July 29
1099: Pope Urban II, the man behind the FirstCrusade, passed away. Considering theimpact of the Crusades on the Jews of Europe, his impact on Jewish history isself-obvious.
1108: PhilipI, King of France one of whose subjects Rashi and who was not allowed toparticipate in the Crusade because Pope Urban II had excommunicated him whichmay account, to some extent, why the Jews of France did not suffer in the sameas did their Germanic co-religionist during what turned out to be the start ofone of the deadliest periods of Jewish history passed away today.
1108: LouisVI, during whose reign “jurisdiction over the Jews and their revenues graduallypassed from royal control to the hands of the Catholic Church” began his reignas King of the Franks.
1336: Led byJohn Zimberlin, a self-proclaimed prophet, a group of peasants in Germany knownas the Armleder (for their leather straps warn on their arms) attacked Jewishcommunities in Franconia and the Alsace region. They also destroyed Jewishcommunities in Bohemia, Moravia and elsewhere along the Rhine. Roughly 1500Jews were murdered. Eventually when the Armleder began to attack non-Jews, theywere opposed by local Lords.
1567: James VIis crowned King of Scotland. Scotland’s King James VI will enter history asKing James I of Great Britain, the monarch who gave his name to the King JamesBible, the English translation of the holy book whose text most Americans(including many Jews) will think of as the real words of God.
1569: Isaacben Aaron Prositz who had successfully “petitioned King Sigismund II Augustusfor the right to establish a Hebrew press” that would “print the Talmud andother Hebrew books for fifty years” began operating today.
1588: Englishnaval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeatsthe Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France. The defeat of theSpanish Armada meant that the Catholics and their Inquisition would not takecontrol of the British Islesor re-take the Netherlands, the Protestant nationthat was haven for European Jews.Morrano spies reportedly provided information to the English whichhelped them to know when and where to expect the arrival of the Armada.
1612(29thof Tammuz, 5372): Abraham Portaleone, the Italian physician who studied underJacob Fano and who was granted special dispensation so he could treat suchprominent Christians as the Dukes Guglielmo and Vincenzo of Mantua and PopeGregory IV passed away today.
1644: UrbanVIII, the Pope who issued an edict in 1625 forbidding Jews in Rome fromerecting gravestones, passed away.
1654(Av,5414): Miriam Lucerna, “the daughter of a well-known rabbi and physician, LeoLucerna” and the wife of Meshullam Solomon Fischhof-Auerbach passed away todayin Vienna.
1762(9thof Av, 5522): Tish’a B’Av
1768(15thof Av, 5528): Tu B’Av
1773(9th of Av, 5533): Tish’a B’Av observed onthe same day that the Santa Marta earthquake hit in Guatemala.
1775(1st of Av, 5535): Rosh Chodesh Avobserved on the same day that “The Continental Congress established theChaplain Corps at the request of General George Washington.’
1784: NathanBarnett and his wife gave birth to Jonas Barnett, the husband of Maria (Miriam)Marks “who served as paymaster in the U.S. Navy
1785:Birthdate of Isabella (Bella) Lazarus, the daughter of Marks Lazarus and thewife of Aaron Philips whom she married in 1821l
1792(10thof Av, 5551): Fast of Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day that PresidentGeorge Washington wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton on theproblems present by the federal debt.
1801:Catherine Manuel, the daughter of David Manuel married Levy Solomons today.
1806: Two daysafter he had passed away, Samson Gompertz, the son of Barent Gompertz andRachel Benjamin Isaac was buried today in the United Kingdom
1808: As heprepared for surgery, Rothschild drew up his last will and testament.
1811(8thof Av 5571): Tish’a B’Av
1814: One dayafter he passed away “Moshe ben Eliezer” was buried today at the Brady StreetJewish Cemetery.
1816: “AbrahamWolf was ordered” by a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court “to pay a fineof $4 for doing business on a Sunday” in violation of what were known as “BlueLaws.” (As reported by Abraham P. Bloch)
1827: InStrasbourg, “banker Adolphe Ratisbonne and his wife Charlotte Oppenheim” gavebirth to French author Louis Raisbornne whose uncles had converted toCatholicism and become priests.
1819: DavidMoses Dyte and Hannah Lazarus gave birth to Charles Dyte, who married EvelinaNathan and with whom he had five children.
1821: InLondon, Hyam and Fanny Ansell gave birth to Joseph Ansell.
1830:Abdication of Charles X of France. Charles abdicated in favor of hisgrandson. But the Chamber of Deputiesrejected this move and chose Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orleans, to fill the vacantthrone. This proved to be a good thingfor the French Jews since Louis would ratifya motion putting Judaism on a par with Christianity, granting State support toSynagogues and their Minister of Religion. This meant that France extendedfinancial support to Jewish religious institutions on par with Christianinstitutions.
1832(2nd of Av, 5592): Seventy-three-year-old Isaac Levy “ofBevis Marks, the faithful servant for 44 years to the family of Aaron Solomon”,passed away today and was buried this evening and was buried this evening atthe Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.
1832: Moses Levy, who had died on Shabbat, was buried today at theCanterbury Jewish Cemetery.
1836(15th of Av, 5596): Tu B’Av celebrated for the last timeduring the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
1836: In Canterbury, Kent, Nathan Jacobs and Hannah Barnard gave birth toIsrael Jacobs.
1840: Benjamin Samuel Phillips and Rachel Faudel gave birth to Sir GeorgeFaudel-Phillips, the husband of the former Helen Levy whose father was JosephMoses Levy, the owner of The DailyTelegraph, the father of Benjamin, Beatrice, Lionel, Stella and NellieFauduel-Phillips and the Lord Mayor of London.
1840: Birthdate of Simon Baruch, a physician, who was born in Schwersen,Germany (now part of Poland). He attended German schools and received a degreefrom the Medical College of Virginia (1862); was surgeon for the ConfederateArmy (1862-1865); and practiced in Camden, South Carolina, until 1881, then inNew York. He was the Chairman of the South Carolina Board of Health (1880) andwas the author of books on the use of hydrotherapy. He married Isabel Wolfe in1867. His greatest claim to fame was that he was the father of Bernard Baruch,the famed financier and advisor to Presidents.
1844: One day after he had passed away, Meyer Tobias Levy Keeling, theson of Sophia and Henry Levy Keeling was buried at the “Brompton (Fulham Road)Cemetery” today.
1845(24th of Tammuz, 5605): Sixty-five-year-old SallieSalomon, the Philadelphia born daughter of Hyam Solomon and the wife of JosephAndrews to whom she had been married since 1794 passed away today in New YorkCity.
1847: Grace Aguilar made her last entry in her Frankfort Journal, a34,000 word long effort that recorded her family’s journey through Belgian andGermany. It was also her last literaryeffort since she would pass away in September.
1849(10th of Av, 5609): Tish’a B’Av observed
1849: In Pest,Gabriel Südfeld, a Hebrew poet and his wife gave birth to Simon MaximilianSüdfeld who gained fame as Max Nordau, the Zionist leader, physician, author,and social critic. He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organizationtogether with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionistcongresses. Nordau died in Paris, France in 1923. In 1926 his remains weremoved to Tel Aviv.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/max-nordau
1850(20th ofAv, 5610): Sarah Moses, the daughter of Abraham Moses and the wife of LazarusMoses, passed away and was buried in Chatham, Kent, England.
http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I1826&tree=Knowles
1853: LevyJacobs and Caroline Davis gave birth to Charles Jacobs.
1854(4thof Av, 5614): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon
1857(8thof Ave, 5617): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1858(17thof Tammuz, 5618): Tzom Tammuz observed on the same day that Japan and theUnited States signed the Treaty of Amity of Commerce on the “deck of the USSPowhatan” in Tokyo which was a key in opening Asian island kingdom to Westerntrade.
1859: InRengshausen, German, Giedel and Natan Hoeflich gave birth to Abraham Hoflich,the “husband of Bertha Beilchen Höflich and father of Hanna Falkenstein;Private and Nathan Höflich.”
1860(10thof Av, 5620): Tish’a B’Av observed on the same day New York Herald reported that “James Valentine, a negro drayman”who was erroneously arrested under the Federal Fugitive Act has been freedafter the case against him was dismissed.
1861:Philadelphian R.A. Schoneman began serving with the Keystone Battery.
1863:Birthdate of Max Schwarz, the Budapest native who in 1880 followed his fatherAustrian born chemist Anton Schwarz to the United States where he followed inhis father’s footsteps and became editor of The American Brewer” and the“principal of the Brewer’s Academy”
1864: Anarticle published today describing President Jefferson Davis' cabinet, theRichmond Sentinel reported that "The whole burden of the objections to theSecretary of State seems to have dwindled down to the fact that he is a Jew,for all admit his distinguished abilities. The time is at hand when hisabilities will be needed, and we feel confident that when the occasion occurshe will not be found wanting, but will ably sustain the dignity of his officeand his already acquired high reputation. "
1865: InWashington, DC, “Joseph and Carrie (Friedenwald) Cahn gave birth to Sophie Cahnwho, after marrying clothing merchant Charles David Axman, became Sophie CahnAxman the name under which she became fighter for the improvement of lessfortunate, especially newly arrived Jews on the Lower East Side.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/axman-sophie-cahn
1866: In Germany, “Levi and Eva Regina Cohn”gave birth to Gustav Cohn, the “husband of Paula Cohn” and the father ofCharlotte, Leo, Lore and Luise Cohn.
1866:Birthdate of New York native Solomon J. Wallach, the CCNY graduate andPresident of the Mendelssohn Benevolent Society who attended the organizations100th anniversary celebration in 1941 where he read congratulatoryletters from Governor Lehman and President Roosevelt.
1866: InCharleston, SC, Laura and Charles Ferdinand Levy gave birth to Laura LouiseHart, the wife of David Lopez Hart.
1868: Today,“Joseph Kirsh, Henry Walterstein and Isaac Hollander were named as trusteed tohold, manage and disposed of the of the property of Congregation Beth Israel”in Richmond, VA.
1868: Today, FranklinJ. Moses, Sr. “ was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court as chiefjustice,” by a Radical Republican-dominated state legislature which diminishedhis standing among his peers with many of them classifying him as a scalawag
1870: BenjaminNathan’s body was discovered at 5:50 a.m. in his New York mansion. “Mr. Nathanwas found lying dead with his skull smashed in…A heavy iron instrument used byship carpenters called a ‘dog’ was found near the body.” This was the murder instrument. Apparently,Mr. Nathan was killed when he interrupted a robbery that was taking place athis home. (Despite the offering of a large reward and numerous arrests, themurder remains unsolved.)
