JUNE 20
840: Louis the Pious,King of the Franks and the Holy Roman Emperor by virtue of being the son ofCharlemagne. When it came to dealing with his Jewish subjects, Louis followedin the footsteps of his father. During his reign charters were issued giving“Jews permission ‘live according to their Law.’ They promised protection ofbody and property and permitted freedom of movement and trade including…theright to hire Christians to work in their homes. Some Jews were also exempted from the laws oftrial by ‘ordeal of fire and water.’”
1214: University of Oxford received its charter.Jews were not always welcome at Oxford.The Oxford University Reform Act passed in 1854 allowed Jews to takedegrees at Oxford. Today, Oxford offers degrees in both Hebrew and JewishStudies.
1239: Pope Gregory IXordered all copies of the Talmud to Dominican and Franciscan friars who wouldreview the text looking for disparaging references to Jesus and Mary. Any copies that were found to contain such referenceswere to be burned. This is the same Popewho in 1234 had “invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum –perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According tothis, the followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition ofpolitical servitude until Judgment Day.”
1338: Duke Otto and Duke Albert issued their “Jews’Decree.”
1391 (17thof Tammuz): “The Christian population of Toledo rose against the largest Jewishcommunity in Spain.” Four thousand Jews were killed.
1510: Birthdate ofBeatrice de Luna who gained fame as Gracia Mendes Nasi one of the richest andmost powerful women of her times who was the mother-in-law of Don Joseph Nasi.
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nasi-dona-gracia
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/dona-gracia-nasi/
1567: Jews wereexpelled from Brazil by order of Regent Don Henrique
1616: Sir Henry Finchthe author of The World's Great Restauration, or Calling of the Jews, andwith them of all Nations and Kingdoms of the Earth to the Faith of Christ whichcalled for the “restoration of the Jews to the promised land as a step to theSecond Coming was knighted at Whitehall Palace
1647: In Dresden,John George II and Magdalene Sybille of Brandenburg-Bayreuth gave birth totheir only son John George III, Elector of Saxony who in 1682 “issued a newdecree, in which the onerous regulations relating to Jews passing through thecountry were somewhat modified, since those regulations were found to bedetrimental to the yearly fairs at Leipsic.”
1652: During thereign of Mehemed IV, Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa was appointed grand vezir of theOttoman Empire. During Pasa’s time ofservice, Mehmemed Jews fleeing the Chmielnitzki Uprising were encouraged tosettle on the banks of the Danube in Morea, Kavala, Istanbul and Salonica.
1667: Clement IXbegan his papacy during which Giovanni Battista Jona, the rabbi who convertedto Christianity at Warsaw in 1625, dedicated a translation into Hebrew of TheNew Testament.
1757: A debate begantoday at Kamienice in which the Sabbatians sought to prove that their doctrine,unlike Judaism, was compatible with Christianity.
1757: In Kameiek(Podolia), the Frankists, calling themselves Zoharists, decided to wage waragainst the Talmud. They contacted the local bishop, Dembovsky, and convincedhim to arrange a disputation. Naturally, the Talmud was condemned and thousandsof copies were burned. The Frankists then became practicing Christians. TheFrankists were Jews who were followers of Jacob Frank who had proclaimedhimself the Messiah.
1768: The third ofthe Haidamack uprisings called Koliyivschyna began. During the uprising anestimated 50,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered by the Cossacks. “The Haidmamaks were gangs of Cossacks, whoalong with their peasant allies robbed traveling merchants and plundered thetowns and villages in the Ukraine. They saw themselves as heirs to Khmelnitski.The Khmelnitski were the Cossacks who slaughtered Jews and Poles in wholesalelots in the middle of the 17th century. Both of these murderous slaughters were partof the drift into degradation that became the lot of increasing numbers ofEastern European Jews. This drift intodegradation brought about numerous responses on the part of the Jews rangingfrom mysticism and messianicism to the Haskalah and immigration to WesternEurope and eventually to the New World.
1769: Michael Gratzand Miriam Simon, the parents of Philadelphia native Rebecca Gratz were marriedtoday in Lancaster, PA.
1783(20thof Sivan, 5543): Samuel Judah passed away today in Philadelphia.
1783(20thof Sivan, 5543): Fifteen-year-old Judah Jacob, the New York born son of BaruchJudah passed away today in Philadelphia.
1783(20thof Sivan, 5543): Samuel Judah (not to be confused with Vincennes, IN attorneyand Republican leader of the same way) passed away today in Philadelphia.
1790(8thof Tammuz, 5550): Saul Lowenstein, the Rzeszow, Poland born son of Miriam, the daughter Amsterdam rabbi Tzvi Ashkeazi and Aryeh Liebben Saul and husband of Hendele, the daughter of Abraham Kahana, who was rabbiof Grodno who succeeded his father as Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam passed awaytoday after which his son Jacob Moses Lowenstam became Chief Rabbi. (Somesources show his d/o/d as June 19.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10148-lowenstamm-saul
1792(30thof Sivan 5552): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1792: Eighteen-month-oldHeva bat Jacob Levi, who had passed away yesterday, was buried today at“Alderney Road (Globe Rd.) Jewish Cemetery.”
1792: Moses Magnus married Rachel Solomons today at the Great Synagogue.
1792: Birthdate of Samuel Israel Mulder, the Amsterdam native who was thefirst person to translate TaNaCh into Dutch.
1794: In Brno,Gottlieb Bezalel Jeiteles and Johanna Jeitteles gave birth to Alois Jeittelesthe founder of the Jewish weekly Siona, and the author of poetic works set tomusic by Ludwig van Beethoven.
1794: Birthdate ofAustrian physician and author Alois Isidor Jeitteles, who founded the JewishWeekly “Siona” and was the father of suffragette Ottilie Bondy.
1802: In Frankfurt AmMain, Benedict-Benedikt Moses Worms, the son of Moses Gabriel Worms, and Hitzel/ Henriette Worms and his wife Schönche Jeanette Worms gave birth to GabrielBenedict Worms.
1803: In Baltimore,MD, Frances Gratz and Reuben Etting who married in 1794 gave birth to EdwardJohnson Etting, the Huband of Philippa Minis whom he married at Savannah, GA in1841 and with whom he had five children.
1808: Birthdate of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch,leading founder of what some call Modern Orthodox Judaism.
1811: Lewis HenryLazarus married Eliza Aaron today at the Great Synagogue.
1811: In Charleston,SC, Rabbi Emanuel Nunes Carvalho who had been serving as the rabbi for theJewish community in Bridgetown, Barbados, officiated at the wedding of Mrs.Catherine Jacobs and Solomon Hyams.
1812: InPhiladelphia, Ezekiel Jacob Ezekiel and his wife Rebecca, both of whom had comefrom Amsterdam, gave birth to their second child and first son Jacob Ezekiel,the grandson of Hebrews scribe Eleazer Israel and nephew of Michael E. Cohenwho adopted him when his mother died and began his career at the age of 13 asan apprentice book binder.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ezekiel-jacob
1815: Lord Rowerth,an agent of Nathan Rothschild who had stayed at Ostend awaiting to hear theoutcome of the Battle of Waterloo brought word to the Jewish banker who“immediately transmitted the information to the government” – a fact that runscontrary to the myth that Rothschild made a fortune while keeping the news asecret.
1819: In Herxheim amBerg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Therese Aron and Simon Kuhn gave birth to NewYork banker Abraham Kuhn, the husband of Regina Loeb, the brother of SolomonLoeb with whom which he founded Kuhn Loeb and Company and the uncle, bymarriage of his niece Therese Loeb of famed banker and leader of the AmericanJewish community, Jacob Schiff.(For more see the Money Kings by Daniel Schulman)
1819: In Cologne,Isaac Judah (Eberst) Offenbach and Marianne Offenbach to composer Jacques JacobOffenbach, who created almost 100 operettas in a twenty-year period.
1823: In Germany, thegovernment issued a decree “ordaining that Jewish services should be conductedexclusively in the German language and that the reading in Hebrew of sectionsof the Bible should be followed by their translation into the vernacular.”
1828: Mordecai M.Noah accused Elijah J. Roberts, “a former business associate” of having“violently assaulted” him on the steps of the Park Theatre. (Noah was one ofthe pre-eminent American Jews in the years between the Revolutionary and CivilWars)
1832: Ellis Mosesmarried Miriam Judah at the Western Synagogue in the United Kingdom.
1836: Birthdate ofGerman native and future Louisville resident Morris Baldauf , the husband ofLina Kahn Baldaugh with whom he had four children – Julius, Minnie, Leon andCora.
1837: King William IVof Great Britain and Ireland who in 1797 while still the Prince of Walesvisited Barbados where “he visited the synagogue and was presented with anaddress and a sword by the Congregation” passed away today.
1837: With the death of her uncle, King William IV,Queen Victoria assumes the throne. Sincethe British monarch reigns but does not rule, her influence on the progress ofJews of Britain and Europe were primarily tangential. Her treatment of Jews wasa mixed bag. During the Damascus BloodLibel, the Queen put a British ship at the disposal of her friend and neighborMoses Montefiore. But in 1869, the Queenblocked Lionel Rothschild elevation to the House of Lords. However, later she would agree to theelevation of Lionel’s son and would socialize with the French branch of theRothschild family when she made trips across the channel. The change was brought about by Jewishfinancial support for the Suez project and her relationship with BenjaminDisraeli.
1839: Ezekiel Hartdictated his last will and testament today.
1839: Birthdate ofJacob Freudenthal, the native of Hanover and graduate of the rabbinicalseminary of Breslau whose visit to the Netherlands to research the life ofSpinoza produced Die LebensgeschichteSpinoza's
1841: Mr. G.M.Loewentritt married Miss Betty Goldberg to at Sheyareeth Israel in Charleston,SC.
1843: InOberlauterbach, Alsace, Isaiah Rosenthal and Rosa Walter gave birth to JonasRosenthal the husband of Jeanette Weil who came to the United States in 1860where he attended school in Alexandria, LA before serving the Confederate Armyfor three and a half years in the Civil War following which he held severalpublic positions capped off by being appointed U.S. Postmaster of Alexandria byPresident Grover Cleveland.
1849: Solomon Salamomarried Phoebe Levy at the Great Synagogue.
1850: Five days afterits application was received, Simon Lodge No. 4 of the Independent Order ofFree Sons of Israel was “installed” today.
1853: Leopold SolomonBernheimer, the Altdorf, Germany born son of Salomon Bernheimer and EllaBernheimer and his wife Fanny Weil—Bernheim gave birth to Karl Bernheimer whowould die before he reached his second birthday.
1854: LieutenantColonel Albert Goldsmid, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and the son of BenjaminGoldsmid was promoted to the rank of Colonel.
1856: In Bombay,Hannah Moise and Sir Albert Sassoon gave birth to Sir Edward Albert Sassoon.
1858: Rabbi BernhardFelsenthal, the German born rabbi who had moved to Chicago “and acceptedemployment in the banking-house of Greenebaum Brothers” helped to found theJüdische Reformverein today.
1859: In LuzerneCounty, PA, John and Helen McKeon Curran gave birth “the Very Rev. Mgr. John J.Curran’ the “militant Catholic priest nationally known as a friend of organizedlabor” who had a an ecumenical view of the world, long before that became fashionableas can be seen by the fact he “he was reputed to have as many friends amongProtestants and Jews as among Catholic clergy and layman” and in the best senseof the Gospels “was the good neighbor to all.”
1860: In Berlin,Louis Lazarus Lewandowski and Helene Lewandowski gave birth to Martha Cohen thewife of Herman Cohen and at the age of 82 a victim of the Nazis at Terezin.
1861: PhiladelphianPhillip Lang began a two-year enlistment with Company I of the 37thregiment during the Civil War.
