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399BCE: Socrates drank hemlock as he carried out the death penalty that had beenimposed on him by the government. For centuries to come some Jews would studySocrates and other Greeks, in many cases trying to find a harmony between Judaismand Greek philosophy. Other Jews wouldview Socrates and the other Greeks as the mortal enemies of Judaism and go sofar as to attempt to officially ban the study of their works.
711:Tarik, a Moslem general attacked southern Spain from a place known as JebelTarik or Gibraltar. He soon defeated Roderic, last of the Visigoth kings, atthe Battle of Xeres. Tarik was helped by both the Jews and the rebel PrinceWitiza. After each city was conquered - Cordova, Granada, and Malaga - the Jewswere often given positions of safeguarding Moslem interests.
1220(4thof Iyar): Today after having responded “negatively” to “an ultimatum by theprovincial council, held at Osney Abbey, charged with applying the Laterandecrees in England, that he must abandon his faith, Haggai of Oxford, formerlyRobert of Reading, who had converted to Judaism from Christianity and married aJewish wife in the Oxford Jewry “was burnt alive at the stake at the entranceto Osney Abbey.” (As reported by the Oxford Chabad Society)
1296:During the First War of Scottish Independence, King Edward I defeated the Scotsat the Battle of Dunbar. The first written evidence of their presence datesfrom the last decade of the 12th century. However, nobody is surewhen Jews first arrived in the land of Kilts and Pipes. King Edward had already issued his edict ofexpulsion six years before the battle and it is thought that some of the Jewsfleeing his realm went north to Scotland.
1495:Birthdate Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire one of themost philo-Semitic rulers in history. Hebuilt the walls around Jerusalem that impress tourists to this day. He intervened with Pope to protect the Jewsof Ancona. He provided a haven for theSephardim and Marranos fleeing the Inquisition.He intervened on behalf of Dona Garcia and her nephew Joseph Nassi,bringing them to his capital from a Venetian captivity. Nassi became a close advisor to theSultan. In 1564, the aging Ottomanleader gave Nassi the city of Tiberias so that Jewish refugees from Europewould have a place to settle. And that is just the tip of the iceberg!
1509:As part of what was really a temporal and not a religious dispute with theDoge, Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.Fortunately for the Jews of his days, Julius was more concerned about art (hewas the one who Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel) and power politics ascan be seen with his on-going political and military confrontation with theDoge of Venice, among others. His lack of theology concerns meant that the Jewsenjoyed a period of benign Papal neglect.Furthermore, Julius II employed a Jew named Samuel Sarfatti as hispersonal physician. Life for the Jews living in Venice at this time wasbecoming increasingly precarious. Three years before this, several Jews died inviolence brought on by a “blood libel” and seven years at this, the Jews wouldbe confined to Ghetto Nuova an island containing a foundry (geto in Italian)which made it the original Ghetto.
1584: SirWalter Raleigh dispatched an expedition to explore the area of the AtlantaCoast around Roanoke Island that probably included Joachim Gans, which made“Gans the first recorded Jew in Colonial America.”
1596(9thof Iya, 5356): Rabbi Yakov Eberles, the Krakow born son of R' Moshe GershonAltschuler and Chana Yonah Altschuler,the husband of Gittel Eberlis (Rapaport) and father of Royzu Schrentzel, GoldenHeart; Moshe Eberles and Rabbi Eisik Jekels passed away today in Lesser Poland.
1607:As the Inquisition took action against “Jorge de Almedia, a Portuguese residingin Mexico, the prosecuting attorney renewed the motion that he be adjudged in contumaciam (in contempt)
1667:The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of “Paradise Lost”for £10. According to Elliot Rosenberg, “Milton wrote as Puritan in the Englandof Cromwell’s heritage, and from a Jewish perspective he was a good man. He respected the Hebrew Bible, read it eachmorning until his vision failed, and as he aged, turned more and more to theprecepts of Mosaic law. In his moreworldly capacity as Cromwell’s’ Latin secretary, he may had had a hand in thenegations that led to the return of Jews to England.”
1678:Spanish born Dutch-Jewish printer Joseph b. Abraham Athias “succeeded, through a Jewish agent of thePolish crown in Holland, Simon by name, in gaining still more favorableprotection from the Council of the Four Lands at their meeting today in Lublin,
1694:August II, the ruler whom Naphtali Cohen would go to in an attempt “to securereinstatement in his former rabbinate at Posen” began his reign as Elector ofSaxony. His rise to power was facilitated by his “court Jew” and financierIssachar Berend Lehmann. August II was a contemporary of the Besht who wasmaking his public personna known at about the same time as the Polish Kingpassed away.
1701(19thof Nisan, 5461): Moses Germanus passed away.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0019_0_18945.html
1727:Empress Catherine, I ordered the expulsion of all Jews from the Ukraine.
1737:As far backs as today, records show that the partnership of Minis and Salomons had“dealings with the Trustees of the Colony (Georgia) in relation to issuing whatwere known as ‘Sola Bills’.”
1737: Birthdate of English historian Edward Gibbon,author of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. In an attempt to blame Jews for anti-Semitismat least one writer has claimed that Gibbon wrote “ that, while Jews werepopulous in Rome and suspected and resented by the Romans, Nero’s Jewish wife,the beautiful Poppaea Sabina, probably incited him, as a convert to herJudaism, against a relatively obscure sect, the Christians. Nero’s accusationthat they had set the fires that ravaged Rome began centuries of Romanpersecution of Christians.” However, in Chapter XV:Progress Of The Christian Religion. -- Part II of Gibbon’sclassic, the historian seems to paint a picture of a Christianity’s efforts todistance itself from “Mosaic” doctrine when convenient and adopting its ownversion when it felt it would advance its cause.
1748: The South CarolinaGazette reported today that Solomon Isaacs, an early Jewish settler who underthe names of Solomon Isaacs and Company “sold goods at the House on the Bay inwhich Captain Colco*ck lives” “is a plaintiff in a lawsuit.
1758(19th ofNisan, 5518): Fifth Day of Pesach observed on the same day that Delaware andShawnee Indian warriors attacked Fort Upper Tract in present Pendleton County,West Virginia
1773: In an attempt tosave the British East India Company whose first and only Jewish director wasJoseph Salvador and whose records showed “that Jewish traders controlledvirtually the entire World diamond traffic by the end of the 18thcentury,” today Parliament passed the “Tea Act” which gave it a monopoly on thesale of the brown liquid in North America.
1764:In Amsterdam, Haham Moses Cohen d’Azevedo, the Amsterdam born son of Daniel David Cohen d'Azevedo and SaraCohen d'Azevedo and his wife and Sara deHaham Moses Cohen D'Azevedo gave birth to Benjamin Cohen D’Azevedo
1774:Today, Pierre Briet, acting as a front man for Hanover born Jewish businessmanLiefman Calmer who became the official purveyor for King Louis XV “bought from the creditors of the duke ofChaulnes the lordship of the barony of Picquigny and the function of vidame ofAmiens in the Somme for 1,500,000 francs.”
1781:Charleston merchant and Revolutionary War veteran Marks Lazarus and Rachel DeTorres gave birth to Rachel Lazarus.
1783:In Rheinpalz, Germany Johanna and Abraham Rubel gave birth to Mayer Rubel thehusband of Regina Ehrma and father of Sabina, Reuben, Esther Abraham and JosephRubel.
1796:In London, Hanna Montefiore and Judah Moses Ancona gave birth to Sarah Ancona.
1796(19thof Nisan 5556): The Jewish community of Fossano, Italy was miraculously savedfrom the hands of a murderous mob by a French bomb which landed just in time toscare away the attackers. This day was established as "Purim Fossano"in commemoration of the miraculous salvation.
Forthe complete story, see Purim Fossano
1798:In the Netherlands, Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the son “of Benjamin JonasCohen-Amesfoort and Eva Jacob Cohen” and Eva Gompertz gave birth to HenriTheodor Cohen.
1799(22ndof Nisan, 5559): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1799:As Jews munched on their Matzah for the last time in the 18thcentury, during the “War of the Second Coalition, Austrian and Russian forcesunder the command of Alexander Suvorov defeated the French army lead by JeanMoreau at the Battle of Cassano d’Adda in Lombardy which is now part of modernday of Italy.
1801:In Warrenton, NC, Norwalk, CT native Rebecca Mears Myers and Philadelphianative Jacob Mordecai who were married in 1798 gave birth to George WashingtonMordecai who married Margaret Cameron in 1853.
1802:Birthdate of London native and Amsterdam attorney Samuel Philippus Lipman whoconverted to Roman Catholicism in 1852.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10007-lipman-samu
1803(5thof Iyar, 5563): London born jeweler’sapprentice Abraham Wagg, the holder of “a seat in the Great Synagogue whobecause a successful grocer and chocolate manufacturer in New York where hemarried Rachel Gomez, a member of the wealthy, prominent Sephardi family withwhom he had ten children passed away today in the United Kingdom to which hehad returned because he was a Loyalist during the American Revolution
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wagg-abraham
1815:In Charleston, SC, David Nunes Carvalho and Sara Cohen D’Azevdo, both Englishborn Sephardi Jews gave birth to “painter, photographer, author and inventorSolmon Nunes Carvalho who traveled with fabled explorer John C. Fremont on his5th expedition.
https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/artist/solomon-nunes-carvalho-american-1815-1897
1819:Isaac Harby’s “third and last play, ‘Alberti’” opened today at CharlestonTheater in Charleston, SC.
1820:Birthdate of Herbert Spencer, the English biologist who coined the term“Survival of the Fittest” which he took from the world of biology and appliedit to world of human social development.This concept stands in stark contrast with the Jewish concept ofcreating a society that calls for us to protect “the widow, the orphan and thestranger in our midst” i.e. the weakest
1821: Sarah Mocatta and David Abarbanel Lindo gave birth to Leah David Lindon.
1821:Today, when the Greek Patriarch Gregory, head of the Greek Orthodox Church hadbeen publicly executed, the Turkish Grand Vizier Benderli Ali Pasha wasreportedly to have said to the Jews present, "Here hangs your enemy andours."
1821(25thof Nisan, 5581): Hungarian historian and poet Solomon Löwisohn passed awaytoday.
1822: Birthdate of U.S. Grant, “savior of theUnion” and President of the United States.Grant did issue the infamous Order #10.But at the same time, he had Jewish political allies, was a voluntarycontributor to the building for Adas Israel, the famous congregation inWashington, D.C. the dedication of which he attended. A majority of Jewssupported Grant’s election as President and this eulogy by Felix Adler addsadditional proof to the fact that Grant’s Jewish contemporaries did not viewhim as an anti-Semite.
1824:At “York Place Queens Elm, Sophia and Nathaniel Levy gave birth to ElizabethLevy.
1826(20thof Nisan, 5586): Sixth Day of Pesach
1826(20thof Nisan, 5586): Seventy-one-year-old Austrian rabbi and author Eleazar benDavid Fleckeles, author of “Olat Hodesh” passed away today in his hometown ofPrague.
1826(20thof Nisan, 5586): Denmark born Sara Wulff von Essen, the wife of Isac Hartvi Reeand mother of Thamar, Berend, Hanschen, Israel and Wulf Ree passed away todayin Hamburg, Germany.
1827:This evening in Charleston, SC, Rabbi S.C. Peixotto officiated at the weddingof Rosina Florance, the daughter of Dr. Florance to Dr. Audler of Augusta, GA.
1829:In Bavaria, Zidone Wald and Joseph Hackes gave birth to Yetta Hackes, the wifeof Louis Stix whom she married at Cincinnati in 1852 and with whom she had tenchildren.
1829:In Baden, Germany, Max Oppenheimer and his second wife Sarah gave birth toZacharias Oppenheimer who was named in honor of Max’s father.
1831(14thof Iyar, 5591): Pesach Sheni
1832:One day after he had passed away “Feivel bar Abraham” was buried today at the“Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.”
1832:Benjamin Disraeli met his future wife “Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis at a soiree atBulwer Lytton’s house today;” a meeting which he described: 'I was introducedby particular desire to Mrs Wyndham Lewis, a pretty little woman, a flirt and arattle, indeed gifted with volubility I should think unequalled and of which Ican convey no idea. She told me she liked silent, melancholy men. I answeredthat I had no doubt of it.'
1835:Founding of the 11th Regiment of the New York State Militia whichwas commanded by Colonel Joachim Maidhof when it went off to fight in the CivilWar
1837(22nd of Nisan, 5597): Eighth Day and final day of Pesachobserved for the first time in the Presidency of Martin Van Buren.
