Excerpts from Jacobs Obituary address by rabbi Elliott; "Born into a family of Eastern European descent, Leib Jacobs grew up in a community seeking to acculturate to the Anglo-surroundings. He was encouraged to think beyond his Eastern European roots, recalling his mother’s ability to rattle off reams of Browning and Tennyson among others. One is offered a glimpse into the profile of Rabbi Jacobs during these years from a most unobjective source, his wife-to-be Shulamit Lisagorsky, whose memory we are also attentive to today. In a courtship which, from first date to engagement, seems to have taken place over a weekend (quite a “leap of faith”), May the memory of Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs be for a blessing and may the questions that guided his life, and the manner in which he asked them, continue to be our quest for generations to come."
from Wikipedia Louis Jacobs MP Gender: Male Birth: July 17, 1920 Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom Death: July 01, 2006 (85) London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom (Esophageal cancer) Immediate Family: Son of Harry (Harris) Jacobs and Lena Jacobs Husband of Shula (Sophie) Jacobs Father of <private> Jacobs; <private> Bar-Yosef (Jacobs) and <private> Jacob
Jacobs was born on 17 July 1920 in Manchester.[2] He studied at Manchester Yeshivah, and later at the kolel in Gateshead. His teachers included leading Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler. Jacobs was ordained as a rabbi at Manchester Yeshivah. Later in his career, he studied at University College London where he gained his PhD on the topic of The Business Life of the Jews in Babylon, 200–500 CE. Jacobs was appointed rabbi at Manchester Central Synagogue in 1948. In 1954 he was appointed to the New West End Synagogue in London. Jacobs died on 1 July 2006 and is buried at Western Cemetery (Cheshunt) alongside his wife Sophie (Shulamit) (1921–2005).
A few months before he died, Jacobs donated his book collection to the Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
In December 2005, a poll by The Jewish Chronicle of its subscribers, in which 2,000 readers made their nominations, voted Jacobs the "greatest British Jew" in the community's 350-year history in England. Jacobs commented "I feel greatly honoured – and rather daft." Nevertheless, reports that Louis Jacobs had been nominated greatest British Jew, received wide press coverage in Britain.
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