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- ISBN 9781618111777
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Prior to the latest chief rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry’s highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably coloured by intrigue, in-fighting and a host of other influences, not least an increasingly potent input by the dayanim of the London Beth Din, themselves not immune to strategic self-interest. Meir Persoff’s scholarly yet readable account of these seven appointments draws on a wealth of hitherto unaccessed and unpublished material, and on the stories of many of the protagonists involved, including those who, by fair means and foul, failed to gain (or chose to reject) the coveted prize.
Meir Persoff (PhD Middlesex University, London), now a freelance writer and editor, edited the London Jewish Chronicle's news, features, arts, Judaism, letters, and obituaries sections during a distinguished 40-year career at the paper. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Commission Area in 2001.
