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Order of Service, London 1948

סדר תפלה - Only Edition

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  • Lot Number 54025
  • Title (English) Order of Service
  • Title (Hebrew) סדר תפלה
  • Note Only Edition
  • Author Office of the Chief Rabbi
  • City London
  • Publisher Office of the Chief Rabbi
  • Publication Date 1948
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500
  • Item # 2511960
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Physical Description
Only edition 31 p., octavo, 214:140 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound as issued.

           
Detailed Description   
Order of Service at the installation of Rabbi Israel Brodie as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth and Empire. New Synagogue... London... 28th June, 1948.
 
Chief Rabbi Sir Israel Brodie (d. 1979). R. Brodie was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth 1948–1965. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He served as a Rabbi in Australia, was evacuated from Dunkirk, and finished the War as Senior Jewish Chaplain. He became Chief Rabbi soon after the war at the age of 53 when he faced a difficult time due to the ending of the British Mandate in Palestine. He presided over the post-war expansion of the United Synagogue. A dignified man of great presence, he was regarded as a mellifluous preacher. He had impeccable English connections and was a freemason, rising to the senior appointment of 'Grand Chaplain' in the United Grand Lodge of England.

Through the Conference of European Rabbis, which he founded and led, Brodie took a significant part in rebuilding the religious life of European Jewry after the Holocaust. Brodie undertook a number of pastoral tours throughout the Commonwealth, and strengthened the community in a quiet but significant manner, although the closing years of his tenure were overshadowed by religious dispute. Brodie banned Dr Louis Jacobs, who questioned the orthodox notion that the Bible had been written by the hand of God, from becoming principal of Jews' College. On his retirement, he was knighted for services to British Jewry.

 
Hebrew Description  

ליום אשר בו יושיבו את... הרב רבי ישראל ב"ר אוריא [ברודי על כסא רבנות מלכות בריטאניא ומדינותיה, יום ב כא סיון שנת אשרי תבחר ו’ת’ק’ר’ב’ [תש"ח]...

 

References
www.Wikipedia.com: www.Kevarim.com; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000200573