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135: Betar fell to theRomans
http://www.jewishmag.com/135mag/beitar/beitar.htm
http://archaeology.tau.ac.il/?page_id=2049
939: Battle ofAlhandic: Cordoban forces conquered the Leonese city of Zamora, Spain withgreat cost in lives to both sides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alhandic
1100: Henry I iscrowned King of England at Westminster Abby. During Henry’s reign the firstattempts were made to introduce the continental principle - that all Jews werethe king's property. Under King Henry, aclause to that effect was inserted in some manuscripts of the so-called"Laws of Edward the Confessor."
1199: Birthdate ofFerdinand III of Castile. Catholicsremember as the monarch who was canonized as Saint Ferdinand III. Jews remember him as the King who refused thePope’s demand that Jews be forced to wear special badge and clothing.Apparently he was afraid that if the Jews mistreated they would flee to MuslimGranada, which would be disastrous for the revenues of the kingdom
1264: Anti-Jewish riotsbroke out in Arnstadt Germany
1381: Rabbis andcommunal leaders from Speyer, Worms and Mayence met at Mayence to review andreinforce laws pertaining to marriage and the rights of widows in the wake ofthe Black Death. One of the rulesenacted was Tekanoth Shum which allowed a childless widow to receive a definiteportion of her late husband’s property even though she had refused to marry herbrother-in-law.
1391: More than 400Jews were killed in attacks in Barcelona. Attempts by the city Fathers andArtisans to protect them were of no use. The attacks were instigated for themost part by Castilians, who had taken part in the massacres in Seville andValencia.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-barcelona-echoes-of-long-lost-jews/
1529: Francis I, Kingof France and Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire who was also King ofSpain appear to settle their differences by signing the Treaty of Cambrai inwhich Francis agrees to give up his claim to Italy and Charles gives up his claimto Burgundy (a part of modern day France.) The Jews had been expelled fromFrance in 1394, so officially there were no Jews for Francis to mistreat orexploit. Charles treatment of his Jewish subjects depended upon where theylived. As King of Spain, Charlesfollowed the line established by his forbearers starting with the SpanishInquisition. As Emperor he took a much more benign attitude towards his Jewishsubjects living in central Europe. Pope Clement VII, whose support of the Jewsearned him the “accolade of ‘favorer of Israel’ and a price gracious toIsrael,” made the mistake of siding with Francis over Charles in theirdispute. Once in control of Italy,Charles allowed his troops to sack Clement’s Rome, safe in the knowledge thatno French troops would come to the Pope’s assistance. Dona Gracia, the famousMarrano businesswomen who reasserted her Jewish identity, lent money to bothmonarchs and her nephew was well known to both of these competing rulers.
1540: In Agen, France,Italian scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger and Andiette de Roques Lobejac gavebirth to their tenth child and third son Joseph Justus Scaliger, “the Huguenotscholar and professor at the University of Leiden” who “argued that it was onlypossible to establish the true text and meaning of Scripture gaining anunderstanding of rabbinic sources” and who “maintained Jews should be permittedto return to western Europe simply because of their economic importance butbecause of their learning.”
1718: Barent Gompertzmarried Rachel Isaac today in Amsterdam.
1748: Empress MariaTheresa revoked the edict of expulsion directed at the Jews of Bohemia
1756(9th ofAv, 5516): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day, that during the French andIndian War, George Washington wrote to the Speaker of the House of Burgess,that Fort Cumberland “is not capable of an hour’s defense if the enemy brings asingle half pounder cannon against it.”
1761(16th ofAv, 5521):Ritzel Hannah Adolphus, the daughter of Benjamin Adolphus who wasmarried to Asher Ettting and Ralph de Paz passed away today in New York City.
1769: In a move thatset him apart from many of his predecessors and successors, Pope Clement XIVelevated the conditions of the Jews when he declared that they were “no longerunder the jurisdiction of the Inquisition and are instead subject to the authorityof Rome's cardinal vicar (Vicariato di Roma). Jews were furthermore givenpermission to work as artisans and even to own small factories.” (As reportedby Austin Cline)
1769: Herz WeselGumperz and Abraham Wesel Gumperz gave birth Ruben Samuel Gumperz the husbandof Roeschen Gumperz
1769: The day after shehad passed away, the sixty-five year old wife of Meir Reboya was buried todayat the “Alderney Road (Globe Rd) Jewish Cemetery.”
1772: First of thethree partitions of Poland begins. TheJews of what had been Poland and Lithuania will end up in the Prussian,Austrian and/or Russian Empires.Ironically, the bulk of them will end up living under Russian monarchswho had committed themselves to keeping Jews out of Russia.
1775(9th ofAv, 5535): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that “theSpanish ship San Carlos, commanded by Juan Manuel de Ayala, entered what wouldsoon be called San Francisco Bay which would lead to the founding of SanFrancisco, CA which today is home to approximately a quarter of a million Jews.
1782: In Newport, RI,Moses Isaacs and his wife gave birth to Abigail Isaacs.
1786(11th of Av, 5546): ParashatVaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamuobserved for the last time while John Hanco*ckserved as President of the Continual Congress, the governing body of the UnitedStates of America at that time.
1788(2nd ofAv, 5548): In Trier Rabbi Moses Lwów, the son of Joshua Heschel Lwow and MarieMerlé Lwow and husband of Bella Eger passed away today.
1797(13th ofAv, 5557): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu observed for the first timeduring the Presidency of John Adams.1
1799(23rd ofAv, 5558): Rebecca Etting, a toddler and the daughter of Rachel Gratz andSolomon Etting passed away today at Oakland, Maryland
1802: Birthdate ofEliakim Carmoly, a French born Jewish scholar and rabbi who would eventuallyresign from the rabbinate, move to Frankfurt and devote himself to Jewish literatureand to the collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts.
1811(15th ofAv, 5571): Tu B’Av observed as President Madison prepares for a war against GreatBritain that will go down in history as “The War of 1812.”
1812: Moss Jewellmarried Eleanor Joseph today at the Great Synagogue.
1813(9th of 5773,Av): Tish’a B’Av
1814: In New York City,“American Revolutionary War veteran Sampson Means and Catherine (Cohen) Isaaksgave birth to Rebecca Cohen Isaaks Hart, who was anactive member of “Synagogue Mickveh Israel” in Philadelphia where she servedfor thirty years as “President of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society” andhelped to manage the Jewish Foster Home and was the wife of Abraham Hart.
1813(9thof Av, 5573): Tish’a B’Av is observed by Jews in America and England whosecountries are engaged in the second year of the War of 1812/
1816: Two days aftershe had passed away, Maria Hart, the daughter of Stephen and Esther Hart wasburied in the United Kingdom today.
1820: In Frankfurt,Adelheid (née Herz) and Carl Mayer von Rothschild gave birth to Mayer CarolFreiherr von Rothschild who became the first Jewish member of the House ofLords of Prussia.
1832(9th ofAv, 5592): Tish’a B’Av
1834(29th ofTammuz, 5594): Forty-three-year-old Sarah Nathan, the wife of Isaac MendezSeixas Nathan and the mother of Grace Nathan passed away in New York City.
1842: In New York City,Harriet Jackson and Israel Benjamin Phillips who were married in 1837 gavebirth Benjamin Phillips today.
1842(29th of Av, 5602):Fifty-three-year-old German educator and theologian Michael Creizenach, authorof the 4-volume work “Shulḥan 'Aruk, oder Encyklopädische Darstellung desMosaischen Gesetzes," passed away today.
1843(9th ofAv, 5603): Parashat Devarim and Shabbat Chazon
1843: In Richmond, VA,Issac and Adeline Hyneman gave birth to Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman who moved toPhiladelphia, PA and the Civil War broke out, the southern born Hyneman casthis lot with the Union, serving with the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1865.
1845(2nd ofAv, 5605): Captain Henry B. Nones passed away today after which he was buriedat the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery in Delaware.
1846: Two days aftershe had passed, 72 year old Sarah (Moss) Barnett, the widow of the late JoelBarnett, was buried today at the “Brompton Jewish Cemetery.”
1848(11th ofAv, 5614): Shabbat Nachamu
1848: In Poland, HindeRitow and Marcus Radin gave birth Adolph M. Radin, German trained Americanrabbi who has served congregations in Elmira and New York City including theCongregation Gates of Hope and the People’s Synagogue.
1854: JuliusGoldschmidt and Caroline Marie Hansen gave birth to Karl Julius IsakGoldschmidt today.
1854: John Griffins, anative of Poland, was arrested today for swindling Reverend Stephen Wilkins,the pastor of a Baptist church in New York.Wilkins gave money to Griffins because the latter claimed to be collectingfunds for a society for "aiding and better the conditions theJews." Griffin’s claims were false.
1860: The consecrationof the new synagogue to be used by congregation B'nai Israel, located on thecorner of Stanton and Forsyth streets, took place this afternoon. The building,which is capable of holding about 800 people, was formerly a Baptist Church,but has recently been purchased, and converted into a synagogue by the abovecongregation, most of whom are natives of Holland. The interior transformationsrequired to convert it into a synagogue were not extensive or costly -- theonly change being a shifting of the position of the pews, so as to leave aspace for the "reading desk" in the centre of the church, and theerection of a semicircular ark in the place of the pulpit. The reading desk isthe same as that used in the old synagogue of this congregation, inChristie-street, made of rosewood, and surrounded by an enclosure, or railing,about ten feet square, and of elegant workmanship. On the four corners of theenclosure are gas fixtures, in imitation of candies, and over head depends amagnificent bronze chandelier, with numerous jets, all of which were keptburning during the consecration service. The "Ark" is also made ofrosewood, with sliding doors, and, when closed, is screened from public view byrich damask curtains, which were presented by the ladies of the congregation.The synagogue was filled to its utmost capacity, yesterday, by an audiencecomposed about equally of ladies and gentlemen. As the congregation B'naiIsrael is among the strictest of the "orthodox" party of the Jews,and opposed to the modern "improvements" and "reforms" thathave been introduced into some other synagogues, the old customs, seating thesexes apart, was adhered to, and the ladies occupied the gallery, while thegentlemen sat in the body of the church. Among the Jewish clergy of othercongregations present were Rabbi Morris Jerome Raphall, of the Greene-streetSynagogue; Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs, of the Wooster-street Synagogue and RabbiJ.J. Lyons, of the Portuguese Synagogue. The ceremonies of the consecration werearranged and conducted by Rabbi M.R. de Leeuw, of the congregation B'naiIsrael. The consecration service opened with a chant from the choir, whichoccupied the enclosure surrounding the reading-desk, and was led by theminister of the congregation. The trustees of the synagogue then enteredbearing the "sacred scrolls," and proceeded by twenty-four younggirls, dressed in white, with blue scarves, and each one carrying in her band abasket of flowers. The trustees took their position in the open space, betweenthe reading-desk and the ark, and were flanked on either side by a column ofthe young girls, who commenced picking flowers from their baskets and throwingthem at their feet, while the choir chanted a dedication psalm. The bearers ofthe sacred scrolls, accompanied by the honorary officers of the church, menmarched in procession seven times around the synagogue, each circuit beingaccompanied by an appropriate chant from the choir. On each return of theprocession to the open space fronting the ark they were pelted with roses fromthe fair hands of the young misses until the ground was literally covered withthese fragrant floral offerings. The seventh circuit having been completed, theark was opened, the sacred scrolls were deposited therein, the doors wereclosed, the damask curtains were drawn close around it, and the perpetual lampwhich depends from the ceiling in front was ignited, never to expire. Afteranother chant from the choir, Rev. Dr. RAPHALL ascended the platform on whichrests the ark, and addressed the congregation in a few remarks befitting theoccasion, taking for his text the passage of Scripture commencing, "Howbeautiful are thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts." He alluded to thepersecutions which the children of Israel had suffered under the Roman Empire,and all through the Middle Ages, even to the time when they crossed the oceanand landed in this home of freedom and equality. He spoke of the progress ofthe congregation B'nai Israel, from the time when he first addressed them intheir Synagogue in Pell-street until now, and exhorted them to renewed devotionand praise to the Lord for the prosperity that had attended them. Rabbi Isaacsalluded in disparaging terms to the innovations of the "reform party"among the Israelites, which he attributed to religious pride. He thanked Godthat the congregation B'nai Israel remained uncontaminated by these pretendedreforms, and adhered strictly to the ceremonials of their fathers. Aconsecration prayer was then delivered by Rabbi de Leeuw, and the ceremoniesclosed with a Hallelujah by the choir.
