Hats in the Ring: Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks (Judaism and Jewish Life)
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Hats in the Ring: Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks (Judaism and Jewish Life)
Hats in the Ring: Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks (Judaism and Jewish Life)

Hats in the Ring: Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks (Judaism and Jewish Life)

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Meir Persoff (Author)  

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Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry's highest ecclesiastical post. In the end, only six were installed to see out their terms of office. The manner of these appointments was invariably colored by intrigue, in-fighting, and a host of other competing influences. Not the least was an increasingly potent input by the dayanim of the London Beth Din, themselves not immune to strategic self-interest. Persoff's scholarly yet accessible account of these seven appointments draws on a profusion of hitherto unavailable and unpublished material, and on the personal stories of many of the protagonists involved. Including, in fascinating detail, those who by means fair and foul, failed to gain (or chose to reject) the coveted prize.
Now a freelance writer and editor, Meir Persoff edited the London Jewish Chronicle's news, features, arts, Judaism, letters and obituaries sections during a distinguished 40-year career on the paper. He has written extensively on Jewish topics - notably Jewish art and Judaica - and served on the Jewish Book Council and as president of the Israel-Judaica Philatelic Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he holds a London University MA (with distinction) in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, having specialised in modern Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, and earned his PhD from Middlesex University, London, for his research into the British Chief Rabbinate's relationship with the non-Orthodox movements. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Commission Area in 2001.
  • Contributor: Meir Persoff
  • Imprint: Academic Studies Press
  • ISBN13: 9781618112699
  • Number of Pages: 340
  • Packaged Dimensions: 155x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 456
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Release Date: 2013-08-30
  • Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Now a freelance writer and editor, Meir Persoff edited the London Jewish Chronicle's news, features, arts, Judaism, letters and obituaries sections during a distinguished 40-year career on the paper. He has written extensively on Jewish topics - notably Jewish art and Judaica - and served on the Jewish Book Council and as president of the Israel-Judaica Philatelic Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he holds a London University MA (with distinction) in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, having specialised in modern Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, and earned his PhD from Middlesex University, London, for his research into the British Chief Rabbinate's relationship with the non-Orthodox movements. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Commission Area in 2001.

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