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Solomon Teff

British Jewish community leader

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ123758944 ↗
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Solomon Teff was a solicitor and the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews from 1964 to 1967. He was a member of the Hove Hebrew Congregation in Brighton and Hove.

Teff became acting president of the Board of Deputies upon the death of Abraham Moss and was succeeded by Michael Fidler. In 1964, as head of the Board of Deputies he spoke before the Twenty-Sixth Zionist Congress praising British Jews who migrated to Israel.

Teff died in 1979.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1967, 1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Solomon, Teff and British is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Solomon Teff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.