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Jewish Public Assembly

Jewish Public Assembly (Ebreju saviesīgā biedrība).

The society's charter from 1923 states that the purpose of the society is to organise enjoyable activities for its members and their families and to promote their spiritual and physical development.

The society was active in Riga and Jurmala. In Riga, the society held its meetings at 6 Skolas Street.

The society organised evenings of classical and Jewish music, as well as thematic lectures, for example, on Jewish literature and poetry, on the connection between biblical stories and world literature, and on contemporary trends in philosophy.

Over the years, the board members and active members included Mordechai Zilpert, Paul Isurim, Herman Itsigson, Rudolf Klemptner, Jacob Landau, Hirsch Levin, Alexander Livshin, Benno Meer, Naum Mintz, Abram Rabinovich, Grigory Rubinshtein, Louis Tal, Solomon Epstein, Adolf Volozhinsky, Herman Itsigson, Hirsch Levin, Benno Meer, I. Teitelbaum, lawyer Zhanno Tron, lawyer Yakov Elyashev, Grigory Genkin, Samuel Gurovich, Itzak Zinger, Herman Itsigson, Lev Nimtsovich, engineer Michel Prager, Leizer Birman, assistant lawyer Itzak Zinger, Samuel Yoffe, Robert Hoff, Yakov Prager, Moses Taubin, Nikolai Maimin, Yakov Edeikin, Phillip Blumstein, Felix Gluck, Isaac Shen, Tuvia Shalit, Emanuel Vogelson, Benzion Katsnelenbaum, Aron Nisse, engineer Moses Kalgut, Hirsch Zusman.

Archival source: LSHA, Fund 1536, inventory 11, file 235, p. 1587; Fund 3724, inventory 2, file 8008.