Adler

Adler, NATHAN MARCUS, chief-rabbi, was born at Hanover in 1803, and educated at Göttingen, Erlangen, and Würzburg. He became chief-rabbi of Oldenburg in 1829, of Hanover in 1830, and of the united congregations of Britain in 1845. His writings are Sermons on the Jewish Faith, and Nethina Lager, on the Targum of Onkelos. He died 21st January 1890.—HERMAN, his son, born in Hanover in 1839, graduated B.A. at London in 1859, and Ph.D. at Leipzig two years later. In 1863 he became Principal of the Jews' College in London, and in 1879, as delegate chief-rabbi, coadjutor to his father. He has greatly distinguished himself by his learned and spirited defence of his co-religionists in the columns of the Nineteenth Century and elsewhere, especially by his vigorous controversy with Professor Goldwin Smith on the subject of the Jews as citizens. Hardly less able were his earlier reply to Colenso's criticism on the Pentateuch, and that to Max Müller, entitled Is Judaism a Missionary Faith? A member of the Mansion House Committee for the relief of the Jewish victims of persecution in Russia in 1881-82, Adler visited the conference of leading Jews at Berlin, and afterwards the colonies of Russian refugees in the Holy Land. Other works are The Jews in England; Ibn Gabirol, the Poet Philosopher, &c.