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[[File:Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 10.47.33.jpg|thumb|right|500px|[[43 Queen Square, Glasgow, G41 2BD]] in 2008 from Google Maps.]]
[[43 Queen Square, Glasgow, G41 2BD]] is a terraced house in Glasgow, which is located in G41 next door to [[Queen's Park]] in the city's Southside. Between 1954 and around 1997 it was known as [[Abraham Links House]] in memory of [[Abraham Links]] who opened the first JNF office in Glasgow in 1935 at [[The Glasgow Zionist Centre, 6 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AX]]. The house was purchased by his family after his death and gifted to the JNF in his memory.
[[File:JNF Evening Times 31 Aug 1955 Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 16.00.26.png|thumb|right|300px|'New offices', ''Evening Times'', 31 August 1955.]]
[[File:The Scotsman - Monday 05 September 1955 Screenshot 2025-04-02 at 16.03.51.png|thumb|right|300px|'Offices for National Jewish Fund', The Scotsman, Monday 5 September 1955.]]

It is claimed that, 'The [[Glasgow Zionist Centre]] was  opened in [[39 Queen Square]] in 1936'. <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/AScottishShtetl/A%20Scottish%20Shtetl_djvu.txt A Scottish Shtetl], 1984.</ref> But this would appear to be a mix up.  The [[Glasgow Zionist Centre]] was actually opened at [[6 Dixon Street]] just off the north bank of the Clyde in 1935.  The headquarters moved to no 43 Queen Square in 1954.

For nearly 50 years 43 Queens Square, was a hub of Zionist activity. The property was bought by the Links family in memory of [[Abraham Links]] an early leader of the Glasgow Zionist movement. It was opened as the base for the [[Glasgow Commission of the Jewish National Fund]] on Sunday 4 September 1955. The building was at that point named [[Abraham Links House]]. The property was eventually sold and converted into two flats in 1999, some forty four years later.

The [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] appears to have been based there from the late 1960s - It was listed in the Jewish Year Book at that address by 1971, having been previously (in 1968) listed at 340 Maxwell Road. The group was no longer listed by 1997, though [[Glasgow Jewish Continuity and Renewal]] was still listed there.  This was a [[UJIA]] associated lobby group which subsequently (by 2000) relocated to [[222 Fenwick Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6UE]]. The property was sold in August 1999 for £128,000.<ref>https://scotlis.ros.gov.uk/property-summary/GLA142070</ref>
===1980s-90s===
*1997 [[Glasgow Jewish Continuity and Renewal]]  43 Queen Sq, G41. Chai: Dr [[D. Shapiro]], Exec Officer [[D. Kaplan]] 0141 423 1080 Fax 0141 422 1899.<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1997, p.132.</ref> {This is [[UJIA Scotland]]}
*1993 - [[43 Queen Square]] - T. 041 423 4089 Chairman [[Nigel Allon]].<ref>The Jewish Year book, 1993, p.158.</ref>
*1992 - [[43 Queen Square]] - Chairman [[Nigel Allon]].<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1992 p.155.</Ref>
*1991 [[Nigel Allon]]
*1989 - [[43 Queen Square]] - [[Nigel Allon]] - Chairman.
*1988 - 'a distinct local agenda ... was brought sharply into focus by an advertisement placed in the [[Jewish Echo]] by the [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] in 1988 during the first Palestinian Intifada. Here, a set of signatories from the Organisation urged the Israeli government to negotiate with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), and described the occupied territories as a ‘cancer in the heart of Israeli society’.<ref>91. Jewish Echo, 9/9/88.Cited in Schaffer.</ref> This advertisement drew quick condemnation from others within the GZO, and more broadly in Glasgow Jewish communities.<ref>92. In the aftermath of the advertisement other Zionist Jews in Glasgow publically questioned ‘the authority of the authors of that statement to speak for the members of the [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] or for the silent majority of the Glasgow Jewish community’. ‘Opposed’, Jewish Chronicle, 23/9/88. Cited in Schaffer.</ref> In its aftermath, a debate was held on the issue, which revealed the level of communal disagreement.<ref>93. [[Albert Benjamin]], ‘Talk Show after Row’, Jewish Chronicle, 28/10/88. Cited in Schafer.</ref> 
*1983 - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[43 Queen Square]] - Chairman [[Nigel Allon]].<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1983 p.125.</Ref>
*1982  - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[43 Queen Square]] - Chairman [[Nigel Allon]].<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1982 p.125.</Ref>
*1981 - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[43 Queen Square]] - Chairman [[Nigel Allon]].<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1981 p.128.</Ref>

===1950s-70s===
*1975 - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[43 Queen Sq]] - Hon Sec [[V Bell]], 53 Fruin Ave, Newton Mearns.<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1975, p. 121</ref>
*1974 - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[43 Queen Sq]] - Hon Sec [[V Bell]], 53 Fruin Ave, Newton Mearns.<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1974, p. 120</ref>
*1973 - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[43 Queen Sq]] - Hon Sec [[Kenneth Davidson]], 41 Hazelwood Ave, Newton Mearns.<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1973, p. 120</ref>
*1971 - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[43 Queen Sq]] - Hon Sec [[AB Douglas]].<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1971, p. 121.</ref>
*1968 - [[Glasgow Jewish Representative Council]], [[43 Queen Sq.]], S.1. T.: Pollok 4089. H. Secs.- [[John Dover|J. Dover]], 9 Greenhill Ave, Giffnock. T. Giffnock 3649; [[Fred Samuel Berkley|F. S. Berkley]], 175 St. Vincent St., C.2. T.: City 3188.<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1968, p. 121.</ref>
*1968 - The report of [[Harry Stone]], Chairman of the [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]], after the Six-Day War, highlighted the extent to which British Zionism incorporated a desire to defend Jewry across the world. He explained:
:We are one people with one joint responsibility. During the past year we have suffered grave tragedies with loss of life. We are deeply concerned with the anti-Semitic actions of the Polish government, the fate of the Jews in Russia and our co-religionists in the Arab countries.<ref>110. cited in Schaffer.</ref>
*1967 - [[Glasgow Zionist Organisation]] [[S Slater]] - Hon Secretary, 11 Dalziel Dr.<ref>The Jewish Year Book, 1967, p121.</ref>
*1954 - base of the [[Glasgow Commission of the Jewish National Fund]] and the [[Blue and White Committee]].

==Other notable Zionist addresses in Glasgow==

*[[Maccabi Centre, May Terrace, Giffnock, Glasgow G46 6LD]]
*[[Glasgow G46 postal code]]
*[[222 Fenwick Road, Giffnock, Glasgow, G46 6UE]]
*[[The Glasgow Zionist Centre, 6 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AX]]
==Notes==