Asher Isaac Myers (4 March 1848 – 11 May 1902) was an English journalist and

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of ''

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'' from 1878 until his death.

Biography

Myers was born in London to Caroline () and Isaac Michael Myers, who worked as a synagogue official and

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. After an early training in the clothing business, Myers became in 1868 joint proprietor of ''The Jewish Record''. He left this in the following year to assist Michael Henry with ''

''. In 1874, he published ''The Jewish Directory'', which listed Jewish institutions from across the country along with the individuals associated with them. On Henry's death he became business manager under

Abraham Benisch Abraham Benisch (; 1811 – 31 July 1878, London) was an English Hebraist, editor, and journalist. He wrote numerous works in the domain of Judaism, Biblical studies, biography, and travel, and during a period of nearly forty years contributed we ...

, who took great interest in his training. Benisch, at his death in 1878, left Myers a part-proprietorship of the paper, and he became joint owner with Israel Davis and Sydney M. Samuel. From that time onward he was acting editor. Myers was an assistant secretary of the Jewish Board of Guardians, and was also treasurer of the Jewish Workingmen's Club, which he helped to found in 1872. He belonged to several of the committees of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887, and was for some years treasurer of the Maccabæans. His house was a centre of Jewish intellectual life in London.

Israel Zangwill Israel Zangwill (21 January 18641 August 1926) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, and was a close associate of Theodor Herzl. He later rejected the search for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and ...

introduced him to

Theodor Herzl Theodor Herzl; hu, Herzl Tivadar; Hebrew name given at his brit milah: Binyamin Ze'ev (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish lawyer, journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern p ...

in November 1891, and the two remained friends, though Myers remained opposed to Zionism.

References

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