominoussign of our time.
1926: Birthdate ofdepartment store mogul, political activist and philanthropist BetsyBloomingdale.
1926: The opinion thatthere is unity in American Jewry and the only real division is on the questionof Jewish nationalism and Zionism is voiced by today’s “AmericanIsrael" Referring to the variousrabbinical seminaries that have been established in American Jewry, the papercontinues thus: "These widely varying institutions are typical of thedivisions in American Jewry. We have the strictly orthodox, the moderatelyorthodox, the middle of the road, the moderately reform, the ultra-reform andthe Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashana and Kaddish Jew, each holding firmly to his ownviews. "In a number of instances these differences of opinion haveresulted in the useless duplication of philanthropic institutions, especiallyhospitals, homes for indigent aged and infirm and orphans homes. "Here themain dividing factor is the matter of 'Kashruth,' not only according to thecommands of Mosaic Law, but also the requirements added after the Scripturalera by the Rabbis and other Talmudic authorities. "Yet all these divisionsin American Jewry, irremediable as they apparently appear are, after all, notso wide, not so important as they seem. "Whenever persecution becomesviolent, as it is at present in Europe, and misfortune in its direct formscomes upon our brethren anywhere, the truth of the old maxim. 'All Israel arebrethren' is sure to be again verified and help is given unstintedly by allJews, regardless of the particular kind of Judaism they may profess. This hasbeen splendidly exemplified during the last few years in which brief-periodAmerican Jewry, in addition to private benefactions, has contributed not less,probably more than one hundred million dollars for the alleviation of themisery brought upon suffering coreligionists through the fanaticism and barbarismof their Christian countrymen. "After all, there is more or less unity inAmerican Jewry. If there is any real division today it is on the question ofZionism and that, except as it refers to Nationalism, is of no vitalimportance."
1927: It was reportedtoday that “the Weizmann Administration, the Palestine Government and Britishgovernment as the mandatory power were severely criticized” in speeches givenat the 15th Zionist Congress meeting in Basle.
1928: Birthdate of MelStuart director and producer whose career ranged from the ultra-light (WillyWonka & the Chocolate Factory) to the very serious (The Triangle FactoryFire Scandal) http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19210701
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/movies/mel-stuart-willy-wonka-director-dies-at-83.html
1928: Birthdate of SirPatrick Hamilton Moberly who “worked at the British embassy in Israel asCounsellor (Commercial) from 1970 to 1974” and “served as British Ambassador toIsrael” from 1981 to 1984.
1929: Funeral servicesare scheduled to take place today Columbia University trained civil engineer andphilanthropist Alfred M. Heinsheimer, the New York born son of David andNatalie Heinsheimer and brother the late Louis C. Heinsheimer, a partner inKuhn, Loeb and Company who made his brother Alfred the beneficiary of his fivemillion dollars which was used to support many charitable institutions includingthe Federation of Jewish Charities, the Hospital for Joint Diseases and “the NewYork Foundation, a non-sectarian organization that promoted charitable,educations and philanthropic enterprises.’
1928: “Carboard Lover,”a silent comedy featuring Pepi Lederer, the daughter of George Lederer was releasedtoday in the United States.
1929: “Triumph ofLove,” produced by Joe Pasternak was released today in Germany.
1929(27th of Av, 5689):Forty-four-year-old avant-garde German film make Paul Leni passed away today inCalifornia where he had been working since 1927 when “he accepted CarlLaemmle's invitation to become a director at Universal Studios and moved toHollywood.”
http://www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk/leni.htm
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fns02n8.html
1930: As of today,$342,000 has been raised towards meeting the goal of raising $500,000 for thepurchase of land in Palestine by the Jewish National Fund.
1930: “The SecondLittle Show,” “a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music mostly byArthur Schwartz” opened today on Broadway at the Royale Theatre.
1931: New York stateSupreme Court justice Alfred Frankenthaler will hear a motion this morningseeking “to restrain the national officers” of the Amalgamated Clothing Workersof America “from interfering with the activities of the local Cutters Union 4.
1931(20th ofElul, 5691): Sixty-nine-year-old Abraham Tobias, the Columbia, SC born son ofJospeh and Rosa Hays Mordecai Tobias passed away today in Charleston, SC afterwhich he was buried in the Coming Street Cemetery.
1932(1st ofElul, 5692) Rosh Chodesh Elul
1932: The annualencampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, where topics ofconversation will include the immediate payment of the bonus, is scheduled tobeing today in Atlantic City, NJ.
1932: Birthdate ofArnold Shepard Greenberg, the Brooklyn native who founded beverage giant“Snapple” with his brother-in-law.
1932: In Hamburg,Germany, George Mengers and Ruth Levy gave birth to “Sue Mengers, a powerfulagent who represented stars like Barbra Streisand and Steve McQueen and helpedshape Hollywood’s vibrant revival in the 1970s” (As reported by Michael Cieply)
1933: Marcus Eli Ravage’sarticles "A real case against the Jews" and "Commissary to theGentiles", published in the January and February 1928 issues of CenturyMagazine were apparently translated as "a devastating admission"first in the Czernowitz Allgemeine Zeitung today” after which “it wasre-translated as A voice in the wilderness; Jewish rabbi on Hitler'santi-Semitism by Right Cause in Chicago.”
