Isaac Bloch (1848–1925) served as

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in Nancy,

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. He wrote 16 articles for the ''

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''. Bloch was a native of

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. He served as a chaplain during the siege of Paris. For most of the 1880s he served as a rabbi in Algeria. He was appointed chief rabbi of Nancy in 1890.

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