Dr. Abraham Benisch as Newspaper Editor
EDITORS do not usually receive such agreeable testimonials as did the Editor of the Nonconformist (Mr. Miall, m.p.) last week, when Mr. Kell handed him a cheque for ten thousand guineas in testimony of his services on behalf of Civil and Religious Liberty. The Jewish community of England take a different view from the Dissenters’ body, and favour their Editors with more? criticisms?than halfpence.
This heartfelt cry, wrung from the pen of an Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Michael Henry, in the issue of 25 July 1873, may perhaps serve as an introduction to this sketch of the profes? sional work of Henry’s immediate predecessor and again, in a sort of leapfrogging operation, later successor in office, Dr. Abraham Benisch. I do not mean to imply that the life of a Jewish Chronicle editor is of necessity all kicks and no halfpence, but at least it gives me a platform
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- HONORARY OFFICERS, COUNCIL, AND MEMBERS, 1967-68
- Laws (revised and adopted 11 July 1962)
- CORRECTION
- Memoir of Sir Nathaniel Nathan 1843-1916
- Memoir of Sir Nathaniel Nathan 1843-1916
- Rabbi Dr. Isidore Epstein, B.A., Ph.D., D.Lit., 1894-1962
- ‘Judaising’ in the Period of the English Reformation ?The Case of Richard Bruern
- The London Get of 1287
- Non-Religious Factors in the Emergence of the Chief
- Judith Montefiore First Lady of Anglo-Jewry
- Abraham Solomon, Painter of Fashion, and Simeon Solomon, Decadent Artist
- The Rev. Dr. Joseph Ghotzner
- Dr. Abraham Benisch as Newspaper Editor
- Abraham Sussman from Berdichew to Bevis Marks
- Hyman Hurwitz: the First Anglo-Jewish Professor
- Russo-Jewish Immigrants in England before 1881
- Some Extracts from the Memoirs of an Octogenarian
- Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy, 1820-1890
- The Rise of Jewish Suburbia
- Preface
