Simon Federbusch

Simon Federbusch (February 15, 1892 – August 20, 1969) was a Galician-born Jew who served as a rabbi in Poland, Finland, and the United States.

[2] Ordained by prominent Polish rabbis before World War I, Federbusch received his rabbinical degree from the Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna in 1923.

As Chief Rabbi, he promoted interfaith understanding, helped defeat a bill that would have banned shechita, and secured Finnish entry visas for refugees from Nazi Germany.

[3] Starting in 1918, Federbusch contributed to the Yiddish, Hebrew, and Polish Jewish press, writing articles in newspapers like Ha-Tsfira and Haynt.

Two of his works, the 1954 Mishpat Hamelukha Beyisrael and the Benetivot Hatalmud in 1958, won him the Lamed Prize.