" Gollancz proposed a series of practical responses, centred around a rescue plan, and undertook a lecture and fundraising tour ; he was also made Vice-President of Eleanor Rathbone's National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror.

Mabel Fierz had pursued matters with Moore, and at the end of June 1932, Moore told Blair that Victor Gollancz was prepared to publish A Scullion's Diary for a £ 40 advance, through his recently founded publishing house, Victor Gollancz Ltd, which was an outlet for radical and socialist works.

He was disappointed when Gollancz turned down Burmese Days, mainly on the grounds of potential suits for libel, but Harpers were prepared to publish it in the United States.

The result of his journeys through the north was The Road to Wigan Pier, published by Gollancz for the Left Book Club in 1937.

Early in 1941 he started writing for the American Partisan Review and contributed to Gollancz ' anthology The Betrayal of the Left, written in the light of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( although Orwell referred to it as the Russo-German Pact and the Hitler-Stalin Pact ).

Meanwhile he had to cope with rival claims of publishers Gollancz and Warburg for publishing rights.

Fierz at this point took it to a literary agent, Leonard Moore, who " recognised it as a ' natural ' for the new house of Gollancz.

In the early 1940s, Gollancz was sympathetic to Richard Acland's socialist Common Wealth Party, and gave talks for the group before the general election of 1945.

" His book, Our Threatened Values, ( London, 1946 ) Gollancz described the conditions Sudeten German prisoners faced in a Czech concentration camp: " They live crammed together in shacks without consideration for gender and age ...

In 1960 Gollancz was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his work with SEN.

During the fighting that marked the creation of the state of Israel, Gollancz became concerned for the plight of the Arabs and in October 1948 he founded the Jewish Society for Human Service ( JSHS ), with Rabbi Leo Baeck as its president.

Gollancz's letter called for a negotiated end to the Korean War and the creation of an international fund " to turn swords into ploughshares ", readers were asked to send a postcard to Gollancz with the simple word ' yes '.

This led to the founding of the Association for World Peace ( AWP ) with Gollancz as chairman and Canon Charles Raven the vice-Chairman.

In May 1951, Gollancz invited Harold Wilson to chair an AWP committee and write a pamphlet which was eventually called ' War on Want-a Plan for World Development ', published on 9 June 1952.

With Arthur Koestler and John Collins, Gollancz set up the National Campaign for the Prevention of Legal Cruelty in 1955.

He reported that Gollancz had offered Orwell £ 500 to underwrite the trip, and but for Gollancz's support Orwell would never have gone.

D. J. Taylor argues that these factors, and the fact that Gollancz was not a person to part with such a sum on speculation, suggest that Gorer was confusing Orwell's eventual earnings from the book with a small contribution for out of pocket expenses that Gollancz might have given him.

His inaugural novel Sorrow for Thy Sons ( 1937 ) was rejected by Gollancz and not published until 1986.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1954 ( Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957 ( Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye.

The organisation was formed in 1951 after a letter from Victor Gollancz to The Guardian was read by the future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who coined the name.

Gollancz, a family name originating from the Polish town Gołańcz ( Gollantsch or Schwertburg near Wągrowiec, Wielkopolska ), is mainly known as the name of a prominent British Jewish family, including:

His granddaughter is producer Beth Willis, he wrote his book " A Problem For Mother Christmas " Publisher: Victor Gollancz ( April 1988 ) for Beth and her brother Tom, naming the main character Beth Hale ( after Beth but using his wife's maiden name ).

Two months later, still in 1974, Julian Symons reviewed the Gollancz reprint, revealing, after some research, the real name of the author as a certain Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann, a man about whom he said he knew nothing except his name (" More information from readers would be welcome ").

Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying was published by Gollancz on 20 April 1936.

Kingsley Martin rejected two of his works and Gollancz was equally cautious.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

Gollancz refused to publish it, considering it an attack on the Soviet regime which was a crucial ally in the war.

" Victor Gollancz was prepared to publish the work, subject to the removal of bad language and some identifiable names, and offered an advance of £ 40.

Sir Victor Gollancz ( 9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967 ) was a British publisher, socialist and supporter of left-wing causes.

Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz ; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher.

Gollancz was commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers in October 1915, although he did not see active service.

Gollancz was one of the founders of the Left Book Club, the first book club in the UK.

Although never a member, Gollancz was closely allied to the Communist Party during the second half of the 1930s.

Gollancz often claimed to be a Christian, although he was never baptised and his understanding of the religion was a highly idiosyncratic one, overall his personal syncretic faith drew on Pelagian Christianity, Judaism, and wide-ranging reading across religious traditions.

Gollancz was also a keen music lover, an enthusiasm he explained in his final book, Journey Towards Music.

Gollancz was knighted in the summer of 1965.

In addition to his highly successful publishing business, Gollancz was a prolific writer on a variety of subjects, and put his ideas into action by establishing campaigning groups.

He was supported by figures such as Michael Foot, Victor Gollancz and Lord De L ' Isle, VC.

Gollancz publicised the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime early on, in 1933 he had published the compilation volume The Little Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and Fritz Seidler's book on the Nazi persecution of the Jews The Bloodless Pogrom in 1934.

Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.

' In fact Orwell heard in April 1939 that Gollancz had reservations about the book, and was delaying a decision to accept it.

According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell's agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book.

When this was refused Gollancz wrote an introduction to the book.

At some point in the next few days Gollancz asked him to consider a new project-writing a book about unemployment and social conditions in economically depressed northern England.

However Gollancz feared the second half would offend Left Book Club readers and inserted a mollifying preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

In the April 1937 number of the Left News Gollancz reported that the book had produced: " both more, and more interesting, letters than any other Club Choice.

Matthew Engel, in his book Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press ( Gollancz, 1996 ), says that the News of the World of the 1890s was " a very fine paper indeed ".

" After all, Gollancz is publishing this book.

By December 1933 he had typed the final version, and in 1934 he delivered it by motorbike to his agent Leonard Moore for publication by Victor Gollancz, who had published his previous book.

The Starr Affair was a book written by Jean Overton Fuller and published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.

The first book published by Henry Regnery Publishers was by socialist Victor Gollancz who ran the Left Book Club in Britain.

He also wrote the well-known book on the arms trade, The Bloody Traffic, published by Gollancz Ltd in 1934.

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century.

First published in 2004 by Victor Gollancz Ltd, the book is Morgan's third novel, the first two being part of the Takeshi Kovacs series.

The supposed publisher of the fake book described in the story was an actual publisher, Victor Gollancz, as was the supposed writer of the preface, Dorothy L. Sayers.

They persuaded Victor Gollancz, creator of the Left Book Club, to publish the book, divided the twenty-four chapters among themselves and wrote it in four days, finishing on June 5, 1940.