Tag: ephemerides
August 1, 1938: “How a great union works”
The August 1, 1938 issue of Life magazine featured a 12-page cover story on the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (“How a Great Union Works”) that showcased the ILGWU’s Unity House, a vacation retreat in the Poconos,...
July 31, 1919: Primo Levi, Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, was born
Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known for his moving memoirs 'If This Is a Man' and 'The Periodic Table.'
Synopsis
Born on July 31, 1919,...
July 27, 1656: Baruch Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Bento de Spinoza was a young merchant in Amsterdam, one of many Sephardic Jews in that city involved in overseas trade in the early 1650s. The specialty of his family’s firm, which he and his brother Gabriel had been...
July 23, 2011: Amy Winehouse, multiple Grammy award-winning soul singer, died at 27
Amy Winehouse won five Grammy Awards connected to her 2006 album 'Back to Black,' and is remembered for songs like "Rehab" and "Valerie."
Who Was Amy Winehouse?
Amy Winehouse broke into the music business when, at...
July 22, 1878: Janusz Korczak was born. A life dedicated to the rights of...
Janusz Korczak
His life, his achievements
In the year 1878 – it might have been a year later as the father was not known for looking after his paperwork in time – Janusz Korczak, whose name...
July 22, 1946: The bombing of The King David Hotel
On July 22, 1946, members of the Irgun Jewish underground entered the King David Hotel in Jerusalem which housed on its southern side the headquarters of the British in Mandatory Palestine. Disguised as Sudanese...
July 17, 1921: Hannah Szenes, a member of the Jewish resistance against Nazism, was...
Hannah Senesh (originally Szenes) was a paratrooper trained to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Captured and killed by the Nazi's, she is still a national heroine in Israel.
Through her brief but noteworthy life, Senesh...
July 15, 1913: Avrom Sutskever, great Yiddish poet, is born
(1913–2010), Yiddish poet. Born in Smorgon’, a small industrial city southeast of Vilna, Avrom Sutzkever spent his early childhood in Omsk, Siberia, where his parents took refuge from the invading German armies during World War...
July 7, 1887: Marc Chagall was born
Marc Chagall, (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire —died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France), Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer who composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of...
July 6, 1907: Frida Kahlo, considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, was born
Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist...