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  - 9781618111777
AV  - BM292 .P46 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Rabbis
KW  - Selection and appointment
KW  - England
KW  - HISTORY / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
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Persoff’s scholarly yet accessible account of these seven appointments draws on a wealth of hitherto unaccessed and unpublished material, and on the stories of many of the protagonists involved, including in fascinating detail those who, by fair means and foul, failed to gain (or chose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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618111999
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618111999
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781618111999/original
ER  -