July 7
1274: PopeGregory X confirmed a bull issued in 1272 banning charges of blood ritual.
1307: KingEdward I, the monarch who expelled the Jews from England, died.
1320: InPastoureaux (Southern France), an unnamed shepherd started a crusade againstthe Jews. It spread throughout most of southern France and northern Spaindestroying one hundred and twenty communities. At Verdun, 500 Jews defendedthemselves from within a stone tower. When they were about to be overrun, theykilled themselves.
1358: Hundredsof Jews were murdered in Catalonia
1520: Cortesdefeats a force of Aztecs who had chased him out of Mexico City. It wouldbe more than a year before Cortes would be able to conquer the capitalcity. Among those with Cortes was a converso or crypto-Jew named HernandoAlonso who worked as a blacksmith.
1572: KingSigismund II Augustus, one of the monarchs who invited Jews to settle inPoland, passed away.
1587: MargaretJohnson, the mother Anglo-Jewish poet Emilia Lanier who works included SalveDeus Rex Judaeorum (Hail God, King of the Jews, was buried today atBishopsgate.
1629(17thof Tammuz, 5389): Yom Tov Lipmann Heller was imprisoned at Vienna today.
1637: InCopenhagen, Denmark, found of Trinitatis Church which, during World War IIserved as a hiding place for Torah scrolls belonging to the “Great Synagogue”which were returned to the Copenhagen congregation after the War.
1639: Afterhaving been tortured for more than a month, Sabbatarian believers who wereaccused of “Judaizing” went on trial today in Transylvania.
1690(1st ofAv): Rabbi Hillel ben Naphta Zevi of Altona, author Bet Hillel, novella on thecode passed away
1733:Forty-one Jews settled in the colony of Georgia. Among them were Spanish,Portuguese, German and English Jews.
1743(23rdof Tammuz): Chaim ben Moses ibn Attar also known as the Ohr ha-Chaim after hispopular commentary on the Pentateuch. Born at Meknes, Morocco in 1696, hebecame a leading rabbi in his native land before leaving for Eretz Israel in1733. He finally arrived in Jerusalem in 1742 “where he presided at the BeitMidrash Knesset Yisrael.” He is buried on the Mount of Olives where hisgravestone may still be seen.
1753: The Jewish Naturalization Act of 1753received royal assent today. It would be repealed a year later. Jews would not become full citizens with theright to sit in Parliament until the middle of the 19th century.
1754(17thof Tammuz, 5514): Tzom Tammuz
1754: AtGeislautern, Germany, Abraham Aberle and his wife gave birth to Aaron Worms,chief rabbi of Metz.
1766(1stof Av, 5526): Rosh Chodesh Av
1766(1st ofAv, 5526): Sixty-six-year-oldAbraham Ben Joseph Guggenheim, the Vienna born son of Joseph Juda LoebGuggenheim and Frumet Guggenheim and husband of Vogel Guggenheim and MirjamGlückel Guggenheim passed away today in Hamburg, Germany after which he was buriedin “Königstraße Jewish cemetery, Hamburg-Altona, Preussen.”
1773:Birthdate of Isaac Ben Hrisch Katzenelnbogen, the native of Deutschland who wasthe husband of Fanny Neuburg.
1781(14thof Tammuz, 5541): Parashat Balak
1781(14thof Tammuz, 5541): Moses Joseph Schiff, the son Joseph Schiff and BrendleRheinganum and husband of Gutchen Scheyer passed away today.
1787(21stTammuz, 5547): Parashat Pinchas
1787(21stof Tammuz, 5547): Before reaching his first birthday, Moses d’Azevedo, theNewport born of Isaac Cohen d’Azevedo passed away today.
1786: Today,in Savannah, GA "K. K. Mickvah Israel" was reorganized after whichthe congregation rented a space for use as a synagogue, attracting as many as70 worshipers
1791:Birthdate of Rotterdam native Sarah Lit, the wife of Harry De Groot with whomshe had seven children
1792:Birthdate of Hannah Isaacs, the New York City born daughter of Isaiah Isaacs.
1795: IsaacNathan Lear married Ann Magnus at the Great Synagogue.
1795: InFrance, Jonas Alexandre Aron, the “son of Alexandre Sender Nathan Aron andAntoinette Judelen (Judlen, Yitele, Judle) Aron” and his wife Sara Zerlé SimonAron gave birth to
1803:Birthdate of Bolette Salonmonsen, the wife of Zecharias Levy and the mother ofIsaac, Arnold and Herman Levy.
1814: Today atThe Great Synagogue in London. Rabbi Solomon Hirschell led special prayers of“Thanksgiving” for the “restoration peace.”
https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/susser/roth/chthirteen.htm
1815: JosephOppenheim, the son of Kitty Joseph and Michael Oppenheim was buried today inthe United Kingdom.
1816: EmanuelNunes Carvalho, the rabbi at Philadelphia’s Congregation Mikveh Israeldelivered a sermon on the “Occasion of the Death of Rabbi Gershom MendesSeixas.” This “was the first Jewish sermon printed in the United States.” Anative of London Carvalho had served as rabbi in Bridgetown, Barbados andCharleston, SC, before coming to Philadelphia where he would die in 1817.
1822(18thof Tammuz, 5582): Tzom Tammuz observed on the same day on the Jewish calendaras the yahrtzeit of the Jewish community of Morgentheim, Austria which wasmassacred on that date (5058)
1831: InMerzig, Germany, Esther and Baruch Loew Rothschild gave birth to Columbus, GAresident Nathan Baruch Rothschild, the husband of Sophie Rothschild and thebrother of Leopold Rothschild.
1836: JosephII of Galicia, in an alleged effort to improve the educational status ofRabbis, decreed that no Rabbis be appointed if they did not attend a university.Little came of his decree.
1840; In Amsterdam,of srael Jacob Garf Dikje and Santje / Tserle Abraham Blok Blog gave birth to LevieGarth, the husband of Rebecca Delmonte and “father of Sarah Garf; Abraham LevyGarf and Israel Garf.
1840:Orientalist Louis Loewe, who traveled with Sir Moses Montefiore and served ashis interpreter today wrote “I am about to start for Damascus accompanying SirMoses and Lady Montefiore on this holy miss mission to that place” which wasthe first sentence in the first entry of the diary that he kept whileaccompanying a party if leading Jews to Damascus where they hoped to refute theallegations that Jews had ritually murdered Capuchin Monk Father Thomas.
http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/images/Loewe%20exhibition/LL/LL8/diary2.jpg
1842: InHungary, Herman (Chaim Tzvi) Klein and Juliana Klein gave birth to Rabbi MoritzKlein the holder of a Ph.D. from Prague University, the husband of ErzsébetKlein who began his career “as the preacher at the Great Synagogue at Miskolcz
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9380-klein-moritz
1851: LouisLucas, the husband of London native Frances Cohen with whom he had ninechildren was buried today at the Brady Street Jewish Cemetery.
1851: Asherand Esther Isaacs gave birth to Isaac Asher Isaacs, the husband of “Hannah(Annie) Zyberlast Isaacs with whom he had six children and who was presentedwith a “Testimonial from the Manchester Congregation of British Jews” inFebruary of 1908 “in recognition of her service as secretary for twenty sevenyears”
1852: Polishnative Mary Goldsmith Prag, the daughter of Isaac Goldsmith, “San Francisco’sfirst schochet,” the mother of Florence Prag Kahn, the first Jewish woman toserve in Congress, arrived in San Francisco today crossed the Atlantic to NewYork City, and crossing the Isthmus of Nicaragua “by mule and canoe” and thensailing north despite chills and fever.
1853: In aletter dated today addressed to the Emperor of Japan Commodore Mathew Perryuses the phrase “pacific overtures” which will provide the title for theStephen Sondheim musical about the “opening of Japan.”
1853: InEmden, German “Betty and Simon de Beer” gave birth to Jacob Simon de Beer, thefounder of J. de Beer and Son, the early manufacturer of baseballs that becamesports equipment manufacturer De Beer Lacrosse who was “the husband of Jenny deBeer” and father of Fredrick S. de Beer
https://keymancollectibles.com/balls/debeerbaseballdating.htm
http://16inchsoftballhof.com/inductee/frederick-debeer/
1855: InSyracuse, NY, Abraham Stern and his wife gave birth to Samuel Stern an attorneywho married Libbia Wile who served as the first assistant district attorney ofOnondaga County, NY before moving to Spokane, Washington.
1856: Birthdateof Cincinnati native Jessie Myers, the wife of auctioneer Henry Clay Ezekieland the daughter-in-law of Jacob Ezekiel and Cathrine de Casto.
1857: PinckneyA. Hyams and Pauline Baum were married today in Charleston, SC.
1858: In GreatBritain, Nahum Salamon and his wife gave birth to Alfred Gordon Salamon, aspecialist “in the Chemistry of Fermentation” who was a “member of theCommission to Enquire in the Cause of Beer Poisoning in Manchester” and who“was instrumental along with his father in introducing ‘Saccharin” into theUnited Kingdom.
1859: JacobIsaac Abrahams married Nancy Bosman at the Great Synagogue today.
1859: InBavaria, “Seligman Sonn and Bella Heineman” gave birth to R.A. Sonn, thehusband of Dora Fried who was educated at “the German-American Seminary inMilwaukee” before becoming the Superintendent of the Hebrew Orphans’ Home inAtlanta and writing the Hebrew primer Or Chodosh.
1860: InPlymouth, England, Nathaniel Hart and Dinah Nathan gave birth to Rachel LizzyHart who settled in New Zealand.
1860: In theKaliště, Pelhřimov District, Vysočina Region,Bernhard Baruch Mahler and Marie Mahler gave birth to composer GustavMahler who converted to Catholicism to further his career, a move that earnedhim derision from his critics and no relief from the anti-Semites. Mahlerpassed away in 1911.
1860:Birthdate of Abraham Cahan who from 1903until his death in 1951, was the editor of the "Jewish DailyForward", the most popular and most enduring of all Yiddish newspapers.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abraham-cahan
1861: InDublin, Liverpool native David Jacobs and his wife gave birth to their youngestson, Julius Jacobs, the husband of Hannah Hands of Maida-vale, London whommarried in 1882 and member of the Liverpool City Council from 1902 to 1904 who“retired from political work in 1904” because of the terms of his father willand devoted himself to communal work including serving as the President of theLiverpool Hebrew Philanthropic Society.
1861:Birthdate of Austrian native and University of Vienna educated journalistEduard Pollak, the “advertising manager of the New York German languagenewspaper Staats Zietung.”
1862: JohnWood, Drummer, of Company A, Thirty-sixth Regiment N.Y.V., died in the Jews'Hospital. The Jew’s Hospital (later known as Mt. Sinai) had been built inthe 1850’s to meet the health needs of New York’s burgeoning Jewishpopulation. Its role changed during the Civil War as it became a majorhealth care facility for treating the sick and wounded of the Union Army.
1862:Birthdate of German playwright Ludwig Fulda whose works included Der Talisman(1892), Jugendfreunde (1897) and Maskerade (1904) who committed suicide in 1939when he was denied entrance to the United States.
1863: InGermany, Bertha B. Elsas and Marcus Adolphus Rothschild gave birth toMississippi cotton broker Morris H. Rothschildthe husband of Emily Blanche Rothschild.
1865: A dayafter he passed away, eighteen-year-old Michael Alex Aria, “the son ofAlexander and Judith Aria was buried today at the Balls Pond Road JewishCemetery.
1866:Birthdate of Chicago businessman and Democrat Party member Emanuel M. Abrahamswho “served in the Illinois House of Representative from 1907 to 1911” beforebeing elected to the Chicago City Council.
1868: Threedays after she passed away, Frances Bright was buried today at the LauristonRoad Jewish Cemetery.
