Perlzweig : Champion of British Zionism / Maurice L. Perlzweig ; edited and abbreviated from the Columbia University oral history interviews ; with a preface and notes by David Caute.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perlzweig, Maurice L. (Maurice Louis), 1895-1985, author.

Contributor:

Caute, David, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Columbia University, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perlzweig, Maurice L. (Maurice Louis), 1895-1985--Interviews.

Perlzweig, Maurice L.

World Jewish Congress--Officials and employees--Interviews.

World Jewish Congress.

Zionists--England--Interviews.

Zionists.

Rabbis--England--Interviews.

Rabbis.

Judaism.

Zionism.

England.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Perlzweig pioneer of British Zionism

Place of Publication:

London : Vallentine Mitchell, 2019.

Summary:

This is an edited version of 15 autobiographical interviews the author gave to the Columbia Oral History Project in 1981-82. Although always a synagogue minister, Perlzweig was by nature a political activist, lobbyist and organiser, with a flair for converting English aristocrats to Judaism. Here he recalls his encounters with leading figures of the inter-war era, including Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Oswald Mosley, Lewis Namier, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, R.A. Butler, Viscount Melchett, Eva, Lady Reading, Jan Smuts, Charles de Gaulle, the Roosevelts, Rabbi Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldmann.

Contents:

1 Birth, family, school, Judaism p. 1

2 University College London, First "World War, Zionism, 1917 Club p. 12

3 Research & Mentors, Jews' College, repudiates Orthodox Judaism, Morris Joseph & Reform Synagogue, Claude Montefiore, joins London Liberal Synagogue (St John's Wood) and North London affiliate as minister, studies Oriental languages at Cambridge p. 26

4 Life at Cambridge, the Union, Oswald Mosley, Cambridge politics p. 51

5 MLP meets future wife, Giséle Mirmovitch, Zionism, conflict with Rabbi Israel Mattuck, Montefiore's support p. 56

6 B'nai B'rith, Moses Caster, Sir Alfred Mond, Henry Melchett, Eva Reading p. 63

7 Rufus Isaacs Viscount Reading, Labour's White Paper, Eva Reading, famous converts, aristocrats and wealthy magnates p. 74

8 Henry Melchett, British politics & Zionism, Lewis Namier, North London Liberal Synagogue prayer book p. 88

9 Namier, Chaim Weizmann, Zionism, T.E. Lawrence, Nazi threat, Second World War p. 96

10 World Jewish organizations, MLP visits Palestine, visit to South Africa & Rhodesia, Memories of Giséle Perlzweig p. 104

11 Meeting with Einstein, diplomacy, Romania, de Gaulle p. 114

12 Visits Poland, German bombs on London, R.A. Butler, journey through Spain with Nahum Goldmann p. 126

13 Franco's Spain, to New York, speaking engagements in America, Justice Brandeis, the Roosevelts, visits Mussolini's Italy, returns to London p. 131

14 Return to America 1940, anti-Semitic discrimination, diplomacy with Spain, Juan de Cárdenas, MLP returns to Spain after the war p. 141

15 Post-war, World Jewish Congress, human rights and the UN, Warsaw 1967, Goldmann, Six-Day War & Israel p. 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9781910383957

1910383953

OCLC:

1038485479