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622: TheProphet Mohammed begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks thebeginning of the Islamic calendar. Theimportance of this to Jewish history should require no explanation.
1099: As theCrusaders sacked Jerusalem, they burned an untold number of Jewish scrolls andbooks. According to Matti Friedman, theChristian soldiers spared some of thetexts with the hope that Jews in other communities would ransom them. Among these books was the Aleppo Codex.[For more on this topic see The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman]
1212: In Spain, an Almohades Army was defeatedby a coalition of Catholic forces at The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa,. TheAlmohades were a puritanical Moslem sect that had taken control of the southernportion of the Iberian Peninsulas. As can be seen by their attack on the Jewishcommunity of Castille during which they seized the Codes Hilleli, a 600 yearold Biblical manuscript considered to be the oldest Hebrew copy of the Bible inSpain and the decision of the family of Maimonides to leave Spain rather thanlive under their rule, the Almohades did not practice the policies of religiousacceptance attributed to other Islamic sects at this time. At the time the Christian victory seemedliked a plus for the Jews of Spain.However, this proved to be illusory since the victory was a major stepin The Reconquista – the uniting of Spain under Christian monarchs which wouldculminate with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
1216: PopeInnocent III, a prelate who had an inimical effect on the Jewish people died.He presided over the Fourth Lateran Council which among other things whichenacted a series of anti-Semitic canons including those that required the Jewsto wear a distinctive badge on their clothing and to pay for unfunded Christiantithes. Other banned Jews from holding public office and denied Jews who hadconverted to Christianity the right to return to the faith of theirfathers. In 1215 the Fourth LateranCouncil, called by Pope Innocent III, decreed that, on the basis of Numbers15:37-41, Jews should wear distinctive dress (a restriction also applied toSaracens and later to heretics, prostitutes and lepers. In addition, adistinctive mark was imposed on their clothing -- centuries before the Nazis'Yellow Star -- the badge of shame, the shape and color of which varied fromcountry to country. The badge of shame made Jews social outcasts, exposing themto both physical and verbal abuse.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/innocent3_letterjews.html
1391:Valencia's King Pedro IV ordered that all Jews who had hidden in Christianhouses were to be allowed to return to their homes unmolested. Furthermore hedecreed that synagogues were not to be turned into churches. This did notprevent him from personably confiscating all the property of those Jews who hadeither been murdered or fled.
1547: PopePaul II issued Meditatio Cordis a Bull that brought the Inquisition to Portugalestablishing offices in Lisbon, Evora, Coimbra, and even in Goa. (From TheHistory of the Jewish People)
1588:Negotiations between the Spanish and the English broke off and the Englishfleet at Plymouth prepared to do battle against the Spanish Armada as soon asits location could be ascertained.Victory for the Spanish would be a disaster for the Jews since it wouldmean an end to the haven in Protestant Holland and the spread of theInquisition to the British Isles.
1663: In SanMiguel, Spain Felipe Nieto, the son of Phinehas Nieto and brother of DavidNieto the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue community inLondon and his wife Maria Flores Viya gave birth to Giusepe Nieto Viya.
1666: FrancisWilloughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, under whose leadership a group ofSephardic Jews migrated to Suriname in 1652 and “settled in the Jodensavannearea” passed away today.
1707: “DixitDominus,” “a psalm setting by George Frideric Handel based on Psalm 110 wasperformed for the first time today.
1775: MarieElizabeth Louise Dubois, a native of Canada, and Ezekiel Solomon gave birth toEzekiel Solomon, Jr.
1781: A letterwas sent to Mordecai Sheftall instructing him to “deliver to Colonel WilliamFew One Thousand Silver Dollars out of the money in your hands belonging to theState of Georgia…
1782: Firstperformance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. Seventeeneighty-two also marked the beginning ofthe relationship between Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, the son of aJewish convert who had trained as a priest. Together, they co-produced suchclassics as "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni" and"Cosi fan tutte".
1785(9thof Av, 5545): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’AV
1790: InPhiladelphia, Jacob de Leon and his wife gave birth to Abraham de Leon “whoserved as a surgeon’s mate in the War of 1812” and “practiced medicine inCharleston, SC” while being Married Isabella Nones of Philadelphia.
1790: TheDistrict of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States afterthe signing of the Residence Act. Isaac Pollock, the grandson of one of thefounders of the Newport Jewish community, reportedly arrived in D.C. in 1795making him the city’s first Jewish resident. [For more information about theWashington Jewish Community see Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washingtonhttp://www.jhsgw.org/ ]
1793(7thof Av, 5553): Catherine “Kitty” Solomons who was married in the Great Synagoguein 1792 passed away today.
1798:Birthdate of Daniel Lope, the Charleston, SC born son of David Lopez who diedalmost three months exactly after his birth.
1804(8thof Av, 5564): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1815:Birthdate of Wolf Alois Meisel, the native of Roth-Janowitz who became aleading Hungarian rabbi despite his father’s conversion to Christianity.
1823(8thof Av, 5583): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1823:Birthdate of Gerson Wolf, the native of Holleschau, Moravia, the “Austrianhistorian and educator” whose involvement in the political upheavals of 1848and 1849 almost cost him his career.
1825(1stof Av, 5585): Rosh Chodesh Av
1825(1stof Av, 5585): Ephraim Hart, one of the founders of the New York Stock Exchange,passed away today. Born in Furth,Bavaria, he served as a private in the Continental Army during the AmericanRevolution. While living in Philadelphia, he joined Mickvé Israel in 1782 andmarried Frances Noah, sister of Manuel Noah in the following year. By 1787, he had moved to New York where hissuccess as a businessman led to him being one of the founders of the Board ofStock Brokers in 1792.
1828(5thof Av, 5588): Sixty-one-year-old Mose Levy Maduro Peixotto, the Curacao born of“son of Samuel Levy Maduro and Leah Maduro, the husband of Rachel de IsaacPeixotto and Judith van Samuel Peixotto and the father of Leah Moses Jessurun;Samuel Peixotto; Dr. Daniel Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto; Raphael Peixotto; SarahMozes Levi Maduro Naar; and Grace Peixotto “who came with his father fromCuracao to New York in 1807 and who “in 1820 gave up his business and was electedas the Hazan of the Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel’ passed away today.
1829:Birthdate Graziadio Isaiah Ascoli, a native of Austria who was the “godfather”of all Italian philologists.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1901-ascoli-graziadio-isaiah
1831:Birthdate of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, the King of Persia who employed JakobEduard Polak as his personal physician for 5 years.
1832: HenryClay, the Senator from Kentucky, wrote a letter to Solomon Etting a Jewishbusinessman from Baltimore, MD. Ettinghad written a letter to Clay complaining about the Senator’s derogatory use ofthe term “Jew.” In his letter, Clayapologized since his use of the term Jew was intended to describe one personname either Moses Meyers or Meyer Moses and was not used to cast aspiration onthe Jewish people. Clay claimed that he judged people as individuals and he wassure that there were individual Jews, Christians and Moslems who were badpeople. Furthermore, Clay claimed tohave many Jewish friends and acquaintances including the Gratz’s of Lexington,KY who are relatives of the Gratz family of Philadelphia, PA.
1836:Birthdate of German physiologist Isidor Rosenthal.
1837: InVienna, Jonas Königswarter and his wife gave birth to Moritz Königswarter thebanker whose services to the Emperor earned him “the cross of the Order ofFrancis.
1841(28thof Tammuz): Moshe Teitelbaum, the Rebbe of Ujhely in Hungary passed awaytoday. Born in 1759 he also was known asthe Yismach Moshe,(Moses Rejoiced) whichwas also the name of text containing homilies on the Torah which was firstpublished in 1849. Some of his descendants became leaders of the SatmarChassidim.
1842(9thof Av, 5602): Parashat Devarim; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1842: Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam (aka The Rebbe of Shineva), theson of Admor Chaim Halberstram and his second wife Devorah Halberstram gavebirth to Rabbi Moshe Halberstram, the husband of Esther Mindel Halberstram.
1843(18thof Tammuz, 5603): Tzom Tammuz observed
1847: In Baltimore Amalie and William SolomonRayner gave birth to philanthropist Bertha Rayner Frank, the wife of Dr. SamuelLeon Frank whom she married in 1869 and who “became the epicenter of a nationaldebate on anti-Semitism when she forced an Atlantic City hotel to publiclyapologize for refusing to serve Jews.”
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/frank-bertha
1848: Today,the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia was formally organized, withSolomon Solis as its first president.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=479&letter=H
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=258&letter=P&search=Rabbi%20Leon%20H.%20Elmaleh
1853:Birthdate of Hechingen, Germany native Berthold Baruch who moved to St. Louisat the age of seventeen where he was an executive with the Mercantile Librarybefore moving on to Los Angeles where he helped to organize the Capitol MillingCompany and served on the Board of Directors of Congregation B’nai B’rith whilebeing married to Rose Wile of Laporte, IN.
1855(1st ofAv, 5615): Rosh Chodesh Av observed on the same day that the United Statessigned the Treaty of Hellgate
1856: SamuelBelasco married Hannah Isaacs at the Bevis Marks Synagogue today.
1858:"Progress of Liberal Ideas in England" published today stated thatThe Jew Bill, which has so often met its fate at the portals of the House ofLords, has at last managed to secure a majority of forty-six on a secondreading, and all doubt as to its ultimate triumph may now be considered at anend. No measure, since the Reform bill, has met with so many reverses, and hashad so little reason arrayed against it.
1859: InAlbany, Oregon, Bohemian natives Jacob Fleischner and Fanny Nadler gave birthto Isaac Newton Fleishner, an 1878graduate of St. Augustine’s College, a partner in Fleischner, Mayer &Company, “the largest wholesale dry goods house on the Pacific coast” andPresident of the local B’nai B’rith Lodge who married Tessie Goslinsky withwhom he had two daughters.
1859: Mosesand Esther Lazarus gave birth to the their Annie Lazarus who would become AnnieHumphrey Johnston when she married John Henry Johnstone
1861(9thof Av, 5621) Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that General Irwin McDowelldeparted Washington with an army of 35,000 men who were moving to dislodge aConfederate Army at Manassas Junction that was a threat to the Nation’s Capitolin an action that would come to be known as the First Battle of Bull Run, astaggering defeat for the Union cause.
1861: InRussia, Eva and Levi Isaac Haft gave birth to future New Yorker, Max H. Haft,the husband of Jennie Haft.
1862: InBielitz, Austria, Bertha Joeger and Soloman Bloomfield gave birth to FannyBloomfireld who became Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler when she married SigmundZeisler
1862: Afterhaving lived in England for 25 years, Louis Lowe a father of five who “hadpresided over the Board School for Jewish Boys since 1861” “wore the Oath ofAllegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria.”
1863: InBirmingham, England, Benjamin and Charlotta Bernard gave birth to the Americanactor and vaudevillian Sam Bernard, the husband of Florence Deutsch who beganhis career at the age of 13 in “the Grand Duke’s Theatre.”
1863: “InBielitz, Austrain Silesia, Bertha Jager and Salomon Blumenfeld, gave birth totheir youngest child concert pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, the wife ofSigmund Zeisler, the graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law whoserved as “co-counsel in the trial of the Haymarket Riot ‘anarchists.’”
