THE
LONDON COMMITTEE OF DEPUTIES
OF
THE
BRITISH JEWS
(FOUNDED
GENERALLY
IN
KNOWN
1760)
AS
THE
BOARD OF DEPUTIES OF BRITISH JEWS
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR
1930
Q.
2
VERULAM
BUILDINGS
GRAY'S
INN
LONDON, W.C.I
1931
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I bequeath
OF
BEQUEST.
to the L O N D O N COMMITTEE OF
OF THE BRITISH JEWS {generally
of Deputies
of British
Jews)
free of duty,
to be applied
said
Board
and
time
being
of
discharge
for the
the
the
same.
as the
Board
the sum of £
to the general
receipt
said
known
DEPUTIES1
of
Board
the
shall
purposes
Treasurer
be
a
of the
for
the
sufficient
CONTENTS.
Alphabetical List of Deputies ...
5
List of Congregations and Institutions
on the Board
Committees
represented
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24
Annual Report—Introduction ...
28
Law, Parliamentary and General Purposes Committee
...
33
Palestine Committee
...
...
...
...
...
37
Shechita Committee
...
...
...
...
...
40
Aliens Committee
...
...
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...
...
42
Education Committee
...
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...
44
Press Committee
...
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...
...
45
Foreign Appeals Committee
...
...
...
...
45
Finance Committee
...
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...
...
46
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Joint Foreign Committee
Appendix.—Correspondence with the Home Secretary on Aliens Questions
Accounts
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Secretaries for Marriages
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President :
O.
E.
D'AVIGDOR GOLDSMID,
Vice-Presidents
Rt. Hon. Lord
Major I.
D.L.,
J.P.
:
ROTHSCHILD,
SALMON, C . B . E . ,
F.R.S.
D.L., M . P .
Treasurer :
B.
S.
STRAUS,
J.P.
Solicitor :
CHARLES
H.
L.
EMANUEL,
M.A.
Secretary :
J.
M.
RICH,
Assistant
B.
A.
ZAIMAN,
M.A.,
All Communications
THE
M.A.,
LL.B.
Secretary :
F.S.S.,
I.C.S.
(retd.j.
should be addressed
to
SECRETARY,
2, Verulam Buildings,
Gray's Inn, W . C . I
Telephone: Chancery 7895.
Telegraphic Address: Deputies, Holb., London.
Cables: Deputies, London.
5
THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES OF BRITISH JEWS.
ALPHABETICAL
LIST
OF
DEPUTIES.
Revised to March 24th, 1931.
Showing attendances during 1930.
No. of ordinary meetings held, 10.
(The date of a Deputy's first election to the Board is not necessarily
the date of his election for the Constituency he now represents.)
First
Elected
to the
Board
1928.
1928.
No. of
Attendances
Aarons, Isidore (United Synagogue), 40, Dartmouth Road, N.W.2. 2
Abrahams, A. E. (West Ham & District), 25, Shaftesbury Avenue, 0
W.l.
1913. Abrahams, Isidor (Elected Oct., 1930) (Sheffield Central), 9, 2
Avenue Road, N.W.8.
1928. Abrahams, Councillor Isidore (Grimsby), " B e n Rhydding," Park 0
Drive, Grimsby.
1922. Adler, E. N., M.A. (Anglo-Jewish Association), 20, Porchester 8
Square, W.2.
1929. Agdeshman, Revd. Philip (Sons of Britchan), 9, Bromhead
6
Street, E.l.
1919. Altman, J. (South Hackney), 3, Cleve Road, W. Hampstead, 3
N.W.6.
1928. Angel, Joseph (Dublin United), 9, Briardale Gardens, Hampstead, 6
N.W.3.
1922. Angel, Mark (Aberdare and Aberaman), 68, Teignmouth Road, 4
Cricklewood, N.W.2.
1928. Anzarut, J. E. (Withington, Spanish & Portuguese), 116, Palatine 0
Road, West Didsbury, Manchester.
1936. Aron, Wellesly (Cambridge), (Elected; Oct., 1930), 30, Canfield 1
Gardens, N.W.6.
1921 Avigdor-Goldsmid, O. E.d', D.L., J.P. (Anglo-Jewish Associa- 9
tion), 47, Hans Place, S.W.I.
6
First
Elected
to the
Board
No. of
Attendances
1922.
1919.
Barnett, D. (Tottenham), 163, Stamford Hill, N.16.
Barrow-Sicree, R. (Manchester, New Kahal Chassidim), " Oakfield," Oak Road, Withington, Manchester.
1925. Barst, Dr. M. L. (Princelet St.) 16, Wilkes St., Spitalfields, E . l .
1912. Belisha, Albert I. (West London), 32, Davies Street, W . L
1916. Benas, Bertram B. B., B.A., LL.B. (Liverpool Great(Nusach Sfard)),
Bristowe Chambers, 8, Harrington St., Liverpool, and 8, Old
Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.2.
1927. Benjamin, I. H. (Llanelly), 4, College Square, Llanelly.
1916. Bernhardt, H. (Borough), Criterion Buildings, Piccadilly Circus,
W.L
1922. Binderman, S. (Order " Achei Brith ‫ ״‬and " Shield of Abraham "),
149, High St., Shoreditch, E.L
1928. Birley, Harry (Wallasey), 21, Radnor Drive, Wallasey, Cheshire.
1928. Blank, L. (Manchester, South), Hollybank, Parsonage Road,
Withington, Manchester.
1926. Bloom, F. H. (Middlesbrough), 3, Cornfield Road, Linthorpe,
Middlesbrough.
1928. Blumenthal, R. (Glasgow, South Portland St.), lc, King Street,
St. James's, S.W.I.
1928. Bolchover, Jonas (Manchester, South), 34, Ashwood Avenue,
W. Didsbury, Manchester.
1925. Bolloten, J. (Manchester Hightown), 18, Hatton Garden, E.C.I.
1925. Bolsom, Councillor S. (Manchester United), " Lyndhurst," Rosecroft Avenue, Hampstead, N.W.3.
1929. Braverman, J. (Order " Achei Ameth "), 97, Forburg Road, N.16.
1922. Burns, Philip (Wolverhampton), 12, Shoot-up-Hill, N.W.3.
1926. Burton, Montague, J.P. (Harrogate), 64, Kent Road, Harrogate.
1919.
Cash, M. (Order " Achei Brith " and " Shield of Abraham "),
64, Stoke Newington Road, N.16.
1926. Chapman, Grahame (Victoria and Chelsea), 69, Egerton Gardens,
S.W.3.
1923. Claff, A. (Manchester, Kahal Chassidim), " Lynton," Golders
Green Road, N . W . l l .
1913. Claff, S. (Manchester Chai Adam), " Heathroyd," 24b, Alexandra
Road, Southport.
1928. Class, Abraham (Great Garden St.), 80, Chapel St., Islington, N . l .
1928. Cohen, Alex J. (Manchester, Lower Broughton), 15, Fawley Road,
N.W.6.
' <
1913. Cohen, Col. Chas. Waky-, C.M.G. (Central), 51, Campden Hill
Road, W.8.
1928. Cohen, Fred S. (Falkirk), 5, Darville Road, Stoke Newington,
N.16.
1928. Cohen, Henry M. (Whitley and District), 198, Willesden Lane,
Brondesbury, N.W.
2
1
9
0
0
2
10
3
8
3
2
8
1
7
6
4
4
0
4
1
6
2
5
6
3
6
7
7
First
Elected
to the
Board
1925.
1927.
1922.
1929.
1928.
1929.
1925.
1919.
1919.
1925.
1930.
1928.
1931.
1928.
1928.
1928.
1929.
1913.
1922.
1916.
1916.
1922.
1922.
1926.
1916.
1927.
No. of
Attendahces,
Cohen, Joseph (Newcastle, Jesmond), 27, Heath Drive, Hampstead,
N.W.
Cohen, Leonard I. (Hoxton and Shored itch), 66, Fountayne Road,
N.16.
Cohen, Lionel L. (United Synagogue), 184, Goldhurst Terrace,
N.W.6.
Cohen, Lionel L., K.C. (Barrow-in-Furness), 13, Old Square,
Lincolns Inn, W.C.2.
Cohen, Louis (Manchester, New), 23, Smedley Lane, Manchester
Cohen, M. J. (Tredegar), 45, Colchester Avenue, Cardiff.
Cohen, Percy (Association of Jewish Friendly Societies), 71, Leith
Mansions, Elgin Avenue, W.9.
Cohen, R. (Stockton), Lynwood, Richmond Rd., Stockton-on-Tees.
Cohen, Reuben (New, Stamford Hill), 88, Castlewood Road,
Stamford Hill, N.16.
Cohen, S., (North-West London), 46, Foscote Road, Hendon,
N.W.4.
Cohen, Sam (Cardiff, New), 10, Dumfries Place, Cardiff.
Cohen, Samuel (New Road), 9, St. Cuthberts Road, N.W.
Cohen, Sidney (Hove), (Elected Feb., 1931), Lansdowne Place,
Hove.
Cohen, Solomon (Sunderland Beth Hamedrash), 13, Claremont
Terrace, Sunderland.
Cohen, S. T. (Hampstead), 86, Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead,
N.W.
Collett, John (Finsbury Park), 1, Goodyers Gardens, Brent Green,
Hendon.
Corman, Solomon (Grand Order " Sons of J a c o b " ) , 15, D i g g o n
Street, E . l .
Daiches, Rabbi Dr. Samuel, M.A. (Leeds Beth Hamedrash),
" Eben-Haezar," 25, Cavendish Road, Brondesbury, N.W.6.
Davis, Councillor Morris H., L.C.C. (Federation of Synagogues),
Belmont Hall, Great Alie Street, E . l .
Davis, Moss (Auckland), 30, Norfolk Street, Park Lane, W . l .
de Haas, S. E. (Canterbury, N.Z.), 61, Blenheim Gardens,
Cricklewood, N.W.2.
Delgado, Gershom (London, Spanish and Portuguese), 28, Upper
Hamilton Terrace, N.W.8.
Deyong, Lewis (Philpot St. Great), 16, Woodchurch Rd., N.W.6.
Diamond, A. S., M.A., LL.M. (West London), 55, Armitage Road,
N.W.ll.
Doffman, Hyman (Northampton), Avon House, Kingsley Road,
Northampton.
Edelshain, Leon (Aberdeen), Paris House, 270, Regent Street, W . l .
8
4
8
3
0
0
6
0
6
4
3
6
0
5
1
5
9
8
0
9
2
2
6
8
First
Elected
to the
Board
1925.
1928.
1922.
1919.
1913.
1922:
1#28.
1913.
1919.
1911.
1921.
1925.
1919.
1913.
1928.
1928.
1910.
1922.
1925.
1917.
1928.
1899.
No of
Attendances.
Eichholz, Mrs. (Union of Jewish Women), 26, North End House,
Fitzjames Avenue, W.14.
Elkes, J. H. (Belfast), 154, Minories, E.C.3.
Epstein, Dr., M- (United Synagogue), 14, Brondesbury Park,
N.W. 6.
8
2
2
Feldman, Dr. Israel (Great), 7, Arkwright Rd., Hampstead, N.W. 6
Fersht, B. A. (Darlington), 7, Canterbury Mansions, Lymington 6
Road, N.W.6.
Fidler, M. (Manchester Holy Law), 1, Wellington St. East, Bury 0
New Road, Manchester.
Filer, Hyman (Portsmouth and Southsea), 8, St. James , s Road, 2
Southsea.
Finburgh, Alec (Leicester), 74, St. John's Wood Court, St. John's 4
Wood Road, N.W.8.
Finburgh, David (Bayswater), 6, Northwick House, St. John's 3
Wood Road, N.W.8.
Finburgh, Councillor S., J.P. (Manchester, North), " Lyndhurst," 3Upper Park Road, Broughton Park, Manchester.
Finestone, A. (Chester), " Herzl," 95, Leicester Road, Higher 2
Broughton, Manchester.
Finklestone, H., LL.B. (Manchester, Higher Broughton), 15, 2
Cooper Street, Manchester.
Fisher, N. (Stepney Orthodox), 19, Redman's Road, E . l .
0
Florentin, M. I. (Withington, Spanish and Portuguese), 130, Barlow 0‫־‬
Moor Road, West Didsbury, Manchester.
Fox, E. (Manchester United), Boness, Middleton Road, Manchester. I
Fraenkel, Dr. H. L. (Central Hackney), 47, Whitechapel Road, E.L 3
Franklin, E. L., J.P. (United Synagogue), 50, Porchester Terrace 0
W.2.
Franklin, Mrs. F. S. (Anglo-Jewish Association), 44, Lancaster 4
Gate, W.2.
Franks, Benn (Hull Western), 18, Park Avenue, Hull.
1
Fredman, Capt. Israel (Exeter), 4, Lancaster Gate Terrace, W.2. 4
Freedman, Dr. A. (Soho Beth Hasepher), 1, Priory Mansions, 3
Priory Park Road, N.W.6.
Freedman, Joseph (Chatham), 248-250, Tottenham Court Road, 7
W.l.
1930.
1928.
1929.
1928.
Freedman, Sampson S. (Brondesbury), (Elected May, 1930), 61,
St. Gabriel's Road, Cricklewood, N.W.2.
Freeman, J. (Sandys Row), 7, Brushfield Street, Bishopsgate, E. 1
Gabrielsen, David (Liverpool, Old), 3, Windermere Terrace,
Prince's Park, Liverpool.
Galinsky, D. (Margate), The Homestead, 135, The Common,
Clapton, E.5.
4
9
1
1
First
Elected
to the
Board
1925.
1926.
1928.
1925.
1926.
1919.
1925.
1917.
1928.
1929.
1925.
1919.
No. o f
Attend‫״‬
suaces.
Gaventa, Harry (Philpot St. Sphardish), 27, Osbaldeston Road, 3
N.16. ‫־‬
Gavurin, A. (Central Hackney), 27, Stoke Newington Road, N.16. 2
Geneen, Robert (Edinburgh), 34, Hollycroft Avenue, N.W.3.
5
Genese, Alderman John, J.P. (London, Spanish and Portuguese), 7
31, Amhurst Road, Hackney, E.8.
Gien, H. L. (Central Hackney), 155, Osbaldeston Road, N.16.
6
Gittlesohn, Herman (Merthyr), Garth Villa, Merthyr.
0
Glassman, Abraham (Jubilee St. Gt., London), 119, Cazenove Road, 0
N.16.
Globe, B. T. (Liverpool, Central), 32, Aigburth Drive, Liverpool.
0
Gluckstein, L. H. (Liberal Jewish), 39, Elm Tree Road, N.W.8.
4
Gluckstein, S. (Brisbane), 43, Avenue Road, N.W.8.
3
. Goldenberg, S. (Soho Beth Hasepher), 46, Oxford Gardens, W.10. 10
Goldman, Ezekiel (Grand Order of Israel), 434, Commercial Road, 4
• •E.l.
-•
1922.
Goldman, Isadore (St. John's Wood), 17, Burgess Hill, Finchley 7
Road, N.W.
1924. Goldstein, H. (Gt. Synagogue, Grove St., Liverpool), 81, Durning 1
Road, Liverpool.
1928. Goldstein, Morris (Adath Yisroel), 175a, Highbury New Park, 9
‫י‬
N.5.
....
1922. Goldstine, A. (Spitalfields Great), 230, Whitechapel Road, E . l .
3
1930., Gollancz, Ernest M., M.B.E. (Reading), (Elected Nov., 1930), 28, Q
Finsbury Square, E.C.2.
1928. Gompertz, Ernest (South Shields), 43, Vespasian Avenue, South 1
Shields.
1928. Goodenday, J. (Gt. Synagogue, Grove Street, Liverpool), 6, Avenue 5
Road, N.W.8.
1927. Goodman, Rev. H. (Hornsey and Wood Green), 57, Crouch Hall 2
Road, Crouch End, N.8.
1928. Goodman, H. A. (Adath Yisroel), 27, Lordship Park, N.16.
8
1930. Green, Aubrey (Newcastle United), 75, Exeter Road, Brondes- 0
bury, N.W.2.
1929. Greenfield, Harold (Sidney Street), 5, Bow Road, E.3.
10
1913. Greenman, M. (Liverpool, Kirkdale), 119, Ullet Road, Sefton Park, 1
Liverpool.
1930.. Gross, Lewis (Lodzer), " Wynchfield," 134, Stamford Hill, N.16. 3
1923. Grossman, J. P. (Or4er Shield of David), 107, Jerninghani Road, 3
New Cross, S.E.14.
1922. Guedalla, Philip (Sunderland Hebrew), 5, Hyde Park St., W.2. I
1901.
1913.
1928.
Haldin, H. H., K.C. (West London), 17, Montagu Square, W . l .
Hamwee, Joseph A. (Manchester, Spanish and Portuguese), 15,
Spath Road, West Didsbury, Manchester.
Harris," Henry Hv, LL.B. (Philpot St. Sphardish), 126, Bethune
Road, N.16.
5
1
10
First
Elected
to the
Board
‫״‬
,
N®•
Attend*‫®ט‬0‫״‬
1922.
1929.
1926.
1925.
1929.
Harris, Sam (Jubilee St. Gt., London), 213, Whitechapel Rd., E.l.
Hart, Charles (York), 11, Carr Lane, Acomb, York.
Hassefl, Louis (Birmingham, New), 47, City Road, Birmingham.
Hayman, John (Bournemouth), East Cliff Court, Bournemouth
Henriques, Cyril Q., M.Inst.C.E. (Nairobi), 4, Campden Hill
Square, W.8.
1927. Henriques, Frank Q. (Manchester, Congregation of British Jews),
The Heath, Vine Street, Kersal, Manchester.
,
1919. Henriques, Lt.-Col. R. Q. (West London), 22, Upper Hamilton
Terrace, N.W.8.
1928. Hermann, Victor (Brixton), 43, Palace Road, Streatham Hill, S.W.
1925. Herwald, T. B. (Agudath Ahim), 25, Stamford Hill, N.16.
1928. Homa, Dr. B. (Spitalfields Great), 20, Dalston Lane, E.8.
1928. Hore-Belisha, Leslie, M.P. (London, Spanish and Portuguese), 43,
Old Queen Street, Westminster, S.W.I.
1930. Horowitz, J. (Manchester, Austrian), 16, Southwark Street,
London, S.E.
1928. Horowitz, P., B.Sc. (Roumanian, London), 130, Walm Lane,
Willesden, N.W.2.
1924. Howitt, Councillor Arthur, J.P. (Richmond Associate), Lichfield
House, Richmond.
1925. Hurst, A. H. (Edinburgh Hebrew), c/0 Messrs. Strauss & Co.,
Holland House, Bury Street, E.C.3.
1922. Hydleman, L. J. (Ealing and Acton), 10, Birch Grove, Acton, W.8.
1916.
1930.
1928.
1922.
1922.
1922.
1901.
1925.
1929.
1928.
1913.
1922.
1928.
0
0
1
3
8
0
3
3
10
7
0
1
5
7
1
Isaacs, Ellis, M.B.E. (Glasgow South Portland St.), 68, Albert
Road, Crosshill, Glasgow.
Isaacs, F. L. (Ilford & Valentine's Park), (Elected Aug., 1930),
20, Armitage Road, N.W.ll.
Isaacs, M. Hyman (Leeds Old), 8, Pembridge Place, W.2.
Isaacs, W. F. (Independent Order Bnei Brith), 53, Heathland Road,
Stoke Newington, N.16.
Jackson, E. L. (Cork), 34-6, High Holborn, E.C.I.
Jacobs, A. J. (Bristol), " Bristowe," 10, Brondesbury Park, N.W.6.
Jacobs, Bertram, LL.B. (Newport, Mon), 11, Cleveland Sq., W.2.
Jacobs, Gaskell, E. (South-East London), 15, Park Square, East,
Regents Park, N.W.I.
Jacobs, Harry (Hull New Hebrew), 750, Beverley High Road,
Hull.
Jacobs, Alderman I. (Hampstead), 66, Shoot-up-Hill, N.W.2.
Jacobs, I. L. (Birmingham Hebrew), 22, Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Jacobs, Joseph (Norwich), 165, Chatsworth Road, N.W.2.
Jacobs, Dr. Laurence (Dundee), 3b, Maida Vale Mansions, Maida
Vale, W.9.
1
5
5
0
3
2
0
2
11
F I R S T
XT
Elected
to he
Board
C
Attendances
1889‫ ״‬Jacobs, Maurice, M.A. (Brighton and Hove), 37, Sussex Square, 6
Brighton.
