Karpel Lippe


Karpel Lippe was a physician in the Romanian city of Iași and a lifelong Zionist. He participated in the First Zionist Congress as its president.

Biography

Karpel Lippe was a member of Hovevei Zion, a Zionist society with branches all over Europe. He joined the organization in 1882 and participated in the Katowice Conference in 1884. He held the presidency at the First Zionist Congress in Basel, where he delivered the opening speech. Lippe spent the last years of his life in Przemyśl from 1911 and in Vienna in 1914, where he died a year later.

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