Moses Smoira
Moses Smoira (born October 25, 1888 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † October 8, 1961 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli lawyer .
Life
Smoira attended the Kneiphöfsche Gymnasium and studied law in Königsberg, Munich and Berlin. 1910 doctorate he became Dr. iur. and did his legal traineeship in Königsberg. Until 1922 he was director of a Hebrew language school in Berlin.
He emigrated to Palestine as early as 1922 and was admitted to the Palestinian courts in 1923. In 1930 he became president of the Jewish Bar Association in Palestine. When the Supreme Court opened in Israel in 1948 , Smoira was named its president. He held this office until 1954.
Smoira was married to Esther Horowitz. They had two daughters. Smoira's brother Joseph Smoira (1889–1964) emigrated to Palestine in 1935.
literature
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 346.
Individual evidence
- ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 754.
- ^ R. Albinus, Königsberg Lexikon , Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smoira, Moses |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German, later Israeli lawyer, first President of the Supreme Court in Israel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königsberg (Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1961 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |