August 14
508: Maurice, the Emperor of the Byzantine Emperorwho in 592 would punish “the entire Jewish community of Antioch after a Jewviolated one his laws” began his reign today.
1084: Yusuf al-Mu’tamin, King of Zaragoza defeatedSancho Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre at the Battle of Morella, which wasa temporary setback for the Reconquista, an event, which when completed led tothe expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
1197: "In the year 4957, on the twenty-eighthof Ab, there was a great persecution of the Jews in the kingdom of Leon at thehand of the two kingdoms that came to besiege it. At that time they removedthence the twenty-four sacred books which were written about 600 years before.They were written by R. Hillel ben Moses ben Hillel, and hence his name wasgiven to the codex, which was called 'Hilleli.' It was exceedingly correct; andall other codices were revised after it. I saw the remaining two parts of it,containing the Former and Latter Prophets, written in large and beautifulcharacters; these had been brought by the exiles to Portugal and sold at Bugiain Africa, where they still are, having been written about 900 years ago. Kimḥiin his grammar on Num. x. 4 says that the Pentateuch of the Hillel Codex wasextant in Toledo."
1349: Walram of Jülich , the Archbishop of Colognewho “protected” the Cologne Council from paying the debt it owned to “a Jewishbanker named Meyer of Siegburg who was officially condemned to death, passedaway today.
1385:In what might be called the “Battle of the Johns” The Portuguese forcescommanded by King João I (King John I) defeat the Castilian army of King JuanI(King John I) at the Battle of Aljubarrota, leaving King Juan as ruler ofPortugal. The victory of King João I guaranteed the existence of an independentPortugal which would provide a haven for Jews fleeing Christian persecution inSpain at the end of the 14th and start of the 15thcenturies.
1433:John I (King João I) of Portugal passed away.As the following entry shows, King John I provided a haven for at leastone Jew seeking to escape persecution in Spain.
In1391, an anti-Jewish riot inspired and provoked by the church occurred inSeville and spread rapidly throughout Spain. Jews were being beaten and killedby religious fanatics and many others who were just taking advantage of therioting to rob the Jews. The streets were flowing with Jewish blood;synagogues, homes and businesses are being destroyed; Jewish property is beingstolen. The rioters were yelling; "Convert or Die!" The churchpromised peace and safety to the Jews who convert. Don Samuel Abarbanel, anobservant Jew and his family were forced to convert. At that time theAbarbanels was one of the most distinguished families in Spain. Its patriarch is Don Samuel Abarbanel,Treasurer of the State, Courtier, and friend to three kings of Spain. But evensomebody as powerful as Don Samuel was not immune from the violence. He tookthe Christian name of Juan Sanchez de Seville and continued to serve King HenryIII as his treasurer. He and his family attended church and mass on Sunday, butat great risk they were secret Jews, trying to eat kosher, observe the Sabbathand holidays and pray to Hashem. It was not an easy thing for them to do butthey did so for about six years when it became increasingly more difficult. By1397 Juan Sanchez de Seville and his family were able to escape to Portugalwhere they threw off their Christian customs and names and resumed theirpractice of Judaism.
DonSamuel Abarbanel's reputation as a brilliant financier and statesman precededhim. King John I had his agents approach Don Samuel to ask him to be an advisorto the king. Don Samuel readily agreed, and a long personal friendship andrelationship began. The relationship was not only between the king and DonSamuel, it was between their two families, their children, and theirgrandchildren. Samuel's son Judah followed in his father's footsteps. Don Judahwas highly respected by King John I who frequently sought his advice. King JohnI was called "King John the Great." The title was well justified.During John I's reign Portugal prospered. Portugal was entering the age ofexploration and acquiring new territories and becoming rich. Don Judah Abarbanel'sadvice to the king was invaluable in pursuing this course of action. One ofKing John's sons was Prince Henry the Navigator who ran a school of navigationand encouraged its Navy to explore, discover and settle new territories and tobring greater wealth and prestige to Portugal.
1447:Following a fire in Posen (Poland) where the original charter granting the Jews"privileges" was written, (by Casimir the Great), Casimir IV renewedall of their rights, making his charter one of the most liberal in Europe. Thischarter lasted less than a decade before it was revoked.
1569:In Cracow, Isaac ben Aaron Prostitz began printing “R. Naftali Hertz benMenahem of Lublin’s “commentary on the Torah Portion of Midrash Rabbah.
1587:When Vincent I succeeded his father William as Duke of Mantua today SalamoneRossi was serving in his first year as a court musician and concertmaster.
1587:Thirty-nine-year-old to “Federico II of Gonzaga, the ruler of the Italian cityof Mantua at the time of the birth of Leone de' Sommi, the first“unapologetically Jewish playwright and poet” and a ruler who enjoyed Jewishcomedians enough to hire “Solly and Jacob” passed away toay.
1591(24thof Av, 1591): Abigdor Eisenstadt, aka Abigdor Sofer ben Moses, “the author oftranslation of festival prayers and a prayer-book from Polish into German”passed away today.
1629:Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, who had been befriended by “Bohemian Court Jewand financier” Jacob Bassevi and who “was arrested at the order of the imperialcourt of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, put in prison in Vienna, and accusedof insulting Christianity” was freed today because a group of “generous Jews”paid a first installment of 2,000 florins on the 10,000 florin fine that hadbeen levied against him,
1688:Birthdate of Frederick William I of Prussia whom Veitel-Heine Ephraim served ascourt jeweler and mint master.
1714:In Cologne, Meyer Low Schomberg and his wife gave birth Leyden trained Englishphysician Isaac Schomberg who was created a Medical Doctor at Cambridge byroyal mandate after he had been baptized.
1714:In Cologne, Meyer Schomberg and his wife gave birth to English physician RalphSchomberg, the twin brother of Isaac Schomberg.
1716: Italian Rabbi Isaiah Bassani wrote a poem inhonor of Zebulon Conegliano passing his examination in medicine today in Padua.
1725:“The Jewish Law of 14 August 1725” “forbade the settlement by Jews in placeswhere they had not previously been settled” including Reichenberg.
1735:Birthdate of Jacob Meyer mystic and magician who gained fame as JacobPhiladelphia the name he took when he converted to Christianity.
1758:Philip Cuyler wrote to David Franks concerning the insurance policy on “good inthe Charming Rachell…”
1767:The will of Barbados resident Emanuel Aboaf was dated today.
1772(15thof Av, 5532): Tu B’Av observed for the first time when the Jews of the Galiciaand Lodomeria are under the rule of the Habsburg Monarch as a result of thefirst partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which had begun nine daysago.
1777:Birthdate of Newport, RI native Priscilla Elizer the daughter of Isaac Elizerwho passed away at Charleston, SC in August 1796
1781:Richea Hart and Abraham Mendes Seixas who were married at Charleston, SC in1777 gave birth to Joshua Seixas.
1788:In Amsterdam, Abraham Benjamin Cohen and Elizabeth Gompertz gave birth toWilliam Cohen.
1779:In Prague, Selig Trebitsch, ḥazzan at the Old New Synagogue and his wife gavebirth to Rabbi Menahem Nahum Trebitsch whose writings included “Shelom Yerushalayim"
1787(30thof Av, 5547): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1787(30thof Av, 5547): Isaac de Pinto “a Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin, a scholar andone of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company” passed away. He hadbeen born in 1717 in Amsterdam. In1748, Pinto helped stadholder William IV ofOrange, sending or lending him money to defeat the French at Bergen op Zoom. Inreturn he asked for uplifting measures against Jewish merchants forbidding themto sell clothes, gherkins or fish on the street. He proposed to send thepoorest Jews to Surinam. Pinto was a man of broad learning, but did not beginto write until nearly fifty, when he acquired a reputation by defending hisco-religionists against Voltaire. In 1762 he published his Essai sur le Luxe atAmsterdam. In the same year appeared his Apologie pour la Nation Juive, ouRéflexions Critiques. The author sent a manuscript copy of this work toVoltaire, who thanked him. Antoine Guenée reproduced the Apologie at the headof his Lettres de Quelques Juifs Portugais, Allemands et Polonais, à M. deVoltaire. In 1763 De Pinto became bankrupt as a result of speculation; he hadto sell his house on Nieuwe Herengracht with five famous fixed wall-paintingsby Jan Weenix. De Pinto moved to another fine mansion in The Hague; he and hisfamily were invited to the palace when Mozart and his sister played. In 1768,Pinto sent a letter to Diderot on Du Jeu de Cartes. His Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit appeared in Amsterdam in1771, and was twice reprinted, besides being translated into English andGerman. His Précis des Arguments Contre les Matérialistes was published at TheHague in 1774. Pinto's works were published in French (Amsterdam, 1777) andalso in German (Leipzig, 1777).
1793:Birthdate of Baruch Auerbach, the “educator and philanthropist” who founded theJewish Orphan Asylum in Berlin.
1796(10thof Av, 5556): Tish’a B’Av observed for the last time during the Presidency ofGeorge Washington.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hart-myer
1798:Abraham Benjamin Cohen, the Dutch born son Eva Jacob Cohen and Benjamin JonasCohen, and his wife Elisabeth Gompertz gave birth to Willi/Ze’ev Wolf CohenAmesfort.
gave birth to William
1815:Birthdate Rabbi Maier Zipser “one of the leaders of the Conservative (Neolog)movement of the Hungarian Jewry.”
http://www.balassagyarmatizsidosag.hu/en/maier-zipser
1818: In St. Thomas, Jacob Baiz, a native of Bayonne,France and his wife Leah Baiz gave birth to Rachel Baiz who became Rachel Leviwhen she married Joseph Levi.
1820: John Jacob Hays, the grandson of Solomon Haysarrived today in Fort Wayne where he began serving as Indian an Indian agentmaking him the first Jew to settle in the Indiana city.
1821: In Hungary, Ignatz Morningstar and his wife gavebirth to Bernard Morningstar, the resident of Pittsburgh and husband ofCharlotta Davis Morningstar whom he married in 1864 and with whom he had fourchildren.
1821: Leonardus Levy Abraham Verveer, the Amsterdam born“son of Abraham Salomon / Shabtay Cohen Kloot and Marretje / Mata Mozes Tokieand his wife Caroline Elkan gave birth to Judith Verveer
1822:In New York, Thomas Strong gave birth to Dr. James Strong a student of theHebrew language whose pamphlet on the subject was published before the CivilWar. Strong was a member of thePalestine Exploration Committee and traveled there in 1884. (Strong was part ofa group of 19th century Christians whose interest in Palestine laidthe groundwork for the archaeological activities that became “Israel’s NationalPastime.”)
1824:Birthdate of Breslau native Edward Kanter, the Detroit banker and husband ofFanny R. Granger Kanter with whom he had four children – Henry, Charles, Edwardand Jessie.
1828(4thof Elul, 5588): Fifty-eight-year-old New York City born bookseller BenjaminGomez passed away today.
1829:Birthdate of Jules Moch a graduate of Saint-Cyr who fought served in theCrimean War and was captured at the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-PrussianWar.
1833:In Charleston, SC, Rebecca Phillips and Isaiah Moses, who were married atCharleston in 1807 gave birth to Ezra I. Moses.
1834:German born Samuel Stiebel and Jane Stiebel gave birth to Charles Dan Stiebel.
1840(15thof Av, 5600): Tu B’Av
1840:In New York, Asher Kursheedt and Abigail Judah gave birth to CCNY graduate andattorney Manuel Agustus Kursheedt, a director of the United Hebrew Charitiesand the Educational Alliane.
1840:The U.S. government sent instruction to Mr. Glidon, the American Consulexpressing President Van Buren’s concern over the treatment of the Jews ofDamascus and his wish that United States work in concert with the governmentsof Europe to relieve their suffering.