1868: In BadBuchau, Germany, Felix Ephraim Moos and Karoline Moos gave birth to RichardMoos, the husband of Julie Lina Moos and “father of Hermann Richard Moos andElse Ottenheimer.”
1871(18thof Tammuz, 5631): Sixty-nine-year-old London born Dutch jurist Samuel Philippuswho converted to Roman Catholicism in 1852 passed away today at Hilversum. (Asreported by Isidore Singer)
1871: In Louisville, KY, Morris and Lina KahnBaldauf gave birth to social worker and kindergarten teacher Minnie Baldauf whowas an active member of the National Council of Jewish Women.
1871: DanielJoseph, the father of Sir Otto Jaffe established the Belfast HebrewCongregation “which worshipped at the Great Victoria Street synagogue.
1872: InPhiladelphia, “Fannie (née Ephraim) and Levi Mastbaum” gave birth to JulesEphraim Mastbaum, whose Stanley Company of American “became the largest movietheatre chain in the world in 1926” and who was the husband of “Etta Wedell Mastbaum, the daughter of Rachel P. Lit whofounded the original store that became Lit Brothers” and the brother-in-law oftwo sons of “Adam Gimbel, the founder of Gimbels department store.”
1873: BaruchFränkel and Rosa Eibenschütz gave birth to Sándor Fränkel who gained fame asthe Hungarian psychoanalyst and associate of Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi
1874: InVienna, Bustav and Charlotte Prizbram gave birth biologist Hans Leo Prizbram,the grandson of Austrian banker Friedrich Schey von Koromla and founder of “thebiological laboratory in Vienna” who died in Theresienstadt at the age of 70.
1875(4thof Tammuz, 5635): Twenty-seven-year-old Mathilde Adler Loeb, the Philadelphiaborn daughter of Abraham and Hannah Technor Adler and the wife of August B.Loeb, the President of the Tartar Chemical Company in Jersey City, NJ, “vicepresident of Tradesmen’s National Bank in Philadelphia” and “treasurer of theJewish Hospital Association in Philadelphia with whom she had three children –Bella, Oscar and Howard – passed away today after which she was buried at MountSinai Cemetery in Philadelpha.
1876: Sixty-five-year-oldLouis Goodman was buried today at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1879: TheExecutive Board of the Council of the Union of American and HebrewCongregations met this morning with Moritz Loth presiding and Lipman Levyacting as secretary. The board met to prepare for the upcoming meeting ofthe Council which was scheduled to begin on the following day.
1879: InBoston, Eva Warschauer and Simon Hirschberg gave birth the Harvard educated librarian Herbert SimonHirschberg, the husband of Blanche Lowe who began servings as camp librarianfor the American Library Association at the Great Lakes Training Stationstarting in March of 1922.
1880: FrancesNewgass and Gustav Binger gave birth to Sachs Institute at the University ofFrankfurt and at the University of Munich trained ornithologist Elsie MagaretBinger Naumburg a member pf the Bird Department at the American of NaturalHistory specializing “in South American Birds” and the wife of Walter Naumburgwhom she married the death of her first husband, Victor Reichenberger who wasthe sister of MIT trained civil engineer Walter D. Binger and Harvard trained psychiatristCal Binger.
1880: InRomania, Sarah Sager and Irving Le Belle gave birth to Albany Medical Schooltrained general practitioner Dr. Louis L Dulberger the husband of Rae Brown andmember of the Yorkville and Harlem medical societies and the New York Guild forthe Jewish Blind.
1881: InKentucky, Governor Blackburn has declared today to be a day of public fastingand prayer where all business is suspended so that citizens can go to churches“or other places of worship” to pray for the recovery of PresidentGarfield who has been shot by an assassin. [For Jews, the importance of this isthat the governor has acknowledged that there are other houses of worship thanthose used by Christians.]
1881: InCzęstochowa, Poland, Dora Paternack and Sigmund Pasternack, a bandmaster gavebirth to their eldest son Josef Alexander Pasternack who was the conductor ofseveral prominent American symphony orchestras including the Chicago SymphonyOrchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia PhilharmonicSociety where he broke musical and social grounds when he had Marian Andersonperform there.
1882: As theFreight Handler’s strike in New York continues cargo fails to leave the portdespite the availability of large numbers of foreign born workers includingRussian Jews to work the docks. According to critics, they lack the skilland knowledge to work effectively. As the strikers become more desperate,incidence of violence increase as can be seen by the stone-throwing attack onJews at the 30th Street Yards.
1882: Thecurrent labor strife between the freight handlers and the railroad companies isdescribed as battle between Teutonic and Celtic Races on the one hand andRussian-Semitic and Latin volunteers on the other hand. In a tactic thatwould become quite common during labor disputes, the owners and theirsupporters would try and pit worker against worker; in this case Germans andIrish against Russian Jews and Italians.
1882: It wasreported today that in Russia, Count Tolstoi, the Minister of the Interior hasordered the authorities at the frontier “to do all this is possible tofacilitate the return of the Jews.”
1882: Thenewly formed Propaganda Verein, most of whose members were Jewish, met tonightat the Golden Rule Hall on Rivington Street. The evening’s theme was “TheJewish Question” – the future of the Jewish race and the anomaly of thepersecution of Jews.
1883(2ndof Tammuz, 5643): Forty-six-year-old Joseph Reckendorfer who was a supporter ofthe United Hebrew Charities and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum as well as a member ofTemple Emanu-El passed away today.
1883: “TheAlleged Passover Murder” published today described recent event in the trial ofJews accused of ritual murder of a Christian girl, Esther Salomossy, atNyreghaza, Hungary. Two of the accused claimed that their confessions hadbeen obtained by force and coercion. The defense counsel told the courtthat the people of Tisza-Eglar, where the alleged murder had taken place have“been taught that it was not wrong to testify falsely against the Jews” if theinterests of the country required a conviction.
1884: InBoston, Isaac Jacobs, a Polish Jew who is the prime suspect in the murder ofEtta G. Carleston, is expected to make his next court appearance on charges ofhaving stolen a watch a chain.
1884(14thof Tammuz, 5644): Eleven-year-old Harold Phillips passed away today after whichhe was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA.
1884: “Case ofPauper Immigrants” published today, described evidence gathered by theEmigration Commissioner that the clerks at Castle Garden were not be vigilantin seeing to it that immigrants who lacked funds or financial sponsors werekept from entering the country. Among those mentioned were Henry Brolsky,his wife and six children had arrived aboard the SS Assyrian Monarch.According to Brolsky, the Hebrew Society of London had paid for theirpassage. He said he had family in St. Louis but had no funds to make thetrip. Another example was an un-named family from Poland who had arrived on theSS Australia. Their passage had been paid for by the Hebrew Society ofLondon. The immigrants claimed they had been told that the Commissioners ofEmigration would provide them with funds once they had arrived. [The reportcited examples of non-Jews as well. The issue of “pauper immigrants”would bedevil the immigration debate among Jews as well as the general societyuntil World War I staunched the human flood tide.]
1884: InMunich, “Orthodox Jewish margarine manufacturer Sigmund Feuchtwanger and hiswife, Johanna née Bodenheim” gave birth to Lion Feuchtwanger, German -borndramatist and narrator who escaped to the United States at the outbreak ofWorld War II. http://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=234957&p=1559413
1884: A reviewof the Universal History: The Oldest Historical Group of Nations and theGreeks by Leopold von Ranke includes the famous German historian that thelaws of Moses stand in stark contrast to the Egyptians because they involve “anopposition to kingship and claim to be an emanation from the deity.” Furthermore, they represent the first attackon “a national nature worship” and provide the grounds for the creation ofmonotheism, a principle on which “is built a civil society which is alien toevery abuse of power.”
1887: Mrs.Betty Michaelis refused to attend today’s meeting of a committee that had beenappointed by Mrs. Henrietta Loeser, the President of the Henrietta Verien todetermine if she should be expelled from the society.
1887: Thetrustees of Gates of Hope suspended Rabbi E.B.M. Browne from his position asleader of the congregation after a special committee of investigation foundthat guilty of charges of “conduct unbecoming a minister.”
1887: Twenty-six-year-oldPrince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who was serving as “an officer in theofficer…was elected ruler of Bulgaria” today. In moves that marked him asunique among European nobility Ferdinand boasted about his relationship withBaron Hirsch saying “I was really brought by Jews; I spent my life with BaronHirsch. I am half a Jew, as people oftenreproach me” and expressed support for Herzl by saying that his plan to createa Jewish homeland “is a grandiose idea” that “has my full sympathy.
1887: J.E.Phillips presided over tonight’s meeting at the Spanish and PortugueseSynagogue where the Jewish citizens discussed plans for a possible celebrationof the 400th anniversary of the expulsion from Spain and Columbus’first voyage to the New World.
1887: InLizona, which was then part of the Russian Empire, Chezkel Zachar MordechaiChagall (Shagal) and Feige-Ite Chagall gave birth to MoisheZakharovich Shagalov (Moishe Segal) who gained fame as Marc Chagall whose lifelasted almost one hundred years. He developed his art against a backdrop ofWorld War I, the Russian Revolution and its Stalinist aftermath, Paris duringthe thirties, the Holocaust and the birth of the state of Israel. One can onlyappreciate Chagall by seeing Chagall. There are numerous websites where his artmay be viewed. The “Praying Jew” is my personal favorite. http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/marc-chagall/the-praying-jew-rabbi-of-vitebsk-1914
http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chagall/chagall81.html
1888(28thof Tammuz, 5648): Parashat Matot-Masei
1888: RabbiJacob Charif (Jacob Sharp) arrived early this morning at Hoboken aboard theNorth German Lloyd steamer. Chariff, from Wilna Russia, has been brought to theUnited States by the United Society to serve the needs of New York’s “orthodoxdown-town Jews.” Charif refused to leave the boat or meet with the welcomingcommittee until Saturday evening, after the end of Shabbat.
1888: “OnShabbos Maatos-Maasei, the trans-Atlantic ship Allaire docked at Hoboken, onthe New Jersey side of the Hudson River. After Havdalah, at approximately 10p.m., the chief rabbi was taken to a nearby hotel. The leaders of theappointing congregations and more than 100,000 people crowded the streets foran opportunity to catch a glimpse of him. Hoboken had never before seen such alarge crowd.” (Jewish Press)
1888: “TheSummer Corps At Work” published today described the work of fifty physiciansappointed by the city to provide medical care for those living in the mostcrowded quarters in the city. Dr. C.W. Wolfretz, who has been assigned to cover“a district from Division to Broom Street and Bowery to Eldridge where theovercrowded tenements are primarily occupied by Polish and Hungarian Jews, hasdiscovered that the people sleep on the roof to get relief from the heat andthat the children are susceptible to measles.
1889: It wasreported today that some social scientists, many of whom live in Germany, areimpatiently awaiting the establishment of Jewish state in Palestine as a way ofproving their theories about governance and nationalism. Since there are thosewho contend that the recent success of Jews has taken place in a Christiansociety and that Jews would not be nearly as successful living in a societywhere they were both the governed and the governor.
1889(8th ofTammuz, 5649): Sixty-seven-year-old Rabbi Elias Karpeles passed away in Vienna.
1889:“Darmesteter, The Linguist” published today notes that “scant notice has beengiven in the United States to” the passing of Arsene Darmesteter the JewishSorbonne lecturer on Mediaeval French and literature” whose death means that“the world has lost one who was a Columbus in the vast eternal seas ofphilological discovery.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DE6DA133AE033A25754C0A9619C94689FD7CF
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Talmud.html?id=HRZQf*cklTYAC
1890: InRoundout, a case of assault and battery involving Polish Jews was withdrawnfrom the Recorders Court after the parties agreed to pay court costs.
