Dr. S. Federbusch, of Lemberg, the leader of the Calician Mizrachi, and a former Deputy of the Polish Parliament, has been elected as Chief Rabbi of Helsingfors, the capital of Finland.
Dr. Federbusch, who is 41, comes of a family of Hassidim and Jewish scholars, and received his Rabbinical diploma in 1900, although he has been engaged mainly in political and journalistic activity. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Mizrachi world Organisation and of the Actions Committee of the Zionist World Organisation.
A hundred years ago there were no Jews in Findand, the Swedish Law forbidding Jews to settle in the country. In the reign of Nicholas I. a number of Jewish boys from the Pale of Settlement in Russia were carried off to Finland to be trained for the military, and they laid the foundations of the Jewish Community, which numbers about 1,553 souls. The social and political conditions of the Jews of Finland are good, and antisemitism is unknown in the country.
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