April 30
313: Liciniusdefeated Maximinus at the Battle of Tzirallum, thus making him the Emperor ofthe Eastern Roman Empire. The Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was hisbrother-in-law, Constantine. The two in laws would clash repeatedly until Constantinedefeated Licinius and eventually killed him despite the pleas of his sister tospare her husband’s life. We know that Constantine made Christianity the statereligion of the Roman Empire with all that that would mean for the Jews ofEurope. Would it have been any different if Licinius had triumphed?Who knows? Lucinius did subscribe to the policy of tolerance towardsChristians but those who were writing history in the fourth and fifth centurytended to create an idyllic vision of Constantine which meant painting a lessthan flattering portrait of Licinius. Gibbon follows the same path in hishistory of the Roman Empire.
711: Moorishtroops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of theIberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus). For the Jews living under the Visigothrulers of Spain, this is good news. The victory of the Moors will markthe start of what is called the Golden Age. Ironically, the Golden Agewill begin to tarnish not because of Christians, but because of an invasion byanother, more religiously conservative group of Moslems. (Somesources say this actually happened on April 29)
1002: MargraveEckard I whose brother was deposed by “Emperor Henry II because he was accusedof having sold Christian serfs to the Jews” passed away today.
1245:Birthdate King Philip III of France, the son Louis IX (St. Louis). DuringPhillip’s reign, the Pope turned the attention of the Inquisition fromsuppressing the heresy of the Albigenses to the Jews of southern France who hadconverted to Christianity. The popes complained that not only were baptizedJews returning to their former faith, but that Christians also were beingconverted to Judaism. Pope Gregory X ruled that Jewish converts who hadreturned to Judaism, as well as Christians who converted to Judaism were to betreated by the Inquisitors as heretics. The instigators of such apostasies, asthose who received or defended the guilty ones, were to be punished in the sameway as the delinquents. When the Jews of Toulouse buried a Christian convert intheir cemetery, they were brought before the Inquisition in for trial, withtheir rabbi, Isaac Males and having been found guilty were burned at the stake.Needless to say, Phillip did nothing to protect his subjects.
1310:Birthdate of King Casimir III of Poland who came tothe throne in 1333. From the Jewish point of Casimir III was seen as acut above the average ruler. He was favorably disposed toward Jews. On October9, 1344 he confirmed the privileges granted to Jewish Poles in 1264 byBoleslaus V. Under penalty of death he prohibited the kidnapping of Jewishchildren for the purpose of forcible Christian baptism. He inflicted heavypunishment for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries. Although Jews were livingin Poland earlier, Casimir allowed them to settle in Poland in great numbersand protected them as king's people.
1349: TheJewish community at Radolszell, Germany, was exterminated. This appearsto have been part of a wave of attacks on Jewish communities that took placeduring 1348 and 1349. They werein response to fears about the BlackDeath and a convenient way for non-Jewish nobles and others to avoid having tore-pay their Jewish creditors.
1425:Birthdate of William III of Luxembourg who” minted a silver groschen known asthe Judenkopf Groschen. Its obverse portrait shows a man with a pointed beardwearing a Jewish hat, which the populace took as depicting a typical Jew.”
1492: TheEdict of Expulsion for all the Jews of Spainwas passed. Since professingthat Jews were not under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition, the Churchdecided to level a ritual murder accusation against them in Granada and wasthus able to call for the expulsion of both Jews and Marranos from Spain. TheMarranos themselves were accused of complicity in the case, and both wereordered to leave within four months. Torquemada, the director of theInquisition (and incidentally of Jewish descent), defended this against DonIsaac Abarbanel. The edict was passed, and over fifteen thousand Jews had toflee, some to the Province of Aragon and others, like Abarbanel, to Naples.Still others found temporary sanctuary in Portugal.
1556: Acommunity of Marranos at Ancona (Italy) was devastated when Pope Paul IVretracted letters of protection issued by previous Popes' for protection of theJews, and ordered immediate proceedings to be taken by the Holy Office. Theresult of the findings came in the spring and early summer, when 24 men and 1woman were burned alive in successive proceedings. Their deaths arememorialized in that city every Tisha B'av.
1563: The Jewswere expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1637(6thof Iyar, 5397): Abraham Joseph Jacob Katzenellenbogen a Polish rabbi born in1549 who “was the grandfather of Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen, author of KenesetYehezkel” passed away today in Lemberg.
1659: In NewAmsterdam, Cornelius Plavier mortgaged his house on Heere Street (laterBroadway) at the city wall (Wall Street) the day after judgment was renderedagainst him in a case brought by Abraham Cohen. It is assumed that the moneyobtained from the mortgage was intended to satisfy the judgment. But nodocuments actually exist to prove that Cohen got either the money or the beaverpelts which were owed to him.
1693(24th ofNisan): Rabbi David Ha-Kohen of Jerusalem, author of “Da’at Kadoshim” passedaway.
1722: “Theofficers of Harvard Corporation vote that Judah Monis be approved as aninstructor of the Hebrew language at the College, under the condition that heconvert to Christianity. One month before assuming his post at Harvard, Monisconverts before a large assembly in College Hall.”
1768: Based onseveral assumptions made possible by data in A Biographical Dictionary of EarlyAmerican Jews: Colonial Times through 1800, Natan Barnett of Philadelphia andhis wife Elizabeth gave birth to a son toda.
1758(22ndof Nisan, 5518): Eighth Day of Pesach; Yizkor
1779(14thof Iyar, 5539): Pesach Sheni
1788: InPhiladelphia, the members of Congregation Mikveh Israel appealed to thenon-Jews of the City of Brotherly Love. Founded in the 1740’s thecongregation was dealing with unforeseen debt brought on by the economicdownturn that followed the American Revolution. Such prominent citizensas Benjamin Franklin, State Attorney General William Bradford and Thomas McKeanone of the signers of the Declaration of Independence helped to provide thecongregation with financial assistance.
1789: GeorgeWashington took the oath of office making him the first elected President ofthe United States. As can be seen from his correspondence with variousJewish congregations Washington had a positive view of Jews. More to thepoint, his welcoming attitude expressed in that correspondence set the tone forthe American Jewish experience and his election helped solidify the creation ofthe new republic which has been a haven for Jews for the last two centuries.
1789: ColonelDavid S. Franks was “one of the marshals in charge of the procession” at GeorgeWashington inaugural.
1789: G. M.Seixas was one of the fourteen ministers who participated in the inauguralexercises of Washington’s administration in New York” today.
1793 (18th ofIyar, 5553): Lag B’Omer
1796(22ndof Nisan, 5556): Eight Day of Pesach and Yizkor observed for the last timeduring the Presidency of George Washington
1796:Birthdate of Adolphe Crémieux “a French-Jewish lawyer and statesman, and astaunch defender of the human rights of the Jews of France.”
1800 Thegovernment of Czar Paul I enacted a decree forbidding Jews from importing booksin any language. This was part of series of schemes to help the Russiangovernment control their newly acquired mass of Jews. This largepopulation had become part of the anti-Semitic Russian Empire as a result ofthe three-way partition of Poland.
1803: TheUnited States purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French in what isknown as the Louisiana Territory. French law had banned Jews fromsettling in these lands which means the purchase opened a swath of landstretching from the banks of the Mississippi west to the Rocky Mountains toJewish settlement including such cities as St. Louis and New Orleans.
1805: NathanDavis married Sarah Jacobs at the Great Synagogue today.
1806: Thequestion of the treatment of the Alsace Jews and their debtors raised in theImperial Council today.
1812(18thof Iyar): Lag B’Omer
1812: Fifty-six-year-old“English author and bookseller” Henry Lemoine who was a supporter of DavidLevi, the author refuted Joseph Priestly’s written demand that the Jews convertto Christianity and published his obituary in which he described Levi “as agreat explainer and defender of Judaism against both Christians and sceptics”passed away today.
1812: TheTerritory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana. Thefirst Jews, who were Sephardim, came to Louisiana at the start of the 18thcentury. “In New Orleans community life began in the 1820’s with thepurchase of a burial plot by a society that called itself Gates of LovingKindness. A house of prayer, now known as the Touro Synagogue soonfollowed and by 1850 still another congregation existed in the city.” Formore about the history of the Jews of Louisiana see “Gefilte Fish in theLand of the Kingfish: Jewish Life in Louisiana” at http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/jewsinla.html
1812: AsherIsaacs married Judith Cohen at the Great Synagogue today.
1817(14th ofIyar, 5577): Pesach Sheni observed for the first time during the Presidency ofJames Monroe.
1819: Whilevisiting Charleston, SC, President James Monroe attended a performance of IsaacHarby’s “third and last play, ‘Alberti’” “three years after Harby had writtenSecretary of State James Monore his ‘portion of the people’ protest.”
1820: In theHague, Mozes Abraham Verveer, the Amsterdam born “son of Abraham Salomon /Shabtay Cohen Kloot and Marretje / Mata Mozes Tokiegave” and his wife SaartjeIsaac van der Velden birth to Heijman Moses Verveer, the husband of MathildaEmanuel Verveer and father of Mozes Verveer; Emanuel Verveer and MijntjeVerveer.
1825:Birthdate of Iganz “Ignatz” Grossman, the husband of Anna “Nettie” Rosenbaumand Hungarian Rabbi who came to Brooklyn in 1873 to lead Congregation BethElohim and whose three sons – Louis, Rudolph and Julius – all became Rabbis.
1830: InKlweinsteinach, Bavaria, Abraham Schloss and Miriam Strauss gave birth toSeligman Schlosss, who served as “vice president and director of Fort Wayne andBelle Island Railroad Company for over twenty years” and director of theCleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum for eight years.
1833: Prussianeducator and philanthropist Baruch Auerbach took four orphans into his ownhouse which was the start of the Baruch Auerbach Orphan Asylum that cared for300 children during his lifetime, and which was home to seventy orphans when hepassed away.
1834(21stof Nisan, 5594): Seventh Day of Pesach
1836: Samueland Theresia Bloch gave birth to Leopold Bloch, the husband of Rosa Bloch.
1837:Birthdate of Dr. Alfred R. Gaul, the English composer and conductor who createdthe cantata “Israel in the Wilderness.”
1847(14thof Iyar, 5607): Pesach Sheni
1849: Today theAllgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums (AZJ), “the most widely read weekly newspaperamong German Jews, published a five and a half-page article from Hamburgwritten by physician Dr. Hirsch Marcus Coh(e)n.
1852(11thof Iyar, 5612): Moses Mendes Siexas, the eleven-year-old son of Hortensia andJacob Levy Seixas passed away today in New York City.
1852(11thof Iyar, 5612): Eighty-six-year-old German born and Prussian Army contractorIsrael Baer Kursheedt the husband of Sara Sexias who in 1796 came to the UnitedStates where he was “a reader in Congregation Beth Shalom in Richmond andmerchant in New York City where he “was president of the Hebrew Mutual BenefitSociety of New York” and a member of Congregation Shearith Israel passed awaytoday twenty-four days after his birthday.
1859: Tuscanywas incorporated in the kingdom of Sardinia (later the kingdom of Italy) and tothe position of the Jewish people improved because “the principle of equalrights without discrimination on religious grounds was introduced there also.”(As described by Virtual Jewish Library)
1862:Philadelphian Major Joseph L. Moss resigned from the Union Army today only toresume his service in October of 1862.
1862: BennettCassell married Dinah Nathan today at the Great Synagogue today.
1863: Duringthe Civil War, today was a day that President Lincoln had designated “as a dayof national humiliation, fasting and prayer.” He requested “all thepeople to abstain…from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at theirseveral places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the dayholy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious dutiesproper to that solemn occasion.” The Jews joined their fellow Americans inhonoring the proclamation with most synagogues being described as “opened” withthe Psalms normally read on religious penitential days being invoked on thisnational day of penitence. According to published reports, very eloquentaddress was delivered by Rabbi Raphall, at the Greene-street Synagogue. “Heremarked that it was a curious coincidence that on this, a fast day appointedby their own religious observances, they met in compliance with theProclamation of the President of the United States, to fast and pray. He hadbeen in this country fourteen years. During the first ten years no publicproclamation had ever directed their thoughts and feelings to humiliation andfasting. Once in every year the highest functionary in every State proclaimed aday of general thanksgiving, and with that the debt of national gratitude wassupposed to be paid. But now the rulers of the nation come year after year andcall upon the people to weary Heaven with fruitless professions of a penitencethey did not feel, and of a humility they did not practice. These proclamationsfast days, on which no one fasts, are but the repetition of those so stronglyreproved by the prophet Isaiah; and, though the people dare not put hisquestions, "Wherefore do we fast and Thou seest it not? Afflict our soulsand Thou will not notice it!" -- since in reality the people do neither --still the answer would stand good. "Because while you profess humiliation,you persist in your arrogance and your extortions do not cease." If ever apeople needed to humble itself before God -- if ever fasting and prayer, sackcloth and ashes were to be worn -- it was by the people of these United States.Like our fathers, the Israelites of old, for whom pious Nekeiniah made suchfervent supplication, the people of this country are justly amenable to hisconfession made for Israel: "In their dominions, in all the greatprosperity Thou didst bestow upon them, and throughout the large and rich landwhich Thou gavest unto them, they did not serve Thee, neither turned they fromtheir evil deeds." The preacher then drew a parallel between the sins ofthe Israelites, which called forth the reproof of the preacher, and the pastconduct of this nation, which was equally amenable to the words of the inspiredprophet. What were they to say for the citizens of the United States whoalready and so long possess the two greatest earthly blessings, Education andFreedom, and yet make so bad a use of both? Education should be the guardian offreedom and of virtue, it was the birthright of every American, bestowed on alland withheld from none. But what principles did it actually inculcate -whatvirtues did it really teach? Did it inculcate respect for free institutions?Answer, ye place-hunters, ye ballot-box stuffers, ye shoulder-hitters, whor*duce self-government to a disgusting farce. Did it teach patriotism? Answer,ye spoils-men, ye office-seekers and holders, who cement party lines with thecohesive force of public plunder. Did it teach common honesty? Answer, yepeculators and speculators, who fatten on the blood of the hard-worked masses,and who dignify roguery by the name of smartness. His heart ached as he spoketo them of the effects of perverted education; it would ache still more were heto direct attention to the bitter fruits of abused freedom. He need not remindthem that while the best men North and South had long been driven aloof fromthe affairs of the country, demagogues, fanatics and a party Press had somanaged matters that they found themselves in the third year of a destructivebut needless sectional war, which has armed brother against brother, consignedhundreds of thousands to an untimely grave, and to ruin and devastation tens ofthousands of square miles of flourishing and happy land; and what was worsethan all this, while humanity weeps we must suppress our sympathy. However, ourhearts may yearn for peace and brotherly love, our reason convinces us that thepresent is not the time to expect, or even to hope for the cessation of blood.On the contrary, though we may detest the cause and course of events, it is ourduty loyally to stand by our section of the country, to maintain her quarreland defend her rights, while we have the consolation to know that our side didnot begin the fray, and that the cause of Union was the worthiest in the field.”
1863: In “TheRothschilds and the Union” published today, W.W. Murphy takes issue withHarper’s Weekly depiction of the famous banking family and ask that correctionsbe made.
“In yourpaper (Harper's Weekly) of Feb. 28, you do a great injustice to the eminentfirm of ROTHSCHILDS here, when you hint that they are like a certain Rabbi whoheld opinions that some men were born to be slaves. I know not what the otherfirms -- and there are many of the ROTHSCHILDS, all related -- in Europe thinkof Slavery, but here the firm of M.A. VON ROTHSCHILD& amp; SON are opposedto Slavery and in favor of Union. A converted Jew, ERLANGER, has taken therebel loan of £3,000,000, and lives in this city; and Baron ROTHSCHILD informedme that all Germany condemned this act of lending money to establish aslaveholding Government, and that so great was public opinion against it thatERLANGER & CO. dare not offer it on the Frankfort Bourse. I furtherknow that the Jews rejoice to think that none of their sect would be guilty oflending money for the purpose above named; but it was left, they say, forapostate Jews to do it”.
1863: The Armyof the Potomac (Union) which included Jacob Ezekiel Hyneman and Captain JosephGreenhut made the openings in a clash with the Army of Northern Virginia(Rebel) under the command of Robert E. Lee which would be known as the Battleof Chancellorsville.
1864: AbrahamAba and Dina Feiga Wilensky gave birth to Max (Arron Mordecai) Wilensky who in1880 came to the United States in 1880 where he was a member of the RosenthalColony in South Dakota and manufacturer of shoes in New York before coming toSavannah, GA where founded the successful business M. Wilensky and Son, servedas “President of the Savannah Kehilla, a director of Congregation B.B. Jacoband Treasurer of the Order of B’nai Zion while raising six children with hiswife Rachel Kourshan.
1864: Duringthe Red River Campaign, Union forces including Frederick C. Salomon, scored atactical victory in the bloody Battle of Jenkin’s Ferry.
1865: BirthdateRussian and Manchester educated Samuel H. Borofsky, who in 1884 settled inBoston where sold insurance, real estate and stationary supplies after which hepassed the bar, served in both the Boston City Council and the Massachusetts StateLegislature where he introduced the “Five Cent Ice Bill” and the “Seventh DaySabbath Bill” and was commissioned a Captain in the State Militia during theSpanish American while raising a daughter, Sarah Rebecca with his wife, theformer Ettie Wilensky.
1866:Birthdate of Leon Levi Bandes, the native of Vilna who as Louis Miller played apioneering role inthe development of a Yiddish language press in the UnitedStates capped by the founding of The Forward
http://www.yiddishkayt.org/miller-bandes/
1869:Birthdate of Hungarian painter Philip de Laszlo.
1870: LeopoldKarpeles who served as a Sergeant with Company E, Massachusetts Infantry wasissued his Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery displayed during theWilderness Campaign in 1864.
1870: TheNew York Times published a review of a unique book entitled "The BibleIn India: Hindoo Origin of Hebrew and Christian Revelation" in which theauthor, Louis Jacolliot, attempts to prove that "the Hebrew and Christianrevelations have a common origin in India among the Hindoo mythologies."
1871: TheNew York Times reported that a magistrate in London found a group of Jewsguilty of gambling in a “public house” when they were caught playing chickenhazard and fined them accordingly. In their defense the Jews had claimedthat although they had been caught playing chicken hazard, they really hadgathered together to observe Passover. According to the Jewishdefendants, the police must have missed seeing the blood on the doorposts orelse they would have passed by and left them undisturbed. Apparently, theJudge and the rest of Christian London are not aware of the custom of playingchicken hazard as part of the Passover celebration. [Editors note: If youhave ever played chicken hazard or can shed some light on this please let meknow. Who knows, maybe a great miscarriage of justice needs to beundone.]
1872(22ndof Nisan, 5632): 8th Day of Pesach
1872: TheNew York Times reported that over 3,000 barrels of Matzoths...wereconsumed:” in New York “during the past week and 1,000 barrels were sentthroughout the country some going to Canada and” to South America.
1874(13thof Iyar, 5634): Twenty-three-year-old Dora Spielman the London born daughter ofMarian and Adam Spielman passed away today in Menton, Freance
1876: InDenver, CO, “German-Jewish parents” gave birth to Galveston, TX raised MiltonMincha Schayer who in 1900 returned to his hometown, where he “founded theBankers Building and Loan Association,” served as president of the CentralJewish Aid Society and married Jane S. Bear after the death of his first wifeElsie Reinach while raising “two children Helen Elsie and Charles Milton.”
https://duarchives.coalliance.org/repositories/2/resources/655
https://amp.en.info-about.ru/45269979/1/milton-schayer.html
1877:Birthdate of Alice B. Tolkas. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in SanFrancisco, Tolkas was a writer whose claim to fame was her relationship withanother Jewish literary light, Gertrude Stein.
1880: It wasreported from Vienna that after a fried broke out in Grusbach, Moravia, “somemalicious persons incited the mob to attack the Jews. At least one Jew has diedof his wounds and another had a hand cut off.
1881: It wasreported today that a mob led by a schoolteacher has been responsible for someof the violence aimed at the Jews living in Argenua, West Prussia.
1881: It wasreported today that mobs of peasants have attacked the Jews of Elizabethgrad(Russia). The mob, which destroyed the local synagogue, was driven by itssuperstitious beliefs about Jewish Passover practices.
1881(1st ofIyar, 5641): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1881:“Anti-Jewish Riots In Europe” published today describes attacks on Jews inGermany and Russia. A wave of violence aimed at the Jews in Argenau, WestPrussia included a mob led by a schoolteacher wrecking the home of theJews. In Russia, the violence has been fueled by Christian superstitionssurrounding the observance of Passover and was highlighted by the destructionof synagogue in Elizabethgrad.
1882: It wasreported today that Rabbi Hirsch of Sinai Congregation in Chicago had offeredprayers on behalf of Kaiser Frederick William of Germany, “asking that hislife…be spared.” The only problem with this entry is that the Kaiser haddied in March.
1882:President Jesse Seligman presided over today’s annual meeting of the HebrewBenevolent and Orphan Asylum. Currently the organization is providing serviceto 327 orphans, 245 of whom were born in New York City.
1882: Based oninformation supplied by the Times of London, it was reported today thatwhen the American Legation at St. Petersburg intervenes on behalf of the Jews,it will be speaking for several European governments as well as theadministration in Washington.
1882: It wasreported today that according to The Free Press the Jews of Podolsk andWalkwoich have been subjected to renewed attacks. Additionally, some ofthe most notorious leaders have been released from custody despite orders fromSt. Petersburg calling for their prompt punishment.
1883: It wasreported today that the will of the late Dr. Edward Bouverie Pusey prohibitedthe publication of his English translations of the “Hebrew scriptures” since heno longer felt that the corrections may not have been valid.
1883: MarkGradginsky and his wife Adelaide were among those being held at policeheadquarters on charges of receiving and selling stolen goods – specifically$23,000 of lace goods taken from Muser Brothers by one of their employees. TheGradginskys who are well-known members of the Jewish community, denied knowingthat the goods were stolen.
1883: It wasreported today that “The Jews in Philadelphia Prior to 1800” by H. PolockRosenbach will be published by Edward Sterne & Co. It is thoughtto be the first book published on the subject, but the publisher is planning onprinting only 250 copies.
1885: The willof Isaac Vogel, a Jewish clothier, was filed in the Surrogate’s Court today.
1877:Birthdate of Bohemia native and NYU trained attorney working for the SovietGovernment Charles Recht who in 1901 came to the United States where he also became“a novelist, poet and translator” whose novels included Rue With a Differenceand Babylon on Hudson and poetry included Manhattan Made and who raised ason Dr. John Munn Recht with his wife the former Lillian Hofstetter.
1887: Thisafternoon in Chicago, Leopold Bloom socked William B. Andrews in the cheekcausing the latter to fall to the sidewalk in front building housing the Boardof Trade where the two were traders. Bystanders were not sure what causedthe altercation except they heard somebody use the word “liar” and somebody usethe word “Jew” before the blow was struck.
1888: “APrayer for the Emperor” published today described the prayers offered by Rabbisin the United States including Rabbi Hirsh of Sinai Congregation of Chicago forthe well-being of Emperor Frederick William of German “because of the interesthe has shown in the Jews.” (The only problem with this entry is that the Kaiserhad died on March 9, 1888)
1889: RabbiGustave Gottheil of Temple Emanu-El and Rabbi Henry S. Jacobs were among theclergyman who helped plan today’s service that was part of the centennialcommemoration of the inauguration of George Washington.
1889: InGiessen, Germany, shop owners “Ignatz Pfeffer and JeannetteHirsch-Pfeffer” gave birth to WW I German Army veteran and dentist FritzFeifer, who was in hiding with Anne Frank.
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/
1889: Churches and synagogues in New York held services observingthe centennial of George Washington’s first inaugural on April 30, 1789.
