April 29
711: According to some sources the date on which anarmy led by Tariq ibn Ziyad landed at Gibraltar marking the start of the Moslemconquest of the Iberian Peninsula with all that would come to mean for theJewish population during the next seven centuries.
1221: Honorius III issued “Ad nostram Noveritisaudientiam” a Papal Bull obligating Jews to carry a distinctive badge andforbidding them to hold public office.
1280(21st of Iyar, 5040): French rabbiIssac ben Joseph of Corbeil, the son-in-law of Jeheil ben Joseph of Paris,passed away today.
1464: Coronation of Matthias Covinus as King ofHungary and Croatia which marked an improvement in the conditions of the Jewsas can be seen by his creation of “the office of Jewish prefect in Hungary.”
1520: A Sephardic Jew known as “Shealtiel” to whomElijah Miztahi, the Chief Rabbi of the Ottoman had transferred the power of taxcollection was returned to the office after having lost the job in 1518 in whatmay have been a power struggle between the Romaniot and Sephardic Jewishcommunities.
1614(20th of Iyar, 5374): PolishHalakhist and Talmudist Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk, author ofcommentaries on Arba’ah Turim and Shulkhan Arukh passed away today.
1624: InFrance, Richelieu assumes as Prime Minister of Louis XIII. Although Louis hadreaffirmed the expulsion of the Jews in a declaration issued in 1615, Richelieuwould write a letter (which Louis would sign) in 1632 allowing the Jews of Metzto remain in that city. There is noevidence that Richelieu was philo-Semitic.Rather he realized that having just captured Metz, the city would losesome of its commercial value if the Jews were expelled.
1659:In a dispute arising out of the business of trapping and shipping beaver pelts,Asser Levy as attorney in fact for Abraham Cohen, "Jew at Amsterdam,"appeared in the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens (Municipal Court) of NewAmsterdam to demand from Cornelis Janss Plavierthe money he had received from Cohen. Plavier admitted the loan. Levyrefused to accept a 460 guilder payment and demanded imprisonment or publicsale of Plavier's goods. The Court ordered the defendant to pay any balance dueon the loan.
1679(17thof Iyar, 5439): Joshua da Silva, the Hakham of the Spanish and PortugueseSynagogue in London who was followed in office by Jacob Abendana passed awaytoday.
1688:Frederick, the future King of Prussia who would appoint Aaron ben Benjamin Wolfas Chief Rabbi of Berlin, became Duke of Prussia.
1697: Beila Levy, the wife of Isaac Levy with whomshe had three children, passed away today, almost exactly two years after thedeath of her husband.
1699: In Paris the French Academy of Science holdsits first public meeting at the Louvre.While the Academy includes many Jewish members today, including DavidBaltimore and Israel Gelfand, this was not always the case. For example, Madame Curie was deniedadmittance because she reportedly had at least one Jewish parent. Poor Madame Curie – she was Polish and notJewish but then facts never get in the way of bigotry.
1758(21st of Nisan, 5518): Shabbat ShelPesach
1769(22nd of Nisan, 5529): Eighth Day ofPesach; Yizkor
1769: According to some, the birthdate of Arthur Wellesley,1st Duke of Wellington. Others use the date of May 1, 1769. Regardless of which date is used, Wellingtoncomes up short of the mark as far as Jews are concerned because of hisopposition to their emancipation when he was Prime Minister.
1770: Birthdate of Lazarus Gumpel the native ofHildesheim, who became a successful businessman in Hamburg where he helped tofound a Reform Temple in 1817.
1774(18th of Iyar, 5534): Jews living in ColonialAmerica celebrate their last Lag B’Omer as subjects of King George III.
1783: Birthdate of German native “Fanni FradeleHajim,” the husband of Immanuel Einstein with whom she had five children.
1791: In the Netherlands, Abraham Salomon / ShabtayCohen Kloot and Marretje/Mata Mozes Tokie gave birth to Hijman Abraham Verveer
1793(17th of Iyar, 5553): Rabbi Yechezkel ben Yehuda Landaupassed away. He wasan influential authority in halachah (Jewish law). He is best known for thework “Nodahbi-Yehudah,”by which title he is also known. Landau was born in Opatow, Poland, andattended yeshiva at Vladimir andBrody. In Brody, he was appointed Dayan (rabbinical judge) in 1734, and in1745 he became rabbi of Jampol. While in Jampol, he attempted to mediatebetween Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybeschütz in a debate - "TheEmden-Eybeschütz Controversy" - that "had disrupted Jewish communallife for many years". His role in the controversy is described as"tactful" and brought him to the attention of the Prague community where he asappointed rabbi in 1755. He also established a Yeshiva there; Avraham Danzig,author of “Chayei Adam,” isamongst his best known students. Landau was highly esteemed not only by thecommunity, but also by others; and he stood high in favor in governmentcircles. Thus, in addition to his rabbinical tasks, he was able to intercedewith the government on various occasions when anti-Semitic measures had beenintroduced. Though not opposed to secular knowledge, he objected to "thatculture which came from ", in particular Moses Mendelssohn’s translationof the Pentateuch. His main work entitled “Nodah bi-Yehudah”("Known in Judah"), is one of the principal sources of Jewish law ofhis age. This collection was esteemed by rabbis and scholars, both for itslogical discussion and for its independence with regard to the rulings of otherAcharonim as well as its simultaneousadherence to the writings of the Rishonim.Other works include “DagulMervavah on the ShulkhanArukh” and “Tziyun le-Nefesh Chayah”(abbreviated as Tzelach, named inreference to his mother, whose name was Chayah) on the Talmud.”
1796(21stof Nisan, 5556): Seventh Day of Pesach
1796:Sarah Mocatta and David Abarbanel Lindo gave birth to Elia David AbarbanelLindo, the husband of Susan Lyon.
1797:Sara Mocatta and David Abarbanel Lindo gave birth to Abraham David Lindo.
1801: InDarmstdat, Germany, Alexander Wollf, “a merchant well versed in the Talmud” andhis wife gave birth to Rabbi Abraham Alexander Wolff, the future leader of theCopenhagen Jewish community.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14987-wolff-abraham-alexander
1805: Eliza Aarons married Simon Levy, a merchant,in Charleston, SC.
1805: Joseph Moses married Lydia Levy at the GreatSynagogue today.
1811: In Prague, Markus Löw Popper and Esther Poppergave birth to Isaias Popper.
1819: Birthdate of Moses Angel who succeeded H.A. asMast of the Talmud Torah Department at Jews’ Free School in 1840 beforebecoming Headmaster of JFS.
1823: Moss Lyons married Catherine Polack at the NewSynagogue today.
1826(22nd of Nisan, 5586): Eighth Day ofPesach; Yizkor
1826: As Jews munch on their Matzah, the Greeks fearthe aftermath of the victory of the Ottoman victory at MIssolonghi during theGreek revolt against the Turks.
1827: Sara Levy and Abraham Slowman gave birth tosolicitor Louis Charles Lumley, the husband of Charlotte Joseph and father ofAmy, Aubrey, Gerald and Claude Lumley.
1829: Bernard Cowvan married Henrietta Poole at theGreat Synagogue today.
1830: Birthdate Adolph Sutro the native of Aachen,Germany, the brother of Otto Sutro, the 24th mayor of San Franciscowho was also the city’s first Jewish chief executive.
https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/adolph-sutro.htm
https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/sutro-baths.htm
1832: In High Holborn, Middlesex, Phoebe and EphraimBenjamin gave birth to Mary Benjamin.
1833: Birthdate of Michael Friedländer, a native ofPosen who became principle of Jews’ College In London created one of the mostpopular English translate of Guide to the Perplexed by Maimonides.
1833: Rosetta Isaacs and Henry Magnus gave birth toEdward Magnus.
1834: In Lyubavhichi, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn andhis first cousin Chaya Mushka Schneersohn who was his wife gave birth to ShmuelSchneersohn (or Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch or The Rebbe Maharash, the fourthRebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic movement.
1834(29th of Nisan, 5594): Sixth Day ofPesach
1843(29th of Nisan, 5594): Four-year-oldIsaac Mendes Seixas the son of Hayman Levy Seixas and Abigail Nunez Seixaspassed away today.
1835: Leman Zox married Maria Myers at the GreatSynagogue today.
1835: In Charleston, SC Charlotte Lazarus, theyoungest daughter of Marks Lazarus married Dr. De La Motta.
1840: Birthdate of Leopold Jacoby, the son of acantor who “received his doctorate” in 1867 and became and M.D. in 1870.
1844: “Members of Boston's first Jewish congregationpetitioned city officials to set aside a corner of an East Boston cemetery fortheir use” and when the city rejected the request congregants of Ohabei Shalom “pooledtheir resources to buy a 10,000-square-foot lot at the corner of Byron andHomer Streets in East Boston.”
1845:(22nd of Nisan, 5605): Eighth ofPesach observed for the first time during the Presidency of James K. Polk
1847: InMainz, Samuel Strauss and Rosalia Drucker gave birth to Arthur Strauss, theConservative MP and husband of Mina Cohen.
1849: Agroup of Jews in Wheeling, which was still a part of Virginia, who startingthis year held “Holy Days” services in the third floor of a house at 14thand Main Streets until 1856, purchased the Mount Wood Cemetery today.
1853: Inthe House of Lords, the Earl of Aberdeen moved the second reading of the Billfor removal of Jewish Disabilities and strongly urged the removal of this mostirritating restriction on the civil liberties of a section of British subjects. The Earl of Shaftesbury opposed the bill. Hetrembled at the consequences to Christianity if Jews were admitted on a civilequality with Christians. Such measureswould expel Christianity from the earth but they might destroy it in GreatBritain. The Earl of Albemarle, theArchbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of St. David’s supported the bill while theBishop of Salisbury, Early of Darnley, Earl of Harrowby and others, opposed iton religious grounds. The bill wasdefeated with 115 voting for it and 164 voting against it. The Earl of Aberdeenhas addressed the House of Lords telling them that he had changed his mindabout the Jewish Disabilities Bill. Twoyears ago, he had voted against the bill.Now he was prepared to vote for it because “he regarded the exclusion ofthe Jews from civil privileges as a remnant of the spirit of persecution whichprevailed in former times throughout Christendom.”
1852: InNew York City, Asher and Abigail Kursheedt gave birth to Israel Baer Kursheedt
1861:Major Alfred Mordecai's letter repeating his request for a transfer reachedWashington, DC where it is read by his new commanding officer, Lt. Col.Ripley. Ripley refused the request on two counts. First, he neededMordecai, whom he considered one of his ablest subordinates to remain at thearsenal in New York so that he could produce the munitions desperately neededto fight the war. Second,the army could not maintain the disciplineit needed to fight a war if officers were allowed to dictate their term ofservices based on personal desires. The U.S. Army's most prominent Jewishofficer would have to choose between serving or resigning.
