Mojsije Margel

In memoriam

Mojsije Margel was rabbi of Zagreb, lexicographer, and Hebrew scholar. As a rabbi Margel was first active in the Slovak town of Ružomberok. In 1903 he took over the service as a rabbi and Jewish religious teacher in the Croatian town of Požega. In 1908 he became a member of the Jewish Rabbis committee. During World War I Margel took over the pastoral care of Military Rabbinate in Zagreb and Italy. In 1919 Margel was appointed as a director of the Zagreb Jewish elementary school. From 1927 until 1937, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Margel was rabbi of the Jewish community in Zagreb. Due to s health problems Margel retired in 1937 as a community rabbi. His brother Juda Margel, was the rabbi of the Nova Gradiška Jewish Community. Margel died on 30 April 1939 in Zagreb.

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