- Noach Pryłucki
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Noach (Nojach) Pryłucki (born October 1 1882 in Berdichev, died in 1944 in Vilnius) was a Jewish Polish politician from the Folkspartei.
In the years 1910-1936 he was the editor of the Folkist newspaper Warszawer Togblat (The Warsaw Daily), later renamed as Der Moment. In 1916 he was the founder and then became the leader of the Jewish People's Party in Poland (Folkspartei), and was elected the same year at the municipal elections (under German occupation), where the Folkspartei gained 4 seats in Warsaw. In 1918 he became a member of the Provisional Council of State of the Kingdom of Poland.
Elected as a member of the Legislative Sejm in 1919, he had to resign his seat because he wasn't a Polish citizen. In the years 1922-1927 he was reelected to the Sejm on the Bloc of National Minorities list. He died in the Vilnius ghetto.
Categories:- 1882 births
- 1944 deaths
- Polish Jews
- Jewish politicians
- Second Polish Republic
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