Kopul Rosen

{{short description|Anglo-Jewish rabbi and educationalist (1913–1962)}}

{{Infobox religious biography

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Yaacov Kopul Rosen

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|11|4}}

| birth_place = Notting Hill, London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|03|16|1913|11|4}}

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| nationality = British

| alma_mater = Etz Chaim Yeshiva, Mir Yeshiva (Poland)

| occupation = Rabbi, educationalist

| denomination = Orthodox Judaism

| notable_works = Founder of Carmel College

| title =

| office1 = Rabbi of Higher Crumpsall Synagogue

| term_start1 = 1938

| term_end1 = 1942

| office2 = Communal Rabbi of Glasgow

| term_start2 = 1942

| term_end2 = 1944

| office3 = Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues

| term_start3 = 1944

| term_end3 = 1948

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Yaacov Kopul Rosen (1913–1962){{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/16/archives/rev-dr-kopul-rosen.html

|title=Rev. Dr. Kopul Rosen |date=March 16, 1962}} was an Anglo-Jewish rabbi and educationalist who, in 1946, testified before the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine, asking them not to "play politics with the remnants of the Jewish people."{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/01/29/archives/6-witnesses-plead-to-free-palestine-rabbi-calls-on-anglous-body-to.html

|title=6 WITNESSES PLEAD TO FREE PALESTINE: Rabbi Calls on Anglo-U.S. Body to Shun Politics--Jews Are Invited by Dominicans

|date=January 29, 1946}} A book titled Memories of Kopul Rosen was published in 1970.{{cite book |publisher=Carmel College

|title=Memories of Kopul Rosen |author=Cyril Domb |author-link=Cyril Domb |year=1970 |isbn=978-0-9501-3720-9}}

Biography

Yaacov Kopul Rosen was born on 4 November 1913, in Notting Hill, London. He trained for the rabbinate in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in London and in the Mir Yeshiva in Lithuania. He was the rabbi of the Higher Crumpsall Synagogue in Manchester from 1938 until 1942. He became the Communal Rabbi of Glasgow in 1942 and in 1944 he was appointed the Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues in London.{{cite web |url=http://www.federationofsynagogues.com/ |title=Home |website=federationofsynagogues.com}}

Rosen died of leukemia in March 1962 at the age of 48, leaving behind his wife, Bella, three sons, Jeremy (b . 1942), Michael (1945–2008) and David (b. 1951), and a baby daughter, Angela (Ayelet) (b. 1959). All three sons became rabbis.

A book about his father was published by Jeremy in 20102010: {{cite book |isbn=978-0-5577-5327-7

|title=Kopul Rosen |author=Rabbi Dr. Jeremy Rosen |author-link=Jeremy Rosen |year=2010}} (revised 2012).2012: {{cite book

|isbn=978-1-4775-6986-3 |title=Kopul Rosen |author=Rabbi Dr. Jeremy Rosen |author-link=Jeremy Rosen |year=2012}}

Carmel College

In 1948 Rosen decided to leave the rabbinate to devote himself to the promotion of Jewish education. He and his wife, Bella, founded Carmel College an independent Jewish boarding school in Oxfordshire, UK. The school, which practiced Orthodox Judaism, was described in a 1973-published book, Carmel College in the Kopel Era: A History of Carmel College, September 1948-March.{{cite book |isbn=978-965-524-236-2

|title=Carmel College in the Kopel Era: A History of Carmel College, September 1948-March 1962

|author=Chaim Simons |year=1973

|publisher=Urim Publications}}

YAKAR

In 1979 Rosen's second son, Michael (Mickey) Rosen, founded the Jewish educational organization, Yakar, in memory of his father. (YaKaR is both an acronym for Yaacov Kopul Rosen and means in Hebrew precious.){{cite news |newspaper=Haaretz

|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5072871

|title=A precious light dims with Yakar founder Mickey Rosen's passing}}{{cite news

|newspaper=Jerusalem Post JPost.com

|url=https://www.jpost.com/israel/yakar-founder-mickey-rosen-dies

|title=Yakar founder Mickey Rosen dies

|author=Matthew Wagner |date=9 December 2008}} The stated goal of Yakar is to continue Kopul Rosen's ideals "of a Judaism based on knowledge of Torah, learning and vibrant spirituality that would at the same time be universal, non-denominational, tolerant and open to ideas and intellectual curiosity."

Works by Kopul Rosen

Dear David{{cite book |isbn=978-0-9069-7700-2

|title=Dear David |author=Rabbi Dr. Yaacov Kopul Rosen

|year=1979}}

Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Musar movement{{cite book

|title=Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Musar movement

|author=Rabbi Dr. Yaacov Kopul Rosen |year=1945

|publisher=Narod Press |isbn=978-1-1578-6277-2}}

The future of the Federation of Synagogues{{cite book

|title=The future of the Federation of Synagogues

|author=Rabbi Dr. Yaacov Kopul Rosen |year=1946}}

An open letter to a perplexed parent{{cite book

|title=An open letter to a perplexed parent

|author=Rabbi Dr. Yaacov Kopul Rosen

|year=1954 |oclc=8678746}}

Personal

His wife's name was Bella.{{cite web

|url=http://jeremyrosen.com/2012/02/kopul-rosen-1913-1962.html

|title=Kopul Rosen 1913-1962

|author=Jeremy Rosen |date=February 23, 2012}} They had three sons, rabbis, and a daughter, who attended Carmel College.

References

External links

[https://www.carmelcollege.co.uk/ Carmel College 1948-1997: The Official Reunion Website for Old Carmel College Pupils to Visit for All Things Carmel]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20220426164433/https://www.carmelcollege.co.uk/] archived at the Wayback Machine 22 April 2022
Simons, Chaim [https://www.chaimsimons.net/carmelcollege.html Seven Years at Carmel College: Reminiscences of a Pupil 1953-1960], 2004, at https://www.chaimsimons.net/; archived at the Wayback Machine 20 May 2011
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071002035919/http://www.yakar.org.uk/ Yakar Educational Foundation] archived at the Wayback Machine 2 October 2007
[http://www.jeremyrosen.com/ Rabbi Jeremy Rosen: Rabbi Jeremy Rosen’s Opinions and Commentary]

Category:1913 births

Category:1962 deaths

Category:British Orthodox rabbis

Category:20th-century British rabbis

Category:Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives

Category:Mir Yeshiva alumni