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Cheshvan 12

Rindfleisch massacres in Heilbronn Germany, 1298

Death of R. Israel b. Aaron Jaffe of Shklov, 1707, Or Yisrael

Death of R. Abraham Geiger, scholar, 1874

Death of R. Abraham Isaac Weinberger, 1884, Pnei Yizhak

Birth of Martin Steinthal, physician in Berlin, 1798

Birth of Wilhelm Wolfsohn, German poet, Odessa, 1820

Birth of August de Lagarde, learned Orientalist and anti-semite, Berlin, 1827

Birth of Nathan Meyer von Rothschild, first Jewish Lord in England, 1840

Death of Henrietta Herz, leader of Berlin Salon, 1847

Death of Solomon Klein, orthodox rabbi and author, Colmar, Alsace, 1867

Death of Abraham Geiger, liberal Jewish theologian, Berlin, 1874

Death of Hermann Gddsche (Sir John Ratcliff), anti-semitic novelist, Trachenberg, 1878

Death of Jacob Auerbach, pedagogical writer, Frankfurt, 1887