IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2805/05
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: DEPUTY FOR THE CHIEF RABBI, DAYAN HARRIS LAZARUS
Date(s): 1942-1950
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.5 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Lazarus | Harris Meyer | 1878-1962 | rabbi
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Harris Meyer Lazarus was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1878. He emigrated to England in June 1897, Anglicizing his name Hirsch to Harris. In 1898 he entered Jews' College, gaining semicha (rabbinical ordination) in 1910. Between 1904 and 1906 he taught in the East End at the Toynbee Hall Hebrew training classes, before being appointed minister of the Brondesbury synagogue, where he remained until 1938.
In 1914 he began to work at the bet din (court) as a dayan (judge), combining this with his congregational duties until 1945, when he retired from the synagogue and became a full-time dayan. Between 1946 and 1948 Lazarus acted as Deputy for the Chief Rabbi, or Acting Chief Rabbi, following the unexpected death of Joseph Hertz and until the installation of Israel Brodie.
Source of information: Sharman Kadish, "Lazarus, Harris Meyer (1878-1962)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/70155, accessed 3 March 2010].
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Deputy for the Chief Rabbi, 1942-1950, comprising correspondence with various individuals and organisations, including provincial congregations in Wales and England and congregations in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Palestine, Russia, South Africa and the United States of America.
PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Material arranged in two series: ACC/2805/05/01 (General) and ACC/2805/05/02 (Congregations in Great Britain and overseas).
Conditions governing access:
Access by written permission only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited as part of several accessions of material from the Office of the Chief Rabbi.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: Description prepared in March 2010.