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Elul 27

Zhitomir Russia ghetto liquidated, 1941

Kislovodsk Russia massacre, 1942

Fettmich's uprising against the Jews in Frankfurt, 1614

Portuguese synagogue dedicated in London, 1701

Adat Jeshurun Reform synagogue in Amsterdam dedicated, 1799

Death of R. Elhanan b. Samuel Ashkenazi, 1780, Sidrei Taharah

Death of R. Nathan Adler, mystic, 1800, Frankfurt, Mishnah de-Rabbi Natan

Death of R. Shalom Roke'ah of Belz, founder of Hassidic dynasty, 1885

Death of R. Zevi Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach, Orthodox leader, 1872, Berit Avraham

Birth of August Lewald, author, convert, Konigsberg, 1792

Death of R. Hirsch Horowitz, Talmudic author, Frankfurt, 1816

Birth of Leo Herzberg-Frankel, ghetto poet, Brody, 1827

Death of Heimann Arnheim, Jewish author, Glogau, 1862

Death of Leon Gordon, neo-Hebraic poet, 1892

Death of Moriz Brasch, philosophic writer, 1895

Death of Bernhard J. Stockvis, professor of medicine, Amsterdam, 1902

Death of Emile Zola, advocate of the cause of Dreyfus, 1902