1863(3rdof Tammuz, 5623): President Lincoln proclaimed that West Virginia would be officiallyrecognized on June 20, 1863, the same day on which Parashat Korach read.
1864: In Detroit, FannieButzel and Emil Solomon Heineman, the vice president of the Beth El HebrewRelief Society, gave birth to futureOhio resident Emilia Heineman Pritz the wife of Benjamin Pritz and the motherof Walter Pritz an Fanny Huttenbauer.
1867: In Memphis, TN,Adolph and Lucille (Hart) Loeb gave birth to Chicago insurance underwriter LeoA Loeb, the husband of Minnie Elson and a Director of the United HebrewCharities.
1871: Birthdate ofHelmstedt, Germany native Edmund Moser a passenger on the ill-fated SS. St.Louis who survived the war even though his “country of disembarkation” wasFrance which meant he was luckier than fellow family member and shipmateRoaslie Moser who did not survive.
1871: In Warsaw,Indiana, “well-known and respected merchant” Leopold Becker and Caroline(Vogel) Becker gave birth to Illinois attorney Benjamin Vogel Becker who was apartner in Newman, Northrup, Levinson and Becker and the husband of ElizabethLoeb with whom he has one child John Leonard Becker.
1871: One day afterhe passed away, mathematician Numa Edward Hartog, the son of Alphonse andMarion Hartog was buried today at West Ham Jewish Cemetery.
1874: In Warsaw,“Israel Isaac and Chasha Peltz Zambrowsky” gave birth to S. Joshua Zambrowskywho served as rabbi “Congregation Tifereth Israel in Warsaw from 1901 to 1923”after which he served as the rabbi of “Congregation Poilez Tzedeck in Syracusefor ten years” and the “chief rabbi of the Buffalo Council of JewishCongregations, Inc.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/08/27/112715154.pdf
1875: CongregationB'Nai Israel of Galveston voted to become one of the charter members of theUnion of American Hebrew Congregations.
1875: Five days afterhe passed away, sixty-seven-year-old Isaac Benjamin was buried today at the“Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1876: In New YorkCity, Laura Sutro and Leopold Oppenheimer gave birth to Harvard graduate andColumbia educated medical doctor Bernard Sutro Oppenheimer, the husband of EnidSimmons and Lt. Colonel in the Army Medical Reserve Corps who, amongst otherthings, was the attending physician at Mt. Sinai and Montefiore hospitals andan assistant professor of clinical medicine at Columbia Universit.
1877: Meyer Freemanwho owns a butcher shop at 38 Ludlow Street was awakened by two men –lateridentified as David Milstein and Isaac Goldstein – who had broken into hisbedroom and were trying to steal the contents of a bureau that containedjewelry and box with $35 in cash.Freeman, clad only in his bed clothes, chased the robbers through thestreets and captured Milstein whom he turned over to the policy. Milstein is a well-known criminal havingspent 21 of the last 28 years in jail
1879: InNew York City, The Jewish Messengerreports that "A new congregation has been started on East 57th Street,called Orach Chaim.” Some of the members of the new congregation weredisaffected members of Adas Israel, another congregation located on the samestreet.
1880: Four days afterhe passed away “in the 76th year of his life” Moritz Moses Mauricewas buried at the Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery.
1880( 11thof Tammuz, 5640): Hannah Levy-Yuly, the London born ‘daughter of JacobBenzaquen and Simy Benzaquen, the wife of Hyam Solomon Levy-Yuly and “mother ofJoseph Jowe Levy-Yuly; Sarah Levy-Yuly; Stella Farache; Alice Levy-Yuly;Florence Levy-Yuly; Clara Levy-Yuly and Phoebe Sibony” passed away today.
1880: “PuritanChristian Names” published today described how the printing of the GenevaBible, an affordable English translation of the sacred text led to the adoptionof many Old Testament (Jewish) names by English Puritans. Apparently, having finally been able to readthe text, the “Puritan spirit led those whom it animated to a strong and verymarked preference for the Jewish part of the Bible over the Christian.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D00E4D91630EE3ABC4851DFB066838B699FDE
1881(23rdof Sivan, 5641): On his seventy-ninth birthday, Gabriel Benedict Worms, theFrankfurt Am Main born son of Benedict-Benedikt Moses Worms and SchöncheJeanette Worms passed away today in Brighton.
1881: The HebrewSheltering Guardian Society took two hundred children on an outing aboard the steamboatBellevue. The boat stopped at Hart’s Island so the children could enjoythemselves. [These outings were part of a program to get slum children out ofthe city and into the fresh air of the country.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0DEEDE103CEE3ABC4851DFB066838A699FDE
1882: An assignmentfor the benefit of creditors by Abraham Samuels to Lester Cohn was filed in thecounty clerk’s office today.
1883: Anglican Bishopand Biblical scholar John William Colenso the author of The Pentateuch andBook of Joshua Critically Examined which he wrote in response to beingquestioned about the historical accuracy of these books and whether or not theyshould be taken literally passed away today. (Colenso was one of a series ofJewish and Christian theologians and authors who re-examined the traditionalview of these texts as being literal truth or the modernist view that they werejust a series of manufactured myths)
1884: It was reportedtoday that a serious outbreak of anti-Semitic violence has broken out inKrivoroge, Russia.
1884: Birthdate ofNorwegian businessman Moses Beeker who was arrested in Trondheim 1942 atmurdered at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 58
1885(7thof Tammuz. 5645): Parashat Chukat
1885(7thof Tammuz, 5645): Fifty-seven-year-old Benjamin Hayman Seixas, the Richmond, VAborn “son of Hayman Levy Seixas and Abigail Nunez Seixas, the husband ofIsabella Seixas and father of Lewis Daniel Mendes Seixas; Rachel Seixas;Franklin Pierce Seixas; Jessica Davis Oberndorfer; Isaac Cardozo Seixas; HenryEvan Seixas and Frederic Benjamin Seixas” passed away toda.
1886: “Clubs WithoutNumber” published today described the variety of New York social clubs thatcater to various segments of the city’s population including the Jews some ofwhom frequent the Harmonie Club on 42nd Street while a greaternumber are found at the Hebrew Association at 317 Third Avenue. Actually Jews can be found at most of thepopular clubs except for the Union and Knickerbocker clubs.
1887: Twenty-year oldMemphis native Leo A Loeb joined he insurance agency of A. Loeb and Son whichhis father Adolph had established in Chicago in 1873.
1887: Two Jewishpeddlers, Simon Kleber and Judah Waser, were abused and driven out of a liquorstore by the bartender when they tried to sell him their wares. The two men sought protection from PolicemanFrederick Timme who responded by clubbing them and driving them away.
1887: “Jews andGentiles In London” published today provided a snapshot of Jewish economicconditions in the capital of the UK picturing them as being wealthier than thenon-Jewish population. For example, the average annual Jewish income is 82pounds as compared with 35 ponds for the non-Jews. Jews with an income over 10,000 pounds are 20times as numerous as the number found in the non-Jewish population. [Editor’snote – This report is totally misleading since it fails to capture the wealthof the gentry which would have reported in the counties and boroughs wherethere estates were located.]
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04E7DD1739E233A25753C2A9609C94669FD7CF
1888: It was reportedtoday that the executors of the Bernhard Stern’s will have paid out over$25,000 in bequests to variety of Jewish and secular institutions in New YorkCity. The largest bequest was $5,000given to the United Hebrew Charities.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407EEDF1F3EEF33A25753C2A9609C94699FD7CF
1889(21stof Sivan, 5649): Seventy-eight year old West Point graduate and Quartermasterfor the CSA, Abraham Charles Myers, who is the name-sake for Ft. Myers, FL andwho was a descendant of Rabbi Moses Cohen passed away today after which he wasburied in St. Paul’s Episcopal Cemetery in Alexandria, VA. (Editor’s note – Howdoes one explain the people who celebrate Pesach serving in a cause that choseSlavery over the Union?)
1890: The ExecutiveCommittee of the United Hebrew Charities reported today that during the monthit had found employment for 364 applicants during the month of May. The committee had spent $8,756.08 during themonth to aid needy Jews including the 1,987 immigrants who had arrived atCastle Garden.
1890: InPhiladelphia, Reada A. Mayer and Louis B. Block gave birth to University ofPennsylvania trained surgeon and husband of Etta N. Stauffer, who served asfirst lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army attached to the 34thField Artillery during WW I and was a director of the Jewish Foster Home inPhiladelphia.
1890: As of today,the managers of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children have received $4,091.50which will be used to provide free summer excursions for Jewish children andtheir mothers.
1890: Police officersarrested Marcus Goldstein, a Polish Jew, when came to the Gill EngravingCompany this morning to collect what he thought were the blank plates thatwould enable him to print (and sell) counterfeit tickets for the HamburgLottery.
1891: Birthdate ofZionist leader and native of Prague, Robert Weltsch, who died in Jerusalem acentury later.
1892: In Moravia,Meir Tzvi Jung, the rabbi of Uhersky Brod who moved to London where in 1912 hebecame the Chief Minister of the Federation of Synagogues and his wife gavebirth to Rabbi Leo Jung, the husband of Irma Rothschild and father of ErnaVilla, Rosalie Rosenfeld, Julie Etra, and Marcella (Micki) Rosen who went fromKnesset Israel in Cleveland to the Jewish Center Synagogue in New York where herevitalized and “modernized Orthodox Judaism” based in part on his constantthemes of reverence, righteousness and rachmanut, which he referred to as thethree "R's" of kedushah. (Editors note – this blog cannot do justicethe breadth and depth of his career.)
https://mishpacha.com/man-of-action/
1892: In Kaunas Count(modern day Lithuania) Joseph and Gertrude Janner gave birth to Anglo-Jewishpolitical and civic leader Barnett Janner who would serve as an MP first fromthe Liberal Party and then from the Labour Party
1893: Philadelphialawyer Charles Isaiah Hoffman married Fanny Binswanger in the City of Brotherlylove. Seven years later he would enter the JTS, graduated and was ordained in1904 and spent most of the rest of his life as the spiritual leader of Oheb Shalomin Newark, NJ. [Sort of a modern-day version of “Rachel, the wife of Akiva”]
1893: After havingviewed the body of Jewish cigar manufacturer Adolph S. Jaeger, Deputy CoronerO’Hare said that the deceased had taken his own life and turned his remainsover to the undertaker.
1894: Today’s meetingof the Constitutional Convention looking at charitable contributions made bythe State of New York, first heard from Myer Sterne, the “former Commissionerof Charities and Correction who appeared in behalf of the Hebrew Orphan Asylumof which the late Jesse Seligman was President.”
1895: Sir Edward Grey, the man who would sign the Sykes-Picot Agreement whichhas had such a significant impact on the Middle East and Israel, completed hisservice as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
1895: “Governor WilliamMcKinley delivered an address at Ottawa, Kansas in which he referred to anAmerican flag with a biblical inscription on it” which Chicago Republic AbrahamKohn had presented to Abraham Lincoln “one month prior to his assumption of thePresidency.” Kohn was President of Chicago’s KAM Congregation. Actually two biblical verses had been paintedon to the flag both of which were from from the first chapter of the book ofJoshua verses 5 and 9.including the famous charge “Be strong and of greatcourage. Be not afraid, neither bedismayed.” After several attempts,McKinley would finally be elected President in 1896 and re-elected in1900. He would die at the hands of anassassin bringing Teddy Roosevelt to the White House.
