Yom HaZikaron
19th day of the Omer
Maimonides saved, 1165
Birth of Solomon ibn Gabriol of Malaga, 1021
Death of R. Jacob Sasportas, 1698, Amsterdam, Ohel Ya'akov
Death of R. Joseph b. Meir Teomim of Frankfurt, 1792, Peri Megadim
Death of R. Joseph Baer Soloveichik, 1892, Bet ha-Levi
Death of Jacob Bassewi, ennobled financier, Prague, 1634
Death of Samuel Breinersdorf, medical writer, Breslau, 1807
Birth of Francis Henry Goldsmid, M. P., first Jewish lawyer in England, 1808
Birth of Moses Angel, director of the Jews Free School, London, 1819
Death of Sigismund Stern, leader of Reform movement, Frankfurt, 1867
Death of Wilhelm Lowenthal, investigator of the Argentine colonies, Berlin, 1893
Death of Ascher I. Myers, publisher of Jewish Chronicle, London, 1902