1860: The Londoncorrespondent for the New York Times reported that the Times of London nolonger enjoys any special advantage over its competitors because it has lostit* monopoly on information. Theaccumulated wealth of the Times had given it access to the telegraph providingit with an advantage over its poorer competitors. “But since the monopoly of telegraphiccommunication has been secured by that clever and far-seeing German Jew, Mr.Reuters, all the journals are supplied, share and share alike, at the sametime, and at the same tariff. In many specialties, such as "CityIntelligence" and "Foreign Correspondence," the Daily Newsis nearly equal to the Times. The leading articles of the Telegraphare generally on the same subjects as those of its high-priced rival, and the Post,Herald and Star each appeal to their own peculiar class ofreaders.”
1861: At the meeting ofthe Board of Alderman in New York City this evening the report of the Committeedonating $30,000 to the Hebrew Benevolent Society was adopted, but wassubsequently reconsidered and laid over, on the motion of Alderman Tuomey.
1861: At a time whenPresident Lincoln had called for “90-day volunteers” Herman Stern began his 3month service with Company of the 83rd Regiment.
1861: Twenty-eight yearold Jefferson Medical College trained laryngologist Dr. Morris Joseph Aschjoined the United States Army today at which time he was assigned to thesurgeon-general’s office after which he would become “surgeon-in-chief to theArtillery Reserve of the Army of the Potomac, medical inspector Army of thePotomac, medical director of the 24th Army Corps, medical inspector of the Armyof the James, staff surgeon of General P. H. Sheridan from 1865 to 1873.”
1862(9th ofAv, 5622): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day Union forces defeated theRebels at the Battle of Baton Rouge which thwarted Confederate attempts tocapture the state capital of Louisiana which was the home of the recentlyestablished “Hebrew Congregation of theCity of Baton Rouge.”
1865: A correspondentfor the Levant Herald wrote from Smyrna today describing the mortifyingeffects of the Cholera epidemic that has struck the city. Among other things hereported that Hyde Clark, the English engineer, has informed Sir MosesMontefiore of the suffering among the Jewish people. In response, the Jewishphilanthropist has begun raising funds from the Jewish communities in Londonand France and it is thought that he and his associate, Dr. Hodgkins mightpersonally come to the city with the necessary aid.
1865(13th ofAv, 5625): Shabbat Nachamu
1865: Birthdate ofLeopold Bloch, the resident of Pilsen who was transported to Terezin where hewas murdered in 1942.
1865(13th ofAve, 5625): Thirty-one-year-old author Naphtali Keller whose works include tostores - "Sullam ha-Haẓlaḥah" and "Debek lo Tob", a tale ofGalician Jewish life passed away today.
1867:Twenty-five-year-old Miriam Maduro Davis, the New York born daughter of Dr.Daniel Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto and Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and herhusband Michael Marks Davis gave birth to Constance Miriam Davis who becameConstance Miriam Mordecai when she married Benjamin Mordecai with whom she hadfive children – Eva, Lucile, Constance, Katherine and Allen.
1867: In Chicago, Il,Hannah Briedenbach and Berman Friend gave birth to Rush Medical College trainedsurgeon Emanuel Friend, the husband of Magdalem Jane Alexander and chairman ofthe surgical department at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.
1867: Birthdate of“eastern Prussia” native Hermann Wronker, the founder of S. Wronker andCompany, the German department store chain he operated with his brother Simonwhich he was forced to sell when the “company was aryanized” before beingkilled at Auschwitz in 1942.
1871: Less than a monthafter his birth, author Marcel Proust, the son of JeanneClémence (Weil) Proust, “the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family from Alsace,”was baptized in the Catholic faith of his father Adrien Proust “at the churchof Saint-Louis d’Antin” today.
1872: In Baltimore, MD,Moses and Jane (Alborn) Friedenwald gave birth to Racie Friedenwald who becameRacie Adler when she married Cyrus Adler.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-racie
1872: In London SirPhilip and Lady Magnus gave birth to Laurie Magnus the husband of DoraSpielmann, “the eldest daughter of Sir Isidore and Lady Spielman” and “editorof John Murray’s Educational Publications” who was active in the Anglo-Jewishcommunity as can be seen by his membership on the Jewish Board of Deputies andservice as Warden at the West London Synagogue.
1873: “From A Traveler”published today provides the views of an American merchant in Switzerland onthe treatment of religious groups in Europe as opposed to the United Statesconcluding that “in the end tolerated must be secured to all. I am led to this course of reflection fromobserving the wrong done the Jews than those inflicted on dissentingChristians. If the great Rothschild doesnot devote his accumulated wealth to the assertion and maintenance of therights of his people then he will deserve the execration of mankind. That family, with a few others, have itwithin their power to say to the Governments of southern and eastern Europe‘this far and no father.’” (Editor’snote – This view of the all -powerful Jewish families is one of those mythsthat went up in smoke with the Shoah.)
1876(15th ofAv, 5636): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu: Tu B’Av
1876: Leopold Wintnerwho had assumed the position of the rabbi of Temple Beth El in Detroit gave hisfarewell sermon today. When Wintner delivered a sermon at the Church of OurFather in May of 1876, he became “the first Detroit rabbi to preach in a localChristian church.”
1877: Birthdate ofHermann Ludwig Mass, a Protestant minister from Badem and one of the RighteousAmong the Nations who attended the Six Zionists Congress and was imprisoned bythe Nazis for helping Jews to escape from Europe.
1877: In Cincinnati,OH, Emile and Ameilia (Hyman) Kahn gave birth to gold medal winning Universityof Cincinnati graduate Cora Kahn, the instructor in public speaking at HebrewUnion college, who daughter drama classes at the Wise Center of the Plum StreetTemple and served as an active member of the Council of Jewish Women.
1877: Birthdate ofLudwig Hollaender, who studied law at the University of Munich and practicedlaw there before returning to his hometown of Berlin where he fought growinganti-Semitism as the founder and director of the Central Union of Jews inGermany.
1878: It was reportedtoday Peace Society had sent a delegation headed by Professor Leone Levi to theCongress of Berlin that was supposed to present a petition to the leaders ofEurope calling for the use of arbitration as a method of settling internationaldisputes. Britain’s Lord Salisburyexpressed his sympathy with the effort but held out little hope for anyaction. Levi was an Italian born Jew whom*oved to Great Britain where he converted and became a lawyer and author.
1878: In New Orleans,Charles and Dora (Kohn) Simon gave birth to Tulane trained physician andgastroenterologist Sidney K. Simon and husband of Emma Roos Drefyous who was amember of Temple Sinai, active in the Y.M.H.A. and a supporter of the JewishOrphans Home.
1879: “Tracing SomeStolen Goods,” an article published today described how a Jew named LouisPollard was arrested and falsely accused of stealing shoes worth five hundreddollars from a shoe factory on West Broadway last September. The police finally realized their error and releasedhim.
1881: It was reportedtoday that mobs have started to attack the synagogues and shops owned by Jewsin Pomerania. The police had to becalled to disperse the mobs.
1881: The views of “M.de Bacourt, Talleyrand’s friend, secretary and literary executor” on Americanspublished today included the following description of the New England Yankeewhom others saw as a flinty Protestant as being “the type of the Englishmancombined with the subtlety and cleverness of the Jews. He is a mixture of British pride, coldnessand stiffness with Hebrew cunning.” (Editor’s note – One can only imagine howthose New Englanders who put stumbling blocks in front of the Jews would havefelt about this description.)
1881: Based oninformation that first appeared in the LondonStandard, “Beaconsfield’s Manuscripts” published today descried the highprices that these works by Benjamin Disraeli brought at auction citing inparticular the original copies of the novels The Young Duke and ContariniFleming which were written in his own hand.
1882(20th ofAv, 5642): On August 5,The Standard Oilof New Jersey was established. During the 1930’s “Standard of New Jersey…forgeda synthetic oil and rubber cartel with the Nazi-controlled I.G. Farben.” This “helped the Third Reich to makesignificant gains “in the development of synthetic rubber and gasoline”; gainswhich would prove to be of invaluable assistance to the Nazis during WWII. During the 1930’s Farben’s holdingin Standard of New Jersey “were second only to those of John D., Jr., himself.”(For more about Standard Oil and the Jewish people, see The Secret WarAgainst the Jews by John Loftus and Mark Aarons.)
1882: In Brooklyn Paulineand Alexander Katsky gave birth to David Katsky, the husband of Leah HeimanKatsky and the father of Athur Katsky.
1883: It was reportedtoday that there was an anti-Semitic riot at Presburg in protest over the notguilty verdicts rendered in the case of Esther Solymosi.
1883: “The ScientificGossip” column published today explained earlier comments by M.G. Lagneau aboutthe differences in birthrates between Catholics, Protestants and Jews. AlthoughJews have a lower birthrate than the other two religions, there mortality rate“is remarkably low” a conditionattributed to their religious dietetic and hygienic regulations, earlymarriages, the fact that most Jewish women do not work out of the home and“general sobriety.”
1885: In Kovno,Lithuania, “Rachel and Hyman Jehuda Osinsky” gave birth to Moshe Osinsky, whocame to England in 1900 where, as Montague Maurice Burton he became asuccessful maker and seller of men’s clothing, and married Sophia Amelia Marks with whom he had fourchildren – Barbara, Stanley, Raymond and Arnold.
http://faded-london.blogspot.com/2009/12/when-full-monty-goes-for-burton.html
1885: Herzl withdrewfrom the court service in order to become a writer.
1887(15thof Av, 5647): Tu B’Av
1887: Adolph Loeb, the German born son of Jakob and EsterLoeb and his wife Johanna Loeb gave birth to Dorothy Loeb.
1887: Birthdate of Chicago native and New York businessmanVictor Riesnfeld, the chairman of the board of Montefiore Hospital and husbandof “the former Eleanor Hirsch” with whom he had a daughter and a son.
1888: It was reportedtoday that plans have been made to provide the youngsters at the Sanitarium forHebrew Children with an extra summer excursion.
1888: According to areview of Quince Culture by W.W. Meech published today, the fruit is so mildthat In Palestine it is eaten as soon as it is picked from the tree. According to Jewish tradition, the quince was“the apple” that Eve used to tempt Adam.
