blue plaque · Leeds
Selig Brodetsky

Selig Brodetsky. Lived here whilst Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds (1924-1948), becoming President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1949. A campaigner for a Jewish homeland, he was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (1940-1949). 1888-1954.
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