Pamphlet titled 'Reform in Judaism' written by Rabbi Dr L. Gerhard Graf, London, 1947

Description

This pamphlet written by Rabbi Dr L. Gerhard Graf talks about the Reform of Judaism. It was published by the association of Synagogues in Great Britain in London. Written in 1947, it was before he became the first minister at the Cardiff New Synagogue.

Rabbi Dr Louis Gerhard Graf was head of the Reform community in Cardiff for 31 years. He was born in Berlin on 28 March 1912, where he lived until 1939 when he and his wife left Germany and were welcomed in Manchester. He was Minister of the Bradford Synagogue (1940-48), then he went on to found the Leeds Sinai Synagogue in 1942. Eventually he moved to Cardiff, in 1948, where he began to take services in the newly formed Reform Jewish community. He died in December 1986, aged 74.

Sources:
ARJ Information, volume XLII No. 3 March 1987 (https://ajr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1987_march.pdf).

Depository: Glamorgan Archives.

• https://cardiffreformsynagogue.uk/new/ (link opens in new window)