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1129: The tombstone of Elijah ben Simon dated October 12, 1129 is amongthe oldest evidence of the Jewish settlement in Nuremberg goes back to the 12thcentury.
1285: The Jews of Munich (Germany) were caught in a claim of blood libelwhich resulted in the death of most the Jewish community. When 180 Jewish survivors refused baptism, they wereburned alive in their synagogue.
1366: In Sicily, Jews were forbidden to decoratethe outside of their houses of worship.
1491: During the BloodLibel tied to the Holy Child of La Guardia, inquisitors arranged for a meetingbetween Yucef Franco and Benitor Garcia, the two Jews accused in this event.
1492: After sailingacross the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights aBahamian island, which led him to believe he had reached East Asia. Hisexpedition, including Hebrew speaker Luis de Torres (the translator) wentashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain,who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, andthe fabled gold and Spice Islands of Asia. Louis de Torres, a Marrano, was the first member of Columbus’expedition to set foot in the Western Hemisphere. He discovered and introducedtobacco into Europe. According to one legend he saw a bird he thought to be apeacock and called it a "tuki" (Hebrew for peacock - I Kings X22).Today that bird is known as a turkey. (There are those who say that the storyof the Turkey is pure fiction. All thatI can say is “Of this I do not know.”)
1504: Thirty-one-year-oldJohn Corvinus, the pretender to the Hungarian throne who expelled the Jews fromTata where they had lived since the second of the 11th century,passed away today.
1576: Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor passedaway. Maximilian reversed the decree that had banished the Jews from Prague.Furthermore, he allowed them to return to other towns in Bohemia and to settlein Austria. The life of the Jews inthese domains was far from tranquil thanks to pressure from the CatholicChurch. But under Maximilian II it wasbetter than it had been under his predecessor Ferdinand.
1589(2nd ofCheshvan, 5350): Rabbi Samuel ben Moses Medina (RaShDaM) passed away inSalonica. Born in 1505, his disciplesincluded Abraham de Boton and Joseph ibn Ezra, and his grandson was Samuel Hayyun, author of “Bene Shemuel “
1711: Charles VI whosought to limit the number of Jews living in Austria and Hungary began hisreign as Holy Roman Emperor. Among his subjects was Ḥayyim Judah Löb Ettinger,the Austian Rabbi who was the son of Eliezer ha-Levi Lichtenstein Ettinger and thebrother-in-law of Chaim Cohen Rapport, who served as a rabbi in Lemberg.
1759(21st ofTishrei, 5520): Hoshanah Rabah observed for the first time since the Britishvictory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham which would lead to Jews beingable to settle in Canada.
1764(16th ofTishrei, 5525): Second Day of Sukkot
1767: In Richmond, VA,Abigail Seixas and Hillel Judah gave birth to Gershom Seixas Judah.
1768(1st ofCheshvan, 5529): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1769: In Savannah, GA,Frances Hart and Mordecai Sheftall gave birth to Moses Sheftall.
1770(23rd ofTishrei, 5531): Simchat Torah
1772(15th ofTishrei, 5533): First Day of Sukkoth
1773: Birthdate ofWallerstein, Bavaria native Sarah Weil, the husband of Isaac Ottenheimer withwhom she had nine children.
1775(18th ofTishrei, 5536): Fourth Day of Sukkoth observed on the same day during theAmerican Revolution that General George Washington wrote from his headquartersat Cambridge to John Hancock concerning plans for providing for the ContinentalArmy during the upcoming winter.
1776(29th of Tishrei,5537): Parashat Bereshit observed on the same day during the AmericanRevolution that “the British landed at Throgs Neck, New York to trap GeneralGeorge Washington's Continental Army on Manhattan Island.”
1778(21st ofTishrei, 5539): Hoshana Raba
1778: In Denmark,Philip Hartvig Rée and Hanna Hartvig von Essen gave birth to Hartvig PhilipRee.
1781: Birthdate ofLudvig Mariboe, one of a small number of Jewish converts to Christianity whohad settled in Norway in the first decade of the 19th century whenJews were not accepted as citizens.
1783(16th ofTishrei, 5544): Second Day of Sukkoth
1783: Rachel Pinto, aLoyalist who had taken the oath allegiance sought “to attempt to obtainindemnification from the British government” for having billeted the King’stroops in her home.
1784(27th ofTishrei, 5545): Gershom Siexas, the Newport, RI born son of Joachbed Levy andMoses Mendes Seixas passed away today after less than two weeks of life.
1789(22nd ofTishrei, 5550): Shemini Atzeret is observed for the first time during thePresidency of George Washington.
1791(14th ofTishrei, 5552): Erev Sukkoth
1793: The cornerstone of Old East the oldest stateuniversity building in the United States is laid on the campus of theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.This is an important date in Jewish history because my sister, JudySharon (Levin) Rosenstein, of blessed memory was a Tar Heel Grad. She met her husband, Larry Rosenstein, ofblessed memory, at Chapel Hill. Allthree of their sons are also Carolina grads. Of such moments are real Jewishhistory made.
1795: In Charleston,SC, Rebecca Moses and Solomon Harby gave birth to “Samuel Dacosta Harby.”
1795(29th ofTishrei, 5556): Thirty-one-year-old Sarah Judah, the daughter of Samuel Judahand the wife of Samuel Meyers whom she had married in 1794 passed away today.
1796(10th ofTishrei, 5557): Yom Kippur is observed for the last time during the Presidencyof George Washington.
1796: Birthdate of“educator, poet and mathematician” Jacob Eichenbaum, the native of Galicia whowas “one of the pioneers of modern education among the Russian Jews.”
1796: Birthdate ofSavannah, GA, native Moses Sheftall , the son of Mordecai Sheftall, whopracticed medicine in his hometown, while also serving variously as a statelegislator and “judge of the county court.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13530-sheftall-sheftail
1796: Israel BaerKursheedt observed Yom Kippur as the only Jew aboard an American sloop sailingto the United States from Hamburg.
1797(22nd ofTishrei, 5558): Shemini Atzeret
1797: In Charleston,SC, Solomon and Rebecca Moses Harby gave birth to George Washington Harby, “awriter and teacher like his older brother Isaac,” the founder of “a boy’sschool in New Orleans” and the husband of Mary Olivia Lucas and then thehusband of New Orleanian Marie UlainePouillott.
1800(23rd ofTishrei, 5561): Jews celebrate Simchat Torah for the first time in the 19thcentury and for the last time during the Presidency of John Adams.
1802(16th ofTishrei, 5563): Second Day of Sukkot
1802: Simon MagruderLevy graduated from West Point today, making the second person and the firstJew to graduate from U.S. Military Academy.
1805(19th ofTishrei, 5566): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1807(10th ofTishrei, 5568): Yom Kippur
1808(21st ofTishrei, 5569): Hoshana Raba observed for the last time during the Presidencyof Thomas Jefferson.
1810(14th ofTishrei, 5571): Erev Sukkot
1810: Today’s marriageof Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Bavaria marked the start of thefirst Oktoberfest.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/244365/oktoberfest-was-invented-by-jews
1812(24th ofTishrei, 5572): Parashat Bereshit read for the first time during the War of1812
1813(18th ofTishrei, 5574): Fourth Day of Sukkot observed on the same day that formerPresident Jefferson wrote to former President Adams on matters of philosophy inone of the examples of how these two political opponents rekindled theirfriendship in their twilight years.
1814: Peter Simeonmarried Sarah Rees at the Great Synagogue today.
1816(20th ofTishrei, 5577): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1819(23rd ofTishrei, 5580): Simchat Torah
1820: Birthdate ofOdessa native and German poet and essayist Wilhelm Wolfsohn, German poet andessayist who declined professorship in Russia because he would have had toconvert and settled in Dresden “where he continued his literary activity.
1822: Birthdate ofSeligman Solomon, the German born American businessman and philanthropist bestknown for his support of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York City
1824(20th ofTishrei, 5585): Sixth Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during thePresidency of James Monroe.
1826: In Kingston,Jamaica, Rebecca Cohen and David Alexander gave birth to Frederick Alexander.
1827(2st of Tishrei,5588): Hoshana Raba
1829(15th ofTishrei, 5590): First Day of Sukkoth
1830: Birthdate ofAntony Mayer de Worms, a London born descendant of Amschel Moses Rothschild andSchoenche Lechnich
1831: Joel Coleman Joelmarried Sophia Samuel at the Great Synagogue today.
1834(9th ofTishrei, 5595): Erev Yom Kippur; Kol Nidre
1837(13th ofTishrei, 5598): Seventy-five-year-old Talmudist, interpreter of Halacha andmoel Rabbi Akiva Eger passed away today in Poznan
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112047/jewish/Rabbi-Akiba-Eger.htm
1838(23rd ofTishrei, 5599): Simchat Torah
1839: In Worms,Germany, Nathan and Wilhelmina Mindel Blum gave birth to Amanda Anna Rothschild,the wife of Frank Rothschild and “mother of Simon Frank Rothschild; EliasRothschild; Alfred Redgis; Maurice Patsy Rothschild; Harry Rothschild; LouisFrank Rothschild and Minnie R Frauenthal.”
1842: In Reckendorf,Bavaria, Nathan and Rosa Walter gave birth to Moritz Walter the husband ofSophie Walter.
1842: Birthdate ofLondon native Rose Nelson, the wife of Louis Allen and the mother of Nancy,Samuel, Sylvia, Rachel, Leah, John and Nathaniel Allen.
1843: Abdallah BenCassan married Mary Ann Talbot in London today.
1845: Abraham Einsteinand Helene Moos gave birth to Heinrich Einstein one of the six siblings ofAlbert Einstein.
1845: In Galena, IL,Alexander Lewis, the Charleston born son of David and Rachel Benjamin Lewis andhis wife Rebecca Lewis gave birth to Catherine Jacobs, the mother of HenryJacobs.
1846(22nd ofTishrei, 5607) Shmini Atzeret observed for the first time since the start ofthe Mexican-American War.
1846: Birthdate ofBohemia native and American photo-chemist Louis Edward Levy, “a pioneer in theengraving industry” and “inventor of a process of photo-chemical engravingwhich has enabled newspapers to print half-tone pictures directly from thestereotype plate who “was a founder and president of the Association for Reliefand Protection of Jewish Immigrants” and the author of the pamphlet “TheRussian Jewish Refugees in America”
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9897-levy-louis-edward
1847(2nd ofCheshvan, 5608): Israel Jacobs, the Dutch born son of Ravel Beer Jacobs and EvaIsrael de Jongh and brother of Mathilde Jacobs passed away today.
1847: In Germany,Gussie Daniels and Jacob Sarua gave birth to Annie Joseph, “the Chairman of theHouse Committee of the Home of the Daughters of Jacob” starting in 1897 and thewife of Samuel Joseph.
1848(15th ofTishrei, 5609): First Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during thePresidency of James K. Polk.
1852: In Minsk, JosephDubov and his wife gave birth to Marcus H. Dubov who served congregations inGrodno, Russia; Graudenz, Prussia; Sioux City, Iowa; and Canton, Ohio beforebecoming Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Moshe in Evansville, Indiana
1853(10th of Tishrei,5614): Yom Kippur
1853: Rabbi Raphall ledservices today at the Greene Street Synagogue in New York.