1934: Eighty-six-year-oldGermany military leader and President of Germany Paul von Hindenberg, who wasopposed to th Nazis and Hitler, but who named Hitler to serve as Chancellorpassed away leading the way for Hitler officially become Further.
1934: Dr. Joseph H.Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom officiated at consecration of theWembly United Synagogue
1935: Hundreds ofmourners attended the funeral for Herman Bernstein in New York City. During theeulogy, Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy said that “Herman Berstein was a fine exemplarof the Jewish American who chooses the United States for his home for what hecan give, not for what he can get…He was an American Jew, faithful to Americaan faithful to Judaism. A native of Russia, Bernstein was educated in theUnited States where he wrote for several publications including the New YorkEvening Post, The Nation and the New York Times. In 1921, he wrote History of a Lie, whichexposed the Protocols of Zion as being “a notorious forgery. His diplomaticcareer included a stint as Ambassador to Albania. Burial was in the MontefioreCemetery.
1935: The funeral forRabbi Avraham Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook is scheduled to take placetoday at l p.m. All cafes, theatres andplaces of amusem*nt throughout Palestine will remain closed until after the funeralis over.
1936: In Budapest Maria and George Gróf gave birth to András István Grófwho as American businessman Andrew Stephen “Andy” Grove “was one of thefounders and the CEO of Intel.”
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/21/11280004/andy-grove-intel-ceo-dies
1936: Premiere of “TheGeneral Died At Dawn” directed by Lewis Milestone (Leib Milstein) with a scriptco-authored by Clifford Odets.
1936: “The Seven ArtsFeature Syndicate, which serves fifty-nine English-Jewish weeklies made publictoday Jewish New Year’s greetings from President Roosevelt and GovernorLehman.”
1937(26th ofElul, 5697): NYPD Lieutenant (Retired) Otto Raphael, the son of Anna Raphaeland Raphael Raphael, a butcher from Russia who was a friend of New York CityPolice Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt the future President who was often hissparring partner passed away today after having retired in 1921.
http://www.j-grit.com/public-servants-otto-raphael.php
http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/1987_39_01_00_schoenburg.pdf
1937: The Mandatoryadministration and police took summary action in connection with the recentwave of Jewish-Arab violence. In Hadera 15 Jews, mostly Revisionists, werearrested and summarily sentenced, under the prevention of crime ordinance, toone year's imprisonment. In Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Hadera many Jews were heldfor interrogation. The Mandatory administration was usually mucheffective at arresting Jews than Arabs.
1937:An Arab constable was shot andkilled by Arab terrorists at the high commissioner's summer residence at Atlit.
1937: Birthdate of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky. Born SelmaSchwarzwald in Lvov (Lwow, L'viv), Poland, she would gain fame for her stuffedbear named “Refugee” a replica of which would be taken into outer space bySpace Shuttle Discovery Commander Mark Polansky in December of 2006.
1938: “On the border ofJaffa and Tel Aviv,” an Arab threw “a bomb…into a vegetable market woundingnine Jews, including one woman.
1938: The 43rdNational Encampment of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States began todayin Detroit, Michigan.
1938: “A synagogue inthe Givat Moshe quarter,” on the border of Jaffa and Tel Aviv “was destroyed byfire early this morning after heavy Arab sniping” kept the fire brigade fromapproaching this building
1939:TheGermans established, a camp for "civilian prisoners of war" atStutthof, Poland
1939:As1,400 Jews escaping from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia land ona Tel Aviv beach, British soldiers shot and killed two refugees.
1939: In Mirecourt,Vosges, France. Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet gave birth to Frenchpolitical leader Jack Mathieu Émile Lang.
1939(18th ofElul, 5699): Parashat Ki Tavo
1939(18th ofElul, 5699): Sixty-eight-year-old Kovno native Abraham Alpert, the Bostonjournalist and organizer of the “Boston branch of HIAS” passed away today inRoxbury, MA.
1939: “Thirty-six hoursafter the German invasion of Poland… there was widespread indignation in theHouse of Commons when” Prime Minister Neville “Chamberlain spoke of thepossibility of German troop withdrawal to be followed by a territorialsettlement with which Britain would be willing to be ‘associated.’” (Editor’snote – as can be seen by this information provided by Sir Martin Gilbert, thewillingness to make deals with Hitler was a rot that infected Europe and theUnited States and helps to explain, but not excuse, the inability andunwillingness to do anything about that unique genocide known as theHolocaust.”
1940:German occupation authorities in Luxembourg introduced theNuremberg Laws. All Jewish businesses were seized and handed to"Aryans."
1940:Bishop Theophil Wurm, head of the provincial Lutheran Churchat Württemberg, Germany, sends a second letter to German Interior MinisterWilhelm Frick expressing his objections to "euthanasia" killings.
1941:The Germans open an exposition in Paris called "The Jewand France." Visitors see sculptures and paintings of hideous mythicalJews, Jews allegedly cursed to wander the world forever because of theirsupposed attack on Jesus Christ, and Jews allegedly out to control the world.Other exhibits portray the Jew as a repulsive monster destroying France. In thefirst few days, more than 100,000 Parisians visit the exhibit
1941:Romanians and Germans force nearly 150,000 Jews into deathmarches to internment camps in Bessarabia, Ukraine. Many died of beatings,random shootings, fatigue, hunger, thirst, exposure, and disease.
1941:Chemists and mechanics at the RSHA (Reich Security MainOffice) Criminal Technical Institute develop an execution van with engineexhaust directed to the sealed rear-cargo area.
