YUDE-LEYB KOVALSKI (1862-May 19, 1925)
He was born
in Povonzek (Powązki), a suburb of Warsaw. He was the father of Khane Kovalski and a
rabbi in Grabove (Grajewo), Khorzhel (Chorzele),
and from 1899 Vlotslavek (Włocławek). He was a
cofounder of Mizrachi in Poland and for a long period of time its
chairman. He was a senator in the Polish
Sejm. He contributed topical and religious-philosophical
articles to Haynt (Today), Moment (Moment), and to Hebrew-language
periodicals. He left in manuscript a volume
of speeches in Yiddish on ethnic religious topics and a book of aphorisms in
Hebrew and Yiddish. He died in Włocławek,
Poland.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Yitsḥak
Gur-Arye, Yehuda-leib kovalski
(Yude-Leyb Kovalski) (Jerusalem, 1927); a series of articles about Kovalski, in
Vlotslavek shtime (Włocławek)
(1935); Vlotslavek un svive, yizker-bukh
(Włocławek and
environs, memorial volume) (Tel Aviv, 1967).
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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