Solomon Teff

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Solomon Teff was a solicitor and the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1964[1][2][3] to 1967.[4][5] He was a member of the Hove Hebrew Congregation in Brighton and Hove.[6]

Solomon Teff
Preceded byAbraham Moss
Succeeded byMichael Fidler
President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
In office
1964–1967
Personal details
NationalityBritish

Teff became acting president of the Board of Deputies upon the death of Abraham Moss[3][7] and was succeeded by Michael Fidler.[4] In 1964, as head of the Board of Deputies he spoke before the Twenty-Sixth Zionist Congress praising British Jews who migrated to Israel.[8]

Teff died in 1979.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Presidential election". The Guardian. 23 June 1964. p. 10.
  2. ^ "Janner mulls running for board head again". The Jewish Post. Indianapolis, Indiana. 24 July 1964. p. 11.
  3. ^ a b "British Jews' president". The Times. 20 October 1964. p. 18.
  4. ^ a b "Ex-mayor to head Board of British Jews". The Daily Telegraph. 3 July 1967.
  5. ^ Rubinstein, W.; Jolles, Michael A. (27 January 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6.
  6. ^ "250 years of Brighton's flock". The Jewish Chronicle. 21 April 2016.
  7. ^ Cohen, Norman (1965). "Great Britain". The American Jewish Year Book. 66: 362. ISSN 0065-8987. JSTOR 23603176.
  8. ^ Schaffer, Gavin (2019). "Zionism, Aliyah, and the Jews of Glasgow: Belonging and Believing in Postwar Britain". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 37 (3): 272. doi:10.1353/sho.2019.0038.
  9. ^ Kochan, Lionel; Kochan, Miriam (1981). "Great Britain". The American Jewish Year Book. 81: 201. ISSN 0065-8987. JSTOR 23604125.