1870: An“excitable weekly” called the Sunday Mercury published an unsignedarticle accusing Washington Nathan of murdering his father, Benjamin Nathan
1870: The NewYork Stock Exchange offered a $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction ofthe murder or murderers of Benjamin Nathan.Nathan had been a member of the Exchange for thirty years.
1872(23rd ofTammuz, 5632): Grace Labat, the daughter of David Labat and the wife of IsaacDavega whom she married in 1815 passed away today.
1872: InCincinnati, Eva Levy and Morris Michaels gave birth to Chicago businessmanJoseph Michaels, the husband of Belle Ettlinger and founder and president ofHyman Michaels Company, vice president of the North Shore Congregation andtrustee of the Jewish Peoples Institute in Chicago.
1873: InOdessa, Russia, Isaac Stone and Rose Leviash gave birth to Nahum I. Stone, thehusband of Bertha Esther Levinson who earned an M.A. from Columbia Universityand was he the author of several works including “Capitalism on Trial inRussia,” “Economic Resources of Siberia” and “A Study of AgriculturalStatistics in the United States.”
1873: AtCastle Garden (NY), the President of the Romania Society presented a letter attoday’s meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration requesting “that the boardtake charge of five Rumanian emigrants and send them back home.” The five are Orthodox Jews who could notexist on the food prepared at the commission’s Ward’s Island facility. Theletter also stated that if the Commissioners would send the Jews home, theSociety’s President would see to it “that the emigration” would be stopped inRoumania. The commission agreed to send them back and expressed “regret thatthe American Consul in Roumania had not stopped the emigration” in the firstplace.
1875:Suffering from the effects of his trip to Palestine, a fatigued Sir MosesMontefiore spends the day rest in bed.
1875: Whilevisiting Palestine, Sir Moses Montefiore wrote a letter to Hayyim Guedalla inwhich he described the marked increase in the number of dwellings in Jerusalem,and, given the increasing density of the population, the need to start building“suitable dwellings” beyond the current city limits.
1876(8th ofAv, 5636): Shabbat Chazon, Erev Tish'a B'Av
1877: It wasreported today that the Jews have established Young Men’s Hebrew Associationsin New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and Cincinnati. They are modeled after the YMCA’s. The JewishMessenger “thinks the system should be extended to other cities” because theyhave the “power to mold American Judaism.”
1877: Seventy-eight-year-oldMorris Abrahams who was born in 1799 and passed away on July 27 was interredtoday at the Bath Jewish Burial Ground.
1877: In NewYork city, Marx and Caroline Weill gave birth to Adelphi Academy trainedpainter and engraver Edmund Weill the husband of Carolyn Wenstock and a memberof Temple Beth Emeth in Brooklyn.
https://www.askart.com/artist/Edmond_Edmund_Weill/110161/Edmond_Edmund_Weill.aspx
1877: “AnyChange in Turkey For the Better” published today relying on information fromthe Duke of Argyll that first appeared in theContemporary Review, described conditions in the Ottoman Empire in which“Moslem tyranny” exercises control “over the whole non-Moslem population whilethe government “has been friendly to the Jews”“this toleration is nothing” in reality “but equal and indiscriminatecontempt.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B07EED9163EE73BBC4151DFB166838C669FDE
1878:“Palestine” published today described “the model of the entire country” now onexhibit at on the grounds near the Round Lake Hotel built on a scale of “twoand a half feet to the mile” that allow “visitors” to walk from Jaffa toJerusalem to the Dead Sea and after having taken a dip in the Jordan River tovisit Bethlehem and Mt. Hermon
1878:Five days after he has passed away, “Joseph Cohen, the eldest son of Minna andLeopold Cohen” was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1878:Hans Magnus who had been born in 1867 to Samuel and Zerline Magnus was buriedtoday at “the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1879(9thof Av, 5639):Tish'a B'Av
1879: The Standard’s Constantinople dispatchreported today that the Jewish quarter at Orta Keui, a village on the Bosporus,has been destroyed by “a terrific fire.”
1881:Birthdate of San Francisco native, German trained thoracic surgeon Leo Eloessera member of the Stanford Medical School Faculty whose fascinating lifeincluding serving with the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War andbeing the 8th Route Army in China during WW II.
1881:Birthdate of Berlin native and University of Berlin Musicologist Dr. CurtSachs, the husband of Irene Sachs and father of Gabriella, Judith and ErnestSachs who after the rise of Hitler came to the United States where he taught atNYU and was a “music consultant to the Public Museum” in New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/02/06/80759518.pdf
1881: Thefirst ships containing large numbers of Russian Jews arrived in New Yorkfollowing pogroms in Russia. This was the beginning of mass immigration to theU.S. during that would change the face of the American Jewish Community.The great waves of immigration would slow with World War I and come to a haltduring the 1920's when anisolationism, nativism and racism closed thedoors of America to most immigrants.
1882: InHungary, Solomon Schwarz, Abraham Buxbaum, Leopold Braun, and Hermann Wollner,were charged with murdering a Christian girl named Esther Solymosi . JosefScharf, Adolf Jünger, Abraham Braun, Samuel Lustig, Lazar Weissstein, andEmanuel Taub, were charged with voluntarily assisting in the crime. AnselmVogel, Jankel Smilovics, David Hersko, Martin Gross, and Ignaz Klein, werecharged with abetting the crime and smuggling the body. This case which turnedinto a blood libel began in April and would rile the kingdom for at leastanother two years.
1883: “Sceneson the East Side” published a visitors account of what he saw when he visitedthis section of Manhattan including “a colony of foreign-born Jews of the lowerclassing inhabiting the southern end of Allen-Street” and polyglotneighborhoods on Essex, Ludlow and Hester Streets that included poor immigrants of many nationalitiesincluding Jews from Russia.
1884:Birthdate of Kiev native Joseph Karr, the longtime president of the MohawkShirt Company, the husband of Betty Karr with whom he had two children, Babetteand Peggy.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/05/16/80578648.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1884: It wasreported today two of the rioters who participated in the anti-Jewish riots atZaleszozuky, Hungary were sentenced to five years in prison and another wassentenced to four years in prison. This was the Hungarian town that was thehome of Esther Solomossy, a Christian girl who was allegedly killed by Jews aspart of their religious rituals.
1885: InCincinnati, Ohio, Bernard Goodman and Pauline Louise de Coppetti gave birth to Theodosia Burr Goodman who gained fame as Theda Bara, thesilent screen star known as “The Vamp.” (Please note, there is someconfusion. Everybody agrees she was bornin July, 1885 but not on which day)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bara-theda
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theda-Bara
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000847/bio
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000847/bio
1885: TheChaplain of the British Embassy in Vienna has completed a census of thereligious affiliations of Englishmen and Americans living in the Austriancapital. The Anglo-American populationof 1,316 included 111 Jews.
1885: The“majority of the shops” in Ramsgate are closed today because the town is inmourning over the death of Sir Moses Montefiore. The Town Hall is draped as sign of mourningand the municipal authorities including the Mayor plan to at tend the funeralfor the Jewish philanthropist.
1886: In St.Louis, Bertha Simon and Sigmond Platt gave birth to banker Edward George Plattthe husband of Helen Waldheim and Preside of Waldheim Platt Company who was amember of YMHA, the Jewish Shelter Home and the Jewish Loan Association.
1886: At theirmeeting this afternoon, The Commissioners of Emigration listened to an appealby several Jewish leaders including a representative of the Hebrew ImmigrationSociety on behalf of eastern European immigrants being detained on Ward’sIsland. The commissioners accepted the argument by the Jewish leaders that theimmigrants had friends who would take care of them and were not therefore notindigent. With the exception of a coupleof the families in question, the rest were allowed to pass through CastleGarden on their way to a new life in the New World.
1887: inGross-Kanizsa, which at that time as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Adamand Clara Rosenberg gave birth to Siegmund Rosenberg who gained fame ascomposer and conductor Sigmund Romberg.
1887: IsaacUllmann, Jr. the secretary of the Utopia club obtained an injunction todayrestraining the club from keep him from exercising his rights a member. The members of the Utopia Club are wealthyNew Haven (Ct) Jews. Ullmann had beenbanned for a year when it was discovered that he had not paid a fine leviedagainst him.
1887: AdolphReich, who had been convicted of murdering his wife is scheduled to be hungtoday. When the Judge had pronounced thedeath penalty he expressed his surprise at a Jew being brought before him onsuch a charge, “since they were, as a rule orderly, law-abiding citizens.” Hecould not remember ever sentencing a Jew to be hanged.
1888: In theUK, Tress Hart and Deborah Jacob gave birth to Henry Jacob Hart who died at theage of six months.
1888(21stof Av, 5648): Forty-five-year-old Amelia Stein, the German born daughter of“Moses and Elizabeth Keyser, the wife of Daniel Stein and the mother of Simon,Bertha, Leo, Michael and Gertrude Stein passed away today in Oakland, CA. (Inone of those calendar oddities, art critic died exactly thirty-five yearslater)
1888: In Mir,Russia Samuel and Anna Lubetsky Cooper gave birth Leon Cooper, the 1910 graduate of CCNY,“president of the Cooper Safety Razor Corporation in Brooklyn and husband ofLucy Price Cooper with whom he had two children – George W. Cooper and Mrs.Arthur Kimelfield.
1889: A three-storyhouse owned on Main Street, Sing Sing, owned by David Ross which was home tonumerous Jewish peddlers burned in a fire that started at three in themorning. A machine shop owned by AbramKipp then caught fire and, by the time it was over, only the walls remained.
1889(1st ofAv, 5649): Rosh Chodesh Av
1890: “Cityand Suburban News” published today described plans for the upcoming benefitsponsored by B’nai B’rith as a fundraiser for the Home for old and InfirmHebrews.
1890: “TheShatchen” by Charles S. Dickson, featuring M.B. Curtis who starred in “Sam’l ofPosen” is scheduled to open today at the Grand Opera House in Los Angeles.
1890: FourRussian Jewish immigrants were stopped from going to work for Marcus Ullman, apeddler on New York’s east side when it was discovered that he was going to paythem $12 a month while the Labor Bureau had found work for them at salaries of$14 to $17 per month.
