Rosh Chodesh Elul
News Years Day for Animals
Moses ascends Mt. Sinai for third 40 days
Plague of lice
Persian pilgrimage to tomb of Serach (Sarah) b. Asher
Jonah begins preaching in Nineveh
Purim de los Christianos, Purim la Bombas, Portugal spares Moroccan jews, 1578
Mainz and Breslau massacres kill 10,000, 1349
Haggai exhorts Zerubbabel to build second temple, Hag 1:1
Palma Majorca massacre, 1391
Sigismund II Augustus of Poland, 1551, Magna Carta of Jewish self-government
First Zionist Congress held at Basil, 1897
Death of R. David b. Abraham Maimuni ha-Nagid, 1301
Birth of Zebi Ashkenasi, Chachain Zebi, 1658
Death of R. Samuel Aboab (Rasha), Talmudic author, Venice, 1694, Devar Shemuel
Birth of Samuel P. Luzzatto, prominent Jewish scholar, Trieste, 1800
Birth of Joseph Derenbourg, Orientalist, Mayence, 1811
Death of G. A. Adersbach, physician and Jewish poet, New Orleans, 1829
Death of Leon Halevy, French author, 1883
Death of Ch. P. Lippe, bibliographer, Vienna, 1900
Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher, opponent of anti-semitism, 1900