March 20
43BCE: Birthdate of the Roman poet, Ovid. In “The Art of Love,Part One” Ovid wrote "And do not miss the festival of Adonis, mourned ofVenus, and the rites celebrated every seventh day by the Syrian Jews."Apparently, Ovid knew about Jewish customs and, at least when it came to love,thought well of them (the Jews and the customs)
1191: The papacy of Clement III “who reissued the bull Sicut Judaeis, protecting the Jews at the time of the ThirdCrusade” came to an end today.
1413: The reign of King Henry IVof England who in December of 1410, issued a safe conduct for Elias Sabot, amuch praised Jewish doctor” who “arrived with a retinue of servants and wasgranted royal protection for two years” which would seem to indicate thatprotecting the health of the monarch trumped the century old ban on Jews livingin England came to an end today.
1488(28th of Adar, 5248): Celebration of the first “Cairo Purim”
1563: Today, “English Protestantclergyman and historian John Foxe whose famous literary work, Book of Martyrs“included stories of Jews” and whose writings on Jews show how a powerfulwriter conceived of the place of Jews in a newly self-conscious, ProtestantEnglish national identity amidst conflicting currents of theology, race, andpolitics” published the first English edition of the 'Actes and Monuments fromthe press of John Day
1602: The Dutch East India Company is established. “By the middle of theseventeenth century, Jewish diamond merchants helped finance the Dutch EastIndia Company, which organized its own trade route to India. So Amsterdam thenreplaced Lisbon as the port of entry in Europe for India's diamonds.”
1619: Sixty-two-year-old Matthias, the Holy Roman Emperor who as Archduke hadacceded to the wishes of the Dutch and “established religious peace” in theirprovinces which helped to turn the Netherlands into a place of refuge for theJews fleeing Spain and Portugal, passed away today.
1693: Talmudist Gerhson Ashkenazi, whose many followers including DavidOppenheimer passed away today in Metz.
1705: In Great Britain, Hambro Synagogue founded (there are other claims thatthis now defunct synagogue was found variously in 1702 or 1707)
1725: Birthdate of Abdul Hamid I,the Ottoman Sultan who employed two Jews from Salonica, Doctor Joseph andDoctor Cohen.
1736: After obtaining theopinions of experts, today Prince Carl, the Duke of Württembergpubliclyproclaimed that Joseph Oppenheimer had not caused the crisis at the mint afterwhich “the counselors Boesenius and Hallwachs undertook the accounting and keptit dragging on until Oppenheimer again insisted on being released and declaredhis intention of leaving the country and the duke's service.”
1764(16th Adar II,5524): Salomon Nathan Maas, the husband of Hewle Meise and the father of Nathanand Salomon Maas passed away today and was buried in Frankfurt am Main.
1768: In Whitechapel, London,Abraham Lumbroso de Mattos and Esther Isaac Lumbroso de Mattos Mocatta gavebirth to Moses de Mattos Mocatta, the husband of Abigail Mocatta and aco-founder of the West London Synagogue.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mocatta
1772(15th of Adar II,5532): Shushan Purim
1773: Dutch natives Zipporah daVeiga Mendes Penha and Samuel Van Isaac Lopes Salzedo gave birth to Jacob VanSamuel Lopes Salzedo, the husband of Ester Spinossa Catteel with whom he had three children.
1780: In Wilton, CT, Rachel Mearsand Moses Isaacks gave birth to Esther Isaacks the wife of Isaac Moses.
1785: Reyna Levy and Isaac Moseswho were married in 1770 gave birth to Israel Moses.
1790: In Virginia, Esther Maracheand Joseph Mordecai who were married in 1786, gave birth to Solomon JosephMordecai the husband of Isabella Jane Kincaid whom he married in 1817 atFranklin, MO.
1791(14th of AdarII 551): Purim
1791: In Aldingen, Germany, Elkele Kahn and Samuel Isaac Wormser gave birth toZerla Wormser, the wife of Salomon Pappenheimer with whom she had six children.
1792: Prague native Israel DeLieben signed a patent for Abraham Jacobs at Savannah, GA
1793” Richea Har and AbrahamMendes Seixas who were married in 1777 at Charleston, SC, gave birth to MosesMendes Seixas.
1799(13th of Adar II, 5559):Ta’anit Esther
1799: French forces under thecommand of Napoleon began the siege of Acre. This was part of Napoleon’scampaign that stretched from Egypt through Palestine. Napoleon’s campaign inthe eastern Mediterranean marked the start of serious Western involvement inthe land that would eventually become the modern state of Israel.
1800: Birthdate of Gottfried Bernhardy, who was “professor and director thephilological seminary at Halle.
1800: Birthdate of SingSing, NYnative Anna Marks, who was an active member of the Philadelphia Jewishcommunity.
1804: In Philadelphia, PA, Issacand Rachel Cohen Lyons gave birth to their only daughter, Isabel Rebecca LyonsMordecai, the wife of “future state senator Moses Cohen Mordecai, the “son ofDavid Cohen Mordecai and Reinah Abrahams Cohen and grandson of Mordecai MosesMordecai and Zipporah De Lyon” whom she married in 1828 and with whom she hadeight children: Isabel, Hortensia, Rosa Hays, David Henry, Isaac John Randolph,Ellen Loria, Rachel Minnie, and Isabel.
1806(1st of Nisan,5566): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1806(1st of Nisan, 5566): Rabbi Joseph Harif of Zamosc, author of MishnatHakhamim passed away today
1810(14th of Adar II, 5570): Purim
1812: Birthdate of Danzig nativeCharles S.J. Semon, the Bradford, England, textile merchant and the “firstforeign born” and Jewish Mayor of Bradford who was the husband Agnes Semon.
http://bradfordjewish.org.uk/charles-semon-1814-1877/
1815: After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "HundredDays" rule. In a 1930’s movie about the Rothschilds, Nathan Rothschildagrees to pledge his entire fortune to defeat Napoleon. In exchange for hisgenerosity, he demands that the Austrians and Prussian remove theirrestrictions against the Jews. “There is a legend told that on the day of theBattle of Waterloo, Nathan Mayer Rothschild came to the floor of the LondonStock Exchange, leaned against a pillar, and started selling. It was well knownthat the Rothschilds had their own independent sources of information andintelligence, and nobody knew the results of the battle, so when he began tosell, everyone thought that England had lost, and they began selling, too. Thatforced a panic in the market. As much as 15%-20% of the value of the stocksfell in about three hours. And after they had fallen so low, Rothschild turnedaround and began buying. It is said that he knew all along that the Duke ofWellington had defeated Napoleon and that the British market would go up. Andwhen the official news came the next day that the British had won, the marketwent up 1000 points, making Rothschild even wealthier. It is reputed that onthat coup alone, a substantial amount of the Rothschild fortune was made.”
1816: Miriam Marks, a native ofSing Sing, NY and the daughter of Michael Marks married her first husband JonasBarnett today.
1816: Montague Marks married HannahMoses at the Great Synagogue.
1825(1st of Nisan, 5585): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1826: Jacob Tenachem ben Yedediah Shmuel married Beila bat Asher at the HambroSynagogue today.
1833(29th of Adar, 5593): Fifty-four year old Myer Moses II, theCharleston, SC born son of Myer and Rachel Moses and the husband of EstherMoses with whom he had five children – Franklin, Jr, Rebecca, Montgomery,Rachel and Hortensia – passed away today in New York City.
https://chrysler.org/historic-houses/the-moses-myers-house/
1834: In Willemstad, Curacao, LeahMoses Jessurun, the daughter of Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto, Cantor and Rachelde Isaac Peixotto and her husband Moses Jacob / Isquiao Jesurun gave birth toMoses Jessurun, the “husband of Luna (Lunita) Jessurun and father of StillbornJesurun; Mortimer Jessurun; Edward Jessurun; Leonie Jesurun and FrancisJessurun.”
1835(19th of Adar,5595): Attorney Lyon Levy, the Woolwich, England native South Carlina statetreasurer who was married twice – first to Leah Joseph and then to Sarah N.Cardoza – and who was the father of Abraham, Elias, Leah, David, Frances,Olivia, Phillpa and S.L. Levy passed away today in Charleston he was buried atthe Coming Street Cemetery in Charleston, SC.
1836: Birthdate of Sir EdwardJohn Poynter, the English painter who drew on the Bible as topics for his worksas can be seen by his paintings “King Solomon,” King Solomon’s Temple,”“The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon” and “Israel in Egypt.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1867_Edward_Poynter_-_Israel_in_Egypt.jpg
1837(13th of Adar II, 5597): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1837: “Mr. Isaac Abisdid wasappointed Chazan today” but would not please the congregation and he would losethe job in September of the same year.
1842: In Sulzburg, Hirschel Naphtali Dukas and Helena Hendle Dukas gave birthto Barcuh Berthold Dukas the husband of Sara Dukas
1845(11th, Adar II, 5605): Fast of Esther celebrated on the same daythe Special Session of the 29th Congress, the first congress afterthe inauguration of James K. Polk took place.
1847: Theresa and Isaac Rosenheimgave birth to Rebecca Wolf, the wife of Isaac Wolf with whom she had three children – Solomon,Gertrude and Minnie – who passed away at the age of 79 in Fredericksburg, VAafter which she was buried in Springfield, MO
1848(15th of Adar II, 5608): Shushan Purim
1848(15th of Adar II, 5608): Twenty Jews were killed in riots and streetfighting that took place in Berlin. Anti-Jewish riots also spread to Bavaria,Baden, Hamburg and many other cities. This marked the start of the Revolutionof 1848 that swept the states of Germany. In the end the liberals would lose,sparking a large migration of Germans including many German Jews to the UnitedStates. These freedom loving liberals would arrive in the United States just intime to support the infant Republican Party and provide a major element in thecoalition that saved the Union during the Civil War.
1856(13th of Adar II, 5616): Ta’anit Esther; erev Purim
1857: The New York Times reported today that "Jewsare always scrupulously careful about the solemnization of marriages. Twowitnesses, two men of character and unconnected with the parties byrelationship have to sign the marriage document and ten adult males must bepresent to participate in the" ceremonies.
1854(20thof Adar, 5614): Sixty-three-year Moses Montefiore Ancona, the London born ofMoses Ancona and the former Hannah Montefiore, who lived in Barbados and Jamaica beforesettling in Pennsylvania where he used the first name of Moses, married MaryAnn Knapp, and practiced medicine passed away today after contractingpneumonia.
1856(13th of Adar II,5616): Erev Purim
1859(14th of Adar II, 5619): Purim
1859: In the Czech Republic, MosesEschner and Carolina "Lottie" Caroline Eschner gave birth to JuliaVasen, the wife of Benjamin George Vasen and mother of Freda Julia Vasen;Maurice Eschner Vasen; George Benjamin Vasen, Sr and Beulah Catherine Vasen.