1890: InSmyrna, Turkey, Rahamim and Sol Franco gave birth to Robert Franco, thegrandson of Rabbi Moshe Franco, the chief Rabbi of Rishon le Zion and RabbiHaim Franco, the chief rabbi of Salonica, who worked for Standard Oil of NewYork before coming to United States in 1912 after which he served as Presidentof the Hebrew Charity Society and Secretary of the Sephardic Jewish Communityof New York Inc,
1891: Theweekly cruise for underprivileged children sponsored by the Sanitarium forHebrew Children is scheduled to take place today
1892: Thebusiness session of the third annual Central Conference of American Rabbis isscheduled to open at ten o’clock this morning. Reports will be present onconversion and cremation of the dead.
1892:Birthdate of Chicago native Philip Sachs, the graduate of Kent College of Lawwho combined the practice of law with being a leader in the Jewish community ascan be seen by his membership of the Young Men’s Jewish Charities and B’naiB’rith.
1892: RabbiKaufmann Kohler is scheduled to read a paper entitled “Is Reformed JudaismDestructive or Constructive?” at the evening session of the Conference ofAmerican Rabbis.
1893: “CoaxingImmigration published today described the efforts of the Canadian government torecruit people from the western United States to settle in the NorthwestTerritories and Prairie Provinces. Including Russian Jews from Chicago some ofwhom the government of Calgary feels are unfit because they “know nothing aboutagriculture.”
1894:Birthdate of Polish native Morris Sidwitz who gained fame as Moe Sedway, thehusband of Beatrice Sedway and “associate” of such famous gangsters and BugsySiegel and Meyer Lansky who successfully ran the El Cortez and Flamingo hotelsin Las Vegas while serving as “a confidential federal informant.”
1894: BarbaraElisabeth Gluck who wrote her poetry under the name of Betty Paoli was buriedtoday at Vienna’s Central Cemetery.
1894: Seventy-one-year-oldChristian Friedrich August Dillmann a German born orientalist and Biblicalscholar who wrote commentaries on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,Deuteronomy and Joshua as well as “a dissertation on the origin of theHexateuch” passed away today.
1895: It wasreported today that Lord Rosebury has raised Sydney Stern to the Peerage afterthe “well known Jewish financier contributed £50,000 to the Liberal Party.”According to the Jewish Chronicle Stern has spent a great deal of money on hispolitical ambitions and little on the poor. “This is in striking contrast of many other millionaires of hisfaith” like the Rothschilds, Montefiores and Goldsmids “whom the Queen hashonored for their many acts of charity.
1895: It wasreported today that theatre goers in London have no interest in seeing SamuelB. Curtis’s “Sam’l of Posen.” They donot have “the faintest interest in the Polish Jews or would dream of trying tounderstand his Yiddish Jargon.”
1895(15thof Tammuz, 5655): Twenty-year-old Alma Meyer passed away today in Newark, NJ.
1895: “Heineand the Germans” published today described the controversy between the HeineMemorial Committee and the Park Commissioners in New York City over theerection of a monument to the German author as well as the opposition of someGerman-Americans who view him as “aNapoleon worshipper, a purchased scribe of Louis Philippe and a bitter-hearted and revengeful Jew.”
1896:Birthdate of Austrian native and American artist Joseph Margulies whose worksinclude “Chasid.”
http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/margulies_joseph_chasid.htm
http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/margulies_joseph_chasid.htm
1897: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held this morning at Temple Beth-El for Bavaria,Germany born Dr. Emanuel M. Friedlein who in 1850 came to the United Stateswhere he “took a prominent role in reforming the Jewish ritual” and “was one ofthe founders of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith”
1898(17thof Tammuz, 5658): Tzom Tammuz
1898: InChicago, Rose (Rabinoff) and Isidore Horwitz or Horowitz gave birth to theirsecond son Ralph who as Ralph Horween played and coached football at Harvardand played and coach for the Chicago Cardinals in the NFL.
1899: BenjaminKossman began serving as a Quarter-Master Sergeant today.
1899: “TheStraus Milk Depots Open” published today listed the three locations where“modified milk for sick children and pure pasteurized milk in bottles can behad at all times.” Thanks to thegenerosity of Nathan Straus a half-pint of milk can be purchased for onecent. A new formula perfected by DoctorR.G. Freeman at the Nathan Straus Pasteurized Milk Laboratory is especiallyuseful for “very young babies who are ill.”
1899: “On theLower East Side of Manhattan, “Hungarian-Jewish immigrants Viktor Cukor, anassistant district attorney, and Helén Ilona Gross gave birth to George DeweyCukor, the movie director whose parents chose the middle name of Dewey as a wayto honor Naval Hero Admiral George Dewey and whose long and distinguishedcareer ncluded two Catherine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy classics. But he may bemost famous for the movie that he did not direct. Cukor was the first directorfor "Gone With the Wind" but he was fired before he could completethe project. He passed away in 1983
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/41936%7C58446/George-Cukor/
1900:Constantin C. Arion, who as the Rumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs would saythat his “Government would grant rights to the Jews in accordance with thepeace treat” and that the Government “would completely abolish Article 7 of theRumanian Constitution” which states that “Jews in Rumania are aliens and thatnaturalization is only possible for them individually” began serving asMinister of Religion and Public Instruction today.. (Editor’s Note – Going backto the Congress of Berlin, Rumanian government were always promising toemancipate the Jews living in the country and always failing to do so.)
1901: TheSummer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society began today.
1901:Birthdate of producer Sam Katzman. Katzman’s work includes a series ofSuperman serials and early Elvis Presley films.
1901: TheNew York Times reports on the popularity of Montefiore Isaacs, the UnionClub Member who is a nephew .of Sir Moses Montefiore. The popularbachelor is known for his skill as magician which he freely shares forcharitable events as well as his knowledge of Shakespeare.
1902: Herzlappears before the Royal Commission.
1903: Thefuneral of Albert F Hochstadter, prominent businessman and a Trustee of TempleEmanu-Elis scheduled to take place today at this famous New York Jewishhouse of worship.
1903: “Upwardof 6,000 Jews attended the solemn memorial service held in the Great AssemblyHall at Mile End this evening, ‘for those of our faith murdered in Kishineff.’”
1904: TheodorHerzl is laid to rest at the Döblinger Friedhof. Thousands of Jews took part inthe funeral procession. In his will Herzl asked that his body be buried next tohis father, "to remain there until the Jewish people will carry my remainsto Palestine."
1904: As asign of the political right’s loss of power in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair,the government banned the religious orders from teaching in France. WhenPope Pius X strenuously objected, the French broke diplomatic relations withthe Vatican.
1905:Birthdate of Polish born Universityof Warsaw graduate Yekhiel Ben Tsiyon(Jechiel Bencion) Katz, the author and educator who worked with orphans andat-risk youth and who had made Aliyah in 1922.
1905:Birthdate of Anglo-Austrian violinist and viola player Max Rostal, the husbandof Sela Trau and the father of psychologist Sybil B.G. Eysenck.
1905:Birthdate of novelist and screenwriter Frderick Kohner, the native ofTeplitz-Schönau which is now a part of the Czech Republic who like so many ofhis generation was forced to leave Europe because of the United States and wasable to make it to the United States where he wrote the novel Gidget, based onhis the life of daughter, which resulted in the Gidget movies, thosequintessential surfer movies that glorified the beach world of SouthernCalifornia.
1906(14thof Tammuz, 5666): Parashat Balak
1906: RabbiBrowne preached a sermon this morning at the service in the Synagogue of theCongregation Beth Tefillah, at 107th Street and Lexington Avenue, where he wasformerly the pastor, on "Hints for Christians and Jews at SummerResorts" where he said in part that “if you look at the Jew in the Summerresorts I want you to remember that you see only a part of the Jew, and that isthe worst part” because “he is on a spree – he is out for fun and enjoyment –and yet he does not forget himself to become immoral…”
1906: “TheSocialists issued a manifesto warning the people to be prepared for the nextfew days for massacres of Poles and Jews which are being arranged by the policeand troops…”
1907:Birthdate of Abraham "Abe" Ellstein an American composer who alongwith Shalom Secunda, Joseph Rumshinsky, and Alexander Olshanetsky, Ellstein wasone of the "big four" composers of his era in New York City's SecondAvenue Yiddish theatre scene
1907: RabbiCharles Freund of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave the opening prayer at thismorning’s session of the 18th Annual Convention of the Central Conference ofAmerican Rabbis.
1907: Paperson “The Religious Influences of Childhood Upon Adolescence” and Judaism in theNineteenth Century Illustrated by Stereopticon Views – A Lesson in Popularizingthe Study of Jewish History” were presented at this evening’s session of the 18thAnnual Convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
1908: In Denver, the Democratic NationalConvention, which nominated William Jennings Bryan who had to battle charges ofanti-Semitism, opened today.
1909:Birthdate of Eddie Mayehoff, the Baltimore born salesman who discovered thatshow business was really for him as can been by a career as bandleader, comedywriter and actor whose work including appearing in “A Visit to a Small Planet”for which he earned a Tony nomination.
1910: “RussianAttack Jews” published today that “the situation of the Jews at Kieff isbecoming worse,” with “organized bands” frequently attack Jews” which the whole“Jewish population is terrorized.”
1911: TheJewish Chautauqua Society, which had been founded in 1893, opened its 15thAnnual Summer Assembly today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1911:Birthdate of Alliance, Ohio native and Miami University of Ohio graduate WalterIngs Farmer, who became a Monuments Man rather than return to the United Stateswhen the fighting stopped in 1945.
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/farmer-capt.-walter-i.
1912(22ndof Tammuz, 5672): Thirty-two-year-old “socialist and communal worker” AbrahamLitman passed away today in St. Louis.
1913: Tonight,Franz Rosenzweig, “decided to convert to Christianity under the influence ofone of his relatives, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who was a Protestant theologian,.”(Editor’s note – in one of the famous theological turnaround, Rosenzweig wouldchange his mind after attending Yom Kippur services in the fall.) (As reportedby Michael Goodman)
1913: AtAtlantic City, NJ, the 24th annual convention of the CentralConference of American Rabbis which has issued a Union Prayer Book, a UnionHymnal, a Union Haggadah and a collection of Prayers for PrivateDevotion, came to an end today.
1914: Today, in the wake of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand,tensions continued to mount with Austria-Hungary convening a Council ofMinisters, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of theGeneral Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief which lasted for over six hours.
1914: “The 25thannual convention of the Central Conference of America” which has been meetingin Detroit for more than a week “adjourned today following the election ofofficers.”
1914: It wasdecided today that teacher’s schools similar to the one in Cincinnati that hasbeen established by the Reform movement “will, in the course of time, beestablished elsewhere” in the United States.
1914:Twenty-six-year-old Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh trained librarian RachelVixman, the Pittsburgh, PA born daughter of Hyman and Rebbe (Cahen) Treelisky,and organizer of Hadassah chapters who was a lecturer of Zionism andConservative Judaism married Avrom Herman Vixman today.
1915: “RabbiHertz At The Front” published today described the recent visit of the ChiefRabbi of the British Empire to the troops including a speech at Rouen where hereminded the soldiers “of the old Jewish legend of a second deluge, a deluge offire that would sweep over the earth” ending with the line ‘Even our enemieswill yet bless those who will have insured victory to Great Britain.’”
1915:According to reports published today “Alfred A. Wilson, an American engineer,who has just arrived in” New York City “from Egypt and Palestine” said “theTurkish Governor of Jerusalem had treated the Jews very harshly” giving themthe choice of becoming “Turkish subjects or leaving the country” which led himto force as many as 500 to board an Italian steamship at Jaffa “in one daywithout being given time to home and bid good-bye to their families or get anyof their belongings.”
1915:According to a statement issued today by the Turkish Consulate in New York, theJews in Palestine are enjoying “the best treatment” at this time since theoutbreak of the World War.
1916: InVienna, the Yiddishe Zeitgung published “two orders by the military commanderof the Chelm District in Poland” the first of which said the Jewish communitywould “fined 25,000 Kronen” if any Jew is found to be guilty” of spreadingalarming rumors and the second of which served as a reminded that Jews were notto travel unless that had received “special permission.”
