(1880-1949)
Zionist leader of Russian origin. He was born in Volozhin. He represented the Mizrahi movement at the seventh Zionist Congress in 1905. In 1926 he settled in Jerusalem, where he became President of the World Mizrarii Centre. Opposed to the Palestinian partition plan and the British White Paper of 1939, he advocated civil disobedience. After the estab-lishment of the State of Israel, he organized a group of scholars to examine the legal probelms of the state in the light of Jewish law. He was editor of the Mizrahi daily newspaper and organized the publi-cation of the Talmudic Encyclopaedia.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.