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Kislev 20

Tanya published, 1796

Ezra urges Jews to stop intermarriage, Ezra 10:9

Death of Menasseh ben Israel, 1657

Death of R. Manasseh ben Israel of Holland, 1657

Death of R. Dov Berish of Byala, 1837, Divrei Zaddikim

Death of R. Isaac Elijah Landau, 1876, Ma'aneh Eliyahu

Death of Leo Pinsker, Autoemancipation, Odessa, 1891

Death of R. Zevi Perez Chajes of Vienna, 1927

Birth of Adolf Stocker, court chaplain and anti-semite, Halberstadt, 1835

Death of Baruch Lindau, Hebrew writer, Berlin, 1849

Death of Jonathan Alexandersohn, victim of orthodox persecutions, Altofen, 1869

Death of Carl Gutzkow, 1878, Uriel Acosta

Death of David Asher, philosophical writer, 1890

Death of R. Solomon Fuchs, writer on Jewish science, 1895

Death of R. M. G. Ottolenghi, pedagogical writer, Salonica, 1900