title: Anglo-Jewish Association
text: # Anglo-Jewish Association
  
  The Anglo-Jewish Association (AJA) is a British organisation. It was formed in 1871 for the 'promotion of social, moral, and intellectual progress among the Jews; and the obtaining of protection for those who may suffer in consequence of being Jews'. Many Anglo-Jewish businessmen, such as Jacob Behrens, were members.
  
  ## Former Presidents
  
  * Jacob Waley (1871–1873)
  * Baron Henry de Worms (1873–1886)
  * Sir Julian Goldsmid (1886–1895)
  * Claude Montefiore (1895–1922)
  * O.E. d'Avigdor Goldsmid (Sir Osmond E. d'Avigdor Goldsmid) (1922–1926)
  * Leonard G. Montefiore (1926–1939)
  * Leonard Jacques Stein (1939–1949)
  * Ewen E.S. Montagu (1949–)
  * Victor Lucas
  * Basil Bard (−1983)
  * Clemens N. Nathan (1983–1989)
  * Frederick Tuckman (1989–1995)
  
  ## Other former officers
  
  * David Lindo Alexander
  * Lucien Wolf
  