Eli Cashdan

Rabbi Eli Casdan MA
Position	senior lecturer
Organisation	Jews' College
Personal details
Birth name	Eli "Yiddle" Cashdan
Born	1 June 1905 Starye Dorogi, Minsk, Belarus
Died	14 November 1998 Hendon, London
Nationality	United Kingdom
Denomination	Orthodox
Spouse	Minnie Cohen
Alma mater	Liverpool Yeshiva, Liverpool, London University

Eli Cashdan (in Hebrew יהודה (בר יוסף דב) כשד"ן, in Yiddish יודל כשדן or Yiddle) 1 June 1905 – 14 November 1998) was a rabbi in the UK. He was a chaplain in the Royal Air Force during World War II, a senior lecturer at Jews' College and wrote a number of important books of Jewish interest.

Cashdan was born in Starye Dorogi, Minsk, (then Russia and now) Belarus, the fifth child of Joseph and Bessie Cashdan. He came to Liverpool, UK in 1905, when 3 months old, with his mother and four siblings. (His father, Rabbi Joseph Cashdan, had come to the UK at an earlier date and worked in Liverpool as a rabbi and shohet).

Eli, after attending school (at one of the first Jewish day schools in the UK, run by Dr S. Fox), went on to study at Liverpool Yeshiva (Liverpool Talmudical College; Yeshiva Torat Chaim) where he gained semikha from Rabbi Mordechai Yaacov Krasner at the very young age of 17. Cashdan studied law at London University and also attended Jews' College where in 1927 he obtained a first class honours degree in Semitics. He continued his law studies and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1933. Cashdan also received an M.A. degree in Semitics from London University.

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