Aubrey Newman (born 1927,

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) is a British

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who has written widely on the topic of

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history. Newman served as a professor at the

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, where he founded the

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. He served two terms as President of the

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Publications

* (Editor) ''Migration and settlement : proceedings of the Anglo-American Jewish Historical Conference held in London jointly by the Jewish Historical Society of England and the American Jewish Historical Society, July 1970'' (London: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1971) * (Editor) ''Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain : papers for a conference at University College, London convened by the Jewish Historical Society of England'' (London: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1975) * (Editor) ''The Jewish East End, 1840-1939'' (London: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1981) * ''The Holocaust. We Must Never Forget, Nor Allow It To Happen Again'' (London, 2002) * (co-edited with Barbara Butler) ''A Sacred Memory. Lectures in Honour of Elchanan and Miriam Elkes'' (Leicester, 2003) * (Co-Authored with N. J. Evans, S. Isroff & G Smith) ''Jewish migration to South Africa: the records of the Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter 1885-1914'' (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 2006) * (Edited with Bernard Wasserstein and Kenneth Collins) '' Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry'' (Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, 2018)

Recognition

Newman was listed in the 2004 edition of ''

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''.

References

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