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0587/ms0587.html
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/08/21/110040327.pdf
1863: Duringthe Civil War, the New Draft Riots, during which “General William Mayer”performed “heroic service for which he received” a letter of thanks fromPresident Lincoln, came to an end.
1863: Duringthe American Civil War, Jacob C. Cohen who was serving with the 27thOhio Infantry wrote to the Jewish Messenger from Memphis, Tennessee.
1865: InCarlsbad, Austria, Alexander and Cecilie (Oesterrich) Pam gave birth to Max Pamwho came to the United State in 1858 where served as counsel to U.S. Steel andwas a benefactor of both to a Catholic University (Notre Dame) and HebrewUniversity.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C07E6D7133AEF3ABC4D52DFBF66838E639EDE
1865: RabbiSamuel Marx Levi (Mordechai) and Eva (Chaje) Moses Lewuw gave birth to EstherMarx, the wife of businessman Gabriel Kosel and the aunt of Karl Marx.
1865:Philadelphian Samuel Kauffman completed his service with Company A of the 46thRegiment.
1866: Duringthe Third Italian war of Independence Lt. Colonel Enrico Guastalla (IsaacMichael Benedict) and “deputy chief of the General Staff of the ItalianVolunteer Corps” served with such distinction at the Battle of Condino todaythat he “was decorated with the Cross of the Order of Savoy.
1868: InEngland, “Joseph Simmons Belasco and Sarah Belasco gave birth to Rabbi GeorgeS. Belasco, a product of “the Spanish and Portuguese Congregational Schools”and founder of “the Jewish Communal League who was the “husband of CordeiliaJane Belasco” with whom he had seven children.
1869: InHungary, Ruchla Laja Glik and Ignacz Chaim Yitzock Brav gave birth to futurePennsylvanian Herman Allan Brav, the husband of Henrietta Mitchell and thefather of Stanley and Ernest Brav.
1871: In LuckBohemia, Anna Pick and Wolf Schiller gave birth to University of Prague trainedphysician Heliodor Schiller, the husband of Corrine Hart and member of Chicago’sSinai Congregation who was the chief-surgeon at Rothschild Hospital and the “authorof numerous articles, chiefly on gynecolcogy.”
1874: InCleveland, Ohio, the Council of American Hebrews heard the report of theCommittee on Theological Institute which presented the laws for theorganization and governance of an institution of higher learning which will becalled the Hebrew Union College which is “to be permanently located inCincinnati.”
1876: In SanFrancisco, Fannie Worms and Jacob Goldman gave birth librarian Belle A.Goldman, the chief cataloguer of the San Francisco and Superintendent of theSan Francisco branch libraries who was a member of Temple Emanuel in SanFrancisco.
1879(25thof Tammuz, 5639): Italian politician and journalist Giacomo Dina passedaway. Born into poverty in 1824 atTurin, he became a teacher before founding Opinione,a journal that he edited for 30 years and used as a springboard to servingin the Parliament as deputy from Imola, Bologna.
1880: InToledo, OH, Amelia Epstein and Isaac Levison gave birth to University Michigangraduate and medical doctor Louis A. Levison, the husband of Edith Bloom whowas a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during WW I, a professor ofmedicine at Toledo Medical College and a member of the Collingwood AvenueTemple.
1880: It wasreported today that the National Rabbinical Association has elected Dr. MaxLilienthal as its President and chosen Chicago as the location for its meetingin 1881.
1880: “Not AHebrew After All” published today described the confusion over the ethnicorigins of an unidentified body found on the Newark, NJ Turnpike nearHackensack. Since the undertaker reported him to be Jewish, the Jews ofHoboken, NJ took up a collection to provide him with a decent burial. After finding out that this was not the case,the Jews asked the undertaker to return the money. He refused and told themthat they would have to sue him.
1882: “Troublein a Synagogue” published today described the impact of the addition of someprayers in English at the St. Constant Street Jewish Synagogue inMontreal. Police were stationed in thesynagogue during services after some members who were upset by the changethreatened to cause trouble.
1882: As oftoday, there were 250,000 Jews living in the United States. Sixty thousand of them live in New York andanother 14,000 live in Brooklyn. SanFrancisco, with a population of 16,000 and St. Louis with a population of 6,500are the only two cities found in a list of 20 cities with the largest Jewishpopulations. New Orleans, with apopulation of 5,000 Jews is the only Southern city found in this same list.Cincinnati, the home of Reform Judaism has a Jewish population of 8,000. With atotal population of over 80,000, New York State had the largest populationwhile at the other end of the spectrum, the Dakota Territories were home toonly 19 Jews.
1882: In New York City, Therea Bablove and FrankGoldman gave birth to Albert Goldman, the Commissioner of Plant and Structuresin New York City who went on to become “the first Jewish postmaster of New YorkCity.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/05/06/83592568.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmaster_of_New_York_City
1882: A youngJewish woman named Rudolpha Leischinsky who had come to New York from Europeseveral months again was taken to the Castle Garden Hospital today shortlybefore she had attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat.
1882: As theFreight Handler’s Strike continues in New York, five hundred dollars will begiven to the Jews today who have stopped working and joined the strikers.
1882. TheCommittee of Persuasion, made up of striking freight handlers sent outrepresentatives to various ethnic groups, including the Jews, to convince themto join the strikers. Therepresentatives are fluent in the language to the particular group to whichthey are appealing.
1884: LazarusLemisch, his wife and five children arrived in New York aboard the SS Amerique. Their passage had been paidfor by the Hebrew Relief Society of Paris.
1884: RussianJewish Markus Holz, Gerson Selkowitz, Adolph Lazarus and Samuel Rasenzweig andtheir family members who arrived from Hamburg yesterday are being held Ward’sIsland from which they will be shipped back to Europe because they do not meetthe requirements to show they will not become public charges.
1884: It wasreported today that a young un-named Jew has openly embraced Christianity atthe Boston Industrial Home. This isbelieved to the first time in the history of Boston that a Jew has respondeddirectly to conversion attempts by Christian missionaries. [The BostonIndustrial Home may refer to a rescue mission]
1885: The willof Edward J. King was admitted to probate today. Among the bequests were $2,000 to Mount SinaiHospital; $1,000 in cash and $2,000 in bonds to the Hebrew Benevolent andOrphan Asylum; $2,000 to the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews of New York;$2,000 to the United Hebrew Charities; $500 to Congregation B’nai Jeshrun; $500to be held in trust by the congregation, the income of which is used to pay theexpenses to maintain the testators cemetery plot. The bulk of the estate went to King’s wife,sons and son-in-law.
1885:Birthdate of Austrian historian and archaeologist Robert von Heine-Geldern, agrandnephew of Heinrich Heine.
1886: InRussia, David and Zena (Weiss) Trager gave birth to University of Pennsylvaniatrained physician and National Guard Captain Herman Trager, the husband ofBertha Grossman.
1886:Birthdate of Salt Lake City native Clarence Bamberger, the husband of MarieBamberger and father Clarence “Click” Bamberger, who was part of “a pioneeringUtah mining and railroad family” and the nephew of Utah governor SimonBamberger, the first non-Mormon to hold the position.
1887: As oftoday, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children had raised $1,944 to provide freesummer excursions for poor Jewish children and their mothers.
1887: BertholdRiese was being held in the Jefferson Market Police Court on charges ofabandoning his wife. Riese, who isJewish, claimed that he had never married the woman because she had neverdivorced her first husband, John T. Kennedy.The woman in question is a Catholic who claims they were married by aLutheran minister as an act of religious compromise.
1887: In NewYork, Simon Kleber and Judah Waser, two Jewish peddlers, have filed a complaintagainst Frederick Timme, a police officer stationed at the 14thPrecinct. According to the complaint thetwo men were attacked by a bartender when they went into a liquor store to selltheir wares. When they were driven intothe street, they called out to the policeman for help. He responded by clubbing them and drivingthem away. This was not the firstcomplaint filed against this police officer. [Note – charges of policebrutality by immigrants are something that have survived into the 21stcentury; the only change is in the immigrant group.]
1888(8thof Av, 5648): Erev Tish’a B”av observed for the last time during the Presidencyof Grover Cleveland.
1889(17thof Tammuz, 5649): Tzom Tammuz
1889(17thof Tammuz, 5649): Seventy-nine-year-old JohnDyte, the Middlesex born son of Hannah Lazarus and “David M Dyte who preventedan assassination attempt on King George III at Drury Lane theatre on 15 May1800” passed away today.
1890: It wasreported today that as part of the Russian government’s new “stringent measuresagainst the Jews, the newspaper Novostihas been “suppressed” and the editor has been ordered to leave the country
1891: Thelarge number of Russian Jews who arrived in Montreal yesterday have been foundto be “poor people in a sickly condition.”
1892: TheSchool of Applied Ethics under the leadership of Dr. Felix Adler is holdingclasses today at the Old High School Building on Main Street in Plymouth, MA.
1893: It wasreported today that “the story about the Grand Duke Michael personally savingthe Jews of the Caucasus from expulsion may be dismissed as apocryphal” sincethe Grand Duke has little influed with the Czar and this region has been“exempted from the anti-Jewish edicts” enforced in other parts of the empire.
1893: It wasreported today that while the number of anti-Semites in the Reichstag has beengrowing, in a strange twist, a Jew has been elected to the Town Council ofRostock which was one of the last cities in Germany “to abrogate the medievallaws against the Jews.”
1893: BetweenJuly 3 and today, “nearly 2,000 mothers and children” have enjoyed “a day’souting at the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children at Rockaway Park.
1893: At theEssex Market Police Court, Police Justice Ryan “remitted the ten dollar fine hehad imposed on 25 year old Morris Goodman’ who had been arrested on charges“obstructing the sidewalk” and assault, after he delivered a talk on his viewof Jews whom he feels do not respect the law and the rights of Christians.
1893: The Jewof Yalta “refused to obey the decree to” leave the Crimean city and move to thePale.
1893: Thedelegates from the Hebrew Typographical Union complained that Joseph Barondessand Samuel Gompers had tried to get some of their members from an office wherethey were working as printers.
1894: Two daysafter he had passed away, 54 year old Henry Silver, the son of Samuel andPriscilla Silver and the husband of Sarah Nathan with whom he had sevenchildren – Pricilla, Kate, Hannah, Sam, John, Lewis and Fanny – was buriedtoday at the West Ham Jewish Cemtery.
1894: It wasreported today that Herman Ahlwardt has composed a pamphlet while serving timein prison that is “so rabidly anti-Semitic as to suggest the insanity of theauthor.”
1894: The Baltimore Sun reported today that aJudge Dennis has signed a decree giving Jacob and Henry Herman to the right toremove the bodies of their parents from the cemetery of Shearith Israel so thatthey could be re-interred at the cemetery of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
1894: “Mr.Straus Has A New Plan” published today described the success of the 14 depotsselling low-cost sterilized and modified milk and the benefit that sickchildren have enjoyed from drinking the sterilized beverage. Nathan Straus is so pleased with the resultsthat he has commissioned plans for a year-round depot for which constructionwill begin this fall.
1897: Herzlpublishes his article "Protest rabbiner" - "Protest Rabbis"in the German newspaper, “"Die Welt.”The Protest Rabbis refers to western Rabbis who were opposed to Zionism.
