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Rabbi Aaron Hart | |
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| Title | Rabbi of the Great Synagogue |
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| Born | Aaron Uri Phoebus Hart 1670 |
| Died | 1756 (aged 85–86) |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Jewish leader | |
| Predecessor | Judah Loeb ben Ephraim Anschel (Cohen or Ha-Kohen)[1][2] / Aaron the Scribe of Dublin (temp., c. 1700–1704)[3][4] |
| Successor | Hart Lyon |
| Synagogue | Great Synagogue of London |
| Began | 1704 or 1705 |
| Ended | 1756 |
Rabbi Aaron Uri Phoebus Hart (Hebrew: רבי אהרן אורי פײבוש הרט, romanized: Aharon Uri Feibush Hart; 1670 – 1756) was a British rabbi, who served as spiritual leader of the Ashkenazi Great Synagogue of London from 1704 until his death. He is widely regarded as the first chief rabbi of Great Britain.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
- ^ a b Gow, Andrew Colin (2004). "Hart, Aaron [Uri Feibusch, Uri ben Rav Hirz Hamburger] (1670–1756), rabbi". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12467. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b Roth, Cecil (2007). "Hart". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- ^ a b Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hilary L. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Springer. pp. 1, 5–6, 152, 367, 390–391, 400, 403, 435, 495. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.
- ^ a b "Chief Rabbis and Hahamim". Jewish Historical Society of England. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
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Jacobs, Joseph; Lipkind, Goodman (1901–1906). "Hart, Aaron". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- ^ Endelman, Todd M. (2002). The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000. University of California Press. pp. 51–53. ISBN 978-0-520-22720-0.
- ^ Apple, Raymond (2006). "Saul Berlin (1740-1794), Heretical Rabbi". Anafim: Proceedings of the Australasian Jewish Studies Forum Held at Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney, 8-9 February 2004. Mandelbaum Publishing, University of Sydney. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-646-46959-1.
The earliest names were of rabbis whose writ was limited to the Great Synagogue in Duke's Place but who were not yet acknowledged as chief rabbis of the whole Ashkenazi community of either London or England, much less of the whole British Empire.
- ^ "History of the Chief Rabbinate". Office of the Chief Rabbi.
- ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". britishmuseum.org.