1861: Maryland's House ofDelegates votes not to secede from the Union. As was the case with their fellowcitizens, Jews in Maryland were divided over the issues of slavery andsecession. It would seem that more ofthe Jews favored Union and opposed slavery than did not. For example, the Lloyd Street Synagogue was astop on the Underground Railway. Har Sinai’s Rabbi David Eihnorn was publishedSinai, an abolitionist newspaper and Einhorn was forced to leave town by a mobthat was threatening to tar and feather him.
1861: Birthdate of Lajos Blau, a Hungarian scholar, educatedat three different yeshivot, who became a teacher of the Talmud at theLandesrabbinerschule and later a professor of the Bible, the Hebrew and Aramaiclanguages, and the Talmud. He died in 1936.
1861: Newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincolnappointed Abraham Jonas to serve as Postmaster of Quincy, Illinois.
1862: In Cincinnati, Ohio, Salomon Eichholz andHannah Neustadt gave birth to Adolph Eichholz the University of Pennsylvaniatrained lawyer and husband of Leah Block who was one of the driving forcesbehind the creation of the Jewish Publication Society of America and VicePresident of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association.
1863: In Vienna, Josef Pick, the “son of Elisabethand Markus Pick” and his wife Eleanor Pick gave birth to Arthur Pick, the sonof Johana Pick and the father of Richard and Hansi Pick.
1864(23rd of Nisan, 5624): Author andtranslator of poetry David Samosch passed away.
1865: It was reported today that a Jewish shoemakernamed Godfrey J. Hyams was the first witness called to testify against WilliamJ. McDonald who is on trial in Canada on charges of “making torpedoes,hand-shells, Greek fire, and other explosive missiles” to be used byConfederate agents against the United States.
1865:P. J. Joachimsen delivered a eulogy honoring the late President Lincoln at theJewish place of worship in New Orleans, LA.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/abe5.html
1866(14th of Iyar, 5626): Pesach Sheni
1869(18th of Iyar, 5629): Lag B’Omer
1869: In Hungary, Joseph and Victoria (Halpert)Cukor gave birth to NYU trained attorney Morris Cukor who in 1884 came to theUnited States where he was a Tammany Hall activist, the husband of Cora G.Woodfruff and a member of Congregation Ohab Zedek.
1869(14th of Iyar, 5629): Samuel Judah,the first Jew to graduate from the Rutgers University Law School and the son ofDr. Benjamin S. Judah who was the husband of Harriet Brandon and a Speaker ofthe Indiana House of Representatives passed away today.
1870: TheBaltimore Sun reports that the late Dr. George Frick, a resident ofBaltimore, bequeathed $100.00 to the Hebrew Society of Baltimore.
1870: In London, Sarah Kraijsman and David Colskigave birth to Henry Colski and Nancy Colski.
1870: Birthdate of Austriannative Frederick W. Brown who in 1890 came to the United States in 1890 wherehe be became a realtor and was a “fundraiser for the Federation of JewishPhilanthropies.”
1870: In Baden, Marum and Malchen Bottigheimer) Weil“manufacturer” Maurice Weil who in 1884 came to the United States where foundedWeil Kalter Manufacturing company, married Paula Kalter and became an activeleader in the St. Louis, MO Jewish community as can be seen by his founding ofthe Jewish Loan Association of St. Louis, and serving as a director of theJewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation of Charities,
1871: Fromenthal Halevy’s “Charles VI,” a grandopera in five acts was performed for the first time in Barcelona.
1871: In Berlin, Rosa and Jospeh Stern gave birth to William Louis Stern who fled the Nazis andcontinued his work in the field of psychology at Duke University.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060319004052/http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Stern.asp
https://www.geni.com/people/William-Stern/6000000002802209210
1874: In Baltimore, MD, Babetta Apfel gave birth toCarrie L. Oppenheimer the wife of Simon Oppenheimer, the chair of thePhilanthropic Committee, Washington, D.C. Section of the Council of JewishWomen and secretary of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Association of Adas IsraelCongregation in Washington, D.C.
1875: Publication today of Transatlantic Sketchesby Henry James, who “employed a number of anti-Semitic stereotypes to describethe skin color and nose shape of the Jewish residents” and who “invariablyfixes upon the Jew the full force of a carefully regulated disdain.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/henry-james-and-the-jewsa-critical-study/
1875: In Kensington, London German-born Jewishstockbroker, Victor Rubens, and Jenny Rubens, née Wallach Paul Alfred Rubens “anEnglish songwriter and librettist for some of the most popular Edwardianmusical comedies” who “suffered from consumptive disease for nearly his entireadult life” which did not keep his from contributing to the success of dozensof musicals
1878: Birthdate of Friedrich Adler the native ofLaupheim who would be murdered during the Shoah in 1942.
http://www.culturespace.de/laupheim/english/adler.htm
1880(18th of Iyar, 5640): Lag B’Omer observed forthe last time during the Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
1881(30th of Nisan, 5641): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1881: Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart, the daughterof Jewish banker Henri Louis Bischoffsheim married the Fourth Earl of Desart.
1881(30th of Nisan, 5641): Sixty-three-year-old French sculptor andphotographer Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon passed away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antoine_Samuel_Adam-Salomon_self-portrait,_c1860.png
1882: Pogroms returned to Ukraine with an outbreakof anti-Semitic violence at Balta in Podolia Province.
1883(22nd of Nisan, 5643): 8th day ofPesach
1883: Birthdate of Russian native Samuel Prostermanwho in 1906 came to Chicago where he was a clothing manufacturer and VicePresident of Temple Beth Israel.
1883: The New York Times featured a review ofTravels in Palestine: Egypt, Palestine and Phoenicia – A Visit to SacredLands by Philip Bovet.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9405E6DC1230E433A2575AC2A9629C94629FD7CF
1884: In Kulm, Germany Anna Salzberger and RabbiMoritz Salzberger gave birth to Rabbi Max Salzberger, the husband of FriedaSalzberger with whom he had two children – Lotte and Josef.
1885(14th of Iyar, 5645): Pesach Sheni
1885: Birthdate of Czechoslovakian writer and journalist, Egon Erwin Kisch who was born into a German-speaking Jewishfamily in Prague, whichat that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During World War I, he traded in his pen fora rifle in the Austrian Army. Hecontinued his writing career after the war including a stint in Berlin. He was forced to flee the Nazis, first toRepublican Spain and finally to Mexico where he spent the war. He returned to Czechoslovakia after the warwhere he died in 1948 as the Communists were coming to power. When the German magazine “Stern” founded a prestigious awardfor German journalism in 1977, it was named the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in honor of Egon Kisch.
http://spartacus-educational.com/Egon_Erwin_Kisch.htm
1885:“At the Trinity Chapel Complex,” Edward (Teddy) Wharton married Edith NewboldJones who gained fame as Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton whosedisplay of anti-Semitism in The House of Mirth which included thedepiction Jewish financier name Simon Rosedale has proved to a problem for herat least some of her Jewish fans.”
1886:It was reported today that “Bernhard Liebenthal, a young Hebrew and AgnesMenner a young Catholic both of whom were from Schafenburg, Germany” and theirtwo children who had arrived in New York aboard the steamer Main were marriedat City Hall by a “Civil Justice” since neither a rabbi or a priest could befound at Cast Garden who wanted marry the couple.
1887:Horace J. Young was arrested on charges of having abandoned his wife Clara, theeldest daughter of Julius Praeger, a prominent New York Jewish businessman
1887:In New York, Ida (Kuhn) Cohen and Eduard Cohen gave birth to Edwin Cohen
1888(18thof Iyar, 5648): Lag B’Omer
1888:In New York, “traveling salesman” David Heidelberger and his wife Fannie CampeHeidelberg gave birth to Columbia trained “award winning pathologist” MichaelHeidelberger “known as the father of modern immunology.”
1889:The Young Women’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host a celebratory eventthis evening as part of the events marking the centennial of George Washingtontaking the oath of office as the first President of the United States.
1891(21stof Nisan, 5651): Seventh Day of Pesach
1890:Rabbi David Levy officiated at the wedding of Hannah D. Moses, daughter of J.L.Moses and Thomas Moultrie Mordecai at the Hasell Street Synagogue inCharleston, SC
1891:“Greeks Persecutes Jews” published today describes attacks by Greeks at Corfuon the Jewish population. The body of adead child had been found in the Jewish Quarters and the Greeks spread a reportthat that it was a Christian girl who had been murdered by the Jews for theirPassover celebration. The dead child was the daughter of Jewish leader whom theJews claimed was murdered by the Greeks to provide an excuse for their riotingand plundering. The threat became sosevere that the 6,000 Jews had to close their shops and take refuge behind amilitary cordon surrounding the Jewish Quarter.
1891:In Philadelphia, PA The Society Hachnasath Orechim, or Wayfarers' Lodge whichwas organized in 1890 was chartered today.
1892:As attempts are made to limit immigration, especially the immigration of Jewsfrom eastern Europe, the joint committee of the Senate and House ofRepresentatives of the United States on Immigration and Naturalization resumedits investigation at the Post Office Building.
1892:As the first group of Russian Jews left Montreal to begin establishing farms inthe Canadian Northwest, it was reported that if this group is successfulCanadian Jews expect another 10,000 to eventually follow in their footsteps.
1892:Among the bequests made by the late Hannah O. Beebe of Yonkers was one of $50to Jacob Freshman to be used by him for “the relief of Jews as he deems best.”
1893:“Bismarck on Anti-Semitism” published today provided a summary of an interviewthe German leader gave on his views toward the Jews. Based on his education, he said he “was nevera friend of the Jews” which helps to explain why he opposed emancipation in1847. His views changed in 1869 whenJewish leaders supported his programs for national development. The current reappearance of anti-Semitismfollowing the losses suffered during a period of speculation “is natural”because the people confuse “capitalism with Judaism.”
1893:“Ahlwardt’s Baseless Charges” published today describe the conclusions of theReichstag subcommittee that had examined the documents submitted by HermannAhlwardt, the leading anti-Semite, which he claimed proved that current andformer officials were guilty of corruption. The committee said there wasnothing in the documents to prove the accusation. Ahlwardt’s real contention was that the Jewshad corrupted the German political leaders.
1894:It was reported today that “ex-Rector Ahlwardt, the Jewbaiter who hasimprisoned several times for criminal libel” said “he would give the publicstartling information…concerning…the corruptness of Jews and the criminalcomplicity of those in high authority…” (Editor’s note: This a reference toChristian Ahlwardt, the German clergyman who, when he came to New York wasgiven a police escort made up entirely of Jewish officers courtesy of PoliceCommissioner Teddy Roosevelt.)
1894:In Quincy, Illinois, Council No 2 of the National Council of Jewish Women wasformed with Mrs. J.H. Lesem as President and Mrs. Jeanie Nelke as Secretary
1894(23rdof Nisan, 5654): Eighty-one-year-old Danish portrait and genre painter DavidMonies passed away today in Copenhagen.