1854(20th ofTishrei, 5615): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1854: Birthdate of IdaKuhn, the daughter of Clara Regina Kuhn who became Ida Cohen after marryingEduard Cohen
1856: In Poznan, SimonBaruch Schefftel, the Breslau born son of Alexander Baruch Schefftel andRoeschen Scheffte and his wife Henriette (Gitel) Schefftel gave birth to RenateSchefttel.
1859(14th ofTishrei, 5620): Erev Sukkoth observed on the same day that San Franciscobusinessman Joshua Norton, “the self-proclaimed Emperor Norton “issued edictsabolishing the U.S. Congress.
1859: In Hannover,Germany, Anna and Louis Oppenheimer gave birth to Dr. of Jurisprudence ErnstOppenheimer, the husband of Clara Amalie Oppenheimer.
1861(8th ofCheshvan, 5622): Parashat Bereshit
1862:In Yanceyville, NC, Bavarian native Susannah Fels and her husband Lazarus Felsgave birth to Rosena Fels.
1863:Ninety-one-year-old to John Singleton Copley, the 1st BaronLyndhurst who in 1852, as a member of the House of Lords favored a bill designto remove the disabilities imposed upon persons refusing to take the “oaths ofabjuration” which kept Jews from serving in the House of Commons passed awaytoday.
1863: In Pennsylvania,Rudoph H. Kauffman, the Creswell, PA born son Anna and Isaac Kaufman, and hissecond wife Anna Kaufman gave birth to Abraham Kauffman
1863(29th ofTishrei, 5624): Lydia Bauman, the infant daughter of Sarah and David Baumanpassed away today after which she was buried in the Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.
1864: The General Newscolumn reported today, Wednesday, that Monday’s livestock market was fairlyactive despite “the absence of the Hebrews, who” were “observing the Day of theAtonement, one of their principal fasts.” Tuesday’s market was more active thanusual, in part, because “on account of the numbers of Jews present.”
1864: In Iowa, “a dozenraiders disguised as Union soldiers terrorized Davis County, where they lootedresidences and kidnapped and murdered three Iowans near Bloomfield.”
1865: In a columnstyled “Our London Correspondence,” The New York Times reported that, “If youwant a present proof that Mammon rules here, take the fact that yesterday Mr.PHILLIPS, a gentleman of the Hebrew persuasion, was elected Lord Mayor ofLondon. Not that a Jew has not teeth, hands, organs, dimensions, and all that,as well as any other man; but, in the face of English prejudice, money andmoney alone could make a man who is a Jew by birth and religion, member ofParliament or Lord Mayor.” “Mr. Phillips” referred to Benjamin Samuel Phillips,a prominent British citizen and leader of the Anglo-Jewish community who hadbeen elected Lord Mayor in September of 1865.He served with such distinction that Queen Victoria knighted him for hisservice. Phillips was the second the Jew to hold the post; the first beingDavid Salomons. His son, Sir George,would also serve as Lord Mayor. The level of anti-Semitism displayed in this itemsstands in stark contrast with the detailed and sympathetic description of Jewishholidays that this paper was publishing in the 19th century.
1865(22nd of Tishrei,5626): Shmini Atzeret
1865: Sarah NaarCardozo, the New York born daughter of Dr. Daniel Moses Levy Maduro Peixottoand Rachel Lopes Mendes Peixotto and her husband Abraham Hart Cardozo gavebirth to William Benjamin Cardozo, the husband of Jennie Douglas Furst and thefather of Mildred Rosalie Furst.
1866: Birthdate ofMorris Aaron who would be buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Natchitoches, LAwhen he passed away in 1943.
1870: Henry Mosler was aGerman-born Jewish “painter who documented American life, including colonialthemes, Civil War illustrations, and portraits of men and women of society” andhis wife Sarah Cahn Mosler gave birth “Arthur Rembrandt Mosler, an engineer whomarried the famous soprano and voice teacher Estelle Liebling.”
1872(10th ofTishrei, 5633): Yom Kippur
1873(21st ofTishrei, 5634): Hoshanah Rabah observed for the first time during an economicdownturn known as the Panic of 1873.
1873: Mary Plonsky Falkand William Louis Bendel gave birth to Rose Benel who became Rose Bendel Kahhwhen she married Sigmund Kahn in 1893.
1873: In Paris, GustaveOllendorff, the son of Prof. Hermann G. Ollendorff and Dorothea Ollendorff whowas the president of the Union Fracasie de la Jeunesse and his wife MarieVirginie Virginie Joséphine Ollendorff gave birth to Jeanne Berthe Maria Bloch,the wife of Maruice-Meyer Bloch.
1873: “Curiosities ofSuperstition” published today traces the history of “host desecration”including a description of the 38 Jews who were burned to death in 1510“because they had tortured the consecrated host until bled.”
1874: In Galicia,Esther Seitelbach and Philip Brill gave birth to CCNY and NYU graduate, Dr.Abraham Arden Brill, the Columbia trained medical doctor and husband of K. RoseOwen who was a protégé of Sigmund Freud for whom he translated documents and who was “a member of the psychiatricdepartment at Columbia while “serving as chief of clinic of psychiatry at NYUMedical School .
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.163.3.386
1875: In Latvia, MendelMorein and Beilo Rochel Mendelson gave birth to Yaakov Ben Zion Morein whogained famed as Rabbi Yaakov Ben Zion HaCohen Mendelsohn who served acongregation in Glasgow, Scotland before settling in the United States where hefounded “his own shul, Congregation Beis Hamedrash Hagadol.”
1876: Two days after hehad passed away, Augustus Davis, the son of Henry Davis and the former EllenLewis and the husband of “Ann (Annie) Davis” with whom he had two children wasburied today at the “Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1877: An applicationwas made to Judge Barrett on behalf of the two children of the late AbrahamWeisberg to order the Public Administrator to turn the two hundred dollars thatconstituted his estates to Rabbi Ash of the Ludlow-Street Synagogue so that hecould send the money to the children living in Poland. Weisberg was a Jewish peddler who had beenmurdered two years ago in New York’s Westchester Country. The judge denied the application saying aguardian for the minor children would have to be appointed before going forwardwith the dispersal of funds.
1878(15th ofTishrei, 5639):First Day of Sukkoth
1878(15th ofTishrei, 5639): S. S. Man.Maximilien, Baron von Königswarter, the Dutch bornFrench banker who supported Napoleon III passed away today.
1878: The strictanti-Socialist legislation passed today outlawed, for all practical purposes,the German Socialist Democratic Party whose leaders included Eduard Bernstein
1879: “Fish in Morocco”published today which was devoted to describing the rich variety of shell-fishused by cooks in Morocco pointed out that these are “utterly tabooed” when itcomes to the local Jewish population.
1880: Today, inCincinnati, OH, William Ornstein, the German born son of Helene Levy and HartOrnstein and President of Ornstein and Ricewho was also a member of B’nai Yeshurun Temple married Caroline Winkler.
1881: At Beth Elohim,Rabbi David Levy officiated at the marriage of Herman Leidloff, of Berlin andSelna Davega of Charleston, SC.
1882: It was reportedtoday that the Prime Minister told members of the Hungarian Chamber ofDeputies, that the recent anti-Jewish riots in Pressburg “might …degenerateinto” an event “of a socialistic character.” He declared that he would nottolerate “such excesses.”
1884(23rd ofTishrei, 5645): Simchat Torah
1884: In San Francisco,Minnie Thalhimer, the New York City born daughter f Rabbi Dr. Aaron AlbertSiegfried Bettelheim and Anna Henrietta (Yetta) Bettelheim and her husbandJacob E. Thalhimer gave birth to William M. Thalhimer, M.D., the husband ofCarlin Thalhimer
1884: As the effects ofthe sever economic recession, which has necessitated the closing of many majoremployers, including the Falls Cotton Mills, grip New England, it is reportedthat the Polish Jews living in Baltic, a city 8 miles north of Norwich, Conn,are reduced to begging from door to door.
1884: Roderick Waters,who is Christian and Michael Hauman, who is Jewish nearly came to blows todayas they vied for the affections of a Jewish widow living in St. Mark’s Place.
1884: “News of theWorld” published today described the change in fortunes for Mahmoud Pasha, akaJacob Freund The Sultan has brought himback from the Island of Rhodes where he had been living in exile since 1876 andrestored him to his former position of prominence. Mahmoud Pasha was a Polish born Jew namedJacob Freund who had fled Hungary after the revolution there failed and, afterconverting, became “the ablest of Turkish Generals.
1885: David J. Seligmanand Adelaide (Addie) Seligman gave birth to Gladys Seligman who, after shemarried Henri Wertheim became Gladys Wertheim.
1885: “The Only One InAmerica” published today described the opening of the first and only“Hebrew-Christian Church” in the United States.Located in New York, it is the only congregation that has beenestablished by Jewish converts to Christianity. (Editor’s note – Jews for Jesustype movements are obviously note a creation of the late 20thcentury.)
1886: In Pittsburgh,PA, “Maria and Salomon Stossel” gave birth to Jeno Stossel who gained fame asJacob Stacel, “one of four Jews named to sit as judges of the ClevelandMunicipal Court…by Governor Cooper in December of 1930” who was the husband ofMinnie W. Stacel.
1886: “The Anchroia’sLong Trip” described the perilous ocean crossing of a steamer that that had itspropeller shaft brake causing havoc among the crew and passengers. Fortunately,only two passengers died in the chaos, one of whom was an unnamed Polish Jewwho was buried at sea.
1887: In Munich,“Isidor Landauer and Josephine Pepi Guggenhimer” gave birth to “Dr. Karl EliasLanduer, a colleague of Sigmund Freud, who after seeking refuge from the Nazisin Sweden and the Netherlands ended up being murdered at Bergen-Belsen just monthsbefore the end of WW II
1888: Birthdate ofMoscow native and Harvard undergraduate Mark Edward Evarts who in 1889 came tothe United States where he attended George Washington University, practiced lawand work in the U.S. Patent Office
1888(7th ofCheshvan, 5649): Just two months before his 76th birthday, JosephMoses Levy, the English newspaper editor and publisher whose propertiesincluded The Daily Telegraph passedaway.
1888: “The FifteenthSeason” published today described the first event of 1888-1889 season sponsoredby the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.Among those who addressed those attending the gala at Chickering Hallwas Chauncey M. Depew. (Depew was not Jewish. He was an attorney who becamePresident of the New York Central Railroad and U.S. Senator from New York. Hiswillingness to speak at the YMHA gathering gives an indication of theimportance of the organization.) Thespeeches were followed by an evening of choral music with violin accompaniment.
1889(17th ofTishrei, 5650): Shabbat shel Sukkoth
1889: Max Maretzek, theMoravian born American opera conductor and composer, celebrated his GoldenJubilee
1889: Birthdate ofProvidence, RI native and Boston University trained attorney William W. Bearmanwho served as “assistant city attorney” in Los Angeles.
1890: “Russia’s MillingIndustry” published today attributed the decline in the country’s grain millingindustry and the decline in the price of corn to “the persecution of the Jews.”
1891(10th of Tishrei,5652): Yom Kippur
1891: Birthdate ofBoston native Jennie Loitman the Boston University trained lawyer and juristwho when she married attorney Samuel Barron, Jr. became Jennie Loitman Barron,the name under which she broke legal ground in numerous arenas including being thefirst woman to serve as a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/barron-jennie-loitman
1891: Several “temporary places of worships havebeen established” in New York city “public halls” to accommodate the largenumber of people attending services, especially on the Lower East Side.