1896: A character ofsketch of the recently deceased Marquis de Mores published today described himas “eccentric” whose “hatred of England…was almost a mania” and who “was arabid enemy of the Jews.” (Editor’s note – For those who do not recognize the namehis anti-Semitism including fight a duel French Deputy Ferdinand-CamilleDreyfus)
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30815F9385C17738DDDA90A94DE405B8685F0D3
1897: Mrs. JennieCohen, formerly of New Haven, CN, and her four children ranging in ages fromsix years to four months were being cared for at Police Headquarters afterhaving spent the night in rooms provided for by the Hebrew Sheltering HouseAssociation on Madison Street.
1897: The BaronHirsch Free Hebrew School of Chicago was formally incorporated at Springfield,Illinois, the state capital.
1897: “BiblicalTitles” published today described the refusal of the Lord Chamberlain’s officeto grant a license to a biblical drama entitled “Joseph of Canaan” by GeorgeWalters, an Australian clergyman and Rubinstein’s opera “Judas Maccabaeus” Apparently it is Biblical titles that upsetthe English official and not religion per se since a license, which isnecessary for public performance, was granted to “The Sign of the Cross.”
1897: “The NationalFarm School” published today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0714F9395416738DDDA90A94DE405B8785F0D3
1897: “The ReverendHerman Warszawiak” the Jewish convert to Christianity “whose application to thePresbytery was rejected last week after a trail for unministerial conduct gavevent to his feelings today” comparing himself to St. Paul” and declaring “thathe had been hounded because he was of Jewish orgin and the Presbyterians didnot want any Jews.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40A14F9395416738DDDA90A94DE405B8785F0D3
1897: ThePhiladelphia Inquirer reported that articles of incorporation have been filedby the Sons of Abraham “a Hebrew benevolent society” in Camden, NJ.
1898(30thof Sivan, 5658): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1898(30thof Sivan, 5658): Fifty year old Moses Stein “a well-known resident of BathBeach” passed away at Mount Sinai Hospital.A retired Manhattan wholesale butcher; he was one of the founders of theHebrew Congregational Society in Bath Beach.
1898: Birthdate ofBessarabia native and mathematician Jacob Bromberg, the “graduate of the GrandDuke Vladimir Military School in Kiev and the Polytechnical University inPrague who came in 1929 came to the United States in 1929 after which he workedas a mechanical engineer and wrote Russia, Judaism and the West.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/06/09/85240626.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1898: During theSpanish American War, ships of the U.S Navy (in which 20 Jews served asofficers) entered the harbor at Guam. (Whether any those officers were at Guamis not a matter of record.)
1899: Chicago Jewsare among those contributing funds to the purchase of memorial items to bepresented to Captain Dreyfus, Colonel Picquart and author Emile Zola. The latter two played key roles inexonerating the former when he was falsely convicted of treason and subject toa barrage of anti-Semitism.
1899: In Chicago, 50boys, half of whom were Christians and half of whom were Jewish, fought it onStewart Avenue until the police arrived from the Maxwell Street Station and putan end to the violence.
1899: Jews living onthe Lower East Side learned that “Winslow W. Dunlap, the self-appointedmissionary” seeking to convert the Jews also makes loans to anybody with asalary between $20 to $200. “It is the custom of Dunlap to advance a man, say$80 and deduct $5 for the expenses of the loan. Besides this $5 he charges$40.80 interest making the borrower pay $70.80 for $25 in “easy” payments offrom $2.50 to $5 per week.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05EFD71530EE32A25752C2A9609C94689ED7CF
1899: “Law and Order”published today decried the attack on a Christian missionary earlier this weekwho was preaching on the streets of the Lower East Side by a mob and thefailure of the police to intervene because in civil society people have a rightto express their opinions no matter how distasteful they may be to the publicthat is forced to hear them.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60614FC355D11738DDDA90A94DE405B8985F0D3
1899: “Conference ofZionists” published today included a description of a proposal submitted by theEnglish Zionist Federation “proposing the re-establishment of Judea as anindependent state, suggesting the purchase of the Maccabean sites in Palestine andthe beginning of the work by the establishment of a Jewish colony and a JewishAgricultural College there.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60A14FC355D11738DDDA90A94DE405B8985F0D3
1899: “The Jew-Haterin France” published today provided the views of Gustav Gottheil, a leadingAmerican Reform Rabbi on the condition of the Jews in France as that nation isconvulsed by the Dreyfus affair. As to Dreyfus,he said, “the fact that he was a Jew was the strongest accusation against him.”“Even though “no race has been more patriotic than the French Jews” “the realspirit of malice and persecution will never change and they will never befriendly to the Jewish people.” And in a view that may have been the result ofhis attendance at the Zionist Congress at Basel “The effect of the triumph inthe Zionistic movement stands out in clear and unmistakable character.”
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00F14FC355D11738DDDA90A94DE405B8985F0D3
1899(12th of Tammuz,5659): Fifty-six-year-old Jacob Baiz, the Venezuelan born son of Abraham andSarah Naar who after being raised in Elizabethport, NJ, became a successfulbusinessman in Latin America, serving as Consul-General of the Government ofHonduras and a member of the Coffee Exchange as well as Vice President of theHebrew Sheltering and Guardian Society passed away today in New York.
1900: In Jackson,Michigan, on his birthday, Chicago attorney Benjamin Vogel Becker marriedElizabeth Loeb, the daughter of Jacob L. and Rachel Loeb, and the mother oftheir only son John Leonard Becker.
1900 University ofCincinnati and HUC graduate Joseph Saul Kornfeld, the Austro-Hungarian Empire born son Herman and Emilie (Gross)Kornfeld who went from teaching at McGill University to a long time rabbiniccareer that began with his service at Congregation in Pine Bluff, AR and thatincluded service as minister plenipotentiary to Persia during the Presidency ofWarren Harding married Josephine Blumenthal today in Pine Bluff, AR.
1901: Today Honus Wagner who teamed up withsecond baseman Jake Pitler to form the double-play combination in his lastseason, became the first major leaguer to “steal home” twice in the same game.
1902: Birthdate of artist Reva Clamage Shwayder,the wife of co-founder of Samsonite Luggage Corporation Benjamin Shwayder who, after his death, married painter Louis Gothelfwhich became the subject matter of thedocumentary “Young at Heart.’
1902: Herzl learnsthat Turkey accepted the Rouvier Project. Maruice Rouvier was one of thosepermanent political animals created by the revolving door governments in thedays of France’s Third Republic. He was not Jewish. Depending upon who formed the governmentRouvier held different cabinet posts including finance and foreignaffairs. He was Prime Minister twicehimself. At this time, Rouvier wasserving as the Minister of Finance. Atthe same time, like most French politicians, he was always looking for ways tocounter German influence. The Turks werein need of financial assistance and Rouvier was willing to do what he could ifit would keep the Kaiser out of the Mediterranean.
1903: Maurice Arnoldde Forest, one of the two adopted sons of Baroness Clara de Hirsch and BaronMaurice de Hirsch de Gereuth resigned his commission in the Prince of Wales'sOwn Norfolk Artillery
1904: Thirty-year-oldHarvard trained attorney Alfred Bettman, the Cincinnati born son of Louis andRebecca (Bloom) Bettman married Lillian Wyler today after which he served asassistant prosecuting attorney for Hamilton County and city solicitor for Cincinnati,OH.
1904: “Two thousandmore cheap rate-immigrants” are scheduled to be landed today at Ellis Island“from several transatlantic steamships following the arrival of “721 cheap-rateimmigrants” the majority of whom are English Jews at Ellis Island yesterday.
1905: Harvard trainedsurgeon, Louis Mark Freedman, the Boston born son of Emma Lebowitz and NimanFreeman and the senior surgeon fordiseases of ear nose and throat at Beth Israel Hospital as well as a member ofTemple Israel, married Rachel Wyer today.
1905: In New Orleans,Max Bernard Hellman and Julia gave birth to playwright and social activistLillian Hellman.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0620.html
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hellman-lillian
1906: Birthdate ofdirector and screenwriter Edmond T. Greville who based “on 23andMe genetictesting of his daughter and grandson in 2017, was in fact Ashkenazim Jewishfrom the likely area of Odessa, a fact never known to him during his life time.
1906: In New YorkCity, Ethel and Ludwig Behr Bernstein gave birth to University of Pittsburghgraduate Stanley Burnshaw, “a poet, critic, translator, editor, publisher andnovelist…” (As reported by Douglas Martin)
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/arts/stanley-burnshaw-poet-editor-and-critic-dies-at-99.html
1907: FrederickHenriques, the son Joseph Gutteres Henriques, was buried today at the “BallsPond Road Jewish Cemetery.”
1908(21stof Sivan, 5668) Parashat Beha’alotcha
1908: Selig Brodestkythe son of Russian peddler who arrived in England sixteen years ago, who “wassent to the Jew’s free school in the East End of London after which he won ascholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge has won the place “Senior Wrangle” intwo years instead of the usual three, making him only the second Jew, afterTuma Hartog to earn this honor.
1909: It was reportedtoday the at the Livingston Civic Club of the People’s Institute has hosted aproduction of “The Chickasaw Convention” a playing that “dealt with politicalcareer of Abraham Cohen
1910: Fanny Bricedebuted at the Ziegfield Follies (As reported by the Jewish Women’s Archive)
1911: In Rosenberg,TX, Sam and Lorraine Bernice Daily Field gave birth to University of Texas alumHelene Gladys Daily, the Houston lawyer and a leader of the League of WomenVoters who married Harry Susman in 1939.
1912(5thof Tammuz, 5671):Fifty-year-old New York City native and former travelingsalesman Seymour Caesar Heyman, the husband of Rebecca Gerson and father ofStanley Heyman, who in 1897 moved to Oklahoma City where he opened the HubClothing Store, became a civic leader and “an influential member of B’naiIsrael Temple” passed away today in Oklahoma City.
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HE021
1912: According to areport today from Washington, DC, one of the planks in the platform of theDemocratic Party “will be devoted to the record made” by the Party in the Houseof Representatives where Congressman Sulzer, Chairman of the Committee on ForeignAffairs was instrumental getting a resolution passed denouncing the treaty withRussia.”
1913(15th of Sivan,5673): Eighty-three year old “cantor and journalist” Jacob Tattlebaum passedaway today in Patterson, NJ.
1913(15thof Sivan, 5673): Sixty-six-year-old New York born banker and realtor Henry S.Hernnan, a director of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids passed awaytoday in Deal, NJ.
1913: Rabbi IsraelKlein is scheduled to deliver the Friday night sermon at Zion Temple inChicago, Illinois.
1914(26thof Sivan, 5674): Sh’lach
1914: In Chicago,Rabbi Julius Rappaport is scheduled to lead service this morning at Beth ElTemple.
1914: Rabbi Aaron L.Weinstein of Davenport, IA is scheduled to occupy this pulpit” on Shabbat atIsaiah Temple in Chicago.
1914: In Chicago, the1914 Confirmation Class of Isaiah Temple is scheduled to “be formally welcomedinto the Isaiah Alumni Association this afternoon.
1915: “The Jews NowIn Spain” published today
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E3D7123FE233A25757C2A9609C946496D6CF
1915: In Canonsburg,PA, dedication of Tree of Life Synagogue.
1915: At the AstorHotel, Louis Marshall presided over the meeting of the American JewishCommittee today where it was “decided to convoke a general congress of AmericanJews to consider methods of assisting their” co-religionists “in the war zones”following “the receipt of the first news of atrocities committed against Jewsin the warring countries.”
1915: The Turkishgovernment permitted “expelled Jews” to return to parts of Palestine includingTel Aviv and its “suburbs.”
1915: Odessa trained American sculptor, Aaron J. Goodelman the Bessarabian bornson of Joseph and Mollie Goodelman whofled to New York in the wake of pogroms, settled in New York, created“Necklace,” a statuette displayed in “Struggle for Negro Rights,” anti-lynchingexhibition before turning to “art related to the Holocaust after WW II” marriedof Sarah Hyman today
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/aaron-j-goodelman-1865
1915: “Interest inthe case of the condemned man” Leo Frank “reached fever heat in Atlanta today”where “it was the one subject of discussion everywhere” as Governor Slaton’sdecision was expected by tomorrow.
