Dow Ber Meisels

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Dow Ber Meisels (1861)

Dow Ber Meisels (born 1798 in Szczekociny ; died March 17, 1870 in Warsaw ) was Chief Rabbi of Kraków (1832–1856) and Warsaw (1856–1870). He supported the Polish struggle for independence very actively.

Life

Dow Ber Meisels was born in 1798 in Szczekociny, Silesia, the son of a rabbi . In 1820, after his marriage, he went to Cracow and became a merchant (banker?) And later a rabbi. He supported the November uprising in Poland with arms. In 1832 he became the Grand Rabbi of Cracow.

In 1846 he was elected to the city council as one of 12 senators after the Cracow uprising . In 1848 he represented the city after the unrest in the Imperial Council of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Funeral of demonstrators in Warsaw 1861, painting by Aleksander Lesser, Dow Ber Meisels at the top far left

In 1856 he was appointed Grand Rabbi of Warsaw. There, too, he supported the Polish struggle for independence. In 1861 he was arrested after the unrest in Warsaw and expelled from the country. He went to London and returned to Warsaw in 1862. He also defended the November uprising in 1863.

He died in Warsaw between 1869 and 1879.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Meisels, Dow Ber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish banker and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczekociny
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1870
Place of death Warsaw