HERTZ, JOSEPH HERMAN (18 7 2— ), chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, was born in Rebrin, Czechoslovakia, on Sept. 25, 1872. Emigrating to America as a child, he was educated at New York City college, Columbia university, where he took the degree of Ph.D., and at the Jewish theological seminary of America. He was a rabbi in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 1898 to 1911 and, during the Boer War, was expelled by President Kruger for pro-British sympathies and for advocating the removal of religious disabilities from Jews and Catholics in the South African republic. From 1906 to 1908 he was professor of philosophy at Transvaal uni versity college. Dr. Hertz was elected to the chief rabbinate in succession to Dr. Hermann Adler, in 1913. In 192o-21 he under took an extensive pastoral tour, visiting the Jewish communities in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In 1925 he was made one of the board of governors of the University of Jerusalem.