A photograph from the funeral of Dr. Tzemach Shabad in Vilna. January 1935.
Dr. Tzemach Shabad [1864-1935] edited a Yiddish press, a Lithuanian Jewish physician and politician, between the two world wars. Shabad, a native of the Jewish ghetto in Vilnius (Vilna), was a prominent member of various movements, including the Marbey Haskalah Society, the SR, and the "Jewish Democratic Group". After a while he returned to Vilnius, and spread the ideas of the revolutionary movement in the city. At the end of the First World War, he joined and founded many aid committees for Jewish refugees and the needy. Founded and managed many public institutions, and was a renowned pediatrician. In 1911, the idea of establishing a historical ethnographic Jewish society in Lithuania arose, a vision he fulfilled himself. Shabad has established, edited and published for many years a bi-weekly in Yiddish, called "Falks-Health", for public health, and has contributed greatly to the promotion of health, hygiene and modern medicine in the Vilna community. As part of his public and Zionist activities, Dr. Shabad visited a group of Lithuanian doctors in Israel in 1932. Shabad treated Jewish and Christian children without distinction and was highly esteemed in Vilnius, where a monument was erected in his memory in 2007 in which he converses with a girl.
His life's work and the honorable funeral attended by hundreds of thousands were extensively reviewed in the Hebrew press of the period.
Size: 20x14 cm. Very good condition.
