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Cheshvan 23

Hasmonean holiday, Greek's stone altar removed from Temple, 137 BCE

Pollution of Temple during Maccabean struggle

Edward I arrests all Jews in England, 1278

Jews of Hungary and Croatia expelled, 1526

Death of R. Isaac b. Samuel Lampronti, 1756, Pahad Yizhak

Death of R. Aaron Katzenellenbogen of Brisk, 1777, Minhat Aharon

Death of Saul Berlin, Progressive Judaism, Frankfurt, 1794, Mizpeh Yokte'el

Death of Judah b. Mordecai Halevi Hurwitz, Grodno, 1797, Amudei Bet Yehudah

Death of R. Joseph Raphael Hazzan (Yerach), 1819, Hikrei Lev

Death of Abraham Dov Levenson (Adam ha-Kohen), poet, 1878

Death of M. S. Alexander, Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem, convert, 1845

Death of Moriz Schorstein, writer on Hydrotherapeutics, Odessa, 1872

Death of R. Jehuda Behak, author, Cherson, 1900