Tag: ephemerides
November 8, 2010: Political artist Jack Levine died
Political artist Jack Levine, whose realistic, slightly cartoonish paintings “skewered plutocrats, crooked politicians and human folly,” according to the New York Times, died at 95 on this date in 2010. Levine was a WPA painter...
October 4th, 1957: Leave it to Beaver premiered on CBS television
Leave it to Beaver premiered on CBS television on this date in 1957, the brainchild of a Jewish screenwriter, Bob Mosher, and his non-Jewish creative partner, Joe Connelly, who eventually became the show’s executive producers....
September 26th, 2008: Paul Newman, actor, activist, and philanthropist died
Actor, activist, and philanthropist Paul Newman died at 83 on this date in 2008. Newman was the son of a Jewish father and a Christian Scientist mother, but described himself in his adulthood as...
September 17, 1724: Glückel Of Hamelnm, Yiddish writer, died on this date
Glikl bas Judah Leib, or Glückel of Hameln, a diarist whose writings in Yiddish provided scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish ghetto life in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, died on this...
September 17, 1944: Rita Rosani, Partisan Fighter, was killed fighting German soldiers
Rita Rosani, a 24-year-old teacher in a Jewish school in Trieste, Italy, was killed fighting German soldiers on this date in 1944, after surviving several military engagements in the Verona area. She hailed from...
August 8, 1925: A Show of Strength for the KKK
Forty thousand members of the Ku Klux Klan marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in full regalia on this date in 1925.
The "Invisible Empire" boasted some 4 million members at this time and...
August 4, 1912: Raoul Wallenberg was born
The best-known “Righteous Gentile,” Raoul Wallenberg, was born near Stockholm on this date in 1912. While serving as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest between July and December 1944, Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of...