DEUTSCH, ALADAR

DEUTSCH, ALADAR (1871–1949), chief rabbi of Prague under the Nazi occupation. He was a pupil of solomon breuer in Frankfurt, and subsequently served as rabbi in several Prague synagogues, when he was active within the afike jehuda association . From 1930 he served as acting chief rabbi; his appointment as chief rabbi under the Nazi regime was accompanied by all the humiliations to which Jewish leadership was then subjected. He was finally deported to theresienstadt , from where he returned, a broken man, to Prague. Deutsch published an essay on the Zigainer Synagogue (1907). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Věstnik židovské obcé náboženské v Praze, 11 (1949), 100–1; Afike Jehuda Festschrift (1909), 35–44; (1929/30), 3–8.