1891: In Columbus, GA,more than fifty Jewish owned stores closed because of the Day of Atonement.
http://columbusjudaism.org/contact-u/
1891: In Brooklyn,Sophie and Pincus Weinberg gave birth to Sidney James Weinberg
http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-02276.html
1891: An Indictment ofRussia” published today described the view of the Jews that Nicholas I whoreigned from 1825 to 1855 was “a Second Haman” whose 30 year reign “was filledwith special hardship for” them. Much to their surprise, the reign of AlexanderIII has proved to be even worse.
1891: Birthdate of Edith Stein the convert toCatholicism who became a nun taking thename "Teresia Benedicta ac Cruce."Sister Teresia left Germany for Holland after the Nazis came topower. In 1942, the Nazis ordered thearrest of Catholics of Jewish origin living in Holland. This includedclergy like Sister Teresia. SisterTeresia was once again Edith Stein. Shedied in Auschwitz in August of 1942. Ifpeople who converted to Catholicism are really Catholics it is hard tounderstand how the Pope gave up these members of his flock. Eventually, EdithStein would be made Saint. Cynics wouldsay that in one respect the Church has remained consistent. It loves Jews, as long as they are dead. Thefate of Edith Stein gave those studying in Cedar Rapids something to discusswhen they studied the Papal response to Hitler and the Holocaust.
1891: Today, Jews inMissouri are upset by the recent attack John T. Blake the manager for WilliamWarner, the Republican candidate for governor has made on Mr. Isaac Isaacs,Secretary of the Republican clubs that included a “roast of the Jews.”
1892(21st ofTishrei, 5653): Hoshana Rabah
1892: In New York, aconference of Orthodox rabbis which has dealt with changes espoused by theReform including doing away requiring circumcision as part of the conversionceremony, is scheduled to come to an end
1892: CarlosPellegrini, who has a German-Jewish brother-in-law, completed his term ofoffice as President of Argentina during which he expressed his support forBaron Hirsch’s plan to settle a half a million Russian Jews in the ArgentineRepublic.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02EEDB1E3BE533A25754C0A9649D94619ED7CF
1892: A part of the 400thanniversary of Columbus’ voyage, a celebration which Jewish communitiesparticipated, “school children recite the original ‘Pledge of Allegiance” whichdid not contain the phrase “under God” – a phrase that was added in the 1950’sas a measure designed to “defeat” the Soviets during the Cold War.
1892: In Kiev, BessieMozzor and Benjamin Gerson gave birth to Tufts and U of Chicago trained socialworker Samuel Gerson who finally settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he wasSuperintendent of the Jewish Welfare Administration and the executive directorof the Omaha Y.M. and Y.W.H.A a should not be confused with his contemporaryBenjamin Norton Gerson, the Ukraine born, University of Pennsylvania silvermedal winning wrestler.
1893: Julius Bien, thePresident of B’Nai B’rith is scheduled to address the opening session of athree day affair marking the Golden Anniversary of the Jewish fraternalorganization.
1893: In Austria, Lenaand Hyman Rome gave birth to New Yorker Sigmund Jacob Rome the husband of BlumaFine whom he married in 1919.
1893: Birthdate ofTelsea, Russia native Herman Ilson who in 1907 came to Brooklyn after which heserved in WW I, became “a retail clothing merchant and a trustee of the HebrewOrphan Asylum while raising a daughter with his wife Minnie.
1894: Alfred Gobert,“the handwriting expert from the Bank of France,” was summoned to the rueSaint-Dominique where he spent the day examining the treasonous documentssupposedly written by Captain Dreyfus.(For more see The Dreyfus Affair by PiersPaul Read)
1894: Two days aftershe had passed away. Fanny Goldberg, the “wife of Abraham Goldberg” was buriedat the “West Ham Jewish Cemetery on Buckingham Road.”
1894: This evening,General de Boisdeffre told Commandant du Paty de Calm that “he had been chosento arrest Dreyfus.” Du Paty tried toavoid the task, but the general insisted.
1895: Birthdate Pilsa,Russia native, Philip Lehrman who in 1905 came to the United States where hegraduated from Fordham University Medical School, after which her married Wanda Scheps withwhom he raised two children – Howard and Marilyn.
1895(24th ofTishrei, 5656): Parashat Beretshit
1895(24th ofTishrei, 5656): Seventy-eight-year-old German politician and jurist IsaacWolffson, the son of “businessman Meyer Wolffson” and the father AlbertWolffson who served in the Hamburg Parliament for thirty years, passed awaytoday.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14994-wolffson-isaac
1895 The LouisianaSection of the National Council of Jewish Women, which has sent money to theSt. Louis Shoe Fund and the Chicago Jewish Training School was formed today.
1896: Birthdate ofLodz, Poland native Victor Jeremy Jerome the American Communist who wasconvicted under the Smith Act and whose interests were varied enough that heedited the works of Lenin and started writing a novel based on the life ofJewish philosopher and outcast Baruch Spinoza.
https://spartacus-educational.com/Victor_Jerome.htm
1896: Medical Collegeof Ohio trained physician Henry Wald Bettman, the Cincinnati, OH born son ofMatilda Wald and Bernard Bettmann married Rose Grace Kauffman after which hepursued a career as a pathologist and gastro-endourologist that included servedas chief of medical service at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati and serving asa professor of medicine at Cincinnati Medical College.
1897(16th ofTishrei, 5658): Second Day of Sukkot
1897: Birthdate ofAleppo, Syria native Joseph Ashear, the founder, in the United States, ofAshear Brothers, a firm manufacturing and importing handkerchiefs who was thefounder and first President of the Magen David Community Center in Brooklyn,the division chairman of the UJA for seven years and the recipient of numerousleadership award including the UJA’s Masada Medal.
1897: In Kansas City,clothing store owner Jacob Epstein and his wife gave birth to Jane Epstein, thefuture wife Goodman Ace who became half of the comedy team known as “EasyAces.”
1897: Expensesestimates submitted at today’s meeting of the Board of Estimate andApportionment included: Aguilar Free Library $41, 500; Maimonides Free Library$5,000; Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum $324,992; Hebrew ShelteringGuardian Society $89,000; Sanitarium for Hebrew Children $5,500; Mt. SinaiHospital $26,000
1899: One day after hehad passed away, “Solomon Shock” was buried at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery inLondon.”
1899: In Louisville,KY, Max Lee Bear, the Greenville, AL born son of Henrietta and Louis Bear andPensacola, FL wholesale grocer who was President of Congregation Beth ELmarried Bella Rosenau today after which they three daughters – Leonia, Eliseand Maxine.
1899: In Ardmore, OK,Julius and Rebecca (Meyer) Kan gave birth to O.U. and NYU educated WW I veteranSimon Stiefel Kahn an engineer for Ford Motor Company and holder of numerouspatents who was the husband of Frances Solomon with whom he had two daughters.
1900(19th ofTishrei, 5661): Fifth Day of Sukkoth and on the Jewish calendar yahrzeit ofSolomon Judah Leib, the historian and poet who passed away in 1867.
1900: USS Holland(SS-1) the United States Navy's first modern commissioned submarine which wasbuilt by the Electric Company under its president, German-Jewish born Americanbusinessman Issac Leopold Rice was commissioned today
1900: Birthdate of NewYork native Solomon Joffee, the husband of Mary Chafetz with whom he had onechild.
1901(29th ofTishrei, 5662): Parashat Bereshit
1902: The Zola Literaryand Benevolent Association held a memorial meeting tonight at Saltzman’s Hallwhere the chairman said that “we are gathered to hear the deeds of” Zola “thechampion of the Jews” and whom Jacob Sebolsky said, “No Hebrew, no matter wherehe can be found can ever resist to offer his services or money in extolling thename of Zola.”
1903(21st ofTishrei, 5664): Hoshana Rabah
1903: Birthdate ofWalter Jurmann the “Austrian born composer” who moved to France after the Naziscame to power and then to the United States where Louis B. Mayer employed himat MGM.
1904: The Board ofDirectors of the Hebrew Infant Asylum announced that it has completed thepurchase of a plot of about eighty lots at King’s Bridge Road, Aqueduct Avenueand Tee Taw Avenue” on which it intendsto erect three buildings at a cost of $125,00 which will accommodate frombetween 400 and 500 infants.
1904: Rabbi Moses H.Goldberg, the Bialystok born son of Elka Kriviansky and Zeb Hirsh Goldberg whobegan serving as the spiritual leader of Congregation Anshe Sfard in NewOrleans in 1905 married Miriam Rubin today.
1904: Birthdate ofSamuel Zimelman, who served as the “cantor of Hochshule Synagogue in his nativeŁomazy, Poland who in 1946 came to the United States where he served as thechazzan at Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh in Portland Maine and who is the fatherof Cantor Solomon “Sol” Zim.
1905: “Czar Aids JewishStudents” published today reported that the “Emperor Nicholas has decided toturn over to the National Assembly the final settlement of the question of theadmission without restriction of Jews to the universities and other generallegislation relative to the status of the Jews.”
1906(23rd ofTishrei, 5667): Simchat Torah
1906: In Australia, SirIsaac Alfred Isaacs began serving as Puisne Justice of the High Court ofAustralia.
1907: Birthdate ofChicago native Phil “Mickey” Weinbtraub the outfielder and first baseman whobegan his career with Loyola Univesity, went on to a record shattering seasonwith the minor league Nashville Vols before playing in the majors with theGiants, Cards, Reds and Phillies.
1907: The TennesseeVolunteers coached by Izzy Levene defeated the football team from theUniversity of Georgia for the second straight victory of the season.
1908(17th ofTishrei, 5669): Chol Hamoded Sukkoth
1908(17th ofTishrei, 5669): Fifty-seven-year-old Isaac Asher Isaacs, the “son of Asher andEsther Isaacs” and husband of “Hannah (Annie) Zyberlast Isaacs with whom he hadsix children and who had been presented with a “Testimonial from the ManchesterCongregation of British Jews” in February of 1908 “in recognition of herservice as secretary for twenty seven years” passed away today.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/7ee4f634-b9e4-48fc-86ca-c19433b7543e
1909: The Bible Classwhich had studied the Book of Genesis at Temple Beth Ahabah is scheduled tomeet this afternoon to study the Book of Exodus
1909: Mrs. Sam Cohen,the President Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Association (LHBA) is scheduled tochair a fund raising meeting today.
1910(9th ofTishrei, 5671): Erev Yom Kippur
1910: Birthdate ofCanadian screenwriter Ben Barzman who fell afoul of HUAC and ended up on one ofits infamous blacklists.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059553/
1911(20th ofTishrei, 5672): Sixth Day of Sukkot
1911(20th ofTishrei, 5672): Ninety-one-year-old Hannah Kuttner, the widow of Rabbi HenryKuttner who “served United Hebrew Congregation, St. Louis, Missouri as seniorrabbi for over 10 years” passed away today in St. Louis after which she wasburied in the United Hebrew Cemetery.
1911: Multipletelegrams were received in London from Malta, Gabes and Djerba, appealing forhelp for the many thousands of Jewish refugees who had come from Tripoli.
1912: Birthdate ofElizabeth H. Friedman, the wife of Sylvan N. Friedman, the Jewish politicalleader who served in both houses of the Louisiana state legislature.
1912: While playingCenter for Georgia Tech led the Yellow Jackets to a 20-3 upset victory overAlabama despite the fact that he broke three fingers in the game which provedto be an inspiration to his underdog teammates.