1890: It wasreported today that a four member commission acting on behalf of the ImperialCouncil is “framing a bill to regulate the position of the Jews in Russia”which will be detrimental to their interest.
1890: TheBoard of Estimate and Apportionment authorized the School Board to lease theold Hebrew Orphan Asylum building on 77th Street.
1891(22ndof Nisan, 5651): Eighth Day of Pesach
1891: Pianistand composer Leopold Godowsky married Frieda Sax.
1891: The wifeand daughter of Abraham L. Grabfelder, a director of the Sanitarium for HebrewChildren arrived in New York having cut short their trip to Europe when theytold that Grabfelder had become seriously ill.
1891:Birthdate of NYC native and Cornell University trained neuropsychiatristDr. Louis Hausman, the husband of “the former of Esther May” who spent much ofhis career teaching at his alma mater.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/10/archives/dr-louis-hausman-taught-at-come-i-medical-college.html
1892(3rdof Iyar, 5652): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1892(3rdof Iyar, 5652): Solomon Sebag, the son of Rabbi Isaac Sebag and the “mast ofthe Sha’are Tikwah School” who served “temporarily as reader in the Bevis Markssynagogue” and the author of “a Hebrew primer” which was a standard text forAnglo-Jewish children passed away today in London.
1892: TheYoung Men’s Hebrew Association hosted the first annual gymnastic programfeaturing members of the organization.
1892: ColonelCarl Weber testified before the joint committee of the Senate and House ofRepresentatives on Immigration and Naturalization on the condition of thosearriving at Ellis Island. Included in this was a description of those whoarrived aboard the SS Masillia and were later found to be contaminatedwith typhus. Contrary to earlier reports the immigrants were Turkish Jews andnot Russian Jews. He said that their religion had nothing to do with theillness which was cause by their extended sea voyage which took them tonumerous ports before arriving in New York.
1893(14th ofIyar, 5653): Pesach Sheni
1894: Mrs.Jesse Seligman and Misses Alice and Madeline Seligman were aboard the trainwhich arrived at Grand Central Station from California carrying the body ofJesse Seligman who had died suddenly on April 23 at San Diego, CA.
1894: Thewidow of Jesse Seligman and his two daughters were driven to their home at 2East 46th Street while the body of the late banker was taken to theundertaker and then to Temple Emanu-El where “a plaster cast of the deadbanker’s head was taken by a sculptor who will make a statue for the grounds ofthe Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Society.
1895: GustavFreytag, author of the immensely popular Soll und Haben (Debitand Credit) “a novel in which a Jewish merchant is presented as a villainand threat to Germany” while proclaiming the virtues of the German people,especially the middle class, passed away today. (Editor’s note – for those whowonder how Hitler could have happened, a look into the history of Germananti-Semitism might provide some of the answers.)
1897: In NewYork City, Russian born actor Maurice Moscovitch and “his wife Ruth” gave birthNoel Nathaniel Moscovitch who gained fame as actor Noel Madison “the husband ofthe former Joyce with whom he had one son – Toby.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/07/archives/noel-madison.html
1898: It wasreported today that “Tract Pesachim (Passover) the fifth volume of Dr.M.L. Rodkinson’s new English edition of the Babylonian Talmud has just beenpublished…This tract has, so far as is known, never been translated into anymodern language, although it is one of the volumes most frequently perused bystudents of the Talmud. There are still fifteen more volumes of the Talmuto follow; the next of which is promised with the next three months.
1898:Following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Dr. A.P. Madison said thatthe Russian Jews of Chicago who number about 25,000 people “will organize aregiment of infantry and offer their services to the President to fight Spainand to free Cuba.”
1898: Aspatriotic fervor sweeps the United States, in New York “special services wereheld today at Temple Rodolph Sholom at which national hymns were sung andprayers were offered for the President and the army and navy.
1898: Theattorney representing Horace J. Young, who is accused of deserting his wifeClara, the daughter of Jewish businessman Julius Praeger will be allowed toexamine the witnesses who claim that the couple was never legally married, butthat Young left her when he found out she was pregnant.
1899: Birthdateof Kharkov, Russia native Dr. Harold Gegory Grayzel, the holder of a B.S. fromCCNY and NYU trained pediatrician who was the “attending pediatrician at theJewish Hospital in Brooklyn” and a member of the New York Pediatric Society.
1899: InLondon, the Times published a letter from Joseph H. Hertz, the ChiefRabbi expressing his opposition the Slaughtering of Animals Bill presented tothe House by Sir A. Shirley-Benn, MP which would effectively band Shechitawhich “would therefore inflict cruel hardship on hundreds of thousands oflaw-abiding citizens and would in effect constitute a grievous religiouspersecution.”
1899:Birthdate of actress Lucie Mannheim, the native of Berlin who returned to hernative land in 1948 after having been forced to leave during the Nazi era.
https://the.hitchco*ck.zone/wiki/The_Times_(19/Jul/1976)_-_Obituary:_Lucie_Mannheim
1899: Today,President Emanuel Lehman presided over the Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting of theHebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum of the City of New York.
1899: Acommittee made up of a cross-section of representatives of Jewish charitableorganizations in New York City met today to make arrangement for memorialservices to be held in honor of the late Baroness Hirsch.
1899: AtNicoleaieff, Russia a town of 100,000 that includes 30,000 Jews, approximately5,000 rioters “wrecked hundreds of Jewish houses and shops, desecrated Jewishgraves and killed and injured a large number” of Jews in connection the EasterFestivities of the Greek Church which came to an end today on Greek OrthodoxEaster.
1900(1stof Iyar, 5660): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1900: Germaneducated American engineer Eugene Friedlander, the Bromberg born son of Cecily W.Hirschberg and Samuel Friedlander who eventually settled in Pittsburgh, PA heaccepted a “position with Kaufman’s Department Stores as an engineer, architectand superintendent of maintenance” married Emily Wolf today in San Antonio.
1900: Herzlhas a “coincidental meeting” with Bernard Lazare in Paris. Lazare intends to goto Constantinople. Herzl asked him if he would try to win Ambassador Constansover to the Zionist cause.
1901:University of Indiana trained attorney Ralph Bamberger, the Indianapolis, INborn son of Caroline Daniels and Herman Bamberger and partner in the firm ofBamberger and Freibleman which specializes in corporate and commercial marriedMay Freiberg today.
1901: InManhattan, twenty-three-year-old Mortimer L. Schiff married Adele Schiff.
1901:By the end of April, Herzl had read Moses Hess’ Rome and Jerusalem.
1902:Herzl completes his Palestine Novel Altneuland (Old New Land)which portrays his vision for life in the new Jewish Homeland.
1903:“The Directors of the Hebrew Loan Association reported that during January,February and March to association had loans of $77,915 to 3,238 borrowers andthat the returns from its named creditors amounted to $74,758.”
1903:The will of silk merchant Adolphe Openhyn “was filed” today “with the Surrogatefor probate by Morris J. Hirsch” which included “three bequests of $5,000 eachto the Mount Sinai Hospital, the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Societyand the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids.”
1904(15thof Iyar, 5664): Parahsat Emor
1904:At Bender, Bessarabia, on Shabbat, "while the greater part of the Jewishcommunity was assembled in the synagogue a mob of ruffians attacked the Jewishquarter killing three men and two women and wounding several other persons. Anumber of Jewish shops were plundered and the windows of Jewish houses werebroken. The mob which was incited to violence by the cry that the Jewsand England and America brought on the the Russo-Japanese war in revenge forthe Kishinev massacre, was too numerous to be dispersed by the police force andit was not until a company of Cossacks had been called out and ordered to used firearmsthat the riot was quelled.
1904:By the end of April Herzl made preparations to proceed to Paris and London inearly May in order to arrange the financing of the Uganda expedition. He madecontact with the New York financier, Jacob Schiff. Schiff declared himselfready to negotiate a loan for Russia if it proved ready to do something for theJews.
1904:Herzl had an interview with Austrian Foreign Minister Agenor Goluchowsky, whogave evidence of an earnest interest in Zionism and advised Herzl to work inEngland for a Parliamentary expression of opinion in favor of Palestine.Immediately after this audience, a consultation of his doctors establishes analarming change in the condition of his heart muscles. Herzl is ordered toFranzensbad for six weeks.
1904:The St. Louis World’s Fair where nine of the works of Moshe Maimon “were shownat the Russian exhibition” opened today.
1904:Birthdate of Newark, NJ violinist and composer Max Pollikoff, the creator ofthe 92nd St Y’s “Music in Our Time” series.
http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20059
1905:Over the last 12 months, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association provided servicesto 166,289 through its various programs including lectures, religious services,and physical education activities. The association had an income of$39,423.21and spent $38,673.32 under the Presidency of Percival S. Menken.
1906:As of today, “subscription to the Building Fund for the Sanitarium for HebrewChildren now amount to $30,795” but according to Dr. Samuel Kohn, another$5,000 needs to be raised “to complete the building.”
1907:Fifty-six-year-old historian and philosopher Julius Langbehn who attacked Jews“as corrupters of German culture” and advocated beliefs later adopted by AdolfHitler which have led him to be labeled as a “proto-Nazi.”
1908:H.H. Asquith, the British MP who got caught up in a love triangle with EdwinMontague and Venetia Stanley, became leader of the Liberal Party.
1908:The first issue of Der Spiegel “a culture magazine” founded Lion Feuchtwanger,the future husband of Marta Loeffler, “appeared today.”
1909:“The newly organized Young Men's Hebrew Association of the Bronx concludednegotiations for a lease of the former Union Republican Club property, at thesoutheast corner of Boston Road and 165th Street.”
1909:As of today, the Bronx Branch of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association “has amembership of about 400” led by John D. Tobias, President and Bernhard D. Saxe,Secretary.
1910:Birthdate of actor Al Lewis who played Grandpa on “The Munsters.”
1910:Dr. Emil Schürer, the German professor of theology who wrote A History ofthe Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ passed away today.
1911:Today the Great Fire of 1911 destroyed much of downtown Bangor, and BethIsrael's Center Street building along with it.
1911:Approximately 300 people attended the annual meeting of the society supportingthe Hebrew Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue where they re-elected Louis Stern toserve as President.
1911:In New York City, Louis Ginzberg, the Professor of Talmud at JTS and his wifesocial activist Adele Ginzberg gave birth to Columbia University trainedeconomist Dr. Eli Ginzberg who became a professor at his alma mater in 1935 andwas the director of the Conservation of Human Resources Project thanks to thesupport of Dwight D. Eisenhower with whom he formed a friendship when the laterbecame President of Columbia following WWII.
1912:Dr. Falk Vidaver who had succeeded his brother Dr. Henry Vidaver as Rabbi ofCongregation Sherith Israel when the latter passed away, resigned today and wasreplaced by Dr. Jacob Nieto.
1912:Carl Laemmle of IMP (Independent Moving Pictures Company) joined with severalothers to form the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company whose Ft.Lee, NJ studios produced many of the early films that helped build the Americancinema industry.
1913:Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore married Muriel Alice Ruth de Pass, daughter ofCharles de Pass and Mabel Kate Benjamin, today at Spanish and PortugueseSynagogue, Lauderdale Road, London, England.
1913:Birthdate of New York City native and Fordham trained attorney Leonard Kaufmanthe WW II veteran who was appointed as general counsel of the ParamountPictures Corporation by Barnay Balaban in 1964.
1913:Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber of the Chicago Hebrew Institute is scheduled to“deliver the Twentieth Anniversary address for the Home for Aged Jews.”
1914:Otto Henne am Rhyn, the author of Mysteria, a work on the doctrines and mysticrites of ancient religions in which Part Four “Son of Man, Son God” deals withJudaism and the impact of Hellenism, passed away today.
1915:“In the Tuscan port city of Livorno” Alfred Sabato, the chief rabbi and his wasgave birth to Elio Toaff who served as a rabbi Venice from 1947 to 1951 when hebecame Chief Rabbi of Rome. (As reported by Bruce Weber)
1915:Turkish authorities prevented the Jews of Smyrna from leaving the country.