1917: At ameeting in the offices of Nathan Straus, the Chairman of the ExecutiveCommittee the Congress Administrative Committee of which Colonel Harry Cutlerof Providence is Chairman, it was decided to postpone the meeting of theAmerican Jewish Congress from September 2 to November 18, 1917.
1917: Duringan afternoon when the Russian Mission “was entertained this afternoon at aconcert on the Mall of Central Park, Ambassador Oscar S. Straus appealed “toAmericans to fight with all their might to make all peoples free like those ofthe United States” while condemning “the threatened streetcar strike as an aidto the enemy” and urging “the union and the companies to accommodate theirdifferences until the Kaiser was beaten.
1918: Lessthan a month after graduating from West Point, Meyer L. Casman began serving atCamp A.A. Humphreys in Virginia.
1918: It wasreported today that the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire stands at5,356,465 of which over 900,000 a Jews living in Hungary.
1918: In theBronx, Louis and Stella Epstein gave birth to Rose Epstein who gained fame as“Rose E. Frisch, a scientist whose influential work showed that women withoutenough body fat would have trouble becoming pregnant, but that they also had alower risk of breast cancer.”
1919: InChicago, Samuel and Sarah Braverman Polisky gave birth to Sylvia Polisky whobecame Sylvia Padzensky when she married Edward Padzensky and began her life asa member of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa community.
1919: Threedays after he has passed away funeral services were held for Emil Kahn, the“husband of Lenora (Levy) Kahn” followed by burial at the Rosehill Cemetery.
1919: InChicago, funeral services were held Hyman Harvey Levine, the son of Ben andAugusta Levine
1919: InChicago, funeral services were held for Charlotte Beck Switzer, “the wife ofLeon O. Switzer, the mother of Elizabeth Jane Switzer and the daughter ofRobert Beck” after which she was interred at Forrest Home.
1920: Today,in London Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis “was electedPresident of the International Zionist Conference and Dr. Max Nordeau was namedHonorary Presidentl
1920: “InCairo, William and Helen (Hirsch) Chalon gave birth to Egyptiananesthesiologist Jack Chalon.
1920: InLondon, Rebecca Sieff, Dr. Vera Weizmann (wife of Israel's first president, Dr.Chaim Weizmann), Edith Eder, Romana Goodman and Henrietta Irwell foundedWomen's International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
1920: RabbiNathan Krass of Temple Emanu-el and “amember of the executive board of the American Jewish War Relief and JointDistribution Committees is scheduled to set sail today aboard on the NewAmsterdam as he begins his second visit to evaluate the needs “of the sufferingJews in Eastern Europe and Palestine.”
1920: ArthurMeighen, who was pro-Zionist, began his first term as Prime Minister of Canada.
1921: InChicago, Leon and Julius Bahr Kahn gave birth to University of Chicago educatedpharmacologist Julius Bahr Kahn, Jr. the husband of Carol Kahn.
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/jpet/165/2/local/front-matter.pdf
1921: Dr.Joseph H. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire finished his visit toVancouver, Canada.
1922: InDurban, South Africa, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Philip Stein, a mathematicsprofessor and the form Lily Rolnick gave birth to Dr/ Zena Athene Stein,the “epidemiologistwhose influential work encompassed the effects of famine on children, thehealth of entire communities afflicted by poverty and the impact of the AIDScrisis on women in Africa…” As reported by Annabelle Williams)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/health/zena-stein-dead.html
1922: Hadoar, the first daily Hebrew newspaperpublished in the United States was converted to a weekly
1923(23rdof Tammuz, 5683): Parashat Pinchas: Shabbat Mevarchim Chodes AV
1923: Protestsfrom Jews throughout New Jersey to change the entrance examinations for theState Normal Schools from Saturday to Monday, resulted today in favorableaction by State Board of Education.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1923/07/08/102055765.html?pageNumber=17
1924: “AssailsDawes Report” published today described a speech by Erich Ludendorff, thesenior German general turned fascist political leader in which he claimed the“Dawes plan was made and inspired by Jews for the purpose of putting Germanyunder Jewish control” and told his political followers that “as in the battlebetween the darkness and light, the battle between the good and the bad and thebattle between the Jews and the Nordic race, we must battle for victory and theright.” (Editor’s night: As one of themost senior German generals during WWI, Ludendorff had told the Kaiser he hadto surrender but also help to create the myth that German had lost because itwas stabbed in the back – a myth that covered the failure of the ImperialGeneral Staff that was useful in fanning the embers that would roar back in theflames of the Second World War and the Shoah.)
1925: “Amotion by counsel for Henry Ford to vacate an attachment tying up $65,00 of Mr.Ford’s money on deposit here, obtained by Herman Bernstein, editor of theJewish Tribune in his $200,000 libel suit was denied today by Federal JudgeKnox.”
1926: It was reportedtoday that Louis Lipsky, the chairman of the ZOA has issued a statement denyingcharges that his organization was “deliberately attempt to wreck the $250,000,000United Jewish Campaign conducted by the Joint Distribution Committee for therelief of Eastern European Jewry” and that the committee had raised $60,000,000“with the active cooperation of the Zionists throughout the United States.”
1926:Thirty-one-year-old USC trained attorney, Lester William Roth, the New Yorkborn son of Herman Roth and the former Anna Kornfield and a second lieutenantin the Marine Corps during WW I married Gertrude Frances Freedman while being amember of the board of directors of the Jewish Welfare Organizations in LosAngles where he practiced law.
1927: In NewOrleans, coffee merchant Arthur Ransohoff and the former Babette Strauss gavebirth to producer Martin Ransohoff who is responsible for one of the bestmovies ever made – “The Americanization of Emily.” (As reported by Neil Genzlinger)
1928:Birthdate of Avraham Shalom Bendor, the native of Vienna who joined the Palmachin 1946 and served as head of Shin Bet from 1981 to 1986.
1928(19thof Tammuz, 5668): Parashat Pinchas
1928(19thof Tammuz, 5668): Michael B. Abrahams, a member of the staff of The New YorkTimes for almost half a century passed away this morning in his sleep.
1928:Thecurtain came down on the original Broadway production of “Say When,” a musical for which Nathiel hadwritten lyrics
1929: Dr.Henry Moskowitz, the executive chairman of American Ort who “address theInternational Ort Conference in Berlin on July 20” set sail for Europe tonightaboard the Cunard liner Aquitania.
1930: It wasreported today that 75 year old Rabbi C. H. Hirshenson of Hoboken, NJ, “theoldest Palestinian citizen of the United Stated addressed the convention of thenewly form federation of Palestinian societies made up Jews living in theUnited States who were born in Palestine.
1931:Bialystok born Rosa Raisa and herhusband Riacomo Rimini, leading performers with the Chicago Civic Opera Companygave birth to their daughter Rosa Giuletta today at Presbyterian Hospital
1931: AtBasle, “Meer Grossman, the English Revisionist leader whom the ZionistExecutive had charge with having give to the general press the contents of theWhite Paper of October 1930, before that document was officially released wasvindicated by the Zionist Congress Court of the charge of breach of confidence”but was “reprimanded for a breach of party discipline…”
1932:Birthdate of Dereczyn (Nowogródek / Poland), Poland Yona Tambor who survivedthe Holocaust by “hiding in the forest” and hiding here Jewish until she was“liberated by” the Soviet Army
1932: “Floodin Rumania have reached the point of a great catastrophe with severeconsequences in Moldavia, which is thickly population by Jews according to acable message from Dr Bernhard Kahn, European director of the America JointDistribution Committee made public today by Dr. Jonah B. Wise, the nationalchairman of the fund raising committee headquartered at 7 Hanover Street.”
1933: Mr. andMrs. Sydney Ginsburg of 21 Bialik Street in Tel Aviv are the proud parents of anewly born son. Mrs. Ginsberg is the former Ella Bach.
1933: “Thirtyphysicians, most of whom are Jews, were arrested in Berlin tonight by thecombined forces the secret State Police, Hitler storm troops and the stormtroop Medical Corps.”
1933: InBrooklyn, NY Saul Ravitch the co-founderof HRH Construction and the former Sylvia Lerner gave birth Columbia grad andYale trained attorney Richard Ravitch the Democratic Party leader andLieutenant Governor of New York who married Kathleen M. Doyle after havingdivorced Diane Silver in 1986.
1934(24thof Tammuz, 5694): Parashat Pinchas
1934: TheNational Convention of Young Judaea and the annualmeeting of the CentralTri-State Region of Young Judaea are scheduled are scheduled to continue for asecond day in Cincinnati.
1934(24thof Tammuz, 5694): Mendel Beilis—“a Jewish factory manager in Kiev, Ukraine,accused of murdering a Christian child to use his blood to bake matzah forPassover—“ whose blood libel trial attracted international attention diedsuddenly today in Saratoga Springs, NY.
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/37.html
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beilis_Mendel
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beilis_Mendel
1935:Birthdate of Ronald Chester Picoff, the Brooklyn born graduate of ColumbiaMedical School who served on the faculty of the University of Vermont.
1936(17th ofTammuz, 5696): Tzom Tammuz
1936: AtProvidence, RI, Morris Rothenberg, who will become administrative chairman ofthe Zionist Organization of American after serving as president for four terms,closed the organization’s “convention with a final declaration of unity.
1936: Sixty-eight-year-oldJohn Foster Fraser, the author of The Conquering Jew which contains theresults the author’s studies of the Jew, his adaptability and vitality” andwell as the views on the future of the Jews, passed away today.
1936: RabbiEugene Kohn, President of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish TheologicalSeminary of America, addressed the opening meeting of its annual convention atTannersville, NY.
1936: Ed Wynn(aka Isaiah Edwin Leopold, the son of Joseph Leopold nd Minnie Greenberg) firstappeared on television today in a brief, ad-libbed spot with Graham McNameeduring an NBC experimental television broadcast.
1937: The Sino-JapaneseWar which morphed into WW II began today with Marco Polo Bridge Incident thatled to upending of the peaceful life of the Jews of Shanghai.
1937: The PeelCommission Report describing the investigation of the 1936 Arab Riots waspublished. The Commission recommended the partition of Mandatory Palestine intotwo states. The Zionist Congress would, while rejecting the actual borders,agree to consider the proposal. The Arabs rejected it out of hand.
1938: Inresponse to the growing Arab violence the British cruiser, HMS Emerald whichwas “homeward bound from the East Indies was diverted to Haifa from Malta” andis to dock at the port in Palestine today.
1938: Britishtroops clashed with an armed band of Arabs trying to cross in Palestine fromTrans-Jordan. This did not stop other Arab infiltrators from joining theirbrethren in the fight against the British and the Jewish citizens of Palestine.
1939: “TheRules of the Game” a big budget French film starring Nora Gregor and with musicby Joseph Kosma was released in Paris today.
1940: In“Palestine Season Closes,” published today Dr. Peter Gradenwitz describes therecently ended musical season of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Theseason included thirteen concert series in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem aswell as additional performances at various agricultural colonies that broughtthe total of performances to 80.
1940(1st ofTammuz, 5700): Five thousand Jews of Kovno executed by Nazis.
1940: Molkaand Mendel Dorfman, the parents of Boris Dorfman along with many of his uncles“were arrested on charges of anti-Soviet behavior and Zionism” which led to hismother being sent: to Solikamsk camp in the Urals and his father being “sent toKaraganda camp in the Gulag where he died in 1942. (Editor’s note Bessarabianative Boris Dorfman authored about 1000 articles on Jewish issues in Yiddish,Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and German for publications including BirobidzhanerShtern, was one of the founders of Shofar, the first Jewish newspaper in theformer USSR and the father of American publicist Michael Dorfman)
1940: AdmiralSir Barry Edward Domvile a leading British Pro-German anti-Semite in the yearsbefore the Second World War was interned starting day during World War II underDefence Regulation 18B
1941 (12th ofTammuz, 5701):Thirty-two Jews are killed in Mariampole, Lithuania.
