Charles Dreyfus
Charles Dreyfus (1848, Alsace – 11 December 1935, Menton) was a French-born British Zionist activist and the President of the Manchester Zionist Society, a member of Manchester City Council and a leading figure in the East Manchester Conservative Association during the time that Arthur Balfour was Member of Parliament for the constituency and Prime Minister.
Biography[edit]
Dreyfus studied chemistry in Strasbourg. He emigrated to Manchester in 1869, where he established the Clayton Aniline Company in 1876.[1][2] As a councillor he led the campaign for a Jewish hospital.[2][3]
At Dreyfus' suggestion Balfour and the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann (later first President of the State of Israel) first met at a constituency meeting on 27 January 1905.[4][5] Dreyfus had been introduced to Weizmann by the Zionist activist and writer Joseph Massel.[6][7] Dreyfus was Weizmann's employer in Manchester and remained a friend until his death.[8]
Charles Dreyfus was a distant relative of Alfred Dreyfus, the young Jewish artillery officer at the centre of the notorious French political scandal, the Dreyfus affair.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ Russell, Colin Archibald (2000). Chemistry, Society and Environment. Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN 0-85404-599-6, p. 232.
- ^ a b Liedtke, Rainer (1998). Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, c. 1850-1914. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-820723-9, pp. 133-134.
- ^ Weizmann, Chaim (1949). Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, Harper, p. 109.
- ^ Alderman, Geoffrey (1992). Modern British Jewry. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-820759-X, p.227.
- ^ Pata, Raphael (1958). Herzl Year Book. Herzl Press, p. 34.
- ^ Razzūq, Asʻad (1970). Greater Israel: A Study in Zionist Expansionist Thought. Palestine Liberation Organization, Research Center, p. 120.
- ^ Weizmann, Chaim (1949). Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, Harper, p. 95.
- ^ Rabinowicz, Oscar K. (1950). Fifty Years of Zionism. R. Anscombe.
- ^ Bermant, Chaim (1970). Troubled Eden: An Anatomy of British Jewry. Basic Books, p. 45.
Bibliography[edit]
- Charles Dreyfus, Yellow Dyes and the Balfour Declaration, by Bob Weintraub. Chemistry in Israel. Bulletin of the Israel Chemical Society. issue 25, October 2010.