Ivan Greenberg

Ivan Marion Greenberg (8 December 1896 – 11 March 1966) was an English journalist. He served as the editor of The Jewish Chronicle from 1935 to 1946. He was a Revisionist Zionist.[1]

Ivan Greenberg
Born	Ivan Marion Greenberg 8 December 1896 London, England
Died	11 March 1966(1966-03-11) (aged 69) London, England
Occupation	Journalist
Parent(s)	L. J. Greenberg Marion Gates

Early life

Ivan Greenberg was born in 1896 in London.[2][3] His father, L. J. Greenberg, was the editor of The Jewish Chronicle and close to Theodore Herzl;[4] his mother was Marion Gates.[3] During World War I, he served in the Royal Artillery.[3]

Journalistic career

Greenberg worked as a journalist in South Africa and Australasia.[3] He became editorial assistant at The Jewish Chronicle in 1925.[3] He served as its editor from 1935 to 1946,[2][3] when he was fired by the managing director David F. Kessler.[4] Under his editorial leadership, The JC took a decidedly Zionist stance.[5] Kessler dismissed him on the grounds that he was too divisive, and he was succeeded by John Maurice Shaftesley.[6]

Political activism

Greenberg was a proponent of Vladimir Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionism.[2] Additionally, he routinely criticised Britain's foreign policy towards Palestine.[7] During the Second World War, he called for European Jews to be allowed to emigrate to Palestine, and he became associated with the Committee for a Jewish Army.[8]

Greenberg translated The Revolt by Menachem Begin into English.[2][7]

Death

Greenberg died on 11 March 1966 in London.[2][7]

References

1. "Mr. Ivan Greenberg". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 14 March 1966. p. 12.
2. "Ivan Greenberg, Former Editor of London Jewish Chronicle, Dead". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 15 March 1966. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
3. Cesarani, David (1994). The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. pp. 158–159. ISBN 9780521434348. OCLC 27146108.
4. Alderman, Geoffrey (2009). The Communal Gadfly: An Anthology. Brighton, Massachusetts: Academic Studies Press. p. 11. ISBN 9781618110565. OCLC 769188604.
5. Wendehorst, Stephan (2012). British Jewry, Zionism, and the Jewish State, 1936–1956. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780199265305. OCLC 723450955.
6. Paul, Geoffrey (1 December 1999). "David Kessler". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
7. Rubinstein, William D., ed. (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 372. ISBN 9781403939104.
8. Shapiro, Robert Moses (2003). Why Didn't the Press Shout? American & International Journalism During the Holocaust. Hoboken, New Jersey: Yeshiva University Press. p. 186. ISBN 9780881257755. OCLC 50441533.