1941:Jewsin Slovakia, Bohemia, and Moravia are ordered to wear Yellow Stars, effectiveSeptember 19, and to suspend all business activity.
1941Ukrainiannationalist Ulas Samchuk, editor of the newspaper Volhyn, writes thatJews and Poles "must disappear completely from our cities."
1942: Over the next three days, 6,000 more Jews from Wlodzimierz wouldjoin the 7,000 Jews gathered the previous day for transport to the death camps.Babies were dropped to their death from hospital windows. One enterprisingGerman began catching them with his bayonet.
1942: The Nazisliquidated the Mir ghetto
1942:Ten thousandJews in Dzialoszyce, Polandweregathered.Two thousand werekilled in a bloody purge duringthe day.Eight thousand weredeported to Belzec.
1942InOslo, Norway, Julius Samuel, the chief rabbi of Norway, refuses to go intohiding or to flee the country. He is arrested and interned in a camp at Berg,south of Oslo.
1942: At Lachva (aka Lachwa) in Belorussia, which at that time was partof the Soviet UnionGerman troops, together with Belorussian police, surrounded the ghetto whichstill contained 2,000 people. Dov Lopatin head of the Judenrat refusedthe German request to line up for deportation. Although many of the town’selders were against taking any initiative, Lopatin and the youth leadersdecided to resist even without weapons. As the Germans entered, most of thetown attacked them even though they were only “armed” with axes, sticks, andMolotov co*cktails. Between 600 and 700 Jews were killed fighting, and a further600 succeeded in reaching the forests after killing or wounding about 100Nazis. The rest were shot by the Germans. Many of those who reached the forestswere killed by local police units. Approximately 90 people survived. Theresistance ended on the following day.
1942: Birthdate ofattorney Robert Shapiro, part of O.J. Simpson’s Dream Team who cofoundedLegalZoom.
1943: “Proposals forthe immediate rescue of as many Jews as possible from the Nazi-controlledcountries of Europe, for the post-war rehabilitation of Jewish life in thoselands and for an international bill of rights to safeguard their politicalstatus in the future were approved” today “by the American Jewish Conference asit brought to a close its five day meeting at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.”
1943:One thousand Jews are deported from Paris to Auschwitz
1943: Ten thousand Jews from Tarnów, Poland, are deported to Auschwitzand the Plaszów slave-labor camp.
1943(2nd of Elul, 5703): Sixty-nine-year-old Oskar MichaelBlumenthal, the Egeln, Germany born son of Selig and Juliane Blumenthal andhusband of Dora Blumenthal died today in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
1943(2nd of Elul, 5703): Fifty-one-year-old Joseph Diamond, aWorld War I veteran, former vaudevillian and clothing manufacture passed awaytoday Rochester, NY. He was a Republican and a member of Temple B’rith Kodesh
1943: During the next 48 hours,3,500 Jews are deported fromPrzemysl, Poland, to Auschwitz.
1943: At Treblinka the Jews who were left behind to clean out therecently closed camp revolted against their guards. Wearing a guard's uniform,Seweryn Klajnman led his fellow 12 inmates out of the camp to their freedom.The remaining Jews would be sent to Sobribor after the final dismantling ofTreblinka. Treblinka was plowed over and turned into a farm.
1944(14th of Elul, 5704): Parashat Keitzei
1944(14th of Elul, 5704): Forty-eight-year-old BellaRosenfield Chagall, the first wife of Marc Chagall whom she met when he was apenniless painter in 1909, married in 1915 and posed for several of hispictures including “Bella with White Collar passed away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Rosenfeld#/media/File:Chagall_Bella.jpg
1944: Florence Tananbaum married Jacques Levine, a member of the U.S.Army at the Hotel Pierre.
1944(14th of Elul, 5704): Forty-four-year-oldNew York City native Pincus “Pinky” Match who played for CCNY from 1923 to 1925when it was a national powerhouse passed away today.
1944: Walter Suskind, who had been released fromWesterbork transit camp, finds out that his family is about to be shipped toTheresienstadt and joins them for what will be a trip that leads to their deathat Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1944:Approximately 2000 Jews deported from Plaszów, Poland, aregassed to death at Auschwitz.
1944: Diarist AnneFrank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork toAuschwitz. They would arrive at their destination three days later.
1945: World War II officially ended as Japan signed the terms ofsurrender on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri.
1945: Among those attending the surrender of Japan was Bernard Schwartzwho was serving aboard the submarine tender U.S.S. Proteus. Year’s later actorTony Curtis would say, “That was one of the greatest moments of my life.
1946(6th of Elul, 5706): Sixty-two-year-old William Harris,Jr., the second generation of prolific Broadway producers passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/09/03/91098246.html?pageNumber=16
1946: Ayn Rand begins writing AtlasShrugged.
1947: After having been part of the American delegation that attended theopening of the UN in 1945 at San Francisco, Congressman Sol Bloom at attendedthe Rio Conference where today the Rio Pact, a groundbreaking mutual defensepact for nations in the Western Hemisphere was signed.
1948: Today, while at Harvard Marvin Traub, the New York City born son ofBea Bruckman and Sam D. Traub and the future CEO and President of Bloomingdale’smarried Lee Laufer with whom he had three children – Andrew, James andMargaret.
