Currently, when children flee from bombing in wartime, they are called refugees. In Great Britain, at the start of the Second World War, they were called evacuees. Between 1939 and 1945, there was a great effort by the Anglo-Jewish establishment to provide Jewish religious education for both children evacuated from big cities, and also refugee … Continue reading Passover 1945 – Joint Emergency Committee for Jewish Education in Great Britain, London, 1945.
Tag: Kopul Rosen
Henry Shaw, Hillel Director, 1961 (Press Photograph)
Henry Shaw was born in Notting Hill in London in 1911. His younger brother was Rabbi Kopul Rosen. Their parents surname was Rozrazowsky, and Henry changed his last name to Shaw during the Second World War when he was an army officer. He was the United Synagogue's Social Welfare Youth Officer from 1946 to 1949, … Continue reading Henry Shaw, Hillel Director, 1961 (Press Photograph)
Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Musar Movement by Rabbi Kopul Rosen, London, 1945.
1945 was a big year for Rabbi Yaacov Kopul Rosen. He published this book, printed by the Narodiczky Press in Whitechapel. It was actually his Master of Arts dissertation from the University of Manchester. And, at the age of just 31 he became the Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues. Kopul ("Cyril") Rosen was … Continue reading Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Musar Movement by Rabbi Kopul Rosen, London, 1945.
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