OCTOBER 26
1235:King Andrew II of Hungary passed away. During the reign of King Andrew II(1205–1235) there were Jewish Chamberlains and mint-, salt-, and tax-officials.The nobles of the country, however, induced the king, in his Golden Bull(1222), to deprive the Jews of these high offices. When Andrew needed money in1226, he farmed the royal revenues to Jews, which gave ground for muchcomplaint. The pope (Pope Honorius III) thereupon excommunicated him, until, in1233, he promised the papal ambassadors on oath that he would enforce thedecrees of the Golden Bull directed against the Jews and the Saracens (by thistime, the papacy had changed, and the Pope was now Pope Gregory IX; would causeboth peoples to be distinguished from Christians by means of badges; and wouldforbid both Jews and Saracens to buy or to keep Christian slaves.
1407: Mobs attacked the Jews in Cracow,Poland. The so-called Cracow Accusationswas one of the first libels in Poland. The Jews tried to defend themselves andwere forced to take refuge in the Church of St. Anne which was surrounded andthen set afire. Any children left alive were forcibly baptized.
1431: In Ferrara toNicolò III and Ricciarda da Saluzzo gave birth to Ercole I d’Este, the Duke ofFerrara around whose court the life Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol, “theJewish-Italian geographer, cosmographer scribe and polemicist” revolved.
1496: An edictexpelling the Jews was signed in Naples.
1520: The coronation ofCharles V as King of Germany, to whom the Jews of Speyer complained that theywere mistreated and denied their given rights. This included beatings, torturesand killings, imprisonment, robbery, expulsion, closing of schools andsynagogues, payment of tolls and duties and the denial of the right to appealto the imperial or other courts” which led him “to renew and confirm the Jews’charter” took place today.
1607(5th ofCheshvan, 5368): Sara Belmonte, the three-day-old daughter of Jacob IsraelBelmonte and Simcha Israel Belmonte passed awat today
1631: Birthdate ofCardinal Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch who advised the King to repopulateHungary with Catholic Jews from Germany and who “held that the Jews could notbe exterminated at once but must be weeded out by degrees as bad coin isgradually withdrawn from circulation. Tothat end he called for the enforcement of the decree by the Diet of Pressburg,“imposing double taxation on the Jews” and deny them right to “engage inagriculture” or “to own any real estate.”
1689: GeneralPiccolomini of Austria burned down Skopje in Macedonia to prevent the spread ofcholera. Skopje was part of the Ottoman Empire and it was one of the townswhere Jews fleeing from Spain after 1492 found refuge and were able to prosperin the fields of trade, finance and medicine.In the 21st century, most of the handful of Macedonian Jewslives in Skopje, the country’s capital.
1714: Emperor CharlesVI approved an arrangement previously “confirmed by Joseph I that protected theJews against any infringements of their rights on the Part of the Council ofWorms.
1778: In a letter toCongress written from his headquarters in Fredericksburg, NY, GeneralWashington that he was complying with their resolution to remove David Franks “aman who had served him and his country well and faithfully for over two decades”from the office of the commissary to British prisoners,” because of charges ofwhich he was later found not guilty that he had abused the confidence place inhim by Congress.
1791: Rachel Gratz, andYork, PA native Solomon Etting, the parents of Rebecca Etting were marriedtoday.
1794: In Hilltown,Bucks County, PA, Mary Vastine and Josiah Lunn, the son of Alice and JosephJosiah Lunn, gave birth to Elizabeth Lunn who became Elizabeth Evans when shemarried David Evans, the mother of Mary and Robert Evans.
1798: In Kensington,Joseph Elias Montefiore, the London born son of Moses Vita-Haim MontefioreMedina and Esther Hannah Magood Montefiore and his wife Rachel Montefiore gavebirth to Horatio Joseph Montefiore.
1803: Moses Moselymarried Rosetta Samuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1803: Today, at thegreat review by George III, “several Jews were present under arms” but the“Jewish volunteers were excused from attendance at divine service and allowedto take the oaths of the allegiance of fidelity on the Book of Leviticusinstead of the New Testament.”
1819: Birthdate ofGeffen native Simon van den Bergh, known as “The King of Margerine” who was thefather of Samuel van den Bergh and whose philanthropies included providing aidto “poor, persecuted Jews…leaving Rotterdam for America.”
https://dbpedia.org/page/Simon_van_den_Bergh
1819: On the Isle ofJutland, Aaron Goldschmidt and Leah Rothschild gave birth to the “distinguishedDanish poet, novelist and journalist,” Professor Meyer Aaron Goldschmidt.
1821: Birthdate of Copenhagennative and University of Copenhagen trained physician Dr. Ludvig Israel Brandes,the “chief physician of the first division of the Almindelig Hospital and afounder in 1859 of “a home for incurables and aged of both sexes in Copenhagen”who starting in 1873 “endeavored y means of classes and lectures to improve nursingin the hospitals and privately.:
1825: The Erie Canalopens with passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. Eventually the canalwould provide a water access to Buffalo, thus opening a water route that wouldstretch from the Atlantic Oceans to the all of the lands bordering on the GreatLakes. This would create immeasurablecommercial opportunities for all Americans, including the Jews. It would lead to the creation of thrivingJewish communities in places like Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. Mordechai M. Noah, one of the most prominentJews of the early 19th century was originally an opponent of thecanal but changed his mind when he saw that successful development of the landalong the Canal would help make his dream of Ararat, A City of Refuge for Jews,a reality.
1826: In New York, JohnSolomons and Julia Levy gave birth to Adolphus Simeon Solomons, the husband ofRachel Seixas Phillips who became “an influential Washingtonian with strongWhite House and Congressional connections.”
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13904-solomons-adolphus-simeon
1828: In NorthRhine-Westphalia, Abraham Bendix Weinberg, the German born son of Bendix AronWeinberg and Sara Moses Weinberg and his second wife Hannchen Leffmann Weinberggavebirth to Leffman Abraham Weinberg, the husband of Rosa Weinberg.
1828(18th ofCheshvan, 5589): Eighty-two-year-old Jochebed Levy, the daughter of BenjaminLevy and the wife of Moses Mendes Seixas whom she married in 1770 passed awaytoday.
1829: One day after hehad has passed away, Hyam Emanuel was buried today at the “Brady Street JewishCemetery.”
1829: Two days after hehad passed away, Michael Solomon, the wife of husband of Hannah Solomon andfather of Samuel Solomon was buried today at the “Brompton (Fulham Road) JewishCemetery.
1831: Morris Leemarried Rachel Nathan at the New Synagogue today.
1833(12th ofCheshvan, 5594): Forty-six year old David Phillip (Feist) Schloss, the son ofJacob and Sprinz Schloss and the husband of Malchen Schloss passed away todayat Frankfurt am Main.
1834(23rd ofTishrei, 5595): Simchat Torah
1836: John Wagg marriedHarriet Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.
1841: Birthdate ofViennese born German dramatist Jacob Bettelheim
1842:Henrik Wergeland who had rejected the anti-Semitic views of his father Nikolai,published his book Jødesagen i det norskeStorthing ("The Jewish issue in the Norwegian parliament"), which inaddition to arguing for the cause also provides interesting insights into theworkings of the parliament at the time
1844: Birthdate ofAmerican playwright and producer Edward “Ned” Harrigan the author and producerof “Mordecai Lyons” an 1882 drama which unlike some “Jew plays” is “serious andvaluable” when it comes to portraying its Jewish characters.
1848: In Fort Wayne,IN, a group of German Orthodox Jews formed Congregation Achuduth Vesholom whichin 1857 purchased a building on Harrison Street to use as a synagogue and whichnow a reform congregation led by Rabbi Meir Bargeron.
1849: “Robert Lyon, anEnglish Jew who arrived in the United States in 1844 established TheAsmonean as a weekly at New York today.
1853: Dr. Raphall, aNew York Rabbi, delivered an address about Russia at a meeting of the YoungMen’s Literary Association.
1853: Rebecca CohenHart, the New York born daughter of Catherine and Sampson Mears Isaaks and herhusband Abraham Hart gave birth to Cornelia Rebecca Hart
1853: Following Dr.Raphall’s address to the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Association, Mr. MoselyLyon delivered an address describing the purpose of the organizations.
1854: In Meppel,Netherlands, Eva (van Minden) and Joseph Henoch Duveen, who were both fromDutch Jewish families gave birth to Henry Joseph Duveen, “a British art dealerwho co-founded the firm of Duveen Brothers with his brother, Joseph” and “whowas one of the Fathers of Philately.”
1854: Hermann MayerSalomon Goldschmidt discovered Asteroid 32 Pomona.
1855: Birthdate ofRichmond dramatist Sydney Rosenfeld, the “first editor of Puck,” “one of the main movers in the effort to secure a NationalTheatre for the United States” and husband of “Genie Holzmeyer Johnson” who wasthe author of several plays including “A Possible Case” and “The Club Friend”as well as several “operettas and musicals” including “The Lady or the Tiger”and “The Passing Show.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/06/15/102239498.pdf
1855: In Germany, DavidJ. Meyerhardt and his wife gave birth Max Meyerhardt, the husband of NettieWatson who came to the United States at the age of one, attended public schoolsin Nashville, TN and settled in Rome, GA where he served as city attorney andcounty attorney for Floyd County, GAwhile contributing “prose and oety to the Jewish and secular press.”
1858: Albert Goldsmidwas promoted to the rank of major-general in the British Army. Born in 1794, the son of Benjamin Goldsmid,he entered the army in 1811 which gave him the opportunity to fight the Frenchin Spain to serve at the Battle of Waterloo.
1858:The Personal Column published today reported that a "A Moldavian Jew, IsraelBenjamin SRAEL, is preparing for a journey through Afghanistan and China. Since1845, he has gone over the Eastern countries of Europe, as well as Egypt,Palestine, Persia, the Regencies of Tripoli and Tunis, Algeria, and Morocco.The Geographical Society of Berlin have charged him to solve severalgeographical and ethnographical questions. He has just published Eight YearsTravel in Asia and Africa by Israel Benjamin
1859: Bernhard Bettmann had established a men’sclothing business in 1856 at Cincinnati, Ohio married Tillie Wald of New YorkCity with whom he had seven children.
1860:In Sweden, Jews, who up until now were only permitted to own property in urbanareas, were granted the “right to acquire real estate in rural communities.”
1859:Sir Samuel Saul, the London born son of Lydia Lyons and Sampson Samuel who“achieved many breakthroughs for the Jews in New South Wales” began serving asthe 6th Treasurer of New South Wales.
1861:During the American Civil War, the 9th Wisconsin Volunteer InfantryRegiment was mustered into service as part of the United States under thecommand of Colonel Frederick C. Salomon.When Salomon was appointed Brigadier General, he brother Charles becamethe Colonel commanding the regiment.This may have made the 9th Wisconsin the only unit on eitherside of the conflict to be commanded successively by two brothers who wereJewish.
1862:Birthdate of Justine Dreyfus Levy who would be buried in Natchitoches, LA in1917.
1863:In Philadelphia, PA, Marx B. and Henrietta T. Loeb gave birth to Blanche Loebwho became Blanche Langsdorf when she married Jacob Loeb Langsdorft with whomshe had one child – Isadore Langsdorf.
1864: Myer Isaacs sent a strongly worded letter toPresident Lincoln warning him against a deal that he allegedly made with agroup of New York Jews who, presenting themselves as leaders of the community,had promised to deliver the “Jewish vote” for him. This letter is one of thegerminal documents of early Jewish participation in the American politicalprocess.
Your Excellency,
Asa firm and earnest Union man, I deem it my duty to add a word ... withreference to a recent "visitation" on the part of persons claiming torepresent the Israelites of New York or the United States and pledging the"Jewish vote" to your support, and, I am informed, succeeding in adeception that resulted to their pecuniary profit.
Havingpeculiar facilities for obtaining information as to the Israelites of theUnited States, from my eight years' connection with the Jewish paper of thiscity and my position as Secretary of their central organization, the"Board of Delegates" . . . I feel authorized to caution you, Sir,against any such representations as those understood to have been made.
Thereare a large number of faithful Unionists among our prominent coreligionists —but there are also supporters of the opposition, and indeed the Israelites arenot as a body, distinctly Union or democratic in their politics ... the Jews asa body have no politics.