1941:InFrance, a collaborationist military force, Légion des Volontaires Français(French Volunteer Legion), is established.
1941 (12th ofTammuz, 5701):Two thousand Jews are murdered at Khotin, Ukraine
1941:Birthdate of Yisrael “Poli” Poliakov the native of Jerusalem who switched frombeing an agricultural student to a career in a comedy which was marked by hisrole in the creation of HaGashash HaHiver.
1942(22nd ofTammuz, 5702):One thousand Jews from Rzeszów, Poland, are killed at theRudna Forest. Fourteen thousand are deported to the Belzec death camp.
1942: Himmlerheld a meeting in Berlin with three high ranking men. It was decided thatmedical experiments would commence on the Jews. Emphasis would be placed onJewish women in Auschwitz. Himmler pledged his coconspirators to secrecy.
1943:Birthdate of Joel Siegel who would become a household icon while serving asEntertainment Editor on GMA from 1981 through 2007.
1943: In theNegev, about 30 minutes south of Beersheba, Kibbutz Tel Ha Tzofim (Scout’shill), which was later renamed Revivim (Showers) by Berl Katznelson was foundedtoday.
http://eng.negev-net.org.il/HTMLs/article.aspx?C2004=12760
1943(4th ofTammuz, 5703): Saul Kozlowski, an 18 year old Communist was arrested by theGestapo in Vilna, Lithuania. The Gestapo wanted to the known the identityof leader of the underground known as “The Lion.” After hours of torture,Kozlowski identifies Isaac Wittenberg, a Jew living in the ghetto, as being“the Lion.” As the Germans turned away to discuss their next step,Kozlowski grabbed a knife and slit his own throat.
1944(16thof Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-eight year old photographer Erich Solomon died atAuschwitz today.
http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2010/07/erich-salomon-king-of-indiscreet.html
http://www.comesana.com/english/salomon_gallery.php
1944:Anti-Nazi resister Judith Auer (née Vallentin) who had been partof the the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization was arrested today; an actionthat would be followed by her being tortured and hung by her captors.
1944:Approximately 437,000 have been deported from Hungary to Auschwitz since May18.
1944(16thof Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-nine year old Georges Mandel (born Louis GeorgeRothschild) theFrench journalist and member of the resistance was murdered bythe French fascists controlled by Vichy.
http://spartacus-educational.com/FRmandel.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/georges-mandel-french-patriot-is-executed
1944: BritishPrime Minister Winston Churchill informs Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that heis in favor of the Royal Air Force bombing Auschwitz. From July 7, 1944, toJanuary 19, 1945, the Allies will bomb industrial targets near Auschwitz atleast four times, including one resulting in the accidental bombing ofAuschwitz. But they will never bomb the death camps or the railroadleading to them. To some people, Eden takes on the role of the scapegoatregarding the Jews. Churchill always wants to help but somehow his numbertwo always thwarts him.
1944: DuringWW II, during the battle for Saipan, Bernard Gavrin, an American G.I. wasdeclared missing in action. (JTA)
1944(16thof Tammuz, 5704): While serving at Saipan, in the Marianas Islands today as theSurgeon for the 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division29 year old Captain Benjamin L. Solomon took care of the wounded as Japanesetroops charged the aid station where he was working and then refused toevacuate but instead stayed and defended the position in hand to hand combatand then by manning a machine gun until he was killed. This action earned him the CongressionalMedal of Honor.
http://history.amedd.army.mil/moh/Salomon.html
http://seymourbrody.com/heroes_wwii/br098a.htm
1944: JudithAuer, a native of Switzerland who was raised by a Jewish family after she wasorphaned in 1917 and who was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance “was arrestedat her workplace” today in what would prove to be the first step towards herdeath by hanging in October.
1944: InLithuania, partisan forces, including the Jewish Brigade led by Abba Kovner,join the Soviets in the attack on Vilna.
1944(16thof Tammuz, 5704): Fifty-eight year old Erich Salomon the Berlin bornengineering and zoology student turned photographer who had the uniquedistinction of taking pictures of the signing of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact(which outlawed war) and a session of the U.S. Supreme Court was died inAuschwitz.
http://www.comesana.com/english/salomon.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Salomon
1944: In acase of too little too late, Hungary’s Regent Horthy ordered an end to thetransport of Jews to Auschwitz after at least a half of a million of hiscountrymen had been ship to the death camp.
1945:Birthdate of Cleveland born Adele Goldberg the computer wizard raised inChicago where she earned her Ph.D. in Information Science at the University ofChicago.
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/adele-goldberg-wcs/#gsc.tab=0
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102733960
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/muiseum/goldberg/goldberg_page.htm
1945: ChiefJudge Irving Lehman of the New York State Court of Appeals “tripped over hispet boxer, Carlo and broke his ankle in two places” while walking around hiscountry estate. (This seemingly minor mishap would be a direct cause of hisdeath in September of 1945.
1946: “Fivethousand Jews, including members of Parliament and survivors of German campsdemonstrated in Trafalgar Square today against Britain’s ‘aggressive action’ inPalestine and sent a deputation to present a resolution of protest to PrimeMinister Attlee.”
1947: CBSbegan broadcasting “Escape,” a radio “anthology series” narrated by Paul Frees.
1947: HarrietShapiro married Fred Rochlin in a “small living room…packed to capacity withrelatives and friends” at the house on Sentinel Avenue in Los Angeles,California.
1947: Finalbroadcast of the Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre, a radio show sponsor by LadyEsther a cosmetic manufacturing companyfounded by German-born Syma Cohen and her siblings in Chicago in 1913.
1947(19thof Tammuz, 5707): Sixty-three-old Abraham Bricken the husband of the former Bessie Brock withwhom he had four children – Ruth, Irving, Robert and Jules -- who arrived inNew York a penniless immigrant from Kiev, Russia, in 1905 and became one of thelargest builders of Manhattan's modern garment center, passed away today in theRiverdale Nursing Home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, after an illnessof two years
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/07/08/87778191.html?pageNumber=24
1947(19thof Tammuz, 5707): Seventy-year-old Frank Taffel the native of Krystynopol whosettled in Atlanta where founded Fulton Auto Exchange and Congregation BethJacob passed away today.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89148214
1948:The settlers who were defending Kfar Darom against Egyptian attacks agreed tobe evacuated. Kfar Darom had been cut off from direct military help sincethe end of June. Air drops of supplies failed to reach the embattledsettlement because of Egyptian anti-aircraft. Their stubborn resistancehelped to slow the Egyptian advance on Tel Aviv and bought time for theIsraelis defending the approaches to the major Jewish population centers. Thesuccessful evacuation took place during the night of July 7-8.
1948: FranklynM Begley a UN official, the local Jordanian commander and by the Israeli localcommander initialed the Mount Scopus Demilitarization Agreement today.
1948: Abdullahel-Tell, the Military Governor of Jerusalem “signed the "Mount ScopusAgreement" by which the Israelis agreed that Mount Scopus would bedemilitarized and come under United Nations supervision.”
1948: “Givaticommander Shimon Avidan issued orders to the 51st Battalion to theTall al-Safi area.”
1948: It wasreported today that Bernard D. Rubin, the President of Sweets of America, thecompany that manufactures Tootise Roll candies is survived by “his widow, Mrs.Ray Rubin a daughter, Mrs. Natalie Jaffe; a son, Edgar Rubin; his father,Joseph; a brother, William Rubin and three sisters, Mrs. Hannah Stone, Mrs.Eleanor Messer and Mrs. Sadie Marantz, all of New York.”
1948: Duringthe War for Independence, with the truce period about to expire the SecurityCouncil asked each side if they would extend it for ten days. TheJews accepted the proposal. The Arabs rejected it.
1949: New YorkCity premiere of “Follow Me Quietly” the film noire directed by RichardFleischer and Anthony Mann whose mother was Jewish and who also co-authored thestory on which the film was based.
1949: InBaltimore, Dr. Alfred Lieberman and the former Annette Filzer gave birth to Dr.Marc Frank Lieberman “an ophthalmologistand self-proclaimed “Jewish Buddhist” who, when he wasn’t treating glaucoma,organized a dialogue between Jewish scholars and the Dalai Lama, and who laterbrought sight back to thousands of Tibetans stricken by cataracts…” (Asreported by Clay Risen)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/08/us/marc-lieberman-dead.html?searchResultPosition=1
1950: “Crisis”produced by Arthur Freed and Directed by Richard Brooks in his directorialdebut was released today in the United States.
1950: U.S.premiere of “Once A Thief” a film noir directed and produced by W. Lee Wilderbased on a story by Max Colpet and Hans Wilhelm.
1951: U.S.premiere of “Queen For A Day,” a comedy in which Leonard Nimoy makes his cinemadebut in the role of “Chief.”
1952: Painter andart collector Hazel Guggenheim King-Farlow McKinley, the New York City borndaughter of Fleurette Seligman and Benjamin Guggenheim, the banker who diedwhen the Titanic sank, today F. Keith Cole, a 28-year-old “televisionprojectionist.
1952: TheRepublican National Convention which Walter A Hass, the President of LeviStrauss attended as an alternate, opened today in Chicago.
1954(6thof Tammuz, 5714): Eighty-four-year-old Esther Lasker Ehrman, the daughter of Augustaand Samuel Lasker and wife of Albert Ehrman with whom she two sons – Samuel andCharles – passed away today after which she was at the Oakland and FraternalHistoric Cemetery Park in Little Rock, AR.
1955(17thof Tammuz, 5715): Tzom Tammuz
1955(17thof Tammuz, 5715):Fifty-for year old CCNY grad and U of Pennsylvania traineddentist Nathan Chenitz who has been practicing in Newark, NY since 1956 passedaway tonight “in the Beth Israel Hospital.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/07/08/83362873.html?pageNumber=23
1955: TodayRichard L. Neuberger, the grandson of “German Jewish immigrants” and the firstDemocrat to be elected to the United States from Oregon in the years between1914 and 1954 “introduced into the Congressional Record a call for the totalabolition of all motor racing in the United States.”
1955: U.S.premiere of “We’re No Angels” the movie version of “My Three Angels” a playwritten by Samuel and Bella Spewack directed Michael Curtiz.
1956(28th ofTammuz, 5716): Yiddish songstress Isa Kremer passed away http://www.jmwc.org/pdf/IsaKremer.pdf
1958: Today,in Washington, D.C., Ohev Sholom Congregation which had been founded in 1886merged with Talmud Torah which had been meeting at 467 E Street, SW “for almost50 years” “merged creating acongregation of more than six hundred families.”
1959: In“Emergence of Nazis Seen” published today, Frederick Wallach claims that thereis a resurgence of Germany of support and/or lionization of Hitler as can beseen by “a recent German poll which revealed that Germans as a whole still listHitler among the five Germans who did the most good for the German nation.”
1960: UnitedArtists releases “Elmer Gantry” directed by Richard Brooks, with a screenplayby Richard Brooks and music by Andre Previn.
1960:Physicist Theodore Maiman demonstrated the first laser today.
1960: InLondon, world premiere of “Inherit the Wind” the film treatment of the playco-authored by Jerome Lawrence directed and produced by Stanley Kramer withmusic Ernest Gold who was forced to flee pre-war Austria because “his paternalgrandfather was Jewish.”
1961(23rd of Tammuz, 5721): Seventy-four-year-oldPolish born “Yiddish scholar, novelist and poet, J.J. Trunk, a protégé of I.L.Peretz who was in 1941 was brought to the United States where he joined thestaff of The Jewish Day passedaway today at Mt. Sinai Hospital
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/07/09/118043979.pdf
1961(23rdof Tammuz, 5721): Sixty-eight-year-old Lithuania born American poet Hillel Bavli,who in 1912 came to the United States her he became Professor of Hebrew Literatureat JTS while several volumes of poetry including Aderet ha-Shanim in 1955 passed away today.
