Meir Shimon Geshuri was the first editor of the 1971 Ostrowiec Yizkor Book .

Meir Shimon Geshuri (Bruckner), was born on April 19, 1897, in Myslowice, Upper Silesia (now part of Poland). He received a traditional education in his hometown and in the Brisk Yeshiva. He then attended high school in Berlin and studied music at the Music Conservatory in that city. He also studied at the Academy of Arts in Dresden and the Vienna Technion.

Geshuri immigrated to Israel in 1920. He first worked as a road laborer and later as a printer. He was one of the founders of Hapoel Hamizrahi was active there for many years. For years he served as secretary of the Department of Commerce and Industry of the Jewish Agency and in his last years he headed the Israeli Institute of Religious Music.

He published publicistic articles on the subject of "Hapoel Hamizrachi" from 1911, as well as articles and studies on religious music, a subject he had shown a penchant for since his youth. He published the books: "From Paving the Road to Building the Workers' House" (1917), "Renanim" (articles on Hebrew music. 1931), "A Hymn for the Chassidics" (with notes, pictures, etc. 1936), "Sociology in Israel" (economic, political and social morality in Jewish literature. 1937), "Music and Chassidicism in the House of Kuzmir and Its Daughters" (1912), "Music and Dance in Chassidicism" (from the Revelation of the Baal Shem Tov to the Present. 1-3. 1946-1949). He edited the journals: the monthly "Hapoel Hamizrahi" (1874-1875), the biweekly: "Netiva" (1877-1880), "Hillel", an artistic and scientific monthly on matters of singing and music (with M. Zandberg. 1876), "Tzlili Hasidim" (a newsletter for the distribution of the best Hasidic music among the people. 1872) and edited the files "Israeli Institute for Religious Music".

In addition, he edited a book of remembrance for the city of Wolbrum ("Wollbrum Our City". 1872. In it he published a comprehensive monograph on the city) and also participated in several books of remembrance for Israeli communities in historical monographs.

He died in Tel Aviv on the 29th of Kislev 1878, December 9, 1977.

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