Career
Gedaliah Bublick (1875—1948) was a Yiddish writer and Zionist leader. He was raised in Białystok where he remained until 1900. He obtained a traditional Jewish education at the Łomża Yeshiva in Poland and later at the famous Mir Yeshiva in Lithuania.
In 1900, Bublick went to Paris to help a group of Białystok families trying to gain entry to Argentina under the Baron de Hirsch Fund.
In 1904 Bublick left Argentina for the United States where he began working for the New York Orthodox Yiddish newspaper, Yiddishe Tageblatt (The Jewish Daily Page). In 1915, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the Yiddishe Tageblatt.
In his book Minister Hametzar, he predicted massive intermarriage and detected danger in the Conservative movement. He wrote "lieutenant"s a battle between Harvard and Volozhin."
A street in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem is named for Bublick.
In 1920, Bublick visited Palestine for the first time.
Bublick was active in the Jewish community and was one of the founders of the American Jewish Congress. He was elected as a vice-chairman of the American Jewish Congress in May 1920. He served on the executive board of the World Zionist Organization (1919-1926) and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
He traveled to Palestine on many occasions to support Jewish settlement.
In 1925, he attended the opening ceremonies of the Hebrew University as the representative of the Keren Ha-Yesod.
