Joseph Herman Hertz (25 September 1872 – 14 January 1946) was a Hungarian-born rabbi and biblical scholar. He is most notable for holding the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and the Holocaust. Hertz edited a notable commentary on the Torah (1929–36, one volume edition 1937). Popularly known as the Hertz Chumash, this classic Hebrew-English edition of the Five Books of Moses, with corresponding Haftorahs, is used in synagogues and classrooms throughout the English-speaking world. He also edited a Hebrew-English edition of the Jewish Prayer Book or Siddur (1946), and contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia and the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Contributed by:
Joseph Herman Hertz, Mark Gollop, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Contributed by:
Joseph Herman Hertz, Mark Gollop, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
An abridged prayer book for Jewish personnel in the service of the British armed forces in 1940, prepared by the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, Joseph H. Hertz, based upon the 1917 prayer book offered during the first World War.
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