biography
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Jakobovits, Immanuel, Lord
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| (1921–99)
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| biography:
| Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth (1967–91), born in Kaliningrad, W Russia (formerly Königsberg, East Prussia). When a teenager, his family moved to Berlin but then went to England to flee the Nazis. After attending a Jewish school he studied at London University and the Jews' College and began work as a rabbi in a London synagogue. At age 27 he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Ireland and later Rabbi of New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue, before returning to Britain in 1967. He devoted his life to issues concerning Jewish law and modern medical problems, and was author of the groundbreaking book Jewish Medical Ethics. He was the first Chief Rabbi to be knighted in office and the first to be given a peerage. In 1991 he received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. |
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