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April 17

Mesopotamian
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on April 17 this year.

  • R. Chaim Vitald. 1620 CE

    Chief disciple who recorded the Arizal's teachings in Etz Chaim

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  1. 1880 CEMesopotamian · born

    Leonard Woolley, who led the methodical excavation of Ur and its royal cemetery between 1922 and 1934, was born in 1880.

  2. 1936 CEMesopotamian · died

    Fritz Hommel, the German orientalist and author of an early history of Babylonia and Assyria, died in 1936.

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