Abraham Naftalin

Abraham Naftalin (1870-December 25, 1948, Glasgow)

Naftalin was a Matza factory owner.

At least five of his sons were active in the Zionist movement in Glasgow, primarily in the Glasgow Commission of the Jewish National Fund

Timeline

• 1906 While the immigrants were prepared to leave representation in the hands of the establishment, they sought more internal independence. One recurring issue was the provision of kosher meat. In 1905 a deputation of South Siders, including Abraham Naftalin (an entrepreneur who had arrived in Glasgow during the 1880s) and Bernard Glasser (the son-in-law of a South Side rabbi) who had leading roles in several religious organisations, asked the United Synagogue to construct a Board of Shechita for the whole of Glasgow Jewry. Their scheme, motivated by religious as well as secular (the price of meat) demands, proposed representatives for this board to be elected at mass meetings, who would serve alongside representatives of the various synagogues. Shochetim had to be engaged and work under the supervision of an Eastern European rabbi. The surplus of the sales of kosher meat could be used for the burial of the poor and the finance of the newly founded Talmud Torah school. The board would meet alternatively at Garnethill and on the South Side, but public meetings were to take place in the Gorbals. No agreement could be reached on these proposals. The conflict about shechita and the case of a dismissed clergyman on the South Side led to the Garnethill establishment giving up their attempts to control the immigrants by means of the United Synagogue. On the initiative of Gamethill the organisation was disbanded in 1906".

Family

• Menachem Mendel Naftalin (1840 - 1920) married Mary Naftalin (nee Segal, third marriage) (b 1841 - 1920) Died at 80 years in the Gorbals.
  • Abraham Naftalin (1870 (Telsiai, Lithuania) - 1948) married Massie Naftalin (alternatively Masha, later Martha, nee Cohen) (1873 - 1950), in 1893, Kelvin.
    • Ephraim Myer Naftalin (b 1894) - married Bertha Naftalin (nee Rosenzweig) in St Clement, Dundee, 1923.
    • Harry Naftalin (Marcus Harris Naftalin) (b 1895)
    • Sophia Rebecca Naftalin (b 1896-1897)
    • Etta Naftalin/Ethel Naftalin (b 1898, d 1987)
    • Tobias Naftalin (b 1899)
    • Reuben Naftalin (Also Ruben, wrongly given as Renben in 1911 census) (b 1901)
    • Moses Naftalin (b 1903, d, 2 Feb 1997 - Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA) - Married Ruth Naftalin (1903 - 1997)(nee Yoffe) in the US.
    • Joseph Naftalin (b 1904)
    • Israel Naftalin/Isidor Naftalin/Isidore Naftalin (b 1907) Married Sophia Naftalin (nee Shulman) in 1940 in Cathcart.
    • Judah Naftalin (b 1908)
    • Solomon Naftalin/Sidney Solomon Naftalin (b 1910) - Married Marjorie Miriam Naftalin (nee Jacobs) in 1937 in Milton.
    • Leslie Naftalin (1912-2011) Married Beulah Naftalin
      • Suzanne Michal Dover nee Naftalin.
    • Beartrice Rose Naftalin (b 1916)

See also

• Naftalin family