1948: “A meeting to organize a Conservative congregation among Jewishresidents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village” is scheduled to “be heldtonight at Stuyvesant High School” where “Dr. Max Artz, director of fieldservice and activities of the Jewish Theological Seminary will speak on ‘Aimsof Conservative Judaism’.”
1949: “Miss Lasker Rites Tomorrow” described plans for the funeral ofACLU board member Florina Lasker to be held at the Universal Chapel onLexington Avenue on September 3, not on September 2 as previously reported.
1950: In Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Yashuva Kolontarov and Tamara KhanimovaKolontarova gave birth to Tajik-American dancer Malika Kolontarova, known asthe “Queen of Tajik & Eastern Dance.”
https://jwa.org/thisweek/sep/02/1950/bukharan-jewish-dancer-malika-kalontarova-born
1950: Birthdate of Los Angeles native and University of Chicago LawSchool grad, Harvey Robert Levin, the Emmy Award winning founder of TMA and“longtime partner of Chiropractor Andy Mauer.”
1950(20th of Elul, 5710): Parashat Ki Tavo
1950(20th of Elul, 5710): Seventy-four-year-old Michael Tuch,the former president of the BrooklynCoal Company and husband of Tessie Tuch who formed the charitable Michael TuchFoundation and established the Michael Tuch Chair of Hebrew Literature andEthics at Brandeis University passed away today in Brooklyn.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/09/03/91112357.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1951: Birthdate of Eugene, OR and Carleton College and Northwesterntrained Pulitzer Prize winning author and columnist, Kai Bird the husband ofSusan Goldmark and author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy ofJ. Robert Oppenheimer.
1951: In the wake of the assassination of Jordan’s King Abdullah, Israelhas informed the Big Three (U.S., Great Britain and France) that it will notstand idly by if there is a change in the Middle East that would result inJordan’s union with Syria or Iraq.Israel will take act to protect its self if Syrian or Iraqi troops takeup positions on the east bank of the Jordan River.
1952: “Monkey Business” produced by Sol Siegel with a script by Ben Hechtand I.A.L. Diamond was released in the United States by 20th CenturyFox.
1952: Yosef Opatoshu,the 65-year-old Polish-born Yiddish writer, arrived aboard the SS Kedma, as aguest of the Histadrut Executive. Optashua was famous in his own right,but he is also known as the father of American character actor David Opatoshu.One of David Opatoshu's most famous roles was that of the Zionist leader Arikin the movie “Exodus.” The character was loosely based on Menachem Begin.
1953: Attackersinfiltrated from Jordan, and reached the neighborhood of Katamon, in the heartof Jerusalem. They threw hand grenades in all directions. No one was hurt.
1953: In New York, VeraStudenski and Henry Zorn gave birth to multi-talented musician John Zorn who isthe leader of “the musical group Masada” and whose works included“Kristallnacht,” whichwas based around the events before, during, and following the infamous Night ofBroken Glass and represented his first musical exploration of his Jewishcultural heritage.”
1954(4th of Elul,5714): Franz Leopold Neumann a German-Jewish political activist and laborlawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best-known for histheoretical analyses of National Socialism passed away today at the age of 54. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdomand spent the last phase of his career in the United States. Together withErnst Fraenkel and Arnold Bergstraesser, Neumann is considered to be among thefounders of modern political science in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1956(26th ofElul, 5716): Sixty-two-year-old tailor MorrisGoldberg, the Russian born son of Jekiel Goldberg, the husband of Ester Goluband the father of Leonard, Hymie and Cyril Goldberg passed away today in StokeNewington, London.
1956(26th of Elul, 5716):University of Michigan trained attorney Hugo Sonnenschein, “a founder of theNorth Shore Temple Israel and a member of the board of Allstate Insurance whowas the husband of Irene Plaut Sonnenschein with whom he had two sons and adaughter passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/03/86693225.html?pageNumber=13
1957: Arthur Hillermade his directorial debut today with the release of “The Careless Years” inthe United States by United Artists – a movie that included a musical score byMichael Kamen.
1962(3rd ofElul, 5723): Sixty-four-year-old Princeton graduate and World War I artilleryofficer David Hays Sulzberger, the Manhattanborn son of Cyrus Leopold Sulzberger and Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger and thehusband of Louise Blumenthal Sulzberger whom he married in 1921 and with whom hehad three daughters who was “a member of Hamershlag, Borg and Company, brokers”suffered a fatal heart attack today.
https://www.jta.org/archive/david-hays-sulzberger-dead-at-64-prominent-in-jewish-communal-affairs
1963: “The Cool World,”produced by Frederick Wiseman was released today in the United States.
1964(25th ofElul, 5724): Eighty-six year old Rudolph Lessing, the son of Simon and ClaraLessing and husband of Milly Lessing the native of Bamberg who moved to Englandwhere he was the chief chemist at the Mond Nickel Company, a member of the CoalSmoke Abatement Society and Prsident of the National Society for Clean Air.
1965: Rabbi Amram Blau,the legendary leader of the extremist, ultra-Orthodox group Neturei Kartamarried Ruth Ben-David in a Bnei Brak yeshiva.
1965(5th ofElul, 5726): Fifty-five-year-old Columbia University educated director andscript writer Felix Ellison Feist, theson of a MGM sales executive, Felix F. Feist and nephew of a publishing housemagnate, Leo Feist who began his directorial career with 1933 RKO science fictionthriller “Deluge” lost his battle with cancer and passed away today at the Encino(CA) Hospital.
https://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/felix-feist
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270765/
1967: Uwe Kohler atAichach women's prison today where he found out that his mother, Ilse Koch whowas serving a life sentence for her murderous crimes during WW II had committedsuicide the day before.
