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Author:   Maurice L.Perlzweig ,  David Caute
Publisher:   Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
ISBN:  

9781910383957

ISBN 10:   1910383953
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Editor's Preface by David Caute Chronology List of Illustrations 1. Birth, family, school, Judaism 2. University College London, First World War, Zionism, 1917 Club 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 4. Life at Cambridge, the Union, Oswald Mosley, Cambridge politics 5. MLP meets future wife, GisEle Mirmovitch, Zionism, conflict with Rabbi Israel Mattuck, Montefiore's support 6. B'nai B'rith, Moses Gaster, Sir Alfred Mond, Henry Melchett, Eva Reading 7. Rufus Isaacs Viscount Reading, Labour's White Paper, Eva Reading, famous converts, aristocrats and wealthy magnates 8. Henry Melchett, British politics & Zionism, Lewis Namier, North London Liberal Synagogue prayer book 9. Namier, Chaim Weizmann, Zionism, T.E. Lawrence, Nazi threat, Second World War 10. World Jewish organizations, MLP visits Palestine, visit to South Africa & Rhodesia, Memories of GisEle Perlzweig 11. Meeting with Einstein, diplomacy, Romania, de Gaulle 12. Visits Poland, German bombs on London, R.A. Butler, journey through Spain with Nahum Goldmann 13. Franco's Spain, to New York, speaking engagements in America, Justice Brandeis, the Roosevelts, visits Mussolini's Italy, returns to London 14. Return to America 1940, anti-Semitic discrimination, diplomacy with Spain, Juan de CArdenas, MLP returns to Spain after the war 15. Post-war, World Jewish Congress, human rights and the UN, Warsaw 1967, Goldmann, Six-Day War & Israel Appendix 1. Influence of Theodore Herzl Appendix 2. MLP's Career as a London Synagogue Minister Appendix 3. MLP on T.E. Lawrence (ed. note on Interview 9) Appendix 4. MLP on Franco's Spain (ed. note on Interviews 12, 13, 14) Appendix 5. (extract from Interview 15), MLP on Nahum Goldmann, German reparations & Noah Barou Bibliography & Sources Index

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Maurice L. Perlzweig (1895-1985) gained degrees at UCL and Christ's College, Cambridge. He became second minister at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John's Wood. In 1938, he was appointed minister at the North-Western Reform Synagogue (the 'Alyth').

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