1916(19th of Sivan,5676): Eighty-one-year-old Leopold Adler, the German born husband of Rose Adlerpassed away today in Chicago.
1916: Birthdate ofZelda Berkowitz who as Zelda Kaplan became as an inimitable fixture onfashion’s front lines and an inveterate clubgoer in Manhattan. (As reported byRuth La Ferla)
1916: “Max J. Klein,whose charge that he had been excluded from the Second Field Artillery becausehe was a Jews started the inquiry into discrimination in the National Guard,announced” tonight” that he was organizing a company to serve in the Guard.
1916: Today composerand Conductor Victor Harris, the New York born son of Jacob Harris marriedCatherine L. Richardson with whom he had four children – Cecilia, Victor, Davidand Marry Harris.
1917: This evening,at eight o’clock, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association is scheduled to host “anentertainment and dance in the Assembly Hall of the Hebrew Institute tocelebrate the installation of its new officers.”
1917: “Jacob H.Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, Louis Marshall and thirty other members of the JointDistribution Committee” raising “funds for Jewish War sufferers voted” today“to the Morgenthau commission ‘unlimited funds’ for the relief of the Jews inPalestine.”
1917: The Turkishgovernment permitted the Jews who had been expelled to return to Tel Aviv andJaffa
1917: Birthdate ofFranklin Littell, a pioneer in the field of Holocaust scholarship, who was alsopresident of Iowa Wesleyan College and a founding board member of the UnitedStates Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington. His best-known book, TheCrucifixion of the Jews, pressed his view that Christianity is essentiallyJewish and that Jesus, Paul and Peter would have been executed at Auschwitz.(As reported by Douglas Martin)
1918: Birthdate ofLillian Sylvia Lukashefsky, the Brooklyn native who gained famed as Yiddishactress, author and singer Lillian Lux who was the wife of Pesach Burnstein andthe mother of actor Mike Burstyn.
http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/lillian-lux-86-international-star-of-yiddish-stage/15411/
1918: Two days afterhe passed away, Michael Abrahams, “the son of David and Eva Abrahams” wasburied today at the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery” in London.
1918: United StatesPresident Wilson sent Henry Morgenthau and Felix Frankfurter to Egypt toinvestigate how to best aid Jews in Palestine.
1919: One day aftershe passed away Martha Friedland, the daughter of Myer Friedland, was buried atthe “Belfast Jewish Cemetery” in Northern Ireland.
1919: Today, theTurkish government permitted Jews expelled from Jaffa, Tel Aviv and “othersuburbs” to return.
1919: After havingbeen elected to the Weimar National Assembly, Bernhard Dernberg completed hisservice as Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor.
1920: Today, “theMen’s Community Club and friends of Providence, RI, traveled by the SteamerMount Hope to visit the Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the UnitedStates where they met by members of the congregation including the president,Nathan David and “Reverend Brodsky,” the cantor who provided the music for theoccasion.
1920: Today,Mathematics Professor Benjamin Abram Bernstein married Rose Davidson, the“brother of sculptor Jo Davidson.
1920: Attorney Julius S. Berg, who waswounded at Arras, France in May of 1918 and went to serve in both houses of theNew York state legislature married Rose Schram today.
1920: A reception isscheduled to be held today in honor Jacob Cohen of Passaic, NJ and Anna Levywhose parents, Mr. and Mr. Louis Levy, have just announced the betrothal of thecouple.
1920: CCNY andColumbia graduate and JTS ordained rabbi, Abraham Nowak, the New York City bornson of Harris Nowak and Jennie Yarzumbeck who had organized Ohabi Shalom Templein Boston and served as a chaplain with the ranks of first lieutenant during WWI married Anna Segal today three years before he bean leading CongregationB’nai Jeshurun in Cleveland, OH.
1921: ShortstopReuben Ewing made his major league debut with the St. Louis Cardinals.
1922: In Canton, OH,two Jewish immigrants from Romania, Rachel (Levenson) Klamer and Joseph Klamer,the owner of the Klamer Barrel Company gave birth to Reuben Benjamin Klamer, “aninventor who dreamed up the Game of Life and many other toys and games thatentertained young baby boomers in the pre-internet 1950s and ’60s as well astheir children in the ’80s and ’90s.” (As reported by Katharine Q. Seelye)
1922: Justice IrvingLehman of the New York Supreme Court and President of the Jewish Welfare Boardis scheduled to address the fourth annual conference of the NationalAssociation of Jewish Community Center Secretaries meeting in Providence, R.I.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/06/19/109844104.html?pageNumber=12
1922: Dr. Lee K.Frankel, Vice President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, isscheduled to sail for Europe today aboard the SS Beregaria. He is head of a committee appointed by theAmerican Jewish Relief Commission that is visiting Jewish population centers inAustria, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Russia in an effort todetermine how best to spend th $18,000,000 that has been collected by AmericanJews for their coreligionists living in Eastern Europe.
1923: At meeting ofthe Board of Directors of the National Farm School held today, a memorial wasadopted praising the work of the late Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, the founder andPresident of the National Farm School.
http://www.delval.edu/_library/archives/krauskopfTribute.htm
1924(18th of Sivan,5684): Eighty-eight year old Nicholas Scharff, the native of Bavaria who wasmarried at Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1870 passed away today in St. Louis.
1924: It was reportedtoday that Dr. Joseph Silverman, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El has beenelected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association for the erectiona Music Conservatory in Palestine in memory of the Jewish soldiers who fell inthe war” for which “a drive for an endowment fund of $250,000 will be launchedfrom the offices of the association at 60 East 23rd St. in New York.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1924/06/20/104255367.html?pageNumber=17
1925(28thof Sivan, 5685):Dr. Josef Bruer, the Austrian physician who worked with Freudto develop the modern field of psychoanalysis passed away in Vienna.
1926: In Cleveland,Ohio, “Maurice and Rachel (Shapiro) Gelfand gave birth to history professorLawrence E. “Larry” Gelfand, the husband of Miram Ifland and WW II veteran whojoined the Department of History at the University of Iowa in 1962 “after teachingat the Universities of Hawaii, Washington and Wyoming.
1926: Birthdate ofRehavam "Gandhi" Ze'evi the native of Jerusalem who rose to the rankof general and founded the Moledet Party.
1926: In the CzechRepublic Pavel Bondy and Franziska Bondy, the daughter of Leopold and ValeriePick, who was murdered during the Holocaust gave birth to Eduard Bondy whomurdered during the Holocaust at the age of 15.
1927: Birthdate ofSherman Bernard Goldberg who gained fame as producer and screenwriter JuddBernard.
1927: Birthdate ofNewark native, Wharton graduate and WW II veteran Milton Perlumutter who becamea successful supermarket executive passed away today.
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=JPOST20000308-01.1.19
1928: In Brooklyn,“Morris Landau, a machinist and the former Selma Buchman gave birth to Oscarwinning actor Martin Landau who may be best remembered for his continuing rolein the hit television series “Mission Impossible.”
1928: In the Bronx,Florence and Louis Slobodkin gave birth to “Lawrence B. Slobodkin, a centralfigure in the development of ecology as a modern science and a co-author of oneof its most inspiring inquiries, a paper known informally as “The World Is Green”(As reported by Carol Kaesuk Yoon)
1928: A court in TelAviv “imposed short jail terms and sentences of deportation” on three Jews whor*sisted the police efforts to break up a demonstration protesting the floggingof prisoners in Palestine jails.” Thethree were additionally accused of being “Communists.” The demonstration was part of a largerprotest by Jews against the propensity of the British immigration authoritiesfor deporting Jews on the slightest pretext with little or no evidence ofserious wrongdoing.
1929: “The HollywoodRevue of 1929,” a musical film produced by Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapt, witha script co-authored by Al Boasberg and co-starring Jack Benny and NormaShearer was released today in the United States.
1929: In Montreal,Samuel and Saidye Rosner Bronfman gave birth to Edgar Miles Bronfman, CEO ofSeagram’s and President of the World Jewish Congress.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/edgar-bronfman/#7a3779744465
1929: It was reportedtoday that “the concordant signed recently between the Prussian government andthe Vatican is not like to have any effect on the statues of the Jewishpopulation in Prussia,” especially since “the question of religious training”which had been such a problem in 1924 during the “negotiations for the Bavarianconcordant” had been omitted from this document.
1930: “More than 75per cent of about 6,000 Jews who went to Brazil during 1929 were assisted upontheir arrival in that country by the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, Dr. I.Raffalovitch, chief rabbi of Brazil declared today at the offices of” HIAS inNew York City.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/06/21/118375652.html?pageNumber=20
1930: In Brooklyn,the former Lillian Suttenberg and Jay Roland, “an artist who dropped theoriginal family name, Goldstein,” gave birth to Alan Roland, the author of InSearch of Self in India and Japan: Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology, “whobrought new insights to psychoanalysis by calling out a Western bias in much ofthe field and factoring in differences in culture and upbringing amongpatients,” and the husband of the formerJoan Gardner, the professor of history at Pace University.
1931: A newspaper inSalonica called the Macedonia ran anarticle about a resident named Isaac D. Cohen. Cohen was sent as arepresentative to the meeting of the Maccabiah which was held in Sophia,Bulgaria. However the newspaper stated while away, he also attended aconference held by a revolutionary organization, which had come up with thedecision to sue for the independence of Greek and Yugoslav Macedonia. This lieled to attacks on Jews who were said not to be patriotic.
1932: Resolutionsconcerning the details of an organization of a national federation of OrthodoxJewish Congregation and the purpose of such a federation, the first of its kindin America, are scheduled to be taken up this afternoon when a convention of OrthodoxJewish congregations re-convenes this afternoon “in the auditorium of YeshivaCollege on Amsterdam Avenue.”
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/06/20/100766154.html?pageNumber=15
1933(26thof Sivan, 5693): Fifty-three-year-old Russian-born Jewess Rose Paster Stokes,the first wife a prominent, wealthy Episcopalian, and social activist who was afounder of the American Communist Party passed away today in Berlin where shewas being treated for breast cancer.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAWstokes.htm
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/stokes-rose-pastor
1933: “The XXXIIICouncil of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations” is scheduled to meet fora third day today in Chicago.
1934: “Abe Goldberg, vice-presidentof the ZOA and a member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine is scheduled tospeak this evening in the 4th in a series of broadcasts sponsored bythe Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League.
1935: In Brooklyn,“Louis and Lily Moskowitz, the owners of a dry-cleaning business gave birth to “contemporarypainter” Robert Stephen, the Pratt Institute student of Jewish abstract expression painterAdolph Gottlieb.
https://www.robertmoskowitz.org/
1935(19th of Sivan,5695): San Luis Obispo, CA, native Marcel Ernest Cert the graduate of HastingsLaw School and California Superior Court Judge whose sister Rebecca died tragicallyin a hotel fire, passed away today.
1936: “Jewishchildren from the east side of Berlin found themselves unexpectedly barredtoday from Bad Klingenberg on Lake Rummelsburg” when they were confronted withrecently erected signs reading “Jews not wanted.”
1936: “In the Bakaaquarter on the Jerusalem-Bethlehem Road” “a burning rag soaked in kerosene wasthrown through a window in the storeroom of a Jewish baby home” which housed“ninety-seven infants and fifty adults including mothers and nurses” in what was“one of the cruelest acts of terrorism perpetrated in the cause of Arabnationalism.”