Therefore,Sir, I am pained and surprised to find that you had been imposed upon byirresponsible men ... such acts are discountenanced and condemned mostcordially by the community of American Israelites ...
Thereis no "Jewish vote" — if there were, it could not be bought. As abody of intelligent men, we are advocates of the cherished principles ofliberty and justice, and must inevitably support and advocate those who are theexponents of such a platform — "liberty and union, now and forever."
Pardonthe liberty I take in thus trespassing on your attention, but I pray that youwill attribute it to the sole motive I have, that of undeceiving you andassuring you that there is no necessity for "pledging" the Jewishvote which does not exist — but at the same time that the majority of Israelitecitizens must concur in the attachment for the Union and a determination toleave no means untried to maintain its honor and integrity.
Yours most Respectfully,
Myer S. Isaacs
1864: In France, Claraand Lazar Schorstein gave birth to Therese Alice Shorstein, the first wife ofClaude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, the “youngest son of Nathaniel Montefioreand Emma Goldsmid who was a founder of “Anglo-Liberal Judaism” and the “anti-ZionistLeague of British Jews” who endowed the Therese Montefiore Memorial in hermemory two years after he death in 1889.
1865: In Philadelphia,PA, “mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim” and his wife Barbara Meyers gave birth totheir fifth son Benjamin Guggenheim whose marriage to Florette Seligman would unite to of America’swealthiest Jewish families and whose death at age 46 aboard the RMS Titanic wasan unexpected tragedy.
1868: Birthdate offuture Tennesse resident Annie Siskin , the wife of Robert Hyman Siskin and themother of Sara, Aaron and Garrison Siskin
1869: Austen HenryLayard, the archeologist who excavated Nimrud and Niniveh as described in Discoveriesat Nineveh completed his service as First Commissioner of Works in thegovernment of Prime Minster Gladstone.
1870: In Louisville,KY, Frances and Lambert N. Goldsmith gave birth to Ida Goldsmith who became IdaMorris when she married Herman Morris with she had had one child, Charles W.Morris.
1872: In Brooklyn,banker Joseph S. Taussig and the former Mary L. Cuno gave birth to FrederickJoseph Taussign, the St. Louis educated graduate of Harvard and WashingtonUniversity Medical School who developed a specialty in gynecology, served as a“professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology” at Washington University andmarried Florence Gottschalk.
1872: It was reportedtoday that the Jews of Rumania want to immigrate to the United States en masse.They have written to the Interior Department to see if they can acquire a largeenough section of public lands to meet the needs of a large colony. Currentlaws preclude the granting of their request.
1873: In Wabash, IN,founding of the Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society whose members included Mrs.Sam Simon, Mrs. Ollie Hyman and Mrs. Louis Bockman and which “meets onalternate Wednesdays.”
1876: In Kovno,Lithuania, Leopold and Matilda Marver Enelow gave birth to Hyman Gerson Enelowa graduate of the University of Cincinnati who was ordained by Rabbi Isaac M.Wise in 1898 who served several congregations including Temple Israel inPaducah, Congregation Adath Israel and Temple Emanu-El in New York City. (Somesources show 1877 as DOB)
http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0011/ms0011.html
1877: In Philadelphia,PA, Florence LIveright, the daughter of Abraham and Reccah Kahn and SimonLiveright gave birth to Arthur K. Liveright
1877: In Dallas, TX,Philip and Cornelia Mandelabum Singer gave birth to Eli Sanger, the husband ofClaudia Meador Sanger.
1881(3rd of Cheshvan,5642) Eighty-six-year-old Austrian Talmudist Aaron Kornfeld passed away todayat his home town of Goltsch-Jenikau Bohemia.
1881: In Charleston,SC, at Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim on Hasell Street, Rabbi David Levyofficiated at the marriage of Henry J. Harby of Sumter, SC to “Adeline Wineman,the only daughter of L.G. Emanuel of Georgetown, SC.”
1881: The Gunfight atthe OK Corral takes placed in Tombstone, Arizona. The most famous participant in the fight isMarshall Wyatt Earp. Earp was not Jewish, but his last wife Josie was. When Earp died she had his remains buried inthe Marcus family plot in a Jewish cemetery in Coloma, California. When Josie died, she was buried next tohim. The man with the star lies underthe star – of David that is.
1882: “Mordecai Lyons”was performed tonight before a very large crowd at Theatre Comique in New YorkCity.
1883: The Paris Figaro contained a detailed account ofthe duel between Hungarian attorney Dr. Jules Rosenberg and Count Battyany overthe affections that the former had displayed for Mlle. Hona de Schossberger,the daughter of a Jewish family whose patriarch sought to marry his daughteroff to a Hungarian nobeleman.
1882: The Troy (NY)Times reported that Harris Udovitch , who has been jailed on charges ofassaulting Mrs. Louis Cohen claims that she was injured inadvertently during afracas between him and Mr. Cohen over the latter’s refusal “to sell his credwith…for $150.”
1883: It was reportedtoday that when Sir Moses Montefiore celebrated his 99th birthdaytwo days ago he was hailed as “the most celebrated Hebrew now living England”and the most celebrated Hebrew of our generation with the exception of BenjaminDisraeli. “He is more than an ornament to the Jewish race; he is an ornament tomankind…”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9905E5DD1538E033A25755C2A9669D94629FD7CF
1884: The MontefioreCentenary as described in a book by Haim Gudella of the same name published in1885 began today.
1884: Today is thefirst of two days during which service are scheduled to “be held in synagoguesall over Europe all over in honor of the centenary” of Moses Montefiore.
1884: It was reported today that “Sir MosesMontefiore received hundreds of telegrams congratulating him” on reaching his100th birthday “from all parts of world” including a large numberfrom the United States.
1884: In Rochester, NY,Rabbi Max Landsberg and Rev. N.M. Mann of the Unitarian church spoke at TempleBerith Kodesh during services marking the centennial celebration of the birthof Sir. Moses Montefiore.
1884: In Rochester, NY,Etz Chayim Synagogue hosted services marking the centennial celebration of thebirth of Sir. Moses Montefiore during which “E.S. Ettenheimer read a sketch ofMontefiore’s life,” Sarah Rothschild read an original poem and Rabbi Max Molldelivered a closing oration.
1884: In Petersburg,VA, “Jews and Gentiles united in celebrating the one hundredth birthday of SirMoses Montefiore” at the city’s synagogue where “a special prayer for the longpreservation of the life of the great philanthropist was offered by Rabbi Freudenthal”after which “a collection was taken up for the poor of the city.”
1884: In Washington,DC, “the orthodox and liberal congregation held joint exercise” attended bymany Christians, honoring Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: In Cincinnati,Ohio, “the Hebrew Congregations assembled in the Mound Street Temple thisafternoon to celebrate the birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore” followed by anevening celebration sponsored “by the Jewish fraternities at the AllemoniaClub..”
1884: In Memphis, TN,Rabbi Samfield spoke at the services held to honor Sir Moses Montefiore on hisone hundredth birthday.
1884: In Wilkes-Barre,PA, Rabbi David Stern “delivered an eloquent address” at the centennialcelebration of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: In a second day of celebration, Baltimore’s HanoverStreet Synagogue was the scene of special ceremonies marking the one hundredthanniversary of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: “An Anglican Bishop For Jerusalem” published todaydescribed the failure of efforts to convert “Jews and Turks” living inPalestine. The Church Missionary Societyhas spent more than £120,000 pounds in the last 33 years and “as can be provenfrom their own papers” has “never made a convert…”
1884: “The Czar’s Views of Justice” published today describesefforts to ameliorate the sentences imposed on those who took part in theanti-Jewish riots at Novogrod. In what appears to be the first decision of itskind, the Czar “has at least to some extent taken sides with the oppressed Jew”by refusing to show any leniency and expressing his determination “to takemeasures to prevent these bloody excesses.”
1884: It was reported today that “the chief rabbi at Naples”has been “rebuked by ultra-orthodox Jews for shortening the fast on the recentDay of Atonement” as a measure to avoid the cholera outbreak plaguing the city.The precaution must have been “a good one since not a single Jews has yet diedof the disease. [Editor’s note – Fourteen thousand peopled died from Cholera inNaples in 1884.]
1884: It was reported today no Jews have died of cholera atToulon, but five Jews died of the disease at Marseilles.
1884: It was reported today that “the reports of SarahBernhardt’s illness have been greatly exaggerated” and she will be able toperform in Sardou’s new play, “Theodroa” which is opening at the Porte SaintMartin Theatre.
1884: “Pereira, the Teacher of Deaf Mutes” published todaytraced the career of Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, the Portuguese born SephardicFrench Jew whose first student was his sister who was born with the ability tospeak or hear
1884: “Every pew was filled to over-flowing” and thegalleries were completely filled as Temple Emanu-El held services to mark theone hundredth birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore.
1884: “Every seat…was occupied at Shearith Israel, the oldestsynagogue in New York, when services honoring Sir Moses Montefiore began atthree o’clock this afternoon.
1884: According to the dedicatory plaque, on this day “TheIsraelites of the City of New York” dedicated the Home for Chronic Invalids inhonor of the centennial celebration of the birth of Sir Moses Montefiore
1885: The Patrick Divver Hebrew Association of the Sixth Wardheld its annual ball today. (Divver who was Irish Catholic, was a Tammany Hallpolitician who understood the value of the Jewish vote)
1886: President M. Warley Platzek is scheduled to present anoutline of the accomplishments of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association when itmeets this evening.
1886: In New York, founding of the Ladies’ Hebrew BenevolentSociety of Green point which “meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month exceptin July and August.”
1886:Birthdate of old CCNY, NYU and Fordham educated chemist, Max Meltsner the sonof Caroline Raphael and Joseph Meltsner and the husband of Rose Melstner whowas known for his work in the field of amino alcohols and an associateprofessor of Chemistry at City College.
1886: Samuel S. Cox, the U.S. Ambassador to the OttomanEmpire delivered an address to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association “on thecondition of the Hebrews in the Orient.
1887: Three days after he had passed away, Baron Herman deStern, the husband of the former Julia Goldsmid, was buried today at the “BallsPond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1887: Rebecca Wolf, “the youngest daughter of the late Mr.and Mrs. Simon Wolff of Ridgeville, SC married Aaron David at his parent’s homein Columbia, SC.
1888: In San Diego, CA, Hannah Glasser and Abe Spring gavebirth to Harvard trained attorney Samuel Spring the husband of Imogene Morseand member of the Republican Party who moved to Boston and then to New Yorkwhere he was general counsel of the First National Pictures Corporation and amember of the New Rochelle (NY) Temple.
1888: Birthdate of Sokollko native Herman Max Cohen, who in1891 came to the United States where he earned an M.A. from Columbia and wasordained at Jewish Theological Seminary after which he served as the rabbi ofseveral congregations including Beth Shalom in Kansas City, MO starting in 1919where helped the growing congregation to build and dedicate a new facility withseats for 1,200 which the “Kansas City Star and Architectural League of KansasCity praised for its beauty and architectural detail”
1889: It was reported today that August Belmont hascontributed $50,000 to New York City’s World’s Fair Fund and that Kuhn, Loeb& Co has contributed $60,000 to the same fund.
1889: It was reported today that that the Order of B’naiB’rith will take part in the upcoming Educational Fair being sponsored by theJews of New York City.
1889: It was reported today that a dinner is going to be heldin honor of Sir Julian Goldsmid during his visit to New York City.
1890:Rabbi Kaufman Kohler will conduct funeral services this morning for JosephRosenthal the New York merchant born in Bavaria in 1816 who came to the UnitedStates in 1845 where he has operated the dry goods firm of J. Rosenthal &Co. for the last forty-five years.
1890:“In the New York Clubs” published today provides a snapshot of the exclusiveprivate clubs including the five whose members are primarily Jewish --Harmonie, Progress, Fidelio, Metropolitan and Fredundschatt.
1890:In Philadelphia, PA, eighteen-year-old Roman Catholic Annie Eichert marriedMorris Stein who was Jewish – a union that Father Henry Dressman would try andput an end to when he told the family that she had to leave her husband becauseof his religion.
1890:It was reported today that Oscar Hammerstein’s “bold undertaking to establishgrand opera in English permanently in New York City seems destined to succeed.”
1891:“An Indictment Russia” published today described events in the career of Jewishbusinessman Samuel Polyakov as well as their mistreatment at the hands of “theinfamous” Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev.
