[November 2] 

• Nazis liquidated Riga ghetto, 1943.

• Weizmann Institute of Science dedicated in Rehovot, 1949.

• Order from Berlin to suspend killing of Jews at Auschwitz, 1944.

• 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki's forces, 1648.

• Balfour Declaration issued, 1917.

[November 4] 

• Jews of Florence, Italy rounded up and deported, 1943.

[November 7] 

• British capture Gaza from Turkey, 1917.

• Solomon Molcho, Marrano kabbalist and mystic, was burned at the stake, 1532.

[November 11] 

• Armistice Day ending World War I, 1918.

• Israel and Egypt sign a 6-point cease-fire agreement, 1973.

[November 12] 

• Hermann Goering announced consideration of Madagascar as a home for European Jewry, 1938 (imagine what if...).

• Jews of Lodz, Poland ordered to wear yellow armband, 1939.

[November 13] 

• Talmudic volumes were burned in Russia, 1757.

• Czar Nicholas I of Russia issued a decree calling for the establishment of a school for Jewish students and a seminary to train rabbis and teachers, 1844.

• First Israeli train arrives in Gaza, after Israeli occupation, 1956.

[November 14] 

• Ghettos in Radom, Cracow, and Galicia set up by the Nazis, 1942.

[November 15] 

• Jewish students were barred from German schools, 1938.

[November 16] 

• Many Jews were killed in riots in Paris, 1380.

• Warsaw ghetto was sealed by the Nazis, 1940.

• The British occupied Tel Aviv, 1917.

• Yeshiva University came into existence (as a university), 1945, first American university under Jewish auspices.

[November 17] 

• Birthday, 331 c.e. of Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus, who favored the return of Jerusalem to the Jews. 

• Jews of England were imprisoned, and many were martyred, 1278. 

• Italian anti-Semitic code, patterned after the Nuremberg Laws published, 1938.

[November 18] 

• Jewish community of Ferrara, Italy miraculously escaped disaster when a violent earthquake struck, 1571. 

• Jerusalem's new reservoir was opened, 1958, ending a long history of water problems that made Jerusalem more vulnerable to siege.

[November 19] 

• Emma Lazarus died, 1887. The SHLA"H arrived in Jerusalem, 1621.

[November 20] 

• Anwar Sadat spoke to the Knesset, 1977.

• Earliest known Yiddish letter from America, 1785 (Yiddish in the United States became "fashionable" in the 1880's).

• First anti-Semitic attack over radio in the U.S. by Father Caughlin, 1938.

• Jewish population of Israel reached one million, 1949.

• All Jewish wine was dumped by Arabs and heavy fines imposed on the Jewish community of Jerusalem, 1521.

• The Arabs blamed the Jewish use of wine for a severe water shortage. (interesting that 478 years later - just the other day - -Arabs are still blaming the Jews for water problems.)

[November 21]

• First chassidic town in the U.S. (New Square) elects its mayor, 1961. 

• An English missionary petitioned the Czar of Russia to restore the Jewish independence in the land of Israel, 1818. 

• Ashdod port open for business, 1965.

[November 22] 

• U.N. General Assembly approved the right of the Palestinians to a sovereign state at the expense of Israel, 1974.

• Strasbourg prohibits circumcision and the wearing of beards, 1793. It ordered the burning of all books in Hebrew.

[November 23] 

• Herzliya founded, 1924.

• Anti-Jewish riots in Bucharest claimed many Jewish lives, 1593.

[November 24] 

• "Life Certificates" were distributed to some Jews of the Vilna Ghetto, 1941.

[November 25] 

• The Patria, a steamer carrying illegal immigrants sank in Haifa port, 200 dead, 1940.

• American forces retake New York from the British, 1783.

• Jews who had fled the British were able to return. Austrian soldiers killed many Jews in Prague, 1744.

• Charles IV issued protection for the Jews of Strasbourg, 1357. Two years later 1,000 Jews were burned and the remainder forcibly baptized - well-poisoning rumors proved greater than royal protection.

• Abudarham's Siddur first published in Lisbon, 1489.