1897(16th ofTammuz, 5657): Emanuel Rich, co-founder of Rich’s Department Store, passedaway.
1897(16thof Tammuz, 5657): Sixty-eight year old German jurist and lawyer LevinGoldschmidt passed away today.
1898: The 121stNew York State Legislature whose members included Julius Harburger met for thelast time today.
1898: “TheNumbering of Houses” published today described the role of the Jews in theintroduction of house numbers in London.
1899:“Slavonic and Semitic Books” published today described the growth of the JewishDepartment of the New York Public Library which now contains over 4,000 volumesin modern and ancient languages including Yiddish.”
1899(9th ofAv, 5659): Tish'a B'Av
1899: “TheMarquise de Mores has addressed an appeal to the Criminal Chamber of the Courde Cassaction” in which she charges that there were serious errors made in theinvestigation of the death of her husband Marquis de Mores by the Court inAlgiers. Her husband, an officer in the French Army, was a vocal anti-Semitewho had befriended those who framed Dreyfus and instigated duels in which hekilled at least one Jewish officer.Ironically, the Marquise’s maiden name was Mendora von Hoffman, thedaughter of Louis von Hoffman a prominent Jewish banker.
1899:“Contribution to a Poor Family” published today described the efforts of theUnited Hebrew Charities of the City of New York to raise $400 settle a familyof four in the country because the husband and wife have become “chronicinvalids through overwork in the city.”
1899:Birthdate of comedian and movie director Larry Semon who appeared with Laureland Hardy and in the 1920’s directed the silent screen version of “The Wizardof Oz.”
1900: Today inPittsburgh, Dr. Milton J. Rosenau married philanthropist Myra Frank Rosena, theDetroit born daughter of Bertha Blitz and Himan Frank and Bryn Mawr graduate who was president ofthe Boston Section, Council of Jewish Women and active member of the Federated JewishCharities, the Sisterhood of Temple Israel and the Hecht Neighborhood House.
1900: It wasreported today that “it is estimated that no less than 16,000 Jews have leftRomania during the last six months and their way in small band of forty toeighty across the Austro-Hungarian on their way to seaports” because “theanti-Semitic population of Romania, encouraged by the anti-Semitic legislationof the Government have combined” to deprive the Jews of the means of earning alivelihood.
1901:Birthdate of Austrian born composer and conductor Frtiz Mahler, the son of a“professor of Oriental Languages who was also a cousin of composer of GustavMahler.
http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20282
http://web.archive.org/web/20070712204303/http:/www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/MUSMAHLE.pdf
1902(11thof Tammuz, 5662): On the Jewish calendar yahrzeit of Rabbi Mordecai Dayan (5615)
1902:In Kazan, Roman Albertovich Luria who "worked as a professor attheUniversity of Kazan” and was the founder of the Kazan Institute ofAdvance Medical Education and the former Evgenia Viktorovna Haskin who “becamea practicing dentist after finishing college in Poland gave birth toneuropsychologist Alexander Luria.
http://luria.ucsd.edu/bio.html
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/07/16/on-this-day-in-1902-alexander-luria-was-born-a66435
1903: TheBritish Foreign Office sent a second telegram to Herzl informing him that hisidea to establish a Jewish settlement in the Sinai as first step towardsestablishing a Jewish homeland in Eretz Israel was not practical.
1904(4thof Av, 5664): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1904: Inresponse to the calls by Dr. Harry Friedenwald the President of the Federationof American Zionists, to take note of the recent passing of Theodor Herzl, manyJewish congregations offered up special prayers.
1904:Twenty-eight-year-old Harvard grad and Boston University trained attorneyPhilip Davis, the Russian born son of “Dave ben and Rachel (Chemerinsky” Davis,the “motion picture producer and distributor” who “directed and personallysupervised special educational pictures such as Jack Spruce, Life in theNorthern Woods, “married Belle Shomer today in Philadelphia.
1905:Twenty-six-year-old Long Island Hospital College trained physician Philip L.Bereano, the Rumania born son of Leon and Rachel (Rubin) Bereano and a memberof both the Jewish National Fund and the Palestine Foundation Fund marriedClara Danzis today in New York City.
1905: Sixty-one-year-old Major General SirHenry Trotter, who as the General Officer Commanding the Home District attendeda “public display” in 1909 of the Jewish Lads Brigade, “the UK’s oldest Jewishyouth movement founded by Colonel Albert E.W. Goldsmid” with a goal, in part ofhelping the children of poor immigrants assimilate into British society passedaway today.
1905: WhenCommander Robert Peary left New York today aboard the SS Roosevelt, in thelatest attempt to reach the North Pole, his crew included the surgeon Dr. LouisJ. Wolff of Silverton, Oregon who had given up his work at the CornellDispensary and the Bellevue Dispensary to serve as the medical officer for theexpedition.
1906(23rdof Tammuz, 5666): Fifty-three-year-old Hamburg native Alried Beit who made hisfortune in the gold and diamond fields of South Africa and whose philanthropiesincluded the creation of what is now the “Beit Professor of History of theBritish Commonwealth” at Oxford passed away today.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5088230
1906:Birthdate of Abraham Orovitz, the native of Vienna, who gained fame as directorand actor Vincent Sherman.
1907: The willof the late Isidor Worsmer was filed with the Surrogate today. Among the bequests left by the successfulbanker were $5.000 to Temple Emanu-El; $2,500 to both the Mount Sinai Hospitaland the United Hebrew Charities Association; $1,000 to the Roman CatholicOrphan Asylum, the Montefiore Home, the Hebrew Technical Institute, theEducational Alliance and the Tuskegee Institute. The rest of the sizable estate was left tofamily members and employees of I & S Wormser. [Contributions to non-Jewish institutionswere par for the course. The surprisehere is the contribution to Tuskegee, the newly established institution forAfrican-Americans headed by Booker T. Washington in rural Alabama.]
1908(17thof Tammuz, 5668): Tzom Tammuz
1908: It wasreported today that thanks to the “learned and enlightened class of Russia”imperial clemency has been granted to “murders, the convicted inciters of themassacre of the Jews, for fomenting the pogroms” at Nicolaief in October of1905.
1909:“Condemns Russian Attitude” published today described a speech givenCongressman Burton Harrison on “Our Duty to Our Citizens abroad in which hespoke “on the attitude of the Russian government toward Jews, both naturalizedand American born and the efforts that have been made through diplomaticchannels to obtain recognition of their rights as American citizens.”
1910(9thof Tammuz, 5670): Parashat Balak
1910: At amass meeting designed to show sympathy for the striking garment workerssponsored by the United Socialists of America, Edward Cassidy, the formercandidate for Mayor of New York, told the crowd “that most of the strikers wereJewish” and then added “I can remember when the Jewish people were looked downupon and spurned but I hope to see the day when the Jews shall down upon thosewho spurned them and do likewise” because “they deserve it.”
1911:Eighty-five Jews from Shiraz, Persia appeal for assistance to go live inPalestine.
1912: HarryHorowitz and three other Jewish gangsters gunned down bookmaker HermanRosenthal two days after he had complained that that “his illegal casinos hadbeen badly damaged by the greed of New York City Police Lt. Charles Becker andhis associates
1913: Today,in Paris, at the opening session of the Sixth International Congress onReligious Progress, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the rabbi of the Free Synagogue in NewYork delivered an address in which he “declared that among much that he founddispiriting in the course of his recent visit to the Holy Land nothing was moreso than the want of religious fellowship between Jew, Christian and Moslem” and“he proposed that the next triennial session of the congress” which would meetin 1916 “be held in Jerusalem…”
1914(22ndof Tammuz, 5674): Fifty-six year old “Finsbury, London” native Mathilde Tuck,the wife of Herman Tuck and the mother of David and Rosina Tuck passed awaytoday
1914: Dr.Schmarja Levin of Berlin who was a member of the first Russian Duma isscheduled to speak in Brooklyn, NY, tonight.
1915(4thof Av, 5675): Eighty-three year old Hesse-Darllstadt native Abraham Hart whocame to the United States at the age of eighteen, rose to the rank of Captainin the Union Army before being discharged due to a disability while raising sixchildren with his Bertha Swope Hart whom he married in 1855.
1915: It wasreported today that Alfred S. Engel, the son of Tammany leader and “SilverDollar” Smith ally Martin Engel “will inherit a comfortable fortune.”
1916(15th ofTammuz, 5676): Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Russian microbiologist and winner of theNobel Prize for Medicine in 1908 passed away.
1916: Eightynine delegates from 26 Jewish organizations including the United Synagogues ofAmerica (Conservative), the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), theAmerican Jewish Committee, the Council of Jewish Women, the Independent Orderof Free Sons of Israel, the National Workmen’s Committee on Jewish Rights, theOrder of B’rith Abraham and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations attendedthe conference of the American Jewish Committee today at the Astor Hotel in NewYork where they adopted a proposal forthe meeting of a congress with the object of obtaining full rights for the Jewsof all lands and the abrogation of all laws discriminating against them.
1916: Amongthe donations to The Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Throughthe War of which Harry J. Fischel is treasurer are $24 from the Daughters ofJacob of Manchester, New Hampshire and $32 from the Relief Committee ofYarmouth, Canada.
1916: It wasreported today that “Paul E. Kretzman has contributed the Library ofEducational Methods a monograph entitled ‘Education Among the Jews’” that“deals with the years running from the earliest of times to the end of theTalmudic Period in 500 A.D.”
1916: Amongthe donations to the American Jewish Relief Committee of which Felix M. Warburgis treasurer are $1,000 dollars from the committee in Des Moines, Iowa and$2,000 from the Committee in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1916: “WillImmigration Tide Rise After the War?” published today provided the views ofFrederic C. Howe, the United States Commissioner of Immigration on this topicincluding the observation that “the Jews have suffered more than any one fromthe war, they always do. In Russia and Rumania,they are not permitted to own real estate; they are kept within a pale, andwhenever opportunity offers are subjected to oppression. So I expect more Jews than ever to turn tothe United States when the war is over.”
1917: As theKerensky government tries the impossible – staying the war while dealing withthe economic and social dislocation brought on by Revolution – “armedanti-government demonstrations erupted in Petrograd which would lead toanti-Semitic attacks throughout the tottering empire.
1917: HarryCutler began serving as Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board.
1918: TheSecond Annual Zionist Summer Course sponsored by the Intercollegiate ZionistAssociation continued today for a second day.
1918:Birthdate of New York City native and CCNY and Columbia alum Irving JosephGitlin, the WW II Marine who gave up a career in education to become an award-winningbroadcasting journalist while raising three children – Peter, Betty Ann andBarbara Jane – with his wife “the former Louise Ziskind.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/12/13/84922044.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1918: Theexecution of Czar Nicholas II brought an end to a dynasty guilty of many crimesagainst Jews. Unfortunately, the regime that replaced it was no better for theJews.
1918: “JewsLean to the Allies” published today described the feeling among Austrian Jewsthat the Entente powers are prepared to do more for “the Israelites” while theCentral Powers promise to do less and less which reportedly has led to adecision by them “to abandon their neutrality an forcibly renounce our rightsas citizens…” (Editor’s note – this seeming act of disloyalty stands in starkcontrast to the participation of Jews in the Army fighting under Franz Joseph)
1919: “TheMost Rev. Dr. Platon, the Metropolitan of Kherson and Odessa…who is visitingNew York” took issue with the way the press had portrayed his view of Jewssaying that while it is true that “Jews participate in the Bolshevist movementin Russia” he also has said that “the Jewish people cannot be held responsiblefor the participation of its individual members in the Bolshevist movement” andthat “the best elements of the Russian Jewry participate actively in the greatmovement head by the All-Russian Government in Omsk.”