1894:The Board of Directors of Mount Sinai Hospital held a special meeting todayadopted a special resolution expressing their sense of loss caused by therecent death of Jesse Seligman.
1894:In Gomel, Jacob and Sarah (Saubor) Demichorsky gave birth to Nathan Daimont whoin the 1911 came to the United States where he attended Cooper Union and KansasState University, served with American forces on the Mexican Border and duringWW I and lived in Newport, N.H.
1894:The Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum adopted a “Tribute to the Memory of itsdeceased President, Mr. Jesse Seligman” co-authored by Edward Lauterbach, OscarS. Straus and Sigmund Bach.
1895:Plans were published today about an upcoming meeting at Temple Emanu-El wherethe ladies of the congregation will discuss the upcoming benefit for the HebrewTechnical Institute and Educational Alliance.
1895:Samuel Untermyer of Guggenheim, Untermyer and Marshal represented the WallPaper Company before Justice Lawrence in the Supreme Court who was hearing acase involving injunctive relief by National Wall Paper Company.
1896:In Berlin “translator and writer Sigmar Mehring” and his wife gave birth toGerman satirist Walter Mehring whose books were burned by the Nazis and foundrefuge in the U.S. where he worked for MGM before returning to post-war Europe.
1906:Birthdate of Odessa born, Irish surgeon and cardiologist Leonard “Abe”Abrahamson, the President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland andhusband of Nellie Nurock who were the parents of attorney Max Abrahamson andthe grandparents of movie director Leonard Abrahamson.
1897:“New Publications” provided a detailed review of the New American Supplement tothe Latest Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica which includes a section on“the story of Judaism and the history of the Jews” written by Rabbi Emil G.Hirsch.
1898:Birthdate of Philip Palew, the native of Brooklyn, a WW I veteran who worked asan orthopedic surgeon and served on the faculty of New York University.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9D00E5D9123DE134BC4051DFB4668382679EDE
1898:Two days after she had passed away, Annie Simmons, the wife of Joseph Simmons,was buried today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1898:Ali Ferruh Bey,the Ottoman Ambassador in Washington, "wrote toIstanbul in order to alert the Sultan that the aim of the Zionists was 'toestablish an independent government in Palestine.' In his letter, he urgedSultan Abdul Hamid to 'take certain measures to rectify the error committed byhis forefathers in allowing non-Muslim communities to settle in Palestine.' TheSultan took heed; measures were instituted to restrict the sale of land inPalestine to foreign Jews, and to oblige all Jewish visitors to leave cashdeposits to ensure that they would leave the country after thevisit." [For more on this see Martin Gilbert's interesting work,"In Ishmael's House;"]
1899:In “Dr. Peters On the Jews” published today Madison C. Peters defended himselfa*gainst accusations by Lionel de R. Cohen that he had “put forth falsehoods”about the Jews when he asserted that Castalian Jews had supplied Columbus themoney to fit out his caravels” citing the Jewish historian Dr. Moses Kayserlingas his source for this statement.
1900(30thof Nisan, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1900:A public service in memory of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise arranged by the New YorkBoard of Jewish Ministers “which is intended to an expression of the sentimentsof the community upon his life work” is scheduled to be held this morning atTemple Emanu-El with Louis Marshal and Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler giving the twoprinciple addresses.
1900(30thof Nisan, 5660): Eighty-seven-year-old Baron Mortiz von Cohn, the Dessau banker“who administered the private fortune Wilhelm I, who did not conceal hisanti-Semitism during World War I, passed away today.
1900:The Quinquennial Convention of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith met todayin Chicago under the chairmanship of Victor Abraham.
1901:An anti-Semitic riot broke out in Budapest.
1902(22ndof Nisan, 5662): Eight Day of Pesach
1902:Today’s passage of the Omnibus Public Bill by the House of Representatives drewthe scorn of Congressmen from New York including Representative Henry Goldfoglebecause it did not provided funds for building a New York Post which Goldfogleblamed on the “personal spite” of the committee chairman responsible for thelegislation.
1903:In Philadelphia, PA, Julia and Meir Bayuk gave birth to tobacco dealer andbroker Ford Meyer Bayuk.
1903:University of Cincinnati graduate and HUC ordainedrabbi, William S. Friedman, the Chicago born son of Bertha Sternberg and NathanFriedman who began serving Congregation Emanuel in Denver in 1890 and was acofounder of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver married Juliet Freyhantoday.
1904(14thof Iyar, 5664): Pesach Sheni
1904:In Berlin, “The Tageblatt todayannounced from an excellent Russian source that the Russian Government is aboutto moderate the anti-Jewish legislation.”
1905(24thof Nisan, 5665): Parashet Achrei Mot
1905:“The Triumph of Judea” published today provides a reviews Judith Triumphantby Thompson Buchanan which is his second romance novel and set during “thesiege of the Assyrians under the wick brutal Holofernes against the Jews ofBethulia.”
1906:“Jewish Anniversary Medal” published described the presentation to PresidentTheodore Roosevelt by Dr. Cyrus Adler of “a commemorative medal designed byIsidor Konti” to mark the celebration of the 250th anniversary ofthe settlement of the Jews in the United States.
1907:In Rzeszów, Austria-Hungary, Dr. Oskar Zinnemann and his wife Anna (Feiwel)Zinnemann gave birth to Academy Award winning director Alfred “Fred” Zinnemann.
1908:In Brooklyn, Gertrude Kaplan, the daughter of Anna and Abraham Shemerinsky andher husband Jacob Kaplan gave birth to Marcia Martha Kaplan.
1909:It was reported today that Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan has been exiled toSalonica where he will live in a small house owned by a local Jewish banker.
1910:The Jewish bank in Salonika authorized the creation of a loan fund for reliefof families of Jewish soldiers.
1910:Rebecca and Meyer Wagenheim gave birth to Samuel Wagenheim, the brother ofHerman, Charles and Harry Wagenheim.
1911(1stof Iyar, 5671): Parashat Tazria and Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1911:“Russia Grants Privilege to Jews” published today reported that “imperialsanction has been granted to the Governor of Yenisel in Asiatic Russia, EastSiberia to all the Jewish inhabitants of Siberia to use the curative watersnear Minusinsk for a term of two months upon the condition that they areprovided with medical certificates and forbidden to engage in trade whiletaking the cure.”
1912In Danzig, Dr. Isaac Landau and Betty née Eisenstädt gave birth to Moshe Landauthe fifth President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
1912:A codicil was added to the will of Dr. Arthur Schnitzler required that hisfuneral be a simple affair without obituaries, guard of honor, funeral orationsor the wearing of mourning attire. Thecodicil also requires “that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove anydoubt of his death.”
1913(22ndof Nisan, 5673): Eighth Day of Pesach
1913(22ndof Nisan, 5673): Fifty-nine-year-old Russia born Republican political leaderSamuel Affelder a Baltimore City Councilman passed away today after which hewas buried at the Har Sinai Cemetery in Baltimore, MD.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74898124/samuel-affelder
1913:Max Shulman is scheduled to be one of the speakers at today at the Passoverservice at the Chicago Hebrew Insitute.
1913:A strike by 4,000 kosher bakers, members of the Journeymen Bakers’International Union was scheduled to begin today in New York.
1914:A mass meeting is scheduled to be held at Cooper Union tonight “under theauspices of the Palestine Hebrew Schools Fund Committee which is dealing withthe problem of establishing Hebrew as the language of instruction in schools inPalestine.”
1915: Today,Princeton graduate and R.H. Macy partner Nathan Straus, Jr. who served as anEnsign in the U.S. Navy during WW I and a New York State Senator while servingas a director of the Palestine Economic Corporation and the PalestineDevelopment Council as being an active member of the Free Synagogue and the“Temple Beth-El Clubs. married Helen E. Sachs
1915:It was reported today that Evangelist Billy Sunday asserted his support for aJewish return to Palestine when he asked “How do I know that God isn’t usingthe Allied fleets…to drive the Turks out of the Holy Land that Palestine may berestored to the Jews?!
1916:In Ireland, “the Easter Rising”, to an end today.
1916:Oscar Hammerstein went to the Rialto Theatre building which he found had beenpadlocked keeping him using rooms that were supposed to have been set aside forhis use.
1916:Simon Wolf wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing expressing hisconcern over reports “that there is to be an outbreak against the Jews ofRussia at the coming Russian Easter” and asking him to check with the embassyin St. Petersburg to see how reliable this report is.
1916:“In the course of his sermon on ‘The Attitude of the Papacy to the Jews’ at theNew Synagogue” today “Rabbi Ephraim Frisch paid a warm tribute to Pope Benedictfor the broad-minded and sympathetic letter he has just issued pledging hismoral and spiritual influence among Catholics for the abolition ofdiscrimination and prejudice again the Jews these still obtain.”
1917:Morgenthau resigns his as Ambassador to Turkey.
1917:In Cleveland, Ohio, it was decided tonight at the 67th annualmeeting of Temple Tifereth Israel that in accordance with the recommendation ofPresident Benjamin Lowenstein, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, the 26-year-oldunmarried leader of the Reform Congregation in Wheeling, West Virginia willsucceed Rabbi Moses J. Gries “as the spiritual leader of the congregation.
1917:In Newark, NJ, at Temple B’nai Jeshurun, Jacob Schiff, Judge Julian Mack and Dr.Lee Frankel spoke at a meeting of the American Jewish Relief Committee at theend of which $40,000 was pledged to the Jewish War Relief Fund.”
1917:The 1916-1917 season of activities sponsored by the Young Men’s HebrewAssociation of Williamsburg that began in October and included monthly meetingof a Jewish Congress, dances, lectures and athletic exhibitions is scheduled tocome to an end today.
1917:Less than a month after the entry of the United States into the World War,“Zeta Beta Tau, a Jewish fraternity, has sent to its members a proclamationwhich recites the circ*mstances of the national emergency and urges members ofthe organization to do their part toward making the contribution of the Jews tonational service reach its utmost possibilities.”
1917:“More than 300 delegates, representing a million and half Jews, cheered andsang for the establishment of a Jewish republic in the Holy Land” at the eighthannual convention of the Kehillah of New York City.
1917:“The Reverend Edward A. Keigwin” delivered a sermon tonight at the West EndPresbyterian Church in which he “hailed the fulfillment of Abraham’s prophecythat the Jews would return to Palestine” as could be seen by the advance ofBritish troops in Palestine which would lead to “downfall of Mohammedan powerand the restoration of the Holy Land to the Jews.”
1917:During World War I, British forces under General Murray suffer a second defeatat Gaza. This defeat cost Murray his job and led to his replacement by GeneralAllenby who would successfully prosecute the war against the Ottomans.
