KOPELOWITZ, LIONEL

KOPELOWITZ, LIONEL: KOPELOWITZ, LIONEL (1926– ), British communal leader. Kopelowitz was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lived there much of his life. He was educated at Clifton and Cambridge and practiced as a physician, serving on the council of the British Medical Association. From the 1970s he held numerous senior positions in Anglo-Jewish life. He was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews in 1985–91 and was also president of the National Council for Soviet Jewry in the same period. (William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)

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