Ephraim Fischel Rotenstreich

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Ephraim Fischel Rotenstreich , also: Rottenstreich, (born May 28, 1882 in Kolomea , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died July 1938 in Jerusalem , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ) was a Polish Zionist politician.

Life

Ephraim Fischel Rotenstreich was the son of a broker. He studied philology at the University of Vienna from 1904 to 1908 and received his doctorate in 1909. He was a teacher in various cities in Galicia, and in 1918 he moved to Lviv . His son Joshua was born in Kolomea in 1910, his son Nathan in Sombor in 1914 . Joshua became a lawyer in Palestine and Israel, Nathan was sent in 1932 by the Zionist youth organization Gordonia to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Palestine , where he became a philosophy professor and education politician.

Rotenstreich was involved in the Jewish community, became a Zionist and from 1911 took part in all Zionist congresses (10th to 18th). During the Polish-Ukrainian War he headed the Jewish National Council in the West Ukrainian People's Republic ( Żydowska Rada Narodowa Zachodnio-Ukraińskiej RL ). After the final conquest of Galicia by the Poles, he was briefly imprisoned by them.

Rotenstreich was elected to the Senate of the Polish Republic when it was first constituted in 1922 , where he was active in the Finance and Economic Committee. He was a member of the Sejm from 1927 to 1930 . At the 18th Zionist Congress in Prague in 1935 , he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency . In the same year he emigrated to Palestine and worked there until his untimely death as head of the trade and industry department of the Jewish Agency.

Rotenstreich published articles on economic policy problems in the Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish languages.

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SURNAME Rotenstreich, Ephraim Fischel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Zionist politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolomea , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 1938
Place of death Jerusalem , League of Nations Mandate for Palestine