1918:“Jewish Draftees Given Send-Off At Camden” published today described a dinnergiven for Jews boys who are about to join the Army which included an address byState Treasurer William T. Read who was representing Governor Edge and anaddress by Camden Mayor Charles E. Ellis who “lauded the patriotism of theCamden boys.”
1918: The “Twelfth Semi-Annual Assembly” of the Eastern Council ofReform Rabbis whose members included Joseph Silverman, Rudolph Grossman, JosephGarfinkel and Benjamin Tinter, met for a second and final day today.
1918: “My Four Years in Germany,” produced by Harry, Albert, Samand Jack L. Warner and Mark Dintenfass wasreleased today in the United States after premiering in New York on March 18.
1919:The six-man German delegation headed by Foreign Minister Ulrich Graf vonBrockdorff-Rantzau arrived at Versailles to take part in the negotiations thatwould mark the formal end of World War I.The treaty would be attacked by the Nazis and tied to the Jews. None of the negotiators were Jews but thefacts never get in the way of anti-Semitism.
1919:During the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, the Red Guards who had been“rounding up people they considered to be hostile to the new regime” as orderedby Eugen Leviné executed eighthostages today.
1920:Birthdate of composer Harold Samuel Shapero. Born in Lynn,Mass.,one of Shapero's most famous works was the 9 Minute Opera. Shaperowas an educator as well as composer. In 1951Brandeis University hiredShapero to start its Music Department, and he was later chairman of thedepartment and founder of its electronic music studio with the day's most advancedsynthesizers. He taught at Brandeis until 1988 when he retired
1921(21stof Nisan, 5681): Seventh Day of Pesach – finally day for Reform Jews
1921:It was reported today that a resolution expressing confidence in the leadershipof Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization was adoptedat a gather of thousands of Jews at a mass demonstration in Jerusalem.
1921:Jacob Massel, European director of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant AidSociety is reported going to a report on the condition of pogrom victims whoare refugees in Poland at an upcoming conference called for by the Federationof Ukrainian Jews in England to “decide upon measures to be adopted in aidingthe Ukrainian Jewish pogrom victims.
1922(1stof Iyar, 5682): Rosh Chodesh
1922(1stof Iyar, 5682): Seventy-nine-year-old David Lindo Alexander, English barristerand a prominent member of the Anglo-Jewish community passed away. He was one ofthose who expressed “grave reservations” about what would become the BalfourDeclaration and later joined “the anti-Zionist League of British Jews.”
1923:Oscar Straus, the former Ambassador to Turkey is scheduled to deliver anaddress this afternoon in New Brunswick, NJ when “Catholics, Protestants andJews” celebrate “the establishment of a local branch of the World Alliance forInternational Friendship Through the Churches,” a movement that was started byRabbi Jacob Goldstein.
1923:Birthdate ofmovie director Irvin Kershner the native of Philadelphia anda graduate ofUSC's film school who began his career producingdocumentaries for the USIA about theMiddle East. Two of his mostfamous film creditswere "Raid on Entebbe" and "Star Wars V-The Empire StrikesBack."
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/famed-jewish-hollywood-director-irvin-kershner-dies-at-87-1.327720
1924:Charlie Rosenberg, the Jewish boxer who became World Bantamweight Champion in1925 fought his third and final bout with Cannonball Eddie Martin which endedin a ten round draw.
1924:Harry Landes and his wife gave birth to David S. Landes, who would become “adistinguished Harvard scholar of economic history” “on the kitchen table of hisparents’ home in the Seagate neighborhood of Coney Island in Brooklyn.” (Asreported by Douglas Marin)
1925:Dr. Florence Rena Sabin the first woman president of the American Associationof Anatomists is elected the first woman member of the U.S. National Academy ofSciences.
1926:“The Woman in Gold” with a script co-authored by Walter Wassermann was releasedin Germany and France today.
1926:Birthdate of Paul Baran, the Polish born American Jewish “engineer who outlinedone of the core principles of the Internet in the early 1960s and went on tobecome an entrepreneurial businessman.
1926:In the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn Sadye and Al Tisch gave birth toUniversity of Michigan economics graduate Preston Robert “Bob” Tisch thehusband of Joan Tisch and Postmaster General under President Reagan who was CEOof Loews and owner of the NY (football) Giants
1927:Birthdate of Abraham Jacob Nathan who would gain fame as Abie Nathan a pilot,entrepreneur, peace activist and founder of the groundbreaking "Voice ofPeace" radio station, died Wednesday at Tel Aviv's Ichilov hospital, thehospital said in a statement.
1927:Birthdate of Gertrude Neumark Rothschild “whose research helped improvelight-emitting and laser diodes now used in many cellphones, flat-screentelevisions and Blu-ray disc players, and who waged a successfulcopyright-infringement battle against some of the world’s biggest electronicscompanies that yielded tens of millions of dollars in settlements and licensingfees…”
1927(27thof Nisan, 5687): Mrs. Leopold Stern, the former Eva Sterne who married LeopoldStern “known as the dean of diamond importers in America,” a Republicanpolitical leader and philanthropist at Jefferson, TX in 1880 passed away today.
1927(27thof Nisan, 5687): Rachel Sassoon Beer passed away. She was the granddaughterof David Sassoon, editor of The Observer (1891–1904) and owner-editor of TheSunday Times (1893–1904). Rachel was born in Bombay to Sassoon David Sassoon,to the Sassoon family, who made their fortune in trade with the Far East. As ayoung woman, she volunteered as a nurse in a hospital before marrying FrederickArthur Beer in 1887. Frederick soon suffered from an illness that changed hispersonality and led to his early death. Soon after her marriage to Frederick,Rachel began contributing articles to The Observer, which was then owned by theBeer family. In 1891, she took over as editor, becoming the first female editorof a national newspaper in the process.[1] Two years later, she purchased theSunday Times and became the editor of that newspaper as well. Though "not. . . a brilliant editor], she was known for her "occasional flair andbusiness-like decisions". It was during her time as editor that TheObserver achieved one of its greatest exclusives: the admission by CountEsterhazy that he had forged the letters that condemned innocent Jewish officerCaptain Dreyfus to Devil's Island. The story provoked an international outcryand led to the release and pardon of Dreyfus and court martial of Esterhazy. Frederick'sdeath in 1903 triggered a breakdown in Rachel, with her erratic behaviorculminating in a collapse. The following year she was committed and bothnewspapers were sold by her trustees. While Rachel subsequently recovered, sherequired nursing care for the remainder of her life. Rachel spent her finalyears at Chancellor House in Tunbridge Wells, where she died. She was interredin the Sassoon family mausoleum in Brighton. Among her relatives was the poetSiegfried Sassoon, who was her nephew. In her will she left a generous legacyto Siegfried, enabling him to purchase Heytesbury House in Wiltshire, where hespent the rest of his life. In honour of her request, Siegfried hung an oilportrait of his aunt over the fireplace.
1928: It was reported today that “My Maryland,”a Sigmund Romberg musical produced by Lee and J.J. Schubert is moving from theJolson Theatre to the Casino Theatre.
1928:The New York Times published a report of a speech by Dr. Chaim Weizmann,the Zionist leader who had just returned to the United States from Palestine,in which he asserted that the effects of the economic depression of the lasttwo years are about to be overcome and that Eretz Israel is about to enjoy“growth and prosperity such as it has not known” before.
1929(19thof Nisan, 5689): Fifth Day of Pesach
1929(19thof Nisan, 5689): Otto Jaffe, “a German-born British Jewish businessman who wastwice elected Lord Mayor of Belfast passed away.
1929:Premiere of “The Woman One Longs For,” a German silent film directed by CurtisBernhardt, with a script co-authored by Max Brod
1929:In Liverpool, Borach and Leah Moonman gave birth to Eric Moonman who served asa Laborite MP and President of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain andIreland.”
1930:Birthdate of Solomon Wachtler, the New York Republican political leader, lawyerand Judge whose career ended in disgrace and imprisonment.
1930:Irene Mayer married David O. Selznick with whom she had two sons Lewis Jeffreyand Daniel Selznick both of whom became movie producers.
1931:Birthdate of editor and publisher RobertGottlieb.
1931: In Berlin, Max Auerbach, apatent lawyer, and Charlotte Nora Burchardt, who had trained as an artist gavebirth the painter Frank Helmut Auerbach.In 1939, Auerbach’s parents made arrangements for him to go to GreatBritain as part of the Kindertransport.They died in a concentration camp in 1942. Their son became a British citizen in 1947.
1932: In Omaha, Rabbi Garry August’s appearancetonight at Temple Israel is causing a great amount of interest and is certainto attract one of the largest audiences of the year according to the presidentof the congregation’s brotherhood which is sponsoring the visit of RabbiAugust.
https://issuu.com/jewishpress7/docs/1932-04-29
1933: “Diplomaniacs,” a political satire produced bySam Jaffe and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz was released in the United Statestoday.
1933: “Eleven boys and girls” from Detroit, membersof “the Chalutzim” are scheduled to set sail for Palestine today.
1934(14th of Iyar, 5694): Pesach Sheni
1934: “The president of the court that is tryingthree youths in the murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, Jewish labor leader,visited the scene of the murder at Tel-Aviv accompanied by three associatejudges and the prosecution and defense counsel.The party then went to the vine-yard to which the murderers are supposedto have fled after the crime…The party also visited the grounds of the Jaffaprison and inspected the cell of Abdel Megid whose confession of the murder wasproduced by the defense in the preliminary investigation and then retracted byAbdel Megid. The judges sought toascertain how he could have had lengthy conversations with Abraham Stavsky, oneof the three accused. The prosecutionalleges that Stavsky tried to arrange to have Megid take upon himself the guiltfor the murder, whereas the defense counsel contends Megid was the murderer andthat his confession was retracted under pressure by police.” [Ed. Note, The murder of Chaim Arosoroff isone of the “stains” on the Zionist movement.Unknown to many, the episode resurfaced when Prime Minister Rabin wasmurdered.]
1935: In Berne, Switzerland, “the hearing of thelibel suit brought by the Jewish leaders against the publishers of theso-called ‘Protocols of Zion’ is scheduled to resume today.”
1935: “Morris Hillquit, lawyer and Socialist leader,left a net taxable estate of $28,981 and $30,000 in non-taxable insurance,according to the transfer tax appraisal filed here” today.
1935: “Advancement of the cause of peace throughmeetings, classes and affiliation with peace groups was urged upon the New YorkState Federation of Temple Sisterhoods today at its annual meeting in the CommunityHouse of the Central Synagogue, 35 East Sixty-Second Street.”
1936: As theArab violence continues, in Jerusalem, “revolver shots were fired from an Arabcafé and stones were hurled at the police from the balcony of hotel.
