page_title: Meir Balaban
hierarchical_section_title: Meir Balaban
caption_attribution_description: English: Meir (Majer Balaban), Jewish historian from Poland (1877 - 1942). Wrote books on the history of Jews in south eastern Poland (Jews of Cracow &amp; Lublin) and western Ukraine (Jews of Lviv &amp; Zhovkva). Was born and lived in Lviv (western Ukraine). Worked at the Institute of Jewish History in Warsaw. Died in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw in 1942. Українська: Меїр Балабан, єврейський історик зі Львова. Загинув у Варшавському Гетто у 1942 році. Написав працю з Історії Євреїв Львова.
context_page_description: Meir Balaban or Majer Samuel Bałaban was one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography.
context_section_description: Meir Balaban or Majer Samuel Bałaban (3 March [O.S. 20 February] 1877, 18 Adar [5]637, Lviv – 26 December 1942, Tevet [5]702, Warsaw Ghetto) was one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography.
caption: Meir Balaban, Jewish historian (1877–1942)
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