Research assistance needed: Rabbi Leib Aisack Falk

Article from Vol 46 no 3, August 2024

Abstract:

The family of the late Rabbi Leib Aisack Falk (1889–1957) is preparing a comprehensive book about him. Rabbi Falk was born in what is now Latvia, moving to Scotland in 1911, next going to Plymouth, then becoming a British Army chaplain in Egypt and Palestine 1918–1921. He came with his wife and children to Australia and served at the Great Synagogue in Sydney from 1922 to 1956.

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