1936: “The Sheikhs of the Bedouin tribes” livingnear Migdal, a town founded by Jewish settlers in 1910, “accompanied by Arabnotables” visited to the town today “to apologize for yesterday’s attack onJews by Bedouins who alleged that the Jews had killed two Arab boys” – a chargethat proved to be false.
1936: As the Arab attacks on Jews continuedthroughout Palestine, officials from the municipality of Jaffa “visited theArab and Jewish quarters and estimated the damage caused by fires there at$150,000, with more than a hundred homes burned.”
1936: Major Tulloch, a former army friend ofChurchill’s living in Jericho wrote to the British political leader stressingthat ‘the vast majority’ of the poorer Arabs were only too willing to live withthe Jews ‘were it not for the way they are terrorized by their ‘leaders’ andtold not to in the Arab papers.’”
1936:Birthdate of Zubin Mehta. Born in Bombay India Mehta became a world-famousconductor including serving as director of the New York Philharmonic. He hasconducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since around 1970 andwasnamedits music director for life in 1981.
1936: At Merton Hall in Cambridge, Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, byhis first wife Barbara Judith Rothschild (née Hutchinson) gave birth to JacobRothschild whose official name of this member of the English branchof theHouse of Rothschild is Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th BaronRothschild.
1936:Birthdate of Joan Sydney Friedman, the native of Chicago, who gained fame as “JoanPeters, a journalist whose 1984 book, From Time Immemorial: The Origins ofthe Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine, drew accolades and outrage byarguing that claims of a historical Palestinian homeland in Israel wereinvented.”
1937:Sixty-nine-year-old Norman Hapgood, the author of The Inside Story of HenryFord’s Jew-Mania passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/inside-story-Henry-Fords-Jew-mania/dp/B00085Q0DI
1938: The Palestine Post reported that thenewly-arrived Palestine Partition Study Commission embarked on an extensivetwo-weeks-long tour of the country. The Commission had announced that it wasoffered the good offices of the High Commissioner to reside at the Jerusalem'sGovernment House and that it was ready to receive, at any time, writtenstatements from all persons who desired to place their views before them. Anypersons wishing to appear before the Commission were asked to contact theSecretary at the High Commissioner's address.
1938: The Palestine Post reported that a unitof Royal Ulster Riflemen found a huge arms store and arrested 31 Arab suspectedterrorists at the Gilat ed Bahr village near Nablus. A curfew was imposed onthe whole neighborhood.
1938: “College Swing” a musical featuring the lyricsof Frank Loesser and co-starring George Burns was released today in the UnitedStates.
1938:Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Vilna, Poland. The modern state of Poland wascreated at the end of World War I. Unfortunately, during the periodbetween the two World Wars, anti-Semitism was part of the Polish political andsocial landscape. Apparently anti-Semitism was endemic to the Polishculture since there was a "min-pogrom" there after the Holocaust in1946.
1939:After a year’s imprisonment physicist Lev Landau was released from the dreadedLubyanka prison because fellow physicist Pyotr Kapista was brave enough tovouch for him. (It is important toremember those who work to protect Jews.)
1940:Rudolf Hoess arrived at Auschwitz to set up camp.
1940(21stof Nisan, 5700): Seventh Day of Pesach
1940(21stof Nisan, 5700): Sixty-nine-year-old New York native Rudolph Block, the “editorof the comic supplements of the Hearst newspapers” who under the pen name BrunoLessings helped to create “The Katzenjammer Kids” and raised two sons RudolphJr and Arthur with his wife Verda passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/04/30/109345942.pdf
1940:In New York, Samuel Multer and Estelle Strossman gave birth University of RhodeIsland basketball star Barry D. Multer, Class of ’61.
1940(21stof Nisan, 5700): Fifty-eight-year-old Polish born conductor and composer JosephA. Pasternack who came to the United States in the 1890’s passed away today inNew York.
http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/17138/
1940:Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. had lunch with FDR at the WhiteHouse.
1941:“Rabbi George Zepin of Cincinnati, secretary of the Union of American HebrewCongregations, which is holding its biennial council, was eulogized at anexecutive session today following the announcement of his retirement afterthirty-five years with the union.”
1942:A German truck that refueled near theLódz (Poland) Ghetto carried luggage belonging to "resettled" Jewswho had already been murdered at the Chelmno death camp.
1942:Jews were forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France.
1943(24th of Nisan, 5703): Near Kraków, Poland,Jewish women attacked their male SS guards while being transferred from oneprison to another. Two women escaped but most of the others are killed.
1943(24th of Nisan, 5703): In Kraków JewishResistance fighters incarcerated since December 1942 were trucked to theconcentration camp at Plaszów, Poland,. Most are killed after breaking out ofthe truck.
1943(24thof Nisan, 5703): Fifty-six-year-old Russian born composer and violinist JosephAchron, the brother of Isidor Achron passed away today.
http://www.josephachron.org/about-achron.html
1943:Rabbi IsraelGoldstein, a leader of the Synagogue Council of America was quoted in the New York Times today saying of therecently concluded conference that was supposed to provide aid for Jewishrefugees and victims of the Holocuast, "The job of the Bermuda Conferencewas apparently not to rescue victims of Nazi terror but to rescue our StateDepartment and the British Foreign Office. Victims are not being rescuedbecause the democracies don't want them."
1944:Rose Warfman (néeGluck) was shipped to Auschwitz as part of Convoy 72. The transport consistedof 1004 Jews - 398 men and 606 women – as well as 174 children under the age of18. Among the Jews shipped to the deathcap was Itzak Katznelson, the Polish born dramatist and author.
1944:Kistarcsa, Hungary,was the site ofthe first deportation of Jewsfrom Hungary to Birkenau Concentration Camp.
1945:Martha Gellhorn whose “father and maternal grandfather were Jewish” was amongthe first journalists to report from Dachau concentration camp after it wasliberated by U.S. troops today.
1945: U.S. Troops entered Dachau, the first of theS.S.-organized camps. It was founded in March 1933. Dachau was infamous for itspseudo-scientific experiments by German doctors and scientists. The liberatingtroops from Seventh U.S. Army fond fifty train wagons filled with emaciatedbodies. Near the crematorium another huge pile of bodies were found. Of the33,000 survivors found at Dachau, only 2,439 were Jews. Very few Jewswereleft alive to liberate. In the next few weeks another 27,000 Jews from thehundreds of camps and sub- camps would still die due to illness, exhaustion andthe irreversible effects of starvation. The Americans later used it as a prisoncamp for Nazi war criminals. Rabbi Abraham Klausner was “the father figure” forthe more than 30,000 emaciated survivors found at Dachau, 10 miles northwest ofMunich, after it was and later for thousands more left in camps as the Alliestried to determine where they should go.
1945:A few after his liberation by U.S. troops at Dachau, “Edgar Kupfer, a 39year-old German political prisoner noted in his diary: ‘I shall celebrate thisall my life as a second birthday, as the day when I received the gift of a lifeanew.’”
1945:Jan Komski was among those who liberated today at Dachau. According to Mr.Komski, “the prisoners were told to remain indoors. It was strangely quiet.Then there was the sound of gunfire. Peering outside, he saw prisoners runningthrough the barbed wire, which had been torn to pieces. ‘Then I see first oneAmerican, and then a second and a third. Within half an hour, the whole campwas decorated with flags of all nations, probably sewn together and hidden fora long time…’”
1945:Eli A. Bohnen, a chaplain with the 42 Infantry Division entered Dachau today,giving him the dubious distinction of being the first rabbi to enter the Germanhell-hole.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071001911.html
1945:Brigadier General Henning Linden led a group of reporters including MargueriteHiggins and a detachment of the 42nd (Rainbow) Infantry Division as thesoldiers received the surrender of the camp commander, generating internationalheadlines by freeing more than 30,000 Jews and political prisoners
1945:“The advance scouts of the US Army's 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, aNisei-manned segregated Japanese-American Allied military unit, liberated the3,000 prisoners of the "Kaufering IV Hurlach"[54] slave labor camp.”
1945:“An Office of Strategic Services (OSS) team (code name LUXE) led Army Intelligenceto a "Camp IV" today where "they found the camp afire and astack of some four hundred bodies burning... American soldiers then went intoLandsberg and rounded up all the male civilians they could find and marchedthem out to the camp. The former commandant was forced to lie amidst a pile ofcorpses. The male population of Landsberg was then ordered to walk by andordered to spit on the commandant as they passed. The commandant was thenturned over to a group of liberated camp survivors." (As described byJoseph Perisco)
1945:Corporal Henry Senger of the 292nd Field Artillery Observation Battalioncaptured the commandant of Dachau today.
1945:Joshua Kaufman, a Hungarian Jew, was the first “human being” that American G.I.Daniel Gillepsie saw when he entered Dachau today.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4618314,00.html
1945:Fritz Ascher was among the prisoners liberated by the Allies when they enteredBerlin-Grunewald.
1946:Forty-year-old Lt. Col. Martin Gottfried Weiss, the commandant at Dachau washung today following his conviction during the “Dachau Trials.”
1947:It was announced tonight “at a rally of the Millinery Workers Union, AFL, inManhattan Center” that “the International Ladies Garment Workers Union hascontributed a check for $225,000 to the United Jewish Appeal Campaign chairedby Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
1948(20thof Nisan, 5708): Sixth Day of Pesach
1948:The Haganah captured the two Arab villages just east of Bat Yam, from whichattacks on Jewish road traffic into Tel Aviv had frequently been launched.
1948:Today, Teddy Eitan (Thadée Diffre) a non-Jewish volunteer who had “joined theHaganah in France, “arrived in Haifa aboard the ship “Kedmah.”
1948:Following the evacuation by British forces, the Haganah secured the policestation at Zemach – a small town at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee, onthe Haifa-Damascus road.
1948:Haganah troops occupied the policed fortress at Gesher at the Jordan Rivercrossing of the Haifa-Damascus road. TheArab Legion attacked the fort and the nearby Jewish settlement at Gesher. They were so confident of victory thatTransjordan Crown Prince Talal came to witness the attack. The Arab Legion failed to dislodge theunder-strength, outgunned Jewish defenders and retreated across the JordanRiver.
1949(30thof Nisan, 5709): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1949:“The Steering Committee of the United Nations General Assembly recommended todayquick consideration of Israel's bid for membership in the world organization byvoting to shift the item from the overloaded Political Committee to the idle AdHoc Committee.”
1949:“The Rev. Andrew Scott-Morrison,Moderator of the Jerusalem Presbytery of the Church of Scotland, is now on amission to Israel, arranging for the release of some of the church propertiesused by the Israeli Army” as part of the Presbyterian Church’s plans to resume“it educational and health activities in the Holy Land.”
1950:In the only protest to Jordan’s annexation of what became known as the WestBank, Menachem Begin and two of his former aides called upon Israelis to resistthis occupation of Eretz Israel by the Arab army. [Ed Note: You will not find any mention of aPalestinian State, etc in any of the response at this time.]