1936: “Supreme CourtJustice William T. Collins criticized Germany’s racial policy in a decision”today permitting Marcel M. Holzer who had been “sent to a concentration camp in1933 for six months because he was a Jew” and who was a former employee of theReichsbahn (German State Railroads) “to bring sut here for upward of $50,000damages because he was discharged as a ‘non-Aryan.’”
1936: “The PalestineGovernment today extended the death penalty to crimes of sabotage as it foughtto end the violence and destruction that in the last nine weeks have resultedin more than eighty deaths of Jews, Arabs and Christians.”
1936: The Palestine Post reported that according to the new PalestineEmergency Regulations a life sentence could be imposed on any person carryingarms, bombs or incendiary material. Arab attacks on Jewish settlementscontinued unabated. Police patrols were stoned in Arab villages and threeBritish soldiers were injured in various shooting incidents throughout thecountry.
1937: “The Latest Book Received” column published today included alisting for If I Forget Thee a novel by Josef Dunner that is describedas “a story of the reorientation of two German Jews.”
1937: While preaching his “last sermon of the season” today atCongregation Ohab Zadek in New York, Rabbi William Margolis said today,“Current happenings in Europe are finally convincing the world that the enemiesof democracy are the foes of all men”
1938: Twenty-eight year old Liselotte Herrman, the mother of afour year old son whose husband Fritz died in Gestapo custody was guillotinedafter having been convicted for opposing the Nazi regime. (She was not Jewish,but it is important to remember those who sacrificed to hold back the Night)
1939: In commenting on wave of violence gripping Palestineincluding yesterday’s bombing in Haifa, Davar wrote, “”Who throwsbombs? Is it the same hand that issowing blood and ruin in the Arab market in the Jewish suburb? These are not the ways of the Jewishpopulation in Palestine in their struggle…Ruin and paralysis of economic lifewill only hurt the Jews in Palestine.Sacrifices may be necessary for our political struggle but every actparalyzing our life unnecessarily weakens the Jews here more than its sabotagesthe Palestine Government’s new policy and it only causes failure of PalestineJewry’s struggle against the policy.” In a separate column, David Ben Gurioncondemned the violence saying “The Jews must sacrifice everything forimmigration, colonization, self-defense and independence but we must not sullyour struggle with despicable acts of madness such as have been recentlycommitted at Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa.The murder of innocent Arabs and Jews and stupid sabotage are act thatare only helping our most bitter enemies.Such criminal acts soil our just struggle, undermine the efficiency ofour work and play the game of our foes.”
1939: Final broadcastof Song School, a radio showfeaturing Jewish Jazzman Benny Goodman
1940: Jewishprisoners began arriving at Ferramonti, one of the 15 concentration campsestablished by Mussolini during the summer of 1940. In the next three years,3,800 Jews would be imprisoned in all of the camps.
1940: “BlueberryHill” a song with lyrics by Al Stock and Al Lewis, which Fats Dominon wouldmake famous in the 1950 was recorded by Mary Small with the Nat Brandwynne’sorchestersa. (Editor’s note – Stock and Lewis were Jewish)
1940: On the day whenFrance surrendered to Germany Propper de Callejón was First Secretary of theSpanish Embassy in Paris. In order to prevent the German army from plunderingthe art collection that his wife's family kept at the Chateau de Royaumont, hedeclared this castle to be his main residence, so it would be treated in thesame privileged way as the accommodation of any other diplomat. Among the artworks thus saved are a triptych of Van Eyck (one of Adolf Hitler´s favoritepainters). In July 1940, , in co-operation with the Portuguese Consul Arístedesde Sousa Menendes, he would issue from the Spanish Consulate in Bordeaux morethan thirty thousand transit visas to Jews, so that they could cross Spain toreach Portugal. When Spain's Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer learned thatPropper de Callejón was issuing visas without the previous authorization of hisMinistry, he had him transferred to the Consulate of Larache in the Spanishprotectorate in Morocco. Afterwards, he would be posted to Rabat, ZurichWashington, Ottawa and Oslo. Propper deCallejón's father, Max Propper, was a Bohemian Jew, and his mother, JuanaCallejón, was a Spanish Catholic; they raised Eduardo and his brothers in theCatholic faith His wife, Hélène Fould-Springer was a socialite and painter. Shewas from a notable Jewish Austrian-French banking family, though she convertedto Catholicism upon their marriage and is a sister of prominent Paris artpatron and philanthropist Liliane de Rothschild (Baroness Élie de Rothschild,)1916—2003). He never gained public recognition for his heroic acts before hisdeath in 1972 in London.
1940: As they continued their dangerous trek toavoid capture by the Nazis, Hans and Margaret Reys arrived in Bayonne, Francewhere they received visas that had been signed by Portuguese Vice-Consul ManuelVierira Braga which enabled them to cross the border into Spain, the next stepon an odyssey that took them to Lisbon, Rio and finally New York. Hans Reys is the creator of CuriousGeorge. Like so many others, he owes hislife to the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
1941: In Leicester,UK, Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant, and Ruth M. (néeDanziger) who did not tell her son that she Jewish “until he was in his latetwenties” gave birth to Stephen Arthur Frears
1941(25thof Sivan, 5701): Seventy-five year old Harold Nathan, the son of : “Robert W.Nathan and Annie Florence Nathan whose ancestor were among the early settlersof New York City” and graduate ofColumbia University Law School who was a “partner in the law firm ofCook, Nathan, Lehman and Greenman,” a member of Temple Emanuel and the husbandof Sallie Gruntal Nathan with whom he had two children – Marian and Robert,“the novelist and poet” passed away today.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/21/87630044.pdf
1941: As of today,“more than 2,000,000 Jews live in New York City” but “about 35 percent of theemployable 365,000 Jewish young men and women have been unable to find jobs”
1941: As of today,No. 203 Squadron RAF which was flying reconnaissance mission ceased using RAFStation Lydda, which become the IAF’s Lod Air Force Base.
1941: As of today,“among the three largest banks” in New York City “with a payroll of 20,000 onlyabout 200 Jews are on the salary list.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/06/20/87629126.pdf
1942: Sixteen-month-oldTomas Abraham was deported today from Prague to Terezin, the first step on histrip to Auschwitz where he would be murdered two years later. (Editor’s note- The Nazis were such mighty warriors)
1942(5thof Tammuz, 5702) Parashat Korach
1942(5thof Tammuz, 5702): Seventy-four-year-old Maximillian Hirsch who had beentransported from Prague to Terezin was murdered there today.
1942: Grace Goodsidemarried cinematographer Jess Paley meaning that she would gain fame as GracePaley.
1942: Mass killingsof Jews by the Nazis began at Auschwitz.
1942: Thirty-three-year-oldHynek Abraham was transported from Prague to Terezin, the first stop on histrip to Auschwitz where he was murdered two years later.
1942: After breakinginto a warehouse at Auschwitz, Ukrainian Eugeniusz Bendera and three Poles,Kazimierz Piechowski, Stanisław Gustaw Jaster, and Józef Lempart dressed asmembers of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (the SS units responsible for concentrationcamps), armed themselves, and stole an SS staff car, which they then droveunchallenged through the main gate
1942: From now until October 9th,13,776 Jews wouldbe deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt
1943:Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein responded to tributes paid at a gathering thisevening celebrating ten years of rabbinical service to Temple Emanu-El andprovided a sendoff for the leave of absence he was taking to begin serving as achaplain in the U.S. Army that ended with his hope that just as the firstdecade of his service was marked by the “accession of Hitler to power” so thisnext decade “shall be inaugurated with the triumph of democracy.”
1943:Five thousand Jews from Amsterdam aredeported to Auschwitz.
1943:The Ternopol (Ukraine) Ghetto isliquidated.
1943: Himmler sent100 Jews to a concentration camp in Alsace called Natzweiler. They were killedthere, and their skeletons were sent to the Anatomical Museum in Strasbourg.
1943: Five thousand,five hundred Jews were rounded up in Amsterdam and deported.
1943: Today HermanHeukels, a Dutch Nazi photographed the “bewildered and terrified families,laden with baggage and branded with yellow stars, who were forced intoOlympiaplein, one of this city’s most recognizable public squares” as theyregistered with Nazis for a trip that would lead them to Westerbork transit campand then on to the death camps where most would be murdered
1944: Max and FriedaLöwy Sipser applied to be sent to the refugee shelter that had just beenestablished at Fort Ontario, NY on the same day that the Displaced PersonsSub-Commission of the Allied Control Commission posted the notice forapplicants.
http://www.recognitionscience.com/cgv/oswego.htm
1945(9th of Tammuz,5705): Fifty-eight year old German born author and playwright Bruno Frank wholeft Germany with his wife Liesl after the Reichstag Fire and eventually madehis way to the United States where he wrote scripts for such films as “TheHunchback of Notre Dame.”
1945: Aware that“British hostility to the Zionist enterprise was often a mask foranti-Semitism,” Churchill cautioned his colleague Lord Croft to “not be drawninto any campaign that might be represented as anti-Semitism.”
1946: In Moscow,Alexander Kazhdan and his wife gave birth to Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan whoemigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975 at which time he changed his name DavidKazhdan, became an Orthodox Jew who made Aliyah in 2002 where he became a professorof Mathematics at Hebrew University.
1947: Following hisannouncement that he was leaving Beth El in Camden for a new position At BethAbraham in Oakland, CA, Camden Mayor Brunner wrote a letter published intoday’s “Voice” expression his admiration for Rabbi Philip Lipis saying “thatCamden was privileged to enjoy his presence and leadership for twelve years.”
1947(2nd of Tammuz,5707): Ben "Bugsy" Siegel was gunned down by fellow mobsters overfinancial irregularities surrounding the building of the Flamingo in Las Vegas.
1947: “Twenty minutesafter Bugsy Siegel was murder, Meyer “Lansky's associates, including GusGreenbaum and Moe Sedway, walked into the Flamingo Hotel and took control ofthe property.”
1948: During theIsraeli War for Independence, the Etzel (Irgun) ship Altelena reached the coastof Tel Aviv carrying 800 new immigrants and weapons. The Etzel claimed they hadan agreement that 20% of the arms on board would be used by its members in defendingJerusalem. David Ben Gurion, head of the new state of Israel, saw this asthreat to the power of the new government. He believed that there could only beone army and that it had to be under the control of the national government. Ifthe Irgun wanted to fight, then its members had to become part of the army justas the members of the Palmach and the Haganah had done. Ben Gurion refused toaccept any compromise on this point. He ordered the ship to be fired upon. Theincident almost caused a civil war and was only averted by an impassioned andat times incoherent speech made by Menachem Begin to his followers over theradio that night not to take up arms against fellow Jews. One only has to lookat multiplicity of armed groups operating today on the West Bank and Gaza tosee what would have happened if Ben Gurion had not reluctantly taken such boldaction which was necessary if the new state of Israel was going to be acoherent nation.
