Samuel Shem [SEP] date of birth
Samuel Shem
Samuel Shem is the pen-name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman (born 1944). His main works are "The House of God" and "Mount Misery", both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
Bergman was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1966, and was tutored by Denis Noble FRS, cardiac physiologist and later head of the Oxford Cardiac Electrophysiology Group. In an address to Dr. Noble
months later, on 18 Elul.
19 Kislev, 1772 - the date of the Yom Hillula (passing) of the Maggid of Mezritch, the successor of the Baal Shem Tov (the founder of Hasidism).
19 Kislev, 1809 - the birth date of the Alter Rebbe of Chasidei Zychlin, HaRebi Shmuel Abba (ZT"L). It was celebrated as the birth date of the Zychlin (Hasidic dynasty)Zychlin Chasidut until 95% of the followers were murdered in the Holocaust.
19 Kislev, 2003 - the day