CHIEF RABBI
CAREER OF VERY REV J. H. HERTZ The Chief Rabbi, the Very Rev J. H. Hertz,- was born at Rebrin, Czechoslovakia in 1872, and became a child emigrant to New York. He received his education at New York City College, Columbia University, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He was Rabbi at Syracuse (New York) till 1898, and of the Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation, Johannesburg, from 1898 to 1911. President Kruger expelled him on account of his proBritish sympathies and for advocating the removal of religious disabilities of Jews and Catholics in the South African Republic in 1899. He is on the Board of Governors of the University of Jerusalem, chairman of the governing body of the Institute of Jewish Studies, and vice-president of the Anglo-Jewish Association. He has published a number of books and contributed both to the Jewish Encyclopaedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 4
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