Jakobovits of Regents Park in Greater London, Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron

▪ 2000

      German-born cleric who was the outspoken, conservative chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth (1967–91), a position usually deemed the chief spokesman for British Orthodox Jews; he had previously held assignments as the chief rabbi of Ireland (1949–58) and rabbi of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in New York City (1958–67). Jakobovits was made a life peer in 1988 (b. Feb. 8, 1921, Königsberg, Ger. [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—d. Oct. 31, 1999, London, Eng.).

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