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Meir Shapiro

Polish Hasidic rabbi

Died when: 46 years 238 days (559 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Meir Shapiro

Yehuda Meir Shapiro (Polish: Majer Jehuda Szapira; March 3, 1887 – October 27, 1933), was a prominent Polish Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva, also known as the Lubliner Rav.

He is noted for his promotion of the Daf Yomi study program in 1923, and establishing the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in 1930.

During the years 1922 to 1927 Shapiro was the first Orthodox Jew to become a member in the Sejm (Parliament) of the Second Polish Republic representing the Jewish minority of the country.

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