1860: In Kalvarija ,Lithuania,Chaim and Golda Chaya Bluestone gave birth to NYU trained physician Dr. JosephIsaac Bluestone affiliated with Beth Israel Hospital and an American delegateto the 1903 Zionist Congress in Basel who wrote poetry while raising ninechildren with his wife Sara Rachel Bluestone.
1863: Nathan and Regina UllmanStern brought their fourteen year old son Leopold Stern, who would become“known as the dean of diamond importers in American” and “three time RepublicanPresidential elector in New York” to the United States today.
1863:After have transferred to the 120th Volunteer Ohio infantry in1862 and “promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel, today Marcus M. Speigel “wasofficially commissioned as a Colonel” while taking “formal command of theregiment which would serve under General Grant during the campaign to takeVicksburg.
1865: Birthdate of Charlottenbrug, Prussia native Hermann Picha, theGerman-Jewish actor whose career spanned two decades starting in 1914 andending in 1935.
1866: In Philadelphia, FlorenceStern and Dr. Charles C. Davidson gave birth to Jefferson Medical Collegetrained orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Arthur Julius Davidson, the husband of Julia Brownwhom he married at Philadelphia in 1914 and holder of several positionsincluding assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at his alma mater, orthopedicsurgeon at Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia and consulting surgeon the HebrewOrphans Home.
1867(13th of Adar II,5627): Erev Purim
1869: In Lithuania Ella Brown and Joseph Feivel Jacobson gave birth Lakewood,NJ resident Jacob Jacobson the husband of Slata Gordon whom he married in 1891was a member of the ZOA and HIAS.
1870: “The Board of Directresses” of "B'nai Jeshurun Ladies' HebrewBenevolent Society," met today in the 34th Street Synagogue. Mrs. LeoHenry, the President and one of the founders of the society, “presented areport calling attention to the number of destitute aged and infirm Hebrews inthe city, who were constantly making application for relief which the societywas unable to confer; also urging the ladies to devise some practical measurewhich, when adopted, might furnish permanent relief to these distressed andsuffering co-religionists, without interfering with the original objects of theorganization.” The society had been formed in 1848 to provide relief for“indigent females.”
1870: In Hamburg, Germany, Siegmund Samuel Warburg and Simone Theophilie RifkaTova Warburg, gave birth to
Baronin Rosa von Guenzburg the wifeof Baron Alexander Moses von Günzburg and mother of Anna Halperin; Olga Bauer;Vera Dreyfus; Tatyana von Günzburg; Irène de Vries; Baron Theodore vonGünzburg; Baron Marc von Günzburg and Hélène Berline” who died in Paris in 1922 at the age of fifty-one.
1871: In The Hague, Johanna and Maurice Kann gave birth to Emma Louise Kann
1872: Birthdate of Vilna nativeand Berlin ordained Rabbi Aryeh Lev Zagur who in 1898 came to the United Stateswhere he served congregations in North Adams, MA; Evansville, IN; Poughkeepsie,NY and Houston, TX.
1873: In London, Marcus and Cahia Kohen gave birth to Annie Edith Landau, who settled in Palestine where she played a keyrole in the development of education and culture for which she was twicehonored by King George V.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/landau-annie-edith
1875: Birthdate of Swiss nativeAlbert Bachman, the son of Russian parents who gained fame as “Frenchviolinist, composer and musicologist.”
https://it-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Alberto_Bachmann?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
1877: Birthdate of Russian native aTexas resident Sarah Chaya Childs Werlin, the wife of Jacob Baer Werlin whomshe married in 1898 and the mother of Roselle, Joseph, Reuben, Nadine and Dr.Samuel Garrow Werlin.
1878(15th of Adar II, 5638):Shushan Purim
1878: Birthdate of AlsaceLorraine native Leopold Kling who in 1894 came to the United States where withhis older brother Samuel Kling established Kling Brothers and Company in 1897in Chicago.
https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/kling-bros/
1878: Today, Hannah Rothschild, “theonly child of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild of Mentmore married the Earl ofRosebergy, a leader of the Liberal Party and future prime minister after whichthey lived at Londowne House and raised two son and two daughters.
1878: Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli “gave away the bride” when HannahRothschild married Philip Archibald Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery. ThePrince of Wales attended the ceremony that made her the Countess of Rosebery.
1879: Birthdate of Vienna native Isidor Bodanskie, who gained fame as RobertBodanzky the journalist, poet, andartist also known as Danton who was the brother of the opera conductor ArturBodanzky.”
1879: It was reported today that Dr. Henry S. Jacobs will deliver a lecturethis weekend at the Norfolk Street Synagogue sponsored by the Young Men’sHebrew Union.
1879: In New York City, Rebecca Rosenblatt and Bernhard Eiseman gave birth toNYU (BA) and Columbia (MA) graduate Aaron Eiseman, the JTS ordained rabbi andmember of Zeta Beta Tau who began leading Congregation Beth Israel Bikur Cholimin 1903
1880: J W Seligman & Company are parties to a suit to be heard this morningby Judge Thayer concerning creating a receivership for financially troubledMemphis, Carthage and Northwestern Railroad Company. Jesse Seligman is one thetrustees for the railroad’s bond holder
1880: Tonight, the Concord Society is sponsoring a charity for the benefit ofthe Young Ladies’ Charitable Union which is part of the United HebrewCharities. This first annual event is being held at New York’s Lexington AvenueOpera House.
1881: In Austria-Hungary, RoseBerkowitz and Benjamin Goodman gave birth to newspaper publisher MichaelLeopold Goodman, are resident of the United Since starting in 1892 and the husband of Sara Trucker whom he married in1906 who rose from being a newsboy to publisher at The Scrantonian whileserving as a director of the Federation of Jewish Charities, chairman of theUnited Jewish Campaign and Keren Hayesod Drive and president of Temple Israel.
1881: Birthdate of ParisianEugene Paul Louis Schueller, the founder of the cosmetic and beauty companyL’Oreal and employer of Efrayim Khahneman, whom he rescued from the Nazis whichmeant that Efrayim and his wife Rachel could give birth to Nobel Prize winnerDaniel Kahneman.
1882: Calcutta, India native Emanuel Raphael Belilos and Simha Ezra gave birthto David Belilos who was buried in China after he died at the age of 16 fromthe plague in Hong Kong.
1883: In Warsaw, Siegmund Simon Epstein and Sarah Sophia (Lurie) Epstein gavebirth to Russian-American mathematical physicist Paul Sophus Epstein.
http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/pepstein.pdf
1885: The Yiddish theater season opened in New York with an operetta by AbrahamGoldfaden.
1885: Birthdate of GerdaWindesheim, a Westphalian survivor of the Holocaust.
1886(13th of Adar II, 5646): Parashat Tzav; Shabbat Zachor; ErevPurim
1886: Birthdate of Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik, the native of Galicia and husbandor Rose Lipschultz Gusik whose life of crime included time with Al Capone onthe south side of Chicago.
1886: In Philadelphia, PA, Florence Stern and CharlesC. Davidson gave birth to Jefferson Medical College trained physician, thehusband of Julia Brown, an “assistant professor of orthopedic surgery atJefferson Medical College” and an orthopedic surgeon at the Jewish Hospital inPhiladelphia.
1886: In Philadelphia, Emily Grace Solis and Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen gave birthto “prize-winning poet, author, translator, historian, and communal leaderEmily Solis-Cohen.” (As reported by Arthur Kiron)
1887: Birthdate of Hartog Hamburger the Amsterdam diamond polisher and baseballwho died after being hit in the head with a line drive.
1888(8th of Nisan, 5648): Sixty-five-year-old Selina Hendricks,, theNew York born daughter of Harmon and Frances Isaacs Henricks and the sister ofUriah, Henry, Joshua, Washington, Justina, Montague, Emily and HermoineHendricks passed away today after which she was buried in Beth Olom Cemetery inRidgewood, NY.
1890(28th of Adar, 5650): A Hebrew school teacher named Nathan Wisskerz“committed suicide” this evening “by turning on the gas in his room” at 51Henry Street.
1890: in Gelsenkirchen, Julius Hess, an attorney and his wife Elisabeth gavebirth to Ernst Mortiz Hess, “ the baptized German Jew who “commanded thecompany of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 in which Adolf Hitlerserved during WW I.”
1890: Leo von Caprivi, who was an opponent of the anti-Semitic parties, beganserving as Chancellor of Germany and Prime Minister of Prussia
1891: In Berlin, BernhardGoldberg, the Polish born son Rose and Abraham Goldberg and his wife MarieGoldberg gave birth to Betty Goldberg who was the wife of Ruben Cohn andScholum Solon Salomon Hirsch
1891: Fifty-two-year-old Americanactor Lawrence Barrett who portrayed the character of Shylock “with force,sincerity and at times splendid effect” but was still not on the level of Edwin“Eddy” Booth whose portrayal of Shakespeare’s Jew was considered to be the bestof them all.
1892: Birthdate ofNewcastle-on-Tyne native Irving J. Caplan who came to the United States in 1902at the age of ten, became a successful businessman in Troy, NY, married MarieCaplan and served as a director of the United Jewish Services.
1892: “Ivory in the Past” discussed the two sources of this item in ancienttimes. While the exploits of Hannibal and others points to an Africansource the fact that the ancient Hebrews and those living on the Indian coastand in Ceylon use the same word for Elephant (habba) and the similarity betweenthe Hebrew word for Monkey (koph) and Sanskrit word for monkey (kapi) are twoof the indications that India which was home to elephants was the other sourcefor ivory along with the proven fact that Solomon conducted trade with theorient.
1893: “Errors About Intermarriage” published today provided the views of RabbiJoseph Silverman of Temple Emanu El on this subject. According toSilverman, the Bible only prohibits marriage to seven Canaanite tribes and ascan be seen from the examples of Moses and Solomon allows for marriage tonon-Jews.
1893: William F. Wharton completed his services Assistant Secretary of Stateduring which he had asserted “that the Department of State is without aninformation respecting the alleged suspension of the Russian edict against theJews.”
1894: Birthdate of New Yorknative and holder of a Ph.D. from Columbia Dr. Herman Feldman, the author of StabilizingJobs and Wages and Racial Factors in American Industry who served asdean of School of Business at CCNY before becoming a Professor of IndustrialRelations at Tuck School, Dartmouth College.
1894: As the Board of Health struggles to combat the dangers of tuberculosis,it is having 15,000 copies of instructions on how to deal with consumptivesprinted in a variety of languages including Hebrew. (Apparently, the cityofficials did not know that Yiddish would have been a better choice for theimmigrants from Eastern Europe)
1894: The Ladies’ Bikur Cholim Society hosted a Purim celebration foryoungsters at their industrial school.
