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Prayers for the Feast of Passover for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers on Active Service
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]M2006/046:006a
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Prayers for the Feast of Passover for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers on Active Service
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Small prayer book issued to Jewish servicemen for Passover during the First World War.
Abraham Rothfield was born in Gateshead, England and educated at the Durham University. At the outbreak of World War I, he was already serving in a territorial unit of the British Army, 15th (county London) Bn, the London Regiment (Prince of Wales, Civil Service Rifles). He was subsequently commissioned in the 14th Bn, Durham Light infantry and in the last stages of the war, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was decorated twice, winning the Military Cross and later receiving a bar to it, the equivalent of a second military cross.
After the war he decided to migrate to Sydney and he was appointed to the NSW Board of Jewish Education in 1924. He was a fine teacher who gave of his best. He officially retired in 1957 but he continued to teach until 1963. He died in Sydney in 1968. At the time of his death the Australian Jewish Times editorialised that Rothfield was ‘a teacher of long standing, man, whose loving teaching gave the first instruction in Judaism to many of our present workers and communal leaders’. He also officiated in every synagogue in NSW, was a Scout master and an enthusiastic member of NAJEX.
Abraham Rothfield was born in Gateshead, England and educated at the Durham University. At the outbreak of World War I, he was already serving in a territorial unit of the British Army, 15th (county London) Bn, the London Regiment (Prince of Wales, Civil Service Rifles). He was subsequently commissioned in the 14th Bn, Durham Light infantry and in the last stages of the war, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. He was decorated twice, winning the Military Cross and later receiving a bar to it, the equivalent of a second military cross.
After the war he decided to migrate to Sydney and he was appointed to the NSW Board of Jewish Education in 1924. He was a fine teacher who gave of his best. He officially retired in 1957 but he continued to teach until 1963. He died in Sydney in 1968. At the time of his death the Australian Jewish Times editorialised that Rothfield was ‘a teacher of long standing, man, whose loving teaching gave the first instruction in Judaism to many of our present workers and communal leaders’. He also officiated in every synagogue in NSW, was a Scout master and an enthusiastic member of NAJEX.
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO] 1915
[nb-NO]Subject[nb-NO]World War I (1914-1918), Pesach, Durham Light Infantry, festivals, celebrations etc., Judaica, ritual prayer, Military Service Prayer Book
[nb-NO]Object name[nb-NO]prayer books
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]paper, canvas, fibres (fabrics), ink
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]
- height: 120.00 mm
width: 90.00 mm
[nb-NO]Credit line[nb-NO]Sydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Abraham Rothfield