Duschinsky, Charles

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DUSCHINSKY, CHARLES

DUSCHINSKY, CHARLES (Jacob Koppel ; 1878–1944), historian. Duschinsky was born in Námestovo, Czechoslovakia; he served as rabbi in Kostel, Moravia, from 1904 to 1907, and thereafter settled in London, where he engaged in business. He continued publishing monographs in scholarly journals on Anglo-Jewish history and other topics. His most important work was The Rabbinate of the Great Synagogue, London, from 1756–1842 (1921).

[Cecil Roth]

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