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363:Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire.General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.According to various sources, Julian was a true Roman pagan who sought to rollback the inroads that Christianity had made among the ruling classes. He passed an edict of toleration. In the yearof his death, he ordered the Temple to be rebuilt on its historic location inJerusalem. The plan died with him andthe exile continued.
1187:Saladin crosses the Jordan River with an army of 20,000 in what will lead tothe final battle for control of Jerusalem.At this time, the Jews fare better under the Muslim leader than they doamong the European Christians who have slaughtered them and driven them fromtheir ancient homes in the “City of David.”
1409:The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos iscrowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII inRome and Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon. While these various claimants to Papalpower were fighting amongst themeslves, they had time to bedevil the Jews. In 1409, Pope Alexander V ordered theInquisitor of Avignon, Dauphiné, Provence and Comtat Venaissin to proceedagainst several categories of persons "including Jews who practiced magic,invokers of demons, and augurs" Benedict initiated the year-longDisputation of Tortosa in 1413, which became the most prominentChristian-Jewish disputation of the Middle Ages. Benedict was well known forhis oppressive laws against the Jews
1523: The first printed edition of the Sefer ha-Chinuch (ספרהחינוך) appeared. The printing of this comparatively obscure volume withinseven decades of the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press demonstrates howquickly “the people of the book” took to the printing of books. Sefer ha-Chinuch was not the first book to beprinted in Hebrew. That honor probablygoes to Tractate Berakhot of the Babylonian Talmud which was printed by JoshuaSolomon Soncino in 1483. .According to the Hillel Website, "Sefer HaChinuch is aunique work in many ways. It was published anonymously and scholars throughoutthe ages have not succeeded in unearthing the humble author. The book dates to13th century Spain and is a comprehensive description of the 613 commandments,arranged according to their appearance in the Pentateuch. The description ofeach commandment includes (a) the concept of the Mitzvah and its Biblicalsource, (b) the philosophical underpinnings of the commandment, and (c) a briefsummary of the laws governing its observance. An English translation of thisimportant work is available."
1541(23 Sivan 5301): Rabbi Jacob Pollack passed away. Born in Poland 1460, he wasthe first important Polish-Jewish Rabbinic scholar. Prior to his time,the great Talmudic centers had been found in Germany. He helped establishthe Talmudic method of study called "Pilpul". This complicated andoften hair-splitting method of explanation was originated in southern Germany.It is called mental acrobatics by some, yet is also responsible for thedevelopment of the sharp Talmudic mind. Pollack served as a Rabbi in Cracow,moved to Eretz-Israel for a period of time and returned to live in Lublin wherehe passed away.
1570(23of Tammuz): Rabbi Moshe Codovero passed away.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/83771/jewish/Rabbi-Moshe-Cordovero.htm
1612:Coronation of Matthias, who acceded to the wishes of the Dutch and “establishedreligious peace” in their provinces which helped to turn the Netherlands into aplace of refuge for the Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1629:Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was imprisoned. Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller wasborn in 1579. He was the author of Tossafoth Yom Tov,a majorcommentary on the Mishna. While he was serving as a Rabbi in Prague, hewas involved with the distribution of tax money. He was wrongfullyaccused by some of showing favoritism in his work. He ended up beingtaken to Vienna in chains. The Christian officials respected hisintegrity and released him. Considering that this took place during theThirty Years War, it is surprising that Heller did not come to some barbarousend. He passed away in 1654, the same year in which the American JewishCommunity began.
1665:Rabbi Simon Brandeis, the husband of Libele Perls and the son Rabbi SamuelBrandeis passed away today.
1688:English Philosopher Ralph Cudworth passed away.Born in 1617 he became professor of Hebrew at Cambridge in 1645. Amongthose with whom he carried on an extensive correspondence was Isaac Abendana,the Sephardic Jew who moved to England and taught Hebrew at Cambridge. By the time he passed away in 1710, Abendanahad become a teacher at Oxford’s Magdalen College and had provided Hebrew booksfor Bodleian Library.
1738:Fifty-nine year old Konrad Bethmann, “the master of the mint for the Princely House of Nassau-Schaumburg” who broughtcharges against two Jews “ Mencke and Abraham zum Hecht (father and son), fortheft of Schaumburg hellers in Schwalbach near Königstein and resale of stolenproperty” –a charged that was dismissed with an out of court settlement passedaway today.
1774(17thof Tammuz, 5534): Tzom Tammuz observed as the Colonist respond to theIntolerable Acts which among other things closed the port of Boston and led tothe meeting of the First Continental Congress in the fall of 1774.
1775(28thof Sivan, 5535): Aryeh Löb ben Mordecai Ha-Levi Epstein (Ba'al ha-Pardes)passed away. He was a Polish rabbi born in Grodno in 1708. At first he refusedto become a rabbi, preferring to devote himself entirely to study, but in 1739he was forced by poverty to accept the rabbinate of Brestovech, Lithuania, andin 1745 he became rabbi of Königsberg, where he remained until his death. Hecorresponded with Elijah, Gaon of Vilna, and with Jonathan Eybeschütz, withwhom he sided in the quarrel about amulets (see Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy).He is the author of Or ha-Shanim, on the 613 commandments(Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1754), Halakah Aḥaronah and Ḳunṭres ha-Ra'yot (ib.1754; Königsberg, 1759), Sefer ha-Pardes, in three parts: (1) on the Shema andthe observance of Sabbath, (2) sermons, (3) funeral orations (ib. 1759).Several other cabalistic and halakic works from his pen are mentioned in hisown works or by his biographer. A prayer which he composed on the occasion ofthe dedication of a new synagogue in Königsberg (ib. 1756) is found in theBodleian Library. Annotations by him and by his son Abraham Meïr Epstein arepublished in some of the later editions of the Babylonian Talmud. He is called"Levin Marcus" in Solowicz's Gesch. der Juden in Königsberg, Posen,1857.
1785(18thof Tammuz, 5545): Fast of the 17th Tammuz observed because the 17thfell on Shabbat.
1785(18thof Tammuz, 5545): Sixty-four-year-old Esther Levy, the daughter of Moses Levyand the wife of Jacob Hart passed away today in London.
1793:In Charleston, SC, Rachel Moses and Moses Cohen, who were married in 1791 gavebirth to Isaac Cohen, the husband of Georgia native Rebecca Benjamin Sheftallin 1816 after which they had ten children.
1798:Birthdate of Charleston, SC, native Isaac Cohen.
1816:Meyer Davidson married Jesse Cohen at the Great Synagogue.
1819:“Emma di Resburgo,” an opera composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer, was performed forthe first time in Venice.
1813(28thof Sivan, 5573): Solomon Ben Joel Dubno, the Russian born Jewish poet,grammarian, teacher and author who lived in Amsterdam from 1767 to 1772 beforesettling in Berlin where he taught Moses Mendelssohn became his friend andpatron, passed away today. Among otherhis works was a commentary for Mendelssohn’s translation of the Bible.
1821:Birthdate of Adolf Jellinek an Austrian born scholar who served as the rabbi ofThe Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna.
1822:Moses Cantor married Caroline Solomons at the Great Synagogue.
1827(1stof Tammuz, 5587): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1830:King George IV who as Prince of Wales was a patron of boxer Daniel Mendoza,died today and the Duke of Clarence who in 1797 while still the Prince of Walesvisited Barbados where “he visited the synagogue and was presented with anaddress and a sword by the Congregation” succeeded him as William IV.
1831:Birthdate of Julius Levy, who gained fame as poet and author Julius Rodenberg.
1835:Birthdate of Ernest Abraham Hart, the son of a London dentist, who became amember of the Royal College of Surgeons before pursuing his career in medicaljournalism that began with the Lancetin 1857.
1839:Thirty-five-year-old Dutch born Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs who had moved toLondon with his family in1814 married Jane Simons and “then embarked on a two-monthsea voyage to New York” where he began serving as the spiritual leader forB’nai Jeshurun.
1839:In London , Esther Levy, the elder sister of English musician Henry Russell andIsaac Levy, gave birth to Matthias Levy the grandson of Moses and Sarah Russelland Matthias Levy who was also the nephew of Rebecca Levy and Solomon MosesDrach, a “nephew of Lipman Woolf Drach one of the treasurers of the GreatSynagogue in London
1843:The Treaty of Nanking which had the effect of opening up China to Britishtraders included David Sasoon, went into effect.
1843(28thof Sivan, 5603: Eighty-year-old Oxford graduate and attorney Joshua Montefiore,the author the Commercial Dictionary, a captain in the York Light Infanry whichmade him ‘the first Jews to hold a commission in England and who gave it all upto move to the United States where he published a weekly political journal,passed away today in St. Albans, VT.
1845:In Baltimore, Simon Frank and Fanny Naumburg gave birth to Daniel Frank thePresident of the Elysium Club and Temple Adath Israel and the husband of RoseLiebman.
1845:Emanuel Sheftall, the Savannah, GA born son of Emanuel Sheftall and his wifeJane L. Sheftall gave birth to Edward E. Sheftall, the husband of Maggie M. Sheftalland the “father of Daisy Mary Jane Mackendree”
1847:In New York Leon Emanuel Goldsmith, the Dutch born son of Emanuel LevieGoldsmith and Alijda Joseph and his wife gave birth Charlotte Goldsmith gavebirth to Chicago resident and “leaf tobacco broker” Joel Leon Goldsmith, thehusband of Cecilia Goldsmith and “father of Agnes Goldsmith; George AlexanderGoldsmith; Henry Markwell Goldsmith and Max Alexander Goldsmith.”
1848:In France the “June Days Uprising” came to end; violence which eventuallydoomed the Second Republic and brought Louis Napoleon to power with all thatthat would mean for France, the French Jewish community and Europe.
1848:Captain Boris Moses, a graduate of Saint-Cyr was appointed “chief of battalion”for distinguishing himself during the suppression of the Paris riots whichended today.
1849:Joseph and Nanny Rosenheim gave birth to Max Rosenheim who should not beconfused with the 20th century British physician Max LeonardRosenheim.
1851:In Germany, Helene Levy and Hart Ornstein gave birth Cincinnati, OH businessmanWilliam Ornstein, the President of Ornstein and rice and husband of CarolineWinkler who began serving as member of the executive committee of the Union ofAmerican Hebrew Congregations in 1915 and was a member of K.K. B’nai YeshurunTemple.
1855:Ninety-year old Anton Von Schmid a Christian publisher who published books byJewish authors including the works of Maimonides and of Judah Löb Ben-Zeeb, theHebrew Bible with a German translation as well as the Hebrew periodical"Bikkure ha-'Ittim,"
1856(23rdof Sivan, 5616): Sixty-two-year-old merchant and accountant Abraham Tobias, the Charleston,SC bon son of Joseph Tobias ad husband of Eleanor Lopez Tobias with whom he had two children – Priscilla andJoseph -- who was a “supporter of states’rights” passed away today after which he was buried in the Coming StreetCemetery in Charleston
1857:The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. The VictoriaCross is the highest military award for valor granted within the Britishmilitary. It is the English version ofthe Congressional Medal of Honor. Jewishrecipients include FrankAlexander de Pass who received the award posthumously for requesting comradestrapped in No Man’s Land on the Western Front in 1914 during World War I; Captain Robert Gee who earned it for heroismon the Western Front in 1917; Corporal John Patrick Kenneally who it forheroism in Tunisia in 1943; Corporal Issy Smith, an Austrialian soldier whoearned it during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915; Private Jack White whoearned it in 1917 while saving the lives on fellow soldiers during fighting inMesopotamia.
1857: In Syracuse, NY, Israel Jacobson and MarySulzbacher gave birth to SyracuseUniversity trained surgeon Nathan Jacobson, the husband of Minnie Schwart whoserved as the Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Syracuse University Collegeof Medicine.
