Kopelowitz, Lionel
KOPELOWITZ, LIONEL
KOPELOWITZ, LIONEL (1926– ), British communal leader. Kopelowitz was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lived there much of his life. He was educated at Clifton and Cambridge and practiced as a physician, serving on the council of the British Medical Association. From the 1970s he held numerous senior positions in Anglo-Jewish life. He was president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews in 1985–91 and was also president of the National Council for Soviet Jewry in the same period.
[William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)]
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