Solomon Hirschell

Solomon Hirschell (* 1761 in London, † October 31, 1842 ibid, also Hirschel and Herschell ) was from 1802 to 1842 Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and Rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London. He was known for his unsuccessful attempt, the spread of Reform Judaism in his home by excommunication whose leaders to stop.

His father was Hirschel Levin ( Hart Lyon), a Polish Jew from Galicia, who was also Chief Rabbi of London and Berlin and a friend of Moses Mendelssohn. His older brother was the Talmudist Saul Berlin. In 1765 his father left England with him, after he had been ( and then Berlin ) was appointed Rabbi of Halberstadt. Solomon Hirschell married at the age of seventeen, and in 1793 Chief Rabbi of Prenzlau in Prussia. In 1802 he was finally succeeds David Tevele ship as Chief Rabbi of the German and Polish community in London, after they spent 11 years vs. position vacant. Some of his sermons were printed; so for example, a occasion of the death of Lord Nelson in 1805, which occupied his simple faith and his political loyalty. After his death he was buried on November 2, 1842 at the Jewish cemetery in Mile End Road in London, during which there were notable expressions of respect.

The Jewish historian Cecil Roth judged him in his work, however, less respectful Encyclopedia Judaica:

"Hey what of basically a European rabbi of the old type, with imperfect knowledge of English in and out of touch with the new currents beginning to permeate the community. He preached in Yiddish, Opposed even mild reform, and his literary production which Virtually nothing "