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Adar 8

Shofar blasts for rain

Solemn Prayers for Rain

Yeshiva Etz Chaim, first in US, founded in NY, 1886, Adar II

Death of R. Aryeh Leib b. Jacob Joshua Falk, 1789, Penei Aryeh

Death of Zacharias Frankel of Breslau, 1875

Death of Isaac Rabinowitz, Ish Kovno, poet, 1900, Adar II

Death of R. Issachar Baer, 1648, Arba'ah Hadashim

Death of Benjamin Henry Ascher, 1893

Death of R. Aryeh Lob, son of Pene Jehoshna, Hanover, 1789

Birth of H. L. Fleiseher, famous Orientalist in Leipzig, 1801

Birth of David Kalisch, German humorist, Breslau, 1820

Death of Carl Rehfuss, preacher in Heidelberg, 1842

Death of Elieser Zebi Zweifel, Hebrew writer, 1888

Birth of Saul Ascher, member of the Berlin Culture Society, 1767, Adar I

Death of Zanharias Frankel, President of Rabbinical Seminary, Breslau, 1875, Adar I

Death of Johan Solomon Semler, aggressive rationalist, Halle, 1791, Adar II

Death of Heinrich Spitzer, first victim of the Revolution, Vienna, 1848, Adar II