1895: CCNY grad and Bellevue Medical College trained medical doctor andbacteriologist Louis Fischer, theHungarian born son of Louise Frankel and Ignatz Fisher married Clara Robertwith whom he had two sons – Doctors Alfred and Robert Fischer
1895: In Brooklyn, Louis Grunhurt and his sister Mrs. Mary Ballowa appeared insurrogate court to contest the will of their brother, the late Dr. BernhardGrunhurt who was reportedly lost at sea last August.
1895: The German Societies in New York asked that the fountain in memory of thepoet Heinrich Heine be placed at 59th street and 5thAvenue entrance to Central Park.
1896: Birthdate of Lithuaniannative and JTS graduate Rabbi Abraham Mayer Heller,the spiritual director of the Flatbush Jewish Center since 1924 and author whoraised a son, Rabbi Zachary Heller with his wife the former Frances Lesser,passed away today.
1896: The list published today ofthose institutions that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment has given moneyto from the theatrical and concert license fund includes Beth Israel ($100);United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York ($1,000) and Montefiore Home($500)
1896: “The Hebrew Infant Asylum Benefit” published today described thesuccessful auction conducted by Maurice Barrymore and Cyril Scott for boxes andseats at the upcoming performance of The Heart of Maryland, the proceeds ofwhich will go to the Jewish charity.
1896: Speaking of the Jubilee Celebration being held to mark the 50thanniversary of the founding of Shaaray Tefila, Rabbi De Sola Menes who has ledthe congregation for 18 years, said today. “The congregation Shaaray Tefila inthe half century of its existence has occupied a unique position among theJewish congregations of this city” because “it has held the mean between theradical reform and the ultra-orthodox” making “haste slowly” while moving“sedately with the times.”
1896: Dr. M.H. Harris delivered his second and final lecture today on theInquisition at Temple Israel in Brooklyn, NY tonight. During the lecturehe defended himself against charges of “ignorance, prejudice and falsifyinghistory” made by Revered Brann of St. Agnes’s Roman Catholic Church made afterthe first lecture. “The Catholic Church would like to rid itself of this blogupon its annals. The fact is the Inquisition was a religious institutionbut was mixed up with civil affairs…The fact that the Inquisition wasinstituted to investigate heresy is the best proof of its religiouscharacter.” (Holocaust deniers were preceded by Inquisition deniers)
1897: Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elhanan opened in New York as an Orthodox rabbinicalseminary. It later expanded into Yeshiva University, with both Jewish andsecular studies, a medical (Einstein) and a graduate school (Ferkauf).
1897: Oscar S. Straus, formerly the United States Minister to Turkey, returnedto New York from Europe today.
1897: It was reported today that Mrs. Joseph B. Bloomingdale and Mrs. EdwardFridenberg had been responsible for the recent party given for those staying atthe Amsterdam Street facility of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. Mrs. Bloomingdale isthe wife of the founder of Bloomingdales Department Store.
1897(16th of Adar II, 5657): Seventy-four year old Dr. Ignatz Grossman thenative of Hungary who was ordained as a rabbi forty years ago passed away todayin New York City.
1897: Birthdate of Polish born and Columbia and JTS trained rabbi, Max Artz,the Vice Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and husband the formerEsther Podolsky with whom he raised three children – Miriam, Raphael and DavidArtz.
1898: Two days after he had passed away, Lewis Hart, the son of Joseph andRosetta Hart, the husband of Elizabeth Hart and father of Mary and Hannah Hart,who then married Adelaide Levy with whom he had had seven children was buriedtoday at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1898: Yetta Firber took the three children of David Bogin, who were hergrandchildren home from the police station after it appeared they had beenabandoned their father. It turned out that they their mother had died in Denverand they had gotten lost on their way to join their father in East Hartfordwhere he had gone for work. (Such was the chaotic life of the children ofthe “immigrant generations.”)
1898: Three days after she had passed away, Jane Abrahams, the daughter ofPhillip Levy and Elizabeth Davis and the wife of Isaac Abrahams with whom shehad had six children was buried today at the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in London.
1899: Herzl established the Jewish Colonial Trust as the financial arm of theWorld Zionist Organization. Its goal was to encourage Jewish settlement andprojects which would “advance the Zionist cause.” One of its subsidiaries, theAnglo-Palestine Company, later became Bank Leumi. Other investment helpedcreate the Israel Electric Cooperation and Bank Hapoalim.
1899: Private Joseph Weinstein, Joseph Polskey, George C. Hahn, Phillip Isaacs,Julius C. Meyer and Harry Newburg were among those who completed their militaryservice with the Third Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Infantry wasmustered out of the U.S. Army at Savannah, GA.
1900: Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, a play in one act by David Belascopremiered today at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City.
1900: Birthdate of Ukraine native and ColumbiaUniversity trained educator Abraham Feingold who came to the United Stateswhere he co-founded the Rugby School and was the victim into a “Red” hunt inNew York City.
1901: Russian bank director Levontin presents his plan to buy up the shares ofthe Jaffa-Jerusalem railroad. Levontin will become the assistant manager of theBank in London.
1902: Birthdate of Baltimore native David Lasser, the science fiction writerand social activist. (As reported by Lawrence Van Gelder)
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/07/us/david-lasser-94-a-space-and-a-social-visionary.html
1902(11thof Adar II, 5662): Sixty-three-old Grodno born Jewish Hebrew writer, editor,and translator Abraham Shalom Friedberg who wrote under the pen name Har Shalomand “the acronym Hash” who was “an early member of the proto-Zionist ḤibbatZion movement, which he joined after the pogroms of 1881, and began to campaignfor Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel in the pages of Ha-Melitz” passedaway today in Warsaw.
https://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/02364.php
1903: Lady Sybil Grant the daughter of the 5th Earl of Rosebery andHannah de Rothschild, the only child of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild and agranddaughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild married Charles John Cecil Grant.
1903: Birthdate of SouthAfrican explorer, stockbroker and chess champion Albert Sidney Pinkus passedaway today in New York City.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=39243
1903: American author and humorist Charles Godfrey Leland passed way. Inhis memoir, Leland recounted the following exchange with George Eliotconcerning her one novel about Jews. “One day she told me that, in orderto write Daniel Deronda she had read through 200 b00s. I longed totell her she had better have learned Yiddish and talked with 200 Jews and beentaught as I was by my friend Solomon the Sadducee the art of distinguishingFraulein Lowenthal of the Ashkenazim from Senorita Arguado of the Sephardim bythe corners of their eyes.
1904: “The American JewishHistorical Society whose object is to collect and publish data relative to theachievements of Jews in” the United States, “held the first session of the itstwelfth annual meeting” tonight in the vestry room of the Spanish and PortugueseCongregation.
1905: The Constitution Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rithcontinued to meet for a second day New Orleans.
1906: Almost two years after the death of Herzl, Sir Edward Gray wrote toLeopold Greenberg rejecting the proposal for a Jewish settlement in Sinai forthe third and last time.
1906: Birthdate of Rockford(Illinois) High School star basketball player Luis Beher, the first Jew to winKenneth Sterling Day Award while playing for the University of Wisconsin wherehis young brother Sammy was “a star football player.”
1906(23rd of Adar, 5666): Fifty-five year old Isaac Gellis the successfulbusinessman and Jewish community leader who came to the United Statesthirty-five years ago who has served as a trustee of the Hebrew Sheltering ArmsSociety and the Montefiore Home passed away today at his residence on HenryStreet.
1906: In London, “Esther (née Goldfarb) and Philip Birnbaum, Jewish immigrantsfrom Poland who fled Warsaw” gave birth to Abraham David Birnbaum who at theage of three months came to New York where, as Abraham “Abe” Beame became thecity’s first Jewish mayor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/nyregion/abraham-beame-is-dead-at-94-mayor-during-70-s-fiscal-crisis.html
1907: Southern African financier Solomon Barnato Joel, the son of Joel andCatherine Joel, Ellen (Nellie) Ridley, gave birth to their daughter Eileen whomarried John Rogerson and became Eileen Daphne Solvia Rogerson.
1907 (6th of Adar, 5667): Birthdate of Moshe Aharon, the sixth child of Shosheand Rabbi Avraham Halevi Shapiro, whom the sainted Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer,zt"l, pronounced to be an ilui (child prodigy)
1908: “A decision ended down bySupreme Court Justice McCail, by which he held that the marriage of Louis andSadie Kresh, which took place in Richeletz, Austria, was not valid, it isasserted by Lawyer Benjamin Reass of 132 Nassau Street, will have the effect ofinvalidating hundreds of similar marriages among the Austrian Jews on the eastside, besides affecting several thousand children.”
1909: Birthdate of Boston nativeBenjamin Alexander, the Harvard trained physician who specialized in hematologyand was a member of the faculty at Cornell University.
1909: Birthdate of Cincinnati native and San Francisco physiatrist Meyer AaronZeli
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~law00092
1909: In Rotterdam, Moses and Bertha (Haas) Geleerd gave birth to University ofLeyden trained physician Elisabeth Rozetta Gelreed the psychiatrist who fledNazi Europe to work at the Menninginer Clinic in Topeka, Kansas who raised oneson, Richard with her husband Rudolph Lowentstein.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Geleerd-Elisabeth-Rozetta
https://www.loc.gov/item/mm83060566/
1910: “Dr. Stephen S. Wise, whoreturned last week from a visit to the leaders in England of the liberal Jewishmovement” delivered a sermon in the Free Synagogue this morning on “Is There tobe a Schism in English Jewry?” in which “he declared that the Orthodox EnglishJews had no understanding of what the liberal Jewish movement means in America”and have “the mistaken impression that it was an attempt to escape fromJudaism.”
1911: In Berlin, “Austriantheater director Max Reinhardt manager of the Deutsches Theater, and his firstwife Else Heims” gave birth to Gottfried Goldman, who gained fame asproducer-director Gottfried Reihnardt.
1911: Birthdate of Milo Sperber, the “Polish born English actor, director andwriter” who was the brother of Manès Sperber.
1911: “The body of a thirteen year old boy, Andrei Yustschinksi was discoverednear a brick factory on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.” Thissimple statement describes the first event in what will eventually become TheCase of Mendel Bellis, one of the most infamous episodes of anti-Semitism inCzarist Russia.
1912: “Gerson Sirota, the Russiancantor who sailed on the Lusitania for home at 1 o’clock this moring wasexamined in the City Court yesterday in a suit which is being brought againsthim by Herman Herzog,” the plaintiff seeking “to obtain $764 for expenses whichhe asserts were incurred by him in certain business relations which he had withthe singer in Europe.”
1913(11th of Adar II, 5673): Ta’anit Esther
1913: “In Berlin, Austriantheater director Max Reinhardt (until 1904: Max Goldmann), manager of theDeutsches Theater, and his first wife Else Heims gave birth movie director andproducer who in 1932 came to the United States where he remained after theNazis came to power where he made such moves as “The Great Waltz,” served inthe U.S. Army during WW II and served as the stepfather of “US federal judgeStephen Reinhardt.”
