# Maurice Orbach > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Maurice_Orbach > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Maurice_Orbach.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Orbach > Source revision: 1351395435 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|20th-century British Labour politician}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Maurice Orbach | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} | image = | alt = | office = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom))
for [Stockport South](/source/Stockport_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | predecessor = [Harold Steward](/source/Harold_Steward) | successor = [Tom McNally](/source/Tom_McNally) | term_start = 15 October 1964 | term_end = 7 April 1979 | office2 = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom))
for [Willesden East](/source/Willesden_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | predecessor2 = [Samuel Hammersley](/source/Samuel_Hammersley) | successor2 = [Trevor Skeet](/source/Trevor_Skeet) | term_start2 = 5 July 1945 | term_end2 = 18 September 1959 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1902|7|13}} | birth_place = [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), [Wales](/source/Wales) | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1979|4|24|1902|7|13}} | death_place = | spouse = {{marriage|Ruth Hubsch|1935}} | party = [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) | relations = | children = 2, including [Susie](/source/Susie_Orbach) | alma_mater = [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) | occupation = | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Maurice Orbach''' (13 July 1902 – 24 April 1979) was a British [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) politician,{{cite news |date=27 April 1979 |title=Maurice Orbach Dead at 76 |url=https://www.jta.org/1979/04/27/archive/maurice-orbach-dead-at-76 |access-date=29 August 2016 |website=[Jewish Telegraphic Agency](/source/Jewish_Telegraphic_Agency)}} who at different times was the [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for the [Willesden East](/source/Willesden_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) and [Stockport South](/source/Stockport_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) constituencies.{{cite web |title=Maurice Orbach |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-maurice-orbach/index.html |access-date=26 April 2022 |website=[British Parliament](/source/British_Parliament)}} ==Background== Born to a [Jewish](/source/Jews) family, Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at [New York University](/source/New_York_University). ==Career== ===Public service=== Orbach was a lifelong member of [Poale Zion (Great Britain)](/source/Poale_Zion_(Great_Britain)).{{cite book |title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=London |date=2011 |access-date=29 August 2016 |page=734 |isbn=9781403939104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&pg=PA734}} He was [general secretary](/source/general_secretary) of the Jewish [Trades Advisory Council](/source/Trades_Advisory_Council) ("a committee of the [Board of Deputies of British Jews](/source/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.{{cite web |title=The Trades Advisory Council – countering antisemitism and fascism in 20th-century Britain {{!}} UCL UCL Special Collections |url=https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-collections/2022/02/03/the-trades-advisory-council-countering-antisemitism-and-fascism-in-20th-century-britain/ |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=blogs.ucl.ac.uk}} He was chairman of Central Middlesex Group hospital management committee. He was active in the [World Jewish Congress](/source/World_Jewish_Congress) (WJC). In 1954, on behalf of both the WJC and [Winston Churchill](/source/Winston_Churchill), he went to Cairo to help save the lives of Jews sentenced to death as part of the [Lavon Affair](/source/Lavon_Affair). Later, he said that Egypt's President, [Gamal Abdel Nasser](/source/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser), had agreed to spare their lives but then reneged to balance their deaths with members of [Muslim Brotherhood](/source/Muslim_Brotherhood). ===Political service=== Orbach contested [Huntingdonshire](/source/Huntingdonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in the [1931 election](/source/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election) and [Willesden East](/source/Willesden_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in [1935](/source/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election) and in [a 1938 by-election](/source/1938_Willesden_East_by-election). In 1937 he was elected to the [London County Council](/source/London_County_Council), representing [St Pancras South West](/source/St_Pancras_South_West_(London_County_Council_constituency)). {{cite news | title = New L.C.C. Labour's Increased Majority. Full Results | work = [The Times](/source/The_Times) | date = 6 March 1937 | page = 7}} {{cite book |last = Alderman | first = Jeffrey | title = London Jewry and London politics, 1889-1986 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nZc9AAAAIAAJ | date = 1989 | publisher = [Routledge](/source/Routledge) | place = London | isbn = 978-0-415-02204-0 | page = 101}} Orbach was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Willesden East](/source/Willesden_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in [1945](/source/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election), serving until his defeat in [1959](/source/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election), and for [Stockport South](/source/Stockport_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) from [1964](/source/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election) until Parliament dissolved for the [1979 general