Rabbi Louis Isaac Rabinowitz was born in Scotland in 1907. His father, Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz, had emigrated from Eastern Europe to become a rabbi in Edinburgh, Scotland. Jacob Rabinowitz was the descendant of a long line of Lithuanian rabbis. I have written previously about his Haggadah, which was published in 1907. He later moved to … Continue reading Soldiers from Judaea, Rabbi L. Rabinowitz, London 1944.
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Seder Hagadah shel Pesach – Shivchei Yaakov, by Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz of Edinburgh, London 1906-7.
Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz was born in Gmina Kolno, Poland in 1869. He was the son of Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Rabinowitz of Lomza (today in north east Poland) and the grandson of Rabbi Mendel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of Kovno. He came to Britain in approximately 1898 and served as temporary rabbi of the Machzike Hadath Synagogue, Brick … Continue reading Seder Hagadah shel Pesach – Shivchei Yaakov, by Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz of Edinburgh, London 1906-7.
Sefer Shaarei HaMitzvos, by Rabbi Abraham Tzvi Weinstein, London 1953.
This is an interesting book by a slightly forgotten British Rabbi. Rabbi Abraham Zevi Weinstein was born in Azhore, near Grodno, in 1901. He studied in the Yeshivos (Rabbinical schools) of Grodno and Slobodka and was then the young Rabbi of Liskova, Lithuania, until he came to England in 1928 to be the Rabbi of … Continue reading Sefer Shaarei HaMitzvos, by Rabbi Abraham Tzvi Weinstein, London 1953.
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