1969: The last episodeof the original “Star Trek” television series is broadcast. Most people did not know that the actorsplaying the Captain and his loyal first officer were played by Jewish actors.
1968: In Brooklyn,Myron and Regina Rosen gave birth to James Samuel Rosen, the graduate of JohnsHopkins and Northwestern universities, FOX news personality and author whomarried Sara Ann Durkin in 2004.
1969: Birthdate ofMiami native Amy Schwartz, who gained fame as Amy Schwartz Gross theprofessional tennis play and amateur golfer.
1969(19th ofElul, 5729): At Qiryat Shemona two people, one of whom was a child, were killedtoday and five more were injured by artillery shells fired from Lebanon.
1971(12thof Elul, 5731): Eighty-two-year-old Joseph Jablonower, the Austrian born NewYork City teacher whose “pupils included Senator Jacob Javits and author HarryGolden” and who raised a son and a daughter with “his wife the former HannahSonnenfeld” passed away today.
https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/LP000403.pdf
1973: Eighty-seven-year-oldFritz Konrad Ferdinand Grobba Nazi Germany’s Ambassador to Iraq in 1941, whoplayed a key role in the coup that led to the Farhud, the pogrom in Baghdad inwhich “nearly 300 Jews were killed, over 2,000 Jews were injured and 600 Jewishbusinesses were looted.”
1974: “Monument ofJewish sculptor Ernst Neizvestny was installed on the grave of NikitaKhrushchev.”
1974(15th ofElul, 5734): Sixty-nine-year-old Ruven Avinoam, who as Chicago native RubenGrossman, moved to Palestine in 1929 where he taught English literature atHezliyyah high school, became a published author, serve as “supervisor ofEnglish studies at the Israel Ministry of Defense” and raised a son Noam, anauthor who died in the War of Independence passed away today.
1975: Thomas PaulMalone completed his service as Canada’s ambassador to Israel.
1975: “Jewish leadersagree in Paris to hold a Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels inFebruary 1976.”
1975: Two days after hehad passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today for 78 yearMax Artz, the Vice Chancellor of JTS and husband of Esther Artz with whom heraised Raphael and David Artz, both of whom became rabbis.
1975: Yasir Arafat wasawarded a gold medal by the World Peace Council an organization that traces itsorigins back to Cominform (a Soviet organization known as the CommunistInformation Bureau)
1976(7th of Elul,5736): Ninety-seven-year-old Colonel Ernest Albert Rose who married Julie EdaLewis at the Synagogue Princes Road Synagogue in Liverpool passed away today.
1977(19th ofElul, 5737): Sixty-two-year-old Maurice (Maury) Kozinsky one of the threebrothers who founded King Brothers Productions which had the courage to employblacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1981/09/02/256000.html?pageNumber=17
1978: Italian premiereof “Dawn of the Dead” co-starring Gaylen Ross as “Francine Parker.”
1981: Two days after hehad passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be held today at TempleShalom in Greenwhich for 82-year-old financier and art patron Joseph Hirshhornwhose name is found on the Washington museum for which he raised so much money.
1987: The Holocaustthemed film, ''Flames in the Ashes,''opens at Film Forum 1 asking the question, ‘Who is more heroic, one whogoes in the woods to fight with a gun or one who decides to go that last roadand die with his family?
1991: “McBain,” a filmabout violence and revenge “written and directed by James Glickenhaus.”
1991: JerryLewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raised $45 Million.
1994: “The HudsuckerProxy” a comedy directed by Joel Coen, produced by Ethan Coen with a scriptwritten by the brothers and Sam Raimi and starring Paul Newman premiered in theUnited Kingdom.
1997: Publication of TheCorner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood co-authored byBaltimore Sun reporter David Simon, the Washington, DC born son of DorothyLegeti and Bernard Simon, the public relations director for B’nai B’rith.
1997(30th of Av, 5757):Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning passed away. There isno way to justice to the man or his writings in this brief space. If you have not read Man’s Search forMeaning, you should. If you haveread it, you should read it again. “Don’t aim at success - the more you aimat it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success,like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as theunintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater thanoneself or as the byproduct of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let ithappen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your consciencecommands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge.Then you will live to see that in the long run - in the long run, I say! -success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think ofit." - Man's Search forMeaning
http://www.viktorfrankl.org/e/
1998: “The musical revival group42nd Street Moon in San Francisco, presented a staged concert of Redhead,” “amusical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, whowith her brother, Herbert, along with Sidney Sheldon wrote the book/libretto.”
2002(2nd of Elul,5760): Parashat Shoftim
2000(2nd ofElul, 5760): Ninety-eight-year-old author and screenwriter Curt Siodmak passedaway today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/nyregion/curt-siodmak-dies-at-98-created-modern-wolf-man.html
http://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.com/2010/08/im-poor-writer-curt-siodmak-on-siodmaks.html
2000: “The Man WhoCried,” a film about “young Russian Jewish girl who grows up in England”featuring an appearance by Ukrainian born Israeli actor Mark Ivanir premieredtoday at the Venice Film Festival.
2001: The New York Times included reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including The Marble Quilt: Stories by DavidLeavitt.
