OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14099, 19 July 1911, Page 11

OBITUARY.

THE CHIEF RABBI OF THE

EMPIRE.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. .. (Received July lsth, 12.50 a.m.) y LONDON, July 18. <■- " -The death is announced of the Very '■_ -Reverend Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi 7 of the British Empire.

1 ' Dr Adlor was born in Hanover in ,: 1839. and preached his first sormon as i 'far back as 1859. His father, tho ■-' Chief Rabbi of that date, had proi jnisccl to attend tho consecration of a !. ' synagogue in Swansea. When the time [**' came he was teo ill te go, but he Bent -..his son. a young man of twenty, study- " ing for the priesthood. So ably did tho :•'*. young man take'his father's place that '- from this timo forward ho seemed t .marked out to be his successor. In he was appointed "delegate Chief '".Rabbi," and alter his father's death in ,? 1890 invested with the full powers of *;the oft'u'e. The "Daily Mail' r "wrote of Adler two years ago:—"By his full ■?-• gtylo and title ho is 'Chief Rabbi of the **" United Hobrow Congregations of the ', British Empire.' which makes him the r greatest Jewish minister in tho world.

|:- -Ono of the robots of his life is that | ', bo has not yet been able to, fulfil the ■J hope ho expressed when he was installed g :' of visiting the various Colonial comI << cmnities of Jews. But ho has not enI *:tirely given up that hopo yet. He 8 './neither feels nor looks old. His friend B |, General # Booth, who is ten I ?/yeani his senior, tabes tremen- | », dous journeys. So why should not he? | alt is his wido sympathy, his keenness B fc-Jn every nobie causo, which has given IJ Kjhe Chief Rabbi so distinguished a I nosition. Ho is not only famous among -3l_-his own people; ho is recognised as of the foremost men of the nation-j philanthropic en<Jeavour. • Bin<*o I 5, when, it was founded, he has n on, the council of tho Hospital iday Fund. Ho also helps to adister King Edward's Hospital Fund, is connected with, the People Pal- , the Children's Country Holidays td, the Children's Happy Evening*!, many other Bnch good .works.y en he was invited to join tho enwnm Club, .the invitation was sn to him, not alone,on account of .Hebrew scholarship, but of his al services to the nation at large, rarally, Dr. Adieus activity has had effect both of raising his office in bo estimatiofa and, as tho 'Jewish id put it a few years ago, of wing the whole Jewish community Aa:best light. It is equally natural 6 bo should strongly resent attempts isolate the Jews, to regard them as ace apart, to represent them as ag outside the currents of national ugbt ami feeling. Ho carried on several years a heated controversy h Goldwin Smith, whoS foolish question, Jews Patriots?' Ho is at tho present Kent keenly interested in thoTerri-' w movement, and has been vurarJv urging Jewish young men to%-' volumes olf sermons and articles on at and historical subjects.