| LC control no. | no2017060947 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Posen, Jacob, 1909-1995 |
| Variant(s) | פוזן, יעקב |
| Located | London (England) Palestine Berlin (Germany) Hemel Hempstead (England) East Ham (London, England) Nottingham (England) Zurich (Switzerland) |
| Birth date | 1909 |
| Death date | 1995-09-07 |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Orthodox Judaism |
| Affiliation | Israelitisches Cultusgemeinde Zurich Jews' College (London, England) University of London |
| Profession or occupation | Rabbis |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Zekhor zot le-Yaʻaḳov, 1996: title page (Rabbi Dr. Jacob Posen, 1909-1995; died 12th Ellul 5755, September 7, 1995) added title page (ha-Rav Yaʻaḳov Pozen zatsal = הרב יעקב פוזן זצ"ל) page 2, etc. (born 1909 to Phillip and Helen Posen in Frankfurt A. M. who belonged to the Rabbi S. R. Hirsch community. Posen studied with Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer. He attended university in Frankfurt to become a lawyer but was forced to leave in 1933. He fled to London as a student but found that he had to work instead. When his student visa was terminated, he returned to Germany. He joined one of the Ezra "Hachshara" projects for two years and traveled to Palestine in 1937. When he decided to become a rabbi, he went back to Germany and studied in the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary with Rabbi Yechiel Weinberg. In 1939 he again fled to London with his parents and his fiancee, Anneliese, whom he married in 1941. After attending Jews' College, he was appointed Minister of the Hemel Hempstead community. After the war, he was Minister in East Ham, and in 1950 became rabbi of Nottingham. He wrote his doctorate on Dina De-Malchuta Dina at the University of London, completed in 1951. In 1967 the Israelitisches Cultusgemeinde of Zurich invited him to serve as rabbi. While there, he contributed a weekly article to the Israelitisches Wochenblatt in Zurich. Anneliese died in 1985, and he later moved to London to be amidst his children and their families during the last two years of his life. He was buried in Zurich alongside Anneliese.) |
| Not found in | Encyclopedia Judaica online, 2007 |
| Associated language | ger heb eng |
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