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Maurice Orbach was born on 13 July, 1902 in Cardiff, Wales, is a 20th-century British Labour politician. Discover Maurice Orbach's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 13 July, 1902
Birthday 13 July
Birthplace Cardiff, Wales
Date of death 24 April, 1979
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Nationality Wales

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Who Is Maurice Orbach's Wife?

His wife is Ruth Hubsch (m. 1935)

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1902

Maurice Orbach (13 July 1902 – 24 April 1979) was a British Labour Party politician, who represented the Willesden East and Stockport South constituencies.

Born to a Jewish family, Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at New York University.

Orbach was a lifelong member of Poale Zion (Great Britain).

1931

Orbach contested Huntingdonshire in the 1931 election and Willesden East in 1935 and in a 1938 by-election.

1935

In 1935, Orbach married Ruth Hubsch, an American, who later taught English to refugees from Nazi Germany.

She served as chairman of Pioneer Women (later renamed British Na'amat).

1937

In 1937 he was elected to the London County Council, representing St Pancras South West.

1940

He was general secretary of the Jewish Trades Advisory Council ("a committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, aimed at countering anti-Semitism in business life" during World War II) from 1940 and remained its secretary until his death.

He was chairman of Central Middlesex Group hospital management committee.

He was active in the World Jewish Congress (WJC).

1945

Orbach was elected Member of Parliament for Willesden East in 1945, serving until his defeat in 1959, and for Stockport South from 1964 until Parliament dissolved for the 1979 general election; he died two weeks later, nine days before polling day.

His successor was Thomas McNally.

1954

In 1954, on behalf of both the WJC and Winston Churchill, he went to Cairo to help save the lives of Jews sentenced to death as part of the Lavon Affair.

Later, he said that Egypt's President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, had agreed to spare their lives but then reneged to balance their deaths with members of Muslim Brotherhood.

1976

Son Laurence taught history at Columbia University, New York, before founding Quarto Publishing in London in 1976 and served as chairman and CEO of The Quarto Group, Inc.

1979

Maurice Orbach died age 76 on 24 April 1979.

Daughter Susie is a psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London.

At his death in 1979, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency called him a "prominent leader of Anglo Jewry" and stated "a stalwart Zionist, he was a founder of the Labour Friends of Israel."

1983

She died in 1983.

2010

In 2010 The Guardian referred to him as "a self-proclaimed Labour Zionist who had conspicuously failed to support Israel during the Suez crisis."

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Orbach collected much of the material found in the Trades Advisory Council Archive, deposited at University College London.

The archive contains papers relating to the activities of the Council and additional material relating to concerns the organisation responded to, particularly antisemitic and antifacist literature.