1838:A huge fire destroyed the synagogue in Charleston, S.C. Moses C. Levy, who hadbeen worshipping there for forty years, rushed to synagogue in an attempt tosave the Torah scrolls. According to an eyewitness account, he was overcome byinconsolable grief at the sight of the conflagration.
1842:In Sydney, Australia, “Samuel and Rachel (Nathan) Cohen gave birth to Londoneducated, Australian businessman George Judah Cohen who after inheriting aportion of the fortune of his uncle David Lewis pursued a series ofphilanthropies while serving as Vice President of Sydney’s Great Synagogue andraised a family with his wife Rebecca Levy.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cohen-george-judah-5711
http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/cohen-george-judah-5711
1843:In Bratislava, David and Karoline Wottitz gave birth to Moritz Wottitz.
1845(20thof Nisan, 5605): Sixth Day of Pesach
1845(20thof Nisan): Rabbi Ezekiel Panet, author of “Mareh Yehezkel” passed away today.
1845:In Marylebone, Middlesex, London, Hannah (Chana) Benjamin Leonino, the Londonborn daughter of Justina Sebag Cohen and Benjamin Barnet Cohen and her husbandIppolito Leonino gave birth to Barone Charles Emanuel Leonino and EdwardEmanuel Benjamin Leonino
1846(1stof Iyar, 5606): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1846:Birthdate of Baltimore native Martin Emrich who in 1887 moved to Chicago wherehe was a successful businessman and Democrat Party activist who was elected tothe House of Representatives for one term.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000170
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/martin-emerich
1847:Birthdate of New York native Henry S. Hernnan, the banker and realtor who was adirector of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.
1856(22ndof Nisan, 5616): Eighth Day and final day of Pesach observed on the birth dayof the Tongzhi Emperor, “the tenth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty.
1857: Establishment of Jewish congregations inLower Austria prohibited.
1857:It was reported today that Baron Rothschild attended an auction on Rue Druotwhere he expressed a dismissive view of the items being offered.
1859(23rdof Nisan, 5619): Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, English financier and the firstJewish baronet passed away. “Born in London on Jan. 13, 1778 “he was the son ofAsher Goldsmid, and nephew of Benjamin and Abraham Goldsmid, the financiers.Educated at an English school in Finsbury square, he received a sound financialtraining in the technicalities of his father's business of bullion-broking. Ata later period his association with Ricardo made him familiar with the leadingquestions of political science. He became in due course a partner in the firmof Mocatta & Goldsmid, bullion-brokers to the Bank of England and to theEast India Company. His early ventures on the Stock Exchange were unfortunate,and, after losing on one occasion £16,000, he abandoned speculation andcontented himself with steady business as a jobber. Goldsmid gradually rose toeminence as a financier, and ultimately amassed a large fortune. His mostextensive financial operations were connected with Portugal, Brazil, andTurkey; and for his services in settling an intricate monetary dispute betweenPortugal and Brazil he was, in 1846, created Baron de Palmeira by thePortuguese government. Goldsmid was one of the founders of the London Docks.The main effort of his life was made in the cause of Jewish emancipation. Hewas the first English Jew who took up the question, and he enlisted in itsadvocacy the leading Whig statesmen of the time. Soon after the passing of theAct of 1829, which removed the civil disabilities of the Roman Catholics, hesecured the powerful aid of Lord Holland, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke ofSussex, and other eminent members of the Liberal party, and then induced RobertGrant to introduce in the House of Commons a similar measure for the Jews.During more than two years from the time when Jewish emancipation was firstdebated in Parliament, Goldsmid gave little heed to his ordinary business,devoting himself almost exclusively to the advancement of the cause. He was oneof the chief agents in the establishment of University College, London,purchasing at his own risk the site of the university. Goldsmid was a liberalsupporter of the Reform synagogue and of all Jewish institutions (As reportedby the Jewish Encyclopedia)
1860:In Vilna, Lithuania, Aaron Hourwich, a well-educated bank employee and his wifeRebecca Shevelevich gave birth to Isaac Aaronvich Hourwich the lawyer,economist and statistician who fought for social reform in both the UnitedStates in Russia and who was the husband of Louise Joffe.
1862:Birthdate of Rudolph Schildkraut, the son of Constantinople hotel owners whogrew up on Romania before moving to Austria where he pursued a career as anactor before moving to United States in the 1920’s.
1864(21stof Nisan, 5624): Seventh Day of Pesach
1864:As Jews munched their Matzahs, Union Armies under Meade and Sherman broke campand headed South to start General Grant’s national campaign designed to crushthe Confederate Armies under General Lee and General Johnston which he knew wasthe key to ending the Civil War.
1865(1stof Iyar, 5625): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1865:In San Bernardino, CA, Isaac H. Levy and Johanna Gans gave birth to Meyer H.Levy, a member of numerous Jewish communal organizations including the PacificHebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society, the husband of Rose Anita Harris and theauthor of “numerous reports and articles pertaining to the Jewish charities ofSan Francisco.”
1865:The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state’s land grantuniversity. According to recent figures, Cornell has 13,800 undergrads, 5000 ofwhom are a Jewish. It has 3000 graduatestudents of whom approximately 500 are Jewish.The school offers sixteen courses in Jewish Studies. Students may major or minor in the subject.
1865:“April 27, 1865” by Emma Lazarus
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-2305.html
1866:As another sign of how it has changed from a medical facility for indigent Jewsto a community hospital, Officer Milcahy sent Herman Deutchto the Jews'Hospital afterhe had beenstabbed with a carpenter’s chisel during adrunken brawl with Rudolph Schriever.
1866:In New York City, Levi Morris was arrested today on charges that he hadattempted to leave the store of David Valentine &Co with three pieces ofsilk, valued at more than sixty dollars, for which he had not paid.
1866:Fromental Halevy’s grand opera, “Charles VI” was performed for the first timein Batavia, Indonesia.
1867(22ndof Nisan, 5627): Eighth Day of Pesach
1867:At the Crystal Palace in London, first performance of Piano Concerto [No.2] inE flat, Op.89 composed Julius Benedict, the Stuttgart, Germany born “son of aJewish Banker.
1868:In London, UK, Henry Greenburg and his wife gave birth to Heidelburg UniversityPh.D.and graduate from the University of London and Montefiore College, RamsgateLondon,” Rabbi Willliam H. Greenburg “aprofessor of Semitic languages and literature as well as the author of “TheHaggadah, in Arabic and Hebrew with an English translation” who at the ageof 29 he began serving as the leader of the largest congregation in Albuquerquebefore moving on a congregation in Sacramento, CA before settling in at TempleEmanu-El in Dallas, TX.
1868:Mlle. Janauschek gave a performance of "Deborah" tonight at theAcademy in New York City where "she presented her enthusiastic conceptionof the ideal Hebrew maiden."
1869:In New York, Jacob Harris and his wife gave birth to composer and conductorVictor Harris, the husband of the former Catherine L. Richardson and the fatherof Cecilia, Victor, David and Mary Harris.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/50056/Harris_Victor_composer
1870:In Prasnysz, Poland, Amalie Grinberg, the daughter of Rabbi Zvi HirschKalischer and Henrietta (Gütel) Kalischer and her husband of Moritz Grünberggave birth to Nataly Grünberg
1875:Birthdate of Louisville, KY, native and architect William G. Tachau who aspartner in the firm of Pilcher and Tachau designed Mikveh Israel, Gratz Collegeand Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning all of which were locatedin Philadelphia.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/19/90040073.pdf
https://www.peoplemaven.com/p/K62EoG/william-g.-tachau
1876(3rdof Iyar, 5636): Fifty-year-old German native and Princeton and Harvard alumSamuel Hirsch, “the well-known Hebrew lawyer” who “reportedly lost heavily inthe late commercial crisis” died today from an apparent drowning accident inthe East River.
1879:Rabbi Elias Hilikowitz and Riva Rebecca Hilikowitz gave birth to Anna Bressler,the wife of Abraham Nachman Bressler and mother of Riva and Elya Bressler.
1880:Obituary of Joseph Seligman expressed surprise at his sudden death andrecounted his distinguished career.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E0D91F31EE3ABC4F51DFB266838B699FDE
1880 Birthdateof Russian born Rabbi Leon Album, the University of Chicago and StanfordUniversity alum who was the husband of Amelia Album with whom he raised two children– Selma and Manuel Album, the “dentist who was a pioneer in the care ofchildren and the handicapped.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/27/119099940.pdf
1881:Benjamin J and Eliza (Cohn) Goldsmith gave birth to Cornell undergrad andColumbia trained attorney Irving Islington Goldsmith who rose to the rank of 1stLt. while serving with the U.S. Army in WW I and who was a partner in theSaratoga Springs, NY law firm of Schwartz, Slade, Harrington and Goldsmith
1881:A Pogrom began in Elisabethgrad
1881:Yesterday and todays attacks on the Jews of Kiev “were encouraged by theauthorities” and “the promoters of the persecution of the Jews” acted with“impunity.” (As described by the Vienna correspondent for the London Telegraph)
1882:Birthdate of Austria native Edward Hoenig, the Cornell trained gynecologist.
1882:In Jamaica, Isaac Gomes DaCosta was “named to be Quartermaster” today.
1882:“More Room for Patients” published today described the remodeling project atMount Sinai Hospital.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A05E7D9113EE433A25754C2A9629C94639FD7CF
1882:Samuel Ellis, the husband of Esther Aarons, was buried today at the “Balls PondRoad Jewish Cemetery.”
1883(20thof Nisan, 5643): Sixth Day of Pesach
1884:Jesse Seligman, the President of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan AsylumSociety, gave his report at today’s annual meeting. According to Seligman, the asylum served 361boys and that the institution had total assets of almost three hundred thousanddollars.
1885(12thof Iyar, 5645): Seventy-one-year-old English “engineer and politician” Jacobd’Aguilar Samuda, the “younger son of Abraham Samuda” and brother of JacobSamuda with whom he formed Samuda Brothers and who was both an MP and thehusband Louisa Samuda with whom he had one daughter, Ada, passed away today.
1885:In New York, a jury was chosen to hear the case in which Ferdinand Mayer, aJewish businessman is charged with having committed perjury and is representedby Albert Cardozo.
1886(22ndof Nisan, 5646): 8th day of Pesach
1886:In St. Louis Yetta and Samuel Goldman gave birth to Leo Goldman, the father ofCelia, Benjamin, Freda, Helen and Morris Goldman.
1887:Certificates of incorporation for a Talmud Torah in Brooklyn were filed in theCounty Clerk’s office.
1888:In New York City, Celia Block and Solomon Levin gave birth to CCNY graduate andColumbia trained medical doctor Oscar L. Levin, the husband of Fanny Franklinand chief of clinic and instructor at the Cornel University Medical College whowas also the director of dermatology at Israel, United Israel Zion Hospital andthe and author of “Your Hair and Your Health.”
1889:In the Ukraine “Joseph Yussel Handelman and Dobris (Dora) Handelman” gave birthto Abraham Handlelman, the husband of Anna (Boorstein) Handelman with whom hehad two children – Lillian and Arnold
1889:Ester and Benjamin Leventhal gave birth to Jacob Frank Leventhal, the husbandof Ida Tobolowsky Leventhal and the father of Grace Jean Leventhal Goodman.
1890:“Mr. Delaney’s Little Scheme” published today described efforts by of one ofthe incumbent Tax Commissioners to thwart the plans of Mayor Nathan Barnett,the city’s first Jewish mayor, to appoint a new person to the position.
1890:Based on testimony given to the sub-committee of the Joint CongressionalCommittee on Immigration it was reported today of the 25,000 Jewish immigrantswho have come to the United States, 17,000 were Russians and Poles. There are approximately 500,000 Jews livingin the United States of whom 130,000 reside in New York City.
1890:In New York City, Israel Bella Epstein Unterberg gave birth to Mabel Unterbergwho became Mabel Unterberg Nathan when she married Edgard Joshua Nathan
1890:The Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society held its annual meeting today.
1890:In Pittsburgh, PA, Tinnie Klee and Isaac W. Frank gave birth to Cornell Universitygraduate William K. Frank, the husband of Florene Kingsbacher and starting in1917, general manager of the Damascus Bronze Company where he had begun his careerworking as a chemist in 1911.
1890:Henry Seligman was re-elected President at today’s annual meeting of the HebrewBenevolent and Orphan Asylum Society.Seligman delivered the society’s 67th annual report whichincluded the information that the Asylum had cared for 559 youngsters in thepast year.
