The elevation of Lesli Hore-Belisha to the peerage in the Queen’s New Years Honors List brings to 13 the number of Jews in the House of Lords. This is the largest number of Jews to sit at one time in the Upper House in the history of that institution. Baron Leslie was Secretary of War in the pre-World War II Cabinet.
Also honored were: Jacob Epstein, the New York-born famous sculptor, who was named a knight; Kenneth Cohen of the Foreign Office, who was appointed a Commander of the Bath; Dennis Herbert Geffen, London health official, who was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire; Abraham Lightman, chief executive officer of the Food Ministry, who was named an officer of the OBE; Charles Edward Sebag-Montefiore, who was named an officer of the OBE; and P. Goldberg, Assistant Secretary of the Labor Ministry, who was named a Commander of the British Empire.
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