| Description | Invitation from 'Rabbi Dr M Jung with Rabbi & Mrs S J Bloch' to the marriage of 'Miss Lolla Jung with Mr Getzel (George) Bloch', at Beaumont Hall, Beaumont Square, Mile End, London E. Replies to 14 Bancroft Road, Mile End Road, London E or 44 Gough Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. |
| AdminHistory | Meir Zvi Jung, born Hungary, son of Rabbi Abraham Jung, businessman and landowner, c1858; studied in yeshivot in Pressburg and Huszt, and at the Gymnasium of Budapest; studied philosophy, history, and semitics at various German universities; PhD, Leipzig; appointed rabbi in Manheim, 1880s; married Ernestine Silbermann (1860/61-1915), daughter of Jacob Silbermann of Eperjes (Presov), Slovakia, 1886; appointed rabbi in Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia, 1891; set up a network of Jewish day schools in Austria-Hungary, 1901-1911; appointed chief minister of the Federation of Synagogues in London, 1912; founder and first president, Va'ad ha Rabbonim (council of rabbis); opened a Jewish trade school in London, 1912; founded Sinai League; set up a branch of Agudat Yisrael, 1914, secretary of London branch, 1920-1921; married Regina Silbermann (b. 1870/71), his late wife's sister, 1921; died 1921.
S Bloch, rabbi of Birmingham Beth Hamedrash. |