1919: NYU LawSchool graduate and Columbia University trained radiologist Lt. Colonel LeopoldJaches, the Latvian born son of Minna Gelhaar and Phillip Jaches who had beenserving as senior consultant in roentgenology for the AEF was honorabydischarged today at Camp Dix, NJ>
1919:Birthdate of McKeesport, PA native and Seattle Washington resident LillianKaplan, the wife of Dr. Charles Kaplan who were founding members of Temple BethAm.
1920:“Erroneous information given to The New York Times and printed yesterday statedthat Max Manschewitz, a Cincinnati Zionist was bringing five million dollars toPalestine for economic development” whenin fact according to Adolph B. Landau, his New York representative, Mr.Manschewitz, who has contributed a great deal of his money to the Zionist causebelieves that the wealthy Jews in the United States should as a group, makecontributions totaling five million dollars.
1921(10thof Tammuz, 5681): Parashat Chukat chanted on the same day that the InternalWomen’s Congress opened in Vienna. o
1922: Germanborn American Jewish inventor and businessman Emil Berliner and his son HenryBerliner demonstrated a working helicopter for the United States Army. Berliner had moved from Hanover, Germany andsettled in Washington, D.C. where he is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.
1923(3rdof Av, 5683): Yahrzeit on the Jewish calendar of Shiye Mordecai Lifsh*ts, “thefather of Modrn Yiddishism who died in 1878
1924: In the Bronx, Louis and Bella Myerson gavebirth to “the second of three daughters,” Bess who was crowned the first Jewessto be crowned Miss America. When Bess Meyerson won the crown in 1945, itdemonstrated a certain level of acceptance of Jews in the general Americanculture. She went on to a successful career that included hosting daytime gameshows in the 1950’s.
1925: Birthdate of Brooklyn native Stanley Shapirothe screenwriter whose scripts included the WW II comedy “Operation Petticoat.”
1926: Birthdate of German native and RAF and Palmachveteran Stef Wertheimer, the MK who was the patriarch of one of “Israel’srichest families as of 2013.”
https://www.forbes.com/profile/stef-wertheimer/?sh=48c5b4787030
1926: In Brooklyn, “Harry Royze, who operated aflooring business, and the former Ella Greenwald” gave birth to chemist andNobel Prize Winner, Irwin Rose. WhenRose won his Nobel Prize in 2004, five out of the six winners of Nobel Prizesin the sciences were Jewish.
1927: An out of court settlement was announced todayin the defamation suit that Aaron Sapiro had brought against Henry Ford, Sr.after The Dearborn Independent hadpublished claims that Sapiro and a group of Jewish bankers and merchants wereseeking to control the nation’s wheat farming. Ford would eventually close hisanti-Semitic newspaper and apologize for his role in published TheInternational Jew. Those who thought this demonstrated a change in Ford’shatred of Jews were disabused of that notion when Ford accepted the Grand Crossof the German Eagle from the Nazis in 1938. (As reported by the Jewish VirtualLibrary)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/ford.html
1928: In London, “Newson Bruckner, a Jewishimmigrant from Poland, and Maude Schiska, a singer whose father had emigratedfrom Poland and founded a tobacco factory” gave birth to their only child, “arthistorian and award-winning author” Anita Brookner. (As reported by AlanCowell)
1928: Birthdate of Baku born Soviet-American pianistBella Mikhaylovna Davidovich who emigrated to the United States in 1978 andbecame a naturalized citizen.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bella-davidovich-mn0000067264#biography
1929: Victor Luitpold Berger, the first member ofthe Socialist Party to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives suffereda fracture skull today when he was hit by streetcar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The injury would prove to be fatal.
1930: Civilization and its Discontents by SigmundFreud is published for the first time in the United States.
1931: Based on decisions made yesterday at Basle,the World Zionist Organization is now governed by a new executive committeewhose members include Berl Locker, Chaim Arlosoroff, Selig Brodetsky, HeschelFarbstein and Emanuel Neumann.
1932: “Skyscraper Souls” featuring Gregory Ratoff asMr. Vinmont and Jean Hersholt as Jacob Sorenson with music Nathaniel Shilkretwas released by MGM in the United States today.
1933: In an interview with a deputation ofrepresentatives of the Jewish Community of Briinn, Czech President Thomas G.Masaryk declares that the waves of anti-Semitism “will not overflow into thecountry's borders”.
1934: The body of Chaim Nachman Bialik arrived inTel Aviv today. Tens of thousands ofJews from all walks of life and from all parts of the political spectrum wereon hand to mark this historic moment. It was the largest funeral in the historyof the Jewish homeland. While there wasno lack of notables in attendance, at the request of the widow, no speecheswere delivered.
1934: Morris Rothenberg, President of the ZOA,presided over the memorial service for Chiam Nachman Bialik held at New York’sCarnegie Hall. The near capacity crowdheard a wide spectrum of speakers and then listened to Canter David Puttermanof the Park Avenue Synagogue chant the Hazkarah and Jewish actress Miriam Eliasrecite two of Bialik’s poems including “When I am Dead.”
1935(15th of Tammuz, 5695): Lithuanianborn Bentsien-Zundl Hersh “the youngerbrother of Peysekh-Libman Hersh who moved in 1891 with his parents to SouthAfrica where he pursued a career in journalism that began with writing for theJohannesburg Yiddish weekly Hakokhav (The star), editing Yisroel-Mikhl Troyb passed away today.
1935: In London, Erwin and Elisabeth Rosenthal (néeMarx), refugees from Nazi Germany gave birth to publisher Thomas GabrielRosenthal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10590405/Tom-Rosenthal-obituary.html
1936: The Palestine Post reported that BritishForeign Secretary Anthony Eden declared that the British Mandate in Palestinewould not be relinquished. Two British officers and a Jewish driver werewounded near Nablus when Arabs opened fire on a military patrol. Shots werefired on a train near Lydda. The High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope,visited the new Tel Aviv port. He hoped that over a million cases of citruswould be handled there in the next season. The Manchester Guardian wrote thatJewish immigration to Palestine had never been allowed to keep pace with the"absorptive capacity." The Arab population had increased from 500,000in 1922 to 850,000 in 1936, because Palestine became more attractive by theJewish influx
1936: Amongthose visiting Governor Landon, the Republican nominee for President, inTopeka, Kansas today were Eugene Myer former Chairman of the Federal Reserve’sBoard of Governors and the owner/publisher of the Washington Post, Rabbi SamuelMayerberg of Kansas City, the past regional President of B’nai B’rith andJoseph Cohen the Kansas City attorney “who has been active in Jewish fraternalassociation work.”
1936: InBucharest, Romania, the eight members of the “anti-Semitic Iron Guards” whichhad murdered Premier Ion Duca four years ago fired forty bullets into the bodyof Michael Stalescus who “recently violently attacked the Iron guards for massattacks on Bucharest Jews” as he lay “in his hospital bed…awaiting an operationfor appendicitis.”
1936: At ameeting in the Hotel New Yorker, Rose Schneiderman was elected vice chairman ofthe New York State Labor Party. The newly formed party declared its support forPresident Franklin Roosevelt and New York Governor Herbert Lehman, but calledon all working people to desert the two established parties and join in a newcoalition. The party's platform, developed during the same meeting, supportedNew Deal legislation and called for the extension of Social Security, furthereconomic reform, and unemployment relief. The platform also defined the party'spurpose as "to mobilize the political power of labor and the progressiveforces of the people everywhere, in the cities and on the farms, againstreaction and for freedom, against economic oppression and for recovery anddemocracy. "When she was elected to the vice chairmanship of the New YorkState Labor Party, Schneiderman was already president of the National Women'sTrade Union League (WTUL) and an established figure in labor activism. Born inPoland in 1882, Schneiderman left school at thirteen to help support hersiblings and widowed mother by taking a job as a salesclerk at a New York Citydepartment store. After three years, she found a higher-paying job as a capmaker, and immediately became involved in union politics. In 1903, sheorganized the workers in her shop, and the following year, she became involvedwith the New York WTUL. The WTUL was a mostly middle-class organization thathoped to gain credibility with workers by bringing women like Schneiderman onboard. For the next two decades, Schneiderman worked alternately for the WTULand the working-class International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU),gaining a national reputation as "the Red Rose of Anarchy," andbecoming a central figure in both labor and feminist politics. It was throughthe WTUL that Schneiderman became friends with Eleanor Roosevelt, and whenFranklin Roosevelt became President in 1933, he named Schneiderman as the onlywoman on the National Labor Advisory Board. In that role, Schneiderman had aprofound influence on New Deal legislation, writing the labor codes for everyindustry that had a predominantly female work force. She also helped to shapeSocial Security and the Fair Labor Standards Act. In 1937, though she hadpublicly called for laborers to leave the Democratic Party for the new LaborParty, she was named secretary of labor for New York State under the Democraticgovernor. In that post, she supported unionization efforts and equal paycampaigns. Later, she was active in efforts to rescue and resettle EuropeanJews. Schneiderman retired from public life in 1949. In her later years, shewrote her memoirs and spoke occasionally on the radio and to union groups. Shedied on August 11, 1972. At the time of her death, large numbers of Americanwomen were beginning to take up the fight for equal pay in the workplace andrecognition of women's labor in the home, causes in which Schneiderman was apioneer. While there is still no independent Labor Party in U.S. politics, theworkers' protections that Schneiderman helped to create are now an integralpart of U.S. law.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/16/1936/rose-schneiderman
1936: “MeetNero Wolf” directed by Herbert Biberman, produced by B.P. Schulberg andco-starring Lionel Stander was released by Columbia Pictures Corporation in theUnited States today.
1937(8thof Ave, 5697): Fifty-four-year-old “Dr. Abraham Coralnik …the veteran writerfor The Day, a New York Yiddishnewspaper” passed away this morning at Mt. Kosco, NY.
https://www.jta.org/1937/07/18/archive/dr-a-coralnik-journalist-dies-of-heart-attack-at-54
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/07/17/94401563.pdf
1937: TheBuchenwald concentration camp opens when the first 300 inmates arrive theinstallation outside of Weimar.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005198
1938: After500 performances at the Cort Theatre, the curtain came down on the originalBroadway production of “Room Service” which was “basis for the Marx Brothersfilm of the same title” and which featured Alexandro Asro and Sam Levene
1938(17thof Tammuz, 5698): Parashat Balak
1938: “Aspecial prayer composed by the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Dr. JosephHerman Hertz” which “spoke of the spirt of perverseness which has come over arenowned nation whose rulers have proclaimed an idolatry of race and blood” wasrecited this morning as part of weekend in which “Catholics and Protestantsjoined with Jews in special services throughout the British and Dominions inbehalf of the persecuted Jews in all countries, particularly in Germany andAustria.”
