This short talk was given by Rabbi Dr. Eliahu Munk of Golders Green, London (not to be confused with his cousin Rabbi Elie Munk of Paris) at the Golders Green Beth Hamedrash in London, on the last day of Pesach 5719 (1959).
Rabbi Munk’s father, Ezra (1867–1940) was a Rabbi in Germany, who had studied at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary under his uncle Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer and at the Universities of Berlin and Koenigsberg. In 1900 he succeeded Rabbi Hildesheimer as Rabbi of the Adath Yisroel congregation in Berlin. He left Germany for Jerusalem in 1938, where he died in 1940. His son Rabbi Eli Munk was born in 1899 in Koenigsberg, Germany and brought up in Berlin where he had several rabbinical posts.
After receiving Semicha (his rabbinical diploma), as well as a PhD in English Literature from the University of Marburg for a thesis on the religious poetry of William Wordsworth, Rabbi Eli Munk came to Britain in 1930. He was the founder and longtime Rabbi of the German Orthodox Jewish community in Golders Green, London.
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