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November 28

JewishScience
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on November 28 this year.

  • R. Baruch of Mezhibozhd. 1811 CE

    Grandson of the Baal Shem Tov; Hasidic rebbe in Medzhibozh

  1. 1873 CEJewish · born

    Louis Ginzberg, the Talmudist who wove rabbinic lore into the seven-volume compilation 'The Legends of the Jews,' was born in Kovno.

  2. 1967 CEScience · discovered

    Analyzing Cambridge radio-telescope charts, graduate student Jocelyn Bell detected the steady, rapid pulses of the first known pulsar, a spinning neutron star.

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