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- Title
REV PULVER'S PLIGHT: KOSHER MEAT OR A COMPLACENT CONGREGATION?
- Authors
Schrire, Gwynne
- Abstract
The article features Reverend Isaac Pulver, who became the first rabbi of Tikvath Israel, the Society of the Jewish Community in Cape Town, South Africa established on September 26, 1841. Reverend Pulver was recommended by Chief Rabbi, Doctor Nathan Marcus Adler. Pulver arrived in Cape Town on August 8, 1849 and has served as the reader, shochet and mohel for Tikvath Israel. It presents the reply letter by Chief Rabbi Adler to Reverend Pulver that was discovered by historian Adam Mendelsohn in the Jewish Theological Seminary Archives in New York.
- Subjects
CAPE Town (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; CLERGY; PULVER, Isaac; RABBIS; JEWISH community centers; ADLER, Nathan Marcus, 1803-1890
- Publication
Jewish Affairs, 2010, Vol 65, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0021-6313
- Publication type
Article