1892:The Ladies’ Uptown Aid Society gave $50 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum “incommemoration of the Columbian anniversary” and presented “a gold medal toColonel Martin Cohen the leader of the Military Bond.”
1892:In Charleston, SC, Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Charles Levinof Georgetown, SC and Estell Rothstein.
1892:“No Belgian Jews Wanted” published today described the demand by the RussianGovernment that Belgian passports to be used by those wishing to visit Russiashow their religion which would mean that Belgian Jews will either be deniedadmission or “treated to many indignities if they visit Russia.” The Belgians have not responded since failureto comply will close Russia to Belgian businessmen.
1893:Birthdate of New York native Samuel Hamilton Kaufman, the NYU School of Lawgraduate and “a judge of the United States District Court for the SouthernDistrict of New York” who presided over “the first trial of Alger Hiss forperjury.
1894:Plans were announced for the upcoming meeting of the United Hebrew Charities inNew York City.
1894:According to a list published today, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum received $79,000from the Board of Estimates and Apportionment in 1894 and is asking for $80,000in 1895 while the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York Orphan Asylumreceived $82,000 in 1894 and is asking for $85,000 in 1895.
1894:In Newark, NJ, “a double force” of policemen under the command of CaptainBergen are standing guard at the non-union hat factory of J.L. Kreidel whichhas been surrounded by “a mob” of angry Polish and Russian Jewish “hatters” whohave been fired by Kreidel’s nephew.
1894:Count George Leo of Caprivi who defended the Jews against the attacks of the
Anti-Semitesled by, among other Herr Zimmerman, completed his service as Chancellor ofGermany.
1897(30thof Tishrei, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1897(30thof Tishrei, 5658): Forty-nine-year-old Rachel Nelson, the wife of Barnet Nelsonand the daughter of Mrs. Isaac Bernstein passed away today in London.
1898:A Zionist Delegation led by Theodor Herzl arrives in the port of Yaffo (Jaffa).They visit Mikveh Israel and Rishon LeZion.
1898:Wisconsin native Louis C. Wolf was promoted to the rank of 1stLieutenant today.
1898: After visiting NesZionah, Rehovot and Herzl returns to Yaffo where he met with Reverend WilliamHechler. William Hechler formed acommittee of Christian Zionists to help move Russian Jewish refugees toPalestine after a series of pogroms. In 1884, Hechler wrote a pamphlet called“The Restoration of Jews to Palestine According to the Prophets.” A few years later,he befriended Theodor Herzl after reading Herzl’s book The Jewish Stateand joined Herzl to drum up support for Zionism. Hechler even arranged ameeting between Herzl and Kaiser Wilhelm II to discuss Herzl’s proposal toestablish a Jewish state in Palestine. The two men remained close friends upuntil Herzl’s death in 1904.
1899: In Cincinnati,Alexander T. “Alex” Pappenheimer, the son of Marie and Leopold Pappenheimer andhis wife Pauline Pappenheimer gave birth to Louis Pappenheimer the husband ofMargaret Camille Pappenheimer.
1900: Birthdate of NewYork native Mark Rex Goldstein who gained fame as director, writer and producerMark Sandrich , the husband of Freda with whom he had two children and whosefirst feature was “Runaway Girls” in 1928
1900: In Hellenthal,Germany, Bernhard Rothschild, the German born so of Sibilla Rothschild and hiswife Henreitte gave birth to Martin Rothschild
1901(13th ofCheshvan, 5662): Lech-Lecha read for the first time during the Presidency ofTeddy Roosevelt.
1902: Feminist,Suffragette and Social Activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton passed away. She helpedto create The Women’s Bible “a collection of essays by a committee of womenintellectuals on passages of the Judeo-Christian scriptures that discuss women.”“Stanton and her contributors highlighted and heightened the role of the women”putting “particular emphasis on Miriam’s role in the quest for Jewish freedom,for instance” and “the important work of Deborah the judge.” At the same timeshe wrote, “We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the moralsinculcated in the Pentateuch.... I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection anddegradation of woman.”
1902: It was reportedtoday that “The Russian Minister of Finance has forbidden” the buying andselling of “shares of the Jewish Colonial Trust” one of whose purposes is to“purchase land in Palestine.”
1903: The New AmsterdamTheatre, which “the productionpartnership of Marc Klaw and Abraham Lincoln Erlanger ‘operated for more thantwo decades, opened today.
1903: Twenty-three-year-oldLaura Hirschfeld, the daughter of Leopold Hirschfeld and Pauline Heilbronnermarried Siegfried Kurz and became Laura Kurz, the mother of Rudolph Kurz and avictim of the Nazis when died in the Riga Ghetto after being deported there in1941.
1904: Birthdate of NewYork City native Harvey Schwamm who pursued a career in “banking and finance”and served as president of the American Trust Company while raised two childrenwith his wife, the former Lillian Tverskoi” whom he married in 1924.
1904: “The RussianState’s Attorney is practically making the victims of the massacre at Gomel inthe trial resulting from that massacre” which had begun on October 24 byclaiming that the Christians rioters had been intimated by Jews who had takenself-defense measures following the Kishineff massacre.
1905; Norway becomesindependent from Sweden. According to the census conducted at the turn of thecentury, there were 642 Jewish residents in a population totaling just over 2million. In 1814, when control of Norway shifted from Denmark to Sweden, theNorwegians adopted “The Constitution of 1814 that contained “The Jew Clause” inthe Constitution of 1814 which stated "No person of the Jewish creed mayenter Norway, far less settle down there".The clause was repealed in 1851 which opened a trickle of Jewishimmigration to Norway while it was still part of Sweden. In one of those quirks of history, the manmost responsible for the repeal of the Jew Clause was the son of the man wholed the fight to have included in the Constitution.
1905: In Melsungen,Hessen, Germany, Flora and Isaac Alfred Speier gave birth to Leo Speyer who wasmurdered at Auschwitz.
1906: Antoine LouisTarge who helped to clear Captain Dreyfus began serving as the PrivateSecretary to fellow Dreyfusard George Picquart.
1907(18th ofCheshvan, 5668): Parashat Vayera
1907(18th ofCheshvan, 5668): Fifty-year-old August Weil, the Bavarian born son Therese andJacob Weil, the husband of Emma “Anna” Weil the father of famed soprano GladyAxman and the father-in-la of Clarence Axmanpassed away today in Boston.
1907: Twenty-two peoplewere convicted today “for fomenting the pogrom at Nicolaief in October, 1903, acrime for which they were later pardoned.
1907: The TennesseeVolunteers coached by Izzy Levene continued their winning ways today defeatingMaryville College bringing their record to 4 and 1.
1908(1st ofCheshvan 5669) Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1908: It was reportedtoday that Rabbi S. Stephen Wise had asserted in his Sunday sermon that “aJewish organization is not needed to maintain Jewish rights” because “we haveno especial Jewish rights to safeguard and to conserve” and only “insist that therebe no violation of the American spirit of fair play and justice.
1908: At politicalrally in Brooklyn, William H. Taft, the Republican Party candidate forPresident, took issue with Samuel Gomper’s assertion that he will deliver thevote of labor for William Jennings Bryan.
1909: The new ballroomof the Hotel Astor is the scene of an event celebrating the 25thanniversary of the founding of the Montefiore Home Gifts aggregating $101,500were announced tonight as the birthday presents to the Montifore Home where .B.J. Greenhut, announces that gifts totaling $101,500 have been donated tosupport the institution. Greenhut, Chairman of the committee sponsoring theevent, said that although he had not been authorized to make public the amountof the gifts and the names of the generous friends, he felt the occasiondemanded it. The audience broke into applause when it was announced that J.H.Schiff had donated $50,000 to this worthy cause.
1910(23rd ofTishrei, 5671): Simchat Torah
1910: In Chicago, MaxSlutsky, the Russian born son of Louis and Ida “Yetta” Slutsky and his wife PaulineSlutsky gave birth to Rose H. Patterson, the wife of Charles Patterson.
1910: The sanityhearing for Anna Volinsky, who had had told Directors of the Montefiore Homethat Mandel Kaufman had illegally been receiving “one half of the contributionsof new patrons of the home and one quarter of the dues she had collected fromold subscribers” was scheduled to continue today.
1911: Birthdate of Minneapolis native Sidney ‘Sid”Gillman the Ohio State University football player who went to a successfulcollege and NFL coaching career.
1911: The Daily Newsreported that the Orthodox Jews in Batavia, NY “purchased a house at 232Liberty Street to use as a synagogue.
1911: By an order ofthe Governor all Jews in the Russian Province of Ekaterinoslaff are subject toexpulsion with some minor exceptions.
1912: As a result ofthe First Balkan War, Thessaloniki becomes part of modern day Greece. Theleaders of the Jewish Community are immediately received by King George I andthe Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos who promised to respect the rights ofthe community and offered full equality in the eyes of the Law.
1912: Birthdate of movie director Don Siegel, thenative of Chicago who directed Clint Eastwood in several of his finest films.
1913: During the FirstBalkan War, Bulgarian forces begin bombarding the city of Adrianople in whatwill become the Siege of Adrianople which would last until March of 1914. Three thousand of the city’s Jews soughtshelter in the local schools while another 9,200 were left with no place to go.
1913: Louis Marshalldenied tonight that he would have any involvement in Governor William Sulzer’splanned appeal of the decision of the High Court of Impeachment. Marshall, aprominent lawyer and leader of the Jewish Community, had reluctantly agree torepresent the embattled governor.
1913: Rabbi Rudolph I.Coffee expressed his displeasure over the support that many New York rabbis hadgiven to Governor Sulzer during his recent impeachment trial. Coffee felt that there involvement in thispartisan political issue compromised their roles as spiritual leaders of theJewish people especially when one considers the sleazy nature of the Tammanyand anti-Tammany forces. Coffee, therabbi at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, has been visiting the cityduring the trial. He ended his comments by saying that “these Rabbis have hurttheir religion, and they certainly do not each nor practice its ideals.”
1913: Temple Sinai(First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland) broke ground at 28th andWebster on its new building which was completed in 1914.
1914: Twenty-four-year-oldLouis Weinstein “a British subject from Cape Town” arrived in New York todayaboard the SS Voltaire “without funds” which resulted in him becoming a chargeof the HIAS.
1914: “Brandeis Speakson Zionism” published today described a speech by the Boston lawyer who saidthat Zionist movement “must be considered by the Jews of American not only fromthe point of view of their own platform but from that of the needs born of thewar” which meant that Palestine could a welcome refuge to the Jews of EasternEurope “relieving in part the inevitable heavy immigration that otherwise mustflow from the devastated battlefield countries to the United States.”
1915: The R.II “a largethree-bay biplane” which was a prototype bomber built by Siemens, “a leadingcorporate participant in Hitler’s “death through work program;” with slavelabor factories at the following death camps: Auschwitz, Buchenwald,Flossenberg, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Ravensbruck, &Sachsenhausen” was flown for the first time today.
1916: After reading thereport of his Adjutant General that while there while statements had been thatChristians were preferred as members of the National Guard and some of thoseconnected with recruitment had admitted to “a distinct bias against Jewishapplicants” “the evidence does not show a general prevalence of discrimination”when it comes to recruiting Jewish members of the National Guard, Government Whitman issuedadditional orders stating that “no applicant shall be rejected on account ofhis race or religion” and that “it shall be the duty of officers charged withmaking enlistments to see that their subordinates are free from such bias orprejudice…”
1916: In New York City,Hipolit and Anna Firko gave birth to Vivian Firko who gained fame as theClarence Derwent Award winning actress Vivian Nathan, the wife of NathanSchwalb.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=VIVIAN-NATHAN&pid=174591991
1916: “Maurice Simmons,Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of the Good Name of ImmigrantPeoples released a statement in answer to the findings of Adjutant GeneralLouis W. Stotesbury that Jews are not discriminated against” when trying toenlist in the National Guard that took issue with the outcome because thecomplaint was not that there was a “general prevalence of discriminationagainst Jews” but that the prejudice “existed in certain units.”
1916: Ten days afterthe Brownsville Clinic opened Fania Mindell was among those arrested byundercover agents because they providing education about, and distributing,birth control materials.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/oct/26/1916/fania-mindell-arrested-for-distributing-birth-control-material
1917(10th ofCheshvan, 5678): J.H. Valentine, therabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Manchester whopreferred to be called “Reverend” and who was tireless worker for theAnglicization of Jewish immigrants from Russia as can be seen by his statement“The Manchester Working Men’s Club” would not be a “place for dry sermons andmust history” but would instead “raise the tone of our poor brethren byinstilling into them habits of industry, thrift, education them in the languageand customs of the country whiter they come have come to seek an asylum” passedaway today in Manchester.
