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September 6

JewishGraeco-Roman
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 6 this year.

  • The Chofetz Chaim (R. Yisrael Meir Kagan)d. 1933 CE

    Authored the Chofetz Chaim and the Mishnah Berurah

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  • R. Yechezkel Abramskyd. 1976 CE

    Chief Dayan; author of Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta

  1. 1729 CEJewish · born

    Moses Mendelssohn, the Dessau-born philosopher whose writings helped shape the Haskalah, was born on this day in 1729.

  2. 1956 CEGraeco-Roman · died

    Michael Ventris, who four years earlier had shown the Linear B script to record an early form of Greek, died in a road accident in Hertfordshire at thirty-four.

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