1912: Harry FleishmanAffelder, the Pittsburgh, PA, born son of Jacob Isadore Affelder and Catherine"Kate" Affelder, married Catherine “Kate” Affelder with whom he hadtwo children – Ruth and Lewis.
1913(12th ofTishrei, 5674): Mrs. Beile Weinberg passed away today.
1913: Birthdate ofLandstuhl, Germany native Annelise Abraham.
1914(22nd ofTishrei, 5675): Shemini Atzeret
1914: “Turkey GathersTroops” published today reported that the Turks “are showing much energy” inseveral of its Middle Eastern territories including “Palestine where they areconcentrating troops at a number of points and fortifying important places onthe coast and on routes to the interior.”
1914: Sir MathewNathan, “the second of businessman of Jonah and Miriam Jacob Nathan and thebrother of Colonel Sir Frederick Nathan and Sir Nathanial Nathan, began servingas the Under-Secretary for Ireland.
1914: “The Committee onForeign Relations this morning ordered a favorable report to the Senate of thepeace treaty with Russia” even though “the committee has received no word fromthe Department of State indicating that any progress has been made towardnegotiating a new treaty of commerce with Russia to take the place of thetreaty of 1832 abrogated by the United States because of Russia’s treatment ofAmerican Jews.”
1914: Birthdate ofMauricio Leib Lasansky, “an Argentine-born master printmaker who was equallywell known for a series of drawings depicting the horrors of Nazism…” (Asreported by Margalit Fox)
1915: AssistantUnder-Secretary of State Bertam Cubitt wrote to General Sir John Maxwell “thatto grant the ZMC (Zion Mule Corps) pensions that would be granted to enlistedBritish soldiers would be unduly liberal” as they were only “temporaryemployees” – a status he ascribed to men who wore the uniform of His Majesty’sforces and many of whom “permanently gave their lives” under fire at Gallipoli.
1915: Edith LouisaCaviell, the British nurse who in addition to providing medical aid tobattlefield casualties regardless of their nationality, was executed today bythe Germans today for helping Allied soldiers escape after a court martial inwhich she had been represented by Sadi Kirschen whose Jewish family would beforced to flee Belgium 25 years later when the Nazis came to power.
1915: “More Rioting In Russia” published todaydescribed fighting in the streets of Moscow which has included civiliansbuilding barricades in the city and which the “aristocracy and merchants“attribute to the disloyalty of the Jews and the granting to them of the rightsof suffrage” – a condition that they will cure by returning to “the customs ofthe ancient Muscovite Empire” making it “once more a land of orthodox Slavs.
1915: Birthdate of NewYork native Leonard “Len” Maidman the NYU all-star basketball player, 1940graduate of NYU Med School “who served as a Captain in the Medical Corps”during WW II after which he practiced medicine in Connecticut for forty years.
1915: Alexei Khvostoff,the new Russian Minister of the Interior was reported to believe that “the stepalready taken to extend the rights of the Jews must be followed up” and that“the only restriction that should be maintained with regard to the Jews afterthe war is the prohibition of the purchase of real estate.”
1915: As of today, according to Professor R.J. H.Gottheil, the Temporary Chairman of the University Zionist Society, EugeneMeyer, Jr. is the society’s new president and E.L. Thurman is the society’s newSecretary.
1916(15th ofTishrei, 5677): Sukkoth
1916: During thePunitive Expedition into Mexico led by General Pershing “Rabbis sent to theMexican border for the holidays by the Army and Navy Committee and by theCentral Conference of American Rabbis” are scheduled to Sukkoth services inTexas “at McAllen, El Paso, San Antonio, Brownsville, Laredo and Eagle Pass”while “elsewhere along the…border Succoth will be observed out of doors or intenets which will prove peculiarly appropriate in view of the fact that Succothcelebrations are held whenever possible in out-of-door booths in token of theharvest origin of the holiday.”
1916: Dr. J.L. Magnes,a Brooklyn born member of the American Jewish Relief Committee arrived inWarsaw where he will be distributing “funds collected in the United States” to“the poor Jews in Poland.”
1916: During tonight’sColumbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall sponsored by the New York Chapter ofthe Knights of Columbus former Assemblyman Aaron J. Levy delivered a speech inwhich he said “When I was invited to take part in these exercise, I had somedoubt of my right to be here but when I recalled that five members ofColumbus’s crew were Jews and that another Jew prominent at the” Spanish Court“financed that famous expedition of discovery by contributing $250,000” leadingme to “believe that I have the best right to be here.”
1917: “For the Tsar andHoly Russia,” “a new reactionary organization” conducted a “vigorousanti-Jewish campaign” and distributed millions of copies of circulars urginganti-Jewish uprisings.”
1917: In Tsaritsin,“Bankers and Trust Companies establish a company to sell insurance againcasualties and losses resulting from pogroms.”
1917: In Lubashevka,“peasant women attack Jewish shops demanding food at lower prices” followed bylooting of the shops with the goods being taken by force.
1917: Three hundredmore Jewish refugees are expected to arrive shortly in New York from Palestinewhich can be added to the total of 91 saved souls who arrived yesterday afterhaving been driven from their homes in Jaffa and Jerusalem.
1918: Thirty-one-year-oldBoston University and University of Pennsylvania educated Bernhard Ostrolenk,the Warsaw born son of Abraham A. and Roaslia (Cherniakow) Ostrolenk anddirector of the National Farm School in Pennsylvania married Esther A.Weinstein.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ostrolenk-bernhard
1918: Dr. MadisenClinton Peters, the former pastor of the Bloomingdale Church and author whoseworks included Justice to the Jew, The Jews as Patriot, TheWit Wisdom of the Talmud, The Jews in America and the Jews WhoStood by Washington, passed away after losing his week-long fight withSpanish Influenza.
1918: Upon hearing thatthe German government had accepted President Wilson’s condition fornegotiation, “the German born Zionist Arthur Ruppin noted in his diary how he‘went for a long walk and continuously repeated to myself the one word: Peace!How much it means.’” Ruppin’s joy was premature, and it would be another monthbefore Peace would become a reality.
1919: The New York Times includes a review of Pastand Present: A Collection of Essays by Dr. Israel Friedlander, a notedmember of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary and an author ofseveral volumes on Jewish history.
1919: “Poet, essayist,thinker, satirist” and “collateral descent of Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza,Benjamin de Casseres, the Philadelphia born son of Charlotte Davis and David deCasseres married Bio Terrill after which he pursued a varied career that includedserving on the staff of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and contriubintgarticles to the NY Times, Herald Tribune and the Jewish Exponent.
1920: The Kane StreetTemple, one of the oldest congregations in Brooklyn is scheduled to host theopening night of its Bazar and Fair at the 23rd Regiment Armory.
1921(10th ofTishrei, 5682): Yom Kippur
1921: In New York City,attorney Allen Blaustein and his wife the former Rose Brickman gave birth tolaw professor and “constitution drafter Albert P. Blaustein.
1921: According to NewYork City political leaders yesterday's drop in voter registration, as comparedwith both the first day's registration and that of last year was mainly due tothe fact that the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur began yesterday evening. “In many instances Jewish registrationinspectors left their booths at sundown” which delayed registration for thosewaiting in line. “The Jewish holidaykept the registration down on the East side of Harlem” and other East sidelocations because Jews did not come out to register on the eve of YomKippur. The importance of observing YomKippur was a universal factor among Jews regardless of affiliation as can besen by the fact that Jacob Schiff, who was serving as Chairman of one of theregistration boards and a co-religionist serving on the board “quit work atsunset.” When Schiff was challenged bywaiting voters he replied, “We are sorry, but you observe your holidays and wemust observe ours.” The Board ofElections admitted that it had not even considered the disruption that wouldtake place when voter registration coincided with the most important holiday onthe Jewish calendar.
1922(20th ofTishrei, 5683): As Europe endures Fascist violence in Italy and Greeks andArmenians flee from the Turks taking control of Thrace, Jews observe Sixth Dayof Sukkoth
1922: Indianapolis, IN,banker Sol S. Kiser, the Ft. Recovery, OH, born son of Fannie Steinfeld andGottlieb Kiser married Kate Weis today in Cleveland after the death of hisfirst wife Dina Salzenstein in 1917.
1923: In Brooklyn,David Slutsky, a cab driver and Mae Rodin Slutsky, a manicurist gave birth toJean Evelyn Slutksy who gained fame as Jean Nidetch, founder of WeightWatchers. “The story of the establishment of Weight Watchers Internationalbegins with the personal story of a New York housewife who wanted to succeed atlosing weight. In 1963, Mrs. Jean Nidetch , a Jewish woman in her forties, whohad experienced many failed attempts at losing weight and gaining weight,decided to lose weight forever.” Sobegins the saga as described by the Weight Watchers Program. There are those who say the program is veryJewish. Like Moses, Ms. Nidetch startedwith a list of foods you could not eat and book.
1923: “Solomon Golubgave a recital of his own compositions” this “evening at Town Hall” where theYiddish songs that he sang “had its own complete story…reflecting variousaspects of Jewish life.”
1924: Birthdate ofErich Gruenberg, the Austrian born violinist who studied at the JerusalemConservatory and “led the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra from1938 to 1945.
1925: Birthdate ofJulius Bronstein, a 34 for year veteran of the Chicago Police Department
1925: In what will beone of the few glory moments in the history of the Washington Senators, theNats with Buddy Myer at 2nd base take a three games to lead over thePirates in the World Series.
1925: Birthdate of AlanHoward Abelson, the New York native who became an editor of Barron’s magazinewhere he wrote “a pugnacious, sagacious stock market column that denounced WallStreet hucksterism and routinely rocked share prices (As reported by DouglasMartin)
1925(24th ofTishrei, 5685): Thirty-two-year-oldPolish born circus performer Siegmund Breitbart known as the “Strongest Man inthe World” passed away today in Berlin after having injured himself during aperformance.
1926: In the Bronx,William Schlesinger, “a pants salesman” and his wife Lillian who was “amilliner gave birth to “printer, historian, composer and printer Carl TobiasSchlesinger.
1926: Birthdate ofPolish native Chajm Marcczak, the Holocaust survivor who spent part of the warin Liege.
1926: Birthdate of Dr.Ruth L. Kirschstein, a National Institutes of Health pathologist who helpeddevelop and refine tests to ensure the safety of vaccines for polio andmeasles, organized the NIH response to the AIDS epidemic, and became the firstwoman appointed director of an NIH institute.”
1927(16th ofTishrei, 5688): Second Day of Sukkoth
1927: Anna Boudin, Mrs.Jacob Panken and Florence Dolowitz organized the first meeting of the Women'sAmerican ORT (WAO). Originally founded in Tsarist Russia in the 1880s, ORT (theRussian acronym stands for Organization for the Distribution of Artisanal andAgricultural Skills) was organized to provide vocational training to helpimpoverished Russian Jews become more economically self-sufficient. TheAmerican arm of ORT, founded in 1922, was only open to men. Dolowitz andBoudin, who were married to ORT officers, founded WAO to assist in funding ORTprograms intended to help Eastern European Jews devastated by World War I.Starting with fundraising concerts and bazaars, WAO grew in response to therise of Nazism and the plight of Jewish refugees. Women's American ORT becamean independent organization in 1940, helping to fund International ORT'sgrowing number of vocational high schools in Europe, India, Israel, and NorthAfrica. Today WAO focuses primarily on fundraising for ORT schools and programsaround the world, including schools in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.These programs assist disadvantaged individuals and communities to be self-sufficient by providing education and training in employment skills. Theorganization also maintains a public policy platform advocating for qualitypublic education, increased literacy and women's rights, the separation ofchurch and state, the elimination of anti-Semitism, and the fostering of Jewishcommunities worldwide. (As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archives)
1927: It was reportedtoday that Justice Jacob Panken has rejected the endorsement of the CommunistParty because, the Communists “believe in dictatorship and ridicule anddenounce the principles and practices of social democracy, while the SocialistParty believed that whatever “changes are to be made in the United States mustthe result of education and the intelligent use of the ballot”
1928: On the 33rdanniversary of his death, a bust of Jurist Isaac Wolffson was placed “in thevestibule of the Court of Appeals Building” in Hamburg.