1891(19thof Nisan, 5651): Fifty-eight-year-old Rabbi Joachim Oppenheim, the husband ofHelen Pund and the father of Berthold Oppenheim passed away today in Berlin.
1894(21stof Nisan, 5654): Seventh Day of Pesach
1894:A circular describing the dangers of consumption and providing about ways toavoid contracting is being printed in several different languages, includingHebrew, in an attempt to reach New York’s large immigrant population
1896(14thof Iyar, 5656): Pesach Sheni
1896:“A Large Betrothal Reception” published today described the engagement partyheld for Lucien Bonehur and Ameila Simon.Bonehour is the President of the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League ofthe Montefiore Home, Vice President of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association andManager of the Educational Fair. He isalso the nephew of Rosa Bonheur, the famous painter. Miss Simon is theSecretary of the Young Ladies and Gentlemen’s League of the Montefiore Home.
1897:Birthdate of New York native Noel Nathaniel Moscovitch who gained fame as movieactor Noel Madison.
1897:“Jews Barred from Romania” published today described a reported given to theU.S. State Department “that the government of Romania has prohibited the entryof Jews into that country.”
1898:B. Albert Lieberman was commissioned as 2nd Lt. in the 3rdMissouri Infantry.
1899:Eleven months after being mustered into U.S. Service, the 4thVirginia Volunteer Infantry whose members included Corporal William D Kahn fromPhoebus, Private Julius T. Lansberg from Norfolk and Captain Bernard WSolomonsky from Norfolk was mustered out of U.S. Service.
1899:Reverend Madison C. Peters, the author of Justice to the Jews, The Witand Wisdom of the Talmud and The Jew as a Patriot defended himselfa*gainst the accusations leveled against him Lionel de R. Cohen of London
1899:In “Dr. Peters Advised to Study” published today Frances Freda praises Lionelde R. Cohen’s negative comments about the views of Reverend Madison Peters
1900Dr. Maurice H. Harris, the Rabbi at Temple Israel in Harlem released a lettertoday “to the Jewish press of America” in which he calls attention to the fiftymillion people starving in India during its latest famine using words thatparaphrases Pirke Avot --“The time is short, the work is great, the necessityis urgent; we ae not expect to finsh the work but we are not exempt from doingour share” – and then ends by asking for each person to contribute “two dollarswhich will save a life until harvest.”
1901:On Shabbat, Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes delivered a sermon at Shearith Israel inwhich he described the work of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
1902:In Yonkers, NY, the police here have evolved a new plan for arresting thedrivers of motor vehicles which run faster than the laws allow which led tobankers Jefferson Seligman, Isidor Wormser and Maurice Wormser being stopped byauthorities.
1902:Henry Rice and other officers of the United Hebrew Charities expressed theirconfidence that members of the Jewish community would raise the $50,000necessary to match the $50,000 gift from William Guggenheim. Guggenheim’s contribution is contingent onthe UHC raising a similar amount.
1902:Birthdate of Pittsburgh native and University of Michigan alum Sally OramKrauss the volunteer social worker at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City andofficer in the National Council of Jewish Women.
1902:The New York Times reports that macaroons, an Italian delicacy, havebecome quite popular during the Passover holiday with Jews living on the LowerEast Side
1903(1stof Iyar, 5663): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1903:Samuel Dort, Grand Master of the Order of Brith Abraham presided over a massheld this evening in the synagogue at 316 East Fourth Street in New York “toprotest against the massacre of the Jews in Kishinev Russia last week.”
1904: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and music executiveSydney Nathan the founder of King Records who “used the pseudonym Lois Mann forsong publishing and copyrights in order to obtain a share of the songwritingroyalties, a common practice among record company owner.”
1904: Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Pinner gave birth to KarlPinner
1905(22nd of Nisan, 5665): Eighth andfinal day of Pesach
1905: Birthdate of Aiken, SC native Anna G. Efron
1906: As Russia prepares to live under a new“Fundamental Law” or Constitution, it was reported today that a coalition ofRussians, Letts, Estonians and Jews had combined to defeat the Germanlandowners seeking to become electors from the Baltic Provinces proving thatpolitics does indeed make for strange bedfellows.
1906: Today, the Homestead reported that the“Hebrews were initiating their own fundraising effort” to aid the victims ofthe San Francisco Earthquake.
1906: Funeral services are scheduled to be heldtoday for Germannative Caroline Meyer Steppacher, the wife of Wolf Steppacher whom she marriedin 1851 and with whom she had four children – Marcus, Walter, Emanuel and Oscar–after which she was buried at the Mount Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia.
1907: On the day after the dissolution of Klauber,Horn and Company, Samuel David Klauber formed Klauber Brothers and Companywhich made no profits in its first six months of operation at which timeKaluber passed away.
1908(26th of Nisan, 5668): Fifty-five-year-oldJacob Voorsanger, the native of the Netherlands who has been serving as therabbi at San Francisco’s Congregation Emanu-El since 1889 passed away today.
1908: Freud's early followers met together formallyfor the first time at the Hotel Bristol, Salzburg
1909:Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and is succeeded by his brother -Mehemed V. Sultan Abdul Hamid II is famous for his refusal to allow Dr.Theodore Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism, to settle Palestine withJewish colonists. But this does not meanthat he was unsympathetic to his Jewish subjects or that Jews were kept from settlingin other parts of Turkey. Abdul Hamid IIwas born in 1842 and died in 1918. During his reign, Turkey was defeated ina war with the Russians. As a result of theTreaty of Berlin, the Turks lost a substantial amount of their holdings in theBalkans. This triggered a migration ofTurks and Jews into the remaining lands of the Ottoman Empire. Abdul Hamid madeplans for an influx 200,000 Jewish immigrants from Russia. Jews played an evermore active role in Turkish affairs.Several Jewish leaders played prominent roles in the Parliament. TurkishJews participated in special festivities celebrating the 400th anniversary oftheir arrival from Spain. After the Alfred Dreyfus case, Herzl made threevisits to Turkey (1898, 1901 and 1903) in attempt to see the Sultan. It was on his third voyage that he wasfinally granted one through the intervention of the Chief Rabbi, Moshe Levy.The Sultan received him and Herzl tried to obtain a Jewish homeland under theprotection of the Sultan under the same statutes as the Island of Crete.
1909(6thof Iyar, 5669): Heinrich Conried, the Austrian born theatrical manager whobecame director of the Metropolitan Opera passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40D17F63A5512738DDDAE0A94DC405B898CF1D3
1909:It was reported today that “The executors of the estate of the late Louis A.Heinsheimer of the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb Co., 52 William Street, willhold a conference in the near future to discuss whether it is possible to makeavailable the $1,000,000 that Mr. Heinsheimer willed to six Jewish benevolentinstitutions on the condition that those institutions shall form aconfederation.”
1910: “Supreme Court Justice Greenbaum, JacobH. Schiff, the banker; Cyrus L. Sulzberger, President of the United HebrewCharities; Dr. L. Rosenberg, Superintendent of the Bedford Sanitarium, and Dr.Maurice Fishberg united tonight at the Educational Alliance in East Broadway inurging the people of the lower east side to move out of that section if theywished to escape the menace of tuberculosis.:
1911: Today, The Jewish Chronicle stated thatit is rumored that Sir Mathew Nathan, the former Governor of Natal will becomethe next “British Resident in Egypt” which would make him the first Jew sinceJoseph to “have taken the most prominent place in the government of Egypt.”
1912(10th of Iyar, 5672): ParashatKedoshim
1912: Dr. Judah Magnes presided over the thirdannual convention of the Kehillah or Jewish Community which opened tonight with“Jacob Schiff offering memorial resolution for the Jews who had lost theirlives on the Titanic including, Benjamin Guggenheim, Henry B. Harris, Edgar J.Mayer, George Rosenchein, Benjamin L Foreman and Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Strauss”after which “the whole gathering a rose in silence as the resolution was put toa vote.”
1913(20th of Nisan, 5673): Sixth ofPesach
1913:At 3:00 a.m. the police received a call from the factory's night watchman, NewtLee, reporting the discovery of a dead girl who was in fact Mary Phagan.
1913:In Chicago, at Sinai Temple Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch will oversee Pesach andConfirmation Services which will be led by the students.
1913:In Manhattan, Marcus and Celia Adler, two Jewish immigrants from Poland, gavebirth to “Irving Adler, a former New York City teacher who became a prolificwriter of books on math and science for young people after being forced fromthe classroom during the Red Scare of the early 1950s…” (As reported by DennisHevesi)
1913:Dr. Samuel Schulman delivered his last lecture for the season today at theTemple Beth-El in New York. It was on the “Song of Songs.” He talked combinedthe themes of Passover and the ideal woman as presented in this book of theBible. “The love of nature, the love ofwoman, the love country and the love of god – that is what the book, the Songsof songs teach us. That is everyPassover the book Song of Songs is read.”
1913:Rabbi Joseph Stolz is scheduled to deliver a sermon “An Old Love Song” at theIsaiah Temple in Chicago.
1914:During the second day of the Fifth Assembly of the Eastern Council of ReformedRabbis a luncheon was given in honor of Adolph Lewisohn, the founder of theLewisohn Lectureship.
1914(1stof Iyar, 5674): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1914(1stof Iyar, 5674): Fifty-six year old James Doppelmayer, the Marshall, TX born sonof Meyer and Rosalie Doppelmayer, the husband of Bella Davis Doppelmayer andthe father of Marguerite, Walter and Rose Marie Doppelmayer who worked in thefamily dry goods store with his brother Moses passed away today in Marshallwhere his father Meyer and his Uncle Daniel and his Uncle Isaac Woolf hadarrived in the 1850’s which later led to his cousin Joe Weisman settling there,passed away today.
1914:Today, the Reverend C.B. Ragsdale signed an affidavit “in which he swore heoverheard the negro ‘Jim’ Conley confess to killing Mary Phagan” which onJanuary 28, 1915, he testified was a “false affidavit” for which he was paid$200 by attorney Arthur Thurman, C.C. Tedder and Dan S. Lehon, the Southern Managerof the W. J. Burns Detective Agency which employed both Thurman and Tedder.
1915:During the Gallipoli Campaign, the 300 men serving under Colonel John H.Patterson in the Zion Mule Corps landed off the Dundernoon. Despite having had only three weeks oftraining, the Mule Corps served with distinction.
1915:Birthdate of Abraham Judah Klausner the native of Memphis, TN who was one offive children of Rabbi Joseph Klausner and Tillie Binstalk Klausner. Aftergraduating from Hebrew Union College in 1941 he served as “a Jewish chaplain inthe United States Army who arrived at the Dachau concentration camp a few daysafter its liberation in 1945 and a strong voice for thousands of Holocaustsurvivors who remained in displaced persons camps for years after the war…(Asreported by Dennis Hevesi)
1916:One day after he had passed away, 68-year-old Israel Miller, the husband of theformer Liba Nachama, with whom he had had five children was buried at the“Belfast Jewish Cemetery” in Northern Ireland.
1916:“Joseph Barondess, Chairman of the Jewish Congress Organization Committee sentword to the newspapers tonight that news had been received by the committeethat a massacre of Jews had been arranged by reactionaries in Russia, to beginwith the Easter holiday, which under the Greek calendar will be in about twoweeks.”
1916:In an example of Jews versus Jews, the efforts of the Mayor of New Yoek “toavert a lockout of more than 60,000 workers in the cloak and suit industry byoffering their services as mediator came to naught” tonight “when the Executivecommittee of the Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Protective Association decidedthe that they close shop immediately” in what is called a lockout” and “fightthe union.” (A number of the clothing manufacturers were Jewish and a largenumber of the workers in the garment industry were also Jewish.)
1916:As a threat of a work stoppage in New York’s garment industry seem to become areality, Dr. Felix Adler, a member of the Council Conciliation could not bereached.
1916:“Benjamin Schlesinger, President of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’Union said that if the manufacturers carried out their threat of a lockout theentire (garment) industry would be tied up next week.”
1917:U.S. Ambassador Francis sent a cable today from Petrograd to the United StatesDepartment in response to a message “sent by Louis Marshall, Henry Morgenthau,Jacob H. Schiff, Oscar Straus and Julius Rosenwald of the American JewishCommittee to the Russian Foreign Minister” which said that “the RussianProvisional Government is very appreciative of the sympathy of American Jews,”realizes the threat posed by German militarism and will not make a separatepeace with Germany.