1917: In England, The Times “published a leading articleattacking” the government for its repeated delays in issuing a statementsupport the Zionist cause. Ironically, the delay was caused, in part, by theconcern among some English Jews that support for Zionism would call into questiontheir loyalty to the Crown.
1917: In Kostroma, “TheBlack Hundreds accused Jews of speculation” which was the justification for thelooting of Jewish shops by those looking for food.
1917: In Poltava andOryol, the militia and other “local organizations” put down attacks on Jewsaccused of speculating that raised the cost of food.
1917(10th ofCheshvan, 5678): Eight Jews were killed and another twenty were wounded “in anoutbreak of anti-Jewish violence” at Pereyaslav.
1918(20th ofCheshvan, 5679): Parashat Vayera
1918(20th ofCheshvan, 5679: Today during WW I, 23 year old Sergeant William Sawelson, a Sergeant, Company M, 312th Infantry, 78thDivision, AEF, United States Army “upon his own initiative, left shelter,crawled through heavy machine gun fire to a wound man lay, gave him what waterhe had in his own canteen and went back to the shell hole in which he had beenlying, obtained more water and was killed by a machine gun bullet whilereturning to aid is wounded comrade. (Editor’s Note – he was posthumously awarded“the Medal of Honor for valor in combat.)
https://nmajmh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hall-of-heroes/world-war-i/william-sawelson/
1919: In Philadelphia,Solomon and Dora (Levin) Pressman gave birth to Jacob “Jack” Pressman thegraduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Jewish Theological Seminarywho “served as the rabbi of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles for 35 years and whowas “a co-founder of the American Jewish University in Bel-Air
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-rabbi-jacob-pressman-dies-at-95-20151005-story.html
1920: It was reportedtoday that Professor Chaim Weizmann has “said the Zionist executive body wasnegotiating with the British Government for the acquisition of some stateground in Palestine and had plans for the cultivation of vast areas of soilwhich were at present barren wastes.”
1921: “The WanderingJew,” a play “based on the ancient legend of the Wandering Jew” produced byDavid Belasco and A.L. Erlanger opened tonight at the Knickerbocker Theatre.
1922: Birthdate ofManhattan native Shirley Ann Agin who gained fame as “singer, actress, andfashion designer” Juli Lynne Charlot best known for the creation of the “circleskirt” and the “poodle skirt” which she created in 1957 when she “needed alast-minute Christmas skirt” and “with little money and little ability to sew,she made the seamless skirt herself out of felt.”
1922: Judge Bernard A.Rosenblatt, the accredited representative for Tel Aviv in the United Statesannounced that “Harvey Fisk & Sons, Inc have been appointed commercial andfiscal agency in the United States for Tel Aviv, the modern section of Jaffawhich is the principal port of Palestine.”The announcement is important to commercial interests in the UnitedStates since Jaffa has become the principal port in Asia Minor following thedestruction of Smyrna.
1923(16th ofCheshvan, 5684): Rabbi A.L. Zachs passed away today in Brooklyn.
1923: As the Klan grewstronger and more violent as could be seen by blind-fold whipping administeredto Philip Rothblum in March of 1922, a headline in today’s Dallas News reportedthat “Klan Day at the Fair: Great Throngs Participate in Colorful Klan Initiationat the Fair Park”
1924: The Federationfor the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies is scheduled to begin acampaign today to raise $1,250,000 which is part of “the drive to defray thedeficit on a $3,645,000 budged used for the maintenance of 91 philanthropicinstitutions” in New York City.
1925: “Lax conduct andimmodest dressing of women were denounced today at the final session of theUnion of Jewish Orthodox Congregations at the Jewish Centre, 131 WestEighty-fifth Street, when adopted a resolution urging Jewish women to abide bytheir religious code and while attending synagogue "to be attired in suchmanner as not to conflict with the holiness of the place."
1926(18th ofCheshvan, 5687): Henrietta Pollak Sittler, the Ohio born daughter of Williamand Marie Lederer Pollak, the wife of Sittler and the mother of Idella SittlerFarber passed away today after which she was buried in the Mayfield Cemetery inCleveland Heights, OH.
1926: In Paris, France,the trial of Sholom Schwartzbard comes to an end. A jury of 12 petit-bourgeoisParisians acquitted the Ukrainian-born Jewish immigrant and anarchist of thecharge of murder for shooting to death former Ukrainian president SymonPetliura.
1926: Birthdate ofShoredtich (section of East End, London) native Lou Meyers who served with theRoyal Marines during WW II, Machel in Israel from 1948 to 1950 and in Koreafrom 1950 to 1952.
1927(30th ofTishrei, 5688): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1927(30th ofTishrei, 5688): Seventy-seven year old Frederick de Sola Medndes, the Jamaicanborn son of of Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes, grandson of Rabbi David Aaron deSola, great-grandson of Haham Raphael Meldola and brother of Rabbi HenryPereira Mendes who served as the Rabbi at New York’s West End Synagogue forover forty years after having begun his career at the Great St. Helen’sSynagogue in London, passed away today.
https://www.jewishlivesproject.com/profiles/frederick-de-sola-mendes
1928: “Suzy Saxophone”a French-German silent film featuring Herman Picha and filmed bycinematographer Otto Heller was released today.
1929(22nd ofTishrei, 5690): Shimini Atzeret and Shabbat
1929(22nd ofTishrei, 5690): Sixty-three year old Abraham Mortiz “Aby” Warburg, a member ofthe famed German banking family who turned his back on the family business andalternate plans to enter the rabbinate to become a leader in the field of arthistory passed away today in his home town of Hambrug.
https://jewish-history-online.net/article/levine-obituary-aby-warburg
https://www.goethe.de/en/kul/bku/20867100.html
1930(4th of Cheshvan,5691): Ninety-year-old Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine the Russian bornbacteriologist who developed “vaccines used against cholera and bubonic plague”and who not only refused to convert to advance his career but was active inJewish affairs, passed away today.
http://www.asm.org/ccLibraryFiles/FILENAME/0000000248/530787p366.pdf
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa/LIF_SCI_Haffkine.asp
1931: In Manhattan,Romanian Jewish immigrants gave birth to their second child Larry Lieber, the“American comic book artist and writer” who was nine years younger than hisbrother “Stanley Martin Lieber, later best known as Marvel Comics editor andimpresario Stan Lee.”
1931(15th ofCheshvan, 5692): Sixty-nine-year-old George Washington Ochs-Oaks the son ofBertha and Julius Ochs a member of the Ochs family of New York Times whosevaried career included serving as newspaper reporter, a member of the New YorkNational Guard during WW I and may of Chattanooga, TN passed away today.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=22878
1932: The Canada DryProgram, starring Jack Benny was broadcast for the last time on the NBC Blue Network
1932: “Scampolo,” acomedy film produced by Lothat Stark who would be forced to seek refuge inCopenhagen when the Nazis come to power, with a script by Max Kolpe, FelixSalten and Billy Wilder and music by Artur Guttman and Franz Waxman wasreleased today in Germany by Bavaria Film.
1933: While “both theArab Executive and the polices are completing arrangements for tomorrow’s massprotest “ against Jewish immigration “the district commissioner of Jaffa andJerusalem warned newspaper editors today against agitation or issuing specialeditions, threatening to invoke the press laws against all transgressors.”
1934: It was reportedtoday that Senator Byrd has “asked President Roosevelt today to use hisinfluence to "correct the condition" at Old Point Comfort, Va., wherethe Hotel New Chamberlin, situated on a Federal reservation, was reported asadvertising that Jews were not welcomed as guests.”
1934: It was reportedtoday that “Senator Glass has dispatched a telegram to Rabbi Louis D. Mendozaof Norfolk who had protested to both Senators and to Federal officialsregarding the” advertising policy of the Hotel New Chamberlin which proclaimsthat Jews are not welcomed saying that he thinks it is “an outraged for anyinstitution enjoying government privileges to discriminate against anyreligious sect.”
1934: FeatherweightHarry Blitman fought his 77th and final bout today in Philadelphia,
1935(29th ofTishrei, 5696): Parashat Bereshit
1935(29th ofTishrei, 5696): Seventy-five-year-oldmagazine editor and author of Under the Russian and British Flags JackoffPrelooker, the Pinsk born son of Moshe Chaim Prelooker, the husband of EthelEliza Prelooker with whom he had two children, Miriam and Eleanor passed awaytoday in Hastings, East Sussex, England.
https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Under-Russian-British-flags-story-true/8770341756/bd
1935: In Berlin, “thePropaganda Ministry said today that all Jewish names would be eliminated fromfuture war memorials but that those already erected would not be touched.
1935: The body of gangsterArthur (Dutch Schultz) Flegenheimer whose wife was Catholic and whose motherMrs. Emma Neu Flegenheimer is an Orthodox Jew remained unclaimed today.
1936: Birthdate ofDeborah Tobias Portiz, the Brooklyn native who was the first woman to serve asthe Attorney General of New Jersey and the first Chief Justice of the NewJersey Supreme Court.
1936: The Church of Englandissued its “first pronouncement on the agitation by Sir Oswald Mosley’s Fascistmovement” today “branding the recent East End disturbances as ‘monstrous’”while the London Diocesan Conference adopted a resolution “urging Christiansnot to tolerate anti-Semitisms.”
1936: As part of theefforts of the Nazi regime’s “efforts to enforce its discriminator laws againstJews in other countries as well as in Germany,” “The Juridical Weekly”announced that the foreign department of the National Socialist Association“has established a world register of ‘Aryan’ lawyers abroad” who “are fitted torepresent German interests abroad” while issuing a warning to “all Germansagainst employing Jewish lawyers in other countries.
1937: Alexander Korda,British film producer, arrived in New York today on the French liner-Ile deFrance so he could continue negotiations for the purchase of control of theUnited Artists Distributing Corporation.
1938: “The Gestapo wasordered to arrest and deport all Polish Jews living in Germany immediatelyresulting in the arrest of 12,000 Polish Jews who were “stripped of theirproperty and herded aboard trains headed for Poland.”
1939: The Nazisprohibited Sh'chita in Poland supposedly on humanitarian grounds.
1939: The Nazisabolished its military government in Poland.It is replaced by the Military Generalgouvernment under the command ofHans Frank. In his first speech he announced that “there will be no room for .. . Jewish exploiters in a territory under German sovereignty."
1939:TheLabor Department of the Generalgouvernement of Occupied Poland issuesthe Arbeitspflicht (Work obligation) decree, which makes slave labormandatory for all Polish men and women over the age of 14 and under age 60.
1939: Birthdate ofUniversity of Iowa Economics Professor Michael Balch.
http://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item74
1939:Following a plan devised by Adolf Eichmann, the Nazis deport and"resettle" some 78,000 Jews to a "reservation" located inthe Lublin-Nisko region of southeast Poland in a three- and half-month periodending in the middle of February, 1940.The project is temporarily suspended when rolling rail stock is neededfor German military campaigns against the Low Countries.
1940(24th ofTishrei, 5701): Parashat Bereshit
1940: Five hundredsJewish refugees, “including 124 women and nine children” whose Bulgariansteamer Pentcho foundered on rocks in the Aegean Sea yesterday, are still beingsheltered on Italian islands after the Rumanian, Turkish and Greek authoritiesrefused to grant them permission to land.
1940: It was announcedtoday that Lt. Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, the commander of Britain’s MiddleEast Forces, “who commanded troops in Palestine in 1937” has been promoted tothe rank of “full general.”
1941: “The HebrewPrincipals Association observed its 30th anniversary” tonight “witha dinner at the Hotel Newton” which “honored Israel Konovitz, retiringpresident and Harry Handler, vice president” who were founders of theassociation.
1941(5th ofCheshvan, 5702): Fifty-two-year-old Pittsburgh native and University ofMichigan trained lawyer Nathan Jacobs Gould, the editor and president of TheWisconsin Jewish Chronicle passed away today in Milwaukee.
1941: After the OdessaAction which started on October 23 and ended on October 25 leaving 20,000murdered Jews, another 10,000 more were sent to various concentration campsfrom that City.