1929: The British HighCommissioner sends a telegram to the government in London warning that theArabs of Palestine had recently obtained a considerable number of arms fromTransjordan and the Hedjaz which they intended to use in attacks on the Jewishpopulation.
1930(20th ofTishrei, 5691): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1930: Birthdate of NewRochelle native Jack Gottlieb, a noted composer who “served as President of theASJM for a number of years.”
http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=3548
1931: “Count Helldorf,charged with having been the leader of anti-Semitic rioting in theKurfersten-Damn on September 12 which was allegedly staged by NationalSocialists, and he co-defendant Ernst, obtained a change of venue today andwere remanded for trial sine die.”
1931: It was reportedtoday that “resolutions protesting further restriction of immigration andagainst discrimination in colleges and other educational institutions, wereadopted at a meeting of representatives from several hundred Jewishorganizations in the Hotel Pennsylvania where delegates were chosen for theninth annual session of the American Jewish Congress.
1932: “The FlagLieutenant,” a British made WW I movie featuring Abraham Sofaer as “MehetiSalos” was released in the United Kingdom today by Woolf and Freedman.
1933(22nd of Tishrei,5694): Shmini Atzeret
1933: In Los Angeles,garment workers, most of whom were “Mexicans” began a strike organized by RosePosetta (Rakhel Peisoty) of the ILGWU who believed that “Mexican garmentworkers” could be the backbone of a West Coast organizing movement.
1933: William E. Dodd,FDR’s newly appointed Ambassador to Germany, defied the conventional wisdom andgave a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin in which he washighly critical of the Nazi regime. Amongthe high-ranking Nazis in attendance were Goebbels and Alfred Rosenberg.
1934: In Newark, NJ,“Carolyn (Kaltenbacher) and Jerome Meier, a wholesale wine and liquor salesmangave birth to “the oldest of their three sons” Cornell University trainedarchitect Richard Meier, the winner of 1984 Prtizker Architecture Prize.
1934: In Salem,Massachusetts, Jacob Joseph Kekst, a Hebrew school teach from Lithuania and hisPalestinian born wife Hannah gave birth to Gershon Kekst, the founder Kekst andCompany.
http://www.jtsa.edu/the-gershon-kekst-graduate-school
1934: U.S. premiere of“The Gay Divorcee,” a musical directed by Mark Sandrich with a score by MaxSteiner and filmed by cinematographer David Abel.
1935(15th ofTishrei, 5695): Sukkoth
1935: “Jubilee,” “amusical comedy with a book by Moss Hart premiered on Broadway tonight at theImperial Theatre
1935: Birthdate of“historian and biographer” John Cooper, , whose works included A SocialHistory of Jewish Food and TheLife Cycle of the Baghdadi Jews of India that he wrote with his wife,psychoanalyst Judy Cooper.
1936: Thanks to theefforts of the “Arab Kings of Iraq, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia and the Emir ofTransjordan, the general strike being conducted by the Arabs in Palestine whichhas been marked by death violence has been called off without resolving their attemptsto put an end to Jewish immigration and land purchases.
1936: It was reportedtoday that during the first six months of this year, the American Jewish JointDistribution Committee had provided assistance to “2,047 Jews long resident inGermany but natives of other lands” including 700 from Poland who were forcedto “return home” by the Nazi regime as well as assistance to “1,993 people toleave small towns and villages for larger German cities because residence inthe smaller communities was no longer possible for them.”
1936: It was reportedtoday that philosopher and historian Dr. William Durant said “I trust thatbefore my days are end, I shall the Germany of Lessing, Kant, Goethe andSchiller restored to the moral fellowship of the nations; and the Jewish peopleliving once more in peace and honor with Germans in Germany and with Arabs inPalestine.”
1937: “Green Fields, an“American comedy-drama Yiddish film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and JacobBen-Ami” was released today in the United States.
1937(7th ofCheshvan, 5698): Fifty-four-year-old dentist Charles D. Jaffee the Russian bornson of Helen New Newmark and Salomon Jaffee and the husband of KatherineWeisbord who in 1905 came to the United States where he manufactured clothing,and was a member of Temple Emanuel and Union Temple in Brooklyn passed awaytoday in New York.
1937(7th ofCheshvan, 5698): Seventy-eight-year-old Geroge da Madouro Peixotto, theCleveland born son of Hannah and Benjamin Franklin Peixotto passed away todayin White Plains, NY.
1938(17th ofTishrei, 5699): Third Day of Sukkoth
1938: “Secretary ofState Cordell Hull said today that the United States Government was givingcareful attention to all phases of the Palestine question and that he might bein a position to make a statement in the near future.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/10/13/98200052.html?pageNumber=16
1938: “TenRepresentatives in Congress from Illinois joined today to protest against aplan, now reported being considered by the British Government to abandon thepolicy of establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine.”
1939: The first Jewishdeportees left Vienna and Bohemia.
1939: Today, on his 32ndbirthday, rare book dealer Hans P. Kraus “arrived with the 1494 Vérard Columbusletter gaining him his first piece of publicity as a bookdealer in America: anewspaper column on the Columbus letter arriving on Columbus Day.”
1939:HansFrank is appointed governor-general of Occupied Poland.
1940(10th of Tishrei,5701): Yom Kippur; it is also Shabbat.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/october/05.asp
1940: Governor Lehmanof New York missed the celebration of Columbus Day “for the first time in tenor twelve years because” today was “the holiest of the Jewish religion and hewas attending to religious duties and abstaining from public appearances.
1940: All soldiers whohad received a furlough starting yesterday at noon so they could observe YomKippur were required to return by the sounding of taps this evening.
1940: For the firsttime in 940 years, non-Christian religious services were held in Iceland.Approximately twenty five Jewish soldiers from England, Scotland and Canadagathered with eight Jewish refugees and Hendrik Ottósson, who had married aJewish woman to observe Yom Kippur. Ottósson, served as their Shammash. TheIcelandic authorities offered a chapel in Reykjavík's old cemetery. Ottóssonfound the suggestion insulting and rented a hall of the Good Templars' Lodge.They borrowed the only Torah scroll available in town.
1940:Onthis Jewish Day of Atonement, German loudspeakers in Warsaw, Poland, announcethat all Jews in the city must move to the Jewish ghetto by the end of themonth.
1940 (10th of Tishrei,5701): In one of those calendar quirks, Yom Kippur, Shabbat and Columbus Dayall fell on the same day. As the Nazisswept across Europe, sermons provided different ways to respond to the challengeand observe the Day of Atonement. Rabbi Stephen Wise told congregants at theFree Synagogue that it was not enough for England to resist Hitler. The resistance to Hitler must take the formof renewed and deepened loyal to morality which “in its origins isJudeo-Christian.” Rabbi Jonah Wise asked those at Central Synagogue “how muchliberty can we lose and still retain from freedom” while Rabbi David de SolaPool told those at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue “Our effective answerto the tyrannies of other lands is to build here a better society of free,unexploited happy men and women. It is within our power to reconstruct societyand build it in the light of divine wisdom.”
1940(10th of Tishrei,5701): The Nazis executed 3,400 Jews in Galicia.
1940: It was reportedtoday that due to the start of Yom Kippur yesterday evening, “slaughters hadreduced the kill of those classes generally dressed kosher.”
1940 Sixty-four-year-oldWilliam Henry Dieterich, the anti-Semitic and somewhat pro-German” Senator fromIllinois who was opposed by his fellow Democrat Henry Horner, “the first Jewishgovernor of Illinois” passed away today.
1941: InStanislawow, Eastern Galicia, all of the Jews living in the district, weredriven out of their homes into the center of the town where massive graves hadbeen dug. SS troops and Ukrainian militia commence machine gunning of thegathered populace. Estimates of the number of Jews murdered range from a low of6,000 to a high of 12,000. For the Jews, it was Hoshanah Rabbah, (the GreatPrayer day.) The Ukrainian and German killers throw a "Bloody Sunday"victory celebration.
1941: At Stanislawow,the Germans and “Local Ukrainian nationalist” murdered another 10,000“intellectuals, professionals” and Jews two months before the Ghetto wasestablished there.
1941:AtSabac, Yugoslavia, hundreds of Gypsies are murdered. Jews were the primaryvictims of genocide, but not the only victims.
1941: The head of theUniversity of Louisville expresses his gratitude for a bequest by the lateSupreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandies to the school’s Law Library. About two decades ago, Justice. Brandiesselected the Law School of the University of Louisville as beneficiary ofspecific current gifts from him because, in his judgment, this university ismuch less liable to political influence than institutions under complete publiccontrol.
1941(21st ofTishrei, 5702): Hoshanah Rabah
1942(1st ofCheshvan, 5703): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1942: At the verymoment when the Nazis and their allies are wiping out Yiddish culture, Oy IsDus a Leben, “a musical cavalcade in two acts, opened at the Moll PiconTheatre.
1942(1st ofCheshvan, 5703): Sixty-year old Berthold Ullman, the Czech born son of Berthaand Hermann Ullman was murdered today at Auschwitz.
1942 : In Shavei Tzion,“Ruth and Reuben Lewinbuk (or Levenbuch)” gave birth to “Daliah Lewinbuk (orLevenbuch” who gained fames as “actress, singer and model” Daliah Levy, aprotégé of Kirk Douglas and the wife of Charles Gans with whom she had four children– Kathy, Rouben, Alexander and Stephen.
1942: Birthdate ofIllinois native Lewis Michael Eisenberg, the holder of an MBA from Cornell theco-founder of the “equity firm Granite Capital International Group and U.S.Ambassador to Italy.
1943: A delegation ofthe American Zionist Emergency Council “led by Dr. Israel Goldstein, presidentof the ZOA” today called on the British Ambassador “to protest against theaction of the Palestine Government in converting the recent trial” of “two membersof the Jewish community into an international affair designed to serve as amedium to discredit the Jewish Agency for Palestine.”
1943: Today marks thefirst full day of a drive announced last night by Youth Aliyah in Brooklyn toraise one hundred thousand dollars which will be used to rescue Jewish youth in“Nazi-dominated countries” and settle them in Palestine.
1944: Gerda Baier wasdeported to Auschwitz where she was subsequently murdered.
1944(25th ofTishrei, 5705): The wife and young daughter of chess champion Salo Landau weregassed today at Auschwitz.
1945: Forty womenrescued from Nazi concentration camps were the first to be sheltered in the newsixty-bed wing opened” today “at the Women’s League for Palestine home atHaifa. In New York, “Mrs. David L.Isaacs, who head the Palestine committee of the league” described “the welcomegiven the group rescued from Bergen-Belsen, Buchwald and Auschwitz.”
