Judah Leo Landau

Judah Leo Landau (23 April 1866 – 26 August 1942) was a Galician-born South African rabbi and writer. He served as the inaugural Chief Rabbi of South Africa from 1915 until his death in 1942.

Early life

Landau was born in Zaliztsi, near Brody, Galicia.[1] He was a descendant of the Chacham Tzvi and the Noda Biyehudah.[2] After attending the fourth Zionist Congress in London in 1900, Landau remained in England for three years. He was rabbi of the North Manchester Congregation.[3]

Johannesburg

In 1903, he was appointed to lead the Johannesburg Hebrew Congregation.[4] In 1915, the Johannesburg Hebrew Congregation and the Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation merged to form the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg. The committee of the amalgamated entity declared Landau “Ecclesiastical Head and Chief Rabbi for life”.[5] In the same year, he established the Johannesburg Beth Din.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Saron, Gustav (2001). The Jews of South Africa: an illustrated history to 1953, with an epilogue to 1975. p. 57.
  2. ↑ Eisenstein, Judah David (1911). Otzar Yisrael Volume VI (in Hebrew). p. 53.
  3. ↑ "Chief Rabbi Juda L. Landau of Johannesburg Dies at Seventy-seven". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 27 August 1942.
  4. ↑ Musiker, Naomi (October 2016). "The Rabbinate and South African Politics, 1898 to the present". Jewish Affairs (Rosh Hashanah 2016). p. 54.
  5. ↑ United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg. Constitution and Bye-Laws. Passed and adopted by the members on Sunday, June 13th, 1915. W.E. Hortor & Co., LTD., Leader Works. 1915. p. 3.
  6. ↑ Isaacs, Rabbi Dr D. (May 2004). "Our Chief Rabbis - Past and Present". Jewish Tradition (Shavuot 5764). p. 8.
Religious titles
Preceded by
New office		 Chief Rabbi of South Africa
Judah Leo Landau
1915-1942		 Succeeded by
Louis Isaac Rabinowitz


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