Dr. Schneur Zalman Bychovsky, 69, famous Polish Jewish neurologist and veteran of the Zionist movement in Russia and Poland, as well as Jewish representative on the Warsaw municipal council since 1923, is dead here.
Dr. Bychovsky was born in Koretz, province of Vollhyn in 1865. He was educated in Russian schools and received his medical diploma from the University of Warsaw. In his youth he joined the Choveve Zion, pioneer Zionist group, and was active in the Zionist movement all his life.
He visited Palestine at the beginning of the century and was a delegate to most of the World Zionist Congresses.
In his own field Dr. Bychovsky was the author of more than 100 books in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, German and French. He was the first Jew ever to have written on the subject of Zionism in the Polish press.
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