1941:Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, the Archbishop of Paris “addressed adispatch to Hitler” in an attempt “to save hostages in Nantes and Châteaubriant.
1941:Germans inform Jews of Kalisz, Poland,that elderly Jews in convalescent homes are to be moved to another home thenext day
1942:Nineteen-year-old warehouse worker Simon Levinson was arrested today in Oslo, amonth before he was deported on the Donau which took him to Auschwitz where hewas murdered in 1943
1942:Birthdate of The Rev. Lawrence Boadt, a Roman Catholic priest, publisher andBible scholar who used his study of the Old Testament as a vehicle forpromoting understanding between Christians and Jews,
1942: In Oszmiana,Poland, 400 Jews were deported. To save the remaining 600, the head of theghetto decided to send only the old so to make up the quota.
1943: At the Janowskacamp in Lvov, the Nazis continued to shoot Jews and burn them on pyres. Afterthe mothers and children would undress, the Germans would swing small children,smashing their heads into trees until they died. All this was done in front ofthe mothers who themselves would be beaten, hung or shot.
1943: Seventy-nine-year-oldSir Marc Aurel Stein, the Budapest born Jew who became a Lutheran to advancehis career as an archaeologist passed away today in Kabul while on the last ofhis many expeditions to Central Asia.
1943:Threethousand Jews are deported from Kovno, Lithuania, to the slave-labor camp atKlooga, Estonia.
1944(9th ofCheshvan, 5705): Sixty-five-year-old Russian born Jersey City, NJ tobaccodealer, the husband of Sarah Jacobs and the father of Maurice, Allen, Samueland Charles suffered a fatal heart attack today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/10/27/86733347.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1944: It was reportedtoday that Harry Goodwin, managing editor and part owner of The Bronx Home Newshas been “selected as the outstanding citizen of the Bronx for 1944.”
1944: “Ira Hisrchman,the department store executive and philanthropist who recently returned fromturkey where he was a representative of the War Refugee Board declared” tonightat a dinner of the Metropolitan Zionist Fund in the Waldorf-Astoria that “itwas only through the intercession of the United States Government that therescue of thousands of Jews from the Balkans was effected.
1945: “Fallen Angel”directed and produced by Otto Preminger and with music by David Raskin wasreleased in the United States today.
1945: In Tel Aviv,Zalman Rapoport, and Alma Raporpot, “a pianist from Bulgaria who trained inVienna’ gave birth to Ada Rapoport-Albert “an Israeli-British scholar whosescholarship focused on Jewish mysticism, Sabbateanism, and gender in HasidicJudaism,” who “also served as thepresident of the Jewish Historical Society of England.’
1946(1st ofCheshvan, 5707): Parashat Noach; Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1946:KurtDaluege, former SS-Obergruppenführer and deputy Reichsprotektorof Bohemia and Moravia, is hanged in Prague, Czechoslovakia, after beingconvicted of war crimes.
1946: “A Jewish agencyspokesman said today the inner Zionist Council would call on Palestine Jews…totake certain specified measures in cooperation with the Government against theuse of violence…” The move was part of bargain to gain the release of 700 Jewswho have been held by the British without charges or trial since lastJune. Among those who would be releasedis Moshe Shertok, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department.” The deal would also allow Moshe Sneh head ofthe Haganah and David Ben-Gurion to return to Palestine from France where theyhave endured a self-imposed exile in an attempt to avoid imprisonment by theBritish.
1946: Holocaustsurvivor and future French political leader Simone Annie Liline Jacob becameSimone Veil when she married Antoine Veil whom she met while study law at theUniversity of Paris.
1947: In Washington, DCdedication of the Oscar S. Straus Memorial which “commemorates theaccomplishments” of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce andLabor and “the first Jew to serve in the cabinet of a U.S President.”
1947: The British endedtheir occupation of Iraq. The Britishdeparture made it possible for the Arab population to move against the Jews ofIraq. The situation would only growworse once the Israelis defeated the Arab Armies, including the Iraqis thefollowing year. However, the violenceagainst the Jews began before the UN partition and before there was a stateIsrael.
1947: Arabian King IbnSaud warned President Harry Truman that American support of partition ofPalestine was an unfriendly and useless act.“The Arabs will isolate such a state from the world and lay siege to ituntil it dies by famine.”
1947: The day beforethe Hollywood 10 began testifying, the anti-HUAC celebrities aired the first ofa two-part national broadcast called "Hollywood Fights Back!,"co-written by Norman Corwin and Robert Presnell Jr., and featuring Garland,Kelly, Bacall, "Bogie," Robinson, Lancaster, Henreid, John Beal andWilliam Holden. HUAC’s investigation into the Communist influence in the filmbusiness was tainted in many ways including a predilection for anti-Semitism.
1948(23rd ofTishrei, 5709): Simchat Torah
1948(23rd ofTishrei, 5709: Shumel Aharon Fumkin, the son of Leib Fumkin and Sheina Hodessand father of Haim Yakov Frumkin, passed away today on London.
1948: “The Return ofOctober” a comedy directed by Joseph H. Lewis and script co-authored by MelvinFrank was released in the United States today.
1948: Today, “in apublic ceremony at naval headquarters in Haifa Prime Minister David Ben Gurionappointed Kvarnit Shulman to the postial of commander in chief of the IsraeliNaval Service” which meant that the twenty-six and half year old former U.S. NavyLieutenant “could not assume the title of Aluf or admiral.”
1949: “The Conferenceon the Church and the Jewish People called on Protestant churches today todenounce anti-Semitism, and recommended that Jews be included in evangelisticwork of Christian missions and parishes.”
1949: “Abe Stark,Republican-Liberal-City Fusion candidate for Borough President of Brooklyn,charged today that his Democratic opponent, Borough President John Cashmore,had injected the religious issue into the Brooklyn campaign and was seeking toride back into office on "the coat tails" of former Gov. Herbert H.Lehman, Democratic-Liberal candidate for United States Senator.
1949: Today, EliahuElath, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, presented “an Ark of Silverand copper” to President Truman which will the Torah that President ChaimWeizman had presented to his Americancounterpart when he was in the United States last May.
1950: Sixty-one-year-oldMiguel Mariano Gómez who as President of Cuba in 1936 negotiated withCongressman William I Sirovich about the possibility of “Cuba opening her doorsto at least 100,000 persecuted German Jews” passed away today.
1951: “The Blue Veil” adramatic film directed by Curtis Bernhardt with a screenplay by Norman Corwinand music by Franz Waxman which had premiered in September was released in theUnited States today by RKO.
1951: Emanuel “Manny”Shinwell, Baron Shinwell completed his service Minister of Defense when theLabor Party was defeated in the “snap election” of 1951.
1951: Winston Churchill“became Prime Minister for the second time.” Chaim Weizmann, the firstPresident of Israel, sends a message of genuine congratulations. In his reply, Churchill refers to the Zionistleader as “my old friend.”
1951: Esta Greenbergand Jack Schnabel gave birth to American artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabelin Brooklyn. He grew up in Brownsville,Texas. Such a culture clash must havehad an effect on his artistic creativity.
1952(7th ofCheshvan, 5713): Seventy-nine-year-old Fulda, German native, Isadore J. Kaufherr,the husband of Jane “Jennie” Eckhouse Kaufherr whom he married in 1898 passed awaytoday in East Orange, NJ afterhi9 which he was buried in the
Congregation B'Nai Jeshurun Cemetery at Elizabeth, NJ.
1954(29th ofTishrei, 5715): Eighty-eight-year-old Jennie Wallenstein Kohnstamm the oldestchild of Esther Hellman Wallenstein, the founding president of the HebrewInfant Asylum, passed away today.
1955: The last Americanoccupation troops left Austria and Austria enacts laws of proclaiming permanentneutrality. The American occupation hadbeen a rather benign affair since the Austrians had been declared the firstvictim of Nazi aggression rather than a willing partner of the ThirdReich. Considering the number ofAustrian Nazis, the number of Austrians who served in with the German militaryand the zeal with Austrian Nazis attacked and helped to exterminate the Jewishpopulation, this was a total misreading of the situation.
1955(10th ofCheshvan, 5716): Seventy-eight-year-old Joseph Ottenberg, the Washington, DCborn son of Regina and Isaac Ottenberg, the husband of Fannie Ottenberg and thefather of Dr. Gilbert and Melvin Ottenberg passed away today in his hometown,
1955(10th ofCheshvan, 5716): “An Egyptian raid today against the small Israeli post atBe'erotaim resulted in the killing of one Israeli soldier and the capture oftwo others
1955: “A large force ofEgyptian soldiers reinforced with artillery, armor and anti-aircraft cannon,took up positions on both sides of the demilitarized zone near Sabcha andRas-Siram” with “elements of the Egyptian force penetrating one kilometer intoIsraeli territory and entrenching themselves near a strategic hill, code-named“Lilly” by the Israelis.”
1956: “The OppositeSex” a romantic comedy produced by Joe Pasternak, with a screenplay by Fay andMichael Kanin and music by Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn, Ralph and GeorgeStoll was released in the United States today.
1956: “The Brave One”directed by Irving Rapper and produced by Frank King who risked a lot byallowing one of those on the Blacklist to write the script was released todayin the United States.
1956: “The 202ndParatroopers Brigade, under the command of Ariel Sharon, is assigned to drop aparatroopers regiment in the Mitla Pass in Sinai and to lead the rest of thebrigade forces via land to the landing zone in the Mitla Pass. Sharon is notaware that the task of his brigade is chiefly to deceive the Egyptian army (soit would seem as though IDF is carrying out a limited scope type of action) andto supply the pretext for the involvement of Britain and France.”
1957(1st of Cheshvan,5718): Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, the firstJewish-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiologypassed away today at the age of 61. Aninternationally known biochemist she and her husband Dr. Carl F. Cori and Dr.B.A. Houssay shared the 1947 Nobel Prize.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10913F63F5511708DDDAE0A94D8415B8789F1D3
1958: Sixty-five-year-oldarchitect László Hudec Hungary’s honorary consul in Shanghai during WW II whohelped Jewish refugees from Europe by issuing them passports to ravel safely toCanada and the United States passed away today.
1959: “Burning Bright”produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein was broadcast today as “The Playof the Week.”
1959: Dr. Arthur Kornberg is awarded the NobelPrize Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms inthe biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (
1960:“The 49th Cousin” starring Menasha Skulnik as “Isaac,” MarianWinters as “Tracy Lowe” and Eli Mintz as “Simon Lowe” opened on Broadway at theAmbassador Theatre.
1961:InAdams, Mass, “Morton Schiff, the president of Schiff Clothing, a store foundedby Schiff's great-grandfather in 1897, and Ellen Schiff, a professor of Frenchliterature at North Adams State college” gave birth to Williams Collegeeducated Pulitzer Prize winning author Stacy Madeleine Schiff.
1962:Today, Hal “Prince married Judy Chaplin, daughter of composer and musicaldirector Saul Chaplin, and the mother of Daisy Prince, a director, and Charles Prince,a conductor.
1963(8thof Cheshvan, 5724): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1963:“The New York Board of Rabbis has asked its 800 members in the metropolitanarea to pay special tribute in their sermons today to the Federation of JewishPhilanthropies of New York.”
1965(30thof Tishrei, 5726): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1965(30thof Tishrei, 5726): Seventy-one-year old Romania born and University of Missourieducated author Marcus Eli Ravage the biographer of the Rothschilds and Napoleon’ssecond wife Marie Louise who was “best known for his 1917 autobiography AnAmerican in the Making” passed away today in Grasse, France.
1965:“The first Broadway performance of” Peter Shaffer’s “The Royal Hunt of the Sun”“took place at the ANTA Playhouse.”
1966(12thof Cheshvan, 5727): WW II Navy veteran and land developer Norman Lazarus, thelifelong Bayonne, NJ resident and President of the Mercury Construction Companywho was the husband of Sylvia Grozansky Lazarus and the father of Mark, Stevenand Michael Lazarus passed away today.
1967:“Wait Until Dark” a thriller starring Alan Arkin “as a violent criminalsearching for drugs” was released in the United States by Warner Brothers-SevenArts.
1967:A production of Lillian Hellman’s “Little Foxes” directed by “Mike Nichols, athird cousin twice removed of scientist Albert Einstein, through Nichols'mother” opened today “at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center.”
