YOYSEF
DAVIDZON (JÓZEF DAWIDSOHN) (September
28, 1880-1947?)
He was born in Warsaw and studied
medicine in Berlin and Würzburg. He took
a prominent position as a Zionist leader and member of the Polish Senate
(1919-1922). He was the publisher of and
contributor to such Polish Jewish newspapers as: Nasz Kurier (Our courier), Nasz Przegląd (Our review), and Przegląd codziennej (Daily overview), among others. He also wrote a great deal in Yiddish on
Zionist and general topics for the daily Yiddish newspapers in Poland. In 1934 he departed for Israel where he assumed
an important place in community life there.
He was also the author of Gminy Zydowskie (Jewish community) (Warsaw,
1931), 110 pp.
Sources: R.
Feldshuh, Yidisher
gezelshaftlekher leksikon (Jewish community
handbook) (Warsaw, 1939), p. 734; Entsiklopediya shel galuyot (Encyclopedia of the Diaspora) (Tel Aviv, 1953), pp. 512-13;
Berl Kuczer, Geven amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris,
1955), see index.
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