1891(23rdof Tammuz, 5651): Sixteen-year-old Louis Rabinowitz, a Russian Jew, passed awaytoday at New Haven, CT.
1891(23rdof Tammuz, 5651): Jacob Levy, one of the suspects in the “Ripper Murders”passed away this evening at in the asylum for the mentally ill where had beenconfined.
1891:Birthdate of Bernhard Zondek, the German born Israeli gynecologist whodeveloped the first reliable pregnancy test.
1891: ThirtyRussian immigrants who sailed from Liverpool on the SS Norseman arrived inBoston today where they have been refused permission to land..
1891: “TheRussian Jew Persecutions” published today described the burning of “a littlefarming settlement four Russian miles from Veile” where fourteen Jews wereburned today and twenty more were seriously injured. “All the time the Russianswere rushing wildly about shouting, ‘Kill the Jews! Kill the Jews!’”
1892: HenryHeller, who had served as a Sergeant in Company A of the 66th OhioInfantry during the Civil War was issued his Medal of Honor today for voluntarycrossing into enemy lines under heavy fire to bring a Confederate officer whoprovided his superiors with “invaluable information” concerning the position ofthe enemy during the Battle of Chancellorsville, which was one of the worstdefeats suffered by the Army of the Potomac.
1892: “Dr.Michael Singer, who was reported a few weeks ago to have absconded with $25,000of the Baron Hirsch Fund at Budapest” today “denied the charge and said he hadwritten to Dr. Alexander Klein…to bring a suit for libel against” the paperthat had published the charge.
1893(16th ofAv, 5653): Shabbat Nacahamu
1893(16thof Av, 5653): Sixty-two-year-old historian Julius Aronius who was working onRegesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland at the time of his deathpassed away today.
1894: Two daysafter she had passed away, 56-year-old “Augusta Stock Levy…the wife of SamuelLevy” was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery” on Buckingham Road.
1894: As oftoday, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children has provided excursions for 2,647children and 1,213 mothers free of charge.In addition, 233 sick infants and children have been cared for at theRockaway facility.
1894:Contributions needed for the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children to continue itswork may be sent to its managers – Nathan Lewis, Hezekiah Kohn and JosephDavis.
1894: “GermanyIn Earliest Times” published today provides a review of A History of GermanyIn The Middle Ages in which the author begins with a critical overview ofthe efforts of past historians including Josephus who he said “wrote of thesame events in his Antiquities as in the War of the Jews andreported them differently.
1895(8th ofAv, 5655): Less than a month before his 84th birthday JosephDerenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg, a Franco-German orientalist, who wrotean Essai sur l'histoire ella geographie de la Palestine passed awaytoday.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1449830
http://archive.org/stream/jstor-1449830/1449830_djvu.txt
1895(8th ofAv, 5655) Erev Tish'a B'Av
1895: Two daysafter she had passed away, forty-year-old Leah Brenner, the daughter of Rebeccaand Jacob Roxas was buried today at the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery.”
1897: TheProtective Musical Union Band will provide the entertainment at the secondannual outing of the Brooklyn Hospital Society which is being held at Wissel’sRidgewood Park.
1898: “TheRussian Jew in America” by Abraham Cahan, the man who ran the Forverts for 40 years appeared in theAtlantic Monthly. This brought together one of those unlikely combinations –the immigrant Jew and the classical WASP intellectual journal.
1898:Birthdate of physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi whose exploration of the atom earnedhim a Nobel Prize in 1944. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1944/rabi-facts.html
1898: Birthdate ofPittsburg, PA native Irving Ralph “Red” Perlman” the WW I veteran who playedguard for the undefeated 1917 U. of Pittsburgh “Panthers” and pursued a procareer in the 1920’s.
1898: Isaac F.Goldenhorn, the attorney for Michael Aaronberg, Abraham Hoffman, MendalBloomkey, Jacob Joseph and Adolph Horowitz, the Trustees of the MosesMontefiore Congregation in Hoboken, NJ, went into court today to seek aninjunction to keep David Engler from removing the building from its location at76 Grand Street.
1899: In describinghis trip to Europe, John Ireland, the Archbishop of St. Paul, MN is reported tohave told friends “that there is not so much turmoil over the Dreyfus Affiar aswould appear from the press reports and that the decision of the court-martialwhatever it may be will be accepted as final.” (Editor’s note – boy was hewrong) He also said that the issue wasno longer the guilt or innocence of Dreyfus but the honor of the army. (He wasright about that)
1899: “The treaties,declarations and final acts of the Hague Peace Conference which Jan Blochattended were signed today.”
1899: “BookNews In London” published today described a English language translation of amonograph by Jules Huret on Sarah Bernhardt which has a preface by EdmondRostand, the author of Cyrano de Bergerac.
1900: In ElPaso, TX, “Albert and Hannah (Kirske) Kaplan gave birth to Golden Gate Collegetrained attorney Walter Francis Kaplan the management consultant and Presidentof Goodwill Industries of San Francisco who was the husband of the formerMargaret Jacob and the father of Margery and Charles Kaplan.
1900” “Notesof the Labor World” published today reported that “The Brotherhood of Tailorswill hold a mass meeting in the Hebrew Institute on August 1st todecide on whether or not they should go out on strike “for better conditions.”
1901(13thof Av, 5661): On the Jewish calendar,yahrzeit of Rabbi Mordecai b. Abraham Benet, the author of Biur Mordecaiwho died in 1829.
1902: Today,“a group of sixty Orthodox rabbis hailing from Russia, Poland and Austria-Hungary met in the auditorium of the Machzike Talmud Torah on New York’s EastBroadway to formalize the creation of the Agudat ha-Rabbinim (Union of OrthodoxRabbis of the United States and Canada).
1902(24thof Tammuz, 5662): “In accordance with the customs of the Orthodox Jews, prayerswere said” tonight” for the reposed of the soul of Rabbi Jacob Joseph, whosefuneral is scheduled to take place tomorrow morning followed by burial at theJewish cemetery near Cypress Hill.
1903: “ToScrutinize Russian Travelers” published today described announcement by theRussian Charge de Affairs that it would limit the locations that Americansplanning to travel to Russia could have their passports “vised” which was seenas an attempt to limit the ability of American Jewish citizens to go to theCzar’s kingdom.
1904: MathewNathan, the second son of Anglo-Jewish businessman Jonah Nathan and MiriamJacob Nathan succeeded Sir Henry Arthur Blake as the Governor of Hong Kong.
1905: InWorcester, MA, Yetta Helen (née Jasspon) and Solomon Z. Kunitz gave birth totheir third child, future Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library ofCongress Stanley Jasspon Kunitz.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/books/16kunitz.html?_r=0
1906:Birthdate of New York native and youthful resident of Oakland, CA, Norman FrankFeldheym who majored in history at the University of Cincinnati while earningordination from HUC in 1932 after which he served congregations in Panama Cityand San Bernardino and earning a Bronze Star and 6 battle stars while servingas a U.S. Army chaplain in WW II and Korea.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47296380/norman-frank-feldheym
1906:Birthdate of New York City and attorney Gertrude Caesar who was the “Caeser” inthe law firm of Feuer and Caesar founded “in the early 1930’s with her husbandattorney Moses A. Feuer with whom she had two children Robert and Nancy, thefuture wife of attorney Milton Fischel.
1907: Lt. Col.Mathew Nathan completed his service as the 13th Governor of HongKong.
1908(1stof Av, 5668): Rosh Chodesh Av observed for the last time during the Presidencyof Theodore Roosevelt.
1909:Birthdate of Plonsk, Poland native and historian Rabbi Moyshe-Avigdor Shulvasaka Moses A. Shulvass.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/08/moyshe-avigdor-shulvas-moses-shulvass.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/shulvass-szulwas-moses-avigdor
1909: “AnExample of His Sympathy with Russian Jews” published today described how on thefirst anniversary of the Kishinev massacres when “thousands of Jews weremarching up Broadway” approached Grace Church the late Reverend William ReedHuntington “appeared bareheaded at its portals and remained there until thepeople passed while the church bells tolled” showing “that the typical AmericanChristian clergyman is of a different type to the priests whose bigotry islargely responsible for the persecuting spirit in Russia…”
1910: “Mrs.Henriette Seligman, who died on July 23, 1910, left a net estate in New York of$431,668, according to an appraisal fixed” today “in the Transfer Tax office.”
1911: InLondon, the First Universal Races Congress, an anti-racist organization whichdiscussed the “Jewish Question” came to a close today.
1912(15thof Av, 5672): Tu B’Av was celebrated for the last time during the Presidency ofWilliam Howard Taft.
1912(15thof Av, 5672): Mayer Hahn, who on May 17, 1898, was nominated by WilliamMcKinley to serve as Collector of Customs for the District of Pamlico, in NorthCarolina and later approved by Congress, passed away today in Long Branch, NJ.
1913: Two daysafter she passed away, funeral services were held for Mrs. Lena Jonas ofWaterloo, IA at Furth’s Chapel.
1913:Birthdate of Mankato, MN native Helen Barbara Kruger who gained fame as “BobbieNudie” Cohn the wife Nudie Cohn, the creator of outrageous clothing for suchstars as Cher and Elvis Presley.
http://www.nudiesrodeotailor.com/
1913: Funeralservices were held today for Mrs. Helena P. Monash, the mother of four sons andtwo married daughters at her home in Chicago.
1913: Afterhaving received a letter from Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassadordescribing the Kaiser’s position on protecting the rights of Jew in Romania,Henry Green, the Executive Secretary of the American Rumanian JewishEmancipation Committee, said today that he feels “certain that once the matteris properly brought to his Majesty’s attention – as the committee proposes todo by sending a delegation to lay the facts before him and the German Reichstag– the matter will be taken up with the Romanian Government in a manner thatwill leave King Charles no option but to do what we are working for.”
1914: Solomon “Sol” Tarlow, the Russian bornson of Wolf and Odessa Tarlowski emigrated to the United States today under thesponsorship of his brother-in-law Sam Stolaroff the owner of the dry goodsstore in Roswell, NM where Sol was employed as a tailor while raising threechildren with his wife Audra.
1914: In “Whitechapel, London, photographerJoseph Gamse and the former Sarah Rosenberg, a seamstress, gave birth toAbraham Gamse, who gained fame as “graphic designer Abram Games” who designedpatriotic posters during World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Games#/media/File:Join_the_Ats_Art.IWMPST2832.jpg
1914: In oneof those examples of too little too late, today, in a telegram to the Kaiser,Czar “Nicholas suggested submitting the Austro-Serbia problem to the HagueConference or Tribunal on the same day that that the Austrians began shellingthe Serbs.