1888: “Hearing the NewRabbi” published today described the views of the recently elected spiritualleader of The Temple of Gates of Hope on the use of the pulpit and “the dutiesof the one who occupies it” which included the idea that just ‘as the statue inour harbor proclaims light and peace to all nations os the pulpit must proclaimlight and peace to all mankind.” (Temple of Gates of Prayer was the forerunnerof today’s Park Avenue Synagogue)
1889: Salvatore Levywas arrested on charges of obtaining credit under false pretenses. AGreek Jew, Levy claimed to be the son of Elie Levy, who had a seat onthe Bourse in Paris and had sent him to America.
1889: AssemblymanCharles “Silver Dollar Smith got into an altercation with Samuel Roberts at theGolden Rule Hotel during a meeting of Republicans of the 8thAssembly District. Smith was a German born Jewish political leader and saloonkeeper who was known variously as Karl Finikelstein or Charles Solomon beforehe legally changed his name. Interestingly, he was famous for passing out freeMatzot at his saloon each year at Pesach, something which endeared him tonon-Jews as well as to Jews because free food on the Lower East side of NewYork was welcome by the poor no matter what its religious connotation.
1889(8th ofAv, 5649): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1889(8th ofAv, 5649): Seventy-seven-year-old Isaac Phillips passed away this morning inNew York City. A successful businessman,he worked in the cutlery industry in Philadelphia and New York before pursuinga life of public service including work as a Customs Examiner and Surveyor ofthe Port. He also edited the CourierEnquirer. A life-long Democrat, heattended the convention that nominated James K. Polk to serve as President ofthe United States.. An active member of the Sephardic community, he was one ofthe founders of Mount Sinai Hospital. In1834, he married Sophia Phillips and after she died in 1855, he married MiriamTrimble, a gentile woman who had converted to Judaism. He was the son ofNaphtali Phillips who held a position of responsibility at the Custom House andwas editor of the National Advocate
1889: The members ofgang called the Yellowstone Cowboys were sentenced to the Albany Penitentiaryfor their role in terrorizing a boarding house owned by Jew in Ulster County.(Compare this to what was going on in Russia at this time)
1889: Seventy-eight-year-oldauthor and German “feminist” Fanny Lewald who converted to Christianity at theage of 17 passed away today.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Lewald,_Fanny
1890: When asked aboutthe order to enforce the Russian edicts of 1882 against the Jews, Sir JamesFergusson, the Under Foreign Secretary told the House of Commons “that theBritish Government could interfere with the Czar’s treatment of the Jews.”(Sort of reminds you of the British not being able to “interfere” with Hitler’s“treatment of the Jews.”)
1890: The U.S. StateDepartment cabled the American Legation at St. Petersburg asking if there was“any foundation” to reports of wholesale Jewish expulsion.
1890: A man describedas a slender 5’ 8” German Hebrew attempted to obtain three copies of a recentlyissued book using a forged purchase order from H.C. Squires, a gun dealer onBroadway.
1890: “Dancing AtSaratoga” published today provided a summary of activities and events at theNew York resort including the fact “that Judge Hilton no longer holds acontrolling interest in…the Grand Union Hotel” and there the “Hebrews are oncemore welcomed there.”
1890: Rabbi Freudntahl,the superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of Baltimore married “Miss AddieSutto” at the New York home of her parents.
1890: In New Yorkfounding of the “Russian-American Hebrew Association, Educational Alliance” anorganization seeking “to exercise a civilizing and elevating influence upon theimmigrants, to Americanize them” which defending “the Russian immigrants againstunjust attacks” whose President since its founding was Adolph M. Radin.
1891: “Russian JewsReleased” published today describe the decision to let a group of Jews fromRussia enter Baltimore now that the Maryland State Board of Immigration hasbeen “given satisfactory assurances that the immigrants would not become publiccharges.
1892: A letter printedin an English publication, the Jewish Chronicle, “confirmed the failureof Baron de Hirsch’s colony in Argentina.” According to the writer, theconditions at Moiseville, the Jewish colony, “baffled description. The land selected for the settlement was illchosen and an enormous number of the families are huddled together in tents andsheds, where they have been living for months in idleness and intrigue.” Afterfailing to improve conditions, Colonel Goldsmid disbanded the colony and madearrangements for eight hundred of the colonists to sail back to Europe.
1892: Birthdate ofHartford, CT native Emanuel Cohen, the “newsreel editor for Pattie News,” thevice president in charge of productions for Paramount” and the husband of “theformer Madeline Bender.”
1893: “Rabbi Cohen HasThe Records” published today described the dismissal of Rabbi Louis Cohen bythe congregation at 44 Orchard Street led by President Abraham Finberg andSecretary Samuel Finkelstein and the problems they have encountered in obtainingthe congregation’s records from the former rabbi.
1894: “Masquerade Ballat Deal Beach” published today described this social event that included BryanKennelly and Lou Rolston dressed as “a Hebrew merchant and his wife.” (Is itShylock or Rothschild?)
1894: Two days aftershe had passed away, 45 year old Betsy (Levy) Defries, the daughter of Mosesand Esther Levy and the wife of I.L.Defries was buried today at West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1894: “Remains of theEight Cities” published today provided a detailed review of A Mound of ManyCity: Tell-el-Hesy Excavated by Fredrick Bliss the American archaeologistwho worked at the site under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Societyand under the direction of the famed British archaeologist Flinders Petrie
1895: “Objects ToHaving Jews Converted” published today described “Aaron Drucker’s indignation”that “has been aroused” by the Saturday afternoon meetings in the Church of Seaand Land “for the purpose of converting his co-religionist to Christianity.” Hebroke up one such meeting when shouted “Such meetings as this should not beheld! It is an outrage to humanity. If a man is born a Jew… nothing can changehim!” Efforts to convert the Jews of the Lower East Side continued despite hisobjections.
1895: Louis Stern, aNew York dry goods merchant, went on trial today in Kissingen, Germany oncharges that he had insulted Baron von Thuengen, the Deputy Commissioner of thecity’s Spa much to the delight of “the Jew-baiters” and “the anti-Semitic press.”
1895:Birthdate of Newark, NJ native William Sawelson, the WW I Doughboy who wasposthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for service at Grand-Pre,France. Sawelson served as a Sergeant, United States Army, Company M, 312thInfantry, 78th Division. His citation reads: “Hearing a wounded man in a shellhole some distance away calling for water, Sgt. Sawelson, upon his owninitiative, left shelter and crawled through heavy machinegun fire to where theman lay, giving him what water he had in his canteen. He then went back to hisown shell hole, obtained more water, and was returning to the wounded man whenhe was killed by a machinegun bullet.”
1895: “The AldemanicLaw Committee met this afternoon and decide to recommend that the HebrewBenevolent Orphan Asylum Society be allowed to sell the property from 76thto 77th Street, Third to Lexington Avenue.”
1895: It was reportedtoday that Meyer J. Stein, a lawyer in New York has expressed his outrage alongwith that of several of his co-religionist over the letterhead of the HotelLowry that says in red ink “3$ per day. No Jews.”
1896 “Free Trade InMoney” published today provides the view of Edward Atkinson that the attempt toswitch United States currency from a gold standard to a bi-metal standard is aplot spearheaded by William Jennings Bryan, the silver miners and “the Jewsbankers.”
1896: “Notes of StagePeople” published today provided a preview of the fall season in New Yorkincluding Oscar Hammerstein’s production of the romantic comic opera “SantaMaria” which will open at the Olympia.
1896:Twenty-four-year-old Carrie Obendorfer, the Uniontown, AL born daughter of Leoand Mary (Wise) Obendorfer became Carrie Obendorder Simon today when shemarried Rabbi Abram Simon with whom she had two sons, Leo and David and whofounded the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and who devoted herself to the Jewish BrailleInstitute of America, founded in 1931, where sisterhood volunteers gavecountless hours transcribing English, Yiddish, and Hebrew books for the blind.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/simon-carrie-obendorfer
1897: The roof gardenon the Hebrew Institute Building opened for its second season this evening. Thedelay in re-opening this facility which provides relief from the heat forthousands on the Lower East Side was brought by the need to finish “extensive repairs…tothe building” that will make it nicer for those seeking some semblance of“coolness.”
1897: The Straussterilized milk booth (so named because they are funded by Nathan Straus) whichwas located at the roof garden of the Hebrew Institute last year opened today “for the first timethis year.”
1898: “A Riot In EastNew York” published today described a spontaneous outbursts of violence whenJewish immigrant mothers thought that attempts to vaccinate their daughterswere an attempt to put the mark of the cross on their bodies and convert them toChristianity.
1898(17th ofAv, 5658): Seventy-six-year-old Isidor Bush the native of Prague whose“maternal great-grandfather was Israel Hönig, Edler von Hönigsberg, the firstJew raised to nobility in Austria” passed away in St. Louis MO. He moved to theUnited States after the failed Revolutions of 1848 where he enjoyed an excitinglife that included a career in banking, service in the Union Army and helpingto develop the Jewish community in St. Louis and the wine growing industry inMissouri; an effort that was felt all the way back to France.
1899(29th ofAv, 5659): Seventy-five year old Myer Stern passed away today at Bath Beachwhile staying at the Hotel Argyle. A native of Bavaria, at the age of 16 hewent to work for a banking house owned by the father of Baron Hirsch beforecoming to the United States where he became a successful banker andmerchant. An active philanthropist, heserved as President of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, first Presidentof the Institute of Deaf Mutes and was a founder of Temple Emanu-El.
1899: Israel Zangwill,the author of “The Children of the Ghetto” was one of the first passengers tocome down the gangplank of the SS Campania when “she docked at the Cunard pier”today.
1899: Israel Zangwillleft New York this evening to visit Judge Meyer Sulzberger in Philadelphia, PA
1899: TheUnited Hebrew Charities acknowledged that it had raised an additional $200.50for an impoverished family that sought to move to the country since both of theparents had become chronic invalids as result of overwork in the city. Thecontributions ranged from as much as $20 from A.A. Levy to fifty cents fromPhilip Domich.
1899: In LasVegas, New Mexico Isaac Bacharach and Belle Ilfeld gave birth to IsaacBacharach, the art collector and amateur historian who along with his brotherSimon was a “pioneer merchant in New Mexico.”
1900(10thof Av, 5660): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that Chinese and “allied”troops fought a battle at Peit-sang during the Box Rebellion
1901:Sixty-year-oldVictoria, Empress of Germany, the sister of King Edward VII who had numerousJewish friends and the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II of WW I infamy who in theend blamed the Jews for his defeat passed away today.
1902: Herzl’strip to the Ottoman Empire begun on
Herzl offers to liquidate the entire Ottoman national debt in return for aconcession to "Haifa and its environs."
1903: Herzl begins hisjourney to visit the Jews of Russia. Thetrip will end on the 18th day of the month.
1904: In Hungary, Jacoband Sarah Mandell gave birth to Carl Mandell the ex-husband of Tennessee nativeSylvia Mandell.
1905(4th ofAv, 5665): Parashat Devarim
1905: Two thousandbakers went on strike meaning that “bread will be scare on the lower east andin the Jewish neighborhoods south of 42nd Street.
1905(4th ofAv, 5665): Parsahat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1905: It was reportedtoday that during the strike “on the Novorossiysk-Vladikavkaz Railway riotsbroke during which houses “were bombarded with stones” which, according tosome, led to the Jews “replying with bullets.”
