Moses Rosen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Moses Rosen

Romanian rabbi

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1912

Place of Birth: Moinești, Bacău County, Romania

Date of Death: 06-May-1994

Profession: rabbi

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Moses Rosen (known in Hebrew as David Moshe Rosen, ??? ??? ????) (July 23, 1912 – May 6, 1994) was Chief Rabbi (Rav Kolel) of Romanian Jewry between 1948–1994 and president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania between 1964–1994.
He led the community in his country through the entire Communist era in Romania and continued in that role after the restoration of the democracy by the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Since 1957, he was deputy in the Romanian parliament (the Great National Assembly) during the Communist regime, and after 1989 in the democratic parliament.
In the 1980s he was allowed by the Romanian authorities to get also the Israeli nationality and was elected as president of the Council of the Jewish Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv.