Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs was born June 16, 1908 in Syracuse, New York. Rabbi Jacobs founded the St. Louis Hillel at Washington University in 1946 and was its first director, a position he held until 1972. At the St. Louis Center for Holocaust Studies, Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs related observations about American Jewry during the Hitler period, 1933-45. Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs passed away on November 30, 2001.
Robert P. Jacobs
Nationality: American
Location: Asheville • France • Haifa • Missouri • New York • North Carolina • Palestine • Paris • St. Louis • Syracuse • United States of America
Experience During Holocaust: Involved with the St. Louis Center for Holocaust Studies
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“לבנות ולהיבנות על ידי הארץ...To build and be built by the land.”
- Robert P. Jacobs