1945: Britishauthorities continued their search of a secret radio that was “attempting torally Jewish resistance forces.” Shortlybefore a secret radio station “that was attempting to rally Jewish resistanceforces…broadcast the announcement ‘Listen to the voice of Israel! This is not a terrorist station. This is the station of Hebrew resistance.Never again will Jews be deported from their homeland. Our patience is over. No power in the world shall break ourdetermination.”
1946: “Nobody LivesForever” starring John Garfield (Jacob Julius Garfinkle) was released in theUnited States today.
1947: In Chicago MikeWallace and Norma Kaphan gave birth FOX newsman Christopher “Christ” Wallacewhose career choice begs the question of nature versus nurture since his fatherwas the CBS news personality and his step-father was Bill Leonard, President ofCBS News.
1947: Ninety-four-year-oldGeneral Sir Ian Hamilton the commander of the Mediterranean ExpeditionaryForced during the Gallipoli Campaign which meant he commanded the first Jewishfighting unit since the days of Bar Kochba and who “carried out a spotinspection” of the newly formed Zion Mule Corps “and was delighted with theworkman-like appearance of the Corps after so little training” passed awaytoday.
1948(9th ofTishrei, 5709): Erev Yom Kippur; in the evening Kol Nidre is chanted for thefirst time in almost two thousand years in an independent Jewish state.
1948(9th ofTishrei, 5709): Eighty-year-old Alfred Kerr passed away today.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11056.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006082
1948: Egypt, Syria andLebanon recognize the All Palestine Government.Jordan’s King Abdullah had already refused to grant this entity anypower in territory seized by his Arab Legion.In other words, there was to be no Palestinian control over what is nowcalled the West Bank and the Old City section of Jerusalem.
1949(19th ofTishrei, 5710): Fifth Day of Sukkoth
1949: “ChristopherColumbus” a biopic featuring Abraham Sofaer was released in the United Kingdomtoday.
1949: “Love Happy,” aMarx Brothers comedy that included a walk-on appearance by Marilyn Monroe wasreleased today in San Francisco.
1949: Casper Platt whohad been “nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a seat on the United StatesDistrict Court for the Eastern District of Illinois” “was confirmed by theUnited States” today.
1950: CBS broadcast thefirst episode of “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” which was acontinuation of their vaudeville act that had been a hit on radio as well.
1951(12th ofTishrei, 5712): Sixty-five-year-old English born Australian war hero anddiplomat Leonard Keysor who won the Victoria Cross lost his battle with cancertoday.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/keysor-leonard-maurice-6946
1952(23rd ofTishrei, 5713): Simchat Torah is celebrated for the last time during thePresidency of Harry S. Truman, “the godfather of Israeli independence”
1953: The “Caine Mutiny Court Martial” opened atthe Plymouth Theatre in New York. ThisBroadway dramatic hit was based on the novel The Caine Mutiny by HermanWouk. Wouk has had a successful writingcareer dealing with both non-Jewish and Jewish themes. More to the point, he has been successfulwithout compromising his very strong belief in traditional Judaism and thestate of Israel.
1953(3rd ofCheshvan, 5714): “Suzanne Kinyas, and her two children (3-year-old girl and a 1and a half year old boy) were killedtoday when a Palestinian Fedayeen squad infiltrated into Israel from Jordan”and “threw a grenade into a civilian house” at Yehud, a village eight mile eastof Tel Aviv. (Fedayeen was the 1950’sterm for the Arab terrorists. Over thedecades, they change their names but not their murderous aims.)
1954(15th ofTishrei, 5715): Sukkoth
1954: In Philadelphia,PA, Congressman Joshua Eilberg and his wife Gladys gave birth to Amy Eilberg,the first female rabbi ordained by the Conservative movement.
1955(26th of Tishrei,5716): Eighty-two-year-old Arthur Hammerstein, the son of Oscar Hammerstein Iand uncle of Oscar Hammerstein II, who “was an opera producer and one of thewriters of the song "Because of You," a major hit (#1 for 10 weeks)for Tony Bennett in 1951 passed away today. Hammerstein wrote the song in 1940.It was used in the film I Was an American Spy (1951). He was the producer ofthe musical comedies The Firefly (1912), and Rose Marie (1924), which he didalong with his nephew. He also was the producer of the film The Lottery Bride(1930), and made an appearance as himself in an episode of the film seriesPopular Science in 1949. Arthur Hammerstein was born and educated in New YorkCity. Arthur's daughter, Elaine Hammerstein was a well-known stage and filmactress.”
1956: In response to arequest from a very worried Jordanian King, the British government informedIsrael that, in accordance with the treaties with Jordan and Iraq, Britainwould go to the aid of both these countries if they were attacked by Israel. The irony was that Israel was negotiatingwith France and Britain over plans to attack Egypt and seize the Suez Canal.
1957(17th ofTishrei, 5718): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth
1957: Publication ofAyn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged which, in 2007, will be described as one ofthe most influential business books ever written.
1957: In Philadelphia,attorney and Maryland state legislator Joe Chasnoff and his wife, “psychologistSelina Sue Prosen” gave birth to “Oscar winning documentarian Debra HillChasnoff” whose death was announced to the public by “her wife, Nancy Otto.” (Asreported by Sam Roberts)
1958: Fifty sticks ofdynamite exploded in the entryway of Atlanta's Hebrew Benevolent Society -- theoldest and largest Reform congregation, commonly known as the Temple. Five men,all associated with white separatist groups like the National States' RightsParty, were tried and acquitted. No one was ever convicted for the crime. Thebombing came as Rabbi Jacob Rothschild was becoming increasingly active in theCivil Rights movement.
1959(10th ofTishrei, 5720): Yom Kippur
1959: The Play of theWeek televised David Susskind’s production of Media as its first broadcast.
1960(21st ofTishrei, 5721): Hashanah Rabah
1960: In Washington,DC, attorney and WW II veteran Ira Ressler and Dorothy Ressler gave birthGeorgetown and Columbia educated businessman Antony P. Ressler, the husband ofJami Gertz whom he married in 1989 and the co-founder of equity firms ApolloGlobal Management and Ares Management who also owns stock in the Atlanta Hawsand the Milwaukee Brewers.
1960; U.S. premiere of“Inherit the Wind,” the cinematic adaptation of the play co-authored by JeromeLawrence, directed and produced by Stanley Kramer.
1961: “Let It Ride” amusical with lyrics and music by co-authored by Jay Livingston and starring SamLeven opened tonight at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York.
1961: Today the WestEnd production of “Do, Re Mi” featuringthe music of Jule Styne and the lyrics of Betty Comden and Adolph Green openedat the Prince of Wales Theatre where it “ran for 169 performances.
1962(14th ofTishrei, 5723): Erev Sukkoth
1962: As Jews prepareto observe Sukkoth, “Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum, president of the ReligiousZionists of America said that the festival ‘symbolizes man’s dedication to thenoble principles of freedom, learning and religious truth.’”
1963: Archaeologicaldigs began at Masada, Israel. Masada wasthe site of the famous “last stand” during the “War Against Rome” that endedwith the destruction of the Second Temple.The archaeological dig was important because it gave credence to Jewishhistory. Of course the debate continuesto this day as to who was right – the Jews of Masada or the Jews of Yavnah.
1963: “A virulentanti-Semitic book, Judaism Without Embellishment, by Trofim Kichko waspublished in the USSR today.”
1966: Today, The SydneyMorning Herald reported that seventy-eight-year-old cellist and composer GadalSaleski had passed away way four days ago in Los Angeles.
1966(28th ofTishrei, 5727): Seventy-three-year-old Russian born composer and convert toCatholicism Arthur-Vincent Lourie whofled his homeland after the Communist came to power and fled Europe after theNazis came to power passed away today in Princeton, NJ.
1967: In discussing his latest archeological finds,Dr. Yigael Yadin, Israel's leading archeologist contends that King Solomon mayhave indulged a passion for building during his long reign from 960 to 922B.C., but he did not build the stables at Megiddo
1968(20th ofTishrei, 5729): Shabbat Shel Sukkoth observed for the last time during thePresidency of Lyndon Johnson who had helped to rescue Jews clandestinely andstood by Israel during the war in 1967.
1969(30th ofTishrei, 5730): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1969: The CitizensUnion announced today “that it preferred Abe Stark's Liberal party rival inthis fall's election for Borough President of Brooklyn, suggesting that Mr.Stark at 74 was hampered by age.”
1969(30th ofTishrei 5730): Seventy-two year old Dr. Max Schur, the friend and confidant ofSigmund Freud passed away
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3969756-freud
1970(12th ofTishrei 5731): Fifty-nine-year-old “Mrs. Diana Slavin Forman, wife of Rabbi MaxL. Forman of the Hollis Hills Jewish Center, 210‐10 Union Turnpike,Flushing, Queens” with whom she had five children – Gayle, Cyrelle, Jane, Donnaand Dr. Barr Forman – and the author, sociologist and creator of theworld-famous Bible Dolls passed away today.
https://www.exploringjudaism.org/author/rabbi-max-forman/
1971(23rd ofTishrei, 5732): Simchat Torah
1972: “Lady Sings theBlues” a biopic featuring Sid Melton as “Jerry” was released in the UnitedStates today.
1972: “The King ofMarvin Gardens” a drama directed by Bob Rafelson, the co-producer and co-authorof the script and starring Ellen Burstyn was released in the United Statestoday.
1973: Today, Yossi BenHanan was wounded for the third time, but refused to evacuate. He had led afurther attack during which his tank was hit by a Sagger anti-tank missile, andBen Hanan was wounded for the fourth time and rescued from behind enemy linesby Yonatan Netanyahu, a member of the IDF's elite Sayeret Matkal
1973: Moshe Korensafely ejected from his F-4E Phantom Jet after it fell victim to Lebaneseanti-aircraft fire and was recovered by IDF forces.
1973: Ran Goren and MichaOren were safely recovered by IDF forces after their F-4E Phantom Jet was shotdown by an Egyptian MiG-21.
1973: A week after theYom Kippur War began; Avraham Lanir scored his third and last aerial kill,downing a Syrian MiG-17 in the vicinity of Kuneitra while flying Mirage 5
1973: As many as 15,000Iraqi troops had reached the Syrian front and were prepared to attack Israeliforces. The Israelis lucked out and spotted a lead contingent of fifty Iraqitanks. When the Iraqis reached to within three yards of the outnumbered Israelis,the IDF tanks opened fire destroying 17 tanks and halting the assault TheSoviets completed a twenty-four-hour air lift during which eighty large Soviettransport planes landed in Syria filled with a wide variety of arms that morethan compensated for the Syrian losses during the first week of fighting. Onthe southern front, Egyptian tanks and troops continued to pour across the SuezCanal posing a new threat to the Israelis.
1973: In the midst of the perilous first week ofthe Yom Kippur War a dispute broke out between the Sephardic Chief Rabbi andhis Ashkenazi counterpart.
1974: Tenpeople participated in the second of two demonstrations that took place inMoscow today during which demands were made for the granting of exit visas.
1975:Birthdate of Aharon Mordechai Rokeach the only childand heir of the current Rebbe of Belz, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach. Born inJerusalem, Israel, he was named after his father's uncle, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach,the fourth Belzer Rebbe, and his father's father, Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgorai.
