Yehuda Leib Maimon

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Jehuda Leib Maimon ( Hebrew יְהוּדָה לַייב מַימוֹן, also Jehuda Leib HaKohen Maimon as Jehuda Leib Fischmann , born on December 11, 1875 in Mărculeşti , Floreşti Rajon , Russian Empire ; died July 10, 1962 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi , politician, and leader of the religious Zionism movement in Bessarabia .

Life

Maimon studied in a series of yeshivot and received his semichah from Rabbi Jechiel Michel Epstein , author of the Aroch HaSchulchan ( Hebrew עָרוֹךְ שֻׁלְחָן). He was one of the founders of the Misrachi movement in 1902. Maimon immigrated to the Russian Empire , where he was imprisoned for Zionist activities. He was a delegate to the ninth congress of the World Zionist Organization in 1909 and attended every congress until the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948.

In 1913 he made an aliyah to Palestine , but was during the First World War expelled.

He immigrated to the United States, where he organized the Misrachi movement. He then returned to the League of Nations mandate for Palestine in 1919.

He became the head of HaMisrachi there , and together with Abraham Isaak Kook he helped establish HaRabanut haReschit leJisra'el ( Hebrew הרַבָּנוּת הרֵאשִׁית ליִשְׂרָאֵל, Chief rabbinate). He was elected to the Jewish Agency Committee in 1935 but was imprisoned by the British in Latrun in 1946 .

In 1937 he founded Mossad HaRaw Kook ( Hebrew מוֹסָד הרַב קוק; Rabbi Kook Institute), a religious research institution and notable publishing house named in honor of Abraham Isaak Kook .

Maimon helped draft the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was one of the signatories. From May 14, 1948 to October 8, 1951, he was Minister of Religion and Minister for War Victims , for example in the provisional government that was installed after the declaration of independence in 1948, and also in the first and second government cabinets .

He was busy with Jewish publications and was awarded the Israel Prize in Rabbinic Literature in 1958 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 457.
  2. ↑ Jehuda Leib Maimon. In: Knesset Members. Knesset , accessed February 3, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b Yehuda Leib Maimon: Public Activities Knesset website
  4. ↑ About ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mossad HaRav Kook  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mosadharavkook.com
  5. ^ Provisional Government. In: Governments of Israel. Knesset , accessed February 3, 2014 .
  6. ^ Government 1. In: Governments of Israel. Knesset , accessed February 3, 2014 .
  7. ^ Government 2. In: Governments of Israel. Knesset , accessed February 3, 2014 .
  8. ^ Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew). Israel Prize Official Site, archived from the original on January 17, 2010 ; accessed on September 22, 2013 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Maimon, Yehuda body
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maimon, Yehuda Leib (different spelling); יְהוּדָה לַייב מַימוֹן (Hebrew); Maimon, Jehuda Leib HaKohen (detailed notation); Fischmann, Jehuda Leib (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli rabbi and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Mărculeşti , Floreşti Rajon , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1962
Place of death Tel Aviv