1914:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Irwin Eli Cohen who gained fame as comedian IrwinCorey. (As reported by Ron Wertheimer)
1914(5thof Tammuz, 5674): Eight-four-year-old Esther Baum passed away today inPhiladelphia, PA.
1915: It wasreported today the Liberal MP, Josiah Wedgewood who had been wounded atGallipoli where he served alongside the Zion Mule Corps and became “a devotedZionist” spoke in favor of Parliament adopting legislation that would lead toconscription for the British military.
1916(28thof Tammuz, 5676): Parashat Masei; as Jews finish reading the Book of Numbersthe latest Russian offensive ended in complete failure with the loss of 80,000casualties.
1916(28thof Tammuz, 5676): Ninety-six-year-old Rabbi Leopold Freudenthal passed awaytoday after which he was buried in Trinidad, CO.
1917(10thof Av, 5677): Tish’a B’Av observed on Sunday
1917: “Inconnection with the observance” of Tish’a B’Av, “special appeals have been sentto all rabbis throughout the city to ask their congregations to makecontributions to the Joint Distribution Committee of Funds for Jewish WarSufferers.
1917: “Inthe…the east side Jewish schools…the rabbis with the children prayed andmourned over the fate of Palestine” and “chanted the songs of Judah Halevi, theancient poet and especially the ode to Zion that brings to every heart…a realyearning for Palestine.”
1917: It was reported today that in a statementcelebrating Finland’s independence from Russia, the Diet issued a statementwhich provided assurances that “the rights of Russian citizens in Finland aswell as those of the Jews will not undergo any modification.”
1917: In anunusual move, today the New York Timespublished a list provide by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society ofAmerican Jews whom thousands of Jews in Russia and Poland are seeking to reachalong with instructions for anybody seeing their name on the list trying tocontact these relatives.
1917: TheCentral Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War of whichHarry Fischel is the treasurer, as of today reported that it “had received newgifs totally more than $14,300.”
1917: “WifeNumber Two” a silent movie filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg wasreleased in the United States today by Fox Film Corporation.
1917: Today,forty-five-year-old Yale and Sheffield Scientific School educated biochemistLafayette Benedict Mendel, the Delhi, NY born son of Pauline Ullan and BendectMendel who was one of the cofounders of “the science of nutrition, and theSterling Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Yale who was the only Jewamong the first twenty professors to be “designated a Sterling professormarried Alice R. Friend today.
1917: It wasreported today that the Finnish Diet has adopted a resolution reassuring theJews that their rights “will not undergo any modification” under the newgovernment.
1918(20thof Av, 5678): Seventy-year-old Charles Henry Hart, a noted art expert andauthority on historical portraiture, whose "discovery" of GilbertStuart's work years ago brought that artist posthumous fame passed away today.
1918: It wasreported today that Minister of Foreign Affairs Constantin C. Arion “declaredin an interview that the Rumanian Government…would grant rights to the Jews inaccordance with the peace treaty, and even more fully, and would completelyabolish Article 7 of the Rumanian Constitution which lays it down that Jews inRumania are aliens and that naturalization is only possible for themindividually.” (The Rumanian government might hold a record for promising togrant full citizenship to Jews and then reneging on the promise – a patternthat began in the middle of the 19th century and continued throughthe Shoah when the issue became moot.)1919(2nd of Av, 5679):Twenty-eight year Jewish American racketeer Johnny Spanish, born John Weyler,was murdered by three unknown gunmen while entering a restaurant at 19 SecondAvenue in Manhattan ending what was the “Second Labor Sluggers War.”
1919: Nathan Kaplan,the son of Russian Jewish immigrant Joseph Kaplan, known to his racketeeringbuddies as Jack the Dropper, was reported to be among the three men who killedfellow gangster Johnny Spanish .
1919: Today,the Chicago Hebrew Institute is scheduled to host the International GymnasticUnion Track meet
1920: Todayafter 270 of the Templers who had been living at the Tel Aviv neighborhood ofSarona and interred in Egypt by the British during WW I “had been repatriatedin April to Bad Mergentheim, Germany, the House of Lorder permitted theremaining” 580 “internees to return to Palestine” where they found colony atSarona to have been “plundered and vandalize.”
1920: InRochester, NY, Dr. Leo M. Franklin told the delegates attending the openingsession of the 31st annual convention of the Central Conference ofAmerican Rabbis, “that in the abnormal situation in which the world findsitself, the Jew is being blamed as the scapegoat for the untoward condition”and that the Conference should devote its energies” to combat the spreadinganti-Semitism and to foster a better understanding between Jew and non-Jew.”
1921: InGermany Hedwig Ehrenberg and Max Born gave birth to Gustav Victor Rudolf Bornwho served as the Sheild Professor of Professor of Pharmacology at Cambridge.He is the father of Professor Georgina Born and the uncle of singer OliviaNewton-John
1921: AdolfHitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1922: In LosAngeles, “Benjamin Lewis, a lawyer and pianist Pauline Kallin” gave birth toFlora Lewis “a correspondent and columnist who explained international politicsto readers of The New York Times and other publications for nearly 60 years.”[editor’s note- Wiki shows the date as July 25 but quotes from the NYT obitthat shows July 29] (As reported by Craig R. Whitney)
1923: A review of The Soul of Woman: AReflection on a Life by Gina Lombroso, the Italian-Jewish sociologist waspublished today.
1923: InBennington, VT, Congregation Beth El, which was founded in 1909 dedicated itsnew synagogue “at the corner of North and Adams Streets.”
http://www.cbevermont.org/about/history.php
1924: InLondon, working class Polish-Jewish immigrants Golda (née Schag) and SimonWeinstock gave birth to London School of Economics graduate Arnold Weinstockwho rose to be Baron Weinstock, “ an English industrialist and businessmanknown for making General Electric Company one of Britain's most profitablecompanies.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jul/24/guardianobituaries.alexbrummer
1925(8thof Av, 5685): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1925: In Lviv,Izzak Natali Botwin a Polish communist and “labor activist assassinated Josef Cechnowski an agent of the Polish secret police who had infiltratedthe Communist Party and worked as an informer.
1926: Jewish immigration to Palestine during the year1926 will equal the volume of Jewish immigration for the preceding yearaccording to figures made known today the Palestine Zionist Executive.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/07/30/99391664.html?pageNumber=5
1926: Birthdate of Baltimore native Harold Hill, who wasan active member of the World Zionist Organization.
1927(29th of Tammuz, 5687): Sixty-five-year-oldJacob Elia Cohen, the Irish born Jacksonville, FL department store owner whoraised five children with his Tennessee born wife Hattie passed away today.
1928: TheDay, a Jewish newspaper printed in New York City, published a report fromits correspondent in Palestine that Frieda and Goldina Rubinson, two sistersborn in Hamburg now living in Tel Aviv claimed that the late composer GiacomoPucini had plagiarized the score of his opera “Turnadot” from them. They claimto have proof that they composed the work in 1896 at which time they obtained acopyright in Germany and the United States.The two sisters plan on making a trip to the United States to pursue theirclaim against, among others, the Metropolitan Opera Company which produced thework in 1927.
1929: “Riverof Romance” with a screenplay co-authored by Joseph L. Mankiewicz was releasedtoday in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1929: Dr.Arthur Ruppin addressed the second session of the 16th BiennialZionist Congress in Zurich, Switzerland today.He said that “conversion to other faiths, intermarriage, a decreasingbirth rate and unchanged mortality rate” were “disintegrating forces menacingthe continued existence of the Jews as a people.”
1930:Birthdate of Sol Steinmetz, the Hungarian born American “lexicographer, authorand tenured member of Olbom (As reported by Margalit Fox)
1931(15thof Av, 5691): Tu B’Av
1931:Birthdate of Art Ginsburg the native of Troy, NY, who gained fame as thetelevision chef and author known as “Mr. Food.
1932: “The Vanishing Frontier” directed by Phil Rosen and produced by Sam Jaffewas released in the United States by Paramount Pictures.
1933(6thof Av, 5693): Parashat Devarim
1933(6thof Av, 5693): Socialist Party leader Isidore Phillips passed away today in NewYork City.
1933: InVienna, Sara and Herman Kirchenbaum gave birth to Peretz Kidron who became anoted Israeli writer, journalist, and translator.
1934:Birthdate of Stanton Friedman a nuclear physicist who was “the originalcivilian investigator of the Rockwell Incident.”
http://www.stantonfriedman.com/
1934: Two daysafter he had passed away, funeral services were held to for 68-year-old LouisZiv, the Russian born American attorney and the husband of Mary Ziv with whomhe had five children – Sylvia, Lawrence, Royal, Seymour and John – at Beth ElTemple in Chicago where he had been president of the congregation followed“burial in Waldheim Cemetery.”
1934: TheNew York Times publishes an article by Sir Herbert Samuel in which thefirst British High Commissioner for Palestine describes the progress andproblems facing the country. His lengthycommentary is based on his first visit to Palestine in nine years.
1935:Publication of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence’s somewhatoverwrought account of the “Arab Revolt” during World War I. Lawrence supported the interests of Feisalagainst the Europeans including his own British Foreign Office. Lawrence believed that there was room in theMiddle East for both a Jewish homeland and an Arab Caliphate.
1936: The Palestine Post reported that aBritish constable and 10 Arabs fell in a day-long battle near Nablus. Among themany arrested, one Arab claimed that he was forced to join the marauders. TheRoyal Air Force joined the land forces in their organized pursuit of the rebels,many of whom escaped into the more inaccessible areas, carrying their wounded.Arab terrorists warned local Arab villagers living near Motza and otherneighborhoods close to Jerusalem that they would be killed and their propertydestroyed unless they submitted to all their demands. Six Jewish communistswere deported to Russia and one to Poland.
1936: The planof the Austrian Government to broadcast to Germany the Salzburg festivalperformances has run afoul of Arturo Toscanini. It has just leaked out fromcircles in close contact with the Italian conductor that Mr. Toscanini hasthreatened to leave Salzburg immediately, never to return, if any performanceconducted by him is broadcast to Germany.
1936: “AbrahamKraditor, commander-in-chief of the Jewish War Veterans returned” today aboardthe “French liner Champlain from Vienna where he had attended the second WorldCongress of Jewish War Veterans.
