Hats in the Ring : Choosing Britain's Chief Rabbis from Adler to Sacks / / Meir Persoff

• Autore: Persoff Meir
• Pubblicazione: Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.67
• Soggetto topico: Rabbis - Selection and appointment - England; Religion; Philosophy & Religion; Judaism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One: Out of the Ruins -- Chapter Two: Between Old and New -- Chapter Three: Who Pays the Piper -- Chapter Four: No Imaginary Man -- Chapter Five: Fateful Days -- Chapter Six: A Blank Cheque -- Chapter Seven: 'When I Return ...' -- Chapter Eight: Natural Selection -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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Persoff's scholarly yet accessible account of these seven appointments draws on a wealth of hitherto unaccessed and unpublished material, and on the stories of many of the protagonists involved, including in fascinating detail those who, by fair means and foul, failed to gain (or chose to reject) the coveted prize.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hats in the Ring
• ISBN: 1-61811-199-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792299803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Judaism and Jewish Life