1840:In New York, Asher Kursheedt and Abigail Judah City College of New York alumManuel Augustus Kursheedt, whose activities in the Jewish community includedserving as “the director of the United Hebrew Charities and the EducationalAlliance, managing secretary of the Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society and Presidentof the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1841:In London, Maure Solomon, the Edmonton, London born son of Moshe EliezerLieberman Solomon and Betsy (Elizabeth) Solomon and his wife Louisa Solomongave birth to Charlotte Solomon.
1841:In London, Maurice Solomon the Edmonton, London born son of Moshe EliezerLieberman Solomon and Betsy (Elizabeth) Solomon, and his wife Louisa Solomongave birth to Charlotte Solomon.
1844:Morris de Saxe married Abigail Isaacs at the Great Synagogue today.
1848(15thof Av, 5608): Tu B’Av celbebrated on the same day that Congress created theOregon Territory, “an area that includes what is today, Oregon, Idaho,Washington and western Montana.
1849:David and Catharine Pick Bierman gave birth to Eli Bierman, the husband ofHannah Bierman.
1850:David Hyams married Rebecca Arrobas today at the Great Synagogue today.
1850:One day after he had passed away, Myer Moses was buried today at the BradyStreet Jewish Cemetery.
1853(10thof Av, 5613): Tish’a B’Ab observed
1855(30thof Av, 5615): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1856:In Philadelphia, Babette Scherzer and Jacob Langsdorf gave birth to IsidoreLangsdorf, the husband of Blanche Loeb and the manufacturer the Roig Cigars whowas a leading member of Congregation Rodeph Shalom and a Director of the UnitedHebrew Charities.
1857:In Bavaria, Jacob and Theresa Weil gave birth to future Bostonian August Weil, the husband of Emma “Anna” Weilland father of famed soprano Glady Axman,the wife of Clarence Axman.
1859:Congregation Gemiluth Chassed was founded today in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
1861:Second Lieutenant Leopold Rosenthal began who would be wounded at Fort Magruderin Virginia began his three years of service with the 5th Cavalrytoday.
1862:Philadelphian Jacob Stern began his service with Company E of the 133rdRegiment.
1862:Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman, a native of Richmond, VA who had moved to Philadelphiawith his father in 1850 enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Unlike some other native Virginians, Hynemanwas able to choose fighting for the Union as opposed to defending slavery.
1863:Birthdate of London “communal worker” Felix Arthur Davis.
1863:"Affairs at Vicksburg” published today describes conditions a month afterthe fall of the Confederate Citadel including the following, "When thenews reached the North that Vicksburg had fallen, a few thousand Hebrewpatriots immediately made an exodus in this direction, with a view of opening afew hundred clothing stores at once. Greatly to their disgust Gen. Grantrefused to allow any trade whatever, and much to their pecuniary grief theyfound that they had brought their shoddy to the wrong market. Something,however, must be done, and so fifty or sixty opened shops for the repair ofwatches, an equal number opened establishments for taking pictures, anotherquantity went to work gathering up the immense amount of old rags lefteverywhere by the rebels, while the balance stood disconsolately for a timearound corners cursing Grant in every dialect originating at Babel, and thenreturned up the river. Those who went into the rag business had a good thing,for rags are high and the quantity left by Confederates in this place wasenormous."
1864:In Columbus, Indiana, Samuel Ginsburg and Rachel L. Helfman gave birth toBernard Ginsburg the husband of Ida Esther Goldman and resident of Detroit,Michigan who was Director of the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland for eightyears and began serving as the first vice-president of the National Conferenceof Jewish Charities in 1904.
1865:Prussia and Austria signed the Gastein Convention that established the rulesfor governing Schleswig and Holstein which was one of the steps on Bismarck’spath to making uniting Germany under Prussian rule and making it the dominantpower in Europe – a path that led to three wars: Franco-Prussian, WW I, and WWII – which had major impacts on the Jews of the Continent which included theHolocaust.
1865:Today's Foreign Items column reports that The Chief of Police in Warsaw hasforbidden the Jews to wear their ancient dress and coiffure, (two curlssticking out from a velvet cap.
1865:Officer Thomas Ward who was murdered by a gang of felons in the line of duty,died at the Jew's Hospital. (Jew’s Hospital would later be known as Mt.Sinai. The hospital took on the role oftreating New Yorker’s regardless of religion during the Civil War when ittreated large numbers of Union soldiers wounded during McClellan’s ill-fatedPeninsula Campaign.)
1871:In Sály, Hungary, RabbiDavid Margittai, the Hungarian born “son of Rabbi Yitzchok Tzvi Margaretten andRachel Lea Margaretten” and RachelRozalia, Juli Margittai gave birth to Fani Hani Schwartz, the wife of HermanSchwartz and the “m.”other of Dezso Schwartz; Malvin Schwartz; Margit Farago;Jolan Schwartz; Adolf Schwartz; Jolan Schwartz and Rezsin Rozsi
1872:A letter published today signed simply “A Jew” took issue with the New York Tribune’s characterization ofPresident Grant’s views on, and relationships with, the Jewish people. The writer denied the Tribune’s claim thatGrant had apologized for General Oder No. 11 by saying “that his chief of staffhad issued and that he (Grant) had countermanded it. When questioned on the subject in 1868, Grantsaid that “he issued that order under misapprehension and regretted hisaction. He took the responsibility anddid not claim credit for countermanding it.”The Tribune, whose publisher Horace Greely, was running against Grantfor the Presidency, was making the same claims against Grant that had failed todissuade Jews from voting for the Civil War hero in 1868. The writer concludes by stating that The Tribunedoes not understand Jews. Jews think forthemselves. Some will voteDemocrat. Some will vote Republican. But none of them will be swayed by theTribune’s re-hash of the claims left over from the 1868 Presidential Campaign.
1873:According to Chief of Police John Malloy, the man who was murdered in Albany isa Brooklynite named John D. Weston. Hewas allegedly murdered by Emil Lowenstein, a German-Jewish barber who had beenenlisted by Mrs. Weston with enticements of sharing in the decedent’s propertyand enjoying her company.
1874(1stof Elul, 5634): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1874:It was reported today that the police superintendent of New York had received atelegram from the Sheriff of McLean Country, Illinois, stating that the ”GermanJew named Levy” had confessed to murdering New York businessman BenjaminNathan. The sheriff doubts that truth ofthe confession and thinks the man is “a humbug” looking for a free trip back toNew York.
1875(13thof Av, 5635): Shabbat Nachamu
1875:In Cincinnati, Theresa and Joseph Levy gave brit to Sadie Foster, the firstwife of Solomon Robert Foster, the Reform Rabbi who served as chaplain in threewars and was the spiritual leader ofCongregation B'nai Jeshurun of Newark, N.J., for more than 50 years.
1876(24thof Av, 5636): Yahrzeit of Rabbi Ephriam Zalman Margolioth of Brody, the authorof Bet Ephriam who passed away in 1828.
1877:Solomon Rosalsky, the Russian born son of Adeline and David Rosalsky and hiswife Yetta Rosalsky gave birth to Municipal Court Justice Joseph S. Rosalskythe wife of Laura Vivian Ernst whose siblings included Judge Otto Rosalsky,Bella Schapira, Dr. Harry Rosalsky, Alexander Rosalsky, Maude Morrison, MurrayRosalsky and Dora Seglin.
1877:Two days after she had passed away, Adelaide Collins, the daughter of SolomonCollins and Catherine Isaacs and the husband of John Collins with whom she hadfour children – Kate, William, Louisa and Solomon – was buried today at theBalls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1878(15thof Av, 5638) Tu B’Av
1878:It was reported today that the government is doing nothing to alleviate thesuffering from the effects of the famine in southern Morocco. The Jews of the region are receiving someassistance from co-religionists
1879: Harris Levy, a 28-year-old Polish Jew wasshot in the arm on Forsyth Street in New York.Levy was as a night watchman for Louis Solomans, a manufacturing tailorwhose businesses occupied three rooms on the building’s 6th floor.
1881:In Latvia, Abraham I. and Jennie Kaplan Gallant gave birth to St. Louisattorney C. Lew Gallant
1881:“Bleichroder and Thiers” published today described one Frenchman’s reaction toBarthelemy St. Hilaire recommending that the President of the Republic nameGerson von Bleichröder the German Jewish banker with close ties to ChancellorBismarck be named a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
1881:In Kiev, Abraham and Dvora Wellcher gave birth to Laibel Welcher gained fame asaviation pioneer Arthur L. Wlesh who was a flight instructor and friend of theWright Brothers.
1881:It was reported today that donations to help defray the cost of the nextexcursion sponsored by the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children can be sent to theoffices of the Jewish Messenger onWalker Street.
1881:A concert sponsored by several prominent Jews is scheduled to be held today toraise funds for a cemetery at the popular resort town of Long Branch, NJ. Thecemetery, “The Strangers’ Cemetery, will be open to all – rich or poor, Jew orGentile
1882:It was reported today that there are forty Jews living in Hoboken NJ.
1882:It was reported today that yesterday’s account in the Congressional Record ofspeech given by S.S. Cox in defense of the Jews of Russia could not havehappened since Congress had already adjourned. This was an example of thetime-honored technique of entering things into the Congressional Record thatwere not actually said on the floor of the House and/or Senate.
1882:It was reported that a barrel of gunpowder had accidentally exploded at a shopin Grodeno, Russia killing an untold number of Jewish children attending anearby school
1882: “OldTime Business Ways” reviewed The Growth of English Industry and Commerceby William Cunningham which included a description of how the reality of Jewishmoney lending in Medieval England. Whileit appeared that the Jews had a monopoly on money lending, “the King hadindirectly a monopoly on moneylending” because the Jews “were mere chattels ofthe King” which meant that “all that they had was his.”
1883:“According to “Looking Forward” published today, described conditions in two Hungarianvillages, Tiszaelar and Nyireghyhaza, where “two hostile parties called Christiansand Jews are arrayed in deadly strife against each other” where the strife,rioting, bloodshed and killing…have no relation to any proposition by eitherpart” but where “the motive of combat springswholly out of traditions, prejudices, superstitions from an indefinite past
1883:“With Hermann Guthe’s publication of his monograph on the scroll fragmentcompleted” today “the Shapira’s manuscript” which was a scroll of Deuteronomy“officially achieved scholarly recognition.”
1884:Solomon Rosalsky, the Russian born son of Adeline and David Rosalsky and hiswife Yetta Rosalsky gave birth to Alexander Suskind Rosalsky, the “husband ofPauline Leah Rosalsky and
fatherof Maurice Binion Rosalsky.”
1884:It was reported today that Rabbi Henry Zindorf of Detroit’s Temple Beth El hasbeen chosen as Professor of History and Hebrew Literature at Hebrew UnionCollege.
1884:Tonight, in Kingston Jamaica, “David ben Abraham Nunes” married “Amy bat AlfredDelgado,” the granddaughter of “Moses Delgado, amajor figure in the history ofJewish Jamaica” who served as “President of the Kaal Kadosh Shahar Ashamaim,the Sephardic synagogue of Kingston” and who “was responsible for thesuccessful 1831 campaign to grant full civil rights to the country’s Jews.”
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/rare-jamaican-ketubah-to-be-sold-at-auction
1886:On the Lower East Side, Louis and Mary Strauss Frankenthaler gave birth toGeorge Frankenthaler who served as the State Supreme Court Justice and New YorkCounty Surrogate.
1887:The members of the jury that convicted Israel Lipski of murder are scheduled tomeet with the condemned man’s solicitor today.
1887:It was reported today that Israel Lipski’s solicitor has new facts that willprove that he did kill Miriam Angel, the woman he was convicted ofkilling. Lipski’s lawyer has met privately with Judge Stephen andconvinced him of his client’s innocence.
