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Britain’s Lord Weidenfeld dies at 96
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJewish British publisher and philanthropist George Weidenfeld has died at the age of 96, the Jewish Chronicle reports.
A cause of death was not given.
Lord Weidenfeld’s publishing firm put out memoirs by Golda Meir and Yizthak Rabin, as well as Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” He also advised Israel’s first president Chaim Weizmann, according to the Chronicle, and was knighted in 1969.
Last year, he founded a mission to save Christians in Syria and Iraq, saying he was inspired by the work of Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust.
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