Dr. Harry Freedman is a British author of popular works of Jewish culture and history. His publications include Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs; The Talmud: A Biography (Bloomsbury, 2021); Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul and The Murderous History of Bible Translations. His forthcoming book is Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius. Freedman holds an M.A. in Jewish Studies and a Ph.D. in Targum, both from London University. He lives in London with his wife Karen and has two children, two step-children, and a growing number of grandchildren.
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May 11, 2021
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He was British Jewry’s outstanding homegrown rabbinic scholar, a protégé of Rabbi Eliyahu Munk, and described as an ilui (genius in Torah study) by R. Eliyahu Dessler. Yet R. Louis Jacobs’ desire to reconcile Judaism with academic studies led to his exclusion from Britain's orthodox rabbinate.
He was British Jewry’s outstanding homegrown rabbinic scholar, a protégé of Rabbi Eliyahu Munk, and described as an ilui (genius in Torah study) by R. Eliyahu Dessler. Yet R. Louis Jacobs’ desire to reconcile Judaism with academic studies led to his exclusion from Britain's orthodox rabbinate.
