Isru Chag
8th day of the Omer
Maimoun Holiday
Saharane, Kurdish holiday (Seharane), several days of celebration and feasting
Fast day in Cologne, second crusade violence, 1147
First Siddur printed, in Italy, 1486
Death of R. Moses Trani (Mabit) of Safed, 1585, Kiryat Sefer
Death of R. David Deutsch of Budapest, 1878, Goren David
Birth of Baruch Jeitteles, Jewish author, Prague, 1767
Death of Moses Dobruska (Thomas Schonfeld), convert, playwright, Paris, guillotined, 1793
Birth of Ferdinand Lasalle, Social Democratic agitator, 1825
Birth of Theodor Biliroth, known for his hostile judgment in the case of Jewish students and his public stand against antisemitism, 1829
Death of Isaac Lyon Goldamid, advocate of Jewish rights, London, 1859
Death of Julius Barrasch, physician and author, Bucharest, 1863
Death of Suskind Raschkow, Hebrew poet, 1863
Death of David Samoach, author and translator of poems in Hebrew, 1864
Death of Leyser Lazarus, director of rabbinical Seminar, Breslau, 1879
Death of Joseph Goldmark, member of the Austrian Parliament, New York, 1881
Death of R. Solomon Pormstecher, Offenbach, 1889
Death of Cesare Parenzo, Italian senator, Nerva, 1898
Death of Louis Bein, author on political economy, 1900
Death of Chayim M. Horowitz, Hebrew author, Frankfurt, 1904