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Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas (born April 7, 1883 in Biała Podlaska, died on March 7, 1953 in Tel Aviv) – a Zionist activist and one of the main political leaders of Polish Jews during the interwar period, a lawyer, a publicist, and a Sejm deputy from 1919 to 1930. ==Biography== Maksymilian Apolinary Hartglas was born into a lawyer family from Podlasie. Between 1892 and 1900 he attended a secondary school in Biała Podlaska. Subsequently he earned a law degree from Warsaw University in 1904.〔Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert, Małgorzata Smogorzewska, ed. "Posłowie i senatorowie Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1919-1939. Słownik biograficzny, tom II: E-J" (''Delegates and senators of the Second Polish Republic 1919-1939, Biographical Dictionary, Vol II: E-J''), Warszawa 2000〕 Between 1907 and 1919 he practiced law in Siedlce with an additional office in Warsaw.〔Jolanta Zyndul, "The Legal Practice of Apolinary Hartglas", Justice, The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, No. 30, Winter 2002, pg. 45 ()〕 While at the university he became involved with the Zionist movement and in 1906 he participated in a Zionist Helsingfors conference in Helsinki.〔 After the Nazi invasion of Poland and German occupation he was made a member of the Warsaw Judenrat.〔Yisrael Gutman, Ina R. Friedman, ''The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943'', Indiana University Press, 1989, pg. 17. ()〕 In December 1939, he managed to escape to Trieste, Italy and immigrated to Palestine. He settled in Jerusalem. After the establishment of the State of Israel he served as a high ranking administrator in the Ministry of the Interior.〔Yad Vashem, "Pinkas Hakehillot:“Biala Podlaska” - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Volume VII", pgs. 84-89. ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apolinary Hartglas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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