This Day, May 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z’l – All #ourCOG News (2024)

May 4

1008:Birthdate of King Henry I of France who reigned from 1031 until his death in1060 which means that he was on the throne when a future wine maker, ShlomoYitzhaki, was born at Troyes in 1040.[But today, who remembers the French monarch and who remembers Rashi?]

1287:Jews were arrested and accused of "clipping" the coinage in England.Although there was no evidence, the community as a whole was convicted andordered to be expelled. A ransom of 4,000 (some say 12,000) pounds of silverwere paid in ransom. This was the penultimate act in the story of themedieval English Community. For a century or more they had been drainedof their wealth by Richard the Lionhearted, his brother King John and his sonHenry III. In 1290, havingreduced the Jews to a state of semi-poverty, and replaced them with ItalianBankers, King Edward I expelled the Jews from England. Part of hisrational was that if some Jews were guilty of counterfeiting, then the wholecommunity must be guilty.

1415(24^thof Iyar, 5175): Jan Hus, who saw himself as a religious reformer was declared aheretic by the Roman Catholics at the Council of Constance. The followers of Hus were called Hussites.The fight between the Hussites and the Catholic Church turned violent and theJews of Central Europe would get caught in the crossfire. After all, if you were busy killing Hussites,why not kill another group of “non-believers” living in your midst?

1493:Pope Alexander VI divided the New World including parts of east Asia betweenPortugal and Spain along the so-called Demarcation Line. In other words the Western Hemisphere wasdivided between two Catholic Kingdoms both of which had or would soon expeltheir Jewish subjects. Alexander VI was one of the so-called Renaissance Popes,a group of papal leaders who left much to be desired in matters related toreligion. Alexander VI was the Borgiapope. And he was the father of the notorious Cesare and Lucretzia Borgia. Alexander VI presented a mix bag when it cameto his dealings with the Jews. Alexanderallowed so many Marranos fleeing Spain’s Inquisition in to Rome that the city’srefugee population doubled his ten year reign.While he decreased the size of the badge worn by professing Jews, headded an additional five per cent tax to their already heavy tax burden. In an act of additional depravity, Alexander“extended the distance of the annual race in which humiliated Jews ran nakedthrough the city so that he could view it from his Castel Sant’Angeloresidence”

1515:An edict was issued ordering the expulsion of the Jews from Ragussa. The expulsion was another instance ofeconomics hiding behind religious doctrine.There were exceptions to the order including physicians and merchantsoperating in the country on a temporary basis.

1680:Birthdate of Johann Gerhard Meuschen, the anti- Jesuit Lutheran theologian. In1736 he “Novum Testamentum ex Talmude et antiquitatibus Hebraeorumillustratum,” which was a collection of studies that examined the relationshipbetween the New Testament and the Talmud and other Jewish writings.

1689:Christian Knorr von Rosenroth passed away.Born in Silesia in 1636, this Christian scholar became an accomplishedHebraist who became an avid student of the Kabbalah and the Zohar who authoredseveral books on the topic.

1758:Solomon Lipschitz who was born at Furth in 1675 and served as a cantor inPrague and Frankfurt passed away today leaving behind Te'udat Shelomo as a guide for future generations of Jewishmusicians.

http://www.hebrewbooks.org/6533

1765:In Charlestown, SC, Hillel Judah and his gave birth to Judah Jacob.

1774:Birthdate of Maryland resident John Gettinger, the husband of MargaretGettinger with whom she had five children – Catherine, Elizabeth, Maria, Susanand Daniel.

1779(18^thof Iyar, 5539): Lag BaOmer

1789:Birthdate of author Angelo Paggi, the native of Sienna who served as theprincipal of the Jewish school at Florence from 1836 to 1846 before beingforced to retire due to poor health.

1789:As France hurtles towards Revolution, Come de Mirabeau whose advocacy for therights of the Jews included the call to “”confer upon them the enjoyment ofcivil rights and they will enter the ranks of useful citizens’ began serving asa deputy for the National Constituent Assembly.

1791(30^thof Nisan, 5551): Rosh Chodesh Iyar observed on the same day that William Shortwrote from Paris to Alexnder Hamilton, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasuryconcerning “the reimbursem*nt of the American debt.”

1808:Bella Hart, the London born daughter of Mary and Mordecai Levy and her husbandDaniel Hart gave birth to Caroline E. Hart.

1809(18^thof Iyar, 5569): Lag B’Omer

1809:Abraham Lazarus married Mary Wilks today at the Great Synagogue.

1798:In Switzerland, the town council of Schwyz which in 2011 hosted “a specialexhibition ‘Did you see my Alps? A Jewish Love story’” surrendered to FrenchTroops.

1810:Birthdate of Alexandre Colonna-Walewski the European noble anddiplomat who was reported to be the illegitimate son of Napoleon and who wasthe paramour of the French-Jewish actress Rachel Felix with whom he had a son- Alexandre-Antoine Colonna-Walewski –whom he adopted in 1860.

1814:Ferdinand VII of Spain ordered allprevious proceedings of the Cortes of Cadiz null and void. This voided the 1813statement saying the Inquisition was not in line with Spain's new liberalviews. Only 2 months later Ferdinand announced Inquisitional tribunals were toonce again resume, and they did.

1816:Birthdate of violinist Joseph Franco

1817(18^thof Iyar, 5577): Lag BaOmer

1818:In Charleston, SC, Rebecca Lopez and Mordecai Hendricks De Leon, a doctor fromPhiladelphia and mayor of the southern city gave birth to Edwin de Leon, thebrother of Thomas Cooper, David Camden, Agnes, Maria Louisa and Adeline Mary deLeon.

1823(23^rdof Iyar, 5583): Washington Hendricks, the 13-year-old son of copper manufactureHamon Hendricks and the former Frances Isaacs and the grandson of UriahHendricks, one of the founders of Congregation Shearith Israel passed away today.

1827:Birthdate of Jacob Judah, the son of Hillel Judah and the brother of Richmond,VA Isaac Judah

who“was probably the first reader at Congregation Beth Shalom in Richmond.

1838:In Budapest Jozsef Lob Lipot Oppenheim and Katalin Oppenheimer gave birth toAbraham Oppenheim.

1840:In “Ketchevo, Prussian, Poland, Israel Baruch Moses and his wife gave birth torabbi, author and physician Adolph Moses, a veteran of Garibaldi’srevolutionary served as leader of the Jewish communities in Montgomery, AL andMobile, AL before settling in Louisville, KY in 1881 where he served as rabbifor the rest of his life while also earning a medical degree from theUniversity of Louisville.

1840:Birthdate of Jacob Solomon Olschwang, the “Russian Hebraist” and descent ofDavid Confort who had changed his name dropping the family patronymic “Levin”in 1866 who was the author of “"Abot de-Kartina" (in"Ha-Meliẓ," 1868) and "Haggadah shel Pesaḥ" (in"Ha-Shaḥar," 1877), both satirical sketches of Jewish life in Russia.”

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11693-olschwang-levin-jacob-solomon

1843:Louis Loewe delivered “a discourse” today on the day of the funeral of H.R.H.Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.

http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/images/Loewe%20exhibition/LL/LL4/discourse1.jpg

1844:Birthdate of Russia native Elchanan Harkavy, who in 1891 came to the UnitedStates where he was a businessman in Brooklyn.

1847(18^thof Iyar 5607): Lag B’Omer

1847:David Solomon married Sarah Hart at 63, Quadrant Regent St, St JamesWestminster, London today.

1848:A bill which would have altered the oath office making it possible for Lionelde Rothschild to take the seat in Parliament to which he had been elected was“passed on its third reading in the Commons” today “by a majority of 62 votes”but was later rejected by the Lords thus thwarting the will of the electorate.

1849:Birthdate of Gustave Pollak the native of Vienna who came to the United Statesin 1866 where he pursed a career as a journalist with the Saturday Evening Postand author of several works including Fifty Years of American Idealism

1850:Birthdate of St. Petersburg native Emanuel Schiffers, the son of German parentswho became a leading mathematician and chess master.

1851:A major fire broke out in San Francisco, destroying among other things, the“canvassed roof store” that had been opened up by newly arrived Pomeranianimmigrant Abraham Abrahamsohn. The lossof his “store” after only a month of being in the United States, forced him tohead for the gold fields and try his luck as a miner. Unfortunately, this effort did not pan out.(Sorry for the horrible pun.)

1852:In Cincinnati, Yetta Hackes and Louis Stix gave birth to Joseph Louis Stikx

1852(16^thof Iyar 5612): Seventy-three-year-old “Austrian printer, publisher, andlexicographer” Moses Landau who created “a new edition of the "'Aruk"of R. Nathan of Rome, to which he added Benjamin Mussafia's "Mussafhe-'Aruk" passed away today.

1853:In England, Nathaniel Montefiore and his wife gave birth to British author andphilanthropist Leonard Montefiore, the brother of Claude Montefiore, thegrand-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore, and the nephew of Sir Anthony Rothschildeven before leaving college had contributed articles to periodicals at TheNineteenth Century and The Fortnightly Review.

1854:Fromental Halevy’s five-act grand opera “Charles VI” was performed in BuenosAires for the first time.

1856:Two days after she had passed away, 22-year-old Elizabeth (Joel) Jacobs, “thewife of Edward Jacobs” was buried today at “Bury Street, Bevis Marks” inLondon.

1859:Judah Norden married Sarah Lazarus today.

1859:Birthdate of Buffalo native A.L. (Abraham Lincoln) “Abe” Erlanger the partnerof Marc Klaw in Klaw and Erlanger that gave Broadway a slew of productionsincluding the first Ziegfeld Follies and built several of the theatres on theGreat White Way including the New Amsterdam.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0259531/

1861:In Liverpool, England, Harriet and Walter Samuel gave birth to Samuel Edgar,the husband of Ethel Julia Edgar.

1862:The New York Times reviewed books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewish readers including The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry byIsaac Taylor in which the author described the “historic personality of God,the reality of Revelation and the…certainty of Man’s Salvation as deduced fromthe Hebrew Psalmists and Prophets…”

1862:In Courland, Aaron Schaffer and Taube Jafed gave birth to University of Berlinand University of Leipzig graduate Schepsel Schaffer, the husband of AnnaLapidusson

whobecame rabbi of Shearith Israel in Baltimore Maryland, where he also served aspresident the city’s Zionist association starting in 1895.

1864:Birthdate of Slavita, Russia native Joseph Zeff in who in 1900 came to theUnited States where he was an active Zionist.

1864(28^thof Nisan, 5624): Thirty-four year old Major Marcus M. Speigel, the German bornson of Rabbi Moses Spiegel and the former Regina Greenebaum and older brotherof Joseph Spiegel, “the founder of Spiegel Catalog” who had commanded the 120^thOhio Volunteer Infantry during the Vicksburg campaing was fatally wounded today“near Snaggy Point” during the Red River Campaign which was part of Grant’smulti-pronged offensive that successfully defeated the Confederates and savedthe Union.

