Rabbi Aaron Jacob Singer

Rabbi Singer was born in Kovno, Lithuania, about 1880, and educated at the Slobodka Yeshiva. he emigrated to England in about 1923 and was appointed Rabbi of the Philpot Street Great Synagogue, in London.

He was described as an erudite Talmudical scholar of independent mind and thought and a forceful personality. He took an active interest in Jewish education, in particular the Redmans Road Talmud Torah and the Yeshiva Etz Chaim. According to the Jewish Chronicle, he was a member of the Vaad Harabbanim of the Federation of Synagogues (although according to Geoffrey Alderman’s book he was not). He was an enthusiastic and much sought after speaker for the Zionist movement. His wife was a daughter of the Rabbi of the Bethnal Green Great Synagogue, Rabbi Pekarewitch, and he had a son, Rabbi Lionel Singer who went to Johannesburg, South Africa, and three daughters. He had a long illness, and passed away on April 2nd, 1953.

See: https://jewishmiscellanies.com/2020/06/08/llev-ami-to-the-heart-of-...