1916:At a meeting tonight of the Public Interest League Professor William M. Sloaneof Columbia said, “As much as I love and respect the Jews, I am forced to admitthat they constitute the largest” of Socialists and that since “the Jew has nocountry…he has been accustomed to cry out against Governments because he hasbeen treated with injustice.”
1916:In Philadelphia, PA, the People’s Relief Committee held a concert which raisedmoney for the Fund for Jewish War Sufferers and “served as a memorial for poetfor Jewish poet I.L. Peretz.”
1916:Among those listed today as contributors to The American Jewish ReliefCommittee were the Jewish Conference of Minneapolis ($350) and the MendelsohnBenevolent Society ($50).
1916:Dr. Stephen S Wise delivered an address on “The Liberation of Reform Judaism”and Nathan Straus spoke on “The Jew in Philanthropy” at the opening session ofthe Ninth Semi-Annual Assembly of the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis beingheld at Temple Emanu-El.
1917(8thof Iyar, 5677): Second Lieutenant Nathan Andre died today at Dieppe.
1917:It was reported today that Felix Fuld, a vice president of “the departmentstore of L. Bamberger” which he co-founded has pledged to give ten per cent ofwhatever is raised in Newark, NJ Jewish Community by the American Jewish ReliefCommittee
1917:In the Bronx, near Crotona Park, the former Sara Levin and Morris Wain, “amen’s custom tailor” gave birth to Beatrice Ruth Wain who gained fame as bigband singer Bea Wain who later joined her husband Andre Baruch to become a“disc jockey team in New York.” (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1917:As the American Jewish community begins to take play its role in support thecountry’s war effort and Allied leaders seek to support what will be themutually exclusive goals of keeping Russia in the war and protecting thatcountry’s fragile democracy, “a committee consisting of Chairman Boris Kamenka,Baron Alexander Gunzburg and Henry Sliesberg representing the Jews of Russiasent a telegram to Jacob H. Schiff, Justice Louis D. Brandies, ProfessorRichard James Horatio Gottheil, Oscar S. Straus, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, LouisMarshall and Henry Morgenthau saying “that the Jews of Russia are confidentlysupporting the Russian Government.”
1918(18thof Iyar, 5678): Lag B'Omer
1918:“Rabbi J.L. Magnes…announced” today “the formation of a committee to advise theFederal Food Board on the dietary problems of Orthodox Jews, as they may beaffected by the regulation of the of the Food Administration.”
1918:Birthdate of New York City native and CCNY and University of Chicago educated investmentbroker, the husband of Beverly Kouser Brager and father of Bruck and LaruieBrager who was a governor of Tel Aviv University, a national commission of theB’nai B’rith Youth organization and the manager of “a twenty million dollarsale of securities for the Industrial Bank of Israel.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/08/06/82504599.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1919(30thof Nisan, 5679): Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1919:Bryn Mawr graduate and University of Michigan trained writer Hortense Flexner, theLouisville, KY, born daughter of Rosa and Jacob A. Flexner a member of Phi BetaKappa and the Poetry Society of America married Wyncie King today.
1919:It was reported today that at its meeting in Arnhem, The InternationalSocialist Conference “passed a resolution that Palestine should be an independentState and be admitted to the League of Nations.
1919:It was reported today that Rabbi Mendes presided at a meeting of the Rabbis’Victory Loan Committee which “represents the Jewish ministry” of the entirecity of New York where an appeal was issued to the Jewish community of New Yorkto purchase Victory notes as a way of showing “their appreciate of the servicedrendered by our soldiers abroad and by their willingness to finish the work andpay off the war debts.”
1920:In Vienna, Ilona Neumann and Robert Kronstein gave birth to Gerda HedwigKronstein who gained fame as Gerda Lerna, the historian who “spearheaded thecreation of the first graduate program in women’s history in the UnitedStates…” (As reported by William Grimes)
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lerner-gerda
1921(22ndof Nisan, 5681): Eighth Day of Pesach for the first time during the Presidencyof Warren Harding
1921:As Pesach comes to a close, “the Federation for the Support of PhilanthropicSocieties will have hosted thousands of homeless and aged men and women andorphans,
1922:“Stirring Story of East Side Success” descried how Abraham Cahn had built upthe circulation of The Jewish Daily Forward from 6,000 to over 200,000.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/04/30/103589549.html?pageNumber=103
1922:“In view of the rumors that Isaac Landman, the rabbi of Temple Israel of FarRockaway had been requested to resign because of his opposition to thepolitical aspects of Zionism, Samuel Kubie, the President of the synagogueannounced” today “that the reports were unfounded and the Rabbi Landman’sattitude on the Zionist question had been fully endorsed by the congregation inresolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees.
1923(14thof Iyar, 5683): Pesach Sheni
1923:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Albert Meister, who gained fame as actor Al Lewis,best known for his role as “Grandpa” in the television sitcom “The Munsters.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/nyregion/al-lewis-95-dies-portrayed-grandpa-on-the-munsters.html
https://www.biography.com/people/al-lewis-162967
1924(26thof Nisan): Rabbi Joseph Lowenstein, author of “Dor, Dor ve-Dorshav” passed away
1924:In Brooklyn, “Oscar Lifschutz, who ran a grocery in the Williamsburgneighborhood, and the former Miriam Schor” gave birth to Joseph EmanuelLifschutz, the psychiatrist who went to jail to protect patientconfidentiality. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
1924:Birthdate of Sheldon Harnick “an American lyricist best known for hiscollaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on theRoof. Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs inmusical revues. One of these, "The Merry Minuet", was popularized bythe Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with TomLehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him.”
1924:On the Lower East Side, Max Printz and Tillie Leiter gave birth to Ruth LeahPrintz who gained fame as Ruth Greenglass the wife of David Greenglass, herfellow “atomic spy.”
1925(6thof Iyar, 5685): Kurenitz native Morris L. Kramer, the husband of the formerRachel Elka Stikan Rivkin and father of Beckie and Hyman Kramer passed awaytoday in Brooklyn
1925:The Revisionist party (Brith HaTzionim HaRevisionistim) was founded by Zev(Vladimir) Jabotinsky.in Paris, France. Jabotinsky was an ardent Zionist.He had already made Aliyah. In 1921 he took up armsto help defend theJewish community from attacks byarmed, Arab mobs. The Britisharrested Jabotinsky and imprisoned him. This experience was one of thefactors that led him to demand a more aggressive policy toward the Britishbelieving that only worldwide pressure would force the British to abide by themandate. The revisionist believed that the highest priority of the Zionistmovement should be in bringing greatest number of Jews to Eretz –Israel in theshortest possible time. Jabotinsky would die of a heart attack in1940. Menachem Begin would inherit his political and spiritualmantle. As head of the Irgun, Begin waged war against the British after1945 when it became obvious that the British were going to continue theirpro-Arab, anti-Jewish policies.
1926:Birthdate of Cloris Leachman. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Leachman hasenjoyed a long and distinguished film and television career. Two of hermost famous films were"The Last Picture Show" and "ButchCassidy and the Sundance Kid."
1927(28thof Nisan, 5687): Parashat Kedoshim
1927:“Nathan Straus, who recently returned from Palestine after founding the Nathanand Lena Straus Health Center in Jerusalem for creeds announced” today “hisendorsem*nt of an education course on Palestine to be given this Summer by Dr.Nima E. Adlerblum, the National Cultural Chairman of Hadassah.”
1928:In Montreal, Sarah Weiner and Sam Rabinovich gave birth to NormanLouis Rabinovitch, who gained fame as Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch “aCanadian-Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi and posek who headed the London Schoolof Jewish Studies from 1971 to 1982, and the hesder yeshiva Birkat Moshe inMa'ale Adumim from 1982 until his death.”
1928:In Camden, NJ, after two years, Harry Greenberg resigned this evening as theExecutive Director of the YMHA and YWHA.
1929(20thof Nisan 5689): Sixth Day of Pesach
1929:In Tel Aviv, the fourth Palestine and Near East Exhibition comes to a close.
1929:Nathan Straus presided over the opening of the Nathan and Lena Straus HealthCare Center in Tel Aviv. Straus presented this modern healthfacility to Hadassah which will administer for the benefit of all theinhabitants – Jew, Christian and Moslem – with the only goal being to improvethe quality and length of life of all citizenry.
1929:“The Little Show,” a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music byArthur Schwartz which” was the first of 11 musicals that featured the songs ofDietz and Schwartz” opened at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway today.
1930:“The Divorcee,” starring Norma Shearer, the wife of Irving Thalberg, in a rolefor which won an Academy Award for Best Actress and with music by Jack Yellenand Milton Ager was released today in the United States.
1931:Today, “General Ludendorff, who attributed his defeat in the war to theintervention of Jewry” and who wants “to have a Germany racially purelyGermanic, free from Jewish-Marxist-Catholic domination” has now declared war onhis old colleague” Adolph Hitler with whom he stood trial for the 1923 MunichPutsch at which time he declared “himself a violent anti-Semite.”
1932(24thof Nisan, 5692): Parashat Achrei Mot
1932(24thof Nisan, 5692): Seventy-three-year-old Philadelphia born New York businessmanCyrus L. Sulzberger passed away today.
https://www.jta.org/1932/05/02/archive/death-of-cyrus-sulzberger
1932:In Vienna, thousands of police were on duty to keep watch over a march by70,000 followers of Hitler who were celebrating his recent victories in Germanelections. (JTA)
1933:Gian Clemente Bayard, the son Iris Origo who stayed in Italy during WW II whereshe saved the lives of children and Allied airmen, passed away tragically todayat the age of 8.
1934:In Milwaukee, WI, Jewish-Russian immigrants Ben and Anna Goodman Raskin, theowners of a plumbing store gave birth to old musical prodigy turned law schoolgraduate Marcus Raskin, anti-Vietnam Kennedyite who founded the Institute forPolicy Studies. (As reported by Richard Sandomir)
1935:Jews were no longer allowed to display the German flag. This was quitedisturbing to the thousands of Jews who had fought for the Kaiser in World WarI
1935:“The Scoundrel” co-directed by Ben Hecht who also co-authored the script andco-starring Lionel Stander was released today in the United States.
1936:The Flying Camel spreads its wings on the shores of the Mediterranean as theemblem of the Levant Fair opening today in Tel Aviv.
1936:“The University of Michigan confirmed a previous announcement that twouniversity delegates would attend the celebration of the 550thanniversary of Heidelberg University in June…despite the fact that the Nazipolitical machine would assume an important role in the celebration.”
1936:“Pre-Honeymoon” which was co-authored by Anne Nichols, the creator of the 1922hit “Abie’s Irish Rose” opened tonight on Broadway.
1936:Despite Arab violence in Palestine, the High Commissioner opened the LevantFair at Tel Aviv today where “more than 5,000” people heard “Mayor Dizengoffstress the importance of this biennial exhibition in the development of tradein the Near and Middle East with Western manufacturers.”
1936:At Beersheba, the Bedouin chieftains “met the chief secretary of the governmentand submitted a memorandum demanding a ban on Jewish immigration and the saleof land to Jews.”
1936(7thof Iyar, 5696): August Lederer, an Austrian industrialist and patron of thearts who was best known for his connection with Gustav Klimt passed away.
1937:It was reported today that Alfred J. Suares of Alexandria, Egypt, the son ofJoseph I.Suares and Luna Aelion who passed away on April 6 bequeathed £,6.670to Jewish and non-Jewish charities in Alexandria.
1937:It was reported today that 85 year old Henry van den Bergh, the Dutch born sonof Elisabeth and Simon van den Berg and the husband of Henriette Charlotte vanden Bergh who had passed away on March 12 had bequeathed £,4.950 to twelveJewish and none Jewish charities in England and the Netherlands.
1937:“That I May Live” produced by Sol M. Wurtzel was released today in the UnitedStates today.
1938:Today, Yakov “Smushkevich was badly injured while conducting a practice flighton a R-10 in preparation for a parade before it crashed due to mechanicalfailure.’
1938:“Porky’s Hare Hunt” a cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger and featuring anunnamed rabbit that would become Bugs Bunny with the voice of Mel Blanc wasreleased in the United States today.
