Lionel Henry Daiches

Background

Daiches was born on the 8th of March, 1911 in Sunderland, United Kingdom. He was the son of Doctor Salis Daiches, a rabbi of the Edinburgh Jewish congregation Bnai Brith. Daiches, rabbinical family, originating in Lithuania, settled in Britain.

Education

He was educated at George Watson"s College and Edinburgh University.

Career

Daiches was the Major judge-advocate of General Branch. He practised as a solicitor before being admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1946. In 1956 Daiches became a Queen's Counsel. Later he became a Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire at Glasgow. He was a fellow of International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Daiches was a secretary of Edinburgh Zion society and advocate of the Scots Bar.

Achievements

• He was Liberal candidate for the Edinburgh South division at the 1950 General Election.

Works

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  • Russians At Law

    (An account of the Russian justice system,written by a Sco...)

    1960

Politics

Daiches wrote many articles arguing the identical nature of Bolshevism and Fascism.

Membership

Daiches practised as a solicitor before being admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1946.

Connections

He was married to Dorothy Estelle Bernstein. They had two sons: Michael and Nicholas. His younger brother David Daiches was a noted writer. He also had two sisters, Sylvia and Beryl Daiches.

Father:

Salis Daiches

He was born in Vilna and received his rabbinic education from his father and at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary. After serving as rabbi at Hull and Sunderland, England, he went to Edinburgh, where he became the spiritual leader and spokesman of Scottish Jewry. He too was active in B'nai B'rith and the Zionist movement. He published a volume of selected essays, Aspects of Judaism (1928), and was one of the translators of the Soncino Talmud.

Wife:

Dorothy Estelle Bernstein

They got married in 1947.

Son:

Michael Daiches

Son:

Nicholas Daiches

Brother:

David Daiches

David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.

Sister:

Sylvia Daiches

Sister:

Beryl Daiches

Grandfather:

Israel Ḥayyim

References

• Heriot Row History Heriot Row, one of Edinburgh's most attractive streets, is a long graceful terrace of beautiful grey stone houses dating from the very early 1800s
• Daiches, Lionel Henry, (8 March 1911–11 Nov. 1999)