1917:“A.B. Leah & Co., investment bankers, who had made a specialty of Russiansecurities received today from A. Oppenheim, their Petrograd representative, acable message which said that conditions in Russia were ‘very satisfactory’ andannouncing that the new Government loan was a ‘complete success’ with Jewsparticipating largely in the purchase of the bonds.”
1917:“It was announced today that a Poale-Zion ‘tag day’ would be held in May toraise funds for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1917:Dr. M.H. Harris is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Our Duty to America” atTempe Israel of Harlem.
1917:Adolph Lewisohn who has previously not been a supporter of the Zionist movement“authorized the Provision Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs toissue a statement tonight beginning “I think favorably of the establishment ofa Jewish State in Palestine and hope that the League to Enforce Peace willinclude the Jewish nation among those small nationalities which ought to beliberated and protected.”
1917:Albert Lucas, the Executive Secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee, wasquoted today as having said that “in Constantinople there a 60,000 destituteJews” of whom thanks to “the efforts of the American Jewry” 20,000 “are enabledto get one meal – only a bowl of soup of some kind – every other day.”
1918:A cable was received today by the Provisional Zionist Committee of New YorkCity describing “the reception accorded to the Jewish Administrative Commissionwhen it arrived at Jerusalem where it was greeted by several dignitariesincluding the Orthodox rabbis representing the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews andthe Colonel Storrs, the British Military Governor.
1919:Else Lasker-Schüler’s first and most important play, Die Wupper, was performed for the firsttime at the Deutsche Theatre in Berlin.
1920:In Vienna, violence aimed at Jews continued with German students attackingJewish students with swords and canes and a riot broke out when Monarchiststudents barred Jews, socialists and several eminent professors from entering.
1921(19thof Nisan, 5681): Fifth Day of Pesach
1921:As part of the peace settlement ending World War I, Germany is ordered to pay132 billion gold marks in reparations.The economic dislocations that would be caused by these reparationpayments are given as one of the underlying causes for the disintegration ofthe inter-war German economy and society and the rise of Hitler.
1921:In Chicago, Robert Tandler Mack, the son of Rebecca and William Jacob Mack andJeanette Mack gave birth Robert Tandler Mack, Jr, the author of Raising theWorld’s Standard of Living who was the husband of Doris Mack and the fatherof Robert Tandler Mack III
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Worlds-Standard-Living-Tandler/dp/1258197340
1921:In the Bronx, Alfred C. Nietzel and Ruth Laence gave birth Alfred B. Nietzelwho was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor during the Battle of theHurtgen Forest in November, 1944. Thecitation for the award read in part “"That afternoon, Sergeant Nietzelfought tenaciously to repel a vicious enemy attack against his unit. SergeantNietzel employed accurate, intense fire from his machine gun and successfullyslowed the hostile advance. However, the overwhelming enemy force continued topress forward. Realizing he desperately needed reinforcements, Sergeant Nietzelordered the three remaining members of his squad to return to the companycommand post and secure aid. He immediately turned his attention to coveringtheir movement with his fire. After expending all his machine gun ammunition,Sergeant Nietzel began firing his rifle into the attacking ranks until he waskilled by the explosion of an enemy grenade.”
1922(29thof Nisan, 5682): Seventy-four year old Russian born “Jewish scholar” and RabbiSimon Zaretsky, the founder of “Congregation Anshe Oshmane and the husband ofDora Zaretsky with whom he had five children passed away today.
1922:Birthdate of Warren, Ohio Sol Berkowitz, the Queens College and Columbiatrained composer and music educator who “was a professor at the Aaron CoplandSchool of Music at Queens College.”
1922:Birthdate of Manfred Gans. When he was 16 when his parents sent him to England,fearing for his life as a Jew in Nazi Germany, and when war broke out heclamored to join the British armed forces. Finally he was accepted, his fluencyin German earning him a spot with a secret commando unit.” As a Captain in the British Army, he helpedfree his hometown, the ancient walled city of Borken His house, on theoutskirts of town, had been used as a Nazi headquarters; the wine cellar was atorture chamber. His parents, Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans, had been takenaway. Eventually Ganz was able to trace them Theresienstadt where they werere-united.
1922: Birthdate of Jack Klugman. Born inPhiladelphia, Klugman had a very successful career on the stage, film andtelevision. Like all good Jewish boys, he was a doctor - in this caseQuincy, the Medical Examiner. Many of you remember him as Oscar Madisonin the Odd Couple. The oddest thing about this television version The OddCouple is that Tony Randall (born Leonard Rosenberg) was Jewish giving a wholenew dimension to the term popularized by the Jewish playwright Neil Simon.
1923:Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld of Columbus, Ohio, the American Minister to Persia waspresented by representatives of the Persian Jewish with a silver plateinscribed with the Ten Commandments which was a token of gratitude for hisintervention in their behalf which end the anti-Semitic disorders last year.
1924:“Seventy-five representatives of Temple Sisterhoods are attending the annualmeeting and conference of the New York State Federation of Temple Sisterhoodswhich opened tonight in the auditorium of Temple Beth Emeth in Albany, New York
1925:“It was officially announced tonight that the Earl of Balfour” who as ForeignSecretary in November, 1917 made “his famous declaration regarding theprovision for a national home for the Jews in Palestine” will be appointed LordPresident of the Privy Council.
1926:“New contributions of $324,230 were announced today at the first rally andreport meeting, held in the Hotel Biltmore, in the United Jewish Campaign toraise $6,000,000 in Greater New York toward a $15,000,000 national fund torelieve the millions of Jews who are suffering from famine, disease and unemploymentin Eastern Europe.”
1927:Austrian born American composer Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steinermarried Audree van Lieu today.
1928:In the Bronx, “Meier Weintraub, who owned a toy and baby-carriage business, andthe former Anna Bogatz” gave birth to Fred Robert Tucker, the Bar Mitzvahstudent of Metropolitan Opera star Richard Tucker, the driving force behind theBitter End, a cultural force that reached far beyond Greenwich Village.
1929(17thof Nisan, 5689): Shabbat Shel Pesach
1929:In an interview with the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency inJerusalem, Felix M. Warburg revealed that “the Zionists and the non-Zionistswho are to form jointly the extended agency for Palestine have reach acompleted agreement on the constitution of the new body…”
1930:In his sermon this morning at Temple Emanu-El, “Dr. Nathan Krass declared thatas very man sees the truth in a different light, he can but preach it as heunderstands it, that the false prophets are only those who know they arepreaching what is wrong, that the pulpit speaks the truth as it understandsit.”
1930:“According to a report on investigations by the American Jewish JointDistribution Committee made public” today “the Allied Jewish Campaign, “anabnormal record of Jewish insolvency, with may resulting suicides, revealed inEastern Europe, indicates that the hope that Jewish populations there wouldsoon be able to get along without American charity is no way justified…”
1931:“The Budapest Rabbinate has proclaimed” today a “fast day in commemoration “ ofthe shooting earlier this month at the Great Synagogue in the Tabek Gasseduring Emil Zatloka shot four Jews -- Tauglich, Ignatz Pinter, Leo Kera, andEugen Roth (As reported by JTA)
1931:The Washington, DC campaign to raise $60,000 for the American Jewish JointDistribution Committee is scheduled to come to an end today.
1931:It was reported today that the speakers at the testimonial dinner for HerbertD. Perlman included Solomon Schelinsky, Leon Sanders, Mrs. David de Sola Pool,Max Silverstein, Samuel Koenig, Albert Ottinger and Magistrate Adolph Stern.
1931:Birthdate of refusenik and Israeli economist Ida Nuel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/world/middleeast/ida-nudel-dead.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nudel-ida
1932:The New Republic published “The Supreme Court and a Balanced Budget” by FelixFrankfurter.
http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/felix-frankfurter
1932(21stof Nisan, 5692): Seventh Day of Pesach
1932(21stof Nisan, 5692): Forty-two-year-old Sutter, CA native Otto Oscar Dannenberg,“the youngest child of Charles and Mary Amanda Dannenberg and husband IceophineElsie Zimmerman passed away today after which he was buried in Dixon, CA.
1933:The American Jewish Congress and other organizations continued preparations fora march to be held on May 10 in New York to protest Germany’s treatment of herJewish population. At the same, the American Jewish Committee and its alliesissued a statement opposing the upcoming event as “futile.” “They serve only as an ineffectual channelfor the release of emotion.”
1933: The German government prohibited thepractice of ritual Jewish slaughter of animals for meat.
1933:Denouncing the persecutions and discriminations practiced against Jews inGermany by the Hitler government, the American Jewish committee, acting inconjunction with the B'nai B'rith, Jewish fraternal organization, issued astatement today disapproving boycotts, parades and mass meetings as measuresfor bringing relief to the sufferers.
1933:Otto Blumenthal, a German mathematician who converted to Christianity as youngstudent, “was arrested and detained. He had been denounced as a communist bythe Aachen Student Association, certainly a false accusation, and after twoweeks he was released but he was suspended from his teaching duties at theuniversity. The official reasons were not racial, but rather cited hisinvolvement with the German League for Human Rights and the Society of Friendsof the New Russia.” In other words hewas not arrested because under German racial laws, he was a Jew because hisparents were Jews.
1934:Premiere of “Liliom,” a “French fantasy film” directed by Fritz Lang whoseJewish converted to Catholicism with music by Franz Waxman.
1934: George Gershwin and George S. Kaufman areamong those sponsoring t “The Film and Photo League” motion picture costumeball scheduled to take place this evening which also includes a photo exhibitof the works of Ralph Steiner.
1935:In Brooklyn, Dorothy Alter, a housewife and her husband Morris, the owner of“lamp repair shop” gave birth to Lean Rose Napolin the Alfred Universitygraduate who gained fame as the playwright who created the Broadway hit“Yentl.” (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1935:In Syria, Beirut banker Jacob Sifra who founded Banco Safra in São Paulo andhis wife gave birth Moise Y. Safra who followed in his father’s BrazilianBanking footsteps.
1936:It was reported that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise told a meeting of 1,500 at the HotelAstor that an additional $150,000 was being raised in addition to the$3,500,000 already being raised by the United Palestine Appeal Campaign inresponse to the recent outbreak of violence in Palestine.
1936: In Berlin, “the Official Gazetteannounced today that two scholarships of the Felix Mendelsohnn-BartholdiFoundation would be awarded in October this year to talented and diligent musicstudents” who can present data proving that they are not Jews” which based onNazi race laws Mendelssohn was and his music has been officially banned forthat reason.
1937: “Officials of B’nai B’rith saidtoday they had been given to understand that Secretary of State Cordell Hull,in a letter to be sent soon to Alfred M. Cohen of Cincinnati, the president ofthe organization, would set forth his views concerning the recent dissolutionof B’nai B’rith in Germany.
1938:The Palestine Post reportedfrom Warsaw that the Polish Vice-Prime Minister, Professor Kwiatkowski,declared that his government intends to pursue a vigorous policy ofPolonization of cities and trade and will further the emigration of allnon-Polish elements. This statement was seen as a call for a furtherintensification of the economic boycott and a direct threat to the existence ofthe three-and-a half million strong Jewish Polish community.
1938: Lev Landau, the head of the Theoretical Division at theInstitute for Physical Problems, was arrested by the NKVD and sent to Lubyankaprison for comparing “the Stalinist dictatorship to Hitler.”
1939: There is hope in Hungary that both house of parliament willpass the “compromised Jewish bill” “which provides that all persons whoseancestors live in Hungary prior to 1848 and who were themselves baptized for August 1, 1919 shall berecognized as non-Jews apart from certain disqualifications to which are alsosubject.” (Editor’s note – in the end the tap-dance would not matter to themass of Jews sent to Auschwitz in 1944.)
1939: Today, “American authorities are investigating the case ofLeib Schenker a Galician born Jew and American citizen now imprisoned atReichenberg having been charged with complicity in plot to kill Hiterl
1940: British ForeignOffice official H. F. Downie argued that the Jews are "enemies just as theGermans are, but in a more insidious way," and that "our two sets ofenemies [Nazis and Jews] are linked together by secret and evil bonds."
1940: Himmler ordered the establishment ofAuschwitz Concentration Camp
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/auschwitz-birkenau-concentration-camp
1941:In “Franz Boas and the Aims of the Science of Man,” published today ErnestHarms provides a detailed review of Race, Language and Culture by FranzBoas.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/04/27/85315687.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1941: German troops occupied AthensGreece. This would be the opening act in a tragic drama that would leadto the demise of thevery old, Greek Jewish Community, including the Jewsof Salonika.
