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January 21, 2016
The Extraordinary Life and Times of George Weidenfeld
Holocaust refugee, philanthropist, savior of Middle Eastern Christians, great advocate of European culture.
After the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria, the young George Weidenfeld, who died yesterday at the age of ninety-six, fled his native Vienna for Britain, where he was taken in by a Christian family. As an adult, he founded and directed a prestigious British publishing house. Most recently, he devoted his efforts and financial resources to rescuing Middle Eastern Christians, inspired by a sense that he could thus repay “a debt of gratitude” to those who helped him in his youth. In addition to being a great philanthropist and a passionate Zionist, writes Douglas Murray, he was also “one of the greatest receptacles and advocates for high European culture, [and] also perhaps one of the last”:
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The Extraordinary Life and Times of George Weidenfeld
Holocaust refugee, philanthropist, savior of Middle Eastern Christians, great advocate of European culture.
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