Shmuel Leib Medalia - Biography

Shmuel-Leib Yankelevich Medalia (born 1890, date of death unknown) was the chief rabbi of Moscow for a brief period in 1943. He was known among Chabad hasidim as Shmuel Leib Paritcher, for his birthplace of Paritch, Belarus, where he was born in 1890. He is an alumnus of the original Yeshiva of Tomchei Temimim in Lyubavichi, and later served as mashgiach (in various branches of the yeshiva.