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WIENER / JEWISH LITERARY ANNIVERSARIES
99
CHONOLOGICAL LIST
Without exact date: Joel Mueller.
January: 2, Ahad ha-Am; 10, Yehoash; 19, Simon Markus; 29, Wilhelm
Herzberg.
February: 2, Solomon Buber; 3, Joseph Bentwich; 21, Dov Sadan,
Baruch Spinoza; 24, Solomon Mandelkern, Isaac Jacob Weiss; 29,
Jacob Nahum Epstein.
March: 6, Isidore Cahen; 20, Abraham Shalom Friedberg.
April: 8, Akiba Ren-Ezra; 19, Meir Simon Geshuri; 22,
Jewish Daily
Forward.
May: 9, Moses PhilippsonArnswalde; 11, Asher I. Myers.
June: 10, Samson Modon; 22, Joseph Shapiro; 29, Moses Belinfante,
Abrahem Menes.
July: 1, Elias J. Bickerman, Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach; 4,
Ben Zion Bokser; 5, Judah Leon Magnes; 20, Reuben Alcalay; 31,
Benjamin Szold.
August: 12, David Bergelson, Itzik Feffer, David Hofstein, Leib
Kvitko, Peretz Markish; 15, Nissan Touroff; 29, First Zionist
Congress.
September: 2, Isaac Sela; 19, Leo Herzberg-Fraenkel; 20, Suessman
Muntner; 24, Aryeh Tartakower; 27, Abraham G. Duker.
October: 4, Shlomo Shunami; 26, Hyman Enelow; 30, Michael Wilen-
sky.
November: 22, Michael Higger.
December: 2, Hayyim Zeev Reines, Jacob Rimon; 5, Gershom Scho-
lem; 8, Abraham Epstein, Samuel Van Straalen.
ALPHABETICAL LIST
A h a d h a -Am
(Asher Ginzberg). 50th anniversary of death. Born in
Skvira, Ukraine, 1856, died in Tel-Aviv, January 2, 1927. Expounder
of cultural Zionism in the Hebrew periodicals
Ha-Melits
and
Ha-Shiloah,
the latter being edited by him for a number of
years, he is considered a major thinker of modern Judaism. Critical
of the movement led by Herzl, he thought that the spiritual regen
eration of the Jewish people should have the first priority. Living
in London for a number of years, before settling in Palestine in
1922, he continued to write his many essays. His
Selected Essays
in English translation appeared first in 1912 and have been re
printed several times, along with
Ten Essays on Zionism and
Judaism
(1922, 1973).
R eub en A l c a l a y .
70th birthday. Born in Jerusalem, July 20, 1907.
Trained as a teacher he was a translator for the mandatory govern
ment of Palestine and with the establishment of the State of Israel