1936: “JuliusStreicher’s newspaper, the Stuermer, far from suffering suppression during theOlympics as has been reported appeared today with a special Olympic number” onthe front page of which is a half-page cartoon showing a degenerate and brutalperson labeled ‘Jew’ starring with envy and hatred at a Germanic-lookingOlympic victor crowned with laurel” while the bottom of page is emblazoned withthe slogan “Jews Are Our Misfortune.”
1936: InVienna this evening in pre-Olympic ceremony, the Nazi mob “formed in aprocession” “howling down the Jewish Olympic athletes with shouts of ‘Perishthe Jews! Go back to Palestine.’”
1936: “Whilethe Jews in Palestine are not displeased by Colonial Minister Ormsby-Gore’sstatement in the House of Commons today concerning the terms of reference ofthe royal commission, the Arabs are keenly disappointed.”
1936: Levi“Lee” Shubert “the eldest of seven siblings of the theatrical Shubert family”“secretly married” Marcella Swanson today in Germany following which they woulddivorce in 1948 and re-marry in 1949.
1936: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel for Mollie Stern, thewidow of Daniel Stern and the mother of Milton and Isador Stern.
1937: Oscar A.Lewis, the leader of the La Guardia Republicans in Brooklyn was among thosedisappointed tonight when “the Kings County Republican Committee” voted towithhold “their endorsem*nt of Mayor La Guardia as Republican candidate forre-nomination as Mayor.”
1937: Columbiatrained attorney Mortimer Feuer, the New York City born son of William andGussie (Goldenberg) Feuer, a “partner in the firm of Hays, Feuer, Porter &Spanier” and the first vice president of the Amsterdam Democratic today marriedLouis Younker Gottschall with whom he had two sons – Thomas and Richard.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/12/18/78549458.pdf
1938(1st ofAv, 5698): Rosh Chodesh Av
1938: Dr.Kallman M. Davidson “reportedly” passed away today in Boston, MA.
1938(1st ofAv, 5698): Confronted with the realities of life in Nazi Germany, Dr.Friedreich Gernsheim and his wife Rosa committed suicide
1838: It wasreported today “that 2,980 Austrian Jews have emigrated with the aid of ofother Jews since the March 13 annexation of Austria” and “that emigration wouldbe faster if conditions for leaving Germany were simpler.
1938: “Anotherappeal for German cooperation in” dealing with “the refugee problem was made inthe House of Commons today by Earl Winterton, who head the British delegationto the conference on refugees at Evian.”
1939: Ben ZionMeir Hai Uziel was installed as Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Haifa.
1940: In acase of misplaced hosannas, Lifemagazine “praised António de Oliveira Salazar as ‘the greatest Portuguese sinceHenry the Navigator’” because Portugal was “seen…as a haven of hospitality for”Jewish refugees. In point of fact,Salazar destroyed the career of Aristides de Sousa Mendes the diplomat whor*scued thousands of Jews in defiance of the dictator’s wishes.
1940: OrsonWelles films the first scene of his classic “Citizen Kane.” Herman J. Mankiewicz shared the Oscar forbest screenplay for his work on this epic.Who actually wrote the screenplay would become a source of controversywith many critics siding with Mankiewicz.
1941(5th ofAv, 5701): Twenty-nine Jewish mental patients from Lotz were taken away bytruck and shot in the woods
1941: InManchester, Lancashire, Ada Doreen (née Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner, aRussian-Jewish nursing home proprietor David Warner, the stage actor who madehis film debut in “Tom Jones”.
1941: The Second Lvov Pogrom came to an end.“According to Yad Vashem 6 thousand Jews were killed by Einsatzgruppen, someUkrainian nationalists and some Ukrainian militia.
1942: Areligious youth center, Tiferet Bachurim, was secretly opened in the Kovnoghetto
1942: Signswere put up in the Warsaw Ghetto offering free bread for any familyvolunteering to be deported. This was a scheme designed to make the German jobof rounding up 6,000 Jews a day a little easier.
1943: AdmiralSir Barry Edward Domvile a distinguished Royal Navy officer who turned into aleading British Pro-German anti-Semite in the years before the Second World Warwas released today after having been interred for three years under DefenseRegulation 18 B which allowed the government to inter people for their pro-Nazisympathies. (The British had no trouble with his anti-Semitism, just his viewson Hitler, et al.
1943: DuringWW II, in Italy, the 16th Infantry including Samuel Fuller “hadtaken the high ground west of the Cerami River.”
1944(9thof Av, 5704): Parashat Devarim; Shabbat Chazon; Erev Tish’a B’Av
1944:Birthdate of American drama writer Yuri Rasovsky, the founder of “The NationalTheatre of Chicago who “in the 1990s forsook radio for audiobooks.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/yuri-rasovsky-renowned-audio-dramatist-283651/
https://www.suttonelms.org.uk/yuri-rasovsky.html
1944:3520Jews are forced on a death march westward from Warsaw. More than 200 die.
1944: Final performanceof “The Doughgirls” at the Lyceum Theatre parking the end of the Broadway runfor the play for which Bernard Hart served as stage manager./
1945: RabbiMartin Riesenburge celebrated the first wedding at Berlin’s RykestrasseSynagogue since the Nazis closed it in 1940.
1946(30th ofSivan, 5706): Parashat Korach; Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1946: Seventy-nine-year-oldLeonore Rothschild Tauszky, the California born daughter of “Baruch and LouisaMontag Rothschild” and the wife of Edmond Tauzsky passed away today.
1946: TheParis Peace Conference during which the “victorious wartime Allied Powers”began negotiations with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland whichwould lead to peace treaties officially marking the end of the war.
1946: The NewYork State Supreme Court revoked the charter of the Ku Klux Klan thanks in nosmall part to the efforts of Nathaniel Goldstein, the New York State AttorneyGeneral.
1947(12th ofAv, 5707): Seventy-five-year-old art collector and critic Leo Stein, theAllegheny, PA born brother of Gertrude Stein and an influential promoter of20th-century paintings passed away today in Florence, Italy.
1948: For thefirst time since the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics, London hosts the FourteenthOlympiad where two American Jews each won Gold Medals. Frank Spellman won his for weightlifting and Henry Wittenberg wonhis in freestyle wrestling.
1948: Today,Samuel Hamilton Kaufman was nominated to serve as Judge for the U.S. DistrictCourt for the Southern District of New York.
1948: As theUnited Nations investigates claims by Azzam Pasha, the Secretary General of theArab League, that Israeli forces had committed atrocities during OperationShorter, a team of UN observers came to survey the damage” at al-Tira “and didnot find any bodies…”
1949: “In theGood Old Summertime” a musical directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by JoePasternak based on a play by Milos Laszlo, with a screenplay co-authored bySamson Raphaelson and co-starring S.Z. Sakall was released in the United Statestoday.
1948: InNahalal, Israel “Jerusalem poet Yitzhak Shalev” and his wife gave birth toaward winning author Meir Shalev.
1949(3rdof Av, 5709): Thomasville, GA native David Albert Schulte, “the merchant,industrialist” and President of Dunhill International (tobacco company) who wasactive in “Jewish philanthropies” passed away today in Holmdel, NJ.
1950(15thof Av, 5710): Parashat Vaetchanan; Shabbat Nachamu; Tu B’Av
1950(15thof Av, 5710): Fifty-five-year-old Polish born “essayist, critic and journalist”who had escaped from Siberia during the war passed away today in New York.
1951(25thof Tammuz, 5711): On the day before his 71st birthday, BernhardWeiss, the most prominent Jewish member of the Berlin police department whochallenged the Nazi Party and successfully sued Joseph Goebbels, passedaway.
http://forward.com/articles/151805/jewish-creator-of-modern-german-police/
1951:Following its premiere in Albuquerque, NM in June, today Billy Wilder’s “Ace InThe Hole” a film that provides a dark look at the values of a newspaper manstarring Kirk Douglas was released to the rest of the United States byParamount Pictures.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that the stage was set for theelections to the Second Knesset. The number of eligible voters reached 900,000.The Ministry for Foreign Affairs signed an agreement with the UN providing forthe training of nine experts in various economic, social and administrativefields.
1952: “Affairin Trinidad,” a “film noir” directed and produced by Vincent Sherman wasreleased in the United States today
1954(28th of Tammuz, 5714): Seventy-seven-year-oldCincinnati, OH born architect A. Lincoln Fecheimer, “a graduate of Clark Schoolfor the Deaf, Columbia University and the Ecole des Beuax Arts in Paris passedaway today in London, England.
1954: The 1953Stephen S. Wise award for an outstanding contribution to Jewish welfare waspresented today to Youth Aliyah. The citation described the organization's workas "rescuing more than 65,000 children from over seventy-two lands duringthe past twenty years and educating them for creative citizenship in the landof Israel."
1956: It wasreported today the Rabbi Samuel Plutzik who came to the United States fromMinsk in 1905, “served as spiritual head of the Jewish Community in Bristol, CTin the 1930’s and has been head of the teaching staff of the Talmud Torah ofEast New York” passed away yesterday leaving behind his widow Sadie, threesons, Hyam, David and Emanuel and two daughters Mrs. Alice Kurland and Mrs.Naomi Reiss to mourn his passing.
1957(1st ofAv, 5717): Rosh Chodesh Av
1957: “Theboard of Loew's, Inc., was reduced today to nine directors with the resignationof Fred F. Florence, chairman of the executive committee of the Republic Bankof Dallas, Texas.”
1957(1stof Av, 5717): Sixty-six-year-old A.C. (Alfred Cleveland) Blumenhal thespeakeasy owner turned movie producer whose many friends including the famous,or infamous, New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/07/31/121462235.pdf
1958: “I’ll Met by Moonlight” on which EmericPressburger served as co-writer, co-director and co-producer was released todayin the United States.
1959(23rdof Tammuz, 5719): Harry Rosenwartz, the husband of Mary Rosenwartz and thefather of Sylvia Levine passed away today at Lebanon Hospital.
1960(5th of Av, 5720): Sixty-one-year-oldColumbia University graduate and co-founder of Simon and Shuster Richard LeoSimon, the New York born son of Anna Meier and milliner Leo Simon, the husbandof Andrea Heinemann and father of singer-song writer Carly Simon passed awaytoday.
