Background
Joseph Herman Hertz was born on September 25, 1872 in Rebrín, Kingdom of Hungary (presently part of the village of Zemplínska Široká, Slovakia).
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Joseph Herman Hertz was born on September 25, 1872 in Rebrín, Kingdom of Hungary (presently part of the village of Zemplínska Široká, Slovakia).
He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
fter serving as a rabbi in the United States for a number of years, he was appointed to a rabbinical post in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he focused worldwide attention on religious intolerance in the Transvaal. He was expelled by the Boers in 1899, but returned after the formation of the Union of South Africa. From 1913 until his death in London, Jan. 14, 1946, he was chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire.
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(One-Volume Edition, originally published in 1937.)