Hermann Adler

Hermann Naftali Adler ( * May 30, 1839 in Hannover, † July 18, 1911 in London) was the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1891 to 1911.

He was the son of Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler and moved as a child from Hannover to London when his father for the senior rabbi (Chief Rabbi ) was chosen by the United Kingdom. In 1862 he became headmaster of the company founded by his father Jews' College, and in 1864 he obtained a position in the synagogue in Bayswater.

Since 1879, he represented his ailing father as Chief Rabbi and was elected after his death his successor one year. He continued the tradition established by his father and Orthodox Judaism combined with strong organizational skills and a sense of the dignity of his office.

Although he had visited Palestine and in the colonization movement Choveve Zion was active, it was the ideas of Theodor Herzl hostile to it and called the political Zionism of Herzl developed as a " deception of the masses " ( egregious blunder ). Herzl, however, called him on 29 October 1898 in a letter to Nordau a " Herrgottsfopper ":

Another source of tension was the numerous Russian-Jewish immigrants, who after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II and the following pogroms in Western Europe, including the UK, and poured into the relatively small Jewish community in England in the late 19th century remained foreign body.

Although it did not succeed Hermann Adler, build a relationship of trust with the Russian immigrants, however, he was recognized by the British Reform Judaism and the resident Sephardic communities at public events as their official representative. Like his father, he represented in the UK founded by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Frankfurt neo-orthodoxy. A selection of his sermons was published in 1909 in London under the title Anglo-Jewish Memories.

Elkan Adler was a half-brother Hermann Adler.