1939:In Germany, the remaining Jews “lost their rights as tenants and were relocatedinto Jewish Houses.”
1939:Birthdate of broadly educated Saul J. Berman, the rabbi ordained at YeshivaUniversity, the holder of J.D. from NYU and an M.A. in Political Science fromU.C., Berkley.
https://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/berman-saul
1939:In the Bronx, Julian Kleban and his wife gave birth to Edward “Ed” Kleban thecomposer and lyricist best known for his on “A Chorus” for which he shared the1976 Tony Award for the Best Original Score with Marvin Hamlisch.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/30/obituaries/edward-kleban-48-chorus-line-lyricist.html
1940(22ndof Nisan, 5700): Eighth Day of Pesach
1940:The Lodz Ghetto was officially sealed. The Jews were resettled in the LodzGhetto in an action replete with brutality, looting, abuse, and murder. As theywere led to the ghetto, snipers on rooftops opened fire on them to frightenthem and expedite their departure. They fled to the ghetto in panic. When TheLodz Ghetto approximately 164,000 Jews from Lodz were packed into its foursquare kilometers, of which only two and a half square kilometers were built.The congestion in the area that comprised the ghetto was seven times greaterthan it had been before the war. The ghetto area was carved into three sectorsby two main streets that linked neighborhoods outside the ghetto. Wretchedconditions including congestion, hunger, cold, and poor sanitation ledimmediately to mass mortality.
1941:Having installed the Ustasha movement as the government of occupied Croatia,the Nazis watched as on this date their willing puppet enacted a new definitionof the term "Jew." This enabled the Croat government to enactthe Nazi inspired plan for the treatment of the Jews. At the same, thisdefinition caused some dissension in the ranks of the anti-Semites since itcreated a loophole designed to protect the Jewish wives of some of thenon-Jewish Ustasha leaders.
1941:“While about thirty of the scores of playing and yelling children in EastThirty-second Street near First Avenue -- as many as could possibly crowd ontothe narrow window ledge -- put soiled, interested faces to the panes, a groupof public, civic and church representatives formally dedicated this afternoonthe Nathan Straus Branch Library for children and young people.”
1942:Today the Germans ordered the Jews of Pinsk to move into the ghetto by 4:00p.m. on May 1. More than 20,000 persons were packed into the ghetto, a crampedarea in a slum quarter.
1942(13thof Iyar, 5702): Twelve hundred Jews were killed in Diatlovo, Belorussia.The Jews offered armed resistance, but it was futile.
1943:During a trip to Palestine, Archbishop Spellman visits Haifa and Tel Aviv wherehe has lunch with Brig. Gen. R.W. Crawford, head of the United States ServiceCommand.
1943:By the end of the month of AprilJewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghettobegan to falter as bunkers were broached by German troops. Artillerybombardment of the ghetto had foiled Jewish strategy of engaging Germans incostly hand-to-hand combat.
1943:The German government established Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp forJews.The camp was located in northwest Germany. Approximately40,000 perished there from a variety of forms of inhumane treatment. AnneFrank diedthere in March, 1945, a month before the camp was liberated bythe allies.
1943:At Dj. Arada, Tunisia, Lance-Corporal John Patrick Kenneally accompanied by asergeant, charged the enemy forming up for assault, inflicting many casualties.Even when wounded he refused to give up, but hopped from one fire position toanother, carrying his gun in one hand and supporting himself on a comrade withthe other. He was awarded the VC for bravery for this action. This was a repeatperformance for Kenneally who showed similar bravery on April 28.
1943:Today, the British submarine HMS Seraph surfaced from the darkness, slippedtowards the southwest coast of Spain, and dropped the body of a homelessvagrant who had died of rat poisoning gently into the sea close to the fishingvillage of Punta Umbria in what was part of Operation Mincemeat, a successfulplan to deceive the Germans about where the Allies would land next in the Mediterraneanwhich was the brainchild of “Ewen Montagu, a British intelligence officer andscion of a prominent Jewish family.” (Editor’s note: The Man Who Never Was madein 1956 is superior to the 21st film fantasy)
1943:Birthdate of Ze'ev Boim, a native of Jerusalem who moved from teaching to acareer in politics that including servings as the Mayor of Kiryat Gat for 13years and a member of the Knesset. (As reported by Jonathan Lis)
1943(25thof Nisan, 5703): According to reports,2,000 Jews being deported toSobibor attacked their guards. Allof the deportees fell victim tohand grenades and machine gun fire.
1943:“Tonight We Raid Calais” a WW II movie featuring Lee J. Cobb and Howard DaSilva and with music by Emil Newman was released in the United States today.
1943:"Hopeful Hint Ends Bermuda Sessions" published today stated thatrecommendations which were not capable of being accomplished under warconditions and which would most likely delay the war effort of the UnitedNations were rejected. [Editor’s Note: The title is a strange one since theconference offered no hope whatsoever to the Jews of Europe.]
1943:“Air Wardens,” a comedy with music by Nathaniel Shilkret was released today inthe United States today.
1944:SOE agent Violette Szabo, codenamed Louise, returned to England from Franceaboard a Lysander, after completing her first mission.
1944:Two thousand Jews were deported from Topolya, Hungry to Birkenaus. Thisis the second deportation from Hungry to Birkenau. Once again the Nazishave the Jews write postcards to their family back home telling them not toworry.
1944:Sixty-five-year-old Esther Raphiel passed away today after which she was buriedat the Natchitoches, LA, Jewish Cemetery.
1944:Birthdate of Lydia Shtimerman, the Russian born English violinist who gainedfame as Lydia Mordkovitch
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11290327/Lydia-Mordkovitch-obituary.html
1944:In New York, Albert Henry “Bill” Clayburgh, a Jewish manufacturing executiveand his Protestant wife, the former Julia Louis Dorr gave birth to Academyaward nominated actress Jill Clayburgh.
1945:In Berlin, Hitler murdered Eva Braun and then committed suicide in his bunker.The bodies are then carried outside and cremated. Years later, the Sovietgovernment released a report stating that their troops had recovered thecharred remains and brought them back for verification. What finallyhappened to the bodies is still in dispute although they no longer exist.
1945:Günther Schwägermann, a Goebbels aide, told the staff, including BrunhildePomsel, Goebbels’s Secretary, that Hitler and Eva Braun, after a marriageceremony, had committed suicide.
1945: The Red Army liberated 23,000 Jews and non-Jews from Ravensbruck. One ofthe oldest of the camps, it was opened in 1939 just north of Berlin. Itwas primarily a camp for women. In the last two years of its existence90,000 were killed there. The camp was noted for its medical experimentsin which the inmates were used for experimental purposes. As theretreating Nazis were forced to shut down the gas chambers in Poland, theybuilt one at Ravenbruck that opened in early 1945. This puts the lie tothe idea that the Final Solution was not an integral part of the Nazi programfrom start to finish.
1945:Concentration camp München-Allag was liberated.
1945:Today “fashion model turned war correspondent Lee Miller.”
was photographed using the bath tub inHitler’s abandoned Munich apartment.
1945:Soldiers of the 63rd Division (U.S. Army) which was recognized as aliberating unit by the U.S. Army’s Center of Military History and the UnitedStates Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 completed the liberation of seven theeleven Kaufering subcamps.
1946(29thof Nisan, 5706): Seven Jews were murdered by anti-Semitic Poles at Nowy Targ,Poland, very near to where five Jews were killed on April 21
1947:“Itzhak Zuckerman, deputy commander of Warsaw’s ghetto arrived in Palestine”today to settle permanently at the village of Yagour “where his wife ZiviaLubotkin, another leader of the Polish ghetto rising is a member.”
1948(21stof Nisan, 5708): Seventh Day of Pesach
1948:“The battle for Jerusalem began today as the Haganah swooped into the ChristianArab Katamon quarter and infiltrated deep into the Moslem Mamilla cemetery, andJewish postal employes seized the general post office.”
1948:It was reported today that “Regen Abdul Illah of Iraq has said that Iraqitroops “had started to move from Baghdad toward Palestine.”
1949(1stof Iyar, 5709): Parashat Tazria-Metzora; Rosh Chodesh Iyar
1949:“Eliahu Elath, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States” is scheduled to “bethe principal speaker tonight at the New School for Social Research at theopening of the first American conference for Hebrew language and culture.”
1949:“Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president, in a message that opened thefirst American Conference for Hebrew Language and Culture, asserted tonightthat the "day is not far when the spiritual life of American Jewry will bestrongly inter-related with the cultural values of Israel."
1950:A compromise was reached today among competing factions of the trade unionmovement in Israel that will allow tomorrow’s May Day celebrations to go on asplanned. Histadrut had threatened to cancel the festivities unless the“pro-Soviet minority” agreed to march without banners carrying proclamationsthat would be offensive to “the western democracies.”
1950:Rabbi Alexander Burnstein who “evidently believed that the Decalogue was animportant ecumenical guideline for people of all faiths and non-faiths tofollow” told a multi-faith gathering that “Nations are called upon to obey theten commandments as well as individuals” and that "The message of MountSinai was directed at nations and groups as well as individuals."
1952(5thof Iyar, 5712): Yom HaAtzma'ut
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that in its First of MayDay proclamation, the Histadrut Executive will announce that all Palestine Arabworkers wishing to do so, will henceforth be admitted to the Histadrut's TradeUnions, as of May 1, 1953.
1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that a gang of Bedouinterrorists mined a bridge on the Nitzana-Beersheba Road and opened fire when anarmy truck was passing by. Nobody was hurt, but the bridge was damaged.
1955(8th of Iyar, 5715): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1955(8th of Iyar, 5715): Eighty-seven-year-old NaphtaliTaylor Phillips, the son of Isaac Phillips and his second wife Miriam TrimblePhillips who “was considered the Phillips family’s unofficial historian andpublished many articles about the history of the Jews of New York during the17th and 18th centuries” passed away today. “As a lawyer he held various politicaloffices, e.g.: he was member of the New York state legislature, served on thejudiciary and other committees and as a member of the Joint Statutory RevisionCommission of that body (1900); and deputy comptroller of the city of New York(from 1902). He also was a trustee of the American Scenic and HistoricPreservation Society, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution andof the New York Historical Society. He served as treasurer of the JewishHistorical Society and has contributed several papers to its publications. Forfifteen years he was clerk of Congregation Shearith Israel. In 1892 Phillipsmarried Rosalie Solomons, daughter of Adolphus S. Solomons. Mrs. Phillips wasan active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/05/01/92632113.pdf
1955: Birthdate of Menachem Mazuz who served as Israeli AttorneyGeneral from 2004 to 2010.
1955: In Washington, D.C. Howard Hiatt, a medical researcher and DorisBieringer, a librarian who co-founded a reference publication for high schoollibraries gave birth to Harvard educated journalist and author Frederick “Fred”Samuel Hiat thrice Pulitzer Prizenominated Editorial page editor for the Washington Post and grandson ofWalter Bieringer who served as president of the United Service for NewAmericans which helped to resettle European Jews in the United States afterWorld War II who raised three children – Alexandra, Joseph and Nathaniel – withhis wife Margaret “Pooh” Shapiro.
1956: “The Last Hunt” the movie version of a novel by the samename directed and written by Richard Brooks and produced by Dore Schary wasreleased today in the United States.
1956: Israeli Chief of State Moshe Dayan delivered the eulogy atNahal Oz for Roi Toberg, the kibbutz security officer who had been murdered inan ambush yesterday after which his body was mutilated by the terrorists.
1958: Today Mrs. Randolph Guggenheimer was elected to a two-year term as chairman of the women'sdivision of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
1959(22nd of Nisan, 5719): Eighth Day of Pesach
1959: “Imitation of Life” the cinema version of the novel byFannie Hurst produced by Ross Hunter, co-starring Susan Kohner and with musicby Sammy Fain was released in the United States today.