1861: Levy Mandelson married Sarah Cohen at theGreat Synagogue in Sydney, Australia.
1864: J.T. Robson, the Colonel commanding the 3rdBrigade, 1st Division, Twentieth Army Corps wrote to AllenFuller Adjutant General, State of Illinoisrequesting that Fuller “issue a colonel’s commission to Lieutenant Colonel EdwardS. Solomon, commanding the 82nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry”because of “his inherent ability and merit as an officer” and because of “thegallantry and efficiency he has displayed during this campaign.”(Editor’s note:For more about this German born Chicago American Jew see https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13855-solomon-edward-s
1863: “Charles August Lauff, the German native andCalifornia businessman, and his wife, Maris J. Sebran gave birth to Oscar Lauff
1865:In Vilna, Lithuania, Albert Berenson and Judith Michliszanski gave birth toHarvard University grad and husband of Marry Whitall Pearsall Smith BernardBerenson, who was described by The New York Times as"anAmerican art critic." In fact, he had been born in Lithuaniaina small village known as Butrimants in Yiddish. His father’s name was AlterValvrojenski, his mother’s Eudice (Michliszanski). Berenson given name wasBernhard.As he sought the safety of assimilation after coming toAmerica, he had himself baptized as an Episcopalian. Only after theHitler period did he come to realize that the world would always regard him as"a Jew." While he did not renounce his baptism, he did allowfor Jewish cultural activity in his private life. Some say that he wasthe prototype for one of the characters in Herman Wouk's Winds of War.He died in 1959.
1866:In Kokomo, IN, Hannah Rosental and Charles Kraus gave birth to University of Michigantrained lawyer and Spanish American War Veteran Milton Kraus, the RepublicanParty leader who served in 65th, 66th and 67thCongresses as a member of the House of Representatives.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/milton-kraus
1866:Following the death of Rosanna Dyer Osterman, the Houston Weekly Telegraph wrote:
Itis an unjust and ungenerous thing to assert that "with insults you cannotmake a Jew fight." How little has the Jew had to fight for in mostcountries? In our late war, we have stood side by side with the Jew in battle,and we have never seen men more gallantly than they, bare their breast to bluelead and cold steel. In charity and kindness their women have often rivalledour own. Every one resident in Galveston during the war, whether soldier orcivilian, knows that among the very foremost in deeds of kindness to oursuffering, sick and dying soldiers, one to whom the poor Confederate soldiernever applied in vain, one whose heart overflowed with all the kindliest activecharities, was a Jewess, equally distinguished for her piety and carefulobservance of all the ceremonial duties of her religion. (Courtesy of BillLowen)
1867:Birthdate of Gustav Kahan, the husband of Julie Levy, both of whom would die atTreblinka in 1942
1870:The wedding ceremony joining Miss Elizabeth Abraham of Washington, DC and Mr.Solomon Caro of New York in the bonds of holy matrimony began this afternoon ata synagogue on 18th street in the Nation’s Capitol but it did notend there. The ceremony began with theentrance of the bridal party followed by a preliminary service and discourse byRabbi Jacob S. Jacobson on the subject of marriage. But a commotion broke out when the Rabbibegan to perform the ceremony. At thatpoint, the groom’s father, Rabbi Caro of New York, began a heated discussion inHebrew with his son. At first peoplethought he was objecting to the marriage.Actually, he was objecting to the lack of a chupah. The synagogue had recently become a ReformCongregation and had dispensed with many of the traditional customs andceremonies. The President of thecongregation had assured the bride that a wedding canopy would be provided, buthad failed to follow through. Once theceremony was stopped, the bridal party left the synagogue and went to the houseof the bride’s father on D Street where refreshments were served. Once the Chupah had been put up the weddingwent on with the groom’s father and Rabbi Bernard Illowy of Cincinnatiperforming the ceremony. The service,which was conducted in Hebrew and German, was followed by expressions ofcongratulations for the newlyweds and an ample repast for the guests. [BernardIllowy was a distinguished 19th century Orthodox Rabbi who played aprominent role in the fight to maintain traditional Judaism. Ironically, his last pulpit was inCincinnati, the home of Reform Judaism.]
1872:In New York, a Coroner’s Jury rendered a verdict of accidental death in thecase of three year old Sarah Levy. She was with her father, Moses Levy, whenshe was “run over and killed by a Fourth Avenue care in the Bowery.” A civil suit has been filed against thetransit company in which the plaintiff is seeking $30,000 in damages.
1872:Nathaniel Isaacs, the English adventurer who co-founded Port Natal (modern dayDurban) and who descried his life in Africa in Travels and Adventures inEastern Africa passed away today and was subsequently buried at Canterbury.
1873:Birthdate of Frankfurt native Mortiz Julius Bonn, the internationally knownGerman economist who served as a government advisor during the Weimar Republicwho found refuge in England and later the United States after Hitler came topower.
1873:In Vienna, Theresa Steinbach and Joseph Pollack gave birth to Dartmouth MedicalCollege trained medical doctor Berthold Steinbach Pollack the medical directorof the Hudson County Tuberculosis and Clinics and financial secretary of theHebrew Orphans Home of Hudson, NJ whomarried Louise Gruber after the death of his first wife Hattie Gertrude Cohn.
1873:Columbia trained attorney Erastus New, the son of Aaron and Ann New marriedJulia S. Porter today.
1874:Annie Grace Davis was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1875:Birthdate of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis who learned fromand clashed with Freud. Jung was one ofthe few non-Jews to be involved with this new field of science. Hisrelationship with Sabina Spielrein was the subject of popular film thathighlighted the clash between the giants and Jung’s apparent “fascination” withJewish women.
1875:In Morgan City, LA, on the banks of the Atchafalaya River Congregation ShaareyZedek on First Street was completed and dedicated. The Jewish community hadbeen working on this since February 1875 and its fundraising efforts includedhosting a “Grand Calico Ball.”
1878:Twenty-nine-year-old Adolph Lewisohn, a successful American businessman who hadbeen born in Hamburg married Emma Cahn in Manhattan.
1881:Today “Tobias Tal, a graduate of the Amsterdam rabbinical seminary, was electedchief rabbi, a position he held until he was called to The Hague in 1895 whichled to his brother-in-law, Louis Wagenaar, formerly chief rabbi in Leeuwardenand of the province of Friesland, being appointed his successor in Arnhem.
1881:Birthdate of Ya’akov Cohen, the native of slu*tsk who made Aliyah in 1934 andbecame a prize winning “man of letters” who received the Tchernichovsky Prizefor exemplary translation, for translations from the German of the first partof Goethe's Faust and other Goethe's works, Torquato Tasso and Iphigenia inTauris, as well as a selection of poems by Heinrich Heine.”
1881:It was reported today The British Society for the Propagation of the GospelAmong the Jews condemned “the anti-Semitic agitation” that is currently takingplace in Europe.
1881(29thof Sivan, 5641): Seventy-two-year-old German-Jewish philologist and expert onSanskrit Theodor Benfey whose works also included one that proved that “thenames of the Hebrew months…were derived from the Persians” passed away today.
1881(29thof Sivan, 5641): Eighty-two-year-old baron Philipp (Fülöp) Schey von Koromlawho when he was granted “a patent of nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph” made himthe first Hungarian Jew to be made a noble passed away today.
1882:In New York City, Joseph Herzog and the former Belle Adler gave birth to NYUattorney Samuel A. Herzog, the nephew of Dr. Cyrus Adler and the husband of theformer Frances Rothschild who was a leading realtor as can be seen by hispresidency of the 907 Fifth Avenue Corporation, the Darco Reality Corporationand the Samuel A. Herzog Building Company.
1882:The Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society stated today the funds promised to care for the8,000 refugees who have arrived since January have not been forthcoming. A member of the society claimed that theLondon Committee that had collected seventeen thousand pounds which were to beused to assist in the settlement of the refugees, has not forwarded the moneyto New York.
1883:It was reported today that Rabbi George Brandenstein of Beth Elohim Synagoguewas the first to speak at an event honoring Henry Ward Beecher. After saying a few words in praise of hisservices “to men of all races,” he presented Beecher with a silver pitcher onbehalf of the members of his synagogue.
1883:“The Alleged Passover Murder” published today recounted events surroundingaccusations that Moritz Scharf had murdered Esther Salomossy, a Christian girlin Nyreghhaza, Hungary. Jewish witnesses claimed they had been threatenedbefore giving testimony and Moritz had been threatened with life imprisonmentif he did not confess that the murder had been committed in the synagogue. As the blood libel charges unraveled it wasdiscovered that the young girl had quarreled with her mistress before herdisappearance and some of her friends thought she had committed suicide.[Looking at the date, you can see how strongly entrenched the Blood Libel wasin gentile minds.]
1883:Cornerstone laying ceremonies for the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of Brooklyn willbegin at 2 pm today.
1884:Birthdate of Lithuania native Louis Isadore Brenner who in 1891 came Baltimorewhere he attended Johns Hopkins and who worked as a “wholesale woolenmerchant.”
1887:Nineteen-year-old Johanna Goldschmidt, a native of Frankfurt married AdolphStern, a native of Ziegenhain, who was the son of Salomon A. Stern and SarahGoldschmidt.
1887:“Minister Straus Safe in Turkey” published today described the first month ofOscar Straus’ service as U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Straus, who arrived in May has already hadhis first audience with the Sultan. He has taken up temporary resident in ahotel at Therapia until he can find a house for more permanent quarters. He has received a document of greetingwritten in Hebrew from the Grand Rabbi and the leaders of the various Jewishcommunities throughout the empire as well as letters of greetings from theAmerica Baptist Society and the missionaries of western Turkey who are meetingin Constantinople.
1887:Chicago millionaire Levi Rosenfield signed a codicil will which disinheritedhis son Maurice by giving his share of the estate to his daughter-in-law MattieRosenfeld, and should she predecease him to his son-in-law David Stettauer.This decision would later disappoint Maurice’s creditors who refused to settlehis debts for twenty five cents on the dollar because they thought he was goingto inherit a large sum from his father.
1887:“Minister Straus Safe In Turkey” published today described the cordialreception enjoyed by Oscar Straus following his arrival at the Ottomancapital. In an unusual move, the Sultanagreed to see the newly appointed ambassador even though it was Ramadan.
1887:In Vilnius, Vigdor Chait, a poor peddler, and Sara Levin gave birth to BaruchZuckerman, a leading American-Israeli Zionist, one of the leading proponents ofYad Vashem, editor of Yiddishe Kempfer, and a leading figure in the Farband andHistadrut campaigns, and president of the Labor Zionist Organization ofAmerica.”
1887(4thof Tammuz, 5647): Lionel Louis Cohen who served as head of Louis Cohen &Sons, a financial firm followed by his father Louis Cohen and who served as anMP passed away today.
1887: InLondon Leopold de Rothschild and Marie Perugia gave birth to their third andyoungest son British philanthropist Anthony G de Rothschild.
1887: “Judaic Romance” publishedtoday reviews The Yoke of the Torah by Sidney Luska. But according toJosh Lambert Luska did not exist. He wasthe creation of a young non-Jewish author named Henry Harland.
1888(17th of Tammuz,5648): Tzom Tammuz
1888: In Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyHerz Elkan, the son of Joseph and Caroline Elkan and his wife Rosa Elkan gavebirth to Nathan Elkan who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.
1888: In New York City, “Sali andAugusta (Goldenberg) Simonson gave birth to Phi Beta Kappa Harvard graduate andWW I USA 2nd Lt. LeeSimonson, the husband of Helen Strauss and scenic designer
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1888: Five days after he passedaway, David Frederick Schloss, the four-month-old son of David and RachelSchloss was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1889: Birthdate of Bay Shore, LI,native Harold Fell, the University and Ohio Wesleyan trained physician HaroldFell, the WW I veteran and cardiovascular disease researcher.
