Henry Shaw was born in Notting Hill in London in 1911. His younger brother was Rabbi Kopul Rosen. Their parents surname was Rozrazowsky, and Henry changed his last name to Shaw during the Second World War when he was an army officer. He was the United Synagogue’s Social Welfare Youth Officer from 1946 to 1949, and then the Director of the Association for Jewish Youth’s Religious Advisory Committee.
Hillel House, the first Hillel Foundation project of the B’nai Brith in Britain, was opened in London as a centre for the steadily increasing number of Jewish students and graduates in 1954. Henry Shaw was appointed Director. London Hillel House provided meeting rooms, a library, music room, Hebrew classes, kosher meals and a number of other services. It was eventually expanded and rebuilt at 1/2 Endsleigh Street, London and reopened in 1969/1970.
However, by then, Henry Shaw, had accepted an invitation by the Victorian Board of Deputies in Australia to become Hillel director for the State, based on Melbourne. He died in Melbourne in 1996.
This photograph and article are from the Time Picayune, in Louisana, USA, where Henry Shaw was visiting Tulane University in 1961.
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