Hirsch Jakob Zimmels
Born(1900-12-29)29 December 1900
Jaworów, Austrian Galicia
Died9 November 1974(1974-11-09) (aged 73)
London, United Kingdom

Hirsch Jakob Zimmels (29 December 1900 – 9 November 1974) was a rabbi and historian of Judaism.

He obtained a PhD from the University of Vienna in 1926, and was ordained there the following year.[1] In 1939, he fled to London after the Nazi Anschluss.[2] He was interned by the British government in a camp in Australia between 1940 and 1942, after which he returned to London, and was appointed a lecturer in Bible, Talmud and Jewish history at Jews' College, London.[1][2] In 1961 he became director of studies at that institution, and was appointed principal in 1964, exercising that role until 1969. He wrote widely on Ashkenazi history and culture.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 W. D. Rubinstein (Ed.) (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1055.
  2. 1 2 3 Skolnik, F. & Berenbaum, M. (2007) Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd edition). Macmillan Reference USA, v. 21, p. 534
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