2002: “Far FromHeaven,” a film that looks behind the façade of mid-20th centurysuburbia with music by Elmer Bernstein and filmed by cinematographer EdwardLachman premiered today at the Venice International Film Festival.
2003: The appointmentof 49-year-old Jill Abramson as the managing editor for news gathering at the New York Times takes effect today.
2003: The BoeingCompany named David Ivry who had served as commander of the IAF and Israel’sAmbassador to the United States, as President of Boeing Israel.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ivry.html
2004(16th of Elul,5764): In Honolulu Marilyn M. Lichton, co-founder of theHadassah-Hawaii chapter and secretary of Temple Emanu-El passed away at the ageof 74.
2005: Funeral services in Cedar Rapids for Leo Handler, father of MarkHandler and Barbara Feller. Mr. Handlerpassed away on September 1 at the age of 85.
2005: Writer and director Noah Baumbach married actress Jennifer JasonLeigh today.
2005: Funeral services were held in Brookfield, Wisconsin for Ruth SwiderGelbart (Ruchl bat Szaja Pesach v'Rivka Laiya), mother of Marsha Fensin, formerCantor at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids.Mrs. Gelbart was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. She made her way to Palestine while it wasstill under the control of the British before moving to the United States afterthe untimely death of her husband.
2006: A revival of “Sundayin the Park with George,” a music with lyrics and a score by Stephen Sondheimcame to an end at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.
2006:Security forces said they had arrestedtwo Palestinian militants suspected of trying to launch rockets from the WestBank into central Israel with the backing of Hezbollah.
2007:As part of European Day of Jewish Culture and Heritagethe Manchester Jewish Museum is fully playing its part on this day whenimportant Jewish buildings throughout Europe are freely open to the public.
2007: TheSunday New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Marc Chagall by JonathanWilson, Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse, The World Without Us byAlan Weisman and Away by Amy Bloom.
2007: TheSunday Washington Post book section featured a review of Interventionsby Jewish gadfly Noam Chomsky.
2007: In London, the ZF conference, entitled “Israel at 60” comes to anend.
2007: In Glenn Kessler’s recently released The Confidante: CondoleezzaRice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy Rice is described as thinking thatChairman Mahmoud Abbas was a weak disappointment and that President Bush’ssignature Mideast peace program was unworkable.
2007: On the eve of the Labour Day classic Canadian Football League gamewhich he was to host, Canadian sport journalist Elliotte Friedman shaved hishead bald in secret without telling many family members or friends. This was inrecognition of a young boy he met at a shopping mall whose parents informed himtheir child was a big fan of his and watched all his broadcasts. Unfortunately,the boy was afraid to greet Elliotte due to the fact that he was bald as a sideeffect of his chemotherapy. As a result, Elliotte shaved his head in secret inorder to show the young man that there is nothing wrong with being bald.
2007: Craig Breslow was sent back to the minors today after having beencalled up to the Big Leagues yesterday by the Boston Red Sox.
2008: A new 120mm mortal shell with a built-in guidance system thatallows operators to direct the shell to its target with a laser-honing devicewas unveiled at a press conference held at Israel Military Industries (
2008: In “Entrepreneurs Find Ways to Make Technology Work with JewishSabbath,” published today Dan Levin describes how “the rabbis, scientists andengineers of the Zomet Institute are trying to solve the problems that arisewhen technology and the Torah collide.
2009: Just before thestart of the High Holidays, The Jerusalem Theater presents a festive concert ofclassic pieces from the cantorial repertoire, including "Mamale” andRosenblatt's "All of Israel are Brothers."
2009: Archaeologists digging inJerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example ofmassive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authoritysaid today.
2009: At Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park,Madonna appears at the second and last of two concerts that are the final stopon her “Sticky and Sweet” tour. She first appeared at Hayarkon Park 16 yearsago as part of her Girlie Tour, and also visited Israel in 2006 during theJewish High Holidays along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah.
2010: PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met todayin Washington, DC as peace talks resume under the auspice of President Obamaand Secretary of State Clinton.
2010:Today, a Hamas spokesman said the group was responsible for another attack inwhich two settlers were shot and wounded just as Mr. Obama began his WhiteHouse meetings..
2010:Yula and The Extended Family, featuring Tel Aviv native Yula Beeri, arescheduled to perform at the Highline Ballroom in New York.
2010(23rdof Elul, 5770): Israeli sociologist Shmuel Eisenstadt, a native of Warsawpassed away in Jerusalem today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3948435,00.html
http://www.donlevine.com/uploads/1/1/3/8/11384462/_eisenstadt_obituary-dlevine.pdf
2010(23rdof Elul, 5770):Ninety-one yearold deputy police inspector Seymour Pine who led the raid on the Stonewall Innpassed away today. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/nyregion/08pine.html
2011:Madelyn Kent, an award-winning theater artist and published writer with an MFAfrom New York University, is scheduled to teach the first session of a fourweeklong Jerusalem Memoir Workshop.
2011: InWashington, DC, at the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue, Rabbi Shira Stutman isscheduled to lead an egalitarian, chavurah-style service and celebrate “Laboron the Bimah,” an initiative of Jews United for Justice. Labor on the Bimahweaves together labor issues, social justice and Judaism, in an effort to bringmeaning and reflection back into Labor Day.