1950:In Cleveland, Alan Toffler, the author of Future Shock was married todayto Adelaide Elizabeth Farrell
1951:Ludwig JosefJohann Wittgenstein, an Austrian-British philosopher, passed away. Although he was raised as a Christian, when “Germanyannexed Austria in the Anschluss; Wittgenstein” became “a citizen of theenlarged Germany and a Jew under the 1935 Nuremberg racial laws, because threeof his grandparents had been born as Jews. The Nuremberg Laws classified peopleas Jews (Volljuden) if they had three or four Jewish grandparents and as mixedblood (Mischling) if they had one or two. It meant inter alia that theWittgensteins were restricted in whom they could marry or have sex with, andwhere they could work.” The irony of all of this is at Wittgenstein had gone tothe Realschule with AdolfHitler.
1952:At Carnegie Hall in New York, Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill,read a message of support from her father at an event celebrating the fourthanniversary of Israeli independence and the first meeting of the AmericanZionist Council, an amalgamation of eith leading Zionist organizations in theUnited States.
1952(4thof Iyar, 5712): Yom HaZikaron
1953: The Jerusalem Postreported that according to the planned new legislation, just placed before theKnesset, the exclusive jurisdiction of the Rabbinical Courts was to be limitedto marriage, divorce and alimony. A new Tenants' Protection Bill, altered inseveral fundamental respects, was also in preparation.
1953: The Jerusalem Postreported that Jerusalem's acute water shortage continued after the Municipalityfailed to pay to the Jerusalem Electric Corporation the agreed upon immediatepayment of IL27,000, on account of an IL80,000 debt.
1953(14thof Iyar, 5713): Pesach Sheni observed for the first time during the Presidencyof Dwight David Eisenhower.
1954(26thof Nisan, 5714): Yom HaShoah
1954(26thof Nisan, 5714): Sixty-three-year-old vaudeville monologist and radio andBroadway performer Joe Laurie Jr. who formed the vaudeville team of Laurie andBronson with his first wife Aleen Bronson and was the father of Joseph BryantHughes Laurie passed away today.
https://archives.nypl.org/the/22632
https://the-lambs.org/club_member/laurie-joseph-jr/
1955:Birthdate of comedian Jerry Seinfeld who gained fame and fortune as the lead inthe television series "Seinfeld."
1956(18thod Iyar, 5716): Lag Baomer
1956:Birthdate of New York native Elisabeth Rosenthal the non-practicing physicianand journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal author of An American Sickness: HowHealthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/books/review/an-american-sickness-elisabeth-rosenthal.html
1956(18thof Iyar, 5716): Seventy-eight-year-old Cincinnati native and University ofCincinnati trained “physician, bacteriologist and philatelist Leo GreenfieldTedesche passed away today “at his winter home in Miami, FL.”)
1956(18thof Iyar, 5716): During a prepared ambush whose perpetrators included “anEgyptian policeman and a Palestinian farmer”, Roi Rotberg, the kibbutz securityoffice at Nahal Oz was shot off his horse, beaten and shot again after whichthen his body was dragged into Gaza where the post- mortem mutilation includedhaving his eyes gouged out.
1957(28thof Nisan, 5717): Yom HaShoah
1957(28thof Nisan, 5717): Seventy-nine year old Solomon Baruch Komaiko the Lithuanianborn American author and Zionist who was a cousin of producer David O.Selznick, the father of WW II fighter pilot William Komaiko, “the grandfatherof the author Leah Komaiko, composer William Komaiko, flamenco dancer LibbyKomaiko, painter Sarah Belchetz-Swenson, Playwrights Project Founder DeborahSalzer and poet Ruth Belchetz” and “great grandfather of journalist RichardKomaiko” passed away today.
1957:Birthdate of English actor Daniel Day-Lewis the son of actress Jill Balcon andthe grandson of film producer Sir Michael Elias Bacon who has won three Oscarsfor Best Actor
1957:Jane Evans, executive director of the National Federation of TempleSisterhoods, spoke about the need to ordain women rabbis in the Reform movementat a biennial general assembly meeting of the Union of American HebrewCongregations (UAHC), the synagogue federation arm of the Reform movement, andof the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods (NFTS), Jane Evans spoke to1,000 delegates in favor of ordaining women rabbis.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/29/1957/jane-evans
1958(9thof Iyar, 5718): AlfredSalmony, “an internationally recognizes authority on Asian art” and Professorof Fine Arts at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts” passed away todayafter suffering a heart attack while on board the Ile de France.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15436322.1958.11465592?journalCode=rcaj19
1959(21stof Nisan, 5719): Seventh Day of Pesach
1959:At Congregation B’nai Heshurun, William Berkowitz, a Conservative rabbi,delivered a sermon in which he “questioned whether the country was experiencingtrue religious revival or merely the appearance of one.
1959:Edward E. Klein, a Reform rabbi, delivered a sermon today at Stephen Wise FreeSynagogue in
whichhe “said that no holiday postulated so much hope for mankind as did Passover.”
1963(5th of Iyar, 5723): Yom Ha’Atzmaut, יוםהעצמאות15th Anniversary of Israel
1963:It was reported today that awards totaling $1,380,000 were made by the JohnSimon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation “which was established by the late SenatorSimon Guggenheim and his wife in memory of their son John Simon who died as ayoung man in 1922.”
1965(27thof Nisan, 5725): Yom HaShoah
1965(27th of Nisan, 5725): Freda Resnikoff,founder of the Mizrachi Women's Organization (now AMIT) passed away.
1965:In Chicago “Paul Krouse and the former Ann Wolk” both of whom were publishersgave birth to filmmaker and author Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/style/amy-krouse-rosenthal-dies-modern-love.html?_r=0
1966:Sixty-nine-year-old Terrence MacDermot who served as Canadian Ambassador toIsrael from 1954 to 1957 passed away today.
1966(9thof Iyar, 5726): Eighty-three-year-old Prague born University of Chicago trackstar, Hugo Friend, the husband of Sadie Cohn and Judge of the Circuit Court ofCook Country who “presided over the Black Sox trial,” baseball’s greatestmoment of shame until the steroid scandals passed away today in Chicago.
1967(19thof Nisan, 5727): Fifth Day of Pesach and Shabbated
1967:Fearless of Frank directed, produced and written by Philip Kaufman with musicby Meyer Kupferman was released in the United States today.
1968(1stof Iyar, 5728): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1968(1stof Iyar, 5728): Seventy-nine-year-old newspaper women Sarah Brandstein Smithpassed away today.
http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/29/1968/death-of-writer-sarah-brandstein-smith-queen-of-shundroman
1969(11thof Iyar, 5729): NYU trained attorney Irving Berkelhammer, the husband ofPhyllis Berkelhammer, who was involved in various Jewish organizationsincluding the UJA and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies passed awaytoday.
1970(23rdof Nisan, 5730): Eighty-six-year-old Louis Brodsky, NYU trained attorney, theRussian born son of Sarah and Ely and Brodsky who went on to become a Judge inthe Magistrates Court in New York City while serving a Chairman of Borough ParkBranch of Keren Hayesod and a director of the Hebrew Orphan Home and thehusband of Rebecca Nieberg passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/01/archives/louis-b-brodsky-86-former-magistrate.html
1971(4thof Iyar, 5731): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1973: In South Orange, NJ, Rabbi Barry HewittGreene officiated at the wedding of Margure Sue Nussbaum and Bertram MaxLederer of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1974:Tonight, ABC began broadcasting “QB VII” a mini-series based on a novel of thesame name by Leon Uris
1975(18thof Iyar, 5735): Lag B’Omer
1975:The American Sephardic Federation and United Jewish Appeal sponsored a two-weekvisit for Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yossef to visit the United States who cameand met with both governmental and Jewish community leaders.
1978(22ndof Nisan, 5738): Eighth day of Pesach; Yizkor
1978(22ndof Nisan, 5738): Eighty-one-year-old Hungarian author Illona Duczynska Polanyi,the widow of Vienna born economist and WW I veteran of the Austrian Army KarlyPolanyi, the author of the Great Transformation and mother of Canadianeconomist Kari Polanyi Levitt, passed away today in Ontario.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/04/30/110847213.html?pageNumber=40
1978(22ndof Nisan, 5738): Ninety-five year old French pediatrician Robert Debré thefather of Michel and Jean Louis Debré and the grandfather of Vincent, Francois,Bernard and Guillaume Debré passed away today.
1979:“The Days of Remembrance” which the week-long event which the President’sCommission has set for honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust isscheduled to come to an end today.
1981:Yaacov Scherft successfully ejected from his F-4E Phantom II
1981(25thof Nisan, 5741): Eighty-five-year-old ophthalmologist turned entertainmentmogul Jules C. Stein founder of the Music Corporation of America passed awaytoday in Los Angeles.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/30/obituaries/jules-c-stein-85-founder-of-mca-dies.html
1983(16thof Iyar, 5743): Eighty-six-year-old author and Zionist Johan J. Smertenkopassed away.
1984:Hadashot, a Hebrew language daily newspaper was closed by the Israeli MilitaryCensor for three days starting today because it had published an article about“the Ktav 300 Affair” without showing it to the authorities prior topublication.
1984: Thelights in Temple Emanu-El were dimmed as 31 survivors of the Holocaust, allwomen dressed in black, slowly walked to 6 stands and lighted 216 candles in memoryof the 6 million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis during World WarII.
1985:“A Gigantic Death Camp” published today described the conditions at BergenBelsen on the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the camp byAllied troops.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1048304,00.html?internalid=ACA
1990(4thof Iyar, 5750): Yom HaZikaron
1990:Release date for “Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair” a made fortelevision movie based on the hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murderLeon Klinghoffer featuring Rebecca Schaeffer, of blessed memory, in the role of“Cheryl.”
1992:“Falsettos,” a musical with a book co-authored by William Finn who also wrotethe music and lyrics opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre.
1993(8thof Iyar, 5753): Eighty-three year old director Michael Gordon passed awaytoday.
1995:Final broadcast of NBC sitcom “Empty Nest” directed by Dinah Beth Manoff.
1996:The musical hit “Rent” premiered at the Nederlander Theatre. The originalconcept for Rent came from Billy Aronson a Jewish-Americanplaywright and writer.
1997)22ndof Nisan, 5757): Eighth and final day of Pesach
1998(3rdof Iyar, 5758):YomHazikaron
1998:In the evening, Israelis begancelebrating the 50th anniversary of thefounding of their country (although, according to the Western calendar, theanniversary fell on May 14th).
2000(24thof Nisan, 5760): Parashat Achrei Mot
2000(24thof Nisan, 5760): Ninety-five-year-old Abraham “Goldie” Goldberg, the husbandRose Goldberg, the father of Muriel Ginsberg and the founder of the“Fraser-Gold Carpet Corporation in Manhattan.”
