| AdminHistory | Born Manchester, second son of Russian immigrants Philip Golding, religious orator and teacher, and his wife Yetta, 1895; educated at Waterloo Road Elementary School, Manchester Grammar School and Queen's College, Oxford; rejected for army service on health grounds, he joined an ambulance unit during World War I and served in Macedonia and France; received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund and became a professional writer; travelled widely during the 1920s and 1930s; although homosexual, he married a childhood friend, Annie Carrie Wintrobe, daughter of Abraham Sugarman, a commercial traveller, 1956; sympathetic towards Zionism and mildly sympathetic to communism; FRSL; died 1958. Publications include: 'Sorrow of War' (poems, 1919); 'Forward from Babylon' (1920); 'Sicilian Noon' (1925); 'Day of Atonement' (1925); 'Those Ancient Lands: Being a Journey to Palestine' (1928); 'Magnolia Street' (1931), which was an international best-seller; 'Five Silver Daughters' (1934); 'The Camberwell Beauty' (1935); 'In the Steps of Moses the Lawgiver' (1937); 'In the Steps of Moses the Conqueror' (1938); 'The Jewish Problem' (1938); 'Hitler Through the Ages' (1939); 'Mr. Emmanuel' (1939); 'The Glory of Elsie Silver' (1945); 'The Loving Brothers' (1952); 'To the Quayside; (1954); 'Good-bye to Ithaca' (1955); 'The World I Knew' (an autobiography, 1958); he also wrote short stories, anti-fascist propaganda, radio drama, film scripts,and works on Jewish history, literature and sport; he contributed to many English, Continental and American periodicals. |
| CustodialHistory | From the collection of Sir Louis Sterling. Formerly held with other Jewish collections in the Mocatta Library of University College London. |