1914. Jacobs, Sydney (South-West London), 258, Lavender Hill, S . W . l l . 7
1930. Janner, Mrs. Barnett (Tonypandy), 41, Brampton
Grove, 1
Hendon, N.W.4.
1925. Janner, B., B.A. (Cardiff Hebrew), 41, Brampton Grove, Hendon,
7
N.W.
1918. Jochelman, Dr. D. (Woolwich and Plumstead), 22, Mapesbury 0
Road, N.W.2.
1925. Jones, Geo. (Upton Park), 103, Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, E.7. 5
1928. Jung, Julius (Mile End, New Town), 64, Leman Street, E . l .
&
1929.
1925.
1917.
1928.
1928.
1925.
1923.
1925.
1929.
1926.
1927.
1923.
1928.
1928.
1919.
1927.
1910,
1912.
1919.
1915.
Karmel, David, B.A. (Liverpool, Nusach Haari), 8, Harrington
Street, Liverpool.
Katz, F. (Nelson Street Sphardish), 62, Kyverdale Road, N.16.
Katz, Robert (New Road), 23, The Pryors East, Heath Road, N.W.
Kempner, M. P. (Golders Green), 793, Finchley Road, Golders
Green, N.W.I.
Kershaw, Aid. A., J.P. (Association of Jewish Friendly Societies),
25, Bisterne Avenue, E.17.
Kestenbaum, I. (Adath Yisroel), " Sans Souci," 6, Wildwood
Road, N . W . l l .
Kingsley, L. (Walford Road), 54, The Avenue, Brondesbury,
N.W.6.
Kissenisky,
M. (Glasgow,
Langside),
122,
Darnley Road,
Glasgow, S . l .
Klausner, D. H. (Mile End and Bow District), 469, Mile End
Road, E . l .
Koller, H. (Shepherds Bush), 18, King Edward's Gardens, Acton,
W.3.
Kramer, Louis (Agudath Ahim), 28, Wentworth Street, E.l.
Krichefski, A. M. (Great Alie St.), 42, Heriot Road, Hendon,
N.W.4.
Kutner, Israel (Grand Order of Israel), 3, Applegarth Road,
W. Kensington, W.14.
Lachofsky, Mark (Great Alie St.), 9, Elsworthy Road, Primrose
Hill, N.W.
Landau, I. (United Synagogue), 1, Carysfort Road, N.16.
Landman, S. (North ,Leeds, Great), 22, Laurence Pountney Lane,
Cannon Street, E.C.4.
Laski, Nathan, J.P. (Manchester, Great), Smedley Lane, ManChester.
,
Laski, Neville J., K.C. (Fulham and Kensington), 5, Crown Office
Row, Temple, E.C.4.
Lazarus, Nathan (New Road), 65, Cazenove Road, N.16.
Lesser, Ernest (United Synagogue), 13, Holland Villas Road,
W.14.
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7
0
6
3
4
1
0
6
0
5
8
2
9
4
5
5
8
8
12
F I R S T
Elected
to the
Board
1928.
1929.
1928.
1898.
1925.
1921.
1929.
1919.
1919.
1930.
1925.
1920.
1922.
1925.
1918.
1919.
1919.
1922.
1926.
1928.
1919.
1917.
1923.
1928.
1904.
1925.
XT
F
Levay-Lawrence, A. (Congregation of Jacob),- 260, Finchlev Road,
N.W.3.
Lever, J. N. (Blackburn), 107, Leicester Road, Higher Broughton,
Manchester.
Lever, Leslie M., LL.B. (Manchester, Rydal Mount), " Springfield," Northumberland Street, Higher Broughton, Manchester..
Leviansky, W. T. (United Synagogue), 86, Basinghall St., E.C.2.
Levinson, Bertram A., M.A., LL.B. (Liberal Jewish Synagogue),
199, Piccadilly, W . l .
Levy, Arnold (West Hartlepool), 4, Clarence Gate Gardens,
Regents Park, N.W.I.
Levy, Harry (Manchester, Holy Law), 507, Rochdale Road,
Manchester.
Levy, Joseph (Hammersmith and West Kensington), 93, King
Street, Hammersmith, W.6.
Levy, Michael (Association of Jewish Friendly Societies), 15,
Featherstone Buildings, Holborn, W.C.I.
Levy, Lewis, B.Sc. (Walthamstow and Leyton) 37, Warren Road,
E.10.
Lewis, Keith (Nelson Street Sphardish), " Newlands," 63, Brampton Grove, Hendon, N.W.
Libbish, B., B.A., A.S.P. (Leeds, Wilner). 33, Princes Court,
Park Lane, Wembley.
Lichtenstein, E. (Manchester, Higher Broughton), 2, Mayfield Rd.,
Kersal, Manchester.
Lieberman, Reuben, LL.B. (Brighton and Hove), 22, Colbourne
Road, Hove.
Lipson, E., M.A. (Oxford), New College, Oxford.
Lissack, J. M. (Unifed Synagogue), 115A, Melrose Avenue, Crickle*wood, N.W.2.
,
Liverman, M. Gordon, J.P. (Dublin United), 13, Coverdale Road,
N.W.2.
Lowy, Lionel (Anglo-Jewish Association), Austin Friars House,
E.C.2.
Lyons, S. H. (Leeds, New Hebrew), Lidgett Street, Street Lane,
Leeds.
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Magen, Councillor A. E. (Federation of Synagogues), 92, Commercial Road, E.l.
Magnus, Laurie (West London), 34, Cambridge Square, W.2.
Marks, Simon (Birkenhead), 35, Frognal Lane, Hampstead, N.W.
Marx, Hubert M. (Western), 129, West End Lane, N.W.
Max, George (Croydon), 31, Oakfield Road, Croydon.
Meller, J., O.B.E. (Anglo-Jewish Association), 73, Dartmouth
Road, N.W.2.
Mendoza, Abraham J. (London, Spanish and Portuguese), Dutton
House, New Street, Houndsditch, E . l .
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Elected
Board
1928.
1928.
1930.
1929.
1929.
1902.
1922.
1925.
1925.
1921.
1901.
1923.
1928.
1929.
1919.
XT‫״‬
ances
Michaels, M. (N. E. London), 80, Filey Avenue, Stamford Hill,
N.16.
Miller, H. M. (Belfast), 32, Howard Street, Belfast.
Miller, Woolfe (Hull, Central), 25, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.
Millett, D. (Manchester, Warsaw), 132, Broadhurst Gardens,
Hampstead, N.W.
Millett, M.• (Derby), " Thornleigh," Regent Road, Leicester.
Mocatta, Edward L. (Spanish and Portuguese), 122, Gloucester
Terrace, W.2.
Montefiore, Leonard G., O.B.E. (Anglo-Jewish Association), 37,
Weymouth Street, W . l .
Morris, L. (Notting Hill), 23, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.I.
Morris, Max (Liverpool Hope Place), " Highfield," Greenbank
Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool.
Mosely, Maurice E. (Sydney Great), Bois Villa, Chesham Bois.
Moses, Samuel, M.A. (United Synagogue), 6, Basing Hill, Golders
Green, N . W . l l .
Moss, A. (Manchester, New Roumanian), 140, Great Clowes Street,
Manchester.
Moss, Elias (Grand Order of Israel), 19, Anson Road, N.W.2.
Mowshowitch, Dr. D. (Leyton and Walthamstow New Federation),
4a, The Vale, Golders Green, N . W . l l .
Myer, Morris (Cannon St. Rd.), 325, Whitechapel Rd., E.l.
1930.
Namier, L. B. (Surbiton and Kingston), 77, Great Russell Street,
W.C.I.
1928. Nathan, Major C. H. (Bradford Hebrew), 14, Lansdowne Crescent,
Holland Park, W . l l .
1925. Nathan, Major H. L. (Dunfermline), 1, Finsbury Square, E.C.2.
1922. Newman, Arthur, P.C. (Dublin Hebrew), Balholm, Shrewsbury
Road, Dublin.
1928. Newman, J. (Sheffield Hebrew), ‫ ״‬Kersal Mount," Manchester
Road, Sheffield.
1916. Newman, S., M.A., B.Sc. (New, Stamford Hill), 55, The Avenue,
Brondesbury Park, N.W.6.
1922. Nisse, G. H. (Coventry), 157, Walm Lane, N.W.2.
1928. Norman, Henry (Willesden Green and Cricklewood), 173, Fordwych
Road, N.W.2.
1929.
1928.
1928.
Ogus, A. (Order Shield of David), 119, Sandringham Road,
Dalston, E.8.
Ososki, Henry (Eastbourne), 49, Bridge Lane, Golders Green,
N.W.ll.
Ostrofsky, Hyman J. (Grand Order Sons of Jacob), 23, Osborn
St., E . l .
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1922.
1922.
1925.
1929.
1928.
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Pearl, M. (Manchester Telzer and Kovno), 175, Cheetham Hill 1
Road, Manchester.
Pearlman, Councillor Benno (Hull, Old), " Eastholme," Prince's 1
Avenue, Hull.
Peck, Capel (Brynmawr), 345, Upper Richmond Rd., East Sheen, 5
S.W.14.
Phillips, H. J., M.B.E., M.A. (Glasgow, Garnethill), 233, Ford- 9
wych Road, Cricklewood, N.W.2.
Presman, H. I. (Shaas, London), 16, White Lion Street, E.l.
6
Prince, Sir Alexr. W., K.B.E. (Dover), Claridge's Hotel, Brook 0‫׳‬
Street, W . l . ,
1919.
Quint, Lewis (Dalston Beth Hamedrash), 130, Amhurst Road, E.8.
7
1928.
1922.
Rafer, A. (Jubilee St. Gt., London), 127, Upper Clapton Road, E.5.
Raperport, Bernard (Cannon St. Rd.), 89., Caniield Gardens,
N.W.6.
Rau, Fred. (Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations), 15, Hollycroft Avenue, N.W.3.
Ripka, Dr. J. H. (Canning Town), 175, Barking ,Road, E.16.
Rivlin, J. E. (Cardiff, Hebrew), Tydfill, 23, Romilly Rd., Cardiff.
Romain, Artom A. (London, Spanish and Portuguese), 25,
Brondesbury Park, N.W.2.
Rose, A. H. (Southport), 13, Argyle Road, Southport, Lanes.
Roseman, Myer (Plymouth), 13, Thornhill Road, Mannamead,
Plymouth.
Rosenstein, M. J. (Spitalfields, Great), 155, Sandringham Road,
E.8.
Ross, Cyril H. (Greenfield Street), 94, Frognal, N.W.3.
Rossdale, James (New West End), 38, Porcbester Terrace, W.2.
Rothband, Sir Henry L., Bart. (Manchester, Great), The Hollies,
Higher Broughton, Manchester.
Rothschild, Rt. Hon. Lord, F.R.S. ‫(׳‬Manchester, Great), Tring.
Rothschild, Charles (Finsbbry Park), 12, Henry Road, N.4.
Rowson, S., M.Sc., F.S.S. (Manchester Central), 1, Fawley Road,
Hampstead, N.W.6.
Rubens, Charles, M.A., LL.M. (Becontree and District (Associate))
10, Grove End Road, N.W.8.
Rubin, Mark (Bolton), Dunwood House, Withington, Manchester.
Rubinstein, Samuel (Swansea), 247, Willesden Lane, Cricklewood,
N.W.2.
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4
1929.
1930.
1919.
1928.
1928.
1927.
1928.
1929.
1915.
1899.
1890.
1929.
1925.
1929.
1913.
1922.
1925.
1928.
Sacov, B. (Spital Square Poltava), 46, Forburg Road, Clapton,
N.16.
Salem, Isaac (Manchester, Shaare Sedek), 30, Belfield Road,
Didsbury, Manchester.
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Board
1912.
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Attendances.
Salmon, Major I., C.B.E., D.L., M.P. (United Synagogue), 51,
Mount Street, W.l.
1928. Samuels, H., M.A. (Preston), 8, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.2.
1925. Sandelson, D. I. (Leeds, Old), 3a, Wetherly Road, Leeds.
1923. Sandler, A. M., J.P. (Manchester, Bishop St.), Osborne House,
The Avenue, Kersal, Manchester.
1919. Sayers, Philip, J.P. (Beth Jacob Synagogue and Lambeth Talmud
Torah), " Montrose," Sneyd Road, Cricklewood, N.W.2.
1925. Schalit, L. (Soho Beth Hasepher), 28, Arkwright Road, N.W.
1913. Schiff, Ernst H., M.B.E, (Southend and Westcliff), 10 and 11,
Austin Friars, E.C.2.
1925. Schiff, M. (United Synagogue), 122, Amhurst Road, E.8.
1919. Schildkraut, H. S. (Order " Achei Brith " and " Shield of Abraham "), 60, Blenheim Gardens, Cricklewood, N.W.2.
1919. Schutz^ Victor (Poplar Associate), 43, Poppleton Road, Leytonstone, E . l l .
1928. Science, Nathan (North Shields), Creswell House, Cleveland
Road, North Shields
1930. Sebba, Sam (Leeds, Talmudical) (Elected Dec., 1930), 66, Queen
Elizabeth's Walk, N.16.
1925. Segalov, Abraham (Great Garden St.), 115, Clapton Common, E.5.
1925. Segalov, Lewis (Great Garden St.), 50, Clapton Common, N.16.
1922. Shaffer, M. (Manchester, New), Spring Bank, Moor Lane, Kersal,
Manchester.
1928. Shankleman, M. (Soho Beth Hasepher), 90, Berwick Street, W.
1930. Shepherd, Isaac (Pontypridd), Carmel, Cyncoed Road, Cardiff.
1928. Sherman, Harold (Newcastle United), Homeland, 316, Finchley
Road, Hampstead, N.W.8.
1919. Shockett, Isaac M. (Shaas, London), 18, Gore Road, E.9.
1929. Silkin, Lewis, L.C.C. (Glory of Israel and Sons of Klatsk), Arden
House, College Road, Dulwich, S.E.21.
1925. Silverberg, E. A. (Nottingham), 8, Seely Road, Nottingham.
1928. Simons, B. (Bethnal Green, Great), 9, Portland Avenue, Stamford
Hill, N.16.
1928. Simpson, Councillor Simeon (Southampton), " Kiora," 88, Fitzjohn's Avenue, N.W.3.
1922. Sions, Joseph I. (Llandudno), Swinton House, London, W.C.I.
1925. Sklan, S. E. (Spitalfields, Great), Lakefield, Woodberry Down,
N.4.
1928. Sklar, I. (Congregation of Jacob), 47, Jubilee St., Stepney, E.L
1928. Snowman, Emanuel (Aberavon and Port Talbot), 16, Lymington
Road. West End l a n e , N.W.6.
1919. Snowman, H. (Soho Beth Hasepher), 71, Brondesbury Road, N.W.
1926. Sobell, S. F. (Grove St. Great, London), 24, Menelik Road,
Minster Road, Hampstead, N.W.3.
\928. Solomons, Edwin, M.A. (Dublin Hebrew), 7, Bewley's Chambers,
Fleet Street, Dublin.
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First
Elected
to the
Board
No. of
Attend
ances.
1926.
Sorsby, Dr. M., M.D., F.R.C.S. (Leeds, Chapeltown Hebrew),
107, Brondesbury Park, N.W.2.
1928. Spanjer, Sidney (Dalston), 58, St. Kilda's Road, N.16.
1919. Spielman, Lady (Union of Jewish Women), 29, Cambridge Sq.,
W.2.
1930. Spiro, Bernard (Manchester United), 200, Walm Lane, Cncklewood, N.W.2.
1930. Spiro, J. (Liverpool, Shaw Street) (Elected Nov., 1930), 16,
Newsham Drive, Liverpool.
1922. Stein, Leonard (Anglo-Jewish Association), 31, Pembridge Square,
W.2.
1927. Steinhart, S. H., J.P. (Manchester Talmud Torah), ‫ ״‬Sandycroft,"
Bury New Road, Kersal, Manchester.
1928. Stinnerman, Lewis (Nelson Street Sphardish), 254, Commercial
Road, E . l .
1904. Straus, B. S., J.P. (East London), 8E, Hyde Park Mansions,
N.W.I.
1927. Sumberg, Colman (Stoke-on-Trent), Stanfield House, Waterloo
Road, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
1924. Sunderland, Harry (Manchester, Higher Crumpsall), 2, Fort Road,
Prestwich, Manchester.
1929. Swaythling, Rt. Hon. Lord (" Musmea Yeshua " Synagogue,
Rangoon), 114, Old Broad Street, E.C.2.
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1916.
Taylor, Councillor Sam (Blackpool United), 16, Stanley Road,
Broughton Park, Manchester.
Teff, S., B.A. (New, Stamford Hill), 130, Stamford Hill, N.16.
Tibber, G. J. (N.E. London Beth Hamedrash), 80, Chatsworth
Road, Willesden, N.W. 6.
Tuck, Gustave (Stoke Newington), 33, Upper Hamilton Terrace,
N.W.8.
Tuck, Sir Reginald W., Bart. (North London), Alton Lodge,
Roehampton.
2
1907.
Ullmann, Joseph (Western), 6e, Bickenhall Mansions, N.W.I.
2
1928.
Waldman, Councillor, M. E. (Order Achei Ameth), 73, Victoria
. Park Road, E.8.
Walters, N. B. (Stockport), " Eskdale," 84, Christchurch Avenue,
Brondesbury Park, N.W.6.
Wartski, A. M. (Durban), 58, Canfield Gardens, N.W.6.'
Wartski, Isidore (Bangor), Derwen Deg, Bangor.
Webber, Geo. J., LL.B. (South Broughton, Manchester), 3, St.
James's Square, Manchester.
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1922.
1927.
1895.
1928.
1925.
1895.
1919.
1928.
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First
Elected
to the
Board
1919.
1925.
1928.
1922.
1928.
1909.
No of
Attendances
Weinstein, I. H. (East Ham, Manor Park and Ilford), 26, St.
Margarets Road, Wanstead Park, Essex.
Weitzman, D., B.A. (United Synagogue), 3, Paper Buildings,
Temple, E.C.4.
Williams, W. N. (Spital Square Poltava), 1, Spencer Mansions,
Gt. Ormond Street, W.
Wimborne, J. (West Ham and District), 174, Sherrard Road,
Forest Gate, E.7.
Wix, A. (Hambro), 38, Brondesbury Park, N.W.6.
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N.W.3.
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LIST OF CONGREGATIONS & INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED ON
THE BOARD.
Corrected to March 24th, 1931.
LONDON SYNAGOGUES.
ADATH YISROEL—Morris Goldstein, H. A. Goodman, I. Kestenbaum.
AGUDATH AHIM—T. B. Herwald, Louis Kramer.
BAYSWATER—David Finburgh.
BECONTREE AND DISTRICT (ASSOCIATE)—Charles Rubens,
M.A.,
LL.M.
BETH HASEPHER AND FEDERATION SYNAGOGUE OF SOHO—Dr. A.
Freedman, S. Goldenberg, L. Schalit, M. Shankleman, H.
Snowman.
BETH JACOB AND LAMBETH TALMUD TORAH—Philip Sayers, J.P.
BETHNAL GREEN—B. Simons.
BOROUGH—H, Bernhardt.
BRIXTON—Victor Hermann.
BRONDESBURY—Sampson S. Freedman.
CANNING TOWN—Dr. J. H . Ripka.
CANNON STREET ROAD—•Morris Myer, Bernard Raperport.
CENTRAL—Col. Chas. Waley-Cohen, C.M.G.
CENTRAL HACKNEY—Dr. H . L. Fraenkel, A. Gavurin, H . L. Gien.
CONGREGATION OF JACOB—A. Levay Lawrence, I. Sklar.
CROYDON—George Max.
DALSTON—Sidney Spanjer.
DALSTON BETH HAMEDRASH—Lewis Quint.
DUNK STREET BETH HAMEDRASH—
EALING AND ACTON (Associate)—L. J. Hydleman.
EAST HAM, MANOR PARK AND ILFORD—I. H . Weinstein.
EAST LONDON—B. S. Straus.
FENTON STREET—
FINSBURY PARK—John Collett, Chas. Rothschild.
FULHAM AND KENSINGTON—Neville J. Laski, K.C.
GLORY OF ISRAEL AND SONS OF KLATSK—Lewis Silkin, L.C.C.
GOLDERS GREEN—M. P. Kempner.
GREAT—Dr. Israel Feldman.
