דב בר מייזלש

Dow Ber Meisels was a Chief Rabbi of Kraków (Cracow) from 1832 and later, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw. He was active in the Polish nationalist movement, and was a politician in the Austrian partition of Poland and (later) in the Russian partition. A vocal supporter of Polish-Jewish cooperation, he supported the cause of Polish independence, for which he was persecuted by the Russian government.