1962(5thof Tammuz, 5722): Parashat Korach
1962: “Adviseand Consent,” the movie version of the novel by same name produced and directedby Otto Preminger with music by Jerry Fielding was released today in the UnitedStates.
1962(5thof Tammuz, 5772): Bucharest born, Long Island College Hospital trained ear,nose and throat surgeon John Adam Glassbury, the husband of “Betty BlancGlassbury, a poet and collector of Asian art and father of Eunice GlassburyDombroff passed away today.
1962: In NewYork City “Ted Goldsman, a therapist and Mira Rothenberg, a child psychologist”gave birth to Academy Award winning screenplay writer (“A Beautiful Mind”)Akiva Goldsman.
1963:“Critique” published today described the participation of five American authors– David Borof, Leslie Fiedler, Max Lerner, Leo G. Rosten and Phillip Roth –“along with four Israeli counterparts in the second annual Dialogues in Israel”held in Tel Aviv where the men of letter “gave their views on ‘The Fact ofJewishness as It Influences the Creative Process.’”
1963: LouisRadelet, the director of national program development for community servicesfor the National Conference of Christians and Jews is scheduled to speak at“the second annual Long Island Workshop in Police and Community Relations whichbegins today at Adelphi College.
1963(15th ofTammuz, 5723): Seventy-nine-year-old RebeccaTcherikower (née Teplitsky), the widow of “Russian-born Jewish historian ofJudaism and the Jewish people” who had married him “around 1910” and who wasappointed the first YIVO archivist in 1940 “at the new YIVO headquarters”passed away today.
1964(27thof Tammuz, 5724): Fifty-nine-year-old Olympic gold medal winning discus throwerLillian Copeland passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/copeland-lillian
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lillian-copeland
https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/lillian-copeland-1.html
1964: Tens ofthousands of Israelis paid honor tonight to Zeev Jabotinsky, whose remains wereflown to Tel Aviv from the United States for reburial.
1965(7th ofTammuz, 5725): Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel, passedaway. Born Moshe Shertok in Russia in 1894, Sharett grew up in an Arabvillage near Jerusalem. He graduated from high school in Tel Aviv and then wentto Constantinople to study law. At this time Palestine was part of the TurkishEmpire and Sharett enlisted in the Turkish Army during World War I. Sharettrose to prominence in the Zionist movement during the 1930’s although he foundhimself at odds with David Ben Gurion. Sharett was Israel’s first ForeignMinister. When Ben Gurion retired for the first time, Sharett became PrimeMinister. Ben Gurion and Sharett continued to clash. When Ben Gurion returnedto power in 1955, Sharett returned to the Foreign Ministry. Sharett resignedbecause he was opposed to the coming Sinai War in 1956. Sharret suffered from"John Adams Disease." Just as John Adams was doomed because he wasfollowing George Washington, so Sharrett was doomed because he labored in theshadow of Ben Gurion.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/pages/moshe%20sharett.aspx
1966: “Threeon a Couch” a comedy starring Jerry Lewis who also served as director andproducer and featuring Gila Golan was released in the United States today.
1968(11thof Tammuz, 5728): Seventy-two-year-oldGertrude Wald Kaphan, the sister of Nobel Prize winning Professor Dr. GeorgeWald and the wife of Dr. Ludwig Kaphan who “was a founder and former presidentof the Women’s International ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation ThroughTraining” and “a consultant on problems facing Jewish youth in Africa, Europeand Israel” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/07/09/77093676.pdf
1968(11thof Tammuz, 5728): Eighty-eight-year-old hat manufacturer Abraham Wosnitzer, theformer president of the Hat Manufacturers of the United States passed awaytoday in Livingston, NJ.
1968(11thof Tammuz, 5728): Fifty-one-year-old Jerome D. Pitkow, the native ofPhiladelphia, NYU grad, WW II veteran and vice president and director ofSupermarkets General Corporation of Cranford, NJ, passed away today atRockville Centre, LI.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/07/09/77093677.html?pageNumber=35
1969 (21stof Tammuz, 5729): Sixty-nine-year-old Galicia native Menashe Unger whoseexpertise in the field Chasidism can be seen his book Social Origins ofChasidism” who in 1934 came to NYC where he became “a writer for The Day”passed away today leaving his widow Ruth Brilliant Unger and his daughter Mrs.Judith Kaiserman to mourn this loss.
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/12/menashe-unger.html
http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32882
1969: Today,“Israeli soldiers gave heroes’ burials to some of the 960 defenders whoperished in the historic suicide pact on Masada 1,896” when they interred “theremains of 27 men, women and children found on the rock fortress near the RedSea by archeologist” in the years between 1963 and 1965, “with full militaryhonors…near the ramps their Roman besiegers had built for the final attack onthe fortress.”
1970: “MissLauren Taylor Levy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hyman Levy of New York, wasmarried at the Registry Office in Oxford, England, today to Simon Lester Adams,who is doing research for his doctoral thesis in English history at BalliolCollege.”
1971(14th ofTammuz, 5731): Four people were killed and thirty more were injured during a“rocket attack on a Tel Aviv suburb.”
1973: KittyCarlisle (born Catherine Conn – pronounced Cohen) performed for the last timewith the Metropolitan Opera.
1973: InIsrael, premiere of “Kazablan” an “Israeli musical film directed by MenahemGolan and written by Menahem Golan and Haim Hefer.”
1973(7th ofTammuz, 5733): Seventy-eight-year-old Max Horkheimer, the German bornphilosopher and sociologist who sought refuge in the U.S. during the Nazi afterhis academic credentials were revoked and his institute was closed. [Whenyou read the NY Times obit, see below, you will be hard pressed to find thesimple statement that he was Jewish.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50E12FB385C1A7A93CBA9178CD85F478785F9
1974: USSenator William J. Fulbright who will later go to work a lobbyists for theSaudis and the United Arab Emirates and was a constant critic of Israel saidthat Senator Jackson who is working to improve the conditions for Sovietdissidents including Jews, was undermining detente with the USSR
1976: U.S.premiere of “Gus” a Disney comedy featuring Harold Gould as Charles Gwynn andTom Bosley as Spinner
1977: UnitedArtist released “The Spy Who Loved Me,” the James Bond with a score by MarvinHamlisch, a screenplay co-authored by Richard Maibum, Phi Betta Kappa graduateof the University of Iowa and featuring Walter Gotell the German born Britishactor whose family escaped from Nazi Germany, Barbara Bach whose father wasJewish and Milo Sperber the Polish born Anglo-Jewish actor who fled NaziGermany in 1939.
1978: Funeralservices are scheduled to be held this morning in the Bronx for Augusta B.Shapiro, the brother of Harold Shapiro.
1979(12thof Tammuz, 5739): Parshat Chukat-Balak
1979(12thof Tammuz, 5739): Eighty-year-old Hélène Cazès-Benatar, the Moroccan lawyer andwidow of Moses Benatar “who helped refugees even while undermined byanti-Semitic Vichy legislation” and aided Jews from North Africa in theireffort to settle in Israel, where “some of her papers are preserved in theCental Archives of the Jewish people, passed away today. (Editor’s Note – formore see Destination Casablanca: Espionage, and the Battle for North Africain World War II by Meredith Hindley)
1979(12thof Tammuz, 5739): Four people were killed and 11 more injured when a bombexploded at Kafr Manda, a town northwest of Nazarthen
1980(23rd ofTammuz, 5740): Famed writer Dore Schary passed away. Born Isadore Schary in1905, Schary dropped the "Isa" from Isadore to create his first name.Like so many other Jews of his era, Shary helped create the cinematic versionof the American Myth. He won an Oscar for the screenplay "Boys Town."He produced the canine classic "Lassie Come Home." But his greatestwork came when he returned to Broadway and wrote the script for "SunriseAt Campobello." Shcary did not hide his Judaism. He was active in numerousJewish organizations and served as the head of the Anti-Defamation League.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F00A1FFB385C11728DDDA10894DF405B8084F1D3
1981: The 11thMaccabiah Games which opened yesterday “to the sound of clarion trumpets, thelanding of Israeli army parachutists and the spectacle of 2,000 gymnasts in ahuge Star of David formation at suburban Ramat Gan Stadium” continued for asecond day in Tel Aviv.
1982: “WhiteDog,” a cinematic treatment of Romain Gary’s novel of the same name anddirected by Samuel Fuller was released in France today.
1983: TheOklahoma Outlaws football team announced that seventy-one year old Hall of FameCoach Sid Gillman had come out of retirement to serve as the team’s Director ofOperations.
1983(26thof Tammuz, 5743): Ninety-one year old Ukrainian born Music Director SamuelKaylin who composed the scores for the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto movies passedaway today in Bakersfield, CA.
1985(18thof Tammuz, 5745): Tzom Tammuz observed on a Sunday.
1986(30thof Sivan, 5746): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1986: TheUnited States SupremeCourt struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. Senator WarrenRudman was an apparent anomaly on two counts. First, he was elected from New Hampshire, not exactly a state with a large Jewishpopulation and second he was a conservative Republican.
1986:American artist Rodney Ripps and his wife Helene Verin gave birth to Americanconceptual artist, programmer, and creative director Ryder Ripps
1987(10thof Tammuz, 5747): Eighty-two-year-old Harvard grad and NYU trained attorneyRobert Pilpel who has served on the staff of the American Jewish JointDistribution Committee who raised two children – Robert and Judith – with hiswife Harriet passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/09/obituaries/robert-pilpel.html
1988:Seventy-seven German Latin American scholar, historian, and writer Erwin WalterPalm who escaped European anti-Semitism to which he was particularly sensitivebecause he was married to the Jewish poet Hilde Löwenstein passed away today.
1989:“Lethal Weapon 2,” directed by Richard Donner, co-produced by Richard Donnerand Joel Silver and filmed by cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt was releasedtoday in the United States.
1991:LL Cool J’s recording of “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” the 1933 pop song“with additional lyrics by Ann Ronnel” was released on cassette today.
1992:The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into the planet Jupiter. According toDavid Levy, one of the trio who discovered the comet, it was the most widelywatched such phenomena in history. Canadian born David Levy was anEnglish major in college. His career in astronomy began as anamateur. He sees a definite connection between his Jewish heritage andastronomy. For example, Pesach always comes at the full moon, the night sky onYom Kippur is always the same and Shabbat does not end until three stars can beseen in the sky. His Judaism and his astronomy are so intertwined that heand his bride decided they wanted to be married under the night sky.
1993: On theday after her death at the age of 101, Gerda Lissner the German born daughterof Clara Krage and the wife of Herman Lissner was buried today in New YorkCity.
1994: “Thebody of Arye Frankenthal, 20, from Moshav Gimzo near Lod, who had left his basein the south the previous day, was found stabbed and shot near the Arab villageof Kafr Akab, near Ramallah.” (Jewish Virtual Library)
1994(28th ofTammuz, 5754: Seventeen-year-old Sarit Prigal, was shot to death whenterrorists opened fire from a passing car near the entrance to Kiryat Arba.
1995(9thof Tammuz, 5755): Seventy-four year old Martin Bucksbaum who with his brothers,Maurice and Matthew, built one of the country's first shopping centers in CedarRapids, Iowa” passed away today in Des Moines, IA. (As reported by StephanieStrom)
1995: Today,Ehud “Barak was appointed Minister of Internal Affair by Prime Minister Rabin.”
1996: “Star ofJoyce’s Firmament” published today described the little-known story of StellaSteyn, the Irish woman who was part of the life of James Joyce.
