Nov. 18, 1921
The Warsaw Court of Appeals acquitted Dr. Segall, the president of the Rovno Jewish Community, who had been sentenced to five years’ hard labor for allegedly aiding the Bolsheviks during their invasion of Poland.
50 years ago
Nov. 15, 1946
The Albert Einstein Foundation Inc., by unanimous vote, has named the university it proposes to open next fall Brandeis University, after the late justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Louis D. Brandeis.
25 years ago
Nov. 19, 1971
The American Jewish Congress in New York raps the U.S. State Department for declaring Soviet Jews secure in the light of arrests, trials, convictions and sentences in Leningrad, Riga and Kishinev during the past year.
10 years ago
Nov. 21, 1986
The Bay Area’s first Jewish comedy club, Catskills West, opens its doors in San Francisco.