Rabbi Isaac Leib Swift

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The Jewish Chronicle - June 7 1991

RABBI ISAAC SWIFT

Rabbi Isaac Swift, who has died in Englewood, New Jersey aged 80, was a member of the well-known Liverpool rabbinical family, writes Geoffrey Paul.

Immediately after the Second World War, he was engaged, together with Rabbi Isaac Herzog (later Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi in Israel), in securing the return of Jewish children, sheltered in Christian institutions during the War.

He served congregations in London, Australia and New York, before going at the age of 50 to Englewood, where he built a small and religiously struggling kehillah into one of the strongest and best known modern Orthodox communities in the north-east United States.

In America, he was hailed as one of those few personalities capable of bridging three significant gaps: between the old world of shtetl Judaism and the new world of Western Orthodoxy, between Orthodoxy and non-Orthodoxy, and between Jew and non-Jew.

He is survived by his widow and two married daughters.