1913(11th of Adar II,5673): Sixty-nine-year-old Confederate Army veteran Henry Lazarus passed awaytoday in Camden, Arkansas.
1914: Birthdate of Chicago nativeand University of Illinois alum Ralph “Ruffy” Silverstein, the successfulamateur and professional wrester and husband of Evelyn Epstein with whom he hada son and a daughter who reached the rank of Captain in the U.S. Amy where hewas with the intelligence unit known as Ritchie Boys and “an advisor to GeneralMacArtur “about the Japanese study of martial arts during the U.S. occupationof Japan.”
1914: It was reported today thatthe Educational Alliance on East Broadway and Jefferson Street will host theninth concert of the Educational Chamber Music Society on March 22nd.
1915: American Jewish ReliefCommittee apportions $30,000 for Jews in Palestine, $1000 per month (for 6months) for Palestinian soup kitchens, and $3000 per month (for 10 months) toTurkish Jews outside of Palestine.
1915(5th of Nisan, 5675): Parashat Vayikra
1915(5th of Nisan,5675): Sixty-seven-year-old Rebecca Kahn Affelder, the daughter of Nathan andIsabella Jeri Levy Kahn, the wife of Leopold Affelder and the mother of Minnie,William, Harry and Jeanette Affelder passed today in New York after which shewas buried in the Mount Neboh Cemetery in Glendale, NY.
1916(15th of Adar II, 5676): Shushan Purim
1916: “The Bondman,” silent film with music by Max Steiner was released todayin the United States.
1916: Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity in a journal calledAnnalen der Physik. (And that is much as I know about it except to refer you toDr. Joe Rosen, the only person I know who understands it.)
1916: As of today, “gifts valuedat close to $100,000 and ranging all the way from a sticks of candy, to a grandpiano, a seven passenger touring car and even building sites in the Bronx andStaten Islands have been received by the People’s Relief Committee which isorganizing the bazaar and fair for Jewish suffers to be held at the GrandCentral Palace” starting in the last week of March and continuing into April.
1916: Today, it is estimated thatthe gold and jewels given by the Jews of Baltimore at a mass meeting held“under the auspices of the American Jewish Relief Committee” are worth at least$3,500.00.
1917: In what must have seemedlike a momentous occasion at the time for all Russians, including her Jewishcitizens a manifesto issued by the new Russian Provisional Government publishedtoday began “Citizens: The great work has been accomplished. By a powerful stroke the Russian people haveoverthrown the old regime. A new Russiais born. This coup d’etat has set thekeystone upon long years of struggle.” (In less than a year, the Bolshevikswould sweep the forces of democratic reform aside and create a dictatorshipevery bit as vile as the Czars.)
1917: InJerusalem,” noted archeologist Eleazar Sukenik and educationalist and women'srights activist Hasya Sukenik-Feinsod” gave birth to Yigal Sukenik who asYigael Yadin gained fame fighting in the War for Independence, serving as thesecond Chief of Staff for the IDF and becoming a first-rate archeologist. Ifyou did not know he was a real person, you would swear that some novelist hadinvented this fascinating person.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yigael-yadin
1917: Tonight’s mass meeting inMadison Square Garden which “has been arranged with the co-operation of theForward Association, the Bund, the Russian Social Democrats, the JewishSocialist Federation of America, the Workingmen’s Circle, the United HebrewTrades and the New York local of the Socialist Party” and for which 8,000tickets have been sold, will mark “the first time in the history of” the cityof New York that “thousands of Jewish refugees will assemble to cheer a Russiangovernment.”
1917: In an exclusive interviewgiven to the Associate Press today the new Foreign Minister of Russia said that“there now appear to be no obstacles” to “a new commercial treaty betweenRussia and the United States” since “all the disabilities governing Jews” fromAmerica coming to Russia “have been removed.”
1917: Following the sinking ofseveral U.S. ships by German submarines, President Wilson met with his cabinetwho voted unanimously in favor of going to war four days before Rosh ChodeshNisan.
1917: Two days after she had passed away, 63 year old Fanny Levy was buriedtoday at “the Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1918(7th of Nisan, 5678): Fifty year old Richmond, VA native Mitchell H. Markwho moved to Buffalo where he opened a hat store and then with his brother Moe“founded the Vitascope Theatre…one of the first permanent movie theatres” builtanywhere in the world.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5D6113FE433A25752C2A9659C946996D6CF
http://buffaloah.com/h/mark/Obit.pdf
1918: Birthdate of comedian andtelevision game show host, Jack Berry. Jack Barry met and teamed up with DanEnright in Borscht Belt clubs. They started Winky Dink and You, a children'sshow known for the special transparent covers children had to put over the TVscreen so they could draw the "hidden pictures" during Winky'sadventures. Barry and Enright were also instrumental in producing and hostingearly game shows, such as Concentration and Tic Tac Dough. Barry is bestremembered as the host on the game show “21” which went from sensationaltelevision hit to be the symbol for corruption in the communications industry.
1918: It was reported today thatbased on information supplied by the Jewish Welfare Board, “Jewish families inthe vicinity of army and navy cantonments” are scheduled to act as hosts forJewish soldiers and sailors” who will have leaves so they may observe Passover.
1919: As of today, “more than$36,000 has been contributed toward New York City’s quota of $100,000 in theIsaac M. Wise Centenary Campaign being held this week in the United States” toraise fundes for HUC and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1920(1st of Nisan,5680): Triple Header – Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat Hachodesh
1920: Samuel Greenbaum, theLondon born son of Louis and Rachel Greenbaum, the Columbia trained attorneyand husband of Selina Ullman was appointed to serve as an Associate Justice ofthe Appellate Division of New York.
1920: It was announced today atits national headquarters on East Forty-second street that “Mrs. WoodrowWilson, the wife of the President of the United States, has commended thenational campaign now being conducted by the National Council of Jewish Womento raise $150,000 with which to carry on Americanization and welfare work.”
1921; In Vienna, Béla Schwimmer and Marie Karp gave birth to Vilma MitziSchimmer who came to the United States in 1935 and married Edward James in 1944in Brooklyn.
1921: Today, on Sunday, Dr.Rudolph Grossman is scheduled to deliver a sermon on “Galsworthy’s Strife andthe Problem of Capital and Labor” at Temple Emanue-El where services start at11:15 a.m.
1921: Dr. Klass is scheduled todeliver a sermon on “Our Faith in the Time of Trouble at services that start“promptly at 11” at Central Synagogue on Lexington Avenue.
1921: In New York City, twohundred delegates at a preliminary meeting of the Provisional Committee for anAmerican Jewish Congress adopted resolutions that were intended to make this apermanent organization.
1922: Birthdate of actor Werner Klemper. The German born refugee from Hitler’sGermany was the son of Otto Klemper. Ironically, Werner gained his greatestfame as the bumbling Colonel Klink on “Hogan’s Hero” the sitcom set in a GermanPOW Camp.
1922: The 25 teams that have been canvassing the “trades and industries” aspart of the New York City campaign for Jewish relief for the victims of thewar, famine and pogroms in Russia are scheduled to turn $450,000 tonight.
1922: In the Bronx, Jewish immigrants Bessie (née Mathias) and Irving Reinergave birth to comedian and writer Carl Reiner who first gained fame as “thesecond banana” on the Sid Caesar comedy show “Your Show of Shows” and is alsoremembered for his work with the 2000 Year Old man and the Dick Van Dyke Show.
1923: In Cleveland, OH, the willof Charles Eizenman, who for twenty years was the President of the Federationof Jewish Charities, which was probated today called for $50,000 to be given tothe Federation of Jewish Charities, $12,000 to be given to JPS and $2,000 toHUC.
1924(14th of Adar II, 5648) Purim
1924: Birthdate of British Jewish scholar Hyam Maccoby, the grandson of RabbiChaim Maccoby and the librarian of Leo Baeck College whose area of expertisewas the relationship between early Christianity and first century Judaismincluding the contention that the last two thousand years of westernanti-Semitism had its origins in the drive of early Christian leaders toseparate their religion and followers from the Jews.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/31/guardianobituaries.religion
1925: The new Hebrew Universityis scheduled to be dedicated on Mt. Scopus with Lord Balfour and Dr. ChaimWeizmann in attendance.
1925: Charley Phil Rosenberg(Charles Green) won the World Bantamweight Championship today.
1926: In New Orleans, the formerAnna Leibof gave birth to Tulane University engineering graduate Harold AllenRosen, “a driving force in the invention of modern communication satellitetechnology.
1926: Soprano Nanette Guilfordwhose name at birth was Nanette Gutman, who had sung in smaller roles untiltoday “when she appeared as Ginerva in La Cena Delle Beffe by UmbertoGiordano.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-24-mn-477-story.html
1926: “The Fiddler of Florence” acomedy written and directed by Paul Czinner and co-starring Grete Moseheim wasreleased today in Germany.
1927(16th of Adar II, 5687): Purim Meshulash
1927(16th of Adar II,5687): Eighty-three-year-old Harold Solomon Gerstner, the Polish born son ofHyman and Fannie Gerstner and first husband of Sarah Blumberg Parnes passedaway today after which he was buried at the Baron Hirsch Cemetery on StatenIsland.
1927: “More than 3,000 childrenattended the first rally of the New York Jewish Religious Schools which hadbeen organized by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of the Central Synagogue.”
1927: Birthdate of Manhattan native Lawrence Seymour “Larry” Phillips thePrinceton University History major who became a top executive in the familyowned Phillips-Van Heusen clothing business and a leading Jewishphilanthropist.
1928: Birthdate of Anthony Bernard Blond “a British publisher and author” whowas a cousin of Harold Laski. He passed away in 2008. You can learn more aboutBlond by reading his autobiography Jew Made in England, which was published in2004.
1929: In Paris Michel (Max) Zide and Perl Zahnstecher Zider, “immigrants fromeastern Europe who owned a grocery store in a poor Jewish neighborhood” gavebirth to Rose Rosenthal, who in 1941 escaped with her parents to the UnitedStates where they opened a grocery store in Brooklyn and she “earned a degreeat CCNY,” married and moved with her new husband to Houston where she foundwork as a French teacher and raised two children.
https://hmh.mwmdigital.com/survivor/111/
1929: New York Mayor Jimmy Walker“spent more than three hours” this “afternoon on a tour of the new Beth IsraelHospital,” a five bed facility facing Stuyvesant Square.
1930: Birthdate of Arthur Schneir, the native of Austria who survived the Nazioccupation of Budapest who has been Senior Rabbi at Park East Synagogue since1962 and who founded the Appeal of Conscience in 1965.
1931(2nd of Nisan, 5691): Sixty-seven-year-old Mathilde Saphir, theAustrian born daughter of Aurelia and David Schwarz and the wife of JosefSaphir passed away today in Vienna.
