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Tevet 26

Liberal laws on Jews in Baden, 1809

Death of R. Zevi Hirsh Deutsch of Brody, Galicia, 1781, Shulhan ha-Tahor

Death of R. Naphtali Katz of Frankfort, 1719, Semikhat Hakhamim

Death of R. Abraham Hayyim of Zloczow, 1812, Orah le-Hayyim

Death of Feiwel Duachenes, Talmudic author, Prague, 1608

Birth of Samson Wolf Rosenfeld, early German preacher, 1780

Death of Jacob Marx, medical writer, Hanover, 1789

Birth of Isaac da Costa, Dutch poet, Amsterdam, 1798

Birth of Edward Munk, philologist, Glogau, 1803

Birth of Philipp Reis, inventor of a telephone, Geinhausen, 1834

Birth of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, ghetto poet, Lemberg, 1835

Birth of Ludwig Jacobowski, German poet, Strelno, 1868

Death of Simon Szanto, editor of Neuzeit, 1882

Death of Solomon Suizer, composer of synagogue music, Vienna, 1890

Death of George Lewis Lyon, Jewish journalist, London, 1904