1864:Grant crosses into Virginia as the commander of a coordinated effort includingUnion armies all the way to Texas that will lead to the destruction of theConfederacy, a fact that will please the majority of American Jews since mostof them favor the cause of the United States over the Confederate States.

1866:In Dixon, Illinois, Samson Rosenthal and Mina Cahn gave birth to MortizRosenthal the University of Michigan graduate and husband of Virginia Moses whoserved as the Assistant State’s Attorney in Cook County, Illinois and UnitedStates Attorney for Northern Illinois.

1866:Birthdate of Galicia native Judah Leo Landau, the grandson of the Rabbi ofGrabowitz who as a rabbi in Vienna and North Manchester before becoming aprofessor of Hebrew at Witwatersrand University and Chief Rabbi in Johannesburgwhere he passed away in 1942.

1870:In Mitau, Kurland, Russia, Behr Moses and Rachel Lovensohn gave birth to NYUand Columbia graduate Dr. Ludwig B. Bernstein the husband of Sophi Kivman andNew York public school educator who became the Superintendent of the HebrewSheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum.

1871:In London, Hyam Solomon Levy-Yuly, the London born son of Mr. and Mrs. JudahLevy-Yuly and his wife Hannah Levy-Yuly, gave birth to Clara Levy-Yuly

1872:A Times correspondent writing fromSmyrna today described a blood libel that had taken place in that Greekcity. Despite the efforts of localmedical authorities and clergy to convince the populace that a Christrian childhad died in accidental drowning and not as part of Jewish plot tied to thePassover ritual, mobs attacked the Jewish quarter converting into a place of“pandemonium, pillage, rape and murder.”

1873:Julius Judah Lyons, the New York born son of Grace and Jacques Judah Lyons andhis wife Constance Lyons gave birth to Edwin Jacques Lyons.

1875(29^thof Nisan, 5635): Publisher Michael Levi passed away in Paris.

1875(29^thof Nisan, 5635): Seventy-one-year-old Heinrich Ewald the author The PoeticalBooks of the Old Testament, History of the People of Israel, Antiquitiesof the People of Israel and Complete Course on the Hebrew Language –the book which led him to be described as “the second founder of the science ofthe Hebrew Language – passed away today

1875:In Latvia, Behr Moses and Rasya Bernstein gave birth to Columbia Ph.D LudwigBehr Bernstein and the husband of Sophia Kivman who was the Superintendent ofthe Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum of New York before organizing theCottage Home plan of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Asylum of Pleasantville, NYand starting in 1921 serving as the Executive Director of the Federation ofJewish Philanthropies in Pittsburgh.

1876:Emile Berliner starts work that leads to the invention of the gramophone.

http://www.soundrecordinghistory.net/inventors-of-sound-recording-devices/emile-berliner/

1877(21^stof Iyar, 5637): Seventy-four-year-old Rebecca Hays Myers, the daughter ofSamuel and Judith Moses Myers and the sister of Dr. Henry Myers passed awaytoday.

1878(1stof Iyar, 5638): Rosh Chodesh Iyar

1878: According to today's Literary Notes column,"Prof. Goldwin Smith who is said to be a cordial Jew-hater is preparing areply to an article in the April Nineteenth Century in which it ismaintained that Jews are good patriots."

1878: “Philip Leon, a well-dressed Hebrew was arraignedin the Court of Special Session on a charge of having stolen a pawn ticket anda dollar from Julia McCloughlin.”Although he denied the larceny, which was took the form of a swindle, hewas found guilty and sentenced to a month in New York’s city jail and orderedto pay a fine of $50.

1878: “Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society”, acolumn published today provides information about the Hebrew Benevolent andOrphan Asylum Society based on its recently released 55^th annualreport. Currently the asylum provides service to 301 boys and girls. The children attend local primary and grammarschools where, according to letters from school officials, they are doing quitewell. The asylum teaches Hebrew andother Jewish studies. The asylum houses an industrial school where boys “aretaught to be printers and shoemakers.”

1879:The New York Times featured a review of "Moses the Lawgiver"by Rev. William M. Taylor in which the author writes favorably about the Jewishleader and the customs and ceremonies of his time. This is the first in a series of that is toinclude "Daniel, the Beloved", "David, King of Israel" and“Elijah the Prophet.”

1879:“Matacong” an article published today reported on the activities of NathanielIsaac, a Jew, who was the only English resident of this island off the coast ofSierra Leone. In 1856, Isaac accompanied a French merchant named Milon on avisit to the King of Forécariah where he served as an intermediary to assurethat the Frenchman could contact his commercial operations on the island.

1879:Dr. Szold, the Rabbi of the Hanover Street Synagogue in Baltimore delivered alecture on Abraham Lincoln. The talk was sponsored by the Hebrew Young Men’sAssociation and included “a number of short anecdotes concerning the great man. Dr. Szold said that Mr. Lincoln had the mostremarkable faculty for solving difficult problems by tell little stories orparables.” Alexander the Great used asword to cut the Gordian knot. Lincolnused his “sharp, keen incisive wit “to unravel the most” difficult andintricate questions.

1880:Birthdate of Cincinnati, OH native Dr. Elmore Tauber, the “internationallyknown dermatologist”.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/519923

1881:Birthdate of Olga Aldorova who was deported from Prague, the first step on theway to the death camps.

1882:During the blood libel known as the Tiszaeszlár Affair, the mother of 14-year-oldEszter Solymosi appeared before a judge where she accused the Jews of havingmurdered her daughter.

1884:Samuel and Blume (Teitzlin) Skoss birth to American “Arabist” and author,Professor Soleomon Leon Skoss, the husband of Irene C. Panek.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/skoss-solomon-leon

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/skoss-solomon-leon

1884(9thof Iyar, 5644): Baer Ben Alexander Goldberg passed away in Paris. Born atSoludna near Warsaw in 1799, he eventually moved to Berlin where he began acareer as an author and translator; a career he continued after moving toLondon in 1847 and Paris in 1852. One of his first works was "Ḳonṭresmi-Sod Ḥakamim," a commentary on the Jewish calendar, with chronologicaltables published 1845 was one the first works by this prolific author. "Ma'aseh Nissim," a translationfrom the Arabic into Hebrew of Daniel the Babylonian's critical work onMaimonides is an example of the many translations he produced while living inParis.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view_friendly.jsp?artid=297&letter=G#ixzz10XwHrAwA

1885:Birthdate of Russian born pianist Leo Sirota who taught in Japan for 15 yearswhere his daughter Beate Sirota Gordon was born before settling in the United States.

1886:Birthdate of Vilna native and Brooklyn resident Leon Goldapple a member of theExecutive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America whose publicationsincluding The New Palestine anEnglish language weekly and the YoungJudean, an English language monthly for “Jewish Youth.”

1886:In Philadelphia, Rebecca Schoenbrun and Ignatz Kline gave birth to SwarthmoreCollege graduate and Johns Hopkins trained medical doctor Benjamin SchoenbrunKline the husband of Edith Madeline Moysey who was instructor in pathology atWestern Reserve University and chief of the laboratory department at the Mt.Sinai Hospital in Cleveland OH.

1886:At Haymarket Square a peaceful rally by workers seeking the 8-hour day turnedviolent that led to Illinois vs. August Spies et al in which Sigmund Zeislerrepresented the defendants.

1887:The funeral of Isaac Henricks, the prominent businessman and member of theHebrew Orphan Asylum Society, is scheduled to take place at hisbrother-in-law’s home this morning.

1889:In Prestwich Lancashire, Ephraim Sieff, a Lithuanian born Jewish businessmanand his wife gave birth to Israel Moses Sieff, Baron Sieff the chairman ofMarks & Spencer from 1964 to 1967 who was the father of Marcus JosephSieff, Lord Sieff of Brimpton.

1890(14^thof Iyar, 5650): Pesach Sheini

1890:Four new trustees are scheduled to be appointed a meeting of the HebrewBenevolent and Orphan Asylum.

1890:It was reported today that Russia is preparing to adopt more stringent passportregulations, requiring that the documents of all those entering the countrymust show their religion. Anyone whodoes not show a religion will be registered as a Jew and will only be able tovisit “localities where Jews are permitted to reside.”

1890:In NYC, Clara Liebmann and Julius Rosenfeld gave birth to Yale and Columbia University Graduate School ofJournalism trained author, journalist and music critic Paul Leopold Rosenfeld,the “great-grandson of brewer Samuel Liebman who wrote for several publicationsincluding The New Republic and Vanity Fair and while authoringthe autobiographical novel The Boy in the Sun.

1891:In San Francisco, “wholesale wine merchant, Frederick Jacobi Sr. and FloraBrandenstein (daughter of tobacco wholesaler Joseph Brandenstein), whom FrederickSr. had married in 1876” gave birth toWW I Army veteran and noted composer Frederick Jacobi the husband ofIrene Schwarcz who was “also known and best remembered as a composer of workswith Judaic themes” whose “interest in this genre began with a 1930 commissionfrom Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York for a Sabbath eveningservice.”

https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/frederick-jacobi/

1892:The funeral of Abraham L. Grabfeelder, the General Southern Agent of ManhattanLife Insurance Company a director of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will beheld this morning at 9:30

1892:Six Jews and Jewesses were convicted at Vilna of murdering babies that had beenleft in their care.

1892:It was reported today that David Boody, the Mayor of Brooklyn, Joseph C.Hendrix, President of the Board of Education and Oscar S. Straus, the formerminister to Turkey, addressed those attending the cornerstone laying ceremoniesof the new building belong to the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum.

1893:Simon Goodheart, one of the leaders of the aggressive movement to convert Jewsliving on the lower east side denied accusations contained in affidavits signedby those whom his group had converted and who have now renounced theirconversion that financial inducements are used to gain converts and that mostof those who are supposed to be converts have taken the step for financialgain.

1894:Birthdate of Archibald Maul Ramsay, a British army officer, outspokenanti-Semite and the only MP to ever be interred on suspicions that he was a spyfor the Axis

1895(10^thof Iyar, 5655): Parashat Achrei-Mot Kedoshim

1895:A nameless seven-year-old deaf mute Jewish boy whose mother had passed away andwhose father “was unable to provide for him” has been taken to Randall’s

1895:Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Zuckerman of 71 East 109^th Street appearedbefore the justice at the Harlem Police Court and charged their 20-year-old sonof burglary – specifically of stealing tree silver candlesticks worth $100 anda gold watch worth $75.

1896:Today, The New York Times published“Peculiarities of Baron Hirsch” which had first appeared in the London Chronicle which described a man of great personal wealth who was, at heart, apopulist who sided with the working classes in their conflicts with“cosmopolitan financiers” and other power brokers including those inhabitingthe British House of Lords.

1898:One day after she had passed away, Leah Davis, the wife of Morris Davis, withwhom she had had six children was buried today in the “Plashet Jewish Cemetery”in London.

1898:Birthdate of Deva, Hungary and actress Maria Antonia Farkas, who gained fame asMaria Corda, the wife of Alexander Korda whom she rescued from imprisonment byHungarian regent Miklos Horothy.