1931: In the Bronx, Charles Lipshitz and the former Frances Rosen gave birth toCCNY graduate Harold Lipshitz, who gained fame as actor Hal Lidnen who gainedhis greatest fame in the title role of the police comedy “Barney Miller.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-17-ca-5428-story.html
1932: Christians, Moslems andJews united for a week-end of prayer that ended today “for relief from acontinued heat wave and drought that have seriously menaced crops.
1932: During a radio sermondelivered this afternoon on radio station WPCH Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein ofthe Institutional Synagogue declared that “the Geneva Conference is but apretense at an effort for world peace” and that “the world through the Leagueof Nations is merely nibbling at, rather than grappling with, the question ofworld peace.”
1933: “German Fugitives Tell of Atrocities at Hands of Nazis” published todayprovided readers of the New York Times with accounts from Americansarriving in Paris from Germany of “outrages and cruelties in racial purging”and “Jews fleeing persecution.”
1933: At the initiative of the Jews of Vilna, an anti-Nazi boycott began. Iteventually spread all over Poland and to many countries in Europe. Yet within 6months Poland itself signed a non-aggression treaty with Hitler which calledfor the cessation of all boycott activities.
1933: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that “the hoisting of Naziswastika banners over the German consulates at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hasgreatly disturbed the feelings of the Jewish public.” Fearing hostiledemonstrations, British police and detectives are guarding the Germanbuildings.
1933: The Nazis completed building Dachau, the first of the infamousconcentration camps.
1933: Darius Paul Dassault born Darius Paul Bloch reached the rank of BrigadeGeneral in the French Army today.
1934: “Immediate investigation ofNazi activities in the United States was voted by the House today, 168 to 31,after speakers had condemned in sharp terms the Nazi persecution of the Jewsand other groups, amid frequent applause.”
1934: Professor John Dewey of theDepartment of Philosophy, Columbia University, said today that he was convincedthat Hitler and Hitlerism were "by all odds the greatest threat to worldpeace today."
1934: “Anti-Semitism, hithertoinactive in Yugoslavia, made its first appearance” in Sarajevo tonight “when agroup of students demonstrated noisily during a concert given by a Jewishsinging society composed mostly of German emigrant Jews” after which “theythrew rotten eggs and distributed anti-Semitic leaflets.”
1935(15th of Adar II,5695): Shushan Purim
1935(15th of Adar II,5695): University of Minnesota trained attorney Benjamin Mandel Goldman, theWaukesha, WI born son of Anna and Jacob Goldman and the husband of ClaraGoldman who was an active member of B’nai B’rith passed away today in LosAngeles.
1935(15th of Adar II,5695): Newark, NJ businessman and manufacturer Max Eisman, a member of theHebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York passed away today.
1936: Founding of Kol Israel (Voice of Israel).
1936: “Chancellor Adolf Hitlerhas assumed himself a 100 per cent majority of all the valid votes cast in the”upcoming “Reichstag election” in which Jews will not be allowed to vote “bycreating a ballot that leaves the voter only choice of voting for him orinvalidating the ballot.”
1936: “In Palestine,establishment of a legislative council continued to occupy the minds of bothArab and Jewish leaders” with the “latter being adamant in their refusal toparticipate in the council on the basis of representation in proportion topopulation which would make the Jews a permanent minority.”
1936: “Polish Jews have stronglycriticized” a government bill to ban ritual slaughtering “which they said wouldeliminate their method of kosher slaughtering.”
1936: The daughter of a Vienneserabbi who was employed in Berlin “as a religious instructor by a Jewishcommunity center” has been released after six months of imprisonment and“ordered to leave Germany as an undesirable alien.”
1937(1st of Nisan,5697): Parashat Vayikra; Rosh Chodesh Nisan; Shabbat HaChodesh
1937: Rabbi Samuel H. Goldensonis scheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Religion of the Psalms” at TempleEmanu-El this morning.
1937: Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel isscheduled to deliver a sermon on “The Eternal Road” today.
1937: Rabbi Louis I. Newman isscheduled to deliver a sermon “Benjamin Franklin and the Jews” this morning atRodeph Sholom.
1937: The Luncheon of the Women’sDivision of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan(Soviet Union) is scheduled to take place this afternoon at the Hotel Astor.
1937: In Honolulu, KatherineGordon Landis and Robert E. Hammersberg gave birth to Lois Ann Hammersberg, whoas Lois Lowry “received the National Jewish Book Award in 1990, in theChildren's Literature category.”
1938: In his sermon today at theNorth Baptist Church in New York, Rev. Francis K. Shepherd said “God will savethe Jews from Hitler as He saved them from Haman.”
1938(17th of Adar, II,5699: Cantor Mordecai Balag passed away today in New York City.
1938(17th of Adar II,5698): Fifty-seven-year-old Rebecca Schweitzer, the Russian born daughter ofHirsch and Hannah (Levine) Garbovitsky and the wife of Peter J. Schwietzer,“the largest importer and exporter of cigarette paper in the United States whoused their fortune for philanthropy and support of the embryonic Zionistmovement passed away today.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/schweitzer-rebecca
https://www.vera.org/blog/vera-schweitzer-the-vera-institutes-worthy-namesake
1939: Seven thousand Jews fledGerman occupied Memel, Lithuania.
1939: A 24 hour strike was scheduled to begin a 5 A.M. in Palestine to protestGreat Britain’s latest plan that would, according to The National Council OfPalestine Jews, would lead to the “liquidation of the Newish national home” andstrangle Jewish settlement in Palestine.
1939: Rabbi Milton of Steinberg of the Park Avenue Synagogue spoke to theBrooklyn Chapter of Hadassah at the Waldorf-Astoria where 2,000 women heardchapter president Mrs. Joseph L. Horowitz announced that “$60,000 has beenraised since last October” to help to support projects in Palestine.
1939: Approximately 5000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures, including manydone by Jewish artists, deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis were burnedon an enormous pyre in Berlin.
1940: Birthdate of Mary EllenMark, the Philadelphia native who became “one of the premier documentaryphotographers of her generation.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_13306.html
http://www.maryellenmark.com/bio_resume/bio_resume.html
1941:Rabbi Robert “Serebrenik met in Berlin with Adolf Eichmann who demanded thatLuxembourg must be “Judenrein”, and was given eleven days to complete theemigration of the Jewish population from Luxembourg.
1941: At Baumann and Berson Children's Hospital in the Warsaw Ghetto, nurse D.Wagman writes that she is helpless to prevent death.
1942: After having been turned over to the Nazis today George Politzer, theMarxist philosopher was tortured – treatment that would last until hisexecution in May
1943(13th of Adar II, 5703): Parashat Vayikra; Shabbat Zachor; ErevPurim
1943:Having left Salonika on March 15, the first Greek transport arrived atAuschwitz, marking the beginning of the end of this centuries-old Jewishcommunity whose melodies linger on today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gP8GaTxdX-k&t=550s
1943: On Purim Eve in Czestochowa, Poland, over 100 Jewish doctors and theirfamilies were taken away and shot. The meaning behind the factor-of-ten chosenwas revenge for the ten sons of the Jew hater Haman who were hanged in Biblicaltimes. Victims include 56-year-old gynecologist Dr. Kruza Gruenwald,30-year-old general practitioner Dr. Irena Horowicz, and 44-year-oldneurologist Dr. Bernard Epstein. Czestochowa is the home of the “BlackMadonna.”
1943: “Bulgarian military police, assisted by German soldiers, took Jews fromKomotini and Kavala off the passenger steamship Karageorge, massacred them, andsunk the vessel.”
1943(13th of Adar II, 5703): Eighty give year oldJeanette Isaac Davis who wrote the “foreword to the second edition The TrueBoundaries of the Holy by her father Samuel Hillel Isaacs and husband ofBenjamin Davis passed away today in Chicago.
1944: One day after the Nazis took control of the Hungarian capital, the SSseized control of The Budapest University of Jewish Studies and turned it intoa prison
1944(25th of Ada, 5704): Japp de Mesquita, the son Dutch graphicartist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita and Elisabeth de Mesquita died atTheresienstadt today approximately a month after his parents had been gassed atAuschwitz.
1944: “Cover Girl” a musical directed by Charles Vidor with songs by JeromeKern, Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg was released today in the United States.
1945: Erhard Auer, the Socialist political leader who was physically attackedby the Nazis in the 1930’s and who was imprisoned at Dachau for his allegedrole to kill Hitler in 1944 died today.
1945(6th of Nisan, 5705): An Allied air raid killed Jewish women in a camp atTiefstack, Germany, near Hamburg.
1946: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, the President of the ZOA, todaytold members of the national executive committee that while in England he hadmet with former Prime Minister Winston Churchill who assured him that “he hasalways been a Zionist and still is a Zionist.”(Editor’s note – too bad he did not act that way when he was enforcingthe White Paper during WW II)
1947: “The World Jewish Congress announced” today that “it hasreceived assurances that a law recently enacted by Ecuador was no bar to theadmission of immigrants on the basis of race, creed or religion.”
1948: “David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, speakingin Tel Aviv today, stigmatized United States abandonment of partition as"surrender" and rejected a United Nations Palestine trusteeship"even for the shortest time."
1948: Laura Z. Hobson’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” wins the Oscar
http://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/20/1978/laura-z-hobson-s-gentleman-s-agreement-wins-oscar
1949: Israeli forces took control of Ein Gedi on the western shore of the DeadSea. This move helped to secure the western border of the newly created Jewishstate and to protect Israeli interests in an area that would be beneficial tothe chemical and tourist industries.
1950: “The Angel with the Trumpet” the film “based on a novel byErnst Lothar” which “follows the rise and fall of an Austrian aristocrat, andher eventual death following the Anschluss” was released in the United Kingdomtoday.
1950: Governor Dewey, Mayor O’Dwyer, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and AlbertEinstein are scheduled to serve “as honorary patrons for the annual all-starshow and fashion revue of the Israel Orphan Asylum being held today in MadisonSquare Garden.
1950: Moshe Sharett, Israel’s Foreign Minister, “called upon the seven-member nationsof the Arab League today to make peace with Israel by direct negations.” Hesaid that Israel only wished “to consolidate its present position…There will beno further war if the Arab world does not will it.”
1951:After opening in New York, “Royal Wedding” the Alan Jay Lerner musical comedydirected by Stanley Donen premiered today in Los Angeles
1952(23rd of Adar, 5712): Rabbi Armand Bloch passed away.
1952(23rd of Adar, 5712): Seventy-nine year old Racie Adler passedaway.
