Victor Gollancz (April 9, 1893–February 8, 1967) was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian. April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Born in London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweler and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Herman Gollancz; after taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher. Gollancz served in the British Army in World War I. In 1917 he became involved in the Reconstruction Committee, an organization that was making plans for postwar Britain. There he met Ernest Benn, who hired him to work in the publishing business. Starting with magazines, Gollancz then brought out a series of art books, after which he started signing novelists. St. ... Sir Hermann Gollancz (1852 - 1930), was a United Kingdom Rabbi and Hebrew scholar. ... New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... World War I was a basically European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Gollancz formed his own publishing company in 1927; the writers he published included George Orwell and Ford Madox Ford. He was also one of the founders of the Left Book Club. He had a knack for marketing, sometimes taking out full-page newspaper adverts for the books he published, a novelty at the time. He also used eye-catching typography and book designs. Victor Gollancz Ltd was a British book publisher founded by Victor Gollancz in 1927; its most notable authors were George Orwell and Ford Madox Ford. ... George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell was a British author. ... Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist and publisher. ... The Left Book Club, founded in 1936, was a key left-wing institution of the late 1930s and 1940s in the United Kingdom. ...

In addition to his highly successful publishing business, Gollancz was a prolific writer on a variety of subjects.

He was knighted in 1955. 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also: List of British Jews Jews first arrived in Britain with William the Conqueror in 1066, but were expelled in 1290 following increasing persecution. ...

Selected bibliography

• The Making of Women, Oxford Essays in Feminism (1918)
• Industrial Ideals (1920)
• Is Mr Chamberlain Saving Peace? (1939)
• Betrayal of the Left: an Examination & Refutation of Communist Policy from October 1939 to January 1941: with Suggestions for an Alternative and an Epilogue on Political Morality (1941)
• "Let My People Go". Some Practical Proposals for Dealing with Hitler's Massacre of the Jews and an Appeal to the British Public (1943)
• Leaving Them to Their Fate: the Ethics of Starvation (1946)
• In Darkest Germany (1947)
• Capital Punishment: the Heart of the Matter (1955)
• Devil's Repertoire: or, Nuclear Bombing and the Life of Man (1959)
• Case of Adolf Eichmann (1961)
• Journey Towards music: a Memoir (1964)