1887:It was reported today that that Israel Lipski’s solicitor has “sent a telegramto the Queen” asking her to stay the execution because “he is in possession offacts which will enable him to establish” Lipski’s innocence.
1887:“Old World News By Cable” published today included a description of theexcitement gripping London over the upcoming hanging of Israel Lipski, a PolishJew who was found guilty of murdering Miriam Angel.
1888:An excursion for sick children under the age of six sponsored by the Sanitariumfor Hebrew Children will take place this morning at nine.
1888:Birthdate of Dr. Paul Zucker, the successful German architect who, when theNazis came to power left for the United States where he became a citizen in1944.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/02/16/81997918.pdf
1888:Twenty-four-year-old Joseph B. David, the Louisville born “son of Theobold andAdelaide (Strauss) David” who practiced law in Chicago where he was a SpecialAssistant City Attorney before serving several terms as on the Superior Courtof Cook County, first as a judge and then as Chief Justice married Emma Sieseltoday
1889:The seventh free excursion of the summer sponsored by the Sanitarium for HebrewChildren is scheduled to leave from the Fifth Street pier of the EastRiver. Only children without contagiousdiseases and six years of age or younger will be allowed on the boat.
1889:One hundred twenty Jewish families arrived in Buenos Aires giving birth to themodern Argentinean Jewish community. In 1889, 824 Russian Jews arrived inArgentina on the S.S. Weser from Podolia in western Russia. Many of them becamegauchos (Argentine cowboys). The gauchos bought land and established a colony,which they named Moiseville. Due to lack of funding, the gauchos appealed toBaron Maurice de Hirsch for funds and the Baron subsequently founded the JewishColonization Association. During its heyday, the Association owned more than600,000 hectares of land, populated by more than 200,000 Jews. While many ofthese cooperative ranches are now owned by non-Jews, Jews continue to run someof the properties.
1890:It was reported today that donations to help defray the costs of the Sanitariumfor Hebrew Children can be sent to Nathan Lewis, President; Dr. H. Gomez, VicePresident; Hezekiah Kohn, Treasurer: and Joseph Davis, honorary Secretary.
1891:In “Hackney, London,” Amy Davis and Solomon Henry Andrade gave birth to ArthurFrank Andrade.
1891(10thof Av, 5651): Sixty-four-year-old Emile Frank, the widow of Joseph Frank andpassed away at Huguenot, NY. The funeral will be delayed because the body hasto be taken back to New York City and tomorrow is Shabbat.
1891:Mr. Rosenbluth, of the Sanitary Aid Society who works with the Trustees of theBaron Hirsch Fund gave one of the Russian Jewish refugees living at Highstown,NJ $5,000 and sent him out to purchase farmlands in an attempt to replicate thesuccess that Jewish refugees have enjoyed farming in Connecticut.
1892:Lewis Novra the son of George Novra and Rebecca Abrahams was buried today atthe Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1892:Rabbis Aaron Wise and David Cahn officiated at the wedding of Lottie NaomiSwartwood and Leopold Kahn known as “Admiral Dot.” Kahn and Swartwood were bothdwarfs. He had begun performing withP.T.Barnum until he formed the American Lilliputian Company in 1877 where bothof them were stars.
1892:Louis-Norbert Carrière the government commissioner who successfully pled atRennes for Dreyfus's second conviction was appointed government commissioner tothe Dreyfus court martial in Rennes today,
1892:“Decline of the Hat Industry in the Oranges” published today offered numerousreasons for the decline of millinery business in New Jersey including the factthat Polish Jews in Newark and Orange are finishing hats for eight and threequarters of a cent per dozen. “Americanworkmen have always been paid 25 cents per dozen.” (In reality, the problem was the tariff)
1893:When representatives of the Board of Health, the Street Cleaning Department,the Fire Department and the Police swept through Hester Street and MulberryBend in an attempt to clear out the pushcarts and street vendors, they wereforced to deal with “an old Jew” selling pears who had padlocked his cart inplace and a Jew selling calico wrappers who claimed he could not move his cartbecause the wheel was broken.
1893:Birthdate of Samuel Simon Leibowitz,American attorney and jurist who would gain fame as the lawyer who defended theScottsboro Boys.
1893: Jack O”Mara, the bartender at Patrick Devitt’ssaloon in Brooklyn, is scheduled to go before the judge on charges that hehandcuffed a Jewish paddled named Bruns and then stole his pack.
1894: Two day after his death “in his 48thyear,” Oscar Alexander, the husband of Sarah Woolf with whom he had ninechildren – Henry, Rachel, Leah, Hannah, Amelia, Rebecca, Bertha, Jacob and Rose– was buried today at the West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1896: Birthdate of New York City native and ColumbiaUniversity graduate Herbert Posner, the WW I U.S. Navy veteran who in 1930started serving as President of the Dr. Posner Shoe Company founded by hisfather.
1896: According to the entry on his tombstone in NewYork, actors Sara and Jacob Adler gave birth to their eldest son and Americanactor Jay Adler who was the “brother of actor siblings” including Ceilia,Julia, Stella and Luther and the uncle of author Allen Adler. (othersources show September 26)
1896: Heinrich von Gossler was appointed PrussianMinister of War. During his tenure in office, he would defend Jewishmanufacturers of rifles of when they were attacked by anti-Semites in theReichstag.
1897: In Chicago, Samuel Marlow, a German Jew andhis son were arrested today when “officers raided a little frame house on 26thPlace” where they found a still that could produce 52 gallons of moonshine aday.
1898: Today, Johns Hopkins University trained physician,Edward J. Bernstein, the professor of laryngology at Woman’s Medical College inBaltimore and the ophthalmologist and otologist at Grace Memorial Hospital inDetroit who was a member of Temple Beth-El married Dr. Ida Pollock.
1898: As the staff at the Hebrew Orphan Asylum worksto deal with an epidemic of dysentery “a well-known physician said that thereforty to fifty cases in apartments in the same neighborhood which he attributedto polluted water.
1898: “The Arrival of the Immigrant” published todaydescribed the arrival of Italians at Ellis Island and the Barge Office who havereplaced the wave of Jews “from the Ghettoes, the Judenstrasses and the villagestreets of Russia, Russian Poland and all of Jewish Western Europe” that filledthese offices through-out the 1880’s.
1899: A NewYork Times reporter went to 3,815 Park Avenue which Abraham Reinold, apatient at Georgetown University in Washington, DC gave as his address. The address given by this mysterious Jews wasa vacant lot and no one in the neighborhood knew who he was.
1899: Birthdate of Evelyn Kozak the native NewYorker whose parents had left “Russia to escape anti-Semitic attacks” who wouldbe described as the world’s oldest living Jew when passed away at the age of113.
1899: In Paris, the police have surrounded theoffice of the Anti-Semite League where M.M. Guerin , the president of theleague and Max Regis, the “noted –Jew baiter” and former Mayor of Algiers havebarricaded themselves in attempt to avoid arrest “for political crimes that arepunishable with penal servitude.” A mobof their supporters shouting “Vive l’armee” and Mort aux Juifs’ has gatheredoutside the building.
1899: Birthdate of New York City native Dr. AlfredM. Appelbaum, the NYU trained Ophthalmologist who served on the faculty ofColumbia.
1899: “Dreyfus Fight Thickens” published todaydescribed the split in French society that centers “around the shadowy andemaciated red-haired Jew, whose uniform of an artillery Captain so ill fits andbefits his figure physiognomy.”
1901: Today, Odessa Commercial College and Ecole desSciences Politiuqes educated economist, Simon Litman, the Odessa born son ofPauline Helfman and Jacob Litman married Rachel Frank after which he taughteconomics at the University of California and the University of Illinois.
1901: Two days after she had passed away “in her 16thyear,” Rachel Davis, the daughter of “Isaac and Betsy Davis” was buried at thePlashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1902: “Romanian Jews Protest” published todaydescribed “a meeting Romanian Jews held at the Hebrew Alliance during aresolution was adopted censuring the Romanian Government for “the smaefulill-treatment and abuse heaped upon Bernhard Lazare of Paris, representing theFrench Gazette L’Auror, who went to Romania to make known to the world thecondition of the Jews in that country.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/08/14/101962933.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1902: In New York city, 40-year-old Peter (Pinchas)Kolbrener and 35 year old Fannie Schwartz gave birth to NYU trained attorneyMartin M. Kolbrener and Nassau County court judge who was the father of theformer Frances Denker and the father of Peter and Jack Kolbrnener.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/06/09/90357682.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1903: Birthdate of Hezl Rosenblum, the native ofKaunas who was “a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, heworked as editor of Yedioth Ahronothfor more than 35 years.”
1903(21st of Av, 5663): Lucia Jonas Block,the Kentucky born daughter of Louisa Block and Abraham Jonas who were marriedin 1829, the husband of Augustus Block and the mother of Bertha, Frederick,Dora, Augustus and Louise Block, passed away today after which she was buriedin the Dispersed of Judah Cemetery in New Orleans, LA.
1904: In Latvia, ebbi Meir Bar-Ilan (the leader ofMizrachi) and his wife gave birth to Dr. Judith Lieberman who for 25 years“served as Hebrew principal and later dean of Hebrew studies of ShulamithSchool for Girls in New York City, the first Jewish day school for girls inNorth America and who was the granddaughter of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlinand second wife of Jewish religious scholar Saul Lieberman.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lieberman-judith-berlin
1904: A number of people from Brooklyn “arrived atthe Kaaterskill today to attend the entertainment for the Brooklyn JewishHospital tonight.
1904: Rabbi Meir Berlin and his wife gave birth toJudith Lieberman the
1904: Lillie Solomon, the daughter of Anna and I.E.Solomon, who was born in Solomonville, Arizona Territory in 1879, marriedJewish merchant Max Lantin of Globe.
1905(13th of Av, 5665): English painter SimeonSolomon passed away. For examples of his art and a whole lot more see
http://simeonsolomon.com/default.aspx
1905: Louis M Mayer and his first wife, MargaretShenberg gave birth to their eldest daughter Edith “Edie” Mayer who marriedproducer William Goetz.
1905: It was reported today that “District GrandLodge No 1 of the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel, the largerJewish fraternal institution in the United States will hold is annual picnic”on August 16 “at the Manhattan Casino.”
1906: Leo Berman wrote a letter to the New YorkTimes in which the B.R.T. car riots to “the anti-Jewish riots in Russia.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/15/120282017.html?pageNumber=2
1907: Today, seventeen-year-old Joseph Kastner, the son of a Russian graindealer came to the United States where he worked as a cabinet maker in Ohio andChicago before settling in Piqua, OH, where he “bought an iron and metal yard”married Sarah Colp and joined the “Jewish Congregation of Piqua, and B’naiB’rith.
1907: In Deal, NJ, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, whoserved on the New York State Supreme Court before becoming a partner in the lawfirm now known as Proskauer Rose and the former Alice Naumburg, who helpedfound the Euthanasia Society of America, a right-to-die group gave birth to“Ruth Proskauer Smith, a longtime reproductive rights advocate who helped foundwhat is now Naral Pro-Choice America.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/nyregion/27smith.html
1908: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today forSigmund Rosenwald, a leader of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, followed by Internmentat the Salem Fields Cemetery.
1908: In Lynchburg, VA, Edwin ad Katie Lillian KiersteinSchlossberg gave birth to Washington and Lee University graduate Alfred I.Schlossberg the founder of the New York company Alfred Schlossberg, Inc, atextile manufacturing enterprise, the husband of Celia Mae Hirsch Schlossbergwhom he married in 1933 and the father of Edwin Schlossberg, the husband ofJFK’s daughter Caroline.
