Hirsch Jakob Zimmels
Hirsch Jakob Zimmels (29 December 1900, in Jaworów – 9 November 1974, in London) was a rabbi and historian of Judaism.
He obtained a PhD from the University of Vienna in 1926, and was ordained there the following year.[1] In 1939, he fled to London after the Nazi Anschluss.[2] He was interned by the British government in a camp in Australia between 1940 and 1942, after which he returned to London, and was appointed a lecturer in Bible, Talmud and Jewish history at Jews' College, London.[1][2] In 1961 he became director of studies at that institution, and was appointed principal in 1964, exercising that role until 1969. He wrote widely on Ashkenazi history and culture.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c W. D. Rubinstein (Ed.) (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1055.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Skolnik, F. & Berenbaum, M. (2007) Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd edition). Macmillan Reference USA, v. 21, p. 534
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- 20th-century Polish rabbis
- Jewish historians
- Historians of Jews and Judaism
- Academics of the London School of Jewish Studies
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- Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United Kingdom after the Anschluss