1997: Today inIsrael 26 year old Islamic terrorist Hassan Salameh was sentenced “to 46consecutive life terms for engineering three suicide bombings that killed 46people in 1996”
1998: InClaims for Art Collection Pose a Challenge to Hungary,” published today JudithDobrzynski describes the efforts by the Nierenberg family to retrieve a portionof the art collection that was successively seized by the fascists and thecommunists
1999: Eighty-six-year-oldAaron M. Wise who had served as the rabbi at Adat Ari El Synagogue from 1947 to1978 was buried today after services his synagogue.
1998:“Shakespeare’s Villains,” “a one man-man player created and performed by StevenBerkoff” opened for the first time today “at London’s Royal Theatre inHaymarket.”
2000: “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” a filmnominated for 10 Oscars with a script co-authored by James Schamus was releasedtoday in Taiwan.
2000(4thof Tammuz, 5760): Ninety-three-year-old Ruth Werner, a member of the RedOrchestra, passed away today.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/11/guardianobituaries.richardnortontaylor
https://jwa.org/thisweek/jul/07/2000/death-of-soviet-spy-ruth-werner
2001: At theIsrael Festival in Jerusalem Conductor Daniel Barnboim startled the audience byannouncing that he was going to play a piece by Wagner as second encore whichsparked a half hour debate following which a few members of the audience leftbut most stayed to hear the performance of the Tristan and Isolde prelude.
2002: “Behinda Century of Photos, Was There a Jewish Eye?” published today opens with GarryWinogrand’s claim that “to be a great photographer” “it was first of allnecessary to be Jewish and then explores the connection between Jews andcameras.
2003:In an attempt to comply with Palestinians demands for peace negotiations today,“Israel’s cabinet agreed to release 300 or more Palestinian prisoners in thecoming days.” (As reported by Greg Myre)
2003:Israeli and Palestinian ministers sat down together for meetings here today, asthe two sides worked to fill in details of a new peace plan.
2003:Two Israelis were killed this evening when “an explosion tore apart a home inthe village of Kfra Yavetz in central Israel” in a moments of violence whichauthorities have not said is “a terrorist attack.”
Buton Monday night, a powerful explosion tore apart an Israeli home near the WestBank, and the police were investigating the incident early today as a possiblesuicide bombing. Investigators found two bodies in the rubble, one of a womanand the other of a young man, the police said.
2004:“I, Robot” a sci-fi thriller based on the work by Isaac Asimov, with ascreenplay co-authored by Akiva Goldsman and featuring Shia LaBeouf premieredat the Mann Village Theatre in Los Angeles.
2005:Outfielder Adam Greenberg made his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs.
2005:Twenty-five Outfielder Adam Stern made his major league debut with the BostonRed Sox making him the second Jew from Canada to make the majors.
2006(11thof Tammuz, 5766): Ninety-seven year old Dr. Israel Horowitz, who will be buriedat Adath Israel Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio,passed away today in Chicago.
2007: “WhenNietzsche Wept” a movie based on the novel by Irvin D. Yalom and co-starringMichal Yannai and Jamie Elman was released in Israel today.
2007: At theHebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in New York, anexhibition called “Cinema Judaica: The War Years” comes to an end. Thisunprecedented exhibition of iconic Hollywood film posters from 1939 to 1949illustrates how the motion picture industry countered America's isolationism,advocated going to war against the Nazis, influenced post-war perceptions ofthe Jewish people and the founding of the State of Israel, and shaped the faceof contemporary Jewish life.
2007: InJerusalem, aclassical music concert entitled "Music in All the Shades" presents"Bel Canto in Ein Kerem," featuring soprano, Maria Yofa, flautist,Antoli Kogan, and pianist, Alexander Sneiderman.
2007: “BeyondThe Myth, Art Endures,” published todaydescribed Mexico’s celebration of the centenary of the birth of painterFrida Kahlo, the daughter of a Jewish businessman whose work has beenovershadowed by her husband, Diego Rivera.
2007: Today,British born actress Rachel Hannah “Weisz presented at the American leg of LiveEarth.”
2008: U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Jon Scoles ruled during a detentionhearing for Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 35, and Martin De La Rosa-Loera, 43that the two Agriprocessors Inc. supervisors arrested last week for aiding andabetting illegal workers at the Postville meat processing plant to possess anduse fraudulent identity documents will remain in federal custody until theirtrials.
2008: TheWashington Post reports on the arrival of Jewish pilgrims in Safi, Morroco.
It's anuncommon sight for an Arab country: hundreds of joyous Jewish pilgrimsgathering without fear around a rabbi's tomb, greeted by local Muslim officialswho share a prayer with them at a synagogue. Yet most of the 400 Jews whoconverged on the Moroccan coastal town of Safi _ some from nearby cities,others from as far as France or Israel _ at a weekend pilgrimage said they feltwelcome here. While religious tensions flare in Jerusalem and beyond, inMorocco, Jews and Muslims say they nurture a legacy of tolerance and maintaincommon sanctuaries where adherents of both religions pray. Decades ofemigration to Israel by Morocco's Jews and terrorist bombings in Casablancathat targeted Jewish sites haven't diminished the draw of these annualpilgrimages. During the festival that began Friday, visitors prayed and feastedaround the shrine of Abraham Ben Zmirro, a rabbi reputed to have fledpersecution in Spain in the 15th century and then lived in Safi, where he isburied with six siblings. A half-Jewish, half-Muslim band played local tunesduring a banquet, including a song in French, Arabic and Hebrew with the line:"There is only one God, you worship Him sitting down and I while standingup." The pilgrims were joined Sunday by Aaron Monsenego, the great rabbiof Morocco, who prayed alongside the regional governor and several other Muslimofficials at the shrine's synagogue for the good health of Morocco's KingMohammed VI and his family. "It's very important for us to prayaltogether," Monsenego told The Associated Press. Regional governor LarbiHassan Sebbari said, "We're also very proud of it: it gives a lesson toother countries of what we do together without any taboo." While severalArab states refuse to recognize the Jewish state's right to exist, rejectIsraeli visitors and ignore the remnants of their local Jewish heritage,Moroccans insist it is not the case in this moderate Muslim nation and U.S.ally. Once home to some 300,000 Jews, Morocco hosts the Arab world's onlyJewish museum, funds Jewish institutions and frequently holds events tocelebrate Judeo-Moroccan heritage. Still, the Jewish population here hasdwindled to about 4,000 _ most in Casablanca. Economics, fears of living in anArab state and sporadic discrimination drove hundreds of thousands of MoroccanJews to Israel, Europe or America over the past few decades. Many left in 1948when the state of Israel was created, or in 1956 when Morocco won independencefrom France. Other waves followed after the Israeli-Arab conflicts of 1967 and1973 caused riots in some Moroccan towns. Jewish leaders who stayed say theypractice their religion freely and that synagogues are well protected bypolice, especially since the 2003 bombings in Casablanca. And despite thebombings, Casablanca _ Morocco's commercial capital _ still boasts 32 activesynagogues. "There was never any racism in Safi," said Haim Ohana,one of only 10 Jewish people remaining in a town where 6,000 Jews once lived."People left from here because they were poor," said Ohana, who helpedorganize the pilgrimage and runs several businesses. The pilgrimage rituals arecalled Moussem in Arabic and Hilloula in Hebrew. Many of the pilgrims,including ultra-Orthodox Jews from Israel and French and Canadian businessmen,are émigrés who say they come to pray in Safi because of their emotional tiesto Morocco. Therese Elisha, an Israeli, said she makes the pilgrimage everyother year. "This is the town where I grew up, the synagogue where Iprayed," she said. "I feel at home." "We're maintaining abridge over the divide of the exodus," said Simone Merra, a humanresources manager in Paris. Some of Morocco's Jews wonder how long theircommunity will remain. Nadia Bensimon, who runs a fashion boutique in a coastaltown, said she had no plans to leave. "But that could change if theIslamists become too powerful," she said. Morocco's main Islamistopposition party _ Adl wal Ihsan _ enjoys broad support, but it is banned frompolitics; secular parties dominate parliament. Though most of his relatives nowlive abroad, Ohana said his family traces its arrival in Morocco to 2,076 yearsago. "As for Safi, we've been here for nine centuries," he said."It's my town; I'd see no reason to leave."
2009: Barry“Goldberg's self-titled 1974 album was reissued with never before releasedtracks and a restored sound.”
2009: Startingtonight and continuing on each successive Tuesday night during July the amphitheaterin Liberty Bell Park offers a different Jerusalem performing artist each week.This Jerusalem Municipality project is made possible through cooperation withThe Jerusalem Foundation and the International Cultural Center for youth.
2009: Thefuneral for Anita Rabinowtiz, the wife of Rabbi Stanely Rabinwoitz is scheduledto take place at Adas Israel in Washington, DC followed by interment at thecongregation’s cemetery in southeast Washington.
2009: “InBruges” is the first film shown at the film festival, Summer Movies at theMerkaz which describes itself as “a unique combination of an absorption center,community center and activism center located in the heart of the German Colony,one of the most beautiful, peaceful and dynamic neighborhoods in Jerusalem.”
2010: The 7thAICE Australian Film Festival is scheduled to show tense political thriller,Balibo, in Tel Aviv.
2010: Thisevening at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, the Israeli prime minister addressed aroomful of more than 300 Jews on the subjects of Iran, his government’seagerness for direct peace talks with the Palestinians and the swell meeting hehad just had with President Obama at the White House. But then, in anoff-the-cuff remark to a question on Jerusalem from the audience, BenjaminNetanyahu dropped a hint that his government’s insistence on Israelisovereignty over all of Jerusalem might not be ironclad.
2011:“Rothschild Fine Art,” an exhibition featuring objects’ des art from RothschildFine Art, a premier gallery in the cultural center of Tel Aviv, is scheduled toopen today at ARTHamptons Art Fair in Bridgehampton.
2011: D.C.Councilman Tommy Wells is scheduled to take part in the Jewish CommunityRelations Council’s noontime series at the Lillian and Albert Small Museum.
2011: PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to fly to Sofia today for meetingswith Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and President Georgi Parvanov.Netanyahu will be accompanied on the trip to Bulgaria by some eight ministerswho will take part in a joint government meeting. He is slated to return toIsrael this evening.
2011: AnIsrael Defense Forces soldier was wounded lightly by an explosive deviceplanted near his tank in the southern Gaza Strip this morning.
2011: TheEnvironmental Protection Ministry ordered the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Co.(EAPC) to cease their work in the Nahal Zin and surrounding nature reservefollowing last week's devastating jet-fuel oil spill after the ministry foundthat the company was not effectively carrying out the cleanup but ratherexacerbating the environmental damage. EAPC responded to the ministry's order,saying that fault lies with the digging contractor, which had failed to followinstructions from environmental authorities and had ruptured the pipeline inthe course of its work, Israel Radio reported.
2011: In“Setting the record straight: Entebbe was not Auschwitz” published today YossiMelman marked the 35th anniversary of the mission that rescuedJewish hostages held by Arab terrorists in Uganda.
2012: Theegalitarian-traditional minyan at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids is scheduled tocelebrate “Red White and Blue Shabbat” while beating Iowa’s unprecedented heatwave with “Sundaes on Saturday” where congregants will build their own CoolKosher Concoctions.
2012: One ofIsrael's top contemporary troupes, Vertigo Dance Company, is scheduled toperform Mana at Jacob’s Pillow in Beckett, Maine.
2012: “TheAlexander Soros Foundation presented its inaugural ASF Award for ExtraordinaryAchievement in Environmental and Human Rights Activism to a Liberian activist.”
2012: Israelicellist Yoed Nir is scheduled to perform at the Super Bock Rock Festival inLisbon, Portugal
2012:Tens of thousands of Israelis gatheredin central Tel Aviv tonight to voice their demand for mandatory conscription inthe army or national service, in the largest protest yet of the summer, and thebiggest show of force since the “Camp Suckers” movement began six months ago.
2012:As the country is embroiled in a debateabout turning haredi scholars into soldiers, the Jerusalem Municipality and theBezalel Academy of Arts and Design have launched a different venture: a hareditrack at Bezalel’s prestigious art institute.
