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Nisan 7

Spies in Jericho, 1273 BCE

Hebrew University of Jerusalem opened, 1925

Weissensee Germany massacre, 1303

Death of R. Meir Schiff (Maharam Schiff), 1644, Hiddushei Maharam

Death of R. Pinchas Zelig of Lask, 1770, Ateret Paz

Death of Naphtali Herz ben Meir, rabbi in Lemberg, 1582

Birth of John Lightfoot, Christian Hebraist, Stoke-on-Trent, 1602

Birth of R. Israel Deutsch, champion of orthodoxy, Zulch, 1800

Birth of Siegmund Kornfeld, financier and Hungarian magnate, Jenikau, 1852

Death of Moritz Kohuer, president of Union of German congregations, Leipzig, 1877

Death of Arjeh Lob Jelin, Talmudic author, 1886

Death of Solomon Abendana Belmonte, writer on jurisprudence, Hamburg, 1888

Death of Eduard Reuss, author of a Bible commentary, protestant theologian, 1891

Death of Arkaffi Kaufmann, philanthropist, St. Petersburg, 1893