GREAT ALIE STREET—A. M. Krichefski, Mark Lachofsky.
GREAT GARDEN STREET—Abraham Segalov, Lewis Segalov, Abraham
Class.
GREENFIELD STREET—Cyril H. Ross.
GROVE STREET—S. F. Sobell.
HAMBRO—A. Wix.
HAMMERSMITH AND WEST KENSINGTON—Joseph Levy.
HAMPSTEAD—S. T. Cohn, Alderman I. Jacobs.
HORNSEY AND WOOD GREEN—Rev. H. Goodman.
HOXTON AND SHOREDITCH—Leonard I. Cohen.
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Isaacs.
ILFORD AND VALENTINE'S P A R K — F . L .
JUBILEE STREET—Sam Harris, Abraham Glassman, A Rafer.
LEYTON
AND
WALTHAMSTOW
NEW
David Mowshowitch.
LIBERAL JEWISH—Bertram A.
Gluckstein.
LODZER—Lewis Gross.
FEDERATION
Levinson,
M.A.,
SYNAGOGUE—Dr.
LL.B.,
L.
H.
MILE END NEW TOWN—Julius Jung.
MILE END AND B o w — D . H . Klausner.
NELSON STREET SPHARDISH—K. Lewis, F. Katz, L. Stinnerman.
NEW—Reuben Cohen, S. Newman, M.A., B.Sc., S. Teff, B.A.
NEW ROAD—Samuel Cohen, Robert Katz, Nathan Lazarus.
NEW WEST END—James Rossdale.
NORTH LONDON—Sir Reginald W . Tuck, Bart.
NORTH EAST LONDON BETH H A M E D R A S H — M . M i c h a e l s ,
NORTH W E S T L O N D O N — S . C o h e n .
G . J.
Tibber.
NOTTING HILL—Louis Morris.
PHILPOT STREET (Great)—Lewis Deyong.
PHILPOT STREET SPHARDISH—Harry Gaventa, H e n r y H . Harris.
POPLAR—Victor Schutz.
PRINCELET STREET—Dr. M. L. Barst.
RICHMOND AND DISTRICT H E B R E W C O N G R E G A T I O N — C o u n c i l l o r
Arthur
Howitt, J.P.
ROUMANIAN—P. Horowitz, B.Sc.
ST. JOHN'S WOOD—Isadore Goldman.
SANDYS R o w — J . Freeman.
SHASS (Old Montague Street)—Isaac
Shockett,
Pressman,
SHEPHERDS B U S H SYNAGOGUE AND TALMUD T O R A H — H .
Isaac
Morris
Koller.
SIDNEY STREET—Harold Greenfield.
SONS OF BRITCHAN—Revd. Philip Agdeshman.
SOUTH EAST L O N D O N — G a s k e l l E . J a c o b s .
SOUTH HACKNEY—J. A l t m a n .
SOUTH W E S T L O N D O N — S y d n e y J a c o b s .
SPANISH
AND PORTUGUESE—Gershom Delgado, Alderman John
Genese, J.P., Leslie Hore-Belisha, M.P., Abraham J. Mendoza, Edward L. Mocatta, Artom A. Romain.
SPITALFIELDS GREAT—Dr. B. Homa, A. Goldstine, M. J. Rosenstein,
S. E. Sklan.
SPITAL SQUARE POLTAVA—B. Sacov, W. N. Williams.
STEPNEY ORTHODOX—N. Fisher.
STOKE NEWINGTON—Gustave Tuck.
TOTTENHAM—D. Barnett.
UPTON PARK—George Jones.
VICTORIA AND CHELSEA (Associate)—Grahame Chapman.
WALFORD R O A D — L .
Kingsley.
WALTHAMSTOW AND LEYTON—Lewis Levy, B.Sc.
WESTERN—Hubert M. Marx, Joseph Ullmann.
WEST HAM AND DISTRICT—A. E. Abrahams, J. Wimborne.
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WEST
LONDON—A.
I.
Belisha,
A.
S.
Diamond,
M.A..,
LL.M.,
Lt.-Col. R. Q. Henriques, Laurie Magnus, H. H. Haldin,
K.C.
WOOLWICH AND PLUMSTEAD—Dr. D . J o c h e l m a n .
WILLESDEN GREEN AND CRICKLEWOOD—Henry N o r m a n .
PROVINCIAL
SYNAGOGUES.
ABERAVON AND PORT T A L B O T — E m a n u e l
ABERDARE—Mark A n g e l .
ABERDEEN—Leon E d e l s h a i n .
Snowman.
BANGOR—Isidore Wartski.
BARROW-IN-FURNESS—Lionel
L. Cohen,
K.C.
BELFAST—H. M. Miller, J. H. Elkes.
BIRKENHEAD•—Simon M a r k s .
BIRMINGHAM HEBREW CONGREGATION—I. L .
Jacobs.
NEW—Louis Hassell.
BLACKBURN—J. N . L e v e r .
BLACKPOOL—Sam T a y l o r .
BOLTON—Mark Rubin.
BOURNEMOUTH—John H a y m a n .
BRADFORD—Maj. C . H . N a t h a n .
BRIGHTON—Maurice Jacobs, M.A., Reuben Lieberman, LL.B.
BRISTOL—A. J .
Jacobs.
BRYNMAWR—Capel Peck.
CAMBRIDGE—Wellesley ARON.
CARDIFF—
HEBREW CONGREGATION—B. J a n n e r ,
B . A . , J. E .
Rivlin.
NEW—Sam Cohen.
CHATHAM—Joseph Freedman.
CHESTER—A.
Finestone.
CORK—E. L. Jackson.
COVENTRY—G. H . N i s s e .
")ARLINGTON—B. A . F e r s h t .
DERBY—M. M i l l e t t .
DOVER—Sir Alexander W. Prince, K.B.E. *
DUBLIN—
HEBREW CONGREGATION—Arthur Newman,
M.A.
UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATION—Joseph
Liverman, J.P.
DUNDEE—Dr. Lawrence Jacobs.
DUNFERMLINE—Major H. L. Nathan, M.P.
EASTBOURNE—Henry Ososki.
EDINBURGH—A. H. Hurst, Robert Geneen.
EXETER—Capt. Israel Fredman.
FALKIRK—Fred S. Cohen.
Edwin M. Solomons,
Angel,
M.
Gordon
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GLASGOW—
GARNET
HILL
HEBREW
M.B.E., M.A.
LANGSIDE—M. K i s s e n i s k y .
SOUTH PORTLAND STREET
CONGREGATION—Harry
SYNAGOGUE—R.
J.
Phillips,
Blumenthal,
Ellis
Isaacs, M.B.E.
GRIMSBY—Councillor Isidore Abrahams.
HARROGATE—Montague Burton, J.P.
HOVE, N E W — S i d n e y
HULL—
Cohen.
CENTRAL—Woolfe Miller.
OLD SYNAGOGUE—Councillor Benno Pearlman.
NEW HEBREW—Harry Jacobs.
WESTERN SYNAGOGUE—Benn F r a n k s .
]LEEDS—
BETH H A M E D R A S H — R a b b i D r . S a m u e l D a i c h e s , M . A . , P h . D .
CHAPELTOWN H E B R E W — D r . M . S o r s b y , M . D . , F . R . C . S .
GREAT ( O L D ) SYNAGOGUE—M. H y m a n I s a a c s , D . I . S a n d e l s o n .
NEW—S. H. Lyons.
NORTH LEEDS, G R E A T — S . L a n d m a n , M . A .
WILNER—B. Libbish, B.A., A . S . P .
TALMUDICAL—Sam S e b b a .
LEICESTER—Alec F i n b u r g h .
LIVERPOOL—
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE—B. T . G l o b e .
GREAT—J. Goodenday, H. Goldstein.
GREAT (Nusach Sfard)—Bertram B. B . B e n a s , B.A., L L . B .
H O P E PLACE HEBREW CONGREGATION—Max M o r r i s .
KIRKDALE—M. G r e e n m a n .
NUSACH H A A R I — D a v i d K a r m e l , B . A . , L L . B .
OLD SYNAGOGUE—David G a b r i e l s e n .
SHAW STREET—J. S p i r o .
LLANDUDNO—Joseph I. Sions.
LLANELLY—I. H . B e n j a m i n .
MANCHESTER—
AUSTRIAN—J. H o r o w i t z .
BISHOP STREET SYNAGOGUE—A. M . S a n d l e r , J . P .
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE—S. R o w s o n , M . S c . , F . S . S .
CHAI ADAM SYNAGOGUE—S. C l a f f .
CONGREGATION OF BRITISH J E W S — F r a n k Q . H e n r i q u e s .
GREAT S Y N A G O G U E — N a t h a n L a s k i , S i r H e n r y R o t h b a n d ,
Bt.,
Lord Rothschild.
HIGHER
BROUGHTON
HEBREW
CONGREGATION—N.
L L . B . , E. Lichtenstein.
HIGHER CRUMP
^—Harry Sunderland.
H I G H T O W N SYNAGOGUE—J. B o l l o t e n .
HOLY L A W CONGREGATION—M. F i d l e r , H a r r y
KAHAL CHASSIDIM—A. C l a f f .
LOWER B R O U G H T O N — A l e x . J . C o h e n .
N E W KAHAL C H A S S I D I M — R . B a r r o w - S i c r e e .
N E W ROUMANIAN—A. M o s s .
Levy.
Finklestone,
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MANCHESTER—continued.
N E W SYNAGOGUE—Louis C o h e n , M . S h a f f e r .
NORTH SYNAGOGUE—Councillor S . F i n b u r g h , J . P .
OXFORD ROAD HEBREW CONGREGATION—
RYDAL MOUNT HEBREW CONGREGATION—Leslie M . L e v e r , L L . B
SHAARE S E D E K — I s a a c S a l e m .
SOUTH BROUGHTON SYNAGOGUE—Geo. J . W e b b e r .
SOUTH MANCHESTER SYNAGOGUE—L. B l a n k , J o n a s B o l c h o v e r .
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE—Joseph A . H a m w e e .
TALMUD TORAH SYNAGOGUE—S. H . S t e i n a r t .
TELZER AND KOVNO SYNAGOGUE—M.. P e a r l .
UNITED
SYNAGOGUE
AND
BETH
HAMEDRASH—Councillor
S
Bolsom, E. Fox, Bernard Spiro.
WARSAW SYNAGOGUE—D. M i l l e t t .
WITHINGTON CONGREGATION OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS—
M . I . F l o r e n t i n , J. E . A n z a r u t .
MARGATE—D. G a l i n s k y .
MERTHYR T Y D F I L — H e r m a n G i t t l e s o h n .
MIDDLESBROUGH—F. H . B l o o m .
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—
JESMOND—Joseph C o h e n .
UNITED SYNAGOGUE—Harold S h e r m a n , A u b r e y G r e e n .
NEWPORT ( M o n . ) — B e r t r a m J a c o b s , L L . B .
NORTHAMPTON—Hyman D o f f m a n .
NORTH S H I E L D S — N a t h a n S c i e n c e .
NORWICH—Joseph J a c o b s .
NOTTINGHAM—E. A . S i l v e r b e r g .
OXFORD—E. L i p s o n , M . A .
PLYMOUTH—Myer R o s e m a n .
PONTYPRIDD—Isaac S h e p h e r d .
PORTSMOUTH AND SOUTHSEA—•Hyman F i l e r .
PRESTON—H. S a m u e l s , M . A .
READING—Ernest M. Gollancz, M . B . E .
SHEFFIELD—
CENTRAL—I s i d o r A b r a h a m s .
HEBREW—Joseph N e w m a n .
SOUTH S H I E L D S — E r n e s t G o m p e r t z .
SOUTHAMPTON—Councillor S . S i m p s o n .
SOUTHEND AND WESTCLIFF—Ernst H . S c h i f f , M . B . E .
SOUTHPORT—A. R o s e .
STOCKPORT—N. B . W a l t e r s .
STOCKTON-ON-TEES—R. C o h e n .
STOKE-ON-TRENT—Colman S u m b e r g .
SUNDERLAND—
BETH H A M E D R A S H — S o l o m o n C o h e n .
HEBREW CONGREGATION—Philip G u e d a l l a .
SURBITON AND KINGSTON—L. B . N a m i e r .
SWANSEA—Samuel R u b i n s t e i n .
TONYPANDY—Mrs. B a r n e t t J a n n e r
TREDEGAR—M. J . C o h e n .
WALLASEY—Harry B i r l e y .
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W E S T HARTLEPOOL—Arnold L e v y .
WHITLEY AND D I S T R I C T — H e n r y M .
WOLVERHAMPTON—Philip B u r n s .
Cohen.
YORK—Charles Hart.
COLONIAL SYNAGOGUES.
AUSTRALIA—
BRISBANE—S. G l u c k s t e i n .
SYDNEY ( G R E A T ) — M a u r i c e
E.
Mosely.
INDIA—
RANGOON
( " MUSMEA YESHUA " ) — R t .
Hon.
Lord
Swaythling.
KENYA COLONY—
NAIROBI—Cyril Q. Henriques, M.Inst.C.E.
N E W ZEALAND—
AUCKLAND—-Moss Davis.
CHRISTCHURCH—S.
E. de
Haas.
S O U T H AFRICA—
CAPE T O W N — E l s l e y Z e i t l y n .
DURBAN—A. M . ‫ ־‬W a r t s k i .
INSTITUTIONS.
ANGLO-JEWISH
ASSOCIATION—Elkan N .
Adler,
M.A.,
Mrs.
F.
S.
Franklin, O. E. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, D . L . , J . P . , Lionel
L o w y , J. Meller, O . B . E . , Leonard G. Montefiore, O . B . E . ,
Leonard Stein.
FEDERATION
OF
SYNAGOGUES—Councillor M o m s
H. Davis,
L.C.C.,
Councillor A. E. Magen.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES—
ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH
FRIENDLY
SOCIETIES—Michael
Levy,
Percy Cohen, Aid. A. Kershaw, J.P.
GRAND ORDER OF I S R A E L — E z e k i e l G o l d m a n ,
Israel Kutner,
Elias
Moss.
GRAND ORDER " S O N S OF JACOB " — S o l o m o n
Corman,
Hyman
J.
Ostrofsky.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF " BNEI BRITH " — W . F .
ORDER " ACHEI
AMETH " — C o u n c i l l o r
M.
E.
Isaacs.
Waldman,
J.
Braverman.
ORDER " ACHEI BRITH " AND " S H I E L D OF A B R A H A M " — S .
Binder-
man, M. Cash, H. S. Schildkraut.
ORDER " SHIELD OF D A V I D " — J . P . G r o s s m a n , A . O g u s .
U N I O N OF J E W I S H W O M E N — M r s . E i c h h o l z , L a d y S p i e l m a n .
U N I O N OF ORTHODOX HEBREW C O N G R E G A T I O N S — F r e d R a u .
UNITED S Y N A G O G U E — I s i d o r e A a r o n s , L i o n e l
L.
Cohen,
Dr.
M.
Epstein, E. L. Franklin, J.P., I. Landau, Ernest Lessar,
W. T. Leviansky, J. M. Lissack, Samuel Moses, M.A.,
Major Isidar Salmon, C.B.E., D . L . , M . P . , M. Schiff, D.
Weitzman, B.A.
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COMMITTEES
The figures, after the name of a Committee, indicate the total number of
Meetings held during 1930; after the name of a Member, the number of his
attendances.
LAW,
PARLIAMENTARY
H.
O. E .
J-P-
H.
AND
GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE.
HALDIN,
D'AVIGDOR GOLDSMID,
K . C.
T H E R T . H O N . L O R D ROTHSCHILD,
F . R . S . (0)
MAJOR
ISIDOR
SALMON,
C.B.E.,
D . L . , M . P . (5)
B . S . STRAUS, J . P . ( 1 0 )
LIONEL L . COHEN, K . C . ( 6 )
R A B B I D R . SAMUEL DAICHES, M . A ,
(3)
B . A . L E V I N S O N , M . A . , L L . B . (6)
L A U R I E M A G N U S (3)
SAMUEL MOSES, M . A .
(7)
E R N S T H . SCHIFF, M . B . E . (7)
R T . H O N . L O R D SWAYTHLING ( 7 )
S . T E F F , B . A . (1)
E L S L E Y ZEITLYN (6)
(6)
(9)
ALIENS
COMMITTEE.
(5)
H . S . SCHILDKRAUT ( C h a i r m a n ) .
O . E . D'AVIGDOR GOLDSMID,
D.L.,
(Elected Nov. 1930)
S . TEFF, B . A . (0)
COMMITTEE.
LADY SPIELMAN
O. E.
D'AVIGDOR
GOLDSMID,
D.L.,
J - P • (2)
T H E R T . H O N . L O R D ROTHSCHILD,
F . R . S . ^0)
MAJOR
ISIDOR
SALMON,
C.B.E.,
D . L . , M . P . (0)
B . S . S T R A U S , J . P . (1)
BERTRAM B . B . BENAS, B . A . , L L . B .
(0)
(5)
JULIUS JUNG (3)
R O B E R T K A T Z (5)
I . KESTENBAUM (1)
N . LAZARUS (3)
MICHAEL L E V Y ( 2 )
S . SIMPSON (1)
J-P(5)
T H E R T . H O N . L O R D ROTHSCHILD,
F . R . S . (0)
MAJOR
ISIDOR
SALMON, C . B . E . ,
D . L . , M . P . (0)
B . S . STRAUS, J . P . (1)
D R . ISRAEL FELDMAN (3)
L . J . H Y D L E M A N (2)
EDUCATION
(10)
(7)
COUNCILLOR S . F I N B U R G H , J . P . ( 3 )
A L D E R M A N J O H N G E N E S E , J . P . (4)
L . H O R E - B E L I S H A , M . P . (2)
COUNCILLOR A R T H U R H O W I T T , J . P .
D.L.,
(8)
A . S. DIAMOND, M . A . , L L . M .
B . A . FERSHT (2)
(Chairman).
(Chairman).
(3)
(3)
M R S . EICHHOLZ (2)
M R S . F . S . F R A N K L I N (1)
MORRIS GOLDSTEIN (2)
B E R T R A M J A C O B S , L L . B . (3)
A L D . A . K E R S H A W , J . P . (0)
B . L I B B I S H , B . A . , A . S . P . (2)
S . N E W M A N , M . A . , B . S c . (1)
J . O S T R O F S K Y (2)
DR. M. SORSBY, M . D . , F . R . C . S . ( O )
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SHECHITA
COMMITTEE.
(11)
E L S L E Y ZEITLYN ( C h a i r m a n ) .
O. E.
D'AVIGDOR
GOLDSMID,
(11)
M . G O L D S T E I N (9)
T. B . HERWALD (11)
D R . B . H O M A (8)
J . JACOBS (0)
R O B E R T KATZ (8)
I . K E S T E N B A U M (8)
S . L A N D M A N (6)
J . M . LISSACK (0)
M . S C H I F F . (6)
D.L.,
J-P• (7)
T H E R T . H O N . L O R D ROTHSCHILD,
F . R . S . (0)
MAJOR
ISIDOR
SALMON,
C.B.E.,
D.L., M . P . ( 1 )
B . S . S T R A U S , J . P . (7)
LIONEL L . COHEN (6)
C A P T A I N I . F R E D M A N (2)
JOINT FOREIGN COMMITTEE.
(10)
Delegates of the Board.
O. E . D'AVIGDOR GOLDSMID, D . L , , J . P . ( J o i n t C h a i r m a n ) (9)
DR. I. FELDMAN (7)
PHILIP GUEDALLA (1)
NATHAN LASKI, J . P . ( 3 )
M . GORDON LIVERMAN, J . P . < 3 )
MORRIS M Y E R ( 1 0 )
T H E R T . H O N . LORD ROTHSCHILD,
F . R . S . (0)
B . S . STRAUS, J . P . ( 3 )
R A B B I D R . S . D A I C H E S , M . A . (7)
A . S. DIAMOND, M . A . , L L . M . (9)
D R . M . EPSTEIN (5)
The following Deputies are members of the Committee as Delegates of t h e
Anglo-Jewish Association.
L. G. MONTEFIORE, O.B.E. (Joint Chairman) (5)
E . N . ADLER (4)
LEONARD STEIN
(2)
COL. CHARLES W A L E Y - C O H E N ,
C . M . G . (2)
The otL?r representatives of the Anglo-Jewish Association are :—
SIR LEONARD L . COHEN, K . C . V . O .
[
CAPT. C Y R I L J . G O L D S M I D , O . B . E .
