Shenfeld Maks Lvovich (1861, Mitau, Courland Governorate – 1912, Riga), psychiatrist, public figure. Doctor of Medicine (1893). He received his medical education at the University of Dorpat. He worked as a resident physician at the Riga City Psychiatric Hospital and had an extensive practice. In 1897 he founded a clinic for the mentally ill, which soon became one of the leading such institutions in Russia. He took an active part in the affairs of the Riga Jewish community. He was one of the founders of a society to assist poor Jewish patients. He was a member of the central committee of the Union for the Attainment of Full Equality for the Jewish People in Russia, and took part in the Kovno conference of Jewish public figures (1909).

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