Zirelson, Judah Leib

Zirelson, Judah Leib
(1860–1941)
   Chief rabbi of Romania. As the erudite rabbi of Kishinev, Zirelson was one of the foremost Jewish religious dignitaries in czarist Russia. After Bessarabia was annexed to Romania in 1920, he became chief rabbi of Romania and the recognized spokesman of its Jewish community. He was a deputy in the Romanian parliament from 1922 to 1926, when he was elected a senator. He was shot by the Germans in World War II.

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