Tag: ephemerides
January 5, 1939: Nazis Declare: Karaites Are Not Racially Jewish
On January 5, 1939, the Reich Office for Genealogical Research issued a written opinion stating that it did not view the Karaite community as being racially connected to the Jews.
Although this was hardly the...
December 31: Rabbi Kaiman and Interfaith Marriage
Reform Rabbi Arnold Kaiman, who conducted numerous interfaith marriages in the Midwest during the 1970s, at a time when few rabbis would do so, died at 74 on this date in 2007. Kaiman, raised...
December 30, 1066: The Granada Massacre
A Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, Spain on this date in 1066, crucified Joseph ibn Naghrela, the Jewish vizier to the Berber king, and massacred more than a thousand Jewish families....
December 23, 1947: Nutrition for the poor
Frances Stern, a social worker and dietician who researched the nutrition of low-income workers and established the Food Clinic at the Boston Dispensary, died at 74 on this date in 1947. Stern was a...
December 21, 1890: Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah Medical Center, was born
Henrietta Szold was a woman of many contradictions. She was a family person who lived largely in the public arena. Possessed of only a high school diploma, she edited and published some of the...
December 20, 2010: A census of marine life
Dr. Jesse H. Ausubel, director of a ten-year census of marine life involving 3,000 scientists from 80 countries, presented the results on this date in 2010 at the Israel Academy of Sciences and the...
December 19, 1908: Photographer Gisele Freund was born in Berlin
The first woman to work for Magnum, the cooperative photography agency founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Capa, and others, Gisele Freund was born near Berlin on this date in 1908. An...
December 18, 1934: Boris Volynov, the first Jew in space, was born
Boris Volynov, the first Jew in space, was born in Irkutsk, Siberia, on this date in 1934. He was chosen in 1960 to be one of the Soviet Union’s first cosmonauts, but the uncovering...
December 17, 1917: Dov Ber Borocho, Committed Yiddishist, Marxist Zionist and one of the...
Born in the Ukraine, Ber Borochov was educated in a Russian high school. A good student, he was attracted by the revolutionary socialist trends of the time. Like most Jewish high school graduates, he...
December 16,1947: Malina’s Jewish Anarchist Play
Judith Malina, co-founder with Julian Beck of the Living Theater in 1947, premiered what she described as “my Jewish anarchist play,” Korach, on this date in 2010. “In retelling the familiar story of Korach as it unfolds...