Yehuda Lejb Kowalski

Jehuda Lejb Kowalski (no author, no year)

Yehuda Leib Kowalski (July born 27 ^{. Jul} / 8. August  1862 ^greg. In Powazki , Warsaw , Russian Empire ; died 26 July 1925 in Breslau ) was a Polish rabbi, journalist and senator of the Sejm .

Life

Jehuda Lejb Kowalski received general schooling and training as a rabbi. He was elected rabbi in Grabów in 1885 , in Chorzele in 1897 and from 1899 in the town of Włocławek , and held this office until his death. In 1907 his daughter Chana Gitla Kowalska was born, who began studying art in Berlin in 1920 and moved on to Paris in 1922, Chana was a victim of the Holocaust in 1942 .

Kowalski joined the Zionists. In 1901 he took part in the founding of the Zionist Misrachi organization in Vilnius and became a member of the Central Committee. In 1921 he visited Palestine during the pogroms there and from then on promoted the yishuv . He wrote for the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Poland and Lithuania. Kowalski became head of the Polish Rabbinical Association and was elected to the Senate of the First Sejm in 1922 on the list of the bloc of national minorities (Blok Mniejszości Narodowych) . He was buried in Włocławek.

His interpretations of the Halacha , recorded in many notebooks, were destroyed by the Germans in World War II.

literature

• Yt.R .: Kowalsky, Judah Lejb , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 10, Sp. 1232
• Polish Biographical Index. De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, p. 797
• Yakov Gur-Eli: Sayings from the mouth of Rav YL Kovalski . Translation from Hebrew. In: Katriel Fishel Thursh, Meir Korzen: Wloclawek and Vicinity; Memorial Book. Tel Aviv 1967, pp. 547ff. ( link )

Web links

• Jehuda Lejb Kowalski , at Sejm