1960(3rd of Iyar, 5720): Parashat Tazria-Metzora
1960(3rd of Iyar, 5720): Eighty-five-year-old Italianborn Giorgio Polacco, the conductor at the Met from 1915 to 1917, the ChicagoCivic Opera from 1921 to 1930 and the husband of Edith Mason passed away todayin Manhattan.
https://www.operamusica.com/artist/giorgio-polacco/#biography
1961(14th of Iyar, 5721): Pesach Sheni
1961(14th of Iyar, 5721): Seventy-three-year-oldIsraeli political leader Peretz Naftali passed away today.
1962(26th of Nisan, 5722): Seventy-seven-year-oldphysician turned political leader Lester David Volk, the WW I Army veteran whoraised his son Alan with his wife Florence S. Volk passed away today afterwhich he was buried at Bayside Cemetery in Queens.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lester-david-volk
1963: Founding of Haifa University
1964(18th of Iyar, 5724): Lag B’Omer
1965(28th of Nisan, 5725): Seventy-three-year-oldColumbia Law School trained attorney and Manhattan Borough President EdgarJoshua Nathan, Jr, a cousin of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardoza and poetEmma Lazarus who was a descendant of the first Jews to arrive in America passedaway today after which “he was buried in Congregation Shearith Israel's BethOlam Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens.”
http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/ms438_edgar_nathan/
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/11/05/99258689.pdf
1966(10th of Iyar, 5726): Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim
1966(10th of Iyar, 5726): Eighty year old Rabbi Moses Etter,theLithuanian born son of Mere and Shmuel Yuter and the husband of Sophie Etterwho came to the United States in 1924 where he began serving the community inHarrisburg, PA which included a Jewish community center passed away today.
1967(20th of Nisan, 5727): Sixth Day of Pesach
1968(2nd of Iyar, 5728): Seventy-six-year-old Dubnonative and Massachusetts bookstore owner Samuel Joseph Bernstein, the son ofYehuda and Dina Bernstein and the father of famed musical showman LeonardBernstein passed away today.
1968(2nd of Iyar, 5728): Sixty-one-year-old WashingtonUniversity and University of Chicago trained research chemist Myer Agruss, theson of Rose and Benjamin Agruss and the husband of Frances Agruss passed awaytoday in Chicago.
1969: In Chicago Adele and Marshal Levine gave birth to Haverfordtrained physicist and Harvard trained expert in Public Policy Mark D. Levine,the bi-lineal member of the New York City Council and husband of IvelisseSuarez with whom he has had two children.
https://council.nyc.gov/district-7/
1970(24th of Nisan, 5730): Jacques (Jacob)Presser passed away. Born in 1899, he was a Dutch historian, writer and poetbest known for his book Ashes in the wind: The destruction of the Dutch Jewsa seminal work on the history of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlandsduring World War II. Yet he also made a significant contribution to Dutchhistorical scholarship, as well as to European historical scholarship.
1971:“Belorussian Station” a Soviet film with music byAlfred Schnittke” was released today.
1971: On day after he had passed away, funeral services werescheduled to be held for eighty-five-year-oldPolish born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist Israel Rogosin,the husband of Evelyn Rogosin and father of movie producer Lionel Rogosin.
1973(28th of Nisan, 5733): Ninety-one-year-old Jacob A.Rubenstein the husband of the former Anna Krieger with whom he raised one sonand two daughters and who in 1919 “founded with two brothers Security Mills, a manufacturerof knitted jersey” passed away today in New York City.
Jacob Rubenstein, 91, Dies; Retired Textile Executive - The NewYork Times (nytimes.com)
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that despite Israeliprotests and the U.S. Congress pressure, the U.S. President Jimmy Carterreiterated that the joint sale of U.S. jets to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabiawas in Israel's best interests. He refused, however, to say what his Administrationwill do if the Congress will veto any part of this three-country package.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli PrimeMinister, Menachem Begin, left for Washington on his second successive visit toU.S. and President Carter, in an apparent attempt to resolve the problem of thestalled Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations.
1978: The Jerusalem Post reported that there were mixedfeelings in Israel about the prospects of the third pullback in South Lebanon,moving to the line west, from about six to ten kilometers, from the Israeliborder. There was a growing uncertainty whether the UNIFIL, which was fillingthe gap, would protect Israel from further terrorist activities.
1979: Paul Massing, author of Rehearsal for Destruction: AStudy Of Political Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany passed away today
1980(14th of Iyar, 5740): Pesach Sheni
1980(14th of Iyar, 5740): Seventy-five-year-old editorand drama critic Louis Kronenberger, the husband of Emily L. Plaut passed awaytoday.
1981(26th of Nisan, 5741): Yom HaShoah
1981(26th of Nisan, 5741) Eighty-year-old Jeanne Levy,the daughter of Alfred Dreyfus, the most famous Jewish officer to serve in theFrench Army and Lucie Hadamard and the wife of Pierre-Paul Louis Lévy with whomshe had had five children – Madeleine, Simone, Jean-Louis, Etiene andPierre-Paul – passed away today in Paris today.
1982:An Israeli Cabinet official who received a suspended prison sentence last weekfor larceny and breach of trust resigned from the Cabinet today. The official,Aharon Abuhazira, Minister of Labor, Welfare and Immigrants Absorption,submitted his letter of resignation to the Prime Minister's office after theCentral Committee of his party, Tami, authorized it
1982:“The Chosen” a movie version of the Chaim Potok novel directed by Jeremy Kaganstarring Robby Benson and featuring Barry L. Miller, Ron Rifkin, Evan Handlerwith music by Elmer Bernstein was released today.
1983:“King Hussein of Jordan said today that the United States was partlyresponsible for the collapse of his talks with the Palestine LiberationOrganization on President Reagan's peace plan.”
1984(28thof Nisan, 5744): Yom HaShoah
1984(28thof Nisan, 5744): Eighty-one-year-old “businessman and philanthropist” Harry J.Denberg, “founder and president of Spotless Stores” and “the sponsor of aHebrew free loan society and a school for orphaned girls, both in Jerusalem”who was the husband of Riva Denberg with whom he raised two daughters, Marilynand Edythe, passed away today.
1984:During a high-profile divorce case involving billionaire realtor Sol Goldmanand his wife Lillian, Mrs. Goldman discovered a letter that appeared to confirmthat his proposal of a reconciliation was merely a way to protect his assetsleading her to resume litigation to dissolve the marriage.
1985(9thof Iyar, 5745): Seventy-five-year-old Mickey Katz passed away today. Bornin 1909, Katz was a comedian and musician who specialized in Yiddish humor. Inhis day he was known as what they called "a novelty band leader" i.e.aJewish Spike Jones. Katz is also known for being the father ofJoel Grey and the grandfather of Jennifer Gray.
1985(9thof Iyar, 5745): Eighty-four-year-old director Hungarian born American directorand producer Julius White “who was best known for his films of The ThreeStooges” passed away today in California.
1985(9thof Iyar, 5745): Seventy-five year old Meyer Myron Katz, the Cleveland, OH, bornson of “Menachem and Johanna (Herzberg)Katz and the husband of Goldie “Grace Epstein, who gained fame as “novelty bandleader” Mickey Katz, a comedian and musician specializing in Yiddish humor alsoknown for being the father of Joel Grey and the grandfather of Jennifer Grey,famous for her role in “Dirty Dancing” passed away today.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-01-mn-11563-story.html
https://case.edu/ech/articles/k/katz-meyer-myron
1985:Birthdate of Israeli actress and model Gal Gadot who represented Israel in the2004 Miss Universe Pageant.
1985:In Petah Tikva, Israel, “Irit (née Weiss), a teacher, and Michael Gadot, an engineer” whois “a sixth generation Israeli” gave birth to actress Gal Gadot, the IDFveteran best known for her portrayal of “Wonder Woman.”
1985:One person was injured today during a grenade attack on a bus in Israel.
1985:One person was injured today during a “grenade attack on Israeli intelligencecenter in Bat Pam, south of Tel Aviv.”
1985:A London production of “Follies,” a musical with music and lyrics by StephenSondheim and a book by James Goldman opened at the Forum theatre
1986:The city of Houston declared today Albert Moses Levy Memorial Day, in honor ofJews who participated in the fight for Texas
1986:In Savannah, Georgia, Mary and Ronald S. Agron gave birth to actress DiannaElise Agron who went to Hebrew School and celebrated her Bat Mitzvah beforepursuing her show biz career.
1987:Thomas Friedman reports that an Islamic revival is quickly gaining ground inthe most unlikely of places – Israel. “From Israeli Arab villages in thenorthern Galilee, to the turbulent Palestinian universities in theIsraeli-occupied West Bank, to the teeming refugee districts of theIsraeli-occupied Gaza Strip, an Islamic revival is taking place among Moslemsliving under Israeli control. The revival was inspired in part by the Iranianrevolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. But it is also a home-grownmovement of Palestinian Moslems seeking strength to confront Israel byreturning to their classic Islamic identities that once brought them grandeur…What this means for the already intractable Arab-Israeli conflict, said EliRekhess, a Tel Aviv University expert on Israeli Arabs, is that future'coexistence will be that much more difficult and the lines of differencesbetween the two communities that much sharper.’''
1989:Several thousand people, many of them Holocaust survivors and their families,gathered in midtown Manhattan to honor the victims of the Holocaust and tocommemorate the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in which Polish Jewsfought the Nazis in 1943.
1990(5thof Iyar, 5750): Yom HaAtzma’ut
1992:NBC broadcast the final episode of season 8 of the “Cosby Show” a sitcomco-created by Ed Weinberger.
1992(27thof Nisan, 5752): Yom HaShoah
1992(27thof Nisan, 5752): Sixty-seven-year-old American economist Harvey Joshua Levinpassed away today.
http://www.hofstra.edu/Library/libspc/libspc_levin.html
1993:U.S. premiere of “Three Hearts” with a script by Adam Greenman.
1993(9thof Iyar, 5753): Eighty-five-year-old Frija Zoaretz, the native of Libya whomade Aliyah in 1949 and served as MK for the National Religious Party passedaway today.
1994(19thof Iyar, 5756): Parshat Emor
1994:Philanthropist Esther Ziskind Weltman, graduate of Smith College and Harvard GraduateSchool o Education, the wife of Sol Weltman who “was a founder of the NationalCouncil of Jewish Women’s Springfield Scholarship Clearing House” and “atrustee of the Jacob Ziskind Trust for Charitable Purposes” passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weltman-esther-ziskind
1994(19thof Iyar, 5756): Ninety-four-year-old Audra Gertrude “Audrey” Canatsey Brown, theWindsor, MO born daughter of John and Stella Cantsey whose first husband wasSalomon Tarlow with whom she had four children before he died passed aw todayin Roswell, NM.
1995:Following the merger of Abraham and Straus with the Macys, Bloomingdales andSterns chains earlier in the year, “the name of Abraham & Straus passedinto mercantile history” today marking “the end of a journey” that began in1865>
1996(11thof Iyar, 5756): David Opatoshu passed away. Born in 1918, David Opatoshu beganhis stage career in New York's Yiddish theatre in the late 1930s. Though heworked extensively in English-language plays, films and TV programs, thescholarly looking Opatoshu never completely severed his ties with his roots.His first film was the all-Yiddish "The Light Ahead” (1939) from 1941through 1945, he delivered the news in Yiddish on New York radio station WEVD;in the 1970s, he was directing and starring in ethnic stage productions; and in1985, he narrated a documentary film on the Yiddish theatre in America,"Almonds and Raisins". Opatoshu appeared in numerous films andtelevision productions frequently playing the part of the Communist or someother vaguely eastern European intellectual villain. Two of his morememorable performances were in the film Exodus in 1960 and Masada in1981.
1996(11thof Iyar, 5756): President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peressigned an accord in Washington extending U.S. help to Israel in counteringterrorism
1998(4thof Iyar, 5758): Yom HaAtzma'ut – Fiftieth Anniversary of Israeli Independence.The fifth of Iyyar fell on a Friday in 5758 which precluded celebrating theholiday on the technically correct date.
2000:The New York Times included reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan and the recently released paperbackedition of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard Zimler a novel in which a young follower of the mystical Jewishtradition tries to track down his uncle's killer in 16th-century Lisbon.