Because of the controversy that stillrevolves around this event I have published a second version
1948: Just over amonth after the State of Israel was established and shortly after the firstcease fire in the War of Independence, Israel's first prime minister, DavidBen-Gurion, gave one of the country's most controversial orders ever - to takethe Altalena by force.Prior to the establishment of the state, several armedJewish militias protected early Jewish settlers and fought against the Britishand hostile Arab forces. The largest of these groups were the Hagana and theIrgun Zva’I Leumi (Irgun or IZL). The Hagana, led by Ben-Gurion, became theIsraeli Defense Forces once the state was declared in May 1948 and the Irgunwas under the command of Menahem Begin.In mid-May 1948, during the War ofIndependence, Ben-Gurion ordered the various militias disbanded and integratedinto the IDF in order to create one army under a unified command. While some ofthe militias willingly sent their fighters and weaponry to the IDF, others wereunwilling to relinquish the established paramilitary organizations they had built.Notably, the Irgun, for both ideological and political reasons, was unwillingto put itself under Ben-Gurion’s command.Begin and other Irgun commanders werestill attempting to ship significant amounts of weaponry and fresh immigrantfighters into Israel in the last days of the British Mandate. The Irgunorganized a large ship carrying weaponry and fighters from France, scheduled toarrive on Israel’s shores in mid-May. Due to logistical and operationalfactors, however, the departure of the Altalena was delayed.By the time theship was ready to sail, loaded with nearly 1,000 immigrant fighters andthousands of tons of materiel, the first ceasefire in the War of Independencehad already been reached and importing weaponry would have constituted a violationof it. The Jewish state, however, was in need of weaponry and ammunition, sowhen Begin approached Ben-Gurion to inform him of the shipment, the twoattempted to negotiate a deal that would see the ship’s cargo safelyunloaded.In order to evade detection by United Nations observers overseeing theceasefire, the Irgun and the newly anointed leaders of the state and its armydecided that the Altalena should be offloaded at Kfar Vitkin, nearNetanya.Negotiations between the Irgun and Ben-Gurion were complicated byBegin’s insistence on transferring most of the ship’s cargo to Irgun unitsoperating within the newly established IDF, a condition to which Ben-Gurioncould not agree. The new leader of Israel was already wary of having non-statecontrolled armed forces operating independently of the army and believed thatdirecting the weaponry to IDF units from the Irgun would lead to an “armywithin an army.”As the ship began its final approach to Kfar Vitkin, IDF forceswere ordered to surround the area in order to seize the payload. Followingfailed negotiations, the government decided to issue an ultimatum. The militarycommander on scene sent Begin a clear message: “I shall use all the means at mydisposal in order to implement the order and to requisition the weapons whichhave reached shore and transfer them from private possession into thepossession of the Israel government… You have ten minutes to give me youranswer.” Small-scale fighting between the two sides broke out at Kfar Vitkin,but Begin and the Irgun, aware of their numerical and tactical disadvantage,decided to send the Altalena south to Tel Aviv where more fighters could beassembled and the army was not yet situated to intercept the ship. Irgunfighters who had already joined the IDF began defecting from their commands andheaded to Tel Aviv to fight for their weaponry. As the two forces descended onTel Aviv, fighting erupted along the shore and throughout the city, “mainly inthe center and the south,” The Palestine Post reported in the aftermath of theclashes. The Israeli navy and artillery pieces on shore fired warning shots atthe ship in a last-ditched attempt to force a surrender, but eventually hit theship, setting it ablaze. Ultimately, over 20 Irgun fighters and more than a handfulof IDF soldiers were killed in the fighting between the two Jewish forces. TheAltalena was eventually brought out to sea and sunk.Ben-Gurion has been bothpraised and disdained for his decision to take the Altalena by force. Fearing acivil war and a lack of government legitimacy based on the concept of amonopoly of force, Ben-Gurion ultimately decided that he could not tolerateBegin’s brazen refusal to put himself, his fighters and weaponry under thestate’s command. Following the Altalena incident, however, Irgun and othermilitia forces were integrated into the IDF and the non-democratic challengesto the state’s legitimacy came to an end. Nonetheless, the decision to orderJewish soldiers to act against fellow Jews – who too were fighting for the infantstate’s survival – has never been forgiven by some who view it as a betrayal ofthe very purpose of a Jewish army. Until this day, the Altalena is invoked attimes when state security forces are pitted against Jews, albeit not with thedeadly consequences of June 1948.
1948(13th of Sivan,5708): Twenty Jews were killed in a bombing in the Jewish Quarter of Cairo.
1948: Fifty-thousandJewish school children are scheduled to participate in the ancient Jewishfestival of the Bikkurim this morning on the Mall of Central Park, as an actdesigned “symbolize the role American Jewry has played in the redemption of thesoil of Israel.”
1948: In Cincinnati,Ohio, Carl and Edith Henry gave birth to photojournalist Diana Mara Henry whosesubjects have included Elizabeth Holtzman and Bella Abzug, “her most enduringfriend and client who since 1985 “has been writing, translating from the French,publishing and speaking] about the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp andits Nacht und Nebel political prisoners, including the Jewish spy AndreScheinmann.”
1949: Severalthousand Iraqi troop are camped today in Jordan where King Abdullah who islosing popularity due to his willingness to sign a peace treaty with Israel,may find them useful as reinforcements for the Arab Legion.
1949: “Moshe Sharett,Israeli Foreign Minister, told the Knesset [Assembly] tonight that he hadadvised the Lausanne delegates to advocate a plebiscite in Arab Palestine todetermine whether the inhabitants desired a separate state or annexation toJordan.”
1950(5th of Tammuz,5710): Sixty-two year old Georgia businessman Sam Lazarus, the husband of AnnieStein Lazarus with whom he had five children, drowned t today in Neptune Beach,FL where he was entertaining friends at his summer house.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that legislationempowered the minister of finance to underwrite up to 50 percent of mortgageloans for the construction of low-cost housing.
1951: The Jerusalem Post reported that Britain had promisedto press Egypt to open the Suez Canal for oil tankers bound for the Haifarefineries. Contrary to earlier news, General William Riley, chief UNrepresentative in the Middle East, reported to the UN Security Council on June13 that Egyptian interference with Israel-bound shipping in the Suez Canal wasan "aggressive, hostile action, undertaken in the spirit of blockade andhaving partial effects of a blockade."
1951: “Kind Lady” a re-make of the 1935 film produced by ArmandDeutsch with music by David Raksin and filmed by Cinematographer JosephRuttenberg was released in the United States today.
1952: In address to the Commercial and Industrial Club, SchmuelElyashiv, Israel’s Ambassador in Moscow “said there were prospects of expandingIsrael’s trade relations with Russia.This year Israel shipped oranges and bananas to Russia.” The Soviets would have bought more if theIsraelis had produced a larger crop.
1953(7th of Tammuz, 5713): Parashat Chukat
1953(7th of Tammuz, 5713): Sixty-one-year-old Oscarwinning screenwriter Arthur Caesar, the Romanian born son of Morris Keiser andthe brother of lyricist and composer Irving Caesar passed away today.
1954: In Ramat Gan, Louis(Lutz) Eliezer Wolfermann and Tonya Krepel gave birth to Ilan Ramon, Israel’sfirst astronaut.
1955(30th of Sivan, 5715): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1955(30th of Sivan, 5715): Fifty-three-year-old HaroldMann Bayuk, the Philadelphia born son of Julia and Meyer Bayuk and the husbandof Lillian R. Bayuk passed away today in Miami Beach, FL.
1956: Birthdate of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Tom Weiner, theauthor of One Man Against the World” The Tragedy of Richard Nixon.
1960: Birthdate of Shachiv Shnaan the Druze Israeli who served inthe Herev Battalion before starting a career in politics that included twostints as an MK.
1962: The President of Queens College announced the appointment ofProfessor Sidney Axelrad, head of the department of anthropology-sociology asdirector of graduate work.
1962; John Hopkins Medical School graduate, Alan Frank Guttmacher,the son of German Jewish immigrants Laura Oppenheimer and Rabbi AdolphGuttmacher and the twin brother of psychiatrist Manfred Guttmacher beganserving as the president of Planned Parenthood of America.
1962: In Brooklyn, funeral services were held for Brooklyn native GraceBaer Bachrach, the schoolteacher and wife of attorney Clarence G.Bachrachwith whom she had two children who was so active in various civicand cultural organizations including the “Brooklyn division of the Federationof Jewish Philanthropies” that was honored as “Brooklyn’s First Lady ofPhilanthropy in 1956.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/06/19/82045594.pdf
1963: In London, world premiere of “The Great Escape” a must seemovie with a memorable score by Elmer Bernstein.
1963: It was reported today that the newly elected officers of“Brith Abraham, a national Jewish fraternal order are Irving L Hodes, GrandMaster; Henry H. Taylor, vice grand master; Louis Clark, grand secretary;Joseph A. Klein, grand treasurer; Samuel N. Reiter; grand trustee; Adolphstern, counsel and Mrs. Hannah Friedland of Brooklyn, president of the NationalWomen’s Council.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/06/20/80450099.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
1964(10th of Tammuz, 5724): Parashat Chukat
1964: “Nobody Loves an Albatross” a comedy produced by Philip Roseand directed by Gene Saks with Marian Winters in the role of “Marge Weber” cameto a close today.
1965(20th of Sivan, 5725): Ninety-four year old financier andpresidential advisor Bernard Baruch passed away.
http://archive.org/details/1965-06-21_Bernard_Baruch
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/54487/Bernard-Baruch
http://www.knowitall.org/legacy/laureates/baruch%20bernard%20m.html
1965(29th of Sivan, 5725): Eighty year old Oscar A.Berman, the Cincinnati born son of Adolph Aria Berman and Mary Agnes Jacob”passed away today in New York City.
1965:The New York Times reports on the challenge facing Jack Benny as he faces thefirst summer in 33 years when he “does not find himself in the midst of hecticpreparations for a new season on radio or television.”
1966: Birthdate of New York native and son of Israeli parents BoazYakin who directed the must-see movie “Remember the Titans.”
1967: Carnegie Hall, whose designers included Dankmar Adler, theGerman born son of Rabbi Leibman Adler, the leader of Temple Beth El in Detroitand K.A.M. in Chicago was designated as a New York City Landmark today.
1967: Funeral services are scheduled to be held today for FloraSussman, the widow of Louis Sussman and the mother of Harold Sussman, thePresident of the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre.
1969(3rd of Tammuz, 5729): Terrorists set off three bombings nearthe Kotel killing one and injuring five.
1970(16th of Sivan, 5730): Parashat Beha’alotcha
1970(16th of Sivan, 5730): Ninety-one-year-old CCNYgraduate and Columbia Law School trained attorney, Henry Hofheimer, the husbandof the former Hannah Falk and senior partner in Hofheimer, Gartlir, Gottlieb& Gross, “who served on the boards of the 92d Street Y. M.Y.W.H.A., JewishGuild for the Blind, United Jewish Appeal, and Joint Distribution Committee”passed away today at his home on Fifth Avenue
1970: Birthdate of Jason Robert Brown who wrote the music andlyrics for “Parade” the Tony and Drama Desk award winning musical based on thelife and lynching of Leo Frank.
1971(27th of Sivan, 5731): Seventy-four-year-old Parisnative Camille Espire, “a French national who lived in Mayfair and served inthe RAF during WW II as a Special Operations Executive” passed away today inAmsterdam.
1971(27th of Sivan, 5731): Sixty-three-year-old NewYork native and Princeton educated author and mountain climber James RamseyUllman passed away today.
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/21/archives/james-ramsey-ullman-writer-dead-at-63.html
1972: Birthdate of Yuval Semo, the Haifa native who a popularIsraeli actor and comedian.
1973: “A Touch of Class” starring George Segal, directed andproduced by Melvin Frank and with a script by Frank and Jack Rose was releasedin the United States today
1973: At Yale University in New Haven, CT, Bessie Margolin wasawarded her Doctor of Science of Law degree today.
1973: Birthdate of Kansas City, MO native Joshua David Shapiro,the Georgetown University trained lawyer and Democratic Party leader who beganserving as the 50th Attorney General of Pennsylvania in 2017.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120722232321/http:/www.joshshapiro.org/about/
1976(22nd of Sivan, 5736): Forty-seven-year-old NewYork born Harold Dinerman, the director of regional services for the NationalJewish Welfare Board and husband of the former Miriam Goldfarb with whom he hadthree children – David, Ellen and Ruth – passed away today in Newark, NJ
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/22/archives/harold-dinerman.html
https://www.jta.org/archive/harold-dinerman-dead-at-47
1976: Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Davidooff announced the engagement oftheir daughter Norma, a producer reporter with Newsweek Broadcasting to KonradJ. Perlman the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. Perlman who used his master’sdegree in city planning from Yale to become the chief of planning for theDistrict of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development.
