Tag: Wolf Gottlieb

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. →

MiYemei Kedem (From Days of Old), Stories and Sayings from Talmud and Midrash by Rabbi Wolf Gottlieb, London 1948.

Rabbi Wolf Gottlieb, who was the Rabbi of Queens Park Synagogue, Glasgow, Scotland and later Head of the Beth Din (Rabbinical Court) of Glasgow was the author of this very fine and useful textbook, written in 1948, when Jewish education in the United Kingdom was being reorganized after the Second World War. Details about him … Continue reading MiYemei Kedem (From Days of Old), Stories and Sayings from Talmud and Midrash by Rabbi Wolf Gottlieb, London 1948. →