TY  - BOOK
AU  - Persoff,Meir
TI  - Hats in the ring: choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks 
T2  - Judaism and Jewish life
SN  - 161811199X
AV  - BM292 .P46 2013
U1  - 296.6/7 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - British Chief Rabbinate
KW  - Selection and appointment
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Rabbis
KW  - England
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Rabbins
KW  - Sélection et nomination
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-325) and index; Out of the ruins -- From the pulpit: I. Guardian of the law -- Between old and new -- From the pulpit. II: The ideal Jewish pastor -- Who pays the piper -- From the pulpit: III. Moderation in judgment -- No imaginary man -- Fateful days -- From the pulpit: IV. Out of the darkness -- A blank cheque -- When I return -- From the Pulpit: V. Prophet, priest and king -- Natural selection -- From the pulpit: VI. A decade of Jewish renewal
N2  - 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Persoff's scholarly yet accessible account of these seven appointments draws on a wealth of hitherto unaccessed and unpublished material, and on the stories of many of the protagonists involved, including in fascinating detail those who, by fair means and foul, failed to gain (or chose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
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