\
FINANCE
HARRY R .
LEWIS
(One
COMMITTEE.
B . S. STRAUS, J . P . ( C h a i r m a n )
J O H N ALTMAN ( 1 )
COUNCILLOR S . BOLSOM ( 0 )
MAURICE JACOBS, M . A . ( 2 )
O . E . D'AVIGDOR GOLDSMID,
(2)
M . E . MOSELY (1)
E R N S T H . SCHIFF, M . B . E
H . S . S C H I L D K R A U T (2)
PRESS
PHILIP
Vacancy)
(2)
(2)
COMMITTEE. (2)
GUEDALLA
D.L.,
J . P . (2)
T H E R T . H O N . L O R D ROTHSCHILD,
F . R . S . (0)
MAJOR
ISIDOR
SALMON,
C.B.E.,
D.L., M . P . (0)
B . S . S T R A U S , J . P . (0)
(Chairman).
(2)
P E R C Y C O H E N (0)
D R . M. EPSTEIN (0)
L. HORE-BELISHA, M . P . (1)
L. J. HYDLEMAN (1)
ERNEST LESSER (2)
L A U R I E M A G N U S (1)
S . N E W M A N , M . A . , B . S c . (1)
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FOREIGN APPEALS COMMITTEE.
ERNST H . SCHIFF, M . B . E . (Chairman)
O . E . D'AVIGDOR
J.P.
GOLDSMID, D . L . ,
I
I
LEONARDG.MONTEFIORE,O.B.E.
MORRIS M Y E R
PALESTINE COMMITTEE (10)
NATHAN LASKI,
O.
E.
D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID,
D.L.,
J - P (8)
T H E R T . H O N . LORD ROTHSCHILD,
F . R . S . (2)
MAJOR
ISIDOR
SALMON,
C.B.E.,
D . L . , M . P . (3)
B . S. STRAUS, J . P . (7)
L I O N E L L . C O H E N (5)
R A B B I D R . S . DAICHES, M . A . (10)
C O U N C I L L O R M . H . D A V I S (0)
A . S . DIAMOND, M . A . , L L . M . (7)
D R . M . E P S T E I N (5)
J . P . ( C h a i r m a n ) (4)
B . A . F E R S H T (3)
COUNCILLOR S . F I N B U R G H , J . P . ( 2 )
MRS. F . S. FRANKLIN (6)
A L D . J O H N G E N E S E (2)
CYRIL Q . HENRIQUES, M . I n s t . C . E .
(10)
MICHAEL L E V Y (9)
L A U R I E M A G N U S (7)
M O R R I S M Y E R (9)
L E O N A R D S T E I N (1)
E L S L E Y Z E I T L Y N (9)
BRITISH SECriON OF THE JEWISH AGENCY FOB PALESTINE.
(Non-Zionist Members elected b y t h e Board).
Miss
NETTIE ADLER, J . P .
O. E
D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID, D . L . ,
J.P.
LT.-COL. CHARLES W A L E Y COHEN,
C.M.G.
NATHAN LASKI, J . P .
T H E R T . H O N . LORD ROTHSCHILD,
F.R.S.
SIR M E Y E R SPIELMAN
MAJOR H . L . NATHAN, M . P .
Deputy Members.
R A B B I D R . SAMUEL DAICHES, M . A .
COUNCILLOR M . H . DAVIS, L . C . C .
A . S. DIAMOND, M . A . , L L . M .
D R . M. EPSTEIN
CYRIL Q . H E N R I Q U E S , M . I n s t . C . E .
LAURIE MAGNUS
MICHAEL MARCUS, M . P .
A N N U A L REPORT COMMITTEE (1930 REPORT).
C. S. RUBENS, M.A., LL.M. (Chairman)
O.
E.
D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID,
D.L.,
J-PT H E R T . H O N . LORD ROTHSCHILD,
F.R.S.
MAJOR
ISIDOR
SALMON,
C.B.E.,
D.L., M.P.
B . S . STRAUS, J . P .
D R . ISRAEL FELDMAN
L . H . GLUCKSTEIN
A . J . JACOBS
JOSEPH M E L L E R / O . B . E .
MAJOR C. H . NATHAN
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TRUSTEES.
Bancroft Road Disused Cemetery
Sheerness Disused Cemetery
O.
E . D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID,
D.L.,
O . E . D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID,
D.L.,
J-P•
J-P•
A . S. DIAMOND, M . A . , L L . M .
M . GORDON LIVERMAN, J . P .
A . S. DIAMOND, M . A . , L L . M .
JOSEPH FREEDMAN
Penzance Disused Cemetery
O. E.
D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID,
D.L.,
J.P•
A . S . DIAMOND, M . A . ,
JOSEPH FREEDMAN
M Y E R ROSEMAN
LL.M.
REPRESENTATIVES ON OTHER ORGANISATIONS.
Council 01 the Jewish War Memorial
THE RT. HON. LORD
F.R.S.
ROTHSCHILD,
(One Vacancy)
Annual Conference of the English
Zionist Federation (Jan., 1930)
RABBI D R . S. DAICHES,
CYRIL Q . HENRIQUES,
M.A.
M.Inst.C.E.
Jewish Health Organisation
Hobday Committee for Testing the
Weinberg Pen
D R . ISRAEL FELDMAN
RABBI D R . S. DAICHES,
M.A.
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THE
BOARD OF
BRITISH
DEPUTIES OF
JEWS.
A N N U A L R E P O R T FOR T H E Y E A R
1930.
INTRODUCTION.
The proceedings of the Board in recent years have
tended to become a faithful mirror of communal life,
and the prominence given to the affairs of Palestine at
the Meetings of the Board during 1930 truly reflected the
dominating anxiety of the vast majority of Jews at home
a n d abroad. The Board continued to be occupied with
many of the problems which previously engaged its attention. The treatment of the alien and the children of the
alien, a matter of intimate concern to a community,
many of whose members represent the first generation
•of the descendants of those who took refuge in the
British Empire from the persecution to which the Jews
of Eastern Europe were subject at the end of last cent u r y ; the defence of Shechita,
the ritually prescribed
method of slaughtering animals f a r food (scientific evidence of the humaness of which continues to accumulate);
the endeavour to relieve Jews from the economic penalties to which Sabbath observance is apt to condemn them
in the modern world; the refutation of anti-semitic
calumnies, inspired by that irrational dislike of the Jew
which has made Jewish history a " vale of tears " for
t w o thousand years, these are some of the topics which
will be found recorded below in the reports of the appropriate Committees of the Board.
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ADMINISTRATIVE.
C O M P O S I T I O N OF THE B O A R D .
On March 24th, 1931, the Board consisted of 323
Deputies, representing 82 London Synagogues, 126 Pro‫־‬
vincial Synagogues, 8 Colonial Synagogues, and 12
Institutions. Containing democratically-elected Deputies
of practically every Congregation in the British Isles, the
Board is completely representative of the Anglo-Jewish
Community, and its membership voices all shades of
Jewish opinion.
During 1930, the Ilford and Valentine's P a r k Congre:gation for the first time elected a representative to the
Board—symptomatic of the growth of the ring of new
synagogues round Greater London and the concentration
•of Anglo-Jewish life in the larger urban districts and its
withdrawal from the smaller provincial towns.
The Board lost by death during the year Rabbi Sir
Hermann Gollancz, Deputy for Reading since 1904; Mr.
Jacob Cohen, Deputy for Jubilee Street Synagogue,
London, since 1922, and Mr. H. Spiro, Deputy for Liverpool, Shaw Street, since 1925.
It may be noted, as a sign of the times, that Mrs.
Barnett Janner was elected Deputy for Tonypandy, the
Board thus for the first time counting a husband and
wife among its members.
VOTES
OF CONGRATULATION TO M E M B E R S OF T H E
BOARD.
The Board congratulated Lieut.-Col. R. Q. Henriques
(Deputy for W e s t London Synagogue) upon his election
as Mayor of Marylebone, and Councillor M. H . Davis
,(Deputy for the Federation of Synagogues) upon his elec-
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tion a s Mayor of Stepney. Earlier in the year the B o a r d
c o n g r a t u l a t e d Mr. Neville Laski, ( D e p u t y for ManChester, South Broughton, and later for F u l h a m and
Kensington) upon his appointment as K i n g ' s Counsel.
V O T E OF CONGRATULATION TO S I R
ISAAC
ISAACS.
In December the Board passed a vote of congratulation to Sir Isanc Isaacs upon his appointment as
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.
VOTES
OF
CONDOLENCE
UPON THE
M E M B E R S OF THE
DEATHS
OF
NON-
BOARD.
It is the B o a r d ' s practice to m a r k the passing of
those w h o have deserved well of the Community, even
t h o u g h they are not members of the Board.
In this
category d u r i n g 1930 were Mrs. J. H . Hertz, wife of
the Chief R a b b i ; Rabbi Dr. Schonfeld, R a b b i of the
Union of O r t h o d o x H e b r e w C o n g r e g a t i o n s ; the Rev.
Morris Joseph, Minister Emeritus of the W e s t London
S y n a g o g u e of British Jews. T h e Board also endorsed the
tribute paid by the Joint F o r e i g n Committee to the late
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Representative at the
L e a g u e of N a t i o n s and H i g h Commissioner for R e f u g e e s ,
whose dauntless and noble spirit had b r o u g h t relief to
t h o u s a n d s of sufferers, many of whom were Jews, in the
chaos in which E a s t e r n Europe was plunged in the years
t h a t followed the w a r .
T H E D E A T H OF M R .
LUCIEN
WOLF.
T h e sudden death of Mr. Lucien W o l f , Secretary of
the Joint F o r e i g n Committee, on A u g u s t 23rd, inflicted
on the Jewish Community at home and abroad a g r a v e
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and irreparable loss. Despite his advanced a g e of 73,
his death was unexpected, for he was hard at w o r k
:almost until the end, preparing for his usual visit to
Geneva in connection with the Assembly of the League
of Nations.
H e had been engaged in Anglo-Jewish
public life since he joined the staff of the " Jewish
World " as sub-editor at the early age of 17. His ability
rapidly secured for him a commanding place among the
leading journalists of the time; and he won fame by a
series of articles on foreign affairs in the " Fortnightly
Review , ‫ י‬under the pseudonym of " Diplomaticus."
W i t h the Joint Foreign Committee his association was
only unofficial until the W a r , although he had on many
occasions placed at its disposal his full and accurate
knowledge of international affairs. W i t h the W a r a whole
mass of Jewish problems arose which called for an expert
to deal with them, and Lucien Wolf was appointed Secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee. T h e record of his
activities is to be found in the series of Reports embodied
in the Annual Reports of the parent bodies. The formulation of the Minorities Treaties at the Peace Conference was in a large measure due to him, and he wrote
a lucid and masterly exposition of his negotiations and
of the significance of the Minorities Treaties in the
Report entitled " T h e Peace Conference," published by
the Joint Foreign Committee in 1920.
The Board held a Special Meeting on August 27th,
and adopted the following Resolutions :—
" The Board places on record its sense of the heavy loss sustained by the Anglo-Jewish Community, and by Jewry
throughout the world by the death of Mr. Lucien Wolf, Secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee.
" The Board will always remember with deep gratitude the
self-sacrifice with which Mr. Wolf placed his unrivalled
abilities at the disposal of his co-religionists.
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" H i s arduous and successful labours at the Peace Conference on behalf of Minorities, his subsequent efforts on behalf
of the defenceless, the oppressed and persecuted of his own
a n d other faiths, will make h i s memory live throughout the
generations to come,
" The void he has left can never wholly be filled, for h i s
record of conscientious and brilliant service will be difficult to rival, but his example will serve to inspire others in
carrying on his work."
ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE BOARD AND THE
JOINT FOREIGN COMMITTEE.
Consequent upon the death of Mr. Wolf, it was decided
to unite the Secretaryships of the Board and the Joint
Foreign Committee, and Mr. J. M. Rich was appointed
to both offices. Mr. B. A. Zaiman, M.A., a former member of the Indian Civil Service, in which he held Executive and Judicial appointments, was chosen from 79 applicants for the post of Assistant Secretary.
Both the Board and the Joint Foreign Committee (as
also the Anglo-Jewish Association) are now housed in the
Offices in Gray's Inn, formerly occupied by Mr. Lucien
Wolf.
REVISION OF THE BOARD'S CONSTITUTION.
In view of the approaching termination of the Triennial Session of the Board (in April, 1931), a• Special Meeting was held in December to revise the Constitution.
The only fundamental alteration made was the substitution of the more elastic term " members of a Synagogue " for " seatholders " as the basis of the franchise
for the election of Deputies.
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CERTIFICATION OF MARRIAGE
SECRETARIES.
The President in the exercise of his statutory duty h a s
continued to certify to the Registrar-General the appointment of Marriage Secretaries of Synagogues.
In 1930 the Ilford and Valentine's P a r k S y n a g o g u e
for the first time appointed a Marriage Secretary.
SHOCHETIM.
T h e President, in virtue of the London County Council
Byelaws, has again issued Annual Certificates to
Shochetim licensed by the Ecclesiastical Authorities and
exercising their functions within the Administrative
County of London.
LAW, PARLIAMENTARY AND GENERAL
POSES COMMITTEE.
BILLS
IN
PUR-
PARLIAMENT.
In April the House of Commons refused leave to Mr.
E. F . Wise, M . P . , to introduce a Bill to restrict the
opening of shops and trading on Sunday. Mr. W i s e informed the Board that it was intended to f r a m e the
Bill so as to meet the reasonable requirements of Jewish
traders.
The Hairdressers' and Barbers' Shops (Sunday Closing)
Bill received the Royal Assent at the end of the Session
1929-30, and came into force on January 1st, 1931. It
contains special provisions enabling Jewish hairdressers
who close on Saturday to open on Sunday.
In November, 1930, a Retail Meat Traders (Sunday
Closing) Bill was introduced in the House of Commons.
The Board entered into communication with the National
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Federation of Meat Traders' Associations, which was
promoting• the Bill, and a satisfactory arrangement as
regards Jewish meat traders was embodied in it.
CIVIL
SERVICE
REGULATIONS—NATIONALITY.
In 1929 the Board had been in communication with
the Treasury and with the Prime Minister on the subject of the rule that every candidate for admission to the
Civil Service should satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners t h a t he or she is a natural-born British subject
and the son or daughter of a father also a natural-born
British subject. The Board's memorandum is printed
in the Annual Report for 1929. In January, 1930, the
Treasury informed the Board that the Civil Service Commissioners had been requested to amend the rule so as
to read : — " Every candidate shall satisfy the Commissioners that he or she is a natural-born British subject,
the child of a person who is or was at the time of death
a British subject; subject to reservations in the case of
Foreign Office appointments and the F i g h t i n g Services."
This opens the Civil Service to children of naturalised
British subjects, but the Board will continue to press for
the restitution of the rule in the Civil Service Regulations
of 1872, which held good until the W a r , opening the Service to " all natural-born subjects " of His Majesty.
A
memorandum on the subject was addressed to the Royal
Commission on the Civil Service which had been
appointed in 1928 and is still sitting.
DISUSED
CEMETERIES
FUND.
In June an appeal, over the signatures of the Chief
Rabbi and the President of the Board, was issued for
£ 1 , 0 0 0 to augment the Disused Cemeteries Fund, in
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order to enable the Board to care for the disused cemeteries of defunct Jewish Congregations which are scattered up and down the country. T h e result of the appeal
has so f a r not been very satisfactory and it is hoped that
Congregations and individuals will do their best to secure
donations or annual subscriptions for the F u n d .
The Committee desires to tender its t h a n k s to Mr.
Henry B. Cohen and Mr. Ralph Lyons, the B o a r d ' s
Honorary Inspectors of Disused Cemeteries. T h e Committee's thanks are also due to Mr. E. R. Adams, of
K i n g ' s Lynn, who has kindly undertaken to look a f t e r
the Jewish cemetery in that town, and has carried out
certain work on it at his own expense.
T H E CONTRIBUTORY P E N S I O N S A C T ,
1929.
By the kindness of the Association of Jewish Friendly
Societies, the Board was furnished with a supply of
Yiddish translations of the official leaflet on the Contributory Pensions Act, 1929, and they were distributed
to Congregations and Institutions.
B O O T MANUFACTURING
IN THE E A S T
END.
The attention of the Committee was drawn to a Report
on Boot and Shoe Manufacturing in the E a s t London
Area, prepared on behalf of the Federation of Boot and
Shoe Manufacturers and the National Union of Boot and
Shoe Operatives by Dr. A. D. Denning. It suggested
that Jews were largely responsible for the evils of which
complaint was made. An allegation that H o m e Office
inspectors were bribed to favour Jewish employers w a s
strongly repudiated by the Home Secretary in the House
of Commons on April 7th. Mr. Clynes pointed out that
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Dr. Denning's conclusions appeared to be based not on
facts ascertainable by personal observation of the conditions at the works concerned, but almost entirely on impressions derived from unverified ex-parte statements.
JEWISH
DIVORCES.
T h e Board's Annual Reports for 1928 and 1929 recorded
negotiations with the Beth Din on the subject of hardships occasionally experienced by Jewish women in connection with Get.
The Beth Din have since reported
t h a t an arrangement has been made with the authorities
at Somerset House for special access to the records,
which would facilitate getting into touch with Jewish
parties in divorce suits soon after a decree nisi has been
pronounced. The Beth Din is thus at a very early stage
in a position to inform the parties concerned of the necessity of completing the dissolution of the Jewish marriage
in accordance with the requirements of Jewish law by a
Get.
In response to an enquiry the Beth Din informed the
Board that the members of the Beth Din do not charge
or receive any fees for the granting of Gittin.
Fees are,
however, payable for a Sofer (scribe) and the two witnesses ordinarily required. Normally these are £ 1 for
the Sofer and 10s. each for the witnesses, but the
amounts are reduced in necessitous cases and may even
be remitted altogether.
PUBLICATION OF B A N N S
FOR J E W I S H
MARRIAGES.
In view of an announcement in May that the Scottish
L a w Officers were considering the possibility of drafting
a Bill to amend the Scottish Marriage Law, the Committee drew the attention of the Scottish Office, the Home
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Office and the Registrars-General for England and
W a l e s and for Scotland, to the representations which the
Board has been m a k i n g since 1903 against the provi
sions of the Scotch Law which requires a certificate ot
Proclamation of Banns in a Church, even , where the
parties are Jews, if one of them is resident in Scotland
and the other in some other part of the British Isles.
T h e Board expressed its thanks to Rabbi Dr. Salis
Daiches, of Edinburgh, for his valuable services in this
connection.
THE CENSUS,
1931.
In view of the anouncement by the Registrar-General
that the Census would be taken on April 26th, 1931, the
Board offered the Registrar-General its co-operation in
m a k i n g arrangements to render assistance to the Jewish
population of the East End of London and other large
centres of Jewish population in the filling up of their
Census schedules. The Registrar-General intimated that
he would be glad to avail himself of the Board's assistance (which has been rendered on similar occasions since
1851).
PALESTINE COMMITTEE.
At the beginning of 1930 the Anglo-Jewish Community,
in common with its co-religionists in every part of the
world, was still oppressed by the mingled feelings of
bewilderment and ,exasperation caused by the failure
of the Mandatory Power, in August, 1929, to protect
the Jews of Palestine from such savage Arab attacks as
had taken place, for the third time since the end of the
W a r . The protracted proceedings before the Commission
of Enquiry in Jerusalem, did not help to make the atmosphere more tranquil, and in May the suspension by the
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Government of a number of immigration certificates t h a t
had already been allotted to the Jewish Agency excited
great indignation. At its meeting in June the B o a r d
passed the following Resolutions :—
T H A T this Board, the representative body of the Jews of.
the Empire, regrets the suspension by H.M. Government of
the schedule of immigration authorised on May 12th by HisExcellency the H i g h Commissioner for Palestine in Executive
Council, after two months' consideration of the economic circumstances of the country.
T H A T in view of the world-wide protests which this decision,
has evoked on the ground that it indicates a breach of undertakings contained in the Mandate and that it is being construed as a surrender to the policy of force which has manifested itself in three attacks on the Jewish population of
Palestine and is an encouragement to the continuance of hostility by those who oppose the policy of the Mandate for
Palestine, the Board urges H.M. Government to release thecertificates in question at the earliest possible moment.
On July 2nd, a Deputation from the Board, consisting
of Mr. O. E. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid (President), Lord'
Rothschild (Vice-President), Mr. B. S. Straus (Treasurer)
and Mr. J. M. Rich (Secretary), waited upon Lord Passfield, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and conveyed‫׳‬
to him the Board's views on this question.