election](/source/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election); he died two weeks later, nine days before polling day. His successor was [Thomas McNally](/source/Thomas_McNally). ==Personal life and death== In 1935, Orbach married Ruth Hubsch, an American, who later taught English to refugees from [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany). {{cite news | title = Yank Wives Fit Into Britain's Politics | publisher = Chicago Tribune | url = http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1976/09/14/page/30/article/yank-wives-fit-into-britains-politics | date = 16 September 1976 | accessdate = 29 August 2016}} She served as chairman of Pioneer Women (later renamed British Na'amat). She died in 1983. Maurice Orbach died age 76 on 24 April 1979. Daughter [Susie](/source/Susie_Orbach) is a psychotherapist, writer and co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London.{{cite web|title=Susie Orbach profile|publisher=Macmillan Publishing|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/susieorbach|accessdate=17 October 2010}} Son Laurence taught history at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University), New York, before founding [Quarto Publishing](/source/The_Quarto_Group) in London in 1976 and served as chairman and CEO of [The Quarto Group, Inc.](/source/Quarto_Group){{cite web|title=Board|publisher=Quarto Group|url=http://www.quarto-ir.co.uk/content/company/board.asp|accessdate=17 October 2010}} ==Legacy== At his death in 1979, the ''[Jewish Telegraphic Agency](/source/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." In 2010 ''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)'' referred to him as "a self-proclaimed Labour [Zionist](/source/Zionism) who had conspicuously failed to support Israel during the [Suez Crisis](/source/Suez_Crisis)."{{cite news|last=Alderman|first=Geoffrey|title=The Jewish vote really does count|publisher=Guardian Newspaper|date=19 April 2010|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/apr/19/jewish-vote-really-does-count|accessdate=17 October 2010}}# == Collections == Orbach collected much of the material found in the [https://archives.ucl.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=TAC Trades Advisory Council Archive], deposited at [University College London](/source/University_College_London).{{Cite web |last=UCL Special Collections |title=Trades Advisory Council Archive |url=https://archives.ucl.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=TAC |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=UCL Archives Catalogue}} The archive contains papers relating to the activities of the Council and additional material relating to concerns the organisation responded to, particularly [antisemitic](/source/Antisemitism) and [antifacist](/source/Anti-fascism) literature. ==Work== ;Books * ''Austria, 1946'' (1946) {{cite book | first1=Maurice | last1=Orbach |author-link1=Maurice Orbach |first2=S.W. |last2=Jeger |title=Austria, 1946 |publisher=St Botolph Publishing Co. |date=1946}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://archives.ucl.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=TAC Trades Advisory Council Archive] at [University College London](/source/University_College_London) * {{NPG name}} *''Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974'' *{{Rayment-hc|external links=y|date=March 2012}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-maurice-orbach | Maurice Orbach }} * [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6490525 National Archives]: Letter of 13 Feb 1957 from Maurice Orbach MP, enclosing telegrams from constituents urging UK government to oppose sanctions against Israel * [https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?pid=18676&pop=1#n4 They Speak for You]: 417 speeches by Maurice Orbach (1945-1979) * [http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/maurice-orbach-and-harry-knight-general-secretary-of-the-news-photo/3247288 Getty Images]: Photo of Maurice Orbach in 1952 * [http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/mps-nicholas-winterton-and-maurice-orbach-lead-a-deputation-news-photo/3247291 Getty Images]: Photo of Maurice Orbach in 1972 * [http://palestineposterproject.org/poster/nationalist-worker-be-ready-to-show-your-strength Palestine Poster Project]: "Nationalist Worker! Be Ready To Show Your Strength" by Maurice Orbach (1937) {{S-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Willesden East](/source/Willesden_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1945](/source/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1959](/source/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election) | before = [Samuel Hammersley](/source/Samuel_Hammersley) | after = [Trevor Skeet](/source/Trevor_Skeet) }} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Stockport South](/source/Stockport_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1964](/source/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1979](/source/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election) | before = [Harold Macdonald Steward](/source/Harold_Macdonald_Steward) | after = [Tom McNally](/source/Tom_McNally%2C_Baron_McNally) }} {{S-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Orbach, Maurice}} Category:1902 births Category:1979 deaths Category:British Zionists Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1945–1950 Category:UK MPs 1950–1951 Category:UK MPs 1951–1955 Category:UK MPs 1955–1959 Category:UK MPs 1964–1966 Category:UK MPs 1966–1970 Category:UK MPs 1970–1974 Category:UK MPs 1974 Category:UK MPs 1974–1979 Category:Members of London County Council Category:Jewish British politicians --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Maurice Orbach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Orbach) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Orbach?action=history)). 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