HERZOG, JOEL LEIB HALEVI. Imrei Yoel [agadic and halachic discourses on Pentateuch]

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

London

1921-31

Five volumes.

Joel Leib Halevi Herzog (d. 1935), a native of Lomzha, Poland, was Rabbi in Leeds, England, and later in Paris. His son Isaac Halevi Herzog (1888-1959) served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and later as Aschkenazic Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel from 1936 until his death. Some of the son's talmudic novellae are appended to Vol. I of Imrei Yoel (Kuntress Divrei Yitzchal on pp. 209-24). Of uncommon interest, (Vol. III, pp. 204-06), is the publication here of a discourse delivered by Lady Flora Sassoon to the rabbinical students of Jews' College in London. Flora (or Farha) Sassoon (1859-1936) was known to exchange halachic opinions with the great rabbis of the day. She was the mother of the great bibliophile David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942) and grandmother of the scholar Solomon David Sassoon (1915-1985).