1970(26thof Tishrei, 5731): Sixty-nine-year-old Kiev native Louis “Kid” Kaplan theresident of Connecticut who also fought under the name of Benny Miller and “wasthe world featherweight champion in 1925 and 1926 passed away today.
1970:Sixty-year-old Louise Mundheim Gerstenfeld, the widow of Dr. NormanGerstenfeld, the powerhouse Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation passed awaytoday.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/28/archives/mrs-gerstenfeld-rabbis-widow-64.html
1972: Dutifully playing his partto ensure the re-election of Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is athand" in Vietnam. The Novemberelections would come and go and the war would drag on.
1972: Birthdate of IowaCity native Jessica Sharzer, the multi-talented film creator who was awardedThe Horror Writers Association Bram Stocker Award for Superior Achievement in aScreenplay in 2011.
1973(30th ofTishrei, 5734): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1973: Fire broke out ina store in Malverne, NY owned by Arthur Shilkret, the son of Nathaniel Shlkret,the creator the Genesis Suite.
1973: In violation ofthe ceasefire agreement, the Egyptian Third Army attempted to breakthroughsurrounding Israeli; an attempt that was thwarted by the IDF and the IAF.
1973: West German authorities arrested 4 Arabsarmed with explosives.
1974(10th ofCheshvan, 5735): Parashat Lech-Lecha
1974(10th ofCheshvan, 5735): Ninety-three-year-old CCNY graduate and NYU School of Law trainedattorney Bennett E. Siegelstein, the Romanian born son of Paul and ClaraSigelstein, and husband of the former Fannie Lukatcher with whom he had threechildren – Miriam, Jack and Fred who won a Pulitzer Prize – who in1904 as the youngestsitting member of the New York State Assembly, “successfully passed bills thatreduced the charge for telephone calls from 10 cents per call to 7 cents,reduced the charge of gas from one dollar per thousand cubic feet to 80 cents,prohibited making explosives in tenement or apartment houses” and who “was alsoan organizer and/or officer of the Jewish Center of East Side, the Federationof Jewish Charities, the Jewish Publication Society, the Jewish TheatricalGuild, the Grand Street Boys Association, and the Jewish EducationalOrganization” passed away today in Miami Beach after which “he was buried inMount Carmel Cemetery” in Queens, NY.
1974: “Israel and theRiver Plate,” published today, C. L. Sulzberger writes from Herzliya that “itwould probably astonish most people to know that Israel counts on Argentina aspotentially the largest remaining source of Jewish immigration that can answerthis dynamic little country's constant clamor for more people.” To make thingseven better, the Argentinean Jewish community would provide an already-educatedcadre of immigrants.
1975:A Talk With AmosOz,” by Hebert Mitgang published today provides interesting insights into thelife and thoughts of one Israel’s most prominent authors:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/26/home/oz-interview.html
Amos Oz sits in a smallstudio on Jerusalem's Mt. Scopus and writes; shares his thoughts on Chekhov andKafka in the summer with a group of Hebrew University students; returns home onthe weekend to his wife and two daughters at Kibbutz Hulda; pulls guard duty orwaits on tables or picks oranges for hours under the sun. Although only in hismid-30's, Oz remembers the sounds of World War II, of the 1948 War ofIndependence, and of the recent wars in which he has participated as solder orreservist. He compares this to living through his country's American Revolutionand Civil War. With a tank unit on the Golan Heights a few years ago, Oz saw animaginative idea executed to confuse Syrian intelligence. Instead of revealinglocations by names and numbers, a soldier familiar with the world before Hitlerdesignated positions after long-forgotten and destroyed shtetls in Poland. Itwas an unbreakable code that might have been conceived by Isaac Bashevis Singerand fantasized by Chagall. Oz is the only major novelist in Israel who lives ona kibbutz. For a number of years, he wrote in the hours before sunrise after along day of teaching and working the land. Since the publication of hisnovels--"Elsewhere, Perhaps," "My Michael" and "Touchthe Water, Touch the Wind"--the kibbutz has given him greater time off forwriting. "I have the liberty to write, or not to write. My position on thekibbutz is the same as a carpenter or cobbler. In the beginning it wasconsidered a little awkward why my books began to make money. But when I get aroyalty check, I just endorse it and turn it over to the kibbutz treasurer. Onthe other hand, I don't have live on advances, I don't fill out income taxforms, I have no mortgage, I don't have to write book reviews or lecture, andthe only essays I do are for rage. My compensation is time--if I want to shutmyself up or go off for a while, I can. It means a very modest standard ofliving, but I much prefer this life to existence in a literary aquarium."Kibbutz Hulda is a place where the elements are visible, it grows dark,there are sunsets. When I was younger, I could hear the howling of jackals.This can be a rather savage country and, of course, there is a basic Israelisense of danger, an emotional sense of siege. The kibbutz life is quiet but thematerial of fiction is here. You can listen to two elderly women talking of theold country in East Europe and you can also hear of elegant life inVienna--there are nineteen different countries, including the United States,and nineteen different languages represented on our kibbutz." Yet it isnot an insulated life, culturally or socially. Oz is very much aware oftrans-Atlantic writers and writing. As he chain-smokes Europa cigarettes, hetalks of John Donne and Allen Ginsberg, of Gogol and of his great respect forthe late S. Y. Agnon, Israel's Nobel laureate in literature. Melville is stillhis favorite in English, he has read much of Faulkner, and he admires SherwoodAnderson. "With the exception of Saul Bellow," he says, "I'm notterribly happy with the Jewish- American novelists. The others are too wise,their characters exchange punchlines instead of talking to each other, andtheir books are just clever sociology. They don't have the echo of theuniverse; you don't see the stars in their writing." His books have beensomewhat better received in the United States than in Israel, where criticismis partly literary and partly political. And yet there is one major difference.Oz was recently advanced from staff sergeant to second lieutenant and now leadsa little reserve unit that includes two lawyers, a painter, a group ofkibbutzniks, and a literary critic. His blue-green eyes twinkling, Oz says,"It does give me a kind of pleasure to be in command of someone whocriticizes my books."
1975:As Arab states seek to recoup their losses from the Yom Kippur War, the SyrianMinister of Defense arrived in Budapest today.
1976:Yorkshire Television broadcast “Success” the fifth episode of “Dickens ofLondon” with music by Monty Norman.
1978(25th of Tishrei,5739): Alexander Gerschenkron a Russian-born American Jewish economic historianand professor at Harvard who was trained in the Austrian School of economicspassed away. He is the grandfather of author Nicholas Dawidoff
1978(25th ofTishrei, 5739): Eighty-one-year-old William Jacob Mack, Sr. the son of Lydiaand Millard William Mack, who was married to Henritte L. Segal before marryingGrace Bernice Mack passed away today in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.
1979: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held at “The Riverside” for Jessie Itkin, the widow ofDavid Itkin and the mother of Ruth Kohlenberg and Lenore Rosenbaum.
1979: With Child: ADiary of Motherhood , a non-fiction book by Phyllis Chesler, “the eldest ofthree children raised in a working-class Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn,New York” and [ a feminist who gave birth to a son, was published today by T.Y. Crowell.
1979: Funeral servicesare scheduled to at Schwartz Brothers for Arthur Moskowitz, the husband ofAlice Moskowitz, the brother of the later Charles Moskowita and the father ofLouis Moskowitz who was a member of Temple Isaiah of Forest Hills, a supporterof the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center and a founder of theMoskowitz Memorial Lecture Series at NYU.
1979: Funeral servicesare scheduled to be held today at Sherman’s Flatbush Memorial for retired U.SArmy First Lieutenant, Morris Michaels, the husband the late Rose Michaels andthe father of Gloria Weinstein.
1983(19th ofCheshvan, 5744): Eighty-six-year-old Effie Evelyn Hughes Forester, the Devine, TXborn daughter David and Alice Hughes and the wife of Zachary Foster and NathanShulman, whom she divorced passed away today.
1984: Birthdate ofOlympic figure skater Sasha Cohen.
1984: “Firstborn” adrama that marked the film debut of Corey Haim and co-starring Sarah JessicaParker was released in the United States today.
1984: “Body Double” amystery movie featuring Al Israel with a script by Robert J. Avrech, a graduateof Brooklyn’s Yeshiva of Flatbush was released today in the United Statestoday.
1986(23rd ofTishrei, 5747): Simchat Torah
1988: NBC broadcast thefirst episode of “Tattingers” created by Bruce Paltrow and co-starring JerryStiller and Rob Morrow.
1989: In Great Britain,Nigel Lawson, the son of “non-Orthodox Jews Ralph Lawson, the owner of a tea-tradingfirm and Joan Elizbeth Davis” completed his term as Chancellor of theExchequer.
1990(7th of Cheshvan,5751: William Paley, the founder and
https://www.biography.com/people/william-s-paley-9542315
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/27/obituaries/william-s-paley-builder-of-cbs-dies-at-89.html
1992: In a case of “Jewversus Jew” Frank Rich reviews David Mamet’s “Oleanna.”
http://www.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E0CE1DF1E3CF935A15753C1A964958260&_r=0
1992: Today, “PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush signed into law the President John F. Kennedy AssassinationRecords Collection Act” which made Zapruder’s film of the JFK assassination anofficial “assassination record” and the official property of the United StatesGovernment – a designation which the Zapruder contested claiming that itbelonged to the family and demanding that it be returned to them.
1992: The Timesquoted Jewish born financier George Soros as saying: "Our total positionby Black Wednesday had to be worth almost $10 billion. We planned to sell morethan that. In fact, when Norman Lamont said just before the devaluation that hewould borrow nearly $15 billion to defend sterling, we were amused because thatwas about how much we wanted to sell."
1993: Today the 28 NFLowners unanimously named the Carolina Panthers which were purchased by David AlanTepper in May of 2018, as the 29th member of the NFL
1994: Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signeda peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Clinton.
1994: Dame ShirleyPorter, “the daughter and heir of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tescosupermarkets” completed her services as Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London.
1995: Fathi Shikaki, a leader of the terroristorganization Islamic Jihad was assassinated while staying on the island ofMalta. It is claimed that Mossad agentswere responsible for his death.
1997: The New York Times features reviews of books byJewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interesting including Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir by Doris Kearns Goodwin, TheStolen Legacy of Anne Frank:Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman,and the Staging of the ''Diary” by Ralph Melnick and Pantherin the Basement by AmosOz; translated by Nicholas de Lange.
1997: “Before Women HadWings” a made for television movie for which Ellen Barkin won an Emmy wasreleased in Canada today.
1998: Rededication ofthe Oscar Straus Memorial in Washington, DC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Straus_Memorial#/media/File:Worship-monument.jpg
1999: Eighty-eighty-year-oldauthor and screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, one of the many victims ofHollywood’s Blacklist passed away today. (As reported by William Honan)
2000: Palestinian IslamicJihad claimed responsibility for today’s bombing in the Gaza Strip.
2001(9th of Cheshvan,5762): Ninety-six-year-old Laszlo Halasz, the Hungarian born musician whoserved as the first director of the New York City Opera in which capacity hemount the first performance of “The Dybbuk,” a three act opera by David Tamkin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/31/arts/laszlo-halasz-first-director-of-city-opera-is-dead-at-96.html
(As reported by AllanKozinn)
2002: Following asuicide attack that killed 14 people, Israeli forces “supported by tanks andother armored vehicles” moved into Jenin in search of the terrorist cellresponse for this latest artoricyt.
2003: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of specialJewish interesting including And the Dead Shall Rise: TheMurder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney and Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead.
2004: Jewish CommunityRelations Council of San Francisco celebrates its 60th anniversary.
2004: Israel'sparliament approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from theGaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
2005(23rd of Tishrei, 5766): Simchat Torah
2005: Jerry Reinsdorf’s Chicago White Sox won the World Series replacingTheo Epstein’s Red Sox at the top of the major league heap.
2005: Avram Grant announced his resignation as the coach of Israel’snational football team.
