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1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1995 Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83 1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed 1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies 1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn and Queens 1990 Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies 1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58 1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun 1986 Armand Hammer returns to U.S. with Jewish refusenik David Goldfarb 1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18 1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead 1978 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois 1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason 1976 1st Jewish film and TV festival 1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1975 Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1974 U.S. General George Brown's speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series 1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1973 Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on New York City 1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property 1970 Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels', dies at 78 1969 1st Jewish worship service at White House 1967 David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84 1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion 1965 Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain 1956 Judith Butler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, philosopher, professor, U of C, Berkeley, specialty, post-structuralism, Ph. D. Yale University, areas of study include feminist theory, Jewish philosophy, ethics, sexuality, developed idea of sex and gender as social construction 1955 D Shostakovich' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad 1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow 1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin 1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/U.S. agents 1950 Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies 1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000 1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS 1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo 1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid 1948 Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek 1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed 1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42 1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine 1947 Day after United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked 1947 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine 1947 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat 1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die 1945 Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College 1945 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine 1945 Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 1944 Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest 1944 Raid on Jewish childrens house in Secretan/St-Mande 1944 All 1,200 Jewish death marchers from Lipcani Moldavia have died 1944 Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker 1944 Jewish nursery at Izieu-Ain France overrun by Nazis 1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo 1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno 1943 Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed 1943 1st Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau 1943 Anti Jewish riot in Rome 1943 Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, they are sent to Auschwitz 1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated 1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1943 Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo 1943 Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68 1943 SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting 1943 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis 1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided 1943 Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1942 Nazi's murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union 1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms 1942 Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star 1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine 1942 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed 1942 Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star 1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" 1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France 1941 Louis D Brandeis, 1st Jewish Supreme Court Judge (1916-39), dies at 84 1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS 1941 Nazi's force German Jews, 6 and over to wear Jewish stars 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get U.S. into WW II 1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated 1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star 1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children 1941 Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males 1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania 1941 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine 1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star 1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated 1941 German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports 1941 Jewish veterans honor their dead 1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music 1941 Nazi occupied Netherlands layoff Jewish journalists 1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis 1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets 1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies 1941 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council 1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen 1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome" 1940 Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius 1940 Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw 1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status 1940 George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes 1940 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi) 1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees 1940 Governor of Suriname and Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees 1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees 1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland 1939 New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed 1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service 1939 Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem 1939 German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises 1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration 1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland 1938 German and Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi 1938 Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities 1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J 1938 Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany 1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School 1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany 1934 Ed van Thijn, Jewish, Dutch Foreign Minister/mayor, Amsterdam, 1983-94 1934 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region 1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1933 Madeleine M Kunin, born in Switzerland, Gov-D-Vt, 1st Jewish Governor of Vermont 1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany 1933 Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses 1929 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms 1926 Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st U.S. Jewish soldier to die in WW I 1924 Bess Myerson, born in Bronx, New York, 1st Jewish Miss America, 1945 1922 President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 1921 Tel Aviv is 1st all Jewish municipality 1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group 1918 American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting 1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) 1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms 1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1916 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson 1915 Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Georgia after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life 1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine 1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho 1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine 1910 Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star, 1932 Olympics bronze 1908 Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist 1906 Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce 1906 Abraham Beame, Mayor-D-NYC, New York City's 1st Jewish mayor 1906 Henry Roth, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungary, writer, short story writer, novelist, Call It Sleep considered masterpiece of Jewish American literature 1905 Anna "Ans" van Dike, "the Young", Jewish nazi collaborator 1905 Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania 1903 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia 1903 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state 1902 Harry Golden, Jewish humorist and writer, 2 cents Plain, Only in America 1901 Jewish National Fund starts 1897 New York City Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active) 1897 1st U.S. orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York 1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published 1891 Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels' 1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumor spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews 1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law 1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey) 1886 David L Yule, 1st Jewish U.S. senator, dies 1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1882 David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council 1881 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer, Pipelines, Jewish Song 1867 Maimonides College in Penns is 1st Jewish college in the US 1864 Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist, Children of Ghetto 1859 Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer, Dreyfus Affair 1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament 1857 Establishment of Jewish congregations in Lower Austria prohibited 1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela 1852 Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm 1849 Emma Lazarus, Jewish poet, "New Colossus" at the base of Statue of Liberty 1847 Solomon Schechter, U.S. Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader 1840 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails 1838 Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed 1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine 1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC 1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1801 1st U.S. Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia 1798 Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books 1791 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office 1786 Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 1760 1st Jewish prayer books printed in U.S. 1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship 1751 Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto 1750 Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods 1730 1st Jewish congregation in U.S. forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, New York City" 1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site 1656 1st Jewish doctor in U.S., Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland 1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery 1654 1st Jewish immigrant to U.S., Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam 1654 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan) 1645 Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil 1619 Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies 1596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico 1583 Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake 1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled 1559 Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted 1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah) 1553 Pope Julius III orders confiscation and burning of Jewish Talmud 1524 Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome 1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed 1453 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau 1415 Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office 1407 Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow 1391 Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100's killed 1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery 1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated 1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated 1267 Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem 1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany 1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 1189 Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England 1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence 1138 Anacletus II, Pietro Pierleone, Jewish anti-pope (1130-38), dies 1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II 1105 Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki, Jewish intellectual, dies |
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