title: Mikhail Isaakovich Sheftel
text: # Mikhail Isaakovich Sheftel
  
  Mikhail Isaakovich Sheftel (1862–1919) was a Russian Jewish lawyer, member of the First Duma of the Russian Empire in 1906. He figured among the leaders of the OPE, the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * ↑ Frumkin, Jacob G.; Gregor Aronson; Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich Golʹdenveĭzer (1966). Russian Jewry: 1860-1917. New York City: T. Yoseloff. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  * ↑ Brian Horowitz, "Victory from defeat: 1905 and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia", in: Stefani Hoffman, Ezra Mendelsohn, ed. (2008). The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-8122-4064-1. Retrieved 2009-11-07., pp. 79-95
  