2005(23rd of Tishrei, 5766): A suicide bomber who had been relased froman Israeli prison a month ago, struck in Hadera wounding 55 and killing five --Michael Koifman, 68, of Hadera; Perahiya Makhlouf, 53, of Hadera;; SabihaNissim, 66, of moshav Ahituv; Jamil Mohammed Ka'adan, 48, of Baqa al-Gharbiyye;Ya'akov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera; Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera and LarissaGrishchenko, 39, of Hadera
2006: A concert entitled “The Yiddish Voice of Love: Songs of BeyleShaechnter-Gottesmanon ” is presented at the 92nd Street Y in NewYork City. “Schaechter-Gottesman isknown as one America’s premier Yiddish poets and her work has been a source ofinspiration for many Yiddish musicians.A native of Vienna, raised in pre-war Romania, Schaechter-Gottesman wonthe National Heritage Fellowship in 2005.
2007: The New York Timesfeatured a review of World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofasacism byNorman Podhoretz.
2007: In the evening, five kassam rockets fired by the Islamic Jihad fromthe Gaza Strip landed in open fields south of Ashkelon and near Sderot.
2007: “Before the Devil Knowns You’re Dead” the last film directed bySidney Lumet was released in the United States today.
2008: Rutgers Universitypresents a lecture on the psychological effects of terrorism on Israelisentitled "Does the War End When the Shooting Stops?" by ZahavaSolomon, director of the Adler Research Center for Child Welfare &Protection at Tel Aviv University.
2008: The Center for Jewish History presents Jewish Youth and CulturalChange: A Conference on Rethinking American Jewish History which brings together historians, anthropologists,and scholars of culture in order to reflect on the ways in which young Jewsexperienced their lives as Jews and Americans over the past two centuries, andhow communal and cultural change were reflected in anxieties about Jewishyouth.
2008: TheWashington Post features reviews of books byJewish authors and/or on topics of special Jewish interesting including My Father’s Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past inKurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar,Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W.Ryback, and the paperback edition of Janet Malcolm's dual biography of GertrudeStein and Alice B. Toklas, entitled TwoLives which is "a meditation on literature and morality, builtaround the disquieting fact that Stein and Toklas, both Jewish, remained inEurope throughout World War II without either hiding or being swept up in theHolocaust."
2008: Kadima leader Tzipi Livni announced that her efforts to build a coalitiongovernment were unsuccessful, and recommended that early general elections beheld. Livni made the announcement at a press conference held at the president'sresidence in Jerusalem, Beit Hanassi, where she arrived at to meet with President Shimon Peres.
Livni explained that though she hadhoped to build a coalition government, she was not willing to give up on hervalues in order to reach that goal. "I was willing to make sacrifices tobuild a coalition government... but I was not prepared to mortgage Israel'seconomic and political future or the hope for a better future and a differentkind of politics," she said. "There are prices that can be paid,prices that others are willing to pay - but I won't pay them at the expense ofthe State, at the expense of Israeli citizens - just to become a prime ministerin a paralyzed government."
2009: The Center for Jewish History andThe Center for Traditional Music and Dance present “Celebrating a Lifetime inYiddish Song,” conversation andperformance featuring Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, America's leading Yiddishpoet and songwriter, who will be joined by her son Itzik Gottesman, AssociateEditor of the Yiddish Forward. In 2006, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was awardedthe prestigious N.E.A. National Heritage Fellowship, our nation's highest honorin the traditional arts.
2009: Steven D. Levitt (a professor of economics at the University of Chicago)and Stephen J. Dubner (a former writer and editor at the New York TimesMagazine) discuss their new book, "SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling,Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance,"in a program at The Washington Post Conference Center.
2009:At The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival Melvin Urofskydiscusses "Louis D. Brandeis: A Life," his biography of the SupremeCourt Justice (which is the annual Bernard Wexler Lecture on Jewish History)
2009: An activist in Jerusalem'sultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit community was conditionally released from prison today,a day after his arrest for allegedly spraying an ultra-Orthodox woman with teargas in the capital's Mea She'arim neighborhood.
2010: According to Sally Kohn “3 thingsProgressive and Tea Partiers can agree on are “ensuring clean elections,”“ending bailouts and subsidies for Big Business” and the abolition of“Corporate parenthood.”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/3-things-progressives-and-tea-partiers-can-agree-on
2010: George Soros donated $1 million,the largest donation in the campaign, to the Drug Policy Alliance to fundProposition 19 that would have legalized marijuana in the state of Californiaif it had passed
2010: Sam Brylawski is scheduled to deliver a lecture styled Emile Berliner:Inventor of the Gramophone, Part II that is a follow up to an earlier lectureon the life of Jewish-German immigrant Emile Berliner who “emigrated as a youngman from Hannover to Washington in 1870 and became famous internationally forhis many inventions and business acumen.”
2010:The Historic 6th & I Synagogue is scheduled to host Challah& Chutney: An Indian Jewish cooking class where Shulie Madnick, an IndianJewish food blogger, provides lessons in how to prepare a vegetarian Indianmeal, traditional to the Jewish community of India.
2010: The annual trade show of thekosher food industry opened today at the Meadowlands Exposition Center inSecaucus, N.J. More than 6,000 visitors are expected at the two-day gathering,according to organizers. This year’s focus is on the kosher foods of Canada. Thewinners in 18 categories of new kosher food products reflect growing trends inkosher food, including general health and wellness, reduced fat, soyreplacements, natural, gluten-free, spelt and organic. An Australian naturalfoods producer won best new product at this year’s Kosherfest. The 2010 Best inShow prize went to Mountain Bread Wraps, a gourmet food product that isdistributed by No Worries Natural Foods of Fremantle, Wash. There are eightvarieties of Mountain Bread, which are soft flatbreads that roll up. Along withbest overall product, No Worries Natural Foods took home the prize for bestbaked good, bread, grain or cereal. The Best in Show runner-up was Lily Bloom’sKitchen of Shoreview, Mont., honored for its chocolate macaroons.
2011: A program featuring a discussion“Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams” by Charles Kings is scheduled totake place at the Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival inWashington, D.C.
2011: Rabbi Nissan Antine, the AssociateRabbi and Director of Education at Beth Sholom Congregation, is scheduled tolead a class entitled Responsa of the Holocaust at the JCC of GreaterWashington.
2011: The International Conference onthe Life and Work of Israeli author Aharon Applefeld is scheduled to open atthe University of Pennsylvania.
2011: Former Shin Bet security servicedirector Yuval Diskin defended Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today,saying that Abbas is against terrorism
2011: In excerpts of an interviewreleased today from an upcoming interview on Sixty Minutes, the wife of the financialswindler Bernard Madoff claims that the couple attempted suicide by takingpills on Christmas Eve 2008 after his estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme wasexposed. The attempt, which shedescribed as “impulsive” left her “glad” that “we woke up.”
2011: Three Grad rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at the Ashdod and BneiAish areas shortly before midnight today.
2012(10th of Cheshvan, 5773):Fifty-one-year-old television producer and comedy writer Alan Kirschenbaumpassed away today.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20121030,0,2908921.story
2012(10th of Cheshvan, 5773):Eighty-year-old Arnold Greenberg, the founder of Snapple passed away today. (Asreported by Margalit Fox)
2012: Israeli Cellist Elad Kabilio isschedule to lead the musical accompaniment to tonight’s performance of theBallet Next Ensemble at the Joyce Theatre.
2012: “The Other Son” a film about “twoyoung men–one Israeli, the other Palestinian–who discover they wereaccidentally switched at birth and the complex repercussions facing them andtheir respective families” is scheduled to appear for the first time inselected theatres in the United States.
2012: The British government opposed the establishment of the Nuremberg warcrimes tribunals at the end of the second world war because it wanted selectedNazi leaders to be summarily executed and others to be imprisoned withouttrial, according to a contemporary account that was declassified today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/britain-execution-nuremberg-nazi-leaders
2012: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tie-up with far-right coalitionpartner Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman could backfire by eroding their leadahead of Israel’s Jan. 22 ballot, a poll said today. Read more: http://forward.com/articles/165001/netanyahus-hard-right-alliance-could-backfire/#ixzz2ARoW83Xe
2012: “Orchestra of Exiles,” adocumentary that tells the tale of Bronislaw Huberman’s effort to create whatbecame the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra opened today in New York.
2012: Sonja Spear is scheduled to give atalk about Halloween in America after the Shabbat Dinner being held at theUniversity of Iowa Hillel House in Iowa City, Iowa.
2013: “Channel 2 (Reshet)” released thefirst episode of “The X Factor Israel.”
2013: Beginning of Jewish Book Month2013 sponsored by the Jewish Book Council
2013: Sidney A. Katz closed Wolfson’sDepartment Store on East Diamond Avenue in Gaithersburg, MD which had beenstarted in 1918 by is grandparents Jacob and Rose Wolfson.
2013: Jewish Community Center ofNorthern Virginia is scheduled to host “A Bit of Bling.”
2013:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a performance of “DonGiovanni” featuring Israel Wind Soloists:
Oboes:Amir Bakman, Josue Cordero
Clarinets:Danny Erdman, Daniel Gurfinkel
Bassoons:Mauricio Paez, Kristijonas Grigas
Contrabassoon:Isaac Ramon Leyva
Horns:Adrian Solis, Edo Hayek
2013:Australian police charged three people today over an anti-Semitic attack onfive people in Bondi Beach, Sydney. The five Jews who were taken to St.Vincent’s Hospital included four men aged 27, 39, 49 and 66 wearing yarmulkesand a 62-year-old woman.
2013:Eight Israeli citizens and a Palestinian girl sustained moderate injuries whenstones were hurled at the direction of vehicles traveling in south Mount Hebron(As reported by Itmar Fleishman)
2014:Aaron David Miller, the vice-president of the Woodrow Wilson InternationalCenter for Scholars os scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the annual JewishEndowment Fund Brunch at the Hilton Hotel Riverside where Dr. Edward Soll andhis wife Karne will be honred with the presentation of the Tzedakah award. (As reported by the Crescent City Jewish News– the source for everything in the land of the Kosher Cajuns)
2014:The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding Pay Any Price: Greed, Powerand Endless War by James Risen, who has been friends with Yossi KleinHalevi “since they both crashed the Nazi Party headquarters in Chicago asstudent reporters 30 years ago” and recently released paperback editions ofYou Should of Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz and Drama High: TheIncredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town and the Magicof Theatre by Michael Sokolove.
2014:“Dylan Thomas in America: A Centennial Exhibition” is scheduled to open at the92nd Street Y.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/books/a-dylan-thomas-centennial-in-new-york.html?ref=books
2014:In Indianapolis, Lauren and Adam Cantor are scheduled to sing camp songs andshare their memories of being song leaders at Goldman Union Camp Institute at the annual meeting of the Indiana JewishHistorical Society
2014:Amid on-going terrorist inspired violence that has shut down parts of theJerusalem Light Rail, the funeral of the Hamas terrorist who murdered a three-month-oldbaby and injured numerous others who were waiting to board the light rail isscheduled to be buried today. (Editor’snote – So far there has been no condemnation of the murder of an infant by theUN)
2014:“Life in Stills” and “The Hangman” are scheduled to be shown on the first dayof the Israeli Film Festival sponsored by the Tulane University Jewish StudiesDepartment under the leadership of Dr. Brian Horowitz.
2014:"The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey's Journey from France" anexhibition that unveils the history behind the children's character, CuriousGeorge whose creators The Jewish couple, Margret and H.A. Rey fled Paris onbicycles in 1940 to escape the Nazi invasion and eventually made their way tothe United States with their manuscripts and illustrations for the book,"The Adventures of Fifi," which was retitled "The Adventures ofCurious George" is scheduled to come to an at the Argenta Branch of theNorth Little Rock Public Library.
2014:At two o’clock this morning, Israelis change their clocks back to standardtime.
2014:In what would appear to be a check of its “lethal arsenal” Hamas has for theeighth since the end of Operation Protective Edge fired rockets into theMediterranean Sea. (As reported by Cynthia Blank)
2014:“The Arab population in Israel is part and parcel of the Jewish state and willalways be a fundamental component of Israeli society, President Reuven Rivlinsaid today at a memorial ceremony to mark the 58th anniversary of the KfarKassem massacre, during which Israeli border police shot to death 49 ArabIsraelis, among them several women and many children.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/rivlin-to-address-ceremony-marking-kfar-kassem-massacre/
2014(2ndof Cheshvan, 5775): Twenty-two-year-old Yemima Muskara became the second victimof Wednesday’s terrorist attach when she died of wounds suffered when a Hamasacolyte struck nine people with his car outside the Ammunition Hill Light Railstop. (As reported by Gil Ronen)
2015(12thof Cheshvan, 5776): Seventy-eight-year-old physicist Leo P. Kadanoff passedaway today in Chicago. (As reported byKenneth Chang)
http://jfi.uchicago.edu/~leop/
2015:“The Pesach Tikvah social agency in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hosted a reunionfor three of the Ewschwege survivors – Sari Gruenzweig, Esther Epstein and LeaSinger – and Alan Golub the American pilot who in April of 1945 forced a Germanshop keeper to give him the cloth so that these women could have dresses. Formore see http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/nyregion/a-pilot-and-holocaust-survivors-bound-by-the-fabric-of-war-are-reunited-in-brooklyn.html?mabReward=CTM&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0
2015:The 15th Annual National Conference is scheduled to come to an endtoday in Chicago.