1890: In Philadelphia, PA, Jacob daSilva Solis-Cohen, M.D. and Miriam Binswanger Solis-Cohen gave birth to Jacobda Silva Solis-Cohen, Jr., the President of MastbaumBrothers and Fleisher and of Albert M. Greenfield and Company who was also thePresident of the Jewish Publication Society of America.
1891: Benjamin Cardozo was admittedto the New York State Bar.
1891: Birthdate of Minsk nativeRabbi Judah Louis Hahn who came to the United States where he served as an“officer of the Zionist Organization of American” and during WW I, “the JewishWelfare Board.”
1892(1st of Tammuz,5652): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1892: The funeral of Captain ArmandMayer, the Jewish officer who was killed in a duel the anti-Semitic Marquis deMores was held today in Paris.
1892” In Hillsboro, West VirginiaStulting and Absalom Sydenstricker gave birth to Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prizewinning author Pearl Buck whose works included Peony, a novel set in the Jewishcommunity of K’aifeng in the 1850’s.
1892: Thirty-one-year-old EdwardLewis Heinsheimer, the New York born “son of Lewis and Emma (Goodhart):Heinsheimer” was appointed a member of the Board of Governors of Hebrew UnionCollege today.
1892: “Aid Asked for HebrewSettlers” published today described the efforts of the 250 Russian Jewishimmigrants to make a new life for themselves in Rosenhayn, NJ. By day they work for New York clothiers or asfarmers. At night they attend a nightschool sponsored by the Educational Society of Rosenhayn they formed to enhancetheir ability to speak, read and write English.
1893: “Passed CreditableExaminations” published today described the outcome of the exams administeredto the 24 pupils at the Jewish Theological Seminary. All of the students performed in “anexceedingly satisfactory manner,” but David Wittenberg and Joseph Hertz werethe most impressive as can be seen by the fact that they were “the senior prizewinners.”
1893(12th of Tammuz,5653): Seventy-seven-year-old Benvenida Valentina Nathans, the Wilmington, DEborn daughter of Sarah and Daniel da Silva Solis and wife of Moses Nathanspassed away today.
1894: Five-year-old Olive FredericaHarinkirsch was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1894: Four days after he passedaway, 35-year-old Nuremberg, Germany native Siegfried Scherer was buried todayat the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894: “A New QuarantineCommissioner” published today described the decision of Governor Roswell P.Flower to appoint Edward Jacobs, a prominent Jewish lawyer to serve as one ofthe three Quarantine Commissioners. Consideringthe role that this position plays at Ellis Island, the selection of a Jew tothe position seems to be extremely appropriate.
1895: Joseph Nathan Joseph marriedLillian Julia Cohen at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Australia.
1896: Andre Lebon,who intervened on behalf of Dreyfus while he was imprisoned on Devil’s Island, completedhis service as Minister of Colonies.
1896: Rabbi Dov Ber Boruchoff, theVilnius born son “of Rabbi Abba Yaakov Boruchoff and Rachel Brynah Boruchov whoin 1906 become the first rabbi for Congregation Beth Israel in Malden, MA, and his wife Bessie (Pessa Golde) Boruchoff gave birth to Dr. Henry Boruchoff, the husbandof Frances Boruchoff.
1897: It was reported today that asof 1895, of the 1,568,092 people living in Bosnia, 8,213 are Jews.
1897: Four days after she passedaway “Miriam, the wife of Jacob bar Jacob” was buried today at the PlashetJewish Cemetery in London.
1897: Myer S. Isaacs, the Presidentof the Baron de Hirsch Fund, was among the dignitaries who attended tonight’sgraduation exercises at the Baron de Hirsch Trade Schools.
1897: “An Interesting Study ofConditions in Southeastern Europe” published today included a brief history ofthe Jews of the Balkans, most of whom are descendants of the Spanish Jews whowere given permission to settle in Serbia and Bosnia by Murad III. Unlike recent Jews who have moved here fromHungary, most of them still speak Spanish.The community numbers about seven thousand, three thousand of whom livein Sarajevo
1898: The Governor has telegraphedhis superiors that the situation in Galicia, where renewed anti-Semiticviolence has claimed the lives of 16 Jews, “is extremely serious.”
1898: Private Levy, a native ofParis, France, transferred from Company H of the 2nd LouisianaInfantry to the Hospital Corps of the United States Army.
1900: Today, “The Russification ofFinland, where Jews would not be able to become full citizens until Finlandbecame independent in 1917, took a new direction when an Imperial ukase issuedfrom Tsar Nicholas II, replacing Finnish with Russian as the official language,to be phased in over five years
1900: “Bernard Levy has purchasedfor improvement the plot at the south corner of Riverside Drive and 94thStreet in NYC.
1901: Thirty-six-year-old CityCollege alum and ordained Rabbi, Frank Lewis Rosenthal, the New York City ofRubin and Francis (Littman) Rosenthal who served as Rabbi at B’nai Israel inHot Springs, B’nai Israel in Baton Rouge before settling in at CongregationB’nai Israel in Columbus, GA, married Tilly Hollander today in New Orleans, LA.
1901:Bicentennial of the Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest in England. SephardicJews founded Bevis Marks in 1701.The congregation is known as theSpanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation.
1902:Birthdate of Gracie Allen, the wife and comedic partner of George Burns.
1903(26thof Tammuz, 5663): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1903:Minnie Klein who had been “buried in the old Jewish cemetery at Chavez Ravinewhen she passed away in 1895 was “reburied” today “in the Home of PeachMemorial Park on Whittier Boulevard which was also the final resting place forHenry and Mamie Klein.
1904:Birthdate of actor Peter Lorre. A refugee from Hitler’s Europe, Lorre gainedfame in American films as what was called "a character actor." Two ofhis more memorable appearances came in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, bothof which starred Humphrey Bogart. One of Lorre’s few starring roles came whenhe played the lead in the Mr. Moto movies. Mr. Moto was a clever detective ofundetermined European origins, sort of an urbane Columbo.
1904:Birthdate of Sioux City, IA native and military veteran Martin L. Reiffel, theNYU trained dentist.
1904:New Jersey attorney, Justice of the Peace and Republican political leader William Newcorn, the Cracow born son ofCecelia Friedner and Nathan Newcorn and longtime president of both the UnitedHebrew Association of Plainfield, NJ and Temple Sholem married Mamie Millertoday.
1905:The 20,000 Jewish residents of Lodz, a cultural center for Jews in Poland, fleein the face of Pogroms and what are in effect, the Czar’s attacks on his owncitizens.
1906:Birthdate of Albert Silverman, the New York native who gained fame as lyricistAl Stillman whose works included the 1950’s Christmas standard recorded byPerry Como – “Home for the Holidays.”
1906:In Jerusalem, the Laemmel School a school established “for the seculareducation of Jewish children” by Fra Elise Herz of Vienna under the auspices ofthe poet Ludwig August Frankl “celebrated the semi-centenary of its foundation”today.
1907:University of Missouri and Harvard trained attorney Irvin V. Barth, theColumbia, MO born son of Nettie and Victor Barth a member of Congregation ofShaare Emeth and B’nai B’rith married Gussie Kahn today.
1907:“The Future American” published today previews an upcoming article on thequestion of the adaptiveness of immigrants by Professor Brander Matthews whopointed out those concerned about the future should note “that a list of thefive most useful citizens of New York would have to included one Hebrew ofGerman birth and that if the list should be extended to it would contain thename of another German Hebrew.”
1908:It was reported that Russian Prime Minister Stolypin is “engaged in the activeconsider of a measure” designed to ameliorate the conditions of the Jews ofRussia “which probably take the form of a considerable remission of the presentlaws regarding the Jewish settlements.”
1908:Sixty-five-year-old art dealer, art gallery benefactor and co-founder of Duveen Brothers, Joseph JoelDuveen, the husband of the former Rosetta with whom he had fourteen childrenwas art dealer Josep Duveen was knighted today.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Duveen,_Joseph_Joel
1909:“After forty-one grueling rounds Leach Cross (born Louis C. Wallach) lost about in California which was not as tragic as it may sound since boxing was aside-line to his major occupation – dentistry.
1910:NYU trained attorney and future general manager of the Jewish AgriculturalSociety Gabriel Davidson, the New York born son of Hannah Gorechter and DavidDavidson married Anna Perlowitz toda.
1910:Today, 27 Jews were expelled from Kiev, 24 from Solomoneka and 17 fromDemieffka..
1910:Russian born Louis Katcher, a future resident of Detroit, MI and his wifeRebeca Katz Katcher gaive birth to Jack L. Katcher, the husband of Leona BermanKatcher.
1911(30thof Sivan, 5671): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1911(30thof Sivan, 5671): Eighty-four-year-old Agnes Byk, the wife of Samuel AlexanderByk, passed away today.
1911:Twenty-six-year-old St. Louis businessman Edwin B. Meissner, the Milwaukee, WIborn son of Abe and Riekchen (Katz) Meisner, married Edna Rice today afterwhich board member of the Mt. Sinai Cemetry Association of St. Louis andPresident of Shaare Emeth in St. Louis.
1911:Joseph L. Seligman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Seligman of New York,hosted his bachelor party tonight during which fifty guests celebrated hisupcoming marriage to Josephine Knowles.
1911:Birthdate ofEdward Levi, professor oflaw,President of theUniversity ofChicago and Attorney General during the FordAdministration. The son and grandson of Rabbis, Levi'sgrandfatherwas one of the original faculty members of the UniversityofChicago. Levi was a total product of the institution graduatingfrom its lab school, undergraduate college and school of law.WhenLevi was named President of the University of Chicago in 1968, he was the firstJew to hold such a post at a majorAmerican university. In terms ofmeasuring progress, today such appointments are almost not worthmentioning. When he died in 2000, at the age of 88, Levi was eulogizedfor a long anddistinguished career in the law and academia.
1912:New York College of Dentistry trained DDSand founder of Novovol Chemical Manufacturing Company, Mendel Nevin, theRussian born son of Etta Feinberg and Isaac Nevin married Mollie Woronock todayin Brooklyn.
1912:The 12th annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the JewishTheologicalSeminary whose president was Jacob Kohn ended today inTannersville, NY.
1912:The Board of Education paid tribute to the late District Superintendent MissJulia Richman, the energetic reform minded educator who passed away whilevacationing in France.
1912:In New York Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Koner gave birth to dancer and choreographerPauline Koner.
1912:“Bruno Walter led the Vienna Philharmonic in the world premiere of Mahler'sSymphony No. 9
1913:The American Zionists’ convention continues its meetings in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1913:In Pittsburgh, PA, Sam and Sophie Kress gave birth to Academy Award winningAmerican film editor Harold F. Kress.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/28/news/mn-14897
1913:In Springfield, Illinois, the annual conference of the American Association ofOfficials of Charities and Correction which Simon W. Rosndale, Mortimer L.Schiff and Henry Solomon all of New York were delegates came to a close today.
1913(21stof Sivan, 5673): Eighty-four-year-old Rabbi Arnold Levy passed away in NewYork.
1914:Birthdate of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Shah’s last Prime Minister who,according to Yossi Alpher, “the Mossad’s chief intelligence analyst on Iran,”“had called in Eliezer Shafrir, the Mossad’s representative in Tehran, andasked Mossad to assassinate Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni while he was still inFrance, a request that Mossad rejected.
1914:Jefferson Medical College trained orthopedic surgeon Arthur Julius Davidson,the Philadelphia born son Florence Stern and Dr. Charles C. Davidson marriedJulia Brown today in Philadelphia.
1915:In Norfolk, VA, suffragette and Hadassah member Ella Shapiro and attorney LouisShapiro gave birth to Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro who gained fame as CharlotteZolotow, “a distinguished author and editor of children’s books.” (As reportedby Margalit Fox)
1915:Middleweight Augie Ratner fought and won his first bout today.
1915:Those who favored the imposition of the death penalty for Leo Frank arescheduled “to show their disapproval” to Governor Slaton’s commutation today“when the Governor retires from office and Judge Nat E. Harris is inaugurated.
1915:“The feelings aroused by Governor John M. Slaton’s in commuting the deathsentence imposed on Leo M. Frank …culminated today at the Capitol in ademonstration against the Governor when he retired from the Executive officeand Judge Nat E. Harris of Macon was inaugurated. For the first time in the history of Georgiaa Governor left office with a crowd hurling epithets at him and crying ‘Lynch him!’ and escaped bodilyharm only through the protection of a large force of police and State troops.”
1915:In New York, “the Woman’s Peace Society is scheduled to hold a reception in theAssembly room of the Cosmopolitan Garden this afternoon for those who signedthe petition to Governor Slaton asking for the commutation of the deathsentence of Leo Frank and to those who worked to obtain the signatures.”
1915:“Early this morning” Rabbi Eichler conducted services at Temple Ohaibe Shalomon Union Park Street for forty delegates who will be attending the conventionof American Zionists in Boston
1915:“An informal dance and reception” was held in Boston this evening to mark theopening of “the great convention of American Zionist, the first such nationalgathering of Jews on American soil.”
1915:In Ohio, Beachwood was incorporated as Beachwood Village, the Cleveland suburbthat is home to Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Agnon School and ClevelandHebrew School.
1916:It was reported today that “the de Hirsh society has tendered a check for$1,500” to be used for the construction of a Hebrew Orphan Asylum to be builtin Hudson County which is a pet project of Henry Morgenthau.
1915:Birthdate of Berlin native Yitzhak Danzinger, the Israeli sculptor who was oneof the pioneers of the “Canaanite Movement.”
1916:It was reported today the Joint Distribution Committee “is made up of FelixWarburg of the American Relief Committee, Jacob Goldberg of the People’sCommittee and Harry Fischel of the Central Relief Committee.
1917:In Baltimore, the delegates to the 20th Annual Convention of theFederation of American Zionists were scheduled to attend a presentation by theYoung Judeans.
1918:Major Brooman White, the British recruiting agent told those attending the 21stannual convention of the Federation of American Zionists being held inPittsburgh, PA that “at the end of the ninety-day period established by theagreement between the United States and England, American Jews” will not beallowed to “enlist in the Jewish Legion of Honor for service with the Britishforces in Palestine.”
1918:The Fifth Annual Convention of Hadassah met for its third session today.
1918:In Bavaria, Max and Bertha Neuberger gave birth to future Baltimore, MDresident Herman Naftali Neugerger, the husband of Judith Neuberger and thefather of Rabbi Sheftel Meir Neuberger.
1918:During World War I, Allied Forces including units of the AEF under General JohnJ. Pershing defeated units of the German Army under the command of Crown PrinceWilhelm. Among the Americans who foughtin this critical battle was a Jewish Marine from Buffalo New York named LesterBergman. Born in 1889, “Bergman was the first person from Buffalo, NY, toenlist in the Marine Corps during World War I. He was wounded during extremelyheavy fighting at the battle of Belleau Wood in France, where he participatedin the capture of a Maxim gun, 23 machine guns and 170 German soldiers. Bergman was subsequently awarded theDistinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de Guerre.” He passed away in1958.
1918:CCNY graduate Louis Maurice Josephthal, the New York born son of Theresa Wiseand Mortiz Josephthal and husband of Edyth Guggenheim who was “one of theorganizers of the Naval Militia of the State of New York in which he enlistedas an Ordinary Seaman in 1891” was appointed Paymaster today.
1919:The first national conference of the Religious Zionist Organization, Mizrachi,closes.
1919:In the Weimar Republic, premiere of “The Oyster Princess” a silent filmdirected and written by Ernst Lubitsch and featuring Julius Falkenstein asJosef, Nucki's friend
1920(10thof Tammuz, 5680): Parshat Chukat
1920:Dr. Joseph Silverman is scheduled to officiate at Shabbat services at TempleEmanu-El
1920:Rabbi Ephraim Frisch is scheduled to lead services this morning at the NewSynagogue on Broadway.
1920:Rabbi Max Reichler is scheduled to lead services this morning at “Sinai of theBronx.”
1921:In Hampstead, Simon Beloff and Marie Katzin gave birth to Anne Beloff thesister of Renee Soskin, Nora Beloff, John Beloff and Max Beloff and wife of Nobel Prize Winner Ernst BorstChain who gained fame as British biochemist Lady Anne Ethel Beloff – Chain.
1921:“Dorothy Turk, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turk of Rochester, NY, isscheduled to marry New York City resident John Goldhaar, the “graduate ofCornell and NYU” who “was decorated by the French Government with the Medailled’Honneur for his war work” at Temple Beth El today.
1921:In Paris, Englishman Charles George Bushell and French dressmaker Reine BlanceLeroy gave birth to Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell who as Violette Szaboserved with the SOE during WW II and was executed by the Nazis at Ravensbruck.
1922:Gimbel Brothers, which “established their business in New York 12 years ago,”announced today “that they had acquired by leased the building on 33rdand 34th Street which is now occupied by Saks and Company” whichwill soon be occupying “a new building on 5th Avenue and 50thStreet which is under construction.”
1922:Frank Taffel, the native of Galicia, who founded Atlanta, Georgia’s Fulton AutoExchange and co-founded Congregation Beth Jacob became a United States citizentoday.
1923:At Yankee Stadium Princeton lost to Yale despite the fact that Moe Berg wenttwo for four (single and a double) and played shortstop with enough skill tointerest major league scouts.
1924:In New York the mayor Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, the widow of German-Jewishbusinessman and chess patron Isaac L. Rice and her son Isaac L. Rice, Jr. toserve as members of the commission overseeing the activities of the RiceMemorial Foundation which in this case is dedicated to the development of “thecity’s park and playground development programs.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/06/27/104256925.html?pageNumber=21
1924(24thof Sivan, 5684): Sixty-nine-year-old Bezalel, the Sulzburg born son of LeopoldDukas and Magdalena Madel Dukas, and husband of Emma Dukas passed away today InSan Francisco.
1925:The 148th Session of the New York State Legislature in which PhilipM. Kleinfeld served as a State Senator came to a close today.
1925:Forty-three-year-old Cornell and University of Pennsylvania trainedentomologist, David Ely Fink, the Russian born son of William and Hodel FinkNellie Snyder today in Philadelphia.
1925:“The Gold Rush,” starring Charlie Chaplin premiered in Los Angeles.
1925:Brenham, TX native Rosa Levin, who had attended Blinn College and RiceUniversity, married Sam H. Toubin after which she would write two books about Jewish history in Texasincluding History of B’nai Abraham Synagogue.
1926:In Jerusalem, Rabbi Moshe Ber Rivkin and his wife gave birth to Shlomo Rivkinthe last Chief Rabbi of St. Louis, MO.
1927:The New York Times reviewed Fairy Flowers by Isadora Newman.
https://www.alephbet.com/pages/books/38503/isadora-newman/fairy-flowers
1927:Birthdate of Jerry Schatzberg, the Bronx born photographer and movie director
http://www.jerryschatzberg.com/
1928:In Calgary, Alberta, Polish fishmonger turned Canadian furniture businessmanand “the former Hinda Fishman” gave birth to “corporate raider andphilanthropist” Samuel Belzberg, the husband of Frances Belzberg with whom hehad four children – Marc, Lisa, Wend and Sherry (As reported by Brooks Barnes)
https://www.internationaldystoniasymposium.org/
1928:When the Democratic National Committee convened, today Belle Moskowitz was theonly woman at the table, but she was as influential as any man there. Thenetworks she had created in New York helped to secure the Presidentialnomination for Al Smith, the first major Catholic candidate for U.S. President.After his nomination, she directed national campaign publicity. When Smith lostto Herbert Hoover, Moskowitz stayed on as his press agent, and coordinated hiscampaign for the 1932 nomination, which Smith lost to Franklin Roosevelt.
1928:“Say When,” with lyrics by Nathaniel Lief opened on Broadway at the MoroscoTheatre.
1929:In Plzen, Czechoslovakia, Otakar Kohn “an official at the Plzeň iron and metalgoods company Gustav Teller” and his wife Melanie Langerova, the daughter of “pubkeeper and tobacconist David Langer” gave birth to Věra Kohnová who along withrest of her family was put on transport "S" to Theresienstadt on January22 1942 after which they arrived at another camp in Izbica which was a transferpoint to the extermination camps on March 13, 1942 and who would have beenanother nameless victim were it not for the discovery and publication of adiary she kept from August 1941 to January 1942.
1929:Birthdate of Bronx native and graphic designer Milton Glaser the creator of “I ❤NY logo.”
1930:It was reported today that New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt has filledthe vacancy on the Niagara Frontier Bridge Commission created by theresignation of Emanuel Boasberg.
1930:In New York City, Mayo promoted Magistrate Hyman Rayfiel of Brooklyn to theCourt of Special Sessions, “which marks the first appointment of a Jews fromBrooklyn to this court.’
1930:Three days after his death, Sir Israel Gollancz, the former Professor ofEnglish Language and Literature at King’s College was buried at the JewishCemetery at Willesden after which he was memorialized by awarding of the SirIsrael Gollancz price for Early English Studies by the British Academy.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1930/Obituary/Israel_Gollancz
1931:“The Man in Evening Clothes” a comedy featuring music composed by CasimirOberfeld who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1945 was released in the UnitedStates today.
1931:In Brooklyn, theatrical haberdasher Harry Minoff and his wife gave birth toMarvin Minoff the movie and television producer who married Bonnie Franklin.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=marvin-minoff&pid=135914438
1932(22nd of Sivan, 5692): Mrs.Bessie Simon Rosalasky, the wife of Judge Otto A. Rosalasky of the Cpirt ofGeneral Sessions passed away tonight.
1932: “More than $1,000 was pledged to theLouisville Hebrew School in memory of Rabbi Asher Lipman Zarchy, seniororthodox rabbi of Louisville” KY, this “afternoon at his funeral services whichwere attended by approximately 3,000 Jewish men, women and children.”
1933: “The Akademie für Deutsches Recht(Academy for German Law) is founded to rewrite the entire body of German law toNSDAP specifications” The NSDAP is the Nazi Party.
1933: The Federation of Jewish Communities ofSwitzerland the Berne Jewish Community files suit against the right-wing SwissNational Front for distributing anti-Semitic literature including the“Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” At the end of the litigation, the court willhold that that the “Protocols are a forgery, are plagiarized, and qualify as‘obscene’ literature”
1934: Birthdate of Selwyn Raab, another productof the Lower East and City College of New York who went on to a career injournalism with the NY World Telegram and Sun and NY Times, broadcasting withNBC News and literature where he wrote several volumes on crime and “the mob.”
https://us.macmillan.com/author/selwynraab
1934: In Littleton, CO, a female pianist andmale violinist both from Riga, gave birth to Academy and Grammy award winningcomposer and arranger Robert David “Dave” Grusin whose “first film score” wasfor the 1967 comedy “Divorce American Style.”
1934: Today, “Dr. Josep Tenenbaum chairman ofthe boycott committee of the American Jewish Congress made public a letterwritten by C.W. Toms, president of the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company inwhich the concern denied truth of the rumors that it is contributing financialsupport to the Nazis of that it is discriminating against Jews in employment.”
1934: Additional funeral services are scheduledto be held in New York today for fifty-three-year-old Russian born, JeffersonMedical College trained surgeon Abraham P. Fishman who had passed away “fromblood poisoning resulting from a slight cut on the hand suffered during anoperation on a patient for throat abscess ten days ago” which will be followedby burial in the family plot in New Jersey.
1934: The New York Times reported thatthe Tel Aviv “has issued notices to holders of its external twenty-year sinkingfund six and a half percent public improvement sterling bonds…have been drawnfor redemption at par, on the current rate of exchange for sterling on the dayof presentation” (As reported by Austin Cline)
1935(25th of Sivan, 5695): Fifty-five-yearVinnytsia native and composer Oscar Potoker who after coming to the UnitedStates created several movie scores and became a close friend of fellowcomposer Josiah Zuro with whom he was riding when the latter died in a fatalautomobile accident passed away today.
1936: Germany adopts an ordinance banning Jewsfrom serving the Army.
1936: San Francisco” a film set at the time ofthe city’s famous earthquake with music by Walter Jurman and featuring AlShean, the uncle of the famous Marx Brothers and Harold Huber was released inthe United States today.
1936: In the aftermath of the The PrzytykPogrom, the worst anti-Semitic violence that occurred in pre-war Poland, thetrial of those charged with taking part in the violence came to an end. There were 43 Polish defendants and 14 Jewishdefendants. The Jews claimed that theyhad acted in self-defense. But the courtsentenced eleven of the Jews to prison terms ranging from 6 months to 8 yearsfor demonstrating “aggressive behavior toward Polish peasants.” Thirty-nine of the Poles received sentencesranging from 6 to 12 months.
1936: The Palestine Post reportedthat circulars urging Arab villagers to put an end to disorders were dropped byBritish Army planes. The leaflets promised that the king would send a RoyalCommission to inquire into the Arab grievances, but only when a complete orderwas restored. Some 50 well-armed Arabs attacked a convoy made up of 10 busesand accompanied by two armored cars close to Nablus. One British soldier andsix Arabs were killed before the convoy was able to continue. The Postpublished the full text of the House of Commons debate on Palestine (11 pages)and continued a series of articles by Maurice Samuel which explored thepossibilities of an Arab-Jewish reconciliation. A Jew was badly wounded by anArab who had asked for a drink in an orange grove near Petah Tikva. A similarincident happened a week earlier.
1936: Birthdate of Edith Pearlman,the native of Providence, RI and Radcliffe graduate who won the 2012 Harold U.Ribalow Prize presented by Hadassah magazinefor outstanding Jewish fiction.
1936: “Religious objection to thepolicy of any State which strikes at the very practice of religion,specifically the treatment of Catholics in our sister republic of Mexico” wasexpressed tonight by the Central Conference of American Rabbis at its annualconvention, when it approved a recommendation submitted by the committee onresolutions.”
1936: “Police and military patrolson the streets of Bucharest were doubled today as the government decided totake firm measures to suppress attacks on Jews.”
1937: Laurence A. Steinhardtcompleted his service as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
1937: This evening “thousands ofBerlin Jews packed the city’s grand Brüdervereinshaus to bid farewell to RabbiJoachim Prinz, who had been ordered by the Gestapo to leave Germany immediatelyor face an almost certain death sentence for political subversion.”
1937(17th of Tammuz,5697): Parashat Balak
1937: Rabbi Louis I. Newman isscheduled to deliver a sermon “Should Jews Avoid the Professions?’ at TempleRodeph Sholom.
1937” Rabbi William F. Rosenblum isscheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Season of Romance—And After” at TempleIsrael.
1937(17th of Tammuz.5697): On Shabbat, Sam Frank, Nevada’s first Jewish mayor passed away. A native of California, Frank moved to Reno,NV in 1903. Prior to Prohibition, Frank worked in the wholesale liquorbusiness. When America went dry, he andhis brother opened a soft-drink bottling company. Frank became Mayor when EdwinE. Roberts passed away. He was defeatedfor re-election in 1935. Unlike hisbrother Ben, Sam Frank was not active in the Jewish community for many years; asituation some attributed to the fact that he had married a non-Jews. (For moresee Jews in Nevada by John P. Marschall)
1937: George Gershwin was releasedfrom Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles with a diagnosis of “likelyhysteria” since tests had shown no physical cause of “the headaches andolfactory hallucinations he had been experiencing..
1938: Alonim, a kibbutz built onland purchased “from the Sursuk family of Beirut” was established today “aspart of the tower and stockade settlement project” after which it was“frequently attacked during the “Arab revolt” when three of its members weremurdered.
1938: Five morebombs exploded today in the quarter between Jaffa and Tel Aviv wounding fifteenArabs. Soon after the first bomb exploded in the morning a mob of Arabs raideda Jew's shop and stabbed the proprietor.
1938: Joseph C. Hyman, theexecutive director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committeeannounced today that “efforts are being made to provide for Austrian Jews theexperience and facilities of the Jewish organizations in Germany that have beenengaged in vocation training, economic aid and the facilitation of emigration.”
1939: Final broadcast of the CBSversion of Camel Caravan starring Eddie Cantor.
1939: Adolf Hitler wrote a lettertoday to Dr. Hans Posse, Director of the Dresden Gallery “to build up the newart museum for Linz Donau.”
1939: After opening at the LaborStage Theatre, theILGWU production of “Pins and Needles” a revue with music and lyrics by HaroldRome who also wrote the book along with several others including MarcBlitzstein, directed by Charles Friedman and choreographed by Benjamin Zemachtransferred to the Windsor Theatre.
1939: “Five hundred people attended a sessionof the convention of the National Council of Young Israel which was held todayin the Temple of Religion at the World’s Fair.‘The event was chaired by Henry G. Fromberg. Cantor Aaron Caplow and the Oscar JuliusChoir provided the music for the event.
1940: Today, the British Ambassador in Madridwrote to London "The arrival of the Germans to the Pyrenees is atremendous event in the eyes of every Spaniard because it may mean the passageof Nazi troops through Spain to Portugal or Africa, a fear that lead theSpanish government to declare the visas issued by Sousa Mendes (the PortugueseSchindler) to be null and void.
1940: A split takes place among the leaders ofEtzel, also known as the Irgun. They cannot decide whether or not to ceaseattacks against the British for the duration of the war. Abraham Stern,believing that the timing was ripe to pressure the British by any means toallow full immigration sets up the LEHI (Lohamei Herut Yisrael) FreedomFighters of Israel. The group was also known as the Stern Gang. This splinterterrorist group will eventually kill a UN peace envoy during the War forIndependence – an act that will be condemned by the Jewish leadership.
1940:United StatesAssistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long determines to obstruct thegranting of visas to Jews seeking entry into the United States. He seeksindefinitely to "delay and effectively stop" such immigration byordering American consuls "to put every obstacle in the way [to] postponeand postpone and postpone the granting of visas." His goal will berealized over the next four years.Breckinridge Long represents what is called “genteel anti-Semitism,” adisease which lingered after the war among what Harry Truman called the stripedpants boys at Sate.
1940: Today following France’s capitulation tothe Nazis “the main HIAS-HICEM Paris Office was authorized by Portuguese rulerAntónio de Oliveira Salazar to be transferred from Paris to Lisbon.”
1940: The Nazisconfined Cardinal Emmanuel Celestin Suhard, the Archbishop of Paris “in hisarchiepiscopal residence” preparatory to a planned move to ship him off to aconcentration camp.
1941(1st of Tammuz,5701:Hundredsof Jews from Kovno, Lithuania, were executed at the fortified Ninth Fort on thecity's outskirts.
1941: In Atlantic City, NJ, funeral services are scheduled to be heldthis afternoon at Beth Israel for sixty-five-year-old Rabbi Henry Fisher, thehusband of the former Madeline Schubert who served as the Rabbi for Beth Israelfor 38 years.
1941: Lithuanian fascists massacred 2300 Jewsin Kovno. The sad fact of the matter is that the Nazis had many willing helpersamong the population of various European countries.
1941: The invading Nazis seized hundreds ofJews in Kovno, USSR and murdered them.
1941: German forces “rolled into Łuck” wherethe retreating NKVD had murdered “4,000 captives including Poles, Jews andUkrainians” and the Nazis would establish a Ghetto as the first step towardwiping the Jewish population.
1941: The Germans reached Bialystok home of thebialy. Another large Jewish population center would now fall victim to the SSKilling Squads.
1941: In Jedwabne, Poland, a local priestconvinces the Poles who had begun attacking their fellow citizens who wereJewish, to halt their pogrom. He assuresthem that the Germans would take care of the Jews. However, the Poles refused to sell food tothe Jews in the town amid rumors that the Germans “would be issuing orders thatall Jews be destroyed.
1942: “There’s One Born Every Minute” a comedythat marked the film debut of Elizabeth Taylor the convert to Judaism who hadtwo Jewish husbands was released today in the United States today.
1942: For the first time British radio carriedreports about the fate of the Polish Jews. It said that 700,000 Jews had beenkilled in Poland to date. This would have meant that over two million ofPoland’s reported three million Jews were still alive and could have beensaved.
1943: Dr.Karl Landsteiner the Austrian bornAmerican physician who the 1930 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work ondifferentiating the blood groups passed away in New York and who had convertedfrom Judaism to Roman Catholicism when he was twenty one years old.
1943: On Shabbat, special prayers were offeredfor the nation's leadership asking them to lead us toward "a peace ofrighteousness and permanence" at a service in Temple Emanu-El. The servicewas held today in conjunction with the annual convention of the CentralConference of American Rabbis, who represent the Reform Rabbinate in the UnitedStates.
1944: The last Jews from Random were deportedto Auschwitz today.
1945: The United Nations Charter is signed inSan Francisco. At a time when there was multi-faceted opposition to thecreation of a Jewish state, the United Nations would provide the legalframework for the creation of the modern state of Israel.
1946: Today, “Tzadok”, the leader of the Beitarbranch in Bruna, wrote on the back of a photograph of parade of Beitar members“As an eternal memory for our friends, from the opening of Kibbutz Beitar inBruna, which took place on April 22-23 [...] in Linz.”
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/april/16.asp
1947: In New York City, Joseph Siegel “acommercial education teacher” and the former Edith Joffe’ “a secretary atStuyvesant High School” gave birth to Peabody Award Winning NPR journalistRobert Charles Siegel, the husband of Jane Claudia Schwartz and the father of“musician Leah Siegel” and Erica Anne Siegel.
1947(8th of Tammuz, 5707)Fifty-seven year old Columbia University trained gastroenterologist and WW Iveteran Dr. John Leonard Kantor, the son of Dr. William L. Kantor and KatherineGordon Kantor who during WW II “commanded the 49th General Hospital,saw active service in New Guinea and was the father of “Dr. Thomas GordonKantor and James Downes Kantor” passed away today.
1948: Today, while President Truman watchedevents in Israel with one eye, with another eye he watched “32 C-47s lift offfor Berlin hauling 80 tons of cargo, including milk, flour, and medicine” inwhat was the start of Operation Vittles, the Western Allies attempt to overcomethe Soviet blockade of Berlin which, if it failed, could lead to WW III or thetriumph of Soviet Imperialism.
1949: Eighty-seven-year-old David Philipson,“the Dean of the American Reform Rabbinate” collapsed today at the conventionof the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
1949: Jewish golfer Herman Barron, the 1948Goodall and 1947 Tam O’Shanter champion teamed with William J. Cobb to win theannual pro-member tournaments at the Bonnie Briar Country Club in Larchmont,NY.
1950: “Admiral Sir John Edelsten, Commander inChief of the British Mediterranean Fleet arrived in Israel today” when HMSSurprise, his flagship, docked at Haifa.It was the first such visit since the British left the country two yearsago.