2001:Cookbook author Joan Nathan received the Who's Who of Food and Beverage inAmerica award for lifetime achievement from the James Beard Foundation.
https://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/30/2001/joan-nathan
2002:Beginning today, the Batsheva Dance Company fromIsrael is scheduled to perform the American premiere of ''Naharin's Virus,'' anadaptation of a 1996 play by the German writer Peter Handke. The music for thedance, which had its premiere in Tel Aviv last year, is adapted fromtraditional Arabic folk music by Habib Alla Jamal, Shama Khader and KarniPostel
2003(28thof Nisan, 5763): Ran Baron, 24; Dominque Caroline Hass, 29 and Yanai Weiss, 46were murdered and dozens more wounded including Keith Trowbridge, 37 and AviTabib, the security guard, when a terrorist working for Fatah Tanzim and Hamasblew himself up at Mike’s Place a popular Tel Aviv Restaurant. The murderer waspart of a group of three British Muslims who came to Israel to kill Jews.
2003(28thof Nisan, 5763): Seventy-two-year-old Arnold Horween, the successful Chicagobusinessman “company supplies the leather used to manufacture the NationalFootball League's Wilson footballs” passed away today. (As reported by AnaBeatriz Cholo)
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-05-04/news/0305040211_1_harvard-friends-arnold
2003:The Israeli president, Moshe Katzav and his Polish counterpart, AleksanderKwasniewski, led 3,000 people from around the world in a ''March of theLiving'' through the gate to Auschwitz -- the words ''Arbeit macht frei'' mean''Work makes you free'' -- and to the nearby twin camp at Birkenau. The marchwas to mourn Jews killed at the death camp in World War II and commemorate the60th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Among the marchers was NormanFrejman, 72, of Florida, who as a child survived the Warsaw Ghetto, deportationto the Majdanek death camp and slave labor in Germany. ''I am getting old,'' hesaid, ''so I had to come here to see it once again. This is hallowed ground.'
2004(9thof Iyar, 5764): Ninety-two-year-old tobacco executive Joseph Frederick CullmanIII, the husband of women from two prominent Jewish families, Susan Lehman andJoan Paley Straus, passed away today. (As reported by Michael T. Kaufman)
2004:“Godsend” a horror movie filmed by cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau was releasedtoday in the United States and Canada.
2004:“Envy” a comedy directed by Barry Levinson who produced the film with PaulaWeinstein and starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Rachel Weisz was released inthe United States today.
2005(21stof Nisan, 5765): Seventh Day of Pesach and Shabbat
2006:Herbert “Herb” Brown, the former coach of the Detroit Pistons and the “headcoach of the U.S. basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2001 MaccabiahGames,” today, joined his younger brother Larry Brown as a member of the UnitedStates Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
2006:The New York Times featured books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish readers including High Lonesome: New & SelectedStories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates, Politics Lost: How AmericanDemocracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid by Joe Kleinand Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen.
2006(2nd of Iyar, 5766): Paul Spiegel leader of the CentralCouncil of Jews, Germany’s main Jewish organization, passed away.
2007: In today’s “unpublished opinion, the California Courtof Appeal held that Robert Shapiro's law firm, Christensen, Miller, Fink,Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, LLP, could be held liable for hisalleged misconduct, even though Shapiro holds no equity interest in the firmand is not a true partner
2007: Aubrey Drake Graham, known as “Drake” became the firstunsigned Canadian rapper to have his music video featured on BET when his firstsingle, "Replacement Girl" was featured as the "New Joint of theDay"
2007: At the Jewish Museum of Florida an exhibit styled “Bonim:Jewish Developers Building Florida and; Building Community” comes toend. “From swampland to cities, this exhibit highlights the enormous impact ofFlorida’s Jews on one of the state’s leading industries.” The exhibitdemonstrates that starting in 1820 when Moses Levy began purchasing 100,000acres in north central Florida, Jews have played a major role in transformingFlorida from the region’s least populated state into one of the nation’s largeststates.
2007: The Jewish Heritage Center of Western Canada presents alecture by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt which is based on her experiences during theDavid Irving Libel Trial. Her book History on Tiral: My Day In Courtwith David Irving is the story of her libel trial in London against DavidIrving who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wingextremist.
2008: Famed Yiddish actress Esta Saltzman who lived in Manhattanfor over 40 years before passing away, will be buried today in a family plot atthe Knollwood Park Cemetery.
2008: An exhibition style “Zap, Pow, Bam – Super Heroes of theGolden Age of Comics at the Jewish Museum of Florida comes to a close.
2008: Today, Steve “Tisch along with the rest of the Giants teamand administration were invited by President Bush to the White House to honorthe Giants Super Bowl victory.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Tisch#/media/File:Giants_admin_at_the_white_house.JPG
2008: The Jerusalem Cinematheque presents a screening of “TheHouse on August Street” which depicts the untold story of Beate Berger whofounded the “Beith Ahawah Kinderheim” in Berlin in 1922 for needy Jewishchildren and then saved “her” children from Nazi Germany through a uniquerescue operation that ended with her bringing the children to the new “Ahawah”home she built in the Haifa Bay.
2008:Aspart of the annual Yom Hashoah observance in Iowa City, the University of IowaHillel Chapter presents Professor Ronald Berger who will speak about"Surviving the Holocaust: One Family's Story"..
2008:“Reparations Ethics: The War Continues,” aired on Israeli. The film criticizedthe Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany for misspending fundsand for being unresponsive and insensitive to the suffering of aging Holocaustsurvivors.
2009:Goldwin Smith’s Anti-Semitism Fuels Anger by Danielle Davis, exposing theprofessor’s views on Jews was published today.
2009(6thof Iyar, 5769): Mark I. Levy, a fifty-nine-year-old lawyer with anAtlanta-based firm who was about to lose his job because of the economy was founddead in his Washington office. Police speculated that the cause was aself-inflicted gunshot wound. The fate of the Yale law school graduateshould serve as warning to all of us in these perils of these uncertaineconomic times.
2009:The 92nd Street Y presents “The Borowitz Report: Obama’s First 100Days” in which Award-winning comedian and satirist Andy Borowitz, and a panelincluding Hendrick Hertzberg, Jonathan Alterand Judy Gold take an irreverent look at President Obama's first 100 days inoffice
2009: Brooklyn College Hillel sponsors an Israel Street Fair celebratingIsrael Independence Day.
2009:In Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator Jules Feifferreads and discusses Which Puppy a children’s picture book he recentlyco-authored with his daughter Kate.
2009:In Texas, Heroes and Legacies sponsors “The Kinky Friedman Cigar Event”featuring five Kinky Friedman Cigars including The Governor, Kinkycristo, TheWillie, Texas Jewboy and the Utopian
2010President Barack Obama proclaimed the month of May as Jewish American HeritageMonth. Below is the full text of his proclamation.
In1883, the Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus composed a sonnet, entitled “TheNew Colossus,” to help raise funds for erecting the Statue of Liberty.Twenty years later, a plaque was affixed to the completed statue, inscribedwith her words: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled massesyearning to breathe free….” These poignant words still speak to us today,reminding us of our Nation’s promise as a beacon to all who are denied freedomand opportunity in their native lands. Our Nation has always been both a havenand a home for Jewish Americans. Countless Jewish immigrants have come toour shores seeking better lives and opportunities, from those who arrived inNew Amsterdam long before America’s birth, to those of the past century who soughtrefuge from the horrors of pogroms and the Holocaust. As they haveimmeasurably enriched our national culture, Jewish Americans have alsomaintained their own unique identity. During Jewish American HeritageMonth we celebrate this proud history and honor the invaluable contributionsJewish Americans have made to our Nation.
TheJewish American story is an essential chapter of the American narrative.It is one of refuge from persecution; of commitment to service, faith,democracy, and peace; and of tireless work to achieve success. As leadersin every facet of American life—from athletics, entertainment, and the arts toacademia, business, government, and our Armed Forces—Jewish Americans haveshaped our Nation and helped steer the course of our history. We are astronger and more hopeful country because so many Jews from around the worldhave made America their home.
Today,Jewish Americans carry on their culture’s tradition of “tikkun olam”—or “torepair the world”—through good deeds and service. As they honor andmaintain their ancient heritage, they set a positive example for all Americansand continue to strengthen our Nation.
NOW,THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, byvirtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of theUnited States, do hereby proclaim May 2010 as Jewish American HeritageMonth. I call upon all Americans to observe this month with appropriateprograms, activities, and ceremonies to celebrate the heritage andcontributions of Jewish Americans.
INWITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of April, inthe year two thousand ten, and of the Independence of the United States ofAmerica the two hundred and thirty-fourth.
The Twist
…President Obama has made a subtle, symbolic gesture that some would saydemonstrates uncommon sensitivity to the Jewish community. Thanks to the NewJersey Jewish News for this story, which reports that President Obama removedthe standard phrase “in the year of our Lord” from a proclamation welcoming Mayas Jewish Heritage Month. As the newspaper reports, previous similarproclamations — by Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton — all included thestandard line affixed at the end, pegging the missive’s date to the birth ofJesus Christ … Obama, in praising Jews for their unique contributions toAmerican culture, took the extra step of taking it out this time. This may notsit well with “the our-country-is-a-Christian-nation crowd” and it may seemlike a small thing, but it shows a certain level of sensitivity if not outrightpolitical courage. There are those who think that Jewish community should bemore outspoken in acknowledging this, and in voicing appreciation.”
2010:The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/orof special interest to Jewish readers including “If You Knew Suzy: ‘A Mother, ADaughter, A Reporter’s Notebook’” by Katherine Rosman.
2010:An exhibit sponsored by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research styled “One Footin America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line and Eugeen Van Mieghem,”is scheduled to come to a close today. The exhibit tells the story of theRed Star shipping line, focusing on the lives of emigrants--the reasons theyfled, their arrival in Antwerp and their experience with the city's Jewishcommunity, their living conditions onboard the ships, and their hopes anddreams, is scheduled to close at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
2011:Today is reported to be the deadline for the Lincoln Square Synagogue to raisean additional $3 million in pledges so that can receive $20 million from ananonymous donor who has offered to give the money to this leading New YorkOrthodox synagogue so that it can continue construction of its new buildingwhich had been halted to due financial problems.
2011:Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation is scheduled to present a Yom Ha'Shoah MusicProgram featuring Brian Nedvin, tenor and Assistant Professor at Old DominionUniversity who “will present a combination of lecture, images, and songs toeducate and remind us of our obligation to never forget those lost during theHolocaust.”
2011:Naomi Shilyansky is scheduled to be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah atAgudas Achim in Iowa City, IA.
2011(26thof Nisan, 5771): Ben Masel, who campaigned for decades for the legalization ofmarijuana, among other causes, died today in his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin(As reported by the Eulogizer)
2012:Deidre Berger is scheduled to take part in a Q&A following a screeningof “Jealous of the Birds,” a documentary about the 15,000 Holocaust survivorswho stayed in Germany, at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival.
2012:It was announced that Raviv Ullman had joined the cast of Alena Smith's newOff-Broadway play “The Bad Guys.”
2012:International Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies: Truth and Witness is scheduledto begin at the Wiener Library in UK.
2012:In Hawaii, "From Zion A Voice to the Nations” is scheduled to host acoffee hour with former Governor Linda Lingle who is running for the U.S.Senate.
2012(8thof Iyar, 5772): Historian Benzion Netanyahu passed away today at the age of102.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/world/middleeast/benzion-netanyahu-dies-at-102.html?hpw
2013:“Steal a Pencil for Me” an opera that chronicles Jack and Ina Polak’s romanceas well as life in Westerbork and Begen-Belsen is scheduled to be performed atthe Jewish Theological Seminary.
2013:The Historic Sixth & I Synagogue is scheduled to host its noon-time“Food for Thought” with Rabbi Yosef Edelstein helping attendees “to digest”Jewish ethics, Jewish mysticism and Jewish philosophy
2013(20thof Iyar, 5773): Friends and family remembered Evyatar Borowsky as a joker, ahardy settler, and a devoted husband and father Tuesday evening as theygathered to bury the 31-year-old victim of a terror attack at a West Bankjunction earlier in the day.
