page_title: Louis Jacobs
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Jacobs / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Rabbi Louis Jacobs' grave at Western Cemetery (Cheshunt)
context_page_description: Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs CBE was the founder of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom, and a leading writer and theologian. He was also the focus in the early 1960s of what became known as "The Jacobs Affair" in the British Jewish community.
context_section_description: Jacobs died on 1 July 2006 and is buried at Western Cemetery (Cheshunt)  alongside his wife Sophie (Shulamit) (1921–2005).
  A few months before he died, Jacobs donated his book collection to the Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
  In December 2005, a poll by The Jewish Chronicle of its subscribers, in which 2,000 readers made their nominations, voted Jacobs the "greatest British Jew" in the community's 350-year history in England. Jacobs commented "I feel greatly honoured – and rather daft." Nevertheless, reports that Louis Jacobs had been nominated greatest British Jew, received wide press coverage in Britain.
caption: Rabbi Louis Jacobs' grave
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