1909(27th of Av, 5669) Parashat Re’ehread on the same day that the first motor race took place at the famousIndianapolis Motor Speedway,
1910: Birthdateof French-Jewish photographer Willy Ronis
1910: Birthdate of Natan Alterman the Warsaw nativewho gained fame as an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/natan-alterman
1910: Birthdate of Herta Herzog, the author of “TheJews as 'Others': On Communicative Aspects of Anti-Semitism” and the wife ofPaul Felix Lazarsfeld.
1910(9th of Av, 5670): Tish’a B’Av
1910(9th of Av, 5670): Moses Frankfurtwho had been born in 1828 and was married to Babette Frankfurt passed awaytoday in Norfolk, VA.
1911: In Richmond, Indiana, a meeting of the Societyof Friends adopts a resolution protesting the treatment of the Jews of Russia.
1911: Today Lazarus Schwartz was elected Mayor ofMobile, Alabama, a position he would hold until 1915.
1919(1st of Elul, 5672):
1912: In New York, Ella Friedman and Julius Oppenheimergave birth to Johns Hopkins and Cal Tech trained particle physicist FrankFriedman the brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
https://www.exploratorium.edu/about/history/frank
1913(11th of Av, 5673): On the Jewishcalendar, yahrzeit of linguist and post Rabbi Simhah b. Abraham who passed awayin 1874
1914: In what would prove to be a costly act ofbravado “the French First and Second Armies crossed the Franco-German borderand began fighting the Battles of Morhange and Sarrebourg and the Battle onMortagne which were part of the ill-fated Battles of the Frontiers – a doomedoffensive that would almost cost the Allies the war in the Summer and Fall of1914. (Editor’s note - there is a direct line from these defeats to the defeatssuffered in 1940 and the subsequent collapse of France which led the Jews toDrancy and then to the death camps.)
1915: “In Brixton, south London,” “Arnold Mishcon, arabbi who emigrated from Russian Poland, and his wife Queenie” gave birth toVictor Mischon, the British solicitor and Laborite who as a life peer becameBaron Mishcon in 1978.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/30/guardianobituaries.mainsection
1915: Harry H. Schlacht, who is working to form “theAmerican Legion, composed of foreign-born Americans who have received military training”said tonight “these people are loyal Americans” who “are anxious and willing tojoin the Foreign Legion and are ready to respond to the call for drill just assoon as army officers are appointed to train them.”
1915: Long Island College Hospital trained medicaldoctor Isadore David Bronfin, the Russian born son of Leah Shrage and DavidBronfin, the future medical director and superintendent of the DenverSanitorium run by the Jewish Consumptive Society today married Elizabeth Rothbardt.
1916(15th of Av, 5676): Tu B’Av
1916: It was reported today that the in Russia “nodefinite decision has been reached” by the government but “the wish has beenexpressed that the circular of the ex-Minister of the Interior, PrinceCherbatoff abolishing the pale of settlement be confirmed and incorporated bythe legislative institutions i.e. the Duma and Council.”
1916: “Please Help Emily,” featuring a performanceby Anton Ascher opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre.
1917: Amemorandum from the Jewish Socialist Labor Union has been delivered to the Dutch-ScandinavianLabor Committee which calls for “perfect civil equality for Jews in everycountry and their re-establishment in the provinces” which they were forced toleave because of the war.
1917: It was reported today that “the situation inPalestine this Summer is the most serious since the war began,” that “a schemefor the looting of Jerusalem is already being executed” and the only hope ofthe inhabitants “is that the British armies now hammering at the gates of theHoly Land may soon drive out the Turks.
1917: A cablegram from Kiev sent to The Day, a Jewish daily in New Yorkannounced today “that the Ukrainian Congress had elected a member of the JewishSocialist Territorialist Party as Minister for Jewish Affairs in Ukraine”
1917: In the Bronx, Harry and Molly Glickmann givebirth to Martin “Martry” Glickman. A graduate of Syracuse University, where heplayed football, Glickman was best known for his skills in track & field.In 1936, Glickman was one of two Jews on the U.S. 400-yard relay team at the1936 Olympics. The two were replacedjust before the event. According toGlickman, this was in response to pressure Avery Brundage, an anti-Semite andsupporter of the Nazi regime. Glickman went on to a very successful career as asports broadcaster. Glickman’s parents came from Jassy where the Germans andtheir Romanian allies slaughtered over twenty thousand Jews during the summerof 1941.
1918: As theAmiens Offensive, in which John Monash played such a key role comes to an end,French forces continue to engage the flagging Germans at the Battle ofMontdidier.
1919: Field Marshall Liman von Sanders whounsuccessfully led the Turkish troops against the Allied forces under Allenbythat conquered Palestine in the World War has been repatriated to Germany bythe Allies.
1920: After having visited congregations in Denver,Salt Lake City and other Western and mid-Western cities “on behalf of thePalestine Restoration Fund of the ZOA, Rabbi Louis I Newman of the Bronx FreeSynagogue is scheduled to return to New York City today.
1921(10th of Av, 5681): Tish’a B’Av isobserved for the first time during the Presidency of Warren Harding.
1922(20th of Av, 5682):Sixty-three-year-old Richmond born and Yale trained attorney Levy Mayer, a“senior member of the law firm of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian and Platt” who “wasnational known for his actions as attorney for the ‘big five packers’ and forliquor interest passed away in his today in his apartment in the BlackstoneHotel in Chicago.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/15/99056278.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1922 A petition in bankruptcy was filed todayagainst Samuel and Joseph Levin composing the firm of S. Levin and Son,stationary supplies, located in New York City.
1923: It was reported today that Samuel Untermyer,President of the Palestine Fund, has received a letter from Dr. Arthur Ruppin,the chief expert on Palestine, urging him to come Palestine so that he couldsee for himself how much progress there has been in the settlement of Jewishsuburbs surrounding Jerusalem and the development of “big municipalities” inPalestine.
1924: It was reported today that that there has beena great deal of comment in the newspaper in Vienna concerning the “thedisclosure that Hans Herzl, the son of the founder of the Zionist movement” hasconverted to Catholicism.
1925: It was reported today that “with $300,000 incash already raised and pledges of $520,000, the success of the ORTReconstruction Fund for aiding the impoverished Jews in Southern Europe hasbeen assured and that it is expected that the one-million-dollar goal will bereached by Christmas.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/08/14/104279591.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1926: In Paris, Stanisław Simkha Gościnny, “achemical engineer from Warsaw” and Anna (Hanna) Bereśniak-Gościnna gave birthto cartoonist René Goscinny, the co-creator of Astérix
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/goscinny.htm
https://www.asterix.com/en/the-creators/rene-goscinny/
1926: Birthdate of William Lowenberg who in 1945 wasliberated by the American Army from a subcamp of Dachau who served in the UnitedStates Army during the Korean War.
1926:Birthdate of Martin Broszat “a prominent West German historian and a specialiston Nazi crimes against the Jews.” (As reported by Eric Pace)
1927: Twenty-three-year-old Julliard trainedviolinist and composer Samuel Applebaum, the Passaic, NJ born son of “Michaeland Fanny (Levine) Applebaum” married Sada Rothman with whom he had twochildren – Lois and Michael Applebaum.
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85374282/
1928: The original production of “The Front Page,”directed by George S. Kaufman, opened at the Times Square Theatre
1929(8th of Av, 5689): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1929: The Jewish Agencyfor Palestine was founded. The JewishAgency “became the main organization through which Palestinian Jewry maintainedits contacts with world Jewry and with the Mandatory authorities and foreigngovernments. It was, in fact, the defacto government of the Jews in the Jewish homeland.
1930; The consequenceswhich England may have to face in regard to the Palestine mandate if noimprovement is shown in the attitude toward Jewish interests, and the possibleconsequence to the Zionist organization if a special Zionist congress is notcalled in December were discussed at Prauge in a closed session of the fourthannual conference of the Union of Zionist Revisionists” under the leadership ofVladmir Jabotinsky.
1931(1st ofElul, 5691): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1931: In Chicago, IreneRose (née Mauser) and Cedric Michael Raphael gave birth to Oscar winningscreenwriter Frederick Michael Raphael.
1932: “Morris Green,theatrical producer, who was associated with A.L. Jones in the production ofthe original and subsequent editions of the "Greenwich VillageFollies," filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy today in United StatesDistrict Court, listing liabilities of $272,650 and assets of no value.”
1932: The 1932Olympics in which Attila Petschauer a gold medal winning swordsman was part ofthe Hungarian Fencing Team, came to an end today.The 1999 film Sunshineis a multi-generational study of Petschauer’s family and vividly depicts hisdeath at the hands of the Nazis in 1943. Jewish Gold Medal winners included Istvan Barta, Hungary water polo, Gyorgy Brody,Hungary, water polo; Lillian Copeland, USA, athletics, discus throw; GeorgeGulack, USA, gymnastics, flying rings; Endre Kabos, Hungary, fencing, teamsaber; Miklos Sárkány, Hungary water polo.
1933: Whilespeaking in Prague, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary president of the AmericanJewish Congress, approves of the boycott against German goods and services.
1933: TheGovernment prohibits the circulation in Germany of all Jewish newspapersprinted in foreign countries, irrespective of language, and commands Jewishlibraries to remove such periodicals from their quarters.
1934: It wasannounced today that “the first medical center and graduate school of medicinein Palestine to be known as the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital will bebuilt on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem near the Hebrew University.
1934: “AlbertGoldman the former Commissioner of Plant and Structures was appointed ActingPostmaster of New York City today.”
1934: After buying “thedefunct synagogue building formerly run by Rabbi Meyer Isserman,” Rabbi YaakovBen Zion HaCohen Mendelsohn opened the Bergen Street Shul today – a “ceremonyattended by hundreds of locals along with rabbis from Passaic, West New York,the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia.”
1935: PresidentRoosevelt signed the Social Security Act
1936: Today, “the WorldJewish Congress adopted the main principles of its organization on a permanentbasis, empower the executive committee, which is to be elected, to draftstatutes and put them into force” and “also voted a $75,000 budget to finance duringthe first year the work to which this session has committed the congress.”
1936: It was announcedtoday “at Second Corps Area Headquarters on Governors Island” that “Jewishsoldiers in the United States Army will be granted to observe the High HolyDays” starting at noon on September 15th.
1936: Following appealsby ninety-two American citizens to the United States Consul and appeals by anumber of Polish citizens to the Polish Consul “for protection against Arabterrorists in Safed” the consuls of these two countries “made representationsto the Palestine Government” in Jerusalem “regarding the safety of theirnationals in the city of Safed.”
1936: Arnold SpencerLeese was put on trial in London on charges of seditious libel against BritishJews. In 1935, Leese who was a licensed veterinarian had proposed using gaschambers to murder Jews. This led to anindictment “on six counts relating to two articles published in the July issueof The Fascist (the IFL newspaper) entitled "Jewish Ritual Murder,"which later appeared as a pamphlet.” He would be convicted and served 6 monthsin prison. The experience did notchasten him since he would help members of the Wafften SS escape Justice whichwould lead to another prison term in 1947.Leese was so extreme that he attacked fellow fascist Oswald Mosley forbeing soft on the Jews.
1937: In his closing statement to the 20th Zionist Congress, held inZurich, David Ben-Gurion said that the subject of a passionate debate regardingthe proposed Jewish state was not the integrity of Palestine, which no Zionistcan forgo, but the methods for securing the quicker achievement of the commonaim. He welcomed the decision of the two-thirds majority of the Executive tonegotiate the precise contents of the scheme, while this did not imply anyassent to the principle of Partition.
1937: Nazis continued to harass the Zionist delegates in Zurich.
1937: Commissioning of the The USS Blue (DD-387) which on December 7, at Pearl Harbor, EnsignNathan Asher, a graduate of the Naval Academy took command of since the skipperwas ashore and in a harrowing trip lasting one and half hours guided the shipout to open waters and safety while Ensign Milton Moldane, a graduate ofWashington University Law School “took charge of the forward machine guns”fighting off the attacking Japanese aircraft.
