The essence of the footnote is given in the London Jewish Chronicle of October 16 of that year:
In case anyone thinks the simple, desperate people of Vilna were rationalist Litvaks, see the following:
Monday, July 19, 2010
The canceled fast in Vilna for the Ninth of Av 5731/ 1871.
The August 15, 1871 - כ"א אב תרל"א לפ"ק issue of המליץ contained a dispatch from Vilna, which included the following about how a cholera epidemic affected the fasting on Tisha B'Av that year:
The essence of the footnote is given in the London Jewish Chronicle of October 16 of that year:
In case anyone thinks the simple, desperate people of Vilna were rationalist Litvaks, see the following:
The essence of the footnote is given in the London Jewish Chronicle of October 16 of that year:
In case anyone thinks the simple, desperate people of Vilna were rationalist Litvaks, see the following:
