Maccoby, Chaim Zundel
(1856/7–1916)
- Geoffrey Alderman
Extract
Maccoby, Chaim Zundel (1856/7–1916), Zionist and preacher, was born at Kamnitz near the town of Kobrin, Poland, the son of Simcho Maccoby and his wife, Betha Rachel. Little is known of his parents, except that they were poor, devoutly Orthodox Jews. Maccoby had a thoroughly religious education, studying Talmudic subjects first in ...