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Adar 27

Zedekiah dies, last king of Judea, 561 (or 396) BCE, Adar I (or 26th)

Prussian Jews granted civil rights, 1812

Belzec camp opened, 1942

"Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemejndebund" founded, 1870, Adar I

Death of R. Leone Modena (Aryeh Leib), Venice, 1648, Ari Nohem

Death of R. Isaac da Fonesca Aboab, first US Rabbi, Amsterdam, 1693, Adar II

Death of R. Joseph Saul Nathanson of Lemberg, 1875, Ner Ma-aravi

Death of Jacob Barit (Yankele Kovner), talmudist, 1883

Death of R. Eliezer (Leser; Lazarus) Landshuth, Berlin, 1887, Amudei ha-Avodah

Death of Dov Ber Bampi, 1888

Birth of Friedrich Karl Stahl, neurologist, convert, Munich, 1811

Death of Abraham Antibi, rabbi at Aleppo, 1858

Isaac Artom, first Jew appointed Italian senator, 1876

Death of Simon Bloch, editor of "L'Univers Israelite," Paris, 1879

Death of Goudsmid, professor in Leyden, 1882

Birth of Moritz Wahrmann, distinguished Hungarian politician, 1832, Adar I

Death of Sabatja Wolf, author, Berlin, 1832, Adar I

Death of Joseph Saul Nathansohn, rabbi and Talmudic author, Lemberg, 1875, Adar I

Death of Seligmann Baer, author on Massora, Mosbach, 1897, Adar I

Death of Count Mirabeau, advocate of Jewish emancipation, 1791, Adar II

Birth of M. Kohner, founder of the "Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund," Neumark, 1818, Adar II

Birth of Theodore Gomperz, philologist, University professor and member of the Austrian House of Lords, Bruenn, 1832, Adar II

Death of Mendel Hirsch, principal of the school at Frankfort, 1900, Adar II