Winocour family

After the death of his first wife, Maxwell Berkley (1925-2018) married Irene Maitles (nee Sless, 1925-2020) in 1975. Irene’s first husband was Marcus (who died in his forties in Pollok, Glasgow, in 1946). The Maitles family had a business connection with another of the Zionist families through Marcus’ brother, Henry. He owned cinemas and theatres with the Winocour brothers, Harry and Claude. Official Valuation records for 1935 list Henry as ‘proprietor’ of a cinema in Chapel Lane, Irvine and a Picture House in Townhead Street, Hamilton, both of which are towns near Glasgow.

The Embassy Cinema in Shawlands, Glasgow (on the site that is now the Sir John Stirling Maxwell pub). Built for Harry Winocour in 1936. Sir Harry Lauder and Al Jolson entertained on opening day.

Harry Winocour (original name Hersz Winokur) was from Poland and naturalized as a British citizen in 1947. He married Dora (nee Silver, who died in 1970), in whose name the Dora Winocour Charitable Trust was created in 1969. The Trust was wound up in June 2012 and its remaining resources transferred to the pre-eminent trust bankrolling Scottish Zionism, the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust. Today, its secretary is Helena Winocour (nee Black).

Helena Winocour is actively promoting the ideology of Zionism through the GJCT. Paul Winocour (born in 1951), her husband, is also involved, serving as a director of Jewish Care Scotland (since 2014), an organization that has explicitly committed to Zionist principles. Other directors of the company over the years have included a roster of surnames from the Caledonian Cousinhood of Zionism, including Beach, Dover, Lewis, Links, Livingston (twice), Morron, Strang, Tankel (twice), Tenby, and Walton. Other members of the extended Winocour family have also played significant roles in the Zionist movement.

Richard Alan Winocour (Paul’s younger brother, born in 1956) became a settler colonist in occupied Palestine after having married Simone Ruth Plotnikoff in Eastwood and Mearns, Glasgow, in 1986. His son, Naftali, is now a member of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Their other offspring, Jacob (born in 1993), Yael (born in 1996), and Leah are all settler colonists in Palestine, Jacob and Yael having moved there from a childhood in Glasgow. Jacob served in the so-called IDF for two years and eight months (August 2013 to March 2016), where he says he was “combat trained,” and “Reported field intel to superior officers.”

Other extended family members involved are David Winocour, who attended the Zionist Jewish Free School (JFS) in London, studied American Studies & Politics at the University of Nottingham, and has worked with the Zionist group Aish On Campus. Back in Glasgow, Paul and Helena’s son, the twenty-something university student Toby (born 2001), formerly attended the 20,000-pound-a-year fee-paying Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow. Zionist activism—under the heading Jewish Activities in Mainstream Schools, bankrolled by the UJIA — is welcome within the school and involves setting up a “Jewish society” to radicalize the pupils before they even reach university or the world of work. He has already signed up to work with the Zionist movement through his role as Social Media Manager at Glasgow Friends of Israel (since September 2024) and “BBC Media Accuracy Reporter” for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA) (since December 2024).

Family tree

• Elias Winocour (b 1855, d 1920 in the Gorbals at 65. and Annie Winocour(nee Marcus).
  • Percy Winocour(b 1882 d 1950) married Mattie Winocour (nee Jackson) in 1908 in Greenock.
    • Rebecca Winocour (also 'Becky') (b 1909, Cathcart. d 1976)
    • Jack Emanuel Winocour (also 'Jackie') (b 1913, Govanhill - 1978)
    • Henry Marcus Winocour (b 1915, Govanhill)
    • Fred Winocour (b 1915, Govanhill)
    • Gerald Winocour (b 1917, Govanhill
  • Aaron Winocour (b 1888) Married Clara Winocour (nee Furst)
  • Claud Winocour (1889 - 1941). m. Polly Leah Winocour; and Alice Mabel Green
    • Rebecca Winocour (1917 - 2004);
    • Evelyn Gladys Winocour (1920-2005);
    • Private;
    • Private and
    • Robert Whitelock (1919-1993)
  • Myer Winocour (b 1892, died in 1974 at 82 in Eastwood and Mearns.
    • Elliot Winocour (b 1920, Cathcart Married Yvette Winocour (nee Davidson, born, died 2016, at 87, Eastwood and Mearns.) in 1949 in Glasgow.) Her mother's maiden name was Caron.
      • Paul Winocour m. Helena Joanne Winocour
        • Toby Winocour
      • Richard Winocour
        • Naftali Winocour
    • Bertram Winocour (b. 1925, d. 2015 at 90 in Eastwood and Mearns). m. Sandra Winocour
      • Amanda Strang (nee Winocour) (born 1960)
  • Wolfe Winocour (1894-1952)
  • Harry Winocour (b 1896- 1950) Dora Winocour (nee Silver, died in 1970 at the age of 73 in Glasgow). She married Harry Winocour in Milton, Glasgow in 1919.
  • Fanny Winocour (1899-1993)

Charities

Dora Winocour Charitable Trust

See also

• Furst family