Zemach Shabad (February 5, 1864, Vilnius

Vilnius

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, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (now Lithuania

Lithuania

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) — January 20, 1935, Vilnius) was a Jewish doctor and social and political activist. He was a member of the Senate (parliament) of the Second Polish Republic

Second Polish Republic

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 (1928) and a co-founder and vice-president of the YIVO

YIVO

YIVO, , established in 1925 in Wilno, Poland as the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut , or Yiddish Scientific Institute, is a source for orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to the Yiddish language...

 (Institute for Jewish Research).

He was one of the originators of the volkist movement, which eventually turned into the Folkspartei

Folkspartei

The Folkspartei was founded after the 1905 pogroms in the Russian Empire by Simon Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin. The party took part to several elections in Poland and Lithuania in the 1920s and 1930s and did not survive the Shoah.-Ideology:...

 (Jewish People's Party).

In 2007, Zemach Shabad was honored with a monument in Vilnius, reflecting the fact that he was the prototype of Doctor Aybolit

Doctor Aybolit

Doctor Aybolit is a fictional character from the children's poems Aybolit and Barmaley by Korney Chukovsky. The name may be translated as "Ouch, [it] hurts!"The origins of Aybolit can be traced to Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting...

, a good doctor from a poem for children by Korney Chukovsky

Korney Chukovsky

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His poems, Doctor Aybolit , The Giant Roach , The Crocodile , and Wash'em'clean have been favourites with many generations of Russophone children...

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Family

• Regina Weinreich, daughter
• Max Weinreich
  Max Weinreich
  Max Weinreich was a linguist, specializing in the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.- Biography :Max Weinreich began his studies in a German school in Kuldiga,...
  
  , husband of Regina
  • Uriel Weinreich
    Uriel Weinreich
    Uriel Weinreich was a linguist at Columbia University. Born in Vilnius , he earned his Ph.D. from Columbia, and went on to teach there, specializing in Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics, and dialectology...
    
    , grandson, an American linguist
  • Gabriel Weinreich http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ASAJ..114.2382H, grandson, expert in musical acoustics