1950(11th of Tammuz, 5710): Sixty-six-year-oldMontezuma, GA born, Harvard trained attorney Louis Maxwell Cohen, the father ofMaxwell and Allen Brenner and a “member of the Lawyers’ Panel of the ACLU,passed away today.
1950: The Memorial Park which was a product ofthe work of Alfred Lippman and Bernard Rodetsky was dedicated to today TempleBeth Miriam in Long Branch, NJ.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that contracts had been signed forthe widening of the Kishon River outlet near Haifa, building of a bridge overit and the construction of a port and dry dock there.
1952: An Israeli army spokesman said thatfourteen Arabs had been killed during the last two weeks during operationsdesigned to keep infiltrators from crossing into the Jewish state. Two morewere arrested and two were wounded.
1952: Birthdate of NYC native and Harvard andNYU educated writer and film critic Michael Sragow who plied his trade with theSan Francisco Examiner and Rolling Stone Magazine.
1952(3rd of Tammuz, 5712): Seventy-one-year-oldJoseph Baskin, the Minsk born son “Nachim Mendel and Rose Baskin,” the husbandof the “former Mary Plotkin,” the father of Geraldine and Gilbert Baskin andsince 1916 the “general secretary of the Workmen’s Circle” and “editor of The Friend” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/27/92667566.pdf
1954: “The Rev. Dr. Barnett R. Brickner, rabbi of theEuclid Avenue Temple in Cleveland, was unanimously elected president of theCentral Conference of American Rabbis today at their meeting in Pike, N.H.
1955(6th of Tammuz, 5715): Fifty-four-year-oldBorrah Minevitch the Ukrainian born harmonica player who led The HarmonicaRascals, a ten piece ensemble that recorded for Brunswick and Decca recordspassed away today in Paris.
1955(6th of Tammuz, 5715):Sixty-nine-year-old realtor Morris Bien, the Philadelphia born son of PaulineJacob and Isadore and husband of Bessie Dreifuss Bien passed away today afterwhich he was buried in Adath Jeshurun Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA.
1956: Under President Nasser, Egypt seizedcontrol of the Suez Canal.
1957: Eighty-seven-year-old German-Americanauthor Bruno Alfred Döblin who converted to Catholicism while spending WorldWar II in Los Angeles passed away today.
1960(1st of Tammuz, 5720): RoshChodesh Tammuz
1960: It was reported today that American Nazileader George Lincoln Rockwell has sought the help of the ACLU in over-turningMayor Wagner’s decision to deny him a permit to speak on July 4 at Union Squarebecause they Mayor said that “the request of a permit was ‘an invitation toriot and disorder from a half-penny Hitler.’”
1960: InBrooklyn Supreme Court Justice PhilipHalpern of Buffalo officiated at the wedding Sarah Margaret Szold and EmanuelBoasberg, 3rd, the son of Buffalo residents Mr. and Mrs. Boasberg,Jr.
1960: “Eichmann and the U.N.” published todaydescribed Argentina’s complaint to the Security that Israel had violated itssovereignty by seizing the Nazi and taking him Jerusalem where he would standtrial for his crimes” while failing to offer any explanation for the henchmanof the Final Solution being able to find refuge in their country for the last15 minutes.
1961(12th of Tammuz, 5721):Seventy-five-year-old Milton Alfred Hellman, the son of Louis and clementineLange Hellman and the husband of Alice Stix Eiseman Hellman passed away todayafter which he was buried at the New Mount Sinai Cemetery and Mausoleum inAffton, MO.
1961: Operation Morale, “a clandestine effortheaded by Mossad to facilitate the emigration of Jewish Moroccan children toIsrael” began today when the first of five convoys left the North Africancountry “under the guise of taking a supposed holiday to Switzerland.
1963: “Levi Eshkol took over Mapai and formedthe eleventh government.
1963: Levi Eshkol replaced David Ben Gurion asMinister of Defense.
1963: Birthdate of Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs wholost his business empire and his freedom when President Putin felt threatenedby him. “Because Khodorkovsky's father is Jewish, some concerns have beenraised that his persecution is motivated by anti-Semitism, and that it is onlyone of many steps to clearing Russian economy from Jews.”
1965(26th of Sivan, 5725): ParashatSh’lach
1965(26th of Sivan, 5725): Seventy-eight-year-oldMendel B. Silberberg who was “once called the most important lawyer in theU.S.” and “also referred to as the most powerful Jew in Los Angeles next toRabbi Edgar Magnin” passed away today
1966: Birthdate of Daniel Hamidou, the Berberborn Jew who gained fame as French comedian Dany Boon who played “PrivatePonchel” in Joyeux Noël, a gem of afilm.
1966: After twenty-three performances thecurtain came down on a revival of “Guys and Dolls” starring Jan Murray asNathan Detroit at the New York City Center.
1967: Spain granted Jews and Protestants theright of public worship for the first time since Ferdinand and Isabellaproclaimed Catholicism as Spain's only religion.
1968(30th of Sivan, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1968 (30th of Sivan, 5728: Fifty-four-year-oldjazz trumpeter Harry “Ziggy” Elman, the Philadelphia born son of Minnie andAlek Finkelman, the husband of Ruby Elman and father of Martin J. Elman whogained fame during the big band era with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and theTommy Dorsey Orchestra passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/27/76949310.pdf
1968: Birthdate of Rich Eisen anchor on ESPN’s“SportsCenter.”
1969: Four days after he had passed away, amemorial service is scheduled to held today for eighty-one-year old German bornand University of Berlin educated “Dr. Wladimir G. Eliasberg, a leadingpsychiatrist and author of hundreds of articles and books on criminology,propaganda, industrial relations, neurology and general psychology” who was thehusband “of the former Esther Talbot” with whom he had four daughters – Eva“who is Israel’s minister plenipotentiary to Switzerland,” Hannah, Miriam andSusan.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/06/23/89002250.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1969: Birthdate of Sociology Professor Philip“Phil” Zuckerman whose works include Society Without God.
http://forward.com/opinion/138392/why-i-decided-to-study-non-belief/
1970: Today’s Bulletin described the reading of the Book of Ruth after serviceson the second day of Shavuot by Louise Brott, Erica Shacter and John Diamond,the first time that this has occurred at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim inMontreal.
1974: “Police arrest cyberneticist MikhailAgursky in Moscow.”
1974(6th of Tammuz, 5734): Eighty-seven-year-oldErnest Gruening, the long-time liberal Democrat who served as Governor ofAlaska before being elected Senator passed away. Gruening had been trained as a doctor atHarvard and Harvard Medical School although he never practiced medicine. He is best remembered as only one of twoSenators who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a move that cost himhis Senate seat. (As reported by John T. McQuiston)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60B13F73F5E1A7493C5AB178DD85F408785F9
1974: “For Pete’s Sake” a comedy produced byStanley Shapiro who co-authored the script and starring Barbra Streisand wasreleased today in the United States.
1974; Today, at 8:01 a.m., “a 10-pack ofWrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum slid down a conveyor belt and past an opticalscanner. The scanner beeped, and the cash register understood, faithfullyringing up 67 cents. That purchase, at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, wasthe first anywhere to be rung up using a bar code. A Jew did not invent the now ubiquitous barcode, but Alan Haberman, of blessed memory, “led the industrycommittee that chose the bar code over other contenders — circles, bull’s-eyesand seemingly random agglomerations of dots — in 1973. By all accounts, he spent years afterwardcajoling manufacturers, retailers and the public to accept the strange newsymbol, which resembles a highly if irregularly compacted zebra. His effortshelped cement the marriage between the age-old practice of commerce and the newworld of information technology led the industry committee that chose the barcode over other contenders — circles, bull’s-eyes and seemingly random agglomerationsof dots — in 1973. By all accounts, he spent years afterward cajolingmanufacturers, retailers and the public to accept the strange new symbol, whichresembles a highly if irregularly compacted zebra. His efforts helped cementthe marriage between the age-old practice of commerce and the new world ofinformation technology.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1974: “Beate Karsfeld, theavowed Nazi hunter” who was accused by German authorities ‘of having tried tokidnap Kurt Lischka a fomer Gestapo head in Paris to bring him to justice inFrance’ is scheduled to go on trial in Cologne, Germany today.
1975: It was reported today that Undersecretaryof State for Political Affairs Joseph J. Sisco has “has told an assembly ofJewish community relations leaders that the ‘forces of moderation in the MiddleEast’” now have “the upper hand, thus strengthening possibilities for furtheragreements through the ‘diplomatic process.’”
1976: Pacific Overtures, a musical with musicand lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman, directed by HaroldPrince closed today after 193 performances on Broadway
1976: Maxwell Raab, a Wall Street lawyer whoplayed a prominent role in the Eisenhower presidency was inducted as a fellowof Brandeis University.
1976: In case of Jew versus Jews, in “Omen IsNobody’s Baby” published today Richard Eder panned “The Omen” which wasdirected by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer.
1977(10th of Tammuz, 5737): Eighty-eight-year-oldBertha Levy passed away today after which she was buried at Temple Beth-ElCemetery in Pensacola, FL
1978: Mariia Slepak was the latest person to goin the dock Moscow as part of the anti-Zionist trials.
1979(1st of Tammuz, 5739): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1980: Birthdate of actor Jason Schwartzman
1981: “Stripes” an Army comedy film directed byIvan Reitman who produced along with Daniel Goldberg who in turn co-authoredthe script with Len Blum, Daniel and Harold Ramis who played the role of Pvt.Russel Ziskey and with music by Elmer Bernstein was released today in theUnited States.
1982(5th of Tammuz, 5742): ParashatKorach
1982(5th of Tammuz, 5742): Seventy-seven-year-oldColumbia trained attorney and WW II U.S. Marine veteran Myron Sulzberger, theDemocratic Party leader and the husband of “Luba Malina” passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/29/obituaries/myron-sulzberger-jr.html
1982(5th of Tammuz, 5742): Forty-six-year-oldAndré Tchaikowsky, a Polish born composer and pianist who as a small childsurvived the Warsaw Ghetto, passed away.
1982: “The Last American Virgin” directed byBoaz Davidson who also wrote the script, produced by Yoram Globus and MenahemGolan and filmed by cinematographer Adam Greenberg was released in Japan today.
1982(5th of Tammuz, 5742): Seventy-two-year-oldChaim Grade, a Yiddish poet and novelist whose work gained wide attentionbecause of its passion and intensity in dealing with Jewish life in EasternEurope and with the trauma of the Holocaust, died of a heart attack today inMontefiore Hospital. (As reported by Richard F. Shepard)
1984: BarbraStreisand records "Here We Are at Last"
1984(26th of Sivan,5744): Sixty-nine-year-old Carl Foreman who wrote the scripts of such classicsas High Noon, The Guns of Navarone and The Bridge on the River Kwai passed awaytoday.
1985: Two months after premieringat Cannes, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” directed by Héctor Babenco was releasedin Brazil and the United States today.
1985: “Pale Rider” a “dark cowboy”film with music by Lennie Niehaus was released today in the United States.
1986(19th of Sivan,5746): Sixty-eight-year-old University of Virginia trained architect Benjamin Joseph Massell, Jr. the son ofFannie Wolfson Massell and Benjamin Joseph Massell “who headed the MassellInvestment Company and was an active member of the ADL passed away today inAtlanta, GA/
1987(29th of Sivan,5747): Eighty-three-year-old Columbia trained economist Dr. Arthur Burns, theGalician born of “Polish-Jewish parents Sarah Juran and Nathan Burnseig, thehusband of Helen Bernstein and father of David and Joseph Burns who helped toshape economic policy in the three decades staring with the Presidency ofEisenhower passed away today.