1938(17thof Tammuz, 5698): Seventy-five-year-old Moses Jacob Mandelbaum the thricemarried Cleveland businessman and philanthropist who was the son of Jacob andAmelia (Lehman) Mandlebaum passed away today.
https://case.edu/ech/articles/m/mandelbaum-maurice-j-moses
1938: “Incommenting on the conference at Evian, France, to assist refugees from Germany,the Westfaelische Landeszeitung”asserted “that the United States ‘is interested primarily in rich Jews’ and inthe ‘possibility of doing business – naturally at Germany’s expense.”
1938: “Aspectof intergroup cooperation will be discussed this afternoon at the opening of atwo-day conference on intercultural education for teachers” being held “underthe sponsorship of the National Jews and Christians” which will be attended bymore than “500 religious education, visiting teachers and college leaders.”
1939: In “NewBach Arrangement,” published today Dr. Peter Gradenwitz describes a performanceby the Palestine Symphony Orchestra in Tel Aviv of Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”using a new orchestration by Swiss composer Roger Vuataz. The orchestra performed under the baton ofDr. Hermann Scherchen the famous German musician who left his native land inprotest over the policies of the current régime.
1940: PaulSchulman, the son of Columbia trained lawyer Herman Shulman and his wifeRebecca passed his physical for entrance into the United States Naval Academywhich was a critical step on his path to serving the USN and playing an activerole in Israel’s nascent naval force in 1948.
1940: “The ManWho Talked Too Much” directed by Vincent Sherman was released today in theUnited States
1941(21stof Tammuz, 5701): Seventy-five-year-old Alfred Weinberg, the son of Pauline andAaron Abraham Weinberg and the husband of Bertha Stern was murdered by theNazis in Gurs, France.
1941: TheFinal Solution came to Bar, when the Germans occupied the town in the Ukraine.
1941: Today,Fregattenkapitän Dr. Hans Kawelmacher, who would call for a “quickimplementation of the Jewish problem” was appointed the German naval commandantin Liepāj
1941: Vichycontinued to mirror the anti-Semitism of the Third Reich by banning Jews fromthe legal profession.
1942: Thefirst train with Jews from Holland left for a killing camp.
1942: On orderfrom Pierre Laval, the Prime Minister of the Vichy French government, between13,000 and 20,000 Jews living in Paris were rounded up by the French police fordeportation. This was known as “La Grande Rafle” or the Big Sweep. The group ofJews in this round up is primarily German and Austrian born Jews who wereliving in the French capital. The firstone thousand would be deported three days later on a so-called "EichmannTrain." There were no protests from the Parisians.
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/july/01.asp
1942(2nd ofAv, 5702):A large number of Jewswere killed in Molxzadz.
1943: InVilna, Lithuanian police raided a meeting of the United Partisan Organizationattended by the head of the Jewish Council. Jewish partisans rescued the headof the resistance.
1943: FlightCommander Lydia Litvyak who was already an “Ace” shot down “a bomber and shareda victory with a comrade” but took a hit from the Germans that forced her tomake a belly landing.
1943:TheophilWurm, bishop of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, Germany, sends a letterto Berlin in which he asks that the persecution of "members of othernations and races" be halted immediately.
1943(13thof Tammuz, 5703): Sixty-one-year-old pioneer pathologist Dr. Avrum HermanZeiler, the native of Poland who came to the United States 56 years ago andwhose son Lt. Meyer Zeiler followed in his footsteps when he joined the U.S.Army Medical Corps passed away today in Los Angeles.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/07/17/85110445.pdf
1943:Birthdate of Stan Gebler Davis, the native of Dublin “who belong to a breed ofrake-hell, rumbustious very rumbustious, very Irish journalist of great charm…”(As reported by John Calder)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-stan-gebler-davies-1424755.html
1943(13thof Tammuz, 5703): Eighteen-year-old Dutch diarist Helga Deen was murdered todayat Sobibór extermination camp.
1943(13thof Tammuz, 5703): Thirty-six-year-old resistance fighter Yitzhak Wittenbergdied today.
http://www.geni.com/people/Yitzhak-Wittenberg/6000000016355083827
1943: ItzikWittenber (the Communist commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye(FPO), the United Partisans Organization, the ghetto’s underground resistancemovement), whether on his own accord, or compelled, or something in between,met with Jacob Gens (the de factor head of the Vilna Ghetto) near the Judenratbuilding, where a car was waiting” which took him to the Gestapo headquarters,a couple kilometers outside the ghetto on the day before his death. (Editor’snote – the tumultuous events of that day are part of “Today is the Sixteenth ofJuly,” a poem by Abba Kovner.
1943: TodayPravda reported: that “popular actor and director of the Moscow Jewish StateTheatre” Solomon Mikhoels who was chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committeeand Itizk “Feffer received a message from Chicago that a special conference ofthe Joint initiated a campaign to finance a thousand ambulances for the needsof the Red Army."
1944: Today,in New York, Mr. and Mrs. Irving J. Lewin announced that their daughter SuzanneHelene Lewin had married Private First Class Leonard Epstein of Atlantic Beach,L.I. in a ceremony at the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery, AL.
1944: Thefirst five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF) soldiers, the 6thRegimental Combat team that had left on July 2nd arrived in Italy.Among the members of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force was Salomao Nauslauskywho served so courageously that he was “mentioned in dispatches.”
1945: TheUnited States successfully tested an atomic bomb at the Trinity sit nearAlamogordo, New Mexico. The Jewish involvement in the decision to build and theactual construction of the bomb is a well-documented fact. Thanks to theseJews, America beat Germany in the race to build the bomb. Regardless of howsome may view the decision to use the bomb against Japan, the fact is that alot of Allied service men lived through the war because there was no invasionof Japan. The estimated casualties for the invasions and pacification were inthe million plus category.
1946:Birthdate of Ann Kathryn Turkel, the New York model who went to an actingcareer starting with an appearance than the sport comedy film “Paper Lion.”
1946: “TheJewish National Council called on the Jewish community of Palestine today toengage in a one-day general strike tomorrow in sympathy with the 1,600 mendetained at Rafa, who have gone on a hunger strike.”
1947: Today,in Jerusalem, the delegates from United Nations inquiry committee “were invitedto Government House for an informal discussion with British High CommissionerLt. Gen. Sir Alexander Committee” where for the first time, “the committee as agroup” would hear his views on the issues in Palestine
1947: “Afteran appeal by Jerusalem Jewish newspaperman to the United Nations’ SecretaryGeneral, Trygve Lie, the secretariat of the United Nations’ inquiry committeeinterved with the Lebanese consul general today in an effort to obtains entryinto Lebanon for six correspondents of the Hebrew press who wish to attend thecommittee’s hearings there.”
1948: Afterfierce fighting, the Israelis successfully took Nazareth.
1948: TheIrgun planned to make one more attempt to re-take the Old City, “a day beforethe second cease-fire” was set to begin.
1948: The ArabLiberation Army completed its evacuation of Ein Kerem, a village which would beincorporated into the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem.
1948: DuringOperation Dekel, the Israeli 7th Armored Brigade took the villagesof Amqa, al-Damun and Lubya.
1948:Operation Death to the Invader, an Israeli military operation designed “to linkJewish villages in the Negev with the rest of Israel” began this evening.
1948: DavidBen Gurion noted in his diary today the arrival of three B-17’s in Israel “andmentioned that they had already been used for several bombing runs inEgypt. These were the only “heavybombers” the Israelis had. Known as 69Squadron they had been obtained by Charles Winters who was known as “thegodfather of the Israeli air force.”
1948: While Israel was waging its War ofIndependence (and survival) world-renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman was bornin Tel Aviv.
1948Premiere of Key Largo, the truly dark film noir produced by Jerry Wald, with ascript co-authored by Richard Brooks, co-starring Lauren Bacall and Edward G.Robinson.
1949(19thof Tammuz, 5709): Parashat Pinchas
1949:After having already opened in Los Angeles, “Calamity Jane and Sam Bass,”produced by Leonard Goldstein and Aaron Rosenberg, with a script co-written byMelvin Levy and filmed by cinematographer Irving Glassberg premiered in LosAngeles.
1949:After 157 performances at the Cort Theatre, the curtain came down on theoriginal Broadway production of “Two Blind Mice,” a comedy written by Samueland Bella Spewack.
1950: Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett declined to commit himselftoday on Israel's answer to the request of United Nations Secretary GeneralTrygve Lie for aid in the Korean War. He said that the matter would beconsidered by the Cabinet this week, but implied that Israel's defense needsmust be considered
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported thatthousands of apartment-seeking Israelis registered for the government's popularhousing scheme. There were long queues for domestic ice delivery in Jerusalem.Shoe sales increased considerably after 17 new shoe ration points went intoeffect.
1951:Birthdate of Philadelphia native Daniel Singer “Dan” Bricklin, “the Americanco-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program” known as “the Father of the Spreadsheet.”
http://www.bricklin.com/bontech/
1951: J.D.Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye was published. Jerome DavidSalinger was born in New York in 1919. His father was Jewish. Hiswas mother was Irish-Catholic. This genealogy according to some criticswas the source of some of Salinger's inner-conflict that came out in hiswritings and in his decision to become the most famous literary hermit of thecentury.
1952: “Zombiesof the Stratosphere” featuring Leonard Nimoy in one of his earliest film roles,was released by Republic Pictures in the United States today.
1953: Eighty-two-year-oldFrench born English author Hilaire Belloc, the author of The Jews a book inwhich he describes them “aliens,” “foreigner” and “parasites.”
https://media.christendom.edu/1986/08/peace-to-israel-hilaire-belloc-and-the-jewish-question/
1954: “TheSeagram group of companies” led by its president, Victor A. Fischel isscheduled to hold the concluding session of four-day sales meeting.
1954(15thof Tammuz, 5714): Sixty-four-year-old Bernard K. Marcus, the husband of LibbyPhillips Marcus and the father of Robert P. Lloyd and James Marcus, the“financial wizard” who went to prison after the collapse of the Bank of UnitedStates during the depression died of heart attack while horseback riding.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/18/83342783.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1955(26thof Tammuz, 5715): Parashat Matot-Masei
1955(26thof Tammuz, 5715): Eight-five-year-old Dora Messing Meyerberg, the Indianapolis borndaughter of Rabbi Mayer Messing and RikaMessing and wife of attorney Mitchel Scott Meyberg with who she had three children-- E .James, Leonard and Dorothy – who was the first President of HadassahWomen's Zionist Organization of America, vice-president of B'nai B'rith Sisterhood. anda member of the National Council of Jewish Women as well as the president ofthe Music and Art Foundation” passed away today after which she was buried at ForestLawn Cemetery.
1955:Birthdate of Zohar Argov “a popular Israeli singer” who provided “a distinctivevoice in the Mizrahi music scene.”
1956(8thof Av, 5716): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1956(8thof Ave, 5716): Eighty-five-year-oldRiga,Latvia native and American sheet metal worker Israel Getzel Gerber known by hisnew legal name Julius Gerber who “became secretary of the Socialist Party in1895 and served throughout the period when the great Eugene V. Debs was itsleader while being married to Lena Sacht with whom he had five sons and threedaughters passed away today
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/07/18/86650082.pdf
1956(8thof Av, 5716): Seventy-six-year-old Maurice P. Davidson the son of Philip andRebecca Davidson and NYU trained attorney who was the “founder of the CityFusion Party” which played a key role in the election of Mayor La Guardia andthe husband of “the former Blanche Reinheimer and father of Robert, John,Alfred, Harold and Frank Davidson passed away today.
