David Strang
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David Strang (left) with Giffnock Shul minister and Glasgow Beth Din Rabbi Moshe Rubin at the appointment of Stanley Lovatt as Honorary Consul of Israel in Scotland, at a ceremony held in the City Chambers, 2011. Source
David Strang (born 1930 as Saul Sragowitz[1]) is a Glasgow based Zionist activist and the father of Raymond Strang.
A report in the Herald noted:
- Strang, a senior member of the Jewish community, was originally named David Sragowitz, but like many changed his surname. Not, he says, because of anti-semitism, but simply because people could not pronounce or spell his name, and it made things simpler. "Nobody could pronounce it," he says. "It would sometimes come out as 'scraggy bitch'." As a pupil at Shawlands Academy in the 1940s, he blended in with the other pupils and his Jewishness was not remarked upon, he says.[1]
In his youth he knew Stanley Danelkoff.