1961: “New York Times critic Robert Sheltonfirst considered Bob Dylan in a review of Izzy Young's production for WRVR of alive twelve-hour Hootenanny today.”
1962(27thof Tammuz, 5722): Ninety-two-old Rabbi Edward LIssman, the husband of HannahMeyers and Sheffield, England born son of Marks Lissman and Bluma Wollman who in 1889 came to the United States where hefounded the Hebrew Tabernacle in 1904, served as City Chaplain for the StreetCleaning Department of Manhattan and founded the Riverside Synagogue passedaway today.
1963(8thof Av, 5723): Erev Tish’a B’Av
1963(8thof Av, 5723): Sixty-seven-year-old Rivka Pinchasovich, the daughter of Avrahamand Liba Rochel Shapira, wife of Moshe Pinchasovich and mother of MinaPinchasovich; Amnon Pinchasovich and Tamara Pinchasovich passed away in PetahTikva, Israel.
1964: “OnePotato, Two Potato,” directed by Larry Peerce, the son of Jan Peerce andproduced by Sam Weston was released today in the United States.
1964: “AbeFeinberg, general director of Supersol, a chain of supermarkets in Israel ownedlargely by Canadian investors, was arrested here last night in connection withsuspected arson ‘is scheduled to appear before a magistrate in Tel Aviv today.
1965: “Ship ofFools” the cinematic treatment of the novel by the same name set at the startof the Nazi era directed and produced by Stanley Kramer with a script by AbbyMann and music by Ernest Gold was released today in the United States.
1966(12th ofAv, 5726): One day after his 98th birthday French poet and ZionistAndre Spire passed away today.
1966(12thof Av, 5726): Forty-nine-year-old “Professor Benjamin Joseph Lazan” the NewYork born son of “Samuel and Pauline (Brenson) Lazan” and husband of JeannetteWazler with whom he had had two son – Gilbert and Douglas – who had served for12 years as “the chairman of the University of Minnesota departments ofaeronautics and engineering mechanics” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/07/05/82469229.pdf
1967(21st of Tammuz, 5727): Parashat Matotread as sailors aboard the USS Forrestal dealt with a disastrous fire thatbroke out while it was on station in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1968(4th of Av, 5728): Sixty-seven-year-oldHiram Levin the Maryland born son of Rachel and Isaac Aaron Levin passed awaytoday after which he was buried in Baltimore, MD.
1969: The 8th Maccabiah Games began in TelAviv today.
1969: Underthe leadership of General Sharon, the Head of the IDF’s Southern Command,Israeli frogmen attacked Green Island during the War of Attrition.
1970(25thof Tammuz, 5730: Seventy-eight-year Hungarian native Dr. Melichior Palyi, theeconomist and adviser to the pre-Nazi era Reichsbank who fled to the UnitedStates where he taught at the University of Chicago, “wrote a weekly businesscolumn for The Chicago Tribune and authored several tomes including Man AgedMoney at the Crossroads and An Inflation Primer passed away today
https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.PALYI
1970(25th ofTammuz, 5730): Seventy-three-year-old George Szell who had had leading theCleveland Orchestra since 1946 and the husband of the “former Helene Schulzwhom he married in 1938 at Glasgow” passed away today.
1970(25thof Tammuz, 5730): Sixty-nine-year-old Romanian conductor Jonel Perlea passedaway today.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D04EEDB1E3AE03BBC4950DFB166838B669EDE
http://www.soundfountain.org/rem/remperlea.html
1974(10th ofAv, 5734: Cass Elliott passed away. Born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore in 1941,Elliott dropped out of school, changed her name and headed for New York. She foundfame in fortune performing with the singing group, Mamas and Poppas.
http://www.biography.com/people/mama-cass-9542256
1974: Seventy-four-year-oldreal estate developer Joseph Eichler who had passed away four days ago wasburied today in Palo Alto, CA.
1975: EdwardGraham Lee began serving as the Canadian ambassador to Israel.
1975(21st ofAv, 5735): Eighty-six-year-old Ray (Scull) Jacoby, the wife of Columbia trainedneurologist. Dr. James Ralph Jacob, MD, passed away today in Miami, FL.
1975:President Gerald R. Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site ofthe Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to thecamp's victims.
1976(2ndof Av, 5736): Sixty-two-year-old mobster Mickey Cohen passed away today.
1976:“Rescuing the Entebbe Hostages” published today provides a detailed review of 90Minutes At Entebbe, William Stevenson’s “hurriedly published paperbackaccount of the” hostage rescuing raid. Stevenson, who is best known for AMan Called Intrepid, appears to won the race to publish the first account,if not the most thorough one.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported fromWashington that contrary to earlier reports, the US had had direct contactswith the PLO "for some time" and that they would continue. Threehundred Americans were evacuated from Lebanon as Syrians and the PLO reached anagreement on this issue. The price of meat rose by two to three shekels perkilo as agreed between the Ministry of Commerce and Agriculture and theHistadrut's Consumer Authority.
1977(14thof Av, 5737): Nachman Karni, a retired IDF Colone passed away today in NewYork.
1979(5th ofAv, 5739): Herbert Marcuse leftist German born, American philosopher passed away. Marcuse influenced a whole generation ofleftists, radicals and anarchists including Angela Davis and Abbe Hoffman.
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcuse/
1979: A fifteen-day conference organized by Gerda Lerner andco-sponsored by Sarah Lawrence, the Women's Action Alliance and the SmithsonianInstitution, which was intended for female leaders came to an end today.
1980:Today, 53-year-old Cambridge graduate and University College Hospital trainedphysician Dr. .Jacob Lionel Kopelowitz the Newcastle-upon-Tyne born son ofMoses Kopelowitz and the former Mabel Garstin married Sylvia Waksman five yearsbefore becoming President of the Board of Deputies.
https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/dr-lionel-kopelowitz-jp-mbe-1.495410
1981(27th ofTammuz, 5741): Ninety-two-year-oldRobert Moses scion of a well-to-do German Jewish family, who gained fame as NewYork’s master builder and whose critics andsupporters agreed that he was one of the 20th century’sinfluential urban planners passed away today
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1218.html
1981: A buswas attacked in the entrance to Kibbutz Ma'ale Hahamisha near Jerusalem. A boyof 12 and a girl of 17 were wounded.
1982(9th ofAv, 5742): Tish'a B'Av
1982: SirZelman Cowen, who was the 19th Governor-General of Australia,completed his term of office.
1983(19thof Av, 5743): Ninety-nine-year-old Columbia University trainedgastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Chron the New York born son of Jewishimmigrants Leah and Theodore Crohn whose name provided the appellation forChron’s disease passed away today.
1983: “Private School,” a teenage comedy with a script co-authored by DanGreenburg and starring Phoebe Cates was released in the United States today.
1984: The first events were run today at 1984 Summer Olympics in LosAngeles where Mel Rosen serving was serving as assistant coach for the U.S.Men’s Olympic Track Team
1985(11th of Av, 5745): Sixty-six-year-old Presidential Medal of Freedomhonoree, former assistant surgeon general in the United United States PublicHealth Service and “a professor of community and preventive medicine andassociate dean of the State University of New York School of Medicine at StonyBrook, L.I. Dr. Tamarath K. Yolles, the wife of Stanley Faust Yolles, with whomshe had two children – Melanie and Jennifer – passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/04/nyregion/dr-tamarath-k-yolles-dies-associate-dean-at-state-u.html
1986(22nd of Tammuz, 5746): Seventy-seven-year-old Richard David Barnetta product of Cambridge, a veteran of WW II, and a Fellow of the British Academywho also served as President of the Jewish Historical Society of England andChairman of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society.
1986(22nd of Tammuz, 5746): Fifty-five-year-old Israeli poetand Holocaust survivor Dan Pagis passed away today. A native of Romania, one of his most famouspoems is “written in pencil in the sealed railway car.”
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/18706
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/dan_pagis.asp
1986: Chaim “Drukman left Morasha and returned to the NRP
1986(22nd of Tammuz, 5746): Seventy-seven-year-old RichardDavid Barnett, a graduate of Cambridge, WW II RAF veteran and Fellow of theBritish Academy who was “the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquitiesof the British Museum passed away.
1987: Ben & Jerry's agree on a new flavor - Cherry Garcia
1988: “co*cktail,” the film version of a book by the same name featuringGina Gershon was released today in the United States.
1990(7th ofAv, 5750): Bruno Kreisky who became the first Jew to serve as Prime Minister ofAustria passed away today.
1992: AryehGamliel begins serving as Deputy Minister of Housing and Construction.
1993: “RobinHood: Men in Tights” produced and directed by Mel Brooks who alsoco-authored the script and co-starringRichard Lewis was released in the United States today by 20thCentury Fox.
1993: TheIsraeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk ofall charges, and he is set free
1994: Todaythe Senate confirmed Stephen Breyer’s nomination as an associate justice of theSupreme Court.
1995(2ndof Av, 5755): Parashat Matot-Masei
1995(2ndof Av, 5755): Fifty-seven-year-old Mayfield, KY native Richard Weisenberger whoran for the Kentucky state senate as a Democrat passed away today.
1996(13thof Av, 5726):Anne Simon the Cos Cob, CT born daughter of Alma Morgenthau andMaurice Wertheim and Smith and Columbia educated author whose works includedNo Island Is an Island: The Ordeal of Martha's Vineyard and who was thesister of author and historian Barbara Tuchman passed away today in Manhattan.
1997: Thedocumentary film Blacks and Jews, written and directed by DeborahKaufman and Alan Snitow, was aired on PBS.
1998: “TheParent Trap” a family comedy co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers wasreleased in the United States today.
1998(6th ofAv, 5758): Seventy-nine-year-old Tony Award winning choreographer JeromeRobbins whose list of famous musicals is almost endless and West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy andThe Pajama Game passed away today.
http://www.biography.com/people/jerome-robbins-9459896
2000:In “The Bible, as History, Flunks NewArchaeological Tests; Hotly Debated Studies Cast Doubt on Many FamiliarStories,” Gustav Neibur described the supposed conflict between the tales ofthe Bible and findings of modern archaeology:
2001(9thof Av, 5761): Tish’a B’Av
2001: The New York Times book section includesa review of Blue Diary by Jewish author Alice Hoffman
2001: Twopeople were injured today in a Jerusalem car bombing.
