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September 30

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YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 30 this year.

  • The Vilna Gaon (Eliyahu of Vilna)d. 1797 CE

    Foremost Lithuanian Talmudist and kabbalist, leader of the Mitnagdim

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  • R. Yaakov Yitzchak of Peshischa (the Yid HaKadosh)d. 1813 CE

    Founder of the Peshischa school of Chasidut

  1. 1801 CEJewish · born

    Zecharias Frankel, the Prague-born rabbi and scholar who founded positive-historical Judaism at the Breslau seminary, was born on this day in 1801.

  2. 1865 CEJewish · died

    Samuel David Luzzatto, the Italian scholar, poet and Bible commentator known as Shadal, died in Padua on this day in 1865.

  3. 1928 CEJewish · born

    Elie Wiesel, the writer and Nobel Peace laureate whose memoir Night bore witness to the Holocaust, was born in Sighet on this day in 1928.

  4. 420 CEChristian · died

    Jerome, translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible, died at Bethlehem after decades of scholarship in the Holy Land.

  5. 1770 CEChristian · died

    George Whitefield, the itinerant preacher of the Great Awakening, died at Newburyport, Massachusetts, during his final American tour.

  6. 1828 CEHindu · born

    Lahiri Mahasaya, whose teaching of Kriya Yoga later reached the West through Yogananda's 'Autobiography of a Yogi,' was born on this day in 1828 in Bengal.

  7. 1869 CEEgyptian · born

    The German Egyptologist and philologist Kurt Sethe, editor of foundational collections of ancient Egyptian texts, was born in Berlin.

  8. 1941 CEEgyptian · born

    The British Egyptologist and historian John Romer, known for documenting the royal tombs of Thebes and for wide-reaching histories of ancient Egypt, was born in Surrey.