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Letter from famous Chief Rabbi of Glasgow Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Lurie:
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Rabbi Jacob David Lurie (Luria) Hebrew: הרב יעקב דוד בן יהודה ליב Also Known As: "Luria", "Yaakov Dovid", "Yankel David"

Death: April 13, 1957 (87) Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom (Burst appendix)

Place of Burial: Western Necropolis, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Immediate Family: Son of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Luria and Feiga Luria Husband of Rebbetzin Ita Beila Lurie Father of Louis Lurie; Dr Solomon Mendel Lurie; Moses Lurie and Annie Gittleson Brother of Abram Itska Luria; Girsh Isaak Luria; Sora Reize Luria and Leyb Luria

Rabbi Jacob David Lurie (1869 - 13 April 1957) Born in the yeshiva town of Slabodka, Poland (today a neighbourhood in Kaunas Lithuania), where his father was a noted Talmudist, Rabbi Lurie (m. Ita Beila) was appointed Rosh Yeshiva in Bialystock when he was a young man.

He came to Britain in 1907, serving as a rabbi in Hull in 1907, where he held classes for adults in all branches of Biblical and Talmudical knowledge.

He worked among Jewish transmigrants who passed through Hull, and in 1908 he was appointed to supervise the newly opened kosher kitchen at the railway station to assist such transmigrants. Although he served as the Rav of the Hull Beth Hamedrash (c.1912-1916), he was held in high esteem throughout the Hull community. He gave farewell sermons in at least two of Hull's synagogue on his departure in 1916 to take up the appoinment as Rav at the new Machzikei Hadas Synagogue, Glasgow.

In about 1923 (on the closure of Machzikei Hadas) he was appointed Rav of Glasgow's Chevra Kadisha Synagogue, where he served until his death in 1957.

Rabbi Lurie was Av Beth Din in Glasgow for 30 years and was Hon. President of the Glasgow Yeshiva and of the local Sabbath Observance Organisation. He was a noted Talmudic scholar, yet widely recognised as a popular rabbi and a "man of the People".

He is buried at the Chevra Kadisha cemetery, Glasgow.

He was the father of Dr. Solomon Lurie who served for 25 years as president of the Hull Western Synagogue.

(Jewish Chronicle obituary 26 April 1957; "Second City Jewry" by Dr. K.E. Collins (1990); press report of 1 September 1916; and Jewish Year Book listings.