Role Politician Name Moishe Zilberfarb | Political party Fareynikte Preceded by post created Died 1934, Warsaw, Poland | |
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Succeeded by Ze'ev-Wolf Latzky-Bartholdi Born 1876
Rivne, Volhynia Governorate, Russian Empire ( 1876 ) Occupation statesman, diplomat, writer Party United Jewish Socialist Workers Party | ||
Prime Minister Volodymyr Vynnychenko | ||
Moishe Zylberfarb (Ukrainian: Мо́йше Зи́льберфарб, Yiddish: משה זילבערפֿאַרב) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, public activist of Jewish descent. He was one of the authors of the Law of Ukraine about national-individual autonomy (1918) which later was canceled by the Communist regime.
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Zylberfarb was born in Rovno in 1876. In 1906 he became a founder of the group Vozrozhdenie and the Jewish Socialist Workers Party (SERP). From the very beginning he was a member of the Central Council of Ukraine (March 1917) as member of the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party. Zylberfarb was a member of Little Council. On July 27, 1917 he became a Jewish representative at the General Secretariat of Ukraine (regional government of the Russian Republic). During the October Revolution Zylberfarb became a member of the Regional Committee in Protection of Revolution in Ukraine. After the independence of Ukraine, Zylberfarb became a Minister of Jewish Affairs in Ukraine. During 1918 to 1920 he was a rector at the Jewish National University and the Society in support of development of Jewish Culture (Culture League) in Kiev. In 1921 Zylberfarb moved to Warsaw where he headed ORT. He died in Otwock in 1934, and was buried in Warsaw.