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Tammuz 21

Vilna massacre, 1795, communal fast day

Last victim of Spanish Inquisition killed, 1826

Pope Innocent IV issues Papal Bull stopping blood libel, 1247

Alarcon, a proselyte, burned in Valladolid, 1644

Death of R. Tanhum b. Joseph Yerushalmi, Ibn Ezra of the Orient, 1291

Death of R. Elijah Ba'al Shem, 1637, Mihlal Yofi

Death of R. Solomon Polyatchek, 1928, Hiddushei ha-Iluy

Death of Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet, 1934

Death of Simon Rawidowicz, 1957

Death of Elijah Loans, Hebrew author, 1636

Death of Isaac Daniel Itzig, communal leader, Berlin, 1806

Birth of Albert Sassoon, financier, Bombay, 1818

Birth of Julius von Reuter, founder of the telegraph bureau, convert, Kassel, 1821

Death of Moses Benedict, banker and philanthropist, Stuttgart, 1852

Death of A. B. Piperno, Hebrew poet, Leghorn, 1863

Death of Immanuel Ritter, preacher of the Reform Congregation, Berlin, 1890

Death of Isidor Cohnstein, writer on medicine, Berlin, 1894