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Solomon Teff

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

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]

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.