2011: Germany'sForeign Ministry announced today that it will not take part in the UN-sponsoredDurban III anti-racism conference on September 22, because of the possibilitythat the event can be turned into a forum for anti-Semitic statements.
2011:Turkey said today it will seek to prosecute all Israelis responsible for thedeaths of nine Turkish activists during an IDF raid on a ship bound for theGaza Strip in May 2010.
2012:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding When We Argued All Night by Alice Mattison, “a book about thetrajectories of 20th-century Jewish life” and the recently released paperbackedition of Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in Englandby Anthony Julius
2012: “JewishHomegrown History: Immigration, Identity and Intermarriage” is scheduled tohave its final showing at the Skirball Cultural Center
2012:In the wake of Hurricane Isaac, Congregation Beth Israel is scheduled todedicate its new facility in Metairie.The original building was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
2012:All 50 families living in the Migron outpost evacuated their homes today inadvance of a court-imposed military evacuation set for September 4th.
2012:A long-lost poem by Hannah Szenes, titled “Hora to an exiled girl,” wasrevealed on Army Radio this morning, 68 years after the Jewish paratrooper author was executed by aNazi firing squad
http://www.timesofisrael.com/long-lost-hannah-szenes-poem-comes-to-light/
2013:James Franco is scheduled to be roasted on Comedy Central
2013:Secret British WWII Intelligence Files in Mandatory Palestine
http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html
2013:“Fill the Void” is scheduled to open at Kimball Theatre in Williamsburg, VA.
2013:Mihaela Martin, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Ori Kam, Madeleine Carruzzo and JulianSteckel are scheduled to perform Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K515 atThe Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
2013:In Budapest, the Jewish Summer Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2013:Today, “Pope Francis assigned a senior church official to investigate thecurrent ban on Jewish and Muslim religious slaughter in Poland, where suchpractices have been illegal since January…The Pope also reiterated a statementhe made earlier this year that “a Christian cannot be an anti-Semite” (Asreported by Sam Sokol)
2013:A 92-year-old who served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler's elite Nazi troops,goes on trial today in the western city of Hagen on charges of having shot inthe back and killed a Dutch resistance fighter at the end of World War II.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.544859
2014:Dr. Efraim Lev and Dr. Moshse Lavee are scheduled to begin a week-long visitedto the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the Universityof Connecticut.
2014:At Temple Judah, choir rehearsal begins in preparation for the High Holidays.
2014:“The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court issued an injunction today against anultra-Orthodox girls’ school that took over part of a secular Beit Shemeshpublic school, ordering it to leave the building amid protests over a “creepingconquest” into secular institutions in the deeply divided city.” (As reportedby Yifa Yaakov and Marissa Newman)
2014:Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that “the direct cost of OperationProtective Edge stands at more than $9 billion.” (As reported by ItayBlumenthal)
2014:“Two French teenage girls are arrested for plotting to blow up a synagogue inLyon. A Central Directorate of Homeland Intelligence source said the teens were“part of a network of young Islamists who were being monitored by securityservices.” (As reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014(7thof Elul, 5774): The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant released a video ofthe beheading of a man they identified as Steven J. Sotloff.
http://forward.com/articles/204991/isis-has-reportedly-beheaded-steven-sotloff/?
2015:The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to sponsor alecture by Professor Wallace J. Mlyniec of Georgetown University Law Center on“The Old East End: Civil War to the Modern Revival.”
2016(29thof Av, 5776): Seventy-five-year-old music manager Jerry Heller passed awaytoday. (As reported by Christopher Mele)
2016:“The Kind Words” a comedy about three Jewish Israeli siblings who learned thatthe man who raised them was not their biological father is scheduled to beshown in Columbus, Ohio.
2016:Erev Shabbat, “Jonathan Rideau, member of the Jewish community of Porto arrivedat The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto” a town in northern Portugalwhose Jewish community was wiped out in the 15th century but todayhas become “a safe haven for Jews despite the growth of anti-Semitism in otherparts of Europe.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-rising-european-anti-semitism-portugal-sees-jewish-renaissance/
2017(11thof Elul, 5777): Parashat Ki Taytzay
2017(11thof Elul, 5777): Ninety-year-old photographer and documentarian Murray Lernerpassed away today. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2017:At Shabbat services this morning, Jews will be mourning Shelly Berman whopassed away erev of Shabbat.
2017:Israel lost to Macedonia 1-0 tonight which probably put an end “any hope itmight have had a making to the World Cup.
2017:“Hall of Fame NFL coach and World War II veteran Marv Levy, attended a ceremonymarking the 72nd anniversary of V-J Day, today at the National World War IIMemorial in Washington, D.C
2017:Tony Levine, the special team’s coordinator is scheduled to take the field asPurdue begins its football season today.
2017:As Iowa begins its 2017 football season, Esther Hugenholtz is scheduled to leadher first Shabbat morning service at Agudas Achim.
2017:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education is scheduled to offer freeadmission to those coming to see the Bill Graham Exhibit honoring “the rockimpresario who used music for social change.
2018: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including TheCoddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions Are Setting Up a Generationfor Failure co-authored by Jonathan Haidt and the recently releasedpaperback edition of Improvement by Joan Silber
2018:The Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts is scheduled to host a screeningof “The Unorthodox” in Uzi Wexler Hall.
2018:In Des Moines, IA, The Jewish Federation is scheduled to co-host a matineescreening of the newly released “Operation Finale.”
