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Shevat 17

Purim Saragossa, Jews escape destruction, 1428

Death of R. Hayyim b. Benjamin Bechner (Bochner) of Cracow, 1684, Or Hadash

Death of R. Hayyim b. Jacob Polani, 1868, Lev Hayyim

Death of R. Moses Luria, Worms, 1591

Death of Leopold, Count Kollonitsch, Primas of Hungary, caused exile of Jews from Vienna, Vienna, 1707

Death of Emanuel Deutz, grand rabbi, Paris, 1842

Death of Meyer Hirsch, famous mathematician, Berlin, 1857

Death of R. Chayim Palaggi, prolific Talmudic author, Smyrna, 1868

Death of Theodore Hirsch, convert, historian and professor at Greifawald, 1881

Death of Aaron Bernstein, originator of the ghetto novel, 1884

Death of Jaeob Steinhart, rabbi, Arad, 1885

Death of Baron Joseph Treves de Bonfihi, philanthropist, Padua, 1893