1976: The Jerusalem Post reported that the USadministration informed Israel that it would receive $200m. in transitionalaid, much less than it was expected. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told theLabor Party symposium "Israeli Arab citizens are entitled to full andequal rights, but with the knowledge that not all the duties of equal citizensare demanded of them, nor can all rights be granted to them as long as theenmity of the surrounding Arab world to Israel persists."
1977: It was reported today that Israel has denied torturing Arabprisoners.
1977: Time magazine “revealed” the marriage of 58-year-old AlanJay Lerner to 27 year old Nina Bushkin, the daughter of jazz pianist JoeyBushkin. It is her first marriage and his sixth.
1977:Yitzhak Moda'I began serving as Minster of Energy andWater.
1977: Ezer Weizman succeeds Shimon Peres as Defense Minister.
1977:Gideon Patt succeeds Shlomo Rosen as Minister ofHousing and Construction
1977:Aharon Abuhatzira succeeds Haim Yosef Zadok asMinister of Religious Services
1977: Meir Amit succeeds Aharon Uzan as Communications Minister.
1977:Yosef Burg succeeds Shlomo Hillel as InteriorMinister
1977: Moshe Dayan began serving as Israel’s 5thMinister of Foreign Affairs.
1977: Shlomo Hillel completed his service as Minister of PublicSecurity after which the ministry was abolished Prime Minister Menachem Begin asituation that would change in 1984 when the position was resurrected.
1978(15th of Sivan, 5738): Eighty-six-year-old RoseJean Chmelnitsky Berch, the Winnipeg, Manitoba born daughter of Anna and JacobChmelnitsky and the widow of Russian born business executive and member of theWilshire Blvd. Temple in Los Angeles, Samuel Harry Berch, the President ofArden Farms Dairy Company whom she married in 1912, passed away today in LosAngeles, CA.
1978(15th of Sivan, 5738): Sixty-four-year-old Canadian bornaward-winning director Mark Robson passed away today.
1979(25th of Sivan, 5739): Yisrael YeshayahuSharabi passed away. Born in Yemen in1908, he made Aliyah in 1929. He servedas an MK, cabinet minister and fifth Speaker of the Knesset
1979: Funeral services were held today in Birmingham, AL for 55-year-oldbusinessman Stanley Jerome Barasch, the Austin born son of Agnes and RabbiNathan Emanuel Barasch and the husband of Reita Jean Brarasch.
1980(6th of Tammuz, 5740): David Feuerwerker, French born CanadianRabbi and Historian, passed away.
1980: “Can’t Stop the Music,” a musical comedy with a scriptco-authored by producer Allan Carr and co-starring Steve Guttenberg wasreleased today in the United States.
1980: U.S. premiere of “The Blues Brothers” directed by JohnLandis featuring Steve Lawrence, Frank Oz, Paul Reubens and Steven Spielberg.
1982: Israeli PrimeMinister Menachem Begin arrived in Washington.
1985(1stof Tammuz, 5745): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
1985: In Dublin, theIrish Jewish Museum is opened by the Irish bornformer President of Israel Dr. Chaim Herzog during his State visit to Ireland.
1988(5thof Tammuz 5748): Bavarian born, Israel prize winner, Alex Bein, the director ofthe Central Zionist Archives and “first State of Archivist” who made Aliyah in1933 and “is best known for his biography of Theodor Herzl” passed away todaywhile visiting Stockholm.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/31211
1989: Birthdate ofChristopher Charles Mintz-Plasse “an American actor known for starring in filmssuch as Superbad, Role Models, Year One, and Kick-Ass.”
1990(27th of Sivan,5750): Actress Ina Balin died at the age of 52 from pulmonary hypertension.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-21-mn-160-story.html
https://www.facebook.com/RememberingInaBalin/
1990(27thof Sivan, 5750: Ninety-five year old Clifton Fadiman, the Brooklyn born son ofIsidore Michael and Grace Elizabeth Fadiman who gained fame as thesuper-intellectual during the golden age of radio passed away today.
1990: “Rabbi WithTefillin” by Jan Styka goes on sale at Christie’s Auction House. The paintingcompleted in 1892 was the product of a Polish artist. Can such a painting be described as JewishArt? Look at the canvas and you decide.
1991(8th of Tammuz,5751): Ninety-three year old British philanthropist and businessman Sir IsaacWolfson passed away today. (As reported by Eric Pace)
1993: The first of four scheduledtours sponsored by the American Jewish Congress which include an opportunity tobe a bar or bat Mitzvah at the Kotel or the in Masada begins today.
1995: “Little Women” starringWinona Ruder with music by Thomas Newman “had its initial North America videorelease on VHS” today.
1996: As he was laid to rest, “MelAllen was recalled today as a devoted brother and uncle, a man who once left ahospital bed for Yom Kippur services, and a gentle voice who elevated"broadcasting to a prayer with three words: 'How about that?' "during services at Temple Beth-El led by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman.
1996(3rd of Tammuz,5756): Ninety-one-year-old Louis J. Lefkowitz, the longest serving stateattorney general passed away today. (As reported by Nick Ravo)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lefkowitz-louis
1997: “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” aromantic comedy produced by Jerry Zucker was released today in the UnitedStates.
1999(6th of Tammuz, 5759): Ninety-five-year-old“super-intellectual Clifton Fadiman, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants whogained fame during the gold age of radio.” (As reported by Richard Severo)
http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/clifton_fadiman.html
1999: Funeral services arescheduled to held today Sol Levinson and Browns in Pikesville, MD for eighty-two-year-oldPolish born and Columbia and University of Wisconsin educated “healtheconomist” Herbert Kalman, the recipientof a Guggenheim Fellowship and father of Seth and Michael Klarman who was “aprofessor at Johns Hopkins University, State University of New York, and NewYork University.”
1999: The New York Timesfeatured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries Aboutthe Event That Changed History by William Ryan andWalter Pitman.
2000(17thof Sivan, 5760): Seventy-seven-year-old “Jay Grayson, the versatile WBAL radio and televisionpersonality who for nearly 40 years closed his show with the admonition,"If you liked my show, buy my jams and jellies” who was born JeromeBernard Goldberg passed away today.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-06-22-0006220130-story.html
2001(29th of Sivan,5761): Ilya Krivitz, 62, of Homesh in Samaria was shot and killed at closerange in an ambush late Wednesday afternoon in the nearby Palestinian town ofSilat a-Dahar.
2002: Jean-FrançoisCopé completed his first term as Mayor Meaux.
2002: Following itsshowing at the Skirball, “Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New Yorkis scheduled to open today at the HenryFrancis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware
2002(10th of Tammuz,5762): Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, andAvishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid,were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus,and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. Theterrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigadesclaimed responsibility for the attack.
2003(20th of Sivan,5763): Zvi Goldstein, 47, of Eli, was killed whenhis car was fired upon in an ambush by Palestinian terrorists near Ofra, northof Ramallah. His parents, Eugene and Lorraine Goldstein, from New York, wereseriously wounded and his wife lightly injured. Hamas claimed responsibilityfor the attack. (Jewish Virtual Library)
2003: “Hulk” a filmbased on the comic superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, produced byAvi Arad and James Schamus who provided the story and co-author the script andwith music by Danny Elfman was released in the United States today.
2003: “Dr. JudithRodin, Penn president since 1994, announced today that she intends to step downfrom the office when she completes her 10-year term in June 2004. Theannouncement came following a regularly scheduled meeting of the Board ofTrustees on Penn's campus.”
2003: Richard NathanHaas completed his two years plus service as Director of Policy Planning underPresident Bush.
2003: Richard N. Hasscompleted his services as United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland.
2004(1st of Tammuz,5764): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2004: “RememberingAnne Frank, now 75,” published today, TheCedar Rapids Gazette notes events around the world intended to celebratethe life and writings of one of the most famous victims of the Shoah.
2004: The NewYork Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish readers including War, Evil, and theEnd of History by Bernard-Henri Lévy; translated by CharlotteMandell.
2005: With theIsraeli and Palestinian leaders scheduled to meet on June 21st inthe first top-level talks since February, the almost daily violence that hasbeen straining their truce, which included Palestinian gunmen ambushing andkilling an Israeli motorist, continued today.
2005: Larry Collins,the co-author of O Jerusalem passed away today.
https://www.amazon.com/Jerusalem-Larry-Collins-ebook/dp/B06XKRML7J
2006: Haaretz reported that Israel's ambassador to Germany presentedmedals of honor on Monday to relatives of five members of the first"European Union" - an anti-Nazi resistance group whose members hidand fed Jews during World War Two. This European Union, which had the same namebut nothing to do with the modern 25-nation bloc of European countries, was anunderground, Marxist-oriented group with around 50 to 60 German members,according to a protocol prepared by Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.
2007: In Jerusalem“legendary Israeli composer/singer Shlomo Gronich presents his newestcompositions of biblical sources on a wide spectrum of themes: justice,righteousness, integrity, man and his identity, love songs & prayers. Theperformance includes Gronich on piano & shofar, the Jerusalem StringQuartet and percussion.”
2007: “Salon.composted an online three-page excerpt from” A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs.Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald.
2007(4th of Tammuz,5767): Eighty-five-year-old Jerome “Jerry” Fleishman who played collegebasketball for NYU and professional basketball for the Philadelphia Warriorspassed away today.
2007: The Jerusalem Post carried a page onereport stating that Shin Bet had foiled a bombing of the synagogue in Modinknown as the “pizza shul” or Zichron L’Avraham.
2008: Colonel JackWeinstein was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the United StatesAir Force.
2008: Australianbusinessman Richard J. Pratt was charged with lying about his knowledge of aprice-fixing scandal.
2008: “For MyFather,” an Israeli film directed by Droro Zahavi, premiered today at theMoscow International Film Festival.
2008: In Washington,D.C. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg,the former president of George Washington University, discusses and signs Big Man on Campus: A University PresidentSpeaks Out on Higher Education at Politics and Prose Bookstore.
2008: The SpertusMuseum announced that it was shutting down an exhibition entitled “ImaginaryCoordinates” in the wake of an outcry from Chicago –area Jews that it expressedan anti-Israel basis.
2008: In Sarajevo, atThe Jewish Film Festival of Croatia, a member of the Jewish community speaksabout filming the documentary “Sarayevo Mi Seudad de Oro,” (“Sarajevo My GodCity”) which tells the story of the Jewish community’s role in helping people escapethe last war in Bosnia.
2009: At Temple Judahin Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sarah Maikon, daughter of Renee Maikon and Marc Maikon,and granddaughter of Sandy and Sol Maikon, is called to the Torah as a BatMitzvah.
2009: G'day Shalom Salaam Israel, presented by theAustralia Israel Cultural Exchange opens in Israel.
2010: The Los Angeles Times features a “Sunday Conversation With DanielHandler” who is perhaps better known for his pen name, Lemony Snicket, and hisbestselling volumes of children's books, A Series of Unfortunate Eventsand The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story.
2010: Memorabilia and Memory: Hitler's Hat andother shorts by local filmmaker Jeff Krulik is scheduled to be shown as part ofthe Jewish Study Center Film Festival in Washington, D.C.
2010: Bowing to worldwide pressure andcondemnation, Israel formally announced an eased blockade of Gaza that couldsignificantly expand the flow of goods overland into the impoverished coastalPalestinian enclave, isolated by the Israelis for three years. The White Housesaid it “welcomes the new policy towards Gaza announced by the government ofIsrael, which responds to the calls of many in the international community.”
