Rabbi who served Germany's Jews after fall of the Berlin Wall, dies at 93
Rabbi William Wolff, who fled the Nazis and later returned to Germany to serve its Jews after reunification in the 1990s, died July 8 in England. He was 93.
Born to an Orthodox family in Berlin in 1927 as Wilhelm Wolff, he fled with his family to Holland in September 1933, and then to England in 1939. There, he was drawn to liberal Judaism. After a career in journalism, he turned to rabbinical studies, earning his ordination in 1984 from the liberal Leo Baeck College in London.