1899:Birthdate of Kiev native and Kiev Conservatory trained pianist Gregory Ashmanwho served on the faculty at Julliard Conservatory and was a conductor of theChautauqua Opera Association.

1899:Today Governor Theodore Roosevelt declined to grant a pardon to Henry Hendrickswho is serving a life sentence for murdering his wife and should not beconfused with the Jewish attorney of the same name who was only six years oldat this time.

1900:“B’nai B’rith Convention” an article published today reported on the recentlyadjourned convention of the Jewish fraternal organization which has been heldin Chicago, Illinois.

1901(15^th of Iyar, 5661): ParashatEmor

1901:The Books and Authors column included Israel Zangwill’s comments about “RobertAnnys, Poor Priest” by Annie Nathan Myer. “Zangwill writes, ‘You are to beheartily congratulated. The book is full of color, spirituality and drama.There is a fine sense of the early commerce of early English history…You scorein so many ways. Your pure use of words shows you have the true artist’s joy inthem for their own sake.”

1902:Herzl began a three-day trip in Berlin. Herzl talked to the director of theDeutsche Bank through which the Zionist movement would like to buy the DeutschePalästinabank. For the first time Herzl met Franz Oppenheimer.

1902(27^thof Nisan, 5662): Fifty-six-year-old French physician Theodore Klein who servedfor 18 years as president of the Société de l'Etude Talmudique passed awaytoday.

1903:Birthdate ofactor Luther Adler. Born in New York, Adler was thebrother of two other famous thespians, Jay and Stella Adler. Adler beganhis career at the age of 13 appearing in his father's Yiddish theater. Luther Adler was born in 1903. His theatre debut began as a 13-year inhis father's Yiddish Theatre. In the 1930's he was part of the Group Theatrewhere he worked with such well-known names as John Garfield, Elia Kazan, LessStrasberg and Howard Da Saliva. He appeared in over thirty movies and asmany television programs. Some of his film credits include The Last Angry Man; Cast a Giant Shadow and Voyageof the Damned. He passed away in 1984.

1904: The United States began the construction ofthe Panama Canal. The first PanamanianJewish community, Kol Shearith Israel, was founded in 1876 when Panama wasstill part of Columbia. By 1911, whenthe Canal was all but completed the Jewish community numbered approximately500.

1904:Dispatches sent to the Times of London today from Vienna contained additionaldescriptions of the anti-Jewish rioting in the town of Bender, near Kishinevwhere the “outcries of a drunken fanatic started the mob on its rush to theJewish quarter” where “all the scenes of the Kishinev massacre were repeated ona small scale” with among other things the wife of a pregnant furniture dealerbeing “thrown from an upper window of her house into the street.”

1905:Birthdate of Mátyás György Seiber, the Hungarian composer who worked in Germanyuntil the rise of the Nazis forced him to leave for Great Britain where hespend the rest of his career.

http://www.schott-music.com/shop/persons/featured/matyas-seiber/

1906:It as reported today that Jacob H. Schiff, acting as the treasurer for the RedCross and the committee raising funds for the victims of the San Franciscoearthquake has received an additional $35,000 in contributions.

1907:Birthdate of Milton Galatzer the native of Chicago and all-Star outfielder atCrane Tech who played the outfield and first base for the Cleveland Indians andCincinnati Reds during the 1930’s

1907:In Rochester, Rose Stein and Louis E. Kirstein gave birth to Monument Man andco-founder of the New York City Ballet Lincoln Edward Kirstein.

http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/kirstein-pfc.-lincoln-e.

1908:“The Fifth Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charitiesbegan” today in Richmond at Beth Ahabah Temple.

1909:One day after he had passed away, Louis Bernstein, the 34 year old son of Eliasand Sarah Bernstein was buried today at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery” inNorthern Ireland.

1909: InCleveland, “Yiddish speaking Russian immigrants” “Bertha (née Sen) and BenjaminSilverblatt,” gave birth to Howard Silverblatt who gained fame as actor HowardDa Silva, a large man with a distinctivevoice who worked in steel mill to pays his way through Carnegie Institute. Hisearly stage work includes stints with Orson Wells as well as playing theoriginal Judd in Oklahoma. In the late 1930's and 1940's he had asuccessful career in movies playing in such varied films as Sergeant York andThe Lost Weekend. Da Salvia's left wing politics got him in trouble withthe House Un-American Activities Committee. Da Silva was blacklisted formany years. His fortunes began to rise in the late 1960's and 1970's whenhe playedBen Franklin 1776 as well as a film about (of allpeople), J. Edgar Hoover.He passed away in 1986.

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/43087%7C71228/Howard-Da-Silva/

https://spartacus-educational.com/USAsilva.htm

1910(25^thof Nisan 5670): Miriam Patchunski, the wife of Abraham Patuchunski passed awaytoday after which she was buried at the “Belfast Jewish Cemetery” in NorthernIreland

1910:According to some sources this was the date on which Tel Aviv was founded. Theconfusion stems from the fact that the land company to purchase the acreage forTel Aviv was formed in 1909. In 1909 anumber of Jewish residents decided to move to a healthier environment, outsidethe crowded and noisy city of Jaffa. They established a company calledAhuzat-Bayit and with the financial assistance of the Jewish National Fundpurchased some twelve acres of sand dunes, north of Jaffa. In 1910, the suburbwas named Tel Aviv after Nahum Sokolow's translation of Altneuland, Herzl's fictional depiction of the Jewish State.

1911: It wasreported today that while Dr. Solomon Schechter, the President of the JewishTheological Seminary was on “an eleven months’ vacation” that included time inAfrica and Baghdad, Cambridge University “issued his translation of theremarkable manuscript containing a contemporary record of persons and eventsdescribed in the New Testament entitled ‘Fragments of a Zadokite Work’”

1912(17^thof Iyar, 5672): Parashat Emor; as the Jews observe Shabbat, an Italian Armylands on the Isle of Rhodes during a war between the Ottomans and the Italians– one of the many small wars that set the stage for WW I.

1912:Birthdate of Aron B. Landauer, the husband of Elizabeth Laura Landauer

1913: TheTemple Sholom Alliance is scheduled to host a performance of “A Woman’sIntrusion,” a one act play by Tillie Becker this evening at Assembly Hall inChicago.

1913: InSacramento, CA, rededication of B’Nai Israel Synagogue.

1913:Birthdate of Irving Broome who gained fame as John Broome the writer for DCComics whose creations included “The Flash.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-broome-1096133.html

1913: “AWoman’s Intrusion” a one act playlet was scheduled to be a featured attractionat this evenings “entertainment” sponsored by The Temple Sholom Alliance at theAssembly Hall in Chicago.

1914: “CreditsAmerica’s Freedom to Jews” published today described a speech delivered byOscar S. Straus, the former cabinet member and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey inwhich he described the relationship of Christopher Columbus with “GabrielSanctus” who had raised money for one of the explorer’s ships and LuisSantangel to whom Columbus “wrote his first letter describing the wonders ofthe New World.”

1915: “ChicagoPlea for Frank” published today included the announcement of the those who werewilling to speak out on behalf of Leo Frank who has been wrongly convicted ofmarried Mary Phagan included the famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow,Bishop Samuel Fallows and Frank and Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, President of theIllinois Equal Suffrage Society.

1915: “TheIllinois Legislature was asked today to pass resolutions asking for thesuspension of the death sentence on Leo M. Frank” who has been “sentenced todeath at Atlanta for the murder of Mary Phagan.”

1915: It wasreported today that “the resentencing of Leo Frank at this time would mean thehastening of the hearing before the Prison Commission of his petition for acommutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment” which “would mean thatthe case would reach Governor Slaton before the expiration of his term in thelatter part of June.”

1915: As oftoday Judge Samuel Greenbaum is the President of the Educational Alliance whichas of June 30, 1914 had 2,692 members.

1916:Birthdate of sociologist Rose Laub Coser who “made contributions to medicalsociology, refined major concepts of role theory, and analyzed contemporarygender issues in the family and in the occupational world.”

1916:Bronx County Registrar Edward I. Pollak presided over a meeting tonight at theSpooner Theatre organized by the Jewish Relief Committee, the Central ReliefCommittee and the People’s Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers whichmarked the start of “a campaign to raise $100,000 in the Bronx for the aid ofJewish war suffers.”

1916:“The American Jewish Chronicle, a weekly publication devoted, according to itsmanagement” which included Isidor Straus as President and S.M. Melamed asSecretary, “to the advocacy of the rights of Jews after the close of theEuropean war” is scheduled to make its first appearance today.

1916:As Jewish leaders becoming increasingly concerned about the fate of Jews inRussia, U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote to Simon Wolf that theState “Department has cabled the Embassy in Petrograd making inquiry” “as tothe authenticity of a report that there is to be an outbreak against the Jewsof Russia at the coming Russian Easter.”

1917: At therequest of the government of Salonika, the rabbis approve burial of bodies inshrouds made of paper, because linen was scarce and expensive.

1917: It wasreported today that “Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein has resigned as director of theCentral Jewish Institute to lead a Jewish revival movement” in New York – aneffort to which he will devote the next year of his life.

1917: Tel Avivwas sacked by Arabs. Djemal Pasha announced that it was the intention of theTurkish government to purge Eretz Yisrael of its Jewish population. Tel Avivwas sacked by the Arabs on the anniversary of the official adoption of the name"Tel Aviv". That same year the British attacked the Turks inPalestine and the Jews reclaimed Tel Aviv which is often called the "NewYork of Israel."

1917: DjemalPasha of the Ottoman Army declared that the intention of authorities was to"wipe out Jewish population of Palestine."

1918(22^ndof Iyar, 5678): Parashat Behar-Bechukotai

1918(22^ndof Iyar, 5678: Dr. Isaac Adler, the German born Professor Clinical Pathology atthe New York Polyclinic Medal School who had “who had studied medicine at theuniversities of Heidelberg, Vienna, Prague and Berlin” after graduating fromColumbia and who was the “brother of Dr. Felix Adler, head of the EthicalCulture Society of New York” passed away today.

1918: “PlanNew Hebrew Club” published in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer described plans tobuild a $20,000 facility that will included an 500 seat auditorium which will ahome for the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and the Young Women’s HebrewAssociation in Camden, NJ.

1918: “John L.Bernstein, President of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society ofAmerica” received a cable from Samuel Mason who had gone to Japan “straightenout affairs among the thousands of Jews who been stranded there after fleeingRussia” “announcing that the 200 Jewish refugees who had been stranded inHarbin” are now on their way to the United States.

1918: Today,the Jewish Welfare Board sent an order to Chief Rabbi Hertz, “who is workingamong the Jewish soldiers in England” “an order of 10,000 psalms book” whichwill then “be forwarded to Rabbi Levi in Paris and to Chaplain Elkin C.Voorsanger” who will distribute them to American soldiers in France.

1919: InChicago, Illinois, the dedication of the Mt. Sinai Hospital on South CaliforniaAvenue is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.

