Zalman Ben-Ya'akov
Zalman Ben-Ya'akov ( he, זלמן בן-יעקב, born 1897, died 2 March 1959) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and the Religious Torah Front between 1953 and 1959. Biography Born in Sieradz in the Russian Empire (today in Poland), Ben-Ya'akov was educated at a yeshiva. He was amongst the founders of the Polish branch of Agudat Yisrael, and also helped establish Poalei Agudat Yisrael. In 1935, he made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine, where he headed the Sinai Institution in Tel Aviv and the True Torah organisation in Haifa. One of the heads of Agudat Yisrael's education work, he became a chief inspector of the Ultra-Orthodox education stream. He was on the Agudat Yisrael list for the 1951 elections, but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 24 June 1953 as a replacement for the deceased Avraham Deutsch. He retained his seat in the 1955 elections, in which Agudat Yisrael ran as part of the Religious Torah Fro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sieradz
Sieradz ( la, Siradia, yi, שעראַדז, שערעדז, שעריץ, german: 1941-45 Schieratz) is a city on the Warta river in central Poland with 40,891 inhabitants (2021). It is the seat of the Sieradz County, situated in the Łódź Voivodeship. Historically it was the capital of one of the minor duchies in Greater Poland. It is one of the oldest cities in Poland. Sieradz was an important city of medieval Poland, thrice being a location for the election of the Polish monarchs. Polish Kings chaired six assemblies from here. History The oldest settlements can be roughly traced back to the 6th century. The oldest known mention of Sieradz comes from the ''Bull of Gniezno'' from 1136. In the mid 13th century it was conferred with municipal rights by Duke Casimir I of Kuyavia. It had also welcomed many settlers from Scotland and the Netherlands after the 13th century. During the fragmentation of Poland, initially it was part of the Seniorate Province, and then from 1231 it was t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Avraham Deutsch
Avraham Deutsch ( he, אברהם דויטש, born 1889, died 25 May 1953) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael between 1951 and 1953. Biography Born in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, Deutsch was educated in yeshivas, and was certified as a rabbi. He later studied at the University of Vienna, gaining a doctorate in pedagogy and philosophy. In 1920, he moved to Budapest and became director of the educational institutions of the local Orthodox community. In 1943, he represented Hungarian Jews at the Bermuda Conference, which aimed to decide what to do with Jews who had been liberated by Allied forces. He escaped from Nazi-controlled Hungary to Switzerland with the Kastner train. In 1950, he made aliyah to Israel, where he became chief supervisor of Agudat Yisrael's educational system and chairman of the party's education department. In 1951, he was elected to the Knesset on the party's list. He died whilst still an MK in 1953 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Religious Torah Front Politicians
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Israeli People Of Polish-Jewish Descent
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Polish Emigrants To Mandatory Palestine
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People From Kalisz Governorate
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People From Sieradz
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1959 Deaths
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive Islands, Maldive archipelago (Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) United Suvadive Republic, declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States reco ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross
Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross (, born 6 December 1908, died 7 July 2003) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael and the Religious Torah Front in several spells between 1959 and 1981. Biography Born in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, Gross was educated at a heder and yeshivas, and was a member of Young Agudat Yisrael in Translyvania, later becoming the secretary of the Transylvanian branch of Agudat Yisrael. During World War II he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp, and his wife and two children were killed in Auschwitz. After his camp was liberated by the Red Army, he and some friends established an absorption centre for Holocaust orphans and orphans of the Theresienstadt concentration camp expulsion. In 1950, he made aliyah to Israel, where he worked for the Central Bureau of Statistics. He was on the Religious Torah Front list (an alliance of Agudat Yisrael and Poalei Agudat Yisrael) for the 1955 elections, but failed to win a se ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1955 Israeli Legislative Election
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Seventh Fleet he ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |