Rabbi Jacob Schachter

Rabbi Jacob Schachter was born in Rumania in 1886. He received Semicha (his rabbinical diploma) in 1911, and from 1913 to 1920 was Rabbi at Galatz, in eastern Rumania.

In 1926 Rabbi Jacob Schachter moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland, succeeding Rabbi Isaac Halevy Herzog as Rabbi of Belfast.

Rabbi Schachter became a well-known personality, being energetic and enthusiastic in the cultural, social, and intellectual life of Belfast. He was a writer and author. He, delivered and published academic papers on a range of subjects, whether particular individuals to commemorated or celebrated, or papers on “The Child in Jewish Literature” and “The woman in Jewish Literature” – papers delivered to a private society of intellectuals and academics; he made broadcasts, not just on local BBC radio in Belfast but also over radio in Palestine, which was logistically not easy in the middle of the twentieth century; letters appeared in Belfast and Dublin newspapers.

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