1919: InPittsburgh, five days a group of Jews met at the home of Ben Cohen where they“organized what was charted as the Beechview Hebrew Congregation Beth El” whichis now Beth El Congregation of the South Hills“the men of the congregation” met today “and elected their firstofficers : President, Jacob Rosenson; Vice President, Harry Ruderman;Secretary, Isidore Marmorstein; Treasurer, Abraham Zober.”

1919(4^thof Iyar, 5679): Seventy-three year old Julius Reach, “the husband of the lateRosa Reach” with whom he had four children passed away today.

1920: InLithuania, Rabbi Moses Etter (Yuter) the son of Mere and Shmuel Yuter and hiswife Sophie gave birth Louis Etter.

1920:Birthdate of Brooklyn native Harold “Hal” Judenfriend the star CCNY basketballplayer.

http://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/hal-judenfriend/

1921(26th ofNisan, 5681): Jonas Kuppenheimer, president of the clothing manufacturingcompany that bears his family name passed away today in Lake Forest,Illinois. Born at Terre Haute, Indianain 1854, Kuppenheimer came to Chicago fifty years ago with his father Bernard,and his brothers Louis and Albert where they opened a clothing store that grewinto a major producer of menswear.

1922:It wasreported today that “a declaration favoring establishment of a national homefor Jewish people in Palestine as urged by many prominent American Jewishorganization is made in a resolution by Senator Lodge, reported yesterday bythe Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”

1922: Mr. andMrs. Oscar Straus are staying at the Ambassador while visiting Atlantic City,NJ.

1923(18^thof Iyar, 5683): Lag B’Omer

1923: The 146^thsession of the New York State Legislature in which Philip M. Kleinfeld hadserved his first time as the State Senator from 4^th District came toa close.

1924: Tonight,“more than one thousand people attended a dinner in honor of Joseph L.Buttenwieser, President of the Federation for the Support of JewishPhilanthropic Societies, in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Pennsylvania.”

1924:“Congratulations on the progress made in the drive for raising funds to restorePalestine were exented to American Jewry by Dr. Chaim Weizmann at a meetingthis afternoon at Temple B’nai Israel which was attended by Samuel Untermyer,Bernard Rosenblatt and Dr. Maurice Eisenberg wherea check for $40,000 was Dr.Weizmann, the president of the World’s Zionist Organization.

1925:Birthdate of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, former CEOof AIG, one of the world’s largestinsurance and financial services companies.

1925: InConstantine, Algeria, Albert and Diamantine Abarzel gave birth to AvrahamAbarzel, the oldest of the their ten children who died while serving in the IDFin 1948 during “battle for the capture of Beersheba.”

1925: InJohannesburg, South Africa Julius First and Matilda Levetan gave birth toanti-Apartheid activist Ruth First.

1925: U.S.premiere of “Any Woman,” a silent film produced by Jesse Lasky and AdolphZukor.

1926: InPalestine, “all work in Jewish office, factories and institutions…stopped at1:30 today as thousands of mourners paid tribute to the late Dr. MaxNordau…whose body was brought to Palestine from France. As the body was being carried to Tel Aviv’stown hall, the procession stopped at the Great Synagogue where specialreligious services were held.

1926: On theLower East Side of Manhattan, garment cutter Benjamin Ratzer and Clara Bendelgave birth to Harry Ratzer who gained fame as “Harry Lorayne, who parlayed achildhood reading disability and the brutal punishment it engendered into aninternational career as a memory expert, summoning the names of roomfuls ofstrangers in a single sitting, rattling off entire small-town telephone booksand telling astonished audiences what was written on any page of a given issueof Time magazine.” (As reported by Margalit Fox)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/arts/television/harry-lorayne-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

1927: In NewYork, Harry and Ida Sotsky gave birth to Abraham S. Adler the husband of MimiAdler

1928(14^thof Iyar, 5688): Pesach Sheni

1928: In Brno,Czechoslovakia, Aron and Ruth Dershowitz gave birth Rabbi Zvi Dershowtiz whocame to the United States at the age of ten and served several ReformCongregations including Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, CA.

1929(24^thof Nisan, 5689): Parashat Achrei Mot

1929: While“official figures as to the number of the Jewish population in Palestine arenot available, Major Ormsby-Gore, the Under-Secretary for the Coloniesestimated that the number had reach 149,554 by the end of 1928, up from anestimated population of 55,000 at the time of the armistice in 1918.

1930: In theBronx, “the former Ruth Hirsch, a milliner” and Solomon Peterman, “a shoesalesman” gave birth to their only child Roberta Peterman who as Robert Peters“achieved the longest tenure of any soprano in the history of the MetropolitanOpera.”

https://jwa.org/thisweek/may/04/1930/roberta-peters

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/arts/music/roberta-peters-soprano-with-a-dramatic-entrance-dies-at-86.html?_r=0

1931: L.D.Dover, the general secretary of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity announced today thatLt. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman will award the Gottheil Medal as the person who has done the most forJewry and Judaism in the preceding year at a banquet on May 9^th

1932: InLaurel, MS, Solomon Louis Wisenberg, the son of Abraham Wisenberg and BlumaRuchel Wisenberg and his wife Bessie Wisenberg gave birth to Sidney RebaPosmantier.

1932: InHungary, Professor Louis Mehly, a biologist who had previously said that theJews have different blood than other races, and who has been sentenced to twoweeks for publicly calling the Jews a “parasitic race” is appealing hisconviction.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/05/04/100730663.html?pageNumber=9

1933: “Ademand for a united front In the American Jewish protest against Germananti-Semitism was voiced today by the rabbinical assembly of the JewishTheological Seminary at the closing session of its annual convention at theseminary, 122d Street and Broadway.

1933(8^thof Iyar, 5693): Eighty-seven-year-old Cantor Simon Levy, “the oldest cantor inthe orthodox synagogues of Cincinnati” where he lived for sixty-five yearspassed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/05/05/99306873.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1934:“Manhattan Melodrama” produced by David O. Selznick with a script co-authoredby Joseph L. Mankiewicz and, in what some might say was type-casting, featuringGeorge Sidney in the role of Poppa Rosen, a Russian Jew was released today inthe United States.

1935: In SanFrancisco, the former Alma Loew a Jewish immigrant from Germany and EdwardFriedman, a Jewish refugee from Lithuania gave birth to jazz pianist DonaldErnest Friedman.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/arts/music/don-friedman-versatile-jazz-pianist-dies-at-81.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1935: A courtin Berne, Switzerland is scheduled to deliver a verdict in the civil suitbrought by The Union of Jewish Communities of Switzerland and the Jewishcommunity of Bene “against Swiss Nazis and others demanding the confiscation ofa pamphlet in the Protocols of Zion were published because “the publicationviolated the Swiss law prohibiting the printing of literature ‘calculate toexcite vile instincts or to cause brutal offense.’”

1936 “Ninecharitable organizations received bequests totaling $56,000 in the will of thelate stockbroker Albert Stieglitz which was filed in Surrogate’s Court today”and which “named his widow, Hannah Stieglitz as the principal beneficiary.

1936: Votersare expected to accept or reject the recommendation of the nominating committeechaired by Mrs. Edward Josephy naming the new slate of officers for theNational Council of Jewish Women.

1936: InAtlantic City, celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of NewYork City merchant Aaron Blumenthal.

1936: It wasreported today that “one of the steamship companies subsidized by the FederalGovernment through mail contracts employs seamen who place allegiance to theNazi flag above that of the United States.”

1937: Theconvention of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in the United States and Canada, an“organization that includes in its membership about 98 per cent of all theorthodox rabbis in the United States” is scheduled to continue for a second dayin Atlantic City, NJ.

1937: It wasannounced today that Arturo Toscanini will again conduct the Palestine SymphonyOrchestra in a series of concerts that will include a November 10 in Tel Avivas well as performances in Jerusalem and Haifa.

1938: In anaddress to 500 newly married couples at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius XIcriticizes Adolf Hitler, currently visiting Mussolini in Rome, and the NaziParty. Pope Pius XI says that these couples deserve a papal benediction because"such sad things are happening, sad things, very sad, both near to us andfar away. Certainly, among these sad things is that on the feast day of theHoly Cross of Christ, the banners of another cross which certainly is not thatof Christ should have been hoisted in Rome. This was out of place and time. Wetell you this so that you may understand how necessary it is to pray, pray, andpray for the mercy of the Almighty in all its largeness." (Editor’s Note –this was not the only time that Pius XI would publicly criticize Hitler orspeak up in defense of the Jews. Anydiscussion of the role of the Catholic Church in events leading up to the Shoahmust include an examination of this brave cleric)

1938: Apicture was taken of the teachers and students at a Jewish school in Sirvintos,Lithuania.

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/this_month/may/03.asp

1938: In LosAngeles, Oscar winning screen writer Phillip G. Epstein and his wife gave birth to American authorLeslie Donald Epstein whose novels includes King of the Jews. Epstein was the nephew of screenwriter JuliusEpstein and the father of baseball mogul Theo Epstein.

1938:Carl von Ossietzky, an anti-Nazi German journalist and winner of the 1935 NobelPeace Prize, dies at age 50 after five years' captivity in concentration camps.

1938: The Palestine Post reported that Arabgangs murdered Hassan Darfil, a prominent Arab notable representing the WadiSalib quarter of Haifa. Arab gangs continued to abduct and rob villagers andspread terror across the country.

1939:According to the diary of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, a State Department official,President Roosevelt met at the White House with Jewish leaders where thePresident seemed to be convinced that the warnings given by the U.S. Embassy inBerlin “were sound and not exaggerated.”

1939:Birthdate of Israeli author Amos Oz. To understand the works of Oz, youmust realize that he is not just Jewish, but a sabra, a person who never hasknown the Diaspora. Born in Jerusalem, Oz was a city boy until he went tolive on a kibbutz at the age of 15. "He studied philosophy and literatureat the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and was visiting fellow at OxfordUniversity, author-in- residence at the Hebrew University andwriter-in-residence at Colorado College. He has been named Officer of Arts andLetters of France. An author of prose for children and adults, as well as anessayist, he has been widely translated and is internationally acclaimed. Hehas been honored with the French Prix Femina and the 1992 Frankfurt PeacePrize. He lives in the southern town Arad and teaches literature at Ben GurionUniversity of the Negev." In describing his literary efforts, a reviewerin Newsweek wrote, “Eloquent, humane, even religious in the deepest sense, [Oz]emerges as a kind of Zionist Orwell: a complex man obsessed with simple decencyand determined above all to tell the truth, regardless of whom it offends.” Ozis extremely prolific and only some of his works have been translated intoEnglish. These include such recent efforts as My Michael, APerfect Peace and Don't Call It Night.

1939: InHungary, Miklos Horthy signs “The Second Jewish Bill” which had been introducedinto the Hungarian Parliament in December of 1938 and was laughingly called“the Christmas present for the Jews.”The bill was the Hungarian version of Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws and provedto almost immediately ruinous for much of Hungary’s Jewish population.

