The Glasgow Zionist Centre, 6 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AX
The Glasgow Zionist Centre was based between 1935 and 1954 at number 6 Dixon Street a road leading at right angles from the North bank of the Clyde and Clyde Street. It is just a minute or so from St Enoch underground station (and the St Enoch Centre) to the North, Just yards from Jamaica Street running up the side of Central Station to the West. The Briggait is a little further to the East and (ironically) the statue of La Pasionara, commenorating the International Brigade whic fought fascism in Spain is just yards to the South West on the banks of the Clyde.
The office was initially opened by Abraham Links as the base for the Glasgow Commission of the JNF but subsequently became known as the 'Zionist Centre':
- Abraham Links (1886-1953) was a leading figure in the Zionist movement in Glasgow. He was involved in setting up the first Glasgow office of the Jewish National Fund in Dixon Street in 1935, building on the success of the JNF's Glasgow Committee which had been founded in 1901 to raise funds to buy land in Palestine for the creation of a Jewish homeland.[1]
Links' family which remains staunchly Zionist to this day, then bought a building in the Soutside which became the new Zionist HQ in 1954: Abraham Links House, 43 Queen Square, Glasgow, G41 2BD
Other notable Zionist addresses in Glasgow
- Abraham Links House, 43 Queen Square, Glasgow, G41 2BD
- Maccabi Centre, May Terrace, Giffnock, Glasgow G46 6LD
- Glasgow G46 postal code
- 222 Fenwick Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6UE