2010: In “GeneralFranco Gave List of Spanish Jews to Nazis” Giles Tremlett described this littleknown tale of how the Spanish dictator provided “fodder” for the German MurderMachine.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/20/franco-gave-list-spanish-jews-nazis
2011: Bob Dylanperformed at Ramat Gan Stadium tonight.
2011: The HillelAnnual Milwaukee Meeting is scheduled to take place this evening in Wisconsin’slargest city.
2011:The funeral for Morris Pollard, 95, a prominent U.S. researcher on viraldiseases who died June 18 of complications from a bladder infection was heldtoday.
2011:Israel has returned nuclear waste from its Sorek nuclear reactor to the U.S.,the head of Israel's Nuclear Energy Commission Dr Shaul Horev revealed today.
2012:Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA) Employment and Career Services is scheduledto present “Smart is Not Enough! Hidden Key to Career Success” featuring JSSALife and Career Coach Phyllis Levinson.
2012:Mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital is scheduled to perform Le Poisson Rouge in NYC
2012: Ina novel attempt to bring Judaism to the people, Rabbi Dan Ain is scheduled tobe available to answering about God or whatever at Tribeca Café in NYC.
2012: A Gaza rocket has directly hit ahome in the Sdot Negev Regional council on today, as more than 30 rockets werefired into southern Israel since the morning (As reported by Yanir Yagna, GiliCohen and Avi Issacharoff)
2012: The military wing of Hamaspublished a report today morning on its website, in which it states that “theIzz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades continues to attack the enemy with rockets forthe second straight day, and has launched 9 rockets at the Sofa military base.”
2012(30thof Sivan, 5772): Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
2012:Albert Sachs an opponent apartheid and Judge on the Constitution Court of SouthAfrica received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee
2012: Ultra-Orthodox residents of BeitShemesh attacked a woman driving through the city on today. Police wereinvestigating the incident. Police said the attackers threw stones at the carbecause they believed the driver was dressed in an inappropriate and immodestmanner. (As reported by Aaron Kalman)
2012: The body of Aaron Joseph Zindani, who wasstabbed to death outside the US Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, in May, wastransported to Israel today.
2012: Israeli Air Force jets bombed terroristtargets in the Gaza Strip for a second time Wednesday evening, following anunremitting rocket and mortar barrage on southern Israeli towns throughout theday. (As reported by Gabe Fisher)
2012: Pierre Lellouche began serving as theDeputy for Paris’ 1st Constituency.
2013: The Wiener Library for the Study of theHolocaust & Genocide is scheduled to co-host a Refugee Week writingworkshop entitled “I’m Not Going Back.”
2013: Barbra Streisand is scheduled to sing atBloomfield Stadium in Jaffa.
2013: After having strained his back again, NewYork Yankees third baseman Kevin Youkilis “underwent season ending surgery torepair a herniated disk in his back” today.
2013: A rebel group that operates on the Syrianside of the Golan Heights stated today that it would not fight Israel if Israelsends forces into Syria. A spokesman for the rebel group, which is based inQuneitra, made the comments to Al-Jazeera. (As reported by Yoel Goldman)
2013:
Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen asNazi Collaborator (As reported by Patricia Cohen) tells the story of GiovanniPalatuccie, “the Italian Schindler” credited with saving 5,000 Jews during theHolocaust which may have been a giant fraud.
2014: Masses will be said in Luxemburg andPortugal today in remembrance of the June 17th “Day of Conscience”which honors the member of Aristides de Sousa, the Portuguese diplomat whodefied Dictator Salazar and issued life-saving visas to thousands of refugeesenough of whom were Jewish to earn him recognition by Yad Vashem.
http://sousamendesfoundation.org/
2014: At the 92nd Street Y, A.J.Baime is scheduled to sign copies of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit,and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War after his presentation on how theAmerican automobile industry re-tooled itself in response to PresidentRoosevelt’s call to make America “the Arsenal of Democracy."
2014: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mettoday with the families of kidnapped Israeli teens Naftali Frankel, Gil-adShaar, and Eyal Yifrach, who were abducted June 12 in Gush Etzion.”
2014: Today “marked the last day of the 5774-schoolyear for 673,000 Israeli high school students.”
2014: Curator Zachary Paul Levine wasinterviewed on WAMU's Metro Connection about the Jewish Historical Society ofGreater Washington’s efforts to save D.C.'s only known synagogue mural.
2014: In Coralville, Iowa, Agudas Achim hostsMusical Shabbat with Rebecca Kushner.
2015(3rd of Tammuz, 5775): ParashatKorach
2015(3rd of Tammuz, 5775): Eighty-four-year-oldphotographer Harold Feinstein passed away today.
2015: In a reminder that bigotry knows noboundaries “a website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged today in whichthe accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans, “Jewishagitation of the black race,” and appears in photographs with guns and burningthe US flag.”
2015: The Eden-Tamir Music Center is scheduledto host a “Brahms Fest.”
2015: A tour that includes visits to Krakow andAuschwitz/Birkenau sponsored by CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly LabExperiments Survivors) is scheduled to depart from Chicago today.(As reportedby William Grimes.)
2015: An Unknown Country the new film byEcuadorian-born Jewish filmmaker Eva Zelig that describes the history of thislittle known Jewish community is scheduled to be shown today as part of NewYork’s Ecuadorian Film Festival.
http://anunknowncountry-movie.com/
2016: Migdalei haYam haTichon is scheduled tohost "Classical & Romantic Beads" a unique piano solo recitalfeaturing concert pianist Eliah Zabaly,
2016: “Censored Voices” a film based oninterviews conducted by Avraham Shapira and Amos Oz with Israeli soldiersfollowing The Six Day War is scheduled to be shown at the Portland, OregonJewish Film Festival.
2016: The second annual “Towards a New Law ofConference” sponsored by Shurat HaDin is scheduled to open today in Jerusalem.
2017(26th of Sivan, 5777): Eighty-four-year-old“folklorist” Roger D. Abrahams passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)
2017:Voters in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District take part in a runoffelection featuring Jewish Democrat Jon Ossoff’s long-shot attempt to turn avery Red House Seat to Blue.
2017:Roger Cohen of the NYT is scheduled to deliver a lecture on “Liberty and Facts:Isaiah Berlin in the Age of Trump” sponsored by the Center for Jewish History.
2017:“Letters written by Albert Einstein about God, Israel and physics fetchednearly $210,000 at a Jerusalem auction today, with the highest bid going to amissive about God’s creation of the world.”
2018:In New York City, the Rizzoli Bookstore is scheduled to host Eliezer Armon ashe talks about his new book If Architecture Is A Language Then A Building IsA Story which was inspired, in part “by images from Israel and itslandscape.
2018:“Israel is on the verge of laying out a framework for a “state level defenseshield” to raise the level of readiness against threats, Yigal Unna, thenation’s cybersecurity chief said today, warning that the world hasn’t yet seenthe worst of the damage hackers can wreak and that “winter is still coming.”(As reported by Shoshannah Solomon)
2018:”Rocket sirens blared in the south throughout the early morning hours today, asbarrages totaling some 45 rockets and mortar shells were fired toward Israelitowns, prompting rounds of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas military sites in theGaza Strip.” (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)
2018:The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is scheduled to host anevent as part of World Refugees which will include an address by “refugeeprotection specialist Katie Tobin of UNHCR.
2019:The American Sephardi Federation is scheduled to host David Serero’s adaptionof Romeo and Juliet “featuring Ladino and Yiddish songs.”
2019:In London, JW3 is scheduled to host two screenings of “93Queen”
2019:At a ceremony today in Israel, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft who isstill facing charges in Florida of soliciting a prostitute, is scheduled toreceive “the Genesis Prize, a prestigious award commonly known as the ‘JewishNobel Prize.’”
2019:The Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines is scheduled to hold its annualmeeting this evening in the capital city of Iowa.
2019:It was reported today that Israel has completed “its largest military drill inyears” which was a simulation of war with Hezbollah.
2020: Chapter Two Films is scheduled to host a screening of“Aviva” followed by a lived streamed Q and A withdirector Boaz Yakin, and cast members Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber.
2020(28thof Sivan, 5780): Parashat Shelach-Lecha
2020:The Asiyah Jewish Community is scheduled to present “ShabAm! Shabbat MorningConscious Dance.”
2020:Closing night activities of the Lighthouse International Film Festival arescheduled to include a “conversation of with Israeli American filmmaker,writer, visual artist and political activist Udi Aloni.”
2020:As Jews observe Shabbat in a world racked by racial conflict and the pandemic,they can find at least on bright light in David Abulafia having been named asthe winner of the Wolfson History Prize for The Boundless Sea: A HumanHistory of the Oceans.
2021: The New York Timesfeatures reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest toJewish readers including The Lights of Days: The Untold Story of WomenResistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
by Judy Batalion and the recentlyreleased paperback edition of Veritas: A HarvardProfessor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife, byAriel Saba.
2021: Larry Levin and his wifeSandee are scheduled to enjoy a unique Father’s Day Celebration, as Laura Levinmarries Charlie Jones in Chicago, Illinois.
2021: Pianist Orli Shaham, theJerusalem born daughter of Meira Diskin and Jacob Shaham is scheduled to joinher Pacific Symphony colleagues Dennis Kim (violin) and Warren Hagerty (cello)in person for a live-streamed chamber program featuring works by Reena Esmail,Jessie Montgomery, Sergie Rachmaninoff, Amanda Maier, and Germain Tailleferre.”
2021: The Jewish Studio Project isscheduled to present “a virtual gathering for people who experience grief onFather’s Day, with music, poetry, writing and/or art project.”
2021: The U.S. Holocaust Museumis scheduled to observe World Refugee Day by making it possible for us toreflect on the strength and courage of people who have been forced to fleetheir home country to escape genocide or mass atrocities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWO24fWSkuQ
https://medium.com/memory-action/childhood-restored-art-byyoung-holocaust-survivors-715750bb5587
2022: The Consulate General ofIsrael to New England is scheduled to present the East Coast Israeli filmpremiere of “Concerned Citizen.”
2022: In Brookline, MA, TempleBeth Zion is scheduled to present “The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan” akaRobert Allen Zimmerman
2022: Aboulafia & Goldfus is scheduled tohost two virtual presentations for those planning on making Aliyah in the next18 months.
2022: The Jewish Federation of Greater NewOrleans is scheduled to host a “Virtual interview with Dan Grunfeld, author of"By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and anUnprecedented American Dream."
2023: The Center For Jewish History isscheduled to present a lecture, by Alec Ferretti, professional genealogist atthe Wells Fargo Family & Business History Center, who will provide anoverview of some NYC historical record sets that are often overlooked bygenealogists, such as licensing records, voter registrations, and educationrecords.
2023: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta lecture by Jeremy Smilg on “Anglo-Jewish Response to the French Revolution.
2023(1st of Tammuz, 5783): RoshChodesh Tammuz
2024: After the 5:30 minyan at Tifereth Israelin Columbus, OH, congregants are scheduled to join in prayers for the hostagesstill by Hamas followed by the presentation of a new banner “advocating of therelease of the Israeli hostages” replacing the one that was burned down in anact of vandalism.’
2024: Lockdown University is scheduled to hosta lecture by Judge Dennis Davis on “The League of Nations and the Mandate.”
2024: World Refugee Day which is being markedby a special exhibition at The Wiener Holocaust Library is scheduled to takeplace today.
2024: The Illinois Holocaust Museum isscheduled to host a screening of “TheNegotiator: Billy Caldwell.”
2024: JWA Book Talks is scheduled hos RebeccaClarin author of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an AmericanInheritance
2024: As June 20th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave ofanti-Semitism that has included Hamas supporters calling for Zionist passengerson a New York subway to raise their hands, sweeps the United States and theHamas held hostages begin day 258 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.)
