Ephraim Urbach, 1912-1991
Urbach was a religion scholar and rabbi whose seminal work, The Sages, focused on the evolution of Jewish religious and social thought. A native of Poland, Urbach studied in Rome and Breslau before immigrating to…
Menachem Ussishkin, 1863-1941
Born in Belarus, Ussishkin was a Labor Zionist leader who rejected the Uganda Plan and any other suggestions for a Jewish home outside the Land of Israel. He was a founder of BILU and the…
