sentences:  Meir Balaban
  
  Meir Balaban or Majer Samuel Bałaban (, 18 Adar [5]637, Lviv – 26 December 1942, Tevet [5]702, Warsaw Ghetto) was one of the most outstanding historians of Polish and Galician Jews, and the founder of Polish Jewish historiography.Balaban was born in 1877 in the city of Lviv (then known as Lemberg in Austria-Hungary's centre of East Galicia).