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    Title

  • Rabbi Jakob Hoffmann

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    circa 1950

  • Place of Publication

    New York City

  • Depicted

    Hoffmann, Jakob, 1881-1956

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Rabbis

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Jakob Hoffmann Collection, AR 2017

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Jakob Hoffmann (later Jacob Hoffman) was born in 1881 in Papa, Hungary. He studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva (today Bratislava) and received his rabbinical ordination in 1905/1906. After serving as rabbi in Vienna; Kostel in Moravia (Podivín, Czech Republic); and Radautz in Bukovina (RădăuțI, Romania), he was Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main from 1923 to 1937. Escaping the Nazis to New York, he served as rabbi at Ohab Zedek until 1953. In 1954 he moved to Israel. Rabbi Jakob Hoffmann died in Tel Aviv in 1956.

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Citation

Rabbi Jakob Hoffmann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2497.