1976: YorkshireTelevision broadcast the third episode of “Dickens of London” with music byMonty Norman
1977(30th of Tishrei, 5738): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
1977(30th of Tishrei, 5738): Seventy-seven-year-oldCCNY and NYU Law School graduate Lewis E. Zorn, the former “president of theBrucks Division of the American Hospital Supply Company” and “a founder of theAmerican Friends of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem” who was the husband ofLillian Zorn with whom he had one son, Richard, passed away today in MountVernon, NY.
1978: Representativesof Israel and Egypt opened peace talks in Washington, D.C.
1978: First baseman anddesignated hitter Ron Blomberg who began his career with the Yankees played hislast major league game with the Chicago White Sox.
1980(2nd ofCheshvan, 5741): Sixty-seven-year-old New York native and George WashingtonUniversity trained attorney Arthur Weissman, “a prominent authority on medicaleconomics where served as a senior executive of the Kaiser-Permanente MedicalProgram” who two sons, Ronald and David, with his wife Louise, passed awaytoday.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1980/10/14/111300139.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1981: Yuli Edelstein,Victor Fulmacht, Alexander Kholmianskii, Vladimir Kuravsky, Vladimir Magarikand Boris Teplitsky were among the“more than a hundred Moscow Hebrew teachers and their students who wrote aletter of protest to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the systematic andcontinuous KGB persecution of refuseniks engaged in studying and teaching theHebrew language.”
1982(25th ofTishrei, 5743): Eighty-two-year-old publisher Robert Paul Michel Calmann-Levythe son of Gaston Michel Calmann-Lévy and Hélène Koenigswarter passed away today.
1984: It was reportedtoday that memoirs of Jaroslav Seifert, the newly named Nobel Prize winner inLiterature, contain a “selection, titled 'Russian Bliny,' is about RomanJakobson, a Russian born Jewish scholar who emigrated to Czechoslovakia afterWorld War I and came to the United States during World War II.”
1984: “Garbo Talks” acomedy directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by Elliot Kastner, with music by CyColeman and cos-starring Ron Silver, Steven Hill, Howard Da Silva and HarveyFierstein was released in the United States by MGM/UA.
1984: A month afterhaving been released in the United States “Blood Simple” a crime file “written,edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen which was the directorialdebut of the Coens and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld”was screened today at the Toronto International Film Festival.
1985(27th ofTishrei, 5746): In Cincinnati, Ohio, ninety-year-old Betty Fabe, the daughterof Max and Sara Hexter and the wife of Isadore Fabe passed away today.
1986: “3 NamedCo-Winners of Jabotinsky Awards” published today reported that “a formerPresident of Costa Rica, a former prime minister of Sweden and Soviet havenamed as the recipients of the Jabotinsky Prize Defend of Jerusalem Award..”
1987(20th of Tishrei,5748): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
1987: The New JewishAgenda (NJA) “organized a Jewish contingent and Havdallah service at today’sMarch on Washington for gay rights.”
1987(20th of Tishrei,5748): Oliver Louis Zangwill an influential British neuropsychologist passedaway today. Born in 1913, he was Professor of Experimental Psychology,University of Cambridge, 1952-81, then Professor Emeritus. He was the son ofIsrael Zangwill and the grandson of William Edward Ayrton. He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 1977
1988: Israeland China signed a trade agreement and made plans for establishing diplomaticrelations.
1989: “Last Exit toBrooklyn’ the movie version of the novel by the same name starring Stephan Langand Jerry Orbach and with music by Mark Knoplfer was released in West Germanytoday.
1989:A Syrian Air Force major flying a Soviet-made fighter-bomber landed in Israeltoday, stunning Israeli officials who said the pilot had asked for politicalasylum. Syria asserted that the
1990(23rdof Tishrei, 5751): Simchat Torah
1990:“Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael” a comedy co-starring Winona Ryder, directed byJim Abrahams and featuring Valerie Landsburg, Dinah Manoff and StephenTobolowsky was released in the United States today
1992(15thof Tishrei, 5753): First Day of Sukkoth observed for the last time during thePresidency of George Bush.
1994:In a letter written to Sir Martin Gilbert today, “Jack (Izrael) Unikoski” whohad been one of only a thousand teenage boys liberated by the Americans atBuchenwald on April 11, said that on VE Day he felt “joy that Germany had lostthe war” but he also realized that for him “the liberation had come too lateand he too had lost the war, having lost his whole family” including hisparents, sister and brothers including his “older brother Isser who had died ofhunger in the Lodz Ghetto at the age of 19.”
1995(18thof Tishrei, 5756): Fourth Day of Sukkoth
1995(18thof Tishrei, 5756): Ninety-two-year-old, Nathan S. Fishbeing, the son of Louisand Sarah Miller Fishbeing and the husband of Evelyn L. Goldberg Fishbeinpassed away today after which he was buried at the Lincoln Park Cemetery inWarwick, RI.
1997: In “NeighborhoodReport: Corona –New Worshipers AreBane, Not Balm, for Old Synagogue,” Charlie Leduff describes the challengesfaced at Tifereth Israel as an influx ofBukharan Jews face the aging members of the nine decades oldsynagogue.
1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authorsand/or about topics of special interest to Jews including The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have SavedMore Jews From the Nazisy by William D. Rubinstein, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Townand the World of Polish Jewsby Eva Hoffman and God & The American Writer by Alfred Kazin.
1998(22nd ofTishrei, 5759): Shmini Atzeret
2000: Ben Weidersuccessful body builder, businessman and a student of history who worked toprove that Napoleon had been poisoned received the French Legion of Honor.
2000(13th ofTishrei, 5761): Vadim Nurhitz and Yossi Avrahami, two Israeli reservists whoentered Ramallah by mistake were arrested by the PA. While in the custody ofthe PA, a mob savagely murdered them and then mutilated their bodies.
http://www.think-israel.org/freerepublic.octoberramallahlynch.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Ramallah_lynching
2000: During the Intifada,“vandals…desecrated the building” housing the mosaic that had been part of theShalom Al Yisrael Synagogue, Jewish house of worship that dates back “to thelate 6th or early 7th century and was discovered in 1936“by Dr. Baramki of the Antiquities Authority under the British Mandate.”
2001(25th ofTishrei, 5762): Ninety-three-year-old Philadelphia born playwright Ruth Goetzwho collaborated with her husband Augustus Goetz on many of her efforts and wasintroduced to the theater by her father, “theatrical producer Philip Goodman”passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/arts/ruth-goetz-93-who-co-wrote-the-heiress.html
2002: In Massachusetts,Boston College, a Catholic institution of higher learning, installed “a copy ofthe Torah in the worship center, where it is expected to be used” for futureFriday and Saturday services.
2003: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of specialinterest to Jews including Madam Secretary by MadeleineAlbright with Bill Woodward and Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 by Gerald Posner.
2004: “Prime MinisterAriel Sharon, described by aides as more angry than embarrassed overParliament's symbolic repudiation of his term-opening speech, moved” today “torenew discussions with opposition parties to reshape his minority government.”
2004: Mayor Michael R.Bloomberg of New York City, upholding an October tradition of civic boosterism,announced his friendly wager with Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston” today “overthe outcome of the American League Championship Series” which was a wagerpitting pastrami against Boston Cream Pie.
2005: New York Times reporter Judith Millertestified one last time before the federal grand jury before being “relieved ofcontempt charges” in matters related to the Scooter Libby leak case.
2005: Air Force veteranand businessman, Al Hoffman, Jr. the son of a Jewish father and“Scottish-American mother” began serving as U.S. Ambassador to Portugal.
2005(9th of Tishrei,5766): Erev Yom Kippur: In the evening, Jews all over the world gather to hearKol Nidre marking the start of Yom Kippur
2006(20th of Tishrei,5767): Sixth Day of Sukkoth
2006(20th ofTishrei, 5767): Sixty-one-year-old Don Novick, loving husband of Denise Novickand father of Rochelle and Cassie Novick passed away. The son of Russianimmigrant Jews, he was raised as an Orthodox Jew in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A member of Temple Judah, he was a pillar ofthe Cedar Rapids, Iowa Jewish community who gave freely of his time andculinary skills to so many worthwhile events.Among his many virtues was the ability to cook anything you wanted toperfection, including the best falafel west of Tel Aviv. A quite man, he touched many lives and willnever be forgotten.
2006(20th ofTishrei, 5767): Eighty-six-year-old Gillo Pontecorvo an Italian movie directorbest known for making the award winning “Battle of Algiers” whose siblingsincluded Bruno Pontecorvo, aninternationally acclaimed physicist, Guido Pontecorvo, a geneticist and Polì[Paul] Pontecorvo, an engineer who worked on radar after WWII passed awaytoday.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/oct/14/guardianobituaries.obituaries
2006: In New York, theAlbany County District Attorney acknowledged that he was investigating thehiring of a chauffeur by the Comptroller of New York, Alan Hevesi.
2006: Judy Gold’s “herone-woman show ’25 Questions for a Jewish Mother…based on a series ofinterviews with more than Jewish mothers in the United States” “reopened todayat St. Luke’s Theatre.
2007(30th of Tishrei,5768): Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan
2007:The film “Jewish Life in Cracow” is screened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
2007: Yaakov Katz the military correspondentand defense analyst for The Jerusalem Post, the Middle East's leading Englishdaily speaks at the Hillel House at theUniversity of Iowa
2007: Some of the world's best klezmer musicians gathered in aNew York neighborhood that was once home to poor immigrant Jews for a 10-dayfestival of the music rooted in their Eastern European cultures.
2008: TheNew York Times featuredreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of special interest toJews including My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past inKurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar and The Partnership: The Making of GoldmanSachs by Charles D. Ellis.
2008: The Washington Postfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of specialinterest to Jews including Hitler’s Empire: How the NazisRuled Europe by MarkMazower and two paperback offering: A Little History of the World byE.H. Gombrich; Translated from the German by Caroline Mustill and Just SayNu Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) byMichael Wex.
2008: In Atlanta, members of The Templegathered to observe the 50th anniversary of the blast that shook thecongregation, recalling its terrifying aftermath and the way it changed theircongregation's mission to promote racial equality.
2008: A critically acclaimed fully stagedoff-Broadway production of Joseph Stein’s “Enter Laughing: The Musical” came toa close at The York Theatre. “It was nominated for a 2009 Lucille LortelAward for outstanding revival.”
2008: The curtain came down the Classic StageCompany’s revival of “The Tempest” starring Mandy Pantinkin as “Prospero.”
2008: “Tsega Melaku became the first woman andfirst Ethiopian director of Reshet Aleph, an Israel Broadcasting Authorityradio channel.”
2009: Time magazine published an article entitled “How MosesShaped America” by Bruce Feiler.
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1927303,00.html
2009: Israel and the U.S. are scheduled to begintheir biggest joint air-defense exercise today. Code named "Juniper Cobra," the maneuvers willbe overseen by Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, chief of the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet andare designed to test the missile interceptors that would serve as a strategicbulwark in any future showdown with Iran.
2009: As part of The New School's"Jewish Text" seminar series David Stromberg will be reading from anddiscussing his newest book, Baddies.
2009(24thof Tishrei, 5770): Ninety-six-year-old Mildred Cohn who overcame gender andreligious discrimination to make major advances in biochemistry and whoreceived the nation's most prestigious award in science passed away today. (Asreported by Matt Schudel)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204570.html
2010: Joshua Sobol isscheduled talk about his novel Cut Throat Dog at program sponsored byWesleyan University Jewish and Israel Studies programin Middleton.
2010: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is scheduled to present“Protocols of Justice: Inside the Rabbinical Court of Metz, France(1771-1789).”