2001: The New York Times featured reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including WasThis Man A Genius? Talks With Andy Kaufman
by Julie Hecht, Dazzler The Life andTimes of Moss Hart by Steven Bach and Washington by MegGreenfield.
2001:An exhibition entitled “Marc Chagall: Early Works from Russian Collections”opens at the Jewish Museum in New York City. These early years in Russiaprovide the key to Chagall’s long and prolific career. They also show how YehudaPen, the artist who was Chagall’s earliest teacher and mentor, influenced hisart.
2001:Hamas claimed responsibility for today’s school bus bombing at Nablus.
2002:Cairo columnist Fatma Abduall Mahmoud declared, “With regard to this Holocaustswindle, many French studies have shown that this is nothing more than afabrication, a lie and a fraud. But, Ipersonally complain to Hitler, even saying to him from the bottom of my heart,‘If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that theworld could sign in relief without their evil and sin.’”
2003(27thof Nisan, 5763): Yom Hashoah
2003:“Responding to a Syrian call to revive peace talks, Israel said today that itwas skeptical of the offer but would be willing to meet as long as Israel wasnot required to make concessions in advance.”
2004:“Chrissie Watts, a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders,played by Tracy-Ann Oberman appeared for the first time today” in what would bean 18-month run.
2004:Just months before his death Tzvi Tzur, the IDF’s 6th Chief ofStaff, signeda letter of support in Ariel Sharon's plan to leave Gaza.
2005(20thof Nisan, 5675): Sixth Day of Pesach
2005:Today, CBS broadcast the last episode of “JAG” a Naval legal series featuringJordana Spiro as “Lt. Tali Mayfield
2006(1stof Iyar, 5766): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
2006:Katha Pollit married “political theorist Steven Lukes.
2006:Ninety-seven-year-old Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini attended thesession of the Senate in Rome where the candidate she supported was electedPresident.
2007:Maccabi USA sponsors a Tribute BrunchHonoring Richard Reff at WoodmontCountry Club, Rockville, MD. Dr. Reff is a Washington, D.C. area orthopedicsurgeon specializing in sports medicine who supports the Richard B.Reff, M.D. Maccabi Youth Games Endowment Fund.
2007:An exhibit styled “Ben’s Lens” comes to a close at the Sydney Jewish Museum inSydney, Australia. This “PhotographicRetrospective by Ben Apfelbaum” follows the Jewish calendar of religiousfestivals, life-cycle ceremonies, carnivals, demonstrations and commemorations,documenting secular and religious Jewish life and culture in Sydney.
2007:The Sunday New York Times booksection featured a review of TheWorlds of Lincoln Kirstein byMartin Duberman. According to thereview, Martin Duberman shows how Lincoln Kirstein, a "queer Jewishintellectual," became a cultural power.
2007:Israeli author David Grossman delivers the Arthur Miller Freed to Write Lectureat PEN’s World Voices Festival.
2007(11thof Iyar, 5767): Fifty-eight-year Israeli Paralympic champion Eliezer Kalina whoa leg while fighting in the Yom Kippur War passed away today.
2008: The Jerusalem Cinemathequepresents a screening of “The Cellar”\המרתף.
2008: The 92nd Street Y presents “From Architecture to Infrastructure: Creating a Palestinian State”withC. Ross Anthony and Doug Suisman.
2008(24th of Nisan, 5768): Twenty-four-year-oldSenior Airman Jonathan A.V. Yelner “was killed in Afghanistan when hisvehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.” As reported by MaiaEfrem
2009: The YIVO Institutefor Jewish Research presents a lecture by Indiana University’s Jolanta Mickute entitled“Emancipation and Its Discontents: Jewish Women in Interwar Poland” that addressesthe debate surrounding the emancipation of Jewish women in interwar Poland, andexamines how the limits established by Jewish tradition, ethnicity, class,locale and gender shaped the Jewish women’s identities in the Polish hostculture.
2009: As part of the ASF Books andAuthors Series, The American Sephardi Federation features a presentation byPearl Sofar author of “Baghdad to Bombay: In the Kitchens of My Cousins.”Sofaer was born and grew up in Bombay, India. She is a musician, artist,cantorial soloist, retired mediator and gourmet cook who shares many of thestories and recipes of her beloved family.
2009 (5 Iyar, 5769): Yom Ha’Azma’ut –Israel Independence Day
2009: As part of the Independence DayCelebration, Israel Prize winners are formally honored including Israelisculptor Micha Ullman, Professor Emanuel Tov of the Hebrew University,archaeologist Amihai Mazar, medical researcher Professor Zvi Laron, Itamar Procaccia, Reuven Tsur, Israel Levinand the Israel Democracy Institute
2009: In the United States, YomHa’Azma’ut Celebrations include a concert by Israeli Hip Hop/Funk/Drum & Bassgroup Coolooloosh at Yale University, a Yom Ha'atzmaut Shuk at NYUand a community-wide celebration atIthaca College complete with live music, food, arts & crafts, games, ahookah circle, and much more.
2009: This month's poetry reading evening at the Kensington Row Bookshop includesMichael S. Glaser, the current Maryland Poet Laureate and author of “Being aFather.”
2009: Italian officials released YoussefMajed al-Molqi, the convicted of killing Leon Klinghoffer who was sentenced to30 years for murdering Leon Klinghoffer was released from prison today “forgood behavior.”
2010: Dutch documentary filmmaker Wolf“Willy” Lindwer “was bestowed with the Dutch order Officer in the Order ofOrange-Nassau by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of hiswork for the Netherlands.”
2010: Two days after she had passedaway, funeral services are scheduled to be held at Temple Israel of Hollywoodfor Ruth Nusbauam, “the matriarch of Temple Israel,” Zionist leader, and widowof Rabbi of Max Nussbaum with whom she raised two children – Hannah and Jeremy.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=142306979
2010: David Adelman began serving as theU.S. Ambassador to Singapore.
2010: The New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including “Innocent” by Scott Turow.
2010: ThePEN World Voices Festival, Center for Jewish History and the Consulate Generalof Israel are scheduled to present Eshkol Nevo, one of Israel's most excitingnew voices in a program entitled “Homesick: Eshkol Nevo in Conversation withMichael Orthofer.”
2010(15th of Iyar, 5770):Devra G. Kleiman, “a conservation biologist whor*introduced into the wild the tiny endangered monkey known as the golden liontamarin, and who learned so much about the lives of giant pandas thatscientists could later help them reproduce in captivity, died in Washington” atthe age of 67. At her death, Dr. Kleiman was a senior scientist emeritus at theNational Zoo in Washington, with which she had been associated for nearly fourdecades.(As reported by Margalit Fox)
2010(15th of Iyar, 5770): Avigdor Arikhapassed away the after his 81st birthday
2010: Reuven Rivlin, Speaker of theKnesset said that he "would rather accept Palestinians as Israeli citizensthan divide Israel and the West Bank in a future two-state peacesolution"..
2011: “BloombergL.P. announced that Michael Kinsley had joined the Bloomberg View editorialboard.”
2011: Peggyand Murray Schwartz are scheduled to launch their new book, “The Dance ClaimedMe: A biography of Pearl Primus” at the 92nd St Y
2011: Westwood One sold Metro Networks,which had been founded by Baltimore native David I. Saperstein in 1978, toClear Channel Communications.
2012: Filmmaker Dani Menkin is scheduledto participate in a Q&A following a screening of “Dolphin Boy” at theWestchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012: At Kibbutz Yehudah in CedarRapids, Iowa, Dr. Steve Feller, renowned professor of physics and publishedauthor on the subject of coins and money is scheduled to deliver a talk onancient Jewish coins.
2012: Four members of Adat Reyim arescheduled to lay a wreath “at the Tomb of Unknowns in Arlington Cemetery tohonor Jewish service members who gave their lives supporting the war onterrorism.”
2012: Performance Iowa is scheduled topresent “Music to Commemorate the Passover Season & The Holocaust,” a live2 p.m. broadcast from the Caspe Terrace in Waukee, IA. Featuring University ofNorthern Iowa faculty members Hunter Capoccioni, double bass and DmitriVorobiev, piano, the program will include music by Ernest Bloch, HermannBerlinkski, Yehuda Yannay, Maurice Ravel, Tony Osborne and Max Bruch. CantorGail Karp will perform traditional Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Three DesMoines-area Rabbi will participate in this special program. Rabbi YossiJacobson, Rabbi Leib Bolel and Rabbi David Kaufman all will speak on differenttopics.
2012: TheJerusalem International Chamber Music Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: The Sunday Edition on CBC RadioOne broadcast David Gutnick’s documentary “It wasn’t teatime: Ethel Stark andthe Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra “ which tells the story of how in 1940 EthelStark helped establish the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra, the firstall-female Canadian symphony orchestra and one of only a couple in NorthAmerica. At the time, women were not allowed to play in most symphonyorchestras.
2013: The illuminated manuscript, known as the Frankfurt Mishneh Torah is scheduledto be auctioned today at Sotheby’s in New York City (As reported by Ula Ilnytzky)
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=304132
2013: The 15th annual Felicja BlumentalChamber Music Festival is scheduled to open at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2013: The Dolphin-class submarine INS Rahavwas delivered today to the Israeli Navy
2013: The Alexandria Kleztet isscheduled to perform at the United States Holocaust Museum.
2013: Danny Kaye, Frank Loesser and JuleStyne are scheduled to be honored at a New York Pops Concert at Carnegie Hall.
2013:Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them joinedPresident Bill Clinton and Elie Wiesel to mark the 20th anniversaryof the dedication of the U.S. Holocuast Memorial Museum.
2013:The IDF and the Defense ministry unveiled Israel’s Dolphin-class submarine in aceremony in Kiel, Germany.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-unveils-fifth-dolphin-class-submarine/
2014: Stuart S. Kurlander is scheduledto receive the Lee G. Rubenstein Outstanding Leadership award this evening atthe Washington DCJC Spring Showcase.
2014: “My German Friend” is scheduled tobe shown at the JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival.
2014(29th of Nisan, 5774): Ninety-two-year-oldReuven Feuerstein “an Israeli clinical, developmental, and cognitivepsychologist, known for his theory of intelligence which states “it is not‘fixed’, but rather modifiable” passed away today.
http://www.daffodilproject.org/newsletter/Laudatio%20Feuerstein.htm
2014(29th of Nisan, 5774): Eighty-eight-year-oldAl Feldstein, “the soul of Mad Magazine” passed away today. (As reported byBruce Weber)
2014: The Center for Jewish History isscheduled to present “Reinventing Jewishness in Post-Communist Hungary:Antisemitism and Jewish Renaissance.”
2014: In response to the release of an “audiorecording in which a man identified as Los Angeles Clippers owner DonaldSterling tells his girlfriend not to bring black people to games, the NationalAction Newtwork planned a protest out of tonight’s NBA playoff game in LosAngeles.”
2015: NMAJHChief Historian and acclaimed scholar of American Jewish history, Jonathan D.Sarna, is scheduled to discuss the importance of Lincoln's legacy for Jews andfor all Americans at the National Museum of American Jewish History.
2015: Hillary Swank is “set to star asDeborah Lipstadt in the screen adaptation of her book, “History on Trial: MyDay in Court with a Holocaust Denier.” (As reported by Anne Cohen)
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/hilary-swank-to-star-in-holocaust-denier-biopic-1.5356355
2015: “Farewell Herr Schwarz” and“Transit” are scheduled to be shown at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2015(10th of Iyar, 5775): Eighty-nine-year-oldcomposer Ronald Senator “and his wife Miriam Brickman died in a house fire attheir home in Yonkers, New York.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-composer-and-his-musician-wife-die-in-ny-house-fire/
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/04/30/fatal-yonkers-fire-ronald-senator-miriam-brickman/
2015(10th of Iyar, 5775):Ninety one year old Jean Nidetch the founder of Weight Watchers passed awaytoday.
http://jwa.org/blog/jean-nidetch-diet-queen
2015: Shoah survivor Morris Rosen isscheduled to speak at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
2015: “A Life with Asperger’s isscheduled to be show at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, VA.
2015: The Leo Baeck Institute and YIVOInstitute for Jewish Research are scheduled to present a lecture by Jack Jacobsbased on his latest book The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives and Antisemitism
2016: The 92nd Street Y isscheduled to host “The LexList Spring Bashing.
2016: Dalia Betolin-Sherman, who hasmaster’s degree in Hebrew Literature and won the Ramat Gan debut fiction awardis scheduled to appear at the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium as part of the PENWorld Voices Festival.
2016: “The Professor Has a Daring Past”published today tells the story of Julius Rosenberg, the last surviving memberof the group assembled by Varian Fry that showed unbelievable bravery andcreativity to save over two thousand people including March Chagall from beingtrapped in Vichy France, whose leaders played an activity role in shipping Jewsto Auschwitz.
2016: “Dough” a British film that tells“the unlikely story of an alliance between an elderly, widowed Jewish kosherbakery owner and a teenage Muslim Darfuri refugee” debuted across the UnitedStates today.
2016: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids,the Holocaust becomes “human” when Lena Gilbert is scheduled to host at Oneg inmemory of her parents who were liberated on this date, April 29, in 1945.
2016(21st Nisan, 5776):Seventh Day of Pesach
2017(3rd of Iyar, 5777):Parashat Tzaria and Metsora;
2017: “Cupcakes” is scheduled to beshown at The Annual East Bay Jewish Film Festival.
2017: “The Dreyfus Affair” is scheduledto be shown at BAM Fisher in Brooklyn, NY
2017(21s of Nisan, 5776): Seventy-eight-year-oldplaywright William Hoffman passed away today. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2018: The New York Times publishedreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King,Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy by David Margolick and the recently issuedpaperback editions of The First Love Story: Adam, Eve and Us by BruceFeiler and The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beatsby Allen Ginsberg,
2018: Following a spate of anti-Semiticincidents in Germany, and widespread displays of solidarity with Berlin’sJewish community, activists in the city are scheduled to distribute 10,000kippas to passersby in the city’s public places in another kind of demonstration”today in what organizers describe as “a personal rally against anti-Semitism.”(As reported by Luke Tress)
2018: Television star Roseanne Barr andAnthony Scaramucci who gained “fame” as President Trump’s short-livedCommunications Director are among those scheduled to speak at The JerusalemPost Annual Conference today.
2018: In Grand Rapids, MI, “Mary Edmond,a Rosenwald school alumnus” is scheduled to speak prior the screening of“Rosenwald.”
2018: The Center for Jewish History, LeoBaeck Institute and CUNY Graduate Center are scheduled to host Elliot R.Wolfson, Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, as they speak about the highly anticipated new book, The Duplicityof Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other.
2018(14th of Iyar, 5778):Pesach Sheni
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/470865/jewish/Pesach-Sheni.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pesach-sheni
2019: “The City of Joel” is scheduledto be shown at the 16th annual International Jewish Festival inRockland, NY.
2019: As part of the exhibition“Inescapable: The Life and Legacy of Harry Houdini” the Breman Museum isscheduled to host a “Magical Monday.”
2019: Darren Aronofsky whose “featuredebut Pi (1998) was selected for the 27th New Directors/New Films, and TheWrestler (2008) was Closing Night of the 46th New York Film Festival” isscheduled to be one of the “special guest speakers for the 50thAnniversary Gala” this evening which is a celebration “of fifty years of filmat Lincoln Center.”
2019: It was reported today that overthe weekend, State Comptroller had released a report “exposing a series ofirregularities with regards to how the Culture Ministry handled “last year’sIndependence Day Celebration.”
2019: The Oxford University Jewish isscheduled to host the Zoom version of “Quiz Night.”
2020: The American Jewish HistoricalSociety is scheduled to host Lynn Melnick, the poetry teacher at Columbia andthe 92nd Street Y as she leads a virtual poetry writing workshop“inspired by ‘The New Colossus.’”
2020: The Jewish Federations of NorthAmerica is scheduled to host an online celebration of Israel's Independence Dayon Facebook Live or On YouTube at https://youtu.be/LrNU5GhJkFY.
2020: “Saving Free Speech…fromitself” scheduled to take place today has been canceled by the IllinoisHolocaust Museum due to the Pandemic
2020: The Striecker Center isscheduled to host a virtual presentation by Professor Fred Lazin as he lectureson “How Shanghai Saved Twenty Thousand Jews.”
2020: This morning at 9 a.m. PSTFriends of the IDF is scheduled to host a virtual celebration Yom HaAtzmautwith a program that includes Israel’s Eurovision representative, IDF soldierCorp. Eden Alene, who will perform with the IDF Ensemble.
2020: Musician Kami Maltz isscheduled to perform Israeli classics in a Yom HaAtzmaut concert presented bythe Jewish Federations of North America.
2020: The S.F.-based Jewish CommunityFederation is scheduled to host a virtual concert of Ethiopian funk by theAnbessa Orchestra,
2020: Seventy-fifth anniversary ofthe liberation of the parents of Lena Gilbert from Dachau.
2020(5th of Iyar, 5780):YomHa'atzmaut;
2020(5th of Iyar, 5780):Ninety-three-year-old Matin Gerald Simmons, the Brooklyn born son sign painterIrving Simmons and the former Kate Shapiro who gained fame as Matty Simmons,the man “who helped launch National Lampoon magazine and was instrumental inbringing into being its most famous side project, the 1978 movie “NationalLampoon’s Animal House,” passed away today.
2021: The Jewish Museum and TabletMagazine are scheduled to present “a Virtual Unpacking the Book with RachelBloom and Tovah Feldshuh—A Conversation Between a (Television) Daughter andMother!
2021: Today’s book talk, supported byJWA is scheduled to feature Brandy Colbert “author of Little and Lion, on aBlack Jewish teen’s exploration of Identity.
2021: This evening’s SF Hillelfundraiser is scheduled to “feature National Council of Jewish Women CEO SheilaKatz, Springboard Fellowship at Hillel International director Danielle Natelsonand Manny’s founder Manny Yekutiel.”
2021: The Helen Diller Institute forJewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley is scheduled to co-present AyeletTsabari as the ‘Israeli author talks about her 2019 memoir “The Art ofLeaving,” about her Yemeni upbringing in Israel, her army service and her worldtravels searching for belonging.’
2021: Chabadof Contra Costa is scheduled to present an in-person family event for LagBa’Omer with barbecue foods, music, cotton candy and snow cones
2021 In Israel, the government’s decision to lift all restrictions on publictransportation, including scrapping a 75% passenger capacity limit on buses andtrains and a requirement to acquire in advance an extra entry pass for thetrain is scheduled to go into effect today.
2021: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and EducationCenter is scheduled to host historian David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr.Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate School and Pulitzer PrizeFinalist, as he talks about his latest work, The Last Million, whichtells the gripping yet largely hidden story of post-WWII displacement andstatelessness.”
2021: With the approach of Lag B’Omer,“substantial disruptions to public transportation services throughout Israelare expected” due to the demands of those making the pilgrimage to Mount Meron.2022: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Leah Smith and her family arescheduled to participate in Shabbat Eve services as she begins her “BatMitzvah” weekend.
2022: In the wake of a flurry of terror attacks that left 14Israelis dead in four separate attacks throughout the country — two of whichwere perpetrated by terrorists who crossed illegally from the West Bank — andamid heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions exacerbated by Israel’s consequentcounterterrorism operations in the region, as well as by the holy month ofRamadan, The IDF is scheduled to “deploy six battalions of reservist forces atthe West Bank security barrier to prevent terrorist attacks and illegalcrossings.”
2022: “James Andrews and the Crescent CityAll-Stars are scheduled to headline the first in-person Touro Synagogue JazzFestival Shabbat since the onset of the COVID pandemic.
2022: UK Jewish film is scheduled to host thefinal screening of “I Am Here.”
2022: At Temple Judea in Palm Beach Gardens,Rabbi Yaron Kapitulnik and Cantor Abbie Strauss are scheduled to lead a ShabbatService “honoring all children lost in the Holocaust.”
2022: A new tree isscheduled to “be planted on the University of Iowa’s Pentacrest—a saplingpropagated from the immense horse chestnut tree that grew in the courtyardbehind the annex where Anne Frank and her family hid for 761 days during WorldWar II.”
2023: TheEden-Tamir Music Center is scheduled to host “The Glorious Sound of the Piano,”a multi-piano ensemble featuring the complete works of Rachmaninoff for 2pianos, piano 4 hands and 6 hands.
2023: In theevening, Israelis brace for the possibility of clashing demonstration betweenthose supporting the proposed judicial reform measures and those opposed to it.
2023: UK JewishFilms is scheduled to host the final screening of “Karaoke.”
2023(8th of Iyar, 5783): ParashatAcharay Mot and Kedoshim and Pirke Avot Chapter 3; for more see
2024: The Illinois Holocaust Museum is sched tooffer “Freed Admissions” today so that visitors “can explore the colorful worldof Jewish life in 1970s South Beach with Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's SouthBeach 1977-1980, ask Pinchas Gutter's hologram how he learned to speak eightlanguages in the Abe & Ida Cooper Survivor Stories Experience HolographicTheater, and more.”
2024: “As part of the Genocidal Captivityexhibition events series” The Wiener Holocaust Memorial Library is scheduled tohost “Exhibition Film Event, Part I: Suzanne Khardalian, Grandma’s Tattoos.”
2024:As April 29th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweepsthe United States and the Hamas held hostages beginday 206 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2024(21st ofNisan, 5784): Seventh Dayof Pesach; for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
