Zemach Shabad

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| name = Zemach Shabad

| image = Cemachas Šabadas.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1864|02|05|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Vilnius

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|01|20|1864|02|05|df=yes}}

| death_place = Vilnius

| nationality =

| occupation = Physician

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| education = Imperial Moscow University

| spouse = [https://www.geni.com/people/Stefania-Shabad/6000000040292758603 Stefania Grodzensky] (murdered 1943 during Holocaust)

|children = 3

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Zemach Shabad ({{langx|he|צמח שאבאד}}, {{langx|pl|Cemach Szabad}}, {{langx|ru|Цемах Шабад}}, Tsemakh Shabad; 5 February 1864, Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Vilnius, Lithuania) — 20 January 1935, Vilnius) was a Jewish medical doctor and social and political activist.{{cite web |url=http://www.jjew.ru/index.php/images/%3C/index.php?cnt=11726 |title=Zemach Shabad, a Jewish Doctor Aybolit | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218144247/http://www.jjew.ru/index.php/images/%3C/index.php?cnt=11726 |archive-date=18 December 2013| publisher=jjew.ru |language=ru}} He was a member of the Senate (parliament) of the Second Polish Republic (1928) and a co-founder and vice-president of the YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research).

In 1932, Shabad toured to Palestine with Dr. Abel Lapin from Kaunas. During his trip, Shabad hosted by the Health Committee of the Knesset and the Jerusalem Medical Association.[http://www.jjew.ru/index.php/images/%3C/index.php?cnt=11726 Цемах Шабад, еврейский доктор Айболит] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802113446/http://www.jjew.ru/index.php/images/%3C/index.php?cnt=11726 |date=2009-08-02 }}

He was one of the originators of the volkist movement, which eventually turned into the Folkspartei (Jewish People's Party).{{Citation

| title = Szabad, Tsemaḥ

| url = http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Szabad_Tsemah

| year = 2010

| author = Zalkin, Mordechai

| journal = YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe|access-date=30 December 2013}}

In the late 1930s a monument on the outskirts of Vilnius was erected in Shabad's honor;see a photo [https://www.miestai.net/forumas/forum/bendrosios-diskusijos/miestai-ir-architekt%C5%ABra/miest%C5%B3-architekt%C5%ABros-raida/636-vln-vilnius-1919-1939-lenkijos-laik%C5%B3-nuotraukos/page16 here] it was destroyed during WWII. In 2007 he was honoured with another monument in Vilnius, reflecting the fact that he was the prototype of "Doctor Aybolit", a good doctor from a children's poem by Korney Chukovsky.