Tag: Rabbi Dr. S. M. Lehrman

Passover 1945 – Joint Emergency Committee for Jewish Education in Great Britain, London, 1945.

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. →

Jewish Customs and Folklore, by Rabbi Dr. S. M. Lehrman, London 1949.

Rabbi Simon M. Lehrman, as well as being a prolific author, was best known as the Rabbi of the New Synagogue in Egerton Road, Stamford Hill. He was an outstanding scholar, preacher and teacher who was born in Russia in 1900 and came to Britain in 1904. He studied at London's Etz Chaim Yeshiva, and … Continue reading Jewish Customs and Folklore, by Rabbi Dr. S. M. Lehrman, London 1949. →