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Persoonlijke gegevens Prof. Louis Isaac Rabinowich 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1906 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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• Hij is overleden op 8 augustus 1984 in Jerusalem, Israel, hij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Jacob Rabinowich en

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Hij had een relatie met Tania Amiel.

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Notities over Prof. Louis Isaac Rabinowich

According to the book "Unbroken Chain", has was also Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and deputy editor of Enclycopedia Judaica. His Ph.D. thesis was on Jews of Northern France during the 12th and 14th centuries. He was also the author of numerous books and a frequent contributor to the Jewish Chronicle (London) and Jerusalem Post (Jerusalem).

From Encyclopedia Judaica:

RABINOWITZ, LOUIS ISAAC (1906-1984), rabbi. Born in Edinburgh, he served as rabbi in the London communities of Shepherd's Bush, South Hackney, and Cricklewood, successively. During World War II he was
senior Jewish chaplain with the British army in the Middle East and Normandy. In 1945 he became chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg and the Federation of Synagogues of Transvaal and the Orange Free State. He was appointed professor of Hebrew at the University of Witwatersrand and head of the Johannesburg bet din. In 1947, in protest against British policy in Palestine, he discarded his war decorations in public. An eloquent preacher, he was also outspoken in his criticism of the South African government's apartheid policy. Retiring in 1961, he settled in Israel and became deputy editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. He was also a Gahal representative in the Jerusalem municipality from 1969 and in 1976 was appointed a deputy mayor of Jerusalem. He did not stand for re-election in
the elections held in October 1978. In 1980 he was made a Yakir Yerushalayim ("Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem"), and in November of that year he was given the title of Chief Rabbi Emeritus of the Federat
ion of Synagogues of South Africa.
Rabinowitz is the author of The Social Life of the Jews of Northern France (1938), Herem Hayyishub (1945), and Jewish Merchant Adventurers (1948). His other books include Soldiers from Judea (1942), F
ar East Mission (1952), Torah and Flora (1977), and volumes of sermons.

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