1940(26^thof Nisan, 5700): Seventy-eight year old “German numismatist” and formerProfessor of the University of Jena Behrendt Pick took his life today in Berlinafter having been forced into retirement because he was Jewish.

1940: Today,future Reform Rabbi Robert Lehman, whose family had arrived in the UnitedStates from Nazi Germany in 1938 “celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at the HebrewTabernacle of Washington Heights, a Reform congregation made up largely offellow German-Jewish immigrants that leaned toward traditional or conservativepractices.”

1941: “TheZagreb radio announced today that severe laws against Jews would be carried outthroughout Croatia,” including one that would allow Jewish property to “beconfiscated by the State without compensation and Jewish employees of thegovernment to be expelled by June 1.”

1941: “Fivehundred Jewish leaders, attending a conference of the United Palestine Appeal,sent a telegram to President Roosevelt today urging him to intercede with GreatBritain to permit the formation at once of a Jewish Army in Palestine and toequip it with adequate material.”

1942: Japaneseships supporting the invasion of Tulagi were attacked by planes from theAmerican aircraft carrier Yorktown marking the start of what would become theBattle of the Coral Sea, which marked the first time that the Japanese werestopped during the war in the Pacific and the first time that American planessank a Japanese aircraft carrier

1942: Birthdate of Michael Dray. His family hadmoved from Casablanca to Paris. He was the youngest of the Moroccan-bornJews who would be deported from Paris to Auschwitz - an event that took placewhen he was twenty months old.

1942: Thefirst day of an eleven daydeportation of 10,000 Jews from Lodz ghetto tothe Chelmno Death Camp. They were part of 145,000 people who were gassedbetween December 1941 and September 1942.

1942:Starting on this date and lasting until May 8,six Jews in Lódz, Poland,fearing deportation, commit suicide.

1942:Starting on this date and lasting until May 15, more than 10,000 Jews aredeported from the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto to Chelmno.

1943(29thof Nisan, 5703): Eighty-five-year-old Russian born, Canadian trained Americangynecologist Hiram Nahum Vineberg, the husband of Lena Bernheim and thenamesake for the Hiram N. Vineberg Research Fund passed away today in New York.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Diary_of_Dr_Hiram_N_Vineberg_M_D_McGill.html?id=_s6PGwAACAAJ

1943:Against all odds, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which began on April 19continues.

1943:An advertisem*nt condemning the recently completed Bermuda Conference appearedon page 17 of the New York Times under the headline of “To 5,000,000Jews in the Nazi Death-Trap Bermuda was a Cruel Mockery.”

http://enc.wymaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bermuda5M.png

1943:The Committee for an Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews published anadvertisem*nt today in the New York Times which included the “unauthorized useof the names of several members of Congress – including Harry S. Truman, RobertA. Taft and Edwin C. Johnson.”

1943:U.S. premiere of “Five Graves to Cairo” a war movie set in North Africadirected by Billy Wilder who co-authored the script

1944(11thof Iyar): Author Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki passed away today.

1944:“Gaslight” the film adaptation of the mystery Broadway play directed by GeorgeCukor and filmed by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was released today in theUnited States.

1945(21^st ofIyar, 5705): Eighty-seven-year-old, Hiram Nahum Vineberg, the Russian born sonof Alexander and Anna Vineberg, the husband of LenaBernheimer and graduate of McGill University who went on to become the attendinggynecologist at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital and the MontefioreHome for Chronic Invalids passed away today.

1945:RedArmy troops liberate the camp at Oranienburg, Germany, where 5000 inmatesremain alive.

1945:The U.S. 82nd Airborne Division liberates the concentration camp at Wöbbelin,Germany.

1945:At Mauthausan the prisoners were not taken out to work and SS men were observedleaving the camp.

1945:TheInternational Red Cross took over the administration of the camp/ghetto atTheresienstadt, Czechoslovakia. The last of the camp's SS men flee.

1946(3^rdof Iyar, 5706): Parashat Kedoshim

1946(3^rdof Iyar, 5706): Seventy-eight-year-old Samuel Bettelheim, the Hungarian bornson of Philipp Bettelheim and Johanna Buchsbaum and the husband of JuliaDeutsch, who should not be confused with the Zionist leader with the same name,passed away today.

1946:“Lindsley B. Kimball, president of United Service Organizations, paid tributetoday to "the role of American Jewry" in the country's war effortthrough the National Jewish Welfare Board, a member of the USO…”

1947(14^thof Iyar, 5707): Pesach Sheni

1947:Today marked the start of the fifth annual nation-wide observance of ReligiousBook Week, sponsored by The National Conference of Christians and Jews anddesigned to stimulate the reading of books of spiritual value, is being heldthis week. The Conference was established in 1928 "to demonstrate thatthose who differ deeply in religious beliefs may work together in the Americanway toward mutual goals."

1947: TheIrgun Zeva'l Le'umi, known in Hebrew by the abbreviation as Etzel or the Irgun,staged the famous prison break at Acre Prison. In April, 1947, theBritish had hung members of the Irgun so Menachem Begin felt it was imperativeto try and rescue at least some of those held in the aging fortress. In aact of daring-do worthy of any adventure novel, the Irgun entered the prisonand freed 41 Etzel and Lehi (Stern Gang) prisoners. They could not freemore because of the lack of hiding places. Thi escape is one of theclimactic scenes in Leon Uris's novel (and movie by the same name) Exodus.

1947:More than 2,000 people filled Temple Emanu-El this afternoon at a specialmemorial service for Henry Monsky, international president of B'nai B'rith andchairman of the interim committee of the American Jewish Congress. Mr. Monskydied on Friday in the Hotel Biltmore at the age of 57, while attending ameeting of the future organization committee of the conference.

1948:In direct violation of international law, the Arab Legion which was theJordanian army that included a compliment of British officers attacked KfarEtzion and was driven back by the poorly armed Jewish fighters.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-israel-war-of-independence

1948: Withonly five days left until the end of the British Mandate, the Jewish forceswere working feverishly to develop a military posture that would enable them toavoid annihilation by Arab military forces operating illegally in Palestine. At the same time they were trying to preparea defensive posture that would enable them to face the invading armies theywould face within the next week. To thatend, the Palmach launched Operation Broom.Operation Broom was intended to “sweep away” Arab bases so that Jewishsettlements in the lower and upper Galilee could be joined together with awide, safe strip of Jewish territory. Large numbers of Arabs departed theGalilee for safe haven across the Jordan River.Their departure was a result of rumors of that a large Jewish force wason its way and the belief that once the Arab armies had had their way with theJews, they could return and reap the spoils of victory.

1948:Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, was published.

1949:Led by Mayor O’Dwyer and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the President of Israel, the Jewsof New York city are scheduled to gather at public rallies and concerts toobserve the “first anniversary of Israel’s independence.

1949: U.S. premiere of “The Barkley’s of Broadway”produced by Arthur Freed, written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and SidneySheldon with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin and featuring OscarLevant as “Ezra Miller” and Hans Conried as “Ladislaus Ladi”

1950(17^thof Iyar, 5710):Seventy-eight-year-old Viennese born American psychoanalysisPaul Fedem who was one of the early supporters of Sigmund Freud passed awaytoday

1951:“Sol Lesser, independent film producer, financier and theatre operator, hasjoined the syndicate headed by Louis R. Lurie of San Francisco which isnegotiating the purchase of the Warner Brothers' 24 per cent interest in WarnerBrothers Pictures, Inc., Mr. Lesser disclosed today.”

1952:In an interview given on the eve of his departure for the United States, AbbaKhoushy, Mayor of Haifa declared “that this is going to be THE city of thecountry.” In outlining the many virtuesof this major seaport, the mayor noted that the population has grown from63,000 in 1949 to 200,000 in 1952. Hehas four major projects on the drawing board, which, if funded, will “bringgreatness to Haifa.”

1952:Birthdate of Harry Ehrenberg, Jr., a pillar of the Little Rock, Arkansas JewishCommunity and a mensch in the truest sense of that term.

1953: The Jerusalem Post reported that theTreasury doubled the exchange rate for leather and textiles to IL2 per dollar.The Histadrut banned all overtime and double jobs in order to ease the currentheavy unemployment.

1953(19^thof Iyar, 5713): Seventy-one-year-old solo clarinetist Simeon Bellison, theRussian born son of Andrus Bellison, “a bandmaster in the Russian Army” who had1920 came to the United States where he pursued a varied musical career whileraising “a daughter, Lillian, a member of the staff of the New York Times withhis wife Etta passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/05/05/96618782.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

1955: “Afund of $100,000 was presented tonight to the Israelis Federation of Labor tobuild a cold storage plant in Israel.”

1955(12^thof Iyar, 5715): Sixty-four-year-old Odessa born, and NYU-Bellevue College ofMedicine trained “roentgenologist and diagnostician Dr. Isaac Glassman, “amember of the staff of Beth David Hospital” and husband of “the former CeliaMargolin” who was the brother of Anna, Manya, Juliette, Nathan, Jacob, Simonand Leo Glassman passed away today after suffering a fatal heart attack.

1955(12^thof Iyar, 5715): Eighty-nine-year-old Rose Sheuerman Shloss, the daughter ofAbraham and Bronette Sheuerman, and the wife of Max Shloss passed away todayafter which she was buried at the Emanuel Cemetery in Des Moines, IA.

1956: Birthdate of author David Guterson, theauthor of the novel Snow Fallingon Cedars which won many awards, including the 1995 PEN/FaulknerAward. The son of Jewish parents,Guterson is a self-described agnostic.

1957:The Anne Frank Foundation was formed in Amsterdam. This is one ofthe organizations dedicated to preserving the memory of this tragic Jewishfigure whose diary has captured and continues to capture the hearts andimagination of millions around the world.

1958(14^thof Iyar, 5718: Pesach Sheni

1959(26^thof 5719): Seventy-five-year-old Kovno born leading antique dealer Israel Sack,the founder and head of Israel Sack, Inc which is now being run by his sons“Albert, Harry and Robert” that he raised with his wife “Mrs. Ann GoodmanSacks” passed away today.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/05/05/89192543.pdf

1961(18^thof Iyar, 5721): Lag B’Omer was celebrated for the first time during thePresidency of JFK.

1964:NBC broadcast the first episode of “Another World” a daily soap opera in whichDoris Belack played three different roles “during the shows 35-year run.”

1965:Israel Bar-Yehuda completes his term as Minister of Transport and Road Safety

1966(14^thof Iyar, 5726): Pesach sheni

1970: In deciding the legal case "Walz v. Tax Commission ofNew York," the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality ofa New York statute exempting church-owned property from taxation. This decisionincluded all religious buildings i.e.Synagogues and Temples

1970(28^th of Nisan, 5730): Yom HaShoah

1970(28th of Nisan, 5730): Allison Krause, a student at Kent StateUniversity, was one of four students killed by the Ohio National Guard. TheGuard fired on a nonviolent demonstration against the Vietnam War. Krause was acommitted Jew, the daughter of a Reform Jewish family, who opposed the US waragainst Vietnam out of a sense of the meaning of Judaism.

