New Year Question
If there are any Calendar Bores out there, can he or she (but, more likely, he) tell me how often the French Republican New Year and the Jewish New Year coincide? It seems that from sunset this evening until midnight Paris time we have overlapping New Year festivities, which I don’t think I’ve ever noticed before.
(Will French Republican Jews celebrate with especial vigour this evening, or do they worry that that would compromise their French Republican identity? I like to think that they will.)
It’s a bit sad to be contributing the first comment to my own blogpost, but I can tell anyone who’s interested that the next time Rosh Hashana and the French New Year coincide will be on 22 September 2017, though then the FNY will begin while RH is already underway, whereas this time it’s the other way around.
And the last time it happened was 1998.
NOTE TO PEDANTS: this is of course the mathematical version of the French calendar rather than the astronomical version. Nothing I write is ever about the astronomical version.
↓ Quote | Posted 22 September, 2006, 6:57 pmMaybe French Republican Jews will, but Jewish French Republicans won’t, if you get me. Which isn’t guarenteed.
↓ Quote | Posted 22 September, 2006, 6:58 pmWhoops, nothing to contribute save to say I landed on your other NY post from personal Google (RSS) and made my previous comment without having seen this. Now I look a wally.
↓ Quote | Posted 22 September, 2006, 7:30 pm