2018(22ndof Elul, 5778): Seventy-six year old fabled restaurateur Kenny Shopsin passed awaytoday. (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
2018(22ndof Elul, 5778): Thirty-third yahrzeit of Joseph B. Levin, husband of DeborahLevin and father of Judy, Mitchell and David who in a strange twist of fate isresponsible for this blog.
2019Following yesterday’s announcement by the IDF that the alert for thecommunities on the Israel-Lebanon border, those living in these communities arescheduled “to return to their routines.”
2019:The Israel Museum is scheduled to host an afternoon of “Big Art for LittleArtists.”
2019:“The Train Theatre” is scheduled to present “the theatrical performance of‘Princess Banana.’”
2019:Two hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the United StatesTreasury. There are some who claim thatAlexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury who was educated at aJewish school in Nevis, was the son of Jewess.Jess Seligman could have been the first Jewish Secretary of theTreasury, but he turned down President Grant’s offer to appoint him to thepost. Henry J. Morgenthau, Jr. FDR’slong serving Secretary of the Treasury was the first Jew to hold the position.
https://www.yu.edu/straus/hamilton-jewish
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Blinded by the Light.”
2019:In the United States, Labor Day
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/southern-and-jewish/jewish-perspectives-on-labor-day/
2020: 75th Anniversary ofVJ – the end of WW II which actually had begun in 1931.
2020:The Illinois Holocaust Museum Center and the Women’s Leadership are scheduledto present a “Virtual Soiree” featuring media personality Candace Jordan, theSocial Columnist known for “Candid Candace.
2020:The Maltz Performing Arts Center is scheduled to a livestream performance byUno Lady.”
2020:Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to present “Yoga and Torah with Moon forthe Month of Elul.”
2020:The Virtual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host asecond virtual screening of “The Woman’s Balcony.”
2020:The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans in scheduled to host the“Katz-Phillips Leadership Development Session.”
2020:B’nai Jershurun is scheduled to host a virtual “Dive in the Mahzor” duringwhich Rabbi Alan Lettofksy explores “what’s new and different about Mahzor LevShalem.”
2021:Based on previously published reports as of today Israelis are dealing with avariety of forms of fallout from the reinvigorated pandemic as can be seen byPortugal’s ban on Israeli visitor, non-face masked individuals attacking policeofficers and the rising positivity rate in covid testing
2021:The National Museum of American Jewish History is scheduled to resent “Songs ofOur People, Songs of Our Neighbors” with Pedrito Martinez.
https://www.nmajh.org/events/songs-of-our-people-songs-of-our-neighbors-pedrito-martinez/
2021:The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to host DrLindsay Simmonds who will be discussing the meanings of specific Rosh Hashanaprayers and difficulties we may face in praying all day in TheReluctant Davener.
2020:In Palm Beach Florida Gardens, Temple Judea is scheduled to host aShabbat Triple Header including a Pre-Oneg, Shabbat services with Rabbi Yaronand Cantor Abbie followed by a Shabbat Dinner.
2020: As the world tries to solve the climateproblem by turning to electric vehicles “an Israeli company that has developeda fast electric vehicle (EV) charging system based on kinetic flywheeltechnology is pressing ahead with the first commercial deals in Europe, the US,and Israel.” (As reported by Sue Surkes)
2022: At the historic Sixth and I Synagogue onthe Shabbat “before Labor Day, Rabbi Nora and musicians Aaron Shneyer, SarahFredrick, and Jeff Geld are scheduled to lead a Shabbat service that weavestogether labor issues, social justice, and Judaism.”
2023: Based on previously publishedinformation Jews on Florida’s Gulf Coast continue with their fellow Floridiansin dealing with the impact of Hurricane Idalia.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta lecture by Dennie Davis on “The Verdict” starring Paul Newman.
2023: Beit Agnon is scheduled to host a jointreading of the essay “Yosef Haim Brenner in His Life and Death.”
2023: Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled topresent a Children’s Concert with Wayne Potash and the Music Fund Band.
2023: Israeli brace for another evening ofprotests over the Judicial Reform law and other related matters.
2023(16th of Elul): Parashat Ki Tavo
2024: All decent people mourn the death of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi,24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 27.who were discoveredyesterday in a Gaza tunnel where they apparently suffered fatal gunshots
2024: Dr. KingaDévényi, an independent scholar and former curator of the Goldziher andKaufmann collections at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, isscheduled to “present the various motifs and trends behind this uniqueinterest, along with some outstanding scholars who engaged inthesestudies” in a lecture of the National Library of Israel.
2024: Labor Day (observed Sept. 2) is as good an opportunity asany to remember Frederic Fradkin (1892-1963), the protagonist of the BostonSymphony Orchestra’s first (and, to this day, only) strike.
2024: Labor Day is scheduled to be celebratedin the United States providing Jews with a chance to remember their role in theAmerican Labor Movement including the fight to end sweatshops, the creation ofsuch unions as the ILGWU and a host of leaders including Samuel Gompers, EmmaGoldman, David Dubinsky and Sandra Feldman.
https://jwa.org/teach/livingthelegacy/biographies
https://reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/shabbat/labor-day-shabbat-us-all
https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/herberg-labor.pdf
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2006/01/readings_on_the_american_jewis_1.html
http://www.ajwnews.com/archives/14322
http://magazine.discoverjcc.com/the-jewish-people-and-the-american-labor-movement/
2024:As September 2nd begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 332 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
