Chanukah 3
Israel's Mayflower (SS Ruslam) lands, 1919
Pale of Settlement created by Catherine II, 1791
Flood rains stop?
First Pentateuch published in Venice, 1517, Mikraot Gedolot
Jews expelled from Breslau, 1738
Death of R. Raphael Solomon Zeror, 1737, Peri Zaddik
Death of Judah Leib Levin (Yehalel), poet, 1925
Birth of Ludwig Robert, dramatist, brother of Rahel, Berlin, 1778
Birth of Sebastian Brunner, clerical anti-semite, Vienna, 1814
Death of Isaac Plesguer, translator into Hebrew, Breslau, 1830
Death of R. Hirsch B. Fassel, author, 1883, Or Kanisza
Death of Max Orunbaum, writer on Yiddish literature, Munich, 1898