Meir Shapiro
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Yehuda Meir Shapiro, (March 3, 1887 - October 27, 1933), a prominent Hasidic Rabbi and the creator of the Daf Yomi, a seven year cycle of the learning of a page of Talmud a day, in 1922.
Born in the city of Shatz, Romania, in 1914 he was appointed head of the Education Department of Agudas Yisrael in East Galicia, becoming president in 1922 of Agudas Yisrael in Poland. He was one of the first Orthodox Jewish members of the Polish parliament, the Sejm.
In 1930, he founded the Chachmei (Wise men) Lublin Yeshiva in Poland.