1971(9^th of Iyar, 5731): Sixty-seven-year-old Clevelandborn and stock and commodity broker Robert Pollak the holder of a Ph.B from theUniversity of Chicago who “wrote columns about theatre and music for severalChicago newspapers” passed away today.

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.POLLAK

1971: A funeral is scheduled to be held today for 62-year-old NYUtrained physician Dr. Elliot Hochstein, clinical professor of medicine at Cornell University Medical College, the husband of “the former Rose Korchin” andfather of Mrs. Jules Friedman who along with Dr. Albert Rubin co-authored thetextbook Physical Diagnosis.

1972(20^th of Iyar, 5732): Ninety-year-old HettyGoldman, “one of the first female archaeologists who was a member of theGoldman-Sachs banking family” passed away today.

http://www.ias.edu/people/goldman

http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/BreakingGround/goldman.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/hgoldman.html

1973(2^ndof Iyar, 5733): Seventy-year-old New York native, Cornell graduate andUniversity of Vienna trained physician Dr. Alexander B. Gutman, the “notedmedical researcher and professor emeritus of medicine at the Mount. SinaiHospital” and husband of “the former Daisy Rieger” who “was a major in the ArmyMedical Reserve Corps and, from 1943 to 1946 and a consultant to the Office of the Air Surgeon”as well as the associate editor of Cecil and Loeb's Textbook of Medicinepassed away today.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4586311/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gutman-alexander-b

1973:Initial release of Steambath, the film treatment of the play by Bruce JayFriedman who wrote the script featuring Herb Edelman.

1974:Power hitting first baseman Mike Epstein was released by the California Angelstoday.

1975(23rdof Iyar, 5735): Comedian Moe Howard passed away. Born MosesHorowitzin 1897, Howard was "Moe" of the famous comedy groupcalled the Three Stooges.All of the Stooges were Jewish.Another example of how Jews were successful in the entertainment field by being"All American" as opposed to ethnic.

1975:Terrorists set off a bomb in a Jerusalem apartment building.

1975:“Seven Beauties,” a WW II prison camp movie co-starring Shirley Stoler wasreleased In France today.

1975:The New York Times featured a review of Jacob Two-Two Meets theHooded Fang by Mordecai Richler.

1976(4^thof Iyar, 5736): Yom HaZikaron

1976:The musical “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lernerand music by Leonard Bernstein opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

1977:“Andy Warhol's Bad” a comedy with music composed by Mike Bloomfield andstarring Carroll Baker premiered in New York City today.

1977:The first of David Frost’s interviews with Richard Nixon which were produced byMarvin Mintoff, the husband of Bonnie Franklin, was broadcast today.

1978: The Jerusalem Postreported from Lebanon that Arab terrorists murdered four French UNIFILparatroopers, wounded seven and abducted five. France avoided condemning theP.L.O. responsible for this attack and claimed that the troops were attacked by"irresponsible elements." The Security Council deplored the incident,boosted UNIFIL to the strength of 6,000 men and called on Israel "tocomplete the withdrawal."

1978(27th of Nisan, 5738): Yom HaShoah

1978(27^th of Nisan, 5738): In New Jersey, Maurice L.Sobol, the husband of the late Shrley Sobol and father of Richard Sobol, LindaThaler and Judith Sobol passed away today.

1979: Nigel Lawson, the scion of prominent Anglo-Jewish financialfamily began serving as Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

1979: Robert Strauss began serving as the first “Special Envoy forthe Middle East” a newly created position created during the administration ofJimmy Carter.

1980(18^th of Iyar, 5740): Lag B’Omer celebrated for thelast time during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

1981(30th of Nisan, 5741): Rosh Chodesh Iyar

1981: “At $25,000-Plus for a Portrait, Painter Aaron Shikler CanGive Critics the Brush” published today described the success of “the GilbertStuart of the jet set.”

http://people.com/archive/at-25000-plus-for-a-portrait-painter-aaron-shikler-can-give-critics-the-brush-vol-15-no-17/

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/arts/aaron-shikler-portrait-artist-known-for-images-of-americas-elite-dies-at-93.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

1982(11^thof Iyar, 5742): Just 6 weeks before his 90^th birthday, BarnettJanner, who had been made a life peer which meant he was recognized as BaronJanner, passed away today.

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/06/obituaries/baron-janner.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0011_0_09983.html

1983:Phillip Dougherty reported that “Geers, Gross Advertising has been named agencyfor Hebrew National Kosher Foods, which has also named Levy, Flaxman &Associates to handle its recently acquired fresh chicken and turkey operation.The main account should be billing $3 million, and fresh fowl, $1 million. Theformer agency is Scali, McCabe, Sloves, whose account list includes FrankPerdue and all his little chicks. Since Perdue is already in fresh fowl and iseyeing franks made with chicken, it is easy to see why S.M.S. is no longer theHebrew National agency.”

1984: U.S.premiere of “The Bounty” featuring Daniel Day Lewis as “Sailing Master JohnFreyer.”

1984(2^ndof Iyar, 5744): Seventy-one-year-old David Silverman, the son of JacobSilverman and Rachel Silverman, husband of Frances Octavia Silverman and “fatherof Samuel Silverman; Bernard Silverman and Joseph Silverman” passed away todayin Baltimore, MD.

1985: Michael A. Ledeen, aninformal envoy of Robert C. McFarlane, the U.S. national security adviser, metwith Shimon Peres in Jerusalem and inquired whether Israel had ideas about howto open contacts with Teheran. This is meeting that the Israelis have alwayscited as the American request for help that brought Israel into what becameknown as the Iran-Contra affair.

1988(17^th ofIyar, 5748): Rabbi Abba Yakov Liff passed away today.

1991: CBS broadcast thefinal episode of the sixth season of the “Golden Girls” a sitcom created bySusan Harris and starring Beatrice Arthur and Estelle Getty with music byAndrew Gold.

1991(20th of Iyar,5751): Eighty-seven-year-old master wood sculptor Chaim Gross passed awaytoday. (As reported by John T. McQuiston)

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/07/obituaries/chaim-gross-87-wood-sculptor-of-exuberant-human-forms-dies.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

1993: The Final Episodeof “TriBeCa” entitled “Stepping Back” starring Adam Arkin, Richard Lewis,Melanie Mayron and Eli Wallach was broadcast today.

1994: In a letterpublished today entitled Jews Have Reason to Fear Italian Fascism, SusanZucotti traces the history of Mussolini et al to explain “why Jews and otherItalians are wary of Gianfranco Fini’s resurgent neo-Fascist party.

1994: Israeli PrimeMinister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed an according thatgranted the Palestinians the right of self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

1994:In Los Angeles, Tom And Valarie Gould gave birth to Alexander Jerome Gould aUSY president turned actor who made his “feature film debut in ‘They’.”

1995(4^thof Iyar, 5755): Yom HaAtzma’ut

1997(27thof Nisan, 5757): Yom Hashoah; Rabbi Erwin Herman told the story of the"Yanov Torah" to 500 people at San Diego's community Yom HaShoahservices today causing many of them to cry.

http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/usa/california/san_diego/lawrence_family_jcc/sd5-9yanov_torah.htm

1997:The New York Times featured reviewsof books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readersincluding The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer.

1997:Funeral services are scheduled to be held at Sinai Chapels for Henry JosephGlass, the husband of Ruth Glass with whom he had two children – Linda andHoward.

1997:Barb Feller, executive director of the Granger House in Marion, Iowa, traveledto England to interview John Granger, last surviving grandson of the home’soriginal owner. Mrs. Feller is an activemember of the Temple Judah community serving as a Hebrew teacher andco-President of the congregation.

1999(18^thof Iyar, 5759): Lag B’Omer

1999(18^thof Iyar, 5759): Seventy-nine career civil servant Sir Leo Plitatzky passed awaytoday.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sir-leo-pliatzky-1095958.html

1999:NBC broadcast the final episode of “NewsRadio,” a sitcom featuring Jon Lovitz ,Phil Harman and Steve Susskin.

2000:Shiite Muslim terrorists “fired five barrages of Katyusha rockets into northernIsrael, killing one Israeli soldier and sowing panic in the northern bordertown of Qiryat Shemona” in what was the fiercest cross border attack since lastJune.

2001:The Mitchell Report (named for Maine Senator George Mitchell) “that examined the cause of violence thatbegan in 2000 and gave rise to the so-called Al-Aqsa Intifada was submittedtoday.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/Mitchellrep.html

2002:Eighty-six year old Wehrmacht veteran Rolf Friedemann Pauls, “the firstambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Israel” passed away today.

2002:The exhibit “Tea House Suite” consisting of “eight new collages by ElaineLustig Cohen” came to a close at the Julie Saul Gallery in New York

2003:The New York Times featured books byJewish writers and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including therecently released paperback edition of Master of the Senate: The Years ofLyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro.

2004:Publication of Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys WhoRaided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich

2005:Natan Sharansky completed his term as Minister Without Portfolio.

2005:“Henry IV” directed by Nicholas Hytner opened at the National Theatre.

2005:The premiere of the ballet “An American in Paris” using the “eponymous music byGeorge Gershwin from 1928.”

2006:The American Jewish Committee's centennial events culminates with a gala eventattended by US President George W. Bush, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan andGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel

2006(6thof Iyar, 5766): Luba Kadison, the lastsurviving member of the Vilna Troupe, an influential Yiddish theater companyfounded in Europe during World War I, passed away at the age of 99. CaraidO'Brien, a scholar of Yiddish theater and a friend of Kadison announced that shehad died at her home in Manhattan. Kadison, whose married name was Luba KaisonBuloff, toured extensively in Europe before becoming a leading actress inYiddish theater during its heyday on New York's Lower East Side. She was part ofa golden age of Yiddish theater that saw serious and satirical plays challengethe dominance of popular musicals. "They did experimental things. Theywere doing stuff in the style of German expressionists before mostEnglish-speaking theaters," said O'Brien, who called Kadison an"incredible inspirational artistic figure." Born in Lithuania in1906, Kadison began performing in Europe as a child. Her father, Leib Kadison,was a founder of the Vilna Troupe, which performed modernist works by Yiddishwriters S. Ansky and Sholom Aleichem, and translations of plays by others,including Maxim Gorky and Henrik Ibsen. In 1923 she married another member ofthe troupe, Joseph Buloff. The couple came to America in the late 1920s andperformed in Lower East Side theaters packed with Jewish immigrants. Kadisonhad roles in Sholem Asch's "God of Vengeance," I.J. Singer's"Brothers Ashkenazi" and Arthur Miller's "Death of aSalesman." The Holocaust devastated Yiddish culture, and declining use ofthe language worldwide was eventually mirrored in New York's theater scene.Kadison performed around the globe, and later in life became an interpreter, ateacher and a painter. She wrote a memoir with her husband, "On Stage, OffStage: Memories of a Lifetime in the Yiddish Theater," which was publishedin 1992. Buloff, who moved on to a successful career on Broadway, died in 1985.