1942: Jews living in Belgiumwereforced to wear stars.
1942: Jews throughout Greater Germany wereprohibited from taking public transport.
1942: One thousand Jews were deported from theTheresienstadt Ghetto to Izbica Lubelska, Poland; only one person survived - awoman who escaped after arrival. Other Theresienstadt deportees were sent totheir deaths at the Sobibór and Belzec extermination camps.
1942(10thof Iyar, 5702): Eleven-year-old Ruth Bachrachova was murdered today at Isbica.
1942(10th of Iyar, 5702): TheNazis executed 60Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Among the victims were people suspected of beinginvolved with the ghetto's underground newspaper.
1942:After three days, the liquidation of the Wloclawek Ghetto was completed whenthe remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno.
1943(22ndof Nisan, 5703): Eighth Day of Pesach
1943(22ndof Nisan, 5703): Cantor Gershon Yitzchak Sirota ”was murdered with his entirefamily during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto on the last day ofPassover.” Gershon Sirota was born in Podolia Guberne in 1874. When just ayoung child, he was already helping his father, a noted cantor, to conductservices in the local synagogue. Soon his parents moved to Odessa and Gershon'swonderful voice began to become well known. Yakovkin, cantor Yankel Seroka'schoir director at the Shalashner Shul immediately offered the young Sirota aposition in his choir. Shortly afterwards, Sirota was introduced to BaronKalbos, the director of a Music Conservatory, and admitted on a scholarship.Gershon quickly made great stridges in his musical education and, as a result,was assigned larger solos in Yakovkin's choir. One Shabbat morning Sirota wasasked to sing in the Shalashner Shul. After his magnificent performance he wasappointed Assistant Cantor, with the salary of 100 rubels a month. It was notlong before Yankel Seroka came complaining to Gershon's father that his youngson ws trying to take away his position. Sirota resigned and accepted theCantorial post at the Prikashtchikes Shul in Odessa.
In1896 Sirota became Cantor of the famous Vilna Shtat Synagogue, where heremained for nine years. There is choir directors were Yitzchak Schlossberg,Nathan Abramson and later Leo Loew. When Leo Loew became choir director, hearranged for a special concert, in which Cantor Sirota sang with theaccompaniment of a large, newly founded choir. This concert was a tremendoussuccess and the newspapers wrote enthusiastic reviews. He and Leo Loew began toreceive invitations from Bialystok, Grodno, Minsk and other Russian cities tomake new concerts. Sirota's appearances were so well received and praised thatSvatopolk-Mirsky, the Russian Gubernator General decided to visit the VilnaShtat Synagogue to hear Sirota. A few days later, the General sent a letter to theCzar's wife, Maria Feodorovna, highly praising the young cantor's talent. Sherequested that he perform at a concert sponsored for the benefit for the VilnaInstitution for the Blind. Shortly arfterwards, Gershon Sirota was called toSt. Petersburg to give a series of concerts before Czar Nicholas II. He wasthen asked to give yearly concerts in St. Petersburg, and Moscow by ImperialCommand. The publicity of Sirota's name soon came to the attention of the majorrecording companies in Europe. In 1903, twelve records of Sirota's liturgicalselections were released. This event achieved for him the great honor of beingthe first Cantor to record his voice of phonograph records. His recordings weredistributed throughout Europe and later appeared in America. The medium ofthese records soon made Sirota's name world famous, even though he had not yetappeared in many of the countries which his records had already reached.Meanwhile, in Warsaw, the directors of the Tlomackie Synagogue were looking fora new Cantor. Gretzhandler, who had held the Cantorial post, was now old andthe Synagogue needed a fitting successor to take his place. They offered Sirotathe position because of his great popularity and Cantorial ability. He wasthirty-one years old when he accepted the position, which he held for nineteenyears. In February 1912, Cantor Sirota made the first of what was to be manyconcert tours of America. He appeared at Carnegie Hall, The Hippodrome, and theAcademy of Music in New York before making tours to the other large cities.
During1913 he returned again on another concert tour, appearing at Kessler's Theatre,The New Star Casino, The Palace Garden, and Carnegie Hall. His third American visit in 1921 began withan appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House, accompanied by MeyerMachtenberg's hundred voice choir. Arturo Toscanini and the famous Opera StarJoseph Schwartz were among the prominent celebrities who attended the concert.He then conducted services in many famous Synagogues, singing for the High HolyDays at the Kalvariah Shul in Harlem. During the seasons of 1924, 1925, and1927, he also officiated in New York for the Yamim Noraim. When he returned toEurope (after conducting services at the Bronx Winter Garden for the Benefit ofthe Beit HaMidrash HaGadol of Harlem in 1927), the Tlomackie Synagogue hadalready chosen a Cantor to replace him. They took this action, because theywere very disturbed about his constantly leaving them to daven elsewhere inAmerica for the High Holy Days.In 1935, Sirota became Cantor of the NorzickShul. That year, a concert was held in his honor at the Warsaw Coliseum and healso made a trip to Israel. There he conducted services for the High Holy Daysat Magrabi Theatre.His last trip to America was made in 1938, when he davenedfor the Yamim Noraim in Chicago and during Succot in Milwaukee. He thenreturned to Europe, after receiving a telegram that his wife was critically illin Warsaw. With the outbreak of the war, Sirota was imprisoned in the WarsawGhetto with his family and the other Jews of the city. He conducted High HolyDay Services in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941
1943:TheWarsaw Ghetto Uprising continued into its third week. This isamazing when you consider that France with a modern Army surrendered to theNazis after six weeks. By now thousands of Jewswere being rounded up andmarched away. But the Jews continued their counter attacks from rooftops above,doorways and windows. Jewish women and children huddled in buildings, stayingwiththeir armed protectors fleeingonly when thosestructureswere set on fire by the advancing Nazis.
1943:Eminent American poet Ezra Poundcontinued his anti-Semitic broadcasts from Italy. He called the Jews"rats," "bedbugs," "vermin," "worms,""bacilli," and "parasites" who constitute an overwhelming"power of putrefaction."
1943:During WW II, G.I. (and future New York Mayor) Ed Koch wrote “I’m tired but notdismayed. The chow (chili con carne) was terrible but I scraped the plate. Itwill be a long time before I’ll get used to the open latrine. The fellows inthe bunk are pretty good. Mother acted fine in the station. I think that I’llget along fine. . . . The beer stinks, it leaves a taste in my mouth.
1943:"The United States Vice Counsel in Casablanca reported that 'it seemsindubitable that there is a systematic persecution of the Jews by the Pasha ofBeni-Mella.' Jews had been expelled from their homes and shops for up toa week and 'arbitrary economic measures had been directed against them,including a ban on any Jewish trade in vegetables or poultry. There hadalso been random arrests and beatings...David Cohen, who half-blind, wassentenced to six weeks in prison for not saluting a Muslim official." [Formore on this see Gilbert's "In Ishmael's House" and Statloff's"Among the Righteous"]
1944: Psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch published the first of twovolumes of The Psychology of Women. http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/27/1944/helene-deutsch
1944(4thof Iyar, 5704): Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Israel, the Jewish, French doctorand resistance fighter was arrested and summarily by the French Milice,murderous para-military organization organized by the pro-Nazi Vichy governmentafter which “during his funeral, the people of Mâcon rallied together, and morethan a thousand individuals attended, despite the city still being under Nazi/Vichyoccupation.”
1945: Mussolini and his mistress were caught whiletrying to escape outside of Lake Como. Theywere executed and theirbodieswere brought to Milan where the next day theywere hung up bytheir heels from lampposts,then cut down, and mutilated.WhenHitler heard of this, supposedly, he made his decision totake his ownlife and have his body burned. He was afraid of being captured by theRussians and/or having his corpse savaged by those upon whom he had unleashedso much misery.
1945:The British Parliamentary Delegation organized at the request of Churchill inorder that they would have first hand, visual proof German atrocities reachedBuchenwald where they saw a “half-naked skeleton tottering painfully along thepassage as though on stilts” who “drew himself …smiled and saluted” as thedelegates approached.
1945:An original typescript of the Nuremberg Laws signed by Hitler was found todayby the 203rd Detachment of the U.S. Army's Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC),commanded by Martin Dannenberg, in Eichstätt, Bavaria.
1945:2nd Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko (Red Army)pose for a formal picture signifying the final link up of the two armies at theElbe River.
1946(26thof Nisan, 5706): Parashat Achrei Mot
1946(26thof Nisan, 5706): Fifty-nine-year-old Russian born, NYU graduate BorisFingerhood, “one of the founders of Israel Zion Hospital” who had married Mrs.Sylvia Golden after his first wife Nadezhda Finerghood had passed away diedtoday at his home.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/04/28/91613055.pdf
1946:In separate speeches the Premier of Iraq and Ahmed bey Shukairy head of theArab Office in Palestine threatened unspecified action that “will not be word”should the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommend the admission of anyadditional Jewish immigrants to Palestine. The Iraqi premier promised action,not just on the part of his country, but on the part of the Arab League aswell.
1946:After 657 performances the curtain came down on the original Broadwayproduction of “Bloomer Girl,” a musical with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and a scoreby Harold Arlen
1946:U.S. premiere of “The Glass Alibi” directed and produced by W. Lee Wilder.
1947:“Representatives of member states of the Arab League met for four hours”tonight “to plan strategy to force inclusion of their demands for the immediateindependence of Palestine on the agenda of the special session of the UnitedNations General Assembly.”
1948(18thof Nisan, 5708): Fourth Day of Pesach
1948:During the Israeli War for Independence, the British landed a tank battalionand an artillery regiment at Jaffa.Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Minister, informed the Britishcommanders that they must prevent the capture of Jaffa by the Jews ‘at allcosts’.” The British artillery shelledHaganah units and British aircraft attacked Jewish settlements in thearea. This is an example of the “evenhanded” policy pursued by the British during this period.
1948:The Arab Legion crossed the Jordan River on the “road bridge” near thetown of Gesher, a Jewish settlement. TheArab Legion was the name given to the army of what is now the Kingdom ofJordan. It was trained, equipped andofficered by the British. It was themost effective fighting force in the Middle East. The Jordanians crossed the river withintention of seizing a police fort and the town of Gesher. The Jewish settlers were told evacuate withinan hour and to turn the fort over to the Arab Legion. The Jews refused to leave and the Legionattacked. So confident were they ofsuccess that the heir to the Jordanian throne had come to watch what was sureto be a victorious battle. However, whenthe smoke cleared, the Jews had held on and the Legion retreated back fromwhence they had come.
1949: :Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog, Israel's chief rabbi,arriving this afternoon at the New York International Airport, Idlewild,Queens, said that unless Israel's housing situation was remedied immediately"a condition may arise that may cause us to consider a curtailment ofimmigration."
1949: “United States Major General John H. Hilldring” who hadsympathized with Jewish statehood project” and who had helped stimulate theUnited States delegation to secure the needed two-thirds majority vote in theGeneral Assembly favoring partition, arrived at Haifa today “aboard an Israeliship that had sailed from Marseille” for what he described as a private visit.
1950:The modern state of Israel was officially recognized by the British government.
1950:Britain recognized the annexation by King Abdullah of Jordan of all land westof the Jordan River and the Dead Sea seized by his troops during the fightingthat followed the partition vote of November, 1947.
1952:The Jerusalem Post reportedthat Jerusalem suffered a severe shortage of water because the JerusalemElectric Corporation had withdrawn power from the water pumping stations untilthe municipality settles a debt of IL60,000.
1952:The Jerusalem Post reportedthat Israel expressed regret at the resignation of General William D. Riley, asthe Chief of Staff of the U.N. Truce Supervisory Organization. A furtherdeterioration of the border situation was expected, as the appointment ofGeneral Riley's expected successor, General de Ridder, known for his one-sideddecisions, was completely unacceptable.
1953: Maud Gonne, the Irish born actress and revolutionary who wason “good terms with Marcel Habert” a known French anti-Semite, passed awaytoday.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20817FF3E5811738DDDAC0894DB405B8985F0D3
1954: The film WhiteChristmas, starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, premiered. Once again a signature piece of Americanabears a Jewish imprint.
1954(24thof Nisan): Underground fighter and Yiddish poet Shmerke Katcherginsky died in aplane crash today
1955(5thof Iyar, 5715): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1956:U.S. premiere of “Godzilla, King of the Monsters!” produced by Joseph Levine.
