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Cheshvan 5

King Zedekiah, last of Judea, blinded and captured, 586 BCE

Axis alliance formed, 1936

Nazi Operation Harvest festival, 42,000 Jews killed in Poland, 1943

Death of Zevi Hersh Kalisher, 1874, Derishat Ziyyon, Hibbat Zion

Death of R. Abraham Rice, Orthodox leader, 1862

Death of R. Abraham Sutro, Orthodox leader, 1869

Death of R. David Tevele Ephrati, 1884, Toledot Anshei Shem

Birth of Akiba Eger, Talmudic author, Eisenstadt, 1761

Birth of Frederick Cerfberr, French consul, 1786

Birth of Friederich Philippi, convert, orthodox Lutheran theologian, 1809

Birth of Meyer Aaron Goldschmidt, Danish ghetto novelist, 1819

Birth of Ludwig Chronegk, German actor, 1837

Death of David Epbrussi, rabbinical writer, 1884

Death of R. Felice Finzi, Genoa, 1896