Polish Jews Mourn Late Rabbi Meir Don Plotzki; Large Crowds at Funeral

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Large crowds attended the funeral of Rabbi Meir Don Plotzki, one of the outstanding Talmudic scholars in Eastern Europe and vice-president of the Union of Polish Rabbis, who died here yesterday.

The eulogy at the grave of the late rabbi was delivered by Rabbi M. Schapiro of Lublin, former member of the Polish parliament. The rabbi’s widow was given a life pension by the Jewish community of Ostrowiec.

Orthodox rabbis in the U. S. and Canada were urged to arrange for memorial meetings in the synagogues to the memory of the late Rabbi Plotzki, in a statement issued by Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, chairman of the executive committee of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis.

In his statement Rabbi Rosenberg paid tribute to the late scholar. “Jewry throughout the world suffered an irreparable loss in the death of Rabbi Plotzki, who was one of the great minds in the exegesis of the Torah.”