2010: After six years of construction, the American Consulate inJerusalem is scheduled to open its new facility for consular services on RehovDavid Flusser in the southern Arnona neighborhood today.
2010: British Jewish author Howard Jacobson was the surprisewinner of the Man Booker Prize today for The Finkler Question, the firstcomedy to scoop one of the English-speaking world's most coveted literaryawards.
2010(4thof Cheshvan, 5771):Ninety-five year old best-selling author Belva Plain,the graduate of Barnard College and wife of Dr. Irving Plain passed away today(As reported by Elsa Dixler)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18plain.html
2010: The Guardianpublished Shabtai Rosenne: Eminent International lawyer, teacher and Israelidiplomat” by Malcom Shaw.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/12/shabtai-rosenne-obituary/print
2011(14thof Tishrei, 5772): Erev Sukkoth
2011:Today, Theo Epstein agreed to a five-year contract worth $18.5 million with theChicago Cubs.
2011: Israeli cellist Inbal Segev is scheduled to perform at the BulgarianConcert Evening in Carnegie Hall.
2011: DavidFrum, who had been “a commentator for American Public Media’s ‘Marketplace’since 2007” made his final appearance today.
2011:Galid Shalit's parents, Noam and Aviva, arrived thisevening in their home in Mitzpe Hila in northern Israel, after leaving theprotest site they had been encamped at in Jerusalem.
2012:NFTY/HUC/AJA Teen Study Weekend is scheduled to begin in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2012: The US State Department confirmed today that it hadattempted to renew peace talks between Jerusalem and Damascus in 2010, beforethe outbreak of violence in Syria. (As reported by Yoel Goldman and RonFriedman)
2012: Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip fired a Gradrocket towards Netivot today, causing one civilian to suffer shock symptoms,according to the Negev Police. The rocket fell in the backyard of a house,causing light damage to the building. Shrapnel from the rocket also punctured anumber of rooms in the house, including one belonging to a child living.
2013:In Jerusalem, the Ensemble Millennium is scheduled to perform “Night Music,” aconcert that will include works by Mozart, Schubert, Liszt and Schoenberg.
2013:Today, actor Ben Feldman married Michelle Mulitz in Gaithersburg, MD.
2013:The Hyman S & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival is scheduled topresent “American Savage: Insights, Slights and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love andPolitics” featuring Dan Savage.
2013:Iran said it arrested three Israelis suspected of spying and attempting torecruit Iranian citizens to gather intelligence for Israel, Iranian news agencyMehr reported today.
2013:"The State should act forcefully to send a message to these people,"said Monique Ofer, wife of retired IDF Colonel Seraya Ofer, 61, who wasmurdered in a terror attack outside his home in the northern Jordan Valleyearly yesterday. "He was an amazing man, and two bastards took his life,"she said. In a conversation withjournalists on Saturday, Monique avoided giving details about the night of theattack as per the request of security forces, so as not to damage theinvestigation. "The Jordan Valley is one of the safest places according tostatistics, the fewest terror acts, definitely in comparison to places likeJerusalem and Tel Aviv." (As reported by Ahiya Raved)
2014:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex andLaunched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
2014:“Race: Are We So Different?” is scheduled to open at the Illinois HolocaustMuseum & Education Center.
2014:The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a newwalking tour “Downtown Synagogues and D.C.’s Urban Evolution.”
2014:The Jewish Museum of London is scheduled to host “Zangwill’s Ghetto: An EastEnd Story” which is a walking tour of the author’s childhood neighborhood heldto commemorate the 150th anniversary of Zangwill’s birth.
2014:“The commander of the Jewish Legion, Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson,who died in 1947, was exhumed and his ashes brought to Israel, in a fulfillmentof the Christian Zionist’s final wish to be buried in the Holy Land, the PrimeMinister’s Office announced today.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014:Onno Hoes completed his service as Chairman of the Dutch Center for InformationDocumentation Israel.
2014:“Israel was set today to tighten border controls on travelers from WesternAfrican countries, as part of larger efforts to prevent the Ebola virus fromspreading into Israel.” (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014:“Thousands of Israelis and Jews from around the world gathered in the WesternWall (Kotel) plaza this morning, for the traditional Birkat Hacohanim (PriestlyBlessing) ceremony held on Sukkot (the Feast of the Tabernacles).
2014:In honor of Sukkoth, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for HolocaustEducation is scheduled to host “Pita in the Hut.”
2015:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to present the 2nd Annual Concertfor Daniel Pearl: "Building Bridges: From Bene Beraq to Baghdad."
2015:In Leeds, Dr. Lorna Waddington is scheduled to lecture on “The History of theMyth of International Jewish Conspiracy.”
2016:Today, Michael Dell’s “Dell Inc. announced its intent to acquire the enterprisesoftware and storage company EMC Corporation” – an acquisition thought to beworth a record setting 67 billion dollars.
2015:Professor David Shneer’s “The Romance and Tragedy of Yiddish Culture” isscheduled to begin today.
2016: In Memphis, TN, a part of the afternoon Yom Kippurobservance, Temple Israel’s own Daniel Kiel, a law professor, is scheduled tomoderate a discussion on “Building A More Just Memphis.”
2016(10th of Tishrei, 5777): The somberness ofYom Kippur took an even darker turn with the passing of 91 year old CivilRights champion Jack Green who among other things was the head of the NAACPLegal Defense fund for almost a quarter of a century.
2016(10th of Tishrei, 5777): Yom Kippur
“G'mar HatimaTova”
2016: “Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claimed todaythat the Islamic State group would ‘take over’ the US if Hillary Clinton iselected president
2017(22nd of Tishrei, 5778): Shemini Atzeret &Yizkor; In the evening Simchat Torah celebration begins
2017:“Hamas has signed a reconciliation agreement with the Fatah party ofPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in order that all Palestinianforces can “work together against the Zionist enterprise,” Saleh al-Arouri, theHamas deputy political leader, said in Cairo today.
2017:In the evening, the University of Iowa Hillel is scheduled to host SimchatTorah services followed by a festive dinner
2017:The Oxford University Jewish Society is scheduled to host a buffet meal beforeholding Simchat Torah Services
2018:In Jerusalem, as part of the Young Artists of the Future Generation Concertseries, the Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host a Piano Recital byAlon Petrrilin.
2018:In a testament to the vitality of “small town Judaism” in Cedar Rapids JosephHeeren, the son Amy and Michael Heeren, pillars of the Jewish community, isscheduled to begin celebrating his Bar Mitzvah weekend this evening.
2019(13thof Tishrei, 5780): Parahsat Ha’azinu
2019:In Cotati, CA, Congregation Ner Shalom is scheduled to host the Cotati Cabaretfeaturing “the multi-media show called ‘Daniel Cainer’s Weird and WonderfulJewish Midlife Crisis.’”
2019:It was reported today that in the wake of this week’s Yom Kippur synagogueshooting, that the President of Germany had said this was a time of “shame anddisgrace” and Chancellor Merkle said that “antisemitism has no place in ourcountry” and “that the state needed to use all available means to take actionagainst hatred.
2019:Israelis and her supporters digest the view that “the abrupt withdrawal of U.S.troops from northeastern Syria and subsequent Turkish attacks on Kurdishfighters have badly rattled Israel’s national security experts, who decriedPresident Trump’s action as a betrayal of loyal allies and evidence thatIsrael’s most vital supporter is a fickle friend at best.”
2020”The Jewish National Fund is scheduled to present online “Green Technology andIsrael’s Sustainable Future.”
2020:Online Dr. Kamilė Rupeikaitė and Dr. Raquel Ukeles are scheduled to host“Jewish Museums in A Changing Reality: The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum.”
2020:In New Orleans, the Jewish Community is scheduled to host a screening of “LoveIn Suspenders.”
2020:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Jonathan Medved as he talks about“The Future of the Startup Nation.”
2020:Bay Area native Jason Harris, host of the podcast “Jew Oughta Know,” isscheduled to talk about the mystery of Columbus’ origins and why Jews are sointerested in this question.
2020:“Prominent Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky has ordered ultra-Orthodox schools andyeshivas to open” today, “despite the coronavirus lockdown prohibiting themfrom opening, according to the Ynet news site.”
2021:The London School of Jewish Studies is scheduled to present the first sessionof Desperately Seeking Psalms with Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum.
2021:The Jewish Film Festival at the Jacob Burns Film Center is scheduled the finalscreening of “Golda” and “Shiva Baby.”
2021: TheUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to co-host “A Voice ofConscience: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Elie Wiesel.”
2021:Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is scheduled to begin his meetings in Washingtonwith U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
2021:Mitchell Levin had knee replacement surgery today which led to the temporarysuspension of the updates for This Day…In Jewish History.
2022: TheHaifa Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Empty Handed” and“Axiom.”
2022: TheStreicker Center is scheduled to host a conversation with Gloria Steinman andLetty Cottin Pogrebin, author of Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy.
2022:Judaism Unbound, a group that aims to engage “disaffected but hopeful” AmericanJews, is scheduled to a recitation of the entire Torah — all 52 portions thatare read in synagogues throughout the year — during an online event that startsat 5:30 a.m. this morning; the group estimates that the reading will take morethan 15 hours
2022(17th of Tishrei, 5783): Third Dayof Sukkoth
2023: The Chelsea Film which “will showcase fourtitles directed by Israeli filmmakers” is scheduled to begin today at the RegalTheatres Union Square.
2023: Yeshiva University Museum is scheduled tohost YUM’s Director Gabriel Goldstein for a guided tour of The Golden Path:Maimonides Across Eight Centuries, illuminating the life and impact of themultifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage across continents and culturesthrough rare manuscripts and books.
2023: JDC is scheduled a program that includes“live updates from Israelis on the ground and to learn more about efforts to aidthe country’s must vulnerable on the frontlines of the conflict.”
2023: SAPIR is scheduled to host conversation between Editor-in-Chief BretStephens and Reuel Marc Gerecht, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense ofDemocracies, on the threat of Iran to Israel and the region.
2023: The Streikcer Center is scheduled to host apresentation by Bret Baier author of To Rescue the Constitution.
2023:As October 12 begins in Israel, a unity government has been formed, the IDF isconfronting renewed threats on the border with Lebanon “where the Israeli Armyhas been engaged in four consecutive days of clashes with” terrorists, rocketscontinue to be fired into towns and cities and the United States has to dealwith the reality that at least 22 of its citizens have been murdered andanother 17 are missing, some of whom are presumed to being held as hostages andthreatened with death by Hamas.
(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluidfor this blog to cover so we are just providing a snapshot as of the posting atmidnight Israeli time)
2024:The Weitzman is scheduled to be closed in observance of Yom Kippur
2024(10thof Tishrei, 5785): Yom Kippur
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2024: “Hundreds of Jewish families on Longboat Key, a barrier island offSarasota Bay, won’t be able to observe Yom Kippur in their synagogue for thevery first time in their 45-year history, said Shepard Englander, CEO of TheJewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee” because of Hurricane Milton
2024: Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicza rabbi, at Chabad Lubavitchof Southwest Florida near Fort Myers who rode out Milton so that his centercould provide aid to those who could not evacuate plans on holding services todayif power has been restored in his area.(As reported by Mariam Fan, GiovannaDell’Orto and Holly Meyer)
2024:As October 12th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism thathas included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New Yorksubway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas heldhostages begin day 372 in captivity while Jerusalem braces for more rocketattacks by Hezbollah (Editor’s note:this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