Lord Passfield said that the protests appeared to have
been based on a misunderstanding. There had been no•
change in the policy of the Government and no uncertainty in the execution of the Mandate, but the Mandate
did not envisage the establishment of a Jewish State,
only of a Jewish National Home in Palestine consistently
with the maintenance of the position and rights of the
Arab population. There must be a limit to Jewish immigration determined by the absorptive capacity of the
country. There had been no stoppage of immigration.
Nine hundred and fifty certificates on the Labour Schedule
for the half-year had been sanctioned in advance and?
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had not been suspended. The Shaw Commission (the
Commission of Enquiry into the Disturbances) had reported that a certain number of Arabs had been economically prejudiced as a result of Jewish land purchases,
although it was recognised that the Jewish Agency had
paid liberal monetary compensation.
T h e Government
considered it necessary to enquire into the truth of thfc
allegations and with this object had secured the best
possible expert (Sir John Hope Simpson) to make
enquiries.
On July 26th the Palestine Committee of the Board
acted as the Board's representatives at an Anglo-Jewish
Conference held at the Kingsway Theatre, under the
auspices of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The Conference registered a strong protest against the attitude
the Government had adopted.
In October Sir John Simpson's Report and a Government W h i t e Paper containing a statement of policy were
issued. The Government's proposals, and even more,
the tone of the W h i t e Paper, roused the whole of Jewry
to a fever of indignation.
At its meeting on October 26th the Board passed the
following Resolution :—
T H A T the Board records its profound conviction that the
policy outlined in the White Paper on Palestine is contrary
to the spirit of the Mandate and a breach of public pledges
made in the name of England by successive British Governments and welcomes the pronouncements, written and spoken,
of the leading statesmen of the Conservative Party, Mr.
Lloyd George and General Smuts, to the same effect.
On November 16th a Special Meeting of the Board
discussed the situation in Palestine and reaffirmed the
foregoing Resolution.
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In consequence of the strong• feeling - on the subject the
Government appointed a Sub-Committee of the Cabinet
to enter into negotiations with representatives of t h e
Jewish Agency for Palestine (among whom was Mr.
d'Avigdor-Goldsmid) and at the end of the year negotiations were still proceeding.
SHECHITA
THE
WEINBERG
COMMITTEE.
CASTING
APPARATUS.
In January, 1930, the Committee of Veterinary
Experts, with Professor Hobday, Principal of the Royal
Veterinary College, as Chairman, resumed the tests of the
W e i n b e r g Casting Pen which it had discontinued in January, 1928, owing to the unsatisfactory results then
obtained. On this occasion the Committee expressed its
complete satisfaction with the machine, pronouncing it,
in the words of General Sir John Moore, one of the members of the Committee, " a most humane system of
handling animals for s l a u g h t e r . " The Board thereupon
unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the adoption
of the machine without undue delay.
T h e London Shechita Board and Mr. Weinberg, the
inventor, found themselves unable to agree as to the
terms of the user of the machine, and at the suggestion
of the Shechita Committee the parties agreed to submit
their differences to the arbitration of the President of the
Board of Deputies. Mr. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, sitting with
Mr. Hyman Isaacs and Mr. B. A. Levinson as legal
assessors, heard the case in September and issued an
award. Both parties expressed their thanks to the
arbitrator.
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The London Shechita Board then commenced negotiations with the authorities controlling the slaughter
houses at Islington and Birkenhead where most of the
animals with which the Shechita Board is concerned are
slaughtered, but at the date of this Report sanction
for the installation of the machine had not yet been
obtained.
D u r i n g the year Mr. Zeitlyn, Chairman of the
Shechita Committee of the Board of Deputies, paid visits
to several provincial towns to discuss with the Jewish
Communities questions relating to the installation of the
Weinberg Pen.
THE
SLAUGHTER OF A N I M A L S
BILL.
In December Colonel Moore's Slaughter of Animals
Bill, which had been reintroduced into the House of
Commons, obtained its Second Reading without a division
and was referred to a Standing Committee. T h e Bill
contained an exemption for Shechita in the same form as
that in the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act. Since
the spring, however, the President of the Board has been
engaged in negotiations with the Chief Rabbi, the United
Synagogue, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, the
Federation of Synagogues, and the Union of Orthodox
Hebrew congregations, with a view to d r a f t i n g a new
formula to be embodied in the Bill, objection having been
taken in certain quarters to the placing in the hands of
the Chief Rabbi the sole right of licensing Shochetim.
THE
DEFENCE
OF SHECHITA
IN THE
PRESS.
Mr. C. H. L. Emanuel, as Honorary Secretary of the
Committee, has continued to render the Committee valu-
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able assistance by replying• to attacks on Shechita in
the Press, and for this, as for his services in all matters
relating to Shechita, the Board is much indebted to him.
ALIENS
COMMITTEE.
In November, 1929, a deputation from the Board had
waited upon the Home Secretary (the Rt. Hon. J. R.
Clynes) and had made representations on various points
regarding the administration of the law relating to
aliens. In accordance with the Home Secretary's request
a written memorandum of the Board's views was sent to
him. (It was printed in the Board's Annual Report for
1929—Appendix B). Mr. Clynes' reply was received in
February, 1930. H e informed the Board that he had
decided in principle on several substantial modifications
in the direction desired. W i t h regard to immigration,
he said that in view of the changed and changing conditions both here and abroad it was not possible to restore
the position created by the Act of 1905, but he gave an
assurance that applications for leave to land by persons
seeking refuge from religious persecution would continue
to receive sympathetic consideration. On the subject of
the registration of aliens Mr. Clynes agreed with the
Board in thinking that the existing system of registration might be made less irksome in some respects, and he
w a s having various proposals examined to this end. As
regards the deportation of aliens long established in this
country, he admitted that the existing powers were very
drastic, and though he did not think it would be alleged
t h a t they had been exercised unfairly, he was prepared to
agree in principle with the proposals of the Board for the
establishment of an appeal tribunal in certain classes of
cases. On the subject of naturalisation Mr. Clynes said
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that he was exploring the possibility of simplifying the
existing procedure. Furthermore, he would be prepared
to consider sympathetically requests for a reduction of the
fee in the cases of poor aliens. H e could not, however,
agree to the establishment of a tribunal before which
applicants for naturalisation could reply to objections
made against their claim, nor could he consent that the
five years' residence required by the Naturalisation Act
should be treated as a standard, and not as a minimum.
A further interchange of correspondence followed in an
endeavour by the Board to clear up certain points, and
eventually the Board decided to await the details of the
proposals promised by the Home Secretary.
(The
correspondence is annexed to this Report as an
Appendix.)
In July, 1930, a new form of application for a certificate of naturalisation was issued. As a result, a single
form was substituted for the five previously required, and
it was claimed that an applicant should be able to fill it
in himself without any expert assistance.
In August a communication was addressed by the Board
to the Home Secretary on the subject of the naturalisation
of ex-Service men, and Mr. Clynes informed the Board
that although he was unable to revive the scheme whereby
aliens who had served in H.M. Forces during the W a r
had been enabled for a limited period to obtain certificates
of naturalisation free of charge, he undertook to consider
whether in individual cases of genuine hardship the
balance of the fee of £ 1 0 might be waived and the
preliminary fee of £ 1 returned.
In December the Board submitted to the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Ministers' Powers (the Donough-
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more Committee) a memorandum dealing with the H o m e
Secretary's powers as regards aliens.
During the year the Committee rendered assistance in
a number of individual cases where hardship arising f r o m
the aliens law was alleged.
EDUCATION
COMMITTEE.
NON-PROVIDED
SCHOOLS.
The Committee took note of the proposals put forward
in the Board of Education White Paper (Cmd. 3551 of
1930) relative to Non-Provided Schools. The matter was
dealt with by the Association of Jewish Metropolitan NonProvided Schools, and as Lady Spielman, the Chairman
of the Education Committee, was also Chairman of that
Association, close contact between the two bodies w a s
maintained. At a meeting in May the Association
resolved that in view of the great differences in numbers,
needs and prospects of the different Jewish denominational
non-provided schools, no collective action be taken by t h e
Jewish Community as a whole, but that each school
should act independently and in accordance with its own
needs and requirements with regard to the W h i t e P a p e r
proposals if they were passed into law.
Later, however, on a closer scrutiny of the proposals,,
it was considered desirable to obtain some assurance that
the difficulties of the Jewish non-provided schools should
not be increased because of the provision that teachers
were to be appointed by the local education authority and
not by the managers of the schools. As the situation of
the Jewish schools differs from that of the schools of other
denominations owing to the necessity of the teachers' being qualified to teach Hebrew, it was felt that a certain
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danger lay in this proviso, as the field of choice of quali‫־‬
fied teachers would be limited to the area of the local
authority. Accordingly, Lady Spielman, together with
Mr. Herbert Adler, Director of Jewish Education, asked
for an interview with the officials of the Board of E d u c a tion in January, 1931, when it was pointed out that
managers would probably evolve a satisfactory modus
vivendi by negotiation with the local authorities.
JEWISH
CANDIDATES
AT
EXAMINATIONS.
T h e Committee, as usual, rendered assistance to J^wishr
candidates who were desirous of obtaining alternative
papers in place of those set for Saturday in various
examinations.
T H E TANGIER
SCHOOLS.
The Committee was also engaged throughout the year
in supervising the English teaching which is provided by
the Board for the Morocco Relief Fund at the schools of
the Jewish Community in Tangier.
PRESS COMMITTEE.
T h e Press Committee was occupied, as in preceding
years, with the consideration of defamatory s t a t e m e n t s
reported or contained in newspapers and other publications. In only a very few cases was it deemed necessary
to take action, which was generally followed by satisfactory results.
FOREIGN APPEALS
COMMITTEE.
The sum of £ 5 0 of the Committee^ Fund was sent t o
the Jewish Community of Borsha, in Rumania, where a
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disastrous
families.
fire
had
rendered
homeless many
Jewish
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
T h e Committee has carried out during the year its duty
of generally supervising the Board's finances. It recommended the Board and the Anglo-Jewish Association to
a m a l g a m a t e the various Morocco Relief Funds into one
F u n d . Negotiations were commenced with a view to the
B o a r d ' s obtaining office accommodation in the projected
Jewish Communal Centre.
T H E JOINT FOREIGN COMMITTEE.
T h e scope and variety of the Joint Foreign Committee's interests were increased during the year 1930 by the
prevailing economic and political instability. There were
few countries in which the Jews were not faced by difficult
social, political or economic problems.
PALESTINE.
Palestine doubtless bulked largest in the picture of
Jewish world-affairs, but the Committee was not called
upon to play an active part in clearing up the uncertainties of the situation resulting from the brutal Arab
aggression of the previous year. This task, so far as the
Anglo-Jewish Community was concerned, devolved upon
the Palestine Committee of the Board of Deputies and
the English Zionist Federation, whose efforts are united
in the British Section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
POLAND,
HUNGARY.
O n the Continent of Europe the economic situation of
the Jews markedly deteriorated. In Poland, Rumania
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and H u n g a r y the disastrous effects of the decline in industrial and agricultural prosperity told with accentuated
force on the Jewish population of those countries.
It is in Poland that the adverse economic situation h a s
had the most disastrous effects, and the political grievances of the Jews have been overshadowed by the more
urgent necessity of earning the daily bread. T h e a n t i Jewish legislation of the Czarist regime still remained on
the Statute Book despite vigorous endeavours to secure
its abrogation, but by the side of the material distress of
the Jewish population such questions rank as of merely
academic interest. Harrowing stories of the poverty of
once-prosperous Jewish merchants are all too common,
and the middle and artisan classes are alike in an unenviable position.
The Hungarian Community for the first time made an.
appeal for economic assistance to its co-religionists,
abroad. Its political situation had much improved. The
Numerus
Clausus Lam had been modified in 1928, a n d
though there are still complaints that a numerus
clausus
is being applied in practice, the Jews of H u n g a r y breathed,
more freely than at any time since the W a r . In June
Mr. Lucien Wolf, as Secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee, interviewed the H u n g a r i a n Prime Minister, Count
Stefan Bethlen, in London. The interview was of an e x tremely friendly character. It gave g r e a t satisfaction in
H u n g a r y , as the Joint Foreign Committee had been s o
prominently associated with the anti-Hungarian campaign on the Numerus Clausus
question, and it w a s
favourably commented on in the leading organs of the
Press. The official organ of the H u n g a r i a n Jewish Community hailed it as m a r k i n g a turning-point in the relations of Jews and Magyars.
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The Committee has no large funds at its disposal for
relief purposes, and could only watch with sympathetic
interest the beneficent activities of organisations such as
the Joint (lea) Reconstruction Foundation. The string e n t limitations placed on immigration by most of the
countries hitherto regarded as countries of immigration
materially diminished the effectiveness of one of the
normal safety-valves for economic pressure in Eastern
Europe. The economic crisis in the United States was
an additional cause of anxiety, for it is from that country
that p o s t - W a r Jewish philanthropic activities have drawn
a very large part of their support.
RUMANIA.
At the beginning of 1930 the Maniu National Peasant
Government had enjoyed twelve months of office. It had
been swept into power by a wave of popular feeling in
December, 1928, expressed in the first free elections that
had perhaps ever been held in the country. The political
ddb&cle of the Liberals had been due largely to their inability to obtain the much-needed foreign loan, as a result
of the lack of confidence of international opinion in the
Bratianu regime.
To this the failure of the Government
to give adequate protection to the Jews had no doubt contributed.
Although the Union of Rumanian Jews had
finally allied itself with the Liberal Party in the hope of
securing better treatment, the change of Government
promised an amelioration of the situation. The Maniu
Government declined, however, to suppress the antiSemitic organisations, on the ground that it intended to
rule democratically and that the dissemination of opinion
and the holding of public meetings ought to be free. At
the same time it made it clear that it would tolerate no
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acts of violence, and its first twelve months of office
passed without any serious disturbances of public order.
But the unfettered propaganda of anti-Semitism achieved
its aim. At the end of 1929 a great student congress at
Craiova, marked by much inflammatory oratory against
the Jews, was followed by anti-Jewish disorders in several
places.
It was under the cloud of these events that the year
1930 opened. Nevertheless, although the public ‫ ׳‬peace
had been better preserved than under any Government
since the W a r , the Government's record of constructive
legislation had been a great disappointment to the Jewish
Community and to the country as a whole. Meanwhile,
the economic condition of the country had grown worse.
The crisis which had overtaken all the agricultural producing countries had not spared Rumania. The general
depression of prices led to financial difficulties and general
impoverishment. The Government was forced not only
to impose new and heavy taxes, but also to curtail the
salaries of civil servants, to close many secondary schools,
and to carry out a general policy of drastic economy. In
consequence, many of the promises made could not be
kept, and many a subvention had to be suspended. T h i s
affected the Jewish as well as the non-Jewish population.
N o legal discrimination was made between Jew and nonJew, and no anti-Jewish legislation was introduced into
the Chamber.
Many of the Jewish grievances did not call for
vention of the Joint Foreign Committee, as they
serious in themselves and were not m a t t e r s
national concern, but there were others which
the equality of the Jews before the law, and thus
the interwere not
of interinvolved
belonged
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to the category of definite infractions of the Minorities
Treaty.
T h e chief were :—
1. The failure of the Government to amend the Nationality
Law, under which many thousands of Jews in the
Annexed Provinces were treated as " stateless."
2. The refusal of adequate State subventions to the Jewish
Communities and schools.
3. The difficulties placed in the way of Jewish teachers'
obtaining appointments in Jewish schools, on the ground
that they had not been trained in the Rumanian normal
schools (to which they had been denied admission).
In consequence of the excited state of the country, the
unchecked freedom granted by the Maniu Government to
the anti-Semitic agitation and the tacit connivance given
to it by the Minister of the Interior, M. Vayda-Voevod,
and his Secretary, M. Tazloanu, bore its inevitable fruit.
As the year progressed a further number of small incidents of an anti-Semitic character were reported, and
there were many complaints of the inactivity of the police
in maintaining order.
This was followed by some disorders in the Provinces, and Jews were maltreated,
although in spite of the anti-Semitic agitation at the
municipal elections which took place early in March, the
Jews gained some 70 seats, but not a single anti-Semitic
candidate was returned.
In June the complexion of the political scene w a s
altered by the accession of King Carol to the throne. He
was generally credited with the best intentions, and the
Club of Jewish Deputies addressed its congratulations t o
the new King with the assurance of the loyalty of the
Jewish population. The King availed himself of this
opportunity to make reassuring declarations.
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By this time, however, the agitation that had for so
long been stirring up feeling against the Jews a m o n g the
agricultural population had effectively done its work. The
Bukovina was a prey to very serious agricultural depression, and the anti-Semitic propaganda fell upon fertile
soil. In the Southern Bukovina numerous assaults were
committed on Jews, and in the village of Borsha, in
Maramuresh, which had for some time been subjected to
anti-Semitic terrorism, a mysterious fire destroyed many
Jewish houses. In Bessarabia, too, disorders took place.
The Joint Foreign Committee again deemed it advisable to address a strong note to the Rumanian Government. It was pointed out that during the past five years
the attention of successive Rumanian Governments had
been called to the main cause of the insecurity of the position of the Jews, the reckless toleration extended to a
violent and anarchical agitation against the Jewish population and their religion, and in the unchecked circulation
of a libellous and incendiary literature in which the Jews
were held up to undeserved popular hatred and contempt.
A long telegraphic reply was received from the R u m a n i a n
Government stating that the anti-Semitic activities were
the work of a few individual pseudo-students ; that the
Government had always closely followed their movements,
and that the adoption of a not too stringent policy had
given " certain satisfactory results " for over a year.
Measures were being taken for the immediate arrest and
trial of the agitators. The apologia was to some extent
based upon the allegation that the outbreaks were the
result of usurious treatment of the agricultural population by Jewish banks. This legend was assiduously
spread in authoritative quarters.
Yet it was demonstrably untrue. The rates of interest were dictated by
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the large banks, scarcely any of which were in Jewish•
hands, while at Suceava, for instance, where the antiSemitic agitation was particularly menacing, only two of
the twelve banks in the town were in Jewish hands, and it
was the non-Jewish and not the Jewish banks that held
land mortgages.
In October M. Mironescu formed a new Government,
in which M. Vayda-Voevod, the former Minister of the‫־‬
Interior, was not included, and towards the end of the
year the situation became more tranquil. In his speech
from the throne in opening Parliament in November, K i n g
Carol made a specific declaration of equal treatment f o r
the Minorities and a promise to amend the Nationality
Law to enable thousands of " stateless " Jews to obtain
citizenship.
In December an attempt on the life of M. Socor, editor
of Adeverul,
which had condemned anti-Semitism,
demonstrated the anarchical character of the anti-Semitic
" Iron Guard " Association. It was disbanded, its
archives seized, and strong measures taken for the expulsion of any of its members from high schools and universities.
GERMANY AND A U S T R I A .
The striking success of the anti-Semitic Hitlerists at the•
German elections in September caused great alarm among
the Jews of Germany. Anti-Jewish demonstrations did
indeed take place in Berlin in October, but the authoritiesshowed themselves well able to control the situation.
Anxiety was also caused among the Jews of Austria by
the election of Prince Starhemberg as leader of the anti-
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Semitic Heimwehr, which seemed likely, under his guidance, to become an avowedly anti-Jewish organisation.
At the General Elections which took place in October,
the Hitlerists greatly increased their votes, but did not
achieve the anticipated success. T h e tension was eased
by the formation of Dr. Ender's Cabinet, which marked
a return to the normal and diminution of the influence of
the Fascist bloc.
CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.
In Czecho-Slovakia the Jews were the victims of
assaults in P r a g u e towards the end of the year, t h o u g h
these attacks were rather anti-German than anti-Jewish.
The difficulties of the " stateless " Jews of CzechoSlovakia in obtaining naturalisation excited some comment, and a project for a compulsory Sunday-closing law
in Bratislava gave rise to alarm a m o n g the Jewish
traders.
GREECE.
In January information was received f r o m the Grand
Rabbinate of Salonika, complaining that the Hellenic
Government had decided to expropriate the ancient Jewish
Cemetery in order to construct on it houses and communal
buildings, and to lay out gardens and orchards for t h e
benefit of the Greek refugees from Asia Minor.
