Hats in the Ring : Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks /
Persoff, Meir
Hats in the Ring : Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks / Meir Persoff. - 1 online resource (340 p.) - Judaism and Jewish Life .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One: Out of the Ruins -- Chapter Two: Between Old and New -- Chapter Three: Who Pays the Piper -- Chapter Four: No Imaginary Man -- Chapter Five: Fateful Days -- Chapter Six: A Blank Cheque -- Chapter Seven: ‘When I Return …’ -- Chapter Eight: Natural Selection -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry’s highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably coloured by intrigue, in-fighting and a host of other influences, not least an increasingly potent input by the dayanim of the London Beth Din, themselves not immune to strategic self-interest. Meir Persoff’s scholarly yet accessible account of these seven appointments draws on a wealth of hitherto unaccessed and unpublished material, and on the stories of many of the protagonists involved, including in fascinating detail those who, by fair means and foul, failed to gain (or chose to reject) the coveted prize.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781618111777 9781618111999
10.1515/9781618111999 doi
2013000178
Rabbis--Selection and appointment--England.
HISTORY / Jewish.
BM292 / .P46 2013
Hats in the Ring : Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks / Meir Persoff. - 1 online resource (340 p.) - Judaism and Jewish Life .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One: Out of the Ruins -- Chapter Two: Between Old and New -- Chapter Three: Who Pays the Piper -- Chapter Four: No Imaginary Man -- Chapter Five: Fateful Days -- Chapter Six: A Blank Cheque -- Chapter Seven: ‘When I Return …’ -- Chapter Eight: Natural Selection -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry’s highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably coloured by intrigue, in-fighting and a host of other influences, not least an increasingly potent input by the dayanim of the London Beth Din, themselves not immune to strategic self-interest. Meir Persoff’s scholarly yet accessible account of these seven appointments draws on a wealth of hitherto unaccessed and unpublished material, and on the stories of many of the protagonists involved, including in fascinating detail those who, by fair means and foul, failed to gain (or chose to reject) the coveted prize.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781618111777 9781618111999
10.1515/9781618111999 doi
2013000178
Rabbis--Selection and appointment--England.
HISTORY / Jewish.
BM292 / .P46 2013