Rabbi Dob Berush Meisels, Polish patriot who was one of the twelve senators in the Cracow revolutionary government of 1846 and a leader in the Polish insurrection of 1861 against Russia, was recalled today in a message sent by President Wladyslaw Sikorski to the Association of Polish Rabbis in Britain. The message expressed the hope that the “rabbis will continue the tradition originated by Rabbi Meisels in the common fight for the liberation of Poland.”
President Sikorski’s wire was in reply to a message sent last week by the Association pledging its loyalty to the cause of a free Poland.
An interpellation regarding the fate of the Jewish Socialist leaders, Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich, who are imprisoned in Soviet Russia despite their being Polish citizens, was made today in the Polish National Council by Samuel Zygelbaum, one of the two Jewish members of the body. The interpellation asks the Polish Government whether it is prepared to use all means at its disposal to secure the release of the two Polish-Jewish Socialists.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