The
Cemetery has been in use more than 400 years, and contains the graves of many great Rabbis who settled in
Salonika at the time of the Expulsion f r o m Spain. T h e
Committee made friendly representation to the Greek
Government, and were informed that the urban development of Salonika necessitated the transfer of burial
grounds from the centre of the city to the suburbs. An
assurance was given that previous to the execution of t h e
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proposed transfer, every measure would be taken in order
t h a t monuments and inscriptions of historic interest as
well as the religious feelings of the Jewish community
of Salonika would be safeguarded.
Towards the end of the year the Committee also communicated with the Greek Foreign Secretary on the subject of the disabilities of the Jewish population of Salonika
resulting from the Sunday Closing Law in force in that
town.
SOVIET
RUSSIA.
In February the Committee received news of the arrest
of a number of Rabbis by the Soviet Government in pursuance of its anti-religious policy. They were charged
with conducting clandestine religious classes and of communicating with foreign Jewish organisations in regard
to their persecution. It was feared that the lives of some
of the arrested Rabbis were in danger. T h e Committee
vainly endeavoured to secure the intervention of the
Foreign Office, which pointed out that tEe matter was
solely one of domestic jurisdiction, and, furthermore, intervention might well adversely affect the interests of the
persons concerned. This policy of the Soviet Government was not directed only against the Jews, and the
sufferings of members of other denominations led to a
demonstrative agitation and public meetings of protest in
England and abroad. The Soviet Government seems to
have been impressed by the strength of public opinion
manifested in these demonstrations, and many of those
arrested were released.
The Committee also considered reports of the injurious
effects on the Jews of Russia of the Soviet Government's
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new economic policy and its application to agriculture..
It was feared that it would have the most disastrous,
effects in the new Jewish colonies in the southern provinces and in Siberia. The policy was, however, not
specially directed against Jews, and it was deemed inadvisable to take any public action.
T H E YEMENITE R E F U G E E S AT A D E N .
The Committee throughout the year w a s in communication with the Zionist Organisation, the Alliance Israelite and the American Jewish Committee with a view to
securing the evacuation from Aden of the Jewish r e f u g e e s
who had fled there from the Yemen. T h e Alliance
Israelite raised a fund for the provision of urgent relief
requirements for the refugees, their housing and sanitary
arrangements being deplorable, and the mortality a m o n g
them very high. The Jewish Agency for Palestine was•
able to make arrangements for the evacuation of some of
the orphan children among the refugees.
MINORITIES.
t
The question of the reform of the Minorities Procedure
of the League of Nations was actively discussed by the
various organisations interested in the matter, and prop a g a n d a was intensified in favour of the establishment
of a permanent Minorities Commission, on the analogy of
the Permanent Mandates Commission. It was the Committee's view that such a Commission could not be established without a revision of the Minorities Treaties, and
that if a revision took place it was quite likely to lead to
a weakening and not a strengthening of the present
system. As it was known that the subject would be one‫׳‬
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of the principal topics for discussion at the Assembly of
the League of Nations, the Committee printed and circulated a revised edition of its Memorandum on Minorities Procedure presented to H.M. Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs in 1929. The Assembly decided that the
present procedure should be given a further trial.
REFORM OF THE CALENDAR.
The agitation in favour of a Reform of the Calendar
-continued, and measures were concerted with the International Rabbinical Committee on Calendar Reform (on
which the Chief Rabbi represents the Anglo-Jewish Community) for the collection of petitions to be addressed to
the League of Nations, by whom the matter was being
considered. In December the Chief Rabbi attended a
meeting in London of the League of Nations Calendar
Reform Committee of Enquiry (British) (of which Lord
Burnham was the Chairman) and delivered an admirable
•exposition of the Jewish case against any scheme for the
Reform of the Calendar which involved the insertion of a
falank day or days, altering the sequence of the days of
t h e week and leading to a fluctuating Sabbath.
MIGRANTS AND
REFUGEES.
The Committee continued to co-operate in the work on
faehalf of Jewish migrants and refugees. It is represented
on the Conference Permanente des Societ^s Privees pour
la Protection des Migrants. The active work for these
unfortunate persons is conducted by the Jewish Colonisation Association, but the Committee has had frequent
opportunities of rendering assistance in cases of legal or
‫׳‬diplomatic difficulty.
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T H E D E A T H OF M R .
LUCIEN
WOLF.
This section of the Report cannot be closed ‫־‬without a
further reference to the irreparable loss the Committee
has sustained by the death of Mr. Lucien Wolf. The
record of his activities may be found in the long series
•of the Committee's publications and the annual summaries of its work which he prepared for the Annual Reports
•of the Parent Bodies, the Board of Deputies of British
Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association. His dominating
personality, his full and accurate knowledge, and his long
experience of foreign affairs were a combination of qualities that would have commanded attention in a wider
sphere, but he placed them unselfishly and devotedly at
t h e service of his people.
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APPENDIX.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH
SECRETARY.
THE
HOME
I.—FROM THE HOME SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT
OF THE BOARD.
26th February, 1930.
Dear Mr. d'Avigdor Goldsmid,
I am sorry that your Board should have had to wait so long,
for the considered reply which I undertook to make to the
representations submitted to me by their Deputation on November
5th. Three of the four points dealing with the admission of
aliens, registration, deportation and naturalization involved
questions of principle and policy which were not hastily to be
determined and even now I am not in a position to pledge
myself to the precise details of any changes that may be made
in existing arrangements. I have, however, decided in principle
on several substantial modifications in the direction you desire,
the general nature of which I will indicate. I will at the same
time give some explanation of the difficulties, where such have
arisen, in the way of meeting your wishes.
Let me deal
seriatim with the proposals of the Board.
The Admission of Aliens.
You made in effect two suggestions—first that a return should
be made to the principles of the Act of 1905 and that an alien
refused leave to land should be given the ‫־‬right of appeal to an
immigration board, and second that the " right of asylum "
should be restored to refugees from religious persecution.
To take the second point first. I must correct what is, I
find, a widespread misapprehension. The " right of asylum "
in so far as it exists or ever existed is not a right attaching to‫׳‬
an alien, but is a right of the Sovereign State to admit a
refugee if it thinks fit to do so. The Act of 1905 which you
cite in support of your suggestion did no more than provide‫׳‬
that an immigrant who proved that he was seeking admission
to this country to avoid inter alia religious persecution, should
not be excluded on the ground merely that he was or was
likely to become destitute. The most, therefore, that you can
ask me to do is to restore the position created by the Act of
1905, and this, in view of the changed and changing conditions•
both here and abroad, is more than I can promise. I can,
however, assure you that applications for leave to land by
persons seeking refuge from religious persecution will continue
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to receive sympathetic consideration both here and at the ports.
Your first suggestion—that aliens refused leave to land should
"be accorded a right of appeal to an immigration board—raises
important and complicated issues, consideration of which has
disclosed objections both of principle and practice which I find
to be insuperable. It is perhaps too little appreciated that there
is an essential difference between the conditions that prevailed
in 1905 and the conditions that prevail to-day.
Then the
national policy was, broadly speaking, to admit immigrants for
permanent residence subject only to the exclusion of those who
failed to satisfy certain statutory conditions. Under the pressure
of the social and economic conditions that obtained after the
war that policy was, in effect, reversed by previous Governments, and it was decided to keep within fairly rigid limitations
permanent increases to the alien population.
After a most
careful examination of the position to-day I cannot say either
that that decision was wrong or that the time has yet come
when we can, without damage to this country, depart from it.
Urgent problems of housing and unemployment are engaging
and will I fear engage for some time to come, the earnest attention of the Government, and I am convinced that the difficulties
inherent in those problems will be instantly and acutely aggravated if the Board's suggestion, with all that it implies, were
to be adopted. In other words, the question of alien immigration i s now indissolubly bound up with other broad questions
of national domestic policy, and effective control, even in
individual cases, must in my opinion remain with the Government subject, of course, to the ultimate authority of Parliament.
In view of the foregoing considerations which to my mind
are conclusive, I need not perhaps elaborate the practical
difficulties with which your suggestion is beset, but the following comparison with the alien traffic of 1905 and that of to-day
will afford you some indication of the change in the position.
Under the Act of 1905 alien passengers subject to inspection
landed at only 14 ports and the number of aliens who were
inspected in 1911, which may be taken as a typical year, was
only 38,399. To-day aliens enter at practically every port in the
Kingdom and the number inspected during, for instance, 1928,
was 439,419. It is not difficult to envisage something of the
•size and cost of the machinery which would be required, in the
present altered circumstances, to give effect to your suggestion.
To sum up, the conclusion at which I have arrived—and as
1 told the Deputation I would do, I approached the problem in
a very sympathetic spirit—is that the transfer of responsibility
in regard to the immigration of aliens from a Minister responsible
to Parliament to a system of independent Boards—assuming that
the institution of such a system were feasible—would not in the
present circumstances be consistent with the public interest.
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Registration.
This question can be disposed of in a few
clined to agree with your Board in thinking
system of registration might be made less
respects, and I am having examined various
end.
words. I am inthat the existing
irksome in some
proposals to this•
The Deportation of Aliens.
The Board's proposal was that there should be made available for aliens threatened with deportation under Article 12
(6) (c) of the Aliens Order, 1920, some form of tribunal before
which such aliens should be entitled to appear to show cause
why they should not be deported. I agree with the Board in
thinking that the institution of an appeal tribunal need only
be considered in relation to the exercise of the powers conferred by the Article mentioned: there can clearly be no question of extending the contemplated right to those classes of
aliens covered by the other provisions of the Article, namely,
aliens whose deportation has been recommended by a Court of
law, destitute aliens and foreign criminals. I doubt, however,.
whether the right should be accorded to the subjects of all
Orders under Article 12 (6) (c). An administrative power to
remove an alien is an essential corollary of any system of alien
control, and I do not imagine that your Board had in mind
when formulating your proposal aliens who succeed in landing
without permission or who fail to observe the conditions on
which they have been allowed to enter the country.
The
Board has, I presume, addressed itself more particularly t o
aliens who have become established here. In the case of such
persons, the existing powers are I freely admit, very drastic,.
and though I do not think that it could be seriously argued in
any responsible quarter that they have been exercised unfairly,
I am prepared, subject to the limitations indicated in the foregoing observations, to agree in principle with the proposals of
the Board. Some little time must of course elapse before the
necessary machinery can be devised and established.
Naturalisation.
The Board made to me three proposals—that all unnecessary
delay in the consideration of applications for naturalisation should
be avoided: that a tribunal should be established to which
appeals could be made against refusal to grant a certificate and
that the fee of £10‫ ־‬payable in respect of a certificate should b e
reduced.
I would say at once that I am in agreement with the view
expressed by the Deputation that in general the interests of the
country are not best served if the privilege of citizenship i s
withheld from aliens of good character who are permanently
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established here and can satisfy the Secretary of State as to•
their genuine attachment to British institutions. In these circumstances the Board will need no assurance from me of my desire
to find some means whereby the grant of citizenship in proper
cases can, without prejudice to the interests of this country b e
accelerated, and I am exploring in this connection the possibility
of simplifying in various particulars the existing procedure. If
this procedure is simplified—as I am sure it can well be—not
only will time be saved in dealing with applications but many
of the difficulties which I understand aliens experience in preparing applications will be obviated.
There is one point submitted by the Board under this h e a d
which calls for answer.
It was argued that the five years
residence required by the British Nationality and Status of
Aliens Act, 1914, should be treated as a standard and not as a
minimum. This is a view which I cannot accept. I have to•
consider each application strictly on its merits, and it will b e
obvious to the Board that m many, if not in most cases, an alien
with only 5 years' residence could not make good a claim to b e
permanently established here and to have identified himself with
British interests.
Were the five years to be treated as a
standard, I have not the slightest doubt but that the number of
applications refused would show a substantial increase
The Board's suggestion of a tribunal to which applicants for
naturalisation who have met with a refusal can appeal is one
that I must resist if only on the ground that it is contrary t o
the clearly expressed intention of the legislature.
The grant
of a certificate of naturalisation is, in the terms of the Statute
" in the absolute discretion of the Secretary of State, and h e
may, with or without assigning any reason, give or withhold
the certificate as he thinks most conducive to the public good,
and no appeal shall lie from his decision." An appeal such
as you have in mmd was certainly not contemplated by Parliament, and I am fortified in this conclusion by the somewhat
elaborate statutory provisions for inquiry where the revocation
of a certificate, which is also an administrative act of the Secretary of State, is at issue. I gathered, however, that your suggestion was mad,, in part, at any rate, with a view to avoiding
delay, and the proposals for this purpose that I have already
outlined should prove adequate.
As regards the fee charged, it cannot, I think, be regarded
as excessive if considered, as it must be considered, in relation
to the amount of work involved. I can, however, well understand that in some exceptional cases of poor aliens, the fee might
weigh so heavily on the applicant as to amount in substance to
a denial of British nationality and I would be prepared to consider sympathetically requests in such cases for a reduction.
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I will cause your Board to be informed of the details of the
proposals I have outlined when these have been worked out and
have received my approval.
Yours very truly,
J. R. CLYNES.
O. E. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Esq., D . L . , J.P.
II.—FROM T H E P R E S I D E N T OF T H E BOARD TO T H E
HOME SECRETARY.
BOARD
OF D E P U T I E S OF BRITISH JEWS.
23, Finsbury Square,
London, E.C.2.
29th April, 1930.
Dear Mr. Clynes,
My Board has now been able to give full consideration to your
letter of February 26th, in which you were good enough to
inform me that you had decided in principle on certain modifications in the administration of the law relating to aliens.
I am asked to say that while the Board thanks you for your
assurance that applications for leave to land by persons seeking
refuge from religious persecution will continue to receive sympathetic consideration, it notes with great regret that you hold
out no hope of a return to the Aliens Act of 1905.
The Board notes with satisfaction that you are examining
various proposals with a view to making the existing system
of registration less irksome.
On the question of deportation, the Board feels that there has
been a certain misunderstanding of the representations made on
this head by the Deputation which you were good enough to
receive on November 5th last. In your letter you state that
you are prepared to agree in principle with the Board's proposals
as regards the institution of some form of appeal for aliens
threatened with deportation who have been established in this
country. There appears to be, however, some misunderstanding
of the Board's proposals, since you state that you agree with
the Board in thinking that this proposal cannot be considered in
connection with aliens whose deportation has been recommended
by a Court of Law, destitute aliens and criminals. It is true
that emphasis was laid in Section D (paragraphs 14 and 15) of
the Board's memorandum of November 4th, 1929, on the power
exercised by virtue of Article 12 (6) (c) of the Order in Council
of 1920, but nevertheless the Board feels that some opportunity
of showing cause why they should not be deported should be
afforded to aliens whose cases fall under other provisions of
Article 12, always premising that the aliens in question are
established residents. An alien who has been found guilty of a
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criminal offence should not, in the opinion of the Board, b e
if so facto the subject of a deportation order: the degree of
moral turpitude involved in the offence should be weighed against
the man's domestic circumstances (such as his marriage to a
British-born wife and his having a family of British-born,
children) and the length of his residence in this country.
A British subject is considered as having expiated his offence
when he has served the sentence passed upon him in the normal
process of the l a w ; the same should apply to a long-established
alien who has bound himself by the closest ties to this country,,
short of the formal step of naturalisation (which lack of means
or technical difficulties may have put beyond bis reach).
Moreover, in the case of an alien who has been recommended
for deportation by a Court of Law, the Board believes that the
present procedure does not usually afford the alien an opportunity of pleading his domestic circumstances before a recommendation for deportation is made. Often, indeed, the alien is.
unaware that such a recommendation may be made.
With regard to naturalisation the Board asks me to say that
it notes with pleasure your intimation that you are in general
agreement with its representations on this head. On the specific
point of the establishment of a tribunal or committee to hear
applicants in person there seems again, however, to be a certain
misunderstanding of the Board's suggestions.
There was nointention of making a, proposal which would have the effect of
relieving you, as Home Secretary, of the statutory duty of giving
or withholding a certificate. I would refer you to paragraph 19 cf
Section E of the Board's memorandum of November 4th, which
states:—
" The Board considers it vital that some form of tribunal
shall be established to enable a person whose application
for naturalisation is in doubt to reply to objections brought
against his claim,"
and also to the following passage from my observations to you
on the following day:—
" With regard to naturalisation, there is first of all, in
the opinion of the Board, an urgent necessity that some form
of advisory tribunal should be established to enable persons,
to meet the objections to the grant of a certificate. This
tribunal could, after investigation, advise the Home Office
as to the merits of any application of which they have doubts,
but would not deprive the Home Secretary of the final
responsibility."
The Board's suggestion was due to the fact that the alien
is at present left in complete ignorance of the reason for therefusal of his application. There is often the feeling that un-
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rounded allegations may have been
perhaps trade rivals, in response
asking for objections to be lodged,
have an opportunity of rebutting in
or any other kind.
made by malicious persons,
to the usual advertisement
and the applicant ought to
person any objection of this
There is one other point the Board desires to make clear.
You state that you cannot accept the Board 1 s view that the five
years' residence required by the British Nationality and Status
of Aliens Act, 1914, should be treated as a standard and not
as a minimum. I beg leave to repeat the observation I made
to you when I dealt with this point: " The statutory requirement for naturalisation is five years, but judging from the cases
that have been brought to the Board's notice, residence for a
much longer time is needed before the applicant has a chance
of securing naturalisation."
It is believed that the present
administrative practice of considering a period of ten or twelve
years' residence as the standard requirement prejudices the
applications of persons who have satisfied only the minimum
statutory requirement but are nevertheless qualified in all other
respects—in short, that an application is dealt with summarily,
or its consideration delayed, if the applicant has not been resident
here for a much longer period than the statute requires.
I desire to take this opportunity of thanking you for the
sympathy and patience with which you have examined the Board's
proposals, and have no doubt that you will give full consideration
to the points on which it has been thought advisable to submit
these further observations.
Yours very truly,
O. E. d'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID,
President.
The Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes, M.P.,
The Secretary of State,
Home Office,
Whitehall, S.W.I.
III.—FROM T H E HOME SECRETARY TO T H E P R E S I D E N T
OF T H E BOARD.
The Home Secretary.
29th May, 1930.
‫׳‬Dear Mr. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid,
I have now had an opportunity of giving further consideration
t o your letter of the 29th April, regarding the administration
.of the law relating to aliens.
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Deportation.
Your Board are under a misapprehension in thinking
that an alien who has been found guilty of a criminal offence
is, ipso facto, made the subject of a deportation order. Even
where the convicting Court sends a recommendation for deportation, it does not necessarily follow that an order will be made
by the Home Secretary. It is, in fact, my regular practice,
and it has been the practice of former Secretaries of State, to
•consider in all cases the gravity of the offence in relation to
the alien's domestic circumstances, length of his residence in
this country and his antecedents and any other relevant factors.
Further, I think the Board must have been misinformed in regard
to the opportunity which an alien has of pleading his domestic
circumstances before a recommendation is made.
It is the
case that Magistrates often decline to recommend deportation on
this very ground. In this connection, too, I think I should draw
your attention to the provision in Article 12 (7) of the Aliens
Order, under which a court of appeal can certify that it does
not agree with a recommendation for deportation. I have gone
very carefully into this matter, to which I attach considerable
importance, but I am sorry that I do not feel able to go beyond
the proposals set out in my letter of the 26th February last.
Naturalisation.
I have again considered your suggestion that there should be
a Tribunal before which an applicant for naturalisation should
be given an opportunity to meet objections to the grant of a
certificate. In this matter, the intention of Parliament appears
clearly, from the existing legislation, to have been to place the
grant of a certificate in the absolute discretion of the Secretary
<of State. He is, further, empowered to decline to give reasons
for his decision.
This legislation has now been adopted
practically throughout the Empire, and I could not contemplate
any action which would obviously be contrary to its general
intention.
As regards your suggestion that the five years' residence required by the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act should
be treated as a standard, I find myself unable to add much to
what I said in my previous letter. I hope with a simplified
procedure, cases will be disposed of more quickly. In this way
applications (even from persons without the claim for consideralion which long residence may give) will, I hope, get through,
but it would obviously be impossible for me, or any future
Secretary of State to fetter our discretion to require more than
the statutory minimum of five years', residence in a particular
‫׳‬cas*.
Yours very truly,
J. R. CLYNES.
O. E. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Esq., D.L., J.P.
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IV.—FROM T H E P R E S I D E N T OF T H E BOARD TO T H E
HOME SECRETARY.
26th June, 1930.
The Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes, M.P.,
Secretary of State,
Home Office,
*S.W.I,
Dear Mr. Clynes,
I am asked by the Board to thank you for the further explanations of points arising out of the administration of the law
relating to aliens, with which you were good enough to favour
me in your letter of May 29th.
The Board is now eagerly awaiting further information of the
modifications in practice adumbrated by you in your letter of
February 26th, and I have no doubt that at your earliest convenience you will furnish me with details of the schemes you
have been able to work out.
Yours very truly,
O. E. d'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID,
President.
THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES
OF BRITISH JEWS.
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ACCOUNT—Bancroft Road Cemetery
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT, Six Months
£ s. d?
530 3 2
315 7 0
260 0 0
162 18 10
Ended
April 28th, 1930.
0
10
£ s.
By Assessments received
,, Assessment arrears
‫ ״‬Assessment levied
,, Arrears previously passed to Suspense
Account, now resuscitated ...
,, Arrears passed to Suspense Account
now paid
‫ ״‬Sale of Pamphlets
‫ ״‬Dividend on £5,242 14s. 6d.
Conversion Loan, 1961 (net)
£1,255
94 9
243 10
£4,714 13 11
£4,714 13 11
To Salaries
‫ ״‬General Expenses
...
...
...
...
‫ ״‬Contribution to expenses of Joint Foreign Committee
‫ ״‬Balance, being surplus for half-year to date, as Balance
Sheet
£
330
INVESTMENTS—
ACCOUNT-
Balance as at October 29th, 1929
Surplus for half-year to date
CASH AT B A N K
3£%
d.
£ s. d.
1,107 3 0
65 4 3
1,172
17
0
0
5 10
0
7
3
22 10
0 3
0
9
73
0
£1,255
8
0 9
0‫י‬
‫"״״‬J
B A L A N C E S H E E T , 2 8 t h October,
1930.
Liabilities.
Assets.
£
SUNDRY
CREDITORS—
Assessments received in advance
Expenses accrued
Amount due to Secretary
JO‫׳‬NT FORE‫׳‬GN
COMMITTEE—
Amount received therefrom
Less‫׳‬. Expenses incurred
Note : A sum of £11317s. lOd. being the
balance of this fund, has subsequently
been received.
INCOME A N D E X P E N D I T U R E
ACCOUNT—
Balance as at 29th April, 1930
Surplus for half-year to date
s.
d.
£ s. d.
12 9 0
98 10 8
63 10 11
£ s.
d.
C A S H AT B A N K
INVESTMENTS—
£5,242 14s. 6d. 3!% Conversion Loan,
1961—at cost
174 10
7
225
89
135 17 10
£5,014
4
4,046 12
0
342 15
9
222 13
5
A R R E A R S OF A S S E S S M E N T — •
Arrears at 29th April, 1930 still unpaid
Arrears'accrued since that date
SUNDRY
46 16
295 19
DEBTORS—•
Loan to Bancroft Road Cemetery
Disused Cemeteries Fund (cost of printing appeal)
217 10
5
5
0
3
4,663 19 2
39 16 10
4,703 16
£
402
0
£5,01+
5
4
5
INCOME AND E X P E N D I T U R E ACCOUNT, Six Months ended October 28th, 1930.
To
‫״‬
‫״‬
‫״‬
‫״‬
‫״‬
Salaries
General Expenses
Printing and distribution of Annual Report
Contribution to Expenses of Joint Foreign Committee
Contribution to Pension
Balance, being Surplus for half-year to date, as
Balance Sheet
£
587
268
45
283
30
s.
6
8
17
10
0
d
6
11
11
8
0
39 16 10
£1,255
0 10
By
,,
,,
‫״‬
,,
‫״‬
£ s. d.
Assessments received
...
885 4 6
Assessment Arrears for six months to date 295 19 9
Assessments levied
...
—‫׳‬
Donation—Cape Town
...
...
Sale of Publications
...
...
...
Dividends on £5,242 14s. 6d. 3J% Conversion Loan,
1961 (net)
£ s. d.
1,181
2
71
£1,255
2
1
0 10
Os
00
DISUSED CEMETEBIES FUND
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT Year ended October 2m,
To Balance at Bank at October 29th, 1929
,, Donations—
Nevis Cemetery
Penzance Cemetery
Bancroft Road, Cemetery ...
General (Appeal Fund)
‫ ״‬Rent Received•—Bancroft Road
‫ ״‬Cash taken over with PenzanceCemetery
‫ ״‬Dividends received on—
£105 5s. 3d. War Stock, 1929-47
(gross)
£107 4s. 9d. L.C.C. Stock (gross) ...
£25 18s. 5d. 2}% Consols (gross)
(Held by Charity Commissioners
for Sheerness Cemetery)
£185 17s. 4d. 2J% Consols (gross)
(Held for Penzance Cemetery ...
£10 10s. 6d. 5% War Loan 1929/47
(gross)
(Held for Penzance
Cemetery)...
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
133 10 10
12 0 0
2 2 0
2
2
0
130
5
6
146 9 6
49 0 0
13 3 4
5 5 2
2 13 4
0 13 0
To
,,
‫״‬
‫״‬
£
By Expenditure on account of Cemeteries—
Bancroft Road
Bath
Sheerness
Gloucester
Ipswich
Penzance
‫ ״‬Cost of Postages on Appeal
‫ ״‬Balance at Bank at 28th October, 1930•
Due to Bath Cemetery
‫ ״‬Bancroft Road Cemetery ...
‫ ״‬Pcnzance Cemetery
,. Nevis Cemetery
Balance on Disused Cemeteries Fund
230
Account
...
...
s. d.
86 10
1 19
5 3
268 11
4
cn
0 10
6
14 17 10
£357
THE
1930.
1
6
£357
I
6
BANCROFT ROAD CEMETERY (included in Disused Cemeteries Fund Account).
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year ended October 28th, 1930.
Balance brought forward at 29th October, 1929
Rent Received
Donation ...
Balance carried forward, being amount due to Board
of Deputies at 28th October, 1930
£ s. d.
27 14 2
49 0 0
2
2
0
217 10 5
£296
6 7
By Balance brought forward being amount due to Board
of Deputies at 29th October, 1929
,, Legal Expenses
,, Repairs to Fence
‫ ״‬Insurance
,, Balance, carried forward, being amount due by
Disused Cemeteries Fund, 28th October, 1929
£ s. d.
269 10
3 3
0 8
9
22 15
£296
6
7
THE PENZANCE CEMETERY (Included in Disused Cemeteries Fund Account).
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year ended October 28th, 1930.
To Dividends received on —
£185 17s. 4d. 2i% Consols (gross)
£10 10s. 6d. 5% War Loan 1929/47
(gross)
£
s. d
5 15 10
10
6
2
13
‫ ״‬Donation...
‫ ״‬Cash taken over ...
By Legal Expenses
,, Payment to Caretaker ...
‫ ״‬Balance earried forward, being amount due by
Disused Cemeteries Fund 28th October, 1930
...
£ s. d.
18 4 11
3 0 0
0
6 9
2 0
3 4
£21 11
8
£21 11
8
BATH CEMETERY (Included in Disused Cemeteries Fund Account).
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year ended October 28th, 1930.
£ s. d.
7 7 8
To Balance at October 29th, 1929
£7
7
By Repairs to Cemetery
‫ ״‬Balance carried forward at October 28th, 1930
...
£ s. d.
4 4 0
3 3 8
£7
8
7
8
THE SHEERNESS CEMETERY (Inclu ded in Disused Cemeteries Fund Account).
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year ended October 2m,
To Dividends received on £25 18s. 5d. 2£% Consols (gross)
,, Balance carried forward, being amount due to Disused Cemeteries Fund at October 28th, 1930
...
£ s. d.
0 13 0
7
£8
8
4
1 4
1930.
By Balance brought forward being amount due to Disused Cemeteries Fund at October 29th, 1929
...
‫ ״‬Payments to Caretaker
...
£ s. d.
6
2
1
0
4
0
£8
1
4
THE MOROCCO RELIEF FUND, No. 1,
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year ended, October 2m,
To Balance at Bank at October 29th, 1929
To Dividends received on—•
£200 4% G.I.P. Railway Debenture
Stock (Net)
£2,896 19s. lOd. 3£% Conversion
Loan. 1961 (Net)
£5,716 "2s. 3d. India 3|% Stock,
1931 (Gross)
£ s. d.
6
0
79 17
0
6
200
1
£ s. d•
273 17 10
1930.
By Teacher's salary
...
...
,, Books and Prizes
‫ ״‬Balance at Bank at October 28th, 1930
£ s.
300 0
10 3
316 1
d.
0
6
8
5
2
0
‫ ״‬Bank Interest ...
...
‫ ״‬Repayment of Income Tax deducted from Taxed
Interest
286 4
5 13
60 10
£626
5
0
1
3
2
£626
THE MOROCCO RELIEF FUND, No
2 (CASABLANCA FUND1,
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year ended October 28th, 1930.
To Balance at Bank at October 29th, 1929
‫ ״‬Dividends received on—
£350 5% War Stock 1929/47 (Gross)
£292 0s. 6d. 4% Consols (net)
Bank Interest
£ s. d.
74 15 5
10 0
3 11
By Balance at Bank at October 28th, 1930
£ s. d
103 1 1
26 13 11
1 11 9
• £103
1
1
£103
1
1
RECEIPTS
£
To Balance at Bank at October 29th, 1929
‫ ״‬Dividends received on :—
£3,871 7s. 4d. 3J% Conversion Loan,
1961 (net)
£288 5s. 2d. 4% Consols (net)
£283 14s. Id, 4% Consols (net)
...
A N D
s.
d.
THE FEZ FUND
A C C O U N T , Year ended, October 28th,
PAYMENTS
£ s. d.
202 3 1
1930.
B y purchase of £283 14s. Id. 4% Consols
,, Balance at Bank at October 28th, 1930
£ s. d.
250 0 0
190 3 2
121 18 11
9
1 7
4 7 11
,, Bank Interest
‫ ״‬Repayment of Income Tax deducted from Taxed
Interest
‫ ״‬Anon. Donation
135 8
3 16
98
5
£440
3
0 10
5
0
£440
2
THE FOREIGN A P P E A L S
RECEIPTS A N D PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year
To Balance at Bank at 29th October, 1929
To Donations from Fund for the Relief of Victims of the
War in Eastern Europe
‫ ״‬Bank interest
£ s. d
252 1 6
3
2
FUND
en ded October 28th, 1930.
By Bessarabian Famine Relief Fund
...
By Balance at Bank at October 28th, 1930
£ s. d.
50 0 0
281 12 V
73 18 2
5 12 11
£331 12
£331 12
7
7
THE J E W S OF JERUSALEM FUND (JACOB NATHAN TRUST)
RECEIPTS A N D PAYMENTS ACCOUNT, Year ended October 28th, 1930.
£
To Balance at Bank at October 29th, 1929
‫ ״‬Dividends received on £1,035 7s. lOd.
21% Consols (gross)
Less Income Tax deducted, to be recovered
s.
25 17
1 9
d.
8
1
£ s. d.
39 10 2
8
7
£63 18
24
9
By Remittance to Jerusalem
‫ ״‬Balance at Bank at October 28th, 1930
Correct in accordance with the books and vouchers and from information received.
(Signed) BAKER, TODMAN & CO., 70-75, Avenue Chambers, Southampton Row, W.C.I.
Chartered Accountants.
A P P R O V E D : (Signed)
MAURICE JACOBS
J ‫״‬
E R N S T H. SCHIFF
‫ ן‬Honorary
£
s. d.
42 0 0
21 18 9
£63 18
Auditors
Auauors.
9
»
LIST OF SECRETARIES OF JEWISH SYNAGOGUES IN THE BRITISH ISLES CERTIFIED
FOR MARRIAGE REGISTRATION PURPOSES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD.
LONDON SYNAGOGUES.
Synagogues.
Name
Secretary.
Date of Appointment
Secretary's Address.
Vestry Offices, Heneage Lane, Bevis Marks,
E.C.3
12th August ..
11, P a r k Place Villas, Maida Hill, W.9 ... 1st September
Synagogue House, Heygate Street, S.E.17 8th J u n e
Synagogue Chambers, 49, Effra Road, S.W.2 23rd December
Spanish and Portuguese ...
P a u l Goodman, Esq.
Bayswater
Borough
Brixton
Brondesbury
Rev. David Klein
Rev. Morris Rosenbaum...
Rev. A. Mishcon
Rev.
Dayan
H.
M.
6th November
Lazarus, M . A
34, Kingswood Avenue, N . W . 6
(Rev. M. Adler, B.A.,
D.S.O
33, Hallam Street, P o r t l a n d Place, W . l ... 25th November
I Simon Cohen, Esq.
33, Hallam Street, P o r t l a n d Place, W . l .. 9th October ...
5th November
Charles L i t t m a n , Esq. ... 57, Mildmav P a r k , N . l
H e n r y H a r t , Esq
5, St. Agnes Terrace, Victoria P a r k , E.9 1st October ...
Rev. Isaac Livingstone ... 15, Golders Gardens, Golders Green, N . W . l l 22nd December
Isaac Dainow, Esq.
141. Cannon Street Road, E . l
23rd October ...
Rev. W. Esterson
41, Foulden Road, Stoke Newington, N.16
9th November
( Rev. S Lipson ... )
Synagogue
House,
71, - Brook
Green,
Hammersmith, W . 6
18th November
I Miss Gertrude Marks)
N a t h a n Lionel H e r m a n , 78, Sherrick Green Road, Willesden Green, 1st March
Esq.
18th December
N.W.10
( Rev. Walter Levin
25th November
39, Aberdeen P a r k , N.5
I Rev. Aaron Slavinsky
21, Comptcn Terrace, N . l
19th May
J . II. Taylor, Esq., B.A. 21, Church Road, Richmond, Surrey ...
23rd April
...
Rev. E. Levine, M.A. ... 9, Pembridge Villas, W . l l
26th May
3rd September
Rev. H a r r i s Lewis Price 54, Fairhazel Gardens, N . W . 6
16th August ..
Rev. Louis Rabinowitz ... 207, Amhurst Road, E.8
19th J u n e
Rev. Coleman Davies ... 4, Farleigh Road, N.16
Rev. Benjamin Hoffman 79, Petherton Road, N . 5
23rd April
Isaac Newman, Esq.
30, W h i t e Lion Street, Bishopsgate, E. C. ... 6th December
Central
..
Dalston
East London
Golders Green
Great
Hambro'
9
Hammersmith & W. Ken
sington
Hampstead
North London
New Synagogue, Stamford
Hill
New West End
St. J o h n ' s Wood
South Hackney
-/
Stoke Newington
Adath Yisroel
Artillery Lane
Becontree and District Associate
Bethnal Green
Beth Hasepher, and Federation
Synagogue of Soho
1910
1910
1906
1913
1906
1919
1928
1918
1927
1918
1899
1917
1918
1930
1903
1919
1921
1918
1919
1924
1928
1902
1926
1916
Rev. Wolf Morein, B.A.
S. L. Lipshitz, Esq.
70, Steven's Road, Chadwell H e a t h , Essex
35, Burma Road, Stoke Newington, N 16 ...
27th October .. 1929
10th May
1910
Morris Sackstein, Esq. .‫־‬..
47, Gt. Prescott Street, E , 1
12th February
...
.
1930
Beth
Jacob
Synagogue
and
Lambeth Talmud Torah
Canning Town
Cannon Street Road, E
Central Hackney
Commercial Road Great Synagogue
..
...
Congregation of Jacob
Croydon
...
Dalston (Beth Hamedrash)
Dunk Street, B e t h Hamedrash
Ealing and Acton Associate ...
East H a m , Manor P a r k , and
Ilford
Fenton Street, E
Fieldgate Street
Finsbury P a r k
Fulham and Kensington
Glory of Israel and Sons of Klatsk
Great Alie Street
Great Garden Street
Greenfield Street, E
Grove Street Great
Hornsey and Wood Green (Associate)
Hoxton and Shoreditch
Ilford & Valentine's P a r k
Jubilee Street, Great Synagogue
Leyton and Walthamstow New
Federation Synagogue
Lodzer Synagogue
Mile E n d and Bow District
Synagogue
Mile E n d Nfew Town
Nelson Street
Nelson Street Sphardish
New Road
North-East
London
(Beth
Hamedrash)
North-West London
Notting Hill
Old Castle Street
Philpot Street (Sephardish)
...
E. Horowitz, Esq.
Bernard Green, Esq.
H y m a n Kintzler, Esq. ...
Asher Gavurin, Esq. , .
48, Kennington Road, S . E . I
106, Freemason's Road, E.16
34, Scarborough Street, G o o d m a n ' s Fields, E . l
127, Stoke Newington Road, N.16
7th September
16th October ...
28th November
25th J u l y
...
1929
1928
1900
1926
M. •Goldstein, Esq.
S. Wolkind, Esq.
E d w a r d C. Davids, Esq.
Rabbi Jacob Rabinowitz
R. Silkoff, Esq. ...
...
Rev. Abraham Rose
53, Sidney Street, E . l
36, Sidney Street, E . l
24, Bridhurst Road, Croydon
103, Amhurst Road, E.8 ... ,
37, Great Garden Street, Whitechapel,
2, Grange Road, W . 5
27th December
17th J u l y
...
9th December
4th March
...
9th J u n e
...
15th September
1930
1921
1920
1920
1929
1924
J o h n Joseph, Esq.
79, Clement's Road, E a s t H a m , E.6
Isaac Davis, Esq
96, Bridge Street, E . 3
H a r r y Abrahams, Esq. ... 8, St. P e t e r ' s Road, Mile E n d , E . l
Rev. Benzion Fertleman 105, Finsbury P a r k Road, N.4
I. C. Levy, Esq
482, Fulham Road, S.W.6
Abraham J . Cannon, Esq. 38, Church Street, E.2
...
H . Kintzler, Esq
34, Scarborough Street, Goodman's F i e l d s , E . l
M. H y a m s , Esq.
158, Jamaica Street, Stepney, E . l
M. Goldstein, Esq.
53, Sidney Street, Stepney, E . l .
J . Backenofsky, Esq. ... 99, St. Thomas Road, South Hackney, E.9
3rd
21st
19th
2nd
llth
21st
13th
19th
24th
21st
March
December
March
..
March
..
April
..
J a n u a r y ..
March ...
June
May
June
1910
1930
1920
1931
1927
1929
1906
1898
1917
1921
Rev. H . Goodman
Solly Alexander, Esq. ...
G. G. Bloch, Esq ,
Maurice H y a m s , Esq. ...
Julian H y m a n , Esq.
57, Crouch Hall Road, Crouch End, N.8
24, Heneage Street, E . l
7, Argyle R o a d , Ilford
158, Jamaica Street, Stepney, E . l
529, Lea Bridge Road, E.10
21st
13th
20th
22nd
24th
December
January
July
...
July
...
April
...
1920
1930
1930
1919
1929
Aaron
57, Whitechapel Road, E . l
21st October ... 1919
18, Gascoyne Road, E.9
29, Old Montague Street, E . l
79, Wilberforce Road, N.4
1st F e b r u a r y ... 1929
6th September 1925
l l t h March ... 1927
Woloshin,
Esq.
Philip Greenbaum, Esq,
Lewis Goldman, Esq. ...
L. Rosenstein, Esq.
Myer Barnett Wasserman,
Esq.
H . Kintzler, Esq
Isaac Marks
Rev. M. Brown, B.A. ...
A r t h u r Marks Green, Esq.
Joseph Ostrofsky, Esq. ...
H y m a n Kintzler, Esq. ...
E.l
...
...
...
1
7th F e b r u a r y
42, T u r n e r St., Commercial Rd., E . l
34, Scarborough Street, Goodman's Fields,
...
E.l
...
...
... 28th M a y
4th J a n u a r y ...
83, King E d w a r d Road, E.9
. .
17, L a w f o r d Road, Kentish Town, N . W . 5 ... l l t h May
19th J u l y
...
82, Wrottesley Road. N.W.10
26th May
...
23. Osborn Street. E . l
:
...
34, Scarborough Street, Goodman's Fields,E. 26th J u n e
1928
1923
1925
1930
1921
1922
1910
G o d f r e y Cherns, Esq. ...
Moss Davidson, Esq. ...
J.M.Passer,Esq.,F L.A.A,
Rabbi M. Ginsberg, B.A.
A. Woloshin, Esq.
Rev. Simon Bronkhorst...
... S. Wolkind, Esq
Rev. M. Brown ...