1937: While the League of Nations debated the recommendations of the PeelReport, Arab attacks against Jews in Palestine continued. Shots were fired atMotza and other Jewish settlements in a significant number of increasedterrorist attacks all over the country.
1938:Hadassah, the Women's ZionistOrganization of America, announced today that the Jewish children who wereamong the Austrian exiles expelled from Burgenland by Nazis and set drift onthe Danube four months ago will be cared for by the Youth Aliyah (immigration)of movement and sent to Palestine before Sept. 30.
1938(17th of Av, 5698): Fifty-six-year-old Abraham ZeviIdelson the Latvian born Cantor who in 1922 composed Yiftah (Jephthah) passedaway today.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Zevi-Idelsohn
1938: Arab terrorists conducted a series of early morning attacksincluding one by 200 armed Arabs at “the tiny Jewish colony of Shimroon” andanother at Kfar Yabetz where Arabs “burned an orange packing house and uprootedfour hundred trees on the grounds of the Kibbutz.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Zevi-Idelsohn
1939:A resolution expressing "deepregret" that the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine did notresign immediately upon publication of the terms of the recent British WhitePaper was adopted today by the World Mizrachi. Mizrachi announced plans tofight the White Paper and calls on World Zionists to refuse to cooperate withthe British in Palestine.
1939:Birthdate of Eric Weissberg theAmerican banjo player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance.
1940: While fleeing from Paris which had been conquered by the Germans,Italian banker and philanthropist Angelo Donati stopped in Marseille where hewas the best men at the wedding of his cousin Piero Sacredoti and Marseille Ilse Klein, daughter ofSiegmund and Helene Klein.
1941: Republicanorganization leaders made strong efforts today to avoid the two principalcontests in the party primary, that of John R. Davies against Mayor La Guardiafor the nomination for Mayor and that of Stanley M. Isaacs, the incumbent,against Edgar J. Nathan Jr., organization designee, for the nomination forBorough President of Manhattan.
1941:All residents of the Jewish community of Lesko, Poland, are transported toZaslaw, Poland, and executed.
1941: In the aftermathof the German invasion of the Soviet Union which raised the rate of Jewishgenocide exponentially, Stalin sought to ingratiate himself with the West bysigning a military alliance with Poland today – just two years after the CommunistJackal had eaten his half of Poland after the Nazi conquest.
1941: As German killingsquads slaughter Jews in the Soviet Union, Franklin D. Roosevelt and WinstonChurchill jointly issued the Atlantic Charter, stating the Allied goals for thepost-war world.
1941: Today, a trainingreport described Isidore Newman, who was being trained as a Wireless Officerwith SOE as being “self-assured and thinks with precision.”
1941: In Hungary, TheUnion of the Jewish Communities obtained “the liberation of the rabbis, leadersof communities, and teachers employed in Jewish schools, who had been arrestedafter the outbreak of war with the U.S.S.R., from the Targu-Jiu concentrationcamp. (Jewish Virtual Library)
1942(1st ofElul, 5702): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1942(1st ofElul, 5702): The Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto including theparents, sisters and younger brother of Fay Shulman
http://www.jewishpartisans.org/t_switch.php?pageName=mini+bio+short+bio+1&parnum=56#
1942: Esther"Etty" Hillesum returned to Amsterdam from Westerbork
1942:The Archbishop of Lvov provided hiding places for Jewish children and SifreiTorah.
https://przystanekhistoria.pl/pa2/tematy/english-content/65196,The-Church-saving-Jews.html
1942:Fifty-six-year-old Brandenburg native William Chaskel completed the three-daytrip from Drancy to Auschwitz.
1942:The entire Jewish community from Gorlice,Poland, is deported to the Belzec extermination camp.
1942:This evening which was, the first day of the Hebrewmonth of Ellul, a Friday, the SS surrounded the ghetto in the village ofZagrodski, near Pinsk in Belarus (Belorussia), home to five hundred Jewishfamilies. “The commotion and noise on that night”, recalled RivkaYosselevska, “was not customary, and we felt something in the air.”
1942:A woman named Rivka Yosselevska is one ofjust four Jews to survive a bloody burial-pit massacre outside Zagrodski,Poland, near Pinsk.
1943:Premiere of wartime musical comedy “This Is the Army” directed by MichaelCurtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner, featuring 19 songs by IrvingBerlin, co-starring George Tobias.
1944:Twenty-five-year-old Edwin Newman, the future NBC television journalist andanchor married Rigel Grell today.
1944:“The American Jewish Conference submitted a four point ‘International Bill ofRights’” to the Under Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr which they wantsubmitted to “four-power conference on post-war and international securitywhich is scheduled to meet on August 21.
1944:Five days after “Leon Kubowitzki (later Aryeh Leon Kubovy), the head of theWJC's Rescue Department, relayed a message from Ernest Frischer of theCzechoslovak State Council to the US State Department urging the destruction ofthe gas chambers and the bombing of railways lines leading to the Auschwitzdeath camp. US Undersecretary of War John J. McCloy rejected the suggestionfive days later, writing to Kubowitzki: "After a study it became apparentthat such an operation could be executed only by the diversion of considerableair support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisiveoperations elsewhere and would in any case be of such doubtful efficacy that itwould not warrant the use of our resources."
1945:From Larissa, Greece it was reported: "One synagogue is completelydestroyed, not even the foundation exists, so thorough has been the Germandestruction. The other synagogue has been almost-completely destroyed, also- Itcannot be used in its present condition
1945: Japan surrendered unconditionally to end WWII. It took two atomic bombs and theinvasion of Manchuria by the Soviet Army to finally convince the Japanese thatall was lost. The official surrenderceremony would not take place until September, 1945 on the decks of U.S.S.Missouri which would be anchored in Tokyo Bay.While there is general agreement as to what the official start dates werefor World War II, we have seen that the end dates both the war in Europe and inthe Pacific get a little fuzzy.
1945: Alfred Eisenstaedt took the iconic photo of a sailor kissing anurse in Times Square as part of the V-J celebrations that was published inLife magazine.
1946: Today, “Will Rogers, Jr” the son of the popular Americanentertainer and “Board Member of the American League for a Free Palestine”wrote to Barley C. Crum, a Roman Catholic “member of the Anglo-AmericanCommission of Inquiry on Palestine” who supported opening Palestine tounrestricted Jewish immigration” in which he said the League was “determined tochallenge” the British claim of “illegality” when it came to the issue of“Hebrew immigration into Palestine” “by publicly announcing the intention to repatriatethe Hebrew people to Palestine and by assuming public responsivity for thisaction…”
1947: India grantedindependence within British Commonwealth.According to some historians, the end of British rule in India had animpact on British policy in Palestine.The reason the British had wanted to control Palestine, according tothem, was to protect the Suez Canal which was part of the route connectingBritain and India. Once India wasindependent, the imperative for holding on to Palestine was no longer there andthe British were no longer quite so keen to spend blood and bullets on rocks andsands of Palestine. There other imperialholdings including Transjordan, et al were enough to meet English commercialand political needs.
1947: “The BuchenwaldTrial or United States of America vs. Josias Prince of Waldeck et al in which31 people answered charges of war crimes “related to the Buchenwaldconcentration camp and its satellite camps” came to an
1947: “Life WithFather” a movie version of the novel by the same name directed by MichaelCurtiz and music by Max Steiner was released in the United States today WarnerBros.
1948(9th of Av, 5708):Since it is Shabbat, the fast will begin in the evening and be observed onSunday. There is an irony in this sinceit is the first time this day of mourning will be observed in an independent Jewishstate.
1948(9th ofAv, 5708): Tish’a B’av
1948: A day aftertestifying before HUAC where he denied being a communist, Harry Dexter Whitesuffered another heart attack as he was arriving at his farm in Fitzwilliam,NH.
1948:Habib Vidal, "the owner of a printing shop and the custodian of thesynagogue at Helwan" was one of the Jews arrested in Egypt. Vidalwas sentenced to 15 months at the Huckstep Prison despite the fact that he hadnot been formally charged or tried in a court of law. (In Ishmael'sHouse by Martin Gilbert)
1948:The Pan York, a ship filled with Jewish DPs as well as American volunteers forthe Israeli army, arrived in Haifa.
1948: Birthdate ofKathi Kamen Goldmark who “had made a lot of friends in the literary world byshepherding authors on book tours when one day inspiration struck: what thevery best authors yearn to be, she realized, are rock stars.” (As reported byDouglas Martin)
1949:Seventy-one-year-old Mrs. Bianca Schlesinger “one of two in a family of fortyto survive the Nazis’ purge of German Jews” was the oldest person to arrivetoday in Boston in a group of displaced persons aboard the Army transport Gen.S.D. Sturgis.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/08/15/85650617.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1948: Today PrimeMinister Muhsin al-Barazi who had conducted secret negotiations with Israelwhich were leading to a summit meeting with Ben Gurion was killed today duringa coup today in Damascus.
1951: “A Place in theSun” starring Shelly Winters and featuring Paul Frees with music by FranzWaxman was released in the United States today by Paramount Pictures.
1951: TheJerusalem Post reported that Jerusalem was assured of a regular supply of icefor domestic purposes from outside of the city and that the government granteda subsidy, due to the cost of the transport of ice from the coast. TheJerusalem Program for Zionism, replacing the Basel Program drawn up at theFirst Zionist Congress in 1897, was drawn up for the 23rd Zionist Congress tobe held in Jerusalem on August 14.
1952(23rd of Av, 5712): David Zvi Pinkas passed away. At the time of his death at the age of 57,Pinkas was Minister of Communication in the Israeli government.
1952:Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir became on MK“as a replacement for the late David Pinkas.”
1952: Israel and the representatives of the World Jewry announced thatthey reserved the right to demand restitution payment for the undeclared andheirless property in Austria.
1952: At this time, life in Israel was very difficult. The Jewish settlers were pioneers in thetruest sense of that term. For example, The Medical Advisory Council told thegovernment that a large section of the Israeli population, mainly those whodepended solely on the government’s rationing scheme, did not receivesufficient nutrition.
1953: In Los Angeles, Oscar winning set designer and art director HarryHorner and the former Joan Frankel gave birth to James Roy Horner the composerwho won two Oscars for the romantic disaster film “Titanic.” (As reported bySam Roberts)
1953: “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis” a musical comedy based on the shortstories about this adolescent created by Max Shulman was released in the UnitedStates today.
1953(3rd of Elul, 5713): Eighty-one-year-old Julius Ullman,the physician who practiced medicine in his home own “for more than sixtyyears” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/08/16/92731390.pdf
1953: Forty-eight-year-old Max Colpet (born Max Kolpenitzky) a native ofKoningsberg, whose parents died in a concentration camp during WW II and whowas a friend and a collaborator with fellow artist Billy Wilder became a UnitedStates citizen today.
1955. “Zero Mostel declined to name names and jousted with the members ofCongress, invoked the Fifth Amendment, while standing up for his right to theprivacy of his personal political beliefs.”
1956(7th of Elul, 5716): Forty-year-old German native ErnestSawady who came to England before” WW II and served as the rabbi at St.George’s Settlement Synagogue from 1946 to 1956 passed away today.
1956(7th of Elul, 5715): Seventy-eight-year-old St. Louis native and CCNY trained civil engineer Arthur H.Diamant the long-time vice president of the Rosoff Subway Construction Companywho “was in charge of building the first section of Sixth Avenue subway line…” who was the brother of Sidney J. Diament andMrs. Hattie Nathan passed away today
TimesMachine:August 15, 1956 - NYTimes.com
1956(7th of Elul, 5715): Eighty-eight-year-old Moses A. Horowitz,“a founder of Horowitz Brothers and Margareten” the Long Island City makers ofmatzoh and noodles who had retired in 1950 passed away today at Mt. SinaiHospital after which he was interred at the Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood,NY.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/15/84935908.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1957: Mohammed V, whoaccording to Meredith Hindley, found Vichy’s laws pertaining to Jews“appalling” and did what he could given his limited power, to ameliorate theiraffect went from being Sultan of Morocco to being King of Morocco.
