Meir Bar-Ilan

Rabbi, Author

1880 – 1949

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Who was Meir Bar-Ilan?

Meir Berlin, later Hebraized to Meir Bar-Ilan, was an Orthodox rabbi and leader of Religious Zionism, the Mizrachi movement in USA and British Mandate of Palestine. He inspired the founding of Bar Ilan University in Israel which is named for him. Bar-Ilan's connection to the House of David as a descendant of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, the Maharam of Padua, is detailed in The Unbroken Chain.

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Born
1880
Valozhyn
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Profession
Education
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
Died
1949

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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