1956:Birthdate of Anthony Robert Julius the British lawyer whose clients includedDiana, Princess of Wales.
1956: In NewYork, Sylvia (née Deutscher), a bassoonist, and William David Kushner, aclarinetist and conductor gave birth Lake Charles, LA and Columbia educatedPulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner whose most notable works was “Angels in America.”
1957(17th ofTammuz, 5717): Tzom Tammuz
1958:“Rock-A-Bye Baby” comedy produced by Jerry Lewis who was also the star withmusic by Sammy Cahn and Walter Scharf premiered in Los Angeles.
1959: The movie version of the Broadway comedy“the Tunnel of Love” produced by Martin Meclcher and Joseph Fields who alsowrote the script was released today in London.
1963: In NewYork City, Lily Cates and Joseph Cates (born Joseph Katz) “a major Broadwayproducer” who also helped to create the amazingly popular quiz show, The$64,000 Question, gave birth to actress Phoebe Belle Cates who became PhoebeCates Kline when she married fellow thespian Kevin Klin.
1964: “CircusWorld” produced by Samuel Bronston, with a script by Ben Hecht and music byDimitri Tiomkin was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States today.
1965: “Eve ofDestruction,” written by P.F. Sloan was with Sloan on guitar and Hal Blaine ondrums was released
1965: “TheState Senate majority leader, Joseph Zaretski, and the Speaker of the Assemblydirected the Joint Legislative Committee on Banks yesterday to "put ourstate banks in shape."
1965(16thof Tammuz, 5725): Sixty-two-year-old German born Brazilian pianist composerHenry Jolles, the son of “Dr. Oscar Jolles and his wife, Gertrude (néeSternberg), a student of Kurt Weil the German-Jewish composer with whom hewrote at least one composition before 1933 who left Germany because of the riseof the Nazis, passed away today.
1966(28thof Tammuz, 5726): Parashat Matot-Masei
1966(28thof Tammuz, 5726): Eighty-two-year-old Abraham Balaban, the Russian born husbandof Tillie Adamofsky Balaban passed away today after which he was buried in theBeth Israel Cemetery in West Springfield, MA.
1967: A youngKibbutznik got out of his jeep at Aalleiqa, an abandoned Syrian Army base onthe Golan Heights, and became the first settler in the Golan. He would be joined by other secular Jews inthe next few days and they would form the kibbutz now known as Merom Golan.
1968: “GutmanGives $1.1 Million To Ed Library” published today reports that “a gift of$1,130,000 to the Harvard Graduate School of Education Library-ResearchCampaign has been made by Monroe C. Gutman, 82-year-old New York City bankerand philanthropist, which is the largest single gift to the building fund driveso far and brings the total of gifts and pledges to $2.8-million toward theproject's estimated $6-million cost.”
1969: While“there had be no casualties, several head of cattle were reportedly killedtoday when “an Israeli patrol crossed the border with Lebanon and “blew upthree deserted houses in a forest in a village” approximately sixty miles fromBeirut.
1970(12th ofTammuz, 5730): Haim-Moshe Shapira, an Israeli political leader who was one ofthe signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1948 passed away. Born in Grodno in 1902, he was a founder ofYoung Mizrachi who made Aliyah in 1925. He was Israel’s first Minister ofHealth and Minister of Immigration.
1970:Avner-Hair Shaki entered the Knesset as a replacement for Haim-Moshe Shapira ofblessed memory.
1970: GoldaMeir replaced the late Haim Moshe Shapira as Minister of Internal Affairs.
1970: YosefGoldschmidt completed his first term as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.
1971: Recordproducer Bob Feldman and co*cktail waitress Sheila Feldman gave birth to actorCorey Feldman.
1971: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held to for 75 year old Cornell Medical Collegetrained pediatrician Dr. Samuel Zachary Levine, “the pediatrician who wascalled in by the White House in August, 1963, in an effort to save the life ofPatrick Bouvier Kennedy, the son of” President John Kenney and JacquelineKennedy and who was the husband of “the former Bella Morell” with whom he hadthree children – Robert, Ted and Muriel.
1973: Duringthe Watergate Scandal former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informsthe United States Senate of the existence of heretofore unknown recordingsystem that taped all conversations that took place in the White House’s OvalOffice. The system had been installed byPresident Nixon. The tapes would proveto be Nixon’s undoing and lead to his leaving office. The tapes all revealed a nasty anti-Semiticstreak in President Nixon. They alsorevealed anti-Semitic remarks by the Reverend Billy Graham.
1975(8thof Av, 5735): Erev Tish’a B’av
1975: Dr.Abbot Kaplan, the first Jewish president of “the State University of New YorkCollege at Purchase” responded to charges of bias against Italians because ofthe school only offered a limited number of Italian language courses by sayingthat the “Foreign ‐ language requirements no longer exist, soclasses are elective and given only when interest is shown…”
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeland the US were pleased at the outcome of the UN Council's debate in which aresolution censuring Israel for the raid on Entebbe failed to receive thenecessary nine votes. It was in effect an acknowledgement of "Israel'sright to act in the way it did."
1976:Birthdate of Russian born, Israeli tennis player, Anna Smashnova.
1979: Funeralservices are scheduled to held today in Tel Aviv for sixty-two-year-old forAndre Joseph Narboni, “the head of the Sephardi and Oriental DiasporaDepartment of the Jewish Agency and a member of the World Zionist OrganizationExecutive” who “immigrated to Israel from Algeria in 1962…” (JTA)
1981: The large-scaleoperation to conquer West Beirut to achieve the eviction of the PLO which hadbeen submitted to Prime Minister Begin two days by Sharon and Eitan and had beenapproved by Begin, “was rejected today by the full Israeli cabinet, out ofconcern for heavy loss of life.’
1983(6thof Av, 5743): Shabbat Chazon
1983(6thof Av, 5743): Mutli-dimensional author Samson Raphaelson who wrote a storycalled “The Day of Atonement” based on the youth of Al Jolson which then becamethe successful play “The Jazz Singer” which then became the first talkingpicture the star of which was Al Jolson.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/Raphaelson/
1985: “Anexhibition of Al Hirschfeld’s caricatures” including “several dozen of hisworks dating from the 1920’s to the 1980’s” opened today “on the second floorof London’s National Theatre” marking the first time such a showing had takenplace in the United Kingdom.
1985: InSeligman, an Arizona named after Jesse Seligman “one of the founders of J.W.Seligman Co. who helped finance railroad line” that made the town economicallyviable, formation of the Seligman Historical Society.
1985: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held this morning at the Stephen Wise Free Synagoguefor seventy-two-year-old Newark, NJ born and NYU grad, Rabbi Edward E. Klein,the husband of Ruth Klein the father of Rabbi Stephen Klein and Barbara Hillmanwho was “the longtime spiritual leader of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue andcommunity activist” passed away today. (As reported by Robin Toner)
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/15/nyregion/rabbi-edward-klein-activist.html
1986(9thof Tammuz, 5746): Ninety-one-year-old Boston University trained attorneyRaphael Phillip Boruchoff, the son of Rabbi Dov Ber Boruchoff and Bessie (PessaGolde) Boruchoff and husband of Celia H. Boruchoff passed away today in Floridaafter which he was buried in North Reading, Massachusetts.
1988(2ndof Av, 5748): Parashat Maot-Masei
1988(2ndof Ave, 5748): Eighty-eight-year-old “Samuel Ruben, a scientist who had noformal education beyond high school but whose inventions led to more than 300patents, including the alkaline battery” who was the husband of the former RenaKoch with whom he had one son passed away today.
https://othmerlib.sciencehistory.org/record=b1025886~S6
1994: TheSisters Rosensweig, a play by Wendy Wasserstein that focuses on threeJewish-American sisters and their lives comes to a close after 556 performancesat the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
1994(8th ofAv, 5754): Julian Schwinger winner of the 1965 winner of the Nobel Prize forPhysics passed away.
http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/julian_seymour_schwinger.html
1995(18th ofTammuz, 5755): Since the 17th of Tammuz fell on Shabbat today isTzom Tammuz
1995(18thof Tammuz, 5755): Eighty-six-year-old poet and author Stephen Spender wasappointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the UnitedStates Library of Congress in 1965, passed away.(As reported by Eric Pace
1995(18th ofTammuz, 5755): Lt. Gen. Mordechai"Motta" Gur, former Chief of Staff of the IDF passed away. He is best remembered as the commander of thebrigade that liberated the Old City of Jerusalem in June, 1967.(As reported byJoel Greenberg)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mordechai-motta-gur
1997: Premiere of “George of the Jungle” the movie version of thetelevision cartoon show featuring music by Marc Shairman and directed byBrandeis graduate Sam Weisman.
1998: In“Musical Plays on the Hebrew Stage” published today, Dan Almagor described thehistory and the growth of “mahazemer.”
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfa-archive/1998/pages/musical%20plays%20on%20the%20hebrew%20stage.aspx
1999: Fifty-six-year-oldUNC graduate and Harvard trained lawyer Stuart E. Eizenstat ended his serviceas Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairsbegan serving as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury underPresident Clinton.
1999:Morocco's King Hassan II passed away. The king's father, Mohammed V, is widelycredited with having saved Morocco's Jews from deportation during World War II,and Hassan continued the philo-Semitic policies of his father. Although therewas an outbreak of anti-Jewish incidents following the establishment of theState of Israel in 1948, the Jewish community was generally safe under theprotection of both Mohammed and Hassan, who proudly considered the Jews"Moroccans of Jewish origin." “Hassan was considered a moderate inthe Middle East. During his 38-year reign, he at first discreetly, then openly,promoted ties with Israel at a time when most of the rest of the Arab worldrejected such contact. His efforts helped pave the way for the 1978 Camp Davidaccord between Israel and Egypt. King Hassan also played a role in preparingfor the 1991 Madrid peace conference and welcomed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabinin September 1993, making Morocco the first Arab nation outside of Egypt toofficially receive an Israeli leader. In 1994, Hassan hosted the first MiddleEast regional economic conference, which included Israel, in the Moroccan cityof Casablanca. After the euphoria of the 1993 Oslo accords between Israel andthe Palestinians, Israel was allowed to establish a consular office in Rabat,and an estimated 40,000 Israeli tourists visited Morocco in 1995 and 1996.”“The Moroccan Jewish community in Israel observed a seven-day period ofmourning for the late king.”
1999: “EyesWide Shut,” an “erotic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by StanleyKubrick, based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story)and co-starring Sydney Pollack was released today in the United States.
2000: “Music;Still a Sly Wit, Now Mostly for Himself” published today described the careerof Tom Lehrer, the Harvard mathematician who has entertained generations oflisteners with his satirical, musical wit.
2000: TheNew York Times features reviews books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish readers including My Love Affair With America: TheCautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative by Norman Podhoretz and The HaroldLetters,1928-1943: The Making of an American Intellectual by ClementGreenberg
2000: Premiereof “Nuremberg” a “docudrama, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trialby Joseph E. Persico, that tells the story of the Nuremberg Trials.”
2001: InJerusalem, more than 2,000 Jewish athletes from 43 countries marched in theopening ceremony of the Maccabiah games today.
