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    Title

  • Rabbi Bruno Italiener

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1953

  • Summary

    Portrait photograph of Rabbi Bruno Italiener, celebrating his 80th birthday in Luxembourg in July 1953. Also included is handwritten correspondence from Bruno Italiener, dated 17 September 1953.

  • Depicted

    Italiener, Bruno.

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Authors; Rabbis

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Bruno Italiener, Zur Geschichte der Juden in Darmstadt., AR 1193

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Biographical/Historical Information

Rabbi, author, and historian Bruno Italiener was born in Burgdorf in 1881. He graduated from Erlangen University and from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. After serving as rabbi at the Jewish congregation in Darmstadt, he became chief rabbi of the Temple Congregation in Hamburg in 1928, serving until his emigration to England in 1939. He was rabbi at two congregations in London, also concentrating on his scholarly work. Rabbi Bruno Italiener died in London in 1956.

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Citation

Rabbi Bruno Italiener, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2536.