Arthur Saul Super
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Arthur Saul Super (1908 - 1979) was a British born Zionist, both a journalist and later a Rabbi. He also later became a settler colonist in Palestine.
Family
- Arthur Saul Super Birthdate: July 01, 1908 Birthplace: Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom Death: July 28, 1979 (71) Israel
- Son of Yitskhak Yaakov Super and Leah (Lena) Super
- Husband of Private and Tilla Super (nee Hyams)
- Father of Private
- Brother of Cecil David Super; Alfred Newton Newtown Super; Adolph Super; Edna-Yenta Berliner; Montague Super; and Zalman 'Albert' Super[1]
Life
Obituary:
- Rabbi Arthur Saul Super, former Chief Minister of the Johannesburg Progressive Jewish Congregation, died in Netanya this week at the age of 71. He will be buried in Herzliya tomorrow.
- Super was born in Britain and studied at Jews College and at the School of Oriental Studies of London University. He also took a degree at Cambridge. In the 1930s he served as rabbi of Shaar Hashamaim in Montreal from 1933-36 and of the United Hebrew Congregation of Leeds, England from 1937-40. Super was an army chaplain during World War 11 and resided in Israel during the 1950s where he worked as a journalist. For a time he was the chief editorial writer and assistant editor of The Jerusalem Post.
In 1960 he went to South Africa, where he worked first as editor of the Zionist Record, and later, after his ordination as a Reform rabbi, as Chief Minister of the Johannesburg Progressive Congregation.[2]
Affiliations
- The Zionist Year Book - Editor, 1951-52.