Another Way, Another Time Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate
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Biografisk notat
Now a freelance writer and editor, Meir Persoff edited the London Jewish Chronicle’s news, features, arts, Judaism, letters and obituaries sections during a distinguished 40-year career on the paper. He has written extensively on Jewish topics – notably Jewish art and Judaica – and served on the Jewish Book Council and as president of the Israel-Judaica Philatelic Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he holds a London University MA (with distinction) in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, having specialised in modern Jewish history and the history of anti-Semitism, and earned his PhD from Middlesex University, London, for his research into the British Chief Rabbinate’s relationship with the non-Orthodox movements. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Middlesex Commission Area in 2001.Another Way, Another Time Religious Inclusivism and the Sacks Chief Rabbinate
‘'[Persoff] has been able to deploy his material against the background of an extensive knowledge of the inner world of British Jewry, gathered over a lifetime reporting and commenting upon it without fear and without favour. Another Way, Another Time will certainly not be the last word on Jonathan Sacks. But all who write on this subject hereafter will need to measure their efforts against the yardstick Dr Persoff has fashioned, and which he now sets before us.’'
- Geoffrey Alderman, Michael Gross Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Buckingham,
"[The book’s] major achievement is to gather abundant primary source material, much of it taken from contemporary printed material (e.g. The Jewish Chronicle, Manna and other Jewish journals) and from archival collections at the London Metropolitan Archives and the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton. In addition, the author was given access to the private papers of Rabbis Immanuel Jakobovits, Louis Jacobs, and Sidney Brichto. . . . The sources presented by Persof . . . are balanced. . . . Persoff has provided abundant documentary evidence about how fraught with pitfalls the position is for a new Chief Rabbi today."
- Marc Saperstein, King’s College London, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Nov. 2013
‘'[Persoff] has been able to deploy his material against the background of an extensive knowledge of the inner world of British Jewry, gathered over a lifetime reporting and commenting upon it without fear and without favour. Another Way, Another Time will certainly not be the last word on Jonathan Sacks. But all who write on this subject hereafter will need to measure their efforts against the yardstick Dr Persoff has fashioned, and which he now sets before us.’'
- Geoffrey Alderman, Michael Gross Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Buckingham,
"[The book’s] major achievement is to gather abundant primary source material, much of it taken from contemporary printed material (e.g. The Jewish Chronicle, Manna and other Jewish journals) and from archival collections at the London Metropolitan Archives and the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton. In addition, the author was given access to the private papers of Rabbis Immanuel Jakobovits, Louis Jacobs, and Sidney Brichto. . . . The sources presented by Persof . . . are balanced. . . . Persoff has provided abundant documentary evidence about how fraught with pitfalls the position is for a new Chief Rabbi today."
- Marc Saperstein, King’s College London, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Nov. 2013