1957(26thof Nisan, 5717): Parashat Kedoshim
1957(26thof Nisan, 5717): Sixty-nine-year-old Lithuanian born “businessman,philanthropist art collector and founder of L.M. Rabinowitz and Company (acorset manufacturing company) Louis M. Rabinowitz, the husband of RoseRabinowitz and father of University of Michigan trained civil rights attorneyVictor Rabinowitz who “established endowments at Yale University and the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem” and who “funded Nelson Glueck's archaeological tripsto the Negev of Israel” while seeing to it that his art collection went to YaleUniversity Art Gallery after he passed away today.
1958:Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hurwitz announce the engagement of their daughter HelenSaundra to Mr. Paul David Peisach, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peisach.
1958:During an interview with Mike Wallach. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr discussed severaltopics including anti-Semitism.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/niebuhr_reinhold_t.html
1959(19thof Nisan, 5719): Fifth Day of Pesach
1960(30thof Nisan, 5720): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1960(30thof Nisan, 5720): Sixty-seven-year-old Boston born Abraham Benjamin Cohen, thePresident of the United States Shoe Corporation and Jewish leader who was “amember of the board of governors of HUC and the board of trustees of the JewishHospital” known as A.B. Cohen, the husband of Dolly Lurie Cohen and the fatherof Ralph I. Cohen passed away today.
1962:Connie Francis recorded “Button and Bows” a popular song created by the Jewishteam of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
1962:Some of My Best Friends…” a report by the ADL about discrimination writtenby Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster is scheduled to be published today byFarrar, Straus and Cudahy.
1962:But Not Next Door in which authors Harry Rosen, an executive of theJewish Hospital of St. Louis and David Rosen, “an executive of the JewishCommunity Centers Association of Chicago” describe what happened when it waslearned that some houses in Deerfield, IL “were to be sold to Negroes” isscheduled to be published today by Ivan Obolensky.
1962:“Chips With Everything” by Sir Arnold Wesker opened “in the West End at theRoyal Court Theatre” today.
1963(3rdof Iyar, 5723): Parashat Tzaria-Metzora
1963(3rdof Iyar, 5723): Eighty-year-old New York native and NYU trained real estatelawyer Alexander Pfeiffer who “was a founder and boarf chairman of the UnitedHome for Aged Hebrews in New Rochelle and the husband of the “former LilieLowenfield” with whom he had three children – Fred, Paul and Roslyn – passedaway today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/04/28/356684532.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1963:Rabbis used the upcoming 15th anniversary of the creation of thestate of Israel as a theme for their sermons. At New York’s Temple Emanu-El,Rabbi Julius Mark said that “for a small nation to have achieved and maintainedits independence for a decade and a half in these turbulent times is in itselfno mean accomplishment…Of one thing we may be certain, Israel is here tostay. While her constant plea is forpeace, she will not shrink from war – may God forefend it – if her sovereigntyis threatened. Her citizens aredetermined not to be exterminated as were their fellow Jews in Hitler’s hellholes. If Israel goes down, she will godown fighting.” At Congregation Tifereth Israel, Rabbi Kurt Klappholz said that“The successful experiment of the state of Israel will, in the words of Isaiah,be a ‘light unto the nations.’” He went on to praise Israel for her willingness“to share her scientific and technical edge as her educational know-how withthe new emerging republics of the African continents.”
1963:Ambassador Katriel Katz, Consul General of Israel, spoke at Congregation B’naiJershurun where he paid tribute to the late Izkhak Ben-Zvi, Israel’s secondPresident and reviewed the accomplishments of the state of Israel over the pastfifteen years.
1964:Birthdate of Jennifer Burstain, physician par excellence, mother of four reallyneat sons and an asset for the Temple Judah Jewish community.
1964:German born Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum whose family had escaped the Holocaustconvened a meeting today at Columbia University that planned what would becomethe first public demonstration demanding freedom for the Jews of the SovietUnion.
1965:Birthdate of Dr. Jennifer Burtstain, the wife of Dr. Todd Burstain and themother of four of the neatest sons who are the pride of the Cedar Rapids Jewishcommunity.
1965: FamedBroadcast Journalist Edward R Murrow passed away at the age of 57 after fighting alosing battle with lung cancer. Murrow gained fame for his coverage of WorldWar II. One of his most famousbroadcasts came on April 15, 1945 when he described the Liberation ofBuchenwald to the American listening public. Murrow was a staunch supporter ofIsrael. When Teddy Kollek visited him in1964, Murrow told him that once he had licked cancer he wanted to be the UnitedStates Ambassador to Israel.
1966:After having served as head of the Air Department in the General Staff since1961, Mordechai "Mottie" Hod became Commander of the IAF. Hod led the Israeli Air Force through itsmost brilliant moment, the strikes that opened the Six Day. Hod served as theair commander until 1973, leaving office six months before the Yom Kippur War.
1967(17thof Nisan, 5727): Third Day of Pesach
1967:The 20th Cannes Film Festival where “Three Days and a Child” wasnominated for Best Film opened today.
1967:Birthdate of Rhehovot, Israel Yitzhak Avni, the “actor entertainer andtelevision” known as Aki Avni whom American audiences saw in “Free Zone”starring Natalie Portman.
1968(29thof Nisan, 5728): Parashat Shimini
1968:“I'm Solomon,” a musical with music by Ernest Gold which had opened April 23, 1968,and closed today after seven performances.
1968:Birthdate of Todd Thalblum, husband of Sabrina Thalblum (Cedar Rapids’ ashishchayel) who would become the Rabbi of Temple Judah in 2010.
1969:Three days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be heldat Roth Memorial Chapel this afternoon for seventy-seven-year-old Yonkers NY,native and Dickinson College trained attorney, Joseph Altman a powerful figurein New Jersey politics which led to his serving six terms as the Mayor ofAtlantic City while raising his son Michael with his wife Lillian.
1970(21stof Nisan, 5730): Seventh Day of Pesach
1971(2ndof Iyar, 5731): Sixty-six-year-old Galveston, TX native and University of Texasphysician Harry Hauser, the Professor of Radiology at the Western ReserveUniversity’s School of Medicine who raised two sons, David and Daniel, with hiswife Miriam passed away today.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148/101.2.455?journalCode=radiology
1973:An Italian clerk was killed when Palestinian terrorists attacked the El Aloffice in Rome.
1973:A terrorist plot was foiled today when 3 Arabs carrying explosive were arrestedbefore they could board a plane bounced for Nice, France. (As reported byJewish Virtual Library)
1976(27thof Nisan, 5736): Yom HaShoah
1976:“So Long, 174th Street,” “a musical with a book by Joseph Stein andlyrics and music by Stan Daniels” opened on Broadway today at the HarknessTheatre.
1976:Sophie Masloff began serviing as a member of the Pittsburgh City Council.
1977:“Between the Lines,” a romantic comedy directed by Joan Micklin Silver, theOmaha born daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Doris Shoshone and MauriceDavid Micklin, directed by her husband Raphael D. Silve and co-starring JeffGoldblum was released in the United States today.
1978:The Jerusalem Post reportedthat two German volunteers were killed when Arab terrorists threw a bomb into atourist bus parked in the center of Nablus.
1978:The Jerusalem Post reportedthat in Washington, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan, and the U.S.Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, were reported to be unable to reach anagreement in their quest for peace in the Middle East, and awaited the arrivalof the Prime Minister, Menachem Begin.
1979:Soviet dissidents and Jewish activists, includingMark Dymsh*tz and Edward Kuznetsov who were exchanged by America for two Sovietspies, arrived in New York City today.
1980: One hundred thousand “people attended the ninth annualSolidarity Day rally of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry.”
1980: This afternoon Rabbi Charles Lippman of Temple Beth Am inPearl River, NY officiated at the wedding of “Marcia Robinson Lowry, directorof the children’s rights project of the ACLU and Frederic Adams Mosher, aprogram officer at the Carnegie Corporation” which was held at the home of thebirde’s aunt and uncle, “Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Finkelstein of Manhattan.”
1981: Actress Barbara Bach (born Barbara Goldbach) married RingoStarr
1981: “The Floating Light Bulb” written by Woody Allen anddirected by Ulu Grosbard and starring Beatrice Arthur as “Enid” “opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre inLincoln Center today.”
1982(4th of Iyar, 5742) Yom HaZikaron
1983(14th of Iyar, 5743): Pesach Sheni
1983: Today, Southpaw Bob Tufts pitched his “first and only gamein Yankee Stadium.”
https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/now-pitching-the-great-bob-tufts/
1983: In Boston, Jewish parenting expert Joani Geltman and hernon-Jewish husband Greg Graynor gave birth to actress Ariel Geltman “Ari”Grayenor
1984(25th of Nisan, 5744): Sixty-one-year-old HansArthur Aalsmeer, the son of Charles Aalsmeer and Margaretha Schwarz passed awaytoday.
1984: A revival of “Hello Dolly” starring female impersonatorDanny La Rue as Dolly came to a close at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
1984: The daily Israeli newspaper Hadeshot “was ordered to stoppublishing for four days” for having reported that Minister of Defence Arenshad set up a committee of inquiry, headed by Reserve General Meir Zorea toinvestigate facts surrounding what became known as the Bus 300 Affair.
1986(18thof Nisan, 5746): Fourth Day of Pesach
1986(18thof Nisan, 5746): Funeral services are scheduled to be held this afternoon atCongregation Beth Sholom in Rhode Island for 87 year old Morris I. Fishbein theChelsea, MA born son of Sarah Miller and Louis Fishbein, the husband of Helen(Bennett) Fishbein with whom he had four children – Gilbert, Joseph, Ruth andHarriet – who was “a contractor and real investor as well as a member ofCongregation Beth Sholom, Congregation Mishkon Tifiloh and the Providence, RIHebrew Free Loan Association.
1987(28thof Nisan, 5747): Eighty-seven-year-old Rachel Lichterman, the London born daughterof Emanuel and Sarah Leah Epstein and the wife of New Yorker Abraham Lichtermanpassed away today.
1987: The Justice Department barred AustrianPresident Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he aided in thedeportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Armyofficer during World War II. Yes, the Secretary General of the UnitedNations was a soldier an officer in Hitler's army.
1989(22ndof Nisan, 5749): Eighth Day of Pesach
1989:“Ghetto” a play set in the Vilna Ghetto written by Joshua Sobol opened in theOlivier Theatre today under the direction of Sir Nicholas Hytner.
1990:After having premiered in Italy in December, “Black Orchid” directed by ZalmanKing was released today in the United States.
1991(13thof Iyar, 5751): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1991(13thof Iyar, 5751): Eighty-six-year-old Samuel Zetzer, the “son of Cala and JacobZetzer” passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
1993:In “Museum Opens With Firm Grip On the Emotions,” published today Diana JeanSchemo described the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/27/us/museum-opens-with-firm-grip-on-the-emotions.html
1995(27thof Nisan, 5755): Yom HaShoah
1996: Operations Grapes of Wrath, the Israelimilitary incursion into Lebanon brought on by terrorist attacks and theinability of the Lebanese government to control its own borders, came to anend.
1997(20thof Nisan, 5757): Sixth Day of Pesach
1997:The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Irving Berlin: Songs From theMelting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914 by Charles Hamm, Streisand: ABiography by Anne Edwards and Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B.Reich.
1997:Memorial services are scheduled to be held this after at the UCLA FacultyCenter for Judge Jerry Pacht.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-04/news/mn-45393_1_jerry-pacht
1998(1stof Iyar, 5758): Rosh Chodesh Iyar.
1998:“Hacker Case Taps Into Fame, Fury” provides a description of the activities of18 year old computer hacker Ehud Tenenbaum whose skills were praised by PrimeMinister Netanyahu admiringly as “damn good.”
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/27/news/mn-43491
2000(22ndof Nisan, 5760): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
2000(22ndof Nisan, 5760): Ninety-three-year-old University of Chicago trained attorneyElmer Gert whose clients included Nathan Leopold, Arthur Miller and Jack Rubyand who married Mami Laitchin Friedman after his first wife Ceretta Samuels hadpassed away died today. (As reported by Eric Pace)
2000:Today, Steve “Wynn purchased the Desert Inn for $270 million.
2000:Jack Lang completed his second terms as a member of the French NationalAssembly for Loir-et-Cher.
2001:A Central Intelligence Agency file on Adolf Hitler was made public today,including a report that described the Nazi leader as a "border casebetween genius and insanity" and predicted that Hitler could become the"craziest criminal the world ever knew."
