{{Short description|British Jewish community leader}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Solomon Teff | office1 = President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews | term_start1 = 1964 | term_end1 = 1967 | predecessor = Abraham Moss | successor = Michael Fidler | birth_date = | death_date = 1979 }} '''Solomon Teff''' was a solicitor and the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1964<ref>{{cite news |title=Presidential election |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259606669/ |work=The Guardian |date=23 June 1964 |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Janner mulls running for board head again |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/indianapolis/indianapolis-indiana-jewish-post/1964/07-24/page-11/ |work=The Jewish Post |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |date=24 July 1964 |page=11}}</ref><ref name=Times>{{cite news |title=British Jews' president |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Newspapers&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&retrievalId=8cbc049a-ef2c-41ca-b3fd-bf025aa57734&hitCount=7&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=5&docId=GALE%7CCS303523668&docType=Article&sort=Pub+Date+Forward+Chron&contentSegment=ZTMA-MOD1&prodId=TTDA&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CCS303523668&searchId=R3&userGroupName=wikipedia&inPS=true |work=The Times |date=20 October 1964 |page=18}}</ref> to 1967.<ref name="Tele">{{cite news |title=Ex-mayor to head Board of British Jews |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/832202729/ |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=3 July 1967}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubinstein |first1=W. |last2=Jolles |first2=Michael A. |title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History |date=27 January 2011 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-230-30466-6 |page=110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_T_HCg17ufIC}}</ref> He was a member of the Hove Hebrew Congregation in Brighton and Hove.<ref>{{cite news |title=250 years of Brighton's flock |url=https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/250-years-of-brightons-flock-cst5n2pz |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=21 April 2016}}</ref>

Teff became acting president of the Board of Deputies upon the death of Abraham Moss<ref name=Times /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Norman |title=Great Britain |journal=The American Jewish Year Book |date=1965 |volume=66 |page=362 |jstor=23603176 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23603176 |issn=0065-8987}}</ref> and was succeeded by Michael Fidler.<ref name="Tele" /> In 1964, as head of the Board of Deputies he spoke before the Twenty-Sixth Zionist Congress praising British Jews who migrated to Israel.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schaffer |first1=Gavin |title=Zionism, Aliyah, and the Jews of Glasgow: Belonging and Believing in Postwar Britain |journal=Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies |date=2019 |volume=37 |issue=3 |page=272 |doi=10.1353/sho.2019.0038|url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/59913928/Schaffer_Zionism_Aliyah_Shofar_2019.pdf }}</ref>

Teff died in 1979.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kochan |first1=Lionel |author-link1=Lionel Kochan|last2=Kochan |first2=Miriam |author-link2=Miriam Kochan|title=Great Britain |journal=The American Jewish Year Book |date=1981 |volume=81 |page=201 |jstor=23604125 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23604125 |issn=0065-8987}}</ref>

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