2013: “TheDead Man and Being Happy” is among the films scheduled to be shown at the 30thJerusalem Film Festival.
2013: TheBritish Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2013: “Memory,Identity, and Boundaries of Jewishness” is scheduled to begin in Canterbury,UK.
2013: ThePears Institute for the study of Antisemitism is scheduled to host a colloquiumfeaturing Sham Ambiavaga, Frank Chalk, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Feldman, JohnGray, William Lamont, Paul Lay, Dame Jinty Nelson, Sir Michael Pepper, DanielPick and Marina Voikhanskaya
2013: Israel Air Force rescue crews havebrought to safety the pilot and navigator of an “F-16i” training fighter jetthat broke up off the coast of Gaza this afternoon after its enginesmysteriously died. (As reported by Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu
2013: Alfred Le Guelllec, who together with hiswife Augustine, was posthumously recognized today as a “righteous gentile” inan emotional ceremony held at his hometown of Douarnenez in the westernmost tipof France. (As reported by Elhanan Miller)
2014: In the UK, the Wiener Library for theStudy of the Holocaust & Genocide is scheduled to host Dr Gábor Kádárlecturing on “Hero or War Criminal? Regent Horthy and the Destruction ofHungarian Jews.”
2014: “Igor and the Crane’s Journey” and “TheSturgeon Queens” are scheduled to be shown at the Berkshire Jewish Film Festival.
2014: As “warning sirens were heard in thecities of Sderot, Netivot, Ofakim, and Rahat, as well as further afield inRehovot, Gan Yavne, Gadera and Beit Shemesh, in the hills outside Jerusalem”and terrorists produced a video telling citizens of Beersheba to “flee beforeit is too late” forty more rockets were fired from Gaza after 8 p.m. thisevening.
2014: “IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner saidthe military had called up 1,500 reserves troops, mostly from the Home FrontCommand and Iron Dome air defense crews, and deployed two additionalconscripted infantry brigades, Paratroops and Givati, to the border with thePalestinian enclave today” (As reported by Joshua Davidovich and MitchGinsburg)
2014: “Former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball teamcoach David Blatt was named today as Euroleague’s coach of the year, shortlyafter securing a contract with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Blatt was awardedthe prestigious title after he received a majority of votes in a ballot inwhich all of this year’s Euroleague coaches took part.”
2015: In Jerusalem, Ari Sacher, “a scientistwho develops missile systems in Israel” is scheduled to deliver a lecture on“The Miracle of the Iron Dome.”
2015: “Some Like It Hot” directed by BillyWilder, costarring Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe is scheduled to be shown aspart of “Lights! Camera! Great German and Austrian Filmmakers of Hollywood’sGolden Age” at the 92nd Street Y.
2015: “Israel’s Religious Service MinisterDavid Azoulay said today that he does not consider Reform Jews to be Jewish andurged them to turn to Orthodox Judaism.” (As reported by Times of Israel)[Editor’s Note: Wonder what he would have to say about Rabbi Abba HillelSilver]
2016: Today is the deadline for Judge MaxwellWiley of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan to rule on a series ofevidentiary issues in the re-trial of Pedro Hernandez who has been accused ofmurdering Etan Patz the 6 year old son of Stan and Julie Patz who disappearedin 1979.
2016(1st of Tammuz, 5776): RoshChodesh Tammuz
2016(1st of Tammuz, 5776): Israeliborn journalist and military affairs correspondent of Time magazine Aaron J.Klein, the author Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre andIsrael's Deadly Response passed away today
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000N2HCL0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
2016: “The Timesof Israel’s Jewish world editor Amanda Borschel-Dan received the B’naiB’rith World Center Award for Journalism, which recognizes excellence inDiaspora reportaģe, at a ceremony in Jerusalem today/. She was given the awardalong with Allison Kaplan Sommer of Haaretz newspaper.”
2016: “Israeli-owned chocolate emporium MaxBrenner in New York’s Union Square is scheduled to offer Pina Chocolada drink,Melting Chocolate Truffle cake and chocolate syringes” as part of today’sobservance of World Chocolate Day.
http://maxbrenner.com/chocolate-dessert-bar/chocolate-shop/
2016: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research andInstitute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University are scheduled toco-host a conference on “Women, the City and the Yiddish Theatre.”
2017(13th of Tammuz, 5777): Seventy-eight-year-oldRussian born brilliant mathematician who lost her teaching position when shetried to move to Israel and eventually became a “lecturer at HebrewUniversity,” “a professor of mathematics and UC, Berkeley” and a member of boththe American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciencespassed away today. (As reported by Kenneth Chang)
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/ratner.htm
2017(13th of Tammuz, 5777): Eighty-one-year-oldKenneth Silverman, the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants and winner of boththe Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes passed away today. (As reported by WilliamGrimes)
2017: “Letters from Baghdad” is scheduled toopen at theatres in Chicago, Albuquerque, NM and Winston-Salem, NC today.
2017: InManhattan, the West Side Jewish Center is scheduled to host “InShabbos, July2017.”
2017: As part of the Maccabiah, “a very specialKabbalat Shabbat event is scheduled to take place at Jerusalem’s oldest trainstation.”
2017: Daniel Polisar, co-founder of ShalemCollege is scheduled to prevent the final lecture in “The Zionist Vision: A NewLook at Theodor Herzl”
2018: Israelis near Gaza observe Shabbat underthe protection of additional Iron Dome Batteries that had been sent south inresponse to the heighten security threat
2018: Israeli firefighters are on high alter“in light of the five fires that broke out before Shabbat that included one “inthe Sycamore Reservoir” where “dozens of acres of eucalyptus trees were burneddown
2018(24th of Tammuz, 5778): Parashat Pinchas
2019: TheNew York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and of specialinterest to Jewish readers including The Body In Question, a novel byJill Ciment, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventures of Liberalismby Adam Gopnik, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That KeptTwo Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of Americaby Daniel Okrent and a listing of the fifty best memoirs of the past fiftyyears that includes Patrimony by Philip Roth, A Tale of Love andDarkness by Amos Oz, This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff, PersonalHistory by Katharine Graham and TheMemory Chalet by Tony Judt.
2019: Today, Andrés Cantor, an Argentine Jew,and Sammy Sadovnik, a Peruvian Jew are scheduled to serve as “play-by-playannouncers for Telemundo’s” broadcast for FIFA Women’s World Cup championshipmatch.
2019: “Jews, Money, Myth,” and exhibition atthe Jewish Museum in London that “explores the ways in which Jews have beenassociated with money over the past 2,000 years” will not be closed today asoriginally scheduled because due to “popular demand” it will remain open untilOctober.
2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish CommunityLibrary is scheduled to host “a facilitated discussion of The Empress ofWeehawken, of Irene Dische’s 2005 novel about her family history, told fromthe perspective of her anti-Semitic German grandmother.
https://www.jewishlearningworks.org/events/2019/7/7/drop-in-book-club-the-empress-of-weehawken
2019: In San Francisco, the Jewish CommunityLibrary is scheduled to host novelist Sheldon Greene whose works include ProdigalSons, After the Parch and The Apple Seed.
http://www.sheldongreene.com/about-me/
2020: Based on his public utterances, PrimeMinister Netanyahu is scheduled to continue working on his “annexation plans.”
2020: “A Sudden Tragedy Leads to UnsinkableFamily Secrets” published today provides a review of Florence Adler Swims Forever,Rachel Beanlands “debut novel that “tells the story of a Jewish familystruggling to conceal the drowning of a cherished daughter for fear that herpregnant sister, Fannie, will lose her baby.”
2020: Havurah on the Hill is scheduled topresent online “Tavern in the Shul: How to L’Chaim Like a Pro!” which is “abeginner’s guide to mixing co*cktails with a Jewish flair!”
2020 Via Zoom, B’nai Jeshurun Congregation isscheduled to host “Men’s Club Happy Hour” where attendees discuss topics ofcurrent interest along with a little comedy.
2020:Israelis are preparing today to deal with what Dr. Moshe Sharist, thedirector of Ichilov’s Emergency Medicine Division” has said is the “secondwave” COVID-19 cases the new stringent government measures enacted to limit theimpact of the upsurge in cases of the virus.
2021: Pianist-historian Ian Scarfe is scheduledto play American classics, some composed by George Gershwin, in honor of theFourth of July.
2021: The Friends of the IDF New England isscheduled to present the “2021 New England Young Leaders Summer Cruise” duringwhich attendees will “hear how a local lone soldier became the first Americanwoman to graduate from the IDF’s elite pilot course.”
2021: Urban Adamah is scheduled to an“in-person even with Never Again Action” that “includes brunch and teachings onecological benefits of shmita, land ownership, immigration and borderviolence.”
2021: In New Jersey, the Jewish Heritage Museumof Monmouth County is scheduled to host “Faces of Genious,” a PowerPointpresentation that honors and highlights the private lives of contributions of10 Jewish American Nobel Laureates,” in the fields of Science and Medicine.
2021: The American Sephardi Federation isscheduled to present a Spanish language version the lecture “Jewish Life I theArab World: A New Chapter” by Elie Abadie a trained physician and Doctor ofMedicine.
2021: Helene Wecker is scheduled to talk aboutthe sequel to her 2013 debut novel, “The Golem and the Jinni,” “the new historicalfantasy which is set in New York City and the Middle East before World War I.”
2022: Lockdown University is scheduled to hostthe webinar with Dr. Marian Prisley, the Jewish Sheriff of Norwich.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/marian-prinsley-sheriff-of-norwich-anti-racism-letter-1564448
2022: YIVO is scheduled to present a lecture byNina Warnke on “Women on the Immigrant Yiddish Stage: Paths to Stardom.”
2022: President-elect Brian Cohen, a realmensch and a shofar blower par-excellent, is scheduled to chair the BoardMeeting of Temple Judah for the first time.
2022: As part of the “New Interpretations ofRabbi Sacks’s Weekly Shiur” series, LSJS Michelle Sint is scheduled to lectureon “The Value of Life” as presented in Chukat.
2022: Today marks the one week anniversary ofthe day when “several dozen Orthodox men and boys entered the egalitariansection of the Western Wall, an area south of the main plaza also known asRobinson’s Arch, equipped with whistles and signs, as a number of families fromthe United States were holding hold bar mitzvah ceremonies for their childrenthere” and “attempted to disrupt the services, blowing the whistles, callingthe worshipers “Nazis” and “animals,” and at one point ripping up a prayerbook, whereupon one boy used a torn page to wipe his nose.” (As reported byJudah Ari Gross)
2023: Kan Kol Humusika is scheduled tobroadcast, live, a special concert featuring “Ensemble Finale.”
2023: The JCC Maccabi Games in Israel arescheduled to continue for a second day.
2023: In Jerusalem, Beit Agnon is scheduled tohost a joint reading of “The Beginning of the Use of the Resin.”
2024: Director Ofir Raul Grazier is scheduledto attend the screening of “America” “anew film starring Michael Moshonov as a former champion swimmer from Israel nowliving in Chicago who returns to Tel Aviv after learning his estranged fatherhas died” at in New York City.
2024: The Museum at Eldridge Street isscheduled to a Walking Tour of the Lower East Side during which visitors cansee how “historic places have been transformed, repurposed, or restored
2024: “Urban historian and native New YorkerBradley is scheduled to host a virtual tour of “Jewish Greenwich Village,” anarea with 200 hundred years of history.
2024: The New York Times features reviews ofbooks by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including WriteLike A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, by Ronnie A.Grinberg and Madoff: The Final Word, by Richard Behar.
2024: As July 7th beginsin Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism that has included Hamassupporters calling for Zionist passengers on a New York subway to raise theirhands, sweeps the United States and the Hamas held hostages begin day 275 incaptivity. (Editor’s note: thissituation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are just providing asnapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