1959(10th of Av, 5719): Seventy-year-old labor economist,college professor and author Selig Perlman whose works included A Theory ofthe Labor Movement and The History of Trade Unionism in the UnitedStates passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04EFD71F3CE63BBC4D52DFBE668382649EDE
1960: In New Rochelle, NY, Rabbi Simon G. Kramer and Cantor LawrenceAvery officiated at the wedding of Ida May Adler and Richard J. Mahler, the NYUtrained physician.
1963(24th of Av, 5723): A month after his 57th birthday,playwright Clifford Odets succumbed to colon cancer.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/17/stage-left
http://blog.roundabouttheatre.org/2013/03/22/playwright-biography-clifford-odets/
1966: At Temple Israel in Great Neck, Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, RabbiTheodore Friedman and Cantor Benjamin Siegel officiated at the wedding of CarolBarbara Feder, the daughter of Dr. Aaron Feder, a clinical professor ofmedicine at Cornell and University of Maryland Law School graduate SamuelElliot Cohan.
1967(8th of 5727): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1967: Funeral services are scheduled to be held this morning for CarlResnikoff, the husband of Mary Resnikoff and the brother of Rabbi SimonResnikoff.
1967:Prof. and Mrs. Walter A. Rosenblith announced the engagement of their daughter,Miss Sandra Rosenblith, to Sheldon L. Baskin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J.Baskin of Highland Park, Ill.
1969(30th of Av, 5729): Rosh Chodesh Elul
1969(30th of Av, 5729): Eighty-eight-year-old author andpublisher Leonard Woolf, the husband of Virginia Woolf passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/books/chapters/1210-1st-glen.html
1971(23rd of Av, 5731): Parashat Eiken
1971(23rd of Av, 5731): Seventy-nine-year-old New York nativeBenjamin Cohen, the husband of Anna Klein Cohen and the father of Gerald RobertCohen passed away today after which he was buried in “Neveh Zedek-Rose CityLodge Cemetery” in Portland, OR
1972(4th of Elul, 5732): Actor,composer and musician Oscar Levant passed away.
http://www.pictureshowman.com/articles_personalities_levant.cfm
1973(16th of Av, 5733): Seventy-eight-year-old Lady Eva Violet MondIsaacs, née Melchett, Marchioness of Reading passed away today.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/mond-isaacs-eva-violet-second-marchioness-of-reading
1974: “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” produced by Martin Baum, withmusic by Jerry Fielding and co-starring Helmut Dantine, an Austrian gentilewhose anti-Nazi activities landed him in a concentration camp after theAnschluss, was released in the United States.
1974: “Valery and Galina Panov demonstrated outside Soviet Embassy inLondon on behalf of Victor Polsky, the Soviet Jewish activist accused of“dangerous driving”.
1975: A letter from President Gerald R. Ford with today’s date praisedJohn Gunther Dean, the U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia for carrying out theevacuation of the capital city which was “one of the most difficult assignmentsin the history of the Foreign Service” “with distinction.
1976: It was reported today that “In Morris Township, NJ, the RabbinicalCollege of America announced that its new President would be Albert Richman” anelectrical engineering executive who was a graduate of Cooper Union and “afounding member of the Technion.”
1976: It was reported today that during a White House reception, whenBetty Ford, whose husband is running for re-election “was introduced to BerniceTannenbaum, the board nominee for Hadassah president” she “laughed and said,‘If you’re elected and we’re elected, I’ll see you here again.’”
1977: The new Likud cabinet announced a policy of equalization ofservices for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza. Officials claimed thatthis did not mean annexation or a change in the legal status of these areas, anopinion which was disputed by Arabs, foreign observers and the press.
1977: The American Jewish leadership asked US President Jimmy Carter toclarify his position on his possible recognition of the PLO.
1977: According to Time MagazineIsrael provided Lebanese Christians with $30 million to $35million in directaid.
1979: After losing her seat in the 1977 elections Esther Herlitz“returned to the Knesset today as a replacement for the deceased YehoshuaRabinovitz.
1979(21st of Av, 5739): Seventy-six-year-old Harry Cutler, the Russianborn son of Elda and Meyer Cutler and husband of Rose Cutler with whom he hadhad four children passed away today in Long Beach, CA
1979(21st of Av, 5739): Sixty-seven year old YehoshuaRabinovitz, who had served a Minster of Housing and Minister of Finance, passedaway today.
1980: Jimmy Carter, the man who brokered the Camp David Peace Accords,was nominated by the Democrats for a second term.
1980: Bruce Sundlun who become Rhode Island’s second Jewish Governor wasa delegate to the Democratic National Convention which came to an end today.
1981(14th of Av, 5741): Sixty-five-year-old Morton B. Levin, anative of Philadelphia who worked for the federal government for over 3 decadesand who was a member of Adas Israel passed away today.
1981: Warner Bros. released “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) theOscar winning song “written by Burt Bacharach, and Carole Bayer Sager.
1982: In Moscow, Anna Shulkina and Aleksandr Epshteyn gave birth to BorisEpshteyn investment banker and attorney, turned Chief Political Analyst for theSinclair Broadcast and “senior advisor to Donald Trump whose marriage to LaurenTanick Ephsteyn in 2009 has produced one child to date.
http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/boris_epshteyn.html
1982: Birthdate of Benjamin Cohen who became known for his dot.comenterprises as a teenager and for a dispute with Apple computers over thedomain itunes.co.uk. In 2006, he became technology correspondent for Channel 4News in the UK
1983: Elvira and MarkKunis gave birth Mila Kunis who plays “Jackie” on the television hit, That 70’sShow.
1983(6th of Elul,5743): Seventy-six year old Brooklyn born Julius Yablok, the son of Lena andLouis Yablok and the husband of Miriam Yablok who played quarterback forColgate University, coached St. Francis College and law partner of MickeyMarcus passed away today in California.
1985(27th ofAv, 5745): Eighty-six-year-old actress Edith Holm "Gale" Sondergaardwho along with her husband writer Herbert Biberman was blacklisted passed awaytoday.
1986(9th of Av, 5746):Tish'a B'Av
1987: Premiere of “NoWay Out” co-produced by Laura Ziskin
1987(19th of Av, 5747):In Little Rock, Arkansas, Sheldon Luber, son of Elaine and Harvey Luber passedaway. He left us too soon, but he willalways be remembered.
1989(13th ofAv, 5749): Ninety-two-year-old Rosa Levin Toubin, the daughter of Joe Levin andwife of Sam H. Toubin passed away. Anative of Brenham, TX, this graduate of Rice University demonstrated her skillas a Jewish Texan historian with the publication of History B’nai Abraham Synagouge.
1989(13th of Av, 5749):Sir Dove-Myer Robinson passed away. Born in 1901, he “was Mayor of AucklandCity from 1959 to 1965 and from 1968 to 1980, the longest tenure of any holderof the office. He was a colorful character and became affectionately known acrossNew Zealand as "Robbie". He was one of several Jewish mayors ofAuckland, although he rejected Judaism as a teenager and became a lifelongatheist. He has been described as a "slight, bespectacled man whose tinystature was offset by a booming voice and massive ego.”
1990: Leonard Bernsteinconducted Copland's Symphony No. 3, BMCO
1991: ComedianJackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld.
1991: In “The Pioneersof Israel Long Before the State” published today Herbert Mitgang reviewed TheBlue Mountain by one of Israel’s premier authors Meir Shalev.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/14/books/books-of-the-times-the-pioneers-of-israel-long-before-the-state.html
1993: According toArgentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman the authorization for the Argentinianprosecutor Alberto Nisman, the authorization for the bombing of the AMIA(Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) was given at today’s meeting of Iran’sNational Security Council (As reported by Adiv Sterman)
1994: The fifthcongress of the European Association for Jewish Studies opened today inCopenhagen.
1994: Ilich RamírezSánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", was captured.Carlos involvement with Arab Terrorists, specifically the Marxist Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) began in 1970. By July 1970 Ramirez wasat a training camp in Jordan and after a meeting with Abu-Sharif the PFLP'srecruiting officer he became known as Carlos the Jackal. The PFLP gainedstrength and started to form alliances with other terrorist groups such as theBaader-Meinhof gang and the Italian Red Brigade. Carlos' reputation within theorganization grew after "Black September" where he fought against theJordanian army trying to purge their country of terrorists. In 1972, the PFLPordered Carlos to kill a respected member of the Jewish community in London,Edward Sieff the president of Marks & Spencer. In December 1973 Carlos wentto Sieffs house and shot him, luckily not fatally. Carlos had preceded this bya hand grenade attack on the London headquarters of an Israeli bank and a carbomb in Paris in 1972, which injured 63 people. His international reputationwas born. In 1976 he was involved in a skyjacking of an Air France jet toUganda that lead to the famous raid on Entebbe by Israeli Special Forces
1994(7th of Elul,5754): Hamas took credit for the murderof 18 year old Ron Saval today in an ambush near the Kissufim Junction.
1994(7th of Elul,5754): Eighty-nine-year-old EliasCanetti, a novelist, playwright and cultural historian who won the Nobel Prizein Literature in 1981, passed away today (As reported by William Grimes)
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1981/press.html
1996(29th of Av, 5756):Eighty-eight-year-old Albert Neuberger, the German born physician who was aProfessor of Chemical Pathology and a Fellow of the Royal Society, passed away.
https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-professor-albert-neuberger-5603945.html
1998: “Slums of BeverlyHills” a comedy about “a teenage girl struggling to grow up in the late 1970sin a lower-middle-class nomadic Jewish family that moves every few months”directed and written by Tamara Jenkins, co-starring Natasha Lyonne Alan Arkinand Carl Reiner and featuring David Krumholtz and Carl Reiner was releasedtoday in the United States by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
1999(2nd of Elul,5759): Phillip Klutznick, U.S. Secretaryof Commerce under President Carter, passed away
2000: “The White Househas calculated that the effective deadline for a final Middle East peacesettlement during the Clinton presidency is the end of September, a senioradministration official said today” and the senior official also said PresidentClinton is prepared to reconvene a summit meeting -- intense, but shorter thanlast month's Camp David talks -- but only if he is assured that the Israelisand Palestinians are ready to settle all outstanding issues, includingJerusalem…”
2001: In Israel'sdeepest thrust into Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank, armytanks rolled early today into Jenin, the suspected base for some of the suicidebombers who have attacked Israel in recent weeks. The Israelis withdrew fromthe city about three hours later, after their bulldozers demolished aPalestinian police station.
2002: “In an….interviewwith American Journalist Amy Goodman Shulamit Aloni described how she believesthe charge of antisemitism is used to suppress criticism of Israel.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2002/8/14/stream
2002(6th ofElul, 5762): Seventy-eight-year-old artist Larry Rivers (Yitzroch LoizaGrossberg) passed away today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/arts/larry-rivers-artist-with-an-edge-dies-at-78.html
2002: Argentine pianist“Alberto Portugheis was the only Europe-based pianist to play in the concert"Homage to V Scaramuzza" at the Colon Theatre” today.
2003(16thof Av, 5763): Moshe Carmel “an Israeli soldier and politician who served asMinister of Transportation for eight years” passed away today.
2004(27thof Av, 5764): Parashat Re’eh
2004:This evening, at the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, Rabbi David H. Lincolnofficiated at the wedding of Rachael Mara Sandrew and Joshua M. Silverman.
