Daniel Rufeisen

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Shmuel Oswald Rufeisen Daniel Rufeisen OCD, also Shmuel Oswald Rufeisen (born 1922 in Cracow, died in 1998 in Haifa) - Polish Catholic priest of Jewish origin, Carmelite, convert, missionary, translator.

During World War II, to avoid German detention for about a year he hid in a female convent. At that time, he decided to accept Catholicism. He helped to save hundreds of Jews in Mir in Belarus. At the end of the war he returned to Poland, where he entered the Carmelite Order and was preparing for the priesthood.

In the 1950s, after emigrating to Israel, he asked for Israeli citizenship. He argued his request for origin and cultural identity, which he always acknowledged. Some parts of Judaism recognized him as a Jew. The authorities refused to grant him citizenship because of his confession. After appealing to the Supreme Court, Rufeisen was completely unsuccessful.

He then applied for Israeli citizenship as non-Jewish. Six years later, he was granted citizenship. For the rest of his life, Rufeisen lived in the Carmelite monastery of Stella Maris on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Father Daniel described his wartime fate in an autobiography. Daniel Rufeisen is also the prototype of the title character of the novel by Ludmila Ulicka "Daniel Stein, translator" (Russian edition, 2007, ed.). Authoritative control (person):

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