2002: Today inthe Edna Ferber’s “hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin, the U.S. Postal Serviceissued an 83¢ Distinguished Americans series postage stamp honoring.” whichartist Mark Summers, well known for his scratchboard technique, created byreferencing a black-and-white photograph of Ferber taken in 1927
2002(20thof Av, 5762): Eighty-two year old Ruth Adler, the Mainz, Germany, born daughterof “Wolf and Hermine Bloch” and the “wife of Berthold Adler” passed away todayin New York City.
2003: SingerBarry “Manilow had a complete upper and lower facelift, which includes theremoval of drooping skin from the eyelids and the general tightening of facialskin.”
2004: A photoexhibit designed to memorialize Anne Frank in what would have been her 75thyear closes at the Kraushaar Galleries in New York City.
2004: Seventy-two-year-oldSusan Buffett, the wife of Warren Buffett, whose friendship with Dorothy Kripkethe wife of Omaha Rabbi Myer S. Krippe led to a $70,000 investment turning intoalmost 25 million dollars which went to aid a number of worthwhile causespassed away today.
2005(22ndof Tammuz, 5765): Eighty-two-year-old Sonny Hertzberg, an early NBA star,passed away today. (As reported by Richard Goldstein)
2006: OnShabbat Chazon, Jews respond to a request from the Governing Council of theChief Rabbinate by continuing to recite Psalms 83, 130 and 142 on a dailybasis.
2006(4thof Av, 5766): Eighty-four-year-old Warren, OH native and Columbia trainedcomposer and educator Sol Berkowitz who had been a a professor at Aaron CoplandSchool of Music at Queens College passed away today.
2006(4thof Av, 5766): Seventy-six-year-old French historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet passedaway today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/world/europe/14vidal-naquet.html
http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article258.html
2007: TheNational Gallery of Art presents a screening of “The Dybbuk,” the Yiddish film based on Ansky’s celebrated drama.
2007: InJerusalem, Off the Wall Comedy Empirepresents "FindMe a Wife: Find You a Husband," an annual Tu B`Avspecial event show starring David Kilimnick. Kilimnick approaches the issues ofthe single man/woman in Jerusalem.
2007: TheWashington Post book section features reviews of a biography of America’sfirst Jewish Secretary of State entitled Henry Kissinger and the AmericanCentury by Jeremi Suri and a novel entitled Kalooki Nights by HowardJacobsen. The novel which purports to be an “examination of a Jewishsub-culture is a convoluted combination of family saga and semi-tepid murdermystery, focusing on its narrator, Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist with ahefty persecution complex and a series of anti-Semitic non-Jewish ex-wives.”
2007: “ArielSharon Hovers Between Life and Death and Dreams of Theodor Herzl” has its finalperformance at Theatre J.
2007: Thefirst edition of Yisrael Hayom (Israel Today) appeared.
2007(14th ofAv, 5767): Raya Czerner Schapiro, psychiatrist, Holocaust educator and authorpassed away at the age of 73 in Chicago.After a harrowing experience, Mrs. Schapiro arrived in the United Statesat the age of 5 after fleeing from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. She was inspired to pursue a medical careerin memory of her uncle, a doctor, who had sheltered her before her escape andwho died during the Holocaust.
2007: Rep.Anthony Weiner and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) objected to a $20 billion armsdeal that the Bush Administration had negotiated with Saudi Arabia because theydo not want to provide "sophisticated weapons to a country that theybelieve has not done enough to stop terrorism," also noting that 15 of the19 hijackers of September 11, 2001 were from Saudi Arabia.
2008: Robert Wexler, a six-term Jewish U.S. congressman fromFlorida, discusses and signs Fire-BreathingLiberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress(written with David Fisher) at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue inWashington, D.C.
2009(8th of Av, 5759): Fast begins at sundown
2009(8th of Av, 5769): Eighty-six-year-old Dina Babiit whoused her artistic skills to survive Auschwitz and to save her mother’s life,passed away.(As reported by Bruce Weber)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/arts/02babbitt.html
2009:The Randi & Bruce Pergament JewishFilm Festival came to a close with a “Closing Night Bash!” - A gala dessert reception and a chance to winmembership and fitness benefits at the JCC.
2009:An archeologist announced today that aunique Aramaic inscription on a stone cup commonly used for ritual purityduring the first century has been uncovered in a dig on Mount Zion inJerusalem.
2009: In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a security guard at theU.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., a seven count indictmentwas handed up in U.S. District Court charging white supremacist James von Brunnin his murderous attacked on museum guard Stephen T. Johns.
2009: The New York Times reviews books by Jewish authors includingCooperstown Confidential: Heroes Rouges, and the Inside story of theBaseball Hall of Fame by Zev Chafets.
2010: “A Film Unfinished,” a rigorous and profound documentary thatsimultaneously exposes the perversity of Nazi propaganda, honors its victimsand pays tribute to the resiliency of the filmmaker’s own grandmother and theother survivors of the Ghetto is scheduled to be shown at the San FranciscoJewish Film Festival.
2010: The Washington Postreported today that Jewish nonprofit group whose leader was accused offabricating dramatic stories about rescued sefer Torahs has reached a deal withMaryland investigators forbidding it from publicizing such stories about sacredscrolls unless it can prove them. The agreement ends an investigation into theRockville-based Save a Torah and its driving force, Rabbi Menachem Youlus,often described as "The Indiana Jones of Torah Scribes."
2010:Israel is tied with Canada,Switzerland, and Australia as the world's eighth happiest country out of 155surveyed, according to a Gallup World Poll posted by Forbes today.
2010: The 9th Congress of The European Association for JewishStudies (EAJS) came to a close in Ravenna today.
2010(18th of Av, 5770): Ninety-two-year-old Emmy Award winner Bernie Westwho served as a writer and producer for such cutting edge sitcoms and “All inthe Family” and “The Jeffersons” passed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bernie-west-20100804-story.html
2010: Congressman Anthony “Weiner criticized Republicans for opposing theJames Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act which would provide for fundsfor sick first responders to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, manyof whom reside in Weiner's district. In a speech on the floor of the House, heaccused Republicans of hiding behind procedural questions as an excuse to voteagainst the bill.”
2011(27th of Tammuz, 5771): Eight-year-old Shulamit Shamir,wife of Yithak Shamir, passed away today in Tel Aviv. (As reported by GabeKahn)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146231#.UfRdz50o6po
2011:“Sarah’s Key,” a French film thatcenters on events that began with the roundup of French Jews in 1942, isscheduled to open in major US cities today.
2011: Starting at 1 pm, a Beach Party, complete with eighty-tons of sandbrought in just for the event, is scheduled to take place at the Malcha Mall inJerusalem.
2011:Following a day of advocacy andmeetings at the White House, grassroots leaders from about twenty Jewish socialjustice organizations are scheduled to gather for Shabbat services and dinnerat the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC.
2011: As the doctor’s labordispute entered its 132nd day Israel Medical Association chairman Dr. Leonid Edelman continued hisone-man hunger strike
2011(27thof Tammuz, 5771): Tens of thousands mourned the death of Rabbi ElazarAbuchatzeira at his Jerusalem funeral this afternoon, after he was stabbed todeath in the early hours of the morning
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4101678,00.html
2011: Women’s organizations that operate public daycare centers for preschoolers, including WIZO and Naamat, today called forparents to join the housing protests and take part in demonstrations onSaturday night. The organizations said that the call comes following anannouncement from the Finance and Industry Ministries' proposing a solution thelaw that currently offers education free from the age of three.
2011: After finishinghis career at Wisconsin, Gabe Carimi signed a four year contract with theChicago Bears.
2011: Punter AdamPodlesh signed with the Chicago Bears today marking the start of season whichwould see him play in all 16 regular season games where he kicked 89 punts for3,903 yards for a 43.85 average
2011: Minor leaguepitcher Josh Zeid who had played his college ball at Tulane was traded to theHouston Astros today.
2012: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or special interest to Jewish readers including therecently released paperback editions of The Emperor of Lies by SteveSem-Sandberg and An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted andthe Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel
2012(9thof Av, 5772): Tish’a B’Av
2012(9thof Av, 5772): Eighty-six-year-old Amos Degani, the Sabra born at Kfar Vitkinwho was an MK passed away today.
https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=355
2012: The fundraiserbeing held for US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney while he’s inIsrael is scheduled to start at 9:30 p.m. this evening well after Tisha B’Avends at sundown. The fundraiser will reportedly cost $60,000 a plate.
2012: “Glickman,” adocumentary about Marty Glickman, is scheduled to have its Bay Area Premiere atthe San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
2012: Police closed the Temple Mount to Jewishvisitors this morning, the fast of Tisha Be’av, due to fears of “provocation” –despite a promise last night that the holiest site in Judaism would be open toJewish worshipers
2012: Shahar Peer wasthe last Israeli to play today, and she too lost in the first round. The tennisplayer was eliminated from competition at the London Games by Russian medalfavorite Maria Sharapova, ending a disappointing day for the blue-and-whiteteam. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
2012: US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta todaytouted the close security relationship between Israel and the US, suggestingthat Israel remained on board with international efforts to pressure Iran onits nuclear program and had not decided to unilaterally strike the IslamicRepublic.
2012(9th of Av, 5772): Ninety-year-oldAugust Kowalczyk the last survivor of the June 10, 1942 breakout from Auschwitzpassed away today.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/last-member-of-1942-escape-from-auschwitz-dies/
2013: “The Last Sentence” a movie about Swedishanti-Nazi journalist Torgny Segerstedt is scheduled to be shown at the SanFrancisco Jewish Film Festival.
2013: Leading Jerusalem chefs are scheduled tolead a “Mahane Yehuda Shuk Outing!”
2013: An Israeli negotiating team led byJustice Minister Tzipi Livni is scheduled to meet with Palestinian negotiatorsat the Washington, DC home of U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry prior to thestart of peace negotiations which are scheduled to begin in earnest on July 30.(As reported by Herb Keinon)
2013: A full-capacity crowd gathered thisevening at the capital’s newly-launched Jerusalem Press Club to hear a paneldiscussion among luminaries Dr. Mehmet Oz, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and JewishAgency chairman Natan Sharansky about Jewish values and its impact on society.(As reported by Daniel K. Eisenbud)
2013: Former Bank of Israel Governor withdrewhis nomination to return to the position, Channel 2 reported today, followingan ongoing scandal over an alleged shoplifting incident at a Hong Kong dutyfree store. (As reported by Nev Elis)
2014: The JDCArchives is scheduled to host a presentation by Dr.Gerald Steinacher the HymenRosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincolnentitled “The Red Cross, Jewish Relief Agencies, and the Holocaust” at theCenter for Jewish History.
