Jacob Rosenheim

Jacob Rosenheim (; also, Jakob or Yaakov Rosenheim; 5 November 1870 – 3 November 1965) was a German-born Israeli publisher, author, and the co-founder of World Agudath Israel.

Biography Rosenheim was born in Frankfurt as the son of Elias Rosenheim and Charlotte Kaufmann. His father worked as a bookseller, and his parents were early adherents to Samson Raphael Hirsch's neo-Orthodox Judaism movement. He graduated from a Frankfurt grammar school and from the in 1886. He used his ownership of Der Israelit to help promote the views and goals of his organization. Rosenheim emigrated to England following the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, and from 1941 to 1950, he lived in exile in the United States. He immigrated to Israel after its independence in 1948 and lived in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak until his death in 1965.

Family Rosenheim was married to Gertrude Straus, and was the grandfather of British rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger.

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