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Charles Dreyfus (b. Alsace, 1848 - d. Mentone, France, 11 December 1935) was President of the Manchester Zionist Society, a member of Manchester City Council and a leading figure in the East Manchester Conservative Association during the time that Arthur Balfour was Member of Parliament for the constituency and Prime Minister. At Dreyfus' suggestion Balfour and future Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann first met at a constituency meeting on 27 January 1905.〔Alderman, Geoffrey (1992). ''Modern British Jewry''. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-820759-X, p.227.〕〔Pata, Raphael (1958). ''Herzl Year Book''. Herzl Press, p. 34.〕 Dreyfus had been introduced to Weizmann by the Zionist activist and writer Joseph Massel.〔Razzūq, Asʻad (1970). ''Greater Israel: A Study in Zionist Expansionist Thought''. Palestine Liberation Organization, Research Center, p. 120.〕〔Weizmann, Chaim (1949). ''Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann'', Harper, p. 95.〕 Dreyfus was born in Alsace, France and studied chemistry in Strasbourg. He emigrated to Manchester in 1869, where he established the Clayton Aniline Company in 1876.〔Russell, Colin Archibald (2000). ''Chemistry, Society and Environment''. Royal Society of Chemistry, ISBN 0-85404-599-6, p. 232.〕〔Liedtke, Rainer (1998). ''Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, c. 1850-1914''. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-820723-9, pp. 133-134.〕 As a councillor he led the campaign for a Jewish hospital.〔〔Weizmann, Chaim (1949). ''Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann'', Harper, p. 109.〕 Dreyfus was Weizmann's employer in Manchester and remained a friend until his death.〔Rabinowicz, Oscar K. (1950). ''Fifty Years of Zionism''. R. Anscombe.〕 Charles Dreyfus was a distant relative of Alfred Dreyfus, the young Jewish artillery officer at the centre of the notorious French political scandal, the Dreyfus affair.〔Bermant, Chaim (1970). ''Troubled Eden: An Anatomy of British Jewry''. Basic Books, p. 45.〕 ==References== *Charles Dreyfus, Yellow Dyes and the Balfour Declaration, by Bob Weintraub. (Chemistry in Israel. Bulletin of the Israel Chemical Society. issue 25, October 2010. ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Dreyfus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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