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/arthur_f_burns
1989(23rd of Sivan, 5749): Trude Weiss-Rosmarin passed away. Born in 1908, she was aGerman Jewish writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. With her husband,she co-founded the School of the Jewish Woman in New York in 1933, and in 1939founded the Jewish Spectator, a quarterly magazine, which she edited for50 years. She was the author of 12 books, including Judaism and Christianity: The differences (1943), Toward Jewish-Muslim Dialogue(1967), and Freedom and JewishWomen (1977).
1991(14th of Tammuz, 5751): Ninetyyear old Wolfgang Zilzer, the Cincinnati born German character actor who oftenperformed under the name of “Paul Andor” and who married his film fiancée in“Casablanca passed away today after which he was buried in Berlin.
1992: NBC broadcast the finalepisode of seasons 2 of Seinfeld.
1994(17th of Tammuz, 5754): TzomTammuz
1994: Alan Blinder completed hisservice as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.
1994: After 73, the curtain camedown on the original production of “Broken Glass” “a play by Arthur Miller,focusing on a couple in New York City in 1938, the same time of Kristallnacht.”
1996(9th of Tammuz, 5756): StaffSgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, 22, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt. Ashraf Shibli, 20, ofShibli; and Cpl. (Res.) Ya'acov Turgeman of Rishon Lezion were killed in anambush along the Jordan River north of Jericho by terrorists who infiltratedfrom Jordan.
1997: Mervyn Taylor completed histerm as Minister for Equality and Law Reform which the Irish government thenabolished and merged with the Department of Justice.
1997: Barry Manilow was diagnosedwith bronchitis before a scheduled performance in Austin, TX.
1997: The International Congress ofthe International Napoleonic Society came to an end at Akkesandria, Italy.http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/weider/c_jews.html
1998: Launch of the INS Tkuma, aDolphin class submarine.
1999(12th of Tammuz5759): Parashat Chukat-Balak
1999: Natan Sharansky “signed anagreement today to join the coalition government of Prime Minister-elect EhudBarak” after it was agreed that he would serve as the next InteriorMinister which had been under thecontrol of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party.
2000: ‘After a Conservativesynagogue in Jerusalem was set on fire Saturday night, Prime Minister EhudBarak condemned the crime today as ''an awful act that causes every Jew toshudder.'' (Editor’s note – Based on witness accounts, what makes this reallyscary is that the fire was probably set by Jews)
2001: President Bush welcomedIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House.
2001: In St. Petersburg, aftermajor reconstruction “the greater hall” of the Great Choral Synagogue wasreopened today.
2002: Today “in a commentary in NROtitled "Taking Back the Market – By Force”, Larry Kudlow, a Jewish convertto Catholicism who would go from television personality to Trump economicadvisor “called for the United States to attack Iraq, stating that SaddamHussein had "weapons of mass destruction at his disposal" and that"a lack of decisive follow-through in the global war on terrorism is thesingle biggest problem facing the stock market and the nation today"
2002: Jean-FrançoisCopé began serving as a member of the National Assembly for Seine-et-Marne’sconstituency.
2002(16th of Tammuz, 5762):Ninety-two year old Sadie Hurwitz Bregman “a homemaker and widow of Samuel “Bo”Bregman the Washington businessman and homebuilder who “promoted the Joe Louisvs Buddy Baer at Griffith Stadium in September, 1940 for the world heavyweightchampionship” passed away today at the George Washington University Hospital.
2003(26th of Sivan, 5763): Cape Town native andpioneering anthropologist Isaac Schapera passed away today.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jul/02/guardianobituaries.highereducation
2003(26th of Sivan,5763): Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee, was killed in ashooting attack in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots werefired by a Palestinian teenager, who was apprehended by police. The Fatahal-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
2004(7th of Tammuz, 5764): Israel's renownedcomposer and songwriter Naomi Shemer passed away at the age of 74. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/29/nyregion/29shemer.html
Shemer is known to many as the composer of thefamous song “Y'rushalayim Shel Zahav" or in English, "Jerusalem ofGold." For those of you who saw "Shindler's List" this wasthe song played at the end of the movie when the film turned from black andwhite to color as the survivors were shown visiting the Shindler's grave.The song was written at therequest of Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolek in1967several weeks before the outbreak of the Six Day War. The songexpresses the longing ofa person for Jerusalem who has to viewtheOldCity from the opposite side of the Green Line.Inone of those ironic twists of history, "the song became the war'santhem.
Jerusalemof Gold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvX0ipYLSQ
LuYehi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ru-ced6v20
http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?songID=176
2005: Igo Feldblum writes a letter to historian Martin Gilbertdescribing how young Jews in Palestine responded positively to the war timeslogan ‘Win We Will.’ ‘Confident in thisprophecy, many enlisted in the Jewish Brigade and fought alongside theAllies.’ “Thirty thousand PalestinianJews fought in the British forces…and more than seven hundred were killed inaction.”
2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Kingof the Jews by Nick Tosches and The Woman From Hamburg by HannaKrall.
2005 (19th of Sivan, 5765): Eighty-one year old LouisJ. Sigel, a Teaneck, N.J., rabbi who was a prominent voice for integration ofthe township's public schools in the early 1960's, passed away today at hishome in Hackensack, N.J. (As reported by George James)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/nyregion/01sigel.html?pagewanted=print
2005: Wild Desert, a horse owned by several businesspeopleincluding former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, gave Robert J. Frankel hisfirst victory in the $1 million Queen's Plate, the first leg of the CanadianTriple Crown at Woodbine Racetrack.
2005: “Havoc,” a “crime drama” filmed by cinematographerKramer Morgenthau debut at the Munich International Film festival today.
2005: The Rubashkin Education Center in Postville is scheduled to hold itsgrand opening this afternoon
2006(30th of Sivan, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2006(30th of Sivan, 5766): Seventy-two-year-old Harvardpsychiatrist Joseph J Schildkraut passed away today. (As reported by JeremyPearce)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/us/08schildkraut.html
2006: Twenty-four hours after attacking an IDF checkpointPalestinians fire Kassam Rockets into Israel.
2007: At the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, anexhibition inspired by the ancient flood story of Noah’
2007: The General Assembly of the European Jewish Congress electsa new president for the EJC for a two year term.
2007: The President of Poland and Jewish leaders break ground forthe Museum of the History of Polish Jews on a site next to Warsaw’s monument toJews who resisted the Nazis during the 1943 ghetto uprising.
2007(10thof Tammuz, 5767): Belgian born American fashion designer, Liz Claiborne passedaway at the age of 78. (As reported by Eric Wilson)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/fashion/27cnd-claiborne.html?pagewanted=all
2007:A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidencyby author, attorney, blogger, and Salon.com columnist Glenn Greenwald waspublished today, by Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House
2008:In New York City the Gallery at the Astor Center presents, “A Taste ofAppetizing” featuring Mark Russ Federman, representing the third of the fourgenerations of famed Russ & Daughters who guides participants on a tastingof his extraordinary wares.
2008: A rocket fired from Gaza hit the Sderot industrialarea this afternoon, exploding near a gas station and shattering the truce fora fourth time this week.
2009(4thof Tammuz, 5769): Seventy-nine-year-old Jo Amar, a Moroccan-born Jewish singerwhose melding of Andalusian and Israeli musical influences made him a star inIsrael and a popular performer in Jewish communities around the world, diedtoday at the home of his son Ouri in Woodmere, N.Y. (As reported by BruceWeber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/arts/music/09amar.html
2009:Jews in the Washington Metropolitan Area have a wide panoply of choices when itcomes to welcoming the Sabbath Queen ranging from the Carlebach Minyan atKesher Israel to Congregation Adat Reyim's unique folk service lead by theirfolk group that group uses musical instruments and a variety of melodies fromDebbie Friedman, Craig Taubman, and others to add a wonderful musical aspect totheir Shabbat services
2009:Russia told a U.S. court today that American judges have no authority to tellthe country how to handle sacred Jewish documents held in its state library,which had been seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies.
2010(14thof Tammuz, 5770): Eighty-four-year-old Shoista Mullojonova “a renownedTajik-born Bukharian Jewish Shashmakom singer” passed away today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEfxDXSKn0k
2010:Ginsberg Jewelers, which is owned by Herman Ginsberg, a pillar of the Jewishcommunity and a mensch of the first order and is a mainstay of the CedarRapids, Iowa, business community battled back from the Floods of 2008 andhosted an Open House in its new, location today.
2010:The Jewish community of Cedar Rapids is scheduled to gather this evening for“Havdalah Under The Stars.”
2010:Prize winning ice skater Loren Galler-Rabinowitz won the Miss Massachusettstitle.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jun/26/2010/loren-galler-rabinowitz
2011:Israel continued repositioning part of its contested barrier in the West Banktoday, four years after a court ruled it should be re-routed to givePalestinians greater access to farmland. Israeli tractors tore down a sectionof the barrier, a metal fence, as a clutch of journalists watched. A newconcrete barrier has been erected some 600 meters from the old route near theJewish settlement of Modiin Illit. The Israeli military tore down a watchtoweroverlooking Bilin earlier in the week.
2011:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including “The Druggist of Auschwitz: ADocumentary Novela” by Dieter Schlesak. Translated by John Hargraves
2011:The Jewish Museum Milwaukee is scheduled to participate in a WWII EncampmentReenactment program being staged by the Milwaukee County Historical Society atTrimborn Farm. Local student and actor, Shane Skinner, is scheduled to presenta dynamic portrayal of the lives of Jewish servicemen during the war, drawingon collections from the archives of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.
2011: “The Washington Haggadah: Medieval JewishArt in Context” is scheduled to come to an end today at the Metropolitan Museumof Art in New York City. The Washington Haggadah, an illuminated medievalmanuscript and, since 1916, a principal treasure in the Library of Congress, isspending Passover in New York City on a snug reading stand in a display case atthe Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2011: Mordechai Lewy, theIsraeli ambassador to the Vatican, “who caused a storm in the Jewish world bypraising Pope Pius XII for saving Jews during World War Two backtracked today,saying his judgment was "historically premature." The comments madeby the Israeli ambassador to the Vatican, were some of the warmest ever made bya Jewish official about Pius but were very upsetting to Holocaust survivors andothers who know the history of the man some call “Hitler’s Pope.”
2011(24th ofSivan, 5771): Ninety-one-year-old Sidney Radner, owner of one of the largestcollections of material related to Harry Houdini passed away today. This was acase of one Jew carrying for the legacy of another Jew. (As reported by Paul Vitello)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/us/27radner.html
2011(24th ofSivan, 5771): Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Hochstein passed away today in Tel Aviv.In 1965, Hochstein and his father Phillip started the Jewish Week, aWashington, DC publication that was the successor the National JewishLedger. It was renamed The WashingtonJewish Week after Hochstein sold the paper in 1980’s and made Aliyah.
2011: “After 28 previews and 73 performances”the curtain came down on the second Broadway revival of “Born Yesterday”written by Garson Kanin.
2012: Eating and drinking must be on the mindsof those at the 92nd Street Y which is scheduled to offer programson “Wines of the Southern Hemisphere” and “Picnics Through the Ages.”
2012(6th of Tammuz, 5772): Ninety-two-year-old“Harry Levinson, a psychologist who helped change corporate America’s thinkingabout the workplace by demonstrating a link between job conditions andemotional health — a progressive notion when he began developing his ideas inthe 1950s” passed away today. (As reported by Claudia H. Deutsch)
2012: As part of the Food for Thought program,Rabbi Yosef Edelstein is scheduled to lead “Digesting Ethics, Mysticism andPhilosophy.”
2012: David Kilimnick, Razorback by birth andIsraeli by choice, is scheduled to host another “Open Mic” night at Jerusalem’sOff The Wall Comedy Club on Ben Yehuda
2012: Four suspects from Jerusalem, Bnei Brakand Ashdod are under arrest on suspicion of spray-painting hate slogans on the YadVashem Holocaust Museum, Ammunition Hill and other landmark monuments over thelast couple months, police announced this morning.
