Appendix One - Biographical Sketches

APPENDIX ONE - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES A., B. (b. c.1910, Stepney) Ukrainian parents. Worked as a machinist. A., N. (b. 1903, Stepney) Russian father, Lithuanian mother. Later worked as a tailoress. Aarons, Sam (b. c.1895, Manchester) Later a boxer under the name of ‘Kid Furness’. Abrahams, Adolphe (b. 1883, Bedford) Lithuanian parents. Later the medical offcer in charge of the British Olympic team from 1912– 1948. Knighted in 1939. Abrahams, Ena (b. 1924, Stoke Newington) Ukrainian father, Polish mother. Both worked in tailoring. Abrahams, Harold (b. 1899, Bedford) Lithuanian parents. Forged a successful athletics career, winning the 100 metres gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Later became a solicitor and sports administrator. Adler, Ruth (b. 1912, Stepney) Polish parents, father a market trader. Family briefy returned to Poland during the First World War, but moved back to London in 1919. Ainley, Ben (b. 1901, Manchester) Lithuanian father, Latvian mother. Later involved in the Communist Party Great Britain. Asphodel (b. 1921, Stepney) Polish parents. Grew up and went to school in Portsmouth. Later a committed feminist and women’s rights cam- paigner. Austin, Jean (née Sulkand, b. 1903, Soho) Parents Lithuanian, father a barber in London’s West End. Later worked as a clerk and statistician. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 345 D. Dee, The ‘Estranged’ Generation? Social and Generational Change in Interwar British Jewry, DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95238-0 346 APPENDIX ONE - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES B., H. (b. 1920, Stepney) Lithuanian parents. Barclay, Anne (b. c.1905, Manchester) Polish parents. Later worked as a secretary. Baron, Alexander (b. 1918, Maidenhead, as Joseph Bernstein) Polish parents. Later a novelist and screenwriter. Beckman, Morris (b. 1921, Hackney) Polish parents, youngest of six chil- dren. Later went on to become heavily involved in anti-Fascist activi- ties, such as the 43 Group. Belmont, Bill (b. 1909, Stepney, as Solomon Belernof) Lithuanian father, Russian mother. Later worked as a teacher and lecturer. Berg, Jack ‘Kid’ (b. 1909, Stepney, as Judah Bergman junior) Ukrainian parents, father a tailor. Went on to a successful professional boxing career, holding the World Junior Welterweight (1930–1931) and British Lightweight (1934) titles. Bernstein, Sidney (b. 1899, Ilford) Father a businessman. Later a well- known media magnate. Billig, Hannah (b. 1901, Stepney) Russian parents. Qualifed as a doctor in 1925 before setting up her own clinic near Cable Street in 1935. Two brothers and a sister also became doctors. Birnbaum, Sonia (née Raznick, b. 1927, Bloomsbury) Father a Russian tailor, mother born in the East End. Blacker, Harry (b. 1910, Stepney) Russian parents. Later became a car- toonist and graphic artist. Bloomberg, Ada (b. 1910, Stepney) Austrian parents, father a clothing presser. Worked in clothing manufacture. Bloomenfeld, David (b. 1921, Manchester as David Bloomenfelt) Russian parents, father a carpenter. Bloomfeld, Jack (b. 1899, Stepney as Solomon Blumenfeld) Later a British light heavyweight boxing champion. Blumenfeld, Simon (b. 1907, Stepney) Father Turkish, mother Ukrainian. Family had Sicilian, but non-Jewish, origins, although Simon was a self-declared Jew. Later a well-known writer and mem- ber of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Bobker, Martin (b. 1912, Manchester) Father Austrian, mother Russian. Later a French polisher and, post-1945, a teacher. Booth, Albert (b. 1912, Hackney, as Albert Butromovitch) Ukrainian mother, Lithuanian father. Later worked as a violinist. Brodetsky, Selig (b. 1888, Olviopol, Ukraine) Moved to the East End aged 6. Later a mathematician and Zionist and communal leader. APPENDIX ONE - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 347 Burleigh, Alice (née Hoffstein, b. 1907, Stepney) Russian father, Polish mother. Father a master tailor. C., L (b. 1916, Stepney) Russian father, Lithuanian mother. Worked in textiles. Caplan, Jack (b. 1915, Gorbals) Lithuanian parents, one of seven chil- dren. Clarke, Sam (b. 1907, Bethnal Green) Parents both Russian. Later a fur- niture maker. Clyne, Bella (b. 1915, Manchester) Russian parents, father, a tailor, was a deserter from military service in 1905. Worked as a seamstress. Clyne, Esther (b. 1921, Manchester) Russian parents. Worked as a hairdresser. Clyne, Freda (b. 1911, Manchester) Russian parents. Worked as a seamstress. Clyne, Joe (b. 1909, Manchester) Russian parents. Later deeply involved in the communist movement. Clyne, Lily (b. 1917, Manchester) Russian parents. Worked as a seamstress. Clyne, Rose (b. 1924, Manchester) Russian parents. Later worked as a hairdresser. Cohen, David (b. 1906, Manchester) Later worked as an optician. Avid sports fan. Cohen, Henry (b. 1900, Liverpool) Russian parents, father a tailor. Later worked as a doctor and physician, becoming Chair of Medicine at University of Liverpool in 1934. Later President of General Medical Council and Royal Society of Medicine. Cohen, Jack (b. 1898, Stepney, as Jakob Kohen) Polish parents, father an East End tailor. Later became a famous retail magnate. Cohen, Jack (b. 1905, Manchester) Polish parents, later a Communist Party of Great Britain organiser. Cohen, Max (b. c.1918, Stepney) Cabinet maker, later an author for the Left Book Club. Cohen, Myer (b. 1895, Stepney) Russian parents. Later qualifed as a doctor. Collins, Kitty (b. 1917, Stepney)—Father a tailor and mother a button- holer. Went on to be involved in millinery and tobacco selling. Comer, Jack ‘Spot’ (b. 1912, Stepney as Jacob Comacho) Polish parents. Later became well known, in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s as a gang leader. 348 APPENDIX ONE - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Copeland, Jack (b. 1893, Manchester) Lithuanian parents. Later a businessman. Coral, Joe (b. 1904, Warsaw, Poland, as Joseph Kagarlitsky) Moved to London in 1912, later worked as a bookie’s runner before setting up famous Coral bookmaking chain. Cowan, Evelyn (b. 1921, Gorbals) Lithuanian parents, father died when Evelyn aged six weeks, mother involved in drapery sales. Later worked as an author. Cowan, Ubby (b. 1917, Stepney) Austrian father, Polish mother. Later worked as a tailor. Daiches, David (b. 1912, Sunderland) Son of Lithuanian-born rabbi. Went on to become a well-known Scottish academic and literary historian. Davis, Morris ‘Morry’ (b. 1894, Stepney) Polish parents. Later President of the Federation of Synagogues and Labour Leader of Stepney Council. Delfont, Bernard (b. 1909, Tokmak, Ukraine, as Boris Winogradsky) Ukrainian parents emigrated to the UK in 1912. Later a professional dancer and theatre impresario. Deutsch, Oscar (b. 1893, Birmingham) Hungarian father, worked as a scrap metal merchant. Founded the Odeon chain of cinemas. Diamond, Sydney (b. 1906, Soho) Polish parents. Later worked as a tailor. Dobkin, Monty (b. 1914, Manchester) Father a tailor. Later became a writer and local historian. Falber, Reuben (b. 1914, Soho) Polish parents. Parents owned a shop on Tottenham Court Road. Later worked as a hairdresser before working for the Communist Party of Great Britain after the Second World War. F., M. / Fineman, Mark (b. 1904, Stepney) Polish parents, father worked as a tailor. Later worked as an investigating offcer for the Board of Guardians. Finn, Ralph (b. Stepney, 1912) Later became a teacher and writer. Fishman, William (b. 1921, Stepney) Ukrainian parents, father a tailor. Later an academic and historian. Frank, Hannah (b. 1908, Glasgow) Lithuanian father, Russian mother. Later an artist, sculptor and primary school teacher. Frankel, Dan (b. 1900, Stepney) Worked as a tailor, later involved in local and national politics with the Labour Party. APPENDIX ONE - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 349 Gadeon, Solomon (b. 1907, Manchester) Polish parents. Father, a tailor, died whilst Solomon a toddler. Gainsborough, Hugh (b. 1893, Leeds, as Hyman Hirsch Ginsberg) Russian and Dutch parentage, father a grocer. Qualifed as a doctor and was a pioneer of the use of insulin in treatment of diabetes; appointed consultant at St George’s Hospital in London in 1926. Garman, Joe (b. 1916, Manchester) – Russian parents. Gaster, Jack (b. 1907, Maida Vale) Romanian parents, father (Moses Gaster) the haham (Torah scholar) of the Sephardi congrega- tion. Worked as a solicitor, but also involved in politics with the Communist Party of Great Britain. Gertler, Mark (b. 1891, Stepney) Polish parents. Became well known as a painter. Committed suicide in 1939. Ginsberg, David (b. 1907, Stepney) Russian parents. Father a cabinet maker. Glantz, Phil (b. 1917, Manchester) Father from Russia, mother from Austria. Later a machinist. Glasser, Ralph (b. 1916, Leeds) Lithuanian parents. Father immigrated to UK on his own in 1902. Green, Isidore (b. 1906, Stepney) Polish parents. Later worked in sales and then took over family clothing manufacturing business. Golding, Louis (b. 1895, Manchester) Ukrainian parents. Later worked as a writer. Goldman, Willy (b. 1910, Stepney) Parents Russian and Romanian. Later became a writer. Goldstone, Abraham (b. 1910, Manchester) Russian parents. Father a cabinet maker, mother worked as a dressmaker. Later worked as a travelling salesman. Goldstone, Jack (b. 1912, Manchester) Father a machinist. Later worked as a machinist himself. Goodman, Arnold (b. 1913, Hampstead) Lithuanian parents, father a low-level shipping merchant. Later a well-known solicitor and politi- cal advisor. Goodman, Dave (b. 1915, Middlesbrough) Polish father, Russian mother. Later served in the International Brigade in

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