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Adar 11

Haganah Day, Tel Hai Day

First dated Hebrew publication, Rashi's work, 1475

First printing of entire Tanach, 1488, Adar I

Gerson Bleichroder, first Prussian Jew ennobled, 1872, Adar II

Death of R. Joseph Rosen, Illui of Ragachov, 1936, Zofnat Paneah

Death of R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai, Hida (Chida), Leghorn, 1806, Shem ha-Gedolim

Death of Leopold Zunz, Berlin, 1886, Adar II

Death of R. Samuel Strashun, Reshash of Vilna, 1872, Adar II

Birth of Charles Salaman, pianist and composer, London, 1814

Death of Hayim Nissim Abulafia, chief rabbi at Jerusalem, 1861

Death of Gerson Ashkenasi, rabbi in Metz, 1693, Adar I

Death of Dan'l Levi de Barrios, Jewish historian, Amsterdam, 1701, Adar I

Birth of Peter Beer, pedagogical writer, Newbydshow, 1758, Adar I

Death of Heinrich Heine, Paris, 1856, Adar I

Death of Abraham Shalom Friedberg, Hebrew author, Warsaw, 1902, Adar II