Mordehai Dubin

Mordehai Dubin (Latvian: Mordehajs Dubins;January 1 1889, Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire — 1956, Tula, USSR) was a major Jewish spiritual and political leader in Latvia. He served as a Member of Parliament (Saeima) for the Agudat Israel party.^[1][2] He headed the Jewish community in Latvia until 1940, when it was annexed by the USSR.

Due to his efforts the imprisonment of the famous "Lubavitcher" rebbe Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn in the USSR in 1927 was commuted to exile in Latvia.

Dubin was a personal friend of Kārlis Ulmanis, the nationalist authoritarian dictator of Latvia from 1934 to 1940.^[3]

Dubin was deported from Latvia by the Soviet authorities in 1941. After World War II, he lived under arrest and exile in Siberia, first in Samara, and later in Tula, where died and is buried.

References

1. ^ http://www.saeima.lv/Informacija/likumdeveju_vesture.html
2. ^ http://jew.spb.ru/ami/A242/A242-082.htm
3. ^ Ebreji un diktatūras Baltijā 1926 - 1940, Aivars Stranga, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaiks studiju centrs, Rīga, 2002., 200. lpp.

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Name	Dubin, Mordehai
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Date of birth	January 1, 1889
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Date of death	1956
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