1906: Birthdate ofChicago native and University of Chicago trained attorney, Arnold I Shure, thehusband of Freida Shure, who initiated a program to bring students from NaziGermany to the United States and “was noted for his representation ofdepositors in the liquidation of City Savings and Loan Association as well asAmerican Airlines stewardesses fired because they had become pregnant”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-01-28-9201080931-story.html
1906: Today, elevenEnglish-speaking Jews held a formal meeting in Havana with the intention offounding a congregation and cemetery. The venue was the home of Manuel Hadidaat Pasaje Arcado No. 9. Hadida was a Sephardic Jew originally from Algeria, whoapparently had migrated from North Africa to Paris, and then to the UnitedStates. Evidently it was from the United States that he moved to Havana.Typical of the period, most of the others were Ashkenazi "Americans,"although some had been born in Europe. At the first meeting Louis Jurick waselected chairman of the Hebrew Congregation of Cuba, and Manuel Hadida waschosen as general secretary.
1906: Birthdate ofNobel Prize-winning economist, Wassily Leontif. Born in St. Petersburg, the sonof an economist, Leontif received his Ph.D. from Berlin University. He beganteaching at Harvard in 1932. He won the Nobel Prize "for the development ofthe input-output method and for its application to important economicproblems." Later in life he developed an interest in environmental issues.He passed away in 1999 at the age of 92.
1907: It was reportedtoday five thousand people in Honolulu attended a reception for Secretary ofCommerce and Labor Oscar Straus
1908(8th ofAv, 5668): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1908: In Ashton,England, UK Charles Rothschild and Rozsika Edle Rothschild (née vonWertheimstein) gave birth to “Miriam Rothschild, the heiress who discovered howfleas jump, brought Chaucerian wildflowers back to modern England and wasacknowledged as one of the world's most distinguished naturalists.’
1908: InCharenton-le-pont, Meir Pines and his wife gave birth to Sholomo Pines theIsraeli scholar who made Aliyah in 1940 and is best known for his Englishtranslation of Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed. The Shlomo Pines Society, founded in 1990 isdedicated to advancing his work a preserving his memory http://www.shlomopines.org.il/len/
1909(18thof Av, 5669): On the Jewish calendar, yahrzeit Rabbi Jacob Culi, the Talmudistand author Me-Am Lo’ez who passed away in 1732.
1910: In Brooklyn,Jennie (Marrow) Green and “Hyman Levy Green, a garment manufacturer” gave birthto biochemist David Ezra Green.
http://www.nap.edu/read/10992/chapter/8#114
1911(11thof Av, 5671): Shabbat Nachamu
1911: Millard Cantoris scheduled to serve as Cantor at Shabbat Morning services at Isaiah Temple.
1911: Dr. Gerson B.Levi is scheduled to deliver the sermon this morning at Congregation B’naiSholom-Temple Israel.
1911: Max vonOppenheim, the son of a member of the Jewish banking family who had convertedto Catholicism so he could marry Max’s mother and a team of 5 archaeologistbegan “a digging campaign” at Tell-Halaf.
1912: In Brooklyn,NY, attorney Samuel Chugerman and his wife Helen gave birth to Daniel Chugermanwho gained fame as director Daniel Mann. (A reported by William Honan)
1913: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held this morning for 19 year old Donald MiltonMalkan, the son of Phillip and Bertha (Burgheim) Malkan followed burial atRosehill Cemetery.
1913: In Mt. Vernon,NY, Abraham and Lena Federman Levy gave birth to Bernard G. Levy, the youngestof their six children who worked as a jewelry salesman for several companies beforeopening “his own store, ‘Bernie Levy, Jeweler’ in Tuckahoe, NY.”
1914: As Europestumbles into what will become a World War Montenegro declared war onAustria-Hungary
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/montenegro-virtual-jewish-history-tour
1914: American“specialist in eye, car and throat diseases” Dr. Leopold Gulshak, the Latviaborn son of Rabbi Joseph and Alida(Gutkin) Glushak who served on the faculty of Army Medical School during WW I,and was member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun married Annie Gordon today inGlasgow.
1915: The Blue Paradise isa musical in a prologue and two acts, with music by Edmund Eysler and SigmundRomberg and a book co-authored by Leo Stein which was produced by the ShubertBrothers on Broadway today at the Casino Theatre.
1915: The GermanArmy occupied Warsaw during WW I
1915:Three thousand mostly young Jewish workingmen and workingwomen attended a massmeeting tonight in Cooper Union “for the purpose of takings steps toward theorganization of a Jewish congress” which would to “ameliorate the conditions ofJews all over the world.”
1915:It was reported today that among the ten thousand prisoners being held by theGermans in a camp “near the university town of Giesen in Upper House includes“Russian Jews.”
1916:“The Day’s New Editors” published today described the change in leadership atthe “New York national Jewish daily newspaper which is now under the control ofa board of three Jewish scholars, Professor Isaac Hurowitz, William Edlin andDr. A. Coralnick.
1916: “Movie Ad Men InAssociation” published today described the first meeting of the AssociatedMotion Picture Advertisers whose Executive Counsel includes Jesse Lasky, PaulGulick and Harry Reichenbach.
1916: Tickets arescheduled to go on sale today for a benefit arranged by Daniel Frohman to raisemoney for the Actor’s Fund of America to be held at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
1916: Having been able to concentrate 50,000 troopsat Romani in response the attack by the Germans and Turks, the British Imperialforces went on the offensive putting an end to the last attempt by the CentralPowers to take the Suez Canal and opening the way for the British to begin toseriously consider campaign that would liberate Palestine and take them all theway to Damascus by war’s end.
1917: In New York,Benjamin Swartz, the Chairman of Draft Board 151 explained the failure of hisboard to make public its number of recruits because “as a matter of fact, wewere going so fast and things were coming in our way in such fine shape that wedecided it would be better to wait until we got our quote and then let the goodnews out and that is what we did.”
1917:Today in New York, University of Cincinnati graduateand HUC ordained Rabbi, Samuel Joshua Abrams, the Vilna born son of David and SarahAbramowtiz who served several congregations starting with B’nai Israel inKalamazoo before finally settling in at Temple Ohabei Shalom married SarahFriedman.
1917: In Dusseldorf,Gustav Cohn, the German born son of Sophie andSeligman Lazarus Cohn and his wife Henriiette gave birth to Max Cohn.
1918: It was reported today that the HebrewUniversity has received a gift of five thousand shares of the Jewish ColonialTrust valued at $25,000 from Jacob Schiff.
1918: In Poland, RabbiMordechai Dov Eidelberg and his wife gave birth to Shlomo Eidelberg, WW IIresistance fighter and Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at YeshivaUniversity in New York.
https://biblio.co.uk/the-jews-and-the-crusaders-by-eidelberg-shlomo/work/2165583
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/shlomo-eidelberg-4405715
1918: “Twenty-four newwelfare workers were graduated from the training school of the Jewish WelfareBoard of the United States Army and Navy” this evening in New York.
1918(27th of Av, 5678): Seventy-eight-year-oldMoritz Guedemann, the chief rabbi of Vienna passed away today.
1919: It was reportedtoday that “as a tribute to the memory of Oscar Hammerstein, Hugo Riesenfeld,Director of the Rioli and the Rialto, ordered the flag on the Rialto to beflown at half-mast” during the funeral of Oscar Hammerstein while a bugler played“Taps” from the roof of the theatre.
1919(9th of Av, 5679):As the Minsk Offensive continues and the Jews of that city wonder if they willbe living under Polish or Soviet rule, Tish'a B'Av is observed.
1920: Representatives“of the Hungarian University Club, Hungarian Self-Culture Society and theHungarian-American Federation addressed today addressed an appeal to BertholdSinger, the Spanish Consul in Chicago whose country “is looking after Americaninterests in the former dual monarchy” asking that Charles Huszar, the formerPremier of Hungary not be allowed to visit Chicago because “many Hungarianshold him responsible for pogroms and oppression of Jews in Hungary.”
1922: Birthdate of TelAviv native and Columbia educated psychologist Hiam Ginott best known for thework Between Child and Parent.
1923(23rd ofAv, 5683): Constance Miriam Mordecai, the New York City born daughter MiriamMaduro Davis and Michael Marks Davis and the wife of Benjamin Mordecai withwhom she had five children – Eva, Lucile, Constance, Katherine and Allen –passed away today.
1924: It was reportedtoday the Manhattan banker Roger Straus has furnished the $2,500 bail for hisson-in-law 18-year-old Albert Hockstatter who was charged in car crash thatkilled 8 year old Felix Diyeso.
1925(5th ofAv, 5685): Tu B’Av
1925: In Brooklyn,Phillip and Minnie Shainmark Bloom gave birth to Joel Nachum Bloom “who in his21 years as director of the science museum and planetarium at the FranklinInstitute in Philadelphia transformed a lackluster exhibition space into abright and appealing one with hands-on experiments and walk-through exhibits,including a giant, pulsing human cell…” (As reported by Dennis Hevesi)
1925Birthdate of Richard Heffner who conducted some two dozen interviews with ElieWiesel for his public television productions "The Open Mind" and"Dialogues: A Series of Conversations on the Crucial Issues of Our Times”which were published as Conversations with Elie Wiesel
https://nook.barnesandnoble.com/products/9780307518156/sample?sourceEan=9780805211412
http://www.thirteen.org/programs/richard-heffners-open-mind/fdr-and-the-jews/
1926: Houdinistays in a coffin under water for more than one hour.
1927: It was reportedtoday that the rebuilding of structurers of Dagnia B Foundation FundSettlements which were damaged in the recent earthquake “will cost $15,000.”
1928: It was reportedtoday that “The United Palestine Appeal has collected for all its constituentorganizations $9,911,077, from Oct. 1, 1925 to July 31, 1928, an increase of$3,160,743 over a similar period prior to the organization of the appeal.”
1929: More than twohundred people attended “the first of a series of conferences to unite theKashruth boards of New York into one central agency for the enforcement of theJewish dietary laws was held tonight by the Kashruth Association of New YorkState.
1930: It was reportedtoday that Professor Cuza, the leader of the anti-Semitic campaign for theexpulsion of all Jews from Rumania has held “a big meeting a Jassy whichresolutions to the government protesting the repression of anti-Semitism anddemanding an extension of the campaign.
1931: It was made knowntoday that David A. Frown, leader in Jewish philanthropic work, has assumed theoffice of president and publisher of The American Hebrew, succeeding Rabbi Isaac Landman, as editor of the publication
1932: Baron von Gaylthe Minister of the Interior in “promised the Jews that he would do all hecould to protect” their lives and properties in East Prussia and Upper Silesia.
1932: Baltimoreresident Harry Issadore Silverman, the Polish born son of Rachel and JacobSilverman and his wife Mae Silverman Elpan gave birth to Elaine Fine.
1933: Archaeologistsworking for the Palestine Exploration Fund discovered an ancient synagogue,dating from the sixth century C. E near Nahalal.
1933:“The Big Brain” based on story by Sy Bartlett who also wrote the script wasdistributed today in the United States by R.K.O. Pictures
1933: In Montreal, Thearrival of Sir Herbert Samuel in Montreal, as leader of British delegation tothe fifth biennial conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, is madethe occasion of attack by anti-Semitic newspaper, Le Patriot, which charges himwith being the emissary of the "Elders of Zion" to open Canada toJewish refugees from Germany.
1933: The Nazi Lawyers'Association addresses a formal letter to business establishments threateningthem with a boycott if they continue to employ Jewish lawyers.
