Lucien Wolf
Lucien Wolf (born January 20, 1857 in London ; died August 9, 1930 ) was a British publicist and historian.
Life
Lucien Wolf's parents were Jewish emigrants from the Austrian Empire who had to emigrate after the revolution of 1848 was put down. Wolf began an apprenticeship at The Jewish World in 1874 and was its editor-in-chief until 1893. He also worked as an associate editor for the Public Leader and Daily Graphic newspapers and was the London correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Journal from 1893 to 1897 .
Wolf also spoke French and German. His pseudonym was Diplomaticus , as he mainly worked on foreign policy issues, including the situation of Jews in Russian-dominated Eastern Europe after the pogroms of 1881. His resulting stance against the policies of Tsarist Russia came into crisis in 1914 when Great Britain joined Russia in the First World War.
He was a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews , in the Anglo-Jewish Association and became a member of the Conjoint Foreign Committee , founded in 1878 , whose work he had a major influence from the turn of the century until the 1920s. He was sent by the committee as an observer to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . He was considered a spokesman for the Jews of Western Europe when the rights of the (Jewish) minorities in the newly emerging states of Central and Eastern Europe were being demanded. He campaigned for the implementation and control of minority rights at the League of Nations and in 1929 became head of the Advisory Committee of the Refugee Commissioner at the League of Nations.
On the question of Zionism he was rather wavering and negative. Nonetheless, he exercised his influence on the British government, which in 1920, under the League of Nations Mandate in Palestine, allowed Zionist immigration at least partially and in phases.
Wolf was also interested in historical topics and wrote several monographs on the history of the Jews in England, including mediaeval and early modern sources. He was a co-organizer of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition . With Joseph Jacobs he organized the Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica . Another interest, also due to current events, was the history of the Portuguese Marranas . Wolf co-founded the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1893 and became its first president. For the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1911 , he wrote the articles Anti-Semitism , Hirsch, Baron and Zionism .
Fonts (selection)
- Sir Moses Montefiore . Biography. 1885
- (Ed.): Manasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell . London, 1901
- C. Roth (Ed.): L. Wolf, Essay in Jewish History . London, 1934
literature
- Mark Levene: Conjoint Foreign Committee. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 2: Co-Ha. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02502-9 , pp. 28–31.
- Stuart Cohen: English Zionists and British Jews: The Communal Politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1895-1920 . Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1982
- Article Wolf, Lucien , Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 16, 1971, Col. 606 f.
- Josef Fraenkel : Lucien Wolf and Theodor Herzl . London: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1960.
- Max Beloff : Lucien Wolf and the Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907-1914 . London: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1951
Web links
- Literature by and about Lucien Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Lucien Wolf in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Joseph Jacobs : Lucien Wolf , in Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British publicist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1930 |