Simon Schreiber

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Simon Schreiber (born at Presburg, Hungary, 1821; died March 25, 1883, at Cracow) was an Austrian rabbi, son of Moses Schreiber.

In 1842 he became rabbi of Mattersdorf; in 1857 he declined a call from the congregation of Papa; and in 1860 he accepted a similar invitation to the city of Cracow. He became the foremost leader of the Orthodox Jews of Galicia in religious as well as in worldly matters.

His reputation was such that in 1879 he was elected a member of the Austrian Parliament.

In 1880 Schreiber founded the Hebrew weekly "Maḥaziḳe ha-Dat," published in Lemberg.

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• S. Schreiber, Ḥut ha-Meshullash, p. 66b;
• Friedberg, Luḥot Zikkaron, p. 37.

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This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.