1933: In Frankfort,Court imposes a two months' imprisonment sentence upon a Jewish journalist forwearing a swastika, even though he contends that he renounced Judaism in 1922and had applied for membership in the National Socialist Party.
1933: In Hamburg, TheHeinrich Heine monument is removed from the city park.
1933: The Nazi Rhineofficials issue an order prohibiting the employment of Jews as non-qualifiedlabor in the entire Rhine district. Employers are warned of penalties if theyemploy Jews who do not produce a special card entitling them to employment.
1934: “Good Morning,Eve!” a comedy short starring Leon Errol was released today in the UnitedStates.
1934(24th of Av, 5694):One hundred Jews are killed in an anti-Semitic pogromat Constantine, Algeria.
1936: Arab disturbances and on the division ofresponsibilities between the Palestine and the British governments.
1936(17th ofAv, 5696): Fifty-six-year-old Irvin Frank Lehman, the Pittsburgh born son ofMoses and Franny Frank Lehman and husband of Franny Fanny Klein Lehman who was“one of the original trustees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies”passed away today.
1936: “A letter fromPresident Roosevelt, made public” today “by the United Palestine Appeal inconnection with its forthcoming publication, the United Palestine Appeal YearBook for 1936 which is designed to raise $3,500,000, declares that the Jewshave a right to settle in Palestine.”
1936: “A group ofresidents of North Bergen, NJ, filed a petition with the township commission”today “asking for the removal of a Talmud Torah, a Jewish religious center andschool at 1,154 Fourth Avenue, a residential street of semi-detached houses.”
1937: In Tel Aviv,Amnon Drori and Ella Drori, the daughter of Alexander and EsterGovorkovski gave birth to Amir Drori
1937: The BritishPalestinian policy gained its first ground today when Dr. Chaim Weizmann,president of the World Zionist Congress, made an eloquent though guarded pleain favor of the partition principle to the biennial congress.
1937: Birthdate of DanShomron the Sabra who would play a key role in the 1976 Raid on Entebbe andserved as the 13th Chief of Staff of the IDF.
1937:The 20th Zionist Congress, held in Zurich, decided by a vote of 285 against115, to hold the political debate behind closed doors.
1937: In Geneva,the Permanent Mandates Commission reminded the British Colonial Secretary, Mr.Ormsby-Gore, that Britain administered Palestine on its behalf.
1938: As they attemptedto halt Arab instigated violence, British troops clashed with a band of armedmen, killing three and wounding four.
1938(8th ofAv, 5698): Eighty-two-year-old Abraham Cherniavsky, “the composer and formerconductor of the Royal Opera House at Moscow” suffered a fatal heart attacktoday in Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/08/06/98174999.html?pageNumber=13
1938: “Alexander’sRagtime Band” a musical with a script co-authored by Irving Berlin who alongwith Alfred Newman wrote the score was released in the United States today.
1938: “Algiers’produced by Walter Wagner (born Walter Feuchtwanger) and starring Hedy Lamarwas released in the United States today by United Artists.
1938: “The Crowd Roars”produced by Sam Zimbalist and featuring Lionel Stander as "Happy"Lane was released in the United States today by Loew’s, Inc.
1939(20th ofAv,5699): Parashat Ekev
1939: “IndianapolisSpeedway” a drama with a script by Sig Herzig and music by Adolph Deutsch wasreleased in the United States today.
1940(1st of Av, 5700):Rosh Chodesh Av
1940: It was reportedtoday that Joseph Schildkraut has been added to the cast of Universal’s “Meetthe Wildcat.”
1940: It was reportedtoday that “New Wine,” a story that is being adapted to the screen “will beAlexander Korda’s second picture on this season’s schedule, to follow hisforthcoming screen treatment of the lives of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton.”
1941(12th of Av, 5701):Sixty-five-year-old Yaakov Ben Zion Mendelson, the rabbi of the Bergen StreetShul and a leading member of theAssembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis of America and Canada passed away today.
1941(12th of Av,5701): The Holocaust continued to gain momentum. In Rasaininai, 213 men and 66Jewish women were murdered.
1941: A three day longslaughter of Jews begins in Pinsk that results in the death of eleven thousandJews.
1941: It was reportedtoday that attorney Edgar J. Nathan, Jr. a former legal association of thelatest Justice Cardozo who is “treasurerand secretary of the Jewish Social Association, a director of the Jewish TheologicalSeminary…and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution” has been chosenby the Republican Executive Committee to be the party’s candidate for BoroughPresident of Manhattan.
1942: “Tales ofManhattan” an “American anthology film” produced by Sam Spiegel, with music bySol Kaplan, with a script co-authored by Ben Hecht and co-starring Edward G.Robinson was released in the United States today by 20th CenturyFox.
1942: In the WarsawGhetto German soldiers came to collect the 192 (there is some debate about theactual number and it may have been 196) orphans and about one dozen staffmembers to take them to Treblinka extermination camp. The children were underthe care of Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician,and child pedagogue, known as PanDoktor (Mr Doctor). Korczak had been offered sanctuary on the “Aryanside” of Warsaw but turned it down repeatedly, saying that he could not abandonhis children. Now too, he refused offers of sanctuary, insisting that he wouldgo with the children. The children were dressed in their best clothes, and eachcarried a blue knapsack and a favorite book or toy. Joshua Perle, aneyewitness, described the procession of Korczak and the children through theghetto to the Umschlagplatz (deportation point to the death camps):
... A miracle occurred.Two hundred children did not cry out. Two hundred pure souls, condemned todeath, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to hide. Likestricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to their father andbrother, Janusz Korczak, so that he might protect and preserve them. JanuszKorczak was marching, his head bent forward, holding the hand of a child,without a hat, a leather belt around his waist, and wearing high boots. A fewnurses were followed by two hundred children, dressed in clean and meticulouslycared for clothes, as they were being carried to the altar. (...) On all sidesthe children were surrounded by Germans, Ukrainians, and this time also Jewishpolicemen. They whipped and fired shots at them. The very stones of the streetwept at the sight of the procession.
According to a popularlegend, when the group of orphans finally reached the Umschlagplatz, anSS officer recognized Korczak as the author of one of his favorite children'sbooks and offered to help him escape, but once again, Korczak refused. Heboarded the trains with the children and was never heard from again.
Korczak's evacuationfrom the Ghetto is also mentioned in Władysław Szpilman's book The Pianist
"One day, around5th August when I had to take a brief rest from work and was walking down GesiaStreet, I happened to see Janusz Korczak and his orphans leaving the ghetto.The evacuation of the Jewish orphanage run by Janusz Korczak had been orderedfor that morning. The children were to have been taken away alone. He had thechance to save himself, and it was only with difficulty that he persuaded theGermans to take him too. He had spent long years of his life with children andnow, on this last journey he could not leave them alone. He wanted to easethings for them. He told the orphans they were going out in to the country, sothey ought to be cheerful. At last they would be able exchange the horriblesuffocating city walls for meadows of flowers, streams where they could bathe,woods full of berries and mushrooms. He told them to wear their best clothes,and so they came out into the yard, two by two nicely dressed and in a happymood. The little column was lead by an SS man who loved children, as Germansdo, even those he was about to see on their way into the next world. He took aspecial liking to a boy of twelve, a violinist who had his instrument under hisarm. The SS man told him to go to the head of the precession of children andplay – and so they set off. When I met them in Gesia Street the smilingchildren were singing in chorus, the little violinist was playing for them andKorczak was carrying two of the smallest infants, who were beaming too, andtelling them some amusing story. I am sure that even in the gas chamber, as theZyklon B gas was stifling childish throats and striking terror instead of hopeinto the orphans hearts, the Old Doctor must have whispered with one lasteffort, ‘it's all right, children, it will be all right’. So that at least hecould spare his little charges the fear of passing from life to death." ThePianist - Page 96
Sometime after, therewere rumors that the trains had been diverted and that Korczak and the childrenhad survived. There was, however, no basis to these stories. Most likely,Korczak was killed with most of his children in a gas chamber upon their arrivalat Treblinka. There is a memorial grave for him at the Powązki Cemetery inWarsaw.
1943: Along with 11other women Liane Berkowitz was executed Plötzensee Prison for their part inthe German Resistance Movement.
1943: In “Rockaway,Queens, NY, pharmacist Hyman Pearlman and his wife gave birth to “music man”Samuel Clarke "Sandy" Pearlman.
1943: Harold Alfond,the founder of Dexter Shoes, married Dorothy Levine of Waterford, Maine.
1943: Eva-Marie Buch amember of the Red Orchestra who had been arrested “for passing message toFrench slave workers in factories” was hanged today “in Plötzensee Prison,Berlin”
1944: Polish fighters liberated the GesoiowakaLabor Camp from the Germans. Among those freed were 384 Jewishprisoners.
1944(16th ofAv, 5704): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu
1944(16thAve. 5704): Russian born Rabbi Louis Jacob who in 1912 came to the UnitedStates who led congregations in Spokane, WA and Kansas City passed away to.
1944: The Mekfurecarrying 394 Romanian Jews seeking refuge in Palestine sank today
1945: On the day beforethe atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the bombing of Hangkew, the site of a“strategically placed radio transmitter” and home to large number of Jewishrefugees, which had begun in July, came to an end.
1946(8th ofAv, 5706): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1946: “The executive ofthe Jewish Agency adopted today a resolution declaring that the "Britishproposals based on the report of the Committee of Six and as announced byHerbert Morrison in the House of Commons are unacceptable as a basis of discussion"of the Palestine problem.”
1946: “David Horowitz,the economic adviser of the Jewish Agency for Palestine said today at a pressconference that any attempt” by the British government to prevented thedebarkation of so-called illegal Jewish immigrants “would be resisted and wouldwreck for a long time any hope ofreconciliation between the British administration and the Jewish community.”
1947: Birthdate ofRabbi David Nathan Saperstein, an alum of Cornell, Hebrew Union College andAmerican University, who was “the director and chief legal counsel at the Unionfor Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center” and “the first non-Christian toheld the post of United States Ambassador-at-Lary for International ReligiousFreedom”
1947: Today, as theBritish returned to work from the three-day bank holiday weekend, they dealtwith the reality that anti-Jewish riots and “disturbances had “taken place inGlasgow, Bristol, Hull, London, Warrington. Salfrod where “a crowd of severalthousand had thrown stones at shop windows, West Derby “where arsonists setfire to a wooden synagogue,” Liverpool where “workers at Canada Dock found‘death to all Jews’ painted above the entrance” and Ecles where John Regan, “aformer sergeant major” told a crowd of 700 that Hitler was right – exterminateevery Jew.”
1947: Israel Rokach,the future Mayor of Tel Aviv was imprisoned in the prison at Latrun
1947(19th ofAv, 5707): Lucian Kahn, the son of Ohio businessman Lazard Kahn and the formerCoralie Alice Lemann of Donaldsonville, LA and the brother of Marie, Milton,Bertram and Jerome Kahn passed away today “while visiting his daughter in SanFrancisco” after which during a community salute, it was said that “it isdoubtful if a more civic and community-minded person ever lived in Hamilton,OH.”
1948: Today Austrianbanker Sonja Kohn was born to Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe in Vienna.“She grew up in Vienna in a small Jewish community. In the 1970s, with herhusband Erwin Kohn, she started an import-export business and moved to Milan,Italy. In 1984 she founded the Bank Medici in Vienna. One year later, she movedto New York. They lived in Monsey, a large, ultraorthodox Jewish community.Increasingly orthodox, she covered her hair as is customary for traditionallyorthodox women. The Kohns founded a small brokerage firm, the Eurovaleur Inc.In New York City she became known as “Austria’s woman on Wall Street.” In1990s, they moved back to Vienna. There, she cooperated with Gerhard Randa ofBank Austria. The Bank Medici was relaunched in 2003 as an Aktiengesellschaft.Sonja is shareholder of 75 percent and is head of the bank's supervising board.She also became consultant of the Vienna Stock Exchange and was member of thesupervisory board of Italian Finlombardia bank.
1948: Today, Wilfred“Canter arrived in Israel ,one of just five Jewish-Canadian World War IIveteran pilots in a newly minted Air Force that had few aviators with anysignificant operational experience.” (As reported by Aron Heller)
1948: At the land atthat Haifa airport yesterday of a British-Manned paned assigned to the U.N.Mission, “An Israeli Government spokesman wanted today that the British crewsof aircraft assigned to the United Nations Truce Commission would be detained ifthey landed in Israeli territory.” (JTA)
1948: In light of therealities of the military situation and the failure of the UN to act, theIsraeli government explicitly rejected the proposal for an internationalizedJerusalem.
1949: It was announcedtoday that Comdr. Joshua L. Goldberg, Chaplains Corps, USNR, a graduation ofthe Jewish Institute of Regions whose congregation, the Astoria Center ofIsrael, gave him a leave of absence in 1942 to begin his service in the Navy,has been named Chaplain of the Third Naval District.
1949: “United StatesArmy customs agents impounded an Israeli ship today and ordered her officers tounload millions of dollars' worth of contraband machinery and vehicles thatallegedly were to have been smuggled into Israel.”
1950: The SaturdayReview published “The Squaw Man Rides Again,” Robert Gessner’s reviews of thewestern film “The Broken Arrow”
1951: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held this morning of Isidor Freedman, the wife of SelmaFreedman one of the founders and leaders of the Hebrew Teachers Training Schoolfor Girls.
1953: Premiere of “FromHere to Eternity” for which Fred Zinnemann won an Oscar as Best Director.
1955: The task ofmarking the border between Israel and Egypt “in the Nitzana/Auja vicinity” wascompleted today.
1957(8th ofAv, 5717): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1957: Temple Israel “wona court suit today for the right to build a temple and school on 23 acre tractin suburban Creve Coeur” MO, “which had been blocked by two amendments to thesuburb’s zoning ordinances.”
1957(8th of Av, 5717):Nobel Prize winning chemist Heinrich Otto Wieland passed away. Wieland was not Jewish. According to onesource, Wieland provided educational opportunities for Jewish students who wereexpelled under the terms of the Nuremberg Laws. Wieland was also an associateof members of the White Rose, a secret anti-Nazi organization whose membershipwas, for the most part, killed off by the Gestapo during the last years of thewar.
1957(8th ofAv, 5717): Sixty-eight-year-old Dr. Israel Bettan, “president of the CentralConference of American Rabbis and an authority on Jewish preaching” and thehusband of Ida Goldstein Bettan with whom he had one daughter, Anita Bettan,passed away tonight.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/06/87310759.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bettan-israel
1958: Isaak Jack Martinwas confirmed by the United States Senate as an Associate Judge of the U.S.Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
1958: Birthdate ofIsraeli political leader Silvan Shalom, the native of Tunisia who made Aliyahin 1959 and served in a number of ministerial positions including Vice PrimeMinister
1959(1st of Av, 5719):Rosh Chodesh Av
1960: The MetropolitanSynagogue of New York is scheduled to hold Shabbat Eve services at itstemporary home” – Community Church.
1960: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held this morning in Forest Hills for David Goldman, thehusband of Ina Goldman and father of Patricia and Mark Goldman
1962(5th of Av, 5722):Actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home. She was 36. Herdeath was ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills. Monroehad converted to Judaism when she married playwright Arthur Miller.
1963(15th ofAv, 5723): Tu B’Av
1963(15th ofAv, 5723): Ninety-one year old bantamweight champion Sigmund “Sig” Hart passedaway today.
1964: Mel Brooks marries Anne Bancroft.
1964: “Bande à part,”which would later be released in the United States as “Band of Outsiders”starring Sami Frey was released today in France.
1964: Birthdate of AdamNathaniel Yauch, the son of a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, the Americanrapper “best known as a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys” who“sometimes worked under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér.”
1964: David Hurstappeared in the role of “Paedagogus” when “Electra” opened at the DelacorteTheatre during the New York Shakespeare Festival.
1965: Sandy Socolowproduced a report on the CBS Evening News that showed “U.S. Marines torchingdozens of thatched huts” at the village of Cam Ne which “defied the upbeatassessment of the war” being presented by the Department of Defense.
1966: Birthdate ofactor Jonathan Silverman the son of Rabbi Emanuel Silverman and the grandson ofRabbi Morris Silverman.
1968(11th ofAv, 5728): Sixty-eight-year-old New York born and Columbia Law School educatedattorney Herbert. W. Aldenstein, the husband of “the former Mrs. Jennie L.Whitehall” with whom he raised a daughter and a son, John K. Haldenstein who“was associate chairman of the board of rustees of the Jewish Home and Hospitalfor the Aged” and “former President of the Central Bureau for the Jewish Aged”passed away today after suffering “an aneurism.”
1970: Today 1 New YorkPlaza, a building designed by Kahn & Jacobs, and developed by Sol Atlas “suffereda fire in which two people were killed and 35 injured.”
1971(14th ofAv,5731): Fifty-one-year-old University of Chicago trained physician andpsychiatrist and WW II veteran Seymour Leonard Lustman who was named master ofDavenport College at Yale last month and was the former Katherine L. Ritmanwith whom he had two children, a son, Jeffrey, and a daughter, Susan, passedaway today.
1973(7th ofAv, 5733): Seventy-three-year-old Dr. Ernst Papanek, the native of Vienna whocame to the United States in 1940 where he eventual became “a professor ofeducational psychology at Queens College passed away today.
http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2333
1973: In Athens, five people were murdered andanother fifty-five were wounded when 2 Palestinian terrorists machine gunnedthe passenger lounge at the airport.
1975: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held this afternoon a the Riverside funeral home inBrooklyn for City College and Brooklyn College alum 69-year-old a diedyesterday State Supreme Court Justice Abraham I. Kalina, the husband of “theformer Tillie Ornstein,” with whom he ha three children – David, Robert andJoyce – and “a past president of the Seagate Sisterhood of Talmud Torah and ofthe Yeshiva Sharei Zedek” who “as supervising judge of the SpecialNarcotics Court in Manhattan” “advocated for latitude in plea bargainingbetween prosecutors and drug defendants, and for more freedom for judges toimpose relatively light sentences where warranted.”
1975: Birthdate of IddoGoldberg, the Israeli actor who played Yitzchak Shulman, in the film version ofDefiance, the book and film that told the story of the Bielski partisans, agroup led by three Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Belarusduring the Second World War.
1976(9th ofAv, 5736): Tish’a B’Av is observed for the last during the Presidency of GeraldFord.
1976: ABC broadcast thefirst episode of “What’s Happening!!” a sitcom produced by Bernie Orenstein,Saul Turtletaub and Bud Yorkin.
1976: Leonard Bernsteinconducted the German-language premiere of Candide, at Wiener Stadthalle inVienna.
1978: Birthdate ofIsraeli tennis player Harel Levy.
1979(12th ofAv, 5739): Eight-four-year-old “Jacob S. Potofsky, former president of theAmalgamated Clothing Workers of America” whom President Jimmy Carter describedas “one of the giants of the American labor movement” passed away today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E0CE2DA153EE732A25755C0A96E9C946890D6CF
1980(23rd ofAv, 5740): The former Kitty Rovine, the widow of Ukrainian-American HermanBrodsky to whom she had been married for more than fifty-seven years, passedaway today in Philadelphia.
1981: After more than 4years, the 18th government under Prime Minister Menachem Begin cameto an end.
1981: Ariel Sharonreplaced Menachem Begin as Minister of Defense.
1981: Yitzhak Bermansucceeded Yitzhak Moda’i as Minister of Energy and Water Resources.
1981: MordechaiTzipori, succeeded Yoram Aridor as Communications Minister
1982: Prime MinisterBegin and his Cabinet met this evening in Jerusalem to consider the situationin Lebanon in light of the American expression of the to re-establish andmaintain a cease-fire.
1982: “A delegation ofJewish leaders were told by Administration officials today that President Reganhas not considered sanctions against Israel because of Isreal’s military actionagain the Palestine Liberation Organization terrorist in west Beirut.” (JTA)
1983(26th ofAv, 5743): Eighty-year-old Trenton native Rabbi Saul Habas, the husband of“Ruth Janette Zerkowsky Habas” passed away today after which he was buried inthe Natchez City Cemetery in Adams County, Mississippi.
1983: “The StarChamber” a judicial thriller directed by Peter Hyams, produced by Frank Yablansand co-starring Yaphet Kotto was released in the United States today.
1983(26th ofAv, 5743): Seventy-nine-year-old I. J. (Israel James) Kapstein, the boyhoodfriend of S. J. Perlman who became a successful novelist and English professorwhile raising a daughter Judith an a son, Jonathan with his wife Stella passedaway today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/06/obituaries/ij-kapstein-dies-novelist-was-79.html
1985(18th of Av, 5745):Eighty-seven-year-old Arnold “Arnie” Horween who was the first Jewish captainof the Harvard football team and then went on to a career in the NFL andcoaching passed away today.
http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=football&ID=72
1986(29th ofTammuz, 5746): Ninety year old New York native John Alexander, the WW I veteranwho was guided during his career at Rutgers by theatrical legend Paul Robesonand who made football history in 1922 when as a member of the Milwaukee Badgersplayed the position of “outside linebacker” much to the surprise of the ChicagoCardinals passed away today.
1987: Mathew Broderickwas in a car accident in Northern Ireland in which he was seriously injured andthe passenger in the other was killed for which he was eventually found guiltyof “careless driving and fined $175.
1988: “Track 29”co-starring Sandra Bernhard as “Nurse Stein” was released today in the UnitedKingdom.
1989(4th ofAv, 5749): Shabbat Chazon
1993: A soldier waskidnapped and killed north of Jerusalem
1995(9th of Av, 5755):Because today is Shabbat, this evening is Erev Tisha B’Av
1995(9th ofAv, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old New York native Bertram Harris who “played guardon the Rutgers University football team from 1928 to 1930: passed away today.
1995(9th of Av, 5755):Israeli composer Menachem Avidom passed away at the age of 87.
1996:“Shylock” a one act play that “focuses on a Jewish actor named Jon Davies, whois featured as Shylock in a production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice”opened at Bard on the Beach in Canada today.
1998(13thof Av, 5758): Ninety-eight-year Jacques Landesberg, the husband of IsabelleGoldberg Landesberg, passed away today after which he was buried at MountHebron Cemetery in Flushing, NY.
1998(13th of Av, 5758):Harel Bin-Nun, 18, and Shlomo Liebman, 24, were shot and killed in an ambush byterrorists while on patrol at the Yizhar settlement in Samaria. (Jewish VirtualLibrary)
1998: Two soldiers werekilled during an ambush at Yizhar.