2001: Openingof the 16th Macaabiah
2001(25thof Tammuz, 5761): Twenty-year old Staff Sergeant Avi Ben-Harush and nineteenyear old Corporal Hanit Arami both of Zikhron Ya’akov were killed when asuicide bomber struck near the BinyaminaRailway Station.
2002: Simonand Garfunkel released the album "Live In New York City."
2002(7thof Av, 5762):Nine people, including an eight-month-old infant, were killed and20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus #189 traveling from Bnei Brak toEmmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to thebullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDFuniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimedresponsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamascell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001. The victims:Galila Ades, 42, of Emmanuel; Yonatan Gamliel, 16, of Emmanuel; Keren Kashani,29, of Emmanuel; Sarah Tiferet Shilon, 8 months, of Emmanuel; Gal Shilon (herfather), 32, of Emmanuel; Zilpa Kashi (her grandmother), 65, of Givatayim;Ilana Siton, 35, of Emmanuel. The premature infant delivered after its mother,Yehudit Weinberg, was seriously injured, died of her injuries overnight.Yocheved Ben-Hanan, 21, of Emmanuel, who was critically wounded, died on July18.
2002: The New York Times reports in anobituary: "The American Sephardi Federation joins with all Sephardim ofthe world in mourning the loss of the eminent Chief Rabbi David Asseo, thespiritual leader of the vital Jewish community of Turkey. We recall his warmth,his grace and words of wisdom on the many occasions he received our delegationsfrom America.
2003:Sixty-first anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv) whenthe government of Vichy France ordered “the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who wereheld at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before being deported to Auschwitz.”
2004: “ACinderella Story” featuring future “Big Bang” star Simon Heldberg as “Terrence”was released today in the United States.
2004: Afterits premier nine days ago in Los Angeles, “I, Robot”a sci-fi thriller based on the work by Isaac Asimov, with a screenplayco-authored by Akiva Goldsman and featuring Shia LaBeouf was released in theUnited States today.
2005: The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported thatProfessor Chanan Eshel, an archeologist from Tel Aviv’s Bar Ilan University,had announced the discovery of two scroll fragments near the Dead Sea. “The two small pieces of brown animal skininscribed I Hebrew with verses from the book of Leviticus, are from the“refugee” caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea where Jews hidfrom the Romans in the second century…The scrolls are being tested by Israel’sAntiquities Authority” to determine their authenticity and era in which theywere written. In a repeat of history,the fragments were discovered by a Bedouin who may have been looking forartifacts in the area. If the documentsprove to be authentic, they will be the first scrolls discovered in the JudeanDesert since the 1960’s.
2006: TheNew York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including Full Swing: Hits, Runs andErrors in a Writer's Life by Ira Berkow and the recently released paperbackedition of Salonica, City Of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950by Mark Mazower. “For over half a millennium Salonika, a port city innorthern Greece, was a place where Europe met the Middle East. Mazower, aprofessor of history at Columbia University, sets the history of Salonika andits Orthodox Greeks, Egyptian merchants and Spanish Jews within a "singleencompassing historical narrative." He reconstructs this once vibrant cityas it thrived under the Ottoman Empire (1430-1912), reverted to Greek controlafter World War I, and saw its Jewish population deported en masse by the Nazisin 1943
2006(20thof Tammuz, 5766): “During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict train service to thestation was suspended after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot inHaifa today killing eight Israel Railways workers.”
2006: In “Marchingas to War,” published today, TheWashington Post reported on the efforts of Mikey Weinstein, graduate of theU.S. Air Force Academy and the father of an academy graduate, to stop themissionary work of Christian ministers at the Air Force Academy. In particular he is targeting the Officer’sChristian Fellowship who says its goal is a “spiritually transformed militarywith ambassadors for Christ in in uniform, empowered by the Holy Spirit.”
2006: Thefollowing were among a total of 43 Israeli civilians (including four who diedof heart attacks during rocket barrages) and 116 IDF soldiers were killed inthe Israel-Hizbullah war: Eight railway workers in Haifa: Shmuel Ben-Shimon,41; Asael Damti, 39; Nissim Elharari, 43; David Feldman, 28; Dennis Lapidus,24; Rafi Hazan, 30; Reuven Levy, 46; and Shlomo Mansura, 35.
2006: “INSHanit Suffers Iranian Missile Attack” published today
http://www.defense-update.com/2006/07/ins-hanit-suffers-iranian-missile.html
2007: RyanKalish suffered a season ending injury when he “was hit by a pitch which brokethe hamate bone in his right (non-throwing) wrist” at a time when he wasleading the league in both stolen bases and runs scored, and batting .368 witha .471 on-base percentage and a .540 slugging percentage.”
2007:Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel and the PalestinianAuthority for her first visit to the region since Hamas seized power in theGaza Strip.
2007(1st ofAv, 5767): Rosh Chodesh Av.
2007(1stof Av, 5767): Forty-six-year-old Lyn Pilowsky, a “Psychiatrist renowned for herresearch into schizophrenia” passed away today.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/20/guardianobituaries.health
2007: On the first anniversary of the Hezbollah-Israel War a “FreetheSoldiers Rally” takes place in New York City. It commemorates the “one longyear has passed since Israel Defense Forces soldiers Gilad Shalit, EhudGoldwasser, and Eldad Regev were kidnapped by Hamas and Hezbollah.”
2007:A group representing thousands ofchildren of Holocaust survivors filed a class-action lawsuit against the Germangovernment demanding that Germany pay for their psychiatric care.
2008: In Los Angeles, Hadassah’s 94th Annual Convention comesto an end.
2008:The John W. Kluge Center at the Libraryof Congress sponsors a lecture, "The Moral Conscience of the World: TheUnited Nations and Palestine in 1947," by William Roger Louis, a professor of English history and cultureat the University of Texas at Austin.
2008:Dr. Rory Miller, senior lecturer at King’s College in London gave apresentation at the Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs as part of its fourthannual series of lectures on changing Jewish communal policies and attitudes inwhich he said that “the future of the Jewish community in Ireland is bleak asits committed members age and the young immigrate to other European countriesand Israel.”
2008: At the WorkShop Theatre, as part of theMidtown International Theatre Festival, the world premiere of “Yom Kippur,”Meri Wallace’s new drama based on the 1973 war.
2009: At the 18th Maccabiah Games, in Rugby,South Africa plays Australia, Israel plays Canada and the USA plays Chile.
2009: Julian “Edelman signed a four-yearcontract with the Patriots that included a $48,700 signing bonus.”
2010:Taglit-Birthright Israel alumni and young professionals plan to gather at theHistoric 6th & I Synagogue for “Shabbat Hoppin’: Summer Style.”
2010: TheBoston Museum of Fine Arts Announces Curatorship for Judaica
http://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/16/2010/judaica-curatorship-at-boston-mfa
2010: SouthAfrican Justice Albie Sachs “was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of theUniversity of York for his contribution to the construction of post-apartheidSouth Africa, in particular for his involvement in the creation of theConstitution.”
2010: It wasannounced today that seventy-one year old Harvey Golub was resigning aschairman of the American International Group (AIG).
2011: The workof Tel Aviv native Dana Levy is scheduled to be part of the Art Omni Weekendwhich is scheduled to open today.
2011: TheJerusalem Film Festival is scheduled to come to an end this evening.
2011: A group of closed to 800 ultra-Orthodox protestorstried to block a central Jerusalem thoroughfare today, in an attempt to preventwhat they consider the desecration of Shabbat.
2011: An IDF spokeswoman confirmed that anaerial attack was launched today under cover of darkness against Gazaterrorists preparing to fire a rocket into Israel, from near Gaza City. The IDFsaid 16 rockets fired from Gaza have struck Israel this month some of whichdamaged buildings. Israel said it responded to shooting two days ago withaerial strikes on tunnels dug beneath Gaza's border with Egypt.
2012 Director Dan Cohen is scheduled to discuss“An Article of Hope,” his documentary about Israeli astronaut Illan Ramon aftera noon-time showing at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
2012: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isscheduled to meet with top Israeli leaders in Jerusalem to discuss panoply ofissues.
2012(26th of Tammuz, 5772): Ninety-year-oldWilliam Asher, a pioneer in creating television sit-coms including “I LoveLucy” and “Bewitched” whose father was Jewish passed away today.
2012: A memorial service will be held today forAlex Okrent, the 29 year old Evanston native who has been working for PresidentObama since his senatorial campaign in 2004, at the Jewish ReconstructionistCongregation in Evanston.
2012: Thousands of ultra-Orthodox children tookto the streets of Jerusalem this evening to protest the possible inclusion ofyeshiva students in the military draft.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ultra-orthodox-children-rally-in-jerusalem-against-universal-draft/
2012: A 43-year-old woman started a fire at aNational Insurance Institute branch in today. The woman lit the fire in protestof what she called a lack of financial help from the Institute, Army Radioreported.(As reported by Greg Tepper)
2012: Australian and New Zealand premiere of“The Dark Night Rises” based on story co-authored by David S. Goyer andco-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
2012: A man tried to set himself on fire at theentrance of the Beersheba municipality building today. The man, who is known tothe welfare services, was not injured in the incident as a security guard andpassersby at the scene prevented him from starting the fire. The man was takeninto police custody. The incident is the second self-torching attempt since aman set himself on fire at a protest in Tel Aviv. Moshe Silman is still incritical condition with burns over 94% of his body. Yesterday Ynet reported, aman entered a branch of the Orange cellphone company in Petah Tikva with abottle of flammable liquid and threatened to set himself ablaze in protest overa bill for NIS 20,000. Security guards overpowered the man before he couldcarry out his threat and held him until police arrived. (As reported by StuartWiner)
2012: “Parents of Dead Billionaire Heiress EvaRausing Want Jewish Burial” published today described the efforts of herparents to have her buried in South Carolina in accordance with Jewish law.
2013(9th of Av, 5773): TishaB’Av. Since Jews do not partake of foodfor the body we may want to partake of food for the mind by reading about theDestruction of the First Temple as described in Chapter 36 of Chronicles II; byreading about the Destruction of the Second Temple in Rome and Jerusalemor The Ruling Class of Judaea both by Martin Goodman; or by reading about thefall of Betar in Bar Kochba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of thesecond Jewish Revolt against Rome by Yigael Yadin.
2013(9th of Av, 5773): Eighty-five-year-oldMarvin “Marv” Rotblatt a south-paw with the White Sox for three seasons passedaway today.(As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2013: The annual Madridanza festival isscheduled to open at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv.
2013: Doubleday published Love, Dishonor,Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rackoff
2013: Mortar fire from inside war-torn Syriahit the Israeli part of the Golan Heights today, an IDF spokeswoman said."Several mortar rounds fired from Syria exploded in northern Golan withoutcausing any damage or casualties," the spokeswoman told AFP (As reportedby Gil Ronen)
2013: Ryan Giley provides a look at “SimonRich: The Funniest Man in America.”
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jul/16/simon-rich-last-girlfriend-on-earth
2013: Love,Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, the late David Rakoff’s, first andonly novel, has been released by Doubleday today. (As reported by ReneeGhert-Zand)
http://www.timesofisrael.com/for-writer-david-rakoff-a-posthumous-debut/
2014: Seventieth Anniversary of the Vel' d'HivRoundup – a remembrance “marking the mass arrest of over 13,000 Jews in Parisand their shipment to Auschwitz where they met their death.
