Mordehai Dubin | |
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| Born | 1 January 1889 |
| Died | 1956 (aged 66–67) |
| Political party | Agudas Israel |
Mordehai Dubin (Latvian:Mordehajs Dubins; January 1, 1889,Riga,Governorate of Livonia,Russian Empire — 1956,Tula,USSR) was a majorJewish spiritual and political leader inLatvia. He served as aMember of Parliament (Saeima) for theAgudas Israel party.[1][2] He headed the Jewish community in Latvia until 1940, when it wasannexed by the USSR.
Due to his efforts, the imprisonment of the famous "Lubavitcher"RebbeYosef Yitzchok Schneersohn in theUSSR in 1927 was commuted to exile in Latvia.
Dubin was a personal friend ofKārlis Ulmanis, the nationalist authoritarian dictator of Latvia from 1934 to 1940.[3]
Dubin was deported from Latvia by the Soviet authorities in 1940 and released in 1942. AfterWorld War II he returned to Riga where the local press attacked him violently, of course under orders from above. He was arrested again and deported in 1948. He lived under arrest and exile inSiberia, first inSamara, and later inTula, where he died in 1956 in a labor camp and is buried.
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