synagogue death_date death_place birth_name title nationality synagogueposition image article_title name occupation
great synagogue of london 17 december 1791 london , england david tevele schiff chief rabbi of great britain british chief rabbi schiff.jpg tevele schiff
 tevele schiff chief rabbi
tevele schiff

chief rabbi david tevele schiff -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- died december 17 , 1791 ; or , in the hebrew calendar , 26 kislev 5551 -rrb- was the chief rabbi of great britain and the rabbi of the great synagogue of london from 1765 until his death .
rabbi schiff was a disciple of rabbi joshua falk , author of the classic commentary on the talmud `` pene yehoshua '' .
he was a contemporary of rabbi yechezkel sega `` l landau , prague 's chief rabbi and author of the fundamental responsae `` noda b'yhuda '' .
his most famous disciple was the holy rabbi nosson adler of frankfurt-am-main , famous for his kabbalistic teachings .
rabbi schiff 's resting place is at britain 's first ashkenazic cemetery since the expulsion of jewry in medieval times .
it is situated at 27 alderney road , london e1 4eg , in london 's east end .
