Muneles, Otto (1894 - 1967)

Born 1894 in Prague. Died 1967 in Prague. Important Hebrew scholar and historian. At the beginning of WWI travelled together with his friend Jiří Mordechai Langer (author of Nine Gates) to Galicia, stayed in a Hasidic community in Belz and spent several years in Rzeczic, where he studied halakha and hasidic liturature. Received rabbinic ordination. In 1922 returned to Prague, was active in Chevra kadisha. During WWII worked for the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. Deportated to Terezín in July 1943, worked in the library, cataloged Hebrew books that had been confiscated from libraries by the Nazis. After WWII worked at the Jewish Museum in Prague, where he documented books and archival holdings.