2012: Fires raged in the forest aroundJerusalem today, with the largest fire near the suburb of Motza. TheJerusalem-Tel Aviv highway was closed to traffic as fire and rescue servicesscrambled to control the blaze.
2012(6th of Tammuz, 5772): Seventy-one-year-oldNora Ephron whose work included “Sleepless in Seattle and “When Harry Sally”passed away today. (As reported byCharles McGrath)
2012: New York City Councilman Charles Barron,a fierce critic of Israeli policy who was opposed by Jewish lawmakers and topparty officials, was trounced his bid to secure the Democratic nomination in aBrooklyn congressional race.
http://forward.com/articles/158500/charles-barron-loses-race-for-congress/#ixzz2XBDujVf4
2012: Today the Central Council of Jews inGermany slammed the “outrageous and insensitive” decision of a regional courtto prohibit circumcisions, calling upon the German parliament to pass a lawthat safeguards freedom of religion. (As reported by Raphael Ahren)
2013: “In a Strange Land: The Photographic andArtistic Interpretation of Unfamiliar Environments,” a symposium sponsored bythe Israel Museum is scheduled to come to an end today.
2013: Aharon Oren, a Professor of MicrobialEcology at the Hebrew University is scheduled to deliver a lecture entitled“Shipping Lanes of the Dead Sea: 2500 years of navigation” at the University ofConnecticut.
2013: The ICCJ International Abrahamic ForumInternational Conference is scheduled to open at La Baume, Aix en ProvenceFrance
2013: Cult leader Andrew “Cohen announced onhis blog that he would be taking "a sabbatical for an extended period oftime", after confrontational exchanges with some of his closest students,who helped Cohen to realize, as he put it, that "in spite of the depth ofmy awakening, my ego is still alive and well.”
2013: In San Diego, CA, the Center for JewishCulture is scheduled to host a screening of “The Trotsky” – a film aboutMontreal high school students who thinks he is the reincarnation of the famousRussian revolutionary.
2013(18th of Tammuz, 5773): Eighty-three-year-oldcommercial photographer Bert Stern passed away today. (As reported by PaulVitello)
2013(18th of Tammuz, 5773): Seventy-eight-year-oldJewish-American billionaire Marc Rich, who was pardoned by then US presidentBill Clinton over what had once been the biggest tax evasion case in US historyand busting sanctions with Iran, died today from a stroke in Switzerland
http://www.jpost.com/International/Marc-Rich-King-of-Oil-pardoned-by-Clinton-dies-at-78-317808
2013: Fishel Litzman, a New York police officerin training and an Orthodox Jew, took the NYPD to court today for requiring himto trim his beard for service. (As reported by Michael Wilner)
2014: The Pears Institute for the Study ofAnti-Semitism is scheduled to present “Debating Anti-Semitism: Why do JewsDisagree so Much?”
2014: Historian Lisa Jardine delivered theConway Memorial Lecture today entitled “Things I Never Knew About My Father”which focused on the life of her father Anglo-Jewish mathematician JacobBronowski.
2014: Professor Anthony McElligott is scheduledto deliver a lecture entitled The Last Transport: Writing a history of theHolocaust in the Eastern Aegean at Wiener Library for the Study of theHolocaust & Genocide
2014: “The Green Prince” is scheduled to beshown at the 22nd annual Portland Jewish Film Festival.
2014: Tel Aviv is scheduled to host its 11thWhite Night event
2014: “La Rafle” and “The Lady in Number 6” arescheduled to be shown at the Chicago Jewish Film Festival
2014: A court in Versailles ordered theextradition of 29 year old Mehid Nemmouche, “the man suspected of murderingfour people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels” to Belgium.
2014: As firefighter worked “to put outremaining hotspots from a major forest fire that broke out yesterday afternoonin southwest Jerusalem” Fire and Rescue Commissioner Shahar Ayalon said athorough investigation had already begun amidst suspicions that the fire “wascaused, possibly intentionally.” (As reported by Lazar Berman)
2014: Eighty-three year old songwriter andchildren’s author, Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Broadway’s Richard Rodgerspassed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
2014(28th of Sivan, 5774): Ninety-three-year-oldViennese born American opera and orchestra conductor Julius Rudel passed awaytoday. *As reported by Robert D.McFadden)
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduledto host The Gertler Quarter as part of “The Future Generation Series.”
2015: “Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made herfirst trip to a former Nazi concentration camp today, visiting Bergen-Belsenjust over 70 years after it was liberated by British forces, on the final dayof her state visit to Germany.”
2016: “The Wedding Doll” is scheduled to beshown at the 13th annual Israeli Film Festival in Ottawa, Canada.
2016: “Israeli superstar David Broza isscheduled to perform “An All Request Show” at the City Winery in NYC.
2016: “The Art Dealer” and “Demon” arescheduled to be shown at the 24th Portland, Oregon Jewish FilmFestival.
2016: The Jewish Genealogical Society and theAckman & the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at Center forJewish History are scheduled to host a presentation by Phyliss Kramer “who willreview Eastern European historical geography and cover researching a town usingJewishGen's town pages, maps and gazetteers, Routes to Roots, Jewish RecordsIndexing-Poland, Google and other key web sites.”
2016: In Cedar Rapids, IA, following afun-filled BBQ dinner and silent auction President Nancy Margulis is scheduledto chair Temple Judah’s annual meeting
2016: TheNew York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of special interestto Jewish readers including The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’sSocial Contract in the Age of Individualism by Yuval Levin, Jackson 1964And Other Dispatches From Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by CalvinTrillin and the recently released paperback edition of Rebecca Dinerstein’sfirst novel, The Sunlit Night.
2017: The Institute of Southern Jewish Life’sannual Education Conference is scheduled to continue for a second day inJackson, Mississippi.
2017(2nd of Tammuz, 5777): Sixty-year-old“filmmaker and historian Suzanne Wasserman” passed away today. (As reported byRichard Sandomir)
https://wp.nyu.edu/archivesandpublichistory/suzanne-wasserman/
2017(2nd of Tammuz, 5777): Ninety-one-year-oldBirkenhead born “celebrity solicitor” Elkan Rex Makin, whose work with BrianEpstein led to his close association with the Beatles passed away today
https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/240181/rex-makin-mr-beatlemania-dies-at-91
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rex-makin-dies-liverpool-lawyer-13244311
2017: The Manhattan Jewish Experience isscheduled to host a discussion of the weekly Torah portion with Steve Eisenbergfollowed by a “conversation” with Rabbi Mark Wildes.
2017: In London, JW3 is scheduled to sponsor ascreening of Beyond the Mountains and Hills.
2017: “A traveling version” of “Before TheyWere Heroes” Sus Ito’s World War II Images” which includes pictures of U.S.Army units composed of Japanese-Americans who helped to save Jewish refugees atthe end of the war, is scheduled to come to an end at Harvard.
2018: “Britain’s Prince William whosegreat-grandmother Princess of Alice of Battenburg was recognized by Yad Vashemas a Righteous Among the Nations for helping to save a Jewish family in Greeceduring the Holocaust, today visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum inJerusalem, where he took part in a wreath laying ceremony and met with Jews whowere rescued by Britain as children.”
2018: “Shoshana Buchholz-Miller, Vice Presidentof Education and Exhibitions at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and EducationCenter is scheduled to serve as the moderator of presentation on immigrationpolicy – “What Do We Need to Know? What Can We Do.?”
2018: The Center For Jewish History and theAmerican Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host “ a discussion of TheJewish Political Tradition: Volume III: Community, co-authored by MichaelWalzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, and Madeline Kochen.
2019: In Edmonton, Alberta, The Gods of Gothamby Lyndsay Faye is scheduled to be the subject of the JDIC Book DiscussionGroup.
2019:JW3 is scheduled to host a screening “Promise at Dawn,” the movie version of“Romain Gary’s memoir.
2019: The annual Jerusalem Light Festival isscheduled to begin tonight.
2020: As part of the events being held “to markthe 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Natons in SanFrancsioco, the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee” is scheduled tohost “a webinar featuring two former U.S. ambassadors to the U.N., JohnNegroponte and David Pressman, will address how the U.N. has — and can —advance U.S. national interests and protect human rights. “The U.N. at 75: WhatPlace in U.S. Foreign Policy.”
2020: San Francisco based JIMENA is scheduledto host the virtual “Persian Jewish Music and Pre-Shabbat during which singerand scholar Galeet Dardashti will explore Judeo-Persian music traditionsthrough live and recorded music, some of which she will teach.
2020: Following Shabbat services, TempleTefirth Israel is scheduled to host via livestream “a conversation about raceand Justice in America at this time.”
2020: In Cedar Rapids, Temple Judah isscheduled to host Shabbat Outdoor Services in the Silber Outdoor Sanctuarywhere social distancing will be observed and masks will be provided to allattendees.
2020: The Breman Museum in partnership with theSavannah Jewish Federation, Savannah Jewish Educational Alliance, and theSouthern Jewish Historical Society are scheduled to host via Zoom “ReformJudaism in Charleston and Baltimore” during which “Mark Bauman, retiredprofessor of history at Atlanta Metropolitan College, will discuss the originsof Reform Judaism in Charleston and especially Baltimore and how Jews fromthese cities took Reform idealogy across the country as they moved westward.”
2020: Nominations for the Cleveland JewishNews’ “18 Difference Makers” which recognizes those making a difference in theJewish world of northeast Ohio, is scheduled to come to an end this evening.
2021(16th of Tammuz, 5781): ParashatBalak;
2021: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduledto host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano” featuring pianist Benjamin Hocman.
2021: In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel isscheduled to offer in person as well as Zoom Shabbat morning services with thecaveat that live attendees bring their masks and vaccination cards.
2022: JHMOMC is scheduled to present via ZOOM adeep-dive into the connection between the Founding Fathers and the JewishCommunity presented by Rabbi Dr. Robert Fierstien.
2022: The Museum at Eldridge Street isscheduled to host its 21st Annual Egg Rolls, Egg Creams, & Empanadas StreetFestival.
2022: The American Jewish Press AssociationAnnual Conference is scheduled to begin today.
2022: Aspart of Hebrew Book Month, the National Library of Israel is scheduled to hostconversation with award winning author Doris Rabinyan and Yuval Avivi.
2022: The New York Times featuredreviews of books written by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewishreaders including the recent released paperback editions of Let the RecordShow: A Political Hist of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman and EthelRosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba.
2022: The Museum of Southern Jewish Experienceis scheduled to welcome New York Times bestselling author, activist, andcomedian Annabelle Gurwitch who will tell us about her newest work Your LeavingWhen? Adventures in Downward Mobility, as well as her southern Jewish storyin a way only she can - with humor and insight.
2023: The Virtual Belfer National Conferencefor Educators, sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum isscheduled to begin today.
2023: ASF’s Institute of Jewish Experience isscheduled to present “Houses of Life: Synagogues and Cemeteries in Italy,” “avirtual tour of an exhibit currently on display at MEIS - the National Museumof Italian Judaism and the Shoah.”
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta lecture by Trudy Gold on “The Jewish Situation in Western Europe in theInterwar Period and Zionism.”
2024; At the Columbus Brewing Company, TeferithIsrael is scheduled to host “So A Rabbi Walks Into A Bar.”
2024: The Streicker Center is scheduled thefirst session of the online Advanced Hebrew Course.
2024; The Leo Baeck Institute and Center forJewish History are scheduled to present a screening of the documentary “A Treeof Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting” directed by Trish Adlesic, which examines the deadly antisemitic attack on theTree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg “followed by remarks from Scott Miller,former Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust MemorialMuseum and current member of the Tree of Life Memorial Project.”
2024: As June 26th 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 264 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.)
