Leon Reich

[1] Reich received his law degree at the University of Lviv, after which he studied at the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris.

He was released with intervention from Józef Piłsudski, Naḥum Sokolow, and Western European Jewish leaders.

During the Paris Peace Conference, he was vice-president of the Comité des Délégations Juives and edited a book on the national rights of Eastern European Jews called Les droits nationaux des Juifs en Europe orientale (The National Rights of Jews in Western Europe) in 1919.

He wrote a memoir of that period in 1922 called Żydowska delegacja pokojowa w Paryżu (The Jewish Peace Delegation in Paris).

He was a frequent contributor to the Polish-language dailies Chwila and Nowy dziennik and the Galician Yiddish papers Der yid and Togblat.

He also founded a short-lived Zionist Polish-language daily in Warsaw called Dziennik Warzsawski in order to increase his influence throughout Poland.

[1] 35,000 Jews attended his funeral in Lviv, along with numerous delegations from all over Poland, the vice-governor of the province, and representatives from the Sejm.