2014: Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary inthe Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs andMark Levin, Executive Director of National Coalition Supporting EurasianJewry (NCSJ) are scheduled to “discuss the current situation in Ukraine and howit is affecting the Jewish community” at a noon time luncheon in Washington,DC.
2014: Four hundred new immigrant from Francemade Aliyah today as they landed at Ben Gurion Airport.
2014: “Women's Wear Daily' reported that Macy’shad stopped the renovation of its Brooklyn flagship while it consideredpossibly selling the property, which could be worth $300 million (~$380 millionin 2023) from a developer looking to turn it into condominium apartments. Ithad also been reported that Macy's was considering building a new DowntownBrooklyn store.”
2014: “Israel announced today that it wouldhalt all military operations against targets in the Gaza Strip for a period offive hours in order to allow humanitarian agencies to transfer food and medicalsupplies into the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave.”
2014: Variety reported today that “Tyrant” thetelevision drama which co-created by Israeli writer Gideon Raiff will moveproduction from Tel Aviv to Istanbul due to the on-going attacks by Hamas.(JTA)
2014: The DCJCC is scheduled to host a concertby Flory Altarač Jagoda featuring the Ladino.
2014: UNRWA announced today that rockets hadbeen found in their schools in Gaza.
2015: YIDSTOCK 2015 which “will bring the bestin klezmer and new Yiddish music” is scheduled to open on the stage at theYiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts.
2015: “Knight of Cups” and “The Memory ofJustice” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2015: MP Susan Veronica Kramer began serving asthe “Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for the Treasury” today.
2015: “Rocket alert sirens rang out early” this“morning in towns near the Gaza Strip after a missile was from the Palestinianterritory” followed hours later by an IAF mission against the terrorists.
2015: “A law from the year 2000 defines todayas ‘a French national day of memory for racist and anti-Semitic crimes and dayof homage to the righteous of France.’” (As reported by Elhanan Miller)
2015: In Memphis, Temple Israel is scheduled tohost its “Trivia Night.”
2016(10th of Tammuz, 5775): Chukat
2016: In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel isscheduled to offer congregants an opportunity to combine beating the southernheat with Jewish ritual with a “Wet Havdalah” – outdoor water play “followed bya family Havdalah service and pizza dinner.”
2016: Thirty-eight year old Waheed Borsh, theUnited Nations humanitarian aid worker who confessed he had used his positionto aid Hamas was arrested by Shin Bet and the Israel Police today.
2016: “A new Israeli documentary, ‘Down theDeep Dark Web’” premiered today at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2016: “Schneider vs Bax” and “Death inSarajevo” are scheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2017: “In what observers said was anunprecedented statement from the leader of France in support of the Jewishstate” today “French president Emmanuel Macron condemned anti-Zionism as a newform of anti-Semitism.”
2017: The North American Jewish ChoralFestival, sponsored by the Zamir Choral Foundation is scheduled to open todayat Kerhonkson, NY.
2017(22nd of Tammuz, 5777): Ninety-year-oldClarence Sigal, the Chicago born son of “labor organizers,” WW II Army veteran,blacklist victim and award winning authorpassed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Away-Report-Clancy-Sigal-ebook/dp/B00DZEJSZG
2017: TheNew York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including The Stars in Our Eyes: TheFamous, the Infamous and Why We Care Way too Much About Them by Julie Klamas well as an interview of with Allegra Goodman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/books/review/allegra-goodman-by-the-book.html?ref=headline&nl_art=&te=1&nl=book-review&emc=edit_bk_20170714 and a list ofrecommended books including Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best andWorst by Robert M. Sapolsky.
2017: “1917: How One Year Changed The World” isscheduled to come to an end at the National Museum of American Jewish History,Philadelphia,
2017: “CamillePissarro: Le premier des impressionnistes an exhibition at the MuséeMarmottan Monet, Paris, is scheduled to come to an end today.
2017: At the Maccbiah games, in basketball theIsrael and Russia are scheduled to play in 35+ finals and Israel and the UnitedStates are schedule to play the 45+ finals/
2017: Chassida Shmella Ethiopian Israeli JewishCommunity in collaboration with the American Sephardi Federation are scheduledto co-sponsor “From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halachic and Conceptual World ofEthiopian Jewry” presented by Rabbi Sharon Shalom and Susan Pollack.
2018: The North Carolina Museumof Art is scheduled to a performance by the Dana Ruttenberg Dance Group.
2018: In London, JW3 isscheduled to host the screening of the final episodes of the Israeli televisiondrama “Your Honor.”
2018: “The Cakemaker” and “AnIsraeli Love Story” are scheduled to be shown at the 9th annualAxelrod Israel Jewish Film Festival.
2018: As Israelis greet a newday, they look to the skies to see if yesterday’s cease fire “between Israeland Hamas” will hold.
2019: In Danville, CA, theReutlinger Community Center is scheduled to host the opening reception for theexhibit ““Israeli Street Life: Through the Lens of Dick Hyman” which willinclude an appearance by the photographer, Dick Hyman.
2019: In Berkley, CA. theAquarian Minyan is scheduled to host “author, columnist and educator LorelaiKude who will be discussing Jewish astrology.
2019: In Coralville, IA,Congregation Agudas Achim is scheduled to host a presentation by Gamaliel, “aChicago-based community organizing initiative” as attendees “discuss a faithfulresponse to the increase in white nationalism”
2019: The Temple Emanu-ElStreicker Center is scheduled to host “an evening with Daniel Silva” as theauthor discusses he work “with his wife, CNN Special Correspondent JamieGangel.”
2019: In London, JW3 isscheduled to host a screening of “The Matchmaker” directed by Avi Nesher.
2020: AJC is scheduled to host“a virtual conversation between President Fernández and Dina Siegel Vann,Director of AJC's Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, topay tribute to the 85 victims of the AMIA attack and raise our collectivevoices against terrorism and antisemitism in all its forms on the 26thAnniversary of the AMIA attack.”
2020: The Jewish Museum ofMaryland is scheduled to Rabbi Dr. Eli Yoggev lecturing on “Are We Alone andDoes It Matter? – Jewish Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life.”
2020: The S.F. JFCS HolocaustCenter Book Club is scheduled to host an online discussion on The Night EliWiesel’s 1960 book about his experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald and hisdisgust with humanity.
2020: Live on Zoom, YIVOInstitute is scheduled to host “Chaim Zhitlovsky and His Philosophy ofYiddishism.”
2020: The ADL is scheduled topresent online “Glass Leadership Virtual Happy Hour and Info Session.”
2020: Case Western ReserveUniversity is scheduled to host “Nazis on the Silver Screen” where attendees“will consider the history behind four well-known films about Nazism and theHolocaust: “Triumph of the Will” (1935), “The Great Dictator” (1940), “DasBoot” (1981) and “Life is Beautiful” (1997).
2020: The JWA Book Club isscheduled to host a virtual author talk with “Natasha Diaz, author of Color MeIn, a coming-of-age story about a half Black, half Jewish girl trying to findher place in the world
2020: As Israelis awaken thismorning, they must deal with yesterday’s report that 22,704 people are“battling the coronavirus” and that “four more people have died from the virusbringing the total number of fatalities from COVID-19 to 375
2021: In SanFrancisco, the Contemporary Jewish Museum is scheduled to present “A Lifetimeof Levi’s”
2021: RabbiDavid Freelund is scheduled to lead in-person Shabbat services at Cape Codsynagogue.
2021: ValueCulture is scheduled to host its first “in person Shabbat experience in 2021,with legendary Hollywood director Tony Kaye at a historic, legendary SanFrancisco venue in conversation with Value Culture Founder, Executive DirectorAdam Swig and special guests.”
2021: The newrestrictions requiring “that all travelers, including those vaccinated andrecovered from COVID-19, would be required to self-isolate for up to 24 hoursupon arrival to the country” are scheduled to go into effect today.
2022:President Biden’s trip to the Middle East which has included visits to Israeland Saudi Arabia, where the government has pledged to “open its airspace to allair carriers, paving the way for more overflights to and from Israel” isscheduled to come to an end today.
2022: InJerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Center is scheduled to host “the season’s finalconcert” which is a “Bach Fest.”
2022: The QuadCinema in New York is scheduled to host the final screening of “My Name Is Sara”which tells the true-life story of 13-year-old Sara Góralnik whose family waskilled by Nazis in September of 1942.
2022(17thof Tammuz, 5782): On the Jewish Calendar, celebration of Independence Day sinceJuly 4, 1776 fell on the 17th of Tammuz)
2022(17thof Tammuz, 5782): Fast of Tammuz observance delayed until tomorrow becausetoday is Shabbat.
2022(17th of Tammuz, 5782): Parashat Balak
2023: Yidstock: The Festival of New YiddishMusic at the Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to come to an end today.
2023: ASCAP award winning flutist and composer,Hadar Noiberg, who has come a long waysince moving to NYC from Israel at 21 is schedule to perform at Room 31 at ArloNoMad in NYC.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge is scheduled tohost a walking tour in which participants “follow in the footsteps of Ella,Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie, the beloved sisters depicted in SydneyTaylor’s children’s classic All-of-a-Kind Family.”
2023: In Atlanta, GA, as part of SomethingSpecial Sundays. Marilyn Ginsberg Eckstein is schedule to present “Dance Talk:In Step with Baryshnikov.”
2023: The weekly scheduled cabinet will bepostponed at least for twenty-four while the Prime Minister remains in thehospital after having been admitted due the effects of dehydration.
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street isscheduled to host “Eldridge Street Explorers,” a special program designed for“children five and up.”
2023: Craig Newmark and Jodi Rudorren arescheduled to have a conversation about “The Role of Journalism in CombatingAntisemitism.”
2023: The exhibition “Convergence: Arabic,Hebrew, and Persian Calligraphy in Conversation” which has been on view in theLeon Levy Gallery at the Center for Jewish History is scheduled to come to anend today.
2024: The Streicker is scheduled to host thefirst lecture by Dr. Eric Goldan on “The Jewish Paul Mazursky.”
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to hostlectures by Hagai Segal on the “Legacy of the War of Independence” and by Noam(Norman) A. Stillman on “The Origins, Evolution, and Spread of Anti-Semitism inthe Arab World.”
2024: In Metairie, LA, YAS (Young Adults atShir Chadash are scheduled to host a short Torah Study session with Rabbi DavidCohen-Henriquez and Rabbinical Student, David Kaplinsky preceded by “a coupleof drinks at Wrong Iron.
2024: A two-day baseball camp led by theveterans of Team Israel’s historic participation at the Tokyo Olympics is scheduledto take place at Povich Field, named in honor of Washington Post’s legendary columnistShirley Povich.
2024: As part of the “Week of Goodness” membersof Tifereth Israel in Columbus, OH ae scheduled to “help assemble anddistribute blessing bags to those in need.”
2024: The second day of the David Bernstein’s and Jeffrey Saks “Tour JewishLife, Literature and Learning: Poland 2024 is scheduled to begin with a walkingtour of the Warsaw Ghetto area that will include a visit to Mila 18 followed by“a scenic drive takes us to the shtetl of Tykocin, which the Jews, who made upa majority of the town, called Tiktin.”
2024: As July 16th 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 284 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.)
