Sidney Solomon Naftalin
Sidney Solomon Naftalin (1910-1990) was a Glasgow based Zionist activist.
Life
His birth was registered as Solomon Naftalin in the Gorbals in 1910, mother's maiden name Cohen.[1] The 1911 census records Soloman Naftalin, aged 0, in a Gorbals household with Abraham A Naftalin (41) and Martha Naftalin (39),[2] and the 1921 census records Solomon Naftalin, aged 10, in Cathcart with Abraham Naftalin (50) and Martha Naftalin (48).[3] The statutory indexes give Cohen as the mother's maiden name both for this birth and for the 1962 death of Ephraim Myer Naftalin,[4] and the 1901 census records an Ephraim Naftalin, aged 7, in a Gorbals household with Abraham (31) and Massie (29) Naftalin.[5]
In April 1932 the Jewish Echo reported that Mr Sydney Naftalin was elected President of the Glasgow University Jewish Society at its annual general meeting.[6]
His marriage to Marjorie Miriam Jacobs was registered in Milton in 1937.[7] The 1940 valuation roll lists Sidney S Naftalin as proprietor/occupier of the house at 141 Balgrayhill Road, Glasgow, and as tenant of the consulting rooms at 24 Northcroft Road, Glasgow (VR010201660), and of rooms and a house at 186 Dumbarton Road, Govan (VR010201665).[8] His death was registered in Glasgow, Martha Street, in 1990, aged 79, mother's maiden name Cohen.[9] The statutory deaths index also records a Marjorie Naftalin, aged 72, mother's maiden name Amschiewitz, in Glasgow, Park Circus, in 1986.[10]
An obituary in the Herald for his brother Leslie Naftalin states:
- Zionism was an important element of Jewish life in the years following the First World War. He was born a few years before the Balfour Declaration in 1917, and the horrors of the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s made the establishment of the State of Israel a momentous event in his life. He collaborated with his brother Dr Sidney Naftalin and sculptor Benno Schotz in the establishment of the Glasgow Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was the society's honorary president at the time of his death.[11]
See also
Notes
- ↑ NAFTALIN SOLOMON COHEN M 1910 644 / 17 / 1249 Gorbals
- ↑
- NAFTALIN SOLOMAN 1911 M 0 644/17 19/ 19 Gorbals Lanark
- NAFTALIN ABRAHAM A 1911 M 41 644/17 19/ 19 Gorbals Lanark
- NAFTALIN MARTHA 1911 F 39 644/17 19/ 19 Gorbals Lanark
- ↑
- NAFTALIN SOLOMON 1921 M 10 633/B 4/ 10 Cathcart Lanark
- NAFTALIN ABRAHAM 1921 M 50 633/B 4/ 10 Cathcart Lanark
- NAFTALIN MARTHA 1921 F 48 633/B 4/ 10 Cathcart Lanark
- ↑ NAFTALIN EPHRAIM MYER 68 Cohen M 1962 644 / 12 / 1339 Cathcart (Glasgow)
- ↑
- NAFTALIN EPHRAIM 1901 M 7 644/12 10/ 34 Gorbals Lanark
- NAFTALIN ABRAHAM 1901 M 31 644/12 10/ 34 Gorbals Lanark
- NAFTALIN MASSIE 1901 F 29 644/12 10/ 34 Gorbals Lanark
- ↑ Jewish Echo (Glasgow), 15 April 1932, p. 5, Glasgow University Jewish Society, annual general meeting.
- ↑ NAFTALIN SIDNEY S JACOBS MARJORIE MIRIAM 1937 644 / 10 / 261 Milton
- ↑
- NAFTALIN SIDNEY S Proprietor/Occupier HOUSE 141 BALGRAYHILL ROAD GLASGOW 1940 VR010201660-
- NAFTALIN SIDNEY S Tenant CONSULTING ROOMS 24 NORTHCROFT ROAD GLASGOW 1940 VR010201660-
- NAFTALIN SIDNEY S Tenant ROOMS ETC 186 DUMBARTON ROAD GOVAN 1940 VR010201665-
- NAFTALIN SIDNEY S Tenant HOUSE 186 DUMBARTON ROAD GOVAN 1940 VR010201665-
- ↑ NAFTALIN SIDNEY SOLOMON 79 Cohen M 1990 601 / 452 Glasgow, Martha St
- ↑ NAFTALIN MARJORIE 72 AMSCHIEWITZ F 1986 623 / 54 Glasgow, Park Circus
- ↑ Dr Leslie Naftalin Glasgow Herald 26th December 2011