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Cheshvan 20

Jedoniah asks to rebuild fortress of Yeb, 407 BCE

Expulsion of Jews from Portugal, 1496

Death of R. Elijah b. Jacob Ragoler of Kalisz, 1849, Yad Eliyahu

Death R. Joel Manuel, scholar, Breslau, 1890

Death of Abraham Baer Birnbaum, liturgical composer, 1922

Death of Hannah Szenes, poet, 1944

Birth of Jacob Simon, engraver and brave soldier, Brussels, 1752

Death of Peter Beer, writer on the Jewish Renaissance, Prague, 1838

Death of Jacob Weil, Jewish writer, Frankfurt, 1864

Death of David Morgenstern, Bavarian politician, 1882

Death of Israel M. Japhet, teacher and author, Frankfurt, 1892

Death of Emmy Rossi, novelist, Berlin, 1895