2005(9th of Av, 5765):Tish'a B'Av:
2005: “The evacuationof Neve Dekalim” an Israeli settlement in Gaza was completed today as part ofthe unilateral disengagement plan that was supposed to put an end to violencein the Gaza Strip.
2005: Members of theUkrainian Conservative party demanded that Jews be prevented from teaching theTanya in Jewish schools and synagogues. While Ukrainian officials denied anyanti-Semitic intentions, others saw a link between this policy and those being...
2005: TheJerusalem Post reported that “members of theUkrainian Conservative Party and several far right-wing editors demanded thatJews be prevented from teaching the Tanya in Jewish schools andsynagogues.” While Ukrainian officialsat the embassy in Tel Aviv offered assurances that their government was opposedto any anti-Semitic behaviors, others saw a similarity between these demandsand those being made in other republics of the former Soviet Union.
2005: TheCedar Rapids Gazette reported that the Library of American will publish an eight-volumecollection Phillip Roth’s novels and stories beginning later this summer. Roth joins Saul Bellow and Eudora Welty asthe only American to have their complete works preserved by the Library ofAmerica during their lifetimes.
2005: The Sunday New York Timesbook section included a review of The Last Expedition: Stanley’s Mad JourneyThrough the Congo by Daniel Liebowitz and Charles Pearson whichdescribes the quest to find EminPasha who was a Silesian born Jew named Isaak Eduard Schnitzer
2006: AU.N. sponsored cease fire takes place along the border between Israel andLebanon marking an end to five weeks of fighting.
2006: Kohenet’s first Hebrew Priestess Training Institute begantoday, at the Elat Chayyim Retreat Center in Accord, NY
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/14/2006/kohenet-hebrew-priestess-institute
2006: APolish humanitarian organization is working to provide humanitarian assistanceto hard-hit residents of northern Israel.
2006: Ceasefire goes into effect intended to end the “war” between Israel and Hezbollah inLebanon.
2006: Amonth “after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot killing eight IsraelRailways workers service was restored today to the KIryat Motzkin RailwayStation, “an Israel Railways passenger station serving the city of KiryatMotzkin and the surrounding Kerayot region.”
2007: Haaretz reported that fifty-nine yearsafter they were killed in the War of Independence near the Arab village of TelArish, the Israel Defense Forces has identified the bodies of five fighters.The men were soldiers in Battalion 52 of the Givati Brigade, and have beenidentified as First Lieutenant Yehiel Rosenfeld, Private David Kohavi, PrivateItzhak Hamami, Private Yehoshua Lustig and a fifth soldier. The remains of thesoldiers, who up until now were considered missing, were identified in unmarkedgraves in the Nahalat Itzhak cemetery. Their families have been notified. Themission to locate the bodies has gone on for approximately ten years. Ninemonths ago, the graves of the five were dug up, and samples from the bodieswere sent to a laboratory in the United States, where
2007: RoshChodesh Elul, 5767
2008: In Becket, MA, Gallim Dance appearsat the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. “Prior to founding Gallim Dance, artisticdirector Andrea Miller danced with master choreographer Ohad Naharin’sBatsheva, in Tel Aviv. Now, Miller presents her own explosive movementvocabulary, which hangs somewhere between elegance and insanity, in this smart,powerful program.”
2008(13thof Av, 5768):Marvin Pomerantz, 78, a friend and adviser of Republican governors andpresidents for four decades who twice served as president of the Iowa Board ofRegents, passed away today in Iowa City.
http://okhenderson.com/2008/08/20/in-memoriam-marvin-pomerantz/
http://iowaindependent.com/4086/former-regent-gop-political-adviser-marvin-pomerantz-dies-at-78
2009: In NewYork, opening performance of “Peace Warrior” by Israeli Professor DoronBen-Atar of Fordham University. a historian of the early American republic anda playwright.
2009: In NewYork, Rooftop Films presents a screening of “Bloomfield or a ChildhoodMemory" by Eran Barak.
2009: WillyRonis celebrates his 99th birthday. “The sole survivor of a generation of famous French photographers thatincluded Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau, Ronis has become a mediadarling. Yet, this son of a Ukrainian-Jewish portrait photographer father and aLithuanian-Jewish pianist mother, both of whom fled pogroms to settle in Paris,still remains a belatedly recognized outsider. Ronis’s religious mother madesure her son had a Jewish education (Willy was bar mitzvahed at Paris’svenerable Grande Synagogue on the Rue de la Victoire, familiarly known as theRothschild-Schule). Ronis, however, remained an nonbeliever like his agnosticfather, reserving his real devotion for the labor movement. Outraged to see hisfather working himself to an early death, the young Willy, despite years ofstudying to be a violinist and composer (the latter studies were with the notedFrench-Jewish musician André Bloch), became his ailing father’s assistant. Anunrelenting diet of tediously static identity photos and posed marriagesnapshots spurred Ronis to redefine photography for himself as somethingessentially dynamic, capturing movement on the spur of the moment withcrackling energy. Soon after his father’s death in 1936, Ronis created some ofhis most celebrated images, like “Front Populaire, 14 Juillet 1936” (“ThePopular Front,” July 14, 1936), which immortalized the revelry of humbleParisians after the election of Léon Blum, the first Socialist — and firstJewish — premier of France. A moderate left-winger, Blum resolved to augmentworkers’ rights, and despite many attacks, such as one by a right-wing NationalAssembly deputy who termed Blum a “cunning Talmudist,” the newly electedSocialist was widely seen widely as a symbol of hope (short-lived, as it turnedout). Ronis’s immediate empathy with workers was translated into photos markedwith seemingly unplanned architectural symmetry (which Ronis himself haslikened to Bach’s counterpoint), especially when compared to the relativelycold formalism of Cartier-Bresson, or the sometimes sentimental, staged imagesof Doisneau. Armed with a secondhand Rolleiflex, Ronis captured vivid,strikingly natural-seeming images like “Rose Zehner, Grève aux UsinesJavel-Citroën, 1938” (“Rose Zehner, Strike at the Javel-Citroën Factory,1938”), showing a powerful female labor organizer haranguing fellow workerswith theatrical zest. Depicting hefty French laborers as moving with the graceof professional dancers became a Ronis specialty. His subject, Rose Zehner,soon became a Resistance fighter. Zehner would be reunited with Ronis decadeslater in a 1982 feature-length documentary film, “Un Voyage de Rose” (“Rose’sVoyage”), in which both photographer and subject reminisced about theirleft-wing friends of long ago. These included French-Jewish cinematographer andunion activist Henri Alekan and popular singer Francis Lemarque (born NathanKorb of Lithuanian-Polish Jewish origin). More pertinent to Ronis’s growingaesthetic mastery was his collegial friendships with fellow photographers likeIzis (born Israëlis Bidermanas in Lithuania), David “Chim” Seymour (born DavidSzymin in Warsaw) and Robert Capa (born Endre Ernö Friedmann in Budapest). Thesteady rise of European fascism made Ronis feel especially close to theseémigré friends and colleagues. Already feeling excluded as a boy, due toschoolyard antisemitic jokes, Ronis was not inclined to try to live under theGerman occupation overoptimistically, as many French Jews did at first. AsRonis recently told a Radio France Internationale interviewer with typical lapidaryconcision, “I didn’t want to wear a yellow star.” So he fled to the South ofFrance with false papers (his mother, who refused to leave Paris, managed tosurvive the occupation, shielded by friends and neighbors). After the war, whenRonis returned to Paris with the woman who would become his wife, he quicklyrealized that many of his Jewish relatives, friends and neighbors had not beenas fortunate. An atypically tragic aura invades some of Ronis’s postwar photos,like those taken at a 1949 commemoration held at Oradour-sur-Glane in westcentral France, the site of a Nazi massacre where almost an entire village,including women and children, was burned alive. Ronis’s images taken during thecommemoration ceremony show visitors (especially children) reacting to the sitewith somber reverence. As if in a subliminal search for other survivors, Ronissoon became a visual poet of Belleville, then, as now, a lower-class Parisianneighborhood with a historic population of Jewish residents. As Karen Adler’s perceptive“Jews and Gender in Liberation France” (Cambridge University Press, 2006)notes, Ronis “humanized Belleville’s poverty and architectural decline” afterWorld War II. Essential to his capturing of these lines and forms is that for awhile after the war, cars were still very scarce, until eventually theyreturned in force to Paris, suffocating the city. Away from Paris the sameyear, Ronis took what remains his most loved photo, “Le Nu Provençal: Gordes,1949” (“Nude in Provence, Gordes, 1949”), a celebration of sensuality thatshows his wife at a wash basin in a village bedroom in Southern France. Despitesuch exultant imagery, to some observers Ronis retains a sense of dislocationand apartness that is integral to his artistry. His friend and fellow photographerBrassaï dedicated his volume of “Conversations With Picasso” “to Willy Ronis,the distant one.” Amid all the merited hoopla, it is worth recalling that thisphotographer’s sheer survival has an element of the escape artist to it, asleight of hand that perhaps can never be fully analyzed or understood. Havingretired from photography almost a decade ago because of arthritis, and havingsurvived his wife as well as their son, Vincent, Ronis now lives in a humbletwo-room flat in Belleville. He emerges for public appearances and patientlyreceives visitors eager to interview and photograph him, sometimes with franklyodd results. Despite what seems like friendly forbearing toward youngshutterbugs, Ronis recently confessed to the French daily Le Monde: “I havelittle esteem for machine-gun [photographers]. It may be a severe notion of mytrade, but I believe an image must be deserved before it can be taken.” Ronishas deserved, and taken, some of the memorable images of his century.”
2009(24th of Av, 5769): Erev Shabbat, Leonard Arik Karp, 59,was accosted and murdered by a gang of youths while walking with his wife anddaughter along the Tel Aviv beachfront tonight.
2009: The City of Pittsburgh designated today as “Evelyn Kozak Day” whichcoincide with her 110th birthday.
2010: The 35th Hutzot Hayotzer International Craft Fair isscheduled to come to an end.
2010(4th of Elul, 5770): Eighty-eight-year-old Moshe “Misha”Lewin, Polish born Holocaust surviror and noted Russian history professorpassed away today.
http://www.upenn.edu/emeritus/memoriam/Lewin.html
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/lewinm.html
2010: The Daily Mail ratesIssac Rosenberg as one of the ten greatest British poets.
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/lewinm.html
2011: The headstone unveiling for Rose Becker is scheduled to take placetoday at Eben Israel Cemetery
2011: The 31st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy isscheduled to open today in Washington hosted by the Jewish Genealogy Society ofGreater Washington.
2011: The JCC Maccabi Games arescheduled to open in Philadelphia, PA and Springfield, Mass.
2011: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including My Faraway One: Selected Letters of GeorgiaO’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume I, 1915-1933 edited by SarahGreenough and recently released paperback editions of Dreyfus: Politics,Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century, by Ruth Harris, Where I Live:New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Maxine Kumin and The CookbookCollector by Allegra Goodman.
2011:Twenty high-school teachers brought toIsrael by the UK-based Holocaust Education Trust will complete a 10-dayeducation training seminar at the International School for Holocaust Studies atYad Vashem. The group, which arrived in Israel on August 5, participated in aseries of workshops and lectures conducted by leading academics and experts,covering issues such as 19th-century anti-Semitism in Europe, Jewish lifebetween the world wars in Poland, the Final Solution, and Jewish theologicalresponses to the Holocaust.(As reported by Jerusalem Post)
2011:Israeli NBA star Omri Casspi isreturning to Maccabi Tel Aviv, David Federman, one of the club's owners said inan interview with Army Radio today. According to Federman, the majority ofCasspi's contract has been negotiated and he will be joining Maccabi for theupcoming season, granted the NBA labor dispute continues and the 2011-2012 NBAseason is delayed or canceled all together as many suspect. (As reported byJerusalem Post)
2011: Egypt, in coordination with Israel, has deployed its military inthe northern Sinai Peninsula in order to gain control over the anarchy that hastaken hold of the region, a senior Israeli defense official said on today.