2001:The C.I.A. files on 19 other wartime figures, like Josef Mengele, the sad*sticdoctor at the Auschwitz death camp; Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of theextermination of Europe's Jews, and Heinrich Mueller, the feared Gestapo chiefwere released today.
2002(15thof Iyar, 5762): Seventy-seven-year-old Jakub Goldberg the Polish film maker who“was co-writer and assistant director of Polanski's feature debut Knife in theWater” passed away today in Denmar,
2002(15thof Iyar, 5762): Ruth Handler passed away at the age of 85, having providedAmerica with a revered icon and piece of popular culture. Born in 1916, Handlerwasthe youngest of 10 children in a Polish-Jewish immigrant family thatsettled in Denver. In 1945, Handler's husband and a partner started whatwould become the Mattel Toy Company. During the 1950's Handler inventedthe "Barbie Doll" which took its name if not its anatomy from herdaughter, Barbara. Barbie was joined by the "Ken Doll" namedfor Handler's son, Kenneth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/arts/ruth-handler-whose-barbie-gave-dolls-curves-dies-at-85.html
2002(15thof Iyar, 5762): Danielle Shefi, 5; Arik Becker, 22; Katrina (Katya) Greenberg,45; and Ya'acov Katz, 51, all of Adora, were killed when terrorists dressed inIDF uniforms and combat gear cut through the settlement's defensive perimeterfence and entered Adora, west of Hebron. Seven other people were injured, oneseriously. The terrorists entered several homes, firing on people in theirbedrooms. Both Hamas and the PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack. (Asdescribed by theJewish Virtual Library)
2003: The NewYork Times included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish readers including recently released paperback versions of ElvisIn Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel by Tom Segevin which “the author maintains that Israel's connection to the United States isdriving a transformation in the nation's cultural life, weakening socialsolidarity while boosting the role of the individual.”
2003:In Champaign-Urbana, The fifth annual Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festivalcloses.
2004(6thof Iyar, 5764): Yom HaAtzma’ut
2005(18thof Nisan, 5765): Fourth Day of Pesach
2005:In “Nothing Can Be Compared to the Massacre of 6 Million Jews” published today“Israeli President Moshe Katsav discusses Israel's withdrawal from the GazaStrip, the new pope, the special relationship between Jerusalem and Berlin andhis worries about the rise of anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism in Europeand Germany.”
2006:“Rabbi Yona Metzger filed a petition with the Supreme Court of Israel toprotest Mazuz's public declaration alleging that his image had been destroyedwithout a chance to tell his side of the story, and accusing Menachem Mazuz ofengaging in "child-like" tactics. Metzger's lawyer charged thatMazuz's report on Metzger contained unverifiable information and that itconstituted a personal attack on the rabbi without giving him the benefit of adefense or hearing. The petition requested that the second half of Mazuz's30-page report, in which he harshly attacked Metzger's conduct and recommendedhis removal, be stricken from the record.”
2007:Dr. Jonathan Karp and Dr. Jonathan Schorsch present "Blacks and Jews in AmericanPopular Music-The Business of Cultural Mediation" at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
2007: New York Mets star Shawn Green(currently sixth in National League hitting), along with teammates DavidNewhan, Scott Schoeneweis and Aaron Sele, reportedly paid a visit to the UnitedStates Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Green, who called thevisit “intense” and “educational,” found himself particularly moved by adisplay of victims’ shoes. Newhan, whose great-grandmother was killed duringthe purge of the Warsaw Ghetto, was also deeply moved. “It was pretty heavy,”he told the Journal News, “but something definitely worthwhile.” He said heplanned to take his 2-year-old son when the time was right. Newhan, though barmitzvahed at a Conservative synagogue, today considers himself to be amessianic Jew. Green and Schoeneweis are both Jewish; Sele is not. The Mets’chief operating officer, Jeff Wilpon, who serves on the museum’s board,arranged the outing.
2008: Eighth Day of Pesach, 5768 – Traditional (Orthodox,Conservative, et al) Jews recite Yizkor
(Here is a suggestion for what do with the all the leftoverMatzoth ButterfingerComedy Network on Yahoo! Video.
2008:The Ramle Conference 'Between Israel and the Nations' takes place. The RamleConference which deals with the relationship between the Jewish people and thenon-Jewish minorities living in Israel is the first of its kind.
2008:Annie Leibovitz’s topless photo of a 15-year-old entertainer “was publishedwith an accompanying story on The New York Times' website” today.
2009(3rdof Iyar, 5769): Phillip Stein, the musician who created the mural on the backwall of the Village Vanguard, passed away today at the age of 90.
2009:At the JCC in Columbus, Ohio, Israel Memorial Commemoration features aremembrance ceremony with former IDF soldiers and screen the documentary film"A Hero in Heaven" about the life of Michael Levin (Z"L)
2009: The Leo Baeck Institute presents multi-mediaevent featuring a book and film both which are entitled “The Kissinger Saga,Two Brothers from Fürth.”
2009:Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, the former (now emeritus) president of GeorgeWashington University, discusses and signs Big Man on Campus: A UniversityPresident Speaks Out on Higher Education at Reiter's Scientific &Professional Books in Washington, D.C.
2009(3rdof Iyar, 5769): Yom Hazikaron events begin this afternoon with a ceremony atthe Ammunition Hill battlefield in Jerusalem in the presence of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu
2009:“The Confession of Eliot Spitzer” is the cover story for Newsweek magazine.
2009:Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist “signed legislation removing the word‘shylock’ from Florida’s criminal money-lending laws.”
2010: "My Father's Microcosm, Tel Aviv", a photographicinstallation by Israeli photographer Yossi Guttmann is scheduled to have itsfinal showing at the Williams Club of New York.
2010: Dr. Ori Z. Soltes,Goldman Lecturer in Theology at Georgetown University, is scheduled to discuss“Famous Jewish Trials: From Jesus to Eichmann” at Northern Virginia focusing onthe cases of Jesus of Nazareth, the “Blood Libel" cases during the SpanishInquisition, the early twentieth century trials of Jews in Czarist Russian, theU.S. trial in the 1920's of Leo Frank, the Rosenberg trial in the 1950's, andthe1961 Israeli trial of Adolf Eichmann.
2010(13th of Iyar, 5770): Doctor Stanley I. Greenspan, a psychiatrist who invented an influentialapproach to teaching children with autism and other developmental problems byfolding his lanky six-foot frame onto the floor and following their lead invigorous play, died today at a hospital in Bethesda, MD at the age of 68.
2010: The Jewish Federation communities of theCommonwealth of Virginia “have written a letter to Governor Bob McDonnellasking him to reconsider this decision that lifted a ban on Virginia StatePolice troopers referring to Jesus Christ in public prayers.
2011: Kinky “Friedman launched his Springtime ForKinky Tour (cf. "Springtime For Hitler") in Kansas City, Missouri atKnuckleheads Saloon] which includes dates in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentuckybefore heading towards the east coast.
2011: In preparation of YomHaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Detroit’s Congregation Beth Ahm isscheduled to screen “Hidden Poland”, a one-hour documentary film recounting theexperiences of four people who were hidden children in Poland during the Shoah.
2011: Three days after she had passed away, funeralservices were scheduled to be held today for Joan Peyser, “the masterstoryteller who was a biographer of seminal figures in 20th-century music, aswell as an editor and a winner of six ASCAP/Deems Taylor Awards.”
2011: Today on the 189th anniversary ofU.S. Grant’s birth it was announced “Ron Chernow has signed a deal to write a‘comprehensive biography’ of Ulysses S. Grant” just days after he Chernow hadwon the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his book Washington:A Life.
2011: Fatah and Hamas, therival Palestinian movements, announced an agreement in principle today to end ayears-long internal Palestinian schism.
2011: Moroccan Jews whosuffered under the Nazis and their allies during World War II will for thefirst time ever receive compensation from Germany, a Jewish group announcedtoday.
2011(23rd of Nisan, 5771): Sixty-year-oldDr Stanley I. Greenspan, a psychiatrist who documented the developmentalmilestones of early childhood and developed the widely used "FloorTime" method for teaching children with autism and other developmental disorders,passed away today.
2011: In Mitzvah Tanks Roll Again,” Gabe Johnson andTamir Elterman describe the reappearance of this unique Chabad invention.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/mitzvah-tanks-roll-again/
2012:“Love During Wartime,” a film about an Israeli Jewish woman in love with aPalestinian Moslem man, is scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish FilmFestival.
2012:“Safe” directed and written by Boaz Yakin was released in the United Statestoday.
2012: Shabbaton Shirav’Kehilah, a Shabbat of Song and Community is scheduled to begin at the KaneStreet Synagogue.
2012: David Samson, the owner of the Miami Marlinsbaseball team “completed a 52.4 mile run to honor the workers who built the newballpark, and which raised over $550,000 to be split among 10 charities.
2013: Ossie Schectman, “is credited with havingscored the first basket in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), whichwould later become the National Basketball Association (NBA)” ‘gave his verylast autograph to young NBA fans who came to visit him in his home for theelderly in New City, New York.”
2013:The recently retired chief of Israel’s internal security agency said tonight thathe had “no faith” in the ability of the current leadership to handle theIranian nuclear threat, ratcheting up the criticism of Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak from the defense and intelligencecommunities. (As reported by Jodi Rudoren)
2013:“Dancing In Jaffa” is scheduled to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.
2013:In Livonia, Michigan, “Bookstock,” co-sponsored by the Jewish CommunityRelations Council is scheduled to come to an end
2013:The National Park Service and the United States Military Academy are scheduledto host the official government ceremony commemorating the 191st anniversary ofPresident Grant’s birth. While there are those who would paint Grant as ananti-Semite his Jewish contemporaries did not view him as can be seen by thefact that Jews overwhelming supported him when he ran for President and by thiseulogy by Professor Felix Adler http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50E15F8355911738DDDAF0A94DC405B8785F0D3
2013:A heat wave hit Israel today and caused several fires across Israel, ahead ofJewish holiday Lag Ba'Omer (bonfire night). Army Radio reported that one manwas lightly injured today in a fire started from burning embers left by hikers.
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Heat-wave-causes-outbursts-of-fires-across-Israel-311273
2014:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding I Pity the Poor Immigrant, Zachary Lazar’s “novel of spiritualdiscovery featuring Meyer Lansky, an American journalist and the murder of anIsraeli poet,” Mount Terminus, David Grand’s novel about the early daysof the movie industry featuring half-brothers Simon Reuben and Bloom Rosenbloomand In Paradise, “Peter Matthiessen’s novel about a Zen retreat atAuschwitz.”
2014:The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host“Downtown Washington,” a “tour of the historic 7th Street, NWneighborhood” that “includes four former synagogues.
2014(27thof Nisan, 5774): In the evening start of Yom Hashoah. While the 27th of Iyar is theofficial date for Yom Hashoah, when the 27th of Nisan falls on aSunday, the observance takes place on the 28th of Nisan (Monday) “toavoid adjacency with Shabbat.”
2014:Three days after he had passed away, funeral services are scheduled to be heldfor Dr. Charles A. Schwartz, the husband of Dr.Sheila Schwartz, the father ofPamela Fay Cohen, Julia Molly Healy, David Ansin Schwartz and Columbia andBoston University graduate and award winning television journalist ElizabethCohen (Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz) and wife of Israeli-born Entrepreneur TalCohen.
https://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/cohen.elizabeth.html
2014:“Light and Shadows: The Story of the Iranian Jews” an “exhibition that tell therich and complex history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities” isscheduled to come to an end at Yeshiva University Museum.
2014:“The March of Life” under the title “Remembering, Reconciling and Shaping theFuture in Friendship” is scheduled to come to an end in Hungary.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179748#.U1smEJtOWpo
2014:Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are being declared saints of the RomanCatholic Church today, the day that is also the eve of Yom Hashoah
http://www.timesofisrael.com/from-pope-to-saint-two-men-who-revamped-jewish-catholic-ties/
2014:In New Orleans, the keynote speaker at the Holocaust Memorial Program isscheduled to be eighty-eight year old Philip Bialowitz, one of only sevensurvivors of the Sobribor revolt at the Nazi death camp who was 17 at the timeof the revolt, joined with his brother and others to overwhelm the guards andhelped free 200 of the 600 prisoners housed there” whose memoir is A Promiseat Sobribor: A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-OccupiedPoland. (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News)
2014:“Golda’s Balcony” a one-woman show starring Tova Feldshuh as the Israeli PrimeMinister is scheduled to be performed for the last time this evening at theD.C. Jewish Community Center.