2014: The WashingtonJewish Film Festival is scheduled to host a Coen Brothers double header withshowings of “Blood Simple” and “No Country For Old Men.”
2014: The Historic 6th& I Synagogue is scheduled to host an hour of “Jewish Sangha.”
2014: For the thirdtime since the start of Operation Protective Edge “a UN aid agency forPalestinian refugees said today that a stockpile of Hamas rockets was found inof UNRWA’s Gaza School” – a fact “not publicized by UNRWA on its website orofficial Twitter feed.” (As reported by Ilan Ben Zion)
2014: After a nightwhere rockets “were fired at central and southern Israel more missiles werefired at Ashkelon and Sderot.
2014: “Amid reportsthat jihadists with fighting experience from Syria were planning an imminentterrorist attack on Norwegian soil, the Jewish museum of Oslo is scheduled toremain closed today based on a recommendation from the police in Norway. (As reportedby JTA)
2014: “A high rankingmilitary official spoke with journalists today about the next stages of theoperation and said that "the political leadership must decide now – eitherwe push deeper (into Gaza) or we backtrack." Indicating tensions between the IDF andIsrael's political leadership, the senior official said "ourresponsibility is to lead the offensive to where it needs to go, not to wherethe public wants. This is not reality TV and rating is not a factor." (Asreported by Yoav Zitun)
2014: Today, US-born Sgt. Sahar Elbaz, from theRimon Unit in the Givati Brigade remained in place while his unit came underattack from a grenade throwing terrorist cell “and despite coming under intenseenemy fire” and “a glitch in his firearm” provided “covering fire” killing fourof the attackers in the process.
2014: For the third time in less than twoweeks, UNRWA announced that rockets had been found in their schools in Gaza.
2015: The StandWithUs Israel Education Centeris scheduled to host a speech by Christian Arab Israeli diplomat George Deek.
2015: Channel 2 reported today that an “Israelistrike on a car in the Syrian Golan Heights targeted notorious terrorist SamirKuntar who took part in a 1979 terror raid where he killed four peopleincluding four year old Einat Haran whose head he smashed in with his riflebutt and “has planned multiple attacks against IDF soldiers on the GolanHeights.” (As reported by Joshua Davidovich)
2015: The 92nd St Y is scheduled tohost “Jazz & Sondheim, Side by Side,”
https://www.92y.org/Event/Jazz-in-July-Jazz-and-Sondheim
2016: At the invitation of The Bucksbaum familythe Des Moines Art Center and the Temple B'nai Jeshurun communities arescheduled to celebrate the life of Melva Bucksbaum at the Des Moines ArtCenter.
2016: Twenty-seven-year-old Jehoshua Gross “washeading for the north coast of Wales today when he collided with a truck” andthen continued to drive recklessly for another sixty miles so that he could,according to his attorney, reach home before Shabbat.
2016: In a refreshing change of pace, RabbiFeivel Strauss is scheduled to deliver the sermon this evening at Temple Israelin Memphis, TN.
2016(23rd of Tammuz, 5777): Ninety-one-year-oldpatron of the theatre Zelda Fichandler passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber and Bob Levey)
2016: The first of the Great Jewish BooksSummer Programs “a weeklong exploration of literature and culture for highschool students” sponsored by the Yiddish Book Center is scheduled to come toan end. 2017(6th of Av, 5777): Shabbat Chazon; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2017: “Futures Past” is scheduled to be shownat the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
2018” “Djon Africa” and Samouni Road” arescheduled to be shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
2018: The Illinois Holocaust Museum andEducation center is scheduled to host a presentation in which “Dr. DianeAfoumado reveals how the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center staffat the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum assist people from all over theworld to find their families and learn their fate using the InternationalTracing Service collection and the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database”
2018: Today, “a week after an El Al flight wasdelayed by ultra-Orthodox men’s refusal sit beside women,” an “AustrianAirlines plane left Ben Gurion Airport 40 minutes late due to the refusal of 26ultra-Orthodox men to be seated by women passengers” which led to a latearrival in Vienna which meant other passengers missed their connecting flights.
2018(16th of Tammuz, 5778):One-hundred-four-year-old pioneering attorney Patricia Schiller, the Brooklynborn daughter “pharmacist Louis Silverman” and “homemaker Gussie (Zuckerblatt)Silverman” and wife of fellow attorney Irving Schiller passed away today,. (Asreported by Neil Genzlinger)
2018: As part of the “Home: Lens on Israel”series, the Temple Emanuel Streicker Center is scheduled to open thephotographic exhibition “The Ultra-Orthodox of Bnei Brak.”
2018: The University of Iowa Hillel chapter isscheduled to host an evening of “Bowling for Dollars” at Pinstripes for the“Chicago Hawkeye Community.”
2019(26th of Tammuz, 5779): Ninety-six-year-oldAdelphi and Columbia alum Phillip Fredrick Hymes, the Manhattan born son ofJacob and Regina (Rothenberg) Hymes and husband of Virginia (May) Hymes, the“veteran lighting director” known best for his work with “Saturday Night Live”passed away today. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
2019: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival isscheduled to host screenings of “King Bibi” and “You Only Die Twice.”
2019(26th of Tammuz, 5779):Ninety-five-year-old award-winning Israeli poet Tuvya Rubener who had marriedGalila Yisraeli after the death of his first wife, Ada Klein, passed awaytoday.
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poets/tuvya-ruebner
2019: The Museum of Jewish Heritage isscheduled to host a performance of “Hanna Senesh,” a play with music and song”about the brave paratrooper/poet.
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research isscheduled to host a lecture by “Samuel Kassow, the Charles H. Northam Professorof History at Trinity College, and one of the world's leading scholars on theHolocaust and the Jews of Poland” on “The Keeper of the Flame: Rachel Auerbachand the Holocaust Witnessing.”
2019: JAHSENA’s (Jewish Archives and HistoricalSociety of Edmonton and Northern Alberta) Casino is scheduled to take placetoday.
2019: Today, a Yemeni court ordered the Houthisto free Levi Salem Musa Marhabi who five years later, he remains a Houthihostage.
2019: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research isscheduled to host a lecture by “Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett , the ChiefCurator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jewsand University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studiesat New York” on “Coming of Age: Jewish Youth in Poland Between the Wars.”
2020: UCSF professor Dr. Jonathan Graf andRabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf of Congregation Sherith Israel are scheduled tointerview hospital emergency-room physician Dr. Jeremy Faust of Boston aboutCovid-19 and the pandemic
2020: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation is scheduledto host a “Kids Cook Club” for those seven and above.
2020(8th of Av, 5780): Erev Tish’aB’Av;
2020: In Des Moines, IA, Tifereth Israel isscheduled to host a special “Top Sugyiot All Jews Should Know” class on theRabbinic Story of Hurtful Words leading to the Destruction of the Temple.
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduled to hosta book launch with Bernard-Henri Levy, author of The Virus in the Age ofMadness and columnist Thomas Friedman.
2021: Chabad of the Delta is scheduled to offera “Pop-Up Kosher Deli” with “an order-ahead menu that includes sandwiches onrye bread stuffed with deli meats from New York, pickles, potato knishes,coleslaw, challah, babka and more.
2021: The Jewish Community Center of the NorthShore is scheduled to present Israeli Folk Dancing in Marblehead, MA.
2021: The OrShalom Jewish Community isscheduled to open the first in a four-part series on “Identity and BelongingThrough Israeli Arts & Culture” with Vavi Toran.
2021: LBI is scheduled to present a lecture byKerion Pim on Job: The Story of a Simple an by Joseph Roth which was publishedin 1930.
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta webinar featuring Rabbi Shippel discussing this week’s
Torah Reading
2022(1st of Av, 5782): Rosh Chodesh Av
2022: S.F. Jewish Film Festival is scheduled tohost the first screening of “1982.”
2022: Free Admission Friday is scheduled at theIllinois Holocaust Museum
2022: Following yesterday’s dedicatoryceremonies, Israelis now have access to the world’s largest emergency room, an8,000 square meter (86,000 square foot) facility, at Tel Aviv Sourasky MedicalCenter (Ichilov) that includes self-triage upon check-in and robots to help youfind your way.
2022:The Maryland-based Alexander HistoricalAuctions is scheduled to go ahead today with sale of Nazi paraphernalia that“includes personal items belong to Hitler and Eva Braun despite calls from theBrussels-based European Jewish Association (EJA) to cancel the auction.(Asreported by Itamar Eichner)
2023: The Borscht Belt Fest created by theCatskills Borscht Belt Museum “which celebrates and pays homage to the BorschtBelt’s vibrant past” is scheduled to take place today in Ellenville NY.
2023: Starting today “Behind-the-scenes work ofCleveland photographer Jason Edleman are scheduled to be displayed in the BeckCenter for the Arts’ MCAT Lobby Gallery and Main Building Studio Theater Galleryin Lakewood.
2023: An exhibition of Orit Ben Shirit’s videoinstallations and paintings curated by Maureen Sullivan is scheduled to come toa close at “The Opening Gallery” in Tribeca.
2023(9th of Elul, 5783): ShabbatNachamu;
2024: In another lecture in the online lectureseries "The Legend of the Writers: Kafka and Agnon", Hasidic scholar Dr.Zeev Kitsiswill is schedule to “compare Kafka's stories dealing with gates andwalls with parallel Hasidic stories.”
2024: Based on the responses to date to therocket attacks which killed at least dozen people, most of them young people atsoccer field, nobody holds Lebanon responsible for providing safe haven andbase for Hezbollah.
2024: JDC Archives Fellow Yurii Kaparulin isscheduled to present a webinar on “Between Soviet Modernization and theHolocaust: Jewish Agrarian Settlements in Southern Ukraine (1924-1948)” which “focuseson the social history of the Jewish agrarian settlements of the Kherson Oblastin Southern Ukraine from 1924 to 1948.”
2024: Dara Horn is scheduled to deliver thekeynote address "American Jews inChallenging Times" at the launching of the New Speakers Series from theWeitzman Museum’s National Educator’s Institute which explore American JewishHistory through a modern lens.
2024: The Hadassah National Conference isscheduled to continue for a second day in Las Vegas.
2024: As July 29th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengerson a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and theHamas held hostages begin day 297 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time
