Tag: ephemerides
November 2, 1917: Balfour Declaration letter written
On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour writes an important letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The...
October 30, 1959: Sol Tax and the Darwin Centennial
Sol Tax, an anthropologist who was the central organizer of the Darwin Centennial Celebration in November, 1959, a five-day celebration held in Chicago, was born on this date in 1907. Tax was a specialist...
October 29, 1938: Ralph (“Fritz The Cat”) Bakshi was born
Ralph Bakshi, artist, animator, independent filmmaker, and cartoonist, was born in Haifa on this date in 1938. Bakshi is best-known for his 1972 film version of R. Crumb’s “Fritz the Cat,” which was the...
October 28, 1948: The flag of the State of Israel was adopted
The flag of the State of Israel was adopted on this date in 1948. Its blue stripes symbolize the stripes on a traditional Jewish prayer shawl (opponents of Israel have long falsely claimed that...
October 25, 1941: Jewish resistance to the einsatzcommandos
Amid mass-murder by the roving Nazi Einsatzcommandos and a hostile peasantry, Jews in Tatarsk and Starodub, between Kiev and Moscow, rebelled on this date in 1941. The Einsatzcommando B report no. 124 observed that “Jews had...
October 24th, 1935: Arthur Flegenheimer, the New York mobster known as Dutch Schultz, age...
Arthur Flegenheimer, the New York mobster known as Dutch Schultz, age 33, was gunned down by Mafia hit men on this date in 1935, supposedly for his attempt to murder prosecutor Thomas Dewey against...
October 22, 1913: The great war photographer Robert Capa is born
Robert Capa, original name (Hungarian form) Friedmann Endre Ernő, (born 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam), photographer whose images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th...
October 21, 1949: Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of the State of Israel, was...
Who Is Benjamin Netanyahu?
Benjamin Netanyahu was born on October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel. He joined the Israeli military in 1967, moving into the special operations force that rescued a hijacked airplane at...
October 20, 1946: Elfride Jelnek, Nobel Prize in Literature 2004, was born
Born: 20 October 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
Residence at the time of the award: Austria
Prize motivation: "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal...
October 17th, 1943: Sabotage Amid Holocaust
A Jewish partisan group led by Abba Kovner blew up two bridges and two train engines in the Vilna region on this date in 1943. “Jews formed armed resistance groups only after they realized there was...