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Elul 17

Noah dispatched dove, Gen 8:5

Nuremberg race laws decreed, 1935

Roman garrison destroyed by Judeans, 66, minor holiday

Caesaria massacre, 66

WWII begins, 1939

Vincent Fettmilch and mob invade Frankfurt, 1614

Shedlitz Russia pogrom, 1906

Death of Isaac Cohen Belinfante, poet, 1781

Death of R. Hayyim Hirschensohn, 1935, Malki ba-Kodesh

Birth of Leonard Bernstein, conductor, 1918

Death of Jehuda Saltaro da Fano, Talmudic author, Venice, 1629

Death of R. Jacob Zahalon, medical author, Fenara, 1693

Birth of J. G. Herder, lover of Hebrew poetry, 1744

Death of A. Asher, translator of Benjamin of Tudela, Venice, 1833

Death of R. Isaac Rilif, author and philanthropist, Bonn, 1902