2006:Ehud Olmert went from Interim Prime Minister to Prime Minister after heestablished his own government in the wake of Ariel Sharon’s second stroke.

2006:Avraham Hirschson began serving Minister of Finance today “as part of theKadima –led 31^st governemtn.”

2006:Yael "Yuli" Tamir began serving as Minister of Education.

2006:Yaakov Edri began serving as Jerusalem Affairs Minister of Israel.

2006:Meir Sheetrit replaced Ze’ev Boim as Minister of Housing and Construction

2006:Binyamin Ben-Eliezer replaced Roni Bar-On as the Energy and Water ResourcesMinister of Israel.

2006:Shaul Mofaz was named Minister of Transport

2006:Ariel Atias replaced Avraham Hirschson as Minister of Communications.

2006:Roni Bar-On replaced Ariel Sharon Internal Affairs Minister.

2006:Amir Peretz replaced Shaul Mofaz as Minister of Defense.

2006:Avi Dichter replaced Gideon Ezra as Minister of Public Security.

2006:Ruhama Avraham Balila completed her term as Deputy Internal Affairs Minister.

2007:This year's Jacob's Ladder Festival opened for the first of two days at NofGinasar along the Kinneret. A Cajundance workshop, fiddle classes and bluegrass gospel music from the AbramsBrothers, a teenage duo from Canada were just a few of the 35 acts featured atthis year’s event.

2008:In Chicago, The Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies presented a Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)Program entitled “Poetry of the Holocaust: New Texts and Enduring Debates.” In this special YomHaShoah conversation, poet Joy Ladin and DePaul University professor EricSelinger explored Holocaust poetry, including Ladin’s own remarkable work, TheBook of Anna, a collection of narrative poems and diary entries written inthe voice of a fictional Czech-German Jewish concentration camp survivor.

2008:Secret government documents from post-World War II stored in Britain’s NationalArchives opened today “show that British diplomatic and military officials wereconcerned that sending Jews to German military camps so soon after theHolocaust would spark anger and protests around the world.”

2008:A 2008 U.S. touring production of Marvin Hamlisch’s “A Chorus Line” opened atthe Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

2008The Sunday New York Times booksection featured reviews of A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horowitz, TheMayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich son of Frank Rich and 1948: A Historyof the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris.

2009:As part of the PEN World Voices Festivalof International Literature the 92^nd Street Y presented thesecond Critics Voice program, “David Grossman on Bruno Schulz” during whichIsraeli novelist David Grossman, who wrote See Under: Love which stands as a lasting tribute to Schulzdiscusses the work of this Ukrainian born author who perished in the Holocaust. “Born in Drohobycz, Galicia (now Ukraine) in 1892,Bruno Schulz, a drawing teacher by trade, wrote two story collections—Cinnamon Shops (1934) and Sanatorium Under the Sign of Hourglass (1937)—beforehe was killed by the Gestapo in 1942. His novel-in-progress, The Messiah, has never beenfound.”

2009: “Spotsof Light: To Be a Woman in the Holocaust,”, an exhibition recently opened byYad Vashem had its last showing at the Royal Palace in Dresden, Germany.

2009:The miniseries based on Sidney Sheldon’s Master of the Game and staring DyanCannon “was released on DVD” otoday.

2010: In New York, Manuel Forcano, Professor ofSemitic Studies and Vice President of the Catalan Council for the Arts isscheduled to deliver a lecture entitled “Traces of Esther: The Jewish Presencein Contemporary Catalan Literature.”

2010: A screening of “I had a Dream- The Story ofYona Bogale, Leader of Ethiopian Jewry” is scheduled for the opening of theSheba Film Festival at the JCC in Manhattan. The Sheba Film festival highlightsthe legacy of Ethiopian Jewry.

2010: Jewishcommunity leaders, Democratic Party officials and others gathered at a dinnerin honor of DNC Chairman Governor Tim Kaine, hosted by Ambassador Michael Orenat his Washington home.

2010: TheSchechter Institute of Jewish Studies dedicated the first building of its newcampus next to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The Schechter Institute is anon-profit organization of the Conservative Movement dedicated to theadvancement of pluralistic Jewish education in Israel.

2011: Alexandria, VA is scheduled to host its 24^thannual Holocaust Yom Ha’Shoah observance which will be attended by the Polishambassador to the United States and Holocaust Survivor Charlene Schiff who willread an excerpt from her biography, “Don’t Ask For Soap.”

2011: The Tolerance Education Center in RanchoMirage, CA, is scheduled to present “Fiddlers on MY Roof” featuring StanleyWalden.

2011: TheAmerican Jewish Historical Society is scheduled to present the 2011 EmmaLazarus Statue of Liberty Award Dinner honoring Machal and Aliyah Bet, allNorth American women and men who volunteered in Israel's War of Independencebetween 1947 and 1949, and Ralph Lowenstein, Ph.D., founder of theMachal/Aliyah Bet Archives; Machalnik; Dean Emeritus, College of Journalism andCommunications, University of Florida.

2011: The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage isscheduled to present “Flight to Freedom – A Tribute Jewish Artists” duringwhich “Joan Chesterton, Art historian and Professor Emerita at PurdueUniversity, offers a fascinating illustrated presentation that pays tribute tothe incredible contributions of four European artists who fled the Holocaustand immensely enriched American art—architect Mies van der Rohe, painter HansHoffmann, composer Kurt Weill and filmmaker, Billy Wilder.”

2011: Jewish song leader Mark Levy is schooled tolead a workshop on “Jews 'n' Jazz!” at the Reutlinger Community for JewishLiving. “The workshop will trace thedevelopment of America's notable Jewish jazz artists and composers beginningwith their immigration to the U.S.”

2011: The Cutler Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center isscheduled to present “Jewish Identity in Pioneer Arizona: Anna and LillianSolomon and Suitable Love” As part of the Arizona Jewish Centennial Series,Emily Jacobson, M.A., will speak about the Solomon family of Solomonville inGraham County. Anna Solomon, the family matriarch was a remarkable woman whoraised all six of her children to marry Jews in a region where there werebarely enough to form a minyan.

2011(30^th of Iyar, 5771): Rosh ChodeshIyar

2011: UKChief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks slammed the notion of making peace with Hamasin a speech he gave to the House of Lords today.

2012: Rising Early, With a New Sentence in Mindpublished today provides insights into the work habits of author and LyndonJohnson biographer Robert A Caro.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/nyregion/on-sundays-robert-a-caro-writes-always-dressed-up.html

2012: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is scheduled toparticipate in the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies at the IllinoisHolocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, Illinois.

2012: As Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, kicks-off aweek-end of events marking its 90^th anniversary, David Neuman, theson of former Rabbi Isaac Neuman is scheduled to address the congregationduring Shabbat Eve Services.

2012: For the first time a production MarvinHamlisch’s “A Chorus Line” opened at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.

2012(12^th of Iyar, 5772): Eighty-eight-year-oldDr. Sidney Katz, the graduate of Western Reserve University Medical school “whodeveloped the Index of Independence of Activities for Daily Living” passed awaytoday.

http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?pid=157486571

2012(12^th of Iyar, 5772): Forty-seven-year-oldAdam Yauch, a founding member of the “Beastie Boys” passed away today.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-co-founder-adam-yauch-dead-at-48-20120504

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/05/04/adam-yauch-mca-of-the-beastie-boys-dies-after-cancer-battle/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true

2013: Friends and family of Harry L. Ehrenberg, Jr.gather to celebrate the natal day of this mensch who is a pillar of theArkansas Jewish community

2013: A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff by Alicia JoRabins is scheduled to be performed at the Washington Jewish Music Festival.

2013: The winner of the 2^nd Annual JewishPlaywriting Contest is scheduled to be chosen today at New Haven, CT.

2013: The Courier-Journal published “A MemorableDerby.”

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130504/OPINION02/305040053/Letters-Derby-Sons-Moses-Derby-Festival-Mansion-

2013: “Three to Max” a creation of Ohad Naharin, theartistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company is scheduled to be performed atThe Joyce Theatre.

2013: The 15th annual Felicja Blumental ChamberMusic Festival is scheduled to come to an end.

2013: Planes from the IDF fly missions in Syria

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-launches-second-airstrike-in-syria-targeting-weapons-shipment/2013/05/04/cdccddc0-b4c4-11e2-9fb1-62de9581c946_print.html

2013: Israeli tightens defenses long her northernborder as the situation in Syria deteriorates.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/world/middleeast/syrias-unrest-puts-israelis-on-alert.html?hpw&_r=1&

2013:

The airstrikethat Israeli warplanes carried out in Syria overnight on Thursday was directedat a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Iran that Israelbelieved was intended for Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese organization,American officials said today

2014: The New YorkTimes featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of specialinterest to Jewsh readers including Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldmanand John Qunicy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan

2014: The Jewish Historical Sociey of Greater Washington isscheduled to conduct a tour of “Jewish Sites in Arlington National Cemeteryincluding the Confederate Memorial by Sir Moses Ezekiel and the Challenger andColumbia Space Shuttle Memorials.

2014: Jewish education is scheduled to come to an end in thecorriodor for the year as Agudas Achim and Temple Judah close their religiousschools until the fall.

2014: “The Seder: Meanings, Rituals & Sprituality” isscheduled to close at the Oregon Jewish Museum.

2014: In the Netherlands, NationaleHerdenkingsdag (National Memorial Day

2014: The Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington andthe JCC of Greater Washington are scheduled to host author, David Laskin, whowill talk about the research that went into the writing of his book, "TheFamily: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century."

2014: As part of Jewish American Heritage Month, Dr. TedMerwin is scheduled to lecutre on “The Delectable History of the Jewish Deli atthe Jewish Museum in Miami Beach.

2014: Authorities opened an investiagtion today in “anti-Arabgraffiti…found spray painted…at a construction site in Kiryant Ye’arim alsoknown as Telz Sonte” which was “another incident in a spate of race-hate‘price-tag’ attacks by suspected Jewish extremists.” (As reported by Times ofIsrael Staff)

2014: In Washington, DC, final performance of “Camp David” aplay based on the 1978 peace negotations at Camp David.

2014(4^th of Iyar, 5774): Seventy-one year old AlanJ. Friedman passed away today. (As reported by Bruce Weber)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/nyregion/alan-friedman-71-dies-revived-hall-of-science.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&_r=0

2014: “Right wing actvists…threw rocks at ploice and damageda Border Police vehicle” when they “came to Yitzhar to search the home of acopule that had been arrested on suspicion of participating in a ‘price tag’attack” in the norther norhtern city of Umm al-Fahm.

2014: “A group of 19 Ukranian Jews were immigrating to Israeltoday ami an escalating crisis that has seen a rising tide of anti-Semiticattacks

2015: The Jewish Community Center of NorthernVirginia is scheduled to host Dana Kalshov’s presentation “The Israel DefenseForces: A Window on Modern Israeli Society.”

2015: “In the Community: Raise the Roof” isscheduled to be shown at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival.