2015:A memorial service was held today at St. Paul’s Chapel honoring the late JosephF. Traub, founder of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/2015/joseph-traub-in-memoriam/
2015:The 92nd Street Y is scheduled to host Jennifer Koh & ShaiWosner is the first of the Bridge to Beethoven concert series.
2015:The Tulane University Jewish Studies Department is scheduled to host StephenRussell who will lecture on “A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World.”
2015:The Israeli Film Festival is scheduled to open at Tulane University withscreenings of “Life in Stills” and “The Hangman.”
2015:Twenty-first anniversary of the Peace Treaty between Jordan and Israel.
2016:In Coralville, IA, Jeannette Gabriel from the Iowa Women’s Archives isscheduled to evaluate family “treasures” as part of the Agudas Achim Centennialcelebration.
2016:“A rare, ancient papyrus dating to the First Temple Period” which “has beenfound to bear the oldest known mention of Jerusalem in Hebrew” “was formallyunveiled by the Israel Antiquities Authority” today.
2016:Today “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled Israel’s ambassador to UNESCOin protest of two recent resolutions by the UN cultural body that ignoredJewish and Christian historical ties to Jerusalem holy sites.”
2016:In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host a tour of Jewish Grounds atthe Oakland Cemetery
2016:The Leo Baeck Institute and the Center for Jewish History are scheduled to hosta lecture by David Biale the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor ofJewish History at the University of California at Davis that examines the lifeand times of Gershom Sholem entitled “Sholem In Love: Affective Ties of aJewish Historian.”
2016:Tahneer Oksman and New Yorkercontributor Liana Finck are scheduled to discuss Oksman’s new book How ComeBoys Get to Keep Their Noses: Women and Jewish American Identity inContemporary Graphic Memoirs, drawing connections between graphicstorytelling and the unstable postmodern Jewish self in an event sponsored bythe American Jewish Historical Society.
2016:In Paris, UNESCO”s World Heritage Committee is scheduled to vote on aresolution condemning “Israeli violations in Jerusalem’s Old City” thateffectively denies the historic connection of Judaism and the Jewish people toJerusalem and therefore also undermines the entire story of Jesus as presentedin the Gospels.
2017:““Challah in the CLE,” an event where more than 1,500 local women and girls cametogether to make challah and take part in other festivities, returned to theeast side of Cleveland today as the kickoff event of “a larger weekend-longseries of events that are part of the Shabbos Project Cleveland – the localchapter of an international, grassroots Jewish identity movement to unite Jewsaround the world for a full Shabbat.
2017:In New Orleans, the Uptown JCC is scheduled to host a screening of “TheButler.”
2017:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a fun evening ofChallah baking and Mezuzah decorating.
2017:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host a celebration of DeccanHeritage Foundation's new publication;Jewish Heritage of the Deccan;Mumbai, The Northern Konan, Pune co-authored by Kenneth X. Robbins andPushkar Sohoni with photographs by Surendra Kumar.
2017:Samuel Nortich is scheduled to moderate a discussion “The Pew Jew Study:American and German-Jewry In Comparison” in which Steven Cohen and Robin Juddcompare and contrast the “situations of German Jews a century ago and AmericanJews today.”
2017:Yeshiva University Museum, the Center for Jewish History and the AmericanSephardi Federation are scheduled to present Giuseppe Veltri discussing “TheTemple in Renaissance Imagination.”
2017:Gili Cohen, “an Israeli judoka who won a gold medal” today “at the Abu DhabiGrand Slam judo tournament…had to his sing his own private ‘Hatikvah’ becausethe organized refused to play the Israeli national anthem.”
2018:Today physicist Abraham “Avi” “Loeb andhis postdoc Shmuel Bialy submitted a paper exploring the possibility of theinterstellar object ʻOumuamua being an artificial thin solar sail acceleratedby solar radiation pressure in an effort to help explain the object'snon-gravitational acceleration.”
2018:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host Kabbalat Shabbatservices following by a dinner as part of the “Oxford 3rd Week Bringa Friend Shabbat.”
2018:The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host the “Ensemble Phoenix on earlyinstruments program” where performers us “period instruments.”
2018:The Jerusalem Theatre Piano Festival Is scheduled to host a “Kabbalat Shabbat –Salute to Yankeleh Rotblit.”
2019(27thof Tishrei, 5780): Parashat Bereshit – The Cycle Begins again. For more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2019:The Houston Astros are scheduled to play the Washington Nationals in game fourof the World Series without the services of their Assistant General ManagerBrandon Taubman who was fired on October 24th for directing “offensive,vulgar comments toward female reporters during the celebration of the team’sAmerican League Championship Series victory five days earlier.”
2019:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host Holocaust survivor AgnesSchwartz as she tells “how a Catholic housekeeper claimed her as her own nieceto protect her during the” Shoah.
2019:The Oxford University Jewish Socieity is scheduled to provide Shabbat mealsprepared by its “fantastic chef Joanne” along with hosting Morning andAfternoon services as well as Seudah Shlishit.
2019:Jewish congregations all across America including Temple Beth Sholom in SanLeandro; Beth Israel and Netivot Shalom in Berkeley; Sherith Israel, Emanu-Eland Or Shalom in San Francisco; Beth Jacob in Redwood City, Shir Hadash in LosGatos; Kol Shofar in Tiburon; and Kol Emeth in Palo Alto are scheduled toparticipate in “Show up for Shabbat” part of the response to remembering themassacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue that took place on October 27,2018.
https://www.ajc.org/FindaSynagogue
2020:The Jewish Federation of North America is scheduled to host the second day ofits virtual GA.
2020:The Alliance For Jewish Theatre’s annual conference is scheduled to continueonline for a second day.
2020The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled to host David Blatt as hetalks about “U.S. and Them? American Jews and Israel.”
2020:The Marlene Meyerson JCC is scheduled to host a second virtual screening of“Rosenwald.”
2020:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Michael Sandel as he discusses “TheTyranny of Merit” with David Brooks.
2020(8th of Cheshvan): Yahrzeit of Avraham Elimelchben Yosef Dov, whose nickname was Melech and whose English name was AbrahamLevin and the Hebrew namesake of Mitchell A. Levin and the father of Joseph B.Levin.
2020: Now that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “ruled outrecommendations to place first and second grade students in small capsules inschools, saying the country could not afford the cost of dividing classes intosmaller numbers” Israelis are dealing with the reality that “classes will besplit into two groups and each group will only physically attend school forhalf of the week.”
2021: Yacine Mihoub, 32, and Alex Carrimbacus, 25 went on trialtoday in Paris because they stand accused of murdering Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-oldgrandmother and Holocaust survivor in what authorities call a hate crime.
2021: “Henry Kissinger and Puzzle of the Middle East,” publishedtoday provides a review of Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Artof Middle East Diplomacy by Martin Indyk.
2021: As part of its Women on the Move series, the StreikcerCenter is scheduled to host an evening with Hilma and Meg Wolitzer.
2022:JWI's 5th International Conference on Domestic Violence in the JewishCommunity. "Responding to the Moment: Cultivating Resilience, Healing,Innovation, and Culture Change" is scheduled to come to an end today.
2022: Feast Day of Pope Evaristus, who was “born in Greece of aJewish father named Juda, originally from the city of Bethlehem, reigned forthirteen years, six months and two days, under the reigns of Domitian, Nervaand Trajan, from the Consulate of Valens and Veter (96) until that of Gallusand Bradua.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-evaristus-pope-33
2022: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled topresent a night of landmark discussion on the history of Union Square, andhistoric preservation!
2022: The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County, NJ isscheduled to “welcome back welcomes back Professor Maurice Mahler to present adiscussion on the famous painting known as “The Woman in Gold” by artist GustavKlimt which was once stolen from a Jewish family in the run-up to World War II,and was eventually bought by Ronald Lauder, the son of Estee Lauder, for $130million and is currently on display at the Neue Galerie Museum in Manhattan.
2022: The Streikcer Center is scheduled to offer virtually,Professor
Fred Lazin lecturing on “Jews in American Politics” From the1930’s to the 2020 Presidential Elections” andDr. Daniel Rynhold lecturing on “Maimonides and Spinoza: Friends andFoes?
2022: The JDC is scheduled to host a webinar “A Children’sParadise? The JDC and Selvino, Italy, 1945-48”
2022:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Jon Meachem whose latest work is thebiography And there Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle.
2022: Israeli President Isaac Herzog isscheduled to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office today.
2022(1stof Cheshvan 5783):
RoshChodesh Cheshvan
2023:YIVO is scheduled to present live on Zoom a lecture by Sonia Gollance, a“lecturer in Yiddish at the University College London and Joshua Lambert, the directorof the Jewish Studies program at Wellesley College on “Mixed-Sex Dance andJewish Identity.”
2023:The Leo Beck Institute is scheduled to present Natalia Petrzela as she “moderatesa panel featuring the makers of podcasts working with primary sources andbiography to shed light on historically marginalized communities and injustice.”
2023:The Nashville Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to host the final screening of“Barren,” about a “young childless Hasidic couple.”
2023:As part of its “Jewish Values and Strategy in Wartime” series the TikvahAcademy is scheduled to host a lecture by Richard Goldberg on “Israel MissileDefense: An Overview.”
2023:Fresno County Public Library (Fresno, CA); Milwaukee Public Library (Milwaukee,WI); Scott County Public Library (Georgetown, KY) and
NewYork City College of Technology (CUNY)/Ursula C. Schwerin Library (Brooklyn,NY) are scheduled to begin hosting the “Americans and the Holocaust” travelingexhibition today.
2023:As October 26 begins in Israel Hamas has fired rockets at Eilat and Haifa,Hamas terrorist continue to try and enter Israel and the survivors of KibbutzBe’eri prepare for another day of the “morbid routine” in which “they wake upand board tour buses that have been repurposed into funeral shuttles” so thatthey can attend more funerals of the members of the kibbutz and then gather atnight to hear “Kibbutz leaders recite the names that have officially migratedfrom lists of the missing to lists of the dead.”
(Editor’snote: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are justproviding a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
2024(24thof Tishrei, 5785): Bereshit – begin at the beginning all over again
formore see Weekly TorahReading / Weekly Torah Portion and This Day ... In JewishHistory
2024:In Little Rock, AR this evening, Chabad of Arkansas under the leadership ofRabbi Pinchas Ciment, the ultimate Lamplighter, is scheduled to host a fabrengen
2024:In Jerusalem, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a chamber musicconcert “Viennese Morning with the Miramis Quartet” --- Polina Yehudin, AnnaDoulov, violin; Sofia Lebed, viola and Linor Katz, cello
2024:In partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the OldBroadway Synagogue is scheduled to present Jake Shulman-Ment and Pete Rushefskyas “Klezmer Returns to Ol’ Broadway.
2024:Over 100 planes were involved inthe attack on Irantoday, including thecutting-edge F-35.
2024:All decent people mourn the deaths of Arjwan Manaa, 19, and Hassan Suad, 21,who succumbed to critical wounds sustained when a rocket hit near a minimarketin the town of Majd al-Krum yesterday as well as IDF reservists Maj. (res.) DanMaori, 43; Warrant Officer (res.) Omri Lotan, 47; bottom: Warrant Officer(res.) Guy Idan, 51; Cpt. (res.) Alon Safrai, 28; and Master Sgt. (res.) TomSegal, 28 who were killed yesterday fighting to free Israel from the threat ofHezbollah.
2024:As October 26th begins in Israel, anunprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporterscalling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise their hands,sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 385 in captivitywhile Israelis brace for more rocket attacks by Hezbollah and terrorists basedin Iraq (Editor’s note: this situationis too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as ofthe posting at midnight Israeli time)