(HIRSCHEL, SOLOMON)

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

London

early 19th Century

Three-quarter length portrait facing left of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain standing at reading desk. Portrait within roundelle.

Rubens 1573

Rare colored etching Solomon Hirschel (1762-1845) Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and a profound Rabbinic scholar was the scion of one of Europe’s distinguished Rabbinical dynasties. His father was the eminent Tzvi Hirsch Berlin, who proceeded him as Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, London and later served as Chief Rabbi of Berlin. Hirschel’s uncle was Rabbi Jacob Emden, the celebrated luminary of German Jewry.