2011(14th of Av, 5771): Seventy-seven-year-old transplantexpert Dr. Fritz Bach passed away. (As reported by Douglas Martin)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/us/18bach.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2012: The Eyal Vilner Big Band, led by Tel Aviv native Eyal Vilner, isscheduled to perform at the Garage Restaurant in NYC.
2012:Sacramento city leaders are scheduledto vote on a resolution making Ashkelon its 10th sister city (As reported byAri Ben Goldberg)
2012: The price of a price-controlled loaf of will bread is scheduled torise by 6.53% today. “The price of standard 750-gram loafs of dark or whitebread will rise to NIS 5.24; a 500-gram challah will increase to NIS 5.72; a750-gram loaf of sliced and packaged dark bread will cost NIS 7.87; and a500-gram loaf of sliced and packaged white bread will cost NIS 6.99.”(Asreported by Jerusalem Post)
2012: Funeral services for Zev Wolfson are scheduled to be at Sh’orYoshuv Institute followed by interment at Wellwood Cemetery in Farmingdale, NY.
2012:European rabbis said today that theywere lobbying Apple Inc. to pull a mobile app version of “The Protocols of theElders of Zion,” a notorious anti-Semitic forgery
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbis-call-for-apple-to-drop-elders-app-from-itunes/
2012: Some 350 new immigrants from North America — including five sets oftwins and two sets of triplets — were welcomed personally by Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport this morning. “I’m proud of you,” theprime minister told the group. “We’re all proud of you. Friends of Israel,Jewish and non-Jewish alike, are all proud of you.”
2013: Noam Kat, the Minister for Public Diplomacy at the Embassy ofIsrael is scheduled to provide a briefing on The Middle East Process.
2013: Israeli jazz guitarist Assaf Kehati and his trio are scheduled toperform at the Bar Next Door in New York City.
2013: Today, Kevin “Pillar was called up to the Blue Jays for the firsttime in his career.”
2013: The inauguration of Rabbi David Lau “took place today at the officialresidence of the President of Israel.”
2013:The IDF launched an airstrike on Gaza early this morning in response to rocketsfired into southern Israel from the territory, the army said in a statement.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-launches-airstrike-after-gaza-rockets-target-israel/
2013:Twenty-six convicted Palestinian terrorists were freed by Israel, and welcomedhome to the West Bank and Gaza, as part of the US-brokered deal that enabledthe resumption of peace talks. (As reported by Asher Zeiger and MichalShmulovich)
2014: The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host“Jewish Italy: Food Culture and Travel” during which attendees can “discoverItaly’s cucina ebraica (“Hebrew kitchen”) and desserts like sour cherrycheesecake from Rome’s famed Forno del Ghetto.”
2014: “The owners of 21 grocery store branches and kiosks”are scheduled to attend court session in Tel Aviv this morning “where they areexpected to be ordered to close on Saturday.” (As reported by Niv Elis)
2014:” The StateDepartment confirmed today that weapons shipments to Israel would be undergoingadditional review due to the war in Gaza, but denied reports that the Pentagonhad engaged in weapons transfers to Israel behind the back of the White Houseand State Department.” (As reported by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil)
2014: “The SimonWiesenthal center requested that a small hamlet south of Paris known asLa-Mort-aux Juifs—‘Death to the Jews’—since the 11th century change its name.”(As reported by Stephanie Butnick)
2014: “Today, the SouthAfrican Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) initiated both criminal and civilcharges against Tony Ehrenreich, provincial secretary of the Western Capebranch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, for hate speech andincitement to violence against the Jewish community’s leadership” when he wrote“The time has come to say very clearly that if a woman or child is killed inGaza, then the Jewish board of deputies, who are complicit, will feel the wrathof the People of SA with the age old biblical teaching of an eye for an eye,”he wrote. “The time has come for the conflict to be waged everywhere theZionist supporters fund and condone the war killing machine of Israel.”
2014(18th ofAv, 5774): Eighty-year-old Leonard J. Fein the Jewish man of letters whofounded and edited Moment Magazine and who was the brother of Rashi Fein passedaway today.
http://www.jta.org/2014/08/14/news-opinion/leonard-fein-liberal-activist-and-scholar-dies
2015: In “Sabbath”published today, Oliver Sacks examines the big questions of life using theJewish day of rest as his point of reference.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html?_r=0
2015: Shira Garielov, theIsraeli musician who “was kicked off American Idol” and is working on “hersecond LP for the Israeli market” is scheduled to perform at Arlene’s Grocery.”
2015: After premiering atthe Sundance Film Festival in January, “Mistress America” a comedy directed,produced and written by Noah Baumbach was released in the United States today.
2015: After premiering atthe Washington Jewish Film Festival in February, “Rosenwald a documentary filmdirected by Aviva Kempner about the career of American businessman andphilanthropist Julius Rosenwald was released in the United States today.
2015: The SecureCommunity Network issued an alert today warning that Hamza bin Laden, who hasambitions to lead al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization founded by his father,posted an audio message calling “for the targeting of Jewish American interestsglobally.”
2015: Prime Minister“Netanyahu announced the appointment” Danny Danon who in 2013 “asserted thathis Likud Party’ was “staunchly opposed to a two-state solution” “as Israel’snext Ambassador to the United Nations.” (As reported by David Horovitz)
2015: An exhibitionfeaturing the work of Haifa born artist Guy Yanai is scheduled to come to anend today.
http://www.amy-nyc.com/exhibitions/guy-yanai
2016:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding American Heiress: The Wild Sage of the Kidnapping, Crimes andTrial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin and Cousin Joseph: A GraphicNovel written and illustrated by Jules Feiffer.
2016:the UKJF is scheduled to sponsor a screening of “Bulgarian Rhapsody” –Bulgaria’s official submission to the 2015 Academy Awards.
2016:“Shadows From My Past” is scheduled to be shown today as part of the Tisha B’avFilm Series.
2016(10thof Av, 5776): Fast of Tisha B’Av observed since the 9th of Av fellon Shabbat.
2016(10thof Av, 5776): Ninety-three-year-old Obie award winning actor Fyvush Finkelpassed away today. (As reported by Joseph Berger)
2017:“The Police National Fraud Unit today detained Israeli diamond mogul BenySteinmetz and four others for questioning in a money-laundering investigationinvolving real estate deals abroad, police said in a statement.” (As reportedby Stuart Winer)
2017(22ndof Av, 5777): Ninety-seven year old St. John Law School grad Milton Mollen, thenavigator who spent part of WW II in a Nazi POW camp and who was the leader ofthe corruption fighting Mollen Commission passed away today. (As reported byJoseph P. Fried)
2017: In New Orleans, Kenneth Hoffman is scheduledto his new position today as the executive director of the Museum of theSouthern Jewish Experience.
2017:“The Legacy of the Hebrew Orphans’ Home” an exhibition that “highlights theoldest Georgia-based Jewish non-profit from inception to present throughphotography and stories” is scheduled to open today at the Breman Museum
2017:Israeli singer and actress Miri Mesika is scheduled to host Yehuda Poliker atthe Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair today.
http://www.hebrewsongs.com/artists-yehudapoliker.htm
2018:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Through Lotte’s Lens” adocumentary that tells the extraordinary story of the ‘Hitler Émigrés’, therefugees – mainly Jewish who escaped the Nazi regime in the 1930s and foundrefuge in the UK.”
2018:“The Israeli rock band ‘Tattoo’ is scheduled to open tonight’s performance by“English song-writer and singer Marc Almond” at the Caesarea Amphitheatre inthe Israeli seaside resort city that dates back to Roman times.
2019:The Jerusalem Municipality, in cooperation with the Youth Division of theFootball Association and the Referees Union” are scheduled to host theJerusalem Football Cup Tournament for the second time at the Kraft SportsCenter in the Jerusalem Valley.
2019:A reception is scheduled to be held today in Berlin marking a photo exhibitionfeaturing the works of “Israeli photographer, videographer and visualstoryteller Boaz Arad.
2019:Tel Aviv born drummer Daniel Dor is scheduled play with saxophonist DanielZamir and guitarist NItzan Bar in Jerusalem
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “As Dr. Ruth.”
2019:In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host the Executive CommitteeMeeting of the Jewish Federation.
2020:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Poland 1939: The Outbreak ofWorld War II by Roger Moorhouse and Time of the Magicians by WolframEllenberger
2021:In Palo Alto, CA, the Oshman Family JCC is scheduled to host “Singing at theSquare: The Female Version” featuring Noa LeBren and Yoss Reuven singingfeminine interpretations of well-known Israeli songs typically sung by men.”
2021:In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host ”A SpecialConcert
InMemory of Prof. Alexander Tamir commemorating two years since his passing
2021(6thof Elul, 5781): Parashat Shoftim
2022:The Museum of Jewish is scheduled to host a screening of “The Flat” followed bya discussion of this Aron Goldfinger film.
2022:The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduled to host “Eldridge Eats: A History ofthe Lower East Side Food Tour” during which participants “visit historic LowerEast Side sites and nosh on delicious rugelach, pickles, knishes, anddumplings!”
2022:The National Library of Israel is scheduled to a host conversation between Dr.Yoel Finkelman is Curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection atthe National Library of Israel and Ruth R. Wisse, author of Free as a Jew: APersonal Memoir of National Self-Liberation in which she reflects on her experience fleeing theHolocaust as a child, living through the birth of the State of Israel, andteaching Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard Universityfor more than 20 years.
2022:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including The Digital Republic: OnFreedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind.
2023:For those who cannot make it in person the Museum at Eldrige Street isscheduled to host a “Virtual Walking Tour of the Lower East Side.”
2023:“Daniela Haviv, a singer songwriter from California is scheduled to bring“country flavored music” to Tel Aviv with a debut performance at The GuitarLoft.
2023:Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to begin his vacation today afterdelaying it by one day “to meet with security officials, although his plans mayhave also been changed after protesters planned to disrupt his arrival at aresort on the Golan Heights and local farmers said they would resist anyrestrictions imposed on them that would interfere with their ability to reachtheir orchards.” (As reported by Attila Somfalvi, Itamar Eichner, Moran Azulayand Yair Kraus)
2023:In Cambridge, MA the Belmont World Festival is scheduled to present the NewEngland premier of “Stay With Us,” a film “by and about Gad Elmaleh” who was“named France’s funniest comedian.
2023:The Parliament of the World’s Religion which feature a presentation by LeahRauch, the director of education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduledto begin today at the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place.
2023:In Metairie, LA, Shir Chadash, the Conservative Congregation is scheduled tohold its board meeting.
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen on “MakingSense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Deuteronomy 18,Prophecy.”
2024:Chabad of Louisiana and Chabad Jewish Center of Metairie are scheduled to present: “Survival Through Song: An Eveningwith Survivor Saul Dreier” who endured the horrors of World War II, survivingghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps, including a stint at Schindler'sfactory and who emerged as the sole survivor of his family and led to thefounding of the Holocaust Survivor Band—a symbol of the healing power of musicand human resilience.
2024:Chabad is scheduled to host “With a Full Heart: Rambam on Divine Service” thethird class in the Rambam Revolution.
2024:The annual summer festival of literary performances sponsored by Agnon House isscheduled to begin tonight performances of "Shira Darling" - anoriginal traveling show following the novel "Shira" by S.Y. Agnon
and "Outdoor Dog" - an original musical performance about Kafka andAgnon's dogs,
2024:The Sixth and I Synagogue is scheduled to host the second session of theInterfaith Couples Workshop.
2024:In Cedar Rapids, President Brian Cohen is scheduled to chair the board meetingat Temple Judah.
2024:AsAugust 14th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters callingfor Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 313 in captivity. (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
