biography
| name: |
Gollancz, Sir Victor
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pronunciation:
[golangks, golants
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1967)
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| biography:
| Publisher, writer, and philanthropist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a teacher, then entered publishing, founding his own firm in 1928. In 1936 he founded the Left Book Club, which had a great influence on the growth of the Labour Party, and after World War 2 founded the Jewish Society for Human Service, and War on Want (1951). He was knighted in 1965. |
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