Maurice L. Perlzweig - Perlzweig, Maurice L
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Maurice L. Perlzweig includes 15 autobiographical interviews the author gave to the Columbia Oral History Project in 1981-82. Perlzweig was a political activist, lobbyist and organizer, with a flair for converting English aristocrats to Judaism. He recalls his encounters with Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Oswald Mosley, Lewis Namier, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, R.A. Butler, Viscount Melchett, Eva, Lady Reading, Jan Smuts, Charles de Gaulle, the Roosevelts, Rabbi Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldmann. In 1940 he departed with his family for America, serving as the World Jewish Congress's Director of International Affairs.…mehr

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Maurice L. Perlzweig includes 15 autobiographical interviews the author gave to the Columbia Oral History Project in 1981-82. Perlzweig was a political activist, lobbyist and organizer, with a flair for converting English aristocrats to Judaism. He recalls his encounters with Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Oswald Mosley, Lewis Namier, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, R.A. Butler, Viscount Melchett, Eva, Lady Reading, Jan Smuts, Charles de Gaulle, the Roosevelts, Rabbi Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldmann. In 1940 he departed with his family for America, serving as the World Jewish Congress's Director of International Affairs.
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Maurice L. Perlzweig (1895-1985) gained degrees at UCL and Christ's College, Cambridge. He became second minister at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John's Wood. In 1938, he was appointed minister at the North-Western Reform Synagogue (the 'Alyth').