1999: Matan Vilnaisucceeded Ehud Barak as Minister of Culture and Sport
1999: Yithak Vakninbegan serving as Deputy Minister of Communications.
1999: Efraim Sneh beganserving as Deputy Minister of Defense.
1990: YeshivaUniversity and The Lincoln Square Synagogue are in a state of mourning over thedeather of Helen Newman Greenwald, the wife of Herbert Greenwald and the motherof Rose (Mrs. Morton L.) Landowne.
2000: It was reportedtoday that a ruling Judge Nina Gershon of the Federal District Court inBrooklyn ‘ that New York State's kosher food laws are unconstitutionalhighlights the intersection of centuries-old biblical and rabbinical strictureswith modern state sanctions.”
2001: The New York Times book section featureda review of Francine du Plessix Gray’s biography of Simon Weil, the ‘atheistJew’ entitled Simon Weil
2001: U.S. Premiere of“Wild Iris” co-starring Emile Hirsch.
2001:“Israeli helicopters fire a pair of laser-guided rockets at a carrying theHamas terrorist Amer Hassan Madiri
2001: For the firsttime TNT broadcast the made-for-television film “James Dean” written by IsraelHorovitz and directed by Mark Rydell.
2001(16th of Av, 5761):Tehiya Bloomberg, 40, of Karnei Shomron,mother of five and 5 months pregnant, was killed when Palestinian gunmen openedfire on the family vehicle between Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron. Threepeople were seriously wounded, including her husband, Shimon, and daughter,Tzippi, 14.
2002: At the Ummal-Fahm junction a terrorists set off a bomb killing himself and wounding hisIsraeli-Arab taxi driver.
2002(27th ofAv, 5762): Twenty-nine-year-old Avi Wolanski and his wife 27 year old AvitalWolanski were murdered “when terrorists” from “The Martyrs of the PalestinianPopular Army” “opened fire on their car.”
2002: “A heavily armedPalestinian in a wet suit was shot and killed by Israeli police as he swamashore near an Israeli settlement.”
2003: “The Bushadministration, looking for ways to press Israel to halt construction of abarrier separating its citizens from Palestinian areas, is considering areduction in loan guarantees for Israel that were approved by Congress thisspring, administration officials said today.” (As reported by Steven R. Weisman
2004: ''Anne Frank: APrivate Photo Album'' includes 8 original photographs, 69 copies, a facsimileof Anne Frank's diary and reproductions of family photo albums assembled byOtto Frank, the girls' father, and his wife, Edith can be seen starting today atthe Holocaust Museum. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)
2004: “The rapidgrowth” of the Casah Bahia chain of department stores “and Samuel Klein’s rolein building it into a regional economic force were the subject of one of thecase studies in The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid which waspublished today.
2005: In Los Angeles,actress Rena Sofer, the daughter of Rabbi Martin Sofer and Sanford Bookstavergave birth to their first child Avalon Leone.
2005: Nicole SarahMackey, daughter of Mark and Karen Mackey, granddaughter of Harvey and ElaineLuber, and an all-around great person, becomes a Bat Mitzvah in Little Rock,Arkansas.
2006: Marissa Carson,daughter of Laura and Bill Carson is called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah inCedar Rapids, IA. As the Israelis arebattling those who would destroy the Jewish state, there is additional drama andpoignancy to the opening words of her haftarah, “Comfort, ye, comfort my people– Nachamu, Nachamu ami.”
2006(11th of Av, 5766):FadiyaJuma'a, 60, and her daughters Sultana, 31, and Samira, 33 were killed byHezbollah rockets.
2006:Jerry “Reinsdorf was inducted into the Appleton, Wisconsin Baseball Hall ofFame today in a ceremony at Fox Cities Stadium prior to that evening's gamebetween the Midwest League Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and Beloit Snappers.”
2006(11thof Av, 5766): Ninety-nine-year-old “producer, direct and actor” the brother ofJack, Jules and Ben White and husband of Claretta Ellis whose career includingeverything from making musical comedies to WW II armed forces training films.
2007:An exhibition entitled “Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art” comes to aclose at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
2007(21st of Av, 5767):Eighty-nine-year-old Amos Manor, the survivor of Auschwitz who was Director ofShin Bet for ten years passed away today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3433999,00.html
2007: Tevi David Troy,the holder of a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, a “member of the Kemp MillSynagogue in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Kami (néePliskow) and their four children” began serving as United States Deputy Secretaryof Health and Human Services today.
2007: The Sunday New York Times Book Sectionreviewed Dalia Sofer’s first novel, The September of Shiraz, a “richlyevocative, powerfully affecting depiction of a prosperous Jewish family inTehran shortly after the revolution” and 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved theAmerican Century bythe Jewish author Stanley Weintraub.
2007: The Sunday Washington Post book sectionreviewed Girls Gone Mild by Jewish author Wendy Shalit and Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions ThatChanged the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Keshaw. “Thelast decision Kershaw explores -- moving to the industrial-scale murder ofEurope's Jews -- wasn't so much a decision as the endpoint of a long trajectoryof anti-Semitism that found its ultimate exponent in Hitler and its impetus inthe speed of his victories in 1940 and 1941. This final chapter is a horrifyingchronicle of the "spiral of radicalization" in Nazi thinking that ledfrom Mein Kampf to Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a fitting coda to Kershaw'sthoughtful, far-reaching examination of events that echo down to today.”
2007: The Cedar Rapids Gazette featured an article about InTolerance a precision contractor manufacturing company owned by Jewishcommunity leader Robert Becker describing it as “a Cedar Rapids company leadingthe way in family-friendly policies.”
2007: Eighty-year-old Jean-Marie Lustiger, the French Cardinal who wasa born Jewish in Poland and whose mother died in a Nazi Concentration Camp,passed away today. (As reported by Tagliabue)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/world/europe/06lustiger.html?pagewanted=all
2008: In Little Rock, AR, opening session of From Ruins to Glory, acourse of study based on a virtual tour of the Temple.
2008: In St. Paul, MN, the Modern Marvels series, “Jewish Adventures inthe Graphic Novel “examines The Quitter by Harvey Pekar. Ostensibly coveringPekar's early years, this dark graphic novel tackles everything from his briefstint in the Navy to jazz criticism and mid-century race relations.
2008: ShaulMofaz officially entered the race to be leader of Kadima and received ablessing by Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
2008: YakovKreizberg conducted his final symphony at the BBC Proms.
2009: ThePittsburgh City Council President declared to to be "Evelyn KozakDay" in Pittsburgh in 2009 in honor of her 110th birthday, saying that”this daughter of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants “was the oldest livingPittsburgher.
2009(15th ofAv, 5769): Tu B’Av - “According to the Talmud (tractate Ta'anit, 30b-31a), TuB'Av was a joyous holiday in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem: Unmarriedgirls would dress in simple white clothing (so that rich could not bedistinguished from poor) and go out to sing and dance in the vineyardssurrounding Jerusalem. One of the happier holidays on the Jewish calendar, theFifteenth of Av is today considered the Israeli equivalent of Valentine's Day.Yet another holiday with agricultural origins, Tu B'Av is said to be the daythat the members of the twelve tribes were first allowed to marry each other.While often forgotten elsewhere, Tu B'Av is a fairly big deal in Israel. Peoplesend cards and give flowers to their loved ones, and hold special "Holidayof Love" parties. http://www.sfjcf.org/resources/jholidays/
2009: TheTimes of London reported today that the Lebanon-based militant groupHezbollah has stockpiled 40,000 rockets near the border with Israel and istraining its guerillas to use missiles capable of striking Tel Aviv.
2009: In caseof Jews replace Jews, it was announced today that A.O. Scott and MichaelPhillips “would take over hosting duties on ‘At the Movies’ from Ben Lyons andBen Mankiewicz.”
2009(15th ofAv, 5769): Budd Schulberg, an American screenwriter, television producer,novelist and sportswriter passed away.He was known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, his 1947novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplayfor “On the Waterfront,” and his 1957 screenplay for “A Face in the Crowd.”
2009: TheNew York Times reviewed Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took OnNew York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City by AnthonyFlint
2010: Ascreening of "Azi Ayima", a documentary that explores the roots ofthe Moroccan Jewish community, is scheduled to be shown at the LeavantineCultural Center in Los Angeles, CA.
2010: Bankito,sometimes referred to as "Jewstock" -- a youth-oriented Jewishculture festival is scheduled to begin on the shore of Bank Lake, north ofBudapest.
2010: TheSenate confirmed Elena Kagan to a seat on the Supreme Court today, givingPresident Obama his second appointment to the high court in a year, and apolitical victory as the Senate neared the end of its business for the summer..
https://jwa.org/thisweek/aug/05/2010/elena-kagan
2010: Rep.Steve Cohen (D-TN) has been easily re-nominated in his Democratic primarytonight, beating back former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton's effort to makerace an issue against the white progressive Congressman from a majority-blackdistrict. With 59% of precincts reporting, Cohen leads by a whopping 79%-20%.
2010: MarkCuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, lost out on his bid to buy the TexasRangers baseball team.
2010(25thof Av, 5770): Ninety-three-year-old Stanley Simon, the former Vice President ofBulova Watch Company who assisted veterans following World War II passed awaytoday (As reported by Maraglit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/nyregion/16simon.html
2011: RoseanneBarr appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and announced her candidacy forpresident in the 2012 presidential election, running on the "Green TeaParty" ticket
2011: InIsrael, the JCC Maccabi Games are scheduled to come to a close.
2011: JewishRock Artist Sheldon Low is scheduled to perform at a musical family Shabbatservice at Temple B'nai Shalom, in Fairfax, VA.
2011:Bellamy, the daughter of Debbie and Michael Beecher will be the center ofattention at her baby-naming ceremony that is scheduled to take place at TempleJudah, in Cedar Rapids, IA
2011:This morning, the Air Force struck five targets in the Gaza Strip followingseveral strikes earlier yesterday coming in response to increased rocket fireemanating from the Strip in recent days, including one rocket which reportedlylanded in the Lachish area but caused no damages or injuries.
2011:Due to escalation in rocket fire from Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Ehud Barakdecided today to deploy a battery from the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense systemoutside the southern city of Ashkelon.
2011: Ten dairy farmers staged a small protest rally today nearIndustry, Trade and Labor Minister Shalom Simhon's home in Moshav Even Menachemin northern Israel. The farmersprotested Simhon's support of the government's dairy market reform, which islikely to cut their profit margin
2012:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz, Einstein’sJewish Science by Steve Gimbel, Uncanny Valley and other Adventures inthe Narrative by Lawrence Weschler and What in God’s Name by SimonRich
2012:A revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” sponsored by the Tulane Summer LyricTheatre, featuring Cantor Joel Colman, is scheduled to have its finalperformance.
2012: Dozens of mortars were fired at Kerem Shalom from the GazaStrip Sunday night, hours after an IAF airstrike killed a terrorist in Rafah.Authorities urged residents to remain in fortified shelters and lock theirdoors.
2012:Lex Shatilov failedto win an Olympic medal today, finishing the men’s floor exercise in sixthplace
2012(17thof Av, 5772): Ninety-six-year-old Martin Segal head of the Segal Company and“the elder statesman of Lincoln Center” passed away today. (As reported byRobin Pogrebin)
2012: In an ambitious and sophisticated attack, global jihadterrorists infiltrated Israel tonight after breaking into an Egyptian militarybase and stealing two armored jeeps.
