3-075-090 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Rev. Dr. Adler, Chief Rabbi of the English Jewish Congregations, 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Barraud. 'The respectable and influential Jewish religious community in England has lost an eminent minister by the death of the venerable Dr. Adler, on Jan. 21, at his residence at Brighton, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, the Chief Rabbi was born at Hanover in 1805. He was a son of the Chief Rabbi of Hanover, and was educated at the Universities of Gottingen, Erlangen, and Wurzburg. He was appointed Chief Rabbi of Oldenburg in 1829, and of Hanover and its provinces in 1830. On July 9, 1845, he was installed in London as Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of the British Empire wherever there are English- speaking Jews. He was also minister of the "Great Synagogue," in St. James's-place, Aldgate. Dr. Adler was author of "Sermons on the Jewish Faith" and of several Hebrew works, the principal of which is "Nethina Lager" a commentary on the "Targum" of Onkelos. Of late years Dr. Adler has spent most of his time at Brighton'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.