Samuel Ivushner, Esq. ...
..
...
...
Sons of Britchan Synagogue ... S. Wolkind, Esq
Rev. Nehemiah Goldston
South-East London
S.W. London
... Rev. Isaac Ostroff
Solomon L. Lipshitz, Esq.
Spitalfiells Great.
Rev. Samuel H y m a n
Spital Square P o l t a v a ...
Stamford H i l l Beth Hamedrash Godfrey Cherns, Esq. ...
Stepney
Orthodox,
Stepney
I. Dainow, Esq.
Green, E. ...
...
Talmud Torah (Christian St.)... H y m a n Newman, Esq ...
Morris Tomback, Esq. ...
Tottenham
George Jones, Esq.
(Jpton P a r k
Victoria and Chelsea (Associate) Pierre Levene, Esq.
S. Wolkind, Esq
Vine Court, Whitechapel
Voice of Jacob, Mohile‫ ׳‬v, Pren, A. Spitalsky, Esq.
and Sokolow Synagogue
M. Sklar, Esq
Walford Road
..
I . Zisslin, Esq
Walthamstow and Leyton
Wellington Road, Stoke NewIsrael Cohen, Esq.
ington
West-End Talmud Torah and
Bikkur Holini
Rev. Alexander Amias ...
Western
...
...
...
Rev. A. B a r n e t t
Mark B. Fidlan, Esq. ...
West H a m
...
...
M. Goldstein, Esq.
Whitechapel Road
Willesden Green and Cricklewood Henry Norman, E s q . ...
Woolwich and Plumstead
... D. Goldstein, Esq.
130, Osbaldeston Road, N.16 ..,
... : ...
14, Windsor Road, E.7
'.'‫״‬
19, Princelet Street, Spitalfields, E . l
The Synagogue, Richmond, Surrey
...
57, Whitechapel Road, E . l ...
6, Cheyne Walk, Hendon, N . W . 4
...
...
36, Sidney Street, E . l
52, Stamford Brook Road, W.6
...
...
5, E a s t b u r y Terrace, Beaumont Square, Mile
End, E . l
...
...
36, Sidney Street, E . l
2, Pepys Road, New Cross, S.E.14 ...
...
9, Devereux Road, S.W. 11
35, B u r m a Road, Stoke Newington, N . l b .'..
69, Sandringham Road, Dalston, E . 8
26, Grove Lane, N.16
3rd May
24th J u n e
V.
8th August ..
17th J u l y
24th March ..
23rd March ..
11th J u l y
21st December
1923
1919
1921
1923
1926
1896
1929
1916
21st
29th
22nd
17th
18th
12th
21st
1926
;1925
189C
1914
1905
141 j Cannon Street Road, E . l ...
66, Fairholt Road, Stamford Hill, N.16 ...
138, Evering Road, Stoke Newington, N.16
103, Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, E.7
166, Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W. 10
36, Sidney Street, E . l
.‫״‬
179, Oxford Street, Stepney, E . l
:‫״‬
9th March
...
27th October ...
12th April
31st J u l y
...
24th March ...
23rd September
15th March ...
1915
1928
1922
1919
1926
1930
1931
413, Hackney Road, E . 2
12, Forest Drive West, Leytonstone,
5th J u n e
22nd March
1925
1920
72, Holmleigh Road, Stoke Newington, N.16
let December
1924
14, Manette Street, W.C.2
9, Gordon Street, W . C . I
23, Chaucer Road, Forest Gate, E.7
53, Sidney Street, Stepney, E . l
173, Fordwych Road, Cricklewood, N . W . 2 ...
217, Plumstead High Street, Woolwich, S.E.18
29th J u l y
17th April
21st April
13th J a n u a r y
11th April
9th December
1925
1924
1915
1929
1927
1925
23rd October
22nd January
3rd December
13th May
...
1922
1919
1929
1898
PROVINCIAL
Aberavon and Port Talbot
Aberdare
Abertillery
Bangor
J . D. Rosenberg, Esq. ...
H e n r y Cohen, Esq.
H a r r y Lewis Simons, Esq,
Isidore W a r t s k i , Esq. ...
Date of Appointment.
Secretary's Address.
Name<5fSecretary.
Synagogue.
Philpot Street, Whitechapel
Poplar Associate Synagogue
Princelet Street, Spitalfields
Richmond
...
Roumanian
Sandy's Row ...
Shass, Old Montague Street
Shepherd's Bush
Sidney Street ... < ..
E.ll
December
December
July
March
April
May
January
1911
1929
SYNAGOGUES.
3, Ynys Street, P o r t Talbot
17, Lewis Street, Aberaman
Brynhilda, Alma Street
" Derwen Deg,"
H e r m a n Glicksman, Esq.
H a r r y Black, Esq.
Rev.
Samuel
Isaac
Solomons, B.A.
Birmingham
j ... T h e Rev.
A.
Cohen,
M.A., P h . D
Birmingham, Holloway H e a d
...((New and Beth Hamedrash Harold Stone, Esq.
Joseph Rosenberg, Esq. ...
Blackburn
Blackpool
(United
Hebrew
Rev. S. Arkush
(.Congn
Bolton
A. Gafan, Esq
J o h n H a y m a n , Esq.
Bournemouth
Rev. J . Israelstam, B.A.
Bradford
Rev. I. Fabricant, B.A.
Brighton
The Rev. Harris Swift.,.
Bristol
Isaac Goldfoot, Esq.
Brynmawr
P h i l i p T . H a r t , Esq. ...
Canterbury
Sidney Fligelstone, Esq.
Cardiff
H a r r y Kaye, Esq.
(Cardiff (New
Chatham
M. Samuel, Esq
... Cheltenham
Daniel L. Lipson, Esq.
M.A.
...
...
...
Chester
H . M. Bloom, Esq.
Coventry
A l f r e d Salmon, Esq.
... Darlington
Bernard Kletz, Esq.
Bernard Serabski, Esq. ...
Derby
M. A. Lazarus, Esq.
.. Dover
Durham
A. N . Birk, Esq
Eastbourne
Alfred Isaac Layne, Esq.
J . L. Sager, Esq., M.A.
Exeter
•‫•״‬
Isidore Abrahams, Esq.,
Grimsby
J.P
Harrogate
Rev. Eli Kahan, B.A. ...
(Hove (New......
Rev. S. Anekstein
.........(Bull(Central
Rev. H . Bergin
(New
Hebrew Congregation)
Israel Solomon Fischoff,
Esq
Barnet Goldstone, Esq. . 4 ..
... (Old Hebrew:
Joseph Bush, Esq.
Western))
Barrow-in-Furnesa
Birkenhead
19, Dudley Street
6, Ravenscroft Road
48, Beaufort Road, Edgbaston
10th September 1920
19th J u l y
... 1921
14th J u n e
... 1927
32, Duchess Road
24th
...
59, Latimer Street
17, Holland Street
...
February
1926
20th J a n u a r y ... 1929
2nd February ... 1922
18, Woodland Grove, W h i t e Gate Drive
39, Vernon Street
" East Cliff Court "
35, Blenheim Road
Synagogue Chambers, Middle Street
Synagogue House, P a r k Row
I , Station Road
20, H i g h Street
168, Cathedral Road
8, Llanedayrne Road
184, H i g h Street
22nd J u n e
...
29th October ...
16th J u l y
...
9th November...
17th August ...
8th May
...
26th M a y
...
7th F e b r u a r y ...
16th May
...
15th December
16th J a n u a r y . . .
1924
1906
1918
1921
1930
1927
1905
1913
1928
1929
1922
Corinth House, B a t h Road
I I , Sumpters P a t h w a y , Hoole, Chester
22, Saint P a t r i c k ' s Road
38, Swinburne Road
36, Charnwood Street
" The Cedars," 109, Maison Dieu Road
86, F e r n Avenue, Jesmond
Tudor Villa, Ashburnham Road
University College
20th
24th
26th
23rd
28th
29th
10th
4th
19th
July
...
September
September
October
February
March ...
February
May
...
March ...
1914
1925
1924
1911
1913
1926
1908
1928
1907
86, Cleethorpe Road
" Carmel," 18, Coppice Drive
3, Eaton Road
79, P a r k Street
27th
13th
23rd
16th
May
...
September
July
...
April
...
1925
1917
1929
1928
80, Lister Street
...
129, New Bridge Road
28, Coltman Street
16th J a n u a r y 1928
23rd September 1921
5th March
... 1924
...
Synagogue.
Leeds (Beth Hamedrash)
(Chapeltown United)
(Chasidishe)
(Chevra Torah)
(Herzl-Moser) ...
(North Leeds, Great)
(New Central)
(New Hebrew)
(Old Central)
Old (Great)
Name <5f Secretary.
Bernard B.
Freedman,
Esq.
Isaac Simon, Esq.
Leopold Abel, Esq.
L. Appleson, Esq.
H . Feldman, Esq.
Solomon T a m a r i n d , Esq.
Rev. Jacob Samuel
Rev. Jacob Samuel
Rev. Dr. J .
Abelson,
M.A.
Mark Freeman, Esq.
R. H . Hurvitz, Esq. ...
(Polish Hebrew)
(Psalms of David)
Talmudical Synagogue
L. Appleson, Esq
(Chevra Shass)
Jack Caplan, Esq.
(Wilner)
Samuel May, Esq.
Leicester
Liverpool
(Bet.h
Hamedrash,
N a t h a n Silverbeck, Esq.
Nusach Haari)
S. Fagin, Esq.
(Central)
Charles Shock, Esq.
(Great)
Barnett Cohen, Esq.
Great (Nusach Sfard)
Michael L. H y a m , Esq....
(Hope Place)
S. H . Morris, Esq.
(Kirkdale)
Rev. Lewis Phillips
(Old)
R. Davidson, Esq.
(Shaw Street)
S. M. Benjamin, Esq. ...
Llandudno
Lewis Benjamin, Esq. ...
Llanelly
Manchester (Austrian)
(Bishop Street)
(Central)
(Chai Adam)
(Great)
(Hightown)
(Higher Broughton)
(Higher Crumpsall)
(Holy Law Beth Aaron) ...
M a x Gritz, Esq
H y m a n Savitch, Esq. ...
Michael Sugarwhite, Esq.
Eli Davis, Esq
Nathaniel H . H a r r i s , Esq.
H a r r i s Levin, Esq.
Rev. Dr. S. M. Lehrman
Rev. A. Sussman
H a r r i s Sanderwitch, Esq
Secretary's Address.
Date of Appointment.
9, Vandyke Street
16, Sholbroke Avenue, Chapeltown
32, Elmwood Street, Camp Road
24, Ramsden Terrace
45, Beckett Street, Green Road
9th F e b r u a r y ...
24th October ...
22nd J u l y
...
13th November
18th March ...
7, St. George's Terrace
19, Mexborough Avenue
19, Mexborough Avenue, Chapeltown Road
11th J a n u a r y
1926
23rd October ... 1922
30th May
... 1888
37, Hamilton Avenue, Chapeltown
37, Harehills Avenue
15, Cowper Street, Chapeltown
6th October ... 1920
21st April ... 1926
21st October ... 1919
24, Ramsden Terrace
1, Gipton Terrace, Roundhay Road
18, Church ‫׳‬Gate
l l t h July
... 1928
5th September 1926
5th May
... 1929
23, Sefton P a r k Road
34, Bedford Street, N .
211, Wavertree Road
20, Seymour Street
52, H a r t i n g t o n Road, Sefton P a r k
171, Walton L a n e
86, Mulgrave Street
10, Geneva Road, Fairfield
" S a r m o n t , " York Road
4, College Square
13th May
...
16th May
...
12th November
20th F e b r u a r y
6th December
30th November
15th October ...
10th December
5 t h September
21st F e b r u a r y
1929
1897
1919
1928
1923
1930
1917
1923
1924
1917
94, Charlotte Street, Hightown
5, H e w i t t Street, Hightown
129, Stocks Street, Cheetham
49, Woodlands Street, Cheetham
26 Bignor Street, Cheetham
312, Waterloo Road, Hightown ...
5, Wellington Street East, Higher Brough
ton
:.
14, Catherine Road, Higher Crumpsall
144, Stocks Street, Cheetham
30th
19th
13th
26th
llth
12th
1913
1923
1916
1929
1886
1926
October
•December
September
May
...
March ...
April ...
1930
1922
1919
1922
1913
2nd August ... 1926
19th M a y
... 1927
20th February 1917
Manchester
Kahal
Chasidim))
(New)
(New Roumanian)
(North)
(Oxford Road)
(Rydal Mount)
(Shaare Zedek)
(South) ...
(South Broughton)
Spanish and Portuguese) ...)
(Telzer and Kovno)
United Synagogue & Beth)
Hamedrash Hagodol)
((Warsaw
M. Gritz, Esq.
...
M. Heilpern, Esq.
P . Adler, Esq
M. Gritz, Esq
Abraham Vogel, Esq.
J . B. Newgrosh, Esq. ...
The
Rev.
Laurence
Glickman
S. Hyman, Esq
Jack Shalom, Esq.
Rev. Louis Weiwow,B.A.
Rev. M. M. Cohen
David Cansino, Esq.
Rev. I. W . Slotki, M.A.
L. Abrahamson, Esq.
94, Charlotte Street, Hightown
288, Gt. Clowes Street,...((Lower
HigherBroughton
Broughton
41, Smedley Road, Cheetham
...
94, Charlotte Street, Hightown
69, Bignor Street, Cheetham
77, Wellington Street W . , H i g h e r Broughton
23rd F e b r u a r y
28th October ...
18th August ...
26th J u n(New
e.
...
9th September
2nd November
1926
192a
1929
193G
1930
1911«
47, P l y m o u t h Grove, Chorlton-on-Medlock ...
196, Elizabeth Street, Cheetham
12, The Beeches, West Didsbury
10, Sherringham Road, Withington
64, Heywood Street, Cheetham
471, Bury New Road, Kersal
((Talmud
3, Bellott Street, Cheetham
284, Great Clowes Street, Broughton
21st
9th
21st
17th
20th
15th
24th
21st
19G6
1926
1926
1923
1920
1926
1927
1919
Rev. S. Fredberg
W . Puritz, Esq.
316, Cheetham Hill Road
34, Enid Street, Lower Broughton
20th July
3rd August
32, Marine Terrace
4, Dane Terrace
2, Thornfield Road
20th October
1929
30th November 1930
3rd November
1925
January
February
December
July
...
April
...
June
...
November
October ...
1923
1930
Margate
Merthyr Tydvil
Middlesbrough-on-Tees
Joseph Sokel, Esq.
Emanuel Cohen, Esq.
Saul Levy, Esq
Newcastle-on-Tyne
... (Newcastle-on-Tyne (United
(Newcastle (Jesmond
(Newport (Monmouth
... Northampton
N o r t h Shields
Norwi ‫ר‬11
Nottingham
Rabbi J . Kyanski
Rev. Y. M . Sandelson ...
Rev. E. D r u k k e r , B.A. ...
Leslie Jacobs, Esq.
Saul Doffman, Esq.
N a t h a n Science, Esq. ...
Rev. M. I . F a b r i t z
The
Rev.
Abraham
Levene
...
... Oxford
Louis Freedson, Esq.
Plymouth
Pontypridd
P o r t s m o u t h and Southsea
Preston
Louis Robins, Esq
Myer Fishout, Esq.
R e v . Mendel Bloch, B.A.
Isaac Tragen, Esq.
14th
21, Carlisle Avenue, T h e H o e
3rd
" Norwood," Tyfica Crescent
Synagogue House, Queen Street, Portsea ... 2nd
20th
4, Cross Street
Ramsgate
Paul ©oodman, Esq.
Vestry Offices f Heneage Lane, London, E.C-3 12th August ... 1910
...
...
...
...
24th J u n e
...
7th November
22nd J u l y
...
29th November
1st February
3rd May
...
19th J a n u a r y ...
88, Rye Hill
230, Westmorland Road
21, Lyndhurst Avenue, West Jesmond
47, Llanthewy Road ...
" Alroy," 43, St. M a t t h e w ' s P a r a d e
25, Cleveland Road
Synagogue House, Synagogue Street
Synagogue House, 11, Belgrave Square
20, Richmond Road ...
...
1921
1926
1915
1899
1911
1925
1931
22nd F e b r u a r y 1925
4th April
... 1918
May
...
February
June
...
August ...
1914
1909
1927
1923
Synagogue.
Name<5fSecretary.
226, O x f o r d R o a d
12th J a n u a r y ... 1930
Reading
R . P u l v e r m a c h e r , E s q . ...
Sheffield (Hebrew)
Rev. B a r n e t I . Cohen,
4, M a c k e n z i e Crescent, B r o o m h a l l P a r k
B.A.
H y m a n Bloomfield, E s q . 187, Chippinghouse R o a d
Joseph Alterman,
E s q . 64, B e r n a r d S t r e e t
Rabbi
Dr.
Alec
Eli
40, H a r t w o o d R o a d
...
...
...
Silverstone
E r n e s t G o m p e r t z , E s q . ... 43, Vespasian A v e n u e
Rev. A. P l a s k o w , B . A . ... 4, W i n t o n Avenue, Westcliff
L o u i s Sive, Esq. ...
Hardwick Terrace
Bernard Freedman
3, A l e x a n d r a R o a d
...
J o s e p h Blain, E s q .
2, Victoria Square
M. Jacoby, Esq
1, Cedars Crescent
J o s e p h P e a r l m a n , Esq. ... 8, Salem H i l l South
3B, St. J a m e s ' s R o a d , S u r b i t o n , S u r r e y
D. L . Sasieni, E s q .
10, H e a t h f i e l d S t r e e t
I . R . Levi, Esq
M o r r i s Symonds, E s q . ... P e n t r e , R h o n d d a , Glam
H a r r y B r o d e r , Esq.
T h e Laurels
H . L . Cohen, Esq.
53, B r i g h t o n Street, Wallasey, Cheshire
J a c o b B r o a d y , Esq.
... 107, T h o r n t o n S t r e e t
Sheffield (Central)
Southampton
Southport
South Shields
Scruthend and Westcliff
Stockton-on-Tees
Stockport
Stoke-on-Trent
Sunderland
Sunderland (Beth Hamedrash)
Surbiton and Kingston
Swansea
Tonypandy
Tredegar
Wallasey
...
...
West Hartlepool
Whitley and District (Whitley
Bay)
Withington
Wolverhampton
York (Aldwark)
NORTHERN IRELAND.
Belfast Synagogue
IRISH F R E E STATE.
Dublin Synagogue
Dublin
Synagogue
(United
Hebrew)
Cork Synagogue
Date of Appointment.
Secretary's Address.
12th J u n e
24th October
27th M a y
1912
1916
1929
17th J a n u a r y
24th S e p t e m b e r
17th October ...
18th S e p t e m b e r
20th September
21st October ...
28th December
8th F e b r u a r y
18th J u l y
...
20th J a n u a r y
18th F e b r u a r y
24th M a y
...
23rd December
7th December
1928
1920
1923
1918
1929
1919
1922
1911
1921
1922
1918
1911
1914
1889
42, V e n t n o r G a r d e n s ...
...
L i n g w o o d , T h e Beeches, W e s t D i d s b u r y ...
2, H a u g h t o n P l a c e , Shaw R o a d , B u s h b u r y
" R a y v i l l e , " Mill H i l l , H u n t i n g t o n , Y o r k s
25th October
22nd J a n u a r y
8th December
1927
1912
192<‫נ‬
4th N o v e m b e r
1929
Harold Goldblatt
29, W a t e r l o o G a r d e n s
12th December
1926
Rev. Abraham Gudansky
Rev. B e r n a r d J a f f e
35, Longwood A v e n u e
30, Emorville Avenue,
J o s e p h T h o m a s Clein
26, M c C u r t a i n S t r e e t
Isaac S a l t m a n , E s q .
Levy Moss, E s q
D. E . D a v i s , E s q
Israel M o r r i s ,
T h e Acts 6 & 7, WM. I V c. 86 and 7
gogues do not apply to Scotland.
Esq.
...
...
S.C.R
...
...
10th J a n u a r y
1902
3rd M a r c h
... 1913
3rd J u n e
1925
8 V i c . C. 81, in virtue of which the President certifies Marriage Secretaries of Syna-
T h e President is not required to certify the Marriage Secretaries of the West London Synagogue and its associated Synagogues,
viz:‫־—י‬St, George's Jewish Settlement (Stepney), Congregation of British Jews, Manchester, and the Synagogue of British and
Foreign Jews, Bradford.
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