2012(17th of Av, 5772): Ninety-eight-year-old BenHeineman, the successful businessman who wrote speeches for Adlai Stevenson andadvised Lyndon Johnson during his presidency, passed away today. (As reportedby Denise Grady)
http://blog.glassquarterly.com/2012/08/10/in-memoriam-ben-heineman-1914-2012/
2012(17thof Av, 5773): Eighty-six-year-old Sami Rohr passed away today. (As reported byDennis Hevesi)
http://forward.com/articles/160793/sami-rohr-philanthropist-who-invested-millions-in/?p=all
2013:“The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich” a documentary about “the controversialJewish psychoanalyst and experimental scientist Wilhelm Reich” is scheduled tobe shown at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013:“Fill the Void” a film that tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family fromTel Aviv is scheduled to open at the Bear Tooth Theatre in Anchorage, Alaskawhich is in an interesting choice of venues for such a film.
2013(29thof Av): Yarhrzeit of Abraham Cahan, the editor of The Jewish Daily Forward whopassed away on the 29th of Av, 5711 (August 31, 1951)
2013(29thof Av: Yarhrzeit of Rabbi Samuel Salant
2013(29thof Av: Yarhrzeit of Moshe Leib Halpern, the modern Yiddish poet.
2013:Jeff Bezos announced his purchase of The Washington Post from the family ofKatherine Graham, the daughter of Eugene Isaac Meyer the Los Angeles born Jewwho bought the bankrupt paper in 1933.
2013:A massive operation to inoculate some 150,000 children in the south of thecountry against polio began this morning as part of a Health Ministry effort tostamp out the virus before it can infect anyone. (As reported by Haviv RettigGur)
2014(9thof Av, 5774): Tisha B’Av
2014(9thof Av, 5774): Eighty-seven-year-old Dr. Jesse L. Steinfeld, Nixon’sSurgeon-General passed away today. (Asreported by William Yardley)
2014:A 72 hour cease-fire is scheduled to begin today at 8 a.m. local time
2014:This evening, The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocideis scheduled to host an Online Resource User-Testing Focus Group which is partof the growing interest in the digitization of historical collections.
2014Israeli security forces announced the arrest of Hussam Kawasme, a native ofHebron thought to be the ringleader of the terror cell responsible for thekidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in mid-June.” (As reported by AviIssacharoff)
2014:The Israel Antiquities Authority announced today the discovery of “a hoard ofcoins from the fourth year of the Jewish Revolt against Rome — minted monthsbefore the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE —“just outside of the Jewish capitalcity. (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2014:“As the 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding, Israelwas preparing to send a delegation to Cairo to participate in negotiations. (Asreported by Raphael Ahren)
2014:In Jerusalem, a Palestinian stabbed asecurity guard “near the police station in Ma'aleh Adumim, close toJerusalem” making this third such attackin the last twenty four hours and comes on the same day that Moslem worshippersthrew rocks and Molotov co*cktails from the Temple Mount.
2014(9thof Av, 5774): Eighty-six year old physician and Holocaust survivor Emanuel EmekTanay lost his battle with prostate cancer today.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172345664
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10005059&MediaId=1128
2015:The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is scheduled tohost a screening of “Paper Moon.”
2015:In Baltimore, MD a three day workshop on Holocaust education that focuses ongiving educators the tools to help their students understand the Holocaustsponsored by the Jewish Museum of Maryland in conjunction with the BaltimoreJewish Council and the Maryland State Department of Education is scheduled tocome to an end.
2015:In Berlin, the 14th European Maccabi Games are scheduled to come to an endtoday.
2016:As the 2016 Olympics are scheduled to open in Rio, Gabe Friedman writes thatthe seven Jewish Americans to watch are Aly Raisman (Gymnastics), Nate Ebner(Rugby), Anthony Ervin (Swimming), Merrill Moses (Water Polo), Eli Dershwitz(Fencing), Monic Rokhman (Women’s rhythmic gymnastics) and Zack Test (Rugby).
2016:Israel plans on fielding “its largest-ever Olympic delegation at the 2016Olympics” which are scheduled to officially open today. (As reported by LukeTress)
2016:Mathew A. Reimer is scheduled to “ascend the bimah at Temple Sinai” thisevening “for the first Shabbat service over which he will officiate as thecongregation’s new Senior Rabbi.” (As reported by the Crescent City JewishNews, the source for everything Jewish in the Cajun heartland)
2016(1stof Av, 5776): Rosh Chodesh Av
2016:“The Baghdad municipality announced today it would demolish and then give to adeveloper the 100-year-old home of Iraq’s first finance minister, Sir SassoonEskell,” “who was born into an aristocratic Baghdadi Jewish family in 1860 andwho was instrumental in founding the Iraqi government’s laws and financialinfrastructure” “while an official inIraq’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities slammed the decision as a“violation” of the law.”
https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2016/08/Sir_Sasson.jpg
2016:Claudio Bonadio, “a federal judge in Argentina” decided today to reopen “acriminal complaint against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner inwhich she had been accused of conspiring to derail an investigation into thebombing of a Jewish center here in 1994 in which 85 people were killed.”
2017(13thof Av, 5777): Shabbat Nacahamu
2017:“Emergency services evacuate five buildings in the center of Jerusalem” today“as a large brush fire broke out in one of the city’s central parks.” (TOIStaff)
2017: “Cleveland Partnership Minyan:Bridging Divides” partnership minyan is scheduled to take place at Anshe ChesedFairmount Temple in Beachwood, Ohio
2017:“Gershon Leizerson and The Yiddish Blues Drifters” a “new folk outfit fromJerusalem” is scheduled to perform at Yiddish Summer Weimar this evening.
2017:Lip Schmeltzer who “sang at the annual White House Chanukah Party” in 2015 isscheduled to perform this evening on the second day of the Shabbat NachamuWeekend sponsored by the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientist (AOJS)
2018:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors or of special interest to Jewish readers includingthe recently released paperback editions of An Odyssey: A Father, A Son andan Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn and Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
2018:“The Oslo Diaries” and “My War Hero Uncle” are scheduled to be shown today, onthe closing day of the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018(24th ofAv, 5778):Sixty-four-year-old Alan Robert Rabinowitz, the Brooklyn born son of Frank Rabinowitz, “a high school P.E. teacher” and “Shirley(Felman) Rabinowitz, the University of Tennessee Ph.D. conservationist bestknown for his work with saving the Jaguars from extinction passed away today.(As reported by Richard Sandomir)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/alan-rabinowitz-big-cat-champion-news/
2018(24th ofAv, 5778): Ninety-two veteran comedic actress Charlotte Rae, the Milwaukee borndaughter “Meyer and Esther )Ottenstien) Lubotsky,” “Jewish immigrants fromRussia” passed away today.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/obituaries/charlotte-rae-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
2019:In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the last of its “MagicalMondays.”
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host a screening of “Ask Dr. Ruth,” a biopicabout the world’s most unlikely sex therapist.
2019:In the wake of yesterday’s seizure of another tanker by Iran, citizens inIsrael and the United States are left to ponder today if this is another movethat will lead to armed conflict that is bound to include asymmetrical warfare.
2020(15thof Av, 5780): Tu B’Av or in English simply the 15th Day of Av whichwas “originally a post-biblical day of joy, that served as a matchmaking dayfor unmarried women in the second Temple period which went virtually unnoticedfor almost 2,000 years before being “rejuvenated in recent decades, especiallyin Israel as Jewish Day of Love which at least one sabra likened to Valentine’sDay but which has “no formal legal status.” (Editor’s note – in the era of thePandemic, hug your honey whether in person or virtual)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/tubav.html
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/53680/jewish/15th-of-Av.htm
http://www.israeldailypicture.com/
2020Addison-Penzak and Peninsula JCCs and WZO are scheduled to host a virtualscreening of “Tateh,” a short film about a secular kibbutznik who becomes aHasid, followed by a discussion about the tensions between those identities,led by Roey Yamin of WZO diaspora affairs.
2020:In London the LSJS is scheduled to host a “Special Tu B’Av Celebration:Teachers We Love.”
2020:The Addison-Penzak JCC’s Virtual “two day Tu B’Ab celebration is scheduled tocome to an end this morning.
2020:The Illinois Holocaust Memorial is scheduled to host Adina Sella as part of the“Coffee with a Survivor” program.
2020:Presenters from Forum of Dialogue, Warsaw, Poland; Lola Hahn, second-generationHolocaust testimony; JMM Museum Educators are scheduled to speak on the finalday of the Summer Teachers Institute 2020,” a Zoom event sponsored by theJewish Museum of Maryland.
2021:Following yesterday’s rocket attacks just outside of Kiryat Shmona, Israelisawaken to increased threats from the virus and those seeking to create onestate from the river to the sea.
2021:Based on reports published yesterday, as of today travelers from the UnitedStates and 17 other countries only have five days left of being able to enterIsrael being quarantined for a mandatory seven days.
2021:The JWA’s Book Club is scheduled to host Rachel Beanland, the author of FlorenceAdler Swims Forever.
2021:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present “Broken Promises – TheDismantling of the Spanish Law of Return.”
2022:Services are scheduled to be held this morning for Jill Schwartz Musin, belovedwife of Howard Musin, mother of Aaron (Laura) Schwartz, Robyn (Jason) McCaslin,and Randi (Chris) Carr., at Temple B’nai Jeshurun in Des Moines, IA.
2022:In Oakland, CA Temple is scheduled to host “Topics in Judaism” with BethBourland presenting “her artwork that explores Jewish concepts, people, places,world issues and history.”
2022:Road closures along the border with the Gaza Strip are scheduled to remain in place today amid fears of ananti-tank guided missile or sniper attack by Islamic Jihad, after the IDFarrested its West Bank terrorist leader earlier in the week.
2023:The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a screening of “MyNeighbor Adolf,” a film about “a Holocaust survivor in South America who becomesconvinced that his secretive German neighbor is Adolf Hitler and sets out toprove his case.”
2023:Temple Israel Boston is scheduled to present “Thank Goodness Its’ Shabbat” “ledby local musician Wayn Potash and the clergy of Temple Israel.”
2023:In San Francisco, CJM is scheduled to host “Regard,” a dance performanceinspired by Jewish philosopher Martin Buber…”
2023(18thof Av, 5783): Parashat Eikev;
2024:Starting today, visitors will have a chance to create their own display at theJewish Museum in London as part of “CreatingConnections, a family focused exhibition taking place at Swiss Cottage Librarythis August and led by Jewish Museum London staff.”
2024:In a special meeting leading up to the 9th of Av, which will conclude theonline lecture series "The Legend of the Writers: Agnon and Kafka", IdoNitzanwill is scheduled to talk with thewriter and literary scholar Ariel Horowitz about destruction, exile and thequestion of meaning for Agnon and Kafka while also discussing the question ofmeaning in the modern world in light of evil and cruel fate and the question ofexistence and action in such a world.
2024:Ariel Bibas, the daughter of Shiri Bibas “who was pushed out of her home by Hamasterrorists” on October 7 and Yarden Bibas who was also taken hostage on Octoberand the sister of Kir “who turned one while in captivity is scheduled to turnfive today as she marks her 304th day as a Hamas hostage.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ariel-bibas-will-mark-fifth-birthday-in-gaza-captivity/
2024(1stof Av, 5784: Rosh Chodesh Av; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2024:As August 5th 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 304 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