2015: Security personnel shot a 35 year oldPalestinian who “attacked one of the guards today at a light rail train stop inJerusalem.”

2015: Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich is one ofthree “young accomplished pianists” chosen by Sir Andras Schiff to perform withthe Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.

2015: “The mortar round that killed four-year-oldDaniel Tragerman on the second to last day of the war in and around Gazalastsummer was fired from a United Nations installation, Lt. Gen. (res)Benny Gantz, the commander of the army during the 50-day war, said” today.

2016: In Philadelphia, PA, Rabbi Lance Sussman isscheduled to deliver a lecture on “South Philly: An American Shtetl” are partof American Jewish Heritage Month.

2016: The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research isscheduled to present a screening of “Persona Non Grata,” “a Japanese filmdepicting the life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who saved the lives of6,000 Jewish refugees during World War II by issuing transit visas for them toJapan.”

2016: In Portland, Oregon, Congregation Neveh Shalomis scheduled to host the annual community-wide memorial service erev YomHashoah which has been planned by Rabbi Ariel Stone and Rabbi David Kosak.

2016: In Des Moines, Iowa, Tifereth Israel Synagogueis scheduled to host the community “Holocaust Memorial Commemoration.”

2016: Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2016begins this evening.

2017:At the National Archives in Washington, DC, David Dalin is scheduled to delivera lecture on “The Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis toKagan.”

2017(8^thof Iyar, 5777): Ninety-five-year-old economist William J. Baumol and the authorof The Cost of Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’tpassed away today. (As reported by Patricia Cohen)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/business/economy/william-baumol-dead-economist-coined-cost-disease.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/5/4/15547364/baumol-cost-disease-explained

2017:The YIVO Institute is scheduled to host a concert that “will explore music ofcomposer Annie Gosfield that takes its inspiration from Jewish culture,history, and the New York immigrant experience.”

2017:“Beneath the Helmet” is scheduled to be shown at the Annual East BayInternational Jewish Film Festival.

2017(8^thof Iyar, 5777): Eighty-seven year old Edwin Sherin the “producer and executiveproducer of” the one of the most popular crime series ever, “Law and Order”passed away today. (As reported by William Grimes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/theater/edwin-sherin-theater-and-law-order-director-dies-at-87.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

2018:“Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman today rejected an apology from PalestinianAuthority President Mahmoud Abbas over a speech blaming Jews’ behavior for theHolocaust, and not anti-Semitism, calling the Palestinian leader “a patheticHolocaust denier.”

2018:“The Last Goldfish” and “Kishon” are scheduled to be shown this afternoon atthe 26^th Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

2018:“Dozens of Palestinians broke into the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom bordercrossing between Israel and the Hamas-run Strip this evening, setting fire tothe gas pipeline that supplies fuel to the Strip…” (As reported by Judah AriGross)

2018:In Memphis, TN, Temple Israel is scheduled to honor the Temple Israelconfirmands this evening.

2018:In Cedar Rapids, IA, as the first part of her Bat Mitzvah weekend, EleanorDillon and her family are scheduled to participate in Erev Shabbat services atTemple Judah.

2019(29^thof Nisan, 5779): Parashat Achrei Mot;

2019(29^thof Nisan, 5779): Begin weekly study of Pirke Avot – Chapter One

2019:Shabbat takes on a double portion of joy with the celebration of the birthdayHarry Ehrenberg, a mensch in the truest sense of that term.

2019:One week after the murderous shooting at Chabad of Poway as rabbis deal withhow to continue to make their congregations as welcoming institutions whiledealing with the reality of the need to increase security Rabbi Yosef Levin Bayis scheduled to host a Solidarity Shabbat and dinner at Chabad of Great SouthBay” where he hopes to raise “$50,000 to finance armed security at Chabadcenters” which are normally raising funds for educational and spiritualprograms including those Shabbat meals which are warm hallmark of Chabad Housesacross the world.

2019:“A barrage of 250 rockets was fired at Israel from Gaza, killing an Israeli manin Ashkelon.”

2020:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present, Live on Zoom, “WarOrphans Find Home: Child Holocaust Survivors,” a program sponsored by the “HearTheir Cry: Understanding the Jewish Orphan Experience” Scholars Working Group,which has been meeting at the Center for Jewish History since September 2019.

2020:The Vilna Shul, Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture is scheduled to host avirtual “discussion with writer/producer Karen Goldfarb about her 2016 film‘Fascination: Helena’s Story,’”

2020:Dr. Aviva Dautch is scheduled to discuss My Russian Grandmother and herAmerican Vacuum Cleaner by Meir Shalev the first in her virtual series onModern Jewish Literature.

2020In the darkest moments of the Pandemic, the friends and family get to share ina moment of light as they celebrate the natal day of Harry Ehrenberg, a menschpar excellent.

2020:In Coralville, IA, via Zoom Agudas Achim is scheduled to host “Introduction toJudaism”

2020:Israel’s Supreme Court is scheduled to continue for a second day a two-dayhearing that began yesterday to determine whether Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu, who has been indicted for corruption, will be allowed to form a newgovernment.(As reported by Reuters)

2020:Temple Israel of Boston is scheduled to host “Modern Couples, Big JewishQuestions. an informative and social opportunity for engaged, partnered, andmarried couples in their 20s and 30s.

2020:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host Dr. Eric Goldman who is scheduled tohost a virtue presentation of “French Cinema Tackles the Shoah.”

2021:Urban Adamah is scheduled to present the first in a two-part series onconnecting with the physical and spiritual dimensions of “rest and release”during the shmita year. Includes movement, breath work and connecting to thenatural world.

2021:GiveNOLA Day/Federation-Clean Up Phonathon, the Jewish community’s major fundraising event is scheduled to take place today in New Orleans.

2021:The Illinois Holocaust Museum is scheduled to host a virtual Lunch and Learnduring which Anne Harris, the wife of the late Rabbi Cyril Harris is scheduledto share memorable anecdotes about her husband and his “dear friend NelsonMandela “that will illuminate the personal and specialrelationship between these two extraordinary leaders.”

2021: The Jerusalem Writers’ Festival isscheduled to continue for a second day.

2021:Fuel For Truth is scheduled to present online “Israel Education Class for YoungProfessionals.”

2021:The Streicker Center is scheduled to host a conversation with Letty CottinPogrebin and her daughter Abigail Pogrebein on the “State of AmericanFeminism.”

2021:The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation is scheduled to present the first ofthree straight days of talks and small-group discussions designed to forgecommunity connections among the diverse population (473,000) of people who livein Bay Area Jewish households.

2021:While Israel continues to cope with the aftermath of the Meron tragedy, thepolitical infighting continues which has led to an impasse over “plans toreform the Defense Ministry’s Rehabilitation Department so that it can providebetter care for wounded veterans. (As reported by Judah Ari Gross)

2022:The Center for Jewish History is scheduled to present “Zabar’s: A Family Story”which features “three generations in conversation.”

2022:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture by Rabbi Jeremy Rosen on“Study the Bible; Know What is in it and What is Not.”

2022:(3^rdof Iyar, 5782): Yom HaZikaron

2022:A double simcha this evening as we prepare to celebrate Israeli IndependenceDay and the birthday of Harry Ehrenberg,Jr., a pillar of the Little Rock, Arkansas Jewish Community and a mensch in thetruest sense of that term.

2022:This evening Yamam commander "H."is scheduled to light a torch in the annual Independence Day ceremonywhile his identity will be protected. (As reported by Itamar Eichner)

2022:Edan Kleiman, chairman of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, is scheduledto light a flame at the official Independence Day ceremony on Mount Herzl.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-705393?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Israel+s+Independence+Day%3A+Why+we+are+here%2C+74+years+later&utm_campaign=April+30%2C+2022

2023:In Cedar Rapids, the Hadassah Book Club under the leadership of Nancy Margulisis scheduled to discuss The Matzah Ball by Jean Maltzer.

2023:The Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to host a lecture byProfessor Michael Bar-Zohar on “Light Among Darkness: 80th Anniversary of theRescue of Bulgarian Jews.”

2023:Etgar Keret, perhaps the most influential Israeli writer of his generation, whohas been an outspoken member of the protest movement is scheduled to joinForward editor in chief, Jodi Rudoren, and opinion editor, Laura E. Adkins, fora thoughtful and provocative conversation on “Israel@75: How did we get here?”

2023:The Jewish National Fund-USA’s Breakfast for Israel is scheduled to celebrate75 years of Israel’s independence today and feature Alon Ben-Gurion as hespeaks about his grandfather, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister.

2023:In Columbus, OH, Tifereth Israel is scheduled to host a Rashi study group.

2023:As part of Jewish American Heritage Month, the Weitzman Museum is scheduled tohost the “JAHM Kickoff Concert featuring Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstarswith Joshua Nelson, the Prince of Kosher Gospel.”

2023:In Newton, MA, Temple Emanuel is scheduled to present the second in the series“Taste of Israel,” with Israeli chef Gal Reshef.

2023:J Street is scheduled to present “Israel’s Crisis of Democracy” during which NadavTamir, executive director of J Street Israel and career Israeli diplomat, will discusswhat the current situation in Israel means for Israel, the Palestine people andthe U.S. Jewish community.

2023:In Newton Mass, Hebrew College is scheduled to present “Opening the Gates:Hebrew College Gala and Dedication.”

2023:Friends and family of Harry Ehrenberg, Jr., are looking forward to celebratingthe birthday of a mensch in the truest sense of that term who has served theLittle Rock Jewish Community for decades.

2024:As movie fans are scheduled to celebrate the annual event known as “Star WarsDay” Jews look from their sacred text to discover the Jewish roots and otherconnections with this fabled film.

https://www.whctemple.org/2023/05/may-the-force-be-with-jew-uncovering-the-jewish-roots-of-star-wars/

https://aish.com/from-jediism-to-judaism-star-wars-as-jewish-allegory/

2024(26thof Nisan, 5784):Parashat Acharay Mot (After the death); Pirke Avot Chapter 1

formore see https://downhomedavartorah.blogspot.com/

2024:A double-barrel Shabbat for the family and friends of Harry Ehrenberg, as theyget to celebrate the Day of Rest and celebrate the natal day of this pillar ofthe Arkansas Jewish Community who has done so much for so many with so muchclass.

2024:Agnon House is scheduled to host anothermeeting of joint reading of Agnon's stories, this time called "Under theTree" following which Adin Ner-David, will “examine Agnon's positions onthe Jewish-Arab conflict and discuss the relevance of the story to the eventsof recent months.”

2024:The Eden Tamir Center is scheduled to host “Flute Sounds in Ein Kerem – NoamBuchman and Friends.”

2024:Lockdown University is scheduled to host a lecture

by Professor David Peimer on “Image of theArab in Shakespeare.”

2024:As May 4th begins in Israel, an unprecedented wave of anti-Semitism sweeps theUnited States and the Hamas held hostages begin day211 in captivity. (Editor’snote: this situation is too fluid for this blog to cover so we are justproviding a snapshot as of the posting at midnight Israeli time.)