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Av 28

Moses descends Mt. Sinai for second time

Jewish Parliament in Poland, Council of Four Countries, dissolved, 1764

Death of R. Joshua Hoeschel b. Joseph Harif, 1648, Meginnei Shelomo

Death of R. Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin, Woloshin, 1893, Haamek She'alah

Death of Joshua ben Joseph, rabbinical author, Cracow, 1648

Birth of Michael Beer, German poet, Berlin, 1800

Birth of Anton von Schmerling, liberal Austrian statesman said somewhat of an anti-semite, 1805

Birth of R. Maier Zipser, Hungarian author, 1814

Birth of Julius Steni, composer, Breslau, 1820

Birth of Moses Mielziner, writer on Jewish subjects, Schubin, 1825

Death of Isaac Hartvig, philanthropist, Hamburg, 1842

Death of Eleazar Morpurgo, Hebrew translator, Venice, 1855

Death of Reuben Wunderbar, pedagogue and author, Mitau, 1868