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/adler-racie
1952: The Jerusalem Post reported that the ExecutiveBranch of the US government made it known that experience in Israel suggestedthat technical cooperation could succeed there in specific objectives:"Namely to aid in reducing the present economic crisis, to contribute significantlyto the development and to increase productivity." The Presidium of theConference of Jewish Claims Against Germany announced that Moses A. Levitt,executive of the American Joint Distribution Committee, would lead the delegationto The Hague Conference on Jewish Claims and Reparations. In the House ofCommons Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State, announced that Britain wascontributing £4,452,440 for the first year of the three-year internationalprogram (the Blandford Plan) to resettle 800,000 Arab refugees from Palestinein various parts of the Middle East. In addition, Britain announced that it wasproposing an interest-free loan of £1,500,000 to Jordan to contributeindirectly to the same purpose.
1953: “Destination Gobi” anoff-beat WW II movie produced by Stanley Rubin with music by Sol Kaplan wasreleased in the United States today.
1954(15th of Adar II, 5714: Parashat Tzav; Shushan Purim
1954(15th of Adar II, 5714): Joe Levin, a founder of B’nai Abraham in Brenham,Texas and the father of Jewish Texan historian, Rosa Levin Toubin passed away
1954: In Madison, Wisconsin, Morton Wagner and Bernice Maletz gave birth toauthor and screenplay writer Bruce Alan Wagner whose work includes “A Nightmareon Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.”
1954: Birthdate of East Meadow,NY native and University of California, Hastings Law graduate Louis Sachar, thehusband of Carla Askew who was the “inspiration for the counselor in There'sa Boy in the Girls' Bathroom and Stanley's lawyer in Holes with whomhe had one daughter, Sherre and who is the award-winning author “best known forthe Wayside School series and the novel Holes.”
1955(26th of Adar,5715): Fifty-one-year-old Brown graduate and Harvard trained attorney Harry A.Shulman, the Mogilev, Belarus born son of Simon Shulman and Tillie Klebanoffwho was a “professor at Yale Law School from 1930 to 1954 and Dean of the YaleLaw School staring in 1954 passed away today.
1956: Under the leadership of Habib Bourghiba, Tunisia gained its independencefrom France. Bourghiba was well disposed to the 100,000 strong Jewishcommunity, appointing a Jew to his first cabinet. But he was not able to stemthe tide of "Islamic extremism" that would take hold in subsequentyears.
1956: In Lambeth, South London Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, BaronessOppenheim-Barnes and her husband gave birth to Phillip Oppenheim, who when hebecame an MP became part of what have been the only Parliamentary Mother-Sonduo in English history
1958(28th of Adar, 5718): Seventy-eight-year old Anna Warner Robins,the Polish born daughter of Benjamin and Pearl Leach Eichelbaum Warner and thewife of David M. Robbins passed away today after which she was buried at theHome of Peace Memorial Park.
1958: “Merry Andrew,” a musical starring Danny Kaye, directed by Michael Kidd,produced by Sol C. Siegel and written by Isobel Lennart and I.A.L. Diamond, wasreleased for showing to the movie going public.
1959(10th of Adar II,5719): Seventy-eight-year-old Columbia University medical school graduate andUniversities of Strasbourg, Berlin and Vienna trained psychoanalyst Dr. LeonardBlumgart, the husband of Eleanor Blumgart and father of John Blumgart whostudied with Dr. Sigmund Freude and who “during WW I served as a captain in theArmy’s neuropsychiatric service at Plattsburgh, NY” passed away today at hishome in Manhattan.
https://www.proquest.com/openview/40c6737542d4f1f4d21c647d4658a206/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818729
1960: William Schueller and Eleanor Neyens Schueller of Zwingle, Iowa gavebirth to Elizabeth Mary “Liz” Schueller, the younger sister of Deb Levin, Z”L.
1960: ABC broadcast “You Still MyEyes,” an episode of “The Rebel,” directed by Irvin Kershner.
1962(14th of Adar II, 5722): Purim
1964: Ernest Lehman completed hisfinal draft of the script for “The Sound of Music” today.
1965: Rabbi Heschel flew to Selma from New York tonight as civil rights leadersplanned to try another march from Selma to Montgomery. Previous attempts hadbeen stopped by violence, so the aged sage was literally risking his physicalwell-being to help "the widow, the orphan and the stranger in ourmidst." The march was part of the fight to gain passage of what becameknown as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the second most important piece ofCivil Rights legislation ever adopted in the United States.
1966: “The American Associationfor Jewish Education voted here day to authorize the creation of a NationalYouth Commission to look into "the complaints of Jewish adolescents thatthe curricula of Jewish schools are often inferior and their instructiondull."
1967(8th of Adar II,5727): Seventy-two year old Breslau native KurtPeiser, who in 1907 came to the United States where after earning his collegedegrees “served as executive director of Jewish federation and welfare fundssuccessively in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Detroit and Philadelphia” and who helpedto “set up relief programs in North Africa” during WW II after the Allies haddriven the Italians and Nazis back across the Mediterranean Sea” passed awaytoday.
1968: In New York City, Attorney Arnold Jacobs Sr. and Ellen Kheel gave birthto journalist and author Arnold Stephen “A.J.” Jacobs, Jr. the husband of JulieSchoenberg with whom he had three sons – Jasper, Zane and Lucas – and cousin oflegal scholar and fellow author Cass Sunstein.
1969(1st of Nisan,5729): Rosh Chodesh Nisan
1969(1st of Nisan,5729): Sixty-two-old Abraham Rabinowitz, the graduate of the NYU School ofCommerce and “assistant vice president and chief accountant of the Eastern LifeInsurance of New York, the brother of Max, Samuel and Ida, suffered a fatalheart attack today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/03/22/90073420.html?pageNumber=33
1969(1st of Nisan,5279): Sixty-six-year-old CCNY and Columbia University alum, Morris H. Weiss,the principal of Public School 215 since 1950 who was the husband of Rose AluffWeiss and the father of Michael A. Weiss passed away today.
1970: The funeral services for Isadore H. Prinzmetal, the motion pictureindustry attorney and a leader in Jewish community service, were conductedtoday at Hillside Memorial Park.
1970: In New York, June Brody and David Rapaport gave birth to “actor, directorand comedian” Michael David Rapaport.
1971: Today at the Colony Theatrein Boston the curtain came down on the pre-Broadway run of “Follies,” “amusical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman.
1971: Birthdate of New York native Alexander Gaberman who gained fame as actorAlexender Chaplin, the husband of Daisy Chaplin and the son-in-law of producerHarold Prince who played the role of Rabbi Rosenberg in “Wish I Was Here.”
1973(16th of Adar, II,5733): Seventy-year Martin Codel, the “biological son of Samuel Braverman” whowas raised by his mother Sarah Codel and his adopted father Morris Codel andthe father of Ella Codel who was the author of Radio and Its Future andwho along with Sol Taishoff and Harry Shaw founded Broadcasting which is now published as Broadcasting and Cable passed away today
1974: “The Super Cops” based on abook of the same name starring Ron Leibman was released in the United Statestoday.
1974(26th of Adar,5734): Sixty-nine-year-old Russian born University of Paris and ColumbiaUniversity graduate “Dr. Joseph Bram, professor emeritus of sociology atHofstra,” the husband of the former Jean Rhys with whom he had three daughters –Susan, Elizabeth and Margare – passed away today at Brunswick General Hospitalin Amityville.
1975(8th of Nisan, 5735): Boston born Harvard graduatedeighty-nine-year-old Reuben B, Gryzmich, a philanthropist of Boston and afounder of the United Jewish Appeal and Beth El Hospital in Boston who was a “director of the Hotel Corporation ofAmerica, chairman and president of Alles & Fisher, cigar makers, andpresident of the Plymouth Rubber Company of Canton, MA” who was the husband ofEthel Gryzmich passed away today in Palm Beach, FL.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/22/archives/reuben-b-gryzmich-89-boston-philanthropist-dies.html
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155422715642
1975: Aharon Uzan replaced Yitzhak Rabin as Communications Minister
1976(18th of Adar II,5736): Shabbat Parah
1976(18th of Adar II, 5736): Seventy-three-year old Solomon AaronKaye, the New York
City born of Sarah Hartman and Jacob Kaye, the husband of Wenona Edith FlemingWitter whom he married in 1969 and the organizer in 1922 of The ConsolidatedReporting Company who was the President of both the Jewish Biographical Bureauand the Habris Hebrew Home for the Aged, passed away today in Punta Gorda, NYafter which he was buried at the Restlawn Memorial Gardens in Port Charlotte,FL.
1977: The Jerusalem Post reported that the French ForeignMinister, Louis de Guiringaud, said that Arab recognition of Israel's right toexist was a prerequisite of any Middle Eastern settlement. Israel, hecontinued, would have to withdraw from occupied areas, but this did not mean acomplete withdrawal from all territories captured in 1967. In Cairo themainstream and hard-liners of the members of the Palestine National Councilstruggled over the wording of a declaration of a political stance of the PLO.In Haifa the president of the Technion, Amos Horev, deplored the lack of along-term industrial planning in Israel.
1978(11th of Adar II, 5738): Dr. Meyer Aaron Zeligs, whose defense of AlgerHiss, Friendship and Fratricide, stirred controversy when it waspublished in 1967 with the conclusion that Whittaker Chambers was apsychopathic personality died today on his 69th birthday at his home in SariFrancisco.”
1980: “Nijinsky,” a biopic directed by Herbert Ross and co-produced by HerbertRoss was released today in the United States.
1981: In California, Actor Dustin Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman gave birth to JacobEdward "Jake" Hoffman who has gone on to develop an acting career ofhis own.
1981(14th of Adar II,5741): Purim
1981(14th of Adar II,5741: Seventy-four-year-old Olympic Gold Medal winning speed skater IrvingJaffee passed away today.
1981: “Omen III: The FinalConflict” based on characters created by David Seltzer with music by JerryGoldsmith and featuring Mason Adams was released today in the United States.
1981: “The Postman Always RingTwice,” a film version of the novel by the same name with a script by DavidMamet was released today in the United States.
1981(14th of Adar II,5741): Seventy-three-year-old businessman, Morris Abrams, the holder of patentsfor the Arrows brand staple gun the husband of Flo Abrams and the father ofAllan, Louise and Isabel Abrams passed away today in Englewood, NJ.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/obituaries/morris-abrams.html
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86817849/
1983(6th of Nisan,5743): Seventy-four-year-old Polish born Holocaust survivor and “Yiddishwriter, editor and historian” Julian Hirshaut, the author of Jewish Martyrs ofPawiak and the husband of Hanna Hirshaut with whom he had two daughters, Bettyand Vivian, passed away today.
1984(16th of Adar II,5744): Eighty-five-year-old Rose Snyder, the Ukraine born daughter of Victor(Avigdor) Kramer and Rochel? Krasnoshchek, the wife of Henry Snyder and motherof Elaine Richman and Marvin Lewis Snyder passed away today in Boston.
