Rabbi David Abraham Jessurun Cardozo was born in Amsterdam on March 29, 1896 to Abraham Jessurun Cardozo and Marijtje Serlui.
He attended the Sephardic Seminary Ets Chaim there and Jews' College in London, as well as the universities of Amsterdam and London. From 1920 rabbi Cardozo served as spiritual leader of Sephardic Communities in Londons’ East End and the Montefiore synagogue in Ramsgate fro…