Kohn-Zedek, J., Rev. Aleph Alphin. An Elegy in Memory of the Late Rev. Dr. Nathan M. Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. Containing 1000 Words, Each Beginning with Aleph

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

E.W. Rabbinowicz

London

1890

FIRST EDITION. English and Hebrew titles. Hebrew with nikud (vowel points)

Friedberg, A-1873; not in Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica

There exists in Hebrew poetry a peculiar genre of Eleph Alphin (1,000 Alephs), i.e. a poem whose every word commences with the Hebrew letter Aleph. Nathan M. Adler (1803-1890), a native of Hanover, Germany, succeeded in 1844 the deceased Solomon Hirschell as Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, in which capacity he served until his death. The elegist credits Chief Rabbi Adler as being a unifying factor in the life of Anglo-Jewry. See JE, Vol. I, pp.198-9