Immanuel Jakobovits
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Rabbi The Right Honourable The Lord Jakobovits |
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| Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth | |
Jakobovits in 1969
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| Position | Chief Rabbi |
| Organisation | United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth |
| Began | 1966 |
| Ended | 1991 |
| Predecessor | Sir Israel Brodie |
| Successor | The Lord Sacks |
| Other | Chief Rabbi of Ireland |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Immanuel Jakobovits |
| Born |
8 February 1921 Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany |
| Died |
31 October 1999 (aged 78) St John's Wood, London, England |
| Buried | Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, State of Israel |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Parents | Rabbi Julius Jakobovits & Paula Wrescher |
| Spouse | Amélie Munk, daughter of Rabbi Elie Munk of Paris |
| Children | Hon. Julian Jakobovits, Rabbi Hon. Samuel Jakobovits, Hon. Esther Jakobovits, Hon. Jeanette Jakobovits, Hon. Aviva Jakobovits, Hon. Elisheva Jakobovits |
| Occupation | Chief Rabbi |
| Semicha | Etz Chaim Yeshiva (London) |
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (8 February 1921 – 31 October 1999) was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. Prior to this, he had served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and as rabbi of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in New York City. In addition to his official duties he was regarded as an authority in medical ethics from a Jewish standpoint. He was knighted in 1981 and became the first Chief Rabbi to enter the House of Lords in 1988 as Baron Jakobovits.
Jakobovits (named after Emanuel Kant) was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), where his father Julius (Yoel) was a community rabbi. The family moved to Berlin in the 1920s, where his father became rabbinical judge on the beth din of the Grossgemeinde, but fled the country in 1938 in time to escape Nazi persecutions. In the United Kingdom he completed his higher education, including a period at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in London, studying under and receiving semicha (rabbi ordination) from the renowned Rabbis Elya Lopian, Leib Gurwicz and Nachman Shlomo Greenspan. He also studied in Jews' College and the University of London (BA and PhD, University College).
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