2013:An IAF aircraft on Gaza this morning assassinated a senior Salafist terroractivist who was reportedly behind an April 17 rocket attack on Eilat from theSinai
2013(20thof Iyar, 5773): Eighty-seven year old French author Viviane Forrester passedaway today.
2013:Three fires broke out in the Lachish region today, destroying an estimated20,000 dunams.
2013:Newly installed Pope Francis accepted an invitation from President Shimon Peresto visit Israel, as the two leaders held their first meeting today.
2014(30thof Nisan, 5774): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
2014:The auction of “Spring in the Valley” by Joel J. Levitt came to an end today.
2014:“Cardinal O’Connor’s Mother Was Convert From Judaism, Family Research Reveals”published today.
2014:The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations voted today to denymembership to “J Street.”
2014:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to a panel discussion entitled “NewPerspectives on Jewish Refuges and Migrants after World War II.”
2014:Shaaray Tefila and J Street are scheduled to host an evening with IDF veteransOded Na’aman and Yoav Litvin.
2014:“Disobedience: The Sousa” is scheduled to be shown at the JCC RocklandInternational Jewish Film Festival.
2015(11thof Iyar, 5775): Eighty-nine-year-old Anglo-Jewish composer Ronald Senator andhis 81 year old wife Miriam Brickman “died tonight from injuries sustained in athree alarm house fire” in Yonkers, NY.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-composer-and-his-musician-wife-die-in-ny-house-fire/
2015:“An Israeli-led rescue team pulled a Nepalese woman out of the rubble in thecapital Kathmandu today, five days after a massive earthquake leveled much ofthe city, killing some6,000 people.”
2015:Seventy-three year old Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is scheduled to announcethat he will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the UnitedStates.
2015:“Dora,” a film about a young lady named Dora with Down syndrome is scheduled tobe shown at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia.
2015:Mike Hale described “Revolution of the Eye, a new exhibition opening at theJewish Museum.
2015:The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to host aproduction of “The Last Cyclist” Karel Svenk’s play “written and rehearsed inthe Terezin Concentration Camp.”
2015:In Atlanta, GA, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host “The Wildest Party ofthe Year.”
2015:The National Football League held its 2015 NFL Draft in the Auditorium Theatrewhich had been designed by architect Dankmar Adler.
2015:Yeshiva University Museum and the Center for Jewish History in cooperation withthe American Sephardi Federation are scheduled to sponsor “A Musical Journeythrough Space” “hosted cellist Elad Kabilio and accompanied by clarinetist,Avigail Malachi-Baev and vocalist, Inbal Sharret-Singer.
2016:Israeli saxophonist and composer Eli Degibri is scheduled to perform at theWhite House as a part of International Jazz Day, which will take place today.
2016:“Israel’s opposition leader Isaac Herzog responded furiously today to theongoing row over anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party, inviting its seniorofficials to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem for a reminderof the results of anti-Semitism.”
2016(22ndof Nisan, 5776): Eighth Day of Pesach and Shabbat
2016(22ndof Nisan, 5776): One hundred- and three-year-old historian Danial Aaron passeda way today.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162723
2016:In Iowa City, Lubavitcher Rabbi Avrohom Blesofsky is scheduled to host SedudatMoshiach this evening.
2017:The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or ofspecial interest to Jewish readers including My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays,One Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin and “The Man to Blame for Our Cultureof Fame” a retrospective on the role of Walter Winchell, the son of RussianJewish immigrants in creating the social and intellectual world in which welive.
2017:Samuel Kassow, Miriam Udel, Naomi Seidman and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett arescheduled to discuss “Growing Up Jewish.”
2017:The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to host a celebrationof Israel’s birthday “at Caspe Terrace with Israeli musical performers, theDayans.”
2017:In Atlanta, the Breman Museum is scheduled to host the “retirement in honor ofDr. Liliane Kshensky Baxter, the Director of the Weinberg Center for HolocaustEducation.”
2017:The YIVO Institute is scheduled to host “Children’s Day.”
https://yivo.org/Childrens-Day=
2018: Two hundred twenty-ninthanniversary of the inauguration of George Washington who in a letter tothe Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island. proclaimed, "May thechildren of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit andenjoy the good will of the other inhabitants – while everyone shall sit insafety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make himafraid” making the Jewishexperience in America different from that in other western realms from theoutset.
2018(15th of Iyar, 5778): Eighty-one-year-oldDr. Joel Kovel, the psychiatrist turned social activist passed away. (As reported by Sam Roberts)
2018: The Yeshiva University Museum andAmerican Sephardi Federation are scheduled to present “Hey, Wow! The Art ofOded Halahmy” whose “work reflects the rich, complex history of the Jewishheritage in Babylonia” featuring a “musical performance by Victoria Hanna.”
2018: The Streicker Center is scheduledto host “Sisterhood of Pain, Sisterhood of Hope” featuring “four bereavedIsraeli and Palestinian mothers” each of whom has lost a child
2019: German photographer Luigi Toscano,creator of “Lest We Forget” is scheduled to attend a screening of a documentaryabout his project at the Goeth-Instituit in San Francisco this evening.
2019: “Golda’s Balcony, The Film” and“Promise At Dawn” are scheduled to be shown on the last evening of the 16thAnnual International Jewish Film Festival in Rockland, NY
2019: The Knesset is scheduled to open anew session today “with 49 new members.”
2019(25th of Nisan, 5779): Ninety-one-year-oldSociliast Arthur “Art” Glik Kunkin, the Bronx born son of Irving and Bea Kunkinand founder of the counterculture publication The Los Angeles Free Press passed away today. (As reported by NeilGenzlinger)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/obituaries/art-kunkin-dead.html
2019: As Jews bury their dead after thesecond synagogue shooting in six months, all Americans mark the two hundredthirtieth anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington who in a letter to theHebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island. proclaimed, "May thechildren of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit andenjoy the good will of the other inhabitants – while everyone shall sit insafety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make himafraid” making the Jewishexperience in America different from that in other western realms from theoutset.
2020: “Famedscholars Deborah Lipstadt, the best-selling author of “Antisemitism: Then andNow” whose success in taking Holocaust deniers to court was depicted in themajor motion picture “Denial” and Jonathan Sarna, award-winning author of theseminal book “American Judaism,” are scheduled to take part in an important ADLwebinar on “Viruses and Violence: Addressing Antisemitism in the Shadow ofCOVID-19.”
2020: The Combined Jewish Philanthropiesis scheduled to host a virtual pickling event from the comfort of your kitchenduring which “Jeff Yoskowitz, co-owner of Brooklyn-based The Gefilteria, willlead us through a fun and interactive demonstration” where “we’ll learn how to makesauerkraut and pickle a variety of vegetables using basic ingredients andsupplies” and hear Jeff discuss the art of pickling and its importance inJewish cuisine, history, and culture.”
2020: The Streicker Center is scheduledto host Rabbi Artson and his virtual presentation on “Bad Stuff Happens – ATalmudic Exploration.”
2020: Via Zoom, the Oxford UniversityJewish Society is scheduled to “mark the start of virtual Trinity,” givingeverybody a chance to “catch up with their JSoc Friends.
2020: Live on Zoom, Donald Albrecht isscheduled to host “Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism,” anillustrated talk about Jewish contributions to America’s 20th-century domesticlandscape
2020: As of yesterday evening, Israel’sdeath toll from COVID-19 had reached at least 215.
2021(18th of Iyar, 5781): LagB’Omer
2021: In Columbus, OH, CongregationTifereth Israel is scheduled to host Lag B’Omer picnic in its Parking Lotfollowed by Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat
2021:Artist Julie Weitz is scheduled to discuss her avatar “My Golem,” a socialjustice/environmental activist drawn from Jewish folklore, and her three-partdigital exhibit that intersects Jewish mythology, social justice and ecologywhich is an in-person exhibit that runs through Dec. 5.
2021:The Jewish Arts Collaborative is scheduled to present online “a specialcelebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut with Nir Caspi of Cafe Landwer!”
2021:“A spring semester version of the L.E.V. Campus Fellowship for Jewishcollege-age students living in the greater Cleveland area while studyingremotely or affiliated with Cleveland Hillel or Hillel at Kent State campuses”is scheduled to begin today.
2021:Fisherman in Gaza should be able to begin plying their trade again todayfollowing yesterday’s announcement of the re-opening of the Gaza Strip’sfishing zone which had been closed ‘”in response to rockets being fired fromGaza earlier in the week.
2021:Kan Kol Hamusika is scheduled to broadcast “Excellence,” Young Artists inConcerts, featuring Maayan Gabel, on viola and Tail Haim Samnon and Noam Babanyon piano.
2022(29th of Nisan, 5782): Parsashat Acharay Mot and Pirke Avot Chapter 1
2022:At Temple Judea, in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Elysha Lippman is scheduled to becalled the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah
2022: At Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, IA, Leah Smith is scheduled to becalled to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah
2022: As Israelis observe Shabbat, they brace foranother round of violence like the one yesterday where “hundreds of peoplebegan waving Hamas flags, and hurling rocks and fireworks, including in thedirection of the Western Wall, where Jewish worshippers gather.”
2022: In New York, the Angelika Film Center isscheduled to host a screening of“Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen narrated by Jeff Goldblum followingby “Q&As with Director Daniel Raim& actresses Neva Small and Rosalind Harris, moderated by Jan Lisa Huttner,author of Diamond Fiddler: New Traditions for a New Millennium.”
2023: The Museum at Eldridge Street is scheduledto present a virtual program “Jewish Life in Poland-Lithuania” during which “ZacharyMazur, Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, willdiscuss the key question of why Jews settled in Eastern Europe and what theirlives looked like there.”
2023: The New York Times features reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding All The Knowledge In The World: The Extraordinary History of theEncyclopedia by Simon Garfield
2023: Zionism and American Jews is scheduled tomark the State of Israel’s 75th birthday by gathering twenty internationallyrecognized scholars at the Center for Jewish History to discuss the longrelationship between the American Jewish community and the Zionist movement.
2023: In Columbus, OH, the Tifereth IsraelSisterhood is scheduled to host “an afternoon of shopping.”
2023: Dr. Ofri Ilany, a historian and journalist,and editor-in-chief of Van Leer Jerusalem Institute's Hazman Hazeh magazine, isscheduled to lecture on “Political Passions: Aesthetics and Eroticism inMandate Palestine and Jerusalem.”
2023: The Breman Museum is scheduled to host ascreening of the documentary “Wagner’s Jew” followed by panel discussion.
2023: The Jewish Heritage Museum of MonmouthCounty announces the installation of its new exhibit for the spring of 2023,The Eisner Family: From Stitching Military Uniforms to Stitching Together theRed Bank Jewish Community which is scheduled to open today.
https://www.jhmomc.org/product-page/TheEisnerFamily
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Trudy Gold on Death of aTyrant: The World of Adolf Hitler.
2024:The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is scheduled to hostlectures by Mathew Berger, Arie M. Dubnov and Arno Rosenfeld on “Antisemitism in theAftermath of October 7.”
2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Dana Stroul on “U.S.Policy in the Middle East.”
2024: “As part of the Genocidal Captivityexhibition events series” The Wiener Holocaust Memorial Library is scheduled tohost “Exhibition Film Event, Part 2: Suzanne Khardalian, Grandma’s Tattoos.”
2024:In Berkley, CA, Books, Inc is scheduled to present Michael J. Cooper discusseshis historical fiction book Wages of Empire set in 1914 that follows ateen through the killing fields of the Western Front to Ottoman Palestine.
2024(22ndof Nisan, 5784): The annual pilgrimages of weekly pilgrimages to the Tomb ofJoseph Saragossi are scheduled to begin today and last until the 18thof Iyar.
2024:As April 30th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweepsthe United States and the Hamas held hostages beginday 207 in captivity.(Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so weare just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)
2024(22nd of Nisan, 5784): Eighth Day of Pesach;for more see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