2014:In Coralville, Iowa, Rabbi Jeff Portman has organized a memorable andmeaningful series of Yom HaShoah events that are scheduled to include theFourth Annual Music of Commemoration at Agudas Achim and a reading by ProfessorLud Gutmann, MD from his book Richard Road: Fleeing the Holocaust andGrowing Up In Rural America.
2014:Holocaust Remembrance Week is scheduled to begin today.
2015:“The Last Sentence” and “Let’s Go” are scheduled to be shown at the WestchesterJewish Film Festival.
2015(8thof Iyar, 5776): Ninety-year-old Dr. Alexander Rich who provided the visualproof of the DNA’s Double Helix passed away today. (As reported by Denise Gellene)
2015:Dana Kalishov is scheduled to discuss the important role of the IDF inproviding invaluable educational and leadership opportunities, fostering thegrowth of pluralism, encouraging respect and equal rights for women, members ofthe LGBT community, and other minorities at the Northern Virginia JewishCommunity Center.
2015:“In the Community: Touchdown Israel” is scheduled to be shown at the Gershman Yas part of the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.
2015:Michele Gold author of Memories that Won't Go Away:A Tribute to the Childrenof the Kindertransport is scheduled to speak at the US Holocaust MemorialMuseum.
2015: Mark Gelber and Birger Vanwesenbeck are scheduled todiscuss “Stefan Zweig and World Literature: 21st Century Perspectives” at theCenter for Jewish History.
2015: In Baltimore looterscarried away over a million dollars in merchandize as they vandalized theSports Mart a business started in 1980 by 89 year old Leon Levy and his sonsHarvey, Marc and Brian.
2015: CongregantsChallenge Sale of Bulwark of Judaism on Lower East Side published todaydescribed the dispute surrounding the sale of the Home of Sages “a Manhattannursing home in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge.”
2016(19th ofNisan, 5776): Fifth Day of Pesach
2016(19th ofNisan, 5776): Eighty-seven year old abstract artist Harold Cohen passed awaytoday in California.
2016: “Common Ground”written by Israel Yael Ronen is scheduled to be performed at the Segal Theatretonight.
2016; “The first Jewishfilm festival of Casablanca, which was organized in the Moroccan city by aSephardic Jewish woman from Atlanta” and which was attended by nearly 300people came to an end today.
2016: “Two Palestinianterrorists this morning attempted to stab Border Policemen at Qalandiyacheckpost north of Jerusalem before being shot and killed by security forces.”
2017(1st ofIyar, 5777): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2017(1st ofIyar, 5777): Ninety-six year old Julius Young “the last surviving member ofJonas Salk’s original research team” passed away today. (As reported by SamRoberts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/science/julius-youngner-dead-salk-polio-vaccine-researcher.html
2017(1st ofIyar, 5777: Eighty-nine year old Holocaust survivor and “award winning authorand illustrator Peter Spier” passed away today. (As reported by RichardSandomir)
2017: Dan Margulies isscheduled to lead an early Talmud study session on Tractate Sukkah at theStreicker Center
2017: The NationalMuseum of American Jewish Military History and the Jewish Historical Society ofGreater Washington are scheduled to host a tour of the exhibition “Jews in theAmerican Military” followed by a presentation by JHS curator Christiane Bauer,who will share treasures from our collection related to the involvement ofJewish Washingtonians in "The Great War."
2017: The UKJF isscheduled to host a screening of “Photo Farag” which tells “the story of thephotography studio in Israel” as the Phoenix Cinema.
2017: The AmericanSephardi Federation is scheduled to present “A Vanished People: Jewish Heritagein the Greater Middle East.”
2017: 195thAnniversary of the birth of U.S. Grant, the underrated general who understoodmodern warfare which led to the Union victory and who offered the position ofSecretary of the Treasury to his friend Jesse Seligman who declined the offerwhich would have made him the first Jewish member of the Cabinet.
2018: Today, “flanked bythe Nassau County Democratic Chairman and the Governor of New York, AnnaKaplan, the native of Tabriz and Cardozo School of Law trained attorney, whohad fled her homeland after the Islamic Revolution, “announced her candidacy forthe New York State Senate's 7th District to a large gathering of supporters andstate and local Democratic elected officials at the "Yes We Can CommunityCenter" in Westbury, New York.”
2018:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Friday night servicesfollowed by a Shabbat dinner.
2018:“The Love Letter “directed by Atara Frish is scheduled to be shown at theTribeca Film Festival.
2018:“The National Park Service and the United States Military Academy at WestPoints” are scheduled to “host the official government commemorating the 196thanniversary of the birth of President U.S. Grant, the first sitting Presidentto contribute to a synagogue building fun and to attend synagogue services – inthis case Adas Israel in Washington, D.C.
2019:Israeli Culture in North America, which presents and discusses “the works ofyoung emergin and established Israeli artists in the performing, visual,literary and cinematic arts recommends attendance at the “Debut concert ofso&so” that is scheduled to take place this evening at the Brooklyn ArmoryTerminal.
2019:On the secular calendar, six month anniversary of the Pittsburgh SynagogueSlaughter, the deadliest one day killing of Jews in the United States.
2019(22ndof Nisan, 5779): As Jews attended services at Chabad of Poway Synagogue inPoway, CA, a gunman shot four including the rabbi, murdering one woman.
2019:This evening award winning biographer Ron Chernow is scheduled to be thefeatured speaker at the 2019 White House Correspondents Dinner
2019(22ndof Nissan, 5779): Eighth Day of Pesach; 7thDay of the Omer;
2020:ASF IJE Travels in Jewish History... from Home is scheduled to presentExpedition to Iraq, a journey in time and space, that features BabylonianJewish shrines, schools, cemeteries throughout the country with stops inBaghdad, Basra, Mosul, al-Kifl, and Amediye, powered by Diarna Geo-Museum Tours
2020: The Israeli American Council – Boston isscheduled to host the Yom Hazilkaron Online Commemoration Ceremony.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to host“Jewish Resilience Through Chocolate” a virtual “sweet” presentation by RabbiDebbie Prinz.
2020: The Center for Holocaust and GenocideStudies at Salem State University is scheduled to host a livestream of aHolocaust remembrance ceremony.
2020: As part of a special Israel IndependenceDay “Tikvah Life” presentation, Dr. Ran Baratz is scheduled to speak live fromJerusalem on “The Strengths of Israel: A Civilizational Assessment.”
2020: In Coralville, IA, Agudas Achim isscheduled to host its first Yiddish study group via Zoom.
2021:The Combined Jewish Philanthropies are scheduled to present, online “Redemptionand the Unquiet Mind in the Exodus Narrative” during which “world-renownedauthor and Torah scholar Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg discuss mental unease asa factor in the Exodus epic” as part of the
Ruderman Synagogue Inclusion Project (RSIP)
2021: The Schusterman Center for Israel Studiesis scheduled to present online an “Artist Workshop with Dana Arieli: “TheZionist Phantom.”
2021: In New Orleans, LCMC and the SchoenbaumFamily Foundation are scheduled to sponsor "Hello Gorgeous," a virtual tour of thelife of Barbra Steisand, located at the Bernard Museum of Judaica in New Yorkwhich is open to Lions of Judah (women who give a minimum household gift of$5,000 to the Federation's 2021 Annual Campaign) and the members of theirhouseholds.
2021:YIVO is scheduled to present “The Jewish Experience in Opera” a paneldiscussion which “will include four prominent composers of such operas ofJewish experience: Ofer Ben-Amots, composer of one opera in Hebrew based on TheDybbuk and another in Yiddish on Isaac Bashevis Singer's story, "A Fool'sParadise"; David Schiff, whose opera, Gimpel the Fool is also to a Singerstory; Bruce Adolphe, whose operas include Mikhoyels The Wise—about thelegendary Soviet Yiddish actor—and Shabbtai Zvi, about the 17th-centuryso-called "false messiah" naively followed by many thousands of Jews;and Alex Weiser, who wrote an opera about Theodor Herzl, State of the Jews,with librettist Ben Kaplan who will also join the panel.”
2021:As part of The Sir Martin Gilbert Churchill Conversation Series Allen Packwoodand Lord (Michael) Dobbs are scheduled to “discuss Churchill’s legacy on stageand screen.”
2021:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Malcolm Gladwell as “he discusses thelaunch of his new book The Bomber Mafia.”
2021:The ADL is scheduled to host the webinar “A Special Briefing on the State ofAntisemitism in the U.S.”
2021:Following a weekend where “at least 36 rockets were launched on Israelicommunities in the south” and yesterday’s meeting of the Security Cabinet, asof today Israel is prepared to launch a “substantial air force attack on theGaza Strip if the launch rocket fire into Israeli territory persists.” (Asreported by Itamar Eichner and Yoav Zitun).
2022:In London, The Wiener Library is scheduled to host a “Virtual Panel Discussionon Holocaust Distortion.”
2022:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host an online lunch and learn on“Stories of Survival: In Conversation With Jim Lommasson, Holocaust SurvivorRalph Rehbock, and Deputy Consul General Daniel Aschheim”
2022:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host the first session of “Paul: RadicalConvert of Lifelong Jew?” with Dr. Mark. W. Weisstuch.
2022:The auction for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s modern art collection isscheduled to take place today.
2022:This evening, the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to hostSteven Pressman who will discuss his film “”50 Children: The Rescue Mission ofMr. and Mrs. Kraus” as part of their Yom Ha’Shoah Holcaust Remembrance Dayobservance.
2022:LBI is scheduled to present Lore Segal discussing her latest book , TheJournal I Did not Keep.
2022:This evening UK Jewish Film is scheduled to present the first screening of “IAm Here.”
2022:Erev Yom Hashoah, the American Society for Jewish Music, the Center for JewishHistory, LBI and YIVO are scheduled to present flutist Urlrike Anton, theSelini String Quarter and students from the Mannes School of Music at the NewSchool performing “Forbidden Music: Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis.”
2022:Two months after initial reports of the Polio outbreak in Israel, the HealthMinistry is prepared to begin a widespread vaccination drive for children.
2022:Ninety-six year old Olga Czike Ka, a survivor of Auschwitz and the Kauferingand Bergen-Belsen is one of six Holocaust survivors scheduled to to light memorial torches at Israel’sofficial state Yom Hashoah commemoration ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalemthis evening.
2023:The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and ADL Philadelphiaare scheduled to host “Faith in the Face of Hate” during which “prominentnational faith leaders, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker of Temple Emanuel andReverend Mark Kelly Tyler, Ph.D. of Mother Bethel AME Church, will discusscombating rising antisemitism and hate crimes in a conversation moderated byJane Eisner, director of academic affairs at Columbia University.”
2023:In Cleveland, the Maltz Performing Arts Center is scheduled to host “An EveningWith Josh Ranor,” the actor, writer, director and musician originally fromColumbus, OH who “can currently be seenhunting Nazis in the Jordan Peele-produced “Hunters” for Amazon Prime and“Fleishman Is In Trouble.”
2023:The Skirball Department of Hebrewand Judaic Studies, and the Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU are scheduledto present "You can't look at the same Cloud twice": An encounterwith acclaimed Israeli poet and writer Tal Nitzan.
2023: In New Orleans, Tulane Hillel isscheduled to host a gallery viewing and opening reception to celebrate “TulaneHillel's Portrait Identity Project which uses portraiture photography andinterviews to share the unique stories of Tulane students and diversify thenarrative of what it looks like to be Jewish.”
2023: The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan isscheduled to present the first session of “Who Are We? 120 Years of Art inIsrael.”
2023: In New Orleans, the Jewish CommunityCenter is scheduled to host a screening of “Code Name: Ayalon” which “is adocumentary to forever preserve an important period in the infancy of theJewish state.”
2023:The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for JewishHistory is scheduled to present a lecture by Rachel B. Gross on “Family HistoryToday: Give Us Our Name - Jewish Genealogy and American Jewish Religion - Liveon Zoom.”
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by David Peimer on “Jerusalemin Poetry and Myth.”
2024:“Nebulous,” Orit Hofshi’s debut solo exhibition is scheduled to come to a closeat the Yossi Milo Gallery
2024:Eden Tamir Center is scheduled celebrate the 85th birthday of pianistOxana Yablonskaya with a “Cello and Piano Recital.”
2024:As April 27th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweepsthe United States and the Hamas held hostages beginday 204 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2024(19th of Nisan, 5784): ShabbatShel Pesach; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
