Dr. Nissan Katzenelson was a Russian Jewish activist, member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire

State Duma of the Russian Empire

The State Duma of the Russian Empire was a legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire, which met in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It was convened four times between 1906 and the collapse of the Empire in 1917.-History:...

 in 1906-1907.

This Libau

Liepaja

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 banker, son of Yosef Katzenelson and Feye Breyne Katzenelson, took part in the Third Zionist congress at Basle, and was subsequently elected to the Directorate of the Jewish Colonial Trust. A close friend of Dr. Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl , born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl was an Ashkenazi Jew Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.-Early life:...

, he was invited to accompany him to Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 in 1903. After signing the Vyborg Manifesto

Vyborg Manifesto

The Vyborg Appeal was a declaration issued by Kadets and Trudoviks politicians, former deputies of the disbanded Russian First State Duma on July 9, 1906....

, he spent three months in prison and was forbidden to stand again for election.

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