1987: “Stripped to Kill,”co-staring Norman Fell was released today in the United States
1989(13th of Adar II,5749): Ta’anit Esther; Erev Purim
1993: 27th of Adar, 5753): Shabbat HaChodesh
1993: 27th of Adar, 5753): In separate incidents, two Israeli soldiers –Sergeant Gitai Avisor and Sergeant Yossi Shabtai – were killed.
1993: “Barbarians at the Gate” a movie version of the book by the same namethat described Henry Kravis’ efforts to buy RJR Nabisco with a script by LarryGelbart was broadcast today by HBO
1993: A third meeting between Arabs and Israelis began in Oslo, Norway.
1994: “The Flowering Peach,” directed by Martin Charnin,the New York born Jewish son of Birdie Blakeman an opera singer William Charminopened at the Lyceum Theatre which is owned and operated by The Shubert Organization (GeraldSchoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President).
1996: UPN broadcast the first episode of “The Sentinel” a Canadiantelevision series created and written by Danny Bilson.
1997(11th of Adar II,5757): Fast of Esther
1997: A “special edition” of “Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold,” amovie version of the novel produced by Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan wasreleased today
1998(22nd of Adar, 5758): Yemina Avidar-Tchernovitz, the native ofVilna who arrived in Palestine as a twelve year old in 1921 and went on tobecome an author of children’s books written in modern Hebrew passed awaytoday.
http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13612
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/tchernovitz-avidar-yemima
2000: It was reported today that “The discovery in downtown Prague of theremnants of a medieval Jewish cemetery has turned into a political and moralquandary for the Czech government and an embarrassment for the small CzechJewish minority.”
2000(13th of Adar II,5760): Ta’anit Esther observed for the last time during the presidency of BillClinton.
2001: President Bush welcomedIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the White House.
2002(7th of Nisan, 5762): Seven Israelis died when an Islamic terrorist blewhimself up in a packed bus.
2002: Seven people were killed and about 30 injured, several seriously, in asuicide bombing of an Egged bus #823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at theMusmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The victims: Sgt. MichaelAltfiro, 19, of Pardes Hanna; St.-Sgt. Shimon Edri, 20, of Pardes Hanna; SWOMeir Fahima, 40, of Hadera; Cpl. Aharon Revivo, 19, of Afula; Alon Goldenberg,28, of Tel Aviv; Mogus Mahento, 75, of Holon; and Bella Schneider, 53, ofHadera. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
2003: “Six decades after hisparents were arrested and deported from German-occupied France, Kurt WernerSchaechter, an Austrian-born French Jew went to court here today to demand thatFrance's national railroad company accept its responsibility and expressremorse for transporting Jews to Nazi death camps.”
2004: The treasure hunt, David Blaine's $100,000 Challenge, devised by gamedesigner Cliff Johnson, creator of The Fool's Errand, was solved today.
2005: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of topics of special interest to Jewish readers including"Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Fatherof Cybernetics" by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, "Rebels on theBacklot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood StudioSystem" by Sharon Waxman and "The Angel of Forgetfulness" bySteve Stern.
2005(9th of Adar II, 5765): Eighty-four year old “businessman andphilanthropist Sir Leslie Porter passed away today.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-leslie-porter-6149848.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1486217/Sir-Leslie-Porter.html
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/24/guardianobituaries.rogercowe
2006: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Jonathan Pollard’s appeal “to overturn afederal appeals court ruling that denied his attorneys access to classifiedinformation used in his trial” that they claim “are needed to make Pollard’scase for clemency.”
2006: “The Valet” starring Gad Elmaleh and directed by Francis Verber, whosefather Pierre-Gilles Verber and grand-uncle Tristan were Jewish but who wasbaptized at birth was released in France today.
2006:The WB broadcast the final episode of “Related” created by Marta Kauffman andstarring Lizzy Caplan.
2006(20th of Adar, 5766): Ninety-six-year-old “Sophie Gerson, a legendaryfigure in the history of textile union organizing in the South and a lifelongfighter for peace, justice and socialism” passed away today. (As reported byDeborah Gerson and Tim Wheeler) https://jwa.org/thisweek/mar/20/2006/death-of-social-activist-sophie-gerson
2006: Haaretz reported that Archaeologists have uncoveredunderground chambers and tunnels constructed in northern Israel by Jews forhiding from the Romans during their revolt in 66-70 CE.
2007: An exhibition featuring documents from the Otto Frank as well as othermaterial from the YIVO archives pertaining to the Holocaust in the Netherlands,which has been on display on the Batkin Mezzanine level, at the Center forJewish History comes to an end.
2007: The Association for Jewish Theatre in conjunction with the Jewish Theatreof Austria hosts a three day international conference for Jewish theaterprofessionals, artists, and aficionados.
2007: Avraham “Hirchson was investigated for seven hours by Israeli policeregarding an alleged embezzlement at a non-profit organization while serving asthe chairman of the National Workers Labor Federation.”
2007(1st of Nisan, 5667): Rosh Chodesh Nissan
2007(1stof Nisan, 5667): Eighty-four-year-old music executive Hyman Y. “Hy” Weisspassed away today. (As reported by Ben Sisario)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/obituaries/31weiss.html
2008 (II Adar 13 5768): Feast of Nicanor – “Judah Maccabee’s defeat of theSyrian general Nicanor was originally celebrated as a minor festival on 13 Adar(I Macc.7:49), this ‘Day of Nicanor’ being specifically mentioned in theApocrypha as occurring immediately before Purim, ‘the day of Mordecai (II Macc.15:36). In time, the Feast of Nicanor gave way to the Fast of Esther.”[Editor’s note: In another of the many oddities connected with the Purimcelebration, a joyful celebration of a real historic event gave way to a fastconnected to what is at best a piece of historic fiction.]
2008 (II Adar 13 5768): Fast of Esther
2008: In Washington, veteran broadcast journalist Daniel Schorr discusses hisnew book, "Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium."
2008: The state of Iowa issued Agriprocessors Inc. of Postville 39 citationswith proposed penalties of $182,000 for allegedly violating state workplacesafety and health standards
2009: On Friday night, members of Mount Kisco’s Jewish community gather atMount Kisco Hebrew Congregation in an unparalleled display of Jewishrevitalization and Jewish unity as they take part in the 13th Shabbat AcrossAmerica Program.
2009: Today “an appellate court denied Bernie Madoff’s request to be releasedfrom jail and returned to home confinement until he is sentenced to prison inJune. (Talk about Chutzpah)
2009: “I Love You Man,” a comedy directed by John Hamburg and starring PaulRudd, Jason Segal and Andy Samberg was released today in the United States.
2009: Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu met with President ShimonPeres at 10:30 this morning to ask for more time in which to form a coalition.Peres agreed to the request, and gave Netanyahu an additional two weeks.
2010: The Washington Post features a review of "TheIrresistible Henry House" by Lisa Grunwald, the daughter of the late HenryGrunwald.
2010: Meeskeit and A Matter of Size are scheduled to be shown at 14th AnnualMandell JC Hartford Jewish Film Festival.
2010: Today two rockets were launched at the Ashkelon district, north of Gaza,another landed in Shaar HaNegev, northeast of Gaza and fourth rocket was firedat Shaar HaNegev.
2010: A weak earthquake was felt in northern Israel tonight; no injuries ordamage was reported.
2010: The color version of “Forbidden Zone” which had marked Danny Elfman’sdebut as a director when it was released in black and white in 1980 was shownfor the first time today at the Museum of Modern Art.
2010: For the first time in 62 years, hundreds gathered for emotional Sabbathprayers at the renewed, majestic Hurva synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem.
2011: Ilana Cravitz is scheduled to appear at Klezmer Workshop in Cambridge,UK.
2011: Israeli vocalist Yasmin Levy is scheduled to appear at the SF Jazz SpringSession where this daughter of “a revered Turkish cantor” will explore aforgotten treasure trove of songs dating back to 16th century Spain.”
2011(14th of Adar II): Purim]
2011(14th of Adar II): Fifty-four year old Robert Spiegelman, who accompaniedthe high school band he directed to the 2011 Rose Bowl Parade despite a seriousillness, passed away today. Speigelman grew up and lived in the St. Louis area.The school’s jazz ensemble, under his direction, traveled to Paris in 1997 toplay in the 50th anniversary of the school's namesake’s renowned flight fromNew York to Paris. (As reported by the Eulogizer)
2011: The New York Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including“Modigliani: A Life” by Meryle Secrest and "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" byJames Carroll.
2011: The Los Angeles Times featured reviews of books byJewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including “New andSelected Stories” by E.L. Doctorow and “Lee Krasner: A Biography” by GailLevin. In describing herself, Krasner said, "I happen to be Mrs. JacksonPollock, and that's a mouthful. The only thing I haven't had against me wasbeing black. I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you,and a little too independent."
2011: 22-year-old IDF Armored Corps officer was stabbed during an attempt tosteal his weapon in Jaffa this morning. An unknown masked assailant stabbed thesoldier in his chest and made off with his weapon.
2012: “Underdogs: A War Movie” is scheduled to be shown at the GainesvilleJewish Film Festival in Gainesville, FL.
2012(28th of Adar, 5772): One-hundred-one year Rabbi Chaim PinchasScheinberg passed away today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/9161424/Rabbi-Chaim-Pinchas-Scheinberg.html
2012: In Philadelphia, PA, Congregation Mikveh Israel's 3rd Annual SephardicFilm Festival is scheduled to come to an end.
2012: “400 Miles to Freedom” is scheduled to be shown this afternoon at the16th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival.
2013(9th of Nisan, 5773): Ninety-nine-year-old mezzo-soprano RisëStevens who Jewish mother, “the former Sadie Mechanic, recognized Risë’s vocaltalent early and was an enthusiastic steward of her youthful career” passedaway today. (As reported by Margalit Fox)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/arts/music/rise-stevens-opera-singer-dies-at-99.html?hpw&_r=0
2013: Ruth Thomson, author of Terezín, A Story of the Holocaust isscheduled to deliver a lecture at The Wiener Library in London.
2013: “Jailed Unjust in the Death of a Rabbi, Man Nears Freedom” publishedtoday described events the events surrounding the two decades old murder ofRabbi Chaskel Werzberg
2013: Israeli soldiers provided medical care to four wounded Syrians on theGolan Heights border
2013: A special screening of “The Flat” is scheduled to be hosted UKJF 2013:President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conveyed broadconsensus on Israel’s top security priorities in a statements following ameeting in Jerusalem.
2013: The American Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to presents “LouisMarshall and the Founding of Modern American Judaism”
2013:Barak Obama is scheduled to begin his first trip to Israel as U.S.President. He had previously visited while serving as a U.S. Senator.
2014: Violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth are scheduled tojoin the IPO conducted by Zubin Mehta in a Benefit Concert held in honor of thelate Marvin Hamlisch.
2014: The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is scheduled to hostits 2014 Humanitarian Awards Dinner.
2014: “Wagner’s Jews” is scheduled to be shown at the Houston Jewish FilmFestival.
