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Adar 17

Strasbourg massacre, 1349, Adar I

Galilee Jews saved by Josephus, 66, minor holiday

Decree to deport 26,000 Bulgarian Jews to camps, 1943

Death of R. Reuben Hoeshke of Prague, kabbalist, 1673, Yalkut Reuveni

Death of R. Gedaliah Lipschultz, 1826, Regel Yesharah

Death of R. David (Tevele) b. Moses of Minsk, 1861, Bet David

Death of Ephraim Luntschtitz, preacher in Prague, 1619

Death of August Lewald, convert, author, Munich, 1871

Death of Solomon Steinhard, teacher and author, Hildburghausen, 1871

Death of R. Pinkus Neustadt, author, Breslau, 1902, Adar I

Death of Jacob Moses Lowenstein, chief rabbi, Amsterdam, 1815, Adar II

Birth of Hermann Vambery, explorer, convert, Serdahely, 1832, Adar II

Birth of Theodore Gomperz, philologist, university professor, Austrian peer, Brunn, 1832, Adar II

Birth of Harry Bresslau, historian, 1848, Adar II

Death of Raphael Koach, German politician, 1872, Adar II

Death of Simon Schreiber, rabbi in Cracow and member of the Austrian Reichsrath, 1883, Adar II