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B"H Yom Yom from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l Correction: Kristallnacht (Leil HaBedolach, in Hebrew) occurred on the night of November 9-10, 1938 (Not '39 as printed in last week's TT. Thank you to the several readers who pointed out the error). [2 Kislev] Jews of New York were allowed to swear without reference to Christianity, 1727. Yahrzeit of Rabbi Bernard Revel, 1940. Yahrzeit of HaRav Aharon Kotler, 1962. [November 11] Armistice Day ending World War I, 1918. Israel and Egypt sign a 6-point cease-fire agreement, 1973. [3 Kislev] The first auto-da-fe (burning at the stake of those condemned by the Inquisition) in the Americas, Lima, Peru, several Jews burned, 1581. 36 Jews killed in Lemberg explosion, 1702. First Nazi mass-murder of Warsaw Jews, 1939. 1538 Jews of Poltava, Russia, executed by the Nazis, 1941. [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. [4 Kislev] A delegation of Babylonian Jews arrived in Jerusalem, 518 b.c.e. to ask Zecharia HaNavi is Tish'a b'Av should be discountinued. (Their question was asked during the construction of the Second Beit HaMikdash, two years before completion.) Jews of Pressburg were expelled by order of Maria of Hapsburg, 1526. EmpressElizabeth ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Great Russia, 1742. [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 occupatio, 1956. [5 Kislev] Portuguese Jews had to leave by this date in 1497 (the decree of expulsion was earlier, but there was a grace period). Rumanian Jews were barred from the practice of law, 1864. Road of valor connecting besieged Jerusalem with the rest of the Yishuv was opened, 1948. [November 14] Ghettos in Radom, Cracow, and Galicia set up by the Nazis, 1942. [6 Kislev] The SHLA"H arrived in Jerusalem, 1621. Jews barred from settling in Stockholm, Sweden, 1685. [November 15] Jewish students were barred from German schools, 1938. [7 Kislev] King Yehoyakim burned a Sefer Torah, 603 b.c.e. - day was made a fast day. Ancient Jewish holiday (from the end of the Second Beit HaMikdash era) - the exact reason is disputed by historians. [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. [8 Kislev] A relatively quiet day in Jewish History (according to the book) [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. [9 Kislev] Jews of Paris expelled (again) by Charles VI, 1394. (Rabbi Bloch z"l points out that English, French, and Spanish Jewry were expelled roughly at 100 year intervals - 1290, 1394, 1492.) [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. [The Toldot
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