2014: The 17th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival isscheduled to come to an end.
2014: The Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to open with ascreening of “When Comedy Went to School.”
2014: A Jewish teacher is attacked leaving a kosher restaurant in Paris. Afterbreaking his nose, the assailants drew a swastika on his chest
2014: “The Israel Air Force showed off its new cutting-edge training aircraft,the M-346” today. (As reported by Marissa Newman)
2014: Meir Kin, who has refused to give his wife Lonna Kin a get marriedDaniela Barbosa tonight in Las Vegas in what was a very public reminder of theinequity in Jewish divorce law.
2014: Eight of 11 families of Iranian Jews missing since the 90s were told thisevening at the Center for Intelligence Heritage that their relatives weremurdered on their way to Israel. (As reported by Orli Harari)
2014: “A German panel ruled against the heirs of four Jewish art dealers todayin a complicated case of a monumental collection of medieval religious artknown as the Welfenschatz, or Geulph Treasure.” (As reported by AmandaBorschel-Dan)
2015: The exhibition “Lincoln and the Jews” which was inspired by thepublication of Lincoln and the Jews by Jonathan Sarna sponsored by the New YorkHistorical Society is scheduled to open today.
2015: “The Green Prince” directed by Nadav Schirman is scheduled to be shown atthe Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival.
2015: Today “Empty Mirrors Press published Howard Epstein's political memoir RiseAgain: Nova Scotia's NDP on the Rocks an account of his 15 years inprovincial politics, the history of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia,and his analysis of the successes and failures of the Dexter NDP governmentduring its term in office.
2015: Lewis Black is scheduled to perform at the Music Box in Atlantic, City.
2016: In Atlanta, the Breman is scheduled to host Henry Birnbery, the Germanborn American G.I. who will describe his experiences as one of the “firstAmerican eyewitnesses to the devastation of the Nazi concentration camps.”
2016: “Wedding Doll” and “A Night at the Opera” are scheduled to be shown onthe final day of the Houston Jewish Film Festival.
2016: “A Tale of Love and Darkness” which marked the directorial debut ofNatalie Portman “in this adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Amos” isscheduled to be shown at the Israeli Film Festival in Philadelphia, PA.
2016: LimmudFest New Orleans 2016 is scheduled to come to an end today.
http://limmudnola.org/schedule/
2016: Hadassah of Greater Washington is scheduled to host High Tea and Harmony,a fundraiser offering attendees a multi-dimensional musical experience alongwith a traditional “High Tea.”
2016: As part of “Jews in the American South” Rhetta Mendelsohn is scheduled tolead a walking tour of Old Charleston “with special emphasis on significantarchitecture, garden culture and sites of Jewish interest” followed by dinnerwith Eli Hyman, the “great-grandson of W.M. Karesh, a Jewish immigrant fromeastern Europe who started a wholesale dry-goods business in the city in 1890.”
Read more: http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSZOcOI
Read more: http://go.forward.com/jews-in-the-american-south/#ixzz43JSHRXoX]
2016: The annual AIPAC Policy Conference is scheduled to open in Washington,DC.2016: The New York Times featuredreviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and theSterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen, Carry Me by Peter
2017:“Israel’s David’s Sling anti-missile battery will go operational within thenext two weeks, providing the finishing touch of the Jewish state’smulti-tiered missile defense array, a senior Israeli Air Force officer saidtoday.” (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)
2017(22nd of Adar,5777): Eighty-seven years old Robert B. Silvers, the son of James J. Silvers asalesman, sometime farmer and small business owner, and Rose Roden Silvers amusic critic for The New York Globe and one of the first female radio hosts forRCA, who founded The New York Review of Books passed away today.
http://www.nybooks.com/robert-silvers/
2017: A surprise drill begantoday in which “2,000 reserve soldiers were called up…to simulate war in theGaza Strip.”
2017(22nd of Adar,5777): Eighty-seven-year-old psychotherapist George Weinberg passed away today.(As reported by William Grimes)
2017: JW3 is scheduled to host a screeningof The Second Time Around, an improbable tale of love involving Isaac Shapiro,“a grumpy Polish tailor
2018: “The 6th GlobalForum for Combating Antisemitism” is scheduled to continue for a second day inJerusalem.
2018: The Evelyn Rubenstein JCCHouston is scheduled to host “Get Cultured: Short Film Night” at the AxelradBeer Garden.
2018: “End Game” and “Keep theChange” are scheduled to be shown at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.
2018: Publication of thepaperback edition Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character by MartyAppel, the Brooklyn born son of Irving and Celia Appel and graduate of theState University of New York at Oneonta
2018: In Jerusalem, MercazHatarbuyot is scheduled to host concert pianist Eliahou Zabaly.
2018:Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center is scheduled tohost “The Unlikely NaziHunters: A Rare Conversation with Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
2019(13th of Adar II,5779): Fast of Esther; at night read the Megillah; for more see http://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/
2019: The New York SephardicJewish Festival is scheduled to come to an end with the New York premiere ofthe documentary Photo Farag and presentation of the Pomegranate Award to“director Lisa Azuelos.”
2019: In Florida, the Boca RatonJewish Film Festival is scheduled to host screenings of “Working Woman,”“Joseph Pulitzer” and “A Fortunate Man.”
2019: In Metairie, LA (suburbanNew Orleans) Congregation Beth Israel, JNOLA and the Jewish Community arescheduled to host “a very Lego Purim Party” that will include services and aMegillah reading for the whole family.
2020: The Jerusalem Marathonwhich was scheduled to take place today has been postponed “until after theJewish holidays in the fall” per the order of Mayor Moshe Leon.
2020: In New Orleans, Limmudfest,which was scheduled to begin today has been canceled due to the pandemic.
2020: Safety Jordan Dangerfield,a member of the Ethiopian Jewish Community signed a new contract with thePittsburgh Steelers today.
2020: “Shabbat Live or Later:Coronavirus Edition,” a livestream organized by Ahava is scheduled for thisevening.
2020(24th of Adar,5780: On the Jewish calendar, Yahrzeits of “Rabbi Isaack Eizik Margolit, authorof Seder Gittin ve-Halizah,”and “Rabbi Eliezer Lipmann Silbermann, founder of Ha-Maggid, the first Hebrew weekly newspaper” (As reported byAbraham Bloch)
2021: Contra Costa JCC is scheduledto present an in-person Passover scavenger hunt for ages 3 to 13 and theirfamilies.
2021: KlezCalifornia is scheduledto offer the first screening on of line of “an artful video adaptation ofSholem Asch’s ground-breaking 1906 play ‘God of Vengeance’” performed by theYiddish Theatre Ensemble under the direction of Bruce Bierman.
2021: the Beth Am Oneg Israel andShabbat Jewish Film Series Committees are scheduled present a screening of“Dolphin Boy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyWHhta5LQ
2021(7th of Nisan,7801): Parashat Vayikra;
2022: The JWI Women’s LeadershipConference is scheduled to open today.
2022: Hundreds of thousands ofIsraelis gathered today at the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a spiritualleader in ultra-Orthodox Judaism, in one of the largest public gatherings inIsraeli history. (As reported by Patrick Kingsley)
2023: Tel Aviv Fashion Week isscheduled to continue for a second day.
2023: The Weitzman NationalMuseum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host “Freedom SederRevisited.
2023: The International Lab forResearch and Leadership in Interfaith Collaboration and Coexistence arescheduled to present “The Journey of the Sarajevo Haggadah.”
2023: The Weitzman NationalMuseum of American Jewish History is scheduled to host the last session of“Telling Our Stories” during which attendees investigate their family'shistories and stories using the Museum's award-winning collection forinspiration.
2024: The Museum at EldridgeStreet is scheduled to host film critic for New York Magazine (Vulture) BilgeEbiri, and moderator Lucy Shahar for a discussion of the acclaimed comedy-drama“The Holdovers.”
2024: In Cedar Rapids, theHadassah Book Club under the leadership of Nancy Margulis is scheduled todiscuss Kosher Kosher by Jean Meltzer.
2024: In partnership with theAmerican Society of Jewish Music, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research isscheduled to host a Purim Spiel that will include musicians from the MannesSchool of Music and the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and performersfrom The School of Drama who will provide a dramatic and festive telling of thestory of Esther, Mordechai, Haman, and King Ahasuerus which will be punctuatedby thrilling performances of klezmer music.
2024: Lockdown University isscheduled to host a lecture by Jeremy Rosen “Making Sense of the Bible: Can itsAncient Text be Relevant Today? Numbers 13:16, Good Spies, Bad Spies.”
2024: As March20th begins in Israel, the Hamas held hostages beginday 166 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.)
2025: LockdownUniversity is scheduled to host a lecture by Varda Yorn and Trudy Gold on “ToIsrael with Love” Part of the Varda Yoran Story.”
2025: Aspecial screening of “October 8th” is scheduled to take place at theCinepolis of Jupiter thanks to the effort of Rabbi Alon of Temple Beth Am.
2025: Based onpreviously published information Prime Minister Netanyahu reported that he likePresident Trump was a victim of “the leftist Deep State.”
2025: The Jewish Museum andJBC are scheduled to host a conversation with authors and creators whose work demonstratesthe importance of storytelling in Black and Jewish communities across various disciplines.”
2025: JWA isscheduled to host a book talk with Ayelet Tsabari, author of Songs for theBrokenhearted that “ tells the story of a young Yemeni Israeli womanwho learns of her mother's secret romance in a dramatic journey through lostfamily stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter.”
2025: InPhiladelphia, The Weitzmann is scheduled to host “Senator Chuck Schumer's Antisemitismin America Book Launch with Michael Solomonov.”
2025: “TheAmerican Society for Jewish Music and YIVO are scheduled to host afreeconcert of Jewish choral masterpieces, featuring the magnificent voices ofstudentsfrom the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute ofReligion’sDebbie Friedman School of Sacred Musicand the JewishTheological Seminary’sH. L. Miller Cantorial School. Joyce Rosenzweig andCantor Natasha J. Hirschhorn will serve as conductors, with Pedrod’Aquinoaccompanying the choir on the piano.”
2025: Thefirst lecture in the series “From Loneliness to Friendship In Agnon’s LiteraryEncounters” is schedule to take place at the Jerusalem Campus of the OnoAcademic College 2025: The National Library of Israel will host a Gallery Talkthat will answer the question, “How did a chance encounter in a hallway lead tothe deposit of Franz Kafka’s archive at the NLI?”
2025: ANU –Museum of the Jewish People and the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television,Tel Aviv University are scheduled to host “Culture and New Media: Behind theScenes of Digital Exhibit Development” with curator Michal Houminer and NofarLaor.
2025: As March20th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of ant-Semitism sweeps across theglobe, the reality is that the remaining Hamas held hostages begin day 531 incaptivity (Editor’s note: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover sowe are just providing a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time)
